THE FOREST REPUBLICAN It mbllth svtrj Waes47t T J. E. WENK. OIBo In Bmarbauf n A Co.'a Building km. tTBxrr, noiTOTA, r. Tarm, . II.bo prTir. ls nkwrlr4loa rsestvt fr tmtrXm pnioi thfta thrf4 menlha. Oorraapendtnc Hello frmi al fri at tht ennntry. ri nuc will m Uka f u;boui onwinlcauou. RATIS Or ADVERTISING! ORE PUBLICAN One Bqnara, one inoh, on lnrtlaa,. I On. Square, on. inch, on. month..,, 0O On Bquare, on inoh, tbr months. , 00 On Pquara, on inch, on year.,.. . , 10 TO Two tiqunrj on ysar IS 00 Quarter Column, one twit.. .... 80 OC H o Hn.lt Column, on year..., On. Column, on v.ar. -. . 80 09 ...... loon Legal adTartiMtnxita n eat par um each inMrttoii. Marriage and death notice gratis. All bills tor yearly advertisements caP a? 3 quarter! r. Temporary advertisement anal to paid in adv.no. Job work oah on delivery. VOL. XXVII. NO. 19. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1894. $1.00 PER ANNUM. .Re 3 Hard t.imc8 havo decreased moat consumption. Over two-thirds of the population of Utah are of foreign birth or ex traction. Tbo Japanese have a bettor scion tifto knowledge of earthquakes than any other nationality. The gold production of this conn try for ten years lias varied but little from 32,000,000 annually. Americans own sixty-four steol or Iron steamships, of a gross tonnage of 197,108 tons, sailing under foreign flags, A Brooklyn publio official says that lie cannot seo why so many widows are moving into that city. The latest census report shows that there are more marriages in Brooklyn in pro portion to its population than in any city of the Union. "Isn't that reason enough?" asks the New Orleans Picayune." The ornamental features of the pam pas alouo are known here, says Mrs. Harriet W. R. Strong, in the Los An geles (Cul.) Times. 1 discovered that the plumes could not be destroyed in water. Ileuoe, as a product for bank noto paper they are valuable. Again, the fiber will make rope. This wai brought out in Jackson Park through oue of the judges of awards, who in formed me thnt at tho present time the strongest rope in the world is be ing made in South America, where also they have tested the paper-making "qualities of the plumes. They also weave a cloth with which they make dresses for their women. Reports from United States consuli in Mexico to the State Department warn Americans against emigrating to Mexico, with a viow to permanent settlement, with insufficient means, or without informing themselves in a re liable way as to tho prospects for earning livelihoods. Many Americans have been iuduoed by alluring state ments as to the cheapness of coffee raising, etc., to emigrate to Mexico within tho past year, and some have lost their all by doing so. There are good opportunities in Mexico for en terprise, frugality and thrift if backed by the rosourcos necessary to success in a new country. A peculiar solution of England's problem in India may evolve before many years, predicts the New York Independent. There is a growing tendency among Indian princes to marry European wives; and the re suit is likely to be that many of the States now governed by them will in course of time pass into the hands of Eurasian rulers. If it should become tho rage among the Rajahs and Na wabs to have European wives as it now is to have -European horse trainers, etc., then the heads of the great native States will before long be of mixed race, and such a state of things would put a new phase on the political des tiny of the country. Attention was so centered upon the labor troubles that the close of the Ban Francisco Midwinter Fair on the Fourth of July passed almost uuno ticedi Yet the event was worthy of comment. The Fair, despite the hard times and tho interminable industrial difficulties, was a remarkablo success. There were more than 2,000,000 paid admissions, which is a most gratify ing showing considering that the Pa eifio coast contributed practically nil the attendants. The managers of the Exposition and the people of San Francisco deserve the highest credit for their pluck and enterprise in car rying the Fair to a successful conclu sion. They will find their reward in the advertising which it will give them. . The United States Court of Chey enne has just rendered a decision of great interest to insurers, as it inval idates the clause found in most poli cies, that no agent has authority to alter the clauses printed on a policy. It appears that a Mr. Henderson went to an agent there and appliod for an insurance on his life, stating that he was afraid of being shot by an enemy, who, he had reason to believe, was looking for him. The agent told him he would give him a policy covering Lis case, and Henderson paid him the premium. Shortly afterward ho was killed by tho enemy, as ho had antici pated, and the company refused to pay the iusurauce to the widow, as the policy contained a clause expressly ex empting the company in case death resulted from the doings of some par ty with declared hostile intent. The court says that the clause does not count, and that the money must be I'ttidt There are 1785 soparato railroad companies in the United State i. Tho German Emperor has advisol tho universities to establish rowing clubs, after the English model. The population of Massachusetts is nearly as largo as that of all tho other New England States combined. Tho High Court of the Transvaal Ropublio in - Africa has recently de cided that foreigners are liable to military service after two yonrs' rcsi 'deuce in tho country. An old gentleman, of Dexter, Mo., das been doing a great deal of publio good in his town, and the Board of Assessors, as a delicate compliment, reduced his taxes. When he found it out ho was very much annoyed, and going to the Assessor's office, swore them up again. Railway construction in tho United States for the six months endiug June 30 was C25.25 miles, built by fifty one lines in twenty-five States. Colo rado led with fifty-four miles ; South Carolina added fifty miles; Florida, forty-eight ; West Virginia and Louisiana, forty-eight ; Pennsylvania, forty-two, and New Jersey and Texas each thirty-four. Steel is now cheaper than iron. It seems hardly possible, remarks the Boston Cultivator, but tho estimates of cost in a recent bidding for a bridge in Pennsylvania to be made with steel stringers and steel rivets was lower than a like estimate for the same bridge made with iron stringers and iron rivets. Four bids were made, and in each case the bridge could be mado cheaper of steel than of iron. The successful bid was 81905, as against $2157, which was tho lowest bid for the iron bridge. Owing to the greater strength of steel, the weight of metal in the steel bridge is much less thau it must necessarily be for one of iron. The American Register, of Paris, is authority for the statement that the descendants of Queen Victoria are either now in possession of, or will in the natural course of events come to occupy, seven thrones those of the British Empire, the German Empire, the Russian Empire, tho Kingdom of Greece, tho Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Duchy of Saxe-Coburgand Gotha, and the Duchy of Saxc-Meiningen. According to this the Anglo Saxons may shortly come tj universal rule iu Europe, as its language is coming to be the universal language of the world. Possibly in this way, muses the Tren ton (N. J.) American, the universal Republic, so long predicted by dream ers, may be established. This is called the age of electricity. That, in the opinion of tho New York Recorder, is a mistake. We haven't crossed the threshold yet. Tho ad vanoe has been wonderful, however. In 1870 two examiners in the United States Patent Office did all the work of the bureau ; now twenty are re quired, and they are mouths behind. Then two electrical patents were issued a week ; now there are fifty. Notwith standing all this advance the small amount of elect rio energy obtained from a pound of coal is sufticitut to stimulate every inventor iu this lino to renewed effort. The next great Btep will be to dispense with the boiler, engine and dynamo and create electric energy direct from fuel. Until that is done the age of electricity will not have begun. As an offset to the movement for a general disarmament of Europe there has recently been going on a discus sion as to its probable effects on the labor market. Mr. Longburst, Honor ary Secretary of the English Chamber of Commerce iu Purls, has come out boldly in favor of large armies in the interests of the working classes. He shows that the armies of Europe o.i n peace footing number 3,775,000 men. Allowing 775,000 to be retaiued for keeping peace at home, how could tho remainder be provided fur if dis banded? They could not find occu pation in the fields or the factories because production has fur exceeded consumption. A full of wages would become inevitable, and the struggle for life be much severer. Rather thuu throw the liberated men on charity he argues that it would be better for them to remain iu the regiments. The cost to the nation would not be more, and service iu the army is-less de moralizing thau idleness. Besides a military training has its advantages. It teaches habits of order and di cipline,and itpreventsearly marriages, which in countries that have uu con scription are among the chief causes of poverty and distress, A SUMMER LONOINO. I must away to wooded hills aud vales, Where broad, slow streams flow eool and silently, And Idle bargnt flap tbelr listless sails For me the summer sunset glows and pales, And green fields wait tor me. I long for shadowy forests, where tho birds Twitter and ohlrp at noon from every tree. I long for blossomod loaves and lowing Lords, And nature's voices say, In mystlo words, "The groon fields wait forthoe." 1 dream of uplands, whore the primrose shines, And waves her yellow lamps above the lea ( Of tangled oopsos, swung with trailing vines, Of open vistas, skirted with tall pines, Where greon fields wait for me. I think of long, swoot afternoons, when I Blay lie and listen to the distant sea, Or hear the broezes In the reeds that sigh, Or lnseot voices chirping shrill and dry, In fields that wait forme. These dreams of summer come to bid me find The forest's shade,, the wild bird's melody, Whtle summer's rosy wreaths for me are twined, While summer's fragrance lingers on the wind, And green fields wait for me. George Arnold. DARKEST BEFORE DAWN, BI HEI.EJJ FORREST GRAVES, HERE'S nothing in the paper," said Au rora Clymer "abso lutely nothing P She threw down the printod sheet as she spoke a tall girl, with wistful bine eyes and hair droop ing a la Psyche over her forehead. "Thnn " oo.'.l nr;.. cents wasted. And there are not many cents left." "Oatmeal and coffee for breakfast I" sighed Aurora, "And it was coffee and oatmeal yesterday I Oh, dear, how wretched it is to be poor I How sick one does get of things I" "Try to remember that it's always 'darkest juBt befoie daylight,' " en couraged Miriam. "Sit up to the table,' dear, and eat something. It's nioe and hot !" Miriam was a sweet, fresh-faced girl of eighteen. Not, perhaps gifted with Aurora's beauty, but when you looked at Miriam Clymer once, yon always wanted to look tho second time. "Where is Polly?" fretfully ques tioned the elder sister. "It does seem to me as it " At that self same moment, however, the door flew open and a rosy, flushed damsel burst into the room like a southwest galo. 'Breakfast time already?" cried Polly. "My goodness me, how the time does fly?" Polly Clymer had very black eyes, which laughed at you like a sunbeam, a crop of short black curls, and teeth which, although rather irregular, were milk white, and her two cheeks were like two roses newly blossomed. "Girls, I've boon so busy I" said Polly. Aurora frowned a little. "1 wish I was busy," said she. Miriam holped her younger Bister to oatmeal. "I should be busy too," said Mir iam, "if there was anything to do." "How perfectly ridiculous all this is I" oriod Polly, waving her spoon. "As if there wasn't always something to do 1 Of coursu Aurora would rather do typewriting, bceauso that's the trade she's learned" "Trade?" echoed tho scandalized beauty. "And Miriam knows more about musio lossons than anything else) but if one can't got what oue wants, one must want what ono can get. And I've earned a dollar this morning al roady." "What Period Miriam. "More oatmeal, please, "said Tolly. "Oh, yes, I've washed and dressed a dear little girlie in theflat dowu stairs, and packed hor little doll's toy of a trnnk for the train. You see, the nurse got angry uud wont away. The mother was that pallid consumptive who was burled last woek, and the father is a sort of ne'er-do-well, who plays the cymbals iu Jones's Theatre and don't pay any of his bills. And the janitress was at her wits' end what to do, and I stepped into the breach. It made mo think of tho good old times when I played With a doll almost as big as I was." "But where on earth is the child going?" asked Miriam. "To her friends I suppose. I left her asleep in the crib, uud the land lady's littlo girl watching her. I'm to go back after my breakfast. There, Mirry" us bhe tossed a big silver dol lar to the housekeeper-sister "take that to buy moro oatmeal. And look here, Mirium, Doctor Puflitt has got a big order lor the Rosebud Balm to go to a wutering place somewhere on the Jersey coast, and wants some one to paste on labels and tie up tho bot tles, without loss of time. There's a chance 1" Aurora drew herself up. "I don't think George Bel Jon would like it," said she. "Oh, George bother George 1 ne's nothing but a drug clerk himself. It's none of his business one way or tho other 1" cried Polly. "Well, perhaps if you won't men tion it," said Aurora, timidly. "One has one's professional reputation to maintain, you know." "Stuff I" said Polly. "Dootor Fnf fit's a good-natured old soul, and I teally think if some one don't rally to bis assistance, he'll got an tpoploo tic fit." "And," suggested Miriam, "'since there's nothing in th 'Wanteds' to day, you might as well bo earning a little in some way, Aurora," Doctor Puffit was in the front base ment of the big flat where the Clymer sisters dwelt, surrounded by gallon jars of "Rosebud Balm" and moun tains of bottles. Ho looked despair ingly up from this chaos. "The order goes out on the three o'clock express," said he, "and that wretch Alphonse, has not been near me to-day. I will discharge Alphonse. I won't put up with his nonsense an other hour. My dear young lady, you don't say you will actually help me? Then my business character is saved 1 The Silver Beach hotels will know of the greatest discovery of the ago, and I shall vindicate this great prepara tion which is not a osmetic nor a drug, but a marvel!" Polly went back to her baby, who was awake now and smiling like a mediieval cherub in an altar painting. "Yon darling I" said she, with a hug and a kiss. "How any one could go off and leave you, I cannot Oh!" with a sudden stiffening of her rosy features, "so you are Dolly Temple's father, are you?" For a middle-aged gentleman stood in the doorway, look ing questioningly at her. "Well, you needn't come back here. The child's mother's friends are to take her away at once. And perhaps, if you hadn't been so dissipated and neglectful of poor Mrs. Temple, she might have been here now. I can't help it ; some one ought to tell you what the peoplo in this house are saying about it. I don't want to be hard on you," she added, "but if you were to sign the pledge, and try really try to do bet ter for the future " "I really think that is unnecessary," interrupted a composed voice, "for I am already a strict temperance man. You are mistaken, young woman. I am not Sergius Temple, but Mr. Car thew, the father of the late Mrs. Tem ple. The telegram was delayed, and I have only just received the summons to come. " Polly blnshod to the very roots of her curly hair. She had not a word to say for herself. "Oh, why couldn't I have minded my own business," thought she. "It's just as tho girls are always telling me. My tongue is a deal too long." "Are you the nurse?" Le asked, sternly. But the janitress, hurrying up at this moment, speedily enlightened him as to tho exigeuoies of the case. "It's a young lady, sir," said she, "from ono of the other apartments, and what we should have done without her I'm sure I don't know. The doar littlo miss has took to her so kind." The sternness of Mr. Carthew's bearing abated somewhat. "She is vory good," said he. "As I have no one to take charge of my daughter's child, I shall be pleased to engage her services for the present." "I know that other woman wasn't good to her," observed the janitress. Polly looked at the baby, the baby held out its little hands, with an in distinct, cooing sound, like a bird in the hedges. "I'll go,' said Polly. "The train leaves in twenty min utes," said Mr.- Carthew, looking at his watch, Polly rushed up stairs for her hat and shawl. SJie left a scribbled note ou the table for her sisters, neither of whom was iu the room, and with Mr. Carthew and the baby Just caught the train. "I I don't know where we are go ing," stammered Polly. "How neglectful of me not to have mentioned it," said Mr. Carthew. "To my country seat at Silver Beach." "Oh," thought Polly, "if Aurora ouly knew I He has got a coilutry seat, has he? I do hope Mrs. Carthew will be good to me. I wonder if there are any daughters, and if they would like a musical governess? Because if Miriam could get a place, I think we should be perfectly happy." But she glanced surreptitiously at Mr. Carthew's grave, handsome face, and lackeit the courage to ask auy more questions, "He must have married very young," thought she. A stout lady, iu a black silk gown and white muslin apron, met them on the steps of a pretty seasido Cottage, with a belt of piuo trees in tho rear, and the curling fringes of the Atlau tio Ocean in front, aud welcomed the new treasure warmly. "ThiB is my housekeeper," said Mr. Carthew. "Mrs. Mutt. Miss Clymer is the new nursery governess for Miss Temple. Make her as comfortable as you can." "Mrs. Carthew is not at homo? Polly ventured to ask, a? the black- silk matron led the way dowu a long corridor Covered with cool, cheeked matting. "Bless your heart," said Mrs. Mott, "there ain't auy Mrs. Carthew. If she'd beeu liviug, my young lady would never have made that foolish, runaway match." "Xor any Miss Oarthews?" "Nor any Miss Oarthews," noded Mrs. Mott, Polly took the baby out ou the beuch for a walk next day, It seemed moro like the doll-playing days of her childhood than ever, or else like a pleasant summer dream. "I'll walk as lur as the drug store," said she to herself. 'There's quite a settlement of houses around tho hotel, and some very prutty stores. I've a great mind to walk iu ami ask for a bottle of Doctor Puffin's lloselmd Balm for the Complexion." She did so. Polly Clymer was never lacking in cool audacity, whatever might have been her other deficien cies. "Why, Polly, is this you?" de manded a familiar voice behind the connter. "Goodness me I" cried Polly. "IVt George Btlden !" "Yes," said tho tall, straight young drnggist, "Why, didn't yon know it? I've bought out this business, and I've telegraphed for Aurora to como down and marry me. We may as well spend our honeymoon by the seaside attend ing to business. The dear littlo girl, only to think of her pasting on all them labels herself I Puflitt told mo about it. Puffit supplies the capital, yon soe, on condition of my pushing his specialty. I've taken a cottage, and telegraphed Aurora to bring you and Miriam along, too. Silver Beach is a rising place, and there's plenty to be done here." "I'm awfully obliged to yon George," said Polly, holding up the baby, "Jmt I'm a nursery governess at present, and can't leave my situa tion. But I'll call and see you and Mrs. Beldeu as often as possible." And she Btrollud back to the Car thew cottage along the edge of the Atlantic, talking soft, unintelligible nonsense to the baby as she went. Three months afterward, George Belden shut up the "seaside branch" to return to the New York store which Doctor Puflitt had purchased and dec orated in Algerian-Mooresque stylo with more gold-leaf and peacock plumes than would have seemed possi ble to the uninitiated mind. "The Rosebud Balm has been a suc cess," cackled Doctor Puflitt. "And I owe it in no small degree to Belden's enterprise. Belden's is a genius." Mrs. Belden had decided to assist her husband in the store. "It's a great deal nicer than type writing," said she, "and twice as profitable. And Miriam will keep house for us. You haven't ventured to ask Mr. Carthew whether he'll bo returning to that Madison Avenue pal ace of his, Polly?" "Oh, I have asked him!" said Polly. "I'm not afraid of Mr. Car thew any longer.". "Notwithstanding his prinoely ways," for Aurora stood in great awe of the stately gentleman. "And you will be continued on?" "No," Polly answered. "Mr. Car thew has engaged a new nursery gov erness for Dotty." Aurora clasped her hands tragic ally. "Oh, Polly I" she oriod. "And you will lose your place?" Polly lifted the roguish eyes whioh had been temporarily hidden behind Dotty's yellow curls. "I am going to be baby's grand mother," said she. The Matador's Last Thrust. The art of the matador is not to run up to the bull and stab him, but to have him come to you and fling him self upon the sword, while you direct his movements this way and that with ths scarlet cape. He will follow a red cape anywhere, and the chulas are busy from the beginning of the fight to the end, loading the bull away from the fallen picadors or the imperilled banderilleros or the matador. Even after the sword is thrust into his neck up to the hilt, it takes the bull a long time to die. A harrowing sight it is. The noble creature tho only noblo creature, as it seems, in the ring stands up as long as he can, vomitiug forth torrents of blood, as all his en emies crowd around him, sticking to it until he drops trembling against the fender. Then in come the teams of mules, gayly deoorated with flags and ribbons, "to carry the bull aud the horses around ths ring at a gallop, leaving a bloody traok behind. They are not contout with removing the bodies by the nearest possible exit j oh, no I These gay teams go gallop ing around the whole arena, each drag ging its bloody carcass, while the band plays another quickstep. They are hardly out of tho ring be fore tho drum rolls aud the next bull bursts into the areua. So it goes on, uutil six bulls are done for. All the while our ueighbors in tho next box are eating and drinking. As for us, we see nothing but the suffering and death over aud over again. It carries you back to the Roman circus, aud you wonder what civilization has done for Mpuiu, whose populatioU is still so thirsty for blood. The Spaniards Are so used to it thnt they see none of the barbarity, only tho skill and the science. And the English residents iu Spain are more enthusiastic than the Spauiards themselves. A Historic (Jnn. Tho Loudon Telegraph chronicle th ' removal of "Queen Bess's pocket l'i-tol,"an enormous piece of brass ord' nance which for generation his frowned from the dill's of Dover, to make way for a battery of modern guns. The "pocket pistol" now rests iu honorary retirement iu a less conspicuous part of the castle. This gun is twenty-four feet long, takes a charge of fifteen pounds of powder and has a range, it is said, of eight miles. it has not beeu 11 red for so long, however, t at nobody knows how far it will carry. It is elaborately ornamented with figures representing Liberty and Vic tory. This gun was presented to Juoeu Eli.ahcth by the peoplo of the low countries iu recognition of her efforts to protect them and their re ligiou. It has an inscription in Flem ish, which is popularly supposod to run ! ''I.nrel me W'-ll, AU'l keep me clean, Aud I'll carry u lull to Uuluis Urmui." Aud there is a popular notiou that the gun was able to sweep the Freuch port on the other side of tho chuuuul. Tho accuruto translation of the ill' scription is, however: '()'. r the hill mi I (lain I nun throw my liall, My name Is 'llruukor of Mouud and Wall.' 4 The "pocket pistol" has long sines ceased to bo regurded as valuable, save as a uieuieuto of the reign of HUw beth, GLACIERS IN THE WEST. THE VAST ICE FIELDS OF THE SIERRAS. California Has Some of die Most Re markable Fro7.cn Klvers In the World Wells or Ulue Water. "7C MOXG the many attractions which California offers to strangers and her own peo J pie, says tho San Francisco Call, are the glaciers that lie in tho high Sierras that constitute the back bone of the State. Tho glaciers of Switzerland attract thousands to that region every season, and it would be interesting to know how many cf these American glacier seekers are aware that some of tho most remarkable glaciers in the world are in America. The California ice rivers found in the Sierra Nevadas are not remarkable for their size, but are, nevertheless, typi cal glaciers, and, taken with the fine scenery of the mountains, will repay the climbing that is necessary to ob serve them. If one could ascend in a balloon from the summit of Mount Shasta a most interesting series of glaciers would be observed radiating from the central peak, and even while standing on the cone they may be fol lowed with the eye, one being about four miles in length, with an average width of three to four miles. Imagin ing ourselves poised above the peak, we see below the sharp summit 11,511 feet high, and on the left Shastina crater. In old times, geographically speaking, Shasta has been a terrifio volcano, and the canons of its flanks are cut into the lava deposits of ages. The greatest glaciers seem to reach to the north and east. Reaching down into the Shastina crater is the Mount Whitney glacier, that winds away from the summit to the west, sending a small glazier to the south, encom passing the Red Rocks, near the Sis sons trail. From the ridge that reaches down southwest and on the north side are seen six or eight small glaciers. The Whitney turns to the north and after throwing a spur to the west extending in a moraine at about 9150 feet above the sea. The glacier is three-quarters of a mile long and covers an area of about 2000 square yards. It is an interesting fact that in nearly all tho old descriptions of Shasta the writers appear to have taken these glaciers as simple deposits of snow that lie in the deep canons and so last. But such is not the case ; they are true glaciers, exposed to tho sun for three-quarters of the year. The view up Whitney glacier is grand and impressive, showing great fissures and crevasses, deep enough to be ex tremely dangerous in crossing and re quiring no little Alpine climbing to surmount. Crossing a ridge to the east of Whitney glacier, we see the Folam glacier reaching down from the sum mit in a northerly direction. At the summit it appears separated by a sinuous ledge of volcanic, rock, and below is pierced by numerous jagged peaks. It is particulary noticeable for its terminal moraine a mass of rocks heaped up, the result of the crushing force of the ice river. There is one extremely deep crevasse at the altitude of 10,000 feet a magnificent fissure reaching down deep into the heart of the glacier. Below this there is a succession of deep chasms. The entire glacier is about one and a half miles in length, and has an ice area of about 1,800,000 square yards. Its terminal moraine lies about 10,000 feet above the sea. From the slopes of this glacier an ides of the grandeur of Shasta may be derived. To the northwest it strotches away in a majestic slope for sixteen miles. To the southwest the descent is 10,000 feet in eight miles. Passing over a dividing peak, 11,038 feet above the sea to tho easf, Hotlum glacier is reached, which extends in a northwest direction from the summit. It is wide and fan-shaped, its foot ending in a terminal moraine 10,500 feet above the sea. At night all is still on tho glacier, but at noonday, when the heat of the summer sun is felt, myriads of streams find their way down, cutting tho glacier and making passage often dangerous. The neve of Hotlum, or the upper portion, has two conspicuous ice streams that flow through it. One in particular is forced between two rocky buttresses and so shattered that the ico assumes tho appearance of lofty pinnacles fifty or sixty feet in height. These are typical of glacial ice, assuming rich opalescent blue colors well worth the climb to enjoy. The crevasses hero are deep and dan gerous, aud from them issue strange sounds, caused by the melting ami downward motion of the icy monster. Here are the famous glacial wells, filled with blue tinted water. Hotlum is about a mile and a quarter iu length, and has an area of 0,000,000 square feet. Following round Hot lum glacier we come to the southeast tongue, whice is called Wiutum gla cier, and which appears to reach dowu farther thau any of the others, send ing a narrow limb into a deep canon. From its lower end rushes a glacial stream, forming Wintum Falls, about 8000 feet above the level of the sea. Of all the Shasta glaciers Wiutum id perhaps the most remarkable. Here are 0,000,000 square feet of ice a gigantic fiat berg reaching to an un known depth, three-quarters of a mile wide aud nearly two miles iu length. Its ruto of movement has not been tested, but a gluuue at the surface shows the terrific power thut is forc ing the ice ou and on. A humming bird is said to have beeu stung to death by a bee at Co lumbia, Wis., recently. The Queen of Fuglaud never sign u death warrant. THE LOW SUN. O level ?un, thy broken rays Lie on the winding meidow wave, Aud by tho stream long shadows fllnp From willow trees that hedge ths spring. O level Sun, thy rays arc tipped As wnnds In thy soft circle dipped j Low-flying birds, touched as they pass. Flirt glided wings from grass to grass. O Icvol Bun, these broken rays Tresago another death ot days s On meadow ways shades prloked by light Move, merge, and darken Into night. llarguret S. Briscoe, in Harper'i Bazar. HUMOR OF THE BAY. Knocked into a cocked hat Tho crease. Truth. A young man is a theory; an old man a fact. Atchison Globe. A boj's idea of glory is to play base ball in a "suit." Atchison Globe. If a woman looks cool on a hot day, she doesn't mind being warm. Atchi son Globe. As soon as a man annonnces that ho is a reformer, he ought to be arrested. Atchison Globe. The baseball player would be all right if he could only play as well as he practices. Puck. Man is made of dust ; and his name becomes Mud through the watering cart of Fate. Puck. A man's confidence in his own ex perience is an inverse proportion to his ago. Ram's Horn. Hunger is the best sauce, but when you have no other it is fatal to the stomach. Ram's Horn. Women never get over the notion that they are entertaining angels una wares. Atchison Globe. Be polite to everybody. There's no telling when you may havo some thing to sell. Atchison Globe. A growler is a man who would much rather sleep in a cyclone than in an ordinary draft. Galveston News. When the last mun leaves tho room, the women draw their chairs up closer, and whisper. Atchison Globe. "Thus we part, wretch, and this is the last letter from your unhappy Anna. P. S. More to-morrow." Fliegonde Blaetter. Laundry machinery really seems to have reached the stage of perfection. It can destroy a collar in a single wash, Boston Transcript. "I fail," said the boarder, frantic ally sawing at the steak, "to find a weak point in this Armour plate." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Hiland "What a nuisance that egotist Spudkius is!" Halket "Right you are. He's a regular T Bore. "Pittsburg Chronicle. It is supposed that the fashion among women of reading the final pages of a novel first is due to their predilection for the last word. Boston Transcript. Clara "When you refused Freddie, did you tell him to brace up and be a man?" Haddie "No, I didn't want to be unreasonable." Detroit Tri bune. It is always discovered, when a man is killed while engaged in some hazardous business, that it was his in tention to have retired next year. Atchison Globe. Hungry Higgius "Say, it ain't hot on the road, here, ner nuthin'." Weary Watkins "You said'er. Don't you wisht wo was iu some nice, cool jail?" Indianapolis Journal. Mrs. Ca'sou "I hear it was a runa way match." Mrs. Yokes "Yes. The bride aud her father caught up to him with a preacher when he was try ing to escape." New York Herald. Doctor "Let's see, did I prescribe for you tho last time you were here?" Patient "Let mo see oh, yes! I remember now, for I was deadly sick all the next day." Boston Transcript. Beggar "Kind sir, pray give me a shilling for my six hungry children?" Passerby "Awfully sorry; but I'm not buying hungry children just now ; I've got nine at home already." Lon don Moonshine. Bauglo "Nuturo has been very kind to Mrs. Bluschor. Seo tho roses on her cheeks?" Miss B.'s rival "i'es, indeed. One must havo a natural gift to paint like that." Arkansaw Traveler. "Did Mis Fyppe receive many proposals whilo at the seashore?" "Many? Why, receiving proposals got to be a habit with her. She got no she couldn't eveu hear a soda water bottle pop without exclaiming, 'This is so sudden!' " Indianapolis Jour nal. Mr. Dun "But, my dear fellow, this account has beeu running seven years." Scientific Debtor "That's right, old man. But you know every atom of a mail's system changes iu seven years. I am not the man who bought tho goods." Cincinnati Tri bune. The good, kind old gentleman looked down benignautly on the small urchin bluckiug his shoes. "Now, my boy," he said, after he had finished blacking his shoes, "what would you think if 1 gave you a uice new $1 bill?" The boy, down on ail io irs, cocked his head up at his prope -tivrt benefactor. "I guess I'd think you wanted ninety-five cents change," ho replied, ami the subsequent proceed ings provod hia guess to be correct. Detroit Free Press. The export from Sweden to the I'uited States iu 1S.KI is calculated to have had a value of :, 100,000. The principal part of this export, or more thuu $!,'!(, (100, consisted if iron goods. The best btritw iu the world is grow n iu China uud Japan, ami is niado into braid iu England and Belgium.
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