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VOL. XXVII. NO. 19. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1894. $1.00 PER ANNUM.
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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.