f THI FOREST REPUBLICAN RATfS Or ADVERTISINOl On Sqnar, on Inoh, on intartiaa, .1 1 ttl On Kqur, on inch, on month. ., I 00 On Rqaar, on inch, three month. , II CO On Hquar, one inch, on 7 ear... . , 10 W Two riquarn, on yar 18 00 Quarter Column, on Jar. 80 OC Half Column, on year 80 00 On. Column, on yr . . 100 10 LCJ arlrartiumxita tev. mil par Ma ach iBMrtion. Marriage and dath notice gratbi. All bin lor yearly advertisement uiiTJwfcJ quarterly. Temporary advertisement Mart to paid in advano. Job work -oath on dI!rrr. Forest Republican. It -nbHk rrtrj Walay, kf J. E. WENK. O0o In BmMibangb A Co.'i BuHdlcf UJf RIIR, TIOHWTA, fa. Trms, ... tio nkaertptlm ncMnt far I iMrtw Mrio4 ti tkraw nnlha. Onrrpondm Mllctt frta ftl tart f th country. N aUc wUl k takra f unjMiu VOL. XXVII. NO. 20. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1894. $1.00 PER ANNUM. Wyoming ia richer in minerals than any other State in the' country. 1 . . . . . . It is asserted by tho New York Wit ness that eighty per cent, of the earn, ings of railroads go to the payment of wages for labor. Statistics ihow that during the Inst ten years the value of assessed prop erty in the District of Columbia has increased from $93,491,891 to $191, 417,804. Russia is said to have 137,000,000 more acres of land undor cultivation than the United States, but these sta tistics are supposed, by the New York World, to bo misleading, if not wholly false. Baltimore is the fourth maritime city in tho country, being exeeeded by Now York, Boston and New Or leans, and nearly 3000 foreign vessels arrive and depart every year. The ex ports exceed $50,000,000 a year. . . . j. - i Large irrigation works costing $2, 000,000 and irrigating 400,000 acres of land are to be built in the Bio Verde Valley of Arizona. The work is to be completed in eighteen months.- It in cludes about 110 miles of canal, and a reservoir of immense capacity. A French statistician says that the number of mon and women in Frsnoe is more nearly equal than in any other country of the world, there being only 1007 women to 1000 men. In Switzer land thore are 1000 men to 1000 wo men, and in flrenco only 933. Tho conditions iu Hong Kong, China, ac cording to this authority, are ap palling, thoro being only 360 women to 1000 men. A man whose business it ia to solicit subscribers for several medical peri odicals complains that doctors are feeling the hard times, remarks the Chicago Herald. Many decline to enhiinrihA. mul mnr who anliAnriVin 1 a- lay payment. The fact is that many sick folks are making shift to get along without the doctor, while some are seeking advice at the hands of less expensive men than they have usually employed. Professor O. Hall says: "Some years ago, by careful individual study, I found that sixty per cent, of the six-year-old childron entering Boston schools had never seen a robin, eigh teen per cent, had never seen a cow, some thinking it as big as their thumb or the picture, thin making mere verbal cram of all instruction about milk, cheese, butter, leather, and so on. Over sixty per cent, had never seen growing corn, blackberries or potatoes; seventy-one per oent. did not know beans." The struggle for supremacy between gas and electric light has been a de termined one. Electrio light has made wonderful progress in point of cheap ness since 1877, but the gas men are also advanoing. Formerly gas was made wholly from coal. Later on eoal ami petroleum combiued (known as water gas) came to the front and re-a duocd the ccst materially, and now another big stop has been taken the production of gas wholly from petro leum, A plant of that description for making both fuel and illumiuating gas is building at Havei-straw, N. Y. Qas at fifty cents a thousand is bound to come, maiutains the New York Re corder. The old Liberty Bull now rest in a handsome new case iu the east room of Iudependouce Hal), Philadelphia, The case is made of selected quartered white oak, is five foot ten inches square and ten feet high. On each of the four sidos is a large plato glass over four foot wide and sovou feet high in the center. At each corner is a bronzed pillar surmounted by neat carvod work, while over each of the glass sides is an arch with the names of thirteen orig inal States carvod, that of Pennsyl vania boing on the keystone. Facing tho doorway leading down from tho top, is a carved model of "Old Abe," the famous war eagle, the winga measuring fifty-four inches from tip to tip. Beneath, on the top of the case, is the inscription copied from the bell, "Proclaim liberty throughout all the world to all the inhabitants there of." On each corner of the top ia a polished bronze torch. The bell is suspended within tho case from the marred old yoke on which it hung when it made its historic peal. Tho yoke itself was made from a tree just back of tho hall. This is supported by columns of bronze and its columns rest on a truoli, which fits suugly in side the case, and appears to be aim ply a Uoor. Beneath are four rubber tired wheels, which will permit a quick removal iu case of fire. The uew case, complete, cost $1500. A gas well at Montpelior, Ind., ha changed its tune, and oil flows freely from its month. Within a district having an area of thirty square miles, in tho State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, there are more centenarians than in any of the United States. France is reported to be taking an increased interest in swine raising, and it ia thought that this will en hance the attention given to the pro duction of corn. Sky-scraping buildings are becom ing so common, that after awhile. Puck predicts, cities will be known as much by their altitude as by their length and breadth. The Northwestern Lumberman, which a fow years ago took tho ground that the supply of white pine in the Northwestern States was inexhaustible, now shows by what it believes to bo authentio figures that the shortage in one district alone for the current year will be 700,000,000 feet, and informa tion points to a general shortage in all the Northwestern pine territory, running' into billions of feet. A business man remarks that it is wonderful what effect the speed of elevators baa on the manners of men in transacting business. Go into an office building where the elevators rush up and down like a flush, you will find the effoct reproduced on the men who do business there. It is quick, sharp, nervous work. Where the elevators are slow there is moro deliberation and conservatism. The royalties of Europe patronize the bicycle with as much energy as the boys of America. The King of the Belgians exercises upon one daily, lit tle Q ueen Welhelmina ridea one when ahe ia at her castle of Het Loo, and the Czarowitz, Princes Waldemar and Carl, of Denmark, and Princes George and Nicholas, of Greece, are all cy clists. The bicycle of the Khedive of Egypt is a gorgeous machine, almost entirely covered with silver platiug. Brooklyn appears to be rapidly los its character as a residence suburb of New York City, observes the New Or leana Picayune. It is no longer to any great extent the "bedroom of New York," and is beooming in au eminent degree a manufacturing town. Accord ing to the last census no fewer than 109,292 persons are employed on the average in the 10,583 manufactories in Brooklyn. Their combined capital -is over $250,000,000 and $65,000,000 is annually paid out in wages. If each person employed in a factory can be held to represent four others depend ent upon his or her labors, fully one half of the population is suoported by home manufactures. Thore are 2fil industries represented in the list, the first, numerically, being shoe shops, but tho leading one in point of value of product is the sugar-refining inter est. More men are employed iu mak ing clothes than iu anything elsa, an I foundry and maohino shops come next. In no loss than fifty-two differeut in" dustriea the value of the product an nually exceeds $1,000,000. The direct and indirect losses caused by the recont strike will perhaps ex ceed $100,000,000. The President of one of the largest railway corporation in the country is reported as sayiug: The earniugs of tho railroad companies of the Western roads fell off in two weeks au arorage of at least twenty five per cent. The pay rolls that were stopped will represent a loss to em ployes of, let us say, at least six times as much as that suffered by the com panies. Hundreds of factories were obliged to close from lack af coal or coke. Tho wages Inst in thosa were five times the amount lost by the manu factories. The beef oompuuics lost hundreds of thousands and California and other fruit crops were either tem porary or total losses. The following is not an unfair recapitulation of losses, 1 think : The United State. Government tl, 030,000 Loss la earnings of railroads cen tering in Chicago 8,000,030 Lom in earnings ol other railroads. 2,500,00 Loss by destruction o( railway property 2,500,000 Lou to railway employes in wages 20,000,000 Lost In exports, pro luoe sad mer chandise, 2,000,000 Lou in fruit crops 2,500,000 Loss to varied manufacturing com panies 7,500,0)0 Loss to employes 83,000, 0JO Loss to merchauts on quick goo is 5,000,000 Total fsi ,000.000 To this must be added loss from what would have boon increased sum mer traffic and manufactured goods for tho coiuiug season. The lirul ho .in j, will easily lie more t'oiu $100,0011, 000. WHERE THE CATTLE COME TO DRINK. At evening, where the oatlln come to drink, Cool are the long marsh-grasses, dewy cool The alder thickets and the shallow pool, And the brown clay about the trodden brink. The pensive afterthought of sundown sink Over the patient acres given to peace ; The homely crios and farmstead noises cease, And the worn day relaxes, link by link. A lesson that the open heart may read Breathes In this mild benignity of air, These dear familiar savours of the soil A lesson of the calm of human creed, The simple dignity of common toil, And the plain wisdom of unspoken prayer. C, O. D. Itoberts,ln Youth's Companion. ON THE BRINK, BY AMELIA X. BARK, EARS ago thero was a grand brick house stand ing in the mi d at o t a sweet old gar den on one of the pleasant est sites of Richmond Hill. It had once been th residence of a noble family, but it was at that time only a celebrated school for young ladies. The house itself was a plain, substantial brick one, and there were plenty in the vi cinity that in every point excelled it ; but nowhere was there a garden of greater loveliness than that its high brick walls shut in. This was especially so in the morn ings and evenings, when the pleached alleys and the hazel walks and the woodbine arbors were full of groups of beautiful young English girls girls with flowing brown hair and eves as blue and clear as heaven, and faces innocent and fresh as if each faoe had 1 1 . . . ueen matie our 01 a rose. uut even where all are beautiful, some one will be found loveliest of all, and Lanra Falconer was the acknowledged belle 01 tne npper class. Sho was nineteen years of age, but sue ami lingered at juauarae More s school, partly because it had been her only home for five years and partly because her guardian considered it to be the best place for her until she was twenty-one, when she would receive her fortune and become her own mis tress. So Lanra remained at madame's. studying a little, but still having a mucn larger amount of liberty than that granted to the other pupils. This liberty permitted her to shop with a proper escort and also to pay frequent visits to acquaintances resident in Richmond and London. On one of these excursions she had met Mr. Ernest Trolawny, and it is of this gentleman she is so confidentially talking to her chief friend, as they walk in the loneliest part of tho gar don together. "I am so glad, Clara, that we met him this afternoon ; I wanted you so much to see ErneBt. Is he not hand some?" "I never saw such eyes, Laura 1 And his figure 1 And his stylish dress ! Oh, I think he is so grand and so well, so mysterious-looking, as if he was a poet or something." "And then his conversation, Clara! He talks as I never heard any one else talk so romantic, dear!" "Oh, I think you must be a very happy girl, Laura ! I often wish I had some one to love me as Ernest loves you." Laura sighed and looked up senti mentally ; "You have a father and mother, Clara. I am quite alone. Ernest says that is one reason he at first felt as if he must love me. " "What would Madame Mere say?" "Madame must not know for the world,- Clara. She would write to my guardian. Oh, Clara, 1 am going to tell you a great, great secret ! . Ernest and I have determined to run away to Gretna Green and get married." "Oh-h-h-hl Laura, how dare you? Madame will be sure to rind it out She never looks as if sho knew things, but she always does. When are you going?" "To-night. Ernost will be waiting with a carriage at the end of the gar den wall. I have bribed cook to leave the kitchen door unlocked, and I shall go through her room and down the back-stairs." V Thus, until the nine o'clook bell rang, the two girls talked over and over the same subject and never found it weari some, and when they bade each other a good-night in the long corridor, it was a very meaning one. They were both greatly impressed with the ro mance of the situation, and timid little Clara envied and admired her friend, and could not sleep for listening for the roll of a carriage and the parting signal which Laura hud agreed to make on her friend's door as she passed it. Then Laura made her few prepara tions and sat down in the moonlight to wait for the hour. She thought of all her favorite heroines who had en acted a similar part, and tried to feel as they were asserted to have felt. "Half-past eleven!" Sho rose and laid her bonnet and j mantle ready, but, in spite ot her ro mantic situation, she was really chilled and unhappy and conscious of a most unnatural depression of spirits. Just then the door opened softly, and Madame Mere, with a candle in her hand, entered the room. She was a very small, slight woman, with a grave, lovable face and a pair of won derful eyes. In their culm, clear light lay the secret of her power over the fifty girls whom she ruled absolutely with a glance or a smile. Kho cauie gliding in more like a auiiit thu a woman, and putting the light down, said : "Laura, I have had a dream, dear girl a dreadful dream and I am afraid. Let mo stay here with you." So she sat down and began in a low, trembling voice to talk of Laura's dead mother ; of her pure, lofty wo manhood, and of her love for her child. Laura scaroely heard her; the time was going fast ; it was close upon midnight ; she must make an effort at once. So during a moment's pause, she said : "Will madame try to sleep now?" "Yes, I will put out the light, and we will both try." "First, will madame permit me to go to Clara's room? I have left my things there. I shall not disturb any one. In a moment madame's attitude changed ; her eyes scintillated with light; all the caressing tenderness and sorrow cf her voice and manner were gone. Sho was like an accusing spirit. "Down on your knees, false girl, whom no memory of mother's love could soften ! Down on your knees, and let your prayers strengthen the hands of those good angels who are fighting your evil genius this very moment 1 Pray as those should pray whose very life and salvation hang upon a villain's word 1" And, draw ing the girl down beside her, she watched out with her those dangerous midnight hours. At two o'clock Laura was left to weep out alone her shame and her dis appointment. Madame had kissed and forgiven and comforted her with such comfort as was possible; but youth takes hardly the breaking of its idols, and it was bitter and humiliat ing to hear that this handsome Ernest was better known to the police courts than to the noble houses he talked about, and yet sho had chosen his so ciety and had boon willing to become his wife. Madame had not spared her ; she had spoken very plainly of a gambler s wife and of a thief s home of shames and horrors Laura trem bled to recall adding : "I had willingly kept you ignorant of such things, for the knowledge of them takes the first bloom of purity from a good girl's heart ; but, alas, Laura, if you will go forbidden roads, you must at least be warned of the sin and the sorrows that haunt thorn." Lanra was ill many days afterward. Madame had indeed forgiven her, but it was hard to forgive herself ; and for a long time even a passing memory of her first lover brought a tingling blush of shame to her oheeks and a sickening sense of disgrace and fright to her heart. It was ten years after this event, and Laura, with her two daughters, was driving slowly across Cannock Chase. The pretty children sat on either side of her, and she drove the ponies slowly, often stopping to let the little girls alight and pull a blue bell or a handful of buttercups. Dur ing one of these stoppages, as she sat, with a smile on her handsome face, watching the happy little ones, some one, coming from behind, touohed her rudely on the arm. She turned and saw a man in grimy leather cloth ing, with an evil, cruel face, at her side. Supposing him to be one of the men employed in her husband's iron works, who had been discharged or who wanted help, she Baid : "Well, what is it, sir?" The man answered curtly: "Laura!" Then Laura looked steadily into the dirty, imbruted face. And in spite of soot and scars and bruises, ahe knew it. "Mr. Trelawny, why do" "Bosh I My name is Bill Yates. You fooled me ono my lady, but you will pay me for it now. I've been lagged since then sent across for seven years only got back six months since. Glad I have found you, for I won't work any more now. Come, I want a fiver to start with." "A 'fiver?' " "Yes; a five-pound note." "I shall not give you penny." "Then I shall take one of them little girls tho youngest is the pret tiest" "For God's sake, don't go near my children I I will give you the money." "I prefer the money, it will save me the trouble of selling the child to tho gypsies. " Laura hastily counted out the sum ; thero was seven shillings more in her purse, and the villain said : "I'll take the change, too. Shall I lift the children into the phaeton?" "Don't touch them. Don't look at them ! Oh, go away ! Go away !" "Go away, indeed ! You were glad enough once to come to me. I hare your letters yet. It would be a sweet thing to show them to your husband." "Vou had better murder me." "I have half a mind to ; but it suits me better to keep you for my banker. Be here next week with five pounds seven shillings, and every week after, until further notice, or else I will steal your child and send them letters to your tine husband." Then, with a threatening scowl and the shake of a cleiVhed list in her face, he went away, taking with him all the joy and peace out of poor Laura's life. She now lived in constant terror, and such a dreadful change came so rapidly over the once happy, hand some woman that her husband was ex ceedingly anxious, both for hei health and her reason. What did she do with the unusually largo sums of money she asked him for? Why did she go out ridiug alone? Why did she not suffer her children to leave their own grounds? Why did she not sleep at night? Why was her once even, buu uy temper become so irritab'e? Why did she search his face so eagerly every night? These and twenty other auxious, suspicious questions passed through his luiud coutiuually, ;ut ho hoped that by ignoring the change it would disappear. Alasl Things got worse and worse, and one day, after ten miserable months, he was sent for from the works in haste. Laura was raving and shrieking in the wildest paroxysm of brain-fever : "Where are the children? Sava them from that man t Henry, please take him five pounds no, he wants ten pounds now, and I can't get it !" In such piteous, moaning ejacula tions she revealed the secret terror that was killing her. But perfect love casts out fear and jealousy, and Laura's husband did her no injustice. Tenderly he nursed tho poor, shattered wife aud mother back to life again, though it was an almost hopeless task with that nameless horror ever beside her. One night, when she was a little stronger, he led her on to talk of the past, and he was so loving aud so pitiful that in a flood of lii'e-giving tears she poured out to him the whole miserable story. Then the bnrden fell from her life, and she dropped happily into tho first sweet, healthy sleep she had had for nearly a year. She never asked again for her tormentor; she only kuew that he had disappeared from South Stafford shire, and joy and peace came back to her heart and home. But one day, after the lapse of four years, she received a dirty, anonymous letter full of threats and insolent de mands for money. This time she went at once to her husband with tho trouble. "Don't be frightened, Laura," ha answered. "I know the fellow. He is one of a gang of four who have just come to Sackett Village. He will be in joil before to-morrow night. This time he shall not escape my vengeance. " He had scarcely finished speaking when a couple of men ran up to the house, crying : "MeaBterl Measter! Here be Dim mitt's height slewered away and there's 'a crowning in 1' " The iron-master leaped to his feet and was soon following the evil mes sengers to the village. He knew that Sackett was all undermined with pits and workings, and it was possible the whole village was in danger. The disaster was right in the center of it, and he was not long in reaohing tho great yawning chasm, where the earth had given way and down which two cottages, with their inhabitants, had gone. As soon as the master appeared, tho pitmen and ironmen gathered round him, though all knew that succor or help was perfectly hopeless. "Where is Bumby?" "Here I be, measter." "What mine was under this?" "Dimmit's, measter, worked out." "Is it deep?" "Six hundred feet" "Dry or wet?" "Deep water." The master looked blankly at the black abyss. "It's the third 'crowning in,' i' my time. T'lsst were in to Cavill's mine. Six decent families whent down at midnight ; they were dashed to bits on t' rocks at the bottom." 'Do you know who lived in these cottages?" "One were empty, thank God. Four strange lads that worked i' Sackett's mine had t' other ; they nobbut work ed there a week, they wor glad to get shut on them at end of it. " "I know, measter," said Michael Raine, the publican, "for they owe me for a week's beer and 'baoca tho score is set ag'n' John Todd, Tim Black aud Bill Yates." " 'Bill Yates?' are you sure?" "Sure to certain of that name, measter, for he said ho wor oorao spe cial to get npsides wi' you." The ironmaster turned thought fully home, and as he kissed his wife, said : "Bill Yates is dead, Laura. My vengeance has been taken from me by Him to whom veugeauoo behmgotli. You may rest safely now, darling." "'But oh, Henry, what a destiny might have been mine !" "Don't say 'destiny', Laura. Our choices are our destiny. Nothing is ours that our choices have not mado ours." This is a true story, aud I toll it to many thousands of youug girls with just as much earnestness as Laura told it to her daughters, to show them that clandestine love affairs are always highly dungerous ; for a passion that is cradled in deceit is pretty sure to end in Bin or shame or sorrow. Now York Ledger. Testing a Horse's Wind. While talking about horses tho other day an old farmer said : "Wul, I'm a pretty good judge of horses aud can always tell whether a hurso is short-winded or not. 'Before I buy a horse," ho contin ued, "I just borrow it for about au hour or so aud then I get out 011 boiuo lonely road and see what kind of stuff he is made of. "I just let him choose his owu gait for a couple of mile p'jsts aud finally give him plenty of rein, making him go for all he is worth. All the timo I just keep my eye on his haunches, aud if I see any rotary motion there it's a sign he's thick-wiuded, aud, of course, every one knows that kind aiu't luuoh good." Philadelphia Call. Wonderlul Speed ol Aliunde Liners. The highest recorded speed on tho Atlantic as au average for tho whoU passage is 21.9 knots per hour, per formed by tho Ouuard steamer Lit can in. This has now bueu nearly equalod by hor sister ship, tho C'aui pauiu, which lias jut made tho passugo Irom New York to (juceustowu in live days, thirteen hours, eight uiiuutos over a total distance of ii'JOfi knots, her uverago speed having been 21.82 knots jr hour. Scieutitlo American. SAVED BY AN INCUBATOR, NATURE'S SUBSTITUTE DOING WONDERS FOB INFANT3. How the Lives or Many Ilables Have Been Saved In New York Hospi tals A Clever Device. E was incubated," the proud mother of some great man of the future will say of her son. For the baby incubator is a success and has come to stay. The doctors de clare that incubators have already been tho means of saving the lives of 100 infants in New York, says a cor respondent of the St. Louis Post-Despatch. In fact, the new born baby, who, nnderthe old-fashioned methods, has no chance of living, now, if put in an incubator, stands about an even chance of becoming a healthy, crow ing youngster. Baby incubators are now in use in two hospitals in the city, tho Post Graduato Hospital and the Maternity Hospital of tho Women's Medical College. A bright young woman, with a sweet face and modest ways, is in charge of the babies at the Maternity Hospital. There is a room in the third story there, a room with a great window which lets in plenty of light and over looks the tops ot the trees in Stuy ve sant Park. Around the walls are four cribs of from ten to twelve feet in length. In two of these there were three little lumps. Y'ou discover that these lumps are alive and breathing. They are very email and delicate, and dainty and pink. They are babies sure enough any man could tell that, but nobody would ever think they are incubator raised. The incubator is used only for the prematurely born babies - and for babies which are so weak that the wise young wome'ki doctors are pretty sure that they will die if left in the open air. Strangely enough, the incubator is shaped something like a coffin, while its particular aim is to keep babies out of coffins. There are two kinds of baby incubators and they differ somewhat in construction. The moment a baby for the in, cubator arrives at the Maternity Hospital the white capped nurses and the doctors gather about the little wooden box, which rests upon a stand some three or four feet high. Baby is swathed very carefully in warm clothes, and is then weighed, clothes and all, before he is laid inside, and the glass cover is placed over him. Underneath the board upon which the little mite rests are three bottlea that are kept comtantly full of hot water. The air passing in from below flows over these and through an open ing in the board into the chamber where the infant is. A thermometer keeps the attendant continually in formed as to the temperature, und a little aluminum anemometer in the small chimney through which the air escapes and which furnishes the draught that keeps the baby supplied with fresh air, always indicates whether or not tho circulation of air is good. The weight is a very important matter. Our baby in tho incubator is weighed every day. A healthy baby should show a slight diurnal increase in weight, and if tho doctors find that the diminutive patient is not growing heavier, they seek remedies for his indisposition. The incubator which will be in the babies' ward of the now building of the Post Graduate Hospital is a great improvement on that at the Maternity Hospital, although it lacks the senti mental surroundings of the one in charge of the young women doctors. In this improved affair the patient will not have to be once lifted from his snug nest from the timo he is placed inside until be becomes strong enough to be removed with safety. The incubator is set upon bicycle wheels, so it may bo moved about whenever desired. The fresh air is heated by passing between two stratas of hot water, rises up both at the head and the feet of the mattress, and is kept iu motion by an alumiuum fan run by clockwork, thus preventing the possibility of the little patient's suffering for want of air. There is alto a tube for the supply of oxygon, liberal quantities of which are good for babies who are hanging on to life by the merest thread, aud it is be lieved this improvement will save a grout many lives that would have been lost in the old iucubator. By means of a clever mechanical de vice, tiie weight of the body is always registered, so that tho physician may discover the slightest variation nt any time. Of course the incubator must be opened to feed the baby its art ill -ciul food, but by means of a deft slid ing of the covers the entrance of any cold air from the outside is prevented. The temperature of tho inside of tho iucubator is kept as near ninety-eight degrees as possible. O l vs. Coal. A careful test was made at Chicago the other day with a couple ol power ful sea-going tugs of the relative ex pense aud merit of oil aud coal as fuel. The two tugs madea run from Chicago to Waukegau and back, one tired with coal and the other with oil. The coal burning tuaf made her .run in three hours, and consumed $15.72 worth of fuel. The oil-burning one, which is a lunch slower vessel under similar con ditions, made the run in 7 minutes slower time, a spied which sho had never made before, slid consumed but Sl.li2 worth of oil. Besides, she made no smoke. Shu is to be put to work iu the river, and submitted to all sorts of practical tests. New Orleans Pica yune. The earliest suow ever kuown ia England was on October 7, 182'J. A LESSON IN LOVE. ''Love is not wise." they say Those sasre advisers that have lived and died, And In their stornor moments put aside Tho arch intruder from their way ; "Love is not wise," they say. They sock to frighten thee--Thou who art far from their old, stupid world, And on the airy wings of youth art whirled Above all practicality ; They seek to frighten thee. Decline their wlsdsm now ; And seek thnt only that cur hearts perceive, Only thot grand, ereat bliss which I believe Comes from our spirits' secret vow Decline their wisdom now ! Edmond Tlcton, In Times-Democrat. HUMOR OF THE DAI, Money talks in all languages, Trnth. A receiving teller The scandal bearer. Truth. Fame is sniely a bubble; for plenty of "soap" will make it. Puck. There is a little wolf and a little rabbit in every man. Atchison G'.obe. In the grammar of femininity two negatives make two affirmatives. Puck. Most men and their stomachs don't understand each other. Atchison Globe. Let us bo frank, and admit that we are all somewhat gossipy. Atchison Globe. The fut man is an example of those who have greatness thrust upon thenu Truth. The difficulty in chasing men lies in getting them Btarted to run. Atchi son Globe. Tolerance is tho admission 01 the right of other people to hold wrong views. Puck. There is no suocess so sweet as tho success achieved by acting against the advice of our friends. Puck. "And do you think Binks can fill the requirements of the place?" "M in, well if it requires Binks, ho can." Puck. No man will ever amount to much who labors under the impression that somebody else ia always iu his way. Dallas News. "Does yonr wife put up all her oan stuff herself?" "Certaiuly. Self-preservation is the first law of nature." Boston Transcript. Priscilla "I want to get a gown to match my complexion." Perdita "Why don't you get a hand-painted one?" Brooklyn Life. He who thinks that imagination is solely an attribute of youth should chat a whilo with 0110 o( our "oldest inhabitants." Trnth. Caller "Your son graduated from college this year, did he not?" Mrs. Malaprop "Yes; he was valetudinari an of his class." Puck. There are times whon the man who thinks he tills the public eye merely occupies the position of a speck of dust. Milwaukee Journal. Training will do much for a man ; but it will uot teach him never to neglect to look for the towel before ho tills his eyes full of soap. Puck. According to Kipling, the elephant is a gentleman. Nonsense! Whoever heard of a gentleman cirryiuj his trnuk hiinelf? Bostou Trauscript The world no doubt ones a great many people a liviug; but the records do not show that it ever has nssigued for tho benefit of its croditors. Puck. Though wo 111 'ill, lovely woman rio.ni'llmi'S fulls to Imvo her way, You can bet your holton doll ir Tiiat she li always have her say. Indianapolis Journal. A ten-cent box of blacking, proper ly nppliod, will command more re spect than a hundred dollar diamond and rusty loot wear ou a man who is seekiu;; work. Washington Star. "There is more pleasure iu giving than receiving," was tho proverb that a mother was trying to instill into youthful mind. 'That's true about castor oil, mother," was the answer she got. New York Advertiser. It has been said that there is some thing uot nnpleasing to us in the mis fortunes of our friends. While most likely this is true, yet pleasure, at tho misfortunes of our enemies, is still do ing business at the old stand. Puck. Haughty Lady (who has just pur chased a stamp) "Must I put it on myself?" Postoffieo Assistant (very politely) "Nut necessarily, ma'am ; it will probably accomplish more tt you put it oil the letter." Newark Led ger. lie "I had a queer dream ubout you lust night, Miss Louisa. I was about to givo yon a kiss, whon sud denly we were separate I by a river that gradually grew as big as tho llhine.'' She "And was there uo bridge or uo boat?" Fliegeudo Blaet tor. "How many feet ought I to have to the line for this poem?" asked the young man, as he sauntered cureless ly iuto the editor's office. "I hardly know," wearily replied the gloomy man of shears, out if 1 ha I a thou sand I would gladly give thorn to you." Atlanta Constitution. The Telegraph in China, A Chinese eui;iueer, educated iu New lluveu, Conn., has ueurly completed a tolvgraph hue, 81I.IO miles loujf, across the Gobi desert, from I'ekiu to lvash gar, I'luni'se Turkoolau. It has been throe years under const ruction, uin pole 111 places were hauler', li hl milt. i'leuoh lines cuuuect i. wul: tho Kus siau system. Literary Digest. Only eight per oeul. of the popula tion t St. Louis, M., live iu tene-unnU.
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