THE FOREST REPUBLICAN It aIVii trarj WsaaesdiJ, kf J. E. WENK. OBe la Smaarbaugh ft Co.'i Building KLM ITlin, T10NKBTJ, r. Torm, ... Cl.ee prTr. nWrtplIwi nuini fat a aaartw Brloa tfcfta tkr. m.nlhs. RATIS OF ADVERTISINOl OREST REPUBLICAN On Bqiunv on Inok, otw lnMrtlaa.,1 I (n OnaBqaara, on loch, on month..., 100 On. Squara, on inch, tnrae month. . W On Pquara, on inch, on year ...... ! J Tiro Bquam, on yaar 1 t Quarter Column, on year...... ...... 80 0". Half Column, on year "0 0t On Column, on jmr . 100 'Ht Legal adTsniMntaiit fan cntl par lb each InMirtkm. Marriagea and death nottoe. gratia. All bill, foryearly advertisement enOal quarterly, iamporary aaveruanuaraia i Cftrwiponiitw MilletUa rrm u aarta ef the VOL. XXVII. NO. 30. TIONESTA, TA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 14, 1894. S1.00 PER ANNUM. Mpald in aarano. Job work aah oa delivery. Country. N lie wiU H Uk aainuicauaas. Ei;;ht million neris nt IvictX land arc dcarcd rvcrv year. Tlio returns of llio capital invefdod In English railways nro Htendily de creasing. fc'orno of tlio direct calamities that have lcfnllin the Old World nro truced by Hits New Ycrk Advertiser to the destruction of forest. A publication issued by a big East ern thread company sys that over 7, 000,000 miles of thread aro annually Used in tho United States. Observe tho Louisville Conner Journnl : Counter Waehtmeistor says th futiue limn will have n sixth sense. Ft is to be hoped it will bo common pen eg. . London Engineering bivb that tho new magazine gun adoptod for the United States Army possesses "ull the requisites now universally admitted to bo necessary to a perfeot magazine gun." The practice of grasping a loaded gnn by the muzzle is still in rogue, laments the Sun Francisco Examiner. 'There is never a closed season for tho particular eort of a hunter who fails to realize tho relative ability of the two cuds of bis weapon. Considerable attention bos been drawn to the utatcmcut by the Bussinq Minister of Finance, M. Witto, that during tho past six years it was fre quently tho Czar's personal iuHneneo that maintained peace ; that frequently there were warlike threats which he never answered. " The Japanoso echomo of dividing China into threo independent king doms, each to be ruled by a nativi prince, is, in t'.io estimation of tbj . H'iiladelphiaLodger, an ingenious one. The attempts of the three prinoes to do cneh other up would probably re lieve Japan of any further subjuga tory offorts in China. The cotton socd oil mills of England import their cotton seed almost ex clusively from Egypt. The oil is used in soap factories, and a considerable quantity of it is shipped to the Medi terranean where, without doubt, oh serves the Now York Independent, it is transformed into "pure olive oil," much of which is sent to the United States and purchased by our people ia preference to the really pure oil made in California. Bays the Now York Independent: Our dailies show a great lack of rever ence in describing the weather. Tho Tribune spoke of the expected cyclone from the Gulf as coming north at an "easy jog the Times Boid it "seoms to have bumped against a Nova Scotia "high" (area of high pressure) ; the Herald characterized it as "a very alow cyclone," and said it "must put on more steam ;" the World told its readers that the great storm is on iti way, but "is taking things easier than the weather sharps thought." Thus do our great papers exhibit their genius in making tho oldest and com monest of topics interesting. A good many people appear to think that resistance to a blow is a test of hardness in minerals, whereas it is re sistance to erosion. Ignorance of this fact lod a man in this oity, relates the New York Sun, to experiment on what appeared to be a large and un usually clear garnet of rather light red color. Ho took a hamraor to it and smashed it to atoms. A diamond is the hardest substance in the world, yet it may be broken by a tap from hammer, or even a fall on the side walk, as it is apt to split along the - cleavage lines, which aro parallel to its faces. Experts teat an undeter mined gem first with a file and after with fragments of stone of differing hardness. If it yields to the filo it is glass, or something no more durable than that. That glorious theme of song and story, the old frigate Constitution, apostrophizes .the New York Press, is to devote the rest of her days to the training of youth ; and that these days may be long is the wish of every true American who remembers her servioes to heroountry. She is to be turned over to the Massachusetts naval mili tia for use as a training ship, and will leave her present refuge at Fort mouth at ouoe. No more fitting career could be imagined for the Constitu tion than that of an educator, and tho youthful Massachusetts sailors are for tunate. There is a history in every jjlauk of the old warrior, a story in every spar. She tolls of battles fought and won in tuch an atmosphere of , "yoUon to oountry, patriot will be j as well as sailors. WE WON'T GIVE IN. fltorms may howl from Enst to West Hun blilo ont by day Cotton worms do tliolr best Country short on hny ; Will, we Rln t a-golngto glvo la While the world owes all n ltvla' I Let the cotton rlso na' f ill 1 Let tlio corn give out Let tho strongest horses stall, Flonndcrln' about ! Ain't a bit o' use to give In Wblle tho world owes all a llvlu' I If the crop Is short, the laud HUM Is broad na' loot? I Bllll the hoe is lu the ImnJ Hllll the mule Is strong! Nevt-T.Roln' to see us gfvo in Whlletue world owns all a llvln'i What's the use to sit an' pine When the cold wind blows? Takes a lot o' rain an' sblne Jest to make a rose! Rosea dlo an' violets Rive in, But the world owe folks n llvin' t Atlanta Constitution. BELINDA'S SATCHEL B BOr-HIE SWEET. II, Solindr, I wish you could go 1" Little Mies Kit tredge elevated her eeamy forehead in a way that she had when sue was wor ried, until her eye brows reached al most to her "wid ow's penk." Selinda gave the finishing touch to the pink waist Bhe was irouing and set the iron down hard. "It's of no use to talk, mother. aevnr can go anwhero'she said. "And I do wish you wouldn't call mo Selin dy." The unironod things weut into the clothes basket with a sweep and a toss, and the basket went into tho closet with a thump, and Selinda ran up stairs to her own room and buried ber head in tho pillow. It was only a foolish littlo seventeen-year-old bead, although its owner taught the Bend school and sang in tho church choir, and was an officer of the Village Im provement Society. Miss Kittredge dropped the boy's blouse sho was mo ruling, and folded her littlo knotty, toil woru hands in her lap; her glasses had grown suddenly so misty that she could not see. "Poor littlo Solindy-dal It does seem too bad," she murmured. "If Enoch would only pay me, as he said ho would, for keepiu' house for him and nursiu' him through that rhon- matio fever, more n a year ago. can't bear to say anything 'mongEt relations, so and Enoch is terrible nigh. And if I do speak it'll only make him cast a slur upon Amasa, his own brother that's dead and gone, be cause he hadn't more faculty and rtidn t leave us better oil. liut then I Selindy does feel so bad now that the Pritchard girls and Naomi Jenks are going to the World'B Fair. And it does scorn kind of providential that Enoch will be goiu' by here homo from market this afternoon." The littlo woman arose; slowly, but with resolution, ana took tier mend ing out to the porch. But the mend ing was neglected, and she peered aaxiousiy through the Buttering hop vine, down the long, dusty road. She actually tremblod when a tall, gaunt figure, upon the seat of au open farm wagou, came suddenly into view. "Enoch, I waut to speak to you jest a minute," she called, hurrying out to the gate. Enoch was thin-lipped, and dried like leather, lie flecked a fly from his horse's back without looking up, and with a dibtiuctly discouraging air, "It ain't any use talkin' to me about Rule, ho said, before the little wo man found her breath or her courage to Bpeuk. He e got to make his own way, jest as my boys would, if I had any. I dou't care anything about machinery or 'iectrieity, or any of the fol-de-rols that ho s got his head full of. I don't expect he'll ever amount to as much as belindy does "It's Belindy that I want to speak to you about, said tho widow, hastily "Yon know I dou't like to say any thing about it, Enoch, but you said you'd give a little something for takin' care of you when you was sick, aud now Suliudy sho wants so bad to go to the World's Fair. I expect you'll think it's extravagant, but she worked hard keepiu' school, aud Bufe he's Join' real well in the mill, and seems as if now was just the time if you did think of giviu" me anything " "You waut me to give it to Selindy, do you?" The grim mouth relaxed a very littlo. If Uncle Enoch had a weakness U was for his niooe Belinda, whom all Carmel accounted "smart." "I did thiuk she had more sense than to go gulivantiu off to Chicago, a squuuderiu' money, but mobbo I'll give her a little somethin' to help her ulong. I'm goiu' over to B day after to-morrow, am1 I'll stop on my way home." "A little somethin' to help her along" did not sound like enough to pay Belinda's expenses to the Fair, but there was one good thing about Uncle Euoeh, he was apt to promise some thing less than he meant to perform ; and Belinda's mother remembered hopefully how he bad said, after she had nursed him through those long weeks of illness, "I'll remember you hurusomely, M'ria, hurusoiuely." That was, indeed, after he had suf fered very severe twinges of rheuma tism, and Bufe had said it would "take lucre than rheumatism to take tu kinks out of Uncle Enoch so they'd stay out, nevertheless, Mrs. Kit tradge's worn fueo was airlow as she C7 cnlled to Selinda, who was still pros trate and tearful, and told ber just what a hopo Undo Enoch bad held ont. Selinda wns sanguine also. Sho dried her eyes, aud ripped the skirt of tho "changeable Bilk that bad been her mother's wedding dress, to make "stvlisu waist to wear with her old block cashmere skirt. And then sho couldn't rosist the temptation to run acroBS tho field to Naomi Jonks's to tell her of tho joyous prospect. Aud Bho was really angry with Bufo becnuso ho shook bis head doubtfully, going right on eating huckleberry pie, when she told him of Undo Enoch's promise When tho day crime alio ran out as Boon bh she hncl wiped tho dinner dishes to watch for Undo Enech. Ho was late oud in a hurry. Ho handed her out a rather large-sized pasteboard box. "There, I ain't one to be Bmall when I make np my mind to go a-shoppin' ; if you take good care of that 'twill last you till tue next World s rair comes round," with a grim chuckle. "You tell your mother it's her own rosk lot tin' you go ; 'tain't any of my doin'. I've got other nses for my money. " Selinda carried tho box into the bouse. ' It was light, but oh, . how hoavv her heart was I And Bufe, who had been standing behind the great butternut-tree, turned a somersault, Bufe always had provokingly little to say for himself, and he turned somer saults as an expression of his feelings on tho most inopportune occasions. Selinda thought that even a boy ought to have more sense. There was si lence in tue room for tue spaco or a full minute after the cover was taken off the box ; then Mrs. Kittredge said with a tearful gasp, "Oh, don't feel bo bad, Selindy ; it's a real pretty satchel. Selinda bad a temper. I wish that she had had it as fully under control as all but the very bad girls in stories do; but alas! she flung the pretty satchel with all strength, box and all, up into the high cupboard beside the mantolpioce. The box came turn bhug down, and the cover followed it, and Bufe carried them off, saying he had been wanting some pastobonrd to make a fan for his winnowing ma chine. (Bufe spent his leisure experi menting upon miniature machinery.) The bag stayed up in the closet, and Selinda sulked and cried, with inter vals of trying to bo good and make the best of things, and her mother took the egg money, with which she was to have bonght herself a pair of gloves, and bought a gilt belt for Se linda, and she made a great many cream pioe in anxious, silent sym pathy, and opened the strawberry preserves, of which. Belinda wag very fond. Sometimes when Selinda was away Mrs. Kittredge opened tho cupboard door and looked at the satchel, and said regretfully. "Its a real pretty satchel." At last one day, three weeks after the satchel had been flung up there she Bald it in Selinda s hearing. "Ion thiuk so much of pretty things, eaid Belinda, a little con temptuously. "You wanted some pink vases like those tho minister's wife had, and a watch and chain like Mrs, Deacon Palmer had, and a spray of lilac in your bonnet like aunt Jemima I You always liked pretty things and " Selinda looked up, suddenly, as if struck by a new thought you never had any!" Bufe looked up from tho tiny wheel that be was scouring with emery paper, "I wonder if this is the first timo you ever thought of that !" he said in a gruu voice, as if ho had a lump in his throat. And he scowled medita tively at her, as Selinda now remem bered she had caught him scowling at her before. "Well, I don't know," was all that their mother said, in a meek, half guilty little voice, and Selinda saw her furtively wipe away a tear. "Aunt Jemima has sent word by Phoebe Bascom that sho wants you to come over nnd help her get roudy to go to the World's Fair," said Belinda when she came home from tho dress maker's the next day. (She was find ing a little cousolatiou in the change able silk waist, although Bho couldn't wear it to the Fair.) "Aunt Jemina iB going, and Mrs. Prentice aod Boxy Fowler, with J onus for au escort. "I'm real glad for Jemiiuy. They'll have a beautiful time. I guess I will go over and help her fix off, if you think you aud Bufe can get ulon said Mrs. Kittredge. Belinda was at the dressmaker s again the next any wneu Airs, ivit tredge's nephew, Jonas, came after her, doing to tho cupboard for her best handkerchief ami her gloves, where she kept them "handy for Sundays, Mrs. Kittredge caught sight of Helm da's satchel. "I don't believe Seliudy would care a uiito if I should take it. bho said she never would carry it ; aud it would look as if I had things like folks," she said to herself. ' .Mother does like so iiiuen to go visiting," said Belinda, as Bufus came in that night. Shu was in the puutry with her back toward him, but she kept on talking. ".She'd bo a regain gad about, like Aunt Jemima, if she could." Belinda's tone was slightly aggrieved; she did bato to do house work. "And she never had a chance to go anywhere 1 Bute's voice was so gruff uow that it made Selinda come out of the pantry and stare at him. His face was red aud ho breathed quickly, as if ho hud been ruuuiug. ''She's gone, has she?" he said. "But Ieiu go over to Aunt Jemima's; won't be too late." He drew a roil of bills from his pocket aud spread them out before Seliudu eyes. "1 ve bee doiug extra work for a long time, an I got Mr. Pritehard to pay me to-day Aud then I sold those jumping jac that I made, aud the little woodi wagons you thought I couldn't, bu I did and I've sived every cent could, and at Inst there's enough- enough for mother to go to the World Fair I" "For mother to go to tho World's Fair?" echoed Selinda in utter amaze ment. She almost laughed, it seemed bo ridiculous. And then a sudden re- ulsion of feeling swept over her. In stead of laughter there was a thread ing of tears a blessed mist that cleared long blinded eyes. "Oh, Bufe, I never thought 1 It was only mother ! And though you're only a boy you did tliiukl Oh, sho'll have such a good time! But you, Bufe, I never thought f you, either ; and there's the ma chinerythere are all sorts of things that it would be a real benoht to you to boo!" Bufo turned his back to her, and swallowed a lump in his throat a lump that went down hard. But he ruisod his head proudly. "I shal' be a man, and make my way, and see things," said he, "But mother never had a chance." Bufo planned to go over to aunt Jemima's next morning; but there was no need, for bright and early, their cousin Jonas came driving like mad up to the porch, with Mrs. Kit tredge beaming with delight beside him. "Oh, Selindy, ho wasn't so bad your Uncle L,uoch, l mean, Bhe grasped. "Just see!" She openod the satchel, and showed a little inner pocket from which Bhe drew five oriap new twenty-dollar bille. "I found them last night when I was showing the bag to your aunt Jemima. Now, Selindy, yon cau get ready right off!" But Belinda shook her head firmly; if sho had one little pang of tempta tion no one will ever know it and told Bufo's story, while Bufo retired, sbame-facedly, behind the wood-sbed door, for there was cousin Jonas lis tening and added her own plan, which was that her mothor should go to Chicago, escorted by her own big boy, Bufe, who would learn twico as much as elie selinda would. And Selinda had been so much in the habit of having her own way that of oourse she had it now. Littlo Mrs. Kittredge went oft with ber sister Jemima, aud her cronies, half-dazed with delight, almost as un certain of herself as the little old wo man on tho King's highway who cried "O Lawk a mercy on me this surely can't bo I?" And Bufe but only a boy with a burning desire to "find out things" knows what going to the Fair meant to Bufe. As for Selinda, perhaps there were moments of misgiving, even tears ; but she says she had a good time all alone at home. And when her Uncle Enoch, driving by, called out to her : "Well, Selindy, you found what I put in the bag for you?" she answered. with a happy faoe : "Oh, Uncle Enoch, I found the money and a great deal more 1 Uncle Enoch thought he must be getting deaf; he didn't know what she meant. But it didn't matter much what a girl meant, anyhow. Port land Transcript. Spontaneous Combustion ot Coal. According to L. Hoepke, it is to a slow oxidation and to the resulting disengagement of heat that must be attributed the spontaneous combustion of cargoes of coal. The danger is so much the groater in proportion as the surface exposed to tho air is wider. It is maximum with coal dust. 1 he load ing aud trimming should, therefore, be so done as to avoid as much as pos sible the crumbling of the coal under the influence of the ship's motion. The smallest vessols are preferable for the carriage of coal. Mr. Iloepke does not believe in tho possibility of tho spontaneous com bustion of cargoes of damp ootton. But it is possible that a spark falling accidentally upon a bale may remain ignited for weeks and afterward set fire to the mass. Greasy ootton, on tho contrary, very easily takes fire spontaneously. The same is the case with flax, jute and tow. Stacks of hoy, and bales of tobacco and hops are like wise liable to spontaneous combustion. Scientific American. Barber Lore. Tlio barber's gift of tongue, which has long been a subject of mirth and an object of dread, is now to be utilized and attached with bolting, as one may say, to the machinery of politics. One of the many ''Leagues" that are constantly being operated as feeders to the great political parties, has taken means to prepare for the barbers ol the country "a reasonable quantity ol well-written, knock-down arguments,' as tho officers express it, which arc designed to bo communicated to the devoted customers of these kuightsot razor and shear, when they have them stretched at full length in their chairs under lather aud napkin, with escape impossible. It is sad to contemplate thatanothei horror is to bo added to tho barber's chair, aud it is to be hoped that the knock-down arguments referred to may not become boomerangs, and as sume a physical form, when admiuis tered to uufortumato customers. Everywhere. Cancers on House-File. It is supposed that house-flies are an uid to publio health, as they are really scavengers upou wings and remove lit tie by little much matter that might otherwise breed disease. In view ol this fact, some people will regret that a disease aualogous to cuueer has ap peared among them which is depriv ing thousands of them of life. It is t fungous growth begiuuing iu the tis sues of the insect, pushing through the skin, and finally "blossomiug" and fruiting, thus creating seeds for itsfu ture propagation. Grasshoppers and other insects ar similarly atH icted. Every where. SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL. Mexico has an nbundanoe of iron ore. It is the iron in day that gives the ordinary brick its rod color. Among tho crustaceans various shades of red are tho prevailing colors. Astronomers claim that there are over 17,500,000 comets in tho solar Dystcm alone. Fruit wrapped in heavy brown paper will stand fifteen dogreos more cold than if not wrapped. Tho coloring ot tho deep sen jolly fishes is said to be unusually deep violet or yellowish red. Of tho stoam engines now working in tho world four-fifths have been constructed the past twenty-five years. Six years ago the prioe for a com plete equipment of a trolley car was S1500; now it is botween $1000 and $1200. A Boston naturalist, with a tuning fork, has discovered that crickets chirp in unison, and that their note is lu natural. Sanotorins, an Italian physiologist, estimates that five-eighths of all the solid and liquid food taken are ex haled by the skin. Many springs are intermittent, probably because the channels leading from the reservoirs to the surface are crooked and constitute natural si phons. A scientific Frenchman has dis covered that potatoes planted near an elcctrio wiie grow to be very large, and tomatoes in contact with the same object ripen eight days earlier than usual. The most rapidly moving star known in space does not move along with one-thousandth part of tho speed im parted to tho light which it radiates, and by which alone we become aware of its existence. Green wood hisses and sputters when burning because of the large amount of water contained in its fibers, which is changed into steam by the heat and bursts off tiny splinters in making its escape. The great waves, caused by the Ear katoa earthquake in 1883, which de stroyed 40,000 lives traveled at the rate of 350 miles an hour. These waves were felt more than 7000 miles away from the place of their origin. Dr. Kingsett, tho chemist, recog nizing that ozone, the natural purifier of the air, is produced in nature by balsam trees the pine, fir, larch and eucalyptus urges that such trees be planted and cherished on farms, and in towns and villages. Electrio melting of metals, notably cast iron and steel, as produced by a new German process, is said to have somo very great advantages. Iu cruci ble steel the new process shows an eoonomy of fuel of more than half, which, for motal to difficult of fusion, is a favorable result. The photographers of the Paris Ob servatory have just finished for the Academy of Scieuce the clearest view ever secured of the moon. They have photographed her surface in sections, which fit, making a great image five feet in diameter. The work is so per fect that towns, forests and rivers would be precoptiblo if they existed. A Pocrastinatln; Professor. They are telling a pretty fair story on "Uncle Phil" Armour, just home from his European trip. The story is in two chapters, with a period of thirty years elapsing be twoen the two. Thirty years or more ago P. D. Armour was a young man attending nn academy near Syracuse, JM. I. There was a ladies' seminary near by, uinl ono beautiful moonlight night Phillip slipped away from his dormi tory aud took a pretty seminary girl out for a long buggy ride. It came to tho ears of tho dignified faculty and a sentence of expulsion was entered up againt P. D. Armour. Years passed on. Young Armour came to Chicago and became the greatest merchant iu tho world. One day an old man with a pair of white side whiskers and a professional beatific smile was ushered iuto Mr. Armour's private office. "You remoraber the Academy, Mr. Armour?" his visitor bogun. "I should say I did. I was expelled from that institution for taking Susie out buggy riding." "Well, then, perhaps you remoinber me. I am Professor . I was a member of tho faculty thou, as I am now. And I want to say, Mr. Armour, that I always protested against your expulsiou as being un just and unwarranted by the facts. By the way, Mr. Armour, the academy is in a financial strait just now and 1 camo to see if you would givo us somo assistance." "Well," replied the millionaire, "if you protested against my expulsion all 1 have to say is that you have been long time letting me know about it." But Mr. Armour mado out a good round check, just the same, and soul tho old pedagogue on his way rejoio ing. Chicago Mail. A Neat Puzzle, Wo should like to know tho namo ol the author of tho following puzzle and anagram ; A old wouinu with intent l'ut ou bur aud to market weut ; ," said sh. "(five uie, I pray, The wherewithal to Ibis d ty," Each of the blanks is to be filled with a word of four letters, aud the same letters occur iu each of the five different words. These words are con secutively, "vile," "evil," "veil," "Levi" aud "live." We repeat that we are curious to learn the name of the author of this iugenicus anagram (iiLZzle. Chicago lUoord. HOW WHALES ARE CAUGHT MODERN METHODS SUPERSEDED OLD CUSTOMS IN WHAtlNU. The Harpoon Hns (ilven Way to the Whale Gun Stripping a Dead Whale In AVInter Quarters. (("T XST HALING is not what it used to be," said a Y grizzly old fait as bo sat on tho edge of his greasy bunk in the forecastle. "Tho ships that go after 'bowheads now adays are much better arranged for the comfort of the men than they wore a dozen years ago, but it niu't no pic nio yet, you can bet on that, my sou, you can bet on that." About all that remains of the old customs of tho whalers is tho lookout at the masthead, who brings every man out of his warm bunk with the call, "Ya-a-ar ! Sho blows !" nnd with a wave of his hand points out the di rection for the wheelsman to steer. The crew jump into their boats and away they go. Tho old harpoon is obsolete. Instead a whale gun is used, and as the boat approaches the spouting monster a bomb, filled with an explosive equal to about ten pounds of giant powder, is fired into his hugo body near tho head. The deadly mis sile explodes as it buries itself into tho flesh, and a great hole is blown almost into the vitals of the mon ster. Death is in most cases instan taneons. A small steam or naphtha launch takes the carcass in tow and it is hauled alongside the vessel, where the bone and blubber aro taken from it. Sometimes, if tho bomb from tho gun fails to cause instant death or give a mortal wound, a harpoon with afiy namite attachment is thrown the same as the old whale-catching weapons were ; and as the needle point of tho epear sinks into the flesh it explodes the bomb. The second wound will iu almost every case cause death, but it not the harpoou clings to the .vhnle, and with the line attached the whalers wait calmly in their boat for tho ceta cean to rise for another shot at it from the gun, whioh is by that time reloaded and waiting for it. Thore is none of that wild excitement of bein? towed at racehorse speed through tho water behind a wounded and infuriated whale while your comrades come gal luntly to the rescue to pick you up in case the boat be smashed to atoms by the beast's tail or crushed in the mon strous jaws of the maddened leviathan. All that is gone. The ship's boats sur round the whalo as he spouts. Lit tie chanoo is left for it to escape, and a bomb from a gun or tho auxiliary harpoon is sufficient to eud tho bat tle. Then comes the process of taking the bono and blubber from the body The dead whale is brought alongside the vessel. A stage is rigged over the side and just over the floating carcass. Work is commenced at tho head. A cut is made through the deep layer of fat, beginning at the nose and run ning clear back to the tail, if all tho blubber is to be taken. Cross iucis ions are made every four or five feet and strips of fat encircling the wbalo are marked out. Tackle is fastened to one end of these strips and men on the stage with long chisel-like tools cut the strip of blubber clear of tho body as it is being hoisted on board, Every strip taken off rolls the whulu around in the water. The head is out off as Boon as the blubber is takeu oft it to get at the valuable bone. That is tho most difficult task. Axes aro used and it takes quite a lot of chop ping to got through tho mouutain ot flesh. As soon as it is severed it is hoisted on deck. Then tho work goes ou of taking off tho rest of tho fat from tho body. Somo of tho vessels save only tho bone, oud when tho head is chopped on the rest of tho body is cast adrift Tho whalers that take only tho heads aro usually bin all ones aud aro not fitted with tho necessary apparatus ol' trying out the oil. After tho blubber is (dripped from tho carcass it is cut lrp iuto small pieces, and for several days after wards the crew is busy trying out iho oil aud stowing it away iu tho hold iu casks. Smoke aud smell are tho prin cipal characteristics of tho operation, and only au old whaler will go lee ward of tho groat pots when tho pro cess is going ou. During the hunt for whales there is very little to break tho monotony of tho whaler's life. It is the same tiling day after day, with au occasioual galo aud a trip iu the ice, but tho vessels are now built to stand such weather, A winter in tho Arctio has nut tho terrors it had a fow years ago. Quar tors for the crew aro built ou lau 1 lit somo sheltered spot, aud before tho winter sets in all tho vosstds reudez vous there. Tho 'tween decks of tho vossols are cleurod aud stoves sot u i Bunks are arranged along tho middle of tho ships, away from tho sidcr, that the intense cold will not so quick ly reach tho men through the vessels.' timbers, aud as soon as tho ice forms around the vessels high banks of mow are piled up around them to brake tho force of the piercing winds. A roof is built over the shins, aud on that snow is piled several feet thick, and it all is wet and frozen so solid that it will not drift with tho fiercest of gales that sweep across the frozen bosom of the ocean when the long night of win ter sets in. San Frauuisco Examiner, Tho Agricultural Department is giv ing attention to the success of deei plowing. Professor Whituey, Chief of the Division of Agricultural SoiIk, is now iu Nebraska on a special mission to investigate the effect ou the soil oi deep plowing ou the ono hand and of irrigation ou tho other. The manuscript of the Old Testa meut was cumplvtgd 1J0 IS. C, DAYS. Wbat Is the message of days, what Is tho thought they bring Days that darken to winter, days that sweeten to spring? Is there a lore to learn, Is thore a truth to bo told? Hath the new dawn a my that never Dashed from the old? Day that deepens to night, night thnt broad ens toda)-. What is the menniug of all, what Is tho word theysayV Silence for aye and aye, nnl tho heart beats nover coaso Till toll nnd lite and '.he dny nro tho night and death and pence. John Unit Ingham, In Scrlbncr. HU-UOIt OF THE 1UY. Money talks; poverty also has n way of telling. Character is what wo are iu tho dark. Barn's Horn. Thia is the next yonr you expected so much of last year. Atchison Globe. He "What do you think is tho way to win a woman?" Sho "Hers. Puck. Love never turns baok because it sees a mountain or hears a lion roar. Barn's Horn. No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next. Atchison Globe. "Thou hast cured my heart of aching, dear," Hatd she. "I'm a doctor of divinity," ynolb be. ruck. A Chioago astronomor thinks he has discovered groen on the moon. But perhaps it's all in his eyo. Philadel phia Press. Some men would havo hotter wives if they didn't growl bo much when ever they give them a littlo money. Bam s Horn. Clergyman "Do you take this wo man to be your wife? I'oliticiau (absently) "J authorize tho use of my name. fuck. Blaokston "I don't see why you wear your hair so short." Graymare No; you don t know my wife. Now York Herald. Clara "I'm so fond of musiof I want to piny the piano awfully. Laura "Well, you do play it awful- ly.New York Herald. "What I tell my wife, goes." "In deed?" "Yes; she takes it to her mother right away, and pretty soon it is everywhere." Puck. "What do you want to be, Fred die, when you are a man?" Freddie "I think 'twould be awful nice to be an orphan." Chicago Inter-Ocean. "Bancroft seems all upset and nerv ous this morning ; do you know what's wrong?" "Yes; ho caught the train without running for it. " Iuter-Oceon. These be the days that bring to me A melancholy shook ; The trost is on the pumpkin , My overcoat In hock. Philadelphia Rocord. Every cloud has a silver lining, but tho knowledge makes it only the more gloomy to the fellow who is on the wrong side of it. Kato Field's Wash ington. The importance of doing one thing at a time is illustrated by the fact that no steamship has ever broken the record and her shaft on the same trip. Philadelphia Ledger. 1 And now the man ot family Hbows worry ia his looks, For John and Tom and Sue and Boss Must alt have new school books. Kansas City Journal. Grant Allen has written an artiole on the decline in wedlock. The title is an absurdity. If Bho deolines there is uo wedlock. And when there is wed look sho hasn't declined. Brooklyn Eagle. An Irishman asked a Scotchman ono day why a railroad engino was always called "she." Bandy replied : "Per haps it's on account of tho horrible noise it makes when it trios to whittle." Pearson's Weekly. The soul of the Impocuuloiis man Is tilled with a duaa of the blues. For tin's trying to tlgura out how thoy will look W'Ueu ho blackons his tau-colon.-d shoes. Brooklyn Eagle. Bobbie "I'm going to bo a pir.ito, like Captain Kidd, when I grow up." Charlie "I'm goiug to bo a train robber like Josso James." Johuuio "Well, I ain't. I'm going to keep a summer hotel, liko Uncle Jako." Truth. At tho railway ticket office : "How muoh for my little girl?" "Bho is free if uuder four." "But she will occupy a seat all the same." "Makos no dif ference." "In that caso how much disoouut will you give me on my ticket if I leave her at homo?" Flio gondo Blaetter. ('It must bo pretty hard work poundiug the pavement with that great rammer," said tho idler. "Bhure," said Mr. Grogau, "it is not th' droppiu' av th' ttiaj ou th' shtouos thot is th' har-rd wor'rk ut all. It is the liltiu' av it up." In dianapolis Journal. Ethel "Here is the loveliest houso ' ooat that I bought for Tom, aud he doesn't seem to care for it tho least bit." Clara "I cau tell you how to make him value it above everything." Ethel "Oh, how?" Clara "Tell him that you've give it away to some poor man." Bostou Post. The Earth Muu is Made 01. What is man lt a miniature earth, with many diguises iu the way of man ners, possesions, dis-ombl moos, etc? "ft through all thi nigh all tho work of his bauds and all the thoughts of Ins mind how surely ihe grouud quality of him, the fundamental hue, whether it be this or tLt. makos it self folt and is alouo important John Burroughs.
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