THE FOREST REPUBLICAN J. E. WCNK. Offloe IA Bmenxbanth A Co.'i BuHdlng blm run, tionuta, ra, RATI3 OP AovenrisiRQi t Republican Or. Rqiuu-e, on in ok, o. InM llrm . .1 1 On. 8qaar, on. Inoh, on. month..,, I On. 8amr& on. inflh, three month. . 3 One Hquere, on. Inch, on year ! Two ISquarm, one year .. IV Omrtw Column, on Titf ow on oc 00 Um.11 Column, on. year 0 Un Colamn, one Tear. -. . '' Lefrai kriTvniMmant tea eeats pa each nuertion. TffTi, ' J ttJS9 pr Yar. Marrlac. and death aotloai gram, All bill (or vearlvadvertleeniente lis nkMTfpif rw!Tt4 fat I starter parlo! tils tre mvnUlft, ttirrwps4nf Mlllt4 fre tl ef tb ennntrr. eeilce artll k Wkea N unru wiaiuuuceUraa. qnartsrlr. TemporarT adTerUasmaak) be paid in adranoe. Job work oah oa delivery. VOL. XXVII. NO. 40. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23, 1895. $1.00 PER ANNUM. "Fores Tb population of the German Em fire ia increasing at tbe rate of C00,00( a year. ' Dr. EJ ward Everett nolo says thai only eleven per cent, of .the Anioricui poople are ill it orate. . English courts hsve deoidod thai engagements rings are not reoover vble at low. A Vermont court hole . they were. -v Poople who live boyond theiw moans and are very tardy in paying their debts havo boon blacklisted is Vienna, Austria, by a daring pub linh(ir. A book containing theii names fans met with a big sale. u The old Lincoln homostead, noar Hodgenvillo, Larue Oonnty, Ky., where Abraham Linooln was born. i( to be purchased by an association oi the citizens of Hodgonvillo and mado into a public park. . The homostead is now known as the Creal Form, and lies about two and a half milos south of Hodgenvillo. An oloctrio railway is to be built out to the farm, announoei the Now York Sun, and in general way it is intended as another Mount Vernon. roainenes scattered over many parts of the .East are making consider able change in the conditions of farm ing, the Chicago Herald takes note, The dairy is becoming more and more important, and poor farms are en riched by the presenoe of many cattle. The creameries buy milk by the hun dred, pounds and farmers like the simplicity of this wholesale trade. Meanwhile there is a couHtant interest in creamery prices and loool news papers publish quotations from time to time as news items. Oertaiu tables of longevity just pub lished in ' England by Professor ' Humphreys leave the whole matter pretty muoh in- the dark. Of the 824 cases in whic'i . the subjects ' have reached ague varying from eighty to over a hundred years, one-third were small eaters, aud only one-tenth ap pear t a have had robust appetites. Physioiane, as a close, were found to fall below the average age. The usual directions for prolonging life by diet, sleep and exeroise are not Btrikingly confirmed by those tables, maintains the New York Tribune? ' A notable example of a big result produood by small meaua is found in the fot that lead ponoil users have whittled away several big forests of cedar trees in Europe, and ttto supply of wo?d suitable for lead pencils is practically exhausted , in tjie 0 World. An order has just bteri plooed by a notod .Gorman firm of pent"i makers with a California lumber com pany . for a largo quantity of sequoia wood, which inbound to be the best wood now available for penoils. The sequoia is the big tree of California. It seems too bad to the New York Bun that tbe grand old giants should be sacrificed, and especially that their end should be lead pencil shavings. The London Times soya that the Manchester ship canal is both financial and oommeroial failure. It ' . was opened eleven months agoand it is not doing as mueh business uow as at first. It ia stated that the gross receipts of the canal for a year will be less than $400,000 not enough to pay the interest on the first debentures. -The city of Manchester in building this canal, which has oost upward fit ' 825,000,000, expected that ships carrying cotton and other merchandise would ueo the canal and nuload thy cargoes at Manchester docks, instead of ut Liverpool : but upon the com plotioa of the canal Mi railroad" mediately roduo- , n f--w.u tfPiioian, now in tar in, on looking through Carnegie's great steel rail plant at Braddock, Venn., casually suggested that eleo trioity could be made to operate the widely separated pieces of maohinery at a saving of many thousands a year, Reoontly Andrew Carnegie visited the plant for the first time in' two your ami -saw electricity doing the work. This '"'ovorueut, together with otl. JIQRes it possible for eight men to do the work 500 did in 1891. Aa unusual thing, related by the Cleveland Pluin-Dealer, iu connection with the court is the holding, by the United States Grand Jury, that Scrip tural quotations may be libelous. II. A. Busby, of Means, Harrison Coun ty, was indicted for writing letters and postal cards to David Ilaudley, of Colli u bus-, Ohio. On the envelope of the letters were the quotations: "Owe No Man Anything," "Let Us Walk Honestly," aud "Many Years Thou fihult Be Troubled." Ho was indicted on four couutH ou tho ground that the luug'uage used was libellous and calcu lated to injure the character of Mr.' Ilaudley. ' A VOICTS FROM THE NIOHT. O heron, from the lonely shore CDcenslnRly thy cry, Ill-boding, dismal, hanh, Arises through the mist of night IYV gathers deep and col J and White Upon the sllnnt marsh, Dim, drifting shrouds that foldod II Around mv door. What shadow of the future' needs Dismays thy simple heart, Poor dweller In the fog? What evil spirit of unrest Disturbs the quiet of thy nest Beyond the tussooked bog? Do domons even ply their art Among the reeds? Perhaps thy bright-eyed mate is led Across the winding oreek, Belated, tired of wing. Then grieve not I Boon thy loving note A beacon's blaze to storm-tossed boat Tbe wanderer will bring. O heron, can the words I speak Recall the dead? O brron on the lonely shore, The east Is gray above ; Thy watch Is well nigh dona, And gentle dawn will bring thee sleep, While I my endless vigil keep, Unwelcoming the sun; For she, my light, my lite, my love, Will come no more. H. Fresoott Beaoh, In Llpplncott. ON EVEN TERMa OU appear to forget that this fellow Vaughan has the reputation of being one of the most des perate oriminalsthat ever stepped. King of the Coiners' he is rightly named ; but it ia chiefly because he is at the head of clangorous gang. And because, by a lucky ohance, you have found out that he is living in private lodgings under an assumed name, makes it none the less risky for ns two alone to attempt his capture. It was in a decidedly dissatisfied tons that Mr. Kocbe, the detective, urged upon his superior officer the hazardous nature of the business they wore upon ; but Arnold iiond merely smiled good humoredly ' as he re sponded: Whatever risk there may be, Roche, I think I shall faoe. ' And as I expect to take our man entirely by surprise, in the very bosom of his family, I don t anticipate muoh resist ance. . Bull, I am prepared for it, and don't think that he will easily give ns the sup. For the rest, you will simply earry out my instructions. The two detectives knooked at the door of ou unpretentious looking house in a quiet street of the east end of London. Almost immediately, a respeotable looking woman opened the door, and, stepping book, said, before Bond could speak : 'Ah, sir. . I don t believe they ex pected you again to-night; but it's well you've come, for the poor mite is very bad, they say. With the ever ready wit of a shrewd detective, quick to take advantage of the slightest error, Bond instantly checked, the exolamation of surprise which 'prong instinctively to his lips, and, stepping in, quietly observed : Indeed I I am sorry to hear that. Our usual friend could not come him self, but, as his partner, 1 thought it advisable to look in again. Let me see Mrs. Button, seoond floor, is it not?" Neither of the detectives scarce ven tured to breathe as thoy anxiously waited to see the result of this rather haphazard remark. "Oh, I took you for Dr. Dalton his self, sir! Yes, seoond floor. It's rather dark, but I daresay you can find your way np. Lor' I I never knowed before as how tbe doctor had a partnet" 'This guntleman is merely a friend of mine. If you don't mind, ho will wait for me iu the potwage. I don't suppose I shall ba many minutes," Bond said, inwardly ohuckling with satisfaction at the luoky mistake which bad, undoubtedly, saved him and his companion no little at the outset. Leaving bis subordinate who h previously 'recoived ,'eful in P" tions Arnold Bo- h8r ouca to ing a little " fieftv " lne aad when he put his arm around me, and whisperingly begged for an answer, I felt so weak, for the moment, that I don't think I should have bad strength to refuse him. But somebody came, somebody always docs, and I suppose I am safe. I promised them all an answer in a week. An embarrassment of choice, Celeste said, (Closes her eyes and thinks.) m A half hour or more passes, during which the belle appears to sleep. Bud denly she opeus her eyes. The Belle "1 must have slept. But nothing in my dreams seemed to offer me any help. Oh, dear ! Is there anything or anybody that can show me what to do?" A voioe "There is." The Belle (startled) "Good gra cious! What was that?" A Voioe "Don't bo frightened. It was I." ' -j. The Belle (still "more alarmed) "But who are you.? .'Where are you?" A Voice "Your mirror." Tbe Belle "But, good Leavens 1 Mirrors oaunot Bpeak. " The Mirror "Mirrors can do a great many more things thau people give them credit for. We reflect; why bhould we not speak? That we can do so is proved by my talking to you now. I have libteued to all you have thought and would help you." The Belle (trembling) "Was I thinking aloud?" The Mirror "No. But youcanuot think aud look iuto my face without everv thought beiu? kuowu to iud J vcu though I may uvt reveal what is The bed was oconpied by a little girl of about six years of age, who, it needed do seoond glance to perceive was very near to death indeed. She was wide awake, staring in mute ter ror from the detective to her father and back again. Nor did the white face of the coiner's wife, who stood trombling bjr the bedside, express much lens alarm than the child s. 'Lot's cleor out before you frighten my young un to doatn, said tne coiner, in a quieter voico. "Never mind, Jess, he went on, turning to the child and speaking in such a ten der and soothing tone that Bond stared with astonishment, "Perhaps, soon, I shall come back, and thon yon'll be better, and we will" Vaughn s voice faltered, and he paused. Ah, take him away, sir.ibut don t hurry him over what he very well knows must be the last goodby he'll ever say to nis cnudi wnat nope there may have been yon'U take with you but to take it at this moment " The wretched mother, unable to ar- ticnlato another word, sank into a chair, hid her faoe in boa- hands, and gave way to suddea outburst of grief. "Is the gentleman going to take you away, then, daddy? the child said freely. "Oh, don't gov! I do so want you to-night. Then, looking at the detective with great, earnest eyes, little Jess continued, half indignant ly, half pathetically: "IIow would your little girl like you to be taken away if she was ill, and wanted you to stop with her dreadfully bad?" An involuntary smile gathered for one brief instant on the stern counte nance of Bond. "it's true, worse) luck.f whispered the coiner, stepping near his captor. "Poor little beggar, she a mighty bad, and the doctor says the next few hours means life or death. More'n anything she's got to be kept particular quiet, so let's dear out and leave 'em; and, please God, I'll see her again yet. Yes, my prince of traps, you oan see what makes me such a miserable cow ard, eh?" As if ashamed of the tremor in his speech, the coiner turned, and, tak ing down his' hot, crushed it upon his bead and approached the door with a rigid countenance and twitching lips. Apparently, be dared not trust him self to take even a farewell look at his ohild. But, as Arnold Bond moved toward the door also, his glanoe fell for an instant upon the thin, white faoe of little Jess, who had alroady fallen back exhausted. - Bbe was gazing steadily at her father, who, however, kept his faoe carefully averted. The pitiful, plead ing expression in the sick child's eyes Btruok the detectives to the heart, for it was a look which expressed more eloquently than any words the bitter disappointment she felt at seeing one she evidently dearly loved about to bo- taken from her this night of all nights. '. The detective paused abruptly, hes itated a moment, and then the reso lute expression on his features 'soft ened suddenly, and he said, in a half jocular tone, to hide the emotion he oould not entirely conceal : . "Stay, Vaughan; I can't do it after all I can't take such, a cruel advan tage of even you at a time like this I ThaVg all and good night." "iSOucL Bond." cried the kin of the comers, springing forward as he recovered from his momentary stupe faction, "Heaven prosper you for this ! Bad as I arni bpia..Pll be able to give you your rewai. for this, if it's years to come. " -A moment latertha detective hod gone. He had sacriyced aif opportu nity of adding enormously to his rep utation. ;-.. N. It waa oyear later before M6 author itiessuoceededin discovering the "fuo tory" where Vaughan and his confed erates turned out the cleverly made counterfeit coins which had so lopy.1 quarters of the metropolis ne' fifth But after infinite .y Taffuutt." found out all he w, myself moving one night he sur"where everybody the counterfeit His Lordship, my Bond got M'e, gambling like the door, and .-Jx i do not feel woll and neatlgaio go home. He advises ,'anhotne alone or amuse myself L' conservatory." He says there is i much of his money on the table go then. He meaus my money. I have seen enough of this." The Mirror (mookingly) "Are you happy?" The Ballo (sadly) "No, but I am gradually beojming deadened to my misery." The Mirror (as a new pioture ap pears) "Now you are Mrs. Tracy de Puyeter Van Trell'er, a member of tho native ariitooricy of New York. Can you see yourself?" .The Belle "Yes. I see myself once more alone. The room is haudsomoly furnished ; everything looks rich and good. But I am waiting auxiously and listening intently. At every sound I get up and look Through the blinds into the dark night. At last, as dawn is breaking-, a cab drives up ; I hoar it. A few minuted afterward my husband enters the room. He scolds me lu-a thick voice tor remain ing up. A quarrel ends iu my burst ing info teura. He stoops over me to kiss me aud I nearly faint with n au nt's.." 1 ' The Mirror "Are you happy?" The Belle (tieroaly) "No. I am hu miliated by his neglect, disgusted with his manner of Ufa, and harassed with constant suspicion. I aui utterly wretched." The Mirror (alyly) "There isouly one more picture. Do yon want to tee it?" The Belle (confusedly) "Yes, I sup pose I may as well. It is probably like all the rent." The Mirror (as the last picture ap- LI'KI 1. 1 111 1 A. II. lear.' lueu ueuoui I auii veil uai ou see. The Belle (very softly) "I see uiy-: the beams whtoh supported the floor ing above. The detective now recognized to the full extent the really serious nature of his position ; and, half dazed by the terrible calamity which had so suddenly befallen him, was giving np all hope of escape, when for the first time the leader of the gang Michael Vaughan himself spoke. "Leave him to me, lads, and get you along while yon may. There's not a jiffy to lose. Hark ! hear tht traps ! They're breaking in already." "We don't go until we've choked the life out of the rat. Who's put 'em on our trail? Bun him np sharp and have him a pleasant surprise to his friends, replied one of the ruf flans. With these words tho unfortunate offloer was jerked off his feet, but at tho same moment Vaughan matched up a formidp.blo knife - and at a single stroke severed the rope above hishead. 1 m with you, Mr. Bond, eiacn lated Vaughar, with grim determina tion stamped upon his white faoe. Aba I Bee how my mutinous ciew sink back from your bulldog) And by all that's lucky for us- both, hore come your men. Another minute's delay and I reckon it would have gone a bit hard for us both. Almost before he had finished speaking the long collar-like room be came for a short space a soene of des perate struggling, the walls echoing a cnorus of savage ones and shouts. Of all the members of the gang their leador alone offered no resistance, but lapsed into moody silence. Only when the opportunity offered did he whisper in the detective's ear "You see, I haven't forgotten what I onee promised, sir, although you only hod a smasher's word for it. Perhaps you didn't know it, but I reckon you had the life of my little Jess in your hands that night a . year ago, and maybe yoy.'ll agree now that I've paid a fair pries for it. As for me but there, we're on even terms once more." London Tit-Bits. A Defense or Dirt. Every few years somebody raises the question whether Bt. Paul's Cathe dral in London ought not to be oieansed from the soot with which it is en crusted, and restored to something like its primitive whiteness. Some time ago an experiment of the sort was made on one of the porticos, which forthwith assumed a mottled or pie bald appearance. Now the matter has come up for discussion again, and the following interesting point is made in a letter to the Times by a well known architect: "I have had the opportu nity, when examining some of our London stone-faced "churches',., of re moving the coat of dirtwith a view of seeing tho condition of the Btone un der it, and have found it to be perfect. The casing of dirt appeared to be mad chiefly of road dust which had adhered to the stone (only the outer coat of all being gray black). All the deleterious chemicals must have gone out of the lower layer, bo that the dirt was a per foot protection. If it were all cleaned off, the stone would be subjected to the strong chemicals in our London atmosphere. It must be remembered that this dirt only adheres to the parts which are not completely washed by tbe rain, and that it is just these parts, therefore, which are in most need of protection. If at some future time the atmosphere of London should be aa pure as the atmosphere of the coun try is now, it might be wise to act on the suggestion, but until that time comes I sincerely trust that no Buoh experiment will be made." Washing ton Star; . -By Balloon. Perhaps the North Pole may be reached in a balloon. The qn.il, has been mooted and may Mheory out in -thaitjicar totmed a single - with masu that was shattered by intense heat engendered while passing through the earth's atmos phere. The fragments of this immense meteorite are scattered over a aeotion of country sixty-six miles in length and twenty-two in width, and it is es timated that its total weight was but little short of 20,000 pounds. Oae pieoe of it, now iu the National Mu seum at Washington. Atlanta Consti tution. How Horses Sleep. When the horse sleeps, one ear is direotly forward, why it is not known. A naturalist thinks this is to guard against danger, being a survival of their original wild habits. He says: "Watch a horse asleep through the window of his stable, and make a faint noise to the front. The ear will be all attention, and probably the other will rty round sharply to assist. Now let him gd to sleep again, and make the same noise on oue side. The forward ear will keep his guard, with possibly a lightning flick round, only to re sume its former position." New York Dispatch. XauieJ a Pair ot Elk. A Chehalis County (Wash.) farmor has lately been creating a good deal of interest with a pair of elk which he had ta-med and trained to do many things usually doner by horses. A few Taya ago-a tra'veler offered him a good yj-ieaioT ftia elk, - but- the farmer re fusefj tu part, tyitlT them. The same ftight a,euugar got iuto his barn and ate u)ouo of the creatures. Chioago Herald. .: "Wroth Silver." "Wrath "silver," from the several parishes of his hundred of Knightlow iu Warwickshire, iu Kugluud, was col lected a few days ago by the Duke of Bucclcugh as lord of the manor. The custom dates back to feudal times. For every penny not forthcoming the prescribed penalty on the defaulter is $3 or else tuefoi 'eiture of a white bull I with a red uoe an. I taid. Lhioago Herald. DECAPITATIONS IN CHINA, HOW CONVICTS ARB BEHEADED ACCORDING TO CHINESE LAW. Sign of the Red Cross Formidable Sword Wielded by the Kitecutlon cr Strangling a Prisoner. T HE execution of the two Japanone spies whom we Americans delivered up to tbe Chinese, and the decapi tation of a man-of-war's captain ao onsed of cowardice in the sea fight off Ping-Yang, were reoent notable in stances of the use of the headsman's sword here in China, writes Julian Balph in Harper's Weekly. There have been other beheadings, for of fences growing out of the war and for the ordinary criminal offences, and these have lent a new interest to the subject, even to foreigners rosident in China, who frequently read of such punishment, but seldom witness them or hear them described. I havo ijn so fortunate as to fall in with a dis tinguished European who witnessed the logal slaughter of a number of criminals in Pekin. The account ho has given me of what he saw is so un' like the popular idea of the methods of justice here that I have written down the substance of it. "The officinl on duty on the morn ing of which I speak, having reached the mat shed, clothed in all tbe glory of a mandarin's dress button, neck lace, breast-doth, and all ordered the men brought before him one by one. The law says that in such cases the oondomned men shall admit their guilt, and ask that punishment be no longer deferred. Like almost all good law and almost oil good logic in China, this regulation is turned into mere ceremony and protence. The prison ers neither say nor do anything, but a man who stands behind each one pushes him over, bumps his head on the ground and says, 'Yow.' This word, or one with that sound, means 'I want,' and the presiding mandarin understands it to have been uttered by the prisoner, and to mean, 'I want to be punished.' While the official tioks off the man's name upon the list be fore him, the man is pressed down upon the ground and a red oross is painted on his neck. This is done in order that the right head may befitted upon the right body afterwards, if proof of the man's death it required for offioial entry. "The prisoner thus painted is pulled away to the exeoution ground, where the headsman is heating his swords in a great caldron of hot water. The swords are rather more like knives than swords. Each is a yard in length, half an inoh thiok at the edge, and an inch and a half or two inches thiok at the baok. If you should weld together nine or ten of onr heaviest axes, one laid beyond 'tho other, you would make something like one of these knives. The victim is laid upon his face, and his legs are tied together. A long pieoe of whip-cord is looped under tbe man s law and tied into his pigtail. Bo much of its free end is left that two men go off with it to a distance and pull on it with all their might, while a third one sits on the oondomned man's back. Tho execu tioner seizes a knife and stands over the victim, whose neck is seen to pull out and out and out. The knife falls, the head is severed, and fre quently the men who are pulling the whip-oord fall backward and roll half over, like tumblers in a eirous. The executioner picks up the head w holds it towards the mario-- you looks at it carelessly I'll sic one makes a mark " ' front of him, id-of-water (placidly) he..-aiu fat dog on big Injun; 'uim heap glad. "J udge. BESiaXATIOX. "Is your wife lecturing on the des tiny of woman?" was the sympathetic inquiry. "1W "Isn't that a pretty heavy subject?" . "Yes. But it could 'ie worse. 8he might be at home making biaouit." Washington Star. ' - as AurHomrr. "Football, sir, is brutal. It is based largely upon the exeroise ot brute forccj aud the opportunities of unfair tactics are such " "Oh, say hold on. Have you ever seen a game fit football?" "No; but I hold oliuios iu three hospitals in a college town !" Chioago Kecord. GOOD TO THBOW AT THS OAT. Book canvassers should take cour age from a story told by an English lecturer on "The Art of Bookbinding." A man of their profession had called at a house whose occupant met him with a growl. '-It's no use to me, I never read." "But there's your family," said the canvasser. "Haven't any family nothing but (j cat." '"Well, you ma y want something to throw at the cat." The book was purchased. hb ihpn't wait. "Mary!" .It was tho voice of the old man in the tipper hall. "Yes. pa." "Is Mr. bimpsou still there?" "Y yen, pa." "And didn't the clock just strike one?" "1 I rather thiuk it did." 'Well, you just toll him if he is there in ten uiiuutts from uow that that is juit what I shall do, and Mary !" 'Yes, pa." "lie will be thai oue." Fifteen seconds later tho frout dooi opeued and close I agHiu softly aud Msry was alone iu the hall. Nen Yolk World. SCIENTIFIC A?I INDUSTRIAL-. Aluminum corrodes in salt water. A telephone line between Berlin and Vienna has been formally opened. Tho blood flown almont as freely through the bones as through the flesh of very young children. Tho hiccough nut iB a South African plant bearing an oblong fruit, the eat ing of which causes violent hiccough. A ITnrtford (Conn.) man bos in vented a new eloctrio motor, which he claims will run over 100 miles an hour. A steel ship has been constructed in Cardiff, Cornwall, with the standing rigging, as well aa the hull, all of steel. Dr. Maxim is said to entertain the hope that his aeroplane will be practi cal enough for general use before the close of this century. Automatic machines have been de vised for use on a moving train which mechanically record tho condition of every foot of the track. Railroad authorities say that an or dinary locomotive has 800 horsepower and burns a ton of coke for eighty miles of passenger train travel. If mau had been limited to the use of his natural weapons of dofense ho would long since have been beaten out of the contest by the animal king dom. Professor Bonney Bays that a fall of fifteen to twenty degrees F. in the overage temperature would be suf ficient to account for all known glacia tion in the northern hemisphere. At a recent session of the central criminal court, London, a witness who was suffering from a virulent affection kissed the Bible in tho usual way. The judge promptly ordered the Look de stroyed. Air can be frozen at a temperature of 293 degrees below zero, and the product, which can be handled and felt, burns, so to speak, with its ex cessive cold. Frozen air can be pro duced in any quantity, but its cost, (500 a gallon, is likely to prevent a large business. The observations of twenty-five years, mode in the Bay of Bengal by the Indian Government meteorolo gists, have shown that the . average temperature rises during years that sun spots are numerous and sink when thoy are few. When the number of sun spots exoeoded the average the barometric pressure was loss than its average. To protect iron or steel nsed in pipes, roofs, bridges or other con structions where it is liable to suffer from corrosion two important precau tions are necessary ; first, see that there is no scale on the metal to begin with, and second, paint it with nothing but pure linsoed oil and oxide of lead or graphite paints. Of course, frequent inspection and care are also required. A foreign journal statos that by a re cent order of the Russian admiralty petroleum will be tried as a fuel un der the boilers of the two new armored oruisers Rostislaff and Russia, now be ing built for the Russian navy. These war vessels will be tho first to be sup plied with petroleum furnaces, and a thorough test will be made of the value of this fuel before other vesflliiru fittcd for its use. j.obd j Georgia, Electrolytic t,u80; Illinois, 53, tion with ''Sfi.350 ; Indian Terri-suea-"; Iowa. 56,025; Kansas, ;.l0; Kentucky, 40,400; Louisiana, 48,720; Maine, 33,040; Maryland, 12,'ZIO ; Massachusetts, 8315 ; Michi gan, 58,915; Minnesota, 83,365; Mississippi, 46,810 ; Missouri, 59,415; Montaua, 146,080; Nebraska, 77,510; Nevada, 110,700; New Hampshire, 9305 ; New Jersey, 7815 ; New Mexico, 152,580; New York, 49,170; North Carolina, 62,250 ; North Dakota, 70,. 795; Ohio, 41,060; Oklahoma, 39,030; Oregon, 96,030 Pennsylvania, 46,215 ; Rhode Island, 1250; South Carolina, 30,570 ; South Dakota, 77,650 ; Tennes see, 42,050; Texas, 205,780; Utah, 84,670; Vermont, 9565; Virgiuia. 42, 430;. Washington, 69.180; West Vir giuia, 24,780; Wiscousiu, 56,040; Wyoming, 97,890. The total area of the United States is 3,602,990 square miles. New York Dispatch. " w High Smokestack tor Factories. Aside from tho fact that tail chim neys are better for the public health, by lifting the deleterious product of combustion far into the upper air, it would seem that technical considera tions alone might recommend them. But there has been a fad lately for low chimneys in factories, and W. B. Le Van expresses the weighty opinion that they are a mistake. As to first cost, there is no saving over a high, well-proportioned ohimuey, and the entire drift of. manufacturing require ments demands the buildiug of high chimneys so as to enable more fuel to be burued in a given time aud space, thus increasing the power and output of the boilers. A rapid draft is equiv alent to a large lire-grate area, and has the advantage that tho heat is transmitted much more rapidly to thu boiler by reason of the higher temper ature obtained. Moreover, iu inauy industries, the goods produced are liable to be spoiled by smoke and smut permeating the lower strata of the atmosphere. Atlanta Journal. Mild AuiuiuU In Texas. Sheep aud cattle rauohers iu South west Texas are asking tho State to help them to exterminate or keop down the wild auimals that ure playing havoo with fctoek iu that regiou. So far from the advent of settlers thiuniug out the panthers, wolves, and coyotes, the animals are increasing greatly in numbers through the pleuty of food afforded by the vast herds of cattle and sheep. The ranchers have spout thousands of dollars in trying to abate the pest, but without avail, aud uow they want the State to Uke a hau.l. Chicago Uuald. DO YOU WANTt Do you want some real estate, i Or a box of ptpr collars? Bo you lack a chicken coop Or a pocketful of dollars? Mke en a l mako aa ad. Co you want a billy fjoat? Would yon sell n homo and. lot? Want to rent a lumber yard Or a tea or cofr)e pot ' Make an al make an a 1. Have yon (tot o horso to (rade, Or a stovepipe, or a bell, Or a (told mine, or a store, Or a block of stoek to sell? Make an ad -nake an ad. Printers' Ink. nUMOR OK THE DAY. Never try to make game of a tamo duck. A long head is a great help in pre venting a long face. Put a becaar on horseback and he II run into debt. rack. Cbaritv covers o multitudo of sins : justice uncovers them. No one has as mnoh money as peo rile imazine. Atchison Globe. Of all the sad words to soribbllntf cranks. The snddeat are me9e, ueoiinoa wim thank. Truth. A fliA wifiA in un fflcient es pecially if they hove chips on their shoulders. She "Do yon believe marriage is a mistake?" He "No; I am a bach elor. "Puck. Some "jokes" are so utterly bad that they are actually good. New York Tribune. Gushing is excusable in immature girls and oil wells. Pittjburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Kitty "Oh, Mr. Flirtly is so ten der, isn't he?" Judith "Yes pre tender." Detroit Free Press. "Do you think Elsie will take her "No ; for more or loss." Pack. Never judge a man by the clothes he wears; form your estimate from the clothes his wife wears. Puck. The man who has ottained a high position must not think himself ex empt from the force of gravitation. One of the sweetest things in neck ties is a true love knot made by thff ... - ... i t i i - girls own hands. rniiaueipum ajuiot. Life It real, life Is earnest, . And the moments speed away, In a manner far too rapid Whoa we have a notn to pay. Detroit Free Press. The man with nobody to care for ia quite as badly off os the man with no body to care for him. Galveston News. When a man mokes a success of any- ' thing, the oonoeit ot other men is so great that they think they can do just as welL Atchison Globe. When man bej-lns to ollmb too fast With all his heart and soul, Invariably he flu ls at last He's ollmbed Into a hole. If you oould condense the wisdorctpf ages into a single short entencrg couldn't get a young IJloo -grega. it for five minute- ,ordsuil)i with a LiPe Tid-Bits. Hostess "I am going to ask you to take a charming widow down to din ner. Will you?" Burrows "Cer tainly. I'll take her anywhere that there is a crowd to protect me." Boston Transcript. Loud sobbed the tramp ; the great wet leirj Left lare and briny trnc-kf. "Pray what," quoth I, " not too bold, Your heart so sorely rooks?" 'A os ! ' sobbed he, "I've just beau toll About this laoouie tax." Boston Budiiet. We often sneer at the Egyptians for being a Blow people, but on the eon trary they must have been a very busy race. Even the mammies appear to have been pressed for time. Book land (Me.) Tribune. "But, Emma, how can you prefer ' the plain and shabbily-dressed Julius to my elegant and handsome broth er?" "That is quite simple; your brother is iu love with himself, aud Julius with me." Life. "I think Miss Smith and Mr. Jones must be engaged ; they have had their portraits taken together." "Indeed? I am glad to hear it. I knew when I introdueed them that she would be taken with him." New York Tr Jia. A Huge Sloorse-IIead. What is probably one of the finest moose-heads in the world was taken to Bangor, Me., this week by G. H. Crocker, of Fitzburg, Mass. The ani mal was shot up iu Aroostook County at the Ox Bow, and the moose weighed 1400 pounds. It is about absolutely perfect in size, shape aud spread of the antlers. The sutlers spread sixty inches, and when it is considered that tifty-oue inohos is a large spread, some idea of the immense antlers of this moose is obtained. The largest sot ol antlers of which there is any record if sixty-one iuohes, and this moose sur passed that animal in the shape aud formation. Boston Herald. Loaf Sugar iu Morocco. Au important article of trade in Morocco ia loaf sugar, which is in geueral demand for presents. Every person spproachiug a superior, whose favor or good will it is desired to pro pitiate, is bouud to bring a gift. He cannot appear empty-hauded, aud the form that is most oummonly taken by the gift is loaf sugar. New York Dis patoh. A Stern Disciplinarian. General Couut von Ueseler, of the German Army, is a stern old soldier and a strict discipliuariau. Ha has been kuowu to stop a subordinate iu the street aud make him remove hie boots aud stock iiijs to boo if his feet were cloau. Chicngo Herald.
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