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TIONESTA, PA., "WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17, 1897. 81.00 PER ANNUM. iu Vvin The average duration of niarriag?a Is Mid to be thirty years ia Russia and twenty-seVen in England. "Left all get a. move on us and meet the good tunos we are wishing for half way," oxolaim the Silver Knight. Robinson Crnsoe'i island and oare i t; j inscription, iuetead of being at the bottom of the Paoifio, are all right. And there is another goodntVy spoiled l'Y tho lmrd antagonism of faots.' ! ;i n speech nt Aberdeen, Scotland, ri! Booth said he was thinking of h scheme ot. nniversal emigration by which men oould bo panned from one part of the world to another and sur plus labor brought to plaoos where it was wanted. The Chicago Board of Health has beon called upuu to investigate a pecnliar case. A resident of that oity complained that he had out open a loaf of bread, bought from a baker, and had found curled up inside a live mouso, apparently none the worso for its experience. The Baltimore News says-that John Henfield, of that oity, now' seventy seven years of age, iajkhe oldest prae. tioing photographer in the United States. Daring the gold fever in California ho traveled through the West in a prairie schooner, fitted np as a photograph gallery, and made as much as $85 a dav. Bays the Boston Journal: The curious statement is made that many of the Italian prisoners in Abyssinia have beon so kindly treated, and are doing so muoh better ihore than they can hope to in their own country, that they are petitioning the Italian Gov ernmont( to allow thorn to remain. This does not agree with the earlier talcs of Abyssinian cruelty. The total cost of maintaining the Federal, State and Municipal Govorn xaocti of the United States for the rear 1833 was 915,945,055. Among disbursements, were the following: . r charities, $140,905,071 ; for edn i ..iiori, $143,533,113; for roads, 1 i idgos ana sewers, $72,292,000 ; for 1 .oiital servioe, $00,000,000; for army nod militia, $33,500,000; for police, 8-21,000,000; for judiciary, $23,000, 000; for prisons and reformatories, $12,000,000. I- . . . ; Observes tho New York Press: "When we reflect that there are more farmers than there are ' laborers in all the manufacturing and mechanical in dustries, that there are 8,000,000 peo ple earning a livelihood by work in the fields, more than one-third of all the men and women working in the United States, we nndorstand that the pros- perity of such u class means muoh for the prosperity of the whole country. TV,:- .la. ia a l it.' l A Ut- ID oujUll(m IT UDU WW IU1UK. that the two-thirds not at work on the land are nevertheless quite as dopend- necessary to sustain life as though they tbeausolves were tillers ot the soil." President Hobbs, of the Indiana ; Ucultural Society, believes that . duy ot extravagant priooa for fruit ..s passed, never to return. Unusual ly low prices ruled last year, he says, beoause spring opened simultaneously over a wide rauge of country, and be cause all kinds of fruit bore liborally. But he looks for a long period daring which the happy conditions will pre vail of plenty of fruit at reasonable prioes for the consumer and at remun erative prioes for the produoer. The reasonable price to the consumor, he says, is brought about by the cheap ened methods of growing and hand ling and cheaper transportation, while the grower is to profit through wider markets. Speaking of the Postoflioe Depart ment regulation that the letters "X. Y." must be put after the name ot New York City in addresses, the Boston Trausoript says : "Of course everybody but the postoffioo people knows that the State of) New York has its name from the city of New York, and that a roferenoe to the Stato iu something addressed to the city is superfluous and without reason. . No doubt, there js a postotlioe named Now York in Kansas, but that impertinent faot does not put on the real New York the duty of identifying itself iu any such super fluous way. Boston, Mass., is not quite so absurd as 'New York, N. Y.,' but it is, nevertheless, absurd. Evon in old England a letter addressed eini dy to 'Boston' generally comes to Massachusetts, though there is an ancient and reapeotable town of the name in England ; and a book which 'bears the name of Boston on its title page is never supposed in England to have been published in the town of St. Botolpb. WHAT SHOULD WE BEET ffhat should we soo, doar? What should we sno, If the inlets were to oloar from the mountain gray? Would the curlews be swooping with mourn ful ory, From the dark ragged rocks scattered over the brae? What should we see, dear? What should we see If'tho mist wore to rl98 from the ocean deep? Would it still be the blue it wai painted ot yoro, And would the white horses ot foam ever leap As they did when we played on the smooth sandy shore? What shall wj see, deir? Wiiat shall we see When the gray mist lifts from our dying eyes? Will tho angels be waiting, with great white wlnrs, To carry our souls to God's throne in the skies, There to rest In the peaio ot the Ruler of . Kings? Fereiith IUmsay, In Pall Mall Magazine. A DAUGHTER'S QUICK WIT. TRUE STORY. OF TUB REVOLUTION. NE summer evening in August, 1781, two men wore seated at a table in the publio room of a tavern in a settlement.' about twenty-flve miles north of Albany. They had been en gaged in an earnest conversation for an hoar or more, and evidently one of the men had been try ing to persuade the other to enter in to some project he was proposing. He had been speaking earnestly but in such low tones that none of the few stragglers that entered the room oonld hear what he was saying ; but his com panion was plainly interest, and while he said little, he was listening atten tively to the words of his friend. And well he might, for the talker was none other than Joe Bettys, whose nameawas known and feared through out that region At the breaking out of the Involution he had been an ar dent Whig: but he was captured by the British in Arnold's struggle on Lake Obamplain, and from that day he was a ohanged man; for while he was captive in Canada he had listened to the words of his captors, and accepted the position of ensign under the royal standard. Hatred and malioe seemed to rale him after that, and be was ever active in plots against his former friends. He became notorious as a spy, and not long before this very time had beon captured and sentenoed to be hanged. Indeed he al ready had been led npon the gallows, and was about to have the noose plaood about his neck when Washington, overcome by the tears and pleadings of his mother, had released and par doned tho traitor on the one oondition that ho would reform. Joe Bettys had promised readily enough, but had gone directly from Washington's camp to that of the enemy, and instead of any feeling of gratitude, bad re doubled his energy and evil deeds. Murders, plundering and burning the homes of the Whigs had followed ; and of late he had been unusually aotive in kidnapping isolated colonials, and Bending them to Canada for exchange. He had no forebodings of his fate then ; but when, a year later, be again was captured and exeouted at Albany, all the region breathed a sigh of re lief. His companion at this time was John Waltermeyer, as bold a Tory and bitter partisan as he ; but as he was laoking in some ot tho bolder qnalities of Bettys, he was better in exoouting the plans of others, than in devising them himself. And Bettys had met him by appointment, and had been ex plaining to him the details ot his pro posal, t,. V The spy was disguised, but none the less he was watohful and nervous, and his suspioious had been aroueed by the entranoe of a stranger who, while he gave no signs of his being aware of the presenoe of others in the room, nevertheless had impressed Bettys that his quick glanoe and keen eyes were not anmiudful of passing events. "I know him," said Waltermeyer, "He's one of the strongest loyalists iu Albany. You need have no fears of him." "I don't just like his looks though," replied Bettys. "Come out into the yard ;" and the two men arose and left the bouse. "Now mind," continued Bettys, when he and his friends were once outside. "I'll see that yoa have a gang of just the right sort. Some of the Tories will be glad to go in, and I'll have some Cauadiaus and Indians along too. It won't do to trust too muoh to the looals, for they may be weak kneed at the last." "All right," replied Waltermeyer, who had deoided to do as tho spy direoted. "You have them at the meeting of the roads, about five miles out of the town to-morrow evening, and I'll be there." "I'll not fail," replied Bettys. "Good luok to you and good-by," he added, as he stood tor a moment, and watched his friend as he mounted his horse, and soon disappeared iu the darkness. Then the spy himself started northward, just as the stranger he had suspected appeared in the doorway of the tavern. "A bold plan ; but it ought not to work. In faot, much as I dislike to, I think I'll have to take a hand in it myself. A man's friends sometimes may be higher than King Qeorgo him self," murmured the stranger to him self. And what was the "bold plan" to which he had referred? Nothing lees 1 1 . v -.V. than tbo kidnapping of General Sohny ler. For some time he had not been in aotive soi vioe ; but although he was staying in his large and beautiful home near Albany.he was by no means idle. Washington had given him speoial instructions to interoept all communications between Clinton, who then wan in New York, and General Haldimand, in Canada. Fow men had won the confidence and respect of the American com mander as had Philip Sohuyler, and few men were more feared by the British. His service had been great, and be always had shown the spirit of a true man as well as of a brave Boldier; and, although he had given np hfs position in the Continen tal Army, there was no one the British would have been more delighted to capture. On tho evening following the inter view we have described, John Walter meyer was at the crossroads, awaiting the coming of the band which the spy had promised. He had not been there long before ho hoard the sounds of approaching men. He stepped behind one of tho large trees that grew by the roadside, and waited for them to ap proach. They were talking in low tones ; but as soon as he beard them he was satisfied that they were the men he wanted and, giving the watch word agreed upon, he approached and joined them. They were a motley crowd of a dozen men. He recognized some as former acquaintances; bat the Indians and Tories were all strangers. Belying upon the word of Joe Bettys that they oould be depended upon, he immedi ately entered into conversation and ar ranged his plans. In a brief time they all bad approached tho home of Gen eral Sohuyler, and were peering from behind the pine trees and shrubbery that grew about the place. All the lights had)disappeared, and it was evident that all withiu had' re tired. Disappointed, Waltermeyer withdrew his band, aud prepared for tho night. The next day a careful watob was kept, but the opportunity they desired did not present itself. Frequently the General came out npon the lawn, but he was always attended, and the cow ardly men wanted to oatoh him alone. Sometimes he was seated on the broad piazza, playing with his youngest ohild, and sometimes ho was with one of his daughters and her children ; but servants in each caso were not tar away, and the attempt oonld no, be made. Several days passed iu this manner, and Waltarmeyer found his men be coming reallege. Something must be done. Starting out alone, he soon re turned to the camp they had made in the woods, attended by a Datohman whom he had met and compelled to accompany him. "Now, Hans," eaid Waltermeyer, when he had called his band about bim, "we want to know just how many men are at Schuyler's house." "Yah," replied Hans, turning his round, expressionless face from one man to another. "Yah ; dere vas men, also vimins dere" "Yes, but how many ?" asked Wal termeyer, impatiently. "I shoald dink dero vas," replied Hans. "But how many?" repeated the Tory. "Shust abond enough," answered the laconio Dutchman. "But doesn't Sohuyler ever leave home? Doesn t he go alone? When does he go to Albany?" The leader, almost hopeless, was ohanging the line of his questions. "Yah, be goes to Albany. Some times mit de soldiers but always mit de guns. General Schnyler he know how to snood." At length, by diut of many ques tions, Waltermeyer contrived to gain some of the information be was seek ing, and, with many threats ot what would befall him it he revealed the presenoe of his men, or repeated the questions he had asked, he dismissed the Datohman and watched him as he departed down the road. His heart would not have been ooni forted if he oould have followed him, for Hans prooeeded direotly to General Schuyler's home, and was with him a long time in his private room. When at last he arose to go, he met on the piazza the man ot whom Joe Bettys had been suspicious during his inter view with John Waltermeyer. He, '.too, remained in the general's private room tor half an hour ; and when his host accompanied him to the door he said: "I thank you, my friend. We are on opposite sides in this fearful struggle; but yoa have placed friendship above country, and I should bo leas than a man did I not heed two suoh eoorgetio warnings as 1 have just had." "But you'll proteot yoursolf, will you not?" said the Tory. "Never fear, my friend," roplied the general, with a smile. "I shall do as you suggest." As a result of these two warniugs, General Sohuyler obtained guard of six men, three of whom were on duty by day and three by night. But several days passed and no signs of the kid nappers appoared. The family began to think the alarm had been needless, and that if there had been any danger it had passed. The guard, however, was not dismissod, aua all due pre cautions etill were observed. More than a week had passed now since the interview of Joe Bettys with John Waltermeyer, aud the general was hoping that the project had been aban doned. It had been an exceedingly snltry day even for August, and after the evening meal the general and his fam ily were sitting in the large front hall enjoying the cool breeze which had jubt sprung up. The servants were scattered about the place, and the three men who had been on guard during the day were asleep iu the basement, while the three who were on duty were lying oa the cool grass ia i e garden. The children wore play Dg about their elders, and all were) rcjoioing that the cause for alarm had passed, as they supposed. "General, thore's a man who wants to speak with you at the back gate," said one of the servants, approaching the house. "I know what tbat means," said General Sohuyler.immediatoly arising, "1 want everyone of yon," he added, turning to his family, "to go to the room upstairs. Don't wait, but go im mediately. " The frightened women and children quickly obeyed, and the general, call ing the servants, barred the doors and looked the windows. As soon as he saw this hftd been done, he ran to his bed room for his gun. , He stepped to the window in hi room for a moment and looked out. What was that he saw ? The sun had set, but there was light enough to en able him to see that thehonso was sur rounded by men. It was a dangerous miment, but the guard must be aroused, aud perhaps the town must be alarmed, also ; so out of the open window be fired his gun, and then quickly drew the heavy shatters and fastened them. He was just in time,, for a volley was fired by the ruffians, and he could hear the thud of the bul lets as they struck against the house. All was con fusion now. With a shout the band started for the door of the) ball. They had brought rails and heavy pieoes of timber with them, and an exultant yell soon showed tbat they had succeeded in breaking down the door. A crowd of men rushed into the house and began to shout for the general to give himself np and save all further trouble. His family were all in the room with him now ; but the darkness concealed the pallor on their cheeks, and not a word had beon ut tered. Just as the Tories burst into the hall, Mrs. Schuyler thought of the baby she had left in the nursory below. In the confusion each had thought an other hud brought the little one, and the mother had just discovered her loss. "My baby I ray baby I" she cried. "I shall go for it. They will murder it. I know they will 1" "Nay," said the general, as he firm ly grasped his frantio wife. "It will be at the forfeit of your life, and the radians may not touch it." "Then I shall go," said M&rgaret, his third daughter ; and before she could be restrained she had rushed from the room, ran down the two flights of stairs and gained the nursery. The babe was sleeping in the cradle, all unconscious ot danger, and in a moment Margaret had snatched the little one, still asleep, and started to return. She had just gained the stairs, when she was stopped by one of the men, who ronghly grasped her by the arm. It was John Waltermeyer him self, but she did not know it, nor was ha aware who was before him. Plainly enough she was a young woman, and, as sho held a babo in her arms, he at onco concluded that she must be one of the servants. "Wench, wench," he shouted, "where is your master?" Margaret Sohuyler was greatly frightened, but she did not lose her presence of mind. Almost like an in spiration a quick thought came, and raising her voice so that she could be heard in the room above she replied : "He's gone to alarm the town." John Waltermeyer hesitated. If that was true not a moment ought to be lost in making their escape. His men were in the dining-room now, and he oonld hear them as they gathered the silver quarreling among themselves. Evidently the general's silver was as desirable as the general's person, and the ruffians bad deoided to secure what was nearest first. While the leader was hesitating he heard a voice call ing out of the window above : "Come on, my brave fellows, surrouud the house and seoure the villians. They are now in the dining-room plunder ing." That was enough. The leader did not know that not a soldier was about the place, nor that the oall was made by the general, who had followed up the words of his qubk-witted daugh ter. Not a "brave fellow" was near, and even the guards in the cellar, awakoned by the confusion, oould not find their guns. They did not know till afterward that General Schuyler's daughter, Mrs. Church, had removed them all, confident that all danger had passed, and fearful that her little boy, who delighted in playing with thum, might be injured. "Kun, boys run!" shouted the frightened Waltermeyer. "Xhe Con tinentals are all around us I'1 His companions needed no second warning, and delaying only long enough to seoure their booty and cap ture the three guards on the lawn, began to run ; aud the early records tell us that they never stopped until they arrived on the borders of Canada. The guards, although they bad no guns, used their brawny fists to good advantage, and if there bad been a little more light might have escaped after all. Afterward they had no oause to regret their capture, however, for the records inform us of farms in Saratoga County presented by General Sohuyler to John Tubbs, JohuCorlies and John Ward. John must have been a popular name in those days. But Genoral Schuyler was saved ; and the heroism of his quick-witted daughter, who afterward became the wife of Geuerul Van Kunsselaor, deserves a plaoe amoog the stories of the days tbat tried the souls of men. New York Independent. Swaying of the Skyscrapers. A peculiarity of enormously high buildings is attracting interest in Now York since the Building Inspectors have learned t bit many of them swerved fully a foot from the upright during the recent hurricane, though this, by experts, is eitoi as a proof of their strength, ME MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIfcS THAT ARE TOLD BT THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRE93. The Stars Sufficient Excuse City Comforts Generally Uets It Why lie Would Hesitate, Ktc. The stars, as you ken. They favor some men In a way that with justice conflicts; And astronomers stnto (1 hear pretty slralKhl) That thefie Htiirs they are some ot them fixed. SUFFICIENT EXCfSE. "How do you like living in a flat?" "First rate, old boy. Every time my wife has company I have to go out to make room." London Modora 9ociety. ctty cowronTs. "Do those country people like their flat next door?" "Yes; they say it is so convenient they keep their potatoes in the bath tub." Chicago Journal. MORE INFORMATION. Tommy 'Taw, what sort of a thief is a second story worker?" Mr. Flagg "It niui-t be one of these follows that steals a story and sells it the second time." Indianapolis Jour nal. DISQUALIFIED. "I heard that O'llourke has left tho police foroe." "Yes. A very queer case, too." "Why? What was the matter?" "He got insomnia." Cleveland Leader. A SECRET WORTH KNOWINO, "Tell me, how do yDU keep your hubbond at home so well? What can you find to Bay to him to entertain him?" "I don't talk to him at all." In dianapolis Journal. GEXEItAtiLY. GETS TT. Ingham "Every time 1 get on a street car it reminds me of my school boy days." Bingham "How is tbat?" Ingham "Why, I generally got the strap." New York Journal. FEMININE MALICE, Tom Barry "I dou't see any sense in girls kissing each other. Now, you hate that girl you just kissed." Prudence "You bet I do; but just seo how the freokles show where I kissed the powder off." Life. WHY HE WOULD .HESITATU. "I don't think Jerkleigh would hesitate in telling a lie," eaid Rad bowen. "Yes, be would," soid Chesney. "What makes you think so?" "He has to; he stuttars." Boston Traveler. k SHE KNEW. "What did Noah live on when the flood subsided and His provisions in the ark were cxhaustod ?" asked a Suu-day-school teacher of her class. "I know I" squeaked a little girl after the others had given up. "Well, what?" inquired the teaoher. "Dry laud." Chattanooga Times. VANITA8 VANiTATUM. Frances (who is thirteen and tall for her age) "Oh, door, I wish I were a dwarf." Henrietta "Why, the idea! What makes you say suoh u thing?" Frances "Then, perhaps, mamma wouldn't object to takiug me out with her once in a while wituont making me call her 'Sister Jone.' " Clevelund Leader. INFORMATION. New Salesman "Which are the four-year old sizes in boys trousers?" Old Salesman "You mean the sizes for four-year old boys, don't you?" New Salesman "Yes. Is there any difference?" Old Salesman "Of course. In this business, four year-old boys wear six-year-old sizes. It pleases their moth ers." Puck. HE FOROOT HIS FORMULA. The New Canvasser "This eoap, madam contains ninety-live per cent, alkali" Mrs. Jones "Ninety-five per cent, alkali? But alkali is n't a good thing in soap." The Canvasser "U'iner true, madam, true I I should have said that the fraudulent imitations of this soap contain uiucty-nve per cent, alkali." Puck. IMPROVED TOO FAST. Mrs. Smith (thoughtfully) I'm afraid I shall have to stop giving Bob by that tonic the doctor left for him." Mr. Smith (anxiously) -"Why, isn't he any bolter?" "Oh, yes I But he has slid down tho banisters nix times this morning, broken the hall lamp, two vases, a pitcher and a loo.iug-glaus, aud I don't feel as if 1 could stand much more," Harper's Buzur. TIMELY ARRIVAL. They had mourned bim as dead, but, like Enoch Arden or that cat ho had come back. His little wife sat on his knee, the joy shiniug iu her eye. "And are you really glad I came back?" he asked. "Glad?" said Bhe. "Glad? I had just made up my mind to dou a widow's outfit, but there was the loveliest pic ture hat, with bright ribbon all over it in spots, that I have breu longing for, aud now I can gtt it. Glad !" Cincinnati Enauiier. SCIEMIIIC AMI INDUSTRIAL. The house fly makes 310 strokes a second with its wings ; tho bee 190. Within a few years 200 artesian wells have been sunk in Queensland, yielding'125,000,000 gallons of water a day. Haller has noted 1000 cases of cen tenarians, fi2 of from 110 to 120 years, 20 of from 121) to 130 and 15 who had attained from 130 to 140 years. In his new book on bacteriology Professor Crookshank points out that in hydrophobia, variola (smallpox), vaccinnia (oowpox), eoarlet fever, measles, and many other diseases, the nature of contngium is still unknown. The rare and splendid collection of fossils which was brought together by the late Sir Joseph Brest wich has beon presented by bis widow, Lady Prest wich, to the Brit if-h Museum, and it will bo placed in the natural history department. A new liquid measuring device con sists of a scale on which the bottle or can ia pluoed nnder the faucet, the scale being set at the amount required. When tunt quantity has entered the bottle the scale beam tilts and closes the faucet automatically. The new dock tecently finished at Dunkirk, on the north coast of France, is said to be the largest in the world. It is 600 feet long by eighty feet wide, and will be able to receive the largest vessels at any Btate of tho tide. The dock has been soven years in construc tion. It is said that singers, actors and publio speakers find that since the in troduction of the electrio light they have loss trouble with their voices and they are less likely to catch cold, their throats are not so parched and they feci better. This is due to the air being less vitiated and the temperature more even. The finest wire in the United States is said to be' made at Taunton, Mass. This metal is exactly l-500th pait of an inch in thickness, much finer than human hair. Ordinary wire, even though of small diameter, is drawn through holes in steel plates, but, on account of the wear, such plates can not be used in making the hair wire, The Taunton factory uses drilled dia monds for that purpose. How ( hewing (in in is Made. "Four million pounds of gum chi cle, the product of the Mexican sapota tree, entered the United Statos during 1895," says theContcotioner's' Journal. "This entire product, valued at nearly $1,500,000, became the basis of chew ing gum. A walk through a leading chewing gum factory is interesting. Here over 1,000,000,000 pieoes of gum are annually produced and shipped to every portion of the world. Three hundred employes aro engaged in the manufacture ot the gum, the first step of which is the importation of the raw chiclo, which is gathered by tho poons in Mexico and exported in bales, containing about 150 pounds each. The gum is taken from the bales and chop pod into small pieoes. These are freed of tree bark aud chips by steaming and picking ; then ground in mills making 3400 revolutions n minute. Tho ground gum is subjected to a continuous heat of 140 dogrees F. in drying rooms. From here the gum is Bent to the 'white-aproned cook,' who adds the purests of sugar and the freshest of oream, granulated pepsin, powdered guru or kola, or other de sired ingredient to it, and cooks it in a steam-jacketed cauldron, where it is turned and mixed by an ingenioas doublo-ajting heater, or rotating pad dle, until it has assumed the consis tency ot bread dough. Now the 'dough boys' take hold of it and knead it in fine powered sugar, passing it to the 'rollers,' where it is rolled between steel roliers until it is of the proper thickness, whou it is whisked away to the 'markers.' The markers are steol-knived roller, which leave their impre-s on the long sheets of appetizing gum bofore it goes to the 'seasoning room,' after whiou it is broken! on the lines left by the mark ers. Now the gam iiads its way to the 'wrapping room.' The nimble fingers of 150 dainty maidens are here at play. Under thoir deft touoh waxed paper, tinfoil and pretty wrappers envelop the gum quick as a wink, and in another moment tuj 'packers' have the gam to plaoe in jars or boxes, wherein it is shipped for sale to the general publio." A Strong Potato. Charles W. Simmons, who lives on a farm near Pleasant Home, brought in from his iarm a curiosity. It con sisted of a late rose potato grown in the root of a tree. The potato vine seems to have crept into the root, and the now potato then started down in the depths. It flourished in its strange surroundings aud developed iuto a large and well formed potato. Tho room in tho root was too small for its expansion, and bo tho spud exerted not less than a ton pressure on tho root until the side was split opeu. The root is about three iuches in diam eter, and bix iuohos iu length. About an inch of tho spud protrudes from one end. It it quite a curiosity, and all who have seen it say they never saw anything like it before. Poitlaud Oregouiau. Dr. Nmiseii's S'.rriiglli, Fritdjof Nuuseu, tho Arctio ex plorer, is a man of extraordinary phy sical strength. At Trouiso the other day when it the least of welcome he was proposing the health of Captain Sverdrup ho suddenly lifted his ship mate up aud hold him aloft with ouu arm, so that every lady iu the crowded hall oould get a sight of his comrade. He will not wear his great cross of the Order of St. Oiaf because his crew re ceived only a paltry silver medal apiece, "it might at letut have been gold," he says, WHAT TIME 13 ITf Time to do well, Time to live better To Rive up that grudge, To answer that letter, To speak the kind word That may sweeten some sorrow; To do now the good You would leave till to-morrow. Philadelphia Inquirer, HUMOR OF THE DAY. She "Yon seem to forget yourself, sir." He "Sow could I do otherwise in yonr presence?" Judy. Friend "I snppose everything you write now goes?" Author "Yes, but most of itcomes back." Barlem Life. "I know now," remarked the young man who was sued for breach of promise, "why they call it " 'court ing?' "Tit-Bits. Editor "Your story is flat," Author "Yes?" Editor "I wish to compliment yon. Most stories we get are rolled up." Puck. Clark (oxoitedly) -"I tell you sir, this town isn't big enough to hold us both I" Fuller (calmly) "Why don't you start a suburb?" Puck. She "I think I might love yoa more if you were not so extravagant." He "It's my extravagant nature that makes me love yoa so." Life. Khn boasts a pretty, gold-trimmed purse, TIia flnvu nf tliA tidaf hh snopping leans irom ona to worse, It is an empty boast. Wnshlngton Star. "Uncle Simon, what is a phenom enon?" "A phenomenon is a man who gets so rich that be won't aocept a pass on a railroad." Chicago Re cord. Tagleigh "Balloon sleeves " were bound to go up in the end." Wag leigh "Sure. That is why they were named balloon sleeves." Boston Traveler. Arthur "I would marry that girl but for one thing." Choeter "Afraid to pop the question?" Ar thur "No. Afraid to question the pop." Brooklyn Life. "I'll wager that woman submarine diver doesn't Btay nnder the water more than ten minutes at a time," "Why?" "Nobody down there to talk to." Chicago Reoord. Mrs. Newlywed (in tears) "You nsed to say that you would be glad to die for mo." Mr. Nowlvwed "Woll.. A nuiuu uuw. lure. i "Well, you may now." Judge. Reporter "Three men fell on live trolley wires to-day." City Editor "Run 'em in the current events col li mn." Chorus of groans from the foroe. Cincinnati Commercial Tri bune. "Why do people take so muoh in terest in what they call Darkest Africa anyhow?" "I presume they have a kind of idea it would be a good thing to go there and grope with the country." Chicago Tribune. Jngson "I tried to pay the new womin a compliment last night in my speech, but it didn't seem to be appre ciated." Bagson "What did you say?" Jagson "I said that the new woman would leave large footprints oo the sands ot tinio." Tit-Bits. T l.i t T vr i i The Horse in History. As late as the ninth oentury Euro pean horses were shod only in the winter time. The first horses in Now England were introduced iu Massachusetts ia 1029 or 1630. The horse ia the art of the Roman Catacombs is an emblem of the swift ness of life. Queen Elizabeth had the reputation of being the most accomplished eqtfes-r trienne of her time, It is said by oompotout persons that over 100,000 horsos are every year killed for food in Paris. Tho first King of England to estab lish a royal stable for breeding pur poses was Henry VI If. Studeuts of the equine race deolare that the mule has all the faults of both his aucestral lines. It is a tradition among the Hebrews that Solomou had 40,000 chariot horses and 12,000 cavalry. The Arabian horses have, from the earliest times, been noted for their fleetness and enduranoe. World's Greatest Fortification. The most extensive fortification in the world, as every one knows, is the Chinese wall. According to recent surveys, this wall is 1724 miles in length, reaohiug from tho gulf of Ponheloe to the confines of Turkestan. This remarkable structure passes up stoop mountains, down into gorges and ravines, crosses rivers, valleys and plains, seemingly regardless of obstacles. It is 25 feet thick at the bottom, aud 15 at the top, and from 25 to 30 feet in height, with flauking turrets or towers 35 to 40 feet high, every 200 or 300 yards during its en tire length. The exterior walls are of well-cut granite blocks; the interior is tilled with earth aud stone, and the passageway is paved with bricks one foot square. Its erection was begun iu 211 B. C. , and it was assigned to protect the northern frontier of China aguiubt the savage tribes of Siberia. Avoid Extremes. Subjecting children to extremes of temperature is a eoinmou canso of their takiug cold. It does not seem to be generally understood that colds cau be c"ught by goiug suddenly from a very oold temperature that has chilled the body, iuto a very warm room ; but this is the case. A child who has been out in very severe weather, aud who is chilled through, obould not be taken directly to the rlro, but bo kept away from it uutil he has been in tho room lor awhile, aud the extreme chilliness has disap peared. Home Queeu.
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