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There are twonty-six monarchies io 11)0 civilized world. For a world in which thoro ia noth in 15 now UDtler the sun Troth think there are a lot of discoverers. President Sharpies', of Havorford College, thinks lhero is roonvin the United Btntea for a firet-rato small oollcge. ' Dr. Jameson, the leader of the Transvaal raid, eriya the undertaking was a grett mistako, for tho simple reason that it failed. That appear to be tho cs?cnoo of British public opinion on the whole enterprise.' There were regrets in Emporia, Ken., Ibnt schedules bad not been dif ferently arranged, rolatca the New York Sun, when an alvortisement of a railroad excursion to Port Arthur ap peared in the paper, sotting forth that "there will be no oharga for births for the trip, provided twenty-five person! desire to avail therosolves qf this ho-oommodatiou." In a reoon,t lecture on the cultiva tion of the memory, Professor A. P. Lyon deolarod that after trying all the i mnomonio aystoms he had at Inst come A to the conclusion that the only secrot of being able to remember things wo ' attention, association and repetition. The nest most important principle is that of classification. Tho looturer di.d not, however, venture to suggest - any infallible method of rooalling things, and even confessed that' that very day ho had roooived a note bog ging him not to forget that he was to leoture ou "Memory" in the after V noon. An announcement in the English' papers causes a flutter of eager antici pation. It -ia stated- that there baa been found in Egypt a wauusoript text of the Logta, perhaps that o Papias. Now of all the lost works ol the -Apostolus Chnroh Fathers, the one which is most wanted is the Logla of Papias, aa to which so much doubt hai boon raise 1 whether' it ever existed. These Logla have been believed to bo the original doonmo Srom wbioh the sayings of oar Lor, in the Synoptio Gospels were oompilel. It is almost too muoh to hope that the report is true; but, if true, it would make an epooh, if not a revolution, in the study of tbe Gospels. - - . . - i The nsnry laws mnst need reform ing in Canada. The Montreal Gazette lays : "A judge of the Superior Court baa, held that there is nothing in Quobcf's law limiting the rate of in tcrcst that may be charged, and boa Kiven a dooision upholding the legality of a claim of five. per cent, a day on an overdue note. Aa a result the defendant has to pay, if it can be collected from him, some $09,000 in tcreBt for the nse for two years of 3150,000. This, while the most glar ing, is only one of a number of oases tba't have lately attraoted attention in this city, where usurious rales of in tercet have boon- enforood by the courts." Tho . inBtauoe quo tod ia simply legalized swindling, deolares the New York Observer. - Probably nover before was tho sub joot of good country roads more thor oughly discussed than in the reoent past. Not alone is hand to band work being done by granges and other "farmers' ; organizations, but Couuty, State and evon Rational officials are working toward improvement in thii great question . The United Stated Department of Agrioultnre ia making investigation through its office of road inquiry, nailer the direction of Roy Stone. - The latest bulletin on this aubjtctia from an addresa delivered some time ogo by Judge Thayer, of Clinton, Iowa, who succinctly remark ..it the United States annually con U juntos io tho mud fiend 250 million dollars which is a total loss. lie fa vors borrowing money on long time bond at low rate of interest, using the taxes to pay tbe interest and princi pal. "I 'tin in favor," bo said, "oi allowing the people of a township the right to vote upon the question of borrowing money, not to exoeed a oer tuin per cent, per year, to use iu road building. I woubL have road im provement a township matter, based on local option. If the people of one township want to build a certain num ber of miles of good road, 1 would not permit the people of another township or the State Legislature to prevent it. If u majority of the people of a town ship want good, permanent roads, at a cost withiu certain prescribed limits, I would not put it in the power of th minority to prevent it. I would build good roads with the taxes now pai.l. I would cover the State with network of durable, permanent roads, which can be used every duy in th week ou which to haul a full load, and I would do this without increasing the I'jeteiit road taxation one mill." WORTH WHILE, Tis easy enough to be pleasant, whim life flows along like a aoni But the maa worth while Is tho one who Will imlle When ovorylhlng goes dead wrong; For the teM ot the hoart is troublo, And It always eomos with tho years, And the smllo that Is worth tin pnlso of enHli la tbe sinllo that comas through tears. It is easy enough to bo prudunt, When nothing tempts you to stray) When without or wlihlu no volcoo! slu Is luring your soul away; But It's only a negative vlrtuo Until It Is tried by fire, Aud the lire that Is worth tUo honor of earth Is the one that resists desire. By tho cynlo, tho pad, tho fallen, Who ha I no strength for ths strife, TUo worl l's highway Is cumbered to-d:iy; They make up the Item of llfo. But the virtue thnt conquors passion, And the sorrow that hides in a smilo It Is these that nro worth the homage of earth, For wo flnl them but on?. In a while. Ella Wheelor Wlloos. h MY FIRST PATIENT. BY MARO BOTKN. HAD been a week in my t new apartment. A week , a short time and yot it seemed in the retro tpect like an endless succession of days, eaoh one of which contained the dreams and hopes oi an entire lifetime. Hot a whole week the white porcelain sign of a practic ing physician had shone in splendor at the street ontranoe and upstairs on the glass door of my noat little flat. For a whole .week my small recep tion room, with its dark curtains and its straight-backed chairs, had waited for patients to avail themselves of the advice ant help of "Dr. Mas Er hard!." It really did not surprise me at all that my olhoe was empty for a few days, because, as I told inysolf, con solingly, tbe neighborhood must be come familiar with tbe fact that it bad good medical advice right here in its midst. After I had sent away my first patient completoly oared, things would assuredly be different. Then after my growing reputation had boon an nounced to the neighborhood, or better still, to the whole oity by a orowd of patients in officio hours, as well as by a neat little ooupo, which a dignified ooaohman would drive through the prinoipal streets then, yea, then And sol came to the dream which oocupied me most. I fancied my self again with my cousin Mary, who certainly would nt tbe role of a doc tor's wife most delightfully. I was in love with my little golden- haired oousin. Aa boy I had shown her all those little knightly attentiona which are possible from the strongor playfellow in the bouse and on the playground. As a junior I had dedi cated to her my first poem, and aa a senioMhad nearly rained my unformed baritone voice by continually singing about the "flaxen-haired maiden." When I came home, after passing my first examination, the young medioal student beoume sure that tho "flaxen haired maiden" returned his love with all her heart ; yet not a word was spoken. My university course was finished, Whonover I was working unusually hard or fighting successfully the tire soma battle of a final examination, in spite of my preoocupation, my dear Mary's eyes were constantly in my thoughts aud seemed to be taking the liveliost interest in the results of my efforts. When my little cousin, greet ing my home-ooming, whispered softly. "Doctor Erhardt," I looked deep into her dear eyes and whispered, just as softly, "Mrs. Ltootor ISrhardt" Then I saw a bright blush pasi over her faoe. as she drew quickly baok into the win dow nlohe. In the following days I had oppor tunity to talk with Mary about all the air castles which a young physioian in his empty office has abundaut time to build ; but I did not venture yot to disousa my droam of the future doo tor's wife. There lay at times iu my sweetheart's blue eyes an expression which drove the words baok even when they were trembling on my lips. Not that I doubted in the least that Mary's heart belonged unconditionally to mo : no, it seemed rathor as if a lack of oonfldonoe iu my professional ability Jay in her glance, and my pride in duoed me to keep siiont, until a re port of my first independent case should call forth Mary's full approba tion and unlimited confidence in my olioseu vocation. I sat iu my consulting room buried in suoh thoughts as these on the after noon of this dull November day. had barely heard the timid ring with which some one begged admittance. rose to open the door in place of the little page whom I had Bent on an errand. Duriug the few steps that I had to take, I confess that I was over whelmed by a flood of the wildest fancies, liere was a caller who needed mv help. Of course, it was an aristo craiio patient, with ringing praise and fame, and ah, there I was again, thinking of the doctor s wife. I opened the door. A poorly-clad womun stood before mo in the dim light of the late full day. A pair of grout dark eyes looked beseechingly at me from a face thin and streaked with coal dirt. . "Doctor," she said, in a trembling voice; "oh, Dootor, be merciful, beg you I My little Mary is so siok That name atoned, to some extent, for the disappointment wbioh the woiuuu's poverty-stricken appnaranoe had caused, for it did not harmonize with my reoeut dreams. "Who are you? Who seivk you to me? i abked. "No one sends mo," replied the woman, softly and ropidly, "Ob, ' Doctor, do cornel Ever since morn iog I've been carrying coal from tho wagon to tho next house. I live over opposite in the court. My child ha been sick since yesterday, and I found lier so much worso when I hurried homo for a minuto jnst now." 1 hesitated somewhat, the disap pointment wa so great. Iho wotnan wiped with her grimy band a face that already showed the trncos ot tears. She sobbed painfully. "I suppose I ought to call in tho charity dootor ; but your servant ia a son of the cobbler in our court, and he has told all the neighbors that you were so kind-hearted. Oh, help my little girl I" "Well, of course, the woman must be helped. I was human, and surely know what was due to humanity. So I went with her, after first taking out, with an importance that surprised and hnlf-shamed me, most of the necessary nstrumenta of a physician. Across tho street to a great court lying behind a long row ot houses, up five flights, eaoh darker and steeper than the last, through an ill-fitting door luto a littlo chambor with a slop ing ceilmif and one tiny window, and there on a poor but neat bed, with feverish limbs, and wandering, uncon scious eyes, lay a child about fourtoen months old. The woman knelt down by the bed. 'she doesn t know me any more," she moaned. The child coughed hoarsely. That was oroup of the worst kind. I tore a loaf from my blank-book and wrote my first real proscription. "(Jo to tbe nearest apothecary a. I said. She looked at mi with some embar rassment. "Can't I take it to King street?" she asked. 'No, indeed," I cried. "Why do you not wish to go to the apothecary n this street? of the coal dirt. "I think," she stam mered, "at the Eagle Pharmacy, in King stroet, tuey may know me. carry ooal there, and perhaps they will I have no money. A large tear fell onto the papor in her hand. "Oh, these people who can t pay for dootor or medicine either 1 I said, impatiently, to myself. I took out some money and said aloud : "There, take that and hurry I The woman pressed her hps on tbe littlo one's hand, and then, before I could stop her, on mine, and hastened away. . I looked around the room for a seat. A poor chair, a rough box, an old table, some cheap kitchen utensils on the low, oold stove, whioh took the place of a range; in one oorner, hang ing on the wall, a threadbare Woolen dress, and near it a ohild'a gown and a little bat trimmed with a blue rib bon ; on the narrow shelf near the tiny window a curled myrtle plant, a scarlet geranium, and a hymn book with bright gilt edges ; that was all that the room contained. I brought up the chair and eat down near the littlo siok girl. She waa evidently well nourished ; her little limbs were plump and shapely, tbe golden hair soft and curly. She breathed painfully, but she waa not oonsoious; and her blue eyes stared straight before her, as if she were looking into a distant, unknown coun try. It was cold in tho room. I went to the stove, but found only a few ohipa too few to build a fire. Ho sat down and waited for tho woman and the medioine. Again and again my glance wan dered about the poverty-etrioken room. A poor, hard-workiug woman who carried ooal on the street, while her child lay sick and suffering ; and yet she certainly loved her little one tenderly. Suddenly a thought shot through my mind that I should not be able to save tbe child ; that per haps I had not been deoided enough to take on my own responsibility the extreme and energetio measures which would have wrested the little sufferer from death. My heart grew hot aa I hurried to the door aud listened for the mother's fooUteps. . There ahe was at last. To my re twoaohful look she ouly answered, humbly : "There were so many people in the storo. i'olUs like ma must stand baok." An hour of torture passed. The medioine did no good ; little Mary oould not swallow it. Neither did it avail when, with trembling heart, but a steady hand, I used the knife on the slender, helpless throat. The little golden-haired girl died died before my eyes ou the lap of her strioken mother. Tbe woman looked up as if startled when a tear fell on to her hand, for she had not wept. "lou are crying, Uoctorr Uh you must not do that, You will Lave to stand by so manv sick beds where Ood sends no relief." She looked earnestly at the little body. "I lovod her so. 1 di 1 every, thing for her that I. oould, being so poor. When I oame home from my dirty work I always found her so pretty, bo loving. For hours she would lie ou the bed or sit ou the floor and play with almost nothing, and then she would laugh for joy when I came home. Uod has taken her; lie loved her better than I but oh, how lonely it will be for me I I pressed the poor woman's hand I could not speak, but I laid some money on the table aud went out softly. Onoe at home, I laid my oase of instruments away, and sat down overwhelmed. I could eat no supper I went to bed and hoped to sleep, bu the pioture of a dismal attio room, of a dead child, aud a humble, devout woman would not let me rest, any more than the torturing recollection of my own part in that scene. Early the next morning an old col lege friend oanie to oee me as he was pastitjg through the city, lie dragged me through the crowded utreots, to the museums, to all sorts of restaurant aud complained of my lack of spirits. I pleaded a headaohe, and so esoaped going to see a popular play at tho theater. Tired and cxhanstod, I went at laBt aloDe to my room. As I passod florist s brilliantly ligthed windows, stepped in and bongbt a costly white camellia and some fragrant violets. I climbed the five flights to tbe home oi tbe poor woman. I found the attio room unlocked. It waa dim ly lighted; a small coffin stood in the middle of the bare room, and the child lay there in a white shroud. The rib bon from the hat on tbe wall bad been worked over into two little bowa ; a myrtle wreath rested on tbe fair hair, and tbe geranium blossoms were scat tered over the body. On the table near by wee lamp, and the open hymn book was beside it. I laid the beautiful white blossom iu tho stiff little hand and fastened a bunch of violets on the breast of the silent sleeper ; then I looked at the open book. "I joy to depart" the old hymn that I bad learned at school and half forgotten : "To my dear onos who grieve, Do not moarn for me nowj This last inessngo I leave, To God's will you must bow." I laid the book away with a sigh. The words of the old hymn, the sol emn stillness, the peaceful little child oppressed me. I went borne, after inquiring about the hour of the burial. I retired early. I waa woary, and all my unrest had gone. As'if called forth by a power higher than my own, the words of an earnest prayer came to my lips, of tho prayer that Uod would bless me in my bard profession, and would change my haughty self- confidence into a humble trust in Uii protection, wherever my small knowl edge and my faithful ellorts would not avail, when I must stand, as on the day before, helpless to aid. In the early morning I awaited the little coffin at the door or the bouse. A man bore it before him, and the mother followed in her poor black gown. She pressed my hand with a grateful look, when she saw that I had joined the little procession. The way waa not long, the streets were al most empty, and the air was unusually mild for November. When tho iron gate of the cemetery opened, tho weeping woman bowed her bead huh lower. A young clergyman stood beside tho grave. ' 'I have undertaken. as far as I am able, to prononnoe a last blessing over all the sleepers of my congregation, he said, softly, as he met my surprised look. That evening I went to see my rela tives. . I did not find the parents at home. Only Cousin Mary waa there to receive me. We sat by the window where the moonlight fell on us, and then I told her of my first patient, and what I had learned from it. Mary said nothing in answer to my oonfea sion; but suddenly I folt her arms thrown around my neck.. She looked at me with wet eyes. "Don't you see, Mas?" sho said, "now you know your self what was lacking in your prepara tion for work; but, thank Ood, it haa come to you with your first patient. Now I believe thnt you will make a good physician who will bring help, even where his own skill doea not work a sure." I kissed my dear one, "And now, what do you think?" I asked. "Have yon the courage to become the wife of such a dootor? ' She emiled through her happy tears. And so at last we were betrothed. As it happened, the very next day. 1 was called to a child that waa suf fering intensely with oroup, and was ao happy aa to be able to save it. Since then Ood has shown much favor to the sick and miserable through my efforts, and my work haa grown ever dearer to me. But tbe mother ot my first patient moved into ray house to be my house keeper until my sweetheart became the doctor's wife. Even after tbe wedding, she remained aa cook, until she deoided later to make still another change, and came to nurse our little first-born daughter, Mary. She wept over our baby for joy, and in thankful remembrance ot tbe little golden- haired girl who had found a happy home for her mother and nad maue dootor worthy of his high profession. Translated for the Independent, ' (Stout Hearts, These. The heart ia not always tbe dolioato organ it ia generally believed to be, Dr. William Turner records in tne British Medical Journal a few oases whioh point to the fact that wotftuls of the heart are seldom, if ever, imme diately fatal. A child two years old was brought to him with a sewing needle driven into its heart, and the needle was extraoted without evident harm resulting to the heart of the child. Another oase dosoribed is that of a soldier in whoso heart a bullet was found imbedded six years after he had been wounded, ho having died from quite another cause. beveral instances are also given of persons living for months and years after their hearts had been terribly laoerated. Indeed, neither gunshot injur ies nor peuctratiug wounds bring the heart at onoe to a standstill ; so that this part ot the animal organism is apparently not its most vital atrue ture. An l'alo aa au Alarm Clock. Mr. W. Le O. Beard, in St. Nioho las, tolls of a tame eagle he had aa a petiu Arizona. Mr. Beard says: The half-breed in whoso charge be had been left told us he waa far better than au alarm clock, for no one oould sleop through the cries with which be greeted the rising sun and bis notion of breakfast time; and while an alarm would ring for ouly half a minute. Moses was wound up to go all day, or uutil he got something to eat. But his guardian treated him kiudly, and Moses grew aud thrived, soon putting on a handsome suit of brown aud gray feathers, whioh he waa very proud of, aud spent moat of hia spare time in preening. Tllli mW SIDIiOF LIFE, 8TORIE3 THAT ARE TOLD BT THE FtJHSY MEM 07 THE PRE 33. Hrlzliter Lights Her Standard ot Beauty Not Reciprocated Wise Advice A iood Kenton, Kto. II y swootlicart rllo hor wh"ol at night, Vet show no Initnrn propnr; Uur oyn-, so brltrlit, xhiue full ot light, Aud foolth watehful oppor. Clneinnatl Cotnmerolal-Trlbuuo. WnBNKVBO AWAKB.. New Bonider "What is tbe land- ndv scolding abont?" Old Boarder "About two-thirds of the time." A GOOD BRASOIf. Smyth "What m-ikes you think Bogj;ott is a good bookeeper?" Browne He never returned the onea I loaned him." Twinkles. AMATORY. Loola "Don't von think thev are two souls with but a single thought?" Hazel "'Well, I shouldn't wonder. They are both making foola of them selves." irutu. A PHPINmOX. Sohoolmaster "A poet ia oallod a word painter ; now, Tommie, oan you name me a great poet?" Tommie "Dad I He paints signs." New York nerald. NOT BBOIPROCATED. Mrs. Nowrooks "I like our new butler very much." Mr. Newrooka "So do 1 but, somehow, I'm afraid he baa a poor opinion of us." Puck. A NATURAL QUESTION. "My little girl's eyes are tho color of the sea," said Margie's Papa hold ing the small miss in his arms. "An ia zat wby ze tears taa so laltv?'' she asked. Puck. THIS IS GHASTLY. "You are doing right well to-day," said the matoh. "Oh.yeal" answered tho natural gas. It is a cold day when I get turned down at headquarters." Indianapolis Journal. IX THK URX ROOM. First Juryman "That lawyer was very complimentary to us in summing up." Second Juryman "He was, indeed I He flattered us so eloquently that J forgot he was wasting our time." Puck. a1 opinion indorsed. "Dis here piece," remarked Plod ding Pete, "sounds an impressive note o warnin. It says us Amerioana orter take longer for onr meals." "So we ought," replied Meandering Alike. "Wo orter take moro time, an not waste a minuto of it, neither. Washington Star. HEU STANDARD OP BRAUTV. "She said she thought I waa looking well, remarked the younj man who was looking pensive. "U'm yes. But you'll notice that the next minuto she asked me it I did n't think her ' pot bulldog waa the handsomest animal iu the city. Washington Star. WflERB KEl'ORM BEGINS. "Josephine has au interesting moas uro to put boforo the mothers' coo, gross." "What is it?" "She wants a law compelling every woman who haa a son to remember that he will probably be some other woman a husband. - Chioago lteoord. A BUTflLBSa 8000 EB HON. "I wonder," said the young man who is able but exceedingly loquacious, "why it is that a gonius is not appro oiated until after he is dead." "Perhaps," waa the oold-blooded answer, "it's because iu so many cases he insists on boring bis friends up to the time of that occurrence. Wash ington Star. nOW TUB ADMIRAL WENT A WAT. The Admiral is paying a somi-ofllcial visit to one ot the battleships, and haa rignallod to the flagship for hia Hag lieutenant to oome to him. The flag lieutenant, dubious as to the oorreot dross, goes in quest of the cabin door sentry (a marine). "Sentry, did the Admiral go away in his ooeked hat? Sentry "No, air, in hia steam launoh." Collupso of "Flag Juok." Answers. AN Al'PUKKENSrVB FATHER. "I think," suid Mr. BIykina, "that I'll eeud a note to Willie 'a teacher and tell her to stop his geography loasoua till next term. "I don't see why," repliod his wife. "The olaas has just started iu on the map of Europe; and the higher he passes iu his examination tbe harder it will be to start in and learn it all over again when King Oeorge and the Sultan get through with what they are going to do to tho boundary Hues. -Washington Star. Tills Cow Bittiiil ou Nails. M. II. Iteynolda, ot Factorville, Peun., a few days ago sold a cow to a butcher, who killed it for beef. When drcbsiug the curcass be noticed something very hard in the stomuuh, and, upon investigation, found over a quart of aaortod naile, from a ttub of a horse nail to a teu-penuy nail. rUrauge as it may appear, the cow never suffered any iu convenience from tho nails being in SCIENTIFIC AM) ISDISTRIAL. Lenonhook and Humboldt both eai that a single pound of the finest spidor webs would reach around tho world. Some English reporters now take notes at night by the light of a tinj incandescent lamp attached to the waistcoat. Homo interesting investigations have been made on the green color foi whioh some Italian cheeses are so re markable. This color is not, as haa sometimes been supposed, due to the action of bacteria, but is a conse quence of the presence of copper io the ohoese. The world contains at least font mountains composod of almost solid iron ore. One is the iron mountain ot Missouri, another in Mexico, an other in India, and a fourth in that region of Afrioa explored by Stanley, and there have been reports of such a mountain existing in Siberia. Inseot life in tho Arctic regions is very limited, and to insure their at traction one of the genus geum (a rosaoeous plant) from Alaska haa a row of large petals. This plant, also the geum novale, is utterly unable to fertilize itself, and demands inneot help, as in the skunk cabbage. All Arotio flowers are very large in com parison with the plants bearing thom. Unbreakable mirrors ore now being made by putting a coat of quicksilver on the back of a thiu sheet of cellu loid, instead of on glass. By laying a second shoet .over the coating a doublo mirror may be obtained. Com mon celluloid is highly icfbimmable, one of its ingredients being gun cot ton. But it is alleged that a way has been found to ovoroome this objection by introducing a email proportion of some other substance mlo the com position. The late Alvin Clark, of Cambridge port, Mass., discovered in 1802 that the star Sirius had a far less brilliaut oompanon. Continued observation for nearly thirty years proved that this second body revolved around the first ono in an elliptical orbit, at a distance nearly a) great as the planet Neptune from the sun. But iu la'Ju tho oompanion disappeared from view, having reaohed a point in its track so nearly in lino with Sirius that its faint light was overwhelmed by the dazzling effulgence of tho dog Btar. During the last sis years it has traveled far enough to boaome visible onoo more. Home Tricks tho Eyes Play; It is an old and wise saying that "seoing is believing," yet everybody knows that very often what we see, and therefore believe, proves to bo not really true at all. As we grow older, finding that onr eyes have so frequently deseivol us, we are often not, satisfied with the evidence they give ua until we have verified it by touoh or smell or hearing or taste, or by looking at some doubtful thing from different points of view, or under a different lighting. We are not willing to believe that a oomurer aotunlly draws rabbits from a man's ear or coins from tho tip of bis nose jnst because our eyes tell us such tales. Sometimes our deceptions are so lasting that things must be made wrong in order to look right, whioh seems rather contradictory. If we look at the letter S or the figure 8 as carefully as we oan, tbe upper and lower halves seem almost oxaotly tho same size. If wo turn them upBido down, thus, g, g. the difference iu the size of the loops is quito astonishing, and we wonder how wo could havo been so mistaken ; yet perhaps the truth is that the loops are neither so different nor so muoh alike as tbey seem to bo, aa we see when wo look at them turned upon their Bides, thus, dd, oo St. Nioholas. Tho Ureaiost Travelers. The number ot Americans who spend muoh money in traveling for pleasure ouly, writes Lewis lddiuas in bono ner's. is woll measured, as has already been suggested, by the number of Americana who visit Paris yearly. offer the following figures, whioh were obtained through tho courtesy of the chief of police of Paris, as a pertinent contribution to the discussion. Exact statistics of visitors in Paris have been kept by the police, under the present detailed system, only from 1803. Since then all arrivals in that city have been carefnlly reported at the Prefecture by the proprietors of hoteli and pensions, under pain of a flue for neglect, and they may be in part tabu lated aa follows: lS'JJ. . 18'Jl 1893. English ,..4l),l'JJ H,UJ1 4S.S73 Amorleuus 8M,3Ji 4-J,N5 4i,S17 UanuuuB 81.4'Ji i)3,U7t! Sli.TU Our First Kcpublicau liutornuijiit. Between 1730 and 1750, 210,000 people came to the Carolina shores from Ulster County, Iroluud. They were pare Scotch people all Protes tant. The first Republican Government in America waa inaugurated by those early settlers. It was called the "Watauga Association," takiug its name from the Wutuuga liivur in North Carolina. Its date U between 1700 and 1772. "Like all the govern ments formed by Anglo-Saxons, it had no theories', no abstractions, but was adtptod to the actual neecs ot tho peo ple." Its legislature consisting ol thirteen, had chairman, clerk and district attorney, with stated sessions. Ainoug tiio committee wero to bo found the names ot Brown, Carter, ltobortou, Sevier, Smith aud Jones. Now York Observer. Tae lieailiiig of a llooj Book. A pump may be couueotod with a very deep veil of very good water.au j yet need a pitcher of water to bo brought from auother source to be poured iu at the top boforo it can work. So with the miuii, sometimes. Tho readiug ot a good book helps it into ruuuiug order. BWEET ISLE OF DREAMS. Bwoot Isle of Dreams! my heart would fain Rust there, forgetting all Its pain; The wild waves all their clamor ooaso And molt upon Its snnds In peace. Upon Us shore wo find swoot rest, Tho porfutno ot tho gardons blest Tho holy stillness and the calm, To wenry hearts Is healthy balm. Sweet Islo ot lirosms! no dlsoord Jars The enr attuned; no harsh sound mars The muslo floating on the air, The song of sornphs, pure and fair. But alt is peace and Joy and love, Llkothntot heaven far above, Where angels, elnd in gnrmonts whllo. Chant hymns of pralso In realms of light. Swoet Isle of Dreams! Fair Land of sleop O'or us the angels vigils keep; Perchance our spirits with thom roam, And that they toll us of thoir home. Or it may bo they oome In dreams, To wander with ns by glad streams In gardons fair; and what we see, Waking, we hold in mumory. Henry Coylo, in Donahcs"" HUMOR OK THE 1AY. Cora "Love is a strange thing," Clara "Oh, I don't think so. I've boen ongagod seven times." "Faith," aiid the little boy after a week'a study, "faith is believing some thing that you know oau't be true." Indianapolis Journal. "Say, boy, what did you kick that dog for?" "He's mad." "No, he isn't mad, cither." "Well, if any ono should kiok mo I'd be mad." Truth, Mrs. Pancake "I oan't see why a great big fellow liko you should beg." Hungry Hank "Woll, mum, I s'pose me size helps to gimmo an apputito.'" Truth. "I notioe that some people claim that a dootor's whiskers may carry diseaso germs." "Why don't the doo tors boil their whiskers?" Cleveland Plain Dealer. Jimmy "Would you like to go with them fellors that goes lookin' fer the North Pole?" Tommy "Wouldn't I, though? You bot I'd bring my skates I" Puck. Dr. Powder "Ah I how are you to day, Mr. Glimp?" Glimp "Do you ask as an inquiring friend or as my family physioian ?" Philadelphia North American. Bacon "None of the women will spoak to Penman since he wrote his last book." Egbert "Why is that?" "Why, didn't you hoar the name of it? 'Women of All Agoa."!. "The marriage of the star and the leading lady baa been deolared off, I hear. "Yea; they couldn't agree aa to whose name should be first on tho wedding invitations." Puck. His Escape. He "Did you know that our minister once had a narrow escape from the Fiji Islanders?" She "How?" Ho "He was on tho point of going out among them as a missionary, when he received a call from a congregation in Boston." Puck. "Truly," musod tho Sultan, "9-13 queens would make a full house." "I wonder what his game is now?" mut tered tbe Grand Vizier. But at that moment the postman came with a number of ultimata from the great Christian Powers, and the conversa tion naturally sought other channels. Dotroit Journal. "The writer's namo must accompany every communication," said the editor to the man who had handed in a little pioce signed "Constant Header." "I seo," repliod the man. "You don't want to got the world involved in con troversy about the authorship of a seoond series ot Junius letters." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. "You women," said he, in the pe culiarly exasperating way a man has of saying tboso two words, "you women uuy uargain mings ueoauae they are cheap." "Wo do not," aaid she. "Wo buy cheap things beoause they aro bargains. lhe distinction was almost too subtle for the blunder ing masculine intellect, but it was there. Indianapolis Journal. Making Fancy Buttons. Tho handsome buttons one aoea on ladies' costumos are, as a rule, import ed from Germany and France. The making of those fancy buttons is really an art these days, suoh quaint and beautiful designs are shown and such exquisite workmanship ia displayed. Metal buttons showing a special device or initial on tho face require a die,and havo to bo made very oarefully by machinery. Some of the hnost workmanship issbown on bone bnttona, where the oarving ia dono by hand aud is very delicate aud artistic New York Tribune. ricluret! History. Tho livoly optical instrument with many names, but known iu England as the aniuiatoxraph, is to be used to preserve for posterity living pictures ot l'riucobs Maud's weddiug, the Derby won by the Prince of Wales, the coming jubilee ot the Queen, and several types ot London street scones. The oelluloid films bearing the views will be inolosed in several tubes, and ought to be good for many reproduc tions a thousand years from now. Chicago inter-Oueuu. A Peculiar Complaint, Duke George, of Suxo-Meiniugen, who a year ago met with a serious ao 01. lout iu (Italy, hai iu cousequenoe become the victim of .a peculiar com plaint. Ilia hearing has been partially destroyed in such a tuauuer that ho bears some uotos higher, others lower, than they really arc. Music of tvery kind, therefore, has become torture to him, us it seems to him horribly dis cordant The physiuiaus say t hut this can never boomed. Chicigo lteoord. her stomach,
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