ilia rorest Kcpabllcin RATES OF ADVERTISING l One Square, on. ItiTh, on. liMrtlon..l 1 00 On. p.isn one Inch, on month . 8 ' On. Pquare, on. Inch, tlira-? m inths, . .1 ' One ripiare, one Inch, on. year 10 oi 'I w.j tenure, oneyer..., .. l"uo (Quarter Column, on. yir It MM Half Column, on. year IVHM Une Column, one year IWHIU advertiiiint too cents par lint each inertion. Marriages an I ileith notices gnitls. All lulls lory.ar.y advi-rii' n mti collected qunrterly Temporary nuverlia.uu-nls uiual u paid in a. Wane. Job work cash on lieltver. .For 1 pablljho.1 every Wedn lay, by J. E. WENK. Office la SmeaibaujrH Sc Co,' BulUMng ' JtLM &TRGB T, TIONK8TA, Ik. To-aim, Hi.mtl'erVoar, No nlwcrlptl.im rioted for a shorter pui.od (hua tnroo montus. (XirrHiiii,lau.-e noll.-ite I (rm nil p irts of th couiury. No noiloa will bo intra . nnonymous cominuulo.iiloui. PUBLICAN VOL. XXX. NO. 23. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22, 1807. S1.00 PEll ANNUM. est .JjL JLJ- Mont Kansas counties pay bounty tm wolvos killed. Yet wolves' in that Btate hove in a year killed only 1150 heep, according to statistics collected by a member of the State Board of Agriculture, vkilo the 155,570 dogs iwned there have killed 1204 sheep. Itusftin will have a now labor law after January 1. The working day is fixed at a maximum of eleven and a half hours; for Saturdays and the days preceding holidays it is ten hours, and on Sundays and holidays there is to lie no work. Workmen who are not Christians will net bo compelled to work on the days hold sacred by their sects. For night work eight hours will constitute a day's work. El wood S. Leary, a lawyer of Newark, N. J., will boa model husband if he keeps the pledgo ho has taken, pre dicts the New York Tress. He hod to chooso between it and a suit for di vorce. He promises to coaso abso lutely the nso of spirituous and molt liquors of every description; to spend his evenings iu his wife's company at home or elHewhero, at her ploasure, .1 A. 4. 1 , .1 a. ami u give to uor an tue money ne earns. Bicycles are not yet very common in Spain. The authors of "Sketches Awheel in Modern Iberia" were con stantly frightening animals and an gering their owners; in one ease a murderous assault by a drunken driver was narrowly averted. The writers comment on the noisiness of BpauiHh towns, the badnoss of coun try roads, the beautios of the scenery, aud so forth, Postal affairs do not seem to improve at nil. The writers mailed from Granada seven small ar ticles to tho post in other countries, and only ono of them reached its des tination; aud this was but a sample of their experiences. The New York Herald remarks: Bciunoe is ut work on some diflloult matters, aud up to date it has made a good record as a miraolo workor. We are living iu an exceptional epoch and tho word impossible will very soon be expunged from tho dictionary, Teela tells uti that ho can telegraph without wires. Ho has been at work on the problem for a lung while and has at last solved it. We are on the threshold of great changes, aud evory man who didn't dio fifty years ago ought tc -shake hands with himself. There are two puzzles which remaiu. Somebody must discover tho secret of the fiah'i tail, which puts our best propeller to shame as a sort of stage coach affair, and then we Hhall have rapid transit across the ocean with a vengeuueo, Some one el He must find the secret of the bird's wing, aud then we shall have air ships for passengers and merchau-. disc. When we have made these two discoveries aud applied'them we shall look for the millennium. David B. Brackett, who recently returned- to his old home in Portland, Me., after a residence of many years in 'Alusku, claims that he is the man who found the first nugget of gold in what is now known all over the world as the Klondike region. Braokett went to Alaska in 1877, and for a long time divided his euergies between running a sawmill at Sitka aud buying furs of the Indians. To carry on the latter industry he made long trips iuto the interior on foot, aud in the course of them he kept open an attentive but not very hopeful eye for signs of gold. "It was while on one of these journeys in 1879," he Bays, "that I found the nugget. I had crossed the great back bone of the Alaskan mountain range and traversed the valley where Circle City, Fort Cuduhy, Dawsou City aud Fort Relionoe have since been built. One day I camped on the ledges above what I am sure is now called Bonanza Creek. Two of my Indian guides came iu with furs at 10 o'clock that night, aud I traded with them. Then, as it was still light, I walked down to the mouth of the creek, aud there picked up a stone which had gold iu it. I looked arouud for more, but, not find ing any, I put the stone in my pouch aud did not think much more about the mutter. Later, at Sitka, I showed the nugget to an old miner, w ho offered mo $75 for it. I took the money, but wouldn't tell where I found the gold. I went up the Yukon iu 1881 aud tried to locute my creek again, but failed. Clureuce Berry, of Fresno, Cal., went up the river in 1890, aud, I suppose, located near Klondike aud Bonauza Creek. He aud Fruuk l'hiscator, but I huve always claimed that I picked up the first nugget on Bonanza Creek."' Brackett declares that the mouutuius on the Amcricuu side of the line are tho real backbone of the range, aud that all the creeks uud tributaries o' the Yukon lUver aro full of gold, f here, he thiuks, is the reul source of the gold streak that reaches down througfc'fLiliforuia, THE UTTLEONE AWAY. World ain't like It used to be colder skins In Msy; Hn miner iiln't so sweet to me: The little one's away! Wish the birds a-slngtng eould roach the ones that roam; Wish the sweet bulls ringing could ring my darling huuiel Bit here In the sunshine, solemn-like, and see -Morning-glories peeping In where onoe she usod to boj They loved lnr little window, with the blossoms and the lights; Oave her glnd good mornings, kissed her sweet good nights. Hit here In tho darkness, when no winds tho maples stir. And hear the Hilonoo singing a sad. sweet song ot her; I know tho lilies dream of her, with her the roses roam. And sunllowors shine like stars of gold and loan to light her homo. World ain't whnt It used to be skies are cold and gray; Rummer ain't as sweet to mo: The little one's awayl Wish the sweet birds singing could roaoh the onos that roam Wish the glu t bolls ringing oould ring my darling homel F, L. Stanton, In Atlanta Constitution. "XRHODY THINK fate must have decreed it. One day I wrote thus: 'po LET A frame L cottage, contain ing nine rooms, subdi vided Into parlor, ro coptlon and dining room, library, kitchen and four bed chambers, with broad balls. The house Is unulrclod by a veranda aud situa ted In a grovo ot about three aeres ex tent. Well and cistern on tho promises; stable und outhouscB. Three squares to station and about halt a mllo to eleotrlo ear line, Dow In course ot construction, and wulub will pass plane. Kent t55 per tnoutu. Apply on me promises, uiovor- sydo.tit. I am a plain sort of Louls County. not a college-bred man, just "readiu writiu', rithmetio" a mortal, not given to beat ing about the bush, but trying with all my heart to speak and write so as to be plaiuly understood. Aud so, wheu, after writing this advertise ment, I looked it over, it seemed to express in a fairly intelligent way the desire that moved me to its composi tion aud the subsequent expenditure of coin necessary to secure its publi cation in the lit public I desired to secure a tenant for my property. The premises and the location wore de scribed with Bufllciont attention to de tail and accuracy to enable the reador to arrive at a decision as to whether that was such a place as he or she might have in view for residential purposes. The rental was set out as distinctly as my knowledge of the English language would permit mo to Btate iu words or figures. These pre liminaries disposed of, there remained for me nothing to do but reflect upon the bereavement by which I, a con firmed bachelor, found myself iu pos session of something for which I had no earthly use, and to trust to the power of the press for a measure of assistance in the preservation of that possession or its disposition in a man ner satisfactory from -a financial and personal standpoint. It was plaiu that city raised as I had been I could not reside content edly iu such a place. I was iguoruut of tho management of a house or the oontrol aud guidance of a corps of servants. The location was against my taking up my abode there. It was too retired aud quiet, decidedly. The ten days I had spent there while the carpenters, painters aud decorators were putting the place in shipshape, were the most lonesome and dismal in all my experience. The nearest neigh bor was about two blocks distant, but had he been next door it would not have relieved the isolation, for he aud his family extinguished the .lights and retired at 0 o'clock, "leaving the world to darkness aud to me." In au old-fashioned rocker I would sit for hours, my reverie only dis turbed by the rattle and roar of a pass ing traiu aud the accompanying bark of every dog ou the circuit, these dy ing away aud intensifying the solitude and loneliness. I have said that I was a plain speaking man and a plain-writing one. Perhaps, in the interest of truth, I should qualify that statement by add ing that I thought I was until the re sults of my rushiug iuto the want col umns of a metropolitan newspaper disubusod my miud of tho idea. My appeal to house hunters met with a geuerous response. They came singly, iu pairs uud quartets, in crowds. Every traiu bore a delegation of them. Not oil house-hunters are demeuted, not by auy mauner of means. But a goodly percentage of those who fav ored Cloversyde with their presence on that beautiful Suuduy just a year ago to-duy were, I am bound to thiuk, weak mentally. Either this, or there was a gigantic conspiracy among the guild to harass aud auuoy me, and thus add to the embarrassment of the predicauieut iu which I found myself through this sudden acquisition of landed property. To particularize: The first person to call was a pudgy, red-faced gentleman, who, after he had toiled up the hill aud relieved himself of a snort or two, requested to be shown over the place. When we had returned from the inspection my culler protested thut there was no sewer connection. How uuder the shining sun there should be such thing with the near est sewer five miles away is beyond my feeble comprehension, but thut he did expect it and oauio out there pur posely to reulize his expectations, the muuuor iu which he mopped his bald head aud gruuted left no murgiu for doubt. As he bade me good duy and waddled down the hill to take the uext train cityward I funcied I could detect phantom sever connections iu the heuted atmosphere above his heud. Tho next train lunded half a dozeu crunks, who jostled each other iu their buxiety to reach me. As they wedged their wuy through the gate and along the gravel walk there was fire iu their eyes. Another tour of inspection aud then the jargon commenced. An old fellow iu glasses expressed his astonishment KIRBY J of the discovery that the house was a frame and nota brick structure; a man who snapped his words with a metallic rattle was startled bocause there was no city water; another, with A blood red scarf and green shoes (I would not have had him for a teuant under any circumstances), mourned the absence of gas; still another was sorely disap pointed because there was no street oar line within easy walkina: distauce. During that and the succeeding four doyn they came out, trotted me through the inspection racket and then completed the torment by firing tneir alarming discoveries and objec tions at me. Summarized, I loarned that the place was decidedly objectionable, be cause the rent was too high; there were no speaking tubes- in tho house; tue cellar was not cemented; the house nad been built to be heated by fur nace, and was therefore beyond the reacn oi tnoso or moderate means; tuore was not room enough ; there was too much room; the rooms were too large and would require aores of car pet to cover the floors; the grounds were so extensive that the employment oi a man to care for tnem would be necessary; there was no sidewalk; trains were not sumciently numerous; it would all be nice enough for sum iner, out wnon winter comes wuat a a body to do? and bo forth. Of course the advertisement expressly described tnis as a frame house of nine rooms. tho grounds of about three acres in extent, the water supply as coining from a well aud cistern, the railway stution as three blocks avuy, aud the rental as $35 a mouth. And yet scores of men aud women who were iu search of a brick house of six rooms, with city water, sewer connections, speaking tubes, gas and bath, on the lino of a street railway, came out to inspect my property and annihilate mo with their objections to it. I thought I was a plain-speaking, plain-writing man. I am not. The week passed and the house was still on my hands. It was Saturday. and I had reached the conclusion that I would lock up the place that oven ing, return to my bachelor apartments iu the city, aud let some agent sell the property to the first bidder and re licve me from a strain that was fast putting gray hairs into my head. I had disposed myself in tho rocker on the veranda wheu I noticed that the early afternoon traiu deposited three per sons on tho station platform, who im mediately took the path leading up to the stretch of grassy hillside aud ter minating at my gate. As they drew nearer I was able to distinguish that one was an elderly gentlemen with snowy hair aud mustache, auother a man in middle life with a sandy beard and mustache and the third a lady of about twenty. They came direct to the gate, passed through it, and were mov ing slowly up the walk when I ad vanced to meet them. The young lady was the spokesman. At least she opened the interview by referring to the advertisement as the moving cause of their visit. I cannot for the ife of me explain why I thought bo, but instantly it fixed itself iu my mind that my teuauts stood before me. I was just a bit nervous, but I gathered myself together, aud iu five minutes' time we were walking together through the house and talking pleasantly about its arrangement, conveniences aud such like, aud then made a tour of the grounds. When we returned to the verauda I tendered the rocker to the young woman, while the gentlemen one, as I learned, her futher, the other her brother aud myself sat ou the fteps. There would be no train to the city for an hour, aud we had am ple time to discuss the object of their visit aud, incidentally, such personul alfuirs as are wont to develop under such circumstances. It was thus that I learned that the old gentlemen was a Virginian, upon whom the results of the war had fallen ruther disastrously, aud wbose troubles from this source had been augmented by the death of his wife. His son was a member of oue of the professions aud amply equipped mentally aud financially to provide for the family, while the daughter, reared iu true Virginia fash ion, was to be housekeeper or general charge d'affaires. We agreed upon terms, aud it was arruugedthut Colonel Kirby was to assume possession ou the following Monday. T accompanied the party to the station, gave them a cor dial goodhy (I confess it was u reluc tant goodby I gave the young lady), the train sped away toward the smoke wreathed spires of the city, aud left me to my rocker uud my reflections. Bright aud early Monday morning a procession of vuus invaded Clover syde aud while the sturdy help wus bus ily engaged in the work of transferring the contents to the house the Colonel aud his daughter reached the place by traiu. Au exchauge of a few compli ments pertinent to such au occasion eusued wheu I abdicated and left the quiet country cottage to resume life iu town. At the end of a mouth I made my debut as a landlord. There was a noticeable improvement in tho appearance of the place. The grounds looked clean, and flower beds at odd places aud bordering the walk, gave evidence of womanly attention. The house wore a home-like, hospitable air, and just where I had left it sat the old rocker. These things I noticed at that first call, a brief one. Subse quent visits gave opportunity for more extended observations, which only em phasized my first impression that a model housekeeper was directing mat ters iu a certain habitation in Clover eydo. Gradually I became conscious that a chauge had taken place in my self. Town life was fast losing its attrac tiveness; my thoughts turned with an indefinable longing to woods crowning the uplands through whose leafy branches the Southern breezes played, to rivulets springing from groves, play ing along the slopes awhile, prattling into groves again aud dancing away in the shaded distance. And I philoso phized, too. No mau is a bachelor from choice. Either his lonely condi tion is a case of it-might-have-been, or ho has not yet looked iuto eyes that have answered his heart. Love is magnetism. The eyes have it. When tho ordained eyes meet, then and there the bachelor ceases to exist and one more township is added to Paradise. I mado this discovery when my eyes met those of Khody Kirby, and though I have looked into those same dear eyes thousands of times, and though thoy have boon my inspiration, my very life, yet to save me from perdi tion I cannot describe them. I know the regal rose, the modest violet the loyal suuflower, but to attempt a de scription of either would bo a task en tirely beyond me. And so with Rhody'e eyes. I only know they aro the most beautiful this side tho shining stars, that she herself fills up the gracious mold of modesty and that I am desper ately . But I anticipate a little. I developed au extraordinary inter est in my property in Cloversyde, so that it was not unusual for me to drive out there evory week. My pretext was that the place needed looking after, the feuces and buildings requiring a deal of attention to save them from falling into decay. Miss Bhody was my companion over the grounds, mak ing suggestions here aud there and filling me with a fear that I should one day drop dead at her feet from an at tack of heart palpitation. But all things must have an end, and I re solved toj talk seriously with Rhody when next I put foot ou the pluce. It was the first day of June aud early morning. The budding roses were bathed in dew, the birds twitted tune fully in the trees, the air was soft and delioiously fragrant, and Miss Khody was as delightfully sweet aud captivat ing as it is given to auy mortal to be. We walked ubout the place, our con versation confined to matters common place, and my stay had been prolonged to a length where I could find no propriety in longer dctaiuiug her. As I was about to take my leave I said: "I am not goiug to cull auy more for the rent." Theie was an euormous lump iu my throat. "Have you placed the property in an agent's bauds?" she inquired. "No, Rho Miss Kirby." "Then you have disposed of it?" "Not oxoctly; I thiuk I am on the point of doing so, however." "We shull feel very grateful," sue said, "if it passes iuto the possession of bo kindly aud considerate an owner as yourself." "I am satisfied," I said slowly, "that the new owner will prove my superior in that regard. In fact, Rhody, that person is to be no other than your own sweet self. Since I first saw you every duy has increased my admiration, until I find love takes tho place of admiration. I havo dis covered thut it is possible for a woman to possess sense without vauity, and beauty without affectation." I had taken her hand iu mine while I spoke. "May I ask you to take this place aud with it me iuto your dear keopiug for life?" She was a sensible woman. Obser vation had impressed me with that idea, aud my numerous visits con firmed thut impression. "I cannot pretend to indifference," she said, "and therefore own that what you have told mo makes me ex tremely happy." That settled it. I was iu an ecstasy of joy. Did I kiss her? I am a man given to plaiu speaking, plain writing. I did. Could I have doue otherwise? She said other things; so did I, but it is not necessary to repeat them here. She is to-day the owner of the place iu Cloversyde, with all the appurten auoes thereunto belougiug, including myself, aud as I sit iu the old rocker on the verauda uud write these lines, I am the huppiest mau ou this whiz zing ball." St. Louis Republic. How Stolen ltire Thrived. Senator Vestreoeutly told this story of the origin of South Carolina's greatest industry: "Jefferson, while Minister to France, visited Ituly, aud, finding there a very superior quality of rice, filled the pockets of his Virginia overcoat, the old-fashioned Virginia coat, with capes to it, which our grandfathers wore with it, and to use pluiu language, smuggled it out of the country. He curried it to l'aris, put it up iu small packages of five aud teu graius, anil sent it to Charleston, H. C, and thut was the basis of the South Carolina rice, the finest now iu the world." Martin Luther'. Body. It hus recently been uscertuined thut the body of Murtiu Luther, contrary to general belief, wus never removed from the puluee church at Wittenberg, where it lies seveu or eight fet below the floor of the nave, iu a cofllu of wood lined with tin. Close by is the Collin of Luther's friend and associuto. Melauchthou. THE MEKRY SIDE OF LIFE STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. rtuli-ftt Self Doiilel Two Way. of Oet tlngn Forus A Case of Hi-qultur Slonk or Monkey? An Kyo Witness Chil dren of the Century Only a Illnt,Ktc Abovo the sleeper's nose, Trembling at every Joint, BtlKzed the young mosquito: "I want to sup. And I'm trying to screw my ooiirngo up, Up to tho sticking point!" (Jhlengo Record. Woman's Way. Ted "She said her age was twenty two. What do yon think of that?" Ned "I should call it an age of de ception." Judge. A Case of Sequltur. "Take away woman?" asks a writer, "and whit would follow?" We would. Give ns a harder one next time. Texas Sittings. An Kye Witness. "Have yon any witness to this as sault on yon?" asked the Judge. "Yes, Judge. I was there myself," answered Huus. Fliegende Bloetter. J A Legal Count. She "The Count, you know, can trace his family back 800 years." He "Ah, through the bankruptcy court records, I suppose." Texas Sitt ings. The ltulcr of ltulers. "I thought you said Smithson want ed to be elected exalted ruler?" "So he did, but his wifo told him he must give up goiug to the lodge."- ludgo. S. lf Denial. "Going to your mother-in-law's funeral, old man?" "No. Business conies before pleas ure with me evevy time!" Fliegende Blnetter. A Promising Lad. Clergyman "My boy, do you know it's wicked to fish on the Sabbath?" Youngster "I isn't fishing; I'm teaching this 'ere wurm tcr swim." Indianapolis Journal. Two Ways of Getting a Focus. Friend "You nro so dreadfully cross-eyed I dou't see how you can shoot straight." Cross-Eyed Sportsman "I fire both barrels at once." Judge. Monk or Monkey? Cholly Rieketts (tragically) "Ro fuse me, dearest, aud I shall enter a monastery aud be a monk." Maude Summerflirt "Monastery? Don't you mean a meuagerio?" Buck. Children of the Century. Mrs. Tenspot "I am so glad that you ore engaged to Harold Willoughby. Was it a long courtship?" Miss Skidmore "Not very. My cyclometer registered ubout 100 miles. " Judge. Corret-t. Teacher "A rich mau dies aud leaves a million dollars oue-tifth to his son, oue-sixth to his daughter, one seveuth to his wife, one-eighth to his brother and tho rest to foreign mis sions whut does each one get?" Little Willie Briefs "A lawyer." Tuck. Only a Hint. Mr. Gotrox "Whnt would you ex pect mo to do for my dnughter if you married her?" Georgie Goodthing (slightly em barrassed) "You cr wouldn't bo willing to die for her, would you?" Judge. Kite Was Willing- H "Will you marry me?" Bhe "No. I'm not a clergyman." Ho "Well, will you permit a clergy man to marry us?" Hhe "Yes, you to somebody else, and me to well somebody else." Boston Traveller. True Muidcal Iuntliu-t. Reilly "Couplings is a fireman with a true musicul instinct." McCarthy "I didn't know he hud any tuleiit iu that Hue." Reilly "Well, ho bus. When tho music store burned yesterduy Couplings played on six piuuoa ull ut once." Tudge. Strict IUolillue. Trofossor "Why didu't you come wheu I rang?" Servant "Because I didu't hear the bell." "Hereafter, wheu you don't hear the bell you must come aud tell me so!" "Yes, Professor." Looking Alieud. Lightlove "At last, dear Sophia, we are alone, uud I can tell you that I lo-" Sophiu "Oh, pleuse, no, Mr. Light love, don't tell mo here." Lightlove "Why not? There ure no witnesses." Sophiu "That's just it." Punch. A Coiuiuou l'arudux. Little Elmer "l'u, my teacher told me to write au example of a purudox, aud I cuu't thiuk of oue. Will you help me?" Professor liroudhcud "You might suy thut, although Mr. Tubmun, who is trying to reduce his Hesh by bicy cling, is continually falling off, he does not soeiu to bo growing uuy thiu uer." Judye. Au Invaluable lluilin. Mrs. Newlywed "That iH our new burglur uluriu you see, if a burglur should get into the lower port of tho house, thut would ring." Her Mother "Oh! uud scuro him ofi'V" Mrs. Newlywed (doubtfully) "Well, it might; but it would give Clureuce aud me plenty of time to hide iu the attic, uuvwuv."- Puck. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, Of 1000 pcr.tous only one reaches the ago of 100 years, and not more than six that of sixty-five years. Germany now has clectrio light in over 1000 postal cars, and Austria is about to adopt tho same system. A Frenchman has patented a device whereby passengers may be landed in safety from railway traius running at full speed. . Conl tar, when used for dyes, yields sixteen shades of blue, the same num bar of yellow tiuts, twelve of orange, nine of violet, and numerous other colors and shades. A method of transporting grain through iron pipes, by means of suc tion, from distant farms to the sea board, has been devised by an inven tor in Orlando, Fla. I There nre snails actually resembling thorns. This species remained for a long time undiscovered, until a close observer saw one of these thorns walk ing around the branch. The American University, at Wash ington, is celebrating the completion of the largest reflecting telescope lens in the world. It is wholly American work, aud the first of the kind cast in this country. A Germau medical paper has re ceived 'a report from South Africa, Baying that experiments have proved that if cattle are inoculated in time with Koch's serum, ninety to ninety seven per cent, of the animals can be saved from the plague. Scarlet seems to be the color most conspicuous in bright sunshiue, and scarlet flowers are commonest iu dry and sunny climates, where their color gives them an advantage in their strug gle with other flowers for the atten tions of butterflies and other pollen bearers. A microscopic examination of moth er of pearl shows the shell to be made up of very fine lines bo cloBely put to gether that the white light is broken up iuto its prismntio oolors, and we get the so-called "piny of colors." Taking a careful cast of such a shell the wax cast will yield the same prismatic ef fects. A new electrio invention is a simple device by which an electrical ourreut of high potential can bo uniformly de creased in volume or strength, or both, at tho will of the operator. The in strument or apparatus is in the nature jf a rheostat, and can be used wher sver a graded current is desired. Electricity. An eminent physician states that ty phoid fever can be washed out of the system by wuter. Ho givos his pa tients what would amount to eight or ton ounces an hour of stcrlized water. In oases of cholera, where the system secrets a large amount of fluid, enor mous quantities of hot wator aro of great benefit. The Muiamas. The many accidents that have over taken mountain-climbers iu the Alps have never had on effect permanently detrimental to mountain-climbing as a sport, aud probably the serious acci dents in one cose futul that have this year befallen the climbers of Mouu Raiuier will not discourage the Maza mas, though it may induce the exer cise of greater precaution. The Muza tnas constitute a society, made ur chiefly of dwellers ou the Paoific coast, whose special pleasure it is to Boale aud explore the greut mountains of the Northwest. The society was or ganized iu July, 1804, on the summit of Mount Hood, by 192 persons, who climbed 11,225 feet to atteud its first meeting. The next year parties of MazamuB ascended Mounts Hood, Bukor, Adams, Raiuier, and Jeffersou. Lust yeur the club made au excursion to Crater Lake, iu Oregon, and this year its attentions have been largely concentrated on Mount Rainier. On Tuesday, July 27, Professor Edgul McClure, ou experienced mountaiueet and a leader of tho Mazumus, lost his life by a full. The next evening two other climbers fell iuto a crevusse. One made his own way out; the other was rescued with difficulty. An idea of the quality of tho sport that Mount Ruiner ufl'ords this year is to be gath ered from the information that tho face of the mountain, for a mile down from its summit, is a continuous sheet of ice, in which steps have to be cut by climbers. Tho mountain is 14,450 feet high, aud 10,000 feet of its eleva tion is covered with perpetual snow. Harper's Weekly. The Huuliower and Malaria. "The supposition thut the suuflower would absorb malaria hus long since passed away," explained a heulth utllce physiciun to a Star reporter, "though there is no doubt thut there was some good connected with it. At oue time, many years ago, there wus au idea prevalent thut there was con siderable malaria ubout the old uuvul observatory. Some of the professors were told thut in South America aud other countries where lualuriu was supposed to abound, thut the suu flower wus regiirded us u preventive, aud they ordered a quantity of the seed. The flowers, as many of our older resideuts will remember, were growu ubout the observatory iu greut profusion for their hygieuio ad vantages. There wus no harm done by the growth of this flower, for it crowded out certain plants aud weeds which were by no means us beuutiful or us valuable iu uuy respect. The uuvul observutory is therefore the original home of the sunflower iu this country, aud it is entitled to the credit of bringing it here. Whether it absorbs muluriu or not, it is certain thut it beuutilles wuste places. The flowers which grow ulong the bunks of Roek Creek, within sight of the cable-cur bridge, were origiuully planted there over tweuty years ago, uud they huve beeu coming up regularly siuce." Washington Stur. SONC. airnough you nro In your shining day, And the tongues of the crowd Aud of new friends ore glad with yor praise, lie not unkind or proud. But think of your old friends tho most; Time's ldtt.fr flood will rise, And your high beauty fall and be lost Fur all eves but theso eyes. V. 11. Vents, iu the But unlay Review. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Suspicious. Isnoo "Haf a cigar, Cohen?" Cohen "What's the mad der mit it?" Truth. "What would you advise me to do to become worth my weight in gold?" "Well, you might try anti-fat." Truth. Minnie "Sadie has unother new admirer." Mamie "New ones are tho only admirers she has." Indian ipolis Journal. Orator "What has, become of the fumed American statesmanship?" Auditor "Lost in the push for office." Phila lolphia North American. "My little sister is the best baby f ou ever saw. She sleeps twenty-four hours everyday." "Huh! our'n sleeps Lweuty-six." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Tho good dio young," said the casual coller, apropos of any old thing. "They may if they ore chickens," paid ;ho editor, "but if thoy are jokes they lo not." Truth. ' "Whnt do you regard as the most important event of the century?" asked tho philosopher. "Well," answered Lho wheelman, "the finish is about as satisfactory as any part of tho run." Truth. "Well, little girl, what is it?" "If you please, sir, Mr. Slimmer will not bo ablo to come down this morning, lie's just got book from a two weeks' rest in the couutry, and he's all tired out." Clevclaud Plain Dealer. She "You are just like all the men; you would not admit that you c) r made a mistake, to save your lifet" He "As if I hadu'ttold you time arid time ngain that tho mistake of my life was in marrying you." Cincinnati Enquirer. Englishman "Some of our English girls ure quite expert with the gun, don't you know. Lady Eva Wynd ham Linn shot six man-eating tigers in India. American Girl "If they wore eating nice men sho did just right." Now York Weekly. Miss Delia Creme (wearily) "I know everything we eat is adulterated; but what can we do, Reginald? We must trust our grocer." Mr. Reginald Creme (drearily) "Ah, ves, Delia, very true; and if oh if our grocer would only trust us!" Tit-Bits. "I thought you advertised home fare!" said the boarder indignantly. "Wall," repliod Farmer Cotutossol, "that's what you're gottiu'; canned peaches, cunned tomuttusses, eauned corubeef, and condensed milk, tho same as you're used to." Washington Star. "Oh, do look at that dear littlo Iamb!" said Frances, on seeing a young lamb for the first time, iu her life. "Isn't it pretty?" usked mamma. "Ves; aud it is so natural, too. It squeaks just like a toy lamb, and has the sume sort of wool ou its back." Judge. Hasbeen (laying down his paper) "I have just been reading that alcohol will remove grass stains from the most delicate fabric." Mrs. Husbeeu (se verely) "There you go again, Jason, trying to find some excuse! Just re member that yon have no grass stains iu your stomach." Puck. "It won't be long," suid the man who loves to talk science at the table, "before all our engines uud that sort of thing will be run by the heut of the suu." "But," asked his wife, "if they go to using up the heut of the sun thut wuy, wou't it muke the weather too cobl to grow crops?" Cincinnati Enquirer. Mrs. Weed "Are you one of those men who regard ull widows as danger ous?" Mr. Grecu (edgiug away) "No, I don't thiuk they're ull danger ous. Some of them don't become widows until they have passed the duuger-point." Mrs. Weed (after he has left) "I wonder if he meant thut us u compliment." Cleveluud Leader. The Farmer "Yes; I know the spot. It's ubout five mile up the road, au1 they call it 'The Lover's Leap.'" Boarder "And there's an old trudi tiou about au Iudiun girl who sprung from it?" The Furmer "Yes'in; it's a pretty old tradition. I reckou it must V beeu started wheu folks round here first begau to tuke boarders." Puck. . She "Hurry, you suid something lust evening thut made me feel so bud." He "Whut was it, dourest?" She "You suid I wus was one of the sweet est girls iu all the world." He "Aud ureu't you, durling?" She "You suid 'one of the sweetest.' Oh, Harry, to think I should live to kuow that I have to share your love with auother." Bostou Transcript. Nvw Navy Cap. The new cup adopted by the Navy Department for officers of the service hus met with much criticism. The change of uniform is regarded us en tirely iu the interest of the military tailors of the couutry. One greut ob jection to tho cup is thut across its visor is stitched a greater or less amount of gold bruid, the quantity uud desigu depeudiug upon the rank of the weurer. Tho 1'ioc Turin il Tall. Wheu W. V. Woodwurd, of Barnard, Vt., weut ufter his cows uud set his dog ut them tho whole herd of soveu teeu mu lo for the dog ut ouee w ith lowered bonis. Tho dog turned tail hud run towurd its muster. Air. Wood wurd wus knocked dow u uud all the cows run over hiiu, but he was stepped ou only once ou tu'-h leg - -New York Sou
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