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The study of domestic science by young women in Germany includes the study of the vegetable garden and how to cultivate it. ' While Captain William H. Bates was Commissioner of Navigation he said that "an average of $150,000,000 .annually, for thirty years, has beea paid by ns to foreign ships for ocean transportation." Clement Scott, a famous London dramatio critic, says the English stage is the worst, because the English are the least nrtistio people in the world, and "more completely without the saving graco of humor than auy other nation." . Gullible farmers, of Allen Connty, Ohio, have been buncoed by a swind ler who went through the country ex hibiting an enormous ear of corn, from which he sold choice kernels at choice prices for seed.' The car was made from several smaller ears carefully cut np and ingeniously glued together in the natural form of a big ear. Says the New York Times: "The law of supply and demand applies to the Hnntli.rn nnttnn in.lnpr wall . anything else. If tly acreage is too great and the production consequently greater than the mills require, low prices are inevitable. Planters will do bettor if they restriot their cotton acreage and substitute other crops on the rest of theland." That there is an honesty rising su . perior to business avarice even in this sordid age appears from the experi ence of a Topeka sporting man. He .'wrote tc a cigarette company that he had saved the pictures in 1200 pack ages of cigarettes which he had smoked, and asked what prize te oompauy would offer for them. He reoeived an answer saying that the company would give him a coffin if he would smoke as many more. ' A writer in the New York Sun gives what he believes to be the true theory 'of- tlp origin of Welsh rabbits. He says: "My notion is that melted chees'e, properly seasoned and poured on toast, is called 'Welsh rabbit,' be cause in Wales, where the people have cheese in plenty and wild rabbits are rigidly protected under the game laws, the Welsh bon vivant substitutes his homely dish for the four-legged game animal. In like manner, you know, some of our New England friends facetiously call salt codfish and her ring 'Cape Cod turkey.' " The writer "rejects with soorn" that "rabbit" need in this connection has been evolved gradually from "rare-bit." ' A subject that would stand more discussion than it gets is free delivery by the Postoffice Department in rural districts, observes Harper's Weekly. It is not impracticable, and the chief questions about it are whether the farm" ers want it and whether it would be worth what it would oost. There would . be some economics in it resulting from the diminution of fourth-class post offices, and some gains iu revenue from an increased postal business. In thousands of districts it would pay very well. The 810,000,000 or so that might be saved by some wholesale amendments to the law which governs second-class mail matter would pay the deficit on a good deal of rural free delivery. The report recently submitted to the Seoretary of the Interior covering the transactions of the general land office for the past year contains some inter' esting figures. According to this re port the vacant publio lands of the Government aggregate at the present time the enormous amount of 591,818, 953 acres, scattered about over the States of Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, California, Colorado, Oregon, North Dakota and Washington. Each year the Government disposes of large tracts of land to private individuals and railway corporations, but on ac- count of the vast area of territory oov ered by the Government's unoccupied domain, it will probably be many years before this area is exhausted. As the sterile and uninviting charaoter of . some of the land renders it unfit for use or habitation, it is more than likely that purchasers will not be found to relieve the Government of this part of its domain. Still the pro gress which scieutitio research is mak ing at tho present time gives hope thai even the most forbidding places may 'yet be reclaimed to fertility and culti vation. What is known as the reserved territory of the Government embrucei 132,4-41,771 acres, and is not subjecl to purchase. It is reserved for niili tary and naval purposes, reservoir sites, timber lauds and other needs which may arise hereafter in the exigencies of the Govarumeut. TWO I. The Man who Loved the Names of Things Went forth beneath the skies, And named all things that he behold, And people called him wise. An unseen presence walked with him rorever nv his side, The wedded mistress of his soul For Knowledge was his bride; Rha named the flowers, the weeds, the trees, And all the growths ot all the seas. Bhe told him all the rocks by nBine, Tho winds and whence they blew; She told him how the seas were formed, And how the mountains grew; She numbered nil the stars for him; And all tuo rouunod Bines Were mapped and chartered for the gaze Of his devouring eyes. Thus, taught by her, he taught tho crowd; They praised and he was very proud. OF NO PARTICULAR FAMILY. By MRS HE Grange was a large rambling old house. And it had need to be so, for the Marriots were a numerous family, and at Christmas or in the summer holi day season, when the married sons brought their wives, and the mar ried daughters were accompanied by their husbands and c lildren, every room was filled. At such times, Mr. Marriot appeared to glance round him with mild aston ishment thtt so 'many children and grandchildren really belonged to him. For six generations there nod been Marriots at 'the Grange, eldest son regularly succeeding eldest son. It was the proudest boast of each in his turn that the land had never decreased by one acre; that no mortgage had been raised upon it; and that none of the Marriots man and woman had ever even remotely brought dishonor on the name. One August the annual gathering was not to be so numerous, as usual. The children of one of the married daughters were ill with soarlet fever; one of the unmarried sons had gone to sea. So when Ursula Marriot, who had been at school in France by way of finishing her education, wrote for per mission to bnug a friend home with her, it was decided that there would be a room to put at the disposal of this young lady. A kindly letter of invitation was ac cordingly written by Mrs. Marriot to Miss Winifred Warre, and enclosed in that which told Ursula that her school- comrade would be made very welcome at the Grange. "I am sure you will all be charmed with Winuio," the girl had written She was right; the Marriots were all delighted with their guest as soon as she stepped inside the grand old en trance hall. She was a tall, lovely creature, older certainly by a year or two than Ursula, who was just seventeen. She was dressed in sober brown, with a pink knot of ribbon at the throat; and the rose tint was in her cheek, and the brown eyes matched by the coils of her ubuudaut hair. Miss Warre was quite at her ease among all these strangers; she laughed and talked over the rough passage, and over the little incidents of the railway journey from Dover. It was impossible to be formal, with such a girl as this. She was "Winnie" even that first evening with the Mar-1 riots. "Miss Winnie" with the ad miring servants, who waited on her assiduously. After a quarter of an hour passed over a merry afternoon tea, the guest was taken to the pretty room prepared for her, and the general verdict given iu her absence was not only favorable, but Mattering. Dinner time at the Grange was al ways six o'clock, summer aud winter; an unfashionably early hour, but Mr. Marriot liked it. He said it left a pleasantly long evening, during which his sons and daughters read, sacg, played duets, or whatever else they saw lit to do, in the large drawing roolu. Their parents usually retired to "the little drawing-room," which was separated from the other only by velvet curtains of moss green. From the first evening Winnie Warre became as a queen among the younger party. And sometimes, when by knowing her hotter they grew more fond of her, Mr. and Mrs. Marriot would ask her to sit with them for a half hour in "the sanctum," as their children culled it. The girl's pareuts were dead, and phe was quite without near relatives, or indeed auy relatives at all. She possessed a guardiau whom she had only seen twice iu her life, aud. who did not interest himself in her nor care to introduce ber to his family. He advised, even after she came of ago, that she should make her home as a "lady boarder" ia the foreigu school where she had beeu educated from quite a little child. Louis Marriot, the only grown-up uumurried sou, fell deeply iu love with this lively, charming friend of his sister Ursula. But neither his father nor his mother liked the idea of such a mur riage. They wanted for Louis the daughter of a thoroughly English home; some one whose family was well known to him. "You have not engaged yourself?" said Mrs. Marriot anxiously when her sou made his little confession of love for pretty Winnie Warre. ' have not said a word; nor hinted to her what I feel for her," exclaimed BRIDES II. The Man who Loved the Soul of Things Went forth serene and glad, And mused upon the mighty world, And people called him mad. An unseen presence walked with him Forever by his side, The wedded mistress of his soul For Wisdom was his bride. She showed him all this mighty frame, And bade him feci but named no name. She stood with him upon tho hills Kinged by the azure sky. And shamed his lowly thought with stars, And bade It climb ar high. And all the birds he could not name, . The nameless stars that roll. The unnamed blossoms at bis feet Talked vtltli him soul to soul; He heard the Nameless Glory ppenk In silence and was very meek. Ham Walter Foss, In the Independent. ft COi i CORBET SEYMOUR. Louis. "I . would not, until I had spoken to you and to my father. But if I may not marry Winnie and I shall never marry without your con sent I shall go through life as a single man." And then he asked them not to op pose nis going away for awhile; at least until tho girl had finished her stay at the Grange. Do not notice his departure, or question him," said Mrs. Marriot to the rest of her family. "Louis is be having manfully and honorably, just as I should expect hiin to do." It was Christmas before he came back again. A long absence this for a home-loving Marriot. And he had ohauged, too; changed into a grave and thoughtful mau. He only referred to Winnie by beg ging his mother to let that be a sealed subject. "But don't allow it to interfere with Ursula's friendship," h4 said. "Wini fred is a very solitary girl. It will be kind of you to ask her now and than to the Graugn, and at such times I will always go away unless you and my father change your minds and tell me you can welcome her as my wife." Several months passed by, during which Ursula exchanged several let ters with her friend. She generally read Winnie's news aloud, for the benefit of the family, at the breakfast table; the impression of every one was that the girl seemed less happy at the French school after that one summer's stay in England. "I know now what a home is like," she wrote once, "and I envy you, Ursula." As August drew near it was evi dent that Louis grew restless. He wanted Winnie to be invited to the Grange even though the invitation would involve his own absence; but his pareuts said they could not spare him. They begged him, for their sakes to remain for the family gath erings usual during the holiday months. By this time Mrs. Marriot would gladly have yielded to Louis' wish; she could not bear to see him so unhappy; but Mr. Marriot was im movable. He would not countenance an unequal marriage. One day early in September a tele graph boy arrived at the Grange. He brought a message from the lady di rectress of the French school to the effect that Miss Warre was dangerously ill and not expected to live. But she had bo earnestly begged that some one from the Grange would go over to her, that it was thought better to communi cate this wish. If complied with, not an hour must be loBt should her friends desire to see her in life. "My poor boy!" said Mrs. Marriot, reading the telegram; and then she handed it to Louis, who turned white to the lips as he glanced toward his father. "I must go," he said. "Certainly. We will go together," said Mr. Marriot, as he turned to a time table which always had its place among his papers, and began studying it. "If one of the girls can pack a port mauteuu in ten minutes," he added, "we shall be able to catch the next boat from Dover." In a quarter of an hour father and son jumped into the dog-cart which waited to take them to the station. Three days later, 'a letter bearing the. French postmark was received at the Grauge. It was from Mr. Mar riot, and only consisted of a few lines. They had found Winifred extremely ill, he said, but so pleased to see them that he felt quite touched. She had asked for some one from the Grange because she had no other friends. Louis was behaving admirably in his calm self-control. A second letter told rather more. It seemed that influenza had made its appearance iu the school, aud Winnie was not only one of the first but one of its worst victims. She had, how ever, got over the attack; but instead of becoming convalescent she grew alarmiugly weak, and the doctor spoke frankly of her danger. Some mental trouble was preying on the girl's vi tality, he decided, aud her state was critical . When she heard that hope for her was very small she seemed rather glad thau otherwise, aud begged that some one from the Grange might be sum moned by telegram. Iu this letter Mr. Marriot said that her life was still trembling in the balance. The mere fact of surviving so long was a slightly hopeful sigu, but he could speak with more confidence in a few days. The next letter told that the corner was turned; Winnie would live unless auy relapse occurred. 1 1" We cannot leave her until her re covery is quite certain," said Louis's father this time. "It seems ouch a comfort to her to know that we are near And in a private enclosure to his wife he added: "The poor child lovet Louis as devotedly as he loves her. She does not dream I surprised her secret. She, like our brave boy, has made a brave fight. But thete is a language of the eyes which is not to be mistaken." The fourth letter made a profound sensation at the Grange. It begged Mrs. Marriot to have everything ready to receive Winnie Warre as soon as she was able to travel it might be a fortnight's time, or at longest, three weeks. "We cannot leave her iu a place ol which she seems weary when the doctor declares that chauge of scene and a little cheerfnl society will do more now than medicine," wrote Mr. Marriot. "Communications have passed between the girl's guardian and my self, and as I have assured him that we shall treat her as one of our own daughters, he willingly consents to her leaving France." "C.-.n your father hove yielded?" said Mrs. Marriot, in a consultation with some of her children. "But no I never on that point of marriage with those we know, those who come of a thoroughly English home; and poor, dear Winnie, in spite of her sweet face and charming ways, belongs to no one, as T may say. Yet this is ex posing Louis to a severe ordeal. I cannot understand it. However, all will be explained when the travelers arrive." "We will soon make her strong at the Grange," cried Ursula, and she at once scribbled off a note to bet friend, begging her to get well enough to travel as soon as possible. But it was the last day of February when that party of three reached England. Louis sprang joyfully out of the hired closed carriage which conveyed them from the station to the Grange. How very glad and bright he looked. How changed from the grave, de pressed man he had been for more than a year. At the sight of him Mrs, Marriot asked herself again if her hus band had yielded; but her knowledge of his character compelled her to de cide no. It was but a very white and'feeble girl, looking like a bundle of shawlB, who was helped into the hall and then from the hall to the drawing-room the "little sanctum" she remembered so well. Nothing but the brown eyes re mained of the once brilliant and lovely Winifred Warre, and yet her face wae sweeter. Mrs. Marriot was an accomplished nurse, and the. invalid was forced to rest on a couch and take some re freshment before she attempted to gc up-Btnirs to the room made ready for her. Then Louis, standing behind ber with a certain air of proprietorship which told everything laid bis hand on her shoulder. "Father has given in!" cried Ursula. 'Yes," said Mr. Marriot, with smile. "Triumph over me as you will; I have been convinced of my error, Ursie. Louis has deserved this happy ending to his love-story, and now all we have to do is to get ready for the wedding." By dint of care and nursing Wini fred got well, but she was a long time about it so long, that there was no marriage festivity until after midsum mer. And then the young couple settled down in the west wing of the roomy old Grange, and Winnio became one of the best loved of the numerous daughters-in-law, even though the neighbors always alluded to her as ot no particular family. Waverley Magazine. Showing Off to Royalty. The late George von Bunsen, the accomplished and delightful son of the Baroness whose "Life and Letters ' are well known in America, ouoe told me an anecdote of the late Princess Mary of Teck and the celebrated Bant- ins. The rrincess became, in her middle life, enormously stout, and finding her weight a burden, tried sev eral methods of reducing it. At last, having heard much of Banting, she sent for him. She was surprised to see that he was still extremely bulky, and after a few civil preparatory re marks, she said: "But your system has not made you very thin, Mr. Bant ing." "Allow me, madam," said Banting and proceeding to unbutton his coat, he disclosed a large wire structure over which the garment fitted. Inside was the real Banting, incased in an other coat. "This, madam," said he, pointing with pardonable satisfaction to his coge, "was my size before I com menced dieting." He then nimbly disembarrassed himself of his frame work, and stood before the royal lady exhibiting his elegant figure! Apparently the iuterview led to nothing but amusement, for the good Duchess of Teck remained very stout to the end of her days. Women' dockets. Ladies fifty years ago, when going on a journey by stage ' coach, car ried their cash iu their uuder pockets. There were no railways opened in Wales then, aud people who had not a close carriage either went in the mail coach or iu a post chuise. Far mers' wives and market women wore these large uuder pockets. I remem ber my Welsh nurse had one wherein, if she took me out cowslip picking, or nutting, or blackberry gutheriug, she carried a bottle of milk uud a lot of biscuits or a parcel of sandwiches, often a clean pinafore as well. Her pocket on those occasions was like a big bag. I was very proud when she stitched up a wee pocket for me to wear under my frock out of some stuff like bedtickiug, similar to that of which she made her owa big pockets. Notes and Queries. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. The Vanity That Destroys Cnpld's Hfg Bills New lint Efferllve Method All the Talk He Wanted Changed Mill try Circles Jnattflnhto Shooting, fete. "There are no birds In last year's nests," Tho poet says, and the cause of that Is because they've all been gathered in To adorn the gorgeous winter bat. Chicago News. New Bnt F.tTectlve Method. "How did her fother Btrike you when you called on him?" "First with his loft and then with an umbrella." Detroit Free PreBS. Cupid's Ills mils. " 'Love laughs at locksmiths,' you know." "That's all right, but you never catch Love laughing nt the florist." Chicago Record. Changed. "Well, Newfadder, are you and your wife living in unity now? "Er not exactly. Trinity, I guess you'd call it it's a ten-pound girl." Cincinnati Tribune. ITor 'Motive. "That Ba8comme woman is Talways making her husband tell her that he loves her, right before folks." "Yes; she knows that it is an awful exasperation to him to say it." India napolis Journal. All the Talk lie Wanted. "Don't you think if Robinson Crusoe had been a married man he would have been a great deal lone lier?" "Oh, I don't know. He had a par rot, you remember." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Military Circles. "So you are going away, Mrs. Rusher?" "Yes; we are going to move to Ken tucky for a few weeks until my hus band gets to b called 'Colonel,' and then we shall go to Washington to live." Chicago Record. Force or Habit. "Did you ever notice the queer, rotary gesture Mr. Chilkoot always makes when his wife rings for the butler?" "Yes; yon see, he used to be a motorman before ho went to Klon dike." Boston Traveler. Progressing. Mrs. Yeast "Didn't you say your boy got more like his father every day?" Mrs. Crimsonbeak "Not exactly I said he was getting more liko hie father every night; he comes in about midnight." Youkers Stntesmau. Absorbing III Father's Experience. "That , hnv o' mine oucrht to be as sharp an' kuowiu' as tby make 'em." "Trained mm to it, nave your "Trained him to it? Whv. for four years that little shaver set at the table on a cold unci; taat cost ins ciau $2000!" Cleveland Leader. Perseverance Always Wins, Smith "After trying for ten long years, I have at last succeeded iu con vincing my wife that I am perfect." Brown "Are you sure of it?" Smith "Of course I am. It was only this'morniug tbat she said I was perfect idiot." Chicago isews. Didn't Want the Whole Family. Her parents (to prospective son-in-law) "Is your financial condition such as will enable you to support a family?" Young Man (timidly) "Why, I er that is, I was er only figuring on mippoitiug Clara." Chicago News. Disobedience. "O-o-o-oh!" groaned the glass-eater, iu pain. "I-I'll never again eat any haud-paiuted Dresden chiuaware. Never agaiu!" "I warned you, said Ins wife, severely. "But it serves you right for eating those fancy dishes against the doctor's orders." lohnnle Put 'em Awav. - Mistress (to servant) "Bella, where are those berries I told you to put away?" Servant "Johuuie came in a while ago, marm, aud he said he'd put 'em away for me. " Mistress "You needn't search any farther for them, Bella." Justifiable Shooting. Mr. Brown "Terrible tragedy at a bargain counter. A woinau who had seoured the lait five yards of cheap silk was shot by another woman who had been waiting from midnight with out having a ebauce to get any." Mrs. Brown "Poor thing! Surely, they won't do auythiug to her, will they, John?" Harlem Life. The Thrifty Explurrr. "Do you know why it is that so many explorers seek the arctic and so few the antarctic regions?" ti ."Well, I thiuk 1 could make a pretty good guess." "Why?" "The arctic regions are not quite so far away from the headquarters of the managers of the lecture bureaus." Chicago Post. A Vegetable Hair F.xU-rmlnutur. The "jutubul plant," which is found on riversides iu tropical America, has curious properties. Horses, if they cat it, lose the huir from their manes uud tails. When fed exclusively 'on com aud grabs they will recover, but the new huir will be totally different iu'color aud texture from the old. Ruminant auitnuls are not thus af fected, and its growth is actually en couraged as a fodder plunt for cuttle, ehetip aud goats. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The most easily digested meats are cold mutton, mutton chops, venison, sirloin, roast beef and chicken. Green vegetables and good fruit contain certain salts and acids which may be called nature's medicine. A boon for vegetariaus is peanut butter, which surpasses the best dairy butter iu purity, aud is found to be especially well adapted for use in gravies and for shortening. An ex tensive demand is expected. Street lamps can be mounted on a new telescopic post to make them easy to reach for trimming and filling, a set-screw engaging the central shaft to hold it in position with pulleys and weights set in the post to counter balance the lamp. The aurora borealis, according to the theory of Herr Gustav Wcndt, may be regarded as an electrical phenomena arising when oxygen and other paramagnetic matter or matter assuming polarity under the influence of the earth's magnetism is continu ously drawn down from the higher re gions of the atmosphere, thus setting up electrio currents. Medical authorities appear to be becoming convinced of the efficacy of alcohol, in the treatment of cancor. It is used in hypodernuo injections, and its strength has been gradually increased from a ten per cent, solution until the pure alcohol is often used. The injections are repeated after five to seven days. The cancer cells are destroyed, the growth giadually be coming smaller, and finally leaving a hard mass that may be ignored or cut out. A floating scientific station was the novel suggestion made to the inter national geological congress by Pro fessor Andrussow. It would oouBist of a ship fitted with apparatus and laboratories for geological aud biologicnl study of the ooeau bottom, and would be kept constantly exploring the dif ferent parts of the world, the expense to be met by international contribu tions. The scheme was warmly np. proved by Dr. John Murray aud other sciontiflo leaders. During the Zulu war Dr. George Stoker observed that wounded natives quickly recovered in mountainside places to which they were carried. This lod him, on his return to Eng land, to experiment with oxygen ns a dressing tor wounds, the result being the establishment of a homo where the oxygon treatment is carried out. The application is made by enclosing the injured limb in a suitable case, which is kept charged that tho gas. The dressing irritates less than others, is stimulating and oxidizes bacteria) poisons. Halds by Wild Horses. In the Arizona papers of late there have been frequent complaints of serious injury, both to crops aud to pastures, caused by the raids of wild horses. Something like 20,000 of these creatures, it is estimated, are now roamiug the plains of that terri tory, and they have become serious nuisances. There is some cause for surprise in the fact that at this late day, even iu Arizona, an animal alien to the country cau resume the habits of his almoNt untueusurably remote ancestors, and can multiply rapidly without core or protection of auy kind. The horse in domestication is'a rather delicate creature, subject to many ills, aud often hard to keep iu health, though watched with close attention and allowed to want for nothing whatever. When forced to rely on his own resources however, he shows a marked capacity for re suming the wild state aud for guard ing himself against enemies of all sorts. Ever since the days of the Spanish explorers the horse at every opportunity has demonstrated his lik ing for freedom and his adaptability for meeting without aid the condi tions of life iu the West and South. Large herds were often seen years ago, but that they should still find room iu the United States is really notable, as proving that tho .country is not nearly so well settled as the opponents of immigration would have us believe. New York Times. lse For Hot Water. A strip of flannel . or a soft napkin, folded lengthwise and dipped in hot water and wrung out, and then applied around the neck of a child thut bus th croup, will usually bring relief iu a few miuutes. A proper towel folded several times and dipped iu hot water, quickly wrung and applied over the site of toothache or neuralgia, will generally afford prompt relief. This treatment for colio has beer found to work like magic. Nothing so promptly cuts short congestion of the lungs, sore throat, or rheumatism us hot water, when ap plied early in the case aud thoroughly. Hot water taken freely liulf an hout before bedtime is an excellent cathartio in the case of constipation, while it bus a soothing effect upou the stomach aud bowels. The treatment, continued a few mouths, with the addition of a cup ol hot water slowly sipped half an hour before ench meal, with proper atten tion to diet, will cure most cases of dyspepsia. Ordinary headaches almost always yield to the simultaneous application of hot water to the feet uud buck of the ueck. Phrenological Joinnul. 1.1 Hung Chaug's Woman Physician. Li Hung Chung has appointed as first physician iu his private house hold a Chinese wouiuu, Miss Hit King Eug, M. D., who was graduated from an American medicul college. Previous to this appointment she was an attend ing physiciun at the Women's Hospi tul iu her uutive city of Foo t'how.uud ulso a practising missionary physician, for early in life she adopted the Chris tian religion. MIDWINTER. The wind has fled, Tho cold, gray light lies heavy down th plmr, Silent the pines, scaroe nodding, plume on plume. Like sorrowing emblems o'er a warrloi dead. Darken the hills. Intensifying tho gloom, Cast somber shadows dowu on laka and ten. "with startling tread The hare leaps through the hemlock droop, lug low, Halts for a glance, and with large, guile less eyes Of dreamless Ignorance, o'ercast with dread, 1)1 In In at the light, and then with move ment slow Limps noiselessly away where twilight dies. John freston True, HUMOR OF THE DAY. "There is only one thing I ever do for policy's sake." "What's that?" "Pay my premium." Truth. "A fine dog, that, of yours. What's his name?" "Has none, nor needs one; he doesn't obey anyway." Flicgendo Blatter. 'Shameful about those two Ken tucky girls quarreling over that battle ship." "Yes, they act as if it was a man." Chicago Record. Walker "Did you say your wife's a member of a secret society?" Talker "It was secret before she joined." Norristown Herald. "Wo have cornbread all the time now." "Why?" "My husband lost so much on wheat that it makes him weep to see a biscuit." Chicago Record. Friend "Then it is not a play of the present day, is it?" Playwright "Oh, no! Tho soene is laid in Har lem at tho beginning of the raid transit movement." Puck. Revised: He had been busy adapting things. "I care not," He said at last, "who writes the songs of a country so long as I draw the royal ties." Chicago Evening Post. Employment Agent "See here! How is this? You stayed two weeks In your last place. How did that happen?" Domestic "Sure, Oi dun ho, Oi musht av overshlept me solf." New York Weekly. Dulby (would-be novelist) "I've just finished a new novel. If you have a moment to spare I'll show you the proofs." Wilby "Oh, never miud about the proofs. I'll take your word for it." Chicago Record. "Speaking of the vogue of the wheol," remarked the obBorvor of men and things, "a good healthy constitu tion aud the canned beef industry doubtless go far to keep the horso from being eaten up by envy." De troit Jourual. "Of course," observed Xerxes, the King, "my will is law." "Doubtless," auswered the wise mau of tho court, after consulting a few authorities. "That is to say, if your Majesty doesn't leave too large an estate" Chicago Record. "No," Biiid Nero, while Rome was burning, as he turned indignantly to one of his advisers, "this is amuse ment enough. I shall not sanction any six-days' bicycle race. Iam notal togct,her a monster." And he fiddled away. Chicago Tribune. First Klondike Miner "I hear that our neighbor, Spndk,ius, has married rich!" Second Kloukike Miper (enviously) ''Yes; they say his bride has an independent fortune of fifty cans of boneless ham and twenty-five cans of condensed milk." Puck. Art "I have heard," said the young woman who iu improving her mind, "that sometimes it requires a greut deal of art to succeed iu not do ing things." "It does," replied Sen ator Sorghum; "unquestionably; especially if you are being paid for then." Washington Star. "The parcel postmuu has just called at the Twickeuhams', next door, and left afootbull, a bicycle, two cricket bats, a package of sweaters, a pair of spoon oars, and a bundle of golf sticks." "Then their daughter must be home from college aud her educa tion finished." London Figaro. Young Hicks "You needn't laugh at my moustache, Maud; your mother said it was becoming, didn't yon, madume?" Mrs. Bailey "Ob, no, Harry! You mistiuderstood me. I said it was coming." Hicks "Now Mrs. Bailey, don't cut a moustache when it is iu down." Boston Tran script. Pollution I'pstreaiu. A farmer of Connecticut has just recovered damages from the town of New Brighton, iu tbat State, because the sewage of that town so polluted a stream flowing through his farm that his cows would not drink the water. He was dumuged, of course, aud ought to recover. So is every one living on or near a stream and depending ou it for a water supply damaged by the pollution of the stream higher up in its course. When it is made more costly to turn sewage into a stream of runuing water tbau to treat it and render it harmless ou the lamb, living streams will cease to be polluted, their present double function of sewer and water supply will bo abaudoued aud the origiuitl purity of streams will be jealously guarded. Philadelphia PreBs. Poultry ttrliouU In Frauce. England imports eggs aud poultry to the value of 8 'JU, 000,000, while Frauce exports Jf70.000.000 worth ol the same. France has a number ol poultry schools. here pupils are regularly (ruined iu reining fowls, muuugin'g'iucubutors, curingdiseases, etc., 30,000 chickeus being hutched euch season at the Guiubais School. The pupils pay for their instruction and work from tl a. in. to 8 p. m., three of the hours being devoted to study. Scholarships are fonuded for the benefit of thoBe unablo to afford the tuition fee. A
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