RATES OF AOVERTISINOl On Pqiinrw, on. Inch, on. Insertion. . I 100 On. ftpi-ire, on Inch, one month. ., ioo On. Square, on. inch, thw minths. . . On. Square on. Inch, on. year,.,,. 10 01 Two Squirm, one yetr l"' Quarter Column, on. year ' ' Half Column, one year,,. ..... VI 00 One Column, one year ,. I"" 1-ecal advertisement, ten cent par lin. each InMrtion. Marriages and deith notice, (rati.. All bill, for yearly adverti-wmenti collected quarterly Temporary advertisements roual t paid in advanoa. Job work aah on deliver.. PUBLICAN Tetroi, 91,00 Pr Ver. Ko subscriptions received lor shorter period than thme months. Correspondom-e solicited from all parts of lh country. No notio. will b taken of anonymous communications. VOL. XXX. NO. 42. TIONESTA. PA.. WEDNESDAY. FEU. 2, 1898. S1.00 PER ANNUM, liie Forest Republican U published every Wednesday, by t , J. E. WENK. . OfBoo la Smenrbangh & Ca'i Building ELM BTREET, TI0NE8TA, Tk. .b OREST 1E K r I-' . -I- 4- The study of domestio science by young women in Germany includes the stirfly of the vegetable garden and how to cultivate it. ' While Captain William II. 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 critio, says the English stage is the worst, because the English are the least nrtiotio people in the world, and "more completely without the saving graco of humor than any other cation." i Gullible farmers, of Allen County, Ohio, have been buncoed by a swind ler who went throngh the country ex hibiting an enormous ear of oorn, from which be sold choice kernels at choice prices for seed.' The ear 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 Southern cotton, industry as well as to anything else. If tly acreage is too great and the production consequently greater than the mills require, low prices are inevitable. Planters will do better if they restrict their cotton acreage and substitute other crops on the rest of thejland." That there is an honesty rng su-' . perior to business avarice even in -this sordid age appearB from the experi ence of a Topeka sporting man. He .'wrote tc a cigarette company that he bad saved the pictures in 1200 pack ages of cigarettes 'which he had smoked, and asked what prize tV ' company would offer for them. He reoeived an answer saying that the "' company would give him a coffin if he would smoke as many more. i A writer in the New York Sun gives what he believes to be the true theory "of- tlp origin of Welsh rabbits. He says: VMy" notion is that melted cheese, 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" nsed in this connection has been evolved gradually from "rare-bit." ; t A subject that would stand more discussion than it gets is free delivery by the Postoffloe Department in rural districts, observes Uarper'a 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 distriots it would pay very well. The $10,000,000 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 lauds of the Government aggregate at the present tinie the enormous amount of 591,848, 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 ou ac count of the vast area of territory oov ered by the Government's nnoooupied domain, it will probably be many years . before this area is exhausted. As th sterile and uninviting character of . some of the laud renders it unfit for nse or habitation, it is snore than likely that purchasers will not be found to relieve the Government ol this part of its domain. Still the pro gress which scientific research is mak ing at the present time gives hope that even the most forbidding places mat yet be reclaimed to fertility and culti vation. What is known as the reserved territory of the Government embracei 132,411,771 acres, and is not subject to purchase. It is reserved for ' mili tary and naval purposes, reservoir sites, timber lauds aud other needs which may arise hereafter in the exigencies of the Gnvarninaut. TWO The Man who Loved the Names of Things Went forth beneath the skies, And named all things that he beheld, And people called blm wise. An unseen presence walked with him rot-ever by nls sine. The wedded mistress of his soul For Knowledce was his bride: Kbe named the flowers, the weeds, the trees, And all the growths ol all the seas. Bhe told blm all the rocks by name. Toe wlmls and whence they blew: Bhe told him how the seas were formed, And bow the mountains grew; Bhe numbered all the stars (or him; And all the rounded skies Were mapped and chartered for the gaze Of his devouring eyes. Thus, taught by her, he taught the crowd; They praised and be was very proud. OF NO PARTICULAR FAMILY. a By KIR 9. M. CORBET 633 . 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 acoompanied by their husbands and c dldren, 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 bad 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 tne 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 scarlet fever; one of the unmarried sons had gone to sea. So when Ursula Marriot, who had been at sohool in France by way of finishing her education, wrote for per mission to bring 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 ao- oordingly written by Mrs. Marriot to Miss Winifred Warre, and enclosed in that which told Ursula that her sohool oomrade would be made very welcome at the Urange. "I am sure you will all be charmed with Winnie," the girl had written She was right; the Marriots wire all aeugnteu witu tuoir guest as soon as she stopped inside the grand old en trance hall. She was a tall, lovely creature, older certainly by a year or two than Ursula, wno was just seventeen. lie was dressed in sober brown, with a pink knot of ribbon at the throat; and the rose tint was in her cheek, and the browu eyes matched by the coils of her abundant 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 eveuing with the Mar riots. "Miss Winnie" with the ad miring servants, who waited on her assiduously. After a quarter of an honr passed over a merry afternoon tea, the guest was taken to the pretty room prepared for her, and tbe general verdict gjveu in her absence was not only favorable, but flattering. i Dinner time at the Grange was al ways six o'clock, summer and winter; an unfashionably early hour, but Mr. Marriot liked it. He said it left a pleasantly long evening, during which his sons aud daughters read, sang, played duets, or whatever else they saw tit to do, in the large drawing room. 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 queeu among the younger party. And sometimes, when by knowing her better they grew more fond of her, Mr. and Mrs. Marriot would ask her to sit with them for a hulf hour in "the sanctum," as their children called it. The girl's parents were dead, aud she was quite without near relatives, or indeed any relatives at all. She possessed a guardian whom she had only seen twice in her life, and. who did not interest himself in her nor care to introduce her to his family, lie advised, even after she came of go, that sue should make tier home as a "lady boarder" in the foreign school where she had been educated from quite a little child. Louis Marriot, the only grown-up unmarried son. 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 mar riage. They wanted for Louis the daughter of a thoroughly English home: some one whose family was well known to him. "Yon have not engaged yourself?" said Mrs. Marriot anxiously, when her sou made his little confession of love for pretty Winnie Warre. ' have not taid a word; nor hinted to her what I feel for her," exclaimed GRIDES n. The Man who Loved the Soul of Things Went forth serene and glad, And mused upon the mighty world. And people called him mad. Ad unseen presence walked with blm Forever by his side, The wedded mistress of his soul For Wisdom was his bride. Bhe showed him all this mighty frame. And bade him feel but named no name. Bhe stood with btm upon the hills Ringed by the ar.ure sky. And shamed his lowly thought with stars, And bade it climb at high. And all the birds he could not name, . The nameless stars that roll. Tbe unnamed blossoms at bis feet Talked iltu him soul to soul; He heard the Nameless Glory spealc in silence and was verv meek. Sam Walter Foss, in the Independent. BEYMOURi Louis. "I. would not, uutil I had spoken to you and to my father. Bui if I may not marry Winnie and shall never marry without your con sent I shall go through life as a single man." And then he ask6d them not to op pose his 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 him to do." It was Christmas before he came back again. A long absence this for home-loving Marriot. And he had ohanged, too; changed into a grave and thoughtful man. 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 Grange, 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 parents said they could not spare him. They begged him, for their sakes to remain for the family gath Brings 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 lm movable. He would not oountenance an unequal marriage. One day early in September a tele- graph boy arrived at the Grange. He brought a message from the lady di reotress of the French school to the effect that Miss Warre was dangerously ill and not exp'eoted to live. But she bad so 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 lost 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 manteau iu ten minutes," he added, "we shall be able to catch the next boat from Dover." In a quarter of au 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 Grange. It was from Mr. Mar riot, and only consisted of a few lines. They had found Winifred extremely ill, he said, bnt 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, and 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 becomiug convalescent she grew alarmingly weak, and the doctor spoke frankly of her danger. Some mental trouble was preyiug on the girl's vi tality, he decided, and 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. In this letter Mr. Marriot said that her life was still trembling in the balance. The mere fact of surviving so loug was a slightly hopeful sigu, but he could speak with more confidence iu a few days. The next letter told that the corner was turned; Wiuuie would live unless any relapse occurred. I l"We cannot leave her until her re covery is quite certain, said Iouis s father this time. "It seems ouch a comfort to her to know that we are uear. And in a private enclosure to his wife he added: "The poor child loves Louis as devotedly as he love her. She does not dream I surprised her secret. She, like our brave boy, has made a brave fight. But there is language of the eyes which is not to be mistaken." The fourth letter made a profound sensation at tbe 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 in place cl which she seems weary when the doctor declares that change of scene and a little cheerful 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." "Cin your father have 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 Euglish home; and poor, dear Winnie, in spite of her sweet face and charming ways, belongs to no oue, 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 shawls, 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 was sweeter. Mrs. Marriot was an accomplished nurse, aud the. invalid was forced to rest on a couch and take some re freshment before she attempted to gc up-stairs to the room made ready for her. Then Louis, standing behind her with a certain air of proprietorship which told everything laid his hand on her shoulder. "Father has given in!" cried Ursula. "Yes," said Mr. Marriot, with a 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, suit Winnio became one of the best loved of the numerous daughters-in-law, even though tbe neighbors always alluded to her as ol no particular family. Waverley Magazine. Showing OH to Royalty. The late George von Bunsen, the accomplished and delightful son of the Baroness whose "Life and Letters " are well known in America, onoe told me an anecdote of the late Prinoess Mary of Teck and the celebrated Bant ing. The Princess became, in her. middle life, enormously stout, and finding her weight a burden, tried sev eral methods of reduoing it. At last, having heard much of Banting, she sent for him. She was surprised to see that he was still extremoly bulky, and after few civil preparatory re marks, she said: "But your system has not made you very thin, Mr. Bant ing." "Allow me, madam," said Banting aud proceeding to unbutton his coat, he disclosed a large wire structure over which the garmeut fitted. Inside was the real Banting, incased in an other coat. "This, madam," said he, pointing with pardonable satisfaction to his cage, "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 I Apparently the iuterview led to nothing but amusement, for the good Duchess of Teck remained very stout to the end of her days. Women's Pockets. Ladies fifty years ago, when going on a journey by stage ' coach, car ried their cash in their uuder pockets. There were no railways opened iu Wales then, aud people who had not a close carriage either went in the mail coach or iu a post chaise. Far mers' wives and market womeu 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 gatheriug, she carried a bottle of milk aud a lot of biscuits or a parcel of saudwiches, ofteu 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 w hich she made her owa big pockets. Notes aud Uueries. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. The Vanity That Pfitroji-Cnpld'e tlg Bill. New tint Effective MthOttAU the Talk H. Wanted Changed Mili tary circle. Justifiable Shooting, fcfco. "There are no birds In Inst year's nests," The poet says, and the oause of that Is because they've all boeu gathered in To adorn the gorgeous winter bat. Chicago News. New Bnt Kffectlve Method. "now did her father strike you when you called on him?" "First with his left and then with en umbrella." Detroit Free Press. rapid', lllg Kill.. " 'Love laughs at locksmiths,' you know." "That's all right, but you never catch Love laughing at the florist." Chicago Record. Changed. "Well. Newfadder. are you and your wife living in unity now?" "Er not exactly. Trinity, I guess you'd oall it it's a ten-pound gill." Cincinnati Tribune. Her Motive. "That Basooinme woman is "always making her husbnnd 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 dou'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 be-called 'Colonel,' and then we shall go to Washington to live." Chicago Record. Force of 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 he went to Klon dike." Boston Traveler. Progressing. Mrs. Yeast "Didn't you say your boy got more like his fathor every day?" Mrs. Crimsonbeak "Not exactly I said he was getting more like his father every night; he comes iu about midnight." Yonkers Statesmau. Absorbing His Father's Experience. "That boy o' mine ought to be as sharp an knowiu as tuey make em. "Trained him to it, have you?" "Trained him to it? Why, for four years that little shaver set at the table on a gold brick that cost his dad 82000!" Cleveland Leader. Perseverance Always Wlus. Smith "After trying for ten long years, I have at last succeeded iu con vinoingmy wife that I am perfeot." 'Brown "Are you sure of it?" Smith "Of course I am. It was only this 'morning that she said I was t perfect idiot." Chicago News. Didn't Want the Whole Family . Her parents (to prospective son-iu-lawl "Is your financial eondition such as will enable you to support a family?" Young Man (timidly) "Why, I er thot is, I was er only figuring on enppoiting Clara." Chicago News. llobedl.nue. "O-o-o-oh!" groaned the glass-eater, iu pain. "I-I'U never again eat any hand-painted Dresden ohiuaware. Never again!" "I warned you," said his wife, severely. "But it serves you right for eating those fauoy dishes aguiust the doctor's orders." Johnnie Put en Away. - Mistress (to servant) "Bella, where are those berries I told you to put away?" Servant "Johnnie came in a while ago, inarm, and 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 womau who had seoured the last five yards of cheap silk was shot by another womau who had been waitiug from midnight with out having a chance to get any." Mrs. Browu "Poor thiug! Hurelv, they won't do auythiug to her, will they, John?" Harlem Life. The Thrifty Kxplurcr. "Do you know why it is that so many explorers seek the arctic and so few the autarctio regions?" 'Well, I think I 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 Kateriiiluutor. The "jumbal plant," which is fuuud on riversides iu tropical America, has curious properties. Horses, if they eat it, lose the huir from their manes aud tails. When fed exclusively "on corn and grass they will recover, but the new huir will be totolly different iu'color aud texture from the old. Rumiuaut animals are not thus af fected, and its growth is actually en couraged as a fodder pluut for cuttle, abeep and goats. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The most easily digested meats are cold mutton, mutton chops, venison, sirloin, roast beef and chicken. Oreeu vegetables aud good fruit contain certain silt and acids which may be called nature's medicine. A boon for vegetariaus is peanut butter, which surpasses the best dairy butter in purity, and is found to be especially well adapted for use iu gravies and for shortening. An ex tensive do in and is expected. Street lamps can be mounted on a newtelescopio post to make them easy to reach for trimmiug 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 Gnstav Weudt, may be regarded ns 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 electric currents. Medical authorities appear to be becoming convinced of the efficacy of alcohol, in the treatment of cancer. It is nsed in hypodermio injections, and its strength has been gradually increased from a ten per cent, solution until the pure alcohol is ofteu used. The injections are repeated after five to seven days. The cancer cells are destroyed, the growth giadually be coming smaller, and Dually leaving a hard mass that may be ignored or cut out. A floating soientiflo station was tho novel suggestion made to the inter national geological congress by Pro fessor Andrussow. It would consist of a ship fitted with apparatus and laboratories for geological aud biological study of the ooenn bottom, and would be kept constantly exploring the dif ferent parts of the world, the expense to be met by international contribu tions. Tbe scheme was warmly ap proved by Dr. John Murray aud other soientiflo leaders. During the Zulu war Dr. George Stoker observed that wounded natives quickly recovered in mountainside places to which they were carried. This led him, on his return to Eng land, to experiment with oxygen as a dressing for wounds, the result being tbe establishment of a home where the oxygen treatment is carried out. The application is made by enclosing the injured limb in a suitable case, which is kept charged that the gas. The dressiug irritates less than others, is stimulating and oxidizes bacterial poisons. Halds by Wild Horse.. In the Arizona papers of lute there have been frequent complaints of serious injury, both to crops and to pastures, caused by the raids of wild horses. Something like 20,000 of these creatures, it is estimated, are uow roaming tho plaius of that terri tory, and they have become serious nuisauoes. There is some cause for surprise in the fact that at this late day, even iu Arizona, an animal alien to the country can resume the habits of his almost immeasurably remote ancestors, and can multiply rapidly without care or protection of auy kind. The horse in domestication is a rather delioate creature, subject to many ills, aud often hard to keep in health, though watched with close attention and allowed to waut for nothing whatttS&. When forced to rely on his own resources however, he shows a marked capacity for re suming the wild state and for guard ing himself aguiust 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 ofteu seen years ago, but that they should still find room iu the United States is really notable, as proving that the .country is not nearly so well settled as the opponents of immigration would have us believe. New York Times. le For Hot Water. A strip of flannel. or a soft napkin, folded lengthwise and dipped iu hot water and wruug out, and then applied arouud the neck of a child that husths croup, will usually briug relief in a few miuutes. A proper towel folded several times aud dipped iu hot water, quickly wruug aud applied over the site of toothache or neuralgia, will generally afford prompt relief. This treatment for colic has beer found to work like magic. Nothing eo promptly outs short t congestion of the lungs, sore throat, or rheumatism as hot water, when ap plied early in the case aud thoroughly. Hot water tukeu freely half an bout before bedtime isau exoellent cathartic iu the case of constipation, while it has a soothiug effect upon 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 each 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 and back of the neck, Phreuologicul Journal. l.i Hung Chang. Woman Phy.iciau. Li Huug Chaug has appointed as first physioiuu iu his private house hold a Chinese woman, Miss Hu King Eug, M. D., who was graduated from au American medicul college. Previous to this appointment she was au attend ing physician at the Women's Hospi tal iu her native city of Foo (.'how, aud also a pructisiug missionary physiciuu, for early iu life she adopted the Chris tiau religion. MIDWINTER. The wind has fled. The cold, gray light lies heavy down the glen; Bllent the pines, searoe nodding, plume on plume. Like sorrowing emblems o'er a warrior dead. Darken the hills. Intensifying the gloom, I'ast sombef shadows down on lake and fen, ' W iTbst art 1 1 n g t read The hare leaps through the hemlock droop, tug low, Halts for a glance, and with large, guile, less eyes Of dreamless Igooranoe o'ercast with dread, Ullnks at the light, and then with move ment slow Limps noiselessly away where twilight dies. John Troston Trie. HUMOR OF THE DAY. "There is only oue thing I ever do for policy's sake." "What's that?" "Pay my premium." Truth. "A flue dog, that, of yours. What's his name?" "Has none, nor needs one; he doesn't obey anyway." Fllegendo Blatter. "Shameful about those two Ken tucky girls quarreliug over that battle ship." "Yes, they act as if it was a man." Chioago Rcoord. Walker "Did you say your wife's a member of a secret sooiety?" Talker "It was secret before she joined." Norristown Herald. "We have cornbread all the time now." "Why?" "My husbaud lost so much on wheat that it makes him weep to see a biscuit." Chioago Record. Friend "Then it is not play of the present day, is it?"' Playwright "Oh, no I The soene is laid in Har lem at the beginning of the rapid transit movoineut." Puck. Revised: He had -been busy adapting things. "I care not," Be said at last, "who writes the Bongs 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 dunlio. Oi musht av overshlept ine- Bolf." 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 mind about the proofs. I'll take your word for it." Chicago Record. "Speaking of the vogue of the wheel," remarked the observer of men and things, "a good healthy constitu tion aud the cauned beef industry doubtless go far to keep the horse from being eaten up by envy." De troit Journal. "Of course," observed Xerxes, the King, "my will is law." "Doubtless," auswered the wise man of the court, after consulting a few authorities. "That is to say, if your Majesty doesn't leave too large an estate." Chicago Record. "No," said 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. I am not al together a monster." And be fiddled away. Chioago Tribune. First Klondike Miner "I hear that our neighbor, Spndltins, has married rich!" Soooud Klonkike Miper (enviously) "Yes; they say his bride has an independent fortune of fifty caus of boneless ham aud twenty-five cans of condensed mlk." Puck. Art "I have heard," said the young woman who is improviug her mind, "that sometimes it requires a great deal of art to succeed iu not do ing things." "It does," replied Sen ator Sorghum; "unquestionably; especially if you are being paid for them." Washington Star. "The parcel postman has just called at the Twickenham', next door, and left a'football, a bicycle, two cricket bats, a package of sweaters, a pair of spoon ears, and a bunTlle 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 becomiug, didn't you, madame?" Mrs. Bailey "Ob, no, Harry! You misunderstood me. I said it was coming." Hicks "Now Mrs. Bailey, dou't cut a moustache wheu it is in down." Boston Tran script. Pollullun I'p.treatu. A farmer of Connecticut has just recovered damages from the towu of New Brighton, iu that State, beoause the sewage of thut towu so polluted a stream flowing through his farm that his cows would not drink the water. He was damaged, of course, aud ought to recover. So is every one living ou or near a stream aud depending on it for water supply damaged by the pollution of the stream higher up iu its course. When it is made more costly to turn sewage iuto a stream of runuing water thau to treat it and render it harmless ou the land, living streams will cease to be polluted, their present double function of sewer aud water supply will bo abandoned and the original purity of streams will be jealously guarded. Philadelphia Press. Poultry School in France. England imports eggs aud poultry to the value of 8.000,000, while France exports 870,000,000 worth ol the Bame. Franco has a . number of poultry schools, where pupils are regularly trained iu rearing fowls, muuagiiig'iucubators, curingjdiseases, etc., 30,000 chickens beiug hatched each season at the Gambais School. The pupils pay for their instruction and work from 6 a. m. to 8 p. m., three of the hours beiug devoted to study. Scholarships are founded for the benefit of those unable to afford the tuition fee. A ... -a
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