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S1.00 PER ANNUM. -Re lb OREST The study of domestic sotenoe by young women in Germany includes tha stuy of the vegetable garden and how to cultivate it. ' While Captain William H. Bates was Commissioner of Navigation he said that "an average of $130,000,000 annually, for thirty years, has beea paid by n to foreign ships for ocean transportation." Clement Scott, a famoni London dramatic critic, says the English stage is the worst, because the English are the least artistic people in the world, and "more completely without the saving graoo of humor than any other nation." . Gullible farmers, of Allen County, Ohio, have been buncoed by a swind ler who went through the conn try 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 out 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 CI 1 1. i 1 ,3 - i. 11 A anything else. If Uy aoreage is too great and the prodnotion consequently greater than the mills require, low prices are inevitable. Planters will do better if they restriot their cotton acreage and substitute other crops on the rest of the land." That there is an honesty ring su perior to business avarice even in "this sordid age appears from the experi ence of a Topeka sporting man. He .'wrote to a cigarette company that he had saved the pictures in 1200 pack ages of cigarettes which he had smoked, and asked what prize the company would offer for them. He reoeived an answer saying tnat the " company would give him a coffin if he would smoke as many more. A writer in the New York Sun gives whathe believes to be the trae theory 'of- t origin of Welsh rabbits. He says: ''My' notion is that melted cheese, properly seasoned and poured on toast, is called 'Welsh rabbit,' be cause in Wales, where the people have chlese 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, yon 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." ' A subject that would stand more disoussion than it gets is free delivery by the Postoffioe Department in rural distriots, 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 eoonomios in it resulting from the diminution of fourth-class post offioes, and come 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 tho 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 offioe for the past year contains some inter eating 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 Mexioo, 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 ao 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 character of . some of the land renders it unfit for nso 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 scientific research is xuak ing at the present time gives hope that even the most forbidding places may 'yet be reclaimed to fertility and culti vation. What is known as the reserved territory of the Government embracel 182,441,774 acres, and is not subjeol to purchase. It is reserved for mili tary and naval purposes, reservoir sites, timber lauds and other needs which may arise hereafter in the exigencies of the Go variiuieut. TWO BRIDES I. The Man who Loved the Names of Things Went forth beneath the skies. And named all things that he beheld, And people called hlru wise. An unseen presence walked with hlin Forever hy hi. aloe, Tbe wedded mistress of Ills soul For Knowledge wag his bride; Rha named the flowers, the weeds, the trees, And all tbe growths of all the seas. Bhe told him all the rooks by name, The winds and whence they blew; She told him how the seas were formed, And how the mountains grew; Bhe numbered all the stars for him; And all tho roumled skies Were mapped and chartered for the ga?.e Of his devouring eyes. Thus, taught by her, he taught the crowd; They praised and ha was very proud. OF NO PARTICULAR FAMILY. HI By MRS. M. CORBET SEYMOUR. p 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 aooompanied by their husbands and c dldren, every room was filled. At suoh 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 had 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 bought dishonor on tne name. One August the annnat gathering was not to be so numerous, as usual. Tbe 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 school in Franoe 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 ac cordingly 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 Grange. "I am sure vou will all be charmed with Winuie," 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. Bhe was a tall, lovely creature, older certainly by a year or two than Ursula xv no was just seventeen. Hue 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 abundant Lair. 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 bucu a girl as this. She was "Wiunie even that first evening with the Mar 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 gjveu in ner absence was not only favorable, but nattering. Dinner time at the Grange was al ways six o'clock, summer and winter; an unfaHbiouably early hour, but Mr. Marriot liked it. lie said it left pleasantly long evening, dnring which his sons and daughters read, Bang, played duets, or whatever else they saw fit to do, in the large drawing room. Their parents usually retired to "the little urawiug-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 better 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 called it. The girl's parents were dead, and she was quite without near relatives, Or indeed auy relatives at all. She possessed a guardian whom she had only seen twice iu her life, and. who did not interest himself in her nor care to introduce her to his family He advised, even after she came of age, that she should make her home as a "lady boarder" in the foreign school where Bhe had been educated from quite a little child. Louis Marriot, tbe only grown-up unmarried son, fell deeply in love with this lively, charming friend of his sister Ursula. But neither his father nor hi mother liked the idea of such a mar riage. They wauted for Louis the daughter of a thoroughly English home; some one whose family was well known to him. "Vou have not engaged yourself?' ttaid Mrs, Marriot anxiously, when her son made his little confession of love for pretty Wiunie Warre. have not said a word; nor hinted to her what I feel for her," exclaimed II. The Man who Loved tbe 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. Rhe showed him all this mighty frame. And bade him feci but named no name. Bhe stood with him upon the hills Bluged by the ar.ure sky, And shamed his lowly thought with stars, And bade it ollmb ar high. And all the birds he could not name, . Tbe nameless stars that roll. The unnamed blossoms at bis feet Talked vlth him soul to soul; He heard the Nameless Glory speak In silence and was very meek. Sam Walter Foss, In the Independent. C)O(0 Louis. "I. would not, until I had poken 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 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 a 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. "Bat don t allow it to interfere with Ursula's friendship," he 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, Ursnla." 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 sakea to remain for the family gath erings nsual dui-ing 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, lie would not countenance an unequal marriage. One day early in beptember 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 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 iu 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 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 reoeived at the Grange. 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, bhe bad asked for some one from the Grange because she had no other friends Louis was behaving admirably in bis calm self-control. A second letter told rather more. It seemed that influenza had made its appearance in the school, and Winnie was not only one of the tiret but one of its worst victims. She had, how over, got over the attack; but instead of becoming convalescent she grew alarmingly weak, and the doctor spoke frankly of her danger. Some mental trouble was preyiug on the girl's vi talitv. he decided, aud her state was critical . When she heard that hope for her was very small she seemed rather glad than otherwise, and 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 ooutldouee iu a few days. The next letter told that the corner was turned; Winnie would live unless any relapse occurred. 1 1" We cannot leave her until her re covery is quite certain," said Louis's father this time. "It seems such a comfort to her to know that we are uear. And iu a private enclosure to his wife he added: "The poor child loves 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 there 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 Boon as she was able to travel it might be a fortnight's time, or at longest, three weeks. "We cannot leave her in a place o! 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." "Csn 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 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. 1 cannot understand it. However, all will be e-plained when the travelers arrive." "We will soon make her strong at the Grange," cried Ursula, and she at once scribbled off a note to bei 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 lovel j Winifred Warre, and yet her face wae sweeter. Mrs. Marriot was an accomplished nurse, and the. invalid was forced to rest on a couoh and take some re freshment before she attempted to gc up-stairs to tbe room made ready foi 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, and Winnio became one of the best loved of the numerous daughters-in-law, even though the neighbors always alluded to her as of "no particular family." Waverley Magazine. Showing; OS to Royalty. The late George von Bunsen, the accomplished and delightful son of tbe Baroness whose "Life and Letters" are well known in America, onoe told me an anecdote of the late Princess Mary of Teck and tbe 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 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 cage, "was my size before I com menced dietiug." He then nimbly disembarrassed himself of his frame work, and stood before the royal lady exhibiting his elegant figure! Apparently the interview 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 under 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 niers 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 gathering, she carried a bottle of milk and 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 bedtiokiug, similar to that of which she made her ova big pockets. Notes and Uueries. T1TE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Th. Vanity That Ietroy Cnpld'. IMg Bill. New Hut Effective MethddvAll th. Talk H. Wanted ChanalMHi ry Circle. Jn.tlAnble Shooting-. "There are no birds In last year's nests," The poet savs, and the cause of that Is beoauso they've all been gathered in To adorn the gorgeous winter hat. Chicago News, New But EflectlT. Method. "How did her father strike when you called on him?" you "First with his left and then with an umbrella." Detroit Free Press. Cnpld'a Dig Bill.. " 'Love laughs at locksmiths,' you know." "That's all right, but you never catch Love laughing at the florist." Chicago Becord. 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. ITer ;MotlTe. "That Bascomme woman is "always 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 th. 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." Cleyeland Plain Dealer. Military Circles. "So you are going away, Mrs. Busher?" "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. Fore, of Habit. "Did you ever notioe ' the queer, rotary gesture Mr. Chilkoot always makes when his wife rings for the butler?" "Yes; yon see, he used to be a motor man before he went to Klon dike." Boston Traveler. Progressing. Mrs. Yeast "Didn't you say your boy got more like his fatuor every day?" Mrs. Crimsonbeak "Not exactly I Baid he was getting more like his father every night; he oomes in about midnight." xoukers Statesman. Absorbing HI. Father's Experience "That boy o mine ought to be as sharp an' knowin' as tb.y 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 cold briok t'aot cost his dad $2000!" Cleveland Leader. Perseverance Always Wins. Smith "After trying for ten long years, I have at last succoeded in con vincing my wife that I am perfeot. 'Brown "Are you snre of it?" Smith "Of course I am. It was only this'morning that she said I was perfect idiot." Uhieago ews. Didn't Want th. 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 "wny, i er that is, I was er only figuring on BUppoiting Clara." Chioago News. Ul.obedl.nce. "O-o-o-oh!" groaned the glass-eater, in pain. "I-I'll never again eat any hand-painted Dresden ohinaware. Never agaiu! ' "I warned you," Baid his wife, severely. "But it serves you right for eating those fancy dishes agaiust the doctor's orders." Johnnie Put 'em Away. - Mistress (to servant) "Bella, where are those berries I told you to put away?" Servant "Johnnie came iu a while ago, inarm, aud he said he'd put 'em away for me." Mistress "You needn't search any farther for them, Bella." Ju.tiilabl. Shooting. Mr. Brown "Terrible tragedy at a bargain counter. A womau who had Beoured the last five yards of cheap silk was shot by another womau who had been waiting from midnight with out having a chance to get any." Mrs. Brown "Poor thing! Surely, they won't do auythiug to her, will they, John?" Harlem Life. Th. Thrifty Explorer. "Do you know why it is that so many explorers seek the arctic and so few the autarctio regions?" a 'Well, I think I could make a pretty good guess." "Why?" "The arctic regions are not quite so far away from the headquarters of tUtt managers of the lecture bureaus." Chicago Post. A Vegetable Hair Exterminator. The "jumbal plaut," which is found on riversides iu tropical America, has curious properties. Horses, if they eat it, lose the hair from their maues and tails. When fed exclusively 'ou corn and grass they will recover, but the new hair will be totally different iu'oolor aud texture from the old. Bumiuaut animals are not thus af fected, and its growth is actually en couraged as a fodder plant for cuttle, sheep and 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 oontain certain salts and acids which may be called nature's medicine. A boon for vegetarians is peanut butter, which surpasses tbe best dairy butter in purity, and 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 newtelescopio 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 Gnstav Weudt, 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 cancer. It is nsed in hypodermic injections, and its strength has been gradually increased from a ten per cent, solution until the pure alcohol is often used. The injeotions 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 soientiflo station was the novel suggestion made to the inter national geological congress by Pro fessor Andrussow. It would oonsist of a ship fitted with apparatus and laboratories for geological aud biological study of the ocean 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 ap proved by Dr. John Murray and 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 the establishment of a home where the oxygen treatment is carried out. The application is made by enolosing the injured limb in a suitable case, which is kept charged that the gas. The dressing irritates less than others, is stimulating and oxidizes bacterial poisons. Bald, by Wild Hone.. In the Arizona papers of late 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 now roamiug the plains of that terri tory, and they have become serious nuisances. There is some cause for surprjBe 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 delicate creature, subject to many ills, aud often hard to keep in health, though watched with close attention and allowed to want for nothing what$. 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 agaiust 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 tbe 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 the .country is not nearly so well settled as the opponents of immigration would have is believe. New York limes. 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 th neck of a child that husths croup, will usually briug relief iu a few miuutes. A m'oper towel folded several timet aud dipped iu hot water, quickly wrung aud applied over the site of toothaoh or neuralgia, will generally afford prompt relief. This treatment for colio has beer found to Work like magic, Nothiug so promptly cuts short congestion of the lungs, sore throat, or rheumatism as hot water, when ap plied early in the case aud thoroughly Hot water taken freely half an hout before bedtime is an excellent cathartic iu the case of constipation, while it baa a soothing effect upon the stomach and bowels. The treatment, oontinued a few mouths, with the addition of a cup ol hot water slowly sipped halt an houi before each meal, with proper atten tion to diet, will cure most cases of dyspepsia. Ordinary headaches almost alwaya yield to the simultaneous application of hot water to the feet aud back of the ueck. Phrenological Journal. 1.1 Hun. t'haug'. Woman Phy.iclan. Li Huug Chang has appointed as first phyHioiuu iu his private house hold a Chinese womau, Miss Hu King Eug, M. 1)., who was graduated from au American medical college. Previous to this appointment she was au attend ing physician at the Women's Hospi tal iu her native city of Foo Chow, aud also a practising misaionary physician, for early in life she adopted the Chris tiau religion. MIDWINTER. The wind has fled. The cold, gray light lies heavy down th. glnnj Silent the pines, scaree nodding, plume on plume. Like sorrowing emblems o'er a warrlot dead, Darken the hills, Intensifying the gloom. Cast somber shadows down on lake and fen. 'withstartlpg tread The hare leaps through the hemlock droop lng low. Halts for a glance, and with large, guile less eyes Of dreamless Ignoranoe. o'ercast with dread, Blinks at the light, and then with move ment slow Limps noiselessly away where twilight dies. John Treston 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." Flicgende Blatter. "Shameful about those two Ken tucky girls quarreling over that battle ship." "Yes, they act as if it was a man." Chioago Record. Walker "Did yon say your wife'a a member of a secret society?" Talker "It was secret before she joined." Norristown Herald. "We have oornbread all the time now." "Why?" "My husband lost so much on wheat that it makes him weep to see a biscuit." Chioago Beoord. Friend "Then it is not a play of the present doy, is it?"" Ploywright "Oh, nbl The scene is laid in Har lem nt the beginning of the rapid- transit movement. Puck. Revised: Ho had .been busy adapting things. "I care not," lie 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 dunho, Oi musht av overshlept me self." 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 and the cauned beef industry doubtless go far to keep tbe horse from being eaten up by envy." De troit Journal. "Of course," observed Xerxes, the King, "my willis law." "Doubtless," answered 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 Beoord. "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 he fiddled away. Chioago Tribune. First Klondike Miner "I hear that our neighbor, Spudins, has married rich I" Seoond Kloukike Miper (enviously) "Yes; they say bis 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 is improving her mind, "that sometimes it requires a great deal of art to succeed in not do ing things." "It does," replied Sen ator Sorghum; "unquestionably; especially if you are being paid for them." Washington Star. "Tho parcel postman has just called at the Twickenhauis', next door, and left afootball, a bicycle, two cricket bats, a package of sweaters, a pair of spoon omrs, and a bunTlle of golf sticks." "Then their daughter must be home from college and her educa tion finished." London Figaro. Youug Hicks "You needn't laugh at my moustache, Maud; your mother said it was becoming, didn't you, rnadame?" Mrs. Bailey "Ob, no, Harry! You misunderstood me. I said it was coining." Hicks "Now Mrs. Bailey, don't cut a moustache, when it is in down." Boston Tran script. Pollution I'p.tream. A farmer of Connecticut has just reoovered damages from the town of New Brighton, iu that State, because the sewage of that towu so polluted a stream flowing through his farm that his cows would not drink the water. He was damuged, of course, and ought to recover. Ho is every one living ou 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 running water than to treat it and render it harmless ou the land, living streams will cease to be polluted, their present double function of sewer and water supply will bo abandoned and the original purity of streams will be jealously guarded. Philadelphia Press. Poultry school in France. England imports eggs and poultry to the value of $23,000,000, while France exports $70,000,000 worth ol the sumo. France has a . number ol poultry schools, whore pupils are regularly trained iu rearing fowls, mauaging'iuoubatoi's, curing'Jdiseases, etc., 30,000 chickens beiug hatched each season at the Gatubais School. The pupils pay for their instruction and work from fl a. m. to 8 p. in., three of the hours beiug devoted to study. Scholarships are founded for the benefit of those unable to afford the tuition fee.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers