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VOL. XXX. NO. 44. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEU. 10, 1898. S1.00 PER ANNUM.
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India's area of wheat farms is now
about two-thirds as large as that of the
. United States. The wheat is ' still
thrashed by being trodden out by bul
looks and buffaloe.
Two item in the budget of the bank
at Monte Carlo, for the year ending
Ootober 31: "Payments to ruined
gamblers, one hundred thousand
francs; for the prevention of suicides,
one hundred thousand francs." Ilere
is a sermon, ':writ large," on the ques
tion, Docb gambling pay?
The Fromdcnblatt, of Vienna, whioh
is the organ of the Anstrinn Foreign
Oflleo, approves the occupation of
the Kioo-Chou Bay and Port Arthur,
and says that one result of the 'open
ing up of China will be the stoppage
of the emigration which is so disquiet
ing to Australia and the United States-
The .Tapaucso do not intend to res)
supinely under the classification of
tho Colonial Ciovernraentof New South
Wales, whioh recently decided to in
clude the Japanese in the Chinese
"Restriction nst, denoting them "as
other colored people." The Japanese
Consul at Sydney has protested against
. the proposed .legislation.
In South Germany finishing schools,
to train young women in presiding
over a home, have been recently de.
voloped. Tho girls admitted must
have an ordinary grammar-school edu
cation. Not over twenty boarders are
taken in each school. These girls
are obliged to toko care of their rooms,
and every week four aro selected who
must munagj tho household for the
week, buying supplies and attending
to all the details of cooking and other
work, including sowing and making of
garments Under proper supervision
thiought to make girls good house
- keepers, nnd it certainly ought to
have a tendency to keep down the
divorces in Gerniauy.
In the trial of a case at Newark. N.
J., Vice Chancellor Titney, one of the
most erudite of New Jersey's judges,
gave au interesting opinion on the
effect of noises on human life. The
case was a protest agaiust the terrific
hammering iu a copper boiler shop.
The complainants were property own
ers of the neighborhood. Said the
Vico Chancellor: "Noises tend to
shorten life. It is a well-settled fact
that, all other things being equal,
people living in crowded streets and
subjected to incessaut, often lond,
noises, do not live as long as those
whose surroundings are comparatively
quiet The rule is that whioh . ren
ders life uncomfortable should be
stopped. Iu considering the effect of
-noise, we should apply it to ordinary,
everyday people,' such as the com
plainants in this case, not people
brought up iu a palace, unused to
noise of any kind, or people who live
in a pigsty, caring nothing for noise
of any sort. The Court must be judge
and jury in this case, and the Court
has been in a boiler shop and knows
. what it is. One man holds a Binall
hammer inside the boiler, while an
other man hammers on the outside. "
Although the case was continued, the
Court intimated that people involun
tarily subjected to such hurt-producing
noises had redress at the hands of
the law. .
Hays the Boston Journal: "It is cal
culated by military students that fully
one-half of the 100,000 mou who died
. - in battle on the Union side from 18G1
to 1865 were a bloody sacrifice to the
North's fatuous neglect of the science
of arms and of the most ordinary mil
itary precautious. If that is true,
then one-half of the wounded aud dis
abled veterans whose names are now
borne on the pension lists owe their
disability to the fact that their coun
. try, in its long peace, had forgotten
the solemn admonition of Washington
and had allowed the great mass of its
youth to become absolutely ignorant
of the use of weapons and of martia
exercises. On this basis of reasoning
the national folly of the years before
the Civil War is now costing the Na
tional Government about $70,000,000
a year, or more than twice the cost of
its present military establishment.
We shall never have a Civil War
again. Our only possible conflict is with
a foreign enemy, aud in all probability
we shall never have that if we main
tain an adequate navy and complete
our new aud admirable system of coast
defenses. Seventy million dollars
would finish these defenses nnd arm
them. It would build a fleet of fif
teen first-cluss battleships and make
our navy the second most powerful on
the planet. The men who believe in
a policy of reasonable military pre
paredness for the United States can
justify their position not only by au
appeal to the uutioual honor, but by
the broadest considerations of genuine
economy."
I know not whence I came,
I know not whither I (ro,
But the fact stands clear
That I am here
In this world of plenums and wo?,
And out of the mist and murk
Another truth shines plain
It Is In my power
Each day and hour
To add to Its joy or Its pain.
I know that the earth exists,
It Is none of my business why.
1 eannot tlnd out
What it's nil about
I would but waste time to try.
My life is a brief, brief thing,
I am here for a little space,
And while I stay
I would like, If I may.
To brighten and better the place.
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ny JULIAN
ELL, Miss Hilde
burn, I must say
I'm real sorry
you and Mr.
Sangster have
fallen out."
"Oh, Mrs.
Collins, indeed
you. ire mistaken.
There has been
no 'falling out'
between Mr. Saugster and myself.
Indeed, I am not on sufficiently soci
able terms with any of your gentle
man boarders to have a quarrel."
Saying which, Lucy Hilderburn, a
slight, delicate-featured girl of eight
een, walked out of the room with even
more than her wouted dignity of man
ner and carriage.
"Nevertheless, notwithstanding,"
pursued Mrs. Collins, resuming her
ironing, which had been interrupted
by the young lady's entrance. "I do
believe there's been a misunderstand
in' between those two, and a real pity
it is, for he did admire her amazin'ly.
He couldn't conceal it. And 'twould
been a good thiug for her, poor
child! Only they seldom knows what
is good for 'em, these young things,
and she's a-lettin' her pride stand in
the way of her happiness now."
"Pride, indeed!" sneered Miss Jane
Humphries, Mrs. Collins nice and as
sistant, a tnll, red-haired, stylishly
dressed damsel of fl ve-and-thirty.
"I'd like to know what right a girl
who earns her livin' by givin' music
lessons at fifty oents an hour has to be
proud; and as for Mr. Sangster. I
don't believe he over had a serious
thought about her. The idea of an
intellectual young man like him fancy
ing a girl simple enough to be afraid
of ghosts. He was only amusiu' him
self, playin'on her vanity, and she's
found that out and is just poot'n' on
airs now to try and 'pull the wool
over her eyes,' as the sayin' is."
"La, Jane, I don't know where
you eyes kin' be, if you didu't see
how fairly wrapped up in her he was
about two weeks ago; and as to her
haviu' no right to be proud, 'cause
she's poor, I b'lieve it's for that very
reason she is proud, poor little heart!
He's in real good business, Mr.
Sangster," Mrs. Collins presently
added, iu a musing tone, "aud is a
splendid young man, anyhow just
the best person to take care of that
poor little strugglin' senstive orphan
girl. I'll see if I can't mend matters
between 'em."
"You'd better be mindin' your own
business, I think, Aunt Martha,"
said Miss Jane, with a spiteful laugh
and a sidelong glance at her own
highly-frizzed and powdered reflection
in the little square of lookiug-glaBS
that hung agaiust the kitchen wall.
"Never you mind, Jane," persisted
warm-hearted Mrs. Collins; "I'll
manage it some way. You say she's
afraid of ghosts, poor lamb!"
And all that night she lay awake
revolving different schemes for the
l-ecoucilation of her two favorite
boarders.
The following evening the kind
hearted landlady tapped at the door
of the scantily-furuished fourth-story
room occupied by Lucy Hildeburn,
and from which now proceeded a
melancholy strain.
"Studying your piano of nights,
again?" queried Mrs. Collins, re
proachfully, when the girl opened the
door.
"Yes," replied Lucy, whose voice
had a tearful inflection, despite her
efforts to conceal it, uud whose eyes
were suspiciously red. "! am very
busy just now, and must put all the
time I can to study."
"Well, but you mustn't forget what
the doctor told you about overworkin'
yonr brain," said Mrs. Collins.
"However," she added, "I won't de
tain you longer'n I kin help. I'm
come to ask a favor. I'm goin' to
the theatre this eveniu'. So is Jane.
So's everybody in the house, I b'lieve;
aud the girl has gone to bed with a
toothache. So I'm goin' to ask you
to give au eye to the furnace. I've
just put on fresh coal and opened the
lower doors; but will you please go
down at about eight o'clock aud close
tho doors"
"Certainly," assented Lucy, upon
which Mrs. Collins produced a lan
tern, saying:
"Just tuke this down with you.
The cellar's all dark you, you know."
Lucy took the lantern, closed the
room door, and returned to her piano,
while Mrs. Collins walked away,
chuckling to herself:
"That lantern'll go out just five
minutes after she sets it down, and
she'll find herself all in the dark.
And she's afraid of ghosts, poor
lamb! But what if somebody who
aiu't a ghost should happea to be go-
The trouble, I think, with tin nil
Is the lack of a lilh cooceit:
Tf each man thought
He was sent to the spot
To make it a bit more sweet.
How soon we could gladden tho world,
How easily right all wrong,
If nobody shirked
And each one worked
To help his fellows along.
Cease wondering why you earn-:
Htop looking for faults and Daws;
Illse up to-day
In your pride nnd sny:
"1 am part of the first great cause.
However full tho world,
There Is room for an earnest ninu;
Tt had need of me
Or I would not be
I am hero to strengthen tho plan."
Ella.Wheeler Wilcox, in. Form,
A M ATCH.
a
FRENCH.
in' down there abesxt the same time,
and be obliged to strike a match in
more'n one sense of the word."
And even while indulging in this
pleasing reflection, Mrs. Collins
tapped at a door on the second floor.
Her summons were responded to by
a pleasant-looking young man, who
just now, however, wore a very de
jcoted countenance.
"La! Mr. Sangster, I didn't expect
to find you at home this evening."
-. "I didn't feel like going out to
night," replied the young mau in a
weary, listless tone.
"Well, since you are going to be
at home," said Mrs. Collins, "would
you be so kind as to look after the fur
nace? I've left the lower doors open,
but I'll be very much obliged if you
go down at about eight and close 'em.
And yon needn't take a light. There'll
be one down there."
Mr. Sangster readily promised to
comply with the request, and Mrs.
Collins went away, hoping for what
she considered "the right results."
Meanwhile, poor Lucy Hildeburn,
sitting at her piano, continued to draw
forth such melancholy strains that
tears rolled down her cheeks.
"I must go away from here," she
said, half aloud. "I can't bear it much
longer, indeed I can't, seeing him day
after day, loving him as I do, and
knowing that matters can never be ad
justed between us. . He is as proud as
I but, oh dear! what am I thinking
of? It wants just two minutes to eight.
And how hot the house is getting! I
must go down and close the furnace
doors."
Thereupon she lighted the lantern
and proceeded down stairs to the cel
lar. The house was very quiet, and the
lights all burned with a dim, spectral
lustre that only served to produce
strange shadows throughout the rooms
and passages.
Every one seemed to have gone out,
and poor Lucy glanced nervously about
her at every step.
At length she reached the cellar.
Ugh! What a chill draught was
blowing in through one the gratings!
And there were strange noises all
around.
Lucy's heart thumped so violently
she was tempted to turn and run up
stairs again.
But goodness! The furnace was
dreadfully, dangerously hot.
Lucy summoned up all the resolu
tion, and, stooping down, closed the
doors.
They swung to with a bang, and
when she essayed to open them again
she found the effort beyond her
strength.
What was to be dono in c,ase of the
fire needing more draught?
She might, after awhile, find it
necessary to put on more coal, and
then it would be well to put on more
draught.
But while she was debating with
herself concerning this, a much more
serious mishap occurred, for the
candle inside the lantern suddenly
achieved the most inexplicable somer
sault, and she was left in utter dark
ness. Moreover, to complicate the miser
ies of her situation, Bhe heard stead
ily footsteps descending the cellar
stairs.
Poor Lucy stood quite still, with
her hauds clasped together over her
heart.
This was a burglar, undoubtedly.
He had seen all the male inmates of
the house going out aud the lights
lowered, aud had thus chosen his op
portunity come in and conceal him
self in the cellar. He would, of course,
murder her. Burglars always did that
when they fouud any one awake.
The first idea that suggested itself
to her was to creep under the steps
aud remain there until Mrs. Collins
returned.
Ere she had time to do this, how
ever, a man's form became visible iu
the dim, semi-twilight that was shed
from the kitchen door above. The in
truder drew nearer until he stood
withiu a few yards of her, and seemed
to be fumbling iu bis vest pocket for
something. A dirk, doubtless.
Lucy, with a desperate instinct of
self-preservation, put up both hands,
exclaiming:
$, "Have pity on me! Oh, have pity
aud spare my life!"
Upon this the burglar drew back,
very much surprised.
"Miss Hildeburn!" he exclaimed, as
he struck a match on the box he now
produced from his pocket. "What are
you doing here, and bow can I serve
you?"
Now poor Lucy completely unnerved
aud dreadfully ashamed of herself sat
down on a reversed coal scuttle and
burst into a fit of weeping.
Then Mr. Sangster knelt down be
side her, aud a confi ned interchr.nge
of explanations of various kinds en
sued. The result was, that at the expira
tion of a half-hour, Mr. Sangster took
Lucy in his arms and kissing the tear
stained fane, murmured:
"God bless you for this promise, my
own darling! And, with His help, I
trust these are the last tears I will
cause yon to shed."
When Mrs. Collins came home, two
hours later, the house was very quiet,
the furnace in good order, and neither
Mr. Sangster nor Miss Hildeburn visi
ble. But the following day Lucy con
fided to her a secret, and Mr. Sang
ster absented himself mysteriously for
about three weeks. After that, Miss
Hildeburn also disappeared.
"Gone to visit her aunt at Swath
more," Mrs. Collins explained to the
other boarders.
But a fortnight later the mail car
rier brought some wedding cards to
the house.
"It was all brought about through
the furnace," said Mrs. Collins, with a
gleeful chuckle.
But Miss Jano was infinitely dis
gusted. Soturday Night.
How Stanlon lend Lincoln.
The application of a man who want
ed to be chaplain in the army during
Mr. Lincoln's Administration was re
cently found. Attached to it are a
number of indorsements which are not
only interesting in themselves, but aid
in disclosing the characters of the two
men whose influence largely molded
the policy of the Government in those
turbulent times. The indorsements
read as follows:
Dear Stanton Appoint this man chap
lain In the army. A. Lincoln.
Dear Mr. Lincoln He is not a preaober.
E. M. Stanton.
The following indorsements are
dated a few months later, but come
just below:
Door Stanton He Is now. A. Lincoln.
Dear Mr. Lincoln Gut tbcro Is no va
cancy. E. M. Stanton.
Dear Mr. Stanton Appoint him chaplain-at-large.
A. Lincoln.
Dear Mr. Lincoln There Is no warrant
of law for that. E. M. Stanton.
Dear Mr. Stanton Appoint him anyhow.
A. Lincoln.
Dear Mr. Llnooln I will not.
E. M. Stanton.
The appointment was not made, but
the papers were filed in the War De
partment, where they remain as evi
dence of , Lincoln's friendship and
Stanton's obstinate nerve. Indian
apolis Journal.
An Island of Volcanic Make.
The British North Borneo Herald
describes the new island which was
recently thrown up by volcanic action
on the coast between Mempakoi and
Lumbidau. The island, which is
about forty -five feet high, 250 yards
long aud 150 yards broad, has a very
peouliar apearance. It is chiefly au
upheaval of the sea bottom, but at the
highest point presents entirely differ
ent features. Here the surface of the
sea bottom has been broken through
from below aud a mud crater formed,
which had evidently been forcibly
squeezed up through a circular hole
in the bedrock further down.
The mud crater presents the form
of a cone with the top nnd side in
places fallen in; the portions remain
ing intact show plainly, by the smooth
striated sides, the e fleets of squeezing
the rock. The cone at its visible base
is perhaps twenty yards in diameter,
and is surrounded at about thirty
yards distance by a circular terrace a
few feet nigh, which suggests that a
little pressure from below would have
resulted in a far larger cone being
thrown up. There is a lot of bubbling
going on in various cracks and holes,
which flares up when a match is ap
plied and continues to burn.
p Tamping Done by Air.
A force of 200,000 men is required
to keep the beds of the railroads iu
order, and the expense of the work is
$70,000,000 a year. But an inventor
has come forward who propose to do
the work with compressed air, and
promises greater expedition and a
saving of more thau $10,000,000 an
nually. The machine consists of a
Boot blower driven at the rate of per
haps 800 revolutions a minute. It is
set on top of one rail, and has two
small wheels on which it oan be
trundled along the rail like a wheel
barrow. When it is to be used a lever
clips it fast to the rail. Attached to it
is a hose twelve feet long, ending in a
metal feeder for the broken stone,
which has a hopper at the top, where
the stone or other suitable ballasting
muteriul is shoveled in, and a bent
end at the bottom, which is put under
the tics to direct the stream of filling.
Iu usiug it none of the ballast be
tween the ties need be removed. A
shovelful is removed at one end of the
raised tie until the bent end of the
hopper tube can bo poked uuder, and
then the tilling material is blown in
and packed tight by the machine.
Holler Boat..
The curious spectacle of a marine
craft propelled by enormous air-tight,
diBc-shaped hollow wheels suggests a
radical departure in the methods of
boat-building. That the experiment
was a failure was the natural conse
quence of the principles on which the
craft was constructed. All of the ma
chinery aud passenger accommodations
rested on a platform supported by
these air-tight wheels o. ranged iu
rows on either side. The general
effect was thut of a huge wagou, the
box of which rested on the water.' One
of the causes of the failure of this
venture was that the wheels took up
sufficient water to handicap them seri
ously. An attempt was made to coun
teract this by increasing the power,
but this added to the weight of the
machinery aud did not work success
fully. A device to scrape the water
from the wheels was equally futile,
and as it stands now the roller boat
has scored a most brilliant failure
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. .
When Girl'. Drown l'p A Rotation ol
the Problem Not HopeleM Cane
Ills I.lue I'ntltng on Her Wrap
A Fine Recommendation, Ktc., Kte.
She lias ceased to bellovo there's a man In
the moon,
But she can't get out of her head
The old idea that there is one
In hiding undor the bod.
Chicago News.
A Solution or the Problem.
"No, Willie, dear," said mamma,
"no more cake to-night. Don't you
know you caunot sleep well on a full
stomach?"
"Well," replied Wcllie, "lean sleep
on my back."
Putting- on Her Wrnpe.
She (smiling)- "Your face is too
near to mine."
He "It's two inches away, and
that's as bad as a thousand miles."
She (poutingly) "It wouldn't be
for some men." Harlem Life.
Not a Hopeless Case.
He "I shall never marry until I
meet a woman who is my exact op
posite, mentally."
She "Why don't yon ask Miss
Floyd? She is considered one of the
most intellectual girls in town."
Truth.
His Line.
Miss Wabash "Yonr friend who
has just left us is something of a
pessimist, I imagine."
Miss Halstd "Indeed, he isn't.
He's an optician, and he has the
cream of the West Side trade." Chi
cago News.
Her Assumed Name.'
Zim'(in deep whisper) "There goes
a woman who is living under an as
sumed name."
Zam (disgustedly) "Bats! Why,
that's Mrs. Brown!"
Zim "I know it." Her name was
Jones before she was married."
Marvellous Growth,
"Is your town booming out there in
the mining district, Slicks?"
"I should say 'so. It's more won
derful than magic. I pitched my
tent in a hole in tho 'ground one even
ing and when I wakod up I was in the
cellar of a union depot." Detroit
Free Press.
There Were Others.
Mamie (singing) "My 'mother was
a lady "
Aggie (interrupting) "Aw, shut
up! so wuz me fadder."
Mamie "Wotcher givin' me?"
Aggie "Dat's dead right he wuz
de bearded lady iu a dime musee fer
free years." Puck.
A Fine Recommendation.
Her Father "How do you know
you love my daughter? You've only
been acquainted a few weeks."
The Suitor "That is true; but I
see that you've just negotiated a loan
of $1,000,000. A man who can do
that is the kind of person I want for
a father-in-law." Chicago News.
To Please I.lttle Tommy.
Old Lady "You said the train
that I should take leaves at 10.80,
didn't yon?"
Booking-CIerk "Yes, madam; and
I think I've told you that about ten
times already."
Old Lady "Yes, "I know you
have; but rat little nephew says he
likes to hear' you talk." Tit-Bits.
Papa Ulvet Way.
Mamma (to Tiny Tot, who wants to
deprive her younger brother of a
delicacy they have both set their
hearts on) "No, darling, you must
let baby have it now, and when he
grows up, aud yon 'are a young lady,
he will have to give way to you."
Tiny Tot "Is that why pupa al
ways has to do as you want, mummy?"
Puuch.
The Newest "Kate."
Mr. Harl M. Flatte "And this is
my music room!"
Visitor (in amazement) "Music
room! Why er isn't it er rather
peculiar?"
Mr. Harl M. Flatte "Yes; slightly.
You see, when I close the door it is
hermetically sealed. When th ama
teur musioians iu the neighboring
fiats oommonce hammering on their
pianos and blowing on their cornets I
retire here, shut the door aud am safe."
Puck.
A 1'urlst.
Boston Conductor "Fare, please."
Passenger "What is the fare?"
Conductor "It is the tariff or tax
levied by the corporation owning and
controlling the charter and franchise
of this streetcar line ou those persons
who avail themselves of the oppor
tunity afforded them by the company
to secure more rapid aud agreeable
transportation than pedal locomotion."
Passenger "How much is the fare?"
Conductor "Five cents, please."
Detroit Free Press,
Conversation.
"He will come to-night," mused
Beryl.
With a sigh, she drew back the cur
tains aud gazed out into the darkling
dusk; for her father's houso was built
with a view to convenience, and she
could do that."
"What shall I soy to him?"
The horse show was no more; the
six-day bicycle race was a thing of the
past.
She did not understand football.
There was nothing left but the
weather and currency reform. De
troit Journal.
Candles and Electricity.
The estimated total candle power of
all the electric lamps used iu New
York City i. placed at 60,000,000.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
In Guy's Hospital, London, the pho
tograph is used to reoord the speech of
epileptio patients from day to day that
their progress may be noted by com
parison. The cotton seed industry of the South
'amounts to 4,000,000 tons annually,
valued at $113,000,000. In 18G7 there
were only four mills in opcrntion; in
1897 there were over 300, with more
thau $50,000,000 invested.
About 30,000 bales of cotton are
booked for shipment to Japan this win
ter from the single port of Seattle.
This is said to be fifty per cent, more'
in value than the value of all Ameri
can exports to Japan during the sea
son of 1894-95.
Lundy Island, in the British Chan
nel, has been provided with two new
and powerful lights, one ot either end
of the island. The families of the
keepers will no longer bo allowed to
live at the lighthouses, but will be
trausferred to the mainland.
A German firm, it is reported, has
placed upon the market samples of
pure ingotin, derived from coal-tar,
which promises to supplant the vege
table indigo, as other dyes have been
supplanted by the same source. Vege
table indigo lis consumed to the
extent of $15,000,000 chiefly dorivod
from India.
Borne time ago attention was called
to the fact that the Western Union
Telegraph Company was usiug copper
wire exclusively on new construction
and renewals on its principal lines.
The -company has receutly completed
a line of copper wire from New York
to San Frauoisoo, the longest heavy
copper wire for telcgraphy.in the world.
This wire is strung between San Fran
cisco aud Ogden to Omaha along the
Union Pacific.
The great vitality of dragon flies is
shown byJMcLachland, who, having
struck at a large Aoschna at rest on a
twig, the head was seen to tnmblo
down, while the rest of the insect flew
away in an "undecided manner," for
a considerable distance. Upon pick
ing np the head he noticed that the
insect had been eating a fly at the1
time. "The manibles continued
working as if nothing had happened,'
aud the masticated portions of the fly'
passed out at the back of the head."
Professor Wollny, of Munich, Ger
many, has conducted some experi-
rooms to ascertain wnat was the in
fluence earth worms had on vegeta
tion. He found that their presence
was extremely favorable, the produce
of the several plants below being in
creased as follows: Pease gave twenty-five
per cent, more fruit, thirty-five
per ceut. more stalks, etc. , beans gave
sixty-nine per cent, more pease in the
pod and forty-seven per cent, more
Btalks, etc.; while potatoes yielded
138 per cent. more. This favorable
effect, says Professor Wollny, is prob
ably due to the ventilation of the earth
by tho holes dug by the worms.
A Cherokee Homance.
The marriage of Biohard Malone
and Miss Mary Hildreth at Caldwell,
Kan., is the culmination of a romantic
experience.
When the Cherokee strip was opened
for settlement ou September 18, 1893,
Malone aud Miss Hildreth, at the re
port of the signal along the southern
Kansas border, on their well-trained
horses, mado the famous race over the
plains together for a home iu the In
dian lands.
The claims they desired lay five miles
south of Caldwell. They were main
taining a good load iu the mad rush,
when suddenly the girths of Miss Hil
dreth's saddle broke. Her escort saw
her dilemma, reined in his horse aud
assisted hor. She could go no further,
bo they staked two claims side by side.
They then erected a house on Miss
nildreth's claim just across the line.
Malone erected a barn, iu whioh he
lived during his enforced residence ou
his claim. Miss Hildreth occupied
the house. Last week they both
proved up their claims, and yesterday
they were married. Topeka Journal.
He Had Four Heartn.
Henry Tanner, who died at tho City
Hospital, St. Louis, recently, is said
by the physicians in charge to have
had four hearts. The cause fof this
trouble, according to Dr. Sutter, is
that at different times three aneurisms
had formed, and each of these grew
uirtil it formed a compact mass almost
equal in size to the heart. These
aneurisms formed iu the aorta, the
largest artery in the bodj, aud.theone
which leads from the heart. There
they grew, and became, as described.
"One true heart audjthree false ones."
These "false hearts" throbbed and
pulsated with the "true heart" and
with equal precision, aud apparently
gave Tanner ao trouble. Dr. Sutter
says that if he had not succumbed to
neuritis these false hearts would have
kept on increasing in size until oue of
theui burst.- That meant death for
Tanner.
The remarkable aorta and its four
hearts will be preserved at the hos
pital. Buffalo (N. Y.) Express.
Longevity of AnliunU.
It is said that the giant tortoise of
the Seychelles Islands is the longest
lived animal in the world. The knowu
age of oue now living is 150 years, and
this dates from the time tho creature
was full grown. How old it was at the
time of its capture no oue is able to
conjecture. A tine specimen bus been
presented to the Zoological Society of
Loudon. It weighs about a quarter
of a ton aud is au oxceeediugly lively
animal.
Kighly-fteven Waraftlpa Building.
The general disposition to increase
navil armauieuts can be gaged by the
fact that eighty-seven warships are
building iu Great Britain alone. They
aggregate a displaueineut of 318,t12
t-.ius. Of the eighty-seven warships,
thirty-four go to foroigu governments.
THE MEANEST MAN.
The man who lies In mean.
And so Is the man who steals;
The man who cheats Is a sinner, and
Khould be hun up hv the heels;
Dut the meanost and' lowest of all the
rogues
Tlmt flourish under the sun
Is the fellow that takes the credit for
Good work somo other has done.
Cleveland Leader
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
"Can you tell me how I can get
some work, sir?" The Citizen (crusti
ly) "Yes; buy a bicycle and try to
keep it clean."
Ethel "Who was that man?" Pen
elope "That was Dobson, the great
composer. He manufactures soothing
syrup." Loudon Tit-Bits.
llewett "It's terrible to have peo
ple doubt your word." Jewett
"Especially wheu you know yourself
that you are lying." Standard.
Teacher "If you don't study your
lessons you might as woll not come to
school at all." Pupil --"Me mother
wouldn't let me do that." Puck.
Wife (enthusiastically)--"How much
do you think we took in at the bazaar?"
Husband (quietly) "How many, you
mean." Adams (Mass.) Freeman.
She "Did papa bring yon to the
Stock Exchange?" His Lordship
"Yes. It's very nice, to be suro, but
I think I prefer Monte Carlo." Pnck.
Flim "I see where Boston is going
to spond over $1,000,000 on these
pn-suinotio tubes." Flam "That's a
lot of money to blow in." Standard.
First Salesman "What ehsll I do?
She says she don't want any cheap
imitations." Second Salesman
"Show her an expensive imitation."
Pnck.
Bobby "If God sends babies round,
why didn't mamma pick ont a prettier
oue?" Taul " 'Cause I s'pose she
knew beggars shouldn't be choosers."
Judge.
Jack "How jaded and plain Miss
Plaukingtou has become lately."
Tom "Yes; that last railroad deal of
her father's left him praotically pen
niless," Cleveland Leader.
A little boy was fishing, and, draw
ing iu his line, found that the bait had
beeu taken off without result; where
upon ho burst into tears and said: "It's
cheating. " Pittsburg Dispatch.
Mrs. White "Does your daughter
spenk French fluontly now?" Mrs.
Brown "Well, she speaks something
fluently, nud it doesn't sound at all
like English, so perhaps it may be
French." Somcrville Journal.
Mrs. Roberts "You soeui to be in
a deep study, John." Mr. Roberts
(whose daughter is takiug her mnsio
loBson in adjoining room) "I am, my
dear, I was wondering if the iuveutor
of the piano died a natural death."
Tuck.
Jinks "I met Brobson as I en
tered financially embarrassed, isn't
he?" Filkins "No; the embarrass
ment was all onuy part. He wauted
to borrow a thousand nud I was at my
wits' end thinking up u good excuse."
Puck.
Kate "He scorns extremely de
voted. He talks of going to the
Klondike for my sake." Beatrice
"Well, that would give you two
chnnces. He might come back with a
fortune or he might not come buck at
all." ruck.
"Did you know, my little boy,"
asked the solemn old gentleman,
"that a bee cau fly faster than a
pigeon?" "I didu't know it before,"
said the little boy, "but I know he
cau set down a heap harder." Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
"What we propose to do away
with," said the reformer, "is the
practice of allowing corporations to
get valuable franchises for nothing."
"I didn't know they ever did," said
the civic statesman in astonishment,
Iudiauapolia Journal.
Client "You say thut wheu I buy
ou a margin, and the stock depreciates,
I am to put up more margin. But iu
case it goes up, what happens in that
cuse?" Broker "'1 hat's u matter that
ueedu't trouble you; it won't happen."
Boston Transcript.
The Tragedian (iu tho Klondike)
"Why is there so much sneezing in
the audience?" Tho Super "It's the
dust, sir. Au usher has just turned
down two seats that were occupied
last night by those Kloiidike miners."
Cleveland l'luiu Dealer.
"Fly," ho cried, "with me.'1 Tha
poster girl contemplated him culmly,
"Well, I certninly won't run, I tell
you those," she replied. In point of
fact, the brand uf ink of which she
was constructed wns ample guarantee
of that. Detroit Journal.
Mrs. Brown So Mrs. Jones is near
ly deud from insomnia? What is the
cuuse of it?" Mi s. Smith (indignant
ly) "Why, her husband is the cause
of it. Ho talks iu his sk-ep, you know,
and she has to tie uwakc all night to
iiud outwhutho is saying, poor thiug."
J udge.
Family Friend "I cougratnluto
you, my dear sir, on tho muiriago of
your daughter. 1 see you are gradu
ally getting ull tho girls off your
hands." Old ( llivcbrum-h "Off my
hands, yes! But the worst of it is,
have to keep their husbands ou their
feet !" Melbourne Times.
Mr. Dunham "1 have called, sir,
to tell you thut your duughter. Miss
Fuuuie, uud 1 lovo each other very
dearly. 1 want to ask you for hor."
Old Millymis "Weir you'll havo to
wait awhile. There's no vueuuey iu
the store now thut I could put you
into. " Cleveland Leader.
"I suppose," s;;id the young womuu
with tho inquiring mind, "thut most
puoplo who go in search uf gold get it
by working the creeks and chasms."
"Mostly, miss," replied Derringer
Pete; "though once iu a while some
fellow gets a lot of it by working a
bluff." Washington Stur,