'Tiie Forest Republican U pnblUhsu every WoUoj Jay, by J. E. WENK. Office la Smearbaaga & Co.'i BuiliMnjj ELM BTREET, TIOXESTA, TK. Terma, - Sl.ooi'er Vear, No subscription received tor ihortor period than three mouths. Corresponded' soilolla I fron nil pru of th country. No noilo will be taken of anonymous cojiiuunlo-itlou. RATES OF AOVERTISINCi FOREST REPUBLICAN. One Square, on inch, on ini-rtlon ..I 1 00 On Square, on inch, one month. ., JUrt On f quare. one inch. tnri m mlbs. . (U One r-quare, one Inch, on year 10 oj 1 wo Squirei, one yer :, mi Quarter Column, on year... .. 3)ij lialf Co'utnn, on year........ 50 UU One Column, one year lUUUI Le-al advertisement ten cent per lins each insertion. Alarriaires an 1 deith notice gratis. Allbillsroryt-ar.yadvcrtisd-.n :nu collected quarterly Temporary aJverUsouenu must be paid in advano Job work cash on i!e!Tver. VOL. XXXI. NO. 9. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15 181)8 . $1.00 PER ANNUM. Austria is the only empire in the world which Las never bad colonies, or evon transmarine possessions. A Frankfort (Ky.) woman can cer. tainly be credited with having enjoyed considerable of t ho spico of life, pro vided variety counts, In 1894 she was oeut to tho insane asylum. In 18J5 she was released. In 18 bIio was divorced. Iu 1897 Bbe married agaiu aud bad a child. In 189S she goes back to the asylum. It is learuod from the Cincinnati dailies that the street railway company in that town has issued a general or der that "from aud alter tbis date and until further notico any employe of the Cincinnati Street Railwny Com pauy -who goes upon duty within twenty-four hours after partaking of onions in any form will bo Bummarily discharged." That "good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships,' has ever been a navy motto. Fortu nately for tho United States, foreign experts all declare sho has good men with Rood ships. And it is this that ! gives reason for the confidence the Nation displays in its defenders. Men like Dewey, Sampson, Schley and Bigsbee would do wonders with a tugboat. Public playgrounds for the children of our cities and towns ought to com mand the earnest consideration of every conscientious American citizen who would better tho life of the Be public and advance tho cause of real civilization. That man or that woman, howovcr bid, who has out grown, or does not know the tremend ous force for good or evil iu the play spirit of youth, is iudcod a pitiablo creature. 'When American women once start any movement they generally make it a great success. An English teacher, who is spending a well-earned vaca tion in this country, says that the col lections of needlccrnft made by the New York Association of Sewing Schools is not only better than the famous collection in South Kensing ton, but is tho best in the world. The compliment means much, when it is remembered that tho association is still a young organization, having been started but a few years ago. al though, on the othoV baud, its collec tions represent the work of at least 2000 different schools and institutions. It is very proper that indecent books should bo excluded from public li braries, aud for that matter from pri vate ones also; but touching tho former the wrong means uro used to accomplish tho ond desired. Instead of simply excluding the objectionable volume, without comment or discus sion, a set of high sounding resolu tions must be adopted by tho Library Board and published to tho world. Curiosity is an inherent attribute of human nature, consequently tho pnb lio generally, who perhaps would never entertain a thought touching the book, are aroused to hunt it up, and by personal examination satisfy themselves as to the correctness of the judgment of the board. Mr. Ed ward Everett Hale sums up tho whole matter in a nutshell when ho says: "Nobody is so happy as the nasty publisher of a nasty book if tho direc tor of a public library is foolish enough to say it is nasty." Hereafter, suggests the St. Louis Star, let Li brary Boards simply exclude tho book without comment,' and tho end will be accomplished without bestowing upon the publisher a class of advertising that money cannot buy. The Philippine archipelago includes nearly COO islands, of which, however, only thirteeu are of considerable size. The largest of these, Luzon, has an area of 40,000 sqnaro miles, which is nearly as large as that of Virginia. Manila, tho capital, has a population of 300,000 and a largo amount of wealth. Its trade in sugar, tobacco and hemp is very large. The second island of the group in size is Mnn danao, with an area of 37,000 square miles. The total area of the Philip pines is about 150,000 square miles, or more thaiTtbree times the area of Cuba. The total population is fully H,000,000 and is badly mixed. There is as great a variety of religion as of blood. There are Mohammedans, Buddhists, SbintoistB and a few Chris tians. Though Spain has possessed these islands a long time comparative ly few Spaniards live there. Tho natives hate the Spaniards heartily, and in some of the islands the lifo of a Spaniard is not safe. Insurrections have been even more frequent in the Philippines than in Cuba. In fact there has for a century past hardly been a time when there was not a re volt in some of the islands. THE CHANT OF At the break of (he dawn. At the edge of the gray. Our cook sings this song: ' 'Tin a bnautilul day 'TIs a binntltul day a beautiful day!" Tlittn the cock of the walk, Just ovt-r tlio way: " TIs a beautiful dnvl ' Then we hear the bravo rooster From far, fur away: " Tis a beautiful day a beautiful day!" From the depths out of somewhere The voleo of a fav: "A bea-u-tl ful day!" Our warliler makes answer, More grunt led than gny: "That's just what I say just what I say rrrh!" 1 THE MINE RATS' WARNING.! I A Story of a Pennsylvania Colliery. DY HENRY AVE us! But there are some lazy peo ple in this world!" Colonel James Fogarty uttered this remark, and then paused by the cigar-stand of the Central Hotel, to obtain a light for his pipe. It was long after mid night, ond in the upon air thermometers registered far below zero. Snow lay too' deep for comfort iu the streets of the little Pennsylvania mining town, and over the mountains beyond great drifts spread themselves, as if trying desper ately to crush out of view fences, bridges, buildings, even tho roads. Colonel Fogarty had just come from the last trolley-car which would run until daylight. "Come, sit down here and have a cigar while you tell all about it," I urged. "Well, I don't mind," replied the Colonel. "Fact is, I'm not particu larly hurried to-night, this being Sat urday, and I being without an engage ment uutil Chusedny afterno"n." So we sat down, aud leaned back in easy chairs, aud he commenced: "The laziest man I ever knew," be gau Colonel Fognrty, "is dead now. He was too lazy to keep ou living, I suppose. But I knew him ever since I was a youngster, aud was -working as driver-boy in the mines, miles away from tho Lehigh region, long before 1 was elected to the Legislature at Har risburg. Timmy Hoolahan, cr some such name, he was called, but as long as I can remember he went by the name of Lazy Tim aud he was that, for sure. Let me tell yon, when wo went to school the teacher would always give him out a Wednesday lessou on Monday, because by no earthly chauco could ho ever get around to studying a Chu.se day lesson Monday; and he'd always eat his lunch beforo school commenced iu the morn ing iustead ol at noontime, for the reason that ho never got around to eating his dinner the day before. Lazy Tim was a sort of inexpensive creature, some ways, because he wouldn't out grow his clothes, or wear 'em out either, so he saved money for his father, and when be got to bo a man he spent less than any of his friends for tho same reason. Why, many and many a timo I've known him to go into Lanky Pete's place, down the road apiece, and order a glass of beer at seven o'clock in the evening, and when ten came he'd have a full half of it loft, and he'd get tho barkeeper to put it away till the next night. That's the kind of a man Lazy Tim was, and never in the whole course of his life did he hurry, excepting the time the mine rats gave hiin warning, and that's what I'm about to toll you of. "Iu the first place, here at tho very beginning of tho story, lot mo impress you with the fact that the queer doings I'm about to relate didn't happen in this town, or anywheres near it. 1 may want to go back to Harrisburg oue of theso days, young man, and I don't propose to have tho railroad people down on mo when the time comes to look for votes. It was years and years ago, too, aud may be Lazy Tim never told any one else about it but it is a true story, if it is strange and mysteri ous, and it may help explain one of those queer things college professors aud such like have been pnzzlingover ever since rats first commenced to leave sinking ships. "It happened years ago, on a hot summer day in July. I went to work at seven that morning, but the sun came down hot even then as I walked from home to tho slope. But as soon as I got into the car there with half a dozen other boys, and we commenced to slide down, of course the air got cooler. There isn't any summer or winter under ground; the air is the samo all the year 'round, coolish and moist, but neither hot nor cold, and a thermometer would mark about the samo in July and January. That's the main reason a man who has once labored under ground hates to come to the surface and work. The miners and their butties can keep eomforta t le year in aud year out so long as they slay below the surface, and that is why so few of them ever get sick, barring miner's asthma, and suppose that comes from the dampness as much as anything else. "However, we got aboard the car. nnd went under ground. Of course it was dark dark as -a stock of black cats but all of ns had lamps in our caps, ond we'd learned to see in the dark that way pretty much as animals cau. Some of tho men bad to travo! along the gangways under ground for -v v vv 11k THE CHANTICLEEP. After silence an hour. For all those abed Our cock sings with power; "There's plenty of bread There's plenty of bread plenty of bread!" Then the next one takes up What's already been said: "There's plenty of bread!" Then far In the distance The musle has spread "There's plenty of bread plonty of bread!" An echo asurea ns fPerhnps It's been fed): Tlen-ty of-bread!" But with plenty of anger He answers Instead: "That's just what I snld That's just what I said just what I said rrrh!" Mary Prentls, In Toronto Globe. EDWARD ROOD. a mile or more before reaching the breasts where they were at work, and Lazy Tim was one of these. "At the time I'm tellin you of I was doing inspection work going throngh one part of the miuo and on other to see that the timber support ing the roof was safe, and that the tracks along the gangways were all right. By the way, though, if yon haven't been under ground much, I'd better tell you something of it. You know, two or throe huudred feet below the surface there is one set of work ings called a 'lift,' laid out something on a level, though mighty irregular. First, when you get to the foot of the slope in the car, yon find the main gangway, 'a sort of main road, and oftentimes there are many branches or small gangways leading from it. Now the coal is blasted out of chambers called breasts, which are located at regular intervals like, with great pillars- of coal and rock left standing be tween them to support the roof; en gineers and miners have to be mighty careful not to blast away any of the pillars, for tho roof reaches way up to the surface, and besides the millions of tons of soil and gravel and stone between the miners and the open air, there may bo a forest on top of the sur face, and often towns aufl cities stand over mines that are being worked. So you see that it is a risky job to rob tho pillars by blasting away part of them, specially when yon . remember that three hundred feet below a city, with hotel -i and banks and factory buildings, there may be one lift; and two hundred feet below this one, an other, and a third and a fourth hun dreds of feet below the others mind you, with scores and scores of miners in each lift blasting away, aud ' load ing coal into little cars that run on rails along the gangways from the breaBts to the foot of the slope where they are 'hauled up to the surface. But like sailormeu and railroad hands, minors get so nsed to dauger, day af ter day, that they don't seem to feel it always; and fools that they are. when the supply of coal begins to give out they will, at times, run the risk of robbing a pillar in order to make their work last a few weeks or months longer. "Well, on this particular July day, years ago, I tumbled out of the car at the foot of tho slope, and started along the gangway looking about and in specting as usual. There were some little repairs needed at the mule stables, I remember, and I spoke to the stable-boss abont 'em. 'Do tho mine mules livo under ground?' yon ask. Of course they do, for years and years at a stretch, without ever seeing daylight. Save us! But I could tell ye somo curious tales of those big, shaggy mine-mnles, and may-be I will some time. But as I was sayin', nothing particular happened that July day until about noon, when I hap pened along by Lazy Tim's breast, just as he was openiu' his dinner pail. Anyway, he sang out to me, 'Come along an' eat here, Jim,' nnd I sat down beside him, at the same time taking the lid off my own pail. We talked politics and one thing and an other until I lighted my pipe. I said, 'Tim, why don't yon fire np with your pipe?' and ho replied, 'My matches are beyond in my coat there, and I thought I'd wait until you finish that pipe, and start another, when I could use your match. This didu't surprise me, but I mention it just to show that lazy Tim was still Lazy Tim at the ago of thirty, and when tho father of two children, one of them a little girl cripple with something the matter with her back, so that she couldn't walk. And then be stretched out, and told mo that Mary was getting some better, the company doctor said, and that very day, for the first time in her life, sho was going away from homo poor little thingl 'Where's sho goin' Timmy?" I asked, and be answered, 'She's going on a Sunday school excursion with my wife and Johnny, too. There's to be three sec tions in the traiu, and all the Sunday schools of the region have joined in. She never was strong enough to go anywhere before, and she' s been talkin and laflln' over this for weeks! The train starts at noon sharp, and the last section is due to pass over the surface above here where we're work in' at 12.30, but it's likely they'll bo considerable late, they always are. However, from 12.30 till one I'm just goin' to lay here and smoke and look up at the roof, and think of little Mary goin' ou her happiness-party, a) she calls it.' I nodded with ap proval, aud said, 'Good for you, Tim my!' I wanted to say more, but I couldn't for thinkin' of tho wbito- faced little mite with big eyes, aud legs and arm no bigger than my pipe- stem, aud on ber first 'happiness party.' Have us! but it makes me all choke np to think of it now, and it happened yeara and years ago. "Fiually I got np and put my pipe in my pocket and started to go on agaiu, but I stopped a minute, lookin' at the breast be was workiug in, and said: 'Aiu't you beyond your line on that pillar, Timmy?" " 'A little, p'raps,' be replied, 'but I baven't cut away much of any, and the inside boss hasn't kicked yet.' " 'It's no business of mine, Timmy, but as a friend, I want to tell you that robbiu' a pillar is risky.' " 'I know that, Jim,' he begain again, 'but I must bave work. Before you go, what time is it?' . I pulls out my watch. 'Just half past twelve, time fur tho traiu to be pastin' overhead with your kids aboard.' " 'Yes, but it's like to be somo time yet before it does go,' was the answer. And then Lazy Tim leapt to his feet and stood trembling. Iu nnothet sccoud be gasped: 'What's that, Jim? Do ye hear anything? Quick, man, apeak!' "I strained my ears and peered out into the black gangway, 'I think hear squeaks, Tommy but I dun no ' " 'Yes, it's the rats, Jim! There look there they're leaving the mine!' he screamed. And as bo spoko I saw a great furry gray rat pass the breast like a streak of light, and then two came by on the jump, aud then o bunch of a dozen, more like sperrite than rats except for their blood-curdling squeals. 'Something's happened, Timmy! Save yourself!' I shouted, starting for the gangway, but he flew past me with a single bound, yelling 'The pillars! The pillars! I've been robbing them for weeks!' "I used to bo pretty good on the sprint before I weut to Harrisburg and got fat, and the way I ran along that gangway was a caution; but Lazy Tim went by me like a caunon ball, and an eighth of a mile away he met a car and a mule standing still, where the driver-boy bad left them when he fceard the rats coming. Tim tore the traces loose, jumped on the mule's back, aud started for the foot of the slope, a inilo distant, yelling like a lunatic, beating the beast with his big lists, andkickiug her with hs heavy boots, all the while lying flat over her neck so bis head wouldn't strike tho roof. Ou they went, the mule tearing through the darkness with never a stumble, splashing through sulphur water, leaping over mudholes and shaking with fear. Now and then one of her heavy hoofs would come down soft on a rat there would be a single dying squeal and the next second her shoes would strike Bparks from tho rails. As for Timmy, his head was giddy with terror, and he prayed and swore, as he clung to the mule, his eyes shut so as not to see the danciug shudowe cast by bis lamp, or the sleek rats a! they skipped by him, or the white moss on the sides of the gangway that looked like streaks of snow, so hard was heridiug. Half-way to the slope ho clattered by the driver-boy, and then by other miuers who were run ning for their lives; and before be knew it the mnlo came to a dead stop, so sudden that he pitched ovei ber head to the ground. Ho jumped close to the signal-bar, and by good luck an empty car was waiting there.' He grasped the bar and sounded th danger-signal, and got his answei from the engine-room fur above. Then he crawled into the car and shut his eyes as he went whirling up toward the surface. He tried to think what he should do and couldn't. All be knew was that he had robbed the pil lars near his breast; the rats bad fled; the surface was about to cave in at that very minute an exsnrsion train with five hundred children was due to pass over the spot, and among them were his wife, and Johnny, aud little Cripple Mary. "No wonder he was half crazy when the car reached tho surface; but bis faint feeling had gone, and with the strength of desperation he vaulted to the ground and raced down the rail road track, waving his coat above bis bead and yelling with all his voice. But just as he got in sight of the spot over bis breast there was a crackling sound, and thun a rush and a roar like a thousand thunder-storms. Trees by the rail trembled and swayed and toppled over, as they and a great body of earth and tho tracks for a hundred yards dashed down into the mine. "Wo picked Tim np from the ground where be bad fallen and car ried him home, and when he opened his eyes that night Johnny was play ing on the floor and little Mary sat in her basket-chair holding his hand, and his wife was cooking supper. The last section of the train had just got by and around the curve before the cave-in occurred. And I'm glad to say that not a man on the surface or below was killed or even hurt. "But there's one curious thing I'd like to ask you about," Colonel Fo garty continued, rising from bis cbait aud glancing at the hotel clock. "How do you suppose those mine rats could know an accident was coming, long before any of the minors knew it and tbey do, every time?" "I haven't the slightest idea. What is your belief?" "Well, mine rats are not witches, but their ears are so sharp that they can hear tho coal and rock groaning and grinding and commencing to give way long before they do cave in, aud long before the sounds reach the ea of ns humans. That's my theory of it." "And I guess you'ro right," I said. New York Post. Valuable discoveries of amber bave been made in British Columbia, which, it is claimed, will bo able to supply the pipe makers of the world with aiu I ber one huudred vears. TIIE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. The Age of Germs Oottrlassed Most Acute A Waste of Money Comfort Cost Open to Doubt Unpardonable-. Equal to the Urcasinn Proof, Etc. I.I t tie Miss Mullet 8ut on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; A microbe espied her And slipped down Inside hnr. And alio had influenza next dny. Cincinnati Enquirer. A Woman's Keason. "Poor Mollie has lost her reason." "That oughtn't to worry a woman. She cau say 'because.' " Indianapolis Journal. Most Acute. She "Yes, it is the province of woman to suffer in silence." 1 He "In sileuce? That must bo suffering, indeed." Cincinnati En quirer. Outclassed. The Rejected One "I bave a rival, then?" The Girl "Hardly that. I have promised to marry him." Philadel phia North American. Geography Up to Unte. "Tell the class what au island is, Sammy." "Yes'm; an island is a body of laud surrounded by United States battle ships." Chicago Record. Open to Doubt. Simpkins "I thought you said Breezy was wedded to the truth?" Timkins "So I always thought." Siinkin3 "Well, if ho ever was, he's a widower now." Tit-Bits. Comforts Cost. "Wouldn't you prefer to live in an apartment with an elevator; it raises one so quickly?" "Yes, but not nearly so quickly as it raises tho rent." Brooklyn Life. Impassioned. First Deaf-Mute "He wasn't so very angry, was he?" Second Deaf-Muto "He was so mad that tho words he used almost blistered his fingers." Indianapolis Journal. Imaginary Dnngerf. Nervous Old Lady (to deck hand) "Mr. Steainbontinau, is there any fear of danger?" Deck Hand (curelcssly) 'Tlenty of fear ma'om, but not a bit of danger." Harlem Life. Energy. Jobson "Just see how hard Dob son is working at beating that carpet." "Mrs. Jobson "Yes. Mrs. Dobson sets him at work at something of the kind just after he reads the war news in the paper." Brooklyn Life. Possessed. Mr. Dukane "I couldn't sleop a A'ink last night.". Mr. Gaswell "You had insomnia, I suppose?" Mr. Dukane "No; insomnia had me."" Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. Proof. Minnie "What frauds theso beg gars are. I met a 'blind' man who said, 'Please give mp a pouuy, beauti ful lady.'" Mamie "Yes, bo said that to make you think he really was blind." In dianapolis Journal. A Waste of Money. Mrs. Homespun "What did the doctor say was tho matter with you, Silas?" Silas "I fcrgit what he called it." Mrs. nomespnn "D'ye moan to say yon paid him $2 aud didn't git no good out of it?" Truth. Unpardonable. "My wife and her neighbor used to be inseparable, but they don't speak now." "What's the trouble?" "She persuaded my wife to buy a silk gown that turned out to bo part cotton." Detroit Free Press. Equnl to the Occasion. He "They say dreams go by con traries. Do you believe it?" She "Yes, I think they do." He "Alas, I dreamed last night that you had promised to be my wife." She "And I dreamed that I had refused you." Chicago News. Woman's Wiles. "What a hold Maud seems to have on all her rejected suitors." "Why shouldn't she, tho artful thing? Sho always tolls a man, when she refuses him, that she is afraid to marry a handsome man, because she would be so jealous." Cincinnati En quirer. Ills Memory Mure to Live. Beaglo "Old Foxley is dead. He'll be long remembered by the pooplo of this town." Spitts "Why, did be leave many public beqnests?" Beagle "He left iTebti to the amount of $50,000." Boston Tran script. An Eve to Itiislness. Optician "My dear sir, your case is hopeless." Customer "And am I doomed to blindness?" Optician "It is ineviJablo. I think you'd better look at my beautiful lino of artificial eyes at once." Jewelors Weekly. Justice Without Mercy. "Seems to me I've tcou your fuce before," said tho Judge, peering through bis spectacles. "Yes, your Honor; yon have," re plied the prisoner. "I am the pro fessor who gives tho young lady next door to you lessons on tho piano." "Seven years!" came from the Judge, quickly. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. One English firm turns out motor cars driven by electricity, oil, steam, compressed air or gas. Clocks can be accurately leveled by a new shelf, which has a fixed wall plate supporting a pivoted, adjustable shelf, with levels.in the top, to be sot by thumb screws on the under side. No parental care ever falls to the lot of a single member of the insect tribe. Iu general the eggs of an in sect are destined to be hatched long after the parents are dead, so that most insects are born orphans. A portable X-ray apparatus, no big ger than a Webster's Dictionary, but powerful enough to enablo a surgeon to look throngh a man's body, has been invented for use in war by Pro fessor Reginald A. Fessenden, of Pittsburg. Among the curious inhabitants of Australia are a species of termites called the "meridian ants," because they invariably construct their long, narrow mounds so that the principal axis of the dwelling runs exactly north and south. A German mathematician has calcu lated that three tons of sea water hold about a cent's worth of gold, and that if all the gold iu the oceans of tho globe could be collected it would make a solid cube measuring 718 metres on each side aud worth abont $1,450, 000,000,000,000. "An Indiana chemist," says the Pharmaceutical Era, "has applied for patents on a process for making wool from limestone. Atter some sort of chemical treatment the rock is sub jected to a drawing-out process, by which, it is said, it is couverted into the finest and most pliable wooj, of beautiful white color, soft as down, and bofh water and fireproof. " It is stated, says the Medical Rec ord, that telephones are to be placed in the wards of one of the Paris hos pitals, within reach of the bed-ridden patients, so as to enable tnem to com municate with their friends outside. ' There will also be au arrangement whereby tho telephones may bo switched on to a wire connected with a concert hall, so that the performance may be enjoyed by the invalids. A gun bos recently been patented in France, of which the flash is scarce ly visible aud tho noise of the dis charge greatly reduced. It is the in vention of Colonel Humbert, and a trial piece with a calibre of 37 mm. (about 1.5 inches) has already been tested. The improvement consists in screwing to the extremity of the muz zle a block which has an interior aper ture the same as that o.'the gun. Ant mills "Look" Juestlons. Unlike children, auimals do not ask questions. They only "look" them, and though they constantly and anxiously inquire what is to be done, how it is to be dono and tho exact wishes of their masters, and occasion ally even of other animals, the inquiry is made by the eye and attitude. A toirier, for instance, cou almost trans form his whole body into an animated note of interrogation. Of the two remaining forms of speech statement ond request the animals make very large use, but em ploy the latter in a far greater degree than the former. They nse sounds for request, not only in particular cases in which they desire something to be done for them, but also iu a great number of cases in which tho request is a form of warning "Come!" "Bo careful!" "Lookout!" "Oo ahead!" "Help!" The speech which indicates danger is sufficiently differentiated. Birds, for instance, have separate notes of warning to indicate whether the danger is in the form of a hawk or cat, or of a man. If a hawk, cat, or owl is on the move, the birds, espe cially blackbirds, always utter a chat tering note, constantly repeated, and chickens bave a special sound to indi cate the presence of a hawk. But when disturbed by man the blackbird.i have quite a different sound of alarm and the chickens also. Animals on the march are usually silent; but the hamadryad baboons use several words of command; and the cries of cranes and geese when Hying in ordered flocks are very possibly signals or or ders. London Spectator. riiotOEraphlng the Arteries. Several experiments with Roentgen rays have obtained unsatisfactory pictures of the various structures of the body before they have been dis turbed by dissection. More gratify ing results have just been reported by Drs. H. J. Stiles and H. Rainy, who have made the arteries of the dead body opaque by injecting mercury into them, and have thus secured skiagraphs showing the intricate ar terial system with remarkable clear ness. The picture of tho arteries of a child's bead might suggest were it not for tho varying width of tho lines a multiplied peuduluni trace of an earthquake. The great uumbor of the blood vessels, iu fact, is a point brought iuto prominence by the pict ures, causing one to wonder the deep incisions of surgery do not inevitably cause bleeding to death. The ten dency of blood to coagulate is a detail in nature's system of fortifications whose importance is little considered. A Fine With is History. The flag that covered a purt of the graves of the 1C1 American sailors ou the occasion of the memorial service at Havana has just been taken to Chicago by George C. Mages, who sent the pennant of the battle-ship Maine to Chicago somo wceksago. Two Cuban seamstresses sewed tho Stars and Stripes together for tho tourists who made the arrangements for the memo rial service. The Cuban women of Havaua declare they will make March 1 on annual day of memorial celebra tion for tho dead sailors of tho Maiuo. A BALLADE OF LOVE AND THE TIDES. Over the sea my sweetheart sails, Hwept hither and yon l.y the vnrled gales. Over the sea tnv sweetheart rides. Trusting her nil to the changeful tides. Oh, danger and death he blind to her! Oh, wnters nnd winds, be kind to her! Uring nil Rood things destined to her As over the sen she pal Ik. Over life's sea my sweetheart rides, Aud ever my spirit with her abides. Over life's sea my sweetheart snils. And never my jirnyor for her safety falls. Mny sorrow and shame lie Mind to herl May all good things be kind to her! And gladness lie ever destined to her, As over life's sea she rld-s. Over the seas my sweetheart sails, And God's love tempers the varied gales. Over the sea my sweetheart rides, God's linger restrains the changeful tides. Since tho heavenly lovo Is not Mind to her Must all good things be kind to her. And gladness be ever destined to her, As over the sens she sal's. Ethel Maude Colson. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. Atchison Globe. A dangerous counterfeit two-dollar certificate is afloat. Spend every two dollar bill tho minute you get it. West Union Gazette. She "Why don't you talk more when we're out together?" He "I'm too polite to interrupt you, my dear." Detroit Free Press. Charley "Why ore yon gazing so intently at Miss ALcient Odlddust?" Jack "I'm trying to make up my mind between her and Klondike." Judge. Sunday-school Teacher "Who is it that sees everything wo do and (hears everything we say?" Tommy Slimp kins "Our hired girl." Norristown Herald. "The streets are overrun with bi cycles." "Well, that would be all right if the people on the streets were not run over with them." Philadel phia Bulletin. Lord St. Agnant "I say, old man, deuced queer people in this country." Lord Nozoo "Yes; neveh let y' know when they're going to tell a joke, y' know." Puck. Tom- -"You say you have got money enough to get married and live com fortably?" Jack "No; I said I had got money enough to get married or live comfortably." Puck. Argy (fervently) "I love her, Clarence, although I am well aware that sho has got a past." Clarence "But are you well aware that she has got a-past foi-ty?" Judge. Doctor "Well, it's ten to one you won't see mo to-morrow." Patient "What! Any d-danger, doctor?" Doc tor "Oh, no. Those are merely my office hours." Harper's Bazar. Why pay a dollar to a fortune teller to learn the future when the experi ence of others shows that you will have a little joy, a great deal of trouble, and die old and poor? Atchison Globe. Old Lady "Didn't I tell you never to come here again?" Tramp "I hope yon will pardon me, madam, but it's tho fault of my secretary. He has neglected to strike your name from my visiting list." Tit-Bits. Diggs "Blank, tho banker, died this morning." Biggs "That so? Of whom did ho die?" Diggs "You mean 'of what did he die, I sup pose?" Biggs "No; who was his physician?" Chicago News. Mother "I'm afraid Mr. Crisscross is not serious in his intentions." Daughter "He is awfully bashful, you know; but be is offering himself piecemeal. Last night, ho wanted ine to take his arm." Tit-Bits. Sunday-school Teacher "Johnny, what does it mean where it tells ns to 'honor our father and mother that our days may bo long,' etc.?" Johnny "It means we must get up when they call us in the nioruiug." Puck. "No, Herbert, I am sorry, but I am sure we could not be happy together. You know I always want my own way iu everything." But, my dear girl, you could 30 on wanting it after we were married." Boston Globe. "Pessimifim," said the Sage, "is but o matter of temperament. One pessi mist I knew wus always saddest on pay-day, because he realized that there would be nothing more coining to him for o week." Cincinnati Enquirer. Bobby "Don't you know that folks cau't get married after they aro dead, Mr. Littlepate?" Mr. Littlepate "Why, of course I do." .Bobby "Then what are you dying to get mar ried for, os Sister Juue says you ore?" Judge. "Maria, it does seem to me tlat 826.75 is a tremendous price to pay for a hat to wear just olio Sunday." "John, a man who cau't tell a bat from a bonnet is no judge of what a suitable prioo is. Y'oitr ignorance mortifies ine." Chicago Tribune. "This coffee, my dear," said Kick les, "reminds ine of what mother nsed to make." "Does it really?" ex claimed his wife, a pleased look com ing into her face. "Yes; and she used to make obout the worst coffee I ever drauk." Boston Traveler. "Sqnibbs is a great editor, isn' he?" "I should say so; he is so ac customed to speak and think of him self as 'we' that, when he w anted to ride home from tho office the other day, he nbseut-mindedly sent the printers' devil after his tandem." Bicycling World. The Ideal Taste. Thoso who keep scrap-books and wish to preserve their peace of mind from the spoiling of their Hour paste should add a small quantity of salt and a half teuspoonful of crude oil of cloves or sassafrus to tho flour and water while boiling. A very hand some but expensive ndhesives is tho fresh white of an egg. Mostjmucilages turn dark in time aud discolor tho thickest paper.
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