6J JO W fW lie r.. '' ' tn ntntj ' 1 1 iu i ... . if w --a. JJ Or Quarter Co:d. r Half Column, , (rati On. Column, ,oa . fcUi Iai advertaeuk eat4 BUfg each inaarlion. Alamacr and death o- All bill. :or yearly adr quarterly Temporary tie nai.i in advance Job work cash on dell rt'-i err.-ui', tiqszjta, ta. ' :M!,ai 1 f.,r shorter I ;,',1 I 'i :l a i ..: ."; . t oir.i i ; ) .. , . -j 1 fro n all pvts of r -ii. ,s .i,. ba taken of VOL. XXXI. NO. 38. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4, 1899. SI. 00 PER ANNUM. r. m 'u -rl i i f 1 to maVe w fti.6 tj rul. r of tbe main thing bti!"r defeated iu u:; 1 of tho. Cup". Ij at us one ol to m.'tka at l,,;,f,id to the seed's httla dan- iljsloyftl to the 1 nul cv: : ir.r r;!.l ,v there r. r of tl ili-di mi.. It is " Miumtoil tU.;i i hundred thou .a I look were rejected lust year by r:cricaii publishers. With 'the pay i .' .id olectrio raotorman, it is Raid the t. ' rt would have earned, while they Wi , ) w riting their honks, one hundred and tweuty millions of dollars.- he .AVorcester . (Mass.) Gazette that it may some day become necessary to license . ''ins, if Tvlsnt the physicians say is true in r6v U" j-iu'd to eei taiu favorite -concoctions vl.Ii-U have as thoir baais of attraotipiul h i t n i n por cent, of drugs are cnpa- I a t fotming; habits as hard to break' 11 i the alcohol lmt.it, and oven ! ..1 .1'T. ' '.-f Xow that Aaioricaa capital is iiif v" t ite 1 ir such t;rcat railway building jrcject! ia Gblwii ia bolieved V.v.t .Aip.i'iic.in j ! ' will 1, rif t t'f . :J "'..a-Jhatf .eUiuiuJ in.niy have Tiro ' nuina- lie-"linr of -jail-Y'AiiiCticau lnythoda ''io) rialu Dealer. ' ..ft was, ' i fvvled . . i : int., 1 ! .lit! jn ngri-' i'u; 'nil :;!(:. 1 , Jn .acts-JtJ r tini.ite-1 tUn A J a ltrlct Jidvin!jap-i.'.'::ti.u of.)- .10i),07,oO of pc-p!.. ' " '' " . "Yes, the for" is: a'u'.' vo;iieu . (;')' cciiHfi., y ...''lot D(;.-.iU '-e'.ir.tprcHting rapid adv..; lileut LtH j statistics ai 'IU' 1 tl) tho which American women have made in nil Colds of employment rlnrififc the. ast eilit and tweuiyears Siuce 'lSTO tho women arftitoots.havo in-(rre:f.-e.l from one to fifty-three; the Idoutista from tweuty-fonr- to 41-7; the J.iwyera from five to 417; the phyi" vians aud eurgeocs from 527 to C88.S; i -f. 'nnd the "clergy onion" from sixty r-oven to loll. Trobahly the uext iwenty-ei'ht jenra will see iit greater .rides.- Hut what will be tho jffoct niou the relations botxeen the men f tho time and the -women' of the me remains to be seen. But surely r. i'r-'is tmH Cordelias, or -Jet t ' the race of Florence Nightingales "Aii " 'i Frrncwill not pass ! v - fiu's advance in .lit Eiay."..: - The henlth and food fad." the day ,ore produoiug their legiticte result, jeheerves the New Yorfc l'oat." Over jZeal intheir pursuitua to be ex j eeh d,' and it exists to the. extent t' nt medical men have,. actually found n f .(otitic name loV a condition whioh arises from fear' of food. . It is not etsctly a disease, bnt'. its effeot fj'oeJiiy utcuiuos Lartnful if the con dition continues. It seems desirable to avoid too much thought over what ono trtts. If certain general principles of hygienio Jood are observed, a healthy appetite and a roli"h for the dishes set before one may be trusted. It does not need any conversion to mental science to discover that if we make np our minds something will di8ajee with us it will. This, of couroe, is not a plea for the pendulum to slip too far the other way, but merely one more caution that in the food fads, as in every other develop ment of this investigating age, there is need for sanity and poise. The rural trolley line in this coun try is in its infancy. .A comparatively few roads have been buili through'the farming regions -with the idoa of superseding the wagon as a means of access for the farmer to market. But the great development of the trolley has been lor passenger trafflo, where a large and more or less constant busi ness made the dynamo an economical source of power. Perhaps the de velopment of the produce-gathering lines was somewhat retarded while waiting; for the perfection of systems by which electricity could be econom ically nsed when the power for which engines had with more or less con stancy to be employed was only nsed for the making of infrequent trips. Moreover, it was certainly retarded by jthe conservatism of farming coramuni jties already possessing wagon roads more or less good, cenerallv less. If vimerc ' t c , jany Government authority had been O , ".L i. 1 -il. n . it - . "iuromeu wuu me prooiem 01 lm viug local country communications "4 mor farm produce would s i ... . y . io 3!arsei ,ou trouev. cars. , 9 New York Tribune. ytnn bad withered In tu i slum n he and liia were bred, lis whi a burden, and, though Hps wrt r . ' -lamb. '. ' A. . ui-ta wUtied that he wore dead An! n KlHtieJ he; (or In his wearied soul Tlioro wa but one d-'ulre To slip away, to roach strange, vague goal Where time WouU coaso to tire. But on a day some one with grave, sweot fm.'e, And tender, skillful hands, ,Cam to Ills aHt, and bore hint trora tb place, It seemed, to far-off lands, ' Ills youthful TB-iSILEITT, TROOPER. $ : CI . . Dy. Vv:. L." Comfort, If $J a Ou o v t KOOIT.iV LAN dor, in.-private Tauks, never told . just why he. was kicked, by his . lieutenant, Jlat Crim, Lander never told any thing. That ao- 'counts for his being left to him i self more than is common or judicious for1 one if Uncle bi t horsemen in field or post. ' jt troop is a family of big boys. Some of them are big bad boys, and an odd thing about it is that these are not always the unpopular ones. Troopers do not fall on the neok of new man. They treat him with pin nacled dignity, like old cavalry horses treat additions to the picket line. If the new man,, id a reasonable-period, develops no objeotionable traits, he will find himself a member of the family, whioh arc other words for a good fellow. But he can't be a silent man nor a sneak; neither can he manipulate a voluminous correspondence. These things are fatal. - Lander was a silent man. " ' . lie was also my "bunkie," which means that I could put out a hand al - most anytime in the night and touch him. Naturally, under suoh condi tions, my very proper prejudice against him on account of his infernal reserve would either grow into an uncomfort able suspicion, ifnot worse; or else I would learn to look beyond this seri ous mental derangement of his. As it was, I began to feel for him that strong, wholesome respect whioh. one i.i ways lias tor pnysioai capability, -. hen it ia not accompanied by mental Biuggisnness. Then I liked Lander's face. .He was a handsome fellow handsome astride his horse, and at mess and at grooming handsome when silent, Yet I havo seen his eyelids droop over a wicked pair of shining eyes, and seen an ugly, bloodless look about his lower lip. I saw this on the hot day when Lieutenant Mat Crim kieked him in the back, because I wish I knew my self. I will tell yon what I saw. A couple of troops of the regiment were out on a target range. We were Vamped iu a bunch of unaspiring foot hills wbich, late in the afternoon. rested in the huge conical shadow of Old Baldy. The tip of Old Baldy's icy cone punctures the sky at one of the highest points in Arizona. We were in that sand-stricken land where wsyfarers have to climb for water and dig for fuel-wood. ' We were iu that heat-ridden laud where the lean, long coyote scents aeatu ana trots cau tiously thither where the vulture cranes his bare crimson neck from be hind a cloud, and peers earthward for aying tilings. I Lieutenant Mat Crim was a little wasp-wolsted chap, who had a dirty trick of getting mnd. His West Point days were too fresh in his mind for iim to be a good officer. He never allowed himself to lose sight of the iaot tnat be was a commissioned officer and that a mighty stretch of superiority lay between him and a common, enlisted man. Crim had just been transferred to our troop. Lander had come from another regi ment two months before. The two men met that hot afternoon just be fore groomiug time. Lander sainted. Crim stopped short, caught at his breath several times and bogan to relieve himself of vy a lot of livid English, all of which struck me as mysterious. Lander stood "at attention," eaid something in a low voice and walked away. Lieutenant Crim was ungovernable. He sprang after Lander, kicked him in the baok and said: "I'll make life miserable for you, Charlie Howard I" whioh I judge must have been Lander's civilian name. Lander laughed low and melodi ously. I was thinking how wicked Lander looked when he laughed that way. Then tho bngle sounded "stables." Every man in the troop detested the lieutenant, and all admired Lander for keeping his nerve. One of the most unprofitable things a soldier can do is to strike a superior officer. The same kind of a finish awaits him as if he had been found sleeping at his post. I watohed Lander, and Lander watched Lieutenant Crim during the several following weeks. And they Were not pretty eyes, those strange eyes of Lander's, as they trailed the movements of his superior officer. To all, he preserved his self-bound intensity. Glad, indeed, would I have been to come very close to the heart of this silent man, because I learned to have deep feelings for him. He poBsessejl the cold nerve which makes beroestind the great warm heart which lu.Xjs friends I was' sure of this. But vure was broad enough ' ' I,,, I ll.l , .. . HAPPY! yet, t, alter all, 'twas bnt a whirling hour uurot the '"fke-bllna town To where thAwly shone with unblamlaUed power Ore.4 lair, broad down. And he, the cripple, whose sad Springs were ftiors Than one who watched blm knew. Had never seen i muoh green grass be- 'ori, Nor ski so big anJMue, . . Qe was so softly glad, bo full of peace, . n iald him baok and sighed, And watohed the deep sky and Its floating floooe Dreaming that he had died. V -. J. J. Bell, In Chambers's Jonrnnl. o3 Filth' U. S. Cavalry to cover his troubles, so he did not confide In men. Heroes can hate well. Why my eyes wandered to the op posite side of one of Lander's letters while he was holding it np, and there lingered for a single disgraceful seo ond, is something moro-thau I can ex plain. I can only regret it. At any rate, I saw these words: "Oh, Charlie, do let me come to yon!" A lady-killer is my silent friend, thonght I; but didn't mean to read part of his letter really, I didn't. After five weeks the troops were ordered to the barracks. No cue was sorry, for life on target range in Ari zona is tedious, putting it with studied mildness.' ' And then they have mos quito netting in the barracks. A tragedy was enacted on those moonlit foothills at Old Baldy's base the last night tn range. I am not a hnudy man at tragedies. It was this way ir "Say, did chap," said Lander in a light manner the morning before,' a little favor for me, will you? I wa you to meet a lady for me. I believe I will have another engagement to- niKhtl" - "A lady in this country I" I whia pered excitedly. Nothing but greaser maidens and squaws had I seen for months it seemed. Reluctantly he handed me a note, part of which is below: ' "I eoutd not help coming. I was frantlo when I learned that he was transferred to your troop. You must meet me to-night. Did you think I could forget you. Ob, Charlie, I may be aotlng unwomanly, but I am desperate. No one knows mo bore In the village. I will be noar the last adobe, but on the north. - Oh, why did you go away? I thougut uome to-nlgnt. Elsib." "It's a common yarn," said Lander nervously. "She knew me np North as a civilian. Crim and I were sta. tioned there, but hcAlid not know me. I was only a private. She was lovely to ns both. The queer thing about it is that I won out. Then it ooourred to me that I was only a common sol dier, who had flunked at everything else he tried, and nardly fit to marry, so I applied for a transfer and chased out. She wouldn't have Crim any how. "Now Crim turns np again in the attitude of my superior officer, which is very dramatic, and the little worn. an is here, which is also very dramat ic; and as I can t see them both, want yon to go to her. I must keep the other engagement. Tell her I'm a deserter or dead or any old thing For the second timo I heard Lan der lauiirh low and melodiously. I can hear it yet. "There'll be a show down to-night," he said. After retreat.theliontouant called for his horse and lopod slowly townward. The sun was red and low, and tho silken flag over headquarters was casea for- the night. A little later Lauder entered tho tent, threw his cartridge belt about him and snun tered carelessly out. "Don't keep the little wonun wait ing long," be whispered to me, watched his form grow dim in the shadows toward the village. Then I stepped into my cartridge belt, looked at my six-shooter and became one of the mysterious townward prooessfon, Something is going to drop on the vil lage road tnis night, I thought. Lander was sitting by the road -side a mile from camp. He smiled, bnt did not speak to me. While I waited, I wondered why I had not remembered to shake hands with Lander that night. It seemed a long time before the lieutenant's horse was heard down the road. I hoped that Lander would not pick off his man from ambush. I hated to think he would do it. "Dismount, lieutenant!" sang ont the man who had been kicked, and he did not salute his superior officer. What Crim said as he obeyed is rather important but not necessary to this narrative. But Crim knew then that he was only a common human man, like the being before him, whom he had kicked. He saw in the faded twilight a private in the regular army who in the presence of other men was his slave: but, who alone, in the foot hills of Arizona, was a oool, deter mined, smiling foe. He saw before him the handsome Charlie Howard, who was loved by a woman he loved. He saw the reckless light in Howard's eyes which boded no good. And in spite of all these things, Lieutenant Mat Crim was game. The moon was looking over old Baldy's icy crown now and the great dome above and the sand below were filled with its whitenesss. "You acted the coward once, little officer try to be a, man to-night," I heard Lander say. "It was imprac tible to procure seconds, so yon will have to rely upon the honor of a com mon soldier. Perhaps yon never as sociated such sentiments with an en listed man. I see that you have your Iff . 6o4 six-shooter. . I was too soft hearted to bruise you with my hands." Crim looked at his man keenly. He then looked over his six-shooter care fully. He had been a clever shot at Wettt Foiut. "Who gives the signal?", he added, olearing his throat. "Count threes in the position of 'raise pistol,' " sad Lander politely, "after which you are at liberty to fire as soon as you please." Crim'stall gelding browsed uneasily and whinnied. He wanted to get back to the hay on the picket line, but ho was a trained cavalry horse and did not think of trotting off alone. I watched, not knowing what else to do. Both men 'look position, and came to tho regulation "raise pistol." "Keady?" .asked the lieutenant, olearing his throat again. "All ready," answered the silent man cheerfully. ' The - moonbeams whitened his forehead. "One;" said the lieutenant. Both men were motionless. "TwoJ" he screamed. His arm drbpped. There was a noise and an empty shell in his six-shooter. The lieutenant had forgotten to say "Three." Lander was dying ia tho moonlight, and there was no empty shell in his six-shooter! ' Mat Crim, his super ior officer, ran to his horse like a thing affrighted, and galloped away. "Go and tell her, old chap," Lan der whispered, "that Charlie Howard was afraid to meet her to-night. Tell her that his memory is a far .worthier shrine for her worship than a com mon cavalryman. Tell her that I was a deserter, because old-man, I think a lot of the little witch. Yon needn't tell her that Crim is a coward just say he is a good shot." And when there were no more words I hurried away to the village to keep Lander's engagement. She was there a little thing pretty and trembling. There was a lace handkerchief in her hand and a soft perfume about her. I told her what Lander had said. She did not cry, but clutched my arm with fierce strength. "Take me to him," she demanded, I led the way back over the rolling road, and when we neared the spot where I had left my silent friend .in the moonlight, I heard a long, low, mournful howl, the answer mingled witn the eoho. "Let ns hurry faster I" I said. .There was no tcbange. Lieutenant Mat Crim had not returned. The wom an picked np the pistol whioh had fallen by the silent man's side, and threw open the cylinder with the ease of a veteraii. Six loaded cartridges fell into her hand. ' "You saw it all?" she questioned slowly. "And he was your friend?" I bowed. "Then you will kill the coward for your friend's sake!" Sho spoke the words altogether too loudly. "He is my superior offlcer.madame," I whispered. "Leave me now," she commanded. "Bnt, madnnie," I objected, "I must walk with you back to the vill age." "No.no! Leave me. I have this." She was replacing tho cartridges into the cylinder, Ag I stood watching her, a bugler in the camp a mile away played the last call a soldier hears at night the mournful, melancholy taps. And I looked down upon my friend, the si lent man they would sound taps over him to-morrow and I forgot that I was only a private in the regular army. "Leave me now," she repeated. And when I had gone a few paces I turned. She was bending low. The moon was high above old Baldy now, and his whiteness was npon the upturned face of the silent mau. Lieutenant Mat Crim called for his horse the next morning, when a guard told him that the bodies of Private Lander and a white woman had been found ont in the chaparral. Detroit Free Press. Tbe Lait Days of Carlrle. He generally spends his mornings till about half past two- o'clock be tween lying on the sofa, reading in his easy chair and smoking an occasional pipe, writes Carlyle's niece, Mary, to his sister, Mrs. Ban ning, in the Atlantic. At half past two he goes ont to drive for two or two and a half hours, sleeps on the sofa till dinner time (half past six), then after dinner sleeps again, at nine has tea, reads, or smokes, or talks, or lies on the sofa till bedtime, which is usually about midnight, and so ends the day. He looks very well in the face, has a fine, fresh, ruddy complexion, and an immense quantity of white hair, his voice is clear and strong, he sees and hears quito well; but for the rest, as I have said, he is not good at moving abont. In general he is wonderfully good-humored and contented; and on the whole carries his eighty-four years well, no desires me to send yon, his kind love, and his good wishes; as you know, he writes to nobody at all. I do not think he has written a letter, even dictated one, for over a year. A Straw Hat and a Contented Shark. A Chinaman named Ah Hoi, con victed at the Kohala Court of having opium in his possession, and under sentence, jumped from the Kinau and was probably eaten by a shark. At any rate nothing was seen of the pris oner after he disappeared over the side, and the policeman who had him in "custody has (been discharged for carelessness. The officer did not notify the steamer men of the jump of the Chinaman till the Kinau was a mile or more away from the locality of the dive. The Kinau was put about, bnt all that could be seen was the straw hat of the Chinaman and a large shark swimming leisurely about. The steamer was several miler at sea when the prisoner made his (break, Pacifio Commercial Advertiser,' i . PULfc UtrArllMLNT, The solutions to these putzles Will ip P.W ifl succeeding Issue. ' ' 21. A Charade. Without my first no voice la heard; Wttbla my second, lives begin, My third muBt end delightfully; My whole tells bow they strive who win. S3. A Novel Aeroetlc. All the words described contain the same number of letters. . When right ly guessed and written one below the other,' two of the rows of letters, read ing downward, will spell the name of a popular book, Beading across: 1, tendency; 2 cov erings for the head; 3, pertaining to imaginary dwarfs; 4, instruments of torture; 5, a hard, heavy wood; 6, smetrs; 7, poets; 8, the century plant; 9, Venetian rulers; 10, immature. S3 A .Traveling Pnxzle. Begin eaoh word with the final let ters of the preceding word: Example: Buffalo, lotion, Iouio, Iceland. . The fare from Kamchatka to Chica- go is 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. 7. 8. 9. An insect. A thought.. . . A festival. - A mistake. A small bird. A point where two lines meet, A beverage. A discussion. . A viceroy. 114. Five Bidden States. 1. Come here, mamma; I need help at once. 2. The bear almost overtook him, but a hunter came to his rescue. 3. We were afraid that we might miss our ice cream. 4. He did a horrible deed. 5. The boatman said that he bad no more gondolas to hire. SOLUTIONS TO PREVIOUS 1UZZLE8. 17. Word Squares I BURNS UNION ' RIFLE' NOLDE ' ' . SNEER ' II- PL A TO LARAT A R B I L T A I NE O T L E Y 18. A Double Cross Word Texas, Maine. .''v. 19. Eight Beheadments H-ight, b-eaoh, b-rain, M-arch, t-wig, c able, n-early,"n-arrow. 20. Somo Novel Ladies 1, Ella Fant; 2, Minnie Ster; 3, Emma Grant; 4, Minnie Rifle; 5, Ann U. Ity; 6, Ann Atomist; 7, Ann T. Dilnvian; 8, Polly Tishu1i;9, Delia Gate; 10, Minnie A. Choor; 11, Carrio K. Choor; 12, Jen nie Rosity; 13, Millie Tary; 14, Anns Condor and Allie Gator. SCIENTIFIC. AND INDUSTRIAL. Thunder can be heard eight miles away. An avernge star of the first magni tude is one hundred times as bright as one of the sixth magnitude. Charcoal absorbs the gaBes and re lieves the distended stomach pressing against the nerves which extend from the stomach to the bead. It is announced that a first-class meteorologist observatory is to be built on the Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany. While the gold fields of the world cover an area of more than 1,500,000 sqrrare miles, Mr. B. J. Skertohley, an Australian geologist, finds that the fields of tin, which metal is the most sparingly distributed of any of those in general nse, occupies less than 12,500 square miles. The curious fact that corn, potatoes and other plants thrive better when placed in rows running north and south has been proved by Dr. Woliny, of Munich, Bavaria, This reduces the shading by each other to a mini mum, more uniform aud regular light, heat and moisture resulting. The latest nse of glass is instead of gold as a material for stopping de cayed teeth. It answers splendidly, and is far less conspicuous than the yellow metal. Of course, it is not ordinary glass, bnt is prepared by some new patented process which renders it soft and malleable. The French periodical L'Electricien reports that the town of Blanken berghe is new supplied with water in which all germs have been killed by meaus of ozone, generated by an electrio onrrent. The same principle will soon be applied to the dangerous Seine water at St. Maure, Paris. fA Memento of Omdnnnaa. A memento of the Lancers' charge at Omduman not less curious than sad is, aocording to the Pawnbrokers' Gazette, in the hands of a Holboru jeweler. It consists of the watch worn by Lieutenant Grenfell, which was found on his dead body when this was recovered after the fatal charge. One of tho many spear thrusts which the ill-fated young officer received pene trated both the outer and inner cases of the watch, a plain silver lever, driving some of the works right throngh to the face of the dial and stopping the hands at twenty-one minutes to nine, the precise moment of the wearer's death. Lieutenant Grenfell's family are having the watch mounted on a square block of crystal, for nse as an inkstand, to serve as a memorial of their heroio young rela tive. III! Want. I want two drams When Christians comes; (But I don't want slate for do!u' curd!) An' a wagon load of sugar plum! An' a big foot ball, an' a top that bums, (Cut never a slnte fer dolo' suing!) Oh, I Just want lots whon Christmas ooram. Frank btanton, in the Atlanta Constitution. SHIPWRECKED. THEN MURDERED. Party of Klehteen Perone Matsacrcd by Indian la Alaska. Latest reports from Alaska tell of the fate of a party of eighteen persons who are said to have been killed by Indians after having been wrecked near the month of the Knskokwim River last June on the little steamer Jesse. ' The story has just been brought from that section in a letter to Barneson & Chilcott," who were part owners in the wrecked steamer. The letter was written by a man named Marsten, a hunter and trader on Nnnivak Island, 100 miles from the mouth of the Kuskokwim. He says his wife, who is an . Indian woinau, paid a visit to her relatives 'at the mouth of the Kuskokwim River short' ly after the wreck of the Jessie. While there she attended a feast given by the Iudians. . During its progress the Indians got drunk on a kind of liquor made by themselves. While indulging in the general de bauch they quarreled over the posses sion of certain articles taken from the shipwrecked crew. Her suspicions were aroused by see ing them in possession of many valua ble articles of wearing apparel, watches, breech-loading rifles, and an abundant supply of provisions. She made inquiries of her grandmother, an aged squaw, who related to her how, when the Jessie went ashore in the surf, the Indians assisted iu sav ing the whites and the cargo, and af ter the whites had established a camp, the Indians demanded pay for their services. They wanted nearly every thing the whites bad, not leaving them enough to last the party through the winter. The whites offered a rea sonable amount,-which did not satisfy the Indians, who planned to take pos session of everything. A oounoil was held, and it was de cided to kill all the whites, which was done the next night while they were asleep. The bodies were taken to the sea in canoes and thrown overboard. Nothing was known of the fate of the unfortunate -prospectors for nearly a month after the wreck, when several bodies came ashore badly decomposed. The Indians then reported that tho Jessie and the barge had been wrecked and all lost. Report was made to nn agent of the Alaska Commercial Company, who visited the scene and identified tho bodies of Captain Murphy and tho Rev. Mr. Webber, a Moravian mis sionary, who, with his wife aud child, joined the expedition at Dutch Har bor, and was going to establish a mis sion among the savages who murdered him. It is further stated that tho Kus kokwim Indians threaten to stop tho whites from prospecting in the Kus kokwim country, as they claim it as their hunting aud fishing reserve. Diplomat) Colors. Books blue and books yellow: Tho Figaro publishes a note on the colors of the official volumes communicated by different Europesa governments to parliament and the nations. Tho yellow book which France circulates is the brochure coming from tho French Foreign Office. It is destined for the use of chambers, the embassies and the press. About 2000 copies are issued in tho publication, but they are not on sale for the nation. French usage differs from the English in this respect and throws a heavy burden on tho press. The Temps, for instance, latelyJonnd it necessary to print a speciarpage devoted to the yellow book on Fashoda. The German chan cery publishes white books for the Reichstag, but only on colonial ques tions, while Italy binds in green and Greece in red. Austria and Russia are, says the Figaro, without analo gous documents, aud the United States, Government contents itself with a simple communication made to Congress in relation to foreign affairs. In the case of these official bindings one can only say with regret that whether blue, yellow, red, green, black or white, they have never formed a general harmony yet. Pall Mall Gazette. Catching Smelt.. Down in Maine in catchiug smelts in winter the fishermen build shanties on the ice over good fishing grounds and ont a hole through the ice and make a trap door in the floor of the shanty to fish through. The shanty is built upon timbers laid on the ice, and the first thing the fishermen do when they get the building np is to pour water over these timbers, so as to freeze them down to the ice; otherwise when a wind sprang np it might blow the shanty along on the ice on these timbers, whioh would thus becomo practically a sort of sled runners. They have a stove in the shanty for greater comfort, rnd when they are not fishing they close the trap door and thus have an nnbroken floor. Each man uses two lines in fishing, and as fast as he hauls the fish up he puts them in a box, the boxes nsed being made of various sizes, each containiug a specified number of pounds of fish. When he has a box packed full he sets it out'on the ice and pours water iu it. The fish are frozen solid in the boxes, and in this condition they are shipped to mar ket. New York Sua. Paper Teeth Now, It is certainly a reign of wood pulp that is npon us, for now a German has perfected a process for making false, that is, artificial teeth for human nse, manufactured from paper pulp instead of porcelain or the other ma terials usually nsed in the imitation of masticators of commerce. They are stated to be very satisfactory iu every respect. They are not briitlo and do not chip off. Tho moisture in the mouth has no effect npon these teeth, and they retain their colo " feetly. They are lighter t ' lain and cheaper to raav- SERENADE. ; Who is It sings the gypsies' .nj to-nh, To muted Ktrings, i . Deep In the linden shade, beyond tha . Aly casement flings? - Can it be Death who sings? Ah no, no' ' For he is old Ills voiee is like the murmur of the se When light grows cold. Who Is It sings once more, once more agalt The gypsy song? Bong of the open road, the starry t .... Estranged so long "Come to the woods, oome, for the woods are green, ' - The sweet airs blow, The hawthorn boughs the forest boles be tween Are white as snow." ' The wet leaves stir; the dim trees lr again -.. Of vaulshed springs Out In the night, out In the slow, soft rain, Mr lost vouth sings. Kosamund Marriott Watson, In Harper's Magazine. , HUMOR OF THE DAY. Madrid is the capital of Spain, but slie-can't bank on it, Adams Free man. "They say her father moves in the very best society?" "Oh, yes, piano mover." Judy. The Bride "No man caa serve two masters." The Benedict "That's why I want you to be cook, my dear." VWho is that mau who has such a lordly air around here?" "He used to be our office boy." Chicago Record. "I tell you, getting married ia i ' business." "I notioe tdie couple ha, to have someone stand np for them." Belle "How did you find out the name of Maude's new beau?" Lena "I gave her my new pen to try." ruck. . ' "How do you like your ne.. prenidont, Mrs. Chatterton?" "She s splendidjshe never calls us to order.'- Chicago Record. j ' Mrs. Gunn "1 wish you'd pay a little attention to what I am saying." Mr. Gunn "I am, dear, as little as possible." New York Times. - Greene "Do they play golf ; ia Germany?" ReddVOh, yes; haven't you ever heard of the Frankfurter links?" Yonkers Statesman. ' ''How in the world do all tbf"e young lawyers live?" asked a al. "By the provisions of the code," re plied a bystander. Atlanta Journal, The wrath of two tourists was great Vihaa the train at 2.02 wouldn't wait, i Though they made a to-do, ( Tho train whistle blew Toot-toot-toot at 2.02 toolat... Gerald "They say that it takes three generations to make a gentle man." Geraldine "Your grandson will bo all right then, "j New York World. : - - "You say Dr. Bowless is a specialist;? I thought ho was a gquoral prac titioner. . ' AVhat ' is his specis "Big bills, said the viotim i. Indiuu- , ) "S-h-hl' - apolis Journal. She (in a startled whisper) Don I't you hear somebody talking?" (dreamily) -"No; that's that golf jf ; you picked out for me." Cleve-; ' Ho suit you p land Plain Dealer. Hi "I don't understand Tui0 , ,.aiu Willie, gazing at the elephant. "Here's the elephant that can't reti growing two beautiful big paper out rin,t ..nk r.f Viia rannthl" Tit- Bits. Book Canvasser "Pardon me madam, but are you interested in th study of prehistoric man?" i Mis Antinne "Oh. indeed! ltkeeM in busy trying to get the man interested iume." Chicago iv. Mrs. Browne "Yes, we used to 1 Tommy sit on tho dictionary when i y when i his fatbil ne "Whj he book?! : to mucl took b is piano lesson; but h put a stop to it." Mrs. Greene so?. Fraid it would hurt th Mrs. Browne "No; it was like punning; playing on woi know." Boston Transcript. WISE WORDS. When yon tfease io piv to possess, , The "larger hope" , luu end iu deeper despair. ' ' The way to watch is to work. It requires abundant grace to wil stand abundant prosperity. . Your position in life to-morro pends on your oharaoter to-day. A high ideal is a standing iavitat i' to reach a more exalted position, j The man who loses his life in Icj sows the seed or untold noble livei The man who will not suffer for 1 truth will have to suffer for ingit. The miser who is able (but i. ing) to relieve want is truly a m able man. The exasperating trivlnl " ' are little lead lines 1 ' our religion. ' ...... I i The Origin of Week Vmy. Sunday The day devoted.) worship of the sun by our forefat'' Monday The day devoted to tut, ship of the moon by our for' Tuesday The day devoted. ship of Tieu or Tyw, the Wednesday The day devo. worship of Woden or Odin wind. Thursday The '" to the worship of Tj. thnndnr, Friday las to the worship of jjlieb, Venus of the Nor day devoted to the god of af god of the fo anely ' iulatea who va.t election oc ccr.mes: Napoleon the Washington, An Bery gliomas Jefferson, niouw' Jollu Bunyan, all na c,CMr Edgif ma theso were candi oH. iaturo. n 3Vr I 10- i r. ) ) I 1
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