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England's new diplomacy bears an inscription which, being translator, reads: "Made in America." Chicago ban it new institution, de signed to transform the servant girls of tho windy city into "home scien tists." Here's luck to it. The remark is so frequently made that "a man who refused to give his name was knocked down by a street car," or that "a woman whose identity conld not be learned was run ovor by a grooor's wagon." that the Spring flold Homestead advises people to give thoir names cheerfully and avoid such a penalty. Manila's Admirat is not the only Dewey who mado tho family name re sound in naval circles. Sixty-four years so Captain Dewoy, aft iirdent Whig, sawed the Jaoksou figurehead off the frigate Constitution one night in Boston Harbor. It raised a com motion at the time all over the coun try almost as groat as' the Fhilippiuo news did in .our own day. L t It la gratifying to noto that Oenoral Henry is applying to Porto Eico tho same vigorous and salutary polioy by 1. J .1. 1 ITT ,1 . . wuiou uenerai ooa na put new mo into the province of Santiago. In Porto Kieo the conditions are riot so' difficult and depressing, and the task will bo less difficult, and . General Henry is facilitating itby doing thingi in thoir proper order. - - Ho is begin ning by holding muniolpal elections, aud will then reorganize local courts of justioo aud tother details of local ad ministration, after which the Ameri can publio sohool will be established. All these measures will show good re sults even more qniokly than they have in Cuba. 1 Aiiothor Andree relief, expedition has come to grief without finding any trace of the lost explorer. This is the teoond' expedition in the past few months that has been compelled to re treat, baffled and disappointed, before the terrors of the Arctic As the months go by it becomes more mani fest that the daring balloonist has met the fate of Franklin and De Long and hundreds of others less prominent in the white wilderness of the unexplored North. . While it is hoping against hope that Andree and his companions may yet return to civilization, the quest for them, like that for Sir John Franklin, will never cease nntil tan gible evidence of their death has been secured, ! In a recent report on, the American iron trade with Great Britain, Consul Halatead, of Birmingham, sets forth a point of great enoonragemeut to pro ducers in this oountry. He declares that the old reason for a salo of Ameri can pig in the English market -the disparity between this and the native product in the matter of price no longer holds good; that the recent rise in the American market has served to show that we can maintain our mar ket there even with Alabama iron which furnishes the great, bulk of tho trade at a higher figure than the na tive brands. This market he regards as now a permanent one, and freight rates fronr Southern ports can always be kept down, because the season of heavy movement corresponds with the cotton shipping season, when pig iron servos admirably as ballast to ships bulging with light-weight cotton. Our esteemed contemporaries, the Temps and Petit Bleu, of Paris, seek to persuade themselves that our ac quisition of the Philippines has de prived us of the guardianship of the Western Hemisphere, says the New York Journal. As the Petit Bleu puts it: "The Monroe Doctrine is now out of date. The Americau Bepublic, conquering aud colonizing, no longer has the right to close to Europe the new continent, since she herself has .stepped out of it." That is to say, because we have stepped out of our own home for tho purpose of thrashing. Spain and giving liberty to some millions of her oppressed colonies anybody is free to step into the Ameri can residence or fonnd settlements on the adjoining premises. When any European country is able to beat us in war, as we have beaten Spain, it will be privileged to overthrow the Monroe )octrine, and not till then. The validity of that doctrine has vested not on Europe's consent, but on the ability of this Republics to enforce it. No foreign monarchy can fasten upon any part of this half of the world with out demolishing a republic, and thf demolition of republics by monarchies is an enterprise which the tJnite"J States will not tolerate. The Monro Doctrinejs stronger to-day than erci it was, because we are more powerful for its defense than at any other period ' in onr history. -; - I HOW. WE HID By a flnrlne OW we came to bo let in for the job of hiding a Nihilist, and bringing him .safely to Eng land, I never knew exactly. Suffice it to say that it caused my fcllow-en- gineers and myself a period of great anxiety. Our steamer was loading at Odessa in October, 1889, and the Chief, the Fourth, and myself (I was acting as third engineer at the time) were ashore one evening, in a ship chandler's shop, in company with many other engineers of different steamers lying in the port. The pro priotor of this establishment (Whom for the purpose 6f this tale I will call Geoi'ge Dimetri) was a man well known to seafarers t-udiug to that part of the world. Several of those present, who knew tue (ireek bettea-thau I did, bad re marked that he seemed to be in a most uncomfortable mood that night, and he had evidently tcld them the oanse of bis troubles, for muoh whispering had been going on between the Eng lishmen. ..Our Chief, who appeared to bo "in the know," later on proposed that we should go for a walk, in the course of which he explained that a certain Nihilist, who had been cap tured by Jiio Russian Government, and sent to Odessa for transportation to Siberia, in one of the volunteer fleet, had escaped, and was actually at Dimetri's shop in hiding. We were told, further more, that Dimetri had beggtd ns Englishmen to get the man safely out of tue country. The Chief asked our opinion on the matter; sounded us, in fact, and. I, for one, was strongly against having anything to do with the affair. cannot say whether I was won over by the pitiful yarn that was spun about tho poor fellow s condition, or tho fact that it was understood that money was no object; suffice it to say, that at last we three engineers con sented . to smuggle this Nihilist td England. It had been decided that the representatives of those steamers iu port should draw lots as ? which one was to undertake thf r. jc, for risk it undoubtedly was. ,Ve fully understood that to be caught aiding this man would be a serious business for ns. Well, our Chief lost the toss, and we had to arrange the matter as best we could. I mar mention here that the looks of the fugitive himself (we could never grasp his crack-jaw name, and so always referred to him as "linn ') were not by any means pre possessing, and so repelled was I when I first crawled into the hole un- dor Dimetri's roof, and was intro duced to the man as one ot his would- be saviours', I could have recalled my decision there and then to aid and abet his escape. Yon see, there's no getting away from facts. In fiction the fugitive would be a really noble looking fellow, possessed of every at tribute that commands one's admira tion. "Him," however, was fully six feet in Height, with a shaggy head of hair, reminding one of the tradi tional pictures of poeta; a beard that covered the whole of his chest, and had apparently never been trimmed, and a face that generally seemed never to have known the cleansing proper ties of soap. His clothes, which had evidently at one time been Dimetri's, and were ridicuously too small all round, by no means improved his ap pearance. Such were our first impres sions of our romantic hero. In dismay, we deoidod to leave "Him" where he was, for that night, at any rate, and hold a consultation with our seoond engineer, who was aboard the ship, before doing anything farther in the matter. Perhaps it would be as well to state here how matters stood in our steam er. The C was a new vessel, owned by a Greek firm, and flying the Greek flag. The whole of the crew, with tho exception of the four engin eers, were Greeks, aud we were put on board by the builders of the ma chinery, a well-known north-country firm, as their guarantee men. Now, four English engineer, all fellow-townsmen, and all likely to be employed on this same steamer for about six months only, and then to re turn to the same engine-shop together, were more than friends. As a fact, we were more like four brothers. There fore, when we told our second engin eer what had occurred, he readily ac quiesced, and we all four sat down in the mess-room and worked the prob lem out. I will not weary you with an epitome of the suggestions offered ; let it suffice to say we decided that thebest plaoe to stow "Him" was in the evaporator. Without diving into technicalities, let me say that the evaporator is a machine used in modern marine en gineering for making fresh water (in the form of vapor) by boiling salt water. A powerful jet of steam is run through a series of coils. When the dome is raised, these coils can be re moved, and then a cylindrical spaoe is left, some six feet in height by three feet six inches in diameter. Of course, the machine can be worked or left un used as required, all ingress of steam and water being regulated by valves. When we started work as usual next morning at seven o'clock, I got my men to raise the dome within; we then took out the coil; which, when clipped, I put carefully away iu the locktr in the Chief's cabin. At dinner Ilia nose was prominent, He was par- fill THE NIHILIST. Engineer. time the Chief himself, who had been ashore all the forenoon, came on board with a stranger. Believe me, I should never have recognized the nn oouth, weird-looking "Him" in the person that now stopped aboard. Our Chief had evidently not wasted his time, for he had taken a comb, a pair of scissors, and a razor ashore, and out off all the Nihilist's superabundant hair. Much soap had evidently been usod on the large person of "Him," and now he really looked a smart fel low, arrayed in naval clothes. Old Mao, our beloved chief, had bought a suit of clothes from a very tall en gineer belonging to a Swedish ship lying close to us, and had equipped "Him" in them. That evening, when" the men had left work, and our steward, who was also a Greek, had gone, as usual, to gamble on the fore hatch, we took "Him" down into the engine-room, and silently placed him on the evaporator base, finally covering the dome over him. Next morning I didn't forget to explain to the stokers that I had had to lower the dome my self, as the Chief didu't like to' eee it hanging in the slings all night. We next put in the bolts and fastened down the dome as if ready for use No one would ever dream that the coils of the evaporator wero not in the machina, their place having been taken by a stalwart Nihilist, whom we were kiduappmg, so to speak, in this very extraordinary manner. This evaporator was fitted with a Bafety valve on top; this 1 took out, so as to give our captive fresh air. Through the hole food was also lowered to him. but we couldn't send down very large paroels because the hole was only thirteen inches in diameter. In the course of the day we recoived a visit from the Bussian police. They had been to other Bhips also; and let me tell you they searched onr steamer from end to end almost as thoroughly as English Custom-house officers would do, but no one dveamt of look ing into the evaporator. I really thought we had got off very nicely when we sailed for Antwerp that night but we soon found out that our troubles had only just begun. Of course, we had fully intended to liberate "Him" as soon as the ship was fairly at sea; according to our calculations, he was then to be located in the store-room, which, as it was only used by ourselves, would have made "Him" a comfortable home for the three weeks'run. The ship rolled so heavily, however, that the Chief would not allow us to raise the dome; he was afraid, and rightly so, too, that it would carry away and either smash something, or kill poor "Him" in its mad movements. " But what were we to do with "Him?" We understood that ho had been nsed to roughing it, and could stand pretty nearly anything. As a fact, he had to, whether he liked it er not, before he finished that journey, at all events. We passed as much food down to him as we could, and though he didn't understannd a word of English, we cheered him up con stantly. Forty hours' steaming brought ns to the Bosphorus, and as we had to coal here, and should bo very busy on deck, we pulled up the dome, and dragged poor "Him" out. Oh! what a sight he was. Ho had been very seasick, poor wretch, while the heat had made him lose much flesh, even in that short time, so that his clothes hung about him like sacks. I think our sense of pity at his condition made us fairlv wild at our folly in leaving "Him" there so long; we really hadn t calculated on the heat of his prison, for you must re member that he was in a part of th. engine itself. We bathed him, how ever, and changed his clothes as far as we conld: we fed him on beef-tea and arrowroot biscuits; walked him gently up and down the engine room floor, and finally when we thought he was coming round a bit, we locked him np in the store-room, and went on deck to see that we were not robbed of coal by those rascally Turks. The usual bnstle aud excitement were at their height, when the stew ard ran up to me and said he had been into the engine-room, and that a strage man was walking round examining everything. Could "Him" have got out, I won dered, crossly; "what a fool ho must be thus to expose himself to danger." lastily 1 told the Chief the news, aud ran down to the engine-room to expostulate with "Him." You may judge of my amazement on seeing quite another individual calmiy. walk ing the "staring platform," as though to the manner born. At first I thought he was a thief, but he politely informed me that he had booked a passage to Antwerp in this very boat, and he went on to apologize for going into the engine room without leave. I might, he said, be quite sure that he was doing nothing wrong. The fellow evidently understood modern machinery, for he calmly asked me where the evaporate coils had got to.. I was so thunder struck that I couldn't reply for the moment, for there was the evaporator dome still in the slings you see, we had been so horrified at our charge's i condition when we dragged him out, that we forgot to put it down again. Noticing my embarrassment, he smiled and saM: "So the bird has flown, eh?" Without waiting for an answer, the stranger quickly ascendod the engine-room ladder and was rowed ashore. I did not know what to make of the affair. It was evident about twenty miles from Wash'"' - that "Him" had been betrayed, how ever. At any rate, I though we had got rid of our mysterious visitor pret ty easily, and I was complimenting myself on not being quite such a fool as he had evidently taken me for, when, to my dismay, on leaving the Golden Horn behind ns, I saw the same man talking to the captain on on the poop. Evidently he had fcund out that no one had left our steamer ot Constantinople, and so had hnrried back, determined not to be baulked of his prey. We held a hasty consultation as to what was to be done with "Him" under these very alarm ing circumstances. The captain would undoubtedly search the engine room and stoke-holds, and, if found, put both "Him" and tho Bussian officer, for such the polite stranger was, on to the first steamer wo passod bound for Bussia. "Put 'Him in the evaporator again," said the Second. "What! and boil him to death?" said I, horrified. "Not at all," said No. 2. "We can run a jot of water over it, to keep it cool.- The water will only wash the bilges out, and that they sadly need." "Good," said the Chief. "And we'll raise the dome every night when we have an opportunity, and let 'Him' have a walk around." These plans were carried out at once. "Him" protested violently, poor chap, but we thrust him into his ghastly tomb, with all the food we could lay our hands upon. It seemed partly like burying a man alive, and partly like thrusting him into an oven. All went well till the mid-day watch next day, by which time we had left the mouth of the Dardanelles far be hind ns. ' I fancy our captain didn't want to start the search till we were quite beyond the power of the Turks, who will do anything for Bussia in a matter of this kind. About two o'clock in tho afternoon the captain, accompanied by the Bus sian, came to tho engine-room door, and said he was about to search the whole plaoe. I called the Chief, who was lying down just then but before he could come to my assistance tho Bussian had got round the evaporator (I had shut off the water as Boon as I saw them com ing) and, good heavens! I saw with beating heart and feeling of inde scribable horror ho was going to open the steam valve on to the coals, and boil poor "Him" to death. I was about to shriek out, so great was my excitement, when a noiso overhead attractod my attention. The Chief with magnificent presence of mind had dashed on to the boiler top and shut off the auxiliary valve, a thing which I had been told to do, but had forgotten in the excitement. Quick as lightning, however, the Chief did"it, and our poor, bottled-up fugitive was saved. The Bussian police officer deliberately opened the valve, and then, turning round on me, laughed sardonically in my face There was no longer any doubt in my mind that the whole of our plot had somehow been given away to the Knssian police. In his pride at hav' ing, as he thought, baffled us, how ever, he forgot to feel the dom to see if it were getting hot. I should say that the anxious look on my face had told its own tale, Tho officer at any rate had fairly done his work, for when he had kept me talking for some time, ho said, bland ly, "Well, Mr. Engineer, yon are now at liberty to have what is left of that fellow. Good afternoon." And walk- ling out of the engine-room, he never troubled ns again that run. We had a good laugh'at his expense. thougu, when, later on, wo again re A .1 IT... ti A - I M i sioreu mm to nueriy. iie was an awful wreck when we lugged him out and made a nice bed in the waste locker, for we now wanted the evapora tor to do its own legitimato work. Our next port of call was Algiers, and we spent our spare time here in maturing a nice little surprise lor our iiussian enemy. Wo created a line, stalwart- looking man out of waste, using an old fire-bar for a backbone. This dummy was about the same build as Him." We reach Algiers after dusk, too late tq coal that night, but the agent at once came on board with onr let ters. We begged tho loan of a boat, and then, lowering our dummy care fully into it, three of us jumped in, and pulled quickly for the shore. But. as we intended, our spy saw ns as we passed the stern of the steamer, and we saw him running frantically to the captain for a boat to be sent in pursuit. When close to the quay, we quietly dropped the dummy overboard, and pulling ; round some coal-lighters glided wiftly back alongside our ship; we then climbed aboard and awaited tho result. All night long that Bussian searched Algiers for "Him," but of course in vain, and next day we saw the inde fatigable officer dragging the harbor. It had evidently leaked out that a man had been thrown from our boat. It was a good job for us, by the way. that the relations between Franoe and Bussia were not so cordial then as they are now, otherwise we might have had to bid good-bye to the good ship U at Algiers, and accompany our Bussian back to Odessa. The latter suddenly declined to proceed any farther on his eventful voyage to Antwerp, and we afterwards learned that the dragging operations were crowned with overwhelming suc cess during the evening, with the natural result that the Bussian be came tho laughing-stock of the entire city. Putting into Dartsmouth for a further supply of fuel, we smuggled "Him" ashore, and the Chief and I were not sorry when his train left for the Metropolis. On arrival at Ant werp a letter was put into the Chief's hands; it contained no communica tion, bat twelve 5 bank-notes, aud I AlwI trv to make hi. honored way 1 .V confess that my share came in very handy. But the most extraordinary part of the whole story I learned the follow ing year when again at Odessa. Poor "Him,", it appeared, was, after all, a mere scapegoat for a far greater Nihilist than he a "political" of high rank. "Him" was deliberately smuggled out of Odessa on board our ship, not so much because it was necessary that he himself should escapo (though he certainly was very much wanted) as to throw the Bussian police off the track of the more im portant conspirator. Wide World Magazine. COMMON SENSE ON PUNCTUATION. A Batch of Rales That Are In Accord With Modern Methods. "Whose punctuation do you follow?" The answer is, our own. Unlike D'leraeli's alleged "sensible men" who, when asked what their religion is, "nevet tell" we are willing and glad to tell what our rule of punctua tion is. Here you havo it in a few words: 1. Never use a comma if "tho way faring man, though a fool," can grasp the meaning of the text without it. 2. Nevet use a semicolon when a comma will serve the author and the reader as well. 3. Never use a colon when a semi colon will serve as well. 4. Wherever there is no climacterio effect to be preserved, cut up your semicoloned and ooloned sentence in to short sentences. 5. Use commas and periods as your standbys. C. Use tho semicolon chiefly to bet ter 'express antithetis, and to group phrases and clauses. 7. Use tho colon chiefly in formal enumeration, after "viz.," "as follows' and th- like. 8. Use the dash to indicate un ab rupt break in the sentence, an after thought, and, in many instances where in olden times the parenthesis was used, to indicate that the words in eluded are parenthetically employed 9. Use the parenthesis only when you find dashes are not sufficiently exclusive. 10. Never use brackets except where you insert some word of your own in a quotation from some other author, 11. Never use an interrogation point except when your question is direct e. r., it would be improper to use it after "girl" in this sentence: "He asked what ailed the girl." These are our rules to-day. To morrow, if we see any new light, we shall follow it. But we are not likely to stray away from the course above marked out. Punctuation, like sen tence-making, becomes second nature after awhile. In punctuation, as in sentence-making, we do well or ill as we succeed or fail in presenting our thought in fewest words. The words should be chosen and arranged as to develop our meaning, our whole mean ing, and nothing but our meaning. Midland Magazine. Alter the Catechism. She "Will you love me always." He "Passionately, my darling." She "And you will never cease to love me?" He "Never, my darling." She "And you will save your money?" He "Every penny." She "And you will never speak harsbly to me?" He "Never." She "And you will civo up all your bad habits?" He "Every one of them." She "And yon will get along with mamma? jje "Yes. " She "And papa?" He "Yes." She "And you will always do just what mamma wants you to do?" He "Yes." She "And just what papa wants you to do?" He "Yes." She "And just what I want you to do?" He "Of course." She "Well, I will be yours, but I fear I am making an awful mistake." Tit-Bits. Pearls Hade to Order, M. Boutin, of the Sorboune, sin;e the announcement of his successful production of pearls iu the Bosooff laboratory, has been inundated with letters from fashionable ladies who either want to know where they can buy these artificial products or whether they should lose no time in disposing of valuable pearl ornaments. To the trade, however, M. Boutin's discovery causes little agitation, for the dealers well know that he has merely done what has been for years a familiar trick with the heathen Chinee. A lit tle pellei of some foreign substance introduced between the shells of the oyster will in the course of a few weeks become coated with the beautiful iri descent material known as mother-of- pearl. But the result is not a genuine pearl of any value, for that is a growth whioh only comes to perfection after a considerable lapse of time. Such a process of nature cannot bo hurried. London Chronicle. Striking Contradictions. A great contrast will often be fonnd to exist between authors and their works, melancholy writers being the most jocular in society usually, and humorists in theory the most lu gubrious mortals in practice. 'Ihe Comforts of Human Life," by B. Heron, was written in prison under the most distressing circumstances. The Miseries of Human Life," by Beresford, was, on the contrary, com posed in a drawing room where the author was surrounded by the best of everything, and Burton, the author of the "Anatomy of Melancholy." was extremely facetious in conversation. 0," uu ViitZiZ DEPARTMENT." . The solutions to these putties will . 10 37. A Diamond. 1. A consonant in Profectnm. A fairy queen. 3. A title of respect. 4. Wicked. 5. A consonant in Semper. 38. Five Fled Straits. i. Lleeslebi. 2. Aamkcwni. 3. Aaannicd. 4. Lidafro. 5. Nscao, 39. False Adverbs. Add the proverbial ending: To an exclamation, and form sacrod. To ground grain, and form carti laginous. To a littlo demon, and form to sig nify. To a dog, and form having ringlets. To method, and form a military of ficer. To one of the organs of sense, and form on time. To a kind of cloth, and form an answer. 40 A Square. 1. The seat of life. 2. A mistake. 3. To get up. 4. Fragrant flowers. 6. A lock of hair. ANSWERS TO PREVIOUS PUZZLES. 33. A Corrugated Column EAGER" FUN .CASTE AHA THINK , INN BUGLE 31. A Square HOLM O L E A LEON MANX 35. Six Pied Cities in Pennsyl vaniaLancaster, MaucU Chunk, Williamsport, Towanda, Tunxsutaw ncy, Chambersburg. 36. Five Beheadments P-ark; s-tar; s-hip; s-hoe; b-room. Indian Native Cavalry. W hen a mnn wishes to enlist iu a silladar cavalry regiment he must pro vide himself, says a writer in Cham bers s Journal, with ahorse, saddlery, a lance, (if his regiment are lancers.) a sword, his uniform, and his trans port; or else ho must be employed as a rider by some other person who is the happy possessor of all these neces saries. In the former case he is called a silladar, or the owner of an assami; and in the latter case a bargir, and his employer his silladar. tf A silladar draws pay for his assaini and also for his own services. Thus, if a man owns two assamis, he draws two lots of horse pay and one lot of pay for himself, a corresponding amount to this last being paid to the man who rides his second horse that is to say, to his bargir. In some regiments, until compara tively recently, it was quite usual for one man to own ten or twelve assamis, or even an entire troop. More than this, it was not unusual for an assami to bo left by will to a man's wife or in fant child, in which case the executors employed a substitute (awas kiduiat) to ride for the woman or child, thus enabling the owner to draw horse pay. This practico is still common in some native Hindustan States. ' An Order of Journalists. A newspaper report from London Bays that the Bev. Lach Szyrma, a devont Episcopalian clergyman, is seriously agitating the founding of aa ordor of journalists, which is to be placed under the special protection of the Apostlo Paul. The clergyman argues that the press of the day is ex erting a powerful influence over the world, and that the formation of a so ciety of newspaper editors and writers, with the noble aim of instructing the nations and of guiding them on the road of justice and universal brother hood, cannot fail to prove of incalcula ble benefit to. the Christian Church aud humanity. The physicians, says tho Bev. Mr. Szyrma, have St. Luke as their patron saint, aud as St. Paul was tho best reporter of ancient times, and the mighty logician and moralist of Scripture, he would be the best mediator for journalists between heaven and earth. It is proposed to hold an annual reunion of newspaper workers in the big Cathedral of St. Paul, where some eminent bishop is to deliver an annual address, and where prayers will be offered for the benefit of the new -paper fraternity. Where Window Glass Is a Luxury. Dawson is soon to be "Dawson City" in reality, says Consul McCook. One must take money in in order to bring money out of the gold fields, capital being needed in developing. Many improvements have been made in Dawson. Window glass is scarce. a small light ten bv twelve I - dilv bringing vi.bu or $J. Small f ines have been made by parties w supplies of glass aud oil lamp tamp commands irom 818 t Dawson, and a five-cent na 1 carpet tacks will sell for boto cents. One-half the building in Dawson to-day are without window glass. I'eat Hricks a Cheap Fuel. Consul Kehl, of Stettiu, writes of the manufacture of briquettes from peat or turf. This fuel besides being very cheap has other merits. It is clean, easily packed in bins, gives good heat, aud in a closed stove with only a Blight draft will remain in a glowing state for ten hours. Owing to crude machinery the cost of pro duction now (about $1.53 per ton) is greater than it will be when improved machinery is introduced. Briquettes manufactured from coal are cheapor than those of turf. UConTT5D.0W.:-T''fi'r rjtirvuivi. WHEN COOK'S AWAY. When cook's away sweet Bessie tries Her hand at baiting beans and pies; Hbo gets the cook book from th shelf, And then proceeds to teach herself. Kbe porestbe pages till she thinks Khe mastered all the doughs and drinks. But tho' she follows every quirk, The stubborn recipe won't work. When cook's away the cake Is sad. ' The biscuits drop, the coffee's bad. The bread is never baked enough, The fish Is raw, the meat Is tough, The porridge burns, the gravy lumps,'' i And we ore in the deepest dumps. For indigestion comes to stay And reigns supreme, when cook's ,v, When cook's away I fear that th itecordlng angel weeps for me.; For It is true, I must confras, I toll soma libs to please sweet Bess, I tell her (Love forgive the crime!) She'll be u splendid chef in time, Nor never show by word or look That I am yearning for the cook. What-To-Eat HUMOR OF THE DAY. Tabby "Would you die a thousand deaths for me?" Tom "No; only nine." Indianapolis Journal. Hostess "I suppose there is no use if asking you to stay to dinner?" Caller "Well, no, not in that way." "Mr. Newby, we don't see you at jnr socials any more." "No; I've got into society now." Chicago Becord. "She is a promising young musi cian." "Well, get her to promise that she won't play any more." Illustrated American. Foreigner "Parvenu! I will pull your nose!" Sloncher "Maybe my nose, Count; but never my leg!" Philadelphia North American. Boarder (disgustedly) "I can't eat this food; 'tisn't tit for a pig." Boarding-house Keeper (coolly) "I don't cater for pigs." Fun. "What a well-informed man Jenkius teems to be! He can converse intelli gently upon almost any subject." "Yes; Joukins has brought up five boys." "The single-scull race I" , 'exclaimed m old lady, as she laid down the paper. "My gracious! Ididn'tknow there was a race of men with double (culls!" It snows?" cried the school boy. Hur rah!" and his shout Is echoed with lusty applnuse. Cut tea minutes Inter the wind veers about. Anil ho plaintively murmurs, "It thaws!" Wuslilngton Star. "I want an iceboat," said the boy. "Nonsense," replied the old man. "What's the mattor with an ice wagon? It's not quite so fast, per haps; but it's just as cold." Chica go Post. "Always keep cool," exclaimed the man who lives to give advice. "Yes," said Mr. Meektou. "But den't let the man who tends to the steam down stairs hear you say that. He runs the idea into the ground." "That is a pretty big buckwheat cake for a boy of your size," said papa at breakfast to Jimmy-boy. "It looks big," said Jimmy-boy. "But really it isn't. It's got lots of porouses in it." Harper's Young Teoplo. Wood "After starving for twenty years, old Potts conceived au idea whichresulted iu making his fortune." Vau Pelt "What was it?" Wood "Changed the sign over his shop from 'Junk' to 'Antiques.' " Truth. "I can marry any girl I please," he said, with a self-satisfied, if-you-love-a-girl-would-you-niarry-hcr expression upon his languid face. No doubt, she resonded, "but what girl do you please?" They don't speak now. My grandmother told me to pav as I go; i d ioiiow tne ruie 11 i una out in chnncR, But landlords and landladies won't have it so; They always Insist upon pay In advance. Washington Post. "So "you are going to marry Herr Meissner?" "Hardly. Papa is not altogether satisfied with his position; mamma doesn't like his family; he doesu't strike mo as quite stylish enough and, besides, he hasn't asked me." Punch. The Hand as an Indication of Disease. The study of physiotruomy and of the hand is curiously interesting. It is now generally admitted that a per son s character can be gauged with a very considerable degree of acouracy by a visual analysis of the features, aud the same remark applies, with loss force porhaps, to a study of the hand. The fact that in certain dis eases the expression of the face and the appearance of the hands are fairly reliable indices of the nature and pro gress of the disease is too well known to require further emphasis. It would certainly appear to be more likely that the study of the hand is deserving of closer atUntiou than is usually be stowed on the subject by medical men in general practice. New York Sun. Voyage of a Tin V.ox, Things cast np by the sea some times have floated for a longer dis tance than one would suppose. A man near Bockland recently picked up a small tin tobacco box, with a note inclosed requesting tho finder to return it to Edward II. Grant, South Framingham, Mass. The box was mailed to the above address, and au answer was soon received from the recipient, who said that the box had been thrown overboard from a canoe on Twin Lake, near Moosehead, where he was spending his vacation last season, and must have found its way down tho Penobscot Bivcr. Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Kiten.ive V.e ot Kangaroo Hides. Not many people have any idea how extensively kangaroo hides are Utilized in this country. During 1897 there were over 400,000 such skins received in New York, and about eighty per cent, of these were tanned in one largo establishment in Newark, N. J. The hides all come from Australia and New Zealand. Prior to 1S5'J kaugaroos were killed aud eaten in Australia and their hides were cut up and mad ino.tly into shoes ti ii cs aud belts.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers