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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1899. 81.00 PER ANNUM. - Tbo number of commercial failures in tUe United States last year was fif teen per cent, less than in 1897 and forty-two per cent, less tbat in 1806, and the averago liabilities per failure were the lowest on record. Snob, facts speak volumes for the soundness of present business conditions and the ease of the money market. i In an old paper was fonnd the confi dent prediction of General Beranger, who bad recently been Spain's Secre tary of the Navy, that Spain "would conquer on the sea" because "as noon as fire is opened the orews of the American ships will commence to de vert, since among them are people of all nationalities." How curious that forgotten prediction seems nowl . Now that wo are to have automobile, street cars, trucks, caba private car riages, drays, wagons, butobers' carts and all the rest, wo shall presently be . iu position to imitate the Chinese, who exclude horses from all city streets. Cut thore is this difference: The Chin-; ese by arbitrary rule have excluded horses for thousands of years when, they were needed. We shall not e olndo them, but only dispense wit! their use so far and so fast as we hart something hotter to take their place. But what a relief it will be and what boon to humanity when our cities oeas to be great stablest -. . Tho magnitudo of the financial op erations of the consolidated city of New York is well illustrated by some statistics given in the annual message of the Mayor. The net bonded debt of tl)e oity amounted on January 1,) 1839, to $214,220,435.97. Its issues of bonds and corporate stook during the yoar 1898 amountod to over $30, 000,000, and the provisions of the Board of Estimate for the year 1899 contemplate issues in excess of $35, 000,000. The largest single item in the proposed issues for this yoar is for school houses and sites for which $7,673,640 is set apart. The output of English shipbuilding yards for 1893 was tho largest yet re corded, reaching to 802 vessels, ag gregating 1,559,120 tons. The unusu ally large number of warships now building both for British and foreign governments contributed materially to this, but tho increase has Veen due still more to the effort to fill orders in arrear owing to the enginoers' strike. The effect of cheaper material is also to be noted, and in this respect the purohasej of American ship-plates is a factor to be taken into account. .The amount of such purchases is unknown, bnt they changed conditions of produc tion by entering the market and cut. ting down the price. A sad record in criminology is the fact that in fifteen years Russia has sent 624,000 persons to Siberia. The record in relieved of something of its sadness, however, by the consideration that many of these exiles were not criminals really but only adjudged so by the harsh Russian political system. The gloom of the experience was some what mitigated too by the devotion of the friends of tho 'exiles, fully 100,000 relatives of prisoners having gone vol untarily into banishment, that they might share with their loved ones the - jTerila and privations of a life in dreary Siberia. The story of Russian despot, ism is a tale of nnmerons and varied chapters, involving alike many horrors and many heroisms. - The official reports of the German labor market in 1898, which have just been published, tell a story of steady commercial and industrial prosperity. In almost all branohes of industry there was an increase in the number of those employod. The most con spicuous exception was in the textile trade, in which there was a depression, attributed to a diminntion in the ex ports to the United States. In most cases the demand for labor exoeeded the supply. In Lorraine Italian labor, which was formerly employed al most solely in building, mining and quarrying operations, was called into requisition for factories and iron works, although the Italian factory hand and iron worker were fonnd to bo inforior to the German. In indus tries where the work is peculiarly hard or disagreeable an increasing scarcity of labor was observed. The general state of the labor market led to a considerable rise in wages in many instances. But the standard of living of the working classes did not show a corresponding improvement. The prica of the necessaries of life and bouse rent also rose to an extent which neutralized the higher prices paid for labor. In some industries where activity was very marked there was no general rise in wages, the em ployers apparently apprehending a reaction. V - .THE PRISONER.' A man's tlcull Is Uts life-long jail; Behind Its prison bars. v From its eye-windows, doth the soul roep at the earth and stars; But unlike Jails of wood or stone, Its prisoner ever dwolls alone. Though through Its front doors perfumed gales Are blown from glens of gladness, And through its bttok doors muslo strains Hoi I In waves of madness, And though we hear and heed each tone, The prisoner still must dwell alone. A DAY OF WHOLE. THINGS. ST MABT E. Fyon can sit down just a momont till I finish the buttonholes, then yon can take the jaoket.Miss Flor ence; thore, right bv the window! WffW7 That barrel-chair ain't so uncomfortable as it looks. I'm real mortified you should have to wait when I promised it the first thing, but you see, little Benny Holden is very low and I sat np with him most of the night, and I suppose I slept too long when I lay down in the morning." "It's a shame for yon to do a stitch 1" exolaimed Florence, impul sively, as she noticed the red, tired eyes and the pale face. "Tod doesn't really need the jacket to-day." "It's good in you to say that, but if it'Siut the jacket it's rouiething else; I can't afford to lose a whole day." Miss Ferry's needle flew in and out of the flue, blue cloth. "Your ' ljttkr brother'!! look real nioe in this suit; bo s a handsome boy, anyway, she said. " "flow do you like my new gown, Miss Ferry?" asked Florence. Miss Ferry looked at the girl. The brown hair waved about the soft face; the . dark eyos sparkled with happy young life, aud the cheeks glowed with healthf.il color. The new dress was simplo, dainty and perfectly adapted to. the girlish figure. "It's sweet!" said Miss Ferry. "It looks jwWike you." Florence laughed. "Do you know that's a very pretty compliment?" she "i suppose, now, it s new all new not made ovor or anything?" ased the little seamstress. "Why, yes," replied Florenoe amused at the question. "Why do you ask?" "Nothing; only I was thinking how nice that must bo. I never had a new dress in my life." Florenoe stared at the small, thin figure. "Whut do you mean?" she said. "Just tb , dear. I never had whole new ureas iu mv life." "I never beard of such a thing!" gnspod-the girl. "Very likely not, Miss Florence. Your pa is a rich man and you're his only daughter. There were eleven of us, counting the boys, and little euough to feed aud clothe us on. Six girls, and I the youngest. Dresses were handed down from one to another till they were all worn out. My gowns were mostly made of two or throe put together. The children used to call me 'Patchwork Quilt,' "I remember one dress iu particu jar," sue went ou smilingly. "1 can see just how it looked. The skirt was stripes, the waist was in spots and tho sleeves were kind of flowered all over Ion see, it was made out ol Ellen's and Jane's and Sarah's. Mother was real proud of having made me so neat and comfortable, but I was just mean enough to be ashamed. It makes me feel sorry when I think how hard mother worked for us, and we not half appreciating it." "Didn't they ever buy yon anything new? exolaimed Florence. "I think they were unkind." "No, no, dear child! You don't un derstand. There wasn't much money to spend on clothes, I can tell you. I remember one apron 'tires,' we called them that was bought on pur pose for me, and I was proud as rnncn, tin it was made np. it was real pretty, white with narrow blue stripe, bnt being a remnant there was n't enough to get it all out. So mother put it on a yoke made of a piece of an old dress of hers dark brown cal ico with a yellow figure Somehow they didn't go together very well!" "But sinoe you've grown np, Miss Ferry, yon must have had new dresses." "No, Miss Florence, never. I'm forty years old, and I've never had a new dress. You see, Jane got mar ried and so did Sarah. Well, Sarah died and left me all her clothes. Her husband was pretty well off there was some real good things amongst them. Then the other three died here at home, and of course I got all their things, exoept what I gave to Jane. Jan a has a hard time; ber husband's a dreadful ailing man. Well, I've been wearing out the clothes ever since, and they ain't all worn ont yet, "It's been luoky for me getting all those clothes roe having so much sickness and not being able to earn right along. But ouoe in a time I get real ungrateful, and think it would be kind of nice to have something new all over not any scraps or pieoings. There, yon mutt think I'm awful com plaining!" "Complaining, Miss Ferry! But why don't, you buy yourself a roal pretty dress without waiting to use np all those old things?" "No, dear," said Miss Ferry, Tgen tly. "I ned the money for other things. There's bonnets, too," re-1 snmed the little woman, bitintr off a 1 aeedlefnl of twist, "I guess $1919 ore SB . . Though past the windows pf the Jail 8weut scenes of solemn splendor, Aud through the doors float hymns of joy, Or dirgos deep and tender, The prisoner hoars the mirth and moan,. uut iu cis jan in- aweus aione. r No lover ever knows the soul He loves in all its sweetness: The fullest love, however strong, Is marred by Incompleteness; No heart Is over tally known, The prisoner ever dwells alone. , Sam Walter Foss. MITCHELL. enough bonnets and trimmings to got me through my natural life. "Somotimes I think most every thing in this world is a paten qr a make-over," she proceeded. "If it ain't done-over meat it's warmed-over potatoes; and if it ain't them it's a lit tie mess of beans aud a dab of hash to be got out of tho way together There's always leavings-over) I don't even work at anything real good and steady. Sometimes it's, mending and sometimes it's nursing, and again it's buttonholes. But it's always some thing, thank the Lord I Leavings over are a heap sight better than fall-ings-Bhort!" "Miss Ferry, you said you couldn't afford to lose a wholo day's work. Don't you ever a take a holiday?" "Bless you, Miss Florenoe! I don't remember over being idle a whole day. I was going to, though; I was going to the Baptist pionic latt week. You know they went to Oak Grove, a real sightly place, they tell me, and right by tho lake. I got all ready, and if Mrs. White didn't go aud sprain her ankle. "Why did that keop you? She has a daughter, hasn't she?" "Oh, yes; but Rose is young, nnd of course wanted her good time. I saw she was terribly disappointed, so I said, 'I'll stay with your mother, Rose,' and yoi never saw anybody more tickled. There, Miss Florence, there's the jaoket, and you toll your ma I hope it'll suit. It's been a real refreshment to see you, and I hope yon won't think I'm cross and un grateful, complaiuing as I have!" Florence stooped over the little woman with a sndden impulse. "There's a whole kiss all for your eelf," she said. Miss Ferry's thin cheek flushed un der the unwonted caress. "Bless her kind heart!" she said, as she watched tho girl's light figure go down the path. "I deolaro, I'm fairly ashamed of having run on so about mysolf. It was real grumbling. I don't believe I'd have done it if I hadn't been so worn out sitting up, and then being disap pointed about that henrietta. Well, Jaue needs the money more than I do the dress poor girl!" Florenoe Heath walked slowly along the elm-shadod street, thinking of Miss Ferry. The sun was high and hot aud the road dusty. Colonel Heath's lawn stretched smooth and in viting. As Florence turned toward tho house, one of her little brothers came rattling down the broad drive in his shifting cart behind his pony. The big mausiou, which stood back on the top of tho slope, looked cool and restful with its wide piazzas and gay awnings. "Never auy thing now or wholo, and I never had anything elne!" thought the girl. J) lorenoe louna ber motner on one of the piazzas, swinging slowly to and fro in a willow chair. "What is it, dear? You look tired. It was too warm a walk for yon. You should have let James drive you down." "Mamma, I have everything and Miss Ferry has nothing. Why is it?" said Florence, as she threw herself into a hammock. "That's a pretty hard question to answer an at once," responded Mrs, Heath, with a smile. "Tell me about it, dear." Florenoe told her story. "I don't think I ever know," she ooncludod. "just the difference there is between my life and some other people's. Oh, I suppose I knew, but I never saw it so clearly. It doesn't seem right at all!" Mrs. Heath watched her daughter's face. "One can always share," she suggested. Florence was silent a moment: thon she said: . "I'd like to give Miss Ferry one good, whole day I" "Miss Ferry might have whole things if she didn't share, Florence. She has a sort of shiftless sister in Groenvillo whom she helps a great deal. I suspect tho larger part of her earnings goes there. She helped those poor Larkinses and made clothes for the children, and she is always going where there is sickness. I don't know of anyone who does so muoh good in a quiet way and with so little means, as Miss Ferry. Florence sprang out of the ham mock, scattering the soft pillows right and left, went over to her mother and kissed her. "I think I'll try a littlo of the shar ing business myself!" she said, and went into tho house. The phoebe-bird uttered its plain tive note in tho horse-chestnut tree close to the window and woke Miss Ferry from a sound morning nap. "Mercy!" she exclaimed, as she looked at the loud-ticking timepiece which adorned her mantel-shelf. "Five o'clockl I'm getting into a dreadful habit of sleeping late. It's mortal lazy, and a sinful waste of time, but somehow I ain't so spry as 1 used to bo." She fating open the greea blinds I i 4 and let in the radiance of the early morning. The sun had risen into a blue aud cloudless sky. The feathery tree tops stirred in the gentle breeze, and flower-scents and bird-voices filled the air. It was just the morn ing to fill one's heart with a pleasant premonition of coming good. "I feel as if something nice was go ing to happen I" snid Miss Ferry to herself, as she looked out into the beautiful, fresh world. "But therel What am I thinking of? It'll be buttonholes, or maybe Jano'll want me to tend Willie through one of his colio spells!" Breakfast over, Miss Ferry sat down in her little sewing chair and took np her work; but for some rea son the needle would not go, and her thoughts would wander far from the little garment she was fashiouing. She was gazing at the swaying elm tops, and hor work had fallen from her hands, when a rousing rap at the door started her into the conscious ness of the present. "Good land! What's come?" she exclaimed, springing up, to find that it was only Colonel Heath's coachman with a bundle. "The work Mrs. Heath promised me," thought Miss Ferry, as she laid the big parcel on the old lounge. "I don't believe I'll open it now; somo- how I don't want to see more work to day." In a moment, however, she changed hor mind. "Mrs. Heath's real good to me; maybe it's something she wants done right np;" and she proceeded to undo the numerous wrappings. "Seems to me it's dono np mighty careful for just being sent down here. What undor tho sun is it, anyway?" she raid aloud, as she took off the cover of the long pasteboard box and unfolded a pretty dark blue dress, all made and finished. "Something Miss Florenoo wants altered, I guess. It's -too small for Mrs. Heath. Here's the directions," she continued, as an envelope foil from the folds of the skirt. As. she read, her thin face flushod and she laid the note down with a gasp. "Oh, I cau'tl And after all I've said to her!" she whispered. Then sho read it agaiu. Dear Miss Ferry I was la the cltv yes terday and saw this dress, whloh niado me think of you. I thouclit thnt as you were so busy taking stitches for other people, perhaps It might be a little help to have somothlng nil mndo up, and I think It will fit yon. Will yon accept It with my love? Pleaso don't mind my sondlug it, dear Miss Ferry, for you share so muoh with others you must lot others share with you some times. Mamma wishes mo to ask you If you will come and spendhls beautiful day wi hus. We are going to drive In the afternoon to Pino Tolut, and It will give us so much pleasure to hnvo you with us. Tlease come nnd wear the new dress. James will call for you at elcvon. If ours very truly, Florence W. Heath. "The good Lord bless her!" said Whs Ferry, with a little sob. "It aoems as it I couldn't take so much from any one, but it would be down right ungrateful not to." And then the joy of possession entered into hor soul. She examined the dress with the ap preciation pf a skilled seamstress. "Just see those silk facings; and it's finished elegantly. I never expected to live to see this day. And after all my complaining, too! I ain't deserv' ing! But, oh, even Miss Florence can't know what it means to me to have a new dress!" Promtly at eleven James, impres sive in dark blue livery aud shining buttons, helped the fluttering little woman, in her trim new suit, into the soft-cushioned carriage. I am not going to describe the wel come Miss Ferry received at the Heaths' nor the long day of delight she passed in that beantiful home. It is needless to say that the dainty lunch bore no suggestions of being warmed over, and that beans and haBh played no part in tho elaborate dinner, like nnto none tbat Miss Ferry had ever roeiore tasted, it was sucu a satisfaction to rise from the table with a feeling 6f luxurious leisure! Not even her kind hostess could appreciate what it me a n't to tho little woman to loave the dining-room with no thought of unwashed dishes on her mind. After lunch oamo the drive. The roomy victoria rolled over the roads with delightful ease, and the sleek horses, that tossed thoir heads and shook their glossy manes, bore their load along at a pace that was pleasure to their well-exercised limbs. They drove through pleasant wood roads, and the fragrant breath of tbo pines was like balm to Miss Ferry's tired lungs. They drove by the beach bordered bay, and the sea sparkled and danced before them. It seemed to Miss - Ferry that the out-of-door world was never so bright and fresh and clear as it was that af ternoon. Sho lay back in rapt enjoy ment, abandoning herself to the pres ent, knowing that seams would be less monotonous and buttonnoles not so much a nightmare when lightened by the memories of tbat drive. When the long day was over and Miss Ferry bade the Iloaths good by, sho tried to make plain a little of her gratitude. "It s the first day of whole things I ever had," said she. "You can't quite guess what that ineaus to me, who haven't had anything hut pieces and patches before; and then she was driven away, niniling through happy tears. 'Well," said Florence, standing out in the mooulight and watching tho carriage roll slowly down tho drive, "what fun it was! I thought I was the one who was to do tho giving, but I declare, I've got lots more than I've given. It's been a day of wholo thinzs to me, too a whole day of good happiness." Youth's Com panion. "Was that your daughter I saw yon with Inst night?" asked Kip. "No; it was her sister," replied Ueep, absent ly. Philadelphia North American, H&otoMM&e I PUZZLE DEPARTMENT. The solutions to these puzzles will pear In a succeeding issue. ap- 15 57 A Metagrain. Wholo I am to abhor, change my head and I successively become des tiny, a fruit, a companion, a feminine name and a tax. 08. A Word Square. 1. Extended. 2. Elliptical. 3. A boy's name. 4. Joy. 09. Six Decapitation. 1. Behead translnceut and leave equitable. 2. To choose and leave to allude. 3. To dishearten and leavo a rela tive. 4. Dexterous and leavo a boy's nickname - 5. Acme nnd leave a number. 6. To ponder and leave to employ. GO. A JHnmond. 1, A consonant; 2, a drinking cup; 3, a kind of silk; 4, coins; 5, great; 6, to devour; 7, a letter. ANSWERS TO rUEVIOCS TUZZLES. 53. Word naif Square COMMIT ONION MINT MOT I N T 54. Curtailments trim e. Ouit-e, Regal-e, Rng-e. 55. A Rhomboid BACON TAPER DEWEY NEVER RESET 5C Topaz. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL The high price of ivory aud the great waste of its dust have inducod an English manufacturer to offer $503 for a process of so consolidating tho dust that it can bo used for making handles. Tho beliof is expressed, however, that, although n fortune doubtless would be realized, no pro cess will be found. A French physician recently re ported to the Academie des Sciences the result of his experiments on blind children. Among 204 he found five boys and four girls who were able to recognizo tho Routgen rnys. Somo saw tho X, eathodic, and fluorescent rays, others only the cathodio and X rays, and one described them as being of reddish color. A saw that will cut cold steel hard ened for armor plate - must bo a ver good saw. Various ottempts to make such an article in this country have been recorded within tie last few years. Tho Bethlehem Iron Works nnd the Carnegie mills have tried botb tho foreign and American saws, but now have found a new one, made iu this country, that is said to eclipse them all. Considerable discussion has na turally been elicited by the recent an nouncement of newly discovered gases in the atmosphere, an especially in teresting fact boing brought to publio notico by Professor Bortholot, viz., that the geen lino of krypton almost exactly coiucides with tho green line of the aurora spectrum, and tho sug gestion is consequently made that the clement in question should be called eosium. A notable advauce in tho art of making nuts is reported. An Ohio firm has recently completed a machine which produoes a complete nut with two movements of the operator, the machinery used heretofore requiring four movements. It is said a boy that can handle tho bar of iron and do the feeding can make a ton of nuts a day. The machine has just been completed and put in operation. It is expected it will revolutionize the manufacture of nuts. Largo orders from these works have been sent to Leeds, Man chester and other points iu England. The hitherto unavailable forests of the extreme northeast part of Russia iu Europe are about to be made ac cessible, and within a short timo the fino redwood troes of those virgin forests bordering ou the Arctic Circle will be pnt npou the Euglish aud other European markets in the shape of lumber. A commission has been grantod to a strong Swedish company, with cutting rights, to fell obout one million trees in tho basin of the Potchoro River, and arrangements have been made for transportation of the logs down to the month of the river and along the coast westward to tho port of Oserka, ou the Murroan coast, Kola Peninsula, within a fow hours' steaming of tho Norwegian frontier. An Kantorn Knmance. The Datoh Panglima Kiuta, a mom ber of the State Council at Perak, whose first wife died about two months ago, is so grieved at her loss that he has had crectod a temporary house over her grave, and will live there for three mouths and ten days. The Malays of Ipoh are treated to a feast every Friday, and a buff&lo is killed weekly for ..this purpose. Perak Pioneer. Newspaper Writers' I'nloil Organized. A Newspaper Writers' Union was organized rocontly iu New York City under a charter from tho International Typographical Union. Tho objects of tho union, its constitution states, are, among other things, to raise the status of newspaper men and improve their condition. It was stated tbat tho union expects to havo over 100 chartor members. RECULARS ARE COOP NOW. A Great Decrease In Trials In the Anj, KapeclnllT In the Fighting- Year. The American regular army soldier has been growing better steadily since 1893. The last report of the Judge Advocate General of the army shows decreases in the number of trials by general courts-martial every year since then. There were twenty-eight fewer trials in 1893 thsu in 1892. In 1891 there were nine fewr thau in 1893. In 1895 there were 461 fewer than in 1894. In 1896 there were 242 fewer than in 1895. In 1897 there were 102 fewer than iu 1896 and in 1898 there were 139 fewer thau in 1897. So iu the six years there was a total de crease of nearly 1000. That is to say, whereas in 1892 there were 2242, thero were last year only 1242, and this iu spite of the fact that last year tho regular army numbered 56,365, or more than 30,000 more than in 1S92. The principal offence of the reenlar was being absent from post without leave. The record shows that 298 men were accused of this offence. Next came tho insubordination, or disobe dience to commissioned and non-commissioned officers. There wero 235 men court-martialed for such offenses. There was a great variety of other offences, but many of them wero tech nical, such as losing publio property, failing to attend drill or roll call, aud beiug out of quarters after tnps. There ' wero 176 prosecutions for desertion during the year. With the improvementof the morale of the army it is interesting to note that tho desertions have fallen off won derfully. In 1894 there were 518 de serters; in 1895 the number fell to 254; in 1896 it was about the same; iu 1897 it dropped to 244, and last year, when there was real fighting to bo done, it fell to 176. In 1894, it should be remembered, the regular army num bered only about 25,000; and last year, as stated before, it was considerably more than twice as large. In the volunteer army there wero eighteen desertions last year, aud thero were C23 courts-martial for various offences. The principal offences wero disobeying superior officers and sleep ing 011 post. Ninety-eight men were accused of the former offence and ninety-seven of the latter. lterrnltlng In France. Every year about 300,000 French men reach the age of twenty. After the physically unfit, and those who are exempt under any of the abovo clauses, have beeu weeded out, tho actual number of men required to maintain the standard strength of tho ormy is chosen by ballot. They spend three years in tho active army, and are then dismissed from permanent service and return to civil life. But for the following ten years they aro numbered among the reserve of the active army. They are then drafted into the territorial army for six years; at the conclusion of which they pass into tho territorial reserve for another six years. Not until the age of forty five does a Frenchman become free from all obligation to the military service; for thirteen years he is liable to be called upon to servo either nt home or abroad, and for the following twelve years to defend his country against invaders. No exemption can be purchased. Unless a conscript is exempt either on the ground of physique or for family reasons, he is bound to servo his twenty-five years. Until 1890 there was a class of conscripts known as "one-year volunteers." These were men of good education, who wero al lowed to purchase thoir discharge after one year's service. Tho exteut to which conscriptiou baa militated France may be gathered from the fact that every fourth male is serving or has served iu tho army. Chambers's Journal. Foreigners In France. Iu France, says Lo Chasseur Fran cais, there are 1,130,241 foreigners, while in foreign countries thero aro but 517,000 Frouchmen. The Euro peans of various nationalities residing in France number 1,112,072; thero are, on tho otLer hand, bnt 217,000 Frenchmen dispersed through En rope. Of Belgiaus, 465,870 have emi grated to France; only 52,000 French men have settled in Belgium. The hospitality of France is accorded to 286,042 Italians, while iu Italy there are only 11,000 Frenchmen. Of Ger mans there are in France 83,333; the number of Frenchmen living iu Ger many is 24,000. France has within its borders 14,337 Russians, bnt in Russia itself there are bnt 520!) Frenchmen. The number of Aus trians in France is 12,000; the number of Frenchmen in Austria 3000. For Spain and Switzerland the figures are enoro nearly equal. Thoro are 77,01)0 Spaniards in Franco nnd 25,000 Frenchmen in Sprin; 83,117 Swiss in France and 54,001) Frcnchmou iu Switzerland. Officiated at Ills Own Mairinge. On file in the office of tho provin cial registrar in Toronto, Ontario, are papers of a most unusual nature, tes tifying that John William Pfohler did marry Louise Markie, the ceremouy being performed at Windsor, October 12, 1H98, by tho groom. The officiat ing clergyman is signed as the groom himself. This is the first time that a man has in Canada performed the ceremony for himself. Accompanying tho paper is a plaintive note from tho division registrar of Windsor asking for instructions iu the matter, na up to the time of writing ho had been uu able in any way to find cvideuco that the returu wa not made iu good faith. Tho question naturally arises whethor the man's solemnization of marriage of himself by himself in legal. The only way, in tho opiuiou of the Deputy Attorney-General, to determine this would be by laying the case before tho courts. Detroi. Free Press. WASHINGTON'S! NATAL DAY. Pale Is the February skv. 4 And brief the mid-day's sunny hours. The wind-swept forest seems to sigh For the sweet time of leaves and flower Yet has no month a prouder day, Not even when the summer broods O'er meadows in their fresh array. Or autumn tints the glowing wood3. For this cb 111 season now again Brings, In Its annual round, the mora When, greatest or the sons ol men. Our glorious Washington was born. Lo. where, beneath an lev shield. Calmly the mighty Hudson flows! l!r snow-elad fell and frozen Held . Broadening, the lordly river goes, es. The wildest storm tbat sweops throngfr space, And rends tbe oak with sudden force, . Can raise no ripple on his face, Or slacken his majestic course. Thus, 'mid the wreck of thronos shall live, Cnmarred, undlmmod, our hero's famo, And years succeeding years shall give Increase of honors to bis name. William Cullen Bryant, ; HUMOR OF THE DAY. "Isn't Maude's bloomer costume im mense?" "I should say so. She looks a perfect gentleman." Philadel phia Bulletin. Grandmother "And is John's new watch going all right?" His Father "No, mother. It's gone, long ago!" Jewelers' Weekly. "He has cultivated an extremely mobile face." "Well, he ought to." "Ought to what?" "Automobile!" Cleveland Plain Dealer. Tho man who never makes mistnkos Hbould not be boasting too much. The chances are he Is a man Who never tried to do muoh. Washington Star. "In one respect every woman is am bidextrous." "How do you make that out?" "She can throw just as well with her loft hand ns with her rigLt." Chicago News. Mrs. Smallcannon "I see you aro as'much of a gallant with the ladies as ever." Major Slamjammah "Indade, that was always a strong wakeness with me." Harlem Life. She "It has always struck me as a curious thing that we don't hear more anecdotes about doctors and their pa tients." He "You forget, madam, that dead men tell no tales." "Well, I'm surprised to hear that Hastings has political ambitions." "I don't know that he has." "But didn't you just say that he had begun studying law?" Chicago News. "I have invented something very useful." "What is it?" "An alarm clock letter-box which rings when a man goes by with a letter in his pocket to mail for his wife." Chicago Reo ord. "Yes, George," whispered tho maiden, a rosy blush stealing over her sweet face. "I think I shall bo satis fied with love in a cottage. I have al ways lived in a flat." Chicago ..Tri bune. . V- "Chollie told mo he was burning.' with patriotism, but, between yon ana me, I thiuk he is too green to burn." "Yes, Chollie might appropriately bo called a fireproof flat." Iudiauapolis Journal. Despondent Tremlow (mournfully) "Well, by gosh! This is tho irony of fate for keeps. Here I've spent mo last fifty cents ter commit suicide with gas, an' I git a room with 'lectrio lights." Judge. "No man has ever kissed me," said Belle. "How about me?" asked Wil lie. "My statement still holds good, you silly boy," she replied in non-committal fashion. Philadelphia North Amerioau. Equal to the Emergency, "What!" exclaimed paterfamilias Van Millions, waxing wroth and rosy at the thought of such a proposition. "You marry my only daughter? You, n clerk in my office at 813 a weekl Well, hang me if I don't admire your nerve, young man; but it's absurd, my dear boy; it's preposterons! Why, to begin with, you couldn't even clothe my daughter on your present income!" "I know that, sir," admitted the un abashed and persistent suitor, nothing daunted as yet when the old gentle man had somewhat subsided and the atmosphere was considerably less cerulean. "I know that, sir, but," he paused for a final brace and his seooud wind "tho fact is, your daughter wants to marry me, never theless, and besides, sir, if it should should be necessary that is, in case my salary shouldn't happen to double or even quadruple itself within a month after our wedding why, sir well er I suppose we could marry and settle down iu er er in soma warm climate I" Town Topics. Head of a Large Family. To be the head of a family of 162 persons is a record seldom falling to the lot of man. But such is the case of John Chandler, who resides in Allen County. This gentloman is the father of twenty-nine children, twenty one of whom are now living and have families. These twenty-one children have an average of five children to each family, thus making Mr. Chan dler the grandfather of 1C5 persons. But this is not the full extent of his offspring, for he has thirty-five great grandchildren. So it will be seeu that Mr. Chandler stands paterfami lias of 162 an achievement rarely equalled. It certainly is not paral leled when the fact is considered that the members of this large family are all living. Tha Unrest lllrd. The rarest bird in existence is a certaiu kind of pheasant iu Annam. For many years its existence was known only by the fact that its longest and most splendid plume was in much request by mandarins for their head gear. A siugle skin is worth 400, aud the living bird would be priceless, but it soon dies ia captivity. I..
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