SULLIVAN Jlßltßs>- REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. Canada has about doubled its railway mileage in ten years. One child in every fivo in the north ern half of tho United States dies before it has lived a year. The number of fires in London has in creased fifty per ceut. since 1882; twen ty-five per cent, of the fires occur in un insured premises. The Farmers' Review says that the United States produce 300,000,000 pounds of wool per annum and use twice that amount. The New York World cites as an in stance of the vastness of tho insuranco business that the premiums paid in Louisville, Ivy., alone this year amounted to $1,000,000. - The aim of the University Settlement Society of New York is to aid the citi zens of a neighborhood, "without in fringing on their self respect," aud no patronizing airs are assumed. Twenty million dollars is the esti mated worth of flax products imported into this country last year, and our farm ers are said, records the New York World, to have destroyed 1,070,000 tons of fluxstraw. A joint committee of the two houses of the English Parliament has reported electricity a suitable and efficient source of motive power, and reccomended that electric railway construction be encour aged throughout England. What is now North Berwick, Me., was known as Doughty's Falls thirty years ago. A postal clerk says that occasion ally letters are even now addressed to Doughty's Fails, mid that he has had one such iu his hands within the lasl month. The Chicago Herald is astonished that although the United States is a couutr j possessing inimeuse timber tracts, it ap pears that it imported wood and wood products to the value of $21,772,185 in the year ending June 30, 1891, and iu the same time exported similvr articles to the value of $44,811,004. A woman voted at tiie recent Parlia mentary election at Birmingham, Eng land. Some question aro*e as to the validity of the vote, but the mayor and town clerk agreed with tho Liberal agent that as the lady's name had some how got upon tho register the returning officer had no option but to receive het ballot. Says the Galvestou News:"The peo ple of the United States are thoroughly organized in one way or another. It would not take a week to convert these standing armies into very active and ef fective armies ready for battle. The or ganization begins with political pariies and runs all the way down to amateur baseball clubs." II costs $lO5 per ton to transport dry goods from New York to San Francisco by rail, the time being from twenty-two to twenty-six days. The sumo goods, if brought via Panama, part rail and part steamer, pay $Bl per ton, the tinif being about forty-five days. By clipper ship round the Horn the same goods can be laid down of a cost of S2O per ton, the time beiug abo at eiglity-tlvo days. The Secretary of the Treasury has re quested the S-vrotary of State to in struct the Unite 1 Suite i caaiular oi:in everywhere to refuse to cerlify invoices of goods on aud after September Ist uu less the merchandise is iuvoiccd after the metric system. This action is taken ou information received from the cousuls at Paris and Lyom, w.lO say that tho "auue"' system of ine t«uri uient now in use in France on invoices of goo Is iu traded for the L'aitei St itot, ficilititei frauds ou tliu Custom II t ise, in! that tile metric tysteoi would greatly simplly commercial traimnio is and fa.ilitotu a comparison of iuvoicet aud pricei. A man up front Veiled tula, where they have been cutting one anothur't throats in a rev tlulionory matinee, stys of that unhappy country't warriors: "Kal*tail's iu.'c t regno 1 it wasn't iu it with the soldier* down there. They are the huugriett looking creatures you ever taw. I've given pennies to tneiu on the ttleel. 'l'm y wear line 1 breee ie» and au undershirt, and when tuey Co, tie iuto town lUey wrap their bltokct* around them to cuter their mtkedae**. They e#iry old Itliit luck Htutkelt, Their are a few lleiuiugtnu* and W ineUeileit, but mighty l e#. l imy have machete*. A uia> Uete u a tori of big butchcr»uile without a point. It t* about three inches wide «u 1 thlriy in I mg, and pretty heavy, tuey cui *ood and kill tnakes and enemies with market**, bourn ul them have timet, but the uiott ul tlitm »«ai a leolkei (wk with a ttiap item** lite heel and toe Ihe b«|« heel, ftud lwe« titca uul " Wis BUILD THE LADDER. Ueaven is not reached at a single bound, But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted ski 4 And we mount to the summit round by round. I count this thing to be grandly true, That a noble deed is a step toward God, Lifting the soul from the common sod To a purer air and a broader view. We rise by the things that are under feet, By what we have mastered of greed and gain. By the pride disposed and the passion slain, And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet. We hope, we aspire, we resolve, we trust. When the morning calls us to life and light; But our hearts grow weary, and ere the night Our lives are trailing the sordid dust. Wo hope, we aspire, wo rosolve, we pray, And we think that we mount tho air on wings, Beyond the recall of sensual things, While our feet still cling to the heavy clay. Wings for the angels, but foet for the men! We may borrow the wings to find tho way; Wo may hope and aspire and resolve and pray, But our feet must rise or we fall again. Only in dreams is a ladder thrown From the weary earth to the sapphire walls; But the dream departs aud the vision falls. And tho sleeper wakes on his pillow of stone. Heaven is not reached a single bound, But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to the summit, round by round. -J. G. Holland. THREE AGAINST TEIY, AN EPISODE OF TIIE SEMINOLE WAR. .Q q ROUND a bend as an officer sat in the stern. Fivo minutes before the crocodiles and cranes, water turkeys, bitterns and herons had had the black, oozy river all to themselves as it slug gishly made its way through the swampy palmettos and cypress. The boat bumped along slowly, strik ing against cypress trees and fallen tree trunks. The paddlcrs looked nuxious for the chance of finding a comfortable camping grouud was growing slighter before young Will Loring began to be sick of his escapade. He had left tho camp eight miles away without orders and taken two of his company with hiiu to do Indian scouting on his own ac count. Little more than a year before he had been a schoolboy, playing soldier in the streets of St. Augustine with other youngsters'. When the Seminole War of 1835 broke out, sweeping with a wave of tire and massacre across the State, he ran away from home and joined a com pany of volunteers. His dariug and coolness at the battles of the With lacoochcc and Alaqua, in connection with the social importance of his family, had given him his epaulets at au age when other boys of the same years were still in terror o! the schoolmaster's birch. "Wall, Lieutenant," drawled ono of the men as he peered wearily into the depths of the dark cypress arches, "we're in a 'orrid fix, I reckon. If we keep 011 we'll run plum into a nest of theu lnjin devils, dead shore." Both the soldiers were Crackers, bred in the woods and swamps, good shots and skillful hunters, though thin, slouch ing figures were not ornaiucuts to a, dress parade. "Keep on paddling," said young Lor ing in low tones, but with au air of tteru nesa, which did not set well on his smooth fare and mischievous black eyes, "aud uwait iny orders." Theu feeling that he had asserted his authority, he continued with a burst of boyish confi dence, "I tell you what it is, Scraggs, we'll have to get back to that hammock, about u utile up the river, where we can find piue knots to cook supper; dou't you think sol" "ltlcss you, Lieutenant, d'ye haiiker to lose yer skelp I No supper to-night but a drink of swaiup water, *ud a chew of raw bacon. I'll bet there's a hun dred of red varmints iu two miles 011 «»•" I "You're not afraid, Scraggs, are you 1 1 said the youngster with a lordly air; "a follow who can bore a potato toased iu the air at a hundred yards with a rifle ball, ought to have plenty of apuuk." "A leetle moresketry than I war forty year 4g0," auswered the Cracker, with a twinkle iu his eye. "tlowsomever, a* men of lay luetic* do, 1 reckon I've got as much el'ar grit a* most uu 'eiu," This talk had gone 011 iu hall whiapeis. The daikness wo* in> (eating every min ute. The boyish officer in »pite of liU alls was evidently uneasy, fur hia eye* ■hot continual glances ahead aud uu botu side* iuto the swamp, at the dugout glided at a snail's pace, They weie mming another bend in the stream, when thiuugh the tangle uf leal aud tluv thue was a led git aiu like a huge ttiedj, ; Without waiting ut tiers Heraggt whirled the boat bat k with a poweilul paddle, and turned tu hit eiti er with eyea si most itaitilig (lorn their eothils, tbakiug |tis bead tu warning "Injuns, Iniunt, Lieutenant Will, a 4oteu on 'em," he *i..ipertd. *'! st> I the hiud end of two •u ,tt jiu loan' the bend, Thai must be a hummock what Uttj it ttmj vdi lnt.j it j l ** LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER V), 1892. through eatin', an' are stampin' out the embers. Sh— don't speak. I'll work the old scow deep into tho cypress. We'll see what tricks they're up to, see in' we're hyar and can't get away very easy. But by Jimmy, my skelp kinder crawls as if 'twould not be thar to-mor row mornin'." Young Loring nodded, and the pad dlers cautiously forced the boat fifty feet through tho mouth of a black arch into the hoart of the swamp. Hidden here they were nearor the savages than before, and could hear their movements. It soon became clear that the party of Seminoles had no purpose of leaving their camp that night, and no suspicion of white men close at hand. One by one they dropped asleep, and their slumber chorus, which sounded not unlike the grunting of the alligators in the swamp, was music to the prisoners squatted in their gloomy covert. Three hours had passed, and the grow ing light that silvered the lagoon outside of their retreat proved the moon well up over the tops of the tree?. "Now is our time," whispered Scraggs, "to get outer this hole and paddle up stream for a sale landiug place and vamouse back to camp." Lieutenant Loring answered not a word. His boyish miud was deep in thought—a daring thought which thrilled him with excitement. If he returned to camp as he left it there was sure to be sharp reprimand, perhaps a court martial for absence with out leave. The excuse that he was au irresponsible lad would alone save him, and at that fancy his heart had waxed Hot with shame. But togo back as con queror aud hero—ah! that was worth risking his scalp for. "Are ye asleep?" whispered Scraggs again. "No," was tho reply; "I am going to take these redskins back to camp with me. So, Scraggs, you two can just tie your hair on, for it will soon bo in peril." The men jumped as if they heard the whizz of Seminole lead. "You see it would be a shame to sneak back empty handed. We can't exactly take their scalps, but we can take themselves as a present to the General," said the ingenious youth. "The Indians are fast asleep. We'll paddle up and take their cauoes. Then I'll land on the numnieck, you know, and pick up their rifles. Then in the morning we can or der them to surrender on peril of being shot down, for we shall have loaded guns, and they'll have none." Tha two Crackers groaned over this piece of youthful strategy, but Scraggs responded • "All right. Lieutenant, I s'pose we've got to die some time." The dugout left its covert and glided silent as a shadow into the open stream. A few strokes brought them in full sight of the Indian camp. Tho island where the savages lay was well-shadow ed by the trees, but their forms could be dimly seen stretched on tho earth. Silently the littlo party detached the two cauoes and towed them to a secure position, where they fastened them to a cypress tree fifty yards from shore. As the boat approached tho shore on its secoud more dangerous mission, young Loring slipped oil his boots and stepped into the ooze, regardless of moccasins aud rattlers. Scraggs and his comrade covering the advance with leveled guns, felt their stout hearts quake as their boy ieader crept iu among those sleeping figures of bronze. A stumble or the snapping of a twig might make the difference of life and death. The lad moved as if he were a cat. The coarse hummock grass, armed with minute thorns, cut into his flesh, but he scarcely felt them. Tho sleeping redskins lay partly iu the mooulight and partly in the shade of the trees which rose in the centre of the hummock, each one with his rifle by his side, the tierce copper face chiseled as if in metal. Had tho Indians disposed of their guns as the whites do, by stacking or restiug them against a tree, the task of securing them would have been less risky. But they had kept their arm* within reach, and somo even had their tomahawks looseued from the belts as if tor instant use. The Indian rarely sets a guard at night, unless iu the immediate pretence of au enemy. Here iu the depth of a great cypress swamp, impassable to troops, a surprise wuuld seem impos sible. Yet even now tho cunuing and suspicion of the race had not 112 jrtukeu them. The nerves of tho young olllcer were strung to the highest tension. One by one he stealthily lifted tho rifles from the earth till he had what he could carry. These he bore to the low bank aud passed to the men on guard in the dug out, No word was exchange J. Again he returned to the dangerous sleepers, a dUtauce of about a hundred feet from : shore, for a secoud load. A liiawny sav age lotting tn his dreams gave a tierce grunt aud threw out a haud, which I touched the young thief's ankle as if to | clutch it. Tho moment thrilled him with alt the agouy of discovery, but he tto.nl I stock still waitiug for somethiug further. U was a false alarm, but cold sweat poured I run his ft.ce. Another of the savage* had his haud on the stock of hi* gun, aud the piece had to Uu geutly slid J trout under his lingers. Again, the third lime, he weut back to complete his work. Ino iuuou *4l now high up tu the »ky, aud pouted a itood of light uu the liUU island, file recuiuU ut Indians were cut out like luoustrous silhouette* agonist the gvonud- ( The boy't *wimmiug heat warned hint 1 (hat Ids ttieuglh vi uldu't lo*t uimlt longer. Hut he resolutely went at bit taik, though hi* ilu-it lull a* it I by au iron griii, lie hotl gotiteie.i the last anuful, when one of thn led men in his duouti r 11 ted liiuiell on hi* Inane lie. and sat with 1 hut 1 eating o« hi* kntet the moou*hme iuikett I uu hi* liss thiough the quivt?#'lug luliage, aud bli sunkeu eyet appeait l hall ou«u and foi low lug hi* white enemy. Ihe watchful feiog*.*, (uu, •ibwual this movent* nl, tint hTs tann * I che»k* turned white as vbotk, as hit was shout Ul |'i»ss his rifle-trigger. But he waited, and the savage sleeper made no further sign. At last the work was done. The ten minutes had seomcd a year. The lad stag gered to the boat, staggering as if with an ague. "I must speak," he panted, "or I shall yell. I thought twice I'd have to whoop or go into a faint. But, Scraggs, I pulled through, didn't It Help me in." "Wall! You've got the guns, shore," said Scraggs, "and drat my skin of tho biggest bully in Jessup's camp would a done it." No time had been lost while Scraggs was relieving his mind; the dugout was skimming out into the stream with lively paddle strokes. The plan was boldly executed in the moruing. With the coming of light the Seminoles discov ered tho robbery of their weapons and rushed to the edge of the swamp with frantic yells, brandishing their toma hawks. But the marauders were far be yond tho throw of axe or Knife, and sat with levelled rifles. Theu came a shrill voice, demanding in Spanish the instant surrender of the little Seminole band, for at thnt time nearly everyone in Florida knew some thing of this language. After consider able parley the red men agreed to throw their knives aud tomahawks iuto the marsh. They were taken aboard in pairs and their right wrists tightly fasteued together with stout strips of Scr&gg's homespun shirt. The dugout towed the canoes up stream, while tho young ollicor sat in tne stern and guarded the captives with loaded pistols. So the daredevil returned to camp the same afternoon, and histead ot a rowing he was covered with praise and honor by General Jessup aud his little army. This boy afterward became a dis tinguished General —Major General William W. Loring—who led armies iu the far distant East as a Pasha iu the service of the Egyptian Khedive, as well as in this country. But in his long ca reer he never did anything nioro daring and heroic than the feat planned and executed by the boy of fifteen, tho sub stantial facts of which were told 1110 by the General himself.—G. F. Ferris, in St. Louis Republic. Uses of the Umbrella. "An umbrella Is one of tho most use ful articles that a man can carry with him," said Lamar J. Saunders from Jack sou, Miss. "Ono can bo uso l a do/.eu different ways. When the sun is shin ing hot, or when it is mining, a man without an umbreba must either remain indoors or suffer. As a weapon of dofmici there is nothing bettor. You can keep a man at his distauce with one better than you could wi: ; i a stick. You re member what a conspicuous part the um brellas played in the tragedy at Home stead thq other day in the hands of the infuriated women? Next to a shotgun or a pistol there is no more dangerous weapon. "I remember one time I was iu a hotel that caught atire in the moruing. Tho guests were awakened by tho stifling smoke and noise. My room was on tho second floor aud by the time I had slip ped on my trousers the tiro had gained such headway that all avenues of escape were closed. But there was my um brella and a window aud tho rest was easy. "Another time I was walking through a pasture when a bull with his eyes ablaze with lire made for 1110. I kept iny senses, and when he got within about fifty yards of me Iran towards him, opening and closing the umbrella as fast as I could. The bull wheeled around and ran from me faster thau he ever rau before in his life. "And for frigntning dog* I had rather have an umbrella tliau an arsenal."—St. Louis Republic. It'Mvrslble Suukoß lit ltidlii. A suake not ofteu hoard of, at least in Ameiica, is the liver-colored snake with two heads, or perhaps they should be called mouths, though it does not liivo two mouths at the same time. They are reversible mouths, occupying the opposite end every six mouth*. It lies with the two ends crossed in each other, as with folded hands. Every six mouths the change of the seasons reverses tho func tion* of the two ends, the head becoming the tail and the tail becoming tho head. The mouth at one end heals or closes up all but a small opening, while the oppo. site end becomes the mouth for the next tix months. A friend ot mine iu India who told me about thit remarkable suake tntd ho rtfused for a long time to Iteliovo that the function* of the two ends were re versed every tix mouths, but oue day he found one of these suake* tu the jungle and carried it home, where he ha i o physician ex tuitue it. Tne result »os • lie physician oouti 'uio I the stories of the creature, and my friend «as skepticil 110 louger. t learned uo other uomo for thit siugular reptile than that of"the liver-colored suake. 1 llattfot I (Couu ) Times. Cooking With lee fur I'ti^l. The geuerolly accepted theory of the cooking of uu-a' relates to the application of heat; but Or. How icset.xgy has called ottentiou to ttte foet t talaluiutt preuisely the taiuu eheot.oal aud physical chouses con be accomplished by the etpomie of annual lt««h lo i tuciue >. old. Indeed, the *en«otiou etperteuce i by tonehlug Intel ing tuwieuiy is very much that uf 0 tevere bum. Then the etpeiliusuier lelerred to ap plied hia method to the pie tut votlou ol tueoU, Hist lij tnli|ecl u* Ihetu to a lent peratofe ol thlii) tlnue below teru, rabieuhvit, aud theu wabug litem up hetmetleolly in tin vewteit, Vmuitlt and •nbetoueet ottie 1 bat hmm to treated OU'I lor some time kept tu these kiim, on tikaminotioo jnofeU W lit ettiemeiy pain table, and, being poiunUy c »oael, «e •jutted very little keoi to pispate litem lie the table, Vm esktbliaktueut tn llungaiy I* now engaged In the |UH|> gr.tiut iu 0 |H>und, and ot honey contain* three fourth* of 11* weight ot diy >.t. h |K.uud ot clover iiouey repieeeule Ihe lUtettioM of (he bee'* pro but!* iuto not leas thau i,UtkJ elovei heatU. Ihe Mere* in * Fir*. Few know that II la thaiaeieiUtic of the hoi*e to become frenttu I when tor (Oktuded by ttie No to hi* in lelltgene 1 ta of avail duiiag the etlotlt mode 10 remove Itlm trout the pre* n< ol flame* He It terror *intken, and teem* to Ue m the wtme condition of Ml VfaiUM I*4 a paniu. It it iheiel.tre u.elu! to know that by « «e*t *4lll phi et|iedient the koi*u eon be eaaily managed tn w ate ol lite that te ee« t »*al y tn do to tu put a •addie on him, and he be It I without the hMttl d'llti alt) I torn hie Hattie. -Vint Animal Fiitn I*. Terms—sl.oo in Advance; $1.25 after Three Months. "THE PETRIFIED FOREST." THE WONDEB9 OF CHAT.OEDONY PARK IN ARIZONA. Thousands ot St Iglity Trees Turner! to Solid Stone—Hj ri ids ot l'l-cc-ious Oeins—Ait Kncbnntetl Spot. "I™ ~JT~ C. IIOVEY describes in the Scientilic American a trip to j Chalcedony Park in Arzona. (J He snys: From the very start the road was lined by specimens of agatized wood. Now and then a petri fied log, or solitary stmnp, were harbin gers of what was to be seen further on. The term "park" is a misnomer; for there is no natural park here, nor has the hand of man done anything but to shatter the marvelous relics of dateless antiquity. The peoplo of the vicinity always speak of it as "the Petrified Forest." But that again is misleading; for thcro is no forest, whatever there may have been fifty centuries ago. It cer tainly aecms as if tho place ought to bo made a National park, and should ba both better protected aud more ousy of access. As it is, the enchanted snot lies at the mercy of vandals, tho only precaution against spoliation being a railroad rule against shipping specimens from it in bulk. How shall the Clialcedony Park be described? At first one gets the im pression that it is a small affair, of per haps fifty acres. Then he says that it must be a hundred. And after riding over its amazing ruins for many hours iu succession, he concludes that the area includes a thousand acres; and finally he hardly questions the bold estimate of Mr. C. F. Luminis that the extensive forest now burdened into stone formerly covered "hundreds of square miles;" and accepts without dissent the assertion of Mr. G. F. Kunz, that thcro may here be seen at a giauce a million tons of precious stones. A matter-of-fact visitor might say that the scene reminded him of a vast logging camp, where tho lumbermen had tossed the huge logs from their sleds at random, atul then had gone away, leaving theni to become raiu-souked and inoss-grown. Tho trees when standing wero fully two hundred feet high; for even now their prostrate trunks measure, when « uu broken, from one hundred to one hun dred and fifty feet. The peculiarity already hinted at is that these mighty trunks are as regularly severed into sections as if the work had been done by a cross-cut saw. The lengths vary from disks like cart wheels to logs twenty or thirty leet long, or longer. Twigs are found au inch through, and trunks ten feet thick. Ti oy lie at every angle; parullel to other, aud at right angles; singly and in great groups; down in gulleys and perched like cuuuon on hill tops. And all these myriads of trunks, stumps, logs, branches nud tiny twigs arc solid stone. Aud on inspection they prove to be precious gems of almost every known variety. Those that reinaiu in tact have been weathered to a dark red, rich brown, or sober black. But Time's relentless ax, aided by the geologist's hammer, has mado havoc with so many of theni that the ground is thickly strewn with their fragments, from rocks like bowlders down to chips and minute splinters, that show their brilliant colors under tho tierce Arizona sun with kaleidoscopic ellcct. At every footfall you tread ou gems, some of which might grace a ducal corouct, while tho most plain and least attractive would tie worthy of an honored place 111 the finest cabiuet. There are no rubies, sapphires uor diamonds here (as has been incorrectly reported), but the amethyst abounds, and tho red and yellow jasper, chalce dony of every hue, the topaz, tiie onyx, the caruelian, aud every imaginable variety of agate. Nor log, nor frag uteut, is limited to a single kind of geiu. Many are massive mosaics of all tho kiuds named above. The material breaks pr-tt> easily into cubical forms, but it is extremely hard, and takes a brilliant aud durable polish. Hum Oust tiets lu. When the air around us becomes con densed—shrink-- into a smaller volume —it becomes heavier, puts greater pres sure ou the surface of the mercury aud makes it ascend iu the tube; then the mercury it said to rise. Wiieu the air expands—swells into a larger volume it becomes lighter, the pressure ou the mercury i* less, the mercury tiuk* tu the tube aud the b.tr nueler is said to lall. Therefore every cbauge ol height of the quicksilver which we observe is a sigu aud measure of a change iu the volume of air around us. Further, this change iu volume tells uo leaa upon the nr inside our cotes and cupboard*. Wlteu the barometer falls, the air arouud it|tauds iuto a larger volume, and the air inside the cupboard al«> esponds and forces itself oil at every minute crevice. W hen the barometer rises tiiiaiu, the ail inside the cupboard, 0* well as outside, coudeu*es an i •brink* aud otr It lor cod liuck into the cupboard to equalise the plcaaure, nud along with the air in goes the datt. The *iitoll«r the crevice the lhe lhe jet of air, Ihe farther got* ihe dirt. Witness ihe tlirl track* so often seen iu imperfectly trained eugiatmg* ot ykotographt. lit tntmlHir, la He* su I gentlemen, whenever you see the uarotticier 11*1114, lhat au ad« dltiouol charge of dl'e* on a »>ttall t*Und near fc-vvn Hu . Imhl A te Maud. Me.- U>tou_,li, 0 nntqnu way ol iatth>U4 ImM M i-»ket a poU, *etett let! lu ivngth, I t whieo ate *ll*» ued 0 unit*!**! ol t ou.n >n «♦» Hih n>> >k* auu 1 lau. wdt Mti'tl I* el »u height. I'lie hook* are 1 a let wttu % ken 104- I kit rio. being )<*•• below "*e •mioie wait IU totdwitilM tne 'tH«> 1 ' u k> Ite I tie 1 . til Utvfhnt 1,„ . ■ . . n ikit n»a. ' 1 Mk NO. 48. THE EARLY OWL. I An Owl onoe lived in a liollow tree^ I And ho was as wise as wise could ba The branch of Learning he didn't know ■ Could scarce on the tree of knowledge grow. He knew the tree from branch to root, 1 And an Owl like that can afford to hoot. I And he hootel—until, alas! one day i He chanced to hear, in a casual way, 1 An insignificant little bird Make use of a term he had never heard. He was flying to bod in the dawning light When he heard hor singing with all her might, "Hurray! hurray for the early worm I" "Dear me!" said the Owl, "what a singu lar term! I would look it up If it weren't so late; 1 must rise at dusk to investigate. Early to bed and early to rise I Makes an Owl healthy and stealthy and wisel So he slept like an houest Owl all day, And rose in early twilight gray. And went to work in the dusky light To look for the early worm all night. Ho searched the country for miles around, But tho early worm was not to be founl. Ho he went to bed in the dawning light. And looked for the "worm" again next night. And again and and again and again. He sought and he sought, but all in vain, Till he must have looked for a year and a day For the early worm, in the twilight gray. At last in despair he gave up tho search, And was heard to remark, as he sat on his perch By the side of his nest in the hollow tree, "Tho thing is as plain as night to me— Nothing can shako my conviction firm, There's no such thing as the early worm." Oliver Herford, in St. Nicholas. IIUMOR OF THE DAY. Brightest idea of tho century—The electric light.—Dallas News. The man with a pocketful of rocks can afford to throw stones.—Boston Transcript. The shoemaker is a man who fre quently gets "beaten out. of his boots." —Statesman. In baseball it does not follow that the heaviest nine will gravitate to the bot tom.—Boston Transcript. It's only in the order of events that when his best girl shakes a fellow he's rattled.—Philadelphia Times. His Chance: Edith—"How cheap I feel!" Young Scapoly—"Edith, will you bo mine?"— Kate Field's Washing ton. Counting tho chickens before they are hatched is the highest way of showing contidenco in the reliability of the hen. —Baltimore American. A man always knows what he would have done in another fellow's place, but the other fellow doesn't always believe it.—Louisville Courier-Journal. "Give me the treasury, pleise," he cried, To a maid with a dark brown curl; "I'll do it with pleasure, sir. she replied, For she was a teiophoue girl. —Washington Star. A youn" woman who wont out sailing at Atlantic City tho other day described the bow and stern of the yacht as "the point and the blunt."—Philadelphia Itoc ord. Edison has patented COO inventions, but he has to slap at the summer tly just as vainly as anybody else. Genius can not do everything.—Baltimore Ameri can. Gushing Girl—"Now, don't you put my name iu your paper; don't you dare." Experienced Reporter—"Very well. How did you say you spell your name." —Washington Star. "Jack Wilkins broke his bicycle yes terday." "Lucky fellow," renlied Willie Wishington. ".Mine is a wild as it was the first day I twied to wide it." Washington I'ost. Things one would rather have ex pressed other viae. (Lady Fes tus at home, 'I A. M.) Homes* "Only just couie, Sir George! How good of you to coiue so late!"—l'uncb. "You cau't claim," said the mau who doesn't care lor the rod and line, "that fishing a (lords exercise." "Oh, yes it does," was the reply; "for the imagina tion."—Washington Star. "The style of writing that you do must be very hard work." Herbert— "Well, it is; but what made you think of it I" Gladys-—" Why, it makes we tired to read il."—Chicago Inter Ocean "All, Hardupl I hear your uucle is dead. lUtim an eccentric mau. Waa hv alt ty. ether right in hi* head!" "Well i—l couldn't aay, you know, till the will is rea I. lloston Commercial liulletfn. Mile Thiu—"Uou't vou think my uew drej« I* )u>t cxouiaitel Tliey all »ay to." Fauuie—"Ob, lovely! I til ink that dressmaker of your* could make a clot In,* pole look .(iiitu grateful. Uruoklyn Eagle. 1 ram, i—" Ma l um, won't yon please help a poor tick tutu ('* Woman of "Why, you don't look sieh." I ramp—"lis I be, too, no law" Moiuan of llouw -"What are you eteh uf'" I'tamp r"Wurt " \ poor old to|u.r, who waa la the habit of n«Uiutf io*t on hie way home, **» »»*ed ko* ire t >uid atfurd to kewp the dug that <* «* ai«ay* with hint. "That dog," he said, "not only bouda himself but finds uw ' thwtou I'ost. Itivuia-~"1 heal t Uolly Lrfglttpetu »e not goin* to huio|<«, a'tet nil. ila< hf ehau n ed hu luiulf" Uaftk* "Hta luludf ' UieatlVutil lla misdl No. lie simply un't "U aevouet of a totsl lack u| change." -I'hu.agtj IVi buue IttUMg Vtihot -"What did youlkiiih of my uew novel I" tjuical Uutie • "titi, it i* all a*u u» I hut lw uav 1 atu lt» line I to think sommi other upili wou'd he ibu*f*l aud Metal |u I**l ■ htfMMMtttiJf Jeuikai.