SULLIVAN JSHH REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XI. Sixty thousand nor eh of Florida lands •re to lie cultivated by Swedes. The Netherlands are moa to be worth #4,935,000,000 and Belgium $4, 030,000,000. Australia has just completed the first locomotive ever built on the island continent. It was constructed at Mel bourne. V The colored people of Virginia pay taxes on real estate valued at $9,425,- 68t5, and on personal proj>erty valued at $3,342,950. A Brooklyn (N. (.) lureotor says he can propel a big stetuiship across the Atlantic in throe and a half days with sulphuric u-.ii I powered sugar and cliloruty of potash. Although we have the poor always with us, a two-cent British Guiana, 1850 issue, postage stamp, was sold at auction in this city the other week, muses the New York Independent, for §lOlO. The New York Sun shows that while in the country at large the proportion of foreign-born inhabitants is about fourteen per cent , it is only 2.60 per cent of the total in the fourteen South ern States. Spinning wheels are not altogether things of the past. Go into Cornwall or Wales, or to the Scoteh Highlands, declares the Chicago Herald, and you will lind plenty of cottages where the spinning wheel is as much a piece of household furniture as are the scrubbing brush and the kitchen broom. The new railroad from Jaffa to Jer usalem is only fifty-three miles long. Passenger trains make seventeen miles an hour. The rails came from Eng land, the ties from France, the engines from Philadelphia, the cars from France and the heavy work was done by Arabs and Egyptians. The road is not likely to yield a profit for a long time to come. It is a fanciful but pretty conceit, exelaims the New York News, that of casting a Columbian Liberty Bell weighing 13,000 pounds, composed partly of jewels, silver, rare coins and all sorts of precious contributions from women and children in all parts of the United States. The value of all these contributions will greatly exceed the value of the jewels which Isabella is said to have sacrificed for the outfit of Columbus. The dedication of the Mormau Tem ple at Salt Lake City took place under far different conditions than were ever imagined by those who laid the founda tions, soliloquizes the San Francisco Chronicle. Polygamy is now prescribed by rigid laws, and though the spirit of the laws is violated by many Mormans, still the fear of imprisonment lias done much to check one of the worst fea tures of the system. The younger men among the Mormans claim that they have discarded polygamy and that it no longer plays an important part in their religion Many villages iu all parts of the United States have taken the names of the roadside iuns about which they have grown up, but it is |K>rhaps only iu conservative Southern Virginia, re marks the New York Sun, that the "ordinaries" for entertainment of mail and beast have given names to villager There is Jeuning's Ordinary in Notto way County, Siuoky Ordinary in Brunswick County, and doubtless many others in the same region. It is here, too, that local map- immortalize the shopkeepers, the millers aud the Mack smiths of an earlier generation. Oddly enough, one looks almost iu vain for uuiutu grow lug out of the bloody struggle from 'ill to tUV A sort of mythology hu» groan up alsiut the American Indiau lit rcgious ahelice he vuuished 100 years ago. The popular names of mauy plauts in clude the adjective ludtali. Few par •oiis ill America nay Indian corn now, hut Indian cukes is a term still strongly intrvuehed south oi Mason ami Uiion't Itue, and then la twit a plant kltoau to children a Indian t>>l»aeeo. The brilliant tHUUU In t !*• caitxe Its weds are Mack, hilllet like pellet*. Indian tradltntUs are pra se* v«sl with a s»rt ot revsivuee in the South Twenty Ave rears aifo It-al tr.w lers oit a certain road iu W.toea ter t'onulv, Maryland, commonly •lop|M'd at a jKiiut lit Ihe retttolc iHiuu try, Hatched u inlet a iiu*h at lhe ruad« aide, drew forth a stoUe uiutlM aud pestle Used ti)l the ludfct.t* lUU y< he lor«, shoavd tha (sites Iu any •tf auger la the cuMipunt and >a«< fully put thuiu taut I «lede iMgkliui' h>a«l knew tha «k*i alaMttaul lhs»" la >lr IW4> uta, hut (hay atamad a» •*!« m U 4 iu>ta<,i*ut There are said to be 70,000 lawyers in the United States, one-seventh of whom have offices in New York. •The manufacture of paper from wood pulp is destroying acres and acres of beautiful trees," laments the San Francisco Bulletin. The 1200 persons in the Census Office will retire on the 31st of December. The Census Division there after will consist of a chief and about twenty-three employes, to complete the unfinished work. The fouth centenary of the discovery of the new world was celebrated by the French Geographical Society on March 4, that being the fourth centenary of the date the news of the discovery reached Europe. It is said that the new directory of Baltimore, Mil., indicates an increaso of 36,000 in the population of the city during the post year, dne largely to the growth of manufacturing interests in the city and suburbs. For some years past Greece has been gradually monopolizing the earth quakes of Europe. Several beautiful towns and villages have lately been turned in a few moments into heaps of ruins. Amphissa, Leucadia, Corinth, Egion, Philiatra, and lastly the flower of the Lavant Zante, have all been badly shaken up. At a meeting of the International Hotel Employes' Association in New York City the other day it came out that the waiters of the metropolis have invented a new name to describe the man who regularly omits to give tips to expectant waiters. It is "Miff." The name is not applied to the man who once in a while fails to find his vest pocket when the waiter hands him his hut and inquires how he was pleased with his dinner, bnt when that failure becomes chronic his name is handed around from one waiter to another as a Miff, and when he comes into the es tablishment, it is dollars to doughnuts that he finds thein all too busy to have time to attend to his wants. The German universities are the most cosmopolitan institutions in the world. They draw students literally from every cultured land aud climate. Of the 27.518 .students matriculated at these high schools during the present term no fewer than 1948 are foreign ers. Of these 403 are Russians, '294 Austrians, 247 Swiss, 131 English, 5'2 Greeks, 51 Bulgarians, 50 Hollanders, 36 Turks, 34 French. 31 Italians, 25 Luxemburgers, 24 Roumanians, 21 Swedes and Norwegians, 18 Servians, 5 Danes, 2 Spaniards. Non-European lands are represented by 414 Ameri cans, the great majority of whom are from the United States, 69 Asiatics, nearly all of whom are Japanese, 14 Afrioans and 4 Australians. A prize was recently offered by the Denver (Col.) Sun for the best solution of the problem of how to keep hus bands home at night The prize was awarded to the writer of the following: "A Quaker advised his son to keep his eyes wide open when courting ; after marriage to keep them half shut. If you did uot act on the first jwtrt of the advice, try the latter. Study your husband's diapositiou, and lie sure to make a thorough study of your own. Try using a little tact and a good deal of consideration for his wishes aud feeliugs. and aee if you eaunot teach hun to lie more considerate of yours. Business is tryiug. Men like peace at hotuc. If possible, manage not to In) worn out. Be cheerful. Don't worry. Don't scold." Life tablet have lieen compiled from the mortality returtiaof various |a-rintts of time showing that at birth the ex |H'ctatloii of life cover* more years iu the earn* of the female thau in that of the male These tables alao ahow that at succeeding ages the female lead ut maintained. Hut a tabulation has just '•ecu ttiailc that will interest othrra thau H*lelltlata, statist iciwur and lift tu aurauoc ageuta, aud which, though the ilata are inil *ery uitc uatve, gotst to confirm the rcaulta r. acheil iu the ao called stain lard II t ■ lab lea. A leading journal baa coiupllisl all the eaar* of il.'lable lougevily rect.nled IU llaowu uolituiu* during th» viar IMttJ til 1151 ■a'togaitaflaua litii wi wutuen and only AUA are lueu. Abnvi «ighty at marly all an*a the relurna couliuu* to favor she wiiun u . and of oenlenai lau*all hut one are a.aom l'hia >ks* ut'l pfuvw thai wouteu ate happier than lUl>|l but il la a tf""d iitUealt'U 111 at a* a rule they live lu||«i And though the iMuat t«iaaoiialv|> ptnauio|*ti' U la thai thta la Inmuhmc they enjoy mu aflat life than man, th> a»mm». wiiutan aill d.ml.iiiaa t*>uliuu« tu at»u thai »ttl It* I bvutt U In a a>aa LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1893. WHERE THE WORLD BEGINS. Ob, (air Is the land where the world begins, 8o near to the other shore it lies, (Only a span as the white dove flies) Bo far away from earth's cares and sins. Around it sheltering walls arise, Bullded by love that never dies. This land is but one of the many inns Along life's pathway back to the skies ; Then l the dweller toileth not. nor spins. But only watches with mute surprise The wonders passing before his eyes, A smile In his scepter, his mandate sighs. And weakness is ever the power that wins In that l>eautiful land where the world be gins. —M. L. Ames. THE HEIRESS. BY M. A. WORBWICK. figures in the dusty ledgers—a young face with clear, bright eyes —and I fall into a day-dream and forget that I am old and poor and commonplace. Sheisthe only child of Jere Harnian, the millionaire mill-owner, and as gen tle and good as she is beautiful. I have watched her grow into womanhood. I have watched her char acter deepening anil widening and de veloping toward the ideal of my dreams. And all these years Ihave been learn ing to love her. Surely love is not wholly wasted though it is hopeless. I am a better man that I have loved Nellie Harman. No. I build no air-castles. I am forty and she eighteen. I am only her father's bookkeeper and she is the heiress of millions. There was a time when little Nellie Herman rode on my shoulder hunted my pockets for goodies, and escaped her nurse's charge several times a day to toddle down to the mill in search of "her Jack Spencer." Later she brought her school tasks, the incor rigible Latin verbs and the unconquer able examples in fractions, to the same old friend, who was never too busy to be bothered by little Nellie Harman. She is as unaffected and cordial iu her friendliness as ever, and sometimes when she lays her hand oil my arm and looks up into my face anil asks why I come so seldom to the Hall, and have I grown tired of old friends, of her— then I find it hard to answer lightly, to smile calmly, and I go away with a heartache. The girl does not lack for friends. Grim, ntcru old Jere Hnrman's little bright-faced child, motherless since her buhyhood, long ago fonml a tender spot ill the hearts of the village folk. In the cottages her face is as welcome as sunshine. The children hung on her gown, the women sing her praises, and the roughest mil! hand has always a civil word for her, and a lift of the cap as she passes. She has her young friends, too, among the country gentlefolk. Young Harry Desmond is often at the Hall. It is rumored that he is the fortunate suitor of Jere Harmau's heiress. He is a fresh-faced, good-hearted lad. Love is for youth, and they are young together. Oruy-huired Jack Spencer, what have yoit to do with "love's yotiug dream ?" The strike! The mill is shut down and tin strikers gather ill knots along the vil lage street and discuss the situation. The cut-rates have caused the trouble. Jere lln rum ii is a hir- I man and a hard master. He holds the fate of these people in his hands. A few cents less to them, a few dollars more to him. This seemed to him to nettle the i|tt est 1011. The times were dull he would reduce wages. Tin- Harman mill operatives went out ill a body. The tirst day of the strike Big John, the weaver, who headed tin- strikers, came to Jere Harman with a delegation to arbitrate the matter. To th< in Harman said : "Iteturu to work at my terms ur -lay out ami starve. Monday I hire new hands if you are m>t back iu your places. A < long as I own this mill I ah til Ik- mar ter here." This was Ills this I nuttier, and Uo words of mine, u<> warnings »i the mur in lira aud threat* thai grow and deepen among the uteit. will - bake lit* will. There la talk o| 111 111 ( tie lulll aiming the mad brained tiues, but Ulg John shakes his In ad "thai Wire flf'ppum the lloao off In aplte the lis'i', men If tht mill Wufi burnt how would thai help us to work aud aagea? Say i it inuat bv other Uiean*. ''Aye. We UlUal live , but It Wt do Ut'l get our ritfhta by lull mi all* Wu will h»». tin m l»y loul, " cried another l*tl< V Itiealll lutm'hlef. 1 have warned Jin liar man, but he will ttol h»» I The strike la hut my i **• Mil lk> pi4'(ur< aianU tut Im|>,|i mi *hi ihttk utgfal Iha hall ailh il* n out thioimh ti.. am low*. th> sat |kml> "I young p*» I lat >» Ih i. .. , t.«Mp ul b l iNalti «tewwtat Mel a rtnlMi MMs I through a window and shattered the chandelier. Tho music stopped with a discordant crash. There was instant confusion, and above it all there were the hoarse cries for Jere Harman. I sprang through the piazza window and faced tho men. They knew mo well, and Big John shouted : "We've naught against you, John Spencer. We mean no harm to any, but the master must hear us. Bring out the master!" "Come like honest men, in daylight, and talk it over calmly," I urged ; "not at night, like a mob of ruffians with stones for arguments." Jere Harman had come out to them. They greeted him with an angry shout. "We are to be put off no longer. Is it our rights by fair means or by foul, Jere Harman?" "Your rights " began Jere Harman in his harsh, stern voice. I saw that Nellie Harinan had slipped out to her father's side and laid her hand pleadingly on his shoulder. She did not fear the angry men, for will ingly not one of them would have harmed a hair of her dainty head. I saw that she would have pleaded with her father to be gentle with them. "Yes, our rights!" yelled a voice in the crowd with an awful oath. He was drunken or blind with rage—surely he did not seethe girl at her father's side. A stone whizzed through the air. It might have been Jere Harman's death blow ; instead, it struck her. It cut a great, cruel gash just above the temple. They sprang toward her—her friends, her lover—but Nellie Harnian put her two hands out to me with a sharp, gasping cry. "Jack, Jack?" she said, and I caught her in my arms. I have lived over the agony, the joy, of that moment all. through the long, lonely hours of this night. It was big John himself who brought the doctor and cried like a child when they told him she was dying. His little crippled child she had loved and cared for, and it had died in her arms. "Aye, and that harm should have come to her, who was more good and innocent of wrong than the angels!" muttered Big John, brokenly, as he went away softened and sorrowful. Jere Harnian sent me out to tell the men that he had yielded, and in the silence of death they went away. The strike is over. As I sit here in the gray dawn, wait ing, fearing, dreading the coming of the morning and the news it may bring, I hear the clatter of horses' hoofs. It is a servant from the Hall riding to the village on some errand. "What new-?" I call out hoarsely, and learn that the worst is over and that she will live. Nellie Harnian hovered between life and death for long weeks, and I worked as I had never worked before. Jere Harm.ill left much of the manage ment of tlie mill in my har-ls, and I put heart and brain ill the work or I should have gone mad in those weeks with the longing to see her face. When she was well again I spent many even ings at the Hall, talking business with her father, who came seldom to the office in those days. He had broken in health with the recent troubles and had lost energy, but ho was gentler and kinder than of old. Harry Desmond was always there. I was but a dull guest. I could not en dure his light-heartedness, the triumph in his eyes, the happiness in his laugh. I could not endure that hi' should call her by name or smile an her. I was a mad fool! 1 told Jere Harmau that I must go away; that I must have rest, change a vacation. Gordon, the young fore man, could take my place, I urged, ami he consented, though grudgingly. The last evening 1 promised him to spend at the Hail aud go over the ac counts with him. Never had Nellie been brighter or gayer. I felt a vai'iie puug that my Koiuk was so little to her. It was early when Desmond left, aud I immediately rose to go. Jere Har iiiaii grasped luv hand cordially in farewell, aud Nellie snid simply "(lood, bye," ami I weut dowu the path slowly and siwlly. Suddenly 1 heard a light, flying step behind me as I reached the shadow of the trees. It was Nellie. I stepped back in the darkness. Hhc stopped, as if listening, aud theu cam* toward me. "1 thought I pie ui Id overtake yon," she whispered, slipping her ivrui through mine. "Hid you think I could let you go uwav to-night without a last word?' There was something iu her voice, a tenderness, that explained all. Hlte had collie out to meet her lover, Ues llloud, slid UllatokeU lllf for 11111l in the ilarkui « Hut to have her so near was very sweat. Hire seemed uot to can l for speech, Mhe aas very still jii»t clasping uiy arm and leauiux over so Keiitly my should) r. The temptatlou wax ureal I was going away just to take auav with me the memory of a iuoiim ut'a heaven! I klaaed her. "forgive me, ' I pleaded, deaper ately "Von thouulit iu» your luvar, I leaioouit i ami I aas cruel, mod, to take that ktaa. veilM, forgive nut. "Hut I klaaed you. Jack," she *tii*|aivil "Ami you iuut go oh. Jack 'youw>>u tgo whet. >ve yo« «u. ■lack Hp near, «ray Ual. a* aud forty, MMMMtOM I'loti .tUil |WUI t||i 1"> ed htm 1 that la ui) r>>mane«. tiatik laallv » Vktikly tateUi Hamilton was only thirty la** yaats ukl visu H idiiiiiiteii M*a*n kiiu MtHit try <4 tla T vldeal t >if this yoWtMul rakliiH I'll ,i land, iilltii ha.- a*# lltal tu.l. 11,. U.I at |H»e |>l tiit- V* . tb% m4(W4C< BCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A fly has 16,000 eyes. Malaria is most dangerous at sunset. There aro 240,000 varieties of in sects. Dirt and disease travel in pairs. Clean out the dirt and disease has little show. Southern Pacific locomotives will soon use for fuel bricks made of coal dust and asphaltum. There is a machine at the Krnpp gun works at Essen, Germany, that rolls iron to the thinnesss of sixteenth hundredths of an inch—thinner than the thinnest sheet of tissue paper. The cholera microbe was discovered by Doctor Koch, of Berlin, in 1883. In length, it would require over twelve thousand of them to make an inch, while their breadth is about one-fifth of their length. The orbit of the planet Neptune, thirty times further from the snn than that of the earth, forms the outer boundary of the solar system. The distance is immense, yet shrinks into insignificance when compared with that which lies beyond. The study of inoculation for cholera was first taken up by Pasteur, at the instance of a Prince of Siam, in whose coujitry it is indigenous. It is hoped that it may ultimately be stamped out there, and in this way its propagation to other parts of the world prevented. At Baku, Caucasus, the other day, a petroleum well was being bored. When the depth of about 900 feet had been reached, the fin id rushed up with such force that all the machinery was de stroyed, and the windows in the neigh boring houses broken. After three days the well was exhausted. The Arctic explorer Nanssen has a scheme for shutting himself up in the Polar Sea with provisions for five years and seeing where the drift of the Arctic ice carries him. He is advocating it before the Royal Geographical Society and has roused great interest. The general feeling is that Nanssen will never return. AH everybody is learning now, boil ing kills the microbes in water, anil it was only when the authority of a law forbidding the use of the infected river water was putin force in Hamburg last autumn that the cholera was really checked; and it is interesting to learn that Cyrus, who seems to have had good ideas of sanitation, when crossing t-lie river Choaspes, had all the drink ing water for his army boiled—ill silver bowls, the legend says. The following are the lowest barom eter readings on record in various parts of the glolte • 'u London, a reading of 27.93 inches on the morning of Christmas day, 1821 ; over the Brit ish islands generally,a reading of 27.53 inches on January 2(5, 1884 ; In India, a reading of 27.12 iuchffl at False Point, near the Southern mouths of the Ganges, on September 22, 1885, this being the lowest authentic reading ob served in any part of the world. The Wright of Compart Hodle*. The load which is produced by a dense crowd of persons in generally taken at eighty to 100 pounds per square foot and is considered to Ik- the greatest uniformly distributed load for which a floor need be proportioned. That this vnlue may be largely ex ceeded in an actual crowd was pointed out by Professor W. C. Keruot, of Melbourne University, Australia, iu a recent paper before the Victorian In stitute of Engineers, copied into En gineer News. In an actual trial, a class of students averaging 153.5 pounds each in weight were crowded in a lobby continuing 1N.23 square feet, making an average floor loud of 134.7 pounds. There was still room to have placed another man, which would have brought up the loading to 143.1 pounds per square foot. Professor Kcrnot also quoted front Stoiiey, who placed laltorcrs, avertiK'UK 145 pounds each in weight, man empty ship deck-house measuring tifty-scven squurc feet floor area. This was n load of 147.4 |HIIIU |>i>illids are sutHcieiitly correct for spaces on which there is no cause to luduce the collectloU of great crowds, larger fixtures, say 140 to 150 pounds per square foot, should Im> used for railway stations aud platforms, en trailers aud exits to places of public as semblies or ollice lilt ildiugs, bridge side walks, pavements uvcr vaults aud other places a here delete crowds are likely to gather. To K bottler Wihml. The simplest way to «Uiihi« wood in as follows Take oue-quurtcr pound of loK*d chips aud boll them in olte pint of water for al*»ut an hour; while •till hot brush this solution over lite earvititf. When the tatter is dry, give another coat of the hot liquid When this second f.Mtl Is quite dry, coat with I solution of Ultt' half ouner Kre«U eop uera* >lihuUi> t«> lk(< < .y. 1,1 II a 111 0.l ihl Mi Jl, ,it 11,. li. It* iku *Jii- hi •l«|a -littiiui tii » to lull ItmW HIM 1 h- "*** lllrtl olt Iv% tw Terms—sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months, TAPPING A MAPLE TREE. A GREAT AND DISTINCTIVELY AMERICAN INDUSTRY. The Best Weather for a Big Yield - Curious Things About Sap and Maple Trees. // ~T~F 1 could make the maple sugar I of the country. I wouldn't care I who make either its songs or 6 its laws," saidaNew York com mission man. "Last year the maple belt of the United States gave up enough sap to yield 70,000,000 pounds of sugar. This, year, from all reports, this distinctively American product will be increased at least 5,000,000 pounds. This will bo due in great part to the Government bounty on maple sugar, and in no Bmall degree to the fact that 1893 will be an exceptionally good sap year. The winter was extraordinarily cold, but it was even in temperature. There was much snow in the woods. Spring in its approach kept the golden mean between lingering cold and sud den warmth. This is as it should be for proper sugar weather. Spring weather in January or February starts the sap before its time. Winter weather in March and April checks its flow. There will be more maple sugar made this spring than was e\ r made before, and of a better quality than has been known for many years. Last year, including" the Government bounty, the maple sugar crop netted the farmers ten cents a pound. It will not be less this year. They may con fidently calculate on receiving $7,500,- 000 for their crop in 1893. Who would not rather make the maple sugar of the country than either its songs or its laws? "Vermont, for some reason, is gen erally supposed to be tho one great source of the country's maple sugar supply, and yet Vermont makes less than one-fifteenth of the whole. Ver mont's reputation for producing the finest quality of sugar is deserved, for the sugar makers of that Stute were the first to recognize the importance of the commodity ns a factor in domestic as well ns foreign commerce, and to bring to its manufacture not only scientific helps but the potent aid of observation and study of the maple tree, and the effects upon it of climate, soil, and meteorological conditions. "It is the popular belief that pure maple sugar is invariably known by its dark, damp-looking appearance. In the old days of maple sugar making the product was necessarily very dark, be cause the simple processes then in use could not make it light. But it was full of impurities all the same. Not adulterations, but n< t.iral impurities. Nowadays it is not the dark maple sugar that should be regarded as the pure article, for it is more apt to be the most impure. The very best maple sugar that comes from Vermont or else where is of a light, clear, dry, glossy brown—so very light, indeed, that it looks like clarified beeswax. "Mauy curious things about sap and maple trees have been discovered by observant sugar makers. For the sap to run freely there must be well-min gled conditions of heat, cold and light. In Vermont the sugar maker has found that he gets more and sweeter sap by tapping his trees as near the roots as he conveniently can, while in this State, especially iu Western New York, a high tap yields the greater quantity and the better quality of sap. A still, dry, dense atmosphere, with a north west wind, is the lust for steady sap running. When the ground thaws dur ing the day and freezes at night, and there is plenty of snow in the woods, "sap weather' is said to be at its best. A southwest wind, with threats of a storm, will stop the flow of sap. II the storm is a snow storm, though, and a freeze succeeds it, the sugar makci will be happy, for then the sap will Hart with redoubled freedom when the thaw that must quick 1 v follow comes. Sap runs better when the air is highly oxygenized. A tap on the south side of a tree will produce more sap than a tap on the north side. Sap that runs at night will make more and I letter sugar than the same quantity of day sap. Sap is also heavier with saccharine matter when caught immediately before or just after a snow storm or a freeze-up. A few trees will produce as much sap a« a good many. This apparent, ano maly is explained by the curious fact that trees standing close together divide Ihe aggregate How mad. possible by the area of noil they cover, which ag gregate would la' as great if there were half as many trees draining the spot. An acre of goisl ground should not la' called upon to *up)sirt more than thirty trees to IH' used in Migar making. More than that on an acre will decrease the Mipply sugar that is, uo matter how many tree* a farmer might tap oil au acre, he would get uo in.ire sugar than if he had but thirty tree# on the aer- A well kept ugai bush should yield teu pounds of "•iiKar to the tree, or HtN» pounds to the u rc. Five gallons of good sap will make one gallou of good syrup \ galluu of syrup will make la-tact u si* ami eight pounds of sugar It is tin* bard maple trev that makes tin- sugar. Windham County, Vt ; Somerset Couuty, I'euu-, ami iHltwif. County, M Y., are the thre« greatest maple sugar prod.iciittf e» unties in the I'uion, tin rtr»t leading the list ailh an annual yield of ala ut il,thsU*Ml p.'UU'U, the s««Miiiil prodileiug -, iIHI, I**l pounds, ami Ihi third 'i,!**' <**> poumla lln largest *ugat bush Is 111 Wiudbaut fount). It contains 7tWt tap UallliN tfeea NeU lurk bun. I 'ay So It luekil Iht „elW'lsl IMSIMMOf .<1 thi Maim r. nils! Uailt* ill, luvlill) adopted th* note! «* ml i tpidnnt <•! . ul> 1 laming Uls III* lota at lis «tal « Hi I'oithMel, lorn ns a l- li.'S m the 'dfeet# ami a linm i IN THE otation DM IjjWUMI NO. 33. A HAPPY PHILOSOPHEH. Borne folks, they're complain In' Because it ain't rain in'. An' some 'cause the weather is dry But I kinder content mo With all that is sent me, An' don't goto askin' 'em "why." There's lots o good fun in The world the Lord's runnin' Though it's sometimes a song an' a sigh ; But when troubles are rilin" I jes' keep a smilin' An 1 don't goto askin' 'em "why." Jes' hear the birds singin When death-bells are ringin An' thrillin' the world an' the sky I They'll sing so a while hence When I'm in the silence- But don't goto askin' em "why.' If life has one flower— One beautiful hour, j One 9omg that coined after a sigh. For me there'll be fun in The world the Lord's runnin'— An' I won't goto askin him "why!" —Atlanta Constitution. HUMOR OP THE DAY. Long may it wave —The ocean.— Truth. Nothing less than a strike arouses a bass drum to action.—Detroit Free Press. Let it lie understood that there aro popular facts as well as populur fal lacies. —Truth. "I'm feeling dead rocky," as tho petrified fish remarked to itself. —Har- vard Lampoon. Love is frequently satisfied with quantity; but friendship demands quality.—Puck. A girl's conversation must appear flowery when she "talks through her hat."—Statesman. A man may itch for office, but it is the voter's right to Jo the scratching. —Boston Courier. "I'm in a pretty pickle," as the fly said when he fell into a jar of red cab bage."—Texas Sittings. The only bright spot left by soma men is the scoured place on the chair. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Since the introduction of electricity the street car horse has been gradually losing his pull.—Buffalo Courier. There is something wrong with tho man's head who falls down on the same IV uana skin twice.—Barn's Horn. ?hey con disinfect anil quarantine, And work as hard as a beaver To make tho country sweet and clean, But they can't keep out spring (ever. —Kau.iaf Oitv Journal. In the summer perhaps we can turn the big postage stamps wrong side up and use them for fly paper.—Washing ton Star. When a crate of crockery falls through an elevator shaft it's a little the worse for the ware. —Binghamton Leader. They make the man in charge of a steam fog signal do considerable whis tling for his pay before he gets it.-- Buffalo Courier. "It's a wise monarcli, ' J said the man who abdicated a precarious throne, "who knows enough to come in out of the reign."—Washington Star. "It's pretty hard on a man of my age to have to depend on his looks, said the astronomer as he put his eye to the telescope.—Washington Star. Charlie —'' Why did they bury poyr Gilder at night?" Archie— "He had no » decent clothes but a dress suit '- The Clothiers'ami Haberdashers' Weekly. She—"So you're fully determined to marry her, are you'/' He "Abso lutely." She—"H'm Don't yon ever ■ feel sorry for her?"— Detroit lribune. Clara—"Diil you know that Mrs. Dangle had gone on a trip to Ber muda?" Maude —"No. 1 must eall on her before she gets back. —Vogue. Whenever the piano ceased There was a great furore. And those whu understand it least Were loudest to • ueore. —Kansas City Journal. Mrs. Goodwin—"You sliouldn t eat so many peanuts, Johnny ; you II be having dyspepsia." Johuny "Do the policemen have dyspepsia, mamma? Life. Hhe —"A poor painter! Why, he Kavs that he is wedded to bis art. He "Perhaps that is the reason, then, that he dares treat her so badly. Truth. A woman is keepinK in a IKM.k a list of things site ought to purchase, but cannot afford to wear. Nhe calls the IMM ik her ought-to-buy-ography.- New York Clipper. About the most discouraging thing that comes to a man in thin life is the desire to whip all MUeiiiY, Coupled with the belief that Ue cau t do it. -Cleve land Plaiu Dealer. Extract from Love Letter "Should you fall to reciprocal.' my affectum, tbeu pic*— l return this letter, iu order that 1 may um» it on another occasion. FllrgrUik' Hlin Iter Customer •• that's 'lie pm-c ol your tallow caudles? ifcahr "#• ive cuts apmc. ; rtfty e. nth a doitcu." I'uMoiu. r "Well, let MM h'i*« a twelfth of a d"'cli." "I don t knov wliufh u wt.!-t," languidly r>marki»l th* l-iiro|* an luouarcli «* lie read of au..ili. r «U< >u his life, "my people's disloyalty or thvlf mark maUshlp ™ iVnlill(|tal Mar, \|i- Kid. I think t . i.»l 11,1 ail IU JfoU to tell Mr 11-» I • Itflil) light Viarsold «i aFotdlck Why, you surely dnlu I want uh to t«H hi u how old you r->*lly T' Voguu. I.llth Ha th (In thee« .|litr»i "tliattdeaps. you ib*»l ba»i %» k«« paw talul lot ol pulu. u»cn onl IMM." 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