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FORESTS FOR CONSUMPTIVES. Pennsylvania Mountains May He Chnngcd to Resorts. Stats Forestry Commissioner Both rock, who, with other members of the commission has completed an inspect ticn of the forests of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, has outlined in brief the ' purpose of the state in acquiring large ' tracts, says the Philadelphia Ledger. I •He said: "The duty of the commis- ! sion is to purchase three timber res- ' ervations of 40,000 acres each at the ! headwaters of tho three principal riv- j ers, the Delaware, Susquehanna and ; Ohio. The idea of these forest pre- j serves is to raise timber on ground that will not produce anything else 1 The state wants to put the timbei j back, and cultivate and rear forests ! of the same order as the extensive Tllack Forest in Germany was started. | Tho culmination in our present ideas may not be in this generation. It took Germany 200 years to make the fa mous Black Forest what it is now. But the United States will probably make as much progress in that line In fifty years as Germany has done in two centuries. The climate of Penn sylvania is far more healthful than that of any other state in tho Union, but the people do not know it. Be sides, they can not enjoy outdoor life fct present without trespassing on some one's or some corporation's domains. There will be no need for our citizens to go to the Adlrondaeks, to Colorado, California, Florida or elsewhere when we once get these timber preserves in full operation, for healthful outdoor recreation. One out of every 1,000 j persons dies of pulmonary consump tion in the Adlrondaeks region, whll€ j In the Keystone State the rate is only ! one in every 1,330 persons. It is only a question of time when Pennsylvania will be called upon to take care of its consumptives, and find away to pre vent the spread of that dreaded dis ease. Our state timber reservation! will be the remedy to help tho etat! out of that dilemma." AMONG THE BANKS. Three Chicago Conrerna Consolidate— 1 New York Get* New One. V The directors of the Continental tlonal bank of Chicago have voted unanimously in favor of increasing the capital stock of $1,000,000, making it ' $3,000,000. Three of Chicago's oldest I and largest banking institutions are to j be consolidated. The Corn Exchange National, the American National and the Northwestern National are to pool ; Issues and reorganize under the char- ! ter of the Corn Exchange, retaining its i title. President Ernest A. Haraill, of i the Corn Exchange bank, will be pres- j ident of the consolidated corporation. I The new Corn Exchange National bank j will have a capital stock of $2,000,000, a surplus of $1,000,000 and undivided! profits of $500,000. The Federal Na tional bank of New York city is tho proposed title of an institution for which the application has been approv ed by Acting Comptroller Kane. Tho proposed capital is $500,000, and the responsible applicant who has con ducted the correspondence is Joseph T. Hall, the real estate man at 35 Nas sau street. The other four incorpora tors required by law are Walter I>. j Johnson, broker; Charles A. O'Dono hue, merchant; Percy B. G'Sulllvan, I and Jason C. Moore. It is announced that the United States treasury's third : call for $5,000,000 from government de-1 positories will be the last. The remain ing $10,000,000 needed for the retire ment of the $25,000,000 old 2 per cent bonds, it is stated, will be made up from the growing treasury surplus The three calls have been prorated among the banks all over tho coun try having government deposits, and the eight depositaries in Philadelphia, after responding to the last call, which was payable July 16, contributed something like $750,000 in all. II sy's Spi%rtan Courage. Altoona (Pa.) correspondence Phila delphia Record: Fifteen-year-old YVil ilarn Van Allman, while picking ber ries west of the city, was nipped by a rattlesnake, which he failed to observe under a bush. The fangs of the rep tile caught one of the boy's fingers uear the end. First killing the snake, the lad drew his poclietknife, and, with Spartan courage, cut off the injured finger at the second joint. He bound the wound with his handkerchief and hastened to Altoona, where the injury was dressed. The physicians say ho is in no danger. Men who spoil babte3 and build all castles Indulge in-fancy. THE MEADOW LARK. Mlnrtrc-l of melody, How shall I chant of thee, Floating in meadows athrill with thy song? Fluting anear my feet, Plaintive, and wildly-sweet— Oh, could thy spirit to mortal belong! Tell me thy secret art. How thou dost touch the heart. Hinting of happiness still unpossessed; Say, doth thy bosom burn Vainly, as mine, and yearn Sadly for something that leaves It un blessed? Doth not that tender tone. Over the clover blown, Flow from a sorrow—a longing in vain? Or, Is It Joy intense, So like a pang, tho pense Hears in thy sweetest song something of pain? 1 A COUNTRY COUSIN || HHBB——P— ——— IT" IT I wmm Had you ever a cousin. Tom? Did your cousin happen to sing? There are brothers and sisters by doz ens. Tom. But a cousin's a different thing! —Anon. The news and the dessert were served simultaneously. "By George, if I hadn't nearly for gotten!" quoth Stafford pere. He rum maged in an inner pocket. "Can't find the letter. Must have left it at the office. Anj-how, it's from my cousin, Godfrey Chester " "Now. Henry!" interrupted the mild voice of Mrs. Stafford in amused ex postulation. "Why will you keep up that fiction about the couslnship? It is mythical, and you know it!" "It's certainly remote," conceded the beaming paterfamilias at the opposite end of the table, "but there once was a relationship—a long time ago, I ad mit. But Chester and I have taken the world as we found it. He's a good fel low and I've always been urging him to manage that our young peoplo may become acquainted. He writes that his daughter will pass through Chicago to morrow on the way to New York, and will spend a few days with us. He says he wishes one of my family would meet her. Bless my soul, here's the letter after all!" He put on his spectacles—read aloud: "You can't mistake her. She's a curly-headed lit tle girl, in a gray gown and a hat with gray feathers. She's a nice child, and I'll be glad to have her meet your youngsters." "There!" "A child!" groaned Ralph, who was 22 and studious. He swallowed his cafe nolr at a gulp and rose disgustedly. "Youngsters, indeed!" cried Dick dis dainfully. "Does he take us for kin dergarteners?" Roes, who was the eldest, smiled in quite a superior and disinterested fash ion. He boasted a flourishing mus tache. He was studying law. Plainly, the subject had no interest for him. "Eh, but one of you must meet the child!" cried the head of the house. "You'll go, Ralph?" "Can't, sir. I'm doing an article on the architecture of the tenth century. It takes a lot of research. I'll be all morning in the Newberry Library." Henry Stafford, huge of girth, rose ate of visage, and twinkling of eye, turned his harvest moon face implor ingly toward his youngest son. "You. Dick?" "Got a golf match on. Can't make it. sir." "Dear, dear! If your sister were only at home " "She'll be back tomorrow after noon," put in Mrs. Stafford. "But the little girl gets here in the morning. She must be met. She 13 from a comparatively small town. She would be quite bewildered were she to find herself alone in Chicago. Besides, I'm under several obligations to Ches ter in a business way." Ho sent the good-looking young fellow with the mustache an appealing glance. "I wonder now, Ross, if you " Ross laughed leniently. "You poor, perplexed old chap! Yes, I'll see that the child gets here all right!" "Good!" said Henry Stafford, with a sigh of relief. "Good." But. when the Western train dis gorged its jostling multitude in the Union Depot the following morning Ross Stafford, standing close by the iron gates, found that he had under taken a task of greater magnitude than he had at the time imagined. There was such a crush of people, stout and thin, tall and short, big and little. There were children—proces sions of them. But they all seemed to belong to the folks who hurried them along. Never a glimpse could he catch of a curly-headed little girl in a gray gown wearing a hat with gray feath ers. the dress brown? By Jove! He wasn't even sure of that. The last laggard group trickled away, Ross knew the conductor of the Den ver train—spoke to him as he came hurrying along. "All off your train, Brigham?" "Sure!" t "There was a little girl coming to Chicago—had curly hair —a blue dress —a green hat—blest if I remember! Wasn't she on?" "Alone, was she?" "Yes." "No, sir. Didn't come. Sure? Course I am." Ross wheeled around. "Well! I'll telephone tho folks that she wasn't on. Dad can wire her people and find out —I beg your pardon!" And he suddenly found himself bow ing profoundly, hat in hand, before a j oung woman with whom he had al most collided in his haste, a slender young woman, a graceful young wo man, a lovely young woman, as his susceptible heart instantly acknowl edged. She accepted his apology with a slight bend of the head—a vivid blush. Others may cleave the steeps. Soar, and in upper deeps Sing: In the heaven's blue arches profound; Rut, thou most lowly Thing, Teach me to keep my wing Close to the breast of our Mother, the groundl Soon shall my fleeting lay Fade from the world away— Thine, ever-durlng, shall thrill through the years: Love, who once mo, Surely hath saddened thee— Halt' of thy music Is made of his tears! Long may I list thy note Soft through the summer float Far o'er the lields where the wild grosses wave; Then, when my day Is done. Oh, at the set of sun. Pour out thy spirit anear to my grave! —Lloyd Mifllln in Independent. Half way up the stairs he glanced back, saw her standing where he had left her. He hesitated—went back. "You are waiting for some one? Can I be of service?" "Thank you!" Ye gods, what a sweet voice. "I am afraid there has been a mistake. No one has come to meet me. May I ask you to call a cab?" And when he had done so, when she had thanked him, when he stood hare headed on the curbstone as the ve hicle rolled away, he recolected that he had not listened to the address she had given the driver, and he walked off In a towering rage at his own im becility. Never was there so dreary a day, al though the late August sunshine found its way into his oiflee. Never had the reading of the law seemed such a <)ull and tiresome drudgery. Never before had the pages blurred into a mass of meaningless black marks. But, then— never before had a betwltchlng young face come between him and his books, a face with reddish-gold ringlets clus tering around a white forehead, and shy eyes the color of woodland vio lets! He leaped from his seat as a bright thought struck him. He would hunt up the cabman. That was the thing to do! But, although he hung around the Union Depot for two whole hours, and questioned every jehu within reach, he could not find the man he sought. It was evidently that particu lar cabman's busy day. Tired and disgusted, Ross Stafford took a plunge at the Athletic club, got himself home, shrugged himself into his evening clothes, for he was going out after dinner, and went down to the parlor to find himself face to face with the divinity of the red-gold ringlets and the violet eyes! "Ross, my dear," cooed Mrs. Staf ford, "let me introduce you to Miss Chester, whom somehow you managed to miss tills morning. Why, you " For they were smiling at each other —merrily, spontaneously. "Indeed, no, mother!" Perhaps he held the pretty hand she gave him a little longer than was necessary. "I met Miss Chester this morning. Did she not tell you I put her in a cab?" Miss Chester laughed. Ross Staf ford laughed. And the bewilderment of the head of the house of Stafford, of the golfing son, and the studious son, as they in turn presented, set them laughing again. "Lord bless me!" cried Stafford se nior ruffling his hair, "your father said you were a little girl!" "O, I shall never be grown up to papa!" cried Miss Chester. "He said," stammered the young gentleman who was getting up an arti cle on the architecture of the tenth century, "that —that you were a nice child!" "Don't you think," queried Adele Chester mischievously, "that I'm nice?" Whereat Ralph grew guiltily red. "A gray gown!" gasped Dick. "And —and a hat with gray feathers!" "My traveling costume. Don't you," with sparkling eyes, "find this becom ing?" "This" was a trailing, foamy, bernf fled robe, aU delicately green and white as the crest of a breaker, a dress that revealed while concealing the snowi i.ess of arms and bosom. Becoming! Ross toid her then ami there how be coming. Not in words—dear no! But words are so stupid—sometimes. Helen Stafford reached home before dinner was ove.r. Her brothers' rap turous reception amazed her. Never had she known how they missed her! Nor could she dream that each of three young hypocrites was saying to him self, "She won't go East in such a hur ry if she and Helen take to each other." They did take to each other. Ross found it was not necessary to keep his engagement that iveuing and permit ted his friend to cool his heels a'one at their appointed rendezvous. Ralph learned his tenor went wonderfully well with the pure soprano of their guest. And Dick was so anxious to Initiate Miss Chester into the myster ies of flashlight picrures that fce u.afle himself no end of a bore. The country cousin of the St affords did not go East that week —nor the nfxt. When she did go all the mirth and laughter of the Stafford domicile seemed to go with her. One morning a week after her departure Ralph and Dick said some bitter things when they discov ered that Ross had found out he must attend to businoss in New York, and had left for that city on the midnight And when Ross returned, silent, but smiling and exultant, they were not at all backward about telling him with true fraternal frankness their opinion of his conduct. "You were awfully good to go to meet that little country lassie!" com mented Ralph witherlngly. "I believe you knew all the time she was the prettiest kind of a young girl!" "Kindness—sheer kindness on my part, dear boy! But, as I have striven to impress on you, virtue is ever its own reward." "O, come off!" entreated Dick. "You just got the inside track, and you kept it." "I assure you in taking my late has ty trip I had only the best interests of my brothei*s at heart. My sole ambi tion was to secure you the most charm ing sister-in-law in the world!" Helen jumped up. "O Ross! Did you—did she " He laughed quizzically. "Adele gave me a message for you, my dear. She said to tell you that you are to be " "What —Ross!" "Bridemaid!"—Chicago Tribune. Rich Men Too Greedy. If I had my way there would be a law requiring men to retire from busi ness as soon as they gain a compe tency, says a writer In the New York Press. Our population is Increasing so rapidly that there Is nothing for the newcomers to do. The aged en cumber the ground. We don't want the dear old veterans to die, but to re tire to ease and comfort on the interest of their investments. What a happy jolly, contented world this would be if the successful man should step down and out at 50 and give the boys a chance. But he will never do it. He works harder at 60 than at 40, harder at 70 than at 30. It is a kind of Insan ity. The poor, starved, friendless creature is obliged to toll on and die in his poverty, but the rich man, the fortunate millionaire, toils on because his soul is filled with greed for gold and dies in his riches poorer than the other. , Growth of tlie Button Indunfry. The shell or button industry on the upper Mississippi river is growing to enormous proportions. The crew of the Gen. Barnard have had occasion to observe this. They report that on their down trip between La Crosse, Wis., and Clarkesville, Mo., they counted 1,627 men and women in the main channel of the river engaged in getting out shells from the stream. About a year ago they counted only 716. Of course there are a great many in the sloughs behind the islands, etc., that were not counted. They estimate that no less than 5,000 people earn a livlug gathering shells. Just below Dubuque 120 were counted In one patch. Button factories have been es tablished in every town along the river and in Muscatine there are twenty two. Five or six steamboats of 100 tons capacity do nothing else but tow shells, A Tule of Two Shirts. A discharged soldier, lately re turned from the Philippines, tolls a tale of a shirt which is too good to be lost. His company was returning from a long and tiresome scouting trip, in which most of the men had parted with the greater part of their wearing apparel, when he saw on a clothes-line in the grounds of a resi dence adjoining a big stone church two very good shirts, hung out to dry. As he had at the time only liaif a shirt to his back, he proceeded to help himself to a whole one. Whereupon a woman came out of the house and said to him, in passable English: "You will pay for that on the judg ment day." "Madam," he replied, "if you give such long credit, I will take both shirts," which he proceeded to do. —The Argonaut. Yale Graduates. Of the graduates of Yale university from 1895 to 1899 only 29 per cent were from New England, while 38 per cent were from the middle Atlantic states, 22 per cent from the north central states and 7 per cent from the South. It is also a striking fact that a largo proportion of the graduates adopt bus iness careers. At the beginning of the century a mere handful became busi ness men, while now the percentage is one-third, another third entering the law. Crusade Against ICngllsh Sparrows, Rufus Hendrick of Wakefield about a year ago began a crusade against the English sparrows of that town, and through the co-operation of boys with guns he has managed to destroy 6,000 birds and 6,500 eggs. He began with S3O, raised by subscription, and offered the boys 3 cents for each bird killed and ?1 per hundred for eggs taken from the nests. His fund was soon exhausted, but he succeeded in raising more money.—Boston Tran script. Turkey'* Back-Door Reform. Wha,t little reform gets into Turkey usually slips in by the back door. Re port has it that the only dynamo now in Constantinople passed the custom house as a washing machine, and thus the feelings of the authorities wero spared. 1 TALES OF PLUCK | | AMD ADVENTURE. | Escaped From lloxcrs. | received from mis- I r sionnl'ies in Hongkong, China, J V dated early in July, tell qf the marvellous escape of Father Fridella from the Boxers. Father Frldella's charge was in Hen Sien Fu, in Southern Hunan. Be fore he escaped the Italian Bishop, three priests, 700 native converts, in cluding women and children, had been fiendishly tortured and murdered. To a resident of Cun Fu, whose son be had treated when critically ill, Father Fridella owes ids life. The Chinaman visited and fed him while he was in hiding in the hill north of the town. When the excitement had subsided somewhat the Chinaman as sisted Father Fridella to the river and hid him nbonrd a junk. Strategy was needed to. effect the escape. Father Fridella was hidden in a Chinese coiflu. Holes were bored in the side to give him air. Food was stored in the coflin for his use. The eottin was placed on deck. All went well for two days. On the third day Father Fridella overheard the sailors discuss a proposition to break open the coflin in the hope that valuables might he buried with the body. Father Fridella, although bad ly frightened, mnde no outcry. That nigl;t the coflin was broken open. The Chinese sailors were at flrst as badly frightened as (lie priest. At flrst they wanted to kill him because he was a foreigner, but through an offer of a reward his life was spared and Father Fridella returned to his coffin. As the Junk floated down the river he heard the Boxers on tiie bank call ing "Death to the foreign devils!" Thus lie traveled for seventeen days down (ho Suing Kiang and the Wu Ling Kiang to the West River. For hours on the journey Father Fridella was unconscious; all hope failed him, and lie was really Indifferent to ills fate. First he had avoided sleep later he knew not whether ho was asleep or awake, whether the half-clad Orientals about him were men or merely figments of ids disordered im agination, while through it all terri ble pains racked ills body. At last the junk reached Hongkong, and more dead than aiive Father Fri. della was released. ~- r~.-r "'Jk- r. . Woman'. fhiilUne Feat. Nome advices say that Mrs. Hewit, wife of Dr. Hewit, a Chicago physi cian, nloue floated down the myste rious Koyukuk River, a distance of 750 miles, on an improvised log raft. Two years ago she left Chicago to join her husband in Nome. At Daw son she met Dr. Carotliers. of Pitts burg, a friend of her husband, and with him arranged to go down the river 011 the ice. When they readied Fort Hamilton they heard of rich pla cer strikes at the head of the Koyukuk River. They with their party ar ranged to strike across hundreds of miles of bnrren wilderness. After thirty days of traveling they reached the Koyukuk, but found the ice still fast. Mrs. Hewitt started out with a dog team for a short trip up the branch of the river, but in making the turns to the main river she got lost. For hours and hours she urged the dogs on, until they were exhausted. An expert shot with a rifle, she man aged to kill a moose. Freezing a big piece she started down the river, hut again got on the wrong branch. Luck ily, she managed to reach a sort of shelter, a deserted Indian lean-to. Until nearly the flrst of June lasj year she remained clone in the wilder ness of snow and ice. When the June sun succeeded in breaking up the river she made a raft out of pieces of logs. With a stock of mooso meat she started down the river on n 750-mile trip. Once the ratt struck a sand bar and she was thrown into the water. After twenty-six days of peril -ml j suffering she reached the Vuir River. When she was picked up the steamer Hanna, which siglue-l her on the day after she reached 1 la- Yukon, womanlike, she fainted. The 1 meeting at Nome between wife and husband was pathetic. Attnclceil by h Devil Fifth. While attending their shrimp nets off California City, Cal„ Ah Lee, Quong Walt and Jim fling, Chinese fishermen, wore attacked by an octo pus, which battled fiercely until over fifteen fept of its tentacles had been hacked to pieces by the fishermen's knives. When the creature had dis appeared beneath the waters it was found that Quong Wnh had sustained' a fractured arm and several crushed ribs as the result of the light, while his companions had no more serious injuries than painful cuts and bruises. While the men were arranging the nets a long, curling arm came over the side and seized the body of the Chinaman. Wall,grasping the thwarts of the boat, vainly attempted to loosen the grasp of the monster. His com panions, paralyzed with horror, were helpless to aid him. until, curling over the boat, another serpentine arm glided toward them. Drawing their knives, tlicy slashed desperately at the tentacle that had wrapped itself around one of the seats and threat ened to capsize the boat. In a few moments the sharp knives had done their work, and the arms of the octo pus squirmed helplessly in the bottom of the boat, and the devil fish disap peared. This is the second time fish ermen have been attacked by devil fih in the bay. Eerg at his fourteenth year. lie was 1 an idiot of low intelligence and of j changeable but good-humored dlsposi- £ tion. 'ihe senses seemed good aud thJrj muscular system well developed. Ho j suffered from epilepsy, during an at- 1 tack of which ho died. The brain J weighed 12850 grains and seemed to 1 be a general enlargement. The cere helium was regular in form. The spi- E ual cord seemed slightly larger thau % usual aud the spinal i.ervqp bigger, a On microscopic examination the gang- I Hon cells of the brain seemed rare, f the layers indistinct, the pyramidal layer scanty, the nerve-tibres every- *■*: where distinct. Neither the cerebral vessels nor the neuroglia were altered. Gold t.ml Cold In Siberia. Siberia produces one-tenth of the world's yield of gold, and but- few of t lie mines have been worked. The immense coal deposits have scarcely been touched. One mile, with six beds, contains as much coal as all the deposit® in Kuglnud.