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Pennsylvanla,s Bark Belt.

An interview with citizen of Ridg-
way, Elk county, develops some facts
of interest concerning the tanning IN
dustry. Ridgway is the centre of the
hemlock barkindustry of northern Penn
sylvania. THE hemlock industry of the
state, said he. sis about 70 by $50 miles
in extent, and the tanneries located in
that district have extra facilities for Sc
curing bark. The cost of hemlock bark
at Ridgway is about 50 per cord. The
tanneries located at that point consume
about &c, 900 cords year. Large guam
titles of their products find ready markets
in Europe" Said one of the leading tan
ners:
1.-THE cost of bark transportation has
become of late years very important
element in the success of the tanning in
dustry. Bark is bulky and cost of
transportation long distances adds very
materially to the cost of leather Penn
sylvania has advantages over New Eng
land tanning centers by reason of its
nearness to West Virginia bark regions.
Tanneries located in the very midst of
the bark districts have, of course, special
advantages which count in these days of
close margins. We have reached time
when all opportunities for reducing cost
must be watched, and the manufacturer
who fails to do SO is apt to be left. y
Shoe and Leather Facts.
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Safety on RAILROAD Trains.

Some time ago railroad men engaged
in discussion through the newspapers
about the safest position for a traveller
to assume when on train, and it seemed
to be agreed finally that the person who
took seat ON the right hand side of the
middle car of the train, in seat as near
the middle as possible, would have bet
ter chance of escaping injury in an aoci-
dent than one who sat somewhere else.
''Inever was satisfied that there was
anything in that theory" says A. D.
Martin, st. Louis travelling man, "but
it is astonishing to notice how many
people believe in it. You see the effects
of the publication everywhere you go on
a railway train. People crowd the mid
die car of a train, and get ON the right
hand and as near the middle of the car
as they can. l have seen on the Iron
Mountain the seats on the right hand
side of the car crowded, although it was
sunny there, while the seats on the other
side were nearly empty."-St. Louis
Chronic1a
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About Vegetables.

Vegetables of all available kinds
should always be found upon our tables,
as they have direct chemical and re-
medal action upon our bodies. Onions
and asparagus are particularly recon-
mended for rheumatism and rheumatic
gout; caulifower has tonic effect upon
the system, and boiled peas Contain SO
per cent. of nutriment, which is almost
equal to the value of wheat bread. Po-
tatoes are certainly a very desirable part
of our meals. and lettuces, carrots and
cabbages would be much easier digested
but for the artificial methods OF, cooking
and seasoning which are employed by
the modern civilized cook.
Vegetables should never be put into
the cellar, as many of them contain
acids which will absorb the poison of the
ground air, and, if eaten. will prove very
unhealthy, and if allowed to remain will
rapidly decompose and fill the air which
arises to the upper rooms with poison
that will undoubtedly cause much mis-
chief Potatoes should not be exposed
to the sun, but kept in some dry place
where the light and air can always strike
them.-Hals Journal.
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A lady recently returned from several
years residence in Japan adds another
to the many tales of the obsequiousness of
japanese servants. In leaving the house
one day in the care of his nurse her
young son slipped and fell, as children
will, receiving no injury beyond one or
two trivial scratches. The nurse was
inconsolable, however. She upbraided
herself in the most extravagant terms,
and called down all sorts of dire conse-
quences upon her head. The other serv-
ants, to whom the affair was immediate
ly communicated by the unhappy maid,
were equally shocked and outraged, and
the jabbering and chattering lasted in
terminably.
For weeks afterward the occurrence
was referred to as dreadful calamity,
and the day of its happening served for
long time as a prominent date by
which to place other events. 1t is fur
ther stated that the accident was not
witnessed by any member of the family
1t would never have been known to the
boys mother save for the intense and
continued excitement it created. Her
Point of View in New York Times.
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A Proof of Gallantry.

Those vinegary persons who think po-
liteness is lost science because they
sometimes see ladies standing in the
cars while tired men are seated can see
the refinement of gallantry any and
every day in the General postofice.
There is never an hour while the long
line of men tails away from the retail
stamp window that some woman does
not insist upon taking her place at the
head of the line instead of the foot. to
buy stamp or get package weighed.
Time is precious to most of the men in
the line, but no one has ever been known
to object to the peculiarly feminine ir-
regularity, whereas if a man tries to dc
the same thing oaths and violence are
sometimes used to right the injustice
New York Sun.
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SPENDING Her HONEYMOON ALONE.
Economy Prevents a Bridegroom from
Accompanying His Bride.

Economy Prevents bridegroom from
Accompanying His Bride.
Wedding tours are expensive affairs.
1t sounds like treason, but the honey
moon usually costs s. good deal more than
it is worth. A young Pittsburger who
fell into matrimony the other day hit
upon a novel plan to reduce the expenses
of the wedding trip. His bride to be
and he. before the wedding day came
around. talked as most young lovers do
of all the places they would visit during
the honeymoon. The drew up a new
itinerary every evening and altered it
the next night-as others in the same
delightful state of imbecility have done.
But as the fateful day drew near the
young man fell to counting his pile and
estimating how much it would cost to
go to Niagara Falls and to New York
city and the rest of the places that had
figured in loves young dream. Then he
footed up the cost of furnishing little
home. and no matter how he tried to
keep the figures down, pairing off a dol
lar or two from a table here and a car
pet there, and economizing on plates
and other prosaic things-which lovers
very seldom think of at all till the col
lector rings the bell and will not go
away without that little amount-no
matter how he clipped and Topped and
pinched, the total expenditure for hon
ey1noon and the home at the end of it
covered all the assets. and Tapped over
into the bargain.
This would never do, he thought-and
then he went on thinking. The boldest
fact of all that stared him in the face
was the cruel indifference of the rail
road companies and hotel proprietors to
the needs of the newly married. Though
a minister or magistrate declare tw,,
people to be one, the railroads and the
hotels insist upon charging for two.
Contemplation of this cruel condition
led the bridegroom-to-be a solution of
the problem.
When next he visited his beloved he
| spread the minutes of his self COM
munion before her and boldly suggested
| that she should take the tour they had
planned alone, while he remained be
hind to prepare the home. She de-
INJURED at first warmly, but he persisted
that she needed the change of air and
scene-she was hard working girl
that he did not. She had set her heart
upon the trip and she should have it. At
last she gave in. They were married,
and she went to Niagara and the other
places alone.
They belonged to a sphere where Mrs.
Grundy is not a power, and very few of
their friends to this day know the unique
character Of their honeymoon. 1t ac-
tually occurred as has been told-in
Pittsburg, too, and not great while
ago, either.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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Treatment of Factory Hands.

Superintendents of factories would do
well to regard attentively the regime
which exists in wool spinning mill in
Norway. All the unmarried hands. both
male and female, are engaged for fixed
yearly salary, and get board and lodging
at the works. There is a large kitchen
and large dining room, where the en-
ployer and employed dine together. The
owners wife herself superintends the
cooking. The bedrooms and the other
apartments are roomy and well venti-
lated: the women sleep in one end of the
building and the men in the other. They
all look healthy and fresh, and very un-
like ordinary factory hands.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
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An Applied Proverb.

Stern Parent-Hello, you young repro
bate! Where are you going with that
fishing pole on Sunday morning? My
pole, tool
Efring Son-Goin' to do as you and
Solomon told me-
S. P.-The mischief you arei
E. S.-Yessir. Didn't you say that
Solomon said that if man didn't let his
boy have the rod he'd spoil der kid?--.
Pittsburg Bulletin.
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Limestone for Oysters.

The oyster planters of Long Island
sound are taking limestone from the
Hudson river with which to make oyster
beds on which the spawn can attach
itself. These planters first used all the
oyster shells they could get from towns
along the sound and from New York.
Then they brought them by the ship
load from Maryland. The oyster shells,
however, broke up rapidly and were
washed away, and it was found neces-
sary to resort to limestone, which is
found to make permanent bed.-Chi-
caoo Herald.
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Important if True.

The Chronicle. of Wilkesboro, n. c., is
responsible for the following sumner:
Near Shelby Grove church, Moravian
Grove township, lives man about 75
years of age, whose locks for many years
had been as white as the drifted snow
flake On the morning of the 1st day
of December, 1890, he woke to find him
self in possession of a most beautiful
head of hair, with scarcely gray hair
is pc found.
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The Blind woman and Her Gander.


A blind woman, giving her name as
Mrs Elizabeth Can't, and led by a large
white gander, has been attracting much
attention recently on our streets. She is
beggar and quite old, and claims to
have no friends except the fowl which
attends her as closely as dog, leading
her along by the dress, which it holds in
its bill. The woman says she comes
from near Birmingham, where she made
her home with her son, but on his death,
last August, was left penniless and home
less. The gander shows no particular
intelligence, except in his care of the
woman, who taught him to do so in lieu
of any other guide, but occupies himself
after the manner Of his kind while she
sits and begs at the corners till she is
ready to go on, when she recalls him
with whistle, and he comes at once
taking hold of her skirt and marshaling
her solemnly along.
He will exchange greetings with flocks
of other geese, but never leaves her to
join such, while he has been seen to fly
at and rout dog threatening his mis-
tress. 1t is necessary, however, for her
occasionally to hasten his somewhat lazy
steps, for he is of an investigating turn
of mind, and stops frequently to exam
inc such objects as arouse his curiosity
This fault, the woman says, is owing to
his youth, for he is only about year
old.
She also says that his education was
by no means SO difficult as dogs for
the same business would have been, and
that whenever she is unable to go about
through sickness he evinces the greatest
concern, and will urge to get up by tug
ging at her dress, but on her refusing
still, seems to understand, and will take
up his position close beside her, and re-
main there all day with his head under
his wing and most dejectedly peeping
out at her at intervals The gander is
an unusually large one, and absurdly
pompous, as if he knew his Importance,
refusing all overtures of friendship, and
resenting all attempts to handle him,
while he allows his mistress to caress
him in any way.-Ada (Ala.) Cor St.
Louis sGlobe-Democrat.
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AT LAST.


Her lily hand wss ciasped in his,
But, with a lovers foolish dread,
Tell me you lore me, dear, - he cried
You know il now, - she said.
''Perhaps-but tell me, dearest love"
Her sunny head drooped sweetly low
And hid upon his beating heart.
She whispered. Now you know"
"But say it, dear" Around his neck
One rounded arm crept gently slow
She murmured, as he stopped 10 hear.
You cannot help but know"
But let me hear you say it, love"
Her lips pursed up a pretty pout,
She stamped her foot love you. there
hope you've found it out.
J. I. Newcomb in Puck
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GRAINS OF GOLD.

Petulent contentious engender malice.
Wisdom waits to be asked for advice.
He that will steal an egg will steal an
OK.
Some men discipline themselves to
death.
An ounce of action is worth a pound
of words.
Contentment to the mind is as light
to the eye.
Few are they who have been spared
by calumny.
Our lives are measured by our works
not by our years.
Many a man lives on the reputation
others make for him.
He that lies down with dogs must ex-
pect to rise with fieas.
If the sinner was never respectable sin
would not be SO dangerous.
Ready money is a good thing to have,
but contented spirit is better.
yiyacity in youth is often mistaken
for genius and solidity for dullness.
Those who love can never be separat-
ed, be they atoms, worlds or spirits.
Frankness consists in always telling
the truth, but not always the truth.
No man walks with God without
reaching out hand to help somebody
To conceal a fault by lie has been
said to be substituting hole for stain.
The devil can't keep anything away
from Gods children that they really
want.
Sorrow is knowledge; they who know
most mourn the deepest over the fatal
truth.
The blackest thing in earth is the
shadow of willful sin between the soul
and God.
A true and faithful friend is living
treasure, comfort in solitude, and
sanctuary in distress.
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Courtesy with a vengeance.
'sDid ever tell you how was made
to give up my seatT

"Did I ever tell you how 1 was made
to give up my seat2'
mo; do"
"Well, had to cross the ferry one
night to take New Jersey local. The
car got into was empty except one seat,
where sat an awful pretty girl. For
some reason or other sat down beside
her. The car was filling up all the time.
Presently there wasn't a seat for any
body and several people were standing.
Two old women stood right in front of
me, but there were lot of men sitting
around who didn't offer to give them a
seat, SO l didn't. Presently the pretty
girl got up and offered her seat to one of
the old women, and for some reason or
other l offered mine to the other old
woman. Five men sprang up and Of
fered a seat to the pretty girl. She
blushed and smiled, sat down beside the
handsomest, and l stood for the rest of
the journey and-looked at her.-New
York Herald
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Small Navies.

Greece and Portugal, having special
reasons for strengthening their forces,
have each laid down ambitious naval
programmes. Denmark, Norway and
Sweden and Holland arc doing little in
the way of building. In South America,
the Argentine Republic, having expan-
sive ideas of her future, has planned for
considerable additions to her feet.
Whether the monetary disturbances will
cause their relinquishnent Is not yet
known. Brazil rs good second, Chilli a
better third, and the remainder of our
American sister republics are out Of the
race.-New York Herald.
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An Electric Target.

An electric target is made by an En-
glish company. When bullet strikes
the target. which is built up in sections,
the particular section hit is pushed
against the spring of a lever, closing an
electric circuit and causing the section
to be indicated on the registering appa
ratus at the firing end of the range. An
electric bell is simultaneously rung.-
Arkansaw Traveller
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Giving Away Snnn.

"Give them barrel of soap" said the
proprietor of large uptown hotel who
was appealed to on behalf of a charitable
institution. He meant by that order to
give barrel of half used cakes of toilet
soap collected from the bedrooms This
waste is one of the principal items in
hotels where it is the rule to put a fresh
cake of soap in each room for each new
occupant of the room.-New York Sun.
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In England the average number of
deaths each year is l out of each 43 in
habitants; in France, out Of each 32,
and in the United States, l out of each
81. In this country the rate in the
northwestern states is in each 100; in
the middle states, in each So; in the
southern states, in each 20; in the Gulf
states, in each 63.-St. Louis Republic.
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HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. 1890.
LII ANILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.

The Twelfth Volume of Harper's Young People
begins on November 4, 1899. This best and most
comprehensive weekly in the world for young
readers presents rich programme. In fiction
there will be "Campmates: A Story of the Plains, "
by Kirk Munroe; Men of Iron,'' romance, by
Flying Hill Farm by R. K Munkittrick; and
"Yellowtop,' by Annie Bronson King. In addi-
ton to these five Serials there VIII be stories in
two or three parts by Thomas Nelson Page, HAL
mar HjOrth Boyesen, Edwin Lassetter BynneT,
Harriet Prescott SpofTOrd, Mary E. Wilkins, Nora
Perry, and others. Short stories and articles on
science, history, travel, adventure, games and
sports, with hundreds of Illustrations OF the high
est character, will render Harper's Young People
for 1891 unrivaed as miscellany OF the best read
ing for boys and girls.
"The best weekly publication for young people
in existence. 1t is edited with scrupulOuS care
and attention, and instruction and entertainment
and mingled in its pages in Just the proportions to
captivate the minds OF the young, and at the same
time to develop their thinking power. NY. Oh
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Definitions.

Little Bub (at dinner)-Pop, what
does faith, hope, trust, mean?
Pop-Your ma bought this pie at the
bakers on trust" Can you understand
that?
Yes, indeed"
Il hope there'll be enough to GO
round. Understand that?
"Oh, yes"
"Well, we'n need faith to enjoy it.
It's mince. Good News.
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"Hellol Tom. Glad to see you, old fellowi
It's almost ten years since we were married. Sit
down: let's have an experience meeting, How's
the wife }"
''Ohl she's $780, same as usual-always want
ing something l can't afford
Well, we all want something more than we've
got. Don't you ?''
"Yes: but / guess want will be my MASTER /
started to keep down expenses and now Lii saws
I'm mean and she's tired of saving and never
having anything to show for it. saw your wife
down street. and she looked as happy as queen !"
Il think che is; and We are economical too,-
have to be. My wife can make little go further
than anyone l ever knew, yet she. always sur
prising me with some dainty continuance thai
adds to the comfort and beauty of our little home
and she's always merry as a lark. When ask
how she manages ii. sle always laughs and says:
'Oh that's my secret But | think I've dis
covered her secret When we married, we both
knew we should have to be very careful, but she
made one condition: she would have her Magazine
And she was right | wouldn't do without it my
self for double the subscription price. We read
it together. from the tille-page to the last word
the stories keep onr hearts young: the synopsis
of important events and scientific matters keeps
me posted so that | can talk understandingly of
what is going on my wife is always trying some
new idea from the household department; she
makes all her dresses and those for the children,
and she gets all her patterns for nothing with the
Magazine; and we saved Joe when he was so sick
with the Group, by doing just as directed in the
Sanitarian Department But can't tell you halfr'
"What wonderful Magazine is it >"
"Demorest's Family Magazine and
"What Why that's what Lii wanted so bad,
and | told her 1t was an extravaganza"
"Well, my friend, that's where You made
grand mistake, and you'd better rectify a.
coon as you can. III take your sub right here
on my wife's account: she's bound TO have china
tea-set in time for our tin wedding next month.
My gold watch was the premium got for getting
up a club. Here's n copy with the new Premium
Lstfor clubs,-the biggest thing outl Ifyou don't
see in 1t what you want, you've only to write 10
the publisher and tell him what You want. whether
II Is a tack hammer or a new carriage and he,will
make special terms for you either for Club or for
part cash Better subscribe right off and surprise
Mrs. Tom. Only $500 year-will save fifty times
that in six months. Or send 10 cents direct to the
publisher, W. Jennings Demorest IS East 18th
Street, New York, for specimen copy containing
the Premium List"
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TeRmS-Postage Prepaid, So 90 Per Year.
Vol. XII begins Norember 4. 1890.

Volumes VIII, Y and XII of Harpers Young
People hound in cloth will be sent by mall post
age paid, on receipt of So 30 each The other vol
umes are out of print.
Specimen copies sent on receipt of 2-cent stamp.
Single Numbers, Five cents each
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order or draft, to avoid chance of loss.
Newspapers are not to copy this advertisement
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DITTSBURGH, CINCINNATI AND
i ST. LOUIS RAILWAY.
PANHANDLE ROUTE.
Time Card in Effect June Is, 1890.

TDdIIy, tACtpI OuIudy. 'DdIIF
At Pittsburgh connections are made in Union
Station with through:trains on the Pennsylvania
Railroad for Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia
and New York. ON which are run. Pullman Dining, !
Sleeping and Parlor Cars.
At Chicago and St. Louis connections are made
in Union Station with prominent railroads for all
points in the West Northwest and Southwest.
For further information call on or address near
est ticket agent. +. A. FORD.
JOS WOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent,
General Manager. Pittsburgh, Pa.
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In Scotland it was formerly particu-
larly ominous to meet a funeral while
on the way to be joined in wedlock.
The bride or groom was certain to die
soon, as the sex of the person being
taken to the graveyard was male or
female
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States, Canada, or Mexico.
The volumes of the Harper's Bazaar begin with
the first number for January OF each year. When
no time is mentioned, subscriptions will begin with
the number current at time of receipt of order
Bound volumes of HarperS Bazaar for three years
back in neat cloth binding, will be sent by mail,
postage paid, by express, free of expense (prO-
Vided the freight does not exceed one dollar per
vOlume), for 81 per volume.
Cloth cases for each volume, suitable for bind
ing, will he sent by mail, postpaid, on reeeipt.of
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