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Chicago- 111. LUDWfl, HOTEL SWINDLERS. How They Ply Their Arte In iiOnaon ana rang. extraordinary Robberies Executed Oaring Adventurers of Both Sexea Tbe Champion Hotel Thief of the World. by Hotel-keepers are peculiarly liable to be swindled. So many people of all sorts are constantly coming- and yo inpr in the busy season that it is next to imjHissible for the most careful man to lie sure lie forehand that his puests are a4l" honest" and straightforward, and will not be found to have skedaddled when the time comes for the little bill to Ik? collected, after they have fared sumptuously for many days. The liest the sorely tried landlord can do is to steer, as well as he may, the happy middle course, without offending the solvent by raising1 suspicions of their solvency In-forehand, and watching- the doubtful lest they suddenly disappear in the night. Ami he may le trusted to le pretty sure on the average to make up for his losses by sticking thi in on to those who do not pay up. Two well-dressed young fellows, ap parently strangers to each other, were given rooms on the same floor of a cer tain hotel. A day or two later one of them said his trunk had been stolen, and made such an outcry that, to get rid of him, the unsusjiecting landlord paid him the value of his trunk and its contents, amounting to something like 11. The young man left and presnt ly the other gentleman paid his bill and also took his departure. But in some way the defrauded landlord learned la ter that when gentleman No. 2 left he took w ith him not only his ow n trunk but the one for which No. 1 had been paid, concealed inside it. From Margate there comes a tale of a bold attempt by a "foreign countess" to get the lietter of a hotel manager. Aware that hotel keepers are liable for the proiierty of guests up to a certain amount, irrespective of "negligence," the countess, when her bill was pre sented to her, declared that she had lieen robbed of a valuable silver licit, worth more than the amount of her bill. Hut while the manager was du biously discussing the point there stepped forward the head chamlerlain and quietly said that he had heard that identical siher belt story twice pre viously at Monte Carlo two years lie fore, and at Soarliorough last year. At lnith places she had hapjiened to lie serv ing as a housemaid. The countess quickly paid her bill and departed. One of the most extraordinary rob lierics recorded is the one which was effected a short time ago at a hotel in t lie Hue Sophia Gormuln, Pons. One afternoon a well-dressed man and wom an arrived at the hotel In question and took the liest liedroom in the house for one night, paying for it in advance and requesting the waiter to call them at four o'clock the next morning. He did so. anil they left at live o'clock. Rut when the cliamlierniaid went to put the room in order she met with an astound ing sight. The place was nearly bare, .-md. in fact, every movable article of furniture hail disnpiicarcd. The visit ors, w ith the aid of accomplices in tin streets, hail managed to lower all through the whitlow without being jier eeiveil. The death was recently recorded of a remarkable scamp who must surely have lieen the champion hotel thief or the world. He rejoiced in the name ot Col. William Addison, and is estimated to have in his lifetime ileparteu from 5.lM;0 hotels without leaving any money liehind him. His mode of ojieratioii was jieculiar and ingenious. He had devised contrivances for carrying on his nefarious career in the shajie of an Addison collapsible trunk and an Ad dison balloon hand bag. The trunk a iieariil to lie an exfieiisive leather-covered atTair of large sie, which, when contracted, could lie carried under the arm like an artists jiortfolio, while the hand bag could lie diminished so as to go into a jiocket. Selecting his hotel usually a high-priced one the colonel would till his trunk with bricks and blow out his hand bag with straw and proceed to take up his quarters. At the least indication of impatience on the part of the landlord for payment of his bill the colonel, announcing that he was going to the bank, would pack his trunk in his Mrtfolio and put his bag in his MK-ket and depart for good. In this way he had lived in luxury for man ears. and. consistent to the end, he died in a hotel and left no money liehi"'1 him. lxmdon Tit-ilita. Severe Trot on Complexions!. Among flowers the lily seems to lie the most severe test of woman s loveli ness. In reality, it is too stiff, too un viclding, to lie quite suitable for tuck ing into the licit or for wearing in the -orsage. Hut the form usually chosen for the lily as a personal decoration is to lx seen in pict ures, where fair young persons hold sprays of them. The a I now ledgvd lx-auty and the actress sin peculiarly prone to this bit of jiosii.j And the effect is usually unsatisfying Possibly the cause lies in the formality of this flower; in the fact that it is not adaptable, and is stiff and uncompro mising. Hut there is, iierhaps, a deeper reason. The lily has come to sy mliolize for us the spiritual, and though this is but a convention, it yet influences us. as if it were really a belief. From this arises the effect of unsuitability felt when the stately white sprays are used for jtersonal adornment. It seems too frivolous a treatment of them, and, moreover, few are the faces in which spirituality is so predominant that the lily seems to belong to them. Chicago Chronicle. A Talking; Machine. The gramophone, a talking machine, much simpler and cheaper than the phonograph, invented by Dr. Herliner, the famous electrician, will soon lie put upon the market. Its records of human speech and of music, it is said, are indestructible, and can be cheaply multiplied to an indefinite extent by simple mechanical means. What it has to say or sing can be heard all over an ordinary &ized house. So devoid of complexity is its construction that the complete apparatus will cost only eighteen dollars, and a smaller edi tion, intended for the use of children, will be sold for five dollars. JIM FAIR'S PRESENCE OF MIND. Remarkable Story Told by the Sod of the California Millionaire. Charles Fair, the only male heir to the late James t;. Fair, sat in the billiard room of the Palace hotel talking to some pioneer friends of his father. "IK you know, Charley, that a book of reminiscences of j our father would sell like hot cakes? You ought to put the data in the hands of some publisher and let him issue the volume. What do you think alwut it? The son smiled and looked up at the talker, as he replied: "Why don't you do it?" "Me do it!" exclaimed the roan with the publishing ideas. "I didn't kmo-vr him." "Neither did I." answered Charles. "Nobody knew him. I don't think a man ever lived who enjoyed his con fidence. I can assure you that he was the same strange man to me that he wan to others, and his iron rule to keep his own counsel was never broken. "Whenever he did fall into a con fidential nnd chatty mood it was to jest aliout something or to theorize. I re call a story he once told Alfred K. Davis, his old jartner. The story I have in mind was woven into a serious conversation, and he never cracked a smile over it. Hefore proceeding, how ever, I must tell you that in the Corn stock mines a ladder goes down the side of each shaft, and every twelfth rung is iron, so as to give the whole additional strength. Well, father said to him: " 'Davis, do you know I was almost killed once in the Crow Point mine? " 'How was that. Jim?' " 'This way. I was looking down the shaft to see if everything was all right and lost my balance. Heing un able to recover myself, I toppled over and fell yesr Iavis, fell. I must have gone about a hundred feet when it suddenly struck me that if I didn't be gin doing something prettj- quick I would go clear through to hades. So I reached out and grabbed a rung of the ladder. It broke and I grablied the next. That broke, too, but 1 reached for the third, which also gave way, ami the next, ami the next, and so on, but it broke my fall, and in aliout five min utes I reached the liottom, a little jarred up, but perfectly sound. "Davis looked at him out of the cor ners of his eyes a few seconds and said: " 'What did you do, Jim, when you came to the twelfth rung? Did you grasp at that, too?' " 'Why. I missed it. Do you think I wanted to smash everything that was in the mine?' " When Charles finished his story he was laughing more heartily than any one else in the crowd, and could not lie prevained upon to recall anything more tn.it had come from the lips of his famous financial father. San Fran cisco Call. Insert Ambrosia. The limber beetles that inhabit orange trees in Florida are nourished in their youth with a jieculiar kind of food, to which the name of "ambrosia" has lieen given. All young students of Greek know t La t ambrosia was the food of the mythological gods on Olympus, and it may be inferred that naturalists think the Florida beetles live like little six-legged pagau deities. The insects bore chamliers and galleries in the trunks of the trees, and their young are hatched in these galleries. Where the jKires of the wood intersect the passages the ap collects in the form of little while buttons and apparently under goes a fermentation which changes it into the so-calltd ambrosia, on which the larvae feed. The buttons of am brosia are ornamental as well as useful, giving a tine tessellated finish to the galleries that are lined with them. Sometimes the ambrosia collects so abundantly that, on becoming cov ered with a growth of minute fungus. t completely chokes up the passages and entrances of the galleries, turning them into suffocating dungeons from which the larvae are unable to escape. Youth's Comiianion. Ouetr I'aea for Cards. In a strike among bricklayers and masons in Vienna Hungarian workmen were employed to take the placesof na tive workmen, but great trouble was experienced owing to the absence of in terpreters and the difficulty of giving orders to the foreigners. Finally re course was had to a fiack of cards, ant as the workmen of every nationality un derstood these a system of signs and signals was established which answ ered every purfiose. Criminals quite fre quently convey information by means of cards. On one occasion a prisoner in Paris prayed to have a pack of cards lent to him. His request was refused, whereuon he obtained a sheet of I taper, drew blood from his trm anil made a fair imitation of a five of hearts. He was caught in the act and confessed that next tisiting day he intended to have passed the five to a friend, and that every card in the pack had a dis tinct meaning. Pearson's Weekly. Fondneas of Mire for Muale. A nice little animal story is given in this month's Nature Notes, which raises the interesting question whether mice have a fondness for music. It is con tributed by a musician, who says: "One evening I was somewhat startled at hearing my piano suddenly giving forth sweet sounds, apfiarently of its own ac cord. A mouse, so it proved, had got inside the instrument, and was making music on the wires. Whether this was intentional on mousie's part or not I cannot say; perhaps he was trying to make a nest for himself there. Some years ago, however, while a piano was lieing played in the dining-room of my old home, several mice came out ufion the hearthrug and began to jump about, apparently with delight at the sound of the music, and one was either so ab sorlHKl or overcome by it that he allowed himself to lie carried away in a tongs by the housemaid." After this, ladies ought to lose their antipathy to mice; indeed, we may soon expect some hu manitarian dame to commence musical parties for their delectation. It would lie amusing to see them dance, and woultl form a really humane method of catching them. Loudon New s. Uriggs "I see you are calling on the daughter of the head of your firm now. Griggs "Yes, she is the only girl I know of whose father has to work nights." Harlem Life. FASH ION A8LE FOOTWEAR. More Attention rald to Comfort and Con venience Tban formerly. "Of course, for carriage wear, house wear, evening wear, the Louis Quinze heel is all the go although I do not advocate women moving about all day in the house, for instance, with their feet at the angle those heels enforce. Whether a woman is walking on the street or walking in the house her foot should lie properly oised. The low heel and jxjinted toe, even an extremely pointed toe, are to lie preferred to the broad toe and high heel which prevailed a dozen or so years ago." "And about the picadilly toes are they vanishing? "A rounded foe, neither 'pointed nor ' square, is what we are making now for walking IxHits, but slippers still ter minate in a sharp point, jierhaps not as exaggerated as last season. "Huckles have little to do with the anatomy of the foot." he added, "but I want to show you these cut-steel buckles on the patent-leather slippers," and he took from the show window a variety of Cinderella-like footgear straped and buck 1 til in novel and dainty designs. They were pretty enough for the roseleaf feet of fairies. "In regard to leggings, a subject so important to the tuniced and gaited Kosalinds who flit through our parks and along our lioulevards. it is revealed that sh.-iiely and satisfactory acces sories of the kind are lieing made of black leather and pigskin. The. ma jority are buttoned for convenience in getting into them, but the more ex pensive are laced with delicate preci sion and fit like wax. "I'ndouhtedly lieople pay much more attention to their feet, take better care of them and think more of their com fort now than they ever did. And well they need to do so," quoth the shoe maker, emphatically. "Many -ople are one-sided and their bodies thrown clear out of plumb simply from always having balanced themselves on absurd heels and having worn the wrong sha fie of shoe. I know fiersonally an appar ently sensible woman who weighed two hundred and twenty-five fiounds and who wore habitually a one and one half sluie w ith a heel three inches high. She fell once or twice and hurt herseW. but the fall was never attributed to the shoes. I have another customer, a fine looking girl of noble proportions, who invariably orders an 'A last. It is en tirely too narrow for her. Among the fieople who come to us to lie fitted are a great many w hose feet are totally un like. They have a corn, fierhaps. on one foot, and habitually walk in such a way as to ease that fixjt; that is, 'throw the pressurc off the corn. A different set of muscles is used and the foot enlargcs in a different way from its companion nnt..'- T-eoji - invanamy "'"favor'" one memlier of the body more than the other; in measuring for leggings one leg is often found much larger than the other, and the same is true in regard to feet. The shoes are made similar, but the feet are distinctly different." N. Y. Tribune. An Irishman Hrtlllant Idea. Some Irishmen are naturally stupid, but their mistakes at times are so hu morous as to provoke a laugh, which makes one forget the more serious fart of the error. Kecently a son of Ireland went out rowing on the lake at a fa mous summer resort. A stiff northwest wind came up. and. not lieing skillful with the oars, in a short time his lioat shipped considerable water. A brill-anl idea then seized him, and. taking tin butt end of the oar, he battered away at the planks in the ltottom of the Itoal, finally knocking a hole in them. For tunately for him a steam launch with a pleasure party altonrd came along and rescued him as his boat sank. I'poii lie ing asketl why on earth he drove a hole through the boat he replied: "Ati" phwat else would yez do? Sure the lioat was half full of water, an so I knocked a hole in the ltottom to let it out; but, yez see, there was so much more water in the lake that the lit 1 1 bit of a stream in my ttoat had no chance to get out." Harfer's Kouud Table. One Way of Finding a Sc-otaman. It is related of a successful Glasgow liicrchant that, sight seeing in Paris once, he lost his way. For a considera ble time he wandered alniut trying to get back to his hotel. The hours went by. He never could sfieak French, and his Glasgow Knglish only brought a smile and a shake of the head. "Oh for a liody wi a guid Scotch tongue in his head!" he sighed. Then came a happy thought. Hy signs he ltought a basket, measure and Iterries of a trim French woman, and, shouldering his sttx-k, went along the street shouting: "Fine grossets. a bawliee the pine; fine gros scts. a bawliee the pine." The crowd laughed at the mad P.riton, but the fa miliar cry soon brought some Scotsmen on the scene, and the merchant was able to retire from business and smoke his pife in the ltosom of his family, thank fill that he had found real Scots men in his hour of need. Tit-Hits. THE WORLD'S CHRONOLOGIES. Tut "Era of Abraham" began Octo ber 1, li. C. 201. The Chaldean monarchy is believed to date from 2286 B. C. The Hebrew figures place the date of the flood at B. C. 2340. The Olympiads consisted alternately of forty-nine and fifty months. The ancient Mexicans had a year of eighteen months, of twenty days each Caesar's reformation of the calendar was really made by Sosigenes, B. C. 46. The exact length of our year is 3C5 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes and 4ti6 sec onds. The Hindoo chronology extends to 6174 B. C: Babylon, 6158 B. C; China, 6157 B. C. Until B. C. 432 the Greeks began the year at the winter solstice; after that, at the summer. The orthodox Jews date from the creation, which event they place in the year B. C. 3760. According to the computation of the Russian clironologists, the creation took place B. C. 5508. Among the Latin Christians there have been seven different dates fixed for the beginning of the year. The exodns from Egypt, according to reliable chronology, took place 440 years after the migration of Abraham. PHOSPHATE MINING. The Large Industry That Has Sprung Up in Florida, A New City Ilaa Keen Created by the tiroa-lna; Haslneoa In the Peninsula State-Marketing of the Material. The Florida phosphate deposits are of great imitortance. yet their exist ence was discovered so recently, ami their extent is still so uncertain that few jM-rsons not engaged in the sale of fertilizing materials have much knowledge, of the large industry which has-sprung up in the peninsular state. It has" practically created a new city, Ocata, which had a ftopulat ion of but a few hundred in 170, but is now a thriving business center with modern improvements, lianking facilities and ample railway and trnnstortation fa cilities. Engineering, the leading en gineering journal, makes the following statements concerning the region, which are of considerable interest as coming from an unbiased source: "There is no phosphate region in the world known to-day that fiosscsscs so many advantages for successful min ing as the Florida deftosits. The grade of material is the highest average that is lieing worked anywhere. The facil ities for moving the products to jtoints for distribution are gtiod. The aver age distance from mines to jiorts for shipment is altout 150 miles. Tin-distributing stations for the hard rock districts ate Port TanifKi, Fernandina, lirunswick and Savannah, the largest tonnage lieing moved from Fernan dina. where storage bins are located anil loading facilities are good. Port Tampa, the terminus of the Plant sys tem of railroads, is constantly adding facilities for prompt handling of car goes of phosphate, and at present very nearly equals Fernandina in the amount of its shipments. Kailroads :re numerous and cheaply constructed when necessary to extend them into new sections. The machinery nettled to mine and prepare the material is imple and inexfiensive conifiared with that generally used in other mining oterations. and the cost of a plant with sufficient land to work iifton is within the reach of small investors. The working days at the mines are aliout 2sil during t he year. The climate is healthful, laltorers readily obtained at a fair compensation and skilled ojicr ntives are at hand who are In-coming familiar with the business. The min ing camps are generally well regulated, i'lid proprietors and employes can re side at the mines with safety and with little inconvenience, as supplies of all kinds can lie readily obtained at the towns located in the near yicinitv of ail the large mining fields. lelcgraph and mail facilities are wilhin ea-sy ac cess of nearly every mining camp in the state. Florida phosphates are mostly shipjied to Euroftean fxirts, and are manufactured into fertilizers in England, Ireland. Germany France. :nd quite recently shipments have lieen made to the Sandwich islands. Foreign agents of consumers and dealers in phosphates have their offices near the center of production, anil contracts for delivery and prices are commonly fixed at fioiiits of shipment, the material being sold at a price fier unit of its contents of phosphate of l:me. The. Florida phosphates are all used in the manufacture of commercial fertilizers and suiterphosphate." Bos ton Transcript. How to tse the Kpoosk There are a thousand ways by which a housemUtress may prove the homely old saying that a woman can throw out with a spoon faster than a man can throw in with a shovel, and a thousand other ways by which she can prove herself able to use her meta phorical spoon to greater advantage. The first type of woman leaves the draughts of her kitchen stove open and keeps the fire going at full blast when there is no need of it; the second closes the draughts and dampers and plans to make the fire do as much as possible at one time. The first throws away what with a little trouble could be made into "drippings" which would serve in cooking as well, and often better, than butter; the sec ond not only makes the drippings, but turns her sheets and table cloths as soon as they begin to grow thin in the middle and cuts up still older table clothes into every-day napkins. The first woman uses one broom for the par lor carpet, the cellar and the sidewalk; the second has three grades of brooms and greatly prolongs the term of serv ice of each thereby. And the same rule applies to her own gloves, boots and general wearing appareL St. Louis Republic. A Man wttli llopea. Near midnight the other evening I sat down on one of the seats of the 1 hames emliankment w hen a ragamuf fin liegan fH-stering me for a ftenny. After 1 had given him sixftence I said: "You must go hungry fora longtime?" "Yes. sir." "And you seldom sleep in a bed?" "Very seldom." "And your clothes are badly out at the elltows?" "I need a new- suit, sir." "On the whole, you haven't much to live for. I take it?" "Not very much, sir, and if it wasn't for my hofies I'd take a header into the river." "What hopes have you?" "Well, sir, I'll put your tenner with nine liob more on the races to-morrow, and if I win I'll sit down to a cham pagne supftcr and buy myself a box of Havana cigars. That's what I hofie for, sir, and I thank you and good night." 1 shouted at him to come, back with my coin, but he vanished in the gloom in the direction of Black friars bridge. Pearson's Weekly. Lemon Juice as I'ollth. Lemon juice applied to cast iron arti cles gives an excellent finish to the .sur face of the metal. It turns the portion of polished cast iron to which it is ap plied to a bronze black, and when touched over with shellac varnish will absorb a sufficient amount of the var nish to preserve it. To many lemon juice would seem to le a weak and in effective acid for metal, but everyone knows how quickly a knife blade of steel will blacken when used to cut a lemon, and the darkening of polished iron by the acid is very beautifuL LET LOOSE HIS LATIN. It Y mm a I.I t tie Klrh for the Object o Ills Kemarks Hut It Won. A servant girl was washing the front windows and stets of a house on High street west the other afternoon when bhe suddenly heard a voice at hcrclliow saving: "Juliet didn't clean windows, but she wouldn't have lieen any the less a lady for so doing. A lady to the manor lorn m-a-n-tt-r, il you please is a iai, under all circumstances." She looked at him as she wrung out the cloth in a pail of clean water, but made no reply. "Seedy genteel is tho verflict. my Des demoua. and it exactly Lits the ease. That's me. "Been traveling o& my uj fwrs of late, you know. N. C.Jn capital letters, which means no cash. No cash no lianker no diamond-set pros pects ahead. All I have is my charac ter for industry, integrity and love for the human race. Savey. my jtrincessV" She rublted up and down and cross wise with her cloth, but did not even look at him. "Case is just this," he continued, as he s;it down on Ihe railing and removed his hat to wipe his brow. "I struck Chi cago a year ago from St. lAuis. Ex jiccted to find something soothing here something to sort o" lull my weary soul into a slate of calm reiKtse. Ever lieen in Chicago?" She was ready to wring out the cloth again, and she soused it up and dow n in the water and had no word of reply. "Beautiful city." he went on, "but the inhabitants thereof are inclined to lie over-part icularw ith strangers. Couldn't strike a job there to save my life, and cheek finally played out. Chief of police asketl me as a fiersonal favor todisap fiear, and I always oblige the fxilice v hen it. doesn't cost you a red to do iko. Presto! change! Which in the Grecian language signifies: 'From Chicago to iH'troit on the bumfters. Do you follow- me, Beatrice?" She changed over to the other win dow ami went rub! rub! rub! ami gave him not the least attention. "Like the town first rate as far as I have jieregrinated around," he went on, tising the lining of his hat to wic his nose. "Does jieregrinated strike yon a too rich for the season? No. Well, then, let me farther state that I feci en rapftort with Detroit. Felt sort o' nil flpiMmiuliim u-liHti I first r-ot i n Vmt I'm O. K. now. Upon French and Latin. my queen of the May? 'Sense me. if 1 have seemed to convey the impression that you don't know Virgil from Wel- ster's unabridged. Old Yirge used to 1-e a particular pet of mine. Did I hear a motion to adjourn?" He proliahly didn't, as her cloth went v. ije! wijie! wijie! and jier back was inn tMi mm. " " "Hut dclenda est Carthairo. as I used to remark in St. Ixuiis. To come to the (toiiit at once to secure a clearer and more satisfactory understanding lie tween us, let me assume the interroga tory. May le a little rich for this lo cality, but 1 have always lieen noted for liberality. Now, then, dum vivimus vivamus.which shoots straight out from the shoulder, and means: "Got any grub in tho kitchen for a traveler o'er the long highway of life?" She rose up and dropjied the wet cloth into the pail w ith a "sfat!" gave herhandsa w ifieon her apron anddisap- jK-ared into the basement. Two min utes later she returned wish a good sized sandwich and a couple of pickles, ami handed them to him without so much as a look; she soused the cloth in the juiil and went on with her w indow. "Alterum alterius auxilo egct," sa luted the man as he lifted his hat. "In other words: Jin-t my fit. You have proved yourself ait tiasis in the sandy waste of life and allow me to ret urn my v arniest thanks and to Iiojh- that oiir future may Ik- lie quid nimis, w hich, I will take the liltcrty to explain, signi fies: Bully for you. old gal.' and may vou never Know what it is to want for some spot on earth where your weary soul can lie lulled to forget fulness of t he tact that vou are d -ad broke and still slipping." " Detroit Free Press. ARMY NOTES. Military authorities estimate that in times of public danger we could put into the field a force of 2.500,000 or 3, JOO.OOO men. The colonels of our army have each a salary of f 1.500. while the lieutenant colonels receive M.IKK); the majors f MX). The age for the admission of cadets to the military academy at West Point is Ik twee u seventeen and twenty-two years. At the present time the I'nited States has one hundred and forty-four gam soned forts, arsenals or military posts occupied by its troops. Every West Point cadet signs an ob ligation to serve four years in the acad emy and four years in the army after graduation. Ihe pay of a private in the army is from f 13 to tlS a month, according to length of service, with rations and quarters. Or the West Point graduates who served in the federal army during the civil war, one-fifth were killed in action, one-half were wounded. OfR war department cost last year, 4 94, ?34.557,930. Our army is the most expensive, proportioned to its numlters. in the world. Ol'B soldiers, considering the fact that their clothing, rations and quar ters are furnished, are better paid than the laboring men of most EurofH-an countries. One of the duties of the secretary of war is to cause all captured flags, standards and banners to lie brought to Washington, where they are careful ly preserved. ra.teur Carefnlne-a. Once when Pasteur was dining with his daughter and her family at her home in Burgundy he took care to dip in a glass of water the cherries that were served for dessert and then to v.ifte them carefully with his napkin liefore putting them in his mouth. His fastidiousness amused the ftcople at table, but the scientist rebuked them for their levity ami discoursed at length on the dangers in microln-s and ani maculae. A few minutes later, in a fit of abstraction, he suddenly seized the glass in which he had washed the cher ries and drank the water, microlies and all, at a single draught. DURABLE CARPET. That In Which the 1 'at tern Tharoarhly Covers the Groandwork. The most durable carjiet ever woven was undoubtedly the old rag aarftet made of home-spun rags dyed with veg etable dyes made from native larksanl roots. The hit and miss effeet of thes carfiets was often a complete success, and far prettier that the showy tajes try Brussels that succeeded. It aat also much more durable. It was not necessary to shut out the sun from the room carfteted w ith the rag carfet, lie cause it-s colors were of honest dye and did not fade in the light. Thisold-time floor covering is nearly gone. There are only a few housekeepers in these days, in spite of modern inventions and lalKir-saving devices, who have time to sew and dye rags for cari-ts, so the choice of even the old-time farmhouse must fall upon a purchased article. When a room is dull and dreary look ing there is a temptation to buy a bright-colored carfx-U but it is one that ought to lie resisted. Nothing fiall ujton the taste so soon as a carpet of staring pattern, wlutse tlowera "rise up" to meet your footsteps over it. It is alw ays a safe rule to choose a carjtet of medium shade, decidedly darker than the wall fiajH-r. A conventionalized fiat tern wears much lietter than a re ;listic wit tern if flowers and leaves, lu order to lie durable, let the fiattern cover the ground of carfiet thoroughly. A wml ingrain carj-et of the liest quali ty is a far lietter, more satisfactory choiee than a cheap tapestry, w hich is sold at the same price. The old-fashioned three-ply oarjict is no longer made. The heavy ingrain, w hich takes its place, is more durable lx-cause it remains in good condition as long as it lasts, while the upfter surface of the three-ply wears off. leaving the carfiet shabby, though it lie still w hole. The next choice to an ingrain is a first quali ty American Brussels. Choose a carj-et of hea'3 surface, but on a woven through to the Itack. Of late years some manufacturers of tajtestry hate dyed their c-arftets on the back so as to make the sujierficial observer lieliete they are woven through, but such a shallow device should deceive no one. It must lie said that there has been a marked improvement in the manufac ture of velvet carftets in recent years, so that some of these are almost as durable as inferior Wiltons. The vel vet carjtet. it should lie reniemltered. ;s u tajK-stry carjtet, woven in heavy frame, and the loops of the surface are cut to produce the velvet surface. A Wilton carjtet is heavy Brussels, in which the loojts of the surface are cut. The nioquctte carjtet has a heavy plu-di-like surface, but it is not as durable as ilton or velvet, though it is cheatier .thamt Wilton. K. YTrihune. TRANSPORTATION INTERESTS. Texas employs its convicts in build ing railroads. Tuty are laying railway tracks in Texas by machinery. At the recent meeting of railway presidents at Coney Island two thou sand million dollars of capital was rep resented. A veteran railroad man, Jonas Wilder, of Bristol, Tenn.. w ho is now eighty-two years of age, invented the refrigerator car and the coupon ticket and patented neither of them. The jK-nver fc liio Grande railway placed its insurance contract recently with a IK-nver brokerage firm. The amount involved was four million dol lars, but the terms are kept secret. The horseless vehicle has appeared, in Chicago in the shape of a light wag on propelled y an electric motor work ing a gearing on the rear axle and run ning over the crowded streets with ap jtarent ease. JriKiMEM for one thousand dollars has lieen awarded at IlarlM tursville, Ky., agaiust the Louisville & Nashville com pany as damages to one W. II. McDon ald, liecause he was forced to ride in the "Jim Crow car" while taking a col ored lunatic to an asylum. A CVKlot'8 freight which is shipped exclusively from San Francisco to China is "fish bone." which pays twen ty dollars a ton. says the Chicatro Rec ord. It is sent in large boxes, con signed to the Tung Wah hospital at Hong Kong, but the contents of the Itoxes are really the liodies of dead Chinamen sent home for burial. WOMAN'S WAYS. A noMESTlc vvife is a blessing, but not if she is too domestic. A wife is willing to le obedient, but she hates to lie considered a slave. When a woman says no she wants you ta insist upon her saying yes. A man will always respect a woman if be sees that she respects herself. With a woman, her soul should al ways be at least as well clad as her IkxIv. Ira married woman commences as a slave she will nevej- regain her free dom. Very few married women sin even in thought when they have good hus ltands. A great many women transfer to their baity the love they once had for their husband. Even when a woman is in love she never forgets to see that her hat is on straight. A woman should not be afraid to die. Why, just think! It relieves her of the marriage tie. The woman who is a g-ol cook can always retain the respect of her hus band, if not his love. A woman should be chary with her kisses and caresses even to her hus band. We get tired even of canvas back duck if we have it every day. Florida-Times- L" n ion. A Yletim or the Earthqaaka "James," said the good wife, severe ly, "v.-ere you intoxicated when you came home Sunday night?" "No, I was not, Maria. I had not drank a drop." "But, James, when you came through the hall you were staggering so you could hardly keep your feet." "Maria." replied James, with an in jured air, "you should read the news papers. If you had looked at the morning Express you would have seen that just at the hour that I cauo home there was an earthquake. It was that which made me look as if I was staggering- Don't be so hasty in your conclusions another time, please." h l-.i i ' i i St ti IB v I r. s i 1 1 t s ! ; il . i Pi f i c " f :-' t-r H: - t k t;- i t t t c. t I I i tt- r t j i i If I r f r ti ll r f t t - t r. - t I I I t: c I. t I 5
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