liem.an Aclveitijinj ItnteM. Isnreand re!' idle rn-colatlon et tTr .'. JA Fbbbsab a intends it to tbe IT-rbl 3uo.ider.ii.u of ! eritrtra -boe lavur :11 1 intei-ted at tu 'olio tir,g low riw: 1 lrx-h. 3 lmn . .......... .t 1 M 1 Inch, S month... . ..... X.M l isrn.e Bootbs.. .............. J1V.V."." a is l lt.cn i jw . . II 1 j,!uo. t Inches 6 tnuntbs...... . " j'ta I 'PSl' ,.-"mT -"-." io'. t Inches mooliia ..... .. ...... g.i tnehea. 1 year .. '. n. column, month 11711."!!"!! la S culomn.6 tnontbu...... ..... """" o"c.a H enlomn. 1 year !!!...!.... S3 f i column, ttootb.. ....... " a aa 1 column. 1 year.. ....""......". ?k eo ."nr ,,m. insertion, K. per Una rnbeequent Im-crt'ons. 6c. ,w ia AimiBltrator-i and J-jrcotor a Notices. H M Auditor's Notice . tray and similar Notice V."" "lM twJ?u.,ronVr l,r'n ol anT'eorpcra. M. n or rociety and rommontion dwll to VtL ,fn '"" """J matter limited nd. 'dal intereot mM b Pai l..r ar adTertiiimerf. , KiH .l.e.l Wffhly at ( AMHKI.l CO., FES '.., Hi H- v. jtr iiasjOX' 1,200 us If f H -,,1... rJ.H.n Kate. - ;n .Hmh-v f 1 W- f. -j. ' : . t ,.a.. it mn 3 months. 1 , ! ,.i r::iut. i luoutn?. 2 in; I .. V, ! i aid wltUtti Ua jear.. 2 15 .... i t it im'-tde of the county I" t,-,'f. u I'cr'year will bechanced to II the uore terms be Ca se "t" -'on t consult ttielr in ailvao'e Least nut el , ... jve !M'tinif as t!ioeDo ' ,li.-f:'i.'tly unlertum froc Pi (tu.e ,. JAS. C. HASSON, Editor and Proprietor. HE IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TROTH MAKES FRKK AND ALL ABB SLAVES BKSIDK.' 81. 60 and postage per year n advance. rxzzrzzxz i VOLUME XXX. EBENSBUKG, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 189G. NUMBER 1. i- . Kfi an amas neati a a till!'' It it AMY n. rrr ANA WW ii in i. 1 " LW l ts.il.. o.. . ; , i'. I : : !i -I V : , . ;,.( .-;i-o i. tiras ... f il'iif. S.iini' ,, , i (,.-- i ; h iii i nf i . ,,;- .ilT liavf j: i :i ai i'ii 'i.Kr. . 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OctlT.'-iMf. FOR ARTISTIC JOB PRINTING TRY THE FREEMAN. CATARRH CREAM BALM J qilirkhj nbMtrbrit. JViMrtf i'ltmftgrm, jiltaifH I 'flirt nit ft I nlmn wmttt ion, lictila tht) ttonrrm. frotrrtM tha ilrtnhram from Adililiunnl VolH. Krxtore the fri-nx nf 'l nxte and StHfll. at- a 'uvre,4lSJ It Will Cure COLD N HEAD A particle i applied into each notrel anil Is aitreeable. PrlceiO rent at Uruinfl-ita orby mail fcl.Y BKOTHfcllS, 6S Warren Street. New York. nov.10.SM.ly tn CrMTS SAMPLES FRE? itwMiAA.niwot.xn m,A ni.ni,. l.O.A.MVTTJn TerkOia riPXP OF A MAMMOTH. A Valuable Relic in the Smith sonian Institution. it I Only m Bit or Fat from the Body of aa A ni 111 .il That lima Been Dead for Thousands of Years. Dr. Dull, of the Smithsonian institu tion, during his recent visit, to Alaska secured a natural history siKH'inieii that v:is a pri.e indeed. 1 1 was a bit of inam iniith fat, from the actual ad iHse tissue of :m animal that had tx-eu dead for tens of thousands of years. I todies of mammoths in a fresh state have heen dug up from time to time in aretie Siberia, preserved in natural cold storage since a jieriod probably ante dating the first apearan'c of man on the earth. That is an old story; but this is the first known instance in which the soft parts of a lienst of this siieeies have been fount! on the American conti nent. It is easy to imagine the scien tific interest attaching to the discovery. Ages ago this mammoth died, under such circumstances that his corpus was buried in mud. At about that time there was a great and permanent change in the temeraturc of circum polar regions. The climate had lieen subtropical; it suddenly lx-came frigid. The mammoths were literally "frozen out," the last of the siieeies perishingof cohl. This particular individual, frozen iu a bank of clay, had every prospect of "keeping" for an indefinite period. Hundreds of centuries later a stream llowing through an Alaskan valley tackled the clay b.uik referred to and lx-gaii to cut it away. At length some big liones stuck out. and a native of ex ceptional courage dug out one or two of them. This required more of that quality known in civilized countries as nerve" than might be imagined, for strange monsters, however long they may have been dead, are regarded with superstitious awe by savages. However, the natives finally sum moned courage, enough to drag the re mains of the mammoth out of the clay l.ank piecemeal. The liody of tlu? ani mal had been preserved so well that a fairly perfect cast of it was found in the matrix. A quantity tf fat. which over lay the infest ines, was obtained and was used for greasing tioats. Dr. Dall se cured a piece of it, and fetched it back to Washington for an exhibit. In the office of Osteologist Frederic . I.i ic. is, at the National museum, is it mammoth's molar tooth, to which an ikIi! story is attached. It was got from a spring at I'stso Verde, in the country of "In I'apago Indians. Ever so many cen turies ago a mammoth in its dying sig onies sought that spring for water and fell into it, too weak to climb out. There its t-ones remain to this day, and the Indians lielieve that, if they were re moved, the spring would dry up. Of course, such an event in that region means the destruction of a village. Mastodon liones, of course, are fre quently dug up in the I'nited State.s. The. mastodon was a kind of elephant, but it did not lielong to the genus Ele phas. The mammoth did not lielongto that genus, being known to modern science as elephas primi-genus. I often hapMus 1 hat farmers plow up the osseous remains of mastodons, particu larly in reclaimed swamps, where an ciently the gigantic Iieasts lncame iiiii i tl and died from sheer helplessness to get nut. The tusks are commonly found so fardconiHsed that the ivory crumbles lietwccn the fiugers. The first mastodon ever dug up was found in 1013. The remains of t hese ani mals are by no means confined to the t'nited States; they are discovered all over the world. They are much thicker s.t than the modern elephant. The ower jawltone of a full-grown sjieci iiicr. weighs nearly I'M iiounds. The first mastodon bones that were dug up were supposed to Ik- those of giants of an earlier epoch. Washington Star. BLANKET MEN. Kntirely New lnt of Nomads Springing t'p In California. A resident of El Ked. Cal., w rites to I he Topeka Kansan-Sun as follow s: ""There is a class of men here called -blanket men. They go around the . (iiintrv iu crowds and herds, each one carrying his roll of blankets, sleeping anywhere. They lng from house to house something to cat. They work a few days at a time, and then jro and sit in front of a saloon until their money is gone. When Sunday comes they go to a stream and wash their clothes. It is just dreadful to think men can get so low. I never thought there was any good in theCoxey movement until now; lie. was the means of getting a large number of these men out of the state. "They say that. California is the only state where they can live in that way. We ask them sometimes how they can forget their homes in the east and live Kke animals. They say: Oh. it's the climate! Our preacher said when here to tea: 1 lielieve more jieople will go to hell from California than from any f if her place, and it is all the fault of the climate. There are hundreds and hun dieds of these men wandering from one part of the state to another. They beg for bread and work for whisky." Ball I.ltehtnlna;. A week or so ago, during a thunder storm, lightning in the shae of a ball --a well-Known but rare phenomenon descended in the yard liehind a house at Themenau, Austria. The ball, about one foot, iu diameter, was of a bril liant blue. On reaching th? ground it rolled along a short distance and then burst, flooding t he whole neighliorhood w ith a dazzling white light. No dam age was immediately apparent, but sev eral hours after flames burst from a building sit anted at some distance from where the lightning had struck. A (.' Misfortune. Xo cat in Maine probably had more need of her nine lives than did one in a Monmouth store recently. The large oat bin in the rcur of the feed store, holding an even car load, had just been filled, when the cat, chasing a mouse, went down head first lMt ween the par titions of the bin, eight feet, to the lloor lx-neath. There she remained on iier head for 13 days, or until, the oats having lieen renioed. she was discov ered. Tabby is now alive and well and just as eager for mice as ever. HIS FIRST OPERATION. Young- Surg-eon's Ksperlenre In 1'uttlnc; Off a Man's Bis; Toe. "Do you recall the first o-K-ration you ever jH-rformed yourself?" was asked a surgeon by a New York Sun reorter. "Indeed 1 reniemlier it very well. 1 was in a hospital w here there were .!,"() 1k1s and 33 surgeons in charge. I ua.s one of the young assistant surgeons. If an operation was neces.ary in any of the wartls it was our duty to rejiort it to the surgeon in charge, w ho then er formed the oieralioii if he chose. 1 re jrtcd to my surgeon the importance of an amputation of a great toe. The surgeon came stud looked at the man and concurred with my opinion that Tin amputation was necessary. I was directed to get everything ready for the oeration. 'Then. said the sur geon, I will conn and operate if 1 can. If not, you go on and jiertonu the op eration yourself. "I lold my young associates of the order, anil they said: "Well, you go and get ready, but he won't come. You will have to do the ojK-ration yourself. And that wastheway it turned out. Theo eration was to lie at two o'clock. All the night liefore I was rehearsing w hat I intended to do in my mind, and dreamed of it in my sleep. The next day I could not eat my luncheon. My hands and feet were cold. When it came time to commence the operation I could only ste:wly my nerve by thread ing needles. I said: (iive me the needles to thread. I am very particu lar about my thfead. I took n needle anil commenced jioking at the eye. In a few seconds my hand olieyed my w ill and became as steady as I could wish. I jierformed the operation successfully. After that I went on performing a great many ojierat ions, but it was years liefore I could take one o'clock lunch cons if I had to operate at two o'clock." CHICKEN IN A STREET CAR. Cause Its Owner Much Bother, and Finally Lays an KtK, The other evening a woman loarded a cable car with a basket. All went well until suddenly a loud cackling came from her burden. The woman was nat urally much emliarrasseil, anil, while blushing minfiiUy, pretended to pay no Attention to the obstreperous chicken which was Wing carried horn. The cackling continued, much to the amuse ment of the passengers, who were con vulsed with laughter. Nor did they at tempt to conceal their amusement, which embarrassed the woman oven more. She failed to see anything f unny in lieing made the buttof fun for tenor fifteen passengers. The cackling chick en seemed to have noiuniiassiuii on her owner, for she jiersisted in keeping up a continuous noise, notwithstanding the gentle shakingand the frequent "hush" which the woman gave her. As the .ackling kept up, says the Pittsburgh Dispatch, the emlarrassment of the woman wore off, and a faint smile il luminated her face. When the chicken had lieen cackling proudly for ten min utes, she concluded to 0h-ii the basket i see what was the matter. Imagine 'ser surprise aid the ainust ment of the lassongcrs when she picked up a brand .cw egg which the chicken had laid in transit. SHERMAN AS A BOY. A Toothful Frank Keealled by Illiu After Main I nar Fame. Among my school adventures at Mount Vernon, says the Memoirs of Senator Sherman, was one I heartily regret. We had a teacher by the nam of Lord. He was a small man and no: nble to cope with several of the lioys ii; the school. We called him "lUinty Iird." One evening after school four loys, of w hom I was one, while playing on the commons, found a dead sheep. It was suggested that, we carry the sheep into the schoolroom and place it on Ixinl's seat. This was prompt ly done, and I wrote a Ittin couplet, pur M.rting that tJiis was a very worthy sacrifice to a very Kor Lord, and placed it on the head of the sheep. The next morning Lord found the sheep and made a great outcry against the indig nity. Efforts were at once made to as ccitain the actors in this farce, and proof was soon obtained. My hand writ ing disclosed my part in t he ease, and the result was a prompt discharge of the culprits from the school, but loor lxrd lost his place liecause of his manifest inability to govern his un i nly pupils. When Lincoln Was I'otitmaater. John Wanamaker was the principal speaker at a dinner given b the Phila delphia Association of Underwriters to the. national lioard in the Continental hotel. lie told the following story of Lincoln: "While at Washington it came under my notice in the post office de partment that Abraham Lincoln, in his early life, had been port master at a small Ohio town. In the changes that took place the office was consoli dated with Salem, and the man twice wanted lor president was tor once not wanted for jiost master. . Years after it was discovered that no settlement had reached Washington of the affairs of that litt'c postoffice. A visit wan marie to Mr. Lincoln and the case stated, when the always great man rose from . his desk and walked over to a chest of drawers and took out a bundle of iki tiers. among them an enveloie, contain ing $17 and some cents, the exact sum in identical money of the government safely in keeping until called for. As he handtd it over to the agent of the irost office department he said: "There it is. I never use any other man's money." N. Y. Tribune. Kicjht and I -eft I.imtxt. The physiologists and scientists in general have lieen making some curious oxiieriments with a view tp rietermine the relative length and strength of "right" and "left" limbs. Fifty and nine-ten I lis per cent, of the men meas ured hail the right arm stronger than the left: 16 4-10 per cent, had the two nrms of t qual length and strength, and 32 7-10 tier cent, had the left arm stronger than the right. Of women 4ti 9-10 jer cent, had the right arm stronger than the left; 24 5-10 percent, bad the left stronger than the right. In order to arrive at the average of length of limits, 50 skeletons were meas ured, 25 of each sex. Of these 23 had the right arm and left leg longer, six the left arm and right leg. while in 17 cases all the members were more or less equal in length. Home Queen. EXPENSIVE r.uc.. The Gypsy Moth Cost the Gov ernment $20,000. It Was Hunted for Months by an Expedi tion Throuchout tbe Whole Country Tha Insect Coat Maaaachusetts a Fortune. The other day I made a trip with Secretary Morton aliout his preserves. Every once in two or three months the secretary makes a progress through his domain, w hich extends as far as the ex lieriineiital station at l'.ennings, near Washington, D.C., and alioiit four miles from what might Ik called his head quarters in the Mall. As we stepped out of the door of theagricult ural build ing Secretary Morton pointed lo a small brick structure to the east. "That's where we keep our insects." he said, "and no one need laugh at our collection. I regard it as fine an array of bugs as any on earth. Yes. sir," re marked the secretary, while his eyes twinkled, for be it know n the sec ret a ry doesn't think much of bug investiga tions. I've got a bug in there that cost the government $20,'HJ0; he doesn't look it. lint he did. It's a fact. One day tin outfit of scientists started in pur suit of this bug. They ranged all over the hemisphere and stuck to his trail "like bloodhounds. They ransackod North America all the way from the isthmus to Alaska. After t he most re markable adventures by flood and field, they treed their bug and took him a prisoner. He was then brought captive to Washington and he's right there now, in that brick house, the highest priced bug on earth. A roundup oT the total expense of that one bug hunt came to over $20,000. Hut we got the bug. "There's nothing like science." re marked the secretary, "or scientists to bring some liald detail of government properly to bay. "For instance, there was Prof. Har rington, at one time chief of t he weath er bureau. He was a scientist, anil a good one, anil used only scientific met fi elds in everything to which he turmil his hand. For example, one day our weather fellow at I'.aker City. Ore., failed to send in a rejKirt for four straight days. We didn't knowwhother he was in the midst of storms or calms; we couldn't hear from him. This Itaker City silence grew tedious. My first no tice of it, however, was one morning when I received a communication from Prof. Harrington, wherein he set forth the deathlike stillness which prevailed in the case of our linker City man and wound upby recommending that a gen tleman named Smith in San Francisco lc instructed to proceed to Itaker City at an excnriiture not to exceed $HH). and explore the observatory, as well as the man in charge, and discover the reasons of his silence. It struck me as a scientific case of going all about Uobiu Hood's barn, and I remarked to the professor after reading his recom mendation: " I guess we'll follow your recom mendation after I have wired him that is. if it should then le necessary.' "Thereupon I took a telegraph blank and wired my tongue-tied friend at Haker City, and briefly asked why he had failed to send the weather report for the last four days. In about an hour his reply came in. "'lSccause the wires were down until this morning. They have just been re paired. "That was all he said, but it was full enough for our puriiose. Of course, we didn't get the information scientifical ly, but we got it just the same, juid it only cost 75 cents instead of $HH). "Still, there is nothing like science." continued the secretary," only one should lie mighty careful how he fools with it. A scientific mishap is apt to broaden into a disaster rapidly. It-was only recently that some earnest French scientist, imjiorted from Eurojie an in sect called the 'gypsy moth." He in tended to cross this foreign moth with some local bird of kindred feather. and. while I'm not clear as to his ultimate expectations, my impression is that he thought that this mule moth which he was after would take some important part in silk culture. "So he brought a family of gypsy moths and established himself with these interesting insects in some town in Massachusetts. He had them all locked up in a sort of a mosquito-netting cage. This was hanging ucar an open window, in order to give t he cap tives a chance at the fresh air, and a wind came along, when the French man's scientific back was turned, and blew the whole business out of doors. The gypsy moths got away and since then they and their descendants have nearly eaten up every green thing in Massachusetts, except Congressman Morse. I hear the moths missed him. It's the truth; the moths simply laid waste the state, anil the legislature has already been driven to appropriate over $400,000 toward their extermination. That happened as the result of that scientific experiment. Oh, no! I am not saying anything against science; 1 only wish to emphasize the fact that people w ho fool with it ought to have a care." N. Y. Journal. Slavery In England. Slavery survived in England much latt r than is generally supposed. The word liondage in Northumlierland still means a female farm servant. The cooiies and salters (i. e., salt miners) of East Lothian were actually slaves till 1775. If they deserted their service anyone harlioring them was liable to a penalty of five pountls sterling if he did not restore them in 24 hours. The hist slave in England was not freed completely until 1719 and in 142 then was a coolie living who, as well as his father and grandfather, bail worked as a slave in a pit at Musselburg. The FrodlcaCs Keturn. Judge Lamar, at a political meeting in his own state, alluding to the civil war, suggested as a parallel case the parable of the prodigal son and the joy ful reception- at his home when the naughty boy returned. He was succeed ed by a negro, a republican, who, after some general remarks. iaid his resjiects to Lamar's parallel. "Forgiben!" said he. "dey forgilien, dem brigadiers? Why, dey'secome walkin into do house, an bang de do, an go up to de ol man an' say: Whar dat veal? A NOVEL LOVE ROMANCE. Began with a Stupid Man Who Haai(r-j a Woman-, Nim. lL-re's a curious story of loir ;md courtship. Aliout. two years sigo. s:ivs the Athens (ia.) News, a young gent Io nian of this city, while in S.tvaunah. got into a street car with a heavy ui:,i-icl!a under his arm. Like a great inaiix tit her careless eopI-, he held it :t a dangerous a,ngle. with the toint stick ing out la-hind him. and ere lung t he ear gave a lurch and a lady just ! hind him omitted an car-split I ingscieam. Every -Ixwly juntiM-ri anil looked, and to his horror the young man found that the oiii! of his umbiclla had coin.- iu con tact with the nose of the young l;nfy scatod just liehiiiri him. Ofcourse.be KiMilogizcri, or tried, but it w:is like aKilogiing for murder over 1 ho IhkIv t the victim, for the lady's nose vva. blecriing and she was almost iu con vulsions with pain. The car was stopieri at the next cor ner, w hen- there hapHued to lie a drug store, and the young man. aided ami td-etteri by fine or two elderly ladies, who at once took a lively interest in tin case, helped t lie young lady otT and inl the store t:nd jiostcri off after a doctor. One was found and the unlucky no-v was soon put iu working order, and the. owner, attended by the married ladies, was sent home in a carriage. The young man took her address and limited up a milt ual acquaintance, w it ti w hom he called the next day to sir hotv the nose was get t ing along. The nose did well, so did the ouiig man. fur by the time the nose was out of danger he had got in the habit of calling, so t hat it liecaine natural for him to step around in the evening. So in the com so of time they were married, and she is the only lady in the United States whose con rl ship liegan by a punch in the nose from her future husband. A NEW WOMAN. Now Take "Oaiek Lunch" Like Male I'hilittine. The new woman is In-coming newer and newer as she grows oIri-r. Tips may sound like a paradox, but the new woman knows liotter than thai, says the New York Press. Tl.c latest stride made by the new woman is to sit up to a lunch counter like a man and cat her pie an.) drink her coffee in a hurly-burly, as her re pudiated lord and master docs down town in the middle of the day. Th-'ie is a large dry gixiris store, where bar gains in ginghams. laces, jewelry and gloves are ot.Iy a preliminary to tin bargains in lunch that are otTen-ri i:: tin- newly fitted up lunch room in the place. licro iho new woman sils astride of her stool, orders her sand wich and "one iu the dark" with the aplomb that comes to one sun- of h.r Hsition. The new woman has li-ken to tin lunch counter idea with a great deal of warmth. She was a little doubtful al-oiit. it when it was first proj.-osed. but now that she has tried it she is more indignant with man than ever for keeping her in ignorance so long about this charmingly uncomfortable way of sw allowing a meal. The business and professional man. who is com-icllcri to wn-sllo at a lunch counter every day, regards it as a great deal of a liore, but to the new woman it is a glimpse of a gastronomical para dise. The experiment made by this par ticular store has proved to lie so suc cessful that it is certain there will In other lunch counters in big New York drv gixiris stores. ONE LAWYERS WAY. He Flays Eavesdropper with a Legal Brother. "I had an experience that has taught me a lesson." said a small tradesman, according to the New York Wot hi. "Kc cently 1 had a business transaction w it h a man, and as it seemed to me that I had Ih-oii swindled I made up my mir.ri to go to law aliout it. A friend recom mended me lo a young lawyei. and I went downtown to see him. 1 found I was in one of those little nests of offices which young lawyers occupy in pairs for tilt- sake of economy. The front part was used in c.immon, while the rear was partitioned off into two pri vate offices. When my turn came the door of the private office was left open, as there was no one but the otlier law yer iu the outer room. "The lawyer listened to nic carefully, asked m iiuiiiIht of-quest ions, and w hen 1 got through he juniMd up. slapped me on the back. grasx-d my hand, and said I had a perfect run'. Then' was not the slightest doubt as to my recovering damages in full. I told him I would think the matter over liefore takingany tict ion. "As I was passing through t he main office on my way out the other lawyer tiok me aside and said he wished I would give him the name and address of the man I was thinking of bringing the action against, 'You see, he ex plained, I happened to overhear ail you said to my friend aliout the matter in dispute, and I'm so convinced that your opiMinent has the best of the argument froma !egal stanriiioinl that I would lik to have him for a client. A:s s-on as I reached home 1 wrote to my lawyer that 1 had decided not to bring any: suit." Mailing- a Hieyele. Ail American tourist is said to have leccntly sent his bicycle from I:udon to Paris by mail at a cost of a few K-iit-e and received it iu jierfeet order. That looks iike a yarn, but it is straight. The English parcels jiost now carries mail ku kages not over 2U jkiiiiiiIs iu weight, and not. of a higher value than Slot, from any point in England to any place in France at what apjiears to In- a ri diculously low tariff. The leov cle weighed just 2D Hunds. The whet-Is and handle bars wen removed from the frame, and can-fully wrap-ieri in heavy paiicr. so as to make a comjiaot bundle, liefore the jmstage was luiul. and when the wrappings were removed at the touri.-t's hotel in Paris the machine was in perf. c condition. An Ktup resit" i lock. The empress of Eussia has a carriage clock of tortoise shell, mounted in gold, having the handle inorusted witn diamonds, and altove the dial the im ierial crow n in brilliants, with Iho' initial "A" Ih1ow it, also workd in brilliants. The clock was given toth Princess .Mix upon her n.arriage by English ladies residing in St. Petersburg. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. The Schenectady I Automotive works an- using for certain parts w .i;.t is cal hi "steeled inin." a niixtun of 70 .cr cent, goivl iron and 3u r ont. steel, of which the castings obtained are r.lNiut 25 ier cent, greater in strength than common cast iron. North Camiina has a mica output of iiki.immi hiuihIs a year. New Hamp shire pniriuees aliout 2r.iMi,i t-ouii.ls. South Dakota Is.imhi jxumils and New Mox'ni) l.tKMi oiiiiI-.. The mica of North Carolina is of the lxst quality and bi ings the hiiMiost price. Our cvpoits of iron and steel and tlieir products for the f rst nine months of this year amounted in value toalniut .iJ.(Miii.iHi.l. the largest by o'er 34.000, H u in the history of the country. In cl tided in this sum wore i::.1 lotinnot ives. which were mostly sent to South Amer-i.-a. The world's muni for lumbi-r cut ting isclaimed fort he Porl Plakelv mill of Port P.Iakely. Wash. Duringl he ten months of this year up to the end of tk-tobcr s !.-.7'..'-,12 feet of lumber had lxeii out at this one mill, aiid it is esti mated that the total output for l-'i.". w ill Ik- at least in5.11110.iHHl feet. lead ed in n-gular oar lots, this amount would make a train more than On miles long. An ajxistle of physical culture, ac cording to the Medical Keeord. savs that nervous headache may lie ci rod by the simple act of walking backward for ton minutes. "It is well to get in a long, narrow room, when- the windows are high, and walk very slow lv . placing first the ball of the foot on the floor, and then the heel. Desides enrii'g t he headache, this exercise promotes a graceful carriage." -"The large part played by thvifiol as a cause ont ribut ing to insamtv re ceives fnsh confirmation in th. 4uth n-jiort of the commissioners in lunacy," says the Hritish Medical Journal. "For the five years ending 1-3 alcoholism was the predisosiiig or exciting cause in 2d. s i,cr fint. of .male and s.i j.r cent, of female lunacy. Inteniperan.e is onriitcri with 2".0 er cent, of male and 1'j.U tier ent. of female general paralytics." DEER HUNTING BY LOCOMOTIVE The Keaon Some ilirn!ark Railroad Men Bidii't I- eat m ninon. Once in awhile the ci.gineor of a train on Dr. Seward Webb".- Adirondack railroad has a nice with a deer. Some times it haiiens that tin frightened deer won't leave the track and is killed. One nigl.t in Soptcmi-er. when Pat Cumniiiigs was pulling the thmiirh train down to 1'tiea. he valkitl back to Conductor Clarke, while his fireman was taki: g water at Nehosono. anil taitl: "P.ill, I killed a her back there br the river. It was a fine big buck. He run ahead of me for a long piece, and I fouiri see him plain. When I hit him he wont up over the pilot higher" n he over juuiieri liefore in I is life. I bet. He landed just out t hen- iu the ditch, and I had a i:ot ion to stoji and get him. but 1 was afiaiil you'd kick." "I wish you had stopjied." said Clarke. "The next time you catch a deer that way you stop. It. won't take so long to get him. and we can easily make up tlu time. Doer meat is too scarce arid too high to let it go like that." Cunimiligs said he surely would stop the next lime, and Clarke got the agent to telegraph to the agent at Horseshoe to semi the section men down to the river with their hand car to get the deer. It was after 11 o'clock, but tin" M-clion men started out. ind after a smart pull got down to the river. They looked a long lime, but could find no fleer. Up and down the track they wont, and at last were jist alxuit to give 11 ji in disgust when tine of the men found it. It lay out on the bank of the ilitoh beside iho track. It was a fine large yellow dog. Now if you ask Pat Cummings if he has killed a fleer lately you want to lie reariy to dodge, and dodge michty quick, for Pat is a husky citizen. N. Y. Sun. Watte of Hapi'ine-A. There is nothing which we waste more than happiness. Even those who are thrifty and prudent in other riin-o-tions are pnxligal here. They stint an. 1 plan to save a haifxnny. but they are often indifferent about the loss of days of happiness. We do not enjoy our friends until they die or w o lose t hem in some other way. The early spring and slimmer days iass , itiioiit our realiz ing their lx-auty. We rush through a holiday trip and miss half the scenery, liecause we an- in a hurry, or cross fir anxious alntut wort h less t ritles. Near Iv everv old or even middlo-agod man who looks back Inmost iy on his life w ii' admit that, however wretched ho may lienow.opjMirtunitios of happiness wen given to him. A French writer rtiunled r hat most of us know fnm experience to lie true when he said that many tieo plo could lie made happy with the hap piness which is lost in the world. We lose happiness liecause we often scorn calm, quiet pleasures, and seek only for those that excite. Or we make the mis takeof thinkingthat happiness lies only in big sensational events instead of in the small, trifling incidents of daily life. Or we si-k for it in the futur rather than in the present, w hich is like a man looking for his hat when it is all the time ujKin his head. Home Queen. Hatching I.cc on a Fire Engine. A good story is told conn rning the menil-ers of a fire brigade in a certain town not far from Hastings, tin tine oc casion it apjiears a fire bnke out in the town and a rush was naturally made for the fire engine which was always kept on the premises of one of the in habitants. When the men attcmptil to take the engine out. however, tlcy were met with the exclamation from the cus todian: "Hi! ye can't take that out. I've got a hen sitting on there and ycu'H break her eggs." Tradition avers that the men seeing the fon-e of this argument instantly withdrew and the fire was put out by means of pails of water drawn from a neighboring well. Pearson's Weekly. Tea has lieen found grow ini x-iij in South China. Siam. Purmah and the V n-gion in India immediately south oj the Himalayas.
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