CHARITY. Once in a race I stood well front, And I saw the piize was mice that day. When a wanderer bade me htop and telt Of two roads which was the better way. I gazed on his face; it was wan and worn. Twould have paiued my heart to say him nay. 1 stopped und guided him on hia path, And he blessed me as he turned away. My race was lost and my rival won, But my heart felt better for what I'd done. —|K. W. Lauigan, in Bonton Transcript. WHO DID THEWOOING? BY FRED WARNER SHIRLEY. K somehow leaked out in the Big Creek section that Martha Ann Todd proposed to Jim Simkins. How the story got afloat no one ex actly knew, for Martha certainly never told it herself, and as for Jaines, he was never known in the whole course of his existence to have told anything. Any how, the report got afloat, and soon everyone far and near was talking about it, and at every candy party and ''sugar in' off" someone was bound to bring up the subject, and then the question was added, "Did Martha Ann really pro pose?" The facts in the case wefe that Martha Ann and James were engaged. Both Mrs. Todd and Mrs. Simpkins had given this news to the world at Aunt; Jane Wormley's meeting of the Big | Creek Ladies' Aid. It was further gen erally agreed that James nevor had spunk enough to speak for himself, so it really became an oppressive mystery to the good people of the section. 1 But all these wonderings and supposi tions would have been cleared up had they been able to look into the generous j heart of Martha Ann as she sat by the , western window of the kitchen doing ; crochet work, and looking ever and anon over across the snow fields to the Sirn kius farmhouse, behind which a sturdy figure could be seen lustily swinging an ax. And this was James. Martha Ann was as comely a girl ns any in the district, and, as Uncle Billy Nasou, the master of the postoflicc and village emporium, averred, "by far the likeliest." Martha Ann was good to look at. She was not handsome. She was not pretty. ; Her eyes were neither bright black nor 1 soft blue. Her hair had no poetic ten- j dencies. Her figure was neither statu- j csque nor petite; nevertheless Martha j Ann was a mighty pleasaut to girl to see. j She seemed to have away of growing on ; one, for her voice was always musical, 1 and her smile ever cheerful and eucour aging. She was now probably twenty-seven | years of age, perhaps younger—it doesn't { matter. She was a woman, healthy, en ergetic, a farmer's daughter who had worked all her life and was proud of it, j who had taken first prize at the county 1 fair for bread, and had won a medal at the same institution for a patchwork , She had made all her own clothes j since the day she was sixteen, and, be- 1 sides that, she could play an organ all around the other girls. That was a big day in the life of Mar . tha Ann when her father caine home. with a six-stop organ on the wood I sleigh. Such a beauty a9 it was, too, j with elegant bracket trimmings and a | cute little rack on top for books and j music. It wasn't five minutes after that | organ struck the parlor before "Corona-1 tiou" and "The Battle of Waterloo" J were rolling through the house with so ] sublime and altogether magnificent a tone that Mother l?odd dropped right down 011 the haircloth sofa, all in her old clothes, too, and cried, refusing to | be comforted until Martha Ann played j a few bars of "Nearer, My God,to Thee." But self-confident as Martha Ann was, she had for five years been floating on a sea of conjecture as to what Jim Simp kins really meant by coming over to the house and talking politics with her father and "seeing" her home from church every Suudny night. She some how could not locate James in her list of certainties. For a long time Martha Ann seriously doubted whether he loved her or not, and it was not till she felt in her heart | that she was all in all to him that she 1 began to scheme how to make it easy for James to propose. For months she labored over this prob lem. Every onca and awhile of a Sunday Suing, as they strolled home together the creek, she would throw out a eler," but ho never understood. Dur ing all this time she made herself as at tractive as she knew how and played her sweetest pieces on the organ ; with no further result than getting him used to sitting on a haircloth chair without de siring to tip it back against the wall, as was his custom with the kitchen furniture. Although all her schemes came to naught, Martha Ann never lost heart. She j was sure of one thing and that was that! James was dying to ask her, but couldn't, j So she looked at it as perfectly proper that she should help him out. Tne nearest he had ever come to say ing something vital was on a day in the preceding Fall when he hail come over to help her pick some grafted apples. These apples were so large and precious that the greatest care had to be taken in fkthering them. On this occasion James as up amid the branches of the tree on a step-ladder, nnd Martha Ann stood on the ground catching each apple, one by *>ne, in her apron. Whether looking up so continuously heightened her coloring or not, James thought she had never looked so beau tiful and altogether womanly before, and he registered an oath in his heart, for he never swore, that "So help liirn Uncle John Rogers, he would ask her the min ute he got down." He even got quite brilliant up there on the ladder, and actually joked while Martha Ann beamed one continuous smile. Finally lie gathered all the apples in his reach, and so lmd to come clown to get a new position. But with each downward step, down went his courage, and it was only by a superhuman effort that he managed to say : "You're looking purticr'n all git out, Martha Ann." Martha Ann idushed crimson at so direct a compliment, for she felt that the hour had come. "You're always a-tlatterin' me, James," the said. "Couldn't say too much for—you— know—you—know—. Guess I'd better move the ladder ter the south side the tree, wouldn't you?" Martha Ann could have cried then and there. Jame said no more, and the ap ple gathering went 011 in silence. But now, at the time I am writing about, they were actually engaged, and the reader will probably come to the con clusion that Martha Ann must have pro posed, just as the worthy gossips of the Big Creek section figured. The facts are as follows: Martha Ann decided firmly on a cli • max. Either .fames or she must speak. If she could induce him to declare his love, all well and good; if not, she must draw him out. It he would not draw she must tell him the old story herself. ,No strategist could have planned a finer campaign. I It was the evening of Easter Sunday. The day had been bright and suuny. The services at the church had been in spiring, and James had come home with her for supper. After a meal which would have warmed the heart of a cynic, let alone a healthy farmer like our hero, all the folks retired to the parlor, where a rosy fire was glow ing in the grate, the dry maple logs burning slowly, but determinedly, and every coal which dropped holding its color for an hour. The organ was opened, and first the pieces sung by the choir that day were played over, as Martha Ann said, "Just ter hear how they sounded ter home." Father Todd sat near the hearth, one knee overlapping the other, his eyes j looking clean up through the ceiling, pa9t the bed room on the second floor, past the stars in the keen spring sky, past the boundaries of space into that ! "beautiful land of pure delight, where 1 saints immortal reign," which MarthaAun was singing about. Mother Todd sat in her rocker near I him, her arms folded on her motherly bosom, her round, fair, good old face j beaming with perfect rest and peace. James stood by the side of the singer j nnd joined in the chorus now and then, ( for he had a robust bass voice, which "might'd amounted ter something," j Martha Ann said, "had he only had the j high traiuin' of the choir." And so the early evening passed, and j pretty soon the old people went to sleep j in a fitful way until the worthy sire "al- | lowed it might do fer young folks to set up, but fer as he was concerned, guess ; he'd crawl off ter bed." He was soon | followed by Ins faithful partner, and the j field was ready for the action to begin. Martha Ann concluded that she would not sing any more, for her throat was | getting choked up, and with the greatest j sang froid drew the sofa up before the j fire and sat down, leaving James to look out for himself. This move put him in a bad fix. If he sat down anywhere in the room but in one place her back would be towards him. | He hemmed a little and wandered aim- j lessly about, tried to get interested in a picture of Mr 9. Todd'sgraudmother, and i finally sat down on the organ stool. Martha Ann paid no attention. She j sat with her face in her hands looking in the tiro, as if oblivious of his presence, j There was a silence of intense and j painful presence in the room. Now and j then a spark shot upwards from the I burning logs, or a stick fell from the j log 9 into a heap of crimson coals. James actually suffered. He had no more idea what to do under the circum- I stances than the traditional child unborn. ' But when the stillness began to actually ache, Martha Ann roused up, and turning to him said: "Why, James, don't set! over there alone. Come and sit on the ! sofa here by me and watch the flickerin'. j I je9' see the prettiest little home you ever heard tell of. Come and I'll tell j you." He blushed crimson at this. Was it possible? Was this really Martha Ann?' Was he Jim Simpkins? "Come and set down right aside o' her, and watch the flickerin'—well, I'll be etarnally 1" was 1 what instantly passed through his brain. And she had turned again to the fire. He coughed a little, made as if to get up, but subsided. He turned all colors. And there sat Martha Ann looking so cosy. A look of heroism came into his eyes. ' He arose, sat down again, got up once i more, and the first thing he knew he was i actually sitting on the same sofa with her, and she, never moving from her place near the middle, continued her weird stare into the tire. "James," she said, "I never see such a buildin' of palaces and a mnkin' of stories as there is in the fire there to i night." "Can't say as I see much, Martha Ann." "Look there, right side the dog. ! Can't you see the little house there and | the vines a-trailing up over the roof, and the door wide open and the children a playin' about, and the old well there see it, James, bucket, beam, everything jes' as natural as life, and what's them bendin' over the well? They may bo , lovers, James, a bendin' over the water | jes' as we are over the fire." | "You got tarnal good eyes, Martha I Ann, ter see all them things. P'raps I i ain't no imagination, but I can't see | nothing but some coals a breathing sorter | like as if they hated ter give in." Martha Ann continued her rapt attcn | tion of the drama in the fire, and James J began to get to home on the sofa. By and by she lifted her hand and brushed back her hair, and then let it descend in a careless way till it fell on that of her companion. "What a great, strong hand you have," she said, slowly. "Do you know the marks in the hand? Let me show you. See this longest one curving ! around the thumb? That's for long life, j You will live to bo very old. And see this one here, next it? That's for riches, and this one here—wonder what it's for? See mine, jes' the same mark. Oh! I know now; I remember." " What's it fer?" " It's fer love." The Websterian catalogue was too limited for the bashful young farmer to find anything to say to this, and so they sat in silence, her hand still resting al i most caressingly on his. Out in the sit ting room could be heard the measured, solemn tick-tock of the great oaken clock, and outside the wind breathing through the trees added a certain weird - i ness to the Sabbath repose. Every now I and then the so :nd of the old dog in the ; woodshed turning over restlessly could I be heard, and all the while the man's j heart was demanding that he should ex j press himself, a commission the tongue I refused to obey. j Finally Martha Ann, without raising ! her head, said dreamily: "Do you know, James, I've often won- I dcred why you didn't ever git married, j You see I have always looked upon my ; self as a sister to you, wish in' always for ■ your welfare and happiness, and I have I asked myself agin and agin, 'Now, why | don' the find some good, true girl and I marry her?' You'd make some woman a j good husband, James; I know you would, you're so good and stidy and home loviu', and sech men ain't plenti- I ful. It ain't fer you to be spending your j Sunday evenings with me, who is only i your true friend, fer you'd ought ter be findin' a sweetheart and gettin' married and settled in life." i •*(), Martha Ann!" he found the cour age to say. | She continued, as if not noticing the interruption. | "A man as has reached your age ought tor be look in' round him, "and there's a plenty of girls would have you, too, a ! plenty of them. Now, there's Mary ' Gibson—she's a good girl as ever lived, a splendid housekeeper, and religious. <)r Silly Stephens, or EstherLapum, any ' of them would jutnp at the chance to be ! come Mrs. Siinpkins." James groaned in spirit. The perspir ation trickled down his forehead and settled in a drop on the tip of his nose, as if undecided whether or not it were best to fall. "Oh, Martha Annl" he said again, plaintively, "how could yer think of sech a thing?" She removed her hand from his and turned her face, now flushed warm by the fire, uutil her eyes met his and asked, as if with the greatest wonder: "Why not?" "It's you I wat, Martha Ann"—his tongue was getting into line—"lt's you as I have been a planning this year or more to ask,but somehow you was aller9 so sweet lookin' and so quiet that I somehow couldn't doit"—Surely the un ruly vocal powers were getting very ■ obedient. "I've loved yer from a little girl—l've—l've—" | The machinery stopped suddenly here, and it was a9 much as half a minute I before he continued: ! "You see I don't know how to tell it, but I love you. I love you with all ray heart, and allcrs have, and I've wished and wished I could tell you, but I couldn't, bein'so stupid. But I've told you now, and I'm glad, fer I ain't no room in my heart for no one else." | He was quite choked up with emotion j now, yet in his eyes were a new bold- I ness, a new inspiration, and he leaned I eagerly forward for her answer. ' It was now her turn to be confused. The wily Martha forgot her cunning of speech, forgot her well-laid plain, and the first she knew the tears were rolling down her cheeks. She had 110 words to say. She allowed her head to sink slowly to ward his breast, and, hiding her face there with his strong arms about her, she gave herself up to the soft passion of tears. And then he raised her tenderly and kissed her over and over again—how, he never knew and will never be able to explain to himself, for he had no need to be told she loved him and was his for all time. And so they sat silently while the fire flickered and grew passionate in turn,and the old clock ticked with a gladder tone, and even the breathing of the god of night in the lilacs became subdued. And so, heart beating against heart and hand clasping hand, they sat, too full of the spirit of love to say aught. And this is how they became engaged. Yet still the people of the big creek section are wondering, "Did Martha Ann really propose?"—[Star-Sayings. Lightning Calculations W. P. White, living near Liberty Square, who is twenty-three of age, has been surprising the people of Lancaster City, Peun., by some wonderful exhibi tions of his skill as a lightning calcula tor. He can solve any problem in addi tion, multiplication or division, men tally, almost instantly, and the city dailies have been publishing some of his wonderful calculations. When asked to multiply 6,789 by 457 he answered 3,102,573, and those who resorted to pencil and paper to test the accuracy of the young man's reply found it was cor rect. I lie had no trouble in instantly telling I that 14,046,250 is the product of 28,434 multiplied by 025. When asked to mul tiply 47,865 by 3,697 he hesitated. Af ter studying a moment he said it must be about 177,000,000. "I can see,"said he, " 3,600 in the multiple very plainly, but the last figures, 97, bother me." Finally, however, he said that the cor rect answer must be 176,950,905 which was right. Fractions do not disconcert him. W T hen asked to multiply 98 1-8 by 05 1-3 he gave the answer without any hesita tion. He was also asked to multiply 217 by itself, then multiply the product by i 281 and that product by 34. More j quickly than his interrogator could put \ the figures 011 paper he gave the correct | answer—viz., 449,888,306. White's capacity for manipulation of ! figures is abnormally developed. lie is a I mathemetical phenomenon. Ilis precoc ity was first observed when he was nine years old. His father, George White, of Liberty Square, was ciphering at the value of a quarter of beef when Willie, hearing how many pounds there were : and the price, promptly gave the correct I amount. The young man does not undertake to explain the process by which he almost instantaneously arrives at results which j ordinarily are reached with the aid of | pencil and paper and the expenditure of j considerable time. In reply to a query he said: " ft is a natural gift, that is all I kuow about it." The figures pro j pounded appear to his mind as a picture lon canvas and more quickly than it j take 9 to tell it the answer is mirrored 1 there also. In other processes of math emathics aside from multiplication White evinces no special aptitude. A Curious Clue. Ilarry Sullivan, alias Gordon, a mere boy of twen'y years, was arrested in Court street, Brooklyn, on a recent after noon, on the strength of a telegram re ceived by Chief Campbell from fhe police of Clinton, lowa, who want Sulli van on a charge of stealing .$1,415. He was employed by the State Electric Company of that city, and on tne Mon day before his arrest was sent by Presi dent Edmund Walsh to deposit $1,415 in a local bank. He quitted the town instead of going to the bank, and for three days the omcials searched for him in vain. Then they fouud an old news i paper in Sullivan's room from which he had cut a very small advertisement. Procuring another copy of the paper it was learned that the raising advertise ment was a call from Orson Clifford, of Brooklyn, for a partner with SI,OOO who would devote his mouey to producing Clifford's play, "Avenged." East to snap up this offer, and the I Brooklyn police were notified. A detec j tive went to Mr. Clifford's house and from there to the office of a lawyer I named Bhoadea, where Sullivan was ; found preparing to sign a partnership agreement. lie denied his identity at first, but finally confessed and handed over sl,- 283.39. Ihe rest of the money had gone for railroad fares and board.—[New York Times. A "Square Meal" in Borneo. When men go head-hunting they must have a square meal, and that consists of monkeys, snakes and rice made into a stew. If the hunt is successful they serve up roast boy and girl to the whole village. But in many sections of the island cannibalism is abhorred, and in late years this has become specially true in the Dyak Nation. But this nation I suffers from cannibalism, for its people are seized and carried away many a time j by savages from the interior, nnd Malay i pirates, who swoop down from the sea. j —[New Y'ork Journal. | The Emperor of China is very fond of oys i ten. THE JOKER'S BUDGET. JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. In New Jersey—At Eleven O clock Making: Sure —Trouble Again, Etc., Etc. IN NEW JERSEY. Youthful Enthusiast —You say you often go tishing. Do you get many bites around here* Aged Walton —Lots—mosquito bites. AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK. Maud—What is the difference between you and that clock, Mr. Sissje? Mr. Sissie (taking the hint)— None at all, Miss Maud. At 12 o'clock it will be going, and so shall I.—| Kate Field s Washington. MAKING SIRE. Scene: A cheap restaurant in Rome. 41 Waiter, have you any cats iu this es tablishment?" 4 4 Yes, sir; two fine ones." 44 Bring them here!" The waiter does so. 44 Now leave them there and order me a nice rubbit stew."—[Philadelphia Times. TROUBLE AGAIN. 44 You dress that dog of yours too loudly," observed the exchange editor, scowling at the auimal. 44 You mean, I suppose," answered the financial editor, fiercely, 44 that he ought not to have that brass baud around his neck." 44 No, I don't," rejoined the exchange editor, waving his shears defiantly. 44 1 mean that I can hear his pants."—[Chi cago Tribune. STRATEGY. Mrs. Plotter—George, you were talk ing iu your sleep last night. Tier llusband—Er—no—my dear, you must be mistaken. I—l—any way— Mrs. Plotter—Any way, I want S2O for a Lew dress. (She gets it.) — I Chicago Saturday Evening Herald. THE FALL OF MAN. Miss Parsons—And so Adam was very happy. Now, Willie, can you tell me what great misfortune befell him? Willie—Please, Miss Parsons, he got a wife.—[Cont nent. THEY USUALLY DO. 44 Did you make much on your last stock deal?" "No; lost $700." 44 But I thought that Mac Dollars gave you a pointer." 44 He did, but it proved a disappointer instead."—[New York Continent. QUITE ENOUGH. Mrs. Johnson—You bad boy (whack); ain't yo' ashamed to decebc your mudder so? (Whack.) You only hab one mud I dcr in this world, sahl (Whack.) Cuttie—One mudder's null! HARVARD HUMOR. Stougliton—llollis, what on earth are you staring at? Mollis—Staring? Can't you see that man in the water? Stoughtou—My dear fcllew, your eye sight is very poor. That's only a buoy. —[Harvard Lumpoon. FIGURATIVE ZOOLOGY. Little Harold for the first time saw a tame rabbit twitching its lips as it munched a cabbage leaf. 44 0h, look, mamma," he cried. 44 Thc rabbit's winking at me with his nose." —[Kate Field's Washington. LIVEg THERE A DAD. Lives there a dad with sole so dead Who never to a youth has said, 44 1f you don't leave this gal of mine You'll be laid up with injured spine?" THE ACME OF TERROR. 44 1t was as terrible as—" said Bloo bumper in his exciting narration. 44 1t was as terrible as—as —" Again he paused for a simile. "As an army with banners," suggested the clergyman. 44 0h! worse than that. It was as ter rible as a woman with a sprinkling hose." —[New York Sun. HE WAS NOT A PURCHASER. Colonel Lotts (of Boomville) —Five years ago. sir, you could have bought the site of this thriving city for a mere song. Visitor—l couldu't. I can't sing.— [Harper's Bazar. CAREFUL ABOUT COLORS. Amy—l have such a headache! What would do it good? Jack—Try a cup of green tea. Amy—Oh, no, not for the world? Green doesn't suit my complexion at all. A WARNING TO THE TENDERFOOT. J. Cholmondeley Phipps (en tour over the?plains)—When I ga/.e around, don't you know, over these boundless, rolling plains, stretching on every side to the horizon, without a vestige of human habitation, I am positively filled with awe. Broncho Bob—Filled with ore, eh? Well, don't let the boys find it out, or j they, might stake you out for a mineral claim.—jMunsey's Weekly. HE GOT IT OFF. Mr. Saphead (to himself) —Here's a good thing. I'll read it again, so I can remember it. Let me sec. Where is it ? Ah, here it is. "General Butler says he has ofteu been called a rascal, but he thanks lieuven no one ever called him a fool." First rate. I'll get that off at the Do Beautecs' to night. Mr. Saphead (at dinner at the I)c Beautees') —Aw, Miss I)e Beautee, do you know I'm like General Butler in one thing? Miss l)e Beautee—Yes, I've noticed you squint a little. —[Good News. THE WAY OF THE WORLD. 4 'Laugh, uud the world laughs with ! you," As serenely on you jog; Fight, and the world deseits you, If you fight as the under dog. —[New York Press. AN EXPENSIVE ITEM. Spriggins (joyfully)— Prof. Atkinson, the great economist, has invented an oven which reduces the cost of cookin" one half. The heat is supplied by aii ordinary kerosene lamp. Wife (doubtfully)—f guess he hasn't figured uji the cost of lamp chimneys [New York Weekly. HE HAD FOItGOTTEN SOMETHING. "Have you forgotten nothing, sir?" asked the waiter, us the waiter prepared to depart. "No, I guess not." "Are you sure, sir?" "Yes I am—but otay, I did intend to ask you for half a dozen of those tooth picks—thank you. Strange that you should know I had forgotten somethiu"* Good day." BAD A BULGE. There were just three families in the "future great city" of Dakota, and each had a shanty, (in the one occupied by the founder of the town was painted, in large letters: "One million dollars to loan on bond and mortgage." This struck me as rather odd and I asked the man for an explanation. "Well, you see, it's for the looks of the thing, to help the town along," ho replied. "But suppose some one should ask for a loan?" "Can't be done; only three of us here, you see. One of 'cm couldn't put up a bond for three cents, and the other hasn't got a blamed thing to mortgage!" —[M. Quad. NOT TO BE IMPOSED UPON AGAIN. "I ain't goin' to send any more money out to the heathen," said YVillie. "I seen a picture of one of 'etii this raornin' an' as far as I could see, he didn't wear any pants, and so hasn't any pockets to carry the money in."—[Epoch. BAUD TO SCHEDULE. Minnie—How can you say that "Mar riage is a Failure" when you have Ethel anil me, papa? l'apa—Ah, you see the trouble is that I don't know yet whether you two ought to figure among the assets or the liabili ties. —[Life. NO OBSTACLE TnF.KE. She—You will ask papa, will you not; or must I? lie—Oh, I have seen him. Fact is, he made the suggestion that it was about time for mo to propose.—[lndianapolis Journal. IT DID INDEED. Her Father—Mr. Sissy, X toTd you you must not call here. There, sir, there is the front door. Sissy (with dignity)— Very well, sir; I go; but—this lets me out. THE SECUET WILL DIE WITH HIM. Young Wife (with innocent pride)—l made this pudding myself, Harold. Young Husband (consoliugly)—Never mind, Imogene. Nobody will ever know it but me.—l Chicago Tribune. THE PBESENT AGE. "We have passed tho stone age, the bronze age, and so on," said the teacher. "Now what age is the present?" "The shortage,' replied Freddy, who reads the papers. BESIDE HIMSELF. Cora—John, you must be beside your self this evening. John (eagerly)—l would be beside my self, my darling -my better half—were the ceremony performed I DEBTS OF THE STATES. ! Interesting Figures from a Census Report. The reduction of State debts has been one of the most marked features of the decade 1880-181)0. The census figures show this in graphic foim. In the North Atlantic group New Jersey is the only Stato whose debt has been in creased, and now it amounts to only $1,022,602, or 71 cents per capita. The debt of Massachusetts has been reduced from $20,785,200 to $7,207,349—fr0m $ll.OO to $'.1.23 per capita; that of New York from $7,059,222 to $2,308,229, or 1 from $1.51 to 38 cents per capita; and that of Pennsylvania from $13,392,405 to $4,090,792, or from $0.13 to 78 cents ' per capita. In the South Atlantic division the re duction has been comparatively small, except in case of North Carolina (from $15,422,045 to $7,703,100) and Maryland (from $11,118,860 to $8,434,398). The total debt of the South Atlantic division is now $80,100,030, while that of the North Atlantic division is only $25,102,- 539. It is only fuir to say that the Dis trict of Columbia, with its debt of $19,- 781,050 —the second largest State debt in the Union—is reckoned with the South Atlnutic division. The North Central division of States show a small reduction. Ohio has knocked off about $3,000,000 and Mis | souri nearly $8,000,000; but Indiana ha 3 increased her debt from $4,998,178 to $8,540,015, and Michigan hers from $3,- 252,758 to $5,308,294, while the others . are nearly stationary. The total debt of this division is $41,033,437. The South Central division, including Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Missis sippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas, is pretty heavily burdened, but the total lias been lowered from $81,089,70S to 804,077,092. The greatest reductions were in Tennessee, from $29,031,387 to sl7, 492,474, and in Louisianna, from $23,437,640 to $16,008, 585. Kentucky, Alabuna and Mississippi have remained about as they were. The Western division of States natur ally shows a slight increase in the total debt, though not an increa c e per capita. The debts are all small, that of Califor nia ($2,527,024) being the only one over $900,000, and the per capita debt of the whole division is only $2.02. Montaua has no State debt at all, and Oregon's amounts to only $2,337. The States oiving the largest debts are : ' Virginia $31,067,137 District of Columbia 19,781,050 Tennessee 17,492,474 Louisiana 10,008,585 Alabama .* . 12,413,91G Missouri 11,759,832 Georgia 10,419,542 Total $118,972,530 So these six States and the District of Columbia owe considerably more than one-half of the total debt of all the sev eral States, which is $223,107,883. The largest debts per cupita are: District of Columbia, $85.80; Virginia, $18.70; Louisiana, $14.31; Arizona, $12.70; Nevada, $11.13; Tennessee, 89.90; Alabama, $9.20; Maryland,sß.o9, aud New Hampshire, $7.15. The rest arc all under $0. —[ Mail and Express. Attended Hia Own Funeral. Captain Ben Wakefield of Biddeford, who lost his life recently, once attended his own funeral, being one of the few men who have had that privilege. He had goue on a fishing trip down on the Grand Banks and had been away from home a good while without his family hearing from him. The same season had proved very disastrous to a number of other fishermen who went out from thereabouts, aud the vessel Captain Ben was in had her share of hard luck, and the report reached home that she, With her crew, was lost. Time passed and Captain Hen did not return, until at last his family ga"c up all hope that he had been saved and a day was set for the memorial services. The services were held in the church at Cape Porpoise, the minister had ottered prayer for the mis sing fisherman, who was supposed to have found his grave in the sea, and was just beginning his sermon when Captain j Ben walked into the church.—[Bangor I (Me.) 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The quality of the Highland Coal needs no recommendation, being hand picked, thoroughly screened and free from slate, makes it desirable for Domestic purposes. All orders left at the TRIBUNE office will receive prompt attention. Price $3.75 per two-horse wagon load. T. A. BCCKIJEX, Agent. PETER TIMONY, BOTTLER, And Dealer in all kinds of Liquors, Beer and Porter, Temperance Drinks, Etc., Etc. Geo. Ringler& Co.'s 1 Celebrated LAGER BEER put in Patent Sealed Bottles here on the premises. Goods de livered in any quantity, and to any part of the country. FREELAND BOTTLING WORKS, Cor. Centre and Carbon Sts. . Freeland. (Near Lehigh Valley Depot.) H. M. BRISLIN, UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER. Also dealer in FURNITURE of every description. Centre Street, above Luzeirne, Freeland. 7 KENDALUSI% [SFttVIN CUREIM The Mont Successful Remedy ever discov ered, as It is certain in its effects and does not blister. Read proof below: N T> ▼ xt BROOKLYN. Conn., May 5, *9O. DR. B. J. KENDALL CO.; Sirs: -Last Summer I cured n Curb upon my horse with your celebrated Keudnll's Spavin Cure and It was the loKt job I ever saw done. I have a dozen empty liottles. having used It with perfect success, curing every thing I tried it on. My neighbor had a horse wit ii a very bad Spavin that made him lame. He asked me how to cure It. I recommended Kendall's Spavin Cure. He cured the Spavin in Just three weeks. Yours respectfully, WOLCOTT WITTER. _ „ „ w COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 4, *9O. DR. B. J. KENDALL CO.: Dear Sirs : I have been selling more of Kendall's Spavin Cure n:id Flint's Condition Powders than ever before. One man said to me, it was the best Powder 1 ever kept ami the best he ever used. Respectfully, OTTO L. HOFFMAN. CniTTENANOO, N. Y., May 19, '9O. DA. B. J. KENDALL CO.. Dear Sirs:—l have used several bottles of your Kendall's Spavin Cure with perfect success, on a valuable and blooded mare that was quite lame with a Bone Spavin. The mare is new entirely free from lumcncxHand shows no bunch t>n the Joint. Respectfully, F. H. HUTCUINS. KENDALL'S SPAVIN DURE. _ MOXKOE, La., Stay 8, >9O. Dn. B. J. KENDALL Co., Gents:—l think It my duty to render you my thanks for your fur famed Kendall's Spavin Cure. I had u four year old filly which I prized very highly. She had a very severe swollen leg. I tried about eight different kinds of medicines which did no good. I purchased a lottlo or your Kendull'i Spavin Cure which cured her In four days. I remain yours, MATTLON DOWDKN. Price $1 per bottle, or six bottles for $5. All drug, gists have It or can get It for you, or It wlllbe6ent to any address on receipt of price by the proprie tors. 1)11. 11. J. KENDALL CO., Kuohb'irgli Fu.l IN, Vermont. A. RUDEWICK, GENERAL STORE. SOUTH HEBERTON, PA. Clothing. Groceries, Etc., Etc. Agent for the sale of PASSAGE TICKETS From all the principal points in Europe to all points in the United States. 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