Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, July 23, 1891, Image 2
A TRUE FRIEND. The friend who holds a mirror to my face, And hiding none, is not ufrnid to trace My faults, my smallest blemishes, within; Who friendly warns, reprore* me if I sin— Although it seems not so—he is my friend. But he who, ever flattering, gives me praise, Who ne'er rebukes, nor censures, nor delays To come with eagerness and grusp my hand, j And pardon me, ere pardon 1 demand, I He is my enemy, ulthough he seem my friend. —[From tho German. OLD STOVEPIPE'S DAUGHTER. "Look, amigo!" said Tom, hastily snatching & smoking slice of venison from the glowing coals. "Look toward the Orient, and tell me the nature of that little dark object creeping along the crest of the divide, a movable atom ail - houetted against the blue canopy of heaven. Name it if you can." "What is it, Tom? A bear, or moun tain sheep?" "Wide of the mark, as usual. It looks more like a black ant; but I venture the opinion that it will soon resolve into a pony and a man; and I will still predict that it will turn out to be our old friend •Stovepipe,' on his way to our camp, prospecting for trilobites and bugs." Tom's keen eyes were as good as a spy glass. I looked up to him with the ad miration 1 had always felt since in our boyhood days he had thrashed the bully of our village, who attacked me merely because Nature had endowed him with more muscle than she had allotted me. Tom sent him home blubbering, bidding him remember that there was no boy so strong but that there was another stron ger. Y'es, we were schoolmates and were graduated in the same class at col lege; and when, after having become a rising young attorney, Torn suddenly threw up his profession and started for the Rocky mountains, I, of course, did | the same. I never knew just how Tom came to i take this sudden notion to go West, but rumor had it that he had been jilted by j some silly girl; silly, I say, for what girl of sense could ever hope to find the peer of Tom Hamilton? If a sound mind and a sound body ever dwelt together in harmony, they certainly did in his per son. Thus we two, destined by over-san guine parents for future presidents, be came simple prospectors, and at the time my sketch begins, after roughing it for two years over the wildest and most remote portions of the great mountain ocean, had emerged from our tenderfoot stage and were engaged in developing a group of claims, which on account of i their altitude, we had yclept "Sky- j High." At this moment we were in front of our cosy cabin, cooking and eat ing our morning meal almost simulta neously; for venison is not venison unless served straight from the naked coals. Old Stovepipe, our prospective visitor, was neither very old nor yet a stovepipe. He was a famous scientist, whose aevo tion to nature's wonders often led him through the most rugged and unexplored regions of our continent, and whose one eccentricity of sheltering his brains with the regulation hat of society, had won for him the odd sobri juet of "Stove pipe." Among the ordinary prospectors he was held in the same esteem as the rest of the "bug-hunters," being looked upon as a man of little account; but with the more intelligent—of whom there were many—he passed for what he was, a brave, highly educated and pol ished gentleman. After breakfast I took my way to our claims, which lay to the west of our camp, and Tom shouldered a AVashoc pick and set forth to examine some prom ising cropping* several miles to the east. While skirting along the further slope of the mountain upon whose crest the soli tary wanderer had been seen, his atten- j tion was attracted to some fragments of j paper floating towards him in the light breeze. After a little skirmishing he secured one of them and read these start ling words: "Badly hurt. Cannot speak. Find MC. SELBY HOLLAND." "Good God! Poor fellow," exclaimed Tom. Without a moment's hesitation he be gan climbing the steep mountain side, keeping as near as possible to the wind ward. His strong limbs soon brought him in sight of a dead pony, and a little further on lay poor Holland, badly hurt dnd speechless, but with a look of un utterable gratitude beaming from his eyes. Tom took but a moment for reflection. Stripping himself half naked for the purpose, he bandaged the broken limb to as to prevent it from swaying, and gently gathering the sufferer in his arms, began the perilous descent to camp. After hours of herculean effort lie dc posited his helpless burden on a bed of soft boughs in our cabin. The danger signal—three rapid shots—rang echoing out among the wild crags, and I came i rushiug into camp. Now, as this little story is about Tom, and not about myself, I have not pre viously mentioned that I had been launched upon the world as a "medicine man," and although I had an inherent antipathy to drugs. I prided myself on my surgical skill. I soon found that the damage to our scientific friend consisted of a broken leg, fractured below the knee, and some ugly contusions about the neck and jaw, the latterly luckily without fracture, but the injury was so severe as to cause the rapid swelling that rendered him for a time unable to articulate. In a short time we had the limb set and the inflammation reduced, and with the volunteer aid of our few but whole souled neighbors a comfortable ro >m was added to our restricted quarters for the accommodation of the invalid. It did our hearts good to hear the offers of as sistance and sec the tokens of sympathy aud good will that poured in from the scatteicd camps. Venison, elk meat, grouse and trout were almost daily re ceived. while newspapers (often of re mote date), and even an incongruous col lection of books were among the dona tions, including Gulliver's Travels, the New Testament and Hay den's Reports. Thanks to the healthful surroundings and the absence of drugs, our patient progressed as rapidly as possible to con valescence, and we felt more than com pensated for our care, in listening to his wonderfully intelligent aud instructive conversation. One Sunday, a few weeks later, while sitting in front of our cabin, Holland having so fur recovered us to be able to recline in a rustic armchair constructed by the combined talent and executive ability of the firm, we were greatly astonished by the sudden appearance of Lanky Jim, our next neighbor, rushing toward us with mind and body greatly agitated by some unnsual excitement. Without saying a word, puffing and blowing from exertion, he seated himself 011 a block. Resting his bands upon his knees and craning out bis long neck, he at length gave utterance to this osa word: "Jehosophatl" "What is it, Jim? Indians?" "Indians nothing! Je-hos-o-phat ? Wimmen! as I hope to live, and bearing right down on this camp!" As at that time none of the gentler sex were known to have penetrated within a hundred miles of us, we very nearly shared his astonishment. Neither Tom nor I spoke a word, but I am ashamed to confess that our first thoughts were of our shabby costumes, cleanly, to be sure, but coarse and fearfully frayed. "Right from Arkansas, probably," re marked Tom. coolly. "Mormons," I suggested. "Bet your life, no. Quality folks!" insisted Jim. We had no time for further con jec ture, for the party, consisting of two ladies and a gentleman, were now in sight, and the younger of tho ladies surged ahead of the others and came down upon us at a dashing gallop. A girlish figure, at that time and in that place, she seemed like a vision of celes tial beauty, with her golden locks streaming in the wind, her cheeks blanched with anxiety and her eager blue eyes fixed upon the central figure in our group. Oblivious of all else, she sprang unaided from the saddle, and casting her arms around the invalid, ex claimed, "Oh, father! father!" and burst into tears. "Annette," said Mr. Holland, looking up to Tom, who stood near him, "this is Mr. Hamilton, the gentleman of whom I wrote you, and whom I think you should show some gratitude." "O, Mr. Hamilton," she exclaimed, "how can I thank you?" "One deserves no thanks for simply doing one's duty," said Tom. Anuette was of that golden age, half child, half woman, and the assurance that Tom regarded her act as a caprice of childish gratitude, silenced her own mis givings. The elder lady was now introduced as Holland's widowed sister, and the young man hastened, with vigorous handshak ing, to introduce himself as his son, and to declare his everlasting gratitude to j Tom and me. .Mrs. Belden, the widowed sister, a lady of great intelligence and of that quiet, self-possessed repose of character, as lovable as it is rare, now explained their sudden appearance. When they received her brothers letter announcing the accident they were very much alarmed, and both Annette and George, who was home spending his vacation, were determined to go at once to their father. They had not telegraphed him because they knew that it would take several days for a message to reach him I from the nearest station, and feared that j he might attempt to move further east to meet them. During their short stay Tom and I did little work. It was our one bright holi day for years. Always leaving one to care for our crippled friend, we took the visitors each day to some new scene in that grand and romantic region. Now it was a majestic waterfall that had sung its weird song for ages to the rocks and troes of some solitary gorge; now a cas cade, dashing down tnousands of feet, from rock to rock, foaming white as drifted snow ; and sometimes it was to look down stupendous chasms, or to be hold somber depths of forests, or climb the snow-seamed summits. How dream like was this episode in our hard miner's lifel But it was brief; for a short time sufficed to make the in valid sufficiently strong to be removed to his eastern home. A year passed; a year of hardship and toil to us. Occasionally a letter came from Holland, always referring to his stay with us, with expressions of grat itude for our atteution. At the close of one letter he wrote: "Many thanks for the rare specimens of Plcurotornaria Taggarti received. I find they are mentioned in Ilaydeu's re port of 1875. Was unable to visit Col orado this season. Indeed, I do not know whether I shall ever dare to visit my old haunts again, unless accompanied by my daughter, for since my unfortun ate accident that young lady seems to j think that lam not to be trusted far ' from home without a guardian. "By the way, Annette wishes me to ask Mr. Hamilton if he will he kind enough to send her a few of those tiny blue, sweet-scented arctic flowers, such as he gathered for her from the summit of BelTevue last summer." A month later, Tom Hamilton to S. C. Holland: "CAMP SKY-IIIOH, Sept. 10. "Respected Friend—l take the liberty to send you by express the antlers of an elk, in the velvet, for a specimen of which I remember you expressed a de sire when here. The wearer of the horns was shot by the writer a few days since in one of the little parks on the Mount of the Holy Cross. "I send the tlowers as requested by Miss Aunette. I send also for her ac ceptance some specimens of peculiar ' rose-colored crystals from Crystal moun tain, near the head of Hock Creek. These arc called amethyst by the miners, but i they are not very valuable, being rare j I only because of their peculiar tint." | \ Another year passed, and it was an 1 ; eventful one to us. The great carbonate 1 discoveries had been made and the moun tains were overrun with prospectors, while the mountain villages swarmed with speculators. We sold our claims j for ten fold the sum we had ever hoped I to realize. Although neither Vanderbilts ! nor Astors, we still had capital enough I to start an important business in Denver j and looked back to our years of manual J labor as prospectors with that true | American pride that regards no honest toil as degrading, j Meanwhile our friend "Stovepipe" was I back in his old field, and oue day the | following letter came: "EAGLE RIVER, Aug. 15, 187—. ! "Mr. Thomas Hamilton, Denver, Col. : Dear Friend—My daughter is oxpected to arrive in your city the first of Septem ! ber, en route for Twin Lakes, where I lam to meet her. Will you kindly see I her safely embarked for that point, and oblige, yours truly, HOLLAND." The effect of this letter on Tom was extraordinary. He was first seized with a conviction that certain speckled beau tics were swimming about in those beau tiful mountain ponds known as Twin Lakes that could only be coaxed ashore by the seductive colors of some artistic j tlies of his own skillful preparation, and he sat up late for several successive j nights, engaged in their manufacture. I These preparations concluded, it occurred • to him, that it, would be quite unsafe for ! Miss Annette to take her mountain jour ! ney alone, and that, as he happened to lie going in precisely the same direction, I there was no reason in the world why he ! should not make the date ot his own de i parture from Denver coincide with hers, i We met her at the depot. She was the same little Annette, as beautiful as ever, but more thoughtful and womanly, j She gave me a hearty welcome, and as I she extended her small hand I noticed | on her wrist an elegant gold bracelet Fet I with rose crystals. She seemed a little i embarrassed as Tom grasped her hand, ' and both colored, as on their first meet j iug. Perhaps it was the memory of her j rash act then that suffused her cheeks, and as for Tom—well, perhaps Tom l blushed from sympathy. The night was calm and ltiild, an<l mountain and valley were brilliant under the rays of the full moon as the coach, filled with many passengers, slowly as cended the last rise in the Park Range, preparatory to descending into the picturesque valley of the upper Arkansas, when a sudden halt was commanded. The driver was commanded to throw down the cash box, and the passengers to get out, form a line and throw up their hands. Under the persuasive in fluence of three leveled revolvers this request was promptly complied with. "The lady can keep her seat," said the leader. But the lady did not choose to keep her seat, and was already by Tom's side on the road. ' The passengers all submitted without a murmur to the search for coin, and the whole affair would have passed away as quietly as such business transactions usually do, had not one of the ruffians, apparently more than half drunk, made an insulting remark to Annette. This was too much for Tom. Forget ting the odds, he dealt the rascal a blow that sent him reeling to the ground. It was a rash act. In an instant the leader felled Tom by a crushing blow with his revolver. Tom's existence would have ended theu and there, as the first villain had regained his feet and was bringing a six shooter to bear upon his chivalrous head, when like a flash Annette stood over the prostrate form, her eyes blazing, her lit tle fists clinched, crying out in a tone that would have done honor to a Siddons: "You villain! I dare you to shoot!" "She's game by 1" exclaimed the leader, himself checking the leveled pis tol. "No shooting, boys. We are bound to perdition fast enough without that." Saying this, he bowed politely and or dered the passengers to get in and move on. TWIN LAKES, Sept. 15, 187-. "Dear Fred: I have had a pretty tough time of it, old boy. They say I was delirious for many days; but as for ine, it seems a long sleep full of troubled dreams. "The awakeuiug was glorious; to find that she and her father had watched and cared for me through all those days and nights of delirium, aud to see the joyous smile that lighted her careworn i face when assured that all danger was i past —that fully paid for a dozen broken heads! And when I asked if 1 had made I 1 a fool of myself in my wanderings, she confessed that I had uttered some very silly words, and she turned her back to me and looked out of the window, and I could see that her ears were pink as sea shells. O, Fred, she is an angel—no, not that! She is an adorable little woman." Tom's next ietter was dated some weeks later, when he had fully recovered his health. He still said nothing of the piscatorial interests that had drawn him thither, and wrote chiefly on business topics. He added a significant post script, however, saying: "It is all arranged, aear friend. lam going to introduce a new partner into the firm. The transaction will be com pleted on Christmas Day." Annette makes a glorious housekeeper, and insists that I shall always make my home with them, declaring that she will not part two such friends as Tom and I have been. A happier couple canuot be found.—[New Orleans Picayune. How Insects Breathe. If we take any moderately largo in sect, say a wasp or a hornet, we can see, even with the naked eye, that a series, of smail, spot-like marks run along the side of the body. Two apparent spots, which are eighteen or twenty in number, are, in fact, the apertures through which air is admitted into the system, and are generally formed in such a manner that no extraneous matter can by any possibility And entrance. Some times they are furnished with a pair of horny caps, which can be opened and closed at the will of the insect; in other cases they are densely friuged with stiff, interlacing bristles, forming a filter, which allows air, and air alone, to pass; but the apparatus, of whatever character it may be, is so wonderfully perfect in its action that it has been found impos sible to injure the body of a dead insect with even so subtle a medium as spirits of wine, although the subject was first immersed in the fluid, and then placed beneath the receiver of an air-pump. ! The apertures in question communicate with two large breathing tubes, which extend through the entire length of the body. From these main tubes are given off innumerable brnnches, which run in all directions, and continually divide aud subdivide, until a wonderfully in tricate net work i 9 formed, pervading every part of the structure, and pen etrating even to thcanteumc.—[Lutheran Observer. Novel Use for Beer. | "Beer is absolutely indispensable to | our business, nowadays," said a fashion able dressmaker the other day, as she noticed my glances of inquiry at a basket ful of empty bottles that a* aervaut wa3 taking out. "Oh, dear, no. I never drink it, nor the girls either, with my permission, but we use a good many bottlefuls every day, nevertheless." "How?'' "Why, to wash silk in. It gives eld silk a lustre and a new look almost like goods fresh from the loom. Then, too, it gives a little 4 body' which lusts for a while, long enough for our purposes any way. At least half my trade is making over dresses, and so much better does the silk look after going through the beering that my business is increasing wonderfully. It was a discovery of my own, and it has been worth a good many thousand dollars to me already. I ' —[St. Louis Star Sayings. Origin of the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army has been in ex istence just thirteen years. It had its origin in a sensational way in the Eng lish town of Whitby, in the rough coal mining district of Yorkshire, where Gen eral Booth, at that time the Hev, William Booth, was doing humble mission work. England was then in arms, expecting to jump into the Husso-Turkish war. It occurred to Booth that he might attract a crowd by issuing a declaration of war himself, so he prepared one forthwith, sprinkled it plentifully with hallelujahs and posted 2,000 copies of it about town. The device tickled the British sense of humor, there was a "red hot, rousing meeting" to quote General Booth, "the penitents fell down in heaps" and the Salvation Army sprang into life full grown. In Bulgaria only novon iind n half per cent of the population can read and write. [THE JOKER'S BUDGET. JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. The Age of Invention —Comforting— W here the Beauty Lies —Plenty of Visitors, Etc., Etc. THE AGE OE INVENTION. Mrs. McPump—My goodness! The city council has ordered that all milk shall be tested by the Beatall Miik Tester. Mr. McPump (milk dealer) —That's all right. I invented that tester myself. —[New York Weekly. COMFORTING. En pec—Dr. Firstly preached a com fort iug sermon this morning. Mrs. Enpec—What was the subject? Enpec—'Bout there being no marry ing there.—[New York Herald. WHERE THE BEAUTY LIES. Mrs. Gossip—l think that Mr. Lovely married a very homely girl. Mrs. Lorgnette—She may be homely, but her income is very handsome. PLENTY OK VISITORS. Hyman—Your neighbors don't seem to call you very often, Crawford. Crawford—Oh, yes, they do. Six bill collectors and a deputy sherilThave been here already this morning. A FAILURE. Young Husband—My dear, business reverses have caused me to make an as signment and Young Wife (tearfully)—Y-e-s. Young Husband—We will go abroad and travel for a year or two.—[Epoch. A HARD WORKER. Dudeleigh—Aw, Nicely, old fellah, you look tiahd. Nicely—Jove, old chappie, but I should fawncy I might. Been working all the mawning. Dudeleigh—Working? Why, how, old fellah? Nicely—l've been labowing undah an impwession.—| Boston Courier. WHY WHISTLING WAS APPROVED. "I like a man who whistles at his work," said Fayles, who was reducing his help. "Why?" "Because it give? you such an excel lent excuse for tiring him."—[New York ' Press. A SIMPLE CASE OF MULTIPLICATION. Teacher—Yes; that's right; s-u-n; now pronounce it. Pupil—-I can't. Teacher—What gives more light than the moon? Pupil—Oh! I'm on to that; two moons, of course.—[Puck. AN INTENSIFIED CURIOSITY. "What nonsense is there?" he asked, as he looked over her shoulder at the paper she had in her hand. "Some fool dress pattern, I suppose." "No," she replied. "It's a diagram of the pitcher's curves in baseball." "Lerame see it as soon as you get through, will you?"—[Washington Post. FAMILY DISCIPLINE. Colonel Fizzletop was under the pain fill necessity of administering a severe caßtigation to his sou Johnny. After he had completed his labors he said sternly to his suffering victim: "Now, tell me why I punished you?" "That's it," sobbed Johuny; "you nearly pound the life out of me, and now you don't even know why you did it."— [Texas Siftings. NOT UP TO THE TIMES. Amy—Why have you dropped Miss Elder's acquaintance? Mabel—Oh, I was compelled to. She's beyond redemption. Amy—What is the trouble? Mabel—She persists iii saying "well dressed" instead of "smartly gowned." —[Brooklyn Life. A BOOTnER. "They say celery is a good opiate." "What's dat?" "Puts a man to sleep." "Aw, go on. What's de matter wid de sandbag?"—[Epoch. IIE WAS A DENTIST, Polite Waitress —Tea, doctor? Doctor—No; coffee, if you please. Waitress - Boast beef, doctor? Doctor—lf you please. Waitress—Corn, doctor? Doctor (indignantly)—No, madam, I am a dentist.— [Drake's Magazine. THE SUMMER MAN. ' He wears a flannel suit of white, A sailor hat of straw; His shoes are tan, his necktie light— You gaze on him with awe. lle strolls across the sad sea sand And wields a palm leaf fan While listening to the hotel band— He is the Summer Man! —[New York Herald, HAD A TRADE. Housekeeper—An able-bodied man like you ought to have a trade. Tramp—l have, mum. I break in new boots for a livin'. Has yer husband any on hand?—[Good News. PROOF OF LOVE. There are no logicians like children. Harold wanted some grapes, but his mother would not let him have any. "Mother," asked the little four-year old, "do you love Harold?" "Yes, dear, of course I do," was the smiling reply. "Well, one wouldn't think so," retor ted the cherub meaningly, as he eyed the forbidden fruit, —[Londou Truth. A LOW 'UN. "Is your rich new wife giving you plenty of money?" "No. She isn't the loan widow I took her to be." WILLING TO MAKE IT RIGHT. "Lcok hero," said an excited man to a druggist, "you gave morphine for qui nine this morning!" "Is that so?" replied the druggist; "then you owe mo 25 cents. That's the difference in the price,"—[Brooklyn Life. CURED HIS FAILING. Ponsonby—Smart fellow, Fledgely. He's always been able to find the door bell when*he's arrived home late. Cured that, however. Popinjay—Do away with the bell? Honsonby- No. Bought a ring from a jeweler.—[Jewelers' Circular. A NEW DANGER FOR STEM-WINDERS. Johnny trying to wind his new watch —Gran'ina, which way do 1 turn it? Grandmn, lookinup from her knit ting—Sukts ali\e, child, don't turn it the wrong way, or as like us not it'll come unwound and get all in a tangle! —[Jewelers' Weekly, A REVISED VERSION. "Where are you going, my pretty maid?" "The other way, good sir,' she said, And the flirtation ceased.—[Epoch. EFFECT OF THE WEATHER. " Maude," said Clarence to his sister, "It is undoubtedly an incontrovertible fact that " " Clarence." said his sister, " why will you persist in using such long words?" 44 Maude," said Clarence, "at the time of the year when the days are long and the weather is hot, it is natural to ex pect that words should expand some what; you cau't heip it."—[New York Sun. THE POINT OF VIEW. Although the summer skies are bright, The sea like molten gold. 'Tis darker than a winter night, For Marion is cold. Dark is the blustering winter night, Loud roars the angry sea; But all the world is fair and bright, Fdr Marion smiles on me. —[New York Press. TnE OLD MAN'S IDEA. Paterfamilias—Let's do something un usual this summer. The Family—That will be splendid. What shall it be? Paterfamilias—Let's stay at home.— [Good News. A PERTINENT QUERY. Wagg—What are you doing now? Wooden—Oh, I'm living by brain work. Wagg—l want to know! Whose? CUMULATIVE EVIDENCE. At a social gathering, the conversation being on Balaam's ass, Gus De Smith remarked: "I believe that animals can talk. I am sure that even nowadays asses talk, just like Balaam's ass did." "So I hear," said old Judge Peterby. —[Texas Siftings. A CERK-OUB MISUNDERSTANDING. "How's your wheat?" "Intend to before long." "Intend to what?" "House my wheat." A NECESSARY EVIL. Weary Watkins—W'at an outrage it is that people has to work so hard. Hungry Higgins—You're a talkin' through your hat. If people didn't work, where would our grub come from? Eh? —[Indianapolis Journal. EXCUSABLE FLIGHT. Stern Parent—Hugh! That young fel low wants to marry you, eh? Hugh! Why didn't ho have the face, the manli ness to come and ask me himself?—the miserable, cowardly, white-headed young Daughter—He hadn't time. He said he must get down town before the banks close. Parent—Oh—um—er—. Bless you, my children.—[Good News. THEY WERE NOT TWINS. "Have your berries got their growth?" "Yes, sir-e-e." "Well, your quart boxes haven't." YET THEY SAY WOMAN CANNOT REASON. She—l notice that you are always glancing at the clock. He—Good gracious! You don't sus pect for a moment that I am weary of your company? She—No, but I suspect that you have pawned your watch.—[The Humorist. MODERN WARFARE. Steam and Electricity as Factors— Tho Lesson of 'Ol. It may safely be admitted, says John C. Ropes, in Scribner's Magazine, that if the conditions of warfare had been the same in 18(11 as they were in 1815, or, in our judgmeut, as late as 1850, the prediction of Napdleon and Palmerston of the failuro of the North would in all probability have been fulfilled. But the conditions were not the same. Steam and electricity had in the inter vening time asserted their power, and had rendered possible for a McClellan or a Grant what had been impossible lor a Napoleon. It was found that the capac ity of the territory, through which it was proposed to move an army, for the task of supporting that army might gen erally be disregarded. It was found perfectly feasible to maintain u large force for any length of time in regions where no subsistence of any sort or kind was furnished by the soil. It was found that water-transportation of men and supplies was as certain and uniform, as much to be relied upon, as transporta tion by land; that the winds and waves of the ocean and the strength and direc tion of the How of rivers could equally be ignored when it was proposed to transport troops, or subsistence, or am munition, to a given spot. It was found that a blockade maintained by steam vessels, though not absolutely perfect, WHS a far more certain and constant check on foreign intercourse than could be effected by any employment of sailing vessels. By the telegraph all available resources could be utilized without the loss of a moment, Jand all information instantaneously communicated to or from headquarters to or from any part of the theatre of war. In other words, machinery had in the progress of time become one of the great factors in military operations, and its introduction worked as marked a revolution in the practice of commanders on land and sea, as its adoption for pur poses of manufacture or of intercom munication had worked in the world of business and ordinary life. And, what was of the greatest importance to the North, the advantages of this great change in matters of warfare were ab solutely at the call of the stronger and more wealthy of the two combatauts. Character in the Ears. "Did you ever notice how carefully stock dealers examine the ears of horses, cattle and sheep?" queries the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. They do it to get an idea of the quality of the animal, for good blood never goes with a bad ear. The same thing is true of men, and a banker who knows anything about ears knows also that there are two kinds that, to say tho least, will bear Witching. The ear that runs down into the check with almost no lobe at all, is a suspic ious organ, and quite as bad in another way is the ear that runs to a sharp point at the outer and upper corner. French detectives call the first the thief's ear, and the second the ear of the usurer. THE smallest 4 'moonshine" distillery ever captnred by the revenue officers was found recently in Atlanta. Ga., and sent to Washington as a curiosity. Its capac ity is about three gallons, it is construQ ted so as to be operated on an ordinary rooking stove, and is complete in every detail. YOU ARE INVITED. To call and inspect our im mense stock of DRY GOODS, Groceries, Provisions, FURNITURE, Etc. Our store is full of the new est assortment. The prices are the lowest. All are invited to see our goods and all will be pleased. J. P. McDonald, 8. W. Corner Centre and South Sts., Freeland. FERRY & CHRISTY, dealers In Stationary, School Books, Periodicals, Song Books, Musical Instruments, CIGAES and TOBACCO, SPOISTIITG QOOX3S Window Fixtures and Shades, Mirrors, Pictures and Frames made to order. Pictures enlarged and Framed. Crayon Work a Specialty. 41 Centre Street, Quinn's Building SEWSFMIB gSB llinifflSiSiHSE the name of every newspaper published, hav ing a circulation rating in the American News ia|er Directory of more than 2.1,(XJ0 copies each issue, with the cost per line for advertising In them. A list of the best papers of local circula tion, in every city and town of more than 1,000 population with prices by the inch for one month. Special lists of daily, country, villugc aud class papers. Itargaiu offers ot value to small advertisers or those wishing to experi ment Judiciously with a small amount of money. Shows conclusively "how to get the most ser vice for the money," etc., etc. Sent post paid to any address for 80 cents. Address, (J so. P. ItoWKLL Ac Co., Publishers and General Adver tising Agents, 10 Spruce Street, New York City. w C. D. ROHRBACH, Dealer In Hardware, Paints, Varnish, Oil, Wall Paper, Mining Tools and mining Sup plies of all kinds, Lamps, Globes, Tinware, Etc. Having purchased the stock of Wm. J. Eckert and added a considerable amount to the present stock I am prepared to sell at prices that defy compe tition. Don't forget to try my special brand of MINING OIL. Centre Street, Freeland Pa. E. M. GERITZ, 23 years in Germany and America, opposite the Central Hotel, Centre Street, Freelaeu. The Chcupcst Repairing Store in town. Watches. Clocks and Jewelry. New Watches, Clocks and Jewelry 011 liaiul for the Holi. clays; the lowest cash price in town. Jewelry repaired in short notice. All Watch Re pairing guaranteed for one year. Eight Day Clocks from $3.00 to $13.00; New Watches from SLOO up. E. M. GERITZ, Opposite Central Hotel, Centre St., Freeland. GO TO Fisher Bros. Livery Stable FOR FIRST-CLASS TURNOUTS At Short Notice, for Weddings, Parties and Funerals. Front Street, two squures below Freeland Opera House. ~ JOB PRINTING BXXOUTXD AT THIS OfFKB AX Lowest Living Prices. corns e@E! The undersigned has been appoint ed agent for the sale of G. B. Markle & Co.'s Highland Goal. 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. BUCKLE*, Agent. PETER TIMONY, BOTTLER, And Dealer in all kinds of Liquors, Beer and Porter, Temperance Drinks, Etc., Etc. Geo.Ringler&Co.'s 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. BRISLTN, UNDERTAKER AND Also dealer in FURNITURE of every description. Centre Street, above Luzeirne, Freeland. / [SPAVIN CUREIM The Most Successful Remedy ever dlscov. •red, as It is certain in its effects and does not blister. Read proof below: _ „ _ BROOKLYN, Conn., May 5, 'DO. Da. B. J. KENDALL CO.: Sirs Last Summer I cured a Curbupon my horse with your eelebrateil Kendall's Spavin Cure and It was the l>est Job I ever saw done. I have a dozen empty bottles, having ui<*d it with perfect success, curlug every thing I tried It on. My neighbor had a horse with 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. _ _ COLCRBCS, Ohio, April 4, *9O. DR. B. J. KENDALL CO.: Dear Sirs I have been selling more of Kendall'9 Spavin Cure and Flint's Condition Powders than ever before. One mau wild to me, It was tho best Powder I ever kept aud the best he ever used. Respectfully, OTTO L. HOFFMAN. CTIITTENANOO, N. Y., May 19, 9a DR. B. J. KF.NDALL CO.. Dear Sirs:-I have used several bottles of your Kendull's spavin Cure with perfect success, on a valuable and blooded mare that wns quite lame with a Bone Spavin. The inare is now entirely free from lameness and shows no bunch the joint. Respectfully, F. H. HUTCHINS. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE. „ . „ „ MOXIIOE, La., May 8, >9O. DR. B. J. KENDALL Co., Geutsl tbluk It tnv* duty to render you my thuuks for your far famed Kendall's Spavin Cure. I had a 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 bottle of your Kendall's Spavin Cure which cured her in four days. I remain yours, MARION DOWDEN. Price $1 per bottle, or sir bottles for s.*. All drug, gists have it or can get 11 for you, or It will be sent to any address ou receipt of prico by the proprie tors. DU. 11. J. KEN DA LI. CO., EnoMbnrgh Falls, 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. Agent for the transmission of MONEY To all parts of Europe. Checks, Drafts, and Letters of Exchange on Foreign Bunks easlied at reasonable rates. S. RUDEWICK, Wholesale Dealer ID Imported Brandy, Wine And All Kinds Of LIQUORS. THE BEST Beer, Sorter, -A-le And Brown Stotat- Foreign and Domestic. Cigars Kept on Hand. S. RUDEWICK, SOUTH HEBERTON. A pamphlet of information andab-AOV street of the laws, showing How to/V Obtain Patents, Caveats. Marks, Copyrights, sent #NN A Broadway, New York.