FRE ELANJ) TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. TliOfa. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. One Year $1 50 Six Mouths 75 Four Mouths 50 | Two Months 35 Subscribers arc requested to watch the date following the name on the labels of their l>ui>crß. Ity referring to this they can tell tit a glance how they stand on the books in this office. For instance: Grover Cleveland 28Junc94 means that Grover is paid up to June 28,1804. lly keeping the tlgures in advance of the pres ent date subscribers will save both themselves and the publisher much trouble and unnoy- FREELAND, PA., JULY 27, 1893. j , ■■ Is it reasonable, says the Mahanoy j City JCguul Mights, to suppose that i one man can or does produce a mil- i lion times as much as another'! If j not why are there millionaires and trumps! Both would cease to be if we would abolish the laws which keep men and land apart. When all are free to apply by their labor to nature ! for tho satisfaction of their desires none will sudor want and none be gorged to repletion, for each will get all be produces, and then no one can get more. The single tax, by making it unprofitable to bold land idle, will; bring about that state of things. Attorney General Olnoy lias been ' accused of not looking very favorably ; upon the practical side of polities', i e., putting out tho opposition nud put ting in members of his own party, j but before leaving Washington for a short vacation he showed that the ac cusation was undeserved by notifying a number of assistants to the attor ney general with salaries ranging from $1,500 to $3,000 that their resig nations were desired, and it is stated by those who know that every Re publican connected with the depart ment of justice, outside of the classi fied service, is to be made to walk the plank. A Facts aro stubborn things, and now that the Democrats have an op portunity to examine the pension roll they are turning up every clay to; prove that the claim made by Demo crats for years, that millions of dollars 1 were being paid out illegally for pen sions, was correct. Cases arenumer- j ous where men are drawing $72 a month for total disability and arc in 1 addition following ordinary avocations and drawing tho same salaries as un injured men. Two cases of this sort turned up last week in Washington, one man a musician regularly em ployed and the other a government clerk, and there are many more there. These two men have been re-examined and their pensions reduced to sl7 and $25 a month respectively, and so ] apparent was tho justico of the re- j duction that neither availed them | selves of the right to appeal from tho board of examiners. Secretary Morton thinks the work of tho weather bureau should bo con- j fined to the purposes for which it was j established and the employment of j high-salaried scientific experts to ex- i poriment along lines which nobody j really knows anything atxut is ail; wrong, and in cansequenco of thoso thoughts has notified several profes- j sors who have been engaged upon work that was of no immediate prac 1 tical use either to the bureau or to j the public that their services will bo j dispensed with. The secretary in tends that the entire talent of the bu reau shall bo devoted to improviug the daily forecast of tho weather, j which he believes to he the work which is most beneficial to the pub lie. How tho fur would lly if a man : like Morton was put iu charge of the i geological and the coast survey offi ces. He knows enough about sci ence not to allow himself to be bam boozled by tho fake scientists whose sole object in life is to hold on to the soft snaps they now have. Some of the enterprising residents of South Dakota, who think a profit [ can be wrung out of the elements in tho form of rain and o herwise, have pushed the idea father and have form ed what is to be known as the Inter national Cold Wave Company, with a 1 capital stock of $1,000,000. They j claim to have discovered the secret ot cold waves, and offer to deliver a fresh assortment direct from the ice fields of the north whenever torrid weather shall render their presence desirable. The offer is accompanied with a guarantee. Whether this surety will cover the damages entailed by the tempest sure to result from a sudden mixing of hot and cold tem peratures does not appear. But the company should not be deterred by such trival obstacles. Cold waves in summer are all that are needed to make America an ideal summer resort; and if the contrivance could be headed the other way, and insure an equatoiial weather in winter, the whole country could boast the isorth ormal climate which Orator Kuott attributed to Duluth aud in whicli there would be fresh fruits iu market all the year 'round. — liacord. TEA CULTURE IN AMERICA. Effort* 111-ill',. Mil,l; til I-;itulllisll till) 111 j tliislry In tin* South. Tea dealers in New York have once more been asked to take an interest in the South Carolina ton-growing ex periments. Commissioner of Agricul ture LeDuc, who once contributed to the gayety of nations, was the first i person seriously and officially to urge the wisdom of tea culture in the j United States. He obtained seeds, had . ■ them distributed from his bureau and ! i spread broadcast elaborate instructions ! as to the best method of carrying on the culture. An expert from the tea fields of Assam reported that the tea could be grown for fifteen or twenty cents a pound in North and South Caro lina. Ever since there have been peri- ; odical efforts to interest the tea trade j in American teas and in spite of dis- I couragements a few experimenters in j South Carolina have persisted in tea ! ! culture. There Is no subject touching which fhe tea trade of New York is more skep- j , tical than the possibility of making tea I culture a profitable industry in the I United States. The men who sit in : ! ( Ungy little down-town offices with 1 small, brass teakettles about them and j ugly little teacups stored in cupboards i that would drive any neat housewife | iuto hysterics, smile whenever Amer- j ican tea is mentioned. The skepticism i of the tea dealers results partly from | • the fact that they know so much, part- | j ly from the fact they know so little. The literature of tea culture isa library I in itself. To know the subject is to ; 1 spend years in study. There are men ! down in the tea trade who can appraise j to a mill the value of a given specimen of tea, but who use the very names of ! i teas without a knowledge of their sig ! nificance. Tea. before its arrival in J market, is to the. average dealer an ori- | j ental mystery. Those whoYead books I j on the subject find them full of contra- j j dictions. Some dealers flatly declare j : their belief that travelers who write i upon tea culture in China have never j reached the interior of the country, iAs a matter of fact, different writers upon Chinese tea culture are of | necessity contradictory, because they happen to have seen the operations of I liferent districts. There are many v.iys of cultivating tea in China, as she re ire many of preparing it for mar •"..•s. Tea neks, for example, which TTral A>ia. never appear in the trade ted Slat - Should the aver-1 Age u-a d.-aler see a close-packed, dark green brick, hard on the surface and marked in gold with Chinese char- i actors, he would scarcely recognize it \ [as tea. The dealers find that the oriental plays strange tricks with this market. When one sort of tea has ; been a drug ou the market, next sca j ion the same tea appears under a dif | t'erenl name. Young Hyson and Gun i > >wder are the same tea, differently I oiled, and there are a dozen devices i by which the celestial takes advantage 1 of the occidental world. In the face of all the current skepti j eisrn as to the American tea a South j 'arolinian, who has a ten-acre tea gar j len. recently sent up some of his own | oroduct to be appraised by a firm of New York tea dealers. lie sent along, iis<>. a tea plant, which has been exhibi ted in a dealer's window. The firm to whom the sample had been confided tasted, smelt and drew the tea and I ifter mature deliberation wrote to the j experimenter that all the tests indi- I 'sited that his tea was worth twenty j • tuts a pound. The grower wrote I ack to thank the dealer and to express i t list action that his sample could be ippraised at such u rate. All this makes no great impression upon the skepticism of the tea trade. I ea that wholesales ut twenty cents a pound should fetch about forty cents a I pound at retail. A fair average iin- I norted tea, such as is consumed by per | vons of moderate means demanding articles of good quality, wholesales at I about twenty-five cents a pound. Above I and below that prices have wide range. , lea dust from China wholesales in this i market at from six to eleven cents a I pound. The best of it is drank by the poor, who pay for it twenty cents a I > mnd retail. The worst is bought by druggists and by dealers in whisky. I There is an unkind suspicion in the tea I trade that a good deal of cheap tea I dust goes into sugar-coated pills of one i kind or another, in place of quinine, for example. It is well known that a freat deal of tea dust is used to color new whisky and give it an appearanee >f age. | After the tea dust comes various dieap grades of Japan, Congou, Youno ilyson and Amoy, wholesaling lit twelve or thirteen eents a pound. Then | here are other Young Hysons and j Japans and Formosa teas wholesaling at twenty or twenty-five cents a pound Tlie Ceylon teas range from fourteen to forty cents wholesale, with fancy , | uali ties as hiffli as eighty eents a pound. Some of the fancy Young 11 y > ins and Formosas wholesale at from dxty to eighty cents, and a Chicago irm has been retailing fancy brands as high as three dollars a pound. Dealers | lown-down smile at such prices as this i ;ast and say that there is really no | better tea in this market than some i that may be atone dollar a iniind. As a matter of fact the finest hina teas do not leave the country and irobably would not endure transport.! I tion. i The down-town skeptics say that American tea must compete, if at all, M .vith grades of imported tea somewhat below medium quality. They believe that the thing cannot be done. Climate ' and the cost of labor are both against :t. and the fine art of adulteration is i also in favor of the foreign grower. 'ndian teas, which have greatly in j creased in popularity of late years, are 1 grown with labor that costs from four ' j to six cents a day. Nobody knows how much less may be the price of labor in the heart of tho Chinese tea-growing ' regions. Labor in South Carolina, |iere the tea-growing experiment has been most persistently tried, is any where from three to ten times the cost if labor in Ceylon and India. Hut it j .wis discovered long ago that much of i th • labor in tea culture could he per- i j 'firmed by machinery and that nm iv >f the manipulations to which the Chi nes- tea producers have clung for cen turies may be omitted altogether with out detriment to the product. The tea /rowing experimenters of South Caro j linn have great hopes from the I I'pplicution of American energy and I invention to this ancient employment. N. Y. bun. MISCELLANEOUS. —When a man comes to time, does it I not prove that time waits for some men? —Texas Siftings. —"I didn't take any cakes, mamma,' whimpered Hobby. "I only took a lit tle cakelet." "Then I will not give you a spanking, my son," said his : mamma, placing him gently but firmly j cross her knee and reaching for the I cake-turner; "I will give you a little j spanklet." —Lighthouses are now distinguished by the mariner by color, combinations of color, or the periodicity of short flashes. Capt. Mahan, of the United States Lighthouse board, has devised a system of signals given by shutters over the light, by which each light tells its own name or number, and pro- I vents any possible confusion. When ! tested at New Haven last month it worked admirably. | —The first warlike measure of the ; Americans previous to the hostilities begun in 1813, was tlic construction, at Sack? tt's Harbor at the eastern end of , Lake Ontario, of the brig Oneida, six teen guns, by Christian Hergand Henry ; Eckford. She was launched in 1809, j and was intended for a two-fold pur- i I pose, namely, to enforce the revenue j laws under the Embargo act. and to be j in readiness to defend American prop i orty afloat on Lake Ontario in case of | war with Great Hritain. —ln 1031 a fierce controversy arost. ! in England in consequence of a claim , i set up by the council of Plymouth, a company chartered by James 1., for the l monopoly of fishing in American seas j between 40-48 degrees of north lati- j I tude. This company demanded from ; each vessel fishing in these waters a ' tax of about eighty-three cents per j tou This claim was stoutly resisted | The house of commons took part with the fishermen, and the contest was con tinued in the reign of Charles 1., and was one of the causes of the quarrel between him and parliament, which i brought on tho civil war. ! —The first settlement of white people ; in Vermont was made in 1734 by the erection of FortDummer, near the pres | ent site of Brattleboro, then supposed to be in Massachusetts. In the spring of 1777 the settlers in Vermont peti tioned the Continental congress for ad mission into the con federacy, but New York opposing, the petition was with drawn, and at a convention held tin next year at Windsor a constitution modeled after that of Pennsylvania was adopted. In 1781 congress offered to admit Vermont upon terms which thi people would not agree to, and it re mained outside the Union until March 4, 1791. —The firm of Longmans, Green & Co. under the same name, dates further hack, it is stated, than any other pub lishing house known to this genera tion, with a single exception, and by buying up that one it became the oldest publishing house known. Theorigina Longmans, born in 1099, purchased tlie stock of William Taylor, publisher, in 1730, and since then tlie name of Long mans has always stood at tlie head ol the firm name, and tlieir headquarter.- are still at the sign of the Ship and tin Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London | whore the house of Taylor stood at the time of the purchase by Longmans in 1730. This firm brought out Dr. John son s dictionary in 1740, Lindley Mur ray s grammar at the beginning of tin century, Moore's "Lalla Rookh" in 1830, iMid paid Macaulay large royaltie on his books. —Joseph Francis, the inventor of th lifeboat, died at Otsego Lake, May 10 aged ninety-three years. When th little Joseph was but eleven years o r age he built a small boat with cork in the bow and stern, which has bee? called the first lifeboat built in Amer ica. The unsinkable rowboats mad by him when he was quite a young man were bought by England, Russia am' Brazil. In 1843, Mr. Francis succeed*- in completing his corrugated iron water-tight car, but it was not unti January 12.1850, that its great efficiency was proved. ()u that occasion the Bril isli ship Ayrshire cainc ashore at Squa? B. acb. N. J., with 300 souls on board The life car was taken out and mad about forty trips, saving every one with the exception of a man who at tempted to ride on the outside and wn A i died off. Three years ago Mr. Fran eis vas presented by President Uarni son with tho gold medal which had been voted to him by congress. —'The majority of traveling mo | sleep h ad foremost on a well-ballastc 0 el and feet foremost on a road wher ' : ears sometimes run on the trac ;i u! sometimes on the ties. It is mucl 1- easanter to sleep headfirst, as ii were because it prevents that swell he.id feeling which results from tew much blood being forced in the direc 1 on of the brain. But in ease of an ac '.■• lent it is very much pleasantcr t . p the other way. Nature did no P wide the human neck with as inan joints as that of a giraffe or ostrich a.id when a train suddenly comes to i. andstill and the whole force of th C dlision comes on the top of the skull th. feeling is unpleasant. On the otlie lnnd the knees have a kindly tendenc to 'give" on the occasion of* the collb ion nud hence, if a man is slgepin L-e- first he is less liable to accident ii the train stops suddenly. -More than one-half of ail the oil. p ppeimint, spearmint and tansy nsou iii tlie world is said to be procure I and di tilled in Michigan. The center o' the industry is St. Joseph county. Pep p rmjiit plants to the weight of 15,00u tons when dried are cultivated every year in the state. From these the es sential oils are distilled. Early in the ! s ring the roots are pluntc 1 in farrow j from two to three feet apart. A few weeks later the rows meet and eovei ! the entire ground. In September tlie p ants mature. They are then cov e:ed with fragrant purple blossoms, j and the time has arrived for mowing, j After lying in the son to dry they are raked into heaps and taken to the dis tilleries, of which there are about 150 | the state. It is estimated that 350 ; j oundsof dried peppermint plants pro duce one pound of oil. The yield per I acre is 15 pounds of oil. Distilled pep | pcrmint brings from $1.35 to $5 per pound in the home market. FLYING ARTILLERY. THE BATTERY THAT RODE WITH GENERAL JOE SHELBY'S TROOPERS. Loci by CnptnlnH Joo IHOCIHOO and Dirk Collins, a Hand of Picked MiHHourians I Eclipsed the Fighting Record of tlio Crack Cannoneers of Dotli Sides. [Copyright, 1803, by American Press Associa tion. Book rights reserved.] CAVALRYMEN, if UjWT Kct well into the hard work of soldiering, taste to the full theexcite £&& #T\ ment and romance '' ''''" ' fSII/ about it. When cavalry is ii 'rm into a fight IMF / . Jl between mixed vi nf\ i,(* hmis, it is because \ • the situation is desperate, and if cavalry meet cavalry, either party standing | at bay, they must have it out then and there. In the same way a battery of £orso artillery comes in for hard knocks if it gets J any at all. Long range cavalry fighting may be done without cannon, and nobody i suffers much iu the encounter, butinaclose setto between troopers the brunt of it falls on the artillery. That is what horse bat teries nre for—to keep pace with their swift ' moving cavalry companies and interpose a fiery breastwork against the onrushing hosts of the enemy when they come too strong. To play that role in the company of a raiding and fighting band like General Joe Shelby's was no trifling task, as may easily be imagined Shelby was the John Morgan of the trans- Mississippi region. Daring work was cut out for him, or ho cut it out for himself rather than be second fiddle in the piece, and his battery was bis strong right arm in raid and battle and skirmish. II is favorite battery leader was Captain Dick Collins, and the tradition comes down from Shelby's followers that whenever the command was afield and word was brought to the general that the enemy was advancing he invaria bly exclaimed: "We'll fight them, by heav en 1 Order the brigade into line and Col lins to prepare for action front." "Charge when I charge!" was another stereotyped order to his cannoneers. Collins was a young soldier who stuck to Shelby through out his thrilling career. Shelby won his spurs as captain of a company of troopers that served in General Sterling Price's Missouri army the first year of the war that is, untH after Shiloh. He then went home to Missouri to recruit and drummed up a stalwart thousand in two days. Col lius was one of his original band, and in company with Captain Joseph Bledsoe raised a battery of artillery to go with Shel by's troopers. Bledsoe was the brother of that famous Missouri artillerist, Captain Hi Bledsoe, who brought fame away from Mexico and kept it bright on a score of west ern battlefields. Possibly Joseph fought to maintain the soldier reputation of the family, and perhaps the martial spirit was born in him. Anyway he taught Shelby's artillery some good lessons, then gave way to Collins, who stamped his name on the i battery for all time. Bledsoe's first exploit with the new ma chine was a splendid bid for fame. As soon as Shelby got his young brigade in fighting trim lie pitched his camp in southern Mis souri around Newtonia. There ho becamo the advance guard of a Confederate army of invasion, led by General Hindmun, which crossed the border from Arkansas in Sep tember, 18G2. A Union army under General Frederick Salomon, lying in southern Mis souri, attempted to drive Hindmun back to Arkansas. Shelby's advance posts were I called in at all points except Newtonia, and in order to hold that place he sent Bledsoe with two guns to stiffen the cavalry detach ment stationed there. The Niuth Wiscon sin infantry attacked the town on the morn ing of Sept. 30 and pushed Shelby's hoi-se men back onto Bledsoe's guns. Bledsoe dosed the charging ranks of Wisconsin boy? with canister until he had used the last cartridge. He then slowly retired the pieces 150 yards to a ridge and placed them in bat tery as if ready to repeat the bloody fusil lade if the Yankees were foolhardy enough to give him a chance. They were not. They took it for granted that his hold front meant that the artillery chests were packed with canister. By hesitation all was lost. Shelby hurried re-enforcements to the spot, the tables were turned, and Salomon's army was routed. Collins handled the battery in its next fight, which was at Prairie Grove, Ark., in December, 1802. General Marmaduke's A SCENE AT CANE HILL. Confederate cavalry, 2,000 strong, including Shelby's brigade, was massed on Cane hill to resist 0,000 Union soldiers under General Herron. Ilerron had 45 cannon, Marmaduke but 10, six of these in Collins' battery. The fight began with an artillery duel, and Col lins moved his guns from point to point in reckless exposure to keep up n show o' strength. Finally his companion battery of four guns was left between the lines dis j abled by the loss of all its horses and can ! noneers, and that just at the moment when i one of Herron's brigades headed by the j Twentieth Wisconsin dashed toward the j hill on a bayonet charge. Shelby's lino , must meet the assault. Pointing to the exposed guns in fr<Jnt., ho said to Collins, I "When you see their hands upon those | wheels, Dick, fire—not before." i Shelby's tfroopera lay hid in the brush, and I the daring assailants hounded on, expecting j an easy victory over the helpless battery | and its slender backing. At the base of the slope the men stopped and drank heartily 1 from their canteens, laughing at tho pros pect before them. Collins waited —waited , until the charging line passed the silent cannon even—waited until the doomed men were within 50 feet of Shelby's crouching troopers—then let loose double charges of stinging canister. Then the masked rifle men arose to finish the stunning blow by a bayonet countercharge. Herron's men raj lied and were re-enforced to be again re pulsed and driven down the hill to the shelter of their own guns, leaving the help less Confederate battery untouched. The Twentieth Wisconsin was nearly annihilat ed. It lost 51 killed on the spot and over 150 wounded. Collins' next exploit was more in keep ing with dashing cavalry tactics. Shelby's brigade was sent to attack the Union com munications around Springfield, Mo., in January, 1803, and with accustomed reck lessness attempted to ride down the gar rison of the town. Colliinf dashed in with the advance along the main street, and seiz ing a good position opened his guns on everything in sight. A regiment of Union cavalry swept down upon the battery, but Collins deluged the line withjjrape. Shel by's troopers rallied upon the guns, and although the assault failed miserably at all other points Collins held his ground until midnight. After dark a regiment of in fantry stormed the battery, but was re pulsed with one deadly volley. In the attack on Cape Girardeau, Mo., after Shelby's advance had driven the Union cavalry back to the fortifications, Collins rushed his pieces to the front and opened on the works at close range. His cannoneers were thinned out under the galling fire hurled upon them, but troop ers volunteered and manned the pieces un til the bugle sounded retreat. As a matter of course the battery became tlio especial pet of the whole brigade. Sol diers always love the artillery, but too often they cry that it is never on hand wanted. Collins' guns were always on hand. In the attack on Helena, Ark., July 4,18<13, Collins, us usual, jbined the assault ing column. The brigade advanced too far without support, and the guns of a field battery, an ironclad and a fort concen trated their fire upon it. Then followed a countercharge. The slaughter around Col lins' guns was awful. General officers and uids helped work the pieces. Finally the horses were all shot down, and the line was compelled to retreat under the withering fire. Shelby, reeling in his saddle fromjoss of blood, called for volunteers to save the battery. Collins and his lieutenants were still fighting bravely, but hopelessly, and cutting the harness to extricate the car- TIIE DASH INTO SPRINGFIELD, riages from the dead animals. At the cry "The battery is in danger!" hundreds of troopers turned back, but .Shelby said: "Fifty, only fifty 1 Rring the battery with you or remain yourselvesi" The dead horses were cleared away, ropes attached and the guns dragged hack safe to the lines. Fifteen only of the volunteers got out unscathed, and 20 "remained" where they fell. In Shelby's Missouri raid of 1803, when he rode into the heart of the enemy's coun try 500 miles and fought Til most hourly for every day for 20 consecutive days, the artil lery was up with the flying column. One morning the raiders, numbering 800, were marshaled on a naked prairie in front of an equal number of enemies. The meeting was sudden, Shelby's men having looked up from their work of destroying railroads to find a fight on hand. Telling off a couple of squadrons for reserve, the Morgan of the border shouted to bis artillery chieftain, "Charge with your battery as I charge ami unlimber when you see their line waver, for I'll ride it down like the prairie grass underfoot." The bugle sounded "Charge!" a shout ran along the line as spurs struck home, but the enemy didn't wait to be rid den down. They turned, and Collins' can noneers, with long range shells, were the only ones to get a shot at the flying horse men. Collins' hottest fight as told by his bat tle losses was at Prairie d'Ann, Ark., soon after he returned from the great raid. Shel by was outpost for Price's army, which lay intrenched at Camden. The Union army, under Steele, marched on Camden, and Shelby offered battle on the prairie, with the battery in the center and the troops, mounted, on either side. First two 6-gun Union batteries opened on Collins, then a third and a fourth, until 24 guns were trained upon the group of six that were firing rapidly and with precision. The con test lasted four hours, and three separate attacks were repulsed. All of the battery horses were cut down, and 17 cannoneers fell among the guns, which were hauled off by hand at nightfall. The carnage was greater in Collins' ranks than in any other battery in the war. The number killed was 21. Cooper's Pennsyl vania battery (Union) lost 21 killed, but the loss fell on probably over 200 men. Collins' battery mustered all told but 87 men. In eluding the wounded, which were 29, the casualties numbered 50, almost GO per cent of the fighting men. The proportion of killed to wounded, 21 to 29, tolls a story of bloody work. It is almost three times as great as the average. The Confederates had a battery which lost more in numbers than did Collins'—Slocomb's Fifth company of Washington artillery. It lost 48 killed. Put the loss fell upon 388 men and amounts to but about 11 per cent, while the loss among Collins' men was over 24 per cent. The figures are all the hioro astounding because they represent losses incurred in cavalry combats, and in struggling border warfare at that. The crack regiments of the Union cavalry belonged to the army of the Potomac and fought in those desperate bat tles with Stuart, Hampton, the Lees and ltosser in the Gettysburg, Wilderness and Shenandoah campaigns of 18G3-4. Their losses in killed ranged between 5 and 10 per cent of the number borne on the rolls. So ; the record of Collins' horse battery is with- ! out parallel in the annals of bold and des- ! perate cavalry fighting. GEOUGB L. KILMER. Thousands of Mexican Dollars. "It is not often that men havo an op portunity to make themselves rich, espe cially when all they havo to do is to stoop down and pocket 1 he dollars," said Alfred Louis, an old Mexican soldier. "I was a soldier under General Scott during the Mexican \*ar, and after the battle of Buena Vista I found myself cut oft from my command. Four others of my mess were with, me, and a detour through the woods was taken in hopes of reaching onr regiment, from which we had been cut off during the last charge. As we tramped through the thick brush and carefully avoided step- i ping on dead and wounded Mexicans Wo came upon a stont wooaen cnest, bound with iron hoops, about two foci square. Ono of the boys gave it a kick, but failed to move it, and be then tried to lift it, with no better results. Stick ing his bayonet under the hasp which held the lid so tightly, it gavo way, and tho lid was raised, (displaying thousands of shining S2O gold pieces. "It was tho Mexican treasure box, and tho money was to pay the Mexican troops. It bad been dumped in the chap arral by tho carrier, hoping that it might be secured after tho battle. The other boys began filling their bootlegs and pockets with tho precious metal, but I didn't touch a piece of it. After they had loaded theipselves with all they could carry they wanted mo to help my self to tho many hundreds of dollars re maining, but I considered them the same as robbers. While they were debating as to tho disposition of the remainder our colonel rode up, and noting tho treasure chost placed us all on guard and wo had to stand thero all night watching that box. Tho other boys secured several hundred dollars moro of tho coin, which was carried away next morning, and each man buried what he couldn't con veniently carry. • "After we were discharged the boys re turned and secured their treasure, which amounted to about $2,700 apiece. I don't think I would let such a chanco to gather money slip ngain, but I am now an old man, and that was my only opportunity inn lifetime."—St. Louis Republic. Instinct iinl Knowledge In Animals. A cat carried 100 miles In a basket, a (log taken porbaps 500 miles by rail, in a few days may have found their way back to the starting point. So we have often been told, and no doubt the thing has happened. Wo have been astonished at tho wondorful intelligence displayed. Magic, I should call it. Last week I heard of a captain who sailed from Ab ordccu to Arbroath. He left bohind him a dog which, according to tho story, had nover boen in Arbroath, but when ho ar rived thero the dog was waiting on the quay. I was expected to beliove that the dog had known his master's destina tion and been able to inquire tho way overland to Arbroath. Truly marvelous! But really it is time to inquire more care fully as to what these stories do mean. Wo must cease to ascribe our intelligence to animals and learn that it is wo that often possess their instinct. A cat on a farm will wander many miles in search of prey and will there fore he well acquainted with the coun try for miles around. It is taken 50 miles away. Again it wanders and comes across a bit of country it know before. What moro natural than that it should go to its old homo? Carrier pigeons are taught "homing" by taking them gradu ally longer flights from homo, so that they may learn the look of the country. Wo cannot always discover that a dog actually was acquainted with the route by which it wanders homo, hut it is quite absurd to imagiuc, as most people at onco do, that it was a perfect stranger to tho lay of the land.—A. J. Mackintosh in London Spectator. A misstep will often make a cripple for life. A bottle of Henry & Johnson's Arnica ami Oil I/miment at hand, will not prevent the misstep, but used im mediately it will save being a cripple. Sold by Dr. Schilcher. COUDY 0. BOYLE, dealer In Liquors, Wine, Beer, Etc, The finest, brands of domestic and Imported wluhkcy on- sale at Ids new A and handsome saloon. Fresh Roches- &} ter and llallentine beer and Veung- ■ litiK'a porter on tap. Centre - Street, - Five - Points. G. B. Payson, D. D, S., Wenti^Ti FRKELAND, PA. L<tented permanently in Hirklwek's building, room 4, second lloor. Special attention paid to all branehes of dentistry. Painles Extraction. All work guaranteed. (Ullee hours: H to 12 A. M.; 1 to 5 P. M.; 7 to 0 P. M. GEORGE FISHER, deuler in FRESH REEF, PORK, VEAL, MUTTON, BOLOGNA, SMOKED MEATS, ETC., ETC. Call at No. 0 Walnut street. Freehold, or wait for the delivery wagons. VERY LOWEST PRICES. Mp GREASE BEST IN THE WORLD. It9wearingqualitieaure unsurpassed, actually Outlasting two boxes of any other brand. Not I effected by beat. |ff~GET THE GENUINE. FOR BALK BY DEALERS GENERALLY. Jf/r i HfitoßssMHß f ° r OOSTIVENESS ( , Biliousness, Dyspepsia, |, Indigestion, Diseases of , the Kidneys, Torpid Liver ~ ' Rheumatism, Dizziness, 11 Sick Headache, Loss of ' 1 1 Appetite,Jaundice,Erup 11 0 tions and Skin Diseases. ' 1 1 i Price 25c. por bottle, Bold by ell Druggists, j | lEIRY, JOII3BOI k LORD, Props., Burlington, Vt. II Sold at Schilcher's Drug Store. READ RAILROAD SYSTEM. F LEHIGH VALLEY DIVISION. Anthracite coal used exclu si Vely, insuring cleanliness and comlort. A It HANG KM RNT OK PABBKNGF.It TRAINS. MAY 14, 1893. LEAVE FREE-LAND. 05, 8 47, 9 40. 10 41 u in, 12 25, 1 JB, 2 27, 3 45, 4 55, 0 58, 7 12, 8 47 p m, for Drlfton, Jeddo. Lum ber Yard, Stockton and Iluzlcton. 6 05 a in, 1 3 45 4 55 p in. for Mauch Chunk, Allcntown, Bethlehem, I'hila., Hasten and Now York. 9 40 a ni for Bethlehem, Huston and Pliila. 7 20, 10 56 a m, 12 10,4 34 p in, (via Highland Branch) lor White Haven, Glen Summit, Wilkes llarrc, Pittston and L. and B. Junction. SUNDAY TIT A INS. 11 40 a m and 3 45u in for Drlfton, Jeddo, Lum ber Yard and Ha/leton. 3 45 n in for Delano. Malianoy City, Shenan doah, New York and Philadelphia. ARRIVE AT FREELAND. 5 50. 7 00, 7 20, 0 18, 10 50 a m, 1218, 1 15, 2 13, 4 34, 058 and 8:17 pm, from Ilazleton, Stockton, I.umber Yard, Jeddo and Drifton. 7 20, 91b. 10 50 a m, 2 13, 4 34, 0 58 p m from Delano, Mahanoy City and Shenandoah (via New Boston Brunch). I 15, 0 58 and 8 37 p m from New York, Huston, T hiladolphia, Bethlehem, Allentown and Mauch Chunk. 9 18 and 10 50 a m, 1 15, 6 58 and 8 37 p in from Easton. Pliila., Bethlehem and Mauch Chunk. 0 18, 10 41 a in, 2 27,0 58pin troiu White Haven, Glen Summit, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston and L. and B. Junction (via Highland Branch). SUNDAY THAI NR. t 1131 a m and 331 pin, from Hazlcton, Lum ber 1 urd, Jeddo and Drlfton. II 31 a in from Delano, Hazieton, Philadelphia and Haston. 3 31 p m from Delano and Mabunoy icy ion. Fur further information inquire of Ticket Agents. C. G. HANCOCK, Gen. PUSH. Agt. Philadelphia, Pa. A. W. NONNEMACHEK, Ass'tG. P. A. South Bethlehem. Pa. The Delaware, Susquehanna and Schuylkill R, R. Co. PASSENGER THAIN TIME TAIII.K. Taking Effect, May 29, 1803. Eastward. . STATIONS. Westward, p.m. p.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. 5 30 1 02 7 42 Shcppton 7 18 10 11 3 29 ±| s :B !£ I £ Oneida 'j j 712 • j* „ 545 125 Kill Humboldt Uoud 701 1140313 547 125 8 a", llnrwood Koad 050 0 :I7 SlO One,da Jet. Jg,* Kai Woao ij[j 9 03 B. Meadow Koad 0 28 011 Stockton Jet. 019 821 Eeklcy Junction 010 0 30 Drifton 9 00 CITIZENS' BANK OF FREELAND. CAPIT AL, - $50,000. OFFICERS. .Joseph Birkbeck, President. 11. (J. KOOIIH, Vice President. B. K. Davis, Cashier. John Smith, Secretary. D 1 RECTOHS.—Joseph Birkbeck, Thoir Birk beck, John Wagner, A. ltiidcwick, H.C. Koons, ( has. Dusheek, Win. Kemp, Mathias Sehwuhe, John Smith, John M. Powell, 2d, John Burton. t3?/" Three per cent.. interest paid on saving de|H>sita. Open daily from 9 a. in. to 4p. m. Suturday evenings lroin 0 to 8. ' Dr. H. E. Nyer's DENTAL PARLORS. 11. W. MONROE, Manager. CAMPBELL'S BUILDING, CENTRE STREET. Teeth filled and artificial teeth inserted. Painless extraction. Reasonable prices and all icork guaranteed. HERE'S AllS One of the best located properties on Centre street, Five Points, is offered at a sacrifice. Any person de siring to make a paying in vestment should investigate this. A fine, well-built two-story building, 23x44 feet, containing u dwelling and back kitchen, also a storeroom, 23x18 feet. A good stable, 14x18 feet, Is on rear of lot. The owner lias good rea sons for wishing to dispose of the property, and the purchaser will be given easy terms. For further infor mation APPLY AT THE TIM 11IJNK OFFICE. A BIG STOCK OF WAGON UMBRELLAS, PLY NETS, LAP SHEETS, EAR NETS, Etc., Oil hand at WISKVJ. -A-ll IKZimd-S of From $6.00 Up. GECK WISE. No. Jis Centre Street,'Freeiand. Also Jeddo, Pa.
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