Highest of all in Leavening Strength.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report. ABSOLUTELY PURE . = FREELAND TRIBUNE. Xs'.itUihai 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited, j, OFFICE: MAIN STKBET ABOVE CENTRE. 1 Make all money orders, checks, etc., payable ( •. to the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. | ( SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year | Si* Months T. r > j 1 Four Mouths •• .SO i J Two Months I The date which the subscription is paid to is j j on the address label of each paper, the change ! of which to a subsequent date becomes receipt for remittance. For instance: Grorer Cleveland 28June®7 1 i means that Grovcrispaid up to June 38, 1897- Keep the figures in advance of the present j ] date. Report promptly to this office whenever > paper is not received. Arrearages must be I ( paid when subscription is discontinued. FREELAND, DECEMBER 14, 1896. j The Factions at War Again. The Republican factional war has broken out afresh over the United States j senatorship in this state. The city or- i ( gans and the country orgauettes are j bristling with columns of ready-made j 1 vituperation and abuse of the candidate j of the opposing faction, and by close at- ; tention to details the people of Pcnnsyl- ! vania can learn some inside secrets of , the Grand Old Party. Wanamaker and | Penrose are about neck and neck in the race, but few believe for a moment that j either will be chosen, and, if half of what the opponents of each say is true, j neither is tit to live among civilized peo- ■ pie, let alone to represent over live mil lions in the greatest law-making body of the world. In these periodical factional contests j it Is remarkable to note the complete j 1 subserviency of the Republican news- j papers. There can be no half-way j stand whenever the war breaks out. ' Every editor of an organ must be on one side or the other —neutrality is not tol erated by the ring-masters. A bold and independent newspaper man who fears neither clique could make a name for himself in the present light by refusing to endorse Wanamaker 1 or Penrose, but this class of men are ; scarce in Republican sanctums of Penn sylvania, and where one is found who shows any inclination to assert his man hood he Is promptly muzzled through ' the operations of a degrading system of printing and publishing patronage which the politicians have inaugurated for the j purpose of stifling journalistic indepen- j dence in their party. The press of Russia and Turkey, where censors of news and opinions have the life of every publication and its publisher in their hands, cannot exhibit such cringing slaves to the powers thai | rule as can found in the offices of the Republican newspapers of this state. In no other part of the Union can there be found a body of newspaper owners and editors who are so lost to ail self respect and so negligent of their duty to the public as to allow themselves to be coerced into supporting for the United States senate men with characters that cause a stench to exist throughout the entlre coininonwea Ith. While much has already been said on both sides, the public has been but fee bly enlightened in regard to the person ality of either candidate. The whole truth may come out before the factions end their war. and the people may then demand relief from the rule of leaders who are responsible for allowing these characters to aspire beyond their propei station in life. Show No Morey to Kckert'n Allien. it is not to be expected that the inves tigation of Eckert's suicide will result in unraveling the mystery which surrounds it. The person who conveyed to him the deadly poison has naturally covered his tracks well, and has probably made himself secure against any probing which may he done by the county offi cials. However, in the minds of most people, Eckert's ally in destroying him self cannot be considered a friend of either the suicide or the family. Death on the gallows would have been a hun dred-fold more honorable to himself and his descendants than the cowardly act ho committed. The family now has two murders to its credit, where before Eckert's death there was but one. Rut should the proposed investigation in criminate any persons, no mercy should l>e shown them. Eckert's abettor or abettors are fully as guilty of murder as Eckert was himself. Graham lit an Eligible Canilhlate. Much is heard these days about, com promise candidates for the senate, but the friends of District Attorney George S. Graham, of Philadelphia, remain significantly silent through it all. Why this is so, since Graham was a senatorial aspirant for three years past, ought to be explained by the Philadelphia news suppressing sheets. Get Graham in the race; he is as clean as the others, even though he did find it necessary to spend several months of 1896 in tjiieen Vic's domain. The disappearance of that half million made him eligible for politi cal promotion. Too Realistic. An actor, hatiug the very natural de sire that his impersonation of on in sane person might l>e true to life, vis ited the Long Island state hospital as n student. His first and only lesson was somewhat too realistic. It was given him, soys the New York Trib une, by a. womun patient. The actor asked her how she wan feeling. "AH 1 strong as Samson before his hair was cut," she answered, aiming a blow squarely between his eyes. The in- t vestigator seeking for exhibitions of t mentui phenomena was knocked to the I ground, and his instructor in insanity ' followed up the attack by rushing at liini wildly. The effort* of two keep- ' ers and several patients were required 1 lo keep her from further assaults. The abused man's first remark after the ut tick was: "Where is the main en- , trance, please? 1 think view of the j outside of the building will l>e inter- i esting while my head is still on my i shoulders. Please let rue inspect this * institution from the outside." lie had ' lost his appetite for psychological study. One of the woman visitors to Li llitrg ' Chung while that gentleman was in s New York received a compliment from 1 him, says the Times of that city. She * is a young womun, brighter thau the j average, well jKjsted iu politics and nf fuirs generally and the right-hand man l of her family at home. AH this Earl c Li learned by means of frank queries for which he is famous. "You nre f worthy of two sous," was the great ct-les- 1 tiul's remark after a conversation in which he had appeared greatly interest ed. "Whut does lie mean by that?" nsked the woman of the interpreter. , "He means that you are wise, thai you , ure good, and that you deserve to have j two sons care for you in your old age," was the answer. 1 A family residing in Howard, R. 1., i ha\e been somewhat troubled with rats at their home for a few weeks past, i and have tried every conceivable way to get rid of them, but without success. 1 The other day tlie lady confided lier ( i rouble to one of her neighbors, who told her that it was a very easy matter to get rid of them, if she only took tlu right way, which wasto w rite a letter j to the rats. The advice was taken In , good faith, and the lady wrote the fol lowing and placed it iu the cellar: "Rats, if you do not get out of the < house and go to John Grant's, I will set a trap or poison you." At lust accounts the rats still held possession of the house. ... plana non oi socialism, quoted in the Boston Transcript, is not l>od: "Said the first gamin to the other: 'What is litis socialism?' 'Oh, YOU stupid, don't you know?' exclaimed the * tlier; 'I will explain. Suppose you have a sou and 1 have a sou.' 'Yes.' 'Suppose I buy a pipe with mine and you buy to ixtcco with yours.' 'Yes.' 'Then sup |K>se I put your tobacco into mv pipe and smoke it. That Is socialism.' 'But if you take my tobacco and smoke it w hat do I do?' 'You! Oh,you talk and lalk. That is socialism.' " A new and ingenious scheme has re cently been developed by the expert shoplifters. They employ a sweet-faced child, who enters x crowded store, car ry ing a large puper bag, from which the odor of onions and other vegetable® is very pronounced. The thief JKISSCS her K|Kils to the girl, who places them in Ihe bag under the vegetables. By thi* neuns they have for some time suc ceeded in deceiving the police, and in one instance deceived a detective, even when such a bag hud been opened on suspicion. One of the queerest bels which was tecorded was that made between a man and his wife in Colorado. If Bryan was elected the wife was to chop all tlic family firewood for a month, and if Mo- Kinky won the husband was to do the family washing for an equal period. 'I he husband wa* in for it in either event apparently. It is said that the fall term of the circuit court in Logan county, I\y., was the first one in 40 years on the calendar of which there wan no murder case. I>*!ne> t'auuot !>• lurd by local applications, a a they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed con dition of the mucous lining of the eustachian tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entire ly cloeed deafness is the result, and un less the inflamation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal con dition, hearing will be destroyed for ever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrah, which is nothing but an in flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Bend for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O. QFdold by druggists, 75c. lUU'9 Family Fills are the best. (Original.) ON THE KANSAS PLAINS. BY THOMAS F. MONTFOKT. (AM GRADER had vl X 4 sold his ranch and uM ] ' VMBS going buck V V yLJi I a east to his old v\®/ If. home. Jake Ad am* the rest Mali of the cowboys jjjMUjy They knew liiat AUllaiyyl II sweetheart buck some years ago sJ Y s ' ie married another man. Then Sam had come west, and got rich, but he had m ver outgrown his love, lie was go.ng back now to see the idol of his early life and of his later dreams. He never had any news of her since she married, and he yearned to see her again, even though she belonged to another. It was night when Saiu started, lie intended to ride across the prairie ; and reach the little station at Round- i up so as to spend the duy and take j the evening truin. The cowboys watched Sam as he rode away in the thickening shades of even ing. They looked after him until he was lost in the distance, then quietly rested on the grass, smoking their pipes and thinking of their own old homes away off in the eastern states. Ail hour passed, and then Jake, gaz ing out across the prairie, saw a fire blaze into life down by the edge of a belt of timber. In the light of the f.re an old covered wagon showed plainly to view, 'J'he meaning of it all was quite clear, find with an ontli Joke called the attention of his companions to whut he saw. "One o' them pizen, onery squatters," he said, "an' he's got to be scattered out o' thnr." "Yo' bet," Ike Bowles ended. "Tie's got to be scattered out, an' in blame short order, too. I'd ruther burn the wagon 'an not." "I'm with yo' thar, boys," Dick Buster chimed in. "1 aiu't got r.o earth ly use fer squatters, an' 1 never see the time yit when I wan't ready to help chase one of 'em off the range. Le's go down on' start him." "All right," came In a chorus fioin the force us the boys sprang to their feet ready to move down on the unfor tunate lionieseeker. "Not so fast, fellers," old Jake com manded, in a tone of authority. "I'm in for giviu* the chap a chance, so 1 Ml y give him a notice to git up au' move ou by morniii'. If he don't go, then it will be time enough to cut up brush." "An' do some shootin* an' burnin'," Ike udout speak ing. How ever, with him duty came be* fore anything else, and In this case ha knew full well what his duty was. "Hoys," he said at last., "I hate like Iho dickens to cut, up rough with that, squatter, un' J wifih he'd, had sens© enough to leave without trouble; but he's 81 -ill thar. an' we got to git him away, an' as mild means didn't do no good, we got to try some other-kind." "Sech as sliootin' an' burn in'."old Ike suggested, rubbing his hands together and smiling with satisfaction. "That's the sensible plan, every time, you bet-." Jake was about to make a further statement, but he was interrupted by the appearance of a little boy who came running across the prairie from the di rection of the old wagon. He was a small, scrawny mite of humanity, poorly clothed, and with great, hollow, hungry-looking eyes. When he reached j the ranch he npproacbed the cowboys ; hesitatingly, raid, stopping before them, stood silently fingering his coat. A ; moment passed, during which the cow- I boys eyed the child curiously, then j Old Jake stepped forward and said: ! "WoJ, little 'un, what yo* want?" The child lifted his eyes timidly to the rough, bearded, sun bronzed old face, that, though firm aud stern, was not altogether cold, and in weak, fal tering tones replied: "Please, sir, my ma is sick, an' there's nobody but me an' her; an' some men come an' throwed this paper in the : wagon, an' I don't know what to do. They want us to go away, an' we're rfraid they'll burn our wagon and hurt us if we stay, but we can't go now, be cause my ma ain't able to travel." The little boy got so far, then broke down and legan to sob. The cowboys exchanged a sheepish glance, ov.d looked very solemn, but remained si : lent. After a little while the child ! looked up again into old Jake's face and in pleading tones continued: "Please, sir," he said, "you won't let tlie men hurt us, will you? We won't | stop there long, an' we don't want none j of the land, an' as soon ns my nia gits ! better we'll go away. We didn't mean 1 to stuy here at all, but were going back | east." | No one said anything for almost a minute, then old Jake reached down and took the child's hand in his, and drew it toward him. I "beetle chap," he said, "is yo' ma much bad sick?" "Yes, sir," he replied, "I'm afraid she is." "Then she ort to have some doctor right off, ortn't she?" "Yes, sir; but I don't know where there is any." "I know whor thar's some." Jake's tones were so kind and gentle that the child took fresh courage, and looking up into his face again he cried: "You won't let those men burn our wagon an' drive us away, will you?" liefore Jake could reply old Ike came forward and, laying his hand on the boy's head, spoke up, promptly: "beetle chap," he said, "don't yo* be skeered 'bout them low-life, onery ras cals what throwed that paper In the wagon, 'cause they're not goin' to both er 'long o' you an' yo' ma. I'll sec to that, yo' bet yo* hide, an' if anybody's got anything to say ngin it I'd jest like to hear 'e.m speak out." Old Ike squared himself around, with his right hand on his pistol, and glared defiantly at his companions, as if he ex pected them to raise a storm of opposi tion. "Ike, yo' blamed fool," Jake repl'ed, "ain't yo'got no sense? Who yo'reckon is goin' to kick up a fuss 'bout yo' stand in' by tlhe leetle feller an' his pore tick ma ? Don't yo' 'low we all goin' to stun' by 'em?" As old Jake ceased speaking he walked off towards the wagon, leading the child. "We'll jest go down," he said, "an* lake a leetle look around an' see what yo' ma needs mostly." Old Ike and the others followed, but when they drew near to the wagon they slopped and waited while Jake and the little boy went in. A pale, sad featured woman lay stretched in the rear of the wagon suffering from the dreadfully enervating effects of ma laria. She was in a semi-conscious date, and when her eyes, in their list ■ less roving, rested on Jake's bearded face, she started up with a little cry of terror. "They've come and are going to burn the wagon," she said. "Oh, please—" "Yo* Jest rest easy an' don't he skeered now, lady," Jake interrupted, in a re assuring tome. "Nobody ain't goin* to bother yo' the least bit, Vaue thar's five o' us men, an' we'll stand by 3*o' to the Inst. Yo* Jest rest easy, 'cause yo' all right." Jake left the wagon and the child followed him. He took his hand and led him a little distance away where they could converse without the wonv an hearing them. "Leetle 'un," Jake began, "I reckon yo' pa is dead, ain't he?" "Yea, sir," he answered. "He died more than a year ago out west where | we'd took up a claim." "Yo* ma, I reckon, stayed thar awhile, then give up the claim an' started back to her folks?" "Yes, sir." "Whnr do her folks live?" "In Missouri." "Hain't thar nobody that she knows nearer nor that?" "No, sir; I gucsß not. There is a man out here somewhere, though, that T've i heard her Rpeak of, who used to he her friend, but she said she couldn't ask , him for any thing." "Wonder why she couldn't?" "I don't know. She always ci lee , when she mentions him." "Do 3*ou know whor t.hat fel'er is?" "Yo, sir. He owns a ranch, though. 1 I think." "Does, eh? What's his name?" • "Grnber." , Old Jake jumped like he'd een shol, then stood staring at the child in blank astonishment. > "Hubby," he whispered, "Ls that fel ler's name Ram Grabcr?" "Yes, sir, it is. Do you know him?" t Without, replying old Jake turned j and walked bock to li.ls companions. • | "Ike." lie saic\. M Sq,m Ornbcr lias got ;, { o be fetched back ycre, sdH'to gqlnf to, fetch 'iin. You fellers git it he woman, an' child up to the ranch an' take keci j of 'em till I git back." " What's Sam Craber got to be fetched baok for?" Ike queetioned. " 'Cause that thar woman is his sweet heart," Jake replied. "How yo' know?" "Know it from what the leetle chap told me, an' from sorfethin' I see in the wagon thar. Yo* fellers take keer o' the woman an* I'll ride over to the sta -1 ion on' fetch Sam an' a doctor." "I reckon four is enough to keer fesr the woman," Ike remarked, "so I'll jest go 'loug of you, Jake." Five minutes later Jake and Ike went galloping across the prairie in the di rection of tihe little station of IlouDd up. There was a 40-mile stretch of ; road before them, and the dust lay thick ami the sun poured down in burning j rays, but they cared nothing for that. I They wore going on a mission of mercy —a mission, they believed, that meant happiness to two catranged lovers, and their own convenience and comfort were not to be considered. "If we only git thar in time," Jake once remarked, "to head Sam off be fore the train comes, we're all right. | But it's goin' to rub us to do it." "Yas, goin' to be a tigftit squeeze, shore," Ike assented. On and on they rode, and hour after ; hour passed. The sun crept up the ! eastern sky, passed the meridian and lowly descended to the west. The ON AN ERRAND OF shadows began to lengthen on the plain, reaching out like long, grim, black q>eeters. Then at last tihe station came into view. Only one more mile lay between the two cowboys and their destination. "Thar's been no train yit," Jake said, "an' we'll git him." "Mebbe," Ike replied, setting his Rpurs into his horse's sides. Three-fourths of a mile further on they heart! the train whistle. Then it was they rode in good earnest, and. sweeping down through the little town like a whirlwind, came up to the stn lion just as the train began to move out. People standing on the platform were nstonished to see Jake spring from his saddle, jump aboard the train, from which he tumbled a moment later drag ging a man with him. Very naturally t.hey supposed a shooting scrape would follow, for it occurred to them that, as a matter of course, the man so un ceremoniously dragged from tilie train was a victim to cowboy vengeance. However, when the two men placed an arm about each other, and walked down the platform, the people found that they were mistaken in their surmises and turned their attention to other niat | tern. i The sun in all his resplendent glory j was just casting his first smile over the green prairie when five horsemen rode down to (ral>er*s ranch. They had rid den all night, aiul just as the morning dawned they had conic in sight of their destination. "I am glad you thought to bring two doctors, Jake," one of the men re marked, breaking a long silence. "1 would never have thought of that my self." "Two doctors is better 'an one. Cra ber," Jake, replied, giving a knowing wink to Ike who rode just behind. "Yes, that's true," Grober answered. "But, Jake, one of those fellers back there don't look much like a doctor to : me. If I'm an 3' judge of such things I should say he haa more the appear* ' nnce of a minister." 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