Highest of all in Leavening Strength.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report. PriyfeJ Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE FREELAND TRIBUNE. £s:ablished 1338. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. Make all money orders, chicks, etc., payabl* lo the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. SU BSCHIPTI ON KATES: One Your $1.50 Six Mouths 75 Four Months 00 1 Two Mouths U0 The date which the subscription is paid to is on the address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date becomes a receipt for remittance. For instance: Grover Cleveland 28Junc97 means that Grover is paid up to June 28,1897. Keep the figures in advunce of the present date. Report promptly to this office whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. FREE LAX I). DECEMBER 31, 181 Mi. Too Many Teachers. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. In the annual report of tin? president of the Indiana state normal school tin assertion is made that the state is suf fering from a surplus of teachers. Tlii statement leads some of the Chicago newspapers to say that the from this condition of things is not con lined to Indiana and that in many state.* of the West there is an over-production of teachers. The multiplicity of so called medical colleges in various parts of the country became at one time such an evil that stringent laws were passed regulating their establishment, and tin growth of normal schools in some parts of the West lias been equally as rapid and has caused alarm in the minds of educators. In these days of restlessness and am- • bition many of the sons and daughter;* 1 of farmers have become dissatisfied with j their lot, and have been readily attract- 1 ed by plausible stories sent out by the founders of "normal" colleges, and the alluring promises which they make as I to the future of their pupils. The ] makers of these promises declare thai they can turn out finished instructors in six or twelve months, just as the head- j of "medical" colleges would inflict a full-Hedged "physician" on the com munity after a single term. It is said that in many states there are today several thousand so-called "teachers who are unable to secure positions, and that for every vacancy that occurs there are from fifty to a hundred appli cations. It is just as important to the body politic that there should he as high and broad scholarship demanded of teachers as of physicians. When students of pedagogy or medicine have shown that they have not only a natural aptitude for the life work to which they propose ! to devote themselves, but that they have acquired knowledge and culture, then they are- deserving of diplomas, and . neither the physical nor intellectual health of those whom they intend to look after will be likely to suffer. A grave responsibility attaches itself to all who seek to prepare men and women for vocations, the right exercise of which may make or mar t he life of communities. Coincident with the appearance of the i "advance agent of prosperity" in Chi- j cago, says the Pittsburg Post, there hav 1 been several large business failures in : that city, the last one being that of the National Bank of Illinois, one of the leading banks of the city, with deposits of over $10,000,000. A clearing house committee officially declares that because of "unwarrantable and injudicious loans the capital and surplus of the hank is I seriously impaired, if not lost." The ! customary assurance is given that do- j positors will he paid in full, The clear ing house statement was given out on Sunday, the same day that Major Mc- Ivinlcy left Chicago for home. Wo do not. of course, connect him with the failure, or hold him in any way respon sible; but it is well enough to recall tin fact that from August to November the country was overwhelmed with pledges that with the election of the "advance* agent" financial, business and industrial prosperity would envelope the land. And in the little spurt after election columns were devoted to showing w hat a blessing the election result had been. We are just as much in the trough of the sea, only a little deeper, than we were when Cleveland was issuing bonds to maintain the gold standard. A contemporary remarks that "it has been discovered at last that the system of mine inspection in thisstate is no system at all." This truth was discovered long ago; but the legislature, the executive, the mine inspectors, the mine owners and all concerned have had too strong an Interest in disowning the truth. The fact is that the entire legislation creat ing a squad of mining inspectors, while it has not diminished the numhtr of accidents, has lessened tin* responsibility of mine owners for loss of life and 1 iinb through carelessness and neglect. For the responsibility of the owners and lessees of the mines has been substituted the responsibility of the state and its officials, which has proved to be just no responsibility at all.— Phila, Record, Nature's X bay. fn one of the recent severe thunder storms tihr* Beverly Farms cottage of Dr. ,7. Coll is Warren, of Boston, was visited by lightning. The doctor and his wife wore in the parlor, and not only heard two quickly successive strokes tear their way through the plastering in the hall, but saw them as two balls of fire, although the wall separating the parlor and the hall was between thein and the spots where the bolts tore their way through the house. In other words, the balls of fire made themselves visible through the partition of luth and pias ter. Was not this an exhibition of the Roentgen rays produced by nature's original apparatus? It is now a fa miliar experiment witli those operat ing the X-ray machine to make its light seen through several rooms of a building in. range, that is, through the walls of those rooms, and even, in a case we have heard of, through the fireproof safe in on© of the rooms, as well as through the partition walls. The sort of phenomena witnessed at Dr. Warren's cottage is undoubtedly as old as the universe, and probubly accounts for many inexplicable and almost in credible accouuts of lightning strokes recorded by eye-witnesses. An Atchison. (Kan.) man recently asked a girl to marry him, and, though she had been sitting up nights for him for six months, she replied that she would notify him by mail. After spenJ :ng a week in suspense, he received a letter from her, 3,000 words in length la it. she explained her j>ositioii on the tobacco question, stated what she al ways advocated as the best kind of baking powder, told him that, it was ■ with a feeling of deepgrut.ifioation that ! Hie accepted the honor he had done I her, and hoped that slie would always j faithfully preserve the traditions of good housekeeping, etc. lie was near- I !y dead with exhaustion when he read ! the postscript, vvhioh read; "You are so lull of polities I thought it would please you to be accepted like the can I didates accept their presidential noin | illations." Queen Victoria's reign is now longer j than that of any preceding English so\ ! eloign. I Mil the 2lkl of September he r reign was paralleled by that of George 111., who wore the crown from October 25, 1700, to January 20, 1820, or 50years three months and four days, lie was insane, however, during the Just ten years of his nominal reign, i and his eldest son acted as regen.. The next longest reign in English his tory was that of Henry 111., which extended over a little more than sf. j * ears. Qiuvn Victoria cuune to the throne Juno 20, 1837, and the. sixtieth :iiuiiversary of that event will lie cele brated next year. The government is doing everything possible to stop Indian jxirents from trading off their daughters, especial ly if the daughters are returned sin dents from some of the Indian schools, when they bring a better price, foi ihey know how to do better work, li is however, to break up th< traffic. Folly Clement, daughter o 1 Little Crow, is visiting tit home fron ( the Santee agency, Nebraska, whtn . she lived with Miss Douglas, field nia j Iron. She learned tapidly and was ; greatly benefited, but she is to stuv there and has been void. Such c*set are of frequent occurrence. It is said that the grape growers of northern Ohio are afflicted with a bifc crop. The vines are black with the ; fruit, which is selling at five cents a basket of ten pounds in the vineyards i There is 110 profit in such a price,for the basket, costs 2'/ a cents and the picking &s much more, it is said that no more grapes will be sent to market, but that the remainder of the crop will lie sold to winemukers. A certain funny philosopher says that nothing seems to plca.se a tly so much as to he mistaken for something to eat, and if it can he baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary as a cur rant, it dies liappy. Our philosophic ; Iriemd must still retain the capilhiceou* overing of his frontal cranium. Had lie a bald pate lie would know sum•- what of the eh iciest joy of a Hy's ex istence. The most eminent medical author ities in France declare that the oyster should never lie eaten by persons with feeble digestive powers or those suffer Ing from d'iatation of the stomach or similar complaints. American doctor." hold dififeitutly, and in many cases presenile oysters in a raw state in the diet of invalids. While going down the steps to the cellar recently Miss Carrie Adams, of Washoe, Wis., encountered an adder. She secured a hoc and succeeded in kill 1 ing the reptile. It measured four feet in length and was found to be one of the most poisonous of its kind. If it had been a mouse—well, no matter. < 81.50 a year is ail the TBIBI'M! costs. BEHIND IKON DOORS. BY WAIT MASON. Hugh Morse looked gloomily through the window of his apartment and found n Uhing In the view to cheer or encour age him; a high board fence 50 feet away marked the boundary; inside the fence two or three men labored dismally at a pile of stone, with chains on their ankles, while a man in uniform sat on a bowlder and stormed at them with threats and curses. Hugh had stood for luours at that window, looking at the same scene; the men were not always* the. same, but there was always the swearing official on the bowlder, and the high board fence, and the pile of rock, end the manacled ankles. When he looked from the barred win dow, it was to envy the men with cliainft on their ankles, who were permitted M follow the exhilirnting work of break ing rock; and also to escape the gaze of curious country people, who came to the jail every day to see the murderer r.s they would go to the circus to see the sacred elephant of Siam or the horned rhinoceros of Africa. The evening was closing in, and Hugh sat in his broken chair and counted the hours that must pass before his trial; lie had counted the hours, and was re ducing them to minutes, when the wicket in the door was opened, and the deputy sheriff presented his face at tin; aperture, saying; "There's a gentleman here wants to see you. You may come into the cor ridor." The door wan opened and FT :;gl, stepped into the dingy corridor, where a stranger greeted him politely; th • stranger was small and pale, with cold blue eyes, and was attired in black, like a respectable undertaker 'n the course of his duty. "My name," said the stranger, "is John Pauley; 1 am a detective; 1 have been engaged by a friend of yours, who wishes to remain unknown, to work in your behalf. Your trial is set forth" 2d of January, and this is the 10th of December, so I have but little time; tell me all that you can, so that I may begin work intelligently." "There is but little to tell," replied Hugh, despondently; "and that lift It* Miems to be all against me, although I am as innocent as a child. I was em ployed in Mr. Wilkie's store, and had been there for four years. Although n thoroughly honest man, he was very avaricious, and had an uncertain tern per. lie had promised me, again and ngain, an increase of salary, but th* increase never came. On the night of •he murder Mr. Wilkie worked in his office late, and, nsS we were alone, 1 tool: advantage of the opportunity to ash him when I might expect the promised increase; I told him that 1 was prepar ing to lie married, and urged upon him the fact that I had served him faithfully for years, at very low wages; lie lost his temper and abused me so scandalously t hat I in turn became angry, and we had a quarrel. It is very ]Kxssib]e that our voices were heard on the street outside. I gave him iay resignation, and retired to the little room at the back of the vtore, where I had slept every night during my employment in the store; 1 went to bed and slept until daylight. When I went to the office, 1 found Mr. Wilkie sitting at his desk, dead; ho had been stabbed with my knife, which T had laid on the desk during our quar rel. I heard no sound during the night. When I ran out to give the alarm, I noticed that- the front door was not 'ocked, although 1 am sure T locked it " THIS BELONGED TO MY BROTHER." before my interview with Mr. Wilkie. That is all that I know about the mur der." Mr. Pauley proceeded from the jail to a cottage in the suburbs of the town; there he was eagerly welcomed by a young woman who. although pale and with lines of care on her brow, sug gesting that trouble was no stranger to her, was still a beauty; with feverish impatience she motioned the detective to a seat, and calmly he adjusted hiin sel in his chair and glanced around the room, as though to inspect the furniture before proceeding. An old man was nodding in a chair before the stove: nn old lady was nodding in n chair behind the stove, with a pious book in her lap. "Your father and mother?" queried Mr. Pauley. "No; my uncle and aunt; now do tell me all; have you seen him?" "I have seen him. Miss Simmons, it is a tough case; it will take a great deal of work to prove anything to his ad vantage, and my work is expensive. Do you want me to go ahead?" "Certainly; the little money I have is my own, and every cent of it- is at jour command. Money! I would give my life to save Hugh, as he would for me." "How much money have you?" "Five hundred dollars." "I'm afraid I'll need it all. Now, I'll say something for your comfort; that young ma", is no murderer; he wouldn't kill a sheep, and I'll have him out of jail by the Ist of January. Somebody killed Wilkie. Hugh Morse didn't do it. Therefore, the man who did do it must le found. I am the man to find him. Hut I won't find him sitting here, so I'll ®ay good-day. Miss Si mm 0*1" After delivering these sentences in a jerky fashion, the detective prepared j for his departure, lie buttoned his i black coat up to his chin and pulled ! down the brim of his hat; for the even ; ing was growing" cold, and a wild north : wind rattled the window panes. "You have no overeout with you?" said Miss Simmons; "you must not go iuto the storm without one." She hurried away to the closet, and returned with an old-fashioned heavy ulster. "This belongs to my brother," she said; "he is away now; you may use it as long as you please." As she handed it to Pauley, a strange smile played nround his lips, his hard eyes seemed to soften; when he departed, he was more courteous than usual, and he muttered to himself, as he walked into the storm: "For once John Pauley has ex perienced the novelty of being treated like a Christian. It's a caution how such treatment will thaw a man out!" It is impossible to f.d'ow the move ments of Mr. Pauley, during the next two weeks, in detail; he was a ve l y busy man; sometimes he appeared soothed nnd sustained by nn unfnltoi ing trust, as though he were nearin the goal, and again he appeared di eouiaged and perplexed. On tlie night before New Years lie arrived at the cottage rather late. Al though calm, there was enthusiasm in his eyes nnd cordiality in his voice, us he said: "Miss Simmons, the task is nearly accomplished. To-morrow 1 shall place the murderer in the hands of the au thorities, and you may go to the jail and get your lover. Now, be calm, and I'll give you a brief outline of the story. I soon found that there was nobody in this town who had a motive for kill ing Wilkie, and there was 110 robbery iloue. It. was very possible that Wilkie had made enemies, though, for he was miserly and tyrannical. So I hunted - . r IIE EMPTIED HIS REVOLVER. up his past; it was not very hard tc: do. for lie was one of those foolish peo ple who keep a diary. In an old trunk 1 found a dozen volumes of his journal. I struggled through hundreds of pages of personal reflections and turgid weari ness, and found at lost what 1 wanted. 111 his younger days Wilkie was a sea captain, and n very cruel one, I havt 110 doubt. Que day, years ago, when his ship was 011 the Pacific ocean, he gave an order to an Italian sailor. It wasn't obeyed with proper alacrity, and he knocked the sailor down. The sailor made a threat, and was treated to the rope's end. Now, Miss Simmons, the Italians, or some of them, are vengeful in the extreme; they c 1 carry a grudge for a lifetime, and leave it us a legae\ to their children. 1 made inquiries. Sure enough, on the day preceding the murder of Wilkie, u swurthy man with a hand-organ and a monkey came into the town, to the great amusement of the children. I have 110 doubt that the swarthy mun was knocked down on the deck of a ship in the Pacific ocean once upon a time. "Singularly enough, after leaving the town, t liis swarthy man fell down an embankment a few miles in the coun try. and broke his leg; and he was car ied to a hut in the woods, where an oi.l bachelor lives, and there he has been lying ever since, and the children play truant to go there and feed the monkey. He is able to walk now, and might go away unexpectedly, were it not for the fact that I have made the old bachelor a deputy of mine; and he watches the swarthy man, nnd will keep him there until to-morrow, when I'll go after him, nnd release your lover from jail. I might have had him here before, but there is some romance in me, and I wanted the climax to occur on New Year's day." The detective was almost merry as lie concluded: but when Miss Simmons begged him to defer the release of Hugh Morse no longer—not an hour— he grew somber, and talked in a discon nected way of overcoats. The morning of New Year's day was so peculiar that old men and sages who were reputed weatherwise, shook their heads ominously, and predicted that the day would be one to be remembered. Not a bough stirred in the heavy air; the clouds were low, nnd moved slowly to the north; there was audible n gentle hum, as of the noise of a brook in the distance, and no man could tell what gave rise to it. But these things did not disturb Mr. Pauley, as he moved actively along the highway on his triumphal errand. He started nl daylight on foot; he had arranged for :t horse and wagon for the retuni jour ney. At eight o'clock he reached the lint in the woods and entered it. An old man with a gray beard waslyingon u cot. breathing heavily and asleep. Pauley shook him roughly, and cried: "Where's the Italian?" The old man started from his cot and looked wildly around. "(lone! gone!" he cried. "lie was here with his monkey when I went to sleep; he gave me something to make me sleep, for I was sick, and I trusted him." Pauley raised his hand, as tfiougb to strike him. Tin* ground wan damp under I he trees, nnil Pa uly Ron^ ( found the track of the i fugitive; he moved along like a hound J on the scent. And uo\< the gentle hunt had died away and the clouds no longer moved, but a great mass of gray hung overhead and large flakes of snow be gan t-o fall; they thickened rapidly, and soon John Pauley found that a fleecy blanket was spread all about him, and under him and over him; and the wind arose suddenly with a shriek, and the snow in blinding masses was flung into his face; he could no longer see bia hand when he held it before him, and the truth came home to him that he was lost on the prairie in a western biic zard. He stumbled against a tree that grew upright for a couple of feet and then beDt at an angle; he placed his back U, it and determined that the hut which he had left half an hour before was straight ahead; he tried to reach it; stumbling, falling, creeping nnd strug gling, he progressed painfully for hours, as it seemed to him, and theu, with out stretched hand, he felt something hard before him. "The hut, at last!" he cried, but it was the tree he had left so long ago.. He stumbled on again, this time at random; he was growing drowsy, and he knew that if he went to sleep he would never wake again. On. on. he dragged himself, and the fury of the storm began to abate; In a little hollow in the prairie he stumbled over some thing and fell; with his hands he ex amined the something, and found it to he the form of a man, with something large on his back. It was the Italian, with his organ. "Whether we live or die, we'll stay together," said John Pauley, and he ; took from his pocket a pair of hand cuffs; lie snapped one iron loop on the j Italian's wrist and the other on his i own, and then unable to struggle j longer ugainst his fate, he went to sleep. The New Year's day was far gone when the deputy's red face appeared n the hole in the iron door, with a smile that was unusual. "A lady to see you. Mr. Morse," he said; "you may step into the corridor." Hugh accepted the invitation, and a j pair of arms were throwu about his neck. "You are free, Hugh," cried a glad voice, and tears of happiness began to fiow. And when all the amazement and tears were over Miriam explained how i it came about. Only a part of her nar- j rative is neccessary to ours: "And th.it noble detective, as he was sinking to sleep, manacled to what he supposed was a corpse, thought he would make one more effort to be saved; and he shot off all the cartridges in his revolver, and, do you know, he was within ten feet of a house and didn't know it; and the people rushed out nnd found the two and carried them into the house The Italian was revived, but his hours were numbered, and he confessed, and he died an hour ago; and here is the order for your release." On the next day Miss Simmons went to the bank without a sigh to with draw her little fortune for the detect ive; she took the roll of bills and went to his hotel. Mr. Pauley, the clerk said, although very sick, had left by the mid night train; he had left a note for her The note read as follows: "Miss Miriam Simmons: I am a hard and unscrupulous man; perhaps training and circumstances have made me so. Out down tn the bottom of my heart there Is a little human nature. You treated me like a Christian. You thought of my comfort when you had trouble of your own. and gave me the use of your brother's overcoat With your permission. I will keep the coat, and call our account square. I leave the town before my worse nature gets upper most. To-morrow I might want the money: for, as I said, I am a hard and unscrupulous man. JOHN PAULEY." HELP ONE ANOTHER. BY KEY. T. UK WITT TALMAGE. Paul advances the theory: "Hear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." Here's a text for the New Year—a text to make the New Year a really | happy One. How shall you carry it out? By splitting up the burdens into frag meats —you take part of mine aud I REV. T DE WITT TALMAGE. take part of yours, nnd each one will take part of the other's, and so will fulfill the law of Christ. One of the ways toward this end is encouragement. Encourage the merchant. If lie have a superior style of goods, tell him so. Encourage the newspaper men. Be affable to them when you have no ax to grind. Encourage mechanics. If one has done a job well, tell him it is splendidly done. Encourage the farmers. There is no class of people in this country who want vour sympathy just now more than the farmers. Encourage the doctors. You praise the doctor when he brings you up from an awful crisis of disease, but do you pniise the doctor when throw;,- skill ful treatment of the incipient stages of disease he keeps you from sinking down to the awful crisis? Encourage the lawyers. Encourage the teachers in our public schools. 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