Freeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY. Limited OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTBE. FREELAND, I* A. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: Ono Year $1.50 Six Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Months . .25 The date which tho subscription is paid to is-on tno address lubel of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date be comes a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Re port promptly to this oflloe whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must bo paid when subscription is discontinued. Male all inon-y orders, check*, tic,,payable to the Tribune Print in j Company, Limited. Orders have been issued to have our warships restored to their ante belluin appearance. We shall now see them wearing tho white paint of a blameless life. : There is a graver warning to France tu the decrease of births from 865,- | 000 in 1880 to 850,000 in 1807 than in the studied words of Sir Edmund j Mouson's lecture. Experts estimate that the amount 1 of money spent for Christmas toys by tlie American people exceeded §55,- 000,000. It is a happy aud cheerful sort of country that can spend that amount in playthiugs for the children. Enthusiasm manifests itself in strange ways. In London the con fectioners have moulded ice-cream into likenesses of General Kitchener, despite the utter incongruity of as sociating a seasoned warrior with so delicate and perishable a viand. The shipbuilding interest of Maine j reports an extrnordihary revival of i activity, exceeding anything known ! in ten years past. A portion of this ' is due to naval orders, but the great- i er part, according to report, reflects a i boom in the West India trade—par- | ticularly trade between our ports and \ those of Cuba and Porto Rico, and the coastwise trade of those two is lands. "When a man in England sues another i man for money owed, ho may charge i him with conspiracy against the queen, in that he seeks to prevent her waj- 1 esty from receiving the taxes due to \ her, by wrongfully impairing the abil- | ity of the plaintiff the money which J he owes to him. When the case gets ' into court, the conspiracy is dropped, ami the money question is tried out. Mrs. Richard Kelly of Conshohockeu, Penn., raised an American flag over her pigpen in which was confined a porker which John Blake claimed was his property. When John Blake went after the pig, Mrs. Kelly knocked him down with a clothes pole. Her defense was that he was disloyal be cause be was really making an assault upon the American flag. She was ac quitted—by a jury of men. The curi osities of law are not entirely Eng lish. In international complications Eng lishmen have but one fear. Russia is "the gray terror" always in the back ground. How close the Russian- French alliance may be, or what Rus sia's interest is in any quarrel in volved, is a mystery. Kipling has helped conjure up a picture of the gray uniformed Cossack hordes be yond the Indian mountain passes that has entered into the popular imagina tion and figures in all British concep tion of foreign relations. Home have urged war with France, not so much for hatred of Fiance, but "because it will weaken Russia." Indian frontier wars are fought, not to conquer wild tribes for the sake of conquest, but to strengthen that part of the empire against Russia. Tho desperate anx iety about Chinese affairs is because of Russia. Russian designs real or imagined, are the reason for much warlike activity. The czar's avowed peace! ul ideas are simply not believed. Raid a French diplomatist in discuss ing the situation: "Nicholas is keep ing the peace of the world, not by love, as be would wish, but by fear. He is probably the only man on earth England is afraid of." In the Hume Iluwlnena. "So her husband Is an editor?" "Yes. But. good land! If there's anything In the way of news she can beat him pub lishing It abroad."—Baltimore Sun. A Similar Effect. -Which would you rather miss, a train or your dinner?" "Well, I rlon't know. Either would be likely to give one a sort of 'gone feeling.' " —Life, EipenHM of Britliih Navy. In Queen Elizabeth's reign the ex penses of the navy were about £f.000 a year, a contrast to the present huge sum of £25,000,000 sterling spent an nually on the fleet. JlffTctiw PRIVATE BLAIR OF THE RECULARS. It was Private Blair, of the regulars, before dread El Caney, Who felt with every throb of bis wound the life-tMe (*bb away; And as he dwelt In a fevered dream on the home of his youthful years, He heard near by the moan and sigh of two of the volunteers. He raised him up and gazed at them, and likely lads they were, But when he bade them pluck up heart ho found they could not stir. Then a bullet plowed the sodden loam, and his fearless faoe grew dark, For he saw through the blur a sharpshooter who made the twain hts mark. And his strength leaped into his limbs again, and his fading eye burned bright; And he gripped his gun with n steady hand and glanced along the sight; Then another voice in that choir of flro out spake with a deadly stress*, And in the trench at El Cauoy there lurked a Spaniard less. j But still the moans of the volunteers went up through the murky air, And there kindled the light of a noble thought in. the brain of Private Blair. The flask at his side, he had drained it dry in the blistering scorch and shine, So, unappalled. lie creptfcnnd crawled in the face of the firing line. Tho whirring bullets sped o'erhead, and the great shells burst with a roar, And the shrapnel tore the ground around like the tusks of the grisly boar. But on lie went with his high intent, till ho covered tho space between, And came to.the place where the Spaniard lay aud clutched his full canteen. Then he wriggled back o'er the bloody track, while death drummed loud in his ears, And pressed the draught he would fain have quailed to the lips of the voluu "Drlnk!" cried he; "don't think of me, for I'm only a regular. While you have homes in tho mother-land where your waiting loved ones are." Then his soul was sped to tho peaoe of the dead. All praise to the men who dare, And honor be from sea to soa to the deed of Private Blair! —Clinton Scollard, in Leslie's Weekly. 2 THE WIRE FENCE § ATSAN JUAN. | O By J. E. Chamberlln. Q 0 A OOOOOCOBOCCGOOOOOOOOOOOCJOG Jjrffi n > .j f N every war some %■>/) of the bravest of tl*o brave, who ftPC ( '° deeds worthy of praise, are never known by name. This is ; true is an cspec -1 9 w U u ial way of the i late war. In the calm days of the truce that followed the hard fighting at I Caney, and on the San Juan ridge of the first of July, I heard many com | pany commanders tell stories of the i intrepidity of the "wire-cutters"— J soldiers who are equipped with in ' strnments adapted to cut the barbed l wire fences which abound in Cuba. Many companies and regiments were ' inextricably mixed up in the advance through the death-swept joods on the San Juan Biver, and it often happened that when a company commander called for a wire-cutter to come forward, he did not know who the soldier was that answered him, aud there was neithe. time nor opportunity to find out. This wire-cutter worked almost al ways at the imminent risk of his life. The barbed-wire fence was well calcu lated to delay the advance of a power ful force. Sometimes the fence was a fortification; sometimes it was merely the accidental boundary of an old field or an estate. In either case, the wires were looped loosely from the posts so that, as a rule, no axe or machete could separate them by a blow at the post. They were in a drooping tangle which no two hands could separate to enable a man's body to pass through, and the wires were invariably so high that no one could vault over them. These defences always compelled a halt. Commonly, nothing served to open the way except the heavy shoar like implements known as wire-cut ters, with which a wise provision had furnished every regiment of the Amer ican regular army. Tho man who carried these wire-cntters had a more important office than the color-ser geunt, for the colors are seldom car ried into battle. If he were disabled and left his wire-cutters behind him, his company might bo detained for a long time at the cost of many lives. A terrible instance of the effective ness of this defence occurred in the open field at the base of the San Juan hill, before Santiago. Here a barbed fence forced whole regiments to halt in the face of a withering fire of Span ish musketry. In the fire-swept zone of the Mauser or Krag-Jorgenseu rifle, it is no cow ardice for soldiers to lie down, or, when an advance is to be made, to run in a crouching position. Indeed, the men are commanded to do so, anil often rebuked by their comrades when they stand too erect. Nearly all the men who marched through the belt of Woods and the open meadow that lay In front of the Spanish position on the Han Juan ridge, had lain on the ground and advanced by a series of these crouching rushes, until they were Very much mixed up. battalions and companies became Intermingled, for it is impossible to keep prostrate or crouching regiments In even lines, and re-enforcements were pushing up speedily from the rear. It was not from demoralization that the troops were mixed up, but from the very rapidity of their ad vance. and because the regiments were kept too close together to enable them to move in extended order without be coming intermingled. When the foremost came out from the San Juan woods upon th broad meadow which lies at the foot of the winding ridge where the Span ish were entrenched, thny found them selves in a hotter fire than ever of bul lets and bursting shells. The order was to charge the hill. The meadow grass was tall and thick, and here and there were little clumps of thorny bushes; but these were nothing to a high barbed-wire fence, which stretched right across the flat* When the disordered soldiers reached this fence they had to pause* Then they dropped like pins bowled over by a ball. The Spaniards had the range of the entanglement perfectly. Our men were under a trebly severe fire. It was enough to put brave sol diers to rout, but not one single American company was routed. "Forward the wire-cutters! Right here with the wire-cutters!" shouted the company commanders. So many officers had already fallen that cap tains were commanding battalions, and lieutenants—often second lieu tenants, and sometimes boys hastily graduated from West Point in May last—were commanding companies. Detached squads of men were there, pressing forward without an officer to lead them. Then the soldiers with the wire cutters bad au opportunity. Under the terrible fire, with their comrades lying or crouching behind them, they stepped forward, and with steady hands and strong wrists cut the loose strands of wire ono by one, snatched them to one side, and made a breach in the fence. So many instances of this cool bravery on the part of meu were told to me after the fight that they blend themselves in my mind in one scene. Captain Charles Byrne, of the Sixth, however, told me a story which dif fered from the rest. When ho came to the wire fence with his company, which was one of the very first to get across the meadow, he found no breach—and the man with the wire-cutters had disappeared; but Providence seemed to have pro vided a means of getting through. In the woods ihe company had been joined by a big Cuban with a machete and gun. The Cuban was rushing bravely on, firing and leading the way. Few Americans could tell from which direction the Spanish firo caine. Bul lets and shells seemed to come from all directions. General officers were doubtful which way to turn. This Cuban knew better than any American in what direction tho Spanish position lay. It was by his help that Captain Byrne's company was among the first to clear the woods, and so advance toward the Spanish blockhouse. But the barbed-wire fence barred the way. Could the Cuban out it with bis machete? It seemed impossible to sever loose wire which would sag beneath a blow. But this Cuban had cut barbed wire before. Coolly picking out the straightest post that was near, he stood beside it, lifted his machetabjgb above bis bead, and struck downward with all bis might close against tho post. One wire was severed, then the next, in the same cool way. The Cuban did not allow himself to hurry nor to gel exoited. If one of his blows had failed for want of a steady hand and a sud den, swift stroke, he might have been unable to open a breach; but no blow failed. He drew the severed wires away and opened a length. Then Captain Byrne ordered his company through the breach in column of twos, and put them at double-quick, and led them clambering to the very top of the hill. All the way the big Cuban went with him. The captain noticed him at the very summit; then ho saw him no more. Neither the captain nor any one else in his company nor in the whole Ameri can army ever knew who this brave Cuban was, nor how ho caiao to be lighting among American troops, nor where ho went when the charge was over; but all who saw him knew that he had performed a service of great value, all for the love of his country, and without the hope or prospect of reward, distinction or commendation. —Youth's Companion. A Kleptomaniac. During a street blockade one time, a load of oats was stalled by a large express wagon. Behind the oats was a "lean and hungry Cassius" sort of a horse acting as motor to an asb wagon. The animal's most noticeable parts were his ribs. They seemed waiting to burst through the skin in away menacing to anatomical beauty. His nostrils were more prominent than his ears on tl<is particular occasion, and as he knew oats when he smelled them, so also did lie know to [avail himself of an exceptional change. Craning his neck toward one of the bulging sacks, be untied the string with his teeth. The life-sustain ing provendor flowed out and down the maw of the ingenious and half famished beast. Tho kleptoinaniacal oqnine indulged until he was satisfied, quietly and joyously, when the block ade was straightened out and all moved on, one, at least, made and happier by the incident. Whore Amrricnn IIOJJH Are Welcome. lii reply to an inquiry from Ne braska Consul-General Gowdy, of Paris, sends information regarding the importation of live hogs from the United States into France.' There are no prohibitory laws in respect to the importation of hogs, but that of cows or steors from tho United States is absolutely prohibited. Hogs upon arrival are examined by an oflicial veterinary surgeon. If contagious disease is detected the animal is killed and its fellows put under strict sur veillance. The expense of landing bogs at Havre is 19.3 cents per head. In addition a charge of $1.35 per day is made on each animul for the use of cattle pens. Duty oil hogs is 2.1 cents per pound. j|S®®SXsXsXiS®®®s®®@ SXS®® ®®®® SP®^ | TALES OF PLUCK AND ADVENTURE. § A Moment of Great Peril. In no case of danger is there so great a coolness required as in deal ing with cobras. Without it, the smallest element of danger may be magnified a thousandfold; with it, the greatest peril finally overcome with little suffering. The following re markablo incident occurred to people with whose relatives the writer was personally acquainted. It is well to state, as a preliminary explanation, that Indian ladies of even the highest birth and rank wear no shoes or slip pers in the inner sanctum of their homos. Whether it be the rich carpet or the plain matting, the cold marble or the rough sandstone, their feet are bare—tho red alta (dye on the edge of the feet) waving in picturesque curves over the half-olive surface. One evening, just at candle-light, a young girl of twelve or fourteen was moving about a room over against whose open window stood a tall peepul-tree pro jecting its long brauches right on to the sill, when suddenly she stood still, trembling all over, her pursed lips vainly striving to stifle a shriek. "Mother!" she cried at last, in a plaintive wail, still with her foot rooted to the ground. "Yes, my darling!" cama the soft reply from the adjoining room. "I—l—am trampling on a snake— on its head!" Well can we imagine that mother's agony—her child in tho next room, not yet bitten, but the turn of a leaf, and she to lie a corpse by her side. "Keep still, my child! keep still! I am coming—keep still 1 move not!—l am coming!" Thus speaking to oncourage her child, she approached cautiously with a light. There stood the girl, the blood gone from her face, her eyes transfixed in horror—but still rooted to the ground like a statue. The snake had coiled its body round and round her slender ankle even to the fringe of her white sari. It struggled hard to free its head, and had it been been a little larger, it might have suc ceeded and bitten her long ago; but the girl pressed with all her little weight on that foot. The mother put her foot over that of her child, clasped her to her waist —and thus they stood, mother and j child, over the serpent's head. Long they stood in silent anguish; for, one little turn of that tiny foot, and moth er and child had died in each other's arms. Hard the mother pressed with her full weight on the child's foot— till slowly and gradually the coils be gan to relax. She pressed on and on with greater hope, till the coils fell to the ground and lay in lifeless circles around the child's foot. The cobra was smothered, its head crushed! The mother sat down on the ground, rooking her swooning child to her bosom, weeping like a mad thing.— Wide World Magazine. X.nst in the Woods. A party consisting of Oliver Cook sou, Frank Norton, Randall Goodwin and Albert Cookson left Newport, Me., recently, for a hunting trip. They went to a camp about sixteen miles from Costigan, and the experiences of the party while away were suoh that the members are not likely to soon forget them. The light snow that fell about the time that they commenced hunting enabled the members of the party to track deer readily. Albert Cookson was left at the camp to look after the things, being lame and not able to get through the woods like the other members of the party. Wednes day while alone at tho oamp a large deer came up within a short distance of tho place, and Mr. Cookson tried his luck with the rifle. The deer was wounded, but had vitality enough to make good speed in getting away from the spot. Cookson followed in the hope that he would have something worth while to show the others on their return. He followed the deer for several hours as best he could, but the animal kept out of his way, and as darkness began to settle ho com menced to think that it would be best for him to get back to camp. During tho time that ho had fol lowed the deer he had not for a mo ment thought about the camp, and he had little idea in what direction it lay. lie had a compass, however, and con sulted it, but thought that the instru ment was out of order, for it did not exactly coincide with his views. He, however, followed the compass as best he could, walking as long as he could see, then built a tire and prepared to camp for the night. During the night the snow was thawed so that he could not retrace his tracks, and the men who returned to the camp before dark, being unable to find him that night, could not track him the next morning. Cookson remained with his fire and without food the following day and duriug the next night the rain that fell put out his tire. Saturday two young men named Baker, and belonging in Costigan, found him after he had been nearly three days without food. Though weak, he had sufficient strength to walk back to camp, which was only about two miles from where he had been stopping for three days. Cookson returned to his home in Etna, and will no doubt be more careful tho next time he chases a deer. All Interesting Fact. It baa been stated in various quarters that it is a physical impossibility for a whalo to swallow a man. Here are some facts which bear upon th® matter in an interesting manner: English papers report that in February. 1891, the whaler Star of the East launched two wlialeboats, with an equipment of men, to pursue a superb whale that was observed at some distance. The huge creature was harpooned and wounded to the death. While it was writhing in its last agonies one of the whaleboats was struck by its tail and shattered to pieces. The sailors who were in it wej-e thrown into the water. All but two were saved shortly afterward by the other boat. The body of one was recovered, but the other, a man named James Bartley, could not be found. When the monster was dead it was hoisted alongside the ship and the work of cutting it up began. When the stomach of the whale was opened, what was the surprise of the whale men to find in it their lost comrade, James Bartley, unconscious but alive. They had much trouble in re viving him. For several days he was delirious. Not until three weeks had elapsed did he recover his reason and become able to narrate his impres sions. "I remember well," said he, "the moment when the whale threw me into the air. Then I was swal lowed, and found myself inclosed in a firm, slippery channel, whose con tractions forced me continually down ward. This lasted only an instant. Then I found myself in a very large sac, and by feeling about I realized that I had been swallowed by a whale and that I was in his stomach. 1 could still breathe, though with much difficulty. I had a feeling of insup. portable heat, and it seemed as if I were being boiled alive. Tho hor rible thought that I was doomed to perish in the whale's body tortured me, and my agony was intensified by the calm silence that reigned about me. Finally I lost consciousness." The captain of the Star of the East adds that cases where whales have swallowed men are not rare; but this was the first time that he ever saw the victim come out alive after his ex perience. Bear'. Hard Luck. Tom Marshall, a noted Pennsyl vania hunter and lumberman, recently loft his home in Susquehanna County to establish a lumber camp near Will iamsport. A year ago Marshall left his cabin in the woods in care of his wife and his cousin, Miss Ogden, of Hackensack, N. J. After he got well ■away Mrs. Marshall looked out of a window and discovered a big bear poking his nose through a stovepipe hole in the roof of the dugout used as a storage place for vegetables. The woman flew to the doors and locked them. They then held a coun cil of war. "The brute will eat all our vegetables," said Mrs. Marshall. "Could you—don't you think?" said Miss Ogdcn, tremulously, eyeing Mr. Marshall's rifle in a corner of the room. "That is, if I shall load it, don't you know?" as she nodded at the gun. Miss Ogden got the gun and slipped in a oartridge. Mrs. Mar shall opened the window. The gun was laid across the sill, and while Miss Ogden put her fingers in her ears, Mrs. Marshall shut her eyes and pulled the trigger. To their astonish ment, Bruin howled and fled up the hill, leaving a bloody trail upon the snow. The fighting blood of the two wom en was up. Reloading the gun, they stole up the hill, and discovered Bruiu drossing his wound in some under brush. Resting the gun upon a log, Miss Ogden fired this time. Down upon them came the bear. Dropping the gun in a snowbank, the fright ened women ran down the hill with sharp, feminine shrieks, and never stopped until they were safe in the house behind locked doors. Then they reconnoitred through a window. Bruin was in his death struggles. Out the women sallied once more, recovering their gun, and, to make assurance doubly sure, put another ball in the bear's carcass. When Mr. Marshall returned home he put the bear upon the scales. Two hundred and seventy was registered. Mr. Marshall is justly proud of the women. Sharing In a I.ion's I)cn. During the visit of a traveling menagerie to Ely, England, a local hairdresser named Arthur Dobson, for a wager of &25, entered a cage con taining two forest-bred lions, and there shaved tho lion-tamer before a large crowd. The tamer, who occu pied a seat facing the lions, had in the middle of the operation to get up and drive the animals, which became threatening, to the far end of the cage. Dobscn showed great nerve. One Knn#ter' liimy Day. Saturday afternoon a rooster that had decorated a window in the lower part of Lewiston duriug the last sea son of Thanksgiving got out of his cage and flew across Lisbon street. The owner weut after him, and he went into Maynard Goff's door and upset a box of cigars of the best variety, and then flew into the box of old coins that Mr. Goflf keeps on his back shelves. The owner followed him in and made a desperate lunge at him. He missed the rooster, which flew out of the door and went down tho street in the air, squawking ferociously. He next went into the i open door of Nelson Gague's store, | and made a flyiug leap on the counter jin the backroom. Here were several ! men enjoying a quiet smoke. One of | them was just drinking a glass of ' water, and the rooster flew into his i face, upsetting the water and sprink | ling it 011 his shirt bosom. Mr. Fred Peltier caught the rooster by tho tail I feathers, and pulled them out. The I alarmed bird escaped again and went I into the fish market of Sammy Stuart, i where in the window was a pile of live J lobsters, mad and squirming about for | something to bite. One of them closed on the leg of the rooster, and, though j he was too cold to bite hard, held on | till the owner of the bird i caught him.—Lewiston (Me.) Journal. MASCOT ATE THE SHIP'S PAINT. Sailor* of the Gloucester Make a Capture and Rue It. It was seven bells in the forenoon watch of the blistering July day when the auxiliary cruiser Gloucester sent ashore a landing party at the quaint Porto Kican seaport Guanica. The party had landed three hours earlier and had done its duty with the regu lars of Miles' army in sending the Dons skedaddling into the heavy tropical forests which fringe the foot hills of the Porto liicau coast. It was now an hour of relaxation. In an unlucky moment a Spanish ban tam cockerel emerged from under a house and omitted a lusty crow. Then it was that Lieutenant Norman gave his historical order: "All hands chase chickens!" The line of excited men o'-wArmen scattered in untacticai dis order, pursuing the gallinaceous enemy. "It was more work to capture one of those clipper-built 25-knot chick ens than to sink the Plutou," said Mr. Ckipman. "I thought I had the fowl foul when she tacked ship, leaving me in stays. Iu a minute she was hull down 011 the horizon. I ran across the bows of a rooster by pure luck and put him out of commission. Later I grabbed another by his tail,and wrung his neck." Paymaster Down had his sport also. Proceeding on a private expedition, hejsighted a goat with progeny around her to the number of four. He took her in tow in triumph. Following the instincts of good Mother Nature, the four little goats, who split even, two being Nannies and two Billies, trailed along behind. One of the Billies was drafted as a mascot for the battleship Massachusetts and the other Billie was retained as the Gloucester's special mascot. The lat ter immediately distinguished himself by eating the saddle of the Colt's automatic gun. After he ha I got his sea legs on things would disappear as completely as if they had been thrown into the lucky bag. One line morning the ship's painter was coming on deck witli a pail of reddead. "Lay aft, McGee!" sang out a weather beaten bos'n's mate. Dropping his pail, the painter obeyed this order. Returning in fif teen minutes, he found that the con tents of the pail -had disappeared. Billy had also disappeared. He was fouud leaning against the armorer's chest iu a highly suspicious condi tion. His whiskers were as crimson as a Harvard football player's sweater. Hospital Steward Cox gave him emetic after emetic. It was in vain. The animal grew "dopier" and "dopier," and was put ashore finally. Undoubt edly he would have made a satisfac tory deep sea lead if he had been kept on board a day longer. Thirteen Juror* in the Box. A notable discovery was made in Mr. Justice Bruce's court—that of the thinnest man in existence. Architects of palaces of justice, wherever they may he, have always held it to be a maxim of their art that for twelve men summoned to serve on a jury space ought to be provided for only eleven, and jury boxes are constructed accord ingly. It was therefore a matter of great surprise when one of the counsel in a case discovered, after his leader had opened and called his first witness, thirteen heads iu the box. True, it was after luncheon; but as the discoverer is a teetotaller the sur plus could not reasonably he ascribed to the usual source of optical augmen tation. Nevertheless he counted the con tents of the box several times to make sure, and thirteen was the result on each occasion. Then he ventured to consult his leader, who called his lordship's attention to the extraordi nary fact, and after Mr. Justice Bruce had tried his own arithmetical powers on the jurors and also totalled up thir teen, he ventured to ask what it all meant. An inquiry by an officer of thf court disclosed the fact that the odd juryman had he m duly summoned as a juror in waiting, and had strolled into the box unobserved in preference to standing in the corridor. The good men and true did not notice his pres ence, ami when he was di missed they did not find themselves more at ease. 80 thin must lie have been that he may lie expected soon to become a candidate for the attention of the Psychical Research society. —London Telegraph. Literary Men and Honors. Honors for literary meu are rare. There was Scott's baronetcy (he want ed it as a man of family with feudal principles, not as u man of letters), and ho got it. The sheriff was -knight ed by nature, and they gave him his spurs. It is probable that several men of letters have managed to de cline official honors. When Lord Tennyson accepted gracefully what his sovereign gracefully and grate fully gave, some literary persons "booed" at him. The great poet neither coveted nor churlishly refused official recognition. To him the mat ter, we may believe, was purely in different. And it really is indifferent to most men of letters. 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