Freeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY. Limited OFricE: Main Stkekt Above Centre. FREELAND, FA. SUISSCItIft'TION KATES: One Year $1.50 Six Mouths 75 Four Months 50 Two Mouths .25 The date which the subscription is paid to is on tne address label of each paper, the change of which to u subsequent date be comes a receipt for remittauce. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Re port promptly to this office whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be puid wbeu subscription is discontinued. Make all inomy orders, cheeks, ttc,, payable to Ihe Tribune Printing Company, Limited. Manila has already had ail illustra tion of the difference between the American and Spanish way of doing things. Two hundred men were for merly employed in the postoffice at that place, and the office was kept open only every other day. Now twenty Americans do ull the work, and the office is kept opeu every day. William Carney, an engineer at the Kichmond Rolling Mills, Richmond, Ind., met his death the other day by falling against a large gear wheel, which tore off one of his legs. He was alone in the engine room and knew that possibly no one would en ter it for hours. Realizing that dis aster would result if the fire under the boilers were left burning, be dragged his mutilated body fifty feet to the boiler room and turned off the natural gas which was used as fuel, ami then lapsed into uuconsicousness. Twenty minutes later the machinery stopped, caused by a lack of steam, and the employes rushed to the engine "om to ascertain the reason and found the engineer dying. Such deeds strengthen faith iu our fellowman, and while such brave men live we should have no fear for the future. In the report of Isaac B. Brown, superintendent of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Railroads, made a year age, some comment was made regarding the bicycle as a competitor of the Btreet railway. Observations made 011 Third street in the city of Harrisbnrg, with a view of showing the number of persoas riding wheels and the number riding iu the cars, were given. It was found of the 6078 persons who passed a given point between seven in the morning and six in the evening, dur ing two days iu the mouth of October, 1962 rode in cars aud 4116 ou bicycles, or 67.7 per cent, ou bicycles and 32.3 per cent, in the ears. A comparison of the figures obtained this year with those of last year is therefore of con siderable interest. This year the num ber counted at the same poiut in the same length of time was 5819, of whom the number in the cars was 2370 and on wheels 3449, or 59.3 per cent, on wheels and 40.7 in cars. The conclusion drawn by Mr. Brown is that the bicycle is not so keen a com petitor of the street-cars as it was a year ago. Another conclusion drawn is of interest. Of the 5819 persons count ed this year 1470 passed between the hours of 12 noon and 2 p. m., of whom 1026 were ou wheels and 442 in cars, or 70 per cent, on wheels and 30 per cent, in the cars. These figures show very clearly that the clerk and the laborer iu goiug to and from then work use the wheel quito generally. But the figures bearing ou the use of the wheel during other hours of the day indicate that fewer persons are using the wheel as a sort of pleas ure. This Harrisbnrg condition may be a purely local one, but Mr. Brown draws the general conclusion that the wheel has reached the highest poiutof competition with the street railway. AS TRUE AS GOSPEL, The best of living is living for the best. Some men have a regular Sunday morning attack of homesickness when the church bells ring. There Is not much lifting-power in the testimony of the church member who does not pay his debts. "Know thyself," said the Psalmist; hut he never said anything about knowing thy neighbor's affairs. We know that the unseen world is ruled by the same lawß which rule us here. In that world we may ex pect discipline, but we need tear no evil. Resignation is not a passive and unaspiring content with life and the world as they are, but it IB a faithful acceptance of God's sovereignty, and God's purpose, and God's method, Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The beet preparation for the night is to work, whilo the day lasts, dili gently. There is nothing purer than honesty, nothing sweeter than charity, nothing warmer than love, nothing richer than wisdom, nothing brighter than virtue, nothing store steadfast than faith. A BALLAD OF OLD SKATES. I see a host of little men Troop by from school at half-past three, Anl presently troop back affnin, Skates on their arm", in highest glee. The gleaming blades throw back to me A .shaft of sunlight and are gone; And then, as in a dream, 1 see The old-time skates that buckled onl They nil come back—the good old ways!— The legend that to boy and mat* The cars showed on propitious dnjrs— "Good skating on Branch Brooj •" it ran. From that hour Boreas began His reign till disenthroned anon, There were no dearer treasures than The old-timo skates thut buckled on! 1 THE SENSITIVENESS OF QUSHkM © © -Qj BY WARD McCAULEY. g. EORGE QUIRK (y\ /\YV waste. That vwHf ' act; c,m ''' ' ,e I L&brCF easily discerned Jjfl \ w?(&7'n from the hur- A/F\\l Hed, impatient ■ ■' ' "vST"? step with which W WilT-rffl he strode aloug. Vwc Had anyone taken the trou ble to follow the ' **• • noteworthy gen- i tleman, his destination would not have long remained a matter of doubt, i Threo or four doors along the nve- i nue his anxious gaze encountered a i sign, "Dr. Conrad Scliniitdeil," and ' toward that Mecca, for it was east of | where he stood, he bent his steps. i Mr. Quirk'B complaint was two- i fold. He suffered from sensitiveness and nervousness; be had poor control of bis feelings and still worse of his muscles. He regarded a doctor as a court of last resort, and he hesitated when he turned the handle to open the door. A young looking man advanced, and of him Quirk inquired: "Is Doctor Schmitdeil in?" "Uf he vas not oudt, I vas in, I dink," remarked the other, in broken English. The words irritated Mr. Quirk. "You are too smart, by half, for an office boy," he declared iu a sharply reproving tone. "Where is the doc tor?" "I vas him, mineself, I toldtyou," .responded the German. "Really, are you Doctor Conrad Schmitdeil, the promising young phy sician of whom everyone is talking?" said Quirk, scarcely believing that such could be the ease. The youthful Teuton nodded gravely. "I vas him," said he; then, draw ing from the Bhelf a large book, he added, "My register; vot is your name?" ' 'George Quirk,'' replied his patient, nervously. As the other failed to understand, he repeated: "Quirk, Quirk! Can't you understand? Q-u-i-v-k, Quirk." "I vould not got so oxcited aboudt it," retorted the physician, and com mented to himself. "Veil, I don't care; I dakes his 'aasa' in der pill oudt of." "Who's excited? Who's excited?" queried Quirk, nervously. "Uf it vas not me, I dink you know yourself petter. I dinks dere vas eomodinga der matter mit you." "Of course, you blamed fool!" com menced Quirk. The German rose to bis feet, but George continued as calmly as was possible for so excita ble a gentleman. "Of course! Do you suppose I would consult a physi cian if there wasu't something the matter with me?" "I dinks I forgot dat," said the dootor, scratching his head. "Vot iB wrong?" "Nervousness and sensitiveness." "Neirfousness and sun3itiveness; dot vas pad. Vas you so your hands vould not stay still vile you dinks?" "Oh, worse than that, far worse! lam as nervous as—as a young man proposing, and as sensitive as an as piring poet—as an aspiring poet. I tell you, Doctor Schmitdeil, it's awful." "Oh, it is not so'veirse," said the physician, cheerfully, for he had pioked up a little of our slang. "Uf ! you do vat I tells you, a cure vill quickly result itself. I liaf tried it on Beveral uf mine patients und it vas nefer failed. Bat it vill be quite hard for you to make your mindt up to do vat I tell you." "What must I do?" inquired Quirk, nervously. "Become a canvasser," replied the dootor, "and dake subscriptions for a mitgazine. Uf dat don't effect a cure, I will ate my hat—dot is unless you vas an incurable." "I am not nu incurable. I fissure yqu, Dootor Schmitdeil," said Quirk, solemnly. "Den I am quite certain dot you von't been yourself at dat time next month. Uf you do vot I tell you, Mr. Quirk, you arc all O. Gay. Vot you must do vas (lis: Send to a mitgazine for terms und outfit und get right to veirk, seriously, shust as (lough your life depended it on. You will nefer again bo troubled mit sunsitiveuess, at least." "Thanks, doctor, thanks! I'll try it at once, and let you know the re i suit. How much for your advice?" "Dot vns agreeable to me, Mr. Quirk. Fife dollars, sir, are my charges in dis case." Rather ruefully, George drew a bill from his pocket and handed it to the Teuton. The latter laughed wisely as he opened the door for his patient. "I toldt mineself his sass I would get my pay for," he reflected. "It is tuite expensive to be neirfous and Good skating? Well! Pour months of It! (The winter mouths then got their duesl) And many a night saw bonllres lit Upon the ice—and barbecues! At six, with heel-plates in my shoes, My best boast was that I could don, With all their clumsy straps and screws, The old-time skates that buckled onl Young mati.lthe modern skate's'a "champ'' And "just perfection," you declare; But I'll be bound the clever clump Does not Increase the sport a hair, I'm in the forties now, my share Embonpoint; but, by Helicon! If 1 could skate £ still would wear The old-time skates that buckled on! —Edward W. Barnard, in I'uck. sensitive—(lot is if you cousult Coil racl Schmitdeil." Quirk lost no time in sending stamps to the publisher of Popper's Gazette for a canvassing outfit, which arrived in the course of a few days. Once possessed of his implements of navigation, he determined to embark upon his sea of trouble at once. "It is the crucible that purifies the gold," thought he, "and it will be through hardship that I alii cured of my maladies of disposition." The snmplo copy of the Gazette pre sented a very handsome appearance, and, as Quirk gazed upon it, he con gratulated himself ou his choice. Ghee started on his tour, the nervous gentleman reconnoitred for a suitable street 011 which to operate. A long avenue, lined with houses occupied by people of the middle-class, attracted his attention, and there it was that he began the actual work. The first house was a plain brick building, and under ordinary condi tions he would not have given it a second thought, if, indeed, it received a first one. Now, however, it loomed up appalling, nud Quirk pictured dark, gloomy rooms for the imprison ment of agents. Ho remained in front of the house for at least ten minutes before he raised sufficient courage to climb the steps and ring the bell. His hands were shaking, and be toyed nervously with the paper which ho carried. At the last miuute his small amount of nerve failed him aud he Hed ig nominiously, but not in time, for the lady of the house opened the door just as he reached the street. "You're a nice one," Baid she, "up to the tricks of a boy, bringing people to the door by riuging the bell!" Aud she disappeared. "A lucky escape," said Quirk; "she is a regular tartar. I'm glad I didn't stay, but she inferred that I raug the bell to bring her to the door. How inconsiderate some people are!" Feariug auothor encounter with the lady of the first house ho skipped four, and clenching his fists determin edly, mounted the stairs before a com fortable fx-ame dwelling. This timo he stood his groxind, and waited for whoever or whatever should appear. It proved to bo a very lady like person, and when she stood 011 the threshold aud looked inquiring at Quirk, lie remaiued speechless for a moment. Suddenly it dawned upon him that people dou't ring door bells aud stand 011 stops unless they have an errand. "Madam," said he, tryingjhard not to stammer, "I represent Popper's Gnzette." He took a sidelong glimpse at the paper to assure himself that he had rightly uaiued it. "I should be pleased to enter your subscription at the rate of 0110 dollar a year. I say I should be pleaxed to enter " | (Quirk's nervousness was almost the couse of hia undoing. Tho lady puraed hcrlipa in that distant manner BO exasperating to a sensitive person. Besides, you see, she was a lady. "I don't care for Popper's Ga/.otte," said she, quietly, yet with a plainly discernible sneering inflection, "aud I never purchase anything from agents." Quirk stood bolt upright, his hands at his sides, his face pale, awaiting her further utterance. Nothing more came, however, and the lady retired, closing the door, and, to Quirk's great chagrin, locking it as well. That was the unkindest cut of all. But tho thing had to bo done. Quirk knocked bravely at the door of the next houso. No one responding, ho pounded harder. Hoon steps were heard iu the hall, aud George found himself confronting a frowsy-looking man who wore no collar, and whose hair suggested a very recent Bojourn in bed. The man's eyes were about half oloscd, and he assumed a frown deep and intense. "What the deuce do you want?" said he. , "I represent Topper's Gazette, a monthly magazine." And Quirk hes itatingly advanced the sample. "You blasted agent," almost screamed the sleepy man. "I'd like to hang your whole tribe! Waking a fellow up to show him your con founded Popper's 'Gazette, or Borne darn thing." "I am sorrytohave disturbed you," replied Mr. Quirk. "I say lam sorry to have disturbed you." "Well, I heard yon. Look here, our number is four-thirty-four. Mark it down, and don't you never come here with your papers. If you do, by jinks! I'll lay you out." "Sir," said Quirk, "you are no gentleman." "I don't care for what you say. I thank my stars I'm not a peddler." 'Good day, sir," said Mr. Quirk. The erstwhile canvasser was all in a quiver over the various cut# already adminiaUxed to mim. but he realized that in time a permanent cure would be effected. After the usual inward combat, George rang the bell at another house. Just at this time it happened that ho was paying attentions to a young lady of his acquaintance. He was most anxious to place himself high in her esteem, and he was thus far doubtful of his success. Imagine his suf/ prise and consternation when thedoof was opened by no. other than tUi young lady herself. "Good morning, Mr. Quirk," said she, graciously. She did not see his sample copy. "I suppose you want to see Miss Ernst." "Yes—that is, no—l guess I do. Who is Miss Ernst?" "Why, she lives here," returned his friend, in surprise. "Is it not she whom you wish to see? Did you want to speak to me? How did you know I was here?" Quirk was so nervous that he could scarcely reply intelligibly. "I don't want either of you particu larly. You see I represent Popper's Gazette, and I am soliciting subscrip* tions." It may be wondered that Quirk did not invent some yarn and retreat as gracefully as possible. He would, as suredly, have done so but for the fact that no plan was suggested to him at the time. Miss Weltou, for that was tho young lady's name, replied with coolness and reserve, "Indeed, Mr. Quirk! I did not know that you were an agent. You told me that you were studying to enter college. I might have known better than to believe it." When Miss Welton originally ap peared at the door, she had stepped welcomingly aside to allow him to come in. Now, she moved forward again, to bar his admittance. "You see I am not in earnest about this matter, Miss Welton." "You are not? Then you are no gentleman." "I know I'm not. lam a peddler. I say I am a peddler." "I heard you. Is there anything more you want? I don't care for your Gazette, and as you have deceived me I don't know that I wish to keep my engagement with you to-morrow even ing. Understand me, Mr. i Quirk, J have nothing to say against your voca tion. Hail you told me that you were a canvasser, I would not have let that interfere with our friendship; but I do not like your deliberately telling me a falsehood." "But you see, [Miss Welton, I am not really an agent, only pretending." "Quite a baby yet," said the young lady, sarcastically and doubtingly. "I suppose you know," said Mr. Quirk, trying hard to ignore the "dig," "that I [am afflicted with ner vousness and sensitiveness. I went to Doctor Conrad Bchmitdeil and he prescribed a canvassing tour as a rem edy. Don't see you? He says can vassers are insulted so much that they don't mind it, and thus are cured of their trouble." "Oh, yes, I see, Mr. Quick. Why didn't yon soy so before? Won't you come in?" This time the door was thrown wide open. Miss Ernst was brought for ward, the two were introduced, and the trio spent a pleasant hour, daring which time Quirk managed to forget all about his canvassing, his sensitive ness and all. He was cphckly reminded of it after bidding his friends good-by. Once upon the street, the recollection of his errand came upon him. Wearily ho rang doorbell after door bell and produced his copy of the Ga zette. The reply was invariably a re fusal' to subscribe, and was usually accompanied by a slighting speech if not an nctual insult. Fatigue overtook the unused canvasser, but he was pon dering too deeply to mind it much. At noon ho had taken lunch in a dispirited sort of way, and all the after noon he had had the blues. At about five o'clock,to his supreme amazement, ho secured a subscription. Soon latter, ho gave up work for the day. The experience was kept up until the end of the week, and each day was a repetition of the first as regards in sults, gibes and sneers. Gu Saturday Quirk dropped in on Doctor Schmitdeil. "Good evening, dootor," said he, cordially. "Shake hands. I can now talk rationally. Get me one of your testimonial blanks at once." The doctor grasped tho hand of his patient. "How vas dot canvassing business?" "Call me a fool, doctor," said Quirk. "You vas been a fool, Mr. Quirk." "Thank you, doctor, thank you! It is perfectly clear that I havo entirely lost|.'my sensitiveness. If you had called me that last week, I'd have had a fit." "Vas dot so? I daut mineself you vas not shust as you might be ven you called mo on. But dot is a great scheme." "Say, doctor," said Quirk, winking, "get your hat; it is my treat." The doctor swung his chair around and touched an electric bell. "It vas nodt necessary," said he. "I nlvays have such dings convenient to mine office. It was shust across der alley und I haf dis here pecause I needt them often." Shortly a waiter appeared. • 'Bring me a glass of mineral water," said Quirk. "Doctor, get as much as you like of whatever you want." "Bring me von dozen pottles of soda," ordered the physician, and to himself, "I toldt mineself I vould got his 'sass' in der pill oudt of." The refreshments were brought in and the sensitiveness of Quirk was ushered to a conclusion. Next to New York, the largest city in the United States in point of area is New Orleans. In 1800 New York City got it* water out of wells. NAVAL COAL STATIONS. OUR LATE WAR TEACHES THAT THEY ARE ALL-IMPORTANT. In tlin Acquisition, Development nnd Port Ideation of Hers Kngland Has Spent Nearly 9500.000,000 in Fifty Vears— Spain's Helplessness in This Particular. Nothing has been more clearly taught by the war than the all-impor tance of coaling facilities anil coaf eupply to the weaker navy. The strong navy can seize bases and an chorages for its needs, if it does not appropriate to its own uses the ene my's This is what Admiral Dewey did at Manila. Neu trals are teudiug to increase the strin gency of the conditions under which belligerents are allowed to obtain sup plies of fuel in their ports and very rightly so. Admiral (Jervera's opera tions in the West Indies were greatly hampered by the fact that he found it hard to get coal. The nominal sup ply of his cruisers was excellent; they all carried from 1000 to 1200 tons,and had in theory radiuses of action of about 10,000 miles. Unfortunately, however, theory and practice do not always coincide, and in coal-endur ance less than anywhere. Instead of being able to steum to Cuba from St. Vincent and back again without re plenishing his bunkers, he was com pelled to put into Curacoa after cov ering little over 0000 miles, and then was only allowed a very limited sup ply for two of his ships. That he did not attempt to till his bunkers from colliers in some unfrequented anchor age, such as abound in West Indian waters, seems extraordinary. This is a perfectly feasible operation, and as it was not essayed, we are bound to conclude either that the colliers were wanting—if so, another example of Spanish mismanagement—or that, be ing a weak power, Spain was afraid to risk trouble with the South American and Central American states. Iu a war between two strong navies we may expect to see much more disregard for the rights of weak neutrals. Camara's voyage to the Philippines came to an untimely end at Suez,quite as much because of the coal difficulty as because his fleet was wanted for the defence of the Spanish littoral. Had ho steamed east, he would not have been allowed by Egypt, France, Italy, or Turkey—the powers which hold the shores of the Red sea—to coal on their coasts or in their harbors. He must have struggled as far as Colombo or Singapore before the rules of inter national law would have allowed him to fill his hunkers with fuel to take liim to Mauiln. llis helplessness coming so close upou the voyages of the Deutschland and Getion, and of the Navarin and Sissoi Veliki, to the Far East—voyages which would have been almost impossible had England closed her coaling stations to these rival powers—has not escaped notice on the continout of Europe. France, under the guidance of M. Lockroy, is preparing to fortify and provide with docks the chain of harbors which link Toulon and Madagascar. Germany is eagerly looking for points of strategic value on the tfadc routes, but I great ly fear that she will find none. Here England is without a rival. As her sea-power has not been an ephemeral growth, she has slowly, link by link, forged a wonderful chain, binding India, the Yellow sen, Australia, and the Cape to the mother-country. In the acquisition, development, and for tification of her coaling-stations she must have spent within the last half century nearly $500,000,000. Thus it will be seen that the power which is to compete with her in this respect will have to pour out money like wa ter. It cannot be doubted that the United States will equip itself with a chain of stations linking Manila and China to the Pacific coast. Already they possess, or can have for the ask ing, Hawaii, the Ladrones and Caro lines, and Paugo-Pango in Samoa. In the West Indies they will have Puerto Rico, and Cuba. With these advanced positions, the need for sea-going ships and not monitors', grows.—From "The Naval Lessons of the War," by H. W. Wilson, in Harper's Magazine. Mill no Gam Gatherers. Somo of the druggists in eastern Maine have made contracts for spruce gum aggregating several thousands of dollars, and some have outfitted gum hunters nnd sent them away into the woods, as backers send men into the Klondike. Year by year the gum pick ers are obliged to go further into the woods. The quality of the gum must be kept up. Most of tho Maine gum is sent away to the city market that demands for consumption by the society girls in their boudoirs the round red lumps that gleam with inner fires like the bloodstone. This sort of gum is sold readily by the Maine wholesalers at $1.50 per pound. Be tween you and me, the metropolitan prices for this tip-top gum are so allur ing to the Maine sellers that the pro vincials do not get it unless we go out into the wildwooils and dig it for our selves. The only peculiarly favored mortals in this respect are the Maine girls who have best fellows in the woods. Compared with hia expenses, the wages of the gum pickers are almost Klondike prices. A few bushels of beaus and some flour furnish him his winter's food. Frequently he gets guni in one day that will net him $lO in the market. But the guin picker isn't npt to be a very energetic chap. He makes short days and goes flailing and gunning about half the time. He doesn't leave the side of his cozy campflro wlion a storm is on. And at the end of the season, when he comes out in the spring with his pack of gum on his back, jt will be found that he has made but little more than ' day's wages.—Lewiston (Me.) Journal. WORSE THAN TOBACCO. Some Deadly Substitutes Which Are Smoked in Rural England, Tobacco is not the only weed that is smoked in Britain—not by a long way—says a writer in the English weekly, Answers. There is no need to go to the far East to ferret out weird and poisonous smoking habits; they lie all around us. In Somerset and the southwest counties a great many persons smoke a concoction called "sundew." It is not a new fad, but has been in use for 3UO years there. Sundew is a mixture of sun-dried beet leaves, parsley and peppermint—a very little of the latter. It is not u very harmful mixture, though it conduces to considerable drowsiness, 41ml is anything but good for the teeth. You may notice in the western counties a good many per sons with brown or blackened teeth; it is the result of sundew smoking. The stull'is not pleasant to a stranger, for it is very hot and choky and takes a great deal of getting used to. Sundew is often homemade, and most of the country people are ex perts at making it. They set apart a week in July for the sundew harvest, and it is ulways dried and mixed by women. However, there are three regular sundew factories in Somerset, whore bushels of the mixture are turned out. It cau be bought for from twopence to threepence per ounce, according to quality. Going a little further north—to Gloucestershire ahd mid-Wales—you will strike a much worse habit. The peojjlo there—town and country alike are much given to smoking "glissop." Glissopis a sort of dry mash of hemlock leaves - the young shoots that grow in spring—burdock and ground chick beans. This can also be bought at some shops, though most of it is homemade. When bought it fetches fourpence an ounce. This stull is smoked in short wooden pipes with very small bowls, and is really disastrous in its effects. Like sundew, it needs practice to get used to, but is much pleasanter to the palate than that compound. Its first effect 011 a smoker is loss of memory, and this increases till the smoker, after six months of the habit, is quite unfitted for any profession that re quires much thought. The eyesight soon becomes affected by constant and excessive indulgence in the habit, which takes hold of a man like mor phomania and is almost incurable. Even small children may be seen smoking glissop, though but for the , shape of the pipe employed a stranger would not know that they were not smoking tobacco, unless ho were very close. The smell of the smoke, how ever, induces a tickling in the nostrils and a sort of giddiuess which is quite unmistakable. Tobacco is far less injurious, even when indulged in to excess, than this poisonous compound. Although it is dearer than ordinary "shag" tobacco, the poorest people who are addicted to it always get it instead. They say they cannot taste or snfell eveu the strongest tobacco any more than if it were mist. QUAINT AND CURIOUS- The Mexico dog has no hair. The hot climate makes such u covering su perfluous. Experiments to reproduce dead men's features from their skulls are being made in Germany. No human head was impressed on coins until after the death of Alexan der the Great. All images before that time were of deities. Greek and Human doors invariably open outward; a person passing out of the house was therefore obliged to knock ou the door before opening it, to avoid collision with u passerby. The Tyrol had an extraordinary mild autumn. On November 15 flowers were bloomiug, and ripe strawberries were picked, some at an elevation of 3000 feet. There were alpine roses in bloom and pleuty of Juno bugs ! In the archives of the Due do la Tremouille have been found the min ute books of the Sorbonne, the eerie- j siastical court, from 1505 to 1533, the period of the strongest struggle against Protestantism in France. They are now in the Paris National library. Golf was a popular game iu Scotland in 1457. By an edict of James IV, issued in 1471, the games of golf and football were prohibited in that coun try; that mouarch opposed his own edict by engaging in the former game himself, and was considered a track player. Man Makes 111 ark Horses White. Here's a man who can color your horse to suit, and do it almost while you wait. He can literally make black white—in horses. He is George F. Bichings,a professional horse painter, who says that there are great possibi lities in his method of changing a horse's color. How he discovered the process, he describes as follows: "I was treating a horse for a sore, and found the lotion had run into the hair and quickly changed its color. I started experiments and have con tinued them ever since. I frequently bought old crowbaits for $3 or gio to experiment on their hides, and Anally succeeded in getting the required re sults. "I cau make a chestnut horse in twenty-four hours,no matter what the color of the animal brought to me. To make a black or brown horse requires from*bix to ten days." "Have you ever tried to make a white horse out of a black one?" "Oh, yes frequently; but it is an experiment attended with danger to the horse. The lotions have a ten dency to weaken the skin and are ap plied with danger to the more tender portions of the horse, more especially about, the tendons."—Now X*rU TVoild. BT. JACOBS uii. jures Rheumatism. ST. JACOBS On. cures Neuralgia. ST. JACOBS OIL cures Lumbago. ST. JACOBS OIL cures Sciatica, ST. JACOBS OIL cures Sprains. ST. JACOBS OIL cures Bruises. ST. JACOBS OIL cures Soreness, ST. JACOBS OIL cures Stiffness. ST. JACOBS OIL cures Backache. ST. JACOBS OIL cures Muscular Aches, Light-haired people, it is said, as a rule live longer than dark-haired. T\V ENTY-FOUJI lIOURM To New Orleans or to Jacksonville via the Queen A Crescent Limited trains from Cin cinnati, ft! hours through to Havana. To Florida Queen & Crescent Two Fast Vesti buled trains daily Cincinnati to Jacksonville. Queen A. Crescent Route and Southern It'y. 100 miles shortest line to Florida and the West Indies. Asheville Only through Car Line is via Queen & Crescent Route and Southern R y from Cincinnati. Cafe and observation cars. Excellent service on superb through trains. Queen & Crescent Route from Cin cinnati South. There are two islands 'n New Zea land set apart for the preservation of Its remarkable wild birds and other animals. All hunting and trapping is forbidden thereon. To Care Constipation Forever. t rw? (^ UH , ca !' et ß Candy Cathartic. 10c or 23. la L. L. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money. Blood flows through the bones of very young children almost as freely as through the veins. <ru Stubborn. Any complaint becomes chronic by neg lect, und rheumatism grows stubborn by not using St. Jacobs Oil. which is its sure cure and conquers the pain promptly. Every sufferer should use it. The births in Buffalo last year num bered 7,885. as compared with 3,140 in lsy?. and 8,414 in 1596. Ifo-To-Bnc for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak Men strong, blood pure. 60c, |l. All druggists. To date the United States has is sued 616,441 patents. THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS is due not only to the originality and ■implicity of the eohibination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYBUP Co. only, and we wish to impress upon all the importance of purchasing the true and original remedy. 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Last week my wlfo was frantic with headache for two days, she tried some of your OA SCA RETS, and they relieved the pain in her head almost immediately. We both recommend Cuscarete." CH AS. STBDBFORD. Pittsburg Safo &. Deposit Co., Pittsburg, Pa. CATHARTIC TSADE MARK RVOISTVRCO Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do Good, Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c, 26c. 600. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... BUrllat llti.dy fonpsny, Chlearn, Montreal, Now York. 317 NO'TO-BAC SSI Saher'i Stcdi art Warranted to RS WOft TH roß^Oo^^S UP ,(10 Ohb U. K ucii CATALOGUES OF THOUSANDS OF 3PJL.A.YH ! JPXjAYS ! HUNT Fit RIO SENT PItKK of"S!!ok for"'r r Aim' n I, MM t'lin,'. kinds Near.) Plays, J a rle v """w ax'' W™rks "airy riay-H, Paper Scenery, Plays for Male only. TaMeaux Vlvanta, Make I n Maluriala. Amateur'. Guide to thoSUfco, Uultlo to Selecting Plays, •• Unw to Mako Up.' ~r „ SAMUEL Fit UNCI I, 23 West 22d Street, - New York City. DROPSY 7 DISCOVERY; give. cniea rVTJT " quick relief and oaree wont eaten. Book ef testimonials and IO <IMVN' trentmonl Free. p r . H. H. GREEN'S SONS. Bo* D. AUanta. QA. W of h ** lt h Rat R I P-A IT ® ▼ will not benefit. Bend fi eta. to Ripana Chemical Op.. New York for lo samulea aud louo testimonials. KDCUITIA I LOIFI treatment, postpaid, ID cents ■ ■ALEIANOSS BEMJUJX CO.. JUGreenwich St.. H. 2
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