Freeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVKHY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY TIIB ffiIEUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited' OiricE: Main Street Above Centbe. FREELAND, PA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Mouth* 75 Four M>>nihs 50 Two Mouths .. . .25 The date which the subscription is paid to (b on tne a Idre.-s lubel of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date le vjotues a receipt for remittance, Keep the figures in advunce of the present date. He port promptly to this office whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must bo puid when subscription is discontinued. Ma e all morny oixUrs, check.*, itc.,payable to ih 1 Tribune Print<nj Company, Limited. Germany may regard Samoaa waters as a desirable location for trouble ow ing to the fwet that Admiral Dewey cannot be in two places at the sumo time. Our government has decided to pay the Cuban soldiers enough to take them to their homes and give them a -start in life. The sum mentioned is SIOO per mau. Stable conditions will then be in sight,aud the labor demand will quickly absorb those willing to return to work. Home practical diffi culty will be found iu guarding against fraud iu the matter of giving only to actual soldiers, but it is not insuper able. The practical isolation of Spain from the lest of the world is indicated for oue thing by the fact that while there are yet a hundred roads of one kind or another over the Pyrenees be tween France and Hpain only three of the roads are passable for carriages. But even more insuperable than the range of the Pyrenees is that way of pride and prejudice which the haugh ty Castilian interposes between himself and the progressive ideas of the outer world. A socialistic measure is proposed for a county iu Kansas. It is intend ed to submit to a vote of the people at the next el-ictiou the question, "Shall \he county own its telephone system?" It the proposition goes through the county is to build a system and supply every farmhouse with a telephone. The expense of building and operat ing the plant is to be borne by direct 1 taxation, and the county is to be given authority to spread out the original cost of construction over ten years, one-tenth to 1)3 paid each year. An other telephone bill of novel scope is proposed in Indiana. An advocate for school reform lias framed a measure which contemplates abolishing all the Bchoolhouses in tho various counties and teaching the children in their own homes by telephone. The state is to furnish the telephones, which are less expensive than the maintenance of tho BchoolhoUS2S. For the calendar year the record disclosed by figures is a remark able one. The total exports amouute 1 to $1,254,925,169, which represents an increase of over $155,000,000 as com pared with those for 1897 aud of over $259,000,000 as compared with those for 1890. The imports were valued at $633,064,G34, which represented a decrease of over 3108,900,000 as com parer! with those tor 1897, ami of over $47,900,000 as compared with those for 1890. The value o£ the exports for the year was not far from double that of the imports. The excess for the year amounted to $021,'260,335, which was greater by $204,110,071 than that for the preceding year, while as compared with 1890 it showed a still greater gain. What the figures mean in perspective may ho gathered from the statement that the exports were the largest iu the history of the country, while we bavo to go back for a period of thirteen years to find a to tal of imports so low as that recorded for 1898. Not tho least noteworthy feature disclosed by the figures is the large excess of imports over exports of gold, which amounted to 3141,841,- 298, whereas iu 1897 the imports and exports of this metal almost balanced, the exports showing a trilling excess. Taken altogether, the exhibit is the most striking in the statistical annals of the country's foreign trade. Increase In Woolens. The United States census ot 1810 rhov/ed the existence of twenty-foui woolen factories and 1,652 fulling mills. The majority of these were located in New England, and practic ally the balance In New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Each New England state, with the ex ception of Vermont, at that time had millß employed In the manufacture of army nnd navy cloths, clothß for the negroes of tho south, and blankets. The production of broadcloth was con fined to half a dozen mills. As a child Adam made no mistakes, hut he made up for It during his hon eymoon. WHEN LIGHTS AKE LOW. rh room? nre hashed, the lights are low, I sit ami listen to the wfnd That como9 from out the distant hill. It comes and croons in un|unilertouo Of alien regions vast an lone, Of pleasures lost In a land unknown; Then steals away, and all is still. 'Tis good to listen to the wind Vi'hen rooms are hushed and lights are low. POSTMISTRESS AT DOWNINGVILLE. By HAYDEN CARRUTH, WHEN you come to think of it, Down ingville was a vil lage o? magnificent .-w distances, with al most n half-mile . from the tannery ufljf *° " ie sawm '"> au d with only scatter iig houses be twmen. Theschool ? house and the two 1 vf/ Yi churches had each '/ 1 failed to establish * a centre. Even the postoffice stood alone, at at least a hundred yards from the nearest house, with a corner of Squire Pomeroy's wood-lot coming up almost to its back door, as if refusing to reo ognize such a straggling place as a town at all. Mr. Blodgett was the postmaster, but he ran the village grist-mill— which was far from everything else, of ccuirse—and seldom visited the office for a stay of any great length. So it happened that practically the entire work of the office fell upon his assis tant. She was Mabel Loomis, who lived with her mother a quarter of a mile up the road ou the uncertain edge of the village. The work of the office, although not perhaps hard in one sense, was certainly wearing and exacting, and the hours were long—from six in the morning to seven iu the evening, usu ally. Vacations and "days off" were few, and the salary was meagre enough; but Mabel never complaiued, and she did the* work to the test of her ability. It was a beautiful September morn ing; she had just finished putting up tho six twenty-four mail, and the boy who carried it to the station hud de parted. Only two or three persons had as yet been in, so Mabel was sur prised to see Mrs. Allison appear at the general delivery. "Why, good morning, Mabel!" she said. "Yon weren't looking for me so early, were you, now. Well, I'm going to take the train for Proctor's— going up to see Libbie—and I thought I'd drop in. Didn't know but I might have a postal or something from her, telling me to wait till next week." "No, there isn't anything for you," returned Mabel. "Well, I don't know, yon know. You cau't tell. But I suppose this doesn't seem early for you." "No. I've been up an hour and a half." "You don't tell me! Well, I think yon have to get up too early, that's what I think. Seems as if Blodgett might stir out and open the place him- Belf, 'specially as you have to stay so late at night." "He comes in at noon, you know, and stays quite a while. Then, the work isn't hard." "Well, it may not bo hard, but I should say that its wearing, if I'm a judge. Sorting over letters and | pounding them with that thing, and filling out money-orders and tearing them off bias and just so, and fixing the registered letters aud selling stamps, and jumpiug up to this win dow for this body and that body and the other body that want their letters, and forty other things—l declare j 'twould just pester the life out of me in no time at all." "Oh, I don't mind it," returned Mabel, cheerfully. "Well, I must be getting along," continued Mrs. Allison. "Are you going on the excursion next week?" "I'm afraid I can't get away," answered the girl. Mrs. Allison was rummaging in her hand-bag, and her attention seemed distracted. "Seems as if j Blodgett ought to pay you more," she said. "Blodgett is no poor man, and his mill pays him right along. What I'd like, is to see you appointed postmaster yourself. You're twenty-one now." "Oh, thank you," answered Mabel, with a rather sad smile, as Mrs. Alli son went out. Then she sat down in her chair by the desk, but the smile was all gone. "I'm afraid there aren't many ex cursions for me this summer." she mused, somewhat ruefully. "I pre sume Mr. Blodgett would stay here that day if I asked him, but I know I couldn't afford to go. Besides, I haven't any dress to wear that's suita ble. I wish I could earn more." But there was no timo for gloomy thoughts, for tho boy was back with a mail-bag, and people were boginning to drop in more and more frequently. She plunged earnestly into the work before her, which, as work will always do—drove away the gloomy thoughts. But sho was not to bo allowed to forget the excursion, as several of her girl friends who came to the offico askefl her if she was going. She an swered them as she bad answered Mrs, Allison, and it made lier a little angry to feel that her face flushed each time; for although none of them said what her first caller had said, she felt sure that tbey all thought it. She was ashamed of the feeling, but she could not help being disturbed. Other reasons made her feel ker lack of money much more than this excursion. Mabel's father had died five years before, leaving his family in poor circumstances. Her mother's , When those we love have come and gone, 'Tis weary to bo loft behind To miss sweet eyes where late they shone, To look for what wo may not Und, Long-cherished forms that haunt thomind, Boft voices that were once too kind; To live and miss them one by one Is weary work. Who'd stay behind When those we love have come ami gone? —New York Times. health was not good, and there two younger sisters and a little brother who were still at school. It was a little after three o'clock on the afternoon of the samo day that a stranger entered the Downingville postofiice. Mabel was alone. She noticed, as the man stepped up to the general delivery, that he was well dressed, and perhaps between twen ty-five and thirty years of age. Hi 3 face was not a pleasant one, although it did not suggest a lack of intelli gence. lie came close to the window and said: "Is there a registered letter for M. P. Morganstone hero?" Such a letter had come on the latest mail, and Mabel had placed it in the safe which stood in the corner. She answered him in the affirmative, when he continued: "That is my name—M. P. Morgan stono. Please let me have it." "The rules require identification in the case of registered letters, you know," answered Mabel. "Oh yes, I had forgotten. Well, I am a stranger hero, but I can show you who I am all right." lie searched his jrookets, taking out a number of papeTi and old letters. Two of the latter ho pushed through the window. "Thero you see, miss—'M. P. Mor ganstone, Watertown. Just give me the letter—it's very important for mo to catch the up-train." "But I cau't give out a registered letter on such identification. Mr. Blodgett, the postmaster, has instruct me not to do so." Mabel's suspicions were beginning to he slightly aroused by one thing about the man. Twice since coming up to the window ho had glanced over his shoulder at the door. She knew, of course, that it was her duty to de liver the letter if he could fully con vince her that it belonged to him; but she determined to insist on identifica tion of the strictest kind, as a matter of protection to herself and her em ployer. "Why, see here, I've got lots of registered letters ou less identifica tion than this, and at larger offices," the man said. "You're going beyond the rules." "No, I don't think I am. A post master is responsible for registered letters. If ho delivers one to the wrong person the rightful owner can hold him accountable. Mr. Blodgett is very particular. Ho ka3 told 1110 to deliver no such letters to strangers except op identification such a3 would be satisfactory at a bank. You must know that there you would have to be vouched for by some oue known per sonally to the bank jreople." "I can describe the letter," wenton the man, ignoring what she had said. "Large, oblong envelope. From J. 11. Smith, Riverside. Mailed this morning. Isn't that right?" "Yes, but I cau't let you have it without proper identification." Mabel was becoming more suspicious of the man every moment. His disappoint ment aud worry over the situation seemed to bo bringing his true char acter to the surface, and his face and manner were rapidly growing less gentlemanly. "Why, I never saw anything like this. Do you kuow I cau make trou ble for you with the department for holding hack my letter? You kuow I am telling yon the truth about who I am, and you have no right to delay my mail." 5 iMabel made no reply at all, but held her ground at the window. "Now see here, miss, no foolish ness. I'm a business man aud my time is worth money. I'm a contrac tor, aud that letter contains papers valuable to ma, but of no value to any one else. Plans and specifications of a new factory I'm bidding for over at Watertown. Give it to me and let mo catch my train. It's a matter of dollars and cents to mo." "I cannot do it," was all that Mabel said. The man by this time was growing very red in the face, and was glanc ing more nervously than ever over his shoulder. He hesitated a moment, and then, with a little forced laugh, went on iu a quieter toue: , "Of course maybe you're light ac cording to the strict rule. I don't want you to get into any trouble on my account. I'll show you in an other way that I'm telling the truth. I'm going to be in town again in about u week. I'll just deposit ten dollars with you—you cau give mo n receipt and the letter, and if you find its all right, as you will by that time, you can give me back the money." "No, there is no rule authorizing any such thing." "I'll leave you fifty dollars. Don't you see I wouldn't do that if I didn't know it would be all right, aud I'd get my money back?" "Perhaps not, but it would be an altogether irregular thing for me to do." "Why, you're unreasonable," cried the man, again beginning to lose his self-control. Ho pulled a roll of bills from his pccket, and laid it down in the window. "I'll make it a hundred dollars, yes, two hundred," and he pushed in fonr fifty-dollar bills. "I'll miss a big contract if I don't get that letter instantly. Give it to me! Never mind about writing a receipt for the money—l'll trust you, even if yoa don't want to trust me." "I can't do it." "Here, take a ten for yourself and give me the letter." ' "No." "Take a fifty, then. Keep it—do what you please with it. I'll lose thousands of dollars if I miss that con tract." Mabel only shook her head. *'Take the whole two hundred dol lars! You can use it. Nobody will ever know. I'll never come back to bother you. Give me the letter!" and he pushed the money in so that it al most fell to tho floor. Mabel pushed it back, saying, "It will do you no good to mako me any such offers. You cannot have the let ter till you are properly identified." "I will have it," he fairly shouted, snatching back the money and hurry ing around to the side toward the door through which access was had to the interior, and which had been left ajar by the boy who had taken the mail sack. But Mabel was too quick for him, and pushed it shut in his face. The spring lock clicked, and she caught her breath with a feeling of re lief; but he threw himself against the door heavily, shattering the catch and sending the door back on its hinges with a crash, The edge just struck her forehead, and everything began to turn black before her eyes; but there stood the safe door open. She sprang toward it, knowing as she did so that she just missed the man's grasp. The heavy door went shut with a dull bump. With one hand she turned the handle which threw the bolts, and with the other spun round the com bination knob. Then the darkness became complete, and she remembered no more. Tho next tiling she heard was a con fused murmur of voices. Then she opened her eyes and saw that she was still in the postoffice, lying on the dis tributing table. Doctor Roberts, the village physician, was bending over her, and assuring her mother, who stood pale and frightened, that the patient was not in danger. Mr. Blod gett and two or three neighbors were also there. The voices came from a crowd of people in the outer room. "There," said the doctor, "you're going to be all right now. You can go Home in my carriage. I'll go along." "Did—did he get the letter?" asked Mabol, feebly. "No," answered Mr. Blodgett. "Never mind about the letter," said the doctor. "We'll tell you about that to-morrow. NVe'll just take you homo now." They carried her outside to the easy carriage which was waiting. As she drove away she heard half the popula tion of the village, gathered at the office in full force, set up a cry of "Three cheers for Mabel!" and they were given with a will. Tha next afternoon she was able to sit up at heme. Mr. Blodgett came and congratulated heron what she had done. He told her that after she had becomo uucouscionH the man had es caped by running across the field to the near-by wood*, and that it now appeared ho had good reason for run ning away, since he was the accom plice of some burglars at Riverside who had sont him a large sum of money, stolen the night befero, in the letter, fearing immediate arrest thein themselves. This had been estab lished by Riverside officers who had arrested all the men, including the one who had come to the office, that morning, and by a postoffice inspector who had taken possession of the letter. A week later Mabel was back in the office. Mr. Blodgett said to her the first morning: "The folks here have been talking tho matter over, and have decided on giving you a slight reward in the shape of a purse of money in recog nition of what you did the other day. Some of them are coming in after a while, and I thought I'd tell you so you wouldn't be too much surprised." "Thoy'ro very kind," said Mabel, instantly, "but I couldn't take any thing. You please tell them so, and stop their coming. I didn't do any thing more that day than my duty, and I couldn't take any reward foi that; but you can thank them for me, please." Mr. Blodgett went out, and she took up the old work. She heard no mere about the reward. But three weeks later a big official envelope came, addressed to her own name. It was a letter, and the com mission from the Postoffice Depart ment, appointing Mabel Looinis Post mistress at Dowuingville, vice J. P. Blodgett, resigned. Youth's Com panion. tTmloubtedlv- A well-known and genial—but illit erate—lrishman, who once represent ed one of the Melbourne divisions in the Victorian parliament, invariably read out speeches that wore prepared for him. On one occasion, in view of tha anticipated opposition, a special paragraph was inserted in the speech which the candidate read out as fol lows: "I am quite aware that many of ye are agin' me an' me politics. But surely we are all working for the good of the colony. It is only a detail that me opponents are marching one way and meself another, but we must re member that we are all sthrivin' to reach the same gaol!" London Chronicle. Valuable Engravings. The most valuablo engravings in the world are the four impressions of Rembrandt's portrait of a man leaning on a saber. The fourth was recently sold for SIO,OOO. The original plate made by Rembrandt was cut down first to an octagonal oval and the pic tures from it sold for $l3O. Then it was Bliced off still more and the prints sold for sl2, but of the original plaie only four prints mentioned exist. —— Soecllyr* Fruits. A good many varieties of fruits have been grown so long from cuttings that they have become seedless. We have now apples and pears that are almost seedless, specimens frequently being found that are altogether so, and seed less grapes and oranges aro not at all uncommon. The banana has no seeds, or at bet-t only rudimentary ones, and the pineapple is a seedless fruit. All ihis must have taken long years of se lection, whether it was done intelli gently or by chance, and all seedless fruits are valued because they are us ually of superior sorts. A story is going the rounds that a melon grower has discovered a method of producing seedless melons. This is to cover the joints of the vines un til roots start from them, and then cut them ofT at the roots, leaving the sec ondary roots to support the vine. This sounds quite nice, and the only trouble with it is that it isn't true. If we could produce seedless melons in this way it would be a valuable dis covery, but having been tried it was found that the melons had the usual number of seeds, as usual in the sweet est part of the melon. —Farmers' Voice. Orchard Manuring. So much mischief can ho done by applying manures of the wrong kind in orchards that I doubt if we do not lose more by manuring than by neg lecting to manure. Fruit trees do not require at any time barnyard manures, or their equivalent. What they re quire is a supply of inorganic food. You can do no better for apple trees than to supply them with coal ashes in which there is a liberal admixture of woodashes; the wood ashes furnish the fertilizer. If you can get a supply of old mortar you have just the thing you need. A mixture of lime and salt, when so mixed as to leave no free salt, is excellent for all fruit trees. All such manures should bo applied as a top-dressing. A peach or plum orchard needs nothing better than swamp much or earth from the woods, with a slight addition of phos phate and potash. If barnyard manure is applied at any time, it should be thoroughly de composed and applied as a top-dress ing. Such manure, if placed about the roots, when planting a pear or apple tree, will kill it. Grapes, of course, want phosphates and potash. They will also respond to a free appli cation of liquid mauures during their periods of rest, both in winter and in mid-summer. All the tall-growing berries, of the bramble sort, will use a large amount of organio manure. But be careful about dressing your rasp berries with rank undecomposed barn yard manure. The probability is at any time you will develop a fungoid disease that you cannot easily master. It you use barnyard manure in rasp berries it should be thoroughly com minuted with the soil as a compost. In fact, I prefer to compost every manure before it is placed on my gar dens. Equally important as the ma nure is the mulching of our fruit trees and bushes of all sorts.—E. P. Powell, in New England Homestead. Methods of Tree Planting. A bulletin just issued by tho Ne braska station tells of some joint ex periments by Professor Fred. W. Card, of that station, and Professor H. 0. Irish, of the St. Louis Botanical Gar dens, to test the relative merits of top pruning and no top pruning, root pruning and no root pruning; fall planting and spring planting; deep holes and shallow holes, etc., in tree plantiug. It will be noticed that the close root pruning at times of setting, so success fully practiced by the noted Galveston horticulturist, H. M. Stringfellow, on the Texas coast, was a failure iu Ne braska. These experiments both at Lincoln and St. Louis, show that planters are right in believing that fall planted trees may make some root growth in the autumn, succeeding planting, and in the spring before the leaves start. Professor Card draws the following conclusions from all these tests, for the conditions prevailing in Eastern Nebraska: 1. Two-year limbed trees are emi nently satisfactory aud desirable for ordinary planting, but with good care even one-year old trees may give good results and gain on older trees planted at the same time. 2. Whether it will pay to dig large, deep holes and fill them up with sur face soil, in which to plant the tree, is a question worthy of consideration, but, so far as these experiments are eonceruod, is as yet unanswered. 3. The more healthy roots left on a tree at planting tine the better is like ly to be the growth. Making a fresh, clean cut at the ends of the roots when planting appears to afford no advan tage, provided tho root is sound when cut in the nursery. Trees planted with no root pruning now average de cidedly larger than those which had the roots shortened. i. Cutting back the tops severely at planting time is a mistake. Trees left entirely uupruned, or with the branches shortened about one-ha'.f, are thus far much in advance of those pruned to a cane or grown as a whip in the nursery. 5. Fall planted trees may make a small amount of growth before winter and in early spring before leaf growth begins. The true reward of a workman is not his wages, bnt the consoieusness of having done a good job. WoniM'l Hand. Collier's Weekly: It is certainly not true that small hands are bred by choico descent, for in one family the hands of both women and men are found different in size and in every other quality. The individual woman of the people stretches and hardens her hand and batters her nails on her own account, so that months of care would not retrieve it; but doubtless her baby hand was much the same as a rich woman's in her own babyhood. English women and Americans, with their blonde hands, are admired de liriously for this one beauty by the darker races. But at any rate to Eng lish eyes there is loveliness also In the fine hand that has clear brown color in place of white —a rare beauty, for the blonde woman has usually the finer form of hand; but somewhat dark must have been the "tender Inward of the hand" that played on the virginals of Shakespeare. Pumelo, Shaddock or firupe Fruit* Tho pumelo of Florida Is now recog nized as not only a delicious breakfast fruit, but also as a tonic and alter ative, counteracting malaria, imper fect action of the liver, and as a gen eral bracer and appetizer to the human system. In China the fruit is made ornamental in it 3 service, the rind cut in intricate and curious designs, the top lifting as a cover, as do citron melons in this country for ceremonious occasions. The pulp is separated, the white, tough membrane peeled off and then put back in the skin, to be re moved to individual plate when the fruit is passed. It is ever present as a favorite delicacy of Chinest feasts. In this country the shaddock Is served in various ways, either as fruit, sher bet, etc., according to the fancy of the hostess. As a fruit course for break fast it is cut in half and eaten with sugar—the less of tho latter used tho more beneficial. Beauty In Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin to-day to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets, —beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. Fish Commissioner McGuire, of Oregon, declares in his 1599 report that up to the present time salmon to the value of about $75,000,000 have been taken out of the Columbia river. Taken Hold. Wo can wake up frotn sleep and find that soreness and stiffno s have taken hold of us. 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THE SCHOOLS Of Greater New York, Boston, and many other places use Carter's Ink exclusively and won't use any other. That speaks well for CARTER'S INK and gives you food for thought. COMFORTABLE TEDDY. And the Two Private Secretaries TVbo Maintain Dignity for 111 m. (New York Times.) "I happened to be in Albany on Friday, when Governor Roosevelt left there for this city," said one of the gossipers in the Waldorf-Astoria. "I had never happened to meet him, but as I strolled down the station platform | while waiting for the belated 2:35 train, on which we both came to New York, I recognized him from the pho tographs and caricatures I had seen. I was prepared to see a pretty free and-easy, democratic sort of chap, but what I did see rather shocked my sen sibilities and ideas of what a Governor of the Empire State should be. Up where the baggage for the incoming train was piled was the Governor of New York, half reclining on the top most trunk of the bunch and absorbed iu reading one of the current numbers of a popular magazine. He apparently didn't know or care whether there wag .anybody else in Albany, and had com pletely shaken off the cares of state. He was the most completely comforta ble person I saw in your capital city. Strolling on the platform, and seem ingly with all the dignity of the office that Governor Roosevelt had shaken off, were his two private secretaries, Mr. Youngs and Colonel Tread well. And they maintained all the dignity that was necessary, for they were real ly an impressive pair." Silver SpoonH Free. Ladies can secure a set of 12 Tea spoons, guaranteed by maker to be extra coin silver plate, by selling 12 Gem Scissors Sharpeners at 25 cents each. The Sharpener is a necessity in every family; any lady can use it; satisfaction guaranteed. I trust you, and send the Sharpeners by express; when sold, deduct cxpressage from amount received, sending me the bal [ ance; I will then send the nice spoons prepaid. W. C. Griswold, Box 412 Centerbrook, Conn. The Queen lias CO housemaids at Windsor Castle. Warmth nml -Strength.' The cold of winter certainly aggravates rheumatism, and at all seasons St. Jacobs Oil is its master cure. It imparts warmth aud strength to the muscles, and cures. An ingenious mechanical device pastes paper labels on 100,000 cans in ten hours. Down a shute rolls the ceaseless procession of cans and each can picks up a label as it passes. Ctfncate Yonr Bowels With Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. tOc, 25c. if (J. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. Bangor manufacturers are sending canoes of birch and canvas to Pales tine, Japan and China. GOLDEN CROWN LAMP CHIMNEYS Arc the bent. A*k for them. Cost no more tlinn common chimneys. All dealers. PITTSBURG GLASS CO., Allegheny, Ta.
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