Freeland Tribune Established ISBB. PUBLISHED EVEBY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY TnK TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited OKJTICE: MAI* STREET ABOVE CENTRE. FREELAND, PA. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Months 25 The date which the subscription is paid to la on the address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date be comes u receipt for remittance. Keep the figures iu advuuee of the present date. Re port promptly to this office whenever paper M not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. Male all money orders, checks, etc,, payable to the Tribune Printing Company, Limited, The czar's Finnish subjects will help along his disarmament scheme by emigrating. The only trouble they find is in knowiug which country is most unlike Russia. Our exports of manufactured goods Average §1,000,000 a day. There were 20-1 working days duriug the tirst eight months of the current fiscal year, , end during that time the total exports < •were §207,000,000. This was a gain I of §20,000,000, or 11 per cent, over 1 the corresponding period of the pre- , vious year. Dreyfus is not the only one who J sutlers by the way things are ruu in 3 France. M. Lordlier, the private secretary of Colonel Henry, who com- * mitted suicide, has followed his mas ter's example. If this sort of thing ] goes on the Dreyfus case will be 1 quoted iu the statistics along with grip, small-pox and other deadly dis- ( eases. And it begins to look as if the friends of Dreyfus are not those to whom the disease will prove the most deadly. The latest article of export from this country to Europe is river shells for the manufacture of pearl but tons. The manufacture of the cheaper grades of pearl buttons by factories located in lowa and Wiscon sin has of late years almost entirely done away with the importation of such goods. Some three years ago the supply of shells was so largely in creased that the price fell from S2O to $8 a ton, and European manufacturers are reported as saying that the Amer ican shells are superior to anything that can be obtained on the other side at the prices at which they can jR im ported. What shall we supply Europe ■with next? The possibilities of the invention of liquid air are to the present view lim itless. Steamers and engines and (ly ing machines can carry their liquid air Deadlines with them and manufacture their fuel from the atmosphere as they go. Coal and other expensive fuels can bo kept for ornamental parlor use, and liquid airengiues generating elec tricity will supply ail the heating and lighting of the world. Instead of drawing on the limited coal mines for our force, we shall draw on the com paratively limitless heat of the sun. It may be that we shall in an infini tesimal degree accelerate the cooling off of the world; but that is a subject none of us is quite altruistic enough to worry about yet. There is a wonderful difference be tween the Japan of today and the Japan to which Commodore Perry made his famous expedition fifty years ago. The effort of Japan then was to exclude all ideas of progress and to have as little dealing with other na tions as possible. Foreigners were regarded with great suspicion and were often subjected to cruel treat ment by the Japanese authorities, Probably no other nation ever made as mnch progress in the same length of time us Japan has made in the lust half century. The extent of this phe nomenal revelation in the character and condition of the Japanese was not fully appreciated until the war with China. They then exhibited a force and prowess which won the ad miration of the world. It was made evident that Japan must be ranked among the great nations, and that she was to play no mean part in the World's affairs. Divorce Not Kecngnlzed. The lower house of the convocation of the church of England has passed a resolution declaring that the law of the church does not recognize divorce, and asking the bishops to devote them selves to securing action of parliament to the end that the church shall not remarry divorced persons. State Senator Stout, of Menominee, "Wis., who was largely instrumental in establishing, with his own means, a system of traveling libraries In that State, proposes to build sevral pieces of practical road in his county , this summer, at his personal expense, in order to furnish an economic object lesson to the farmers. A WOMAN'S HAND. The dawn grew golden In the east, The dancing and the music ceased; The world, the world of men, awoke v And then the guest who tarried spoke. And as he spoke he took her hand In his (he could not understand!) And held it, tiny, white, and slim, While she in silence gazed at him, •'Soft little tender birdliko thing, May Time or Toil," he murmured, "bring No line to thee, poor girlish handi" COli. he could never understand!) MRS. J. NEWTON SMITH'S S FAMILY TREE. | fiC RS. SMITH had teen a Newton, E i g/|j and had always ill "wished that she could have '<L aT name after mar riago and done away altogeth er with the very common cogno- M/| me " of ' ier us " // k band, but in yj / / |\ the busy years ■which came while she was housekeeper and moth er of four sturdy children, it seemed to make little difference what her name was. In fact, she had all she could do to answer to the name "mother." Hut Mr. Smith's business as a grocer prospered, and after three children were married, leaving only Beatrice, a maiden of fifteen, at home, Mrs. Smith found time to attend to social duties and cultivate the ambi tions of her youth. A new house, with "grounds," was her first aspiration; and, as her hus band shared this desire, they found themselves established in due time on a trolley line just far enough outside the city to be what the grocer called "unmixed." Mrs. Smith was a woman of good taste, and used money wisely. Hence a smooth lawn, dowering shrubs and vines soon appeared around the pretty home, in addition to the great elms which had sheltered the farmhouse which had formerly ocoupied the site. It was while she was furnishing and beautifying at her leisure that Mrs. Smith received a letter from Bos ton asking for facts concerning herself and her father's family. A certain Miss Agnes Newton was the writer, and she informed Mrs. Smith that she was compiling a "Newton book" in I which the family—root, trunk and branches—wns to bo classified and ar ranged. She had just "discovered" Mrs. Smith, and hence informed her at considerable length of the impor tance of her work and the extent of the family circle. ■ The names of prominent people that Miss Agnes Newton specified as in the family connectionn opened be fore Mrs. Smith a new world of rela tionship. "Why, John, it is perfectly amaz ing!" she began at the tea-table, "I am second cousin to the member of Congress from the first district—the Hon. Dillon Newton; and Doctor Stark's wife, of the Church Herald, is my first cousin; and that rich Hemin way of Goldliam married my mother's cousin—that makes her my second, doesn't it? The Newtons that went West—well, she mentions judges and professors and ministers—l don't know what all I And, John," here an impressive finger was lifted, "we're descended from the same line as Sir Isaao Newton. What do you think of that?" "H'm! let's see. Sir Isaac descended from Eve, and both of 'em hnd some thing to do with an apple, didn't they?" A glance from his wife warned Mr. Smith that lovily would not be tole fated, and he quiokly added, "I don't care muoh for such things, but if they want my opinion of the Newtons, I know one that I can give an A number one recommend." "Don't bo foolish John," she re sponded, somewhat S mollified. "It really means a great deal to find that one belongs to a superior family. Fathor was caroless about correspond ing with his relatives, and they were scatterod all over tho country before I was old enough to know them. For the sake of the children, I'm very glad some one has had interest enough to collect the records." Mrs. Smith had taken on new dignity since reading her letter, and now sat very erect, handling her knife and fork with an air which greatly amused her husband. He leaned back and laughed with rare enjoyment. "You'll do, Judith. I'll risk you , with any of 'em. Too bad there isn't a Smith tree, but we'd need a regular banian—room for an army, you know. ' But aren't you afraid these aristocrats ' will look down on a grocer's wife?" i "Not if they're true Newtons," ro , sponded his wife, warmly. "Miss Agnes Newton writes that loyalty is a peculiar characteristic of the race. She says I will find that those new relatives are true to the last degree of a kinship. Of course I am glad they i all appear to be educated and wealthy t —it will be such an advantage for i, Beatrice to know them." Beatrice was a lively, red-cheeked t girl, perfectly satisfied to be a Smith, t but she dimpled becomingly in re sponse to her mother's prophecy. "I'll have to practise my music bet ter if I'm going among grand people," Bhe said, and then wondered why her fathor ohuokled so absurdly. There was one drop of bitterness in Mrs. Smith's cup. Just the boundary wall on the Dorth Bide of her L beautiful home was a little cottage full of children. There wore six under Then she. with one strange, wistful look, Drew back the hand ho idly took, And smiling hid it fro.n his gaze. While he bowed low, and wont his ways. The little hand remained the same Soft birdlike thing, and no toil came To take its tenderness away. Nor steal its beauty day by day, For in the world its only part Was but to press a wayward heart (Ah, little hand so white and slim!) That uchod with all her love for him. —Harper's Magazine. twelve years—bright-faced, rollicking boys and girls, all intensely interested in watching every improvement on the i Smith estate. < If she was out overseeing the ar rangement of foliage plants in "de- 1 signs" on the lawn, there was sure to ] bo a row of smiling faces visible over 1 the wall, the baby being held in posi- i tion by his oldest sister. If she went ' out to wator the fiowers she would be : greeted by a oheerful "Hullo! we thought you'd better give 'em a drink!" : Her pantry faced the north, and while concocting dainties for her table she would often look up to find several pairs of bine and brown eyes regard ing hor steadily. One glance from her i was enough to bring smiles to every face, and a joyful "Hullo!" " ; "Now, mother, let me givo them some i gingersnaps." Beatrice would say, and several times she had had the i pleasure of distributing the fresh, ■ crisp cakes to a keenly appreciative company. But Mrs. Smith frowned upon these ' friendly overtures: "They'll be in the garden over everything, Beatrice. How would you like to havo them 'hullo' at you when your young friends are out from the city?" "I wouldn't mind. Their faces are always clean, and we're real good friends." "But they're already making free with the carriage-drive, and if you pet them they'll become nuisances." As the summer advanced, Mrs. J. Newton Smith, as her cards were now engraved, iustailed a stout Swedish woman in her kitchen and gave a series of afternoon teas, and ladies who drove out to them from the city were charmed with her home and hospi tality. If Sir Isaac discovered the attraction of gravitation, this far-away kinswoman know how to exercise a social attraction toward which certain eminently respectable and desirable people gravitated. She even ventured, with a little as sistance from Miss Agnes, the his • toriau, to reveal herself to the great Doctor Stark's wife, who was aum [ raering at the nearest resort. When that lady returned her call, perhaps i Mrs. Smith was as happy as a woman i of moderate ambition can hope to be. ■ Mrs. Stark, in return, was delighted with her new relative, with sunny, un spoiled Beatrice—whose playing was unusually poor that day—and con cluded her visit with au urgent invi tation for the family to come to Phila delphia at the earliest opportunity. 1 "There, John," Mrs. Smith said to her husband, "you must admit that it pays to have a family tree, for I never would have known my cousin, Mrs. Stark, if it hnd not been for the rec ords. .She thinks a great deal of an cestry and heredity." They were sitting on the broad piazza, at sunset, where Mrs. Smith usually recounted her trials and triumphs. "Yes, I suppose so," her husband responded. "The only thing that happened to mar the afternoon was while wo were on the lawn. The north wall was alive with Higginses as soon as we reached the arbor, and actually, John—now don't laugh!—they said, 'Hullo!' to Mrs. Dr. Stark." Mr. Smith was alroady laughing too heartily to check himself at once, and Beatrice hid her rosy face to conceal her merriment. "I'ip sure!" ejaculated Mrs. Smith, "what you can see that is laughable or even tolerable in those grinning young ones is a mystery to me. Some thing must be done. Nextycarl mean to have a wall ten feet high between us." "It's a regular case of—what's-his name—Mordecai, over again, isn't it?" said her husband, wiping his eyes. "And how did Mrs Stark express her horror?" After a moment's hesitation Mrs. Smith responded, "Well, I supposo she has had to adapt herself t.o all sorts of people, being a minister's wife, but I was surprised. She smiled back and said, 'Hullo!' I thought I should " "But you didn't—you never do, and I think she's a sensible woman. Keally, she's 'way up the tree in my estimation. I shouldn't worry about the Higginses. Their father seems a nice sort of man—he works in the machine shop 3 and we often ride out together. Had a bottle of some kind of tonic for his wife to-night—said she was all worn out this summer." "I should think she would be," was the low response. The next day Mrs. Smith received another letter from Miss Agues New ton, in which she wrote, "I think I have discovered a new relative who must be living near you. Her maiden name isHiggius; sho was Sarah New ton, from Kansas. If I trace her cor rectly she is granddaughter of James. 1, daughter of Henry, 2, and Henry, 2, was your father's (Orlando, 4) brother. Can you help me at this point?" [ JNo; J. Newton Smith could not! She was simply overwhelmed. Down went the wall ten feet high, and down went lier exultation over the Newtons in general. "My cousin!" she murmured. "Yes, father had a brother Henry out West. He used to hear from him about once in five years. That ac counts for the strange resem —O dear! dear! I'll never tell John. He would make life a burden. Why should Agnes Newton write me all the disagreeable discoveries she makes?" Hiding her letter, she sat down beside the window farthest from the Higgins cottage and wrestled with her chagrin. To yield was inevitable her conscience made that clear—but how to do so gracefully was the ques tion. Like many other problems, this was unexpectedly solved. She heard the back door thrown open suddenly, aud as she started to her feet a wide-eyed, panting child ap peared. "O Mis' Smith," she gasped, "mamma won't speak, an' she's all still! Trudie says won't you please come over?" Mrs. Smith recognizod tho second Higgins child, seized a bottle of cam phor, called Beatrice, and hurried af ter her little guide. Four weeping infants met her at tho dobr, while Trundie was applying water to her mother's white face. "Is she dead?" whispered tho terri fiod child. "No, no, dear, only in a faint." With quick and skilful movements Mrs. Smith applied restoratives. Very soon the weary eyes unclosed, and color came agaiu to lip and cheek. "Why, Mrs. Smith, did they call you?" she whispered. "There! thero! don't darlings!" With the first intimation of consciousness the children had pressed forward, eager to reach her. "Don't you worry!" commanded Mrs. Smith. "Now, children, Bea trice is in the garden, and you can all go over and she will give you some cookies. I'll stay with your mother." Four of them filed out on tiptoes, but Trudie stayed until her mother was in bed. Then she took the baby and followed —a look of grave re sponsibility on her young face, Mrs. Higgins looked wistfully at her neighbor. "I don't see why I gave out so, I'm sure," sho said, "but my ironing was heavy, aud I've been BO miserable this summer. It seemed as if I was going to die, and I didn't care much if I did. Were you ever so wicked? But I'm sorry to trouble you; I'll soon bo up again.' As she smiled Mrs. Smith saw the marked resemblance to her own sis ter, Louise, which Beatrice had noticed. All artificial barriers fell at that in stant, and leaning over the bed, Mrs. Smith almost sobbed, "You're not wicked, aud you mustn't work so hard any more. You don't trouble': me. I'm going to take care of you, for I'm your own cousin, Judith Newton. I've just found it out!" The pale little woman heaved a long, long sigh, lifted her arms, and clasped them around Mrs. Smith's neck: "Oh, I've known it ever since I moved kerol You look enough like my father to be his own daughter, and we knew you married a Smith. I've been so hungry to get near you, but I didn't dure to speak first." Tho little house was very still, and nobody listened to the low murmur of voices as the women talked on and on. That evening the stout Swedish woman was transferred to the Higgins kitchen, where her broad face flowered into smiles, since she was one of the rare mortals who prefer "a family where there are children." Mrs. Smith told her story also that evening, and her husband wiped his eyes and cleared his throat vigorously as she described the finding of Cousin Sarah. "I won't go back on the family tres, John, but I've been so wicked and puffed up over it—that's the trouble!" she confessed. "And here at my very door was Cousin Sarah, just starving for a relative. No wonder she didn't dare speak—oh, I can't forgive myself! And those children —there, John, you mny laugh! but we must have them over here while she's siek. Perhaps you oould put up swings under the elmß. I'm so glad Miss Newton wrote—in time. Cousin Sarah looks so much like Louise I can't help loving her." John nodded. He was possessed with a variety of emotions.—Youth's Companion. A Bibliographical Treasure. A bibliographical treasure of sin gular interest has recently found its way to Sotheby's. It has hitherto been supposed that there is only one copy in existence of the 1591 Quarto of the two parts of "The Troublosome Koign of King John," the old plays on which Shakespeare's drama was founded—namely, the Capell copy now in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. But here is a second, and in finer condition that Capell's oopy. Its sole defect is that it wants the title page to tho first part, as it begins in A 2 with the verses to the Gentlemen Readers. For the rest it is in magnificent preservation, having the headlines not shaved oft", as they have been in tho Capell copy, but, with one or two exceptions where they have been slightly cut into, quite in tact. The result of a collation with Dr. Furnivall's fascimileof the Capell copy has been to show that, though tho text is practically identical with Capell's, there are many highly in teresting variants.—Saturday Review. Photographed as a Mummy. The latest fad among gay Paris iennos, it is reported, it to be photo graphed as an Egyptian mummy. The sitter is swathed in the cerements of the grave, laid in a sarcophagus, which is placed in an upright position, and from this greWsome casing peeps forth the laughing face of a living woman I I | TALES OF PLUCK ii I AUD ADVENTURE, f Houdin and the Marabouts. To witness the first performance in Algiers of Robert Houdin, the famous magician, tho neighboring tribes were invited. The theatre was speedily filled with them and the French of ficials, who attended in all their pomp and glory. Interpreters were scattered through the hoUBe in order to repeat Houdin's remarks to the natives in their own language. With true Orien tal dignity and gravity, the Arabs wit nessed the first few tricks in stolid si lence, but the taking of a huge cannon ball from a borrowed hat aroused great excitement. Then came the great tricks of the evening, especially pre pared to astonish the Arabs, "By a wonderful power which Ipos sess,"said Houdin, "I can deprive any man of his strength. I invite any one to prove my words." Ou this being interpreted to the Arabs a tall, strong man stepped for ward on the stage. Houdin held in his hand a little iron box, and, balanc ing it carelessly on his little linger, he asked the Arab: "Are you strong?" "Yes," replied the man carelessly. "Are you sure of always remaining so?" "Always." "Lift that box." The Arab did so and asked con temptuously: "Is that all?" "Wait," said Houdin, making a solemn gesture. "Now you are weaker than a woman. Try to lift that box again." The Arab seized the handle and tugged again. He could not raise the box an inch from the floor. After many attempts he paused for a mo ment to brace himself for a final ef fort. He seized the handle again, but shrieked aloud with pain, dropped on his knees, then, rising, throw his cloak around his face to conceal his shame, and rushed from the theatre, leaving his compatriots stricken with fear. The trick box was placed on a power ful electro-maguet, and the current be ing complete, no man on earth could have lifted it. An electric shock,sent at a signal by Houdin from behind the stage, was what caused the Arab to Bhriek and hurriedly retreat. Before the excitement caused by this trick had subsided, !Houdin an nounced that he had a talisman which rendered him invulnerable, and he de fied the best shot in Algiers to kill him. A marabout immediately sprang on the stage, exclaiming. "I want to kill you." Houdin handed him a pis tol, whioh the Arab,'examining, pro nounced a good one. "It is a good pistol, and I will kill you." "Very well," said Houdin; "to make sure put in a double charge of powder. Here's a wad. Take a bul let from this tray and mark it so you will know it again. Ram it into the pistol well." "It is done." "Now," said HoudiD, "you say the pistol is a good oue, and you've loaded well, so kill me." "Yes," replied the marabout. "I will do that." Houdin took a pear, stuck it on a knife, and walked a few paces in front of the Arab, and told him to aim at his heart. He fired, and the marked ballet was seen on the pear. After the powder and wad were rammed home, and while the Arab was mark ing the bullet, Houdin slipped a little tube into the pistol. This tube was closed at the lower end, and into this the Arab dropped the bullet. As ho thrust the wad down with the ramrod the tube fitted snugly on to it, and was withdrawn with it, being polished to resemble it. Houdin thus got pos session of the marked ball, anil all was then plain sailing. On oue occasion during his visit to Algiers Houdin was placed in a very awkward position, from which he only extricated himself by his quick-witted ness. He was the guest of an Arab chief, Abou Allem, and entertained his host anil friends by a few tricks. One of the company was a marabout, who asserted that the spectators in Algiers had been merely duped by a vision. Houdin, however, producod tho marabout's watch in his hand, and on feeling his sash the marabout found there a five-franc piece. Convinced by this and other feats that Houdin was really a sorcerer, he challenged him to repeat his performance in the theatre, and produced two pistols. "You need not fear," said the Arab, "since you know how to ward off bul lets." Without losing his self-pos session, Houdin explained that his in vulperability lay in a talisman which was with his possessions |in Algiers. "By six hours' prayer, however, I can do without that talisman, and at 8 o'clock to-morrow morning you can fire at me." At the appointed time there was a large concourse of Arabs, which the news had attracted. The pistol were brought and carefully examined. The marabout dropped in the powder, Houdin handed him a bullet from the tray, and he rammed it down. Roudin then loaded his own pistol, and, walk ing about fifteen paces away, turned and faced the marabout. The shot was fired, and the Fredchmau opened his mouth and showed the bullet be tween his teeth. "You could not kill me," ho said, "and now you shall see what my shot can do." He fired at the at the marabout, and immedi ately a red splash was seen on the wall, he dipped his finger in the red splash, tasted it, and, realizing that it was blood, collapsed in amazement. Though the trick was simple, only a Houdin could have devised aud car ried it out successfully. During the night he had melted some wax, black ened it to look like lead, and ruu it into a bullet-mold, thus'obtaining a hollow globe of wax exactly resem bling a bullet in appearance. It was with this bullot the marabout loaded his pistol, and in ramming it down crushed it to powder. A second bullet similarly made, Houdin filled with blood obtained from hi 3 own body. This he dropped into his pistol, nod rammed it down very gently, so as not to crush it. As it struck the wall it was broken, leaving a red snlash oi blood. "Whoso Loves Liberty More Than Death.*' William De Rohan, as he was known when living, a brother of Admiral John Dahlgren, was a man of remark able ability and still more remarkable experiences. Most of his active life was spent in South America and Eu rope. At Buenos Ayres he was the friend of Garibaldi, who was then a revolutionist, and an exile for the first time. Afterward the two men were closely related, as De Rohan be came the confidental frioud of Mazzini, and often served as his agent in dan gerous movements for Italian unity. De Rohan was with the Tribune in Rome during the brief life of the re public from the summer of 1818 to the fall of 1849, serving chiefly with Garibaldi, who had a command of about 1000 men—a force which be came the model afterward for a pio turesque infantry corps of the Italian army. The time came when the French troops had surely beaten the Romans, and Oudinot was about to enter the ancient city. The Republican forces were about to surrender. I have often heard De Rohan describe the scene that followed. Garibaldi's men were assembled on the famous plaza in front of St. Peter's, with their com mander. Ho raised his hand with the familiar sign of the "Young Italy" society—a fist clenched with the fore finger upraised, representing united Italy. Addressing the 800 men, he said: "Soldiers, I have nothing to offer you but shameful submission to a false foe, or combat, struggle, death. Nothing but constant struggle with the bayonet and sword against battery r.nd rifle, the chill of the night, the oold of the morning, the heat of the noonday, hunger and wounds. Nothing hut this and honor! Whoso loveth liberty better than death will follow rue." History records the results of this thrilling appeal. Two hundred fol lowed, De llohan among them. Anita, the commander's South American wife, was by his side, as that night they cut their way through a part of Oudinot's lines. They were pursued by Austrian troops. Anita was killed in a fight near Leghorn; and when they reached the Tuscan shore, where a vessel was found, only forty ware left, all wounded. De Rohan kept a record of his comrades, aud afterward all who survived their wounds were by him enrolled again in the force with which Garibaldi afterward drove out the king from Sicily aud Naples, laying therein the foundation for tha Italy of to-day.—New Voice. Faithful in Death. Out of the frozen North, where, a horde of eager men are struggling fjr the chance to wash a few grains hi golden sand from the river beds, there comes a touching illustration of supreme fidelity. A land surveyor (if the Dominion of Canada, J. P. Caii denhead, had been working last suit mer and fall in the Klondike region. One night after the cold weather h(d set in, he started alone to go frctn Sulphur Creek to Dawson City. A day or two later his body wa- forHd frozen in the ice of the Kloudnle River, only a little way from his tinatron. As [he traveled down the fr. ,an river, the ice had given way aud >< him in to the armpits. Although ! i had saved himself from going entire y under, he had been unable to dot himself out, and there, alone in • darkness, he had slowly frozen io death, with hands outspread up.m . t ice. The position of the body told :!e tragic tale; but on the ice, lit e way in toward the shore, lay a pachlt of papers. Upon examinatic tuj proved to be the dead man s fie d I notes—the record of the work he he d been sent out to do. It was plain that as he lay there fa • ; ing the death which he must havi known was only a question of mil - utes, the thoughts of tho surveyor ha! turned to the country he served, anl his duty to it; and before the crec; ing chill of the waters overcame him he had usej l his last strength to take the packet of papers from his pocket and throw it toward the shore. The fields notes of the surveyor were forwarded, as he had hoped they would be, to the government whose commission he held. Perhaps in the future they may ci-me into evidence in the settlement of the question of the | boundary between Alaska and tin Dominion of Cauada, perhaps the; may never be heard of again. f'u either case they will not have be.er saved in vain. They have plotted < liue of duty which Americans and Canadians alike may bo proud to fol low. They have expanded the boundaries of Anglo-Saxon courage and fidelity, iu which both may claim a share. Tlio Atlantic's Depth. Tho depth of the Atlantic between the Canary Islands and the West In dios is something awful. A pretty level bottom runs right away from tho African islands to the American on' < gradually deepening to nearly 19,0<Kl feet. At this spot we might sink the highest point of the Alps and still have nearly half a mile of sea-water cover ing it. PUZZLE DEPARTMENT. The solutions to these puzzlos will ap pear in a succeeding issue. 105 A Numerical Enlffma. Mv whole, composed of twenty-two i letters, is a quotation from Cowper. | Mv fi, 21, 14, Bis rapid. I Mv 3, 18, 5, 10 is correct. ' My 4, 17, 12, lisa heavenly body. ! My 9, 20, 11 is to cut. ! My 22, 2, 19 is to quarrel. | My 0, 7, 15, 10, 13 is to gladden. 10G.—A Pyramid. Across—l. A consonant; 2. A clergyman's vestment; 3. A sign of the zodiac; 4. A volitile alkali. Down—l. A vowel; 2. A verb; 3. Part of the body ; 4. The muse of his tory; 5. A boy's name; 0. A musical note; 7. A vowel. 107 Six Burled Poets. 1. After a lifelong fellowship they died on the same day. 2. It is erroneously stated that Washington died on tin. last day of the century. It would pay nearly everyone to look the marter up. 3. The man stated the battle of Manila was fought May 1. 4. Should you look for this poet you will find his best verses are "Abou Ben Adhem." 5. He looks ill and should tako a needed rest. 6. Is Ted managing the farm alt right? lOH.—.Ooal <ll x... The diagonals from left to right anil from right to left each name a Eupo pean river. 1. An insect in the caterpillar stato; 2. To possess; 3. A vowel; 4. Strife; 5. A funeral song. AXSWEKS TO PREVIOUS PUZZLES. 101.—A Diamond— P PEA PEACE ACT E 102.—Six Pied Quadrupeds—Po you, ratel, wapiti, vicugna, agouti, babhoussa. 103.—A Half Square— LINEN LINE LIN L I L 104.—A Square— FROST RIFLE OFTEN SLEET TENTS NEW MESS KIT_ANQ CANTEEN. Invention of Guy H. Preston .. l.leuteuanf of Cavalry, Adopted i or the Army. Mr. Meiklejohn, the Assistant Seorotary of War, has just given orders for theiutroduction in the army of a piece of equipment which will bring joy to the heart of the soldier. It is a combination mess kit and oan teeu invented by Lieutenant Guy H. Preston, of the Ninth Cavalry. The whole case is scarcely larger than tho canteen now in use. Within the oauvas oover is an evaporator to keep the filled cantoen cool. Inside of this evaporator rests the canteen, on each side of which lie two metal eating plates. These are so fashioned that they fit closely the shapo of the canteen, the whole being praoticully one piece when lying within the ease One of the plates has an adjustable handle so that it may be converted into a frying pan. From the bottom of the canteen may be slipped off u vessel to be used as a coffee oup. Knife, fork aud spoon all have their plaoes inside the eases. The whole ease is exceedingly light, aluminum beiug used wherever it is possible. The eantecuis sluug from tho -houlder by a broad canvas strap, shortened or lengthened with buckle adjustment. It will be a godsend to the soldiei in the field, who for years ha suffered from tin- in.practicability : of 1 coping his mess kit together and v. :th him wherever he goes. Lieu tenant Pre t n has been at work on ' tin invent, u extremely important to the soldie: for three years. Mr. "Meiklejohn. while acting Secretary of War, had his attentiou called to it. Km wing how great was the ineed of betler equipment of this kind'(than is ' now furnished to the arhy, ho promptly >k up tho subject and : after looking into it gave an aider for | the introduction of tho new equip ment. It shonld be of value also to hunters at 1 fishers, for in on* small pLc-age ar cooking and eating uten sils and water vessel. People Who Sutler With Col<^. I hnve often noticed that pirsons who suffer most frequently aid se verely froi olds usually inßis) that they exerc the greatest care tcjavoid exposure. Thus says a writer i(i Ap plato i's Popular Scienoe Monthly, and, ont: i ling, says: "They have j dressed in the warn est closing I wrapped tL. neok in the heiviest mufflers, ■: named in the closest rooms, at. avoided t tery dratight, .ml ytt '.hey coutiuu Jly take cold' The -'reel urchin, on e other hand, I with only two or thrs garments and withou shoes, and w a lives out of uffers less frei leutly from this affection," laruenlnj- i 8 Unhealthy. (THI ! uiug is generally considered one ie healthiest lof occupations, ' lerman Gardeners' Associa tion > : issued a warifing to those who intend teriug the industry. They cut', r lctthat during the years 1889 i tho 291 intmbers of the os ' social.™ who died fin Germany no fewer than 142 HMcnmbed to con sumption and other affections of the lungs.—> ew York Herald.
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