Freeiand Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY THE fRIEUNE PRINTING COMPANY. Limited OFFICE: MAIS STIIEET ABOVE CESTEE. FUEELAND, PA. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Months 25 The ilate which the subscription is paid to is on trie address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date be uomea a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Re port promptly to this office whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. Ma'.e all memy orders, checks, etc,.payable iu the Tribune PrinLnj Company, Limited. Glasgow, Scotland, in its twenty five years of munioipal ownership of the gas works, has spent $6,000,000 in improving the gas plants it bought for $2,600,000, and has paid off half the debt, accumulated a sinking fund, reduced the price of gas from $1.14 to $0.54, and earns $150,000 per year net in the city. The heroes of the Spanish-Ameri cau war whose bodies now rest in Ar lington Cemetery, Washington, came from every section of the Union, and each newly made grave is a pledge and assurance of an indissoluble bond of national unity under the Stars and Stripes. Those brave men who gave their lives for thoir country in Cuba aud Porto Rico did not die in vain. Under authority given by a law just enacted by the Michigan Legisla ture, the Common Council of the city of Detroit has appointed three com missioners with power to buy the street railways of that city and man age them on municipal account. The voters of Detroit several years ago, when the question was submitted to them, decided iu favor of municipal ownership of the street railways. The new law goes farther by providing for municipal management as well as ownership. The world is so surfeited with ma chinery, it hears so constantly of new machines invented and of old ones per fected, that people forget that evolu tion iu any new line of machinery is almost as slow and painful and full of failures as evolution in animals—at least when directed by men. The bi cycle and tho American trotter, so of ten contrasted as rivals, afford an in teresting study in comparative devel opment. They are nearly of an age; the trotter perhaps ten years older, with the pacer considerably younger than the bicycle. And the bicycle is one of tho simpler forms in mechanics, much more so than a watch, or a thresh ing machine, or a printing press. Looking at the bicycle from tho jioint of viewof the present act accomplished, it seems as if it might have been pro duced in a few years. Yet it is thirty years old, and the latest development, the chainless geariug, is the growth of the last two years; and while the bi cycle now seems as near perfection as we may attain, no one iu the light ol pa3t events would dare declare it so, Rliling a IVlinle. A story comes from Cutler, Me., to the effect that William Davis, a lob ster fisherman, recently had a brief ride on the back of a whale. Mr. Davis was in n small boat, fixing his lobster traps, near Libby Island, when a great whale's back loomed out of the water only a tew feet away from the boat. The giaut creature began to spout and the spray from the col umn of water blinded the fisherman. In a few seconds the boat had drifted on the whale's back, and before Davis could make a motion toward escape the whale flapped its tail, nearly fill ing the boat with water, and disap peared in the deep sea. Davis re ported that the whale was from sixty to ninety feet long. It was the first seen in the locality for several years. Experiments have been made lately by French Government officials with s new telephone, which enables persons to converse without putting their mouth and ear to the apparatus, the words beiug distinctly audible iu any part of the room. The Chinese tael is a coin which has never existed. It is simply a unit used for convenience. Won.® Than New Tort. In the first four weeks after the opening of the electric railroad at Cairo, Egypt, it is said that no less than eighty persons were killed, and since that time the weekly average has been seven or eight. This very high rate of casualties la supposed tc ho due in part to the Imperfect sight of many natives in consequence of the prevalent eye diseases, but fully as much to the fact that they are un'a miliar with such swiftly moving ve hicles. It requires $100,000,000 capital to mnkt candy for our nearly 80,000,000 inhab •tants. f^fpetioo -1 STORM AND SUNSHINE, I Mist upon tho mountains, and mist on field and plain. But ever sunlight gloaming in tho silvery drops of rain. Should any heart bo sorrowful, and sigh ing, still complain, I When tho mist but fills tho lily-cups for honey-bees to drain? Unknown, In all our sighing, Love Is lead ing us to light— See, where tho groat sun glimmers o'er the iron hills of Night! And all the swoethoart-roses—for all the storms that boat, i Aro blooming for tho lips of Love in many i a red retreat! ! ipefoieieioieiee; mewum joaetasiesa^ fjTlje Strange Story | II of M. Smythe. | | jk ComrUed by John G. Row., From the h'arra ye tiro of John Smythe Baxter, Grandson $ 1 ay of the Hero of the Adventures Sr J £2 Uerem Recorded. gold fever was I attracting "all sorts ' " 1 and conditions of men" to the newly jpgjPjßjWt) discovered fields of Victoria in the year i 1851. Rich and <y~A j poor alike of every nation, as the read- V jer doubtless a1 - A. ready knows, threw aside their ordinary } occupations to flock to the then infant colony and start digging for tho precious metal. To such an extent did immigrants pour into Victoria that the arrivals in Mel bourne are said to have numbered over two thousand a week. The crews of all the ships in Melbourne Harbor at the time of the news of the first finds deserted to a man, and ship masters and shipowners were at their wits' end to know how to get men to work their ves;,'s home again from Australia. It was during tho first excitement of the rush to the gold-fields that the sailing vessel, Chesapeake Bay, ar rived in Melbourne from Liverpool. | Her crew were no better than those i of the other ships in port, and among | the first to desert and run away to the j "diggings" was the hero of this authentic narrative, an able seaman, | named John Merrydew Smythe. This man had at home in England a wife and daughter, the latter a child of seven at the time. Smythe, along I with others, who, like himself, had high hopes of making their fortunes in a very short space of time at the { mines, succeeded in making his way ! to Ballarat—tho El Dorado of that period. He did not 3tay long in the town it self, however, but started prospecting with, at first, very indifferent success. But after some months of dogged per severance and somi-stnrvatiou he at length "struck it rich," as the saying goes. Iu less than nuothor half-year lie had got a tidy sum of money out of his claim, aud was able to send 81000 homo to hi 3 wife. Sho started in busi ness for herself in Liverpool as a broker, and prospered from tho very commencement, so that she was soon ! in very comfortable circumstances. I Her husband, however, instead of re turning homo to England and enjoy ; ing tho fruits of his labors, continued to work his claim until he had amassed { quite a respectable fortune. All was going well with him, when ihe suddenly took to drink aud ! gambling. He sold his claim for | §ISOO, and from that day forth haunted the drinking saloons and gambling dens, which were as plentiful in Ballarat at that time ss blackberries in autumu. The town was full of the | scum and refuse of civilization—the sweepings of tho earth—attracted thither by the universal greed for gold; and such places did-a roaring trade, all day and all night as well. Smythe, fuddled with liquor, would | stake handfuls of his hard-earned gold On tho mero turning of a card. Yet, as his vile associates often swore, he J had "tho devil's own luck." He al ways won, somehow, and never rc turued home without being richer by | scores of pounds. Undoubtedly, he j would have frequently been robbed ns ho left the gambling snloou,scarcely able to walk through his deep pota tions, had he not hud the staunchest aud truest of chums in his partner— i steady-going, temperate Joe Mauuion ; —who piloted him homo safely every i evening, and a3 regularly emptied his ' pockets of most of the money aud banked it for him. ] Aftor about two years of this wild, ! reckless life, Smythe saw the error of Ins ways, and, bidding good-bye to Ballarat aud its evil associations, he | made arrangements with his bankers 1 to forward his money to England. Ho | then made his own way to Sydney | (185-1), intending to return home. To this end lie booked a passage aboard tlio vessel Western Star, and sailed for England. When only a few weeks out the ship encountered very heavy weather, ; and finally ran on a reef off the Falk land Isles. Tho captain aud six teen of his crew were drowned, but Smythe and throe others i —tho carpenter, a seaman and au apprentice lad named James Roche —succeeded iu battling their way through the surf and making the shore. ! Here they were met by savages, who, however, received them very kindly, i and cave them food and drink. They lived among these natives tor no less than two years on the friend liest terms—that is to say, Smythe, the sailor, and the boy did; for the carpenter fell ill and died some months after their escape from the wreck. One day a barque put into the island for water, and when a boat came ashore, Smythe and his two white companions ran down to the water's edge and bailed its occupants. These latter, however, wero seized with a panic at the sight of the three, whom they mistook for savages, as they wore no clothes (like the natives), and the boat's crew thought their frantic gestures and shouts were evi dences of dangerous hostility. Scrambling pell-mell into the boat ngain, they wore pushing off in a great hurry, when ono cf thoin perceived that the skins of the supposed savages were white. Still the sailors did not fcol inclined to stop and parley, so they shoved off and rowed out a bit into the bay. When they had put a small stretch of water between themselves and the shore, they lay on their oars and one of them commenced a palaver with the white savages, whose actions whilst tho boat was being rowed away from them would certainly seem to have warranted tho supposition that they wero unfriendly—not to say frantic. But when Smythe hailed the boat's crew, in English and explained how they had been cast away there, the sailors plucked up courage and rowed back. The three Crusoes were then taken into the boat and rowed out to the ship, whose captain at once prom ised to take them back to Sydney (1836). He was ns good as his word, and Smythe and his companions in misfortune were lauded in that port. 1 It was well for Smythe that he had taken the precaution of having his money sent to England by the bank officials, othorwise it is only right to I believe he would have lost it with tho sinking of the Western Star, and been thrown on his own resources for a bare living again. As it was, though, he still had his snug little fortune iu the bank, and was able to draw upon it. He purchased a complete outfit, which he wanted very badly, for he had come away from among the savages without even a shirt to his back, and once more ho booked his passage to England, this time in the steamship Great Britain. She was bound for Liverpool—Smytho's native place— with a cargo, passengers, and specie. After a pleasant voyage of nearly two months she came iu sight of Old Eng land (1857), and now the most extra ordinary misfortune of all befell our luckless hero. Smytho's reason actually became unhinged at the sight of the shores of his native land, the thoughts of all he had gone through, and the bitter re flection that ho had never once writ ten to his wife since he sent her that SIOOO some years previously. The unfortunate man went raving mad, anil the captain of the Great Britain had to place him in confinement. Ou the ship's arrival in Liverpool ho was handed over to tho care of the police, who, alter making futile inquiries for any of his relatives, eventually sent him to Kaiuhill Lunatic Asylum, out side Liverpool. Wo will now, with the reader's per mission, leave Smythe in the asylum, and go back to his wife. She had long since given up tho broker's estab lishment and left tho old locality, hav ing removed to Aigburlh. Hero sho mado the acquaintance of Captain Jose Diaz, who was tho master of the Spanish steamship Porto liico. In the lull belief that her husbund was dead, Mrs. Smythe married Captain Diaz, and a child was born, a sou, who was christened Charles. Moauwhile, Mag gie Smythe, her daughter by her first husband, hud grown to be a woman, and received soveral oilers of mar riage, which, however, she decliued. In 18G2, Mrs. Smythe's second hus liiud, Diaz, lost his life by drowning in tho Coburg Dock, and, curious to relate, it was in 18G2 that the long lost husband and father, Smythe, was discharged, perfectly cured, from tho asylum. The unfortunate man paid an early visit to his bankers, and, having easily proved his identity, learned he was entitled to the very tidy fortune of $95,000. During the several years he had been immured iu the asylum his origiunl account had been steadily ac cumulating by means of compound in terest. Ho now sought his wife and daughter, but could find no trace of tliein. Tho old homo knew no more, aud no one in the neighborhood could be expected to bo cognizant of tlieir whereabouts, seoing tho long time that had elapsed siucc their residence there. Smythe, however, spared neither efforts nor money to find his loved ones, but without success. Ho was at length obliged to abandon the quest, and settled down quietly into private lite, taking a house, which, as it hap pened, was situated within less than half a mile from the door of those he never expected to see again on this side of the grave. But most strange and incomprehensible are the work ings and ways of the Almighty. In such extraordinary coincidences, as the one we are now about to relate, we easily trace His guiding hand. John Smythe, one Sunday morning in 1863, attended early Divine service at St. Nicholas' Church, and, among the several wedding parties present, he was particularly struck with the face of one of the brides. Somehow, he thought it straugoly familiar, and this idea grew so strongly upon him, that lie determined to wait and ascer tain her name. Lingering until after the servico, he was gratilied by hear ing the names of the respective par ties called out by the officiating min ister, and presently heard the names, Margaret Merrydew Smythe and John Baxter, pronounced. Simultaneously a wild cry rang through the church, and thfc (all of a heavy body was heard. The sudden revelation was too much for the poor old man, and ho had fainted away. He wao carried into the vestry by those around him, and restored to consciousness, when he quickly made his identity known. His daughter's amazement and delight can be bet ter imagined than described, we think, at this unlooked foj reunion with a father she had so long mourned as dead; and we venture to say that a more dramatic incident than their meeting would not be found in the pages of the most sensational romancist. Maggie Smythe took back with her from her wedding not only a husband, but a long-lost father as well. We will pass over the meeting between that husband and wife, who had not looked upon one another's faces for so many years. _ John Smythe and his helpmate, Hannah, both lived to a good old age, and their daughter, Mrs. Baxter, is a happy wife and mother in Liverpool at this moment—or perhaps, I had better say she was, for it is some years since I first learned the story I have recorded above. Charles Diaz, the half-Spanish step son of the old sailor-Crusoe, is now an officer in the Mercantile Marine; and James Roche, the one-time apprentice of the Western Star, who spent two years with John Merrydew Smythe, among the Falklamd Islanders, was, the last time Mr. J. S. Baxter saw him, chief mate of the old packet ship, Isaac Webb. He attended the funeral of his old shipmate, Smythe. THE SAMOAN AT HOME, When Not at War They I.rail Very Easy Hnil Agreeable Lives. When native Samoans are not at war they seem to foreigners to have o very easy and agreeable life. There is never very much to do, and what there is is not arduous or tiring. The old women, for instance, braid mats, or sit upon the rocks and beat and strip the bark for making tapa, the native cloth. The brewing and per fuming of coeoauut oil is another in dustry in which women play a prom inent part. The men spend much of their time in making fishing nets and tackle. In spite of the simplicity of the na tional attire, the Samoans are rather vain and spend a good deal of time in beautifying themsslves. The hair is often plastered with white lime, giv ing it, when dry, the effect of a white wig. The lime is washed off by night. The result is a gradual change in the color of the hair from a red to a bright yellow. Apart from this strange fancy the Samoans quite share the European ideas in regard to beauty. They particularly admire tall persons. The common dress for men and women is a simple kilt, the manner of whose adjustment seems to for eigners nothing short of miraculous. The natives seem tohaveno difficulty, however, in keeping the garment in place. The children are less sure of themselves and often lose the bit of calico that serves as outdoor costume. The brown babies wear no clothing at all. A fad of the young man of Samoa is to wear the namo of his sweetheart tattooed upon tho forearm. As the Samoan wears no sleeves this orna ment is always visible, and ho is very proud of it, which is easily under stood, as tho young lady herself al ways does the tattooing, it being im possible to intrust to a professional workman a task so full of sentiment. He Knew If. Rent (lay in Paris is a very impor tant occasion. The landlord is king in a realm where exactitude is not only encouraged, but enforced. An Eng lishman says he once went to see the landlord about some matter counectod with tho house which he had hired. The Frenchman proved to be a very suspicious and inquisitive old gentle man, who had made his fortune in the candle trade. "What do you sell?" he inquired. Tho Englishman acknowledged that he made his bread by writing for tho magazines. The landlord shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid," said he, "that you will not ho exact with your rent on the fifteenth of the month." He evidently had old-fashioned no tions of literature, as well as other arts, and preferred that his tenants should be, like himself, comfortably in trade. So in order to vindicate his vocation, the Englishman went in per son to call upon his landlord on the fourteenth with rent in hand. "I told you so!" exclaimed the pre cise old merchant. "I knew you wouldu't be exact, at tho day or hour fixed. You have brought your rent twenty-four hours too soon!" Ci ncinnati Enquirer. New I*roceH of Photography. Tii bo in the swim one must have one's photograph taken by the new process, which gives a raised surface like has relief. For the lover who yearns to enrry his sweetheart's pict ure always with linn these new photos may bo reduced to fit into a small locket. The newest fad in these locket or watch photos is to have a small magnifying gla33 set into the cover, which when opened releases the glass by means of a spring and en larges the portrait to a most lifelike appearance. Renting Room* in u Mexico City. Strangers sometimes mildly wonder wliat newspapers or sheets of blank paper are tied on the windows or bal conies of certain houses for. A sheet of paper thus arranged is a sign mean ing that there are rooms (r,let in the house on which it is displayed, and is just as significant in its import as three golden halls over a pawnbroker's shop are in other countries.—Mexican Herald. FARM AND GARDEN. Feeding Bran With Cnrmneal. Where out feed is fed to horses, a mixturo of corn and oats ground to gether makes the best meal to put on the cut and moistened bay. If tho oats are not to be had, grind tlie corn and mix the meal with twice its bulk oi wheat bran. Cornmeal alone is too heavy a feed to put on cut hay, but mixed with bran and tliewliole chewed as cut bay is sure to be, the saliva from the horse's mouth will be mixed with it and enable it to digest without fermenting in the stomach. When we fed corn and oatmeal on cut hay to horses, we usually put in some bran also, and think the hoises liked it bet ter, as the combination of the three feeds gave the whole a very appetiz ing flavor, especially as hot water was used to moisten the hay. narrows and Hakes in Corn Culture. As soon us the corn is three or four inches high, I put on a large smooth ing harrow which covers three rows, letting the team walk astride the mid dle row. After the harrowing is com pleted let the boys go over it and un cover any plants that may have been pulled'down or covered with the har row. This work can be done by means of small hand rakes made as follows: For the head take a piece of board lxl J inches. On one edge drive four inch wire nails one inch apart. For a handle use an old broom handle or a rake handle out to fhe proper length. Cross harrow in about eight days, if the corn is not too large, and un cover with a rake as before. After this discard the harrows and use one horse cultivators for the remainder of the season, going over the ground at intervals of from eight to ten days, according to the weather, whether weeds are present or not. This mode of culture may seem cruel to some, as dehorning cattle or severely pruning an orohard. However, it has been my plan for the last two years, and my neighbors all admit that I have one best cornfields in our part of the count-v. Scarcely a hill is miss ing and the hold is perfectly clean. Some may want to know how tho corn escaped the fate of the weeds in its early treatment. Tho weeds at this stage are on the surface and a single stroke of the harrow turns them out and if not completely destroyed, tho second stroke eight days later will kill them entirely, while the corn on the coutrary has been planted two or three inches deep. The roots strike down, and aro so thoroughly get by tho time the plant is from three to five inches high that a very few hills will be dis turbed l>y the harrow. The ground is thoroughly stirred around the roots, which is a benefit to the crop after ward. On light, loamy land, care must he taken to use n light harrow. For corn ground all strawy manure or stable should be well plowed un der. If this lins not not been done the harrow will be clogged and the cultivator interfered with later. The more frequent the rainfall the more frequent must he the cultivator, for the crust must bo broken as soon as possible after the rain. A light har row on corn sown broadcast for feed will prove beneficial. This harrow ing should always be followed by the raking so as to uncover tho hills that may have been disturbed.—J. AV. McEenzie, in New England Home stead. Cliarretl Grain For Stock. It is always customary with farmers who feed much com to fattening hogs, to give them a little charcoal daily, to correct acidity arising from its fer mentation in the stomach. It is fre quently taken from the wood stove, using the remains of fires that have died down before the wood was wholly converted into carbonic gas and ashes. It is the ashes mixed with Lliis charred wood which corrects acidity of the stomach. As for the coal itself, it is only partly burned vegetable fibre, and even when charred it cannot furnish More nutriment than would be found in sawdust from the same kind of wood. Charred grain, of which only the outer husk is vegetable fibre, is mucb better, and by charring carefully it can be fed in quite large amounts with docided advantage, as it is quite fattening, besides not being likely to cause souring of the stomach. If pop corn is not thoroughly dried, many of the grains will not open showing the fleecy whiteness of the starch they contain, and as these grains will nat urally fall to the bottom of the popper they are likely to be burned. Both hens and fattening hogs will eat these charred grains with great avidity. A still bettor grain to char is the oat, as it contains moro of tho strength giv ing and egg producing nutrition than does corn. In charring oats for hens and we think also for hogs, it is best to exposo tho grain to enough heat to burn off part of the husk of the grain. Tho oats w ill then lie eaten with avid ity, and if the grain is itself charred it will be a nitrogenous charcoal from which the more easily burned carbon has been removed. Iu extreme cases, as when a horse has colic or a cow lias bloated, grain that is pretty thoroughly charred may be given, but only in small amounts, and to restore tone to the stomach. It shttuld not be continued nor given very often, as the effect of potash which tho charred grain contains is to debilitate tho stonlaeh instead of to strengthen it, \\"e never gave charred grain except very rarely to any ani mals except what wo were fattening, and then only to correct evils of diet, which wo learned afterwards to avoid. A few weekH before fattening hogs were to be killed, it makes them fatten better to give them some charred grain with their other food. But we would not give charcoal to a breeding sow or to any other animal that we meant to keep long except to a hen. The giz zard of a hen is so strong that it prob ably does no harm to punish it with some charred oats, which with the hull burned off are as good as wheat, and are perhaps even better. In the cold est weather in winter we have fed charred oats to both fattening hogs and to poultry while the grain was still warm. They wer very greedy for this warmed grain, yet it is proba bly really no better for them than if the grain were eaten cold. Taking hot victuals and drinks into the stom ach is bad for human digestion, and it also probably is for the digestion of animals.—American Cultivator. Cream lclpenlne and Butter Flavor. The process of cream ripening is a kind of fermentation, just as the formation of alcohol or vinegar is a fermentation. The cause of the fer mentation which takes place in cream is the growth and development of an immense number of bacteria. The proper ripening of cream takes place when the right kind of bacteria pro duce the fermentation, and the pro cess is allowed to proceed to exactly the right point. Some bacteria pro duce substances that give fine flavors, others produce butter which is almost worthless. The chemical nature of the substances constituting the flavor iB not known, but it is probable they are decomposition products from the milk sugar. Hundreds of creumeries are losing thousands of dollars each year, because cream ripens im properly, due to injurious kinds of bacteria. Considerable trouble can be avoided if the creamery operators use the proper mothods. One of the lowa dairy school instructors is often sent to creameries that are unable to produce the desired quality of butter and he assists them to fix the trouble and provide a remedy. The methods this instructor geuerally uses to cor rect these faults are to require strict cleanliness about the buildings and utensils, rejecting milk which has not beon cared for in snch a manner as to prevent it from becoming tainted, and by the uso of good starters. These are all applications of the principles of bacteriology. Good, cleau milk is absolutely essontial to produce the best results. No buttermaker can take milk foul with dirt and filth and all that goes with them nnd make a first-class product. There are, of course, cer tain ways iu which such milk can be improved nnd serious results some what uverted. What we want to pro duce a good butter flavor is cream that will sonr with no other taste, especially of unpleasant taints sug gestive of filth contamination. To secure this there are two points to be always kept iu mind: First, unde sirable fermentations must bo kept out; the second point to be kept iu mind is desirable fermentations must be present, i. e., those which cause souring. Simply keeping bad flavor out is not nlways sufficient. The germs which produce a good flavor must be added if not already there. This is accomplished by the uso of starters. As used in dairying a starter is a portion of milk or buttermilk contain ing a large number of the germs of fermentation supposed to give a good flavor. The purpose of its use is sometimes to husteu the souring, but its greatest valuo is in controlling the flavor. I consider the uso of u startor as absolutely necessary if the butter maker expects to make uniform high grade butter. Under the best condi tions, that is when the milk is clean, free from filth bacteria, as is more apt to be in summer, butter can bo made with no startor probably sometimes just as good as with one, but at least iu the statu with which I am most familiar, it is impossible to make good butter in the winter time without a starter. When a starter is iu the proper condition it has a sharp acid taste, with no unclean or disagreeable taste or odor. It does not whey oil as soon as it thickens, but remains in a solid curd with no bubbles showing gas. The only way to tell when a starter is right is by taste and odor, nnd the user should learn to judge this cor rectly. The temperature at which milk is ripened is not so material if tho ripening is stopped at the proper stage. It can be ripened at fifty-five or ninety degrees. At high tempera ture it must be watched very closely, as ripening advances very rapidly. However, prefer about seventy to seventy-five degrees in the winter and sixty-five to seventy-five degrees in the summer. Some means of test ing the acidity of the cream is very useful. When not sour enough the butter shows a lack of flavor; if ripened too high tho flavor is some times rancid.—C. H. Eckles, lowa Dairy School, in tho Amoricau Agri culturist. Extinction of tlie I'rnirlo-Chlckcn. To-day tho reign of the old-time "chicken dog" is done iu America, aud the day of tho great brown grouse is also done. One can see no future for this, one of the most noble, though easily the most helpless, of all our game birds. To-day tho centre of the chicken country is no longer al Dwight. It moved West from Illinois into lowa, then up into Lower Min nesota, then a short way into lower Dakota. It crossed tho sand hills of Nebraska aud the wheat belt of Kan sas, tarried for a long time in the In. diati Nations, aud then dropped swiftly down across the State of Texas. I should be disposed to say that to-day it is perhaps located iu some of tho lower tiers of counties of Texas, and closer to tho Gulf const than most persons would imagine. There are some prairie-chickens left in Wisconsin, yet more iu Minnesota, aud, together with the sharp-tailed grouse, these birds yet furnish sport in widely scattered localities over North and South Dakota aud Nebras ka.—Harper's Weekly. TAKI C IT TO HEART. Ther- are tw t rts of people who bother That I lint-- t look Into the news; There'- tin- • i with the ready grandilo quent flew, Who aev- r known to refuse A char. ■■ 1 "Ut and make comments about Al things a.. eon heaven nnd onrth; Who -oars d who bores till you really doubt W.iether 11 ■ not more work than it's wortb. And it.cat-- re" the other who could if he would Clear up t - e nfnslons which fret; "bo p. . these dark problems so • well u 1 i- i '-rod If In- did .1 .le to forced It's entirely ior inult If my hair's turn ing gi r And mv-i -li -..-row saggv and woak— Tlie person i i a Iks nnd has nothing to suy Al- 1 tho ,er who knows nnd won't speak. —Washington Star. HUMOR OF THE DAY. "If Wiggins called yon a liar you ought to make him prove it." "What good won 1-1 that do?" Chicago Rec ord. "V. hat ! .nd of a tree is the hardest to olimh ' a ker the teacher. "One that hain't ; >1 no limbs," little Albert replied. - Uicago News. "I don'; see what is to become of all these new doctors!" "Oh, new microbes are being all the time discov ered."—Detroit Journal. " V\ ou you call Uncle Amos a stingy i!f .:i ■ "No, I should say he bad all his generoui impulses uuder perfect oo trol " —Chicago Record. Jones "You needn't be afraid to pin - that book in the hands of your children Smith—"H'tnl I guess yo don't ; -,w mychildren."—Brook lyn Life She- I'm sure I've cast my bread on the 1 many a time, and I don't set- any re tits ' He—"No; I guess you or ■ i would sink, dear,"— -Yon kers Sta smau. "The idea of her having ihe nerve tc lorn lie first sawtlielight in 18T8." "I w. not judgo her too harshly. F-'rhnii- sic meant the are light."— Indianapolis Journal. Miss P.—"lf he really loves me, as yon say, why should ho bs sileut?" Miss S.—"He maynotbe ina position to get married." "But he knows I am."—Detroit Free Press. An editor at a di iner table, being asked if he would mice some pudding, replied in a fit of abstraction, "Owing to a crowd of other matter, wo are un able to find room for it." "When your parents first refused me yonr hand I was so wretched that I wanted to throw myself out of the window." "And why didn't yon?" "It was so high!"—Lustige Blaetter. "Ah, yes," shesighed, "I'm saddest when I sing." "Then," he replied, "you must he an exception to the rule." "What rule?" "The rule that people are oblivions of their own de locts."—Chicago News. "How do yon, manage to find yonr way across tho ocean?" said a lady to a sea captain. "Why, by a compass. The needle always points to tho north." "Yes, I know. But, what if you wish to go south?"—Tit-Bits. The Artist—"A flattering likeness! No, indeed, Mr. Cashleigh. It's only the matter-of-fact, stingy, purse-proud man of pedigree we artists have to flatter. The artistic, generous, mod est, self-made man, neverl"—Brook lyn Life. Mr. Staylate—"l hear your mother's step on tlie stairs, and I shall ho nble to bid her good night." Sleepy Eeau ty (wearily)—"lt can't lie mother, Siio's a lato sleeper. Probably it is the servnnt coming down to light the fire."—Standard. The whizzing autotruck may come, tho horseless carriage, too; Tho elements may do the work tlint horses now must do; llut as long tie men keep striving on for fortune or for fnmo You will lluil that moaey'll nlways make tho rnaro go, just the same. —Chicago News. "What I can't understand," re marked Billies, "is how Tottenham died and didn't leave a debt in the world." "Oh, well," responded Sloops, "folks sometimes do that." "Yes, I know," continued BilHes, "but just think how popular Totten ham was. Everybody liked him, and that's why I can't understand how he came to die without owing one cent of borrowed money!"— London Judy. About Cold Storage Game. Dr. Robert T. Morris has con tributed valuable testimony to the movement against the use of eold storage game. It is proved that the selling by restaurants of frozen game results iu a much greater slaughter of birds tbau would be the case if only enough were shot to supply the mar ket during the open season. Frozen ' game is distinctly inferior to fresh birds. It lacks juiciness, while being so fiat in tasto that any one with a normal palate nnd tho slightest knowledge of game can tell the dif ference at the first mouthful. It iB now recoguizod that cold storage game is not served at any decent restaurant, as its lost flavor keeps away tho most desirable class of patrons. Dr. Morris proposes that every first-class restaurant will find it to its advantage to state on the menu that no cold storage game is served, to imperil the stomachs of its guests.—Chicago Record. The Editor and Her Gowii. "We, the editor, were dressed in black and white,' nnd wore an ermine cope lined with brocade, aud a large black picture hat with white feathers!" A correspondent sends us tho cutting from n Sunday pajer of a loading ar ticle on the recent Women Journalists' Matinee containing the above marvel lous sentence. As our correspondent > says, "it is a grand attempt to com- bine the personal with the anony mous." —The Academy.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers