Freeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY TH* fRIBONE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited OEVICE: MAIN STIIEET ABOVE CENTUE. FREELAND, PA. SLJBSTLURTLON KATES: One Year $1.50 blx Mouth* 75 Pour Months 50 Two Mouths 25 Tho date which tho subscription is paid to ts on tho address label of each paper, the ohange of which to a subsequent date be comes a receipt for reniittaucc. Keep the figures iu adviiuce of the present date, lie- Eort promptly to this office whenever paper i not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. Male all uxomy orders , checks , etc.,payabli to the Tribunt J'rintmj Company , Limited. The new wolf scalp bounty law ol Kausuß is giving the clerks of the va rious counties considerable trouble on account of its ambiguity. The new law offers a bounty of SI for all wolf scalps, except those of the 4 Tobo" species, the scalps of which are worth $5 each. The county clerks don't know wlint a "lobo" is, and have been nnuble to obtain any information which would enable them to distinguish the $5 scalps from those of the ordinary wolt. The fact that oue can travel hun dreds of miles by trolley cars without n break is an interesting thing to con template, but it is not likely that the trolley system, at least as it is now known, will ever become jHipulnr for iong-distauce traveling. As a meaus of transporting light freight, how ever, there seems to be a vast held open to it. Still, it would be rash to predict a definite future for the trolley system. The latter is still in its in fancy, and no oue can say what im provements in it may be iu store. Mrs. Emmons Blaine's model school will be erected in Chicago during the coming year in the vicinity of Hull house. While the two institutions will have the common purpose iu view of elevating mankind, they will be different in that the model school will endeavor to occupy the same relation toward the children of the crowded district that Hull house has taken toward their parents. One hundred thousand dollars will be devoted by Mrs. Blaine to the founding of this school as a sort of adjunct to the col lege for teachers which her philan thropy has assured for Chicago in the near future. Some interesting figures as to the proportion of farmers' boys among college students have been gathered by the American Agriculturist. It has returns from 178 universities and col leges, reporting an attendance of 02,- 000 students, out of a total of 97,000 in all the higher educational institu tions in the country. In its analysis of the figures the Agriculturist re duces the number of students con sidered to a little under 52,000, for some unexplained reason, excluding, it says, "a few city colleges, like Harvard, Pratt Institute, University of Rochester, Fisk University and others. Out of this total of about 52,000 it finds that nearly 21,000 are from the agricultural classes, or a per centage of 10 2 from the farm. This percentage varies largely in different sections of the country. It is 50.9 in the South, 45.8 in the far West, 40.1 iu the central West, 29.4 in the Mid dle States, and 29.1 in New England. "In no other nation will any such condition be found," comments the Agriculturist. The government has been fully re imbursed for the outlay made to aid in the construction of the Union Pa cific railroad. r J he government is sued what are commonly referred to as subsidy bonds, which the railroad company disposed of to provide funds for the construction of the line. The last installment of these bonds fell due Jan. lof this year. In antici pation of the Union Pacific defaulting in repayment the government took steps to dispose of its property at public auction, but settlement was fi nally arranged, and the principal of the loan amounting to $27,226,512, was refunded to the government with $'11,211,711.75 which represented the interest in full. The total indebt edness has been repaid and the gov ernment did not lose a dollar by the transaction. Of the total amount of Union Pacific bonds issued all have oeen redeemed by tho government except*, SBB,OOO, which are still out standing and have never been present ed for payment. As soon as they are presented they will lie canceled and destroyed. An uncommon disease caused the death of Mrs. Rose Funk, a resident ol Bloomlngton, 111. Portions of hei flesh had become as dry and bard ai bona. I HOW MOTHER DUFFIELD GOT 8 THE BETTER OF THE BOOM. 1 fHE town mast be burnin' up; I wisht now that I bad staid a little longer. It's drefful, though—d re f ful to thiuk on. Mother, I'm go t ing up to the hill field to get a better sight." The glory of the September sunset, which Squire Duffield had not noticed, had scarcely faded when another light, which he at once perceived, filled the heavens in the direction of Swanton, a sleepy old county seat with a population of about 5000 souls. Latterly a new influence had mani fested itself in Swanton. The young people had surrendered themselves to it completely, and evon their elders, bred to slow thought and action and to a distrust of innovations, were weakening under it. I had all hap pened within a few months. One day a well-dressed, smooth-spoken Btranger had put up at the Swan House, and had hired a horse and buggy and had driven about the coun try asking mysterious questions of the farmers. Then he disappeared, but shortly returned with n man whom he introduced as a capitalist. That Bort of personage was unfamiliar to the Swautonians, and they spent much time in speculating upon his probable past and possible future. There was a lurking suspicion that the presence of the strangers boded no good, whroh became active when they were joined by an engineer and showed a disposition to prowl about other people's property. But this being followed by proposals to pur chase land at liberal figures, the re sentment died out. It was only an acre here and another there, with an option on larger tracts, but S2OO an aero for SSO laud was an effective an tidote to distrust. The cupidity of the firmer was quite as well under stood by the keen city men as his hes itation and suspicion, and they had no difficulty in getting what they wanted. Natural gas was the ostensible ob ject of their search, and Swanton was in two minds about the desirability of discovering such a commodity. That it was not a familiar agricultural pro duot was to its discredit, but there were those who were sanguine over the easy acquisition of fortune and the establishment of a prosperous and populous city. The editor of the Weekly Banner, after a talk with the capitalist, unhesitatingly said that Swanton's golden opportunity was at hand. The madness began to get in its work when the Buckeye Improvement and Development Company opened spacious offices on Jefferson street and the sound of drills woke the echoes through the peaceful country side. Deals were made, openly and surreptitiously, and enterprises and rumors of enterpsises quickened the sluggish blood of even the most con servative. Already gas had been found in small quantities in several wells, but the excited community would be satisfied with nothing less than a "gusher." Ono was expected in the big well on old man Hartman's place at the edge of town. There has been difficulties from salt water and fx-om the breaking of machinery, but the experts were sure that gas wduld be found in im mense quantities. Indeed, it had been making considerable commotion for several days. Squire Duffield said he was "mighty glad that ho didn't live near the pesky thing; ho didn't want it on his farm; he preferred a good crop of wheat." This light, which seemed to indi cate a tremendous fire, confirmed his previous judgment. "Some fool has dropped a light cigar and started the thing off," he argued, "and if's spread to the hull town. I declare ef I wasn't so beat out, I'll drive in an' see what's liappenin'. "By gracious, maybe it'll burn the bank up—l'm goin'. "Jake, Jake, hitch up Jinny quick's ever you can! I'm goin' to town," ! Hhouted the Squire; and five minutes i later he and his hired man wei-e urg ing the unwilling "Jinny" toward Swanton. The distance was five miles, but "Jinny" could be counted upon to cover it in an hour and to get back in half that time. The country grew brighter and the roaring increased as the mare trotted briskly over the smooth pike. It's queer," muttered the Squire; "the fire don't seem to change. We see it better 'cause we're gettin' closer, but it don't get bigger nor act like an ordinary fire." Every time the Squire thought of his S3OOO he touched "Jinny" with the whip. "It don't seem to be spreadin' much; they're keepiu' it well toward Ifartman's place," he said, as they got near town; but Jake couldn't hear him for the fierce roaring of the flame. The mare was so frightened by the time they had come within a half mile of the well that her master determined to put tier up and to proceed on foot. "How far has the firs spread?" he shouted in the ear of the hostler who came out to take her. "No further'n Hartman's well," screamed the man grinning. Squire Duffield couldn't believe that. Accompanied by Jake he went to see for himself. It was true. A mighty column of flame shot up into the air. the earth trembled and Deo ple looked weird and ghastly in" the uncanny light as they read one an other's lips, for no voice could be heard; but there was no conflagra tion. "How'll they ever put it out?" Jake's lips asked. "How?" the Squire's lips repeated as ho shook his head. Up to that night Squire Duffield had ranked as an ultra conservative among the boomers, but the sight of that tremendous manifestation of power had shaken liirn out of his old ideas and habits. He felt dazed and uncertain for several days, when he became restless and had an irrepress ible desire to go to town and hear more of the wonders that were com ing to pass. All of the farmers near town were planning to plot their land for house lots or factory sites and the Squire sighed, reflecting that his land was too far from town for any such purpose. There was to be a shoe faceory, a plate-glass factory, an optical glass factory and ever so many othey works that would employ hundreds of men and bring in thousands of dollars. The greatest enterprise of all was to be the rolling mill whioh (he Buave and imposing Major Gloss was ex ploiting. It was reported that the compauy which he said be had formed represented a capital of half a million dollars. A billion could scarcely have impressed the Swantouians more. Squire Duffield's brother-in-law had sold bis farm at u fancy price for the site of the new mill, and massive buildings were being erected for the accommodation of (he machinery, the largest and heaviest of its kiuil in the world, which was being brought from Furuacetown, Major Gloss assuring the Swnntonians that he could not think of remaining in a place where there were only 40,000 people when he saw opportunities presented by a city with such a future as Swanton. The rolling mill and the Buckeye De velopment and Improvement Com pany were tho biggest things in sight, and some people intimated that tho two were one; that is, that the same men were promoting both. "Well, what of it?" returned the boom-mad speculators. "Ain't they prominent men and capitalists? Of course, they wont to be on the inside wherever there are millions to be made, and they're lucky who can get in with 'em." There was a wild scramble for this privilege—it was the stock exchange transferred to a virgin field. Swanton never had seen oo much cash or dreamed of so many notes, deeds and legal documents of various sorts as floated about in these days. The County Recorder had to hire extra deputies and clerks, notaries and real estate dealers sprang up on every cor ner. A pawnshop was started to en able the boomers to turn their last possession into cash. Loutish coun try boys and commonplace town clerks were alike stung with the mad desire for speculation, and older heads were lost with equal precipitation. "Paper" was indorsed readily and unquestion ably, and promptly discounted by the bank, which had hired an extra room and threo times as many employes as ever had been required before. Ready-made houses were brought to town in sections and set up like ridiculous toys on twenty-live foot lots in Snyder's subdivision, a worth less piece of swampy land between tho creek and tho canal which the Buckeye Development and Improve ment Compauy had bought anil plot ted, theirs also being tho ready-made houses. Mass meetiugs were held in the town hall and in the publio square and enthusiasm was without bounds. Squiro Duffield could withstaud the allurements of the craze no longer. His hoarded S3OOO and all the money that he could raise by mortgaging the land, including what be hud acquired through frugality and industry and the homestead that had come to him from his father, were invested in the rolling mill and in allied enterprises promising a speedy return of dollars for cents. Farm work was neglected for the first time ill his life—it .was not worth while to grub a living la boriously from the soil when a for tune was to bo bad by such facile means. The Squire's sons were swept off their feet, and from steady, hard working young fellows, took to driv ing recklessly about the country at all hours of the day and night, drinking and gambling nud pursuing a general mode of life detrimental to their man ners, morals and finances. Miss Fan nie, the Squire's only daughter, saw at last the coveted avenue of escape from social isolation and household drudgery and ndopted lute rising and dawdling over her toilet as the first requisites for a life of refined and ele gant leisure. Only Mrs. Dnflield, untiring in her industiy, frugal in her habits and homely in her disposition, took no pleasure in her changed prospects. Despite the querulous objections of the family, she cluug to her accus tomed routine of household duties, made as many pounds of butter a week as usual, looked after her garden, sold eggs and poultry, and in all ways conducted herself as if she never an ticipated living upon a higher social plane. It was a day of sore trial for her when it was decided, in view of the growing importance of the family, to remove to town and occupy the man sion of the late Judge Bigman. Rue fully tho good woman went over and over the place, doing last offices and laying injunctions upon the tenant's wife who was to succeed her, about what to do and what not to omit. Her lack of pride and of adaptation to her bettered fortune disturbed the rest of the fami y sadly, but their removal was marred by a fur more ominous oc currence. There hi' 1 been for several days an ugly rumor that the gas was giving out. The Squire pooh-poohed the report, but a week later it was not t6 be thrust aside by any such contempt uous methods, and there was no deny ing that the Hartman well was less strong than formerly. But what did that signify? It would be an easy matter to 6ink more wells and find more gas, Before this could be done, however, the capitalists back of the Buckeye Development and Improvement Com pany withdrew from the field, leaving the Swantonians in a tangle whose labyrinthine difficulties they could not understand—except as to the depress ing detail that'they were pledged for more money than they could pay or could earn in a lifetime. On the heels of this calamity came an interruption in the rolling-mill project. The build ing was there and the machinery was there, but the busiuess halted. Major Gloss was absent in some vague local ity on unknown business, and no one else had authority, means or ability to proceed. It did not become known for some time that this rolling-mill machiuery existed $ only for ef fect in boom towns and that it traveled from one to another in pur suit of this end. Hince it left Swan ton it had been in a dozen other booms, but never had turned a wheel for work. The fabric which Squire Duffield and his sons and daughter bad reared in fond anticipation crumbled into dust, and their consternation when an appreciation of their predicament was forced upon them was pitable. "I am ruined, utterly," wailed the old mail. "Not an acre of land, not a dollar, can I call my own. I don't see anything left for us but to go to live in Snyder's subdivision, and I'll have to try for day's work." At this prospect Miss Fannie lifted up her voico iu anguish, aud the boys, having nothing to suggest but their debts, went out to drown their troubles iu drink while they still had a little credit. But Mrs. Duffield looked more cheer ful than she had done since she left the farm. "Oh, it ain't so bad but that it might be worse," she remarked, philosophically, as she went on with her darning. "How could it be worse?" the Squire demanded, turning roughly upon her. "Well, I've got a little money saved up," she replied calmly. "I've been married thirty year, almost, an' you never interfered with my doin' as I liked, father—leastways, not till we come to town to be grand folks—so I've saved up considerable. When ever I had a hundred dollars, I've given it to Brother Dan to invest for me, knowin' him to be a careful and an honest man, and I've got a matter of 'most S7OOO out at interest, besides nigh on to a hundred dollars in my stockin' that I hadn't given him yet, so I guess we might make some ar rangement 'bDiit the mortgage an' move back to the old place. We'll get the rest of it paid off if we, leave gas and improvements alone, I guess." And perhaps there was u sparkle in the old lady's eyes. "But how did you get so much money?" "Butter an' eggs an' garden truck. I wasn't never ambitious, you know." Aud the Squire had the grace to say, "Mother, you've saved the family, an' I shan't never go against your advice iu anything again."—New York Press, limiting Pecmrlei in Texas. "Hunters have been known to un dertake the foolhardy task of hunting peccaries on the plains of Texas," said an old ranchman in the New York Sun, "by killing one in a drove and getting to a safe place in a tree, when the entire drove will at once gather about the tree and wait, with every eye fixed upon tlie hunter, for the vengeance their instinct or reason or whatever it is tells them is inev itable. Well provided with ammuni tion, hunters have been able to picx off, one by oue, every member of a drove, and then make an escape from a tree, but it is a dangerous risk for a hunter to run. Every peccary but one in a drove may fall before the hunter's bullets, but the solitary one will remain on guard until he dies of starvation. If the hunter has no ammunition and one peccary is left alive, it become a question of which I has the more endurauce, the hunter I or the peccary. Plainsmen are a fear less and often reokless lot, but they never hunt peccaries. There are too many terrible stories as to how such rash undertakings have terminated. "'Physically as well as morally, 1 said Joe Parker, 'the peooary seems to be an abnormal sort of creature. It has the general appearance aud habits of the hog, hut the iioofs and the three stomachs of the cow. On its hack it has a gland which secretes a inuek, and three minutes after a pec cary is killed its fiesk will be entirely pregnated with the secretion. Just what this composite construction of the peccary is for—a reminiscence of the hog, the cow and the muskrat—no one seems to have exactly found out yet. But one thiug is certain—it is tough and absolutely without fear. But they are harmless as doves if you treat 'em right. You cau go out any timo, over yonder in the Big Val ley. and sit right down on the edge of a feeding drove of peccaries and watch 'em all day, if you want to, and they won't touch you or notice you so long as you don't rile 'em.' " The last mule-car has disappeared from New Orleans. MAXIMS MADE MILLIONS. AMERICAN MAGNATES TELL HOW THEY HAVE WON FORTUNES. Ku**ell Sage, C. P. Huntington, Mrs. Hetty Green and John D. Rockefeller Reveal the Rules of Conduct on Which Their Lives Are Based. The Saturday Evening Post, unique and popular paper which Mr. Curtis, of the Ladies' Home Journal, is now conducting, publishes the fol lowing remarkable article made up of contributions from the leading finan ciers in the United States: Formula* Worth Twenty Millions Each. Russell Sage, the dean of American financiers, set out in pursuit of his present $100,000,000 as an errand boy in a country grocery store. His maxims are these: 1. Be temperate and you will be happy. 2. Plain food, an easy mind and sound sleep make a man young at eighty-three. 3. Opportunities are disgusted with men who don't recognize them. 4. Despair is the forerunner of failure. Next to a fat purse is a "stiff upper lip." 5. When a man "loses his head" he mustn't complain about the other fel low taking an advantage. Keep cool and freeze out the enemy. A Millionaire Who Never Borrows. Mr. Charles Broadway Bouss, who is worth $8,000,000, and who began his business career as a clerk in a small store, suggests the following seven maxims as embracing the essen tials of a successful business career. 1. The dignity of labor is the great est of all dignities; the genius of work is the greatest of all geniuses. 2. Industry, integrity, economy and promptness are cardinal requisites to certain and honorable success. 3. Merit is the trade mark of suc cess; quality the true test of value. 4. Success is not in time, place or circumstance, but in the man. 5. Credit and partnerships are the scourge of commercial history and the bane of commercial experience. 6. Beware of the gifts of the Greeks; they allure that they may destroy; oredit is tempting, but ruin sureiy follows in its path. 7. Burn the ledger and learn to say No; this is best for both buyer and seller. %• Some Tools For Msklne Millions. Henry Clews began life as a mes senger boy in an English woolen fac tory. He is now worth $8,000,000, and attributes his rise in life to his belief in these simple mottoes: 1. It requires other things than am bition to become a millionaire; making everything count for something is one of the other thing 9. 2. Sobriety, honesty and industry are the three graces of a snccessful business career. 3. Save without parsimony; spend without lavißhness. 4. Sound health, a clear head, wise economy and work, work, work will declare big dividends for any one who looks well after the original invest ment. 5. Shun wild speculations, and be satisfied with slow but sure returns for money invested. XVnrk Make. Wealth anil Gnotlne... Darius O. Mills, financier and philanthropist, started on his road to fortune with nothing but a gbod physique and a large determination. He is now worth $25,000,000, and he has acquired that amount of money by observing these rules: 1. Work develops all the good there is in a man; idleness all the evil; therefore work if you would be good— and successful. 2. Sleep eigbt hours, work twelve, and pick your recreations with an eye to their good results. 3. Save one dollar out of every five yon earn. It is not alone the mere saving of money that counts; it is the intellectual and moral discipline the saving habit enforces. 4. Be humble, not servile or undig nified, but respectful in the presence of superior knowledge, position or ex perience. 5. Most projects fail owing to poor business management, aud that means a poor man at the helm. 6. Success is measured by the good one does, not by the number of his millions or the extent of his power. Some Practical Peftftlinlfuim. Joseph Downey, one of the wealth iest contractors in Chicago, takes a pessimistic view of every business venture. He says that he is always expecting the worst to happen, and is agreeably surprised when the reverse occurs. To his iutiniate friends he often gives these ter3e bits of advice: 1. Never figure what your profits avo going to be. 2. Calculate what your possible losses will be on a venture. 3. Figure what the lowest return will be iu a business proposition with all things unfavorable. If matters turn out favorably you cau stand the prosperity that follows. 4. Buy all the property that you cau, but never build to suit yourself. Construct buildiugs to please others and they will sell. In Trftlse oT tli© Still Tongue. Collis P. Huntington laid the foundation of his fortune of $50,000,- 000 by peddling hardware in Cali fornia during the feverish days of 1847. His business maxims are: 1. Don't talk too much during busi* ness hours. 2. Listen attentively; answer cau tiously; decide quickly. 3. Do what you think is right and stand by your own judgment. 4. Teach others, by your conduct, to trust you implicitly. 5. Never let your competitors know what your next move will be: time enough to talk after you have acted. 6. Have a definite aim, and keep your eye on the objective point. 7. Be bold with caution, prudent with boldness. ** Mrs. Hetty Green'r ltecljw* For n Fortnne. Mrs. Hetty Green is the wealthiest woman in the world. Without capital, friends or infiueuce she has built up a fortune estimated at $60,000,000. The maxims governing her business life she has formulated as follows: 1. Invest in real estate; buy a house for SSOOO that can be soon sold foi S6OOO. 2. Be satisfied with a profit the proportion of which corresponds with the size of the investment. 3. Women are seldom successful in commercial undertakings because they do not appreciate the importance of minding their own business. 4. Imitation may bo the sincerest flattery, but the good of it all lies with the things imitated. Success is a stranger to imitation. People with money to invest should pay no atten tion to the doings of others, but look on things from their own point of view. 5. The goal of success is not always reached by the roughest road; the path is an easy one to tiud. That is why so mauy people miss it. Wherein Millionaire* Differ Prom Poet*. George G. Williams, President of the Chemical National Bank of New York, who is worth $5,000,000, has worked his way from a clerkship to the head of one of the soundest finan cial institutions iu the country by conduct founded upon the principles in his five favorite dictums: 1. There is no royal road to suc cess. Work is the keynote. 2. Learn to do one thing well and do it thoroughly. 3. Ambitiou and common sense will win success for any ono along logiti mate lines. 4. The really successful man is made, not born. 5. Determination is the lever of the great machine of life. Practice Economy; Avoid Extravagance Mr. D. K. Parsons, millionaire, philanthropist and patron of colleges, says that the rules of life can be summed up as follows: 1. Practice steady economy. Do not spend until you have it to spend. Be strictly honest aua never take ad vantage of men. Avoid show and ex travagance. Use your money to edu cate the poor. 2. Be your own executive. Trust no man to administer upon your estate. You caunot carry out of this world any amount with your dead hands. There is no use for money beyond the grave. Entrapping Opportunity With Capital. Jacob Franks, who is reputed to be worth $2,000,000, went into business in Chicago, when nineteen years of age, with the determination to follow the ru'e—save money. His lorinula to-day is: 1. Good fortune cannot come un less you aro provided with capital with which to seize opportunity when it appears. 2. Save money and be ready to in vest. 3. Never borrow capital, and never owe a dollar that you cauuot pay ou demand. Four I.aw* For a Lawyer. A. S. Trade, oue of the wealthiest attorneys in the West, has long fol lowed these rules: 1. Get the confidence of clients and keep it. Such confidence is accumu lated capital. 2. Form a morganatio alliance with clients. 3. Buy during panics when others are frightened and expecting the bot tom to drop oat of securities. 4. When the storm is raging and forked lightning appears in the finan cial sky, invest in property that others fear will be injured. Sir. Itockereller Drosik Debt. John D. Rockefeller, thq "Oil King," whose wealth touches the §125,000,000 mark, won his first start in a business way by working on a New York farm twelve hour-3 out of tbe twenty-four for twenty-five cents a day. He baa earned his position as a multi-millionaire by adhering to the principles of the following maxims: 1. It should be every man's duty to get all the money he can, keep all he can and give away all he can. 2. Buy only what oan be paid for, and look upon debt as ail ogre that first paralyzes and then kills. 3. Live within your means, and don't think too muoh of your neigh bor's good fortune. 4. Keep a reoord of all expendi tures and receipts so that at the end of each year you cau tell whether you are saving enough money to provide against the inevitable rainy day. Any one can make money; few ean save it. 5. Live as though every act of yours was under the scrutiny of your bitterest enemy, A Very Busy Preacher. The Rev. Dr. Frank Gansaulus, pastor of tbe Central Church, Chi cago, iB not altogether unoccupied. In addition to his ministerial duties, Dr. Gunsaulus finds time to act St President of the Armour lustitnto of Technology and to lecture, write novels, biographies and poems. In the course of a single day he will prepare a sermon, oversee the insti tute work, write a chapter in a new book, and in the eveuing deliver a lecture. He works with refreshing ease, and is always.roady for a joke or story in a spare moment. A hymn-book once used by General Gordon has been sold for $l5O for the benefit of General Kitohen.r's oolleae fund. JIM CROW. Oh, say, Jim Crow, Why Is It you always go With a gloomy coat of blflc The year long on your bti-ic? Why don't you change its uue. At least for a day or two, To red or green or blue? And why do you always we.tr Buoh a sober, somber air, As glum as the face of Care? 1 wait for your reply, And into the peaceful pauso There comes your curious, croaking cry "Oh, because! 'cause! 'cause!" Oh, say, Jim Crow, Why, when the farmers sow, Ami the corn springs up in the row, And the day 9 that once were brief Grow long, and laugh into lear. Do you play the rascally tliief? I oan see by the look in your eye- Wary and 3ly— That you know the code in vogue; Why will you then, ob, why Persist in the path of the rogue? I barken for your reply, And into the empty pause Tlioro rings your graceless, grating cry-* "Oh, becausel 'causel 'cuusel" And say, Jim Crow, With all of the lore you know- Lore of the wood and field. Lore of the clouds, and the clear Bepttas of the atmosphere, To our duller ken concealed— Why is it you ever speak With a mingled squawk and a squeak? You, with your taleut9 all. Anil your knowledge of this and that. Why must you sing like a squall, And talk like a perfect "flat?" I listen for your reply— But in the lapse and the pnu9e All I hear is your impudent cry— "Oh, because! 'cause! 'cause!" —Clinton Scollurd, in the Woman's Home Companion. PITH AND POINT. Inquiring Boy (to his mother)— "Ma, what did the moths eat before Adam and Eve wore clothes?"— Ha rper's Bazar. Askington—"ls young Lanks, tho poet, generally read?" Teller—"No; he is generally blue because he is not i read."—ruck. ! She—"No, I wouldn't marry the I best man living." He—"Well, I'm | not asking you to."—Columbus (Ohio) State Journal. "The prison brass band plays very | well." "Yes; you see, the musicians ; all have a good idea of time."—Phila ; delphia Bulletin. ' She—"l don't think mother likes to , have me sit alone with you." "Why j not?" "Well, she is afraid you might try to kiss me."—Life. Bates—"ls your wife agood cook?" Yates—"Not exactly that, perhaps, but she is a good woman. She never tries to cook."—Boston Transcript. He wasn't superstitions, Ne'er read between the lines; But as a first-class lotterer, He had great faith iu signs. —Philadelphia North American. "Clementine, what did you do with that curtain goods you bought last week?" "Weil, it was entirely too loud for curtains, so I made a shirt waist of it."—Chicago Record. She—"lndeed, it's not an easy thing for a girl to get a husband." He "Why, a pretty girl can make her choice of four out of every five men she meets." She—"But it's the fifth that she wants."—Harlem Life. "Mamie," said her father, "I can't tolerate that young man's presence iu the houße after 11 o'clock." "Why, you oughtn't to mind so much, pa," she answered; "I have to entertain him."—Philadelphia North American, Bill—"I met that fellow Boggs yes terday." Jill—"Did he borrow any | thing from you?" "Not 011 your life! , Before he had a chance I asked him to loan me a dollar." "I Hee; you struck him in self-defense."—Youkers Statesman. Client—"That littlo house you sent mo to see is in a most scandalous con dition. It is so damp that moss posi tively grows on the walls." House Agent—"Well, isn't moss good enough for you? What do you expect at the rent—orchids?"—Tit-Bits. Fuddy—"That was au odd predica ment that Beu Thayer and Addio Moore found themselves iu." Duddy —"Tliey are deaf mutes, aren'tthoy?" Fnddy—"Yes. They clasped each other's hands at the critical momeut, you kuow, so that he couldn't ask her to marry him and she was unable to reply if bo had."—Boston 'Transcript. Alters the Portrait Annimll.r. There is a peculiar portrait in Wash ington which lias created much in terest among those who kuow of its existence. Its peculiarity is that every year it has been changed to show the changes whioh time would have made in the original. The portrait is by a Washington artist, and is that of his wife, and was painted many years ago when she was a young bride. A few years after the portrait was painted the young wife died, and so great was the grief of the artist that he deter mined to keep her likeness with him all the time, and to do so he decided '.hat year by year ho would change :he portrait so as to make it grow old vith him and thus keep her, as it sere, ever with him. Kvery year, on the anniversary of his weddiug day, the artist locked himself in his stndio and changed tho lines of the face of the portrait, adding what he thought would make the difference of one year. There have been many anniversaries of that marriage day, and consequently tunny changes in the portrait. To-day the picture is that of an old woman, fhe hair turned gray, the face wrinkled and pale, but still beneath the marks of time, as mnde by the brush of the artist, can be seen the early beauty of tbe bride and the attractiveness of the young woman.—New York Mail and Express. Antl-Klsslnc Myook ot llinnivza. Two Bnrmans, one of whom is a lad of seventeen, were sentenced to six months and four montha'rigorous im prisonment each by the Myoox of Hmawza for attempting to kiss a young Burmese girl Amrita Bazar Pstrika.
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