Freeland Tribune Established 1888. rUBIJSHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY TBI IRIEUNE PRINTING COMPANY, limited ONICK: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. FHEELA.ND, PA. SUBSCRIPTION BATES: One Year $1.50 Six Alonth. 75 Your Months 60 Two Months 25 The date whtoh the subscription is paid to is on tne address label of each paper, the change of which to a sub sequent date be somee a receipt for remittance. Keep the tfgnree in advance of the present date. Re port promptly to this office wheuever paper not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. Aftn'.e all momy orders, checks, Uc, ,payabU 10 the Tribune Printing Company, Limited England and her colonies aud da pendencies buy from us now 60 pet sent, of all we sell abroad. In a recent lecture Henry A. Clapp, a Boston critic, held tliat the present status of the drama aud the theatre in the English-speaking nations is low, both intellectually and morally. The fad for large shoetvear which has attacked the men will doubtless be confined strictly to their own side of the sex problem. Femininity will still paddle along with it 3 heel uuder its instep, as usual. The link between modern literature and the modern drama is often stretched nowadays to the breaking point. A good play generally makes J a good book, but a mighty good book o.ten makes a mighty poor play. The chief of the United States weather bureau figures that the au mial proportion of deaths by light ning in this country to the population is about five to every 1,000,000. This is rather a heavy showing, consider ing that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. The agricultural department of the United States will make a display of irrigation methods, as practiced iu the West, at the Paris Exposition. This display should, at least, have the ef fect of inducing foreign capital to be come interested in this industry. Tho profits to be derived therefrom cannot fail to prove satisfactory. The woWd has improved much dur ing the century that has elapsed since George Washington passed away, but it lias not produced a man more worthy of the homage of not only Americans, but of all mankind, than he. What was recorded of Kim at the time of his death is as true today as it was theu. Ho retains the place then given him of "First in peace, first iu war, and first iu the hearts of his countrymen." The storv of the fowl that buried the jewel, the value of which it was uua'ule to appreciate, is known to al most everybody. The merchant who does not advertise is like the fowl iu the fable—he hides his most valued possessions where the public can have no knowlege of their existence. The advertiser, on the contrary, places the jewel of bis business where it attracts the attention of hundreds of thou sands of persons. Science—and the word means knowledge—only strengthens a little, by each discovery the radius of what we know, and enlarges the visible cir cumference of our ignorance. We know something of properties, of re lations, but very little of things, phil osophizes the New York Independ ent. We know a little of movements, of qualities, but nothing ol' mutter. We know of love and bate and joy and fear end right and wrong, but what do we know of souls? Y'et we know enough of inexorable Nature, and of danger aud duty, to govern fairly our lives; and what we do not know must be the object of constant search. This search is the highest purpose of sci ence, of whatever sort; yet where in the world, asks Professor Rowland of Johns Hopkins University, is the in stitute of research which hasau income of a hundred millions a yoar, an amount readily granted as the price per year of au army or a navy design ed to kill other people ? Fisher Girls Travel In Style. So prosperous has been the herring aeason at Yarmouth that the Scotch fishing girls who have been cleaning, preparing, curing and packing the fish were able to accomplish their GOO-milo Journey homo to Peterhead In a special train, which stopped only twice for changes of engines. The train con sisted of two fine corridor coaches and three comfortable saloons, and at the rear were four luggage vans, all full of personal belongings of the girls. The ordinary garb of the lasses when pursuing their vocation comprises short top hoots reaching to the knee and short skirts, with oily frocks over them. They wear no hats or bonnets even In the pelting rain.—London Mail. SUCCESS. (An Old Man Bpaks.) I stand, at last, upon tho lonesome hlght— The purple-tinted peak k that was my goal; The prize I used to dream of In the night— The lofty end on which I set ray soul— Is mine to-day, and all the toll And all the schemes are done; Put chiding voices echo round The higlit that I have won! Ah, futile toil and unrewarded schemes! The hope that lured me on has iled away; I've gained the hight, but lost the sweet old dreams, And no warm hands clasp ray cold hand to-day, For on the toilsome steep that I Have managed to ascend Each stop is but the form of one Who hailed me as a friend! —Cleveland Loader. D3OOOOOOOOGOOGOOOOOO3OOGGO § A LITTLE AND _A 818 HERO. | O BY IXO BTIIANNIK. Q 8OOOOO3OO30odoooopos)OOOOO8 ECENTLY my two (JY cousins and I hail I had como from school tomyunole's fsBM estate, pale and JgyBEaWVjI. overworked. Now, hrowu as berries, we felt strong and misobievous. The day was hot and snffocating. The air seemed to be laden with some thing move than the seeut of new mown bay and pine—a flavor so com mon on a July day in Northern Russia. The grown people said: "The at mosphere is impregnated with elec tricity," aud although we boys of twelve aud thirteen years did not know what that really meant, wo were sure that, sooner or Inter, a storm would come, for the old shepherd had said so, and he always told the truth. In the afternoon a blaol: cloud rose over the horizon in the northeast. An hour later a dark bank covered half the Bky, aud wo heard the far away rumbling of thunder. Rain began to fall in large drops aud we, standing on the grass-cov ered porch, amused ourselves iu watehiug thechickous run, the ducks dive iu the poud, the workmen hurry home and the cattle rush for the stables. An unexpected clap of thunder made tisjuinp, aud we quickly obeyed the call of my aunt to come into the house, as we had no desire to stay outside any longer. It grow darker aud darker, r: " ; fiery zigzags of the lightning tin r a yellow tint upon the peojile and i - niture in the room, and the tlium. r following quickly on tko flashes made tho old mausiou quiver to its founda tions. •A blinding flash, with a [deafening crash almost at the same instant, seemed to make tho old castle sway. "Surely that struck (somewhere near," said my uncle, jumping to his feet [and stepping to the window. "Yes, it is Michael Kubarkiu's hut just across tho river," he exclaimed. "I must go nt once aud see that the firo is put out." He turned (to us, "Boys, you hnd bettor oome along. I may need you." No need to ask us twice. We felt overhonored to be allowed to be of use at such an important momont. In an instant we were in our high boots and rubber coats, uud started for the lire. About twenty peasants stood around tho burning bouse, lamenting and praying, but not one offering to lend a helping hand. "Quick," called my undo. 1 "Take Jome buckets; form a chain; try to put out the fire." "Your Lordship," said one of the mon, "lightning struck thi3 house. Only milk will put out the flame." "Obey me," thnndered my uncle, "aud get to work, or I'll put you on bread and water until you forget bow milk tastes." Reluctantly the man started. My younger cousin, Alexey, was sta tiouod to watch tho superstitions crowd, with orders to report at once if any ono refused to work or tried to steal nway. "Now, boys," scouted my uncle, "let us seo if thero are any people in the house." Bravely wo followed him into the smoke and heat of the slowly burning hut. Wo soou discovered the dead body of Michael Kubarkin and car ried it out. Again aud again wo faced the danger. Wo rescued two women aud a baby. They had been mcroly stunned by tbo shock. While bring ing tho child out I had noticed a ( form lying near tho door. In the darkness and smolto I could not distinguish whether it was a human being or a dog. I hurried back. My uncle called mc, but I rushed in, dropped on my knees and ' crawled toward the spot where I had seen tho form lying. It was a boy. Ho had been on bis way homo iu the next village and had songht shelter iu tho houso from the storm. I dragged liim out, and was about fifteen yards from the bouse when thero was au explosion. Kubarkin bad bought ten pounds of powder at tho last fair end had kept it in the largo brick stove. The but collapsed. Somo of the bricks whizzed by my head, uncom fortably close, but tho boy was saved, and with the aid of fresh air ho soon came out of his stupor. Ten years had passed. I was lieu tenant in tho body guard of tho Czar. Before Plevna we were forced into active service. One morning I was ordered to take a private dispatch from the Emperor to General Todlebon. A guard of twelve men escorted me when I started from headquarters. It was a bright morning after several days of drizzling rain. The road through tho forest was very soft, aud we could make but very little progress. At about ten o'olock we reached an open valley. I ordered a halt to decide if I should oross the open spaoe or turn to the left and keep in the woodß until I had got out of sight aud reach of the enemy. It would have been just tweuty miles more of muddy road. The dispatch was important and haste necessary, so I decided to move straight on. We had hardly reached the open valley when a small cloud of smoke from the northern fort of Plevna told me that we had been seen and were now a target for the Turkish guns. A short command from me brought my men iuto a line, so that the enemy had only one man to aim at. We were moving at full speed toward the protecting timber on the otber side. Tho first shell fell short; the second burst fully a thousand yards behind us; the third was "dead," and passed lifty feot iu front of us. We were almost ru the shade of the tall pinee when I heard a terrific crash aud lost my senses. I awoke very soon, with a stinging pain iu my head. A man lay right ovor me. He was unbuttoning my uniform. The thought of "war hyena" flashed through my miud. Cautiously I opened one eye—just enough to see who my assailant was. To my aston ishment I saw it was one of my own men. He had noticed my movement, and whispered; "Keep still; we are the only survivors." "But, man," said I, "take the dis patch and get into safety." "No," he whispered, "I shall cover your body with mine till help comes. The Turks will fire again as soon as they see one of us move. You re member the time you saved me from the burning bouse of Michael Kubar kin? Now is my turn to show that I have not forgotten that I owe my life to you." A few minutes later came a little troop from tho timber, with the flag of the Red Cross. Eleven men were buried on the spot, and I was taken back on a stretcher, having lost one eye and suffering from a broken jaw. While the dead were being buried and tbo first bandages being put on rae my brave soldier had disappeared, aud one of the horses of the Red Cross command was missing. When I was discharged from the hospital I recognized iu the sergeant of my regiment, who was the first to congratulate mo on my recovery, tho soldier who had covered me with his body in the hour of danger. It was the boy I had dragged from the burn ing but ou my uncle's estate.—New Y'ork Independent. WISE WORDS. Learning unapplied is like seed put away to decay slowly on the shelf of indolence. All a man has to do to obtain so called social success is to put a fair value on himself and live up to it. Suspicion is the attribute of a weak nature. Respect all you meet till you have cause to do otherwise, and then avoid; do not condemn. Humor is the electric light in the halls of literature. Wit is the flash light, and sarcasm a torch darkened by tbo smoke of prejudice. A touch of humor makes one a keener critic even of his own work. He that hath the salt may flavor life's stow as he pleases, and humor is the salt of life. Great natures gain the sympathy of the world hooause we know instinctive lythat they will follow a simple,[brave, direct course. It is the small nature wbiob is unreliable. To a person of force and talent self repression cannot be too strongly re commended. Do not expend yourself ou human brawls and pussions; put your force in your work. Keep your firo under the pot of life or literature. Smoke and prejudice don't improve any diet except to a diseased taste, while your wisdom and wit are proved in the chaiing-dish of public opinion. Talking of ghosts, and there are really many, the ghost of an evil life is its own bettor self, haunting the human house from which ho is driven till the "black camel" kneels at its door and men whisper "Ho has given up the ghost." A wioug unrepeuted is always a woight on our self-respect, but ono atoned for is a height in whoso shadow we may view with broader, nobler charity, aud more sympathetic tender ness, the faults of others, oxteudiug thorn a help untriod goodness could never give. When you make a human beiug the recipient of so-called charity, you destroy his self-respect by placing him in the position of a beggar; whereas if you givo him work, and pay him well for doing it, you mako him honor himself as a wage earner capable of helping others instead of placing him under humiliating obligations to yourself. Balloon Uaoit For Oryiug l.lotlics. A Taris laundry has started a nov elty in tho drying and purifying of linen, and has succeeded in convinc ing most of its customers that the notion is a good one. The air about one hundred feet above tbo bouse tops is particularly good for linen, soy the proprietors, and they accord ingly send your shirts and collars for a balloon trip. Bamboo frames are attached to a captive balloon, and the linen, "rough dry," is fixed to the frames and sails away in the air. The balloon makes six ascents daily, aud au extra charge is made for each ar ticle that undergoes the treatment. J.-tpiineHU llumor. The establishment of a Biiddhist mission iu this eity for the purpose of enlightening the benighted Christian is something of a horse on the enter prising American missionary. Who now will say that the Japanese havo no sense of humor?— San Francisco News Letter. | TALES OF PLDCK I 1 AND ADVENTURE. | Sergeant Walker's Daring Feat. In recent dispatches from the Phil ippines there was reference to a "trusty messenger" who saved the United States forces from destruotiou at tho battle of Mnntinlupa by travel ing seventeen miles in a leaking boat for reinforcements. In the official reports it was said only that tire hero was a Tennesseean. Mails have come siuce then, and the "trusty messen ger" has beeu named as Kicliard \ViUle Walker, Sergeaut-Major of the First Battalion, Thirty-seventh In fantry, son of J. Simpson Walker of Nashville, aud nephew of Dr. L. P. Walker of 25 East Twenty-fourth street, New York City. Sergeant Walker, responding to a call for volunteers at tho outbreak of the war, went from Mississippi, where he was in business, to Nashville and enlisted in the First Tennessee. He re enlisted last June in tho Thirty seventh Infantry. Ho comes of South ern fighting stock. On his father's pide of the family was General L. P. Walker, who was Secretary of War in ths cabinet of Jefferson Davis; Major John J. Walker was a Captain in the Creek Indian war; Judge P.. W. Walker was in the Confederate; Sen ate, and afterward on the Supreme bench of Alabama. On his mother's side was Colonel Benjamin Herndon, a horo of King's Mountain, and John W. Rice, a Captain of tho Mexican war. Throe companies of the Thirty sevouth Infantry received orders on September 12 from Major Swigert to go to Mnntinlupa from Pasig. They started out iu bancas, rowing down the river, but at Laguua do Bay the water was so rough that they had to disembark. Through marshes aud over rough country they went, until at least they sighted Muntinlupa and a veritable forest of white Hags. Out to them came tho padre ofj the town, who told Sergeant Walker that the in surgents had fled the night before. The Americans, unsuspecting, ad vanced. In a few minutes volleys were poured iuto them from all sides, and they knew the priest bad betrayed them. They lost seven men, and then fled iuto the town, where they could light from better cover. There were 100 of them, surrounded by 400 insur gents. Their only hope was to send for reinforcements, and for that peril ous mission Sergeant Walker was chosen. To Bucceed he had to travel seventeen miles to the nearest tele graph station in a boat that leaked, that was manned by llireo Filipinos impressed by him into service, and that had to cover most of the distance under heavy fire from the 6hore. "When the enemy opened on us," writes Sergeant Walker, "the bullets hit the water all around us, aud my 'hombres'tried to batek; but I oocked my pistol, pointed it at tho Bcoundrel in the stern, aud said I'd ehoot if ho didu't go on. Then they began to dig, aud we Anally got out of range. Several times his rowers rebelled, and Sergeant Walker finally was obliged to knock one mau seuseless to impress the others that he meant busi ness. Lieutenant Cocke, who was in oliarge when Sergeant Walker reached the field telegraph station, reported that tho young hero was so wet aud ex hausted from his struggles with the Filipinos and from baling out his boat for four hours that for a long time he was unable to make known his errand. The assistance for which he had come reached his comrades at 9 o'clock at night, when they had only six rounds, of ammunition loft. This was not Sergeant Walker's first feat of dar ing. Thrico he carried orders under fire across the bridge at Manila, aud at another time, with the assistance of another, saved a comrade from drown ing iii Manila Bay. Thrilling Escape From Death. Joliu, or as lie is popularly known, "Jonah" Meose, is one til the thirteen meu who esoaped alive at'iur the recent fire-damp explosion in the mine near prownsville, Penn. Ho is fearfully burned, aud is lying at his homo with his head swathed in bandages. Ho told his story as follows: "I was iu the stable," Meose said, "currying my mule when the explo sion occurred. My brother Sam wa3 by my side nud his boy Albert was standing iu front of Uim. Then came the crack of the explosion. Never iu my life have I heard such a terrific report. I thought my head had been blown off. Iu about two seconds the miue was filled with dazzling light, as the fine coal dust iu tho air was con sumed. My brother Sam dropped to the ground as if shot through the heart. Ho must have beeu killed in stautly. His boy Albert swayed and fell over upon his father. I began to back out of tho stablo, that is why my face is so terribly burned. I was ijfvaid to turn my back upon the mules for fear thoy would stampede aud run foe down. I did not know then they had all been killed by tho explosion, for our lamps were blown out aud wo were iu total darkness. "After I got out of the stable I heard Albert crying for help. I went back and found him and Harry Atwood, a driver. I proceeded, half leading and hnlf carrying them to tho foot of tho mine shaft. They were both delirous, and I believe I was too. Both of thorn persisted in standing up, and began to walk around. I immediately forced them to lie down, to get them out of tho path of the fatal afterdamp which hovered about four feet above the grouud. Then I felt myself going to cleep, but I did not caro, although I realized that it was the sleep of death. I lay dowu upon something wbioh I could feel, although I could not see, was a corpse, and fell asleep as oalmly as ever X did in my life. When I awoke somebody was forcing me to swallow brandy and coffee, and I was trying to explain that it would be need less for me to drive a wagou, as there had been an accident in the mine. The Horo of the Charge. The hero of the gallant charge of the Twenty-first British Laucerß at the battle of Omdurmun was a pri vate named Byrne, who has since re ceived the Victoria Cross for unusual bravery: Lieutenaut Molyneux fell in the khor into the midst of the enemy. In the confnsion, he disentangled him self from his horse, drew his revolver and jumped out of the hollow before the Dervishes recovered from the im pact of the charge. Then they at tacked him. He fired at the nearest, and at the moment of firing was slashed across the right wrist by an other. The pistol fell from his nerve less hand, and being wounded, dis mounted, and disarmed, be turned in the hope of regaining, by following the line of the dharge, his squadron, which was just getting clear". Hard upon his traok came the enemy, eager to make an end. Beset on all sides, and thus hotly pursued, the wounded ollicer perceived a single lancer ruling across his path. He called on for help, whereupon the trobper, Pri vate Byrne, although already severely wounded by a bullet which had pene trated his right arm, replied without a moment's hesitation and in a cheery voice, "All right, sir!" and turning, rode at four Dervishes who were about to kill his offioer. His wound, which had partly paralyzed his arm, prevented him from grasping his sword, and at the first ineffectual blow it fell from his hand, and he received auother wound from a spear in the cheat. But his solitary charge had cheeked the pursuing Dervishes. Lieutenant Molyneux regained his squadron alive, and the trooper, see ing that his object was attained, gal loped away, reeling in his Baddle. Arrived at his troop, his desperate condition was noticed, and he was told to fall out. But this he refused to do, urging that he was entitled to remain on duty and have "another go at thein." At length he was compelled to leave the field, fainting from loss of blood. Hard Fight With a Bear. Near Kylortown, Penn., in the Al leghanies, William Mason, better known as "Hunter Bill," was out .shooting aud iu a rather dense part of the mouutaiu he was suddenly con fronted by ainonster black bear. Ma sou immedUjSßWj'&sed his rifle, but the bullet lodgeoftfi - the bear's shoulder, Enraged by pain, bruin, before the hunter had time to roplaoe the empty shell with a loaded one rushed upou the man. Mason olubbed his gnu, but was un able to stop the animal's rushes. His gun was knocked from his grasp, and he had only his keen hunting knife tc rely upou to save himself from death. With the knife he slashed whenever the bear got within reach. Mason was almost nakod and covered with wounds and blood, and the bear was red wilb blood from gaping wounds. Just when Mason believed he would have to suocumb ho noticed that bruin was also weakening from the loss of blood. Taking heart once again, he steadied himself in time to receive the bear in auother rush. Springing quickly to one side, Mason plunged his knife in the bear's side just back of the shoul dor, aud both fell over in utter ex haustion. It was some time before "Hunter Bill" could gather strength sufficient to make his way to the Ger man settlement, several miles away, where his wounds were dressed. A cavalcade went after the bear and brought tho dead carcass to tho set tlement. When dressed it was found to tip tho scales at 000 pounds. Ma son received wounds that will mar him for life. A Itravn ISritlftti General. General Hector Archibald MacDon aid, tho new commander of tho famous "black Watch" Regiment in the British Army, is one of the ffiw British Generals who rose from the ranks, lie entered the army as a private in the Gordon Highlanders in 1879. In 1880 ho was with tbo Gordons under Lord Roberts in tho Afghan cam paign. He soon gained a reputation for judgment, cooluess and gallantry, and at tuo close of tho campaign waß tliejrecipiout of a commission in his own regiment. Ho was with Colley at Majnba Hill during the last Boer war. When tho British lied at that light Maodonald remained, and when ho had run out of ammunition he knocked down two Boers with his lists. A third was about to cock his rifle to put an end to tho gallant' Highlander when a comrade inter posed. "Don't do tnat," he said. "This is a brave man. We must spare him. Take him prisoner." Aud this they did. At the battle of Omdurman he com manded a Soudanese brigade, and it was said that his dash, combined with coolness, was responsible at the criti cal moment for turning defeat into victory. Br'or Fox and the l!oy. Paul Pagel,of the town of Westfield, I was in the city recently and received from County Clerk Hnebling a $2 1 bounty on a lox scalp. Pagel is about seventeen years old aud tells a curi ous story about the killing of the fox. While driving cows to water he saw a fox sitting near the path. He threw a stone at the fox, hitting it, which so angered tho 'animal that it attacked him, biting his leg. He got the fox's neck under his foot and succeeded in choking it to death.—Barabso (Wis.) News. RECIPES FOR THE NURSERY. A Few Appetizing and Healthful Diftliet For the Children. Physicians assure lis that salt cod fish is both nourishing and digestibla and may be eaten with impunity by those who are unable .to digest fresh fish. Properly treated there need be no more salt than sufficient for season ing, and if care is taken to select thick, white parts of the uncooked fish the resultwill be tender and juicy. A shallow pint or quart bakiug dish is necessary for a scallop, from which it should be served. To make, wash and Boak over night about a pouud of Bait codfish. It should fill n pint measure when picked free from skin and boues aud well shredded. To this add a tablespodnful of llour blended in a pint of milk, to which add a well-beaten egg; season to taste with pepper and salt (if needed). The thickened milk and egg should be cooked until smooth iu a double boiler, and if the flavor of ouiou is liked a small onion cut iu quarierß may be cooked with this aud removed before using for the scallop. When the sauce is ready put a layer of dry bread crumbs in the bottom of the buttered dish, then a layer of fish, qext a layer of fiuely-chopped celery, then one of the sauce, and so ou until the dish is full, always, of course, finishing with egg and crumbs. If the celery has uot been parboiled the dish should bo covered for tho first ten minutes to insure the cookiug of this vegetable, which will be found to blend admirably iu flavor with tho fish. Plenty of fruit and a few ccuts' worth of fresh wafers will enablo the home caterer to send to table a sightly aud digestible substitute for unwhole some though tempting pastry. Fill a shallow oval dish with freshly stowed or oanned fruit. Evaporated apricots, peaches, cherries aud the like, if soaked over uight aud carefully cooked, nre excellent for this purposo. A cheap brand of cauuod peaches, if out iu smaller slices and more sugar added, may also bo utilized iu the same way. Just before serving cover the dish with nicely browned wafers (thin soda crackers), put for abont a minute ou the top shelf of a hot oven, and when cnton with the fruit thoy will be found crisp and delicious. It will be well to have a relay of tho warm, wafers ready for a second help ing. "Muslin" toast also makos a delicate and digestible upper crust. A square stale loaf should be kept for making this toast, as it is a delightful chauge from crackers to serve with cheese. Cut the bread for this purpose literally as "thin as a wafer;" dry for, say, half an hour on the top shelf over the rauge. When ready to serve place ou a very hot tiupan iu a hot oveu, wheu it will browu and curl at the edges, and should be eaten while still warm. Belays of this toast should also be sent to table, for if allowed to become cool it changes character as surely as a griddle cake under the same condi tions. Hint* For the Houttewifc. A saucer of charcoal purifies the re frigerator. Burlap, when stained, makes an artistio floor covering. Tho dinner oloth is invariably white, and should be long enough to reach well down nt the sides. The small paper bags that groceries come in are a hotter protection to the hand than the gloves made purposely for blacking Btoves. The smaller a roast of meat tho hot ter should be the oven at first, that tho least possible amount of its deli cate juices may escape. To make ringed potatoes, pare and then cut them round and round as iu paring an apple. Fry thorn iu plenty of hot lard, lot them dry aud thou salt. The best granite wave or other metal Jooffee-pot will acquire a lauk flavor if not. occasionally puiiflcd with borax, ammonia or some other cleuns ing agent,, If meat bo allowed to stand a little too long before cookiug, a slight sprinkle of sugar over it just before taking it from the file will removotho unpalatable taste. It is of tho greatest importance tc keep a child's scalp in a cloun and wholesome condition irom its earliest infancy, as on this condition depends the character of hair later on. The stain of banana juioo is almost indelible. It does not prooeed from the stalk or plant, but exists in tho green fruit as well, from which wheu cut or bruised it exudes in the shapo of viscid milk or cream-like drops. For sovero noso bleed place tho patient in a sitting posture, with the body bent forward and tho neck straight. Have him close his month and breathe through tho uoae, at the same time raising the arms above tho head. A solutiou of alum or even salt aud water snuffed up into the nostrils is ofteu useful. KiiEllsli Street Car Facilities. The advantages of the uew tramcavs aud regulations which have been adopted for Manchester, as compared with those now in existence, are as follows; Half penny fares and commu tation tickets. Dry seats for ontsido passengers. Electric lights inside find out. More room and greater comfort. Electric communication with the conductor. Fixed stopping places. No advertisements. SPANISH VANITY. Mow a Nowspapor Man Played It on the Commandante. Commandant© Tobilla, one of tha leading Spanish officers in the late war, is in bis own country a popular writer and public speaker. A firm of publishers in America is about to bring out an English edition of hia book upon the war and the Cuban question. Senor Tobilla is a mau of infinite tact and courtosy, and has a little more than his share of vanity. Before the breaking out of hostilities in Cuba a number of New York news paper men were in Havana trying to get sketches and information about the Spanish army and fortifications. They were warned by Goneral Weyler to stay in one place, and under no conditions to take pictures of forts or of soldiers under penalty of imprison ment. One daring member of the press, armed with a camera, went to one of the principal forts and began to photograph it. He was taken in by Tobilla's men and brought before the Commandante as a captive. He spoke excellent Spanish and thus ad dressed the officer: "Most Excellent Sir, at last I have found you. I have cocae all the way |fromAmerioa to take your picture." "Indeed! Why, my men say you were taking pictures of fortifications!" "No, indeed; I heard of your valor at a recent battle, and I made up my Blind that you were a hero and my people ought to kuow of you." "But I have not my proper uniform on. Do you really wish to take me?" "Certainly; and after you get your uniform on, have your men drawn up in line and massed around you out in the sunlight, so I can get plenty of light, and also prove to my people what excellent soldiers you have in your division." "You do me great honor, sir. Your request shall bo granted." In a short time the Commandante and his men were on parade in front of the fortifications and the newspaper man took half a dozen camera shots at them, and also at the fort, which was the chief object of the visit. Tobilla saw him off to the next town with a guard of honor and dis charged him from custody with a salute, and in the next "copy" he sent to his paper the correspondent had the only pictures in existence of some very important fortifications and the flower of the Spanish soldiery in Cuba. But Senor Tobilla does not mentiou this incident in his new book.—Saturday Evening Post. America'* Grout Locomotives, The Amerioau locomotive engineer deems it advisable to design his en giue with a large margin of power. If an express train engine is designed to take a 200-ton load at fifty miles an hour, and if that load should happen to be increased to 300 tons, the loco motive is still expected to be able to take it and keep time, aud usually does so. Such, at any rate, is the ex perience of suoh an impartial and level-headed observer as Mr. W. M. Acivortb. If au American express be late at one point of its journey, the engine is expected to make up the lost time even if the load be larger than usual. And, again, this is gen erally done. But if an English engine is given a single coach above its prescribed load the driver insists upon having a "pilot," aud commonly gets one. Or should the weather be bad, with strong side wind or a slippery rail, he demands an assisting engine and is aocorded one, as a matter of course. Obviously this applies cspeoially to the case of single-wheelers, which are so largely nsed on some English rail ways, because their range of power is muoh more sharply limited by ad verse conditions than is the case witti coupled engines. But in either, it seems indisputable that a smaller range of power is given to an English locomotive than to au American.— Engineering Magazine. Where tlio Caribou Koainn. Newfoundland is the home of the caribou, aud in countless herds they roam through its interior. Foreign sportsmen are every year visiting us in greater numbers, aud our fame as a buntiug ground grows in the United States and England. These sports men, aud latterly women, too, kill their three to eight deer each, but their bags do not appreciably dimin ish the size of the herds. And what they kill is only a tithe of the number destroyed by the settlers. Although this killing has continued for years, the best authorities say the caribou are to-day as numerous as ever, for the area over which they rauge undis turbed is as large as Ire laud, tbey be ing only got at from the rivers or along tho railway line, which cuts through the heart of the country, but has no spur loads to quarter up the territory. Therefore the deer are practically sat'o from molestation when they nre a few miles back from the rails, along which the settlers ambush themselves aud shoot dowu the grace ful creatures as they oross the liue ou thoii annual migration southward to the forests in which they find shelter to pass the winter.—Correspondence New York Snn. Footnotes. Illusions brighten life because tbey help us think we fool other people. The true aristocrat respeots aud oh serves couveutions without worship ing them. To excuse your expensive fads, ex patiate flueutly on the expensive feeds you haven't had. Even the vainest man never looks to see what size tracks his rubbers make in the mud. In the long run it is no harder to convince other people than it is to oonvinoe ourselves. Beautiful weather is always a sign that the forecast man is nerving him self up to do something mean. In dianapolis Journal,
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