Freeiand Tribune Established 1388. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY TUB fRIBONE PRINTING COMPANY. LMtel OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOTE CESTUI. FREELAND, FA. SUBSCllirnoN 11ATE0: One Year 11.50 tlx Mouth* 75 Four Months -. -50 Two Mouths 25 The Gate which the subscription is paid to Is on tne address label of each paper, the of which to a subsequent date be comes a receipt for remittance. Keep tbe figures in advance of the present date, lie- Sort promptly to this office whenever paper not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. Male all monty orders, checks, etc,,payable so the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. The telephone lines oi Sweden are owned by the state, and the cost to each subscriber averages $13.40 a year. The government is bound un der tbe agreement by which it se cured ownership of the lines not to exceed that rate. For this sum the state will erect a line not exceeding two miles to bring a subscriber into the system. Some special rates are as low as $2.88 a year, and the con tracts under which they have been al lowed run for a series of years. Tbe fee for conversation, not exceeding G2 miles, is 4 cents; up to 155 miles, 8 ceuts; up to 335 miles, 13 1-3 cents, and for longer distances 27 cents. Conversation is permissible under these rates for three minutes, and a third extra is charged for every extra minute the phone is in use. It is only a few years ago that a rascal could run away from a decent country aud go to some city of refuge where there was no treaty of extradi tion which would bring biru back. Forty years ago he could go to Spain, Turkey, Algiers, Japan, Holland, Chile, Ecuador, the Philippines, Cuba aud all of Central America, except British Honduras, and find these re sorts open eveu to murderers, while the simpler embezzlers would have a larger choice. Only a few years ago every runaway bank cashier made a bee-line for Canada. The circle has been steadily contracting, aud the different countries have entered into mutual treaties so that the criminal has a very narrow choice. Even Can ada at last passed a law against bring ing stolen property into the Dominion, which practically excluded the fleeing banker. Japan is one of the last of the Powers to adopt a treaty of extra dition. The last strougliold of the | fugitive was Spauish Honduras, but two years ago a treaty was approved containing the usual extradition pro visions, so that now there is no place on the face of the earth where a war rant cannot pursue a murderer or an embezzler. Congressman Lacey of lowa has been acting as schoolmaster in tbe House of Representatives. He has been showing what lowa spends for school purposes compared with Ala bama and some of the Southern states. Without contradiction from his hear ers, whose faces expressed blank amazement, be intimated tbat a single congressional district in lowa paid more school taxes than tbe whole state of Alabama. This statement was brought out by the appeal of rep resentatives from Alabama for dona tions of laud from the United States for common school purposes. Jn its constitution, passed iu 1875, the state of Alabama provided that the tax for all school and state purposes should not exceed 3-4 of 1 per cent. The result is that, owing to this restriction by the constitution, the entire sum raised for public schools in that state in the years 1897-8 was but a littlo over SBOO,OOO. That is only 46 cents }>er capita to the population. Each child that was seut to school coat $3.59. In the same year when Alabama Spent $860,000 for school purposes lowa spent $8,451,000, and the amount for each child was $22.79. South Dakota in the same year spent $23.45 for each child. Gov'tnmcnt Alter Coiling Station. One of the most important fact* which developed during the late war with Spain was the great need by this country of more coaling stations for the navy. The navy department, realiz ing this, has been for some time at work planning for the establishment oi stations at various parts of the world, and all now depends upon the negotia tions in progress between the State de partment and the various countries con cerned. The government of Liberia has recently consented to the establish ment of a coaling station at a site to be selected by the navy department and it is the intention to immediately begin the necessary work. The ki>alh Little Isaacs —"Fader! If a man has one t'ousandt tollars and puts it oudt at 4 her cent interest, vat vouldt It amount to?" Isaacs Sr. —"Down- right foolishness, mein sohn!"—Pu 1 DEMOCRATIC LETTER. REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS ARE PANIC STRICKEN. The, N.e the Sign, of the Time. In Thl. Spring'. Loral Election.—Mich igan, Indiana and Mlnneaota Arm Lost. (Washington Letter). If the Republican managers had any doubt as to the prospects of Demo cratic success next November those doubts were thoroughly removed by the recent town elections in Indiana and Minnesota. The Democrats swept Indiana like a cyclone. Everywhere the Democratic majorities were in creased; everywhere the Republican vote fell off. Towns which have been reliably Republican for years were engulfed by the Democratic tide, j Through the gas belt, which has been a Republican stronghold, the Demo cratic gains were enormous. Ander son, the home of the Republican can didate for governor, always a reliable Republican city, was captured by the Democrats after a fierce battle. All the indications are that Bryan wiy sweep the state in November by the largest Democratic majority since the days of Hendricks and "Blue Jeans" Williams. In Minnesota, the city of St. Paul went Democratic by 1,500, reversing the majority of over 5,000 which It gave McKinley in 1896. Min neapolis elected a Democratic mayor In 1898, making even a more marked change from the vote of 1896. All signs point to this state supporting Bryan in November. In Michigan the Republicans are panic stricken. At their recent state convention they en dorsed McKinley in the most per functory manner and adjourned with scarcely a single issue presented in their platform. A Hollander from near Grand Rapids was made chair man of the Republican state commit tee In some faint hope of holding the Dutch vote, which is very strong in the state, in line with the party. This will be impossible. The anti-Boer, pro-British attitude of the administra tion has completely alienated this pow erful vote as it has that of hundreds of thousands of Amerlans in every i walk of life. Out of the many elements which have led to this marked reversal of opinion in favor of the Democrats, two are especially noticeable at the present moment. First, the Coeur d'Alene investigation, now in progress In Washington, has shown the work ing men of the country the serious dangers of military control. The fact has been overwhelmingly demonstrat ed that neither the civil or military authorities in the Coeur d'Alene dis trict had any desire to arrest, con vict and punish the men who blew up the Bunker Hill mine. It was proven that the mine owners had nu merous spies present at the time the mine was blown up and on the spot, t Yet the criminals were allowed to es cape, because had they been arrested and convicted the excuse of keeping the military in control of the district for over twelve months would have disappeared. The military are Btill In control, and the permit system whereby a workman must secure per mission from an illegal authority be fore he can even seek work is still in force. The other cause for the change i of public sentiment lately manifested | Is the action of the administration in regard to Porto Rieo. Imperialism cannot he a success unless a people have been bred to accept the doctrine of the Divine right of kings. That doctrine holds to an extremely lim j ited extent in the United States, and the general public refuses to accept it. McKinley too is already con fronted with the difficulties of occu pying an illegal and unconstitutional position. No sooner had the Porto Rican bill become a law than Its am biguities and crudities began to ap pear. So serious are its defects that I the cabinet has been holding councils to determine what shall be done to I remedy them, and further legislation appears to be imperative. Had a , Porto Rican legislature adopted so crude a measure every administration organ in the United States would have pointed the finger of scorn and re marked that the Porto Rlcans were unfit for self-government, since they | were incapable of drafting a worka ble law. But the tariff feature presents even more difficulties. The treasury de partment has already issued a ruling directly contrary to the spirit of that lay. It has ruled that goods export ed to Porto Rico are not exports, and arc therefore not entitled to "draw backs" which are paid on certain manufactures to cover the amount of the duties originally paid on the im ported material used in their manu facture. Judge I.oehren of the United States federal court, sitting at St. Paul, has made an even wider decis ion in which he holds that Porto Rico is a part of the United States and therefore under the Constitution. He went so far as to assert that had Porto Rico not been under the Con ;titut/'on congress would have had no powe. to legislate concerning It. The case which was before him related to the constitutionality of the punish ment of a. Porto Rican native by a j United States military court in the ! island. Although the administration lead ers put up the plea that an essential object in the passage of the Porto Rican bill was to enable the courts to determine judicially whether or not the Constitution extended to the isl ( and of its own Btrength, It has done i everything it could to avoid a decision of the case by the supreme court be fore the November elections. But the people have yet some rights and op portunities, and McKinley is car.ght in the meshes of his own net. General Otis is coming home from the Philippines and another general will try to complete the Impossible task which Otis has left behind him. One hundred and fifty millions of dol lars have already been poured into the morasses of the Philippines, and thousands of lives and the health of tens of thousands have been expended to carry out McKinley's fatuous pol- 1 icy of imperialism. This amount of money would have constructed and equipped the Nicaragua canal. It is gone and can never be recovered. Four years more of McKinley will mean five hundred million dollars more poured into the Philippine rat hole. That is more than it cost France to change from a republic to an empire, and to change Napoleon from a successful general to an em- j peror in exile. Emperors come high. Students of history are comparing McKinley with George 111. They have many characteristics in common. George 111. was prosy, opinionated, a strange combination of weakness and obstinacy. He had a marked capacity for surrounding himself with the weakest statesman of the kingdom. He was equally inac cessible with McKinley to the influ ence of public sentiment. He made a marked pretext of religion. He had no small vices. He finally went crazy. I Nearly all these characteristics are re peated in McKinley, and Daniel Web ster said in a speech delivered in congress April 14, 1826, that any statesman who should propose to at tach to the United States distant, un natural and unassimilable territory would be a mad man. JACKSON DAY. ITS NAME DOESN'T SIGNIFY. There were no insurgents in the Ohio Republican convention. That fact was adequately demonstrated by the wild and tumultuous cheering in dulged in by the delegates—composed largely of feeders at the administra tion pie counter, and of "those 'as 'opes to be." to borrow from Mr. Weller's vocabulary—when the boss appeared on the platform. And when the leader of the Republican party rose in response to the demands of his boisterous parasites to make a speech, there was no fibrous growth in his voice to make him stutter in his unqualified indorsement of im perialism and the trusts. "I do not care whether you call it | imperialism or expansion," he told his henchmen. "The destiny of this coun- i try is written, and any party, or com bination of men, that attempts by subterfuge or makeshifts in politics to stop the power and progress of this nation, will go down under it Just as the Democratic party has gone down." Observe how glibly the boss made use of the phrase "subterfuge or makeshifts in politics," as if it indi cated highly immoral practices and methods to the use of which a per son of Hanna's purity is totally a stranger and a foe. Of course. Hanna does not care whether It Is called "imperialism" or "expansion." It is his policy and he has determined to have It carried out by electing Mr. McKinley, so that the process of "benevolent assimilation" can be consummated for the enrich ment of the syndicates, for the fat tening of carpet-baggers, for the slaughter of our soldiers l#y bullets and disease, for the spoliation of the tax payers, for the establishment of a large standing army, for the loot ing of the property and money of un consenting peoples, for the benefit of the trusts, for the nullifying of the constitution and. the stamping out of liberty in Porto Rico and the Philip pines.—Kansas City Times. The National nebt Made Permanent. In turning over the control of the pa per money to the bankers, the Repub licans have found it necessary to rivet upon the nation a national debt, which we were in a fair way to discharge. A huge sum of money is to be paid for premiums on unmatured bonds so that they may be canceled and 2 per cent thirty-year bonds issued in their stead. Why extend for thirty years a debt now almost payable and which the nation is amply able to pay as it matures? The Republicans tell us that it is done so as to furnish a basis for bank-note circulation. That is to say that a banker can buy $25,000 worth of these new bonds, deposit them in the treasury and get $25,000 in bank notes to lend out. He gets 2 per cent on his bonds and from 6 to 10 per cent on his notes, according to his locality and his skill as a financier. It is in order to effect this benevolent end that the na tional debt is to be made permanent. — San Francisco Star. They (lot What They Wanted In ISIIO. The silver output of Montana for 18S0 would have been worth $20,000,- 000 under free Coinage conditions. Un der McKinley conditions it was worth $10,000,000. The loss is an enormous one. for it is repeated each year under | McKinley. Two terms of McKinley would cost the miners of this state $60,000,000. Will they vote for more I of the same?— Helena (Mont.) Inde j pendent. An Aa<laclni Spirit. j Think of a member of the Cabinet j talking of fighting for the Monroe doc [ trine at a time when the Administra | tion is violating both the spirit of the ! Declaration of Independence and the I letter of the constitution in carrying on | a war of conquest in Asiatic waters! | New York World. ALBATROSS ECCS FOR FOOD. New Danger* Which Threaten On© of th Bird Tribe* of the Pacific. News that albatrosses are being de stroyed literally by myriads on an is land newly acquired by Uncle Sam may well excite dismay, in view of the interesting character of those birds from a zoological and romantic view point. The island in question is that of Laysau,to the northwest of Hawaii —a volcanic rock three miles loug and a trifle less in breadth—on which these sea fowl breed in enormous numbers. Unfortunately for them, a local guano deposit attracts diggers for that valuable fertilizer, and their eggs are gathered wholesale to feed the workmen. Though the birds them selves are not seriously disturbed the removal of their eggs, not only by the wheelbarrow load but by the carload, must soon result in the practical ex tinction of the species thereabout It is the government bureau of ornithology that calls attention to this unfortunate state of affairs, and, in the forthcoming year book of the depart ment of agriculture, Dr. T. S. Palmer will speak of dangers threatening I ne'e Sam's bird colonies in other regions. Perhaps the most striking instance is afforded by the Farallones, and certainly the most important in a financial way. These islands, or rather rocks, off the coast of Cali fornia 30 miles west of the Golden Gate are the breeding ground of myriads of sea birds, chiefly western gulls and mnrres. For nearly 50 years inurre eegs have been collected there and shipped to the Sau Francisco market, where they find a ready sale at from 12 to 20 cents per dozen—a price only a little less than that of hen's eggs. During the season, which lasts about two mouths, beginning near the middle of May, the eggs are shipped regularly once or twice a week. The main crop is gathered on South Furalloue, the principal island, and chiefly from the "great rookery" at the west end. The bird lays only one egg, which is deposited on the bare rock. When the season opens the men go over the ground atyd break all the eggs in sight, so as to avoid taking any that are not perfectly fresh. The ground is then gone over every second day, and the eggs are systema tically picked up and shipped to mar ket. ilie business is in the hands of Italians and Greeks, and although only a dozen or 15 "eggers" are em ployed the number of eggs gathered is simply enormous. It is said that in 1854 more than 500,000 were sold iu less thau two months, and that be tween 1850 and 1850 three or four millions were taken to San Francisco. Since then the value of the eggs has declined, and the output has also fallen off considerably. Iu 1884 there were gathered 300,000; in 1886, about 108,- 000, while in 1890 the crop was re duced to a little less than 92,000. The Farallones being a government lighthouse reservation, the "eggers" were allowed on the islauds formerly only by suffi ance. From 1850 to 1880 the Farallone Fgg company remained in almost undisputed sway, but was dispossessed iu 1881 by the authori ties. Afterward the keepers employed men to gather the eggs. But in 1897 the attention of the lighthouse board was called to the decreasing numbers of the birds, and instructions were issued prohibiting further gathering of eggs for market, thus practically putting an end to the business for the present. The eggs of the Palias inurre are collected for food on the Pribilof is lauds, in Bering sea, and H. W. Elliott, the naturalist, mentions that on the occasion of his first visit to Walrus island, in July, 1872, six men in less than three hours loaded a large boat carrying four tons with eggs to the water's edge. Large colonies of water birds, such as pelicaus, gulls, terns and herons, may be found at points along the coasts of the United States during the breeding season, and in certain localities the eggs of some of these species are highl esteemed and And a ready market—as on the eastern shore of Virginia, where eggs of the laughing gull are considered a great delicacy, and are gathered in large numbers for sale to hotels and private individuals. But in the gratification of this taste there is the same ten dency toward extermination, which is manifested in the case of feather col lecting.—Boston Transcript. Hawthorne'* VaiiderneM for Animal*. George P. Bradford and Mr. Haw thorne had t' e care rfhd milking ol the cow 8, but .iot to the exclusion of other less Ar adiau labors, as is evi dent from the Americau Note-Books, says Mrs. Ora Gannett Hedgwick in the Atlantic. Mr. Hawthorne seems to have had a rather tender feeling for his bovine charges, expressing forcibly in Blithedale Komauce his indignation at their "cold reception" of him on his return from an absence of several weeks. I remember dis tinctly the names of two cows, "Daisy" and "Dolly," from the fact that Messrs. Hawthorneand Bradford were particular always to assign to these cows adjoining stalls in the bam at night, because they fancied ihey detected signs of special attach ment betweeu them in the pasture. I recollect also Mr. Bradford's often j begging me to stop at the gate through which the long line of cows came at ©veuiug and watch the vary ing and interesting expressions on their faces. The pigs, too, came in for tlieir share of Mr. Hawthorne's attention. When, in the following winter, the Brook farmers, UB a delicate atten tion, sent a sparerib to Mrs. George S. Hillard, with whom he wae then staying in Boston, thinking to please bint, he raised his hands in horror and exclaimed: "I should as sooa think of a sculptor's eating a piece of bis own statues!" FILIPINO BARRICADES. The Rebel* Devige All Manner of Scheme© to Hamper Our Men. The Filipino insurgents ore compe tent builders of barricades, and in every section of the country formerly occupied by tiiem are numerous bar ricades made usually by using bam boo pieces joined at the top, and the space between filled in with earth. Pieces of split bamboo are arranged parallel with the barricade, so as to assist iu holding in the earth. Alter this arrangemeut is well packed with earth the barricade gets harder and stronger in course of time, as in a few months the vegetation sprouts in the earth and the roots entwine and solidify the structure. Home of these barricades made at the begin ning of tbo trouble with the American troops are still in as good form as when first made. The barricade will always stop ballets effectually, and tiro from pome of the heavy pieces will not materially affect it. The natives also use large numbers of castaway sugar bags filled with sand and earth for building barricades. This kind of barricade is freely dis tributed throughout the fighting sec tions of the islands, and one sees them everywhere. The sand bag is a handy article for any army to have, for if a lot of the bags are kept filled iu a convenient place a barricade can be quickly erected. The rebels devise all manner of schemes for making the approaches to their fortifications impregnable. The Spanish used barbed wire ic Cuba,but barbed wire would be a nov elty here, and the natives adopt the next thing to it, which is split bamboo They can entwine this material in grass, across streams, iu swamps, in front of trenches and barricades. The Americans trip on these ingenious traps and fall full length, throwing their rifles straight out ahead. Usually the soldier is up again in a moment and presses on, but sometimes the wicked natives arrange cut bamboo points, etc., in front of the traps, so that the soldier falls upon these places and is severely cut. A troublesome piece of ground to get over is that which is provided with "round tops," so called. The rebels form the earth iuto series of ridges, and on the top of each ridge they place long half pieces of bamboo. The only footing that a soldier can get is on the smooth surface of the bamboo, and he usually slips and falls. If the bamboo is moist it is impossible to get n firm footing, and many sol diers fall and hurt themselves, while many get sprained ankles. The in •argents are constantly working out devlish ideas of this sort, some oi which are destructive, while others are harmless.—New York Tribune. A NfCPfißry Hero. The two young men were watching the riders along the bridle-path in the park. One of them was content to look, but the other was complaining because he, too, did not have a horse, particularly a devil of a bi oucho he had ridden in the army. Suddeuly there was a cloud of dust down the road, aud from it emerged a girl with hair Hying in the wind, trying for all her diminutive strength to stop her horse that was plunging ahead wildly and going as if he was possessed of the devil, which, probably, was true. Close behind rushed another rider, a youth of about 19, whipping his horse and straining every nerve to catch up with the runaway. They neared the turn in the road. "Around the reservoir! Around the reservoir!" yelled the boy between his teeth, and his riding whip flashed and left a welt on the light brown gloss of his horse's flank. The young men rushed to the bridge, but the mad lace was ouly a cloud of dust under a bridge down the path. "Let's go and see what happened to them," said the horsey man. Alter 15 minutes' walking they gave it up aud sat down on one of the bridges. "There they are!" said the mau, as two mounted figures came slowly up the road, the girl flushed but quiet, and the mau limp but always with an eye on his companion's curb. "BravoI" said the horsey man, and clapped his hands as if he were at the play and had seen a fine thing. "I belie\e that the young man stopped har horse. I want it that way. It would be nicer for bim to save her than a policeman. He did save her." "Yes,"said his companion, "she is a pretty girl. He had to save her or the story wouldn't bo nice. I admit that he saved her.—New York Com mercial Advertiser. A Funny Mn. "Some people have a peculiar idee of humor," remarked Court Officer Schenian9ky. "See that old fellow over there. He's a familiar figure around the police courts. He has an annuity and has plenty of spare time on his hands. One of his hobbies, which he seems to enjoy hugely, is this: Ho will call a detective aside and in a mysterious whisper inform him that he has ju9t passed a couple of well known thieves and that he be lieves they are up to some mischief. Sometimes the detective will go in the direction indicated, believing in the sincerity of hi 9 informant. But the suspect is never in sight. The old humorist has first told them that the police are looking for them. Then when he has 'peached' to the detec tive, he retires to a corner and laughs till he i 9 blue in the face. Oh, he's an awful funny man!"— Detroit Free Press. A Ktrantje llapinmliipr. "Pa," said little Harry, "after mag hit her thumb with the hammer today she says she suffered uutold agony for 10 minutes." j "My, my, my!" exclaimed theboy'a father. "Wonders 'll never ceaso. That's the first time she ever let any thing go untold that long.Chicago Times-Herald. SKIN-TIGHT SULU TROUSERS. General Rates Walta Two Hours While a Dato Changes Ells Trousers. The most amazing thing about a Philippine Moro is his trousers. If he is of any station, or has any money, they are made of silk, and the more colors and the brighter they are, the better. I have seen red, green, yel low, white and black all in one pair, and the greens and reds are no soft, subdued affairs; they are the most violent and vehement things in the color line. it is the fit of them that is the wonder, though. If they were of the right shade of brown, you couldn't tell that there were any trousers. Nothing so tight ever was coutrived by any sartoria' artist who uses the English language. But for one thing the conclusion would be irresistible that they are made on the wearers, and worn off; that is, that sometimes they are changed. General Bates once waited about two hours for a Dato, with whotu he had some business, to chauge his trousers, and those two hours were tilled with lan guage and strange sounds within the house of the Dato. Bat at the end of them there was the demonstration that the trousers could bo changed, although the mystery of their con struction was increased. Moro women wear trousers, also, but they go to the other extreme. Each trouser leg is big enough to make sacks for four hundred pounds of bran. Each woman dyes the flimsy silk of which she makes her trousers to suit herself. I saw some that were seven or eight colors, the different dyes running in uneven streaks around. The women wear very tight waists, but the men usually leave their jackets unbuttoned, dis playing their brawny chests. If a man is a howling swell, his jacket is embroidered all over with prayers and other reniaiks in live Moro tongue. Sometimes the women twist a bolt or two of gnujy, gaudy 6tulf into a big loop and throw it over cue shoulder.—Ainslee's Magazine. WORDS CF WISDOV. Always speak the truth. Make few promises. If your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend to the cultivation of your mind. The possession of the disposition to be vindictive is wholly incompatible with moral character. Achievement, the great tonic and restorative; assurance of success, the worker's most potent wine and stimu lant. Depression is a kind of morning headache v.itli which nature visits those of her children who drink to excess of mental or emotional stimu lants. Literature travels faster than steam nowadays. And the worst of it is that we can't any of us give up reading; it's as iusidious as a vice and as tire some as a virtue. It is hard to personate and act a part long, for where truth is not at the bottom nature will ulways be en deavoriug to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or another. Success in after years must neces sarily depend upon the training of youth, persistent practice and a deter mination to win. The degree of suc cess must reflect the character of the preparation. To some, thinking is a kind of men tal game; they treat their reason as if it were a fly-wheel without a connect ing strap, and are guided in their actions by other people's ideas, by cus tom or laws. The best among us, being afflicted with mortal failiugs, may for a mo ment or two, while in passion, be dis posed to reveuge real or fancied wrongs, but no oue with proper feel ings indulges such sentiments or allows them to control his actions. Water Crens Valuable an a Food. A uativeof Great Britain, the small, weeily-lookinft plant known as water cress has been naturalized in this ; country. It grows near water courses and sparkling springs, aud its pleas | ant, pungent taste in early spring is i as agreeable as it is healthful. It is said that upon reaching his ! native isle, after his tour around the world, Sir Joseph Banks asked the i first thing for a dish of watercress. He was enthusiastic over its blood purifying qualities. Furthermore, ho gave a medal to the man growing the largest amount of water cress for the ! Loudon market—regarding him as a public benefactor. ! Water cress is largely and profita bly cultivated in many places near New York City. "Many a farmer gets more money from the water cress on themargiu of a brook running through his farm than from his year of hard 1 labor with corn, hay or potatoes." The seed is sown abont the middle of August, a given area in many cases | (if one be near the markets of Phila delphia or New Yoik City) will pay J six or eight times more than any other | vegetable. One enthusiast insists s that where a regular plantation, as i for cranberries, is prepared, and irri gation used at pleasure, 84000 or SSOOO may be realized from a single acre. Few bits of greenery form a more appetizing garnish, Africa'. Numerous Wars. There are six wars going on in Africa ' jnst at present. England is fighting | the Boers aud the Uganda hill tribes. ; Franco has three rather mild cam paigns on her hands, all directed against tribesmen in the interior, and the Moors are battling with the tribes men along the boundaries of Algiers, [ London is twelve miles broad one ! way apd seventeen the other, and ! every year sees about twenty miles ol i new streets added to it. PEARLS OF THOUCHT. None but beggar" live at ease. Our pride misleads or timid likings kill. Nature's tears are reason's merri ment. Let them obey that know not how to rule. A life without humor is like a life without legs. Do good to thy frisnd to keep him; to thy enemy, to gain him. A house without woman and fire light is like a body without soul or spirit. Precepts often heard and little re garded lose by repetition the small influence they had. Too often when Cupid registers marriage vows he falls intu the modern habit and uses the cash register. The gust of passiou having passed, viudictiveness disappears with it in all natures except those without moral sense. Will you have me bear poverty? Coine and see what poverty is when it Btrikes one who knoweth how to play the part well. Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the beauty aud joy of love to shine forth from every part of the face. The man or woman that has never known sorrow may be forgiven a life that is callous and selfish. There baß never been a touch of anything bet ter. It is an utterly immoral desire to usurp the functions of the Almighty. The recognition of this fact should warn us all against the nursing of malice aud should put us on our guard against those who exhibit a vindic tive disposition. They are morally unsound aud upou o casiou are liable to develop into criminals. PUT IN A PACKING CASE. Merchant URed • Dray to Send Home a Spool of Thread. Some women have a mania for Lav ing even the tiniest packages seut Lome. 4 'Of course.it is pure thought lessness," said a salesman in a big de partment store, "but many women cause us a great deal of unnecessary trouble iu ordering small packages which they could easily carry iu tbeir pockets to be sent to their homes. It would be no trouble for a customer to carry borne with her a sj.ool of thread, a comb or a hundred and one other small articles that are purchased each day. On each of these small articles must be written the address of the purchaser, and it must go in a wagon with hundreds of other packages aud there is constant danger of its being lost. "I heard only the other day of a woman in a city not far away who was made to see bow ueedless it is to have a small parcel sent home when it can be easily carried. }*he was a regular cusioiuer of the store, aud her habit of having spools of thread, papers of pins and such like purchases delivered WAS generally known. She was well acquainted with the proprietor, and visited his family in a social way. "He determined to even things up. There came a time wheu she ordered just oue spool of thread seut to her house. The proprietor of the store directed that this small spool of thread be wrapped iu a paper box and that the box be placed in a great wooden one. Around the smaller package was placed enough paper to till the big box, which was placed ou a big truck. No other goods were placed ou that truck. "Two men accompanied the box, aud when they reached the woman's house they pretended to have great difficulty in handling it. Tbev pulled and tugged at the box, while the pur chaser of the thread looked on in umazemeut. 4 4 4 What is all this?' she asked. M have ordered nothing that would re quire such a box as that.' 44 'Don't know, ma'am,' s i 1 the men. 4 Wo were sent to tiel.\er it; that's all we know.' 44 The box was opened. After a search through the packiug paper the spool of thread was found. The wom an appreciated the joke and she has not since ordered sent home apuckage which she could without trouble carry herself." % The Home I.earned How. Fire department horses are marvels of intelligence, as everybody knows, but a Portland business man owns a handsome gray which, he thinks, will bear comparison with any of them. We quote the ] roof from the Press: The gray is stabled with several horses belonging to the company of which the gray's owner is manager. To avoid the necessity of hiriug a man to go to the stable at 4 o'clock every morning to feed the horses, an ingeni ous device was arranged which answered ev< ry purpose—until the arrival of the gray horse. The device consisted of two alarm clocks set to go off at 4 o'clock. A heavy weight was so arranged that when the alarm started, the weight would drop aud pull a wire which opened the trapdoors, and the feed would then come tumbling down into the mangers of the horses. After the arrival of the gray horse it was noticed that all the horses be' became very hungry long before noon each day. This could not be accouuted for until some one stood watch to see what produced su ha state of affairs. The watchers soon learned. After the horses were fed at night and had eaten all that was given them the gray horse reached up, and taking the wire in his mouth, pulled upon it. Down came iuto the mangers the feed that was intended to fall at 4 o'clock. Of course the horses proceeded to eat it at once. A man now feeds the horses at 4 o'clock, and the gray horse pulls th wire in vain. f
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