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FREELAND, PA., MAY 15, 1901. YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT. B*ey Chemical Eiprrlmenln— Doetoo Boye Demand Their Rights, Boy Loet. Walter Wilcox of 4244 Langloy ave- Bue, Chicago, Is a youthful experimen ter In a chemical laboratory that he has arranged. lie Is n patient worker, and, although not over 15 years of age, he has shown that be is an original Inves tigator. Some of the results he has achieved may be of Interest to other young experimenters. The apparatus be uses consists of several glasses, three Mason Jars and two Rpoons. He starts out with the rules, "Don't use large quantities of material" and "Don't get your face over the chemlcitls." Here are some of his experiments: How to Make Chlorlhe Gas.—Put some manganese dioxide and chloro bydrlc acid In the Jar. Heat It, and a green gas will form. Put a paper saturated with kerosene Into the gas, and It takes fire, or black clouds will form, the chlorine seizing the hydrogen and liberating the car bon, kerosene consisting of those two things. How to Make Oxygen Gas.—Put some manganese dioxide and chlorate of pot ash Into the Jar and heat It. The gas that forms will be Invisible. Introduce u piece of brimstone with a spark on It into the oxygen. It will take fire and burn, forming sulphur di oxide and invisible gas. Introduce a wet clotli Into sulphur di oxide. The doth will be bleached after Awhile. Introduce a piece of charcoal with a spnrk on It Into the oxygen. It will burn, forming carbon dioxide and In visible gas. Introduce a lighted candle into the carbon dioxide. The candle will go out. Pour carbon dioxide on 11 me water. A milk white carbonate of lime will be formed. Llmewater is made by dis solving quicklime In water and letting Jt settle one day. How to Make Hydrogen Gas.—Put some sulphuric and zinc or magnesium Into hydrochloric acid. Hydrogen will form. Pour a Jar of chlorine Into a Jar of hydrogen, then pour aome water In. Chlorohydrlc acid will form.-Chicago Record. Boston Boys Demand Their Rtks. The spirit of liberty that prevailed la Boston at the time of the Revolution was not confined to the men who could carry muskets. Even the children were ready to stand up for their rights as Americans. An Incident that took place In the winter before the battle of Lex ington was fought shows this. The boys of Boston had been much troubled by the British soldiers who were then on garrison duty In the town. These soldiers took great delight In destroy ing the coasting places which the boys had prepared. At last the boys held a meeting and appointed a committee to wait upon General Gage, then in com mand, and to make a protest The committee was admitted to Gen eral Gage's headquarters, and In reply to the general's question as to what they wanted the leader replied: "8!r, we are here to demand our rights." "What's this?" exclaimed the general, •urpriscd. "Do your fathers teach you rebellion and send you hero to display itr "No ono teaches us rebellion, sir," promptly spoke up the leader. "But your soldiers trample down our snow slides and destroy our snow forts. When we complain, they laugh at ua, call us young rebels and tell us to help ourselves if we can. Sir, we will stand It no longer." General Gage's surprise changed to admiration. "You are bravo boys," he said. "Go, and If my soldiers trouble you again they shall l>o punished." Henceforth the boys of Boston en- Joyed their sport without molestation. "Our little girl was unconscious from strangulation during a sudden and terri ble attack of croup I quickly secured a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure, giving her three doses. Tho croup was mastered and our little darling speedily recovered." So writes A. L. SpafTord, Chester, Mich. Grover't City Drugstore. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought SOME ODD CONTESTS. RACES IN WHICH ALL SORTS OF ANIMALS ARE PARTICIPANTS. The Surprise* That the "Luck Htakea," Rail at Mhow, In India* Have la Store—The Harry Scarry Haeee at the Montreal Regatta*. So much Ingenuity has been expend ed In dcvlHlng novel and humorous races that It grows more difficult ev ery year to discover a new form of competition. An amusing If not very elevating race was witnessed recently in the de partment of Lotl, In the south of France. The good ladles of a certain village were Invited to compete In a 400 meter race, each wife trundling her spouse in a wheelbarrow. The spec tacle was highly exciting and divert ing, for the competitors who realized that they had no chance of winning re lieved tholr disappointment by tipping their respective husbands out of the harrows and leaving them to rub them selves and bemoan their mlsplac<*d con fidence. There are few prettier and more sur prising races than the ladles' race, or Luck Stakes, at Mhow, India. The fair competitors race to a lino of bas kets resting on the ground, and each one, as she reaches her basket, opens the lid to see what prize awaits her. From the three winning baskets spring up tiny recruit boys, who present pret ty prizes to the fortunate winners, while from the remaining baskets there emerges a veritable menagerie. From one a dove soars to the sky; from an other a scared cat bolts, and others re lease geese, partridges, hens, dogs and hares, which scurry away among the crowd amid a babel of sound. The hurry scurry race, which is a feature of every Montreal regatta. Is In the highest degree exciting. The competing canoes are anchored some distance from the starting point, and at the crack of the pistol the competi tors dive Into the water, swim to their canoes and paddle away for the turn ing buoy as If for dear life. Again the pistol cracks, and each man throws his paddle overboard and springs In after It, regaining his seat as quickly as he can. When the pistol fires again, each man must not only tumble overl>oard, but before re-em barking he must upset his canoe and right It again, a process which a clever canoeist will complete within four sec onds. Another feature Is to swamp the ca noe, All It to the gunwale and then empty It, a minute only being allowed for the complete process. The man who, after a dozen or so upsets, reach es the goal first has amply earned his prize. One of the most amusing of races Is very popular In certain departments In the south of France. The race Is between boys, each mounted on a more or less Intractable pig. With Its well known perversity, a pig will go In any direction but the one desired, and the efforts of the riders to head the steeds for the goal, the collisions, the grunts and squealß, form a combination which Is excruciatingly funny. Almost equally amusing are the No ah's ark races which are so popular In military circles In India. In one very exciting race at Bombay a goat passed the tape first and was followed at a long Interval by an elephant, while, to the amazement of tho onlookers, a horse only just managed to come In third. In certain parts of the country barrel races are In great favor, a number of men trundling beer barrels along the streets. There Is usually a special competition for ladles, who are no whit Inferior to their male rivals In the skill ful manipulation of the barrels. At Nogent-sur-Marne not long ago there was a grand International wooden leg carnival. In which each competitor must have lost one leg. It was here that M. Koulln won the "one legged championship of the world" by cover ing a distance of 220 yards In the ex cellent time of 30 seconds. A most amusing race was held some time ago near Bordeaux. Each com petitor hod a dozen bladders attached to his neck by strings of different lengths. There was a high wind, and the course was full of obstacles. The flying bladders buffeted the runners In the face and all over the body, they wound themselves like so many ser pents round their legs and arms, and generally made things so unpleasant that before half a mile had been cov ered every competitor had been brought to earth more than once.— London Tlt-Blts. A Olast Caetvi Grove. Among the numerous varieties of Arizona cactus none Is so remarkable as the sahuaro, or giant cactus, which Is peculiar to the southwest and grows to the proportions of a great tree, at taining In some Instances a height of 60 feet. A forest of those prickly mon sters Is so unlike anything occurring at any other point of the globe as to be almost Indescribable. Rising like great fluted columns, the largest end point ing to the sky, with not a bud or branch of any description, the effect is grotesque, but, on a desert, gratifying. Arriving In Phenlx from any direc tion, one leaves a mighty desert and Is Immediately enveloped In a wealth of verdure and flowers. He meets every where the flora peculiar to the tropics. In private grounds and public parks the stately palm and the spreading canopy of the umbrella tree greet the eye, while the drooping frondlike fo liage of the pepper tree lends Its soft nces to the scene. Alongside these flourish the olive aud tho almond, the oucalyptus and the oleander, all uncon scious that they are performing some thing wonderful—transforming a re cent desert Into a garden of Eden.— Los Angeles Herald. NEW SHORT STORIES. Hobcrt B. Lee and Ilia Favorite Home—General "Wheeler's Mis take—Armour Didn't Forget. If I were an artist like you, I would draw a true picture of Traveler, repre senting his tine proportions, muscular figure, deep chest and short back, strong haunches, flat legs, small head, broad forehead, delicate ears, quick eye, small feet and black mane and tall. Such a picture would Inspire a poet, whose genius could then depict his worth and describe his endurance of toil, hunger, thirst, heat, cold and the dangers and sufferings through which he passed. He could dilate upon his sagacity and affection and his Inva riable response to every wish of his rider. He might even Imagine his thoughts through the long night march es nnd days of battle through which he has passed. But I am no artist and can only say he Is a Confederate gray. I purchased him In the mountains of Virginia In the autumn of 1861, and he has been my patient follower ever since to Georgia, the Carolines and back to Virginia. He carried me through the Seven Days' battle nround Richmond, the second Manassas, at Kharpsburg, Fredericks burg, the last day at Chancellorsvllle, to Pennsylvania, at Gettysburg and back to the Rappahannock. From the commencement of the campaign In 1804 at Orange till Its close nround Pe tersburg the saddle was scarcely off his back, as he passed through the fire of the Wilderness, Spottsylvnnla, Cold Harbor nnd across the .Tames river. He was In almost dally requisition In the winter of 1864-5 on the long line of de fenses from the Chlckahomlny, north of Richmond, to Hatcher's Run, south of the Appomattox. In the campaign of 1865 he bore me from Petersburg to the final days at Appomattox Court House. You must know the comfort he Is to me In my present retirement. He Is well supplied with equipments. Two sets have been sent to him from England, one from the ladles of Balti more, and one was made for hint In Richmond. But I think his favorite Is the American saddle from St. Louis. Of all his companions In toll—Rich mond, Brown Roan, AJax nnd quiet Lucy Ixing—he Is the only one that re tained his vigor. The first two ex pired under their onerous burdens, and the last two failed.—Robert E. Lee, Jr., In Frank Leslie's Monthly. General Wheeler's Mistake. At Washington one day not long ago It was raining hard, and the street cars were crowded with passengers more or less bedraggled. Among them wns General Joe Wheeler. Next to BK MADE A NUKIUKD EXPLANATION, him was a woman wearing a mackin tosh who rose to get out at Fourteenth and F streets. General Wheeler no ticed an umbrella lenning against the car seat. He grabbed the umbrella and ran after the woman, caught her at the door and said, "Pardon me, madam, but you left your umbrella." The woman looked puzzled, but took the umbrella. General Wheeler resum ed his seat. Then a woman on the other side of him gave a little scream and said, "Why, you nasty old man, you gave that woman my umbrella!" Then she appealed to the conductor. General Wheeler apologized, but the woman said, "Now, you Just get right off the car and get It for me, or I'll notify the police!" Meekly the veteran tumbled off Into the rain and ran aft er the woman with the mackintosh. He made a hurried explanation, got the umbrella and rushed back to the waiting car. As he handed It back to Its owner he said: "I trust you will pardon me, madam. I assure you It was all a mistake." The woman glar ed at him. "I don't know about that," she sniffed. "I don't believe you are any better than you ought to he."—St. Paul Dispatch. Mr. Armour Didn't Forgot. A venerable looking man strolled In to the late P. D. Armour's office a few years ago and asked for the head of the firm. He Introduced himself as tile teacher of the school In northern New York which young Phil had In 1845 at tended. The venerable old gentleman was Inclined to be obsequious. Armour did not warm up. Instead of that he asked the old man whether he remembered that he had expelled a boy once for taking an Innocent ride with a good looking girl schoolmate, humiliating the boy so much that ho had run away to California when the trip overland had to he made In n wagon. The old pedagogue tried to explain. Armour sold he did not want any ex planation, but he was enough of nn In dian not to profess friendship for a man who had treated him aa meanly as that when a boy. f Starts tfie Me&/ \ £ if Vol/ |/i9e d \ I Wvm IPC€£ BLUE 1 I ▼? FLAME I THE BURGLAR'S BIBLE. He Said That He Would Get It Back Again, and He Did. Senator John C. Spooner of Wiscon sin when a young mnn was attorney for two men chnrged with stealing. There had been taken from the men a well worn Bible and a small drawer. On the fly leaf of the Bible was the In scription, "To My Darling Boy, From Mother." The trial was held the next day, and the future senntor made a brilliant speech to the Jury. Ho exhibited the Bible and pointed to the Inscription, and without leaving their seats the Jury returned a verdict of "Not guilty." After the trial the young men gave the lawyer SSO. "Boys," said Mr. Spooner as they were nliout to separate, "1 am curious to know why you carry that Bible nnd the empty drawer." Then the senntor listened with astonishment to the his tory of his clients. "We arc professional safe blowers and have been for five years. This Bi ble has a double cover and opens like this" (here the self confessed criminal pressed a hidden spring In the thick cover nnd disclosed a hollow In which there lay two steel files and a Rmnll saw), "and this old drawer has a secret bottom, where we keep our tools." The future senntor confiscated the Bible and the drawer. One of the thieves shouted angrily, "We'll get those things back yet, you mark my words!" Several years passed, and then the incident was brought back to Mr. Spooner's recollection in the following manner: One evening he nnd his family attended an entertainment, and no one was left at the house. When they re turned at a late hour, they found that the house had been entered by bur glars and ransacked, but that nothing apparently wns missing. The next day's mall brought a letter which rend: Dear Sir—Please excuse the way we came In last night, but the door was locked. We neve' did think you treated us B,)uare by swiping our outfit, and so we came hick after it and found you were not at home. We atwiy. keep our word, lours truly, DIES AKU JIM. —Saturday Evening Tost. THE BARGAIN CRAZE. Men, It I. Alleged, Are an Mneh In fected nn the Women. "This perennial Joke about the love of women for bargains wearies me," said u bright business woman the other day. "With most presumptuous supe riority men charge our sex with an ex travagant zeal for bargains, hut I see enough of business men to assure me that they are Just as enger as women are to get an article at a few cents less than the usual price. "Mr. A is generally extravagant 111 his personal expenditures, but he Is keeu after bargains. The other day he came into our office wearing an air of great satisfaction, and his Jubilation lmd no other foundation than the dis covery of a street stand where 'sec onds' In lead pencils were sold at 2 cents each. "'lf you know a good pencil when you see It,' he explained, 'you can rum mage In the pile and pick out 5 and 10 ceut pencils at 2 cents each or throe for 5. "'And that reminds me of another bargain. You know the 10 cent cigars I smoke? Well, there Is a little shop down near the ferry where you can get them four for a quarter. I Just heard of the place nnd ran down there at lunelitime and filled my pockets. Great bargain.' "And would you believe It, that man, whose transactions run Into the mil lions, went ou telling my employer of bargains In clothes, stationery, etc., and Mr. B—- stopped In the midst of his estimates on a big contract to note addresses nnd to tell Mr. A of bar gains he had discovered In neckwear and shoes and household supplies. "Yet women are said to mouopolize the bargain hunting disease."—New York Press. When Mr. Gladstone was alive, he was once discussing with some friends at Ha warden castle the greatest day in the world's history. Each member of the group was asked to say on which day he, in the past or the future, would prefer to live, It being supposed 1 lint he should have his present knowledge and afterward return to his present exist ence. Mr. Gladstone chose n day In tyfeh't'e wlitm Athens A TRIANGULAR GAME. The Repnrtt of the Three Spotters III.KU.trd the Railroad Ofllrlal. "Under the old, loose system that prevailed on most of the southern and western roads," snhl a veternn passen ger conductor of this city, "the 'spot ter' was virtually a necessity, but the trouble about him was that he never could l>e relied upon with absolute cer tainty to tell the truth. He knew his popularity and prestige with his em ployers depended on the number of 'cases' ho worked up, and If he couldn't catch a conductor 'knocking down' he was only too apt to manufacture a lit tle circumstantial evidence and report the poor fellow anyhow. "Of course I am speaking of the average spotter, and no doubt there were plenty of exceptions to the rule, hut that was the groat defect of the system and, Incidentally, it reminds me of a curious little story. "Back In the eighties," continued the veternn, "a tip was one day given to a well known and very popular con ductor ou a certain line leading out of New Orleans that a spotter of consid erable note In the north had been put on his train, with Instructions to Inves tigate him thoroughly. "Tills conductor was a big. Jovial fel low, fond of good clothes, good sport and good living, and, while there was no evidence of anything wrong, he had fallen under suspicion on general prin ciples. The company officials were persuaded he was living far beyond Ills means nnd Inferred that lie must be helping himself to the cash, but all prior efforts to get a line on him had fniled Ignoinlnlously, nnd for that rea son the expert sleuth had been Import ed from the north nnd told to go to the bottom of the case, if It took six mouths. "When the conductor himself heard that a spy had been put on his trail, he wns highly indignant nnd also consid erably alurmed. He reasoned that the fellow would hi- especially anxious to sustain his reputation thief catch er and was In all probability fully pre pared to 'fake up' a ease In the event that he discovered no evidence. To protect himself against such a maneu ver he quietly telegraphed to a big de tective agency In Chicago nnd engaged a first class operative to spot the spot ter. "Both men went on duty at about the same time, the spotter taking the role of a commercial traveler who had fre quent business up and down the road, lie watched the conductor, the Chicago detective watched him, and the con ductor sized them both up nnd chuc kled In his sleeve. "Now comes the funny port of the yarn. The double watch had been in progress only a few days when a treacherous brakeman went to the gen eral superintendent and told him the whole story. The superintendent was a pretty wise person himself, so he said nothing, but simply engaged an entire ly new man and set him watching the two spies. "The triangular game went on for several weeks; then the conductor was summoned to headquarters. lie car ried his detective's report with him and was staggered when the superintend ent showed him two others. "The originnl spotter's report exoner ated the conductor, the Chicago man's report agreed exactly with the spot ter's, and the last spy asserted flatly that the two other men had 'stood In' together, so as to please all hands and save trouble. That disgusted one road witli spotters, and the superintendent swore he would never employ another. The conductor, by the way, retained Ids job."—New Orleans Tlmes-Demo erat. Dread of Dmdarery. Many people fail to get on In the world because they will not do the things that are disagreeable to them. They gladly pick the flowers in tlielr vocation, bnt will not touch the weeds or thorns. They like to do the things that are easy and agreeable, but shirk from the disagreeable or laborious. They go round the hills of difficulty in stead of over them; they leave the en emy half conquered, and he Is always coming up to attack them unexpected ly from the rear. The best way to overcome this dread of drudgery is to determine resolutely to do the disagreeable things first. Take hold of them with vigor, as you wbWO srasfp a if you WuM I avoid the sting, and nffer awhile you will find what seemed so difficult in conception Is really easy in execution, j The most disagreeable tasks in life, when viewed In their proper propor tions, reveal a poetic and attractive side hitherto undreamed of. Turn on the sunlight of good cheer, the deter mination to see the bright as well as tlie dark side, and you will find some thing pleasant in the most dreaded task.—Exchange. of * London Fojr. i A London fog is an expensive visita | tion. A day of it, counting the day at eight hours, Is estimated to cost nny j thing from £50.000 to £IOO,OOO in hard I cash. No small proportion of this goes I to the gas and electric light companies, j which have to supply about a third ! more power than usual. But there are ; also the railways. Fog signaling Is ' expensive. At Clnpham Junction alone £SO has been spent by a single railway company during a day's fog In extra pay to the plate layers. When the red light cannot be seen at a distance of a hundred yards, the plate layers become fog signalers, and for this they are paid a shilling a day in addition to their regular wages and fourpence per hour overtime, providing the overtime does not run into n second shilling.—London Chronicle. Tlie l*arl* Fountain*. The fountains of Paris are among the most interesting features of the city, and the authorities are careful to In crease their attractiveness whenever an opportunity arises. An experiment lias been tried by which the waters will become luminous. A sort of golden yel low will alone be employed, but the waters will assume the appearance of cascades of diamonds and topazes. The effect will be attained by means of electric lights and colored glasses plac -1 ed around the basins In such away that the beauty of the fountains will not be diminished when seen by day light Thiers* Fulfilled Prophecy. In January, I#7l. M. Tillers made the following remarkable prophecy: "When ever England Is In conflict with a for eign power Europe will sec her colonics rally and co-operate wltli her. Without the slightest expense to her they will I equip their soldiers, their only ambl -1 tion being to show their close union with her and to demonstrate that their strength and energy are at her dispo sal, Just as her resources are at theirs. 1 predict this In spite of your smile of j Incredulity and although perhaps none of us will live to witness it."—United I Australia. The End of Fox Hunting. j It would be useless to deny that the golden age of fox hunting is over. I Hounds, horses and huntsmen were i probably never better than they are now. But the face of the country Is changing. The golden age lasted to • the fifties. Now railways have turned some of the fairest districts of England into the likeness of a gridiron. Wire is everywhere being more generally used : for fencing purposes. Foxes must give j way before the Increased culture of pheasants for shooting.—Edinburgh ' Review. | You are much more liable to disease when your liver and bowels do not act properly. DeWitts Little Early Risers j remove the cause of disease, drover's I City drug store. Ice cold soda at Keiper's, I Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. It artificially digests the lood and aids Nature lu strengthening and recon structing the exhausted digestive or gans. It lstiie latestdiscovereddigest { ant and tonic. No other preparation , can approach It in efficiency. It in stantly relieves and permanently cures Oyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Sick Headache,Gastralgla.Crampsand all other rcsul ts ol' imperfect digestion. Prlcosoc. and 11. Lnr*e size contains Iti times small size. Hook all atiuut dyspepsia mailedfieo Prepared by E. C. DeWITT A CO' Cb'eaflO. ' Qrover's City Drug Store,
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