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It the United States, exclusive f [Alaska and Island territory, were lis (densely populated as Belgium, it Is Rated that the number of inhabitants [Would be 1,770,000,000. A Russian writer discusses the ori gin of the Finns, whom he believes to Ibe the remains of tho aboriginal inhab itants, and not, as Is generally held, a branch of the Ugrlan race who had mi grated from tho east. In discussing the development of the automobile attention has been largely directed to its possible displacement of the horse In vehicles used for urban purposes. The possible competition of such vehicles with the present street cars, however, appears to have re ceived little attention. It Is plainly ob vious that the perfection of a small but powerful storage battery for auto mobiles, such as Mr. Edison Is now en gaged upon, and the consequent intro duction of smooth pavements in city streets, must necessarily affect the traction question in all the larger cities. Will the perfected automobile. With smoothly paved streets, drive the tram car with its fixed tracks fro i city thoroughfares? The publication in England of such little incidents as the following will do more to turn the English against any possible scheme of conscription for her army than columns of scien tific and economic arguments. In Paris there lives a widow who had two One of them was a cripple, anil the other, a capable workman, sup ported the family. Last fall the latter was taken away to serve his terra in tho army, and the moth er, who was nearly blind, was compelled to make out as well as she could. 'During the recent cold spell she broke down completely, and sbo and her cripple son nearly starved. One day slie complained more bitterly than usual against the conscription laws which compelled the younger son to serve, although so far as supporting tho family was concerned ho was really tho elder, who. In the ease of having a widowed mother, is exempt. Slie went out to get some work, aitd when she returned she discovered that the cripple had killed himself in order that his brother might take bis place as the head of the family and support his mother. DaiiKerotiß Mattresses. When the Health Departmant of ilin large cities are searching for the un sanitary it would be well to look into the methods of tho cheap mattress makers. An excelsior mattress, which is the cheapest thing on the market to-day, has usually an outer layer of shoddy, au dthis shoddy Is about the worst possible material that can be found, produced by a ragpieking ma chinj which grinds up the filthiest rags that the dirtiest ragpickers may gather. Imagine its character when it is sold for one and a half cents a pound. These rags possess the disease germs of nearly every complaint that can lie found in cur largo cities. To be sure, in the manufacture of other fabrics a great deal of shoddy in used, but it Is thoroughly dyed anil dlsiu fectcd, hut the stuff used in many of the cheap mattresses is invariably in Its natural and most virulent state and a crying menace to life. It Is the opinion of a man closely Identified with this trade that it is a subject for the health authorities to investigate.— New York Upholsterer. The difference between the tallest and shortest races in the world is one foot and one-half inch, and ft a average height is live fe:t live inches. The Kolost volcano at Hatnvia, ,Tava, is in eruption. It is reported Mint a large number of natives in the Itlilar district have been killed by the lava. A heavy rain of cinders fell, covering six districts, including Sam sea tic. Kedirl and Surnkm-in Last year the Pacific Coast salmon pack readied 3.-I~>.BGO cases, the lar gest pack on record. A Modest Man's Heroism. S Story of the Rescue of Se.l Hunters Lost In nn Ice Pack. f When we had come to anchor In Trinity hay and all tho sails were safe ly stowed, the captain of our yacht proposed that we should go ashore and see the celebrated Comeau Ills. Bob, my companion asked, "Cele brated for what?" "Oh! for several things." replied tho captain. "He is a most extraordinary man in his many acquirements and knowledge. Born and brought up on this coast, ho has passed all his life here, with tho exception of the three years his father was able to send him to school, but those three years he made use of to lay the foundation of a wonderful store of practical knowl edge. His schooling, as I have said, was but the foundation; by reading and observation he has added to it in a marvellous way. From his early training and the life of every one on tho coast, it would go without saying that he knows how to shout, but he is more than a good shot, he is a "deadly" shot. Anything he aims his gun at that is within shooting distance is dead. As a salmon fisher, no crack angler who visits these rivers can hope to compete with him. "As a linguist lie can speak, read end write in French, English, Latin and Indian; besides this, ho can talk rapidly in the dumb alphabet. He holds the position of telegraph operat or at Trinity, also of postmaster and fishery overseer, and besides, when anything goes wrong with the lines for 200 miles east or the department immediately wires him to go and fix them up. "He has more than a fair knowledge of medicine for one who derived all his insight from reading alone. Last summer there was an epidemic of measles all along the coast, among both whites and Indians. Here with a population of 150, two-thirds of whom were down, Comeau, who attended them, did not lose one patient, while at Bersimls, where tho department sent a full-fledged M. D., there were 39 burials out of a population of 450. "You may be sure the poor peoplo all along the coast love him." So the boat was lowered away, and tho captain. Bob and I rowed ashore to see this paragon. From the outside look of tho place I could see the man was one of good tasto and orderly. The knock at the door was answered by Comeau himself. The captain was personally acquainted with him and Introduced us before we entered. I must say I was disappointed. One always Is when he has pictured a per son in his mind's eye and finds that in reality he is quite a different kind of person. I had looked for Comeau to be a large man and a boisterous one from his position of superiority over others. On the contrary, I found him below tho medium, a quiet, low-voiced man, reserved almost to shyness. I saw at once he was a great observer, one who would make deductions from specks invisible to ordinary people; or, in other words, he could put two and two together and dovetail them better than most men. We were ushered Into a large, clean, airy room, in the middle of which sat a very good-looking lady in a roomy rocker, with a child on each knee. If Comeau himself Is reserved nnd not in clined to talk, his wife can do enough for both. Sho excused herself for not rising when her husband introduced us. Nodding down at her babies, she said: "You see, lam fixed." One could see she Is a proud mother — they were twins; this she told us be fore we were seated, and she further informed us that they were the only twins on the Labrador. Bo she Is celebrated also. When we got fairly settled in Com eau's den, tho conversation naturally drifted Into hunting and fishing. Bob mado some inquiries about the pools on the Trinity. To make his explana tions clear, Comeau pulledouta drawer of photographic views of the river. In rummaging these over, he cast aside a gold medal. "Excuse me," I said, reaching over and taking up the medal On it I read engraved: "Presented to N. A. Comeau by the R. H. S. for Bravery in Saving Life." Upon my asking him to recount tho circumstances, he blushed and looked quite confused, and said: "Oh! it was nothing worth speaking of, hut I suppose people talked so much about It that they gave me that token. It was nothing more than any man would have done," and this was all we could get from him unless we cs rrled per sistency to an ungentleman ly degree. After having spent a very pleasant hour we returned on board, and the captair told us the story that the hero himself would not. Two years before, one day in Jan uary, Comeau arrived home from the back country to find that two men had that day while seal hunting off shore been driven off the coast toward the lee pack in tho gulf. One nt tho men was Ccmeau's own brother-in-law and the other a half-breed. In spite of tho supplications of his wife and the per suasions of the other individuals of the place, Comeau set about prepara tions to follow them out to sea. He asked no one to accompany him. The wind all the afternoon had been steadily off shore and was now mod erately calm. Ho took with him some restoratives, provisions, a lantern, a couple of blankets, his rifle and ammu nition and what else useful he could think of In his hurry. The ice pack was then about 10 miles off the land, nnd he reasoned the men must be on the Ice. If large and strong enough, or in among It if rn small cakes, the latter being much more dangerous. From Trinity to Matane in a direct line the distance is 45 miles, and to' push out in a frail, wooden canoe alone and the darkness coming on in the b.aclt gulf in mid-winter required a brave man with extraordinary nerve to dare it, and this Comeau did. Three minutes after pushing out from tho beach, canoe and man were swallowed up in the darkness. The next the people of Trinity heard of hici was a telegraphic message on the sec ond day after. It read; "Matane. All three alive. Joseph, hands frozen; Simon, both feet frozen badly." This message was to his family, but the Matane people sent a much longer one to the government, giving the facts, describing the hardships these men had come through, and a special train was sent down with tho best sur geon from Quebec. On the surgeon's arrival at Matano a consultation was held with the country practitioner, when it was decided that the man, Joseph, would have to lose two fingers on each hand and Simon both feet. The amputation was successfully carried out rtext day, and shortly after, when Comeau saw both men well on to recovery, he started for his home, not, however, by the way he had come, but up to Quebec by the south shore and down the north shore from Quebec, a distance of nearly 700 miles. The last 100 he made on snowshoes. The captain told ns that the descrip tion of this very venturesome trip he had heard from Comeau's own brother as the elder one had described it in the heart of his own family. He had reached the ice pack, to the best of his judgment, about 15 miles from the land, and had remained on his oars and hallooed once or twice without re ceiving an answer. He suddenly be thought himself of the lantern. This he lit and lashed to the blade of one of tho cars, and erected it aloft. Im mediately a faint cry was heard to the eastward, and ho lowered his light and pulled away in the direction whence the call appeared to come. After row ing for a short time the lantern was waved again above and this time an answering shout came from close at hand. The two poor fellows were some dis tance in the pack, and had got on the largest cake they could find. They wore sitting there helpless, holding on each by one hand to the rough surface of the ice, and with the other to their canoe to keep it from being washed off. By the aid of the lantern held aloft, Comeau saw there was a much larger cake of ice some distance farther in the pack. To this they made their way with laborious trouble. Pushtug one canoe as far ahead among the ice as possible, they would all three get into this, shove the other in advance in the samo way, and so repeating the process till they reached the solid field. Once safely on this, for the meantime, secure place, food was par taken of and daylight waited for. Soon, however, the intense cold be gan to make itself felt, and drowsi ness wa3 first taking hold of the two men, and their great wish was to bo loft alone and allowed to sleep. This Comeau knew if indulged meant death, and it took all his efforts to keep them awake and moving about. Onco, while attending to the half breed, hi 3 brother-in-law dropped down and was fast asleep in an instant. Comeau boxed him. kicked him, with out having the desired effect of rous ing him from his stupor. At last ho bethought him of what an old Indian had done to him under somewhat similar circumstances. He caught the man's nose between the thumb and finger and tweaked it severely. This brought him to his feet and mad to fight. Day was now breaking and they could soo the south shore at a com puted distance of 10 miles. Comeau also saw that the ice pack was drift ing steadily east, and this, if they re mained on the ice, would carry them past Cap Chat, the most northern point of the south coast, and this meant death to a certainty. A rapid train of thought went through Comeau's brain. He decided that if saved they were to be, it must he by passing over that 10 miles of moving, grinding ice. He forced some food on tho others. They abandoned tho roll of blankets, which had been of no use to them, and started, using tho canccs see-saw fashion, as they had done the night before. They left the cake of ice upon which they had passed the night nt S a. m„ and only got ashore at the extreme point of Cap Chat at daylight next morning. At times they would come across narrow lanes of water, but these lanes always ran at right angles to the direction in which thev were going. Several times, when stopping upon what was con sidered a strong piece of ire, one of tlie party would be immersed in the cold, cruel water, and be rescued with great trouble and danger to tho others. What a picture of heart-felt prayer offering it must have been to have seen those men kneeling on tho ice bound shore, pouring out their thanks to the ever-watchful Almighty who had brought them safely through such dangers. Lob, who had taken down the cap tain's narrative in shorthand, gave lr.o his notes and I give the story of adventure and heroism to the public. Comeau is well-known by most of the members of the Forest and Stream clubs of New York and Montreal.— Martin Hunter, In Forest and Stream. ROUEN'S OVERHEAD FERRY, How it French City Snivml a Ilupld Tran sit Problem. Just now. when so much is being said of bridges and tunnels between Manhattan and Brooklyn, it is interest ing to note how the city of Rouen, in France, has solved for itself, at least, the problem of trans-river communica tion. The city lies on the Seine, but a short distance from the sea, and many of the conditions there are simi lar to those prevailing in the North and East rivers here. In the first place, the Seine is very busy with shipping, and the chief aim of the en gineers was to build a bridge that would least interfere with naviga tion. A draw was considered imprac ticable because of the delay that would follow its frequent opening and shut ting, and a bridge 150 feet above water, so as to clear all shipping, was held to be too costly on account of the approaches. So the engineers planned an overhead ferry, or, as they call it, a "pont transbordeur," which is described in a report just made by the American vice-consul at Rouen. The structure is of especial interest as being the first of its kind, though the principle has been used before in some vory small bridges. The essen tial part of the system may be de scribed as a horizontal railway sup ported by a bridge spanning the chan nel and built up at such £ height as will allow the talle/t-mastod vessels frequenting the channel to pass beneath. The platform of the bridge carries the lines of rails over which a carriage on small wheels rolls, the number of wheels varying with the weight to be carried. The rollers are connected with a movable frame un der the line of rails, which may freely move in a longitudinal direction quite close to tho platform and from one end to tho other of same. In order to make this vehicle of practical use, iron rods or cables are attached to the frame above mentioned, the object of these being to carry a platform or carrier from shore to shore, hanging at the samo level as that of the quays on each bank, but in any case above high water and the reach of waves. There is thus a little railway for crossing the river, with this difference, that tho body of the vehicle, ir.sl uul of being above tho rails and wheels as usual, is some 140 or 100 feet below these. It possesses, nevertheless, the speed and regularity of motion which can be obtained on any straight and horizontal railway line, with tho ad vantage that, thanks to its long sus pension, this new kind of wagon en joys a smoother motion than the best railway coaches. Any kind or motive power may be used to move the car, cable driven by steam, compressed air, gas, or, better still, electricity. But in tho last 'use the dynamo. Instead of being erected on shore, as tho steam-engine, 1 pre ferably placed on the movable fram , which it carries along with itself by means of a pinion working into the teeth of a rack fixed to the bridge.— New York Post. Our Crowd Civilization. Our civilization is a crowd civiliza tion, says Gerald Stanley Lee. in th Atlantic. The only beauty of art or life that such a civilization can pro duce must be produced by making the crowd beautiful. The crowd can only be made beautiful by the groat man in it. A man can only be great In it by being a two-world man, an artist. He can only bo a great artist by pos sessing and expressing the New Testa ment temperament, tho temperament of the great novelist, making the crowd beautiful by being a crowd in himself. In its last analysis, the solu tion of the crowd is the practical man in it; that is. the diviner, tho inter preter of persons. He sees so much that ho makes us all see. He is the lifter of tho horizons in which we live our lives. He in the man whoso see ing is so deep a seeing that it is a kind of colossal doing—who goes about amongst us. worhl-makinc with his eyes. Ho gazes on each of us through the world's heart. He i 3 the eye of a thousand years. It takes a thousand years for the world to make him, and when he is made, ho makes the world for a. thousand years. Men shall be born, troops of generations of them, and go through their days and die, that the visions of a man like this may bo lived upon the platform of the earth. History is the long slow pan tonine acted by all of us—now in sor row, and now in joy—of the dreams of a man like this. We cannot es cape him. He is universal. Only by being out of the universe can we es cape him. Tho stars are his foot lights. We are born in the cast of his dream 3. He is the playwright over us all. Hovr ChlcjiKO Does It. "Say, pal, mo name's Cicky Dona hue from St. Louie, an' I want de price fur a sau'wich." The tramp, named Micky, was the dirtiest ever, and looked hungry, so the reporter "dug down." "D!s is a heap diffrunt town dan Chicago," continued Micky, "an' de hoboes don't got such a heap here. Dere's t"> many of 'em down in Chi' dat a man like dis guy can't get room to sleep. I can't go dat town, dat's a fac'. "De coppers in Chi' is wise in one t'ing. dough. Dey don't trouble der selves wid de hoboes. I got to de Hal stead street police station one night, an' dey had a hobo lodgin' house an nex. Dere was about 300 of de tramps dere. De wise coppers got one easy hobo to do al! de work. Dey gives him one meal a day, and fur dat he has t' scrub out de point, and write down in de hotel register de names of all de boys dat cc-mes in dere to sleep. Dat's a great hotel. He gets lots of fellows in dat joint of liis'n, but he has t' hus tle fur two meals a day like de res' of us."—Milwaukee Sentinel. To Soften the ITr.ndg Quickly. First wash them in tepid water till every vestige of dirt is removed. Then, before drying, well rub in glycerine and lemon juice mixed in equal pro portions. Thoroughly dry with a soft towel, then quickly > ' again with oohl water and any goo- soap, keep ing thom in the water as , hort a time as possible. Again cry thoroughly and powder with mi-a,( The V. Tv 1 ram • Photograph -our- of old brocades and embroidered silks are usurping the place of * ■>- lon;;-lov. 1 gold, sil ver and dresd'.'ii frartes. ne intend 'rd for b. little child's portrait is worth describing. It is a 3arg< panel size in pald&t blue satin V; the right side is tall, 1- . I >e, in which the hong trmk, t . conns i branches are ex< iisitely . bri derw' in natural colors, and rlgl 1 stl other side is a fli!;ht of doves in v. 1 'e silk and silver t.lrcad with tiny ruby eyes. Newest Bed Sets. The rrv newest wrinkle in bed sets is to Raich the chintz or cretonne windo* hangings and furniture cov ering, syi regie for bedroom use at the pretcnt time. This is done by cut ting oi/T the largest and most promi nent bVbssom of its huge floral de sign aftl applying t.hi-m in border fashion "o a white centre of a material like pludh swiss. As the cutting must be dond by hand its at ad; t ixpense keeps em idea descatdv exclusive, the nearest ipproach to it (dug a printed border -*h which much of the original effect H lost. To Brlgten Carpet*. When a carpet bi in: to lose its col ors, if warm watei an<i ammonia are at once applied they will restore them. Apply as fo'lows: Into a - ful Of warm water yut about three or four tablespoonful* of ammonia, and with a 6oft flannel bloth dip; -d in thb am monia water i'.o over t . entire car pet, rubbing vigorously. As en -h por tion of the outlet v thin you ach is washed, rub it dry vlth another cloth. When till entire carpi is gone over, open windows ami loors and let the carpet dry and air thoroughly. This treatment Will be f un< lu -lave effectually renovand tl. - arp-t, ev-pt It contains shades of gre- ay ioh will not bear ammonia (it 1 we: to try a small portion of the pet -s; - in which case dry salt - u a tn and I hen vigorously s >t ut will freshen and help its ipea.ance.— American Queen. How to Buy 80. Amorn: meats beef leat off is the most expensive; hut it sal o the most nourishing for pe< le 1 good health. Porterhouse and si loii. steaks and the rib roasts are th h< ce for general family use. Fillei "or roast ing and steaks cut In a psci.fi way ire much hh-her in price, ;mi re not ,oen on the average table. 11 is and restaurants have tlu-ra alw. hand and they really are not so • I . -in such cases, where all tht r ing is done on a very large sea: : s re ducing the price of every ; I. If tho housekeeper >f small rage means will adopt this perl •; - :u of purchasing her n-iat.s in 1 ii T large quantities she will reduce h i t- lu-r's bill perceptibly, raid at the • time give her family better cuts i i more. If this is bought from wha i k .own to the butcher as 'the best, c f the small of the back the hr. >k - per will have the best cuts foi r table at a very moderate cost.— -y Gra ham, in the Woman's Horn ton -an ion. i'l* RSC/Pci Orange Fritters—Peel an- quarter the oranges, rem vc the see- am: all the extra outside skin; rial-;■ battel of two eggs, one t ibl spoonful -f olive oil, one teaspoon! il of sugar. Ie -cup ful of flour, half a cupful (f cdd wa ter. Roll the ortnges In su, ar, dip them Immediately iuto the ,a ,er and fry in hot fat Coffee Cuke—On cup of ti one cup of i igar, one cup 01 bu i ~! sweet lard mix-Ed. one cu-i of clear, strong coffi . live ups of fl< No eggs. One ;p of toned ralai . one cup of dried curran - . a little s. It, one tcaspoonful of soda dlssi ivod i-i lit tle hot war-r, and be :--n I --cry thoroughly the last thin- No snice. Ox Eyes—( off pier of lirt , two inchos thick >m a loir k af, md, trim off cr :st, scoop t a rtion from the centr of each 0.-sc" ar. then place in a deep butt<.-d dish. For each three pieces beat ■ 1! two eggs, three-fourths of a cup milk nd a pinch of salt. Baste tho bread with this liquid until it is all absorbed then break an egg into each cavity and bake in a hot oven. Sprinkle each egg with a pinch of salt. Apple Salad —Shred very fine one good sized sweet apple, removing the core and ends. Break a head of let tuce into a salad bowl and slice over it six crisp, tart apples. Long narrow slices are most attractive. Sprinkle the chopped pepper evenly among the apples. Dcrss with two tablespipon fuls of lemon juice, six tablespoonlfuls of oil and one saltspoonful of salt. Mix well, pour over the salad, fetir lightly and serve FAIRLY EAT QUININE. Foreigners i" Mexico Who Keep Fall ot the Dru; All th Time. "The quantity of quinine taken by foreigners on the southeast coast of Mexico is something simply incredi ble," said a resident of this city who is interested in coffee culture in the sister republic. "There is a general b( f among the American and Eng lish all through that region that the drug is necessary for the preservation of life, and they keep full of it from one year's end to another. The first time I visited the coast I stopped at Frontera, the first port east of Vera Cruz, and as soon as our snip ued up it was boarded by a tall, sallow man, who turned out to be an American en gineer, in charge of a big sugar plant Ik. up the country. He made a bee line for the purser. 'Hello! Billy!' he said: 'did you bring that quinine?' 'Sure,' replied the purser, and diving into his cabin he came out with an armful of * tin boxes, about, the size of tea ean nisters, and japanned green. Each of them held a pound of quinine. I never saw it put up that way before and, nat urally, I was surprised. "I soon scraped an acquaintance with the engineer and made bold to inquire what in the world he wanted with such a supply. 'Are you getting it on a speculation?' I asked with a vague idea that it might be intended for some Mexican army contractor. He laughed heartily. 'Speculation nothing!' said he; 'this all goes to our little colony of Americans back in the interior, and it won't last very long, either.' With that he drew a pen-knife from his pocket, opened a blade that had been ground off round, like a spa tula, and thrust it into one of the cans. He brought out a flaky, white mass—enough to heap a teaspoon— put it on his tongue and swallowed it like so much sugar. 'Have you any A idea how many grains you are taking?' I asked in amazement. 'Only approxi mately,' he replied carelessly; 'a man quits weighing quinine after he has been down here a few months.' That was my first encounter with a bona fide quinine-eater," the coffee planter went on, "but I met plenty of them afterward. They generally keep the stuff in rubber tobacco pouches, to protect it from perspiration, and when they feel like taking a dose they dig in, with one of those spatulated knives that they all carry and swallow as much as they see fit. As they go en tirely by guess, it is hard to say how much will be eaten in the course of a day, hut I have weighed the amount that can be lifted on the ordinary knife blade aud found it to range be tween 25 and 50 grains. You see, qui nine is as compressible as cotton, and two wads of it that look about the same size will vary a 100 percent in weight. One would suppose, as a mat ter of course, that such enormous quantities of the drug would produce au intolerable ringing in the head; F but, strange to say. they do nothing of the kind. The average white man down there who keeps under the in fiueuce all the time, experiences noth ing except a slight feeling of exhilara tion —at least so I was assured by dozens of habitues. Whether the use of the stuff is of any real benefit is something I am sceptical about. I never took a grain of it myself, and I was the only man on our plantation who didn't have a touch of fever."— N w Orleans Times-Democrat. CliesMneu of Hmnan Bougt, Diving chess lost its novelty years ago, and men have played the Royal game with pieces carved from most inanimate objects, mounted and idorned with the jewels of the world; hut it has probably been left to tho c! Eof the 19th century for a set of men to be carved out of the bones of a d oteo to the game, and to be finally off, red as a prize to the world at large. J !i 'ccurred to a llerr Bredwait, who, being bequeathed of his bones to a Parisian maker of chess figures, to lie con verted Into men with the most eluborate carvings it was possible to cxi- ute, tho bones of the arms and hands being utilized for this purpose, a sufficient, sum of money being left, in tiis disposition he arranged that the set should become tho property one who was making an unusual r In the chess world at the time, and two friends were named to see that the strange bequest was duly executed. At the time when tho set was completed, Mme. Antoinette Tre belli. the well-known prima donna, demonstrated that she fulfilled the conditions indicated, and the judges were at last compelled to admit the peculiar set had been won by the pop ular singer. Mme. Trebeili is exceed ingly proud of her latest acquisition. She permits her personal friends to J inspect the treasure, but one must " have an international reputation as a flfc chessman to be permitted to handle the set. Each man is provided with a special velvet pocket where he re poses when not in use, the complete set forming one of tho most cherished possessions of the prima donna. Una Eaten 200,000 Hot KUciilta. Emporia, Kan., is proud of one of its citizens, Jesso Powell, because he worked on the farm owned by Presi dent McKinley's father and labored many days with the president cutting weeds, pitching hay, plowing corn .and chopping wood. Mr. Powell is 70 and is in the best of health. He attri butes this to hot biscuits, which ho has eaten once a day ail his life. He sat in a grocery store in Emporia the other day and figured out that he had devoured 200.000 hot biscuits in his life. He insists that doctors who inveigh against hot biscuits don't j[ know what they are talking about. Idleness quickens the perception. The man out of work will grasp any situation. i
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