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The young man In business Is a dis tinctly American Instutltlon, and ac counts for the rapidity of our pro gress, observes Profitable Advertising. A procession of wlinles three miles long Is reported from Alaska. This helps sustain the Impression that Alas ka Is one of the most imaginative coun tries on the map. A prune promoter offers to jftvc away a book showing how the fruit may he cooked one hundred different wnys. He offers no guarantee, how ever, that the flavor will not be the same in each ease. Dr. A. M. Gardner, n famous San Francisco specialist, recently delivered an address In which he assumed that pauperism, crime and insanity are largely the indirect results of nervous disease, and that nervous disease is largely the direct result of the com petitlonsandover-reflnements of mod ern society and civilization. As civili zation becomes more and more re fined it becomes more complicated and Its demands increase. The result is minds overtaxed with study, emotions atralned to a dangerous tension, diges tion ruined by worry and anxiety, and a gradual breaking down of nerve force, the whole system, mental and physical, being called on to endure more than is proper for a healthy mind and body. Dr. Gordon proposes no remedy for this diseased condition of society. Recent news from Europe has eon vlnced every reader that the wearers of crowns oversea are taking the philo sophical view of King Humbert of Italy with regard lo fie perils which beset thrones. When attacks on his life were made he coolly remarked that rl9ks of that kind were a part of the business of royulty. Reports from Constantinople say that the Sultan, when he was holding a council of his ministers, was not affrighted when the palace was shaken by an earthquake; In fact, he was the most serene and un dismayed of all present in the cham ber. The German Emperor Is known to possess the highest type of personal courage, and he assures his people that he is not in the least intimidated by any plots against him. But there Is so much uneasiness, so much tur moil In the Old World that the peace ful American citizen rejoices that his New World sovereignty Is not troubled by dynamite alarms or threats of mur derous discontent. The American Journal of Insanity recently published a paper presenting the statistics of suicides in various countries and among different profes sions, and the percentages of Increases during the last half century. Among those classed as paupers, only one out of every 2500 committed suicide forty years ago, one out of every 1130 serv ants, one out of every 3000 professsion ul men, one out of every 1230 soldiers, one out of every 7013 carpenters, ma sons, etc. There was only one suicide to every 02,000 of population in Swed en, while in Russia there was one to 85,000, uud in the United States one to 15,000. In the cities of London ar.d 6t Petersburg the ratio of suicides to population was about cue to 21,000. The increase of suicidal mania in France is siiown from the iigures giv en for that country tluring the last fifty years. In 1845 the ration was nine suicides to every 100,000 of popu lation, while In 1894 it had-increased to twenty-six suicides for the same number of Inhabitants. In eighty years the suicides in Belgium have increased nearly seventy-five per cent., in Swe den about the same, and in Denmark •bout thirty-live per cent. In I'russi-. ft has more than quadrupled, in Franco It has more thai*, tripled, and in Aus tria and Saxony It has more than doubled. LIMITATIONS. Ceuld we grasp life in nil its stark and st rrn Reality, How could we live? Or, living, whither For remedy? Not to ourselves dare we in silencehreatke What tilings ere done, Making each day's dark history, beneath The punctual sun! "lis well we can not see them all-eom pact, Or we might fall, Brain-dared, heart-sick, before the awful fact, Blaspheming nil That love lias ■! ..ai'd of faith, and faith has sought .In love to lind. So were tiie larger vision dearly bought! Tile gods are kind. They laid their limits on our mortal pow ers; And, this roxfess'd. To live our lv'j as best we may is ours— Be theirs Lie rest! 003OOOCOOOC5SOOOOCOC3OOOO00O | The PliaiHom Headlight. § 5 ° ' IJy Susan (1 arret. jj 6 o JCCOCCOCOSCCGCOOOOOCCCOGCO V —¥"▼ HE holiday was over, and the I tired excursionists trooped ! back to tiie depot, where "g" Number Eight, patient and strong, stood waiting to bear them to their homes. "Ready to start I suppose, Billy?" "Yes, sir. Got oil good steam." "Be pretty dark by the time we reach Jacksonville." "Yes, sir. Looks like It was goin' to fog up some." The ■fireman and the engineer were talking together in the cab, just be fore Number Eight pulled out from the depot with its heavy load. Phiiiney Kllpatrick, the engineer, was a broad shouldered young follow of middle lipight, blue eyed and light haired, with mi liouest, open face. He had a well bred air, which was to be expected, for Phinney was the son of a North Carolina gentleman. He had been sent by his father to the university, where lie soon won a threefold reputation—as a thorough gentleman, a jolly good fellow, and— a failure. When he failed for the second tlmo on the last Latin examination, and bad been made doubly sure of the fact by the receipt of his report, Phinney said to bis father: "Dad, I'm not going back to Chapel Hill." "H'm! Rather emphatic. What do yon intend to do then?" "Pm going to work—going to work, on the railroad." "And my son will be a common en gineer?" "Well, It's no use returning to col lege, and I'd rather he a 'common en gineer' than an uncommonly stupid college boy." So that is how Phinney came to he nn engineer. He worked two years as fireman and then was given an en gine. He had been changed from one engine to another, nnil at the end of four years on the road was making this trip from Jacksonville to Wilmington. Forty miles of the run had been made in safety. The sun had set in hazy fog. "Awfully foggy, isn't it, Billy?" "Yes, sir. Mighty foggy, sir," an swered Billy, who, in ten years' serv ice, had never risen above the post of fireman, and seemed to have 110 am bition for anything higher than shov elling coal, and supporting his wife and live children in what they consid ered comfort. "It's on nights like this we see the ghost headlight, sir." "Ghost headlight! Well, I've heard of phantom rickshaws, hut never of a phantom headlight." "I didn't say it wrs a fantum, sir. I Just said It was a common ghost." "H'm! Not at all common, I should (ay. Well, what do you think it is?" "It's the ghost of some old engine that's got wrecked; and I think it's about here tlicy see it sometimes." Just then Phinney blew the danger whistle loudly, slowed down and (topped the engine. "Look at that fool engine yonder!" he said, pointing to a light that was coming rather slowly down the track, and now stopped. "Why, it's this fantnm!" cried Bil ly. "I s'pose it's the fog '.hat makes ber light look co low.' "I don't believe any such trash. I'm going to see what the fellow means by coming down the track when he knows the excursion train Is due." And Phinney, in spite of Billy's protests, got out ol' the cab, and started down the track with a lantern,, He had gone only a few yards when, finding the centre of the track very wet, he mounted the rail anil walked on the iron, nn art in which be was expert, but after walking suc cessfully for a while, he suddenly lost his footing. He stooped to find out tvbat had caused him to stumble. The rail was gone! Forgetting the phan tom headlight and the other engine in his surprise, lie hurried hack to Num ber Eight. "Billy, the track's gone, not fifty yards ahead i" "Gone, fir? Gone?" "Yes, gone, vamosed, left out! Don't (land there like a—or—we must fix it right now you know," for Billy was standing staring at him in perfectly vacant astonishment. After the hands, tinder Phinney's supervision, had replaced the rail, he suddenly remembered the other head light. "Why, Where's that engine gone?" he asked. For it was nowhere to be Seen. "God bless the ghost headlight!" said Billy, with devout Irrelevance. At which Phinney only laughed. But afterward, when the trembling women and frightened men had become calm, and Number Eight was speeding safe ly down the track, almost at the and of her run, he again wondered wliat had become of the mysterious engine, and wondered greatly. As I'hinney walked down the track before dawn the next morning, t® board the freight which was to carry him to his own Number Forty, he sud denly saw a light about forty yards behind him. lie stepped off the track to let the engine pass. Instead, how ever, the light resolved Itself into a brilliant bicycle lamp, and a tall young fellow swung oft his seat to speak to him. "Hello, Pldnney!" he exclaimed, and Pliiuuey recognized Tom Sloeum, a. college chum. "Hello, Tom—glad to see you." "You came near not seeiug me. Do you know you almost ran over me in the fog last night? I was riding down the track. 1 got oil' in a hurry when I saw your headlight. You thought this was a danger signal, I guess," he added, tappiug his lantern. "No," answered Phinnel, "I thought it was a ghost." And lie told the story of the phantom's timely appearance. "And so I unconsciously acted the part of a life saver! Strong says he often rides down the track at night says it's cool. I don't see the fun of it myself, especially when it's foggy. Well, here comes your train. Good-by, Phinney. Glad you didn't get wrecked, old boy!" And Tom stood leaning on his wheel as his friend swung himself upon the moving freight cars.—Waver ley Magazine. REGULATIONS ON DRUMMERS. Wliat the Commercial Traveler Encou® tern in British Colonies. American manufacturers will be in terested in a pamphlet issued by the British Board of Trade, giving particu lars of the regulations for drummers and their samples in India and the dif ferent English colonies. In British • India there Is no tax on commercial agents, and they are also freo to enter the native States to sell their wares, but in Kashmir all foreigners, other than civil or military offleers of Great i Britain, are required to have a special pass. Wherever the octroi is levied on i merchandise brought into town, the duty applies to samples as well as to goods generally—that is, if the samples are of taxable value. In the Bahamas, Barbados and the Bermudas, no special regulations touching agents are in force, and sam ples are not subject to taxation. In British Guiana commercial traders bringing goods into the colony are re quired to take out a snop license at d cost of .$lB, unless they transfer their goods, by instrument in writing, for sale to some one holding a shop license. The Canadian law provides that dur ing regular warehouse hours and sub ject to such regulations as the collec tor sees fit to adopt, the owner of any warehoused goods may take therefrom moderate samples without payment ot duty on entry. The laws are slightly | different in some provinces, hut, as a ! general rule, every part of Canada; , maintains the open door. British Hon duras requires every commercial track, er on entering the country to pay a li cense of SSO, but gives a free entry to all samples, under certain conditions. A Tro Which Produce* Treasure. On one of the islnnds In Lake Mao lar, called Adolso, there is a tree which enjoys a curious reputation. It is a iiged fir stump, standing quite alouq on high ground, far from any dwelling, and is an object of superstitious rev erence to peasants and woodcutters. There are three holes in the stump, near the ground, and in one of these holes treasure of some kind is con stantly to be found. Sometimes it is a few copper coins, sometimes a pieco of jewelry—nothing perhaps of any great value; but if you put your baud into the sawdust and rake about you are certain to tind something. The per son who sends me this information went in October, 1900, with the owner of the property, to look at the tree, and found four pieces of money in the hole. It is well known to the peasants that if money or jewelry Is taken away there Is certain to be more a few days after. How do these things get into the hole? According to the peasants, the thing is very simple; they are put there by spirits. The isl and and those adjacent to it are cov ered Willi old grave mounds, sopul chers of forgotten chiefs, and ancient valuables are often discovered. Quite recently a woodcutter was felling a tree, which fell over on one side with half its roots sticking out of the ground. On one of them glittered an gold snake armband. The man re ceived a large sum for it from the Na tional Museum of Stockholm, wlioro the jewel muy now be seen.—London Globe. World's Longest Stairway. The rhiladelphia Oity Hall contains the highest continuous stairway in the world, and tourists who have boasted of their muscular ability in climbing tae stone steps of the Bunk er Hill monument at Charlestown, the Washington monument, or the monument to General Brock, near Queenstown, Ontario, will tell their friends of their feat of nseending the 598 steps which lend from the seventh lloor of the City Hall to the landing about the feet of William Penn's statue. It extends from the seventh to the sixteenth floor, and contains 593 steps of iron arranged about a square central shaft, In which runs an electric elevator. To reucli the lower stairway the climber may mount 245 granite stairs in the stairways nt the northern end of the building, thus making a to tal climb of 743 steps. Tower climbing is one of the fads of tourists. Hitherto the Bunker Hill monument, with its 400 odd stone steps, and the Washington monument, which has a few more, have represent ed the acme of opportunity for tests of physical endurance in this coun try.— PbllAdelfjjjA Press. AF FA|R * To Clean*© Water Crofig. Water cress should be soaked in salted water before being sent to the table, for even the most careful wash ing In water alone is not enough to lid it of all insect life. Dalntie* to Servo With Tea. Dainty orange wafers are exceed ingly nice to pass with ten. A ginger or cinnamon wafer should be served with chocolate, and n plain unflavored one with coffee. You may, if you like, pass some little bonbons, like choco late wafers, hut you should not have any other refreshments at. an after noon tea. Remember that in these days elegance tends toward simplicity. —Ladies' Home Journal, Roho Geranium Flavoring. The next time you are making crnh npple jelly try this recipe with a few glasses: Wash some geranium leaves carefully to free them from any possi ble parasites. Then, just before pour ing the hot jelly iuto the glasses throw a small leaf into the bottom of each glass. It may be allowed to remain until the jelly is used, and will not. spoil it in any way. The result is an inde scribable flavor, which improves the jelly immensely. Sometimes when baking n cake lino an earthen plate with' the geranium leaves and turn the hot cake out upon them, leaving it there until quite cold. The steam absorbs the fragrance from the leaves, giving the cake the dninti est possible flavor, that suggests noth ing so much as the odor of a La Fraucq rose.—What to Eat. To Utilize; Err Yolk*. "We love angel enki s nt our lionsq and yet I hesitate about making it bo cause I never know what to do with the yolks of the eggs," I said to a cooking teacher. "There arc all sorls of dlslics they can be used for." she said; "yolks of eggs work In well to a boiled mayonnaise dressing; added lo muk they can be used for dipping Ger man toast. Some pudding and cus tards are as good made from yolks alone as from the whole egg. Add one entire egg to three yolks and you have good scrambled egg or omelet. Gold cake Is made from the yolks of eggs, and a number of fillings and a frosting call for wnitcs. There are lee creams, pudding sauces, cookies and egg balls for serving with soup which are made from yolks alone; if one sets common sense to work she can use the eleven yolks loft from an angel cake in all sorts of ways."—Good Housekeeping. Colli I'litlclltigs. One of the most delicious of Inex pensive cold puddings Is a boiled cus tard. This may be made into novel form by seasoning with orange extract and serving It with caramel sauce. Five yolks of eggs, a scant quart of new milk, sugar, a seasoning of orange extract and a pinch of salt make an ideal boiled custard. It must be boiled In a double boiler until the mass has become very thick. It must be stirred all the time it is boiling, and after it is takeu off the fire until it has become partly cold. If it is left a moment without beiug stirred it may curdle. Caramel sauce is made of three large tablespoonfuls of sugar anil oue of water stirred in u sheet-Iron saucepan until it is a dark brown. Add now a boiliug syrup made of half a cup of sugar ami a cup of water boiled to gether for ten minutes. Add also an inch of stick cinnamon, a dozen tliiu suips of yellow lemon peel aud about a teaspoonful of lemon juice. Let the caramel dissolve iu the syrup until all the lumps are gone, and let it boil ten minutes. Skim out the cinnamon, but leave the bits of lemon peel iu the sauce. HlNTS''^' To remove paint splashes on window glass moisten the spots with a strong solution of soda, then rub hard. The cold boiled rice left from dinner or luncheon may be mixed with waf fles or mullius, aud -ill make tlieui lighter. A good cement for china and glass ware is made by soaking isinglass in water until soft, then dissolve It in proof spirit anil add a 111 tie resin. A cup of rich cream is an addition to lemou lee that is often liked. The cream should he added before the mix ture is quite stiff. Itemove the dasher and stir rapidly with a wooden spoon for a few moments, but do not churn again with the dasher. If the mixture curdles, as it may, pay no attention, as after freeziug.lt will be found to be all right. In making a meringue itniust always be borne iu mind that the slower It Is cooked or really dried the better. The reason so mauy housekeepers fail iu making a thick, tender tueriugue Is lie cause they make a mistake iu the tem perature of the oven. If the oven Is too hot leave the door open. For all meringue allow a tnblespoonful of powdered sugar to each egg. IVheu the cane bottom of the olialrn begin to sag anil need restoring to their former clastic condition, turn the chair over and scrub the under side of the cane thoroughly with a strong iatuer to which a little vinegar has beou added. When the cane Is thoroughly I saturated wipe off the superfluous moisture aud set the chair aside until It Is dry, aud the seat will he smooth and firm as when new. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL,,. In 1899 nineteen factories were started iu the Uuited States for the manufacture of silk by steam, and thirteen others for producing ribbons and other silk goods. One Yarmouth mussel of deterior ated character contained no fewer than 3,000,000 of harmful bacteria, while the water in the shell was certi fied to contain 503.290 bacteria of the eolou bacilli type, the forerunner of typhoid. Aluminum has the peculiarity of softening while considerably below the temperature at which It fuses. The big alumiutun concern at Huuau, Ger many, takes advnulage of this property lu a process for weldiug the metal. The parts to be joined Instead of being hammered together are kueaded to gether in such away that the material Is made homogeneous, so the jolul is as strong as the rest of the metal. A factory will soon be erected nt Niagara Falls for the manufacture of nitric acid by a new process, which It Is said will he quite startling irom a scientific point of view. It is under stood that the plant will manufacture the acid from air. This assures the factory of plcntirul supply of raw ma terial. The company has a cnpltal of 5100,000. If the process is a success, undoubtedly the factory will ho au im mense one. The sizes of anthracite coal and (lie screens through which they are made are as follows: Coal which runs through a screen having a mesh of three-sixteenths of an Inch is called barley; three-eighth, rice; nine-six teenth, buckwheat; seven-eighth, pen; one aud a half, chestnut; two. stove; two and three-quarter, egg; four and a half, grate; seven, steam. Coal be yond this size is known as lump coal. Bituminous lump coal passes over bars one and a half inches apart; bitumin ous nut coal passes through bars one and a half inches apart; slack coal passes through bars three-quarters of au inch apart. An extremely unfortunate occurrence Is reported from Milan which is cer tain to seriously interfere with the growth of the serum treatment of dis ease. Eight persons suffering from diphtheria died from tetanus (lock jaw) after being treated with what was supposed to be anti-diphtheritic serum. The Institute where the se rum was made was immediately closed by the authorities, and the use of the serum prohibited throughout all Italy, pending au investigation. All of the serum that could be found was called in and destroyed. No one seems to know yet just what caused the trouble. But it seems probable that the serum was either accidentally contaminated with tetanus microbes or else that through some unaccountable mistake an experimental tetanus serum was used instead of an anti-diphtlieritic scrum. Vaucluse, In South France, Is a cen tre of the oeher industry. Sometimes the ocher is excavated direct without mining, but often shafts are sunk. The material when brought to the surface Is transported to the valley below on carts and is then washed. Mining is only done In the winter sensou, as the water-courses arc dry in summer. By means of successive settling basins va rious degrees of fineness are secured in washing the ore. At the end of t lie winter these basins are tilled with ocher In the form of mud, which dries hard during the heated term, and Is then cut into blocks of regular size and dried in the sun. It is then either cut into blocks or crushed into powder for shipment and is sorted for color; the yellow shades command the high est price. The total production of these mines last year was about 180,- UUO tons, aud of this amount 3000 tons were shipped to the United Slates. Although the mines have been worked for many years they are not exhausted. No Livery Stabled In Mexico. The livery stable, as it Is known in the United States, is practically un known in Mexico. There are stables iu the City of Mexico, the capital, where It is possible to hire riding horses aud secure coaches with drivers by the hour, but no single buggies are kept for hire for pet-sous who want to drive themselves. Very few persons drive their owu carriages in Mexleo, those who do owning their private traps nud tally-hos. Public coaches are to be found upon every street corner and charge from fifty cents to 81 Mexi can money per hour, according to the grade of the hack, which is indicated by a colored tin flag beside the driver's seat. The prices are for the coach per hour, regardless of the number of persons occupying it. Electric automo bile victorias are now In the public service at $2.50 per hour. A LegHon From tli© Chun. Attention was recently called here to the fact that engineers have taken n hint from the beaver in building a dam with an arch facing the current. It Is said that they are indebted to the clam foi the idea of using a water-Jet In sinkiug piles iu sand. The story Is that the jet was first used in 1852, and by the advieo of George B. McClellun, nfterwnrd the well-known general. It seems that he was walking on the sea shore one day when lie saw a clam close its shell and squirt a little stream of water Into the sand, by which means it was able to bury itself more easily. This gave him the idea of the water-jet in pile-siuking. A Future Great One'g Shorn. When a mother puts away her baby's first shoe It is with the half, expressed belief that some day tin State Historical Society will aeud foi U.—Atfililsou Glebe. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. The Grappling-irons of Saccesi—l'WfrMl Common Experience Jogging Hla Kecollection— Highly Probable—Pecu liar Tendencies, Etc., Etc. Life is up-hill all the way— If you climb, and wish to stay Where you are, you'll have to me Like all line men, well-spiked shoes. —Detroit Free Press. Progress. "It takes a lot of niouey to carry on a war nowadays." "Yes. After a while the cheek-book! will be mightier thuii the sword."—• Puck. Common Experience. Dlx—"ls your income sufficient to supply all your needs?" Hlx—"Yes; but It Isn't sufficient to •upply bait my wants." Chicago News. Jogging Ills Kecollection. "Jones, you haven't said anything about that $2 you borrowed of me." "Well, suppose I say that you have since borrowed $3 ot me."—Chicago Uecord-Hcrald. Highly Probable. Borrower (at public library)—" Have you any works on microbes?" Flippant Attendant—"No, sir. Bud we've got lots ot microbes on works." —Chicago Tribune. Peculiar Tendencies. "Do you feci nervous after you have had your dinner'/" "No; but I'm sometimes nervous un til I know where my dinner is to come from."—Chicago Record-Herald. Botanical Enthusiasm. "I believe Professor Rim is out of his head." , "Why?" "I asked him is he knew any news, and he said that chick weed and pep pergrass were in bloom." Method In Her Stupidity. "How sweet she looks in her wef weather costume. And yet they say; she is dreadfully stupid." "Stupid? Why, she doesn't know enough to go iu the house when It rains, actually!"— Puck. Over the Back Fence. First Woman—"You've got to retract what yon said about me." Second Woman—"l won't. I never take anything back." First Woman "lndeed yon don't, but you borrow everything your neigh bors have if you get a chauce."—De troit Free Press. Couldn't Pawn It. Mr. Straits—"lt may seem a strange thing for me to do 011 such a short ac quaintance, Miss Slasher, but I liuve called to pledge you my love." Miss Slasher—"You have made a mis take, Mr. Straits. Miss Elsenheffer, the pawnbroker's daughter, lives In the next block."—Boston Courier. A Heavyweight. "And then," she said In telling of the romantic episode, "she sprang to hie arms." "She did?" "Of course. Do you doubt It?" "Oh, no," he replied, "hut after eo Ing her, I can't help thinking that 11 must have jarred him quite a bit." j Philanthropy. "How you must enjoy being a philan thropist!" said the sprightly young woman. "1 don't quite understand you," re. plied the man of earnest manners. "It must be such a pleasure to feel that you have plenty of money and can always be uoiug good." "Yes. But the only difficulty is that one euu't always be sure whether be ie doing good or being done good,"—. Washington Star. . He Writes For Thorn. All Right. "He says he writes for the uiagtfs zines." | "Nonsense! He hasn't had a story, published in a single one of them." "Ah! hilt he didn't say that he sold stories to the magazines—merely thai he wrote for them." Thus It will be seen that the nurnbeX of men who "write for the magazines'* may be far In excess of the number who do more than a postage stamp business with the editors. Turning Point in His Career. 'I be third magazine publisher to whom he bad seut an article entitled "Recollections of Pbrygia, with Koine Facts Concerning the Slave Trude in Athens," having declined It with! thanks, Aesop threw the manuscript Into the fire. "Truth may be stranger than Action, N he said, "hut there Isn't any money la 1L" So he begun writing Action, and shortly afterward, as you remember, he bad lied himself into a soft place ut the court of Croesus. Cheerful View of It. "Yes," said the Gentle Optimist, "I confess I aui superstitious enough to wear a lucky stone." "And do you really tliluk it gtvea you luck?" "Ob, 1 am quite sure of It." "Did you have it with you yestec* dny?" "Certainly." "Anil In spite of it you lost a Ave. dollar gold piece out of your pocket* tore you* ccul by catching it on a nail, sprained your ankle cud failed to closa the business deal of which you expect ed so much." "True," replied the Gentle Optimist, "but think of what might have hap pened to me if I hadn't had my luck* 1 tone."—Chicago Poßt.
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