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According to the American Associa tion of Opticians it is the strenuous life that is to blame for the alarming Increase in the use of eyeglasses. The Monroe doctrine is solely re sponsible for the keen desire of cer tain European Powers to purchase isl ands in the American hemisphere, and It is also responsible for the fact that this craving is not satiated, remarks the Kansas City Star. The death of the Empress Dowager of Germany will lengthen the period of English court mourning and defer the inauguration of that social ac tivity which the London shopkeepers have been expecting to follow Ed ward's accession to the throne. Denmark utilizes the milk of 1,733,- 735 cows in her dairy industry. In 3808 she exported 121,418,431 pounds of butter; in IS9O, 122,412,593 pounds, and in 1000, 124,023,3(53 pounds. The steady increase in exports is the best testimony to the inherent value of the product. Tbo large number of educated men who are applicants for positions as warrant machinists in the navy and the rigid examinations to which they ore subjected afford an illustration both of the growing popularity of technical education and of the higher Standards demanded in the naval ser vice, observes the Baltimore Sun. The Australasian Commonwealth has introduced a bill in Parliament which prohibits admission into Aus tralia of any person "unable to write a fifty-word test from English dicta tion." It is already provided that no Immigrant shall bo admitted who is likely to become a burden on the pub lic purse or who within three years lias been convicted of a nonpolitical offence. The educational qualification is designed to effectively exclude Chi nese and other undesirable immi grants. Our own Congressional Record must look to its laufels and hurry up if it is not to he surpassed by the parlia mentary record of the youngest State in the world. In the first five weeks of the session of the Australian parlia ment enough speeches wore made to fill SSO closely printed pages, and as the Australians have not learned the trick of "leave to print," this means that every word in those 580 pages were spoken during the sessions. Wo can fancy some enemy of the speaker saying: God of the southern winds, call up Thy gales And whistle in rude fury 'round his ears. The Klondike is already feeling the evil effects of forest denudation. Since the discovery of gold there the sparse ly timbered hills of the district have been stripped of all tree growth to lill the extraordinary demands for fuel In mining operations and other purposes. The billa for mauy miles around all cf the productive creeks are now bare, and the ground being thus exposed the snow accumulated during the winter quickly melts in the early summer. This year there has been an early mil prolonged drought in con sequence and the prospective output of gold has beea reduced from $30,- 000,000, the original estimates, to $20,- 000,000, because of the lack of water to wash the auriferous earth. The position of head conch of the Yale D. at ball team Is still open. L is thought that Waller Camp, who lives in New llaven, and lias advised and helped to coach many of Ysib/s vic torious teams, will gradually drift into that position. Rock T'f.: "a, an employe of JamisoTi's coal works, near Greecsburg, fell down the shaft and was Vatally hurt. AN AUTUMN SONG. Again the old heraldic pomp Of autumn on the hills; A scarlet pageant in the swamp; ' Low lyrics from the rills; I And a rich attar in the air That Orient morn .distills. Again the tapestry of haze Of amethystine dye Encincturing the horizon ways; ! And from the middle sky The iterant, reverbant call Of wild geese winging by. Again the viols of the wind Attuned to one soft theme— Here, every burden left behind, O love, would it not seem A near approach to paradise To dream and dream and dream! i —Clinton Scollard, in the Woman's Home I Companion. nOCCOOCCwCCCCOCDOGCGOCCOOD : § fije Annexation ol {7uby. § 2 ' £3 An Episode In the T.tfo of Mrs. *9 jTj WlgRB of tbo Cabhnge Patch. 0 OOCOCOCOCCOOOOOOOOCGOOCSCOO TT NEW humorist, Miss Alice / \ Caldwell Ilegan, contributes '° the Century a short story <J" about the physical salvation of a horse. The Wiggses lived In the Cabbage Patch. It was not a real cabbage patch, but a queer neighborhood where ramshackle cottages played liop-scoteh over the railroad tracks. The Wlggs family consisted of Mrs. Wlggs and live children. The boys were named Jim and P.illy, butjt was Mrs. Wlggs's boast that her three lit tle girls had geography names. First came Asia, then Australia. When the last baby arrived, and Billy stood look lug down at the small bundle, he asked anxiously: "Are you goin' to have it for a boy or a girl, ma?" Mrs. Mrs. Wlggs had answered: "A girl, Billy, and her name Is Europona." Hard work and strict economy were necessary in the little household. Mrs. Wiggs took iu washing, Jim worked at the factory, and the others helped as best they could. The direct road to fortune, however, according to Billy's ideas, could best be traveled in a kindling wagon, and while he was the proud possessor of a broken-down wagon, sole relic of the late Mr. Wiggs, he had nothing to hiteh to it. Scarcely a week passed that he did not agitate the question, and as Mrs. Wiggs often said: "When Billy Wiggs done set his head to a thing he's as good as got it." Consequently she was not surprised when ho rushed breathlessly into the kitchen ono evening about supper time, and exclaimed in excited tones: "Ma, I've got a horse! He was bavin' a fit on the commons, an' they was goin' to shoot him, an' I ast the man to give him to me." "My land, Billy! what do you want Willi a tit horse?" asked his mother. " 'Cause I knowed 3"on could cure him. The man said if I took him I'd have to pay for cartin* away his car cass, but I said all right, I'll take him anyway. Come on, ma, an' see him!" And Billy hurried hack to his new pos session. Mrs. Wiggs pinned a shawl over her head and ran across the commons. A group of men stood about the writh ing animal, but the late owner had de parted. "He's 'most gone," said one of the men as she came up. "I tole Billy you'd heat him fer takin' that ole nag often the man's ban's." "Well, I won't," said Mrs. Wiggs, stoutly. "Billy Wlggs's got more senso than most men I know. That boss's carcass is worth somethin'. I 'spoet he'd bring 'bout $2 dead an' mebbo moro llviu*. Anyway, I'm going to save him if there's any save to him." She stood with her arms on her hips and critically surveyed her patient. "I'll tell you what's the matter with him," was her final diagnosis; "his lights Is riz. Bill, I'm goin' home fer some medicine. You set on his head so's he can't get up, an' ma'll be right back in a minute." The crowd which had collected to see the horse shot began to disperse, for it was supper time, and there was nothing to see now but the poor suf fering horse with Billy Wiggs patient ly sitting on liis head. When Mrs. Wlggs returned she car ried a bottle and what appeared to be a largo marble. "This here is a calo mel pill," she explained. "I jes' rolled the calomel in with some soft light bread. Now you prop his jaw open with a little stick, an' I'll shove it in; then hole his head back, while I poui down some water an' turkentlue outen this bottle." It was with great difficulty ihat this was accomplished, for the old horse had evidently seen n vision of the liappy hunting ground, and was loath to return to the sordid earth. His j limbs were already stiffening in death, and oniy the whites of his eyes were visible. Mrs. Wiggs noted these dis couraging symptoms, and saw that violent measures were necessary. | "Gether some sticks an' build a fire quick as you kin. I've got to run over home. Build it right up clost to him, Billy; we've got to git him hot up." She rushed Into the kitchen, and taking several cakes of tallow from the shelf, threw them Into a tin buck et. Then she hesitated for a moment. The kettle of soup was steaming away 011 the stove, ready for supper. Airs. Wiggs did not believe in sacrificing the present need to the future com f.ort. She threw in n liberal portion of pepper, and seizing the kettle in one hand and Hie bucket of tallow in the other, staggered back to the bonfire. "Xow, Billy," site commanded, "put tiiis bucket of tallow down there in the hot I est part of the tire. Look out, don't tip if—there! Now you come here an' help me pour tills soup into : tiie bottle. I'm goin' to git that ole linss so bet up he'll think lie's bavin' , a sunstroke. Seems setter bad to keep on pesterin' him when he's so near gone, but this hero sonp'll feel good when It once gits Inside him." When the kettle was empty the soup was Impartially distributed over Mrs. Wiggs and the patient, but a goodly amount had "got Inside," and already the horse was losing his rigidity. Only once did Billy pause in his work, and that was to ask: "Ma. what do you think I'd better name him?" Giving names was one of Mrs. Wiggs's chief accomplishments, and usually required much thoughtful con sideration, but in this case, If there was to he a christening, It must be at once. "I'd like a jograpliy name," suggested Billy, feeling that nothing was too good to bestow on his treasure. Mrs. Wiggs stood with the soup dripping front her hands, and earnest ly contemplated the horse. Babies, pigs, goats and puppies had drawn largely on her supply of late, and geo graphy names were scarce. Suddenly a thought struck her: "I'll tell you what, Billy, we'll call him Cuby! It's a town I heard 'em talkin' 'bout at the grocery." By tills time tbe tallow was melted, and Mrs. Wiggs carried it over to tbe horse and put each of his hoofs into the hot liquid, while Billy rubbed the legs with all the strength of his young arms. "That's right," she said. "Now you run home an' git that piece of carpet by my bed, an' we'll klver him up. I am goin' to git them fence rails over yonder to keep the fire goln'." Through the long night they worked with their patient, and when the first glow of morning appeared in the east a triumphant processions wended its way across the Cabbage Patch. First came a woman bearing sundry pails, kettles and bottles; next came a very sleepy little boy leading a trembling old horse, with soup all over his head, tallow on b.ls feet and a strip of rag carpet tied about his middle. Thus Cuby, like his geographical namesake, emerged from a violent or deal of reconstruction with a mangled constitution, internal dissension, a de cided preponderance of foreign ele ment, but a firm and abiding trust iu the now power with which his for tunes liud been Irrevocably cast. Prehistoric lionet* Found. The Carnegie Museum at Pittsburg will shortly receive a consignment from one of Its collectors, a Mr. Peter son, which will probably cause im portant discussion In the scientific world. Mr. Petersen has discovered iu and below the bed of a creek run ning near Harrison, Neb., six skele tons, perfectly preserved by petrett cation. These are the bones of horses, 'beyond possibility of scientific refuta tion, but from their size they prove conclusively that the pro-historic horse was fuuch smaller than the aiiima) as it appears nowadays. Although the skeletons have not been set up by Mr. Petersen, they are complete. From the measure ments taken It Is apparent that the horses of the time when these were alive were about tbe size of a two months-old colt of the present day. Mr. Peterson found tbe skeletons while prospecting for relics for the museums. A small hone, seemingly an ordinary stone, gave him the first clue. Following up his find, he ar rived at a point Indicating to his sci entific discernment that more bones were to be found by digging. Three of the skeletons were found one above tbe other, though a short dislaueo apart laterally. The other three were iu different parts of the creek bed.— New York Times. A Musollno Craze. The seeming impossibility of catch ing the brigand Musollno, for whose capture a large price has been offered by tbe Government, has led to a con siderable "Musollno literature." Pro fessor Bcrtollni, of Barl, says that in that town ulone three "lives" of the brigand have appeared, and that in all be is described as a "perfect gentle man." Boys In the street play at "Musollno," armed with knives, mari onette theatres perform plays, of which the brigand is the hero, to ap plauding audiences and generally in South Italy lie is considered the vic tim of society. Not long ago the Syndic of Afrlco, Musolino's native place, went to Home to petition the Government in favor of his countryman. Musolino promised to give himself up to the police if the Government would guarantee an inquiry iuto his first trial, when, as lie says, he was condemned wrong fully, being then an innocent man. This was refused, and the bandit i 3 still outlawed and—still uucaught.— London Daily News. More Canals, More Households. The houseboat will become gradual ly tbe greatest factor iu solving the problem of what to do with one's sum mer. It docs away with the rent of a building site. Change of scene can be had without the discomfort of travel and packing. Wind and tide or a cheaply hired mule will bring your modern palace where you will. Health and comfort the maximum luxury at the minimum cost—these the houseboat places within the roach of everyone.—Cosmopolitan. No Further Use For the TsOjj. A singular dispute has arisen be tween the officials of the Miners' Asso ciation of Essen and the widow of a deceased member. The latter some years ago lost ilis leg in an accident, and was supplied by the assoeiaticu with an artificial one. When the man died, Ills false leg was hurled with him, and now tlie association is call ing upon tlie widow to have it ex humed, the limb not having been sold, but lent.—Loudon Globe. Where the Drought Will Pinch. When drought destroys or reduces crops everybody pities the farmers on the mistaken supposition that they are the sole losers. As a matter of fact it is the rest of the community that suffer most from a crop short age. In many cases tile farmers gain rather than lose in the higher prices they get for the crops which they do harvest. The longest drought rarely affects all crops disastrously. The recent drought in the great corn belt did not affect the wheat at all except to insure its gathering in the best possible con dition. The unprecedented wheat crop will command a ready sale at ad vanced prices because wheat must be substituted in a limited degree for corn. The corn that comes to maturity will command a high price because of its comparative scarcity. Hay, oats and potatoes will all be high in price —have, in fact, already advanced fat above the average prices at tins sea sou of the year. The consumers pay these advances all along the line and the farmers profit by them. There are few American farmers in this day who stake their entire year's prosperity upon the corn crop. The up-to-date farmer puts his eggs in a good many baskets. The upsetting of one of them doesn't leave him without eggs to carry to market.—Philadelphia Record. A Snake Experiment. Professor Dixon, of Yale, who has been camping on Indian Creek, in Colorado, has demonstrated the pos sihility of welding two snakes togeth er so that their bodies will unite and continue to grow as one. While It Is admitted that human parts could be made to grow together. It has been contended that the slug gish circulation of reptiles would mili tate against such a process in their case. The rattler was extended with an iron hook circling his head. An adder was obtained and cut in two. The rattler was treated in the same way. The tail of the adder was then sewed to the rattler with a strong thread, and after twenty-four hours the iron collar was removed and the com posite reptile was put into a cage, where lie squirmed around with every evidence of vitality Although the customary warning rattle was absent on its new tail, the supply of virus was not diminished by his curtailment, for when he struck a rabbit tile latter began to swell, and in an liour was dead. The meta morphosed rattler will bo kept under scientific scrutiny for flic next few months.—New Y'ork Times. Immcnie Activity in Autoninhlts Patent By all odds the automobile section is the busiest of all divisions of the Patent OUlce these days. Since all the fashionable world has taken to automoblling, and this spot- is no longer a fad, the Inventors of the country seem to have turned their a teution to bringing out improvements In motors, carriages and other parts. The number of applications that are being received for patents on devices for automobiles is so great that it lias been found necessary to have five spe cial examiners on this work. Fou. separate divisions have been orgar. Ized to which are referred patent papers, according to the specific kind of patent that is demanded. One di vision handles electric motors, anoth er steam motors, another gas and acetylene motors, and another looks out for the compressed air motors.- , American Automobile. Imliun Coins. The Indian famines have afforded coin collectors many opportunities to acquire rare and old coins, whleli nave lain buried for a groat uumber of years. The native has always shown a very grave suspicion of banks, and has usually preferred to bury colus in what was considered a safe spot Those hiding places are revealed by father to son, and the accumulations sometimes go on for generations. In diro extremity the hoard has to b trespassed on; coins which have long since become exceedingly rare are thus brought to light, and are eagerly snapped up by collectors. Many of them are being sold in London at the present time.—London Chronicle. A New lira in Printing Offices. Dirt, disorder and general careless ness has always been associated with the public's idea of the appearance of a country newspaper office. This idea liaa boon fostered more or less by the would-be humorous articles and pic tures of newspaper offices and news paper editors which appear, and have been appearing for years, in current publications. It fe about time to cor rect this impression, as it is no longer true of the majority of newspaper offices. A new era of order and care ful, clean management has been inau gurated. It does not pay to be a sloven, and newspaper publishers have found it out.—The Journalist. St. Helena an a State Prison, It is not generally known that since its discovery in 1002 St. Helena has been destined to be a state prison. In lull tile Portuguese banished a noble man, named Fernando Lopez, to this island. Later on the East India Co. sent a rajah to be interned there, but be died on the voyage; then came tlie memorable exile of Napoleon, which, brought St. Helena into prom inent notice, and recently, when the question arose what should be done with the Boer prisoners of war. St. Helena naturally suggested Itself as the safest and most suitable place. The oldest monkish order Is the Ba sillans, having been established in A. D. 30?. The next, the Benedictines, daws from 02' J. IF NEWSPAPERS STOPPED. Result IVoolil Be as If the Eyes of the World Were Put Out. In the United States the newspaper Is a necessity; iu all other countries it is a luxury. Newspaper reading in Europe, while not exclusive to the up per and middle classes, is sufficiently so to he a generality. The poorer classes of newspaper readers either borrow the paper or buy it because they they eauuot got the raciug re sults elsewhere. Buying and reading a newspaper in Europe are a serious business, naural ly so when the European style of paper Is considered. Sometimes there Is an Item iu it; oftener only speeches. Americans abroad miss their daily paper more than they do their pie, or. In ease of Pittsburgers, their tobies. Of course every one knows that the apotbesis of tbe press lias been reached in America mainly because this is a free country. Still, what sort of a life would this be if all tlie print ing presses were suddenly to slip a cog between days and staid slipped? The man of the house arises in the morning, unlocks the front door, stoops to pick up the paper, fails to find it, mutters a hasty objurgation, steps out on tlie porch, cranes his neck over all sides, looks in tlie next lot, swears surprisedly, glances next door, ex presses a fervent hope for the eternal future of his neighbors and goes iuto the house with a slam that wakes three blocks. The breakfast tastes oddly, the coffee has an unwonted twang, tbe clock Is slow and every thing is out of gear. On tbe way to town he finds all the otliel' passengers equally grouchy. The ear seems strangely quiet without the customary rustle of the morniug papers and the chatter of comment upon the day's news. The weather exhausts the con versational topic until some one won ders what has become of all the papers. Meanwhile the lady of the house, remembering that this la bar gain day, vainly seeks the paper for news of the sale and the costumes worn by the Brown-Whites at the Smith-Jones wedding. AB the weeks and months drag along without resumption of the presses, instead of softening the daily disappointment becomes more acute. News travels tortuously. One man hears that Bryan and Hanna met iu a Chicago hotel and jiummeled tlie life out of each other. A later version states that tlicy merely waved hands as their cars passed. Other rumors have Sampson apologizing to Schley, the Boers besieging Loudon, the Sul tan paying his debts, the Pirates win ning the pennant, the steel strike set tled, a Chicago university professor talking sense and other equally as tounding occurrences. The big stores are at their wits' ends to get news of the bargains to tbe cus tomers, and the women are bargain hungry, with no knowledge of the hour the dinner bell will ring. They go to town to-morrow an. find the sale was yesterday. They don't know style, whether the pulley belt has been revived or the kangaroo has gone out of date. Each Is a fashion plate unto herself. They are frantic half the time because the woman two doors be low bought something at n special sale for $3.Si) that they paid $3.08 for au hour later. As election time rolls around the candidates are scarcer than In the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Every man mentioned, except a lew who had their reputations made by the newspapers before suspension, i 3 unknown to the vast majority of the voters. representa tives and counclimen, even governors, cabinet ministers, mayors and the presidential candidates, can no longer be judge upon their record, because there is no record. Politicians who h .ve spent half their public career publicly cursiug tbe press and the other half privately trying to sneak in a free puff find themselves greeted with blank ignorance of their doings, sayings and general importance. All manner of people who detested newspaper notoriety find life without It spiritless and dead. Confidence games are reported ad libitum. Even the gold brick man is rejuvenated out cide of politics. Tbe peach crop, the corn crop, the wheat crop and various other crops fall with their usual regu larity, hut whether true or not the public never knows as It goes down a little deeper in its pocket to meet the market. The nation does not know whether It is a world power or a third class township, and China is farther away than Mars. Through disuse people forget to read and tlie schools are closed. The Car negie libraries are the resort of ascetic students. Families sit around the fires in the winter evenings or on the porches in the summer and yawn and yawn and yawn. Life is getting up In the morning, working, eating and drinking and going to bed again. The world gropes with hesitating hands, for its eyes are out.—\V. T. Au dersou, in the l'ittsburg Dispaich. Ancient Anatomy. The statues and plaques, carved in stone and wood, that arc to be seen in the Gizcli Museum, prove beyond n doubt, says Sir Norman Lockycr, that the prlest-mummiflers of Mem phis GOOO years ago thoroughly under stood anatomy. Science, lie thinks, therefore. Is as old as art, and the two have advanced baud in hand. An other notewortlity prcof of the an tiquity of medical science is the fact that scores of finely-finished surgical Instruments liavo been excavated, in Italy, which are, in almost every de tail of form, precisely like those de vised in modern times ant: used by the most advanced surgeons of to-day. It may appear strange, but a bread minded, man is not the out that has the big head. A Bud Break. Philosopher in petticoats, Her face no wrinkles carried; No graven lines of discontent On her fair features tarried. She bought some exposition plates, And here iny story ceases; She broke one and her troubled faco Now carries all the pieces. —Chicago flecord-Herald. rienty of It. "IXe seems rather proud of his Ignor ance." "Yes; well, he's got a good big lot ! of it."—Chicago Record-Herald. Art. X, "Is It true that Doddesly has good * taste in art?" "Well, if you call choosing a few fruit pictures for his dining-room good taste, he has it." —Detroit Journal. The Secret. Ella—"Bella told me that you told her that secret I told you uot to tell 1 her." Stella—"She's a mean thing—l told her not to tell you I told her." Ella—"Well! I told her I wouldn't tell you she told me—so don't tell her I did."—Brooklyn Life. One l'oint Aliend. Jones—"The big newspapers beat the magazines." Brown —"How's that?" Jones—"Well, when you buy a big newspaper you get a lot of magazine news; but when you buy a magazine you don't get any newspaper news." —Chicago Record-Herald. An I':.i(ilmugo of Compliments. Man on Bridge—"Time can't he very valuable with you, my friend. I've been watching you for two hours, aud ,_4 you haven't had a bite." Sinn on Bank—"My time's wuth too much, by gum, to waste two licura of it watohin' a man tish that aiu't ketch in' nothin'!"—Chicago Times. No Cau.o for Complaint. Mr. Ferguson—"Did you have a good time at Mrs. liighmore's tea, Laura?" Mrs. Ferguson—"No; 1 was miser ably lonesome." | Mr. B'ergusou—"Lonesome?'.' ! Mrs. Ferguson—"Yes; 1 was the oidy j woman there who hadn't been having I trouble with her help."—Chicago Trib j uue. Beauty's Advantage. "I wouldn't be so concerned about my looks, Etlieliuda," said the home ly husband,' crossly. "Beauty is only skin deep." "I know it, Melchior," snapped the pretty wife, still inspecting the effect of her new hat in the mirror, "hut ugliness goes clear through."—Chi cago Tribune. Not Over-Elated. "I suppose," said the effusive lady who was visiting the Meektons, "that | your wife Is sure that she has the heat j husband that ever lived?" "Y'es," answered Meektou, with I something like a sigh; "but at the I same time 1 don't believe she thinks I that is saying much for me."—Wash ington Star. Has Ills Approval. She —"Ob, Fred, you are so noble, so generous, so handsome, so chivalrous, so much the superior of every man I meet, I can't help loving you. Now, what eau you see in plain little me to admire?" He—"Oh, I don't know, dear; but you certainly have very good judg ment."—Tit-Bits. Plain People. "The payple Ol lived wld before," said tlie new cook, "wor very plain, ma'am." "Well, are we not plain here?" asked the lady. "Troth, ye are so, ma'am, hut iu a different way. The others wor plain in their way o' livin', not In their looks, ma'am."—Philadelphia Press. lit? Kpßlly 1)1(1. "My dear," said Mr. Hawkins to his better-half, "do you know that you have one of tho best voices in the world V" "Indeed?" replied the delighted Mrs. I , with a flush of pride at the compliment. "Do you really think so?" "I certainly do," continued the heart less husband, "otherwise it would have been worn out long ago."—Tit- Bits. Couldn't Do It. y "Unhand me, wretch!" J The tense tones of the neroine float- J, cd out over the auditorium, and tho people in the boxes stopped right lu the middle of their conversation. It was, indeed, a crucial moment The villain gazed at her with a cold, cruel sneer on his grease paint. Then he hissed: _ "I am no surgeon." But next performance the stage manager made him out that out.—Bal timore Amerleau. llow 110 Lost It. The boy iu tears naturally attract ed the attention of the sympathetic man. "What's happened, my hoy?" tho hitter asked. "Perhaps I cau help you." "I lost a quarter," answered the boy, "and when I go home I'll get licked for it." "Oh, well, don't cry," returned the sympathetic man. "Here's another quarter. Hew did you lose the flrst V one?" 'V "Matching," promptly replied the ' boy. "I have no luck at a IL"—Chicago 1 Post. J
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