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Make all money orders, checks, etc., payable to the Tribune Printlny Company, Limited. FREELAND, PA., APRIL 14, 1902. SHORT STORIES. An expert in forestry asserts that never before were so many trees plant ed in this country as last year. The postnl revenue of the United States in 1001 reached high water mark, being, in round numbers, slll,- 000,000. The bureau of engraving and print ing at Washington is a monster enter prise, employing no less than 2,800 workers. Fifty thousand persons spent their vacations in Colorado last summer; at least the railroads report that many tourist tickets sold. St. Joseph (Mo.) negroes are so super stitious that the street railway com pany there has found it necessary to take off car No. 13 from one of its lines. Colonel Jere Baxter, president of the Tennessee Central railroad, Is trying to carry out the plan of a reproduction of the Tennessee state capitol in sawed block coal at the St. Louis fair. An engraving by Valentine Green of Sir Joshua Reynolds' "Duchess of Rut land" was sold in London recently for $3,150. It was picked up by the vender a year ago in a country shop for $4. THE FASHIONS. In skirts for street wear or visiting the narrow tablier effect is noticed. Kimonos with a yoke effect are as comfortable as the looser ones and more becoming to the average woman. A new veiling is the scroll effect on a hair line mesh. Between tlie scrolls there are black dots of silk or chenille. Many of the lightest muslin costumes are finished at the waist with a ribbon i which lias the flowing ends at the back knotted at short intervals. It is the fad of the moment to put a toucli of lace trimming on every article of clothing, and up to date stockings have a lace insertion finish woven in the design. Lace collars and cuffs, which give a pretty finish to any waist, now come in sots, consisting usually of a high ! neck collar, a sailor or round shaped j collar and wide cuffs to match. A new and dainty effect in floral ' garniture consists of rosebuds formed ! of the palest shade of rose colored chiffon. These are small iu size and worn in clusters on ail sorts of light boas and hats.—New York Tribune. PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Arthur Forrest has engaged with Richard Mansfield for next season. A. S. Lipman is to star in a new com edy entitled "The Country Editor." William Armstrong has been engaged for a leading part in "My Antoinette." tins Bothner is to revive "My Part ner" next season 011 an elaborate scale. M. B. Curtis is to resume a starring career in a play called "The Green horn." Louis Wesley and Adele Francis have been added to the "My Antoinette" company. Bronson Howard, who has been ill at Nice, is, according to reports received recently, greatly Improved. Annie Irish is about to leave Amelia Bingham's company and will create a part in "Life," Anson Fond's new play. Mrs. Clara Bloodgood will head her own company, but not as a star, next season in a new society drama by Clyde Fitch. PITH AND POINT. It is a very serious matter—the mak ing of a plain living. Every one likes to look at himself just a little in the looking glass. We all talk about our fairness, but all of us are too apt to ride a free horse too hard. A very hardworking man in a dress suit somehow resembles an old plug horse with sleighbclls 011. When a man has a suit in court, he j always believes that the witnesses on the other side swear to one lie after another. When you do a foolish tiling, you say to yourself, "The people won't notice it" But they will notice it; they al ways do. Unless a woman gets out a jugger naut ear occasionally and rides over her husband and n1! his kin her own relatives complain that she lacks "prop- 1 u* spirit."—Atehisou Globe. 1 WHAT HE WOULD SEE HOW WE COULD ENTERTAIN OUP FRIEND FROM JUPITER. We Won Id S how Him Tlint We Are Traveling Toward Dealrnellon an Fast aw Our LeftH Can Carry U—We Do All Thlnm* lut the Rifflit Thin*. [Special Correspondence.] According to the New York dailies, the so called antitrust laws of thirteen states have been canceled by a judi cial decision on the ground that they | embody some discrimination which j makes them unconstitutional. If some ; intelligent being from Jupiter came j down to visit us and heard of that ju dicial decree before he had time to study our national development, he would say, "Well, this American nation lias certainly discovered the panacea for human happiness." And the illu sion would remain if he came to us as an illustrious potentate from one of the Jupiter nations, willing and anxious to lie honored by our own potentates, 110 matter at what cost from the public funds, the very ones that come most especially from the working masses in each nation. Hut suppose that our friend from Jupiter was not only in i telligent, but sensible, intelligence and sense being a combination not easily found in our days. Then, if he would decline the folly of all public exhibi tions, decline to make a circus out of his own person, he would soon find out —what? Some of our great inconsisten cies in the realm of legislation. lie would first notice that our trusts are simply some of the most prominent boils of our miserable industrialism spreading their intense malaria over the whole social organism. lie would have no trouble to discover that a grand cobweb of criminal discrimina tions underlies all the trusts, without which they would tumble down as rap idly as they could be organized or set 011 their digging a little farther down into the soil of that freedom of ours, so preposterous and laughable, he would soon notice that our whole prog ress is a phantasmagoria or combina tion of shrewd devices for us never to know where we are at, whether we are judges, legislators, potentates or only plain people. Our Jupiter friend would find that we are marching toward de struction as fast as our legs can carry us. If that friend of ours needed to have his views indorsed, all he would have to do is to study our daily papers, with their views and editorials, the latter with their eternal contradictions from day to day, with their interminable sophistry and nonsense, constantly en deavoring to cover all our deformities with heaps of dirt in the sense of mean, narrow, selfish conceptions of life, never being able to rise above the low level of the most sordid material ism the earth ever saw. ! If our friend from Jupiter wanted to j make sure of how matters stood among the fine patrons of our dailies, lie would quickly find out that the lat ter simply supply the kind of stuff that the patrons are demanding, neither more nor less. That would be proved to liiui by the evasive, illusive, vapid talk of the people in question when ! they refer to the events of the day, al j ways taking for granted that their pet I paper has said just what was needed ! on any of our past, present or future | troubles, that none of our problems needs to be solved 011 any lines of equi ! ty, honesty or sense, that all rests 011 ! how to let monopoly, injustice and falsehood thrive and prosper. Not that our fine people mean that. Oh, no! They deplore it. They regret it. They are ready to do ail that is possible to fix matters all right, but tliey don't actualize their supposed good desires, or they trust that our legislative bod ies shall in due time fix everything as satisfactorily as modern tendencies and modes of thought will allow. Then our Jupiter friend would ask himself: "But who is making tenden cies, who is co-ordinating modes of thought, in this big nation?" If lie goes to the legislators in cities, states or in the national capital, lie will find that the poor fellows have no time for any such nonsense as that of imitating healthy tendencies or thoughts. Most of their time is taken up in the reading of their daily correspondence or in talking with their friends from all over the country, talk and correspond ence which is bent upon asking our legislators for personal positions or fa voritisms in new legislative devices by which wealth may lie made to march into the bank accounts of wealth ma nipulators, leaving as little as possible lor the millions who produce it. There we have the ultima thule of our whole modern progress—a complete farce. If that friend could only stay long enough 011 our queer planet, he could see that we have millions of people positively devoured by a negatively spiritual ambition which drives them into all imaginable forms of good ; works, as if they were bent upon get ting rid of that dreadful "ego" of ours which often follows us with a big stick directed against ourselves. But how l'unny such people are! They keep bent upon doin? everything except "the I tiling" that alone can give some value to everything else in the line of good. I What can that be? Wo humbly suggest that in the long run "the thing" through which alone ! we can vitalize our good doings is "to I work, in earnest for a sound, sensible industrial reconstruction embodying fundamental principles of honesty honesty after the manner of divine law —not tlir* idiotic article manufactured In legislative halls, for which we are all responsible, unless we do work for j radically distinct conditions." 1 . JOSE Git OS. FARMER JOE'S SPEECH. It Wua Short, but It CruHliod the DuniptlouM VuuiiKiter, "You may get the better of an oi>po nent in debate," said an old time ora tor, "by sheer force of convincing argu ment—that is to say, you may score and win on points—but if you want to put your man down and out at a single coup just make him ridiculous. Only succeed in doing this, and all the logic of the other side will explode in vacan cy like so many blank cartridges. "Once when I was serving a term up the state in the legislature a bumptious youngster who had just been introduc ed was laboring through his maiden effort. He was attacking a man who was his senior by at least a score and ten years and thought to make a hit by referring to him as 'that little gray beard from Herkimer.' Ryranl of Niag ara rose to reply. He was an old timer, who never spoke unless lie had some thing to say and so Was always sure of an attentive audience. Farmer Joe, as he was called, got up slowly, gradually expanded himself to his full height of 0 feet 4. thrust his left hand behind the tails of a capacious and somewhat shabby frock coat, held up the index finger of his right hand, cleared his throat ominously and solemnly began: " 'Mr. Speaker, the honorable gentle man who has just spoken has never read Pope's essay. If he had, he would remember that the "soul's the standard of the man." And, sir, fifty such souls as that of the honorable gentleman who preceded me could be put into the skull of a Ilea and have as much room there as two frogs in Lake Superior.' "lie didn't have to say more. The chamber went into a convulsion of laughter which lasted for several min utes after the tall farmer had resumed his seat. As for the youngster, he did the best he could. He wriggled about, got red in the face, tried to look uncon cerned and kept his mouth closed dur ing the balance of the session."—New York News. FLOWER AND TREE. Palms never live more than 250 years. Ivy has been known to live 450, chest nut 800, oak 1,(300 and yew 2,880 years. Nothing is better for house plants than to be set out in a gentle, warm rain, but a cold rain and wind are any thing but hopeful to them. In planting trees an important point not to be forgotten is pressing the soil down upon "the roots so that they will come in close contact with it. A- pot of flowers in bud should re ceive all the sunshine possible, but when the buds open keep them in shade, and they will last longer. The largest apple tree in New Eng land is in Cheshire. Conn. Its trunk measures one foot above all root ex largeiuents, 13 feet 8 inches in circum ference. An orchard, whether young or old, should not be allowed to grow where heavy crops of grass are taken every year. It is weakening to the soil and detrimental to the trees. In Ashanti there grows a tree resem bling in appearance the English oak, which furnishes excellent butter. This vegetable butter keeps in perfect con dition all the year round in spite of the heat. DrinkitiK Through tlie XontrilM. The Indian sages do not practice their breathing exercises simply for the sake of repose and sleep. During the inbreathing energy is increased. These Indians are not the only people who believe that with the inbreathing of pure air there comes something still more vital than oxygen. Hut the Indi ans have developed the art of breath ing more than any other people. One of their favorite exercises is to inhale through the left nostril, to hold the breath for a time and then exhale through tlie right nostril. Another of their exercises is to drink water through the nostrils, and after it lias been retained for a short time it is expelled through the nostrils and the mouth. This is said to cool the head.— Chambers' Journal. Growing Ilniianna. Bananas are as a rule planted out systematically in rows, tlie "suckers" being placed at an average of ten feet apart. The banana plant bears only one bunch at a time, but it is a quick grower, yielding its fruit in twelve to fourteen months. When the plant is about six months old, a second "suck er" or shoot is allowed to spring from the root, a third after the ninth month, and so on, so that after the first year there is a continuous crop being reaped. Fann In ShiikPMpenrc'n Time. Fans in Shakespeare's time seem to have been composed of ostrich and oth er feathers fastened to handles. Gen tlemen carried fans in those days, and in one of the later figures of the ger man they now carry fans. According to an old manuscript in the Ashmolean museum. Sir Edward Cole rode the cir cuit with a prodigous fan, which had a long stick, with which he corrected his daughters. Of More Importance. "Get my name right," said the proud owner of the 1,175 pound hog. "It's Judson K. Bimm. My father was Colo nel Iliram Ilotchkiss Bimm of Lexing ton, Ivy. lie came to Illinois in the year"— "Never mind that," interrupted the secretary of the fat stock show. "Give us the pedigree of the hog."—Chicago Tribune. Oconnlonnl Relief. Visitor to the Prison—l suppose this life of yours in here is a continual torture. Convict—Oh. no! Not so bad as that. We don't have visitors every day, you know.— Boston Transcript. WASHINGTON LETTER [Special Correspondence.] Secretary of the Treasury Shaw is suspected of writing spring poetry. At least he recited a stanza the other day which can't be found in any book of quotations in the Congressional library, and he uttered the lines in away be coming a proud young rhymester who likes to dwell on his poetical fancies. It was at the White House, and Sec retary Shaw, as usual, was the first of the cabinet to arrive for the semiweek ly council. Coming through the White House grounds, he stopped to examine the buds on the linden trees and to en joy the springlike air. When the sec retary reached the top of the stairs leading to the executive office, he branched off and approached a group of newspaper men who wore discussing the recent order that cabinet officers are not to divulge state affairs to the press. "Well, Mr. Secretary, what's new to day?" exclaimed one of the reporters from force of habit forgetting the injunction. Secretary Shaw paused a moment and delivered himself as follows: I heard the woodpecker peck, I heard the sapsucker sing, 1 turned to my window, and, lo and behold, it was spring. Then he disappeared in the cabinet room, but not before acknowledging the applause which greeted his effort. Electric Hutli* For CoiiffrcMamen. To be literally sprayed with electric ity from head to foot, rolled with an electric roller, the wrinkles ironed out of face and brow with an electric glass bulb as a llatiron and to have the spark of life imparted to any particular section of the anatomy through a wooden ball are some of the luxuries which a senator or representative in •congress can enjoy by simply descend ing in the elevator to the magnificent marble bathrooms at either end of the capitol, stepping on to a zinc plate and ordering Chief Electrical Engineer Gliem to "turn on his lightning." The electrical adjunct to the legisla tive baths is a comparatively recent addition, and as yet seemingly few members have learned of Its wonder fully invigorating effect on a tired leg islator. Those who have, however, are constant patrons, and the static ma chine is creating for itself an enviable reputation as a "next morning" anti dote. And for putting a member into condition for a speech in the senate or house it has no equal. Candler. Poet and IInmorlt. Poet and humorist combined is Itrp resentative Candler of Mississippi. The burden of his song is the Tombigbee river, not a poetical name, but invested by Candler with all the attributes of sweetness and light. Mr. Candler besought the house to spend a few dollars improving the Tombigbee river. Not only is it one of the oldest rivers in the country, accord ing to Candler, but it has been travel lug the even tenor of its way evei since it was discovered. If it can only be opened to commerce, there will be no trouble to navigate It. "for." accord ing to Candler, "there will be no storms to disturb, no ice to block, and the sil very moon will light up the crystal waves by night, and the dazzling sun will lend its transcendent rays by day." Mr. Camller told tin* house that "tho rivet* moves as when the red man trod its banks nnd lies like the sleeping beauty of old awaiting tho magic touch of improvement and progress to awak en it lo new life." Mr. Candler appeal ed for the magic touch, but the bouse voted against him. and the crystal waves of the Tombigbee will not dash against the prows of commerce. Powers' Maiden Speech. Sam Powers of Massachusetts, the wit of the new Republican contingent and the president of the Tantalus club, has set the fashion for maiden speech es. It is a short, crisp utterance, where in you drive the point home with logic nnd vivid work and then sit down. Prolixity is tabooed. Although lie has shone at public gatherings outside the house. Mr. Pow ers did not essay the role of an orator till very recently, and then he chose as his theme the rather exceptional topic for an eastern Yankee of irrigation. He compressed his ideas into nine tart paragraphs, each one of which was an interesting argument carrying some in formation. and resumed Ids seat. That is the style of speaking by which Mr. Powers captivates. It lias made him much in demand for banquets and oth er political gatherings., Not tp la Hoiiiidarlea. George Gilliland and George Rouzer are the secretaries respectively of Sen ators Clark of Montana and Dryden of New Jersey. Gilliland is from Ohio, and Rouzer is a resident of the District. "Gil," said Rouzer recently. "I will pay for your lunch if you will bound the state of Montana." "All right," said Gilliland. "On the north by Canada, on tlie west by Idaho, on the souih by Wyoming nnd on the east by— bj*—l think It Is either Minne sota or one of the Dakotns. I'll pay for the lunch." A few minutes later Gilliland had an inspiration. "George," he said, "let's see if you can hound New Jersey." "Gil," said Itouzer, "I won't even try. 'You can lunch with me tomorrow." I'rcMfdent'M Salts For *l4.l>l>. President Roosevelt's wearing ap parel has caused the social lights of Washington many heartburns. They object to his short coat and slouch lint and to his habit of wearing bis riding clothes when he is not on horseback. A local firm of tailors has driven these critics of the presideut into the very depths of humiliation by advertising on all the billboards of Washington "suits just like President Roosevelt Wears for $14.99." CARL SCUOFIELD. The Kind You Have Always Bong-lit, and which lias been in use for over 30 years, lias borne the signature of and has been made under his per i , sonal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good" are hut Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTOR IA Castorla is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops ami Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms anil allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Dowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend.. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. From InfanpyToAge Ijnzakola for Babie*. —Tt is the best and most effective laxative for children. BEST because It is safe and made entirely of harmless ingredients. BEST because / it is non-irritating nnd never gripes or causes pain or | f irritation. BEST because It is suro and never falls. BEST f % £ because " Children like it and ask for it." BEST because 1 1 01 ** 1 ' properties aro so good and so strengthening that Yit keeps the little ones in tine, hearty condition. //flf a dangerous thing to give llttlo babies violent ay/cathartics that rack and rend their littlo bodies. DON'T /J ffeKZjj/ RO IT—give them Laxakola. For constipation, coated tongue, simple colds and fevers it is invaluable. Ijßxnkols for Young Girls on tho threshold of womanhood, has boon found invaluable. When they bo come pale and languid, the eyes dull, aching head, feet K ant * l"inds c °ld appetite pone or abnormal, and their sys terns generally run down, they need building up, and their IfjftiffijvM blood needs cleansing. Give them Laxakola, its gentle fj- llWlwy Pay bowel action to cleanse and its tonic properties to build up tin.- system, will show immediate and most beneficial results. K ljaxnkola for I?loth*r.—lt Is particularly valuable and useful to women, especially mothers, as It is a gentle and safe remedy to use during all conditions of health whenever their peculiar and delicate constitutions require BL a aiild and efliricnt laxative and tonic, while to nursing mothers, worn out with the care of infants and whose ays ' teius therefore are particularly susceptible to disease ■E - It clears the complexion, brightens the eye, sharpens the appetite, removes muddy and blotched condition of tlioskin \S 1 a,,(l cures sick headache to a certainty by removing thecause. X/ JINsYV' To women suffering from chronic constipation, head va aches, biliousness, dizziness, sallowncss of the skin and dyspepsia, Laxakola will lnvnriably bring relief. V.axaltcla for Old Folks. —ln the Autumn and r Winter of Life, when tho various organs through long years of action liavo become more or less sluggish, it le- IftfiwfWra comes necessary to stimulato them by some remedy best adapted to that purpose. That Laxakola is such, lias been proved beyond a'.l question. Its gentle warming, soothing action on the bowels, liver and kidneys, stimulates them to y increased activity, cleanses tho blood, quickens the circu xiv Iby lation, and puts tho whole system in a condition of health and enables it to ward off disease, while its tonic properties t° no u l tho system and keep it healthy. Laxakola Does It. Laxakola is not only the most efficient of family remedies, but tho most economical because it com. bin-s two medicines for one price, tonic nnd laxative. No other remedy gives so much for the money. All druggists, 25c. an J 50c , or free sample of The LAXAKOLA CO., 132 Nassau St., N. Y., or 356 Dearborn St . Chicago. THE HORSES. Klntnwnli, 2:0.">14, will probably race this year. Council Chimes. 2:0714, is well liked by good judges for the 2:08 class, pac ing. C. E. Hasey has made arrangements to have Knap McQnrty campaign the trotter John Audubon this season. Barney 11. Demnrest of Goshen, N. Y., thinks highly of his stallion Worth ler. by Advertiser, out of the dam of the great Sunol. Mr. A. .1. Welch advises us that he will give a big summer meeting at Oakley park. Cincinnati. July 1-4. Not less than .$22,000 in purses will be dis tributed among winners. Six of the members of the Maryland circuit have agreed upon Ave one thou sand dollar stakes to form a portion of their fall programmes. Tills Is n de cided increase over their offerings of 1901. Charley Doble, one of the younger brothers of Budd Doble and the man who successfully campaigned Lord Vincent. 2:0814, a few years ago. will give a race meeting on the Elmira (N. Y.) track. Announcement has been made that the trotting match between Thomas W. Lnwson's Boralma, 2:07, and E. E. Smother's Lord Derby, 2:00%. for $20,- 000 a side will lie decided at Charter Oak park, Hartford. Conn. A Financial Pnrslc. Here is a problem in finance which we submit to those of our renders who are always inclined for an argument on the money question: A banker sauntering home saw a Ave pound note lying on the curbstone. Oi' course lie picked it up and took the number in 'order to find the owner. While at home his wife remarked that the butcher had sent in a bill for meat amounting to £5. The onlv mnnn lu. ' liud with him wns the money ho lind found, which he gave her, and she paid the butcher. The butcher paid it to a farmer for a caif, and ttie farmer paid it to the merchant, who in turn paid it to the washerwoman, and she, owing the hanker a note of £5, went to l lie banker and paid her note. The banker recognized the note as the one ho had found and which up to that time had settled £23 of debt. On n more careful consideration he found the note counterfeit. Now, will some of our financial friends tell us what has been lost, in this transaction and by wliom, if any body?— London Telegraph. Two flronkn. "You needn't hide tlint letter you're writing. That's impolite. I wasn't looking at it." "You shouldn't have noticed that I was trying to hide it. That wasn't po lite either."—Chicago Tribune. ftj harness treated Bg /§% §* Af nL. jfl I with Eureka Har-p yHIrfH/T ■ • S sists the damp, WW \ \ ES I U andcut. The f. V*V MMmf \\ s ■ j j harness not V\ \ j Standard Company J.r fj
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