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LA DOR WORLD. Engineers and firemen on the Illinois Central demand an increase in wages. The Delaware and Lackawanna Rail road will inaugurate a pension sys tem. Georgia mill owners say they will fight any hill introduced in the State Legislature seeking to prohibit child labor. Union labor cards held by the retail stores of Nashville, Tenn., have been taken up because of the employment of non-union clerks. The Prussian Minister of Fublic Works has forbidden collections among employes for purchasing presents for their superior officers. Over 7000 bartenders in Massachu setts, Rhode Islaud and Connecticut have organized under tlie banner of the Federation of Labor. Troy lias twenty-seven factories where collars, cuffs and shirts are made. They employ 15,000 persons, four-fifths being women. Out of tlie 41GG employes in the trans portation aud telegraph service of tlie Austrian State railroads, only 102 have been trained in technical schools. The subordinate locals of tlie Iron Moulders' Union of North America have voted down a proposition to in crease the number of apprentices. Organized workingmeuof Grand Rap ids, Mich., are planning the erection of a trade and labor temple modeled 011 the lines followed by the Y. M. G. A. New York lias 18S1 labor organiza tions, with a total membership of 201,- 523 men and 14,018 women. Of this total of 270,141 trades unionists 174,- 022 arc in the city of New York. In spite of the offer of $54 a month, with rations, quarters and medical at tendance, l'cw electricians arc enlist ing in the United States Army for Phil ippine service, according to recruiting officers. SPORTING BREVITIES. Jockey Dale lias been suspended in definitely at New Orleans. The Eastern Baseball League lias lost forty-one players since last fall. New competition rules have been en acted by the Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Senator Slater's bill to prohibit the use of live birds as targets passed the New York Senate. Yale lias beaten Harvard in an in tercollegiate championship basketball game by a score of 31 to 21. Western golfers are strongly opposed in an effort to have the amateur golf championship lield in their district. Nnsli Turner will ride for W. C. Whitney in England, and will prob ably have the mount of Nasturtium in the Derby. Manager Donovan, of St. Louis, is willing to take a chance with Third Baseman Buelow, who had "dicky legs" last season. L. A. Goodwin, L. do B. Handley and "Don" Boeder, amateur swimmers, have been disqualified by tlie Atlantic Association of the A. A. U. Comiskey's now bleachers at Chicago will have a seating capacity of 18,000 people when completed. The stands will completely encircle the lield. With each succeeding season the young people of the United States are showing a decided inclination to in dnlge more generally in the healthful exercise of swimming. Both Arthur Gardiner and Eddie C. Bald have determined to return to cycle racing. Bald is shaping up at I-lot Springs, Ark., and Gardiner is re covering from a spell of illness. English "gentlemen riders" must se cure an annual license from the stew ards of the Jockey Club and pay a yearly subscription of $25 to the Ben tinck Benevolent Fund before they are permitted to ride in races against pro fessional jockeys, Witittled His I.ejj. Cat Barnes, living seven miles east of Areola, 111., wears an artificial leg and foot which he whittled out of wood with his pocket knife, using no other tool in its manufacture. The limb is a model of neatness and fits so nicely that few who do not know him well would suspect that he was not walking on his natural legs, so easily does lie move about. Barnes lost his foot while in tlie Klondike gold fields two years ago. He and his brother, Dr. Oiner Barne3 of Areola, were far out from their camp when Cal met with an accident which mashed his right foot so badly that his brother decided it should be am putated at once. Being miles away from camp and friends they amputated the foot without even administering an opiatfi JAMIE HAS TOLD ME HE LOVES ME BY CHARLES M'LLVAINE. Whirr, whirr, spindle an' wheel, Naebody knows the rustlin' I feel Stirrin' an' whirrin' me down to the heel; For Jamie has told me he loves me. Flax, thread, treadle an' a', Rinnin' an' bouucin' an' tearin' awn, Is naethin' to what's in my noddle at a' For Jamie has told me he loves me. Snap, break, a' things in a mix, Tangle an' knots in a deil o' a fix- Like to my heart wi' its bletherin' tricks— Since Jamie has told me he loves me. Whirr, whirr, spindle and wheel, A' is now rinnin' us smooth as an eel, For I know I love Jamie clear down to my heel, An' Jamie has told me he loves me. —The Delineator. iPlißUlif MRS. IIUGGINS had a few reasons for keeping Tommy at school. In the first place, r, he was too young to go to work, she wanted to keep him off the streets and, incidentally, she wanted him to learn something. Tommy's teacher had many reasons for wishing Mrs. Muggins would keep him at home. From the pedagogical point of view. Tommy was a scourge. Then he didn't learn anything, or, if he did, he con trived to keep the fact religiously con cealed, from those concerned. The only time he ever showed any serious interest In the school exercises was when the lire drill was introduced, and when he found that the children were to march out of the building to the beat of a drum lie sneaked shame facedly up to the principal and, hold ing his tattered cap in his dirty hands behind him, said: "Mister Morgan, sir, kin I please beat tlie drum?" The astonished principal fairly glow ered at Tommy's audacity. "What!" he snapped, "you beat the druip? Why, sir, you've been on the truant list four times this month. No. indeed, you'll have to improve your j conduct very much before you can I if-,-' '? . r^- rOUNO nrGGIN-S KEPT HIS WOffl) TOO. have a chance at that drum. That's to he a reward or merit m the school. The best boy in each room will be the drummer." Tommy slunk away, an object oft renewed curiosity to bait a dozen of his watching comrades. "What'r yeou rubberin' at?" ho growled at Clarence, the model pupil. "I'm goiu' t'liek you th' first time yeou beat the drum." The next day the fire drill became part of the regular exercises. The best boy In each room was Intrusted with a new drum and a pair of sticks. The principal took them all In the basement and gave them a lesson in beating a march-time and a quick step. Tommy saw with suppressed wrath that Clarence was the chosen one, and as the good boy went past bis desk to accept the proud appoint ment he saw a dirty list with a pro truding knuckle shaken threateningly at liim. "I'm goin' t'liek yeou after school," murmured Tommy. The fire drill proved a great delight to everybody except Tommy and Clar ence. The former was devoured with a consuming desire (o wallop the drum mer, and tile latter was hardly able to keep time, so great was bis dread of the puissant Tommy aud the promised "liekln'." \oung Iluggins kept bis word, too. He whipped Clarence that evening until the good boy agreed to give up his job as drummer. When Charlie Jones, tile second-best boy, took the drum, Tommy issued another ultima tum, with tlie result mat Charlie tear fully yielded the honor, after first sus taining a somewhat vigorous pummel- Ing. -\'o doubt Tommy would have continued this line'of action until the drum bad descended by inevitable gradations to himself, but liis teacher found out all about it aud Mrs Hw glns was duly notified that if her sou persisted in bis muscular pursuit of class honors he would he expelled now if Tommy had any good quality, which is more or less doubtful, it was a loudness for the poor old widow who called him "her baby," so he promptly promised to quit "liekin'" his classmates, and siie rewarded his penitence with the girt of a new drum This appropriate gift somewhat pla cated Tommy's disappointed venom, but it proved a new source of annoy ance at school. The boy insisted on carrying it thither every morning for the purpose, as ho said, "Of sliowin' dem kids how t' beat a drum fur true." Ho would come to the school half an hour too early aud march around tlie building, beating all kinds of weird and stirring music from ids drum. When the school-bell rang, he'd leave the instrument with the fat old woman who kept the grocery next door, but at recess, at noon, and in tlie evening lie would reappear ready to challenge everybody to a drum-beating contest. As bis skill waxed greater his rivals fell away and in due lime Tommy came to be recognized as "th' chain pecn." Meanwhile the fire drills became less frequent as the children became quick and proficient ill the maneuvers calcu lated to maintain order and safety In case of a fire. For a while weekly drills became the rule, then fortnightly, then monthly, until, as the warm days came on and the fires in the furnace were allowed to go out, the fire drills were forgotten and dust began to ac cumulate on the class drums. One warm May day a sudden puff of hot smoke swept in through the north windows of the building and threw the school into sudden panic. A rush of crackling flames, the shouts of people in the street, an explosion and the stifling smell of gasoline completed the disorder. The forgotten school fire bell did not ring, the teachers shrieked, the children began to cry and rush for the doors. Tommy's room was on the top floor. Ills teacher, with forty scared young sters pellmell at her heels, was rush ing down the steps when she and they heard the first tap of a drum. In the whole building it was the only one that sounded. "Kap Tap Kap-tapa-tnp." Slowly at first, but with increasing speed, loud, precise and vigorous until every frightened child in the swarm ing liallwuys heard It and instinctively fell into the marching order of the al most forgotten fire drill. It recalled the scattered senses of the teachers, and its gay tattoo of rollicking strokes seemed to mock at the tire, which was now roaring into the north windows und filling the halls with smoke. The principal and teachers and the awe-stricken children who first gained the street and saw the fire department attack the burning grocery store could hear the wonderful volleys for minutes after they were safe. The drummer seemed in haste to escape, and the ex posed wing of the schoolhouse was all ablaze when he, the last of all, marched out to the music of his own making. It was Tommy. They all cheered him as ha arrived on the sidewalk, and the women were for kissing him, but he seemed in no mood to quit drumming. On the contrary, his stub born, but ambitious miud seemed bent on a further display of his ability in this line. lie acted as though It was his last chance to appear to advan tage, and he was "rubbing it in" on the whole gallery of his rivals, his teachers and the principal. So he struck a few fancy measures, and, perhaps with a furtive anticipation of an enforced vacation, made them as merry as a drum can yield. Nobody ever could convince Tommy that ho was a hero. But when school reopened he was permanently "class drummer," and nowadays even the stern principal is lenient with the law less boy.—John 11. Uaftery, in the Chicago Itecord-llerald. Wanted Ilid .Share, "The Treasury Department runs across many l'unny things in the course of a day's business," suid an official of that department. "The mails are full of curious epistles, but as a rule most of them receive polite attention, and answers are returned. Just before the close of the year that ended with December 31 Secretary Gage gave an interview showing the splendid condi tion of the country in a fluuueial way, and the full purse of Uncle Sain. In his statement he showed that four years ago or a little more the per capita of circulation throughout the country was only $23.1-1, but that although the population had increased the volume of money has more than kept pace, so that the per capita at the first of the year was $28.73. A man named Schmidt, in New York, saw the state ment, and the day after New Y'ear's wrote a letter to the Treasurer, saying that if the per capita was so much, he certainly did not have his portion of it. He enclosed a draft on the Treas urer for the amount that he considered lie was entitled to. The draft was pre sented to Treasurer Itoberts, with great solemnity, but he declined to honor it, and directed that no answer be sent to Mr. Schmidt, whose letter was well written and the handwriting good."—Washington Star. Soldiei's' Homes. Tho National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Washington, has branches at Dayton, Ohio; Milwaukee, Wis.; Togtts, Me.; Hampton, Va.; Leav enworth, Kail.; Santa Monica, Cal.; Marion, lud„ and Danville, 111. Then there are State homes in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Ilhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Disability that prevents the applicant from earn ing his living is a common requirement for, admission. A veteran receiving a greater pension that $lO a month is in eligible, under ordinary conditions, for the National Home; elsewhere tho practice varies. Lust of "Jack tile Ripper.** A Bolton correspondent telegraphs: James Billington, the hangman, whose death took place a few days ago, de clared that he never hanged anybody with greater satisfaction than he did Dr. Neiil Cream, whom he believed to his dying day to have been "Jack the llipper." Dr. Cream did all he could to delay the execution, and Billington, becoming impatient, suddenly pulled tho fatal bolt. As he did so ha dis tinctly heard Cream say, "I am Jack " and believed in another sec ond lie would have confessed he was "Jack Hie Ripper." Certainly, as Bil lington put it. wo never heard of the "Hipper" afterward.-London Chron icle. DUNG VISION AND CRY TALES OF TELEPATHY FROM A CANADIAN LUMBER CAMP. In the One Joseph Gingras Is Said to Have lleheld Ills Father's Death—The Other Is Said to Have ttcen Heard by His Sweetheart, 300 Miles Away. Believers in what is occult or the telepathic will perhaps find no diffi culty in accounting for the following occurrences in a Gatlneuu (Canada) lumbering shanty. Ordinary mortals of conservative ideas find it not easy to explain them. The facts are vouched for by a clergyman. A party of lumbermen were engaged In piling logs on Christmas Eve. They made the piles unusually high. The teamsters expostulated with the log rollers for doing so because of the danger to the lumbermen, If their cant liooks should slip while they were roll ing the heavy logs to such an elevation. Joseph Gingras, a young French- Canadian, had just made some jesting reply when his foot slipped, and the forty-inch thirteen-foot log slid down upon his shoulders and rolled over him to the ground. Els companions carried him to the shanty where he was immediately put to bed. und made as comfortable as possible. As night came on he fell into a kind of stupor. From this he awekened in a high fever, talking about his father. "I knew you would come, I was sure of It, father mine. You had better hurry, step nlong, come quick, my father," he kept calling. After a time he went on "Keep away from that railway, don't rest there, get away .from the logs." And then in greatest excitement, "There! just what I told you! Oh, he's killed, he's killedl I know it Hon Dieu, 11 est inort!" With that a quantity of blood gushed from his mouth and he fell back in the rigor of fast approaching death. There was just one last sobbing cry, heard above the litany of his comrades as they knelt around him in the old habitant fashion, "Marie, oh Marie!" and he had gone. Perhaps it was natural on Christmas Day that some of the men should make their way to the pile of logs, the scene of the accident of the preceding day. But they were quite unprepared for what they found there. During the night several of the logs had bulged out of their places In the heap and rolled down to the roadway. And underneath them, crushed Into the snow and of course stone dead, was an elderly man and nearby a little valiso he had apparently set down while resting on the pile. Tho body was carried to tbe shanty and laid In the next bunk to that occu pied by Joseph Gingras's body. Iu trying to learn the man's Identity the lumbermen discovered In one of his pockets tlilß lottcr written by Joseph Glugrus; "My Dear Papa:—All goes well so far and we ore now settled for the winter near Catfish Lake. You must know the place, just near tko Tonias slne portage road, three or four miles north of tho lake. But yet I do not know why I stay unless It be to forgot all about Marie and her deviltries. For the work I like not, and Israel Is not here after all. No matter; the good God will not let him escape for what he has done to mo with his lying tongue. "And me? My father, you must do Just this cue thing for me. Coino to me here. Come for the Noel sure. Maybe you will see me never more If you come not now. I did wrong to leave you, to persuade you not to come with mo as before. Sure, sure, come for the Noel. Your affectionate one, "JOSEPH." So It was father and son, killed with in a few hours of each other, at the same spot, who were lylug In neighbor ing berths in the same shanty iu tho stillness of death at the Noel or Christ mastlde. Just two days later the clerk of tho shanty and one of the teamsters were iu the office awaiting their turn to re port to the local manager or their em ployers' firm at River Desert, when they heard a voluble showily clothed woman asking for the address to the shanty where Joseph Gingras was em ployed. Her sleigh was outside and she was distracted uutil she could reach that place. Monsieur would believe her, for truly, yes, truly, she had been told iu a vision of the night and in her own soul she felt that she was wanted. Two days before had she heard her Joseph call to her and go to him she would, to leave him never mora, no matter what people said anymore. And the old man Gingras ho had him self sent a boy to her house ou Christmas Day to tell her to make haste and go to River Desert, if she Wished to meet Joseph once more. And the lumbermen were compelled to tell her that the bodies of father and son were even then ou the sled at the door. It was 11 o'clock on Christmas Eve. when Marie was putting on her wraps in the hallway of her home to go to midnight mass that she distinctly heard her lover call her name iu ugo nized tunes, she fancied from the head of the stalls. At which hour tho man slio had parted from In auger because of evil reports of bis sayings respect ing ber, was dying 300 miles away with her name upon his lips.—New York Sun. Cooking by Natural Heat. Tho Maoris of Now Zealand cook their potatoes and other vegetables In volcanic heat. There are a few vol canoes in New Zealand, and some of tho Maoris live up in the mountains near them. They make the volcanoes do several useful things for them, but the queerest U the cooklug. LIVING TORPEDO BOATS. Strange Fish Charged With Electricity In Cuban Waters. Nature find artifice approach each other. In fact, Invention Is the chief means of their mutual approach, Inas much as Invention Is merely the prac tical application of nature's laws. At the same time it seems surprising to find that nature has devised a submar ine torpedo boat ages before man ever thought of building such a contrivance. Cuban waters swarm with these sub marine terrors of nature's manufacture. Torpedo rays they are called. They constitute one of the puzzles of science. Ages before Benjamin Franklin first drew sparks from the clouds they had solved the principle of electrical stor age. In fact, they are living storage batteries. They are an ancient type of fishes, contemporary with the sharks. The torpedo ray is the first cousin to the common skate, which it greatly resembles, though much larger. Each of its big fleshy wings contains an electric battery, which is as truly such as any arrangement of Leyden jars In n scientific laboratory. The batteries consist of a large number of hexagonal cells, each of which is ca pable of storing a certain amount of electrical energy. Scientists have given a great deal of study to this extraordinary animal, and they assert that its batteries are nothing more or less than modified muscles. The back of each electric organ Is positive, while the ventral part—that Is, the side toward the belly of the fish—is negative. It has been ascertained thnt a current can be con veyed through water for a considera ble distance. It exorcises all the known powers of electricity, rendering needles magnetic, decomposing chemical com pounds and emitting sparks. It Is not known just how much elec tricity Is stored by a full-sized torpedo ray, but tlio amount must be consider able, judging from Its effects on hu man beings who have been struck. Natives In Central America are said to make a practice of driving wild horses into water where fishes of this .kind are, In order thnt the latter may stun the frightened quadrupeds and make them easy to capture. Only two other kinds of animal possess electric organs—a species of catfish and the well-known "electric eel." Both eel and catfish have their storage batteries located in their tails. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. WISE WORDS. Results are tne best rewards. The easy path leads nowhere. Education is greater than instruc tion. Calmness is the mark of true cour age. Truth Is not made false because wo doubt her. A conspiracy of silence Is usually one of slu. Daily drudgery may be the door to divine delights. Dark days make a good background for bright lives. Only those whom the cap fits will criticise its cut. Vice Is never so vicious as when ar rayed as virtue. Sorrow is the silken cord that makes the circuit of sympathy. Some people miss to-day's manna in looking for to-morrow's. It is not our burdens but our sore backs that muke life hard. Bigotry kills truth and seeks to frighten folk with her elligy. The old man may have a greater future before him than the youth. When the heart Is full of faith the hands will be filled with good works. Some people forgive by forgetting, but the true way is to forget by for giving.—Ham's Horn. Letter Writing Ceasing. The autograph letter is rapidly be coming a thing of the past. Shorthand and the typewriter have killed it. No business man nowadays writes a let ter with his own hand; he supplies the matter aud his signature, aud his typist does the rest. It is an ago of short cuts, aud cveh literary men find it more profitable to dictate than to write their copy. One of the most suc cessful of modern newspaper proprie tors confessed the other day that ho had not written a letter for seven years, although his private correspond once amounted to more than fifty let ters daily. Cabinet ministers alone seem to cling to the old tradition. Lord Salisbury abhors a typewritten letter, and Mr. Arthur Balfour writes a large part of his correspoudeuce himself. Even Mr. Chamberlain, who is essentially up to date, seems to regard the typewriter as altogether inferior to the telegraph as a vehicle for conveying his opin ions.—Loudon Tatler. It urn nn Hones and Muiunn Character. A well known scientist asserts that the bony structure of man gives firm ness of character. The great causes in developing large bones are the pro portion ol' lime in food and water. Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee, fn inous for tall men and line horses, are underlaid with lime rock, and the water supply Is largely impregnated with lime. So the grains grown in these States contain large proportions of lime, the food of the bones. Strength of bone structure is said to be allied to honesty and reliability of mind. The prominent bones in Lin coln's face and body are cited to prove the bone-honesty theory. The physi ognomists say that large men, whose bones bear a full proportion to the other parts of their bodies, will be found to be decided, firm, honest and endurlngi ' P^Q^tTFTC'^I I la the manufacture of oilcloth uo means has yet boon devised for utiliz ing the waste trimmings. Since tho ! printing machine for the oilcloth must be absolutely to gauge, at least one and a half inches are lost on each side of the materia!. These trim mings are particularly valuable bc j cause they contain a considerable I amount of linseed oil, and a method reasonably cheap and economical is wanted to extract this oil from the trimmings. The properties of the metal are many and various. It gives hard ness and toughness to steel and a line lustre to silver, while, added to car bon used for arc lamps, it increases , the brilliancy of the light. Titanium v is ulso added to the fertilizers used on tobacco plantations, and it is said to | improve the flavor of the leaf. The oxide increases the brilliancy of in candescent gas mantles; its strong af finity for nitrogen promises a cheap means of preparing ammonia direct from the atmosphere, while with car bon it yields a product hard enough to scratch diamonds. According to the report of the Cape of Good Hope Department of Agri culture, arrangements are being made to grow large quantities of sugar beets in South Africa. Tho report says: "As to South Africa, there are im mense tracts of land in this colony suitable for the cultivation of sugar beets, and we do not hesitate to as sure those who go the right way übout It that there is success before them and a good market for all the sugar they can produce." Another matter i that is booming agricultural conditions in South Africa is the growing aud producing of prunes, apricots and paper-shell almonds. Formerly all these commodities were imported, but they are now beiug grown at home. Large jam factories and fruit-drylag establishments are springing up. One of the most unique quarries in. the world exists near the town of Keinmerer, Wyo., at an elevation of 8-C.) feet above sea level. This quarry is worked by hand, no blasting being permitted owing to the fragile nature of its output. The latter consists solely of fossils, mostly those of a few varieties of fish. In operation the shale is split into slabs, broken with sledge hammers and thrown over the bank by hand. When the slabs con taining the specimens are cut and taken out they are very moist and have to be dried out to about cue third of their origiuai weight. After the drying lias proceeded far enough L to permit of the easy manipulation * of the material, the fossils are care fully cleaned by means of special tools devised for the purpose. Many of these fish fossils are exceedingly beautiful, every bone being plainly shown In the outline. They rank as the finest specimens of fossil fishes yet discovered. A prominent gem expert thus sums op the progress that has been made In the precious stoue industries of tho United States, particularly as It re fers to the development of native de posits. Greatest prominence is given to the continued mining of fine blue sapphires in Montana and the de velopment of deposits of fancy colored sapphires and beryl at dilfereut lo calities in the same State. The in creased output of turquoise from the uiiues of New Mexico and particularly of turquoise in its natural rock, known in the trade as "turquoise ma- > trix," are other prominent features of > the local industry. Some emeralds In the gangues are mined in Western North Carolina and sold under the name of "emerald matrix." Purple pink garnets are mined' in North Caro lina, and new deposits of colored tour maline have been located iu Califor nia. Queensland and New South Wales still furnish the supply of rough opals and South Africa the supply of uucut diamonds. Hunting; With Trained Wolves. Bert Decker, a youug sportsman of Tuscola, Hi., bus succeeded in taming two wolves, aud they are very valua ble as hunters. Ho captured them when young, raised as "kittens," and now, though as large as shepherd dogs, they are quite tame and playful. Decker says the wolves cau outruiiMV. dogs on the hunt, and are very winded. Their favorite way ol' catch- lug a rabbit Is to run alongside of him, T put their uose uuderneatli Mr. Cotton tall and throw him ten or twelve feet in the air, catching him in their mouths as he falls. The wolves always return to their master when called. Decker's success has caused other sportsmen to undertake the training of wolves to supplant dogs in hunting, aud It is probable that wolves will find a place in future kennels.—Ciuciuuati En quirer. Ends' Propliery I!oln B Fulfilled. It io related of James B. Ends, the engineer of the St. Louis bridge and other great works, that some years ago he made this prediction concern ing the city of St. Louis: "One of these days this will bo the passing point of two enormous channels of trade. The one will he an iron way over the great West, the other a water way down the Mississippi, across the Isthmus and up the Entitle. The oils will represent speed, the other econ- 4 omy, and the conflict between the two will have nil the bitterness of a fra tricidal war."—Springfield llepubllcaa.^
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