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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-10
WEBSTER'S
UNABRIDGED
ANCIENT EDITION.

A 50, called Webster's Unabridged
dictionary" is being offered to the public
AT a very low price. The body Of the book,
from A to z, Is a cheap reprint, page for
Daue, Of the edition Of 1847, which was in
It's day, a valuable book, but in the pro-
Qress Of language for over FORTY YEARS,
has been completely superseded. II is
now reproduced, broken type, errors and
all, by to-lithograph process, is printed
on cheap paper and flimsily bound. A
brief comparison, page by page, between
tho reprint and the latest and enlarged
edition, will show the great superiority
Of the latter. These reprints are as out
Of date as a last years almanac. No hon
orable dealer will allow the buyer Of such
10 suppose that no is getting the Webster
which to-day is accepted as the Standard
and THE BEST, every copy OF which
hears our imprint as given below.
RST If persons who have been induced to
purchase the "Ancient Edition" by any
misrepresentations will advise US Of the
facts, we will undertake to see that ths
seller is punished as he deserves.
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SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
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4 Dog with a Keen Scent.

PARTY were
seated in the Of
flee of a hotel in
IAN Illinois town
one evening not
long ago, Will
ing away the
time with genial
chat, when a big
Newfoun dl a n d
dog belonging to
the night clerk
woke I'M from
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AMBITIONS END.
BY ABBIE C. M'KEEyER.

HE EGG-Here am
II so white and pref
'ty; l wouldn't be a
rough ear of corn for
anything.
Ear of Corn-
Wouldn't you? Dear
me! Wait until your
mistress comes and
takes you into the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-10

COL J. A. Wood, the travelling man of the
Concord On. H.) Monitor, has been made con-
sui ut Sher brooke, Ont.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-10

james Gordon BENEFITS hair has turned
white since he was last in America.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-10

If afflicted with sore eyes use DIR. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell 25c
per bottle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-10

The oldest editor in Ohio is Oran Follett
Of Sandusky. He is nearly 95 years Of age.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-10

Fifteen contestants clad for the fray,
Armed with good steel and in battle array,
Striving for lucre, as brave Knights of old
Strove for their honors and medals of gold,
Driving each shining pen over the paper,
Seeking to sound, as the most proper caper
The praises Of remedies known the world
over
From Paris to Calais, from Calais to Dover:
But each Knight vainly strives-language fails
in description
OF the manifold virtues of "Favorte Prescrip-
tion."
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down" feeling, consequent upon weakness, SUI
fertng from headache, weak or lame back and
the many ills common to the weaker SEX take
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TO give satisfaction or price sd returned. See
printed guarantee on bottle-wrapper.
IN, Pierce's Pellets-gently laxative or ac-
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-10

Charles Lamb remarked of one of his
critics: 'The more think of him, the less
think of him" us
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-10

HE Whitechapel
Club, of Chicago,
was organized by
&C e + t a n young
newspaper m g N
whose sense of hu-
NOR, sense of the
horrible, of good
fellowship, of the
grotesq,le and the
arabesque, and of
O variety of other
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-10

Entire freedom from injurious drugs makes
"Tansilrs Punch" Sc. cigars most popular.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-10
Your Blood

At the coming of spring the blood should be purl-
fed, as impurities which have been accumulating
for months or even years. are liable to manifest
themselves and seriously AFFECT the health. Hoods
sarsaparila is undoubtedly the best blood purifier
1t expcls every taint of impurity drives out scrof
lous humors and germs of disease and gives to the
blood the quality and tone essential to good HEALTH
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-10

Str Noucls Free, sent by Cragln & Co., Phila.
Pa, to any one in y. s. or Canada, post paid
wrappers. See list of novels on circulars around
each bar. This soap for sale by all grocers.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-10

GOETHE once said: "My works can
lever be popular. He who thinks and
strives to make them SO is in error"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-10

The ex-Empress Eugene has taken to
writing poetry said to be of excellent quality
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-10

Eugene Field writes letter daily by mail
to the Chicago News from London.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-10

Drp Pierces Pellets-gently laxative or ac.
lively cathartic according to dose. 25 cents.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-09
COLONEL JONES PICTURE.

The picture of Colonel c. IL. Jones, edi-
tor of the st. Louis Republic, adorns the
Press Gallery of the House. 1t shows
handsome, middle-aged man. The express
sion is that Of man with great confidence
in himself and in his own opinions. One
of his opinions he expressed the other day,
as follows: 'It was through the influence
of my paper In 1888 that Gray of Indiana
was defeated"
Colonel Jones fatters himself. Governor
Gray Of Indiana was kept off the national
Democratic ticket in 1883 by two powerful
influences, the one national and the other
local. The first was the desire of President
Cleveland, expressed to his friends, to have
Allen Granbury Thurman on the ticket
with him. The second was the intense aud
bitter hostility of ex Senator Mcdonald,
openly expressed before and during the
convention, to Gray, and the prediction,
which really amounted to threat, that II
Gray was nominated 1t meant the certain
loss of Indiana.
These influences acting together were
Governor Gray for the nomination for Vice
President without anything more. II
Colonel Jones opposed Gray In his paper he
was simply engaged in work OF superero
cation. lie was firing into man who, so far
as that occasion was concerned, was already
very, very dead.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-09
ODD THINGS PEOPLE DO.

j. A. Steinmetz, while visiting near
Downingtown, Pa, went cunning and shot
the four legs of a rabbit.
AtKeyport, N. j., the other day, a brother
and sister met for the first time since their
parting, in Germany, twenty-five years ago.
Miss Edwards, a California school
teacher, walked fourteen miles on snow
shoes few days ago. 1t took her four
hours.
A Chinese laundryman at Bristol, Pa,
rents all the places in the city available for
laundries, SO that he can enjoy a monopoly
of the trade.
Joseph Russell Of Ludlow, KY, jumped
240 feet sheer down into the Tennessee
River, at Edgewood, KY, the other day,
for purse of $500.
Henry Schmucker, farmer at Lowhill,
near Allentown, attempted to shoot a
wild turkey, when the cap missed fire, but
he exploded the fowling piece with match,
and killed the bird.
Sonora X, a worthy business woman in
Rio, in despair at having lost the Empress
as patron, changed her sign, after the re-
cent bloodless revolution So as to read as
follows:
Sonora Y,
Corset-Maker to the
Republic Of Brazil.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-09
THE LOTTERY MONOPOLY

Mr.. Charles A. Hamilton, in his dispatch
TO the Troy Press last Thursday, said:
The people Of Washington were astonisbed
last Monday when the first copy Of the re-
iuvenated EVENING CRITIC came out THA
CRITIC has passed through number OF vi
cisstudes sineeit was established, soma
twenty years ago, and has Just got into the
hands of some gentlemen who understand
how TO make newspaper.
The thing that astonished the readers of
The CRlTIC was an editorial announcement
that the advertisement OF the Louisiana Lot
terry would no longer appear. Washington
Is a great field for this concern and the pa
pers published here received an aggregate OF
something like s5O,0CO a year for published
advertisements and editorials in behalf of
the concern. Besides, the Louisiana Lot
terry people pay lobbyist $4,000 a year To
look after their interests before Congress aud
keep special attorney at Il salary of 5000
per annum to look after all matters before
the courts when their ticket sellers are pulled
in, as they are about once in three months,
II is es timated that the clerks in the De-
partments and other people living in the city
pay into the Golfers of this great corporation
more than half million a year, and up 10
the present time there has never been in
Washington a paper with nerve enough TO
oppose the wishes OF the Louisiana Lottery
Company The action OF TnE CMrIc, there
fore, in declining TO longer publish adyer-
tisements created a great deal Of comment
and was the occasion OF great many fayor-
able criticisms 1t may mean that well-
sustained effort will be made after all ~
force this concern out of existence boy de-
prlying il of the privilege of the mails, but
up 10 the present time no mau has bad tina
courage TO stand up for this idea, and tha
two or three who have attempted it have
found their Congressional careers cut short
through the power Of this corporation.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-09

tion of 1880. whatever the Judgment Of
unpreiudlced experts may be, NJ. Bougue-
reau carried his point. II technically cor
rect, It was neither liberal nor, as the sequel
will probably prove, iudicious In the best
interests OF art. IL is, however, final as
regards the May Salon, and must be ac-
cepted.
,'Realism in Fiction and Art'' was the
topic discussed by the Eliot Society Of st.
Louis recently. Itwas Mrs. j. X. Hosmer's
task to argue to the conclusion that too
much realism In both these lines of human
eudeavor is useless, and because II makes
life too much of q burden, Her entire essay
was an appeal to the American mind for
more intellectual levity. Mrs. Hosmer also
appealed, from the standpoint Of a mother,
fov the publication OF the modern social
novel, go that IL could be placed In the
hands OF young people, She criticised adj
versely the creations of Verestchagn-
his pictures of war-as brutalizlng and in-
sisted that his picture of the sentinel in
"All Is Quiet at Shipka" is more power
full factor in suppressing the war spirit
than his battle pictures. Mrs. Hosmer's
argument breathed the gentle and health
ful spirit that is felt In the atmosphere of
the home Of the ideal American wife and
mother, and It was plainly seen that It had
the sympathy Of large share of the club,
at least from the standpoint of sentiment.
MissA Martha Kayser was the champion of
the modern realistic school in both litera-
ture and art. As opponents of the former,
she held up Millet and Verestcbagin; of the
latter, Tolstoi and Victor Hugo. The
spirit of philanthropy which shines from
Tolstofs pages, she maintained, could not
be questioned, while Hugo's republican
nobleman as portrayed in "'93,n with his
optimistic philosophy under the very
shadow of the gullotine, was to her re-
flning ard elevating creation. AS for
Verestchaein, he painted war pictures to q
purpose, and that purpose could not have
been an inspiration to warlike ambition.
And Millet, peasant himself, painted of
peasant life, and for the refinement of the
masses.
The proposed art commission for Boston
makes New York grin. The beaming Sun,
for example, thinks It good idea, and ex-
presses the opinion that If the late Mr..
Phidias could visit the Modern Athens aud
gaze upon its statues and monuments he
would succumb to apopleXy, and die again,
in his sorrow and surprise. 1t seems appro-
pirate to remark that If he went over to New
York, he would experience scarcely less
discomfort. He would find great many
uncompleted subscriptions for numerous
noble monuments, but the monuments
would be nowhere to be found. On the
whole, we would advise Mr.. Phidias to
choose Boston for the scene of his materials
zation, If he proposes to visit the earth
again. Boston Herald.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-09
THE MUSICAL WORLD.

The Menestrel of Paris says of Lalo's new
piano concerto: "The first part, a sort of
triumphal march, and the second, an an
dante, are the best;" adding that the con-
certo, but an orchestral composition in
which the pianoforte executes special
part, which could be transferred to the or
chestra without any difficulty aud without
detracting in the least from the general
effect.
The Choral Society of Washington, with
its magnificent chorus of $50, will present
"Arminus'' In Lincoln Hall ON February
10. The soloists will be Mr.. George Prehn,
Mr.. William ii. Lawton and Miss Gertrude
Edmunds, the former in the title role.
Tickets are now on sale at Metzerott's
music store.
The programme of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra concert at Lincoln Music Hall
next Thursday evening is as follows:
Overture. "Sakuntala". "............ Goldmark
Mendelsshon
Received with storms of applause in BostonJ
symphony ID Minor. ..Schumann
The Georgetown Amateur Orchestra, as
sisted by Miss Annie A. Parke of Boston,
cornet soloist; Miss Bertha Lincoln,
soprano, ,and Mr. George Iseman, pianist,
gave concert In Lincoln Music Hall last
Friday evening. The performance was
thoroughly enjoyable one and brought out
full house. Professor Josef Kaspar acted
as conductor aud sixty performers took
part.
Messrs Chickering & Sons have engaged
Vladimir do Pachmanu, the Russian pianist,
for brief series Of Chopin recitals, to take
place in the early spring. Mr. de Paeh-
mann will be accompanied on his American
tour by Nine. Margaret de Pachmann, his
wife, who is also distinguished virtuoso.
Lillian Russell is studying Italian, and
win shortly sing "Chansons de Fortune"
with Italian words. At present she sings
it in English, French and German.
NEW ENGLISH MUSIC.
''The Academic Series of Vocal Duets
and Trios for Treble Voices.n Books and
2. (Weekes & Co. This collection is of
very mixed character, and while few of
the pieces (like Mendelssohn's beautiful
duet "Greeting," and Abt's trio ''The Swiss
Morning Hymn'') are given as their authors
intended them to be, other numbers consist
of mutilated operate excerpts set to words
with which they have nothing In COM
mon, and, worse still, adaptations of
instrumental compositions to vocal
uses. Schubert's fayorite impromptu in
A fiat is here to be found transposed and
served up as a vocal trio; Mendelssohn's
duet, 81 Would That My Love" is trans
posed, married to new words and trans
formed into trio; Sehumann's charming
youthful Peasant from "Das Album
fur NGs Jugend,' is made to do duty as a
vocal duet; and Weber's bright little song
"When theThorn is White with Blossoms %
does duty as trio. Examples of this
.ts.kk l,..a aHf nd
The Washington critic., 1890-02-09
FOR LOVERS TO READ.
ALWAYS RIGHT.

ALWAYS NIGltI,
Don't take on so, Hiram, 20
But do what you're told 10 do;
It's fair to suppose that yer mother knows
heap sight more than you.
III allow that sometimes her way
Don't seem the wisest, quite;
But tho easiest way,
When she's had her say,
Is to reckon yer mother Is right.
Courted her ten long winters
Saw her to singin' school
When she went down one spell to town,
/ cried like a burned oil fool;
Got mad at the boys for calm,
When spanked her Sunday night,
But she said she knew
\ thing or two
Anil reckoned yer mother wuz right.
I courted till wuZ aging
And she wuZ past her prime
I'd have died, guess, II sine hadn't said yes
When popped FIR the hundreth time;
Said she'd never have took me
If hadn't stuck so tight
Opined that we
Could never agree,
And reckon yer mother wuz right!
Eugene Ftsld.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-09
WoMEN AS FARCE WRITERs.

Chatting with Chicago Tribune writer,
Mr.. William Fleischman, Daniel Froh-
mans manager recently said; "Why can't
women write farce comediesS Mrs. Cent
livre wrote THE Wonder. Mrs. Aphra
Behn wrote plays as loose as Wyeherly's.
But these, / suppose, don't count. You
could hardly imagine woman writing
The Rag Baby or "A Tin Soldier There
is something too rough in farce to suit a
woman. Yet women laugh the loudest az
the absurditles of 'Our Flat. suppose IL
comes home to them. Most of them have
lived In flats. Some of them may unfortu-
nately have had their furniture carted
away. They come every night to laugh at
the play, but doubt II they would Ike TO
have written It,. The farce-writer must be
crueler and more acrid in his pictures Of
life than women care to be. There is a
great deal of satire in AN honest farce, and
It is only O woman like George Eliot who
darcs TO be satirical.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-09

be due partly to the combustion OF the
materials Of the air Of life, but II is mainly
an incandeecence Of the condensed atmos-
phere which accumulates In advance of an
object which is moving many times the
cay, with many hundred times the rapidlty
Of cannon ball. Under these conditions
even the seemingly flmsy resistance Of the
air becomes as great as that of a solid body,
producing intense heat, and in the case Of
large meteoric stone, frequently resulting
in the fracture and demolition OF the oh
inni y
The Washington critic., 1890-02-09


Bushyhead, the Cherokee chief, who is
spending the summer in Washington this
winter, was met on the street yesterday by
an old acquaintance.
"Look here, Bushyhead," said the white
man, 81 believe you are up to some mis-
chief. What are you staying in Washing
ton so long for?"
81 am here for my people," sal the In
dian.
"What are you doing for your peoples
The old chief drew his friend aside and,
affecting the manner Of secrecy, said:
~ anu lobbying for Senator Morgau's
scheme to send the negroes back to Africa"
"What have your people to do With
that?n
"Why,n said Bushyhead ''when we have
succeeded in deporting the negroes, then
we Will introduce a bill to deport the
white people. That will put the country
in the hands of its rightful owners"
"Well," said the white man, ''if that is
your game | think we shall have to adopt
the suggestion of that old itinerant preacher,
who used to be known throughout Ohio
and Indiana as THE Immortal j. NJ"
"What was that?'
"Why, right after the war he went through
the country telling the people how to pay
the great national debt without expense to
the Federal Government. Let Congress
pass an act, said he, conveying the entire
public domain TO the Indians and require
the creditors Of the nation to look TO the
Indians for payment, and then do as 1t has
always done befOre-steal the lands back
from the Indians
The Washington critic., 1890-02-09
PACIFIC COAsT RoMANCE.

News received here to-day ie to the effect
that David NJ. Drumheller has arrived in
Spokane Falls with his bride. This culmi-
mates an interesting romance. The bride
was Nellie G. Powell, daughter of the late
President Powell of the University OF
Washington. When the great gold spike
celebration of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road took place in Seattle, Nellie Powell
was selected to give the address OF welcome
to Henry Willard. She captivated the
whole Willard family, and when her father
died she moved, with her mo ther, to New
York, and was therefore constant visitor
in the Willard household and pursued her
studies in German with Miss Helena VII
lard. About year ago she returned to
Washington, and while teaching school at
Spokane Falls she met d. NJ. Drumheller,
the millionaire banker, stockman and cap
italst. He loved her, but she was engaged
to a young student in Yale Theological
School and was leah to discard him. She
finally consented, but again relented two
days before the wedding day and fed To
California. Sickness overlook her there,
and she wrote to Mr.. Drumheller. He
FASTENED to her, and they were married in
the JUSTICES court at Santa Cruz, in the
presence only of strangers. - Globe DemO-
Cfdt Seattle special
The Washington critic., 1890-02-09
BACK TO HER SIDE.

An old, dilapidated prairie schooner or
campers wagon came creaking through
the December wind, bound westward. AS
1t came nearer in its slow course across the
plain saw that the horses were thin and
spiritless, and the driver, who sat on a
rough board seat beneath. the faded and
torn canvas corner, was as woe-begone as
they,
He had once been n good-looking man,
but his sad face aud unlsempt clothing told
too well the story Of sorrow or dissapoint-
ment.
"How far is It to the next town?n he
asked as he came opposite to me.
"About five miles,
GLOW is the road? CanI get there be-
fore nightf'
II am afraid not, without hurrying.n
The clouds we're skmming across the
sky and a storm seemed riding on the back
of the north wind that blew fiercely over
the prairie.
"Guess III go on, though, he calculated,
after having considered a moment. Then
he alighted from the wagon and commenced
fixing a broken strap of the harness with
some cord he drew from the wagon box.
what's your hurry? Where are you
bound forp" were my queries.
''I'm goin' to Smith County, he replied
wearily, ae he thought of the long trip, al
most to the foot of the Rockies, 'tan' /
must get there before the first of the
month";
"Why, got some land there?'
HNo, not exactly, but something better.
] lived there two years ago--Mary and l.
The hot winds came and the times grew
hard for us. We worked night and day,
but there wasn't no use-the sun jist dried
up the ground an we almost give up. Then
Mary died; she was my wife, you know
he said, in half apologetic words. "She
helped all she could, but her strength
| wouldn't hold outn
"And you were left alone?'
! "Yes, so much alone that / buried her
all by myself or our little claim an then
started for the old home back East to try
and make livin'. ! lost my right to the
| claim he went on, wearily, 'but | don't
/ care much except that she was there. Now
| | must go, though, an see to lt.n
do you expect to get it back?n
''NOt all Of it; | don't want It. But they
| tell me the land is all being plowed up in
that neighborhood an I'm afraid they'll
plow over her grave
"And so you'll buy the land?n
"a little of it-that that holds her. | kin
make livin', know, an I'll stay by her
side till the end, 1t seemed like the sun
went out when she left me there
He resisted all my efforts to induce him
to remain for the night. He must hurry
he said.
And the last / saw of him he was urging
the tired horses toward the angry sunset
sky, eager to reach the grave of the one he
loved SO well.
humble in station though he was, crude
though his surroundings, his lonely vigi
on the far Western prairies, with the
wide spreading sea of grass around and
/ only the tiny mound of earth to attract his
lonely heart has often seemed a picture
worthy of true artists tOuch.--Detroi
| Free Press
The Washington critic., 1890-02-09
4 FElLAEE STRATEGLST.

Smith-What is she up to nowY
"YOu know whenever she goes out she
has her pug with her."
Eyes, | Understand
"Well. she has trained that dog TO trot
along about ten feet behind her."
"Well, what Of thatYn
"What Of thatg Don't You see, she can
look back at the man under the pretense Of
looking after the dog. TeSas SJtmgs.