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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-30
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-30

Feed your horse JANEs's Dustless Oats.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-25
FREELAND, Pa, APRIL a5, 1898


While the code duello, in its sangui-
nary character, is rapidly becoming OBJ
solete in the United States, it appears
to be still in high favor on the other
side of the Atlantic. In Germany some
1000 engagements are yearly fought
on the field of honor with sanguinary
results. Most of these engagements
take place in the neighborhood of col
lege towns. Within the space of twen-
ty-four hours as many as twenty duels
have occurred in the neighborhood
of jena
Next to Germany in allegiance to
the code duello comes France. There
are some 200 dues fought annually
in France, the participants being main
ly officers in the French army. Italy
comes next to France, with some 275
duels annually. During the past ten
years Italy has furnished 2,759 duels.
Austria, Russia, Spain and Great Br-
tain rank next in the order named. In
Great Britain the code has became al
most as obsolete as in the United
States Most of the duels fought on the
European continent are fought with the
sword, though pistols and knives are
used occasionally.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-25

the telephone is very usefui, but II
has its drawbacks In fact, I'm sorry
that ours was put in
Why"
You knew Nellie, the maid had for
so many years, didn't you?"
Certainly Isn't she with you YETI"
No, she isn't, but she would be il
1t were not for the telephone.
"IEow was that? Did she object to
answering it?"
That was not the trouble. One day
while | was out Mrs, Ricketts, called
her up and offered her S. a month
more than was paying her and Nellie
accepted the offer. Mrs. Ricketts,
wouldn't have dared to come to the
house and coax my maid away but she
used the telephone. And so | say that
II has its drawbacks"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-25

Apropos of the money made out of
the Dreyfus case, it is curious to esti-
mate what it has cost France as a
whole. 1t costs over hundred thou
sand francs a year, to begin with, to
keep the prisoner on his island The
prosecution in the first instance-for
spies are well paid-must have been
expensive. Since then there has been
another court-martial, to say nothing
of two preliminary trials, which have
involved the payment of writing eX-
perts, and so forth. Then on the side
of the public is what the Dreyfus fami-
ly have spent on advocates for propa-
ganda tit has been put at three mill
lions). The tons and tons of literature
that have been printed must have cost
small national debt. Zoa will spend
good many thousands on his case.
The cost of extra police cuts some fig
ure, too 1t would be possible to go on
indefinitely mounting up the figures,
without taking any account whatever
of the moral and intellectual damage,
which is not inappreciable by any
means
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-25
Industrial Guide TO ,Jnunn

The Department of Commerce and
Industry in Toxic has Just issued
very useful little handbook or guide
in English, entitled General View of
Commerce and Industry in the EN-
pire of Japan This is for the pur-
pose of giving foreign visitors to the
country an outline of its commercial
and industrial condition. 1t contains
much information Of this kind. which
is not given in the usual guide books.
Besides the foreign visitor for whom
it is primarily designed, the little book
should be of use to many, who never
visit Japan, but are interested in its
trade and industry.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-25
TOOK PITY ON HIM.
when He Made Himself Ridicuious
His Sweetheart ReIented.

IbH S"tethehFt
II happen to know how closely pity
is akin to love" declared the pros
porous merchant to some of his cron-
| les who were enjoying his hospitality
in the library. II can draw upon per-
sonal experience and am not left to
the uncertainties of theory.
AT twenty-five l was as love-lorn
youth as ever heaved a sigh or wrote
doggerel ditties. She was pretty and
sweet and smart, and all that. | was
big and awkward and undeyeloped.
But no one was ever hit harder. |
mooned, and was never happy out of
her sight, and robbed my sleep to build
castles in the air with her as the pre-
siding princess. Girls are always
more mature and wiser at that time
of life, but she was tolerant and con-
siderate, for blind devotion from any
man is fattering to any woman.
Time and again | had fixed time
for proposing, but my courage would
ooze as fog yields to the sun, and she
had a tactful way of changing the sub
iect whenever my language was head
ed toward the fateful question. But
one evening the crisis came with an
irresistible rush. | have no idea of
what | said but proposed and plead
cd and swOre that my life was in the
balance. She refused in the kind way
women have under such circumstances.
| was mentally wrecked for the time.
Rushing into the hall. hustled into
the old gentleman's hat, her brothers
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-25

Some experiments of curious ma
ture, undertaken by DIR. f. Pockles, to
determine the current intensity of a
lightning flash, have been published in
Wiedemann's Annalea. Lightning does
not lend itself to investigation directly,
but has way of destroying both the
observers and the instruments devoted
to it, and so indirect methods of calcu-
lation have to be adopted. One of.these
is the irregular magnetization found in
certain rocks lying on the earth's sur
face, which has been attributed to the
violent electrical properties of light
ming striking in their neighborhood.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-25
A MIXED BLESSING.
Why the Telephone Had Its Drawbacks for
Mrs. Goldsborough.

Mrs. Goldsborough.
"Oh, you have a telephone in your
house, haven't you?" exclaimed Mrs.
Gazzam, who was calling upon Mrs.
Goldsborough, when the bell went
ting-a-ling on the staircase.
Yes" replied Mrs. Goldsborough,
I'VE had it put in week before last.
George thought it would be a great
convenience. VIII you kindly excuse
me while I answer the ring, for the
maid has not yet learned how it
works"
How very convenient you must find
it, the caller went on, when her host
ess returned 'You can talk to your
husband al any time during the day.
for one thing. / think that is so nice.
It really makes him nearer to you.
Sometimes | wish most earnestly that
| could speak to Frank in the middle
of the day. He is gone from home for
nine or ten hours, and | feel when he
leaves in the morning as | felt when
we were engaged and he used to come
TO see me at my home in the country,
perhaps once in six months. for it was
long way. When he would start for
The train I'd think that had lost him.
and now it's the same when he leaves
the house in the morning. Then the
telephone is useful in many other
ways. You can order groceries and
other supplies and you can talk to
your friends.
Yes" assented Mrs. Goldsborough,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-25

At last, after a quarter of a century,
there seems to be a. disposition among
British legislators to give the deceased
wife's sister bill real chance. 1t is
stated that it will be taken up and
passed at the next session of Parlia-
ment, thus taking away from the Brit
ish humorists one CT the oldest, of their
stand-bys.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-25

oyercoat, and her mothers overshoes,
seized her umbrella and started, as
funny a looking object as any made
up for the stage. She called me back,
laughing through her tears, helped me
to replace the stolen properly, called
me dear, foolish boy, and took me
into the parlor again.
She is now in the next room, play
ing with the children"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-25

Extraordinary qualities are possess
ed by the River Tinto, in Spain. 1t
hardens and petrif1es the sand OF its
bed, and if stone falls in the stream
and alights upon another in few
months they unite and become one
stone. Fish cannot live in its waters
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-25
A Sure Thing for You.

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ills are caused by constipation aud sluggish
liver. Cascurets Candy Cathartic, the won
derful new liver stimulant and intestinal
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-25

A West African King has just had
an umbrella made for him twenty-one
feet in diameter. When in use this
umbrella, which opens and closes in
the usual way, is fixed in the ground,
and there is room underneath it for the
King and thirty guests to take din
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-25

Garlic came from Asia, and has been
used since the earliest times. 1t form
ed part of the diet of the lsraelites in
Egypt, was used by Greek and Roman
soldiers and African peasants
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-25
Old custom In the senate.

1t has become a custom of the SEN
ate to read the farewell address of
Washington every anniversary of the
birthday of the father of his country.
and Senator Lodge, one of the best elo
cutionists in the Senate. read it on the
22d. One of the most dramatic pres
entations of this message to the Senate
was several years ago, when it was
read by John J. Ingalls, Senator Man
derson of Nebraska also read it with
great effect and force, and last year
Senator Frye had the honor.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-19
WHERE THEY LIVED.
Mr.. and Mrs. offner's Tenement in Third
story of the Building.

A great many people wondered dur
ing the day where Mr.. and Mrs. Offner
found a place to live in the theatre. But
they did, and they had very cosy lit
tie suite of apartments just under the
gallery and over the waiting rooms in
the lobby of the theatre There was a
large. unoccupied space uere, and by
means of partitions it was divided into
a tenement of three rooms. The outer
hall led to the gallery and TO the living
rooms, which consisted of Kitchen,
dining room, bed room and sitting
room. This latter room was very large
and extended from the front of the
house to the lobby. Just east of this
was the dining room, and the kitchen
with its gas stoves, etc, was farther
east still. The place had recently been
fitted up with lot of new furniture,
all of which is lost.
One Of the losses by the>fire is great
collection of photographs which Mama
ger Offner owned He had several hun
bred with the, autographs of the origi-
nails, but they are gone, with large cray
on portraits of himself and wife and his
father A solid silver tea service which
was a wedding present to the couple,
was also lost, as were some choice bits
of china and other pieces of bric-a-brac.
valuable more for their associations
than for their worth in the market.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-19

was taken on the freman's shoulder
and his wet rubber coat then gave her a
chill. OF course the danger was all over
then and she began to think of her
husband, and when she saw that he was
safe she was thankful to God that they
escaped with their lives.
Manager Offner says he thought it
was all over when he reached the ledge
and saw the distance to the sidewalk.
There was no possible escape through
the building, as the flames were driving
him further away from the windows
every second and he felt it was only a
question of time when he would have
to fail to the sidewalk. All this time he
was thinking of his wife and wondering
what had become of her, as the clouds
of smoke and sheets of fame hid her
from his view after they separated at
the middle window. 1t seemed an age
until the fire apparatus arrived and
then it seemed as If they would never
get the ladder up to him.
He could see the difficulties the fire
men were laboring under from the out
side interference and also from the
wires, and he tried to give them direc-
tons until the ladder reached him. How
he managed to get down to the sidewalk
he does not know. When he saw his wife
still up on the ledge he nearly lost his
mind and tried to get to her, but was
held back and in a few minutes she was
in his arms. The rest was plain sailing
and he wants to take this means Of
thinking everybody who has been so
kind to him in mis- misfortune.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-19

Twenty-Five years is long time es-
pecially for a woman to work in the
calling harness of a metropolitan news
paper.
Such is the record of Mrs. Cromwell,
vice president of the Woman's National
Press Association, in the service of the
Chicago Herald. AS Washington cores
pondens she telegraphed to- her paper the
daily reports of the proceedings of the
faous electoral commission of 1877.
A quarter of century of racing work
like this has enabled Mrs. Cromwell to
know what nerves" means. Her faith in
Paine's celery compound to restore the
nervous system when 1t is run down and
depressed by work. worry, rush or sick
ness cannot be lightly set asde:-
Washington, D. c., Feb. 10, 1896.
1902 Q Street.
Gentlemen-A young lady residing in my
family, who had tiled various remedies
for nervous debility and depleted con-
dition of the system, found great and per-
manent relief from the use Of Paine's Gel
cry compound | can therefore recommend
this exc client remedy to those in need of
treatment of the same kind. -u
Women have their health much more
largely in their own hands than they arr
accustomed to believe.
The impure blood that undermines the
stomach and the nervous system can be
unqueStionably enriched; the number OF
the red corpuscules Increased, and the cir
culation cleansed of humors by Paine.
celery compound Sleeplessness that
causes much of the nervous prostration
among women is entirely within the con
troll Of every person who will take pains
to correct the bad habit the brain has
fallen into. Prof. Edward E. Phelps, NJ;
D., LII. D., of the Dartmouth medical
school, in announcing his wonderful dis
covsry of Paine's celery compound at a
meeting of the Dartmouth medical faculty
showed how closely he had studied, in all
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-19
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Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-19
FINDING LOST MONEY,
Quite Salvage in the Ruins of the Burned
Building and in the Street

Local friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Offner
provided them with clothes, Temperate
w. and as soo.l as he was clad, Mr.. Off
ner was on the street looking after the
interests of the house Before leaV-
ing his wife, he said he would like
little money, and she told him that the
wallet was under her pillow. She said
it contained the $14S she had saved, and
it was all they had in the world. Mr..
Offner opened the wallet and found that
it contained solitary $40 bill In
swinging along the cornice, it is sup
posed that Mrs. Offner must have al
lowed the wallet to open. and that 800
fell to the sidewalk or was blown into
the street Later in the morning after
daylight, Irving E. Comins dug three 50
bills out Of the ice in Front street, and
later a 81 was dug out. This was all
that was saved of the money, and it is
thought the rest is either imbedded in
the ice that formed very quickly, or
else it was washed into the sewer, and
is gone for good.
AS soon as the fire would allow admit
lance into the building, which was near
Z o'clock, Chief Vaughn went in to look
after the biograph, and what he discov-
cred is told above. The search for the
money and other valuables was then
made. and the box containing the bag
of silver and the $500 in bills was found
on top of a trunk near one of the win
dows The weight of the silver and
the flood of water that was turned into
the building, saved most of the bills,
and, although the box is badly burned,
and some of the, bills were burned
along the edges, there is enough left to
make known the value of every BILL and
all the money can be redeemed. This
money, however, belonged to the house,
and all that Mr.. Offner had in the world
was the $40 saved by his wife and the
SIS found in the street. Later in the
forenoon. in searching through the ruins,
the trousers which Mr.. Offner wore
Thursday were discovered on the
dresser. The legs and waist were burned
to Sinder, but the pockets were intact,
and in them was found little over $50
in silver and bills. OF course the bills
We're soaked, but they were dried and
are now ready to buy things with.
Mr.. others vest was found nearly
burned to cinder, but one of the pock-
cts was all right, and in that pocket
was his watch, which was running just
as if it had been resting quietly all
night. The links of the chain were
blackened, and the case was discolored,
but it was running all right Mrs. Off
ner's watch was also recovered, and
when it was thought safe to do so, three
of their trunks were removed from the
ruins to the Office of Clerk James C. Cof-
fey, in the city hall. Their contents
were soaked with water, but it is
thought Mr.. and Mrs Offner will be
able to save some articles of wearing
apparel from the wreck. All their fur
niture Is total loss, and as Mr.. Offner
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-19

their bearings upon health, such disorders
as sleeplessness, blood impurity and the
nervous diseases that are likely to follow
such daily poisoning of the system
Paine's celery compound by its pro-
nounced nourishing power enables the
nerves to get back their control over the
circulation so that the blood supply be-
comes greatest where it is most needed,
as in the stomach after eating, and least
where it's presence can only do harm, as
in the brain when sleep is needful. ,
The nerves. when they are strong and
properly nourished, limit the flow of blood
to the head and draw off the excess from
the brain, thus ensuring refreshing sleep.
Persons who wake up tired, drowsy and
ambitionless. or can not sleep whole
night through are suffering from d1Sor-
dered nerves. Paine's celery compound
Gains and feeds the nerves even to their
tiniest branchings. and they IN their turn
are enabled to equalize the blood supply
over the body, thus sparing the heart,
preventing congestion and rusheS OF blood
to the head, dizziness; paralysis, pam over
the heart, and those headaches that seem
to come and go without any good reason,
and are so inexplicable to hosts of men
and women.
surely, relieves the dangerous pressure on
the kidneys and heart, which eventually
eads to the rapid deterioration and
breakdown.
This great invigora tor is long step for
ward in the definite cure of nervous dis
eases and disorders that are induced by
an insufficiently nourished system. 1t is
possible to name without hesitation, sew
eral diseases that have been repeatedly
traced to such impoyerishment Of the
blood-nervouS dyspepsia, rundown
vousness, heart trouble, tired feelings and
a Respondent outlook upon life. TO rid the
body of such evidences of trouble within
| it is necessary to stop the friction among
the nervous tissues that is pulling down
its healthy tone. The remedy is Paine's
celery compound.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-19
WHERE 1T STARTED.
Officials Convinced That They Have
Found the Place But Not the Cause.

OF course, after the fire was eXtin-
guished and the excitement was all over,
everybody wanted to know how the
blaze started and where it originated.
At the present time this is a mystery,
Chief Vaughn and Assistant Fire Mar
shall Robert Molt made an investigation
of the premises as soon as they could,
and they are of the opinion that the fire
started in the front part of the house,
somewhere near the entrance to the
main auditorium, presumably in the lit
tie closet at the left of the fight of steps
leading to the auditorium. The fire was
the hottest just in here, and as the
lobby was all ablaze when Mr.. Offner
awoke, this fact gives color to that be-
lief, because when the firemen reached
the scene, tae members Of Hose Com
pany No. entered the building from
the rear and fought the fire from the
stage until forced to retire by the flames
which had worked their way overhead
until they were in the firemen's rear.
How the fire started is more Of mys-
terry than the place where 1t originated
but a thorough investigation will be
made
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-19

him. The hair on the back of his head
was badly singed and a tongue of
flame must have hit him in the nose as
he came through the window, as the IN
side and edge of his right nostril are
burned. His right hand is cut by the
glass in the window which he broke,
and there is a severe cut about an inch
and a half long and half an inch deep
in his right foot, where he stepped on
the broken glass. He also complains of
his hip and pain in his back but It IS
Thought these are caused by bump or
something like that, as he was coming
through the window.
Only those who saw it. can have the
slightest idea of the narrowness OF the
escape of Mr.. Offner and his brave little
wife. 1t is looked upon as nothing less
than a miracle that they got out Of the
building with their lives. 1t certainly
seems that a kind providence was shap-
ing their ends, because if things did not
happen just as they did, the chances are
ten to one that neither one would have
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