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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-18
BULLETS IN THE AIR

been given out on the subject. The
headquarters of the corps are at Falls
Church, Va, but there is a well-de-
fined rumor extant and some little
trustworthy information to the effect
that a detached brigade Is to be formed
Of these four Pennsylvania regiments
and one or two from Massachusetts or
New Jersey for service as a capital
guard with headquarters at Munson
Hill, overlooking Washington from the
Virginia hills beyond Arlington. and
within easy access of the capital by
wagon road and three bridges.
This, however, is not very material
as any of the mentioned camp grounds
about Washington are as desirable as
one could look for. T. J. Duffy.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-18
For the Invalid.

Clam frappe is a new dainty included in
an invalid's menu of the Boston Cooking
school. Wash thoroughly twenty clans
and put them in a stew-ran with one
half cup Of cold water; cover closely and
steam until the shells open. Strain the
liquid, cool and freeze il into a mush.
Serve in glasses. A small amount may
be frozen easily in a baking powder can
by setting it in a tin pail and packing
with ice and salt in equal proportions.
The mixture will freeze in about half an
hour, and should be stirred once or twice
during that time. This clam juice is also
very often diluted and served hot, and
in some cases of gastric inflammation
will be retained by the stomach when
almost everything else is rejected.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-18
Lively FuSilade When
the Ninth Regiment
Reached COneWagO.
BAGGAGE CAR SET ON FIRE
Contained Twelve Thousand
Rounds of Ammunition.

CAR HAD TO BE CUT LOOSE FROM
THE TRAIN AND ABANDONED TO
ITS FATE-IT CONTAINED THE
BULK OF THE PERSONAL BAG
GAGE OF THE OFFICERS or THE
NINTH AS WELL AS TIE AMMUNI-
TION-UNITED STATES OFFICERS
BELIEVE THE THIRTEENTH WILL
AFTERNOON.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-18
GOSSIP OF THE CAMP.
staff Correspondent.

From Staff Correspondent.
Camp Daniel II. Hastings, Mt. Gret-
ma, May l7.--Colonel Coursen this
morning received from Secretary Alger
the following acknowlod dgement of the
petition sent by him and other officers
of the Third brigade for the appoint
ment of General Goblin to a brigadier-
shin
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-18
FIFTH LEFT QUIETLY.

The Fifth got away very quietly at
3 o'clock. bound for Chickamauga, and
two hours later the Ninth followed.
the only demonstration attending it's
departure being the turning out of the
Twelfth and Eighth regiments. whose
camps they passed on their way 10 the
station. one of the Ninth's men, Pri-
Nate Hancock, of Company f. was
carried TO the train at the head Of the
regiment on a stretcher. He was
stricken with a sort of ague during the
morning, but the surgeons thought it
was not serious enough to warrant
leaving him behind and the lad him
self appealed strongly to he taken
along, so the hospital corps laid him
out on a strctcher and carried him to
the train.
The Ninth took its ambulance along
Tonight the question as to when the
Thirteenth will move can be answered
with some degree of certainty. The
Second and Tenth are scheduled to
leave respectively at 10 o'clock a. m.
and 3 O'Clock p. m. tomorrow and a
strong effort will be made to get the
Eighth started tomorrow night or at
the latest Thursday morning early.
The Thirteenth and Twelfth are
scheduled to leave next after the
Eighth, and both Lieutenant Howe
and Lieutenant Hay, quartermaster
and commissary respectively. stated to
me this evening that they feel assured
that they can have everything ready
for the Thirteenth's departure by
Thursday afternoon, ten days field
rations included. If on Wednesday
night it is seen that the departure can
be made on the morrow, Colonel Cour-
sen will give orders to break camp al
daybreak and by noon or a few hours
later at the most, the tentage anC
equipments can be packed and every,
thing made ready for departure.
THE WASHINGTON CAMP.
The camping ground of the Penn
sylvania regiments assigned TO the Sec,
ond corps is still a matter of conjec
ture, nothing official having as ye
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-18

Camp Daniel II. Hastings, Mt. Gret-
away without attracting any particu-
lar notice. but it was not so with the
Ninth.
At Conewago Junction, twelve miles
away, the baggage car on the first sec
tion, containing 1900 rounds of am
munition and the bulk of the officers
personal baggage, took fire and be-
cause of the danger that would attend
an attempt to extinguish the blaze, the
car was hurriedlv cut loose from the
train, backed into siding and left to
it's fate. The train hand who first dis
covered the blaze started TO carry out
the ammunition, hut upon picking up
one of the boxes, already blistering hot,
and noticing it's label. 1000 rounds 45
Calbre Springfield cartridges, he tend
erly but quickly deposited his burden
on the floor Of the car and retreated.
Most of the cartridges simply popped" !"
but some of them exploded with much
force and sent bullets flying for hun
dreds of wards i'm all directions.
The soldiers got away with all haste
when it was seen that the contents of
the car could not be saved and the
people of COnewago gave the scene of
the excitement wide berth. This and
good luck prevented any serious con-
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-29
Earlx Babxlonian surverors.

In the Zeitschrift Fur Vermessungs-
wesen Professor Hammer directs atten-
ton to Babylonian plan depicted on a
clay tablet found in the excavations at
Tello and now preserved in the Con-
stantinople museum. The plan was
made about 5000 years before the
Christian era and represents an estate
belonging to King Dungi. 1t is of i'm
portanoe not only as contribution to
the early history of surveying, but also
as a confirmation of the views on Baby
lonian measures of length and of area
propounded by Reisner at meeting of
the Berlin Academy of Sciences on
April 9, 1896.
A copy of the plan has been examined
by Eisenlohr, the eminent authority on
Egyptian archaeology, and he claims to
be able to read from the cuneiform in.
scription the names of the two survey
ors engaged. On one side of the tablet
there is a dimensioned sketch of the
plan of the estate not drawn to scale.
The estate is divided by the survey
lines into rectangles right angled tri-
angles and trapezlums. In each case
the area is stated. two results obtained
by different methods being given. Eisen-
lohr has plotted the survey, and his
calculations Of the area agree with the
results given on the tablet. On the
other side of the tablet the areas of the
various portions are added together,
two sets of figures being used, and the
arithmetical mean taken as the correct
area.
The unit adopted, the "gan," is
thought to be equal to 4, 1919 square me-
ters. The absolute measures are, how
ever, Of slight Importance More impor-
tant is the fact that land surveying was
carried on 1000 years B. c., apparent
ly in an accurate manner, and certainly
with check measurements. Mature.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-29
BEAUTIFUL MAGIC LAKE,
The Present Which an Earthquake Made
to Tennessee.

The Present Which an Earthquake Made
to Tennessee.
Reelfoot lake. which lies mostly in
Obion county and partly in Lake, is the
largest sheet of water in Tennessee, it
being 40 miles in length and from 8 to
5 in width.
This lake, which evokes rapturous
comments from even the most indiffer-
ent observer, was formed in a few min
utes by an earthquake, which, accord
ing to the best authorities, occurred be-
tween and 3 O'Clock on Saturday
morning, Nov. 16, 1911. There were
two terrific shocks about 80 minutes
apart and many lighter ones between
and after The earth rocked violently,
a deafening noise like thunder struck
terror to the ear, the atmosphere was
heavily laden with something like
smoke and vivid and almost constant
flashes of lightning illuminated the sur
rounding country, and in less time than
it takes to write it thousands of acres
of land had sunk far below the level of
the mighty Mississippi.
The Father of Waters rushed into
the sunken country, and the suction
was so great that for three hours the
river ran up stream, and RATS and boats
below the lake were torn from their
mornings and went whirling into the
seething, maddening vortex. As soon
as the newly formed lake was filled the
river went majestically on its usual
course, leaving to Tennessee one of the
finest fishing resorts in the country,
which is annually the Mecca of thou
sands of sportsmen. Com
mercial Tribune.
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think she'd stay with sech a country
lout as ye? She'd leave ye termorrer if
/ said the word.
aye air liar, says, an he struck
at me with cane he carried-one o.
them loaded ones. / ketched it on my
left arm, an then l gripped him. He
was strong as me pretty near, but he
wasn't fightin fer what was, an he
went down under me heavy. My left
arm were under when we went down,
an felt it sort O. give way, but got
grip on his throat with my right hand,
an choked the life most out'n him.
We rolled crost the road, an was look
in fer both of us ter go over the side.
We knowed hit were him or me, an he
were fghtin hard fer his life, but I were
fightin harder fer Lizzie, an had the
best of it. He done his best ter fight my
hand off'n his throat, but hit weren t
no use. had hit gripped. He hit me
in the face an tried ter get his hands on
my neck, but my arm was the longest
pushed his head back an back. with
him fightin little weaker all the time
an his face gettin dark. Then felt us
both a-slippin, an l managed ter jerk
loose an fell back on the road. an he
went over the edge. He made one grab,
but he on'y ketched the loose rocks.
Then there come splash an a rattle O.
fallin stones, an knowed he were on
the rocks in the river a hundred foot
below.
~ laid there awhile, an then l strug-
gled up an went home. The doctor,
yander, kin tell ye the rest. He fixed
my arm up that night an tended Lizzie
next day when the leetle baby come, an
her an the baby both died.
The prisoners hands worked on the
arms of the chair. There was hush in
the courtroom, and some one in the
crowd sighed heavily. The attorney for
the defense arose. "May it please the
court" he said, 'the defense rests its
case. !" - Henry Holcomb Bennett in
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-29
The odor of the Opera.

The confirmed opera goer drew a long
breath. "That would make me happy if
1t blew over my grave, " he murmured
blissfully.
The woman with him looked at him
doubtfully. whats blowing?" she
asked unsympathetically.
Its the perfume, he explained.
Zone always gets it when the curtain
rises on the second act. The house is
full by that time and the odors of the
flowers and perfumes have grown
heavy. The air is close and oppressive
during the entr acte, but when the cur
tain goes up the draft sweeps out and
catches that indescribable odor and
whirls 1t up here to the dress circle.
It's not like anything else. No theater
has it. It's the essence Of opera flowers
and laces and jewels and beauty and
music. I'd recognize Whit of it in
paradise. just ask any old chap who
has been coming here for years about
it. He'll know what mean. New
York Sun.
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ESTABLISHED 1879.

ing nothing but the heap OF Yagots, the
man closed the door. Marie could hard
ly keep from heaving sigh of relief.
1t seemed in her own mind that she
must give shout of joy. AS they were
preparing to leave one Of the men asked:
"Shall we not fire the cottage?"
It was the usual rule when peasant
was suspected of harboring frano-tireur
to burn his cottage as a lesson to him
and a warning to all Others but Marie's
winsome manner had touched the Off
GERS heart, and the questioner received
curt almost savage MOP
Marie watched the Prussians ride
away, and when they were all out Of
sight she let Captain Charles ont of his
narrow hiding place. He had heard all
that passed in the COTTAGE and he kissed
Marie and called her brave girl. Then
he departed by the road opposite to that
which the Prussians had taken, to join
his men at their meeting place in the
forest.
Marie was the pride of her parents
and the heroine of the town when her
story was made known. And in the
depths Of the forest, when the franc
tireurs gathered about their campfire and
their leader told of his narrow escape
and the bravery of the little peasant
girl, each man lifted his canteen and
enthusiastically drank to the health and
prosperity Of Marie Duret.
The landlady Of the little vine cover
ed inn at Bois-le-Duc tells this story to
every stranger who visits the place.
And if one is inquisitive enough to ask
what afterward became of the franc
tireur and the peasant girl she will I'M
fold her hands and say
''Just walk up to yonder brick house
on the hill and ask for NJ le Marie and
his good wife. There you will find Cap
tain Charles and his brave Marie. -
Earl Mayo in Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-29
CURLING IN AMERICA.
A Scotch Game zealously Cultivated by
Scotchmen.

A Scotch Game Zealously Cultivated by
ScOtchmen.
The game of curling has secured a
firm place among the winter sports in
all parts of the country where there is
heavy ice and where there are Scotch
men to teach the game to their Ameri-
can neighbors. There are about 90 curl
ing clubs in the United States, and tho
Grand National Curling club of Amer
lea has a membership of many hundreds
in all parts of the north and northwest,
but still the game is spoken of as "Scot-
lands ain game. -
The game is always played on ice
covered lakes or rivers, except in Eng
land, where it is frequently played un-
der glass roofs by men whose white
waistcoats, straw hats, floral decora-
lions and general lack of Scotch style
cause the real curriers' to regard them
with soorn.
The curriers' who are members of the
New York clubs have their contests on
Van Cortlandt lake, and there is proba-
bly, no class of sportsmen who go about
a game SO seriously as they.
The object of the game is to plant the
curling stone, which has a teakettle
shape and weighs from 80 to "A pounds,
near the "tee, :" or center Of circle at
distance of 40 yards, and to guard it
there.
Next to the stone the broom plays the
most important part in the game of
curling, because in the hands of a
sweeper who is anxious to see the stone
advance to the circle where it will
count it is welded dexterously, SO that
every particle Of snow or ice may be
removed from the stones course The
"skips," or captains, Of the opposing
sides have charge Of the sweeping de-
partments, and the sweepers have the
right to use their brooms after the stone
has got beyond the line which marks
the middle of the rink. The sweeping
is always to a side or across the rink
and not forward or backward, where
the sweepings might obstruet the pas
sage Of running stone.
Match games, called a bonspiel, are
played by opposing teams of four each,
and when it is at home curling is essen
TALLY democratic. 1t has been said that
the lord of the manor, the clergyman
and the village blacksmith may be seen
on the same rink with the smith as
''skip'' shouting to the clergyman to
"soop, soopp when he thinks a ''soop."
or sweep, In front of the moving stone
will help it along.
The enthusiastic curler sees and hears
nothing but the speeding stones and the
applause, the shouts Of 'Weel curled,
monp and the boyish shouts which rise
on the wintry air show that youthful
spirit may live in mature body, par
ticularly if it be that of Scotch ourler.
New York Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-29

''The strangest money ever saw"
said drummer for Main street house,
twas in the mountain districts of Ken
lucky and West Virginia. 1 was MAX
ing my semiannual tour through this
district, and l stopped one day at lit
tie grocery and saloon. While / was
there big husky mountaineer entered
the place and called for drink. AS he
finished gulping it down he reached into
big bulky pocket and drew forth what
looked to be a ooonskin. He laid the
skin on the counter, the barkeeper took
the skin, and opening drawer hauled
out rabbit skin, which suppose was
the change. The mountaineer picked up
the rabbit skin and started to the front
part of the store, which was the grocery.
He there bought twist of tobacco and
rendered the rabbit skin in payment.
He received a big twist of long green,
and was surprised to see the store
keeper reach in another drawer and ten
der him squirrel skin. The mountain
eer tucked the squirrel skin in his pock-
ct, walked out, unhitched his horse and
rode away.
81 became interested and engaged the
proprietor in conversation. He told me
that sometimes he would go months
without seeing any real money, and
that the mountaineers used the skins in
all kinds of trades, such as buying
horses, etc. He said that four times
year hide buyer from Lexington or
Cincinnati visited the country and
bought up all the skins, which were
generally concentrated in the few stores
In the vicinity. louisville Dispatch.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-29
REGRET.

Time was when twilight wrapped the earth
Within its dim, enchanted hazes.
She always met me at the gate
Amid the sleepy snow white daisies.
The vesper robins sang Of love;
The moon smiled softly from above.
Her little hand reposed in mine;
Her head against my shoulder nestled;
Her voice was gentle as the dews
That on the vine leaves sweetly rustled.
She said whatever might betide
Her only Joy was by my side.
The stars looked curious when we kissed.
Full f1ercely piped the jealous crickets.
The f1refies round her golden head
Flew from the misty meadow thickets.
She seemed an angel all in white,
With airy little frills bedight.
But now, alas, those happy days
Have vanished like a dream of heaven.
She rides wheel and never more
find her waiting me at even.
In fact, we scarcely ever meet.
We only race from street to street.
In vain plead, ''Pray stay awhile
And to my tender accents listeni'
''But you must catch me firstV' she cries,
With cheeks aglow and eyes a-glisten,
And off she flies Ger hill and plain,
While pursue with might and main.
The moon has no more charms for me.
hail no more the restful shadows.
There is no balm in the sweet air
That blows up from the twilight mead
ows.
scarce can tell her from score
OF cyclers when she rides before.
o youth, too trusting and too fond,
Who wears heart with romance laden,
Beware, pray you, ere too late,
The glances Of cycling maiden,
For love himself away will steal,
Changing his light wings for WHEEL
Susan Hartley in Boston Courier.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-29
STUDENT or SHAKESPEARE.
The Natives Heard Him Reoite and
Thnnrht Him a Innafin

The Natives Heard Him Recite and
Thought Him Lunatic.
An itinerant college professor, A" as
he styled himself, was stranded in a
little backwoods settlement, and in or
der to raise cash enough to help him
farther on the road he proposed a
Shakespeare club for the literary diver
sion Of the citizens.
'It's like those they have in the
Cities" he explained. land if you folks
want to keep up with the procession
you must have one too. ("
About dozen applied for member
ship and were in the hall early, wait
ing for the professor, who was late in
getting there.
When he did arrive, after stating the
object of the meeting, he proposed to
give them samples of Shakespearean act
ing. He began with Hamlet, then tao
killed. Macbeth and Richard III.
There was no applause from his audi
ence while he was perspiring through
the various acts. In fact, the audience
was serious-very serious-and he no.
ticed little groups forming here and
there and engaging in whispered con-
versations.
Finally man went forward, took the
professor by the arm and said:
you'd better come with me, pard-
ner. Don't be afeared; we amt gwine
ter hurt you. It's all fer your own good,
SO come erlong now.
"What do you meanf" asked the
frightened professor.
"That's all right, pardner. Jest come
on quiet, an you'll fin out what we're
after. We amt gwine ter tie you onless
we has ter.
By this time several had hold of him,
and he was hustled out of the building
to room in the rear of grocery store,
where he was guarded by several citizens
until morning. Then he was taken be-
fore the ordinary of the county under
full guard.
Hes one er them thar lunatios what
jumped the asylum lately" explained
the spokesman of the crowd. 1.-The way
he went on in the meetin las night wuz
orful-pitchin an rearin an hollerin an
puIlin at his hair like he wanted ter git
his head off. We had ter keep him un-
der close guard all night fer fear he'd
hurt hisself."
81 know all erbout it, said the
ordinary 81 wuz in the meetin myself,
but escaped early. " That have you got
ter say fer yerself, sir!''
81 was only trying to form Shakes
peare club, when'-
cts my opinion, interrupted the
ordinary, THAT what you needs most is
a hickory club. I'm goin ter instruct
this here jury ter fin you guilty Of
lunaoy in the fust degree, an may the
Lord have mercy on your soul. You'll
kill somebody eff you ain t taken keer on,
an now that we've got you we're gwine
ter keep you"
1t was in vain the prisoner protested.
He was "a gone case, and if the high
judge of the county court hadn't arrived
just in the nick of time and given him
ten minutes to leave town he would
have boarded the next train for the
lunatic asylum. ATLANTA Constitution.
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REST.

Let as rest ourselves a biti
Worryf Wave your hand to 1t.
Kiss your finger tips and smile
It farewell little whilel
Weary of the weary way
We have come since yesterday.
Let it fret US not in dread
OF the weary way ahead.
While we yet look down-not up
To seek out the buttercnp
And the daisy where they wave
Ger the green home of the grave.
Let us launch US smoothly on
Listless pillows Of the lawn
And drift out across the main
OF our childish dreams again.
Voyage off beneath the trees,
Ger the fields enchanted seas,
Where the lilies are our sails
And our sea gulls nightingales.
Where no wilder storm shall beat
Than the wind that waves the wheat
And no tempests burst above
The old laughs we used to love.
Lose all troubles; gain release,
Langour and exceeding peace,
CGuising idly Ger the vast
Calm midocean of the past.
Let us rest ourselves a biti
Worry? Wave your hand to it.
Kiss your finger tips and smile
It farewell little whilei
james Whitcomb Riley.