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The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

The Czar's disarmament proposition might with profit be tried first on Rud yard Kipling. What is the use of going ahead if Rudyard will not lay down his Qun9
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

Speaking of the golf champion, Beat rIx Hoyt, the Boston Herald says: 'She has a mans arm and a mans clear eye" Well, she probably will get the rest of him sooner or later.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

"was the war a complete failure" asks the Boston Advertiser. Consider ing the fact that 1t increased the price of beans it must be admitted that it was
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

Col. Waring was a sacrifice to sci ence, but he died hero just as truly as any man who fell at Fl Caney or San Juan.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

The Dowager Duchess of Suther- lands diamonds have been stolen, but the name of her play has not yet been announced.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21
Within Doors.

All the prisons of Paris, except one, gre to be torn down, and a movement Is on foot to have executions take place within this prison, instead of ont. Of doors, as formerly.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

A Colorado editor who translates the national motto, E pluribus unum-"Out of money, one," evidently shoots much nearer the mark than he imagines.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

Ella Wheeler Wilcox has published an interesting article on How to Be Lovable Though Old" What does Ella know about that?
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

That New York fellow who is shown to have fifty wives is in a position to understand the full force of the mother in-law joke.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21
Remedy for Burns.

A Frenchman has discovered a reme- dy instantaneous in its effects for the horrible burns caused by the use of oil of vitriol.. It is a soft paste of cal- cined magnesia and water, with which the parts burned are covered to the thickness of an inch. It alleviates the pain almost immediately, and when the paste is removed no scar remains.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

A Turkisk grant of territory for Ger many colonizing in Egypt goes to show 1t was not wholly holy land trip En- peror William made.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

Tennessee now comes to the front with a missing cashier who is graphic ally described as :'6 feet 2 inches tall and about $14,OOO short"
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

Admiral Dewey's Cotillion" is new dance. It's reminiscent of a dance where Spain had to pay the piper.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

Dewey, Sampson and Schley have been promoted, but it remained for beautiful Chicago girl to be the most notable reward of Merritt.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

The egg crop of the United States last year amounted to S500OO,0O0 dozens. That is something to cackle over, with out saying anything about growing.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

General Kitchener refuses to lecture. That fellow evidently .. ambitious to be B real hero.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

A fashion paper says that "coats are to be worn longer this year." But we don't know how this can be done; there are only 365 days in the year.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

The doctors now regard jealousy as a disease. Here is a. chance to apply the prOYerb: Physician, heal myself"
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

food, some interesting facts can le gleaned. In France chestnuts largely take the place that Indian corn OccF pies as a cheap food i'll this country. Especially is this true in the central districts of France, where large planta. tiOns of chestnut trees supply cheap and nutritious food for the peasanTry. who often make two meals day upon chestnuts. These nuts are eaten boiled. roasted, steamed and in a variety of ways constitute q daily article of food. In Italy the slopes of Aetna are esti- mated to produce annually eighty to 8
 hundred tons of chestnuts, though in- feriOr in quality to the fine large nuts of Calabria. Here, as in France, chest
 nuts during the fall and winter season furnish considerable part of the food of the poorer classes and are cooked in made into a kind of cake by the peas
 ants of the Apennines, but the result,
 atleasttO American taste, is not encour- aging. Walnuts are also grown all over France as an article of food, for the. purpose of making oil, and to adulterate butter. The peasants eat them with bread rubbed with garlic and they are considered to be an excellent substitute for meat. Both in France and in Italy almonds are grown largely, though not used for food as extensively as chest nuts and walnuts. Tn Italy there are extensive almond orchards. Filberts, or hazel nuts, pistachios, pine nuts, etc, are all eaten more or less in all these countries, as they are in the United States, not as main food supply, but as relishes and desserts. The common and cheap peanuts of the United States are not available in Europe and prices are so high as to make them luxury.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

The New York Herald asserts that "war promotes matripony." And vice versa very often.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21
English Suburban Homes.

In the United States you are far ahead of England in respect to new suburban homes. Whatever may be the faults of the limitations of Richardson -America's greatest arohitect-or even of the queer gabled and verandaed vil- las which for some inscrutable reason are named after the good Queen Anne, there is something picturesque about most of these buildings-if it is only the usually good sky line. But the mod ern suburban homes in England are monotonously ugly. AS rule they are run up in rows by some speculative builder who is his own architect
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21
HObsOn seems to be sharp as a raiser.

We still insist that 1t should be called the "Yankee-Spankee" war.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

From advance sheets of consular re- ports from France, Italy and Syria as to the extent to which nuts are used as
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

It may be necessary to start a few more magazines to enable everybody to write their "reminiscences of the war.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

When Rudyard Kipling fired his lat est poem he evidently was loaded for bear"
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER.
 ESTiNG ITEMS.
SomHents and Criticisms Based Upon the Happenings of the Day-His- sorical and News Notes. ~

Money talks, but it doesn't always predict the right election returns.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

It isn't exactly for its land value that England wants upper Africa. It evi- dently has sand enough.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21
Use of Tobacco.

It is estimated that two-thirds ot the male population of the world use to baccO.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21
A Natural Eng Horn.


 At the Farallones the erosive agents have worked with queer caprice. This rock, being granite, has been acted upon by the sea at all levels and throughout the long period when it has been rising out of the watery depths Through a long narrow hole, slanting and commu- nicating with the ocean, there comes at intervals terrific stream of air, forced by the spasmodic heaving of the waves against the lower orifice. The govern ment, which uses this island for light house purposes, inolosed the upper end with the nozzle of fog horn, and every few seconds there was blown an ear splitting. brawl, which was heard fal out at sea and above the din of the breaking rollers.
 It was allowed to roar only in foggy weather, but it was eccentric in that it would only sound at high tide WheE the tide was low, although the weather might be very thick, the thing was si. lent For lack of its warning a ship went ashore upon the island rocks, an6 then it was that the government aban- doned it's location on the wind hole and erected steam siren or mechanical fog horn, which has since very faithfully performed the necessary service.-"Our Seaboard Islands on the Pacific" by John B. Bennett. in Harper's Magazine
 He Knows How Adam Felt.
 A young man was recently taken to Lewiston hospital and suffered the removal of a rib. When he came to himself, he was told what had been done and seemed satisfied. Shortly after he dropped into a semiconscious state and kept calling for "the woman. For two days he was delirious, and fre- quently called for "the woman. "I want to sce the woman," he kept say ing.
 At last the nurse in desperation said, Well, I'm the woman." The man looked at her critically from top to toe and said, Who would have thought that they could have made such pretty girl out of one of my ribs. And then he settled back on his pillow, and when he awoke again be was in his right mind and was better.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

Ungrammatically speaking the plural of baby must be twins.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-24
WITH THE LAWMAKERS.
Continued from First Page.

lating of savings banks and institutions
without capital stock, established for
the encouragement Of saving money.
The governors objections to the fore
| going resolutions and the bills we're
sustained by the house. The veto OF
tn" bill to protect the public from the
unlawful use of bottles, jars, vessels or
other packages in the sale and delivery
OF milk and cream and their products
was also sustained.
The bicycle bill, which is now law,
Will be of interest. 1t provides that,
upon petition OF at least twenty-five
freeholders, residents of county, who
! are bicyclers, the court shall appoint
three resident wheelmen as side path
commissioners, to serve without COM
pensation other than necessary ex-
penses. A tax Of 81, or so much thereof
as may be recommended by the side
path commissioners, shall be paid upon
each bicycle in the county. Returns of
the number and ownership of the wheels
are to be made by the regular assessors
The taxes shall constitute side path
fund, to be used for the construction
aud maintenance OF the paths, which
shall be built between the roadway prop
er and the abutting land and shall not
be less than three nor more than six
feet wide, measuring from the outside
OF the bitches.
There has been some quiet talk dur
ing the past week about an extra ses-
sion. As 1t is there has not been enough
revenues provided yet to meet all tho
requirements. Tho states finances are
not in shape to allow of an extra session
and it is doubtful whether the governor
would reconvene the legislature may the
necessity be ever so great. Yet, on the
other hand, an uncompleted capitol, q
depleted treasury and disrupted party
may cause some of the Republican lead
ers to resort to pretty desperate meas
ures before election times come again.
OF the thousand bills that were pre-
sented not more than fifty of these
reached the governor; the balance fell
by the wayside. Nissley.
The news of Quay's acquitta by a
Philadelphia jury on the charge of con-
spiracy and his immediate appointment
by Governor Stone as United States
senator from Pennsylvania did not create
the excitement here which such import
ant news might have been expected to
stimulate. In fact, the latter move had
been discounted, and instead OF causing
people to wonder at the bold stroke of
the politicians, the action of the COVER
nor was accepted as a matter of course.
The war In the. Republican ranks is now
on, and never before has the party in
Pennsylvania been so hopelessly divided
as it is today. What the outcome will
be no man can positively predict. We
must all wait and SEQ
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-24
Educating Influence of Arbor Day.

The observance OF Arbor Day has al
ready led to the planting of myriads OF
trees in this country. Important as is
this result, the educating influence of
this work is of still higher value. One
of these educating forces begins when
children are thus led to plant not only
trees, but tree-seeds. acorns, NUS,
drupe-stOneS or pits, and then to OBJ
serve the wonderful miracles which
the tree life they have started is work
ing out before them. What interest
and profit what growth OF mind and
heart they will gain, as they watch the
mysterious forces of these living
germs their marvellous assimilating
power, carrying on a curious chemls-
try in their underground labOra tory
linked with the mysterious apparatus
of the leaves above, transforming
course earth and even offensive filth
into living forms Of surprising beauty
and fragrance. II Is something for a
child, who has dropped such germ in
the earth, to feel that he has made q
lasting contribution to the natural
beauty around them for there is moth
ing more ennobling than the con
sciousness OF doing something for fu-
ture generations, which may prove n
growing benefaction in coming years
a better monument than any in bronze
or marble. The trees which children
plant around the homestead and
watch the seed, to shoot from bud to
limb, and from flower to fruit. will
be increasingly priced with senti-
ment of companionship and almost of
kinship as they grow into living mem.
! orials of happy, youthful days Thus,
the educating influences of Arbor Day
will manifest themselves more and
more as the years 60 by, especially
to all who apply DR.. Holmes advice
and make trees monuments of history
and character" or appreciate his say
ing, Il have written many poems. hut
the best poems | have produced are
the trees I have planted" or the strik-
ing words Of Sir Walter, planting and
pruning trees | could work at from
morning till night. There is sort of
self-congratulation, little tickling
selffattery in the idea that while you
lre pleaang and amusing yourself, you
are seriously contributing to the future
welfare OF the country"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-24
The Ad djourned Legislature.

From the Philadelphia Record.
The adjournment of the legislature
has left the state administration in such
shape that it can pinch along as it has
done for the past two years in con-
dition of financial default, or, if polt-
cal reasons should Indicate that advan-
tage would result from the reassemblage
of the legislature, plausible excuse may
be urged for calling an extra session.
The governing motive which will doubt
less influence the executive will be d
conviction of the possibility Of electing
United States senator and OF the ad-
justment of factional quarrels by some
compromise agreement for the distribu-
tion of future spoils. If such an ar
rangement cannot be consumated
there will be no extra session.
The history Of the legislature just ad-
jsurned may be very briefly told. 1t
has accomplished only routine work,
without having Willingly enacted any
other wholesome legislation. The house
has proved check to bad legislation
and the senate to proper legislation. As
result Of this deadlock great negative
good has been done. Quay has been
defeated for the senatorship; the state
capitol job has been blocked; the Re
publican machine has been more thor
oughly divided against itself, and a
hundred petty schemes Of jobbery have
been frustrated.
Undoubtedly the failure to pass rev
enue bills adequate to provide for all
iustifablc expenditure is a temporary
misfortune; but it is relief to reflect
that the money for increased revenue
remains in the pockets Of the taxpayers.
The fact that but few new laws will
60 on the statue book must be set down
to the credit of the legislature. The
more laws the worse. We are governed
too much
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-24
Trses I'm Their Leafiess State.

1t is interesting to give atten.
to the bare trees and notice the
characteristic forms of the vari-
Gus species, the manners in which
their branches are developed and
arranged among themselves, for q
knowledge of these things will often
enable one to distinguish the different
kind of trees more readily and certain.
ly than by any other means.
The foliage often serves as an OBJ
scuring veil, concealing, in part at least,
the individuality and the pecularities
Of the trees. But If one is familiar
with their forms of growth--he will re-
cognize common trees at once with
only a partial view of them
Some trees, as the oak, throw their
limbs out from the trunk horizontally.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-24
FREELAND, Pa, APRIL "a, 1899
Mr.. QUAY Not q Senator.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Governor Stone lost no time in ap
pointing Matthew s. Quay United States
senator. The constitution of Pennsyl'
vania gives the governor no authority
to appoint senator under any circum-
stances, but he pretends this authority
under Section 3, Article l, of the consti-
tuition of the United States, which de-
clares:
If vacancies happen by resignation or
otherwise during the recess of the legs-
lature of any state, the executive
thereof may make appointments until
the next meeting of the legislature,
which shall then fill such vacancies.
As the vacancy which the governor
assumes to fill by this appointment did
not occur during recess of the legis-
lature, but did occur while the legisla-
ture was in session, this provision of the
national constitution does not apply to
this case, and the executive has no
authority to make an appointment
The United States senate has repeat
edly had this question before it, and in
several recent cases has refused to admit
to seats senators appointed by the gov
ernor to fill vacancy occurring by the
expiration of regular term. That is a
vacancy which the constitution distinct
ly provides shall be filled otherwise-by
election by the legislature. These facts
cannot be unknown to Governor Stone,
who certainly does not expect the senate
to reverse itself and put a totally differ
ent Interpretation upon the constitution
from that heretofore held just to enable
Mr.. Quay to get seat in the senate
which the Pennsylvania Legislature de-
cided it did not want him to have.
There is no such expectation. Neither
the governor nor Mr.. Quay entertains
such hope, no matter what may be pre-
tended The appointment is intended
only for political effect. The Quay ma
chine is greatly in need of bolsterng, and
this act of Governor Stone is to bolster it
1t is expected to affect the elections Of
delegates to the Republican state con
venton to be held in August and to in
dictate that Mr.. Quay is still in contro
OF the federal patronage. As the senate
will not meet until December, and can
not before then reject Mr.. Quay's flimsl
claim, he will be carried over the cam
paign of this year. in which he has ;
deep interest, as a state treasurer is tt
be elected.
The act of the governor-mere boy
play so far as making senator is con
cerned-is conclusive, however, on on
point 1t is an assurance to the peopl
OF the state that there will be no eXtr
session of the legislature. 1t is wort
something on that account.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-24

century, though hundreds Of thou
sands of individuals, all sprung from
a single branch discovered toward the
middle of the last century upon tree
in the German forest, either directly
from CRAFTS, and now sometimes by
seeds; for the plants raised from the
seed of a purple-leaved tree preserve
more or less constantly this character
to Il greater or less degree. The seed
from certain trees yield more purple
leaved seedlings than those from other
trees, although the proportion of the
purple-leaved seedlings from the same
tree vary in different years, and
among purpleleaved seedlings there Is
| always n great variety of shades of
color. In other words, a race of pur-
ple-leaved beeches is gradually becom-
ing fixed" and If 1t was not In prac-
tice more convenient and satisfactory
to propagate the best varieties of this
tree by grating, it would doubtless be
perfectly possible, at the end OF n few
generations, to raise from seed beeches
with leaves of almost any shade OF
| purple with as much certainty as diff
ferent races of the cabbage are oh.
tanned from seed. There is no reason
to doubt, therefore, that the variety
will be as permanent as the type from
which 1t originated.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-24
THE INDIANS PROPHECY.

But | behold fearful sign,
To which the white mans eyes ar,
blind,
Before these fields were shorn an<
tiled.
Full to the brim our rivers flowed,
The melody of waters filled
The fresh and boundless wood,
And torrents dashed and rivulet,
played,
And fountains sported in the shade.
These grateful sounds are heard nc
more.
The springs are silent in the sun,
The rivers by the blackened shore,
With lessening currents run;
The realm our tribes are crushed tc
May be barren desert yet.
-Rryant
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-24
THE PURPLE BEECH
Long Lived and of Undoubted Value foi
Ornamental Planting.

Long Lived and Of Undoubted Value fol
Ornamental Planting.
The large purple beech at Wal
than, of which an illustration ap
pears here, Is no doubt one o.
the finest individuals of this vari
ETY. planted in the United States
Downing, who was familiar with tn,
Lyman Place, does not, however. men
tion it in his Landscape Gardening
written forty or fifty years ago; anC
it is probable that the specimen which
was growing at that time at Throgg'.
Neck. in Westchester County, ant
which Downing declared was the fin
est in the United States, is now, if still
alive, much larger than the Walthau
tree, which has lost a good deal from
overcrowding and from the gardeI
wall built close to the trunk, which
has destroyed the lower branches
There is no tree which demands more
room for free development than the
beech; and beech, standing on 8
lawn or in n garden. on which there
are no lower branches to sweep dowr
TO the turf, has lost large part of the
characteristic beauty which makes il
valuable. The stem of the beech, i. il
true especially of the American 'pe'
cies, has great beauty and charm
peculiar to itself, but it is in the WOOD
or in the forest that this beauty shoulc
be seen and admired: and beeches
should not be planted in ornamental
grounds where light and space cannot
be afforded them for full and un
checked growth in every direction.
The purple beech is tree of much
interest apart from its undoubted
value for ornamental planting. 1t is
one Of the few examples among trees
where an abnormal bud variety has
retained its character for more than
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-24

The Delaware and Anthracite Rail
road Company, which has road on
paper from Tomhicken to Matamoras,
running through Luzerne, Carbon and
Pike counties, was sold by the sheriff on
Thursday at Mauch Chunk to Joseph R..
Perry for 1900.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-24
PLEASURE CALENDAR.

April 2o.-Benefit hop at Yannes
opera house. Tickets, 25 cents.
May 29.-Annual ball of Fearnots
Athletic Association at Cross Creek hall.
Admission, 80 cents.
May 3O.-Annual tea party in base
ment OF the English Baptist church.
Tickets, 25 cents.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-24

Graham-By tho way, when you
we're abroad, didn't you find 1t difficult
talking French?
Rynn-Not particularly. The great
Fst difficulty was to make people un-
lcrstand it.-Boston Transcript.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-24

TREE IN ITS LEAFLEsS STATE.
AS DR.. Holmes says: "The others shirk
the work of resisting gravity, the oak
defies it. 1t chooses the horizontal d.
rection for its limbs so that their whole
weight may tell, and then stretches
them out fifty or sixty feet so that the
strain may be mighty enough to be
worth resisting"
Some trees have limbs which droop
toward the ground, while those Of
most perhaps, have an upward tenden-
cy, and others still have an upward
direction at first and later in their
growth n downward inclination, as in
the case of the elm, the birch and the
willows. Some, like the oak, have
comparatively few but large and
strong branches. while others have
many slender limbs, like some Of the
oirches and poplars.