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EATING HOPPERs.
Hlipinos Really Have a Way of Cooking
and Eating Them.

In a recent letter to friend resid-
ing IN this country an American sol
der doing service in the PHILIPPINES,
writes thathe has learned something
since hezstruck that country THAT
is how to catch grasshoppers and
prepare them for food. The Fill
pinos not only make grasshopper
pies and cakes, butthey pound them
into powder, and sleeping them in
water, drink it.
There are several methods used
by the natives for catching grass
shoppers. The most effective is the
net. This a large butterfly net,
arranged with netting placed over
a loop and to the latter is fixed a long
handle and with the mouth OF the
net toward the grasshoppers, he
PUSHES forth, bagging considera-
bic numbers of them alta time.
Then we have the paddle meth
cd, which consists in using a
long stick, to the end OF which is
fixed a piece of Hat wood about ten
inches in diameter, If the grass
hoppers pass over one s own prop
ertv this method is used, for then
all the grasshoppers killed by swing
ing this instrument through the
clouds of grasshoppers as they pass
over are dropped to the ground and
can be picked up at leisure. Another
method consists in exploding car
tridges in the midst of the swarm.
After an effective explosion the
ground is covered with them. But
this is very expensive and is seldom
used. Grasshopper catching is a
profitable business in the Philip
pines. They sell at SO a sack.
81 never saw a native eat a green
grasshopper but have seen
them eat the dried ones by the
pocketful The housewife in the
Philippines takes considerable de-
light in placing a nice grasshopper
pie before you. Great care is taken
in preparing them, 50 that they do
not lose any Of their form
When you want good hay,order from
g. q. Tobias. the hay man. 48-tf.
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The Place to Settle.

The Place to Settle.
Parties knowing themselves indebted
to me for blacksmith work are req uest
ed to call at Jos. Muehlbauer's wagon
shop and settle at once.
]. r.. LOHRENZ
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The gazette, 81. SO per year.

Draft and driving horses for sale on
easy terms, BY Farrell s. Keefe. s6-t
The National tribune., 1901-08-15

There is no substitute for Mr.. Greeley's
great work. 1t is a matchlcss story of
mighty events which covered a period of
the Nations growth from the beginning
of the Government to the close of the re-
bellion. This work is so important a coz
tribution to our literature that no library
can lay claim to being complete without
it. 1t is scarcely possible to be thorough
ly acquainted with the up-growing of the
American Nation out of collection of
struggling colonies until finally cemented
into one homogeneous union by the civil
war without reading this book. Our edi-
ton of this great work is exactly iden-
teal in matter, size of page and type and
illustrations with the original There has
been no abridgeInent or curtailment of
single line anywhere, but in addition to
the original work we have added a brief
sketch of the life of Horace Greeley.
We have the sole right to publish an
edition of The American Conflict at
price which brings it within the reach Of
many who hesitated to buy a>set of books
the cost of which varied, according to the
binding, from So to S13.
All who are interested in political af-
fairs, or in the study of the great ques-
tons which for more than 50 years di-
yided the country practically in two, and
everyone interested as a participant in the
various wars in which we have engaged
should have this work. Mr.. Greeley pos
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land Soon corps after corps moved on
Washington.
On Sept 10 our regiment started, and,
recrossing the Potomac at Georgetown,
reached the Capital, which was in state
of great excitement.
LEES INVASION.
The threatened invasion of the North
ern States, and the dire rumOFs that the
Capital itself was menaced, was sufficient
material for the most intense feeling, and
the progress of the Army of the Potomac
was watched with anxiety; the citizens
greeted them with great demonstrations
of affection and delight. In their COM
pact ranks and brown faces they showed
little of the wreck of the Peninsula, and
the recruits since received greatly en-
larged their columns.
The days rapid marching, under a hot
sun, and over dusty roads, brought us TO
Rockville and Clarksburg, halting on the
night of the 18th, near HyattstOwn-a
most insignificant place, with scarcely
provision enough to feed a chicken.
A place called Urbana is another effort
Of mind over matter, but is somewhat
dignifed by its vicinity to Monacacy Sta
ton.
We stayed here a few hours, and then
resumed our march, arriving at Fred
erick City, in Maryland. In these four
days the 9Th marched nearly 100 miles,
in the best possible humor, and every
day in anticipation of an engagement. The
regiment passed Immediately through
Frederick, by way of Middletown, and,
joined in the well-fought field of Ante
tam, our regiment being employed in sup
porting Gritiin's United States Battery d.
ITO be continued
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How Life Motion Pictures Are Made.

Life-motiOn pictures are made with one
type of camera and projected by two
kinds of machines, says Everybody's
Magazine. The mOving-picturc camera Is
arranged so that. when turned by a crank,
either by hand or by an electric motor,
the senSitiZed film passes behind the lens
at rate of 800 feet per minute. But TO
make each picture, this film must come
to dead stop for One-seventieth part
OF a second, during which time the shut
ter of the camera opens and closes. Then
in less than the hundredth part of a sec
ond the film moves down about two inches
and the process is repeated until the pic
ture is finished. From one.half of a min
ute to a minute is sufficient time to take
ordinary scenes in lifc-motion; 500 or 600
men marching eight abreast can pass at
n walk a given point in one minute; and
so, in taking life-motion photographs of a
parade, the operator of the camera turns
ON his machine only at the moment i'm
p0rtant personageS are passing. Pictures
three minutes in length or longer are
often taken, but experience has shown
that long pictures on the biograph grow
tiresOme.
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THE BATTLE OF SANTIAGO.
An Empire Wiped OF the Map in 90
Minutes"
(Scribner's Magazine.)
1t was 80 minutes past 8.

(Scribner's Magazine)
1t was 80 minutes past 8.
ITS church service" he said. 81 can
see them carrying out the Chaplain's read
ing desk on the Indiana" The press
boat pushed her way nearer into the
circle of battleships until their leaGen-
hued hulls lowered high above her. On
the dock of each, the ships company
stood ranged in motiOnless ranks. The
calm of a Sabbath morning hung about
them, the sun fell upon them like ben
edictiOn, and so still was the air that
those on the press boat could hear, from
the stripped and naked decks, the voices
of the men answering the roll call in ris-
ing monotone, zone, two, three, four; one
two, three, four" The whitehead sailors
might have been chorus of supplied
choir boys.
But up above them the battie-fags
slumbering at the mast-heads stirred rest
lesSly, and whimpered in their sleep.
Out through the crack in the wall of
mountains, where the sea runs in to meet
the waters of Santiago Harbor, and from
behind the shield of Moro Castle, a great,
gray ship, like great, gray rat, stuck
out her nose and peered about her, and
then struck boldly for the sea. High be-
fore her she bore the gold and blood-rad
flag of Spain, and like a fugitive leap
ing from behind his prison walls she raced
forward for her freedom, to give battle,
to meet her death.
A shell from the Iowa shrieked its
warning in a shrill crescendo, a futter Of
flags painted their message against the
sky. The enemy's ships are coming out. .
they signaed, and the ranks of Whitehead
figures which the moment before stood
motionless on the decks, broke into thou
sands Of separate beings, who flung them
selves painting down the hatchways, or
sprang cheering to the fighting tops
Heavily but swiftly, as islands slip into
the water when Il volcano shakes the
ocean-bed, the great battleships buried
their bows in the sea, their sides ripped
apart with flame and smoke, the thuli,
der Of their guns roared and beat against
the mountains, and from the shore the
Spanish forts roared back at them, until
the air between was split and riven. The
Spanish warships were already scuddiEg
clouds of smoke, pierced with flashes of
red flame, and as they fled fighting, their
batteries ratified with unceasng, feyerish
fury. But the guns of the American
ships, straining in pursuit, answered
steadily, carefully, with relentless acct
racy, with cruel persistence. At regular
intervals they doomed above the hurr-
cane of sound like great bells tolling for
the dead.
1t seemed to Charming that he had
lived through many years; that the strain
of the spectacle would leave its mark upon
his nerves forever. die had been buff
fetcd and beaten by a storm of all the
great emotions; pride of race and coun-
try, pity for the dead, agony for the dy-
ing, who chung to blistering armOr-plates,
or sank to suffocation in the sea; the lust
of the hunter, when the hunted thing is
fellOw-man; the joys of danger and of
| excitement, when the shells dashed the
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waves about him, and the triumph OF vic
tory, final, overwhelming, and complete.
Four of the enemy's squadron had
struck their cOlors, two were on the
beach, broken and burning: two had sunk
to the bottom of the sea; two were in
abject fight. Three battleships were
hammering them with 13-inch guns. The
battle was won.
IFS all over" Claiming said. His
tone questioned his own words.
The Captain of the tug-bOat was star
ing at the face of his silver watch, as
though it were thing bewitched. lie
was pale and painting. He looked at
Claiming piteously, as though he doubted
his own senses, and turned the face of
the watch toward him.
Twenty minutesr' Claiming said.
"Good God, Twenty minutesl'
He had been to hell and back again in
20 minutes. He had seen an empire
which had begun with Christopher Co
lumbus and which had spread over two
continents, wiped off the map in 20 min
uteS.
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EXCUSE Ne, GINERAL, u THOUGH
breaking out Of ,he rebellion, he threw
aside his legal pursuits, and took an ac-
tive part in the organization of the 9th
and came with it into the field with the
rank of Captain. For ''meritonous and
gallant conduct at the battle of the Chick
ahominy" he was raised. upon the death
of Col. Cass, to the Colonc.cy of the 9th
by a special order of Gen. FitZ-John Por-
ter, who commanded the corps upon the
Peninsula, which special order was pub
lished in all the papers of Massachusetts
after its receipt at the State House, by
order of His Excellency, Gov. John \.
Andrew, and was really the only public
acknowledgment made of the services of
the regiment that had done so much.
Col. Quincy assumed command of the
9th at Harrison's Landing in August,
1862.
AT HARRIsoN's LANDING.
The country in the vicinity of Harri-
sons Landing has been aptly termed the
Eden of Virginia." but, when the army
of Mcclellan gathered itself together the
morning after the terrible battle of Nal
vern Hill, and moved toward the Land
ing, the ripening fields of wheat and
corn, in all their golden luxuriance, were
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tfampled under feet, and the beautiful
picture Of plenty and peace passed like
a mirage from the view; and before the
night Of that day the scene that present
ed itself dsies description. 1t was a
desolate sight to behold the remnant of
that once splendid Army of the Potomac
huddled together under the pelting storm,
without shelter, without food, knee-deep
in mud, weary and exhausted, vainly
seeking dry spot wherein to stretch
their sore and tired limbs.
In spite Of the great discomforts of
that day, one could scarce forbear smiling
as he beheld the soldiers plodding their
way through the mud. a step, and down
they would go, leaving shoes and boots
behind them with placid resignation,
knowing that it was useless to struggle,
and finally sinking from sheer exhaustion.
Millions worth of property was de-
stroyed upon the route. In the fields,
wagons and commissary stores of all
kinds were piled together and burned to
prevent them from falling into the hands
of the enemy,
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periences of cavalryman than there is
to be found in this story. The reader
of these pages will go with the author
into his life and see how the boy was
transformed into soldier; will march
with him over mountains and across riv>
ers; will camp on the hillside and stand
guard in the moonlight and in the rain
storm; will be with him as a videt in the
lonely forest, and again in the wild charge.
The humorous, the pathetic, the pre-
posterous, the extravagant phases of war
are all told with the pen of a master.
Finally comes grim battle, the defeat, the
surrender, the travelling through the South
as Il prisoner of war; the experiences in
Richmond prisons and at CHASTITY Belle
Isle; then comes the climax i'll the prison
stockade at Andersonville itself, with its
10000 men, it's poverty, its starvation, its
death. All these things are told with the
dramatic power Of truth, and they are
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YOU w 40 EoOhE VI HER LOAf Ell.
Barrels of sugar. coffee, pork, rice,
beans and boxes of bread were recklcssly
flung into the roads, or piled in masses
and set fire to.
Public and private stores shared the
same fate. The luXuries of the General
We're flung into the same blaze that con-
sumed the coarse necessarics of the sol
der. No distinctions were made: destruc-
ton was the order of the day; and every
thing that could not be transported was
given over to the destroying element.
When the soldiers witnessed this dire
destruction, they could no longer doubt
the magnitude of their misfortune. Those
ard they turned their eyes, sad and
dispirited, in the direction of the Land
ing, where We're gathered the transports
that were soon, they supposed. to take
them from the scenes of their great dis
asters.
The rebel army was, however, in a
far worse condition than ourselves. They
were actually starving, and fortunately
for us, in the language Of the Prussian
officer, Col. Estyan, they had no army
with which to pursue us"
Officers Of every grade were down at
the Landing, having no commands, and
waiting for an opportunity to get aboard
the transports. One of these, Gen. f.,
was engaged in a controversy with one OF
our meE, Peter McQueeny, a quaint fel-
low, of infinite humor.
The General had ordered Peter to do
something, which the latter refused, on
the ground that the General had no com
mand over him, and had no straps upon
his shoulder to indicate his rank.
The National tribune., 1901-08-15
81 Klegg and Shorty.
Their Transformation From
Raw Recruits to Veterans.
BY JOHN McELROY.
Over 1000 Pages of the Most Enter
tanning and Thrilling Adventures,
in Three Volumes, PrOfusely
Illustrated.
81 klsss


Their experiences form those of the raw
recruit, and in the course of time the sea-
soned veteran.
They encounter the dangers of the bat
tleheId and the WEAKNESS of the tlreSome
march and suffer Imprisonment Under
all these circumstances these boys do their
part manfully, having their ups and downs,
their hard times and their good times,
with succession of comical blunders,
brilliant achievements and stirring adyen-
lures which make up the panorama of q
soldiers daily life.
Many other characters are introduced.
Among them may be mentioned little Pete
Skidmore, the Jew Spy, and Deacon
Klegg, Sis pap" who visits the army tc
see the boys, and falls into many trying
places, from all of which, however, the old
mans hard sense and good fortune COM
bined eXtricate him, and he goes back full
of experiences to relate to mother and
the girls"
These sketches have been laughed at
and cried over in 10000 homes of veterans,
| in Post rooms, at Camphres, and wher-
ever the survivors of the war have gath
cred by twos or threes or by hundreds.
Their adventures are still continued In
The NATIONAL TRIBUNE, as may be found
by consulting the fourth page of this is
sue.
Whoever Is DESTROYS of reading
story as entertaining as Robinson
Crusoe, and at the same "catch up
so to speak, with this famous serial az
it is running in the paper, should order
these volumes.
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have the same fascination winch atteha
the exploits of freebooters, the daring of
navigators in unknown seas and the do
ings of hunters in untrodden wIlds.
Such a narrative is the one told by the
Boy Spy in Dixie 1t is a relation of
stirring episodes among enemies, in the
face of the gibbet. The author, while
a mere youth, was sent by the great War
Secretary into the heart of the Confed-
eracy.
Here in the midst of constant peril he
watched the doings of Jeff Davis and his
Cabinet and the Confederate Congress,
and by means of a correspondence in cy-
pher sent forward day by day to the Gov
eminent at Washington the reports of his
observations. His experiences were va,
ried and trying. At times he was in the
confidence of those high in authority in
suspicion. Finally, by stress of circum-
stances, he was compelled to enlist and
become a Confederate artilleryman; and,
being ordered with the command, deserted,
finding his way once more to the prOtec-
ton of the Union flag. No sooner had he
reported at Washington, however, than
he was again sent on a perilous expedi-
ton within the Confederate lines. Every
day added to his jeopardy. He was not
only Union spy, but rebel deserter.
The above two volumes, post
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enc year, and five guess Ct ~
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minute will he three inches wide and
800 feet long On it will be l,S00 sepa-
rate photographs Of the subject The
camera makes exposures at the rate OF
50 distinct snapshots per second, and the
biograph or mutoscope (by which name
the two forms of reproducing apparatus
are distinguished exhibit them TO the
spectator at the same rate of speed. The
eye cannot detect where one picture joins
another, for they pass at the rate Of 1900
pictures per minute.-Everybody's Maya,
zine
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tention upon the ever
changing panorama Of
active warfare, the voice
Of heroes dying in prison
pens was lost. No news
came from the men herd
ed like cattle beyond the
mountains of the South.
The Nation knew little
OF the horrors behind
the stockade.
The author of Ander-
sonville has told a thrill
ing story. If it has hor-
rors they are not of his
invention.
The book, however.
will be found to treat not
only of prison life, but to
abound In incidents of
the camp, the march,
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Developed Biograph F,lm.

A developed biograph film is simply a
ribbon of semi-transparent celluloid, three
inches wide, on which appears a success
sion of pictures. These pictures are two
inches high and cover the film to its sire
edges, while between each picture there
is a margin of one-sixteenth of an inch.
A picture-film of a scene that has lasted
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campaign upon the Peninsula was fail
ure.
Col. P. R. Quincy, who succeeded Col.
Cass in command of the 9th, was born
in Ireland, in Parkstown, in the County
of Tipperary, having come to this coun
try when a boy of eight. He was edu-
Gated to the profession of law, and ad
mitted to practice in 1856. Upon the
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sessed the wonderful faculty Of being able
not only to write forcibly upon civil af-
fairs, but also to describe campaigns in
n most graphic manner; therefore, no his
tory of the war of the rebellion written
since his time SURPRISES in interest the
work which he began and finished while
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II T is i'm possible, | pc

T is I'm po S ible,
briefly, to give an ad-
equate description of
the scope and char
acter of this immor-
tai chapter in the
history of the civil
war. 1t deals with a
great subject, and
one little understood,
because it was a
tragedy enacted be-
hind the scenes, OBJ
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secured BY the smoke Of battle in
front. While the public was kept
daily Informed of march and siege and
desperate attack and repulse, fixing the at
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The Boy Spy in Dixie.
BY J. o. KERBEY.
Over $50 Pages; Fully Illustrated
In Two Volumes; Leatherette
Covers.

Fl p mystery
which which en-
shrouds the life
of a spy is one
of the neverfat
ing charms OF
the stories of
war. The ex-
periences of the
men who take
their lives in
their hands when
they enter the
contest of subteT
fu & e, risking
death in the bat
tie of wit and
deceit, fall upon
ears that never
tire. Stories of
such adventures
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Start "pyramid - this ,oeek. For
explanation read "Ho1O to get 600
Gues8es," on first page.
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tennber they be bought at
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Palmer, Neb., Jan. 20, 1899.
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Ovid, Me-, Dec IA.
Editor National Tribune: Greeley's
American Conflict came to hand, and l
don't hesitate to say it is far beyond my
expectations. 1t is in my opinion the
greatest book over published 1t is print
ed on good, hard paper, in large, clear
type, and is bound neatly, substantially
and ornamentally. Yours truly,
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