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the tribtthste is published every friday at the-i- tribune pmtin housfc main street stouffyille subscription 100 per annum first insertion per line wild oonpajra0 et each tabequcnt innrtjoo per line o o piifoeoail cinh par year 40 rates under contract ooc cotnmn per year 00 half col uoooae year jo o quarter colomn one yax 18 kjghth column one year xo 00 for six months or three months in the same ratio ioidge bros publtsiers and proprietors fire asd life ksumscsi a g brow accnt por- oix london liverpool globe ontario mctuaj of ioniw and manttfaoturcts life and accident insurance companies lowest rates moky co loajst i am prepared to lend money at lowest rates on real estate youngfolks a problem in threes if three little houses stood in a row with never a fence to divide and if each little house had three little maids a play in the garden wide and if each little maid had three little cats three times three times three and if each little cat had three little kits how many kits would there be and if each little maid had three little friends with whom she loved to play and if each lit lo friend had three little dolls in dresses and ribbons gay and if friends and dolls and cats and kits were all invited to tea and if none of them all should send regrets how many guests would there be st nicholas jonas popkins liodel iiy a g brown obntenial 8iiavlg pari01l kirst- class shaving parlor fitted up m neatest styles hair ciiicing and shaving equal to any city barber siiop todies and childrens hair dressed hi tho latest fashion ladies please do not call on saturday after 5 p m vm a bovazr ijurkhouws block stoijffviile lumber yard w p haetney keeps constantly in stock full supply of lumber lath shingles salt plaster coal water lime plaster of paris coaltar tar paper eire brick fire clav etc ft etc cash paid for hides woolsheep skins and all kinds of grain- warehouse opposite railwiysiatlonstouffvllie telegbapjhc ticks mr gladstone has gone to scotland serious foods prevail in prussian silesia the modus vivendi fishing licenses are to be continued for this season genboulanger had a fainting fit tho other day and had to be conveyed home henry george is meeting with consider able success in his english lecturing tour it is said the efforts of the salvation army in the german capital have com pletely failed tho socialists of chicago have nominated candidates for all offices in the city elec tions prof goldwin smith was accorded an interview with president harrison this years sugar crop in the hawaiian islands will be 125000 tans the largest on record the town of plnsk russia has been de atroyed by fire six persons were burned to death a portuguese antislavery society has been formed with king luis as honorary president cholera has broken out t zimboonga in the phlllipine islands there have been 500 deaths so far empress euzsbeth of austria is so weak that ter proposed journey to wiesbaden has been postponed a french torpedo boat foundered off cher hours- in a hurricane her captain and four teen of her orew were drowned aromantlo marriage was celebrated at saratoga in the early part of the week according to a despatch the contracting parties were warren b westioott age 69 and miss jane s truman age 63 more than twentyfive years ago the parties were engaged they were abont to be married when mr weatoott tell in love with a widow and married her instead a breaoh of promise suit followed in which mr westcott was compelled to pay damages he was left a widower three years ago when he returned to his former love mrs ligntpurse here is an article in this paper entitled the worlds debt to the jews shall i read it mr llght- pnrse no thats a ohestnub i guess nearly everybody is in debt to the jews we all know that here pat this last pawn tick with the others by r b stanford it was a great surprise to chester ludlow when he found out that jonas popkin had taken pattern alter him but the way he found out that was the more surprising still i jonas was a small colored boy black as coal and cheater was a white boy the leader of all the other boys in the village jonas would have given all the world to be the sort of boy that no one dared to make sport ofjuat such a boy for instance as chester he always watched chestr when he ordered the other boys around and ho was always very s willing to be ordered around himself by chester for whose father he worked but one day something happened that taken altogether astonished jonas very much look here j nas ill tell yoa some thing if you will keep it to yourself ches ter said taking him out behind thb house ill neber say a word jonas answered guess i know how to keep muntas well as you do all right follow me and ill show yon something they went into the stable and climbed up on the haymow in a barrel under the hay chester had hidden away an old suit of clothing a mask and a wornout beaver hat these possessions he drew out article by article and exhibited im going to have a high time tonight he explained youre gwine to the masquerade np at the schoolhouse said jonas i knew that was jes what you was np to i could tole you so were going to have a roaring lot of fun chester continued but im afraid mother wont let me out after dark that was the reason everything happened as it did chesters mother did not let him ont that night until he had pleaded with her a long time and it had frown late in the meanwhile the idea had oceurred to jonas to put on the masquerade and go to that party himself if chester oould not go he would not of course want all the fixings he had hidden and jonas believed he could borrow them an hour or two without any body being the wiser the fellows will think im ches he chuckled theyll neber know the diffor- enoe if i jes cover my head and hole my tongue ill hab some fun sure 1 bis teeth chattered and he shook in his boots he was so nervous while he stood on the haymow and ohanged his clothes for the disguise if chester caught him he knew it would go bard with him but ho did not intend to let any one find out what he was doing out in the road he stopped and reflected in the moonlight there was farme- coles apple orchard whioh he would have to pass on tho way to the sohoolhouse he would never have a better chance as long as he lived to help himself to some of those apples whenever he had been in the orchard beforo he was always afraid some one wonld spy him and know that he was ludlows colored boy now no one could tell who he was io must have been abont the time jonas was olimbing over farmer colos fence that chester gained permission from his motner to go out and made tracks for the stable to array himself for tho evenings frolic he scramblod on tho haymow and made baste to get to the barrel but when he got to it of course he soon was not in the best of tempers its that little nigger ho said standing petrified and looking f crociou ly at tho moonbeams filtering through a cobwebhed window thats just who it is that little nigger jonas not a soul except him knew where those duds were and he has either hidden them somewhere else or taken them and gone to tho party himself chester searched hero and thero desperato ly a few moments upsetting all the hens that had gone to roost and frightening the horse and cow he found jonass clothes snuggled in the corncrib all was plain to him then ill fix him 1 he growled savagely bund- ling np the olothes and returning to the honse with them ten or fifteen minutes later any one on the watch might have seen a very black negro boy stealing out the back door of mr ludlows residence but no one wonld have been likely to guers that the boy was chester himself he had blaokened his face with the shoebrush and pnt on jonass olothes his straight brown hair was con cealed by an old fur cap whioh he pulled down over his ears he meant to go to tho party disguised one way or another and he meant to catch jonas if he had gone there by this time jonass indiscretion threat ened to bring dire disaster to him in more ways than one farmer cole was after him also and he carried in hand an oxgoad that had a brad in it v ill teaoh you boy not to steal apples he oried chasing jonas round and round the orchard ill teach you you young darkey to bo up to better tricks gthan snob dishcskst ones the mask and boavei hat had fallen off but jonas held them in his hand and ran with all his might farmer cole knew him and now he was in a fix sure he did n ot atop to think much however he threw him- soli over the fence and dodged among an acre of stamps nntil he escaped the old man and his goad after that he crawled away to some bushes where ho rested and re covered his breath chester looked for him in vain among the thirty or forty boys gatht red in the one room of the oldfashioned schoolhouse they were all inmasqaerade of one sort or another and he could sot easily make ont who any one was jonas was not there though in his disguise he was certain of that but he expected he would make his appearance any moment and he kept watch of the door yon keep watch too pave he said to one of his friends who bad been told the secret when he comes io well sab him before he knows where he is hold him against the wall and ill tie his hands behind him dave suggested then well drag him outdoors said chester and after that yon can settle with him added dive while this arrangement was being made jonas happened to be standing in the rear of the school honse eating an apple and looking in at one of the windows it had occurred to him that it would be best to wait a while and see what was going on be fore he ventured in among tho white boys they were having a good time there cjnld be no doobt about that shortly he discov ered there was a colored boy among them a colored boy who was blacker than even he himself was and unless his eyes de ceived him that boy had on his clothes jonas dropped his apple half eaten and moved nearer the window he felt rather scared how had that strange boy got those clothes his bur almost uncurled and stood up straight the next instant when ho saw farmer cole rush in among the crowd and seize that colored boy by the nape of the neck now then sonny shouted farmer cole come along with me 1 let goof me what are you doing chester replied resisting with all his strength come on i say and farmer cole drag ged cheater outdoors beforo he couid do anything to save himself in a few minutes everybody knew that he had been stealing apples chester was tak en by surprise he had helped himself to farmer coles apples whenever he felt like it but he had not been near the orchard for more than two weeks ho did not suppose that any one not even jonas popkin sus pected him if id got my hands on you half an hour ago when i was phasing you around those stumps boy i would shook the wind out of you said firmer colo i guess youve made a mistate mr colo chester answered i havent been near your stumpfield tonight tut tut boy dont you try that game you had a mask on and an old beaver hat but i saw your face and i followed you all the way np here to the sohoolhouse they wore walking down the road follow ed by several boys and farmer cole kept his grip on chesters collar chester guess ed as soon as he heard about the mask and beaver hat that jonas had gone to tho or chard instead of the schoolhouse it was jonas who should be punished it was jonas popkin our oolored boy you chased chester asserted stoutly re fusing to go any farther bo youre not that boy but you are blacked np to look like him farmer cole asked with some surprise halting a moment wull you are the hoy i want all the same black or white i saw yon and you cant get off that way chester was marched home to his father and mother in spite of everything ho conld say jonas was in bed up in the attio then but he could hear farmer coles voice down stairs and he knew something awful was taking place by and by somebody orept up the stairs and jonas sat np in bed near ly scared out of his wits oh i ill fix yon to morrow jonas popkin chester whispered at the door by way of comfort you wont steal any more apples in a harry i aint agwine to steal nuffin agin neber jonas answered 1 aint agwine to be like you any more you better neber steal apples any more yourself chester shut the door ho did not want to say anything more after he got into bed he lay awake half the night thinking any ono may guess what he was thinking about his thoughts did not make him feel very manly the next day windfalls f ob savages thriving on the hufvrf une ef shipwreck ed sailors a fow weeks ago the brlttsh vessel anglo india was wrecked on tho formosan coast and the natives who on about a third of the big island are still thorough savages in spite of the chinese occupancy flecked to the beach to collect their booty fourteen of tbe crew fearing to fall into the hands of tho savages put off to sea in a boat and were lost the others were taken captive deprived of their clothing and terribly mal treated the plundering of the vessel was in progress when a government boat came along drove the natives into the forest and killed three of them as a warning to the other pirates it is a lucky day for many a savage tribe when a wrecked vessel gives them a chance to exercise their thievish and murderous propensities the fierce natives of the an daman islands have only just been taught through a long and bitter series of reprisals that shipwrecked sailors are not providen tially thrown in their way as targets for their arrows ono of the greatest prizes ever taken from the ocean by uncivilized men fell a few months ago into the hands of some of the gilbert islanders and they have thus far been left in possession as their good fortune involved n j orime the british ship bock terraco was abandoned about a year ago by her crew in the pacific she was supposed to be in a sinking condition but strange to say she floated abont for several months and finally brought her cargo ol oil and general stores to one of the gilbert islands the joy of the islanders knew no bounds when they found that the winds and waves had wafted them so bountiful a treasure they unloaded the vessel enricjied themselves rith the cargo and the insurance company whioh meanwhile has paid 125000 to the owners will hardly look to the islanders for reimbursement the united states government sent agents thousands of miles to reward the chook- chees cf behring strait for their hospitality to the unfortunate orew of the burned steam er ridgera and those other dwellers by the arotio ocean who saved the lives of a part of the jcannette expedition thus tho recognition of services rendered by uncivil ized peoples to seafarers in distress as well as the retribution visited upon others is lessening the perils of sailers who are cast away in savage lands probably the eskimos of king wi hams luid do not know to this day what a chance they lost to win the worlds favor and sub stantial rewards when they destroyed almost every vestige of the franklin expedition and nsed to kindle their fires the precious records that would have given us the story of that tragical voyage multiplication vs addition i pioked up one of tho daily papers the other day and read this item the around er dropped into the postoffice yesterday to post a little billet to a maiden and while buying his stamp saw a boy slowly countng a sheet of twocent stamps any ordinary person to be sure they were tho right number would have oounted how many there were in the top row oounted the number of rows multiplied and got the result not so tho boy patiently ho told over every stamp on the sheet until he had ascertained there was just a hundred when he sighed for relief and trotted away now a boy who would waste j time like that can never make his mark in this busy world in doiug any work we all want to do it tho best way but wo must learn next how to do it tho beat way in the least time we must locrn to use the multiplication table in everything we do one aftornoon this week i got into a cir on tho elevatsd road going uptwn as i stepped into the car i saw the top of a small felt hat between two of the cross seats i took one of the seats across the isle on his knees was a brighteyed newsboy about eleven or twelve years old he was busily folding papers every paper was folded perfectly even and carefully oreased in the middle after folding about twothirds of what he had he wrapped them- in a piece of black oilcloth but wrapped in suoh a way that he could easily get at them the re mainder were as carelnlly oreased and fold ed and laid in a pile outside of the others why do you not pnt them inside with others i asked canse then i could not reach them so fast 1 dont want em all to get wet ill keep the rest dry till these are gone and he left the car whistling going out into the fog and rain another thing i noticed before onr train went out of the station the down train came in with the front platform crowded with newsboys who were pushing and el bowing each other and left the train yelling like young comanches the newsboy in our train looked up with a smile and said some of them fellows will get left why i i asked 111 sell most of my papers before them fellers gets thelrn i always get down early ye catch the fellers then that leaves their up- town offices early i feel pretty sure that boy will be more than a newsboy before he is mnch older he was careful prompt and alort he would rue the multiplication table in busi- the pate op an apei0an king the downfall ofsirsigs the bloody the fate of king mwanga recently the bloodthirsty tyrant of uganda shows that spaedy retribution can overtake oruelty and injustice even in the heart of pagan africa almost the only person in the world to give him now a helping hand la the missionary mackay whom mwonga often threatened with death and kept a prisoner for many months afier he had slaughtered his christian subjects and murdered bishop hannington this fallen king who a few months ago numbered his army by many thousands and his subjects by millions was at last ac counts 300 miles from his country virtu ally a prisoner in the hands of arals he feared the arabs would send him back to uganda to be murdered and so sent a mes sage to mackay imploring him to oome to mugu and take him away take me any where you like he said or slay me if you like he added that he would go to eu rope if mackay would take him thero for he had heard that a big kiig in great trouble meaning napoleon iii ha a once been welcomed to england when driven out of bis country mr mackay when he wrote was about to start for magu in the hope of getting the fallen king away from the arabs and removing him to a place of safety if the english send an expedition here mwan- ga used to say to mackay i will kill you it becomes me writes mackay now to do all in my power to retnrn good or evil what a remarkable opportunity to show forth the teachings of his master and how nobly this humble missionary is improving k t how it feels to be eaten three eminent men dave asserted that it is not painful sir lyon piayfair recently related tba he knew three men who escaped with thoi lives after being partially devoured by wild beasts the first was livingstone the great africen traveler who was knocked on his baok by a lion which began to munoh his arm he asserted that he felb lo fear or paiu and that his only feeling was one of intense curiosity as to whioh part of his body the hon would take next the next was ruttem pasha now turkish ambassador in london a bear attacked him and tore off part of his hand and part of his arm and shoulder he also said that he had neither a sense of pain nor of fear but that ho felt excessively angry because the bear grunted with so muoh satisfaction in munching him the third case is that of sir edward bradford an indian officer now occupying a high position in the indian office ho was seized in a solitary place by k tiger which held him firmly behind his shonlder with one paw and then deliberately devoured the whole of his arm beginning at the end and onding at the shoulder ha was very positive that ho had no sensation of fear and thinks that he felt a little pain when the fangs went through his hand but is certain that he felt none during the munohing of his arm how the bomans enioyed life the lavish expenditure of the romans on the cans the great meal of the day was often fabulous vitelline is actually re ported to have squandered 400 sestertia about 3228 on his daily supper though surely this must be a monstrous exagger ation 1 the celebrated least to which he in v ted his brother lucius cost 3000 aes tertia oi 40350 suetonius relates that it consisted of 2000 different dishes of fish and 7000 of fowls and this did not ex haust the bill of fare his dally food was luxurious and varied beyond precedent the deserts ot lydia the shores of spain and the waters of the carpathian seas were diligently searched to furnish his table with dainties while the savage wilds of britain had to bear their pirt in replenishiog his larder ha 1 he reigned long josepnus says that he would have ex hausted the wealth of the roman empire itself ielius verus another of these worthies was eoually profuse in the ex travagance of his suppers it la said that a single entertainment to which only a dczan guests were invited cost 6000000 sesterces- 6000 sestertia that is or nearly 48500 history relates that his whole life was passed eating and drirking in the voluptuous retreats of daphne or at the luxurious banquets of antioch so profuse indeed was the extravagance of those times that to entertain an emperor was to face al most certain ruin one dish alone t the table of holiogabalas is said to havj cost about 4oc0 of our money no wonder these imperial feasts were lengthened ont for hours and that every artifice often re volting in the extreme was nsed to prolong the pleasure of eating or that pmloxenus should have wished that he had the throat of a crane with a delicate palate all the way down one does not like to associate the name of julius ciesar with habits of low gluttony that would disgrace a prize fighter and yet if our memory does not play us false even he did not disdain to take emetics to return to his banquets with a keen appetite the national review an insulted bridegroom is this the editor yes sir what can i my namesir is grumpy 1 was marri ed lost week let me offer my congratulations mr grumpy i am glad to see you by the way we published in this mornings paper quite a full account of your wedding yes bir i saw it you have come perhaps to order some extra cop i have come sir for personal satisfac tion yonr reporter asked for photographs of mrs grumpy and mysslf to use in writ ing up tho wedding sir yes didnt he he said he would have engravings made from them and run them in with tho article he wrote about the affair yes was there any and some lopeared wopper- jawed bowlegged gourdhead of a printer in this office mixed np the portraits sir you pub lished me this moraing sir in your adver tising columns as a tennessee barber who had suffered for fifteen years with a lame baok and a sore throat and had been cured by twentybeven bottles of dr bllljaws- compoun j of hankus pankus and you run the portrait of that infernal tennessee bar ber in yonr account of my wedding sir yon can stop my paper sir and now will you show me the typesetting- department of this office i am on the war path this morning sir bigger than a grizzly bear and i am goin to find the man that mixed those cuts and reorganize him from the ground up 1 in the excitement and confusion that fol lowed some one hastily turned in a fire alarm and it took the entire department and a squad of police to quench the fiery- young man english gall the following three aive tl exeatirecently- appeared in an english paper wanted an ablebodied man at oo uutry rectory willing to make himself generally ns ef ul must have thorough knowledge of ohltuens pigs and understand milking must be able to drive horses and groom them ring the ohnrch bolls dig graves be oheerfal mourner and not object to carry coffin where parlor maid is kept a pious youug man desires to be receiv ed into a respectable family where the excellence of bis example and superior mor ality might bo considered as an equivalent for board and lodgings adoption youth 19 highly rcspeotable family gentlemanly appearance is willing to be adopted reasons and particulars on application he know how it was- miss silkington dresses very handsome ly doesnt she remarked a yonng lady to bllven yes i believe she does you should have seen her yesterday evening her jewelry is gorgeous is it perfeotly magnlfioent she had four- large handsome diamonds yes i know said bliven absent- mindedly she drew one card and you held np three aces and bet them till she- called yon and showed that shed caught the other one i know how it is the railroad commissitoners of massa chusetts have made a report to the legisla ture in which they strongly recommend the heating of cars with steam from the engine they were inclined to think that the danger of the pipes bursting by reason of inability to control the pressure from the engine was very remote indeed they believed that the advantages of the system were so obvious that the companies would in time adopt it without compulsory legislation somo com- m tt pantes however aro opposing tfco reform ness instead of addition christian union strenuously what she knew abont him what do any of you know about wash- ington ohildren asked a teacher in the school on thursday one brightfaced youngster put up his- hand well willie what do you know about washington he was the first president of the united states leplled the boy there was silence then for quite a minute this seemed to have exhausted the stock of information until at length a triumphant smile about alittle girls mouth broke out on the general area of perplexed faces like a splash of sunshine on a muddy pool a little hand went up well annie what can you tell ns about washington said the teacher with an encouraging smile please maam hes dead answered the little girl french biography has just received an addition in a study of francis the first and his times by madame c colgnet