Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-10-24

Ihe coolest courage In time OF war
is not always shown by the officer or
soldier. The surgeon and ambulance
nurse carry on their work of saving
life as undismayed in the midst of shot
and shell as the men whose work it is
to take it.
An anecdote is often told by the sea-
faring folk who live on the shores of
Buzzard's Bay, of a certain DR.. Eben-
ezer Swift, who went from among them
to serve In the Mexican war. He was
Surgeon in Gen. Kearney's division un-
der Gen. Scott through all the battles
of the campaign.
During the battle of Molino del Rev,
he was SO busily occupied with the
wounded that he did not perceive that
the American lines had fallen back,
and that he was left exposed to rak.
ing fire from the enemy.
Gen. Worth, passing, ordered him
sharply to fall back, adding: "You
are drawing the fire from ChapuI.
tepec."
The busy Doctor glanced up at the
clouds of smoke and dust, and an.
swered, absently:
"In a moment, sir. After another
amputation.
A similar story is told of three
American surgeons who volunteered
their services to the Russian army
during the war of the Cimea. They
soon were disgusted with the poverty
and the savage butcheries on both
sides; but in every battle they were in
the thickest of the fight, dragging out
the wounded and aiding them, al.
though they were repeatedly warned
to fall back to the surgeons tents in
the rear.
topol, the Russian officers were in
censed at seeing these young fellows
busy at their work in the most exposed
part of the field. An orderly was sent
to them with an angry message. He
galloped up, and, with a volley OF
oaths, demanded, as from the COM
manding officer, what they were there
for?"
One of them, covered with blood,
looked up with smile.
"Tell the General" said he "that we
are here to remind the world of civiliz-
alton in the midst of this brutality"
he was COns0led.
A New Yorker who met O Kansas
man at one of the hotels the other day
heaved sigh as he said:
u was In your town two years ago,
and that piece of property west of the
railroad station was offered to me for
$50, 0,000."
Eyes"
II hear that it was sold last year for
$75, 5000"
at was"
"What short-sighted people some of
OF us are. Had l bought at $4,000 1
could now probably sell for 100000.
Think of that"
My dear friend, let me console you.
This piece Of property can be bought
to-day for $4,000. The boom has
passed. ."-Ne,o York Sun.
Profits OF Street Beggars.
A pinched and gray old woman sat
at the corner of Thirty fourth street
and Park avenue the other night grind
ing an unmusical music box. Few
persons passed the corner, and I said
to my companion, a resident of the
neighborhood: Surely she can't make
living from aims on this corner?"
Yes, she can" was the reply. "Her
predecessor died q few years ago, leav-
ing behind $1,000 in hard cash, and
she had enjoyed cosy home from her
earnings for many years. Street beg
gars in New York have no standing in
the eye Of the law, 1 believe, and I
should not be surprised if the police,
who thrive ON every form of illegality,
exact blood money from the shiver-
ing wretches who live upon the bounty
of the sentimental. ."-NeU York Star.
New YORK journalism is at a very
low ebb when it gives columns to some
"King OF the Dudes" as it has done.
Yet it Sneers at the rural" newspaper.
Germany's army last year cost S121,.
061. 900.