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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

THERE is no apparent limit to the
feats of instantaneous photography. 1t
has caught Lall players in the act of
pitchin ., running bases, striking a ball
and catching fly. 1t hns rhotogi 2hed
running and trotting horses, and it has
taken successful picture of flash of
lightn ne. Until lately it has stopp~ d
at bullet shot from rife, but by an
ingenious use of electricity even that
swift and diminutive object has been
photographed. The camera is provided
with an extremely sensitive plate, and
the bullet is fired in a dark room. Asit
IA ses the camera it breaks an electric
current by which it is illuminated fol
an nstant when its image is t!ansfXed
on the sensitive plate.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

WHILE the world at large has been in
terested of late in vario. matters of in
ternational Importance change of ad-
min stration has taken place i'll a Euro
pean State which as been left almost
unnoticed. The new egents OF the
Republic of San Marino /, menico
Battoii and Narino Ni:olino have en-
ed upon the discha ge of their diff
cult duties In their opening address
they declared it fluid IN entail principle
of their ogramme to live in pt ace with
the States of Europe and the res OF the
world.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

An when the rascal turned to fight he jest lam
basted him
An used him up most scandalous, did Big
Mouth Jim.
The fun of the whole bizness was that old man
That Jim was right in all he did, an wouldn't
bounce him, nor
Allow him to be put upon or bullyragged agin !;
But perfection wasn't needed for nobody cared
Distinction as the second man as Big Mouth
had licked;
So Jim went on la-workin' like before he ever
kicked
An everybody stood in awe an much respected
An the world begin to brighten up fer Big Mouth
Jim.
Then one day oI Mis- Thomas who was watchin'
things quits sly,
Give Jim q kind o. gentle hint-a twinkle In her
eye
An Jim, who hadn't never hoped TO nave q word
to say, u,
Was made to sorter realize MS love wan
throwed away;
He couldn't scarce believe II, Dut ne Draceu MS
nerve and went -.
To Jennie, an he told her how he loved her, all
content
To jest say nothn', an be round where she might
smile on him,
But now he hoped she'd be tho vile of Big Mouth
Jim.
An Jennie-well, II you're a man. you know
how womer are;
When loves weigred in the balance they amt
Iankin' varv far
Fer fancy togs an beauty-what they wants {
al good plain man;
They amt a-findn' nary fault with Natures
general plan.
Tho rest of it all happened like story or G
play
The weddin was all reg'lar in the good old-fash
ioned way,
An when the FEAST was over an the lamps was
burnin dim,
Old Thomas sprung big surprise on Big Mouth
Jim,
He told how Jennie's parents had both died
when she was small
An how they left to him in trust for her their
farm an all
An how she was Of age that day an he allowed
at she
Would henceforth need the title deeds to all heI
property;
Well, Jim was all kerfummuxed like, but Jen.
ME simply took
The deeds an give 'em to him with q mighty
,-- maltin look.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28
A Professional Hitch.

A middle-aged farmer came to a
young Vermont minister the other day
and said: "Parson, / don't want to
trouble ,ye too much, but l wish ye'd
tie the knot for me and 'Lizebeth oyer
again"
why SOP" asked the young man.
Weren't you legally married before ?"
Yes, L suppose so," was the reply,
but twas done by a justice of the
peace and was kinder cheap job. I'd
be willin' to pay two dollars for a
ginooine perfeshional hitch" - Bur
lington Free Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

An when the day was ended an the field work
He stabbed all ithe hosses and he fed EN-, every
An then he'd milk an do the chores with hunger
rackin' him,
An eat cold grub an crawl to bed, would Big
Mouth Jim.
You know how that thing works. O. course;
About the way the willin' hoss A hustled on an
spurred
An made to do three times as much as him at
jest hangs back
An std Of pulln' steddy lets the tugs git sorter
Well, that's the way it was with Jim; young
Thomas seemed to think
He needed slathers of hard work an little eat or
drink
So Jim worked mighty late at night an in the
mOrnin' clim
Out of his bunk afore the rest, did Big Mouth
Jim.
He never seemed to mind it an he never made
Nor kicked fer higher wages as was reglar like
An SO we got to devlin' him, made bleeve onct
he was sick
An dosed him with hoss medicine, cupful ut
q lick
An then we sneaked his Sunday shoes an spiked
'em to the floor
An spoiled 'em so they wouldn't keep out water
any more
We sprinkled sand-burrs In his bed-his sleep
that night was slim
Oh, we made it mighty iocular fer Big Mouth
Jim.
An all this time he never got riled up or said
word;
He seemed as sunny-tempered as chirpin
woodland bird;
But when we grabbed his Sunday hat an jabbed
1t full of holes
He smiled SO sorter sickly like 1t acted like hot
Goals
On me an let up on him, but Thomas didn't
care;
He hunted up some smelln' stuff that wouldn't
take a dare
From any skunk at ever lived an smuggled IL
to Tim.
Who spilled it.accidentally onJBig- Mouth Jim.
Nobody couldn't stand lhim near fer purity nigh
week,
An when he showed up fer his grub all us boys
took n sneak
The clothes was buried by the barn an Jim went
bout his work.
Which all this time KEEP CROWN, but he never
no shirk,-
An took it Jest cheerful as the measley jokes
We played.
An the never was an instance of single kick
He was full of ripe good nature an of kindness
to the brim,
An he couldn parently git mad, this Big Mouth
Jim.
But one day young Bill Thomas-he was mighty
mean an low
Was orneriern ever an he had to up an go
An slap his cousin Jennie durin dinner time
when Jim
Was eatin'-have you ever seen cat jump from
limbP
Well, then you know how Jim he jumped and
grabbed his boss throat,
An then he stood an shook him till he couldn't
a
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

THE area of the unreclaimJ d swamp
and marsh land in the Uuitel States
which can lie drained and brought under
cultivation is equal to that of all the
cultivated lands, or nearly 800, 100000
acres. Much OF this land could lie re.
claimed without great difficulty or eX-
pense, and would make farmland of
great value.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28
An Old Slaves Return.

John Hardin (colored), of Ottawa,
Canada, who ran away slave from
Flemingsburg, KY, in 1910, went back
the other day to gather up his family.
He has prospered since his flight He
found one son whom he left prattling
child, O grandfather. The rest of the
family we're dispersed in some slave
sale, and all trace is lost.--[ Cincinnati
Enquirer, :.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28
A Patient Entomologist.

Professor Lintner, bugolist, says
that there are million sp les of in
sects in the world The fact that the
insect tribe is so numerous is not as re-
markable rs that Professor Linter
should have had enough time and pa
tience to tray el around the world count
ing them. Norristown Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

There come in early spring cuss called Big
Mouth Jim.
He wasn't good to look at he was uglier n sin; (;
His laws protruded fearful an his cheeks was
all sunk in
His chin was like dagger an his nose was long
an hooked
His ears was big an droopy, like cabbage leaf
that's cooked;
His hair was sandy-colored, an 1t never would
lay down,
But his mouth-that was the wonder Of all
Wyoming town;
An when he opened it to laugh it showed up
mighty grim,
"Big-Mouth jim"
He went to work at Thomas Just down the
southwest road,
An no one ever saw @ chap 30 willin' fer to
load
Hisself with others burdens an he never
seemed to mind
The way the, others worked him while they
Jagged along behind;
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28
'.SouD SUI I9AO S!

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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

Remarked to friend the other day that she
knew Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and
Lungs was a superior remedy, as it Stopped
her cough inst antly when other cough RENE
dies had no effect whatever. So to prove this
ami convince you of its merit any druggist
will give you Sample Bottle Free. Large
size soc. and ST..
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

The destruction OF the rempIe OF
Heaven by fire at Pekin was an un-
looked for event. 1t was probably not
insured, as fire in that direction is
not dreaded.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28
Keep Cool.

'EEP cool. And by
that l mean, don't
be getting angry
and losing your
temper and head at
the same time. l
have figured it out
that worry kills
more men, causes
more gray hair to
show itself, and pro-
duces more wrinkles
on mems faces than
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

We bring up our daughters as though there
was but one end, one aim, and that to aid
the Creator in perpetuating u race through
the lawfully ordained medium, the marriage
relation
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

The childish miss resents kiss and
runs the other way, but when ct last
some years have passed, it's different
they say.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

Flowers can be kept fresh for some time if a
pinch of soda is added to the water.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

1ney settled down quite cozy like, their cup
filled to the brim,
An love has showered blessings down on Big
Mouth jim
-Chicdgo Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

THE YoUTu's COMPANION gives SO much fol
the small amount that 1t costs it is no wondeI
it is taken already in nearly Half a Million
Families. With its fine paper and beautiful
Illustrations its Weekly Illustrated Supp.e
ments and its Double Holiday Numbers, i
seems as if the publishers could not do enough
to plea e. By sending 81. 10 now YOU may oh
tain it free to January, and for full yea
from that date to january, 1891 Address,
The YoUTH's COMPANION, Boston, Mass
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

The church organ ought to be able to read
musip
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28
BIG MOUTH JIM's LOVE,
WIN along the old Spoon

OWN along the old Spoon
River, where the corn
grows mighty tall,
An the farmers have to
hustle fer to pick an
crib it all
Where the pumpkins are
the biggest an the
cider crop is prime,
An the home life is the
snuggest that was
ever praised d in
rhyme;
Whers the farms grow
rank with everything
that's fitten fer to eat,
from the apples in the
orchard to the wavin'
fields o. wheat;
Where peace an plenty
sets around a-singin'
of 81 hYmu.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

If eUery lDOHan in this land knew for herself
the actual quality of Dobblnss Electric Soap,
no other aShing soap could be sold Millions
do use il, but other millions have never tried
it, Have youf Ask your grocer for it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

MID pleasures and palaces, tho we may
roam,
Be it eyer so hum BILE, there's no nlace like
home"
especially il blessed with wife whose hours
are not Spent in misery caused by those drag
ging-down pains arising from weaknesses pc
culiar to her sex. Dr. Pieroe's Favorte Pre-
sscfiption relieves and cures those troubles and
prings sunshine to many dnrkened homes.
Solu BY Druggists nader q postttus guarantee
from meaufaotnrers OF satisfaction or money
refunded. Read guarantees on bottIe-wrapper.
4. INC cleansing, antiseptic and healing quail
Ties 9f DIR. Sages Catarrh Remedy are un.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

A pocket pin cushion free to smokers OF
"Tansilrs Punch" sc. cigar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28
A $3.50 Paper for sI.75.

Table luxuries are those things which the
more they go up the less they go down.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

Why are grapes like pretty girls? Because
they have to be squeezed to get the good of
them
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

I IT is much Better to have your gold
in the hand than in the heart.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28
Observation-Disclosures

DISENCHANTMENT.
While we gaze in admiration
ON q sweet and radiant lass,
And think only sweetest music
Through those coral lips can pass.
We're awfully shocked to see her
Down the garden pathway stride,
And hear her cry "Say Johnnie come in,
Or mother will tan your hidel"
MRS. WICKwIRE - If woman were
given the cred dit she deserves, l don't
think man would be quite as prominent
in the worlds hisrory. Mr.. Wickwire
I guess you are right. If she could
get all the credit she wanted, he'd be
in the poorhouse.
WHERE he put his faith: Long
suffering Wife-How do you expect a
woman to provide vittals and drink
when you don't bring home no cash
Saturday night? Husband-Why,
M'rier, the grocer and the butcher amt
moved, has they?
NERVOUS Gentleman-Now, be care
full how you drive, cabby, and go slow
ly over the stones, for l hate to be
shaken. And mind you pull up at the
right house, and look out for those
dreadful steam cars. Cabby-Never
fear, sir, I'll do my best. And which
'orspital would you wish to be taken to,
sir, in case of an accident?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28
STUFF AND NONSENSE.

GAINING ground-The successful real
estate man.
The proprietor of crematory is de-
pendent upon his urnings.
LANDLADY-How do you like your
eggs? New boarder-Fresh.
"AzURE cure for the blues" sounds
rather cerulean as well as paradox
ical.
HE-Darling, will you love when I'm
gone? She-Yes; if you are not too far
gone.
WHO can give us the name and ad-
dress of the shoemaker that first tried
to cobble stones?
REPUBLICS were ever ungrateful.
We put our great men on postage
stamps, and then punch their heads.
AN old maid said she wished she was
an auctioneer, for then it would be per-
fectly proper to say, "Make me an
Offer"
A WRITER takes whole column in a
newspaper to tell what We Drink, !"
while another has simply to wink at
the bartender.
ED-My grandfather died tonight.
Al-And suppose you will have to
pay for the funeral? Ed-Oh, no, the
city pays the expenses; grandpa was
hung.
Mrs. SHAW, the whistler, separated
from her husband few years ago and
earns her own living. We suppose she
asked him for money and he said she
irrh !, cfl 10 fa, oh Il
AN old man of our acquaintance says
he was born at the wrong time. when
1 was young" he says, "young men
were of no account, and now that L am
old, old men are of no account"
"YEs, sah," said Maj. Rifle, "the
Kentuckians are courageous set of
men, sab. Brave and self-reliant in any
peril" "Thats very true," replied
Billy Bliven. 81 never knew one of them
to take water"
WOMAN Ito tramp - Want some
thing to eat, eh? Well, here's some
cold hash. Tramp-But haven't got
anything to eat it with. Woman-Just
keep on little further and you'll find
fork in the road.
JMsoN-Great heavens! old man,
what have you been doing with your
self? Why, you're covered with mud
from head to foot! Wilson, dined in
a Bowery restaurant, and waiter upset
a cup of coffee on me.
NEPHEW Crying to make good i'm
pression) = Uncle, this port is excel
lent. Uncle-Well 1 should think so;
it is fifty years old. Nephew-By Jove,
you don't say so! What superb wine
it must have been once
Mr.. GALL wonder what you were
dreaming about last night? You
reached out and patted the marble top
of the table and smiled. Mrs. Gall
Oh, remember now. dreamed L was
patting you on the cheek.
GnDED youth Ito charming young
lady whom he meets on the cars)--Aw,
good morning, Miss Dasher. Glad to
meet you. We do not see as much of
you now as we did when we were at
the beach for the bathing.
"WHAT's the matter, Eddie ?" willie
Thomas has gone and moved out of this
street, boo-hoo." well, don't cry;
there are plenty of other little boys in
the neighborhood to play with" "Y-e-s,
but he's the only one l could lick. r"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers.
Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant
props Best fruit, grain, grass and stock coun-
Try in the world. Full Information FREQ. Adj
dress Oregon Imigrat'n Board, Portland. Ore.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

scheme is on foot to construct railroad
up the Jungfruu. U4S.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28

The occupation of wheelwright is in one
respect tiresome one.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-28
A COOLER ON THE SEA SHORE.

Miss Boston-"You will please excuse
me, Mr.. Schraubstader; / believe
mother is calling me-"
Mr.. Schraubstader-"Why certainly,
with pleasure. "-Chicdgo Ledger.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-10
The Latest ont.

A daily through car service has been estab-
lished by the Chicago. Union Pacific and North.
western line between San Francisco, Portland
and Chicago via Council Bluffs, thus Offering
to the public facilities not given by any other
line. "The Limited Fast Mail" which runs
daily between the above points, carries the
Overland Fast Mail, limited number of first
class passengers without extra charge, and is
composed of Pullman vestibuled sleepers, San
Francisco to Chicago via Council Bluffs, Pull
cars Portland to Chicago via Council BlufFs.
This Is smother indication that thu Union Pa
cifc is desirous of meeting the requirements of
the people. For information in regard to this
kirkland, General Agent No. 1 Montgomery
street, San Francisco; E. L. Lomax, General
Passenger Agent, Omaha. Neb.; E. P. Wilson,
General Passenger Agent Chicago and North
western, or John Clark, 81 North Spring street,
Los Angeles.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-10
The defective Annals of Greg ON

The allueion made by our Spokane
Falls correspondent to certain historical
omissions, having led to an examine
tion of Bancroft's late work on Oregon,
to which our correspondent evidently re-
fers, we find that what he says in this
connection is true enough, the names of
many of the most prominent men among
the early settlers of Oregon failing to ap-
pear in that work. Only slight mention
and in some cases not even that, is made
of such men as J. G. Ainsworth, Robert
r. Thompson and Simon G.. Reed
and many others con-
spicuous among the pioneers of that
State.
Without more than briefly inquiring
into the reasons for such omission, we
may say it constitutes, in our opinion, a
very grave defect in the book; defect
almost as grave as that of introducing
into its columns the names of numerous
obscure and unimportant persons, after
the manner so much practiced by this
yoluminous and industrious writer.
In neglecting to make proper mention
of there first settlers Of Oregon he lost
the best opportunity of his life for exc
cutting a great history-piece; for they
we're no ordinary men, these pioneers of
the great Northwest. They we're not
mere adventurers or sojourners-they
came out to this far-off wilderness land,
bringing with them their families, their
focks and their earthly all, intending
there to stay. Nor were they lured
thither by the lust of gold. They were
actuated by higher and better motives.
| Escaping from the malarial West, they
sought more healthful and invigorating
cline. They loved freedom and longed
for broader and more virgin field in
which to display their enterprise and
energy. Hence this abandonment oil
their former homes snd their exo-
dus to the far West, where suffering un.
told privations, enduring every manner
of hardship and exposed to con
stant danger, they labored and toiled
and with 30 much success that they had
gathered on this Sunset Slope of the con-
tinent many prosperous communities,
and planted tkere the germs of high
civilization even before the American
occupation of California had been brought
about.
There was muck insthe advent of these
brave and hardy pioneers in the wilds oi
Oregon to remind US of the arrival Of the
Pilgrim Fathers on the inhospitable
shores of New England. Like the exiled
Puritans they were few in numbers, and
far from their old homes. They too were
surrounded by gloomy forests, in which
lurked the treacherous and murderOut
savage, their wants lily supplied and
their comforts few. Like their New Eng
land prototypes, these Oregonians were
of simple habits and severe morality
/ noaaeaajnQ all the virtues without tht
faults common to the frontiersman
To have described the characters
tics and chronicled the deeds Of thes'
pioneers ought have been to the historiog
..rapher Of the primitive West not only
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-10

labor of love, but an object of ambition,
inasmuch as such just tribute to these
men would have lent more lustre to his
book than it could have impaired to
them.
For his herculean labors, mostly we'll
performed, Mr.. Bancroft is entitled to
very high praise. But, coupled with an
amazing industry and literary abilities of
no mean order, he has the commercial
instinct largely developed. He is q
trader as we'll as book-maker, and
yielding to the cravings of this appetite
for gain, has in certain of his volumes
given undue prominence to persons
whose histories cannot much interest the
general public. The biographies of the
village lawyers, the corner grocer, and
like celebrities of little consequence and
limited fame, had better be left to be
written up by the local press, the county
annalist and like advertising medium
where such exists.
In the case of Oregon, however, the
fault here commented upon was due
probably more to his agents than to Mr..
Bancroft himself. Proceeding to that
State these agents, misled by their ex
perience elsewhere, supposed that the
older residents and leading citizens could
readily be induced to pay handsome
sums for seeing their names figure in
Mr.. Bancroft's then forthcoming volume
on that country. Discovering their mis-.
take they went for that other class above
alluded to, and having captured them
with this pleasing bait, determined to
leave the names of these intractsbles out
of the book altogether, or as nearly so as
practicable.
Had these agents more thoroughly un.
derstood the character OF these solid men
they would never have pursued such an
impolitic course. Had the history OF
Oregon been brought out and these pio-
neers found deserved, even though
modest place therein, they would have
responded to any proper draft made on
their bounty with their accustomed
promptness and liberality. To be ap.
preached in this manner beforehand,
however, was SO abhorrent to their sense
of self-respect that the very suggestion
was looked upon as personal insult j;
and thus it comes that Mr.. Bancroft's
excellent book on Oregon contains the
names of go many obscure and inconse-
quential people, while the names of these
founders of empire and evangels of civili-
zation find little or no place therein
San Francisco Mining Review.