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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17

suggests the dangers and nuisances
peculiar to cities intersected by a river
provided with movable bridges.
Few of the large cities of the coun-
try are altogether exempt from this
difficulty. AS, however, the nuisance
varies with the frequency that bridge
is opened, it follows that Chicago, with
its enormous lake commerce, must be
the most afflicted of all.
AThe present metropolis of the West,
and, as most of her citizens and many
outsiders as well firmly believe, the
prospective metropolis of America, was
originally founded at the mouth of q
small and exceedingly sluggish creek,
which was crossed by its few inhabit-
ants on single plank that could be
removed to admit of the passage of an
occasional canoe or skiff, the only kind
of craft then plying upon the Chicago
River.
AS the embryotic "Queen of the
West" grew in population and impor-
tance, the value of the river began to
be more and more appreciated by her
enterprising inhabitants. Gradually
it was broadened, Strengthened and
deepened to allow of the passage OF
vessels of larger and still larger ton.
mage.
When the west and north divi
sions of the city began to be quite
largely settled, the river was no longer
regarded as an unadulterated bless
ing, and complaints were numerous
and bitter. As emigration from Eu.
rope and the older Eastern States was
attracted by the marvellous reports
from the city by the lake, the nuisance
became more pronounced, the MUIR
murs and protests louder and deeper.
The "city fathers" wisely conclud
ing that business was desirable, even
at the expense of inconvenience on the
part of the people, Disseminated in
favor of commerce, and gave vessels
the right of way, compelling teams
and foot passengers to wait for vessels
to pass the bridges. With a view to
lessening the pressure and diminishing
the difficulty, additional bridges were
constructed. These merely had the
effect of preventing the trouble from
greatly increasing, since the city,
known now throughout the world as
S1 ioL Dusl hhsA pipbicoo5 iiiOlO
than kept pace with the improve
ments, and crowded them, as fast as
completed. to their maximum capacity.
The panacea for the growing evil
was believed to have been struck in the
idea of tunneling the river. This was
soon acted upon, and at an enormous
expense two tunnels, each for wagons
and pedestrians. were constructed un-
der the river, connecting the South
with the North and West Sides.
At first these were very popular;
but before long the people wearied of
them and returned their patronage to
the bridges. Then an ordinance was
passed regulating the opening of the
bridges and limiting the time for them
to remain open to ten minutes. At
present, much to the disgust of tug
men and vessel owners, still further
restrictions are imposed, and during
the time-morning and vening-when
the great mass of clerks, laborers,
artisans, and business people gener-
ally are going to and from their work,
no bridge is allowed to swing
Many schemes for the abolition of
the bridge nuisance, as it is popular
ly called, have been and are still be-
ing proposed. The most feasible OF
them seems to be the one which. pro-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17
Hints TO the SIeepless.

How many hours sleep do you re-
quire? No rule can be laid down.
Jeremy Taylor thrived on three hours,
and SO does Cardinal Newman. Many
centenarisns are contented with five
hours, bnt some of them require eight
or nine. But there are two rules of
sleeping which everybody may adopt
without hesitation. l. Never let your
self be awakened by anybody else, but
wait until you have slept out your
sleep. 2. Get up as soon as you are
awake. If you follow these two rules
the hours of sleep will very soon regu-
late themselves. If you read yourself
to sleep, you should read a heavy book
not light one. A dull book is good,
stupid one is better Some persons
recommend cup of beeftea-just to
amuse the digestion, st. James Ga
sette
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17
jealousy.

An anecdote which shows to what
lengths jealousy may be carried is re-
lated by I. A. Trollope: We took, one
morning, a little excursion to Tuscu-
lum, on which my wife rode donkey
belonging to very competent guide.
This man knew every point where it
was desirable to draw rein in order to
enjoy the lovely and varied views. The
donkey, who, no doubt, knew all these
halting places as we'll as his master,
once turned aside from the path, in a
very business-ike fashion, and planted
himself before gate from which q
specially pleasing outlook was to be
seen. My wife, thinking to please the
man, said:
"How well your donkey knows his
business. He came of himself to this
lovely view, just as if he enjoyed it."
But the effect of her words was very
startling. The man became suddenly
and furiously angry.
NO not he II know how to make
ladies and gentlemen see the views,
and all that is to be seen. Hel-he
an ass, and knows nothing. II am
the guide!" he cried, again and again.
"The beast is an ass, I tell youl He
knows nothing"
In short, he was furiously jealous of
his donkey, and bitterly resented the
compliments paid to the beasts saga
city as so much taken from his own
praises. This is an extreme case, but
jealousy in its mildest form is mad,
unreasoning impulse which should be
strangled at its birth.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17

something naughty, and, the nursery
door being open, we overheard the fol-
lowing
Lets swear" proposed John, the
elder
We'll, leth," lisped wee Charlie.
$50 ahead" said John, encourag-
ingly.
"You thwear firtht," replied Charlie.
A moments hesitation and John re-
sponded, emphatically:
II swearl"
"Tho do l." asserted Charlie, sol.
emnly.
And that evening before saying their
prayers the little sinners penitently
confessed that they "has sweared" in
the morning.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17

disposition have you made of the silver
case-dollars [ have loaned you from
day to day?"
"a porter-house with mushrooms, 60
cents; coffee, 10 cents; glass of wine,
Is cents; cigar, ditto"
"Whew!" cried the seven auditors in
a breath
"To your sordid souls, 412t miser-
able little grains of dross seem q vast
sum to pay for meal in which may
lurk the nucleus of a second Paradise
Lost or the still unwritten Great
American Novel / am, happily, cast
in different mold. My soul rebels
at the thought of free lunch, my
stomach revolts at the sight of red
hots, while what little gorge there is
within me rises up at the bare men
ton of bologna sausage"
"And have you subsisted upon one
meal day ?" asked Jacob.
Except for few trifes specially
prepared for me by the woman where
l room, and which / sometimes eat
with real relish"
"She has been trying to build you
up, that you might pay the bill you
owe her, | suppose?"
81 trust poor human nature is not SO
debased. No, sir. She has provided
me with few inexpensive dainties be-
cause she repects genius, admires true
poetic fancy!"
Then she shall not remain unre-
warded. You have often expressed o
desire to earn your bread -beefsteak,
mean, by writing"
b IL
AT some little trouble / have Sc
cured you work Mr.. Samuels wants
an article of two thousand words on
the drainage question, for which he
will pay six dollars, while the Broad.
AIe will give eight dollars for three
columns on the dock saloons"
They are low and vulgar subjects
Jacob, and will lead me"
"To your room. At an expense o
half days time have collected al
the necessary points. You can writ
them up by tomorrow evening and &c
your fourteen dollars the next morn
ing. They will keep you until then" 4"
"They" proved to be pair of silve
dollars, which Gall fastened to pocket
while he looked in hesitating way q
the memoranda which had accompanie
them.
"Well?" queried Jacob.
= "The fact is that my vitality"
"Oh, bother your vitality Go alon
and get to work, and when your
through with that, I'll find you SOM
more"
"Time may restore my shattered vi
tality, but at present 1 have
proposition to make you, Jacob"
"Well ?"
"You take the memoranda and writ,
up the articles and I'll divide the four
teen dollars with you"
There was a roar of laughter, during
which the vitality y-exhausted poet van
ished from the Bohemian den.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17
AN ANCIENT RIDDLE.

Adam, God made out OF dust,
But Thought IL best to make me first.
So was INSIDE before the man,
To answer Gods most holy plan.
nv body God did make complete.
But, without arms, or legs, or feet;
NV ways and acts he did control,
But to my body gave no soul.
A living being became,
And Adam gave to me my name;
from his presence then withdrew,
And more of Adam never knew.
did my Makers law obey,
Nor from ii ever went astray;
Thousands of miles go in fear,
But seldom on the earth appear.
For purpose wise, which God did see,
He put living soul in me;
A soul from me my God did claim,
And took from me that soul again;
For, when from me that soul had fled.
was the same as when first madei
And, without hands or feet or soul,
! travel on from pole to pole.
] labor hard by day and night,
To fallen man | give great Light,
Thousands Of people, young and old,
Will by my death great light behold;
No right or wrong can l conceive,
The Scriptures / cannot believe;
Although my name in them is found,
They are TO me an empty sound.
No fear of death doth trouble me,
Real happiness | shall never see,
To heaven shall never go,
Nor to the grave or hell below.
Now, when these lines you slowly read,
Go, search your Bible with all speed,
For that my names recorded there,
honestly to you declare.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17
Are Yon Sure You Know Your Agel

One of the commonest mistakes made
is by people in answering q question as
to their age. You meet a young man
who announces with an invitation to
come and "smile" with him that he is
"2l years old to-day" In nineteen
cases out of twenty he is, as a matter
of fact, hut 90 years of age. He dates
his age from his birthday, not from Its
anniversary. 1 have no doubt that
thousands upon thousands of young
men have marched to the polls under
the impression that they had reached
the requisite 81 years and were entitled
to vote, who were lacking of citizenship
by year or the greater part of it,
81. Louis Globe-DemOcrdt
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17

it was to guard the approaches to the
enormous swinging structure.
Upon the briuk of the abyss the
thoughtless fruit peddler paused and
looked back. But the warning had
come too late, the wheels of the cart
had begun to descend. The man
might have saved himself at the ex-
pense of his cart and stock in trade.
He did not stop to reason, he had no
time for that, but with the instructive
love of property clung to the handle of
his truck and went down with it into
the dark, ill-smelling waters of the
Chicago River.
Thanks to tugboat which was in
the act of passing and the bridge-ten-
der, the unfortunate man was rescued
and resuscitated. The matter was
briefly mentioned in the daily papers
the next morning and the event for
gotten. The occurrence, however,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17
no Utner Suite.

A lady who, by the perversity of
fortune, is forced to live at the top of
an uptown apartment house where
communication with the surface of the
earth is chiefly through a speaking
tube, was not long ago called to the
tube by an energetic Tng. She was
greeted. in answer to her intimation
that she was listening, by the ques-
ton:
"Are this the top fat?"
"Yes," she answered.
"But," persisted the voice of her un-
seen interlocutor, "isn't there another
suite above you?"
NO" was the instant answer, none
but the sweet by-and-by."
There was confused and mumbling
sound from beneath as of one overcome.
and then the caller spoke no more that
day
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17

George lam
Curtis, who has the ideal literary
mans home in New Brighton, S. L., is
genial as man can be during the social
hour. He is capital host, and in
conversation, as in his writings, has an
allegorical way frequently of putting
things which has decided charm. All
the children round about know him,
and many kind word and pat on the
head he has for the little folk IS they
run after him while he is on his way
home in the afternoon.
Richard Watson Glider is one of the
youngest men to be classed among the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17
Nothing Foreign Wanted.

Dealer-You say you want to buy a
lamp for your son?
Customer-Yes.
Dealer-Is he student?
Customer-Yes, he burns good deal
of midnight oil.
Dealer-Then why not get him a
German student lamp? Just the
thing.
Customer with decision NO, sir.
I don't want any of your foreign con-
trivances. Give me an article of home
manufacture. kee Blade.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17

compound, vulgarIy denominated hash,
one whose great thoughts need only
vitality to project them upon an ex-
wild song; man who, by reason of his
published verses, is entitled, among
the living poets of his native land, to
front rank?
-The moon, with cold and silvery beams"
Hold on !" rudely interrupted Jacob.
"Well concede their rankness. What
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17
The Appropriate Costume.

Mrs. Brown-Isn't that Mrs. Dasher
going down the street?
Mrs. Robinson-Why, I thought it
was she, and it is.
Mrs. B.-Mercy me, was told that
her husband died last week
Mrs. R.-So he did.
Mrs. B.-But don't you see she's in
second mourning.
Mrs. R.--Well, he's her second hus-
band.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17

very beautiful. 1t is as chief editor
OF the Century Magazine that Mr..
Glider is most popular.
Henry Nj. Alden, the successful ed
itor of Harper's Magazine, lives at
Metuchen, N. j., where he has fine
house, with woods and fields about
him. Here he has collected number
of art treasures, valuable books, and
all that sort of bric-a-brac with which
cultivated man likes to indulge him
self. Here he brings the hundreds
upon hundreds of manuscripts which
are constantly pouring in from all parts
of the globe. He reads and pronounces
upon all matter for the magazine,
sometimes conferring with another per-
son upon manuscript which he may
not be sure about Mr.. Alden is genial,
but like the other Harpers' editors he
has no room to entertain callers at his
Office. There is barely room for him
self, his desk, and his manuscripts.
John Foord, editor of Hd1per's
Weekly, combines with the best lit
erary tastes quality but too rare
among literary men, namely, thor
ough journalistic sense. Mr.. Foord is
a Scotchman and member of a very
old and aristocratic family.
w. d. Howells gets, it is said, $4,000
year from Harpers for his depart
ment in the Magazine. Charles Dud-
ley Warner still grinds out his monthly
allowance for Harper's, for which he
is handsomely paid, but the critics all
say that his old-time humor has put on
wings and flown away.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17

A ragged Ital-
ian fruit vender
was pushing be-
fore him a hand
cart well filed
with bananas, ap-
pies, and oranges,
for the most part
in a somewhat
doubtful state of
preservation. He
was near the abut
ment of one of
Chicago's swing
ing bridges, and
thinking perhaps
of the blue skies
of his own sunny
land, was trudg-
ing along, all un-
mindful of the cir
cumstance tn a t,
since he last raised
his eyes, the pom
derous bridge had
opened to admit
Of the passage of
q vessel.
"Stopl stop!"
cried the police
officer whose duty
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17

cAof1i ohea toSh
eral literary work. Mr.. Stedman is
not much past his prime. He is light
footed and active as boy, and his eyes
are as bright as when he surprised the
money-dealers by issuing "Pan in Wall
Street"
Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster,
always studious, always fond of writ
ing, achieved success before she took
the editorship of Harper's Bazar. She
has held various literary and editorial
positions, and was valued contributor
to the Harper periodicals before taking
her present position. She is a we'll
preserved and handsome woman of
about middle years. She is pains
taking editor, and under her manage
ment the Bazar shows good judgment
and thorough instinct for selection.
H. G. Bunner, editor of Puck, does
not devote his life to joking and read
ing manuscripts. He is constantly en-
gagged on verse and fiction and is highly
esteemed by Scribner's people and
other magazines.
Edgar Fawcett, who is great So
ciety man, is a member of the Union
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17

literary notables.
Yet he has not done
m u C h work, and
none whatever thst t
1 know outside of
his verse. But his
verse has a flavor
as distinctively its
own as the honey
has that is gathered
on the thyme slopes
of Hymettus. Some
of his lyric s are
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17

H a n s B mixer, "
does IT go very
often to the Office, but
does her work in her
own library, in her
fine fat on Fifty
ninth street, says the
New York Herald.
Mrs. Dodge gives
some of the largest
literary receptions in
New York
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17
They SwOre.

has two lit I'll e
sons, aged respec-
lively three and
five years. They
have been most
carefully trained,
a n d especially
W a n e d a n d
guarded against
profanity. b u t
one day the little
fellows arose feel
ing irresistibly
impelled to d O
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17

Club, but entertains his
literary friends at his
fiat. He is a hard
worker, and there is no
sham about him. He
is par excellence the So
ciety writer, and he is
merciless with his lance.
He seldom gets less
than from 81, 500 to
$4,000 for the serial
Dublication of n novel
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17
LITERARY WORKERS.
NEW YORK WRITER'S WHO HAVE
ACHIEVED FAME.

Literary Clubs in the City and the Rela-
tions Which Exist Between the Various
Observation-Disclosures Gossip Concern
ing Weh-known People and "a Glimpse
into Their sanctums and Libraries.
Mrs. Mary NJ. Dodge, the conductor
of 81 Nicholas and the nntho,. 81
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17
THE EXHAUSTED POET.
BY DWIGHT BALDWIN.

Y vi a lity is ex
hausted !"
This, in disheart-
ened, almost de
spairing tones, pro-
ceeded from a pale
faced, rather intel
l e C t u a III o o k ing
young man who had
just entered n low.
c eilin 6 e d, grimy'
walled basem e n t
room in the heart OF
metropolitan G h i
cago.
He paused d and
turned his back to
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17

L b g m q n b e s t
known to the liter
ary student is 4. @.
Stedman, who has
been allie d t h e
"banker-poet," b e.
cause he has con-
tinued his banking
affairs while busy
with verse, criticism,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17
Keeping Step.

Many years ago, said well-known
writer lately, visited two families in
the city of New York The first was
Mr.. Ledger, a professional man OF
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17
BRIDGES OF CHICAGO.
THEY ARE NUMEROUS, but THERE
Is NO BRIDGE OF SIZE.

The Peril to Life and Limb which They
Involve-PeopIe Who Have Walked Into
the Open Draw-What Is to BE the
Remedy?-An Opportunity for Inventors
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17
A Chance for His Father.

Pop, l know how you can make q
thousand dollars and benefit me be-
sides"
"Iou know how, Bobby? Well, I'd
like to know"
How much do you weigh?"
"About 1875"
just the figure. Well, there's
fellow IN Boston who will fight any
man of that weight for $1,000, and /
thought since You don't win anything
whaling me you might like to close
with him. "-Phjtddelphia Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17
Nice Mathematics.

"And now, children" remarked
Professor Hailes in one of the public
schools the other day, "if family con
sisting of father and mother and seven
children should have pie for dinner,
how much would each one receiver"
why" remarked the bright boy,
each would get an eighth"
But there are nine persons, you
must remember"
"Ohl I know that; but the mother
wouldn't get any, There wouldn't be
enough to go around. ."-Albaq,y Jour
nal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17

man life. The inventors of the West
ought to think of and solve this prob
lem. In doing it successfully, they
would not only receive an ample re-
ward in money but confer lasting
benefit upon humanity D,oight Bald
lci11 in Chicago Ledger.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17
- - ------ s- --- -
The Unseen Mote.

Doctor am sorry, sir, but your casels
hopeless. You are suffering from nerv-
lous prostration, from palpitatloni OF the
heart, and from q cancer in the throat,
all brought on by your excessive smok-
ling of cigars.
Journalist is there no remedyP
"None whatever! But interrupted
YOU: what were you writing when l
came IMP"
"An editorial on the deadly ciga-
rette. ."-P1Ick.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17

poses to build docks, protected by
breakwaters, along the lake shore, and
close up the river entirely. Emptied
of its foul water, the channel could be
filled up, thus adding a large acreage
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17

SOMETIMES we find cross roads in the
midst of smiling landscape.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-04-17

A DENTIST of Philadelphia puts in
false teeth SO naturally that they look
and ache exactly like the originals.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-06
THEODORE ROOSEVELT ON WALTER EOWR

from The New-YOrk Critic.
sycamore Hill. Aug. 23. 1890
To the Editors Of The Critic:
As q friend and former fellow eg. iator OF Waite.
expressing In public way my sense Of what I.c
city of New York owes him: Although inan necny
spnreciatve of artistic and literary work. ana him
e Of using 10Th pen and 6r,sn the e. services aS,
were done In public life. He was for three years
member OF the state Legislature. during most Of which
time was his colleague. and for the last three wars
nc h,d been member OF the very important Aquednct
ann total OF his public life. He WAS one Oi those
men nv far roo, Few In city, who understand that
4 good American citizen IS In honor bound 10 Keep at
an times actively Interested IN our pOucs. whc,hcr
In or Of once he was always V0"ci u 80 osr ~.
the primaries and conventions, winch setie Dci1ro
hand In SO many case, what can be done at the polls
lie never shrked his work because IL whs
because he had to leave his own attractive aomu III
date result from his labor and selfsacrIce ne pos
sessed the capacity Of com6'nhg n'Sn 1roS
the one hand with the power ana desire 70 ~
work on the other. lie knew how 70 makc hso~ sii
Tor the shortcomings and inper1ecOnS o. MS h
without losing his own high standard IT would ID, DC
hard to cvcrestiInafe the effect such q man, WIEN
strong. earnest and sincere ana Win wa h ri'vino
wise common,ense cXerts In elevating ana piands
the tone Of public life wherever his Ihhuence t
In the Legislature his course WINS marh" w .
sngaary high and noble conception OF dnyi mT was
much moro than merely fnithful Alert ana ID
though he was all these. too he was iasceh!' amU
keen1y alive to the city's real interests ana nc VII
willing to do what few indeed Of our public men VIII
io-thst u.s. incur unpopuaty for the sake OF what ne
e With hts course Of public conduct ana wien ne
lad. by careful study. convinced himself tat ne Was
loanl TO sct Owen line. e. question Of pcnSln,o:
~ no apouut & xs0Gprs. no fheeas o. POPULAR