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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01
A Singular Community.

The valley of Gressoney is one of the
most beautiful localities in the italian
Alps. 1t also has a curious history.
In the eleventh century it was coloniz-
ed by German soldiers, to whom it had
been given by King Otto in recogni-
ton of their valiant services to him.
The descendants of these soldiers,
though in strange land, have stuck
fast to their German traditions. They
still speak German and keep up the
closest connection with Germany,
which they consider their fatherland.
Their daughters are educated in the
best German schools and seminaries.
When the young women come home
from the big cities of the north, how
ever, they are compelled by their par
ents to lay aside their fine Berlin and
Frankfort garments to don the curious
costumes of their forefathers, and to
learn to bake, scrub and wash as their
mothers and grandmothers did before
them.
The cleanliness of "Gressonari" has
made them famous throughout Italy.
It is proverb that their barns arr
cleaner than other peoples houses
German is spoken in the family
French in the churches, and Italiai
in the schools. Consequently all tn,
Gressonari know at least three Ian
Guapes.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01
IIl-Iimeu Kindness,

A young woman employed in a pub
lie library was unfortunate enough to
fall from step-ladder and roll in the
dust. Conscious of her forlorn ap-
pearance, she scrambled to her feet,
hoping to escape notice; but no; al
though no one laughed, one after an
other of her associates rushed up to
her, uttering in fugue and chorus the
natural sympathetic questions: "How
did you fall ?" "Are you hurt ?" "How
did it happen?" did you lose your
balance In the midst of these
queries the girl preserved an unblem-
ished front of courtesy. Finally, how
ever, came a silence, and her would
be rescurers were turning away, when
up rushed the ianitor, who had just
heard of the mishap "Why, Miss
Smith, did you fall?" he cried, in gem
uine interest. Miss Smith turned
upon him one coldly whitening glance.
"No, Mr.. Green" said she, calmly, II
got down here on the floor and rubbed
my clothes in the dust to amuse my
self" And then the different workers
dispersed to their several occupations.
There are times when even sympathy
is misplaced, and certain accidents
which for the victims sake should be
ignored.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01
Poll Is No HypOcrite.

"Now, then, the bird will go safely,
will she?" she asked of the clerk in the
cffice who gave her receipt for Polls
shipment.
"Yes'm."
"And the messenger will give her
food and water?'
"Yes'm"
"And-and- will not try to teach
her bad words while in his charge?"
ooh, no, no, ma'am.
because my husband and | have
been very careful of her bringing up,
and if she would get to speaking bad
words we would"
"Oh, hill" yelled the parrot at this
instant; "give us something new."
The clerk tried to look at the woman,
to see if her looks betrayed any particu
lar emotion, but she wasn't there to
look at. Her first jump must have
measured seven feet.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01

by many navigators that without her
sails she would never have been able
to reach the shores of England. These
claims are borne out by the fact that
on her return to New York, after her
first and only voyage across the ocean,
her engines were taken out, her side
wheels unshipped, and she resumed
her place in the line as regular sail
ing packet
On the other hand, the Royal Will
lam was built expressly for an ocean
steamer, and was the first of her class
to cross the Atlantic.
James Goudie, the man who super
intended the construction of the Royal
William, is still living in Chicago, and
in excellent health and spirits, al
though over 81 years of age. In let
ter written by him not long ago he
says:
/ proceeded to Quebec in May 1880, and was
engaged to carry out the plans and construction
of vessel. She was laid down in the fall OF 1880
and com pleted in 1881. The lateness of the sea-
son at which the ship was got ready precluded
her from doing much that season. The next
year opened up with very poor prospects Chol
era had made its appearance at Quebec, and
business was almost entirely suspended: Sc
she was run at great loss, ultimately being
laid up. The following year she was run few
trips at a loss, and 1t was decided in the month
OF August 1888, to send her to London, England
for sale. She arrived out after prosperous triI
of twenty-five days. She was put up for sale
and was finally SOLD to the Spanish Government
for 10000 sterling, having cost in building 9l9,
600, Halifax currency.
The Royal William was by the Span
ish Government rechristened the Isa-
bel Segunda, and added to the Spanish
navy. Thus she was the first steam.
ship ever employed as a man-of-war
and the first in any service to be un
der fire. And she was designed and
constructed on this side of the Allan
tic, and by an American shipbuilder.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01

Almost simultaneously with Fulton's
Clermont, Stevens brought out the
Phoenix, side-wheel steamer, which
was taken by sea to Philadelphia and
placed in the Delaware River This
was the first sea voyage ever made by
steam vessel. From this time the
steamboat was rapidly introduced, and
it was not long before ocean naviga-
ton was made an assured success by
the voyages of the Savannah in 1919
and the Royal William in 1888.
The experiments and inventions Of
Hulls, Jouffrey, Fitch, Fulton, Ste
vens and others had been watched with
intense interest, but there were few
who anticipated any considerable
success, and those who predicted
that. by this imperfectly under
stood means, the great seas would be
ploughed by myriads of keels were re-
garded as visionaries. There were
some, however, who dipped into the
future far enough to catch glimpse of
what is to us no special wonder. The
eminent scientist, DIR. Lardner, is on
record as believing that steam naviga-
ton of the ocean was impracticable,
but he confined his prediction to YES
sells of the size then built Yet so gem
eral was the unbelief in the success of
such experiments, that the voyage of the
Savannah appears to have caused little
excitement, until it became known that
she had safely arrived at Liverpool
Newspaper enterprise was at dis
count in those days, and we find little
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01

material from which to write history
Of the event. Our engraving is taken
from an old picture, which has the fol-
lowing legend: steamship Sa-
vannah, Captain Moses Rodgers. The
first steamship that crossed the Atlantic
Ocean. Was built in New York, and
yannah after passage of six days,
thence to Liverpool in thirty-one days.
When entering the st. Georges Chan
lel, off the city of Cork, she was deserted
by the commander of the British fleet,
ying in that city. Seeing volume Of
smoke ascending from the steamer, he
naturally concluded she was on fire,
and with commendable promptitude
dispatched two cutters to her relief; on
boarding they found her all right. She
steamed for Liverpool; ON nearing the
,ity the piers were thronged with
thousands of people, who greeted her
with enthusiastic cheers" The regis.
;ry of the Savannah, made March 27,
1919, the day before she left New York
or the city after which she was named,
,.ates t1iat she was owned by COM
pany of which William Scarborough, OF
Savannah, was President; that she was
built in New York by Samuel Pickett
and William Crockett, master carpen-
ters; that she had one deck and three
masts; was ninety eight feet six inches
in length, twenty-five feet ten inches
in breadth, fourteen feet two inches in
depth, had burden of 319.70-95 tons,
and was square-sternsd ship. As will
be seen by the picture, she carried a
good load of canvas, and, according to
the best authorities, this helped her to
England more than her steam, as q mat
ter of fact. She left Savannah MAY
%. 1919, and did not reach Liverpool
until June ga trip of thirty-one
days. She subsequently visited ST..
Petersburg and Stockholm, and did
not return until December. Her voy-
age occupied so much time, and was so
expensive, that it discouraged, rather
than encouraged, attempts at ocean
steam navigation, and it was not until
1888 that any further serious attempts
We're made at ocean steamship navi-
cation. In that year the Royal Will
liam made the trip from Quebec to
London in twenty-five days. In 1888
regular voyages began to be made, the
pioneers being the Sirius and Great
Western, the former of which made
the distance from London to New York
in seventeen days, and the latter from
Bristol to New York in fifteen days.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01
Eccentricities of q Novelist.

J. F. Smith, the English novelist so
popular thirty years ago, has just died at
the age of eighty-siX. The London
Speaker thus describes him: "Imagine
forid Bohemian, genial, red-cheeked,
with thick, curly hair, loud, happy go
lucky creature wearing a baggy blue
overcoat. He would appear at the Office
in the morning when his salary fell due
never before; would send out for bottle
of port, and call for boy to bring him
writing paper, blotting paper, and last
weeks copy of the journal in which his
novel was running. Hastily glancing
over it, he satisfied himself as to the ex
act predicament in which he had last
left his lovely heroine, and then, unbut-
toning his overcoat, and choosing one
from pocketful of stubby quill pens, he
wrote like madman for two or three
hours. At the end of this time he had
completed another installment of the ex
citing story which was thrilling the souls
of literally million readers. 1t was not
always so. Publishers sometimes have
had to follow him as far as to Jersey, and
mount guard over the gifted author until
the necessary copy was extracted; but
we speak of ordinary days, when, tossing
his uncorrected copy to the boy in attend
ance, he received his weekly stipend, and,
sending one boy for good cigar, and
another to see that no dun haunted the
front doorstep. the most popular author
in the world stepped out upon the pave
ment and vanished for another week into
some region where creditors, who vex
the lives of Bohemians, could never dis
cover him.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01

if Indians had camp in that vicinity,
they cautiously penetrated willow
thicket in the direction of the sound.
When they reached the creek they
found themselves at the edge of a
green open space in the shape of an
amphitheater- bend in the stream
and high precipitous walls of rock,
vari-colored with MOSES and delicate
mountain wild flowers, forming an al
most perfect circle. In its wild beauty
and usual solitude the scene would
have been sufficiently striking and ro-
mantle, but central group served to
make the picture one of the most
peculiar that tbs Gge of man evea
gazed upon.
The two prosPGctors were amazed,
awe-striction, and spell-bound for sit
ting on rock in the grassy glen was
panther Joe," holding a switch in his
hand and in peculiar gibberish COM
pelling large, full-grown female
cougar-the dreaded American lion
to circle around him in the manner of
a circus horse. With young at her
side there is not a more dangerous or
fierce animal to be found in the wilds
of the American continent than the
cougar, and this one not only had
whelp, but, what was more marvellous,
it was riding on her back, where placed
by the Indian. The mother watched
Joe's face as bird-dog does that of
its master, and its submission was more
through fear than inclination. The re-
verse was true with the young one,
which entered heartily into the enjoy
ment of the romps and would leap from
its mothers back into Joe's lap, only to
be returned again to it's perch and ex-
ercise of bareback riding.
Joe would laugh loudly at these play
ful antics, which afforded him the
greatest amusement, and to all appear
ances he was free from apprehensions
OF danger, although he had watchful
eye upon the mother. and kept up that
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01
A Great Pine Collection,

One of the finest collections of pipes
in the world is to be found in the En-
glish residence of Capt. Bragge, well
known to every antiquary and bric-a-
brac dealer on this terrestrial sphere.
He has clay pipes from the sixteenth
century, wooden pipes from Switzer-
land, very ancient German pipes of
china and porcelain; French pipes of
great antiquity, made from curious
woods now unknown to growers; Swe-
dish pipes of copper and stone; 81 s.
sian of silver, niclo and malachite
great, seductive Turkish pipes of glass,
metal and clay, nargilehs, chibouques
and hookas; Italian pipes, centuries
old, of terra Gotta and olive wood; an
tique Spanish pipes, that might have
been smoked by the Moorish dons after
the invasion, and which were formed
of various woods, and of material re-
sembling meerschaum, that is still
found in Spain; African pipes, brought
by traders from the interior, where
they had belonged to kings and chiefs
in the Black Country; venerable Chi
nese pipes, said to be of almost myth
cal age; and those that the Hindoos
use in their temples.
America contributes jade flint. and
hard stone pipes from Mexico; but
how pipes were carved from jade is a
mystery. 1t is the hardest of all ma
terials, and was used in Egypt and
Greece for certain weapons, and it is
even to-day esteemed as so valuable
that the Chinese hold it as the equal of
gold. Also Indian calumets made from
the pipe stone or catlinite Others
were of Aztec'clay. similar to our pot
ter's clay, and having the general char
acteristics of all Aztec pottery work
manship. From the Lake Superior
region came many pipes artistically in
laid with copper and lead, and along
the lower valley of the Mississippi the
pipes of the mound builders, some
what similar in form to those of the
Aztocs.
This collection has been repeatedly
loaned to exhibitions, and contains
5000 specimens, and is considered very
valuable as showing the progress in art
Development in the past,-Tobacco.
Divorced from a Dead Husband.
The rare ceremony of divorcing a
woman from her dead husband, accord.
ing to the requirements of the old Mo-
sale law, took place recently in Louis
vile, in the B'Nai Jakob Synagogue
The woman was Mrs. j. Levin, whose
husband was killed by tramps last
summer. She had no children, and the
old law of the orthodox Jews is that
in such q case the dead mans eldest
brother is to marry the widow and
raise up children in the name of the
deceased. Mrs. Levin, however, did
not desire to marry Moses Levin, hel
husbands brother, nor he her. Ac.
cordingly, she must be divorced from
her dead mate. The ceremony can only
be performed by two orthodox Jewish
rabbis acting in conjunction. AS these
could not be found in Louisville they
were imported from Chicago for the
occasion. An admission fee of 25 cents
was charged, and quite number Of
persons witnessed the remarkable cere.
mony. Courier Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01

1y all of which was spent over tSa bars,
to his evident satisfaction and increase
of popularity with the miners.
Mexicans who came to the diggings
from Sonora subsequent to the arrival
of Hijinio told stories regarding him.
They asserted that he had formed a
close corporation with the devil, and
was in the habit of roaming over the
mountains and through the forests
with wild and savage beasts, with
which he was on the most friendly
terms. His right ear, they said, had
been taken off by stroke from the
paw Of huge jaguar, which also left
the scars on his neck The Yaqui was
playing with the animal in the timber
when the accident occurred and he
afterward severely punished his rough
playmate for its disastrous careless
ness.
This and similar stories produced no
further effect upon the American min
ers than to cause them to apply the
cognomen of Panther Joe" to Hiiinio
Carabel, the latter name being long
and somewhat difficult to pronounce.
1t was six months after his arrival
that the Yaqui earned the title of
Panther Joe, and became hero as
well as mystery to every man in the
"diggings." A family named Stapley
came out from California and estab-
lished station near Antelope, but
several miles from where any people
were mining or living.
One evening after sundown, and
when the men-folk were away, Mrs.
Stapley went to the corral for the pur-
pose of milking her cows, taking with
her a little daughter years old and
also a rifle as protection from the con-
stant dangers of that country in that
period. The woman had proceeded
with her duties but a few minutes when
she was startled by scream of terror
from the child, and upon turning in
the direction of the sound was Mortified
to see large panther jump over the
fence with her child in its mouth.
Picking up the rifle the thoroughly
frightened mother rushed to the gate
in an effort to rescue her offspring,
but when outside the inclosure a most
unexpected, unusual, and startling
situation was met, and while hope was
inspired she was rendered powerless to
act herself and was compelled to suf-
Ter the most intense suspense. About
forty yards from her stood the panther,
with both front feet upon the child,
which was on the ground and CRYING
Justify. The beast was not looking al
'hA child bnt had its head raised and
eyes fastened upon another form which
was slowly approaching it from n di-
IectlOu parallel to that t.I-a,, l. NJ
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01

This was great advance on the time
made by the Savannah and the Royal
William, but seems slow, indeed, com
pared with the rapid transit of the pres
ent time. The last-named steamers
were much larger than the craft OF
Capt. Moses Rodgers, and we may pre-
sumo that DIR. Lardner was less skepti-
cal as to the ultimate success of the
enterprise, when he witnessed or learn
ed their proportions.
1t is claimed by some historians that
the Savannah was not, in the strict
sense of the term, the first steamship
to cross the ocean, but that the honor
belongs to the Royal William, which
was built at Quebec in 1830-31, and in
August, 1888, sailed for London, where
she arrived after prosperous trip of
twenty-five days. It is claimed
we believe it is true-that the Savan-
nah was not an ocean steamer, but a
regular-built, full-rigged sailing ship,
and that she depended more largely
upon her sails than upon her crude
paddle-wheels. In fact, it is averred
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01

heightened ten feet, made regular trips
to Albany in 1903, and was the first
steamboat ever made commercially sue
cessful.
Col. John Stevens, in 1904, expert.
mented with encouraging success with
small vessel driven by high press
ure engine, sectional boiler, and q
single screw. He also tried twin
screws, the steamboat having length
of sixty-eight feet and breadth OF
fourteen feet. This machinery, which
is shown in the illustration, is retained,
in good state of preservation, at the
Stevens Institute of Technology, in
Hoboken. N. j. In 1874 it was placed
in new hull and produced speed Of
eight miles an hour.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01

1888, speed of five miles an hour was
attained by steamboat consisting of
two connected hulls driven by single
paddle-wheel placed between them and
turned by small engine. A few
months later larger vessel, propelled
by an engine of twelve-horse power,
attained speed cf seven miles an
hour. In 1871 Scotchman named
Symington constructed for Lord Dun
das canal steamboat with stern
wheel driven by steam-enRine
twenty-five inches in diameter, but it
was laid up soon afterwasi because it
was feared the banks OF the canal
might be injured by the waves.
These experiments toward the appli
cation of steam to water navigation
bring us down to 1903, in which year
the immortal Robert Fulton appears
upon the scene. Fulton built steam
boat and launched it on the river
Seine, at Paris, in 1903. In 1906 he
returned to the United States, and
with Chancellor r. Livingston had
boat built 130 feet long, called the
Clermont, which made a successful
trip from New York to Albany and
return, accomplishing a speed of five
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01

was missing, and on that side of his
neck he carried three scars resembling
such as might have been left from knife
wounds. Like all his people he was
passionately fond of intoxicating liquor,
but as he was harmless and inoffensive
when under its influence, and imposed
upon his fellow-miners no greater inhic-
tion than was to be created by the
weird music of his native tribe as pro-
duced on an antiquated and discordant
harmonica or mouth-organ-which he
always carried with him-the Indian
was regarded as a compadre and per-
mitted to pursue his natural inclina-
tions. He secured a good claim and
took out large quantity of dust, near
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01
Either Schools.

In Germany the either is to-day one of
the universally recognized instruments,
Just as the violin and the cello, so much
so that national federation of either
clubs was organized there number OF
years ago which gives annual concerts at
centrally located cities like Weimar,
Augsburg, Leipsic, etc. The number of
either enthusiasts there is increasing
enormously, and the time is probably not
far distant when the points that have
hitherto stood in the way OF further de-
velopment of either playing and either
composition will be removed These OBJ
stacles have been the splitting up into
different schools, with different systems
of musical notation and different ways of
stringing the instrument. The four princi-
pal either schools to-day are the Wien,
nese, the Munich, the Berlinese and the
Treves, each with host of enthusiastic
but rather intolerant disciples. = Chicago
Herald
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01

while it is only half century since
ocean steam navigation became really
an accomplished fact.
Though steam navigation is of very
recent origin, the invention of the
paddle-wheel for propelling vessels
antedates the Christian era. Roger
Bacon anticipated the earliest applica-
tion of steam to turn the paddle-wheel,
and various endeavors and experiments
toward a practical application of the
idea were made from Bacon's time
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01

down to 1736, in which year Jonathan
Hulls patented marine steam engine,
his design being to employ his vessel
for towing purposes. In the following
year he published descriptive pam
phlet containing sketch of a New
comen engine. AS will be seen by
reference to the illustration, it con-
sisted of series of counterpoises, ropes,
ratchets and grooved wheels, giving
continuous motion, and, in it's day, was
regarded as a wonderful and compli-
Gated machine, but in our time would
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01

engaged In experiments looking to the
development of steam navigation as
early as 1884, and in 1856 he succeeded
in driving boat on the Potomac River
at the rate of four miles an hour by
means of water jet forced out at the
stern. Rumsey subsequently went to
England, and continued his expert
ments on the River Thames. John
Fitch worked at this problem at the
same time with Rumsey, and had an
experimental steamer on the Delaware
in 1856. His propelling instru-
ments We're paddles suspended by
the upper ends of their shafts,
and moved by series of cranks.
Fitch's steamer, which is herewith il
lustrated, was sixty feet long, In 1876
Fitch resumed his experiments in New
York, using q screw. In Scotland, in
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-01

no doubt strike one as very crude,
simple, and commonplace affair.
In 1853 one William Henry tried a
model steamboat on the Conestoga
River, in Pennsylvania. In 1774
Count dAuxiron, assisted by M. Perier,
made similar attempt in France.
The Marquis de Jouffrey was engaged
in the same work in France from 1775
to 1888, meeting with what was re-
garded as encouraging success. In