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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24

81 have been in some pretty close
places" said David Mann, member of
the Munchausen club, that was reciting
some thrilling adventures in the corridors
of the Laclede. "When boy of sixteen
l left home between two nights and
went on cruise to India. Returning
we had aboard the agent for menagerie
and quite collection of beasts and rep
tiles that he was bringing home for the
great moral show. One night boa con-
strictor, measuring eighteen feet, slipped
his cable and went up the mainmast
without anybody suspecting his escape.
| was ordered aloft for some purpose,
and in the darkness ran right onto the
monstrous reptile. AS my hand touched
the great folds came near falling out
of the rigging. did not know what it
was, but | instinctively felt that it was
something terrible. His snakeship did
not leave me long in doubt, however,
for he took turn around me, lifted me
from my feet and held me aloft as a
sportive elephant might small boy.
"My head was within two feet of the
monsters mouth, and l felt as if every
bone in my body was swapping. Yell?
The Confederate yell was whisper to
the ones | gave. His snakeship began
to descend with me, evidently intending
to make a meal of me on deck. The
mate flashed a light on me, and when he
saw the situation was so frightened that
he rushed off and locked himself in the
room. The boatswain was made of
sterner stuff, however, and he came to
my assistance with the carpenters
broadax and nearly cut his snakeship in
twain at the first blow. He dropped me
and got fall that nearly finished me.
The boa dropped to the deck and went
writhing up and down, lashing things
right and left while the crew pumped
musket balls into him, despite the tear
full protests of the agent, who insisted
that he was worth $4,000 laid down in
New York. st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24
A Summer Without Nights.

To the summer visitor in Sweden there
is nothing more striking than the almost
total absence of night. At Stockholm,
the Swedish capital, the sun goes down
few minutes before 10 o'clock and rises
again four hours later during a greater
part of the month of June. But the four
hours the sun lies hidden in the frozen
north are not hours of darkness-the re-
fraction of his rays as he passes around
the north pole makes midnight as light
as cloudy midday, and enables one to
read the finest print without artificial
light at any time during the might.
st. Louis Republic.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24

A party of gentlemen were the other
evening discussing literary subjects
when one asked another to point out the
grammatical blunder in the Lords
Prayer. Half dozen tried; some
thought it lay in the words, (which art
in heaven" others placed it elsewhere,
but not one detected it in the expression,
"For thine is the kingdom, the power
and the glory" To be perfectly correct
the word sis" should be "are," but people
have used it in the present form SO long
that they never think of regarding it as
blunder. There are teachers who say
such an expression is right, because it
sounds right, but reverse it and say,
"The kingdom, the power and the glory
is thine," and the fault is soon perceived.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24
Hamlet on the Wardrobe.

All the worlds wardrobe,
And all the girls and women merely wearers.
They have their fashions and their phantasies,
And one she in her time wears many garments
Throughout her seven stages. First the baby
Befrilled and broidered, in her nurses arms;
And then the trim hosed schoolgirl with her
flounces,
And small-boy scorning face. tripping, skirt
waggling,
Coquettishly to school. And then the fiirt,
Ogling like Circe, with business @illade
Kept on her low cut corset Then bride,
Full of strange finery, vestured like an angel,
Yelled vigorously, yet vigilant of glance,
Seeking the woman's sheaven-admiration-
Even at the altar's steps. And then the ma
tron.
In fair rich velvet, with suave, satin lined,
With eyes severe and skirts of youthful cut,
Full of dress saws and modish instances,
To teach her girls their part The sixth age
shifts
Into the gray yet gorgeous grandmamma,
With gold pinceneZ on nose and fan at side,
Her youthful tastes still strong, and worldly
wise
In sumptuary law, her quavering voice
Pressing of fashion and lie Follet pipes,
or robes and bargains rare. Last scene of all,
That ends the sex's mode-swayed history,
ls second childishness and sheer oblivion
Or youth, taste, passion-all save love OF dress.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24
An Odd WAY of Saving the Hair.

Among the Sakkaras the women twist
their hair into fiat braids, which are lit
orally covered with cowry shells or
beads, and the ends are then gathered
above the head, forming a sort of bon
net. The whole is drenched literally
with palm oil and sprinkled with red
powder. AT night the women go to sleep
with their necks resting in concavity
That has been dug out of small log,
thus keeping their headwear from touch
ing anything and thereby being disar-
ranged. Sometimes this uncomfortable
pillow is followed out, the top of it be.
ing lid, which when lifted off discloses
receptacle in which are kept the hair.
pins and other objects of the toilet
New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24

One daya Russian village official was
riding with me in search of some strayed
horses. The black soil was like dust,
and he sighed heavily as his mare sank
in the light stuff.
"Ah," he said, "what land is this? 1t
is like a woman broken with sorrow.
How can she find food for her child?'
"Has it been so all summer" l asked.
''Not so, indeed There was frost in
spring, and men said Frost and fair
weather. But then came the dryness,
and though mass was said in the fields,
it went to nothing. And then we dug
up the drunkards"-
"The WHAT"
"The drunkards, your honor. Often
it is, that when the drunkards are pulled
out of their graves and flung into pools
of water, that rain will come; we know
not why. But not only rain came, but
hail and fierce storm and fire, and with
cred the little that was grown. Then
after that, dryness again and now," he
shrugged his shoulders, ''the famine"
"Must there be famine?" asked.
Surely" he said with smile; "the
grain we have is soon eaten, and then
what?'
"Will no provision be made for the
future?'
"Who should make provision? Now
we can buy much and eat much; after
ward-well, the little father will not see
us die!'
So depending on the czar and public
charity, they rest content in making no
provision for the future.-Temple Bar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24
GRUB STREET, LONDON, 1899.

dingy street, where genius lit,
Half clad, her torch, where Johnson's wit
Plowed through the pretense of his time,
Where Goldsmith built the lofty rhyme.
And Savage died and Smollett writ.
Where Garrick, born to charm the pit,
First made the royal buskins fit,
And trod the tragic stage sublime;
dingy street,
A dreary street, no longer fit
Starved authors in and out of 1t;
They drudge no more in gloom and CRIME,
In dens of death, in caves of crime,
To kinder fates they now submit.
o dingy street,
j. n. Matthews in Albany Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24

Queen Elizabeth had an immoderate
love for jewelry, and the description
given of her dresses covered with gems
of the greatest rarity and beauty reads
like romance. For finger rings she
had remarkable fondness. Paul Hentz-
ner, in his Journey Into England
159S-relates that Bohemian baron,
having letters to present to her at the
palace at Greenwich, the queen, after
pulling off her glove, "gave him her
right hand to kiss, sparkling with rings
and jewels-a mark of particular favor
Detroit Free Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24
Had Treated Them

A collection of cholera germs was ex
hibited with microscopes at meeting
of male and female doctors in the
Academy of Medicine one night. They
had been prepared by DR.. E. K. Dunham
and colored with aniline dyes in order
that they might be observed to the best
advantage. Some of the women pre-.
tended to be little nervous about going
near them, and one roguish looking
young woman remarked: "You are sure
that those are not live germs, doctor? ]
do not want to catch the cholera" "The
germs are dead" said the doctor, gravely
81 dyed them myself. New York
Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24
The Electric Fire Engine.

An electrical application, which is
only waiting until electricity can be as
extensively distributed as water to be
generally adopted, is the electric fire en-
gine. 1t is even now being used to a
limited degree. In an experiment at
the late Crystal palace electrical exhibi-
ton the motor was worked on a circuit
at a pressure of 105 volts. With this
pressure, when running at about 45O
revolutions per minute, the pump pro-
PEELED jet of water from a 1-inch noz-
zle to height of 10 feet, the water
pressure being seven give pounds per
square inch.
With two delivery hose pipes on at
once, having nozzles respectively one
inch and seven-eighths inch, the motor
ran at $50 revolutions per minute and
the pressure was forty-fve pounds to
the square inch, the two jets rising to
height of about eight feet. The COM
bination of an electric motor and a
pump has manifest advantages over the
steam fire engine, provided supply of
current is available.
In the case of the latter it is always
necessary to keep up steam, so that time
will not be lost when an alarm is sound
ed, and the fact that the motor is in
stantly ready for. service as soon as a
current is turned on makes it obviously
better adapted to many conditions. 1t
is beyond question that the day will
soon come when the distribution of cleo
tricity will be so general that the pump
operated by an electric motor will be
the most important piece of fire fighting
apparatus Pittsburg Dispatch.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24
GEMS IN VERSE.
The Toucllstoiie.

told mine enemy the truth. His brow
At first grew stern, and from his angry eye
rhe lightnines flashed. But soon he spake:
"'Tis now
see judged you falsely. Wrong was II
Forgive me for the past, and let us forth
To roam thro' peaceful meads, all strife at
endl"
SO arm In arm we went-no longer wroth-
The truth had made mine enemy IA friendl
told my friend the truth. He bravely smiled
And with gracious courtesy averred,
Your candor pleases me!"-yet meath his mild
And glad exterior a something stirred,
Which palmer said than words: I'VE are es-
tranged
Forevermore. Your lance hath wounded me
Past all redressl" Love had to hatred changed;
The truth had made my friend an enemy!
Eleanor G. Donnelly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24

Whenever life's song is out of rhyme,
And fate and my plans won't thrive,
Then love to muse on that glorious time
The time when wasn't alive.
Those dear old daysl How they haunt me yet
With dreams of content and bliss,
When there wasn't hurt could possibly get
Nor a Joy could lose nor miss
When let the years and the ages flee
In the most unaccounted way,
And never looked in the glass to see
III my hair were growing gray.
They may prate of the wondrous things that are
Which existence alone can give,
But know that my happiest days by far
Were the days when didn't live.
Nor would compare the pleasure shown
In the present frivolous scene
With the endless raptures that were not
known
The bliss that has never been.
What wonder that still love to speak
OF this kingdom grand and free,
That vanished away at the first wild shrek
OF the infant known as mel
don't care a jot how fortune flows
To the men on each side of me,
For the fellows | envy the most are those
Who have not begun to be.
Madeline s. Bridges-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24

First Boy-Why do they call all goats
billygoats and nannygoats3 Why don't
they call 'em George goats an Johnny
goats and Jimmy goats, an so on?
Second Boy-Why, goats looks 30
much alike you can't tell 'em apart, so
wot's the use of havin diff'rent names?
Good News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24


mourn no more my vanished years.
Beneath tender rain
An April rain of smiles and tears
My heart is young again.
The west winds blow, and singing low
hear the glad streams run.
The windows OF my soul throw
Wide open to the sun.
No longer forward nor behind
look in hope or fear,
But, grateful, take the good find
The best of now and here.
plow no more desert land
To harvest weed and tare.
The mama dropping from Gods hand
Rebukes my painful care.
1 break my pilgrim staff: lay
Aside the toiling oar;
The angel sought so far away
WELCOME at my door.
The airs of spring may never play
Among the ripening corn,
Nor freshness of the flowers Of May
Blow through the autumn morn.
Yet shall the blue eyed gentian look
Through fringed lids to heaven,
And the pale aster in the brook
Shall see its image given.
The woods shall wear their robes of praise,
The south wind softly sigh,
And sweet, calm days in golden haze
Melt down the amber sky.
Not less shall manly deed and word
Rebuke an age of wrong:
The craven flowers that wreathe the sword
Make not the blade less strong.
But shifting hands shall learn to heal
To build as to destroy
Nor less my heart for others feel
That the more enjoy.
All as God Wills, who wisely heeds
To give or to withhold,
And knoweth more of all my needs
Than all my prayers have told!
Enough that blessings undeserved
Have marked my erring track;
That wheresoe'er my feet have swerved
His Christening turned me back;
That more and more Providence
OF love Is understood,
Making the springs of time and sense
Sweet with eternal good;
That death seems but covered way
Which opens into light,
Wherein no blinded child can stray
Beyond the Fathers sight;
That care and trial seem at last,
Through Memory's sunset air,
Like mountain ranges overpast
In purple distance fair;
That all the jarring notes of life
Seem blending in psalm,
And all the angles of its strife "
Slow rounding into calm. ",
And SO the shadows fall apart.
And so the west winds play,
And all the windows of my heart
open to the day. Whittier.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24
READING RAILROAD SYSTEM.
LEHIGH VALLEY
| tESf@7& ( DIVISION.
/ ARRANGEMENT OF
EH PASSENGER TRAINS
~ MAY Is, 1892.
LEAVE FREELAND.
LEAVE FREELAND.

6j, SIS, $40, 1O.35 A. NJ, 1925, 1.5O, 2.43, $50.
5l5, ,6.a5, 7O0, S,i7 p. NJ, for Drifton, Jeddo'
Lumber Yard, stockton and Hazleton.
d.la, '4o A. NJ, lhO, $50 2. NJ, for Mauch
and New, York. @.45 has no connection for
New York; ioi
SO A. NJ for Bethlehem, Easton and Pbjla.
p 72d, 1886 A. NJ, 12l6, 4.39 P. NJ. (via Highland
Branch for White Haven, Glen Si1mmit
Nilkes-Barre, littston and l.. and b. Junction
olo a. NJ Tor Black Ridge and Tomhicken.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
LAO A. NJ. and 3.45 p. NJ. for Drifton, Jeddo.
Lumber Yard and Hazleton.
345 p. NJ. for Deano Mahanoy CITY. Sheu-
ahdoah, New York and Philadelphia.
ARRIVE AT FREELAND.
$50, $50, 7.26, 9.15 1856 4. NJ, l2l6 liz. OBJ
4.39, $3.50 and S.3 p. NJ from Hazleton, Stock
ton, Lumber Yard Jeddo and Drfton
7.26, 9.l5, 1886 A. NJ, l2l6, 2.a3, 43g, $50 p. NJ
from Delano, M4hanoy City and Shenandoah
- l;l5 and s.S P; NJ. from New York, Easton,
philadelphia; Bethlehem, Allentown and
S.l5 and 1885 A. NJ. from Easton, Pbiladel-
phia bethlehem and Mauch Chunk.
9.l5, 10.35 A. NJ, 243, B35 p. NJ from White
Haven, Glen Summit, Wilkes Barre, Pittston
and l.. and b. Junction via Highland Branch).
SUNDAY TRAINS.
1l.3l A. NJ. and 3.3l p. NJ from Hazleton.
Lumber Yard, Jeddo and Drifton,
ll.3l A. NJ. from Dclano, Hazleton, philadel-
phia and Easton.
33l p. NJ. from Pottsville and Delano.
For further information inquire of Ticket
Agents
l. A. SWEIGARD, Gen Mgr.
G.. G. HANCOCK, Gen. Pass Agt.
- Philadelphia, Pa.
A. W. .NoNNEMACHER Asst G. p. A.,
South Bethlehem, Pa,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24

Caldy island, off the Welsh coast, was
put up for auction recently, but was
bought in, as the bidding did not exceed
e13,50O. 1t has an area of $50 acres,
and is opposite the fashionable watering
place of Tonby. There are school and
a church on the island, but it has no
taxes, no minister, no doctor and no law
yer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24

Mrs. Newage-Why don't girls learn
their fathers business and be independ-
ent?
One Girl-Please, maam, my father
is telegraph lineman.- New York
Weekly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24

Let each man think himself an act of God,
His mind thought, his life breath of God,
And let each try, by great thoughts and good
deeds,
To show the most of heaven he hath In him.
nai1a
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24
Tears.

Tears.
Not In the time of pleasure
Hope doth set her bow,
But in the sky of sorrow,
Over the vale of woe.
Through gloom and shadow look we
On beyond the years.
The soul would have no rainbow
Had the eyes no tears.
Century.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence,
Else who coua bear it2 Rowe,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24

Clerks in love are requested by the :
management not to think of the adored :
object between the hours of a. m. and o |:
p. IN. BY Order. !:
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-12-13
Opening Up New Lines.

The San Marcos division of the Taylor.
Bastrop and Houston division of the NJ,
X. Il 7. has been opened for traffic from
Smithville to San Marcos, Texas, a dis
tance of fifty miles. At present the train
service consists Of one local freight each
way daily. On February 18th the extern
sion from Boggy Tank to Houston will be
opened for traffic and On the same day the
Missouri, Kansas and Eastern, the St.
Louis extension Of the Katy" from New
ness, and on that day solid, limited, through g
vestibule trains will Ike put on from hous-
ton to st. Lonis, via Fort Worth. the Dali
las branch being operated a. at present
President Rouse and party are G" r"te
north from Houston, on tour of inspec-
ton over the lines, and il is said by rail-
road men that he means Ia make the fur
fiv after February 18th
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-12-13

Nahcr was windel and unable To hold
hi own. When time was called
Mailer staggered to his corner.
In the second. Goddard landed with
hi left AMI then closed in To harl in
fighting, hitting with his right and sent
Nahcr to the floor lie was up in
time and they went smashing each ,ther
with right AMI left. At the close of
the round neither showed the slightest
sign. Of science. Both hal received
tei rifle punishment.
Both men came up looking dazed in
the third. but both were determined.
Neither shovel the least science. hut
r:iiIcd blow after blow Oh each other
f:,>, and h:rl as possible. Goddard
Wis the worst punished. for his face
WIS covered with gore. which flowed in
streams down his breast. He went at
Maher like a beast ana fairly beat him
down bv brutes;rength. The Irish lad
slyal up gamely under the shower Of
blows. hut at last was laid low ny Il
straight right on the jaw and fell face
down on the floor. The crowd was
fairly craZed with excitement.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-12-13
BIT CATS TAIL OFF.
Good Grounds for a Divorce
and Testimony in a Divorce
Suit.

There are many ways of being cruel
when a divorce i asked, and many
thing, 90 to make up what is known
Il. cruelty. That which would not
he considered good grounds in the
lower and illiter.tc circles of society
among laborers and unskilled work
men. would in the educated. refined
and cultivated intelligent class, be
considered of sufficient cruelty to
grant divorce to a person Of s'is-
ceptible over--ensitive organization
Those who from the cradle have
been reared in luxury and ease would
suffer painfully from cruel acts,
which in the peasant or laborer
could not find any appreciation what
ever.
In case for divorce had in Spring
field, Illinois, Mrs. Belle Neagles
against her husband, james Neagles.
among the other evidence introduced
to prove his viciousness and cruelty
gave evidence to peculiar allegation.
1t was stated that Neagles, after abus-
ing his wife, and while in a tit OF
rage, seized their house cat violently
in his hands, and bit her tail If. The
poor cat may have been the cause OF
the quarrel.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-12-13
BRUTAL SPORT.
A Fight in Which Goddard
Knocks Out Maher in
Three Rounds.

About 5000 sports, constituting:
every element Of sporting life. crowded
into the Coney Island Athletic club
house last night to see the great fight
between Joe Goddard, the Australian.
and Peter Mahn, claiming to he the
champion of ireland.
The crowd had come To see blood
and their fullest anticipations in that
line were realized. Goddard Knocked
out his man after three fierce and
bloody rounds.
Goddard was Il favorite in the bet
ting. He lacked in science, hut was
much the stronger Of the two, havin"
twelve more pounds than his antas-
onist in his favor. The fight wa> for
"A purse of 81 800: the winner To re-
ceive 81. 800. the loser 81 900.
The entertainment opened with Il
ten round bout between Barney Mil
lins and Jerry Sullivan, in which Null
lin> won by clever lett hand job.
When Goddard appeared for the
biz event of the evening he received Il
hearty reception. Nothing, however,
compared with the ovation given
Mailer. The men stepped into The
ring and cordially shaking hands.
tossed for position. There was great
shout from the Maher contin-
cent when it wa> seen he had won the
lucky corner.
Makers seconds were Jadik Maver,
of Philadelphia; Martin Costello Of
Buffalo. and Tom Clark of Coney
Island. Goddard, were Jim Gibbons.
of Patterson. \. j.; Billy Madden and
Alexander Greggins. Bob : all was
official timekeeper. and John {. Eek.
hart referee.
The men SPARED cautiously in the
first round. Goddard led and forced
Maher to his knees, when he took all
vantage of the necessary ten seconds.
Maher drew first blood. Each fought
like wild cat. Maber landed his
right and left and was forced to the
ropes by Goddard, who was 80 tired
he could hardly stand. Maher made
a great rally, but his blows only
seemed to make Goddard angry and
he hit right and left. landing at will.
Maher was wild and landed his right
four or five times, but Goddard only
went at him more determinedly.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-12-13
Real Estate Transfers.

The following real estate transfers wer,
filed in Recorder Pilkington's Office yester
day:
VIM. Binkley and wife TO .Josephus lick.
lin, 2240 acres i'm sections 3, 4. ., and 10
township a., range u, for the sum OF ST.
600
:. VI. Shatto and wife to Mas>ena NJ.
Mccormick, lots 6 and 4, block i'm J. X.
Stewards addition to Sedalia, consideration
$50.
Thomas We>tlake and wife to IL. Luck
EFT. south /! Of the center ! of the northeast
Of northeast ! section fifteen, township
III, range -, SS95.
s.. Hathaway and wife to Charles
Schooner. 90 acres i'm section p, township
IS. range q. for Sl05O
Mary A. Dix to Jno. W. keelc, 81 acres
in section 30, township Is, range q, for
500.
T. +. Raney and wife to Bryant Curran.
the east one-half Of lot = Of the northwest
one-fonrth of section 5, township III, range
3l-i7 acres, for 81 100