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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
A Cause of Bad Memory,

Among the causes of failure of mem
ory has been enumerated too much edu
cation. This may seem strange at firsi
thought, yet it is true. We have connec
over the printed page from childhood
We have learned our lessons by rote fol-
the purpose of recitation. When the
recitation and following examination
were over our task was done, and tn.
lessons were allowed to drop into for
getfulness. Little Latin and less Greek
still less of the history of Rameses the
Great, does the average business man re
member three years after he has lef,
school,
The book memorizing has got the
world into a bad way of depending OF
books without trying to carry things il
the head. Before printing was invented
the singers and historians remembered
whole volumes of poetry and prose, an6
travelled from place to place recountina
them and stirring the blood of the peo
pie to heroic deeds and patriotism
Those We're the true days of the lecture
platform. Now all is changed. We
have things muddled and jumbled in oul
brains, and the man who is most learned
in books is absolutely the most forget
full of common sense matters. 1t vii,
be found that, so far as his limited fiel,
OF knowledge extends, the ignoramui
who never learned to read has a better
memory than the sage. Not having
print to trust to he has cultivated the
powers nature gave him and recalls
nearly all the events that ever passed
under his ken with extraordinary clear,
ness. In statement of fact he would b,
worth dozen college professors of dead
languages.
1t is curious to note the different
methods persons have of remembering
things. The modern scholar recalls
words and letters by their looks and
place on the printed page. He remem
bers by his eye. Jacques Inaudi, the
young mathematical prodigy, did not
learn to read till he was nearly grown.
he says Wnen ne wishes TO recall word
or figure he hears it in his mind. Conse
quently Inaudi remembers by his ear.
The pernicious practice of keeping
memorandum books has done more tc
destroy the average memory than even
book stuffing. The idea that the hu.
man intellect was made so weak il
cannot hold in its grasp half dozen
different items at once is libel on the
Creator. Throw away your contempt.
ible and weakening memorandums.
Force your memory under your control
and make it do its work. You may
forget at first, but by and by you will
remember, and with far less trouble.
1t is easier to carry your head than a
memorandum book.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
She Enjoyed the Eclipse.

That the ignorance of New York high
school girls is duplicated, in measure
at least, across the bridge, was indicated
in a Brooklyn street car on the day of
the solar eclipse. AS the car passed the
building that afternoon bevy of these
students entered. They chartered of the
event, one explaining that her oppor-
tunities had been especially good, as a
teacher had let her have smoked glass
at the most interesting moment and had
told her all about it while she looked,
land, oh, girls" she finished, (which
was it anyway, an eclipse of the sun or
the moonp'-New York Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

CALIFORNIA has declared in favor of
the election of United States senators
by popular vote. That is the result
of the feeling there against the meth
ods which certain rich men, such as
the late Senator Hearst, adopted to
obtain seats in that body where they
had no just right to sit. At the re-
cent election the proposed amend
ment to the state constitution pres
enting this method was carried by
great mojority. If the people of
Pennsylvania had the opportunity to
vote on q similar amendment they
would be strongly inclined to adopt
it if for no other reason than as pro
test against the methods by which
they have been so long misrepresent-
ed in the upper branch of congress-
Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

A LITTLE bit of interesting his
tory, in which the vice president. elect
figures, is told as follows by an ex-
change: In 1888 there was vacancy
in the supreme court of the District of
Columbia, and President Cleveland
appointed Adlai Stevenson to fill it.
But the Republican senate refused
to confirm the nomination, preferring
tc leave the vacancy untitled until af,
ter the Inauguration of President
Harrison. The Office has life tenure,
and if Mr.. Stevenson had been con-
firmed he could not have been thrust
out OF his place. The greed of par
tisanship has, however, seldom suffer
ed a more satisfactory rebuke. The
Democrat whom the senate would not
confirm as judge will, after the
fourth of March next, preside over
the senate. He is going back to
Washington with the Endorsement of
his party, his state and his country
to shake in the faces Of his political
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

A Frenchman has devised an electric
helmet which will put the insomnious
to sleep. There is a small battery inside
the helmet which produces "gentle
buzzing sound" like the droning of
oumblebee. DR.. Gilles, the inventor,
claims that the most wakeful patients
cannot Withstand the influence of this
droning sound more than seven or eight
minutes. Gentle vibratory movements
have often been found beneficial in pain
full nervous disorders.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
Cooperative farming colonies hav

Cooperative farming colonies have
proved success in New Zealand. In
the northern island Of the group the
British colonial government sold three
blocks of land to three groups Of set
tiers about six years ago. The pioneers
worked the land on the cooperative
plan, while the ultimate intention was
that each family should in time pur-
chase its own separate home. Orchards
have been planted and grain and other
crops raised. The settlers are rapidly
paying for their homes.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

THERE is something peculiar in the
criticisms made on the secret ballot
laws of the different states by the Re-
publican newspapers since election
day. In Massachusetts, they say, it
defeated their candidate for governor,
because several thousand Republicans
marked their ballots illegally. From
Ohio comes a similar wail-that the
Democratic electors polled many votes
which were intended for their op.
ponents. California Republicans are
also accused by their party organs
with unwittingly assisting the Demo
Gratis, and from several sections of
other states we hear the same COM
plant. In every one of these instances
the modes of conducting the cleo
tions were devised by Republicans,
and, from the comments of the
Republican papers upon the secret
ballot, the only conclusion to be ar
rived at is that there was an over.
whelming preponderance of ignorant
voters in the Republican party,
although that organization, when it
existed, always claimed to possess the
most intelligent and well-educated
people Of the country. But, allowing
that the party organs are correct in
their criticisms, this claim is dis
proven when they state that enough
Republicans voted incorrectly to turn
three or four states and dozens OF
congressional districts.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
IT is seldom a state sends a divided

IT is seldom a state sends divided
delegation to the electoral college, as
Ohio and Oregon do this year.
Twenty-Five Republican and one
Democratic elector have been chosen
in the former, and the majorities of
none scarcely exceed one thousand.
There is no question but that the en-
tire ticket could have have been elect
ed had there been some harder work
done, but the fact that the column is
broken in state which was conceded
to the Republicans is sufficient this
time. In Oregon the Republicans
get three and the combination of
Peoples and Democrats elected one.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

There are living three widowed duch-
esses of Marlborough, not counting the
late dukes divorced wife, who is called
Lady Blandford. Mrs. Hamersley Marl-
borough is the widow of the eighth duke.
The widows of the sixth and seventh
dukes are still living, and their support
comes out of the Marlborough estates.
Beginning with the latest widow the
three might perhaps be called dowager,
grand dowager and great grand dow
ager.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

The precautions against cholera are
still to be continued to the extent of dis
couraging immigration and imposing a
quarantine Of twenty days on all who
have come from infected ports. Rags or
other merchandise from cholera coun-
tries will be thoroughly disinfected or
forbidden to come into the country at
all. These precautions are taken in view
of a possible outbreak of cholera next
spring.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

The distilleries in the whisky making
districts of the country have enormously
increased their manufacture of liquor
this fall, we are told. Perhaps this has
no connection with the reported scarcity
of water in many parts of the country,
but the fact is suggestive; it is indeed.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

1t is rumored in Dublin that Lord
Houghton, the new viceroy of Ireland,
will very soon enter again the pleasant
bonds of wedlock. The lord lieutenant
is addressed as "sir," just like the Prince
of Wales, and he has the privilege of
kissing the young ladies presented at the
drawing rooms. Some of the past lord
lieutenants have kissed as many as 300
young ladies in the course of a single
afternoon.-LondonS Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
Ideal People,

Years Of valuable time are wasted in
the lifetime Of every individual by the
hunt for ideal people. There are none,
except the people who are dead. The
ideal living persons exist only in the
imagination of the enthusiast who looks
for them. He may at length give up
the search in despair and settle down to
the belief that all the world is mean,
hard, selfish and monstrous, and he will
become soured, imbittered, suspicious
old crank, very unpleasant to live with.
Or he may give up caring whether there
are any ideal people or not and harden
into successful money maker who en-
joys nothing more than getting the bet
ter of some one less shrewd than him
self.
Yet there is sure way to produce
ideal people-those who are perfectly
kind, truthful, generous, good natured
and just, likewise neat and pleasant
hammered. There is time in the life
of everybody, even the toughest old
hunks, when to somebody he is the ideal.
At that time somebody, whether moth
er, child, sweetheart or friend, believes
him to be the one piece of perfection
sought for. If now we snatch at this
moment and thereafter be through all
the years of our lives exactly what these
adoring ones believe us to be before
they find us out, then in due time the
earth will be populated with genuine
ideal people.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

81 had the honor to be born in most
remarkable year." says DR.. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes; "the same year with four
of the greatest men this generation has
known-Tennyson, Gladstone, Darwin
and Lincoln" But of these famous men
(three Englishmen and two Americans)
only two are left-Gladstone and DIR.
Holmes. DR.. Holmes celebrated his
eighty-third birthday Aug. 30. Glad
stones eighty-third birthday comes on
Dec. 30.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

1t was CHASTITY ornament-that an
niversary and commemorative floral
gallows which the faithful placed upon
the top Of the monument to the anarch-
lists who were executed at Chicago FIVE
years ago.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

Trolley wires convey car rapidly
and beautifully along street, but when
one breaks and gets down a mans back
he finds there is heat in the thing.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

T. V. Powderly wants a new party.
There are those just about this time who
are inclined to believe there is too much
of some of the old ones.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

1t may be that the increasing scarcity
of gold will be stopped for time at
least. The output from the South At
rican mines is growing larger. This
year they will yield nearly million
and quarter ounces. That is only a
little less than the gold mines of the
United States produce annually. 1t may
be that next year these South African
mines will yield more gold than ours
In 1887 the output was not quite 35 900
ounces. In 1891 it had increased to 729,-
213. Three years ago it was predicted
that these mines would prove extraor-
dinarily profitable, and it may be that
their full development is not even vet
reached. If they had been in the United
States instead of in Africa there would
have been tremendous boom, with
cities growing up In fortnight and a
great population formed in two months.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

Umbrellas and parasols are now fitted
with clasps to hold the ribs close, in
stead Of the silk or elastic bands former
ly used. On handsome ones the clasps
are of silver or gold, and add distinc-
tive touch of elegance.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

When plump, pretty Widow Hamers-
ley, of New York, married the repro
bate Duke of Marlborough she poured
out old Hamersley's American dollars
like water in the work of identifying
the dukes ancestral seat, Blenheim
house. 1t was as dilapidated as the
buildings of an abandoned New Eng
land farm, glass out, hinges off, locks
broken and door stones fallen in. At an
enormous expense Widow Hamersley
that was fixed up the old place and made
it splendid as the residence of an Ameri-
can oil or sugar prince. Then she rightly
thought she had earned her title of
duchess. But now the dissipated duke
up and dies, and the duchess becomes
only dowager duchess, and according
to English law has to give up all
her splendor and go off and live
in little "dower house" on the corner
of the Marlborough estates somewhere.
A smiling young gentleman, by name
Charles Richard John Churchill, by title
Marquis of Blandford, son of the Duke
of Marlborough's first wife, who got a
divorce from him because he was SO bad,
steps serenely into all the magnificence
paid for by the Hamersley dollars, with
no more thought for the plump little
woman who paid the dollars than If she
were milkmaid on one of the Marl-
borough farms. What fine thing it is
for an American woman to marry Eu-
ropean title and have the privilege of
shelling out her honest Yankee dollars
to mend the holes made in entailed es-
tates by the dissipation and debauchery
of the man who wears the title! How
noble European nobility is!
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

When Mr.. Gladstone gets tired and
wants little rest he goes away and lee
lures somewhere about Greek literature
or medieval universities.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
Vulgar Wealth.

The crazy and cruel Roman Emperor
Caligula made golden stable for his
horse and fed him gilded oats. 1t is the
climax of vulgar and wicked extrava-
gance to the modern mind. That hap
pened in the days Of the decay and cor
ruption of the Roman empire.
1t is doubtful, however, whether the
unprejudiced future reader of history
will consider the Roman emperor any
more insanely extravagant than some
Republican citizens of the United States
in the last quarter Of the Nineteenth
century. Paupers have increased nine
fold and millionaires a thousandfold
since 1860, we are told. The wealth
that is heaping up like SNOWFALL roll
ing down hill has in many cases stuck
to persons with not brains enough to
spend it wisely. Having limited under
standing, they can only show that they
are somebody by display of wealth. 1t
is the lowest possible way of being some
body, but it is all the thin Drained rich
know, so they must be forgiven.
A golden stable for the emperor's
horse in old Rome is not whit more
foolish than gold mounted railway cars
for American citizens to travel in in
1892. The only thing gold mounted cars
can do is to make vulgar display of
wealth which the owner has not sense
enough to put to wiser use. Perhaps
we shall have golden coal scuttles and
ash nns next, likewise golden cuspidors
and Gash basins.
1t was the saturnine Dean Swift who
said that the Almighty showed his esti-
mate of wealth by the people he gave it
to. The barbaric degradation of the
beautiful and precious metal gold by
those who do not know how to use it is
enough to convince one that Dean Swift
spoke the truth. The person who has
great wealth is bound by that very
fact to use all above his personal ex-
penses for the good of those less for
tunate. Public parks, libraries, beauti-
full landscapes, scientific investigation,
model homes for poor people, the con-
quering and reclaiming of waste lands
providing homes for millions, the build
ing of homes for working people in the
country and furnishing them rapid
transit to their city factories-here are
magnificent openings for the investment
of wealth, and the new rich man goes
and spends his money on the golden
cuspidor and golden coal scuttle plan.
He could show it off in a less vulgar
way if he would simply have it melted
into large lump, and have man hired
to carry it along behind him wherever
he went.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

Mourning note paper shows a rever
of black only on white or blue gray.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

The hearts of the Italian and the small
boy will be sad next winter. The pea.
nut crop is short.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

COUGHING LEADS TO CONSUMPTION.
Kemp's Balsam stops the cough at once.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-04

Other Grains-Corn-No =. cars; No, 3.
10 cars: No. 4, cars; no grade, cars. Oats
-No.2, cars; No. 3. Al cars; no grade,
cars. Flax-NO l. cars.
Inspected Out-Wheat-No. hard, cars {;
No. northern. q cars; NO. 2 Scars; rejected,
IL ears: no grade. Q cars Corn-No. 3, car.
Oats-No. ., Q cars; No. 3. 9 cars. Barley
No. 4, car. Flax-No. ], ii cars.
RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS.
Receipts-Wheat. 2S9, 800 bu; corn. 800 bn;
oats. q. $50 bu: barley. 430 bu: rye. 57J bu;
flaxseed, 1920 bu: millstuffs, 125 tons; hay,
1S9 tons; fruit, 300 lbs; merchandise, 1893
$50 lbs: lumber, 33 cars; posts, 3 cars; barrel
stock, 8 cars; machinery, 265. 900 lbs; COAL $50
tons; wood. 56 cords; brick. $4,000; lime, 2
cars; cement 300 bbls; Ties, 6 cars: stone and
marble, ears: live stock. ] car; dressed
meats, 100000 lbs; hides and pelts 81, 100 lbs !;
wool, 1000 lbs; sundries. IA cars; total car
lots. SD cars.
Shipments-Wheat 10000 bu; corn. 800 bu;
oats. p, go bu; flour, 80 16l bbis: millstuff,
l.33S tons: hay Is tons; merchandise l.54l,-
0lO lbs; lumber. 81 cars; machinery, 303 200
lbs: coal, 10 tons; lime, 3 cars; cement, 100
bbls; stone and marble, 8 cars; live stock, l
car; hides and pelts. 2D.60o lbs; wool, 1900
lbs: sundrieS, II cars; total car lots 663 cars.
Flour Shipments-C.. NJ. & St r., 655 bbls;
Omaha, 2.026 bbls: st. Louis, 1905 bbls; Wis
consin Central. 10 bbls; N. x NJ, .t25 bbis;
st. p. Il D.. Is. 451 bbls; X. c.. 7,075 bbiS; c.,
B.. IL N. 60j bbis;l 500 line. 500 bbls.
Wheat Receipts by Car Lots--C., M. Il st.
p, ~: Omaha, ~; ST. Louis, IS; Nj d NJ, ISL;
st. p. IL d.. 1: N. p. 41; 500 line. Al.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-04
An Attempt to Purchase by
Partridge Precipitated a
Wild Scramble.
The Crowd Was Short, but
Very Little Wheat Was
for Sale.
Decided Advances in Grain
Pits as a Result of the
FlurPieS.
Uncertainty Confines Trad
ing to Narrow Limits at
New York.

CHICAGO June "A wild scrImble in the
wheat pit today and bulge of nearly &c in
prices was due to Il covert attempt at pur-
chasing by Pardridge. The crowd was evil
IDENTIFY largely short. and when the buying
began il was found that there was hardly any
wheat for sale. This discovery only in
creased the anxiety to cover, resulting in
something of a bear panic. Partridge soon
abandoned his idea of buying. but it was no
Iiced that he was not selling anything Of
consequence.
The report was current on the floor that
the big operator was selling out securities OH
the local stock exchange in view of posi-
bic squeeze in wheat and corn. 1t was gos-
sip that he had been called for 100000 mar
gins on short wheat last night. and ii is GER
tain that he was called heavily today. st.
Louis was very bullish, and reported as press
ing the buying in this market also. In local
trade it looked as if strong combination
was working 10 put the shorts i'll a corner and
start big bull market.
There was considerable precipitation OF
moisture in Illinois and Indiana and the
trade seemed inclined to take the most I'M
favorable view of the situation. report
that some No. l Duluth at New York was
out of condition assisted the advance Rumor
has it that Partridge is short 100000 bu of
wheat and 1000, 000 bu OF corn.
The opening in wheat was at S3SSc July.
about lac lower than last night. but there
were very few resting places in the market
after it was put fairly on the boil, and the
price was several times run up aud down in
an agitated way between SIC and S5S4c after
the bulge to SEC The closing price was S5ssc
sellers
The shorts In corn became anxious buyers
when the scare came in wheat They were
helped wonderfully by a large element in
the trade now talking 7jc for corn on d posi-
BILE crop failure. The advance was very
sharp and strong. July, which opened I'M
changed at ASSOC, went flying up to 497sc;
there was drop of A@I2c later, when a
final furry put prices up 10 50Ac. There
was great deal of selling Oh the advance by
the longs and it was thought that Partridge
and other big shorts must have absorbed the
offerings
Oats were also strong and made gain
over Yesterdays closing of 1c per blu.
Provisions gained a little in the article of
Darrelled pork but lard is no higher, and
ribs are from 2I2c 10 &c lower.
Freights were steady, with moderate de-
mand of lL2c for wheat. and lac for corn to
Buffalo. Estimated receipts for tomorro w:
Wheat, A cars, corn, $50 cars; oats 1f5 cars;
hogs. 1900 head.
The leadiEs.fsltures ranged as follows:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-04
R. M. NEWPORT & SON
INVESTMENT BANKERS,
money OH TTICNCd property IN
Paul and Minneapolis
Al GPcP Cent s.OR or Before
New Pioneer Press Building, st. Paul
Reeve Building. Minneapolis.
New York Produce.

NEW YORK June D. Flour = Receipts.
&c, 200 pkgs: exports IL, OS9 bbls, BIS sacks;
firmer,- quiet: sales 20950 bbls. Cornmeal
firm dull Wheat-Receipts, 339. 800 bu; eX
ports, 1891 bu; sales, 4,645,0O0 blu futures,
III, 900 bu spot: spot higher. quiet: No. , red,
9SSsc6S1 afioat 91L26l99s4c f. O. b.; No. red,
924092I2c; ungradedred, 63c@S1: No north
ern. g3092lBc: No. 1 hard, 06S40Gc; No.
2 northern, S7Is@S74c; No. Chicago, 92c;
No. . Milwaukee, Gle; No. 3 spring, 96Ac;
options opened lac down to 4c up, ad-
vanced 1ss@lssc on wet weather frmer
cables. ST. Louis buying and shorts
covering: declined A@Ssc on realiz-
ing, closing steady at 5sG1l8c over yesterday;
No red June, 9JSsQ9IAc closing at Ole:
July, 9lSs@93c, closing at 93asc: August, 9l4s
closing at 92sac; october closing at 93I4c; De-
cember, 94I2c closing at 95Hc; May, 1895.
closing at 99c Rye strong. scarce, quiet.
Barley malt dull. Corn-Receipts, 1885 bu;
exports 2,742 bu; sales, 100000 bu futures,
LOCO bu spot; spots higher, scarce,
dull; No. > 5SI2c elevator, 59059i2c
afioat: ungraded mixed. 51@62l2c: steam
er mixed, SIC; options advanced
2@23sc on better weather, firmer cables and
covering; declined 1SG114c. and closed firm at
1s40l2Ssc over yesterday; june, 56M036l2c,
closing at 5Slac; July, 54ls0l56e. closing at
557sc; August, a3l261j5Ac. closing at SOC;
September 53l2@55Ac. closing at 55c. Oats
= Receipts, $4,000 bu; exports, 1900 bu;
sales $4,000 blu futures %, 0U0 bu spot; spots
higher. dull; options firmer, dull; June, 1913
@37s4c, closing at 37a4c; July. 37GD3is4c, clos
ne at 37S4e: August. '376o374c. closing at
lac; September, 357sGa36ssc closing at 36s5e;
pot No. ; white. f212c; mixed Western, $50
IL Uhitp Western 1(61dl5P