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The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-19
The Ancient knJcker.

The days are zone when the inmates
of ii house in ~aristocratic portions Of
New York could tell by the knock at
the door whether "A member of the fam
ily or IA visitor was awaiting a1mittance
Also they knew then what member was
there. or the social standing of the Wis
itor who was outside.
4 few small knockers still linger in
varick and Nandam streets and similar
localities. hut nobody seems to use them
The bell may show advanced civiliza-
tion. but there are people who miss the
knocker. New York Sun.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-19

On a Sixth avenue train the other even
ing an old man sat literally packed among
women. As the train approached the
Twenty-third street station he began to
button up his coat preparatory to leav-
ing the car. He looked about grimly
among the clustered women till he
caught sight Of an elderly man stand
ing with them Reaching ont at arms
length with his ane among the fur
bellows and feathers. he managed to
touch his fellow man on the elbow. The
other understood at once. and wedged
his way back to the waiting seat. When
he was safely there the old man got up.
and. glaring defiantly at the bafied fair
n picked his way automatically on,
Of the train.-New York Times.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-19
The Worthy Novel.

The novel that is worthy of the name.
and which is calculated to render a
broader service than the pecuniary COM
p~ensation of its author. is the n which
takes the problems of life as they present
themselves to us all. and by the example
of the characters portrayed teaches us
the way to their proper solution: that
presents us with types Of manly anu
womanly character that may inspire the
reader to emulation of their excellences.
and that is withal a natural. helpful.
concrete story of a life of lives. Snch a
novel is worth all the literary freaks
that ever have been or ever will be pro-
duced.-Donahoe's Magazine.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-19
Great scheme.

A North Carolina genius proposes
a novel scheme for providing an en-
dowment for a college in his vicinity.
He suggests that the trustees insure
the lives of fifty men. between the
age of forty and fifty, for $40, 600
each. and as the insured die off and
the amounts of the policies are turned
in convert the money into a fund for
the college. This would meal an en-
dowment of $500. 900 at some time or
othar.-New York Sun.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-19
A Daring Gunner.

Ny battery participated III the battle
of Pea Ridge on March g.. ! aud {. 1862
Thomas Davis. a private. acting As No. 4
at one of the guns. leaped upon his gun
and stretching himself ont at full! length
amid a perfect storm of shell and s.lrap,
ueI and musket balls shoute,. to the
enemy. who We're in line OF battle y short
distance away. Send one OF your inen
over. and | will fight him single handed
and settle this picnic He remained
there shouting till the battery was Or
dered to fall back for ammunition. Davis
never received a scratch.-L. J. White
in New York Press.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-19
An Enterprising burglar.

America is said to he the home of en-
terprise. but an English burglar has gone
a little ahead Of anything that ever orig
mated in the Yankee mind. He conceived
the idea Of increasing his receipts by fur
nishing to IA newspaper beats on his
exploits. After each burglary he sent a
full account to the paper and collected
pay for the articles in the usual way.
The fact that he was finally detected and
is now in Jail does net detract from his
distinction as a ma OF resources
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-19

All the world is Nt,lrtG4l4 sa.:tp".
All my thought i. ist J ~ -rat:
Sweet ana wantnn -.uutS~ ltGt.- me
And cIi.o.t~ i4".
As the ARMS 81 ,i-8l ine day.
Sweet as pul-.fg OF spent iatislc
When lie hands have ceased to play.
Ger the sense "A longing >tcalet,i.
For what cs.u,e it may not Know;
As when evening groweih lender.
Mud the >piendor
OF the sunset burneih low.
Ger the land the white mist silent
Stealeth through the sftersl"w.
Sad Il, slanting sunlight falling
On the sail. at outbnund ships:
Dear a. memory that hover>
OF a lovers
ki>s on i. woman's lips.
soft a, when a thin cloud mantle
Folds the moon in white eclipse.
80 the sense is STEPPED in longing,
As the world j. wrapped in gray:
lis so much akin I" sorrow
As the morrow
fioldeih thought of yesterday.
lis. perciiatscr. the soul Immortal!
sad because the heart Is clay.
C. ". Coleman III Harper's Bazai
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-19
Blends in History.

Henry VIII of England. in the earlier
part Of his reign, posed as a saint. He
thought himself a great t~heologian, and
as long as he was surrounded by bru-
nettes seemed really more devoted to the
Creator than to any human being.
But when the fair Anne Boleyn came
upon the scene he, too, fell q victim, and
it is not worthy of remark that neither
she nor Jane Seymour. Anne of Cleves
or Catharine Parr could be called a bru-
nette.-New York Herald.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-19

In 1880 the bark Rosina, with a cargo
Of fine French brandy from Cliarente.
France, for this port. RAJ ashore in a
gale off the southern coast Of Long
Island. The crew threw overheard a
portion of her cargo in an attempt to
tighten the ship, but size was finally
hauled Off by a wrecking company,
which received $40. 900 salvage. For W
or three years afterward all the taverns
along the southern coast Of Long Island
sold fine French brandy at ten cents pes
glass.-New York Evening Sun.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-19
ways of Climbers.

There are many and devious ways ana
means of getting into society practlced
nowadays, and it would be interesting
To know Of all the wirepulling that a
been done by this one and tina one DE,
fore the requirement OF q Recognized
position in the world Of fashion. A cur
ous combiL ltion of circumstances oc-
enrred not long ago. Mr.. A.. who was
cont of it," leased a ''palatial manson
in Fifth avenue at an exorbitant rent
~hich he subleased to Mrs. B.-whe
v.a we'll established I'm the swim.
nth the understanding that she shouie
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-19
A.slL..iEiA., uL4.tj14.
COMPARATIVE MEASUREMENTS CS
GIRLS IN 1870 CITES.

rhr California Your" Maiden l. Claimed
To he ,,.a-.r .'.rre, -, g ,o.la IAt;
Her sister III y" t"ra iatcrestia;
Tom parisan> IA. 10 isct.
i sculptor, iaeal Of beauty j. evolved
on mataamatiesl principle. y pal."tt
woman is or :. or $ heads tall: her
shoulders are two Leads wide. her Les"
are - 10 ;. heads long: her waist IS )
heads in circumference. But the size ct
heads varies in women who are equally
ocr.est in shane. tie head If the Venus
d. ale,,ici is nearly o~ne-eigli.h less i'll pro
portion than Chat Of the enn OF hl.2 OF
the Cnidicn Venus of PraS!teles. winch
was esteemed hv the anclent> the M .
Derfect statue IN existence. The M",.iei
Venus il Il sl,,!,. slender gil. whose ira-
portions resemble the sr..tues of Psy"h",
Living reproductions of her are NOR.
Frequently seen in New York than here.
There fell into The .Aryonauts posses
sion "A list Of measurement: OF the pro
nortions of "A Young lady of San Fran
cisco, who is looked upon as being beat
tiful and having IA fine fig,;re--ln short.
a typical California girl. With these We
have compared a similar groun! plan OF
"A New York girl which we ecure at
the time Professor Sargent was collect
ing statistics concerning the young
women in eastern :,elninaries: heWls
til. measurements of Baliow's Wei
known idea, beauty, They compare a'
!. follows:
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-19
Cause, but No Effect.

The funny mans wife was reading the
paper to him. .--
George" she said, listen TO this
and she read, THE queen of Siam las b
smallest feet yet seen on any wonan
"Ah,"he said, and that was all he said.
She waited q minute or two-an hour
"a day-a week-a month and still ne
made no reference to a Chicago woman
and she is wondering now if anything
ia the matter with him.-Letro't Ere
Press.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-19

Snobkins twho thinks he recognizes
some one he knowseOh-er! Haven't
seen you somewhere before:
Nobkins who declines to be patron
izedeAs | have been in existence for
the last half century | should say it is
mighty probable that you have.
Snobkins does not pursue his inquiries
any further .-Exchange.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-19

The annual expectation of india rob
Der from Para is said to be upward 0f
%, O0O. 900 pounds. worth from 100000 0
TO 10000
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-09

What is technically known as profit
sharing or industrial partnership is de-
signed to unite the interests of the own
ers of capital and the workmen. The
control rests in the capital and its own
ers, but those who do the work are given
share in the profits, when there are
any. Customary wages and salaries are
paid, interest is paid ON capital, and
whatever profit then remains is divided
by some previously agreed plan between
the two.
The business or economic logic as
signed for this arrangement is that in
terested labor will be more careful and
efficient than the labor which has no
contingent interest. 1t is familiar fact
that slave labor is inefficient, and it is
also well known that men working for
wages aim to do only minimum days
work. If the slave converted into free
man, educated and well fed, becomes a
better producer; if the wage Garner
turned into small proprietor becomes
more energetic and more careful-then
the same logic will make the wage earn
er who has an interest in the profits
more Industrious and less disposed to
carelessly waste material or do bad work.
There being thus larger profit, the
profit sharing dividend on wages is in
reality paid out of the increased efficien-
cy of the men themselves. The dividend
may in fact be only a portion of this ex-
ira yield, or it may be the whole of it, or
it may exceed it and be drawn partly
from the ordinary profits. But whatever
additional product results is clear eco
nomic gain.-N. o. Nelson in st. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-09
Her Night In a Vault with the Dead.

Mrs. Mary Slach of Cleveland attended
a neighbours funeral Tuesday, and dur
ing the final ceremony, which took place
in q vault in Woodland cemetery, she
dropped asleep. She was sitting ON a
campchair in an obscure corner of the
vault, and when at 4:30 o'clock the
mourners departed she did not awake.
The door changed, and the lock slipped
into place, but still she slept.
At 3 o'clock the next morning she
awoke, shivering. Her cries aroused
the guard, who instead of opening the
vault door at once telephoned to Raus
Bros, undertakers, begging them to
come quick because their last Subject"
had come to life and wanted to get out
of her coffin. Two collins had been de-
posted in the vault the day before, so
the guard telephoned another under
taker, Two policemen were also sum
moned in hot haste.
During all this delay Mrs. Slach had
been rending the air with her cries for
assistance, but the guard waited for the
undertakers. Finally undertakers, Do
licemen and guard cautiously unlocked
the door, and the woman tumbled out,
nearly exhausted from fright and exer-
ton. The woman was sent home in an
undertaker's wagon and is now quite i'll.
Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-09
Crying for Wool Duties.

The National Association of Wool
Manufacturers held its twenty-eighth
annual meeting at the Fifth Avenue hotel,
New York, on Jan. 10. This is the associ-
alton of which William Whitman has for
several years been president and dictator.
Whitman's ability to influence the Re-
publican party and to secure high pro-
tective tariffs for manufacturers has
made him pre-eminent among his associ-
ates. His false statements in regard to
profits and duties have brought him into
disrepute among Democrats, and hence
it was deemed advisable, if the associa-
ton was going to attempt to influence
the new administration, to elect presi-
dent less obnoxious to the Democrats.
Hence Rufus S. Frost, of Boston, was
made president.
That this association thinks that there
is no radical difference between Repub-
hcans and Democrats, and that the next
congress is going to be swayed from its
purpose to legislate for the people by the
clamorous demands of few rich manu-
facturers, is evident from the following
interview with Major Stott, of Lowell:
The fight to which the association
must dedicate itself for the next four
years is the retention of as high an ad
valorem duty ON the manufactured prod
uct as possible. That the duty of eleven
cents pound on raw wool and the COM
pensating duty of forty-four cents a
pound on the manufactured article will
both be removed by the incoming ad-
ministration we take for granted. To
keep as much of the present ad valorem
rate of duty of so per cent. ON the man
ufactured article and to have it raised if
such thing be possible is what we now
aim at We count upon the assistance
of Democrats, such as Congressman
Moses Stevens, of North Andover, Mass,
who is himself an extensive wooden man.
ufacturer. With the aid of our friends
in the Democratic ranks we may be able
to retain protection enough to save the
industry from ruin.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-09
A Product of Modern Civilization.

Street begging in this city has about
reached the limit of liberation even for
patient men. That it is unlawful every
body knows, yet the law seems to be
dead letter. Mail street and the post
Office corridors have always been favor
ite haunts for the beggars, because there
they run little risk of being interfered
with, but now they have become so bold
that they infest the busy cross town
thoroughfares, such as Fourteenth street,
Twenty-third street, and One Hundred
and Twenty-fifth street, and at night
they swarm around those places where
people gather in search of amusement.
The army of real and alleged cripples
and blind men and women who haunt
the shopping districts during the day
arc in themselves nuisance and an Of
fence to the ladies who are shopping,
but the horde of men and boys who
spread themselves over the city at night
are infinitely worse because of the iu-
science and often threats with which
they ask alms.-New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-09
Santa Claus In a Pullman Car.

zone Of the prettiest and heart moving
incidents occurred" said Alvan Hard
ing, "as came through from Denver to
st, Louis. was compelled to ride
through the Christmas eve and the best
part of Christmas day, along with a
crowd of other i'll fated citizens, much
to my disgust and regret. In the through
Pullman were a number of ladies and
gentlemen; but, best of all, widow and
a pretty little daughter. half wondered
what the pretty little girl was to have
for Christmas, seeing that no chimney
led down from the roof, but my specula-
tions were rather vague, and | forgot
the little girl to think of my own dear
relatives. Christmas eve, when the berths
were let down and the passengers beg IN
to retire, came in to look after my own.
"As strolled down the aisle | saw a
tiny little stocking hanging outside the
berth where the little girl lay with her
mother. Old Santa Claus must have
been en- route to st. Louis that night,
for the way he stuffed and jammed that
stocking full of fruit, candy, money,
trinkets and the like, and then filed
handkerchiefs until they were great
round balls and tied them on, was sim
ply wonderful. 1t did seem as though
Santa Claus had no one else in the world
to take care of. Next morning I en-
joyed watching the widow and the little
one. They were the especial pets of the
occasion, and everybody came round
and said something kind to the child."-
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-09

In a recent letter Robert Ellis
Thompson, the well-known writer,
asks, care we to become an empire?
He says regarding the annexation Of
the Hawaiian islands: "Wehave lane
enough and people enough and prob
lens enough to occupy u.s. We will
come down to the level of the traffic
kers and squabblers of Europe, who
destroy nations to make empires D
A great many people will agree with
the professor on that point. All the
union required by America with any
country is that of friendly feeling and
free trade.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-09
THE PLATE GLASS CONSPIRACY.
Its Object Is to Keep Prices Up TO the
Highest Possible Figure.


Its Object Is to Keep Prices Up TO the
Highest Possible Figure.
Another combination of the kind for
hidden by the Sherman antitrust act has
just been formed. 1t is a combination
of the plate glass manufacturers, and as
it was completed on the last day of 1899
it may be accepted as New Years gift
to the American people. The nine firms
and companies who make all the plate
glass manufactured in this country have
appointed commissioner, who will
sell all the glass produced by them, dis
tribute the orders among the producers,
regulate production and maintain a uni
form price.
The object of the combination is not a
secret. A Pittsburg dispatch to the New
York Tribune, dated Dec. 25, announced
that meeting to perfect the combina-
ton would soon be held in that city, and
added: "The avowed intention of the
fraternal combination is to keep plate
glass prices at the highest figure possi-
BILE and at the same time keep them low
enough to shut out all importations. :"
The same dispatch says that at pre-
Yious meeting an advance of 80 per cent
was agreed upon, but that western pro-
ducer thought 25 per cent would be
about the right figure.
1t is quite safe to predict that the at
torney general of the United States will
not instruct any district attorney to ''lay
the Sherman act alongside" of this COM
bination. 1t is tariff sheltered friendly
arrangement, and nobody connected
with the present administration has ever
bestowed anything but smiles of encour-
agement upon any such thing. The
plate glass industry is one. of the Repub-
ican pets, and the Harrison administra-
tion may be trusted to do nothing
in order to prevent the nine concerns
engaged therein from making hay while
the sun shines. Mr.. Miller will be
pleased to see them get their full pound
of flesh from this time on until the Dem
ocrats get their new tariff law made and
in operation. He will not make any
pretense of applying the Sherman law
in their case.
But the Democratic tariff revisers may
be expected to make note or two in
their memorandum books. They will
note that the combination has advanced
the price 25 or 80 per cent, as the case
may be. They will also note that the
average duty on plate glass is fraction
over 80 per cent, basing the calculation
on the importations and values of 1891.
They will also note that the avowed in
tention is to raise the prices not quite
high enough to admit of considerable
importations. Putting these things to-
gether they will see that the prices re-
sulting from free competition among
American manufacturers are not much
above foreign prices. Hence they will
conclude that our plate glass industry
would survive without any tariff protec-
tion at all, and they will promptly smash
the combination, not by means of the
Sherman act, but by abolishing the tariff
taxes which shelter it. In that way they
will quickly bring to naught this con
spiracy against the pockets of the Amer
lean people. Chicago Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-09
FREELAND, PA, MARCH 8, 1898.

Rumor has it that Harrison thinks
of joining a New York law firm. In
other words, he is laying the wires
for presidential nomination in 1896.
It is said that Indiana is too small a
field for him; that New York offers
better opportunities for keeping be-
fore the public; that being New
Yorker will aid him in securing the
stale delegation to the national con
vention. Strange, some people can
not realize when their political life
has ended.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-09

There is one man in this country,
says the Philadelphia Times, who
takes no stock in any era of good feel
ing. The late candidate for vice
president is unreconciled and irrecon-
cillable He has hardly brought him,
self even to believe that the campaign
is over, and is still wondering what
hit him. 1t was all so sudden and
unexpected that he cannot under
stand it, and he pours out his be
wildered plants in the New York
Tribune in way that would be pathetic
if it were not so imbecile, or might bc
humorous if it were not so cor
temptible.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-09

protective tariffs have made all of
our prosperity" says the man who goes
to the mill with sack half full of corn
on the back of horse as he puts stone
in the other end of the sack to made it
balance. Eyes, we will all be ruined if
the Democrats abolish tariffs" says his
neighbor, who is returning from mill
with half ton of feed, all piled on the
front of his wagon, over the low wheels.
because the load is nearer the horses
there, and they can pull it easier.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-09

A correspondent at Berne writes that
the Swiss national council has just voted
10000 francs subsidy in connection with
the Chicago fair. OF this modest sum
$4,000 francs will be devoted to paying
the expenses of number of workmen
delegates who are to visit the United
States this year and inquire into the re-
port of the country's industrial condi-
ton.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-09

"The attempt to restore the sugar tax
could not succeed without costing the
Democratic party the next congress and
the next presidential election y says the
st. Louis Republic. "'Once on the free
list, always on the free listr No more
taxes on sugar!'
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-09

Cigar making in the United States en-
ploys about 10000 people. OF this num-
Der about $4,000 are cigar makers, of
whom nearly 10000 belong to the Cigar
Makers international union; the remain
ing 10000 are Chinese and other foreign
ers who do not understand unionism.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-09

President Elect Cleveland will be
obliged to pay duty at the rate of 49t
cents per pound and GO per cent. ad va
lorem upon a pair of woolen gloves sent
to him by some admirer in foreign parts.
Undoubtedly he will take them off when
he handles the Mckinley tariff.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-09
Some Special Things
In Furniture.
Groceries & Provisions.

Groceries & Provisions.
Flour, $2.15.
Chop, S1.10 and $1.15.
Bran, 80 cents.
Bologna, 8 cents.
Cheese, N. Y, 13 cents.
Tub butter, 2S cents.
15 pounds sugar S1.0O.
pounds Lima beans, 25 cents.
5 pounds currants, 25 cents.
5 pounds raisins, 25 cents.
6 bars LenoX soap, % cents.
6 bars Octagon soap, 25 cents.
3 packages pearline, 10 cents.
Best coal oil, ~ cents.
Vinegar, cider, Is cents gal.
Cider, 20 cents a gallon.
Syrup, No. l, 80 cents gal.
No. l mince meat, 10 cents.
3 pounds macaroni, % cents.
3 quarts beans, 25 cents.
6 pouLds oat meal, 25 cents.