Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-11

and 2 a. m. should be the very
earliest to shut it off. How
ever, if the proposition in the
main is regarded favorably by
the council and taxpayers, the
hour of extinguishing the light
ought to be adjusted without
difficulty.
The inhumanity of some peo-
pie is brought to the surface in
strange ways at times, and, to
my thinking, a brutal illustra-
ton of cold-heartedness occur
red here a short while ago.
On Thanksgiving Day several
Huns quarreled at the Points,
with the result that one was
carried to the hospital with a
fractured skull and another
was arrested and placed in
Freeland lookup. The privi-
lege of placing prisoners in the
lookup here is granted to town
ship constables and other off
GERS, but | think the borough
ought to insist that persons
confined there are properly
treated. They are fed and at
tended to if arrested by the
police of the borough, and the
same should be compulsory on
the part of others.
The Hun | mentioned was
taken to the lookup shortly af-
ter noon on Thursday, and left
there without a morsel of food
or any attedtion given to his
injuries, for he was also bat
tered and bruised, until about
o or 10 o'clock on Saturday,
about forty-five hours. A case
of that kind is a disgrace to
the officer who arrested him,
and a repetition of it should
not be tolerated here. Let the
prisoner be even a murderer,
it is not just to treat him so in
| humanity. 1t is scarcely neces-
l sary to state it was not an or
I dinary officer or constable who
was guilty of this criminal
neglect; it was one of these
-. presumptious people known as
! the coal and iron police, who
appear to hold their positions
solely because they are heart.
less and cruel to those who fall
l into their clutches.
/ The intelligence of a good
: well-bred dog is well-known,
t and that something more than
/; instinct guides their actions is
l beyond doubt. Among the nu
r merous hunters of this locality
is j. P. Mcdonald, and ht
recently received a fine hounC
from a Wilkes-Barre friend
The dog arrived here by ex.
press, safely boxed up, and
was joyfully welcomed by his
new master, who intended
to give him a trial soon
Joe tied him securely in the
stable, fed him about 3 O'Clock
and after supper went out to
see how he liked his new home.
You can imagine the look of
= establishment that swept over
j. P.'s countenance when he
found the hooks, chain, dog,
etc, were gone. Not a trace
of the animal could be found,
and the hunter went to bed
that night a most unhappy
man.
Now here is where the dogs
intelligence comes in. Early
the next morning Mr.. McDon-
aid received "a telegram from
the former owner, stating that
the dog was in Wilkes-Barre,
and asking whether it escaped
from Freeland or from the ex-
press company while en- route.
That dog, evidently, was not
satisfied with the appearanceo of
the Points, or else he was a
Republican and disliked to re-
side in the Democratic strong
hold of Foster. But whatever
were his objections, he did not
stay to present them, but pack
ed up and travelled from here
to Wilkes-Barre, over roads he
had never previously seen, and
arrived at his former propri-
etor's door during the night.
How he managed to cover
those thirty miles so quickly
without pilot is a mystery.
SAUNTERER.
90 to McDonald's for furniture.