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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

The doll is thousands OF years old
it has been found inside the graves of
little Roman children, and will be found
again by the archeologists of future
date among the remains of Our own
culture. The children of Pompeii and
Herculaneum trundled hoops just as
you and L did, and who knows whether
the rocking horse on which we rode in
our young days is not lineal descen-
dant of that proud charger into whose
fanks the children of Francis Is time
dug their spurs.
The drum is also indestructible, and
setting time Mt naught across the cen
turies, it beats the Christmas tide and
New Year summons that bids the tin
soldier prepare himself for war, and
shall continue to beat rs long as there
exist boyish arms to WELD drumsticks,
and grown-up peoples ears to be deaf
ened by the sound thereof. The tin
soldier views the future with calm he
will not lay down his arms until the
day of general disarmament, and there
is, as yet, no prospect of universal
peace.
Ihe 10Y sworn hiso stanus its Brounu
it is the nursery symbol of the inera-
dicable vice of our race-the lust for
battle. Harlequins, fool soap
ed and bell ringing, are also likely to
endure they are sure to be found
among the members of the toy world
rs long as there are fools to be found
among the inhabitants of our own.
Gold-laced knights, their swords at
their sides, curly-locked and satin
shod princesses, stalwart musketeers
mustached and top-booted, are all types
which still hold their own. The
Chinese doll is young as yet, but she
has brilliant future before her.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

rector; and as the panther made I,
dash to intercept the sleigh, it found
itself i'll too close proximity to the
strange-voiced phenomenon in the
pung, and sprang backward with an
angry snarl
AS LOUIS breath failed from her dry
lips, the sleigh dashed out into the
open. A dog bayed angrily from the
nearest farmhouse, and the panther
stopped short on the edge of the wood.
The rector drove into the farm yard,
and Old Jerry stopped. shivering as if
he would fall between the shafts.
After the story had been told, and
Jerry had been stabbed and rubbed
down, the rector resumed his Journey
with fresh horse, having no fear that
the panther would venture across the
cleared lands. Three of the settlers
Started out forthwith, and following
the tracks in the new snow, succeeded
IN shooting the wild beast after a chase
of two or three hours.
The adventure supplied the country
side all that winter with theme for
conversation, and about Lou s clarionet
there gathered halo of romance
that drew rousiug congregations
to the parish church, where its
music was to be heard every alternate
Sunday evening. - Youth $ sCompanion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

| probably keep well out of our sight
However, it's just as well to get be-
yond its neighborhood as quickly as
possible Steady, Jerry, old boy !!
Steady-don't use yourself up too
fast !"
The rector kept the horse well in
hand but in u short time 1t was plain
that the panther was not avoiding the
party. The cries came nearer and
nearer, and Louis breath came quicker
and quicker, and the rector's teeth be-
gan to set themselves grimly, while
his brows gathered in anxious
thought.
If it should come to a struggle, what
WAS there in the sleigh, he was wonder
ing, that could serve rs weapon?
Nothing, absolutely nothing but his
heavy pocket-knife.
"a poor weapon, thought he, rue
fully, with which TO fight panther. "
But he felt i'll his pocket with one
hand, and opened the knife, and
slipped it under the edge of the
cushion beside him.
At this instant he caught sight of
the panther, bounding along through
the low underbrush, keeping parallel
with the road, and not forty yards
away.
"There it is - came in terrified
whisper from Louis lips; and just then
Teddy lifted his head from under the
robes. Frightened at the speed and
at the set look on his fathers face he
began to cry. The panther heard him
and turned Mt once toward the sleigh.
Old Jerry stretched himself out i'll
burst of speed, while the rector
grasped his poor knife tiercely; and
the panther came with long leap
right into the road not ten PAGES be-
hind the flying sleigh.
Teddy stared in amazement, and
then covered down in fresh terror AS
there came an ear-splitting screech,
wild and high and long, from LOUIS
clarionet Lou had turned, and over
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

the back of the seat was blowing this
peal of desperate defiance i'll the
brute's very face, The astonished ami
NAL shrank back in his tracks and
sprang again into the underbrush.
Lou turned to the rector with n
flushed face oftriumph and the rector
exclaimed in husky voice, "rhank
God! But Teddy, between his sobs,
complained, "What did you do that
for, Lou?"
Lou jumped to the conclusion that
her victory was complete and final /;
but the rector kept Jerry at his top
speed and scrutinized the underwood
apprehensively.
The panther appeared again in four
or five minutes, returning to the road,
and leaping along some forty or fifty
feet behind the sleigh His pace was
very curious disiointed, india rub
berry spring, which rapidly closed up
on the fugitives.
Then round swung Lou's long in
strument again, and at its piercing
cry the animal again shrank back This
time, however, he kept to the road,
and the moment Lou paused Tor
breath he resumed the chase.
Save your breath, child, ex-
claimed the rector, as Lou again put
the slender tube to her lips ''Save
your breath, and let HIM have it fe-
rociously when he begins to get TOO
near.
The animal came within twenty or
thirty feet again, and then Lou greeted
him with an ,,ar-splitting blast, and he
fell back. Again and again the tactics
were repeated Lou tried thrilling
cadenla; it was too much for the
brute's nerves. He could not compre-
hend girl with such penetrating
voice, and he could not screw up his
, courage to closer investigation OF
the marvel.
AT last the animal seemed to resolve
on change of procedure. Plunginp
into the woods he made an effort tc
get ahead of the sleigh. Old Jerry
was showing signs of exhaustion, but
1 the rector reused him to an extra
: spurt-and there, just ahead, was tn,
! opening of Fillmore's settlement.
| BLOW, Lou, blow!" shouted tn
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
Horrors of a Convict Colony.

The Vladivostock, newspaper pub
lished in Eastern Siberia, gives te--
rible account of the sufferings of the
Russian convicts of the penal settle-
ments on the island of Saghalien. 1t
says: "a warder named Khanoff and
some of his assistants, who at one time
were convicts themselves and had been
raised to the rank of jailers, have been
removed from their posts. Khanoff's
treatment of the prisoners was so
abominable that number of them
crippled themselves, cutting off fingers
and toes, in order to be treated as in
valids and to be freed from his terri
BILE cruelties. Others fled to the i'm
penetrable forest, where they suffered
all the horrors of hunger. In sat
chel belonging to a fugitive convict,
who had been hunted down, were
found some pieces of human flesh. In.
vestigation revealed that this man had
been one of party of four, and that
only one of them now remained. The
others had been killed and deSoured
by their comrades. Similar cases of
cannibalism are, according to the 81
berian journal, not infrequent.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
Tears and Nerves.

My medical friend explains: AS the
muscular power that extends or tlexcs
finger is at distance from the part
moved, SO the excitement to tears is
from an irritation in distant nervous
center, and is removed when the nerv-
ous center is either soothed or ex-
hausted. The relief comes, not from
the mere escape of tears, which is only
a symptom, but from the cessation of
the storm in the nervous chain. Ii
the storm be calmed by soothing
measures--as when we soothe child
that is weeping from fear, annoyance
or injury we quiet the nervous CEN
tsrs, upon which the effect ceases. In
children the soothing method sue
ceeds, and sometimes it succeeds in
adults, although in adults the cessa-
tion of tears is more commonly due to
actual exhaustion following period
OF nervous activity. Boston Globe.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

Says the New Orleans Piosyune: !:
The Government of Italy has determ-
ined to effectually suppress the brig
andage which has long terrorized the
Island of Sicily. 1t proposes to de-
clare martial law in the island and to
send thither 1000 troops, who will
have the assistance of the local police,
and will push a vigorous compsign,
especially through the mountainous
districts The courts where the brig
ands are tried will have special meas
ures taken for their protection. The
Sicilisn Malta in this country will
doubtless soon have large accessions to
its ranks
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

He was not at all alarmed, however,
for he was sure his father was match
for a thousand bears
BY and by the road entered the curl
Gus inverted dark of Dorchester woods,
where all the light seemed to come
from the white snow under the trees
rather than from the dark sky above
them. At this stage of the journey
Teddy retired under the buffalo robes,
and went to sleep in the bottom of the
pung.
The horse logged slowly along the
somewhat heavy road. The bells
iingled drowsily amid the soft, push
ing whisper of the runners. Lou and
the rector talked in quiet voices, at
tuned to the solemn hush of the great
forest
What that 2"
Lou shivered up closer to the rector
as she spoke, and glanced nervously
into the dark woods whence sound
had come. The rector did not answer
Mt once, but instinctively seized the
whip, and frightened the reins as sig
! lui W oit w IuoNt Ou lhSitI.
The horse needed no signal, but
awoke into an eager trot which would
have become gallop had the rector
permitted.
Again came the sound, this time n
little nearer, and still apparently Just
abreast of the puug, nut deep in the
woods. 1t was n bitter, long, wailina
cry, blended with "A harshly grating
undertone, like the rasping of saw
"Whst is it?" again asked Lou, he,
, teeth chattering.
The rector let Old jerry out into
t gallop, as he answered, 'Tm afrai'
4 it's panther-what they call aroun
here an Indian Devil. But l don
Ie think there is any real danger. 1t is
+ ierocious beast, but will probably Civ
e us wide berth. "
le Why won't it attack us?' aske
Id Lou.
IN oh, 1T prefers solitary victims,
ut replied the rector. sit is ordinaril
u cautious beast, and does not under
as Staha the combination of man an
morse and vehicle. Only on rar
d, occasions has it been known to attac
n people driving, and this one wi
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
The Yule Log Custom.

The yule log or yule block is proba.
bly, another form of that which has
been preserved i'll the Christmas tree.
A huge log of wood placed in the fire
place is kept burning all the evening
in many places in England, and even
in the United States the custom is not
unknown. 1t is called Buche de Noel
in France.
The yule candle is lighted the even
ing of December "a, midwinter- night,
and kept burning all night if possible.
If it goes out during the night it is
looked upon rs sign that some one
will die in the house soon. On the
other hand the stumps of these can
dies are considered a powerful remedy
for diseased or injured hands or feet.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

pet of yourn, Miss. I felt like it jest
drawed down the angels from heaven
to sing with us tonight. Their voices
was all swimming in II smoke, Ike.
| right up in the hollow of the ceiling.
"'Taint trumpet = interrupted
Teddy, shyly. 'It's clar 'onet. L
got a trumpet home
''To be sure p replied the old lady,
induleentIv. But miss, as / was a
saying, that music of yourn would Jest
soften the hardest heart as ever was. ~
The rector had just come from the
vestry room, well wrapped up IN his
furs, and was shaking hands and wish
ing every one Merry Christmas,
while the sexton brought the horse to
the door. He overheard the old Ia
dy's last remark, as she was bundling
Teddy up ina huge woollen muffier.
''lt certainly did" said he, "make
the singing go magniicently tonight,
didn't it, Mrs. TAFT? But | wonder
now, what sort of an effect it would
produce on hard-hearted bear, if
such II creature should come ont at us
while we are going through Dorches-
ter woods 2
This mild pleasautry was very deli
catel y adapted to the rector's audi
ence, and the group about the stove
smiled with reverent air betittiug
the place they were in; but the old
lady exclaimed in haste:
my, land sakes, parson, II beard
be Jest scared to death -
III wonder if it would frighten a
bear?' thought Lou to herself, as they
were getting snugly bundled into the
warm, deep ''pung,' rs the low-box
sleigh with movable seats is called.
Soon the crest of the hill was passed,
and the four-poster on the top of
Second Westcock Church sank out of
sight. For mile or more the road
led through half-cleared pasture lands,
where the black stumps stuck up so
strangely through the drifts that
Teddy discovered bears on every hand.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

The red deer is still hunted in Enc
land, but in a way that the San Fran.
cisco Chronicle thinks must make TN.
gorge of true sportsmen rise. A recent
English paper describes the method.
1t says: ''The red deer which are nm.
nually required for sport with the
Queens buckhounds were selected yes
terday from the famous herds in Wind.
sor Great Park. After one or two nm
successful raids among the fsvnrita
haunts OF the wild red deer about s;vtv
fine stays and kinds were nur.rod
across the royal demesne and dr;,..,,
into Cranbourne paddock, near tL,
Flemish farm, where some OF them wer
speedily caught in the nets stretche
across the inclosure and secured by til
huntsmen and park laborers. I'll
strongest animals on being release
from the tolls were carefully placed i
"oouen crates ana conveyed IN th
royal van and carts to Swiuley pad
docks where they await the openin
OF the hunting season" After readin
this description we no longer wonde
that there is a society in England whic'
devotes itself to creating sentimen
against hunting with the buckhounds
but we do wonder that the English ar
80 slow to apprehend how utterly il
human and farcical it is to call roup,
up of tame deer hunting II any on
attempted to harry the deer in or
park with dogs and called the thin
hunting, he would in all probabilit
be treated to coat of tar and feather
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
CHRISTMAS CAROL.

Sleep snow white world, under the stars,
Sleep! Sleep!
While choral angels from on high.
Floating across the midnight sky.
Lean down with waving lily-wands.
To bless the earth with gracious hands.
And hark ! the golden chord
Praise be to Christ our Lord.
The Son of Man in lowly manger born.
Be ore whose face the strength of Sin is
shorn.n
Then, till the holy morn.
Sleep. Sleep
Wake bright world. under the bright sun,
Wake Wake
Hark how the Christmas angels sing
"All hail to Christ our Lord and Kingi
All hail good will and peace 10 menl
All hail to God on high Amen :"
Join we the joyful song;
The reign Of ancient wrong
is DER this hour for Christ the Child is born !.
Oh, happy world thy bonds of sin are torn
This holy Christmas morn.
Wake Wake,
Charles l.. Hiidreth, in Demorest's.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

Do you ever notice how few patches
people are wearing? asks the New York
Sun. 1t is because clothing is SO
much cheaper now than it used to be,
that 1t is not worth while pulling old
garments together. When they are
worn out, they go into the rag bag or
are given to tramps and new ones are
ordered of the custom tailors, or more
often are bought outright at the near
est hand-me-dowu shop. A pair of
colonial boots, recently shown in n
shoe makers window, was almost Gov
cred with homemade patches. SucL
exhaustive eking ont of old boots il
not IN vogue nowadays; it is cheaper
and better to get new goods.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
Song OF Kriss Kringie's Tree.

Kriss Kringle's bells are jingling,
The frosty air is tingling,
All silvery sounds are mingling,
This merry. merry day.
With many fieecy feather
The snow-fakes dance together;
Here comes Kriss Kringle's weather,
In good Kriss Kringle's way.
Kriss Kringle's measures tripping,
kriss Kringle's sweetness slipping,
The while his gifts we're clipping,
From brave Kriss Kringle's tree,
We set the candles burning.
Like stars aud planets turning,
And every dream and yearning
There satisfied we see
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
Cleaning Buildings by Sandblast.

The exterior of buildings are now
cleaned by the sandblast instead of the
hose. The front is covered with stag
ing, and the blast is applied by sys-
tenn of pines and nozzles carried by
the workmen. The stream of fine sand
issuing from nozzle removes layer
l-54inches thick from the surface of the
stone, and square foot OF surface can
be cleaned in ten minutes. The sand
can be employed ever again. New
York Dispatch.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

Doubtless three-fourths Of the
Americans who visit the Bermudas, re-
marks the New York Sun, pronounce
the second syllable of the name as if
it we're spelled NEW although
Shakespeare in the Tempest has
indicated for all time the original pro-
nunciation of that syllable by calling
the islands "the still vexed Ber-
moothes.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

Among the multifarious duties which
demand the attention of the Calcutta
police, the capture OF sharks in the
Hooghly finds a place. During the
past twenty years rewards have been
paid for the destruction of these ma
rine man-eaters, and recently the Ben
gal Government laid down scale for
these payments.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

IT is worth while now and then to
pause and consider, soliloquizes Fos'
ter Coates in Frank Leslie's. New
York contains within its borders more
Hebrews than there are in Jerusalem,
more Irishmen than there are in Dub
lin. more Germans than there are in
Hamburg, and more Italians than there
are in Rome.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

The United States steamer Phlaaei
phia has the honor Of being the fast
est warship uHoat On one day, dur
ing her recent trip from New York to
Honolulu. $50 knots were made, which,
in the opinion of the Hartford Jour
nal. is a remarkable record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

The son of real marquis Is work
inc on the streets OF Tacoma, Wash
His father has disowned him, but the
bov. more forgiving and less proud
still acknowledges his father
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

Alone AMI solitary,
Aloof from elf and fairy,
1t grew in forests airy
Through many season dim
To reach its day OF glory,
When winter woods were hoarY,
TO hear kriss Kringle's story.
And dear hriss Kringles hymn.
o tree that wearies never
o tree that ciarn Us ever
o tree that lives forever
Tae blessed Christmas tree
Where owe an | kindness blending
Roun W the years air ending.
There heaven own beauty lending.
Behold Kriss Kringle's tree.
Mar Iaret L. Sangster. in Young PeoDl1
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

Ina German university Students
mstriculation card shields him from
arrest admits him at half price to the
theatres. and takes him free to the art
galleries.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
Russian farmers hold an average Of
tventy-seven acres to each family.

The annual average of criminals
tried in Germany for all offenses is
e22 s94; in Italy, 127,372; in Great
Britain, r.. 43S.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

The little red house at Lenox, Mass,
in which Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote
"Tanglewood Tales, The House OF
Seven Gables, and other stories, is to
be restored.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
LOUIS CLARIONET.
A CHRISTMAS STORY.

VI + r T. was a
Christmas eve ser
vice in the Second
Westcock Church.
The church at
Second Westcock
was quaint and
old fas shioued,
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-08-19
Smith Was in the First Round.

BY the bright genius of Smith, the only
and inimitable, who passes the liquid
refreshments in the Reception, have
many of worthy citizens been joshed
this week. They have signed "a petition
to the Fire Commissioners to make Tom
billiard chief gas engineer to water
hydrants, with chief duty to let the gas
escape every morning at six. There
was a successful josher not long to
ago in Frisco who framed a petition the
Board of Supervisors praying them to
have the sun stand still. 1t received
many signers. Smithy's josh was the
result Of a bet with Dick Fuller and its
Dicks treat. Smithy said he could make
Tom billiard work a whole day, but Dick
thought it couldn't be done. Neither
Dick nor Tom will run against Smith
any more, especially when gas is a con
sideration. Smiling. Smooth Eph
will come along some day and get some-
body to sign all his property away. 1t
behooves a man to be cautious in signing
his name, for. the confidence man
still makes an easy living and this
harmless joke may prove OF unbonded
good.
In the meantime Mr.. Mike Martin is
%instructing Tom in his duties and Tom
is a first-class gas man.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-08-19
San Francisco Meat Market.

Sound heavy steers-the very primest
are obtainable at 5hc, but for second
quality there is more demand and they
sell readily at A to AZ and Sc.
Mutton is also plentiful, but prices dc
not fiuctuate any. Prime wethers fetch
up 10 61sc and ewes 61kc. Lamb is moi
SO much inquired after, But prices re
main steady. Some nice small ones
bring up TO sac, but most of it is large
and cheaper. ;. ,s....
Hogs are being shipped to market
more freely and butchers are not such
steady buyers. What few sales have
taken place were in the neighborhood o
8 and SIC for extra choice small ones
Dressed SIC IS top prize
The killing for the week was in round
numbers as follows. $500 beeves, 4,0Ot
sheep, 800 hogs, 1000 calves, l,oot
lambs, which all met with ready SALE
Butchers, Gazette.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-08-19
LUNDY LOCALS.

There are but five men now at work
in the Sutro tunnel.
The Pope's head is quite level on
the labor question.
No big man ever had brains common
surate with the capacity of his paunct.
1t continues to be asserted that the
White Horse mines, IA Wadsworth,
New, are rich and permanent.
The impractical drone is the ignoblest
work of man, though he assumes to
know more than his creator.
The San Francisco Examiner is strad-
ding the silver question, ready to fall
either way like q pyramid of mush. Sill
yer made it, and it ought to be fighting
vaIiantly for the white metal.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-08-19
MINING J0TS.

The snow water is getting low and the
boys will soori- have to fall back on the
sp""se.
John HAYES is making negotiations to
bond n of his claims to Sacramento
parties.
The spaniards from San Jose are hard
at work on the nre,;p,;nar;es and pro-