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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02

81 have just returned from an ex-
tended tour through Mexico" said
Milo 7. Jarvis, of st. Paul, "and am
convinced that the coffee lands of that
country are only inferior to those of
Brazil in extent, while the variety
and quality of the Mexican product
is by far the superior. The only rea-
son why so many of these fields re-
main idle is the lack of capital and
enterprise. The topographic and
climatic conditions of the country are
especially adapted to the productions
of varieties and grades of coffee as
large in size and as rich in flavor as
that produced on the island Of Java
itself. The few who have availed
themselves of the great opportunities
in the past now congratulate them
selTes not only upon the result of
their work, but upon the large for
tunes already made in the enterprise.
There is still plenty of room and the
same opportunities still exist. To
men of Industrious habits desirous of
carving out fortune, these new and
hitherto untouched lands will afford
the opportunity with but little capital
or labor. st. Louis Globe-D Democrat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02
Korean Sports,

Curator Stuart Culin, of the Univers-
ity of Pennsylvania Museum, who has
gathered together the finest collection
of games ever made in the world, has
made an interesting discovery in his
study of Korean sports. The Chinese
games are all marked by literary
character, the game of logomachy, or
word-building, which has gained such
popularity in this country, having
been played long ago by Korean school
children. ga number OF their games, :"
he declares, chad their origin from
mystic concepts. Many of the child
ish sports had originally serious
divinistlc or expiatory significance.
The tug-of-war, for instance, was
played by the people of villages
and districts to ascertain which would
be the luckier. Kites were used as
scapegoats, being released with in
scrlptions to the effect that they were
carrying away misfortune. Mere toys
were not numerous. Some of the
games possess a decidedly ethnic char
acter, and their study promises to fur
nish conclusions of some import tapce, "
Philadelphia Record
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02
ANCIENT HISTORY.


The Chicago Evening News Tolls OF enc
Rise of st. Louis.
ST. Louis now claims a population
of 100000, which, Il supported by
figures, makes the Missouri metrop-
oils the fifth In size Of the large cit
les Of the United States.
ST. Louis was founded In the year
So0l B. G. by a protoplasm who was
Off his feed and didn't care what he
did. Having started the place, how
ever, he didn't feel like leaving and
did not leave until he discovered that
1t was no place for live, gO-ahead
proto-and he left AS nothing was
ever heard of him afterward 1t is be-
lieved by eminent authorities that he
went up into the Ozark hills and
kicked himself to death for having
doomed such town.
About the twentieth century, B.
c. the late Mr. Chedorlaomer made
an expedition to st. Louis and up
to the day of his death he regretted
1t. In his memoirs he says: HOf all
the dead, past-due burgs that ever
honored with my presence st. Louis
OdhcS Ulc CllccSc. MT. S0CuOTldOuler
was a close observer and knew what
he was talking about The next per-
son Of note to visit the town was
Shalmanescr in the year 70l B. G.
He mistook 1t for natioua ceme-
terry and din not stop off, but pro-
ceeded on to Keokuk, Iowa.
The town wabbled ON with indiifer-
ent success until William the Con-
queror's time when some live bust
ness man built morgue ard then
1t began to grow. Abe Supsky's
discovery of the Mississippi in 1921
gave the town a boom and the census
Of 1925 gives 1t population Of los.
When it Is recalled that only 4,500
years before III that there was Of St.
Louis was a protoplasm this rapid
Growth is fralght with Interest. Dur
Ing the last 300 years its progress
has teen trhe slow but steady.
Mr. Chedolaomer would scarcely
recognize the st. Louis OF to-day. 1t
has several business blocks, post
office and a II lroad lands freight and
passengers Within walking distance
Of the town pump. Travellers be-
tween the n rth and south stop off
for lunch. IN business 1t is retro
Rpective-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02

harm feather of her old head, not
for dollar /"
And Kitty whispered to Mira. Hall
that night:
Il think he is nice-looking when he
smiles and shows those white teeth of
his-don't you?"
Before the little green pears on the
big tree had assumed the size of
vest-buttons, Benjamin Higgs had
asked Kitty Cotton to be his wife.
'I'm not a rich man, said he, "but
Pm able to keep wife. And that
photograph of Old Lantern on her
nest-it just went off like wildfre.
The barn interior, you know, and the
wisps of hay in the sunshine that came
through the cracks, and the big beams
overhead-everybody bought it. I've
tried half dozen times to repeat the
experiment, but she never would sit
still for me-"
Kitty bent her head down over
Lantern, who was contentedly pick.
ing corn out of her hand.
''The dear old thingr' whispered
sAt. bOOu luCh CdLuo ueTc Will Ian
tern !"
"Wal, I swami" said Jake Martin.
Engaged to that feller! Why was
a-calculatin' to ask her to go pardners
with me in the tinware business one O.
these days" !"
"You're too late," said the Widow
Hall.
"And Obed Stilson, he's come home
from sea, and he's askin' questions
pretty lively about Kitty Cotton, "
persisted jake.
"He's too late," said Mrs. Hall.
"Wal, l don't so much keer," said
Jake, ''if the photograph man makes
her happy"
81 guess he will make her happy"
said Mrs. Hall. "He's buildin' her O
nice new house on Blue River, and Old
Lanterns to have fi-st-class hennery.
Yes, he will make her happy. Sat.
urday Night.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02

Tor ye, Mrs. hall, cheerily responded
the peddler.
And out from the glittering fcs-
toons of tin dippers and wash hand
basins young girl sprang lightly, Il
smile striving desperately with the
traces of recent tears on her cheeks.
Rather an unconventional tableau
was this under the yellow June sun
shine, the narrow road fringed with
tall white daisies, and the gnarly old
pear trees tossing their snow white
boughs above the one-storied cabin,
in whose doorway stood old Dorcas
Hall, with her wrinkled hand held up
to shield her eyes from the sun.
"Why," she exclaimed, ''it's Kitty
Cotton, amt it? Or be L dreamin' ?"
''No, Mrs. Hail." SAID Kitty, with a
little culver in her lip, "you are not
dreaming. It's really me"
"And what brings you here?"
Kitty's blue eyes shone through n
medium of tears starting suddenly
from some hidden spring deep down
in her heart.
"Because-because I've nowhere
else to go!" she faltered. "The auc-
tion was this morning, and everything
was sold-and oh, the old house is SO
dreary 1 couldn't stay there. I
thought perhaps the woman who is
moving in might want me to help with
the housework but she has two grown
daughters of her own"
'Lal" said Mrs. Hall. $50 YOU
come to me, did you? Well, I amt
very rich, but what I've got, Kitty,
you're welcome to-"
'Didn't 1 tell ye SOP" said Jake
Martin, who, up to this period, had
been energetically chewing straw
"Mrs. Hall, she never went back on
no one yet It'll be roof over your
head, anyhow, and if there's a brand
new tin wash basin wanted in Kitty 3
room, here it is, free gratis and he
unearthed from its bed of straw a
shining new article. "And 1 only
wish could do more"
81 need new tin dipper awful
bad" observed Mrs. Hall. "My
boarder, he's great hand to drink
fresh, cool water outen the well, and !
declare to goodness I'm ashamed OF
my rusty old cup 'thout no handle !''
"Wal, l won't be mean. Here's a
dipper for ye, too" said Jake-"not
quite the biggest size. but l guess it's
large enough. Mind, though, Mrs.
Hail, you don't patronize Tim Hawk
ins next time you need a wash-boiler
Tim, he's drelful, oily-tongued fel
Ter, but his wash-boilers is jest whited
suppulchres that's what they be
'Mornin', Mrs. Hall Keep up good
courage, Kitty
And he climbed to his high seat
among the pie. e.platters and pudding
basins, and shook the reins as signal
for the old horse to leave off MUNICH
ing daisies and resume his leisurely
pace down the road.
Kitty sat down ON the doorstep an6
burst into tears once more.
'Ifyou've got boarder," said she,
ST surely can't stay !"
ella, child, don't fretF" soothed
Mrs. Hall. ''He sleeps out in the
barn, for GOODNESS sake, and amt nc
more trouble'n a kitten"
! "Oh, Mrs. Hall. it isn't tramp?'
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL

Male mosquitoes do not bite.
I Bees fly from eighteen to twenty
miles an hour.
Soap is one of the best sterilizer:
OF impure water.
Gold leaf 1850, 900 of an inch thick
was rolled in Elwood City, Ind, re
Gently.
A long, strong thumb always indI
Gates great will power and force o.
character.
There are venomous fishes whose
spines infict dangerous wounds, much
like the stings of snakes.
Vassar College, at Poughkeepsie. N.
T., is about to collect, on large scale,
the nests and eggs of birds native OF
that section.
Where telephone wires are overhead
the speed of transmission is at the rate
of 10000 miles a second; through
cables under the sea the speed is not
more than 6000 miles a second.
A composition for hardening steel,
named "Durol,' has been tried for
two years by such firms as Krupp,
Names, Manns and others in Germany
and is said to give entire satisfaction.
On the highways of Great Britain
more than 5000 steam engines are in
use for transport services. A friction
engine, on good roads, can draw a
moderate sized train OF wagons sixty
miles day.
1t is reported that vein of sylvan
ite ore, from two to four inches thick,
has been struck IN one of the mines at
Cripple Creek, Col, which will run
$3.50, 900 to the tor. Sylvanite is ma
tive tellurium with large proportion
of gold and silver.
By simple rule, the length OF tho
day and night, any time of the year,
may be asoertained by simply doubling
the time of the suns rising, which will
give the length of the night, and
doubling the time of setting will give
the length of the day.
Bathing is often answerable for
aural disease when ducking the head
is practiced. The ear is intolerant of
cold water, and, in addition to this,
the stimulating properties of sea water
render it irritating to the ear, and
liable to set up Inflammation.
An automatic apparatus for indicat-
ing to passengers in railway cars the
name of the next station has been
adopted on the underground railway
in London. AS each station is passed
a card bearing the name OF the next
station drops into place in a glass
covered frame and an electric bell
rings to call attention TO the change.
The attempts to secure an alloy Of
aluminium and platinum have at last
been successful. The alloy is OF n
handsome yellow color, not unlike
gold alloy with five per cent. of silver,
and is suitable for protecting steel
articles from rust. 1t contains only
very small proportion OF platinum,
and, therefore will not be expensive.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02
Reflections OF a Cat.

The incest bed is pan of rising
bread.
The old maid is the cats good Samari.
tan.
If it wasn't for the rat 1 would be an
outcast.
l think I have pretty nose when it
amt scratched.
The oven was about the hottest place
was ever in.
I am blamed for great many things
the girl breaks.
In all my experience never saw a
cat hit with bootjack.
Every cat that gets on our back
fence doesn't come to see me.
When people go to sit down they
never see | am asleep in the chair.
When l can't get the ribbon off my
neck l try to drag it in the dirt
If | hadn't the talons the small boy
would find no fun in pulling nv tail.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02
What Is In q Trade.

A trade makes you Independent.
A strong crutch upon which to lean.
1t is passport to all countries and
climes.
A demand note which passes current
everywhere.
Something which can be carried in
our heads and hands.
The only property which can not be
mortgaged or sold.
1t is a calling which can be declined
or taken up at pleasure.
The one thing that can not be learned
in an academy or college.
A thiog about which neither friends
nor kindred can quarrel.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02

Fl
With many friends to love you,
Whose hearts are warm and true,
Should fortune prove traitor
You must not make ado;
And as the clouds are gathering
Upon hopes future sea.
And pleasures flckle spectre
Leaves naught of JOY with thee !
Pause and thinkl
IhinK OF true souls and kindred.
Loved ones, though far away,
Whose tears OF warm affection
May consecrate the clay
That shall be heaped above you
When life's short dream is o'er,
Ofthose who'll strive to meet you
Upon the other shore
Pause and think
AMI when temptations finger
Shall beckon you o stray,
Or siren-yoice of pleasure
May lure to evil way,
When right and wrong conten ling.
Both seeking to control
The best and worst within you
To save or wreck your soul
Pause and think!
Think that n step once taken
Can never be reiraced,
That naught's so hard to burnish
As character defaced,
And ere in some weak moment,
You listen to the foe,
Pray heed the admoni.ion,
Eeiore you further go
Pause and thinkI
De'ore we censure others
For follies they have sown,
1t would seem most consistent
TO contemplate our own
An | ere oar tongues be loosenel
At character to strike,
Let this fair thought come to us
''How much we are alike"-
Pause and thinfi
THINK that word once spoken
AMI passed. beyond control,
For 500 | or evil bearing,
Adown the years may roll;
Lnl i'll the listan: future,
No knowing when twill be,
The fruits OF what you've spoken
May all come home TO thee
Pause and think!
William Erickson, in Home and Countr
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02
Gets His Own Price.

Though Mr.. f. Marion Crawford
probably earns more money by his pen
than any other living writer he is
perhaps not so well paid in rropor-
tion to the Amount of work that he
does as is Dir. T. B. Aldrich. AS a
matter OF flct, Mr.. Aldrich always
puts his own price on his work, and
he is always sure Of getting it One
magazine OF New York City takes
everything that he sends Il He
simply writes the price In a corner Of
the MSS, and it is paid. Wha a de-
lightful aspect of literary success this
presents! a few weeks ago an editor
wrote to MFR. Aldrich: won't you
please drop poem into our slpJ and
draw out as much money as yot want
for it9" Mr Aldrich dropped dozen
lines, as directed, and drew out $50. 3"
New York Recorder.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02
THE LONG.LlVED TORTOISE.
AN ANIMAL THAT FREQUENTLY
LIVES FOR CENTURIES,


A Giant Specimen That Carried Chill
dren on Its Broad Back, and Lived
f' 200 Years.
F you want to be old, observe and
initiate the tortoise. That reptile
apparently knows how to live as
long as it likes. 1t is rather hard
on man, who is constantly being told
that he is the highest of the animals,
that he should be so inferior to the
testudinal family in this important re-
spect.
1t is impossible to say how long a
tortoise, under favorable conditions,
may live. There are tortoises in the
Galapagos Islands, off South America,
where the species with the handsome
shell is mostly found, that were prob
ably alive before the discovery of this
continent by Christopher Columbus.
In the Geological Garden at Philadel-
phia there is swapping turtle from
the Mississippi whose age is calculated
at 300 years. He is moss-grown, but
hale and hearty, and his jaws are as
vigorous as an alligatofs. A small
tortoise that had lived at the time of
Charles I. s Archbishop Land was killed
by cart in the grounds of Lambeth
Palace few years ago. He was doing
his best to get out of the way, but a
tortoise, though sure, is no match for
a horse.
There are now many famous old tor
toises and turtles in the world. One
of them has just died at Colombo the
capital of Ceylon, one of the stopping
places on the route from Australia to
England. The tortoise was of the
species testudo elephantopis. He
passed the greater part of his life at
"Uplands," a resort on the coast near
Colombo, where he was visited by
thousands of passengers annually.
His age was estimated at 200 years,
and he measured six feet from snout
to tail, the shell alone being four feet
six inches in length. The species to
which he belonged originates in the
Seychelles and Mauritius Islands. But
from early times they were found con-
venient to carry on ships as a reserve
supply of live fresh meat. Now they
are almost extinct. They were pre-.
served from total extinction by Sir
Arthur Gordon, who as Governor OF
Mauritius, ordered that two specimens
should be sent to him annually by the
natives as tribute.
The Colombo tortoise was sent from
Java to the Governor of Ceylon, which
was then Dutch colony. When the
British annexed the island in 1876 the
tortoise was transferred to their care.
Like most tortoises he was of placid
and peaceable disposition, but seems
to have been by no means averse to
human society. From time to time
he carried children on his broad back,
task which he performed with ap-
parent cheerfulness. On one occasion,
however, he successfully resisted the
efforts of seven men to remove him
from the garden where he resided to
the grounds of an exhibition.
Recently the local government ac-
quired "Uplands, where the tortoise
lived, as craving dock. He was re.
moved to Victoria Park, about a mile
inland, where he sickened and died in
short time. Had he been left in his
accustomed place he might have lived
to far greater age, as he had shown
no signs of ill health prior to his re-
moval. New York World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02
Lived on Chocolate for Sixty Days

A French woman has just concluded
a remarkable and very interesting feat.
With view to testing the sustaining
powers of chocolate, she has lived upon
that preparation alone for sixty days,
and has lost but fifteen pounds in the
interval, ,--Rocheste Post t-Express.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. Tho many, who live bet
ter than Others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the purc liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is duo to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
art to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ativc; effectually cleansing the system,
dispclling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys Liver and Bowels without weak
oning them and it is perfectly free fiom
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup Of Figs is for sale by all drug
gsts in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02
"0LD LANTERN"
DY HrrrY FORREST GRAVES.

o." said old Mrs.
Hall-"no l can't
buy 10 tinware this
morning, nor yet l
hain't no old rags
saved up. No, l
tell you. What be
ye stoppin' for, jake
Martin 'Tain't a
week since you was
here before. "
SCOT u passep ger
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02

THE YoU2 -"Just think,
six OF my patients recovered this
week" 1hC Old Doctor -"It's your
own fault, NY boy. You spen too
much time ai the club. ."-Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02

"WILLIE," said the visitor, "whao
is your smbition?" "I'd like" said
the boy, putting down his yellow
covered story Of the plains, "to have
people tremble like leaves at tho
mere mention of my name. Ray
mond's.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02

NEVER Judge a womans cooking
by the cake she takes to a clurcl!
social. Texas Siftings.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02

DR.. Kilmcrs SwAMp-RooT CUTS
all kidney and Bladder troubled
Paniphl'tand Consultation free,
Labrat)ry Binghampton, NY.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02

THOSE who praise God by proxy are
advised that there are no high-priced
substitutes in the heavenly hosts.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02

"THAT's what 1 get for my palms,
sobbed the small boy, as he swallowed
a dose of castor oil.-Philadelphia
Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02
Halls Catarrh Cure

biologists say New Orleans will soon sink
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-02

-----
Hpll's CatarTh Cure
Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 75c.
Soaps one OF the best sterilizers OF Impure
water
Karl's Glover Root the great blood purifier,
gives freshness and clearness to the complex
ion and cures constipation, % cts 30 Cts, 81.
Sweeping is low done with hose and an
air pump.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-24

THE HOlOmHa imagines that to be
representative, this Government
must submit its cause to the votes
of disloyal citizens. We are not
aware of any presidents, either in
America or elsewhere, to justify
that procedure; but if there were a
thousand of them, it would not
alter the determination of the loyal
men of these Islands to preserve,
i'll any Government which may be
formed, the results Of the January
revolution. No doubt the H0iOmna
would like to give the enemies of
the public safety a chance to vote
their agents, the ex-Queen in
cluded, into power, but such a de-
sire as that will not be gratified.
This country is going to remain in
the hands of the Annexationists
until annexation shall have been
achieved. Upon that rock the
present Government has been
founded and the gates of hell shall
not prevail against it.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-24
THE LABOR QUESTION.

The STAR has tried to make the
fact plain that, while it is not in
favor of any form of oriental
suffrage, it would rather see
the few Japanese who could
pass extraordinary tests get the
ballot than to have the An
nexationists in the United States
offended by resumption here OF
Chinese immigration. We still
stand upon that platform, and as
an advocate of annexation shall
continue to.
However, it now appears that
there is no real need of passing be-
tween either the japanese Scylla or
the Chinese Charybdis. Mr.. Vivas
informs us that plenty of Portu-
guese may be had for the cane fields
at a fair price. If that be so why
should a sole alternative be raised
between Chinese and Japanese?
What are the objections, if any, to
importing Portuguese? We leave
it to the planters to inform the
public to the end that the full merits
of this racio labor controversy may
be brought out.
In the meantime all should go
slow in this labor discussion.
Great planting interests are I'M
doubtedly at stake, but so are civil
ization and the cause of union with
America. This takes the question
out of the sole domain of business
into the broader one of national
and human welfare.