Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14
PICKED UP BY THE WAY.
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD IN THE
TOWN AND VICINITY.

TOWN AND VICINITY.
Matters of a Local Nature Written Up
and Placed Before the Readers of the
Tribune" by the misunderstanding |
Here May Interest You.
The acts of heroism and dar-
ing deeds of bravery which
are so often performed in the
mining regions are worthy of
a great deal more attention
than is usually given them.
Persons who will give S5 to a
church fair or a Sunday school
picnic are often considered of
more Importance to a com
munity than a man who will
leave a comfortable home, his |
wife and family and descend |
into the depths of a mine at !
the peril of his life and with
out the least thought of being
rewarded, to rescue his fellow
man who through some mis-
fortune meets with an accident
in which he is unable to help
himself. Of the latter scarce
ly a line is written or an
eloquent word spoken, while
of the former, his deeds for
the welfare of humanity are
heralded everywhere.
The accident which befell
Theobald Wackley at High
land, nearly two weeks ago, is
only one of the many of that
kind which occur every year,
and his rescue was one of the
most daring deeds of bravery
that could be accomplished.
That Mr.. w ackley is alive to-
day after spending eighteen
hours in a living tomb is due
largely to Mine Superinten-
dent Samuel Dunkley, of G. B.
Markle & Co. S collieries at
Jeddo. The nerve and good
judgment displayed in the res
cue by Mr.. Dunkley and the
men in his charge was re-
markable.
With nothing to guide
their work but the voice of
the imprisoned man, who was
covered under a mountain of
rock, coal and clay, the res
cuers, with the roof cracking
above them, coal flying from
the pillars, falls occurring in
side of them every half hour,
began cutting through an un-
safe pilla" and kept it up with
out intermission until the res
cue was affected after eighteen
hours work. But it seems deeds
done for humanitys sake don't
count.
1t seems as if somebody was
poking Billy Hines in the ribs
pretty hard recently. At any
rate his race up from Wash
lngton to Hazleton last Tues
day, with a pretended excuse
for so doing, was one of the
prettiest pieces of slide politics
that l have seen him execute
in a long while. To make mat
ters worse, he was subjected
to considerable embarrassment
during his brief stay in that
city, and if he had been back
in Washington a short time
after he arrived in Hazleton
he would probably have stayed
there. Indeed, his reception
was anything but cordial and
had not a few postoffice appli-
cants called upon him he would
have left the town unnoticed.
Somehow the old-time en-
thusiasam for Hines in this
section is fast dying out and
he cannot cover his cunning
moves so cleverly as he did in
the past. Various reasons are
assigned for his want of tact
in late years when out on his
annual political crusade. The
most probable cause of his fail
ure, however, is that the people
in this end of the county are
sick, sore and tired of him, and
this is political ailment that
in every instance is incurable.
Again, the scarcity of labor
agitators in the region at pres
ent is a serious drawback to
Hines chance of occupying a
seat in the next c0npress
These gentlemen always as |
sisted Billy materially in calm
ing the rising temptests, but |
alas, they too have vanished. |
But leaNino eYerYthinp else