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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08
THE DELAWARE, SUsoUEHANNA AMI
L SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD.

Time table in effect January 20, 1896.
Trains leave Drfton for Jeddo, Eckley, Halle
Brook, Stockton, Beaver Meadow Road, Roam
and Hazleton Junction at 20, . 10 u IN, II %,
10 p m, daily except Sunday, and U3 III, Z 3e
Trains leave Drifton for Harwood, Cranberry,
Tomhicken and Deringcr ut % IN, T. % p IN,
daily except Sunday; and 0j a IN, IS p m,
Sunday.
Trains leave Drifton for Oneida junction,
llarwood Road, Humboldt Road Oneida and
Sheppton at 10 Il IN, l209, 10 p m, daily except
Sunday; and 03 M IS p III, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Harwood,
Cranberry, Tomhicken and Deringer at q 3 a
IN, 5S m, daily except Sunday; and 53 Il M,
~ p IN, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida
Junction, HarwOOd Road, Humboldt Road.
Oneida and Sheppton ut AZ, 9 81 Il III, IL 40, Al
p III, daily except Sunday; and ~ Il m, w p
III, Sunday.
Trains leave Deringer for Tomhicken, Gran
berry, Harwood, Hazleton Junction, Roam,
Beaver Meadow Road. stockton, Halle Brook,
Ecllley, Jeddo and Drifton at 2 50, 8 07 p IN,
daily except Sunday; and 8 81 a IN, D O7 m,
Sunday.
Trains leave Sheppton for Oneida, Humboldt
Road, HarwoOd Road, Oneida junction, Halle
ton junction and Roam at Is, 10 l5 III, To-
BIS p IN, daily except Sunday; and % u N, 3 "A
Trains leave sheppton for Beaver Meadow
Road, Stockton, Halle Brook, Eckey, JeddC
and Driiton at 10 l5 a m, 8 25 IN, daily, except
Sunday; and % a m, 3 A 2 m, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Beaver
.iNhuoh l'ottNl1 'hothlOl' iiuAlc blOOh, bChitS
Jeddo and DriftOn at 10 3S m, 3 26, 3 AZ, 6 40 p
IN, daily, except Sunday;a and 10 0S IA III, 5 IS p IN,
Sunday.
All trains connect at Hazleton junction with
electric cars for HaZletOn, Jeanesvile, Auden-
ried and other points on the Traction Com
pany's line.
Trains leaving Drifton at 10 a III, Hazleton
Junction at 81 Il m, and Sheppton at S Is u IN,
connect at Oneida junction with Lehigh Valley
trains east and west.
Train leaving Drifton at 6 90 m makes con-
nection at Deringer with p. Il. r. train fol
Wilkes-Barre, Sunbury, Harrisburg and points
west. DANIEL COKE,
Superintendent
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08
The Wages of Profligacy Is Want.

Nothing could be more startling to a
business man or literary worker than
to have the ghost of former friend
walk into his office, take chair, and
begin a conversation as though many
years of time had not elapsed nor the
natural event of death had intervened
since their last meeting. You can
family imagine how surprised and
shocked / was this morning when tho
ghost of a friend of years ago walked
into my office, took a chair, rested a
little hand satchel on the floor and
commenced to talk about practical
business affair. AS soon as l realized
that it was a friendly spirit on friend
ly visit and understood that my assist
ance was desired and sought, the feel
ing of astonishment and amazement
passed away and became interested in
the subject of the conversation which
was broached by the visible.
When l saw him last twelve years
ago he was strong, robust, active and
popular. He was eminent In odd fel-
lowship, free masonry and the pythian
fraternity. To-day when he entered
my office, pale, thin, with struggling
gray locks, and venerable beard, with
pallid countenance, sunken cheeks, but
large glistening eyes, l recognized my
former friend with difficulty and only
realized after some moments Of con-
versation that he is still in the flesh
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08
international Postage stamn

An excellent scheme for an interna
tional postage stamp is shortly to be
submitted to the various governments
of Europe by the German authorities.
The exceeding inconvenience now ex-
isting in the case of those who wish to
inclose stamps for reply in letter ad-
dressed to foreign country will be
wiped out, and a stamp bearing the
names of all the countries in which its
value as postage is recognized, together
with table giving it's value in the coin
of each of these countries, will become
universal if the scheme is adopted
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08

and was not visitor from tho mys.
terious universe beyond the river Of
time.
81 am old, feeble and very poor" he
said. ~ have no home Of my own, but
am paying rent as have done all my
life. l have lost my political grip, have
lost my office, and the friends who were
once strong and powerful have died and
left me here alone. am now sixty
five years Of age and am selling little
patent invention for holding open doors
in offices or houses. l would like to
show 1t to you and demonstrate the
method of It's operation. You need not
look surprised, for am an honest man
and h; ve been all my life; and this is
an honest way Of making living. l
am too feeble to do manual labor, but
am able to walk around and show thiF
patent device and urge people to take
1t, and thus manage to make enough
to keep body and soul together during
the few remaining days of the years OF
my life, which is fast drawing to O
close"
The old man had spent his life in
government employment, with good
pay all the time, and yet, like SO many
thousands Of others, he had saved moth
ing for his latter years. The average
government clerk is thriftless. They
are nearly all careless of the future.
And many Of them, when adversely
comes, as 1t had come to my aged
frienA, must go lover the hills to the
poorhouse," or else depend largely upon
the charity of the friends Of better
days. SMITH d. Fry.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08

A young man, living in Florence,
dreamed that he had been bitten and
mortally wounded by the marble lion
which stood with open jaws In front of
a certain church. Walking past the
church with few friends on the fol-
lowing day he told them of his dream,
and placed his hand In the lions mouth,
with the words: "Now bite me-" At
that very instant he felt violent pain,
fora scorpion that lay concealed in the
lions jaws had stung him so severely
that he died in few hours
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08

formed In Lake Erie was OF phenomen-
al thickness. There came on March
81 a sudden exceedingly warm spell of
weather which melted the SHOWS, and
then a warm rain poured down in
torrents during the entire day of the
2Sth of March. The ice was loosened
and a strong east wind drove 1t far out
in the lake during the night. But at
sunrise on the Goth the wind came from
the west, and, as the sailors say, 1t was
"blowing great guns" This terrific
gale drove the immense mass of ice
into the mouth of Niagara river, where
1t was gorged and piled up from shore
to shore, Theoretically sealing the river
and damming the waters back into the
lake. Thus it happened that Niagara
ran dry, it's falls became bleak, barren
rocks, and its mighty thunders were
put to sleep. Within four or five hours
tiny streams of water began to
tricl1le through the gorge. The
tremendous power back of those
streams accelerated their flowing; and
IN short time the ice dam gave way
and there never was such wild,
roaring, mad flood In Niagara before
or since. And thus the cataract became
itself again.
This story suggests to me the thought
that the same power which thus
throttled the mighty Niagara may as
readily have divided the Red sea and
the Jordan; and unbelievers may no
longer have reason to doubt those
miracles.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08
Whom Niagara Ceased to Roar.

Congressman Dan Lockwood, Of Buff
falo,says that within his recollection the
great waterfall at Niagara was suspend
ed, and that many people passed over its
dangerous rocky places dry shod. He
says that this miracle was wrought in
i1s4s, during the month of March. To
be exact, it was on the morning Of
March 20, 1s48; and for several hours
the wonderful, the resistless, the cease
less torrent did cease to flow, and the
greatest river In the world ran dry.
Its power was paralyzed. Its roaring
sunk into silence. 1t was quenched
and humiliated, bleak, bare and barren
as desert.
The preceding winter had been q
severe one. and the Ice which had
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08
MORE CAPITAL STORIES,
Funny Things Heard in and Out
of Congress Halls.
Ex-spcaser Reed Quoting Scripture for
Speaker Crlsp's Benefit-When Niagara
Was Harnessed-Sad Closing Days
of a Government Clerk.

Especial Washington Letter.l
1t is related of Thad Stevens that on
one occasion when he was exasperated
by n ruling of the chair, and turned his
back upon the presiding officer, as he
slowly walked down the main aisle of
the house of representatives, the
speaker became very angry and
shouted: "Does the gentleman mean to
show his contempt for the chair?"
"No," responded Stevens, II am try
ing to conceal it."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08

speech, too, and so weak were his
tones that only few persons could
gain anything like connected dis
course. AT times he would, by a per-
ceptible effort, throw his shoulders
back and hurl few vigorous words at
his audience, accompanying them by
forceful gestures. Most of his speech,
however, he delivered with bowed head
and eyes on the floor and with his
hands clasped behind his back.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08

sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal." :"
What does the gentleman meant"
angrily inquired the speaker.
1.-THE rules of the house do not re-
quire me to expound the Scriptures" +"
said Reed, as he disappeared in the
cloalroom.
Then it suddenly dawned upon the
minds of many that Speaker Crisp had
been seemingly uncharitable in his
manner toward his distinguished pred
ecessor, and that st. Paul had written
that whose had not charity became as
ga sounding brass or tinlkling Gym
bal"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08

Washington was all torn up early in
the week by the publication of a tele-
gram from New York, saying that Mr.
Theodore Roosevelt-our own incompar-
able ''Teddy"-was to withdraw his sup
port from the temple of national civil
service reform and become member of
the motley municipal aggregation which
Mayor Strong is assembling in the name
of reform in New York city. In short,
that TEDDY" was to retire from the
civil service commission to become a
New York police commissioner. But
Washington breathes easier now. We
are not to lose our TEDDY" There are
several reasons why TEDDY" will not
become New York police commission
er. He says he does not wish to do so.
And another somewhat important rea-
son is that Mayor Strong has not asked
him to.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08
Tho Floral Jardiniere.

Jardinieres of china in large floral
designs are new and effective. Nat
urally colored pansies, p ''and white
azaleas, daisies and full-blown roses
are used to hold palms, dwarf pines
and ferns. They are n ch 'rming ad-
dition to drawing-room. "A sending
O growing plant as gift it is a pretty
fancy to place 1t in one of the new
floral iardinieres-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08

The real secret of birds flying seer =
to lie in their ability to exert greater
energy in proportion to their weight
than other animals. They develop
about three times as much horsepower
ner pound of weight as man.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08

Mr.. NJ. II. Twitchell, of Louisiana,
who has been United States consul at
Kingston, Canada, for nearly twenty
years, reports to the state department a
curious method of discrimination against
Americans which has been recently put
into effect by the Canadian authorities
Physicians residing near the boundary
line between the United States and Can
ada have for many years-ever since
colonial days, in fact-practiced indis-
criminately on both sides of the line, but
those who live Oh the American side of
the line have been notified by the Cana
dian authorities that they will no longer
be allowed to visit patients living on the
Canadian side. That is an application
of the doctrine of protection that should
be studied by Governor Mckinley and
his disciples
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08
JOHN w. SHoWALTeR.
Recently Appointed United Statos Circuit
Judge by the President.

President Cleveland's selection of
John w. Showalter as judge of the new
seventh judicial circuit in Illinois has
received the approval not only of the
bar of Chicago but of the public gener-
ally. Mr.. Showalter has been resi-
dent Of Chicago for twenty-six years,
and is widely and favorably known.
One of his closest friends is Secretary
of State Gresham, who is credited with
having influenced the president largely
In naming Mr.. Showalter for the bench.
He never has held public office, but has
devoted his life to the practice of his
profession, and he stands in the fore
most rank of bar celebrated for
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08

On one occasion when Speaker Crisp
was hammering the desk and compell-
ing ex-Spealer Reed to take his seat,
the big man from Maine said: 81 hear
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria-
When she had Children, she gave them castoris
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08

Postmaster General Wilson formally
took charge of his department yester-
day. He was sworn in on Wednesday
afternoon by Chief Justice Fuller, the
ceremony being witnessed by Mrs. Full
Ter, Miss Wilson, Mr.. Bissell and a num-
Der of the officials of the department.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bissell expect to return to
Buffalo in about three weeks. Presi-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland have invited
them to spend few days with them at
"Woodley" before they leave. S.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08

Secretary Herbert believes there is
much in a name, particularly when it
comes to the selection of name for u
new vessel. As soon as it was learned
that the secretary was almost ready to
take up the question of selecting names
for the gunboats now being constructed
at Newport News, Va, the pressure in
favor of the cities which are competing
for the honor began and it has steadily
grown stronger, and the end is not in
sight. The cities having active parti-
sans working in their behalf are Nash
vile, Chattanooga, Lexington, KY; Mo-
bile, Norfolk, Niagara and Gloucester,
and others may enter the good-natured
contest. Three states have already put
in applications to have their names given
to one of the two battleships authorized
to be built by the last congress--Rhode
Island, Kentucky and Pennsylvania
but it will probably be long time be-
fore these names are selected
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08

WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, April 5, 1895

hdsHluS 1oh, APili D. 1919.
1t doesn't require much foundation to
build sky-scraping cabinet resignation
rumor, Mrs. Gresham happened to
mention to friend that she intended
taking the secretary away for a rest,
in order that he might get chance to
regain his health. That was enough.
1t was telegraphed in every direction
that, owing to u serious difference in
opinion between the the president and
Secretary Gresham, the latter would re-
sign. There is no difference in opinion
between the president and Secretary
Gresham, and the latter has had no idea
of resigning in the Immediate future, al
though Mrs. Gresham would like him to
do so, and has, it is said, eXacted a
promise of him that he will resign next
winter if his health is not better than it
is now. But there is little doubt that q
rest will bring him around all right.
That he thinks so himself was shown by
his arranging to stay in Washington
right through the coming summer, as
the foreign complications are likely to
make it necessary that either the presi-
dent or secretary of state shall always
be in Washington, and the president ex-
poets to go to Gray Gables early in June
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08

Knee pants, 19c, at Rcfowich's.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-06-12

Dr. Miles E'qiM Pits re guaranteed 20 Stop
Headache in 20 minutes. "One cent dose
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-06-12
Free Pills.
pancake.

Send your address to Fl. E. Bucklen d
Co., Chicago, and get free sample box
of DR.. Kings New Life Pills. A trial
will convince you of their merits. These
pills are easy in action and are particu-
larly effective in the cure of Constipation
and Sick Headache. For Malaria and
Liver troubles they have been proved
Invaluable. They are guaranteed to be
perfectly free from every deleterious
substance and to be purely vegetable.
They do not weaken by their action, but
by giving tone to stomach and bowels
greatly invigorate the system. Regular
size 25c. per box. Sold by Sale-Davis
Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-06-12
JESSE w. WALTERS.

While in Topeka last March, E. T.
Barber, prominent newspaper man of
La Cygne, Kan, was taken with cholera
morbus very severely. The night clerk
at the hotel where he was stopping hap
pened to have bottle of Chamberlain
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
and gave hint hree doses, which relieved
him and he thinks saved his life. Every
family should keep this remedy in their
home at all times. No one can tell how
soon it may be needed. 1t costs but a
trifie and may be the means of saving
much suffering and perhaps the life of
some member of the family. Is and 50
cent bottles for sale By Farrar & Farrar,
and H. 4. Wall of Brentwood.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-06-12
SURPRISING RICHES.

Here is the lowest estimate OF the
wealth of New York city's richest men
John D. Rockefeller $3.50, 000,0 900;
William Waldorf Astor, $125, 900, 600 ;
Cornelius Vanderbilt, 500, 100000;
Russell Sage, $50, 900, 900; William K.
Vanderbilt, $4,000, 900; John Jacob
Aston, $40, 900, 900; Henry M. Flagler,
$50, 900, 900; Coils P Huntington, $780,
900, 900, and William Rockefeller, $780,
900, 900. In the same list there would
be at least two. estates, that of Jay
Gould, 500, 900, 900, and of Moses Tay-
lor, 500, 900, 900. ]. Pierpont Morgan,
$40, 900, 900; Hetty Green, $40, 900, 900 ;
Frederick W. Vanderbilt, $50, 900, 600;
George W. Vanderbilt, $50, 000,0 900;
George Gould, Fl. o. Havemeyer, Rob
ert Goelet, Ogden Goelet, Amos R. Emo,
Elbridge T. Gerry, Theodore A. Have
never, S25, 900, 900 each. Mrs. Elliott
F. Shepard, Mrs. W. D. Sloane, Mrs.
H. NICK. Twombly and Mrs. W. Sew
ard Webb, $40, 900, 900 each; William
G. Whitney, D. o. Mills, Henry Hilton,
George Ehret, Austin Corbin and George
F. Baker, SIS, 100000; Eugene Hig-
gins, Arson Phelps Stokes, Marcellus
Hartley, Samuel Thomas, Levi P. Nor
ton. James M. Constable, George Bliss,
Jacob Rupert, Mrs Bradley Martin
Mrs. Arson Phelps Stokes, S. D. Bah
cock, Henry Hart Mrs. Robert Win
throp and James R. Keene, $40, 900, 600
each.
There are also some 80 or 40 who pos
sess a paltry So, 900, 600 each and hun
bred or so who are struggling along with
only million apiece
But there are others. The venerable
Ii Hung Chang, first in war, first in
peace ETC., is said to possess some
thing like $500, 900, 900, which he is
adding to at the rate of $50, 900, 900 a
year. Poor Chang! The Duke of West
minister has an income of $500, 900 a
wear. and several other Englishmen are
not far behind.
It will thus be seen that the old world
has an occasional oasis Of wealth in its
vast desert of poverty. But, according
to Mulhall, the English statistic author
ity. "the wealth of the American peo-
pie surpasses that of any other nation
,,oc+ or 7,,.acant -
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-06-12
LIKE RIDE ON AN EARTHQUAKE
The Sensation of an Elephant Running
Away.

The Sensation of Elephant Running
Away.
Nothing but a ride on an earthquake,
writes Henry Norman, could be compared
to the sensation Of being run away with
by an elephant. Nothing stops his wild
rush, and he does not swerve for an OBJ
stacle, but goes straight at it. A few
shakes fling off everything on his back
and the rider has but second OF two in
which to make up his mind which over
hanging branch he will cling to, or if he
will risk throwing himself off. \ broken
neck would be the certain consequence
of remaining. As for stopping him,
somebody has we'll said that you might
just as well try to stop runaway loco
motive by pulling with your walking
stick on the funnel as to check an ele-
plant at such a moment with the goad.
By stroking an elephants lip in GER
tain manner you can make it purr like
huge grimalkin, till the earth shakes be-
meath your feet. When it is afraid or
angry it squeaks like an unoiled hinge.
But when it su ddenly jumps aside like
flea you imagine for moment that the
ultimate terrestrial cataclysm has gone
off.
The Malays never wholly trust their
elephants, and were nervous at my fam,
iliarties with mine, a sweet-tempered
old female, on which | rode hundreds of
miles. During the midday halt l used
to call her up and she would come and
stand with one foot on each side of my
chest as l lay on my back and fed her
| with bananas. l was never angry with
her but once-when she tried to kill the
cook.
On one occasion little elephant of the
party, running behind its mother, leased
her beyond endurance, and she turned
and gave him shove that landed him
feet uppermosU at the bottom of a deep
brook. For two hours he screamed like
a steam whistle, while we were all en-
gagged in getting him out,
Every night when we reached camp
a. d the dads were taken off each driver
would hObble his beast by tying its front
legs together with rattan, so that it
could only hop with both together. Then
huge wooden bell was hung around it's
peck and it was turned loose to wander
in the jungle. All night long the faint
dong, dong, of these bells made mourn
full noise around the camp. At day break
each driver tracked his elephant by the
sound, often going many miles for him.
The elephant is in some respects a
stupid beast, and MANY of the tales Of its
sagacity are apochryphal, yet it some
times does very strangely intelligent
things. Once a tiny elephant got jam
med in between the parts of heavy
tree trunk that had been cut in two to
leave a passage in the road. It's screams
brought back its mother from ahead
She inspected it carefully for a moment,
then walked dozen steps backward,
and, lowering her head, charged straight
at it, shooting it out as if it had been
fired from a gun.
Now she must have seen that, although
the little one could not move either way,
there was really room for it to get
through. If there had not been her
charge ouldlhaye mashed it as fat as a
pancake.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-06-12

From the Dalton Argus.

From the Dalton Argus.
Every now and then we pick up a pa
per or magazine, and see the headline
GA Defense of the South" Immediate
ly that paper goes into the stove. The
south needs no defense, and none but
looneys will either write or read those
windy "defenses" that plead for the
south like it was one of the barbarous
South Sea Islands.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-06-12
DIR. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.

RAMON LiNeF PIIIS & OHIO Pellets
are Perfect Treatment for Constipation
and Biliousness. W" One pill a dose.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-06-12
ii;., Magnet In Surgery.

A few days ago G. H. Fiske, the Old
Orchard hotel proprietor, got a needle
into his foot and was unable to extract
it, although he tried many ways to do
so. Finally, knowing the affinity OF
steel for a magnet, he went to the cleo
trio light station and placed his foot
near a dynamo, and out came the nee
die. -POrtland Press.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-06-12

slid uTEd .seUg az SsI .7as-7~us ao4s
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-06-12
A Wise Conclusion.

WEST coRINTH, MATNE.-"T doctored
for years for BiliousneSs, but nothing
ever helped me like Simmons Liver
Regulator. 1 shall take nothing else
hereafter. IN. NJ. Oakman. Your drug
gist sells it in powder or liquid; the
powder to be taken dry, or made into a
tea,