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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-17
PROSE AND POETRY AND THE FARMER

PROSE AND POETRY AND THE FARMER
Probably the farmer is not aware
that he is the subject of frequent dis
cussion among the best classes of city
people, but all thinkers are looking
more and more to the agricultural class
es for solution of the real difficulties
of the age. These are awake as never
before to the needs of the hour, and this
giant of the hills is also awakening to
sense of his great strength. He holds in
his hands the most valuable wealth as
well as the largest class vote of the
country. May he use it for the good of
ALL
We give below discussion that took
place among some literary and society
people in one of our large cities last
year. This was based on Emersons es-
say on "The Poet"
First. Poetry apd prose-what is
their resemblance and what their differ
ence? 1t was agreed that there are two
characteristic points of difference--viz,
in the thought and in the literary FORM
Prose is commonplace, simple and de-
scribes ordinary phenomena. Some
prose, SO called, is poetry; some poetry,
SO called, is prosaic. We find prose in
Paradise Lost" and poetry i'll Demos
themes "On tho Crown" The funda-
mental difference is in the ideal repre-
cnttntint, in ,,,rcinal nd bx-tb IL,
lines. This poetry must be, and hence
it deals with the universal.
Second. The poet is not realist,
but sees the part in reference to the
whole and describes what ought to be,
rather than what is The difference be-
tween what we do and what we strive
to do, between what we are and what
we aspire to become, is the inner meas
ure between the real and the ideal.
The poet helps us to mentally or imag-
inatively realize our ideals
Third.-If nature is the poets inspi-
ration and his storehouse of symbolic
expression, why are not our farmers
poets? The question admits of various
answers, for the reason that we know
SO little at best of the inner feelings and
living hopes of those who stand nearest
to us. And how could we know much of
those with whom we seldom meet? The
poetic sense is the deepest in the soul,
and most men veil their deeper feeling.
On the other hand, the constant drudg-
cry to which the farmer is subjected be-
numbs the brain and freezes the genial
current of their souls" Farming ought
to be so vastly improved that it would
become idyllic and inspirational.
Fourth. 1t is asserted by q few crit
les that poetry would cease to be writ
ten as science and scientific methods
become more generally understood. The
thought of poetry ceasing to be fills
others with fear. In Dante. Homer and
Milton myth and legend play large
part. We're they conscious that they
were dealing with myth2 AS science
| lays bare the facts of the universe does
it become less beautiful and inspiringa
Has not astronomy opened up u high
way i'll the skies that is cleaning in
beauty and matchless in its enormous ex-
tent? Is not chemistry a revealer Of
finer and more splendid beauty? Does
not psychology reveal to us more splen-
did beauties in the soul? Hence science
has given the material for nobler poems
/ - L
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-17

The Tribune
Gives Satisfaction
on Every job.
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OUR ART GALLERY.
A Prominent Travellers Very High
Opinion of 1t.

Rev. A. S. Hartman, D. D., Secretary
of the Board Of Home Missions of the
General Synod of the Lutheran Church.
has been the guest of Fred Meckfes-
sci and Rev. Charles F. Oehler. This
prominent clergyman, who has Travelled
a great deal, and visited a great many
places OF interest, was highly pleaseS
with his visit to the Golden State.
With his hosts he paid visit to the
Crocker Art Gallery yesterday morning,
and was surprised to find in it so many
genuine works of art of celebrated mas
ters- He pronounced the collection of
pictures the very best he had ever seen
during his many trips and different WIS.,
its to similar collections throughout the
United States.
Rev. Mr.. Hartman was in attendance
at the meeting of the California Synod,
recently held in San Jose, and left yes
terday for Ogden and his Eastern home
in Baltimore
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begins-trim, sprightly little darters,
with black bands across the bases of
their tails. Another twelvemonth finds
them in the garb of maturity, eight or
nine inches long, and with their organs
swelling in preparation for the act Of
spawning, which they are said to under
take at the age of two years, and when
less than a foot long. The ordinary
size of the adult fish is two and one-half
to three pounds, though they are some
times taken in the North weighing six
or seven pounds In Florida the large
mouths grow larger. seven or eight
FOUNDER is not unusual in the ST.
Johns; and I was told that in March,
1875, fish weighing nineteen and one
half pounds was caught in the lake at
Gainesville, Florida.
PROPAGATION.
The first experiment in their transport
alton seems to have been that men
toned by A. M. Valentine, who states
that pond near Janesville, Wisconsin,
was stocked with black bass about 1S47.
In 1850 S. T. Tisdale carried twenty
seven large-mouths from Saratoga
Lake, New York, to Flax Pond, in Aga
wan, Massachusetts. The manner in
which the Potomac was stocked with
small-mouthS is also well known. 1t
was in 1858, soon after the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad was finished, that
General w. w. Shriver of Wheeling car
ried number of young fish from the
Ohio to Cumberland, Maryland in the
water-tank of a locomotive engine
These he placed in the basin of the Ches-
apeake and Ohio Canal whence they
soon penetrated to all parts of the Po-
tomac basin, and as far down the river
as Mount Vernon
BENEFICIAL RESULTS.
The custom of stocking streams soon
became popular, and through private
enterprise and the labors of State Fish
Commissioners nearly every available
body Of water in New England and the
Middle States has been filled with these
fish. This movement has not met with
universal approval, for by the ill-ad-
vised enthusiasm of some of it's advo-
Gates a number of trout streams have
been destroyed, and complaints are
heard that the fisheries of certain rivers
have been injured by them. The results
have been on the whole very beneficial.
The bass never will become the food of
the millions. The New York market re-
ceives probably less than 10000 pounds
of them annually and they are nowhere
very numerous. Yet hundreds of bodies
OF waste water are now stocked with
tEsam in sufficient number to afford
pleasant sport and considerable uuan-
titles of excellent food
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HARMENS GUILTY.
But is Recommended to the Mercy OF
the Court.

The arguments in the Harmens grand
larceny case We're CONCLUDED at O'Clock
yesterday afternoon. After a short
recess Judge Hinkson charged the Jury
and they retired to deliberate.
AT O'Clock they returned to the court
and announced that they stood ten tc
two and could not agree. Judge Hink-
son thought they could afford to give a
little more time to the case, however
and sent them back again.
Shortly after IL o'clock the jury again
returned to the courtroom, and this
time they had a verdict. 1t was that the
prisoner was guilty, but the jury recon-
mended him to the mercy Of the court
Harmens found the money looted from
Wells, Fargo & Co. by train robbers
Browning and Brady, and appropriated
some 1000 or $4,000 to his own use
though knowing it to have been stolen
from the company
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ORDINANCE NO. A.

THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF
the County of Sacramento do ordain as
follows:
Section 1. 1t is hereby declared to be un-
lawful for any person or persons to drive
or lead horses, cattle or other stock, or
to draw, push or drag any wheeled vehi-
Gle drag, sled, cart or other vehicles, over or
upon or along any wheelway, path or side
walk constructed by or with the consent
Of the Board of Supervisors of Sacramento
County, along any public road or highway
in said county; provided, that the wheel
ing of bicycles or tricycles along or over
such wheelways, or sidewalks, or paths,
shall not be deemed an offense.
Section 3 Violation of the provisions of
this ordinance shall be deemed a misde-
meanor, and, upon conviction therefor the
offender shall be punished by the mposi-
ton of a fine of five dollars, or imprison-
ment in the County Jail for five days, or
by both such fine and imprisonment
Section g. This ordinance shall take ef-
feet from and after its passage.
Adopted on April "a, 1896, upon roll
call, by the following vote: Ayes-Dreman
Todd. Curtis and Morrison (Jenkins alb
senD.
J. NJ. MORRISON,
Chairman Board of Supervisors
(Seal) Attest: VIM B. Hamilton, Clerk
ap30-1w
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Hotel Arrivals.

Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel
yesterday: w. H. Hopkins, Cincinnati
John A. Petrie, j. H. Baxter, James T
Angon, NJ Ginsberg, George T. Klein
berger, New York; VIM. q. Blatt,, De
troit, Mich; Mrs. S. P. Dorsey, Mrs. E
NJ. Taylor and children, Grass Valley
c. Kendall and wife, Toledo, O.; James
Kaseberg, Roseville; Louis Chester, L
Peiser, G. J. Myers, Ed. S. Swami
James H. Jones, j. E. Hendry, Samue
F. Pond, T. K Stalker, San Francisco
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Light Will Contest

Another day has been consumed in
the contest of Mary E. Light against
the probate Of the viii of her uncle. the
late Dr. w w. Light
The defense now has the floor. and
many witnesses were examined yester-
day who testified that in their opinion
DR.. Light was a perfectly sane man.
All admitted, however, that he was
quick-tempered, rough-spoken and &C.
centric
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YOSEMITE SALOON.
The Suit for the Liquors, ETC., Now
on Trial.

Judge Catlln's court was engaged
yesterday in hearing testimony in the
case of w 5. Howe against Sheriff
Johnson, brought to obtain possession
of goods held by the latter under at
tachment.
1t Will be remembered that some time
ago Hall, Luhrs & Co. attached the
liquor, etc, in the Yosemite Saloon, and
Deputy Sheriffs Hinters and Thomson
had lively tussle in obtaining possess
sion Of the place. Howe claims to have
bill of sale of the goods.
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Real Estate at Auction,

d. J. Simmons & Co. will sell at pub
lie auction on Tuesday, May 9Th, at 10
a. m, on the premises, the Ewers prop
erty, on the northeast corner of Thir-
teenth and II streets; lot S0x110, with
two houses, store, stable, barn, etc.
viii be sold as a whole or subdivided.
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AUCTIONS.
sroRAcEAucrloN SALE

BELL & co. WILL SELL ON THE
premises, Front and streets, known as
the w r. Strong Warerooms, THURS
DAY, April 80. 1896, at 2 o'clock p. m.
sharp, three Oak Bedroom Suites, spring
Suite; two Large-Arm Rockers; one Side
board: one Extension Table, with six
Chairs to match; one set of Crockery; Hall
and Stair Carpets; one fine Range and
Fixtures; one Chiffonier, etc, etc. The
goods are oak and almost new. Sale pos
' BELL & CO.. Auctioneers.
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NEW TODAY.
~AucT,oN sALEza

OF VALUABLE CITY BUSINESS AND
Residence Property. a Positive Sale. No
Limit. We will sell at public auction ON
TUESDAY, May 9TH, at 10 a. m, on the prem
ises, that valuable property known as the
Ewers property, situated northeast corner
Thirteenth and II streets. Lot so by ITO, with
two houses, store, stable, barn, etc. VIII be
sold as a whole or subdivided. Don't forget
to attend this sale as the property must be sold.
ap30-5t d. j. SIMMONS & CO., Auctioneers
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In Tabulated Form,

The name of every mine in the State
its location, Postoffice address of Super
intendent or owner, number of men en-
ployed, etc, is now appearing for the
first time in tabulated form in the
Mining and Scientific Press" 220 Mar
l,es CT
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Furniture Sale.

AT = p. m. to-day Bell & Co. will sell
at auction the furniture of an entire
residence, now stored in the Strong
warehouse at Front and streets. 1t
consists of a complete family outfit of
choice and nearly new articles.
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Stolen Articles Recovered.

Last Sunday morning about thirty
tools were stolen from the Union Foun-
dry on Front street. Yesterday officer
Bagley recovered fourteen of the arti-
cles at places where they had been sold
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FOR FIRST-CLASS GOODS
At Reasonable Prices Cali on
TON SCOTT, p,nme.r Tne
109 = STREET.
NEW FIRM.

BERT MARTIN AND WILL II.
Young are now ready to receive the pat
ronage OF all their friends who wish to
be served with first-class meats of all
kinds. Place of business northwest corner
Twelfth and . streets. Give the boys a
trial
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Off for the North.

w. L. Sullivan departed last night for
Oregon and Montana with his string OF
runners to take in the Northwestern
racing circuit.
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ShepIer'S Assault.

The examination Of J. c. Shepler
charged with assault to murder, for
beating w. J. Renfro over the head with
a gun, was continued till Saturday
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ADJUSTMENTS.

In the lively little farce Little Jim
Corbett" at the Clunie Opera-house
Mr.. De Camp proves how exceedingly
versatile he is. He has in three weeks
appeared in four distinct lines, ranging
from old mems parts to that of the
Bowery tough. None of them are at all
related in character, and each is usual
ly considered line sufficient for one
person to win success in. Miss Sheldon.
in the same piece, is a charming come
dienne. The part is SMALL but she does
it thoroughly well, and is most come
ly figure in the farce. Miss Romer has
little to do in the play, but very grace
fully fills a leading role, while Mr..
Hodges fop and lady-killer is a de-
eided departure for him and develops
new capacity in. his art The old-time
comedy, 'Everybody's Friend" is well
played, and gives Miss Title good op-
portunity, which she well improves.
There is desire to see Mr.. Hooley, the
new comedian, in something that will
show him to better advantage.
At the Metropolitan Theater this ev-
ening Peter F. Daley in the farce-com-
edy THE Night Clerk" Daley has al
ways been favorite here. He had en-
tire success in the piece he now has in
San Francisco. He has a hearty, bub-
bling, rollicking and appetizing COM
edy way all his own. He is supported
by Miss Jennie Yeamans, Gertrude
Fort, John Sparks, Frank Tannehill,
Jr., Raymond Hitchcock, Rita Emer-
son, Freda Depew, BERTHE Dyer, Ida
Rook, Eva Butler, the Olympic Quar-
tet, William Keough, Peter Randall, NJ
J. Sullivan, Hugh Mack, Lawrence
Sheehan, Alice Hodges, Amy Reeves
and Rene Stretti The stage settings
are said to be very fine and no detail,
however trifling, has been neglected,
we are assured. In fact, it's mounting
is worthy of a first-class spectacle, say
those who have seen the play.
The three acts of the piece are, the
first, in bachelor apartments in New
York; second, in police station, where
Daley is the Captain of the precinct,
and the third, in Hotel Blase, where
Daley is the night clerk. Those famil-
lar with his methods can readily un-
derstand the amount of fun to be
evolved from such surroundings.
The company does not leave the city
until tomorrow, so that there need be
no fear of haste or cutting Of the COM
edy.
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SPECIAL NOTICES

Vehicles-Baker & MISUNDERSTANDING
Carts, Buggies, Carriages Pbaetons, Bain
Farm and Header Wagons, Wholesale
Hardware. Send for catalogue.
HODSON, of S13 K street, makes all
the children's pictures.
TRY Figg's Medicated Sea Salt. Also,
Hay, Feed and Grain. 1119 Fourth street.
New Telephone 494.
IF YOU WISH any of the following
delicaces, you can find them in the finest
qualities at the Sacramento Market 3O8-
1O-12 X street: Salami Sausage, Choice
Mackerel, Smoked Halibut, Smoked Sal
mon, Goldfish. Swiss, Limburger, Brick
Cream, Roquefort Adam. German Hand,
Sap Sage and Pineapple Cheese. Curtis
& Herzog.
3. REID, dentist. Masonic Temple.
Sixth and X streets Office hours to g.
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The Hodges Stock Company promises
us for next week at the Clunie Opera
house the sensational comedy drama
La Belle Marie" or "a Woman's Re-
venge." 1t is to be put on the stage
with new scenery and fine mountings.
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Manager Todd announces for May
9th Roland Reed in his new play, "The
Politician" On the 7th and 9Th Of May
he will have at the Metropolitan Milton
RoyIe in Friends" and Captain I'm
pl1dencep -
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The eggs are much smaller than those
of trout, and, being heavier than
the water, rest on the bottom within the
limits of the nest. The only estimate Of
their number with which / am familiar
is that made by +. l.. Sturtevant, who
found about 1900 in large-mouth
weighing two and one-half pounds. The
rate of growth is easily determined by
experience in artificial ponds. In Gram
by, Connecticut, four-pound fish were
taken in 1874. the progeny of 230 fish
placed in the pond in 1868. The eggs re-
duire two or three weeks to hatch The
parents watch them. In September the
young are about two inches long; when
well fed they grow to four inches the
first season. At two years of age they
weigh about a pound, few caught in the
North weighing more than four pounds
Leaving the egg in June, they grow to
two or three inches before cold weather
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HODSON, of S13 K street, makes q
the children's pictures.
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acknowledgement of the independence OF
the power they represented.


the power they represented.
The lesson drawn from the revOlu
tion teaches that the right shall always
find defenders, and that the verdict of
mankind shall decide in its favor.
Freedom, though stifed, shall always
breathe resistance, and the more gall
ing the yoke the fiercer the vengeance
when the day of reckoning arrives for
the tyrant. The limits of human ma
ture are bounded by passions that the
hand of the despot is powerless to
throttle, nor can religion evoke its pity
or reason stem the current of it's fury.
England found the promises of Obse-
quious friends as empty as their words,
Ireland swelled British pride with 10y
al addresses and the ranks of her ene-
mics with the bravest of her sons.
Marie Theresa gave England her flow
cry words of mediation, but America
got her sympathy and her money.
Viewed without the bias of patriot
ism, and considering their weakness
lack of resources and the power that
opposed them, the irresistible historic
al conclusion is that the movement OF
the colonists, without Europe's aio
strengthening their hands and divid
ing EngIand's forces, would have went
down in failure, unpitied and un
mOurned. Il. u.
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FRIENDS AND FOES OF THE
REVOLUTION.

The American revolution was Op-
perfume in it's relation to the trend of
thought and events. The spirit of the
age was restless under the existing
conditions of life. Men were question
ing the rights of regal power, with its
privileges, its abuses and the hollow
sham of divinity that centuries of
superstition had entwined the person
ality of the despot and the tyrant, and,
with skepticism as it's sheet-anchor of
hope, were awaiting the birth of new
principles, new methods and new lead
ers to overthrow the old and usher in
freer systems more suited to the times.
Thought, guided by the brightest
minds of Europe, was running in
current that advanced the cause of hu-
man liberty to realization of its future,
it's possibilities and rewards. Science,
commerce and the spread of intelli-
gence were teaching the subject the
true value of his ruler and appealing
to every generous impulse to assert
the natural rights of man. Voltaire's
vitriolc pen had pricked the bubble of
ecclesiastical hypocrisy and laid bare
the inner rottenness that had so long
masqueraded as purity of faith. In
tellectual activity had created dis
trust of the ruling classes, enlarged
the scope of political and social knowl-
edge, removed superstition from re-
ligion and, by teaching the power of
concerted action, planted the seeds OF
discomfort that was to ripen in the
passions of the French revolution.
The close of the seven years war left
England supreme among nations. II
America and Asia her territorial con
quests had widened British prestige
and extended it's commerce to limits ap
preached by no other power. With th'
self-conceit of success and arrogance
of pride she disdalned the commercial
overtures of rival nations who refused
to acknowledge her overweening am
bition to pose as the arbiter of corn
merce. With Europe awed, and Ire
land choked into submission, sh
reached across the Atlantic to fOist o.
her colonies the autocratic dictates wit
which she trampled on the rights o
the helpless, bullied the weak an
threatened the strong. But in reach
ing into the western wilderness he
exactions created a cause that was t
enlist in its behalf the moral or activ
support of everything that was pur
in European civilization.
In Europe everything on the col
tinent united in feeling of jealous
and hatred towards England. In tn
east the Empress Catherine, probabl
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ON SENSITIVENESS.

TO what extent is senSitivenesS a
thing to be desired? Most of us think
we'll of it; but, in truth, it is a quality
that must be held in the golden mean
or it's effect is woeful. A too tender
sensitiveness places man at almost as
great disadvantage as if he were
thick skinned. In either case the mans
friends suffer; but the over-sensitive
man himself suffers worst of all, while
the obtuse, dull, reckless person with
out nerves is saved by his constitution
from knowing how much pain he is
causing.
Between them, these over-sensitive
people who are always being wounded
and the under-sensitive people who are
always wounding contrive to manufac-
ture out of nothing large share of the
worlds minor troubles. Bogus fears,
avoidable misunderstanding, acciden-
tai soreness, how they ruffle what might
otherwise be our peace!
And the self-inflicted laceration that
results from undue sensitiveness is
probably a growing evil, penalty of
spreading education, modern progress,
and the facilities afforded for learning
how to think and feel.
There was time when life was slow,
dull, regulated, we'll known, and when
fancy had but little training. Now we
are taught to be intrOspective, to seek
to enjoy our own play of character
fresh wants are created, new aspirations
implanted, finer sentiments fostered
and most of us become egOtists, self
students, sensitive, ready to luxuriate
perhaps in manufactured forms of milo
misery. 1t is subject on which wore
of warning may be fifty uttered.
There is form of sensitiveness which
is almost entirely physical. 1t is seer
in those who cannot be comfortable
when they are doing anything unusual
, If they talk to people whom they hav'
not known before, they are awkward
and fumbling, like the man who is do
| ing fresh work to which his muscle
have not become accustomed. They ar
| bashful, diffident, uneasy, and canno
do themselves justice.
Sometimes this shrinking from tn
: unusual is due to modesty of opinion
: the sufferers from sensitiveness reall
: think that they are not clever, attrat
4 tive, or accomplished enough to appea
3 to advantage by the side of others whor
4 they admire. Ori is due to keen ner1
Q GUS sensibility direct notice cau'
a ing them to quail as delicate eyeba
|. shrinks from glare of light.
), A great deal of the irritation of sol
/, sensitiveness, either fanciful or ner0
s Gus, arises between people who have
= deep sense of trust in each other an