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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26

Rev. John Duncan, missionary to
Metlakahtla indians in Northern
Alaska, is not having things all'his
own way in the matter of trade up
north. The Alaska Miner says that
the missionary may have builded bet
ter than be knew. Several Indians,
acting in the spirit of emulation, have
started stores of their own, and in
some instances carry a stock of
$4,000 to 100000. There are six
stores of this description on their ISL
ands.
These educated Indians have arrived
at the conclusion that thereis money in
commercial life, and have decided to
compete with Mr.. Duncan and his
Portland capitalists. Mr.. Duncan has
met this competition, first by selling
flour at 81, % a sack and then raising
dock rates to So per ton upon all
goods not landed for his store. The
Indians have determined to build q
dock of their own, and have announced
that they will complete it this summer
and allow any one to land there who
wishes to.
This is no idle boast, as they have
plenty of money and can pay cash for
work they don't do themselves. Edu-
cational and religious movements on
the island are being overshadowed by
commercial matters. Rich free-mill-
ing quartz has been found, and the
Indians hope before long to have
stamp mills at work. San Francisco
Chronicle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26
To Sleep Well Eat Before Retiring

A light supper just before retiring
is usually of advantage. Baby and
brute animals are usually somnolent
when their stomachs are we'll supplied
with food, the activity of the stomach
withdrawing the excess of blood from
the brain, where it is not needed dur
ing sleep. On the other hand people
who are very hungry usually find it
very difficult to sleep. And then
habit of sleep at at regulated time
and during proper hours should be
cultivated in case this habit has been
lost. In accomplishing this the at
tainment of favorable state of mind
is of great Importance. Sleep cannot
be enforced by direct exercise of the
will.
The very effort of the will to COM
mand sleep is enough to render its at
tainment nugatory. The mental state
to be encouraged is one of quiescence,
one of indifference, feeling that the
recumbent posture is a proper one for
rest, and that if the thoughts are dis
posed to continue active they may be
safely allowed to take their course
without any effort toward control.
This state of mind and thought is next
akin to dreams, and dreaming is next
to sound sleep.-Medical Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26

Says the Wichita (Kan.) correspon-
dent ofthe Cincinnati Enquirer: Henry
Patterson, of Perry, Oklahoma, has
dug from his farm prehistoric mon
ster, or rather petrifed skeleton of q
mammoth sea lizard, that has excited
great interest among scientists. 1t is
the most wonderful and most colossal
fossil ever unearthed, and its propor-
tions are gigantic. There are verte-
brae, complete skull, ribs and flip
pers, that are mammoth in size, q fossil
fully petrifed, the bones being cal
careous.
There are fifty or more vertebrae,
each as big as the joint of stovepipe.
The head is sixteen feet in circumfer-
ence, and has long protruding bone,
six feet across, like the beak of bird.
The ribs are twenty-five feet long, half
hooped in contour, and the eye sockets
are two feet across. The propellers,
or fins, are perfectly preserved, and
are three feet wide and eleven feet
long.
The fossil is that of saurianondon
or sea lizard, and was fully three hun
dred feet long. In the Cherokee Strip
the alluvial deposit just overlies the
cretaceous or chalk formation, and the
fossil was found by Mr.. Patterson in q
putty clay, not more than four feet be-
low the surface.
1t is believed to be the largest fossil
ever found. Professor Marsh, of Yale,
has restored skeletons of the reptiles
of North America that are over q
hundred feet long, but nothing so gi-
gantic as the Cherokee Strip lizard has
ever been brought to light on this
continent
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26
4 DANGEROUS CALLING
rhe American SteepIe Climber and
His Peri1ous Work.

One of the most curious and at the
same time most dangerous callings
followed by any man is that which has
made famous the individual known as
''the American steeple climber" What
his real name is has never beer ascer-
tanned, but under this cognomen he is
known throughout this country and
Europe. That he Is man of rare nerve
and daring is shown in the many peril
Gus feats he has performed in his par
t!cular calling and in spite of many
hair-breadth escapes from being dash
ed to death he is still in love with his
peculiar profession.
Sixteen years ago, when he was
sailor in the United States navy, he
performed his first feat of climbing,
when he gilded a cock on the top OF
q steeple at Bremen. The authorities
offered a large sum of money to any
man who would do the job and "the
American steeple climber" was the
only one who had the nerve to tackle
1t. He decided to adopt steeple climb
ing as a profession and has since fol-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Elevators are now made with but
tons so that the passengers can stop
them at any point.
The hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board in London have $500
beds set apart for scarlet fever and
only 700 for diphtheria.
During the year 1896 no less than
750 lives were saved in Chicago by the
use of the diphtheria antitoxin. The
statistics on which this. assertion is
based may be found in the bureau and
division reports of the Chicago Depart
ment of Health for April, 1897.
In the sand wastes of Southern
California two varieties of rattlesnakes
are found. The larger ones, called
"tiger rattlers," sometimes attain o
length of four feet, but it is said that
they are sluggish, and far less danger
Gus than smaller variety named the
side-winder. This name comes
from the snakes habit of moving side
wise, as we'll as advancing in the ordi-
nary manner. 1t is also called the
"horned rattlesnake," on account of
the horn-like protuberances over its
eyes. 1t seldom exceeds foot and
half in length, but its motions are very
quick, and it has the reputation of be-
ing ''yicious."
Professor Luigi Dambon, of Rome
attempts to prove by statistics that
northern latitude and higher altitude
do not conduce to longevity. He says
the average Arab outlives the average
Eskimo by no less than twenty-five
years, and that the people who live on
the unhealthy coasts of South America
survive the inhabitants of the higher
and cooler attitudes of the interior.
The natives of India live to a surpris-
ing old age. Even in Europe people
live longer in the south than in the
north. Among the twenty million
in England there are but LAG centena-
rians, while in Spain, with a popula-
tion of only eighteen million, there are
four hundred centenarians.
Photographers are said to be able
sometimes to produce direct positives
by extreme oyer-exposure or by special
treatment Anthony IS Bulletin calls
attention to the remarkable expert
ence of beginner, who obtained three
positives and one negative from four
exposures of the same subject, the
only difference in conditions being the
length of exposure. The one good,
clean-cut positive of the three was pro-
duced by an exposure of minute and
q quarter, with a fairly large stop in
full daylight. In another experience
mentioned two exposures of the same
subject under precisely the same con-
ditions of lighting and timing produced
one positive and one negative, although
developed in the same tray at the same
time.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26
Using Long Words.

Doctors who are in the habit OF using
long words when visiting people may
take hint from the following little
story: An old woman whose husband
was not very we'll sent for the doctor,
who came and saw the old wife:
81 will send him some medicine which
must be taken in a recumbent posi-
ton"
After he had gone the old woman sat
down greatly puzzled.
"a recumbent position-a recumbent
position" she kept repeating. 81
haven't got one" At last she thought,
II will go and see if Nurse Lown has
got one to lend me-"
Accordingly she went and said to the
nurse:
Have you a recumbent position to
lend me to take some medicine in?"
The nurse, who was equally as ig-
norant as the old woman, replied:
81 had one, but to tell you the truth.
I have lost it,
We have not been without Piso's Cure for
Consumption for 20 years-LIZzIE FERREL,
Camp ST., Harrisburg, Pa, May L. 1884,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26

The subterranean galleries between
the Jardin des Plantes, which consti-
tute the catacombs, by which the sub
soil of Paris is honeycombed, are now
being utilized. They have been con-
verted ito species of laboratory and
aquarium. A number of them have
been fitted with reservoirs and glass
tanks, while in others the inches that
once contained human bodies have
been converted into cages, where
scientists are able to study the effect
of total and partial darkness upon ami"
NAL life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26

Aliens Foot Ease, a powder for the feet. It
cures painful, swollen, smarting feet, and in
stanuy takes the sting out of corns and bum
ions It's the greatest comfort discovery of
the age. Aliens Foot-Ease makes tght-ft-
cure for sweating callous and hot, tired, ach-
ing feet. Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists
and shoe stores. BY mail for 25c. in stamps
Trial package FREE. Address, Allen 5. Ohm
sted, lie Roy, n. Y.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26

scene-A public eating house. Pert
youth addressing waitress: Bring me
one of your dog biscuits, miss"
Eyes, sir; if you promise to ~pt 1t on
the mat."--Tid-B Bits
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26

Ask your grocer to-day to show you pack
age of Grain-o, the new food drink that takes
the place of coffee. The children may drink
it, without injury as well as the adult. All
who try it like ii. Grain-O has that rich seal
brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from
pure grains and the mostdelcate stomach re-
ceiyes it without distress One-quarter the
price of coffee. 10 cts. and 25 cts. per package.
Sold by all grocers.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26
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he wears a sad and lofty expression.
His past life is mystery, and in speak
ing of himself he refers only to his
years Of travel. Jack" studied in Chi
cago at the Rush Medical College, in
tending to make medicine his profess
sion, but he prefers his rowing life and
declares he is ''the happiest hobo in the
world -
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26

lowed it. AS is natural in such daE-
gerous work he has met with scores of
accidents, but he seems to bear a
charmed life. While working on the
top of pole in New York he received
an electric shock and, losing his head,
jumped to the roof of the building, 4
distance of 70 feet. He escaped I'M
harmed, and in short sime was back
again at work. At another time he
was painting a flag pole on a school
building in New York when the pole
slipped through the roof like n shot and
when he came to he was sitting on the
roof with the top of the pole clasped
In his arms. He was badly bruised,
but wanted to continue his work.
His greatest feat was the placing Of
a flagstaff on top of the Eiffel Tower
in Paris. During the sixteen years he
has been in business he has climbed
2,207 flag poles and sixty-threeste steeples.
He uses no scaffolding whatever. When
he climbs steeple he affiXes little
pieces of rubber to his legs, which
take fast hold of the steeple and he
does the same when climbing a flag
pole. When he reaches the top he ties
q rope and slidns down with it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26

She-I never expected to work like
this when married you.
He-I didn't suppose you cared. You
worked hard enough to get me, didn't
you?-Indianapolis Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26

Mrs. Blinkly-John, dear, won't you
discharge Mary? Ycu know how afraid
/ am of her?
Mr.. Blinbly-Certainly. No servant.
can ever scare me. "a little while af.
ter)-Ma1y, ahem! Mrs. Blinkly has
asked me to tell you that she wants to
see you after have gone to the Office
Brooklyn Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26
Fighting Fires in winter weather..

Fighting Fires in winter weather..
To stand upon the peak of n ladder
at perhaps the third or fourth story Of
building. directing the stream of
water at the blazing interior, while the
Thermometer is at about It's lowest
point, is not comfortable task. Per.
haps another stream is playing over
your head, and you stand in an icy
spray .cicles hang from every point
of your flre-hat, and the rubber coat Is
frozen to your back; and the water that
is falling about you freezes as fast as
it falls. Every movement upon the lad.
der IS fraught with danger for it is so
encrusted with ice that it is almost Inn.
possible to get solid foothold, and a
misstep would hurl you to the ground,
forty feet below.-St. Nicholas.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26

Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first days use of DR.. <lines Great
Nerve Restorer. 81 trial bottle and treatise free
DIR. r. III. KLINE. Ltd, 93l Arch St, Phila, Pa
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26

w. Fl. Griffin, jackson, Michigan, writes:
suffered with Catarrh for fifteen years.
Halls Catarrh Cure cured me-" Sold by Drug
ysts I5c
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums. reducing nfamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie 25c a bottle
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26

We have not been without Piso's Cure for
Consumption for 20 years.-LIzzIE FERREL,
Camp St., Harrisburg, Pa, May 4, 1894.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-09-21

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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-09-21

'The rich placer depcs ts in North
Carolina had been pretty generally
worked out when the California gold
discoveries were made, and quartz
mining was being extensively and
profitably developed. There are mines
in Rowan, Mecklenburg, Stanley, Ca
barrus, Union, Montgomery and other
counties. that yielded from 81, 600, 900
to So, eco, COO each during the few years
they were in operation. They are not
exhausted yet, but are idle because the
ore is low grade at the depth they have
reached, and will not warrant mining
under present conditions.
"With the exception of the Crawford
mine and the Sam Ohristian-another
locality where nuggets of from five to
twelve pounds in weight have been
found in recent years-the Widow
Smiths diggings at Smiths Ferry are
probably the most important placer
mines now in the State. The widow
Smith is a member of the Bonaparte
family Of Baltimore. She is the only
profession al woman miner in the North
Carolina gold fields. She works with
the old fashioned rocker and riff box.
She employs miners TO help her, and
she runs the ferry herself She is so
sharp eyed and shrewd that it is said
that no one ever crossed that ferry yet
and failed to disgorge gold dust from
somewhere about bis clothes when the
widow Smith fixed him with her eye
and boldly and sharply exclaimed:
you've been washing out gold on
me to day Hand it over or overheard
you gol'
1.-The widow Smith is an expert min
eralogist and metellurgist, and prepares
all her own gold for the market, send
ing it chiefly to Baltimore. She has
made a fortune by surface mining, and
her diggings are still yielding richly"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-09-21
SOME FACTS ABOUT FoRSY TIL
COUNTY.
correspondence Of the Progressive Farmer.
BETHANIA, N. c., Sept. 5, 1897.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
BETHANIA, N. O., Sept. 5, 1892.
Notice in your paper that severali in
Forsyth county raised large crops of
wheat, but that is not all the large
crops we have-we have a large crop
of mortgages. In 1890 they were re
corded at Winston $498 1926 worth, Then
the bonded debt is between fifty and a
hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
Then when court adjourned August
1Osh, we had 282 indictments and found
267 true bills and forwarded four pre-
sentiments. Then l notice in your last
issue that T f, Conrad said that the
Farmers Alliance had caused more
trouble than ali the panics. YES, we
have given the corporations and trusts
trouble and the end is not yet.
I see in this weeks Sentinel that Bot.
Ter, Russell & 90. are helping us out.
Il seems when the old party get hit
he hollers.
hope to see this in print, and if any
county in the State has q larger over
production than Forsyth, let me know.
Yours fraternally,
JAS. Q. BUTNER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-09-21

of another. o&peta
ID We believe that the moneu
country should be kept as ny OF ts
possible in the hands of the ~uca q
and hence we demand that ali Nppeeopa
and State revenues shall be lir0G;ttIons
the necessary expenses of the nUedN
ment economically and SVEN
ministered. ~y 3D.
() We demand that postal o..
banks be established bV tho SaVlna
ment for the safe deposit NJ soVeHl
of the people, and to faciitssttoVlO0
change. e.
% We Ire unalterablv onno,.,
the issue, by the United StatapS Ose0N
terest bearing bonds, and dem9Ho5 p,
payment of all coin Obligation ~ Tie
United States, as provided bV oT VI Toe
laws, in either gold or silver co;sNVag
the option Of the government en5 &
at the option Of the creditor. aH
TRANSPORTATION.
now owned by aliens shonId ,
voting population, and that 9on W. N
from each shall be elected b V1 ~
people of the district. y @s
DISTRICT LEGISLATION.
Relying upon the good. coron.
sense of the American people. and %
lieving that a majority of them NY y
uninfuenced by party prejudice " .ES
vote right on all questions sIbmittnSS y
them on their merit; and. furtboS g
efectually annihilate the pernio;,dN
lobby in legislation, we demand dis,as
legislation by means of the initiatiT.
and referendum.
R. A. SOUTHWoRTH
Sec'y-Treas. N. f. A. and +
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-09-21
GOLD IN NORTH CAROLINA
Big Nuggets Taken From Placer Mines
From the New York Sun

Big Nuggets Taken From Placer Mines
From the New York Sun
1t seems strange to me-" said a citi-
zen of Charlotte, n. T., who Is among
the Sou;here visitors now in this city,
that among all the stories of placer
mining and nugget finding that the
Kiondike excitement has brought out,
not a reference has been made to the
original placer mines in this country,
from which millions of dollars had been
taken in dust and nuggets long before
gold was discovered in California.
These were in North Carolina, and SO far
are they from being exhausted that in
a few weeks last year $12, 900 in dust
and nuggets was taken out within an
area of tan yards, at a depth of from
one foot to three feet. This is at the
Crawford mine in Stanley county. A
ten pound nugget of pure gold was
found there in August, 1895, and one
weighing 81 pounds in April, 1896
Lsst March two nuggets were uncov
cred, n weighing 81 pounds and one
8 pounds, ali virgin gold.
"Bu5 that record ig nothing to that
OF the Reed mine, in Cabarrua county.
Taking them in the order of their
weight and not chronologicaily, the
Reed mine has yielded nuggets weigh
ing %. %, IL, 16, 13t, 81 9 (5wo) 8
(awC), 5 3 d (two), 2. and II POUNDS,
all pure gold except the % FOUNDER,
which had some quartz mingled with
l. This was found in April, 1896
where the ground had been worked
over TIM and time again.
There is authentic record of all
these big nuggets, and Reed family ira.
dition mentions Que still larger. al
though, a. the time it was found, the
ancestral Reed VINO discovered it along
the creek IN his field did not know it
was gold, and when a travelling ped
der cfared him a pair OF brass shoe
buckles, five yards OF doeskin, and a
pewter mug for the rock as it was
called, that innocent old gentleman
was glad enough to make the trade.
The family tradition is that this rock
weighed 80 pounds, and when, eer
later, a defendant Of that Reed learned
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-09-21
PUBLIC sc
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
CREswELL, N. O., Sept. Is, 1897.

Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
CREswELL, N. O., Sept. Is, 1892.
1, for one, will speak and do agree in
part With Q. H MeDsne, S~uperintend
enE Public Instruction. / believe in
public schools and I am in favor OF
them. l am in favor of more money
for our schools, and I am in favor
of getting better prices for our pro
ducts.
If we farmers could get better prices
for III produce. the majority of US
would undoubtedly be in favor of be-
ing taxed higher for the benefit of
schools and In order to secure a longer
term, provided the money was spent
for the benefit of the children and not
spent to fee so many Improbable or
useless county school officers. In that
way, much money that should be used
for the benefit Of the children is spent
90 no purpose.
Much money is also spent for fine
buildings, repairs, and 1nery, all of
which Is OF no benefit to the pupils.
What little education the writer Sc
cured was il a plain open house with
no ceiling and a chimney at one end
for ell to warm as they could.
I hope that Mr.. Mebane is aware
that the people are no oppressed with
almost more than they can j ,urney
along with, without compulsory edu
cation. He must remember that the
poor are not able TO spare their chill
den to attend school at all times of
Eh6 year, Il takes all that are large
enough to help get a living. SO it may
De warmer weather than this, when
compulsory education is the law in
this State. Yours,
E P. OvERToN.