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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13

Says Harper's Weekly: "While thf
English language is spreading over
the face of the globe wherever liberty
is possible, it is sad to mark the ap
parent incapacity of the noble German
tongue to conquer new territory OF
even to maintain itself within its owr
legal limits. In Bohemia it is rapid,
disappearing. In Hungary it has beer
exterminated within the last fifty years
The eastern provinces of Prussia have
been III German hands more than lOC
years, yet the people there are as lit
tie Prussian to-day as when Kosciusko
laid down his life for personal liberty
The Danish provinces were conquered
more than thirty years ago, yet the new
GeneratiGq speaks Danish and hates
the very name OF Prussia. In Alsace
Lorraine, men who were babies in
1870 have now served their time in the
German army, and are nominally Ger
man subjects: yet the German Ian
gua9e finds there resistance insur
mountable, even with the aid of vas
army of spies, gendarmes, officials
and 10000 troops. A large Massa
chusetts manufacturer passed through
the province this summer, and had oc
cosion to visit a machine shop al
Muhlhausen, employing some 5000
workmen. AS an American the man.
ager treated him with frankness, and
gave him an opportunity to convince
himself that the workmeu were French
at heart i'll spite of the years that are
past. The Bnltic provinces of Russia
were German in 1891, but since then
classification has set III with thor.
oughness comparable only to the South
African rinderpest, aud before long
German linguistic expansion on that
frontier will be as effectually checked
rs it is in Bohemia, in Posen, in Al
SAGE Lorraine and on the borders of
Denmark. Nor is the German Ian.
guage faring better in the German
colonies for the simple reason that
German emigrants prefer almost any
colonial flag TO their own. The official
press of Germany cIanors for more
warships. in order to protect alleged
German colonists in far-away tropical
swamps. Territorialiy, Germany has
almost 1000, 900 square miles of col.
ony, but land without population is
like u harbor with no commerce..
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13
Perambulating Florists Shops.

One of the new wrinkles in trade is
the perambulating florist shop, and it
must be confessed that it is capital
means of throwing temptation in the
face of the flower buyer. Who can
resist these decorative plants when
brought to your very door? Not every
one has the knack of cultivating
flowers in the house, yet, according
to the new scheme of furnishing, it is
necessary that palms or some flower
ing shrubs should enter into the in
terror decoration. In our steam heat
ed rooms the delicate green house
beauties soon wither and die. A few
hardy plants like the rupper tree, sage
palm and ferns may be preserved
through one season, but even their
freshness must be renewed by visits
to the florist or gardener. At this sea-
son, too, appear all sorts of Towering
chrysanthemums. Therefore, when
one beholds this floral wagon, loaded
with their splendid blooms, it is i'm
possible to say them nay. House
plants add greatly to the cheerfulness
of an apartment. If you can't set up
a cat or dog or bird, then you must
have something that will need tender
oversight and care. What's the mat
ter with baby? Well, a good deal.
With all due respect for the light in
fantry, it is much easier to watch the
growth of little Japanese lily.-Bos.
ton Herald
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13
OregOn's Christian MARTYRS.

'Eleven years of the united life OF
DR.. and Mrs. Whitman had passed"
writes George Ludington Weed of DR..
Whitman's patriotic achievement in
saving Oregon to the United States, in
the Ladies' Home Journal. SIN all
his labors she had been an inspiration
and support, sometimes the only one.
But the life of romantic beginning was
to have a tragic ending. Whatever
the causes of that ending, direct or
remote, or whatever their relative
force, the result was one of the sad
dest in American history. In it DR..
and Mrs. Whitman must ever be re-
cognized as the Christian patriot
martyrs Of Oregon. The fatal day was
November 80, 1S47, just half a cen
tury ago. The full tale of its
horrors need not here be told,
though the incidents are at hand The
partly-lifted curtain reveals enough
DIR. Whitman's fall by the tomahawk
at the age of forty five, and Mrs Whit.
mans by the rifle at the age Of thirty.
nine. There was shallow grave in
vaded by wolves, and then deeper
one, which until now has been with
out monument. Twelve others of
their household, butchered with them,
share their grave. But the memory
of the long-forgotten hero is being re-
vived. A bronze statue is being
erected near the spot in the region of
his triumph and martyrdom. As in
palace car l was hurried through it,
where his lone wagon had tediouslJ
sought the way, he seemed every
where present, and each mountain d
monument recording his deeds.
''The Oregon saved from falling in,
to the possession of the English by
DIR. Whitman's heroic efforts means
the Washington, Oregon and Idaho Of
to-day, territory of two hundred and
seventy-one thousand square miles,
equal to New England, New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and
three Connecticuts.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13

According to the New York Tribune
Mr.. Lorrillard, the rich New Yorkei
who has been living in England som,
years, ''seems to be talking at ran
dom. His assertion that Englishmer
will not invest money in America ever
ut twenty per cent. income is wild
and his prediction of currency
Eanic here is still wilder Is he aware
of the fact that gold in the Bank
England would be below the dangei
line to-day but for our leniency, ant
that foreigners will probably owe III,
on trade balance at the expiration o,
the year $500, 900, 900? Is he not
aware that we sell to Europe what she
must have, and buy from her nothing
that we must have? Political econ
omy is not taught on English race
tracks"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13

"Dnm-dum' is the curious name o.
new bullet of which the British Gov
ernment has been making test. Ex
periments would seem to justify tn,
title: for this small arm missile pro
duces a wound which is more fatal ant
terrible than the old bullet of slowe
velocity A bullet that makes Il large.
exit than entrance, even after wreak
ing havoc within, would certainl,
strike soldier dumb-dumb. n
America has recently been invented
however, secret solution by whicl
le"den bullets may be coated so as t,
render them superior to steel-case
bullets. At distance of thirty yard,
some of these coated balls pierced al
aX blade and others bored through /,
hat-irou.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13

The editor of the Murfreesborc
Glenn News thus accounts for hari
times: "We let our timber rot and
buy fencing. We throw away oul
ashes aud grease, and buy soap; we
raise dogs and buy hogs; we rails,
weeds and buy vegetables; We catcl
five-cent fish with four-d dollar rods
we build school houses and send on.
children off to be educated, and, lastly
We send our boys out with forty
dollar gun aud ten dollar dog TO hun
ten-cent birds.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13

naples on the lawn. He was in
bad humor occasional by the appear
ance of tramp a. the gate half an
hour previous. Mr.. Prince was dis
tinctively snobbish. To poorly dressed
people he was barely civil. while
tramps were his special aversion. He
had dispatched this last specimen
with small ceremony, and now lay
painting from his exertions.
The heat was intolerable. not q
breath of air was stirring. The leaves
dropped, dusty and motionless, and
over all hung that peculiar, ominous
calm which betokens the approach of
an electrical storm. Soon we heard
mutterings of distant thunder, and in
a few moments the storm burst upon
us. The rain fell in torrents, the
wind roared furiously, and binding
flashes of lightning followed each
other with startling rapidity.
At the first sharp peal of thunder,
Mrs. Fellis, whose nerves were never
strong, and were now completely shat
tered, gave one wild glance around,
sprang from the piazza and fed to the
barn. In vain L called to her. No
sooner had she disappeared within its
doors than above the howl of the wind
and roar of the thunder came loud
crash, followed by screams of distress.
The old barn had fallen in. Paral-
yzed with fear at the thought of Mrs.
Felliss fate, [ was about to rush after
her when Mr.. Prince, who had taken
refuge on the piazza when the storm
broke, dashed by me and disappeared
among the ruins. Very carefully he
clambered over loose boards and raft
ers, and i'll moment or two reap
peared, carrying the much frightened
but unhurt Mrs. Fellis. He deposit
ed his burden at my feet and once
more returned to the ruins.
Satisfying myself that no harm had
come to the little widow, and quieting
her fears as well as could, [ saw her
safely seated in her favorite armchair,
and throwing on cloak, the storm
having now abated, / went in search
of Mr.. Prince. / found him furiouslv
tugging Mt what seemed to be bundle
of rags pinned under the falling tim
bers. a few more vigorous tugs and
the bundle was dislodged, and there
before us, white, and trembling with
fright, stood the tramp whose appear
ance early in the afternoon had reused
Mr.. Princes wrath, and whose
screams of terror we had heard above
the crash of the falling building.
Finding he was unhurt, and not liking
the attitude which his rescuer now
assumed toward him, he picked his
way carefully over the debris, and lost
no time in getting clear of the prem.
ises.
When Jack returned an hour later
L narrated the stirring event of the
afternoon, proudly telling of Mr..
Princes coolness and bravery and
Mrs. Fellis's narrow escape from
tragic death. Jack listened with de-
lighted interest, and when [ had fin
ished caught Mrs. Fellis in his arms,
patted the hero of the hour lovingly
on his shaggy black head, and vowed
that he should have the handsomest
collar the town could produce; for if
evera dog deserved to be rewarded
Prince did, and if Mrs. Fellis failed to
love and respect him forever after, she
would indeed be an ungrateful cat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13
PlTH AND POINT.

College Maxim: Initiation is the
sincerest fattery.-Life.
A superfuous man is now alluded
to as third wheel to a bicycle
Puck.
Every woman wonders why the news
papers don't have more recipes and
less sporting news.-Puck.
''Did servant come to the door
when you rang?" Heavens, no! 1t
was the cook!'-Cincinnati CONNER
cial-Tribune.
The true sailor is like the ocean
however great roll he may have at
sea, he breaks when he strikes the
shore.-Puck.
A man feels hurt if his wife is not
interested in his business; but, often
times, he doesn't know the color of her
last new dress.-Puck.
SIT would be just like woman, +" re-
marked the observer of men and things,
''to go around with the chip pinned on
her shoulder. Detroit Journal.
"You want to be careful of Geezer.
He don't pay his debts" Thanks for
the tip You see, L owe him some
money. Philadelphia North Ameri-
can.
"Plumpton says he is very Jealous
of his reputation" well, he has
reason to be. / wouldn't trust it for
moment if had Chicago
News.
Sunset Simms (drowsily)-'Dey say
de Prince Nv Wales never wears suit
of clothes more dan once" Weary
Willy-"Well, needer do we-only it's
longer once. Puck.
When woman says her acquaint-
ance's new bonnet Is ''just horrid,"
the chances are that she will have one
exactly like it in the course of week
or so.-Boston Transcript.
Boresum-"Se to me I have
seen you somewhere Grumpington
VERY likely. Why don't you 90
there and hunt for me if you want to
see me again?"-Boston Transcript.
Hungry Higgins-."As fur eight
hours being enough fer days work
-" Weary Watkins amt. Any
man who'll do days work orter git
six months. - indianapolis journal.
Mrs. O'Flaherty Ito Nellie, aged
nine)-"And what is the good in git
ting you a French governess if you
goes and says Fido has the mango, in
std OF the menage e?"-Harper's Ba-
Ear.
"Can change here for Bristol?"
said the old lady for the fifteenth time
on the journey to the guard. "You
can if you like, ma'am," said the Of
fetal, oheerily, "but you'd better not
if you want to get there. Tit Bits.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13

A man in Paris finds a profitable
business in collecting bad debts by
stopping at the debtors with wagon,
around the top of which are these
words: This buggy only stops in
front of the houses of people who will
not pay their debts" Everybody, and
particularly business people, dread
this mans buggy so much that they
pay promptly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13
BEE MOUNTAIN,
Crevasse Filled With Honey and Occupied
by Snakes.

About twenty miles from Cleburne,
on the Brazos river, is Bee mountain.
On one side it rises several hundred
feet above the country around and the
other fronts the river and rises per-
pendicularly for 500 feet. On the
perpendicular side are several crevas-
ses or caves, in which places are mil
lions of bees and tons upon tons of
honey. 1t is impossible to scale the
dizzy heights from below, although
the rocks are wornout places that look
like steps had been made to climb
this mountain ages and ages ago, and
it is believed by some that aborigines
scaled this cliff to procure honey for
their primitive meals.
Within the memory of man, how
ever, parties have been daring enough
to have themselves suspended with
rope and let down to where the bees
enter the rocky bluff, and the tales
they told of the vast amount of honey
would sound like story from the
Arabian Nights
One man, cowboy, who worked on
the old Abe Wilson ranch, which was
quite famous here in an early day,
had the temerity to have some of his
co-laborers let him down with rope.
Where the bees entered, he said, the
crevasses were not large enough for
man to enter, but little south of that
point was hole about four feet high
and eight or ten feet wide, which he
entered. What he saw simply struck
him dumb with amazement. There,
hanging from the top of the cave,
which seemed to exterdfor quarter of
mile back, were great combs of honey
twenty or thirty feet long and from
four to six feet wide. They looked
like great lot of fine silk lace curtains
hanging in some grand old hallway.
The humming of the bees sounded
like the noise of many spindles in
great factory. He had hunting
knife with him and sliced off piece
of the honey and ate it, and was just
about to slice off more to bring to his
companions on the mountain above,
and who were waiting to pull him up,
when his attention was drawn to an
other direction. On listening closely
he detected kissing sound and one
unlike that made by the bees. Pre-
sently, from the direction from whence
the sound proceeded, he saw at least
100 serpents coming toward him, their
little beadlike eyes shining in the
glare of the torch he carried. To use
street phrase, he ''tore out" leaving
his hunting knife and the Klondike of
honey behind. When his friends had
pulled him up he had tainted from the
fright. When he recovered he told
them what he had seen. At first they
laughed at him, but finally it became
an accepted fact that in Bee mountain
there are tons of money, but no one
since that time has ever been reckless
enough to venture in that cave, where
not only millions of bees and tons of
honey are to be found, but where
den of serpents greets the intruder.
Alderman Tom Childress has sum-
mer home which adjoins this mountain,
and is going to tunnel into the side OF
it and try to arrange to exterminate
the serpents and have this wonder to
exhibit to his friends. .-Galveston
News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13

Men exposed to the rigors of the
Alaska winter never wear mustaches.
They wear full boards to protect the
throat and face, but keep the upper
Zip clean shaven. The moisture from
che breath congeals so quickly that a
mustache becomes imbedded in solid
cake of ice and the face is frozen be-
fore a man knows it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13
WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE.

He looked at my tongue and he shook hia
head
This was Doctor Smart
He thumped on my chest, and then he
said:
"Ah, there 1t isl Your heart!
You mustn't run-you mustn't hurryI
You mustn't work-you mustn't worryI
Just sit down and take it cool;
You may live for years, L cannot say;
But, in the meantime, make it rule
To take this medicine twice dayl''
He looked at my tongue and he shook his
head
This was ID Doctor Wise
YOU'RE liver's total wreck" he said,
You must take more exerciset
You mustn't eat sweets
You mustn't eat meats
You must walk and leap you must also run;
You mustn't sit down in the dull old way;
Get out with the boys and have some fun
Aud take three doses of this dayp'
He looked at my tongue and he shook his
head
This was Doctor Bright
"I'm afraid your lungs are gone" he said,
"And your kidney isn't right.
change of scene is what you need,
Your case is desperate, indeed,
And bread is a thing you mustn't eat
Too much starch-but, by the way,
You must henceforth live on only meat
AND take six doses OF this daYl"
Perhaps they we're right, and perhaps they
knew,
1t isn't for me to say;
Mayhap l erred when 1 madly threw
Their bitter stuff away;
But I'm living yet, and I'm on my feet.
And grass isn't all that dare to eat,
And walk and run, and worry, too,
But, to save my life, cannot see
What some of the able doctors would do
II there were no fools like you and me.
$. E. Kiser, in Cleveland Leader.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13
TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE,

The two kinds of people on earth, ween.
Are the people who lift and the people
who lean.
Wherever you go you will find the wornl's
masses
Are always divided in just these two classes.
And, oddly enough, you will find, too,
Ween,
There is only one litter to twenty who lean.
In which class are you? Are you easing the
load
OF oyertaxed lifters who toll down the road?
Or are you a leaner. who lets others bear
Your portion of labor and worry and cars7
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13
SHARP INDIAN PACKERS.
CARRYING MINERS OUTFITS OVER
THE MOUNTAINS TO THE KLONDlKE.


Striking Costume of the Native AiasIsans
Who Engage in the Transportation
h"s,ieSs-DoGS as assis'ah's-raekers
are "'''S'" '''"S anu 'i"'" i'"'ers'
Arrangements for packing are made
lat Dyea) with Isaac, Chief for the
Chllkoots, as the sign reads above
his cabin, but outside men can be
hired The Indian mems dress is
picturesque. Some wear the gayly
colored Mackinaw Jacket; Others a
blue denim garment, half shirt, half
coat; others still loose coat OF blan-
ket, the sleeves or patch across the
back being made OF the striped ends,
ana as the blankets used by these In
dlahs are OF the most brilliantly as
sorted colors' the color ehects are dls-
tinctly striking. For head-gear they
wear little common felt hats or bright
wool toques or a colored kerchlef. All
possess rubber hlp-boots, but when
packing they wear oni moccasins
OUTSIDE OF olWash OF blanket SOCKS,
and sometimes an oversock to the
Knee lnulan 1ashlon, dogs ana emil
ofeh' men ana women crowd INTO
eheir dlfty aooues' whlch smell OF
spolieo hsh.
Inc oogs are not so numerous as
expected, nor YET SO quafreisome ana
NOISY Inc Indians tram them nots
!huch lot sleage-arawlnS as 1of pack
ing small loaas on thelr oacks' ana II
Is hot unusual to see an Indian with
one or Two medlum-slzed dogs with a
ilttie pack on each slae' sa9ginS near
~ TO the ground, rotting along with
MS iuncheon.
"neh an lhdian Is packing ne ues
ms single small blanket upon MS pack
under the pack. stout SUCK TO pal
ahce WIN ana TO ASSIST IN chmplng
completes ms outht. twenty or thlrty
Indians VIII take up packs ana put
whoie outht over at one lick Ihey
are not trustworthy ana are whoiiy
uhscfupulous. Ihey DO nothing even
iof each othef wlthout price, ana L
nave carefully noticed that they make
no aistinction between themselves ana
whites even ior the same service LII
one engages them at certain price
ana some one ohers them more, they
lay down thelf packs ana take up the
new ones; OF II on the trail 'hey near
OF rise IN tne scale' they stop ana
strike 1of the hisner wages. some oil
them speak good English Indians
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13
a Musical Upholsterer.

Signor Tosti, the Anglo italian COM
poser, after hard days work, either
teaching his many royal pupils or of
composing, seeks recreation at his ia
vorite amusement of upholstering.
The greater part of the chairs, and the
whole of his wife's boudoir have thus
been upholstered by Siguor Tosti.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
OUR BOARDERS.
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Q had settled down
to housekeeping in
the town of D.,
where Jack, who
was a lawyer, hoped
to win fame and
fortune.
Our house was
large and old fash
ioned, and although
built half a century
ago was still in
go o d repair. A
broad. well-kept
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13

The New York Bible Society last
year distributed go, 424 Bibles and
restaments in this city. Some idea Of
the cosmopolitan sides of the greater
city may be gathered from the fac
that the books distributed were in
twenty-four different languages, not
dialects, but basic languages.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13

Henry Smith, of near Denmark, Va,
while out hunting squirrels, came
across drove of wild turkeys which
were so intently taken up with fight
ing among themselves that they did
no see him, and he fired into the drove
and bagged three with one shot. Mr..
Smith is more than eighty years Of
age. e.--Baltimor Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-13

During the past year 1920 acres Of
land were planted to canaigree in Ari-
zona, and the acreage will be much
larger the coming year.