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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14
SONG or cACED BIRDS.
1t Loses Its Sweetness Apart From It's
Associations.


John Burroughs writes of the
"Songs of American Birds" in. the
Century. Mr.. Burroughs says: I
have never yet seen Gagged bird that
I wanted-at least, not on account of
its song-nor wild flower that 1 de-
sired to transfer to my garden. A
Gagged skylark will sing its song sitting
on bit of turf in the bottom of the
cage; but you want to stop your ears,
it is so harsh and sibilant and pene-
trating Bat, up there against the
morning sky, and above the wide Tex
panse of fields, what delight we have
in i'll 1t is not the concord of sweet
sounds: it is the soaring spirit of
gladness and ecstacy raining down
upon US from ''heaven's gate" Then,
to the time and place, if one could
only add the association, or hear the
bird through the vista of years, the
song touched with the magic of youth
full memcries!
A number of years ago a friend in
England sent me score of skylarks
in cage. L gave them their liberty
in field near my place. They drifted
away, and l never heard them or saw
them again. But one Sunday a
Scotchman from a neighboring city
called upon me, and declared with
visible excitement that on his way
along the road he had heard sky
lark. He was not dreaming; he
knew it was skylark, though he had
not heard one since he left the banks
of the Doom, O quarter of a century or
more before. What pleasure it gave
him! How much more the song meant
to him than it would have meant to
me! For the moment he was on his
native heath again. Then L told him
about the larks L had liberated, and he
seemed to enjoy it all over again with
renewed appreciation.
Many years ago some skylarks were
liberated on Long island, and they
became established there, and may
now occasionally be heard in certain
localities. One summer day friend
of mine was out there observing them
lark was soaring and singing in the
sky above him. An old Irishman
came along, and suddenly stopped as
If transfixed to the spot; look of
mingled delight and incredulity came
into his face. Was he indeed hearing
the bird of his youth? He took off his
hat, turned his face skyward, and
with moving lips and streaming eyes
stood long time regarding the bird.
"Ah," my friend thought, "if could
only hear that song with his ears!"
How it brought brought back his
youth and all those long-g gone days on
his native hills! The power of song
birds over US is so much a matter of
association. Hence it is that every
traveller to other countries finds the
feathered songsters of less merit than
those he left behind. The traveller
does not hear the birds in the same
receptive, uncritical frame of mind as
does the native; they are not in the
same way the voices of the place and
the season.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14
LOWELL DIAMONDS
STAND THE TEST.
Board of Experts
So Decide.
Remarkable Investigation From Which
tho Lowell Diamond Bicycle f,.dls
Out Ah0ad OF All Councillors.

Where there are so many makes of BIZ
cycles on the market, all of which at first
sight seem to be on an equal footing to the
casual observer, and still the fact is well
known that there is no article in common
use where 1t is so easy for the manufacture
er to cover up the imperfections as in the
bicycle, both in material and workman
ship, and which cannot be detected until
the machine has been given test on the
road, such an investigation as has just
been completed by the best experts in the
country, under the supervision of the
Western Review of Commerce, is likely to
be of great value to the riding public. Tho
honor OF producing the best wheel among
the thirty-seven well-known makes that
were tested fell to the old established house
Of John p. Lowell Arms Co., OF Boston, Mass,
manufacturers of the celebrated Lowell
Diamond. The investigation was made
in a thorough manner by competent ex-
perts in the construction Of wheels, and
before them were placed thirty-seven Of the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14

leading makes The machines wore all
marveIs OF the most recent ideas of me-
chanlcal construction, and were brought
together without the slightest intimation or
knowledge to the manufacturers that such a
test was to take place. The practical experts
composing the Investigating board gradually
weeded the machines down to small num-
Der, and, after several days of careful test
ing of the relative merits of the ma
chimes, they were unanimous in their
verdict that the Lowell Diamond was un-
doubtedly the best wheel made and so re-
ported to the paper, the president Of which
Immediately wrote the j. p. Lowell Arms
company informing the latter OF the inyesti-
CATION made and the decision reached, and
this was the first intimation that the Lowell
company had of the matter. The
statement that the Lowell Diamond is the
best bicycle built Is based upon the fact
that every part of the machine is made at
tfeir own factory. Previous to and incIud-
ing 1886 the machine bearing the name
OF the Lowell Diamond was manufactured
for the John P. Lowell Arms Co. by out
side parties, but beginning with the season
OF 1897, every part OF every machine bearing
their name plate has been constructed at the
factory of the John p. Lowell Arms Co. at
South Portland, Maine. This fact easily
accounts for the proven supremacy of the
Lowell Diamond" over all other leading
makes of the world. The Lowell Arms Com.
pany have three stores in Boston, Washing
ton street, Broad street and Massachusetts
avenue, and branch stores IT, Worcester
Mass, Providence, r. l., P,Smcket, II. L.
Portland and Bangor, Me-, besides having
agents in nearly every city and town
throughout the country. Their new cata-
logue, Famous Diamonds of the World"
free on application.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14
woman's Fate.
From the Record, Bushnell, m.

PToUt dto LseeSTa, ou1Ltclt, III
No woman is better able to speak to Others
regarding "woman's fate" than Mrs. Jacob
Weaver, Of Bushnell, H., wife OF ex-City
Marshal Weaver. She had entirely re-
covered from the illness which kept her
bedfast much OF the time for five or six
years past, and says her recovery is duo
to that woll-known remedy, DR.. Williams
Pink Pills.
Mrs. Weaver is flfty-six years old, and
has lived in Bushnell nearly thirty years.
She is Of unquestionable veracity and I'M
blemished reputation. The story Of her re-
covery is interesting. She says:
81 suffered for five or six years with the
trouble that comes to women at this time
Of my life. was much weakened, was I'M
able much Of the time to do my own work,
and suffered beyond my power to describe.
was downhearted and melancholy.
II took many different medicines in fact,
I took medicine all the time, but nothing
seemed to do me any good.
''I read about DR.. williams Pink Pills
for Pale People, and some Of my friends
recommended them highly made IN nv
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14

81 have recommended the pills to many
women who are suffering as suffered.
They are the only thing that helped me in
the trial that comes to so many women at
my age" Mrs. J. H. WEAVER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
23d day Of October, A. d. 1897.
o. G. HICKS, Notary Public.
When woman is passing beyond the ago
of motherhood, it is IL crisis in her life.
Then, IL ever, proper attention to hygiene
should be exercised. The attendant suffer-
ings will disappear and buoYant health will
follow II DIR. Williams Pink Pills are used.
These pills exert a powerful influence in
restoring the system to its proper condi-
tion. They contain in condensed form ali
the elements necessary to give new life and
richness to the blood.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14

A queer house, built of iron and
thick glass, has been erected on the
general hospital grounds in Yokohama
by DR.. Van ner Heyden, bacteriolo-
gist. The purpose in its building was
to exclude, as far as possible, the
germs of disease. To that end it is
built dust-tight and with insect proof
joints. 1t has no window-sashes
Provision is made in the second story
10 allow the escape of air from within
it enters only by means of pipe, is
carefully filtered through cottonwood,
and to make sterilization more com
plete the air is driven against n
glycerin- coated plate which captures
such microbes as pass through cotton.
Strong sunlight also helps to destroy
possible survivors. The impurities due
to breathing and other causes are
carefully absorbed by chemicals. 1t has
been found that milk and unsalted
butter remain sweet much longer in
this dwelling than elsewhere.-Boston
Globe.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14

An unusual form Of iuebriety was
presented for treatment NJ Bellevue re.
Gently. 1t was that OF a woman who
cared nothing for alcoholic beyerag ges
but was afflicted with the Jamaica gin.
ger habit. She says she has an uncon.
tror.able desire for ginger. as 1t pro.
Dues stimulating effect, bur does not
tptoXlcate her, AID she believes she
Eould live on it. She ate little food
when she could obtain the drug, and
she cared for no other kind of drink
DR.. Caroian placed the woman among
the alcoholic patients. a curious fea.
ture of the case is that when q child she
was unusually fond of ginger snaps
and ate them in the way that many
girls eat candy.-New York CONNER.
cial- AlvartiSer
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14

It is not unusual at the Aquarium to
see in tank the fishes all together
side by side and heads i'll line, like a
platoon or section of men. They re-
main thus for considerable time.
Most fishes are gregarious, they keep
together in schools in the water, and
here they seem to keep together for
company's sake. Sometimes all the
fishes in tank but one will be lined
up in this way sideiby side and headed
in one direction, while the single fish
will be back of the others, and headed
the other way. Then the suggestion
of soldiers conveyed to the mind by
the fishes in line is strengthened. For
the single fish seems to be rear
guard, looking out for the enemy in
that direction. n.-New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14
A South American Snake story.

There is more than one way of fight
ing q snake. In Natal, South Africa,
where lives the deadly mamba serpent,
party of fifty or sixty Kaffirs were
building a road. In the course of their
work they came to huge stone, under
which dwelt large black mamba,
well-known to the neighboring inhabi-
tants as being very fierce and venom
GUS. The superintendent anticipated
trouble with the rock and SO he offered
a reward to the Kaffir that would bring
him the snakes skin. For q time none
of them dared make the attack, but
slim youth finally saultered forward,
and amid the jeers and protestatiops of
the rest declared himself equal to the
task. He took from his neck what look
ed like q bit of shriveled stick, chcwed
1T, swallowed some of it, spat out the
rest on his hands, and proceeded to
rub his glistening brown body and
limbs all over. Then, taking up his
stick, and chanting a song OF defiance,
he advanced with great confidence and
swagger to the boulder. There he
reused up the mamba, who in great
fury az being disturbed bit him In the
lip with great venom, The boy took no
notice Of the bit, but broke the snakes
back with his stick and bringing him
to his master asked for the reward,
obtaining which, he went back to his
work, and the bite of the reptile had
no effect on him whatever.
No tribe, not even that of a cow (bet-
ter than any gold in the eyes of q
Kaffir), would induce this native to dis
close the secret Of his antidote, which,
he said, had been handed down in his
family for generations. The snake was
very long enc, and so old that it had
q name. 1t is well-known fact that
certain of the Zulus have antidotes for
the more deadly snake poisons, which
they preserve as q secret within their
own families.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14
az Feel Like u New Pe-soa.s
Mrs. GEO. LEACH,
1909 Belle ST., Alton, ILL.,, writes:

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causing me to be so weak l could not
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81 took doctors medicine but did not
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and after reading it l decided to try
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14

According to an acc count in the
"Journal d'Hygicre, rats have be-
come SO abundant in Brazil that a
domestic snake, the giboya, which has
about the circumference of the arm,
is sold in the marketplace in Rio ia
neiro, to be kept in the house as a
protection againt rodents. 1t would
seem that the serpent pursues its prey
more for the pleasure that there is in
it than from a sense of hunger, since
it is said it rarely eats the rats caught.
Similar in its habits and attachments
to the domestic cat Of our more north
ern latitudes, the giboya will, it is
said, find its way back to the house of
its master even if transported to a
considerable distance. Medical Re-
cord, .r-as1.zFs1-. sS5..'S -F.,-.,f-srl
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14

The ightest substance known is said
to be the plth OF the sunfower, with
q specific gravity of o02S, while elder
pith-hitherto recognized us the llshtes .
substances-has specific gravity o.
0.09, reindecr's hair OIL and cork O.24.
For saving appliances at sea, cork with
q buoyancy Of l to 5, and reindeer's
hair with one to 1 to 10, has been used,
while the pith of the sunAower has Il
buoyaEcy of l to 81.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14
5000 for Nov Namas |

The Salzer Seed Co. want suitable
names for their 17-inch long corn and
White Oat prodigy. You can win this
S4OO easily. Catalogue tells all about
1t. Seed potatoes only S15 a barrel.
SEND THIS NoTICE AND 10 CTS. IN STAMPS
to John A. Salzer Seed So, La
Crosse, Wis, and get their great
seed catalogue and IL new farm seed
samples, including above corn and
oats, positively worth $1,000, to get a
start. Send to-day. to-day, sirl A c. s..
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14

We offer One Hundred Doll 'r' Reward for
any ca g of Catarrh that cannot b, cured by
Halls Catarrh Cue.
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We. the undersigned. have known F.J. Che
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and financially able to carry out any obliga.
tion III de by their firm.
WEST Sc TnUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo
oh o.
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Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh t'nle is AIKEN in ernally, "ct
ing dir city upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of tn system. Z iC 75c. pc bottle. sold
by all d .uggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14
RECLAIMED HEALTH.
Gratifying Letters to Mrs. Pink
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Mrs. e. WooLHIsEI,

Mills, Neb., writes:
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14

To light the fire in a stove at any de.
sired time an absorbent roller is set at
bhe top of an inclined surface. to be
lgnited and rolled under the fire box
when set in motion by the clock
mechanism.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14

Miss Emma Thursby's myna has
almost as much reputation as Miss
Thursby herself. The bird speaks in
five languages, sings Chinese songa,
initiates a banjo and laughs at jokes.
Since Miss Thursby has lived in her
present apartments the myna has been
Gagged in. The other day it began to
beg pitifully, "Rlease let me go out.
I'll come right back" It's intelligence
is almost uncanny. New York World
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14

y j
mind to try them.
i bought the first
box in March, 1887,
and was benefited
from the start.
"a box and q
half cured me COM
pletely, and I am
now rugged and
strong. l have not
been bothered with
| my troubles since
II began taking the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14

Vice Admiral Makarow of the Rus
sian navy is on his way to this country
to look into American ice breaking fer
ryboats. The Russians want to keep
some of their harbors open in the win
ter
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup fo- children
teething, suftens the gums, reducing inilamlnW'
ton. allays pain, cures wind collie. Sea bott''.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14

Harmsworth Brothers, proprietors Of
the London Daily Mail, Evening News
and other publications, gave an order
for white paper the other day that
amounted in value to S3.75O,O0
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14

Col. Robert Ingersolls old Sunday
school teacher. John p. Robertson, has
just died at Ashtabula, o., aged 80. Tor
"a years he lived in the house occupied
by Ingersoll's father.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14

We have not been without Piso's Cure fol
for - yJars. LlZZIE FERREL,
Camp 3 t, Harrisburg, Pa, May 4, ~.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14
To Cure A Cold in One Day.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablete. An
Druggists refund money il it fails to cure. CSC.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14
Pm U 70 '9S.

"RBE" LIRCOLn 'FcEnrD PATENT ! taHE, spE'
j. W. BEVANS, solicitor Of Patents. Wash, O,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-04-14

largest Circulation OF any .ia.ilas
Publication in the West
The Springfield herald., 1898-04-15
Kenson for m Armisticc.

Kingston, Jamaica, April 11.-An
agent of the Cuban government arrived
here to-day and is going on to New
York. He reached Port Antonio on
Friday by the Brooklyn. According TO
advces from Santiago de Cuba, small
engagements are of daily occurrence
in the country along the river Cauto
General Pando and 1.5OO Spaniards are
operating near Bayamo. where the in
surgents have them practically sur
rounded. Americans who arrived on
the Brooklyn declare that the opera.
tions must be active. because for the
last two weeks wagons loaded with
wounded and sick have entered the city
daily from the field.
The Springfield herald., 1898-04-15
-Four Cannon. for Colorado.

Washington, April 9. 9.-Representative
Shafroth was at the Treasury Depart
ment yesterday trying to procure four
guns for the state of Colorado to be
placed on the capitol grounds at Den
yer. When General Sibley was re-
treating before the First Colorado cav
airy he buried eight brass cannons in
New Mexico, Since that time they
have been in The custody of New Mex
leo and now Colorado wants four Of
them. The Treasury Department hav
ing control of all government property
and these cannons being such proper
ty, he makes the request. He has not
yet received any definite assurance
that his request will he granted, but
hopes that in time an order to that eff
feet will be issued
The Springfield herald., 1898-04-15
Crist's Resignation Dcmunded.

Santa Fe, n. NJ, April 9.-Governor
Otero has demanded the resignation of
j. III. Crist, who is district attorney for
Santa Fc, Taos and Rio Arriba coun-
ties. 1t is alleged that Mr.. Crist is
guilty of malfeasnnce in office and
shortage. Mr.. Chist had signiticd his
Willingness to resign some time ago,
provided the charges against him were
withdrawn, but that unless such
charges were withdrawn he would not
resign and would fight the case rather
than leave office under II cloud. 1t is
reported to-day that sufficient pressure
will be brought to bear TO compel the
resignation, and that Mayor Spess
viii be appointed in Mr.. CRISIS place.
The Springfield herald., 1898-04-15
INTERSTATE COMMERCE LAW


A Meeting OF the Senate Committee to
Consider Some Proposed Amendments.
Washington. April 9.-The Senate
interstate commerce committee re-
sumcd its hearings to-day of the bill
amending the interstate commerce
law. Mr. Hines, assistant attorney for
the Louisville Il Nashville Railroad
Company, was the first person heard
He controverted the position of Mr..
Knapp, that the bill did not extend
the scope of the original act as under
stood at the time it went into effect.
He objected to the bill for three rea-
sons, that it gives effect to the orders
of the interstate commerce commits
sion without any judicial decision;
that it proposes to change the law as
it applies to long and short hauls, and
that it proposes to give the commits
sion power to fix rates. change classiti-
cations and prescribes rules for the
regulation of the interstate commerce
of the country. All these he consider
ed radical notifications of the present
law and he opposed them strenuously
The Springfield herald., 1898-04-15
BIG COUNTY SEAT FIGHT.
Battle between Springer and Ration Still
Being Wared

Denver, April "a special from
Springer to the Republican says: The
county seat fight assumed another as
pect this week. The board of county
commissioners We're to meet for the
auditing of the quarters accounts,
Monday the 4th. but there was hitch
and proceedings blocked. The chair
man of the board and clerk contend
that the board, according to the law
removing county seats, passed by the
last Legislature. shall meet at the old
county seat until available quarters
are provided for them the same as for
other courts or things within and for
the county. The two other members
contend that the commissioners shall
meet at the new county seat and hence
did not show up here Monday.
The district attorney drew up his
opinion in writing and presented it to
the clerk. In it he says that the com
missioners shall meet at Springer un-
til suitable buildings are erected for
that purpose which means plainly
when the court house is built. The
fight is now down to a point where the
best legal talent to be found in New
York is employed by both Springer
and Ration people and it will not be
settled this side of the United States
Supreme court. This evening no meet
ing of the board has yet been held.
The Springfield herald., 1898-04-15

Spain cannot scare up an ally In
all of Europe. Thanks to the great
American plan, No entangllng alli-
ances with European powers" Had
this policy been forgotten and the un
patriotic Bayard had successfully ne
gotiated an alliance with England we
would not now have friend in Eu-
rope. AS it happily is. they are all
our friends-all except poor old Spain.
European friendship is more marked In
the case of Russia. France and Ger
many. than in England. We are Eng
lands commercial rivals; we are the
commercial allies of all other nations,
Neither does the Anglo-Saxon blood
preponderate among us; it is only an
element of that which goes to make up
the real American. Germany and Ire
land are perhaps to a larger extent the
mother country than Is England. 1t Is
therefore not likely that there will over
be an alliance with any European
country-England especially.