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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30

fellow before his enlistment. Most
of the people in our neighborhood
were either shocked at his perfectly
lawless behavior, or openly in advo-
cacy of visiting him with retribution.
L know when he rode his race horse
home from town on Saturday night,
whooping alongside Deacon Craw-
ford's market wagon till the dull team
ran away, that some people thought
he should, in the name of public de-
cency, be run out of the neighbor-
hood. And when he broke up the
meeting" at Elmgrove Church and
whipped the constable who came to
arrest him there was perfect union
of voices against him.
They accepted his enlistment with
small promise of forgiveness. But
when Captain Kendall wrote home
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30

Hornless cattle may soon come to be
the rule rather than the exception.
AT all events, it looks a possibility,
since dehorning has come to be SO
popular. At first the practice was OBJ
jected to as being cruel and unnatural.
The early method of dehorning with q
saw was undoubtedly slow and pain
iul, but specially constructed clippers
I've now used that often remove a horn
IN a single second, and with so little
suffering that feeding is continued as
usual, and the operation is really
humane, the frequent injuries in herds
from goring being prevented. The
horns have become utterly useless,
being no longer needed as protection
against natural enemies. In calves
less than three weeks old the embryo
horns can be removed with one stroke
81 sharp knife, or they can be treat
: 1 with caustic sufficiently powerful
to destroy them. For three years the
Maine experiment station has de-
horned calves by rubbing the horns
four or five times with caustic potash.
In every case but one the operation
has been successful, the calf in the
exception having reached the age of
thirty five days before treatment, with
the result that dwa2fed horns an inch
or an inch and half long were subse-
quently developed. A breed from
these dehorned cattle, born without
horns. is confidently expected.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30

From the time OF the issue Of Gen.
eral Logan's order, it has been OBJ
served by the Grand Army veterans,
but up to 1882 there is no record of
any general parade. The various posts
dubbed together and paraded pretty
much as they pleased, while others
paraded singly or in pairs. At the
close of this impromptu parade the
posts divided and marched directly to
some cemetery, where the graves were
decorated. At that time but little or
nothing was done in the way of deco
rations on the Sunday previous, as is
the case now. This mode of decorat-
ing enables the veterans to devote
their time and strength to the day
proper, which is always May 80, ex-
cept when that date falls on Sunday.
The first general parade of which
there is any official record obtainable
was in New York in 1882. General
Henry A. Barnum was chairman of the
Memorial Committee and Captain Ed
ward Brown was grand marshal.
Nearly every post, the National Guard
and many veteran organizations united
in the parade, which was very success
ful
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30

much to help him back to healthful-
ness. There was a comradeship be-
tween them. Something in the sol
dier contact which had Injured him
beyond the stage of mourning fitted
with her nature, not touched by this
woe of v suffering but unknown ma
ton. A sympathy born of that fellow
ship which was almost Indifference to
our common griefs made them the best
of friends.
Along late in October came letter
signed Absalom Fox / remember we
were digging potatoes one day, and
the work was cruelty hard. when Bob
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30

that grave and send us reminders of
the swinging seasons. We are scat
tered these years. Father has gone
to an army which always claimed him,
fighting his way through foe that
could not frighten him, and on those
better heights his life is ioined-eter-
nally, as L believe-with that of the
woman who bore her burdens and his
while war was raging.
We are scattered, but never May
has passed but we meet there at the
farmhouse and place a wreath on the
stone-gray now as its soldiers uni
form-of the man who brought sun
shine into the midst of our dismal
winter.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30
Origin of the Day.

The origin of Memorial Day lies
with the origin of the Grand Army of
the Republic, in 1866, the year fol-
lowing the close of the war. The first
post thereof was organized at Decatur,
Ill.,, April 6, 1866. In May of that
year the ceremony of decorating the
graves of the soldier dead was carried
out to limited extent, but the move
ment was not given full force until the
meeting of the first national encamp-
ment at indianapolis, November 20,
1866. Here Memorial Day may be
said to have been really given birth.
Observed in. small way at first, it
has gradually grown in extent and
honor until now there is but one day
in the calendar which it ranks equally
with in patriotic minds-July 4.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30

came home from town in q neighbor's s
wagon and handed the yellow envel-
ope to mother. She gave it to me
while she read the letter. 1t had a
red flag and blue crossed cannon
printed in the corner. Mother had
sat down at the edge of the field and
was trembling. I did not LOOK at her,
for L knew she was crying and hur-
rying along the lily written lines.
Suddenly she made an odd little
sound and bowed her head forward.
She gathered up her apron and coy
cred her face. Hooked at her, chok-
ing.
Sin came over, stopped down and
put her arms about her. Bob's
crutches stumbled on the potato hills,
but he turned and hurried away. He
had almost reached the house when
Sin screamed
"Alive!" she cried. "Where?"
"Oh, 1 can't see," moaned mother.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30
Veterans Without Decorations Save Pride

Among the veterans who wear no
decorations, for whom there is neither
uniform nor regalia, are the aged
fathers and mothers who say with the
persistence of pride: 81 gave my two
boys to the war;" and they produce
faded daguerreotypes of brave soldier
boys in their new uniforms posed in
military precision to look like real
soldiers. Ali how many Of them died
of that dreaded disease of the hos
pital, that no surgeons knife could
cure or doctors potion charm away
homesickness for the dear mother at
home and for "Letty."
An interesting feature of the post
office museum at Washington is the
number of soldiers pictures which for
want of sufficient postage or from in
sufficient address went to the dead
letter Office and were never claimed.
Almost every year some visitor sees a
face that reminds him of some one,
and on learning the name is able to
send word to surviving relatives.
Several times most pathetic scenes
have been witnessed in that room
where a mother had found n portrait
of her darling boy, long since laid to
rest under southern soil, or perhaps
among the unidentified" dead of the
battlefield. Those pictures are al
ways given to the friends who claim
them.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30

earliest recollections run parallel
with events connected with the war.
There was strife in the air; the senses
were set to martial measure; the
music was that which drum and fife
could interpret; the poetry was of the
strident order; orations dealt in "war
clouds, EARNED hosts" and heroics
generally. The freight trains carried
cannon and recruits to the South,
and Confederate prisoners to the
North. There was scarcity of men
in the fields. Women often followed
the horses, wearing the blue jackets
that were cheaper and warmer than
garments designed for their SEX Boys
too small for severe labor tugged at
harvest work i'll summer and sawed
logs in winter. There were a good
many old men and u good many Grip
pies all over the neighborhood. But
everybody was busy at work in the
daytime, aud intently listening, con-
stantly expecting in the night.
My father was away there some
where, but since the battle OF Look
out Mountain we had not heard from
him, and that awful waiting which
was almost worse than the certainty
of death tortured our home every mo-
ment of the terribly long day. There
were three boys of us, and the oldest
was not strong enough for the work We
had to do, while the younger ones,
condemned to labor in summer to es-
cape want in winter, would have been
better engaged with toys and play
time. Mother was out early and late,
wearing her frame and scanning her
face with labor never intended for her.
And we did all we could to help her
in the house and in the fields; but it
was a cruel burden. And added to it
was that dragging wait from day to
day, that Watching each distant figure
as it approached, hoping till the last
moment it might be the one whose
coming meant release from trouble.
And then came Sin.
Sin was Swede young woman, large,
fair and strong, capable of any amount
of work, accustomed to toll in the fields
as in the kitchen, willing always and
always with u song on her lips and a
smile on the cheeks that would not
cover their pink and white howeve,
the hot sun shone.
Her father and brothers came with
q colony of immigrants, and they set.
tied up there in the maple and walnut
woods above our farm and began tho
cutting of timber. They could no
speak our language as she could, ant
they knew nothing of our laws. They
! neglected enlistment and missed tn,
craft and lived there IN their cabir
| and hewed the forest away arount
| them. No one visited them, of course
and they mingled very little among
tho older families There was moth
| ing against them, of course. The ole
man may have drank little too mucl
now and then, but when they left thei
chopping for days work at neigh
boris they were Industrious and faith
full, and when they traded it SCENE,
they were honest. But they wer
foreign, and lacked little of adjust
ment to the status that environe
them.
Bob Elliott came home along abou
harvest time-came home with yer
white face and long thin fingers tina
gripped his crutches, for he had lost
leg somewhere along the front Q
Petersburg, and seemed mildly SOFT
his life had not gone with it. But h
got over that after time.
| He had been wild and reckles
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30
For CIouded Piano Surface.

The clouded condition of highly
polished piano surface is said to come
from climatic changes. A piano
fnisher is authority for the statement
that a clean soft chamois wrung out
of clear water and wiped rapidly over
the surface before good polish is ap-
piled is ethe proper treatment TO re-
medy the defect. A piano polish re-
commended by Miss Parloa consists
of equal parts of parafine oil and
turpentine, applied with soft flannel,
then polished with linen.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30

According to the latest available re-
turns there arc now 49, cotton mills
in this section, announces the Atlanta
Constitution, operating 9J,O looms
and 1864, 1S9 spindles. These cotton
mills are parceled out among the vari-
GUS States in TIE following manner:
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30

HAD q lett e r
from Sin the
other day, ask
ing me on the
30th to help
d decorate e the
grave of Absa-
lom Fox.
Maybe Ibetter
tell you some
thing about Sin,
and A b sal o N ,
and how his
grave, all alone
out there among
the sugar trees,
comes to be dec
Grated.
Nearly all my
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Airing tho Dining Room.

To be sure of having q successful
dinner in every respect, see that the
dining room is thoroughly aired for at
least half hour before dinner is
served. The dining-room may well
be little under rather than moder-
ate temperature, though arrangements
should be made to keep the air fresh
without allowing draughts.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30

Twenty years ago there were barely
more than sixty cotton mills in the
South operating II, S9Slooms and $780,
473 spindles. Do these figures not
show that the South is rapidly over
taking New England in the race fer
industrial prestige?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30

Alaskan demand has caused dealers
in evaporated fruit and vegetables at
Portland, Oregon, to double their
plants and the number OF their EN-.
ployes.
Arizona republican., 1898-10-29

rorv. and tue duties of the commission defined The object of the law reduce the charges of the territory. The legal debts of the territory the counties municipalities and school districts could under the of the Act be funded territorial 50vear bonds thereby saving
 all funabe indebtedness The territorial float debt evidenced by bears 10 and this kind of indebtedness saving of cent Is made whenever tine funded into territorial bonds Many territorial county municipal and school district bonds bores and per cent and sod necessity of creating sinking fund bs pay maturing obligations and upon the ebeness which the commission able off and refund the sale of bonds saving the territory nearly S60,000 actually made.
 The assertion frequently made by the funding law which created the loan that when the territory be- enorser of the debt county municipality, by
 territorial bonds therefor and paying the interest from the territorial treasury that the solvent counties become responsible for the nsoyen and becomes bankrupt refuses levy the upon deb that the debt ad by those who do it. In reply to this be said that counties of Arizona novent and date the fund.- ing law has worked great saving the reduction of interest the each the upon proportion of the debt funded and upon failure collect and the to the territorial treasurer at certain tme lien attaches upon the taxable property of said county the county levy because they the attorney general of the territory bring by mandate the levy be compelled This however of the propre of the funding law tse and of the 1avapa bonds
 As POLITICS in connection with the funding law and loan the law passed Congress made subject to future territorial leaon a1d 1t ratified accepted and eenacted by Act No 9 of the Sixteenth Legislature of Arizona which legislature TWOTHIRDS DEMOCRATIC.
 There in the Sixteenth Legislature such distinguished
Arizona republican., 1898-10-29
Office of the Board of Supervisors of Yavapai County
 Prescott Arizona, August g, 1892.

Office of the Board of Supervisors of Yavapai County
 Prescott Arizona August 22 1892. To the Hon. Loan of Isstory of Arzona
 In accordance with the provisions of an Act
 titled An Act to provide o Inahg n county @ ana other peors hereby to honorable board application for the ndg the following bonded indebtedness of 1avapa
 The of hirtyyear seven per cent interest bearing bonds issued under authority of an to aa m the The bonds issued in denominations of thousand dollars on August at lsso bonds October sS6 bonds numbered 61 to 90 ncluve on November 1886 bonds numbered 9l to 12O inclusive: December l. 1S66 bonds numbered incusive De- 1Ss6 bonds numbered 15 1s0 inclusive; De eember A bonds numbered 1s slo inclusive on December I bonds numbered ncusive December 5l, bonds numbered 220 292 inclusive Very respectfully BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF YAVAPA COUNTY, F. J. F. HORNE,e Clerk. [seai Board of Supervisors, Yavapa County.l
 The of the bonds refused to surrender them for funding they preferred per Yavapa county per cent territorial bond; the interest at had been promptly pad and being regularly paid by the Hon c. Oliver Yavapa county while effort being the bonds surrendered for refundng
 remembered, when charging partanshp in this the board of supervisors the and the acting district attorney of Yavaa county Democrats.
 the and northern portion of Yavapai eorny The Act creating the county provided that the new should proportion of the Indebtedness ot Yaa county and that proportion the bonds of Coconno county the amount of 50 bearing executed and delivered Yavapa June ? 1891
 1avapa county later converted the Coconino county hon into cash and with portion o the money Treasurer Oliver r deemed paid off and cancelled according his statement of the bonds of Iavapa and had funded through the loan commission forty,e; four others also funded ali The bonds redeemed and funded by
 Democratic county government of Yavapai county, thereby cognizng and acknowledging their legality, amounted quarter of the entire issue.
 After the Pima county decision Lewis Pima Co.,, 155 |. S Supreme Court Reports D. 54 under which de
 certain Pima county bonds declared vod tended that the 1ayapa bonds within the of the Pima decision and also void The question of the further of interest raised in Yavapa county, and Republican dis attorney on Robt E. Morrson advised the board of perors that his opinion the Pima decision referred established the legay of the 1avapai The anu citizens realizing the effect failure recognize and these securities would have the good and credit of the community and the territory without regard to politics petitioned the Eighteenth legislature follows:
Arizona republican., 1898-10-29

TO THE HONORABLE THE COUNCIL AND HOUSE OF
 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE EIGHTEENTH LEGIS-
 zoNA
 Your undersigned petitioners respectfully represent and show to your Honorable body
 That taxpayers and residents of the territory of A and such deeply interested in and desire to main ned the good and credit of the people of the territory
 That whereas under the authority of Acts of legsa- assemblies of the territory of Arizona certain counties of the territory have incurred indebtedness and issued bonds therefor which were sold in open market and bought m good faith and are held by innocent holders and except such knowledge the law mputes such holders the validity nvady of such of the legislative assembly of the territory of Arizona authorizing their issuance;
 And whereas, in instances the counties issuing said bonds have received and enjoyed the benefits contemplated said
 And whereas there has recently arisen question the validity of said acts which would appear make repudaon non-pament of said obligations possible and whereas
 We believe that such repudiation based it would be purely technical grounds will most seriously affect the credit and standing Of the people of the territory and bring dpuc hone and abroad and the time will work and hardship upon the present innocent holders of said bonds
 Now, therefore respectfully request that your hon orabe bodies memorabilia congress to such curative and legislation protect holders all such issued good faith and the validity of which has heretofore been and unquesoned and that they further eesae protect all innocent parties who have been induced invest enterprises within the territory through their faith and confidence in the faithful carving out of the promises territory Acts tie legislative assembly,
 That That the citizens and taxpayers of Ar through honorable body wish to be heard they may by legislative maintaining good the territory enjoys honest dealing, important to country requiring the assistance of capital. F-M MURPI1 BURKE & HICKEY
 KELLY X STEPHENS.
 BROWN X kASTNER.
 THE BAsHFORD-BU MINISTER COMPANY, R. II. Bur mister. Manager:
 ED w. WELLS.
 THE BANK OF ARIZONA Prescott. A. T.; W. E. Hazel tine Cashier: sl W. E. 1IAZELTINE. l. NJ. GOi.DWATER X BROS, J. L. FISHER. | JOSEPH s. COOK, D. LEVY X CO. F. W. BUTCHER J. MILLER NJ. D.. W. H. HALL.
 HARRY PRESLEY, ]. B. STEPHENS r. c. PARKER. JAKE MARKS Receiver T. $. Land Office Prescott; J. II AITKEN.
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 TIE IVY cRErE GOLD < LAND COMPANY. T.st. Barlov-Eass-ls, fres
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Arizona republican., 1898-10-29

Democrats as
 FRED G. HU GILES. C. MEYER ZULICK. !. c. HERNDON, ?. R. BRADY, FOSTER $. DENNIS, HARRIS BALDWIN. F. J. SIMPSON. In the Council: and T. E. PARISH, J. H. TENIS,
 NJ. G. SAMANIEGO, r. W. HEYNE. J. W. DAUGHERTY, J. J. FISHER.
 GUS \. HOEF. l.. H. CHALMERS.
The herald., 1898-07-04
GOD IN GOVERNMENT
Rev. David Walks Subject at the
Church Of Christ

David Walk, in the Church of Christ on
Eighth street, near Central avenue, read
Kings xii, / to Is, and announced as his
subject, God in Government" The one
great lesson taught by the ancient the
ocracy is that Jehovah is supreme among
the nations Gods voice is heard today
above the roar of Skaters guns and the
thunder Of SIMPSONS sea monsters. And
that voice proclaims that the doom of
Spain is sealed. Rehoboam was perfect
type of modern Spanish rulers. BY reason
of the most stupendous folly of which NOR
tai man was ever guilty, he rent his king
dom in two. Had he spoken one word CAL
culated to allay the well-grounded fears Of
long-suffering people. he would have
bound them to his throne in indissoluble
bonds. Under the tyrannical heel of the
luxurious Solomon, the people had been
trodden into the dust. The burdens imposed
upon them were incredible. All they asked
was reasonable relief. Their appeal was
met with taunts and threats. God has
borne long and patiently with Spain, and
he now makes the youngest-born of nations
/ his avenging Nemesis. War is always to
be deplored, and it is deplored most by
those who understand 1t best But deplor-
The herald., 1898-07-04

The picnic of the season will take place to-
day at Sycamore grove. Elaborate arrange
ments have been made by the committee in
charge of the celebration Of Independence
day. A display of fireworks has been ar
ranged for the evening. Dancing will begin
at .. M and will continue throughout the
day and evening. The following is the or
der Of exercises:
Address, president Of the day-Hon. D. M.
McGarry.
Patriotic oration-Jame5 B. Kenealey.
Reading Declaration Of dependence-Isi-
dore B. Dockweiler.
Song, Star Spanged Banner"-Miss Lii
liam Scanlon.
The following is the list Of prizes and con-
tests which will follow the exercises:
/. Fifty-yard dash (boys under IL years.;
prize, hat.
.. Fifty-yard dash (glrls under Is years. /:
prize. box Of candy.
8. Three-legged race (ffty yards); prize,
$3.50 worth of neckwear.
4. Egg race (twenty-fiv yards) for young
ladies; prize, bottle of perfume
5. 1OO-yard dash (for Y. NJ. I. members
only); prize, one pair shoes.
G. Fat mems race (fifty yards. over 100
pounds; prize. fifty pounds Stockton Rose
Bud flour.
I. 1OO-yard dash (boys under II years. F.;
prize, one pair shoes.
g. Married ladies' race twenty-five
YARDS; prize, beautiful basket.
Q. 1Oo-yard dash (open; prize, one pair of
pants.
10. Running hop, step and jump; prize,
case of wine.
II. Baby show; prize, silver cup.
| -. Bicycle race (open), handicap. tostart
| from corner of Daily street and Pasadena
avenue at p. m, sharp, to be followed by
several short dashes for valuable prizes Of
| fered by committee.
A splendid hot dinner will be served dur
ing all afternoon and evening at rs cents.
Cold lunches, ice cream and other refresh
mcnts will also be served all day and even
| ing.
The price of admission tickets is Is cents
children free. Fare, cents on either cleo
trio or Terminal line.