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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15
Queer Jail for College Students.

At the ancient and famous Univer-
sity of Heidelberg Jail is maintained
specially for the benefit of students.
For all minor crimes and misdemean-
ors they are tried and improsined not
by the civil authorities, but by the
university.
The Heidelberg Career, or university
prison, has been occupied by the most
famous men of Germany. While
there they always decorate the walls
with their names and in other ways, so
nently remembered.
Every reader of Mark Twain will re-
call his entertaining description of the
place, and how he contrived to visit it,
even unwittingly enlisting as his guide
a Herr Professor. His pretext was
to see a young friend who had con.
veniently arranged the day to suit
Mark-for the German student-convict
goes to prison on the first suitable day
after conviction and sentence. II
Thursday Is not convenient he tells the
officer sent to hale him to Jail that he
will come on Friday or Saturday or
Sunday, as the case may be. The Of
ficer never doubts his word, and 1t is
never broken.
The prison Is up three flights of
stairs. and Is approached by passage
as richly decorated with the art work
of convicts as the cell itself. That
apartment is not roomy, but bigger
than an ordinary prison CELL 1t has
an iron-grated window, a small stove
two wooden chairs, two old oak tables,
and narrow wooden bedstead. The
furniture is profusely ornamented with
carving, the work of languishing cap
tives, who have placed on record their
names, armorial bearings, their crimes
and the dates of their Imprisonment,
together with quaint warnings and de-
nunciations. Walls and ceilings are
covered with portraits and legends exc
cuted in colored chalk and In soot the
prison candle forming handy pencil.
The prisoner must supply his own
bedding and Is subject to various
charges. On entering he pays about
20 cents, and on leaving similar sum.
Every udy Ill pIlSOu COotS IL cents, IRE
and light, IL cents extra. The jailer
supplies coffee for trihe. Meals may
be ordered from outside. Every pris-
oner leaves his carte de viste, which is
fixed, with multitude of others, on
the door Of the cell.
Academic criminal procedure in
Heidelberg is curious. If the city DO
lice apprehend student, the captive
shows his matriculation card. He is
then asked for his address and set free.
but will hear more of the matter, for
the civil authority reports him to the
university. In Heidelberg the Univer-
sity Court try and pass sentence, the
civil power taking no further concern
with the offence. The trial Is very
often conducted in the prisoners alb
sence, and he may have forgotten all
about his little outbreak, until the uni
versity constable appears to conduct
him to prison.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15

There are some curious things In
Central Australia. According to Prof
Baldwin Spencer, Lake Amadeus in
the dry season, is merely a sheet of
salt. Ayers Rock, about five miles
round, rises abruptly from the desert
Formerly vast rivers flowed here. and
the diprotodoton, wombat-like crea-
ture, worthy of its name. and four
times as large as kangaroo, -four
ished on the plains Now there are
hardly any animals to be seen. The
fish live in water holes of the hills nm
til the floods wash them down to the
valleys. At the end of the wet season
the water frogs fill themselves with
water, roll themselves in the mud and
lie low till the next rains, which NAV
not come for two years. Meanwhile
the provident frog, like the "mousie"
OF Robert Burns, may have the misfor-
tune to furnish drink to a thirsty
black. The natives also get water
from the roots of trees. They are in
the totem" stage and revere certain
plants or animals which protect them
Men of one group can only marry wo-
men from another single group.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15
No interruption Permitted,

The newly elected Justice of the
Peace faced the happy pair. In all his
legal experience he had never tackled
so abstruse problem. Nevertheless
he determind to proceed with the cere-
mony to the best of his somewhat rat
tied ability. He went ON with the af-
fair by jerky and occasionally maud
ible degrees. Presently he looked
vacuously around him and hoarsely
inquired
Does any man present know of any
impediment to this union?"
He saw that nobody understood him.
He tried again.
Does any man know of any barr
He was interrupted by the BRIDE
groom.
"Thar's a bar next door," said the
happy man, but, bet yer boots, squire,
thar won't be drop O. lickerin' till
you say hitched!
And the ceremony proceeded.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15
THE GOADING SLUR.
A Cape Cod Life-saver Who Proved
Himself q Hero.

A Cape Cod Life-Saver Who Proved
Himself n Hero.
Circumstances singularly pathetic
surround the loss which befell the crew
of the Peaked Hill station, near Prov
lncetown, Cape Cod. Keeper Atkins
Of this station was one of the true and
trusted veterans of the service. But
one stormy day in winter, after twelve
hours exposure on the beach, exhaust
ed by futile efforts to launch the surf
boat, he and his crew had the mortifi-
cation of seeing the rescue they had
attempted made by crew of
volunteers. 1t mattered not that
these had made no previous ex-
ertions, that they had come fresh
and unwearied upon the scene;
Keeper Atkins and his crew had to
take from the community what, in the
staid, old-fashioned speech of the Cape,
is known as the "goading slur." The
keeper made no attempt to answer his
critics; but gradually, as that season
and the following summer wore away,
settled look of determination became
stamped on his face, and his bearing
took on dignity almost tragic. When,
at the opening of the next season, his
wife, as he left his home for the sta
tion, begged him not to expose him
self to needless danger, he replieds
Before this season is over / will
have wiped out the goading slur.'"
Reaching the station, he called his
crew about him. and informed them
that, no matter at what peril, rescue
would be attempted at every wreck
within the limits of the station.
That winter a storm of almost un-
precedented fury burst over the coast,
and a vessel was swept upon the Peak
ed Hill bars. A surf-boat, launched
by seemingly superhuman power, put
out from shore. But neither despera-
ton, nor even madness, could keep a
boat afloat in such sea: and when,
one after another, those who had
braved 1t were cast upon the beach,
three were dead. One of these was
Keeper Atkins. He had wiped out the
"goading slur."
OF such stuff are the heroes of the
seryice.-Gustave Kobbe in
the Century.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15
WOULD SUIT BALZAC.
Curious Ending to the Life of a wo-
mnn Who Lived iway From Men.

Curious Ending to the Life of a wo-
man Who Lived away From Men.
"In my search for bits of life which
are literatesque. TO use Bagehot's
word" said Caster, gently rotating
the cherry in his gllss, Il seized with
avidity on one that came to me in a
letter from relative in a distant town.
l may say by the way that don't ap-
prove of letters from relatives-they
have to be answered.
The town is the one was born in;
and, set In waste of family affairs
like an oasis, the letter told about the
death Of a woman whom l remember
i never made her acquaintance. No
one ever made her acquaintance. She
was widow and lived with her
splnster daughter, and l believe the
first man to enter their house was the
doctor who attended her in her last
illness. They kept big and savage
dog for protection, and they rarely left
the little yard which surrounded the
house. All the work on the premises
they did themselves, even to cutting
the grass in summer
They kept no servants, and yet they
were not poor. The postman rarely
called. 1t was isolation complete and
apparently desired.
Il was informed by the letter that
the widow died last week, and 1t seems
that she left instructions for funeral.
One of the local ministers was asked
to read the burial service, and my cor
respondent tells me that the daughter
was the only other attendant, except
the pallbearers. Had she relatives at
all or friends anywhere? l do not
know.
THE pallbearers were her trades
men-the butcher, the baker, the
grocer and the coal dealer who had
supplied her wants.
Her tradesmen were the pallbear-
ers,' repeated Caster softly, and then
asked curiously: would not Balzac
have handled that well?"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15

Paris, which is always doing some
thing extraordinary, has devised the
ivory eye as a love token. The en-
blem of the engagement ring as a
pledge of the union of hearts is sinking
into oblivion in the exchange of eyes.
The engagement eye must be an exact
reproduction of the individual eve.
Every model must give his or her ar
tist at least three sittings to get the
right shade and the perfect expression.
Then the lover carries his sweetheart's
eye around with him as a watchful
guard against evil.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15
A Snd Waste.

TITS disheartening," said the pessi.
mist.
What's the matter?" inquired his
friend.
Il was Just thinking that even when
men may earn glory and substantial
reward risking their lives for theii
country. there will be the usual mum.
ber Of bathers who will see how far
out they can swim"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15

A jeweler, bemoanlng the impending
ruin of his business, observes that
nowadays young men pass his windows
without so much as glance and go
off to the bicycle stores to buy their
sweethearts presents, and the worst of
1t is that the silly girls appreciate the
stupid things far more than they do
pretty valuables in the way of rings
and watches. In fact, he states that
he quite expects to hear before long
that it is fashionable for young people
to give away bicycles instead of rings
when plighting their troth.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15
Dreamed Wide Awake.

Tho earnestness with which some
children narrate the things which
make impressions on them leads them
at times to make laughable mistakes
A little girl downtown was telling heI
father about dream. The child was
In high pitch of excitement and the
father said:
Annie, I guess you were asleep
when you dreamed that"
mo, wasn't" she exclaimed. 81
was wide awake"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15

A new departure in festive gatherings
has just been inaugurated by the bach
elor girls of Dayton, Fla. The girls
gave "dove dance" in which they
proved that the presence of men is by
no means indispensable in tripping the
light fantastic, as not man was there
Half the young women wore the Sc
verest of tailor-made black gowns, with
1ow-cut waistcoats, revealing a dazzling
expanse of white linen. The other half
wore the usual feminine cxtravagances.
There were 20 dances on the pro-
gramme, The musicians were women.
and refreshments were served by neat
mattresses. The entire affair was a
brilliant success from start to finish.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15

In addition to the national homes,
there are now twenty-four State
homes. to which the Government pays
s10O per annum for each inmate. 1t is
thought that these twenty-four homes
have population of about $4,000 also,
which makes $4,000 soldiers now being
cared for by the Government. Few
realize what homo the nation pro-
vides for her worthy soldiery.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15

Wederly-"Do you know, my dear, ]
dreamed of your mother last night. ]
thought she was an angel"
Mrs. Wederly-"Indeed! Did she
have the traditional harp and crown?'
Wederly-"Oh, no; l thought I met
her on the street and she told me she
never intended to darken my door
again"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15

Frogs and mice are developing an un-
pardonable desire to steal down pco-
pies throats lately. Rev. ]. II. Kelley,
pastor of a Baptist church In Pasa-
dena, Cal, fell asleep after reading.
and, forgetting to close his mouth, was
nearly choied by a mouse which
strolled in. Luckily he had bicycle,
as well as presence of mind, so that
when he rode to the nearest doctors he
was pronounced out of danger and Il
little later the visitor was dislodged.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15
Very Ind Form.

1T Is part of public mans duty tt
his constituents" remarked the neatly
clad congressman, ito habituapy an
pear well dressed"
Yes" replied his colleague, "but IT.
a bad idea for him to let the impres
sion go abroad that he is sugar coat
cd
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15

The Milliner-Wbat did your hus-
band think of that thirty-dollar hat
l made for you last week?
Mrs. Heighdy-Oh, he just raved
over it-when l told him the price.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15
Age of the Whale.

The age of the whale is calculated
according to the number Of laminae. or
layers, of the whalebone, which in
creases yearly. From these indica-
tions, ages of 300 to $50 years have
been assigned to whales.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15
FREELAND, Pa, AUGUST Is, 1898.
KlonGilIe iIstiInates.

The American Monthly Review has an
estimate of the extent of the exodus to
the Klondike the present season, and
calculates that 100000 people will in.
wade the Alaskan gold fields in 1898. 1t
then adds an estimate as to the cx-
penses and profits of the great rush
after the yellow metal. That each man
should spend on the average 5000 does
not seem to be an Decentralization, but
it reaches the grand total of $GO000 COO
Of this sum it is estimated that the rail
ways will receive $5,0O0,OO0, the traders
and hotel keepers, where outfits are
procured, $30,oOo,OOo, the ship com
panies for transportation $l000O,OO0
and for the transportation of freight
over the passes in Alaska $15,O0O,O0O
These figures are declared to be low
and for necessaries only, so that they
might be increased by 25 or 30 per cent.
SO as to be made to include all the
money that will be paid out in the at
tempt of gold seekers to reach the
1iihS9' OH thc olIleT HlDu, tHere nave
been good many estimates made us to
the amount of gold that it is expected
the Alaskan fields will yield this year,
and they range all the way from $2O,-
100000 to $50,0OO,000. The smaller
amount is regarded by those qualir1ed
to judge as being as much to small as
the larger is considered to be too great
Probably $3O,oOO,oOO would be liberal
estimate. No one has placed the output
at anywhere near the amount that will
be expended by the gold hunters In
reaching the mines. 1t Is not at ali
probable that any such exhibits will
deter anyone with the gold fever from
trying his fortune, for 1t is always "the
other man" that will not strike 1t
rich" Still, the chances are that not
one in fifty will ever come back with
competency that he has dug from the
frozen soil of the inhospitable Klondike
country, while the hardships of the
journey and of the life there will shat
ter the constitution of many n man
who will return an invalid for life, if he
returns alive
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15

81 told my wife I had to stay dowr
town late to get a balance"
What did she say?"
"She said seemed to have lcpt +
before ] got home"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15

A class in economies in western
university has just been struggling
with the problem; How would you
spend $4,000? There are 25 men and
IL women in the class, and they named
IA different objects of expenditure.
Education was declared to be the first
purpose of the majority. Real estate
was the most favored investment.
Twelve students wanted to travel, seven
proposed to spend some money for
books, the same number made an ap-
preparation for pleasure" and four
were willing to devote a share to "char-
ity.' So far as it went it was an in
structive exhibition, and the only thing
needed to complete the revelation of
their characters and training is that
the same students should answer the
correlative question; How would you
prefer to earn $4,000?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15

The making of cigarette cases for
women is becoming paying industry
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-08-15

1t is the trifles of our lives that
makes its history.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-23
roKER PIAEED Br 4 DREAA.
The Player Uncertain IL Fate slipped a Cog
or IL He IL n Chump.

InD EIhyoE uncertain " EAto EINpnou q C0R
or IL He II n Chump.
Brown always swore that he wasn't super
s%titious." said Browns friend. but I've seen
him twist his second finger around his first
when he met q cross-eyed man. and 1 know he
has conscientious scruples against going under
q ladder. The fact that he occasionally gets
up and circles around his chair three times
while playing poker may not prove anything,
but any man who will lay Town a good hand on
account Of o dream Ia open to suspicion. and
that's what Brown did.
1T seems that Brown dreamed ono night OF
having a tilt with Smith. Smith opened a jack
pot. and Brown Just hipped him once for luck.
He held the eight. nine, ten and jack OF clubs.
90 he had chances OF filling either a straight or
q flush. Smith drew one card-in the dream
and Brown. OF course, did likewise. He pulled
the queen Of clubs. Smith seemed TO have bet
tered. too. and they had q nice little tilt. When
Smith called he showed an ace full to kings.
and Brown woke up just as he was raking in
the pile.
well, Il happened that q few evenings after
this Brown and Smith were in the same game.
and after q while Brown opened a pot with aces
and kings. The rest dropped out, all but Smith;
and he raised the limit, Brown made Eood. and
and smith seemed to be pretty well. satisfied
with his draw, Then Brown remembered his
had held In the dream. and he broke out in a
Dreams 70 by contraries,' he thought to
himeelf. and It's a cinch that Smith has got
and Smith came back at him. with q limit raise.
and the limit was pretty high. That blooming
iiSSiHd down his hand with a sicRiy smile Your
straight flush boats my hand he said. How
did you know had a straight fush2' asked
dream. and Smith laughed at to kill himself.
There's your dream hand he said as he laid
It out. The eight nine. ten. and jack OF clubs
were there all right. but the nth card was the
seven OF spades.
"Of course Brown .ewore. but as the matter
stands now he doesn't figure out Just where
he's at. Those two hands came so close to the
dream that he can't settle It In his. mind
he. was a chump. But 1 know what Smith
khinkan
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-23
TO 1MrRoVE FOREST 1AuDs.
The Agricultural Department. to Untrue
and Aid Private OWners.

StAA NAAo
WASHINGTON. Oct. a." Practical assistance
to farmers. lumbermen. and others in handling
forest lands" Is the title OF a circular issued
by the Department OF Agriculture. This cir
cular says that the forest lands are owned by
tho Government Of the United States. by some
OF the States. and by private owners. The pri-
vate forest lands exceed in area those Of the
Federal Government and those OF the States
combined, and their preservation is OF vast
importance to the nation. These and are held
for profit. but as a rule the treatment they re-
celve is calculated to destroy their value rather
than to sustain or increase II; Therefore the
Division OF Forestry has undertaken to pro-
vide a series of practical examples Of improved
treatment OF private forest lands. In which
the interest OF the owner and the protection
and improvement of the forest shall have
equal weight. The object Of the undertaking
Is to show that improved methods OF handling
timber lands are best for the owner as well as
for the forest. by assisting q few owners to try
them and then publishing the. methods and
results for the benefit OF all. The division, as
far as It's appropriation will permit. will aid the
owners OF both large and small holdings on
receipt OF applications stating the situation,
area and character OF the forests for which
working plans are desired.
The plan proposed Is for the purpose Of pro-
noting and increasing the present value and
usefulness to the owner. and to porpetuate and
improve the forest.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-23
GHP,H EXPERIENCES.
Things That Have Happened to . small Dog
Living ut RamSey's, N. j.

There Is o small dog named Gyp living at
Ramsey's. N. j.. and belonging to Jacob
Storms. that has had at one time and another
a lot OF lively experiences; perhaps not as
many as some dogs. but no doubt as many as
any dog in Ramsey's.
Gyp's first experience was with a passing
freight train. which threw him for a con-
siderable distance. He was picked up for dead.
but found to be alive after all. No bones had
been broken. and. carefully treated. It wasn't
very long before he was around again.
With another dog much bigger than himself
Gyp WIS playing one day In q shop that took
fire. Not much damage was done by fire. but
the shop was filled for a time with suffocating
smoke. The big dog was found later lying'on a
bench dead Gyp, down on, the floor. on In one
corner by q knothole. with his noseto the OPEN
Later Gyip fell out Of q second;story window
Lying In the road. one day. and OF about the
same color as the dust, he, was run over by q
team. and one q his fore legs was broken, It
lime e hssIsd ali right and GSD vent about
with sound legs again.
m Sy RlsI sO'f H Fsf { !. a IysIy t saRsgls sPS he ys Sss T tss
pluck and gEit Of e bulldog; but the muskEpats
E SIs ELM must sn 2 l to1s 9 Si5 soS and %p Sara tSE 9iR him T asS
used him up very badly. and poor Gyp had to
be carried home IN q Yheelbarrow. It was
be to chlorofofm him to put hin, out OF his mis-
ssitderedi what he had lived through beiore II
Was Thought that he might come out ell right
pectatlon. He Is around to-day as lively as
ever. and. as sound, barring his teeth and his
tau. he has lost nearly all his teeth and the
but q stump OF 4 few inches. the rest was. gone
when he came 70 Ramsey's. 1t is believed that
Gyp lost his tail by some lively experience, and
that he has had other ytcissitudes besides those
here recorded; but, this, 70 only an account OF
what has happened to him since he mas be-
lonRed to his present owner.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-23

not. yet seen the falls from below. IN feet, !
could notshe sail 70 have seer, them q 7
had buslnesg m Bpffaio IN April. and atteE SGT
Thsre WIS Ice there Yet. fremembsr. and, ell
fhlngs else being, equal. the place wes not par
s ssfaIshEt SR tSs Sohs fsI RSSf bridge gR md BTsy 3 ny q
feelings By tnking q look ~. the gpot yneT3,l
hed seen: ths doomed R ~ e ssr1 ags Ts. s 14r Viz
EIfpr4ssd 10 seS the Old tree trunk to which
the man chung for no many our sthlr t4lng out
been there long When I noticed' a great. com.
motion am6nR, people on the island. and n q
two mem ,baa Fone over the falls some time
during the, night before. and that the elothing
9f one OF them bad been found: a9d evidences
S SIs' b E StsrdIfr Jaw e % tS!sl ISLAND, kiiisa St@.
inmpod Ia himself and followed 4 oyer The
falls, The. names Of the men were Vedder and
lsiIs, 81; b I SIf at q v az if Erie SY Rsil %1ST station ion
Nov. as / said, John said Uncle Joe I
time an e%nforesoi one. Do you wonder thati
am nervous, and q tri1e superstltious about
S s9HRs tsarS WITH . fSEo s shfEe but %li e y eS I sSSSaais
within the mex, day or NO you may bO GER
OF course. 4 was impressed with UNCLE
Joeis story, but / didn't give It much thought
two days later that a Young woman who Tor
several days had been noticed as lingering
4 .eoSt tf Ss 99GIs Capea 81 in s0s the is,G TSsS SESEl SSsePs and md
very Afternoon q the day that Uncle. Joe must
after he actually aid reach there. as alter
ward fearnsdI want 70 tell you his story
well. us I soy. / hadn't seen Uncle joe since
SSSSsn l read ssiI 3 I'M Nm Sso s%s item fem. n EN-: Peter
'Can't be that Uncle Joe has been there