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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07
ON the mississippi River.

The first vessels that ever entered
the Mississippi from the sea were the
French frigates Renommee and Cir
onde, January 9th, 100. These yes.
sells proceeded as far as the Tenesas,
which they reached April II. The
first vessel built on the banks of the
Mississippi by white men was launched
i'll 1871, shortly after the death and
burial of De Soto. The boatmen and
earl y navigators of the present century
were long in danger from Indians and
pirates. A notorious resort for these
was Crows Nest or Stock Island, and
many flatboats and crews were sacrificed
there until these pests were exter.
minated by mob law, in 1909. Foi
the five years following 1922, however,
the destruction by snags on the Ohio
and ssissippi amounted to 81 1862,
500, though the next five years showed
but 1881, 900 loss from the same cause.
In 1912 there were 450 steamboats, or
the Mississippi and its tributaries
with an average burden of 200 IONS
and an aggregate value of 81, 200, 600.
In operating these boats about 35,,
$50 persons were employed. The
average value of the products carried
each season was something like 5000,
600, or an aggregate of 10000, 900 W
to 1912
Previous to the adoption of steam
navigation the whole commerce from
New Orleans to the upper country
was carried in about twenty barges,
averaging 100 tons each and making
but one trip a year. There were moi
over $50 keel boats on the upper Ohio
carrying about thirty tons each and
making the trip from Pittsburg tc
Louisville and back in two months, oil
about three voyages season. From
1911 TO 1850 576 boats were lost
valued at over $7,000,00O. In 235
cases the killed and wounded aggre
gated 1860 The average age of al
the boats lost was five years. From
1916 to 1871 there were 80 explosions
involving loss of life in each varying
from l to 1640. 0.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07

Will Morrisey and Henry Jones re-
turned to Harper Springs, Fla, re-
Gently from trip down the bay, hav-
ing been imprisoned on a sand key for
nearly three days by sharks. They
left here nearly week ago on hunt
ing and fishing trip. The second day
they succeeded in harpooning q big
shark and after half an hours work
got him close to the boat. One of the
boys hit him with an AK and his blood
dyed the water, calling up score Of
sharks from all directions.
The men saw they were in trouble
and they Immediately set sail and tried
to get away. The sharks followed
them and began attacking the boat.
One of them leaped out of the water
and fell across it, crushing it. By this
time the boat was within few rods
of Mud Island, small sandbed of
about an acre in extent. The men
finally got on the key, narrowly escap-
ing the ferocious sharks. Their boat
drifted near the land and they were
enabled to secure their provisions
from the water.
During the night mosquitoes made
life miserable for them. An inspection
early in the morning showed that they
were besieged. as they were surround
ed by scores of sharks. They swan
around on all sides. The men set up
an oar with shirt tied to it as dis
tress signal, but it was not until the
second day that the crew of fishing
schooner saw them and came to their
rescue. AS the schooner came to the
land the sharks made an attack on the
boat, but the sailors had several Win
chesters and they piled a merry war
for n few moments, shooting eight of
the big sharks, the others being fright
ened away.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07
SEED SOWING
Sow the seed OF soothing kindness,
no Jic,,al tbn pIppp, anI ,o;n.

Sow the seed OF soothing kindness,
To dispel the gloom and pain;
That DER earth good will may reign;
Sow upon a soil prolific,
Ihat shall bear an hundredfold,
choking out the thorns and briers,
turning weeds TO stalks OF gold.
hcorn thou not, to sow, m moreover,
oh the leidS less rich IN loan;
ehoulI II Dear not many measures
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL,

The Polar currents contain less sal;
than those from the Equator.
There are 1000 muscles in tn,
body of a caterpillar, and the eye of
dragoon fly contains $4,000 polished
lenses.
An international scientific associa
tion was proposed at the meeting o.
the British Association in Canada in
1884, and it is now suggested that the
year 1900 would be an appropriate
time to organize such society.
Some unfortunates, we are told bg
M. PHILIPPE Tissie, are "born tired
in literal sense. The condition Il
one of nervous debility transmitted b,
mother to her offspring as a result O
her own fatigue or exhaustion-a kind
of poisoning of the child through th,
vitiated blood of the parent.
Some scientists think that tn,
earth's interior is composed of white
hot molten matter. Others are of tn.
opinion that the pressure is so grea,
that all substances have been con
densed beyond our powers of concep,
tion. DR.. Young goes SO far as to sa,
that block of steel ten feet squar,
would be pressed into a block only
two feet square if taken 1000 miles be
low the earth's surface.
DIR. Howard, the new Secretary @,
the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, writing of ths
manner in which seeds are carried to
great distances by birds, recited an
experience of Darwin which had
curious result. Adhering to the les
Of wounded partridge, Darwin found
a ball of earth weighing six and hall
ounces. From the seeds contained in
this ball he raised thirty-two plants
belonging to five distinct species.
The microbes of fevers may be scat
tered, Professor Charles Tichborne be-
lieves, in dews from sewers. AS the
sewer water is usually two or three
degrees warmer than the cold air OF
certain hours of the night, the watery
Fapor rising through traps may be
frequently condensed, when each parti
,le of dew is liable to become raft op
which microbes may be carried TO,
miles, to be finally deposited wherever
The dew is dissipated-perhaps in
lwelling reached through warm
shaft.
The phosphorescent lamp on which
Puluj, an Austrian physicist, has been
1T work for many years, has a bulb
much like that of the ordinary incan,
descent lamp, with electrodes of alum
mum wire extending directly through
the wall of the bulb. The negative
pole terminates in small disc. A
small square sheet of mica, coated
With sulphide of calcium, hangs from
ihe lamp globe and faces the disc.
When either one or both poles are
connected to an induction coil or plate
electric machine stream of radiant
electricity isrefected from the disc to
ihe mica, causing the latter to glow
with brilliant phosphorescence.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07
START OF ONE MILLIONAIRE.
Earned His First Ten Dollars Throwing n
Circus Hercules.

clad caught my train that night, :"
laughed the man who had nothing to
do for quarter of century but sit
and watch pine trees grow TO swell his
bank account, 81 would probably be a
farmer now, trying to raise mortgage
and few other things. [ had gone
to little town in lower Wisconsin to
see colt there that man wanted to
sell me. | was good Judge of stock
and shrewd on trade, but n greener
country lad never broke into a town.
L would have walked back to the farm
after / found myself too late for the
train, but / saw handbill ANNOUNCE
ing n show that night, and couldn't re-
sist the temptation to see it, though it
did cost a quarter.
''In my hilaric is appreciation was
more of an entertainment than they
had on the stage, especially as [ was
utterly oblivious to the fact that I did
not look like any one else in the audi
ence. Toward the end huge fellow
came out, tossed cannon Tails and lift
ed heavy weights. After this showing
of his prowess he offered $40 to any
one whom he could not throw inside
of two minutes. L was the crack
wrestler in all our section, though
none knew it, and / felt rs thong the
challenge was aimed directly at me. I
turned hot and cold during few sec
onds of intense silence. Then I
sprang up, and rs I came out of my
old blouse, shouted I'll go you,
b'gosh.' There was roar of laugh
ter, and then some of those about me
urged me not to go up there and have
my neck broken. But one old man
told me to go in. 1t was tough job,
but L finally threw the giant almost
through the floor with a hiplock.
There was little hesitancy about Civ
ing me the $40, but the crowd shout
ed till / got it. Then the old man
took me home with him, and in week
l had charge of all the teams in his
lumber camps. In time became
partner, and he cleared the way to
make me rich. That was really o
match for a million. Detroit Free
Press
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07
However Mr.. John Fox, Jr., g,

However Mr.. John Fox, Jr., may
seem to maintain that Kentucky-bar-
ring some counties in the mountains
is very much like other civilized
districts, with differences in favor OF
Kentucky, things do happen down
there that surprise persons who are
not centaurs or hneal descendants OF
Daniel Boone, writes z. S. Martin, in
Harper's Weekly. The ardor with
which eminent Kentucklans enter into
disputes is always somewhat astonish-
ing to effete Americans in other States.
Where else could have developed such
difference as lately obtained as tc
which of two Kentucky ladies should
christen the battleship Kentucky? II
was settled finally, but not until the
din of it had penetrated the extreme
confines of the Union. How painful
it all was; Miss Richardson claiming,
under a patent from Secretary Her.
bert; that gentleman's embarrassed
disclaimer; and Major Baruk Thomas s
lamentation over the loss of quart OF
Dan Swiggert 1855 whisky, conse.
Grated by him to patriotic uses, and
believed to have been absorbed by the
Cleveland administration! Eheu
Alas! Why has Kentucky no Hans
Breitmann to put its epics into verse;
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07

There appears to the New York Com
mercial Advertiser ''to be no reason
for the assertion that the Cuban insur'
gents have violated the rules of war II
the reported execution of Colonel Ruiz,
That officer of the enemy was giyer
every opportunity to avoid fate upon
which he rushed with blind foolhardi,
ness. His correspondence with his
Cuban friend, Colonel Aranguren,
whose reported execution is now de-
MED, carried to him exact knowledge
of the general order condemning t 4.
death all emissaries bearing tEs pro
posal to accept autonomy. When Ruiz
persisted, his friend sent back to him
the order of General Rodriguez, IF he
offers autonomy, do your duty, accom-,
rAnied by the warning that if the pro,
posed interview was confined to .
friendly chat, or to the independence
of Cuba, all would be well; but If not
Tor Gods sake do not come Still
&uiz persisted, and when he met hi,
friend and pronounced the fatal wor6
autonomy he condemned himself tt
death. There was no way to evade his
execution, else the discipline of the
entire Cuban army would have beer
destroyed"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07

Mamma Ito Tiny Tot, who wants to
deprive her younger brother of a
delicacy they have both set their
hearts on)-"No, darling, you must
let baby have it now, and when he
grows up, and you are young lady,
he will have to give way to you"
Tiny Tot-"Is that why papa al
ways has to do as you want, mummy"
Punch.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07
Conversation.

"He will come tonight" unused
Beryl.
With sigh, she drew back the cur
tains and gazed out into the darkling
dusk; for her fathers house was built
with view to convenience, and she
could do that"
"What shall I say to him?"
The horse show was no more; the
siz-day bicycle race was thing of the
past.
She did not understand football.
There was nothing left but the
weather and currency reform. DE
troit Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07

Boston Conductor-"Fare, please. "
Passenger-"What is the fare?"
Conductor-"It is the tariff OF tax
levied by the corporation owning and
controlling the charter and franchise
of this treetcar line on those persons
who avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity afforded them by the company
to secure more rapid and agreeable
transportation than pedal locomotion. "
Passenger-''How much is the fare?''
Conductor-"Five cents, please. y
Detroit Free Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07

Mr.. Harl NJ. Flatte--''And this is
my music roomr'
Visitor lin amazement) t)-'Music
room! Why-er-isn't it-er-rather
peculiar?"
Mr.. Harl M. Flatte-"Yes; slightly.
You see, when L close the door it is
hermetically sealed. When the anna
teur musicians in the neighboring
flats commence hammering on their
pianos and blowing on their cornets
retire here, shut the door and am safe. :"
Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07
A New Problem in Law.

A Dumb prisoner who can't read OF
write is providing G delicate problem
in law for one of the London courts.
He can plead neither guilty nor no,
guilty, and is unable to commuhius.s
with his solicitor, which is one Of hi,
privileges. So the question is raised
whether special act of Parliament
will be required.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07

A. D. Campbell and Conner Davies,
Northern Kansas editors, are each
minus leg, Campbell the right and
Davies the left. When one buys a
pair of shoes he sends the odd shoe to
the other, both wearing the same size.
Saturday each presented the other
with new shoe as Christmas pres.
ent.-Topeka telegram to the Chicago
Chronicle. %S
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07
n Fine Recommendation.

Her Father-''How do you know
you love my daughter? You've only
been acquainted few weeks"
The Suitor-"That is true; but I
see that you've just negotiated n loan
Of $1,000, 900. A man who can do
that is the kind of person L want for
a father-in- law. Chicago News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07
New York's First Water Supply.

In 1898 the best drinking water wa.s
procured at the Tea Water well. This
well received its name from the fact
that it was the best to use in making
tea. 1t was twenty feet deep and four
feet in diameter. The average daily
supply was 14,300 gallons. In hot
weather as many as 2S,0S gallons a
day were sometimes used. New York
Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07

Old Lady-"You said the train
that L should take leaves at 1890,
didn't you?"
Booking Clerk madam; and
[ think I've told you that about ten
times already"
Old Lady-"Yes, "I know you
have; but my little nephew says he
likes to hear you talk. Tit Bits.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07

Her own bitter cry awakens Hilda,
and she starts up trembling in every
limb, to find that the lace scarf around
her throat had caught in the wicker
chair, which perhaps accounted for
the choking sensation of her dream.
The next day the bell of the season
said Eyes" to Jack Armstrong, and
sealed with two loving lips the death
warrant of the heartless coquette.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07

'Is your town booming out there in
the mining district, Slicks?"
'I should say so. It's more won
derful than magic. L pitched my
tent in a hole in the ground one even
ing and when I walked up was in the
cellar of union depot. Detroit
Free Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07
The Town Council of Mankato, Kan

The Town Council of Mank alto, Kan,
may not be unmusical, but it draws
the line at some tunes. In 1894 it i'm
posed'a fine of fifty cents on every per-
son heard whistling or singing CATER
the Ball." and now an ordinance has
been introduced to silence ga Hot
Time in the Old Town Tonight"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

When a Girls Grown Up-A Solution of
the Problem-Not Hopeless Case
His Line-Putting Her Wraps
Fine Recommendation, Etc, Etc.
She has ceased to believe there's a RAN in
the moon,
But she can't get out of her head
The old idea that there is one
In hiding under the bed.
Chicago News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07

Mamie (singing)-''My ..mother was
lady"
Aggie (interrupting)-"Aw, shut
upi so wuz mo fadder."
Mamie-'tWotcher givin' me?"
lAggie-'Dat's dead right-he wuz
de bearded lady in dime musee fer
tree years. Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07
Her Assumed Name

Zim lin deep whisper)- There gor5
a woman who is living under an S.
sumed name"
Fam Observation-Disclosures why,
that's Mrs. Brownl"
Zim-"I know it." Her name was
Jones before she was married."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07
His Line.

Miss Wabash-"Your friend who
has just left us is something of a
pessimist, imagine"
Miss Halsted-"In he isn't.
He's an optician, and he has the
cream of the West Side trade. Chi
cago News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07

He -''I shall never marry until I
meet a woman who is my exact op-
posite, mentally"
She-"Why don't you ask Misc
Floyd? She is considered one of the
most intellectual girls in town. -
Truth.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07

She (smiling)-'Your face is too
near to mine"
He-'It's two inches away, and
that's as bad as thousand miles.
She (poutingly)-"It wouldn't be
for some men," "-Harlem Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07

A Kansas City woman who speaks
ceelingly on the subject says that the
heaviest work any woman ever under
took was light housekeeping.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07

The estimated total candle power Of
oil the electric lamps used in New
York City is placed at $4,000, 900.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07
A Solution of the Problem.

"No, Willie, DEAR" said mamma,
mo more cake tonight. Don't you
know you cannot sleep well on a fun
stomach?"
"Well," replied Wellie, 81 can sleep
on my back"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07
TIE SIXTH
COMMANDMENT

) il nothing to you
that my whole
happiness lies at
your mercy? Am
L only one more
OF the many you
have tlirted with,
and then smiled
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07

"Where was she now? Who were
those?" she asked one standing beside
her.
'"They are the souls OF Ske dead
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07

eyes, she knows that young face
again. He had been one Of her boy
ish suitors, whom she had firted with
and then laughed ct. He is holding
dicebox now in his shaking hand, and
on that diceboX is written one word
'Hilda. An! who is that drunken
man glaring at her with bloodshot
eyes? He lifts glass of spirits, and
on that glass is engraved one word
'Hilda.'
Ah!poor wife of loveless marriage,
made by the husband in moment of
pique. Her tears as they fall form
one word-"Hilda.
Yet another face she sees-the face
of last years Irritation. 1t is pale
with the anguish of death, and ON the
pistol by his side is stamped one word
--"Hilda. "
Then the girl falls at the feet of the
angel with an exceeding bitter cry.
II am indeed a murderess."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-07

waiting till the day dawns and the
golden gates are opened"
'rhen L must be dead, and those
must be the gates of heaven, that
beautiful place used to like reading
about when a child. 1 will join the
throng and go in with them"
And when the day dawned she also
pressed forward towards those golden
gates, guarded by angels, but though
many passed through, more were
turned away. At last only Hilda and
another were left That other was a
broken hearted woman, and the girl
shrunk back with loathing when she
saw it was Mrs. Chesterl As she re-
coiled an angel beckoned to the weep
ing woman, and she beheld her no
more. But now the gates were clos
ing. Hilda sprang forward and
stretched out her hands to those
white robed guardians.
"You have forgotten me-"
''There is no forgetting here, came
the answer.
Then why do you not let me
through?"
Your sins expel you"
'My sins! Ny sins What sins
have L committed? What command
ment have L broken?" questioned the
girl, with the surprise of self-con-
yinced innocence.
'"The sixth commandment. Thou
shalt do no murder
Hilda shrank back in horror, amaze
ment, Gnger.
81 commit murder! I, who could
never bear to see even bird shot"
eyes, you are murderess," an
swered the angel, sternly. "You
who recoiled from that woman are
much more guilty. She, in great
temptation, in great provocation killed
but mortal bodies; you, in mere vani-
ty, in mere idleness, have killed i'm
mortal souls! Thinkest thou there is
no margin to a commandment. Know
you not that though the text be brief,
yet does it overflow beyond the limits
of words on the broad margin of mean
ing labelling unwritten sins, and you
have broken a marginal command
ment, Thou shalt do no murder ,"
'But L have committed no murder, "
reiterate the trembling girl.
"Behold and see," aud the angel
passed his hand over the eyes of the
belle of the London season.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-08-28
THE MACON ,JVRiLTT

IN October next the city Of Macon. Ca,
viii celebrate the seventy-ifth anniver-
sary Of its birth The Macon Carnival
Association has been organized for the
purpose OF celebrating the interesting
event as It deserves and as the city Of
Macon is now enjoying a season Of great
prosperity-the diamond jubilee VIII be on
occasion CT great rejoicing and Of gene
raj thanksgiving
We have never had the pleasure Of
visiting Macon, but we have been read
ing the Macon Telegraph for a number
Of years and have kept ourselves in
formed as 10 the progress OF the city.
We have watched with peculiar interest
the conduct of the Telegraph, Macon's
leading daily paper, which is ever alive
10 the best interests OF the people that
fl represents. and which Is very jealous
Of tho welfare and prosperity of Macon.
In 1926 when almost every newspaper
I'm Georgia yielded to the influence of the
silver sentiment our Macon contempor-
afv stood out boldly and bravely for the
gold standard and refused TO bow the
knee 10 the silver idol but stood up for
its convictions.
II was declared in Macon. as II was
declared in Richmond ana elsewhere.
that there could be no prosperity unti
The minis Of the country should be open
ed TO the free coinage Of silver. and our
Macon contemporary was denounced, as
the Richmond Times. was denounced. as
the enemy Of the plain people and trait
or to IFS continually But tho Telegraph
was not moved. and we are gratihed TO
know that il has survived the war ana
that It now has the respect and the pat
ronage Of a splendid constituency.
Macon Is now TO rejoice in its pros
perity and the Telegraph, which has
done az much as any one instrumental
iv TO build up the city and 70 bring
nbout the prosperity which It now enjoys.
will very greatly rejoice that It has done
It's duty brovoly and has lived to see
the day Of its splendid vlDdieaton. We
extend our hearty congratulations TO The
Macon Telegraph, but we feel moro Ike
| congratulating the people OF Macon Tor
| the possession Of such paper