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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29
The Old Jac,sy of the Navy.

The ancient Jacky has nearly gone
out of the navy along with the
smooth-bore guns and the running rig
ging. Not wholly gone, because we
still retain some of the old ships,
mainly for sentimental reasons, on
the navy list; and few Of the new
gunboats are provided with sails, be-
cause there are Tires when a man-of-
war can cruise just as well under can
vas as under steam, and so save money
for her owners. Then, besides, we
still cling to the old Jacky education.
We teach knotting and splicing ropes,
and loosing andreeting and furling sail,
and getting up and down yards and
fitting rigging, to the young enlisted
apprentices, With the same gravity and
insistence that We enforce this o5so-
lescent knowledge upon their future
commanders at Annapolis. We sim
ply caunot get rid of the idea that the
real difference between the sailormar
and the land-lubber is, that the former
has this information stored away
somewhere in his noddle and the lat
ter has not, regardless of the fact tha
it may be quite as useless for all prac
~tical purposes to the one as to tht
other. New York Independent.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29
Danger in Poaching.

No offenders against the British law
are punished so severely as the poacher.
The fields and the woods of all Eng.
land are now overrun with game. Hares
are as plentiful as flies almost, while
partridges, pheasants and the like are
SO numerous as to be in some places
actual pests. Yet they are not for the
laborer, or the plowman, or the rus
tic of low degree. Should some poor
cottager, with larder lean and pocket
empty, steal out at nightfall to a spot
where he knew hares were feeding,
and making his way through q field
gate or through some we'll known open.
ing in the hedge, fire and kill single
hare, he makes himself liable to prose.
cution for trespass, for carrying gun
without license, and for having game
in his possession unlawfully. If it
should happen that he is near the
highway when the shot is fred, he is
also liable to be prosecuted on the
charge of firing a gun in proximity to
the public road. If he is arrested
there is no escape from long imprison-
ment in the jail.
1t is this stigma that turned poach-
ing over to the moral delinquents Of
the parish, although the amateur
poacher" is still to be found in every
observation-disclosures sport-loving rus
tic of good name and standing from
whom the rigor of the law and the dis
grace that would follow detection have
failed to drive the fascination of n
night spent among the rabbit runs and
hare paths. The amateur poacher is
an eager spirit, and he argues that a
law which declares that the love of ad-
venture in the field and genius for
woodcraft are criminal when possessed
by those unfavored by birth or for
tune, is law against higher law of
nature, and one against which it is no
crime to wage war.-New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

From st. Petersburg come poor ac-
counts of the health of the Empress
OF Russia. Very little is said about 1t,
as the Tsar greatly objects to all ref
erences to the subject; but, as mat
ter Of fact, there has been cause for
some anxiety about the empress for
some time past. She has never been
very robust, and the attack of meas
les from which she suffered early in
the winter has left her painfully weak.
An English visitor, writing from Rus
sia, says: "The Tsaritza looks SO fra
gile that 1t seems scarcely possible
that she can be the mother of the two
exceedingly fat babies to whom she is
SO passionately devoted"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

Governor was satisfied that the haunts
were made known, and no one else
inquired very closely into the matter.
On the return of the expedition
Tacon was about to pay to Captain
Marti the promised reward, when the
latter interrupted him with peculiar
proposition. He said he was i'm
n1ensely wealthy, and cared not for
money, while the treasury of Cuba
was poor. He proposed that, instead
of the reward, to him should be
granted monopoly of the fish trade
OF Havana, and that he be permitted
to employ his contrabandists as fish
ermen. In the event of such a grant
he promised to build the finest fish
market in the world, and at the end
of twenty-five years to return his
privilege Of monopoly and the fish
market to the Government.
Tacon accepted the proposition
seeing in it his opportunity to hold
control over Marti. And for quarter
Of century the Havana market was
supplied with the finest of fish caught
by smugglers, absolutely safe from
the law in all that they did.
This monopoly filled to overaowina
the already well-supplied purse OF
Marti, and he looked about him for
another investment for his money. He
conceived the idea of theatre mon
opoly, somewhat on the plan of his
fish market. He communicated with
Tacon, who granted him the privilege
for twenty years, on condition that
the building be made the largest OF
the kind in the world and named
Tacon.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29


listed in Company A, of the Twenty "irth
Wisconsin Volunteers. In the Army of the
Potomac our hero saw much fighting, cam
paigning in the Shenandoah Valley.
In the first days fighting at the battle OF
Gettysburg, Schifeneder received a
wound in the right side, which afterward
caused him much trouble. With portion
of his regiment he was captured and i'm
prisoned at Bell Island and Andersonvilc
and afterward exchanged. He returned t.
his regiment, which was transferred to the
army OF General Sherman, and marched
with him through Georgia to the sea.
In this campaign Mr.. Schiffeneder's old
wound began to trouble BIN and he was
sent to the hospital and then home. He
had also contracted catarrh OF the stomach
and found no relief for years.
81 happened to read an account OF Dr.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People about
q year ago" he said, "and thought that
they might be good for my trouble. con-
cluded to try them. l bought one box ana
began to take them according to directions
They gave me great relief. After finishing
that box l bought another, and when had
taken the pills l felt that l was cured.
recovered my appetite and ate heartily. l
can testify to the good the pills did me-"
Mr.. Schiffeneder is prominent Grand
Army man in Chicago, whittier he moved
some years ago with his family.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29
Eyeglasses and Spectacles,

"You say you never wore spec
tacles?" said the near-sighted man.
"Well, if you ever put on pair you'll
never wear anything else. I wore
eyeglasses for years. 1 thought they
looked better on me, and then L i'm
agined that they were more conven.
lent; that L could take them off and
put them on more readily and all that.
But after wearing pair of spectacles
once for few days-I had put them
on, as thought at first, temporarily
I discovered that spectacles were
the glasses for comfort.
'"There are, to be sure, people who
do not wear glasses all the, time, bu.
only for reading or writing, and so on,
to whom eyeglasses may be more con-
yenient; and then I believe that eye
glasses are made nowadays that have
more scientifically adjusted grips, and
all that sort of thing; but tell you
that the thing for real comfort is
spectacles. Now York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29
BABY FOR A tHURcH's MASCOT.
Wee Bit of Humanity Cuts Queer Capers
in the Pulpit.


| in the Pulpit.
Central Methodist Church, of Mem.
phis, Tenn, has mascot. Now "a
mascot is mascot" to begin with, but
this particular mascot is wee tot of
three, probably four summers. She
is just little dot of humanity that be.
longs to everybody and to nobody.
She is no higher than the chancel rail,
but makes herself at home in the big
pulpit-chairs, in the pews, on the or
ganist's seat, or any place where it
suits her fancy to be. Her name is
nellie, and that is all any one knows.
She goes to Sunday school and to
church, and visits the neighbors with
the freedom of a Westerner who scorns
restraints and formalities. The people
in the neighborhood do not take kind
ly to her informal visits, but the Rev.
DR.. and Mrs. w. +. Hammer, the pas
tor and his wife, receive the little
stranger and treat her with much con-
sideration. The result is she is very
fond OF them, and shows her apprecia-
tion in one very promising way. Little
as she is, she could give an "old salt"
some points on the modern methods
OF swearing, but DR.. Hammer has told
her it is not nice to swear, and she
religiously refralns from swearing
when in his presence, and is his most
attentive listener during the sermon.
She may deliberately enter the pulpit
and climb up into one of the pulpit
chairs or sit on the steps of the chan
eel or stand on the chancel cushion
and rest her little chin in her hands
while her elbows rest ON the rail and
she gazes intently at the speaker dur
ing half the service, but she hears
every word he says. The other day
she took her seat in the gallery and
scattered rose leaves on the congrega-
ton below. She horrifes the stald and
formal members of the congregation,
and more than one has tried to restrain
her and keep her in dignifed bounds,
| but they might as we'll have tried to
have restrained the sparrows of old
that built their nests in the affairs, told
of in the Psalms. Like the average
woman, "when she wills she will, and
there is an end Of it."
nellie is brown-haired maiden
whose straight locks her mother keeps
braided in two tiny braids down her
back, or rather her neck. She is neat
ly dressed, and is sun-browned until
she is "brown as berry" She speaks
with foreign accent, leading those
who do not know her parents to be-
lieve she is either a descendant of the
American aborigines or of some Euro
pean nations, OF may be of the isles Of
the sea-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

By one OF those strange contradic-
tions which are not tunfrequentin such
characters as Bismarck, this great
apostle of supreme and unquestioned
authority was always singularly in
tolerant of every kind of authority
himself. His Saxon Boswell, DR..
Moritz Busch, has chronicled with adj
miring minuteness the first flashes of
that naughty and indomitable spirit
which was one day to trample in the
dust the pride of Austria and of
France. Being called to account while
student at Gottingen for some breach
of university rules, Bismarck swag-
gered into the presence of the horri
fed President, booted and spurred,
with rakish student cap and a sorely-
stained velvet jacket, an enormous
bulldog at his heels, and cudgel
worthy of Donnybrook Fair under his
arm. Later on, not long after he had
entered the Civil Service, superior
official to whom he had to make re-
port began to drum carelessly on the
window pane with his fingers while
Bismarck was speaking. The naughty
"Junker," determined not to be out
done, deliberately walked to the other
window and struck up a louder tune
upon it. On another occasion, being
kept waiting for considerable time
by one of these little great men, and
then curtly asked what he wanted, the
future Chancellor sternly replied, 81
came to ask for leave, but nov | re-
quest my dismissal Such sallies as
these, coupled with his almost boyisb
love of athletic feats, his reckless ex-
posure of himself to all weathers, and
his wild gallops across country at the
imminent risk OF his neck, earned him
the nickname of "Mad Bismarck"
and made many prim old gentlemen
OF the Metternich school shake their
empty heads over him as wild,
harum -scarum lad who would come to
no good. New York Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29
EUGENE AT COMPIEGNE.


Woman In Her Prime.
Much has been said and written
about this beautiful and fascinating
woman, but, however great the praises
bestowed, they have never, to my
mind, been exaggerated, says the Corn
hill Magazine. 1t would be ossible,
no doubt, to find more perfectly fault
less features, even more beautiful eyes
and complexion, but l have never seen
the woman who united SO many per-
fections. The creamy luster Of the
skin, the expression Of those tender
and sympathetic eyes, the radiant
smile, the glorious mass Of quite gold
en- hair, the slope of the graceful shoul-
ders, all these charms, enhanced by q
toilet as exquisite as Partisan taste
could conceive, united to make a per-
fection that seemed to eclipse and ut
terly to destroy the beauty OF every
other woman present, although there
were many celebrities of all nations
present who were famed, and justly
famed. for the gifts that Venus had be-
slowed upon them. But yet the en-
press was not just now what the
French call en- beaute. for the event
30 deeply interesting to France, so i'm
portant to the imperial pair concerned,
was not very far distant, and great
care was needed, although the imperial
lady herself somewhat pooh-poohed
many extra precautions; at any rate,
she never allowed herself to show or
professed to feel any unusual fatigue.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29
Helping Bannrupts to Begin Afresn,

The bill which became law In the
closing hours of Congress was COM
promise on the Nelson bill in the SEN
ate, and the Torrey bill in the House.
1t is the result of an agitation among
business men Of more than fifteen
years duration. The bill is quite Hb-
eral in its provisions, especially on the
terms of discharge. 1t is confidently
believed that this legislation will en-
able from 100000 to 100000 bankrupts
to fully re-establish themselves.
Furthermore, it will enable manufac-
turers and merchants to secure a fair
division of their debtors property, and
go long way toward preventing en-
pezzlement, fraud, and useless waste
of valuable property. 1t will be Of
great assistance to the bankrupt who,
though honest, has been forced to the
wall.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29
"Pourinr Oil on Troubled Waters" :"

Lieutenant Charles M. McCarteney
writes an article on "Ocean Storms"
for st. Nicholas. In describing the
great hurricane off Nova Scotia on
August 80, 1891, Lieutenant Mozart
eney says:
The Indiana was kept dry by the
dripping of oil from both bows; and
although tremendous seas were run
ming and breaking, they could not
come on board.
This was certainly a most practical
illustration of the old saying as to the
pouring of oil on troubled waters"-
proverb as old as the Bible, but
only very recently applied, thanks to
the photographic Office of the United
States, and now very generally fol-
lowed by seamen the world over. 1t
was an American also (Redfeld) who
first thoroughly found out and ex-
planned the true character OF these re-
volving storms, and to him all seamen
are forever indebted.
In using oil, it is astonishing how
small a quantity will sufice-iust a
quart or two, in bag stuffed with
oakum, hung over the bows, and al
lowed to drip, drop by drop, on the
sea, where it spreads out in thin,
greasy film over the surface of the
water. Over the film the wind slips,
as it were, and has no power to bank
the water up into waves which would
break over the ship. Hundreds of re-
ports are on file in the office, attesting
the marvellous results of this simple
agent of safety.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29
How's This ?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any Gaze of Catarrh that cannot b. cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
It. j. CHENEY & Co., Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known f. j. Che
ney Tor the last 10 years. and believe him per-
fectly honorable in all business ttansactions
and financially able to carry out any obliga-
tion m de by their firm.
WEST e. TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
Oho.
WALDING, KINNAN G. MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Price, T5c. per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29
al Feel Like q New Person."
Mrs. GEO. LEACH,

Mrs. GEO. LEACH,
1909 Belle ST., Alton, ILL.,, writes:
Before began to take your Vege-
table Compound / was great sufferer
from womb trouble. Menses would ap-
pear two and three times in a month,
causing me to be so weak could not
stand. Icould neither sleep nor eat, and
looked SO badly my friends hardly
knew me.
81 took doctors medicine but did not
derive much benefit from it. My drug
gist gave me one of your little books,
and after reading it l decided to try
Lydia L. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. feel like new person. 1
would not give your Compound for all
the doctors medicine in the world. I
can not praise it enough"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

A Frenchman applied to local ON.
cial for passport to visit Klatterwing.
schen, in Switzerland. The fellow, who
was not fellow Of any geographical
society, struggled in vain with the
spelling Of the places name. Then,
unwilling to confess this difficulty, h,
blandly added: Wouldn't you as liz
visit some other town ?''-Judy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

Clean blood means a clean skin. Nc
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar'
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all inn
Danish pmples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug.
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, l0c, Csc, SOC.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29
Ever Have a Dog Bother You

When riding wheel, making you wonder for
fall and broken neck2 Wouldn't you have
given a small farm just then for some means
of driving off the beast? A few drops of am
monia shot from Liquid Pistol would do it
effectually and still not permanently injure
the animal Such pistols sent postpaid for
fifty cents in stamps by New York Union
Every bicyclist at times wishes he had one
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

Earthenware railroad ties, the in
vention OF japanese, have hetn re-
Gently experimental with at Shin
basti Station, Japan. Fairly good re
sults were obtained, and it is said the
Increased cost will be more than com
naasated by their freedom from decay
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29
Dante in Chinese,

At a recent lecture delivered in Nuhl.
hansen, Germany, missionary named
Eichler read extracts from q Chinese
book of the eleventh century which
presents some striking points of re-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

A new sunbonnet, sort Of poke
headgear, has been designed and tried
on a thousand camels. Out of these
animals, which have marched all the
way from Assout, only one animal
died from the effects of the sun, and
that was camel which had lost its
hat
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29
Only Case on Record.

Through all his passionate pleadlngs
she sat absolutely unmoved. 1t was
the first instance ever noted where
woman sat thus who had secured pos
session of q piazza rocker.-Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

When the snake sheds his skin,
which occurs frequently as often as
every four or five weeks the skin of the
eye comes off with the rest. Translu-
cent in most parts, the skin over the
snakes eye is perfectly transparent.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

Dent Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Awsy.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag.
netic full OF life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-
Bac, the wonder-worlSer. that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, soc or 81. Cure guaran.
teed Booklet and sample free Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

Mr.. L. H. Pray, of North Conway,
N. H., has United States note for the
sum of $50 which was issued May 10,
1775, and the printing and signatures
are all legible.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

The carrier pigeon was in use by the
state Department of the Ottoman EN-
pire as early as the fourteenth CEN
tury.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

Everybody knows that Dobbins' Electric
Soap is the best in the world, and for % years
II has sold at the highest price. Its price L.
now cents, same as common brown soap.
Bars full size and quality. Order of grocer. ADJ
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

1t is said that in some of the farm
ing districts of China pigs are har-
messed to small wagons and made to
draw them.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

According to oculists. poor window
glass is responsible for eye strain, on
account of the faulty refraction.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

Valuable discoveries of amber have
been made in British Columbia, which,
it is claimed, will be able to supply the
pipemakers of the world with amber
for 100 years.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

From the Chicago Times-Herd,d.

From, the Chicago Times Herald.
The feeling of admiration for heroes OF
war seems to be innate in the human heart,
and is brought to the surface as the oppor-
tuh ty and object for such hero worship
presents itself.
Among those who proved their heroism
during our Civil War was A. Schifreneder,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29


of 16i Sedg-
W lex street,
Chicago. He
is an Austrian
bybirth h, came
to America at
t b g a ge OF
t W en- t y and
soon became
an American
citi ze n. H.
was living IL
Mil W a u Ike ;
when the call
for volu 4 =
GERS came,
early in 1862,
q n d Ii o
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

At Russian railway stations griev.
ance books are kept in which passeng-
ers may enter complaints. The books
are sent to the central Office once a
month and all complaints investigated.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces infiamm4
Gon, allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c. a bottla
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

The silkworm is liable to over one
hundred diseases.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

We think Pisos Cure for Consumption is
the only medicine for Coughs-JENNIE
PINCKARD, Springfield, Ills, Oct. l, 1894,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever
t0c. 25c. II c. @. c. fail, druggists refund moneH
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure 60c, 81. All druRgistA
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

A traveller can journey round the
world in so days.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic l0c or go
II G. Q. G. fail to cure, druggists refund money
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-29
To Cure A Cold In One Day.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al
Druggists refund money fit fails to cure. 25c
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-05-03
Death of Edward RuShtOn.

Edward Rushton, aged Is years, fore
man of the repair shops of the Delaware
railroad, at Georgetown, died at his
home in that place on Sunday.
He was one of the best known and
most popular men On the railroad. lie
entered the service OF the company i'll
1913 as water carrier, while rails were be-
ing laid in the vicinity of Lewes. lie
afterwards was an apprentice in the ma
chine shops. He ran the first locomotive
between Dover and Harrington and al
forwards returned to the shops OF the
company, where his abilities were
quickly noticed and he was placed in
charge. He was placed i'll charge of the
shops OF the Delaware railroad at George
town about six years ago.
The body was brought to this city last
evening. The funeral will take place to-
day from the residence OF his son-in-law
Lewis b. Woodward, No. us Popla
street.