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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19
Left His Daughter in the Well,

George Smith of Blaine, Me-, while
drawing water for his cows, lost tin
pail in the well. He had let his eldest
daughter, girl of II, into the we'll by
line to recover the pail, when he
saw that his cattle had entered field
of potatoes that had been newly
poisoned. In his desire to save his
COWS from death he forgot all about
his daughter. When he came back
half an hour later she had wept her.
self into commissions and was making
desperate effort to cling to the
stones in the well to escape drowning.
Smith has promised her an $85 organ
if she will stop talking about the
event-New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19
Whose Umbrella?

Sometimes an umbrella seems to
arouse suspicion, even when it is in
honest hands. Thus London paper
tells a painful tale of young man in
street-car, who carried an umbrella
which had been his birthday gift.
On the seat facing him was lady
with precocious boy, evidently about
five years old. The youngster regard
ed the young man with attention for o
few moments, and then his eyes wan
dered to the umbrella. He gazed at
it in silence for second, then he
wriggled in his seat, clapped his hands
and shouted:
so mamma, don't that look like
papa's umbrella?"
"Hush, hush, my child" said the
mother
"Papa was looking for his umbrella
this evening, mamma, continued the
boy.
''Yes, yes, but he found it, said
the mother, hurriedly, as the CONVEX
sation was becoming of interest to
other passengers.
"Why, mamma" continued the
youngster, "you know he didn't.
You told him that he didn't know
enough to keep an umbrella Why,
mamma-"
At this stage the young man left the
oSA'
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Affections are the roots of life.


The love that is not split, is spoilt.
Large doors swing ON very small
hinges.
1t is not the length but the depth of
life that tells.
The more perfect the trust the more
perfect the peace.
There is no mortal whom pain and
disease do not reach.
The grace of sympathy is purchased
at the cost of suffering.
"Half a mind is never worth half
as much as whole one.
He who drifts to ruin, will get tAere
just as surely as he who drives.
Our children have liberty born in
them, but law they have to learn.
Reason is the glory of human ma
ture. He is next to the gods whom
reason, and not passion, impels.
Drudgery is as necessary to call out
the treasures of the mind as harrow
ing and planting those of earth.
Ignorance is a blank sheet on which
we may write; but error is scribbled
one on which we must first erase.
If you have good health be happy,
for you have nine-tenths of all that
nature has ever given to any man.
Many an act of duty or self-sacrifice,
at first sight supposed to be impossi-
bic, has, by continued contemplation.
become so attuned to the disposition
that it has been performed with ease
and even with pleasure
The willingness of young men to
give or receive money on the mere
turn of chance is token of the
decay of manliness and self respect,
which is more alarming than almost
anything besides. 1t has an inherent
baseness about it which shows base
soul.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

There was a game of baseball the
other day at one of the local ball parks
between a local team and picked
nine. A clerk in one OF the dry goods
stores got the afternoon off and took
his girl, who was not connoisseur Of
a ball game. In the second inning the
ball came skipping into the grand
stand and the umpire called foul"
Say" said the wise girl, why did he
call that ball fowl? 1 didn't see any
feathers on It." Didn't tell-you that
It was a picked nine?" he replied.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19
BOGUS ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT.
The Alleged Treasures Were Faxed" In
Central Asia.

Central Asia.
Orientaliats will do we'll to be on
their guard in connection with Central
Asian manuscripts, which have OF late
provided them with such an endless
subject Of discussion. says the Scots
man. 1t was Capt. Bower who first
discovered the existence of some ex-
tremely ancient manuscripts during
his great journey across central Asia,
and DR.. Sven Hedin brought back
rich collection for the ediication and
justification of orientalists Since
then the supply of ancisnt manuscripts
mas been very great, but it is stated
that the gravest suspicion is now cast
upon the authenticity Of very large
proportion Of these so-called relics of
antiquity.
An English officer who is now en-
gagged In some exploring work in Cen
trail Asia has discovered that there
exists In Khotan a regular manufac-
tory of the manuscript relics, and so
large is the output that he believes
that at least 95 per cent OF the manu-
scripts which have reached Europe
from central Asia during recent years
are spurious. The process of manu-
tacture has been explained to him, and
SO impressed is he with the difficulty
of distinguishing between the genuine
and the counterfeit that he has him
self adopted a rule of never under any
circumstances buying any ancient book
offered to him for sale. Meanwhile
there is much searching of hearts
among the owners of the manuscripts
which have already found their way
Into European collections.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19
ANNAPOLIS CADETS.
Now on Their Summer Trip In Foreign
Waters.

now on Their Summer Trip In Foreign
Waters.
One Of the most pleasant things
about being an Annapolis cadet is tho
chance they have Of going on summer
cruises. The second class men are now
aboard an oldfashioned sailing vessel,
such as was used by our navy before
We had steam warships. These young
men are required to do the work Of
common sailors; in fact, they do every
thing there is to be done on the boat.
They started in June, and will return
in September They stop for a week
or so at Plymouth, England, and ar
rangements have been made for them
to spend few days in London. Then
they sail for Lisbon, Portugal, and the
boys are wondering how Spain's neigh
bors will receive them. After that they
go to Gibraltar, and then home again.
OF course there is a good deal of fun
to be got out of the trip, and great
deal to see; but 1t is part of their
four years course at the naval acad-
emy, and they have to work hard
scrubbing decks and taking in sails,
and the slightest disobedienee is pun
ished. Before they left this country
they stopped off Hampton Roads for
few days and went through lot of
drilling, including the "deserting of the
ship" In this drill the crew puts pro-
visions in the small boats, launch them
and row away toward land, just as they
would have to do if the ship took fire
or were In a sinking condition.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19
MRS. johnson
Saved from
Insanity by
Mrs. EIsaglnasss

menced to have spells with my spine.
Every month ! grew worse and at last
became SO bad that 1 found I was
gradually losing my mind.
"The doctors treated me for female
troubles, but I got no better. Ono
doctor told me that would be insane.
was advised by friend to give Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound o
trial, and before had taken all of the
first bottle my neighbors noticed the
change in me.
81 have now taken five bottles and
cannot find words sufficient to praise it.
advise every woman who is suffering
from any female weakness to give it q
fair trial. l thank you for your good
medicine. "-MRs. GERTRUDE M. JOHN
SON, JoNEsR4B TEXAS.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

"One of the beautiful traits in the
makeup of Washington messenger
boys" said railroad man who lives
in Washington, sis their tactfulness.
l think otherwise. They are chock
full and loaded down with tact-with
the copper on. To illustrate:-
"My wife went over to New York
city few weeks ago to attend the
bedside of a seriously ill relative, who
was not expected to live. This morn
ing l was sitting in my Office, wonder
ing why [ didn't get letter from her
by the first mail when tousle- headed
messenger boy joggled open the
door.
'Where'll I find de Office O. Mr..
--?" he asked mentioning my
name.
Right here, son, said 1. You're
talking to him..
"'Well, said the kid, measuring
me up with the probable expectation
that I'd do stage back fall, I've
got death message fer you, an they
tole me at tn Office that it was i'm
portant.'
''Nice, mild, tactful way of putting
it, wasn't it? He just left it up to me
to wonder, while l was ripping the en-
velope open, whether the message
announced the death of our aged rela-
tive or the decease of my wife. 1t
happened to be the former, but am
inclined to believe that that boy
would have been just bit etter
pleased had it been the latter. -
Washington Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

How They Catch Scorchers in London.
A great many communications have
recently been sent to the London
papers saying at the Kingston police
always catch the wrong person when
they attempt to stop the wheelmen
from furious riding. The policemen
have contradicted these accusations.
There seems to be a mistake some
where. Possibly the true explanation
may be found in what is said to be
''true American story" printed in the
London Mail. This story, says The
Mail, has great bearing on the case
at hand. There is a certain time when
the vision of the officer loses the real
offender and he never gets him within
the range of his eyes again. Here is
the story, which is said to explain
matters: "a gentleman was leaning
out of a railway carriage window to
kiss his wife, who was on the platform
bidding him goodby. The train, how
ever, moved on with that celebrity for
which American trains are famous in
anecdote; SO fast, indeed, that the
chase salute was bestowed on por-
ter at the next station. The sugges-
ton is that, as the cyclists travel so
fast i'll Kingston, the police do not
catch the scorcher, but the slow rider
who is coming up just behind him"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19
How's ThisY

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case Of Catarrh that cannot be CURED by
Halls Catarrh Cure. -
f. J. CHENEY & Co., Props, Toledo. O.
We, the undersigned, have known +. j, Che
ney Tor the last 10 years, and believe him per-
fectly honorable in all business transactions
ton made by their firm.
Ohio.
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
Ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces OF the system. Price, 75c per bottle Sold
oy all Druggists Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19
A Mouse's Uncomfortable Situation.

julie Lill witnessed scrimmage the
other day between couple of chicken
hawks at great elevation. The
racket proved to be over mouse
which one of them was carrying, finally
being compelled to drop it, when the
bird that had been doing the scrapping
swooped down on the mouse and sue
ceeded in catching it before it had
fallen 80 feet. Preston Plain Dealer,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

"Another remarkable story is told
of man who was driving over the
divide north of Dodge City, when a
shower came up. He was riding a
blackboard, which has bottom made
by fastening cleats between the axles
with spaces o half an inch between
the cleats. The water fell so fast that
it could not run through the bottom
of the blackboard as fast as it fell.
Rushing down the side of the divide
the water struck barbed wi fence
and damned up until the water ran
over the top wire of the fence. This
was because the rain came so fast that
it couldn't get through between the
wires of the fence. On the same trip
the traveller says he saw jack rabbit
drown while it was jumping through
the air"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19
ABOUT BERNHARDT.

Nine. Bernhard gives the following
account of her admission into the Con-
servatoire: "Auber was present and
asked me: Your name is Sarah? Yes,
SIR You are a Jewess?' BY birth,
sir, but have been baptized Sarah
then recited two verses of LES Deux
Pigeons" and was interrupted "That
will do; you are admitted" Then came
the business Of selecting the right
class. Beauvallet declared for tragedy,
Regnier for comedy, Provost for both.
and Sarah selected both, and thus de-
voted herself simultaneously to the
culture Of the two muses., Melpomene
and Thalia.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

"I had female trouble of all kinds,
had three doctors, but only grew worse.
1 began taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills
and used the Sanative Wash, and cam
not praise your remedies enough
Mrs. EFFIE PERKINS. PEARL, LA.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19
Are You Using Aliens Foot-Ease j.?

1t is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting,
Tired, Aching, Burning, Sweating Feet,
Corns and Bunons Ask for Aliens Foot
Ease, powder to be shaken into the shoes.
Sold by all Druggists Grocers aid Shoe
Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address,
Allen S. Olmstead Leroy NJ. Y.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19
Beauty Il blood Deep.

Clean blood means clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar.
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads.
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, for ten cents. All drug.
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, l0c, 25c, Soc.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19
Cont Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your life Ausy.

To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
aetic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-
Bac, the wonder. worker, 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, 1899-10-19

Kamchatka may soon become as
popular a resort as the Klondike, as
gold has been discovered there in
promising quantities.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

''The eastern correspondent is equally
at ease in dealing with the intervals
occurring between showers, which the
fertility of his imagination and the ex-
treme elasticity of his conscience per-
NIT him to describe as 'droughts.
Whatever portion of his vocabulary
has not already been exhausted in de-
scribing the cyclone is at once avail
able for writing up the drought.
Through him wondering world
learns of the alleged Kansas ferry
man who was to haul water ten
months in the year in order to keep
his boat running; of the families who
each morning are compelled to run
their wells through clotheswringers
that they may obtain water for cook
ing purposes; of neighborhoods where
it is so dry that water is wet only on
one side, and where fish, to allay thirst
and rince the dust from their throats,
swarm out on the prairies and lap the
boiling dew from the buffalo grass.
He it is who says this distressing
scarcity Of moisture is forced upon us
by the corporations that have cornered
the water supply to put into their
stocks, and to such an extent that far
mers have to soak their hogs over
night in order to make them hold
swill.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19
Getting Him to Work.

"I notice that your boy mows the
lawn every three or four days. How
do you get him to do it?" "S-sh-hl
Don't let him hear. His papa threat
.ened, when he bought the mower, to
punish him severely If he ever dared to
take 1t out of the basement. Chicago
imes-Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

In 1879, as all the world will remem-
ber, Sarah Bernhadt went to London
Tor the first time, appearing in "Phe-
dre." She at once established her po-
sition in that country and was not only
success on the stage, but the lion
ess" in chief of the London season,
every fashionable hostess seeking the
privilege of her acquaintance, and no
party was considered complete with
out her presence.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

The telegraph will be extended 1000
miles south of Khartoum by the end
of the wear
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

In an exciting battle with a lot of
copperhead snakes, on Richard Ed
wards farm, near Shamokin, Pa,
Hugh Jenkins killed seven of them.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

have received
from the use of
Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegeta-
BILE Compound.
Soon after the
birth of my first
child I opun-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

The toll of an ordinary ship passing
through the Suez Canal averages
about $4,000. The distance is ninety>
two miles
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

Educate Your Bowels with Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
t0c, oc. u Q. Q. Q. fail. druggists refund money
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

1t seems that at first the future
queen of the stage did not care for it
in the least. Above all she hated her
daily journeys to and fro in the omni-
bus, "and to this day l detest promis-
cuous assemblies and miscellaneous
crowds" Nine. Bernhadt next assures
us that she was never able to win a
first prize at the Conservatoire, only a
second, and that but once, and for trag-
edy. After years study at the Con-
servatoire, Nine. Bernhardt passed into
the company of the Theater Francois,
and made her debut in Racine's "Iphi-
genie" She writes: my arms were
so long and so thin that when in the
scene of the sacrifice I uplifted them
before the altar the house burst into
a roar of laughter and l was mortified
to tears. next played Valerie in
Scribe's play OF that name, with Co.
quelin as Ambrose, and I was success
ful. But even then l could not over
come my innate dislike for the stage.
l never put foot inside the theater ex-
cept for rehearsals and performances.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

LETTER TO MRS. PINKHAM NO. o3,aS4l
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM-For some
time have thought of writing to you
10 let you know of the great benefit 1
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

Licenses for Horseshoers.
An enactment in Washington re-
quires horseshoers to pass an examina-
ton and to be licensed
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces infiamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c bottle,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

son another occasion, when stopping
at farmhouse,a cyclone came up and
he, with the family, went into the Gel
lar. The house was soon blown away;
presently the cellar went, too, rolling
over and over like silk hat He was
early spilled out, but with infinite
labor dragged himself back in the
teeth of the wind, intending to take
refuge in the hole the cellar came out
Of, but to his great CONSERVATION he
found that the hole had been blown
away also. Shortly after this, far
mer was riding along the road with a
jug of sorghum tied with strap to
his saddle-horn. A cyclone came up,
and after it had passed the jug handle
was found inside the jug and the strap
was sticking out of the jugs mouth,
the jug having been blown inside out
without spilling drop Of the molasses.
During the same blow goat happened
80 get in its path, and his hair was
blown off until he looked as clean as
a skinned banana. This made the
goat look so much like a Mexican dog
with horns that it was placed on ex-
hibition at the Worlds fair, attracting
attention as one of the great curiosi-
ties of the century.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

Traces of gold have been found in
the province Of Puerto Principe.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure makes weah
men strong, blood pure Soc, q. All druggista
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

Yang-Tu. China's delegate to the
peace congress, was educated at Har-
yard.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19
"Honor Is Purchased
BY Deeds We Do. /"

I am entirely cured of hemorrhage of lungs
LINDAhAN, Bethany, Mo-, January 8, 1884
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19
BREEZY KANSAS YARNS.
How Eastern Correspondents Add to the
Unique Fame of "a Great State.

Unique Fame of a Great State.
Mr.. Coburn, the agricultural COM
missioner of Kansas, charges all the
notoriety that Kansas has suffered
from during the last quarter Of CEN
tury to eastern newspaper correspon-
dents, who, he says, have visited that
state, and have tried to interest theI
readers by inventing freaks and fabul-
GUS stories.
sit has been left to the correspon-
dents of eastern papers to portray
Kansas to the world in all the various
shades and tints," says Mr.. Coburn,
from those of gloomiest midnight
and deepest woe to brightest MONDAY
and heavens gliding. His finest
work, that which has always stamped
him as possessing the true artistic
temperament, has been his treatment
of weather conditions, especially our
impulsive zephyrs and periods of pro-
crastinated rainfall. The lines of
thought always discernible in his work
are that we are in chronic condition
of cyclone, drought or blizzard, varie-
gated by invasions and devastations of
chinchbugs and grasshoppers. In
dealing with the former he describes
the wind which he says blew COW up
against the side of barn and held
her there for II days, or until she
starved to death. The same wind, says
this veracious chronicler, blew the
cracks out of the fences, sucked a
cistern from the ground, moved the
township line and changed the day
of the week, while it yanked the bung-
hole out of a barrel and buried it in a
sandhill 80 miles away.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

In Madagascar silk is the only fabric
used in the manufacture of clothing.
1t is cheaper than linen in Ireland
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c
II c. G. c. fail to cure, druggists refund money
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1899-11-04
Deafness Cannot BE Cured

by local applications as they Cannot
reach the diseased portion OF the ear
There Is only one way tOcufe deafness
aud that ,s by constitutional remedies
Deafness Is caused by an h llamed con
ditiOn OF the mucous lining Of the
EUstachian Tube, When this tube Is
lnllamed you have a rumbling sound
or Imperfect hearing aud when 10 is
entirely closed. Deafness Is the re-
suit, and unless the inflammation can
be taken out and this tube restored tO
its normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever; nine cases out OF
ten are caused by Catarrh, which is
nothing but an inilameu C nditiOn of
the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case Of deafness lcaused by
catnrrh) that cannot be cured by
Hairs Catarrh Cure. Send for circu.
lars, free.
f, j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo. ..
sold by Druggists, Zoe.
Halls Family Pills are the best.