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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16
"Get It,"

In 1875, when Professor Alexander
Graham Bell was in Washington, he
called on Professor Joseph Henry the
veteran scientist, who was then Sec
retary of the Smithsonian Institute.
Bell explained to Henry his idea of a
telephone, and later wrote to his par
ents in Canada as follows:
'I felt so much encouraged from
his Professor Henry's) interest, that
L determined to ask his advice about
the apparatus L have designed for the
transmission of the human voice by
telegraph. Iexplained the idea and
said
"'What would you advise me to do,
publish it and let others work it out,
or attempt to solve the problem my
self?'
"He said he thought it was the
germ of q great invention and advised
me to work it out myself instead of
publishing.
81 said I recognized that there
mechanical difficulties in the way that
rendered the plan impracticable at the
present time. added that felt that
l had not the electrical knowledge
necessary to overcome tho difficulties.
His laconic answer was:
"'Get it.
II cannot tell you how much those
two words. encouraged me. 1 live too
much in an atmosphere of discourage
ment for scientific pursuits. Such a
chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal
sounds would, indeed, to most minds
seem scarcely feasible enough to
spend time in working over, 1 be-
lieve, however, that it is feasible, and
I have got the cue to the solution. I"
Electrical Review.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16
The Farmers of the Sea.

The average value of the product Of
agricultural lands per acre or square
mile is often computed, but probably
few Of US have seen similar computa-
tions relating to the sea. Professor
Heusens, writing in the German geo.
graphical periodical Globus, has fig
ured out an average of this sort for
the North Sea, which is we'll known to
be one of the worlds great sources of
value derived from fisheries. He says
the value of the fish caught in the
North Sea yearly by the countries bor-
dering it is about SAL, 100000. The
yearly catch is never known to be less
than $37, 100000 nor more than $45,
100000. The North Sea, including
the Skager Rak, or gulf between the
southern part of Norway and Sweden,
has an area of 225, 1884 square miles,
and therefore the average value of the
North Sea fisheries each year is $18. 10
for every square mile of the sea.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16
WISE WORDS.

No one has q right to frown.-Se-
lected.
Fame is the perfume of heroic
deeds.
There is nothing more daring than
ignorance.
A generous action is it's own re-
ward.-Walsh.
Hunger and cold may be borne, but
injustice never.
1t is hard to fight with passion; for
it buys with life.
A happy bridemaid MAKES happy
bride. .-Tennyson.
A moment of time may make us un-
happy forever.-Gay.
A good heart is better than all the
heads in the world. Lytton.
A good book is the best of friends,
the same to-day and forever. Martin
Upper.
The age of persecution includes
everything this side of eternity
Socrates Smith.
oymPd1ny, cueap cOmmOuluy
which is sometimes hard to get.-The
DEVILS Dictionary.
If little knowledge is dangerous,
where is the men who has so much as
to be out of danger?
For to cast away virtuous friend,
1 call as bad as to cast away ones own
wife, which one loves best.
A great poet, like great peak,
must sometimes be allowed to have
his head in the clouds.
Birrell.
A goc2 cause needs not to be pa
troned by passions; it can sustain it.
self upon temperate dispute.
L. Browne.
All politeness is owing to liberty.
We polish one another and rub off
our corners and rough sides by sort
of amicable collision. To restrain
this is inevitably to bring rust upon
mems UNDERSTANDINGS.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16

ST never can tell story and have
it come out all right" said little
woman plaintively the other day. 81
thought had such a good one not
long ago. I was walking along and
heard one street boy say to another,
ooh. you go buy ten cents worth of
potash. what for?' says No. 2. Fer
ten cents yelled the other, and ran
off giggling.
81 thought it was pretty good, and
I'd try it on Charlie at supper. But
when told him to go buy ten cents
worth of potash he never said word,
and I knew another joke had fallen
fiat and kept still. But the worst was
later. He put on his hat and van
ished after supper, coming back in a
minute with a little parcel, that he
handed to me. = e-~.
. What's that?' asked I. 'a'-.
why, the potash you said you
wanted, answered he, and I nearly
had Mysteries on the spot. Did you
ever hear anything so perfectly awful? ?
I won't ever try to get off anything
funny again"
And the little woman sighed as she
walked away. 49, o..
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16

An absurd article by Lombroso, in
the Pail Mall Magazine, on can Epi-
demic of Kisses In America, has very
naturally caused the sanity of the
italian sociologist to be questioned.
Doubtless he is sane enough to go at
large, but doubtless also the balance
of his faculties is sufficiently impaired
to make it impossible for him to see
his fellow-creatures as they are. He
sees men not as trees walking, but as
itinerant mental diseases. Specialists
are apt to become cranks and to lose
something of their sense of proper
tion. Lombroso's case is notoriously
and obviously one in point. He has
raised so many spooks, and SO accus-
toned himself to see them, that he is
no longer able to distinguish between
the sociological spectre and the real
man.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16

A cousin, who is with us now, has
an aged parrot of most conservative
instincts. She has had recently new
carpet in her dining room, where the
parrot lives, and Polly made herself
quite i'll with her strong objection to
this innovation. She screamed "Take
it away" till she was exhausted; and
at last she refused to eat her food till
they brought square of the old car
pet and put it round the cage. She
then at once became cheerful and re-
conciled to life, though she will never
take her walks abroad beyond her be-
loved piece of old carpet. London
Spectator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16
One WAY to Do II.

In Boston the other day balky
horse held up thirty trolley cars and
blocked traffic for over an hour, re-
naming immovable while mud was
rubbed in his mouth, ignoring blaz-
ing paper with which his whiskers
were singed, and exhibiting the ut
most contempt for blacksnake whip
welded by muscular driver. A
happy thought finally struck by
stander, who procured soda siphon,
and taking deliberate aim, squirrel
half its contents in the animals ear.
As soon as he recovered from his sur
prise the horse started off down the
street at two-minute gait and the
blockade was lifted. New Haven
Journal and Courier.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16

The automobile lends itself to the
art and science of war with peculiar
cordiality. We have "motor scouts"
and "war motor cars" and according
TO the logic of events we shall have
other implements which will render
the tented field more dangerous than
ever. This "war motor" by the way,
is something to contemplate with awe.
The thing is armor plated, so says the
latest reports, and has ram at each
end. Besides this, it carries two
rapid fire guns, and has revolving
turret and searchlight. 1t will be
'Look out for the locomotive when
the bell rings" if that machine gets
started in your direction.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16
WHEN PHYLLIS GOES A.FIsHINc.

When Phyllis goes a-fishing,
All on summer day,
The birds from out OF their gladnesa
Sing each blither lay;
The breezes In the willows
A gentIer murmur lend,
Where, DER the quiet reaches,
The sun and shadow blend.
When Phyllis goes a-flshing
Ah, happy then ami
To joint her pole together
And fix her gaudY fly,
To set her reel a-singing
And cast her line afar
Where, in the silent shadows.
The speckled troutlets are.
When Phyllis goes a-flshing
We lunch beneath the trees
On jam and cake and pickles
And ginger beer and cheese,
While ever, as we're feasting,
With trills and chirps and huns
An orchestra is playing
Which takes its pay in crumbs.
And while sweet Phyllis watches
Her line impatieptly,
My hook from out the water
Brings fishes two or three.
And when through fragrant twilight
Our basket home we've brought,
Sweet Phyllis shows in triumph
"The fishes that we caught!''
Town Topics.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16

piece of cheese or some like reward
each time it is successful in finding
one.
Trufles are reproduced by spores,
bodies which serve the same purpose
as seeds in Towering plants. In true
trufies the spores are borne in trans
parent sacs, from four to eight spores
In each. These sacs are imbedoed in
vast numbers-in the flesh of the truf-
fe. In false truffles the spores are
free, and borne on minute spicules,
or supports.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16

In 1889 the total production of cigar
ets in the United States was 2,104 ,UUO,-
DO0 For the next eight years there
was a steady increase in the number
produced. In 1897 it reached the as
tonishing total of 4.O63, 100000. Then
came the agitation against cigarets,
and the tax was advanced from so
was that in the fiscal year ending June
30, 1899, only 3,735. 1000 cigarets
were made. In spite of this fact the
expectation of American cigarets has
steadily increased. In 1889 the total
taxes paid on cigarets amounted to
$4.2O3, 900, an increase of 100000 over
the previous year.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16

In Massachusetts it has just been
decided that the sanitary condition of
picnic grounds and summer resorts in
general is not all that might be, and
with view to improving it the State
Board of Health has undertaken to
make a careful examination of all
these places. Special attention will
be paid to the sources of water supply,
and it is believed that by suggesting,
and when necessary by enforcing, a
general cleaning up, the number of
typhoid fever cases among people re-
turning from vacations can be ma
terially decreased. The idea is OBJ
viously an excellent one, for ignorance
and carelessness combine to render
many summer resorts far from the
healthful abodes they are supposed to
be by trusting public. Every fall
the mortality rate OF cities is raised
by deaths, the seeds of which are
sown scores or hundreds of miles
aWay
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16
Stealing victory with Dummy Guns.

Stealing Victory With Dummy Guns.
An illustration of the "audacious
impudence" of our privateersmen is
had in the case &C the Paul Jones, of
New York. This vessel put to sea at
the outbreak of the War of 1912 with
complement of 100 men, but with
only three guns.
Almost her first prize was the heav-
lily armed British merchantmen Has
san, carrying fourteen guns, but with
only twenty men, though her cargo
was worth some $200,000 The Paul
Jones, though carrying only three
guns, was pierced for seventeen. 1t
is said that the commander of the
Paul Jones sawed off some spare
masts to the length of guns, painted
them black, and, being mounted on
buckets, rolled them out of his empty
ports as effective limitations of heavy
ordnance. Then, filling his rigging
with his superhuous force of men, so
far overawed the enemy that they sur
rendered as soon as the privateer,
with her dummy guns, got fairly
alongside.
The Americans then helped them
selves to such of the Hassan's guns
and ammunition as they needed and
went on their way rejoicing. Sat
urday Evening Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16
EIot NIen-of-war.

I heard months ago that the hottest
ship in the fleet around Cuba was the
st. Paul-not her upper works, but
down in the hold. But she was not a
marker to the Cincinnati, in whose
hold temperatures as high as 205 de.
grees were registered. In one OF the
frerooms was located a forced draft
blower to which it was impossible to
give proper attention on account OF
the intense heat. When Captain
Chester went below to investigate he
had his face scorched. Water boils
at 212 degrees. New York Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16

James Ryder Randall, the Tyrteus
of the Civil War, author of "Mary-
land, My Maryland" "'The Sole Sen.
try" "The Battle Cry of the South"
ETC., declared that he could read two
columns of a newspaper at the same
time, provided they were on different
subjects. I suppose he uses one eye
on each column, His optics are pair
of rapid rectilinear stereo lenses
New York Press,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

''It's kind O. peculiar" said the
baker. "When I'm the busiest I do
the most loafng"
81 don't look at all well, said the
neglected dooryard, "but 1 am able to
be around the house"
Miss Gotrox--" -"The world owes you
a living" Cleverton-"Well, you're
all the world to me. Town Topics.
'What is ideal weather." "In
summer it is twenty degrees below
zero and in winter it is ninety above"
Chicago News.
Say, croaking little froglet,
BY the evenings darkness hid,
Pray tell now, just between us,
What was it Katy did?
Philadelphia North American.
Beliefs Willy raising whiskers?"
Beulah-"Well, I wouldn't like to
dignity them by calling them whiskers;
l think whiskerettes would be more
proper"
Mother Ito little Freda, who has
been taken to the dentists to have a
tooth pulled)-"Freda, if you cry I'll
never take you to dentists again."
-Tit-Bits.
"Why did you sheathe your sword
in me?" cried the wandering minstrel.
because you're scab. bard" re-
piled the kings troubadour. ur.-Harvard
Lampoon.
Trotting Thomas-"I wish I could
turn myself into rumor for few
moments" Walking William-"Wha
for?" T.-"Why, they say rumor
gains currency"
Mamma lat the breakfast tablet
"You always ought to use your nap
kin, George" Georgie-"I am usin'
it, mamma; I've got the dog tied to
the leg of the table with it."
Prison Visitor-"Tell me, my poor
man, how came you to such a place
as this?" Inmate-"Well, marm, I
suspects it was all along o. the copper
bein' a sprinter. Boston Transcript.
The Minister-"I trust, my friend,
your lines are cast in pleasant places"
The Poet-"Well, that depends on
whether you would call waste baskets
pleasant places or not. Chicago
News.
Mrs. Lash-"What did you get
baby for birthday present?" Mrs.
Rash-"I took So out of the little
darling's bank and bought him this
lovely lamp for the drawing room"
Bits.
Mrs. Flyer-''Harry, do you know
the dirt from which diamonds are
taken is blue2" Mr.. Flyer-'No, but
l know that the fellow who has to put
up the dust for them generally is."-
jewelers. Weekly.
''She scorned all her wooers 80
long that now she is doomed to be an
old maid for the rest of her life."
swell, that seems like just sentence
for such contempt of court. ."-Phila-
delphia Bulletin.
Wayfarer Ito the robber)-"1
haven't any money with me, I'm sorry
to say, but will be glad to advise all
my friends and acquaintances to take
walks along this lonely path here.
after. ."-Fliegende Blaetter.
"Oh, my head, my headl" groaned
Rivers. "If anything ails your head"
suggested Brooks, "why not treat it
hom@opathically?" "How's that?"
"Have it shingled." 1t occurred to
Rivers later on that Brooks meant to
intimate that he had wooden head,
but by that time Brooks was out of
reach. Chicago Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16

that some yarns of
an e C e Q d i n g l y
tough and Nun
chausen-l like char
acter have been
spun-and printed
by men of their
adventures in Aus
tralian waters, or
in the South Seas.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-12
The shelI Was stllI Loaded.

From he Cincinnati Commercial tribune.
A foOlhardy act Ivy George Sherwood. a coll
ored man living At 2lOS Gladstone avenue.
came near costing him his life yesterday morn
ing. Sherwood is employed 10y Hills. the rag
ana iron dealer. and one day last week. Wills
sorting out n lot Of secondhand goods. found
used in the civil war; He took the shell home.
aud yesterday conceived the idea of getting the
lead out of it by placing. the shell in a stove
that was in the k itchcn nj his home.
Another cOlOred man was present when Sher-
wood built the fire and PLACED the shell in the
nshpan under the fire, He, warned Sherwood
that II would explode and left the room, but
Sherwood laughed at the mans fears and sat
down IN front OF the stove to watch the lead
melt, He did not have long to wait, for as the
fire heated the shell IL exploded with sufficient
force to wreck the entire kitchen. The stove
was blown into small pieces, every window in
the houS" broken. aud Sherwood burnt about
the face and hands. His, eyes are so badly in
Jurea that il may affect his sight. A piece Of
the stove also struck him on the shoulder, in
juring 1t severely. The chair on which Sher-
wood was sitting was shattered so that nothing
but a few small sticks were left.
While on" of the ncighhOrS went after DR..
Prue another turned in an alarm of fire, but
when the department arrived the blaze had
hocn e~Xtinguishcd After Sherwood had been
fixed up he told what he hat done, and said
there is another shell at Hiss place. and hny-
body wanting il could have il. That tho man
was not blown To pieces or even fatally injured
is remarkable. a. the force OF tho explosion
shook the buildings in the neighborhood.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-12

Is strikingly revealed, IL was nothing TO the
sufIragiets that the Government was dealinE
with q treacherons foe; Moma9,sx vote ~ nsan
tutional" right, and the reason that the Legls-
lature handed womenthe ballot is evident from
1878: "'All voters must be oyer p years OF
age. and must have resided in the Territory SIX
males. they must be native born or naturalized
citizens OF the United States and taxpayers IN
the Territory, A female voter need not 1s q
need not herself be 9 native Of nstpralized"i
s%ociation would have helped to maintain. The
numbered ballot for men Is one OF the safe.
come into the Union. and the Mormon Church
now holds the balance OF power in hVe States,
four OF which have woman SURFACE: brigham
test case IL 10 be made In regard to the practice
Fl polygamy, "a a regent sg,eh writer in ms the o MEG a9f ~
polyRamy, and that they opposed Mr.. Roberts be-
cause he had objected to TeneT,pg woman sui
orposed to Mr. Ro6erts's election. That writer
intimated that although for the present re
form " wa, beaten. women would eventually
tho, SAT- Lake Herald she said: II lam q strong
women and 1t will purify politics. Women are
better than men. Slaves are always better eti
sh9n i : Tas % nsssd. Indeed q i do FSf not, IS She eG an.
swered. I believe in polygamy, My father
and mother were and L am a MOT
mon. A plural wife isn't half as much a slave
as a single wife. or course. it Is all at IN end
now; but / think the women OF Utah think
with me. that we were better of In polygamy.
y = Sixty per cent. OF the voters OF this
State are women. We control the State '
What am / going to do with my child rem
The same thing l have done with them while 1
have been practicinR medicine, They. have
been left to themselves a good deal. ="
Some day there will be a law compelling people
to have no moro than n certain amount, OF
children. and the mothers of the land can live
as they ought to live"
The women OF Utah have the secret ballot;
It IL not likely that any Gentle" woman voted
for Roberts. The Mormon women could have
defeated him even II every Mormon and every
Gentle" man had voted for him.. Not only
that. but when, in the convention that ,nomi-
mated him, ono woman spoke against him be-
cause of his attitude on suffrage, she was
silenced. and Mr.. Roberts received. an ovation
from the other women present. Mrs. Cannon
wna an enthusiastic worker for him. In re-
gard to the test case she said: 1T may result
in Congress saying: This is a question that
does not concern us. Settle 1t at home among
yourselves"
Let those who do not believe or do not real
lie that woman. suffrage, as well as Mormon
ism, that introduced 1t, Is a menace TO thisr re-
public. pause and consider what all this trick
eyy In these States means. Woman politicians
may not become statesmen. but they do APP
pear capable OF becoming accom- plished lobby
lists. A REMoSsTRANT.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-12
The snowbound Prospector.

From the D,nrsr Errnin1 Post.
Tho winds may howl and the snows may fall and the
frost on the pilons CLEAN.
And the hand OF winter with key Of ice may lock the
The cold gray clouds Of forbidding face may hide
the sun from my Sig9lt -.
But there's cheer for ms in the ruddy glow of the
FIRE on m cabin hearth.
seem crackles OF fiery mIrth.
And l toss IA defiant laugh at care and tho temposts
that round me sing,
For as long as I've got my bacon and beans and my
pipe am ! not d kngf
There's never a care from the outer world can reach
There's never a trouble born OF earth to harrow my
brawny breast,
And my SONGS ring ont on the solitude OF this noun
For the warming breath of tho spring to como and
Tho smoke from my chimney hoAts away like .
bride veil over the peaks.
TIL torn to shreds by the icy breath Of tho breeze In
And the snow. wrapped crags with tho eohoing notes
OF my laugh OF defiance ring,
For as long asI have, M. bacon and beans and my
pipe am I not a kingf
When the blizzard lnlls and the sun peeps out on
the crest Of a drift stand.
A. I hi think fp' OF the toitl in slaves pennod up in the
While am Stree ss he winds that toss the threads
envy not yonder ,pampered lords. the pLsfAoed
princes of wealth.
For the ne blood Pqlsips within my veins is hot
crave not the pleasures and iuxunes which the
For az long as / have my bacon and beans and my
pipe am l not q king?
Ny only neiGhbcrs assail my ears with their ~voioings
OF envious hate.
The bobcat squalls a protesting cry in the ear of It's
. snarlinR mate,
from his rocky lair
As he shifts at the scent OF my steAming food on the
breast of the icy air.
Tho RAunt gray wolf licks its hungry chops ana hoWls
at the smoke which curls-
From the %Anappins breast of my glowing hre in
wreAthing. fantastic whirlB.
And / hear IL all, aid my songs flow out with . lord
lier, merr1er ring,
For ! feel with my bacon and beans and pipe of the
mountain world I'm the king.
When the, sun has gone and the daylight dies and tho
somhre yelling Of night
Ger my mountain kingdom has settled down. In tho
genial, CHEEKY light
OF the glowing logs in the broad fireplace in my
hlanketed bed | lie
And follow The wr-aths from my old cob pipe with a
lazy and care free eye,
| dream Of the day when The snow kings hand will
Ia lifted f,nu pulrh and y ak
And again fns the trvlpnr, that rules the world with
golden scent q III seek,
Bnt never q sigh II the days in digit he driven by
ln'tr-ng Wing,
Per ~ lrup ~ / have nv bacon aud beans and my
ri. e I'm u happy king.