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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-24
BRING IN YOUR BOYS

and we'll fix them up, not only them, but
their fathers, brothers and uncles as
we'll. We are prepared to please you if
you want to purchase Hats, Caps, Shoes,
and Furnishings Of every description,
for Men, Boys and Children.
We sell the best Hats and Caps in town
at the prices we charge and our assort-
ment is twice as large as that carried by
any other Freeland halter. We sell
Shoes as low any other dealer in the
region and give you better quality. We
offer you a larger choice in White and
Colored Shirts, Underwear, NeckWear,
Collars, Cuffs Hosiery, Etc, than any
other merchant in Freeland and will ask
you no more than is reasonable.
We have a neat line of Boys Pants
which we guarantee to give better SER
vice than any similar priced goods in
town.
Our steadily growing business is
evidence that our actions and methods
are fair and honorable. If you find any
defect in what you buy from us, bring it
back and we will refund the money as
Cheerfully as the purchase was made.
We want your confidence and future
patronage.
Attention! Miners and DriversI
When you working made that will
outwear two pairs of the kind buy 81 call
and examine New Lines of Miners Brogans and Drivers
Shoes We sell them $3.50 pair Company
goods at 81. .S5 to So a pair.
When You Want to be HonesfIv Dealt With Come tn
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06

1t is a large place, with many low
buildings, one of which was pointed
out to me as the sparrow house Among
the inmates of the hospital at the time
OF my visit were cattle, dogs, kittens,
jackals, goats. poultry, gulls, and
monkeys. Any sick or injured animal
Is taken there and fed and preserved.
AS TO the extent and the character of
the medical attendance | cannot speak;
and certainly in one or two respects it
seemed that the arrangements for the
comfort OF the patents were capable
Of improvement. But no doubt in some
ways an immense deal of suffering Is
saved by this benevolent institution,
which takes US back to the days of the
great Buddhist King Asoka. more than
two thousand years ago, whose tender
thought for the welfare of both men
and animals is so marked in his stone
cut edicts. Besides animals that are
sick and injured, those whose life Is
threatened are taken to the hospital.
A pious Jain will buy off animals about
to be killed and send them to this insti-
tuition, where they are carefully pre-
served, and never by any chance parted
WIN AOA lhOHCy' Ia DcndISS d SOTL O1
hospital for cows has been started by
Rajah Sivaprasad himself.
Il suppose" said, that a good
Jain would not think Of engaging in
field sports?"
"Never!" replied the Rajah. Meth
er a good Jain nor a bad one. He
would be made an outcast if he did.
In my own house not even snakes are
killed, but only driven away"
Are the jams always Yegetarians?"
Yes, always. And, more than that,
we endeavor to avoid even green vege-
tables, under the idea that cutting the
plant may hurt it. Our diet as far as
possible, is dry vegetable food. We
would not needlessly pick leaf from
a tree lest the tree should possibly
feel pain. "-Nineteenth Century.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06

We have had an earthquake, says
the Spectator, and I have never had a
sensation like it. either physically, men,
tally. or spiritually. | was up here
writing in my room, which opens with
French doors on to a large stone bal
cony overlooking the court in which
the fountain Is. For some time there
was an increasing trembling which
I at first thought was the moving of
furniture, though it seemed strange
that it should shake heavy stone
building: but when / began to feel dir
", said to myself, Earthquake" and
l then went out on to the balcony and
sure enough the whole building was
visibly swaying and the large hanging
lamps swinging like censors. There
was no noise, which made it all the
more weird. I ran down stairs and
found every. one hurrying into the
street, lit was in the afternoon,) and in
the wide street which opens into the
Alameda public gardens) at this point
was very impressive scene.
All the traffic had stopped still. and
there were hundreds Of people in little
groups on their knees praying, some
aloud. some to themselves. the men
with their hats off; those who were not
kneeling were holding on to one an.
other, as no one could stand steady.
The lamp-posts were swinging like
trees in a wind. Some people were
calm, others in AFFECT terror. l can't
say that I was not afraid at all. though
as soon as l was out of the building
l couldn't see the chance of any dan
ger. The earth was not any longer
trembling or shaking, but swinging
which was most demoralizing. I felt
something as though a solemn and dig
nified nightmare had come true: or as
though we had been suddenly trans
ferred to somewhere near the Presence
where the working of nature was 90
ing on. 1t was very strange indeed
No one was hurt in our part of tbe
town. and l can see how very LITTLE
danger there really was, for there was
plenty of time to get into the open.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06
Swapping Fines.

travellers in Europe are limited by
the railroads to q small quantity of
baggage carried free, usually about Sc
pounds. In train in Belgium recently
two fellow travellers got into CONVEX
sation and came upon the subject Of
free baggage, when one asked leave
to measure the others trunk. The re-
suit was that the measurer said:
Your trunk is seven and half CEN
timeters too long. and has no right to
be in the compartment for free luggage.
| am railway inspector and must fine
you 5 francs. Please give me your
name and address,"
The proposed victim Of misplaced
confidence was, however, equal to the
occasion.
Kindly lend me your measure that I
may satisfy myself on the subject"
Then, with polite smile, Il am a
director in the royal weights and meas
ures Office. To my great regret l no.
tice that your measure is not stamped,
as is required by law; so that, firstly,
your measuring is not legally valid.
and, secondly, it is my painful duty to
subject you to fine Of 30 francs.
Please give me your name and ad-
dress"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06
Wise Virgins

A peasant called Makaroff, who al.
leges that he is the Messiah. has made
his appearance in the Russian province
OF Samara, on the Volga. Makaroff is
a middle-aged man, whose features are
said to resemble those attributed to
Christ by early Byzantine artists. Ac-
cording to Makaroff, Samara and the
neighboring provinces are being pun
ished by periodical visitations of pes
thence and famine, not as the result
OF drouth, or the scarcity of labor. or
any OF the other alleged causes. but be-
cause Of the sins and shortcomings of
the people. The new Messiah has Sc
iected ten women Of his following as
MS special ministrants. These he calls
tne ten wise virgins" They serve as
MS messengers and as the opponents
among the peasantry Of his peculiar
views.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06
Winged Carriers of Disease

With regard TO cholera, it was found
that when house flies were fed with
pure cultures OF that disease the baciili
were found in their intestines and ex-
creta up to four days later. Further, IL
in addition TO the pure cholera culture
a little sterilized broth were added,
then immense quantities of bacilli were
found. indicating that they not only
thrive but multiply in the bodies of the
eies. Thus may the seeds OF cholera
be insidiously deposited on food or in
milk to develop into the full-blown dis
ease in the human body. These. then,
water that is past"
In addition TO these direct ways OF
transplanting the seeds of disease there
are other and more roundabout meth
DDS known to science by which certain
flies, fitted by nature with a complete
lnoculating apparatus, introduce into
the human blood the germs OF deadly
diseases. These flies are chiefly mos
quitoes-not all mosquitoes, but certain
species, that not only have the power
to elaborate the germs of human dis.
eases within the area Of their own bod
les, but are gifted with the power Of
49, ~ NAA4S NAACoC SNLLAS II Jill TIC DlOOa
Of man. and Of giving them back to
man again.
To follow this study it will be neces-
sary to transport ourselves mentally to
those tropical lands where insect life
abounds and where the mosquito house
Of science has been adopted to keep
mosquitoes in, by men devoting their
lives to unraveling the mystery Of the
connection OF these insects with dis
ease. In China, South America, and
countries where different forms Of ele-
phantlasis prevail. this deplorable dis
ease has long been associated in the
medical mind with certain species Of
mosquito; hence the searching investi-
cations that have brought to light the
life-history of the blood-worm, Filaria
sanguinis hominis, its partnership with
the mosquito, and the effect Of its pres
ence in the blood and tissues OF man
Lady Priestly in The Nineteenth Cen
furry
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06
RAT-kILLING POPULAR.
The Inhabitants of the Pacific Islands
Make Sport of 1t.

In the old days, when unchecked, rats
literally oyerran most OF the islands Of
the Pacific. On moonlight nights hun
dreds have been often seen gathered to-
gether round the native quarters, feed
Ing upon waste rice or bread thrown
out. A large bottle shaped hole was dug
in the earth In Mangala, and baited
with candle nuts, Of which rats are ex-
esssively fond. and when the hole was
pretty well filled with rats two men
would go down with knobbed sticks to
kill them. A hole which would contain
two men would hold a goodly number OF
rats! Rat killing under these condi-
tons would seem anything but an en-
viable task Keeping the rats within
bounds was a matter OF such import
ance with the inhabitants that in Fun
afuti, by law. each individual was at
times obliged 10 catch and destroy a
certain number for which purpose an
ingenious trap was employed.
The natives destroy the rats with an
other object, shooting them for sport.
Fanna sooma, or rat shooting. as prac-
dced on Hoonga in the Tonga group,
apparently was an amusement reserved
for chiefs and was undertaken with
much ceremony Attracted by bait pre-
viously distributed, the rats were shot
with formidable unfeathered arrows.
six feet long. The game was not an
individual but a p-~jy affair. the side
first killing ten rate being accounted the
winners, and il the rats were plentiful,
three or four games were generally
played.-ChamberS Journal.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06
Why He Had No Fish

Four Galesburg followers of Izaak
Walton sought the banks Of the Spoon
yesterday and tried all day to lure its
hnny tribe from its placid depths. They
had some success. not much. The par.
ty included W. l.. Steele, A. w. Trued-
son, R. G. Mathews, and F. R. Jelliff.
The fate which befell the latter fish.
erman is particularly sad. He had
caught several small catfish. and had
them anchored on small string to the
bank. All unexpected along came a
water moccasin snake. The snake es-
pied the captive fish and made for
them. He seized the biggest one and
tried to swallow It 1t stuck in his
throat.
The fisherman saw the snake of prev
make its descent, and set I'D a howl
that brought the rest of the party in
a hurry. This all scared the moccasin.
and he started out into the river with
the fish in his mouth. The whole
string followed him, and there thew
remained, and this fisherman came
home without bite in sight except
that indicated by a mosquito.-Gales.
burg (Ill) Mail.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06
The Chinese Almanac

The Chinese Almanac is the most
largely circulated publication issued
annually in the world, the number of
copies printed and sold yearly reaching
several millions. 1t is printed at Pc
kin, and Is monopoly of the Emperor,
no other almanac being permitted to be
sold. Although containing reliable as
Economical information, its chief mis-
sion is to give full and accurate infor-
nation regarding the selection of lucky
places for performing all the acts, great
and small. Of everyday life. And, as
every act of life in China, however tri-
vial, depends for its success on the time
in which and the direction (point of
compass) toward which, it is done, it
is of the utmost Importance that every
one should have correct information at
all times as to avoid bad luck and ca
lamity, and secure good luck and pros
perity. So great is the native faith in
its infallibility that not long since the
Chinese Minister to Germany refused
to sail on day which had been an
pointed because it was declared in the
almanac to be unlucky.-New York
Home Journal.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06
FARMERS BOYS At COLLEGE
Two-hfths Of the Students Are from
the Agricultural Glasses.

Some interesting figures as to the
proportion of farmers boys among col
lege students have been gathered BY
the American Agriculturist. 1t has re-
turns from 17S universities and coll
leges, reporting an attendance OF g.
eco students, out OF total of $4,000 IN
all the higher educational institutions
OF the country. In It's analysis Of the
figures the Agriculturist reduces the
number of students considered to lit
tie under $4,000, for some unexplained
reason excluding, it says few city
colleges, like Harvard. Pratt Institute,
University Of Rochester, Fisk Univers-
ity, and others. Out OF this total OF
about $1,000 it finds that nearly $1,000
are from the agricultural classes, or a
percentage of 1902 from the farm. This
percentage varies largely in different
sections of the country. 1t IS 500 in
the South, 45.S in the far West, 40.1
in the central West, 29.4 in the middle
States, and 29.1 in New England. I'm
no other nation will any such condition
be found" comments the Agriculturist.
ut is a wonderful tribute to the gener-
al intelligence of our American farm
ers' families, and to the high hopes
and deep aspirations of their sons and
daughters. This exhibit adds nightly
to the dignity Of agriculture, at least
In the eyes OF the masses in other vo-
cations. boston Globe
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06

must defend it, or if war goes on
within their borders Engla. i
must manage the matter; yet
these same leaders among the
young thinkers have no idea of
simply escaping the leading
strings of the mother in order TO
perform political marriage with
ourselves. Every day sees that
becomes remOter possibility,
and every day sees an increase in
Canada's internal strength.
II, therefore, in the past we
have conSoled ourselves with tie
vague ideas that it would be wise
to annex territory larger than
our own, it will perhaps now be
we'll to dismiss the idea altogether
from our minds. 1t takes two 10
make a bargain and at the cru.
cial moment Canada will be found
unwilling. \ powerful neighhor
is destined 20 develop our north.
ern frontier with "A rapidity even
greater than that which we have
enjoyed. 1t may be interesting
in next weeks Thoughts" to the
orize as to what that develope.
meut will mean both in relation
to the mother country and the
world at large.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06
SOME COSTLY HATS.
One Given General Grant Was Valued
at Fifteen Hundred Dollars,

The most expensive hat in the world
10 undoubtedly one which was present
ed TO General Grant while he was in
Mexico in 1882. 1t cost $500 in gold,
and is now to be seen in the National
Museum at Washington, and is the
Finest specimen Of Mexican sombrero
ever made. Perhaps the next most ex-
pensive hat to that was one which was
sent to William H. Seward when he
was Secretary Of State in President
Lincoln's Cabinet. 1t was Of the var
iety known as Panama, and his South
American admirers who sent it to him
paid $1,000 for it.
AT one time Panama hats frequent
~ cost 5000, but these are no longer
made, and cannot therefore be bought.
Perhaps the most expensive hat of this
sort which has been made for many
years was one sold last year to a
banker, who paid $40 for it. Hats as
nne as these are commonly worn by
the rich men in South America, but
ordinary mortals have to be content
with specimens which cost at the most
only $40 or SIS. Still, these are fine,
and are practically everlasting. for
they can be cleaned again and again.
1t is curious that they are called Pam
anna hats, for they do not come from
there. They derive their name from the
fact that that city was at one time the
greatest market for them. The finest
are obtained at Payta, Peru, and Qua
yaquil. They are made of the fibre of
the pineapple plant, are as soft as silk.
and so pliable that they can easily be
folded up and carried in the pocket.
Excellent specimens are also made by
the natives of Cuba.-Berlin Md
Herald
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06
French Romance of To-day

People in England are CONF
complaining that French nov
not what they were. says a VITA N
The Contemporary. And that y Is, #
the crop is slighter, and the qaaI s.y
abruptly varied. Eye cannot
grapes of thistles." A few mon'I' N
one of the first of French nove'.-a', N ID
me how impossible he found I'll
himself in an imaginary |ot% ...s,t
such ominous rumors ill the su .S,i
Paris. The intricate Chinese .ssr
fashionable psychology seems | ,ss ID
a trivial thing compared 10 nd
mendous issues of reality. Anu al
author feels this. judge oil Wv 10
ments of the reader! The ehe Sos h:
Affaire Dreyfus on literature W. tbs i
the sudden disappearance u tbss
man-a-trois. the old ProyehGSa,, D
Of the married lady, her hus9'T rgril
her lover. After a brililans o.t 0
sance, after occupying ANN s.re j
whole area of fiction. TINS aSe,s d
subsidized. and if people READ .a NV I'D
wells still. to a certain extent II ia
novels, or at any rate, the pea ..rs lsa
have a wholly different ino'N
est. and intent.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06

with great raeidky under IRE. In
tpired with true military instinct, ne
was verify natures soldier In war
said Napoleon. men are nothing; a
man is everything 1t will be oiIncuit
to find a stronger corroboration OF TINS
maxim than is to be found in the mis-.
tory of General Forests operations.
In the firm belief that General For
rest YVES one of the great military gen.
fuses of the century, DR.. John Wyetn
has prepared a biography, which is
not only the record Of Forests mem
orable and picturesque life, but also a
COMPREHENSIVE narrative Of his dash
ing raids in the most important COM
pa:gns OF the var.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06
GEN. FORESTS ABILITY.
Gen. Sherman Called Him the Great
est Man in the Civil War.

est Man in the Civil War.
1t is related Of General Nathan Bed
ford Forrest that on one occasion a
loquacious widow asked him why his
beard was still black while his hair
was turning gray. General Forrest an
swered that he could give no explana-
ton unless that "he had used his brain
little more than his Jaw" 1t was this
quality that made General Forrest one
OF the greatest soldiers of his time. the
soldier OF whom General Sherman said:
After all. l think Forrest was the
most remarkable man our civil war
produced on either side. In the first
place, he was uneducated, while Jack
son and Sheridan and other brilliant
leaders were soldiers by profession.
He seemed always to know what | was
doing or intended to do, while I am
free to confess I could never tell or
form any satisfactory idea of what he
was trying to accomplish"
Lord Wolseley, commander of the
British army, wrote of him: Forrest
had no knowledge of military science.
nor of military history, to teach nim
how he should act. He was entirely
ignorant Of what other Generals in
previous wars had done under very sim
liar circumstances. What he lacked in
book lore was to large extent com
pensated for by the soundness of his
judgment upon all occasions, and by
his power of thinking and reasoning
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06
Wednesday,.
KinAs and Presidents.

Napoleon, with a face as II Il had
been modelled from Greek cameo. was
never, In Talleyrands judgment at all
events, quite gentleman. He gesticu-
lated too much, and was altogether too
violent for the correct taste Of the great
noble trained under the old regime
Perfection OF body is not necessary
either, for many misshapen men have
been digniied even when they were
not. like the Due de Vendome, Princes
OF the Lilies in days when that distinc-
ton meant SO much. Little men and
wiEened men have both inspired awe.
for great soldiers trembled II Louis
XIV. frowned, and no man received
without weakened knees a rebuke from
William III. The protruding under-lip
Of the Hapsburgs has never detracted
from their majesty, and Victor Emanu-
ell, who, for all his good manners, al
ways suggested to the onlooker a bull
face to face with the matador. was for
all that every inch a King. II is a rare
advantage, however, to one who learns
ceremonial department late, to have ?
person like that OF the late President
Faure, and there are kinds of personal
deficiency which seem fatal to the idea
Of dignity.
It is very difficult to think OF lofty
dignity accompanied by a bad squint.
or to associate the idea with that kind
OF refcus look which in ordinary men
invariably suggests underbreeding.
There is a redness which is full of dig.
nifty as well as grace-the Vikings were
all red-but there is also a kind Of red
ness which is unspeakably vulgar.
Distinguished" or not. all men in
great positions, unless armored in le-
gal powers or admitted intellectual SUI.
premacy must 10 certain extent pose.
and i they possess from nature a fine
bearing their task as posers is only
rendered the more easy.-The Specta-
tor,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06
A New Ruined Castle.

Mr.. Boldt OF the Waldorf-Astoria no.
TEL feeling the absence of the romantic
element furnished by ancient castles.
ruined abbeys, and other antiquities in
our raw American landscapes, has un-
aertaken to correct this deficiency on
an island he owns in the ST. Lawrence
river. He has constructed a ruined cas-
ue winch looks very much like the
real thing. and forms a prominent fea-
ture in the view as one descends the
river. 1t is built of massive powders
supported by a framework of steel.
ms ruined castle has no donjon keep.
out many cheerful bedrooms, smoking
rooms, etc.-New York Press.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06
Made q Panic.

Four highwaymen put out the cleo
Irlc lights on the outskirts of Cory.
Penn., the other night. and then. with
lrawn revolvers, leisurely robbed the
,fowds returning from a circus per-
ormance until the coming up of the
ponce, when they fed with their Dlun.
DER. For p while there was ALMOST .
panic. men dragging women gnS CHI.
dren up the road and over fences ana
drivers lashing their horses and start
Ing on q wild run.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06

Eyes the ueghtors consider old Bee
gum the meanest farmer within TWEEN.
ty miles of here"
"Why is thatT"
"You remember the dry summer
few years ago when there was a meet
ing held in the country schoolhouse to
pray for rain?"
eyes"
"Well. everybody in the neighbor.
hood went to the meeting except him
He worked all daS like IA beaver. get
ting his hay in. He rot it in Just in
tine, ard he was he only farnes in t e
township who saved his crop"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06
Familiar With Oatbs

The latest and best golf story is told
Dy Mr.. Justice Lawrence against him.
self. He is an ardent golfer. He teiI.
now he had recently case before niro
IN which he felt it Necessary to ask one ne
OF the witnesses, boy, the usual once.
ton whether he was acquainted with
the nature Of an oath. WIN
The ingenious youth calmly >.
Piled calmly re-
"0f course I am. Aint VOW -,
dic?"-Tid-B Bits. 'oui eau