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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

An English correspondent who went
through the 1881 campaign wrote at
that time of the fighting qualities Of
the Beers:
"We never are able tc see the
enemy. Except before the fight at
Majuba Hill, ] never saw but hand
full of them at any time. And when
they thought we noticed them they
and their horses disappeared as if
swallowed up by the earth. I think
we all feel that they can shoot. Our
losses at Hatley and Laing's Mex
showed that. We were very much in
the open, but not blessed Boer was
to be seen. But every once in while
there was the crack of rifle, and
then one OF our poor boys would go
over, the line would close up and we
would begin chasing again for the
enemy we could never find. I was
taken prisoner just after General
Colley was killed, and I con say that
l could not have been treated better
by any people. They were kind to
our wounded, did not molest the dead
nor insult us of the living. think
they are very brave people, and, as
for fighting, they seem to know just
as much about it as we do"
The Boer loves his country with a
passionate patriotism. He is not q
miner, or an engineer, or a railroad
constructor. He is pre-eminenly an
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

The influence of present social con-
ditions in the United States upon the
birth rate is beginning to attract at
tentlon, for the reason that the size
of the average American family is
steadily decreasing. This is espe-
cially true in New England, where
the average family has been reduced
from 5. .16 in 1850 to 4.57 at the pres
ent time, but the same thing is true
in a reduced degree of the whole ma
ton. In 1850 the size of the average
American family was 5.55 and it has
now been reduced to 4.93. We are
still maintaining healthy birth rate,
but conditions that tend to restrict
the raising of families and to reduce
the number Of births cannot be said
to be desirable.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16
Advice For Engaged 3irIa

"No, I never have bit of trouble
with my husband" remarked the frail
little woman with the intelligent face.
"In fact I have him right under my
thumb"
"You don't look very strong, "
doubtfully commented the engaged
girl.
"You mistake me, my dear. It's a
mental, not physical subsection.
Would you mind telling me just
how"
''Not bit! Always glad to help
any one steer clear of the rocks. First
of all you must know that a man in
love is the biggest sort of fool, and
says things that make him almost wild
when he hears 'em in after life. Ireal.
lied it, and from the very beginning
of our courtship I kept phonograph
in the room, and every speech he made
was duly recorded. Now whenever
my husband gets little bit obsreper.
GUS I just turn out record or so.
Heavens, how he does rave, but he
can't denyit They always will though
if you don't have proof positive"
"Thanks!" gratefully murmured the
engaged girl. "I'll get phonograph
this very day"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

The middleman is on the defensive:
he is having severer struggle for ex-
istance than the men either side of
him, observes the New York Journal
sf Commerce. The contest is sharp
enough everywhere, but the middle
man is at the focus. He has served a
useful purpose; he can never be ex-
terminated, because within a certain
area he is necessity, but that area is
being circumscribed on both sides. IL
the manufacturers combine they con-
centrate their selling agencies; if they
remain apart the competition between
them becomes so sharp that they get
into direct relations with the retailer.
In either case the producer and the
consumer are pushed up nearer to
each other, and the man who is be-
tween the two finds his position get.
ting tighter and tighter.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

! The B0ER AS
A FIGHTER.

The Beers are born fighters, q ma
tion of sharpshooters, they never waste
a bullet; each Boer selects his man
and kills him and keeps on doing the
same thing all day and every day un-
til the war is over. 1t is a common
boast with them which they have made
good in more than one clash with the
British, that one Boer is equal to ten
Englishmen. They do not come out
and fight in the open, but swarm all
over a mountain side, hiding behind
trees and rocks, and woe to the thin
red line or hollow square that comes
within range of their unerring Mar
tinis and Mausers. In fact, the Boer
victories over the British soldiers are
largely accountable for the British
feeling against them, and in the bitter
warfare against the nation the success
OF the Beers has been extraordinary.
Fewer than 450 Beers resisted 49,
900 of the tiercest Zulu warriors on
December 16, 1888, and 5000 natives
were left dead on the field, and this
with old flint locks. President Kru-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16
Dogs Of War.

For. the last five years a society
founded under the auspices of Herr
Bungartz, the animal painter, has been
training Scotch shepherd dogs to as.
sist the relief parties in discovering
the whereabouts of wounded in battle.
and last week the general in command
OF the ambulance maneuvres in con.
nection with the Eighth German army
corps near Coblenz allowed four OF
these sagacious creatures to take part
in the exercises. Their value was
abundantly proved, for they TRACKED
down in few minutes score of men
80 concealed that the bearers could
never have discovered them in day.
light, much less at night. Herr Bun.
gartz gave lecture at the close of the
proceedings on the breeding and edu.
cation of these dogs of war, and sew.
eral regiments are Keeping small packs
of them on their own account.-Lon.
don Chronicle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

Meteorologis.s complain that there
is great confusion in the popular mind
as to the proper names to apply to diff.
ferent kinds OF storms. The terms
"cyclone," tornado" hurricane"
"typhoon," etc., are employed indis.
criminately, and yet they each have
their proper use, in weather parlance.
A cyclone is in general any kind of
atmospheric disturbance in which the
barometric pressure decreases toward
a central slow" region, and in which
there is spiral upward movement of
the air. These cyclones are not there
fore necessarily destructive. A destruo.
tive cyclone, moving along a narrow
path, is properly called tornado, In
the Orient these destructive cyclones
are called typhoons, and in the West
Indies they are hurricanes. In the
United States the direction of the cy-
clones is usually eastward; in the West
Indies it is northward, veering to
north eastward.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

honorable Congress on this happy
event, and particularly as it was effect
ed without endangering the lives and
property of the remaining unhappy in
habitants. have great reason to i'm
agine their flight was precipitated by
the appearance of work, which Ihad
ordered to be thrown up last Saturday
night on an eminence at Dorchester,
which lies nearest to Boston Neck,
called Nook's Hill" Thus wrote Gem
eral George Washington to the Presi-
dent of Congress March 10, 1776. The
City Council of Boston has approved
plans for the Dorchester Heights
monument which marks the spot where
General Washington stood and watched
the British sail away. The plans show
type of totser common in colonial
times, with fountain and memorial
tablet on the most conspicuous side.
1t will be built of old-fashioned brick
with dark headers. The trimmings
will be of Indiana stone or white terra
Gotta. The height of the monument
to the base of the steeple will be about
seventy-fve feet. The original appro-
priation for the monument was 1875, 900.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

In recent story about the kaiser.
William is made to size up his own
ability as preacher. 1t is well known
that the kaiser on his annual trip on
board the Hohenzollern to the Norwe-
gian fiords is in the habit of conduct
ing divine service every Sunday MORN
ing. He usually reads a short liturgy
and follows the prayers with a sermon.
In his recent trip the officers of the
Hohenzollern noticed that a sailor dur
ing divine service had fallen fast
asleep. After service the captain call
ed the sailor before him, gave him
sound rating and sentenced him to two
days arrest. The captain afterward
reported the incident Of the sleeping
sailor. and the punishment inflicted on
I'm. "Was he on watch the night be-
fore?" asked the kaiser. HE was,
your majesty" Then, let the poor
devil off. Besides, 1t wasn't much Of
sermon, anyhow"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16
A Remarkable Girl.

Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb and
blind girl, whose requirements have
attracted the attention of all students
of educational methods, spent last
summer at Wrentham, Mass, as
the guest of Mrs. j. q. Chamberlain.
She keeps up her study of Greek and
Arabic, and writes her exercises on a
typewriting machine especially de-
signed for these languages, with inter-
changeable cylinders. By way of ex-
ercise she delights in climbing trees,
and she is an excellent swimmer,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16
Liked Them in Groups,

Albeit an attractive young miss in
most ways, like many other young
animals it was her habit to wolf her
food. OF this her mhther tried to
break her, and on this particular oc-
casion was demonstrating because of
the number of peas Alice seemed to
think it necessary to consume at a
mouthful.
"Take fewer peas on your fork,
Alice. Why should you want to take
so many at one timer"
''They taste so much better when
eaten in groups" was Alice's une1-
pected explanation.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

ger, as boy, helped the forty Dutch
men hold off 1000 of the men of Nose
litkase, then the most renowned ma
tive captain in South Africa. The
bravery of the men is shown by the
attack that 135 of them made on 10, 600
Zulus on the Marico River, driving
them out of the Transvaal.
These are simply better-known in
stances of the fighting abilities of the
Beers. Every man has handled gun
from infancy. In the old days, when
q Boer was not fighting the fierce ma
tives he was defending himself from
savage beasts. Every Boer has been
trained in warfare. They discovered
the method of laagering their wagons,
placing them in hollow square, which
the British generals have adopted as
the most successful way of fighting
the natives. The Beers have shown
themselves masters of strategy, the
result of constant warfare with cruel
and treacherous foe.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

Champion Road Builder.

David Q. Shepard, now living in
retirement at st. Paul, Mimi, built
during his active business career more
miles OF railroad than any other man,
living or dead. In total it EQUALS the
length of the great Russian tran sasian
line, now in process of construction.
with a thousand miles added. Mr..
shepard has built railroads in thirteen
states and Territories and in Canada.
In 1852 he began work as railroad
contractor, building part of what is
now the Erie road. between New York
and Chicago. Then he came West
and built 236 miles of road in Wis.
consin. His greatest mileage for any
one State ID 1852 miles in Minnesota.
The total number of miles laid by Mr..
Shepard is 7026.-Chicago Tribune,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

to those who are without them; and
I as for forage, the welt is trusted to
supply it at need. The commandant,
who is the Dutch equivalent of the
English colonel, drills his forces as
best he may; and certain amount
of military discipline is easily ac-
quired, despite the rather slouchy ap-
pearance, due in part to the absence
of uniforms, except in the case of the
commandants. the other officers, and
the Estate Artillery"
The Boer much resembles our Amer
ican Apache in his ability to live on
the shadow of things when in the
field. A writer of South Africa, in q
contribution to London paper, calls
attention to the ability of the Boer to
live on rations which an ordinary
trooper would not endure and his ca
pacity to travel great distances with
horse in incredibly short time.
The Boer knows every road and
trail of the Transvaal; as hunter he
knows the devious ways of the wastes
beyond. He is an agriculturist and a
hunter. By the law of self-preserva-
tion he has learned the willy ways of
the savage whom he displaced in the
Transvaal. The secret recesses of the
mountains are at mis- command. As a
horseman he much resembles our
American cowboy. He can ride on top
of the saddle, or over his horses
neck, or Cossask fashion, with one
foot in the stirrup, one leg on the sad
die and his head and shoulders on the
ground. His horse is part of his fam
lily life. The beasts are very hardy,
sure-footed and affectionate. Then,
too, the Boer is Injured to the hard
ships of the mountains, to long horse
back journeys, scant allowances of
food, treks on which the water supply
is scarce.
In the campaign of 1881 against the
English the Boer took good care that
his forces never faced the enemy in
the open field. He never offered open
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16
A Colts Jump From n Moving Train.

There recently occurred in Kansas
an accident which is remarkable from
the fact that the outcome was not seri-
Gus. DR.. Morris has blooded colt,
which he had loaded upon Frisco
freight train to ship to Joplin, Mo.
The animal was tied in furniture car
and the doors left partly open. About
five miles north of Arkansas City,
while the keeper was on another part
of the train, the animal became un-
tied and jumped out of the door. The
train was going at the rate of about
twenty-five miles an hour when the
horse jumped, but the animal was un-
injured. A section man caught the
horse and led it back to the city.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

"I always enjoy the minstrel iokes.s
"Why" "'Cause I've got such .
poor memory" - Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Dorothy (great,y surprised to see q
horseless carriage go byl-"Myi
there's carriage walking il its Sleep"
Youths Companion.
"Do you know anything that will
make me stout, doctor?" "Why,
certainly I do" ''What is it?"
"Flesh. "-Yonkers Statesman.
"He's honest as the day is long"
But some oneimpolite
Spoke up in accents rude aud strong
With, "How about the night2"
Washington Star.
Friend-"There ought to have been
money in that invention" The
Mechanic-''Oh, yesl Half dozen
patent lawyers got rich on itp-
Puck.
Stranger -"Mr. Conductor, will
have time to bid my wife goodbye"
Conductor-"T don't know. How
long have you been d?"-Town
Topics.
Mr.. Penn-"One physician says
that the tramp instinct is disease. 3"
Mr.. Pitt-"Does he recommend
change of scene as the remedy?"-
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
"Don't leave the table," said the
landlady, as her new boarder rose
from his scanty breakfast. "I must,
madam; it's hardwood, and my teeth
are not what they used to be. Tit
Bits.
Relative (from beyond the suburbs)
&" Mandy, who's that young fellow
snoopin' around in the kitchen?"
City Niece-"Never mind him, Aunt
Ann. He's the hired girl. Chicago
Tribune.
Lady-"I wish to get hat for my
husband" Halter -''What !; kind.
ma'am?" Lady-"A telephone hat,
if you please" Hatter-"I never
heard of a telephone hat" Lady
"Oh, yes; they are the kind you can
talk through"
One of the surgeons of hospital
asked an Irish help which he con.
sidered the most dangerous of the
many cases then in the hospital.
''That, SIR" said Patrick, as he
pointed to case of surgical instru.
ments. It'd Bits.
The Doctor-"Everything goes by
favoritism these days. Even the dog
can't get into respectable family with
out influence" The Professor
"That explains the appearance of the
dacshhund. He's the dog that has
had the strongest pull"
"Why is she only in half mourn.
ing? OF course she married old Skin.
phlint for his money, but she ought
to respect his memory now that he is
dead" "Oh, she thinks she's doing
all that is required under the circum-
stances. He only left her half his
fortune. Chicago Evening Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

Success in naval war depends in .
very great measure upon owning points
here and there in the ocean on which
your ship commanders and companies
may securely depend as bases for coal
and provision supplies and for re-
pairs, writes Professor E. Benjamin
Andres in the New York Independent.
Without such, a strong navy may
be easily beaten by weak one,
your war be lost, and your coast left
to the mercy of your foes. Some such
bases of supplies in the Pacific we
must have and we canhct have too
many.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16
WISE SWORDS.

They can conquer who believe they
can.-Dryden.
Forbear to Judge, for we are sinners
all.-Shakspeare.
The less men think the more they
talk. .-Montesquieu.
Every man is the architect of his
own character. r.-Boardman
Constancy is the complement of all
other human virtues.
A man of integrity will never listen
to any reason against Conscience
Home.
Nothing costs less nor is cheaper
than the compliments of civility.-
Cervantes.
Ones self-satisfaotion is an untaxed
kind of property, which is very un-
pleasant to find deprecated d.-George
Eliot.
Cares are often more difficult to
throw off than sorrows; the latter die
with time; the former grows upon it.
Richter.
Ii we faster our attention on what
we have, rather than on what we lack,
a very little wealth is sufficient.-F.
Johnson.
Open your mouth and purse eau
tiously and your stock of wealth and
reputation shall, at least in repute, be
great. Zimmerman.
The true source of ohecrfulness is
benevolence. The soul that perpet-
ually overfows with indness and
sympathy will always be cheerful
Goodwin.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

agriculturist. In Cape Colony nearly
the whole of the wheat growing
is done by the Dutch farmers of
the Western province. In the in
terror the bulk of the grain used is
supplied by the Dutch farmer of the
Transvaal. The whole of the fruit
crop is produced by Beers. Even far
up in Bechauanaland you will find
Boer wagons from the Republic
loaded up with fruit, oat forage and
other products.
The Beers, in short, are pastoral
folk, stolidly content to be that and
nothing else. They shun towns. shou
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16
Altered "A Tride.

One small girl says to another:
''They are not saying rubberneck any
more"
''Why not?" asks the other with
some JOY.
because they are saying peuin-
sula," says the one.
"And why peninsula?" says the
other, innocently.
Because it stretches out to sea"
says the one.-"Worcester Mass
Gazette.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16
German viceroy in the Carolines.

A correspondent of the Berlin
Tageblatt calls attention to the fact
that German was Viceroy of the
Caroline Islands thirty-fve years
ago. His name was Teteus, and he
was captain of ship which exported
snails to China. In 1865 he married
one of the daughters of the "King"
of the Carolines and bought of him
one of the islands.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16
CUPID AND THE NURSES,

So neat,
So sweet,
So light OF feet,
Tis quite pleasure to be Ill.
So gentle and
So deft of hand,
Preparing plaster. powder, pill.
So slim,
So trim,
So 1.-the of limb,
1t reconciles me to be sick.
SO sweet a face,
Such girlish grace
q fear I'll convalesce too quick.)
Such wit,
Such grit;
I'll moan bit,
twill make her think that I'm In pain.
l must contrive,
AS I'm alive,
To have my forehead bathel again.
The dear,
So near;
I'll gain her ear,
I'll vow won't be lured to life,
Unless she's sure
That when the cure
Becomes complete she'll be my wife.
What to Eat
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

A correspondent of the Charleston
News and Courier sends the following
information, based on personal ex-
perience, to the farmers of South
Carolina; "If you put among flock
OF sheep from three to four male goats
the dogs will rarely attack them.
Sheep always run to the goats for pro-
tection."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

which she vastly enjoys. Helen puz-
zles new visitors by telling the color
of the flowers they bring. She can
even distinguish white and yellow
pansy from a purple one, and red
from white rose.S Her explanation
Is that the petal of the darker colored
flowers are thicker than those Of the
lighter ones.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

The Government of the South Afri-
can Republic is empowered to call
at any time the burghers for armed
service. The Field Cornet of each
district goes round and serves a no.
tice ON the conscripts, who, mounted
and fortified against hunger for ten
days by surrly Of buck 9r beef.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16
She Caught Him

Patrice-"You know, Will said he'd
like to be caught playing golf"
Patience-"Yes."
"Well, l caught him on the LINKS
this very afternoon. We're engaged" I"
--Yonkers Statesman.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16
Squirrel Park in Mempbis

In the heart of the city of Memphis.
Tenn., is square containing thick
grove of venerable trees, with great,
COOL fountain playing. In the trees
and over the grounds scamper hun.
dreds OF squirrels so tame that they
will eat from any ones hand.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

engagement. He chose his eyrie in
the mountain gorges, and from that
vantage point he picked off the foe at
his will. Even when he assaulted Ma
juba Hill he came up rock by rock,
squirming like a snake, twisting in
and out and not firing until he had
mark to hit.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

The man who is classed as crank.
may console himself with the knowl.
edge that, in the absence of the crank,
the mighty power that moves the in-
dustries of the world would suffer
paralysis.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16
The Power of Habit,

How are you getting on with your
automobile?" asked Miss Cayenne.
"Well." answered Willie Washington,
II can run the machine all right, but
it will be long time before can get
over saying 'geddup and whoa to it,
Washington Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

cured in the sun, and called "bil-
tong" concentrate in the specified
"dorp" or village, where they invaria-
bly, meet in the market place--the
church, iron gated, iron steepled, in
the background. Arms are distributed
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16
Novel Sport I'm the Far East.

The effete Partisan has just taken
up the sport of fish contests. Oriental
sporting men in Siam, Cochin China
and some parts of Japan have long
taken great delight in the lively con.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

tests of the little fighting fish which
are bred in the East for this particular
purpose. The little fnny belligerents
aresprettily colored red and blue fish,
Cad when it comes to a matter of fight.
ing always stick to it to the death.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

keeping and gold mining. They ask
only to live in moderate degree of
comfort, in rude plenty; to provide
for their children as they grow up and
to be let alone.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16
WIEN JOHN Bull LEFT US,
4 Monument in Boston VIII Common.
crate the Historical Event.

crate the Historical Event.
"It is with the greatest pleasure I in.
form you that on Sunday last. the 18th
inst. (1776), about o'clock in the
forenoon, the ministerial army evacuat-
ed the town of Boston, and that the
forces of the United Colonies are now
in actual possession thereof. 1 beg
leave to congratulate you, sir, and the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-16

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