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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-25
Unique Mine.

The iron mine at Bell Island, New
foundland. which is the principal prop
erty Of the company, is said to he one
of the most unique Ia the worl is
an open deposit of ore, 300 feet de,
and three miles long, and all the labor
required is to blast It with dynamite,
and shovel 1t into cars.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-25
Siamese Superstition.

The Siamese have so strong a sup
erstition against even numbers that
they will have none of them. The
number of rooms in house, of win
dows or doors in room, even of the
rungs on a ladder, must always be
odd.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-25
PLEASURE CALENDAR.

December 25.-Fair OF Young Mems
C. T. A. B. Corps in Berner's building.
Admission, cents.
December 29.-Eleyenth annual ball
OF Tigers Athletic Club at Yannes'
opera house. Admission, so cents.
January Second annual entertain
ment OF Young Peoples Society Chris
tian Endeavor of St. Johns Reformed
church at Grand opera house. Tickets,
rs, 35 and so cents.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-25
The Ep Dash.

A hard worker-The iron worker.
A pair Of rubbers-Two bootblacks.
A blowhorn-A bass horn player.
Visits the interior-The stomach
pump.
A mans full name-Bum.
Tied with q double twist-The nun
tial knot.
Hard on China-The careless servant
Have great displacement powers
Gathering rams.
Catchwords--"St thief"
Hard to count 800, ,0OO, ,O00, ,OOO. .OOO,-
900, 900.
Turn over many new leaves---The
bookbinder,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-25

John Sleeper Clarke, the former
American comedian who ranked with
such men as Joseph Jefferson and
John E. Owens In his days and died
In England recently, enjoyed the
rather odd distinction prior to his re.
tiremsnt Of being an American who
was better known In England than In
his native land. He accumulated. a
fortune across the water and died
quite wealthy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-25
The Memory.

Scientists have discovered that the
memory is stronger in Almmer than
In winter. Among the worst foes of
the memory are too much food, too
much physical exercise, and, strange.
ly enough, too much education.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-25
Artificial Pav;no Blocks.

The newest artificial paving blocks
to be adopted in Germany are made
by combining coal tar, sulphur and
chlorate OF lime.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-25
Bull Fights in Paris.

Paris is to have its bull fights to
add to the excitement Of it's populace.
The arena. however. will not be with
in the city walls. but at Engien, which
some IL minutes journey by train.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-25

Russia could put in the field 155, 900
cavalry to the $4,000 of Germany and
Austria Hungary combined.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-25
A Load of Fans.

1t is no unusual thing for a vessel
plying between Japan and London. to
carry 100000 fans as single item
Of its cargo.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-25

Less than two per cent. Of all the
men In America own "fulldress suits
and fully seven -eighths of cur Ameri.
can families have their dinners At
noon.-Edward Box.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-25

hC Oct.
The earth was robed in white when
Bcss
Sprang from her little cot,
And, running to the window, stood
As rooted to the spot
At breakfast time the child was found
Still gazing at the snow,
For all the world like some white bud
That had forgot to blow.
When told twas time to Dress and bid
Her sleeping gown to dof,
She said: Use waitin' for re earf
To take its mighty oTr'
Good night. my care and sorrow!
Goodnight II not goodbye;
TIL the breaking Of the morrow,
At my feet your fariels lie.
Goodnight, my care and sorrow!
| am launching on the deep;
And, still the dawning morrow,
Shall sail the sea of sleep
Goodnight, my care and sorrow!
d-nlght-perhaps, goodbye!
For | may wake tomorrow
Beneath another sky.
Goodnight, all cares and sorrows!
Welcome, my boat-like bed!
None of my many tomorrows,
This one night is overhead!
-Harper's Bazar.
A sleet snow,
A maid, bpnu
A meeting and a greeting.
"A slide, a fall,
A bump, a squall
A sidewalk for seating;
A rise, a kiss.
blushing miss.
A down. a street, tripping.
A pop. a ring,
A love by spring.
A May-day bride tripping.
C. Henri Bogart.
One came and told me suddenly.
Your friend Is dead! Last year she
went"
But many years my friend had spent
In life's wide wastes, apart from me.
And lately / had felt her near,
And walked as IL by soft winds
famed,
Had felt the touching of her hand,
Had known she held me close and dear.
And swift learned that being dead
Meant rather being free to live,
And free to seek me, free to give.
And so my heart was comforted.
--Harper's Magazine.
He never loved and lost,
He never sighed In vain
To stand on heights that only those
The gods love may attain.
He envIed not the rich.
Nor coveted their Colds
His bottle lay beside him-he
Was only two weeks old.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-25

When told twas time to dress, and bid
Her sleeping gown to doff,
She said: Use waitin' for re earf
TO take its mighty orr
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-25

Representative Lentz, OF Ohio, has
offered resolution asking for an in
vestigation, by special committee OF
the house, Of the charges growing out
of the interference of United States
troops in mining trouble in Idaho, in
defiance OF and contrary to the federal
constitution, at the individual request
OF the governor, when no riot or In
surrection existed, without consulting
the legislature or the local sheriff.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12
RELIGIOUS.

Rev. DR.. Isaac NJ. Wise, who is probably
the best known Jewish clergyman in the
United States and one Of the founders OF
the reform movement in American Judaism,
will celebrate his SOth birthday this month.
Archbishop Maclagan of York CEngland)
entered the Madras division of the Indian
army in lS47 as a lieutenant. He studied
the native language. became an interpreter
and retired on a pension, which he still
draws.
Sister Mary Helen Ellis, one OF the few
survivors Of the band OF Roman Catholic
Sisters Of Mercy who, under Miss Nightin-
gale, went TO attend the English soldiers in
the Crtmean war, died lately at Waltham-
stow, England, in her SGD year.
Foreign missions have taught the Chinese
many lessons in human philanthropy. The
mission hospitals have been an object lesson
which the Chinese have not been slow in
learning, and today there are q number Of
native hospitals and free dispensaries
throughout China.
Rev. John W. Shanahan of Philadelphia.
whom the pope has just designated bishop
Of Harrisburg, to succeed his brother, has
for a long time been superintendent of the
parochial school system OF the archdiocese.
Bishop Peter Bourgade of Tucson, AriZ, has
been appointed archbishop of Santa Fe.
The official directory of the Roman Catholic
church gives the Catholic statistics for this
country and Canada. Those for this country
are as follows: Twelve archbishops, so
bishops, 1856 religious clergy, $3.50 secular
or parish clergy; churches and chapels.
1l,57l; entire population, $50, 412; 43,l73
members-ll universities and l9l colleges
for boys. The total number OF children in
Catholic institutions is $50, 7S4.
\ Chicago church has adopted an electrical
system Of taking up collections. It a GER
tain crisis In the service the preacher touches
the button and the parishioner sometimes
fails to do the rest, no circulating and OBJ
servant deacon being at hand TO take note
OF his tribute. Little baskets run on wires
past each pew in the tabernacle. the col
lections conyeTging to a central treasury
under the immediate eye of the Officiating
divine.
Word has been received from Rome that
the supreme congregation Of the holy Office
OF the vatican has published the recanta-
tion Of Joseph Rene Vilatte OF Wisconsin.
who has been known as the only bishop OF
the Old Catholic church In America. The
Old Catholic church Is a schismatic branch
OF the Roman church, which split OF in 1870
over the question of the pope's infallibility.
Its members are very few in America. but in
some parts OF Europe they are quite numer-
Gus.
The declaration Of Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott
OF New York in favor Of spiritualism, while
naturally bringing forth a great deal OF
comment, does not appear to have caused
great surprise nor to have been unexpected.
Indeed, the declaration does not 90 as far
as many people had thought II would II
DO not believe says the doctor, that the
dead have gone far away from u. They have
passed beyond our ken, but We are not be-
yond theirs. But the more this faith comes
10 me the less | am satisfied With what men
call spirituslism' the less | believe in rap
pings and physical demonstrations"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12
AWAY THEY SKIPPED.
Wee Was This Heroine of a Mime
sntR Farm.

It was up in Minnesota on a farm, and the
time was the month of July. \ family of
city folks were quartered in the rambling
old Administrations, mother and three
children. The latter were all less than s
years old. and soon to be orphaned, for
their mother was dying with
The stay in the country on the farm. it
was thought, would prolong her life a little
while longer.
On one OF the warmest Sunday afternoons
in the month the poor woman whose life
was wasting away lay on a stretcher In a
grove, under the pines, breathing their
halmy, healing odor. For a while the
children played about the couch, until she
fell into a gentle slumber. Then the father
motioned them away and babe them play
in another part of the grounds, where their
childish noises would not disturb the slum-
berer. Away they skipped, frolicsome and
unheedful Of the death angel that was even
then lowering near.
As is often the case in the farm
region in Minnesota, the stables Of
the pigs and cows and sheep were attached
to the house, and from them all sorts OF
overhead areaways and stairs led to every
part OF the domicile OF the guests, the
family ana the help on the place.
The youngsters had wandered from shed
10 shed, finally landing on the third floor
OF the house, where the sleeping rooms OF
the farm workers were located. Being sun
day afternoon, they were all away at picnlcs
and dances. and there was nothing to
stop the exploring expedition OF the venture
some kids. Suddenly they came TO a stair
way, which they felt sure they had not here
tofore discovered. It was a narrow, almost
dark flight Of stairs, which received It's
Aght from an overhead window in the gable
Of the house.
To know whittier that stairway leads
Was the eldest chlId's ambition. and il was
promptly communicated to her little fol-
lowers, Down she went until she came 10
a place where a board was entirely missing
from the stair. Being an old fashioned
stairway IL vas rather steep, and the gap
between fOOthold and foothold vas great.
But that was just the kind OF adventure the
eldest girl was looking for, and she de-
elaTed forthwith that she would jump
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12

for the funeral decoration OF the young,
while violet is for adults.
The invitation has not only the names OF
the parents Of the child, but the grandpar-
cnts, uncles, aunts and cousins. l was sup
posed 20 bring a wreath or other emblem OF
artificial flowers lreal ones are seldom
usedJ. and drive to the mourners house.
There | was met by an usher, who took
the wreath and led me into the chamber
oc death" where the mourners and priests
we're praying for the departed soul. Every
articles Of furniture, pictures, knicknacks,
etc, had been removed from the room and
the coffin was placed in the center upon a
bier draped with scarlet cloth, around
which the wreaths, etc, were put.
Most Brazilian collins are poorly made OF
the thlnuest pine, perfectly oblong in shape
and covered with according to your means)
velvet, cloth. cotton or paper. The coffin
was Of scarlet velvet. having its edges bor-
dered with gold-hgured paper. The child
was dressed in gorgeous red silk and lace
and literally covered with artificial flowers
OF every hue. The reason for such a dis
play of color, l was told, was that a child
has no sin and was going happily to
heaven. Lighted candles were placed
around the coffin, with a cruclfix at the head
and another in the hand of the child.
When the masses had been said the father
| and brother carried the coffin to the hearse.
The hearse was also scarlet and gold, but
oh, so shabby, and so were the two men on
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12

ing spirit and tendency. NY idea was that
interest in the story would depend upon the
personal tinge given it. That's why l told
the true story about myself. 1t was not
quite as long as l expected to make it. but
l stopped writing simply because there
seemed to be nothing more to tell. The
same thing has happened more than once.
Not long ago l got an idea and thought
that l could build a novel upon it. After
some deliberation l arranged to publish it
as a serial in n magazine, and finally sur
prised myself by condensing it into COM
paratiyely few pages for one number"
Mr.. Whitmarsh rs He Now Is.
When one knows that Mr.. Whitmarsh has
been in Boston several years dealing in
essential oils, that he has graduated from a
seafaring life, from the mines of Australia.
from the pearl fisheries and from various
other occupations, it IS astonishing to meet
the well knit, we'll dressed, active young
man of 80, who looks even younger. He APP
pears and talks more like an American
than an E~nglishman, and has a business
mans i~ncisiye way Of using the typical ex-
pressions of the day. Perhaps the most
comprehensive term that can be used is
clear cut" He lives with his wife and
young daughter in a charming vine-covered
cottage in one of the pleasantest suburbs of
Boston.
The worlds rough hand has apparently
taught Mr.. Whitmarsh to take comfort in the
best and simplest good things" OF the
world. 1t all seems to show a strange fore
sight in the lad Of 20 who decided that
there must be something more satisfactory
in life than going to sea. But perhaps even
then he did not decide unaided.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12
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LAST LINE OF STAGE COACHES. s
CRACK OF DOOM FOR TIE PIONEER METHOD OF
TRANSPORTATION IN CALIFORNIA.
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The last ditch in which staging Is 70 die
Is in southern California. The line now
consists OF a double daily service Of sly
horse coaches, running between surf, at the
southern terminus OF the coast line division
OF the Southern Pacific railway, and Santa
Barbara, Cal, which is now the
northern erminu Of the Southern Pacific
railway. The filling Of the gap. now only
seventy miles wide, will complete another
trunk line between San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
a days ride through the most enhancing
scenery I saw in California brought me from
San Francisco to Lompoc, ready for the stage
ride on the well equipped line that plies
across the mountains 10 Santa Barbara.
Promptly at 8 O'Clock i'm the morning the
stage. drawn by six spirited horses, swung in
a graceful curve TO the porch OF the hotel
Its great body tossing on its lcathern springs
like a ship In a billowy sea. The Wells
Fargo express treasure box was slowed in
the boot beneath the drivers seat. the
United States mail sacks piled up on top of
It, and / climbed to the high seat beside the
driver, Charley Jennings.
Sharp crack-cracks' punctuated the swish
OF the long lash through the mountain air.
Twenty-four iron-shod hoofs smote the hard,
smooth road and We were off in good old
fashioned stage coach style.
Which way lies this city OF Santa
Barbara" I asked the driver as l looked up
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12

across. The leap was made and was
successful.
There was a second leap-and a disap-
pesring figure. No, not quite! As the lit
tie fsot clipped from the step below and the
body shot down into the abyss the boys
little arms we're thrown out as II appealing
for support to the sister who had led him
into this peril. Miraculously enough they
were caught by the step from which The
feet had slipped. and with his little head
still above them the baby brother chung to
the narrow support. With a faint shrek
the smallest girl rushed back the way they
had COM to secure help in the house be-
low. The elder girl had the presence Of
mind to pull her brother from the hole
from which she now observed foul odors
we're rising. Straining every nerve she res
cucd him, and together they quietly but
quickly rushed downstairs and into the
kitchen, where the smallest child was try
ing midst broken sobs to tell the farm
wife what had occurred. The good woman's
pale, anxious face told palmer than words
the danger through which they had passed.
The stairway led from the stable loft to
the sleeping rooms of the farm hands and
was built over a marshy pool of foul water.
With rare good sense the farmers wife
said not a word OF the perilous journey OF
the three children, who now sat huddled
together in the kitchen, all their playfulness
gone. An hour later they we're called to
their mothers bedside to receive her last
farewell. That night she died, little dream
ing how near one Of them came to being
snatched away even before she was. The
elder sister Is now a white-haired woman
living in st. Louis, but she still remembers
with a shudder the terrible danger into
which she had led her baby brother.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12
WANDERER AND HIS BOOKS
Strange True Stories Of a Boy Who Would
Not Be a Parson.
ROWING ADVENTURES OF PHELPS wHrTSARsH
Before the Mast, in Australian Wilds,
on Rorneo's Coral Reefs, and
Elsewhere RouEhinE It-How
lie writes Books.

There Is a charm about a retired sea cap
tain. Any man who has lived a rowing life
and stored his memory with strange adj
ventures on land and sea is easily a hero.
And If a man has crowded into a few short
years more experiences than usually occur
in a lifetime, and, in his sturdy young man
hood he can tell about them in a frank,
modest, manly fashion, he is easily an au-
thor. When a man has done this. as H.
Phelps whitmarsh has done it in his pic
t.resque book The Worlds Rough Hand. 90
which has recently been making SO much
talk, and left the public with an appetite
for more, then the fragments Of experience
which he drops in informal talk. sitting
with pipe and slippers before the evening
fire, are worth having.
Il never had much training for writing
said Mr.. Whitmarsh, rather gloom.iy, after
he had been persuaded to talk about him
self. you see, / was too busy to go to
school, and have read very little--a few
short stories as a boy and a few others on
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12

q long valley, that seemed completely walled
in by towering trees and manzanite shrub
covered mountains.
up the Santa Ynez' valley" he said,
''and over the mountain right where you see
that white cloud up there that has set down
on the top OF the mountain to rest"
"How is the railroad to get over these
high, steep Mountains l asked the driver.
They don't go over; they go around
them. The railroad will follow the beach
OF the ocean most of the way, but they have
some pretty stiff work in one canyon. It's
deep and steep and mighty rocky. When
Fremont came in here from the south with
his army in the 40's the MeXiCaus fortified
that canyon. They thought he would have
to go through it. and they were prepared
TO give him a battle there. But he was too
cute for EN-; he came over the mountains
on a trail that this wagon road we are on
follows very closely"
Dinner at Gold Spring Ranch" perched
near the mountain top-fried trout, fresh
caught; hot biscuit, honey, golden butter
and hot coffee, with an appetite whettei by
the light air Of a latitude half a mile above
the ocean, was not to be despised.
A dash down the steep and rocky seaward
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12
FINEST LOCOMOTIVE EVER BUILT,
Perfect in Every Part and Runs on
n Observation-Disclosures Track.

The smallest locomotive ever built has
been constructed by an Ohio man. That Is,
it is the smallest locomotive which lays
claim to being absolutely complete and per-
feet. capable of behaving on a track as cred
itably and efficiently as the big threatening
looking engine which draws the heavy trains
on a great railroad. Smaller engines have
been toys. This one, far from being a toy,
is as perfect as any locomotive ever turned
out to draw trains. although it runs on a
track the gauge of which is only five ana a
quarter inches.
The builder is a machinist, Richard H.
Kiddle. who resides in Kinsman. o.. Partly
to test his own knowledge and ingenuity
and partly to amuse his 3-year-old son he
constructed the locomotive. The length Of
engine and tank is sixty inches. The tank
holds twelve quarts of water and the steam
pressure is as great as 125 pounds. The
driving wheels are six and a half inches in
diameter and the fire box measures six
inches. The weight of the engine and tank,
without the coal and water, is 1851 pounds.
A tiny toolbox Is on the tank and contains
little tools. Inside the cab are steam gauge,
injector, throttle valve, gauge, cocks, whis-
tie. lever, reverse lever and the other neces-
sary bars and handles. There are even
cushions on the seats intended for the en-
gineer and fireman. The engine runs on
solid brass tracks, which rest on ties one
half by three-fourth OF an inch.
The engine has attracted persons from
far and near to Mr.. Riddles shop, and it
has been pronounced the most perfect thing
OF its kind ever constructed. There is not
a single feature of an up-to-date locomotive
that is lacking, and could an engineer suft-
GENTLY diminutive be found and the TRACKS
extended, there would be nothing to pre-
vent the said diminutive engineer from turn
ing the throttle and rushing off in the loco
motive wherever the tracks should lead, at
a rate which would not be despised by the
biggest engine on any railroad.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12
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lG1 Adams St, ChicuuO

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Everything confidential. Remedies sent
every whore in sealed packages and letters
in plain envelopes. Correspondence solicited.
Latest Surgical, Medical and Electrical
methods adopted. DeIuging the stomach
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diseases and weaknesses of the GGnito-
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Ulcers in throat or mouth, copper-cOloTed
spots on body and eruptions on skin, also
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gives vigor TO vital organs and nerves.
prevents and cures grip. 81 per bottle, 6
Tor s.. Trial bottle, either remedy, half
price.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12
Discovered by a woman.

Another great discovery has been made,
and that, too. by a lady in this country.
Disease fastened its clutches upon her and
for seven years she withstood its severest
tests, but her vital organs were undermined
and death seemed imminent. For three
months she coughed necessarily and could
not sleep. She finally discovered a way to
recovery. by purchasing of us a bottle of DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption, and
was so much relieved on aking frst dose
that she slept all night, and with two
bottles has been absolutely cured. Her name
is Mrs. Luther Lutz." Thus writes w c.
Hamnick &c Co. OF Shelby, n. C.. Trial
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Regular size SOC and sl.0O. Every bottle
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