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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20

The other men followed without ac.
cident, Wendt last. Then began the
perilous journey along the eighteen
feet Of ledge to the stand-pipe. Quirk
led, ,asliding along the slippery slate
mansard, never trusting one foot in
the narrow gutter until the other was
firm.
From below, it seemed as if the ten
men were walking on air. So close to
the edge of the roof did they tread
that the crowd saw the bottom of each
foot as it was lifted.
At last Quirk clasped the stand-pipe
and slid swiftly downward. Then
came Gies and Fuller in order.
'sHurry, there!'' shrieked a voice
above the roar OF the fire. "The roof
is going to fall!"
At that moment there was crash
and bright burst of fame behind
them. Greeman, still terrified, reeled
wildly.
''Steady, there" roared Wendt.
''It's only the belt honse-not the
roof"
Greeman, Scanlon, Christianson
went one after the other, spinning
down the iron stand-pipe like boys on
peeled pole. until only Wendt was
left.
'Hurry! hurry!" came again the
marshals voice. A great stream of
water drenched fame that had sprung
out just below the gutter where Wendt
stood. The crowd was silent, with
every muscle tense.
| Wendt grasped the stand-pipe, now
almost burning hot, and slid. An in
slant later he was swallowed up in
smoke and flame. There was the
growl of yielding timbers, then sullen
roar, and volcano of fire poured up
ward out of the elevators pit. The
roof had fallen.
Two tiremen ran forward with their
helmets to the heat and dragged Wendt
away. His hair and his eyebrows
were singed. His hands were raw
| with burns.
CT guess fell most of the way" he
said, laughing weakly.
There the incident ended. 1t had
lasted just twenty minutes-from
twenty minutes after twelve o'clock on
October 26, 1896, when the Bangor
ladder tipped the elevator window, to
forty minutes after twelve, when
| Wendt came down. The Two Sisters
were destroyed. and more than mill
lion bushels of wheat were left soak
ing in the river or smoldering in tho
ruins-but no lives were lost.
The Scared marshal was asked after
the fire if such coolness and daring
should not be rewarded.
"Rewardedw he said, gruff1y.
"Didn't they escape? 1t is part of
the business. Youths Companion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20
The Maneaters of the Jungle,

These three paragraphs from the
Central African Gazette prove that
there is still great danger from wild
beasts in the dark continent:
H. G. Mcdonald, judicial officer at
Chiromo, mentions that lion took a
native servant off the verauda of the
club few days ago and then retired
into the middle of the town to eat the
unfortunate man.
P. Dewey, writing from Dedras,
says: "Leopards are very plentiful
L killed TWO during the month. Lions
are also troublesome, one brute hav.
ing killed seven people before we
bagged him"
Mr., Bowhill reports: ''Lions have
been doing a great deal of harm in
the West Shire district, nine men hav-
ing lost their lives"
The record is increased by the death
Of w. A. Harrison, senior assistant
engineer on the Uganda Railway, who
was killed by lioness at Fort South.
Chicago Times-Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20
BAD FOR THE CHURCH
Or. RYLANCE SAYS 1T FOL-
LOWS WEALTH.
Ills Resignation as Pastor of Americas
Once Most Aristocratic Church, Made
the Occasion for Fling at the
Wealthy Glasses of Society.

Rev. DR.. Joseph H. Rylance, who re-
signed from the pastorate of St.
Marks Protestant Episcopal church,
New York, the other day, talked with
a reporter about the changes that have
taken place on lower Second avenue
since he took charge of the church
twenty-seven years ago.
In 1871 the neighborhood was still
the residential quarter for wealthy and
refined citizens" he said. "St. Mark
place and Clinton place-parts of
Eighth street-were lined with their
homes, as were also many of the ad-
jacent streets. A change was even then
setting in, which soon became a social
rush uptown Now only here and
there can be found home Of the old
style below Fourteenth street.
'@The churches followed wealth. St.
Thomas left Broadway and Houston
street; st. Bartholomew left Lafay-
cite place. And so with others of all
creeds, with one exception, the Roman
Catholic, st. Marks has not gone be-
cause it is an endowed parish. The
abandonment of the poorer populous
localities by the wealthy churches has
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20
WORDS OF WISDOM,

Our souls crave o perfect good; we
feel the pull thitherward, we own the
law that points in that direction
William M. Salter.
II any one speak i'll of thee, consid-
er whether he hath truth on his side;
and if so, reform thyself, that his CEN
sures may not affect hee.-Epictetus.
In every loving woman there is
priestess of the pasta pious guard
ian of some affection, OF which the
object has disappeared. Henri Fred
eric Amiel.
Many brave young minds have
oftentimes, through hearing the
praises and famous eulogies of worthy
men, been stirred up to effect the
like concentrations .-Spenser.
Look in all things for the beauty
which is their soul, and shall fill your
soul. Seek it and dwell in it, for,
rightly understood, it is part of
your deepest life.-Henry W. Foote.
Self conceit is weighty quality,
and will sometimes bring down the
SCulC W hCA llGLt 10 llctllllltS SloS III tts
1t magnifies fault beyond proportion,
and swells every omission into an
outrage. Jeremy Collier.
Books we'll chosen neither dull the
appetite nor strain the memory, but
refresh the inclinations, strengthen
en- the powers and improve under ex-
periments. By reading man does,
as it were, antedate his life, and
makes himself contemporary with past
ages.-Jeremy Collier.
1t is surprising how practical duty
enriches the fancy and the heart and
deepens the affections. Indeed, no
one can have true idea of right un-
til he does it, any genuine reverence
for 1t until he has done it often and
with cost, any peace ineffable in it till
he does it always and with alacrity.-
J. Martineau.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20
THE COW DEATH,
Curious Superstition of Pagan Origin
Practiced in Russia.

Lowenstimm mentions curious
superstition of pagan origin still prac-
ticed in portions of Russia, and known
as "korovya smerti" (cow-death) and
"opachivaniye" (plowing roundabout).
II pestilence or murrain prevails in
village, an old woman of repute as
seeress or fortune teller enters the
confines of the village at midnight and
Seats pan. Thereupon all the wom-
en- of the place assemble in haste,
armed with divers domestic utensils =
frying-pans, pokers, tongs, shovels,
scythes and cudgels. After shutting
the cattle in their stalls, and warning
the men not to leave their houses, a
procession is formed. The seeress
takes off her dress and pronounces a
curse upon Death. She is then
hitched to q plow, together with a
bevy of virgins and misshapen wom-
an, If such one can be found, and
continuous and closed furrow is drawn
round the village three times. When
the procession starts, the image of
some saint suitable to the occasion,
that OF st. Blasius, for example, in the
case OF murrain, is borne in front of
it; this is followed by the seeress.
clad only in shift, with disheveled
hair and riding on broomstick; after
her come women and maidens draw
ing the plow, and behind them the
rest of the crowd, shrieking and max
ing fearful din. They kill every ami
NAL they meet, and if man is so un-
fortunate as to fall in with them he is
mercilessly beaten, and usually put to
death. In the eyes of these raging
women he is not q human being, but
Death himself in the form OF were
wolf, who seeks to cross their path
and thus break the charm and destroy
the healing virtue of the furrow. The
ceremony varies in different places,
and generally ends by burying alive
cat, cock or dog.-From "Supersti-
ton and Crime" by Professor E. P.
Evans, in Appletons' Popular Science
Monthly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20
ANCIENT FORT UNEARTHEO.
1t Was Occupied by French or Spaniards
Two Centuries Ago.

Buried dozen feet under Ne
braska sand hill, twenty miles west of
Sioux City, Iowa, the remains of a
stone fort have been discovered. In
side the walls the searchers found O
quantity of human bones and frag-
ments of arms and armor at least two
centuries old.
The patterns Of the weapons and ar
nor indicate that the owners were
F'renchmen or Spaniards, though there
is no record of any settlement in this
region of either nationality at so early
date.
The find was made by John Ham
mond, farmer, who stumbled on one
corner of the fort while excavating for
a drainage ditch. Stone is rarity in
Northeastern Nebraska, and Hammond
was so much surprised that he carried
his investigation further, and has now
uncovered an area about $50 feet by
200 feet in extent.
The fort itself is built Of hard red
sandstone, much like that so extern
sively quarried now at Sioux Falls,
South Dakota. The walls arc about
three and one-half feet thick and twelve
or fifteen feet high, with small towers,
evidently for sentries, at intervals of
twenty or twenty-five feet.
The armor includes a half dozen
breast-plates, two or three steel caps
and morton, or helmet, of the pat
tern much worn by French and Span
ish soldiers of the fifteenth and early
part of the sixteenth centuries. All
are badly rusted and in most of them
many holes are eaten completely
through the metal.
Among the weapons are several two.
handed swords, the head of what was
evidently battle-axe and the wheel
locks and barrels of ancient muskets.
The bones are much scattered, and
from them it would be impossible to
say how strong the fort was garri.
| soned,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20

becomes through this process a statue
of bronze or marble. This invention
will in a way modify our present ideas
of monuments to our famous men, and
any nation might start a pantheon of
its famous sons and daughters such as
the world has never known. Besides
the sentimental features of this discov-
cry there are many reasons of it's great
value iE other respects. For the Grim
inal police it will be invaluable. Sup
pose the body of a murdered person is
found, the identity of which cannot be
established. Photographs are often
quite unreliable. The body in itself
can now be kept as evidence not for a
few days, but for a number CT years
If needs be. For the study OF anatomy
this invention also presents most Won
derful possibilities. rs advantages are
as manifold as extraordinary.
In recent years Maril.l has preserved
quite a number of bod.,s, and the ac-
companying Illustrations are reproduc-
lions OF photographs taken from bodies
ne has prepared. That of the little
child represents a little daughter of the
inventor himself, who died eleven
years ago, but is still resting appar-
entity asleep in memorial room in the
inventors residence. The other is a
picture of the remains of Cardinal San
Felice, now peacefully reposing in a
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20

The American Society of Municipal
improvements, which held its annual
convention in Washington, considered
the question of municipal sewage, and
the consensus of opinion was that the
systems of sewage now in use in
American cities absolutely demand
improvement. Our country is, in this
respect, as in some others connected
with the efficiency of local administra-
ton, far in the rear of Europe. The
municipalities of Europe, such as
Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Frankfort, and
others, have undertaken extensive ex-
periments. BY physical and chemical
processes, planned on a huge scale,
the sewage has been taken both by di-
rect transport and by conduit to farms
at distance from the city. There the
refuse became valuable as an excellent
fertilizer, while the drinking water has
been freed from pollution.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20

Is there any necessary connection
between going to school and low
birth-rate?"
In new colonies the birth rate is
usually high. Large families were
the rule in this country in early days
in the same regions where now the
race seems to be dying out.
In New Zealand, where conditions
are colonial but where education is
universal, the birth-rate has fallen
from thirty eight per 1000 in 1882 to
twenty-six per 1000 in 1898.
The population increases, but if the
rate of birth continues to decline it
must soon be as low as in ireland or
France. The climate is good, the
death-rate phenomenally low. What
Is the matter? Is it going to school?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20

As indicating the degree of pros
perity which now exists in Kansas, the
Topeka Capital quotes figures showing
that the number of sales for delinquent
taxes in Jewell County, which amounted
in 1896 to It'll, were only 873 in 1898,
while the total amount of such sales,
which in 1896 amounted to nearly
$21, 200, reached in 1898 only little
over $4,000. 1t is also pointed out that
in one bank in Jewell County the de-
posits on October Dist last amounted
to $160, ,236, against S71,s6 on the
same date two years previously.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20

The Gear has just sanctioned the es.
tablishment of an agricultural colony
at Djenan Abad, in the Government of
Bessarabia. This is the first official
departure from the law forbidding the
residence of Jews in villages. The
movement lis due to Baron Horace
Gunsburg, who has granted 1850 acres
on his estate to be set apart as a set
tlement for Jewish agriculturists.
They must all be more orsless trained
in agricultural pursuits. Trade will
be absolutely forbidde:3. Should a
store be found necessary it must be
kept by Gentle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20

entailed upon those that remain an un-
the helpless poor. There ought to be
an ecclesiastical clearinghouse in New
York, through which social obligations
could be distributed according to the
measure of each church's ability.
Second avenue from Tenth street
to Eighteenth street, is still, however,
one of the healthiest and most delight-
full residential quarters of our city. MT.
Ottendorfer's noble institution near
Eighth street-lbrary and dispensary
and the Hebrew Technical and IN
dustrial schools have been OF wloely
felt service to the neighborhood.
"The personnel Of st. Marks churcn
has almost wholly changed in twenty
seven years. Fish, Renwick, Remsen,
Catlin, the Goelets, Stewart, with
crowds of other once conspicuous peo-
ole, are of it no more. But others not
less worthy have come into their
places. Some of the old blood remains,
but henceforth the church, with its
noble chapel and schools on Tompkins
square, will have to be a church of the
people.
Nearly all my old professional as
sociates are in Paradise-Tyng. Cot
ton, Smith, Washburn and others. The
last-named was the greatest man that
have ever known in the clerical ranks
of America. The sanity Dyer still
fingers with us"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20

Consul Graham, of Winnipeg,
Manitoba, says that the fruit growers
of the United States Chiefly those of
the Pacific slope) supply at least four.
tifths of all the green fruit consumed
in Manitoba and the Northwest Terri
tory of Canada. Canadians now,
however, are making a vigorous effort
to capture their own home trade.
Cold storage plants and packing
houses are being constructed and
transportation lines are being worked.
The United States system of packing
fruits has been adopted, and much
stronger bid will be made for these
markets than heretofore. Still great
er care in selecting, packing and ship.
ping will be necessary on the part OF
American fruit growers if they would
continue to hold their supremacy in
the market.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20

From the Washington Star: eve
SAINT keep the Philippines" said the
worried-looking man. I'VE ought to
get rid of Porto Rico and even Hawaii.
If we so on at this rate, what reason is
there to prevent our gradually acquir-
ing Asia, Africa and ultimately the
whole of Europe?" Il never thought
of that" answered the good-natured
friend, with a sudden look of gloom;
"and yet by the same sort of argu-
ment I'm convinced that We can't give
'em up. I'll admit that territory may
be an embarrassment, but if We go on
getting rid of it by starting in with
these islands We'll be tempted to turn
California adrift and then cut loose
from Florida, and the first thing pos
terity knows We'll have contracted our
responsibilities so that we won't have
anything at all to worry over except
the District of Columbia"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20

Williams" said Flint, who had
been in brown study for several
minutes, "what is the name of that
British General they have been max.
ing so much fuss over?" Kitchener,
isn't it?" responded Williams. "That's
it" exclaimed Flint, delightedly.
Kitchener! That brings it up all
right. know now what it was my
wife asked me to attend to this morn.
ing. She wanted me to advertise for
q cook, Chicago Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20
JEST OUR JIM"

At the school examination when n crowd,
of the hull proceedn
noticed that his mother teardrop n
OF frnged bnkers
Wasn't goldfish swimmn in the pool
No, there wasn't sky ybluebooded pedigree him,
For the boy that TUX the honor cake
Jest
~
An yonder IN the when
An the jury got verdck without rn from
An the crowded round him his
compliment
Couldn't hardly from dancin',
he n he esoup
although he honor de Of him
In the heart OF his oil daddy he
Then when an his O. other went to hear
a-sittn'
An the a-caling
How felt bosoms swelin'
There he sot jest like statute, full
Jest the grandest ptcter of q
full
whsperin' mother
Tother nom the polls
jest holered mother delected do
Fur to in Congress in the at Wash
Or hug each other a-kissin'
An a-ragging a-watzin' till begun to SWIM
An a-tellin' Of each other it
Jim.
Denver Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20

into the liberty of the open air. And
Perry ran, breathless and hatless, to
turn in the still alarm.
The Two Sisters stood in the strip
of Goose Island between the Mil
waukee sidings and the Chicago River.
They were huge, grim, smoke-hlack-
ened boxes of wheat elevators. Their
walls were of square timbers built up
like child's block house, and covered
with q thin coating of corrugated
iron. They stood side by side, their
cornices O hundred feet above the
water, and so close together that q
man might step from the roof of one
to the roof of the other. Tugmen
plying in the river called them the
Two Sisters.
By the time the marshal arrived the
fire had crept halfway up the plank
wall of the building, and the iron
siding was crumbling and crisping
like scorched paper. A moment later
there was q crash of timbers, a rush
of scorching air, and from out of q
huge hole gnawed by the fire there
poured yellow stream of grain.
"Where's your ladder?" shouted
the marshal.
Some one bawled an order, and
truck twenty's horses came down at a
gallop.
Take your men to the top Of the
north elevator" said the marshal.
"We must saveit if we can. The south
one is gone"
Wendt, truck twenty's lieutenant,
looked up at the nearest window. II
was full sixty feet from the ground
and close to the corner, nearest the
fire. But he did not question his
orders. Axeman Fuller loosened the
truck, and the Bangor ladder crep
up the dull red wall with twenty!
whole force straining at the windlasS
The moment it touched the window
ledge Wendt ran up like spider on {
web.
The other trucimen followed with
their lanterns and axes, and behint
them toiled and struggled compan,
fourteen's men with lead of hose.
Once inside, they scurried up
cramped stairway to the belt room n
the top, which perched like q pigm,
house ON the broad plain of tho ele
vator roof.
Not score of feet away blazed th,
south 'Sister," and there was smok
everywhere - the dense, yellow
pungent smoke of burning grain
Truck twenty's men choked with it
But the walls of the friendly bel
house protected them from the ferces
of the heat.
Wendt drove out the window, sasl
and all, with one blow of his axe
Quirk, captain of fourteen. thrust tn
point of the hose through it, an,
signalled for water. Their order
were to keep the main roof and th,
sides of the north building wet s.
that they would resist the flames
But the water never reached tn
nozzle of the lead, for at that momen
the whole roof of the south elevator,
hundred feet square or more, crashe
downward with the roar of a ninety
FOUNDER gun. Up from the crate
where it fell flames and cinders leape
mountain high.
The fire now swept unrestraine
against the north elevator, licking o
the iron casing and cornices as if the
had been mere tissue-paper.
moment later the stairway and tn
ladder were blazing, and the ten fire
men were tightly trapped in the bel
room. Its only window opened tc
ward the flames; its only stairway wa
on fire.
AS the men groped in the dens
smoke they could feel the hot breat
of the furnace under them. In fv
minutes or less they knew that til
roof would go down, carrying every
thing with it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20

When Genera, James NJ. Lewis ar
rived in Washington from st. Louis
To attend the Supreme Court the other
day, he asked ex-senator John B.
Henderson what he thought about
This expansion business" "Oh, Lord"
replied the Senator, 4 don't know
anything about it. ] feel like the
preacher up in Boston who started a
sentence that he couldn't finish. He
kept on and on, but couldn't 6ad a
stopping place. At last he stopped,
looked around upon the congregation
in bewildered way and said:
Brethren, I've forgotten where
started and can't finish that SEN
tence, but 1 know I'm bound for the
kingdom of heaven
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20

The poster fades and the circular
finds its way into the garbage box;
but the newspaper enters the home
and becomes part of the life of the
family.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20

From the Boston Traveller: Irate
passenger (who has managed to board
trolley car that don't stop)-Suppose
had slipped and lost a leg-what
then?
ConSuctor-You wouldn't have to dc
any more running then. We >llers
stops for man Sith cr0tch.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20

French retailers do not take very
kindly to newspaper advertising.
They prefer to make use of catalogues,
which are often very expensive affairs.
The general catalogue of the Louve in
Paris, for instance, is said to cost
$50, 900, and this catalogue is issued
four times a year. Another favorite
mode of advertising is by means of
posters, some of which are of an ex-
tremely artistic character.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20
No Joke.

Bobby-"Popper, what is hostile
indiana" Mr.. Ferry-"one with some
good, arabic land"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20
PRESERVING THE BODY.

By the discovery Of Professor FL
fisio Marini of ITALY the human body
is actually rendered immortal. Death
loses it's ail-destroying power. The
spirit, the soul, leaves the body-per-
haps to continue in higher spheres
out the body may remain forever, part
ed only from its soul, from life.
Marini's process is not mere
method of embalming. This art, as it
is now practiced, may delay, but can
not arrest, decomposition. The method
of preserving the body invented by
Marini is quite different. The departed
remains among us as il he were alive,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20

A Cincinnati barber explained to his
inquisitive- son that hostile Indian is
one who has some good. arabic land.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20
C IGNALS had been

sent in that the
"T W Sisters
W Q r e on fire.
Perry, the super
intendent, saw the
yellow smudGe of
smoke crawling up
from the boiler
room and curling
from the doorway
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-20

Detroit is planning demonstra-
tion for 1901 to celebrate the bi-cen-
tenntal of Its founding by Cadillas.