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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03

There are at least two individuals in
this country who have lived without
water. DR.. John Haddon, a medical
man at Hawick, il Roxburghshire,
states that there is no difficulty in
doing so if strict vegetarian diet is
adhered to. "We get," he says,
'plenty of fluid in cup of tea or in
fruit and other foods; and I find it o
great advantage, more especially when
travelling, to be able to do without
drinking either water or milk, the
well known vehicles OF so many dis.
eases" The second abstainer from
drinking water-Mr. John w. King, a
wholesale jeweler at Clerkenwell-
says there is nothing wonderful in
doing without water for drinking pur-
poses, and he stated: ST have not
drunk any water since the cholera
visited London, am afraid to think
how many years ago, and for the last
fifteen or twenty years / have been an
abstainer. Tit Bits.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03

a party Of veteran newspaper men
were talking the other day about three
a bany reporters who became mem
bers OF the cabinet OF the president
Of the United States: the late Daniel
Manning, secretary Of the treasury
during Cleveand's first administna.
tion; Daniel S. Lamont, secretary Of
war during Cleyelands second admin
istration, and Charles Emory Smith,
now postmaster general. 1t was less
than p years ago that they sat side by
side reporting the proceedings of the
New York Legislature. Colonel Mich
ener of Indiana recalls an even more
remarkable combination which APP
peared i'll the United States court of
Indiana some years ago Walter O.
Gresham, the presiding Judge, alter
ward became secretary of state. Ben
iamin Harrison, who prosecuted the
case, e,alterward became president OF the
United States, while Thomas A. Hen
dicks, was afterwmd vice president
Joseph +. Mcdonald and David Tur-
pie, who attervard became senators,
were on the other side. That group,
Tor distinction, was probably never
surpassed in a single state; one presi-
dem, one yice-presilent, secretary OF
state and two United States Benators.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03

Girls employed in New Brunswick
department store have organized an
onti,slang society. Fifty girls have
Joined it. The girls do not bind
themselves not - use slang. In fact,
they each will en- oara-a the other to
u7esuch lpressi MS, Tor the more slang
the more money there will he in the
treasury al tue end Of the year, and
the better time can be provided. Mem
be's bind themselves to pay into the
treasary one cent for each slang word
OF expression used in the herring Of
another person. There probably will
be some disputes as to what is slaLg
aud what is not, but these are TO be
settled by vote as they arise.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03

Two years before her uncle had
made will making her, his only liv.
ing relative, his sole heiress.
On her arrival in the city, however,
she had been shown will drawn up
by her uncle on his death bed, in
which he left his entire property to
his friend.
She could conceive of no reason for
such strange act, and, distrusting
the friend, had sought out lawyer.
Luckily she was unacquainted with
the names of our distinguished law.
yers. My glaring gold sign had been
the first to catch her eye. and so she
called upon me.
"rhe case certainly looks suspi
cious, / remarked. 81 think I will ba
able to make fight iu your behalf
Now, will you kindly furnish me with
the names of these parties?"
"My uncle, sir, was Andrew Thur.
ber. His friend calls himself Martin
Brown"
Involuntarily my pen dropped from
my surprised fingers. 1t was the very
will had drawn up myself.
She turned pale as Irelated the cir.
cumstances and arose to leave.
81 see / have made an awkward
mistake in calling upon you," she
said, sadly.
"Wait one moment" I replied,
quickly. "This Martin Brown is a
total stranger to me. III he has been
engaged in an act of viIlainy shall
not shield him"
We entered into close conversa.
ton, at the end of which I said, ecu.
tidently:
"Leave the case to me. II I fail il
shall be through no fault of mine"
She accepted my offer with thanks
and left me, thinking deeply.
During the interview I had learned
that the deceased had no scar upon
his right hand. Now, certain of vii
lainy in the affair, set to work dill
gently to find it cut.
Working cautiously. I found the
man who had lain the body out for
burial. From him I learned that he
had performed his task on the morn
ing oI Juue 20, just ten nourS before
| was called upon to draw UP the will.
The will had been already offered for
probate, so there was no time to be
lost.
Andrew Thurber's body was disin-
tered aud the contents of the stom-
ach analyzed. 1t was found to con.
tain poison.
BY some means the sly wretch got
wind of my movements and attempted
to fly. At that moment the detectives
seized him. Confronted by the terri
BILE proofs, he made full confession.
Before his trial came off he ended
his life by swallowing a quantity of
the same deadly poison with which he
had killed his victim.
Miss Thurber met with no further
obstacles in regaining her rights.
Something still more important hap
pened to me from my connection with
the case. / wooed and won the beau
tiful girl for my wife. As Stanley
Ferris remarked afterward, "gained
fame and fortune with rush"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03

Two dozen specimens Of the plant
known in Venezuela as the tau tan
have been sent from Washington to
Hawaii for the purpose of making a
test of its alleged power as cure for
leprosy. The plant will be tested at
the leprosy hospitals there, where
1913 lepers will afford every facility
for thorough trial. Surgeon Car
michel, of the Marine Hospital, has
also sent half dozen bottles of the
liquid preparation to Molakai, and
this will be used for immediate tests
while plants will be set out aud cult
waited, with the purpose of providing
unlimited fresh matter for further use.
Wonderful stories are current in Ven
ezuela about the marvellous curative
properties of tua tua when applied to
leprosy, an1 the Government ply
siciaus attach considerable importance
to the evidence given them. 1t is
proposed also to test it in the island
of Guam, that tiny speck of Pacific
land that came to us with our other
Spanish war acquisitions.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03

The names of habitual drunk ards
are posted in public places in Kenosha,
Wis, and the other day the common
council passed an ordinance provid-
ing that habitual drunkard5 who have
been posted have tiutypes or photo.
graphs of themselves attached to the
poster, and that unless the parties so
posted are able to pay for said photo
graphs, then the relatives be required
to stand tle expense. In case there
are no relatives, then the ,ity is re-
sponsible for The cost.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03

Charles Crotz, of Moon Township,
who soma weeks ago was compelled to
raise number of little pigs BY the
time -honored means of the bottle, has
achieved a complete and sigma! Sue
cess. The whole twelve grew fat ard
hearty and have all been solC. They
were all fee animals, end q number
we1e above ths average. beaver
Falls penn. Roview.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03

Phosphate rock is mined in South
Carolina and converted into " -four.
In the mines have been found many
queer substances which give evidence
of life before the deluge. These
antediluyian relics have attracted tho
attention of scientists of two worlds.
There are monster tusks. tocth OF all
sizes and shapes, fish bones in great
quantity, I'LL OF which is ground up
and made to produce the great South.
ern staplc-cotton.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03
TO MY OWN.

BY EDWIN l.. SABlN.
The squirrel lies hid In his hollow tree,
All wrapped IL his long, soft tall
Tho rabbit is snlggled as snug can be
III his homo meath the old fence rail;
Tho partridge is only bunch of down
Where thickest the arching brush
They iii the forest and we in the town,
Hush, my houey-boy, hush.
Tho field-moIse curls in velvet ball
Far under the dead swamp grass;
In his hole by the frozen waterfall
The mink dreams oft of the bass;
And every chick of the ground and air
Is cuddled in haven deep
So here, in the glow of the freight fair,
Sleep, my honey-boy, sleep.
The north wind romps with the whirllng
snow;
Sly Jack Frost noses about;
But wood and field are abed-!or no,
Not even the owl is out.
And here. where the motherkin's breast i5
warm,
And motherkin's arms are tight,
Safe from the snow and the frost aud storm
Goodnight, honey-boy, goodnight.
Saturday Evening Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03

"Never be critical upon the ladies, ~
was the maxim of an old Irish peer,
remarkable for his homage to the sex.
"The only way that true gentleman
ever will attempt to look at the faults
of pretty Woman is to shut his eyes,"
Golfers Weekly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
, A LAWYERS STORY.
COG ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 3o

)UTH is impa-
tient and the
twelve W e ary
months that had
crept by since J
had passed my
trying examiua-
ton and been
admitted to the
bar seemed an
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03

Whateyer may be said for yiyisec-
ton as practised by learned and skill
ful surgeons who experiment for the
benefit OF humanity, there can be no
possible defence for introducing yivi-
section into any school or collie for
purposes Of mere physiological in
ST action, observes the Christian Reg
ister
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03

More than 13, 900 Michigan farmers
raiseG sugar beets or the first time
last Summer. the result being a crop
large enough to keep ten factories
busy, and it is eXpe .ted that the state
will soon be able to produce all the
sugar it needs.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03

The war department reports that
there are now 1e,3i3, 152 American
citizens eligible for military duty
These figures are enough to make the
entire European menagerie pause and
pouder before tackling.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03
When He IS Mt Rest,

A clever man always likes TO sit next
70 clever woman at dinner, because
Il clever woman never expects man
to be.-New York Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03

The two great material conquests
which mark the nineteenth century
are the building of the Pacific rail
roads and tAe digging OF the Suez
canal
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03

Japan to-day has $500 miles OF
railway, II, 720 miles OF land tele.
grarhs, 3ST OF submarine, aud 11l4
telegraph olliocs-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03
ANN PURKIN'S TRAGEDY.
A WOMAN OF STRONG MENTALITY
HELD DOWN BY ECcENTRlCIT.,

An Ohio School Teacher Whose hind
forming the World-soid Papers in
Grotesque Garb In Cleveland.
NXT ITH the brain of Nine.
\N de Stael, the determine
Y v tion of Charlotte Cor
day and the luck of Cy-
rano de Bergerac, all twisted, may
hap, but still so pronounced that they
made their possessor almost beggar
instead of q queen. Ann Purkin,
seller of newspapers and writer of
poems and essays, died in bed of
charity at st. Alexis Hospital, Cleve-
land. Ohio, few weeks ago, aged
fifty years. For score OF years she
had been the most picturesque figure
Of Cleveland streets from the fact that
she wore the clothes that it pleased
her to wear. For most of those years
she has been hungry, at least part of
the days, simply because she would
not use her wits as the world wished
her to use them. She was crank,
but brilliant one. Her love of let
ters was ideal, passionate and unre-
quited-she died for her opinions.
Ann Purkin died with a trunk full
of poems and essays, half of which
are so good that many writer's of
poetry and philosophy would have
been glad to have written them. But
she was not only dress-reformer but
reformer Of everything else almost
Years ago she addicted herself to
spelling reform, and, as in all things,
she went to the utmost extreme of it.
She would not allow a line she had
written to be printed otherwise than
she had written it, both as to spelling
and punctuation. She would rather
starve. This kept her ont of print
and made rubbish of what would
have been otherwise available matter,
for in whatever she wrote there was
more or less of the force and bril-
liancy of the pen that has right to
write for print. She made one excep-
tion to this last summer when, during
the street-car strike, she used to take
to the newspaper Offices articles nrg-
ing the cessation of violence in the
fight against the company. With
tone in her voice which a Hindu
mother might have had when she sent
her girl child to the husband that had
bought her, she would say, "You may
change it if you want to-" for she had
gone over the ground often enough to
know no newspaper would print what
she wrote as she wrote it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03
DRESSED LIKE A BOY.


Ann Purkin's death was the only
kind of a death her life could have
brought her. All winter, when she
was not ill, she was at her usual cor
ner on the busy square, selling the
afternoon papers. Her voice was
shrill squeak as she cried out the
names of the papers. To almost all
the newspaper buyers she had ceased
20 be curio, they had known her so
long. If those who did not know her
stopped to gaze they saw that in her
face which kept them from laughing
of a boys wooden shirt-for she was
very little creature, less than five feet
"a coat over it that looked as though
it had been made by the wearer with
the disregard for it that she showed
for all the other things that seemed
to her unessentials, and pair of short
trousers-like garments that reached
to her knees. The brooches were
made of what looked like pieces of
horseblanket, aud were shaped not
unlike an ordinary pair of trousers
cut off at the knees. Her stockings
were white and her shoes heavy ones
such as working boys wear. Any
thing in the way of head covering
would do, and there was not in the
whole Of her costume any attempt at
ornam entation or care.
Funny as her clothes were, one for
got them in locking into her face.
The eyes were clear, small and ex-
pressiYe and there y"as in them, when
one talked with her, the look of the
soul that thinks it has never been un-
derstood and has grown hopeless Of
ever being.
But there WIS not . prol.der spirit
in the breast OF any woman. 1t is not
known that she ever had penny that
che did not earn. People who offered
her charity were rebIked with a
severity they never forgot. Ii one
gave her a nicke. for a paper and
walked away she ran after him and
made him take his change. Once she
was ill for week or two and the city
relief department sent her ton Of
coal, piling it up in the one room
where she lived, against her protests.
1t was in the dead of winter and she
was forced to use about a quarter of
the ton of coal Then she carried
what was left OF it down the stairs
and threw it out into the street, from
where it was quickly taken by the
less scrupulous women of the tene-
ment. Then she went to the city
hall, made her way into the Mayors
Office and handed him a dollar, say
ing: ''That is for what I used out of
that load Of coal you sent to me. L
threw the rest of it into the street,
but I want to pay for all 7 used and L
want you to take the money so your
THE. ing clerks can't say didn't pay
it."
REFUSED CHARITY FOOD.
A week before she died the other
people in the Detroit street tenement
in which Ann Purkin lived remem-
bered that she had not been seen for
some days. She never locked her
door, and when they went into her
room they found her alono in the
cold, there being neither fuel nor fire
in the room, 4only her trunkful of
manuscripts. AThere existed between
her and the poor people among whom
she lived something of the feeling
that made the slums of Paris worship
Verlaine. The refusal OF tho world to
give the poetess what she deserved
and them what they wanted mado a
bond of sympathy. They brought her
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03

Deducting dubious vessels, the com
pleted battleships OF England now num-
Der SO and those Of France and Rus
sa 3S.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-03

An Ohio School Teacher Whose hind
Was Full of Brilliant Plans For Re
forming the World-Soid Papers in
Grotesque Garb In Cleveland.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-04-28
AnriIi,.x Entertainment.

Perhaps the most thrilling entertain ment on record was one witnessed in the Romagna. which was as unexpected as it was unauthorized. It was the last day of the carnival. and the theater of Formhpopoh was packed with crowd of spectators awaiting the rise of the curtain. After a long delay the curtain went up. only to disclose a stage occu- pied by 100 brigands facing the audi enee with pointed rifles
 The leader of the strange cast. Il Passatore. one of the most ruthless rob bers of any age. bowed profoundly to the horror stricken audience and ex- plained that the theater was surrounded by his men. that the first man who att tempted Co escape would be shot. and that he and his merry men would pro eeed to collect any money and valuaoies they had with them
 The brigand and bis men then de- scended from the stage and stripped the audience of their possessions to the val ue of $4OO. O00 He then. thanked them all in a graceful speech and left the theater. IL is comforting to know that be and 100 of his brigands were cap tured shortly after and that they paid . heavy penalty for their evenings en- rtainment-Cinoinnati Enquirer.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-04-28
CURRENT MIscElLANY.s'

An amusing Incident occurred on the flagship NfeCaulley. which vas in the lead of the recent naval parade, Aboard the tug. occupying a promia nent position on the upper deck. was q young man who carried binoculars and wore nautical cap He was escorting a young woman and took great delight in translating to her the different sentiments expressed by the International flags strung aloft on the many craft Whether the young man really understood the national code nobody present had knowledge enough about 1t to be sure. but he finally convinced all hands. Including his confiding young friend. that he was an unblnshlng fraud. Down the river. half a mile away. was Hue of nuttering flags or something of that kind on the government cruiser Prai- rie. attached to a lne running from the bow to the top of the lag mast. The young man glanced through his glasses a moment and promptly decid- ed that the combination read. Re member the Maine."- Great was bis chagrin when the flagship drew near and the duttering flags turned out to be the seamen's shirts that had been hung out to dry. The Prairie was the only ship ln the river of any sife that did not have lag decorations.-Phila- ielphia Record.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-04-28
Much Ado Aeeu, Nothing.

Our German friends. says Leslie's Weekly, are bound to have fuss. The foolish outcry against Captain Cogh- Ian for telling the truth at the Union league banquet Is proof of this, but stronger proof Is found in the silly controversy raised by the German em- bassador In Washington over the dis play of the flags of the United States. England and Germany on the auxil- iary cruiser Badger. which took the joint commission to Samoa. The Bad ger has only two masts. and Germany insisted that on one of them It's flag should fly.
 But there were two other flags. and hnally this very serious question was Settled by the secretary of state on the basis that line should be strung hori- zontally from the two masts. upon which line the three flags should all be flown on the same level Verify this Is q day of small things. and the ditfi- culty In Samoa Is one of the srnallest. Three great nations are disputing over thls island. though the last census shows that there are only 439 British subjects In Samoa. % Americans and 20 Germana
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-04-28
RioriaxAc Cork Into a Bottle.

Ask some of the company if they can blow a small bit of cork which you have placed in the mouth of bottle so that it will go into the body of the bottle
 Lay the bottle on the table upon itA nde and place the bit of cork about an inch or less inside the open end The uninitiated will blow until they get red 10 the face. and the cork will invariably come out of the bottle instead of going into 1t. There is a simple reason for it too The direction of the air forced by the enc blowing brings it against the bottom of the bottle. The air congresses within the bottles walls and must hnd an outlet: therefore 1t Is turned and fore cd cat at the only vent the bottle has necessarily blowing the cork with it But take a common lemonade straw. place the end of it near the cork in tho bottle neck. blow very gently-and the cork rolls in
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-04-28
Large Dairy Herd Starts
 For the KlOndike.
ANOTHER Is TO 60 SOON
D. Barns, the Bennett Dealer, rakes in Five cars of Cattle, Sheep and Hogs--Hsavy Capital Invested iz
 Supplying Dawsoa Meat Market.

Joseph conte, who arrived on the To- peka. has shipped thlrty-hve COWS, twenty Of them having calves, tO Bennett for send ing town the tIvsr to Dawson where he will start a dairy. L. H. Heldlnger of Skagxly will soon take ln fifteen cows to start another dairy h Dawson.
 Two cars of cattle. two of sheep and one oi hogs were shipped to Bennett Wednes- dav by D. Burns, the Bennett meat man
 Live stock Is still pouring Into the fu- kon valley by the way of Skagwav. All through the winter big expeditions of sat- tie were driven down the rver over the ice to Dawson, and now biz herds are be- ing taken h to await an opportunity of taking them down the stream on loats or ScowS.
 These live stock shipments are among the most hlZaitous of any made to the interior. largely because of the unceTtainty of the meat market of the region, and the danger of finding the market heavily over stocked.
 Some of the cattle expeditions going in through the winter required a capital of thousands of dollirS, and there was one, conducted by [. Il. Miller, that was not operated at less cost than s4o,OOo, and from reports of the glutted condition of the market he found robbed him Of all profits and he lost heavily.
 Nearly all the winter, Indians and oth- CTS have taken caribou meat into Dawson from the headwaterS Of the klontike. Not long ago a party of Indians arrived there with several tobogRan loads of moose meat from the Mackenzie river. They made the journey to market by g~ing up the Pearl and down the KlOndike and after lt was ended, much of their meat had been damaged by the warm weather that had prevailed during their trip, and it was thought mueh of the meat would have 10 be thrown away.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-04-28
u.n,.a Hl. Moa.,.. worth.

"Havs you any choice as to the we'd ding marchl" asked the church orsanisk "The wedding marchl'' echoed the father of the bride.
 "Yes; the march that is played when the bridal procession moves down the aisle. Which one would you prefer- Mendslssohn's or the march from To- hengrinf' !"
 "Any difference in the expenser'
 "Oh. nor'
 Than play the one that's the lon- eesk k"-Washington StAz.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-04-28
nra.rinr nreakfa.t Ia InaIa.

Shortly after her arrival in India . yourS woman missionary was allowed 10 order breakfast for the household in order to test her progress In the lan- guage She intended to ask for tresn eggs. but used the wrong words. saying to the astonished cook. 'You may bring uA this morning. an old blind man nicely boiledr'
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-04-28
nnh stuaIed Greek.

"Pa said little Willie. propOundins his sixteenth question
 "well. my sont
 "Pa. how'd the man who nAmec , ,ne nrst bicvcle know it was oicycieF F-- pittsburg Bulletin.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-04-28
mn. NIniINe.

Wait.-I don't believe you ever mis' An amateur performance -
 Potts .Of course l don't sitting through amateur performances makes me enjoy professional work SO much mora Indianapolis Journal
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-04-28
stuck Up ThIngi

No woman who drives up in front of store in her buggy and oompels clerks Co come out is popular. though she may be only IS and have dimples and money. -Atchisou Globe