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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
OUTDOOR RELIEF AND BURIALs.


Out door relief, Lower .....,S 1909 Ol
" :" I1dt1e.:.': Middle ...... ts'1IS us 3 3
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Wv: y : ffis%s~sr'' fisSs5 fsSs'SS'' Directors.
Attest: c. Fred Kline, Secretary.
We, the undersigned auditors of the Middle
Coal Field Poor District. do certify that we
ceipts and vouchers for the expenditures of
the directors and steward and find them cor
rect as above stated.
L.G. Lubrecht,
j. W. Maloy. Auditors.
j. E. Rosenstock,
Attest: Jas A Sweeney. Secretary.
Average number of Inmates. es................lgS
CLASSIFICATION OF INMATES REMAINING.
MaIes IN Hospital! .;............... 90
Females in Hospital ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. :. So
Males in AlmShOuse Observation-Disclosures. Al
Females in Almshouse.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IL
2Os
OF the above 35 males and IS females are
insane.
INMATES DIED DURING THE YEAR.
Warren Duntson, Jan 30, age 62
Mrs John McGlyn, Feb 10, age 6l
Fritz Davis, Feb 27, age 10
James Murrin, Mar 8, age As.
David Thomas, Mar -. age 20.
Peter Berry, Mar Is, age TO-
Mrs John Gallagher, Mar %, age 75
Thomas Boyle, Mar 20, age 49,
John Brill, Mar30, age 15
James Donahue, Apr =, age 62.
John Gallagher, Apr 4, age 50.
Edward Kelley Apr 30, age 49,
Mrs Casper Schlief, May /, age G5
John Prop, May 10, age As.
James Haines, May 26, age As.
Michael Lichman, June "a. age 81.
George Yutko, June 20, age 81.
Mike Paddle, Aug d, age 80.
Cormin Cerville, Aug 70, age q.
Dick Brown. Oct 2, age IS.
Mrs. Dinsmore, Oct ~ age 65.
JOS Weber. Nov 20, age So
John Matulu, Nov %, age 10.
Mary kosto, Dec |, age 63.
Mary Wright, Dec 2, age "a.
Jere Wright Dec 10, age Us.
Patrick Gallagher, Dec II. age rs.
CHILDREN BORN IN 1899.
Born to Mary Fowler, Oct 20, girl.
Born 10 Mrs Jacobs, Oct "A, girl.
MACHINERY.
4two-horse wagons, l two-seated carriaqc,
/ one-seated carriage, cart, l spring wagon,
3 two-horse sleds, | two-seated Sleigh hand
plows, sulkey plow, 3 harrows, z hay rakes >
md9wing dri1r % machines haI REAPER | binder, / seed
cutter, fan mill land roller.
PRODUCE OF FARM
2030 bushels potatoes, $40 mangels wurtgel;
100 bushels beets, 10 bushels carrots, 45 bushels
turnips, 2OiO bushels corn in the ear, $50 bushels
rye, ls2U bushels oats, % bushels apples, In
bushels tomato"s, 1000 celery, 5000 cabbuge.
S5 tons hay, 172 bushels buckwheat, 30 bushels
onions, O6O lbs lard, 1850 lbs pork 800 lbs veal
,245 lbs beef, 3,l2O lbs butter, barrels sauer-
kraut, 26 barrels soft soap, $500 lbs hard soap,
head of horses, mules, IL cows, II heifers q
steers, bull, calves. 43 hogs and shoates l2O
Chickens Il turkeys, ducks.
ARTICLES MADE IN THE HOUSE.
n6 bed ticks, 100 pillow ticks q bolster ticks,
80 sheets, 3l6 pillow cases. II bolster cases. 3G
women's night gowns, 22 children's night
gowns, 70 women's dresses % children's dress
es, "A infant dresses, l4y women's chimses, II
WON'T MS petticoats "a chdrens petticoats, l5
infants petticoats, 1l3 women's aprons. IL
childi ems aprons, Is women's uuderwaists s
children's waists, TO towels, As window cur
tans, 10 shrouds
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

They tell us the tariff does not pro-
tect trust! Take two instances that
are familiar in this section. The boraX
trust is selling it's product to Ameri-
cans at seven and one-fourth cents
pound, and to Europeans at three and
one-half cents. 1t is enabled to do this
by tariff of five cents pound. The
steel and wire trust is selling barb
wire to Americans who have kindly
provided it with protective tariff for
this purpose, at s4.13 hundred pounds,
to Canadians at 1925 and to Europeans
at $2.20.-Clinton Democrat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

Average number of inmates including Ste
wards department. l9S; cost per month S5.52:
cost per week, Sl.3o; cost per day q cents.
George Il. Wells, Steward.
Ida NJ. Wells, Matron
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

The ratification of the treaty of
peace with Spain brought Puerto Rico
and the Philippines under the consti-
tuition, according to the precedents es-
tablished by decisions of the supreme
court, and it is impossible to ignore
the situation thus created. Puerto
Rico should be constituted at once as
a territory of the United States. And
holding the comfort, happiness and
prosperity of Puerto Rico in our hands
and possibly the lives of the people,
no prejudiced notions of protection
should lead America into an unjust
course toward a defenseless people.
Whatever may be done in the case of
the Philippines our duty to Puerto
Rico is plain and unmistakable.-Me
vile Morning Star, Ind. Rep.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
L. G. Lubrecht,
j. W. Aaloy, Auditors.
APPEN DIX.

}. L. RusenstOck,
Attest Jas, a. Sweeney, seer tary.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

president Mckinley has committed
the first almost irreparable mistake of
his administration, and "a mistake
big with the possibilities of serious dis
aster for his party in this years cleo
tions. 1t may not jeopardize his own
nomination." Mr. kohlsaat goes on,
but it puts a whip in the hands of
every Democratic speaker with which
to scourge Republican congressman
wherever they appear for reelection.
If congress and the president persist in
their present course nothing can save
the Republican party from defeat next
November. 1t will surely cost them
the house of representatives and it
may cost them the presidency. Chi
cago Times-Herald, Rep.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

Between 100000 and 100000 vot-
ers will oppose the administration and
support anti-imperialists. We will in
all probability hold a convention after
the regular convention, and we
will select a standard bearer and
platform, probably in the way of in
dorsing an already nominated candi-
date. The Puerto Rican tariff has had
the effect of cutting the Republican
party in two. Mckinley himself does
not know what imperialism is. He is
like Hamlet, who, trying to make
Polonius believe he is crazy, gazes at
the moon and says, ut is ship" and
again, lit is a rat."-Erving Winslow,
Secretary Anti-Imperialistic League.
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and licked his hand, and rubbed against
his legs. One of the keepers threw n
rope to the boy and called out:
Don't be afraid! Tie the rope around
his neck and he will let you lead him
back to his cage"
The boy obeyed, and n minute later
he had the tiger back in his cage and
the door fastened. Then a great shout
went up from the people, and all came
running in. No doubt the lad was bad
ly frightened, as any man would have
been, but he had captured the tiger
and it was right that he should
be praised and made much of. lie was
given so many pieces of silver that he
went home with all his pockets bulg-
ing out, and | am glad TO tell you that
he used this money to help educate
himself, and that when he grew up
to manhood he became a great doctor.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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ne meant it. I just wonder who did
| write that?'
When a woman's curiosity is fully
| aroused, nothing but the facts in the
| case will satisfy her, and Miss Hetty
was annoyed to find herself growing
| more and more curious regarding the
identity of the sender of the valen-
tine.
I" IT'D be serving him right if I set
light in my window to lure him on,
and then dash dipper of cold water
over him when he came to the door,"
she said, with unwonted severity. 81
just ought to-now that writing does
look kind o familiar, even if it is wrote
back-handed with view to conceal
ing it."
She had slipped the sheet of paper
into a drawer of her work table, and
now she took it out and looked at it
again.
I've seen that writing before" she
said positively. "Now I'm just going to
set here an look at it until I've stud
led it out where I've seen it,"
She put aside her sewing and sat
very still gazing at the sheet of paper
spread out in her lap. Having once
formed a resolution, Hetty Dryden
chung to it tenaciously, even though it
was of trifling Importance. For fully
ten minutes she sat looking at the writ
ing in different lights. Then a sug-
gestion Of a smile came into her face,
and her eyes twinkled merrily. She
laid the letter on her table and walked
across the exquisitely neat little room
to an old-fashioned mahogany book
case. Opening the glass door of the
bookcase, Miss Hetty stepped upon
hassock and took down a small vol
ume of Byron's poems bound in green
and gold. Opening the book, she read
on the yellowtinted fy-leaf:
ITO Miss Hetty Dryden with many
good wishes for a merry Christmas and
n happy New Year, from her friend
and well wisher, Jared II. Lawson"
The writing was eight years old, and
Hetty had not looked at it for at least
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-02-08
SUBDUED BY A BOY.
Big Tiger Allows Himself to he Led
Back to His Cage by Lame
Little YOungster.

One day, in the Royal Geological gar
dens of London, man who had been
making some repairs to the cage con-
tanning a large tiger went away, leav-
ing the door unfastened. 1t seemed as
if the tiger had been watching for this,
for hardly had the man departed when
the savage beast sprang out. The ami
NAL house was full of people, and men,
women and children shouted and
screamed and fled for their lives. Pres
emily there was only one person left
in the place, and that was a lame boy
who could not run. The tiger snarled
and growled and crouched down for
a spring, but the boy stood in his tracks
and looked the savage beast straight
in the eyes. He had read in a book that
if you look n beast full in the face he
will not attack you. Thus boy and
tiger stood for long minute, and then
the tiger slowly walked up to the boy
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CANARY WAS VAIN.
wanted to lie Put In ms Fine and
differing Cage ms His More
Fortunate Rivals.

''Do you know" said the obseryant
gentleman, that, with the exception
Of peacock, | believe a canary bird is
the vainest Of all creatures?" Both my
wife and myself are very fond Of pets,
and we keep several of these little
sDHgsiers always in the house.
"Ore of the cages was very old, hay-
ing been in the family for years, and
was used as much for traditions as for
econcmy's sake.
Il had frequently remarked to my
wife that ! believed the occupant Of
this cage was ashamed of his shabby
dwelling place, and observed with en-
vious eyes the fact that the other song
eters were more artistically lodged.
"Eventually the old cage collapsed,
and il became necessary TO purchase
a new one. In order to test my belief
in the intelligence Of my feathered
friend | made it point to get him
the prcttiest little brass house that |
could find.
"The effect was magical. No sooner
was he turned into his new house than
he began 10 sing as he bad never sung
before, con~,etely drowning out the
music of tn, >ther birds, and behaving
otherwise in a manner altogether be-
coming his sudden rise in life."-N. Y.
World
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THE LITTLE GRUMBLER,

He begins in the morning to grumble,
He says that he's called too soon,
And he'll keep right on while dressing
With the same old whining tune.
Then when he goes 10 his breakfast
If ii don't suit, how he'll growli
When you do your best to please him
He is very apt 10 scowl.
When his hands and face you're washing,
Be careful!-he's sure to cry:
He don't see the use of such rubbing,
He says, with n dreadful sigh.
But still don't call him dirty,
If his hands and face are soiled,
For il greatly offends this fellow
Who by grumbing may be spoiled.
Yes, dear little grumbler. remember
That when you become man,
This fretting will then be chronic,
If you don't stop it now, while you can.
II you only could see, my darling,
That from care your life is now free;
BY and by will come the trials
Very happy now you should be.
"~Alice Penney Hurd, in n w. Christian
Advocate,
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BOY AND ELEPHANT.
Life Among the animals of
n Tropicn; Forest.

"The Boy and the Elephant" is the
title of an Interesting story in st.
Nicholas. The author, Gustavus frank
enstein. tells of the kidnapping of a boy
by wild beast that treated him kind
ly. The opening paragraphs describe
the abduction and the experiences
that Immediately followed it.
1t was on the bank of a beautiful
river, and they stood looking at each
other, little Moro and the noble ele-
plant that had saved his life from n
crocodile. The elephant gently wound
its trunk around the body of the little
boy, and, taking him up, went away
through the thicket into the deep
jungle. Moro had seen tame ele-
plants, and was at first not afraid;l
but as he was carried along through
the forest he became uneasy. Il want
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rier," she said, "you have a letter for
me, haven't you?"
Joey's smile developed into an actual
grin, as Ne said:
MON, it amt no letter It's some
thing better than letter.
He had been Juggling away at his
REFER with his mittened hands as he
spoke, and he now brought out large,
square, deliberately embossed envelope,
addressed in an apparently disguised
hand to Miss Hetty Dryden.
"There!' said joey, triumphantly, as
he held out the envelope; "who do you
reckon sent it?"
''Some one with little to do" said
Miss Hetty, rather severely. She was
far from being acrid or severe in her
speech, but she felt rather annoyed as
she looked at the missive in her hand.
Some one, she thought, was taking lib
critics with her, or, perhaps, holding
her up to ridicule, and, kind and gentle
as she was, she had spirit enough to
resent either offense.
'Why don't you open it?" asked Joey.
Oh' 'iii P'N9 oHC Seiius
She got Joey seed cake and he went
on his way, disappointed and little re-
bellious because Miss Hetty had not
opened the envelope containing the val
entine in his presence.
Hetty sat down by her work table and
took a pair of small, shining scissors
from her workbasket. The frown had
come back to her face, which still had
a youthful look, although she would
be 80 her next birthday. There were
but few strands of gray in the shining
brown hair lying in natural waves over
her white temples. She had not yet
come to glasses" and the little excite
ment of receiving the valentine had
filled her brown eyes with sparkle
and brightness and brought a flush
to her cheeks that made Miss Hetry
n very pretty woman at that moment
Indeed there were those in the village
who declared that Hetty Dryden was
mighty good-lookin' woman" at any
time. It was her choice that she was
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a spinster, living alone in her little
white and green house at the end of
! the long village street. Had she been
given to such vulgar Boosting she
could have told her friends that she
had had plenty of chances" Indeed, it
would have taken all of the fingers and
even the thumb of her plump right
hand for Hetty Dryden to have count
ed up" the offers she had had right
there in Hebron during the past 20
years. More than one elderly widower
hac gone disconsolately from her gate
during even the last five years, cha
grined and rebellious because Miss Het-
ty firmly, but kindly, declined to
change her name.
The last rejected sutton had been
Hiram Dyer, widower of but eight
months and the possessor of eight "aw-
full children who had undoubtedly
been largely instrumental in worrying
and wearying their poor mother into
her grave.
"Mebbe this is from Hiram Dyer"
Hettv Dryden said, as she shipped off
the end of the envelope containing the
valentine. HE said I'd hear from him
again. If / felt sure it came from him,
I'd send it back. don't want him nor
his valentine, either"
The valentine that Miss Hetty drew
from the envelope was not made of
paper lace and tinsel and embossed
doves and flowers. 1t was instead a
squarly- folded sheet of blue lined note
paper, on which was written in an evil
IDENTIFY disguised hand:
"This night at eight,
For to know his fate,
Your valentine will wait
At your front gate.
If from your east window
A light doth shine,
He will enter In
To claim his valentine.
If all Is dark
He will go away,
Leaving forever unsaid
What he wants to say.
O, be not cruel nor unkind,
But let light shine
For your valentine"
The flush in Hetty Dryden's cheeks
deepened as she let the bit of paper
fall to her lap.
"Such nonsense! I'd probably never
hear the end of it if I was goose enough
to really set a light in my east win
dow. But I'm not going to. Seems to
me I've seen writing like that be-
fore"
She held the sheet of paper out and
looked at it quizzically, with her head
twisted little on one side.
at doesn't seem possible that any
man in his right mind would do any
thing so silly as to make up jingle like
that and send it to a woman, even if
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-02-08
HUMOROUS

"They call clambakes now Dewey
breakfasts" why SOP" Because
they're eaten between shells. What
to Eat.
Mudge-"I can't help suspecting the
sincerity of man that always agrees
with me-" Yabsley-"I should think
you would suspect his sanity."-Indian-
apolis Press.
Hogan-"Do you behave in dreams,
Mike?" Dugan-"Faith an l do!
Lasht night dremt l was awake an in
the mornin' me drem KEN thrue."-
Princeton Tiger.
"Did your grandmother remember
you in her will?" "Yes, she had a clause
in there instructing the executors to
collect all the loans she had made me-"
baltimore News.
A mother teaching her child to tell
time explained, one l stands for one,
two Is for two, three is for three, and
so on, and then asked: What time is it
now, darling?" THE big hand is at one
I and the little hand at cross Isl" ex-
claimed the little one.-Youth's Com
panion.
Parental Diplomacy.-"But what are
your objections to the young man"
asked the mother. "None," answered
the other half of the management of
the young woman. Then why did you
refuse his request for Ethels hand"
"Only for the dear child's good. If ha
has any spirit at all, he will go ahead
and marry her anyhow, and if he don't
she is we'll rid of him" --Indianapolis
Press.
A retired farmer, after returning
from a continental tour-on which he
had long set his heart-was narrating
one evening to his friend, the DOCTOR
how he had visited "the majestic Lake
of Geneva, and trodden the banks of
Blue Leman." Excuse me-" inter-
rupted the doctor, Lake Geneva and
Lake Leman are synonymous" THAT,
my dear sir" replied the farmer, 81
know very well; but are you aware
that Lake Leman is the more synony-
nous of the two?"-Bombay Guardian.
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WOES OF THE PRETTY WOMAN
She Has Her Troubles the Same ms
Her Sister of Palmer Fea-
lures.

The pretty woman has her woes as
we'll as her palmer sister.
DO you know, / think that plain
women have the best of it, after ALL"
remarked a woman who is so unde-
niably pretty that she can afford to
talk dospondently about it. Take the
woman in business, for instance. VINO
would worry about pretty woman's
success? A man admires her for her
appearance or else doesn't think about
her. His sense of chivalry isn't trou-
bled because he thinks everyone else
will be nice and consderate to pref
ty girl. AS far as business is con-
cerned he doesn't think about her at
all. He considers, on principle, that
pretty woman isn't useful or clever.
On the other hand, very plain wom-
an, who has neither beauty, style nor
manner, is apt to rouse his sympathy.
She may not want it, of course, but
he unconsciously thinks: We'll, here's
a girl with odds against her. I'll give
her chance If she proves clever it
doesn't come as such a surprise as
when the pretty woman proves that
she is not entirely devoid of intelli-
gence. Then men distrust the pretty
woman and women envy her and she
always gets credit for being design
ing and vain, whether she is or not.
All of this does not render her posi-
ton in life very genial, if she is poor
and comparatively alone in the world,
and if she adds graces of mind and
charm of manner to beauty of face
and figure she is not apt to make
many well meaning friends"
Seems to me you are rather bitter
this morning" observed the pretty
woman's friend. (Which 'spiteful cat
has been criticising you now, l won
der?"
"None. They don't bother me-pery
much. 1 was just thinking of the
trials and woes | have had which are
directly traceable to what people call
my 'piquante face If | were hand
some it would be different. | could
be majestic and awe-inspiring then,
but | am only just ornamental enough
to look useless in an Office or a school
loom and not sufficiently dazzling to
pose as professional beauty. / don't
care to be typewriter or go on the
stage, and in all other professions
good looks seem to be drawback. /
mean it. They may enable one to get
positions easily. But do they help one
TO keep them? l tried teaching small
children once. Their mother accused
me Of flirting with her husband-a
short, stout, apoplectic man of 30
because he remarked in her hearing
that / was a fine looking girl. Men
the most of men whom my sisters
have married-dcn't marry really
pretty girls. They marry plain girls
with pretty points, girls whose looks
depend great deal upon the way
they dress their hair or put on their
clothes. The average man fights shy
of a beautiful wife. / shall probably
end by marrying an old gentleman
who wants an attractive person to
preside at his dinner table"
And then she sighed and put on her
hat-without looking in the mirror
Chicago Chronicle.
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A wize ned-faced newsboy climbed on
q Detroit street car the other evening
and worming his way past the conduc-
tor. walked down the aisle yelling:
Las edi,ion-all about Sigler brud-
ders fndin' de tray Of dimons!"
lie sold several papers, and when ne
was passing out a man looked Ground
and yelled to him:
Say, boy, where did they flI7 that
tray?"
The youngster paused in the door.
way.
I'm n pack o. cards!" he shouted
back, and disappeared. - Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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The Stnb.

Man hates the comic valentine
Because, in sooth,
He always knows that II contains
A grain OF truth.
Brooklyn Life.
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A Four-Leggcd Criminal.

A mastitf was trained to assist
thieves in Paris. 1t was in the habit
of bounding against old gentlemen and
knocking them over in the street. A
lady" and "gentleman"-owners of the
dog-would then step forward toJ as
sist the unfortunate gentleman to rise
and while doing so would ease him of
his watch aud purse.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-02-08

According to the best statistics avail
able. says the Mexican Herald, over
$500, 900 worth OF American shoes were
sold in Mexico during 1899.
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And even helped him choose the seal,
Two hearts bound with fetter.
"The rose is red the violets blue,
Sugar is sweet, and so are you"
And Jacks papa sent to mamma,
When he was just eleven,
The same rhyme for valentine,
She being aged seven.
The envelope was tinted pink.
And up within one corner,
With bow and arrows, wings and eh.
Sat Cupid, little scorner.
1.-THE rose is red, the violets blue,
Sugar is sweet, and so are you"
And Master Jack shot out last night
AS swift as any rocket,
But not before / caught a glimpse
OF something in his pocket.
1t was letter-bless the boy!-
And l knew in a minute.
The next day was Saint Valentines.
And so, just what was in it.
1.-The rose is red, the violets blue,
Sugar is sweet, and so are you"
Eleanor A. Hunter, in Golden Days.