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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
The Life of Tennyson.
AS told by herself.l

AS told by herself.l
| am going to tell you my history,
but before l go any further I will tell
you that l am a cat, for you might not
know it if did not tell you. Before l
opened my eyes | heard some one say,
We will have to drown these kittens;
we cannot keep so many" That made
my blood run cold. | knew but little
about the water, and | had a perfect
horror of it, but still hoped the people
would change their minds. One day
girl came down and said that her sister
had said if they would not drown us
she would take all six OF us. That
made me feel little better, SO I slept
as soundly as healthy kitten could
sleep. And one day / opened my eyes
and saw what was to be my home. One
day the people moved away and took
us with them. | was afraid the little
girl that wanted us would not come,
and we would be drowned. But one
day she came and got me, but did not
take any of my brothers and sisters. |
heard one Of the people say they want
ed the rest of the kittens So | had to
go alone. | thought | would be lone
some, but when we got to my new
home there were two or three other
cats. The little girls mamma came
out to see me, and they tried to think
of name that would suit me, but they
could not, so when my mistress big
sister came home she said to name me
Lord Alfred Tennyson, but her other
sister wanted my name to be Dwight
Moody. But every one but her calls
me Tennyson. Sometimes my mistress
has company, but among all her
friends | like the one she calls Bette
the best. l like her almost as we'll as l
do my own mistress. l have a very
pleasant home. | have three children
now They are not as big as | am,
though. So this is my history as far
as | can remember.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

and by the soldiers stalked in again,
laughing. The train moved on slowly
through the deep woods. The warm
summer air came in, and the smell of
wet trees. Those who had awakened
slept. Only the man with bowed
head moved now and then uneasily.
The train ran very slowly through
the night, coming now and then al
most to standstill. Then at last it
increased its speed little. Then a
little more. By and by a roar as Of a
waterfall came in at the open windows.
Almost at the same instant a rending,
tearing crash-a scream Of some one
waking-a falling away of all beneath,
and then about, above and below
from every side it came-the choking,
drowning water.
A moment later there were strug-
Cling forms on the surface of the
moonlit river. A few with presence
of mind were dragging themselves
through the open windows to air and
life above the flood. One man, q
strong swimmer, reached the shore
and helped two others up the bank.
They were the two soldiers. The
man who aided them plunged back to
scve others. He caught another man
just on the point of exhaustion and
pushed him to where the soldiers
could reach him. Then he seized a
woman by the hair and dragged her
to the bank. A babes white dress
ioated to the surface just then and
he struck out for it. The current
dragged it under for an instant, then
threw it once more into the moon.
light. The swimmer pulled toward
it hercely. He seized it just as it was
being dragged under again. Then he
turned toward the shore, but he was
very tired, and the current was resist.
less. The soldiers Watching him saw
how he battled for life-his own life
and the babes. They ran down the
food, calling to him helplessly. When
he disappeared they stood watching
the water
1t was daylight when they found
him below the rapids. He was still
holding the babe. The river was tired
OF. them. The slim soldier turned the
drowned mans face to the light. He
stared an instant, then he said:
'Bill! Lord God, Bill Lookr'
The stout soldier leaned forward.
''Lord God! YesI' lie echoed. "It's
him!"
1t was the man who had run at San
Juan.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

I followed the tracks early in the
morning, and before I got half way
round the mountain L saw my cousin.
He was nearly dead and could not
speak. Close to him was the loup
crevier frozen stiff. My cousin had
slipped into a cleft of the rock just
after he had fired and wounded the
lynx and when he was within twenty
yards of it. One of his legs was
broken. As soon as he fell the lynx
sprang upon him and tore off part of
his scalp. He killed it with his knife
but could not get out of the hole in the
rock on account of his broken leg.
Nor could he reach his gun to fire it
off and let me know. There he must
have remained and died alone if 1 had
not chanced to come. I lifted him out
of the crack but his fingers snapped
otf-they were frozen"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
A Faithful Dog.

Last winter party OF prospectors
were camped on the Valdes, one of
Alaska's great glaciers. Day after day
they had worked their way forward,
death disputing every foot with them,
until it was decided that the main par
ty should remain in camp, and two OF
their number, accompanied only by
dog. should endeavor to find a trail
which would lead them from the gla-
cier For days the two men wandered.
until nature succumbed and they lay
down, weary and exhausted. Their
faithful companion clung to them, and
the warmth of his body was grateful,
as they crouched low, with the bitter
ice-laden wind bowling about them.
Their scanty stock of provisions was
well-nigh exhausted, when one OF
them suggested sending the dog back
to camp. This was a forlorn hope,
but their only one. Quickly writing a
few words on a leaf torn from a book,
they made it fast around the dogs
neck and encouraged him to start back
on the trail The sagacious animal
did not appear to understand, but after
repeated efforts they persuaded him to
start, and he was soon swallowed up
in the snow, the mist and the storm.
Two days and nights passed. during
which the men suffered untold ago
nies. On the evening Of the third day.
when all hope had gone and they were
becoming resigned to their fate, out OF
the binding and drifting snow bound
ed the faithful dog. and close behind
him came ready hands to minister to
their wants.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
Loved All Animals.

Charles Kingsley seems to have
loved every living creature around
him, and he taught his children to re-
epect even the most loathsome insects.
Mrs. Kingsley tells how family OF
runaway toads made their home in a
hole on the green bank at Eversley,
and the scythe was never allowed to
approach their retreat. He had two
little friends in pair of sand-wasps,
which lived in crack of the window
in his drawing room, one Of which he
had saved from drowning in a basin OF
water, and every spring he would look
out eargerly for them or their young,
which came out OF, or returned to, the
same crack. He petted the white sta
BILE cat and the black house cat, and
sat up with a sick dog during the last
two nights of its suffering life. Wher-
ever he went he was followed about
the parish by his faithful little Dandy
Dinmont, whose intelligent face was
always to be seen at the lectures and
school lessons, and was known to
every cottager in the place, being al
most as much esteemed by them as the
Kingsley children, whose attached
friend he was for ten years.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
Words Often Mispronounced.

Carnegie (Andrew), Kar-NEGe sc"
in second syllable as in ebb).
Ether and neither are preferred to
i-ther and ni-ther by Webster, Walker
and Smart.
Room, SCOT, roof, broom and soon
have long sound of 90, as IN food; many
give incorrect sound, as in foot.
Decollete da-kol-TA go" as in
"old'), not daKOL-ta.
Bap-tis.ter-i, not bap-tis-tri.
Canton-In China, KaiTON, in the
United States, KAN-ton.
Krupp is pronounced as Kroop 100
same as in "ooze".
Nicaragua is pronounced Ne-ka-RA-
gwa.
vocable-Ir-R bile, not
ir-re-NO -kG-bl.
Patriotism is patriotism, not pat.
ri.ot-ism.
Figaro is fe-ga-RO, not Figaro.
Herculaneum is properly her-ku-
LA-ne-um ('a" in accented syllable
same as ii "ask'0.
Vagary is va-GA-ri, not VA ga-ri.
Wilhem is pronounced Yii-helm.-
indianapolis Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
WISE WORDS,
Juan.

To be alone in ones appreciation of
beauty is like striking chords only in
the bass or treble. To perceive such
things in harmony with another, is to
be in touch with the very principle of
nature. 1t is the face of man answer
ing to the face of man in the waters
of the spirit.
We often pass by the souls that
would best reflect our own, because
at the time some turmoil has troubled
the depths of our nature, and all i'm
ages that fall upon it are distorted.
The face and eyes reveal what the
spirit is doing, what aim it has. When
the eyes say one thing and the tongue
another, the practical man relies on
the language of the first.
Kind looks, kind words, kind acts,
and warm handshakes-these are the
secondary means of grace when men
are i'll trouble, and are fighting their
unseen batteries.
Many a failure to do ones duty
might be traced to q failure to realize
that there is never but one duty to be
done at time.
Philosophy triumphs easily enough
over past and future evils, but pres.
ent evils triumphs over philosophy.
Let each man make himself as he
teaches others to do. He who is well
subdued may subdue others.
Necessity may render a doubtful
act innocent, but it cannot make il
praisewofthy,
A crack in the wall may be very
small, but you can see great deal
through it.
1t is easier for a philosopher I'd
stand tribulations than vexations.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

There are many instances in which
an author made a pet of a bird In
Mrs. Gordon's biography of her father,
there is story told of how he found q
hapless sparrow one day on the door.
step, scarcely fledged and quite unable
to care for itself. He carried it into his
room and cared for it, and from that
day it became his protege. 1t became
perfectly domesticated, leading life
of peace and prosperity with its kind
patron for nearly eleven years. That
gifted and lovable woman, Mrs. Som
erville, kept herself surrounded by
birds, and her fondness for them was
so great that even when engaged on
the most abstruse problems, she
thought she could work better and with
a mind more at ease if she had one OF
her favorites for companion. In her
letters she writes of her dear old par
rot, Lory, who is still alive and merry"
and later speaks about the tanned spar
row that always sat on her arm when
she wrote. She tells of the nightin-
gales and other birds that she had
rescued from dogs, and of her favorite
long tailed paroquet, Esmeralda, which
lived with her many years.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

Investigations in England show that
the greatest trouble to be met in the
use of pneumatic tires on heavy
vehicles is not from puncture (which
accounts for only seven per cent. OF
the cases) but from the internal wear
of the material of the tire itself
Examinations showed that the fibrous
foundation and the rubber covering
were reduced in some cases both to q
powder by the frictional action. 1t is
well known that the "life," even of
the best rubber, is limited; and the
material breaks down completely after
a certain average number of millions
of hingeing vibrations.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

Beyond a doubt, says Rollin Lynde
Hartt in the Atlantic, the Mormon
church is, considered purely as a
political economists scheme, ''to-day
nearer to being a successful effort to
inaugurate the Brotherhood of Man
than anything ever tried" Here
then is a social and political force to
be reckoned with. Marvellous in its
power over the individual, it is
rapidly becoming an actual menace to
the nation. Already it numbers a
million adherents. 1t owns Utah.
1t holds the balance of power in Idaho,
in Wyoming. in Colorado, in Cali
tornia and in Nevada. When Arizona
and New Mexico are admitted to the
Union, it will control them also.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

stone derives this attribute: The blind
brazon gong before his palace gates,
and sit beside it on certain days, hear
ing and putting to right the grievances
OF any of his subjects. Those who
wished for his advice and help had but
TO sound the gong, and Immediately ad-
mission into the presence OF Caesar
was obtained. One day a great snake
crept up to the gate and struck the
brazen gong with her coils, and Theo7
doslus gave orders that no one should
molest the creature, and bade her tell
him her wish. The snake bent her crest
slowly in homage and straightway told
the following tale: Her nest was at
the base of the gateway tower, and
While she had gone to find food for her
young brood a strange beast, covered
with sharp needles, had invaded her
home, killed her nestlings. and now
held possession of the little dwelling.
Would Caesar grant her Justice? The
emperor gave orders for the porcupine
to be slain and the mother to be re-
stored to her desolate nest. Night fell.
and the sleeping world had forgotten
the emperor's kindly deed, but with the
early dawn a great serpent glided into
the palace, up the steps into the royal
chamber, and laid upon each of the
emperor's closed eyelids cleaning
topaz. When Emperor Theodosius
awoke he found he was no longer
blind, for the mother snake had paid
her debt of gratitude.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

Zone of the greatest troubles we
have to contend with is the careless
way in which most persons write the
letter II in an address," said an old
letter carrier the other day. "Wash-
ington is, perhaps, more apt to cause
us bother in this regard than any
other city, because lettered streets
are not so common in other localities,
but it seems to me that for this very
reason the people of the capital should
be more careful. OF course we have
the same trouble with those who send
letters here from outside places, but
the greater part of our extra labor in
this regard is on account of careless
writer's right here in our own city.
1t is so easy to mistake an T. for q
- that / should think most persons
would fall into the habit of writing
Eye street when they wished mis-
sive to be delivered in that particular
thoroughfarc. Many stores follow
this rule in sending out their goods. "
Washington Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

When CIR. is born in Korea she is
not even digniied by a name. Several
names are written on slips of paper
and placed in an urn before some IA
vorite deity. and when it is necessary
her godfather selects one without see
ing it. and she is known by it until
she reaches womanhood among the
members of her own family. Stran-
gers designate her as the wife, mother
sister or daughter of such or such a
man. This is not merely the result OF
custom. The laws are strict in this
matter and hold a woman OF little
more consequence than a domestic ami
mia. In the higher classes of society
the girls are separated from the boys
of the family at the age of Z years.
They occupy the apartments of women
and are forbidden to communicate with
anyone outside.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

John Ruskin, who, when he died
the other day, had passed his eightieth
year, was among the great English
men of the nineteenth century. He
broke down the wall of British Phil
istinism in art and for generation
was listened to with as great respect
as was Emerson before his circle in
this country. Whatever judgment be
passed on Ruskin's ideas, he set
people to thinking who had never
thought before, and what he had to
say he said in phrases that will live as
models of English prose.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

Patrons of the Topeka street cars
have been variously impressed of late
by framed placard conspicuously
placed in every one of the vehicles
and reading as follows: Passengers
must not leave or enter the car while
in motion" OF course, the average
Topekan instantly understands what
the inventor of this legend meant to
convey, obeys or disobeys the com
mand as caution or convenience die
tates, aad thinks no more of the mat
.er. In Kansas, as elsewhere, how
aver, there are people who think of
the how as well as the what of Ian
guage, and naturally these critical
ones are having a good deal of fun
over this latest specimen of English
as she IS wrote by some corporation
officials. It's undoubtedly q gem OF
sererest ray.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
A Shark Adventure.

A fisherman, Charles Cox, accom-
panied by one of his sons, aged eight,
went to Governors reef to fish for
squid, and anchored in twelve feet Of
water. They were half mile from
the shore, when suddenly the squid
darted away, and 81 huge shark, fully
twenty feet long, came to the surface
and rushed at the keel of the boat. 1t
seized it in its jaws and shook the boat
with such force as to send one OF the
gunwales under water. 4 moment
later the teeth of the monster were
crunching into the bottom boards of
the boat. The shsrk then stood off
and charged from astern. 1t missed
its mark and shot its head some two
feet over the bows of the boat. Cox
then heaved the anchor and cleared
away, reaching the shore without fur
ther trouble. An examination of the
boat showed that the sharks jaws
were two feet long, with an opening
capacity of fully eighteen inches. A
portion Of one of the teeth had broken
off in one of the boards, and when
drawn out measured two inches
Perth (Australia) Chronicle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

The Philadelphia Times says: "The
Nicaragua Canal must be built as
speedily as possible, and the question
of making it free under all conditions,
whether in peace or war, is one for
the craftsmanship of the country to
decide.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
THE BOER'S PRAYER.

NY back is to the wall,
Lol here L stand.
o Lord! whate'er befall,
l love this landl
The land that have till'd,
This land is mine.
Would, Lord, that Thou hadst WILD
This heart were Thinel
Thy servant, Lord, of old
Smote down the men
Whose images Of gold
They worshiped thenl
Those images again
Are worshiped now.
Before strange gods strange men,
o Lordl here bow!
This land to us Thou gave,
In days of old;'
They seek to make n grave
Or field Of gold!
To US, o Lordi Thy hand
Put forth to save
Give us, o Lordl this land,
Or give Il gravel
H. j. Morris, in New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
Cruel.

How can you object to my fiance?
He is chivalry, itself. The first time he
met me he tod me l was the most
beautiful and most interesting girl in
New York.
And you would trust your life to
a man who lies to you as shamelessly
as that at the very beginning of your
acquaintancen York World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
badness and Red Haired People.

Badness is far less common among
red-headed people than among their
dark-haired neighbors. The ordinary
crop on the head of red haired per-
son is about 29. 200 hairs.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

On the village green at Meriden, in
Warwickshire, there is a large stone
cross which is supposed to mark the
central point of England
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

Retrospection generally shows US
that we took good deal of trouble
to go around obstacles that we could
easily have pushed aside.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
Heroic Hand TO Hand Conflict.

Expeditions from India still go up
through tue Khyber pass and the
other passes along the Indian frontier,
ostensibly to punish rebellious chiefs,
and actually to kesp the boundary
line between Russian dominion and
English dominion from edgmg over
any nearer to India than it is now. OF
such nature was the famous bitter
fight with the Kaniut tribes of the
Kashmir in 1891, when small expe-
dition sent to Hunza found itself con-
fronting narrow gorge with precipi-
tous sides through which The road to
Hunza ran. The sides OF the gorge
were as steep as stone walls and
everywhere at points the face of the
rock were little nests Of natives, pro-
tected by some breast works. The
Englishmen went patiently to work
to take the Nilt fortress, which was
on fiat rock half way up the side of
one of the cliffs. Pushing breast
works before them, they got SO near to
the fort that Captain f. j. Angler
was able TO make wild dash at the
rear gate and blow it up with slabs of
guncotton before the natives could
collect themselves sufficiently to take
good aim at him. He was wounded
ty shot Gred so close to him that it
burned his uniform. The British
worked from the fort to the top of the
ridge surmounting it. From that
point they kept up sharpshooters'
fire on the breastworks one the other
side of the ravine, 400 yards away.
The Kanjuts were not able to look
over the edged of their breastworks
or to roll rocks down from them while
the sharpshooters kept up their fire.
Thus protected, column of fifty
picked climbers worked their way up
the face of the cliffs and drove the
tribesmen out of their roost in hand
to hand conflicts. This exhibition OF
nerve, muscle and skill completely
terrified the Kaniuts, and they fed
before the British from the whole
kanjut Valley.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
Stone of Gratitude,

The topaz is called the stone o. graf
itude, and the old Roman books record
the following legend from which the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

While nothing seems too good to
promise the men who arc going to
South Africa, the London newspapers
chronicle that a former officer OF the
Gordon Highanders, who served in tn,
Crimea, the Indian mutny and tn,
fights in the Northwest provinces, bcins
specially mentioned in dispatches fol
bravery, and whose life is unblemishcd
has been allowed 5 shillngs a week al,
outdoor relief by the Lambeth pooI
guardians, Enormous sums were col
lected for the soldiers at the time of tn,
Crimean war; and the Patriotic Fund
has large accumulations which it doe
not distribute,
The Rev. N. ". l>. hirhard OF
Plainfeld, N. J., was married recently,
When the bride cut the cake she found
In the bottom OF it a bag containing
$500, which had been contributed BY
The parishioners.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
A SHIPPERS HEROIC Wife.

Captain John Kelsey and nine sea
men of the big New Haven schooner
w. Wallace Ward owe their lives to
the inspiring bravery of the skippers
wife. For five weary days and nights
the men had battled with waves that
almost wrecked their vessel. Worn
out with loss of sleep and food, the
pumps choked, the cargo listed and
the rigging torn, the mcn were in de-
spair.
Gap, we give it up said the
sturdiest of the lot when his ex-
hausted companions had abandoned
the pumps and were climbing into the
rigging. "It's no use; we're done
for"
The captain, weak from anxiety and
equally discouraged, shook his head
and begged the men to work little
longer. They refused and lashed
themselves to the rigging. Then Mrs.
Kelsey rushed out of the battered
cabin. Waving a hand to the men,
she cried
'For Gods sake stick to the pumps!
Help will surely come. / know you're
not towards. Come on, now"
She went to work herself, and her
courageous example gave the men
new life. They sprang to the pumps
and worked with superhuman energy,
but even this was unavailing, and the
Ward was settling when the Nor
wegian steamer Themis hove in sight.
Captain Anderson saw the distress
signals flying on the Ward and
ordered a lifeboat out. 1t was stove
in at once. Then he called for volun-
teers and had another boat launched.
Five of the best men he had clambered
aboard.
For two bours they strove to reach
the schooner and take off Mrs. Kelsey
and the others. When they finally
made fast to the schooner the cap.
tain's brave wife lay limp in the
cabin, her strength gone. She was
lifted aboard and the perilous trip
back undertaken. After hours of
labor all were rescued and cared for
on the steamer.