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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

The cable announces that young Wis
count Castlereagh, eldest son of the
Marquis Of Londonderry, has suffered
concussion of the brain through fall
from his horse and will be confined to
HE bed for several weeks at least, even
if no more serious complications de-
velop. The accident will put a sud
den and sad ending to the festivities in
honor Of the coming of age of the
young nobleman. The birthday has
been celebrated at Mount Stewart,
County Down, one of the seats to
which the viscount is heir. One day
last week more than 1000 tenants were
feasted on the estate, Viscount Cas-
tlereagh, who was educated at Sand
hurst, the English West Point, is a
second lieutenant in the Royal Horse
Guards, and is heir to $4,000 acres of
land
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01
The Position of Wheat.

From the Gallipolis (Ohio) Bulletin:
Much is said about the wheat yield for
1899, says the Pittsburg Post, and the
man who reads the inspired articles
will hardly be able to determine
whether he is in the midst of plenty
or treading on the borders of famine.
The thoroughbred speculator under
stands that all this talk is for the day
or week and is made to buy or sell on,
having but little to do with the actual
condition of the wheat crop No one
need be alarmed. The United States
has raised more wheat than is needed
here and will have large exportable
surplus. The yield of winter wheat
will not be less than 275 1000 900 bush
els, and the yield of spring wheat not
less than 250,000,O00 bushels, making
52O,000,000 bushels, being above the
average for the past ten years. Clear
ances of wheat and -four from the
United States and Canada for the year
ending July l have aggregated 226 ,000,-
900 bushels, against 234,O00,00O bushels
Tor the corresponding time year ago,
the two largest years in the history of
the country. Because of the accumula-
tion of stocks and fair wheat yield in
Europe it is estimated that the foreign
demand will not exceed 170,OOO,O0O
bushels. The corn crop is estimated
at over 1,4O0, 100000 bushels, and then
there are oats, rye, buckwheat, and
numerous other food products which
are all handicaps to a famine. All
this talk of a short crop and famine
can be traced to bullish spectators
who want higher prices at which to
sell,and, on the other hand, the tales
OF great plenty are fairy stories of the
bears, who want the bottom knocked
out OF the market. Farmers who will
hold their wheat for a spell will get
good value, but the prospect for higher
prices at present is not encouraging.
The price will likely remain near its
present level, but under existing con-
ditions will tend upward rather than
downward.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01
ONE WAY TO BEG MONEY.
sits in Hotel Writing Rooms and Writes
Ii tiers to Guests Opposite Him.

L, tiers to Guests Opposite Him.
A novel method of securing a liv-
ing without labor has been described
by the house detective of the Audi
torium Hotel. The detective is on
the lookout for q man who is sys-
tematically working on the sympathies
of the guests of the Auditorium and
other leading hotels for a good in.
come. This man, who is continually
seen busy writing in the writing rooms
of hotels, is of middle age and slender
build. His clothes show the effects
of wear and a general appearance OF
the shabby-genteel characterizes him.
When his hat is removed, shining,
bald crown speaks of long experience
with the world. AS he writes with
nervous haste, it is noticeable that he
has been used to such occupation,
and his soft, shapely hands show no
signs of hard labor.
Invariably this shabby gentleman
seats himself opposite some prosper
GUS traveller who is attending TO his
business correspondence. He writes
q long letter, pausing many times to
think of proper phraseology. Then,
watching his opportunity, he passes
the letter across the table with a
deprecating gesture and remains with
his head bowed, his soft hands cover
ing his face, while the traveller reads
the letter.
In well chosen Ian guage, the letter
tells tale of misfortune. In touch
ing words the writer depicts his fall
from affluence to poverty through
circumstances beyond his control.
Invariably the letter ends with an
appeal of 81 with which to buy the
victim of misfortune a days food and
lodging, and often the dollar is quietly
slipped across the writing table by the
traveller who is touched by the silent
appeal.
No words are spoken. There is
nothing of the rough manner of the
uncouth mendicant in the beggar's
appeal. When he receives money, he
gratefully bows his thanks and leaves
the writing-room as silently as he
entered.
How long this shabby sharper has
been living off the stream of travel in
Chicago cannot be told, but for the
last six months hotel people have
been on the lookout for him. So silent
and smooth are his methods, however,
that no one has yet caught him in the
act of working his peculiar game, and
he still passes in and out of the lead
ing hotels unmolested by detectives
or porters. rs.-Chlcago Inter- Ocean.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

One of the most profitable woods is
sandal wood. The East Indian Gov
ernment has had monopoly on the
sandal wood trade, to the enormous
profit of the stockholders, for several
hundred years past. The method Of
preparing the wood tree for market is
interesting. After the tree has beer
felled it is allowed to lie for few
weeks, during which time, on account
of it's pungent odors, it is assailed as {
delicious morsel by myriads of the
voracious white ants of India, and
these greedy colonies soon leave moth.
ing but the heart, which is the sandal
wood of trade. Sandal wood cuts
beautifully under the chisel, and
specimens bearing rs, impressions
to the square inch have come from tbs
engraver's tool.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01
JULIUS HINES & SON
BALTIMORE, MD. Dept. sis


In the Paris Museum of Natural His
only living captive specimen of what
African explorers have called the "pris-
on bird" The popularity of this
feathered beauty is that he is the most
tyrannical and jealous of husbands.
imprisoning his mate throughout her
nesting time. Livingstone watched the
birds habits while in Monpour, and in
his subsequent observations referred to
the nest as a prison and the female
bird as a slave. The nest is built in
the hollow of tree through an open
ing in the bark. AS soon as it is com
pleted the mother bird enters carefully
and fearfully and settles down in it,
Then papa walls up the opening, leav-
ing only just space enough for air and
food to pass through He keeps faith
full guard and brings food at regular
intervals without fail. The female
thrives under her enforced retirement
But IL the prison bird is killed, or in
any other way prevented from fulfill
ing his duties, the mother and her little
ones must die of starvation, for she
cannot free herself from bondage. Nor
mally the imprisonment lasts until the
chicks are old enough to fly. Then the
male bird destroys the barrier with his
beak and liberates his family. st is
charming" writes Livingstone, ito see
the joy with which the little prisoners
greet the light and the unknown
world -
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01
DYING TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.
Giant Poplar In Maryland Has Lived
Two Centuries or More.

Giant Poplar In Maryland Has Lived
Two Centuries or More.
From the Baltimore Sun: The old
est and largest tree in Talbot county is
dead. 1t has been dying for twenty-five
years or more. The tree is NAM
moth tulip poplar in a field Of Poplar
Hill farm, near the public road leading
from Easton to Trappe, about a mile
and a half from Easton. The farm has
been named for the tree for at least
200 years and is the property Of Mrs.
Edmund Law Rogers, born Platter. of
Baltimore, and was part Of the orig
inal Platter grant made in early
colonial times. Scientific men who
have from time to time visited this
tree have said that it would take at
least 1000 years for this species OF
poplar to grow to such size in this To-
cality. 1t stands alone, a picturesque
feature of the landscape, in an open
field, and can be seen for miles from all
roads and from the water courses.
The wonderful size of the tree is in
the magnitude and height of its trunk
Approximately it is $50 feet high and
twenty feet in diameter. The head is
comparatively small and the first limb
is 200 feet from the ground, and it car
ries its diameter symmetrically all the
way up. From its top at night, for
many venturesome and agile climbers
have assembled it, the light in Sharp's
island lighthouse can be plainly SEEN
A horse and carriage behind it cannot
be seen from the nearby public road.
The lightning has not spared it. 1t Is
scanned and gashed and split by the
many bolts which have also knocked
huge limbs from its top. Tradition
says that 200 years ago, which is as
far back as tradition claims to have
known the tree-it Is named in land
deeds $50 years ago-it had lightning
marks on, it, and even then showed
signs of failure. Three years ago it
was struck four times in one summer.
This fierce attack undoubtedly has
tened It's end. Well, the giant tree is
dead. The old poplar of Poplar Hill
probably saw the beginning of the
twentieth century and died just before
the beginning of the twentieth. 1t was
the Mount Shasta of the Talbot land
scape.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

From the Coldwater (Mich.) Sun: 1t
Is interesting to note that in McKin-
ley's tumble of politics, one of its sec
tions will keep on telling a given lie
after the other sections have been
called off and muzzled. The latest in
stance lies with the state department,
which Is the natural breeding place of
liars. Col DENLY, one of the peace
commissioners at Manila, cabled over
q roseate dispatch twenty-four hours
after the correspondents round rob-
in" had shown up the rottenness of the
whole situation, in which he claimed
that everything was all right, that the
islands were being rapidly pacified, and
that the volunteers were eagerly re-
enlisting-in fact, had to be restrained
to keep from falling over themselves in
order to get into the new regiments.
That, of course, is what might be ex-
pected from DENLY. He is, or was,
Cleveland gold Democrat, pompous and
windy, whom Cleveland sent as min
lister to China. There about his first
official act was to get his son appointed
as secretary of legation and a second
son showed into fat job in the Chi
nese imperial customs service, which
is controlled by an Englishman named
Sir Robert Hart, the agent and tool of
the British government. Naturally
from then on DENLY drew his breath
according to the wishes of Sir Robert
Hart and the British government. He
now has no difficulty in finding things
exactly the way Mckinley wants them
found
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

From the Jacksonville Qll) Courier:
The great Democratic party is more
firmly united than ever before in the
history Of the organization. The grave
perils which threaten the republic are
fully realized by the masses OF the peo-
pie, and they look to the Democratic
party as the medium for relief They
will not be disappointed. The hosts
are organizing to make a supreme eff
fort for the preservation of the repub-
lie founded by the patriot fathers from
the hands Of the imperlalist goldite
conspirators. And the people will win
this time.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01
THE NATURAL RATIO.
1T is ALWAYS THE CONNER
CIAL RATIO.
Tho Fictitious Ratio of SO to 1 Tolls
the Story of How the Producer Has
Been Mulcted for the Benefit of the
Money Sharks.

Horace Boies has been interviewed
again, and he informs the public that
he is "bimetallist." He would have
to be that or quit being a Democrat.
The principles of Democracy declare as
positively for gold and silver as the
basis for the nations monetary system
rs they declare against high protection
and its products, which are industrial
monopolies and discriminating laws in
the interest Of capital combinations
But Mr.. Boies is mistaken when he
says the coinage ratio is not essential
He seems to be under the impression
that the ratio should conform to the
commercial value of the metals in the
arbitrary way. The history Of coinage
does not justify Mr.. Boies' conclusion.
If gold were demonetized and silver
made the only metal money of final
redemption the present difference be-
tween the coinage value of gold and the
commercial value of silver bullion
would be reversed. The arts and
sciences and mechanics could not find
use for nearly all the gold production,
and the market price for it would GER
tainly be made by a surplus in it's anx-
iety to sell. But having fixed value
for coinage purposes and its coinage
being free and unlimited, naturally and
necessarily it's bullion value would be
Its coinage value. The same thing
would be true of silver, but of no other
metals, because gold and silver are the
only metals that possess all the con-
stitutional and other requisite qualities
for money metals. The experience Of
commerce and money changing for
thousands of years proves this to be
true. But merely possessing the requi-
site qualities does not make either one
of the metals legal tender money. That
Is done by the fiat of the government
coming it, and the fiat fixes the quality
and the quantity-that Is. fineness-
that shall constitute legal tender for
a specified purchasing and debt-paying
power. Less than so cents worth Of
silver, bullion value, now has 100
cents worth of debt-paying and pur-
chasing power because the fiat of the
government makes it a legal tender for
that many cents, and the government
itself receives it at that value. After
all, therefore, it is the fiat of the gov
ernment and not the qualities them
selves which the metals possess that
makes them money. Hundreds of years
Of experience shows that the difference
in the quality of the metals produced
luctuates from fraction below to
fraction above sixteen pounds of sill
yer to one pound of gold.
The ratio of production Is 16 to l.
Therefore that is the natural CONNER
cial ratio. Thirty-two to one is the
bankers ratio. The difference between
the bankers ratio and the natural COM
mercial ratio represents the amount
subtracted from the purchase price of
wheat and other products of the farm,
by an act of government QS73) hos
tile to the producing millions and
friendly to dealers in money, bonds
and interest.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01
the most ably edited in the four states

the most ably edited In the four states
of the northwest corner of the country
with apologies to the Butte Inter
Mountain. 1t was due to the efforts of
the Oregonian more than any other
cause that Oregon gave her electoral
vote to William Mckinley in 1896. Sub
sequent events have no doubt caused
the Oregonian to change the estimate
it placed upon Mckinley three years
ago. All must admit that when a news
paper Of the Republican standing and
general ability of the Oregonian goes
back on the man it helped elect, there
must be some ground for it. 1t is ap-
parent Mckinley will not have the cor
dial support of the Oregonian next
year.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01
Beauty Is nlood Deep.

Clean blood means clean skin. Nc
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy, liver and driving all i'm
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug.
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, l0c, Csc, SOC.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

Many cities in Europe are sowing the
problem of the destruction of iron gas
and water pipes by electrolysis by
substituting for them pipes made of
glass. AS glass is almost a perfect
non-conductor of elect lefty, there T. of
course no electrolysis. Further ad-
vantages are the saving of electricity
and the absence of danger of shock
from wandering currents.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

That books do not necessarily pro-
mote intelligence is proved by the fact
that Italy turns out twice as many
publications as the United States
every year. In the number of books
published annually this country is sur
passed by Germany. France, Italy and
Great Britain, the countries ranking in
the order named
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life AWAY

To quit tobacco easily and forever. be mag
netic. full of life, nerve and vgor, take No.To
Bac. the wonder-worlier. that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, soc or 81. Cure guaran
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

Various devices have been used in
Europe for the ventilation of tunnels
In some cases oil-burning or electric
locomotives have been substituted for
the trip through the tunnel and in other
cases artificial ventilation has been
used.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01
Mail from Kansas Soldiers.

The mail matter that comes to To-
peka from Manila sometimes numbers
as high as 1000 pieces a day.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

Alcohol was first distilled by the Ara
plans, and when we talk about coffee
ana alcohol we are using Ara bic words
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

writing to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass.
MRS. CORA gibson, Yates, Manstee
Co., Mich, writes:
"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM--Two years ago
l began having such dull. heavy, drag
ging pains in my back, menses were pro-
fuse and painful and was troubled with
leucorrh9a. l took patent medicines
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

Miss Mercedes de Laski, one of the
latest London debutantes, is six feet
three inches in height.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first days use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. 81 trial bottle and treatise
free DR.. X. IL. KLINE, Ltd.93l Arch st. Phila. Pa
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums. reduces infiamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c bottle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01
Findley,s Eye saIve Cures

y
Sore eyes in 8 days; chronic cases in 80
days or money back. All druggists, or by
mail, 25c. per box. j. T. HAYrEG, Decatur.
IaNas.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

Piso's Cure for Consumption has no equal
as n Cough medicine.-F. NJ. ABBOTT, 3S3 Sen
eca St., Buffalo, N. Y, May 8, 1891.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

There are three varieties of the dog
that never bark-the Australian dog
the Egyptian shepherd dog, and "lion-
headed" dog of Thibet
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

Macon, Mo-, has been suffering from
house famine for several months.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

CAPABLE mother must be healthy mother.
The experienced of maternity shouldnot be approached
without careful physical preparation
Correct and practical counsel would
be mother this
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

Lake Superior is remarkable for the
fact that it never gives up it's dead.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

There fs more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases nut together
and until the last few years was supposed to be
lncurable. For a great many years doctor.
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment pronounced it in.
durable. Science has proven catarrh to he
constitutional disease and therefore requires
constitutional trea atment. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by f. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the
market 1t is taken internally in doses from
~ drops to teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials Address FL. CHENEY& Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

Educate Your Bowels with Sascarets.
Candy Cathartic cure constipation forever.
ioc. PC. if c. c. c. fail. druggists refund money.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

NO-TO-bHc fOr EIIUy OcHUH'
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. SOC, 81. All druggists
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

rake Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25,
c. c. G. fail to cure, druggists refund none,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-01

One of the minor, but yet very con-
siderable, demands for iron and steel.
of recent origin, is that entaied by the
use of metal tubing in mine shafts
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-11-21
"SiIencinu a Gun"

There Is a great deal of ignorance
as to what 'sileneing a gun means.
A gun is sllenced when the gunners
are disabled or driven back and the
gun or guncarriage damaged 1t is
common enough phenomenon for
weapons which have thus been sill
enced to reopen fire after repairs
have been made, the gunners rallied.
or fresh crew obtained. 1t is a rare
thing for a gun TO be so damaged by
hostile fire that it cannot be refitted
and brought into action again. Il
saw" says Prince Kraft, of the Ger
man artillery, in the battle of Grave.
lotte, many guns during the cannon
ade lying miserably on the ground
winged that is, with broken wheel.
But not one was withdrawn: the in
jured guns were always quickly re-
paired with the help of the wagons
which were near, so that after the
battle | could not tell exactly how
many pieces had been temporarily
out of action" The Navy League
Journal of London says this expert
opinion should put stop to ignorant
witticisms on the frequent silencing
at Ladysmith of Long Tom" as the
biggest of the Boer guns was called.
The navy had day after day to look
after this weapon and dose 1t with
lyddite shells, but on each occasion
the work was skillfully done.-Army
and Navy Journal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-11-21
All Conveniences.

A commercial traveller re!a,e5 in tho
Cincinnati Enquirer that he once ar
lived in a small settlement in Arkan.
saS, and at once repaired to the Eag!c
house. which was situated on the out
skirts of the town, on the bank OF q
small stream. After a dinner of sd,'
meat and corn bread the drummer
lighted cigar ana the proprietor said:
stranger, is thar anything We 'uus
KIN do fob you ali;' Thinking to con
found his host the drummer an
swered: well, Yes come to think II
it, I'd like to have a bath" Tho pro-
prietor let his feet drop from the rail-
ing upon Which he had hoisted them,
disappeared into the house and re-
turned in moment with q huge tin
cup full of soft soap, Il rough towel
and pick and shovel. which he of
fered to the drummer. Whats the
pick and shovel forY' the stranger
asked. oval" answered the landlord.
'th' watuh's low and 20 all IL hey TO
dam UP tn creek
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-11-21
Education in Porto Rico.

Throughout the island of Porto
Rico, with a million people and only
about 500 scholars, said Gen. Eaton
there was no system for plan of edu
cation save what had been in vogue
under Spanish rule, changeless for 400
years. Eighty per cent of the people
We're illiterate, consequently schools
or education were of little interest
to people whom Spain wished to live
In ignorance. The text books were
crude affairs from Madrid-half cate.
ehism, half doubtful history and anx-
ious axioms. There was not a map of
the United States in the schools and
scarcely one on the island Although
only 400 miles from New York and
COO from Florida. the average Porto
Rican child read in his history book
that the United States was a nation of
comparatively little consequence with
proud CASTLE, whose inhabitants were
principally naughty millionaires.
whose business was the crushing OF
the poor"