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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29

Out n the open country fields,
With the green grass blowing merrily,
The daisies nod, and the dewdrops shine,
And the sunbeams dance right cheerily,
A lasse and laddie come tripping along, az
Like the fair day smiling brightly;
They pluck the flowers, and they hum a song
AS they shake off the dewdrops lightly.
The song tells how neither you nor
Nor any else they know
Has drunk the full cup OF the Joy Of the fields
Where the daisies and buttercups grow.
You may rise when the flowers open their eyes,
You may bathe your feet in the dew,
You may live the children of nature live
The whole long summer through,
But there'll still be a secret OF natures own
Beyond your human ken;
1t is known to the fairies who dwell In the grass
But is hid from the sons Of men.
Yet whenever together lad and lass
Trip hand and hand through the fields,
They fancy they drink with the elfn race
All the sweetest that nature yields.
Out in the full free light Of the sun,
Where the green grass bloweth merrily,
The lass and the lad go dancing by,
Singing their songs right cheerily.
Mary Aimee Goodman.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29
FIGHTING THE STANDARD,
Nebrnskn's Attorney General Begins
Investigating the Oil MONOPOLY

Nebrnsku's Attorney General Begins
Investigating the Oil Monopoly.
New York, Aug. 29.-Attorney General
G. j. Smyth of Nebraska, who is in the
east for the purpose of taking testimony
regarding the operations of the Standard
Oil company, has opened the hearing in
New York. Mr.. Smyth was appointed by
the supreme court of Nebraska as one of
two referees to find out all he could CON
cerning the operations of the Standard
Oil company, the information to be used
in an inquiry as to whether the company,
which does a large business in Nebraska,
is or is not n trust that state having q
stringent law against trusts.
Mr.. Smyth was anxious to examine
John ID. Rockefeller, II. NJ. Flagler and
w. III. Tilford, all connected with the
Standard Oil company but was informed
that the gentlemen We're not in the city.
He says he will await their return.
Meanwhile Mr. Smyth began proceed
ings by calling as witness George Rice,
who at one time was in the oil business
at Marietta, o., and who has been fight
ing the Standard Oil company for a
number of years, claiming they forced
him out of business.
Mr.. Rice in his testimony gave fig
ures purporting to be the cost of pipnr
and refining the crude oil and the cost
of carrying it to Nebraska and claimed
that it could be sold at n profit for Az
cents n gallon in Nebraska by the car
load. He said the present price of oil
was ~. cents for export and Sh cents
for wholesale dealers in the United
States,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29

Many records of different kinds have
been broken of late, but 1t will take a
long time indeed to break the one that
has just been made by the Bavarian
gentleman, Mr.. Alois Frankenberg, re-
marks the New York Sun His case
came up the other day in the assizes
court of Gratz, Austria, in which the
testimony against him, the truth of
which was admitted by himself. footed
up total of 100 cases of breaches of
promises to marry. Young girls, old
maids, widows, bruncttes and blonds,
fat and lean. long and short, all fig
ured in his gigantic dossier. And yet
his mode of procedure was simple
enough. After he had spent fortune
of 100000 marks leading a wild life in
different countries he returned to
Gratz penniless.
His last resource lay in his good
looks and winning ways. He put an
advertisement in several papers invit-
ing ladies desiring to marry "a gentle
man of fortune" to put themselves in
communication with him. And they
did. His bonnes fortunes were phenom-
enal, even though his fortune" was
fictitious. In a short time he had
sweethearts galore, and to buy furn-
ture for nice flats in their castles in
Spain, he obtained money from them.
That is what brought him into trou-
bic. After sparkling all that was prof
itably sparkable in Gratz he abandon
ed his beloved ones in that town and
set up in business as matrimonial
merchant in Munich, where his success
was still more extraordinary. Then he
returned to Gratz, where he was de-
nounced, arrested, tried, convicted and
sentenced to Imprisonment for two
years and six months with hard labor.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29

Francis Douce. a famous antiquary,
who died in 1884. bequeathed box
to the British museum trustees, stipu-
lating that it should not be opened
until 1900. At recent meeting of the
trustees the box was unsealed and un-
locked by the curator of the museum.
1t contained nothing but fragments of
paper, torn book covers and other rub
bish, with note from the donor say
Ing that, in his opinion, at would be
wasting any more valuable or interest
ing objects to leave them to persons. Of
the average intelligence and taste of
the British museum trustees"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29


Good Uncle Riley sent the lad
A box Of little tools
A plane, a handsaw and file,
A chisd and some rules.
The child began to play with them
And shouted loud with glee,
While Uncle Riley said twas plain
A builder he would be.
His grandma sent a story book,
With many pretty views;
The print was large, the book was strong,
So 1t could stand abuse.
The youngster seized it with delight;
'fou see, as sure as fate"
His grandma said, with glowing pride,
Hell be writer great"
The father gave his son and heir
An engine-just toy
And in two hours the working parts
Were scattered around the boy.
"Ahai" said papa. swelling up;
Hes all right. Never fear.
That boy will yet be known to fame
As great engineer"
An old maid aunty, wishing to
Improve the youngsters mind,
Sent him useful history,
Inscribed with wishes kind.
The boy turned DER the pages big,
With interested stare,
And aunty quickly said, Hell be
A statesman, declarel'
The years rolled on. The little boy
Has grown to mans estate.
He's engineering" many things
And building" DER the state.
He ''writes" occasionally, too;
He's up to statecraft's tricks.
He's fulfilled all the prophecies,
For he's in politics,
Baltimore American,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29
CHINESE PRONUNCIATION. ,
Three Simple Rules That VIII Help
You In the Task.


An acknowledged authority on the
pronunciation of Chinese names as
transiterated into English assures us
that there need be no serious difficulty
in sounding the many Chinese names
now appearing In the newspapers IL
the speaker will remember that the
vowels in these names are uniformly
those of the italian or continental al
phabet-namely: O a. always about
as q in far; e, always approximately
as g in they or them /, very like in
machine or pin; 0, as either the o of
song or how, and u, always as the IL
of rule. (2) Also, 1t should be remem-
bered, every syllable has an lndepend-
ent value and should be given that
value in pronunciation. 81 AS for
consonants, they are pronounced ex-
actly as written. These three rules
will secure as correct pronunciation
of Chinese names as can be secured
without oral instruction.
For example, under the first rule
one would say tahkoo for Taku, not
take-you, as one may frequently hear
the word pronounced; lee hoong
chahng for Ii Hung Chang, not lie
hung chang; peh-king for Picking. not
peek-in; shahng- g-hah-ee for Shanghai
not shanghigh; tsoong- ee-yahmen for
tsung-ii-yamen, not tsung lie yay-
men, and so on. Under the second
rule Tientsin is pronounced teeyen
tsinn, accenting the yen syllable, not
teen tsin. General Nieh's name is Nee
yeh. The Chinese coin tael is not tale
but tah-ale, pronounced quickly Yum
nan fu is yoon-nahnfoo, not yunan-
fyn.
In like manner all words are pro-
nounced with syllable distnctness and
with uniform vowel sound Under the
third rule the province name Szechuan
is sounded, not zekuan, but nearly as
zehchooahn, touching the choo very
lightly; Nganhwei as inggahnghoo-
wayce, dropping the initial sound,
and the German possession Kiau Chau
Is Keeahoo chahoo.
However, without multiplying exam
pies. the reader of news from the much
troubled far east will find his way
through the many difficult names he is
to meet in his reading in the near fu-
ture with sufficient safety If he will
but observe the three simple rules here
given for their correct pronunciation
Boston Transcript.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29
USES OF SALT.

Salt puts out fire in the chimney.
Salt as a gargle will cure soreness Of
the throat
Salt in solution inhaled cures a cold
In the head.
Salt on fresh ink stains will help to
remove them.
Salt used in sweeping carpets keeps
out the moths.
Salt and soda are excellent for bee
stlngs and spider bites.
Salt and vinegar will remove stains
from dscolored teacups.
Salt in the water is the best thing to
clean willowware and mating.
Salt on the fingers when cleaning
fowls, meat or fish will prevent Slip
ping.
Salt thrown on coal fire when broil-
Ing steak Will prevent blazing from the
dripping fat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29
The Old Time ShipbuiIdcr,

The man with the broadaX is gradu-
ally disappearing. He is very hard to
find in Canada, but few of his tribe
are still scattered along the New Eng
land coast, mainly on the Kennebec.
1t Is probable the tribe will die out on
the spot where the first blow of the
broadaX was struck. The man with
the rivet Is the next step in marine ev-
olution. He Is noisy fellow, just a
part of machine, and he can never
replace the quiet, contemplative phi
losopher In the red shirt and overalls
who stood in the American shipyard
in days that are past.-Boston Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29
Locomotive Works tn Close

Paterson, n. j., Aug. 29.-It is an
nounced that the Rogers Locomotive
works will permanently close its doors
as locomotive works and also probably
as an ironworks on Dec. 1 next. Fifteen
hundred skilled hands will be thrown out
of employment. The works were started
in 1900 by John Clark of Paisley, Scot
land, and Thomas Rogers became a mem
ber of the firm in 1910 The Rogers
family has since that date been the prin-
cipal owners of the plant. The principal
owner now is Jacob Rogers. He said
that, although The works are running at
their full capacity and business is good
the plant is hampered by lack of modern
machinery and improvements, and he,
being advanced In years, does not care
to invest money to bring them up to
modern standards.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29
GEMS IN VERSE.
The Wall of the Pessimisf.

Why is 1t that the wandering fly,
Who might be happy in the CLEAN
OF summer sun, prefers to die
And thereby spoil the breakfast creamf
Why does the hateful sparrow thrive
While song birds into silence sinkP
Why does the paste brush still contrive
Somehow to get into the ink?
Why does It rain each holiday
And shine throughout the toilsome weekP
Why does the freckle find its way
Unerring to the fairest cheek9
Why do the weeds displace the howersf
Why does dscord drown the song2
In short, upon this world Of ours,
Oh, why does everything go wrong2
Masonic Standard.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29

Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 29-Mr. Bryan has
decided definitely TO leave Lincoln for
Chicago next Friday evening. He will
probably spend Saturday in Illinois. max.
ing speeches, going on to Chicago that
evening. After making his Labor day
speech in Chicago Monday he probably
will make other speeches in that vicini-
ty, remaining away from home for two
or three weeks.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29
A Prayer.

Lord God, thou lettest the green things star
A new life every year;
Out of their sunken selves they rise
Erect and sweet and clear.
Behold the lilies pure white leaves
Unfolding by each merel
Again the sap mounts in the FIR
Through every swelling vein;
Again the clover stirs and thrills
Responsive to the rain;
Again the tender grass makes green
The lone breast OF the plain.
Hear the new, golden food of song
The lark pours to the bluel
Behold the strong, undaunted shoot
Pushing it's brave front through
The fallen treel Lord God, Lord God,
Let me begin anewl
Out Of my own self let me risel
For, God, II 1t can be,
A new and noble growth may spring
From yon decaying tree.
Surely strong, pure life may mount
Out Of this life Of me.
Ella Higginson.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29
Mother Found After Long search

Brockton, Mass, Aug. 29.-John Shaw
Of Whitman. who as child was placed
in the custody of an uncle when his par-
ents separated ID years ago, has lust
discovered his mother in Philadelphia.
He searched for traces of her in England
and in the west for years and had given
mn hone of ev'' finding her,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29

OF sin remembered why should man complaint
Why should it cause him more or less of paint
Knows naught Of mercy he who knows no sin,
And but for sin all mercy would be vain.
H. @. Keene In Temple Bar,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29

Every man is either hero or cow
ard. but the majority are never I'm.
veiled,-Chicago News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29

Of toys. 1t has been found inside the
graves of children of ancient Rome.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29

Freeland!
At the subscrip-
ton price of $l.5O per
year the Tribune costs
it's readers less than
one cent a copy.
Think of that!
Less than one
cent a copy! And for
that you get all the
local news, truthfuIIy
reported and carefully
written up.
Besides all the
local news, the Tri-
bune gives the news
of the world in a con-
densed form.
Thus the busy
workman can keep in
formed as to what is
going on in the world
without buying any
other paper.
The Tribune is
essentially a neWspa-
per for the home cir
Gle. You can read it
yourself and then turn
it over to your chill
dren without fear of
putting anything OBJ
jectionable into their
hands.
Order 1t
from
The Carriers
from
The Office.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-29
BASEBALL SCORES.
Results of Yesterdays Games In the
Different Leagues.
NATIlN AL. IEAGIfE

At Boston r. IT. H.
Boston...... o o 90 8 o. 0
New York.. l 0 0 % 2 2-5 q
Batteries-Dineen and Sullivan; Hawley and
Grady.
At Brooklyn. r. II. T..
Brooklyn..... 0 0 8 10 IA 2
Philadelphia. l 0 l o. 16 8
Batteries-kitson and Farrell; Frazer and Nc.
Farland.
At Chicago r. He
Chicago...... 0 0 0 o 0 % q
st. Louis.... 0 l 0 0 0 1-3 o
Batteries-Griifth and Dexter; Young and Cri.
ger.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-04-05
IS no PLACE LIKE NONE,
TIE LAND OF SHINING GOLD.

them In all the banking business I did
when was abroad couple Of years
ago you will no doubt look for the dark
lantern and Jimmy to complete the set.
My experience. however, was not bur-
glarious. and the story, in a word or
two, is this: l had never been in Eu-
rope before, and wasn't posted as to
the best way to carry money, so on the
advice of a friend who ought to have
had more sense got an old-fashioned
letter of credit in New York-one of
those idiotic arrangements that have
photograph Of the holder. pasted in
little circle at the top Of the page.
When procured the letter l was
wearing full beard, which, am
told, changes me very materially, but
while staying in London got tired of
1T. and one day. on a sudden impulse,
had it taken of, never thinking Of
that COMPOUNDED letter of credit. had
no occasion to use the document until
i arrived in Paris, and when present.
ed it at bank there was turned down
hard. The teller or whoever he was,
told me he couldn't think of paying.
money to a man who bore no resem-
blance whatever to the official photo,
and, when explained the situation,
shrugged his shoulders and advised me
to come back after I grew another
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-04-05
BRITISH W AR OFFICE IS
HAS LATELY BEEN UNDERoo-
ING ATEMPEST.
Fight Between I.ansdowns and Wolselsy
Like That of Alssr and Miles In This
Country Governor General OF
Especial letter.

sNOpcCldl LolIcI.J "
AS the result of British unsuccesses
In South Africa in the war with the
Beers much criticism is being directed
against the British war Office and con-
siderable friction has arisen between
the secretary of war, Lord Lansdowne
and the commander-in-chief Of the
army. Lord Wolseley. The followers
of each accuse each other Of being re-
sponsible for England's unpreparedness
when the crucial time arrived, and it is
probable that as the outcome of the
agitation one or the other will have to
retire. Parliament will inquire into the
matter and interesting developments
are expected.
Lord Lansdowne comes from one OF
the Oldest and haughtiest families in
the kingdom, dating to the twelfth cen-
tury. He succeeded his father the
fourth marquis, when he was only 81,
and became lord of the treasury three
years later. He has been in office al
most steadily for the last so years, his
highest post previous to that he holds
now having been that of governor gen
eral of India from 1888 to 1893. Pre-
vious to that he was governor general
of Canada. Lord Lansdowne was a liba
eral until Mr.. Gladstone's home rule
bill sent him over to the other side.
His reward was the appointment by
Lord Salisbury to be governor general
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-04-05
Hnrae-PoMer.

Watt, the great improyer OF the
steam engine, introduced into the vo-
cabulary of machinists the term horse
power. When he first began the man
ufacture of steam engines, he expert
enced much difficulty in ascertaining
from his distant customers what sized
engine they required, and they were
not less puzzled how to communicate
to him the information. He was fire.
quently guided. however, by their
mentioning the number of horses
which the engine ordered was design
ed to replace. Acting upon this hint,
he ascwtained by experiment that the
very strongest Of the London brewers
horsen Criminals of, wonderful size and
strength. could exert force equiva-
lent to saising $4,000 pounds one foot
a minussA This force he called one
horse psNer, and adopted 1t as the
standard In regulating the size Of
steam cnsfnes. Now. not one horse
in hunF ed is able to exert that de-
gree Of st.s-ngth. A steam engine Of
ten horsecssswer can, In reality, do the
work Of a.sat twenty horses.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-04-05

comparatively few punches imported
are taken by, dealers In fancy fruits as
novelties, the rarity in large measure
determining the price. 1t might be-
asked why, with red bananas at such
prices, more are not cultivated; to-
which the answer is that If moro
were raised the prices would go down.
again, and there would be no profit in
raising them for the general demand,
in competition with the more econom-i
ically produced, more prolific and bet
ter shipping yellow bananas. Some;
people prefer the flavor Of the red
banana, some prefer that of the yel-
low; it s.preferable that the great ma
jority would have no choice, and the
far lower price at which the yellow
banana can be offered to the individual
consumer settles the question. Ba-
nanas were never before SO cheap az
they have been in recent years. For
than otherwise, the banana is now a
cheap luxury; very good bananas can
now be bought commonly In the
streets in the season at cent apiece.
or 10 cents a dozen, such as formerly
cost two or three times as much The
bananas eaten in this country come
from Costa RIGA, British and Spanish
Honduras, Colombia. jamaica and Cu-
ba. The bulk Of the fruit from the
gulf countries goes to New Orleans for
distribution, that from the other coun-
tries coming to the Atlantic ports.
Bananas are now sold. not as rarlties.
but more or less commonly, in all
parts OF the country, practically every
where. the eastern part OF the country
being supplied from Atlantic ports and
the Mississippi valley and the western
half from New Orleans. New York
Sun.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-04-05

There is no place like Nome-to the
gold-seeker of today. AS the season
approaches for the annual departure
of thousands of gold hunters to the
Kondike and to the Alaskan gold
fields it is discovered that the destina-
ton of nine in every ten is Nome,
writes Seattle correspondent. 1t is
the new Ell Dorado Of this wonderful
region, is said to be richer than any
of the other much-heralded districts.
Certain it is that in its formative PEE
Rod it is more interesting.
1t lies at the mouth of two rivers,
the Snake and the Nome, which afford
every facility with their numerous
branches and ramifcations for wash
ing the placer dirt. The gold is easily
accessible and abounds in quantities
that have attracted many miners from
the older established localities.
A great item of expense which is
generally attendant upon the opening
of an Ell Dorado lies in the cost OF
prospecting both in time and money.
Many months and many dollars have
been spent the world over in prospect
ing worthless lands, but here things
are different Here it is possible to de-
termine the value of claim, or at
least to ascertain whether it is worth
working or not, almost at a glance as
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-04-05

of India, and after his RETURN thence
to be secretary of state for war.
Just before Lansdowne stepped into
this Office Gen. Wolseley became COM
mander-in-ch succeeding the . old
Duke of Cambridge, the queens first
cousin, who had held the Office 40 years.
What has caused the greatest agita-
ton is the affair Of Gen. Butler. He
had been in command in South Africa
until the outbreak of the war and upon
him the government relied for informa-
ton as to the Boer strength. When
the war broke out and England was
unprepared people openly charged that
Gen. Butler was either blind or trait
or But now it transpires that Gen.
Butler not only was informed as to the
strength of the Beers, but that he
urged and pleaded with the war Office
repeatedly for immediate preparation
on the part. Some of Gen. Wolse-
leys supporters are saying that he
backed Sir Williams report, but that
the Marquis of Lansdowne shelved 1t.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-04-05
CAPE NOME CITY, BUILT IN A WEEK.

to be entirely removed. 1t was then
soaked IA or Is hours and afterward
"curried", by drawing it across a post
until every particle of dampness had
gone. Then long treading by the feet
followed. Wool was wrapped under
the skin and the pelt was tightly
placed over, but the great difficulty OF
getting it in order and the uncleanli-
ness of the operation led to the intro
duction, about 1907, by Mr.. Maxwell
OF Philadelphia, of the dressed sheep
skins or Skin rollers" as they We're
called But they, too, were abandoned,
being found too heavy for the hand.
About 1915 Mr.. Fanshaw of New York
introduced an improved roller made by
wrapping a blanket some eight times
around a piece of wood three and a,
half inches in diameter, turned true,
and with an iron spindle on each end
The skin was then tightly wound
! s3it !, blanket and afterward
s0%sQ/ cto the wooden end. 1t was in
r sasSs =, by the merest chance, in one of
the potteries in Staffordshire, England,
1 that the composition of glue and mo-
l "a
lasses first saw the light. This com
4 position was used in the potteries for
| what are commonly called "dabbers.''
Mr.. D. Foster Of Weybridge England,
was the first printer to apply this com
position to letterpresss printing; but
even he did not understand its great
usefulness He merely spread it, when
in LIQUID state, upon a piece of can
vas and then made ball of it. This
is the only way. in which it differed
from the pelt ball. The inventors OF
printing machinery we're not quite so
slow, however. About 1880 the
composition was used as a coating on
wooden cylinders; and here we have
the first application for printing
presses worthy the name of a roller"
without which printing machinery
could never have reached the state of
perfection it has attained today.-In-
land Printer.