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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10

the most convenient place for opera
ting In stocks. He was soon Joined
by his friend, Horace Porter, who
brought plenty Of cash to do business
with. AS an evidence of his sincerity
In his friendship, Porter suggested
to his friend that they go into some
business together. Porter had the cap
ital and he was sure Mason had the
brains. The OFFER was accepted, and
under Mason's guidance Porter began
specializing on the Stock Exchange.
In less than a year Porters inheri.
tance Of $3.50, 900 had dwindled down
to about $4,000. Mason would not
ask his father for assistance and Por.
ter refused to write to his mother for
money, and thus It was that at the
outbreak Of the recent war with
Spain Porter was working as clerk in
a Boston dry goods store, while Ma
son earned sort Of livelihood as a
board marker In Boston bucket
shop. When President Mckinley is
sued his call for volunteers Arthur
Mason and Horace Porter were
among the first to present themselves
for enrolment on the books of the
Regiment OF Massachusetts volun.
teers.
Mason went from choice; Porter
because his friend enlisted. They went
to Cuba and underwent all the hard
ships into which that gallant band Of
heroes was driven. Mason, strong Of
physique, withstood the awful ordeal
but Porter, always delicate in health,
quickly began to feel the effects Of
the climate.
He became Ill and was removed to
the hospital. Mason begged to be al.
lowed to go with his friend, and the
request was granted. Porter was una.
BILE to resist the tropical fever and
In few days was dead. Mason cared
for Porter as tenderly as a mother
would \ sick child, and as he held
the fever-stricken hand Of his COM
rade-friend, he made a vow that in
life his only aim would be the re-
demption OF the money he had lost
On his return he set about fulfilling
his promise and plunged at once into
the vortex Of speculation. Several
times he had come within a few thou
sand dollars Of winning the desired
sum- but the next week he would
make a loss, as so many have done
before him.
Those interested have tried to dis
suade him from his reckless though
honorable efforts, and Miss Porter has
Joined with them In q desire that he
relinqush hs purpose. But still the
young man keeps on speculating. VIII
he win7 Nobody knows.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10
She Endorsed II.

She handed the check to the paying
teller. She was calm and collected,
as IL 1t were an everyday matter
Madame" said the teller, gently
you have forgotten to endorse it,"
Endorse it?" with little worried
smile. Yes, you must write your
name on the back here to show that
you will repay this bank in case the
issuer of this check should fail to an
swer our call" "Oh!" she said, &C.
cepting the pen. When the teller
looked at the check this is what he
read: The - bank has always paid
up what 1t owes, and you need have
no worry. Therefore, I endorse this
check. Very truly yours. Mrs. J. B.
Blanks" The teller fell over into the
vault.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10
Uphold tho Constitution.

The Hamilton royalists and the JET
ferson Republicans have talked hours
once more, the former to destroy, the
latter to maintain peoples govern.
ment. Congressman James Daniel
Richardson, Democrat of Tennessee,
thus expounded Jeffersonian doctrine
on the floor of the House in the Porto
Rico tariff bill debate:
THE bill is framed upon the idea
and assumption that Congress enters
upon the government of Porto Rico
unrestrained by the provisions Of the
Constitution. This we deny. Those
of us who oppose this measure, be-
lieve, without exception, maintain
that the bill cannot be enacted into
law without total disregard and vio-
lation of not simply the spirit, but the
express letter Of the Constitution.
The Louisiana territory, Florida, Tex.
as, California, New Mexico, Oregon
and Alaska have all been acquired
under our Constitution without a lar
or strain to any of its wise and benefl.
cent provisions and without any de.
mand for it's amendment. Every foot
of this vast domain was acquired and
annexed under Democratic Presi.
dents.
THE Democratic party has always
favored proper expansion. Those Of
US opposing this measure are not bas.
Ing our opposition to it on the ground
that 1t Is measure Of expansion.
This is not measure of expansion.
Whether the Constitution OF the Unit
ed States is extended to the island of
Porto Rico ex proprio vigore or not
1t must be admitted that when we en-.
ter upon legislation for the island, as
Congress will do if 1t passes this bill,
that question will be put at rest, and
the territory will then be part of us.
The control of the President and of
the military will have ceased and the
expansion as to the island will have
been completed. Legislation by Con.
gress for the island at once makes 1t
part of the United States. II this
bill passes it must follow that it is
then part of the United States. This
being true, the proposition which this
bill carries for unequal taxation of
the Island as portion OF the United
States is the baldest form Of imperial.
ISM"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10

Word comes from far up the Clear.
Water, Idaho, that Andrew Gibson,
chief Of the Northern Pacific Engin.
GERS, almost lost his life at the hands
OF vicious Nez Perces Indian. At
Kamiah the railroad runs through an
old Indian graveyard. The company
agreed to take up the bodies, put
them in suitable boxes and bury them
wherever they we're told to do so.
Most Of the Indians consented, but
one old warrior, who fought at Chief
Joseph's elbow during the late un.
pleasantness, objected to the desc
Grafton Of the tomb of his ancestors.
Engineer Gibson gave orders to move
the sacred bones at all hazards. The
Indian said he would shoot the first
man who struck spade into the
grave. The laborers refused to do
the digging at their modest wages.
Mr.. Gibson drove the spade into the
ancestral sepulchre. The Indian
raised his rifle, but a squaw seized
the gun barrel and turned It aside.
The rifle was discharged, but the bull
let went wide Of It's mark. A number
Of friendly Indians removed the war
rior. and the work proceeded without
further interruption.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10
The Mouth oraan at Work.

The Hon. Joseph H. Choate Is the
United States Ambassador from the
court of Hanna a-Rockefeller.M M Kinley
to that OF Rothschild.victoria. 20.
Mr.. Joe Choate never opens his
mouth without putting his foot in 1t.
1t was at banquet Of the Authors
Club in London. Joseph revels in ban,
quets, and it is upon the viands found
at such places that he does his deadly
work. Moreover, he talks when the
wine Is in:
"The Americans are ready to rem.
edy their faults" he mumbles, and
then proceeds to say: "The British
people are people united for the
prosperity OF all, striking example
Of which they have manifested within
the past few months" The fault to
be remedied by the American people
is to bring Joseph away from the
wine vats of England.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10
SCARED TO DEATH.
How a Sixth Infantry Soldier Died at
Santiago.


DO you see that name, William 8.
Sims, on the tablet up there?" said an
officer Of the Sixth Infantry, pointing
to the Sixth Infantry tablet on the
face OF the water tower at Ft. Thorn
as. We'll, / want to tell you some.
thing very queer concerning the death
Of that man at Santiago
Sims had gone through the hellish
fight on the 1st Of July, through all
the firing while we were in the
trenches up to the night of the 9th,
when he was on outpost duty. The
outpost OF each company consists of
an officer, a non-commissioned officer
and three men. The detail was post.
ed outside the trenches toward the
enemy to prevent party sneaking
up on the trenches. One man on post
was posted about so yards in front of
the rest OF the party, that lay down,
one man being on the alert to listen
to the low call Of the sentinel II he
Well, about 10: 80 that night two shots
rang out In rapid succession, and all
was excitement in a moment, as there
had been no firing since early in the
afternoon, and all but a few were
asleep, worn out with the strain of
the past eight days.
Running up to that part Of the flr-
Ing line from whence the shots were
heard l saw several men handing
down over the top Of the embankment
the body Of man. The doctor was
with me, and he asked where the man
was shot. The Lieutenant who was
In command Of the outpost detail
said: He Is not wounded, but he Is
dead. just the same, and so 1t proved.
The doctor made a careful examina.
tion, aided by the bright starlight, and
not wound was to be found on the
man, but his heart was still in death.
What was the matter? Heart dis
ease. 1t shut of like lightning, and
Sims never knew what killed him. The
men Of the party say they were all
lying down asleep except one man.
He says when the sentinel fired his
shot at a supposed Spaniard ap.
preaching all Of the sleeping party
sprang up at once except Sims, who
sat up and then Immediately lay back
again. The party rushed to the sup
port Of the sentinel, and on their re-
turn found Sims, as they supposed,
asleep again, and on shaking him
found him not asleep, but dead. The
doctor said no doubt the man had
been on such a strain the past few
days that his weak heart simply
stopped when he was awakened with
such start, and he fell back a dead
man to await the sounding of Ga.
briefs reveille, for he had heard the
last on the trumpets of the gallant
Sixth"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10
DR.. Miles,
Nerv1re.

Don't put it off but get it today,
and you will have the first night
OF soothing, sweet, refreshing
sleep you have had since the
grip first got you in it's clutch.
IL had LaGrippe and the disease hung on
me for five weeks in spite of everything.
had auttering pain about my heart, could
not eat anything, was ruiz down, weak, nerv-
Gus and unable to sleep. In fact 1 was all
tired out and had no ambition for anything.
/ began taking DIR. Miles Nervine and found
rest and sweet sleep the first night. 1 also
used DR.. Miles Heart Cure and DIR. Miles
Nerve and Liver Pills, and can say, truly.
tney accomplished wonders for me-"
MRS. ELIZA 1. MASTERS, Monitor, Ind.
DR.. Miles Remedies are sold at all drug
gists on positive guarantee. Send for free
advice and booklet to
Dr.. Miles Medical Co., EIkhart, Ind.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10
DEAD m EN-.
Some Are Found After Battle In POSI-.
tIons Of Life,


tions Of Life.
Surgeon General Mackinnon was
one Of the first Of the Crimean war
riors to enter the Redan after 1t had
been evacuated by the Russians. The
first thing he saw was a Russian officer
sitting on gabion. His arms were
folded across his chest and he ap.
peared to be sleeping but he was
dead, with a rife bali imbedded in his
left breast. There was nothing to
show whether he had sat down on the
gabion after he had been shot, or
whether he happened to be sitting
there when he was killed.
DR., Rossbach, of Wurzburgh, tells
OF soldier who was killed as he was
raising cup to his lips. The frag.
ment Of shell tore of his skull ,leav.
ing nothing but the lower jaw.
Nolan, In the celebrated charge OF
the Light Brigade at Balklava, rode
for some time sword in air, a veri.
table headless horseman.
A British soldier in the Transvaal,
searching for missing comrades after
the Zulus had disappeared, found one
man kneeling behind the outer de-.
lenses with his rifle to his shoulder
and resting on the parapet as II he
was taking aim. He touched him on
the shoulder, asking him why he
didn't com inside. He fell over. He
was dead
Nor are the eccentricities of shot
and shell more curious than those Of
cold steel. Irving Montagu, a war
artist, mentions case of a Russian
and Turk who, meeting, fought to
tho death with fixed bayonets in a
wood in Anatolia. The fatal thrusts
must have been instantaneous, the
strange fact being that both stood,
with their legs much apart, each with
didn't come inside. He fell over. He
adyersary's breast, for several days.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10

BY the time the country gets
through talking about doing some
thing to curb the trusts the latter will
have so absorbed the country that 1t
will be helpless. When fire breaks
out in Amsterdam, the city council
assemblies to pass upon the advisable.
ity of ordering out the fire engine.
When they get through arguing the
matter, the fire has burned UP the
building, and the council then re-
solves: ut will be useless to call out
the fire engine"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10
YOUNG MASON SAMB|TON
His Stake for a Name and a
Fortune.
A SELF IMPOSED TASK
The Matter Of Honor and Love Are
Both lnvolved-At Last Accounts
the Young Man Was Not Discour.
A9sd--Taking Rash Chances.

So" iHNoiNeo-At LAST ACCOUNTS
the Young Man Was Not Discour.
A9sd--Taking Rash Chances.
Arthur Mason is the son OF Elias
Mason, the head of large shipping
business on the great lakes. The eld
er Mason would gladly have his son
Join him In business, but the young
man has determined that, alone and
.unaided, he will make his own for.
9 tune.
Mason's ambition and romance are
the result of five years career as
interesting as any young man ever
had after leaving college. While Ma
son was at Princeton he met Horace
l.. Porter, quiet, mildmannered
youth Of rather retiring disposition.
Porter was OF the sort that Is sus-
ceptible to a man of strong person
atty. So it was that, despite the ex.
treme difference in their physical and
mental compositions, a strong attach
ment sprang up between the two
young men, which strengthened as ime
wore on.
Shorty after leaving college Mason
came to Chicago and began to specu.
late. Like many another man who has
tried the same game, he lost, and
lost again and again. His father re-
fused to give him an additional al
lowance. At the very time of Mason's
financial distress he received an in
vitation from his former college chum
Horace l.. Porter, to visit him at his
home In Nevada. The invitation came
as a piece Of good fortune to Mason,
who jumped at this temporary abate-
ment of his troubles.
1t was at Porter's Western home
that Mason first met sweet-faced lit.
tie Alva Porter. The girl, like her
brother, became enraptured with the
air Of reckless bohemianism which
Mason habitually assumed. In less
than three months time the girl, but
nineteen years old. had given her
promise to Mason that she would be-
come his wife. In this alliance Mason
saw speedy termination of all his
financial difficulties. But he was too
much Of a man to marry Miss Porter
till he had made a start in life.
Mason went to San Francisco as
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10
Tired
Tired
fred

LaGrippe made you tired, and
you are tired out. You are
tired in muscle and tired in
brain, tired in body and tired
in mind. Your heart is tired,
your nerves are tired, you are
tired all over. You are too
tired to rest, too tired to sleep
and you feel worse in the morn
ing than you did when you re-
tired at night. You must have
rest-rest for your worn-out
nerves and your weary brain
rest that will give your tired
body a chance to recover. You
can get it right away if you will
send to your druggist for
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10

Wives in Tanganyika are consid.
cred a luxury, and even in Zululand
they cost from $3.50 to $500, but on
the Tanganyika plateau one can be
had for I've or six goats. One goat
equals Is to 20 cents, therefore one
wife equals S1.20.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10

One little clause in the Indian ap.
preparation bill gives the Standard Oil
Company control of $4,000 acres Of
land in western New York, belonging
to the Seneca tribe. BY the time the
Hanna Gage Mckinley regime is
through with its purpose there will be
nothing left of Uncle Sans household
effects save cut-throat mortgage and
the gas meter.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10
McMen an1in,s
Gents Furnishing, Hat and Shoe Store,
96 South Centre Street
Something About Our Store.

Our store is stocked with all that is new and des;r
able IN spring and summer merchandise in our lines We
have steadily aimed to build up reputation for fair and
honest dealing with patrons and do this we cannot
afford to sell one article except for what really is We
employ no deceptive schemes give away no chromos,
we 40 not sell below COST do sell the same class of
goods at two prices We give the best service and atten
ton we can we cheerfuly refund money if purchases are
not satisfactory and accord to- every patron, friend
stranger the same treatment If you desire to buy at
store where these principles rgidy followed call on us
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10

One great objection to free trade In
Porto Rico sugar and coffee grows out
of the fear that the sand and bean
trusts Of the United States will not
be protected. . 't.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10

Although the world has become
somewhat hardened to the distress in
India from hearing so often reports
Of want and misery In that unfortu-
nate land. It is none the less horrify.
ing to learn from Lord Curzon that at
the present thousands are starving
there
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10

1t is as hard for an imperialist Re.
publican to quote Abraham Lincoln
as 1t is to quote the Declaration OF In.
dependence in justification of benevo.
lent assimilation.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10

The call of the Democratic National
Committee gives out the slogan of
victory. 1t is: THE Republic against
the Empire" --..o, F"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-10

American sewing machines cost
less in London, England, than in
Leavenworth, Kan, and American
boots and shoes are cheaper in Birm.
ingham, England, than in Boston,
Mass.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-09-25
TAKING RELIGIOUS CENSUS.
lsestls Ministerial Assoctatton Hears
oepsvts ~ Progress NJ the work
--0hieces In View

~ Seattle Ministerial Association met
ystsrday morning In the parlors OF thu
IN c. A, Practically the entire time
\ M meeting was devoted 10 a discus
M Of the religious census now betng
nttn b. the churches Of Seattle. This
<neU n hnuse TO house canvass under
~ direction Of the various ministers,
ose4ned 20 obtain the number OF church
members and the number OF church.
pm IN tho city, together with other
Hfa Of Interest 10 the ministry as well
y 10 awaken an interest In church work
Ayourkout the city
Al Yesterdays meeting reports were
oxdf BY 4 number Of ministers rrincl-
Ally pastors 81 churches IN the outlying
fsxniown dfstriets we're not heard from.
New A, N Raven, pastor OF Taylor
CONGREGATIONAL church and chairman 90
W census committee ~ the association
rad an Interesting report on the sub
krs. making suggestions regarding the
vrsk on hand and Offering plans for the
hsrsAsing % church membership. The
ssssriAiien voted to adop, his recon-
rehia'lnns and the same committee was
Wsrtsd 10 carry them out
Ihe next meeting " tho association
WI b held M the v NJ. e. a. narlora
= ,hs morning ~ October s. The ut
hniancs yesterday was not so large as
p>ntl on account IL the fact that the
r'r's'sra 81 tho Methodist Episcopal
fhnfeh we're holding their weekly meet
- u was arranged that hereafter the
" sssccsaliors should meet on alter
s,is Nondnys
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-09-25
Guilty. or MAxsL.uGHTER.
John sarsa Convicted Of KtiiinU
Iouis Uatlots.

Recent arrivals from Kienaike report
that John SArga has been convicted Of
rnanslauehtcr IN the territorial court 81
Dawson, for having taken the life of
I.otils Ballots, The crime was commit
ted July q iSao on Last Chance gulch.
IN the klnndike Sarga Red down the
Yukon 60 Nome, where he was arrested.
TITS confession was that he and paliois
had been working n lay together on
tho right limit ~ Ronanxa creek for some
time previous 10 the date ~ the killing.
aud that they mad quarreled several
times and once came 70 htnwe over
Dispute arising out % HIS claim that
Railnts owed him 400
The nay IN the claim thew were work
Ing ptnehed out and the partners decided
% SO up the Kl0ndike ami bring down
. raft ef wood to Dawson They got
tho wood and while bringing Il down the
dispute again arose about the 500
pnllois az the fims had n revolver
strapped 20 his side. lie always carried
a revolver paiiois made move %
draw hts revolver Sarea pickesi nn a
stick that was laying IN the wood pnc
near the are and struck Ballots on the
ieft side ~ the head sheve the ear He
tl4 not fall hut wavercd and seemed
dissv ne kept on pulling bis gun and
got II cot ~ the scahharA. when Sarga
spranx forward and srahhed hts haras
and tried 10 take The revolver from him
Ballots was q much stronger man. -
Sarga caught his hand IN his teeth ana
hit 4 niece nut Haliais drew the revolver
and Sarpa xnntchsd Il away and emptssa
/, into nalleis hatfy, shooting him six
tiynew
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-09-25
ENDS LIFE BY HANGING.
Jacob N. wilcox In Driven to Self
Destruction to Escape fortunes
of Cancer.

As result OF extreme physical suffer-
ing Jacob II. Wilcox. a laboring man.
committed suicide by hanging at his resi-
dence overlooking Lake Union yesterday
afternoon. shortly after 2 o'clock. The
body was discovered swinging from a RAT
by Mrs. Wilcox, who went In search of
her husband TO notify him that the even
Ing meal was ready.
Wilcox resided at fli6 Franklin avenue
with his wife and one daughter. aged IS
years. The dead man had been a sufferer
from cancer for some time The growth
had consumed portion OF his face and
he had OF late complained to his wife
that at times the pain caused by the raw
ages OF the disease was almost unbear-
peared shortly after the noon hour. HIS
family did not become alarmed until he
failed to appear for dinner at o. clock.
His wife then instituted a search OF the
nelghborhood.
Upon entering the barn at the rear OF
their residence Mrs Wilcox was Mortified
to discover the body OF her husband
hanging at the end of a rope which had
been thrown over rafter high up in
the roof Wilcox had adjusted the rope
to the support and, after arranging a
moose around his neck, jumped from an
elevated position. His neck was not
broken by the fall and he slowly strangled
TO DEATH
Coroner Sparkling was Immediately no.
titled Of the death and authorized the
Seattle Undertaking Company to take
charge OF the remains and convey them
to their morgue. IL is not probable that
an inquest will be held.
Wilcox had been a resident OF this city
for several years. He was a member OF
Stevens Post. q. A. r., under whose au-
a small estate and will bequeathing the
property TO his widow.