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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-12
Europe in The
PaCifiC

The Pacific ocean, westward of Ha
wall and the Marquesas, is like a fed
Grafton of European nations on Asia
tic soil, united by the free commerce of
the seas, says Ainslee's Magazine. The
nations vary in size, strength and i'm
portance, as the states of Europe or
of the American Union. Great Britain
commands the field with landed area
of nearly 3,250,000 square miles. Poor
Spain's once magnificent empire Is
shrrnk to less than 80 square miles, a
smaller total than belongs to black
King George of the Tongas. Holland,
the country from which emanated the
doughty Beers, owns over 735,O00
square miles, settled with nearly eight
times as many people as inhabit the
larger area owned by Great Britain.
Germany, the new civilizer among the
nations, has dominance over more
than 100000 square miles, and about
as many people as there are miles
France, with less than one-tenth of
Germany's land. Is at some Of the
most important points of strategy and
at the point of greatest travel. Sew
eral Independent states lie in the
midst of the federation, as Switzerland
does in Europe; several others in the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-12

from it. The bubonic plague, when
it is raging is no more dangerous to
Europeans than is the cholera or
smallpox. With ordinary precaution
every risS of being brought in con-
tact with it nay be stunned
All three OF these diseases are in
fectious, not contagious, and when
one has been some time In the East
he gets to recognizing a decided diff
ference In the terms.
The native goes right on having
cholera, smallpox and the bubonic
plague-whenever it Is around, yet
with all he Is not on the wane but on
the gain. There are no outward evil
denceS of decrease, on the contrary
every appearance of steady increase
of the population. Japan's average
per square mile in the whole Chinese
empire would mean an aggregate pop
ulatlon of a billion and quarter.
The per cent. of Japan's annual aug
mentation has consistently advanced
with the adoption of modern methods,
not merely as to the strictly sanitary,
Dul III OlueI IeldIlOHS Vi ne anu ci-
vironment- From an increase of less
than l per cent. in 1890 it advanced
to nearly IL per cent. in 1899. This
ratio applied to China would, on the
basis of present population of 400,
100000 carry her close to the half
billion notch by the time we We're
ready to take the next census, and
ourselves officially pass the first 100,-
100000 mark.-Kansas City Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-12
GAMBLING RUNS
RIOT IN THE
MINING CAMP.

gotten gold. The faro dealers chips
are always clicking, the little balls
ceaselessly rattle in the revolving rou-
lette wheels, the craps men are ever
throwing huge dice and shouting the
results, the stud poker tables shuttle
and deal at the little round, green
tables, and the policy men hold hourly
drawings
Sometimes the great, barn-like
400 and 500 absorbed, anxious and
desperate men and women toying with
capricious luck. Several times the
restless, eager crowds have fought
mortal fights for chances at the gam
ing tables. Time and again a miner
has lost all his gatherings of gold
through a whole season by whirl of
a roulette wheel, and men have wag-
cred pounds of gold upon the turn of
a card. Sometimes murders occur
among the frenzied players, and half
the rows of the crazy camp start in
the gambling halls.
Roughly estimated, some 600 men
are at Nome solely 10 conduct gam
bling, and to concoct schemes for al
Turing gold dust and money from the
swarming miners. The gambling fra
ternity has been recruited from every
city in America, from cities in Eu-
rope, from Australia and South Am
erica. Lucky" Baldwin Is installed
there with twenty salaried gamblers
in the employ of syndicate of men
who have made thousands of dollars
in other western mining fields. Jacob
Westfall of New York, is running a
flashy place, equipped with almost
every sort of popular gambling game
and device. Chicago, Buffalo, Pitts
burg, ST. Louis and New Orleans each
has a quota Of gamesters at Nome,
while every community on the Pacific
coast has some representation among
the fraternity gathered to feed upon
the gold diggers in the Alaskan camp.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-12
Indian wit.

There was lawyer in the Indian
country who had none too good a rep
utation for honesty. One of the abo-
rlgines employed him to do little
legal business. 1t was done to the
clients satisfaction the fee duly paid,
and a receipt for it duly demanded.
"a receipt isn't necessary" the
lawyer said. "But l want it," replied
the red man. There was some argu-
ment, and the attorney finally de-
manded his reason.
"Since becoming a Christian | have
been very careful in all my dealings
that 1 may be ready for the judg-
ment," answered tine brave, senten-
tiously, 'and when the day comes |
don't want to take time to go to the
the bad place to get my receipt from
you."
The receipt was made out and de-
livered promptly. Newn.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-12
A Gift from Thackeray.

At a dinner party at the Baden
Powells when he was not yet years
old, the guests being all learned and
distinguished men, such as Buckle
and W:-Svell, Thackeray was handing
Mrs. BnaenPowell in to dinner when
he noticed that one of the little chill
dren was following behind. This was
the future scout, and the young gen
tleman, as was his wont, was Just
scrambling into chair, when Thack-
cray, fumbling in his pocket, produced
new shilling and said in his caress-
ing voice: There, little one, you shall
have this shilling if you are good
and run away" He carried that shil-
ling with him, and it is now one of his
most treasured possessions.-London
Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-12
Mary listened.


ITS fake all around. That's what
think" was uttered in ~ seap ~oice
OF an angry man, and it cordnued:
1.-THE boy WIS TO get a dollar for hang
ing in a sling just under the end u
the balcony long enough to tighten
up a single nut. He probably finished
the job by this time and never
dreamed of suicide"
'But the hurry call was turned In
from this Office" argued q second
voice.
40, you're nuttyw responded the
original wise 1uan. Cant you see this
sign says, '1sais office closes at p. m.
on Saturday. Come on"
And it was fully fifteen minutes af-
ter Mary had heard the last faint foot
falls of the guardians of the peace,
before she dared to sneak out of the
office and away.-Detroit Free Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-12
WARE THE ToADsTooLl
It Is Well to Be Sure Before Eating a
Mushroom.

IL Is wen To he sure Before Eating q
Mushroom.
"The deadly toadstool season is up
on u.s." said well-known botanist,
"and it might not be out of place to
repeat warnings about the gathering
and eating of poisonous varieties of
fungi in mistake for the edible ones.
A case is reported this week from Illi-
nois of three persons killed and four
made dangerously sick by eating toad
stools which were mistaken for mush-
rooms.
This recalls the case In Baltimore
early last October, when little Marie
Sehirmer and William Quigley died
after eating deadly toadstools. The
remainder of their meal, it may be
remembered, was thrown out and a
dog and hen died after eating of the
dish of food.
sin that case the supposed mush-
rooms We're gathered without any
idea as to the marks which distin-
guished edible ones from the poison
Gus varieties. An investigation showed
that actually they were the deadl.cst
variety of all, the amantia phalloides,
or death cup
'The old saying is true that the
proof of the pudding is in the eating
and so the proof of mushrooms is in
the eating. If the eater survives they
We're mushrooms; if he dies, they
were toadstools. But we do not want
to make that dangerous test.
"It is best to have an expert go
along to point out the different spe-
cies by practical lessons in the field.
BY committing to memory the dis
tinguishing marks of few edible
species and sticking absolutely to
them the mushroom picker may be
safe in his selection. Some of the
deadliest of the poisonous varieties
are almost exact duplicates of the
edible ones, only an expert being able
to tell them apart. A common test
is to boil silver spoon with the mush-
rooms. If it turns black, indicating
the presence of sulphur, the mush-
rooms are supposed to be bad. How
ever, a fresh egg will turn a silver
spoon black with its sulphur, SO that
test does not hold good. AS for the
peeling test, the edible ones the sup.
posed to hold together, while the
poisonous ones are brittle when the
skin is pulled off, but this does not al
ways hold good.
"The common mushroom of COM
merce, known as the meadow mush-
room, is pink-gilded (under surface of
cap when young, changing to a
brownish purple, and is almost never
found in the woods, being most plenti-
full in grassy pastures. 1t has per-
.fectly smooth base, which appears to
come directly out of ground, and Is
free from any suggestion of a cup or
wrapper, or even bulb-like enlarge
ment.
"The death cup variety, which Is
common about Baltimore has a cap
often of a shiny white, but may vary
from dull yellow to olive, and when
wet is more Shiny than the meadow
mushroom. The gills and stalks are
white the stalk being hollow or 1illed
with cottonous thread. The base of
the stalk is bulbinous and wrapped
with a sack-like membrane called
volva, which mt the upper part is fre-
quently reduced to membranous
ring.
"As the death cup is underground
and hence may easily escape notice
by careless gatherers, this variety
should be especially guarded against"
Baltimore Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-12

There will be poor houseboat show
at Henley, near London, this year, as
only about dozen boats have been al
lotted positions on the course The
war has been blamed for this, but he
chief reason may be found in the re-
tention of the rules which prevent the
subletting of boats after places have
been allotted by the conservancy, thus
dispensing with the speculative owner.
Last year these rules brought the
number of houseboats and launches
on the course down to fifty-one, and
this year there will be in all under
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-12

Once when certain well-known
English judge was trying 4 case he
was disturbed by young man who
kept moving about in the rear of the
courtroom, lifting chairs and looking
under things.
Young man." said his lordship, you
are making a great deal of unneces.
sary noise. What are you about?"
MY lord" replied the young man,
Il have lost my overcoat, and am try
ing to find it."
WELL" said the venerable judge,
with a grim smile, 'people often lose
whole suits in here without making
all that disturbance"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-12
Great Appetite of a Cow.

The enormous appetite of a cham
pion COW is shown by the amount of
food eaten daily during n test of the
Holstein COW, Rosa Bonheur 9th,
which died recently. She held the
worlds record of milk production of
10G.15 pounds in one day. and 726.o %
pounds in one week. She ate daily
ia pounds silage, twelve pounds corn
meal, nine pounds oat meal and twen-
ty-seven pounds roots, or a total of
ia pounds, of which 52.43 pounds was
dry matter. She weighed 1850 pounds.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-12
WHEN WE'LL ALL BE GOOD.

I don't know when the day will come,
But you and |, we know
That after awhile our good resolves
VIII into being grow.
Some day, when we both have the time,
Wen cast our faults away,
And you'll be good, and I'll be good
Wen all be good, some day.
Wen run our business affairs
With thought of fellow-men,
For we will let our good intent
Go into action then.
Wen make our friends all happier,
And life will really pay;
For you'll be good, and I'll be good
Wen all be good, some day.
Some day-of course, it's way ahead
But l know, so do you,
That some day we will take turn,
And try the good and true.
Wen do our best for other folks,
The world will be more fair,
And you'll be good, and I'll be good,
When we've the time to spare.
: Josh Wink, in Baltimore American.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-12

The prosperous and growing city Oh
Huntington, w. Va, was named after
the late Coils P. Huntington, who pro-
jected the place, and some thirty years
ago purchased the land upon which it
is situated. He subsequently conveyed
the property to the Central Land COM
pany, a corporation in which he was
chief stockholder and of which he was
special receiver at the time OF his
death.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-12

thirty. The increased railway facil-
tiles, too, and the popularity of club
lawns have had their share in the
slump" and also seriously affect the
letting of houses and hotel business
during the regatta week, for perhaps
the most popular method of visiting
Henley now is by train each day from
London, while a ticket for one of the
club lawns provides everything that is
necessary for the enjoyment of the
racing under pleasant conditions.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-12

unhappy suzerainted position of the
Transvaal in South Africa.
If all the Islands could be put into
a continuous body of land they would
form a most heterogeneous empire
They would include, in addition to Eu-
ropean peoples with their various po-
litical and social systems, a tangle OF
aborigines, a confusion of savages and
semi-civilized cultivators of the soil
and commonwealth; an emporium OF
products more diversified than a bazaar
on a midway plaisance, mystery OF
traditions as ineXplicable as the origin
Of the American Indians Profoundly
forested in the Dutch West Indies, tha
islands become in western Australia
more barren than the lava beds OF
eastern Oregon, and more irredeema-
bic than the uppermost wilds of Brit
ish Columbia. Fertile, balmy and
luxurious in the beautiful lands OF
New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa and Tahiti,
they are transformed into uninhabited
coral reefs or into hot and malarial
beds of struggle in the guano-covered
or a-producing dots on the map
north and east of the line drawn from
the Philippines to New Guinea and
through Samoa to the Society islands.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-12

The pastor Of Baptist church in
Emporia, Mimi, was attracted by a
noise in the sacred ediice while pass
ing the other afternoon. He entered
and found three sacriligeous young
sters using the baptismal font as o
swimming hole.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-12
6JUUUWWWUWUUUUU UUUUS
5 The Hand GLASS.
BY Charles S. Hathaway.
ga OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
BY Charles S. Hathaway.

r pom the door was sign con-
veying the information: This
i Office closes at 8 p. N. on
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT
Will Establish System of Bonded
 Warehouses

City of Mexico, February 1S.-The presi- dent has issued a decree for the establish ment of a system of bonded warehouses at ports of entry, and outlines liberal meas ures, which will be welcomed by the bus mess community Managers of warehouses may loan money on the goods deposited, as well as enjoy the usual privileges per- taining to this business in foreign countries collecting storage charges, etc. Exemption from customs duties on the materials for the construction of the warehouses is granted for five years. Several banks here are interested in this business, which bids fair to be of great importance and utility, and New York parties are expected to take a portion of the capital required. The same ibusiness was projected some years ago, but was defeated in congress, but 1t is now certain to pass.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
NEW FoUNDLAND LEGISLATURE
Excuse Will be Offered for Calling the
 Session

St. Johns, N. F., February 1S.-The speech of the governor, Sir Hugh Mccall lum, at the opening of the New Foundland legislature tomorrow, will intimate that the session has been called at the request of the imperial government to renew the modus vivendi on the treaty coast; that French fishermen may be enabled to prepare for the summers operations without delay.
 The reply of the legislature will declare the coiony's loyalty and it's readiness to assist the mother country in the present crisis by enactment of the desired measure. At the same time 1t will express a hope that the near future will see final set clement of the long-standmg controversy.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
FOUND DEAD
Chas. Stewart a Victim of Whisky and
 Gold w eather

Opelika, February 1S.-(Special.)- Charles Stewart, a stone contractor from Tallassee, Ala, who has been here several days, was found dead in bed this morning at his boarding house. He had been drinking, and the whisky(and cold weather together took his life. Nothing is known of him here. He does not live at Tallassee, but has sim ply been there at work, and the city will doubtless provide for his burial.
 A bitter cold wave swept over this sec 'tion Friday, and business has been para lyzed. The thermometer went to 10 degrees last night, and much suffering exists
The age-herald., 1900-02-19

out on foot with small retinue deer stalk ing towards Widau. The court marsnals here say that the official court mourning is er;sno ball or other large court festiv- ities will be given during the balance Of the season, and the carnival ball arranged for February 27 will be omitted out of re- spect for the demise of the empress moth- CT.
 The reception of the United States ann bassador, MT. Andrew D. White, and Mrs. White on Wasaington's birthday will oc- cur if MT. White recovers in time, and "hop" at the Kaiserhof will follow. MT. White today had sufficiently recovered to sit up.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19

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The age-herald., 1900-02-19
FRANCE IS HAVING Il COLONIAL TROUBLES
Serious UpheavaIS in Martinique
 and Soudan.
VICTORY FOR FRENCH ARMS
Colonel Jouaust President of the Fa- nous Dreyfus Courtmartial at Rennes, Has Been Put on
 the Retired List

Paris February 18-Colonial interests now furnish topic, which. for the mo- ment, attracts more attention than the overt intentions of other nations as to the
 worlds map or Englands present en- tanglement. Last week brought important news from one of Frances oldest colonies and from her newest, Martinique and the Soudan, serious upheaval in the first, but the happier intelligence of a victory for French arms from the latter. The dis agreeable effect caused by the first was counter balanced by the pleasant nature | of the Soudan advices.
 According to dispa atches received by mem- | bers of the chamber of deputies nothing ! short of rebellion is in progress there, due to maladministration while on the other hand the official reports attribute the
 trouble entirely to labor agitation and take t-e most hopeful view of the prospects for an early settlement of the trouble. Never theless, M. Doubard, the inspector general of the colonies, who will go to Martinique to investigate the situation, will sail on board a French cruiser.
 An Associated Press representative inter- viewed M. Dequesnay, the deputy from Martinique, who had been the leading ad- versary of the government in the chamber in the debates on Martinique, and who is bitterly opposed to the present island ad- ministra ton. He said
 You can say for me, and am kept fully informed of events in Martinique. that I have never heard of any such machina- tions on the part of the islanders as is at tributed to them."
 Bitterness Toward England
 England is regarded here as a parsonage which is constantly looking to put France in false position in order to injure the relations between the two republics and thus to strengthen her own entente. This is one reason why the French statement regarding the Hay-Pauncefote Nicaraguan canal treaty was quickly forthcoming.
 The satisfaction with which the crush ing defeat of Rabah, the Soudan chief, was greeted in France was heightened by the fact that 1t partakes of the nature of revenge for the massacre of the Advance Party under Lieutenant Bretonnet, of the now victorious gentle expedition, which was perpetrated by Rabah about six months ago. The most important conse- quences.@ 1t is predicted, will result from gentiles' defeat of Rabah, but only the condition that he Is immediately reinforced so as to enable him to follow up the vic tory and capture Rabah or at least utterly destroy any remaining influence.
 An effort to secure organized increase in theater prices during the exposition has brought an outcry. from the press, which vigorously denounces the new movement.
 Colonel Juoaust, president of the Drey fus courtmartial, and who it was currently asserted voted, contrary to public expecta- tion, for the acquittal of Dreyfus, was placed on the retired list this week.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
MAD ELEPHANTS
Kill Keeper and Injure Another Man
 Panic Resulted

London, February 1S.-An exciting scene took place at the Crystal Palace, Suyden- ham, this afternoon. Two large elephants belonging to the circus ran amuck, killed their keeper and gored another man. There was terrible panic in the audience attend ing the concert in the palace.
 One animal was captured after great damage to property. The other escaped through the grounds, but was captured late this evening in the suburb of Becken- ham.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
Funeral of Capt. Graham

Huntsville, February 1S.-(Speial) )-The funeral of the late Captain James P. Ora ham, conductor of the Florence branch of the Southern Railway, who died very sud denly at Florence, was conducted this after noon from the First Methodist church at 3:SO o'clock, Rev. J. H. Mccoy officiating The body was inferred with Masonic hon ors by E1elion Lodge No. l, F. A. M.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
CANDIDATES
North Alabama Will Have Several for
 State Auditor

Huntsville, February 1S.-QSpecial)- Captain A. W. Bailey, of Hillsboro, has announced himself as a candidate for state auditor. There is a report current that Hon. A. F. Murray, chairman Of the demo- cratic committee of Morgan county, will also become a candidate for the office.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
UNITED STATES COURT
Will Convene in Huntsville First Mon-
 day in April

Huntsville, February 1S.-0Special.)- United States circuit court will convene here on the first Monday of April Judge John Bruce, who has been bad health sev- eral months, has announced his intention of conducting tine court here and also at Birmingham in March, having sufficiently recovered to do so.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
MARDI GRAs CELEBRATION.
New Orleans and Mobile, Feb. 26th-27tl 19O0-Reduced Rates via A. c. s. R. R.


 o account of the Mardi Gras Celebration at New Orleans, La., and Mobile, Ala, February 26th-27th, the Alabama Great Southern R. R., will sell tickets from points on its line to New Orlens and re- turn; also to Mobile Ala, and return, at rate of one fare for the round trip. Tickets will be sold February 2Oth to 25th inclusive, with final limit to return March 18th, 1900.
 The Alabama Great Southern R. R. of- fers excellent and convenient schedules en route to New Orleans, La, and Mobile, Ala. and passengers should purchase tick cts reading via that line.
 For further information, call on Ala bama Great Southern R. R. Ticket Agent.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
Milwaukee After the Convention

Milwaukee, Wis, February 1S.-A dele gation of about 100 boomers left Milwaukee for Washington on a special train today The delegation will work hard to secure the democratic convention for Milwaukee.