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STREET MUSICIANS Trust.
New Yorks strcliinE Organ Grinders and
Tooters Divide the City Into sections.

An observing citizen who has made a study
Of New York strnet musicians says they have
divided the city into sections and ORGANIZED
a trust. One class Of these itinerants appears
within certain boundaries one week and then
gives way 10 another class the week following.
so that no community has the same music all
the time,
One NeapoItan who has a rcpertory Of oper-
ate numbers and a musical box constructed
on tho pine organ principle appears in such
parts of upper Manhattan "a are occupied
bv peonle who apprCclatp ella ssiCal music. He
,s never aeon outside 81 the 'errltory mentioned.
Whenever he appears windows 90 up IN the
block and he IA the recipient ol "A shower or
nickels and cents. lie has a fine face, Is always
noafly dressed, and his Acknowledgement of
fnvors il ms graceful as the most eIacting could
The little German band" so NUMEROUS In
BrOoklvn has not been seen in the streets OF
Manhattan for sour' time. but by an arrange
ment" with the trust" and ianltors the toot"rs
60 INTO thn courts u buildings and blow until
they are wlnded The citizen who has obtiGed
this information saws the receipts Are pooled
and divided usually every two weeks, but on
what basis ne has not been able % learn,
one ri tn" trust ls A fiddler with one lHs
Whom he takes his plaro in front Of a house he
laws down his crlirch, and balancing himself
on his single underpirning he maintains MS
enuipoi-e while NJ saws. lie IL an American,
and his dress " black broadcioth is Of the old
conventional cut seen in the South before the
One OF the members OF the trust eays New
York giyes more money to Shese s1ollinS mu-
soians than any European dV.
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hind YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
A westeraer Tells Of some sound Advice Hs
Once Got After q Row.

Mind your own business is a good rule to 60
by. said a veteran Westerner with an ugly scar
between his thumb and his index finger. and
this mark you see on my hand keeps me in mind
OF it. got Il by not doing that. 1t happened In
a faro room one night in a mining town. | was
watching a friend playing. and just opposite
was a little fellow neither OF us knew. My
friend had up a bet OF $50 which he won and
Just as he was about to take 1t, the little man
reached out and got II.
That's mine said my friend.
Its mine said the little man. and the trou-
BILE was rising when the lookout, with a gun
across his lap. put in to settle It.
This IL our business, said my friend waving
the look -out OF. Now he went on, address,
ing the little man. We will just step outside and
see whose II Is
Il thought | had seen a guerrilla one Of those
CHAPS around a game who IL watching 10 catch
n sleeper, slip the checks and knowing that
somebody would be killed II the two men went
outside, I put my hand on my friends shoulder
and announced that the guerrilla had pinched
the bet. The guerrilla promptly struck me In the
Jaw and | went over, but was right up again and
he cane for me with a big knife. I caught at
his arm and got the Knife which ripped my hand
no. but | held on until somebody hit the guer-
rilla with a stool and knocked him sen seless. A
dozen pistol shots were Aired during the scrap,
lust % shoe the th'es out some joker said,
but I was worse hurt than anybody else.
You ought TO have minded your own bust
ness. said tho old fellow who dressed my
wounded hand
But ! wasn't going to see my friend robbed
and killed I protested.
"'Mebbe. was the sage r.plv, but you'll have
all you can do 10 keep out OF trouble mindin'
YOUR own business In thi. country, and let this
be q warnin' to You
As il turned out, | was right. and my friend
and tho little man shook hand. We got the SoO
from the guerrilla and that sam" might the bows
wrecked his cabin and drove him out Of the
Clmp
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few youns people In Nsw York and Buffalo
and aions tie line. and there 2 often lively
dancing on the boat decks or the docks and
en1ersetic eourtine IN we tiny eao'n d. ae H.
deck In the moonlieht. Only last week there
was the sayest Of impromptu dances over on
the covered dock At Dow's stores, whsr N .
are amateur musicians on every boat. Some
one plays the fiddle or the banjo, or the ever
popular accordion, and sinsins and dancinc are
Ine evenings evenings. but what are family concerts
to a Riri whose sweetheart has been left In New
York and will not bs seen for a month. "a.
into The ,h sGyi fa 81 re s ts9i1s are or n so Ind q s York
times. their fathers start them with boats
Of their " and frequently, a family lam party
they do not marry early. generally have a
trade in the city: for their mothers no matter
how much they may protest mat they hike
TO fini sSmethlne else for their daughters.
On the first evening after a boat under an
old captain and his wife reaches port; there
Is usually, a family reunion on board, Inc
and husbands. the single daughter brinss her
young man, whom the captain and his wife
eye critically. The boys. who may be srSya
Is a family dinner and a mighty clackins OF
tongues. Later, other friends and relatives
drift in. and the sound OF music and laughter
HOAtS uD ul0TR Cuutt rdttt und UldAcs INV
loafers swear, half in contempt and hall in
envy.
The men are busy during their day. in port
but the women have time for excursions up
town and visits TO friends. and do not share
their husbands Wild anxiety to push OF on tho
up trip, Most of their shopnins they, for some
occult reason. do In Buffalo; and the bulk Of
their feed for man and beast they buy at tow.
path stores, but New York Ia the port for social
enjoyment, and the women are always glad
when their boats tie up at the slip and they
see the uptown Il" train rounding the curve,
In ono respect the slip is not as comfortable
for the boat folk az 1t was In earlier days, The
green park which hlls the old inlet Is all very
well. but when the slip wound back between
high buildings 10 the very foot OF the IL
ROAD. the boats could creep into the cool shadow
out OF wind and sun. Now, the boats must tic
up ont In the blazing snnshi ne; and even the
awnings that the canalboat swells put up
over tho decks cannot shut ont the alare and
the heat. Still. as one Of the captains re.
marked p~hllosophically, ITS better for canal
folks w be hot than to be murdered, and there
was lots of accidents around the docks in that
inlet in the old times" .
There isa rough element in the canalboat
colony. Hard drinking. frequent rows and
eloquent profanity are common enough down
there. but the majority of the boat folk are
respectable, and it would be hard 10 find a New
York colony where there Is more cheerful and
wholesome home life.
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From, N. Phasdsrh a Worth A ner'ea~L
WAS the deceased a drinking mani" asked
the attorney.
well, sor, no." replied Pat: he war not,
barrin' a pint er two ave heer at The meals an
stomach sake"
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The canal boat children are as admirable A.
the quilts. or course there are exceptions.
Where the parents are roush and disreputable
tho children echo them and there's a chance
larry. around the docks but il the captain and
his wife, as Is ordinarily the case. are respec-
table people, with ambitions for their chill
dren. they have a fair chance 10 brins up the
youngsters In the way they should 60, A
small boy or Girl can't get very far away from
a mothers eye on a canal boat, and the evil
influences TO which city children who play
on the streets are subjected. don't come near
wholesome, out-of-door life. with close sur
v~eillance and il would be hard u find a better
hammered. cleaner-minded small boy than the
average urchin one will find playing on the
boat decks or along the docks down in the
canal boat colony. The mothers plume them
selves proudly. in this regard. and tell. with
havior OF the children Of their city friends.
But. when II comes TO the educational prob
lem. they shake their heads, The boats are
in port dur. ng about five months Of the ear and
during that time the children may be sent To
school. but five months Of the school year
isn't enough. Some OF the parents board
their children down near the docks and send
them 10 the nearest public school for the
months Of the school year when the boats are
out, but that is rather n risky business and
an anxious mother finds il hard 20 consent to
such an arrangement
Many OF the parents leave the children with
friends in the small towns alonR the canal,
reasoning that there will be less danger IN
their being away from home in a country place.
than there would be in the city. Some OF the
boat men carry this theory so far that they
tie W For the winter NJ some small town up
the state rather than in New York, and send
the children TO school there. But a captain
ran III afford 70 do that. for during the winter
months the canal boats in New York ,HTbor
make q little money by liahterine. and 80 are
not altogether idle. As the children erow
older the problem Of social opportunities T.
added tn tlat OF education. There Is pleasant
enough society AMONG the boat colony dur1na
themselves after their own fashion In port,
but the girls life Is a tribe LONELY. She isn't
in port long enough to make many friends
general round OF eirls' pleasures "a more OF
lsss shut away from her. Still, she knowo
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07
Mr.. Moraan. Pleased

A short time since a committee Of
Chicago business men wrote to Mr.
]. Pierpont Morgan begging him to
use his influence in railway councils
to stop determinations in rates so
that all shippers might be placed on an
equality in the matter of cost of trans.
portation. Mr.. Morgan replies by sug.
gesting various remedies, but com.
mits himself to nothing in particular
The interesting fact here is that the
committee appealed not to the Inter.
state Commerce Commission which
was constituted by the national gov.
ernment to prevent and punish such
unlawful discrimination, but to pri
vate individual who has no connection
whatever with the authorities charged
with the enforcement of the law.
Is Mr.. Morgan more powerful than
the Government? Can he grant by
ways of grace and favor what the
commission cannot compel with all
the power of government behind It?
The committees action Is a recog.
milton of the fact already confessed
by the Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion almost in terms. 1t ought to en-.
tighten the whole country concerning
the unseen influences which regulate
the Government at Washington.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07

II it be true, as intimated by Mr.
Hanna, that the Republican National
Committee is $65,000 in debt, the fact
is highly discreditable to the benefi-
ciaries of the administration con-
stant care and solicitude. The Stand
ard Oil trust, which Mr.. Hanna him.
self protected from the malignant per-
secution of Mr.. Frank Monnett, Is
earning $S0,000,000 per annum, accord.
ing to its last quarterly dividend. The
Carnegie steel trust cleaned up $21,-
100000 in 1899. All the other trusts
and monopolies undoubtedly have
done correspondingly well. Yet they
allow Mr.. Hanna's committee to be-.
come insolvent when a trifling con-
tribution from each of them would
fill its war chest to overfiowing. Such
ingratitude is bound to bring down
retribution, and the retribution will
come when Mr.. Hanna gets out his
trusty skillet and begins making the
rounds again this fall. The trust
magnates may ignore the committees
necessities now, but their fat will
sizzle merrily when the leaves begin
to fall. Marcus will be merciless and
his demands will have to be met il
the trusts hope to enjoy four years
more license to plunder the people.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07
Democratic Doctrine.

We are opposed to Imperialism and
militarism, says the Utah Democratic
Convention, but favor commercial ex.
pansion and progress, not by force,
but by natural and peaceful means.
We are in favor Of the kind Of expan.
sion which Jefferson advocated and
practiced, and which is not incompat-
ible with our form of government,
applying to contiguous or neighbor.
ing territory whose inhabitants are
fitted either Immediately or ultimate.
ly to become citizens OF the United
States. But we ale opposed to wars
of aggression and conquest, by means
of which alien people are brought un.
der our domination against their will.
Such wars, undertaken in a spirit Of
commercialism, greed and covetous
ness, bringing to US colonies and sub
jects instead OF sister states and fel.
low citizens, are directly antagonistic
to the idea that governments derive
their Just powers from the consent
of the governed.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07
RAMS HORN BUGLE CALL.

Discipline makes conscience trusty
friend.
A good man finds self-reproach
sharper than reproof
Men. like bullets, need to be aimed
right to hit the mark
II preacher gets rusty he will be a
poor pipe for the Water of Life.
Environments are the settings to the
diamonds of virtue and mercy.
1t is the man who is trying to give
the .earth away who gets 1t for him
self
The preacher must have much faith
In men, or they will have none in his
message.
Reason can no more comprehend
God than yardstick can understand
mathema tics.
Science halts when the lamp of rea-
son goes out; Faith walks hand in
hand with the Infinite.
The attempt to make the Bible suit
all our notions is like twisting a sign
post to suit a cross-eyed man.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07
Waqes and Provisions,

And yet they tell us that the trusts
have increased wages. Let us see.
The New York Labor Bureau, Repub.
lican board, mark you, have selected
sixty-six industrial institutions in that
state, each having an annual pay
roll of $4,000 and over, and has found
the total wages paid by them for each
since 1890. The tables given show
that the annual average wage has de.
creased nearly 10 per cent. In 1891
there were 1871 employees in these
factories, receiving an average of
$547 per year. In 1899 there were
25,035 people employed who received
$5l3 each for the year. In 1897 the
average wage was $523.' In 1898 1t
was $50S. These statistics were gath.
cred by Republican officials, and can.
not be successfully assailed by the
Republican press. They show that
there has been a constant dminution
of wages during the last nine years,
Notwithstanding the price of every
commodity made or controlled by the
trusts has been advanced from rs to
140 per cent,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07

A new invention is reported which
enables one man to switch $50 trains
OF cars daily; the new glass-blowing
machine makes 1,200 pieces an hour;
an electric organ blowing device does
away with the church organ wind
jammer;" a new tobacco stripping
machine will do the work of fifty
people; an improved nail machine
produces two tons per day. Every
day will be Sunday by and by" for the
working people, unless they own and
work labor-saving machinery on the
cooperative plan.-Jackson mich
Patriot.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07
ADVERTISING.

Nothing, except the mint, can make
money without vertising.-Gladstone
would as soon think Of doing busi-
tising.-John Wanamaker.
When you pay more for the rent OF
yeur business house than for advertis-
ing your business, you are pursuing a
false policy. II you can do business,
let it be jamin Franklin.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07
JUST so.

Marriage to the average man is a
luxury; to the average woman it is on
ly a necessity.
A man, is always worth Just as
much money as he can raise to keep
himself out of Jail.
No man has any real idea of the
length of minute till his wife make s
him wait ten Of them before he takes
off a mustard plaster.
When two women first see each 9TH
er, each one always wonders whether
the other one is married: when it's
two men, each wonders what the 9th.
er one Is worth.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07

What Is the reason that this tariff
rate, anomalous, unheard of, unprece-
dented and Temporary. should be applied
TO Porto Rico, while the other day a
Dill was passed In the other house ap-
propriating 100000 for Porto Rico
from the treasury?-Senator Cushman
X. Davis.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07

To publish ALL THE NEWS prompt-
ly and snccinctly and In tho most
readable form, without elision or
partisan bias: to discuss its signif-
ica' C" with franknoss, to keep AN
EYE OPEN FOR PUBLIC ABUSES.
to give besides a complats record Of
current thought, fancies and dis
coreries in all departments Of human
activity in Its DAILY EDITIONS
OF from 10 to IA PAGES. and to pro-
vide the whole for its patrons at ths
nominal price Of ONE CENT-,hat
was from the outset, and will con-
tlnne to be the aim Of THE RE-
CORD"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07

The thanks Of the country are due
to Congressman Littlefield, Of Maine;
Mccall, of Massachusetts, and one or
two others, for their brave stand in
behalf of the government Of the faith.
ers and against the reasonable and
insidious attempt of the administra-
tion to outlaw the Constitution and
substitute a government of individual
Hannaites for the organic law.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07

The Hayites and the Hannaites
may say rot" and "bosh" in refuta.
ton of Macrum's charges till their
tongues hang out from weariness, but
that kind Of argument can't obliterate
the Victoria Regina" stamped on the
slips pasted over the rips made in the
official envelopes by her majesty's
censor.-Kansas City Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07

Statesmen frequently change their
minds, but Senator Beveridge is the
iirst one on record to hold a joint de-
Date with himself during the one ses-
sion OF congress.-Chicago Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07

The people who believe in the per.
petuation of this republic as Washing.
ton and his fellow patriots construct.
ed 1t will first have to lay away the
Republican party. Afterward the EN-.
balming Of imperialism will be easy
and swift-Kansas City Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07

American agricultural implements
are lower In price in st. Petersburg,
Russia, than In st. Paul, MINI.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07

Speaking OF the forces which DOM
mate the two houses of congress,
PRESIDENT Mckinley has been doing a
ilttle dominating himself. 1t was at
mis- desire that the Porto Rican tariff
Dill first passed the house, in opposi-
tion to the plain duty" expressed in
the executive annual message. Mr..
mckinley would have been glad enough
II the house OF representatives had put
the measure through "unbeknownst"
10 MIN, but the party could not be
lined up on the subject till the "tip"
came from the president himself. The
trouble was that the men who domi-
mated congress dominated the presi-
dent frst.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07

Witness its unrival"d average daily cir
cnlati"n, exceeding ls5 900 copies.
and an average exceeding l4s. 600
copies for its Sunday editions. wbilc
limitations of its plan OF publication
in every important city OF the conn-
try testify to the truth OF tho assar-
tion that in the quantity and quality
OF It's contents, and in tho price at
which 1t Is said Tho Record has
esta blishod the standard by which
excellence In journalism must be
measured.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07

The highest considerations of justice
and good faith demand that we should
not disappoint the confident expecta-
tion OF sharing in our prosperity with
which the people Of Porto Rico SO glad
ly transferred their allegiance to the
United States. We should treat the in
terests OF this people as our own. I
wish most strongly to urge that the
customs duties between Porto Rico and
the United States be removed.-Secre-
tary OF War Root in his annual report.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07

Nine months ago printing paper was
selling at $35 ton. Now the price is
from $50 to $40. The International
Paper company-a giant trust-con-
trolls the output OF all the large pulp
and paper mills, and publishers are
squeezed to the extent that they are
being ruined financially. Congress
has been asked to repeal the duty on
paper and pulp. Bills have been in
committee. The little Dandy Jim con-
gresham from Pittsburg sits down on
the publishers appeals and tells the
newspaper men to be patient and re-
lief will come after awhile in the ordi-
nary course OF business. That's COM
forting, isn't 1t? After the monopoly
vultures have eaten all our flesh our
bones can be set up for grinning skel-
etons and sold to the doctors. The
publishers OF this country should unite
and go down to Washington and make
their demands known in such way
that our $4,000 year hired men would
give heed. Editors have largely been
instrumental in making the statesmen
representing us at Washington, and
some Of them have been manufactured
out of pretty poor material. They
should be given to understand that
they will be held accountable, individ-
ually and collectively, for the passage
of bill taking the duty off pulp and
paper; also the passage of an antitrust
law with teeth in it.-Meadville Demo-
crat,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07

IL is true that the language Of the
treaty OF Paris provides that the polit-
lcal and civil rights Of the people in
the ceded Islands shall be determined
by congress; but by congress as con-
gress Is controlled by the constitution
-and not by congress acting with the
absolutism of an English parliament.
me constitution created congress, gave
II its lie and power and action, con-
trois its authority, and directs its en-
ergies. Congress can do nothing not
authorized by the constitution. In no
section. either by grant or implication
is there any authority for two classes
OF people-citizens OF states, and SUBJ
1ects Of congress- Bate.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07

American coal is sold cheaper in
Paris, France, than in Philadelphia.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07
PUBLIC OPINION.

opinion" From Various Sources on
Questions OF the Day.
Doubtless Mr.. Carnegie's $3.50, 900, 900
infant industry will require a little
special legislation to protect it against
the shirtless people of other nations
Washington Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07
The Pioneer

one-c"nt morning newspaper in tha
United States. "The Record" s,ill
LEADS WHERE OTHERS FOL.
LOW.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07

No president of the United States has
ever mad at his command such a vast
volume OF patronage as President Nc
kinley, and no president has used this
patronage so remorselessly and greed
lily Tor personal or political ends. Since
civil service reform was instituted in
a modest way under Grant, no presi-
dent has given it so many backward
piows as Mckinley. In fact it may be
said he has destroyed the civil service
reform, for no matter who succeeds
MIN In the presidential Office the polit-
ical law Of reprisal will finish the work
Mckinley commenced ed-Pittsburg Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-06-07

David Starr Jordan, of the Leland
Stanford university, told me that at
the beginning Of the Spanish war about
60 of the students of that institution
entered the army with the expectation
OF being sent to engage the Spaniards
In Cuba. They were switched off by
the government, however, and ordered
to Manila, where they were sent
against the natives of Luzon. 1t was
this California regiment which led the
troops in the capture of the Filipino
capital, and they brought back with
them and gave to Mr.. Jordan docu-
ments and reports which showed
wonderfully well organized system OF
government on the island. These 60
young men from that western univer-
sity are now scattered throughout CAL
ifornia and Mr. Jordan told me that
each one of them was an earnest and
hard working missionary in the cause
Of anti-imperialism." m."-Edward Atkin-
son.