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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-12-18

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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-12-18
WASHINGTON.

Eight resolutions bearing upon. the
schiey- Sampson controversy We're intro
duced In the House yesterday. Senator NC
Ccrnas of Maryland will introduce one Ia
the Senate to-day
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-12-18

"When passing behind q street car, look
out for the car approaching from opposite
direction
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-12-18

coroxEr JOHN d. SKINNER DEAD.
Prominent Cotton Broker Of Calves
ton Sueeumbs to Heart Disease.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Galveston, Tex. Dec. 17.-This morning
Colonel John d. Skinner. senior member Of
the frm OF J. d. Skinner & Son. cotton
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-12-18

Remember the box Of Cakes Candy you
promised her: a5 y. Broadway.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-12-18
LOCAL AND SUBURBAN.

Democratic county chairmen and iecfe-
earies will meet in st. Louis.
Architect Gilberts designs for the
Worlds Fair Art building will have to be
changed in order not to exceed sl."g.""
the amount allotted.
John Scho:tenhofer. a 14-year-old boy. Is
caught in the betting and his lie crushed
out at the Carondelet Iron Foundry
General Manager Du Pont of the Transit
Company says the suggestion that the old
Compton avenue power-house could be used
Is impyacticable-
Two Transit Company cars collide at a
curve and the motorman and conductor
are injured.
Alderman Sweeney and Assistant Prose
cutting Attorney Clover make donations oil
coal to North Side poor.
Prosecuting Attorney Clover refused to
issue warrants against President Hawes
and other members OF the Police Board on
application of the Southern Telegraph and
Money Order Company.
Mrs. Irene Douglass hopes to correct her
son.s bad habits by sending him to the
reform school.
St. Louis mortuary report shows that
there were 10. 100 deaths in year just closeu
and 10. S9S births.
Decision. from the st. Louis Court OK Ap-
peals.
the holidays.
BENJAMIN Carr makes street-car fender
which he claims will save lives.
St Louis Society Of Accountants ana
Bookkeepers demands legislation from Com
Gress that will require corporations to make
uniform reports.
A registered mail pouch containing
Christmas gifts was stolen from oscar
KEELING. driver. in front OF the Post Once
Annex. by three men.
Deleeate stannard introduces a bill in the
House Of Delegates providing a 2-cent fare
for street car passengers not provided with
costs.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-12-18
RAILROADS.

QnAha-Emporia line in conjunction with
- Katy will furnish packers q Southern
outlst.
Missouri Railroad Commission order. rail-
soeds TO handle live stock promptly With
out waiting for additional arrivals
Australia. South Africa and Japan placs
0Cder1 for American locomotives.
George J. Gould reported to be closing
anangements for Atlantic seaboard outlet
0oe Wabash and his Southwestern system.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24

John G. SAKE, the poet wit, attended
a flag raising at Greenbush, little
place across the river from Albany,
during the civil war and made an elo-
quent speech in which he praised the
young men of Greenbush for showing
their patriotism by exerting themselves
to procure the star spangled banner.
This did not altogether please the
chairman, who whispered to him that
the young ladies of Greenbush had
also been instrumental in raising funds
for the purchase of the flag.
Thereupon SAKE, addressing the
young ladies, made them a graceful
and gallant apology for not including
them in his praise. 81 don't know how
l came to make such mistake" he
explained save as l may have been
laborlng under the impression that the
young men of Greenbush embraced the
young ladies of Greenbush.'
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24
WINDMIlLS IN THE WEST.
Important Part They Play on the
Great Farms of the Plains.

Great Farms of the Plains.
"a thing that strikes an eastern man
strangely" said the man just back
from a western trip, "is the prevalence
of the windmill in the west. This is
supposed to be the age of steam and
electricity, of new ideas in every line
of human activity, but you would be
inclined to change your mind If you
ever saw the forests of primitive wind
mills that dot the western plains. They
first come into view when the traveller
crosses the Mississippi into Iowa, and
by the time he gets to Nebraska and
Kansas they seem to be staring in the
car windows at every revolution of the
wheels.
"And they are the most useful ad-
junct the western farmer possesses.
Usually man associates the windmill
with Holland, but the western variety
is different brand and used for ex-
actly the opposite purpose that Hol-
landers employ them for. In that coun-
try the mill is used to get rid of the
water. In the west it is employed
to produce it. The enterprising manu-
facturers make them In all styles
some tall and graceful, others low,
with n half circle of fans at the top.
The big ones are useful in grinding
corn, but most of them are engaged
In pumping up water for irrigation
and to slake the thirst of the cattle,
horses and hogs. For the latter sys-
TEN of pipes conveys the water to
various parts of the ranch.
"rhe wells reach way down into the
earth, where an eXhaustless supply is
found, and, while few furnish the
source of any extended irrigation sys-
tens, nearly all have connections with
the garden and yard. The small
streams which abound in the west gen
orally become stagnant during the sum-
mer; but, with the sand point and the
wind pump, the great reservoir of ma
ture is tapped, and great streams of
water are furnished. Many ranchmen
have built milkhouses around the wind
pump, and the fresh, cool water is kept
running through large tanks made for
milk cans, enabling them to furnish
their own tables with choice cream and
butter and an overplus that in many
cases pays for the family groceries.
"Only western farmer can appre-
.iate the value of a windmill as a fac
tor in the development Of the country.
1t means an abundance of water for
stock and irrigating purposes, and this
means greater productiveness, bigger
crops and better prices, more business
In the towns and increased earnings
TOR the railroads. The windmill Is a
primitive method of obtaining power,
but it is doing a splendid work in the
west."-New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24

The little Princess Victoria Louise.
who is eight years old is the only girl
in the imperial family Of Germany.
Her father, the emperor, has bought Il
beautiful villa for her older brothers
to live in while they are studying at
the university in the quaint old city Of
Bonn, on the Rhine The house stands
on the bank of the river and has large
grounds around it. There are conserv-
atories in the gardens and a fine ten
mis- court. which can be flooded in win
ter and turned into skating pond.
The crown prince is fond of riding and
driving, and the stables are well filled
with horses. The princes suit of rooms
are on the ground floor. while his youn-
ger brother Prince Eitel Frederick
has his apartments up stairs. Every
thing has been done to make the house
a pleasant home for these two princes
through their college days.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24
PA, DECEMBER "a, 1901.
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AS soon as there comes suggestion
of frostiness in the air there is an ex-
cuse for the smartly gowned woman
to swathe her throat in some one of
the many pretty and becoming boas
she is so fond of wearing. For some
occult and feminine reason she does not
consider her costume complete without
this finishing conceit-a conceit which
goes through slight changes with the
coming of each season, but which in
the end is IA mass of soft and fluffy
chiffon or lace of u color that sets off
to the best advantage a woman's fea-
lures.
1t is not so much on account of the
warmth possessed by these airy ac-
cessories that they are so well liked,
nor for the comfort of having some
thing high at the back of the neck,
though it is a fact that after once
wearing n ruche or boa a woman
doesn't feel quite chic If she appears
on the street without one. The real
reason they are so popular--if you
could get woman to explain her very
evident fondness for boas and other
neck creations-is because they add to
the attractiveness of any face, be it
young or old.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24
How Cities Bury Themselves.

A well has recently been driven in
the Place de rEIotel de Vile in Paris
for the purpose of ascertaining the ma
ture of the subsol of the French cap
ital. The revelations throw light on the
manner in which great cities in the
course of centuries bury the relics of
their past. First comes Il layer of
rubbish, nearly four and half feet
thick, dating from the sixteenth cen
tury to the nineteenth. A second lay
er, little over two and half feet
thick, consists of rubbish recognizable
by the character of its fragments as
belonging to the period from the four
teenth to the sixteenth century. This
is separated from the first layer by a
thin deposit of sand, and second
sandy deposit covers the third layer,
which plainly shows relics of the elev-
enth and twelfth centuries. At the bot
tom is a claycy deposit filed with frag-
ments of pottery and bits of oak tim
Der belonging to the Gallic and Gallo
Roman periods.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24

Sleeping in the open air has passed
the life limit of fad" and assumed
the proportions of habit. 1t is, more
over, growing habit, the motto OF
which is with nothing between you
and the sky" Only in summer is it
possible to push this habit to the ex-
treme, Of course, and even then so
meager are the sky sleeping accommo-
dations of the average home that
few can enjoy the luxury indicated in
the motto. The number of persons who
take to tents and repose in hammocks
swung in the open air in the summer,
however, increases each year. This is
particularly true of young children,
hundreds of whom during the past
summer We're emancipated from stuffy
nurseries and given their maps on piaZ-
Zas and balconies or upon the hand
breadth of grass plot dignified by the
name of ''dooryard" in city homes.
Such children, i'll their plump beauty
and infantile good nature, are the best
possible witnesses to the efficacy Of
the open air sleeping cure" if cure it
may be called, since, more properly
speaking, it is a preventive instead
Portland OregOnian.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24

Autumn said to dying summer:
"Sweet were your songs and softly
went your winds above the blue banks
of violets and gardens where your lilies
We're like altars of sweet worship. But
the beautiful dies and leaves us but the
rose of memory kissed of sad sunlight,
and the rain that Love calls tears.
Your birds have left their nests, laced
in the sheltering trees; your flowers are
but phantoms; your streams have sung
you to sleep; your footprints are fading
from the hills; your voice Is silent in
the valleys, and, grieving for you, |
have robed you not in ghostly shrouds,
but raiment of scarlet and gold, and
laid you down to dream beneath my
perfect skies of life to come, of love
that lives orever"-Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24
How Music Writing Pays.

John Philip Sousa says: "a publisher
for every piece | wrote. Among those
$35 pieces was The Washington Post
which | wrote in 1888 for my deceased
friend, Frank Hatton, who was editor
Of the Washington Post. l don't know
what my publisher made out Of this
composition. | changed houses be-
cause a firm offered me 10 per cent on
net sales, and out of the march Liberty
Bell l have received about $4,000.
advise every one to write music If he
can sell it,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24
&C IF EoRLITTLEG ~ 81
ToLkS E Ess,tgb & &,
TOYS FROM TIN CANS.
How an Ingenious Frenchman Got
Rich Out of Sardine Tins.

HOW an ingenious Frenchman Got
Rich Out of Sardine Tins.
Near the close of a long and fierce
war between France and several other
nations of Europe, when the Prussians
We're trying to get entrance to Paris,
the French soldiers We're in the city,
and that they might have enough to eat
and drink the persons who owned
shops and bakeries were forced to give
them wine and bread. Many of the
shopkeepers soon found their stores
empty, and various ways We're invent
ed to keep their children from starv-
ing.
At this time wine seller named
Drog was in sad distress. His wine
shop was ruined and empty, and he
knew not how he could secure bread
for his family. In the yard at the back
of his shop was large heap of empty
sardine cans. which had been thrown
out In the happier days. He had learn
ed that solder, with which the cans
had been sealed, was in great demand,
and one day as he came across the old
cans the thought entered his mind that
the solder might De SOlu; so, DullulnS
little furnace, the solder was melted
off the cans, and for this he secured a
neat sum of money, with which he
bought food for the family.
Not stopping mt this, Mr.. Drog hired
n number of ragpickers to go around
the city and gather up all the sardine
cans they could find. While expert
menting another idea came to him that
the tin of the cans could also be used
in making toys for children. Tin sol
diers and other pretty playthings were
made and sold. In after years Mr..
Drog built factories in other parts of
France. Millions of children's toys are
now sent out from these shops each
year, and Mr.. Drog has made large
fortune from the old sardine cans.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24
Wonderful British Dogs.

A delightful story is told of sports
man who was boasting of the intelli-
gence of his dog. would you believe
IT, he said, "when l was walking in
to the city he suddenly stopped and
pointed at man by bookstall, and
nothing l could do would induce the
dog to move SO went up to the man
and said, Would you oblige me with
your nameT Certainly said the stran-
ger. My name is Partridge"
Another dogs tail" A suburban
gentleman who was in the habit of
giving his dog some small delicacy on
leaving for the city each morning for
got to do so on one occasion. AS he
was going out of his house the dog
caught his masters coattails in his
teeth and, leading him into the garden,
stopped at flower bed. The flowers
growing there were forgetmenots.-
London Globe.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24
THE DELAWARE, SUsoUEHANNA AND
SCHUYLKIIL RAIIROAD


Time table in effect March TO- 1901
Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo, Eckley, Halle
Brook. Stockton, Beaver Meadow Road, Roam
and Hazleton Junction at 800 m, daily
Trains leave Drifton for Harwood, Cranberry,
romhicken and Deringer at 6 co a m, daily
except Sunday; and 7o7 m, 2 3s IN, Sum
lay.
darwood Road, Humboldt Road. Oneida and
,,heppton at 90 a m, daily except Sun
lay; and OF m, 2 3S p m, Sunday
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Harwood,
cranberry, Tomhicken and Deringer at o 35 a
n, daily except Sunday; and 5 So a IN, 4 22 D m,
sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida
Junction, Harwood Road, Humboldt Road,
Oneida and Sheppton at 80. Ii 10 a m, 4 Al D m,
daily except Sunday; and 737 m, 8 II p m,
sunday.
Trains leave Deringer for Tomhicken, Gran.
berry. Han wood, Hazleton Junction and Roam
at B W N, daily except Sunday; and 9T
m, o OF D m, Sunday.
Traine leave Sheppton for Oneida, Humboldt
Road, HarwOod Road, Onedu Junction, Haze-
ton Junction and Roam at Z II q IN, IL 40, IS
m. daily except Sunday; and Ii a m, "A
N, Sunday.
Trains leave sbeppton for Beaver Meadow
Road, Stockton, Halle Brook, Eckley, Jeddo
and IL IN, A u, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazeton JuRction for Beaver
Meadow Road, Stockton. Halle Brook, Eckley,
Jcddo and Drifton at $40 p m, daily,
All trains connect at Hazleton junction with
electric cars for Hazleton, Jeanesville Auden-
ried and other points on the Traction Com
psny's line.
connection at Deringer with P. r. r. trains for
veut.
LUTHER o, SMITH. Superintendent
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24
RAILROAD TIMETABLES
r EHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.
IL June 2, 1901.

T EHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.
IL June 2, 1901.
ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
LEAVE FREELAND.
6 l2 m for weatherly, Mauch Chunk,
Allentown, bethlehem, Easton, Phila-
delphia and New York.
z 81 m for Sandy Run, White Haven,
Wilkes Barre. Pittston and Scranton
8 ! 5 Il III for Hazleton, Weatherly, Mauch
Chunk. Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton,
Philadelphia, New York, Delano and
9 80 u IN for Hazleton, Delano, Mahanoy
l ! AZ Ii III for Weatherly, Mauch Chunk, Al
lentown, Bethlehem. Easton, Phila-
delphia, New York, Hazleton, Delano,
Mahanoy City, Shenandoah and Mt.
IL 81 "A m for White Haven, Wilkes Barre,
Scranton and the West
4 a m for Weatherly. Mauch Chunk, AL
lentown, Bethlehem: Easton, Philadel-
phia, New York, Hazeton, Delano,
Mahanoy City, Shenandoah. Mt. Carmel
and Pottsvile
6 35 IN for Sandy Run, White Haven,
Wilkes-Barre, Scranton and all points
West.
z 20 p M for Hazleton.
ARRIVE AT FREELAND.
7 "a m from Pottsville, Delano and Haz-
8 l2 IA m from New York, Philadelphia, Eas-
ton. Bethlehem, Allentown, Mauch
Chunk Weatherly, Hazlcton. Mahanoy
City, Shenandoah and Mt. Carmel
3 80 a m from Scranton, Wilkes Barre and
White Haven.
/ 5 ] a m from Pottsville, Mt. Carmel, Shen-
andoah, Mahanoy City, Dcluno and
HaZleton
l2 4S p m from New York, Philadelphia,
Easton, Bethlehem, Allentown, Muuch
Chunk and Weatherly
4 Al IN from Scranton, Wilkes Barre and
White Haven.
5 35 m from New York, Philadelphia,
Easton, Bethlehem Allentown, Mauch
Chunk, Weatherly, Mt Carmel, Shenan-
doah, Nahanoy City, Delano and Hazle-
ton.
z 20 p m from Scranton, Wilkes Barre and
White Haven.
For further information inquire of Ticket
Agents.
HOLLIN II. WILBUR, General Superintendent,
20 Cortlandt street, New York City.
CH AS. S. LEE. General Passenger Agent,
20 Cortlandt Street, New York City.
G. }. GILDROY, Division Superintendent,
Hazleton, Pa.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24
Birds That Walk.

Does 1t not seem strange that, al
though we cannot fly like the birds, no
matter how much we try, some birds
can walk like human beings?
Watch your pigeons or quail, lark,
blackbird or snipe walk or run proudly
and quickly along the ground. Don't
you suppose they think us very stupid
not to be able to do both? And how
sorry they must be for their cousins,
the woodpecker, thrushes, sparrows
and warblers, who can only hop!
OF all the awkward walkers among
birds the graceful swallow is the
worst. Perhaps he realizes it himself,
for he very seldom uses his feet at all.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24
Odd Classification.

1t is said that consignment of
Wheeling stogies," which is the name
Of a brand of cigars, recently shipped
TO England was classified by the GUS
tom house officials as Heather manu-
factures" on the assumption that they
were boots for bicycling.
This is equal to the action Of the
Dutch patent office which classified an
American machine for making ginger
SNAPS under 'distilling and brewing"
>n the assumption that "glngersnaps"
taS some sort of 'schnapps" to drink.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24

| know hill not far away
Where children always love to play;
The hill s straight and smooth and low;
For little folks it's better so.
The coasting there is very nice,
without the cold Of snow and ice;
You slide in summer, fall or spring,
But need not bother sleds to bring.
1t is the safest hill I've found
Sometimes you tumble 10 the ground,
But 'tis not far you have to fall
And would not hurt child at all.
It's very near your home, and so
Your motherll always let you so,
For then she knows you're right near by,
And she can hear you if you cry.
So up you scramble. down you slide,
And, oh, you have a jolly ridel
You always want to play some more y:
Upon the hill Of Cellar Door.
Annie Willis Mccullough.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24
JUST LIKE A BIG ONE.

and two ounces. 1t has rubber tires,
is ball bearing and is furnished with Il
side steering lever, which is controlled
by little figure in the seat 1t runs
in a circle or straight line over 200
feet at one winding of the spring mo-
tor and has a perfect starting and stop
ping lever, just like the big machines.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24

The little son of Mr.. George Billan of
Middletown, Ind, is happy in the pos
session of what is perhaps the smallest
automobile in the world 1t was made
by Mr. Billan, who is a jeweler, and it
is only ten inches long and eight inches
in height, weighing only two pounds
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24
A StrnddIe,

Wynks-Are you Il believer in pro.
lection or free trade?
Bynks-Both-protection from bill
collectors and free trade with the
butcher and the groceryman.-Some
vile Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24

A. Oswald has the agency for the cele
brated Elysan's extracts and perfumery.
The finest goods made Try them.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

FREELAND.-The TRIBUNE is delivered by
carriers to subscribers in Freeland at the rate
of l2H cents month, payable every two
months, or sl.5O year, payable in advance.
The TRIBUNE may be ordered direct from the
carriers or from the Office Complaints of
irregular or tardy delivery service will receive
prompt attention.
BY MAIL-The TRIBUNE is sent to out-of-
town subscribers for Sl.50 Il year, payable in
advance; pro rata terms for shorter periods.
The date when the subscription expires is on
the address label of each paper. Prompt re-
newals must be made at the expiration, other
wise the subscription will be discontinued.
Entered at the Postofce at Freeland Pa,
as Second-Class Matter.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-12-24

Candy and nuts at Helpers.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-11-09

difficulty. The way the burglary was
planned was highly ingenious. The fen
ants of one of the flats were at the sea-
side. On Sunday evening two men
stopped in front of the house with a
handcart and brought up large Breton
cupboard, which they said had been Or
dered by the tenant. The concierge tod
them they had better come again. as thu.
people were away. The porters said
they were not going to take back a heavy
piece of furniture to the other end If
Paris, and the concierge, though very un-
willingly. allowed them to carry the Gun
beard upstairs '"rmeo Danaos ct don,
fe rentes" seems to have been his state
of mind. There was a burglar in the
cupboard, slim young man of 10
formerly a footman in the Very house
he came to rob, having been dismissed
FOR dishonesty. He knew his former
master had gone TO the seaside, leaving
the keys with the concierge. This knowl-
edge led him to suggest to his two con
federates the ingenious scheme that was
so nearly successful.-Paris Letter to
London Daily News.