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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Secretary Long will resign soon.
Justice Gray has suffered a stroke
Of paralysis.
Pope Leo XIII. has entered on the
twenty-ifth year of his pontificate.
Former President Cleveland had
splendid success in his duck shooting
trip in Virginia.
Governor w. e. Stanley of Kansas,
has announced his candidacy for Unit
ed States Senator.
j. Pierpont Morgan's profits in financ-
ing the steel corporations merger" are
given at $11 ,239,GSS.
John Hays, the first white man to
discover the immense copper deposits
of Michigan, still lives in Cleveland,
Ohio, and is ninety-seven years old.
= King Leopold of Belgium is suffering
from an obstinate throat complaint
He went to the Rivera, but found no
relief. The greatest precautions have
been taken to prevent complications.
William Edward Lecky, the author
Of numerous publications on morals,
rationalism and democracy, has been
elected a foreign associate of the
French Academy Of Moral Sciences.
Benjamin z Jacobs, who was the
originator of the international uniform
lesson series, which was adopted at the
indianapolis convention, in 1872, has
just retired from Sunday-school work,
after a service extending over forty
six years,
NJ. Santos -Dumoni has a stoical way
of looking at the serious mishaps that
have followed his recent airship ex-
periments. He is undecided regarding
his future course, but has lost none
of his enthusiasm and will keep ON
trying new experiments in midair.
The attention of Prince Henry has
been brought to the fact that preserved
in the State Library at Albany IS gift
of Frederick the Great to George
Washington. 1t is n beautiful sword
bearing the inscription, "From the old
est soldier. to the greatest soldier"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23

The Juvenile son of an army officer
made a strange mixture Of the history
of George Washington the other day.
A visitor called during the absence of
his parents, and to entertain the chill
dren and instill lesson of manly hon
or and patriotism told them the IA
nous stories of the liberty bell and the
cherry tree. The scion of the soldier
was much interested, but the details
got badly twisted in his head. When
his father returned home he was told
of the fine story the visitor had told
about the father of his country.
washington must have been Won
derful man." said the boy. lie
smashed the liberty bell with his little
hatchet and his father whipped him
with a cherry tree for telling lie.'
1t took paterfamilias some time to
straighten things out.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23

The first point in the condition of the
idle rich which takes the eye of the
student is that they are the victims of
circumstances. Like the idle poor. the
idle rich suffer because there is nothing
for them to do, but the greater hard
ship of the idle rich lies in the fact that
they do not seem fit to do anything.
Some philosophers have supposed that
their leisure qualified them to take
charge of the political and economical
affairs of people who We're at work,
and there has been good deal of po-
lite regret among us that up to the
present time there has been an appar-
ent purpose of providence to turn our
leisure class to account in this way.
We have seen that under other systems
they are turned to account in this way,
but their conduct of public business
under these systems has not convinced
us. 1t seems to have been mainly in
their own interest, with few escapes
from the vicious circle which forms the
logic of their lives; it seems to have
tended always to the perpetuation Of
that leisure class which, 1t was philoso-
phized, their public employment would
practically put an end to.-W. d. How
ellis, in Harper's Magazine.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23

Again they stepped on the crossing as
the train reached it, and again that
flying monster was brought to stand.
The engineers flare mingled with the
lights of the brakemen, and the con-
ductor carried his blue lantern back
to the crossing. There the men faced
each other.
"'Look here, Bob Watson, said Con-
ductor Thompson, do you remember
what place this is? Do you remember
the orchard that once stood on the hill
over there behind the schoolhouse? !?
Do you remember what the Irish shov
eler said to you? I'll tell you you've
hit the hant.'
Together the men walked back to
their posts.
"Once more month rolled around
and the moon shone on the little school.
house and on the crooked trees of the
orchard held in existence by the school
land. Engineer Watson saw the chill
dren coming down the road long be.
fore the train reached the crossing
He signaled to his fireman for more
steam and opened the valve wider as
the engine swung up on the crossing
There was q jar as the wheels passed
over"
At that instant the telephone bell
rang as it had never rung before. The
lawyers wife screamed, sprang up from
her chair and sunk back in it, and yet
the bell rung. Together the lawyer
and the doctor carried her to her room
and the lawyer hurried away to the
drug store on the corner.
doctor, 1 wish you would finish
that ghost story" said the lawyers
wife the next day as she was sitting
up from her siege of Mysteries and the
telephone man had come around and
Strengthened the wires. what did the
engineer hit?"
Now, the train did hit something
that night, but when the crew went
back to look all they could find was
Davis spotted cow, which had been
making her way to the old home. The
moonlight made her look odd, and,
after all, there may have been bit
of superstitious blood In the engineer.
At any rate, he resigned his run when
he got into Chicago that night. l saw
him a bit ago pulling freight on the
New York Central. But the 'hant' had
left him. Harry A. Armstrong, in the
Chicago Record Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23

las the railroad company pushed in
its siding against the hill Graham
Davis found himself short of room, so
in the course of time he sold that cor
ner of his farm to the company, and
moved from his house and barn, for
getting all about what he had in the
orchard. The neighbors remembered,
and it was not long before weird stor-
les of slamming doors and grewsome
noises were told about the country
side. Some people went so far as to
declare they had seen the two children,
hand in hand, going through the or
chard to the school, as they had often
been seen in life to do. This happened
only at midnight when the moon was
high and the air clear, so there was
little chance Of making a mistake The
sldetrack made its way farther and
farther into the hill. The crew of this
gravel train consisted of Irish shov-
elers, a Yankee conductor and Scotch
engineer. One by one tine trees of the
orchard fell as the gravel was dug
from beneath, and loaded upon the
hat cars by the red-shirted gang who
talked and joked and idled away their
time like flock Of geese.
"One day the crew came upon the,
box buried in the orchard. A shout
went up from the lrtshmen, for they
had found the slieletonR of the children.
Down on the siding stood the long train
of fiat cars, with the engine smoking
away at the end. Robert Watson, ia
miliarly known as Bob, was tanning
himself in the window of the cab
Conductor Thompson was somewhere
along the shady side of the box car,
which did duty as the caboose. On
the hill there was q big commotion,
and the sand ana gravel came down
faster than it had ever done before,
following the heels of the shovelers.
These Irishmen ranged themselves by
the side Of the train, painting and jab-
boring il . way few could understand.
Bob Watson stuck his head far out
from the cab window and inquired the
cause Of the trouble. Conductor
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23
Ventilation of the Stables.

Ventilation of the stables is i'm
portant, but how to ventilate without
creating draughts Of air is really a
problem to. solve. The first thing to
consider is to keep the cold out; yet
the air that comes in during midwin-
ter is often very cold. An excellent
plan is to have the stalls roomy, open
the doors and windows during the
warm portion of the day, and close
them at night. The draughts along
the floors will be partly prevented by
abundant bedding. All stables should
be whitewashed and made as light as
possible.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23
The Ideal Farm Horse.

Probably the ideal farm horse best
illustrates the kind of animals needed
for the farm. A good plow horse or
farm horse is q heavy, but not clumsy
animal, and one capable of eXerting
great power and endurance in plow.
ing or hauling. At the same time the
animal must be fair road horse, not
a trotter, but one that can get across
the country roads at a moderate pace.
The animal should also be a fast
walker, and not a slow, clumsy, mule
like creature. Such ideal farm horses
are bred now, and to be found on
thousands of farms. No farmer of any
progressiveness would think of walking
behind some of the old, slow walking
farm horses of dozen years ago. Such
an animal performs about one-half the
work that model farm horse does in
a day.-C. w. Knox, in Massachusetts
Ploughman. t".4..-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23
HARD WAY OF THE INVENTOR
rhe Instructive Hostility of Mankind to
Radical Changes.

Radical Changes.
Marconi embarrassed in his expert
ments with wireless telegraphy-
threatening the commercial value OF
the cables-ls simply history repeating
itself.
Papin, of France, saw his first
steamboat destroyed by enraSed boat
men. Jacquard's first loom was
burned by the silk weavers. Har-
greaves's first spinning jenny was de-
molished by his fellow-spinners. The
London Times building had to be gar
risoned with armed police in order to
bring out the first steam-printed
edition without a riot Of hand-press
men. The stage-coach people fought
the first steam railroad, and the can
dle-makers the first gasometer.
Stranger still, scholars and scientists
have clasped hands with commercial
selfishness to obstruct new inventions.
Chancellor Livingston and Daniel
Webster both labored to postpone the
steam railroad. Sir Humphrey Davr
and Sir Walter Scott joined in ridicul-
ing the discovery Of illuminating gas
by Murdoch.
New war devices have Jared no bet
ter. Breech-loading rifles and metallic
cartridges We're offered to our War
Office in 1861, but the Civil War was
fought until 1864 with muzzle- -loaders,
and metallic cartridges were not used
till 1868. Fulton devised naval tor
pedos in 1905, but was laughed at for
his trouble, and the first use of the
torpedo was in our great conflict.
Ericsson's terrible struggle to get his
Monitor tried, and the adoption Of the
ironclad man-of-war years after Its
inventor had grown weary Of urging
it upon governments, are well-known
history. And though smokeless pow
der was invented years ago, the Span
iards surprised us with it in Cuba and
the Beers surprised the British with it
in South Africa.
What with the commercial interests
always alert to save themselves from
new things and the instructive hos
tility of mankind to radical changes,
the way of the inventor is almost as
hard as the transgressor's.- York
World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23

The reformers who hold up the Ger
man army as pattern to be admired
will perhaps allow that even its excel
lent discipline has some drawbacks.
Among the many regulations of the
military code is one which forbids any
body to present himself before a re-
crulting officer with cane in his
hand. Some days ago reserviGt so
far forgot himself as to enter the Office
of recruiting sergeant-major accom-
panied by his walking-stick. For this
heinous offense the unfortunate reserv-
list was promptly court-martialed and
sentenced to ten weeks Imprisonment
for insubordipa ation.-To-Day.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23
His Aiaiesty's Inconvenience.

The King observed the other day that
one Of the Inconvenience of being
monarch was that he could no longer
use his clubs. But numbers of his male
friends are asked to come to Marlbor
ough house, and more than once, when
some very intimate associate of oldeS
times is writing his name at the lodge.
the liveried servant will say: Il am
desired by His Majesty to telephone
when you come in. VIII you wait until
l see whether it is his pleasure to see
you?" In this way the King keeps
in the closest touch with social uave-
ments.-- Liverpool Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23

he leaned back in his chair
on the opposite side or the table from
the lawyer and his wife, whose guest
he happened to be for dinner. The
lawyer leaned back, too, but the law
yer's wife could not because the tele-
phone was up against the wall behind
her seat. But they do believe them
down in the country where 1 came
FROM" continued the doctor, while
the lawyers wife crumbed up a crack
er and let the pieces fall in her finger
bowl. "For instance, story was cur
rent when l was about fourteen years
old that was realistic enough and had
proof enough to have been so even
If it was not.
"The Pennsylvania Railroad-known
then as the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
Chicago-was building, and the right
of way cut through a sandhill less than
a quarter of a mile from our front
gate. In building the line there were
several places to be graded, and no
better material could be found than
the gravel in this hill. Next to the
wagon road, which wound away
through the sands of the hill, stood the
red house and barn of Graham Davis.
Some time before this a scourge of
small pox had visited the community.
Two of the Davis children had died
almost on the same day. Anyway,
they We're buried in the same coffin
and in the same grave. The graveyard
was in the orchard, as great many
graveyards Of the early settlers were.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23
, FARM TOPICS !
Observation-Disclosures


At the present day every farmer is
compelled to pursue the best and most
economic methods in order to succeed.
The choicest of everything desired in
market that the farm will produce
should be grown, and the farmer must
use skill as well as labor. Strict busi-
ness methods must be practiced, and
the farm should be made more and
more productive every year. Any sys-
tenn Of farming that gives a temporary
profit while the farm is losing fertility
will eventually lead to ruin.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23
Pure Air in Public Schools.

Physical culture has been introduced
in the elementary schools Of tie city.
1t is hoped that much good viii result
from it, But physical culture can ac-
complish very little benefit unless there
be pure air and plenty of room for the
little ones. Unfortunately the crowded
condition of the schools prevents this
in many of the schools. The need is
more school houses.-Philadelph
Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23
A Calf-Nvcnning Device.

1t is sometimes a difficult task to
wean calves, for some of them will
persistently suck the old COW at every
opportunity. A device to break up the
habit may be made Of board an inch
thick, making the dimensions to suit
the head of the calf. The sides should
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23

'Tis the sorriest error to measure our gold
By the number of dollars; tits better
To think of their quality; find if they hold
A genuine joy for their getter.
For a coin that is good when we win it
Alright,
With conscience and heart in our deal
ing,
Is only counterfeit, pieasureless quite
To him who obtains it by stealing.
Nixon Waterman, in the National Maya
zine.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23
TWO KINDS OF DOLLARS.

There's difference in dollars, for some
are SO pure
And wholesome and big and delightful;
While others which men in their hurrT
procure
Are little and tarnished and frightful
The good kind bring riches that stand
for success
With honest intelligent striving;
The others bring only that sense of dis
tress
That comes of unmanly conniving.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23

be cut out so that the eyes of the calf
will not be obstructed when the board
rests against its face. Holes are bored
in the board and straps run through
them in such 4 manner that they may
be fastened to the halter worn by the
calf.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23
SUBSCRIPTION RATES

Entered at the Postoflce at Freeland. Pa
as Second-Class Matter.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-23

II ~ ONE people do not believe
the stories they hear of
y ghosts" said the doctor, as
he leaned hack in his cha In
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-11-19
STRUCK OIL.
Some Excitement in Guadalupe County
Over a Flow Of Oil.
HERBERT BROOKS TO INVESTIGATE.

A few days ago The Citizen publish
ed a small clipping from one of the up
country exchanges, stating that oil had
been struck near Santa Rosa, Guada.
lupe county, and that some excitement
existed over the news.
At first the news was too good to be-
lieve, but the report has been con-
firmed by Rock Island people.
In fact, w. S. Strickler today receiv-
ed a letter from John r. DeMier, of
Las Cruces, also confirming the news,
and giving the facts that the oil is of a
paraffine base of an extra fine quality
and the gusher was brought forth at a
depth of only 700 feet.
This afternoon. party of gentlemen
concluded to investigate facts in con
nection with the report. and Herbert
o, Brooks, as their representative, will
leave for Guadalupe county tonight.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-11-19
Arbitration Board Proposed.

Detroit. Mich, Nov, 19.-The annual
convention of the Stove Founders Ma.
tional Defense association began in
Detroit today with members present
from st. Louis, Cincinnati. Pittsburg,
Chicago and other cities OF the coun-
try. The convention will consider and
act upon a proposition from the Metal
Poiishers, Buffers, Platers, Brass Mol
ders and Brass Workers union, look.
ing to the establishment of joint ar
hitration board for the adjustment of
all disputes arising in the trade. The
proposition is In most respects similar
to the arrangement existing between
the stove founders and the iron mold
ers, which has prevented strikes in
that branch of industry for the past
sixteen years.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-11-19

Eastern Railroad company, and espec-
tally Messrs. Andrews and Hopewell,
whom the people here have met more
frequently than the others, have al
ways shown marked liberality toward
this city, and the determination to get
here with their road, as manifested in
the Andrews letter, deserves prompt
and hearty cooperation from the peo-
pie of Albuquerque and the Rio Grande
valley.
Let no grass grow under our feet
now; let no doubling Thomas thwart
the wishes of the people to get another
railroad for Albuquerque, but let's all
pull together and within sixty days, or
sooner, the whole working force now
on the Santa Fe Central will be trans
ferred to this city and dirt will fly on
the Albuquerque Eastern road.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-11-19
UP TO THE PEOPLE.
No Time Should be Lost to Secure
Rlght.of-Way and Terminals.
A MOST IMPORTANT MATTER.

The above official letter, signed by
the president of the Albuquerque
Eastern Railway company, Hon. w, IL.
Andrews, is a piece of news that
should please everybody in the city of
Albuquerque, and every effort should
Ter and Brooks in the work which they
have done and are still doing toward
getting this city in connection with an
other great railway system-that of
the Rock Island, for when the Albu-
querque Eastern is built. and there is
every reason to believe that it will be
built. as soon as Albuquerque does her
part, the line will connect with the
great Rock Island system at Torrance.
There is no need, at this time, to
rehash previous propositions made by
the Albuquerque Eastern people to this
city; suffice to say that they were all
good propositions, but the above one,
just received by these three gentlemen
who have been acting for Albuquerque,
is by all odds the fairest and best that
could be asked from any syndicate Of
capitalists and prompt action should
be taken in the matter
The Citizen makes the suggestion
that Mayor Myers appoint Messrs. w.
S. Strickler and G.. l.. Brooks, with
himself, as chairman, an executive
committee, and that the mayor, as cir
cumstances warrant, appoint other
committees to act with said executive
committee.
AS far as they have gone these gen
tlemen have shaped the details in fine
order. When it looked, early in the
past summer, that Albuquerque would
not get the coveted prize, President
Andrews and party sought out these
gentlemen and laid their case before
them with propositions, which were
met with counter propositions. 1t was
hard work-a determination born of
western grit and tenacity, and finally
the good work and recommendations
of these gentlemen brought forth the
excellent proposition outlined in Presi-
dent Andrews letter printed above.
The officials of the Albuquerque
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-11-19
President Roosevelt at Memphis.

Memphis. Nov. 19.-The train bear
ing President Roosevelt and party
reached Memphis at 8 o'clock. A large
crowd was present and cheered the
president. After short delay the line
OF march was taken up and escorted
the president through the principal
streets to the Gayoso hotel.
The program arranged for the day
was very elaborate. At the Gayoso
hotel banquet was rendered the pres
ident and General Wright by the Ia
dies of Memphis, This evening there
will be two receptions TO General
Wright, one by the white citizens in
the auditorium, and the other by col
ored citizens at their own hall on
Beale street. Both of these receptions
were attended by the president.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-11-19
THE STRIKE COMMISSION.
President Mitchell Still Undergoing
Cross Examination.
ROSS TRIES HIS HAND.

Scranton. Pa, Nov. 19.-The anthra'
cite Strike commission resumed its
hearing today with the usual large
crowd in. the court room. Before w
w. Ross, counsel for the defense of the
Lackawanna G. Western road, resumed
his cross examination of President
Mitchell, Chairman Gray, for the COM
mission, again asked counsel to assist
in expediting the proceedings. He
terfere but they hoped that Mitchell
would not be asked to give his opinion
on matters of which he had no per-
sonal knowledge.
Mr. Mitchell. answering questions by
Mr.. Ross, said the increase in wages
without adopting the weighing system
would not meet the demands of the
miners. An eight-hour day would, in
the annual income of the men.
Mr. Ross was proceeding to analyze
the constitution of the Illinois branch
of the United Mine Workers with rela-
liOi W llo DtdllHB On contracts with
bituminous operators, when Judge
Gray interrupted with an inquiry as to
the object of this line of questioning.
Ross replied it was for the purpose of
showing that since the advent of the
union bituminous operators have been
unable TO employ any man until he first
joins the union. He did not proceed
further with the question. When Mr.
Ross concluded the examination, Mr..
Mitchell was cross examined by former
Congressman Simon p. Wolverton,
counsel for the Philadelphia, Reading
Coal & Iron company.
Mr.. Mitchell said ii would be impos-
sible for him TO give in detail the con-
ditions at each mine or even under
each company. He also declared ii
would neither be possible nor desirable
to divide the United Mine Workers
into two separate organizations, one
bituminous and the other anthracite.
Anthracite miners" he said, "have
had independent and separate organi-
cations in the past. They have had
several Of them. They have gone.