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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20
TRUE SOUTHERN COURTESY.
Two stories of the Pleasant Manners
Of the New Orleans People.

- AhANaTbAnAIAl at
Said a visitor TO the city: II have wit
messed two things during the past few
weeks in NSw- Orleans which one could not
1nd IN any other place ina the world. one
Is not inclined TO put SO much faith in this
talk about the sordid spirit OF the age
commercialism and all that sort Of thing
after seeing the things which have come
under my observation.
Il was standing on a street corner In a
very prominent uptown section Of the city.
On the opposite corner from where L stood
a rather elderly lady was standing with her
daughter, evidently waiting for a car. I
did not pay much attention 10 them until a
street car was almost In hailing distance. 1
started across the street TO catch the car.
Just as l did so the elderly lady reeled a
little and fell in "A faint in her daughters
arms. j rushed 10 the young lady's assist
ance. The car was stopped on the cross-
ing. The motorman and conductor took IN
the situation an a glance. They left their
car standing still and went 20 the assist
ance OF the lady on the corner. She was in
an unconscious condition, and IL was necos-
sary 10 carry her into her home, which hap
pened 10 be on the nearest corner. The mo-
torman and the conductor helped 90 get the
lady into the house and then returned 10
the car.
seen such a thing IN some II the other large
cities of the country.
I'm another case certain members Of ,ha
fire department played the heroic engage
ment. Fire was believed 90 be lighting ia
way through the second floor OF a dwell
ing mouse Ihere was "a SICK lady on tire
second floor. The fremen could not exactly
find where the smoke was coming from.
but finally traced n 10 the sick room. and
II became necessary 10 tear up the floor.
] was In the house az the time and I never
saw men work with more care than these
men aid. They did not even frlehten The
lady. whose condition was anything but a.
Vorable at the time. IL was the same i'm
pulse which / had seen displayed In the
streets a few days before. Neriip. thera
are Yet many men In the world. aud these
little acts make one feel that there Is VET
much OF good In life"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20
GENERAL l.
Gives Some Interesting "Reminiscences
Concerning Him.
Boston Letter in Hartford Courant.

Boston Letter in Hartford Courant.
When Miles came home after the battle
OF Charlottesville he was a general. I met
him again at that time. He seemed modest,
and not unduly elated by the distinction he
had won. ! did not see him after that until
the war was over. Then he called upon me
one day and told me had a project I'm poll
tics which he desired 10 unfold.
His house was in Westminster. "A small
town in northern Massachusetts There
was a vacancy in the congressional district
In which he was situated. caused BY the
death OF "A member. i found General Miles
was getting opinions as TO the eXpediency
OF his becoming a candidate for the place.
When he asked me what 1 thought OF IL L
frankly told him that he had no chance.
He expressed surprise. and asked me
If his war record wouldn't carry him
through the Republican convention / told
him not against the politicians he would
have 10 contend with. He was not con-
WINGED, but he did not push his project fur
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20

Salt Lake Tribune.

That Is a terrible story which General
Funston tells or Filipino brutality and
a%trOcity. Four hundred natives. men. wom-
en- and children buried alive by their fei-
low-natives Is a tale OF such Incredible
ferocitv and heartlessness that IL would ba
incredible were 10 not told from personal
knowledge by a nigh officer OF the army.
Atrocities committed upon American soil
diers who had been captured nlled IN tha
cup Of horrors. Doubtless General Funston
tells these things IN reply 20 the lies thar
have been circulated against the American
troops IN their campaigns and condnct and
the reply Is crushing.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30

There is no one point in poultry rails
ing which requires more consideration
than the house-especially that por-
tion where the fowls stay during in
clement weather. The roosting room
need not be large, because the fowls
will huddle together any way, and the
small houses are not so hard to keep
warm. The scratching shed should
be both large and cheerful, so that
the fowls will be contented to remain
there and hustle all day. Clean straw
or leaves should be kept on the floor
and all grain should be raked into it.
1t is a very good plan to scatter the
grain in the evening and if the wealth
er will permit, leave open the small
door, thus letting the fowls begin the
work scratching as soon as it be-
comes sufficiently light.
In selecting grain do not forget that
whole oats will give the best results.
An occasional change will be relished,
but the principal food should be oats.
Unthreshed oats thrown into the
scratching shed will furnish exercise
for the fowls. Look over the houses
carefully and see if the walls and roof
are tight and see that the floors are
kept clean.-Home and Farm.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30
Boy Seasick, but Game.

He was one of three diminutive mes
senger boys hired to remain aboard
the big ocean going tugboat that fol-
lowed the yachts. There was quite a
ground swell on when the tug got
out about the lightship and the wind,
coming up strong made nasty sea.
The dipping and rolling of the boat
made this boy more sick than the 9TH
ers. He lay OH the after deck unable
to move, and groaning at intervals.
Once in a great while he raised his
dull heavy eyes to note the positions
of the yachts.
All day he lay there, refusing to go
inside the spacious cabin. When the
tug pulled it at the pier he was so weak
he had to be helped ashore.
His face was haggard and support
ed by his companions, he dragged him
self up the pier, eliciting sympathy
from all the yachting reporters.
Half way up the pier he hobbled
over to the reporter who had been in
charge of the boat that day and placed
two blue and trembling hands on the
wrist of the newspaper man. His wan
face was raised and he said in a hoarse,
tense whisper:
Hey, mister! If yer want boy
agin' termorrer, ask fur me, will yer,
mistert'
He was game-New York Mail and
Express.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30

A saving of dollars in the purchase
of breeding stock is often false econ
omy, as this often means lower grade
of stock. The higher priced birds are
often the cheaper in the long run and
are much the better investment. There
are, of course, exceptions, but it usu-
ally pays to buy the best, if you are
going to raise poultry for market or
for eggs, for good layers are usually
the descendants of good layers.
1t will be noticed that even under
very unfavorable circumstances few
hens in the flock will lay, while the
others seem to live for no other pur-
pose, apparently, than to eat.
The hens that lay the best should
be placed by themselves during the
breeding season, and made the founda-
tion of the future flock. BY forethought
and persistently following this plan,
the laying habit may be so fixed in Il
flock in a few generations as to al
most double the egg yield.
One farmer built up his egg record
from an average of sc eggs per hen
the first year to 49, then to 1856, then
1876, and his last years record was
1913. His method has been the simple
one of picking out the earliest and
best layers to breed from.-Poultry
Review.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30

of regard for conventionalities often
played havoc with the hearts of young
girls and drew them into elopement.
Parents are much more sensible
than they used to be. The craze for
securing rich sons-in-law is dying out.
and few men of means object to de-
cent and persevering young fellow pay
ing his addresses to their daughters,
providing the affection is reciprocal.
They argue. with wisdom, that power
ty in the outset is no great drawback
to girls career provided he possesses
integrity and intelligence. This in it.
self is powerful reason for rendering
elopements comparatively uncommon.
But more than all other reasons
that operate against elopements by
the girls of today is that the present
conditions give them an opportunity
to meet many men, to study them and
understand them, and when they de-
eide to marry they usually select men
who are in every way worthy of them
and to whom the parents can make no
valid objections. And, even If they
were inclined to object. they will not,
for the idea has become generally pop
ular that marriage is thing which con-
Germs most the young couple who wish
to become husband and wife, and that
If they are satisfied no one else should
say anything to the contrary, and a
wedding of the orthodox kind is per-
mitted to take place without the nee
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30
The Glasgow Student.

His life is plain and hard, and rath-
er poor in color. His class at a. IN.
calls him early from his bed-how
early he who comes to it by train
from the suburbs will tell you. And
what, after all, comes he out for to
see? The tardy moon lighting him
up the college hill, the windy quad
rangle all dark, the lighted class room
windows, a brisk janitor selling the
college magazine, the college bell, clat-
tering for five short minutes after the
hour has struck, it's sudden stop, the
scramble of men to enter while yet
there is time, the roll call, the lecture,
the bent heads of the note takers, the
scraping their anxious feet lest a
word be missed. the rustling of a
sporting paper, the smell of wet water
proof in the hot air. the intolerable
dreichness of Qet us say) the con-
veyancing statutes, and then-happy
reiease!-the college clock booming
out the hour, and once more the rain
and wind in the quadrangle. No hand
some reward this for early rising!
Glasses meet all day long from 8 a.
m. till $3.50 p. M; and, If our friend
has a spare hour, and Is eager for
work, he goes across to the gaunt,
warm reading room, where comrade
with call" may invite him to defend
everlasting as against eternal punish
ment, or another with a foible for
jokes, may, in Observation-Disclosures tell
him the same story thrice in 60 min
uteS
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30

Difficult as it is to believe, says the
Liverpool Post, King Edward has an
aged subject in, these islands, who
cannot speak our language. She is
Miss Mary Stewart "a descendant of
the Stewards of Appin). and was born
at Ardnamurchan, Argyleshire, in 1871.
so that she has seen five sovereigns
on the throne. She has been So years
in service at different places between
Appin and Inverary district. She is
still hale and hearty and able to get
up and about. The old lady does not
know any English, but speaks Gaelic
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30

often wonder how | got along with
out repair shop. The building need
not be extensive, but tight and warm
One end should be rugged up for black
smithing. Build a hearth of stone and
ordinary clay mortar, with a good
sized fiue. about nine bricks to the
round. An opening should be left at
the proper place for the admission of
a five or six-inch stove pipe. Procure
a blower or bellows, an anvil, drill
press, a wise, some dies and tops, one
fourth to five-eighths inch, for cut
ting thread hammer, tongs and two
or three sizes of heading tools. Steel
punches for hot iron are also neces-
sary, but these can be made.
After some experience, many other
tools can be made that come handy.
Much of the equipment mentioned can
often be gotten secondhand from ma
chinists or blacksmiths. Collect all
kinds of scrap iron, bolts, old horse
shoes, ETC., from about the farm. Much
useful iron may often be gotten for
a trif1e at public sales. Old horse
shoes welded together and worked out
are very useful for making nails, riv-
cts, links for chains, etc. l have been
using for several years a heavy farm
Oh n made entirely from old horse
shoes. AS to the actual work in this
line, many valuable hints may be got
ten from a good natured blacksmith.
One may need instruction particularly
on the working and tempering of steel.
For time the novice may be dis
conraged by his seeming awkward
ness. but after he gets the set of his
hammer and the hang of his tongs,
some experience in welding, etc., there
will be little repairing that need be
taken away from the farm.
Put in the other end of the build
cut handsaw, nine teeth to the inch,
square, a smoothing, jack and a
fore plane, brace with at least seven
bits differing in size one-eighth inch,
three or four sizes of chisels, draw
ing knife, miter square and a hand ak
or bench hatchet. A supply of differ
cnt sized nails and wood screws. This
will equip the wood working end of
the shop for all. ordinary repairing.
Many new implements can be made
and ironed complete later. Now get
or make sewing or sadler's horse,
procure some needles, wax and thread,
harness rivets, etc. Put up stove.
fix up the harness and gather the
plows, harrows and other implements
that need repairs.-J. F. Thomas, IN
New England Homestead.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30
One Way to Keep Cabbages.

An excellent way to keep cabbages
is to pull them up and put them close
together, roots in the ground, and
cover them, SO as to protect them
against rain, first placing salt hay or
straw over the heads. By this plan
the cabbages will keep until late in the
spring, as the stalks will take root and
throw out sprouts or greens, after the
heads are gone. By burying the heads
with the roots up the frost prevents
their use. and when the frost leaves
then the ground is damp and the heads
rot 1t will be found of advantage to
use the stalks in the manner stated
lne early greens.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30

There are some secrets which are no
secrets, and the experience of years
mas shown me that the art of butter
making may be known and read of all
faithful and persistent men. A few
of the points that every one who as
pires to good butter making must OBJ
serve believe to be as follows:
The man or woman who sets out to
be a dairyman must love his work.
Unless he does failure lies just before
him.
There must be the essentials of a
good COW in every individual of the
dairy. No man can succeed with poor
cows, any more than carpenter can
do his best with wornout, rusty and
dull tools.
Good water and plenty of it must
be available. Impure water has more
to do with our failures than most of
us are inclined to admit. Roily, stag
nant or bacterial water never should
be tolerated in the dairy This applies
to the source of supply in the pasture
just as much as that used in washing
expense of drilling a well and putting
up a windmill than to attempt to get
along in the dairy room without pure
water.
Every man, woman and child who
has anything to do with the work of
butter making, from COW to package,
should be cleanly and neat. Unclean-
;e, Io anIr .11~
sands go down. 1t is possible to do
something in slovenly manner and
yet succeed fairly well. This is not
true of butter making. Every pail,
can churn, ladle package, cloth and
worker must be scrlIpulously tree from
anything which will impart a taint to
the finished product.
The hands especially must be clean.
1t does not seem as if it should be
necessary to speak of this, and yet
it is not week ago that saw a man
who would resent it quickly if | told
him he was not neat sit down to his
COW, milk on his hands, and wet the
teats of fine Jersey before he began
to take her mess into the pail.
We look to the Danish people for
our pattern of cleanliness, ana well We
may, for if there be any secret with
them it is the secret of neatness. Gil
mate, pasturage. water, care, all pass
for nothing without cleanliness.
Finally, the care given the COW large
ly determines the quality of the butter
made. Good food, cleanly quarters,
kindness, freedom from all that might
give the COW discomfort, these all en-
ter in to bring about success or fail
ure in butter making
Many other things have bearing on
the art of butter making. They may
be said to be adjuncts and not abso-
suite essentials. The principles in
volved are not many, but they are in
valuable. They must be taken into
account by all who would win in the
beautiful science of good butter maxi
ing.-E L. Vincent, in American Gull
tivator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30
ENcKE'S COMET A HERALD.
Has Appeared Before the Assassina-
ton of Three Presidents.

Enckes comet has heralded the
death by assassination of three Presi-
dents of the United States. President
Lincoln was assassinated on April Is.
1865; Encke's comet appeared Janu-
25, 1865, and was visible five months.
President Garfield was the victim of
the assassin's onslaught on July 2,
1881, and died September 19; Encke's
comet appeared August 20, 1881, and
was visible to the naked eye. Presi-
dent Mckinley was attacked on Sep
tcmber 6, and died September IA.
1901; Encke's comet appeared on Au-
gust 10, 1901, and was visible for sew
eral weeks.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30

The recent developments in the tests
as to the possibility of mosquitoes con-
veying contagious diseases seem to
have effectually proven that they do
so, and though it has cost some hui
man lives, it may teach us a lesson
that may save more. Experiments at
shore resorts in covering swamps and
stagnant waters with kerosene or some
cheaper form of the petroleum product
have proven that the mosquito can be
greatly reduced in numbers If not en-
tirely eXterminated by this method,
and though undertaken with a view
to the comfort of their present and
prospective guests than as a sanitary
measure, the fact that 1t will also
serve that purpose is an additional in
centive to its general adoption. But
we want to see the work go farther
and reduce the number of flies as well
as mosquitoes. We know their favor
ite breeding places, the manure heaps,
the droppings of the cattle, dead ami
mails, or fish offal, places where kitch-
en- waste is thrown out, swill barrels,
and almost all the receptacles of filth
and decaying matter Let it be rule,
or even enact law that all such places
shall be saturated every day with some
form of petroleum, and let the oil
companies learn what form will do the
most effective work at the least cost.
and send it out for public sale, and
health, comfort and cleanliness, that
we are robbed of by these flies that
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30

There is more Catarrh in this section Of tho
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For great man, years doctors
pronounced it a local disease and prescribed
local remedies and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced it in
curable. Science has proven catarrh to be
constitutional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure.
manufactured by p J. Cheney Il Co., Toledo.
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the
market. 1t is taken internally in doses from
10 drops to a teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
1t fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials Address +. j CHESEY 4 Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, Toe.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30
come loaded with filth from such

come loaded with filth from such
and dining rooms or pantries and dali
ry rooms, to torment us and our do
mestic animals, would soon become so
rare that We should wonder how we
ever endured them so long. The an
nual loss by other insects has been
computed at millions of dollars in
some cases, but who every undertook
to compute the loss from the plague
of flies.-The Cultivator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30

Soil for crops under glass is the same
as that in the field. 1t is merely part
of the field which has been covered
with glass, and it's superior mechani-
cal condition is owing to extremely
high manuring, which with the decay
loose and light. Fresh land, however.
may be used at once for greenhouse
crops, and such soil is usually free
from blights and disease germs for a
year or two. The soil is manured and
forked over before every crop.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30

San Bernardino county, Cal. with
an area of nearly 10000 square miles.
is the largest in the United States,
and Bristol county, r. l., with an area
of only 81 square miles, is the small
est. 1t Bristol county were in the form
of square man might walk across it
in little more than an hour; but San
Bernardino, in the same form, could
not be crossed by an express train
In two hours. 1t is larger than Yer
mont and New Hampshire combined.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30

Wheat that is seeded late will seldom
be attacked by the Hessian fly One
difficulty with wheat is the liability
of being thrown out by frost in the
spring, but when such is the case the
cause may be due to lack of proper
drainage. When field has been prop
erly titled there will be but little liza
bility of wheat being injured by alter
nate freezing and thawing.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30
Porto Rico's Library Plans.

According to recommended plans
the Carnegie Library building for San
Juan, P. R., which is to cost 100000.
will be two stories high. rs feet wide,
fronting on Plaza Colon and 80 feet
deep. The second floor will be de-
signeed as an assembly hall, the first
floor will be provided with shelves
for 100000 books, and in the basement
1t is designed to arrange two reading
rooms, one of which shall be for chill
dren.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30
ARMY POST AN ISSUE.
Des Moines Citizens Provide a Site.
but Council Blocks 1t.

1t is probable that the question of
United Statets army post may be
considerable factor in the Des Moines
city election campaign next spring.
The business men of the city nearly
a year ago contributed the funds nee
essary to purchase a site for the post.
but the city council dallies. One condi-
ton the government insists on before
establishing the post is that the city
shall annex the territory comprising
the proposed site. 1t is generally de-
sired that the post be inside the city,
In order that the more stringent mu-
nicipal authorities may prevent the
gathering of resorts about the govern
ment property.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30
A whole Year!

Mamma, how can you ask me to
marry him when he has no social po-
sition?"
But, my dear, he tells me has made
q million"
But even with that it will take him
a year to get into society. Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30

There are 10000 Brtons living in
the United Kingdom at present who
were born in the colonies.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30

The Japanese earthquake of 1903 was
the most destructive on record. 1t killed
100, 900 people.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-04-30

We refund 10c. for every package of PUT
NAM FApRLEss DYE that fails to give satisfac-
ton Monroe Drug Co, Unionville, Mo.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-09-24

The Chamber of Commerce is to be
heartily commended for the succint,
temperate, plain statement OF condi-
tons and necessities placed before the
Commission in its memorial. The doc
ument presents the business affairs Of
the Islands without prejudice, and sets
out calmly but none the less positively
matters Of public moment which are
believed to be for the interest OF the
Territory and deserving the careful
attention OF Congress. The spirit Of the
memorial is one of live and let live"
at the same time expressing the con-
viction OF what is necessary In order
that all may live. Full recognition is
given every phase of Industrial acti-
witty and what seems to Hawaii to be
the plain duty OF the Federal govern
ment in promoting public work OF a
purely national character is touched
upon In a way that ought to carry con-
viction and secure speedy action.