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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26
Wanted His Share,

"The Treasury Department runs
across many funny things in the course
Of 4 days business" said an official
Of that department. "The mails are
full of curious epistles, but as a rule
most Of them receive polite attention,
and answers are returned. Just before
the close OF the year that ended with
December 81 Secretary Gage gave an
Interview showing the splendid condi-
tion of the country in n financial way,
and the full purse of Uncle Sam. In
his statement he showed that four
years ago or little more the per capita
Of circulation throughout the country
was only $23.14, but that although the
population had increased the volume
Of money has more than kept pace,
so that the per capita at the first of
the year was $2S.T3. A man named
Schmidt, in New York, saw the state
ment, and the day after New Years
wrote letter to the Treasurer saying
that if the per capita was so much, he
certainly did not have his portion of
1t. He enclosed n draft on the Treas
urer for the amount that he considered
he was entitled to. The draft was pre-
sented to Treasurer Roberts, with
great solemnity, but he declined to
be sent to Mr.. Schmidt, whose letter
was well written and the handwriting
good d"-Washington Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26

have 4 chance at that drum. That's
to be reward OF merit IN the school,
The best boy in each room will be the
drummer"
Tommy skunk away, an object of
renewed curiosity to half dozen Of
his watching comrades.
"What'r yeou rubberin' at?" he
growled at Clarence, the model pupil
I'm goin' flick you tn first time yeou
beat the drum"
The next day the fire drill became
part Of the regular exercises. The
best boy in each room was intrusted
with a new drum and pair of sticks
The principal took them all in the
basement and gave them q lesson in
beating Il march-time and q quick
step. Tommy saw with suppressed
wrath that Clarence was the chosen
one, and as the good boy went past
MS desk to accept the proud appoint-
ment he saw dirty fist with a pro-
truding knuckle shaken threateningly
at him.
Pm goin' flick yeou after school"
murmured Tommy.
The fire drill proved a great delight
TO everybody except Tommy and Clar-
ence. The former was deyoured with
consuming desire to Wallop the drum
mer, and the latter was hardly able
to Keep time, so great was his dread of
the pulssant Tommy and the promised
"lickln'."
Young Huggins kept his word. too.
lie whipped Clarence that evening
until the good boy agreed to give nm
his job as drummer. When Charlin
Jones, the second-best boy, took the
drum, Tommy issued another ultima
tulh' with the result mat Charlie tear
lully yielded the honor, after first sus-
t"ihihS somewhat vigorous pummel-
ing. No doubt Tommy would bovo
continued this line of action until tha
ufuln mad descended by inevitable
gradatlons to himself, but his teochar
iouiid out all about it and Mrs. Hug
gins was duly notified that If her
son persisted in his muscular purs,,it
Oh class honorS he would be eynalIed
now II Tommy had any good quality
which is more or less doubtful If was
fondness for the poor old widow
Who called him her baby" so he
promptly promised to quit "lickin, ;,
his classmates, and she rewarded his
penltence with the glrt Of a new drum
Ihis appropriate gift somewhat nIo-
Gated Tommy's disappointed venom.
Dut 1t proved a new source OF annoy.
ance ut school. The boy insisted on
carrying 1t thither every morning for
tle purpose, as he said, "Of shown
dem KIDS how t beat drum fur true ;,
lie would come to the school half an
hour too early and march around the
building, beating all kinds of weird and
STIRRING music from his drum. When
the school-bell rang, he'd leave tbr
instrument with the fat old woman
who Kept the grocery next door, but
at recess, at noon, and in the evening
he would reappear ready to challenge
everybody to n drum-beating contest
AS his skill waycd greater his rivals
tell away and In due time Tommy
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26
SPORTING BREVlTIES.

Jockey Dale has been suspended in-
definitely at New Orleans.
The Eastern Baseball League has lost
forty-one players since last fall.
New competition rules have been en-
acted by the Intercollegiate Athletic
Association.
Senator Slater's bill to prohibit the
use of live birds as targets passed the
New York Senate.
Yale has beaten Harvard in an in
tercollegiate championship basketball
game by score of 81 TO 21.
Western golfers are strongly opposed
in an effort to have the amateur golf
championship held in their district
Nash Turner will ride for w. G.
Whitney in England, and will prob
ably have the mount of Nasturtium in
the Derby.
Manager Donovan, Of st. Louis, is
willing to take chance with Third
Bascman Buelow, who had "dicky
legs last season.
l.. A. Goodwin, L. de q. Handlcy
and Don" Iteeder, amateur swimmers,
have been disqualified by the Atlantic
Association of the A. A. U.
Comiskey's new bleachers at Chicago
will have seating capacity of $4,000
people when completed, The stands
will completely encircle the field.
With each succeeding season the
young people of the United States are
showing a decided inclination to in
dulge more generally in the healtnful
exercise of swimming.
Both Arthur Gardiner and Eddie C.
Bald have determined to return to
cycle racing. Bald is shaping up at
Hot Springs, Ark, and Gardiner is re-
covering from a spell Of illness.
English gentlemen riders" must Sc.
cure an annual license from the stew
ards of the Jockey Club and pay a
yearly subscription of $50 to the Ben
tinck Benevolent Fund before they are
permitted TO ride in races against pro-
fessioAal jockeys,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26
LIVING TORPEDO BOATS.
Strange Fish Charged With Electricity In
Cuban Waters.

Nature and artifice approach each
other. In fact, invention is the chief
means of their mutual approach, mas
much as invention is merely the prac-
tical application of natures laws. At
the same time it seems surprising to
find that nature has devised a submar-
inc torpedo boat ages before man ever
thought Of building such contrivance.
Cuban waters swarm with these SUBJ
marine terrors of natures manufacture.
Torpedo rays they are called. They
constitute one Of the puzzles OF science.
Ages before Benjamin Franklin first
drew sparks from the clouds they had
solved the principle of electrical stor-
age. In fact, they are living storage
batteries. They are an ancient type
of fishes, contemporary with the
sharks. The torpedo ray is the first
cousin to the common skate, which it
greatly resembles, though much larger.
Each Of Its big feshy wings containr
an electric battery, which is as truly
such as any arrangement Of Leyden
jars in scientific laboratory. The
batteries consist of a large number Of
heXagonal cells, each of which is ca
pable of storing 4 certain amount Of
electrical energy.
Scientists have given great deal Of
study to this extraordinary animal.
and they assert that its batteries are
nothing more or less than modified
muscles. The back OF each electric
organ is positive while the ventral
part-that Is, the side toward the belly
of the fish-is negative. 1t has been
ascertained that current can be con-
veyed through water for a considera-
BILE distance. 1t exercises all the known
powers Of electricity, rendering needles
magnetic, decomposing chemical COM
pounds and emitting sparks.
1t is not known just how much cleo
tricity is stored by full-sized torpedo
ray, but the amount must be consider
able, judging from its effects on hui
man beings who have been struck.
Natives in Central America are said
to make q practice of driving wild
horses into water where fishes Of this
kind are, in order that the latter may
stun the frightened quadrupeds and
make them easy to capture. Only
two other kinds of animal possess
electric organs-a species OF catfish
and the well-known electric eel"
Both eel and catfish have their storage
batteries located in their tails. - st.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26
wnIttled His Leg.

Cal Barnes, living seven miles east
of Arcola, H., wears an artificial leg
and foot which he whitfield out of wood
with his pocket knife, using no other
tool in its manufacture. The limb is
a model of neatness and fits so nicely
that few who do not know him well
would suspect that he was not walking
on his natural legs, so easily does he
move about.
Barnes lost his foot while in the
Illondike gold fields two years ago. He
and his brother. DR.. Omer Barnes of
Arcola, were far out from their camp
when Cal met with an accident which
mashed his right foot so badly that
his brother decided it should be am
putated at once. Being miles away
from camp and friends they amputated
the foot without even administering
an opiate.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26
Soldiers Homes.

The National Home for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers at Washington, has
branches at Dayton, Ohio; Milwaukee,
Wis; Togus, Me-; Hampton, Va; Leav-
enworth, Kan; Santa Monica, Cal. j;
Marion, Ind, and Danville, Ill. Then
there are State homes in California,
Colorado, Connecticut Idaho, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New
Jersey, New York. North Dakota, Ohio,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
South Dakota, Vermont, Washington,
Wisconsin and Wyoming. Disability
that prevents the applicant from earn
ing his living is common requirement
for, admission. A veteran receiving a
greater pension that SIG month is in
eligible, under ordinary conditions, for
the National Home; elsewhere the
practice varies
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26
Hunting with Trained wo,ves

Bert Decker, young sportsman Of
Iuscola, ILL.,, has succeeded in tanning
two wolves. and they are very valua.
Die as hunters. He captured them
when young, raised as Kittens" and
now' though as large as shepherd dogs,
they are quite tame and playful.
Decker says the wolves can outrup
dogs on the hunt, and are very long
winded. Their fayorite way Of catch.
ing rabbit is to run alongside OF him.
put their nose underneath Mir. Cotton.
tail and throw him ten or twelve feet
In the air, catching him in their mouths
as he falls. The wolves always return
TO their master when called. Decker's
success has caused other sportsmen TO
undertake the training of wolves to
supplant dogs in hunting, and il is
probable that wolves will find a place
In future kennels.-Cincinnat En-.
quirer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26
LABOR WORLD.

Engineers and tiremen on the Illinois
Central demand an increase in wages.
The Delaware and Lackawanna Rail-
road will inaugurate a pension sys-
TEN.
Georgia mill owners say they will
fight any bill introduced in the State
Legislature seeking to prohibit child
labor.
Union labor cards held by the retail
stores of Nashville, Tenn, have been
taken up because of the employment of
non-union clerks.
The Prussan Minister of Public
Works has forbidden collections among
employees for purchasing presents for
their superior officers.
Over 1000 bartenders in Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island and Connecticut
have organized under the banner of the
Federation Of Labor.
Troy has twenty-seven factories
where collars, cuffs and shirts are
made. They employ $4,000 persons,
four-iifths being women.
Out of the 41GG employees in the trans
portation and telegraph service of the
Austrian State railroads, only 102 have
been trained in technical schools.
The subordinate locals of the Iron
Moulders' Union of North America
have voted down Il proposition to in
crease the number of apprentices.
Organized workingmenof of Grand Rap
ids, Mich, are planning the erection
of a trade and labor temple modelled
on the lines followed by the Y. NJ. g.
A.
New York has 1881 labor organiza-
1ions, with a total membership of 261,-
523 men and 14,G1S women. OF this
total of 276, ,141 trades unionists Ill.,
O22 are in the city of New York.
In spite of the offer of S54 Il month,
with rations, quarters and medical at
tendance, few electricians are enlist
ing in the United States Army for Phil
ippinc service, according to recruiting
officers.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26
WISE WORDS,
Results are the best rewards.
The easy path leads nowhere.

Results are the best rewards.
The easy path leads nowhere.
Education Is greater than instruc.
ton.
Calmness is the mark of true cour-
age.
Truth is not made false because we
doubt her.
A conspiracy Of silence is usually
one Of sin.
Daily drudgery may be the door to
divine delights.
Dark days make a good background
for bright lives.
Only those whom the cap fits will
criticise its cut.
Vice is never SO vicious as when ar
rayed as virtue.
Sorrow is the silken cord that makes
the circuit Of sympathy.
Some people miss to-day's mama in
looking for to-morrow's.
1t is not our burdens but our sore
backs that make life hard.
Bigotry kills truth and seeks to
frighten folk with her efigy.
The old man may have a greater
future before him than the youth.
When the heart is full Of faith the
hands will be filed with good works.
Some people forgive by forgetting,
but the true way is to forget by for
giving.-Ram's Horn.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26
Human Bones and Human Character.

A well known scientist asserts that
the bony structure Of man gives firm
ness of character. The great causes
in developing large bones are the pro-
portion Of lime in food and water.
Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee, fa.
nous for tall men and fine horses,
are underlaid with lime rock, and the
water supply is largely impregnated
with lime. So the grains grown in
these States contain large proportions
of lime, the food of the bones.
Strength Of bone structure is said to
be allied to honesty and reliability of
mind. The prominent bones in Lin.
coins face and body are cited to prove
the bone-honesty theory. The physi-
ognomlsts say that large men, whose
bones bear a full proportion to the
other parts of their bodies, will be
found to be decided, firm, honest and
enduring.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26

work, she wanted to keep him off the
streets and, incidentally, she wanted
him to learn something. Tommy's
teacher had many reasons for wishing
Mrs. Higgins would keep him at home.
From the pedagogical point of view,
Tommy was n scourge. Then he didn't
learn anything, or, if he did, he con-
trlved to keep the fact religiously con-
cealed from those concerned.
The only time he ever showed any
serious interest in the school exercises
was when the fire drill was introduced,
and when he found that the children
were to march out Of the building to
the beat of Il drum he sneaked shame
facedly up to the principal and, hold
ing his tattered cap in his dirty hands
behind him, said:
Mister Morgan, sir, kin 1 please
beat the drum"
The astonished principal fairly glow
cred at Tommy's audacity.
"What' he snapped, you beat the
drum? Why, sir, you've been on the
truant list four times this month. No.
indeed, you'll have to improve your
conduct very much before you can
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26

came to be recognized as 9TH cham
peen."
Meanwhile the fire drills became less
frequent as the children became quick
and proficient III the maneuvers calcu-
lated to maintain order and safety in
case Of a fire. For a while weekly
drills became the rule, then fortnightly,
then monthly, until, as the warm days
came on and the fires in the furnace
were allowed to go out, the fire drills
We're forgotten and dust began to ac-
cumulate on the class drums.
One warm May day q sudden puff
Of hot smoke swept in through the
north windows of the building and
threw the school into sudden panic.
A rush of cracking flames, the shouts
Of people in the street, an explosion and
the sitting smell of gasoline completed
the disorder. The forgotten school fire
bell did not ring, the teachers shrieked,
the children began to cry and rush for
the doors.
Tommy's room was on the top floor.
His teacher, with forty scared young
sters pellmell at her heels, was rush
ing down the steps when she and they
heard the first tap Of q drum. In the
whole building it was the only one
that sounded.
RAP Tap Rap-tap-a-tap."
Slowly at first, but with increasing
speed loud, precise and vigorous until
every frightened child in the swarm
ing Railways heard it and instinctively
fell into the marching order of the al
most forgotten fire drill. 1t recalled
the scattered senses of the teachers,
and Its gay tattoo of rollicking strokes
seemed to mock at the fire, which was
now roaring into the north windows
and filling the halls with smoke.
The principal and teachers and the
awe-stricken children who first gained
the street and saw the fire department
attack the burning grocery store could
hear the wonderful volleys for minutes
after they were safe. The drummer
seemed in haste to escape, and the ex-
posed wing of the schoolhouse was all
ablaze when he, the last of all.
marched out to the music of his own
making.
1t was Tommy. They all cheered
him as he arrived on the sidewalk,
and the women were for kissing him,
but he seemed in no mood to quit
drumming On the contrary, his stub
born, but ambitious mind seemed bent
on a further display of his ability in
this line. He acted as though it was
his last chance to appear to advan-
tage, and he was rubbing it in ON
the whole gallery of his rivals, his
teachers and the principal. So he
struck few fancy measures, and,
perhaps with q furtive anticipation of
an enforced vacation, made them as
merry as drum can yield.
Nobody ever could convince Tommy
that he was a hero. But when school
reopened he was permanently "class
drummer" and nowadays even the
stern principal is lenient with the law
less boy.-John II. Raftery, in the
Chicago Record Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26
Last of Jack the RiDper.

A Bolton correspondent telegraphs:
James Ellington, the hangman, whose
death took place few days ago, de-
ciared that he never hanged anybody
with greater satisfaction than he did
DR.. Neill Cream, whom he believed to
his dying day TO have been Jack the
Ripper DR.. Cream did all he could
to delay the execution, and Billing;o ION,
becoming impatient, suddenly pulled
the fatal bolt. As he DID so he dis
tinctly heard Cream say, II am
jack" and believed in another sec
ond he would have confessed he was
Jack the Ripper Certainly, as Bill
lington put it. we novcg heard OF the
Ripper" afterward. Chron-
icle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26
Eads' Prophecy Beinc EnlnIIah

1t Is related Of James B. Eads, the
engineer OF the st. Louis bridge and
other great works, that some years
ago he made this prediction concern.
ing the city of st. Louis: "One of
these days this will be the passing
point OF two enormous channels of
trade. The one will be an iron way
over the great West, the other water.
way down the Mississippi, across the
lsthmus and up the Pacific. The one
Will represent speed, the other econ.
omy, and the conflict between the two
Will have all the bitterness of fra.
Ticidal war."-Springneld Republican
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26

their potatoes and other vegetables
in volcanic heat. There are few vol
canoes in New Zealand, and some of
the Maoris live up in the mountains
near them. They make the volcanoes
do several useful things for them,
but the Queerest is the cooking.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26
JAMIE HAS TOLD ME- HE LOVES NE
BY CHARLES ar'ILvAINE.

Whirr, whirr, spindle an wheel,
Naebody knows the rustlin' l feel
Stirrin an whirrin' me down to the heel;
For Jamie has told me he loves me.
Flax, thread, treadle an a.,
Rinnin' an bouncin' an tearin' ava,
Is naethin' to what's in my noddle at a
For Jamie has told me he loves me.
Snap, break, a things in mix,
Tangle an knots in a dell O. a fix
Like to my heart wi its bletherin' tricks
Since Jamie has told me he loves me.
Whirr, whirr, spindle and wheel,
A is now rinnin' as smooth as an eel,
For l know l love Jamie clear down to
my heel,
An Jamie has told me he loves me.
The Delneatoe.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26

RS. HUGGINS had a few
reasons for keeping Tommy
Mt school. In the first place,
he was too young to 60 to
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-26

Make al money orders, checks, eto payable
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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-06-06

The Only Chances They Have.
Gall Joshua wants." said Farmer
Corntossel's wife, lis a chance to show
what he can do"
EYES," said the farmer; II s'pose sc.
Josh is one Of those people who never
seem to get q chance to do anything
except something they can't do
Washington Star.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-06-06

State of South Dakota, 60 T, C,rn.u conrt
County of Grant hoo"h'y oourt'
In the matter of the estate of Clara o. Moen,
Olga Moen, Alfred Moen and Arthur Moen,
minors, wherein Knute Moen is guardian, and
in the matter of the estate of Martin C.
Mogaard, minor, wherein Paul Paulson is
guardian.
1t appearing to this court from the petition
this day presented and fled, one Of Knute Moen,
guardian of the said Clara o. Moen, Olga Moen,
Alfred Moen and Arthur Moen. minors, and the
petition of Paul Paulson guardian OF Martin C.
Moganrd, minor, praying for an order of sale
of certain real estate belonging to the
wards Of said guardians, that it is necessary and
for the best interests Of said wards that such
real estate should be sold.
1t is hereby ordered that the next OF kin of
said wards, and all persons interested in said
estates appear before this court on Friday the
or as soon thereafter as hearing may he had at
the court room OF said court at the city of
Milbank in said county, then and there to show
cause why an order should not be granted for
the sale of such estates.
And 1t is further ordered that a copy of this
order be published at least three successive
weeks before the day Of hearing In the HERALD
ADVANCE. a newspaper published and printed
in said Grant county. and that the last publica-
tion shall be at, least seven days before said
hearing,
Dated this Goth day OF May. A. D., 1902.
By the Court,
Attest 5. 5. LoCKHART.
WILLIAM F. RABBIT, Judge Of County Court.
Clerk.