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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

withered cheeks to parchment. Her
old crepe veil was brown now; her ill
made black alpaca dress, threadbare
and discolored, hung loosely about her
shrunken body. When the third win
ter came she sold her horse and buggy
for $50, but bought only shoes that she
might trudge to town and stamps and
paper that she might send her daily
letter to the boy. Silent, bowed, tear
less, but with quenchless light of
hope in her mother eyes, each day
she stood in line at the window and
asked softly for the letter that never
came. The postmaster, who had half
guessed her story. tried to win her con-
fidence. He wanted to help her some
way, but she evaded all his questions.
And then at last there came a day
when she did not call at the postoffice.
1t was quite an event, for the post
master and his clerk had come to re-
gard her visit as the one inevitable and
poignant occurrence Of each days bust
ness. So that night, suspecting the
worst, he drove in his buggy to her
lonely home. She was in bed, quite
i'll, it seemed, but gently grateful for
his visit.
II did my best" sir, she told him,
"but my money is all gone. l killed
my last chicken last Sunday. and now,
God help me. must sell my home. his
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25
Wall Street,R Activity.

The enormous volume of mail matter
of all classes which finds its way in
and out of the Wall Street district
daily Is another striking indication of
its tremendous activity. The average
business man throughout this section
receives his mail every day by eighteen
deliveries. A delay of say thirty min
utes in delivering letter is likely to
be a far more serious matter in the
Street than a similar loss of day or
two in almost any other business activ-
ity.
The efforts Of the postal authorities
to satisfy this demand are unequalled
in any other part of the country. In a
single building on Broad street, with
frontage of less than forty feet, there
are, for example, three letter carriers
constantly busted delivering the mail.
And the letter boxes to be found at
every corner are absolutely inadequate
for holding the mails. Every building
of any pretension, and there are scores
of them, has one or more mail chutes
extending from the first to the twen-
tieth floor, or whatever it may be,
which are in constant use.-New York
SIM
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

home" and Che looked around the
wretched, candle-lighted room with
dim, wet eyes.
"It will be best for you, Mrs. Kava-
naugh," quoth the postmaster, kindly;
"you're too-that is, you're no longer
young or strong enough to live like
this. Have you NO relatives? no chill
dren~
"Oh, yes SIR" she answered, proudly
looking up. 81 have son, sir; a fine
boy; but he's away in the army, and
it's on his account 1 don't want to
give it up"
But he persuaded her to ride to
town with him, and assured her that
there would be no trouble about SELL
ing her place.
Its not worth much, / know" she
said. as they drove toward town, "but,
much as 1 want to keep it, I'd rather
sell it than take charity"
He assured her that she might
BOARD" at his home until he had sold
the place, and she went there only to
lapse into a fever that taxed the best
ingenuity of the two doctors Of the
town. She was a worn, ghostly old
woman when at last she sat up and the
postmaster told her that he had sold
her place for $500.
"If you feel able you can just sign
the deed; the money is ready down at
the bank, and Mr.. Rogers, the young
fellow who wants to buy it, has gone
out to the place to look it over"
So she signed the document. a few
weak tears dropping upon it, and hand
ed 1t back to the postmaster He took
1t and left her alone, but in the even
ing, when he came home to supper,
he came quickly into her room and
said:
Mrs. Kavanaugh, the man who
bought your place, Mr. Rogers. wants
to see you moment. Shall 1 show
him in?"
And when he came in she felt for her
glasses, but could not find them, SO
she bade him sit down and told him
that there were a few things in the
old shack, her Bible and an old album,
that she wished to take away. And
the stranger, freckled, red-haired
giant, took her hand and whispered:
Nanny, don't you know me?"
"Rogers," she murmured, feeling his
face with tremulous hope and fear,
Rogers? If it's you, Tom, why are
you Rogers?"
II wasn't Of age, nanny, when I
enlisted. 1 was afraid daddy would
stop me, so took Rogers"
And as he held her close to his breast
and felt the hot tears drip on his hand
he did not ask for his father, for on
the wall he saw the weather-beaten
widows cap and the dusty veil of
mourning.-John H. Raftery, in the
Chicago Record Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25
As Viewed by the Departing Prisoner.

The Rev. Samuel s. Soaring, chap
lain Of the House of Correction, South
Boston, frequently has amusing ex-
periences with the prisoners who
come under his care. He is required
by law to have an interview with ev-
cry man whose time has expired and
who is about to leave the house. 1t
is the chaplain's duty to give the de-
parting prisoner good advice and to
exhort him to be decent and honor
able man in the future.
In the course of one of these inter.
views the chaplain said: ''Now. my
friend, l hope you'll never have tc
come back to place like this"
The prisoner looked at him thought.
fully and then asked: II say, chaplain
you draw salary here, don't you?''
When Mr.. Soaring replied in the af,
firmative, the prisoner remarked
"Well, say, if me and the other fel.
lows didn't keep coming back you'd
be out of job."-Boston Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

naugh, Twenty-seventh Infantry, Ma
Mia, Philippine Islands," Every day
she sent him a letter and every day
she looked for an answer. But none
came, and the nervous old woman
went gravely back in her rickety bug
gy to the lonely shanty upon the desc
late hill to watch the sun set and to
hope and pray.
Her boy Tom had run away from
home before his drunken father had
died. He had written her just one line:
Gone to the Philippines with the
Twenty-seventh Infantry" He had
been gone year when his father died
She had written to him often, but,
knowing what thoughtless boy he
getfulness and neglect. When she told
him of his fathers death, she felt sure
of some answer, and though none came
she continued to write gentle, loving,
warning letters to the absent scape-
grace. He had been youth Of some
spirit, and she knew that his fathers
dishonor in their home had driven him
into the army, but with all her moth
er's condoning love, she could not un-
derstand why he did not at least send
her word. She hated the town which
had been the scene Of her own and her
boys disgrace and separation, and
when the new country" was opened
and the stories Of its glowing future
reached her she sold her out all her
belongings and set forth to find home
that should be her boys home, too.
After two years of this eventless life
Mrs. Kavanaugh came to be recog-
nized as one of the characters of the
town. Most people thought her harm
lessly insane. The sand storms and
the careening winds, the burning suns
and winter SHOWS, had turned her
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

Detroit reports that the country pos
sesses one thankful tramp. Last
Thanksgiving Day tramp applied at
the police station for nights lodging.
Chief Harrington gave him a good
talking to and advised him to go to
work. He then gave the fellow money
to pay for his supper and lodging at a
hotel. Recently the chief received a
letter from the fellow, now located in
a big lumber mill in Pennsylvania,
stating that he came there after leav-
ing Battle Creek, and, taking the
chiefs advice, went to work, and had
now been promoted to foreman and
was saving money.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25
BIT OF A FAMOUS APPLE TREE.
1t Was the First Planted in Western New
York and a W oman Raised 1t.

It Was the First Planted in Western New
York and a Woman Raised 1t.
Mrs. Sophronia Phelps, of Kuckville,
Orleans County, n. Y, celebrated her
ninety-third birthday the other day.
The event was marked by an old-fash-
ioned reception.
mistress Phelps" as her old friends
and relatives call her to this day, as
that was the way she was addressed
three-quarters of a century ago, sat
in curiously carved chair which is
more than 125 years old, and an heir
loom. But the relic which interested
the guests most was a cane belonging
to Colonel Miles, of Kuckville, made
from the wood Of the first apple tree
planted in Western New York. The
cane is handsomely carved and beau
tifuly polished 1t was related at the
birthday party by Mistress Phelps that
this first apple tree was planted by
Mrs. Dunham who sowed the apple
seed herself and cared for the tender
shoot until it was set out near the
Durham homestead in the eastern part
Of what is now Erie County.
Mrs. Dunham came when girl from
New York City. The family stopped
at Albany and slowly worked their
way along the Mohawk, westward
through the wilderness. They stayed
for a while at or near the salt springs
of Syracuse, and there, according to
tradition, somebody gave them hand
full of apple seeds. From one of these
seeds came the first apple tree planted
in Western New York, the advance
guard of the lnnumerable orchards
that crowd the most famous apple
growing region in the world.-New
York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

The superiority of the American To-
comotive over the English in hauling
power is due, says an authority on
these machines, to the larger heating
surface in their boilers more than to
any other cause. This constitutes, in
fact, the chief difference between the
American and the English type. The
boilers of our locomotives have been
increased in size steadily, until they
are enormous, and yet railroad men
call for still greater power. The prob
lem that now confronts the locomotive
builder is how to increase the heating
surface without making the machines
too large to pass through tunnels, and
to solve it he will, no doubt, have to
change the form of the boiler.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

Tennessee has been reducing its
Stote debt at a rapid rate. Ten years
ago it owed $16oo0,ooo, a much larger
sum than any ether State in the same
region, and carrying an interest charge
of more than 100000 year at a time
when the annual interest charge on
New York's debt was less than $780,
900 and on that of Ohio less than
100000. Recently the State debt has
been reduced, and Governor Mcmillan
gives some interesting information
concerning the reduction of the State
debt during his administration. Since
January /, 1899, the debt has been re-
duced at the rate of $1,000 q week,
and the Indebtedness paid up to this
time includes S91O,4G534 of floating
debt and the redemption of $005000
of State bonds, total of S1,S15, ,4G5.34.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

SeWeu IN nef dress, ana the
fire Of hope in her bright gray eyes,
had come into the strip two years af-
ter its opening. OF course she got the
worst Of 1t, for the choice land was
already taken, and the self-satisfied
settlers who watched her old gray
horse and Gathering buggy meander
across their fields, smiled half-pitying-
ly at the tardy boomer.
When at last she set up her little
tent and staked out her horse on a
bare and rocky quarter section, where
even the short grass looked stunted,
the women pitied her and some of the
neighboring men came over to ask her
If there was anything they could lend
her. But she only thanked them, as
she guessed she would get along all
right" so that the women who passed
by her tent every day began to say that
she was stuck up," and the farmers
who knew that she was on an almost
barren claim, only grinned and NUT
tered: "She won't last morn one sea-
SON.
But she fooled them. A tiny shack
was built by q half-breed who hauled
the lumber from the railway station in
her buggy. He built frail little fence
around few acres Of her ground, and
left her at home on the desolate hill
she had chosen. Then every morning
when the sun swung up from the yell
low floor Of the dry prairie that
stretched from her door to the horizon,
she was out in her little garden dig
ging, planting, cultivating the small
space from which she hoped at least
to wiring living. In the afternoon
she would hitch up her aged nag and,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

"A high polish ON shoes is no longer
considered good form" said a mar
who follows the fashions closely. I'll
is going the way Of the high gloss Oh
linen. The laundryman has become
convinced that the dull finish is what
we want, but it is more difficult to
penetrate the uItutored mind of the
bootblack. Because he has always re.
garded the looking glass shine as the
best shine, he still seems to think that
you want to use your shoes as mirrors
and you can't get him to think other.
wise. can always spot a man who
has his shoes attended to by a valet
There is no confusing him with the
man who patronizes the professional
ootblack."-Philadelphia Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

I1inister Newell, of The Hague, re-
ports that a very large number of in
quirics are received at the legation
and at the consulates at Amsterdam
hnd Rotterdam as to various imagi-
nary estates in Holland-E. G. Kronk,
Anneke Jams, Du Bois, Metzger,
Brosius, Fischer, Snyder and others
more than twenty in all. The inquiries
come from all parts of the United
States. Since 1898, the United States
minister and consuls in Holland have
received more than go letters from
Americans on the subject. The min
lister says that he is authorized by the
authorities at The Hague to state not
only that there are no such estates
awaiting distribution, but that there
have never been any such estates; and
one official is sure, from the nature
of things and the Dutch laws, that
there never will be any such estates.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

The way surgeons and scientists are
juggling with life in these latter days
is almost paralyzing to the lay mind.
1t is reported that a German chemist
has prepared fluid which, injected
into a plant near its roots, has the
power of perpetuating life. The plant
stops growing and maintains fresh,
green appearance, although vitality is
apparently suspended.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

According to an old document just
discovered in Australia gold was first
found by a convict near Parramatta
in 179S. The unfortunate fellQw was
at once charged with having stolen a
watch and boiled it down." and be-
ing convicted by the rude court of
those early days was given $50 lashes
for his pains. In later years the record
of this incident was closely examined
by an undoubtedly competent author
ity, who was quite convinced of the
genuineness of the convict's story.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

The craze for ping-pong, our old
friend table tennis under a new name.
seems to have come to stay. The new
name was patented, and that is the
reason why you get box marked
liable Tennis when you ask your
sporting dealer for ping-pong. The
craze is bound to be of material benefit
to lawn tennis this year.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

A new mechanical genius has ap-
peared in Chicago, who claims to have
evolved a horseless, dustless street
sweeper. The machine is to be run
by a gasoline motor, and he says that
a system of fans, which operate with
suction tubes. will take up all the
dust
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

bined to form this strange race, but
the Indian seemed to predominant. All
were clean-limbed, strong and physi-
cally beautiful Particularly was one
impressed by the extreme beauty of
the young girls, with their clear yellow
or brown SKINS 1.-THE light figures and
the grace of their movements.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

An Ohio college president died of
grief because the students didn't like
him. What a dropping off of college
presidents there would be if that COM
plant became generally fatal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

IF you are going to make kick"
says the Manayunk Philosopher, "be
sure that somebody else isn't going to
get the benefit of it."-Philadelphia
Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

In Persia the man who laughs is con-
sldered effeminate, but free license is
given to feminine merrimSpt.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25

n IRIS. KAVANAUGH, a frail
N II little woman of forty-five,
" with few hundred dollars
cn,rnI IN hn, Ipne, a-l {b -
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-25
OFF TO THE DREAM ISLE.
BY aENEsER RICHARDSON.

Rest in your cradle, Bonniest lovebird
Dreamily sway, All the land wide
Twilight is silver, Nestled for night in
flushing the day, Pale eventide;
Dear little barefoot, Cheek warmly tinted,
Dropping your eyes, Like rose,
Rest till the dawn light Long, curvng lashes
Creeps in the skies. Luled to a close.
Quvering leaflets Drowsiy grooming
Softer voice take, Forward and fro,
Stars step like fairies, OFF to the dream isle
Still the blue lake, Babe and CO.
Birds only listen, Drowsiy grooming,
Hid in the trees Forward and fro,
Lest they may startle Off to the dream isle
Babykins Babe and l go.
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PERSONAL MENTION.

totnel Sam r, Pettus returned yester.
State.
BE Trends Of Miss Alpha Pettis will he
NC Know she has fully recovered after
4 W months Illness Of pneumonia.
NV ny. q; Austin vanEaton. accompanied
w. Max Andrew, leave for Dallas this
Inlas TO visit friends and relatives.
t@ Nettie Lockart. accompanied by
sunt, Mrs. Adele Savers, and w. Il.
n. o. GONZALES, returned home last
Nv william F. Black left during the
n LOT PALESTINE, Texas, where she VIII
H. guest Of her daughter, Mrs. John ".
~ ior short while.
~ |. y. D. Watkins and Miss Mary wat.
Mtner and sister, respectively, or
\ WATKINS and Fl. d. Watkins. will ar
Y ~ houston from Georgia tonight. Mr.
f,ia. n Is on his way to the Confederate
os ~ Dallas, he having been n mem
company A, Twenty.first Georgia
''~snt In the Confederate army.
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REUNION NOTES.
! tlfst BRIGADE VIII Leave for paIIa.

fHst Brigade VIII Leave for Dallas
Tomorrow Morning.
trst Texas brigade, United Confed-
veterans, Will he represented at
paIas reunion by twenty-three camps
y nave paid their per capita and for
4 !. 'leir rosters. Each camp has writ
way nom fifteen to thirty-hve members
n, snea to 60 in body. The special
~ tne First brigade Will leave Hous.
o'clock tomorrow (Monday) morn
81 tue Alvin, Columbus, Rosenberg
q i uTSsiumont camps are expected to go on
krss. yaggherty, sponsor for the First
Id G relt Tor Dallas last night.
stsr o ~ adIutant general and chief
e1Oss "a VI inc First brigade. met with a
la ~ sS sent and will not be able to at.
fsaGsS snagruder of Galveston will arrive
I nosning. N' 'eSen Dai'as
h h Az Callahan has been appointed
Dr. u tne vacancy caused by the death
Alstor - y Pinckard of Albert Sidney
oanp No. 70 of Beaumont.
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Houston Summer Mammal

i Va "o summer normal will open
| ana = ana close on July g. The faculty
s-aaced as follows: W. w. Barnett.
|nsS, !. y n u, superintendent Houston
|ni,e,s,..u Oois; A. Belcher A. NJ, Harvard
|asol' y chair of history, Houston High
|issn., y, o. Smiley, B. s., n. n. o., vice
|slh D heestea High school; r. II.
b s,,,-s, A. uhiya sity of Georgia. chair
n 1 science, Houston High school;
~ y,,s La Matyr, PortvllIe academy,
= L M principal Hamilton street school;
IS 1eyholds, principal Cascara school;
~ fssinson, Marlanvlllc college. prln-
Ia fsssiir. school. secretary Of the nor
|r Kerrs Miss Jennie DAVIS. sam Hous-
|,to liis school principal Drummer
~ sehs<Ss Liza DaGSh. sam houston Nor-
Fss; Urinary department Fannln
||reAalexr poark, Ph, D. author Roark'E
|1aisezss heark's School Management.
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Mosquito Bars

You should note four things in iudg.
ing mosquito bar: Width. numbsr
OF yards in the piece, size of mesh
and edge. II the edge is not selyaged
1t wont wash.
Imported Bobbinet Bars
BY THE PIECE
u inches wide, close mesh, full fgp
yardage and selvage edges. .l,E0
so inches wide, close mesh, = RI
tull yardage and selvage edges k.0U
90 inches wide, close mesh, = M
full yardage and selvage edges O.UU
ioS inches wide, close mesh, , m
full yardage and Selvage edges 0s0U
Special for this Week
400 inch, best quality American Bob
olnet Bar, regular price t,25 no.
piece ............. 1Ok
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Things for the House

House Furnishing section offers extraordinary
u housewife for the coming week Just such things needed right
now will be sold this week very much under regular value.
At 1913 Each Marsefs and Satin Bed Spreads sizes IL and
spreads at price Values run from $50 to 400
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At oSc each

Lovely line of very stylish waists
made up in linen, madras, chambray,
grenadines, linens, etc, They would
be splendid values at $50
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Extra Values in
COlOred Wash Waists
At ACC each

Splendid line of we'll and stylishly
made madras, percale and chambray
waists that would be excellent values
at Csc and 75c each.
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At z5C each

A specially good line of madras, mer-
cerized chambray-linen effect-etc.
Waists that are very stylish in make.
These would be good values at 1.oC
each.
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Reliable Hosiery

This store prides itself upon the re-
liability of its hosiery, and at all times
it stands ready to make good hosiery
bought here that proves unsatisfactory.
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At $50 each

Elegant assortment of very handsome
waists chat are made up in the best
styles of the season in full line of the
new fabric. Values full LIS and 200.
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Our Special lOc Hose

for children has no equal under 1910.
They are close ribbed, have double
threaded feet and spliced knees.
Misses Lace Isle Hose, excellent
quality, dainty open work patterns in
a quality worth all of CSC Orr
Mems Black and Tan Half Hose ir an
excellent quality that is worth 15c
zoe pair, at. ............
Natty Fancy Half Hose in ali the latest
patterns at soc, Csc and 75c a pair
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AT IS Cents a Yard.

very choice line of elegant Fouad Silks that sold earlier
yard The patterns the best of the
the oongs the most artistic and the qualities exceptionally good
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An Extra Offer

e, STYLES If Walking Skirts been selling at and
They are full tailored naty skirts that were splendid values their former
prices While they last we will sell them at, 2.98
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At soc a pair

An extra good value ladies open work
lace Isle hose, quality that is not to
be had elsewhere under soc pair,
Ladies' Black Gauze Lisle Hose, a
summer hose that is cool, has double
threaded heels and toes, worth 9Eo
fully 45c a pair ........... ~"
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Our Perfumery Section

Has increased wonderfully during the
last season. The cause is simple
here you can buy all the best toilet
articles at a saving OF at least Is per
cent from what you have been pay
ing.
Today we call your special attention
10 our exceptional line of Richard