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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08
Old Age and Appetite.

Sir Henry Thompson deprecates in
creased eating as means of keeping
up the strength of those who are adj
vancing in years, and particularly OBJ
jects to the repeated and general use
of concentrated forms of animal nour-
ishment for the aged. Over-nourish-
ment in old age is apt to lead to pains
and aches due to the impairment Of
excretion, and long protracted course
of overfeeding will end in an attack
of gout. Even artificial teeth are not
to be considered an unmixed blessing,
for by provision of nature the teeth
begin to decay and become useless just
when the system begins to thrive with
out much animal food of coarse fibre.
Indigestion, says Sir Henry Thomp-
son, is mostly not disease, but an ad-
monition. "It is the language of the
stomach, and Is mostly an unknown
tongue to those who are addressed"
1t means that the individual has not
yet found his appropriate diet There
is no food whatever which is whole.
some in itself, that food only is whole
some which is so to the individual."-
Baltimore Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08

q 1t is impossible for young people to
marry in Germany without the consent
of their parents or legal guardians.
Certain prescribed forms must be gone
through, or the marriage is null and
void. When girl has arrived at what
is considered a marriageable age her
parents make point of inviting young
men to the house. and usually two or
three are invited at the same time, so
that the attention may not seem too
pointed. No young man. however, is
invited to the house until after he has
called at least once, and thus signified
his wish to have social intercourse with
the family
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08

Instantly, however, the boy was on hia
feet, calling him off, and the mastift
walked soberly on. Evidently he hao
understood the matter perfectly, ar-
preciated the cause of the little con.
iretemps, and let it pass after the man.
ner of his magnanimous kind.
Good doggier said the boy, re-
leasing one grirny hand from the bum
die long enough to pat the head of the
breathless little dog, who greeted this
acknowledgment of his services with
ecstatic waggings of his sandy stump.
But there was n sequel. 1t Glanced
that this particular cur had some time
since been bereft of one eye; and now,
as he crossed the avenue, the oncomins
car was at its blind side, and the IL"
overhead wiped out all surface sounds.
Boy and bundle were half the width
of the street behind him when Il swerve
of the motor-man's hand gave the car
n headlong plunge. The fender was
hardly half n foot from the uncoh.
scious dog when his MASTER quick as
n flash, dropping his load with one
spring seized the dog round his lank
body and bounded on the fender, cling
ing like crab to the sagging steel
bands. Then, as the car slowed up
with screech and a growl from the
brakes, master and dog descended and
raced back for the bundle again.
Neither seemed to regard the Incl.
dent az anything unusual; it was all
t. A.
that kept both at their wits end to
stand off starvation and other shapes
of death.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08
and Tilbury scramble to his feet tn.

and Tilbary scramble to his feet the
| sheriff and Jim abandoned their own
exhausted beasts, and, seizing their
weapons, rushed up the steep hill for
| the capture. But the youth on the
horse went gamely forward, faster and
faster, till he, too, topped the ridge
| and disappeared in the wake of the
| dismounted outlaw.
It'd be murder to kill him now"
painted Early.
ITS him or the kid, 1 guess" an.
swered Jim, and, with dust-smeared
faces and bodies muddy with sand and
sweat, they gained the outlaw.
Far down below them, just breast
ing the shallow pool of the dwindled
summer river, they saw the buckskin
horse bearing two riders toward the
Mexican shore.
We're done, amt we, cap?"
Done? We're skinned, stuffed and
basted by blamed kid! That's what
We are"
Jim stopped over the dead Canadian
-Tilbury's worthless hostage to the
law-and said:
wonder why the kid killed it, cap?"
"Just bluff, Jim. Cunnin' of him,
wasn't it?'
And the sheriff sat down on the
corpse and rolled cigarette, watching
Tilbury and his pal disappear into the
chaparral which lined the haze-dimmed
shore Of the ''land of manana" They
ynd 1,on nly
weary and defeated, to Ojo Caliente
but when they came to the red, warped
railroad station and talked to the
squint-eyed agent he told them that
the stranger. the curly-haired, brown
checked boy, had come to town but an
hour or two ago.
HE didn't seem to know nobody"
explained the agent, land the on'y
thing 1 know is I hearn him hoss-
tradin' with that there chap you was
chasin, just a few minutes fore you
all rid up and begun shootin'.''
Sheriff Early and his deputy loafed
about the station till half an hour be-
fore the east-boupd LOCAL came along,
and then the agent handed him a small
yelloW envelope, with:
EITHER O. you men Captain Early'~
And the sheriff read:
"Tilbury's wife on buckskin horse
short cut to Caliente. Mems clothes.
Frank Hickey"
From Biff's BROTHER" said Early,
handing the dispatch to Jim.
shes brick!" grinned the deputy.
John II. Raftery, in the Chicago
Record Herald
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08
Expenses of the white House.

Aside from the Presidents salary
and the expense of keeping the White
House In repair, it costs the Govern
ment on;y about $65, 900 to operate the
establishment. OF this amount $50. 900
is expended in the salaries of the thirty
men or the executive payroll, says the
World'u Work. These range from a
Secretary to the President, with q sal
ary OF $4,000 year, down to messen.
gers and doorkeepers whose pay Is in
some Instances perhaps one-tenth that
SUM. This remaining $4,000 defrays
all tie other expenses-the replacing
of wCYn-out office furniture, typewriter
repairs, stationery and feed for the
half dozen horses n. the White House
stables. OF course the executive office
has the benefit of many economies be-
yond the reach of the thrifty merchant.
For instance, all official mail Is
franked. saving appropriately 500 a
day. Special telegraph and cable rates
are also secured
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08

"What's in name?" Well, there
seems to have been at least Twelve
Thousand Dollars in this name. Ac-
cording to dispatch from Springfield,
Mo-, Vassar College is to receive ST.
600 under the will of Louise Frisbie,
because Lumas w. Holmes. of Spring
field, to whom the money was left
on condition that he change his name
to Frisbie, refuses to change. The
will was filed year ago, and the sin
gular condition was given some notice
In the newspapers at the time. Holmes
had a year in which to make up his
mind whether he preferred his ances.
tral name or the $4,000. He has now
decided for the name. and Vassar will
get the money
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08

with Tilbury and most OF tile Doys
disappeared to avoid posse duty. But
1t was different with Captain Early
and his two deputies. Two hours after
Tilbury hit the trail for the border
they were hot after him with fifteen
rounds apiece, good mounts, and no
idea beyond the inevitable necessity
of bringing back the murderer" dead
or alive.
But Tilbury had one of those Cana
dian River horses, as fast as coyote
H. the sand and demon for rough
going. Ed rode him in the spring from
Wichita to Oklahoma City, and gal
loped him clean across the panhandle,
then to the Pecos Valley and across
the range hills to Las Cruces. So the
fugitive's horse was seasoned. But
Early and his men changed ponies at
Poultney's ranch, roping out their own
| stock because the outfit was away
on the drive, and ran Tilbury to cover
| before dark in a dug-out by the iron
| spring. They got the worst of this,
however, for the rascal winged Jim's
| horse and cut a streak across Early's
that sent the beast as lame as barn
yard duck. AS for Thoroughman's
| pony, it died at the first shot, and the
| deputy walked back to Pou!tneys as
mad as a rattlesnake
| But Early and Jim clung 10 the trail.
and now, as they rode into Ojo Cali
ente, cluster Of weather-beaten how
els of mud, they saw Ed Tilbury at
the far end of the single street, stand
ing by stranger and in the shadows
beside him. almost tottering against
the wall, the staggering. dust-covered.
exhausted horse that had carried him
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08

Olen Bowles. of Costello, Pa, will
never stop again to be Good Samaritan
to deer in trouble.
He works for the big tannery COM
pany there. He was in the woods one
day last week looking over bark
contract.
Passing along an old woods road he
saw fawn lying in clump of bushes.
AS the fawn did not move he walked
up to it and found that it was bleed
ing from an injury in its shoulder.
With the intention OF taking the
wounded fawn home with him and Goc.
toring it, Bowles was STOPPING to lift
it up in his arms when the frightened
little animal began bleating piteously.
1t had scarcely uttered its first cry
when Bowles heard commotion in
the brush, and looking up saw two
deer, a biz buck and a doe, bounding
toward him.
The buck had on fierce front. the
hrstle on his neck standing erect and
his eyes blazing with fury Bowles
hastily climbed tree. He got out Of
''''4-N VI thG puNh just III lllllc ~ rs
cape savage lunge from his horns.
They took the fawn away into the
wood. The buck, however, stayed
right ut the foot OF the tree and
pranced and snorted around it at every
move Bowles made. keeping him there
until long after dark
When he thought the buck had gone
away Bowles slipped down out of tbeI
tree and started to put behind him
the three miles that lay between that
spot and home as quickly as his legs
would lie thin. He hadn't gone fifty
yards, though, before the buck was
after him. Dodging from tree to tree
Bowles made his way along until
man answered his cries for help. Then
the buck abandoned the chase.
The settler who went to Bowles'
rescue said the buck was terror of
that neighborhood and known to the
hunters as Old Golden.-Sul.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08

sixty miles toward freedom. But he
saw them and was up in second, his
rifle swinging down at them as he rose
in his stirrups and the game horse
plunging forward as with final des-
peration.
HE must have ammunition to burn -
grunted Jim as bullet whiZzed
through his pony's name, but Early
had fired twice and missed before they
came alongside the startled stranger.
Have you got horse?" the sheriff
was yelling. The stranger looked up
and said, quite slowly: Eyes, sir. That
is, did have one, but sold it to the
to the man you are shooting at. See,
here's the money" And the young
fellow showed a wad OF bills in his
hand. Jim grinned a minute without
taking his eyes off the vanishing MUIR
derer, who was blundering out across
the sand toward the South, but the
sheriff swore as he roared: "Fetch out
your horse quick. You've sold it to an
outlaw. I'm Sheriff Early and I've
got warrant for that fellow. Quick,
the 'horse"
But the stranger, who looked like a
boy, though his face was brown with
tan and freckles, ran round into the
sheep corral and in another moment.
mounted on a bold-going buckskin
horse, his Winchester ready in its scab-
bard, came charging after the fugitive.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08
Struggle with "a Muskallonpe,

Charley Dunlap one day had n strike
from twenty-pound musllalIonge. He
had hand line. Early in the struggle
the flsh adopted as its tactics per-
sistent dashing in Il circle that took it
around the boat, its purpose evidently
being to get a hitch of the line on the
boat so that it might tear itself loose
The peculiar tactics OF this muskal.
longe kept Dunlap twisting and turn
ing round and round in his boat to pre-.
vent the fish from fouling the line.
The lake was rough under stin wind.
and the frail canoe threatened to cap-
size before Dunlap could conquer the
muskallonge.
At each circuit the muskallonre
made, Dunlap succeeded in getting the
fish nearer, and then he suddenly dis
covered that he was unable to make
another turn himself CHANGING down
Mt his feet he discovered that in his
rapid twistings and turnings he had
wound the line round and round his
ankles and he was pinioned by it there.
This was an added danger, for if by
SoAle upluchy move the beat Should
capsize his fate was certain.
Ii the muskallonge had made one.
more turn around the boat it would
probably have accomplished its design
and got away. Fortunately Tor Dun1
lap, the fish at that critical molnen4l
changed its tactics, and started Straight
out toward the middle of the lake.
Dunlap let it go, and, sitting down in
The boat, quickly released the hamper
ing line from his legs, and enga ced
the muskallonge again.
The rest of the fight was brief. sor
the odds against the fish were too
great, and, exhausted. but still Offering
Its dead weight in opposition to the
angler, 1t was hauled up to the gaff
and landed.-New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08

L swing of his bride, "the line
Is only five miles off now. See yonder,
those bare mesquites on that mesa ?
That's Mexico"
Jim looked down at the footprints,
and, striking his jaded broncho with
the spurs, said: "If he don't get a fresh
horse at Ojo Caliente, cap, we'll catch
him in less'n two hours. He's down
to fox trot now"
There isn't a horse in Caliente,
Jim. I think he'll stop there. How
many shots have you got, Jim?"
"Seven, cap"
"And four for me. That ought to
fetch him" And they floundered over
the hot dun hill and down into the
squat, red village of adobes.
But with all his hard riding Captain
Early's heart wasn't exactly "in' this
man hunt. He knew Ed Tilbury-had
sat in with him at Silver City, Santa
Fe and Ell Paso, served in the same
posse with him the time Captain Crews
and his rangers crossed the Rio after
the rustlers, but murder was murder
and it was ''up to- Early to bring Til
bury in. Six aces in one deck was re-
garded as stealing, even in Las Cruces
and when Ed unloaded his forty five
into Biff Hickey, popular opinion sided
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08
swordfish Pierced the Boat.

The fishing schooner Forest Maid,
Captain Sinnett, arrived at Boston the
other day from Georges with forty.one
big swordhsh. A. Scott, one of the
crew, had thrilling experience with
fish which weighed 300 pounds. II
was speared from the bowsprit and
Scott was sent off in dory to bring
it alongside the vessel. Although NOR
tally wounded. the fish showed fight.
and as Scott approached plunged its
sword through the bottom of the boot.
The dory had to be holsted to the deck
in order to release the fish, which iu
the meantime had died.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08
Hes for getting the reward him

Hes for getting the reward him
self" shouted jim.
"Wait! Wait!" beloved Early.
But the fast-ridlng youngster, un-
sheathing his rifle, looked back with
grin and cried: III get him, cap!
I'll get himn'
Purity game for kid" said Jim.
But Sheriff Early was furious.
I'm an ass for telling him. He'll
kill Ed or get himself killed"
AS they struggled over the bowlder-
strewn trail and slipped haunchwise
down into the valley far off ON the op-
posite hill, they could see Tilbury, still
looking back, his rifle ready, and be-
tween him and the Rio Grande only
a mile Of knee-deep sand. Then the
staring sands of the dried river bed
and liberty! But between them and
the outlaw rode the boy on the buck
skin horse. Each stroke Of the nimble
hoofs sent a fountain of dust into the
air, each stride brought him nearer to
chester.
"Nows his chance for q shot," said
jim, watching the murderer founder
| ing up onto the crest of the final hill.
"He couldn't miss him now!"
Hes just loading his gun," cried
! Early. "See him? He's out of the
dust. Hear itn'
And they saw the white puff of
smoke, and then, echoing sharp and
quick, from wall to wall of the slate
fronted mesas. the crack of the yolun-
teer's weapon.
''Got him. by Jovew laughed Jim. 81
seen his cayuse drop, cap"
As they saw the fugitive's pony drop
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08
Flowers of the SwamD.

What a wealth of rarely beautiful
wild flowers there are in the swamps
and meadows even in July, says Coun-
try Life in America-the vivid beauti-
full cardinal, the false sunfiower or OK.
eye, the or fragrant golden
rod, the thimbleweed, the bulb bearing
loosestrife, bareback, the early purple
aster or cocash, the iron-weed or fiat
top, the arrow-leaved tearthumb the
spearmint, native wild mint and pep
permint,the Maryland figwort or bee
plant, the great lobelia or blue cardinal
flower, the graceful brook lobelia, the
soft, feathery, tall meadow rue, the
poisonous water hemlock the blood
thirsty, round-leaved sundew, the
wicked strangleweed or common dod-
der, the gorgeous Turks cap lily, the
queer snake-head or turtle-head, the
fragrant bitter bloom or rose-pink, the
attractive meadow beauty or deer
grass, the sea OF marsh pink, the marsh
milkwort, the marsh st. Johnswort,
the white alder or sweet pepperbush,
the boneset or thoroughwort the climb
ing noneset or hempweed, the jewel
weed, the pale touch-me-not, the giant
st. Johnswort and two exquisite
orchids, the yellow -fringed orchids and
the white-fringed orchids. The lowest
and the highest, the snowy and the
sober. all await to surprise him who
searches.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08

story of a dogs loyalty and n bows
love that makes life seem richer finer
and infinitely more worth while was
recently told in the New York CONNER
cial Advertiser.
small boy, very ragged and far
from clean, was meandering along
10th street. near Eighth avenue. the
other evening, whistling through his
fingers from time to time to a dingy
little cur that nosed about the door
ways for some dainty droppings from
the mornings garbage can. The boy
carried huge parcel of old clothing,
ana did not look as IL the picking of a
oone or two on his own account would
go amiss.
Every now and then the dog would
trot back to his small master long
enough to sniff his bare legs reassur-
ingly in acknowledgment of the peri
odical whistling.
Presently great mastiff. wild with
the thought of an hours freedom.
bounded down the steps of an apart
ment house and came into violent col
lision with small boy and bundle
knocking one fiat and rolling the other
into the gutter.
Quick as a flash the hungry little cur
was at the great dogs throat He was
hardly half the size of the mastiffs
head, but for ten seconds he did battle
not unworthy his big enemy, putting
all the love and loyalty of his homeless
little heart into this attack upon the
giant that had assailed bis master,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08

From Chicago comes the news that
woman has conquered still another
field, over which man formerly reigned
supreme. She is now employed in the
stockyards in Chicago, the last place in
the world that one would expect to
find her. To be sure, she does not ac-
tually slaughter the animals, but even
that may come in time. In the pack
ing and canning factories some thou
sands more will find positions. The
work is light, is technically called
Kitchen work." and consists in the
cutting of dried beef, packing OF cans,
stufiing Of sausages, etc.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08

The returns of official experiments on
living animals shows that during 1901
25I licensees performed 11,643 expert
ments. In Ireland ten licensees per-
formed 237 experiments. The report
consists of fifty-four folio pages, gives
a great variety of fruitless detail re-
garding the licensees, and is, to quote
the British Medical Journal, "a monu-
mental record of how the state may
hamper science, and how jealousy the
grandmother Of parliaments protects
the liberty of guinea pigs to the detri-
ment of the Oyerabundant taxpayer"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08

National airs are seldom made to
order. The committee of the Society
of the Cincinnati may select n tune
of merit from those submitted and
award its medal. 1t is another thing
to get the people to substitute the tune
thus approved for the glorious melody
which they know as America" ex.
claims the Philadelphia Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08

The Belgian Government has just is
sued a statistical report showing that
the population of Belgium is the
densest in Europe, there being 605
persons to every square mile, as
against 410 in Holland and $40 in Eng
land. There are still over twelve per
cent. of Belgian soldiers who can
neither read nor write.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08
1873 per year

The immigrants arriving now have
a low rate of illiteracy. Last year
sixty-two per cent. of the adult Syrians
who landed at the port Of New York
could neither read nor write. The
rate of illiteracy among southern Ital-
ians was fifty-fve per cent. and among
the Greek immigrants twenty-one per
cent. Among the Polish immigrants
it was thirty -one.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08

The Galveston News remarks that
every farm is factory in which ma
ture is the boss. The soil and seed are
workman. These workmen should be
as skilled in their trade as is the ma
chinist, the printer or the steelmaker
1t is come to pass that farming must
be done in the most scientific manner
in order to insure success.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08

The business of making collars and
cuffs, according to the showing Of the
census returns, appears to be a New
York State monopoly. Out of fifty
seven establishments in the United
States fifty-four are in New York, turn
ing out a yearly product valued at
$15,534, ,461. The output of the three
factories in other States is only $751;
1888 per year.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08
TWO DAYS.

A brief but sunny day,
The day of song and toll,
Was it some angel came my way,
And touched with holy oil
My eyes that could no more look out
Upon the barren wastes of doubt?
The threads run to and fro,
The wheel of labor turns,
But in their throbbing mist aglow
A light effulgent burns,
Faith trims the lamp and bids me view
Horizons that l never knew.
Boston Transcript.