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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-14
ROUND THE REGION.

A large brown inquisitive cow has
caused suit for SEQ, 900 damages which
was started in court yesterday. On
July 10, 1898, it tried to butt a Lehigh
Valley train off the track at Pond Creek,
and succeeded in deraling the train.
Mrs. Rosanna Clarke, of Ashley, was a
passenger, and she was severely injured.
Her attorneys have sued the company
for damages.
Owing to what he says was a bit of
defective wiring, Eugene Alexander, of
Nanticoke, appeared in court against
the Nantcoke Electric Light Company.
He wants IS, 600 damages. His store is
lighted with electricity, and recently,
when he tried to light a lamp, he sus-
tained severe shock, which burned
his hand to the bone.
While two boys were playing ball
near the Reading depot at Tamaqua
yesterday one of the youngsters threw
the ball under "a moving passenger
train. The sphere was caught under
the wheels of coach and deraied the
car. The passengers got severe jolt
ing over the ties until the train was
stopped.
his family Of a wife and six children
stood by powerless to avert it, because
of the lack of water, their home in the
Tumbling Run valley burned to the
ground before their eyes The wife and
rest of the family were still asleep, and
they were rescued with difficulty. They
lost everything.
The Republican convention held to
elect state delegates from the First dis
trct broke up in row Monday night
at Wilkesbarre and the Watres and
Elkin factions later met separate. Two
sets of delegates will now go to Harris
burg.
A gang Of ten inemen, sent to Mauch
Chunk by the Pennsylvania Telephone
Company to string new wires, have
octu itiusou DOhlu u III lub lUWU, DbtbuSt,
it is alleged, they have taken the places
OF this company's lnemen now on strike.
After a spirited contest James A.
Dewey was defeated for reelection as
superintendent of schools of Newport
township, by II. U. Nyhart, who was
elected by two votes. The salary was
fixed at 81, 500.
Weatherly's handsome new school
building the money for which was pre-
sented to the town by Charles M.
Schwab, is nearly completed and will be
dedicated with imposing ceremonies on
May 80.
The Luzerne County Trust Company,
the first corporation of the kind in this
part OF the state, has been chartered.
Its capital stock is S15O,0OO and it will
do business at Wilkesbarre.
Lehighton school board has awarded
the contract for the erection of modern
school building to cost about $22, 900.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-14
True Or Untrue :?

If what we say of these Suits
and Shoes is true, 90 per cent of
our reader should be glad to profit
by it.
If untrue, it isn't hard to find
out about it, in which event we
lose your good will forever.
You stake the short while it
takes to look the stock over; we
stake our reputation with the en-
tire community.
All we say is: Don't judge
until you see.
And don't let the very low
price keep you from seeing these
very good garments.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-14
Money-Saving Times,

These are saving-money times, and it
behooves every thrifty man, woman and
child to read the fourth page of today's
Tribune. There are many things there
which will interest every person who
desires to save money. Read and be
convinced.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-14
PLEASURE.

May 16.-Commencement exercises of
Freeand High School at the Grand
opera house. Admission, 10 and 15c.
May 17.-Picnic of Sandy Run Base
Ball Club at Farchild's grove.
May 29.-Grand ball of the Balaklava
Social Club at Krell's hall Admission,
so cents.
May 3O.-Annual picnic of Tigers
Athletic Club at Public park.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-14

Special low fares via the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad. Tickets sold and good
going May 30 limited for return to June
l, inclusive, and will be honorcd on any
train, except the Black Diamond ex-
press. Consult ticket agents for particu-
lars.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-14
MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.

I OST.-Since May IL. 4 small Jersey COW,
IL yellowish color; has tip of one horn
abouts will be rewarded BY the owner, Mrs. T..
Campbell Freeand,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-14
A Positive Fact

By leaving your measure for
your next suit at Refowich's S
(Freeland) you not only save
from So to S., but you get
your selection from the largest
and best assortment ever
shown in Freeland.
Perfect Fit
and
Good Trimmings
Guaranteed.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-14

Low Fare Excursion to New York.
Via the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Tick
cts sold and good going May 20, limited
for return to May "a. inclusive Fare
round trip, $500 from Freeland.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-14
FREELAND's DELEGATES.

The three local unions of town are
represented in the Hazleton convention
today. They have thirteen votes, dvid-
employees, eight votes; No. 1927, High
land No. . employees, one vote, and No.
1899, engineers, fremen and pumpmen,
two votes.
From unofficial sources it has been
learned that all the Freeland deleg ates
carry instructions to vote for strike, If
no concessions are offered.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-14
LOCKOUT REPORT CORRECTED.

Luther G. Smith, OF Drifton, general
superintendent of Coke Bros. & Co., ON
Monday night made the following state
ment:
"When we ordered our men not to re-
port for work until notified to do so, we
did not contemplate lockout. Some of
our employees are not members of the
union and they would have reported at
the mines this morning. This would
have precipitated trouble, to prevent
which we closed down everything. We
do not want marching or violence, and
above all, we do not want militia sent
here"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-14

while speaking, and fully 1000 people
heard his remarks. At the conclusion
he re-entered the carriage, with Presi-
dent Duffy and National Board Mem
Der P G. Gallagher, and was driven to
Hazleton by Fl. M. Bresin, Jr.
A number Of photographs of the
demonstration were taken by Photog-
rapher Herbst and are on exhibition
today. They show the arrival of the
train at the Lehigh Valley station, the
parade on Centre street and Mitchell
addressing the thousands congregated
in front of the Osborne House.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-14
BLAMEs THE OPERATORS.

Oscar S. Straus, vice president of the
executive committee, and member of
the conciliation committee OF the Ma
tional Civic Federation, in a interview
yesterday morning laid the responsible
ty for failure of negotiations to prevent
the strike at the doors of the coal opera
tors. He further said that the strike, If
it were declared permanent, would, in
his opinion, be very likely to involve the
800, 900 miners in the bituminous region,
and to tie mp the leading coal roads.
Mr.. Straus said
"When $50, 900 men have, or claim to
have, grievances for which they are
ready to stake their daily bread, 1t ap-
pears to me that no body of employers
have right, under such circumstances,
to refuse to consider the propositions of
arbitration. II the operators are en-
tirely in the right, as they claim to be,
what have they to fear from impartial
arbitration"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-14
GOVERNMENT INTERESTED.

A report was circulation in Washing
ton last night that President Roosevelt
had instructed Attorney General Knox
to make inquiries into the anthracite
coal combination, with a view of pro-
ceeding against it under the antitrust
law. The report could not be confirmed.
Since proceedings were taken against
the railroads in Chicago in the way OF
an Injunction and more recently against
the Beef trust, various reports have
been circulated about the proceedings
to be commenced against the Sugar
trust and other com binations.
The president said recently that he
would proceed against any combination
in restraint of trade If evidence to that
effect were presented to him, or If the
evidence could be obtained. But he
intimated at the same time that he did
not want to undertake too much in that
way until there had been some definite
settlement of the matter in the courts.
II evidence is presented to him, how
ever, of any coal combination in re-
straint of trade there is no doubt what
ever that he will instruct the attorney
general to begin proceedings against
such combination.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-14

We have them in all sizes,
all styles, all qualities, all
prices, for
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10

Fishing on Friday, June IA last,
off Larmorna Cove, near Newlyn,
with a long line, writes E. F..
Voelcker, I caught a cod weighing
l8a pounds. On being opened and
cleaned here the following morning
we found a copy of the Burial
Service in the stomach of the fish
in perfect preservation, and [ have
been able to identify the writing
of the undertaken who supplied the
books on the occasion of the funer-
al on Aug. 81, 1884. So far as [
can surmise the book must have
been quite recently thrown away
as accumulated rubbish, and have
tempted the appetite of a voracious
cod. From it's state Of preserya-
ton and the fact that the print
and writing we're perfectly legible,
it could not long have been exposed
to the action of sea WAKEFIELD.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10
!: STORYETTES. J:
Origin Of the Clearing Rouse.


In l775 the bankers of London
rented a house in Lombard street
and fitted it with ia bles and desks
for the use of their clerks as a
place where bills, notes, drafts and
other commercial paper might be
exchanged without the trouble of
personal visits Of employees to all
the metropolitan banks. Transfer
tickets were used, and by means of
this simple plan transactions in
volving many millions were settled
without penny changing hands.
The Bank of England and every
other important bank in London
are members Of the Clearing House
association. The first clearing house
in. the United States was estab-
lished by the associated banks Of
New York in 1853. -Ex.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10

AFTER all the talk, sometimes bordering on mu-
tual recrimnation, it seems that neither Marconi
nor Saby is the inventor of wireless telegraphy and
neither is really entitled to patent the inven-
ton. Wireless telegraphy discovered by Profess
sor Lodge of the University of Birmingham, Eng
land, and publicly expounded by him in lecture
delivered in 1894. Both Marconi and SIaby seized
upon the theories advanced by Lodge and perfected
they have accomplished, but both have made them
selves objects of-shal we say ridcule?-for claim
ing more than they were entitled to.
In an article on the controversy in the London
Saturday Review Professor Hilvanus Thompson
says
'The Slaby- Arco is as much lineal descendant
of Lodges earlier work as is Marconi's Both of
them employ Lodges methods, inasmuch as both
use coherer to relay the Herzian upon a
telegraphic receiver and both employ an automatic
Taper
eliminate these features which are due to
Lodge and both Marcon and Slaby collapse. So
Marconi, who uses without acknowledgment these
devices of Lodge, mouths out denunciation of
Slaby, who dares to use the same devices for the
same purpose. It is pretty quarrel If Marconi
imagnes that his thin patent claims entite him to
monopoly of the ether for the purpose of transmit
ing signals, he is much mistaken.
"His dog in the manger policy towards Slaby is
simply silly and the more so because neither of them
either transmit receive single wireless
sage in the United States without infringing the
patents of Lodge"
What difference there is between this dis
cussion and the Darwin Wallace controversy!
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10

obligation he took upon entering the jury box, would
so act would violate his obligation, insult his
hood and degrade his citizenship One who has
reached intelligent conclusion from the testimony
affected, the testimony always must be, by the
charge of the court would be coward if he we're to
submit to the dictation of the other members of the
jury. unless he convinced that his position
mistaken On the other hand. the who
refuses to violate his conscience is brave man,
compelling respect and deserving regard 1t does
not always follow that the eleven men in the jury,
who often jokingly called the eleven stubborn
men, are correct in their conclusion It may well be
that the single juror is the who had reached the
proper conclusion under the law and the testimony.
Majorites not often right; frequently the minor
ity is decidedly So"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10
Coo much Fiction.

Il say, is this the novel you adj
vised me to read p said the cabman
to the librarian.
Yes" replied the librarian
"that's the one.''
WE'LL said the cabman, you
can just take it back. There's nine
people in the first four chapters
who hired cabs, and each one of
'em when he got out flung his
purse to the driver Now, when I
want that sort of literature, I'll 60
to Jules Verne and get it pure. =
Elk.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10

MosT gamblers, and also many persons follow
ing more legitimate callings, cherish the belief
that life is composed of runs of luck sometimes
good and sometimes bad that the tickle goddess will
favor them today and desert them tomorrow, but in
the long strike very fair average in the distri
button of her favors And in truth life does appear
to be made up of series of sequences rather than
a sequence of isolated events at equal distances
apart Everything goes in cycles: month after
month will be filled with incidents of the most
trivial character, and then suddenly without warn
ing or reason, number Of epoch making events will
follow in rapid succession to be succeeded by an
other period of triviaities It almost seems as if
the latter accumulave and even bound to break
out in course of time. Why this is no one seems
able to explain it is one of lifes mysteries that all
observe, but the meaning of which compre-
bend. The chronicler of Jobs life attributed the
series of msfortunes that pursued and harassed that
patient person to most unholy compact between
God and the devil-a satisfactory enough explana-
ton if it were only proven.
Whatever the cause the effect is very real and
tangible It is notorious that deeds of violence
collectively that railroad and boat accidents
happen singly is proverbial it is fact that one
disasterous storm is almost invariably followed by
Others one year is conspicuous for the number Of
celebrated men born in it, and another because Of
those who die .'It never rains but it pours says
the old saw.
The first months of this year have exempli6ed
the cycle theory pretty we'll While it is true that
the numbers of serious railroad and steamship ac-
cdents has been small the number of ruinous fires
following right after the other, has been large
within week half dozen disasterous floods &C.
Cured in widely separated portions Of the country;
one old time minstrel died and Immediately the rest
began to drop off until none left; the number
of double suicides has been simply astounding, no
less than thirty couples taking their own lives in
Chicago alone in the month of March, and finally
five of the April magazines contain stories having to
do with PRISONS ex-prisoners jails most unusual
topic in magazine literature
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10

PROFESSOR MAILER, who goes from St. Louis
to Washington next week for the purpose of teach
ing delsarte to the ladies of the diplomatic corps
and the wives and daughters of senators, gives it
out cold that when he gets through his fair pupils
will know how to "speak without talking" Perhaps
they will bark for what they want like trusty Fido
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10

JUDGE DAVIS of the Common Pleas court of
Philadelphia evidently believes juror should live
up to his OATH He asked short time SINCE says
the Nashville Banner, whether member of jary
could without violating his obligation, set aside his
conscientious conviction and conclusion from the
testimony, under the court for the purpose of max
ing an accord with the eleven other members in
order to prevent mistrial The judge replied as
follows:
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10
EXCHANGES.

The Nebraska maiden who Of.
ficiated as referee in a fist fight
between her two lovers is so very
game as to suggest a doubt as to
who will be boss when the winner
of the battle becomes her husband.
Minneapolis Times.
Mark Twain once said that when
Cecil Rhodes died he wanted a
piece of the rope. AS the deceased
did not go by that route the gray
old American humorist would no
doubt be satisfied with clod from
his Rhodesian grave. Denver
Post.
It is reported a Brooklyn woman
Rugged and kissed Kubelik until
he was SO weak he could scarcely
walk. If Paderewski hears of this
he will have another tantrum.-St.
Paul News.
Now comes into the public prints
Mr.. Edwin D. Mead, who deposeth
that Boston has lost it's literary
superiority. But it's pre-eminence
as a bean emporium has not been
challenged, SO let the envious rage.
st. Paul Globe.
The Sugar Octopus is wandering
around here and there, swallowing
a beet factory whole, and in other
sections merely insulting the pro-
prietors by rafting $40 gold pieces
in its pocket and looking at the
scenery. Minneapolis Journal.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10

If PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT holds public recep-
ton while he is in attendance at the Charleston
exposition. will he adhere to the old handshaking
plan establish precedent in accord with
the twentieth century? It is to be hoped the later
will be the These handshaking receptions are
of no benefit to any person concerned in them, they
unsatisfactory social functions they subject
the chief executive to contact with contagious dis
and altogether antiquated. When the
United States was little country it was all very
we'll for the president to shake hands with all
at public receptons in those days he could at least
be certain that his guests patriotic Americans
but the country has outgrown the necessity for the
function and there time like the present to do
away with it. After the disastrous ending of the
Buffalo reception would object to the GUS
tom relegated to the past
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10
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ALL PERSONS receiving copies of THE MIRROR who
regular lists will please consider such as
copies IT, after reading, conclude that THE
MIRROR worthy patronage send your name to this
subscription at rates published above
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10
Retrcspeetion.

Down the lane the breeZes wander, softly, gently,
whispering sweet,
Till they kiss the pink-white blossom, where the
lane and orchard meet.
Oh apple orchard! With thy avenues of sward SO.
messy green,
And thy gnarled and twisted branches, locked
embraced in glimmering sheen,
Where the golden sunlight's playing through
the treet0ps overhead,
CHANGING down amid the twilight caresses each
messy bed.
Tell me orchard dost remember in the heyday of
my youth,
When my pater cut those switches. to empha-
size the truth?
Dost remember, apple orchard, Of nay wall and
sore distress?
And the orchard swayed its branches as it sadly
murmured, "Yes."
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10
HELIOG A MS.
ny THE ..rRIPLETs.o

i by THE ssTRIPLETs.o
You should never laugh at the
misfortunes of others excepting
when a man tries to stop a steam
engine by putting his hand in the
works.
A young man has been sent here
to serve one year for stealing a
pig. | suppose the pig squealed.
Some very dull men and women.
cut shine in society.
A section boss who is an ad--
mirer Of Carrie Nation has made
her present of little dog that is
trained to run ahead of his hand
car and bark at the low joints.
With the aid Of political pull
a man with the girth dimensions.
of hogshead can crawl through a.
very small loophole Of the law.
Some men will deliver a tenn
perance lecture, and then bury
their face in a can of beer and
with the suction capacity Of
Niaga ria whirlpool partake of a
drink that would give Mason line
mule the blind staggers.
The periodical drinker is like
camel; he drinks enough at one
time to last several days.
The boarder above me must be
afraid he will be late for break
fast, or else he is practicing an
acrobatic feat that will back the
loop-the-loop man clean off the
stage.
A man who neglects his health
doesn't know enough to get off the
track when the train is coming,
and still he kicks when he's run
down.
Rose may not be register of
deeds, but he has spent good
deal of time registering misdeeds.
Mayor Harrison Of Chicago won't
allow the police to club together,
but permits them to gather to club
if necessary.
Pedestrian Say, friend, what
are you doing with that sardine
box on that roaring fire?
Restful Tatters- Heatin' water
fer me bath.
Pedestrian-Why, man, it will
all evaporate.
Restful Tatters Oats just it.
I'm takin' de latest-de Rooshun
vapor.
When a lamb gets through his
first Wall street experience he
generally feels sheepish.
A newly arrived boarder on be-
ing asked what his charge was and
''how long he got" replied: "Well,
I'm here for five years, but don't
know whether the charge is swind-
ling or violation of the game laws. :.
[ caught a sucker in the closed
season.
No man ever worried so much
he couldn't sleep late Sunday
morning.
A good subject for debate before
the circle would be-: Can man
work as an engineer and still be a
Christian.
Retrc$psetion.
Down the lanethe breezes wander, softly, gently.
whispering sweet,
Till they kiss the pink-white blossom, where the
lane and orchard meet.
Oh apple orchard! With thy avenues of sward SO.
messy green,
And thy gnarled and twisted branches, locked
embraced In glimmering sheen.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10

GOVERNOR HEARD of Louisiana is reported
to have notified the State Department of the
existence of British military camp near New
Orleans. The camp IN question is the one that
General Pierson of the Boer army threatened to
attack some weeks ago, and Gov. Heard is now
convinced that the assertions of Gen. Pierson were
not idle talk If British military camp does exist
n>this country it should be broken up without
delay The sympathies of the American people are
strongly pro- Boer, and while they realize that the
country is pledged to neutrality they will not
tenance for amomentany assistance to Great Britain.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10

published in the Minnesota State
edited and
aged home to
acquaDt
disseminate pathological
prejudice which been
The entirely
If at time there
surplus the
interests of the prison library
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10

CARRIE NATION has subsidized but her ak goes
marching on. Last week ten prominent" women
of Eddyville, Neb, armed with pokers, axes and
hatchets, entered and wrecked saloon. The raid
was more unprovoked than usual, as Eddyville re-
Gently put the liquor question to vote and large
majority favored licensed saloons. In raiding these
places, the women presumed on the chivalry of the
men whom they we're trying to injure.
This craving for undue excitement-for that's
all it amounts tom the part of the female popua-
ton of Kansas and Nebraska will keep up until
woman is seriously injured by in de-
tense of his property. Then lynching bee will be
pulled off, some curtain lectures will be read, and
smashing parties will go out of fashion.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10

THE MIRROR fail subscriber each week. notice
will be attended at
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-10

A young man has been sent here
to serve one year for stealing
pig. | suppose the pig squealed.