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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

Green, the English historian, one day
asked n friend which of all the inven-
tions of their day had done the most
for the people as a whole. His friend
guessed this and that, but the answer
was:
Beyond doubt six-penny photo
graphs"
A reply involving quite as great an
absurdity as that was made by Cecil
Rhodes in answer to a lady who,
seeking to draw him out, suggested
that he owed his phenomenal rise TO
the impetus of noble sentiments.
Madam" returned Mr.. Rhodes, 81
owe my fortune simply and solely to
cold mutton"
"Cold muttonw gasped the lady. 80
Mr. Rhodes, what do you mean?'
"When 1 was young" continued the
South African millionaire, 81 was so
dosed with cold mutton, and hated
it so cordially, that l resolved to grow
rich in order to put 1t ON one side for
the rest of my life. Yes, madam, cold
mutton was at the root of my success;
noble sentiments had nothing to do
with it."-Youth's Companion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28
THE OLD WORlDllNC,

He shambles by each sunny afternoon;
His portly form is shrunken as a spectre
His face is vacant as the morning moon;
Quatfed is his nectar.
Out of his eyes the dancing light is gone;
Out of his blood the wanton warmth
that thrilled it;
Out of his air the charm that conqucsts
When fancy wiled it.
Proud was his port and tasty his array;
His days and nights o'erhowed with song
and laughter;
He never dreamed that these would pass
away
And this come after.
He courted pleasure and secured it STILL
He asked for friends, and loves, and
these were given;
He craved all worldly good and had his fill; !;
He sought not heaven.
His friends have vanished never to return;
His pleasures, treasures, all his hearts
desire;
His passions only in their embers burn;
Mute is his Tyre.
For him the eventime has brought no
light;
Its signing breezes pity as they kiss him;
The dark will bear him to the wastes of
night;
Earth will not miss him.
Alas the life that has no upward look,
No sacrifice of self, no high endeavor;
Its taste becoming like the seer's book,
Bitter forever
Edward n. Pomeroy, in Boston Tran
script.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

The Fish and Game Commission has
temporarily prohibited fishing in Lake
argoggagoggmanchauggagoggachau-
bunagungamaugg. Just why fishing
has been prohibited there is not pub
licly stated. 1t is rumored that some
reckless sportsman drew the lakes
name through that body of water sew
eral times (after the manner Of a seine)
and that this reckless practice resulted
in catching nearly all the fish that
We're too large to slip through the
aus or the "gg's." Ii the orders of
the Fish Commission were necessary to
preserve the beauties OF the charming
lake, they were justiiiable. AS the
town poet OF Webster has forcefully
sung:
No Franklin pond nor Hampshire bog
Can compare with Lake ChargoggagoG-
Manchauggagogg-
Achaubunagunamau
Boston Daily Advertiser.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

British service papers have noted
that the Prince of Wales is the first
heir apparent to the British Crown to
hold an actual commission in the
navy, the senior service on their side
of the water. Hitherto the heir ap-
parent has been put into the army,
and any naval rank he may have held
has been purely honorary. The
same rule was followed in the case of
the sons of the present King; Prince
Edward was made a soldier and died
while Major in q hussar regiment;
Prince George was made a sailor and
has commanded his own ship on a
regular cruise. Now, by the death of
his elder brother, he becomes Prince
of Wales, the first of the line to be
a sailor. Hitherto he has been pro-
NOTED rapidly, but with decent per-
iod of service in each rank, until he
now holds the commission of Cap
tain. Hereafter his promotion will
be very rapid, and his :ew grades
will be honorary, as it will no longer
be advisable for the heir to the Grown
to 90 to sea in command of a feet
or to take the risks cf a nava, officer
says the New York sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

1t is stated in Nature that Professor
Paul Ehrlich, of Frankfort-on
Main, has been enabled to devote him
self to Il special study of the disease
of cancer in consequence of Il bequest
of the interest for three years Of sum
of 100000 marks, dedicated to this pur-
pose by a Frankfurt banker, the late
Herr Theodor Stern. Other sums con-
tributed by private individuals will
bring up the amount to be devoted ta
this special investigation of cancer by
DR.. Ehrlich to 10000 marks, or $4,000
a year. In Berlin there exists special
committee for the investigation of cam
Ger, which studies pathological ac-
counts Of cases and collects statistics
and medical literature on this sub
ject. Professor Won Leyden Is at the
head of the committee, and Professor
Won Kirchner, of the Medical Depart
ment of the University of Public In
struction, is one of its members.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

A woman who has recently returned
from a trip across the continent, is
preparing a souvenir which will be a
novel and interesting reminder of the
trip. She collected, en- route, menu
cards and samples of stationery. One
sheet Of paper and one menu card
from each hotel and the same from
each train and dining car We're pre-
served. Now the crests and letter
heads are being carefully cut out and
will be pasted ON plain white picture
frame. The picture to go in the frame
was also brought along. 1t is a lovely
view of Pixies Peak taken with the
sun shining on its snow capped heights
and showing the Garden of the Gods
in the foreground. Sufficient crests,
etc, We're secured to make the frame
pretty without introducing anything
foreign on the trip. The maker ac-
knowledges that she borrowed her idea
from young woman who went abroad
some time ago and brought back
collection OF monogramS orests and
such things from the hotels, the trains
and the steamers.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

A few days ago, says Geneva spe-
'cial in the Paris Messenger, a letter
arrived from America at Berne bear
ing the following inscription: TO the
person who is on the other side" On
the other side of the letter was small
photograph of a man whose dress
showed him to be a postoffice en-
ploye.
The day after the receipt of the let
ter the annual meeting of the postoffice
employees was held Vt Lucerne, and
the letter bearing the photograph was
forwarded there for Identification. On
the letter being passed around one of
the postmen said that he thought the
photograph was that of postman in
the Canton of Soleure.
Sure enough the next day the owner
was found in small village named
Beberlst, in Soleure.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28
discriminating.

The society woman flashed as to her
eyes, and the reporters pressed about
her with ears astrain.
so they say my refreshments were
stingy, do they?" she exclaimed.
WELL you may quote me to the effect
that my refreshments would have been
ample. had these critical ladies worn
gowns that fitted them anyhow at all.
So, there"'-Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28
Clever Blind Men.

John B. Herreshoff may justly be
called one of the wonderful men of
the age, but it must not be forgotten
that he was an expert sailor before he
went blind. James Holman was an
other wonder. Though totally blind,
he travelled around the world and
wrote vivid narrative of what he
"saw." England's ablest Postmaster
General, Henry Fawcett, was totally
blind. When Gladstone appointed him
1t was with the understanding that he
was not to be in the Cabinet, the Pre-
mier holding that his afliiction would
render it impossible for him to guard
Cabinet secrets with the requisite jeal-
ousy. Mr.. Fawcett had long been pro-
fessor of political economy at Cam
bridge and was a Member Of Parlia-
ment.
Smallpox blinded Kleinhaus, the
"Blind Sculptor of the Tyrol," at the
age of five, and few years later the
death of father and mother left him
destitute. The boy began to whittle
images out of wood. His first efforts
We're most pitiable, but he persevered
until he was able to "see with his fin
gers" AT fifteen he was so expert
that he could engrave from memory the
features of face upon which he had
pressed his fingers. He lived to be
nearly ninety, and his art kept him in
comfortable circumstances in his mod
est bachelor home.-New York Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

" OR years he had been famil-
II lar figure in the neighbor-
hood. Everybody called him
Jim, and, until the event
which we are about to relate occurred,
doubted if he possessed any other
name. Twice a week, on Wednesday
and Saturday mornings, he made his
round with a step-stone and proceeded
to make the front descent to each
dwelling shine with dazzling white
ness. Jim knew his business and glo-
ried in it, but no effort OF his or any
one elses could raise him a step higher
than the top one of the flight. He
had tried to wash windows on the
earnest entreaty of Mrs. Jones and
Mrs. Smith, who thought any work
about should be child's play for a
great, able-bodied man. But it didn't
agree with him, and he went back to
his steps with renewed vigor and
pride. His whole reason for being
seemed to be centred in these steps,
and 1t cost him many pang to see
the first black footprint mar their pur-
ity.
There was, however, another object
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28
Philadelphia Times

The Philadelphia Times remarks
that the experience OF a century has
established beyond question that vac
cination, properly performed at rea-
sonable intervals of time, confers sub
stantial immunity from smallpox, and
that the one way to eXterm.nate this
disease in any community is by gen
eral and systematic vaccination.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28
FROM DIPLoMATTouoNcsHoREMAN
The sad Story of a New York Laborer Who
Has Interviewed Half Europe,s Kinga.

The Sad Story of New York Laborer Who
Has interviewed Half Europe's Kings.
"There is no city in the world with
so many foreigners as New York."
writes the Rev. David NJ. Steele in an
article on "The Other Side of the
Town." in the Ladies' Home Journal.
''Nor is there any class of persons in
the city among whom there are so
many queer cases. l met a man in
the Bowery one cold, wet, winter night
selling shoe laces. He looked so hun
CRY that l took him to a restaurant,
where, after l had given him some
thing to eat, he gave me his conf
dence. He talked five languages
Italian, Spanish, German, French and
Arabic-with equal fluency, but did not
know a word of English.
But who was he? A man of thirty
five, well educated, well connected and
ating he taught Sanskrit in great
university, and for the five years fol-
lowing acted as the foreign diplomatic
correspondent of a Berlin daily. He
had in person interviewed half the
crowned monarchs of Europe, and
when this work grew commonplace
he enlisted in the Secret Information
Service of the German Army. Sent
on a mission into Russia he committed
q most serious blunder, and he sud
denly found himself wanted by two
armies at one time to be shot as spy.
His father cursed him, his patrons de-
serted and his friends derided him.
He escaped with his life in time to
fee the country. To-day this son of a
Russian Count is rolling salt barrels
ON q New York dock"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

The common cockroach has spread
throughout the civilized world by
means of ships. This disagreeable
bug comes and goes ON ships almost as
freely as the rats. The two seem
to live together amicably, and they
monopolize the hold of the ships which
carry foodstuffs.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28
1t is noInted out that the French sol.

1t is pointed out that the French sol
dier, with the abundance of MARINA
malade, chocolate, figs, licorice and
caramels in his rations, has Il larger
allowance of sweets than the soldiers
of other nations. Sugar now ranks
high in favor with military authorities
as { biting food. An allowance of pure
candy was added to the rations Of
American soldiers in the Philippines
last year.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

A correspondent Of the Lewistown
(Me0 Journal suggests that some en-
terprising individual could get abund-
ant wealth by starting an angle worm
farm. In the height of the season at
Rangeley these worms sell at 81
quart, and the supply is never equal
to the demand.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

"Did it ever occur to you," said the
thoughtful person, that the number OF
matches used each day reaches the
stupendous sum of 'steen billions"
at never did" replied the thought
less one, "and I'll be blamed if l would
have cared a straw if it had."-Detroit
Free Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

1t is stated by an authority that the
weight of mans brain has nothing
to do with his mental power. The
colder the climate the greater size Of
the brain. The largest heads Of all
are those of the Chugatches, who live
very far north, and next come the
heads of the Lapps.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28
Self-Approval.

"You want more cast-off clothesw
exclaimed the woman of the house.
"If We got 'em to spare, lady," an
swered Meandering Mike.
"But the clothes l gave you last
week-you are not wearing them.
Have you pawned them:"
Lady, whatever else my faults may
be, it can't he said am one O. dem
people dat puts every cent on me
back"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

"When I get new job l want a
boss who can take Il joke
WAS your recent employer too SER
ious?"
well, he sneaked in on me WHICH, /
was giving the boys humorous lnf'
tation of his strut;-and then-to make
n long story short-I got tired."-Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

The idea of establishing a course in
the study of the Chinese language as
a university feature is not a bad one.
1t will enable us to see what the Mon
golians are calling US on our laundry
tickets.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

A Michigan banker has run away,
leaving surplus for the depositors.
The other missing bankers have prob
ably decided unanimously that the
poor man is crazy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

Some people bring in funny things
in their baggage" said the inspector
on the dock at New York, meditative'
Iy. land it surprises us at time. There
Andrew Carnegie, for instance. The
last time he arrived at New YORK
among other things he declared was
400 pounds of oats from Scotland
what do you suppose he carries oats
about with him forT
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

"Father, do all angels have wings?"
mo, my son; your mother has none"
And then she coughed-dropped
cup and saucer, and said sweetly that
he might go to the club, if he wouldn't
stay too late.-Atlanta Constitution.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28
They Saw.

Jibbs-"When a man assaults me
say nothing, but saw wood"
Jabbs-"Well, fellow assaulted ms
the other day, and said nothing, but
saw stars."-SGn Francisco Bulletin.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

We all profess to want everybody
to be frank with us, but when some
body threatens TO tell us just what
they think of us, we know instructive
ly that it is something not at all COM
plimentary.-Boston Transcript
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28
He Must Try Something Else.

at seems to me that English doctor
who wants to increase the NUMBER OIL
children by having dowries set apart
for poor girls when they become brides
is very short-sighted.'
''Why SO?
"It's only the poor that have lots OF
babies."-Chicago Record Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28
The Only CONrye.

"Why don't you challenge him %
prove the truth of his scandalous as
sertions?" said the American.
'That would be too easy task for
him." answered the European. III
have to challenge him to fight.
inrton Star
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28
Seasonable Petition.

Tess-"That beggar woman's fraud.
What did she ask you for!"
Jess-"She said she wanted a few
pennies to get chocolate ice cream
soda and some lobster salad."-Phil-
adelphia Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

Customer-"Say, waiter, why do you
allow such an unpleasant ill-bred crea'
ture rs that to dine in this cafe?"
. -"Why-er-that's the propri-
."-Chicago News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

A tour of the agricultural districts
of England and Wales reveals the fact
that scores of farms are absolutely
abandoned, and that hundreds more
are in a semi-derelict condition.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

Enormous quantitie of agricultural
implements are going to Sosth Amer.
lea, where farming ic expanding rap
idly
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28
If Riches We're Universal.

Some people don't seem to realize
that IL we were all rich we shouldn't
have the fun Of planning what we
would do when our ship came in.
New York Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

Larry-"His lasht requist wor thot
livery wan shud look plisant at his
funeral. Cheer up"
Denny-"How kin Oh? He owed me
tin dolers."- ."-Chicago News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

He--"You are truly the first girl
ever loved"
She-'That isn't the point. Are you
sure I will be the last? = chicago
News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

"Smiggins has taken to riding horse
back for his dyspepsia"
"Any results!"
'None except the horse looks as II
1t had it ow."-Indianapolis News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

Blobbs-"He says he would rather
fight than eat"
Slobbs-"Pugnacious, eh|'
Blobbs-"No; dyspeptic. ."-Philadel-
phia Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

"I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in mel!
So sighed the immortal poet,
Standing beside the sea,
Ah, few Of us have such trouble
And few of us sigh such slghs;
Our tongues are ready to utter.
But we have no thought to arise.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

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IS Second-Cla Matter,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

The Government of India has just
completed a concrete dam on the PERI
var River to conserve its waters for
the irrigation of 100000 acres Of land.
1t is 176 feet in height, 1882 feet in
thickness at the base, twelve feet thick
on top and 1900 feet In length. 1t is
forty-six feet higher than the Assouan
dam across the Nile. 1t has cost the
Indian Government $2,009,6O0.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-28

"Hey, there! Old man, wake up and
unwind. Life.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-05-16
ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS.
Name Candidates for State Offices in
Convention Mt Springfield and
Adopt n Platform.

Springfield, ILL.,, May o.-Albert j..
Hopkins, of Aurora, was indorsed as
candidate for the United States senate
to succeed Senator Mason, and the
following ticket was nominated by the
republican state convention here yes
terday:
State treasurer. Fred A. Busse. of Chi
cago; clerk of the supreme court, Chris
Manner, of Chicago; state superintendent
of public instruction, Alfred Baylis. of
Streator; trustees of the state univer-
sity, Mrs. Laura Evans, of Christian
county; William B. Mckinley, of Cham
paign county; L. E. kerrick, of Mclean
county.
The platform adopted reaffirms the
Philadelphia platform of 1900 and
pledges loyal support to it's principles;
expresses deep regret at the assassin
alton of President Mckinley and death
of eX-Gov. Tanner: indorses the admin
istrations of President Roosevelt and
Gov. Yates; favors liberal pensions
for disabled survivors of the civil and
Spanish-American wars; condemns all
conspiracies and combinations to re-
strict business to create monopolies, to
limit production or to control prices,
and fayors reciprocal trade with Cuba.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-05-16
CUBAN CONGRESS MEETS.
Assemblies in the Palace In Havana,
Listens to Gov. Gen. Wood and
Selects Presiding Officers.

Havana, May 6.-The Cuban senate
and house of representatives assem-
bled at noon Monday in the palace.
Gov. Gen. Wood made an address
wishing the legislators success in the
work they We're about to enter upon.
He informed them no legislative pow
er would be vested in congress until
after the formal transfer of the gov
eminent. Their work now was to
pass upon credentials and to inform
the military government. officially,
who have been selected president and
vice president, senators and members
of the house of Representatives.
The position of president pro tenn.
of both the senate and the house was
unanimously accorded to the oldest
member of each body. Salvador Cis-
neros was elected president of the
senate, while Pedro Albarran was
elected president of the house of rep
rcSentatiyeS
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-05-16
CUBAN POSTS FILLED.
President Roosevelt Selects n Minis
ter to the Island and II Consul
General to Havana.

Washington, May GIL. G. squiers,
secretary of the legation at Picking, has
been selected by the president to be
minister to Cuba and Gen. F.. S. Bragg,
of Wisconsin, has been selected as con
sui general at Havana. Mr.. Squiers'
selection fulfills the very first require
ment laid down by the president, name
ly, that the minister to Havana should
be man of diplomatic experience. lie
is a native of Canada. but was APP
pointed from New York.
Gen. Bragg, the new consul general
at Havana, was born at Unadilla, N. Y,
in 1927. He entered the union army
as n captain in 1861 and reached the
grade of brigadier general in the reg
ular establishment. He served for
some years in congress and afterwards
was appointed United States minister
to Mexico. His present home is at
Fond du Lac, Wis. The salary of the
consul general is So 5000.