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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04

The following summary is interest
ing, especially as it shows that lynch
ings are diminishing in number of re-
cent years. In 1892 there We're 235
lynchings in the United States and in
1898 there We're more than 200. In
1898, 127; in 1890, 1O7; in 1900, 115;
in 1901, 13J; of the latter number
there We're 10 in Alabama, II in Geor-
gia, 10 in Louisiana, 16 in Mississippi,
II in Tennessee, II in Texas. The
Southern States counted 121 in ALL the
Northern but II. Negroes were the
victims in 107 cases, whites in 26. One
victim was Chinese, one Indian. The
violent deaths Excluding lynchings,
suicides and executions) were S275 in
1900 and 1852 in 1901. The principal
causes We're: Quarrels, 1915; unknown,
1891; alcoholism, 500; jealousy, 2S4;
assassination, 1913; lunacy, ia; infant.
eide, 149; resistance to armed force
1874; strikes, 20; mobs, &c.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04
Fate is against Russia, at least il

Fate is against Russia, at least in
the matter of securing and holding a
deepwater port. The harbor of Kras
novodsk had been improved and made
the starting point for the Central
Asiatic Railway, and just at the time
when everything looked the brightest,
along came the earthquake, which de-
stroyed thousands of lives at Shamaka
and elevated the bottoms of the Black
Sea and the Caspian almost to a level
Of the surface, thus barring all en-
trance of heavy vessels.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04
Legend of Westminster Abbey.

To Sebert, who ruled the East Sax.
ons in the seventh century as their
first Christian King, is attributed the
foundation of the Westminster, SO
called to distinguish it from the east.
ern cathedral, st. Paul's. According
to an eleventh century legend, the
church had been prepared in GIG for
conservation, by Mellitus, Bishop OF
London; but a storm broke out on the
eve of the day appointed, so that the
River Thames rose and flooded the
sandy site called Thorney Island. Ed
ric, the fisher, casting his nets, was
hailed from the Lambeth side by a
stranger, who offered n rich reward to
be rowed over the ferry to Thorney.
Then lights Streamed from the Abbey
windows, heavenly voices were heard,
angels were seen ascending and de.
scending. To the astonished fisherman
the stranger, returning, then revealed
himself as st. Peter, keeper of the
keys, who had come down to dedicate
the church which was to be specially
his own; in witness whereof the fisher.
man took miraculous haul of salmon.
The Bishop, who came next day With
the King, found his work done; but
the fisherman's gift of a 1.-THE of the
salmon he took became a precedent.
and was followed by other fishers.
even after the confessor's church had
superseded the earlier building.-Lon.
don Illustrated News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04

Charles f. Thwing, President of The
Western Reserve University, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, has been investigating the
amount of the salary received by grad
yates of the regular colleges and the
scientific schools. His investigations
have been concerned with the years
Immediately following graduation.
President Thwing finds that the sal
aries received by the graduates of the
regular colleges are scarcely lower
than those received by graduates of
the scientific schools in the years i'm
mediateiy after graduation. ''In fact"
says Dr.. Thwing, "the graduates of
regular colleges frequently receive
larger salaries than the graduates of
scientific schools. After a few years,
however, the increase in favor of the
regular college is marked" DR.. Thwing
concludes that the value of a liberal
training rather than a narrow train
ing shows itself more clearly as the
years go on.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04

According to statistics collected by
the Municipal Journal, Chicago, with a
death rate of only 1873 thousand, is
the healthiest city of its approximate
size in the world. Milwaukee's rate is
lower still. 1t is only 1901, but the
city is only one-siXth the size of the
Windy City. New Yorks death rate
last year was 17.2, Boston's 20.3, and
Philadelphia's 1874. Pulmonary tuber-
culosis is one Of the most dangerous
foes that the health authorities have
to fight. In Milwaukee it is the most
frequent cause of death. In Chicago
pneumonia causes twice as many
deaths as any other disease.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04

noon, If the stage is on time. l under
Bluff, but shall enjoy the experience.
1t is agreeable to me that we should
be married as soon as I arrive"
The editor smiled from ear to ear.
He walked to the rear Of his shack
and looked at a room he had been pre-
pairing for months for this very COM
ing of his girl. The only carpet in the
town was on the floor of this room !;
her picture was over the dresser;
white curtains hid the windows; little
knick-knacks had been placed just
about as the average man would locate
them.
WELL" said the editor, 'I may be
dead Monday, but she's coming and
this is her room"
He was most quiet the rest of the
day and the day following. He told no
one of the contents of the two letters
he had received. Only he satisfied
himself that If the Sand Bluff stage
was ON time that it would reach his
town Monday at 1870.
mo reason, either" said the post
master, why it shouldn't be on time"
Sunday without attracting anyone's
particular attention, the editor barri-
caded his windows and two doors. He
constructed something like breastworks
back of them. He made also several
ingenious peepholes. He knew the
In or = ln
rage he had felt over the whisky ex-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04
ONLY ONE WAY IS RIGHT.

my boy said Uncle Hiram while giving advice,
"Ihe that doesn't wobbe is cuts the
The that close applies ITSELF within
Will late fulfill its work by keeping IN move.
When half through, besetit
10 leave the seemeb hard a
But shifting will learn length when failure
There's O don things, but only ways right
And bear mind boy through life if tempted shirk
Success is but second the aftermath OF work
A ubricator tried and OIL
And fortunes smile is rarely except by honest toll,
A safe wealth
The upon the heights tday those whove around
The longest inspired by the sayin' somewhat
There's o doin things, but only ways right"
knew my Uncle Hiram had achievements summit reached
knew him honest who pactced what preached
And SO paid the lesson heed, and attention gave,
When, added afterhought, he said my
Act well part naciousy straight adhere;
Though declare a rutwork and
Youth realize when length
There's many doin things but only ways right"
Roy Farrell Green in
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04
The Plum. .

The original parent of most of our
and the southern parts of Europe, but
1t has become naturaliZed in this
country and in many parts OF it is
produced in the greatest abundance.
The finer kinds of plums are beauti-
full dessert fruits Of rich and luscious
flavor. They are not perhaps so en-
tirely wholesome as the peach and the
pear, owing to their somewhat cloying
and fiatulent nature. Unless very per-
fectly ripe they are likely to disagree
with weak stomRchs.
For the kitchen the plum is also
very highly esteemed, being priced
for tarts, pies, sweetmeats, etc.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04

and cleanly comments on the news of
the day. He set no moral standard
for the community in which he lived;
he indulged in no lengthy dissertations
as to what the people should or should
not do. He conducted his paper for
the news, and if through his retiring
disposition he did not make warm
friends he nevertheless held the re-
spect of everybody. That he would
fight, resent an attack, make trouble
If trod upon, no one ever dreamed
He was too quiet.
One day in his search for news he
CHANGED to learn that the Washing
ton Merchandise Company was quietly
selling liquor to the Indians. The
knowledge aggravated him. The COM
pany was the one big trading concern
of the region. 1t had main store and
twenty or thirty branches scattered
over 300 miles of country. 1t was
owned by Eastern spectators and
managed by local agents. The men,
bers of the corporation had wealth
and intelligence. That they should
permit whisky to be sold to the abo-
rignes seemed extraordinarily out
rageous to the editor.
He thought it over, and then wrote
n letter to the President OF the com
pany briefly reciting what he knew,
and suggesting mat a stop be put to
the sale; that it might precipitate an
Indian outbreak, and, anyway, 1t was
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04

Seldom does it happen that the lines
of tramp fall in such pleasant places
as those of a wandering beggar who
told a farmers wife in an Eastern
State the other day that he wanted
something to eat right away" The
woman let him into the house, and
got him down cellar by a trap-door,
by telling him that food was down
there. Then she slammed the door and
fastened it, and told him that if he
tried to break out she would shoot
him. She sat down then, and waited
for assistance to come. Two neigh
bors arrived in about half an hour;
they let out the tramp, looking the
picture of content. He had helped
himself to all he wanted to eat, and
was amiable, as a man usually is after
q good meal. When the woman wanted
to have him arrested, her neighbors
told her that as he had her permission
TO 20 down cellar and eat, there was
no charge on which a justice would
hold him. The tramp pursued his jour-
ney, willing again to be made pris-
oner in the same way.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04
Old Mexican Mines,

Spanish annals declare that between
1900 and 100 the Tapaya mines IN
Mexico produced $S0,0o0o0o, and that
after that the Indian slaves employed
in them murdered the Spanish owners
and the mines were lost. On old Span
ish maps they appear in Northwestern
Mexico, about fifty leagues from the
sea, and near the town of Dos Pilates.
They have now been rediscoyered neaI
CiaLteguita.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04
General Hampton's East Wish.

General Wade Hampton expressed
the wish that his people be allowed to
look on his face, and that he be buried
in plain pine coffin. The feeling OF
friendship for the negro, deep in the
heart of the old Shareholder, was strik.
ingly illustrated in the dying words of
the great Carolinian: God bless my
people, all-whi.e and black. ."-Sayan.
nah (Ga.) News,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04
ELIZABETH'S HEART.

Oh! I envy the burglar determined and
bold
Who goes prowling about with chisel
that's cold,
With lantern that's dark and 'tiim-
my" that's strong
Tor fancy he does, though I'm possibly
wrong).
And I'd gladly resort, with no pang of re-
morse,
For I'm speaking in mataphor only, Of
course, IN
To the wiles of his wicked, burglarious
art
In default of the key to Elizabeth's
heart.
Arthur Crawford in Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04
ETWn WnNES=@
"

What do you mean by saying she
just celebrated her wooden weddings?
"She married a block ead."-Philadel-
phia Press.
Alice-"Is your uncle's case hope
less:' Alfred-"I'm afraid it is; he's
begun adding codicils to his will
Brooklyn Life.
Doesn't the sopranos voice sound
metallic to you?" Yes; but then, you
know, there's money in it:"-Phila-
delphia Bulletin.
Visitor (at restauranD-"This bill OF
fare is in French" Waiter-"Ies, sab;
but the prices is in English, sab. Mos
folks goes by dem. m."-Chicago Tribune.
"Another good man gone wrong"
Folks say, but, no doubt,
IT'S only one more bad man
Folks have just found out.
Chicago News.
do you think that beautiful women
are apt to be spoiled:" she murmured,
with upturned eyes. Your beauty
will never spoil you, darling" he
answered softly.-Tit-Bits
But, my dear; don't you know that
opals are awfuily unlucNy" well,
Jack priced lot OF different stones
and he says they're only about fifth
as unlucky as diamonds. Brooklyn
Life.
Fussy Old Party Ito party of spcrts)
-"Eere! Stop your noice. | can't
read" Sporty Gent-"Who said YOU
could? But why cont you SO to
school ard learn how:"-CAiclgo
News.
The boy stood on the burning dcel,
He did not dare TO -,
Until the vitascope should take
The picture tor the snow
Kansas City Star.
Lieutenant Lovett (sent,mentally)-
"Ive come to say 'good-by.' I've been
ordered to the Philippines" Miss
Giddy-"How jolly! Ir'll be so inter
esting now to read the lists OF the
killed and wounded" hiladelphia
Press.
Aunt Mary seems almost like
mother to me-" said little Eobbie,
soberly. Does she:" replied Boobies
mother, very much pleased. Yes,
she licks me every tine l 50 to her
house." concluded BoJbie.-Colu-nbus
Journal.
Mrs. Newliwcd-"I Cont see why
you want to raise the price Of ice.
There was a plentiful crop this win
ter" Icemnn-"Yes'm the crop was
plentiful enough, but the ice wasn't
quite as cold as it oughJer be, and it
melts faster. r."-philadelphia Press.
You have wounded me-" he sadly
said as he arose from his knees,
wounded me so deeply that l shall
never" Wait" she said, picking
a book off the library table, "let me
see what First Aid to the Injured
says TO do in such Il case as yCurs."-
Chicago Tribune.
I've got the greatest idea you ever
heard OF for strenuous play" de-
clares the young author. What are
you going to dramatize-the cook
book?" we ask, with fine sarcasm.
Dramatic nothing." he retorts. This
is to be purely and entirely and
amazingly original. The heroine is to
be mother-in-law and the hero a
baseball umpire.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04

The Gloucester Mass, fishermen re-
gard Kipling as hoodoo, as every one
of the twenty fishing boats belonging
to their fleet named by him in "Cap-
tains Courageous" have gone down at
sea, the last two of the Inflated boats
foundering in the recent big storm off
the Massachusetts, coast.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04

The Lion Bridge near Sangang. in
China, is the longest in the world, be-
ing five and one-quarter miles from
end to end. The roadway is seventy
feet abvoe water.
The deepest Atlantic soundings ever
made We're about ninety miles north
of the Island of St. Thomas, in 1915
fathomS. The pressure was so great
at this immense depth, that the bulbs
of the thermometer, made to stand a
pressure of three tons, broke.
There are one thousand halls and
corridors in the Vatican, and eleven
thousand rooms, counting everything,
the quarters for the Swiss guards, the
stables for the horses, the storehouses
for gardeners tools, the mosaic fac.
tory and other workshops, and it is
said that an average of 2200 people
are employed under the roof, most of
them being lodged there. This in.
cludes the Swiss guard.
A statistcan has been working pen
Gil and Imagination, with this result:
If all the petroleum produced last
year in the United States was put in
standard barrels in row touching
each other the line would completely
belt the earth. Enough coal was pro-
duced to give three and one-half tons
to every one of the 76000,000 persons
in the United States and enough gold
TO give every American gold dollar.
A duck belonging to a resident of
Skinningrove, England, has just pro-
duced an egg weighing exactly half a
pound Its circumference measured
lengthwise was ten and one-half
inches, and round the width eight
inches. Apart from its unusual weight
and measurement it proved, when
broken, to be an egg within an egg
The outer shell contained all the usual
substance, and imbedded therein was
another egg, perfect and complete, in
firm, thick shell.
A very curious result of recent op-
erations by the Trigonometrical Sur
vey in India is the conclusion, stated
by Major Burrard, that there is, in the
middle of India, an underground or
buried mountain range, a thousand
miles in length, and lying about paral.
lei with the chain of the Himalayas.
This conclusion is based on the sin.
gularities of the local attraction of
gravitation in central India, the plumb
line being DETECTED southwark on
the north side of the supposed sub.
terranean chain and northward on the
south side, leading to the inference
that a great elongated mass of rock
of excessive density underlies the sur.
face of the earth between the two sets
Of observing stations.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04

The adoption in Mexico of American
styles in clothing has been very marked
in recent years. WelI-to-do Mexicans
are discarding the old "charro' Euits.
high sombreros, and pointed shoes for
American style clothing, hats and
shoes
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04

a violation of a national law which
the corporation ought not to permit.
He received in reply curt letter re-
Questing him in so many words to
mind his own affairs. The next issue
of his paper bristled with an exposure
of what the merchandise company was
doing. He investigated so thoroughly
that the Government finally acted, and
in the end the company ceased the
sale Of whisky altogether. 1t was a
signal victory for the Tomahawk.
But the same day that the company
surrendered it's manager at Sand Bluff
wrote to the editor of the Tomahawk:
II shall reach your town Monday.
If you are still in the country 1 shall
kill you"
The editor opened the letter, read 1t
most carefully laid it down and said
half to himself and half to the press
beside him:
"It's two days from Monday"
Then he picked up another letter, for
got the first, and eagerly read:
you wish me to come West and take
up life with you. l agree with you that
we have waited long enough. I am
tired working for others, but am ready
to work for and with you. By the
time this reaches you l shall be on
the way. l will reach you Monday
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04

On the Alaskan railway now pro-
jected the Chilkoot Pass will probably
be the only one recognized by the
conductors.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04

HE title OF his
paper was
ferocious, but
Il OF he. Of
all the editors
that push d
west of the
Red River in
the "boom'
days, he was
the mildes S t
and most Sc
d a tie in ap-
pearance. He
S O IN e [ ines
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04

The Lion Bridge near Sangang. in
China, is the longest in the world, be-
ing five and one-quarter miles from
end to end. The roadway is seventy
feet abvoe water.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-04

The deepest Atlantic soundings ever
made We're about ninety miles north
of the Island of st. Thomas, in 1915
fathoms. The pressure was so great
at this immense depth, that the bulbs
of the thermometer, made to stand
pressure Of three tons, broke.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-30
SLIPPERY SIDEWALKS.
Some of the Curious Effects They FRO
duce Upon Unwary Pc
destrians.

Slippery sidewalks that have been
the rule for the past few mornings
have tended to bring out emphatically
one of the peculiar sides of human ma
ture. No matter how much the fall
Injuries man physically, it seems as
nothing TO the damage to his self-es-
TEEN if perchance his misfortune hap
pens to be witnessed by some one else.
The first thing the unfortunate does
after picking himself up is to look all
about him with an idiotic smile on his
face Just as if he took the whole thing
as a joke, but anxious to see if anyone
has seen his tumble.
If there happens to be some one
near by who has witnessed the fall
the smile vanishes and there is a dis
play of temper that is ludicrous. 1t is
his hat that suffers. It is pOunled in
stead of brushed, as if that hat was
responsible for the humiliation, or as
If he could get square with the hat by
a "rough-house" sort of brushing. If,
however, no one is in sight and no face
is seen at a window, the unfortunate
goes his way after few preliminary
limps as If the thing was matter Of
course incident that must be taken
good-naturedly in common with the
other trifing affairs of lifetime. The
result is about the same when soft,
slushy SNOWFALL, hurled by mischiev-
Gus boy, finds it's mark on the broad
back of an otherwise dignifed person.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-30
CANAL BOATS FOR MANILA.
Barges Shipped from the Erie Canal
to BE Used ON the Pasig
River.

The easy-going native bargemen CT
Manila bay will experience something
like surprise when few months hence
they see towed into their harbor 10
Erie canal boats, sent by the Philip
pine Transportation company, reports
the New York Tribune. For several
years these barges have been in use
on the Erie canal. Now they have
been towed over to the Morgan iron
works at Ninth street and the East
river, where they are being carefully
pulled apart preparatory to shipping
them to the orient. Piece by piece the
decks are being pulled up on the pier
ready to be slowed away into the holds
of huge steamers, there to remain un-
til once more put together In Hong
Kong. From there they will be towed
across the China sea, down the Luzon
coast and into Manila harbor.
Large steamers cannot approach
within two miles of the shore In Manila
bay. For this reason it has always
been necessary to send out cascos, or
lighters, IN winch the cdlSoes ak
transported up the Pasig river to the
city. These cascoes are small and
clumsy, and are owned by individual
natives, who will not work until their
supply of cash runs short. The iron
canal boats are capable OF holding five
or six times more cargo than any cas-
co, and the 10 together could put all
the cascos of Manila harbor into their
holds.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-30
WAYS OF CATCHING RATS.
LurinE Them by Scents and Entrnp-
ping Them by n Barrel
ContriVance.

Rats are very susceptible to the
odor Of certain drugs, and any ordi-
nary trap set in their haunts Is
likely to succeed If dressed with these
scents, the attractions of which, rat
catchers affirm they cannot resist.
An example is: Powdered asafoetida,
eight grains; oil of rhoduim, two
drains; oil of aniseed, one dram; oil OF
lavender, one-half dram. Shake to-
gether in a bottle and use very small
quantity to dress the bait, says the
Baltimore American.
To catch rats cover a common bar
rel with stiff, stout paper, tying the
edge round the barrel. Place board
so that the rats may have easy access
to the top. Sprinkle cheese parings
or other food for the rats on the paper
for several days, until they begin to
think they have right to their daily
rations from this source. Then place
In the bottom of the barrel piece OF
rock about six or seven inches high,
filing with water until only enough
of it projects above water for the rat
to lodge upon. Now replace the paper,
first cutting a cross in the middle,
and the first rat that comes on the bar
rel top goes through into the water
and climbs on the rock. The paper
comes back into it's original position,
and the second rat follows the first
Then begins a fight for'the possession
of the dry place on the stone, the noise
of which attracts the others, who
share the same fate.