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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-11
Monument TO John Leisenrinq.
From the Mauch Chunk News.

From the Mauch Chunk News.
Twelve horses, four abreast, pulling a
truck on which was an eight-ton piece
of granite, intended for the base of IA
monument to the memory of the late
John Leisenring, attracted no small
amount of attention on our streets Sat
urday morning. Considera BILE difficulty
was experienced going up the road in
rear of the opera house. Two other
pieces, weighing fifteen and thirty-fve
tons each, are in the Central yards,
waiting to be taken to the Upper Mauch
Chunk cemetery, where the monument
is TO be erected.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-11
To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quiuine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money ii it fails
to cure. e. W. Groves signature is on
each box. 25c.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-11

Screen windows and screen doors are
selling az lowesb prices at Birkbeck's.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-11
A School Of Fashion.

Our store is suitable school of
fashion in boys clothing. The
standards are Blouse and Sailor
Norfolk Suits at 81. SO, So. SO and
$40 90.
The newest in Hats, Caps,
Shoes, furnishings, Dry Goods,
Dress Goods, Notions, Etc.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-11
Beautiful Spring.

You can rest assured that it is
here now-shrewd buyers are
making their selections from our
line of smart and snappy Suits.
1t is nice to have the first choice
and to wear the new things first
Mems stylish Suits, S. to SI3.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-11

Additional locals On the fourth page.
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THE NURSES OF THE ARMY.
Women Now Regularly Employed
with Marked Success.
American Medicine


A brief account by DR.. MCGEE of the
nurse corps of the army as it exists now
has recently been published in the journal
of the Association of Military Surgeons of
the United States. A previous article de-
scribed the conditions attending the ap-
army duty, which began in May 1898, and
eliminated in September, when about 200
were employed. Between then and the
United States, Cuba, Porto Rico Hawaii,
Japan, the Philippines and even in the
Chinese campaign. The number is now
fixed at one hundred on active duty. with
a small body Of reserves" who have seen
future calls. Trained nurses are perma-
nently stationed at the army hospital at
San Francisco, at the one for tuberculosis
at Fort Bayard. n. NJ, and at the largest
temporarily sent to any post where they
may be needed. They serve under a sec
ton of the army reorganization law
framed In 1900, which provided that the
fled medical officers, of the enlisted men
of the hospital corps and of 1.-The nurse
corpse female.C A superintendent is sta
toned in the surgeon generals office and a
chief nurse is at each of the hospitals
where nurses are serving. Recent regula-
tons provide for an examination in nurs-
ing. cooking and allied subjects before pro-
motion from the grade of nurse to that of
chief nurse Women are employed with
marked success as teachers of nursing and
cooking in the two schools maintained TO
give brief preliminary instruction to the
hospital corps recruits. DR.. MCGEE urges
that in future the nurse corps be more
largely utilized in giving systematic ward
training to fit the hospital corps men for
their duties in the smaller hospitals where
they have no trained supervision. She also
recommends the gradual formation of a
large corps of reserves who have received
some postgraduate military training
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FORESTRY PROFITABLE.
At Least the University of the South
Has Found 1t So.
Boston Ideas,


The direct and immediate advantages Of
practice of forestry have seldom been so
forcibly shown as in the case of the Univer-
sity Of the South at Sewanee, Tenn, whose
timberlands have been managed since 1900
Under the direction OF the Bureau Of For
eStry.
Although $1,000 for all of it's timber was
considered a fair offer by the university in
1899. the bureau, by its plan of manage
ment, has already secured a net profit for
the university of 1920 Four more years of
years, at least, there is an assured annual
profit Of 8, 500. In word, timber formerly
valued at s., 600 will have been made to yield
a profit of over $1,000.
Sewanee is on the top OF a spur of the
Cumberland plateau and Is a noted summer
resort. Every summer, when the univer-
sity opens, hundreds of persons from all
over the South take cottages in the town tc
enjoy for the season the fine climate and
the beauties of the woodland scenery. The
work of the Bureau of Forestry is thus
brought to the attention of large number
of people, many of them owners of South
ern timberlands, who see for thmselveS the
great practical advantages of forestry and
careful numbering in the surprisingly large
profits and improved appearance of the
forest.
A detailed account of how the results in
| the Sewanee forest have been achieved has
| just been published by the Bureau of For
estry in Bulletin 49, entitled Conservative
laundering at Sewanee," by John Foley
| The bulletin does not furnish such specific
| instructions for the management of timber.
| lands like those at Sewanee that they car
| be applied to them without expert assist
ance. 1t illustrates, however, what may be
| done with such timberiands, and especially
| does it emphasize that numbering and for.
| estry may be practiced in the South, a:
elsewhere, with profit.
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QUEER PARIS SUICIDES.
One That Drove a Burglar Craxy-Case
of a Man Who Was Afraid.

Detroit Tribune.
The Mi-Careme season is responsible for
the following stories which reach us from
Paris, France. They both come from the
may be printed without further excuse
An ex-postmaster living at Nogent had
made all preparations to hang himself in
his dining room. He had the rope already
around his neck, when two burglars en-
Without any hesitation he drew a re-
volver and fired on the intruders one of
whom he hit in the breast. The other es-
capped.
''Now," said the would-be suicide. ad-
before putting you out of your misery or
not? What is II to be?'
The burglar begged for his life where
upon the postmaster jumped off the chair
and hanged himself.
The frantic cries of the burglar attracted
the attention of a policeman, who, on see
ing what had happened, lost his head and
ran to the police station. Help arrived too
late to save the postmaster.
The incident has driven the burglar mad.
He is also so dangerously wounded in the
chest that he is not expected to live.
The other story is that a gentleman of
independent means, named Leduc has TAX
en- his life, according to a letter found
through fear of burglars
He had laid out so 900 in notes. gold and
securities on the dining-room table and
then hanged himself. On Friday burglars
actually did break into the place. but left
the money untouched, having apparently
been scared away by the sight of the sui
eide.
The door and a window of the house
were seen to be open by neighbors, who
informed the police NJ Leduc's body had
been hanging, it is thought, for about a
which was still burning, were found in the
room.
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"FREAK" NEWSPAPER FEATURES.
Prediction that "COmic" ColOred Sup.
plements Will Cease to BE.
Saturday Evening Post.

The Sunday newspaper has been so wide
ly discussed during the past decade by vain
and empty-headed persons who hope to
see their utterances In print, that 1t Is
doubtful if even the most intelligent of
our philosophers really comprehend the i'm
portance of the part that 1t plays in mod
ern life. 1t Is not, as those orators who
hope to have their words reported declare.
the great Sunday sermon for the people, y
nor is II the vehicle Of higher thought and
the dissemination of useful and uplifting
knowledge that ii is represented to be in
the advertising columns OF the Saturday
issue. 1t is, however, an instrument or
extraordinary power In awakening taste
for reading and a thirst for knowledge in
the minds OF a class that in other coun-
tries read nothing at all and have no desire
for self-betterment. In fact, the enormous
sales of certain recent works Of fiction can
be traced directly to the influence or the
Sunday newspaper, which has created an
entirely new race of readers and book
buyers.
newspaper must lift itself from the rut Of
sensation in which It has been travelling
these many years past and accommodate
itself to the growth of the very taste which
it completely satisfied when it was as yet
in its elementary form. Let II not forget
the awful fate which has overtaken that
other institution from which IL has copied
so many Of its most striking features and
which is now almost obsolete, the dime
museum. This form of entertainment
came into existence about the time that
the Sunday newspaper began to acquire
hold on the popular American fancy, and
both began with genuine freak features. y
as they are termed. The one RECALLED its
| earlier patrons with such freaks of nature
| as an elastic-skinned man who wore his
| outer cuticle loosely like a bathrobe; a
| double human being and dwarfs Of the
| smallest conceivable dimensions. The other
| appealed for circulation on the strength OF
| such edifying contributions as What the
| Newark Hack Drivers are Doing this
| Week." with portraits of the leading hack
| men, and 1.-THE Care of Little Children, by
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RISE IN COD LIVER OIL.
Price Is More than Three Times as
High as Seven Months Ago.
Atlanta Journal.


The great Importance of cod-liver oil for
medicinal purposes and the fact that no
satisfactory substitute can be found for it
In many cases cause profound interest to
attach to the recent phenomenal rise in the
price of that article.
The drug trade, especially that branch
which deals with emulsions, has been very
decidedly affected by this movement. Cod
liver oil may be classed as a necessity,
Is felt by the general public: The price
had reached an unusually high figure two
months ago, but since that time il has
advanced fully 100 per cent.
Last week 1t was quoted as high as 500
a barrel and sales have been made at sl10
1t was selling at SIS to SIS a barrel in Jam
uary, while in September of last year ii
was quoted at from $40 to SAL per barrel.
There has never been a time when the
price has been as high as now and while
it is predicted ii must have reached the
top notch, there seems no positive assur-
ance of that fact.
No longer than three years ago cod-liver
oil could be bought for $40 a barrel. When
the upward movement in this article began
| and even after IL had continued some
months, $50 a barrel was regarded as its
| outside limit and the advance of the last
two weeks has caused great surprise.
II does not appear that this condition is
| the result or any corner or manipulation
| 1t seems to be due to natural conditions
| or supply and demand Goldfish were ex-
| tremely scarce during last season, while
| the fish that were taken proved such lear
| ivers that they produced small quantities
| Of oil.
This season the catch thus far has
! amounted TO about 100000 fish, from which
| there have been obtained only 262 hecto-
grams
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her illustrations appear. and illustrations
and advertisements are equally well exc
cuted.
ADVERTISING DESIGNS.
A young woman is at the head OF the art
department of large picking and preserv-
ing establishment. She devises the pic
lures and announcement placards sent out
by the firm and also devises the advertise
ment pictures that appear in the magazines.
Another establishment employs a woman
to ornament the labels on their jars and
bottles. A good proportion of the clever
cards shown in street cars and other public
places illustrating the virtues of soaps,
baking powders, condensed soups. etc.. are
made by women. Most Of them are made
I'm advertising agencies in one or another of
the large cities, nearly all OF which employ
women designers.
Few photographic establishments are will
ing to take girl apprentices, but many Of
them are glad to get young women who
have learned the trade outside Those who
are able to design as we'll as Autograph are
doubly useful.
A few women photographers are employed
in scientific institutes, colleges. museums
and botanical gardens to draw on stone
the structural forms Of plants and growths
that are used to illustrate research work.
They are employed In similar capacity by
publishers of textbooks.
Women have been conspicuously success
full as designers Of book covers. So good
are many of these that Ii seems a pity that
the artists names should not be signed to
them. Perhaps IL may come by and by
that Cover designed by Miss Blank will
be printed on inside leaves of novels.
At least one woman has made fame for
herself as a designer of artistic jewelry,
and one, in England, has made fortune
with her fine wrought iron work. AT the
last Architectural League exhibition were
some beautiful sun dials, door knockers,
and fountains designed by women, suggest
ing another branch of commercial art In
which they are likely to shine.
To become a designer requires first OF all
artistic temperament and an instinct fol
the beautiful. Technique can be acquired
but taste is Unborn. Given these requisites
a course Of study continuing through two
years or more under competent teachers Ii
usually necessary. Free-hand drawing Ii
an important part Of the course, for ideas
are of small worth unless they can be well
expressed. Conventionalization of flowers
are taken up IN the first year. The appli-
cation of this knowledge follows. The in.
structors are practical men and women, ir
many cases actually employed in manufac.
| tories, and the instruction is accompanied
| by visits to various places for observation
| OF the processes of manufacture.
The New York School Of Applied Design
| for Women has upwards of 300 young wom
| en- now pursuing the various courses en-
braced in its list Many of these who have
passed their first year are making part II
not all Of their expenses while studying.
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shops adjoining are in process OF demoh-
ton and at the corner restaurant mas
been vacated in view Of the housebreakers
advent.
All these operations have contributed to
what amounts to serious disturbance OF
rodent residents. From almshouses to
shops, from shops to restaurant they
crowded, and now that the latter has been
denuded of food supplies they are literally
savage with hunger. They roam In swarms
over the deserted eating house. seeking the
shadow OF visionary crumbs, licking and
gnawing the woodwork for food. They pur-
sue their vain quest in open daylight. ana
front to witness their hunt that special
police arrangements have had to be made
to guard against obstruction Of traffic.
Daily the hungry rodents are fighting for
new quarters, and in those houses and shops
whose every nook and Granny Is already
tenanted by swarms OF rats the fear is en-
tertained that unless something heroic be
done at once to check the invasion the pres
ent occupants will have to leave the prem
ises before the advance of the furred pest.
Shoredtch has witnessed its rat drama
before. Three years ago. during public
holiday the premises of Pearce & Plenty.
In Old street, were left empty and with
blinds undrawn. The parade of the rats In
the eating house drew better than a prize
fight. Men and youth struggled and tuS-
sled for view.
Scenes of this sort were witnessed for
weeks last summer at the Fleet-street end
Of Salisbury court. The gambols of rats
there drew so many sightseers that the spot
became the gathering ground of pickpock-
cts. Anthony Hopes father, who was
robbed of valuable gold watch and chain
at this corner, was one of hundred VIC
Tins who thus paid toll for their al fresco
circus.
The destruction of buildings in the Strand
has turned loose a mighty population OF
rats, and the damage they are working in
making new abiding places is incalculable.
In the buildings demolished their nests have
been found in the walls from Easements to
ceilings. The Gayety restaurant, now In
process of demolition, was particularly af-
fected, and the havoc wrought is estimated
at SO, 600.
Only a few days ago a Paisley woman
had a desperate battle for life when, swept
by a flood into culvert, she was assailed
by ferocious sewer rats. A tramp was at
tackled by rats the other day in Essex, and
not long ago a corpse was picked clean of
flesh by these omniverous rodents in a Lam
cashire workhouse.
Whether the authorities recognize the fact
or not, London is suffering seriously from
an unmistakable plague Of these vermin
1t is asserted that many rats are brought
to London by incoming foreign ships. In
two months recently $40 were killed at the
| docks.
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Jesse Pomeroy" So long as their freak
features are genuine. both institutions flour
ished, but In the course of time. thanks
to the systematic pot-hunting OF dime
museum managers and Sunday editors, all
the freaks in the country were used up ano
there were no more elastic-skinned men,
and not criminal of note who had not
written himself out in an effort to Keep
pace with the morbid public appetite
A veritable famine in freaks ensued.
and for a time the public hunger was par
tally appeased by fake freaks, such as
mermaids of domestic manufacture. con-
ventions Of ugly young women who ate
doughnuts and sawed wood, and tribes OF
Indian maidens who engaged in walking
contests. At the same time the great
Sunday sermons for the people were
preached from such texts as the Man
with the Sorest Ears In Troy. The New
Cotillon Leader Who Has Taken Society
by Storm" and ''HeiresseS to Countless
Millions Who Wear False Teeth. From the
moment of the introduction OF these fakes
the decline of the dime museum began ana
continued until but one of those once popu-
lar places of amusement remained in New
York. which had formerly supported fully
dozen. The Sunday newspaper, however,
has continued to thrive, but it's future is
already matter of grave doubt to many
Of those whose dollars are invested In Park
Row; At the present day the snxie ETY.
by the fact that there is no better paid po-
sition In newspaper office than that OF
hands more frequently, or leaves its in
cumbent in such pitiful nervous and mental
collapse. AS for the Sunday newspaper
itself, its every issue is consumed as
thoughtfully and criticised as freely as the
salad in German boarding house, which
is made by each of the boarders in turn.
The consensus of expert opinion points
| to Sunday newspaper of the immediate
| future. which shall be less ''frealky'' in
character and of higher literary and ar
tistic merit There are even optimists who
believe that the time is at hand when a
comic supplement, with its WORKOUT jokes,
| bad drawings, and glaring colors, will cease
| to charm. This Is too much to be hoped
| for, but the chances are that a reformed and
| greatly improved Sunday newspaper is one
| Of the agreeable possibilities of the not too
distant future.
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Here's a Queer Suit.
Kansas City Journal.

Margaret Blakemore filed suit in the Cir
cult Court yesterday against the German
Hospital Association for 5000 for the death
of her husband, Thomas +. Blakemore She
alleges that her husband died at the Ger
man Hospital on April 49, 1902, through the
fault and negligence of the physicians al
the hospital by their failure to perform an
operation. She says that her husband was
sick at the hospital. The physicians thought
IL necessary to perform operation or
him and consulted her about ii and wanted
TO put him under the influence of an opiate
She objected and they refused to perform
the operation and her husband died She
says that the operation should have beer
performed in spite of her objections.
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A PLAGUE OF RATS.
Destruction of London Buildings
Turns the Pests Loose.

London Letter in Philadelphia Press.
What looks remarkably like an invasion
OF London by rats is indicated by a fresh
outbreak OF the pests I'm Shoreditch. For
many years rats have lived and multiplied
there. nurtured by the best OF food in the
snuggest OF homes. But an active cam
paign is now being waged against them.
Supplies have been cut on and the homes
broken up, with the result that the rats
are In open rebellion.
The head and center OF oficial Shoreditch
IL the Town Hall. and the camp OF the
room for the new police court a series OF
buildings has been marked dewn for do
struction. The almshouses have gone, -four
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PATTERN COUPON
For patterns OF the two garments illus-
stamps)
Cut out illustration and inclose II In letter.
Write your name and address distinctly and
state number and size wanted. Address
Pattern Dept. The Journal.
Indianapolis. Ind.
Allow one week for return OF pattern
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The Prodigal's Return.

Well, Well! How is you, Mistah SUM-
/ thought dat you loafir' cause you sposed
yoh work Gone
We was feelin' mighty lonesome. cause we all
had understood
Dat you'd clean got tired o. business an had
gone away fob good.
We s'picioned. when we looked upon dat dark
an gloomy sky,
Dat you done put up de shutters an had bid de
world goodbye
We don't know whah you's been to, nor what
you's gone an done,
But tells you What it is. yous mighty welcome.
Mistah Sun.
-washington Star
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year.
Golfito harbor. on the Pacific side of the
1stnmus OF Panama. has been sought by
Uncle Sam since before the civil war. This
harbor and Chiriqui lagoon. on the opposite
side OF the isthmus. have both the subject
OF long diplomatic correspondence but the
titles to these points have been hanging In
the balance pending a boundary dispute be-
tween Colombia and Costa Rico. In view
or new phases or the interoceanic canal
problem We need these points more than
ever as military and naval bases. They lie.
respectively. west and east OF the boun-
dairy between Colombia and Costa Rico.
Just after the civil war Congress made a
preliminary appropriation OF 10000 for the
colonization OF Chiriqui with our freed
slaves.
Golfto harbor. on the Pacific side Is a
great salt lake, whose waters are never
troubled. 1t Is six miles long by a mile and
a half wide. Chiriqui lagoon. on the At
lantic. side. is also an excellent harbor, and
Is situated midway between AspinwaIl and
Greytcwn-
Also on the Galapagos islands. the home
Of the giant sea turtles. Uncle Sam has
had his covetous eye for some time. This
group lies In the Pacific OF Ecuador and
belongs 20 that republic. II would AFFORD
an excellent base for the defense of the
fsthmian canal from the Pacific side.
coaiing depot on Socotra island. In the
Indian ocean. just south OF Arabia. and in
the Grlf OF Aden-the southern vestibule
20 tho Red sea and Suex canal-is said 70
have been given TO Us by John Bull. whose
sovereignty extends over this little dot OF
LAM. the home OF Arabs and Bedouins.
In the Azores We have also been seeking
q site for similar depot. These isles m
the Atlantic. about a third the distance
from Spain 90 America. would be 10 us
what her Bermuda depot is te Great
Britain
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS. JR-