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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20

Major Pratt, the United States Army
officer who is in charge of the Carlisle
Indian School admits that many of
his graduates who return to tribal
fife fall into Indian ways again. There
fore he is doing all he can to prevent
the educated Indians from going back
to the reservations.
He tells of an incident he saw ut a
Western Indian agency. 4 squaw en-
tered traders store, wrapped in a
blanket. pointed at straw hat, and
asked: "How muchee?'
Fifty cents" said the merchant.
"How muchee?" she asked again,
pointing at another article. The price
was quoted, and was followed by an
other query of How muchee"
Then she suddenly gazed blandly at
the merchant and asked, mildly:
DO you not regard such prices as
extortionate for articles of such pal
pabIy and Enthusiastically inferior quail
ity? Do you not really believe that
a reduction in your charges would
materially enhance your pecuniary
profits, as well as be ethically proper?
I beg you to consider my suggestion -
She was Il graduate Of the Carlisle
Indian hool.-New York Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20

"At the corner of Ninety-second
street and Fifth avenue. New York
City," says Arboriculture, ''Mr. Car
negie is building n palatial mansion,
and has brought from the farms, many
miles away, some score or more OF
fullygrown forest trees. A few are
cottonwood, which are alive. Some
are elm, twelve inches diameter. which
may possibly survive. The others are
sugar maple, from twelve to sixteen
inches diameter and sixty feet high.
All the branches have been retained.
The holes du" to receive the roots We're
seven. feet diameter: main feeding
roots, Of course, We're sacrificed. the
remaining stumps of large roots hewu
off three feet from the tree. All the
skill which money could command has
been exerted in trying to preserve
these trees. Several which died the
first year have been removed. some are
now dead, while not one has a healthy
appearance, and will succumb within
brief period"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20
Turned Tables or Tailor.

One frequently hears Of Il tailor suing
customer or an overdue bill for
clothes, but it is rather unusual for a
customer TO file an action against his
tailor to recover money paid for badly
fitting clothes. This IL what Il certain,
retired sea captain has done.
\ firm Of tsi!orS was summoned the
other day for $22.5O, the price of -
coat and vest. The plaintiff stated
thai he had ordered the clothes, but
was dissatisfied with the fit. AS the
firm refused to alter the garments to
his satisfaction he brought an action
to recover the money, which he had
paid in advance. e.-I.ondon Correspond
! cncc New York Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20
The Editors JOY.

There is but one more week of single
blesscdness for the editor of this pa.
per. a young woman has consented
10 take cur name and share with us
The burdens aad joys Of life. She is
Miss Elsie ktZmiller, youngest daugh-
Ter of Mrs. I.avina Kitzmiller. Her
father was Frank KitZmiller vet
cran of the Ciyil War, who died one
year ago.
Tie time set for the ceremony is
next Wednesday at = o'clock in the
afternoon ut the home of Mrs. Kitz-
miller. y number OF friends have
been invitGd-but not nearly all. The
house would not hold nearly one-third
of all those we should have been
pleased to see present. (This is not
the editor we've having assumed n
new signilicanceD But there will be
enough. we hope, TO ill the house and
see that the job is well done. There
will be no attendants. 1--WE" will be
the whole show. There will be no
tears-cvery one will be glad to see us
(editorally us) finally married. There
will be Il happy handsome couple, the
handsomeness being contributed by
The other half.
No ones life is complete who lives
alone. No, of course not. To develop
into Il surly, grabbed. soul-shriveled
old bachelor or dwindle away an old
maid full of vinegar and fool notions
what unhappier fate. TO form COM
plctc and useful life, marriage is a
necessity rs we'll as luxury. Yet
these considerations are mere side is
sues. The first consideration is to find
some ono you can love, respect, ad-
nirr. Love is apart fran logic. 1t is
capricious. 1t froWhs upon wealth,
tramples over differences of age
breaks down any established rules OF
precedence and astounds the coolly
systematic We are it. Time passes
slowly. (KamJ Nidette.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20

The pretty girl blushed and looked
bit annoyed.
"Mr. Hawtrey engaged the number:
evidently he has forgotten me-" she
replied.
"Finish it with me!"
"With pleasure"
Hawtrey did not appear again that
evening, and many were the comments
because of his strange disappearance;
but Teddy looked supremely happy, for
the girl of his heart had said Yes"
The girls chaffed Helen bit in the
dressing room because her rich caya-
lier had deserted his principal partner;
but the young lady did not seem in the
least angry; in fact, she appeared, as
one pert damsel said, deadly su.
perior."
After the last guest had gone, Ted
bounded upstairs four steps at time
and burst into the room. Duke drew
long breath of relief and removed
the earnest regard with which he had
been favoring Hawtrey. who had not
apparently moved from his chair
had not dared to move, in fact.
"Why, Hawtrey, are you here yeti
Every one thought you had gone and
wondered why" said the young man,
affecting all the surprise possible, while
victorious twinkle played in his
eyes.
But Hawlrey was game. He never
hinched, but replied in his cool, color
less drawl:
"Really, / did not know l was Of so
much importance. The truth is that
this little book is so interesting, and
your brandy so excellent, that 1 de-
cided not to leave this comfortable
spot"
Hope Duke didn't annoy you?"
pointedly from Ted
Not in the least. He seems faith
full dog"
"IIe is"
Good night Mr.. Armstrong"
Good night, Mr.. Hawtrey"
Soon as the door had closed on
Hawtrey, Ted grabbed Duke by the
forelegs, and man and dog executed the
maddest and merriest dance on record.
Then. hugSing his dumb slave, Ted
cried:
"You watched him all right, didn't
you, old boy? Well, you saved my
life perhaps; so lie there on the rug
or anywhere and snooZe all night. The
stable is too good for your dogship
after this"
The next day the engagement of Miss
Helen Vernon and Mr. Theodore Arm
strong was announced, and in the same
sheet might be seen Il few lines that
read: Mr.. Bruce Hawtrey leaves for
New York to-day, en- route for Eu-
rope"
"Hawtroy told me, Helen" explained
Ted, later OIL, while both were laugh
ing over the incident, "that alls fair
in love, so l took him at his word"
Il hated him ever since the day he
spoke OF me as 'filly,' and was only
waiting for n chance to refuse him.
I wouldn't have had him, anyway"
replied Helen.
well, Duke and l weren't taking
any chances" laughed the dogs mas.
tCr.-Ncw York News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20
ALARM CLOCK FOR THE DEAF.
They Don't Hear the Rattle, But There's
Something Else Doing.

Something Else Doing.
An alarm clock for deaf mutes is the
novel invention of Eliza Cretzer,
deaf mute in the employ of the Washoe
smelling plant, who resides at 10 Birch
street. How to awake at certain
hour has long been n problem among
these unfortunate people, and in Mr..
Cretzer's invention the solution has
been found. OF course, the ordinary
alarm clock has been useless. Mr..
Cretzer, who is an ingenious fellow,
is a water and fiume tender at the
Washoe smelter. His work necessi-
tates his rising at an early hour In
the morning and as he has no means
of awakening he has lost many days
of work by being late. He accordingly
set about inventing an apparatus by
which he could always be on time.
The dropping of pillow on the sleep
ing person is the awakening agent, and
1t is operated so that the pillow falls
at the desired time. An ordinary alarm
clock is placed in a cigar box which
fits 1t closely. 1t is then nailed to the
wall at the head OF the bed. A string
connects the clapper of the alarm clock
with an ordinary spring mouse trap
fastened to the top Of the cigar box.
By a system of small pulleys and
screw eyes pillow is fastened TO the
end of a string and pulled to the cell
ing directly above the bed. An ingeni-
Gus arrangement connects the other
end of the string to the mouse trap.
The clock is set, and when the alarm
goes off the string attached to the bell
clapper springs the mouse trap and re-
leases the pillow, which drops on the
persons sleeping in the bed beneath.
''When it does not hit me, it hits my
wife" Mr.. CretZer wrote on piece
of paper, "and so I never miss n day
nny more."-Anaconda Standard.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20

eyes" said the young man, as he
threw himself at the feet of the pretty
school teacher, II love you, and would
go to the worlds end for you"
''You could not go to the worlds end
for me, George. The world, or the
earth, as it is called, is round like a
ball, slightly fiattened at the poles.
One of the first lessons in elementary
geography is devoted to the shape of
the globe. You must have studied it
when you We're boy"
"Of course did, but"
"And it is no longer a theory. Cir
cumstances have established the fact"
II know, but what meant was that
1 would do anything to please you. All.
Angelina, if you but knew the aching
void"
'There is no such thing as void,
George. Nature abhors vacuum. But,
admitting that there could be such a
thing how could the void you speak Of
be void If there was an ache in it?"
81 meant to say that my life will he
lonely without you; that you are my
daily thought and nightly dream. 1
would go anywhere to be with you. If
you We're in darkest Africa or at the
North Pole I would fly to you. I"
ely! 1t will be another century be-
fore man can fly. Even when the laws
of gravitation are successfully over
come there still remains, says a late
scientific authority, the difficulty Of a
balance"
"Well, at all events" exclaimed the
youth, 81 can get over that! I've a
pretty fair balance in the bank. and l
want you to be my wife. THERE"
"Well, George, since you put it in
that light | will."-Chicago Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20

moments ons
depend on TINS
highly
reduction
also in the third place involve sudden
market onefourth OF the business
demand for city
in the opposite direction Will De aee-
But railway dividend will not such case
by
prosperity diminished
reduction capital available
that the enormous borrow
which hnancal
of carried out made possible by
the disposal of Wall Street Ihese
credits echie netre profitable
exports foreshadow reduced
all the
manufactured goods and of mine and
shipments
In other words harvest fail
copard of
Alike 1901 and 1902 immense sums OF
period With abundant crops and consequent
short and the foreign cred
when large reserves are needed Is what
absolutely unable
what the farm weather OF summer
ITSELF hest to the resultant cond
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20

(which do you think should be more
highly esteemed, money or brains?"
Brains" answered Senator Sor-
ghum. "But nowadays the only way
u man can convince people that he has
brains is to get money."-Washingtop
Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20

II seems 10 De lndisputablc That with
suitable power brakes half dozen
recent tramway accidents would have
been avoided. Effective brakes of sew
cral types can be obtained, and though
the choice may not be altogether an
easy matter, il can and it ought to be
made. .--Tramway and Railway World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20
Tho Wise Man.

"One-half of the world" l say to my
wise friend, doesn't know how the
other half lives"
"Then," concludes my wise friend
with an air of deliberation, "one-half
the world hasn't any neighbors.
Judge.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20

"Suppose you were to discover the
north pole; of what use would it be?'
"Oh, I don't trouble myself with
practical details of that sort; | leave
all that to the manager of my lecture
tour r."-Washington Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20
In Politics For His Health.

"Fladger has got an office at last,
has he? l always knew he never
went into politics for his health"
"That's where you wrong him. The
office he asked for and got is a consul
ship at German watering place.
Chicago Record Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20
Paper Buttois Now.

\ scheme for the manufacture Of
paper buttons is being put Toward in
San Francisco. These buttons, say the
promoters of the scheme, will I've cheap
er than the bore aud metal ones, quite
rs serviccablc and OF rs GOOD all np.
pearaIca
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20
A CHUM'S PRAYER
By THEODORE ROBERTS.

BIZ IuEODOHE iOBIhiS.
God give them luck (for strength so often
fails)-
1 Luck to dodge death-burst shell and
flying hoof;
God made their hands swift in the work
that comes,
Their tunics bullet-proof.
When the smoke puffs along the fronting
steep,
When the guns wheel and doubt rides
down the line,
Let the high courage Of our race call up
These belted friends of mine.
And when "lights out" mas sounded
through the camp
Bring them, in sleep, the peace they
used to know;
Let them forget, It'll dawn, the weary
march,
The hunger. and the foe.
The Criterion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20

Smithkins-"I hear you're working
for collection agency now. Have
you any trouble collecting?"
Jenkins-"Oh! It's something fierce,
The boss owes me three weeks salary
already, and I've threatened to put it
into the hands of L collection
agency Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20

"The language is so ambiguous In
sisted the observant foreigner.
For instance?" remarked, with the
rising infection of Interrogation.
when a political job is spoken Of
how is one to know whether it is Il
clerkship or a ontract"-Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20
Strategy.

Mrs. Homer-"Iow do you manage
to get your carpets so clean! Do you
hire professional carpet beater?'
Mrs. Nelghbors-"No; my husband
beats them, and 1 always do some
thing to make him angry just before
he begins the job."-Chicago News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20
ENJOYABLE.

How did you enjoy the automobile
parade?"
Every much, indeed" answered the
timid pedestrian. 1T was very graft.
flying to see so many automobile pro.
prietors going along peacefully. all in
honor bound not to run over the peo-
pie in front Of them" Washington
Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20

"Are you fond of birds:" she asked
innocently, as she stood at the piano
fumbling the music.
81 dearly love them" he replied with
never a shadow Of suspicion.
Then she ran her slender fingers
over the keys and began to sing: "Oh,
Would l Were Bird"
A new nest will be built in the
spring. News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20

"Curious thing about man with
watch is that if you see him take il
out and look at it, and you ask him
two seconds later what time it is, he
never remembers. He has to look ut
it again.
Yes; I've noticed that he'll always
do tiff his watch is fine one
Chicago Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20
Don't Want to Be.

"Few men are as good as they pre-
tend to be-"
"Wel, what of it? Few men want
to be."-Judge.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20
The Teachers
True Recompense
BY O. S. Marden.

true teachers reompense goes to him
:
monthly payment for services Ihere Is an
mpapab reward for successful Instructor with whh he
u n dollar
u The cons
his ideals his life hap
~ n which is Of more value
o. to i'm man realza-
that something Of worth has touched
mi has is payment indeed
of life
something existence worth
believe himse Wh
hope that has been kned IN
his best?
this world than the confidence
their hopes and ambitions:
As ptfuly and small Wlen
hmhe shaping OF the
to their pupils without
pecunary compensation they receive
his pupils and his country
service dollars
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20
6be Funny
ide OF
Life. ..
The Philosopher.

The world, it is picture book;
| turn a page each day,
And find, whene'er pause to look,
Some scene that's grave or gay.
In spring time there be tender flowers;
In summer comes the rose;
The autumn fends, with frugal powers,
Us 'gainst the wintry SHOWS.
&.
And though the present view be sad,
Despair shall not engage g,
My heart. III hope for something glad
When next l turn page.
Washington Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20

already by
been has created
directed
business advantages This mission does not exact an
shall
whic can draw
these when attempt Is
national
who socous for
attached
used to define desire accumulate
individual wishes full
to
NJ
descriptive
Of getting.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20
The Cradle
Or the Crave.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

RS. ARMSTRONG'S modest
little home was ablaze with
light. The proud lady was
giving n small dance to coll
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20
Women and Love.
BY Lillian Bell.

ONDER
\ that might almost who perfectly
- a happily
~ u a a q
N WAk 4 OF
so in
u and
W. re
If a seeking a
working
children
the occupation world Something
The loneliness the unoed that lonely
by think
-unc ely.-Ha
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20
~ II ~
Harvests and High Finance.
Bh Alexander ID. Noyes.

the contemporary finance the midsummer months
of each successive year period of singular interest 1t
is then that public view the forces over which
neither human foresight human ingenuity exercise
least control which fundamental in their IN
fuence National prosperity OF all the wealth produced
each year in the ancient world the greater
part is grows out of the ground; and this Is
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20

The Parson-"If you will return to
your home I'm sure your father. will
run to meet you and fall on your
neck"
The Prodigal-"I hope not. The old
man weighs three hundred pounds. -
New York Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-02-20
u ~ ~
16e Mission of Commerce.
BY Grover Cleveland.

TACTICAL business activity be mingled with enlshen
and social beerment, and commercial organizations
already them together They estopped from
dsclamng their obligation continue the work 1t rests
with them only enlarge and strengthen by increased
terprse fabric they have thus produced but make 1t
brighter beautiful by adding to it larger infusion
welfare of mankind moral
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-20
THE CAPTURE OF NEWTON.
Sheriff Robbins and Party Stuck tc
 the Trail.

A -
 Wetumpka, Oct. 19.-(Special. .)-Eiarry Newton, the ex-convict who killed s. F. Lacy and then chopping his head to pieces with an axe, is now incarcerated in a steel cage in the Wetumpka jail
 Newton, after committing the deed, fingered around the scene of the crime one day and a part of two nights (proba- biy recovering from protracted drunk) before seking safety in flight. Friday morning, Oscie Warren telephoned to Wetumpka that a man answering the description of Newton awoke him just be- fore day inquiring the way to the Kowaliga iron bridge and to the home of a Mir. Threadgill who lives near the Tal- iapoosa River and operates a ferry upon that stream
 Sheriff Robbins immediately telegraph ed the facts in the case to B. R. Smith, sheriff of Talapoosa County. After send ing the telegram Mir. Robbins started in pursuit accompanied by MT. O'Daniel, an ofiicer at the Walls. and John Bachelor, Arriving at Thredgills's home late Friday afternoon. they learned that Newton had left there at sunrise that morning &C., ccmpanied by a son of Mir. Thredgill with a horse and buggy. Nothing daunted, Robbins. O'Daniel and Bachelor pushed on towards Dadevilie arriving there about nightfall. MT. Robbins called on Sheriff Smith to whom he told his mission solicit ing Smiths help in the capture of New ton and stating that a reward was of- fered for the capture of the fugitive.
 Mfr. Robbins left his team at Dadeville and with MT. Smith boarded train for Waverly, where they learned Saturday morning that Newton and his friend Threadgill passed through waverly the evening before. Securing team. the officers followed and found a house about six miles beyond Waverly where Newton and Threadglll had passed the night, un- der the assumed names of Smith and <. Richardson, Newton and ThreadgilI, still passing as Smith and Richardson. drove to Oak Bowery where ThreadRfll left Newton and returned home by a cir cuitous route.
 Shertffs Robbins and Smith finally over- took their man. about a mile from West Point riding in wagon with a crowd of uegroes Newton was arrested with out any trouble as he was taken coni- pletely by surprise and was unarmed Newton told Sheriff Robbins that he had been making for the home of Mrs. Foster wife of a life convict at the penitentiary
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-20
EVIDENCE THAT ROUNTREE
 GOT MONEY FROM HOTEL BILLS

During the investigation in Birmingham Friday of the conduct of the Canadian tour by Secretary !. A. Rountree of the Alabama Press Association, F. P. Glass of Tbe Advertiser. testified that he had a letter which indicated that Rountree re- lceived commission from hotels where the press party stayed. Mir. Glass did not have a copy of the letter with him but Bruce Kennedy of The Advertiser, testified in detail as to its contents.
 A copy of the letter was sent to The Advertiser voluntarily by the proprietor of the King Edward Hotel, Toronto who wrote to the Editor of The Advertiser that he regretted the party did not stay at his hotel. but he could not afford to give Rountree commission on the amount paid by the press party. A copy of Rountrees letter to the King Edward Hotel Is as follows: Birmingham. Ala. April 27. 1908 Proprietor King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Canada: Nts
 Dear Sir-The Alabama Press Associa- tion, composed of a party of one hundred, will arrive In Toronto on Thursday, July 1s at 7:4o a. m.. and will spend the day in your city. This party will desire break fast, luncheon and dinner and some of the party will want rooms. We win leave Aofonto dt II p. ". tuc SdH1o udy. 'T write to know what Is the very best rate that you will make for meals and rooms.
 After touring Canada the party will return to Toronto on Thursday. July 9. from Quebec at 6:5o a. m. and one day will be spent in Toronto. have charge of the party and they will all stop at the hotel with which make the best ar- rangement.
 What commission will you pay me on the amount that is paid you by our party. and will you compliment my family con- sisting of myself and four. This conces- sion is given me by all hotels Thanking you in advance for a prompt reply.
 T am yours very truly,
 ''J. A. Rountree,
 Secretary Press Association"
 The letter of the King Edward Hotel transmitting copy of Rountree's letter was as follows:
 '.Editor The Montgomery Advertiser.
 Montgomery. Ala:
 "Dear sir--rhe King Edward Hotel Company anticipated entertaining the