ku >aI makes the food pure, wholesome and delicious. POWDER Absolutely Pure FREELAND TRIBUNE. Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY , lIY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. J Make all money orders, checks, etc., payable to ' the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 ; Six Months | Four Months r >° Two Mont lis '•& 1 The date which the subscription is paid to is on the address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date becomes a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Report prompt ly to this otllco whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. FKKKLANI), SEPT EM IMP It 27, 181>7. The Great Evil of the Times. A Taxpayers' Defense League lias been formed in Chicago, and the Rev. Dr. llolbrook, one of the editors of the Jiibliotheca Sacra , president of the Loague, lias officially addressed an open letter to the palace-car magnate, George M. Pullman, who seems to be reckoned in that region as one of the worst oifend ers in tlio form of wrong-doing it . Is the special work of the league to attack and overthrow. In the central parts of his model town, Mr. Pullman, on land which, by his own estimate in his an- i liual report to the stockholders, is worth $17,000 an acre, but is really worth near ly twice that, pays a tax on an assess ment of only about $741 an acre, so that, according to the rating of the league, the Pullman corporation has been pay ing a less amount of taxes by some $200,- 000 each year into the city treasury than it would have done had it been assessed as ordinary property owners are assessed in Chicago. Referring to the memorable strike of 1894, the damages on account of which to the amount of $10,009,000, and in be half of this same George M. Pullman, rest against the city of Chicago or against Cook county, the letter says: All these events recall the unsympa thetic attitude which you assumed toward your working people in their distress at that time, many of whom had been in your employ for years. You reduced their wages, but refused to reduce their rents; you permitted many to work just long enough to earn for you their undiminished rent, and then left them to provide their food and cloth ing as best they could until another month could come around and possibly bring them relief. These facts came before the grand jury, of which the writer was a member, and there was not a dry eye in that jury room when they were recited. In the midst of this trouble you left for your summer resi dence, and let the state and federal troops and the grand jury light your battles. Further, this league letter says, speaking more generally or in sweeping terms of the whole Pullman class of tax shirkers: The rights of property are now war ring on the rights of man. Monopolies and trusts on the necessaries of life threaten the destruction of the state. Capital and labor may each organize for all lawful purposes, but when capital corners the market on coal, iron, sugar, oil, coffee, salt, oatmeal, and is thus able to raise the price artificially to the con sumer, it is a crime under the statutes of most of our states. But men of wealth are now doing this very tiling. They keep the letter of the law; they violate its spirit. They take from the poor man a tithe of his daily food ami in return make gifts to the public to satisfy the conscience or to throw dust in the eyes of the people. Society is between two malefactors—the criminals above and tin; criminals below; the trust magnate in the palace and the anarchist in the slums; the plutocrat and the mobocrat. The so-called '"great newspapers" in the chief cities of the country, only too often, as many are coming to say, ap pear disposed, with mingled sneers and deprecation, to disparage efforts of the character hero noted. It is observed that they have much to say In very dignified terms about intemperate lan guage and all that, but the evil, as the candid of mind perceive, is an immeas urably serious one, that will certainly have to be cured, and that those who trifle with it, no loss than those who commit it, are simply supremely danger ous enemies of society and of tlieii country. Why should workingmen burn down coal breakers and destroy their onlj means of support? To accuse them ol such folly Is to doubt their sanity. Have they not hearts of flesh and blood, ant must they not eat and sleep and have shelter? The friction of an insurance policy on an over-Insured, back-numbei breaker might set it on lire, but honest labor nu\Qr.—A*hla7id Rccvril. An Obliging Burglar. A despondent citizen wrote the fol lowing leiter to a persistent burglar who had visited his house on several occasions. lie left the letter on the dresser, says the Atlanta Constitution, before retiring for the night: "To the i Burglar—My Dear Sir: 1 trust you will give these few lines a moment's con sideration. You have done me the honor to visit me three times. On these occasions you have taken away nu merous souvenirs of your visits. I am now reduced to a Waterbury watch and one pair of trousers. I need not tell you that both are under my head. I want ! to ask you to let up on me! I know there is no law to prevent you from cleaning me out entirely, but I appeal to your generosity. I have a large fam ily to support, and I infer from your industry that you must be a father yourself. Consider my case, if you please, and give me a show!" The bur glar came that night and was evidently touched by the letter, for lie wrote on the margin: "I am in receipt of yours of this date. All right; I'll letup. Do not be discouraged; your next-door neighbor has no trousers at all. I write in baste, for I understand they're go ing to seud a policeman on this beat next year. P. S.—Your watch was 15 minutes slow, and 1 set it for you." Two stafes are now in revolt ngainst I the federal power. The tax cominis- ! sioners of Indiana defy on injunction issued by Judge Baker, of the United States district court, and proceed to assess the property of the Indiana Manufacturing company at the market value of its stock. Judge Baker had held that the patents of t-lic company, j composing most of its property, were not taxable, and (had accordingly en- i joined the assessment. Now the tax commissioners are threatened with ar rest for contempt of court. The insur ance commissioner of Kansas is also defying a federal injunction restraining him from forbidding ci New York life insurance company, which has not complied with state laws, to do business in his state. Carry the news to South Carolina. People who are looking for hidden treasure had better not go to Mexico. While digging up a tree on a ranch near Monterey, a man servant found three earthen jars, filled with gold and silver coin, and securing a sack proceeded to carry it to his cabin. When the ranch man heard of the find there was a great time. The amount was $20,000, of which the government took one-third; the remaining two-thirds went to the ranchman, axul the servant, for his share, was given two years in prison. This will he a warning to other treasure finders to hurry the find across thebor- der without delay. It is said that the people around ; Holly Springs, Miss., ore so delighted with the abundant signs of returning prosperity thait they bad a barbecue j a few days ago to give vent't'o their joy j over the good times. Visitors were carried to the grove free, and the farm- ( ers and merchants were liberal in their gifts of lamb, veal, shoat, chickens, wa- 1 termelons and the various other things ' that go toanake up the typical southern ; feast. In Com. v. Williams, 108 Mass., 02, a I witness identifying a burglar by his voice, testified that "he had a very in teresting. manly, pleasant, smooth, gentle, handsome voice, like that of one born in this country of foreign parents, a 'York State voice.'" lie heard this pleasing voice near midnight saying: "Keep still or you're a dead man. It 3'ou move, I'll take your heart's blood." ' "Bird In the bush" is n new viand on America® menus. A small hole is mad.; in the end of a watermelon and the core scooped out. The interior is filled with breasts of chickens, leg meat ol squabs, Chinese mushrooms and sprouts. Then the watermelon is sealed up and boiled two hours. All t.be juices are retained, and when served the melon is plugged in the top. John Green Brady, of Indiana, who j lias been appointed governor of Alaska, j bos an interesting and romantic ca peer. To the besit of his knowledge he is a native of New York city. lie never knew his parents. lie grew up a ver itable street arab in the utmost pov erty. In 1830 he was sent to Indiana with a car load of waifs. In a notice of a volume of verse by a leual writer, a Georgia editor says in his rural newspaper: "The poems seem io have the right jingle at the proper end, but we are not a very good judge of this kind of work, having tried to make an honest living all our lives." When the world's population exceeds 5,994,000,000, the earth will bo unable to find nourishment for her people, and they will be forced either to cannibal ism or starvation. This figure will be reached in about 2SO years, says a scientist. Persons who study a foreign lan guage occasionally get. mixed up in a word. In ordering a glass of soda wa ter a German said: "Not much dust, if you please." It finally appeared that . he meant froth. I Farther and farther woman pene trates into fields that were supposed to be reserved exclusively for men. A woman editor In Connecticut lias just escaped being tarred and feathered. — I BURIED THE SNAKE. Hon Prairie I)O:M DIMPOKCII of AN I'.vll-DlnpoMed Reptile. In conversation wit-ba gentleman who lias just made a trip through western Indian territory I picked upromething new and interesting to me in regard to 1 t lie habits of the prairie dog and rattle snake. This party said that a few weeks 1 ago, while resting under a small tree in the territory where there w:is a dog i town, he noticed a com motion among j ! some dogs near him; tliey would run l up to a place and peep at something and j then scamper ofF. Looking to see what j was the matter, he saw that there were j about 15 to 20 dogs around a rattle- j make, which at length went into cue of ; the deg holes. As soon as he had disap- ! ! pea red the little fellows began to push j I in dirt, evidently to till the hole up. i but about the time they got enough j j dirt to cover the entrance the snake I stuck his head up through the dirt and j i every dog scampered oil to a safe dis i tance, all the time keeping lip an in- j I cessant barking. The snake slowly | crawled to another hole about a rod dis ; tnnt and went in, and then up came the i dogs again and went to work to push I the dirt up before them to the hole, i This time they succeeded in their euter , prise and completely covered tlie en | trance to the hole, and then went to | work, using their noses to tamp with and pounding the d' t do" n hard, nftc" which they \uent away. My friend went to the place and said he was surprised to find they had packed the dirt in solid with their r.osee, having sealed the snake well to the ground.—Forest and Stream. KITES PUZZLE BIRDS. VmtiHiiic Experience* of SelentJstn W'lille Making Experiments. I Many amusing experiences have been | I lie lot of the scientists who have been | manipulating kites for scientific pur | poses. Large birds are always Inter ested in the strange devices floating in I the air and cannot make out quite what they are. I No bird, however, has ever alighted j on a kite or attacked one, says the Chi- I rago News. While one scientist was 1 Hying a train kites a couple of years ago, a silver-tipped eagle ; came suddenly out of the higher air ami I swooped round and round the first kite, j looking against the sunset sky like a ; huge silver ball. As the train of kites was pulled in the eagle followed, visit ing one kite and then another, seeming uncertain just what to do. In a few minutes, when he seemed to have de cided that they were not good to eat. ; and he knew nothing about them any way. ha indignantly flew ofT and was lost to view. Another experience was had with a stork that came from the New Jersey side of the Hudson and flew straight for the queer object in the air. lie appar ently had made up his mind to go straight through it. but changed and dived underneath. lie went around and above it. and through a glass it could be seen that he cocked his eye at the in truder in a most comical manner. lie started away a few hundred feet, changed his mind and came swooping hack, lie finally reluctantly vvemt away, mystified over this queer addi tion to the inhabitants of the air. ERIGHT CHICAGO EOYS. They Slave Discovered a New Way to Fly Tlielr Kites. Several North side boys have discov •ledi a great scheme for flying their kites. Instead of running with a string and getting all out of breath one of the ir NEW WAY TO FKY KITES. noys starts the kite and then hands the dring* to u companion who is mounted >n a bicycle. lie peduls off at a good i peed, and up goes the kite, twice as ast as it would ordinarily. 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