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FR EEL AND, PA., JULY 10, 1899.
Some Facts About Newspapers.
From the Hazleton Plain Speaker.
A great many people entertain the be
lief that a newspaper is a charitable in
stitution and that by taking the paper
or advertising therein they are doing a
great favor for the proprietor or the
publisher. In some country districts
newspapers are conducted on the
charitable plan, but in a lively centre
newspapers, like other business enter
prises, are in the field for a purpose.
That purpose is 'first, to furnish the
public with all the news that can be !
collected and what is of interest to
them. News makes a paper valuable.
When the news columns no longer con
tain anything interesting or when the
paper fails to cover important happen
ings then it is time for the public to
drop it and buy a paper that does give
them their money's worth.
A paper of circulation is valuable to
the advertiser because by inserting his
advertisement he places before thous
ands of people whom he could reach In
no other manner his announcement of
sales, prices and quality of goods. If a
business man advertises merely for the
sake of favoring the publisher, then he
ought to withdraw his advertisement
and go to the wall.
Some business people believe that
when they withdraw their advertise
ments, possibly because they cannot
agroe with an opinion expressed by the
editor, the paper will suspend publica
tion. Papers are pretty long-lived con
cerns and the presses seldom stop when
a disgruntled man stops either the paper
or takes out his ad.
Welcome for the Tenth.
Western Pennsylvania is preparing to
give its soldiers a rousing welcome
home from thoPhilippines. TheTcnth.
of this state, is the only volunteer regi
ment east of tho Mississippi river which
saw service in the Fillipino country,
and the record of our troops as fighters
is something whieh every citizen of
Pennsylvania can feel proud of.
What they fought for since last Feb
ruary may not add credit to the country's
fame, but as soldiers tho men of the
Tenth Pennsylvania obeyed orders and
obeyed them well. Tho heroism and
self-sacrifice they displayed in the Far
East was never surpassed in modern
times and their valiant deeds will form
part of the history of our state.
The Tenth deserves all the honors
which are in course of preparation for
it at Pittsburg. It is no fault of theirs
that somebody brought on tho senseless
struggle in the Philippines. Time will
place that responsibility. With them,
it was their duty as sworn soldiers to
uphold the fiag, right or wrong, and
they performed their part most nobly
and have earned the welcome they will
receive.
A good many people are wondering
whether the Democrats will make a
nomination against Judge Halsey. If
there are any aspirants they have not
squarely taken the field. The Republi
cans of Luzerne have sometimes been
non-partisan so far as the judiciary is
concerned and supported Democratic
judges for re-election, but the Demo
crats have invariably opposed Republi
can judges. It would bo a pleasant
surprise if they would permit Judge
llalsey to go through without partisan
opposition. We shall know presently.—
Wilkc&barre Record.
The Republican man's burden in the
next national campaign will be, "em
balmed beef, expansion, criminal as
similation, gold standard, trusts, boodle,
Algorism, Carterism, Eganlsm and in
competancy." Indeed, it will be. a hard
burden even for Ilanna to carry with
his millions of dough contributed by
those vvho thrive on the iils of honest
toil.
A new Western club lias been organ
ized in which all the members have
pledged themselves to marry widows.
It's plain they've never read the Pick
wick Papers.
OUR CAPITAL LETTER.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP GATHERED BY
OUR CORRESPONDENT.
McKlnley and Alger Have Not Made a
Public Break, But the Latter'n Wings
Have Been Clipped Roosevelt*# Deal
for the Presidency In 1004.
Washington, July 7, 1899. j
The break between Mr. Mclviuley :
and Secretary Alger, which seemed
almost at hand a week ago, has been
postponed for a time. Hut postponing
it does not moanjthat it will lie avoided
permanently. Notwithstanding his
public* protestations* of loyalty to Mr.
McKlnloy, Alger is under suspicion,
and if he can prevent a break that will
result, in his being kicked out of the
cabinet, he will have to display more
diplomacy than he has ever been credit
ed with having in his make-up. One of
the results of Mr. McKinley's suspicion
of Alger will be that tho latter will not
be allowed to issue an important order
or to make an appointment, until the
approval of Mr. Mclviuley lias been se
cured. Of course, this approval ha?
always been necessary, but hereafter
everything is to be scrutinized carefully
and every act of the war department
will be Mr. McKinley's personal act.
X X X
The inventions of Americans have
done more to make this country pros
perous than Republican legislation has
done, notwithstanding preposterous
claims, and tho inventive genius ol
Americans was never more actively em
ployed than at this time. This is prov- I
en by the heavy increase in the re
ceipts of the United States patent office,
now §5,000 a week more than a yoat
ago, and by the fact that the week's
issue of patents, trade-marks and labels
was greater than any since April, 1890,
also by the 5,000 applications awaiting
action by the patent oificc.
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Kentuckians who have been to Wash
ington since tho statecouvention wa>
held socm to regard Democratic success
in the state as certain. For instance.
11. M. Lanha.in said: "William Goebel
will be elected governor of Kentucky
without a doubt. lie is a man of the
people, and stands for tho public against
corporations, trusts and monopolies.
He won out after a fight that proved hi
pluck and staying qualities and demon
strated his abilities as one of tho great
est organizers of tho country."
t t t
As tho Democratic state convontio;
of Ohio will not convene for so no
weeks, tlie.ro is plenty of time to tall
about probable candidates for governor
and it is freely taken advantage of
wherever a few Democrats gather to dis
cuss politics. There are a number oi
men put forward as favorites, including
Kilbourne, Rice and Haskell, but the
man whoso name lias been oftonrst
mentioned in connection with the nomi
nation, during the last two or three
days, is John R. McLean, the owner of
the Cincinatti Inquirer. That tho Re
publicans of tho state do not feel the
confidence they express was shown L>\
tho request made of Mr. Mclviuley to
come to the state and make some
speeches for Hanna's ticket.
t X t
There is more or less discussion in
political circles as to tho influences
which caused Governor Roosevelt to ro
movo, Tiimself from tho patli of Mr. Mc
lviuley and to declare himself strongh
in favor of tho latter's rcnomination.
Boss Piatt is credited with having made
tho deal, which is understood to involve
the support of Roosevelt by the ad
ministration for the nomination in 1904,
as well as some fat slices of patronage
under the present administration. Mr.
Roosevelt may realize on the latter part
of the deal all right, but there aio
several big "ifs" in the way of his
realizing on tlie first part, the first and
most important of which is, if Mclvinlev
fails of re-election next year, how can
he help Roosevelt in 1904?
X X X
In view of the enormous war taxes,
still being paid by the people, there is
no valid reason for tho Republicans re
joicing because the deficit was only
§89,000,000 for tho fiscal year, ending
Juno 30, instead of being §23,000,000
greater, as Secretary Gage estimated
last fall, that it would be. The official
balance sheet for the year shows that,
pension payments were §1,500,000 loss
than the appropriation, and about
§6,000,000 less than the payments for
the previous year, but pension agents
claim that this was on account of the
hold up policy of tho pension bureau,
and not because their was any reduc
tion iu the number of claimants for
pensions.
STATE OF Onio, CITY OF TOLEDO, 1
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CHENEY & Co., doing business in the
City of Toledo, County and State afore
said, and that said firm will pay the sum
of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for
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my presence, this Oth day of December,
A. D. 1880,
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SHOOTING THE RAPIDS.
BpcL'tMcle XV lieu the Sctaoourr Mlokl
nun Went over Masara Falls.
"I was one of those who made up the
first public excursion to Niagara Falls
just seventy years ago next Septem
ber," said Martin Cramer of Niagara
county.
"The schooner Michigan was the
largest vessel on Lake Erie at that
time. She was too large, in fact, to
enter the various harbors on the lake,
and, being somewhat decayed in her
uppers, the owner, Major Eraser, for
merly of New York, got the idea that
she would answer the purpose of test
ing the fate of a vessel that by acci
dent might approach too near tile cat
aract, and also the fate of living things
that might be caught in the rapids.
The proprietors of the large public
houses at the Falls, on both sides of the
river, and of stages and steamboats,
made up a purse to purchase the
schooner, aware that they would be
amply repaid by the spectators that
the exhibition would attract. For
several days previous to Sept. 18, 1828,
the day for which the affair was fixed,
which was Saturday, the stages and
canal boats came to lluffalo crowded
with people. The crowds were so
great that it was with great difficulty
that conveyances from that place to the
Falls could be obtained. On the night
of Sept 7 wagons filled with country
people rattled through the village in
unbroken procession all night long,
and on the morning of Sept. 8 Buffalo
Itself seemed to be moving in one mass
toward the point of attraction.
"The Chippewa towed the big
schooner to Yule's Landing, on the
Canada side of the Niagara Kiver,
where our passengers went ashore, as
did those of the William Penn. The
hour fixed for towing the Michigan
from Yale's Landing to the Rapids was
3ln the afternoon. This task, an ex
tremely hazardous one, was Intrusted
to the oldest sailor on the lake, Capt.
Rough. With a yawl boat and five
sturdy oarsmen the old captain got the
schooner ander way. They towed her
to within a quarter of a mile of the
first rapids, and within half a mile of
the tremenedous precipice itself — as
near as they dared approach. They
cut the big vessel adrift and she pass
ed majestically on, while the oarsmen
of the yawl had to bend their every
nerve and muscle to remove them
selves from the peril of their position
and the danger of being drawn down
by the rushing waters. Indeed, such
had been the fear and apprehension of
the men that they mutinied against
Capt, Rough, and cut the tow line be
fore the time he had set. If they
had obeyed the reckless old captain,
he, the yawl, and its crew would have
preceded the Michigan over the fulls.
"The high grounds on both shores of
the river were lined with people as the
Michigan, unguided by human agency,
approachod, head on, the first rapid of
the seething descent, apparently keep
ing the very course that a skilful navi
gator would have guided her in. The
American ensign streamed from her
bowsprit and the British jack floated
at her stern. The vessel shot the first
rapid unhurt, still head on, making a
plunge, shipping a sea, and rising from
it in beautiful style. In her descent
of the second rapid, the water momen
tarily increasing In velocity and tu
mult, her towering masts went by the
board, giving the spectators a start
ling representation of the crashing of
a vessel's spars in a shipwreck at sea.
She swung around and presented her
broadside to the dashing and foaming
water, and, after remaining, as it
seemed, stationary for a moment,
swung around until she was headed up
stream. Passing the third rapid she
bilged, but carried her hull to all ap
pearances whole as she tossed and
groaned between Grass Island and the
British shore to the Horseshoe Fall,
over which she was drawn stern fore
most and hurled into the thundering
abyss. She was dashed to fragments
before she struck in the seething wa
ters below.
"There were aboard the Michigan
when she started on her trip toward
the falls a wild bull buffalo from a
Western prairie, two bears from the
Lake Superior regions, two foxes, a
raccoon, a dog, a cat, and four geese.
When the vessel left Yale's landing in
tow, all these were let loose on the
deck except the buffalo. He was in
closed In a pen. The two bears got
enough of the trip when the vessel be
gan the descent of the first rapid, and
they climbed down the side next the
Canada shore, plunged Into the swift
water, breasted its powerful sweep
successfully, and reached the shore.
They were so exhausted when they got
on laud thaLtjiey made no resistance
to being captured, and they fell into
the possession of a tavern keeper. The
bears, before they abandoned the ship,
climbed the masts of the vessel and, j
as it was presumed, from that outlook
saw what their finish would be any
how, and then determined to take the
chances of getting to laud, slim as they
were. The raccoon ran up a mast and
remained there until the mast fell. He
was never seen again. The foxes ran
frantically up and down the deck, and
went over with the schooner, as did
the buffalo bull and the geese. Not a
trace of foxes or buffalo was ever
found. Two of the geese swam ashore
half a mile below the Falls. The
j other two met the fate of the buffalo
; and tire foxes. The two geese that
; survived the awful plunge over Niag
-1 ara were secured by Major Frazer. He
sold one to an Englishman who took
it to England with hiin."
j Why Bears Bat tium In the Full.
I Mr. Abram Verrlll, the Gllead spruce
gum man, was In Lewiston Tuesday
night. He brought the gum In a big dry
goods box in the rear of his wagon.
| The gum is gathered by himself on the
mountains back of Bear Mountain, Old
Cambo and Gllead Hill, and he comes
here with it every month or two. On
this trip he started with two bushels,
which it took him two weeks to gather.
He is armed with a gouge when he
goes into the woods, and takes only the
best of the gum he finds, which he puts
into a basket slung on his back.
One day Mr. Verrlll was at work in a
! patch of old spruce trees on Mount
j Eli, four miles from Gllead station. To
the south the mountain fell off sheer
| for over 200 feet, and on the north was
another cliff rising forty or fifty feet.
I lie was on a shelf. Suddenly he heard
j a growl and a whistle, and, looking up,
: saw a black bear eating the spruce gum
■ which he had left in his basknt against
the cliff. He had no arms, but seized a
: stone and hurled it at the bear with
such force that It struck him on the
| left side, and probably hurt, for the
! animal ran away and Into a hole in the
cliff as fast as he could. Ho had eaten
a pound of gum.
Mr. Verrlll says It was in the fall,
and that bears always eat gum before
going into their dens to hibernate. It
'keeps their stomachs from growing
logether while they take their three
months' nap," says he. —Lewiston
Evening Journal.
A Pertinent Inquiry.
Newlyvveil (complacently)—Oh, of
course, all women have sharp tongues
—"every rose has it's tliorn," you
know.
Ohltimer (dryly)— And have you no
ticed yet bow a rose will fade but a
thorn won't?—l'uck.
At the Telephone.
Casey—Who (loos yer want ter see?
(Jrognn- Duuuohuo.
Casoy—Who did ylz say?
(Jrogan—l Muiuohuo, 1 )onnolnio.
Casoy—Well, if you duuuo who, h- /
the devil do I know who?—Seribnc. f
Magazine.
A Good Suggestion.
The Barber—l'm thinking of hang
ing up a motto here. llow would "We
Strive to Please" go?
Tno Victim—"Silence to Golden"
would be better.
Vlllinny Confounded.
In her agony the miserable woman
sent her bit ted rival by post a can of
corned beef containing arsenic.
The latter, being passlonn'.ly fond of
fooil partook of the beef.
Thereupon her complexion was
much beautified.
Here again we have villainy con
founded by what some people are
pleased to term fortuitous circum
stances.—Detroit Journal.
Kvltlciicn of AfTcctlnu
Geraldlne—You have been sick, hav
en't you?
Gerald—Yes, I was threatened with
brain fever.
Geraldlne—Well, you bad one com
folding thought; you couldn't have 1,
in anything but a mild form.—Towi
Topics.
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THE FIRST COTTON MILL.
Washington's Diary Locates It at
lleverly, Massachusetts.
Several different towns in the United
States claim the unique distinction of
having erected the first American cot
ton mill; but from the best informa
tion that can be obtained it seems that
the credit properly belongs to the town
of Beverly, Mass.
The circumstances leading up to this
discovery may be of Interest to our
readers. Some years ago Mayor Hm
toul, of Salem, Mass., was invited to
Bawtucket, R. 1., to attend the centen
nial exercises at that place In cera
memoration of the opening of the fa
mous Slater mill. In sending out in
vitations to this centennial event the
owners of the mill claimed It to be the
first establishment of Its kind ever
erected In the United States. For
some reason Mayor Rantoul was un
able to be present at the exercbes,
but, being deeply Interested in histori
cal researches, he decided at his lei
sure to investigate the claims of the
Bawtucket mill-owners. This investi
gation led to the discovery that the old
cotton mill at Beverly, Mass., which
was burned down In 1838, had been in
operation for several years prior to the
establishment of the mill at Bawtucket,
I and that no less a witness thnn General
Washington himself could be cited In
confirmation of the fnct. It seems
that General Washington, while on a
tour of the Now England States in
1781), made a visit to the old Beverly cot
ton mil!, and was so impressed with
Hie novelty of the spectacle that he
devoted several pages of his diary to
Its description. Tills old diary is si ill
to bo found among General Washing
ton's papers.
j As the researches: of Mayor Rantoul
seemed to settle the matter beyoud all
controversy the residents of Beverly,
j Mass., caused a handsome tablet to be
j erected ou the situ of the old mill,
commemorating tha establishment ot
the first enterprise of its kind ever in
augurated in the United States.
The Ways <if Ilurulars.
A well-known detective of several
yeare' experience has this to say of
burglars: "If one were to become a
professional burglar his work would
require study and practice, just as suc
cess in legitimate business demands
education and experience. The burglar
who does several 'Jobs' and eludes the
officers of the law is a keen observer,
' a man of forethought, and one whose
i executive ability is unquestioned.
1 Houses are not entered because they
have brownstone fronts, nor are stores
broken Into by the professional thief
without an investigation. When the
I skilful burglar is to do a 'job' he
studieb the habits of the resident or
! proprietor. In a case in Troy a few
years ago a jewelry store was robbed.
Apparently there wus not a clue. I)e
--, tectlvea were placed on the case and
, named the thieves by the method em
ployed in getting Into the store, and
subsequently the thieves were convict
ed. Certuln burglars always enter a
cellar and come up through stairs, floor
or trap-doors. Others have skeleton
keys. Others go above and come down
stairs. Some break in rear and others
front doors. In the robbery above re
ferred to the two thieves had been in
j Troy three successive Saturday nights.
They had fastened a silk thread ou all
entrances In such away that if anyone
entered or left the store the thread
would be broken. Thus the burglars
learned that the proprietor and clerks
did not visit the store after closing
Saturday night until Sunday. The
fourth Saturday night they 'cracked'
th# safe. Except for their methodical
way of entering (by the cellar) no sus
picion would have attached itself to
) them.
"Even burglars have some style.
People living In modest homes, unless
they have large sums of money or jew
elry, need not fear a visit from the pro
i fessional. He is always posted on the
plunder for which he seeks. As a rule,
_ burglars are cowards, and it Is only in
emergencies that revolvers are used."
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i: A small ,dish of powdered charcoal
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o übsorh odors
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