Freeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited OFFICE: MAIS STREET ABOVE CKKTBE. FREELAND, PA. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One Year $1.50 81* Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Months .25 The date which the subscrlptiou Is paid to la on the address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date be oomes a receipt for remlttaucc, Keep the flguree In advunce of the present date. Re tiort promptly to this office whenever paper s not received. Arrearages muet be paid when subscription is discontinued. Make all money ortkrs, checks, eto,, payable lo the Tribune Frintinj Company, Limited. The man who is classed as a crank, may console himself with the knowl. edge that, in the absence of the crank, the mighty power that moves the in dustries of the world would sutler paralysis. Success in naval war depends in • very great measure upon owning points here and there in the ocean on which your ship commanders and companies may securely depend as bases for coal and provision supplies and for re pairs, writes Professor E. Benjamin Andres in the New York Independent. Without such, a strong navy may be easily beaten by a weak one, your war be lost, and your coast left to the mercy of your foes. Some such bases of supplies in the Pacifio we must have and we canuct have too many. The influence of present social con ditions in the United States upon the birth rate is beginning to attract at tention, for the reason that the size of the average American family is steadily decreasing. This is espe cially true in New England, where the average family has been reduced from 5.16 iu 1850 to 4.57 at the pres ent time, but the same thing is true in a reduced degree of the whole na tion. In 1850 the sizo of the average American family was 5.55 and it has now been reduced to 4.93. YYe are •till maintaining a healthy birth rate, but conditions that tend to restrict the raising of families and to reduce the number of births caunot be said to be desirable. The middleman is on the defensive; he is having a severer struggle for ex istence than the men either sido of him, observes tho New York Journal f Commerce. The contest is sharp enough everywhere, but the middle man is at the focus. He has served a useful purpose; he can never be ex terminated, because within a certain area he is a necessity, but that area is being circumscribed on both sides. If the manufacturers combine they con centrate their selling agencies; if they remain apart the competition between them becomes so sharp that they get Into direct relations with the retailer. In either case the producer and the consumer are pushed up nearer to each other, and the man who is be tween the two finds his position get tiug tighter and tighter. A Colt's Jump From a Moving Train. There receutly occurred in Kansas an accident which is remarkable from tho fact that the outcome was not seri ous. Dr. Morris has a blooded colt, which be bad loaded upon a Frisco freight train to ship to Joplin, Mo. The animal was tied in a furniture car and the doors left partly open. About five miles north of Arkansas City, while tho keeper was on another part of the train, tho animal became un tied and jumped out of the door. The train was going at the rate of about twenty-five miles an hour when the horse jumped, but the animal was un injured. A section man caught the horse and led it back to the city. Tho Kind Kaiser und Ills Sermon. In a recent story about the kaiser, William Is made to size up bis own ability as a preacher. It is well known that the kaiser on his annual trip on board the Hohenzollern to the Norwe gian fiords is in the habit of conduct ing divine service every Sunday moan ing. He usually reads a short liturgy and follows the prayers with a sermon. In his recent trip the officers of the Hohenzollern noticed that a sailor dur ing divine service had fallen fast asleep. After service the captain call ed the sailor before him, gave him a sound rating and sentenced him to two days' arrest. The captain afterward reported the Incident of the sleeping sailor, and the punishment inflicted on Um. "Was he on watch the night be fore?" asked the kaiser. "He was, your majesty." "Then, let the poor devil off. Besides, It wasn't much of * sermon, anyhow." The Power of liable. "How are you getting on with your automobile?" asked Miss Cayenne. "Well," answered Willie Wishlngton, "I can rua the machine all right, but it will be a long time before I can get over saying 'geddup' and 'whoa' to It." —Washington Star. THE pumpkin. (n 5|RM| "i he'd of Waving corn if MM I !k||s4f J 11' !!: : '/W& ' From a flower whose golden color (I /ll\\ll|li?KVWs^ l Wife ML outshines the glow ot morn, MiiMKsISH Where the bumblebees are work- I llmmNrl | , TT/iC ln F. their rough backs all i/l *" WiWlitr WYfsL \>flk bright with gold, I I VUl'ir^ And we learn the wondrous seoret I/ jß]^""aSJ Live ye long and never die. /SJP 00000000000000000000000000 THEBDERAS I 1 A FIGHTER. I OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOCOOOOOO The Boers are born fighters, a na tion of sharpshooters, they never waste a bullet; each Boer selects his man and kills him and keeps on doing the Same thing all day and every day un til the war is over. It is a commcn boast with them which they have made good iu more than one clash with the British, that one Boer is equal to ten Englishmen. They do not come out and fight in the open, but swarm all over a mountain side, hiding behind trees and rocks, and woe to the thin red line or hollow square that comes within range of their unerring Mar tinis and Mausers. In fact, the Boer victories over tho British soldiers are largely accountable for the British feeling against them, and in the bitter warfare against the nation the success of the Boers has been extraordinary. Fewer than 450 Boers resisted 12,- 000 of the fiercest Zulu warriors on December 16, 1838, aud 3000 natives were left dead on the field, and this with old flint locks. President Kru s'... ®s-# FIELD CORNET'S MESSENGER HANDING OVER COMMANDOS TO BOER FARMERS TO BE READY FOR WAR. ger, as a boy, helped the forty Dutch men hold off 2000 of the men of Mose litkase, then tho most renowned na tive captain in South Africa. The bravery of the mon is shown by the attack that 135 of them mado on 10,000 Zulus on the Marico ltiver, driving them out of the Transvaal. These are simply better-known in stances of the lighting abilities of the Boers. Every man has handled a gun from infancy. In the old days, when a Boer was not fighting the fieroe na tives he was defending himself from savage beasts. Every Boer has been trained in warfare. They discovered the method of laagering their wagons, placing them in a hollow square,which the British generals have adopted as the most successful way of fighting the natives. The Boers have shown themselves masters of strategy, the result of constant warfare with a cruel and treacherous foe. j*|> |l /T U M OFPItER ano PRIVATE- State artillery TYPES OF BOER INFANTRY, CAVALRY AND ARTILLERY. The Government of the South Afri can Republic is empowered to call at any time the burghers for armed aervice. The Field Cornet of each district goe3 round and serves a no tice on the conscripts, who, mounted and fortjfied against hunger for ten days by a "FT'J af buck r beef. ' cured in the sun, and called "bil *on£>" concentrate in the specified "dorp" or village, where they invaria bly meet in the market place—the church, iron gated, iron steepled, in the background. Arms are distributed r.v " o •- INSPECTION OF A "COMMANDO" OF BOERS IN THE MARKET PLACE OF A TOWN. to those who are without them; and as for forage, the velt is trusted to supply it at need. The commandant, who is the Dutch equivalent of the English colonel, drills his forces as best he may; and a certain amount of military discipline is eastly ac quired, despite the rather slouchy ap pearance, due in part to the absence of uniforms, except in the case of the commandants, the other officers, and the "State Artillery." The Boer much resembles our Amer ican Apache in his ability to live on the shadow of things when in the field. A writer of South Africa, in a contribution to a London paper, calls attention to the ability of the Boer to live on rations which an ordinary trooper would not endure and his ca pacity to travel great distances with horse in incredibly short time. The Boer knows every road and trail of the Transvaal; as a hunter he knows the devious ways of the wastes beyond. He is an agriculturist and a hunter. By the law of self-preserva tion he has learned the wily ways of the savage whom he displaced in the Transvaal. The seoret recesses of the mountains are at his command. As a horseman ho much resembles our American cowboy. He can ride on top of the saddle, or over his horse's nock, or Cossask fashion, with one foot in the stirrup, one leg on the sad dle and his head and shoulders on the ground. His horße is part of his fam ily life. The beasts are very hardy, sure-footed and affectionate. Then, too, the Boer is inured to the hard ships of the mountains, to long horse back journeys, scant allowances of food, treks on whioh the water supply is scarce. In the campaign of 1881 against the English the Boer took good care that his forces never faced the enemy in the open field. He never offered open engagement. He chose his eyrie in the mountain gorges, and from that vantage point he picked off the foe at his will. Even when he assaulted Ma juba Hill he came up rock by rock, squirming like a snake, twisting in aud out and not firing until he had a ' mark t,o hit. An English correspondent who went through the 1881 campaign wrote at that time of the lighting qualities of the Boers: "We never are able tc see the enemy. Except before the fight at Majuba Hill, J never saw but a hand ful of them at any time. And when they thought we noticed them they and their horses disappeared as if swallowed up by the earth. I think we all feel that they can shoot. Our losses at Hatley and Laing's Nek showed that. We were very much in the open, but not a blessed Boer was to be seen. But every once in a while there was the crack of a rifle, and then one of our poor boys would go over, the line would close up and we would begin chasing again for the enemy we could never find. I was taken prisoner just after General Colley was killed, and I can say that I could not have been treated better by any people. They were kind to our wounded, did not molest the dead nor insult us of the living. I think they are a very brave people, and, as for lighting, they seem to know just as much about it as we do." The Boer loves his country with a passionate patriotism. He is not a miner, or an engineer, or a railroad constructor. He is pre-eminenly an WHEN JOHN BULL LEFT US. A Monument in Boston Will Coinmsm* orate the Historical Event. "It is with the greatest pleasure I in form you that on Sunday last, the 17th inst. (1776), about 9 o'clock in the forenoon, the ministerial army evacuat ed the town of Boston, and that the forces of the United Colonies are now in actua! possession thereof. I beg leave to congratulate you, sir, and the DORCHESTER HEIGHTS MONUMENT. (Marks the spot where Qeorge Washington stood and watched the British soldiers sail away.) honorable Congress on this happj event, and particularly as it was effect ed without endangering the lives and property of the remaining unhappy in habitants. I have great reason to im agine their flight was precipitated by the appearance of a work, which I had ordered to be thrown up last Saturday night on an eminence at Dorchester, which lies nearest to Boston Neck, called Nook's Hill." Thus wrote Gen eral George Washington to the Presi dent of Congress March 19, 1776. The City Council of Boston has approved plans for the Dorohester Heights monument which marks the spot where General Washington stood and watched the British sail away. The plans show a type of to'fer common in colonial times, with fountain and memorial tablet on the most conspicuous side. It will be built of old-fashioned brick with dark headers. The trimmings will be of Indiana stone or white terra cotta. The height of the monument to the base of the steeple will be about Beventy-five feet. The original appro priation for the monument was $25,000. Liked Thein In Group*. Albeit an attractive young miss in most ways, like many other young animals it was her habit to wolf her food. Of this hor mhther tried to break her, and on this particular oc casion was remonstrating because of the number of peas Alice seemed to think it necessary to consume at a mouthful. "Take fewer peas on your fork, Alice. Why should you want to take so many at one time?" "They taste so much better when eaten in groups," was Alice's unex pected explanation. Altered a Trifle. One small girl says to another: "They are not saying rubberneck any more." "Why not?" aske the other with some joy. "Because they are saying penin sula," says the one. "And why peninsula?" says the other, innocently. "Because it stretches out to sea," says the one.—"Worcester (Mass.) Gazette. A Keinnrknble Girl. Helen Keller, the deaf, dnml) nnd blind girl, whose acquirements have attracted the attention of all stndents of oducational methods, spent last summer at Wreutham, Mass., as the guest of Mrs. J. E. Chamberlain. She keeps up her study of Greek and Arabic, nnd writes her exercises on a typewriting machine especially de signed for these languages, with inter changeable cylinders. Byway of ex ercise she delights in climbing trees, and she is an excellent swimmer, HELEN KELLER. (The deaf, dumb and blind girl.) whioh she vastly enjoys. Helen puz zles new visitors by telling the color of the flowers they bring, She can even distinguish a white and yellow pansy from a purple one, and a red from a white rose. < Her explanation in that the petal of the darker colored flowers are thicker than those of the lighter ones. She Caught Him. Patrice—"You know, Will said he'd like to be caught playing golf." Patience— "Yes." "Well, 1 caught him on the linas this very afternoon. We're engaged." —Yonkers Statesman, HANDY WITH A SHOTGUN. •o Tliey Thought Htm, Though It WM the First Time He Had Ever Fired One. "I've often wondered," said a jolly tooking man, "if anybody ever got the credit of being a good shot as easily as I did. I was visiting at a house in the country, and one day tbe host says: 'Let's go out and try the shooting.' There were two or three other guests there besides myself. The host led the way into the hall, where there were standing three or four shotguns. He handed a gun to me, though really I didn't want it, supplied one or two others of the gnests, who did shoot, with gnns, and took the remaining gun himself, and we started out. "It was a delightful tramp, and a novel experience for me, going gun ning, for I had never fired a shotgun in my life. I enjoyed it all verv much, but I sort of strolled along in the rear, a little behind the rest, to give the others a chanoe at the game, with the hope that I would not be called upon to shoot. I thought I should only make a ridiculous ex hibition of myself; but, as it hap pened, I fired the only shot fired that day, and it was a bnllseya. Right in the centre of a field that we were crossing there was a big dead tree, sixty or seventy feet high, and on the topmost branch of it sat a solitary pigeon. The quick-eyed host, a keen sportsman himself, turning around to see if I were coming all right—he was walking just ahead with the others—spied that pigeon. " 'There's a chanoe for you,' he said to] me, enthusiastically, as he looked up at the bird, and I couldn't do any less than make a bluff at it. I swung the old shotgun up and fired, all in one movement, and dropped the bird just as neat as you please. The host was delighted; it would have been a good fair shot for anybody to make, and ho was especially pleased that it should have been made by one of his guests. The rest had turned in time to see the pigeon fall. I had pro tested that I was no shot and they all thought now that I was far too modest. And so by that single chance Bhot I got the reputation, at least for the moment, of being very handy with a shotgun."—New York Sun. WISESWORDS. They can conquer who believe they can. —Dryden. Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. —Shakspeare. The less men think the more they talk. —Montesquieu. Every man is the architeot of his own charaoter.—Boardman. Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.—Mazzini. A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience. Home. Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than the compliments of civility.— Cervantes. One's self-satisfaotion is an untaxed kind of property, whioh is very un pleasant to find depreciated.—George El iot. Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time; the former grows upon it. —Richter. If wo fasten our attention on what we have, rather than on what we lack, a very little wealth is sufficient.—F. Johnson. Open your mouth and purse cau tiously and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.—Zimmerman. The true source of ohecrfnlnoss is benevolence. The soul that perpet ually overflows wi(h kindness (and sympathy will always be cheerful. Goodwin. Advice For Engaged Girl*. "No, I never have a bit of trouble with my husband," remarked the frail little woman with the intelligent face. "Iu fact I have him right under my thumb." "You don't look very strong," j doubtfully commented the engaged girl. "You mistake me, my dear. It's a mental, not a physical subjection." "Would you mind telling me just how " "Not a bit! Always glad to help any one steer dear of the rocks. First of all you must know that a man iff love is the biggest sort of fool, and says things that make him almost wild when he hears 'em in after life. I real ized it, and from the very beginning of our courtship I kept a phonograph in the room, and every speech he made was duly recorded. Now whenever my husband gets a little bit obsreper ous I just turn out a record or so. Heavens, how he does rave, but ha can't deny it I They always will though if you don't have proof positive." "Thanks!" gratefully murmured the engaged girl. "I'll get a phonograph I this very day." Dogs of War. For the last five yoars a society founded under the auspiceß of Herr Bungartz, the animal painter, has been training Scotch shepherd dogs to as sist the relief parties in discovering the whereabouts of wounded in battle, and last week the general in command of the ambulance manoeuvres in con nection with the Eighth German army corps near Coblenz allowed four of these sagacious creatures to take part in the exercises. Their value was abundantly proved, for they trackhd down in a few minutes n soore of men so concealed that the bearers could never have discovered them in day light, much loss at nigl t. Herr Bun gartz gave a leoiure at tho close of the proceedings on the breeding and edu cation of these dogs of war, and sev eral regiments are kooping small packs of them on their own account.—Lou don Chronicle. CUPID AND_THE NURSES. Bo neat, So sweet, Bo light of feot, Tls quite a pleasure to he 111, Bo gentle und Bo deft of hand. Preparing plaster, powder, pUL Bo slim. Bo trim, Bo lithe of limb, It reconciles me to be sick. So sweet a face, Such girlish grace (I fear I'll convalesce too quick.) Such wit, Buoh grit; I'll moan a bit, 'Twill make her think that I'm In pain. I must contrive, As I'm alive, To have my forehead bathe 1 again. The dear, Bo near; I'll gain her ear, I'll vow I won't be lured to life. Unless she's sure That when the euro Becomes complete she'll be my wife. —What to Eat. HUMOR 0~ THE DAY. "I always enjoy the minstrel jokes.* "Why?" "'Cause I've got such a poor memory." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Dorothy (grcat'.y Burprised to see a horseless carriage go by)—"My! there's a carriage walkiug in its sleep." —Youth's Companion. "Do you know anything that will make me stout, doctor?" "Why, certainly I do." "What is it?" "Flesh." —Yonkers Statesmnn. "He's honest as the day Is long—" But some one impolite Spoke up In accents rude and strong With, "How about the night?" —Washington Star. Friend —"There ought to have been money in that invention." The Mechanic—"Oh, yesl Half a dozen patent lawyers got rich on it!"— Puck. Stranger —"Mr. Conductor, will I have time to bid my wife good-by?" Conductor—"l dou't know. How ' long have you been married?"— Town | Topics. I Mr. Penn—"One physician says : that tbe tramp instinct is a disease." ! Mr. Pitt—"Does be recommend a change of sceue as the remedy?"— j Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. I "Don't leave the table," said tha j landlady, as her new boarder rose j from his scanty breakfast, "I must, I madam; it's hardwood, aud my teeth are not what they used to bo."—Tit j Bits. I Relative (from beyond the suburbs) J— "'Mandy, who's that young fellow snoopiu' around iu the kitchen?" j City Niece—"Never mind liim, Aunt Ann. He's tbe hired girl."—Chicago | Tribune. j Lady—"l wish to get a hat for my husband." flutter —"What i kind, ma'am?" Lady—"A telephone hat, if you pleuse." Hatter—"l never heard of a telephone hat." Lady— "Oh, yes; they are tho kind you can talk through." One of the surgeous of a hospital asked an Irish help which he con sidered the most dangerous of tha many cases then iu the hospital. "That, sir," said Patrick, as he pointed to a case of surgical instru ments.—Tid-Bits. The Doctor—"Everything goes by favoritism these days. Even the dog cau't get into a respectable family with out influence." Tbe Professor "That explains the appearance of the dacshhuud. He's tho dog that has had the strongest pull." "Why is she only in half mourn ing? Of course she married old Skin phlint for his money, but she ought to respect his memory now that he is dead." "Oh, she thinks she's doing all that is required under the circum stances. He only left her half his fortune."—Chicago Evening Post, Various Kinds of Storine. Meteorologists complain that there is great confusion iu the popular mind as to the proper names to apply to dif ferent kinds of Btorins. The terms "cyolone," "tornado," "hurricane," "typnoon," etc., are employed indis criminately, and yet they each have their proper use, iu weather parlance. A oyclone is in general any kind of atmospheric disturbance in which the barometric pressure decreases toward a central "low" region, and in whioh there is a spiral upward movement of tbe air. These cyoloues are not there fore necessarily destructive. A destruc tive cyclone, moving along a narrow path, is properly called a tornado. In the Orient these destructive cyclones are called typhoons, aud in the West Indies they are hurricanes. In the United States the direction of the cy clones is usually eastward; in the West Indies it is northward, veering to north-eastward. "— I Champion Koail Builder. David C. Shepard, now living in retirement at St. Paul, Minn., built during his active business career more miles of railroad than any other man, living or dead. In total "it equals the length of tbe great Russian transasian line, now in process of construction, with a thousand miles added. Mr. Shepard has built railroads in thirteen States and Territories aud iu Canada. Iu 1852 he began work as a railroad contractor, building part of what is now the Erie road, between New York und Chicago. Then he came West and built 236 miles of road in Wis consin. His greatest mileage for any one State is 1452 miles in Miunesota. The total number of miles luidby Mr. Shepard is 7026.—Chicago Tribune. Squirrel Park In Memphis. In the heart of the oityof Memphis, Temi., is a square containing a thick grove of venerable trees, with a great, cool fountain playing. Iu the trees and over the grounds scamper hun dreds of squirrels so tame that they will eat from any one's hand.