FREELAND TRIBUNE. Est&tlishol 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY. WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY. BY TBI TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANV, Limited. OFFICE :™MAIN.STHEET ABOVE CENTRE. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. FREELAND.—The TRIBUNE is delivered by curriers to subscribers iu Freclaud at the rate of 1254 cents a month, payable every two months, or $1.50 a year, payable in advance. The TRIBUNE may be ordered direet from the carriers or from the oiliee. Complaints of irregular or tardy delivery service will receive prompt attention. BY MAIL.—The TRIBUNE is sent to out-of town subscribers for .50 a year, payable iu advance; pro rata terms for shorter periods. The date when the subscription expires is ou the address label of each paper. Prompt re newals must be made at the expiration, other wise the subscription will be discontinued. Make all money orders , checks, etc., payable to the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. FREE LAN I), PAJULY 9, 1002. FACTS IN FEW LINES Every year salmon become scarcer In Scotch rivers. Korea as well as China Is going to have her ariny reorganized. The world's record for steamships Is CCD miles a day and for sailing vessels 825 miles. The manufacture of sugar In Italy now sufllces for two-thirds of the na tional consumption. The original Ramona of Helen nunt Jackson's story Is said to be living near Temeeiila, Cal. Only 80,33 1 of the 700,000 British subjects who died last year had uuy thing to leave by will. The rlee mills of South Carolina clean and .polish about $100,000,000 worth of rice each season. The boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, in the Greater New York, now have more than 80,000 telephones. Belgium sold in the United States last year iu firearms, principally rough bored gun barrels, $52,230.07 worth. The mortality from accidents to rail way employees was reduced 35 per cent last year by improved coupling devices. An English writer calculates that Americans are investing an annual sum of $450,000,000 in Europe, mostly in English securities. Arkansas is to furnish a smoking room for both the blue and the gray at the St. Louis fair. Conversation ought not to lag in that room. The Carthusian Fathers have decid ed that in future visitors cannot lie re ceived for the night ut the monastery of La Grande Chartreuse. Paul Revere's house in Boston, from which he started out on the "ride" on April 19, 1775, immortalized by Long fellow, is now a "Banca Itallana." Great Britain is spending this year upon forty-five armored ships the sum of $154,000,000. In a recent trial u twelve inch gun was fired twice in a minute. The Royal Society of Great Britain has announced a new determination of the heat of the sun. It is made by Pro fessor Charles Wilson, who places it at 11,192 degrees F. An English writer calls attention to the fact that'more lives are sacrificed each year on the railway than the to tal casually list of the eight biggest battles in the Boer war. Foreigners will not he permitted to travel over the Siberian railway with out special Russian authorization. This has been officially announced by the Russian consul ut Shanghai. The first Tngalog-English mid Eng lish-Tagalog dictionary bus just been completed. It is the work of Dr. Stem pic of New York, who worked on a Tagalog grammar before our war with Spuiu. The recent Census returns show that the population of Belgium now stands at 0,003,810, liuving doubled during the last sixty-nine years. Beligium is now the? most densely populated country in Europe. The oldest piece of writing in the world is on a fragment of a vase found at Nippur. It is an inscription in pic ture writing and dates 4,500 years be fore Christ. The University of Penn sylvania has secured it. Recent storms have done much dam age to the beautiful South Carolina monument on the Chlckamauga battle field, but it is not beyond repair. The monument consists of a large bronze palmetto tree on a marble base. A London firm has issued a cata logue of the goods it keeps for sale. It is an encyclopedic work In two hand some volumes of 880 pages, 50 in col ors, size 10 by 12 inches and two inches in thickness. Its publication cost SIOO,OOO. Bolivia produces one-twelfth of the world's tin and is rich in copper uml placer gold. Yet It has only 200 miles of railroad for Its 000,000 square miles of territory. The almost entire lack of transportation facilities has kept back its development. A. Oswald has the agency for the cele brated Elysian's extracts and perfumery. The finest goods made. Trv them. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Slgnaturs of PEOPLE OF THE DAY A Deserved Recognition. The nomination of Captain Charles E. Clark to be rear admiral, which was sent to the senate by President Roose velt on June 10, met with general ap proval not only in official circles, but throughout the country. There was a very general feeling that Captain CHAIILES E.' CLARK, U. S. N. Clark had not been properly rewarded for Ills remarkable and plucky work In bringing the Oregon from San Francis co at a time when it was believed that Cervera'B fleet was cruising In the wa ters of the south Atlantic and In the track which the Oregon would follow. After the war Captain Clark was glv- DII slight recognition in the way of ad vancement of a few numbers In his grade, but there has been a feeling that his reward was not sufficient. Charles Edgar Clark was born In Ver mont In August, 1843, and was ap pointed to the Naval academy In Sep tember, 1809. HtroiiK In Old ARP. Senator Pettus of Alabama, though the oldest man In the United States senate, is always alert when any mat ter In which ho is Interested Is under consideration and as active as a youth of twenty when drawn Into the discus sions, though he has passed his eighty first birthday. The following little in cident proves the truth of this state ment: When Senator Spooner was making his Philippine speech, Senator Pettus V J SENATOR PETTUS. sat steadily writing ut his desk for more than an hour, but at the same time apparently listening to what Sen ator Spooner was saying. "What's he writing?" asked Senator Millard of Senator Scott. "Don't know," replied Scott, "but It seems too long for n letter." The curiosity of all hands was satis fled soon after, for Mr. Pettus arose, took up the manuscript and read from It. lie had been writing an answer to Senator Spooner while listening to him. Mr. Schwnh find the Reporter. At a recent dinner Charles M. Schwab In talking about interviews told how he got even with at least one newspaper man for the stories the newspapers told about the steel king's gambling experiences at Monte Carlo last summer. The reporter was sent a long distance to find Mr. Schwab and happened to find him in his New York office, apparently at leisure, smoking a cigar. "1 will give you the interview," said Mr. Schwab, "but I must exact one condition, which we will mention later on. Will you agree to it?" "Certainly," said the reporter, getting out his notebook; "any wish of yours about the interview shall be respected to the utmost." Thereupon Mr. Schwab opened his heart and his lips. The reporter took copious notes. When all was over, the steel magnate said: "Oh, yes; and now about that condition. You have prom ised to fulfill it." "It shall bo done," said the reporter. "What is your stipulation?" "Simply this," replied Mr. Schwab, rising and moving toward the door—"I will not permit you to publish one word that I have said." MO<I.V'N FINII Story. Dangling from his watch chain and skillfully mounted In gold Jim Moody of North Carolina has a unique charm. It Is a black, oval shaped stone, smoothly polished. This charm came to Mr. Moody in a unique manner. One of his constituents, Mr. 11. C. Jones, once went fishing In the French Broad river for black bass, lie got a whopping big fish, In whose stomach he found this smoothly polish ed stone. "The supposition," says Mr. Moody, "Is that the bass took this stone for a big bug and snapped at It. The stoue remained in his stomach the remain der of his days, till my friend Jones caught him In the French Broad river." The Itch wood Tree. The most dangerous vegetable irri tant poison is that of the ltchwood tree of the Fiji islands. One drop of the sap falling on the hand is as painful as u touch of a hot iron. I REDEEMING! \ HER SEX • o ByVENA KENNEDY WILSON O 0 o ♦ Copyright, 1901, by V. K. Wilmn +o+o+o+o+o+o++o+o+o+o+o+o+ "Are you sure, madam, you bought nothing In the upholstery department 011 Thursday?" "Yes, I am sure." "Then this receipt for $3.29 was giv en you for a five dollar deposit?" "Yes; It must have been. I was here Thursday and paid $5 on u rug, and when I got home I found the receipt was for $3.29." "Well, Just take a chair, and I will look it up." The head of the department went through a pile of jiapcrs before him. A faintly amused contemptuous glance In his eye told the underclerk that he had branded her story "another lie," In a few minutes he turned to her and said courteously, but coldly: "Strange; our slip says SO. Now, I will give you a duplicate receipt. I will keep the receipt you gave me for the $3.29. It is of no value to you," looking her In the eye. "No; oh, no! Of course not. Thank you! I—l—knew I had paid the SO." After she lmd left he took his way with a smile to the upholstering de partment. When he returned, the smile was almost a sneer. "Well?" said the underclerk, with a laugh. "Same old thing," he said wearily. "The receipt was gives for goods bought by her Thursday. She lias lost or mislaid her receipt for the $3 and, judging us by herself, was afraid we would deny receiving it, so hutched up that lie. By heavens, I believe a wom an would lie her soul away to save a dollar!" The other man chuckled. "You tliluk It Is funny. Well, I don't." All hour later lie turned to bis clerk again: "Five more women; five more lies; a good record for 1111 hour." A woman stood beside him, and as his eyes scanned her quickly lie smiled involuntarily. She was not shabbily genteel, but shabbily grotesque. The skimpy cape, the threadbare waist, the befiowered bonnet and ill hanging skirt were of all colors and materials. They were alike only In cleanliness. She raised her sharp brown eyes, hesitated and smiled a little tremu lously, showing gums entirely devoid of teeth. Then straightening herself up she said slowly: "I've come to see If you'd take a rug back." "What is the matter with the rug?" "Notliin', only I don't want It." "Mow long have you had It? A couple of days, I suppose," Ironically. "No, I've had it purty near two month." "But you have not used It, of course." "Well, it's been 011 the lloor all the time, but 1 only set there when 1 have company, 1111' I don't have company very often," this a little apologetically. "It's a purty rug an' I like it, but I want to send It back." "Why did you buy it, If you didn't want it?" lie asked bluntly. "I do want It, but but I've got to have some money an' I can't get it un less I can send the rug back." "How much was It?" " 'Beven dollars an* forty cents," she answered dejectedly. "Are you sure there is nothing wrong with the rug?" he asked in an insinuat ing voice. "If It is crooked or off color or not as represented, 1 may be able to do something for you." "No," emphatically, but sorrowfully, "there ain't notliin' wrong with the rug. It's purty an* all right, but it ain't hurt any, an' I must have the money, un'—an' I thought you might take it back." "Give me your name and address," lie said, "and I will call tomorrow and look at it. I will toil you then what I can do." His eyes held a smile that was not amusement or contempt, but a combination of incredulity and Joy that made the underclerk wonder. The next afternoon he climbed five lllghts of stairs and was ushered Into the room with the rug. Its Haunting colors, the glaring cliro 1110s, the table with the installment plan album, the few wooden chairs and the old cane rocker, even the one little scarlet geranium, were noted in a single glance. But lie looked at the old woman's l'aee long and steadily. It was such a battered old face, as though time, sorrow and privation had fought out their desperate battle there and left each time traces to tell the tale. "It's a purty rug," was what she said. "Y'ou don't want to give up the rug. Why do you do so?" She clutched nervously at lior apron and shrank within herself before the man who seemed to rill the room with bis dominant, forceful personality. He was so strong, young, well groomed, that she felt suddenly old, weak and helpless before him. "Excuse me," ho said kindly. "I hnd no thoughts of prying into your busi ness. I only want to help you out of this if I can." "I know, I know," she said quickly, "an' you're good-good. You'll think me a silly old woman, but I can't bear to disappoint him. Nigh thirty years! It's a long time, an' we've both got old an' ugly, but our hearts is Just the same. If lie hadn't said it almost the last thing, I wouldn't cur<- so much, but, 'Molly,' said be, 'be careful of your teeth. You' > such a purty j mouth. An'—an'—now I :*t ? no teeth lat all, un' him u-comiu' after 11 thefte years! It's n long time to be In prison, an' that's why I want the rug, 'cause It's so bright an* cheerful, an' he hain't seen not hi n' very cheerful all these years, but—but I must have the teeth. I had the money for them, too, but they'll only send him to Cincinnati, where he went up from, so I'll have to send the money for the rest of the way. I must have the teeth," wring ing her hands unconsciously while the sunken lips quivered and the tears trickled down the yellow cheeks. "I must have the teeth—an'—un' I don't know what to do. "They sent him up for fifty years. It's a long time for kllliii* a man that egged him on to doln' it, an' he was young an' hot headed then. We'd only been married four year, an' we was Jus' gettin' a nice little start, but," with a dry sob, "I know it seems silly to you for an old woman to care how plie looks, but it's for liim; it's to please him." The man walked quickly to the win dow. A woman true for thirty years! A woman who would not lie! A woman whose love had grown with suffering! A woman with clear brown eyes like lie bowed his head in his hand a mo ment, and when he raised it the light of Joy that shone through the mist was like the sun behind an April cloud. "We can't take back the rug," he said, "but here," quickly writing 011 his card, "is the address of my dentist. Go to him. lie will make your teeth, and I will stand good for them. Now prom ise me that you will go today." "No, no," she said, breaking into tears. "I ain't not hill' to you an' I can't let you do that. God bless you! I ain't never taken notliln' yet but what I earned. I wouldn't feel honest in doin' this, for I wuzn't try in' to get help, only to have the rug taken back." "You must," he said firmly. "You can pay me back; you can pay it a lit tle at a time. Will you be generous and do this to please me?" And he looked into her face with a winning smile. "God is good," she answered broken ly, the weary old face lighting with a great Joy. "I know you mean what you say, an' I'll pay you every cent Jus' as soon as I can. You don't know what this means to me," breaking into helpless sobs, "for—for I want to look as good as I can for John." That evening a girl with clear brown eyes sat with hands folded listlessly in her lap, her lips in wistful curve. Sud denly she started, a tlush came to her cheeks, a warm light to her eyes. With a cry of Joy she sprang to her feet and held out her hands to him. With 110 words he caught her to him and kissed her with u passion of love; then, put ting his hand under her chin, he held her face so he could look into her eyes and said slowly: "If I was sent to prison for thirty years, would j'ou love me, be true to me and kiss me after those thirty years with the same gladness you do now V" "I don't know," she answered hesi tatingly. "You don't know?" "No. How could I? I love you so much I think I could love you always. But how can I tell? Oh," her face Hushing scarlet, "what am I saying? I am telling you I love you. and—you have never yet said you loved me. And you cannot or you wouldn't have left me for a month with no word, even to tell me why." "You know I love you, though," he said—"love you so much I was afraid of it. And I am happier to hear you say that you can't tell whether you would be true to me or not than for an assurance to come tripping oft" your tongue. It wasn't you, darling, but your sex, that has almost robbed me of my happiness. But one little old woman has redeemed all your sex fdl* you and brought me to you again. For God's sake, never lie to me, Cleta!" She looked at him with tender wom anly pity. "I'oor boy!" she said softly. "Y'ou have seen the one side so long you for get how many sides there are to an oc tagon. Because from millions of wom en a few hundred come to you with lies 011 their lips must you condemn all womankind? No, no, my dear; you must not condemn women, for every noblo man is mostly what his mother has made him. While women have their weaknesses, they are"— "The light of man's life!" he cried. Cricket * She Saw It. A German schoolgirl thus describes the English game of cricket: "It is very good for the exercising of the limbs, besides they learn to obey orders and not to quarrel. The cricket court con sists of a great lawn and a little tents, where the players repose themselves or where are the places of the audi ence, which kits to pay a little money before they are permitted to regard the elevens. Now the bailer sends a ball, the batter who is standing before the wicket has to send it abroad. If the ball knocks down the wickets, the bailer and the backstop make their runs," etc. But the gem of the article Is the moral retlcction made at the end of it by the juvenile essayist: "When they are thirsty, they go into the tents to drink a glass of brandy, then they are drunk, and their parents scolds; poor boys. I would not allow my chil dren to play such a stupid game." Strmiurc lilcnn of Feminine Ilennty. An African beauty must have small eyes, thick lips, a large, fiat nose and a skin beautifully black. In New Guinea the nose is perforated and a largo piece of wood or bone inserted. On the northwest coast of America uu Incision more than two inches long I 9 made In the lower lip and then filled with a wooden plug. In Guinea .the lips are pierced with thorns, the head of the thorn being inside the mouth and the point resting on the chin. Neftse Shirts for Sue! Here is important news for men who are fond of a negligee shirt—and what man is not? We have for your inspection a beau tiful line of negligee sliirts in ma terials of Madras, Percale and i Chevioti. All the new colorings, conspicuous for their original de signs. Our better grade shirts are 81.00 and 1.50, yet we boast of an unequaled line at 50c, about twenty different styles. A full and complete line of Neckwear, comprising all the lat est creations and styles. McMenamin's Gents' Furnishing, Hat and Shoe Store. South Centre Street. Halm's Tonic. A ride in the open, For Health, For Pleasure, For Business. You should ride a Bicycle, RAMBLER. $35 to SOS. The 1902 Models Bristle With New Ideas. CaHEiaiie. A complete stock al ways on hand. For Sale By lit D. Dai, Freeland. RAILROAD TIMETABLES LEilKili VALLEY RAILKOAD. May 18. 1902. AKKANOEMKNT or PARSBNGEU TRAINS. LKAVK FHKELAND. 0 12 n in lor Weatherly, Munch Chunk Alien town, Bethlehem, Huston, IMiilu delphiuand New York. 7 20 i in l'or Sandy llun. White Haven, Wilkes-Barre, Pit tat en and Seranton. 815n ni for llu/.lctoii, Weal herly. Maueh Chunk. Allentown, Bethlehem, Huston, Philadelphia, New York, JJelano and l'ottsville. 9 58 a in lor If u/Jetnn, Delano, Mahauoy City, Shenundoiih and Mt. ( arniel. 1 1 45 ii m for Wenthorly, Maueh Chunk, Al ieiitowu, Bethlehem, Huston, Phila delphia, New York, Jlu/.leton, Delano, Mahanoy City, Shenandoah and Mt. 1141 a in lor White Haven, Wilkes-Burro, Seranton and the West. 4 44 ii HI for Weutherly, Maueh Chunk, AJ lentown, Bethlehem. Huston, Philadel phia, New York, llu/.leton, Delano Mahanoy City, Shenandoah. Mt. Curiae and l'ottsville. 0 35 i in for Sandy Hun, White Haven, Wilkes-lJurro, Serunton and all points West.. 7 29 p in for Ha/.leton, AHHIVB AT KKKEI.AND, 7 29 a in from l'ottsville, Delano ami Ha/.- leton. 9 12 HIU from New York, Philadelphia, Hus ton, Hethlehein, Allentown, Maueh Chunk. Weatherly, Ha/.leton. Mahanoy City, Shenandoah and Mt. Curiuel 9 58 a in from Seranton, Wilkes-Dane and White Huven. 1151 a m from Pottaville, Mt. Carmel, Shen andoah, Mahanoy City, Delano and Ha/.leton. 12 351> m from New York, Philadelphia, Huston, Bethlehem, Allentown, Maueh Chunk and Weatherly. 4 44c ' K,."? fr .'. ,m Wilkes-Barre and White Haven. 0 35 P ni from New York, Philadelphia, Huston, Bethlehem Allentown, Maueh Chunk, W eatherlv, Mt. Carmel, Shenan doah, Mahanoy City, Delano and Hazle ton. 7 20 i:.'" Seranton, Wilkee-llarre and hit© Haven. For iurther iiil'oruiation inquire of Tioket Agent*. UULLIN H.WILBUH. General Superintendent 28 Cortlandt Street, New York Citv CHAS. S. LEE, General Passenger Agent 2t3 Cortlondt Street, New York Citv G. J. G I LDKOY, Division Superintendent, Ha/.leton, Pa. THE DELAWARE, SUSQUEHANNA AND SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD. Time table in effect May in. nan. Trains leave Dril'ton forJeddo, Eekley, Ha/.10 lirook. Stockton, Beaver Meadow Koad, lloan and Mazleton Junetion ut fiIMJ a m, dnilv e*ce|t Sunday; and 7 07 a m, 2 08 p m, Sunday Trains leave Driiton for Oneida Junotion • hirwood ltoad, Humboldt Road, Oneida and' Sheppton at HOO u m, daily except Sun dav; and 7 07 a m, 2 38 p m, Sunday. Trams leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida Junction, Harwood Head, Humboldt. Hoad Oneida and Sheppton at 0 :t2, ii 10 a m 4 41 n in' daily except Sunday; and 7 87 a m, 311 p tu Suuday. 1 % Trains leave Deringer for Torohlcken, Cran rJi H1 woo *|* Hazleton Junction and HoVn Tm SOTpm",Sunday! 1081 " Bundßy; H,m Trains ICHVO Hazleton Junction for Reaver Meadow ltoad, Stockton, Hazlo Urook, Eekley Jeddo and Ddfton ut 5 411 p m, daily eieept Sunday: und 10 10 a ra. 6 4(1 p m, Sundaj.; ~1 ..i^ n wtnuect at Hazleton Junction with olectric care for Hazioton, Jeauoevillo, Auden. pany'i Hne Point* " the Traction Com r.riTßn HMlt'Tl IPIRIHSTT I ZEsTG- Promptly Don* at the Tribune Office.
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