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FREELAND, PA., DECEMBEB23,IDO2. The Changed Grizzly. There are numerous reliable state ments of grizzly bears having attacked men, but nowadays the grizzly does not seek out his human victims, as there are credible statements that his forefathers used to do. Neither does he lie in wait and, pouncing upon a hunter, tear liiiu into bloody shreds in delighted iieudisliness, as the old time stories used to tell. The change *in the grizzly's disposition is likened by veteran hunters to the change in the character of the white cousin of the grizzly, the polar bear of the arctics. When the stations for the Hudson's Bay company were established, the diaries of the men there often referred to the fright of attack by polar bears. Many a navigator in the arctic seas has been clawed and chewed to death by polar bears. Put for neurly a century the polar bear lias not been regarded as so very fierce, and nowadays it is looked upon as a cowardly beast. As sociation with armed men has modi fied the polar bear's disposition.—Out tag. Breaking; It Gently. ' Editor—Mr. Plumduff, you must make a little change in your column tomorrow morning. It tukes up too much space. Cut it down by one-half. Mr. Plumduff—Yes, sir. "Then the other half won't need any special heading, ltemove the heading." "Yes, sir." "And it needn't be spaced out. Bun it close and In small type." "Yes, sir." "That will make it take up about a tbird of a column." "Yes, sir." "And then it can go in any part of the paper wherever there's room for itr "Yes, sir." "And if there isn't room it can be left out?" "Y-yes, sir." "And—it hardly seems—er—worth while to keep it going, does it?" "N-iio, sir." "You're right, Mr. Plumduff! Your resignation is accepted." c:areltM Mailers. A list of articles lost in the mails in New York during the last month has been compiled and sent out by the post office department. These range in value from 25 cents to SIOO and include pock etknives, kodak film, electroplate, pack age of hairpins, scissors, playing cards, pipe, hardware, keys, beads, flower bulbs, seeds, apron, dross goods, sam ples, toy watch, fountain pen, watch chain, razor, box of salve, spectacles, garters, toy telephone, promissory note for $l5O, surgical instruments, brass buttons, safety pins, hat feathers, yarn, butcher knife, three tablespoons, part of clock, type, hairbrushes, match boxes, samples of pills and combs.— New York Tribune. liellndu. Belinda's eyes are china blue; Belinda's nose is flat; Belinda's huir Is really hair; She wears It in a plait. It's true "Belinda's made of rags, But what is that to me? Because I'm sure her hair must grow; Her hair Is real, you see. And when I fasten on her clothes And have to use u pin She doesn't mind It In the least How far I stick It In. I'm sure she feels It, for, although She doesn't oee*n to care. There must ho something In a doll Whose hair i orally hair. The Herman Snmoan company, with the permission of the government, de signs to import Chinese laborers to work on the plantations in Samoa, on which cocoa is chiefly grown. The company has engaged a former con tractor of the New Guinea company to proceed to southern China and engage agricultural laborers. The probabili ties are that native labor will be whol ly displaced by Chinamen. The Ger man coucesslonuaires find they can get more work out of Chinamen. Outside St or no way, in the island of Lewis, is a .farmer who brings his horse and cart into the town of Storno way on market days. Whenever lie reaches the inn a quart of beer in pewter is placed before ids steed, who drinks it leisurely without ever spilling a single drop, and 110 amount of per suasion will ever Induce Mr. Horse to "have another," a temperate example which might well he followed by ills jpasters. 111 A TROPICAL }|| i! CHRISTMAS |l | | How the Day of Days Is Cele- | ! brated In Jamaica < , ; v s' J; CHRISTMAS with the mercury at 95 degrees In the shade and soaring away out of sight when exposed in the open! The burning, almost boiling, rays of the sun beat vertically down from a deep blue dome of sky that is unflecked by a single tilm of cloud, and reflect back with added intensity of suffering heat from the parched, baked and cracked earth and from the surface of a sea that shimmers like molten lead. Christmas in a land of perpetual sum mer, and a hot wave at that, where a linen suit feels like a buffulo robe and the mere thought of a blazing Yule log almost induces an attack of fever! The calendar may insist that it is the 25th of December, but to a stranger from the north, says a newspaper cor respondent from Kingston, Jumaica, to whom the word "Christinas" has a jingle of sieighbells and the sharp, keen ring of Bkate blades on the ice, there is no real Christmas in the strange countries of the tropics. In Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, the preparations for Christinas begin several weeks before the event. The shopkeepers lay in extra supplies and provide special attractions, pretty much after the manner of the New York stores. Among other things they import lurge quantities of sweetmeats and candles from London, New York and Paris, including chocolate creams and other confectionery which New Yorkers are accustomed to getting "fresh every hour." In Jamaica you are reasonably sure of getting these delicacies fresh every Christmas. Chocolate grows in groat abundance all over the island, but it must go to London or Paris or New York to be manufactured into candy, or even into the preparations for breakfast bever ages. That Is one of the expensive peculiarities of the country. The Christmas market is the great feature of the day, and almost the principal event of the year in a certain sense. Everybody goes to market on Christ mas day, and between the hours of 0 and 9 in the morning all the fashion and beauty of the island's capital are on dress parade through Victoria market. The stalls in the market are gayly decorated with flags, bunting, palm branches, colored paper, tinsel and an JM A NATIVE DUDE IN HOLIDAY DIIESS. abundance of tlowera. A brass band occupies n prominent position in tbe market building and discourses music of great volume and variety and more or less melody. After tbe crowds fair ly take possession of tbe market tbe performance of tbe band appears to be mostly pantomimic, for nothing made by the band of man can for a moment compete in noise producing capacity with the average Jamaican negro. Tbe West Indian negro's great weak ness is a love of gay apparel, next is a predilection for ceremoniousness, and tbe most prominent nliliction is garrul ity. In tbe crowd that surges past one through tbe market and tbe surround ing streets may be seen every vuriety of apparel known to civilized and un civilized man. Tbe country people wear little or nothing, tbe coolies as little ns nothing, but tbe town negro wears everything he or she can put on, without any regard whatever to the climatic conditions. They take their notions from the English fashion pa pers, and heavy woolen clothing is all the style. The writer has even seen sealskins worn in Kingston on a day when the thermometer registered DO degrees in the shade. Here is a stylish saddle colored gentleman wearing loud check trousers, patent leather shoes, a striped flannel shirt of three colors, a crimson and black sash uround his waist, a blue English cricketing cap on his head. In his hand he carries an immense cane, while screwed Into his left eye Is a circular piece of perfectly plain glass, through which he glares stonily on the throng. Not long ago the single eyeglass became very popu lar among KingAon society darkies, but they could not get along with the glasses that magnified, so some enter prising merchant imported a lot of cir cular pieces of plain window glass, and all the dudes wore them, happily and idiotically. | CHRISTMAS JOKES j Lift tit Headed. j First Xmns Candle—l'm Just burn ing to know when it's time for us to I go out. I Second Ditto—Bosh! Twelve o'clock! | You are not up to snuff. Blessed are the babies on Christmas I day. They can be put off with cheap I candy. j The head of the family expends many | dollars on presents and receives two | handkerchiefs and a pair of mitts. | Then is the time to be merry. A Prohibition Pie. : Kansnn—Come over and spend Christ mas with me, old boy, and take din ner. 1 Mlssourian—Thanks! I'd be happy to, but— I Kansnn—Oh, that'll be all right. My wife has prepared a good old fashioned mince pie, and I can guarantee the fla vor. Don't think of yourself at all, if you can help it. just now, but study your family and friends from their point of view and then plan your Christmas treat accordingly. A little thing that , one wants Is worth a dozen thut we do not wish for. It doesn't seem to throw cold water over Kris Kriugle's good intentions when we turn the family hose on him. —Glens Falls Republican. "I hear that Miss Rose leaf is going to leave the church. Do you know I why?" "Yes; she helped trim the chancel I Christmas eve, and while she was la boriously tacking up 'Good Will to | Men' Miss Lily White got the minister ,to propose. Roseleaf thought It was too underhand a performance, and sc i she's left the church." Chrlntmaa Weather. Happy all together, Singing In the light; It's always Christmas weather When the Heart ii • Beats * . Right! —Atlanta Constitution. CHRISTMAS IN SERVIA. A Santa Clans Who Receives Pres ents Instead of Giving Them. In Servia they keep Christinas eve In a somewhat peculiar way. The fa ther of the family goes into the wood mid cuts down a straight young ouk, choosing the most perfect he can find. He brings It In, saying, "Good even ing and a happy Christmas," to which those present say, "May God grant both to thee, and muyest thou have riches and honor!" Then they throw over hi in grains of corn. Presently the young tree Is placed upon the coals, where it remains until Christmas morning, which they salute by repeat ed firings of a pistol. The uational dish In Servla Is pork. The poorest family In Servla will pinch themselves all through the year so as to have money enough to buy a pig at Christmas. Skewered to a long piece of wood, the pig Is turned over a blaz ing fire until cooked, the guests wntch ing the process with Increasing Inter est. After dinner stories are told and songs sung. Santa Clans, who, in the person of an honored guest. Is present to receive Instead of to give presents, departs, after the feast, decorated with a long ring of cakes around his neek and laden with such gifts as Ills friends cau bestow.—Baltimore Amer ica a. ON CHRISTMAS GIVING. The Problem of Choosing Suitable l're*entM at Yuletlde. For melancholy proof of mau's genu ine incapacity we have but to turn to the belated creatures who at Christmas time* write dally to the newspapers for advice. Like Emerson, they feel that a present is "due" to somebody, and, like Emerson, they are "puzzled what to give." There Is something really pathetic in a letter from a "class of boys" who want to be told what they shall give their teacher, ne is thirty years old, they say, and a "remarkable mathe matician." Perhaps some shadowy de sire to make the punishment fit the crime prompts this last bit of informa tion. But it is matched by schoolgirls who write: "What is a nice present for a teacher? She is a foreigner and teaches a foreign language. She Is very dark and has a somewhat impa tient disposition." "The Heir of Red clyffe" would seem an excellent present for this person, if only she were able to read it But the editor is perhaps unaware of the improving character of Miss Yonge's stories. lie has noth ing more appropriate to suggest than a gold pen or a piece of statuary, neither of which is warranted a cure for impatience. A married woman complains mourn fully that she has to give a present to an old gentleman of eighty-two "who has everything he wants." It never oc curs to her for a moment to spare him the added possession of a something he doesn't wunt The utmost length her ingenuity can go is to write to a newspaper for advice. Another woman feels moved to send "some useful trifle" to a missionary, and a young man, who signs himself Jasper, has a painful emergency to face. "1 know two sis ters who are nearly of an age," he writes. "I wish to give them both Christmas presents. Ought I to send the same thing to each? Their tastes, I believe, are different. 1 know one of the young ladies much better than her sister."—Agnes Repplier in Lippin cott's. ROUND THE REGION. There was a wreck on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, about three uiiies south of White Haven, at 10.30 o'clock last night. While a mixed coal and freight train was going along at a fair rate of speed the train parted and came together again with a crash that de railed a half dozen gondolas and coal cars. Just as the two sections of the train came together a freight train was passing on the opposite track. One of the cars as it reared up and swayed from the track caught the cab of the freight engine and tore it from the boiler. Warrants have been issued at Scran ton for the arrest of Patrick McAndrews and "Topsy" and "Zip" Jennings, who are accused of practicing cruelties upon fifteen-year-old William J. Richards while all were at work in the mines. It is charged that the young men threw Richards down, tied a coat about his head, put oil on it and lighted it, caus ing severe punishment. The accused have eluded arrest. The lower part of Schuylkill county being badly infected with smallpox, the almshouse, county prison and other in stitutions have been closed against vis itors. The county commissioners have ordered that the registry books turned in from various parts of the county be fumigated. Mrs. William Gossier, of Pottsvllle, was removed to the pest house yesterday, a victim of the plague. Dr. Lawrence F. Flick, president of the Free Hospital for Poor Consump tives, at White Haven, returned yester day from Europe, where he had been making a study of the treatment in foreign countries of tuberculosis, es pecially in sanitariums, and of what is being done in the way of preventing the disease on the continent and in England. Edward HofTman, aged 14 years, died on Friday afternoon at East Haven, op posite White Haven. It is alleged that he was bitten by a dog nine weeks ago add that death resulted from the effects of the wound. The boy was in great agony before he died and all the symp toms of hydrophobia were noticed. When the employes of A. Pardee fc Co. who remained at work at the Cran berry colliery during the strlko received their last checks they found that the company had tendered them handsome Christmas presents in recognition of tholr loyalty. Some of the men received as high as <SO. James J. Moran, the defeated Demo cratic candidate for district attorney of Schuylkill county, announced his wed ding to Miss Rose Doylen, at Silver City. N. M. Mr. Moran first met his bride about a year ago, she having nursed his brother, a Phillippiue soldier. Congressman Patterson sent word to Schuylkill Republican leaders that Sen ators Quay and Penrose had agreed to recommend Protbonotary William S. Leib for appointment as Major John F. Finney's successor as assistant United States treasurer at Philadelphia. Ex-Congressman Hires has won his suit against the Lehigh and Wllkesbarre Coal Company. It was for the posses sion of 100 acres of coal land in New port township, valued at $300,000. The case has been on trial for two weeks. Slatlngton Baptist church received a magnificent pipe organ as a Christinas gift from Andrew Carnegia, the retired steel magnate. An eighteen-year-old girl named Mil ler is ill with smallpox at T&maqua. "Minnesota's Best" Hour Is sold by A. Oswald. There is none better made. PLEASURE. December 25.—Annual entertainment under the auspices of the Good Will Athletic Association at the Grand opera house. Admission, 10, 15 and 25 cents. December 31. —Fourteenth annual ball of the Tigers Athletic Club at Ivrell's hall. Admission, 50 cents. 81.50 a year is all the TRIBUNE costs. T. CAMPBELL, dealer In Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes. Also PURE WINES £ LIQUORS FOR FAMILY AND MKDICINAL PURPOBKB. fcont.re and Main .treats, Froelund. Geo. H. Hartman, Meats and Green Tmck. Fresh Lard a Specialty. Centre Street, near Central Hotel. Wm. Wehrman, W^TCHMA.ICEE Centre street, Freolaud. REPAIRING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. To Cure a Cold in One Day s^ o °s^ Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. 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MEALS AT - ALL - HOTTRS RAILROAD TIMETABLES LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD. ~ November 16, 1902. AKKANOEMKNT or PASSENGER TRAINS. LEAVE FKBKLAND. 0 12 a m for Weatherly, Munch Chunk Allontown, Bethlehem, Easton, Phila delphia and New York. 7 29 a in for Sandy Hun, White Haven, Wilkes-Barre, Pittaton and Seranton. 8 15am for Hazleton, Weatherly, Mauoh Chunk. Allontown, Bethlehem, Easton, Philadelphia, New York, Delano and Pottsville. 9 58 a m for Hazleton, Delano, Mahauoy City, tiheuandoah and Mt. Curmel. 11 32 a m for \N eatheiiy, Muueh Chunk, Al lentdwn, Bethlehem, Easton, Phila delphia, New York, Hazleton, Delano, Mahanoy City, sbenaudouh and Mt. Carmcl. 1141 a ni for White Haven, Wilkes-Barre, Seranton and the West. 4 44 p IU for Weatherly, Muueh Chunk, Al ientown, Bethlehem, Easton, Philadel phia, New York, Hazleton, Delano Muhurioy City, Shenandoah, Mt. Curme. and Pottsville. i 0 33 p m for Sandy Hun, White Haven, Wilkes-Barre, Seranton and all points I 7 29 P ni for Hazjoton. AKUIVE AT FRKBLAND. 7 29 am from Pottsville, Delano and Haz leton. | 9 12 a m from New York. Philadelphia, Eas ton, Bethlehem, Alleutowii, Muuoh Chunk, Weutherly, Hazleton, Mahauoy City, Shcnuiidoah and Mt. C'armel 9 58 a m from Seranton, Wilkes-Barre and White Haven. ! 1 1 32 a m from Pottsville, Mt. Carmel, Shen andoah, Muhanoy City, Delano und Hazleton. 12 35p m from New York, Philadelphia, Easton, Bethlehem, Allontown, Mauoh Chunk and Weatherly. 4 44 p m from Seranton, Wilkes-Barre and White Haven. 0 33 P m from New York, Philadelphia, Easton, Bethlehem Allentown, Muueh Chunk, Weatherly, Mt. Carmel, Shenan doah, Muhanoy City, Deluuo and Hazle ton. 7 29 p m from Seranton, Wilkes-Barre and white Haven. For further information inquire of Ticket \ gents. rtuLLIN n.WlLßUH,General Superintendent, Cortlandt .street, New York City. OH AS. S. LEE, General Passenger Agent, 30 Cortlandt Street. New York City. G. J. GILDHOY, Division Superintendent, Hazleton, Pa. I"*HE DELAWARE, SCBQUKIIANNA AND SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD. Time table in offect May 19,1901. Trains leave Drifton forJeddo, Eckley, Hazle drook, Stockton, Beaver Meadow Road, Hoan •iod Hazleton Junction at 000 a m, dally except Sunday; and 7 07 a m, 2 88 p ni, Sunday. Trains leave Drifton for Harw>od,Cranberry, I'oinhioken and Deringer at 600 a m, daily except Sunday; and 707 a m, 236 p m. Sun lav. Trains leave Prtfton for Oneida Junction, Harwood Koad, Humboldt Koad, Oneida and Sheppton at 6 (X) am, dally except Sun lay: and 7 07 a m, 2 38 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Harwood, 'ranberry, Tombicken and Deringer at 636 a m, daily except Sunday; and 8 63 a m, 4 22 p in, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida Junction, Harwood Hoad, Humboldt Hoad, Oneida and Sheppton at (J H2.1l 10 a m, 4 41 p m, daily except Sunday; and 737 a m, 311 pm, Sunday. Trains leave Deringer for Tomhickon, Crau berry, Haiwood, Hazleton Junction and Hoan at 600 p m, dally except Sunday; and 937 .1 m, 6 07 p ra. Sunday. Trams leave Sheppton for Oneida. Humboldt Hoad, Harwood Hoad, Oneida Junction, Huzlo ton Junction and Hoan Ht 7 11 a in, 12 40, 626 p m, dailv except Sunday; and 8 11 a m, 3 44 | p m, Sunday. I Trains leave Sheppton for Beaver Meadow j Hoad, Stockton. Hazle Brook, Eckley, Jodrio and Drifton at 6 26 p m, daily, except Sunday; and 8 11 a in, 3 44 p no, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Beaver Meadow Koad, Stockton, Hazle Brook, Eckley, Jeddo and Drifton at 649 p m, daily, except Sunday: and 10 10 a m, 6 40 p ra, Sunday. All trains connect at Hazleton Junction with electric care for Hazleton, Jeaneeville, Aurten ried and other points on the Traction Coin- I pany's line. | Train leaving Drifton at 600 a m makes | conueotion at Deringer with P. H. R. trains for Wllkesbarre, Sunbury, Harrlsburg and point* west. LUTHER O. SMITH, Superintendent Condy 0. Boyle, dealer In ! LIQUOR, WINE, BEER, PORTER, ETC. _The finest brands of Doracßtic and Imported I Whiskey on sale. Fresh Fn eland Beer, Porer j and Ale on tap. 98 Centre street. Read - the - Tribune.
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