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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1890-04-17


Nord ct de pAvenue Washington.
A. Laclolx.
Commits chez S. E. Olson & Cie., Marchan-
discs Seches, 2l5-2l5 Ave. Nicollet.
Young Il BAlang.r,
Marchands de Hardes Faites, coin de la
rue Main ct de pAvenue Centrale.
Nellie Edith Robideaux,
Commis chez J. H. Craig & Co., Marchan-
discs Seches, il3 Ave. entrale.
M lie Eta Robideaux,
Commis chez j. Fl. Craig & Co., Marchan-
discs Seches, '3 Ave. Centrale.
Nellie Rose Saucier,
Commits chez Segelbaum Freres, Mar
chandises Seches, 257 Ave. Nicollet.
j. H. Placement,
Commis chez Segelbaum Freres, Mar
chandises Seches, 257 Ave. Nicollet.
Louis Desrosiers,
Commis chez Altman & Cie., Hardes Fai-
tes, 81 ct 80 Ave. Washington s.
Joseph NORM,
Commis chez Julius Rees, Hardes Faites.
a 2OO Avenue Hennepin.
A. Lavall6n,
Coupeur chez Bentson's Tailoring Co.,
III Avenue Nicollet.
q. Demeules & Fills,
Epiciers, No. 9, 2me rue N.
T. Connolly & Gle,
Pompes funebres, 25, 2e rue s.
s. Turgeon.
Agent, The California Wine House,
253 ct 255 2eme Ave s.
T. F. Rlviere,
Pharmacien, 701 rue Adams, N. E.
Ed. Thibodeau,
Photographic, % Nicollet Island.
Ih L. Lalib- rte,
Medecin ct Chirurgien, 1876 Ave. Centrale
Telephone 1906
G.. Deziel.
Medecin ct Chirurgien, 1875 Ave. Centrale
Telephone 1856 3
A G. Labrash,
Forgeron, entire la Sc rue ct le marche
au foin.
knittIe & Tpssier,
Avocats, $50 Temple Court, coin de Paw
Washington ct de Pave. Hennepin.
Matile e. Brice,
Avocats, COLON Blk, 27 4me rue Sud.
J. B. Bottineau,
Avocat, 1899, 3eme Rue Nord.
Charles A. Duby,
Avocat, 81 Washington Av. s. Chambre 6
W. S. Hamilton,
Marchand de meubles neufs ct de secon.
de main, 105-1O7 Ave. Centrale.
T. Demenles,
Notaire, Chambre 8, No. 9, 2e rue N.
II. r. Lillihridge,
Patisseries, 13 Is, II, 10, 3erue s.
A. Sanborn,
Bijoutier, 8 Washington Ave Nord.
A. Grignon,
Forman for Mcdonald & Delamater. Sash
Doors, Blinds, Window and Door Fra
mes, Mouldings, Brackets at lowest pri
ce. Telephone No. 1922. Nicolie
Island, Minneapolis, MINI.
Jos. W. Dupont,
BlJoutier ct Horloger, 1191aAve Central
J.. Tuscany,
Salon, II, list Street North.
Nelson LabrAche,
Mecanicien forgeron, Osseo, MINI.
W. Ell Adamson.
81 Washington Ave. s., Argent a Prete
sur Meubles, Voitures, Chevaux, etc.
1
| Louis Laram6a,
Harnais, 304 Ave. Nicollet.
d J. L'H6rauIt,
Real Estate for Sale and Exchange, 70
; Wright Block.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-18

dering our coast defenses worthy the
name is to be made at Fort Wadsworth,
on Staten Island. Some 143 acres OF
land, valued at $5, 900 an acre, are to be
added to it, and the residences, green
houses, stables and improvements on the
property will aggregate half as much
more. Echelon batteries with an armor
OF forged steel plate will be erected on
the ridge along the water front and will
comprise eighteen 16-inch 110-ton guns,
using from $50 to 96O pounds of powder
and an 1,s0O-pound shot; two 14-inch
SO-ton guns, using 900 pounds of pow
der and 1,200-pound shot; forty 12-
inch 50ton guns, using 425 pounds of
powder and s5O-pound shot; twenty
10-inch 30-ton guns, using $50 pounds
of powder and 50O-pound shot, and
fifteen S-inch cotton guns, using 1876
pounds of powder and $50 pound shot.
The 110-ton guns will be incompletely
protected turrets, and the 50-ton in case
mates, while the 30-ton and Cotton will
be on disappearing carriages in pits, in
surlng perfect protection to the gunners.
On part of the newly acquired land,
which is heavily wooded, battery of
144 12-inch rifed mortars will be con-
cealed. An improved torpedo system,
with bomb-proof operating rooms and
tunnels for conveying electric cables to
the water will complete the armament.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-18
Orange Culture.

"Raising oranges is somwhat like rais-
ing family of children-it requires con-
slant care and attention." The speaker
was Col. d. s. Troy, wealthy orange
grower of Lake County, Fla, who was
at the Metropolitan last evening, says the
Washington Post. "Some people," he
went on, "imagine that all that is to be
done is to buy piece of land and set
out trees, but they make big mistake.
There was great rush to Florida some
years ago by persons who were utterly
dreamed of making large fortunes. Many
failed, but there's good money to be
made in oranges yet by judicious plan
ters who understand the conditions of
their production. It's exactly like cot
ton planting. One farmer may make
money by good management where
dozens of his neighbors get only bare
living.
OTIS crop that takes a long time to
realize from. Trees planted from the
seeds won't bear under twelve or fifteen
years. A quicker method is to graft
seedlings of the sweet orange on trees of
the wild variety, and they will then pro-
duce in from five to seven years.
81 have kown a single tree to bear as
high as 5000 oranges, but this is very
uncommon. A grove that will yield
1900 to the tree is considered excellent.
The profits on an acre are sometimes as
high as 81, 900, but the average is far be-
low. There is no country on earth where
oranges grow to such perfection as in
Florida"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-18
Original Form of the Horse.

The wild horse of Dzungaria is an
animal the size of the hemione and more
robust in its proportions, in which it res
embles the pony. Its head is large, with
ears smaller than those of the hemione,
the shoulders thick, especially in the
male, the limbs robust and stubbier than
those of the hemiones and the asses. The
name is short and straight, and the mod
erately long tail is terminated by tuft
of long hairs in much more abundant
supply than in the tail of the hemiones.
1t has warts on the hind legs as well as
on the fore-legs-a popularity of the
horse, distinguishing it from the other
species of the genus, which have warts
only on the fore-legs. The hoof, are
full like those of the horse, and not COM
pressed as in other species; and the low
er parts of the legs are furnished with
long hairs falling to the crown of the
hoof, feature which the hemiones lack.
Likewise characteristic in the color of
the pelage, a pale gray, almost white,
passing into dun on the head and neck,
and blending insensibly on the flank.
with the pure white of the belly and
limbs. The name, the brush of the tail
and the long hairs of the lower legs and
hoofs, are black. There is no trace OF
the dorsal stripe running from the name
to the tail which is characteristic of the
hemione. The hairy covering is long
and undulating, especially in the rigorous
winter of that northern country. Pop
ular Science Monthly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-18
The Lovely and Stately Hollyhock.

OF all the summer flowers none can
compare in stateliness with the hollyhock.
If the rose is queen then this dignifed
and commanding plant is her chief mar
shal in the border. Rising each year
from its green base, it attains in July q
height of from six to eight feet and be-
gins to open along its fine rosette stem
the beautiful flowers which add so much
to the brightness of our gardens. Their
colors are very pure, ranging all the way
from white to the darkest crimson and
including some fine shades of yellow. On
the whole the single and half double
ones are the most picturesque, as they
are the most delicate, though the massive
blossoms of the very double ones convey
more fully the idea of masculine strength.
When full grown, in strong soil, the
the plant will reach height of eight OF
nine feet and is of royal appearance in
deed.
The hollyhock, as every one knows, is
one of the oldest inhabitants. Our grand
mothers knew it we'll. 1t has, in fact,
been in use in Europe since 1878, when
it was introduced to occidental gardens
from its old home in China. Though,
strictly speaking, biennial, the holly
hook (althoe rosea may, by attention to
drainage, winter covering, ETC., and espe-
cially by the division of the root, be
made to continue indefinitely. 1t needs
deep soil to do its best, for it is strong
feeder and does not mind all the sunshine
you can spare, so long as you keep its
feet cool and moist The greatest enjoy
ment of the flower comes probably to
those who raise it from the seed of blooms
fertilized and crossed by the bees in their
own gardens.
The innumerable surprises which come
from such seed are source of interest,
which few, perhaps, comprehend who
have not tried the experiment. Those
proposing to do should lay the founda-
tion by sowing the best seed procurable-
both single and double. Charters strain
of the latter is still unrivaled Sown in
garden loan in March or April, the young
plants will be large enough to transfer
into permanent positions by September
A shovelful of sand placed around them
before winter closes is great benefit,
preventing tendency to rot about the
stem in early spring. The plants will
flower the second year from seed The
seed from these first blooms, being care
fully ripened and planted in the same
way, will afford great many novelties
If the collection is at all numerous
Boston Transcript.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-18
Tho Engagement King xomano.

The first one usually dosen't cost
much; but it costs enough for all that,
You are about twenty when you begin
looking over the jewelers. ADVERTISE
ments and find yourself wondering il
she will be pleased with what you save
and pinch SO to get. At length you
have bought it. Then comes the event.
iul evening; you stroll down the street
feeling your Importance at every step ;
with humping heart you pass into your
loves sweet presence; there she sits
expectant; before you know anything
about 1t her hand Is in yours. Over
her taper fingers the jeweled band IL
slipped, and what follows you remem.
Der so we'll 1t need not be recalled.
Hank Hilliard was born and reared
away down in the wild Ozark region of
Christian County, Mo-, almost within
gunshot of the famous Bald Knobbers
of South Missouri. He had never been
out of the county, much less out of the
State, and his ideas Of engagement
rings were limited. When pretty Sallie
Digg-pretty in spite of her length,
shambling walk and reckles-insisted
upon a ring before she would consider
Snbo6ohohe DluuluB, Ihuk was uou-
pulsed
He expostulated without avail,
scratched bis head, thought long
while, and finally went away. He came
back the next afternoon, his face
wreathed in smiles.
"Pve got her." he exclaimed, and
reaching in his pocket he drew out o
great ring OF brass.
Sallie smiled and reached out her
hand. Hank slipped the ring over the
girls largest finger, and, leaning near
the simple maiden, whispered:
Now, Sal, air ye satisfied that weuns
is ingagedP" =.
"Yes, Hank" Sal whispered, shaking
the ring around on her finger; "but say,
Hank whar did ye get it9"
Ye won't tell?"
Nope"
"Hones'P"
"Hones', Hank"
"Ef you must know, I cut il outen
dads Sunday galluses."
Sal slipped over into Hanks arms,
and as their freokled, sunburned cheeks
touched, the girl whispered:
"Say, Hank, amt you 'fraid yer dad1l
lick ye when he finds his galluses
busted ?"-PittsbllrQ Dispatch.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-18
BRICKS MADE OF TEA LEAVES,
How Many Churches in England
Have Been Built.

The Rev. John Winslow, distin-
guished English Methodist minister, is
stopping with friends in Brooklyn. At a
pleasant gathering the other evening he
talked at length about the methods in
vogue in the old country of raising
money for the purposes of his church.
There are some people," he said, "who
think that the great progress of Method
ism in England is due solely to the en-
ergy and culture of its ministers The
fact is that its present high standing is
due in no small degree to tea. You smile
but listen. was not long ago in small
country town in the midland counties,
where resided several families who were
followers of John Wesley. They held
Sunday meetings in each others spare
rooms. After one of these gatherings,
while the congregation was partaking of
hospitablc meal, the local preacher
asked them why they did not build a
church. The good folks smiled, as they
were anything but rich; but the preacher
told them of instances where very poor
people had built churches by starting
with tea party. I'll tell you what tea
party is. A number of women get to-
gether and pledge themselves to provide
tray for a dozen, a tray meaning the
needed service Of china and spoons, with
all the adjuncts, such as bread and but
tar, tea, sugar and milk and plumcake. If
in summer time, the party is held in a
field, coppice or wood; if in the winter,
in some church or barn. The husbands
or lovers of the women build and tend
the fires, fetch the water, boil the kettle,
slice and spread the bread and cake, and
act as walters. Perhaps as many as
twenty, forty, fifty, or even more trays
are supplied, and each visitor is charged
a shilling for the tea. These shillings
are placed in bank, to form the nucleus
of the church building fund. After the
tea things are cleared away meeting is
held, at which permanent ministers de-
liver addresses. This is known as start
ing the pot boiling, and the teas are re-
peated three or four times year. Some
rich man is applied to, generally with
success, for piece of land, and as soon
as ESQ is raised, no difficulty is expert
enced in getting builder to run up a
chapel. As soon as the roof is finished a
series of special services is begun, and
the talent of Methodists for getting
money is brought into active play. l
have read great deal about the injurious
effects of tea, but am certain that it has
done more to develop the social life of
the English people than any one other
product. Seventy-tive out of every hun :
dred bricks in the Methodist church edi-
fees of England are made of tea leaves. "
Il New York Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-18
LIFE ON A CRUISER.
Early Morning on the United States
Vessel Chicago at Sea.

"Bos'n's mate there call all hands
Call in the deck lookouts Lay aloft the
lookout to the mastheadl" the orders
follow in rapid succession. "Turn off
the spar-deck circuit!n and the great red
and green lights on the port and star
board sides of the bridge, and the light
at the mast head are extinguished by the
touch of a button in the dynamo room"
below, while sailor goes Gripping up
aloft " to the fore-top-sail yard, simulta-
neously with long drawn shrill whistle
of the boatswain's pipe, echoed on the
gun-deck by others, and the hoarse cry
of the boatswain's mates calling: "A-a-ll
ha-a-nds! Up all hammocks!"
The great ship is waking up, and out
of the matches the men come tumbling
one after the other-sailor- appren-
tice boys, firemen, marines, cooks, End
call hands leach with hammock
neatly rolled, ready to be placed in
the nettings in the bulwarks. Brawny,
bare-chested, bare footed fellows, most
of them; regardless of the cold wind
blowing and the wet decks, they
run nimbly to their appointed sta
tions, some clambering up and opening
the nettings, while the others pitch their
hammocks in and stow them away and
out of sight for the day. As we lean
over the rail now, and look down, the
scene is an animated one. The deck for
ward is swarming with men and "Jackie"
is making his morning toilet and prepar-
ing for breakfast and the days routine.
See that gigantic young coxswain yonder
as he souses his well-soaped neck and
face into the cold water in the bucket
before him, spluttering and blowing
away like grampus, then rubbing and
polishing his muscular, sun-burned neck
and broad white back and chest with his
rough, parti-colored towel. With his
little circular mirror perched on coil OF
rope another sailorman is Carefully part
ing his thick curly locks, while ship
mate looks over his shoulder and gives a
final twist to his black silk neckerchief,
and marine brushes his coat and huns
softly to himself meanwhile. The steam
from the galleys is rising out of the
matches, and with it-mingled, it must
be confessed, with smell of oil and
grease from the engines-an odor of hot
coffee and broiling bacon, and the boat
swain's whistle is heard again piping to
break fast. II Scribner.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-18
A Lumber Camp in Winter.

Life in the lumbermen's winter camps,
deep in the backwoods of New Bruins
wick, Maine, or in Quebec, is not so ad
venturous as might at first appear. 1t
grows monotonous to the visitor as soon
as the strangeness of it has worn off.
The noise of the chopping, the shouting,
the clanking and trampling of the teams,
give sufficient warning to all the wild
creatures of the woods, and they gener.
ally agree in giving wide berth to q
neighborhood which has suddenly be-
come SO dangerous. The lumbermen are
necessarily occupied, chopping and haul
ing from dawn to sundown; and at night
they have little energy to expend on the
hunting of bears or panthers. Their
hunks and their blankets acquire an over
whelming attraction for them; and by
the time the camp has concluded its
after-supper smoke, and the sound of a
few noisy songs has died away, the wild
beasts might creep near enough to camp
to smell the pork and beans with little
risk.
At rare intervals, however, the monot-
eny of profound and soundless SHOWS, of
endless forests, of felled trees, of devi-
Gus wood-roads, of ak and sled and
chain, is sharply broken, and something
occurs to remind the needless woodsman
that though in the wilderness he is yet
not truly of it. He is suddenly made
aware of those shy but savage forces
which, regarding him as trespasser on
their domains, have been vigilantly keep
ing him under keen and angry watch.
The spirit of the violated forest strikes
swift and sometimes effectual blow for
revenge. A yoke of oxen are straining
at their load; great branch seems, with
conscious purpose, to reach down and
seize the nearest OK by his horns, and
the poor brute falls with his neck broken.
A stout sapling is bent to the ground by
weight of ice and snow; the thaw OF o
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-18
AQUATIC LoAFERS.
The Idlest Social Group in the
World.

On one of the most charming of tho
many wonderfully picturesque little
beaches on the Pacific coast, near Mon
terey, CAL, is the idlest if not the most
disagreeable social group in the world.
Just off the shore, further than stones
throw, lies mass of broken rock. The
surf comes leaping and laughing in, send
ing up, above the curving green breakers
and crests of foam, jets and spirals of
water which flash like silver fountains in
the sunlight. These islets of rock are the
home of the sea lion. This loafer of the
coast congregates here by the thousand.
Sometimes the rocks are quite covered,
the smooth rounded surface of the larger
one presenting the appearance at dis
tance of knoll dotted with dirty sheep.
There is generally select knot of doz-
en- floating about in the still water under
the lee of the rock, bobbing up their tails
and flippers very much as black drift
wood might heave about in the tide.
During certain parts of the day members
of this community are off fishing in deep
water; but what they like best to do is to
crawl up on the rocks and grunt and bel
low, or go to sleep in the sun. Some of
them lie half in water, their tails floating
and their ungainly heads wagging. These
uneasy ones are always wriggling out or
plunging in. Some crawl to the tops of
the rocks and lie like gunny fags stuffed
with meal, or they repose on the broken
surfaces like masses of jelly. When they
are all at home the rocks have not room
for them, and they crawl on and over
each other, and lie like piles of undressed
pork. In the water they are black,
but when they are dry in the sun
the skin becomes dirty light
brown. Many of them are huge
fellows, with body as big as an OK. In
the water they are repulsively graceful; ;
on the rocks they are as ungainly as bone
less cows, or hogs that have lost their
shape in prosperity. Summer and win
ter land it is almost always summer on
this coast) these beasts, which are well
fitted for neither land nor water, spend
their time in absolute Incidence, except
when they are obliged to cruise around
in deep water for food. They are of no
use to anybody, either for their skin or
for their flesh. Nothing could be more
thoroughly disgusting and uncanny than
they are and yet nothing more fascinat-
ing. One can watch them-the ire
sponsible, formless Jumps of intelligent
fiesh-for hours without tiring. I
scarcely know what the fascination is. A
small seal playing by himself near the
ahore, floating on and diving under
breakers is not so very disagreeable, es-
pecially if he comes so near that you can
see his pathetic eyes; but these brutes in
this perpetual summer resort are disgust
ingly attractive. Nearly everything
about them, including their voice, is re-
pulsive. Perhaps it is the absolute idle
ness of the community that makes it SO
interesting. To fish, to swim, to snooze
on the rocks, that is all, forever and ever.
No past, no future. A society that lives
for the LATEST sort of pleasure. If they
were rich, what more could they have9
Is not this the ideal of watering place
life9-[ Harper's Magazine.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-18
The Memory Hoop.

The "memory hoop" is the newest
craze among society young ladies. Any
hoop will do, for it is covered up by
pieces of ribbon, presented by girl
friends, upon which must be painted or
embroidered the name of the giver and
the date when given. The ribbon must
have been worn, else it possesses no
charm. From gentleman friends a cop
per cent is obtained, highly polished and
engraved with the initials of the donor
These are suspended by ribbons from the
hoop, which in turn, is suspended in the
owners room. If piece of ribbon
fades, or one of the coppers turns dark,
it is sign that the giver is ill, in trouble,
or false and the owner Immediately sets
to work to find out which. Of course,
it is an infallible test Mail and Ex-
press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-18
Don't Fool with Perspiration.

Considering all that has been written
and published this year about sunstroke,
and the danger that arises from a dry,
non-perspiring skin, it is really amazing
how many people call for preparations to
prevent perspiration. There are several
of these, and they are all effective, the
main ingredient in each being the same
The effect is not only to stop perspiration
wherever the preparation is applied, but
also to increase the temperature several
degrees and seriously injure the skin.
Ladies, of course, use such complexion
preservers more than men, but there are
not wanting young men who, to keep up
spotless appearance, will subject them
selves to annoyances and take dangerous
chances. The only legitimate manner to
check perspiration is to keep quiet and
avoid excessive exercise.-[Globs- Demo.
crat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-18
Metals Costlier Than Gold.

Compared with some of the metals gold
is cheap commodity. 1t is worth $240
pound, troy; platinum $3.50, and silver
about $12. Nickel is quoted at about 90
cents and pure aluminium at So to so per
troy pound. But barium sells for $975 a
pound, and calcium is worth 1900 q
pound. Cerium is higher; its cost is
$16O an ounce, or 81, ,920 pound.
Chromium brings 5000, cobalt falls to
about half the price of silver, while didy-
MUM is the same price as cerium, and
erbium $40 cheaper by the ounce than
calcium, or just 81, $50 per pound. The
wealth of the Vanderbilts amounts to
nearly 5000, OO0,0 0O0O. With this sum
they could purchase 1898 tons of gold
and have something left over, but they
couldn't buy two tons of gallium, that
rare metal being worth SO, $50 an ounce.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-18
The Heather.

Prince Bismarck's fondness for heath
er, is not new fancy. With him the
heather is, more truly than the primrose
was to Lord Beaconsfeld, Z" his favorite
flower" Nearly thirty years ago, when
minister to Paris, he made trip to the
south of France, visiting among other
places Chambord. Writing to his wife
from Bordeaux, under date July 81, 1862,
Bismarck says: "From inclosed speci-
mems of heather you will no longer be
able to see how purple this plant l am so
fond of blooms there, the only flower
in the royal garden, and swallows almost
the only living creatures in the garden
For sparrows 1t is too lovely. y."-[ Prairie
Farmer.