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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-24
Dreaming Out an Available Story.

Having u severe cold in the head, a
literary friend of mine had taken a
hot bath before retiring and dose OF
fine whisky. 81 slept like log," he
says, until about 5 o'clock. When
awoke my head was as clear as bell
and found myself interested in pc,
culiar story which. in all symmetry,
was passing through my mind. The
plot was somewhat complicated, but
thoroughly artistic. Twas astonished,
and at first thought that my memory
was recalling some tale that 1 had
read. AS L reviewed the story, how.
ever, / realized that it was eminently
original.
"Much pleased at this seeming pre-
sentation from the gods of a literary
nugget, 1 composed myself to sleep
and in the morning found that the tale
was still mine. Some weeks later
received an order from syndicate for
story of 10000 words. l had thirty
six hours in which to produce the
manuscript. The plot that had been
the outcome of a hot bath, whisky,
and sound sleep now came into play,
and / had no difficulty in completing
my story within the allotted time. As
/ received $3.50 for it, am now pa
tiently awaiting another cold in the
head. Was hia11 ton Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-24

six dollars a month, by walking fifty
miles day, as an itinerant seller.
There are never old porteuses; to do
the work even at forty, indicates con-
stitution of astonishing strength. After
the force of youth and health is spent,
the poor carrier must seek lighter
labor.
As rule, the weight is such that no
well-freighted porteuse can load or I'M
load unassisted. The effort to do so
| would burst blood-vessel or rupture q
muscle. In preparing for her journ ey,
the young merchant puts on her poorest
and lightest robe, and binds a plain
handkerchief about her head. On tile
Top of this is placed another handker-
chief folded, to form pad, and on this
rests the great loaded trail. She wears
40 shoes. She must climb and descend
thousands of feet every day, over slopes
so steep that the horses of the country
break down, after few years OF similar
journeying The soles of her feet be-
come so tough that they feel no rough
ness, and present TO the sharp pebbles
< surface at once yielding and resisting,
like cushion of solid rubber.
Young girls very often set off to-
gether, and keep step and time through
out their journey, but the veterans, or
women selected for special work, usu-
ally go alone. To the latter class be-
long girls employed by certain great
bakeries. They are the most heavily
laden of all, and carry baskets Of
astounding size far up into the noun
tains, so as to furnish country families
with flesh bread, at an early hour.
At sundown, the porteuses are coming
frcm far Grand Ause to halt moment
in this village. They are going to sit
down on the roadside before the house
of the baker, and his great black work
man, jean Marie, stands waiting to re-
lieve them of their load. Here they
come, the girls, yellow, red, black. See
the flash of the yellow feet, where they
touch the light All smile to see jean
Marie waiting for them, and to hear his
deep, kind voice cry out:
"How art thou, dear? How goes it
with thee?"
"All sweetly, dear; and thou?" some
of them make answer. But others,
over-wearv, cry to him:
"Unload me quickly, dear, for / am
very, very weary"
Then he takes away their burdens,
fetches bread for them, and says little
foolish things to make them smile.
And they are pleased, and laugh like
children, as they sit down on the road
there, to MUNICH their dry bread.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-24
Women in the Iissecting Room.

1t is often asked low the women take
the awful experienc. of the dissecting
room and the hospital, says the Balti-
more american. However the nerves
of the sex generally may be, these
strong-hearted womm never falter. DIR.
Winslow stated to he reporter that,
during the entire hisory of the institu-
tion, there had never been one case of
fainting. One of th, ladies was asked
by the reporter CONCERNING her feelings
when she first began work in the dis
secting room. Sne sated that the hor-
ror of what she wouk see had been so
exaggerated to her beforehand, and she
had been led, throughpopular report, to
expect SO much more han the reality,
that her nerves weret oraced to such o
degree that she expeienced no very
disagreeable impressions. The first
body was fresh one and the odor,
therefore. not very bbl. 1t was that of
colored person, and eemed like ma
hogany statue stretdled on the table.
The bodies are never hought of as con-
nected with human be engs, but as mere
things, mere machine, whose mechan-
ism is to be investigated.
The ladies work tw, and two, choos-
ing as their companios those congenial
to them socially, as we'll as from their
style of work. Thouyh they work SO
courageously over tleir horrible vic
tins, these young lades are not strang-
ers to human fear. )ne of them CON
fesses that, as she vas left alone for
several minutes by ler companion one
wintry evening towud 7 o'clock, she
felt some decidedly unpleasant feelings
as she sat among the bodies, and also
confessed that, Will, she could make
herself do anything he had to do, she
would not like very much to enter q
dissecting-room alole in the dead Of
night. She laughed at her own feeling.
but said that it is oily in such moments
that she realizes that these things have
once been living pelsons.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-24
The Abuse of CoGee.

Much has been said, says the British
Medical Journal, concerning the un-
doubtedly evil effects of excessive tea
drinking. DIR. F. Mendel has recently
enjoyed opportunities of studying the
results of an unbridled abuse of coffee,
and his results are now published.
The great industrial center round Essen
includes very large female popula-
ton.
While the women of the working
classes in this country are often ad-
dicted to dosing themselves with tea
that has stood too long, it appears that
the workmen's wives at Essen drink
coffee from morning till night. Some
consume over pound of Ceylon coffee
weekly, and one pound contains over
sixty-four grains of caffeine. In conse-
quence, nervous muscular and circula-
tory disturbances are frequent. The
nerve symptoms are characterized by
feeling of general weakness, depression
of spirits and aversion for labor, even
in industrious subjects, with headache
and insomnia. A strong dose of coffee
causes the temporary disappearance of
all these symptoms
The muscular symptoms consist of
distinct muscular weakness and trem-
bling of the bands, even during rest.
The circulatory symptoms are marked
by small, rapid, irregular pulse and
feeble impulse of the apex of the heart.
Palpitations and heaviness at the pre-
cordial region are frequent. The hands
and feet feel very cold, and the COM
plexion becomes sallow Dyspeptic
symptoms chiefly of the nervous type,
are very common. Acne rosacea is
seen in large number of the sufferers.
Those coffee-drinkers cannot be cured
by simple abstention from their favorite
drink with substitution of milk as o
beverage. They require rest from
work, open-air exercise, cold ablutions,
followed by friction, and small doses Of
brandy. Care must be taken, especially
when large body of working-women
are under the care of medical officer,
lest the first and last items of treatment
do not lead to malingering
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-24

Every one must have noticed the
numbers of ladies who wear short,
curly hair at present. 1t may astonish
you to learn that most of these charm
ing curls are false Typhoid and other
fevers have played havoc with hair this
winter. After such an illness the hair
is almost invariably seriously injured,
and even if it does not fall out it be-
comes SO dry and harsh that there is
nothing to be done but to shave it close,
and wait for new growth. Unless the
hair grows very rapidly it will be two
or three months before it is long enough
to look well, and in the mean time
wig is necessity. The short, curly
hair looks more natural than dressed
wig, and is easier to keep in order, so
most ladies prefer them. Elderly
ladies, however, often use French twists
and pompadours. Few people know
how common wigs are. L have some
times sold five or six in one day, and q
great many ladies say they are sorry
their own hair grows out, as the wig
has saved them so much time and
trouble -IaterUieac aoith ST. Louis
Wgnlaker.
WHEN the bad boy puts bent pin in
be teachers chair, he is at least iusti.
lied in predicting an early spring.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-24

stiles are enjoying. 1 have learned re-
oently of combination of capitalists to
out Gainesville to the front. 1t is GER
;ainly one of the pleasantest cities in the
State, and its surroundings presage o
wonderful growth and life.
Sherman, to the southeast of Gaines
Vile, has been one of the oldest and most
conservative cities of Texas. With a
population of from $4,000 to $4,000, it
probably has more wealth than any city
of it's size, and it has been one of the
largest banking cities of the State. One
Of the banks, under the control of Mr..
Tom mot Thomas) Randolph, has a
capital of 81, 900, 900. Mr.. Randolph
had the honor of being the youngest bank
president in the United States. At the
age of 20, on the death of the President,
he was ele acted to take his place, but
under the law the courts had to legalize
his actions, as he was still q minor and
therefore debarred from discharging inn
portant trusts. The city of Sherma"
stands in probably the richest farming
region of the northern part of the State.
RAILROAD TOWN.
One of the liveliest and most pro-
gressive cities i'll Texas, ana one nearest
the northern border, is Denison Strangely
enough, it stands in the center Of rich
black agricultural soil, while its own
town site is sort Of sandy loan, so that
the immediate outlying country is famous
for its small fruits and vegetables, while
beyond it a few miles come the rich cot
ton and corn lands. Denison has this
advantage, that it is within few miles OF
the famous coal-felds of the Indian Ter
ritory. 1t is not very far from the iron
Zines of the State. Because of its near
IS to the coal region, extensive railway
shops have been erected. EMPLOYING six
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-24
West Indian Carriers.

The creole porteuse or female carrier
of the West Indies, furnishes remark
able proof that great physical energy
and endurance can exist in the tropics.
At very early age, perhaps at five
years, says Lafcadio Hearn, she learns
to carry small articles upon her head, a
bowl OF rice, or even an orange on a
plate, and at nine or ten she is able to
carry basket or trail-a wooden tray
with deep, sloping sides-containing
twenty or thirty pounds. Then sh g
walks barefoot beside her mother, twelve
or fifteen miles day.
AT sixteen, she is tall, robust girl ,
and carries burden of one hundred
and twenty or one hundred and fifty
pounds weiqht. She now earns about
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-24
Paralyzed by a Scratch.

81 have read of men being paralyzed
by wound and unable to move" said
a well-known prominent Maine Office
holder, "and l believe it. l know that
there have been many cases of the
kind, and one of them in particular has
such personal twist that 1 have good
reason to remember
at was at the battle of Chantilly in
the early part of the fight. We had
approached low, rambling fence-a
Virginia fence, as they were called
and had my gun through it and was
doing what service I could I saw the
splinter fly from a piece of that fence
under the impetus of ball from the
enemy. In the lightning flash of the
flying wood L seemed to find time to
dodge, and there was quick pain like
the soaring of hot iron and the splin-
ter was through my hat-band and
along my scalp, penetrating it, but not
injuring the skull.
The blow was severe and stunned
me, and l remember as we'll my last
look at the scene-the fighting troops,
the smoke, the battle and the tramp
ling men. L fell back, my legs half
doubled up beneath me, and in a mo-
ment my strength was gone and 1 was
powerless. L saw everything. Men
fell upon me. Horses reared around
me. The battle was on all sides.
"My wits were clear, my brain I'M
clouded, but there was I, dying death
momentarily, alive, yet dead and suf-
fering more tortures than 1 thought
life could have. I lay there perhaps
an hour-every moment year of
agony-when felt some ones hand
on my collar, and I was dragged out
and turned on my face, where | lay for
moment as some one rifed my car
fridge box. The motion saved me-
My pulse seemed to stir, my heart
beat, my will to re-exert itself, and in
a few minutes L was myself. The
wound was so small that / staunched
it with my handkerchief and in half an
hour | was as well as ever.
"If the hand had not found my coat
collar should have been bleaching my
bones on Chantilly at this moment in
stead of here talking to you, and it
would have been tough to lave passed
in on such a scratch. "-Lelciston
Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-24

lowed to work Tor less wages than men.
This handicapped the women heavily,
for the trade is not one IN which the
woman can hold her own with man on
equal terms, but even at this it WAS not
satisfactory to large element among
the men, who objected to having women
in the trade at all, and the trouble con-
tinually threatened to break out in new
spots. Meantime, however, the matter
has been summarily settled out OF
court, as it were. Women don't want
to be printers any more. The intro
Iduction of the typewriter and the open
ing I'D of other lines of employment
more agreeable and suitable for
woman seem to have relieved the fe-
male labor market of the greater part
of the women who used to want to be
printers.
1t is said by officers of Typographical
Union No. that there are not over
three hundred women printers in New
York now. One hundred of these are
In the Union. They work chiefly in
large book printing offices, where the
hours are easy and there is no rush.
A few are in the morning newspaper
offices, working as distributors in the
afternoon. Women have worked as
compositors on some of the morning
papers, but the cases were exceptional,
such as where a man died and his
widow was allowed to take his case un-
til she could get something better to
do. 1t is thought that the number of
women printers is decreasing constantly
in spite of the rapid growth of the trade.
Men say it is good thing, not only for
selfish reasons, but because the trade,
although generally classed as a light
and easy one, is really too wearisome,
too unhealthy, and in other ways un-
suited for women.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-24
Senator Jones' Silver Dollar Story

! Senator Jones, of Nevada, was twitted
by Senator Mcpherson, of New Jersey,
in the course Of his silver speech the
other day, with the fact that the silver
dollars were only worth 72 cents, OF
course it reminded him of O little
story"
Il recollect," said he, stalking on
this subject once with some Senators in
the cloak-room. During the converse
ton one of the Senate pages brought
me telegram, on which he said the
telegraph messenger had told him there
were 90 cents due. l gave the page
silver dollar and said to him:
L have been informed by some very
respectable and intellectual gentlemen
in here, some of them candidates for
the Presidency even, that this dollar is
worth only rs cents. do not want to
cheat little boy. Take this out and
If the boy thinks it worth only rs cents
he can send me back 25 cents, and IL
he thinks it is worth dollar he can
send me back 80 cents. will leave IL
/ to him.
"The page brought back 30 cents and
isaid the telegraph boy told him he did
not know what those old buffers in
there might say, but it was as good @
dollar as he wanted and was very hard
ITO get. Iaughter.) - Washington
! Cor. ~. Y. Tribune
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-24
DOINGS OF WOMEN FOLK
NEWS. NOTES AND GOSSIP
ABOUT FEMININE AFFAIRS.
Not Many Women Printers-Tho Abuse Oh
Coffee Women in the Dissecting Room
An Effective Dinner Dress-English and
American Girls.

A noted New York costumer has made
dinner dress intended for brunette.
The train is long one of the richest
black Lyons velvet, while the front is
of broadcloth, the shade being per-
fectly clear yellow, with not tinge of
green it, The bodice is pointed, and
of velvet. A plastron of the cloth is
set in front, overlaid partially with gold
passementerie, and the short sleeves,
very closely shirred, are also of the
cloth. Gut very decollete, the edge of
the bodice is defined with narrow
gold cord. Only gold can be worn with
this costume, so the necklace will be Of
Etruscan gold in pendants and balls,
while in the hair will be worn three
gold fllets. The stockings of black
silk, the slippers black velvet, with
large gold buckles upon them.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-24

Women who have sons to rear, and
dread the demoralizing influences of
bad associates, ought to understand the
nature of young manhood. 1t is excess
sively restless. 1t is disturbed by vain
ambition. by thirst for action, by long
ings for excitements, by irrepressible
desires to touch life in manifold ways.
If you, mothers, rear your sons so that
your homes are associated with the re-
preston of natural instincts you will be
sure to throw them in the society that
in any measure can supply the end of
their hearts. They go to the public
house at first for the animated and hi
larious ompanionship they find there,
which they find does so much to re-
press the disturbing restlessness in
their breasts.
See to it, then, that their homes COM
pete with public places in their attract
iveness. Open your binds by day
and light bright fires by night. H.
lumine your rooms. Hang pictures
upon the walls. Put books and news
papers upon your tables. Have music
and entertaining games. Danish de-
mons Of dullness and apathy that have
SO long ruled in your household, and
bring in mirth and good cheer. Invent
occupations for your sons. Stimulate
their ambitions in worthy directions.
While you make bone their delight,
fill them with higher purposes than
mere pleasure. Whether they shall
pass happy boyhood and enter upon
manhood with refined tastes and noble
ambitions depends on you.-Ram's
Horn,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-24

themselves in comfortable homes which
they own. 1t has an exposition building
in which splendid display of limestone.
granite, kaolin, friedrich, clay, galena,
and other minerals are made. 1t is
wonderful exhibition, and one who looks
upon it can readily understand why Den
ison has had such an extraordinary
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-24

Contrasting English and American
girls, w. w. Story thus writes in "Con-
versations in Studio:" "Take an En-
glish girl and put her beside an Amer
can girl whose ancestry is pure English
and there is remarkable difference be-
tween them in shape, nature, and color.
The American, as rule, is slenderer,
fairer, and slighter-limbed, thinner
featured and more vivacious and ex-
cited in manner. The English girl is
fuller, roster in color, heavier in build
and calmer. The voice of the American
is thin and high, that of the English
girl is rich and low. But where you
will find the greater physical difference
is in the feet aud hands. The Ameri-
cans foot is small, thin, high-orched
and tendonous in the ankle. The En-
glish girls is plump, flat, and full at the
ankle. There is tie same difference in
the hands. Take a cast from an En-
glish and American foot, and any one
can distinguish then with half an eye.
All the attachment, as they are called,
are longer and NOR, tendonous in the
American than in the English. There
is something charming in the one as of
o rose, and in the oiher of lily. Where
the English have tie advantage over
the American is in heir voices and in
donations. An English woman's voice
is pleasure to heal-so sweet and low
and pleasant in its while
the Americans wine with high
pitched voice. The latter sing better
than the English, because the English
never can fully utter their voice and
throw it out. Certainly the American
girls are sometimes cry handsome, and
they generally haze q refinement of
look and feature, not manner. In
their ways, too, thee is certain wild
willfulness and Independence which,
when it does not gotoo far (as it fre-
quently does,) is vey attractive"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-24
Monopoly of Grief.

The colored people in a small town in
Georgia had gathered at their church to
hold funeral services over the remains
OF woman who had died couple of
days before, says the Chattanooga
Times, and the ceremonies were about
to begin when the bereaved husband,
who was large, corpulent man, beck
oned to one of the men standing in the
vestibule to follow him to the horse shed
in the rear of the church. When they
arrived there the bereaved turned on
him with:
See heah, Moses, wants an under
standin' wild yo befo' dis funeral goes
any furder."
"What is it, Julius?" asked the
other.
LAS week, when we buried Henry
Carter's wife, yo' was right at hand.
Yo' crowded yo'self up to de front
When de weepin' begun yo' set yo'self
to work an moaned an took on until
Henry hadn't no show tall. Some of
de white folks reckoned yo' was de be.
reaved yo'self.
Il dun couldn't help it, Julius"
"Yo' couldn't? Well, now, let me
give yo' pinter. Lucinda was my wife
an nobody else's. She ibed wild me
an died wild me, an Use got to foot all
de 'spenses. Now den, when de sad
ness begins TIE No. l from start to
finish. TIE de bereaved while yo' is
only an outsider who feels sad cause
I'ze left all alone in dis world. If yo'
go to takin' on like Iyo' did last week,
I'ze gwine ter forgit my great loss jist
long 'nuff to turn around an gin yo'
such q lift under the ear dat you'll
reckon yo' is the subject of the funeral.
Do yo' ha'r me, Moses?"
81 does"
"Den cum along, an recommember
what Tze been saying. Better take q
seat in de back row an hole yo'self
down. for at the very fust whoop Of
sorrow I'ze gwine to light on yo' wild n
fo'ce of fo'teen hoss power"
Putting Things In Order.
Everybody knows that we men owe
an immense and ever accommodating debt
to the ladies. One of its principal
items is the gratitude due to them for
putting our things to right and keeping
them in order. Rough and disorderly
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their neat-handed ministration?
What husband, that remembers the
hopeless chaos Of his bachelor bureau,
and contrasts it with the trim and tidy
appearance of the drawers in which
wifely care has arranged his shirts,
handkerchiefs and socks in perfect har-
mony with heavens first law, does not
bless the day when he emerged from
the single state into double blessed
ness? How delightful to find the shirt
bosom uniformity "cream-laid" and
guiltless of twist and wrinkle, the hose
always duly mated, the convenient
string and the indispensable button ever
in place.
Looking back on the higgledy-pig-
gledy days of his hermit life, the bene-
dict blessed with a notable helpmeet
pities from the bottom of his heart such
of his old companions as are yet un-
coupled. -NeU York Ledger
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-24
Not So Near Sighted After All.

Herbert" she said with melting
mellifuousness in her voice that
sounded like the ripple of an orange ice
as it thaws, Herbert"
what is it?" asked Herbert. And
the cold firmness of his tones showed
that he meant every word of it.
Would you love me just as well if
you knew that / am very near sighted p"
"Why, why" he stammered, "of
course would; but are you?"
"Yes, am afraid SO. Just as test
I can't read word of that sign across
the street; can you?"
"Yes," said Herbert, resignedly, "I
can. 1T says, Ice cream ~ Wash
inqtO7l Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-07-24
Not Many wonen Printers.

Women printers a'ew years ago were a
standing menace to he trade, in the view
OF the men printer4 and the question
OF their admittanes to typographical
unions threatened b become a burning
issue in the labor world. In this city it
was settled for the time being by the
admission of the women to Union No. 6.
with the condition that they be not al