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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-24

Visitors to the Columbian Worlds
Fair at Chicago will find 500 guides
ready to do their bidding at an expense
of fifty or soventy-fve cents an hour.
Guides for parties of five or fewer per-
sons will be charged for at the rate of
fifty cents, and, from five up, seventy
five cents an hour. The business OF
the guide is not going to be profitable,
as the salaries paid will not be greater
than $50 month. The educational
advantages are expected to compensate
for the small wages. There are to be
twenty-five women guides. Mrs. Pot
ter Palmer thought that unescorted
women would be in need of the services
OF q guide, and in Difference to her
wishes appointments will be made.
The information givers are to be formed
into an organized and officered corps
There will be ut least five companies
under the command of sergeants. I'll /.
first sergeants will be paid $50 month,
there being five of them. There will
be twenty second sergeants, with sal.
aries of $40 month. The grounds
will be divided into districts. There
are district headquarters where visitors
may apply for the services of guides
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-24

The New York Post says: The prob
lem of the ultimate source of the Nile
. seems finally to have reached solution
through the recent explorations of
DIR. o. Baumann. Thirty years have
elapsed since Speke sent to the Royal
Geographical Society of London
his famous laconic despatch, "The
Nile is settled" announcing the dis
covery by him of the great equatorial
lake, Victoria Nyanza, supposed to be
main head basin of Africa's mighty
river. This discovery was followed
soon afterwards by that of a second,
seeming still larger, equatorial lake,
the Albert Nyanza, which divided the
honors of "Conqueror of the Nile" be-
tween Spoke and Sir Samuel Baker.
The progress of more modern African
exploration, while it has served in manv
ways to bring about truer KNOWLEDGE
of the mutual relations of these two
large lakes than was known to Speke
and Baker, and to establish the more
positive claims of the Victoria Lake,
had not, until DR.. Baumann's s Journey.
answered the still significant question,
regarding the position of the headwa-
ters of these lakes; in other words,
the actual fountain-h head of the Nile
had yet to be discovered. This is now
shown to be on the eastern face of the
''height of land" which closely bor-
ders Lake Tanganyika on the north
east, the source of the Kagera. or
Ruvuvu, western, and the most pow
full, tributary of the Victoria Nyanza.
This position was reached by DIR. Bau-
mann on the 10Th of September last.
With its source thus placed between
the third and fourth parallels of south
latitude, the Nile traverses thirty-five
degrees of latitude, and becomes a
rival in length of the combined Mis-
sissippi- Missouri system of rivers
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-24
Preserved a Fine Leg Of Mutton.

There was an immense sensation
created at the M station the Other
day, just previous to the starting OF
the afternoon express for Paris. Ths
inspector was about to start the train
when short, fat and pussy old gen.
tleman trotted up to him and ex.
claimed:
"Wait minute, will you, please.
while L"
Impossible, SRI" interrupted the
officer, putting the whistle to his lips.
1.-THE train is overdue now"
"But you must wait !" cried the old
gentleman, excitedly. s'There is a
mans leg underneath the wheel"
''Good gracious! Why didn't you
say SO at first? Where is he ?" inquired
the horror-stricken inspector. "Hold
on there!"
And having stopped the train he
hurried after the old gentleman, while
couple of porters jumped down on
the line, amid the excitement of q
number of spectators. After short
search one of the porters handed up a
rush basket containing large and
fine looking leg of mutton.
'Thank you'll" said the old gentle.
man.
"What do you mean, sir?" roared
the exasperated inspector. "You said
-"
81 said mans leg was under the
wheel, and SO it was," interrupted the
old gentleman. 81 bought this leg
and paid for it, and if it isn't mine /
should like to know who it belongs to.
that's oil"
Then the train moved on. Paris
Figaro.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-24
Restoring a Mithered Arm.

The story comes from London of q
wonderful surgical operation that
promises to be successful. Five year,I
ago a workman injured his right arm,
and a careless surgeon so treated it that il
withered and became useless Recently
it was decided to examine the arm, and
it was accordingly opened and ex.
plored. The nerve was found to bn
partially divided. Two fresh ends were,
made and section of the sciatic nerve
from live rabbit was stitched in The
patient has now recovered the power
in his arm, which is regaining its orig
inal size, and he is following his EN-
ployment. ent.-Philadelphia Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-24
RECIPES,

Carrot Fritters-Boil one good sized
carrot until very tender; press through
sieve and season to taste with butter.
salt and pepper. Shake the carrots in
small, flat cakes, and saute in butter.
Strawberry Layer Cake-Cut a square
sponge cake into halves. Upon one
half put thick meringue, made from the
whites of two eggs, add two tablespoon
fuls of powdered sugar beat the eggs
until light, then add the sugar and beat
again until white. Stand large straw
berries thickly over this; put on the
upper half, cover with strawberries
neatly arranged, sprinkle with sugar
and serve with cream.
Minced Sandwiches-Ch half a
pound of lean ham very fine; add one
mixed pickle and tablespoonful of
mustard; put four ounces of butter in
frying-p pan, stir over the fire until it
creams; add the ham, the beaten yolk
of one egg, with little salt and pepper,
remove the pan from the fire, stir al
together, pour out on a large dish and
let cool. When firm, cut in slices and
lay between slices of buttered bread.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-24
"SoME VERSES CARROLL


Some verses carol blithely as bird.
And hint Of violet and asphodel;
While others slowly strike funeral bell,
Or call like clarionets till, spirit-stirred,
We hear the mastering tramp in every word
In some, the ocean pounds with sledge:
fell,
Or Neptune posts with blare of trumpet.
shell
By shores that visionary seas engird.
As soft as flutes, they Groom the lullabies
ofcradle-years ;play clear as citherns wal
Like harps Eolian in the grieving wind:
Some ere the deep-drawn human moan by
pale
And silent faces-'neath lack-luster skies
Peering through panes on darkness uncon-
fined
Henry Jerome Stockard, in the Century.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-24
HOW TO scouR WATER BOTTLES.

Carsfes, which have SO largely re.
placed the ice pitcher, are really very
pleasing and refreshing to look at il
they are kept fastidiously clean and
bright. Unfortunately the purest water
obtainable very soon dulls the inside,
and it isn't every one who knows q
quick and easy method of removing
this.
A very simple thing to do is to tear
a newspaper into small bits and nearly
or quite fill the carafe. Then pour in
warm soapsuds with a little ammonia
added, and shake well. The paper will
soon scour the inside of the bottle
thoroughly clean, and it only remains
to rinse it well before using again.
New York Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-24
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Rubber is made from cotton seed oil.
Flies sometimes infect eatables with
cholera germs.
Scientists are of the opinion that
some icebergs last for 200 years.
An electric railway will probably be
built between Atami and Odalvara in
Japan.
T. d. Curtis, the scientist, expects
co see country roads lighted with cleo
tricity.
Comb honey is said to be a remedy
for dyspepsia. The wax must be eaten
with the honey.
Fourteen wind planets were dis
covered during last month, bringing
the total number of small planets
known up to 375.
Successful experiments have been
made in stimulating the growth of such
plants as wheat, corn and tobacco by
means of electric currents.
Granulated cork and bitumen, pressed
into blocks, is the latest favorite for
paving London streets. It's elasticity
is its special recommendation.
The Chinese have bred whole
colony of goldfish, each having two
well-developed tails and two sets Of
, anal fms. Biologists say it would be
! equally easy to breed quadrupeds with
eight legs
The position of the lamprey cells
has been reviewed by Professor
| Howes, who thinks that instead of
being primitive forms, they are aber-
rant fish-like forms, which have lost
their lower jaw, their sucking mouth
having been secondarily acquired.
/ If the heat of the sun were produced
! by the burning of coal, it would re-
quire layer sixteen feet in thickness,
extending over its whole surface, to
feed the flame n single hour. With
the sun solid body of coal, it would
burn up at this rate in forty-six cen.
turies.
Edison, the great inventor, is hope.
tul of being able to generate electricity
directly from heat, and thus dispense
with the steam engine and dynamo now
used for producing electric power. II
this plan be successful, it is likely that
a simple piece of mechanism placed
over the kitchen chimney will supply
electric lights to every room in an or
dinary residence.
As the ashes contain only about si1
per cent. of potash and less than two
of phosphoric acid, the value is not
more than forty cents per 100 pounds,
or So ton. This estimate is based on
value of potash of Az cents pound
in muriate of potash, selling at $45 the
ton, and phosphoric acid at six cents
pound. The common price of wood
ashes is far beyond the actual value
compared with the price of other fer
, tilizers.
As everybody is learL.ng now, boil.
ing kills the microbes in water, and il
was only when the authority of law
forbidding the use of the infected river
water was put in force in Hamburg
last autumn that the cholera was really
checked; and it is interesting to learn
that Cyrus, who seems to have had
good ideas of sanitation, when crossing
the river Ohoaspes, had all the drink
ing water for his army boiled-in sill
yer bowls, the legend says.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-24

A statement recently published by
lhe authorities of Munich, Bavaria,
gives some startling information as to
the increased consumption in that city
of dog flesh. So great an appetite
seems to have developed for the food,
declares the Chicago Herald, that the
authorities have thought it time to in
terfere for the protection of dog
owners.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-24

The statistics OF crime throughout
the country show a marked increase in
the number of murders during recent
years-from 1886 in 1887 to 5906 il
1s91-while for several years prior t
1887 the number fell short of 2000.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-24
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
FLOUR AS A PURIFIER.

Flour has long been known as IN
excellent purifier. Children's hoods Of
Angora wool may be perfectly re-
stored, when soiled, by rubbing them
with -four that has been made very hot.
When the flour is cold, pin the hoods
on line and leave them in strong
wind, or beat thoroughly with a rat
tan. Angorh fur may be cleansed in
the same way. The -four must be
stirred while heating to prevent scorch-
ing. New York World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-24

According to the Shoe and Leather
Reporter, convict in certain peni.
tentiarv, whose crime was dishonesty,
is compelled to spend his days cutting
out pieces of pasteboard to be put be-
tween the outer and inner soles of shoes
which will be sold as made of solid
leathar
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-24
The Ancient Name Of Great Britain.

The Oldest form of the name Britain
is Ortanis, from which comes the ad-
jective Ortanicos, which in Irish is
Cruitnech. This last is the name which
the Irish gave to the Picts, once mas
ters of Great Britain. The adjective
mentioned became in the language of
the Gauls Pretanicos. Pytheas, the
Greek navigator of Marseilles, who
dourished about the time of Alexander
the Great, and is said to have made q
voyage to Britain, in one of his few
fragments now extant calls Great Bri-
tain the Pretanic Island. A century
after Pytheas, Gallo people-the
Britanni-drove the Picts out of the
larger portion of Great Britain and
established themselves there. From
thss came confusion in the minds of
Greek geographers between the name
OF the conquerors and that of the con-
quered island. Out of this confusion
arose various and mixed forms. The
Pretanic Island became Bretannic, and
then Britannia, which form became
liked, and has come down to u.s.
Revue Archeologique.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-24
WORTH KNOWING.


down the sink and other drain pipes
as often ns once week, and flush
them well on washing days.
For frost bites keep away from the
fire and rub the parts affected with
snow or ice water until thawed, then
treat as you would a burn.
When the eyes sre tired, or infamed
from loss of sleep, apply an old linen
handkerchief dripping with water as
hot as you can possibly bear it.
To throw water on burning kerosene
only increases the danger by causing
the oil to spread, but salt, -four or
cornmeal will quickly smother the
flames.
In ordinary burns and scalds the
only remedy required is to thoroughly
exclude the air from the injured part.
Cotton batting will do this more effec-
tually.
To relieve pain from bruises, and
prevent discoloration and subsequent
stiffness, nothing is more >efficacious
than lamentations of water as hot as
it can be borne.
Five or ten minutes spent every
morning during winter in rubbing the
body briskly with flesh brush OF
piece of flannel over the hand, will do
much to keep the skin active and pre-
vent colds. American Agriculturist.
MOTHS
Among the many duties demanding
the housekeeper's attention is the work
of putting away clothing, SO as to pre-
vent the ravages of the moth, writes
Mrs. +. r. Parker in the Courier
journal.
Furs are usually the most difficult to
care for. They should be brushed and
well beaten to dislodge any moth eggs
that may have been deposited in them,
and then hung in the sun. Woolen
dresses, overcoats, flannel underwear
and extra blankets not neededfor sum-
mer use should all undergo careful ex-
animation and airing, preparatory to
being slowed away for the summer.
The old-fashioned custom of our
grandmothers-that of packing wooden
goods in boxes with gum camphor or
tobacco-is now declared failure, and
if we remember the many moth-eaten
articles we have seen come forth
from trunks and boxes, redolent with
these particular odors, one will agree
with the modern idea as to their want
of efficacy. Many women take the
precautionary measure of folding in
papers and sewing up in cotton bags,
but none of these are wholly safe, as
the only guarantee against moths is to
keep the moth miller from depositing
its eggs, which they seem to do before
it can be prevented in the spring. I
have recently noticed an excellent bag,
which seems to be the best article to
use in putting away woolens and furs;
it is alright and entirely free from any
unpleasant odor. Garments can be
put in and taken out of these bags
with ease, rendering one always sure
of their condition.
For putting away the winter wear,
articles of kind should be put to-
gether, as it sometimes causes delay
and trouble to have to hunt through
bags or boxes when some particular
garment is needed. 1t is an excellent
plan to mark each bag on the outside,
SO the contents will be known without
opening.
Proper attention given the work this
month will relieve the housekeeper of
all anxiety on the subject, as we'll as
saving much expense by keeping the
wooden clothes in good condition for
another season.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-24
THE son OF A TAILOR.
DY CHARLES STOKES WAYNE.

OUNG Engfer
+ e IN e m bered
q nit 9 dis
tinctly that
morning seven
y ear 8 ago,
W h e n Miss
Sturgis had
come with her
mother to his
fathers shop
to be measured
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-03
CONGRESS AND SILVER.

As distrust is at the bottom of the
present financial depression anything
that tends to remove it tends of course
by removing the cause to cure the diff
Guilty. A great many people have viewed
with alarm the continued purchase and
issue of silver under the Sherman law.
This alarm has created a want of conf
dence which has led those who share it
to curtail their business operations, and
to distrust the business operations of
others, and hence to refuse to lend their
money. 1t makes little difference
whether this alarm is we'll founded or
not. The mere fact of its existence has
the effect to create distrust, and distrust
is fatal to that mutual assistance which
business of all kinds depends upon to
greater or less extent. 1t is hardly
worth while, therefore, to spend much
time on the inquiry whether the Sher-
man law is really the dangerous meas
ure it is represented to be. It is enough
for the present emergency to know that
great number of people, especially peo-
pie in the business centres, think it dan
gerous, and are Withholding financial as
sistance. which they otherwise might
give, on account of it. That fact clearly
indicates that it should be repealed, I'M
less it can be shown that It's repeal will
bring evils of another kind as serious as
the avictipn MONT of nopts,7o,oo II. ~.
repeal will undoubtedly do much to
cure.
As the situation appears today the ar
gument is all with the people who favor
repeal. The silver mines are already
shut down, the market price of the
white metal having fallen so low as to
make it Improbable to work them, so
that repeal can make their condition no
worse than it is now. The interest for
whose benefit our recent silver legislation
was largely enacted. and which naturally
had most to fear from its repeal is in
condition to look upon the abrogation of
the Sherman law very philosophically in
deed. OF course there are the people
like Mr.. Bland, who regard silver as the
nations ward, and think it the nations
duty to cherish and protect it no matter
at how great cost. They will feel very
badly over the repeal of the Sherman act
unless they can substitute some measure
in its place which will afford equal or
greater recognition to the white metal.
But the danger of wounding their feel
ings by repeal of the act is hardly seri-
GUS enough to offset the danger of con
tinuing and extending the prevailing dis
trust by leaving the act as it is or by SUBJ
shutting for it measure of substantially
similar purpose.
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-03

Algerian Riders, an illustrated paper by
Col. T. A. Dodge, U. S. A., the reader
gains an insight into the free life of the
North African acknowledgements of
the bepraised and priced Arabian horse.
Side Lights on the German Soldier, by
Poultney Bigelow, illustrated from nine
teen drawings by Frederic Remington, is
graphic description of the life of Ger
man officers and privates in barracks
and in the field. Henry Loomis Nelson
discusses in an entertaining fashion the
immigration of the French Canadian
into New England and his qualities as an
American citizen. Julian Ralph, in
Chicago's Gentle Side, writes appre-
ciatively of the public spirit and the
work of women in the Western metropo-
lis, and Brander Matthews, in Function
of Slang, gives credit to the waits of
language for enriching and strengthen
ing our vocabulary. There is story of
the French and Indian War, by Miss
Wilkins, called Silence, and Will Garlic
ton contributes A Vestal Virgin, hu-
morous sketch. There are two poems
in the Number-Sleep, by Alice Brown,
and The Milky Way, by Wallace Bruce.
Scribner's Magazine for July contains
a striking article on the Mems Occupa-
lions series by w. Clark Russell 1.-THE
writer of sea tales) on The Life of the
Merchant Sailor, giving graphic ac-
count of forecastle life in modern sail
ing vessel, showing how little it has
changed since the old days when Dana
wrote his Two Years before the Mast.
w. Hamilton Gibson contributes the
first of group of Artists Impressions
of the Fair-brief articles by men who are
accustomed to look at things from the
picturesque side, with many illustrations
from the notebooks of the artists who
write the papers. Another timely arti-
Gle is George P. Upton's account of The
Musical Societies of the United States
and their Representation at the Worlds
Fair, the first popular account of the
origin and growth Of those amateur as
sociations which have been the centres
of musical life in American cities. The
series on The Poor in Great Cities is con-
cluded with a very thoughtful paper by
Oscar Craig, President ofithe New York
Board of Charities, summarizing the re-
suits of the most approved methods for
the Prevention Of Pauperism. The
abundant fiction Of the number includes
the beginning of novelette, by Harold
Frederick, which describes the trials of
a ''Copperhead'' in Northern New York
during critical period of the War.
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-03
Messengers Notice.

Office Of the Sheriff of Cumberland County.
State OF Maine. Cumberland IS. June
Oath, A. d. 1898.
FTIHIS is to give notice, that on the oath day of
Il june. A. d. 1888, q Warrant in 1nsol-
vency was issued out of the Court of Insolvency
for said County of Cumberland, against the es-
tate of
IRA c. SToCKBRIDGE, of Portland,
adjudged to be an insolvent debtor, ON petition
of said debtor, which petition was filed on the
Gath day of June, A. d. 1898, to which date
interest on claims is to be computed. That the
payment Of any debts to or by said debtor, and
the transfer and delivery of any property by
him are. forbidden by law. That a meeting Of
the creditors of said debtor, to prove their
debts and choose one or more assignees of his
estate, will be held at Court Of Insolvency to
be holden at Probate Court room In said Port
land, in said County of Cumberland, on the 18th
day OF July, A. D. 1893, at ten o'clock In
the forenoon.
Given under my hand the date first above
written. SAMUEL ID. PLUMBER.
Deputy Sheriff as Messenger Of the Court Of
Insolvency for the said County Of Cumberland.
je2s&jy3
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-03

The vote of the House of Commons
fixing a time for vote on the Home
Rule bill shows that there is very little
in the stories which have been rife of
late that the Liberals were weakening in
the support of that measure. There was
nothing in the vote to indicate that Glad
stone had lost any ground. 1t is now as
certain as anything in the future can be
that the Home Rule measure will 60 to
the House of Lords the latter part of
this month with the endorsement of the
lower house.
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-03

The heaviest sufferers outside of the
miners by the shutting down Of the silver
mines will be the railroads. Freights upon
silver ores coming into Denver alone have
amounted to $4,000 daily, and the charges
on train loads of coal, coke, lime, and
other fuxing material required by the
smelters when il operation have footed
up an immense sum. The situation in
Colorado is regarded as SO serious that a
delegation of the prominent citizens of
Denver have appealed to Gov. Waite to
call special session of the legislature in
order to enact a law affording stay of ex-
ecution under proper safeguards and ex-
tending the time for redemption from
forced sales to period that would tide
the state over crisis if one should come.
The distress which is threatened in the
far West by the fall of silver and the con-
sequent cessation of mining can hardly
be appreciated in the East. Silver mining
is the principal industry of that section,
and its sudden stoppage means the