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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-07-11

Isuppose ] was mistaken for one Of the
rnm's crew trying TO get away, and ] was
cuffed and kicked out Of their way un-
Ill j had no difficulty in getting to the
riverside again away in their rear, and
in the darkness j stole up the bank a
half mile or SO and took TO the water
again. was well over On the other
side, and although the current had car
RED me down a good distance, ] was
sill only opposite the outskirts Of the
town on the opposite side Of the river,
when i heard yell for help ] struck
out for whoever made that cry, but he
must have sunk before ] reached :he
spot just then j saw what / thought
were two men
FIGHTING IN THE WATER.
i made few strokes toward them. with
the intention Of assisting shipmate,
for j knew one Of them must be one OF
our lnen, when one Of them threw an
hls. hands and sank. The other swan
for the shore, and as began TO feel the
effects Of the very cold water by this
time J made landing as soon as posi-.
bic.
There was still a terrible firing
going on from the other side of the
river, as the batteries commenced shell.
ing the woods as if they thought the en-.
tire Yankee army was there I never
believed before that soldiers could have
made such a hubbub over dozen OF 50
Of sailors. They must have wasted tons
upon tens of lead and iron that night.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-07-11

Changes in the system of supplying ammu-
milton To the French infantry have been made.
Each man now carries I20 rounds, instead of
l02, on his person, and just before action is
supplied with % rounds from the company
carts, 90 more rounds being kept in reserve.
The corps park wagons provide BOB rounds
per man instead of 251 these are distributed
10 the company wagons us fast rs they are
emptied.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-07-11
Getting Ont of Debt.

I"ttttIU VhHH StnFI
Over $500 of mortgages were released
in Sedgwick County last week, the largest
amount in several years.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-07-11
FOR BRAIN FAC

Sse Horsefords Acid Phosphate.
DIR. w. r. LowMAN. Orangeburg, S. c., says,
" have used and prescribed it with beneficial
results in brain fay and nerve exhaustion"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14

to rot tbon, In ottnud tho schooIs nj thn
dtrforont stations and while thev did
all th.t tbnv Learned was soon forrnf.
ton md tho Rannoclls braves and
soIIa,ys soon roIonscd into their horn
state of s,vogerv with tbourhts Of
pothing but the Qualification of their
onncfitns
Tboro nnnnor to hove bocn oripinoI.
" two peooranbicaIlv distinct honds
m. divisions of the Ronnocl,s and r.
tbfs fact which has not been under-
stood generally is due much of tn.
confusion fbat has existed regarding
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14

HAMMOCK BRAVE. manual labor Of
any kind. They look upon it as dis
graceful, and carry their antipathy to
toll further than the warriors Of any
other tribe except the Standing Rock
Sioux. Schools and civilized pursuits
are alike scorned by them. Then con-
slider themselves superior in every way
to all other tribes and to white men.
In warfare they are keen. Heart
lessneSs aud cruelty are their prime
characteristics To kill all aged per-
sons who have become burdGnsome is
Il custom with these Indians. AS hunt
ers of big game the fame of the Ban
nocks is great; but even in their hunt
ing the innate cruelty of the braves is
shown. Instead of shooting their prey
through the heart-talling the risk of
missing their aim-the BannOCk sends
his bullet into the cntrails of his quar-
ly, and then lies in wait for another
victim. The first is easily tracked by
the trail it leaves, as staggering and
suffering from its wound the animal
blindly tries to escape.
The Bannocks are expert hOrsemCn.
They are allied by numerous lntermar-
riaGes with the Shoshone Indians, and
the braves are generally distinguished
| in this way: If the Indian is gaudily
| dressed, Il hater Of work and ready for
| trouble or to make trouble at any time,
| then he is Il Bannock. If he is quiet.
takes kindly to labor, and tries to dress
| and live like the whites, then he is a
| /. 1,s
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14

the display was at it's height these
lamps would flash out combinations
OF red and white light, changing order,
forming and reforming, alternating
and transposing positions in the
twinkling of an eye. This mysterious
flashing was accomplished with key
board connecting with the wires sup
plying electricity to the lamps. The
signal officer manipulated this very
much after the fashion of simpliied
typewriter, an instant's pressure caus-
ing the lamp to burn brightly and
fade away into darkness.
The idea of this system is to form
combinations of lamps which will serve
the same purpose at night as the parti-
colored pennants do in the daytime.
The system is far from complete,
however, and is open to several OBJ
iections. 1t is not unreasonable to
believe, however, that the time is not
far distant when brains and machinery
will overcome ocean distances and the
evil Of night as in the past century
they have harnessed fire, water,
and the air. Philadelphia
Times
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14

Prejudice dies hard, but the hardest
of all to die in the minds of grooms is
that it is injurious to give horse a
drink of cold water when he is heated
from exercise. Years ago, when l used
to train horses for racing in India, /
grappled with this prejudice, and clung
to it with such tenacity that l used
constantly to have my horses "off'
their feed after u strong gallop. One
day returned to the messhouse very
hot and very tired after long run,
and suddenly thought fit to mentally
put myself in the place of race horse.
"Shall 1 have" / asked myself, ga
better appetite for breakfast if ] re-
frain from drinking till l have cooled
off or if l have q drink right Off"
Knowing that | could not eat heartily
unless l had, first of all, drink, /
took it, and thereupon felt SO fit to
eat, and went SO strong over course
of beefstealSs, ham and eggs, quail,
mullins, etc., that J. resolved to try the
same treatment on my horses. My
lead was attained with such success
tuub hOMhttiJ . I'LL VIC tIuiuGTb III lHu1d
give their race horses about half a
bucket of cold water to drink i'm
mediately after u gallop, and with the
best results as regards their appetite
and health. | have not alone never
seen, but have never even heard or
read of, Gly harm to horse from
drinking cold water when he was
heated. I have, however, seen hnn-
dreds of cases of collie occur in horses
from drinking water after being fed on
occasions when they had, previous to
eating, been deprived of water for
some time. We're all grooms to fol.
low my advice as to watering, [ am
afraid that many an honest and hard
working veterinary surgeon would find
his income from collie cases seriously
diminished. London Live Stock
Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14

Is steam ont of date? asks Farm.
Field and Fireside. Prominent rail.
road men say that the days Of the
steam locomotive are numbered, Be-
fore long the noise, smoke and cir
ders which mako railroad journey so
unpleasant will become only an un-
pleasant memory. Tho genie which is
to accomplish this marvellous CHANCE
is one with whose works we are all be-
come familiar, His name is electric
ity. Electric locomotives run by pow.
erful storage batteries have been sue.
cessfuIly tested by number Of diff
ferent roads. The steam locomotive
Is expensive to build, expensive to
run, and entails large constant cost
for repairs. The running expenses
average at least twenty-five cents O
mile, which is many times the cost of
running a locomotive with q storage
battery. The batteries are made to
carry train about n hundred miles
and can be changed in a shorter time
than is necessary fol taking coal and
Uaser. The Pennsylvania Railroad is
said to be about to make tho change
from steam to electricity and other
prominent lines have the matter under
advisement, We're it not for the vast
amount of capital in locomotives the
change would have been made before
now.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14

that connlcteG with the Bannock trea-
ty, and the reds considered their rights
usurped, They declared that the trea.
ty with the United States was superior
TO the laws of the State of Wyoming,
and they kept on hunting and slaughter
ing game as had been the custom from
time immemorial. The authorities of
Wyoming caused the arrest of Il num-
Der of the redskins. but these escaped.
More arrests followed, and when these
prisoners attempted to escape, they
were shot This incensed the Ban
nocks, and the imaginative correspond
cnts had it that they arose in open re-
bellion, which eliminated in their TAX
ing to the mountains where they could
better defend themselves against the
attacks of the whites. Conservative
men declare that the Bannocks have
just cause for provocation because of
the enforcement of the wyoming law
that takes from them the rights grant
ed by the treaty of 1868,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14
TOO NARROW BARNS.

Most of the old-fashioned barns were
built with view to economy, and
were made as narrow and cramped as
possible. The standard width seemed
to be enough for q wagon loaded with
grain in the straw to be driven in and
for the barn door to be closed behind
it. The floor was also narrow, SO that
the team had to be driven out at the
door opposite that they went in at. 1t
is rather curious that farmers tried to
economize so much in lumber when
the woods were full of it, and larger
framed buildings might be made with
scarcely any more expense. When far
mers began to build barns with base
ments, and having only one entrance,
the barn was necessarily made wider
and its floors broader, so that loaded
wagon could be driven in and the team
be driven out beside it. A roomy barn
floor is very convenient for storing
many kinds of farm tools, but wagons
should always be stored in the base
ment where the wheels will come in
contact with the soil. Boston Guilt
yator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14
Incidence of samoans.

1t seems that the Samoans have de.
vcloped passion for the possession of
large rowing boats built in European
fashion, Instead Of cultivating their
land, they now waste their time trav.
cling about in these vessels from vii
lage to village, and from island to isl.
and, "discussing politics." Some of
these boats pull as many as thirty oars,
and are between seventy and eighty
feet long, while one is being built on
the island of Savali to measure 100
feet in length. Our consul mentions the
case Of village owning two or three
of these boats for which they have
doubtless paid dearly, and where most
of the young men are also owners of
u WCedy pony or equally useless horse.
Tue land on which their village stands
is mortgaged, and is advertised for
sale. Yet instead of making any at.
tempt to raise money TO pay off the
trifling sum required, they have for
the last four months been playing, al,
most weekly, cricket matches with
thirty or forty players n side, for stakes
consisting Of pigs and kegs of salt beef,
to the accompaniment of band of saw,
age music. The consul believes the
amount of money expended on cricket
in this village since February would
have paid off, not. only the interest,
but a large part of the principal OF
the mortgage.-Lopdop News,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14
A FOur.Winge,! Frog.

The curiosity of tropical Africa is
the wonderful flying frog, first de-
scribed by Bishoff, OF Equatorial At
rican Expedition, which returned to
Europe in the fall of 1891. This od-
dity of the reptile family is about the
size of common bulllrog, and re-
sembles other members of the order
of bactrachians in everything but its
feet, each of which is webbed and
enormously enlarged, so much go az
to form splendid substitutes for true
wings. The creature has five toes on
each Of the other two, which make
four separate membranes on each OF
its hind feet and three on each fore
foot, or fourteen in all. In his de.
scription of it Bishoff says: "Each
leg terminates in sort of fan, and
with these the little reptile paddles
the air like locust, or like partially
fedged bird testing its pinions for the
first time.
Although somewhat awkward in its
fight, the winged frog can dart
through the air at speed OF about
ten yards per second, and can keep
itself going forward at that rate for
from ten to fifteen seconds. The
average distance covered by these
spurts of grassLoppor like flights is
from seventy-five to one hundred and
twenty five yards; but Blshoff men
tions instances where the flying frog
cleared sandy stretches 200 yards ID
width,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14

Cooperative stores are making
headway in France as well as England.
The value of sales OF the 306 societies
in France is over $12, ,OOO,OO a year,
and the total number of members is
about 100000. In addition to these
societies in France arc the farmers
syndicates, in which about 800, 200
persons are concerned, The syndi.
rates buy fertilizers and other ohemi,
Gals for vine culture, maintain labora-
tories for analysis of soils, publish
monthly price lists and perform other
services for the general benefit.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14
STORING CABBAGE.

Some weeks since | noticed an
article in the Tribune, writes j. r.
Oordell, of Bentonville, Ark, asking
for a good plan for keeping cabbage
in large quantities. Last winter I
visited an old friend in Missouri and
saw for the first time plan that COM
mended itself to my mind, and my
friend, who vas then trying it for the
second year, vas highly pleased with
the results. II 1 can explain it to the
satisfaction of your correspondent, I
think he, and perhaps many other
readers of this department of the
Tribune, may find it equally satisfac-
tory to them. The plan consists of
succession of ranks, depending for
number and length upon the amount
of cabbage to be stored. My friend
had about an acre of good cabbage
and had about three ranks eome fifty
feet long. The whole stalk is pulled
up and all are ranked up to height
OF about two feet, reversing ends of
alternate stalks, which, of course, kept
the ranks level. A space is left be-
tween the ranks, which exposes every
head of cabbage to view the moment
the covering is removed at the end.
Now for the covering. Forks were
driven into the ground, say two feet
high, or just a little higher than the
ranks of cabbage, and stout enough to
bear up the covering, and so driven as
to take pole along both sides of each
rank, and on these are laid cross poles,
which hold the covering up. Straw
or spoiled hay was piled along the
outside ranks and then over the poles,
and so rounded up like a stack to turn
water, the ends being closed up in like
manner, and the work was done. 1t
was the last of January, 1894, that I
was there, and they had been having
cold weather-twenty degrees below
zero. My friend had an order from
his merchant for load of cabbages,
and he asked me to go with him and
see how they looked. A prettier pic
ture could not have been made from
the same material than was presented.
The alleys being open, we had a clear
view; the frost shone along on the
solid wall of heads, but not one was
injured. Of the thousands of heads
in those ranks, every one was ready
for market. When load was taken
out, the end was closed up again; tho
top covering remained intact. New
York Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14
WISE WORDS.
An affection is a blemish.
Times.

An affection is blemish.
"t5et beggar on horseback" for a
rich man can afford a bicycle.
The only medicine which does wo-
men more good than harm is dress.
If thou sittest among wise men, be
more inclined to listen than to speak.
Most women can whistle just well
enough to like to hear themselves do
it.
The man who speaks the truth in
love will always speak to some pur-
pose.
A mans women's folks arc the first
to discover that he has wheels in his
head.
The man who knows himself we'll is
we'll acquainted with many other
people.
Perhaps no one has higher appre
ciation than we have for the noble and
humane men.
If you want to please man recon-
mend that he do something he has long
wanted to do.
If we would be more careful where
we step, those who follow us wouldn't
stumble so much.
Some people never find out that
there is JOY in giving, because they
never give enough,
One of the surest signs of advancing
years is the magnifying OF the i'm
portance of little things.
Only the wise man can profit by the
experience of others. A fool has to
find out for himself that fire is hot.
"a boys will is the winds will"
but boys "won't" is for just as long
as he can hold out against the powers.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES,

1t takes about three months to grow
broiler.
Heavy sailing will destroy the flavor
of good butter.
The goose lays score or two OF
eggs in year.
No brooding pen should contain
over fifty chicks.
Broilers shrink about half pound
each when dressed.
Ripen the cream uniformly; sour.
ing is not ripening.
Forty dressed ducklings are packed
in barrel for shipment.
From thirty-fve to forty ducks and
brakes are allowed in pen.
The longer COW goes in milk the
smaller and richer the milk.
The duck averages ten dozen eggs
in about seven months laying.
Build the house ten by ten feet for
ten fowls, and the yard ten times
larger.
Ten dozen eggs year is the average
estimate given as the production OF
the hen.
Ducklings are marketed at five
pounds weight, which they attain in
ten weeks.
About eight dozen eggs are given as
an average for the annual output of
the turkey.
A novel saw for telling trees con.
sists of n series of platinum wires
made whito hot by electric currents,
A sod orchard should be closely
watched, as it may begin to fail sud-
denly. Barn manure may be applied
to old orchards with good results.
Permanent sod, without fertilizing,
is an injury to the orchard. This has
been proved in the experience of
nearly every successful orchardist.
The best preventive of black knot
on plum trees is spraying with Bor-
deaux mixture. The only cure is to
cut it off and burn it, and then paint
the wound with linseed OIL
California fruit growers feel encour-
aged at the success of the yellow scale
killer introduced two years ago. 1t
is minute insect, known as the
Chalcid fly, which destroys the larva
of the yellow scale.
The Embden, with its white
feathers, and the Toulouse, with its
gray, are perhaps the best breeds of
geese. The former will often dress at
from twelve to fourteen pounds, while
pair of the Toulouse have now and
then reached the enormous weight of
sixty pounds. These ore rather too
heavy for market.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14

A Enthusiastically feminine affair
was witnessed at German picnic in
New York the other day, relates the
New Orleans Picnyune. 1t was during
the performance Of the japanese aero.
bats. One of the performers, a five.
year old boy, was on the top of thir-
ty-fve foot ladder, balanced by a'man
below, The man lost control OF
the ladder and the boy began to fall.
All thought that the boy would meet
horrible death, but an old woman
ran forward and caught the youngster,
saving him from being killed. When
the audience was relieved of the ten
sion murmur Of applause went up
and the plucky woman tainted.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14
THE PROFITABLE FEEDING WEIGHT,

A large per cent. of farmers Craze
and feed hogs, and the belief that
holds with many is that some future
month will bring better prices, which
can at best be only matter of guess
ing. Would it not be better to adopt
the rule of getting to market as quick
ly as possible, taking the price at
which thev can be sold where the limit
of the most profitable feeding weight
is reached, say 175 to 200 pounds
This would cut off Improbable feeding,
or in other words, stop the feeding
when it takes too much food to make
a pound of gain, and yet in series OF
years give the farmer as good average
prices as he will secure by trying tc
feed to catch the high price all the
time.
1t is very low price that will not
give good profit on a pig that has
been made to do his best up to 175
pounds, while slight drop in price
on q 300-pound hog will lose a man
"plenty OF money"
Will not some farmer of an expert.
mental turn test this matter of com.
mon belief among farmers, that there
is more profit in one-half grain feed
ing on clover than there is in full
grain ration in connection with clio
verP Take two lots of hogs of equa.
quality, weigh hogs and feed used
give treatment indicated above. DOM
jump at conclusions by giving one lot
one style Of treatment one year, and
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14
Water Tisht Commandments.

The frequency of collisions at sea
and their fatal results have led to many
Investigations and experiments in the
line OF water tight compartments. 1t
is one thing to build a vessel with air
chambers that will float it, and quite
another to have safety appliances
always in order and ready for emer-
gencies. 1t has been said that certain
OF our large passenger steamships have,
on occasions, turned the water tight
compartments into places for steerage
passengers. Their greed ran away
with their common humanity and re-
gard for the lives of those on board.
1t certainly is waste of time and en-.
ergy to prepare the means of safety at
great expense when proper care is
not taken to keep them within avail.
able reach.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14

The texture of butter depends partly
on the animal, partly on feed, and
partly upon the temperature of the
cream when churned. Cows that give
the richest milk make the most solid
butter. In such COWS what should go
to make suet.or beef fat is turned into
the milk glands. The same result
comes from feeding very rich food like
cotton-seed meal. A small quantity
OF this mixed with wheat bran should
be fed to COWS; it will make butter
much firmer during hot weather in
summer, but it will need in addition
that the milk and cream be kept in o
cool place.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14
ASH SITTING MADE EASY,
There Is No Dust, and You Recover
Lote of Good Coal.

Lote of Good Coal.
A very large percentage Of the con-
tents of the ash box is good fuel, but
the task of separating it is such a dis
agreeable one that much good coal is
allowed to go to waste. There has
been invented sitter of very simple
and inexpensive construction, which
may be readily attached to or detach.
ed from an ordinary ash can or barrel,
altogether preventing the escape of dust
or other fine particles while sitting the
ashes
As shown in the illustration, applied
to an ash can of moderate size, the
sitting may be done at the side of the
stove or range from which the ashes
are removed. An open-ended bag of
sail duck or other suitable canvas is
attached by means of draw string to
the mouth of the can, a second draw
string drawing the bag closely over
and in from the edges of the can, to
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14

Trade between the Puget Sound re-
gion and Central and South America
has developed very largely in the last
year or so, and several new lines of
steamships have been put on between
the two. Another new line to run be.
tween Tacoma, Wash, Panama, and
South American ports, has just been
established, and will commence sail,
ing this month.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-14
Suggested the Art of Netting.

1t has been recently suggested by
an English naturalist, Pocock, that
the observation of spiders web may
have given rise to tho art of netting.
1t appears by letter to Nature from
a learned japanese, Nina Kata, that
a Chinese cyclopedia, published in the
fourth century, A. d. stated that
"Taihau made spider his master and
knitted nets. New York Independ-
ent,