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The free press., 1895-08-08
Value of Family Records.

It is the omission of some of the
simplest duties in life that frequently
causes the most trouble and expense.
Among other things, the common fail
ure to keep and preserve family records
is most prolific source of regret and
annoyance to many generations. The
fact that the simple dates of births,
deaths and marriages can be found for
only limited number of years in
thousands of families throughout the
country bothers courts, lawyers, ira
ternal societies, gcnealogists, heirs ~
law, pension claimants and many
other classes. While the information
concerning the past can be cleaned
only in part, and then through the
expenditure of considerable money.
the present and future should witness
a change in this direction. Family
records should not only be kept, but
they should be preserved by oil the.
members, because in very few years
the nearest relatives become sep.
arated forever. BY slight corre-
spondence, these records could be
kept up, and the descendants of the
present generation would be very
thankful therefor. The past neglect;
in this matter is excusable to a large
degree, considering the vicissitudes
in the lives of the settlers of this
country, but there does not appear to
be any reasonable excuse for the pres
ent generation to overlook it. Let such
records be kept fully, and they will
be of great value in the future, and
save much needless and fruitless OUT
lay of money. Boston Globe. -
The free press., 1895-08-08
An Industrious Clerk.

He was president of the new labor
union, and he came into the side-street
store hunting up statistics. How
many hours per day do your clerks
workP" he asked the proprietor.
"I have but one clerk and he works
seventeen hours day, seven days in
week." answered the proprietor. u
Great Cazar I'd like to see the
clerk that would stand that"
"Here he is, said the proprietor, as
he picked up paper and showed him
a neat and attractive sad. Printer g
Ink.
The free press., 1895-08-08
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Sarcasm is the wasp of conversa-
ton.
A woman's wit is sharper than it is
sweet.
We may shape our friendship. but
not our love.
Fanaticism is the froth on the
courage of convictions
If we had better sight everybody
would be good looking.
There are some people who make
even work dissipation.
A man gains nothing by having
laugh at another's expense.
The man who keeps his heart to
himself is selfish creature.
Love listens to fattery; friendship
is never given the opportunity.
Some men have no tomorrow.
They have borrowed it all to-day.
1t does not take long to find out
Just how little talkative people know.
A woman loses her chief attraction
when she begins to let her head guide
her heart
A politician can see no more OF the
public good than he can see from the
public crib.
1t is hard to convince pessimist
that there are any chestnuts that do
not have worms in them.
1t is always pleasanter to give than
to receive, especially when the thing
transferred is an opinion.
1t occasionally occurs to man not
burdened with conceit that his wife
wouldn't have married him if anything
better had offered.
Familiarity, no doubt, breeds con-
tempt, in most instances, but certain
ly not in the matter of money. The
more we have of that, the better we
like it,
The free press., 1895-08-08

The Japanese are fond of eating
fruit of most kinds while it is still un-
ripe, to 'get ahead of the worms" as
Mr.. Yabi said to Mr.. Finck. japanese
fruit is not at best, equal in quantity
and variety to our own, although at
Sapporo apples are grown successful
ly. Probably they can be. and soon
will be grown in other parts of the
empire. -'-'>' ssss * - ..'>'''
The Yezo apples grown away in the
north of Japan, are the best in Japan.
All over the country, cherry and plum
trees are grown for their blossoms
rather than their fruit, and as nat
ural consequence the fruit is small and
poor. There are rose haws or rose
berries which the Amos eat, though
we should think them very poor.
There is a small yellow mellon not
much better than ripe cucumber
which is eaten with great eageruess by
the Japanese. All these things are
sold at railway stations by boys with
big trays. 49,
The free press., 1895-08-08
Straw Hats of Wood. i

A Massachusetts, inventor has pat
ented machine which is,supplied with
fine planning teeth. A log of wood
cut square is fed to it, and when the
log passes through it it has furnis he'd
a hundred strips of wood, much resem-
bling excelsior. Their length, of
course, is that of the \ log. 1t is
claimed that these, when moistened.
can be woven much more readily than
straw and make as durable hat.
The inventor says it is twice as
light as straw, and that, because of its
easier manipulation and cheaper cost,
it will supersede the straw now used
for the construction of headgear.
Even women's Leghorn hats and the
finest Panamas may become possible
for those who can't afford them now.
New York World.
The free press., 1895-08-08
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Hematite is variety of iron ore fit
for jewelry.
The crocodile's egg is about the size
of that of the goose.
The average weight of 1000 women
in Paris is 110 pounds; in Russia
l22.
The water of the Mediterranean
contains greater proportion of salt
than that of the ocean.
When the Gulf Stream passes out
of the Gulf of Mexico its temperature
is about seventy degrees.
The pupils of the Chicago Manual
Training school, have completed a
tower clock, the market value OF
which is said to be $4,000.
Minneapolis, (Minn.), capitalists
are planning to spend 81, 900, 900 upon
n dam below the falls of st. Anthony,
to utilize waste water power.
In experimenting to find the effect
of sunlight on disease germs it has
been discovered that such spores are
killed by the blue and violet rays OF
sunlight in a few hours
The prime of life in man of reg
ular habits and sound constitution is
from thirty to tifty-five years of age; !;
of woman, from twenty-four or
twenty-five to about 40 years of age.
1t is supposed by some that when a
tree is struck by lightning it is torn
not by the electricity, but by the
explosion of water suddenly converted
into steam by the heat of the arrested
current.
Sergeant O'Keefe, who spent five
years in the observatory on Pixies
Peak, Colorado, says that the lowest
temperature observed was fifty de-
grees below zero, the highest sixty
two degrees above.
The Bank of France is about to
issue 1000-franc notes of new type.
These will be chiefly colored with bis
tire, red and blue, and are expected to
put stop to the extensive forgeries
now carried on by the aid Of photo
graphy. ~ -s>
Some Interesting discoveries have
recently been made about animal life
on the Hawaiian Islands. 1t appears
that all the land and fresh water shells
are peculiar to the locality. Nor is
that all. Fifty-seven out of the
seventy-eight species of birds, and
700 out of the l, 900 species of insects
do not exist in any other portion OF
the globe.
The free press., 1895-08-08
How They Kept Him Quiet.

Iwent to see woman last Tuesday
morning who has young son il think
he's not much over year old,in fact.
He's the noisiest little fellow | ever
saw, but this morning he kept still so
long that the mother and l rushed in
to the nursery to see at the nurse
had done to him. She had simply
found way to keep him quiet and out
of mischief. He had little bits of
raw cotton stuck to his hands with
molasses and he was trying to pick
them of. He was too busy to cry,
and for the first time since I've known
him, he was absolutely quiet for a
quarter of an hour. Washington
Post.
The free press., 1895-08-08
Modern Arms and Gettysburg.

At Gettysburg, in July, 1868, had
the Federal troops been armed with
the rifle now being issued to the
United States infantry, and with the
present improvedN field-guns, Pickett's
heroic band in the'charge on'the third
day would have been under fire from
start to finish, and thelfire of masses of
infantry, combined with breech-load
ing cannon, would probably have de-
stroyed every man in the assaulting
lines. Pickett's right, when formed
for the charge, was 1,S0O yards from
the Union lines; and the magazine
rifle sight is graduated, itSwill be re-
membered to l, 900 yards. With the
weapons then in use, the Federals did
not open with artillery on the charg-
ing Southern troops until they were
within | 100 yards of their lines, and
their infantry did not fire until they
were within much closer range. In
the recent war between China and Ja-
pan, it was stated that iball fired
from a Japanese rifle calledlthe Mura-
ia, similar to the United States maga-
zine rifle, struck Chinese three
quarters of a mile away in the knee,
and crushed it to atoms. -FITzHUGH
LEE, in the Century.
The free press., 1895-08-08
A Remarkable Memory.

One Sunday few weeks ago Ben
Qakford took walk through the rail-
road yard at Tulare and read the
Numbers of the cars and their desti-
nations and noticed the tracks they
were on. There were ninety-six cars
on the different tracks, and, having
looked them over, he went into the
Office, took up paper clip, and, be-
ginning with the last car, set them all
down back to the first one.
Running them over in his mind, he
said, 81 have missed one," and set
down she figures of this car in the
order in which it stood on the track.
He made three mistakes in the whole
list, writing C. P. 80, 76l, when he
should have written 32, ,791, also 60,
652 when he should have written &c.,
675, and lastly 19,6 when it ought
to have been 10, S63.
1t is not likely that any man with an
ordinary memory could take the num-
bers and descriptions of five cars and
remember them five minutes, and the
writer will bet his hat that he himself
could not remember the description of
two of them ten minutes unless he had
half an hour to learn them in. -Tu-
lire, (Cal. y Register.
The free press., 1895-08-08
No Punishment.
Ink.

'Say. said the deputy, 81 put I'll
on the treadm'l eight hours ago as "a
punishment, and he's goin' on jist as
clipper and ,happy as can be-" ls.
"Why, of course" said the Prison
Warden, in tones of disgust. sDidn't
You know that tho feller was sent here
for bicycle stealing? That sort OF
thing is right IN his lile, "-Indian-
apolis Journal. ~
The free press., 1895-08-08
Always Useful.

"What do you do with your big
sleeves when you get through with
them?"
ooh, send them to the orphan asy-
lum. They make excellent suits for
the little ones. Boston Saturday
Gazette.
The free press., 1895-08-08

Salmon 2. Chase has been dead
twenty-five years, and in all that time
his grave att Cincinnati has remained
unmarked.
The free press., 1895-08-08
A Song Cf Love.
Whera Love may make his nest.

Whera Love may make his nest.
Where shall my soul abide
The sun may pass from east to wost--
The ocean wander wide;e
But Love, my dear, where'er be,
Shall make heaven on earth for me,
Icannot hear the birds
Whose breasts the blossoms gem -
There is such music in Loves word,
have no heart for them!
sscet sing the birds from land to sea,
But Love Sings sweeter songs to mel
What is the sweetest song
The rarestlbird can sing,
To Love that lasts whole life long.
And then to heaven takes wing?
II is ON earth-in heaven above
One song, one song of love--of love.
F. S. Stanton.
The free press., 1895-08-08
A Poor Student.

Mr.. Haicede-Y say you belong
to the workin' class, do ye?
Everett Wrest-That's what.
''You must be about tn foot of the
class. amt ye?-Cincinnati Tribune.
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My Daughter. Learned to Cook.


We used to have old fashioned things like bominy
and greens. SKA
We used to hare just common SOUP made out of
pork and beans:
But now IT'S bouillon, consomme and things made
from u book,
And Pot au Ecu and Julienne since my daughter 8
learned to cook. ~ ir
We used to have piece of beet-just ordinary
meat ra
And picked pigs feet, spareribs. too, and other
things to eat;
While now it's hllet and zasoqt and leg of mutton
And macaroni au gratiu. and sleeps head Holland
Escallops n la versaes5a In this and a In that.
And sweetbread u Ia DisPp0ise-it's enough to kill
cat!
But while snher deeply invariably look
AS IL We're Delighted cause my dnughter's learned
to cook. g.,
We have lot Of salad things with dressing mayon-
haise.
In place Of oysters, Blue Points flcasseed dozen
And orange Rolcy Policy, doat.'n nd peach meringue
alas, .- 4t I,s
Enough to wreck stomach that is made of plated
lrrnss.
The good old things hAyf passed away, in silent,
sad retreat: = n / D
We've lots of higfautint things. but nothing much
to eat. =. "a -..,-..
And while mayer say,a word, and always pleasant
You bet I've had dysfersin since my, daughters
CHALIJSS
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To Mnrry-Under the Best Auspices.
European reply. and does it not refute it
self frcm the American point of view?
The only fault to be found with the
American girl reared abroad is that she
sometimes despises her own country.
When an American girl comes to Paris
to marry she ought to bring some money
with her Then she will always have sue
cess. She does not need to be rich as
Anna Gould nor even so rich as many an
aspiring Partisan bourgeois family cha
grlned 70 find itself without the pale of
great society. Mddle-class Parisians Of
wealth who wish to marry their daughters
into the ancient noblesse complain of this.
They say that the prejudice of the old
aristocracy against the new democracy
does not exist in respect of heiresses from
America. Now that court life has passed
away the noble families open wide their
doors to the American girl, provided she
count up American titled ladies in France
by the dozens: and one notable duke, after
dfvorcing first American wife, was not
content until he had married an American
grasswidow. His daughter by the former
and his step-daughter by the latter have
both been married off in turn, as to add
fresh American vigor to the somewhat pale
they are ancient mobiles: the blue blood Of
England Is ,ool to the blue blood of the
Faubourg Saint-Germain.
Although money is necessary, it Is not
altogether a question Of mere money. This
common delusion may have some founda-
ton, but 1t really dates from a time when
such international marriages were next to
whose writings have continued to influence
French literature, was the first to analyze
the American girl, doing 1t badly. He pre-
tended that young American women were
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RAILROADS.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
STATION CORNER OF SIXTH AND STREETS
In Effect 1901 AN. March IS, 1895.
1920 AN. PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED. Pullman
n o sSsnS saa
81. Louis, Cleveland and Toledo. Buffet parior
1880 AN. FAST IrNE.-rullnan Buffet parlor
Car to Harrisburg. Parlor and Dining Cars, Har-
Iisburg. Parlor and Dining Cars, Harrisburg to
$40 Pm. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS.
ing aud Dining Cars, Harrisburg to St Louis,
Gne j HSnIsyilie and Gsease; ,, s,.o,.
ing Car to Chicago and Harrisburg to Cleveland.
TO r:M so:THwESiERN EXPRESS. Pullman
10 i1S E TaS K SRsInat seeDne
7.s9 An for Kane. canandaigua. Rochester and
1886 AN for Enia ea and REMOVE. daily, except
SUNDAY For Wiiliamsport daily, $40 Pm:
Niagara Falls daily. except saturday, with Sleep,
Ing Car Washington to Suspension Bridge via
1O:4 Pm. for Erie, canandaisua, Rochester, Buff
falo and Niagara Falls daily, Sleeping Car Wash
20 'i fs'.es!Sss ssz Ssst az E Bs:' all
Regular '.n ssy Fn ca Sssa 49,
i5 s4S Snd 1ooo ana ss 81 N On sun
day. 7.05 Dining Cor,, TO- 800, 1000 DINING
s lo Ss ena Ei cs IN FL s,' rs ss s
only, Fist Express 7.50 AN week days. Ex-
press, POI and 6. 40 AN. daily.
For Boston, without change, 7.5O AN. week days,
For baltimore, ea5. los. TO, $50. 800 1000.
1890. HOO and 1l.50 AN, l2.15, 2.0l, BIS,
40 600 Limited, 40, 49, $40, Cos, 9. 40.
40, 1000. 10. 40, Ills and 1l.35 Pm. On Sun
Day, 7a9, 40, 500. 800, 9.05. 1000, 10 30,
ann IL IN $40 sos. 64o no. lo.oo' io4'
For Pope's Greek Line. TO AN. and 4.3e Pm.
daily. except Sunday.
For AnrErolis 40. 500 and II. so AM. and 40
PM daily, except Sunday. Sundays. 800 am
Atlantic Coast Line. Florida Special for Jack
sonville and st. Augustine, TO- IS Pm. week days.
Express for Richmond. jacksonville and Tampa,
4.S0 NJ, $50 Pm. daily. Richmond and At
lanta. $40 Pm daily. Richmond only, l0.5I AN.
week days.
Acc.mE odation for ouantico. 7.4s AN. daily. and
For Alexandria. 4.so, 6s5. 745, $40, e.45, 1857
u.50 AM, 1850, l.4O, $40, AS 500. 5.s7.
8.l5. 500, 1919 and 1l.39 Pm. On Sunday al
40. las, 945 AN, 245. els. 500 and 1910
Leave Alexandria for Washington SOS, CAS- T.05,
500. $40, 10.15, 1928 An, LOO. 215. 800.
BIB, 500 $50, 6.13, TO, TO. 80, l0.S2
and ii :OS Pm. On Sunday at 6.43, 80. 10.2S
AZ 2.l5. 5.30, 200, TO, $40 and 1882 Pm.
Ticket oft es northeast corner Of 18th street and
PENNSYLVANIA avenue, and at the station, 9th ami
b streets, where orders be left for the check
Ing OF baggage to destination from hotels and res
licences.
S. NJ. PROVOST, J. R. WOOD,
General Manager. General Passenger Agent.
mills
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dering daughters by their sides, as sud
denly and Unexpectedly as the deacon took
his son to the menagerie for the improve
ment of his mind. There comes a time
when the mother who has been patient,
serious and seemingly contented always
breaks loose and puts her foot down. II
will go to Europev 1t seems to occur at
about that period when her eldest daughter
las become almost a young lady. Is 1t
stampede from terror of old age, a fren-
Zied desire to have a respectable fling,
though late, or merely concern for Mamie's
education?
The father cannot leave his affairs.
Then I will take Mamie myself!'' But
suppose the lady have no daughter? Then
let her do as the other deacon did, who had
TO child to personally conduct to the cir
Gus. He borrowed one. Chaperone some
girl, or a small party, to Europe. But let
no young lady believe that she will have
a better time with the chaperon than the
chaperon will have for herself. The best
way for girl to come to Paris is with her
father.
Have you any idea Of the life led by an
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New 1.thmtan Canal Route.

A new route for an interoceanic canal
across the Isthmus of Darien is described
in the Engineering News. 1t was discov-
cred by Mr.. Gustavus A. Karweise, who
considers it important by reason of the
small cost at which it can be constructed.
His eastern terminus is at a point on the
shore of the Gulf Of Darien, about twenty
miles north Of the mouth Of the Atrato
ward FIVE miles to the Cordtlleras, pass
through a turnel two miles long, and
descend on the west to San Miguel bay.
using the Tuyra river for eleven miles.
The cost Is estimated at S4S, 600.
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From the Cincinnati Tribune. 'tI .'
Two prisoners in the county jail. who
were discussing the various methods of
capital punishment, brought out some de-
cidedly new ideas relative to the proposal
of New York scientists to resuscitate cleo
trccuted criminals.
Them suicide gallows in Colorado is a
bad thing observed one.
mo worse than the automatic gallows in
Connecticut" responded the other.
THE worst of ALL, resumed the first
speaker. lis the punishment IN New York.
Pretty soon they will punish double MUIR
derers there more than they do single
murderers.' E-,-
How can they do thatT'
For the first murder de prisoner will be
sentenced to be electrocuted, and for the
second he will be sentenced to be resusci-
tated by de scientific mekes. If he kills
three persons he will be electrocuted de
second time, and 30 on
Terrible. TERRIBLE" muttered the other.
awe-stricken at the human punishment
contemplated by the narrator.
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She Made II Misstep.


This story Is told Of a young woman who
boarded a car one evening recently which
was so full she had to stand. She was
crowded into the vicinity Of a woman who
had on the floor near her q basket Of eggs.
AS the car turned a corner 1t lurched and
the young woman lost her balance. When
she righted herself she found she had
planted one of her feet IN the basket of
eggs. At about the same instant the wo-
man made the same discovery. She screamed
out:
'Howly Moses. she's sthepped into me
eggs
Before she could take her foot cut the
old lady shrieked again:
would yez be after takin' yer foot out
and not be batin' them up to froth?"
OF course everybody laughed. and the
young woman was embarrassed. Every
one stared at her and she stared out of the
window. The old lady left the car at the
next corner and as soon after as possible
the young woman disappeared.
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Concerning kissing.

FT0m an EXcnHnge
The reason kissing is 80 pleasant. says an
osculatory expert Of scientific tendencies, Is
because the teeth. jaw bones and lips are
full of nerves, and when the lips of persons
meet an electric current is generated.-Yon-
kers Gazette.
Yes, and it is so COMPOUNDED cheap. You
don't have to have a dynamo machine. nor
a battery in the house nor a call box, nor
button to touch to ring up the central
office, and there is no patent on it. and the
poorest person in the world can enjoy the
and it never gets out ofrorder. If Edison
had invented kissing it would cost 500 a
year. like the telephone. and then extra
kissing would be charged up extra, and If
you didn't pay for 1t they would take out
your kissaphone and disconnect you from
the central Office.
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spect for the truth (even when they do not
speak it,. the American sense of humor
(Which Is the American girls best safe
guard, and. best Of all, they do not keep
European young-person shion. 1t is i'm
modest for a girl to baisser les yeux, and
1 can prove it. Question. Why should
girl continually keep her eyes down so
modestly @? Answer. To be looking
around indicates disordered mind and an
unlawful curiosity That is the universal
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Tourists.

America, QD young English and German
clerks, invited to musicales to amuse No.
IL. Q2) the cream Of American wealth and
breeding (this includes everybody, Q3)
girls in schools, QD widows writing books,
90 young men preparing for college (at
the Moulin Rcuge), Q0 scattered thou
sand or so of nice. well-to-do people who
could not tell you. for their lives, why they
remain abroad. Perhaps they find society
less mixed in Paris than at home.
OF all these types the American young
girl, rich or poor, plain or pretty, Is the
only one of enduring interest.
There is the one who comes to study, the
one who comes to marry, the one who is
brought away from an attachment in
America dad luck to her parents), the one
who comes to have a good time, the one
who was born in Europe, and the one who
comes because her mother brings her.
This last one has n strange lot, she who
comes to Europe because her mother brings
her. And yet such things happen. 1 tell
you there Is a tide in the affairs of some
American mothers which takes them across
the flood of the Atlantic, with their Won
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companions to make eyes at all the gentle
men. That seems stupid to the fair Amer
leans.
There are also fairly strict girls boarding
schools conducted by French Huguenot
eonstrainins change for American girls
who have, very properly, enjoyed a wider
and fuller liberty at home. The fault is
that it is in Paris. A dissatisfaction crises,
to go home before her term is finished.
Some American girls are born in Europe,
and some grow up to womanhood without
ever having seen their native land. The
effect is very curious. Was it not Aurora
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Church. in the "Pen-
sion Beaurepas" Of
Henry James? That
little story should be
read by every one In
terested In the sub
ject. 1t is so utterly
untruthful. American
girls born and reared
abroad not only pre-
serve their American
accent-which they
come by honestly
from their American
parents-but t h e y
keep almost all their
natural frankness,
-