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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-08

No matter if you cannot afford rich
and rare gifts. The humblest trifles
give unlimited pleasure if given with
a great deal of love. Let us give as
many Christmas gifts to our friends
and relations as we can afford. But
do not let is be tempted TO spend
money on them which we ought to de-
vote to other objects. We must be Just
before we are generous.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-08

Society of Utah Artists.
Annual exhibition, Is West First
South
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-08


In sending presents abroad. care
must be taken to observe all the postal
rules and regulations for the far
countree" to which they are going
You will find them all set forth in the
official postoffice guide. And post them
in plenty of time. 1t is better to be
before than behind the day. Our dear
exiles would indeed think themselves
deserted if the 18th of December passed
without their having received any
thing from home. If you cannot think
What to send them-the custom often
proves a stumbling block to our de-
sires in this respectfully not post off
an assortment of the Christmas num-
bers of the illustrated papers? These
will be sure of receiving warm well
come, and can be sent to the utter
most ends of the earth without trouble
or anxiety as to any hitch in their
delivery.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-08

Now a word as to the despatch of
your gifts. 1t adds greatly to their
attractiveness if you envelop them in
fair, white paper, daintily tied with
narrow colored ribbon, through which
a Christmas card of harmonious blend
ing is stuck with artistic carelessness
OF course, in the case of things to go
through the post, they must have an
outer wrapper of stout brown paper,
secured with strong string. Everyone
likes finding in ones present a CHEEKY
little note, written on the Christmassy
paper sold in small boxes for the pur-
pose.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-08

The arrangements for the seating of
the deputies are not marked with ex-
and in comparing them
with those of the congressman in
the latter seem immeasur-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-08

Society of Utah Artists.
Annual exhibition, IS West First
South.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16
This Man Had Courage

half dozen men were relating ex.
periences OF college days when young
physician said that in cases where
students were obliged to exc out their
expenses in professional career by
every possible means there often oc-
Cured pitiful examples of their cour-
age. Suppose, for example," said
he, "a case of skin grating comes to
the clinic, any student who will give
up his skin is paid five dollars for each
bit. l remember one instance in par
ticular, that of hard working young
man who gave ten bits of flesh to graft
a new face on badly burned baby.
AS tho flesh must be healthy and fresh
nothing can be used to deaden the
pain and it is cut from the inside of
the upper arm, the most sensitive
part. Slices the size of silver dime
are taken and laid quivering on the
wounded part where Il new skin is to
be grown. This fellow stood there
several days and allowed the surgeon
to slice off pieces from both arms,
each piece bringing the amount stip-
ulate, which paid for extra books,
clothing or food, and the poor fellow
minded neither the pain at the time
of the operation nor the lameness
with which he was afflicted for weeks
after, neither did be fear the risk of
blood poisoning or other difficulties
which might ensue.
He had the satisfaction, however, OF
seeing baby face resume its healthy
form and his examinations were passed
with brilliancy. He is to-day man
we'll known and honored in the pro-
fession. New York Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16

Tie Board of Education OF Whining
ton, Del. had a knotty problem to
solve the other day. but they were
equal to the situation, records the
Trenton IN. ]. American. 1t appears
that Hindoo boy had been brought to
one of the public schools and was ad-
mitted under protest. Afterwards tho
parents of some of the other children
raised objections, claiming that the
Hindoo lad came under the law in re.
lation to colored schools. The Board
decided that the boy was no5 negro,
and had as much right to attend q
white school as an Italian or any 9TH
er foreigner.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16

Crete what the Berbers are to Morocco
Or the mOuntaineers of Afghanistan are
to the dwellers in Indian plains. They
have never been subdued by the Turks,
md after waging a war with them that
lasted the greater part of two centll-
ries, the Moslems finally contented
themselves with building forts and
! block houses here and there at we'll
! known roads from the mountains to
the plains of Crete, in order measurably
to repress the warlike descents of tho
Sphakiotes from their almost inaccessi-
bic hills, Centuries of warfare have
developed an undying hatred between
the Sphakiotes and the Turks, and any
enemy of the oppresSors is always well
come in the Sphakiotc Mountains. The
Cretan who, from any cause, is obliged
to flee from the Turks is certain to find
security in the mountain villages. He
will not be given up. No matter what
threats are denounced against those
who harbOr him, no matter what prom
ses or rewards are held out to those
who betray him, in the Sphakiote Noun
Iains he is safe.
The Cretans have had a stormy his
Tory since the conquest of the island by
the Turks. AS already intimated, in
surrections have been very numerous
but the last serious one, involving the
population of the whole island, broke
ment of the kind, it began in Il protest
against excessive taxation, and in q
few days from its first appearance the
whole island was in arms. Women
and children were hurried off into the
mountain caves, while the men organ
zed themselves into bands and began Il
relentless warfare against the Turks.
Large bodies of Turkish troops were
dispatched to the island under the
command of no less leader than the
celebrated Osmar pasha and from
April to September n number of deSper-
ate battles We're fought between the in
surgents and the Turkish regulars.
Sometimes the advantage remained
with one, sometimes with the other
side, but the Turks were signally beaten
nt every attempt to penetrate the
mountains, and an armisticc was de-
clared pending the arrival of of the
Grand Vizier, Ali Pasha, who proclaim
ed a general amnesty. But the insur-
gents did not want amnesty, they want
ed Independence, or, at the least, the
right of self-government, and the war
began again and ragged until 1869, when
it was closed by the Intervention of the
ing little but reputation of being des-
perate fighters.
In the seventeenth century another
desperate struggle was waged and dur
ing the siege of the city of Gambia 30
900 Christians and 10000 Turks were
killed.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16
The w Workingman's Day.

Sunday is the workingman's day
day for well-earned rest at home. A
the recent English Church Congress thu
Sunday question was discussed, anG
the strongest advocate of its religious
observance was workingman. Says
the New York Churchman's:
With remarkable effect, he challenged
those speakers who had advocated q
modified observance of the Sunday tC
produce the worllingman who would
defend the modern inroads upon the
keeping of the Sunday as day of rest.
1t is worthy of notice that as a rule
the son of toll is in favor of the Amerl
can Sunday. Even when he is not q
church-goer, the steady and sober work
ingman finds his chief recreation in the
peaceful pleasures of the home.
He does not seek the riotous beer
garden, he does not frequent the Sun
day concert hall, nor does he care tC
break in upon his Sunday rest by the
noise and turmoil of Il railway ride. 4
careful investigation of the manner il
which the workingman prefers to spen(
his Sunday will prove that such is til,
case.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16

to the Turkish system of letting every.
thing go to ruin, they are almost chok'
ed up with sand. The towns of Crete,
like other Ottoman towns are not bad
looking from distance, for from some
strange freak of human nature, the
Turks rcligiously whitcwash every
house and wall once or twice year,
so that a Turkish town looks as though
built of marble. But that is as far as
the Moslems ever go in the direction Of
public cleanliness, and on entrance into
the narrow, dirty streets, filed with
all manner of oifal and refuse from the
houses, with homeless and ownerless
dogs sleeping everywhere in the street
all impressions of fairyland are instant
" dissipated.
The Moslems and foreigners generally
live in the cities and towns; the Greek
Christians in the villages and country
ana the latter are, as n matter of course
expected and compelled to bear the
greatest part of the burden of taxation
1t has always been so ever since the
Turk came on the island and it will
continue to he so until the Turk has
been expelled. But time has not accuS
toned the native Cretans to the yoke
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16

The commerce of the great lakes is
rapidly exceeding the American COM
merce on the ocean. The number of
vessels now contracted for or building
for 1896 Is sixty-five, with valuation
OF IS, 549, 900. OF these forty-two are
freight boats with a capacity of 1885,
6)0 gross tons. The coast ship build
ing for the year will he only 105 ves-
sels, with n total valuation of SO, 040,-
400, and most of these are passenger
and pleasure boats. In the river yards
twenty-lour vessels are being con-
structed, to cost S535, $50. The largest
vessel planned in the coast yards is
$50 feet long, while the smallest of
the lake freighters is 326 feet in length.
These figures, of course, do not iu-
clude the work in the Navy Yards.
1t is evident that the great lakes are
to furnish the traffic route of the
futures from the interior and with a
ship canal to the Atlantic coast which
must eventually be constructed the
next generation will sec their waters
covered by fleet whose numbers are
beyond tho reach OF Imagination at
present. st. Paul Pioneer Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16

and, indeed, every year they find II
harder to bear, because every year the
increasing poverty of the Ottoman Gov
ernment and of its local officials makes
the demand for money more mercilcss
There is, however, constant friction
between the Cretans and their bluta.
masters, and hardly twelvemontt
passes without Instructions breaking
out in one or another part of the island
Generally they are easily and quickly
subdued, for the Porte keeps nearly
10000 troops on the island, and every
man Is needed, too, in order to over
awe the native population of 100000
AS soon as signs of rebellion appear lr
any quarter, an overwhelming force
from the nearest garrison is marched
to the scene, the insurrectionists, II
caught, are put to death, and the dis
trict assessed a heavy fine, which
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16
The HikatiO's Watches.

Military men have been discussing
the novel idea OF the japanese Govern
ment, who have ordered 1000 watches
from n Swiss firm at Il cost of 80. 50
apiece. These watches are to be dis
tributed among tho officers and men
who took purt in the war against China
and distinguished themselves. They
are to be worn on the breast instead
OF medals. 1t is not considered, how
ever, that European soldiers would
prefer watches. The medal might only
be worth a few pennies, like the Vic
toria Cross, thel intrinsic value OF
which is exactly eight cents, but q
medal is at least decoration, while a
watch is only an article of ordinary
use. New York Mail and Express.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16

Upon the wall OF cell No. 7, in tho
County Jail at Mauch Chunk, Penn,
is the imprint of mans hand, which
would not attract attention were it not
for the strange story connected with
it-a story which can bo vouched for
by many of the towns citizens.
Alexander Campbell, of Lansford,
was an occupant of the cell in June,
1877. The Mollie Maguires were hold
ing their reign of terror throughout
the coal regions at that time aud he
was arrested and sentenced to be
hanged in connection with the mur-
der of John p. Jones. He stoutly as
serted his innocence, aud it was only
through tue confessions of his COM
rades in crime that he was convicted.
The night before he was hanged he
stood on his COT, and, it is said, plac-
ing his hand upon the wall, he de-
clared that in proof of his innocence
the imprint would remain upon tho
wall forever. The impression of the
hand can be as plainly seen now as if
placed there yesterday, though the
walls have been whitewashed often.
The phenomenon has been viewed
by many, but none of them has been
able to suggest plausible solution of
the mystery.
The cell is regarded with awe by the
prisoners in the jail, and if any them
become unruly the warden has only to
threaten them with night in cell No.
New York Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16
SOmething Ot a Rainfall.

Cherra Pooniee, or Cherapunii. is
on the southern verge OF the Khasi
hills of Assam, about $50 miles north
east OF the Calcutta, longitude ninety
one degrees forty minutes, latitude
twenty-five degrees fourteen minutes,
N, altitude 400 feet, says Notes and
Queries. The rainfall varies greatly
in different parts of tue station, the
average fall of the year being over
fifty inches, aud for June and July
about l16 and 131 inches respectively ;
twenty inches in one day is not un-
usual, and on the 14th and 10Th OF
June, 1876, the reported fall was 63. 64
inches i. e.. 40.80 AID 22.S4 inches.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16

Steel wagon roads. as advocated by
Martin Dodge, State Road Commits.
sioner of Ohio, are likely to have q
thorough trial in several States this
year, predicts the American Agricul.
turist. These roads consist of two
rails made of steel the thickness of
boiler plate, each formed in the shape
OF gutter five inches wide, with o
square perpendicular shoulder half an
inch high, then an angle of one inch
outward slightly raised. The gutter
forms conduit for the water, and
makes it easy for the wheels to enter
or leave the track. Such a double
track steel railroad, 16 feet wide, filled
in between with broken stone, macadam
Rize, would cost about $4,000 as against
$1,000 per mile for n .nacadam roadhed
of the same width, but the cost of a
rural one-track steel road would be
only about $4,000 n mile. 1t is claimed
that such a road would last much
longer than stone and that one horse
will draw on q steel track twenty times
as much as on dirt road, and five
times as much as on macadam.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16

An Omaha letter to the New York
Post says there is little doubt that
there has been a heavy emigration
from Nebraska, South Dakota, an
Kansas during the past two or three
years as result of the three years of
dry weather. This is especially true
as regards NJ eOraskq. Even fair ap-
proximatioa of the statistics of this
movement is possible. Most of these
people are farmer, and most of them
have gone South. The past year was
disappointing one for the Nebraska
farmers. The crops were neither a
failure as in 1891 nor big success as
in 1892. They made q small yield
over the whole State, aud the prices
which have obtained have precluded
any idea of profit. With the record oil
three years il succession staring the
people in the face, it is not at all won.
derful that they should have become
discouraged.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16
GOSSIP.

A ghost in boomers has appear ed in
Alameda, Cal.
Originality is the thing to be most
sought after just now in dress.
Hardly woman in the smart set
but belongs to some literary class.
Few luucheons ordered by the up
to.date woman are other than sensible.
A Chicago woman killed herself be-
cause her husband did not like her
cooking.
Miss Kitty Reed, the Speakers nine
teen-year. old daughter, is said to be a
great favorite in Washington society.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe will deliver a
lecture in Syracuse, N. Y, on "Per-
sonal "reminiscences of the New Eng
land Poets"
Mrs. Sarah F. Dick, cashier of the
First National Bank of Huntington,
Ind, is one of the most successful
financiers in that State.
Miss Agnes Belle Steele, daughter
of Mayor Steele, of Helena, Montana,
christened the new gunboat City OF
Helena at Newport News.
Mrs. Catherine Parr Trail, the only
living sister of Agnes Strickland, now
in her ninety-third year, is one of the
best amateur naturalists in Canada.
Miss Emma Bates, the new editor of
Western Womanhood, the organ of the
Western suffragists, is said to be an
exceptionally clever and forcible
writer.
Mrs. Chiffon, wife of the Texas
Senator, is tall and strikingly hand
some brunette, typical well-bred
Southern woman OF very domestic
tastes.
Mrs. Joy, of Missouri, is noted
among the Representatives. wives in
Washington for her exquisite taste in
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16

dress and her charming social accom-.
plishments.
Queen Victoria has five maids to at
tend to her wardrobe and toilette
three dressers and two wardrobe wo-
men. The senior dresser is specially
charged with all her royal mistress's
shopping.
Miss Clara Barton. President of the
Red Gross, was sixty-eight on Christ
mas Day, but she is still able to work
more hours out of the twenty-four
than most young women, or young
men either.
Berlin schoolgirls seem to be grow
ing very emancipated. They now have
their "salamanders, or drinking
bouts, Just like the university stu
dents, but content themselves with
coffee instead OF beer.
A Mrs. Humphreys, of New York,
has been refused admission to the So
ciety of Colonial Danes, though de-
scended from Benjamin Franklin, be-
cause his morals were not considered
all that they should have been.
Mrs. Ellen Henrotin, President of
the Federation OF Women's Clubs, has
been presented with a chair and gavel
by the women of Tennessee and Georgia.
The gavel is made of wood that grew
on the Kenesaw Mountain battlefield.
Grand Duchess Marie Valerie, the
youngest daughter of Emperor Francis
Joseph, has, according to II European
rumor, chance to become Empress of
Austria upon the death of her father.
1t is said that the Emperor desires to
make her his helress.
The first female lawyer has just hung
out her shingle in Berlin, and signif-
cantly enough she is un American,
Mrs. Emily Kempin, formerly of New
York. Her speciality will be looking
after the interests oil German clients
in cases pending in American or Eng
llsh courts.
The most prominent "new woman"
in Japan is Mms. Batoyama. When
her husband was running Tor Parlia-
ment recently she took the stump and
made speeches in his behalf, an un-
precedented thing for woman to do
in Japan. She is now teacher in an
academy, of which her husband is the
principal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16

Potatoes were selling for two cents
sack in San Francisco week or SO
ago, and sold slowly even at that
price. The potato crop all over the
country last season was enormous, and
most growers lost money on q consld-
srable part of their crop. In some
regions the potatoes were not taken
out of the ground, the price got down
SO low.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16

By the law of Scotland the bushes
or shrubs planted in the garden be.
long to the landlord, and the tenant
cannot remove them at the end of his
tenancy. The English law is the same
on this point.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16

The Referee, one of the most influ-
ential sporting papers in England, de-
clares that the game of football there
is being ruined by professionalism.
jerome j. Jerome's weekly paper in.
dorses this opinion, editorially, and
says football as played in England
now is simply trade. The sooner it
ceases to call itself sport the better. -"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16

The trouble with the magazie poets,
the Chicago Times-Herald concludes,
is that they are writing from copies.
Good copies-but copies. "One gem
uine, original singer like Frank Stan
ton gets nearer to the people than tho
whole raft load of sonneteers.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16
IT'S A WARLIKE LAND
ISLAND OF CRETE AGAIN FIGHT
ING THE TURK,
The Little Territory Has Had n Stormy
History Since 1t Passed Under the
Moslcm Yokc-Has a Rebellion AL.
most Every Year.
Key to the Egean,

One of the interesting islands of the
world is the Island of Crete or CANDIDA
now in insurrection against Turkish
rule. 1t is situated at the mouth of
the Aegean Sea and embraces an area
of $500 square miles. 1t has several
excellent natural harborS, but owing
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16

como of such vast proportions as to
pay an annual and perpetual interest
on a sum of money sufficient to build
railways from California to Maine,
and from British Columbia to the st.
Lawrence, each touching at Niagara
Falls, also to build line of steam-
ships from the outlet of the st. Law.
renee to every port of the world"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16

Buddhism of late is gaining quite o
number of adherents among the intel
Iectual leaders in Germany, writes
Wolf Won Schierbrand, such as George
Ebers, Gabriel Max, Julius Stinde, f.
Hartmann, and they have just begun
to issue monthly at Brunswick un-
der the title "Sphinx."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-16

The horseless vehicle has taken root
IN France and Germany. The steam
carriage brought out by NJ. Serpolet
between 1892 and 1895 is running in
oil parts of France.