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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

feet and body, slowly, very slowly.
One elbow WAS crooked considerably
more than the other, on account of the
slant of the rock. Upward his feet
slowly went till his body was straight
as an arrow. An instant's dizziness,
the giving of an arm muscle and it
would have been all up with the ven
turesome fellow. Had he even fallen
backward there would have been no
hope, for his fody would have rolled
off the shelving rock before he could
have righted himself. His only safety
was in coming down as carefully and
accurately balanced as he went up.
He was still in the air when his COM
panions came over the trail and caught
sight of him. They were half scared
out of their lives on account of the
too evident danger, but they did not
dare shout, didn't dare run to his as
sislance, did not dare move for fear
they would do something that would
startle Edgren and make him lose his
balance. So they stood like statues
and saw his feet descend slowly, while
the knees crooked and edged carefully
toward the spreading fingers on the
rock. A moment more and Edgren,
now red in the face. began to creep in
on the shelving rock.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18
SHE IS A CAPTAIN GENERAL.

Mrs. Alexander Fl. Kayser, of st.
Louis, has been appointed Captain
General of the National Guards of
Missouri by Governor Stone. During
the interstate military encampment
last year Mrs. Kayser was sponsor for
the Kansas City Houaves, and with
her maids of honor accompanied the
Houaves to the field. 1t was suggested
to Governor Stone that he recognize
Mrs. Kayser's services, and he prom
ised to give her a commission. He
has redeemed his pledge, and au-
nounces that he will present to Mrs.
Kayser sword and epaulets.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18
Disciplined Under Fire.

AT Sebastopol, during the seige,
says Pearson's Weekly, Captain
Samoilof, desiring some wine, ordered
an officer to send man after it. The
man, young soldier. took the money
and started on the GRAND. just then,
however, French battery had con-
centrated its fire upon the very spot
where the young man must so outside
the works. He stopped and then
turned back.
81 wouldn't go out there for the
world !" he said.
Tho officer, of course, reported the
act of disobedience to the Captain.
The Captain, in n rage, ordered the
man into his presence and demanded
why he had not obeyod his officers
orders.
81 beg you to pardon me, Captain,
but L was terribly afraid"
"Afraid!' cried the Captain.
"Afraid! A Russian soldier afraid
Wait a minute. l will drive the fear
out of you. Come with me-"
The Captain led the way to ramp
part, mounted it, and there, with the
bullets raining around him, began
putting the man through some mill
tary exercise. The lookers-on in the
fort held their breath. If hat was
put on a bayonet and lifted above the
walls the bullets came that way in an
instant. Not many minutes elapsed
before bullet struck the Captain in
the arm. He did not vince, but kept.
on with the drill, while the blood
dripped down bis hand to the wall.
Next bullet went through tho tail of
the soldiers coat and another through
his knapsack. Then suddenly the
firing ceased. The soldier begged for
grace and promised to go wherever he
was sent. Still the Captain continued
his drill. When he thought the lesson
had been learned, or perhaps, when
his arm grew too painful, ho dis
missed the soldier and went himself to
the surgeon and hpd his wound
dressed. The French explained after
ward that they ceased firing out of
sheer establishment at the sight of two
men exposing themselves so recklessly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18
A Handspring on a Prccipice.

Fancy standing on your head on the
very edge OF o precipice 5000 feet
high, and kicking your feet in the
air. It's will feat at tho best, but
that is what Robert Edgren did in the
Yosemite Valley, just raised the hair
on the heads OF his camping compan-
ions. They were all muscular, ath-
letic young fellows, bubbling over
with animal spirit, and throughout
the trip each one tried to outstrip the
Others in some venturesome prank.
But Edgrens feat on the edge of
Glacier Point capped them all. That
daring risk of life sobered the others,
and thereafter they were content to
tell stories and exercise their super
abundant vitality with racing and
vaulting.
! There is an abutting rock on Glacier
Point, in the Yosemite, about five feet
broad and about fifteen feet long,
which over hangs in perilous fashion
the valley below. Edgren coolly walked
out to the end of this rock, sat down
with his feet dangling over the edge
and began to take a friendly interest
IN the liliputian objects 5000 feet be-
low him. At that height men in the
valley looked like dots, the big Stone
man house was no bigger than card
house, and as for cattle, they looked
as small as ants. 1t was n sheer drop
below Nothing intervenel to break
the straight descent. Nest people
would have fallen off the point through
dizziness, but Edgren didn't mind it
any more than sittingat table and
looking at stereopticon view of the
valley. He tried to think of all the
daring feats that could be done on
such an eerie point. That led him to
thinking of doing some hair raising
feat that should daze his companions
and force "dare" that would hold the
record on the trip.
"l'll try standing on my head" he
said. So he turned over, with his
knees resting on the perilous edge of
the cliff and his feet pointing out into
the blue air overhanging the valley.
! With his hands spread out, and close
up to knees he began to elevate his
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18
Hard Tnsslc with RruIr.

j. G. Hearing, who is hunting md
trapping in the Blue Mountains, few
miles west of Elgin, met with little
adventure with bear the other day
that might hive proved rather serious
to him had it not been for the timely
intervention of one of his dogs. He
was engaged in setting traps, and as
he had considerable weight TO carry
he had no weapon with him except
jackknife, aud on his rounds his dogs
discovered the winter quarters OF
bear i'll big hollow tree. The bear
was at home and was pretty much
alive, as subsequent events proved. As
bear pelts are quito valuable, Jake
was anxious to secure this one, but
was afraid that if he went to camp,
mile and half distant, Bruin would
escape, so he lashed his pocketknife TO
the end of stick and attempted to
cut the animals throat. lie only sue
ceeded in infiicting some painful flesh
wounds, which SO enraged the brute
that it suddenly came out of its hole,
and WAS almost upon him when one of
his dogs made n Sudden onslaught on
the animals rear, which diverted his
attention long enough to enable Jake
to dodge behind n tree, and the dogs
soon made it SO tropical for the bear
that it was glad to take refuge in
tree, where they kept it until the gun
was procured from camp, when the
animal was quickly dispatched. Port
land Oregonian.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

1t is not generally known that the
United States Government is building
ship railway. 1t mas under construc-
tion around Tho Dalles of the Colum-
bia, in Oregon, a ship railway to ac.
commodato boats weighing, with
cargo, 600 tons. Tho canal will bo
between eight and nine miles in
length, and the rise at the lower end
will be from fifty to eighty feet, ac.
cording to the state of the tide, and it
will require about an hour and a half
to transport boat from the river to
tho river again.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

witness their docility; and
some of their feats, with those of their
riders, are pieces of exquisite grace
and agility, while Others are revolving
when they point at torture endured to
obtain perfection, the effect of which,
on the amiable aud well-disposed,
can never be desirable.
Horses of rare and eccentric mark
ing were first adopted in circus work
by the elder Ashley. The circus pro-
prietors have agents all over the
country picking up horses suited to
their needs, with remarkable "spots"
or markings. In England, Norfolk
and Suffolk produce the greatest num-
Der of spotted horses, the popularity
of color in those counties being iu-
heritel from two stations, Spot Hurle.
quin and Leopard. The leading circus
proprietors, however, breed their own
horses. and they by careful study and
attention, have brought the color and
markings Of the horses produced in
their studs to scientific perfection.
1t is found that II union between
black and gray gives either black
spot or piebald; the offspring of
gray and bay is generally skewbald
or red spot.
Marked horses are SO rare that they
fetch a high price. In England n
young horse, of ordinary color, for
which $3.50 or 5000 would be a reason.
able price, fetches readily $3.50 to
$500, if his markings make him au
eligible circus horse. New York
Ledger.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18
THE GERMAN WOMAN IN REVOLT.

The German woman is beginning at
last to assert herself. The Berlin cor
respondent of morning paper states
that a great protest is being mado
against certain clauses OF the pro.
posed new civil code. The position
of women in Germany has long been
unsatisfactory, and there were hopes
-fallacious, us it has turned out
that the new code would redress some
of their grievances. The German
married woman, according to the Ber-
lii correspondent, has, unless n special
contract has been made, no right to
dispose of her own fortune without the
permission of her husband, who is,
besides, solely entitled to administrate
and to have the usufruct of her
money, even of that which she earns.
Should a woman enter upon any finan-
clal transaction without the knowledge
and consent of her husband, it can be
Cancelled; women are also excluded
from family councils. No wonder
that they arc discontented. Lady IS
Pictorial.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

The papers related the other day
how valorous Kentucky colonel slew
an enormous devil-fsh on the coast of
Florida. 1t turns out that the horrid
beast was only big stingnree, which
leads the New Orleans Picayune to re-
mark that Kentucky is an inland
place-and its inhabitants do not
know much about water, anyway
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18
THE PHILOSOPHY OF GOWNS.

Lillian Bell discusses "rhe Philoso-
ply of Clothes" most interestingly in
the Ladies' Home journal. She de-
clares that "there is a hollowness
about having man praise your gowns
when you know he doesn't know what
he is talking about. When man
praises your clothes he is always prais-
ing you in them. You never will hear
n man praise even the good dressing
of woman whom he dislikes. But
girls who positively hate another girl
often will add, But she certainly does
know how to dress
"And so the xperienced woman wears
her expensive clothes for other women
and produces her effects for men.
She wears scarlet on cold or raw day,
and the eyes of the men lightup when
they see her. 1t makes her look
cheerful and bright and warm. She
wears gray when she wants to look
demure. Let a man beware of wo-
man in silvery gray. She looks SO
quiet and dovelike and gentle that she
has disarmed him before she has spok-
en- one word, and he will snuggle down
beside her and let her turn his mind
and his pocket wrong side out. A
woman couldn't look designing in light
gray if she tried. He dotes upon the
girl in pale blue. Pale blue naturally
suggests to his mind the sort of girl
who can wear it, which is generally u
blonde with soft, fluffy hair, fair skin
and blue eyes-appealing, trustful,
baby blue eyes"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

"The finest collection of Temperance
texts and precepts ever saw is in
saloon in my town." said Henry T.
Thompson, OF Iowa City, Iowa, to the
Washington Star. "Tho proprietor
of the saloon is the son of very
wealthy man in the East, who former
ly Travelled for his father. Whisky was
his bane and finally, at the close of
one of his sprees, the father discharged
him, sent him $40, 900 in cash and told
him that it was the last cent he would
ever get. The son sobered up and
made up his mind to two things, that
he would get back the money he had
spent and he woull discourage drunk
enness. He fitted up an elegant bar,
over which was inscribed, "Wine is u
mocker," and elsewhere are notices,
SAT last it biteth like n serpent and
stingeth like an adder" At one end
of the room is handsome painting
portraying with wonderful vividness
the drunkard's fate Along the bar
are inlaid the words, "a drunkard
cannot enter the kingdom of heaven" "
III man is intoxicated he cannot buy
a drink in the saloon at any price, an
the saloon keeper claims to be doing
a temperance work. incidentally he
has stopped drinking and is getting
rich"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18
A New Russian Port.

After 1899 Sebastopol will no longer
be n commercial port, and the new
port OF Theodosia, built by tho Rus
sian Government, and just completed,
will take its place. 1t has jetty 2044
feet long, and the quays within tho
port are 5000 feet long. with twenty
four feet of water. The port has
area of $500, 1000 square
feet, of which over 500, 900 are paved.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

For several years the number Of
lost children reported to and by the
New York City police has remained
about $500 per annum. Two-thirds
of them are boys, and the largest mum.
ber are lost in the poorer quarters of
tho East side. Very few New York
children are deserted.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

The addition of Russian to the cur
riculum of Harvard College is a proof
to the New York Sun of the strides
that have been made by the literature
of that people in n comparatively short
period of time.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

in order to prevent his wife from
going to church q Texas man burned
her Bible and prayer book. A few
hours afterwards, relates the Atlanta
Constitution, he was thrown from his
horse and nearly killed, and now all
the preachers in that vicinity are hold
ing him up as a terrible warning to
the unregenerate
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

Vienna is to lose tho Wien, the little
liver from which the city derives its
name. 1t had for some time been used
as an outlet for sewage and often
caused damage by overdowing, but
will now be covered over. Reservoirs
have been built to which the water
will be drawn during freshets.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18
oRGANDIEs OVER SILK.

Organdies this season are veri-
table dreams of loveliness, but
must, alas be made over silk How
ever, the summer girl who has two or
three of those diaphanous triaes need
have no fear as to the success of her
coming campaign. gn.-New York Adver.
tiser.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

An advertisement appeared in q
scientific paper the other day in tho
following terms: "Wanted, few en-.
terprising individuals with capital to
join in an expedition to search for
relics of Noah's Ark"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

Bennington Centre, Vt, with q
population never exceeding 800, has
furnished four Governors to the State,
and tho inhabitants think the good
material is by no means exhausted.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18
REVOLUTIONARY HEROINE REyERED.

Mollie Pitcher, the Revolutionary
heroine, is buried at Carlisle, Penn,
and the Philadelphia branch of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
IL trying to persuade the people to
permit the removal of the remains
from that city to Gettysburg, where
she is to have a monument.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

Count Tolstoi, the Russian philoso.
pher, has moved into Moscow to live,
but says that he is sorry to feel COM
PEELED to stay there, for country life
is better for soul and body.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

The following simple method of talk
ing impressions OF plants is due to NJ.
Bertot, of the French Academy of
Sciences. A sheet of paper is first
lightly oiled on one side, and then
folded in four, SO that the oil may fill
ter through the pores aud the plant
may not come into direct contact with
the liquid. The plant is placed be.
tween the leaves of tho second folding,
AMI in this position is pressed,
through other paper, all over with tho
hand, so as to cause small quantity
OF oil to adhere to the surface. Then
it is tlken out and placed carefully
upon white paper, another sheet is
placed above las two impressions can
he taken ont Mt once), and the plant
is pressed as before. Upon now re.
moving it an invisible image remains
on the paper. Over this is sprinkled
powdered black lead, which causes tho
image to appear. With an assortment
of pigments tho natural colors of
plants may be reproduced. To Oh
tain tixity, resin is mixed with the
color in small quantity. The impress
sion becomes fixed when it is exposed
to a heut sufficient to melt tine resin.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

About the most surprising thing to
the Philadelphia Times in an X-ray
picture of shad or herring skeleton
is that the bones are several millions
less than was popularlY supposed.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18
A FEMININE JACK TAR,

The first woman who ever circum-
nayigated the globe shipped with the
famous Bougainville expedition in
1866. She was disguised as man,
and was known us Charles Thomas
Barr. She was servant to Philibert
de Commercon, the botanist of the ex-
pedition. Her true name was never
learned.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

A Kansas court has ruled that ga
man who calls upon woman regular
ly and takes her to entertainments oc.
casionally is legally engaged to marry
bar
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

The Queen of England has never set
eyes on any of her colonies, nor upon
any part of Asia, Africa or America.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18

Matches have not yet displaced the
tinderbox in the rural districts of
Spain and Italy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-18
GOSSIP.

In Roumania women both study and
practice medicine.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-02
JUNE ENDS
With One of the Happiest and Pretti.
est Weddings During the
Month Of Roses.

Yesterday evening, as the last rays OF
the sitting sun bid farewell to the rose.
scented month of June, there was solemn.
lied marriage contract that Joined the
destinles of two of Canton's well known
and popular young people.
Shortly after O'Clock in st. Paul's
Episcopal church, Armand G. Will and
Elizabeth Kress were made husband and
wife by the Rev. E. L. Kemp, of Mas.
sillon.
At that hour the church was filled with
the friends and relatives of the contract.
ing parties. Mrs. Claude Ellison, seated
at the organ, played Mendelssohn's we'd
ding march while the bridal party passed
through the center aisle, and took their
places before the altar.
The bride, leaning upon the arm of her
father, was preceded by the ushers,
attended by Miss Camilla will, who were
a handsome pink gown and carried a
bunch of pink roses.
The bride wore a pure white organdie
of neat and simple design. She carried q
huge cluster of white roses. The groom
was attended by Mr.. John Fosnaught
After the beautiful marriage ceremony
Of the Episcopal church WAS performed
the happy couple, accompanied by their
immediate friends and relatives, took car
riages and were driven to the home of the
BRIDES parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Kress, of No. 1874 West Tenth street,
where an elegant wedding repast was
served.
The presents received were numerous
and costly, Among the number was q
handsome onyx piano lamp from the en-
ployes of the Sun Vapor Street Lighting
Comp any, and handsome mantle clock
from Mr.. j. A. Wann, the manager OF
the company. Other presents of silver,
cut glass, china and fine linen were sent,
in profusion, by admiring friends.
Mr. Armand Will has for many years
been employed as bookkeeper at the Sun
Vapor Street Lighting Company's office.
He is an Odd Fellow and an active mem
ber in st. Paul's Episcopal church. A
young man of strong principles and ster-
ling character, his life will nov be further
filled with the love and solicitude of
woman who, for her charming and unas.
suming manners, has won host of
friends who wish her all happiness in her
new home.
A cosy cottage at No. As Nimisilla
street, but recently furnished will at once
be occupied by the young couple, who will
be at home to their friends after August
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-02
PRIMARY EDUCATION BETTER
ABROAD THAN IN AMERICA.

ONE cannot have had any experience
of the instruction of European boys and
girls without being conscious of the radi-
cal contrast between the spirit of the
elementary school-room abroad and in
this country. There is among the lit
tie people abroad peculiar sort Of APP
plication of which among American
children you will not find the smallest
trace. 1t is not alquestion of industry.
The juvenile American is as willing to
learn and as quick about it as any other.
1t is matter of mental attitude. The
schoolroom where European children
acquire the rudiments of education Is,
in some unanalyzable way, quieter,
remoter spot; one more shutof from the
distractions that come from without;
and, notably more serious. Learning
may look to the youthful minds within
those walls to be dull thing, but it is
certain, without their being aware of it,
to seem to be dignifed thing. And
the routine has repose that gradually
acts upon the juvenile scholar until it
shapes him to this application--to a
mood of patient attentiveness and a sort
of ruminating receptivity, that, so far
as ultimate fruitfulness is concerned,
may, in every instance, be safely pre-.
ferred to all the precocious personal
brightness" and "alertness" in the
world.-From "The Point of View" in
the July Scribner's.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-02
WALL STREET WORRIED.

somewhat singularly, Wall street
has shown much less sympathy with
the assuring effect of the 81. Louis
declaration against free silver than other
branches of the business community.
This anomaly may be accounted for
from various causes. To begin with, the
speculative spirit has been so completely
crushed and the "Street" had become so
utterly distrustful that the market had
lost all its resiliency and was too feeble
to respond to even the "bull overtures
from London In the next place, the
room "bear" operators were considera-
bly, oversold and stoutly resisted any up.
ward tendency Again, there was a
disposition to wait for the echo of public
opinion upon the ST. Louis gold plank
and some are disposed to wait for the
outcome of the Chicago convention.
Moreover, the fact Of the change coming
so near the time of summer absences
was unfayorable to undertaking new
operations; and the more 80 as there is
every prospect of the election campaign
being one Of unusual excitement. Also
1t is feared that an overwhelming dis.
play Of silver strength at the Chicago
convention may possibly interfere with
the Wholesome impression produced by
the st. Louis declarations. The per.
sistent rumors Of impending complica-
tions between Spain and our Govern
ment, though probably having no
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-02
RIOT AT BEREA.
Deputies and LabOrers Exchange Shots
and Over Fifty Persons Are
Injured.

Cleveland, July 1.-(Special. "A riot is
in progress at the quarries CT the Berea
Stone Co. at Berea Sheriff Leek and a
number of deputies went to the quarries
this morning as trouble was feared
among the men who are on a strike for
higher wages. The presence of the depu-
ties enraged the men, who threatened an
attack upon the works and the men en-
gagged in them. A riot ensued, and the
men and officers had a hand -to-hand CON
flict, many heads being cracked. Later,
another riot broke out and over 100 shots
were exchanged. The list of injured will
reach 30, aud some of the injuries will be
fatal. Comparative quiet has been re-
stored, but it is the quiet of exhaustion.
Further trouble will be had.