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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27

There are now in America 2339 wo-
men practicing medicine in one or the
other OF its forms, and inclusive of
130 homeopathists.
After an existence OF fifteen years
the Woman's Exchange, of Albany, N.
Y, has been obliged to suspend bust.
ness on account of lack of patronage.
Nine. Hatoyama, japanese lady,
is up to date in politics. When her
husband was a candidate for Parlia-
ment she made public speeches in his
interest.
Miss Ella Knowles, OF Montana, set
tied lawsuit between two mining
companies by submitting an agree
ment SO obviously just that both par.
ties accepted it aud paid her $4,000.
Kitty Reed, the Speakers nineteen.
year'old daughter, is becoming great
favorite in Washington society. She
is said to be clever, sincere and
unaffected young woman. She has the
Reed drawl.
Miss Alice g. Fletcher was elected
one of the sectional Vice. Presidents of
the American Association for the Ad-
vancement OF Science, the first honor
of the sort extended to a woman by
the association.
Mrs. Elkins, wife of the Senator
from West Virginia, is brunette of
remarkable beauty. She is very fond
of society and has wealth to assist her,
and her home will probably be one of
the gayest in Washington.
Mrs j. Stanley Brown (Mollie Gar
field is one of the most popular young
matrons in Washington. She is
brunette, with warm golden brown
hair, large dark eyes and an exquisite
complexion. She has three children.
Mrs. Gear, wife of the Iowa Senator,
has been an invalid for almost eight
years, but takes deep interest in her
husbands career. She enjoys rending,
but her specially is embroidery, and
some exquisite work comes from her
deft fingers.
Mrs. fernando De Soto Money, wife
of the new Mississippi Senator elect,
is brunette of small, slight, willowy
figure, jet black hair and eyes OF
almost purple tint. She is woman
of considerable literary talent and IA
clever talker.
1t is said that the Empress Of Austria
is very different woman from the
dashing sportswoman who used to
hunt like man. She is now fifty
eight, and spends the most of her
time i'll the search of health. She IS
slowly falling victim to consumption.
Mary L. Wilkins is one of the most
unpretentious of literary women, and
when she read in a recent issue of an
English magazine description of her.
self that made her out both youthful
and pretty, she wrote and begged to
have it corrected, as she was not yorr~,
she said, and had no pretension :.
beauty. She is supposed to be about
thirty-seven years old.
The Countess of Warwick, who is q
philanthropist of the visionary and
sentimental sort, in addressing a meet.
ing of London workingwomen not
long ago assured them that they need
ed more recrentions and more pleas
ures. Then she described the benefits
to be derived from two or three hours
vigorous horseback riding, n morning
at tennis or day in yachting.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27
WILDS OF AUSTRALIA
CAMELS CARRY TOURISTS AND
BURDENS.
The Beasts Consume Astounding
Quantities of Water When a Soon
denser" Il Reached-Lakcs with Mir
Water at Eight Cents a Gallon.

Water at Eight Cents Gallon.
In Australia eamels are quite gencr-
ally in use as beasts of burden, and
journeys to the mining camps in the
desolate West Australian Bush region
are almost invariably made with them.
They are used either under the saddle
or hitched before a wagon OF carriage.
Camels are also especially trained for
use as bearers of baggage and other
burdens, and the animals accustomed
to that can carry from 400 to 500
pounds for long distances. In the towns
at the edge of the mining district, which
is as rule covered with an intermina
bic and monotonous growth of dense
forest, these animals are not for sale
or hire. At Coolgardie they can be
hired at the rate of II per day for rid
ing, and 12s. Cd. for pack camels, a big
deposit being usually demanded on
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27
RECIPES.

London Potatoes-Fry slices of cold
potato, about one-fourth inch thick,
till nice brown; lay them on hot
dish and place on each pieco thin
s!ice of hard-boiled egg, allowing two
eggs for five persons. Pour over all
the following hot:
Bean Soup-Thoroughly mash the
remaining half OF the beans; return
them to the liquor with q small minced
onion and small handful of celery
tops, dried and saved for soups; add
water or stock if there Is not enough
bean liquor; season 10 taste.
Sauce Piquante-Melt,,a "a tablespoon
fuls OF flour, stirring all the time
add salt and pepper to taste, and then
gradually one gill OF water and one
gill of vinegar; stir we'll until the
sauce has boiled q few moments. A
little parsley may be added.
Fried Mush Slice well-cooked mush
(stiff enough to mold nicely in creased
pan or dish) about one-quarter inch
thick. Cut in neat squares or oblongs.
Drop in smoking hot fat as you would
French fry potatoes. When delicate
brown lay ,on, paper n few minutes.
Serve with or without maple sirup.
Cook enough mush for several morn
ings. 1t keeps we'll in cold place.
Baked ,Iomatoes-The tomatoes
from which the juice was draiped at
luncheon should be drained again if
still wet. Put thin layer of fine
bread crumbsi in a well-greased baking
dish, thick layer of tomatoes, just
enough minced onion to flavor deli
cately, many tiny bits OF butter, salt,
pepper and another thin layer OF bread
crumbs. Repeat until the dish is full,
having crumbs on top. Bake slowly
about an hour.
Salad-Some string beans ard boiled
cabbage left from yesterdays dinner,
and some beets picked last fall, coarsely
chopped; u tablespoonful or more
piled on small lettuce leaves on each
of the necessary number OF individual
plates and thin mayonnaise dressing
over all. The lettuce can be raised
in roomy window-box in sunny
window, where it looks very pretty
growing. A few leaves may be cut as
n time as needed, the roots left to
send up more leaves.
French Beans-Soak pint of navy
beans over night; put ou to boil in
one quart OF fresh water; at the end
of half an hour add one teaspoonful,
or less. salt and boil again gently and
without breaking for another half or
three-fourths of an hour; meanwhile,
cook very small sliced onion in
cupfnl of tomato juice; strain or not,
as you choose; about this time the
beans are done; thicken this with
flour and butter; put in half the beans,
we'll drained; reheat and serve.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27

clear out to the street, and there were
such prominent men as Tom Reed,
George Shiplcy and others of that
caliber. At the proper time | was
introduced to the audience as the
young fellow who had begun Port.
lands great temperance reform, and !
thought | ought to say something Just
to show my appreciation. But 10 and
behold | couldn't say n word | stood
there trying to speak, but | couldn't,
and finally broke out crying. Ofcourse.
was shamCl and Inundated, and
thought | had brought disgrace on ev.
cry friend | had on earth. | had no
thought but to get home, and there |
went as soon as | could get out of the
crowd. And | stayed there three days.
too, out of ryDody's sight. until NV
friends began to inquire, Where's
Frank Nobody could say, and finally
they came to the house to look me up.
Mayor Kingsbury was one of them.
They asked me what was the matter,
and replied that | had disgraced them
all and my family and myself and ev.
erybody else by the failure l had made
at the City Hall. You haven't failed;
you've done magnificent said Kings
bury, and have fifty applications for
you to talk temperance.
'l'or while | demurred, but then |
went out with little pledge, not ex
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27
The Atlanta Constitution notes III

The Atlanta Constitution notes thnt
the experiments of Massachusetts, and
New Jersey in the construction of
frst.class highways have aroused u
good deal of interest in other States,
Massachusetts, spent 100000 last
year on her roadways, and she is will.
ing to spend still more this year. In
New Jersey, too, the people arc
anxious to be taxed if they can get
good roads. In many States, North
and South, it is suggested thnt it
would be good plan to work the con.
victs on the public highways. Their
labor would in time furnish every To-
callty with good roads, and thus em.
ployed they would not compete with
free and skilled labor. The outdoor
work would be good thing for the
health OF the prisoners, and if proner-
ly guarded they could not escape any
more easily than under the present
system. With first-slass highways
our farms will rapidly increase in
value, and their owners will have bet
ter facilities for carrying their pro.
ducts to market, while the item of eay.
ing in the wear and tear of vehicles is
of important consideration. With
these improvement, our rural dis.
tricts will attract settlers, and the
country will draw the surplus popula.
tion of the towns. Perhaps this
points to the solution Of the convict
problem.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27

LosAngeles dispatches chronicle the
foct that OF the distribution OF the cs,
tate Of Pho Pico, the last Governor Of
California under Mexican rule, only a
gold watch and chain were left. Pico
was the richest oil all the native Cali.
fornia hidalgos except Vallejo. He
owned ranches which covered hun.
dreds Of thousands OF acres, and his
cattle were unnumbered, but, like Val.
lejo, he had no conception of the
value of land or money. When the
the Americans swarmed in he played
the hospitable host for several years,
and when his ready money was gone
he mortgaged his estates. Twenty
years saw him stripped of every thing,
and for the last decade the man who
was once the most powerful in the
State simply vegetated on the bounty
of old friends. In the same way Gen.
eral Vallejo, who once owned the best
lands in Central California, died in
poverty in the house which once wit
messed his princeiy entertainments.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27

pecting to make speeches, but simply
to talk to one man or two at Il time, My
success was greater than l expected,
and the work | did resulted in the for
nation of the New England Reform
clubs, with which 10000 people signed
the pledge. That was the start of my
temperance work.
The number of people who have
taken the pledge from me l can not
tell exactly. The only figures l have
were those that We're compiled in 1878,
when it was rcckoncd that 100000
people had taken the blue ribbon
through the work had started. In the
four years l spent with my son, Thos.
e. Murphy, in Great Britain, it is esti
mated that 100000 people signed our
pledge. In the city of Belfast, Ireland,
my son took 10000 signatures to the
pledge in three days. That is the great
est record ever made by a man in tenn
perance work. My best work was done
In Pittsburg in 1876. / talked there for
throe months in one hall, and as 4 re-
suit $4,000 men signed the pledge. 1t
was 'h"t Noih, loo, tidt Sthitcu thS
movement that made the gospel and
total astinence caubse. 1t was that
work, too, that gave me fame, and l
have never made any money since l
first had the fame. | have refused to
turn my work into Il money-making
business"
Mr.. Murphy has been aided by his
wife, who, like himself, is a winning
apostle of temperance.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27

Those married men who have al.
ready provided seal skin sacques for
their wives and daughters are in big
luck, thinks the Atlanta Journal. The
Alaska seal herd has decreased from
47,0OO,OOO to 175,OOO in twenty-five
years and is still falling. 1t is a con.
ISOLATION that pretty womal dares not
need seal skin cover to make her at.
tractiYe.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27

the City Hall. No,
SIR, | told him, 4
II e ver made a
speech in my life,
and I'm not going
TO try in the City
Hall. Well, you
don't need to- he
replied. Just ap.
pear there sober
that will be speech
enough for you !
agreed to do that,
and | went. The
City IIallWa filled
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27

The late Prince Henry OF Battcn.
berg had theory that every Nation
was civilized in proportion to its ap.
probation of music. On hearing a
Chinese orchestra, he once remarked ::
"These people are hopeless; they will
never progress.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27
Humor with the Puritans,

The first boatload from the May
flower scrambled out on Plymouth
Rock.
Il suppose" remarked Miles Stand
ish, emptying the water from his shoe,
that we can now be referred to as
landed aristocrats."
And when this was repeated to Elder
Brewster and explained to him he
almost laughed.-New York Recorder.
Don't talk of your friends as your
"set." 1t makes them feel like q col
lection of souvenir Spoons.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27
WILD suNFLoWER BELLE.

An Atchison girl started out the
first of the year with q resolve to say
nothing, but always look interested
and sympathetic. The other girls are
still wondering what makes her SO
suddenly popular with everyone.-At-
Gibson Globe.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27

In the Government of Saratov, in
Russia, horse thieves and cattle raid.
ers are lynched when caught. The
latest case is the beating to death With
sticks of four men by the peasants OF
Biklei.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27

Maine has gained $4,000 people In
thirty years, and Vermont gained
about 1900 in the same period. and
in the ten years ending with 1890 she
gained 1856 inhabitants.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27

Five-cent kilograms are to be tried
in Italy. The Government is also try.
ing to have tho tariff with other Euro.
pean countries reduced.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF BAKING.

A great many cooks make failure
of baking, simply because they do not
understand the management of the
oven, and seem to be unable to grasp
the few simple facts necessary to its
successful handling. Most cooks fire
up the range and fix the proper point
at the degree when the outside of the
oven door will hiss sharply if touched
with the wet finger. This is degree
of heat unsuited to almost all delicate
articles. 1t scorches and sears them
over; things that should rise are held
in by the crust that forms too quickly.
and daintiness with such management
is out of the question. Cakes are
crusted over and either become soggy
or burst out at the top of the dish
and run over like volcanoes. This
spoils the shape and symmetry and is
unworthy of culinary artist.
As matter of fact, the number OF
minutes an article should bake is but
very small part OF the knowledge re-
quired for successful cookery. Ten
minutes in some ovens is equal to
twenty in others, and forty may make
the article as dry as chip.
The old fashioned brick oven had
points Of grace, perhaps because bakers
knew how to manage it.
1t has been suggested that the
modern oven should be provided with
thermometer and that cook-books
should have degrees OF heat rs we'll
rs the number of minutes required
for baking. Under ordinary circum-
stances the oven is of proper tempera-
ture for plain cake when it will brown
sheet OF white letter-paper without
setting it on fire. Bread ought to be
baked in an over as hot as possible
without burning, and the heat should
be maintained steadily until done.
Cakes may have the heat slightly re-
duced by putting little can of hot
water into the oven. This lowers the
temperature and should be removed
il the fire becomes at all slack. Prac.
tice, watchfulness and experimenting
are the only ways to successful bak-
ing, and will be SO until our range
ovens are provided with thermometers,
and until our cooks learn how to use
them. New York Ledger.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-27
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
SOMETHING ABOUT POTATOES.

In bulletin issued by Professor
Snyder, of the Minnesota State Agri-
culture College, he makes q point OF
interest to the housewife. He shows
that where potatoes are peeled and
started boiling in cold water there is
a loss of eighty per cent. of the total
albumen, and where they are not
peeled and are started in hot water
this loss is reduced to two per cent.
A bushel of potatoes, weighing sixty
pounds, contains about two pounds of
total nitrogenious compounds. When
improperly cooked one-half of a pound
is lost, containing six-tenths of a
pound of the most valuable proteids.
1t requires all of the protein from
nearly two pounds of round beefsteak
to replace the loss of protein fromsim-
properly boiling bushel of potatoes.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-06-18
DIAMOND DUST.

O'Brien has begun to get his batting
clothes on.
Harper and Rafferty, will be today's bat
terry. Delaney will pitch for Syracuse.
Wilkes-Barre and Rochester had 1877
chances in yesterdays thinning game and
accepted l25.
Mains, the-young Boston pitcher who
was supposed to have been secured tor
Scranton has signed with Bangor. Man.
effect last night.
Pitchers Herman and Mcfarland are
farmed to Rochester BY Louisville. Ac-
cording to the Courier-Journal either Of
them may be recalled at any time and Nc
Dermott or Fraser sent to Rochester In
exchange.
There is no likelihood of Latham going
on the bench while he continues his work
of the past two games. His hitting and
fielding on Tuesday and his stealing and
base running yesterday were too good to
be missed.
Pitcher Dick Brown, who was called
to Baltimore Monday on account OF SICK
ness in his family, wired yesterday that
he would return in time to go on the
trip. He was notified by return mes
sage to return at once. The report that
Sir Richard had departed never to return
Is groundless, though his peculiar dispo-
sition may have led him to take desperate
means to get vacation.
Says the Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer:
"All the Wilkes-Barre cranks hail with
delight Grffin's appointment as manager
Of the Scranton club, that Is for Griffin's
sake, i'or they desire to see him advance
in the profession. They would have liked
much more, however, to see him as man
ager of the Wilkes-Barre club, and they
are sure that had he been In charge all
the season, the Babies would have been
in the first division instead Of In seventh
place."
Ward, who this season played second
base on the Princeton University team
and who Is looked upon as star. has
been signed by the Louisville manager to
play shortstop. He donned the Colonies
rarb at Cleveland yesterday. shannon
is to be released. Ward has splendid
reputation, both as an inhelder and bat
ter When Priceton played against sever
al of the big leaguers during the first part
of the season his work was especially no.
ticed. A professional ball player who
watched Princeton this season speaks or
him in the highest terms.
The Hartford correspondent for Sport
ing News says: BILLY Barnie's boys have
done themselves proud the past week, hav-
ing played six games with the league
leaders, Paterson and the Nets. and won
four. The games with the latter drew a
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-06-18
CHICAGO MAY DEFEND THE CUP.
Ifthe Kaiser Challenges Then YOu'll
Hear From the West.


There Is . remote possibility that a
defender for the Americas cup may be
constructed in Chicago. says an ex-
change. There are said to be men re-
siding in that city who are ambitious Of
linking their names to the roll OF those
who have drawn checks to keep the cup
on this side, and 1t is given out that they
will do more than talk If the German
emperor's yacht Meteor becomes chal-
lenger. Notwithstanding the denials
cabled from Europe Of any such inten-
tion on the keepers part. private ad-
vices say there is no question the Me-
teor will undertake. the job that has
baffied the crack boats of England.
Scotland and Canada since 1851.
In anticipation of this event several
members of the Lincoln Park Yacht
club are planning to organize a syndi-
cate to build yacht to contest for the
honor Of defending the cup. Designer
Poekel Is confident he can design a boat
of the Defenders dimensions which will
prove much faster than the Herreshoff
sloop that sent the last of the Valkyries
home vanquished. He had virtual su-
pervision of the construction of the De-
fender and made all the working plans
from which she was built. A half dozen
members Of the club have signified their
willingness to join the syndicate. and 1t
is believed no difficulty will be expert
enced In securing enough others, es-
pecially after the Vencedor has shown
what she can do.
The toDmast of the yacht Defender,
which was competed for recently at the
fair of st. Mary's hospital, in Brooklyn,
has been awarded to the police depart
ment, and will be used as a Flagstaff for
one of the stations.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-06-18

The West Sides have organized and
challenge the Olyphant team for game on
Saturday next at Olyphant. The follow
ing players make up the new Hyde Park
team: Williams and McNulty. catchers:
Mcdonald and J. Posner. pitchers; Ow-
ems, first base: Malott. second base; Dave
Hughes. shortstop; Zang, third base:
Reese. center field: Crossin. left field and
change pitcher. W. r. Hughes. manager.
The Reliable Reserves base ball club.
Of Green Ridge, challenge any club In
Lackawanna county for a game on June
q at 3p. m. on the johnson Lake grounds.
Win give a return game. Answer through
The Tribune. Harry Maus, manager;
Willie Heller, captain.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-06-18
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third on a wild pitch. Shearon got q
base on balls. He started to steal and
Berger threw wild over first the Syra-
cuse Egan scoring and ShearOn going to
third.
Then hapepned peculiar play. Garry
got a walk and stole. Minahan hit one
which johnson stopped and threw the
ball to the plate to block Shearon. Garry
had gone down from second to third.
Shearon ran back to the bag and Berger
took his time in walking down and
Stearns declared only the latter out.
Carey made force hit. johnson fielding
the ball to the plate where Shearon was
declared out for running out Of line.
The Barons tied the score, in the fifth
Latham got walk and stole second and
third. coming home on Reilly's miss Of
Hess throw.
to center gave the Barons an earned
and leading run in first Of the seventh
In the last half the Stars tied the score
on Shearon's single and Minahan's two
baser along the left line to the fence.
COSTLY MISTAKES.
In the Stars last time at bat Hess
reached first on Pete Eagan's error on
a hard chance. Then Hutchinson blum
dered and missed q golden opportunity
on Moss bunt. The ball rolled swift
ly to within six or seven feet of first
base and as great distance inside the
diamond. Hutch might possibly have
assisted Hess out at second and surely
had plenty Of time to get to the bag be-
fore Moss. But he did neither. He first
turned toward second, then toward first
and again toward second finally decid-
ing, but too late, to make the play at
first. Moss got past him and Hess was
safe at second. Each runner got a life
on Reilly's ont and scored on Willis
liner to right. A two-bagger of Bill
Egan and a single by Shearon brought
in the last two of the four runs.
The Barons gingered up In the ninth
Latham got a walk stole second and
scored on Hutohinson's double.
Meaney's two-base drive along the right
line scored Hutch. Ward flew out to
center OEren hit one at Willis legs
and advanced Meaney to third from
where he scored on Pete Eagan's force
of OBrien at second. Mcguire flew out
to Minahan. .
The score in detail: