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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12

! Among the illustrious visitors who
will come to America this year King
Chulalonkorn of Siam has by far the
most unique personality. An indepen
dent Asiatic monarch, ruling over some
fifteen millions of prosperous subjects,
he is also endowed with a degree OF
culture not shared by any Eastern po'
tentate. If he were not King, he
would fill a prominent position in the
ranks of the learned. He has shown
himself munifcent patron of scholars
and scholarship. Perhaps, however,
from an English standpoint, lns good.
liest trait OF all is his pronounced An.
glophilism. English is now spoken al
Bangkok by all the elite of Siamese
society.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12
4 Coupon of 1TS8.

Cornelius Holton, of 435 Fifth ave.
due, this city, called upon Mayor
Strong in New York yesterday and pre-.
sented for payment coupon clipped
from an old water bond issued by New
York City on March 5, 1776, The
coupon called for the payment to bearer
of four shillings and was signed by
Benjamin Blagge as clerk. Mr.. Hol.
ton said that it was through his wife,
who was formerly the widow of IDr. A.
Barnes, of Greenwich, Conn, that he
got the coupon. She had received it
from her grandfather many years ago.
Mayor Strong said there was no fund
from which the coupon could be hon.
ored, so he referred Mr.. Holton to the
City Chamberlain. General McCook
knew of no fund from which payment
could be made, so the holder was in
turn referred to Controller Fitch.
There the question of the city's liza.
bility was raised, Deputy Controller
Lyons said that the issue Of bonds in
question was authorized by the COM
mon council four months before the
Declaration of Independence was
signed. He expressed the opinion that
the successors of King George were
the responsible parties from whom in
terest should be collected, SO Mr.,
Holton returned to his home without
his four shillings, Brooklyn Eagle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12

The migration of the French speak.
ing people of Canada to the New Eng
land States has assumed enormous
proportions in recent years, and shows
no signs of diminution. The French
population of the Province of Quebec
is l, 200, 600, while, according to the
census of 1890, the number of French
Canadians and persons of Canadian ex-
traction in the United States was $40,
000 The late NJ Mercier predicted
that by 1910 there would be more
French Canadians by birth and descent
in the United States than in Canada.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12
Do Bees Fill Up the Cracks?

III depends entirely on circumstances
whether they do or not. If they are
up in the sections some days before
they begin to work they will chink
them up; but if the Weather is hot. and
the honey flow good, they are just as
apt to fill and seal them before doing
any waxing at all, and they sometimes
used to fill and cap entirely the large
wooden boxes which used to make
before sections came in vogue. 1 fire.
quently made the top out of two
pieces, and they would shrink so that
J. could see down, and [ saw them
filled and capped, so that L could look
right down between every sheet of
honey after taking them off and get
ting the bees out, and not a particle
anywhere; but if left on long after they
were filed they would put in propolis;
while if the weather was cool, and they
wanted them warmer, they would fill
them with white wax, the same as they
used in making comb.
But it made me laugh Just q little to
see you cite Doolittle to case of bees
storing honey in extracting combs with
n crack 12x! inch over their heads.
Now, haven't you been around bees
long enough to find that they never
stop up crack that they can go through
freely? But may be your bees can't
get through half-inch hole-must be
some dorsata about them.
In answering a question as to the
merits OF tall section over square
one, one writer makes point which 1
think is good one, viz, that it is a
detriment to bee-keepers when they
adopted the panel sections, and says
the price of honey would not have been
lowered if We had stuck to the large
section, and he is right; and another
thing besides the extra work of setting
up, putting in foundation, scraping,
etc, is that the bees will put up more
honey in large section than in small
ones, just as they will beat themselves
if allowed to work all together in
large hive, all in one body; but then,
we don't want to raise chunk honey,
so must have some kind of package to
get it stored in. But / can get about
ten pounds more honey in two than in
one pound sections, which would allow
for couple of cents less; but then, 1
can't sell them all at any price, except
limited number around home; they
won't sell at all in Chicago unless there
is great scarcity.
So, much against my will, I am
obliged to use the 4.x4!, and 1 prefer
them l 4 wide, and use without separ-
ators, and have but very few bulged
or crooked combs; and if well filled
they weigh nearer an even pound than
any other size I ever had. Then 1
doubt whether as much honey is sold
as there would be if the two-pound
sections were all there were in use, for
scores of people would buy just as
quickly as any way, and, once bought,
it would be eaten, and they would buy
again just as quickly as if they bought
one pound. -Woodchopper, in Clean
ings in Bee Culture.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12

Japan is distinctly literary coun'
try, with history of writing and liter
ature since at least A. d. 712. Las
year the number of books published
was 1866, of which 10000 were
translations or compilations. Law led
with 1880, painting and sculpture had
5000, religion followed with 1888
music 1922, japanese poetry 9S2 and
works in bellies lettres, novels, stories,
criticisms, etc, 1112 titles.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12

if the soil be very dry supply tepid
water, then draw up more of he soil
over the roots and about the plant. If
the transplanting be done in dry
weather, covering of grass, leaves.
old rags or anything that will exclude
the sun and hot air and preserve the
moisture, will greatly accelerate the
growth an vigor of the plant. How
ever, for transplanting large field
crops, advantage must be taken of wet
weather in which to do the work. -
j. L. B., in New York Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12

The flesh of an elephant is eaten in
its entirety by several of the African
tribes. A detail of the process of
butchering the animals is not pleasant
reading. The tools used are the assegai
and hatchets. The rough outer skin
is first removed in large sheets. Be-
meath this is a subcuticle, a pIiable
membrane, from which the natives make
water skins. Tie elephant yields large
quantities of fat, used in cooking their
sundried biltong, or dried strips of
elephants flesh, and also in the prep
aration of vegetables. African explorer
OF the Caucasian race agree that one
part of the elephants carcass, when
properly cooked, is a succulent dish
that will regale the most delicate taste.
This part, very strangely, is the first
joint of the leg below the knee, which
one would suppose to be the toughest
portion of the animal, To prepare the
joint, hole three feet deep is dug in
the earth, and the sides of it are baked
hard by means of large live Goals.
Most OF the GOALS are then taken out.
and the elephants foot is placed in the
rude oven, The hole is then filed
with dirt, tightly packed, and blaz-
ing fire is built on top, which is kept
replenished for three hours. The foot
is thus evenly baked, and when done,
instead of strong, tough meat fibre, it
is gelatinous consistency that may
be eaten with spoon, Public Opin-
ion
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12
WOMEN AS FARMERS.
Three Cultured Illinois Girls Successful
in Agriculture.

| in Agriculture.
From time to time, says the WASH
lngton Pathfinder, we hear of the sue
cesses of energetic women in many
ralllngs that until recent years were in
| the exclusive possession of men. A
short time ago we published some ac-
count OF young Minnesota woman
who had made money ont of farming.
Before that we had heard of the Cali.
fornia girl who located S25, 600 silver
mine.
But so far there have been COMPARE.
lively few instances of well educated
young women deliberately starting out
IN lie to make business of farming.
We notice, therefore, with great inter.
est IN recent issue of Chicago daily
paper the account of three young wo-
men OF Illinois who have demonstrated
That agriculture may be both q profit
able and an enjoyable business for the
"gentler sex," and also that women
need not lose their taste for the finer
thlngs of life in this humble employ
ment. Their farms, which aggregate
4220 acres, were inherited from their
father, John ID. Gillett, well-known
man i'll Illinois, who owned II ,OOG
acres in Logan County at the time of
his death, nine years ago. The young
women are practical agriculturists,
having picked up much of their knowl
edge going over the farms with their
father, and yet they are finely educat
ed, speak French, and have a taste for
art, literature and music. They de.
voted their entire time to the farms for
the first few years after they assumed
the management, and now the land
yields twice as much as it did at the
time of their fathers death. Corn is
their principal product, and the aver.
age yield is sixty bushels an acre.
They have drained lake of 400 acres
by digging ditch mile and hall
long.
The farms are divided into small
sections, which are titled by tenants,
with whom they divide the crops.
These women ride thirty and forty
miles day on their tours of inspec,
ton, which are not at stated times, so
the tenants have no way of knowing
when they are coming. Miss Nina
Gillett says there is no work she
would prefer to farming, and thinks
woman who has knowledge of tn,
subject and some experience is just as
good a farmer as n man. Miss Amy is
quite as much in love with the business,
and while they believe in all the
science which can be applied to agri.
culture, they rarely indulge in expert.
ments, but trust TO the agricultural
Experiment Stations" to enlighten
them as to what may or may not be done
with land. Experience has taught
them that agents were not success,
as they very soon began to trade on the
supposed incapacity of women as bust.
ness managers and tried to deceive
them by charging for work which was
never done.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12

Some of the famous treasure ships
which lie at the bottom of the seas in.
olude LOrient, sunk by Nelson at the
battle of the Nile, with $4,000, 600
aboard; the Latune, sunk in the Zuy
der Zee with $4,000 900 in her hold;
the De Brake, lost off Delaware Bay
with Spanish bullion, and the ship
Golden Gate, which went down of
Cape Hatteras while returning from
California in the fifties loaded with
gold. Official statistics show that 2OO0
vessels are sunk annually, the vessels
and cargoes being valued at $1OO, ,OOO,.
900. The Atlantic and Pacific coasts
are strewn with old and new wrecks.
many laden with valuable cargoes.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12
A Curious Occupation.

An occupation which does not figure
in labor statistics, nor in the social
economy, at least, of America, is dis.
covered in the following advertisement,
which appeared in the Blackpool
Times, an English newspaper, in the
last days of 1896: Young man, OF
dark complexion, is prepared to Let
in the New Year at any house in
Blackpool between - and 8 a. M, al
two shillings each without refresh.
ment." The explanation of this cryp
tic notice lies, it seems, in local su.
perstition that the first visitor to o
house in the new year, if he happens
to be of dark complexion, brings il
good luck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12

American newspaper methods-the
art OF being wide-awake, etc.-have
met with n whooping success in Lon.
don. The Star made fortune for Nc.
Carthy, and now the Daily Mail, which
is owned by young men, not one OF
them more than thirty three years old,
is selling 100000 copies daily, and il
owns the biggest newspaper building
In London.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12

A new process for the protection of
iron against the injurious action of rust
has been suggested by M. Deninger, q
Dresden chemist, 1t consists of treat
ing the iron with solution of ferro,
cyanide, which forms coating of
cyanide of iron, uniform and imper-
meable to water, and of such nature
as to protect effectively the iron COW
cred, The operation, applied on a
large scale, has already given good re-
suits. The following is the method
adopted in practice; The solution is
mixed with hax-seed yarnish, to
which has been added little turpen-
tine or henzol, so as to cause a very
homogeneous emulsion, which can be
applied without difficulty. The evap-
Grafton of the alcohol leaves the flax
seed yarnish, which forms a coat pro-
tecting the cyanide of iron which is de-
posted upon the iron. There is no
necessity, says the Industrial World,
Of previously preparing the iron be-
yoGd the removing of beds of rust too
thick to admit Of the action Of the ferro-
cyanide.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12

The Warden of the Indiana Penften-
tiary at Michigan City has adopted a
novel method of furnishing occupation
and exercise for the several hundred
convicts in the northern prison who
are relieved from work by the opera
tion of the law abolishing contract la
bor. The idle prisoners will be or
ganized into militia companies and
drilled in tactics of modern warfare by
men in stripes who have seen military
service. The men will be drilled in
squads of forty and this number will
be increased until there is au entire
regiment of striped men. 1t is pro-
posed to provide the convicts with
wooden guns. The plan has the cor
dial endorsement of the board of
prison managers. Warden Harley be-
lieves such plan as this is the only
one that can be adopted, i'll lieu of
manual toll, that will prevent several
hundred convicts from being driven in
sane as the result of idleness and con-
6nement
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12

Between September l, 1894, and Sep.
tember /, 1896, the South added 9S2,
TAG spindles to her cotton industry,
while the Eastern and New England
States added only GIL, 1923, showing a
gain of thirty ynine per cent. for the
Southern States and of barely more
than five per cent. for the Eastern and
New England States.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12

He was Prussian, and she-hated
| Elm.
Three days later she paused beside
two surgeons, in earnest conversation.
'There's but one way to save him."
said one. ''Its an ugly wound, but
! he's sinking from loss of blood. If
we could get some one to submit to
TRANSMISSION, / think he would recover.
'Impossiblei" answered the other.
And Marie passed on to the room
where lay the sufferer. She paused
beside the cot. He was lying, white
and insensible, upon the pillow, his
head bound in blood stained bandages;
but, all changed as he was, she recog-
nized him, and fell, with n low cry,
beside him.
| To her he was nameless, but he was
the Prussian whom she-hated, and
the man whom she-loved!
| All, in that moment she knew the
truth, and then she remembered tie
surgeons words. They We're about
separating when she returned to
them.
You said TRANSMISSION would save
him." she said. Il am strong and 1
am ready"
And rolling back her sleeve, she dis
closed her bare, white arm, with its
dimly- y-outlined blue veins.
A little while the physicians de-
INJURED, but in the end she had her
way.
She did not shudder as the sharp
lancet penetrated her vein, and the
faintness which crept over her-the
deadly faintness-as the blood poured
from her veins into his, was ecstasy;
for though to her it might mean death,
to him it was life-her life for his.
She swooned before the operation
was completed, and days had passed
before she could rally even to know
that her sacrifice had not been in vain
days when Paris had been racked
by Il 5itterer foe than the hated Prus-
sian, even her own inhabitants.
But the terrible days were over,
when Marie was allowed to once more
assume her role as nurse. Ernest
Haupfman was still in need of all her
care; but when she stood once again
beside him, he looked at her with
wide-open, conscious eye into which,
as he recognized her, there came a
look of ineffable happiness.
''My love!' he murmured, and then
he fell asleep, with her hand clasped
tight in his.
Through long weeks she nursed him
weeks which taught her that all her
future must be wretchedness, since
her promise to her dead father forbade
that she should share it.
How dared she tell Ernest of it until
he spoke the words which unsealed her
silence?
But one evening, as they sat to-.
gether in the twilight, he almost
wholly convalescent now, he spoke
them, as, in low, endearing accents,
he asked her to be his wife.
Amid bitter sobs, she told him all
then, and hid her face within her
hands. But he gently drew them
down, and drew her head upon his
heart.
my own" he said, "your sacrifice
has borne its fruit Your husband
must boast French blood in his veins,
forsooth! Have /, then, none in mine?
Did you not mingle yours with mine
the very blood of Pierre Duval himself?
All, Marie, keep your vow to your dead
father, and, keeping it, give yourself
to me-"
In silent rapture Marie listened to
the words; but, as her arms close
clasped themselves about his neck, he
knew that he had won his cause, and
that she had gone over forever to the
-eaemy!-Saturday Night.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12

While in somnamhulistic state,
James Casey, sixteen years of age, es-
capped unnoticed from his home at
Newberry, Penn, attired only in his
shoes and stockings and shirt. He
was found,several hours later in South
Williamsport, fully three miles from
HE home, having crossed the river in
his wanderings. Philadelphia Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12

Governor Grout of Vermont is con.
siderable of farmer for New Eng
lander, and this season he has tapped
A, 600 maple trees and made II, 900
pounds of sugar and syrup.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12

NSS9ENglKgES nnnh a. tonob y
xsVU8HlGTTWNS hated Prussian's S
~ WV w y hand, [ would
swear she had been changed in her
cradle. Wait little while till we teach
their arrogant pretensiou how France
resents it; and then such women will
lament the treachery they dare call
love"
SO spoke Pierre Duval in hot breath,
just before the siege of Paris had be-
gun-breath kindled by the news
brought him by the fair girl shrinking
before his anger-the news that one of
her schoolmates, the daughter of an
old neighbor, had been married, the
day previous, to young Prussian Off
Ger, bearing active arms against the
country Of his newly made wife; and
he had left her side twenty four hours
after the completion of the ceremony,
to rejoin his regiment.
All through the day, old Pierre kept
muttering to himself; at nightfall, he
called his little Marie to him
Women are strange beings" he be.
gan, as il to relieve his mind of load
which was weighing upon it; "and per-
haps I've no right to believe you of diff
ferent stuff from the rest. These are
uncertain times we're in, too. The
Prussians are proving stronger than we
thought, and it behooves every man
who can carry a musket to stand ready.
But, Marie, girl, if your old father
marches after the drum and fife with
the rest-and no young legs of them
all will march more willingly-I want
You to make me a solemn promise nay,
more, to kneel beside me and make me
solemn oath. Kneel, my girl-kneel!" !"
4. Pale and terrified, the girl knelt.
"You frighten me, papa" she said
Its naught to. frighten you," he
answered; "but it's one thing to march
ont to the field and another to march
back. They may leave me cold and
stiff behind them on their return-the
gallant sons of France; but I'll rest
easier in my grave, though that grave
be trench filled with the bones of my
comrades, If ] know my child never
will dishonor her race. Now raise
your hand, Marie, and swear that you
will never marry man who cannot
boast French blood in his veins!"
Solemnly the girl swore.
The old man smiled triumphantly as
he bent and kissed the long, faxen
braid wound about the little head.
'Im ready now," he said
"a, II
had begun. Within month Pierre
Duval's daughter was orphaned. A
Prussian bullet had stilled forever the
heart so loyal to France.
For a time Marie was stunned. No
one found opportunity to sympathize
with her grief, for around and about
her every one was nursing some misery
of their own. Every house bore some
badge of mourning. Every heart
carried its own burden.
But sorrier days were in store for
Paris days when the Prussians
marched untroubled through its
streets, and spoke their hated language
in loud, triumphal accents.
On party of these Marie stumbled
one evening as she hastened home.
Her pretty face, from which she had
ottrooted them ''' VI '''p''
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ber aJdras0ino how IN han oald rpp, .oe,' oar.ne"
cha hast;In -, ~ T. dan,,, NO. wv, p"H vi 'cis .t We,
one boider tbop tba '"n rnst t', ro;sa5 e wv b;a
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12
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Ella Wheeler
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-12
by JENNY WREN.

f s h e W e re n
daughter of mine,
/ would disown
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11

Grande Young, mortgage, $500; c. z.
Pomeroy, So. 100; Henry c. Monter, $50;
John p. Carroll, $3.50; Bernard Spreng-
er. 500; LOrilia l.. Horne, mortgage,
$1,000; William Langton. mortgage,
$4,000; Elmeda Harmon ct al, 81 900:
John Hurst. 500; A. Schoenfeit. 81 200;
Ferdinand Dickert, 81 .015: Simon Bam-
berger, Hot Springs Railway company,
mortgage. $31,124 abated; j. Z. Bam-
berger, $500; Margaret and Jeanette
McMurrin, $1,000: George A. Lowe,
mortgages 1888 John A. Blythe,
Sl6440. error in assessment; George NJ.
Cannon. $1,000: P GlenderSOn estate.
$40; Mrs. Eliza F. b. Chamberlain.
$500; Matilda Jeremy, mortgage, 81, 800;
stricken off; Lulu p. Ingersoll. Sl,240;
S p. Teasdel. 1894 and mortgage, s., 440;
Henry w. Lawrence, $3.50; Julia A.
KImball. 500; Douglas Heights I'M
prOvement company, $1,000: Julia \.
Kimball, $S72; Frank GOdbe and II. w
Lawrence. s.. DOS: Herbert North. 81 600;
David Mckenzie. $500 and 5000; Ellen
Everill $3.50; Adeline Stout, S5.125.
Louisa Alien. 500; John NJ. Cannon,
S1,342; Canno, Grant & Co., mortgages.
$4,000. struck OF; john NJ. Cannon ct
al, $3.50; Sarah f. Smith. mortgage,
$1,000 struck OFF; William L. Kenzie
$500; John r. Park. $4,000; Patrick Ker-
vim. $1,000: Herman BriSacher. 81 goo
and $500; James Thomas Chamberlain.
$500; w. 5. CrisInOn. mortgage, S15.056
struck off; Margaret c. and Joseph /.
Sharp. $500; Sarah \. Daft. 81 900; Will
lam L. Kensen, 500; William NJ. Mans
field S2.S50; John L. Adams. $1,000:
Charles J. Hubbard, $500; w. II. H.
Spafford, $500; J. T. Little, $780, Rob
ert Sherwood. $3.50; DR.. II. w. Graves,
$4,000: b. r. SchetJler S1.753; E. r
Schettler. Sl.55O; Richard w. Young,
So 900. John p Carroll 5000. Allen or
sen, 500: g. F. Gunner & Bro, mort
sra 90 500 35O