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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02

Ever since spinning was n type of woman
ly industry, from age to age it has been
expected that beautiful apparel should
clothe women. To keep dainty belongings
in good order it is necessary to have them
properly laundered. This is especially true
in the laundering of pretty summer gowns,
which is now quite n fine art. To do the
work properly, fill a tub two-thirds full Of
warm water, dissolve the fourth OF cake
of Ivory Soap (Which will not fade the most
delicate colorsl, add it to the water; wash
the articles through it, rinse first in clear
and then in blue water wiring, dip in thin
starch, shake out and hang on the line in
the shade. When dry, sprinkle and iron.
Gowns thus Numbered will retain their
freshness the entire season.
EItIN r. PARKER
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02
Value of Change of Diet.

A sudden and complete change of
diet is a means of regulating the hu-
man machine whose Importance seems
to be too little considered. DR.. Angel
Money, of London, states that it finds
most application in chronic disease,
often of nervous character, and not
uncommonly in affections of the mu-
cons membrane. The substitution of
broths, fish and flesh for milk and
farinacea will often correct the condi.
ton Of the mucous membrane that en-.
ables thread-worms to develop.
Chronic catarrh will often yield to
similar treatment, and asthmatic at
tacks may sometimes be made to cease
for long periods. Commissions in
children are frequently alleviated in
like manner. A dilated stomach or
fiatulent dyspepsia may be treated by
withdrawing sugar and starch from
the food and replacing them by pure
proteids with salts, extractives and
water, the merits of sweetbreads,
tripe, calf's head and feet, unsweet-
ened iellies and many vegetables be-
ing too little appreciated in such cases.
The main secret of the success of such
foods is the absence of liability to fer
ment and generate gases. Experience
proves that most of the benefit of
complete change of diet is obtained
during short period only, and, in
deed, the therapeutic value may some-
times be in nothing but the change.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02
Time for the Heartiest Meal.

A man of science, who gives Il So
ciety woman pepsin tablets at So q call,
says that call: pepsin, money and
necessity for any of them would be
saved If wonderland men-would
learn to eat properly. He is himself an
epicure and eats rich yiands, but he
know how these are prepared and can
prepare them himself on occasion, and
he selects the proper time to eat them.
He considers it nothing less than sui
cidal for the brain worker, for in
stance. 10 eat hearty lunch. People
who are much in the open air and who
exercise freely can eat about what
they please, so that they satisfy their
hunger at stated periods and are pune
tual about it. But he thinks it is all
but criminal for woman who has to
use her brain and who must be on the
alert with a vigorous mentality to
divert the blood from her brain, where
1t Is most needed, to the stomach. by
setting 1t to work on a promscuous lot
of food. He Is of the opinion that the
brain worker should eat most heartily
after tie days work is done. Break
fast may be moderately hearty, or
quite hearty, If taken an hour before
beginning work. Lunch, however,
should bc exceedingly light. just little
to sustain nature till dinner time. cup
Of beef tea and a cracker or two, fruit
of some kind. or cup Of cocoa.
Dinner what You please If properly
Treparcd.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02
Writing on Glass.

The easiest way to writ or paint on
glass, says the Philadelphia Record, is
to take a solution of fish glue and dis
tribute it with soft brush over the
surface of the glass. OF course the
solution must be carefully filtered, and
when it is applied TO the glass pane the
glass must be held over stove or lamp
in slanting direction to allow the sur
plus solution to flow off and to dry
thoroughly without streaking. When
the pane has been prepared in this way
it is ready to write or paint upon.
Even writing of microscopic minute
ness can be applied to the prepared
glass surface without the danger of the
ink running. On this surface water
colors, India ink and any kind of pig
ment may be employed,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02
CURIOUS FACTS.

In 1887 the priests of England weYe
1856. in 1897 they are 1856.
Florida's pineapple crop is estimated
this year at 1901 600 barrels.
The cat is supposed to have origin
nted in Persia, and some have assigned
''pers" as the origin of ''puss.'
On drive from Presque Isle to Ban
gor, Me, man saw within five-mile
stretch six deer, q bear and two
skunks.
Dewey County, South Dakota, which
is larger than the whole State of Della
ware, is officially recorded as having
no inhabitants.
The longest underground thorough
fare in Great Britain is in Central
Derbyshire, where you can walk seven
miles upon road connecting several
coal mines.
Russia, with population of 127,-
100000, has only S,334 physicians.
In the United States, with a popuia-
ton of about 75,000,OO0, there are
100, 900 physicians.
Abdul Hamid, Sultan of Turkey. has
parasol of white silk which is EN-.
broidered with gold and set with pre-
cious stones. Its handle is one long
superb piece of coral. 1t is the most
valuable parasol in the world.
Many thousand cats were burned to
death in the great fire in London in
1866. Pepys, writing in his diary of
that terrible event, says: 81 also did
see poor cat taken out of a hole in a
chimney joining on to the Exchange
with the hair all burned off the body
and yet alive"
Muzzles are used on refractory wo-
men in the penitentiary at Cologne,
Germany. Last year muzzled girl
was found dead in her cell. 1t was
alleged that her death was due to suf-
location, and the persons in authority
were charged with manslaughter, but
afterwards acquitted.
Several years ago a swarm of bees
settled in the attic of the residence of
George Armstrong, at the Coronado
Gal. vineyard. They swarmed, and with
the succeeding swarms have remained
there ever since, and all the honey
Armstrong has had is what melts and
drips through the ceiling on hot days.
The Greek shepherds dog regards
sll strangers as enemies, and the
stranger surrounded by pack ofthem
has to take his choice between being
eaten alive or lynched for killing the
dogs. He generally chooses the lat
ter, because if he lets the dogs eat him
there is no escape. If the dogs were
tearing you to pieces, the shepherd
would not think of interfering for fear
Of spelling their training
Last year there were issued in the
United Kingdom little over oil ,O0O,-
900 railway tickets, exclusive of season
tickets and workmen's weekly tickets.
1t is not easy to realize such number.
Ii they had to be carried from London
to Edinburgh in mass it would re-
quire one hundred railway trucks,
each carrying ten tons. IL they were
stacked one upon another in single
column they would attain height of
live hundred miles, and if laid end to
end in a line the line would be one
third longer than the equator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02

useless by having nothing for them to
do, and that the requirement would
be mere form and entail no expense.
A number of years must elapse, how
ever, before this question can be
tested, and it is more than possible
that the utopian dreams even of the
Dunkards will never be realized, for
If they develop the resources of the
county by their untiring industry
capital will seek investment amonc.
them and in few years they will find
themselves with the same environ
ments that they left northern Indiana
to escape. Chicago Times Herald
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS
a Delicious Flayorinr.

A little lemon peel makes deli
cious flavoring for many things, such
as puddings, fruit sauces, croquettes,
and meat pies, and is one Of the things
it is best to have at hand. When
using the juice only of lemons save
the peel by rinsing it in clear water
and letting it dry; then grating it, and
putting it in glass jar with close
cover. Treated thus it is always ready.
Boston Budget.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02

Charles Dyer, of Boston, who some
years ago on visit to Little Allegash
Lake, Caribou, Me-, was lost for three
days in the woods, and was found in
an exhausted condition by his fellow
campers, has, for six months been
marking the bla2ed trunks of young
hardwood trees there with peculiar
symbols, within radius of some
twenty miles, and intends to issue a
map of the wilderness, so that I'M
familiar persons may enjoy those
woods in safety. York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02

Z. j. Scott has gopher farm, or at
least he has eight acres planted in that
staple, or rather they planted them
selves there before the land was cleared,
and they assume all privileges without
molestation. They have about de-
voured everything therein except the
fence, and they will soon wear out
crossing through it visiting adjacent
colonies. Worth (Ga. Local.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02

Who are injured by the use of coffee. Re-
Gently there has been placed in all Che grocery
stores new preparation called Grain o, made
,3rl 3l pure grains, that takes the place of coffee
The most delicate stomach receives it without
distress, and but few can tell il from coffee.
~ does not cost over one quarter as much.
Children may drink it with great benefit 10
cts. ana % cts. per package. Try it. Ask for
Eraiu-O.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02
A Record For Tramps.

Probably no Jail in the country holds
such record for tramps as the little
7xS lookup in Bowdoinham, Maine.
During the past winter almost five
hundred tramps were confined there,
and in one night there were thirty-one.
One vagabond lifted the roof off bodily
and jumped to the ground.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02

makes countless millions mourn" We know
of no better illustration Of The above quota
t on, than where a man allows his wife to
wash or washhoard. when he can purchase
her Rocker Washer, which operates so
hardships Of washday. Ses advertisement in
another column.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02

The number of pieces struck by the
British mint during aS96 aggregated
95, S37, S15, or an increase of 23, 3,228,-
100 over the output for 1895.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02

.. I can recommend Piso-s Cure for Consump.
ton to sufferers from Asthma.-E. ID. Town
SEND, Ft. Howard, Wis, May 1, 1891.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02

Fits permanently cured No fits or nervous
ness afeer first days use OF DR.. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. So trial bottle and treatise free
DIR. X. IL. KLINE, Ltd, 93l Arch ST., Phila., Pa.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teelhlng' sottens the gums,reducing innamma-
tion, allays pain, cures wind collie 25c a bottle
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02

rnfhicted withsoreeyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp.
sons EYe-water. Druggists sell at DC per bot tie
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-02

,uR Rev. Fl. p. Carson, Scotland, Oak. says:
Two bottles of Halls Catarrh Cure complete-
ly cured my little girl" Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-28
A RAILWAY MYSTERY.
Tho Secret OF a Missing Travellers Bag
gago Check.

Tho Secret Of a Missing Travellers Bag
gago Check.
Some years ago German traveller
by the name of Hermann Radtke desir-
ing to better his condition in life joined
the swelling tide of emigration that is
ever flowing to the west with the in
tention of visiting the Pacific coast.
At Chicago he purchased ticket On the
Chicago, Union Pacific & Northwestern
railway via the Chicago & North
western line, checking his baggage,
for some unknown reason, to Council
Bluffs. The number Of the brass tag
he received was 17,201-"and thereby
hangs a tale" which is unfolded in the
Pioneer.
The C. & NV. general baggage Office
has an unsolved mystery-the secret Of
check No. 17,201; or, what became of
Hermann Radtke?
The matter has mystifed the North
western people during the last three
years and more. 1t was revived by the
recent turning up of the check from a
desk drawer which was being cleared
out.
In the spring of 1893 the general bag
gage Office received from San Francisco
an ordinary brass baggage check
stamped as follows:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-28

never know what may save a man who
seems to be as good as dead.
Many man who seemed TO be dying Of
consumption, and whom the doctors pro-
nounced just as good as dead, has got we'll
and strong and hearty again by using Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. This
wonderful medicine has shown the doctors
that consumption isn't always fatal dis
ease. It can be cured if you get at the
germs of it in the blood and clear them out
thoroughly. That is what this Discovery"
does. It makes new blood,-healthy blood.
The germs of consumption can't exist in
healthy blood. They simply let go their
hold and are carried out of the system !:
then the new blood builds up new tissue,
new flesh, new power, new life. It carries
vitality to the lungs, the bronchial tubes and
every other part of the body. E-al,
It cures people after cod liver oil has
failed, because their digestive organs are
too weak TO digest fat floods. The q Discov-
erz" makes a,.i The digestion strong;
there Is no shesh-bu in the world to
compare with It doesn't make ,habby
fat bat hard healthy flesh. IT builds nerve
power and force and endurance. It is never
safe to pronounce any one dying of con-
sumption, or any other wasting disease,
until this marvellous !" Discovery" has been
given Z fir hial. 81
Dr. Pierce's thousand-page illustrated
book, The Peoples Common Sense Med
tcal Adviser will be sent free paper-bound
tor the cost of mailing only, 81 one-cent
stamps. Cloth. bound, 70 stamps extra.
Address DR.. r. Y. Pierce, Buffalo, n.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-28
G.. e. N. W. R'y.
1901.
Local.

Attached to the check was a small tag
on which was written:
Found after thawing of snow on a
glacier, December +, 1892, on top Of Coal
Bluff, 60 degrees 30 minutes north ioa!a
tude, Alaska, near P. S. w. Co. Station.
Found by a sailor on U. S. Steamer
Bear"
By the baggage checking system of
the road it is easy to ascertain that the
baggage had been checked by man
named Hermann Radtke, from Chicago,
ILL.,, on February ~, 1890, to Council
Bluffs, Ia. At the latter station the bag
gage lay unclaimed until May 1e, 1891,
when it was brought to Chicago and
sold at public auction for $3.50. Dur
ing all these years there has been moth
ing discovered to penetrate the mystery
as to how the bit of brass came to be
found away up in Uncle Sans frigid
northwestern territory. - -
What became of Hermann Radtke?
Why did he leave his effects behind at
Council Bluffs and what was his fate?
All these are the questions which the
Northwestern people have asked ever
and over again. Several times in
quiries have been made at Chicago in
the hope that the holder Of check No.
17,201 may have had relatives who could
throw some light on Radtke'smovements
utter he checked the trunk, but each ef-
fort has proved futile. 4 ... s.E.ss. !. 81 $: ).
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-28

over the accounts, and find that during
the last IL months the profits of the
branch have increased by & 800. 1pro-
pose, therefore, to raise your salary
from 400 to e $50 a year, and you can
marry whom you please. You under
stand that it's no concern Of mine
God bless you, SIR he cried. If my
mother were alive!' Hold your tongue,
sir!' I said. What need was there to
drag her in? He can hardly remember
her, but dear, dear, Is years ago, last
May! 1t doesn't seem SO long when you
look back!
"'Anyhow,' told him, I don't want
people talking about the firms quar-
rels; it's bad for business. So you can
bring Miss What's-her-name to dinner
tomorrow if you like. Mind, you come
as an acquaintance, not as a relative
The young donkey, when he could have
had old Jenkyns' eldest daughter, with
100000, for the asking!
However, they got married twelve
month ago, and went to the wedding.
just so that there should be no open
breach. l didn't want it talked about
in the city, you see. Gave them the
house" Well, what if did? My old
tenant had just left, and didn't want
to have it hanging ON my hands, los
ing 6 so or 500 year. Grand piano?'
Oh-well-er-I had to give her some
thing, just for the look of the thing.
Another rise of salary?' Well, what If l.
did? He's cheaper for the money, any
how. Nice girl" Yes. Not bad
not at all bad as girls go.
"Eh, Sills?-what? Telegram from
MI. Frank?' "A boy!' Hooray! 'Mabsl
very ill., My God! Send for cah.
Hold your tongue! Don't stand gapir:,
Ike a fool. Poor little lass! He'd never
get over it if--poor little Mabel! Ell!
What! Out of danger Why didn't you
say so before? Wouldn't listen to your
Don't talk nonsense! Where the deuce
is my stick? Cab here?' Yes, yes, my
old friend, I'll tell them. Thank God!
(Aside) Everyone's TO have an extra
weeks salary, Stills, but for heavens
sake don't let it get about the city or
I'm ruined!''-London Madame. ~.s,.,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-28
A Football Miracle.

The demand for really good referees,
with thorough knowledge of football,
was mainly responsible for the forma
ton of the Society of Referees. This
society undertakes the examination OF
candidates for the position of referee;
and on one occasion the examiner was
questioning young man from one of
the colliery districts. The candidate
displayed fair knowledge of the rules
of the game, and the examiner was evil
IDENTITY satisfied with his replies. Prior
to dismissing him the examiner sub
1nitted to him the following poser:
"supposing you were referee and from
a place kick at goal the ball fell on the
crossbar and remained there, what
would you call that?''' The young man
scratched his head musingly. Call it,! !"
he exclaimed. at length. ''Well, I should
call it a blooming miracleH-Scottish
Nights. 4N@--:~ .'.s>
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-28

that sort Of thing, and, Of course, L
didn't pay any attention to that You
thought you were my heir, I suppose?'
1 inquired. well, yes, uncle,' said he.
Don't uncle me, sir! You're fool!-
tomfool!-the worst kind of fool. To-
morrow give you a months salary
and you go. You understands I'll go
now said my gentleman, walking off
i'll huff. 'What!' shouted, and leave
my books in a middle! You'll finish
your books up tomorrow night, or Til
prosecute YOU Very good, sir, if you
wish it, said he; but I take no money
beyond the day when I cease work.
The hot-headed young ass!
swell, thinking over it that night I
came to the conclusion that I'd been g.
bit unbusinesslike. You see, he was q
very capable lad-and trustworthy
which is worth lot. Although don't
count sentiment for anything, a man
may, perhaps, reckon blood thicker
than water to the extent of an extra
& so year, or even hundred, when it's
his only sisters son, and she's-she's-
dear, dear me--15 years ago! It's long
time, old friend, a long time!
$50 next morning I told Stills, our
cashier (he's. an old donkey, and I'd
sacl; him if it weren't that he'd expect
a Zig pension) to send Mr.. Frank in
to HE. Yes, SIR answered Stills, hang
ing about the door. What the deuce
are you waiting for?' I asked him.
Nothing Then don't wait any longer
We'll, look here, SIR he stammered out
at last, I'm getting bit old, and Tn
thinking that Mr.. Frank is the only man
here fit to step into my place. When You
want him to, I'm ready to go, for Pm
afraid I'm not so we'll worth my money
as used to be- You impudent old
scoundrel!' L cried, as soon as could
find breath, what do you suppose keep
you for if you're not worth your
money? Do you think it's for love?'
Partly, my dear old FRIEND said he,
and was that taken aback that let
him shake hands with me without say
ing a word.
'@Soon, Master Frank came in, look
ing very glum, and I put matters plain
ly to fundamentally you under
stand. I told you last night that ]
was done with you as my nephew said
I. and I'm a man of my word He
nodded. But, as clerk continued
you've been very efficient, and your
conduct of the new branch has been
successful. I have just been looking
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-28
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The daughters of the prince OF
Wales could swim before they could
read.
but still abstains from all literary
work.
Baroness Hirsch has given $3.50, 600
to endow a home for Jewish consump-
tives in England.
--Melba has 500, 600 invested, in
gowns, it is said, one of them having
$4,000.
The Belg1ans are the children Of
Belgii, who are first named in Caesars
Commentaries"
The queen regent of Spain, who
will soon have a morter carriage, will
be the first European sovereign to use
one. It will be known as an 'telectrie
VICTORIA
-1saak Walton's ''Complete Angler"
first edition, 1858, wide paper, sold in
London recently for se.075. At the
Same sale Amerlgo Vespucci's letter.
four unbound leaves printed in Gothic
characters, brought $3.50.
Bit by bit the immensely valuable
real estate in Denver once owned BY
Senator Tabor has passed out of his
possession, till now the only property
standing in his name consists of Is lots
surrounded the family homestead
This, too, will go to creditors next
week under a foreclosure. There are
mortgages on it, amounting. with in
terest, to $35, 600, and the house and
land will hardly realize that amount
Not long ago Tabor was ranked among
Colorado's richest men, but misfortunes
of various kinds have left him practice
ally penniless.