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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01
The Women of Tennessee.

In the success of the Tennessee Cen
tennial Exposition the energetic wo-
men of that State has been q powerful
factor. Their work did not appear upon
the surface until after the gates were
opened and the grounds were thronged
with visitors from everywhere. 1t was
then noticed that their building was
the most beautiful of all there; that its
interior construction was model, so
far as exhibiting, seeing, hearing, com
fort and convenience were concerned.
The next point noticed was the excel
lence and value of the articles ex-
hibited in its rooms and halls.
Every woman's industry had there
some product or creation as its expon-
ent; every State showed its friendly
offices in some object of beauty or of
value. The history of Tennessee was
written in curios, relics, paintings,
manuscripts, miniatures and ancient
documents, and suggestions for the
benefit of the women of the State, for
the education of the children of Ten
uessee and for the amelioration of its
existing conditions were conspicuous
every here and there.
Fine taste was manifested in the
sequence of exhibits and in the ar
rangement of objects. Every precau-
ton was taken to make the visitors
feel at home and to supply any particu-
lar want.
Officials were always on duty, re-
ceiving guests with charming courtesy
and extending to every friend a hos
pitality worthy of the capital of that
heroic commonwealth.
Their work breathed a spirit of
American ambition, energy and pro-
gress. 1t showed that the women of
the Volunteer State were not behind
those in any part of the Union in pa
triotism, public spirit and unfagging
industry.
When it is remembered that Ten
nessee is not rich State, nor Nash.
vile an opulent city, that the financial
resources of the exposition were not
over large, and the women depended
chiefly upon their own exertions to
make their department of any worth,
their success is all the more praise
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01

A flock of rowing turkeys may not
cost their owner great deal if his
neighbors are patient and uncomplain-
ing people, otherwise they may cost
him lawsuit and damages, or, at
least, big lot of unneighborly feel
ing.
On the theory that turkeys can get
their living and are not great eaters,
they are too often left wholly to their
own resources. This neglect leads
them to wander far and wide for food,
to commit depredations in neighbor-
ing gardens and truck patches, to fall
prey to the wrathful strangers club
or dog, or perhaps to change their
homes to that of q farmer who treats
his poultry with greater generosity.
1t Is good policy even at this season
to keep faithful watch over the focks,
to notice where they roam in the day
time and where they stay at night,
and whenever they come about the
premises to make friends with them
by throwing out a little grain. The
turkey crop will not be ripe until
Thanksgiving, but it will be well to
cultivate it now. Farm Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01

Sometimes the characteristic type OF
the American heroine of fiction is
vulgar, sometimes cold-hearted, or un-
kind, or willful, or indiscreet, but she
is never stupid" writes "Droch" in
the Ladies Home Journal. "That is
the verdict of contemporary observers
on the American girl. Whatever she
may be or do she always has her wits
about her; she is smart While her
father delights in managing factories,
stock operations, or railroads, she de-
lights in managing men. And in
every kind of fiction which she domi-
mates the men seem to be uniformly
glad to be managed by her. Often in
fiction she has been lacking in certain
graces-chiefy the supreme grace of
tact. But there are signs that our
novelists have discovered that the
American girl possesses this grace
also, and so it happens that to-day she
trails through fiction not only with
fine clothes, and beautiful face, and
generous deeds, and witty, if imperti-
nent remarks-but there is develop
ing around her gracious manner, an
unconscious simplicity that shows it
self in consideration for the weak
nesses of others-in addition to that
keen knowledge Of their foibles which
was always hers. What we have yet
to hope for is that her wealth or her
poverty may be made less obtrusive
and less a significant part of her al
ways attractive personality"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01
THE CALF PATH.

One day through the primeval wood,
A calf walked home, as good calves should;
But made trial all bent askew,
A crooked trail, as all calves do.
Since then two hundred years have fed,
And, infer, the calf is dead.
But still he left behind his trail.
And thereby hangs II mortal tale.
The trail was taken up next day,
By a lone dog that passed that way.
And then a wise bell-weather sheep.
Pursued the trail o'er vale and steep,
And drew the flock behind him. too,
AS good bell-weathers always do.
And from that day, o'er hill and glade,
Through those old woods path was made,
And many men wound In and out,
And lodged and turned and bent about,
And uttered words of righteous wrath;
Because twas such a crooked path;
But still they follow-do not laugh
The first migration of that calf,
And throughthis winding woodway stalked
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01
AGRICULTURAL TOPICS,


The fact that with good pasture
COW is able to eat as much in few
minutes as she can digest in several
hours is not properly appreciated by
most farmers. If it were they would
at least provide shade trees in their
pasture lot, or better still, have cool,
darkened room where, after eating
her fill, the COW can lie and contented-
ly chew her cud secure from the at
tacks OF flies. 1t is the digestion of
food rather than eating it that fills the
milk pail. Yet we have known farmers
who cut down shade trees in the pas
ture because, as they expressed it, the
cows would lie in the shade all through
the day, only eating at night and
morning, when air is cooler and the
grass is likely to be moistened with
dew.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01


Most of the small fruits, excepting,
perhaps, the strawberry, do as well set
in the fall as in the spring. In lati-
tudes north of Ohio spring is the safest
time, though good results have been
obtained from fall setting in attitudes
much farther north by using plenty of
mulch. Most of my experience has
been with spring setting, but few
years ago failed to get full stand of
plants and so / tried to fill out the
vacancies that fall; where 1 set on
well-drained ground so that the plants
would not have wet feet during the
winter 1 had very good success, but
some OF the plantation was on low
ground aud many of the plants were
killed out.
Here is n point which is often a
mystery to mauy-why some years
their canes kill back worse than
others? If by any agency the growth
of canes are prolonged in the fall their
chances of ripening or hardening are
lessened. Late cultivation, undue
moisture in the soil, or excessive fer
tility are all agents in this delay, and
so, for good results, we must seek to
obtain conditions of soil which are not
detrimental to the point.
L set my plants four by six feet SO
that 1 can use the cultivator both
ways. This saves great deal of hand
hoeing and wedding; besides, where
only rowed one way they soon mass
into continuous row, which will
gradually encroach ON the cultivator
until it gets two or three feet wide,
making mass of bushes in which the
fruit will be hidden and hard to pick;
besides, weeds and grasses are sure to
find foothold which will eventually
ruin the plantation.
Another advantage of hill culture is
that the berries are more perfectly
developed and firmer. When the
growth of canes are left undisturbed
the whole season, most of the strong
fruit buds are at their top; then when
cut back later it leaves most of the
weak buds for the next seasons fruit.
This is one of the advantages advocated
by many for pinching back the canes
when only eighteen or twenty inches
high; then laterals will be thrown out,
and on these will form the fruit burs
for the future crop. These laterals are
less easily broken over with their load
of fruit than a single cane.
After raspberries come into bearing
mulch is of considerable value in
maturing crop, especially in dry
season. Coarse manure is best, if it
can be had; it can be placed on in the
fall so that the rains may carry the
plant food down to the roots, where it
will be in readiness when needed.
Then when the "dry spell" comes the
coarse refuse will serve to keep the
soil moist and cool, which will be just
what the roots need to mature crop.
If this mulch is not extended more
than foot each way from the hill the
soil can be frequently stirred, which
in itself is equal to the manure.-B.
A. Wood. in the Epitomist.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01

Because he wabbled when he walked.
This forest path became lane;
That bent and turned and turned again.
This crooked lane became road,
Where many a poor horse, with his load,
Toiled on beneath the burning sun,
And travelled some three miles in one,
And thus century and half,
They trod the footsteps of that calf.
The years passed on in swiftness fleet.
The road became village street,
And this. before the men were aware,
A city's crowded thoroughfare,
And soon the central street was this.
OF renowned metropolis.
And men two centuries and half,
Trod in the footsteps of that calf;
Each day hundred thousand rout >.
Followed the zigzag calf about.
And o'er his crooked journey went,
The traffic of continent.
A hundred thousand men were led
By one calf near three centuries dead.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01
IiOssip.

There are 215 women serving on
school committees in Massachusetts,.
There are twenty-five Bulgarian
women studying medicine at the Fac
ulty OF Nancy in France.
Out of the enormous number of
women in Constantinople-the popu.
lation is million-not more than 5000
can read or write.
For the first time in several years
there are no women at Cambridge Uni.
versity (England) this year in the first.
class in either classics or mathematics.
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Reed, of Chicago,
has been elected member of the
Royal Asiatic Society of London, this
In honor of her successful work in Hin.
doc and Persian literature.
A scientist declares that the fine
complexion of English girls is due to
the fogs which so frequently sweep
over Albion. Dampness seems to per.
meate the flesh and keep the skin soft.
Mrs. Alphonse Daudet once told of
an old aunt who slept in the room
next her room, and who every even
ing recounted all the doings of the
day to the portrait of her husband,
dead years before.
The Princess Louise is engaged in
sculptoring the figure of an angel with
out-stretched wings, which is to be
placed over the altar in the Prince
Henry, of Battenberg Memorial
Chapel at st. Mildred's
Mrs. Harriet Smith Cushing. the
temperance and woman suffrage leader,
who died at her home in Leavenworth,
Kan, on August ~, was the origin
ator of the Woman's Club, and was
well-known in New York.
Elizabeth Marbury, playwright and
adaptor also of Sardou and other
Franch dramatists for the American
stage, has just been decorated by the
French Government with the purple
ribbon that indicates an officer of the
French Academy.
One of the pioneer women doctors in
England, Mrs. Garrett Anderson, at
one of the jubilee congresses spoke of
the earnings of successful women as
running from $1,000 to $4,000 per an
mum. The London Woman SAYS the
higher sum is one seldom reached,
however.
France is not usually considered a
centre of feminine advancement, yet a
recent census shows that it has 215O
feminine authors and journalists, while
its female sculptors and painters
amount to 700. OF the authoresses
1000 are novelists, 200 Lyrical poets"
and $50 educational writer's.
1t IS said that Helen Keller is much
interested in matters of dress and that
she is especially particular about the
color of her dress. She has fondness
for the frou-frou effect of her skirts.
the rustic that betokens silken Innings.
In all the minor particulars of the toilet
she is exquisitely fastidious.
In Chicago there is n colored wo-
man who practice law with success;
she passed the examinations with great
credit and received her license to prac-
tice. Miss Platt speaks German and
French with ease, and so secures good
patronage from foreigners; her prac.
tice is of the Office rather than the
court room.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01

Deputy Attorney General Elkin, of
Pennsylvania, decides that mutual life
insurance companies may issue poll
cies requiring the payment of period
ical premiums of fixed and definite
sum in lieu of the assessments made
upon the death of members.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01

The Germans seem to be losing
their respect for the Emperor. Last
year there was eighty-three per cent.
more imprisonments for lese majestic,
which is the term for the treason of
speaking disrespectfully about roy
atty, than eleven years ago.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01

If there were more big estates to
settle, observes the Detroit Free
Press, there would probably be more
lawyers. The attorneys in the Davis
case in Minnesota got about $5,000,-
900 before the heirs got anything.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01

Rain cannot force itself under the
bottom of door or window frame Just
patented which has Aange in the bot
tom of the frame with the front of the
step lower than the back, the door be-
ing beveled to tit it tightly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01

In the period 1882 to 1894 the Grim
inal record in the German empire in
creased twenty-five per cent, or
twelve per cent. more than the popu-
lation
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01

Horses may be cheap enough else
where, but on the Klondiks trail even
the poorest cuts are worth fifty cents a
pound.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01

Japan is about to send lot of ex-
perts to this country to teach the peo-
pie how to make tea.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01

English officials estimate that it will
cost the Government $15, 900, 900 to
suppress the uprising in India.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01
worthy and their efforts the more re-

worthy and their efforts the more re-
markable.
They have done much for the exposi.
ton and for Nashville. They have
done more for the State. They have
helped to make Tennessee popular, to
attract immigrants, enterprise and
capital
These are the things needed by
every growing community. and what
ever supplies the want is to be COM
mended and admired. New York Mail
and Express.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-11-01
Ngyrwx-gsg HE FREIGHT steamer The minel

BE freight steamer
Russian Bear was
thrashing al o n G
down the Pacific
Ocean with her
blunt PROV facing
south, and the cap
tain reckoned he
The herald., 1897-06-12
A Rancher's Woes

SAN FRANCISCO, June n.-Robert
Flint of San Louis Obispo has brought
suit through J. J. Rauer against c. T.
McDermott and G. G. Clark to recover
$4,000. In November, 1894, Flint found
himself in financial straits and he feared
that ne would lose the San Juan ranch
of 10000 acres'in San Louis Obispd
county, To protect himself from a
threatened foreclosure by his creditors
Flint alleges that he gave McDermott
and Clark q deed to the ranch on con-
ditlon that they would advance him
$4,000. Another deed was made trans
ferring the property to Flint and 1t was
placed in escrow, the agreement being
that 1t should be delivered to him within
a year upon returning the money .ad-
vanced and spent on his account. On
November 15 1896, he made settlement
with the defendants who claimed that
he owed them $4,000. Flint has since
then received information that leads
him to believe that Clark and McDer-
mott did not expend over $68.0Q0.
The herald., 1897-06-12
DIDN'T coNsP1RE
Mrs. Craven Doesn't Remember Lots
Of Things

Mrs. Craven Doesn't Remember Lots
Of Things
SAN FRANCISCO, June 11.-Judge
Slack's court room was crowded to suf-
focatio this morning when the trial Of
the Craven case was called. The exami-
nation of the defendant, Mrs. Nettie
r. Craven, was resumed. Counsel for
the heirs sought to prove by witness
that she entered into agreements with
various persons by the terms of which
they were to receive part of the estate
Of the late Senator Fair, In the event OF
her recovering the same with their aid,
but the fair defendant denied the insin-
uations of counsel with considerable
asperity. She was, however, compelled
to admit that she had signed paper"
for Judge Aitken, and this document
being produced by order Of the court.
proved to be an agreement that in the
event Of Mrs. Craven being successful
Aitken was to receive five per cent of the
property. Counsel for Mrs. Craven en-
deavored to extricate her from her diff
ficulties, but Attorney Wheeler of coun-
eel for the plaintiffs was merciless, and
insisted on the right to prove charges Of
fraud and conspiracy by showing that
jury to support the case. The lady skill
fully evaded a number of awkward
questions and responded to others which
she could not evade with the words: II
do not remember" but insisted siren
uously that she had made no agreement
to pay any witnesses for their evidence,
The herald., 1897-06-12
EUROPEAN ENTENTE
Russia and France Will Conclude an
Alliance

LONDON, June 1.-THE Times Paris
correspondent telegraphs: am in a
position to affirm that definite treaty
of alliance will be signed during M.
Faure's approaching visit to Russia by
the Emperor Nicholas. President Faure,
Count Muravieff, the Russian foreign
minister, and M. Hanotaux, the French
foreign minister. The treaty, whose
terms have already been settled, will be
one of the most laboriously constructed
instruments of it's kind.
Ever since 1889 1t has been in process OF
construction. Two czars and three
French presidents. with their respective
ministers, have been working upon it,
the negotiations often being suspended
owing to deaths, resignations>and SINH
lar causes Of interruption. A military
convention was carefully considered and
the Instruments exchanged were settled
on the basis of an alliance between the
two nations and signed in the early part
Of 1894. This has been the sole dbcu-
ment hitherto binding the two countries.
The herald., 1897-06-12
The Hoffman Murder

SAN FRANCISCO, June 11.-Until the
inquest begins on the body of Isaac Hoff-
man, and that will be on Tuesday, in
all likelihood the developments of the
Battery-street mystery will probably re-
veal little further bearing directly upon
the fate of the dead merchant. though
there will doubtless be many things
to be added to or taken away from the
first statement which Theodore Figel
made to the police and the only utter
ances Of his given out by them for pub
lication. There will dobtless be further
revelations, also, as to where the money
of the firm went, and as to how it's dis
position was recorded by FigeL Attor-
ney Ach is still making charges Of crook
edness, but the business community is
evincing a disposition to await state
ments under oath at judicial investiga
ton.
The herald., 1897-06-12
A New Eirearm

NEW YORK, June ia dispatch
from Berlin to the Journal says: Fol-
lowing the equipment Of the German
field artillery. the celebrated gun manu-
facturer, Manser, has denied that he has
perfected new and remarkable small
arm. His new invention embraces pistols
and carbines. six-shooters. ten-shooters
and twenty-shooters, all of which are
self-loading after the first shot, the SOL
dier having nothing to do but aim and
shoot. Including the time consumed in
the consecutive loadings of the maga-
zine, a practiced marksman can make
sixty shots per minute with the six
shooter, eighty with the ten-shooter, and
ninety with the twenty-shooter. Trials
with both guns and pistols have proved
surprisingly successful,
The herald., 1897-06-12
6unken Treasure

MILWAUKEE,. Wis, June 11.-If the
wrecking company which has discov-
cred the long lost -Pewabic ID success
full with its new diving apparatus In
this venture, contract will be closed
with the North German Lloyd to recov-
er the ocean steamer Elbe and it's treas :
ure OF $500,000 In gold. The Elbe lies In
$50 feet Of water, a depth at which div
ing bells heretofore constructed have
been useless, and from observations
and soundings taken. Is In good con-
ditions. The Elbe was sunk In collision
in the North Sea on the night of January
S0 1895, and 800 lives were lost. The
officers Of the wrecking company have
been negotiating with the North Ger
man Lloyd company for some months
and the result on the Pewabic Will de-
eide the outcome.
The herald., 1897-06-12
Fast Flying

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, June 11.-Thir-
teen homing pigeons, owned by H. J..
Baumgartner. President of the Mil
waukee Common Council have finished
q flight OF 600 miles in the fastest time
for the distance ever made in the West
The time was hours and 20 minutes, or
less than a minute for each mile. The
birds were liberated at Ironton. Mo-. and
the race was under the auspices of the
National Federation OF Homing Pigeon
Fanciers.
The herald., 1897-06-12
Indian Murderers Taken

DENVER, Col, June ia special to the
News from Miles City, Mont, says: Sheriff
Giggs and Stock Inspector Smith reached
this city this evening, having in custody
Yellow Hair and Sam Grow, the two
Cheyenne Indians implicated in the Hoover
murder. Agent Stouch called the Indians
all in and the arrests were made by the
sheriff. no resistance being offered. Chief
White Bull is still at liberty, but can be
arrested at any time, having expressed
himself as willing to appear in court when
wanted. The sheriff did not think 1t ad-
visable to arrest him until matters had SUBJ
sided little.
The herald., 1897-06-12
Santa Teresa Moving

Ell PASO, Tex, June 11.-Santa Ter.
esa, the Mexican maiden who was BAN
ished from Sonora, Mexico, five years
ago because of her wonderful curee and
influence over the Mexicans. left here
today for Morenci, Ariz., after a resi-
dence of one year in Ell Paso. Over 200
Mexicans were at the depot to bid the
living saintess adieu, including some ell
egantly dressed aristocratic looking
women, who crowded around to kiss
Santa Teresa's hand. She explained
that she was going to Arizona where her
father could work in the mines and she
would not be in hourly dread of being
kidnapped.
The herald., 1897-06-12
A Persistent Mob

ST. LOUIS, June ia special to the
Republic from Montgomery, Ala, says:
Reports to the governor from Hunts
Vile tonight indicate. that the situation
is ominous. Early tonight the sheriff
at Huntsville wired the governor that
all appeared to be quiet and that he
had relieved the Birmingham troops
from duty. One hour later the sheriff
wired the governor that he had just
learned that another big crowd was en-
route from Decatur to lynch the negro
rapists, and that he had put the Bir-
mingham company on guard again.
The herald., 1897-06-12
Yellow Fever Bacillus

MONTEVIDEO, June u.-Dr. Sanarelli,
in lecture delivered before delegates from
all parts of South America, members of
the diplomatic corps and others, announced
yesterday that he has discovered the cause
Of yellow fever to be bacillus which he
had named "Yeteroid,' and which was
very rare. He explained that 1t infested
the blood of patients and their bodies after
death. The baccilli, he continued, could
be easily eliminated by secondary injec-
tions and he hoped soon to discover a
curative serum for preventive vaccination.