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Cañon City record., 1899-01-12
VIII Spend ss.soo.ooo.

President Jeffery announces that
between now and the first of Septem-
ber the Rio Grand railroad company
will spend million and half dol
lars in improvements. Among these
will be 10 new locomotives, 1000 cars
and 5000 tons of steel rails. Besides
widening the gauge of the San Luis
valley branch, twenty-seven miles of
new track win be constructed in the
valley, at an estimated cost of $780,
600 mile.
President Jetfery is quoted as say
ing: 1T is evident that the State is
on tie eve Of enjoying greater pros
perity than ever before known in the
mountain region. It will be a grad
ual. substantial movement and II
ought to be followed by long period
Of activity in all lines of industry.
Judging by proofs which have been
presented, the year 1899 will be the
banner year throughout the entire
country. On the lines of the Denver
L Rio Grande railway the tonnage
has grown, although rates are loweI
than they were two or three year,
ago. The railway is giving employ
ment to more men - the business
has necesaitated. providing enlarges
facilities and lesseniag Of cost. oul
special efforts will bs directed IN Il
tsalizg ~ seryice = sestAss Colo
Cañon City record., 1899-01-12
ceses.Ae Flyer.

By leaving Canon City via D. 4 II.
q. No. 10 At ll:sO q. N. you arrive at
Colorado Springs at 2:Sa p. m making
direct connections in same depot with
! he Great kock IslAnd's famous Colo
do Flyer,- consisting of Pullman
!; ,sPssA chair ears, ts,sts fire., - f.nss. 2.
- RsacAiue OmAhA and kApaaa
ssaty ~ u~xt rnuessine ~ hfsnk f1sf-
>5nGnr1 1nSr o1rkaD 81 a1perin9 c.
r61E11 - nrcsn yonf ruai1ent p. \ Il
Cañon City record., 1899-01-12
AppkECiATsvE.

In acknowledging receipt Of check
for sugar beet prize Mr.. Z. S. Arm
strong Of Hillside writes Guy u.
Hardy, Secretary Of the Chamber Of
Commerce. "It was to me a great
surprise ~ well - pleasure. ne
ceivee report Of State, in which |
was % low that did not look for one
Of the primes. I think the Chamber
Of Commerce did ! grand good thing
Tor the county. You will ever
ind me ready to do Ill In my powor
TO assist them" Such sentiment il
sxcsedingly gratifying to tie dirsctotr
Of ths Chamber Of Commerce, who
ars working uBdsr ~ greatest d..
1dSan1aoo = e eone good IT. OAfIe1
Cañon City record., 1899-01-12
Rixht In II

wisweli-Charley isn't a bad fel-
low socially, but he's u dead failure
In money matters. Why, actually
believe he owes everybody in town.
wrightly-And you call that a
dead failurei / should say that
Charley is a Napoleon of finance
Boston Transcript.
Cañon City record., 1899-01-12

A procession of icebergs sent
aeainst the surface of the sun would
melt at the rate of 500, 600, 900 cubic
miles of solid ice second, and its
heat is estimated to produce force
Of about 10, 900 horsepower to every
square foot Of its surface.
Cañon City record., 1899-01-12

A writer in The Engineering Mag
anime says that during the last 80
years the size of steamships has been
multiplied twentyfold, the horse
power employed to drive them has
been multiplied fortyfold, and the
speed with which they traverse the
eea has increased threetold.
Cañon City record., 1899-01-12
palace Drsag seers.

The Only Exclusive Drug Store in
the City. All New Goods. No cid
stock tw work Oh. e years PracEi-
cal Experience. PersoHal Attsntion
given 70 Compromising PrssRipt pttons.
Gro. PEppEY. Registered Phazs asist
Manager.
Cañon City record., 1899-01-12

Brummagem French is dangerous.
A Birming ham citizen passing two
policemen on the street in the even
ing said Bon jour, messieurs, to
them. They at once arrested him.
charging him with being drunk and
swearing at them in a foreign lam
guaRe.
Cañon City record., 1899-01-12
4 straase pceth.

Information was received in Cation
Sunday that Andrew Nelson, who was
quito we'll known in businss orioles
h6sA had hssa ovsrcone y sons nd
- allA e1E6nv ulghA ~
Cañon City record., 1899-01-12

Only one person in is has perfect
syes. the large percentage of defect
iveness prevailing among fair hair
I'd people.
Cañon City record., 1899-01-12

The first European book that ever
appeared in the japanese language
was translation Of Heine's German
opnGe.
Cañon City record., 1899-01-12

Coushs and colds come nnlnv1e1.
but yoa can quietly 81 n q -
with . nv dcsss * nAI
HOREAOUND SYDUN 81
Donn1A NJ eat1 ~ ~
Cañon City record., 1899-01-12
Fer Reat.

27S acrs ranch. only one mile and
= half iron city limita, suitable for
stock q dairy ranch. Pastsrage and
eood garden tract. so PER noath.
Enuuire Il Fremont County Bank.
Cañon City record., 1899-01-12
Literary News.

The Purple Egg translated for
the Argonaut from the French of
Anatole France. is striking story of
an egg laid on the day certain child
Alexandra Mansel-was born The
egg was cherished by the family a. .
good omen by the family. Later in
life Mansel happened to take mp .
book and read these words: Dn the
day Alexandra Severus was born, .
hen belonging to the fatheF Of the
babe laid ; rcd egg, : luengs
OF the imperial purple ~dlch the
child was to assume" This 80 preyed
upon his mind that he imagined him
self an emperor, became insane. and
ultimately committed suicide.
The Outlook has been fortunate
enough to secure for its January
Magazine Number an article BY Colo
mel Theodore Roosevelt on his former
companion-in-arms, General Leonard
Wood Colonel Roosevelt tells in q
picturesque and readable way the
story of General Woods life a stir
ring chapter of which is the record
of his adventures in the Far West
and points out with great earnestness
that such admirable administrative
work as General Wood has done in
Santiago will serve as a standard and
inspiration for the military and civil
government Of our new possessions.
($3 year. The Outlook Company,
New York.
To write an article for maids and
mothers, and then to make it 80 in
teresting that it will rivet the atten-
ton of the fathers of maids and hus-
bands of wives, is guarantee of very
wide reading. Professor Thurston
Peck, of Columbia University. has
succee ded in doing this in the paper
which he devotes to women in the
January Cosmopolitan. Professor
Peck has a keenly analytical mind.
and he weighs the pros and cons very
carefully. His conclusions are ten
der and compassionate, but neverthe-
less very emphatic. 1t is a valuable
contribution to ''New Woman litera-
ture.
Mr.. George Kennan's letters to The
Outlook from Tampa and Santiago
during the war excited much interest
and attention; and the recent army
Investigations have shown in strik-
ing way that Mr.. Kennan was among
the first to point out the really i'm
portant points in the conduct Of the
war and the treatment of the soldiers.
Mr.. Kennan has returned to Cuha, and
will soon begin in The Outlook Y SC
ond series Of letters devoted chiefly
to careful study of actual political
and social conditions in the island.
($3 year. The Outlook Company,
New York.
Cañon City record., 1899-01-12

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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-16

There is lady occupied in the in
struction of the juvenile mind, who is
quite willing to confess that the pu-
pills who attend her classes do not do
all the learning. Some of the small
folk under her tuition occasionally
astonish her with their superior
knowledge of the modernly developed
resources of the English language. A
lecture on hygiene had been included
for the day, and she had taken care to
show the effects of slcohol and to-
bacco upon the system. She i'm
pressed her teachings by means of
anatomical charts, which gave espec-
ial lucidity to her remarks when she
came to warning the little girls, years
in advance of any practical need, of
the danger of tight lacing. One of
the little girls, whose home surround
ing are of the sort in which ease rather
than elegance of expression is sought,
listened with profound attention.
"Now, Margaret" the teacher said,
"you may see how well you remem-
Der what I have said about tight lac
ing and tell US why it is injurious.
There was no response.
'T mean you, Maggie" ," the teacher
added, and the girl jumped to her feet
as she recognized the more familiar
name.
Tight lacing, ma'am, is injurious,
ma'am -"
She hesitated and the teacher
smiled encouragingly and said, $50
on"
"Cos, ma'am, it's liable to twist yel
Stats. Washington Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-16

For a while it seemed as if the pres
tige of the white petticoat was estab-
lished, and women do still wear them
a great deal indoors, but the silken
beauties are more predominant than
ever before. The preference seems to
be for the most glaring primary colors
in the stiffest taffeta, made up perfect
ly straight, scant skirts, and the rigid
ity further increased by wide, deep
ly accordeon- plated foot founce. Short
comfort skirts, as they are called, for
wear under silk petticoat in the cold
weather, are the prettiest little kirties
that don't come down as far as the
knee and are not more than a yard
wide. They are wool, and many are
knitted by hand of Scotch yarn, with
bright silk thread worked in at in
tervals. They are scalloped about the
bottom, completed with narrow silk
fringe, and are hung on silk yokes
that fit the hips snugly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-16

The year 1898 marked a decided
return of prosperity, says the New
York Independent. The agricultural
wealth Of the country has increased,
high prices have been obtained for
our abundant wheat crop, and the in
debtedness on Western farms has
been much reduced. Our exports
have vastly exceeded our imports,
and money has been abundant. The
war does not seem to have af.
fected business very seriously in
either way. 1t has been year of
prosperity in the pursuits of peace
and Of marvellous success in war. The
country is now a world Power, and
will be called to do its part in settling
the problems of both continents.
This is what is giving both concern
and courage to our people.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-16

Baron Iveagh, in giving $780, 600
to the Jenner Institute to promote
original and profound research in bac
teriology and other forms of biology,
in order to determine the causes, ma
ture and prevention of disease, has in.
troduced a novelty in private munif.
cence for the public benefit. 1t con-
Germs the welfare of all mankind and
touches their deepest desire, or the
preservation of health and the increase
of the span of life. The man who can
enable his fellows to resist the causes
of disease or furnish to them greater
immunity from its assaults, will rank
chief among human benelactors, for
the preservation and prolongation OF
life, after all, overtops in the estima.
ton of mankind every other earthly
good.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-16

If girls go on increasing the average
stature of women, as they have done
for the last decade, where will they
stop? is another question often asked
of late at the various classes where a
number of young girls are gathered
together by their little mammas, who
look strangely dwarfed and shrunken
by the side of their tall young daugh-
ters. A question asked half proudly
and half anxiously, for, although it
gfatifies their maternal pride that
their girls should be like the daugh-
ters of the gods, "divinely tall" they
have no wish to see them pass those
celestial limits, as they are doing, and
become Brobdingnagian damsels, who
bid fair to frighten away all their part
ners, says writer in the New York
Tribune. For it is an incontroverti-
Die fact that the boys are not develop
ing in ratio with the girls; their aver
age height has in nowise increased of
late years, while it is really startling
to see how that of their sisters and
their friends is assuming really Anna
zonian proportions.
ga few years ago." said society
Soman recently, my daughter was
invited to join dancing class of girls
who were not yet out. At home we
Thought her quite tall, as she was an
inch taller than I, and had always
considered myself over the average
So I was considerably astonished to
find that she looked decidedly under
sized in comparison with the rest OF
the girls, who lowered above her.
Even then I wondered at the increased
height of the coming woman, but what
was my amazement and almost CON
sternation this year when I saw my
second daughter with younger set,
who have taken the places Of their
elder sisters. and find that my, tallest
girl is mere pygmy among the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-16
THE COMING OF LAFAYETTE.

Youag Liberty wept IN her mountain nest,
And feeble of wing was she,
When gallantly into the stormy west
Her knight sailed over the sea.
For the flower of chivalry, deathless yet,
Had felt loves opening spell
And bloomed Americas Lafayette
On the banks of the blue Moselle.
There was sorrow that year on shore and
surf,
There were clouds in our country's
heaven,
There was red death-dew on the summer
turf,
OF seventeen seventy-seven;
But vain were peril or death to damp
The soul of the high-born boy.
Who left his king for foreign camp
In his brave, unselAsh Joy.
The night-mists hung over Winyaw Bay,
No watcher stood on the shore,
No friendly listener hailed the way
OF the strangers landward oar.
No guide--till a lonely window-light
Showed, glimering far and thin,
To the champion of peoples right
A star to beckon him in.
Make hastel to Libertys bleeding host
His generous speed must be;
And away, for the cause he loved the most,
He rode from the Great Pedee.
By the cotton-flelds of the Carolines
The black slaves watched him go;
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-16

Thro' the woods OF feathery turpentines
He felt the spice winds blow:
By all the rivers our hill have fed
The print of freedom was set
When over Potomac rang the tread
OF the horse of Lafayette.
Give thanks for the day that found him
at,
And the hour of our country's Joy
When Washington's stately soul was knit
To the soul of the ardent boy:
Remember the years of sore mischance
When our arms were weak to win
If, strong to kindle the heart of France,
No Lafayette had beenl
Love him who fed from royal court,
And carried a face of smiles
When, landed astray at GeorgetoWn's port,
He rode nine hundred miles.
For he rode with the cheer of mighty
faith
To our ragged battle-line,
And earned his badge in the ranks Of
death
With the scar of Brandywine.
And patriot youth who know their debt
To Washington still shall learn
OF his friend, the gallant Lafayette,
The young peer of Auvergne,
How into the battling clouds of fate,
With rescue in his hand,
He rode for the life of a struggling state,
For the veal OF an infant land.
Theron Brown.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-16

The British manufacturer of bath
tubs says that not quarter as many
portable baths are made now as form
erly, and another recently referred to
the fact of orders for two hundred
shower baths having been taken by q
traveller in one Journey at some past
period, while he supposed that .at the
present time manufacturer did moi
sell three shower baths in a year
From this it would seem that the
shower bath is becoming obsolete IL
England.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-16
The worlds Potato Crop.

The potato crop of the world aggre-
gates a, 900, 900, 900 bushels, the wheat
crop, $500, ,0OO,0O bushels, and the
corn crop, 1900, 900, 900 bushels. The
potato crop of the United States is re-
ported to be $50, ,000,0 900 bushels. We
laugh about the Irish eating potatoes.
They are good feeders on this veg
etable. The inhabitants of the Emer-
aid Isle consume individually 1467
pounds each per year, or four pounds
daily. But Germany comes pretty
close to the Irish record. She eats
annually per inhabitant 1900 pounds
Holland eats $40 pounds; Norway and
Sweden, 740; United States, 200
Italy stands at the foot of the list in
consumption of the potato. Her peo
pie eat annually only forty-eight pounds
each. Board of Trade journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-16

Proper breathing is so essential in
voice production that it must receive
first attention, and the first require
ment is to keep the mouth shut, "
writes Katharine E. Junkermann in
the Woman's Home Companion in an
article on "The Cultivation of the
Speaking Voice"
"Of course, no tone can be either
strong or pure if the lungs are
cramped so that the air cannot find
room. In order to increase the size
of the lung cavity, raise the chest and
keep the body we'll and strongly poised.
$50 much harm has been done to
voices by allowing the mouth to be-
come the regular air-passage that the
need of care cannot be too frequently
emphasized. Besides the injury done
by the unwarmed air entering the
lungs the mucous membrane is hard
ened by the saliva being dried up,
and the muscles of the tongue and
throat grow stiff and less responsive.
1t is comparatively easy to control
ones breathing when awake, but when
asleep the harm goes on. To remedy
this involves a slight discomfort, but
one can endure it patiently, looking to
the end. Cut court-plaster into little
strips about one-fourth of an inch in
width, and paste several across the
lips, placing them up and down, with
the lips held naturally. If one is
tempted to give up rather than endure
tho disnomfor fhio N, oil, I'd ;pyolyae n
walk through an ordinary day-coach,
or nig ght made hideous by the pres
ence of snorer in near berth, will
cause solemn VOW to be taken never
to do likewise"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-16

The era of small ships is rapidly
passing away as the enormous bulk of
the worlds commerce is increasing
and the necessity of speed and econ
omy is realized. Large twelve-knot
steamers with triple-expansion en-
gines are cheaper than sailing vessels,
not only because of the vast increase
of single cargoes, but because the
steamer eau make three voyages to
the sailing vessels one, the saving in
interest and operating expenses more
than offsetting the added expense o.
fuel.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-16

The new capes and cloaks which are
worn with cloth costumes are very
graceful, and now that the novelty of
the style has worn off, seem very at
tractive. They fit closely over the
shoulders, are composed of no more
material than is necessary, are circu-
lar in shape at the back, and in front
are rounded up to the throat. They
are trimmed with ruffie of the same
material as the cloak, and are lined
throughout with heavy satin of an en-
tirely different shade, and are trimmed
on the outside with rows of machine
stitching of lighter shade in silk.
Some Of these capes have no less than
four clusters of stitching, three rows
in each cluster. THERE'S always high
faring collar faced with silk or satin
the same color as the cloak. There is
an interlining of wool wadding or of
heavy felt that gives sufficient warmth,
and the only fastening of the cloak is
just at the thr roat, where there is a
handsome buckle. This cloak is
black, dark purple, in dark green
lined with blue, is particularly good.
The old-fashioned circular cloak
lined with Ifur has returned to
fashion and is constantly seen, both
for morning and afternoon wear. 1t
is not made of silk as formerly, but of
lightweight cloth of some attractive
coloring in red, purple, green, or tan.
The smartest way is to have the cloak
match the street gown even when it is
lined with fur. .--Harper's Bazaar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-16
WOMAN'S WORLD.
THE MOTHER.

In the valley OF the shadow she had
reached trembling hand
10 clasp one tiny blossom, the fairest In
the land;
She feared not though she journeyed
where the heavy shadows lay,
For the halo round the blossom drove the
darkness all away;
Before its dazzling splendor the shadows
had no place
And the walk within the valley left a shin
ing on her face,
While the radiance lit the future that her
feet might safely tread,
AND an angel swung a censer filed with
incense overhead
Nelly Hart Woodwork, in Boston Jour
nal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-16
OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR.
lAUcHTER.PRoVoKlNc STORIES FoP
LOVERS OF FUN.

The Power of Cash-A Woman's Answer
As Evidenced-The Latest Scheme
Had No Advice to Give-Ignorance 10
Bliss-Mamma's Bad Boy, Etc., Etc.
THEN.
Miss Jessie Bessie Evaleena Brown
Is the daintiest little maiden in the e'town*
She is beautiful to see,
Oh, she sweetly smiles on me,
And her father has million frigid dollars
salted down.
NOW.
Miss Jessie Bessie Evaleena Brown
Is by far the plainest girl in all the town.
They used to call her fair,
But don't know why, swear
Her father once was wealthy, but at pres
ent he is down.
Chicago News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-16

''his resisting power will be absent.
1t is impossible to mesmerize a man
against his will. Mr.. O'Neil's state
will be of considerable assistance to
me. The activity of the ganglion cells
of the brain, with which the functions
of consciousness are believed to be
specially associated, are almost in
hibited in his case. You must know
that insanity is entirely due to the
disorder of the brain. However, let
us make preparations.
Conyers' plan was very simple OBJ.
tanning permission from Mrs. O'Neil,
he went into the adjoining bedroom,
and found there writing desk con-
tanning drawers-four in all. He
placed the jewel case in the bottom
drawer, closed it, then returned to his
subject. He gazed straight into his
eyes for few moments, and then COM
menced making passes with his hands
before his face, backward and forward.
O'Neil watched him with kind OF
grave curiosity for little while, and
then he put his hands up to his face
| and rubbed his eyes. Suddenly he
WINGED slightly and Strengthened him
self in his chair. All! What was thatp
Gradually his eyes became intent on
| Conyers' until he had lost the power
to draw them away. The pupils be-
gan to dilate, then the eyeballs to pro-
trude, then the eyelids to droop. Res
piration and circulation became con-
siderably accelerated, until at length
perspiration set in and complete stupor
soon followed. While in this state of
coma the more powerful will could do
with him what it chose.
Conyers threw his head back in
exultancy. Buthe had reckoned with
out his host. The tense feeling nj
every faculty overstrained became al.
most unbesrable. He would not be
able to keep up long. He must be
quick.
Accordingly he commanded O'Neil
to rise, who did so. Step by step he
led him to the writing desk. He had
no need to speak-he had only to think,
and the subject obeyed. O'Neil
dropped on his knees before the writ
ing desk. He opened the first drawer,
and then the second; all was still in
that little room; all four were bending
over him with eager, excited faces.
And now he was opening the third
drawer. His nostrils were quivering.
He hastily closed it; then literaly
dragged open the fourth drawer and
captured the jewel case. And then
Conyers walked him. 1t took many
moments and all watched with fearful
anxiousness. What would happen?
1t was pleasant to see what did hap
pen. O'Neil snatched up the case,
tore it open, laid hold of the jewels,
and ran across the room to far cor
ner, clasping them to his breast and
uttering little shrieks of Joy. 1t was
pitiful to behold! Not long, and Mrs.
O'Neil and Kathleen had darted to his
side and were holding his hands and
murmuring soft words of comfort.
He looked into their eyes and recog-
nized them, and great tears stood in
his eyes. Then Conyers knew that he
had succeeded; but barely by the skin
of his teeth. A mist rose before his
eyes; he tottered to couch; he lost
consciousness.
He awoke to find Kathleen bending
over him with wonderful look in her
eyes. She was holding his hand, and
We'll, the sequel is to happen in six
months time.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-16

Never before in the history of this
country was prosperity so great or SO
general as it was during 1898, and
this in spite of foreign war that
might naturally have been paralyzing
to industry and commerce. Further
than this, never, with single excep-
tion in favor of England in one year,
did any country sell so much to other
countries as we sold abroad in the
year just passed.