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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28

Cheap and haphaZard methods of
road improvement, earth roads and
the employment of inferior material in
order to save on the first cost these
and other Objectionable featnyas of
earlier roadmaking should be aban-
doned for good and all by American
roadmakers. As population expands
wealth increases and new devices of
road locomot.on come into use, the
demand for better highways becomes
more imperious. 1t is no longer
merely the wagon loaded with pro-
duce which is to be considered, but
also the bicycle, the tourists car
riage and the automobile.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28


the breeze that swept over the up
lands was suggestive of chilly Octo-
ber, but the golden spell of Indian
summer lay on the valley, touching
the ripe peaches with an added bloom
and wooing the late roses to unfold
their fragrant hearts before it was too
late to give their sweetness to the
dying summer.
In the rectory orchard, under the
shadows of the fruit.laden trees, vii
lage lads and lasses hid and sought,
and out in the meadow the children
laughed and played and danced to the
music of their own voices.
The Professor stood at the outer
edge of circle of infant revelers, his
spectacles pushed up on his broad
forehad, his soft Homburg hat tilted
forward to shield his eyes from the
sun.
Gray eyes they were, with keen
ness in them that was reflective and
that lent them a clearer vision for
things that time had set at distance
lhan for present realities.
The iron-gray hair was brushed back
nd outlined features that were not
rnhandsome, though their sternness
;ave him semblance of severity, un-
jill he smiled.
} When the Professor smiled children
understood that the tall figure with its
inclination to stoop was not likely to
prove aggressive, and that the learn
ing contained in that massive frame
could be put aside with the spectacles,
also that the Professor might have
been young once, before the weight of
q laurel wreath had puckered his
brows and powdered his hair with the
frost that comes before winter.
He was smiling now and looking
with appreciate interest at the game
in progress.
''Do you hear what they are sing
ing?" he asked the rector's wife.
Mrs. Errington detached herself
from the tea urn to answer carelessly,
"'Nuts and May isn't it?"
"The delighted irrelevance Of child
hood" pursued the Professor, 'the
sublime faith in the impossible. Here
we come gathering Nuts and May-so
early in the morningr Not content
with demanding their autumn and
their spring at the same time, they
must have it early in the morning,
too; all the world at their feet, with
youth to make them enjoy it. They
have faith enough to remove noun
tains, but I am afraid the days OF
miracles are past"
Mrs. Errington's glance fingered on
him for moment, and then travelled
to where a girl in q white dress stood
under the trees that bordered the rec.
tory garden.
''Ihere is Evadne," she said; chow
fresh and cool and sweet she looks.
Don't you think so, Professor?"
He adjusted his spectacles to give Q
conscientious answer.
Miss Evadne is always pleasant tc
look at, he said, as he gazed with G
painstakingiair in her direction; sat
this distance do not see her so plain
ly as I could wish"
''And she is always pleasant to tall
to" added Mrs. Errington; ego ant
ask her if she would like some tea
Professor"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28
A Great Hen Story.

The meanest man on earth lives In
the town of Chazy. He put large
porcelain egg in the nest Of an ambi-
tious hen and found that the eggs she
afterward laid were increased in size.
Then he put goose egg in the nest,
and the aforesaid hen laid an egg Just
as large. He was so pleased with the
scheme that he put whitewashed
football in the nest and waited results.
When he went the next time to search
for eggs he found one as big as the
football, but no hen in sight. Secur-
ing the egg. he saw engraved on ID
these words:
I'm no ostrich, but I have done my
best" Later he found the hen inside
the egg. -Plattsburgh Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28

Mosquitoes are now accused of con-
veying not only leprosy, yellow fever,
and other contagious diseases. though
it is certain that they must share the
burden with flies and other insects
that come into contact with sewage
that has not been disinfected, and af-
terwards contaminate the food. The
experiences in our army camps last
summer proved that sufficiently The
important lesson to be drawn from
this-constituting great advance in
medical science-is that visible insects
are as dangerous foes to our health as
the much-d scussed microscopic bacilli.
Flies can be easily made harmless by
simply disinfecting the sewage where
it remains exposed to the air Mos
quitoes are less easily dealt with.
Drainage and cultivation of swampy
soil help to diminish their numbers,
and petroleum or permauganate of po-
tassium have been found useful in
killing the larvae in the water. But
mosquito and wells in dangerous
localities are the only things to be re.
bed on implicitly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28

no one to help them here, but they
had no strength to go further. So
they slept within its shelter anil sub
sisted upon such food as they Nould
find until they were rescued by
chance later. The tough, dry
grass that grew here and there in
little clumps near the lighthous was
devoured eagerly by the famished
men. Horrible as it seems, they
were glad to seize for food the dead
penguins which they found there or
the bits of shellfish, long washed
ashore. This wretched subsistence,
however, was almost worse that none,
and the men could barely have lived
another day had they not been found
and cared for.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28

General Wood prefers to stay in the
army at moderae salary than to be-
come governor of trolley car COM
pany at large one. He says there is
something in life beside money. He
Is right, and he is as refreshing and
courageousin saying so as he was when
he first did business with the Span
iards
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28
NODDED CHERRIES,

Beat the yolks of three eggs with
three tablespoonfuls of sugar, add
one cup of rich milk and cook till
thick; remove from the fire, add one
fourth box of dissolved gelatine, stir
well and strain. Stir in half cup of
cream and flavor with cherry or pine
apple. Line the sides of the dish
with lady fingers. cover the bottom
with cherries and pour in the mix
ture. Continue the layers of cherries
and custard until the dish is full.
Serve sold with whipped cream.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28
CHERRY COBBLER.

Grease an earthen pudding dish,
line the sides and bottom with crust
made of two cupfuls of flour, a pinch
of salt, two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, two tablespoonfuls of cold
butter, mixed through the -four, and
enough milk to make soft dough.
Fill this with layer of pitted sour
cherries, sprinkle with sugar and n
little cinnamon, then lay strips of
the crust in the shape of diamonds.
Bake about three-quarters of an hour.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28
Knife Duels in Spain.

Knife duels are very frequent among
the lower classes of the cities in
southern Spain. When two are about
to fight they blow whistles to attract
spectators. Their left legs are tied
together at the knees, and then at a
signal they begin attacking each other
with long knives. In duel recently
witnessed in Aliciente, one of the
combatants received fourteen wounds
and the 9th er seventeen.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28
CHERRY TAPIOCA,

Soak four tablespoonfuls of tapioca
in one pint of water over night. Next
morning stone cherries enough to
make pint of fruit. Add the Juice
of the cherries, with pint of water,
to the tapioca, stir in enough sugar to
make it very sweet and let simmer for
fifteen minutes; then add tha fruit
and cook five minutes longer. Set on
ice until ready to serve. Serve with
whipped cream favored to taste.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28
THE SONG OF THE AXE.

Fathered was by the forge,
Graded in leaplng flame,
Lulled by the clink and the clang
OF hammers beating In turn.
Now In the hewers hand.
Tempered and polished and edged,
Swing | all day in the sun,
Swing and chant this songl
High on the mountain crest.
Where the great winds pipe and swirl,
Tower the ancient pines,
Rooted thousand years,
Myriad summers have waXed
And waned in their odorous shade;
Shows immemorial
Drifted their branches through;
Still their exuitant heads
Rise to the limpid blue,
Still they fearlessly lean
To the surge of the swinging gale
And shout down the trail o. the blast
P@ans Eolianl
Old they seem as the stars,
Moveless as living rock,
Lasting as earth itself
Lo, then come /, the axe!
Hover moment aloft
In eager and breathless poise,
Then in circle of light
Leap to the cedars root.
Deep and deeper bite
To the heart Of the virgin wood,
And the scent of its bloodless wounds
Fills all the air with balm.
Sudden tingling shock
Thrills up the living trunk.
Pulses along the boughs.
Shiyering prescIence of death.
Vainly the mighty mast
Wrestles in agony,
Then with stormy sigh
Trembles and yields and leans,
Sweeps with thunderous crash
Down to the bruised earthl
Lo, tits myself sing,
Feller of oak and ashl
Brother am to the sword,
Red-edged slayer Of menl
Side by side have we hewn
Paths for the pioneer
From sea to sun-smitten seal
Hark to my chanted praisel
Wild cascades In the hills,
Winds In the straining pines,
Voices of woodmen all,
Swelling in unison vast
Shout thro' the sunlight days,
Sing thro' the starlit nights,
The sounding song o. the axel
William Lucius Graves.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28
How Mounted Cossacks Catch Surgeons

NOW houhteu COssacks catch surgeons.
Novel indeed is the method by
which the Russian Cossacks catch
sturgeon in the frozen rivers of the
Ural Mountains. The Cossacks mount
their horses and ride across the frozen
river until they come to the desired
place, where they dismount and cut
through the ice until they have a lit
tie pool of open water extending al.
most across The current from shore to
shore. A net, stretching across the
river, is sunk.
The horses are remounted, and the
Cossacks ride up the river for perhaps
a half dozen miles. Here they turn
about, and, forming in straight line,
ride down the river on the ice toward
the net at full gallop. The thunder.
ing noise of the horses hoofs terrifies
the fish, and in rushing away to avoid
the noise, that is coming so swiftly
behind they are driven down the river
and into the net.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28
CoMPoTE OF CHERRIES.

Boil half pound of sugar with
three-fourths of a cup of water until
it is a thick syrup. Drop into the
syrup a pint and half of stoned
cherries, let simmer gently for fifteen
minutes, then with skinner take
the fruit out into compete. Pour
into the syrnp three-quarters of gill
OF currant or pineapple juice and boil
till thick, then pour on the cherries.
Serve cold.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28

The Italians are now using artillery
for the dissipation of hail storms.
When small arms are transformed into
plow shares, swords into pruning
hooks and artillery reserved only for
fighting the idiosyncracies of the
storm king then, indeed, can it be
hoped that the day of the millennium
is near.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28
SAUCE FOR CHERRY oopp1ER.

To make delicious sauce will re.
quire threefourths of cup of sugar,
one-half cup of butter and one scant
tablespoonful of -four. Braid them
together until smooth, then pour over
this enough boiling water to thin it,
and let it boil, being careful to stir
frequently 50 that it will not burn or
become lumpy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28

If the march of improvement keeps
up its lick they'll soon be changing
the name of sister southern city to
Auto Mobile, Ala, says the Louisville
Evening Post,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Delicious Cherry Dishes.
CHERRY SHORTCAKE.

Stone, sweeten and mash the cher
ries. Make and bake shortcake as
for any fruit. Split in halves and
butter. Spread thick with cherries,
cover with the other half of the short
cake, and put the rest of the cherries
on top.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28

Europe is buying American shoes
as never before. Naturally, we do not
object, because we know that no mat
ter how many of our shoes Europeans
wear they never will be able to fill
them
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28
CHERRY CUSTARD,

Bring to boiling point one quart
OF rich milk, add slowly four eggs
previously beaten with four table,
spoonfuls of sugar and pinch of salt.
Stir constantly until it thickeus; re-
move from the fire and pour over
sweetened (stoned) cherries. Serve
cold.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28

In Holland, when a new baby comes
to the house, they hang a pin cushion
on the door, If the new baby is
boy it is black pin cushion. and if
girl white one.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28
The Dream
THAT Game true.

HERE was a hint
Of autumn in the
woodland tints
where the colors
shaded from soft
est gray gr e e N
t h + o u G h russell
tones to deepest
red and brown and
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28

Paris has ninet12n taeatsrs and four
circus buildings.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-28

is near.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-21
FOR THE GOLD STANDARD.
Congressman NIcCIeary Says Congress VIII
This Winter Establish Tt for All Time
AS Our Money Basis.

Seattle, Wash, Sept. 15.-Congress-
man j. T. McCleary, of the house com
mittee On banking and currency, who
is visiting here, submitted to an inter
view on the currency question. He
said:
Two general subjects will be covered by the
committee in its report to congress, which, it is
believed, will be followed along general lines in
the financial legislation that will be enacted
The first of these subjects will be the enact
ment OF laws which will establish for all time
the gold standard as the monetary standard of
the United States.
In one way or another it has been possible
for the past 60 years for the president, by a
simple administrative act, without any legisla-
and send back to silver basis. The action
recommended by the republican conference
committee will be that hereafter only by an act
of congress can our monetary standard be
changed. The committees report will also
recommend legislation which will protect the
gold reserve from the operation of the endless
chain, so called.
Another recommendation made by the
Joint conference committee will be the revision
of our banking laws. The banks will be author
lied to issue notes to the par value of bonds de-
posted with the United States treasury instead
of 80 per cent of the same as now. The COM
mittee will probably report also recommending
that provision be made for the organization of
smaller banks in the thinly populated districts.
The purpose of the committee will be that in
tereSt rates may be reduced throughout the
country and bank failures may become I'M
known. The committee believes, as I under
stand, that it is possible, through legislation -
prevent even the worst of panIcs,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-21
sTARTL NC, IF TRUE.
preached Senator Hanna About the
Sale of the philippines.

Chicago, Sept 14.-The Evening Dem
ocrat prints the following correspond
ence from London:
Aguinaldo wants to sell his interest in the
Filipino rebellion for $4,000 and one OF his
agents has approached Senator Hanna with q
crafty -Agoncino.
Shortly after his arrival in London Senator
Hanna met Stewart Forbes, an elderly and
wealthy Scotchman, whose dark skin told OF
years spent in the tropics The attraction was
mutual and the men became close companions
Forbes had hobby that great fortunes awaited
capitalists who should first utilize cheap Fill
Pine labor after the senator's governments
should secure thorough control of the islands.
and Mr.. Hanna became deeply interested in the
subject.
could be ended quickly and cheaply by pur-
chasing few of the rebel leaders The sena-
tor shocked and IncredulouS, but was re-
minded that Aguinaldo and others had been
paid 100000 by Spain to leave the island in 1885,
and finally admitted that such project was
possible, though not to be considered desirable
Then Forbes revealed that he was in touch
with Agoncillo and declared that the latter
prepared to act for Aguinaldo and that if $780,
600 could be secured for the rebel general and a
few of his intimateS they would retire from the
islands whenever their departure would be sat-
lSfactory to the senator. Thousands OF lives
Sain Forbes, might be saved, and the senator
could have the satisfaction of feeling that he
was not only a inancier, statesman and .
OF course Senator Hanna was indignant
His first impulse was to hurl Agoncillo'S ennis
Sary through the window, but with character
istic self-control, he refrained from violence,
and concealing his feelings, allowed Forbes to
think his proposal was under consideration
The Scotchman then went into details more
fully. Aguinaldo. he said, was sorely disap-
pointed because the jealouSieS of other Filipino
leaders had thwarted his ambition to become
dictator, or, at least. president. With hearty
support he believed he could have driven the
American forces from Manila, but he
dermined by Luna and other rivals and was
prevented from taking the aggressive until tina
invaders were too strong to be expelled.
With no further hope OF success, his health
impaired and his life in danger from American
bullets and the knives of secret enemies, he de-
sired to leave the country and let the odium OF
final defeat fall other shoulders. For the
sum named he would quit the island forever ana
allow the inSurrection to collapse, but if need
be he could maintain guerilla warfare for years
and this he would do unless he received cap
ital that would enable him and several members
of his STAFF to maintain themselves elsewhere
probably in Paris some other European city.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-21
HE CHARGES CORRUPTION.
Late Private of Colorado Company Tells
Hara Story on American ON
GERS at Manila.

Denver, Col. Sept. Napoleon E.
Guyot, late private of company G. First
Colorado volunteers. who, during the
last three months of 1898, served as
clerk under Maj KiIbourne and later
under Lieut.. Col. Potter. auditor of
public accounts, Manila. published yes
terday evening signed statement in
which the gravest charges of corrup-
ton are made against the American
officials in Manila. He says an ex-
animation of the vouchers forwarded
to Washington will show that exorbi-
tant prices are paid for all kinds of
supplies purchased in Manila; that vast
quantities of high class wines and
other supplies have been purchased os-
tensibly for the Spanish hospitals,
while in the American hospitals only
the coarsest supplies are furnished.
He says court-martials of private sol
diers charged with selling government
property have been stopped because
they would result in the exposure of
official rascality. The robberies, he
asserts, will aggregate an enormous
sum-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-21
EXPORT EXPOSITION.
The Philadelphia Show Formally Opened
to the Public-A Message from
President Mckinley.

Philadelphia, Sept. 14.-The National
Export exposition was formally opened
at noon to-day, although the gates
were thrown open at eight o'clock
The exercises took place in the audi
torium, which is located in the north
pavilion of the main building. w. P.
Hepburn, of Iowa, was the orator of
the day. When the benediction was
pronounced, closing the exercises
President Mckinley sent message by
direct wire from the white house,
formally and officially opening the ex-
position, which message was read to
tire assemblage.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-21
MEXICAN WAR VETERANS.
The Meeting at Indianapolis Brought to q
CIOse-The Resolutions Concern
ing Pensioning Them.

Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 15.-The
concluding meeting of the National as
ISOLATION of Mexican War Veterans was
held yesterday forenoon in the house
of representatives. Resolutions were
adopted that although again disap-
pointed in the action of congress in its
failure to pass laws increasing pensions
to the surviving soldiers of the Next
can war, we still hope that our repre-
sentatives in congress will, at at early
day, adopt a just and liberal pension
to the survivors and the widows of
those who have died; that whatever
claim these veterans survivors of the
war with Mexico have upon their coun-
try stand upon ground SO peculiar in re-
spect to the time and circumstances in
which they originated as to fairly en-
title them to the grateful consideration
of congress on their own merits"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-21
A Big Cattle Syndicate in Texas.

Austin, Tex, Sept. Ii. -The report
reaching Texas from New York that
Charles B. Loving has made his big
cattle syndicate with $40, 600. 900 capital
a success, awalzes much interest in cat
tie circles, inasmuch as there is so
much opposition to the proposed syndi-
cate among cattlemen. The catt1emen
of the Indian territory and Kansas, it
is said, will join with some of the Texas
stockmen in fighting Loving's syndi-
cate, making probably temporary re-
duction in the price of meat on the
hnOf
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-21
INTERFERENCE RESENTED.
French Are Irrltated over the Action of
Outsiders in the Dreyfus AfTair-Ex-
position Boycott Defied.

Rennes, Sept 15.-France defies the
world to boycott the Paris exposition.
The newspaper organs of all the parties
join in resenting the interference of
outsiders
The attack of foreign nations on
France has suficed to unite the people
of all parties, and tonight Dreyfusards,
anti reyfusards nationalists and re-
pub1icans stand shoulder to shoulder in
a common resentment of the hated
outsiders " interference. The French
press takes up the criticism made in
foreign countries concerning the
Rennes verdict. The Matin, violently
Dreyfusard, pours out the walls of
French wrath on the outsiders" for
what it terms San impertinent inter
ference with French affairs Charles
Laurent, the editor-in-chief, writes:
So they want to put France in penance. The
Americans, the English, the Germans the Ital-
ians and the Belgians are making an edifying
aSsemblage. They desire the exposition boy
cotted We would in this case prefer that they
stayed at home. AS for winning their good will
by attentively obeying their ideaS-a thousand
times no! Their insolence is as excessive as it
is odiouS.
let them look at their own affairs. England
may well be ashamed of her Botany Bay and
Tyburn- The Americans have simplif1ed jus
tice by lynching. The Germans have Strangled
victims at Leipzig, and what Italy has fur
nished in the cells of Civita Vecchia makes US
laugh at these foreign powers. Hard labor SEN
fences belong to England because she originated
them. How about Lord Kitchener, who dug up
the dead body of prophet to desecrate it, and
manacled women and children?
We will restore calm to France and unite her
patriots. 1t has sufficed that the foreigners
open their imbecile campaign to do this. After
all, let them stay at home. The exposition will
come on in all its grandeur. The empty places
they leave we will gladly fill. The places pre-
pared too small for art, and
we will be glad to get them back. The space
thus recovered will give us ease.
The Figaro, the Petit Bleu and all
the papers print editorials of the same
tone. The extraordinary part of it all
is that the French seem to find delight
in the idea of the foreigners staying at
home. The French hate nothing as
much as to see foreigners flock to Paris.