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The age-herald., 1900-08-24

ONE mere man wishes bedroom, with bath room near, in private residence, some
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The age-herald., 1900-08-24
In Society.

Mrs. Daniel E. Huger Is on a brief visit to her parents, MT. and Mrs. Robert Chisolm, Eleventh avenue south.
The age-herald., 1900-08-24

To Detroit, Mich, and return, one fare. Tickets on sale August 4th, 18th and 26th, good to return September 9th.
The age-herald., 1900-08-24
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01

head, another near his head, where O
bullet grazed his ear and sent the
warm blood over his face, turned him
sick and faint.
Every moment he seemed more and
more to lose control over his limbs,
but he clutched his horses name with
one hand and guided it with the other,
pulled himself together with su.
preme effort of will, and at last rode
into N. He tainted as somebody
helped him off his horse, but his work
was done.
In her pretty drawing-room at Ex.
minister sat Mrs. Ogilvie and Stella.
The morning papers had just ar
rived, and they had rushed to open
them.
Stella suddenly laid down the paper
and burst into tears.
Mrs. Ogilvie crossed the room and
put pair of very kindly, motherly
arms round the sobbing girl.
"What is it, child?" she whispered.
. Stella pointed to name in the lis,
of the seriously wounded" 1t was
that Of Lieutenant Lascelles, of the
Seventh Regiment.
- - Mrs. Ogilvie's eyes held question
which Stella answered. "I love him, ii
she said, ''and have loved him for
ages-and now he will never know. u
"Never knoww That was not Mrs.
Ogilvie's idea at all-and the next pas.
oapnar ob;,> 70 EEtba F,o,,+,, ,o,,;o 4 81 =
two ladies on board, bound for a Ger.
tain town in South Africa, where a
hero lay wounded, but mercifully not
unto DEATH"
What passed at that first meeting
who can tell? How Stella went into
that hospital ward, and he, seeing her
coming, could hardly believe the evi.
dcnce of his own eyes.
81 have rcome," she said simply,
Gust to tell you that love you, that
l have loved you all along, and that
can't live without you"
The nursing sister is wont to de
clare that it was mysterious thing
the rapidity of Mr.. Lascelles's recoy
cry dating from that visit, and soor
after he was invalided home on sicl
leave.
During the time he was in England
there came day when England't
Queen distributed to her bravest sol.
diers some little iron crosses with the
words "For valor" thereon, and the
one whom she specially singled out to
speak to him word no man would care
to forget SO long as he lived was nc
other than little Lascelles, "the Duf
fer of the Regiment. London Morn
ing Leader.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01

had two sharp stones running into my
back. l was soaked to the skin and
bitterly cold, but had an awful thirst;
the torrents of rain never stopped.
On one side Of me was Gordon
Highlander in raving delirium, and on
the other side Boer who had had
mis- leg shattered by shell, and who
gave vent to the most heart-rending
cries and groans. War is funny
game, mother, and no one can realize
what its grim horrors are like till they
see it in all its barbarous reality. ]
lay out in the rain the whole of the
night, and at daybreak was put into a
doolie by doctor, and some natives
carried me down to the station. The
ground was awfully rough, and they
dropped me twice; I tainted both
times. I was sent down to Lady.
smith in the hospital train; from the
station I was conveyed to the chapel
Officers hospitaD in bullock cart.
the jolting of which made me faint
again. L was the last officer taken in.
I was then put to bed, and my wound
was dressed just seventeen hours
after I was hit. They then gave me
some beef tea, which was the first
food I had had for twenty-seven
hours"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01

T. BIGMORE, of the
- Tenth Mountain Battery, cap
tured by the Beers at Nichol-
sons Mex, who was fortunate
enough to make his escape, writes as
follows to his father at Newport:
Last Sunday my battery, along
with the Irish Fusiliers and Glouces-
ters, were sent out on IA dark night
march through the enemy's lines to
take a position ready for Monday
morning to turn the enemy's left
flank, in order that our. main army
might catch- them. We had got about
two miles from the position we were
supposed to take, when about 1000 of
their horsemen charged US. 1t was
pitch dark, and they could have been
only about twenty yards off when they
charged. Everybody, of course, was
taken unawares, and there was a
proper panic. We all blame the guide
for it, for it must have been planned
beforehand, because they were all
ready waiting for us. L am pleased
to say that l am one of the lucky ones
to escape. After a very hard fight for
life was stunned by rifle, and lay
in hole until the next morning.
"The first gun that was fred woke
me up only to find two Irishmen who
were fighting for the Beers shouting
to me to fall in between them, and 1
had to do so. They were only young
fellows about seventeen years of age.
They took the only bit of bread off
me, and one made me carry his rifle.
was very bad at the time, SO that he
could eat with pleasure. The other
had his rifle in one hand and bread in
the other, and at last I let the fellow
on my left have his rife right across
his face. He fell, and the other ran
off as quickly as his legs could carry
him. 1 ran about 100 yards into the
bed of river, remaining there all
day. At night 1 took my boots off,
and under cover of the darkness
crawled SIX miles on my hands and
knees through their lines.
Il came to large house and slept
in an outhouse until about half-past
4, when, hearing some trotting, l
looked out of the door, and saw some
of the Eighteenth Hussars. 1 put my
hands up, and three of them came to
me. This was on Tuesday morning,
and I had been since Sunday without
food or water. While telling the Hus-
sars how we had been cut off, and
while one was giving me biscuit
from his haversack, bullets suddenly
few around us in all directions. Tie
Hussars galloped away and left me.
After galloping about 400 yards one
of them returned. I was weak, but
by catching hold of his stirrup I was
able to get to the outposts where got
water and food. I was hit three times,
but am now all right. Over one hun
dred of my battery missing"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01
Kruger Fifteen Years Ago,

The following Story of President
Kruger is published in a recent issue
OF the Paris Figaro: The President
was visiting Holland in 1885, and,
according to this journal, dividing his
attention between old Dutch churches
and young Dutch women, who sang
songs in his honor, when a corre-
spondent met him, and suggested that
everything was settled between Eng
land and the Transvaal. "There you
are mistaken" said Mr.. Kruger. "I
cannot, naturally, discount events.
l have great confidence in the Queen
of England, in many English people,
and even in their chief statesmen.
But the scheme for an Austral Africa,
exclusively British, haunts too many
minds and too many interests for me
to be without disquietude. They al.
ways keep up notwithstanding around
lis to disturb the situation until the
propitious time comes"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01


The names of the British killed and
wounded after battle are ascertlined
by means of the identification cards
which all our soldiers carry sewn up
in the left hand corner of their khaki
tunics.
On the card is written the soldiers
name, rank, regimental number, to-
gether with the name and address of
his next of kin. The latter is added
so that the authorities may know where
to forward the effects of any soldier
who gets killed.
In the corner Of this tunic opposite
the identification card every soldier
carries small pad of bandages, etc.,
for dressing wound. This "feld
DRESSING" as it is called, is added to
''Tommy's" equipment in order that
he may be his own surgeon until
medical assistance arrives, or may
have the wherewithal on him to bind
up the wounds of q chum.
You will probably be surprised to
learn that one of the last things
Tommy" does when ordered to the
front is to make his will, although
every regiment contains a percentage
of happy go lucky fellows who do not
worry themselves about what will be-
come of their property when they no
longer require it.-London Mail.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01

In the eighteenth annual report OF
the Tuskegee Institute, Booker 7.
Washington says: "This institution
was organized in little shanty in
1881, with but one teacher and thirty
students, the average attendance the
past year has been 11G4 students from
twenty-three States and Territories,
and from Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rice,
Africa and England. Three hund-
red and tifty-three students have
finished the course of training at this
institution and are now scattered
throughout the South, doing good
work. About 5000 students have taken
partial courses.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01

Alvan Z. Sanborn, in an article in
the Atlantic Monthly, thinks that the
results of the agitation for greater
freedom for women are: The woeful
lack of respect of youth for age, the
rapidly diminishing Importance of the
family as social unit, the epidemic
of divorce, the young girls shrill and
grating bumptiousness, and the
domestic incapacity, extravaganza,
invalidism, morbid sex consciousness
and unlovely pedantry of the women.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01

Preparations are being made for
great expansion in rice culture in Texas
this year. In one county in the State
there will be an increase of 1000 acres,
with increases in other countries run
ming up into the thousands of acres.
The lands that will be planted wero
mp to year or two ago regarded as
fit for grazing purposes only. Then,
however, such lands were planted in
rice, aud yielded good crops. The
soil is black and the lands fiat and
even. Rice culture is a new industry
for Texas, but those who are booming
it predict that in the pear future the
State will be an important figure in
the Eice markets.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01
Russians Are FIocklng to siberia.

Contrary to the generally prevalent
opinion even among educated people,
the lands of Siberia and Amur are rich
beyond belief. For instance, wheat re-
quires in Siberia only 107 days in which
to ripen, while it takes thirty days
longer in France. Besides even heavy
nignt frosts do not injure the seed.
The same general conditions are tue
of other grain. This is now becoming
known in Russia, where the emigra-
tion has set SO strong that the tide of
Siberian immigrant is almost as
strong now as it ever was toward this
country.
In western Siberia alone there are
above twenty-four thousand square
miles of coal land of excellent quality
which has never been touched. There
are iron and gold ores, too, while the
industries o. Siberia are still in their
infancy, but developing.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01
CRASSHOP?ER GLACIER.
Icy Tomb of Thousands of the Long
legged Insects.

Icy Tomb OF Thousands OF the Long
legged Insects.
There are many remarkable glaciers
in that part of the Rocky Mountain
uplift that crosses the southern bor-
der of Montana. A part of this region
has hitherto been unmapped and its
more elevated portions were unvisited
and unnamed until last summer, when
geographical party piloted the way
up the mountains and discovered some
of the largest glaciers in the temper.
ate regions of the western world.
Here rises Granite Peak, which, ac.
cording to Nv. Gannett, is the cul-
minating point of Montana, 10, S24
feet high.
Among the glaciers found in these
mountains and recently described by
James P. Kimball is Grasshopper
Glacier, which derives its name from
the enormous quantity of grasshop-
per remains that are found on and in
the glacier. Periodically the grass.
hoppers that thrive in the prairie to
the north take their flight southwark,
and must needs cross the mountains.
Their favorite route seems to be across
this wide glacier, and in the passage
scores of them succumb to the rigor
of cold and wind, fall helpless upon
the snow, and are finally ontombed
in the ice. In the course of time bill.
lions of them have been the victims OF
this glacier. They are, of course,
carried by tho ice river down into the
valley and deposited at the melting
edge of the ice, and Mr.. Kimball says
that thousands of tons of grasshopper
remains are the principal material ut
the lower edge of the glacier. We
hear very often of rocks and SAND as
forming the terminal moraine of gla-
ciers, but here is n glacier whose
principal morainal material is grass
hoppers.
These insect remains are washed
out of the ice in burrows wherever
the suns heat has grooved the surface
into runlets of descending water. The
grasshoppers permeate the glacier
from top to bottom. No fragment of
ice can be broken SO small as not to
contain remains. Most of the insects
have been reduced to coarse powder,
and the burrows of them washed out
by the runlets and naturally deposited
in parallel lines are very dark in color.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01

The oratory of the campaign spell
binder is frequently thing to marvel
at. One of the shining lights in New
York's political world, making q
speech on the night before the last
election, caused considerable com
ment in ar effort to show that he kept
himself up to date by making a glow
ing reference to "Maccaronis system
of wireless telegraphy." Another
speaking of the tropical fertility of
the Philippines referred to them as a
spot "where bright birds perpetually
warble and countless flowers expector-
ate their perfume on the balmy air. I"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01
TRUMPET AND FLAG.

The last bugle's dying echoes falter down
the narrow valley
The doubtful battle tarried In so long:
As turning from their headlong charge the
scattered horsemen rally,
The Ginning rocks repeat that fading
song.
From the heights where eagles hover, day.
dark clefts the buck leap over,
Tie thousand giant voices of the crag,
In reverberating chorus speed the musical,
sonorous
E Silver summons of the Trumpet to the
Flag;
"Awakei awaliel your splendid robe out
shakel
Float proudly, lovely Sister, for your
mighty Brothers sake
The unanswered guns have spoken; we
have conquered; they are broken,
As the mists OF morn before the morning
break"
With mountain-ash for neighbor in q
chasm thunder rifted,
Struck in sodden turf beneath stormy
sky,
Rose the Flag, round whose encumbered
staff the uncounted dead we're drifted
Who died to set its naughty folds so
high.
Dut she trailed her dropping vesture with
mourner's needless gesture.
Murm'ring: Yea, and should my 'broid-
cred skirts be spread,
When the children of my glory lie about
me rent and CORY:
All the faithful ones who followed where
led?
Alas! alas! their faces in the grass:
The breezes lift their draggled plumes to
tlout them as they pass.
o Thou cruz mighty Brother, thou did st
cry them on each other
With the breath that fills thy throat OF
thrilling brass!'
Then swift upon those tender tones of
womanly compassion,
Like sword from sheath the ringing an
swer sped:
"Who flies the kiss OF steel shall find his
end In worser fashion,
A straw death, strangled slowly on his
bed.
Let the slave, the sot, the coward, by ig-
noble fears devoured,
Count each measured heart beat, spare
their boarded breath,
Yet the traitors shall be hunted by the fate
they never fronted:
These thy children may not taste that
second death.
Away awayl to seek some noble fray,
From pleasant crimes OF genial peace, that
soul and body slay;
From the sin That still deeeives you, till
the sated demon leaves you,
ana tne clhy-pegotten brute goes back to
clay"
BE said; and straight his loud last word a
score of pipes set playing
To bid the yictors close their ranks
again.
Aud growing as old soldiers growl, but
sulkily ebeying,
The mutterlng drums took up the deep
refrain.
While the banner, in the hayward, spread
her wings to watt them forward,
by many stubborn combat stained and
torn,
On the opal sky Of even ere she vanished
In clear heaven
To fresher fights by younger warriors
borne.
And lone and chill the night wind swept
the hill,
When DER the yet unburied slain that
strange dispute grew still:
The old feud our kind inherit OF the war
ring soul and spirit;
Mans heart, and mans indomitable will.
Edward Sydney Tylee, in the Spectator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01

age once fortnight ever since the
Seventh were quartered here.
Stella was generally voted the pret-
tiest and the incest girl in Exminster
by the Seventh, who paid her court
in large numbers, but none with such
assiduity as little Tommy Lascelles,
"the Duffer," as he was called by his
brother officers who, Notwithstanding,
were roughly kind to him-kindness
for which they hardly guessed "the
Duffer" was supremely grateful; he
had the softest heart hidden away in
rather quaint little body, and-other
things of which nobody suspected him,
or perhaps this story never would
have been written.
But to return to Stella.
"Now," said she, eff it was Major
Lansdowne, could understand your
championship, whereas the Lascelles
boy Really, Cousin Jane, where
can your eyes be?"
Almost as she spoke the door opened
and "Major Lansdowne" was an
nounced, then Captain Freke," and
few moments later "Mr. Lascelles. "
The last conner was relegated to
Mrs. Ogilvie's tender mercies. APP
parently Stella was too much occupied
with her other guests 70 have a word
to spare, and the little man sat beside
Mrs. Ogilvie, slipped his tea, and
talked.
Presently he rose to go.
This is a long goodbye" he said,
very gravely; lyon know we are or
dered to the front Tomorrow I 90
north to see my people, and on Thurs
day we sail"
Mrs. Ogilvie saw Stella's face grow
deadly pale; she saw, too, that young
Lascelles had noted it, and that he
glanced toward Major Lansdowne.
'Do believe me-" he said in his
quiet, gentle way, "that if 1 can shield
him for yonr sake in any way it shall
be done"
An expression of complete bewilder.
ment on Stella's face, noted by Mrs.
Ogilvie, was quite lost upon young
Lascelles, whose eyes seemed sud.
denly to have grown curiously dim.
Across the bare, brown veldt sol.
itary horseman made his way. "Rath.
er good horse" he had said, which
was hardly doing the animal justice.
1t was the feetest in the regiment and
had won many race before young
Lascelles had bought it.
inside his coat lay the dispatches,
which did they ever reach their des-
tination, would save the lives of hun
areds of his fellow soldiers.
! Just then an agonizing pain in his
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01

Silver for toilet table articles will
always hold its own, but ivory today
Is the most distinguished material OF
which brushes, combs, powder boxes,
hand mirrors and the like can be made.
1t is better for person who is col
lecting the furniture fol a dressing
table to put money gradually into fine
pieces of ivory rather than silver. Ivory
of the best quality is steadily increas.
ing in value. Every year the mum.
ber of elephants decreases. The time
is almost here when the ivory bearing
elephants of central Africa will be ex-
tinct. Collections of ivory now fetch
large prices. 1t is not surprising there
fore, that ivory toilet articles should
bs eagerly sought.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01

On recent night tragic scene
was enacted in the Montmartre Men
agerie, which the Ambassador of China,
together with his wife and daughters,
recently honored with visit.
The great royal tiger, Mazeppa,
suddenly rebelled against his famous
tanner, ''La Goulue," sprang upon
her, and when he had her down on
the floor buried his teeth in her side
and dragged her, insensible, across
the cage to the darkest corner, where
he crouched, evidently settling him.
self comfortably for feast of human
flesh.
Experts are yet at loss to explain
what saved the girl They say the
smell of warm blood always drives q
tiger into ferocious frenzy, and that,
unlike the lion, the tiger-even q
thoroughly tanned one-when it once
feels quivering, live flesh between its
teeth, will never pause till its victim
is in shreds.
Mazeppa paused. He probably did
not intend to reflect long on the
mighty uproar that went up from the
public. But the clamor surprised
him; he looked up to see what was
the matter; in one instant the men.
agerie attendants were upon him with
red-hot lances and forks. He clawed
at these murderous things and finally
caught one viciously within his great
jaws. With howl of pain he leaped
to the other side, where, cowed but
furious, he roared and clawed and
grunted.
: Meanwhile two men tanners entered
the cage and took away the uncon.
scious. bleeding girl. 1t was found
that her whole right flank had been
lacerated by the tigers teeth; on the
left shoulder the claws had torn the
flesh from the bone; ugly scratches
were found also on the breast. But
the plucliy La Goulue will, the doc,
tors say, be spared.
She is one of the most popular fig
ures in Paris. At one time it was the
fashion to go to the Moulin Rouge tc
see her go through the weirdest oi
Partisan dances. Her abandoning
the fiery night resort of bohemianism
to become tanner of wild animals has
not diminished her fame.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01

The offer of the Duke of Marl.
borough to equip $50 trusty yeomen
and lead them to battle against the
Beers has certain tinkie of patriotism
in it, but then it is not really the
Dukes money that pays the bills. 1t
is the hard-earned dollars of tough
old Cornelius Van Der Bilt that will
pay for this foray against his Dutch
kinsmen in South Africa.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01
Heroism of the wounded,

A letter of an English officer, writ
ten after Elandslaagte, the fierce battle
with the Beers, tells of his experience
on the field after the fight, he having
been severely wounded by an ex-
plosive bullet in the charge up the
hill. He says: 81 lay where L fell
for about three-quarters of an hour,
when doctor came and put a field
dressing on my wound, gave me some
brandy, put my helmet under my head
as pillow, covered me with a Boer
blanket which he had taken from q
dead man, and then went to look after
some other poor beggar. 1 shall
never forget the horrors of that night
as long as live. In addition TO the
agony which my wound gave me. I
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-03-01
Around the World.

The time required for a journey
round the earth by man walking day
and night. without resting, would be
42S days; an express train, forty
days; sound, at a medium tempera-
ture, thirty-two and one-half hours;
cannon ball, twenty-one and three
quarter hours; light, little over one
tenth of second, and electricity pass
ing over copper wire q little under
one-tenth of eecond,