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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22

Views of men everywhere dilfOr in
many respects as to extent and the
direction that public education should
take, but all, or nearly all, will agree
that if public education is to proceed
further than providing facilities for a
rudimentary English education it
should be in the direction of manual
training. With trade or "A technical
knowledge in some special line a man
is always self-supporting, and in near
ly every case is sure of lucrative en-
ployment. There is a great or greater
field for the achievements of fame or
wealth in the mechanic arts as in the
overcrowded, so-called learned pro-
fessions
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22
WISE WORDS.

Love constrains to conservation.
Tact is not another name for trick
cry.
True love is the secret of full conse-
Grafton.
Death is darkness, because it leads
to dawn.
What you are within, that you will
be without.
2 The world-spoiler has no use for the
steady toiler.
Most men begin to save after they
have spent all.
Practice what you pray-particular
ly at the ballot-box.
The first thing you see in boiling
water, is the scum.
Care-not is a greater hindrance to
success than cannot.
Self forgetfulness is only acquired
by remembering others.
Songs of triumph are possible only
to the sons of tribulatiou.
We arc welded by our wishes,
rather than by our wisdom.
The world is vessel in whose hold
the fire is already burning.
Some graves are repotent to per.
suade men than many pulpits.
Your life will strike no higher note
in public than it is keyed to IN pri-
vate.
When man shows his goodness in
his home, the chances are that good
ness has its home in him.
The worldly are spending the win
ter of life in collecting srow- balls,
forgetting that the summer comes
Rams Horn.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22

A remarkable appl;clsion of the
principles of the telephone and the
phonograph jointly is elaine for Il
Danish engineer by Engineering. He
has invented what is practically
phonograph which will take telephone
messages. Unlike the pironograph
now in use, it mas no wax plates, the
impression being recorded on a steel
band which mpy be used an indefinite
number OF times, as the records can
be wiped off like writing off slate.
If this invention is practicable it will
he boon to the busy Office man to
whom there is no greater pest than his
clerks constant cry, "You are wanted
at the phone, sir.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22
Lessons II or Farmers Daughters.

The girls o n a farm should learn to
milk as we'll as the boys, even ii they
are not expected to take full share
in such work. In many countries
milking is thought to be essentially a
woman's work, not only because it
requiI es little physical strength when
one is accustomed to it, but because
girls generally are quieter, and do
not get angry with the COW, and be-
cause they are naturally neater and
the milk is cleaner. We believe the
farmers daughters should know how
to milk, and to harness and drive q
horse. Occasions frequently come,
perhaps in cases of an accident, when
it is very important that woman
should ride or drive horse perhaps
to the village for physician, and to
find her ignorant and helpless at
such time may cause the loss of a
life, and lifelong regret to her and
to others. We know on many farms
their education goes much farther
than this, and that many girls and
young women can drive the team and
manage the moving machine, horse
rake, seed drill, or other machinery
on the farm as well as their brothers
if they have any, and we know 10
good reason why they should not do
80, as well as to ride a bicycle, if they
will learn, though we do not care to
advocate the regular employment of
women in farm labor. But we have
seen woman, New England born and
bred, who could handle the scythe
and pitchfork in the bayfield,, or the
plow or hoe in cultivated fields, better
than most men, and do it all day, too.
Yet she was as capable of doing good
work in the house or dairy room as
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22
TIE NUMBERED STONES.

This is the ground of glory,
This is the field of fame
And these-begrimed and CORY,
Burned with the battle flame
These are the vague immortals,
The nameiess of the fray,
Deep thronsed around the portalu,
OF Deaths eternal dayl
Bard Of the flowing phrases,
Muse OF the silver lutte,
WHY do you stint your praises,
Why do your chords hang mute2
Can we aver you blameless,
Who sing but Of the proud
And nigh forget the nameless,
Enwrapt with earthly shroud?
For them no laurelled wreathinGs,
No proud, triumphant trains
No chccrs, no crowds deep breathings
No boustlul, brIzen strains.
With wind-klssed banners playing,
With wild regardless shout,
Their JOY was in the Staying
Their triumph in the rout.
Sons sprlnGinS fr1: ~ the masses,
Tho homeland to defend
Their blood has wet Its grasse9,
Their dust with it will blcndl
Dead to the acclamatlons-
Dead when the light is donel
Tho polestals of nations
Rest on the grounl they won.
Theiz valor ours for buying?
The price wo blush to own
Their recompense for dying
Was but numbered stone!
Boston Pilot.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22
The Gordon Highlanders' Dash.

The Gordon Highlanders' Dash.
The war correspondent of the Lon
don Standard writes as follows of the
last battle with the Beers: The air
seemed thick with bullets, while
above our heads the shrek of the
shells and the thunderclaps of the
bursting shrapnel made din that
was appalling to those who had not
had previous experience of the modern
projecties. So keen were the rank
and file of the Devonshires that more
than one man exposed himself 10 the
deadly aim of the Beers merely in
order to satisfy himself as to the
progress of the fight. I heard one
soldier invite his comrade to put up
his head and see how the Beers were
getting on. 81 will as soon as there
is room for it, was the reply--a very
natural one, considering that the all
seemed to consist of flying lead.
The Gordon Highlanders were
especially anxious to treat the enemy
lesson. Their regiment was repre-
,sented at Maiuba Hill, and the Beers
had afterward referred to them in de-
rison as "Katfirs clothed in kits"
The men were keen in wiping out the
insult, aud to this end bore them
selves with the most reckless courage.
Nor were the Manchesters one whit
less ardent or determined.
1t was a magnificent aud soul stir
ring spectacle as our gallant fellows
dashed straight at the enemy, driving
them irresistibly from point to point.
The Beers stood their ground to the
last with the courage OF despair. But
they were no match for our men in
personal combat, and were driven
back in hopeless confusion. Fifty or
sixty of them, mounting their horses,
made off at full speed over the hills
toward the east. Another fifteen
minutes of deadly work aud the last
shot had been fired.
With loud cheer and shout from
the Gordon Highlanders of "What
price Majuba?" our men dashed down
the opposite incline right into the
heart of the Boer position, with bayo-
nets fixed But the white flag, stuck
INTO the muzzle OF Mauser, was al
ready flying in the laager and the
officers checked their men in mid
career.
No praise can be too high for the
courage and self-sacrifcs OF our Off
GERS. Their behavior was worthy of
the finest traditions of the British
army-
Their courage was not mere reck-
essness, but deliberately calculated
With the object of encouraging and
directing the men who followe them.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22

The sheathlike skirt which fits the
figure like a glove is one which should
be avoided by every woman with the
slightest tendency to embonpoint.
But the poor stout woman cries out in
her perplexity, "What am I to do?"
There is something else, a style
which will just suit her, and hich
seems to have Reen modelled es-
pecially for her. The modistes are
clever enough to know that the stout
woman is as mnch to be considered as
the slim one, and with this object in
view has been designed skirt which
is built upon lines certain to appeal
to the woman who continues taking on
flesh.
This new and probably permanent
wrinkle in skirt topography is intend
ed for women whose form is such that
a certain amount of drapery is essen
tial. 1t is skirt with triple box
plat, folded narrowly at the placket
ard flowing out wide and gracefully
into the train, and promises to be q
boon which will be eagerly welcomed
by women of ample bulld.-New York
Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22

she was out of doors. We knew a
German in western New York whose
'boys were all girls" as he said.
There we're some half dozen of them,
well educated, graduates of high
school in a neighboring city, accomp-
lished musicians, refined and ladyiike,
and yet any one of them could go into
the harvest field and do days work
that would compare in amount or
neatness with the best of farm hands.
And they were also skilled in house
work and dairy work. American Cul-
tiyator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22

There are over 300 women dentists
in America.
Frances Hodgson Burnett was born
at Manchester, England, in 1S49.
Mrs. Dewey, the wife of our gallant
Admiral, is about forty three years
old.
Not six per cent. of all the women
in America spend as much money al
$50 per year on their clothes.
Mrs. Lii Hung Chang has q more
woman. Fer dresses number three
thousand.
1t is announced that Miss Maud
Come, the Irish agitator, will soon
return to the United States to work
and speak for the Beers,
John D. Rockefellers private Sec
retary is woman, Miss Harris. She
is said to be very clever, and she must
be, for she can keep secret.
Dowager Queen Emma of Holland
has contributed five hundred dollars
to the Amsterdam Red Cross fund
intended for the relief of wounded
Beers.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is good
Greek scholar and her favorite read
ing is among the classics of that lam
guage, volume of which she has al
ways at hand.
Miss Helen Gould's present attitude
toward Mormonism is no new thing
with her. Several years ago she was
warm supporter of Kate Field in a
similar movement.
The first woman doctor admitted to
general practice in Germany by the
authorities is Berlin girl, Agnes
Nacker. 1t has taken the Prussian
Cabinet two years to decide her case.
Mrs. john M. Thurston, the bride
of the Nebraska Senator, is described
as of medium height, graceful, with
changeful dark gray eyes, occasionally
flashed with blue, perfect figure and
mobile features.
Rev. Bessie Velvick is young
woman of about twenty-five and is in
charge of a Wesleyan chapel in
Bethersden, England. She is very
successful in her ministry, preaching
weekly to large crowds.
1t is said that the widow of General
"Stonewall" Jackson is in sore
straits financially and that Iher
health is very poor. She is now old
and nearly blind. Her home is near
the town of Charlotte, N. @.
Some Englishwomen, grieved at the
lack of rational amusements among
the children of the present day, have
formed themselves into p body for
visiting board school Fairgrounds in
order to teach children how to play.
Tama, the Japanese wife Of Sir
Edwin Arnold, is said to look like q
Parisienne. She speaks English
huently, but with slight accent.
Her letters show that she has been
easily able to adapt herself to Eng
lish modes of thought and expression.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22

Figures are sometimes impressive
simply by being so stupendous that
the human mind grasps them with
difficulty. An English physicist in a
recent lecture, in order to bring to
the comprehension of his hearers the
idea of ultimate PARTICLES of water, said
thas # he we're to empty a tumbler
conta ming half pint of water letting
out each second number equal to one
thousand times the population of the
earth, it would require somewhere
between 1000, 900 and At, ZOO, 900
years to empty the tumbler. Lord
Kely.n says that if drop of water
were magnified to the size of the earth
the particles would be between the
size of cricket balls and that OF foot
balls. II that statement is correct,
the drops of water in all the oceans
are not many times as numerous as
the particles, or molecules, in a single
lroD.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22
Pay of an ARMY Nurse.


For service in the United States q
nurse receives $40 month, which is
$40 more than is paid by the hospi-
tails which employ graduate nurses.
The pay of graduate serving in the
operating rooms of q city hospital
ranges from $25 to $50 per month,
out of which she must, like the army
nurse, supply her own wardrobe.
The chief nurse in an army hospi-
tai corresponds to the superintendent
of nurses in civil hospital. Where
less than five nurses are serving un-
der the chief nurse, she receives the
same allowance as they. Where from
five to ten are serving the chief nurse
receives $40 month mote than the
other nurses; where ten or more are
serving, she receives $40 more than
the others per month. For service in
Porto Rico, Cuba, the Hawaiian Is
lands or the Philippines, nurses re-
ceive $50 per month instead of $40,
and transportation to and from the
United States when on leave of alb
sence. The total leave of absence,
with pay, does not exceed one month
during the year--the time spent in
travelling to and from the United
States not being counted.
The hours of ward duty are usually
twelve in army service, and, if the
climate requires, the chief nurse may,
with the approval of the medical Off
Ger in charge, amend these to ten or
eight hours. Boston Budget.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22

cit is constant wonder to me, ;"
said the student of human nature, "to
see how quickly the minds of some
men act. L met man the other even.
ing who had an intellectual grasp that
was astounding. L met him in lhe
hall just as he was reaching for an
umbrella. rs that your umbrella2'
he inquired. No. I replied. In
that case, abe answered, it's mine.
-Argonaut.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22

'T tried to snt you on the right
road to succeed in literature, but you
wouldn't follow my advice"
"How could L? Am L to go on kill.
ing people in fiction, and finding
corpses behind doors, and marrying
poor girls to rich men, and all that
sort of horror, just to amuse lot of
idle or weary mortals, and earn per-
haps two dollars week in money? It's
all very we'll for you editors, who have
regular salary, but for us outsiders,
it's rough riding"
"You little know of the trials of an
editors life if you think you have all
the bitterness Of literary career" +"
retorted King, gloomily. Between
the practical Joker who wants to get
up quarrel with any one, and the
crank who is driven by strange mad
ness to pitch in to somebody all the
time, there is less peace and less sat
isfaction in editing than in any other
profession IN modern days. am think
ing OF taking sea voyage"
[ wished to warn him of the danger
of such a change, but could L say
that his fate might be escaped on land
any better than at sea?
"I've q good mind to go with you, ;"
remarked.
Come on" he replied with alert
ness. Gas a writer you have your
defects, too caustic pen, but as O
compagnon de voyage I would choose
none more desirable"
1t was some months before we
started upon our travels, first to
South Africa, then to Australia. Mr.,
King enjoyed the best of health. I
tried to believe L had deceived my
self. L resisted the temptation to fly
from his presence, to forsake him, in
spite of the dread which a coming
death always excites in me.
We reached San Francisco in safe
ty. We started east across the con-
tinent.
One evening as we sat at dinner in
the dining car gentleman APP
preached US and asked me politely:
sis this Mr.. King?"
pointed to my companion and
reached for the salad dish.
"You are the editor of Kings
Monthly"
ST am," replied Mr.. King, with
dignity, ''the editor-in- chief We
have number of departments and
each has its special editor"
Perhaps you can tell me why this
story was declined?"
He drew rather bulky package
from his coat pocket and opened it
beside the EDITORS plate.
81 have been away from the Office
nearly c year." began Mr.. King.
Then he stopped and looked at the
manuscript more attentively. "Why,
this is one Of Mr.. Kipling's stories" :"
cts a lie! wrote it myself" ex-
claimed the stranger, suddenly dis
playing great excitement.
"You may have copied it. Yes, that
is the way Of it,"
Mr.. King tried to assume an air of
genial humor, at the same time sig
mailing to me to get assistance. We
both recognized the crank whose in
sanity takes the form of believing
himself some famous writer or of try
ing to dispose of copies of published
stories of celebrated authors as his
own.
But the madman suspected the ed
itor's Intention and sprang upon him.
bending his head backward and aim
ing at his throat with the first knife
his hand could get hold of. Before
b, f,,n
all was over, and the assassin had es-
capped to the end of the car. A chasm
several hundred feet in depth was be-
side the track here, but into this he
leaped with a cry Of triumph at hav-
ing revenged himself upon his fancied
enemy,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22
Mrs. McKinIey's Aversion to Yellow.

o
Each mistress of the White House
has had her favorite flower, except
Mrs. Mckinley, who expresses little
preference, except an aversion to yell
low flowers and a great love for blue
ones, in which the President joins
her. A large bunch of flowers is cut
from the conservatory every morning
ond sent to adorn the Presidents $
table, while others go to Mrs. McKin-
ley's apartments. The plants that
adorn the domestic part of the White
House are frequently changed, to
give her the benefit of the rare and
beautiful variety that fills the great
conservatories. All of the finest plants
share her admiration, each for as long
a time as it can stand to be kept from
real hothouse atmosphere.
Neither Mrs. Mckinley nor the
President visits the conservatories
regularly, though before the busy
days of the war were thrust upon him
they both loved the care and cultiva-
ton of plant life. Now the President
has no time to watch the gentle un-
folding of nature placed for his pleas
ure under the vast area under glass to
the west of the White House. Wash
ington Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22

The automobile will not prove less
interesting or less vivacious than the
horse. 1t will never kick the dash
board into the atmosphere or shy at a
wind-blown newspaper, but it can get
its lever jammed, run away, blow up
its gasoline tank and catch fire with
bewildering cheerfulness ON occasion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22

When wireless telegraphy becomes
universal, what will become of the
poor liuemen. Well, possibly he can
find employment in keeping the mes
eages from scattering.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22

A new association has been formed
IN Germany for the cultivation of
closer relations with Brazil, aud as
result German enterprise in South
America will surely be stimulated
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22

+ NEWS AND NOTES )
. FOR WOMEN. 8


The evolution of style from severity
to extreme elaboration and back again
to plainness can always be described
in wave-like motion. Starting some
two years ago with most severe tailor
made plain costumes, we have ascend
ed the acclivity until to-day the heap
ing on of handicraft and trimmings
has seemingly reached the uppermost
limit.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22

The revolution created by Mergen-
thaler in the development of printing
was fully equal to that of Gutenberg
in inventing it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22

From Alabama comes the report of
the death of a distinguished lawyer
caused by over exertion at golf. This
may be regarded as the exception that
proves the rule that golf is game in
which one has enough and not too
much work to do.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22
Over the Fails.

A Wisconsin paper reports en- In
iian's remarkable escape from Death.
lie was one of driving crew that
broke big jam above Sturgeon Falls.
He attempted to cross the river on q
log, and, to the horror of the specta-
tors, was carried over the falls.
The falls are forty feet high, and
consist of two pitches and the rapids.
OF course the man was given up for
dead, aud the driving crew thought it
useless to search the river for his
body, as the logs were piling over the
falls at a rapid rate.
The next morning, however, the
Indian walked into camp for break
fast. He had been swept down the
river and up against the bank, where
he managed to crawl out. Finding
only few scratches and bruises, but
being, as he remarked, "rather tired"
he lay down and slept until day
light, and was none the worse for his
adventure.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-02-22
TALES OF PLUCK
and ADVENTURE.
Fitzhugh Lees Arrow Wound

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Fitzhugh Lees Arrow Wound.
L has often been noticed that
whenever General Fitzhugh Lee
visits the White House he stops
to have chat with Captain Loef-
fer, who stands guard at the Presi-
dents private Office and the Cabinet
room. This Is generally attributed
to Lees pleasant way of treating eve
ryone, but it has another origin.
Before the Civil War Leo was a
Lieutenant in the old Second Cavalry,
afterward reorganized as the Fifth.
Loetiier was trooper in this regi-
msnt and later non commissioned
officer. His company was one of the
two which were engaged in O sharp
fight with the Kiowa and Comanche
Indians in the Cimmaron country in
Texas in 1863. The indians had
taken refuge in a narrow canon which
could be entered only from one end,
and there had thrown up fortifca-
ton of logs, from behind which they
poured hot fire into the troops. The
character of the canon was such
that the horses OF the cavalry were
useless, and they were left outside,
the men advancing on foot. Only a
few of the Indians had firearms, the
rest had bows aud arrows. Had the
the Indians been as well armed as they
have been in later wars, the loss OF
the whites would have been very
large; as it was only four or five sol
diers were killed, though the Indian
loss amounted to nearly fifty.
A charge was made on the log fort,
md Lee, who was dashing o fficer
and wonderful favorite with his men,
was the first to scale the breastwork.
The arrows were whizzing all about
him, and one struck him in the breast,
lnfiicting very ugly wound. AS he
yell the confusion was so great about
him that the arrow was pulled out of
his flesh and thrown to the ground
Rmong other arrows, whole and bro
ken, so that no one could tell after
ward whether the head had remained
in the wound or been drawn out with
the stick. 1t was impossible, there
fore, to say how seriously he had been
hurt, and he was carried at once to
the rear, where litter was impro-
vised of saplings and boughs. He
was laid upon this, which was swung
between two horses, and thus ne was
carried back to the wagon train, q
distance of more than $50 miles
through rough country. Probing
showed that the head of the arrow
bad fortunately been drawn out, and
in due time good nursing put the
Lieutenant on his feet again.
This is an incident ir Lees career
which is apparently known to very
few. 1t is of interest to know that
the old Second Cavalry had for its
Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston and
for its Lieutenant Colonel Robert e.
Lee, and that Hardee, of "tactics''
fame, and George H. Thomas were
two of its Majors. The Captain of the
company in which Fitzhugh Lee was
First Lieutenant was Kirby Smith.
Loeffier served with great credit in
the Union Army during the Civil War,
was given his White House detail by
President Grant, and was appointed
by President Mckinley as military
storekeeper" in the regular army, with
the rank of Captain.