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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12
MEN OF MARK.

Pol Plancon, the opera singer, sings a
whole opera in admirable German with
out understanding word of that Ian
guage.
Sir Donald Currie, head of the Castle
line Of steamers, was discharged from
the line during his younger days because
he refused to work on Sunday.
Sir Thomas Upton has started new
enterprise. He is trying to organize the
Australian wine trade with view to
pressing the colonial wines on the Brit
ish public as he did the Ceylon teas.
President Mckinley is a lover of chess,
game with which he frequently amuses
himself. He is an expert at all chess
problems and believes firmly in the value
of the game as d training for logical
thought.
John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil
magnate, was interviewed the other day
on vacations in the abstract. 1.-THE only
way for a rich man to enjoy one," he
said, "is for him to forget completely that
he is rich"
Newport, o., has furnished the cham
pion eater He is Jack Rarre, and at a
recent sitting he ate and drank six bowls
of chicken soup, two spring chickens,
two loaves of bread, six raw onions, four
quarts of beer and three pounds of fish.
General Strjelbinzky, the greatest of
Russian geographers, died recently at
the age of 76 years. His Measurements
of the Surface of the Russian Empire" is
not only the standard for all maps of
Russia, but has been model for other
works in that department of geography.
Gould p. Dietz of Omaha and the late
G. p. Huntington began regular bust
ness together in 1915, when the latter had
saved 81 800 from his earnings as ped
dler. Huntington was then man of
wonderful strength and would often lift
into wagon a barrel of salt weighing
300 pounds.
Lord Roberts never learned the art of
debating his dispatches and always has
to write them out with his own hand.
His writing is, moreover, so very bad
that it can be read only by his aid, to
whose lot it consequently falls to "trans-
late" the orders into characters more
readily decipherable.
Senator Morgan says that he is in bet
ter health now than he has been for ten
years past and Indignantly resents any
intimation that. he is getting feeble,
though he is indeed slowly losing weight,
and his voice is weak. He is now 16
years old, but his friends say he will
stay in the senate until he is S3.
Field Marshal Count Blumenthal, the
distinguished chief of the late Emperor
Frederick's general staff during the Aus
trian and French wars, celebrated his
ninetieth birthday on July 20. He and
the king of Saxony are the only officers
of the Germany army of exalted rank
still alive of those who took part in the
Franco-German war.
Mr.. Yamada, n young judge of Japan
and friend of the japanese minister at
Washington, is making his home tempo
rarily at Philadelphia. He was the first
native japanese to join the Society of
Friends in Tokyo, where a number of
Philadelphia Quakers opened a school
some years ago. While in Philadelphia
Judge Yamada will study American legal
methods in the Philadelphia courts and
the University of Pennsylvania.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12
App1ied Embroidery.

Ever since it has been wisely recog-
nized that the right position for a cottage
piano is not to be pushed back against
the wall, but to stand well out into the
room, the question of how to turn its
somewhat uncompromising eXpanse of
back to decorative account has been one
for careful consideration. Sometimes the
solution Is productive of extremely pleas
ing results. sometimes very much the re-
verse. Flimsy dust trap" draperies and
unaccountable devices in japanese fans
are, happily, for the most part obsolete
expedients nowadays, and it has come to
be pretty generally acknowledged that
the back of a piano is feature in the
decoration of a room TO be treated seri-
ously. When it serves the purpose of q
screen. breaking up the formal arrange
ment of the chairs and sofas and creating
pleasant little alcove or fireside corner,
no method is more satisfactory than to
cover it, screenwise, with an effective
panel of embroidery. The needlework
should harmonize In character with the
pretty. lowered and beribboned chintzes
which now lend their charm to many a
drawing room or boudoir.
When a piano is constantly left open,
it is a capital plan to protect the keys
by covering them with narrow strip of
silk. This gives an opportunity for
charming needlework decoration after the
manner indicated in the group of sketches.
Suppose the keyboard cover to be of
white or pale tinted satin, the branches
Of almond blossom should be in fine rib
bon work and the scroll, with its motto,
"Music, When Soft Voices Die, Vibrates
In the Memory" outlined In gold or silver
thread. There should be lining of
thinly quilted silk. pink or green. which
may be delicately perfumed with vioets,
lemon verbeaa or any other favorite
snchet powder.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12
To Cure Insomnia..

An English physician of distinction
gives these suggestions for cure of in
somnia: In cases where the patient sleeps
for an hour or two, then awakes with a
start and cannot go to sleep again the
physician recommends that hot water
compress be laid on the abdomen. Where
one cannot go to sleep on retiring and is
unable to dismiss thoughts that have oc-
cupied the day, it is advised that the pa
tient keep his feet in water as hot as he
can bear comfortably for ten minutes be-
fore going to, bed. He should then put
OH a pair of thin cotton hose wrung out
of cold water and over those a pair of
woolen ones. A more powerful remedy
is mustard sitz bath, with the proper
ton of a teacupful of mustard to gal
Ion of hot water. He should remain
seated in the bath 10 to 20 minutes. In
many cases n reclining bath in tepid wa
ter is useful as u sedative.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12
The Legation Quarter.

AS one enters Peking by the arched
eastern gate he comes at once upon
Legation street, where are all the for
eign compounds strung along "an un-
paved slum of thoroughfare" for
nearly mile. Miss Scidmore saws of
this quarter in her book on China
"The street is all gutter save where
there are fragmentary attempts at a
raised mudbank footwalk beside the
house walls for use when the cartway
between Is too deep mud slough. We
are here on sufferance, under protest,
you know say the meek and lowly
diplomats. We must not offend Chi
nese prejudices.' Moreover all the le-
cations would not subscribe to an at
tempted improvement fund nor all
unite in demanding that the Chinese
should clean, light, pave and drain Le-
CATION street That jealousy of the
great powers so ironically termed the
concert of Europe is as much to blame
for this sanitary corner of Peking as
for affairs In Crete and Armenia"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12

temperature is more cooling than one
would suppose.
After the tenth year a cooler bath is
advised: the water can be from 72 de-
grees to T5 degrees.
"The hot bath (95 degrees to 100 de-
grees) Is advised for different purposes
to cause sweating to relieve irritability
and sometimes to induce sleep or to allay
nervousness. Its action is soothing. Five
minutes is sufficient duration of time
for hot bath.
IF you desire sweating, do not dry the
body, but wrap the child in blanket and
place it in bed. To render hot bath
more stimulating, tablespoonful of mus
tard flour may be added to the water.
Do not continue hot bath too long or
you will have depressing effect.
Gold baths are not advised as a daily
routine until youth is we'll advanced
They have tonic action and give force
to the entire system, but they are not
advisable in cases of feeble health"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12
ANIMAL ODDITIES.

The so called shipworm, which bores
holes in the wood of ships, is in reality a
form of shellfish.
Ants can stand extremes of heat and
cold. Forty eight hours exposure to frost
will not kill them, and one sort has been
observed to build its nest in chinks in a
blacksmith's forge.
A horse will live 25 days without solid
food, merely drinking water. A bear win
go for six months, while a viper can eS-
ist for ten months without food. A SER
pent in confinement has been known to
refuse food for q months,
An ostrich seldom jumps over any oh
struction of some height, as well or
mound perhaps fearing for its frail bones,
the usual way of clearing the obstacle be-
ing to breast the wall or mound and then
to roll over it somehow.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12

Probably no two women in America
come so close to varied personal history
as Mrs. Regina Stucklen, chief inspector
of the women's department of the barge
office, and we'll known as the mother OF
the immigrants. and her assistant. Miss
Taylor. No church in all the metropolis
solemnizes so many marriages as the
barge office, and no matrimonial agent
on earth arranges SO many weddings as
does Mrs. Stucklen, and beneath the ma
jority of these there is saving proper
tion of romance that leaveneth the whole
heavy lump. Thus there are compensa-
tions even in the most arduous tasks and
amid surroundings that are repellent to a
refined feminine mind.
Personally, with great benignity and
with signal absence of official fussiness.
Mrs. Stucklen regards the wants of all
the women. She learns not only whence
each comes. but whittier each wishes to
go and what each purposes to do. or
the struggles with the great problems OF
existence in all countries and in all
grades of social life Mrs. Stucklen knows
enough to fill volumes. The mother of
the immigrants is woman of strong per-
sonality, calm, firm and sympathetic UNI
der most trying situations. and to the
would be bride, who has arrived stran-
ger in n foreign land to meet her promis-
ed husband, she is at once counselor,
witness and friend. As about 300 mar
rages take place annually at the barge
Office or directly under its auspices-one
/. soemnization for every working day of
the year-and as Mrs. Stucklen inquiries
into the intimate history of each matri-
monial affair, she has more than an or
linnry oDpOrtUuity 10 study this interest
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12

women was made. Mrs. Ordway was
the first woman to benefit by the change
In 1884 she accompanied her husband
to New Orleans, where he filled the posi-
tion as professor of industrial chemistry
in Tulane university.
AS women We're not permitted to share
the advantages offered by this college to
the men, Mrs. Ordway, with the assist
ance of several other women of the
town, added new department to the
university, which, while it was not exact
ly an annex to Tulane, was on the same
footing with the college, and it's head pos
sessed the power to confer degrees.
From this college this woman chemist
also received n degree. She now fills the
chair of chemistry at Tulane. and besides
being a skilled teacher she has made
several valuable discoveries which will
greatly aid future chemists
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12
Humbert's Truly Royal stou.

Our Rome correspondent writes:
THE late king kept in Rome 300
horses In two immense stables, each
horse having an average value of floo.
1t Is estimated that they cost their row
al owner 4 shillings each day> or f21.
$50 year. They make o fine show
In their splendid and beautifully kent
stables, but II must be said that that
Is about aft they We're kept for, as the
king did not ride more than seven or
eight favorites and the queen as many
more. King Humbert was devoted to
his stud and paid the stables a daily
visit. Each stall used to be inspected
and each horse petted and fed with
sugar. King Humbert was very fond
of driving about the city of Rome, and
as his servants wore dark livery In
no way distinctive 1t is said that the
only way strangers could distinguish
the king was by his magnificent
horses."-London Telegraph.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12

An American professor has been scien-
tifically studying the smile and laugh,
which he finds the same all over the
world. In every race smiling and laugh
ing express the same thing the one sig
nifying pleasure and friendliness, the
other sense of humor. One may smile
and smile and be a villain, however, but
the hearty laugh can never be assumed.
AS an indication of character to women,
therefore, the laugh is of considerable
value. Smiles are obviously not worth
much, for Professor Dearborn declares
that those which are purest are those of
infants, imbeciles and savages.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12

No lady would turn and look behind
her in the street. The girl who does
so directly courts unpleasant attentions
from men who are passing.
Unless she is hostess or n member
of the family lady need not rise when
a gentleman is introduced to her.
When visiting, conform to the rules
of the house in which you are staying.
A visitor should always bear this In
mind.
When shopping, do not order as
sistants about. A lady never forgets to
be thoughtful for those who serve her.
"a man Is known bS the company he
keeps" This applies equally to wo-
man.-Woman's Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12
THE COOKBOOK.

Dip slices of stale bread in milk, then
in beaten egg; fry in hot lard till well
Drowned, and after buttering sprinkle
with sugar and little cinnamon. Nice
for tea or breakfast.
Molds in which blancmanges are to
be put should be wet to insure their easy
turning out. On the other hand, in those
to be used for jelly no water should go,
as 1t will crack the jelly.
Jelly keeps better if hot paraffin
poured over each tumblerful after it has
"set" than if paper covered. The par
affin can be washed when removed and
kept to be melted over again next year.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12

When Theodosia was IA, she took her
place at the head of her fathers house
hold and became his inseparabe compan
ion, her playful wit Illuminating his
hours of relaxation, her steadfast cour-
age. her strength, her very presence, CON
stituting the most powerful bulwark of
defense in the darkest hours of his life.
She had much of her mothers self
poise and elegance of manner, together
with her fathers dignity and wit. When
she reached maturity, though short in
stature, like her fathers family, she
carried herself with noble dignity
which, with a certain lofty benevoence
of countenance, the refinement of her fea-
lures, the frank intelligence of her brow,
the healthful bloom of her complexion.
made her singulary beautiful. She in
spired in her father the most absolute
confidence in her. "NIany are surprised
that ! could repose in you so great a
trust as that of YOURSELF" he wrote to her
when she was II, but | knew you were
equal to it, and am not deceived"
He sent Brant, the Indian chief, to her
from Philadelphia with letter of intro
duction. She was but IA at the time and
mistress of Richmond Hill, where she en-
tertaincd him with an ease which gave
her father much qualification. She gave
a dinner in his honor, inviting to meet
him some of her fathers friends, among
them Volncy Bishop Moore. DIR. Bard
and DIR. Hosack She was already a
belle when Edward Livingston, then
mayor of New York. taking her aboard
French frigate lying in the harbor Of
the city, thus warned her: "You must
bring none of your sparks on board, The
odosia. We have n magazine here, and
we shall all be blown up.'-Lippincott's
Magazine.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12
Absolute In Her Household.

The position of the Chinese woman In
her own household is that which is or
ought to be occupied by her sisters in
every cline. She is left In absolute con-
troll of all domestic concerns and is given
far more to say in the expenditure of the
family income than is generally the case
among our lower classes. 1t is true she
owes obedience to her husband, but 1t
q st be recollected that this is equally
in our own country. The obligation is
probably as much respected in China as
it is Observation-Disclosures Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12
WAVES OF WATER.

The river Obi, in Siberia, is navigable
for more than 10000 miles.
Round the coast of England the sea Is
warmest in August aud September and
coldest in April,
Lake Morat, In Switzerland, has the
curious property of turning red every
ten years owing to the presence of GER
tain aquatic plants which are not known
In any other lake In the world.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12

"The duty of minister's wife, it
might properly be considered is to keep
herself informed concerning the work of
the mission boards of her denomination,
writes "A Minister'S Wife" in The La
dies Home Journal. 1.-THE wife of the
minister may be valuable and yet not
an oyerburdeped member Of the mission
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12

Persons of weak digestion should re-
member that whipped cream can be used
with dish where plain cream would be
too rich. Making porous froth of the
cream by the whipping process makes 1t
much easier of digestion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12
WOMAN AND HOME.
A NEW ORLEANS WOMAN WHO is A
TALENTED CHEMIST.

IIother of the Immigrants baths
For the Chi1dren-Women of the
yellow Land-Burr's Lovely Daugh--
ter-AppIied Embroidery.
A finished woman chemist, one who has
received degrees from two universities
and who is now teaching this branch in a
college in New Orleans, is Mrs. Evelyn
Walton Ordway.
She was born in a small town near
Boston, and it was from the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology that she re-
ceved her first degree. This was in
1882, just after the change in the charter
permitting degrees to be conferred upon
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12

Gilt picture frames may be frightened
by taking sufficient flower of sulphur to
give golden tinge to pint of water, and
In this boil three bruised onions. Strain
off this liquid and with it, when cold,
wash the gliding with soft br,sh.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-12

At the subscrip-
ton price of $l.5O per
year the Tribune costs
its readers less than
one cent a copy.
Think of that!
Less than one
cent a copy! And for
that you get all the
local news, truthfuIly
reported and carefully
written up.
Besides all the
local news, the Tri-
bune gives the news
of the world in a con-
densed form.
Thus the busy
workman can keep in
formed as to what is
going on in the world
without buying any
other paper.
The Tribune is
essentially a neWspa-
per for the home cir
Gle. You can read it
yourself and then turn
it over to your chill
dren without fear of
putting anything OBJ
jeCtionable into their
hands.
The Globe-republican., 1900-03-08

the animal started to find exit from
an unexpected pocket. They flew from
their owners hands as the brute
ducked his head, trying to avoid them.
Townsend sent his around the neck of
the steer, While Reese found a fore
leg Up swerved the ponies and the
steer came to the ground with a crash.
out Of breath and a trembling prisoner.
Who won hin-2
Both claimed him and We're arguing
verbally when the owners rode up and
Joined in. From words, strong and
variegated as they were, the disputants
went to other arguments more power
full When the smoke of battle cleared
away two ropes needed handlers, one
owner was bleeding to death, still
gasping out his claim to the steer
while the other was nursing a frac-
tured leg. The men of the two outfits
were about to continue the melee but
cooler counsels prevailed. and the
steer and his ownership We're taken
into court.
The warning families live in Column
bus, a small cattle village In Texas
courts are apt to become scenes of
something more than battles of intel
1ectual skill The steer was worth pos
sibly $40 Suit was brought by Town
send for the animal and fought by
Reese Here the war waged merri1y
as it had on the range Townsend got
judgment in replevin and Reese gave
bond-he had the bulI-and appealed.
Then the parties to the feud left court
and later shot up some more. Half a
dozen lives were added to the list of
the dead and the court costs were now
five times the value of the steer
The case was tried again otter the
murder trial had been held The ex-
pense to the two factions, involving
half the population OF Columbus, piled
up in geometr1cal ratio By the end
OF five years from the beginning of the
row Il or Is persons had cashed in
in a hurry and they and their relatives
had paid over in costs something like
$4,000.
The mortality became SO great that
even in Texas square open battle could
no longer be resorted to- The InevIta-
bic sequences of a 1ong-standing and
The Globe-republican., 1900-03-08
WAS COSTLY STEER.
CAUSED THE DEATH OF TWO
HUNDRED PEOPLE
Original Cause of the Tror.,ie L@ne
Since Dead. but the Struggle Is xet
E8Itter-FIght Has Lasted for Tuentv

a single Texas steer long since
1ade into beef, has been the innocent
cause of 200 people meeting violent
deaths and the expenditure in litiga-
ton OF at least $780, Gee The bitter
feud. for such the quarrel over the $40
maverick has developed into. was be-
gun 20 years ago, but seems no nearer
a settlement today than it did then
The trouble all came about over the
disputed possession OF one long-horned
swift-foOted steer which was found to
De without a brand when the roundup
OF the ToWnsends and Reeses of Colo
RADIO county, Texas, was finished In
a case like this it was the custom for
one cowboy from each party to be
chosen to attempt to rope the steer
The one whose rope first settled over
the animal was to win the prize. Ac-
cord1ngly this was done When the pis-
tol shot sent the chosen riders into vio-
lent exercise the rival cowboys cast off
all thought of anything but the big
steer This brute gave a snort of de-
hance, turned and fed swiftly, being a
good one on the hot foot The boys
were we'll mounted and it was a race
down on the steer, which let out few
waited This was his undoing for the
boys separated and surrounded him as
Wen as two hOrsemen could.
Mr. Steer saw his error when the
boys were close up, each SIDE so he
undertook to go in between. Two ropes
were swinging around two heads as
The Globe-republican., 1900-03-08

bitter feud followed Men took an
kinds of advantages of each other
Shooting from ambush was one of the
features of the long-continued war
Then, without positive evidence, the
faction which sustained the most re-
cent loss would essay to round up all
the others for trial the charge oil
murder If some We're caught by the
sheriff and taken to court the court
room was apt to become the place of
battle The prisoners, helpless and
disarmed, were shot down. while the
sheriff and his deputies tried to pre-
vent slaughter by shooting the assail-
ants
The row extended so that no trial
with any symptom of justice can ba
held in Colorado county. Now the
cases are all tried in Bastrop county,
where the last fighter, rather. am
bush-tOok place. 1t is probable that
this has seen the last trial invOIvIne
the feudists- The case that called
them to the town with the county-s
name was one wherein J. c. Townsend
was accused of having shot and killed
his uncle, ex-Sherin Reese. Then q
brother of the ex-Sheriff killed
shortly after The case was on trial.
but was not concluded, the judge con-
tinuing it to the next term