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An English professor says "women are incapable of learning the Chinese language. If he can prove it Chinese may yet become the universal tongue. The town of Kiaukary. near Angora, in Asia Minor, has been destroyed by an earthquake. It is possible that some of the cats will not be able to come back. Marconi will scarcely he discour aged because the telegraph companies have decided to regard his invention as a toy. Nearly every great invention was regarded as a toy at some stage of its history. The free lectures of New York City are attended by about 10,000 every night, workingmen and women, who throng into the fifty-five centres, after a hard day's work, for an hour of in structive entertainment. The Brook lyn free course has been as successful ns that of Manhattan, and has secured a large attendance at each of the lec ture centres within a few weeks after they were opened. The Philadelphia Record remarks that there are more men writing good English verse to-day than there ever were before. Many of them are. in fact, writing verse which a hundred and fifty years ago would have made them famous, and if they are not fa mous now it is because the standard is higher than of old, and because even literature Is subject to the law of supply aud demand. The Philadelphia Public Ledger, anent the visit of Prince Henry of Prussia, says that it was merely a visit of courtesy, as the German Govern ment knows full well that our Presi dents do not have the power to swerve ; national policy at will after the fash ion of the Czar. A representative of the German nation came to the United States on a mission of friendship, aud everybody can see that the mission was successful. Emperor William is turning the Grunewald into a vast pleasure grouud for the people of Berlin and is finding time to give personal study to plans for new roads, playgrounds, picknlckers' glades aud restaurant sites In the forest. Not he, nor any other king, has ever done a more royal net, says the New York Mail and Ex press. And the moral that lies in the sight of William of Germany making restitution across the centuries for William of Normandy is not far to seek. When kings so conduct them selves, we have a right to chorus Pippa's song: "God's in His heaven, all's right with the world." Postal clerks must possess good memories. In a group of seven States through which one railway postal clerk has to run, there are 12,317 post offices. Not only must the clerk know the correct location of all these of fices, but he must know how to reach the whole twelve thousand from one or more stations. Another clerk un derwent no fewer than seventy-eight examinations in fifteen years, learn ing 13,300 offices in fifteen different sections. In one of the examinations he was required to learn a city distri bution in Chicago which meant know ing all the streets, the location of all large buildings, and the routes of all the carriers. Senator Tillman Is the only sena tor who has recorded in his autobi ographical sketch in the Congression al directory that he was a 'farmer' before coming to the Senate. The Belgian government has fixed the period of service for the Infantry at 20 months, and 3G monthe for the cavalry and horse artillery. 444444 4444 44444444 44444444 "V 4444444 444444444 4444 444444 | | MADEMOISELLE ELISE. | | II By EDITH FRANKLIN. % J IX 4 4 4 4 (Copyright. ISC2, by Doily Story Pub. Co.) 4 4 44 4 4 44444444444444 4444 4444444444444444444444 Miss Dorothy looked at Miss Bar bara and sighed. Miss Barbara turned in the direction of the sigh and quickly asked. "Are you sick, Dorothy?" "No. dear; why?" "Nothing, only that is the third time you have sighed this morning, and it Is so unusual. I thought you must he ill," and the sightless eyes peered so searchingly- into Miss Dorothy's face that a flush suffused her withered cheeks. "Somehow I keep thinking of our childhood this morning," Miss Bar bara said, leaning back in her chair, her wrinkled hands letting fall the knitting with which she had been en gaged. "Do you remember the school we attended and the dancing class? I can see the professor now, his violin tucked under his arm, his coat-tails keeping time to his footfalls, counting monotonously, 'one. two, three!'"Miss Barbara paused to indulge in a laugh at the quaint image she had conjured up, then went on: "I never will for get the way father looked the first time the professor broached the sub ject of your dancing on the stage. You had finished some wonderful steps, and in a transport of delight the lit tle man turned to father, crying you were an artiste, that you would have n career before you on the stage. Father stared at him a moment, then said in his sternest tone, 'A Carroll on the stage—never!' "It made a picture, father with his high-bred face, looking half-seornfully i down on the excited little dancing master! But I was too frightened to appreciate it then," and she took up her needles, while in thought she was again the slender girl trembling at her father's anger. "Did he say that, the professor, 1 mean?" Miss Dorothy asked eagerly. "Why, yes, incited; he said you would grace the stage at fifty! Im agine your dancing now, Dorothy," and Miss Barbara shook with laugh ter. Miss Dorothy joined in feebly, then said: "I must leave you a moment, dear," and hurrying out she dropped down on the stairs that led to the bit of a room overhead. They were poor, these sisters, all their wealth having been lost in un wise investments. Miss Dorothy crouching on the stairs thought of all the bright, happy past, of her merry girlhood. She saw her soldier lover now, as if the years had not inter vened, as he stopped at the bend in the road to wave his gray cap in a last gay farewell. And she remem bered how they had come and told her he was one who had fallen violently fighting the maiden battle. For years he had been sleeping in a grave marked only by a single word, "Un known." Yet, sad as that time in the sunny south far across the Atlantic had been, the future that now lay be fore her had a drearier aspect. Then she had been young, and had brave, sympathetic Barbara to lean upon. Now, Barbara blind and nearly help less, turned to her for comfort and support, and she, what could she do? "I never could do anything but " and again tho thought suggested by her sister's words returned to her. Could she do it? If not that, what then? Starvation, the almshouse Brushing away her tears she re turned to the room, striving to speak as usual. "Barbara, I am going out to attend to some business; wish me 'good luck,' dear." She was trembling and as she finished her voice nearly broke. Quite unconscious of any unusual agitation in her sister's voice, &iiil thinking of the past, as those to whom the future holds no promise often do, Miss Barbara drew down her sis ter's face and kissed her gently, say ing, "You always have my best pray ers and wishes," and with these words to cheer her Miss Dorothy hurried away. The theater was ablaze with lights. They shone on the lair shoulders of beautiful women, on the sombre even "l keep thinking of our childhood, this morning," said Miss Barbara, ing suits of the men; on young and old; on rich and poor. Tho World and his wife was present, at least that is what the Duchess of Kew told her companion, and if the Duchess did not know, who did? "You know," the Duchess went on, "it is positively her last appearance. No one knows exactly why, but it is, and that is sufficient. "Why, my dear," with a patronizing little tap of her fan, "she is quite the fashion; could have been taken up by the very best people, but she refused to go into so ciety from the first, and that only made it want her more. Nowadays, it seems to me, people only work lor success on the stage that society will take them up, not through love of their art at all. No one has ever seen her off the stage, and they cannot im agine who she is. Though some do say, hut, 'sh, there she comes," and she leaned forward eagerly. Her companion, poor, old lady, who had not opened her carmine lips, although she knew quite as much oi as little as did the Duchess, followed her exam ple. The dancer came forward, a slight creature, clad in a scarlet gown, a mantilla on her dark curls, a black mask concealing her features. "She has always worn it," mur mured the Duchess, as the orchestra began a Spanish bolero. With a click of her castanets, a pointing of a tiny foot, the whirl of J -J | %rj She paused at the front of the stage with a little bow. diaphanous draperies , but why try to describe dancing such as hers? Poetry—music—a dream ! It ended and she paused at the front of the stage with a little how, the lacos at her throat rising and falling tumultuously. There was a hurst of applause, and cries of "en core!" "bravo!" For an instant Mademoiselle Elise stood with bowed head; then, as if making a sudden decision, she began to speak: "Kind friends, it was my intention to leave you as usual, to rdtlre to pri vate life and let the identity of the dancer who pleased you for a time remain a mystery. But you are al ways so kind, to-night even more than ever before, so you shall know the truth," and with a dexterous motion she removed both mask and wig, re vealing not the dashing creature one supposed her to be, but a little, old lady, with the flaring footlights shin ing on her silvered hair. With a gesture full of pathetic pleading she went on: "I have done wrong in deceiving you. I have won your displeasure! Oh, do not hiss me; anything but that! Let me steal away in silence. . . . Yet, I ain not so much to blame, we were so poor—Barbara was blind —it was all I could do!" A sob choked her incoherent little confession, while tears trickled un heeded down her cheeks. For an in stant there was a heavy, oppressive silence. Then, when Mademoiselle Elise, with bowed head and great black eyes all blinded by tears, turned to leave the stage, tho spell was broken and such a hubbub as there was! Cheer after cheer rang out; men of the world sprang to their feet, cry ing, "Elise!" "Elise!" their hearts filled with admiration for the brave little woman, their eyes blinded by something other than the lights. Many who regarded an exhibition of one's feelings in public as a heinous crime sniffed openly. Away off, back in the pit, someone cried: "God bless tho little dancer," and the theater rang again with tho words, while the orchestra, not knowing what else to do. burst into playing—"God Save the Queen." When quiet was at length restored Mademoiselle Elise had disappeared. For a time she was eagerly sought, everything possible being done to dis cover what had become of her. But at last the search was abandoned, the public's fickle fancy having been caught by a young concert-hall singer. And now only the memory of Mademoi selle Elise, who held all London in her sway, remains. In a quiet little cottage Just outside a quiet little village, live two sisters. And often when one talks of their gen tle birth and stainless honor, the other drops her faco In her hands,wonder ing if she did do wrong after all. 13ut, when in the evening they sit hand-in hand on the vine-covered porch, lis tening to the hum of crickets and the calling of the whip-poor-wills while the perfume of old-fashioned roses and mignonette is wafted to them from the garden below, Miss Dorothy thinks not of the labor nor of the fancied disgrace, but only of present happiness, and so does not regret the time she was the public's idol and— Mademoiselle Ellse, Importance or Tattoo Marks. At, a recent meeting of the Anthro pological society of Washington, evi dence was adduced that the tattoo marks on Eskimo women were made for the purpose of indicating relation ship. THE HEART'S rdtirtWAY. (low Far tho lllood Travels In Your Vein, in a Short Lifetime. "Speaking of interesting calculations <vitli reference to the functions of tho human system," said the young man with a penchant for mathematical curiosities, "did yon ever stop to think how far one's blood will run in a life time at the velocity agreed upon by tho scientists? The authorities have reached tho conclusion that the heart at each beat of contraction discharges about two ounces of blood. It is esti mated that there are about nine pints of blood in the normal frame, and spec ulatively, for scientists cannot lie cer tain about it, the conclusion has been reached that in the larger arteries the velocity of the blood is about twelve inches, or one foot in a second of time. New this will give us a basis to figure on. and since the basis is speculative the conclusion must lie after the same hind. Yet they will all be approxi mately correct. "If tho blood flows in the larger ar teries at the rate of twelve inches a second, in a minute's tine it will have flowed 720 inches, which equal to sixty feet. Iu an hour the Wood will liavo coursed a distance of 4.1,203 inches, cr about three-quarters of a mile. Iu a t'.ay, or twenty-four hemes, the blood will have run a distance cf 1,C33,503 inches. Tut hi a different way this would lie about sixteen citlcs. SBSO feet and eight inches. In a month's time, allowing thirty days for a month, tho Wood will course a total cf 11,104,000 Inches, and in twelve months, cr cue year, 371.254.000 indies. Suppose lives to be thirty-five years old. We find that a man's lilood in this period of time, on tho basis assumed, would cover a total distance of 11,073,080,003 inches. Now, bow far is ibis? Twelve inches make one foot and 1280 feet make one mile, so 18,073,080,000 inches is equal to about 20!i,33f) miles, 3413 feet and four inches. "If a man should happen to live to be 100 years old the distance covered by the' blood would ho nearly a million miles. We rarely stop to think of those things, and yet life depends largely upon the marvellous little engine which must drive the blood of one's body this enormous distance. ll' we thought more along these lines we would do less to cripple the functions of tho heart than we are wont to do. Tho fact is, that we are constantly doing tthlngs which cannot in any way aid tho heart in the performance of its functions, and in most instances we do those things which are a downright injury. But the little throhber keeps on just the same until we wear it nut, and then it. stops, and we pass."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Kemarkablo Solf-Sacrifico. "j recently witnessed a most beau tiful exemplification of devotion and self-sacrifice," said a well-known lo cal churchman. "Such a case is so rare that I must toil about it. About a year ago a hard-working laborer contracted consumption. His wife gave him every attention, but the struggle was too much for her and she died about five mouths ago. The poor man made every effort to ward off the disease, hut he soon became so weak and emaciated that lie was compelled to stop work. What to do or where to go to spend his few re maining weeks en earth was an enig ma. His money gave out, and he was about to apply to one of the hos pitals for admittance when lie one day met a friend with whom he had worked during the days when he was well and strong. lie made known his condition, both physical and financial, and asked for advice. "Como to my house," was tho instant reply. "I have only three rooms, but one of them shall be yours. You shall not want lor anything as long as I keep my health and strength." The offer was gladly accepted, and for over four months that ma:i and his wife gave the consumptive food, shelter and at tention, and when he died they went around among their friends and col lected enough money to give him a decent burial. I myself visited (he sick, man just before ho died, and he told me his friends had willingly and unselfishly divided their time, day and night, i:i administering to ids wants. That man and woman are God's own people."—Washington "tar. Tlio Cojoto as a l p oraicer. When a coyote goes off cn a foraging raid by himself, and is so lucky as to catch an unsuspecting sheep or a calf out for a moonlight stroll, ho will first suck the blood cf his victim, and then, dragging tho carcass to a shady and unfrequented retreat, will devour the choice morsels first. Before lie lias finished his meal he will gorge many pounds of the most substantial parts, until lie resembles a sack of coal on four spindling logs. A coyote has been known to eat ids weight iu meat In a day and a night. Not a particle of the coyote's feast is ever allowed to go to waste, for when he is stuffed he will snatch hold cf the remnants of the carcass by bin mouth, aud, throw ing the flesh across his back, will start for the family abode, where the vest of tlie family may eat also. Hunters tell of having found coyotes so gorged and heavy with food that their dis tended sides made it impossible l'oj them to enter their lqirrows and holes. Jack rabbits are the principal food of coyotes, and botli animals are provided with muscles of locomotion that are marvellous. There are few things in nature as swift as a coyote following a California jack rabbit across a plaih. A fleeing jack rabbit can easily make n mile a minute for one or two miles.— New York Post. A rapid-lire gun with a range of 0000 yards has been invented by an finjy Usbmun.t Household . Meters Cleaning "Wall Paper. A pnpor wall may be cleaned after the following method: Cut into eiglit pieces a large loaf of bread two days old, blow the dust off tlje wall with a pair of bellows, rub down with a piece of tlie bread in half yard strokes, beginning at the top of the room, until tho upper part is cleaned. Then go round again, repeating until all has been gone over. If grease spots appear put blotting paper over the spots and press with a hot flat iron. T.numleritig Silk Materials. In these days of wash silk ribbons and wash silk waists, it is well to know bow best to launder them. If ilie silk is undyed it may be soake 1 for a time in cold water, then squeezed ( or lightly rubbed in the water and washed in soap lather. If it is much soiled n little dissolved borax may be added to the washing water. If it is pure white the last water in which it. is rinsed may be slightly blued, but not for cream or natural colored silk. The washing lather should be merely warm, hot water having a bad effect on colored silks. In the last rinsing water add to every pint ol' water two tablcspooufuls of prepared gum, which will give a very slight firmness to the silk, and also a better finish and gloss. Wrap it in a soft cloth and press very dry, and leave it rolled up till ready for ironing; it requires 110 drying. For Ironing, lay the silk on the table right side up and very smooth: cover it with a thin clotli, and run the iron lightly over till partly dry. Then remove the cover and Iron completely. If the iron i-j brought iuto direct contact with the damp silk, it will leave a rusty stain, which can only bo removed with great trouble, and after many washings. Pongee sill: should be almost dry be fore it is ironed, as otherwise the silk will be left with a very greasy look.— New York Sun. Useful 3leat Knowledge. In f Icctiiw; a butcher try to find an hones: one. for, in spite of lectures and demonstrations galore 011 tlie buy ing of meat the housewife is bound to be more or less dependent on the knight of the cleaver. Any woman can and should know tho different cuts of meat, the food value and tlie general signs that indicate good, heal thy beef, veal, mutton and pork, but she cannot know how long the meat has hung, whether the beef be "cow," past its usefulness for dairy purposes and fattened for the market on "slop" prime steer beef from the cornfields of the west, the rich alfalfa pastures of the southwest or "rangers," roughened with leagues of travel in the effort to eke out a precarious existence. Much must be left to the honesty of the butcher, who is usually quite will ing to advise the propitiatory woman about the best and most economical cuts of meat. While the best of beef is none too good for any family, the so-called "best" or most expensive cuts are to be avoided by the woman of frugal means. Nor is this any serious depriv ation. The expensive tenderloin so highly esteemed by gourmets because of its tenderness, lias very little flavor of its own—not lialf so much as tlie i round or sirloin, and, furthermore, is \ always open to suspicion unless taken ! from the choicest steer beef. It is in- j side the animal, where the blood does ; not flow through it as freely as through j the upper part of the leg and shoulder, i —Washington Star. . . RECIPES . . Horse liadish Sauce—Have one cup of cream very cold; then whip it until stiff; add lialf a teaspoon of salt, a pinch of pepper and three tahlespoon fuis of prepared horse radish; if fresh ly grated horse radish is used add two tablespoonfuls of vinegar and one tea spoonful of sugar to the radish; keep in cool place, as it should he thick when used. Seed Cake—Beat separately for thir ty minutes (lie yolks of six eggs and the whites of three, then turn together and add six ounces of powdered sugar, seven ounces of flour and a few cara ways; stir all together lightly but thoroughly, then put iuto a greased cake pan and bake for half an hour in a hot oven. Upon removing from tho oven turn out at once and let it lie upside down until cold. Currant Jelly Whip—To the whites of three eggs, add a speck of salt and beat until foaming add three table spoonfuls of sifted powdered sugar and heat until stiff and glossy; then add, one tenspoonful at a time, two thirds of a glass of ourrant jelly, beat ing until the mass is light and well mixed; pile in a dish or in small glasses and serve; raspberry jelly may he used iu tlie same way. New England Muffins—Few forms of hot bread are more delicious than del icate muffins. The following recipe gives directions for making them quickly and can he relied upon to give satisfaction; Sift two cups of flour with one even tenspoonful of salt. Work iuto it two tablespoonfuls of soft but ter and two of granulated sugar. Add one cup of milk, one egg well beaten and one tenspoonful of baking powder. Bake In a quick oven in luuifin rings or gem pans. Bulb-growing is likely to he largely extended in Ireland. There are large tracts of fine sandy ground along tlie southern uud eastern seaboards as that at Haarlem for Iho raising of Dutch buihs. FITS permanently oured. No fltsornorrjus ness after first day's use of Dr. Kliue'.* ticoal Nerveltestorer.f atrial bottio(iudtraalisCrs# fcr. It. H. IVMNN. Ltd., WU Arolißt., Pliila., FJW The oldest royal dynasty in the world Is that of Japan, which goes back unbroken 2,600 years. Fweat and fruit acids will not dlseolof goods djvd with PUTNAM Fadeless DIES. Bold by ill druggists. The discovery In Palestine of vat liable mine-al treasures make 3 It prob* able that there will soon be an lndu trial awakening cf the Holy Land. Aslc Yonr Denier lor Allen's FooMEaso, A powder. It rests toe feet. Curos Corns, Lunlons,Sv.'blen, Her-?, Hot, Callous, Aching, tiwretiug l oot and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. At all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 oents. Ao crept no s"> tr-tituK®. .*• vuple mailed Faux. Address AKcu S. Olmsted, LeKoy, N. Y. Thirty millions of artificial teeth are used each year. I am surePlso'u Cure for Consumption saved •DMAS lion- MHS, Maple : > L .'O. 17,1900. 1 y Lionel Le kin, a London coach builder. | Poorly? (Boar: -*• irr— — H " For two years I suffered ter fj ribly from dyspepsia, with great H depretsion, and was always feeling ■ poorly. 1 then tried Ayer's Sarsa -0 parilla, r.nd in one week I was a anew man." —John McDonald, P Philadelphia, Pa. ' " Don't, forget that it's 8 lAy er' s " Sarsaparilla § tat will make you strong I nd hopeful. Don't waste 1 our time and money by ylng some other kind. Jse the old, tested, tried, nd true Ayer's Sarsapa 11a. 51.00 a bottle. All druggists. 9 Ink voar Uoft-or what ho thinks of Ayer's rsaparllla. [fe knows nil about this grand 1 V;imlly rr?d:i me. Follow 1:1b cuivloa and i will bo satisfied. J. c. AVEE Co.. Lowell, Maj. r r mi&znzr. ; 3k T r asc L. 'L :s jsmsssstm^ I Good enough | •/ ;: ' : ■■' ""fLORODORA" BANDS-ara of same value as tags from ! 'STANDARDNAVY."3OLLY TAR". J 'J. T."; SPEARHEAD," "VINCO' | and STAR 'Tobacco. Capsicum Vasslina Put up in Collapsible Tubes. A Substitute for nnd Superior to Mustard or any ether plaster, and will not blister the moot delleoto tkia. The pain allay in* and curative qualities of this article ore wonderful. It will stop the tcothsaht at once, anil relieve headache and sciatica. Wo recommend it us tho best and nafost external counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy for pains In the chest and stomach and all rheumatic* neuralgic and govty c unplaints. A trial will prove what we claim for It, and It wiU be found to be Invaluablo in tho household. Many people say "It is the best of all your preparations." Price, 15 cents, at all druggists, or otber dealer* or by sending this amount to us lu postage stumps we will send you a tube by mall. No article should be aocep.e 1 by the public tho saino carries our label, aa otherwise It is not genuine. CfILIiSEBROUGH ttARUFACTURING CO., 17 Sttte Gtiiotj NOW York City. We* ®oe* KrunUi Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold in bulk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as gcod." a NO HUMBUfiiKma 3 I sstsSttSSrxe: piSiSI V l' III' " A l ,r -"' ,Wi - tJTlgtaU WutoS. I \i ii FAEMBn EUIUUIO3, gklrflsM, | o *^ weal* cyou, uhu e fi&KipSttn'it Eya Watsr
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