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The Olneyville Tribune.
DAVID E. PARMENTER, Publisher,
OFFICE: 324 BUTLER EXCHANGE,
Providence, R. L
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1., as second-class matter, :
It is proposed to make the insur
ance of eattle obligatory in Hungary.
Says the London Speectator: We
believe the truth about vegetarianism
to be this—that it almost invariably
injures those who adopt it after being
accustomed to flesh diet, A man may
eat garden stuff all day and not get
the sustenance which he will obtain
out of a comparatively small quantity
of beans, millet or wheat., Economy
is the unquestionable “‘pull”of vegeta
rinnism, and we should say the only
one, though the practice does not di
minish strength in anything like the
proportion which flesh-eaters imagine,
They confuse strength and energy,
and forget that the mass of mankind
never can, or will, get anything but
the cerenls and other vegetables to
eat. To abandon flesh diet is not to
advance, but only to go back to the
involuntary practice of the majority
of the unecivilized,
An American citizen who immigrated
from Germany when he was fourteen
years old, has just learned, relates the
New York News, that the German gov
ernment has confiseated a legney left
to him by an uncle, and that he cannot
have his money without first rendering
military service to Germany., The
legatee lives in Wisconsing, and he at
tained citizenship through the natural
ization of his father. If he shounld
now go to Germany in quest of his
money, he would probably be arrested
and forced into the army. Cases anal
ogous to this one have oceurred be
fore, and Germany has always stoutly
maintained the right to exact military
service regardless of a foreign natur
alization, In the ease of a boy of
fomxteen, however, far below the mili
tary age, such claim is preposterous,
In an editorial article on *“Permn
nent Fair Buildings,” the Philadelphin
Press, commenting on the estimate of
the World’s Fair directors that the
salvage from the Exposition buildings
when they are destroyed at the elose of
the Fair will be $BOO,OOO, says: ““T'his
looks like a small sum besides the
millions that were spent to rewr the
white palaces that adorn Jackson
Park. Individual buildings cost more
than this, and the cost of severnl oth- |
ers ranged between $400,000 and 8600, |
000, The entire cost for construction
must have been fully $16,000,000, '
Probably no greater instance of reck
less waste was ever known even in our !
wasteful American life. Everyone
agrees that the things best worth see- :
ing at Chicago are the buildings and |
the Park. There was n fear when the
Fair was giventothat eity that it wounld
simply be an exhibition of bignessora
strained effort to outdo everything
else in the same Yine, The result has
been a surprise to the country and the
world. No such housing was ever
before furnished fora world’s fair. The
architectural skill shown in planning
andlconstructing the buildings, the taste
and judgment displayed in their ar
rangement, and the art exhibited in
laying out the Park as a setting or
frame for these noble structures, have
been a revelation to the American peo
ple and an objeet lesson whose effect
ean searcely be overestimated, But
this scene ¢f beauty must be effaced
after an existence of less than a year.
If the buildings had been more sub
stantially bailt, it might have been
possible, it seems, to preserve them
for another world’s fair or a series of
such exhibitions. Jackson Park will
not be needed as a pleasure-ground for
ten or twenty years, and instead of
marring the beautp of the landscape
the buildings add greatly to its beanty.
During that time America will cor
tainly need another world’s fair, and
there will be ten reasons for holding it
in Chicago to one for holding the pres
ent one there. If the best of the pres
ent buildings had been made perma
nent structures, the largest item of
expense would be saved and the trouble
and cost of holding & fair correspond
jagly reduced.’
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF IN
TERESTING ITEMS.
Comments and Criticiems Buted UZon
the Happenings of the Day--Misteries
and News Notea
IT isn't a good thing for an inves.
tor to go into partnership with a lot
of speculators.
It is a woman who says that men
drink so much in order that they may
be able to endure one another's so
clety. i k
Trere Is no use in Americans wor
rying about the future. Should this
country go to grass we will be able to
dispose of the hay av from %30 to %50
a ton.
THERE I 8 a great deal of gold in
circulation now. llf you find it un
handy to carry you can make excel
lent use of the yellow metal by pay
ing your debts with it.
Tuey say that oil is destined to
supersede coal for ocean steamships
Everybody will feel more comfortable
when traveling by sea to know that
there are no brother men shoveling
coal in the floating inferno down un
der the engines.
Hexry Lapovcnere, discussing
the recent published statement that
Miss Draddon had realized $500,000
from her novels—a statement which
was disputed by most of the London
writers-—declares that in his opinion
she has received a much larger sum,
and adds that the continuous sale of
her novels Is unprecedented in the
records of Diritish publishers.
Tue fact that hotels of less than
four stories in Chicago are not re
quired vo be equipped with flre es
capes Is an open confession that fire
traps aremaintained In that city with
itsconsent. This is a bad showing for
acity that wants all the world for its
guests. KEvery one of the tinder
boxes that have shot up there and
opened as hotels during the World’s
Fair season should be required to pro
vide every possible means of safety
or close their doors,
CoNaressMAN BoarNer of Louisi
ana, is the terror o 1 the ofticial sten
ographers. The rapidity of his utter
ance is compared to the noise of shot
being poured Into a tin pan. The
words chase themselves out. of him
and crowd upon one another’'s heels
and when they reach the air develop
into a swarm that rises to the ceiling
in a tangled mass. The shorthand
men, who take ordinary speakers
with ease, get their noses right down
to the paper when Boatner delivers
a few remarks.
Tur mania among wealthy young
women for eloping with coachmen
has spread to Russia. The only
daughter of Prince Xernatojeff of
Moscow, has furnished the latest in
stance of the craze. She has fled
from the parental roof with the
young man who drove the family
coach, and inorder to provide against
poverty during the honeymoom she
took 100,000 ot Papa Xernatojefl's
roubles with her. No one can ac
count for the infatuation, but it
should be seen at a glance why she
should be anxious to change her name.
Now Tnere has been invented a
new bicyecle to be propelled by steam
generated from oil or gasoline. It
will be a light affair and the rider
can enjoy the ride, the scenery, and
the breezes without the exertion now
required and without danger of the
disease which is now said to result
from this pastime. 1t is to be hoped
that the new machine will be non
explosive. It would be an unpleas
ant thing to see the streets and
boulevards be strewn with secitonal
bicyelists too much scattered to be
successfully rearranged. In the in
terest of publie safety the wheelmen
should te positively forbidden to blow
themselves up.
WneN the congregation ef the
Methodist church at Silver Mine,
Conn., assembled for worship the
other Sunday they were told by their
pastor, Rev. J. A. Smith, that they
would have to excuse any shortcom
ing in his sermon, as he was nearly
starved to death. He and his family,
he said, bad subsisted for a week on
blackverries only. The statement
caused a sensation, Lut the congrega
tion decided that as the pastor had a
salary of $3OO a year he must have
been extravagant to get into such
straits. There the matter rests, and
Mr. Smith and his family are still on
short rations unless charitable people
have come to their rescue.
A PuysICIAN has written an article
to show that dyspepsia 1s due to a
disorder of the head and not of the
stomach. He says: *“T'he number
of so-called dyspeptics that are cured
by the disappearance of business, do
mestic, or social annoyance are nearly
unlimited. An overdue note in the
possession of a beetle-nosed and bee
tle-eyed creditor is more produvctive
of dyspepsia than a meal of second
band carpet tacks. In fact, it may
be a safe thing to assume that in
dyspersia we had better look in the
garret, closet, or cellar of the dys
peptie’s house or among his business
or social relations rather than to his
stomach for the solution of the dim
culty.
ITis painful and humiliating to
record that a prizefight occurred in
the World’s Fair grounds. It was,
we are told, an adjourned affair, the
police having driven the ‘‘pugs” out
of a north side resort. Thercupon
the brutes in chief and some 200 of
their accessories adjourned to the
World’s Fair grounds, palid their fare
at the gates and boldly marched to
the Stock Pavilion, where they were
permitted to finish their brutal exhi
bition. All this, ot course, took place
under cover of darkness, but it could
never have occurred without the con
nivance of servants of the Columbian
World’s Fair, and presumably of Co
lumbian guards. Indeed, we are in
formed thata n amber of these guards
not only permitted but witnessed the
“millL.” These persons were, of
course, accessories to a crime, and
the World’s Fair directory can clear
itself of the same grave responsibility
only by searching out the uniformed
ana other offenders and handing them
over to the law.
France had no difficuity in mak
ing the toy kingdom of Siam knuckie
under, but unless all signs fail she is
going to have trouble in getting out
of the Italian complication with any
degree of grace or honor. The de.
termined attack upon the French
embasy at Rome shows that the Ital
lan people are thoroughly wrought
up over the affair at Algues-Mortes,
and the Government will have to act
quickly and vigorously in order to
retain popular confldence. Probably
if France bhad only Italy to reckon
with the Siamese incident might be
duplicated, for Italy is no match for
France except at sea. But back of
Humbert looms up the form of Ger
many's war lord, cager to seize any
pretext, for hostilities against the
French, and back of him still is
Francis Joseph, bound by the triple
allianee to support both Germany and
Italy. Still further to the east, Rus
sla awaits an opportunity to make
her way into India, and England
watches all the parties with equal
distrust. If France shall not quickly
apologize and pay an endemnity
it is likely that the whole crowd will
soon be at one another's throats.
They are all anxious to fight and the
conflict betweer the workmen at
Aigues-Mortes affords a better pre
text than has been furnished for
many years.
Rerorrs from White Cap centers
indicate that the White Cap industry
is becoming more and more unfash
ionable. The Conrad brothers dealt
it a severe blow, and now a jury at
the town of Jasper has caused con
sternation by finding a White Cap
guilty of murderous assault and fix
ing his punishment at two years' im
prisonment in the penitentiary. The
person who has incured this penalty
is one Thomas IHightield, who, with
a number of other pious citizens,
whipped and otherwise abused a man
and his wife who had in some way
offended the moral sense of the com
munity. Others of the gang are to
be tried, and they, too, will probably
recelved satisfactory sentences. This
way of dealing with White Caps will
exercise a more deterrent effect than
the Conrad method. To kill a “‘night
rider” of course puts an end to his
marauding, but it has little influence
upon his remaining companions. but
to send one to the penitentiary,
where he will have to work, where
he is debarred from moonlight ex
cursions and unlimited whisky is a
serious affair, and will strike terror
to other self-constituted ministers of
justice. They will rather forego the
pleasure of whipping and tarring and
feathering detenseless women than
take their chances of a term of im
prisonment. It is to be hoped that
the Jasper jury will filnd imitators
and that the hoosier commonwealth
may soon be rid of the cowardly thugs
who have made it a byword and a re
proach for several years past.
Case of the Ruling Passion,
Human nature is a quecr thing. A
man died in New Jersey not far from
here recently who was worth $lOO,OOO
and had no near relatives About an
hour before he died he asked for a
workman who ocoupied a little house
on the place. The physiclan and
nurse surmised that now the dying
Dives was about to give that little
home to the workman who had been
faithful so many vears ‘‘Lazarus”
said the dying man Dives (that was
not the workman's name, however,)
‘‘'vyouonly paid me #4 on the last
rent, and in casc} die 1 want to have
things straight, you know, so I'd like
you to pay the other £2.” The money
was paid, and a few minutes after
clutching iv Dives breathes his last
apparently happy. Philadelphia
T imes.
Toere is a frightful lot of nonsense
about the best people you know.
HISTORY OF SUGAR.
A Child ot
' The history of sugar and sugar
making is almost the history of civ
flization. 1t progress from one local
ity to another is to a certain extent,
identical with the progress of ad
vanced nations. Born and bred in
the far East this industry was des.
tined to reach its greatest growth in
the more enlightened West, and the
events in its history are therefore to
be studied with interest by the peo
ple of the Occident. From an hum
ble start the industry of sugar-mak
ing has grown to be one of the most
important. There are something like
30 different kinds of sugar, but only
one of these, cane sugar, Is used
to any great extent as an article of
food, although glucose, another vari.
ety, I 8 sometimes employed in the
arts. 'Lhere are several sources from
which cane sugar may be obtained—
the sugar cane, the beet, the date
palm, sorghum and the sugar maple.
Of the total production of cane sugar
about 60 per cent. is fromn sugar cane,
35 per cent. from the beet and one
half of one per cent. from ihe maple.
Bengal is supposed to be the home
of the sugar cane, but there is a
species, which by some botanists 18
cousidered as distincet from the Ben
gal plant, while by others it is sup
posed to be only a variety of the same
species, which owes its nativity to
China. There is a possibility, if these
varieties are really the same plant,
that they came from a common start
in years long past. At anyrate sugar
cane was cultivated and used for
sweetening before the beginning of
the Christian era in both Bengal and
China. In these early daysof its use
the product was known as ‘‘honey of
canes,” and sugar as we know it was
not mentioned until about 15800 years
ago. About 100 A. D., it was spoken
of by a Greek writer and described
as a salt-like, sweet, granulated sub
stance which came from India. This
shows that the art of making sugar
much like our own, was known at
that time and probably had been
known In India long before. Its
Greek name, saccharum, which was
derived from the BSanscrit, meant
gravel. 'The sugar cane, saccharum
of botanists, therefore gets its name
from the granular nature of the
product which we call sugar.
The art of boillngsugar was known
at an early date in Gangetic India
and from this country it was intro
duced into China in the flrst part of
the seventh century. Buat it is prob
ably to Egypt that we owe the retln
ing of sugar. KEven to the present
day coarse sugar, or thatlittle refined,
is known in India as Chinese sugar
and that of a flner quality as Cairene
or Egyptian. About the time of the
Arabian conguest of Persia sugar was
manufactured in the latter country
on a large scale and was ‘*‘prepared
with art,” as early writings say.
Irom Persia Its manufacture spread
to the west. The Persian word
“Shakar,” which was applied to the
product. of the cane, probably ac
counts for our word sugar.
it is interesting to note that the
first uses of sugar were in medicine
and further that the first advances in
the art of its retining were made by
the famous physicians of Arabia
The progress of sugar-making was
slow but steady, its dissemination
after the beginning of the 15vh cent
ury being largely carried on by the
Spaniards. Their first venture in
sugar growing was made In Maderia
in 1420. In 1494 it was carried to
San Domingo, and early in the 16th
century it spread over the occupied
portions ¢f the West Indiesand South
America. Sugarcane growing played
a prominent part in the early history
of this partof the world. For the
first twenty years of the I6th
century the sugar industry in San
Domingo advanced with great strides,
and it was with the revenues received
from this source that Charles V' ob.
tained funds for his palace building
at Madrid and Toledo.
In 1319 100,000 pounds of sugar
were shipped from Venice, then the
center of the sugar trade, to London,
by one Tomasso Loredano, to be ex
changed for wool. This seems to be
about the first sugar to be brought to
Great Britain. At that time it cost
Is. 9id. (43 cents) per pound, and was
used only in medicine, until the in
creased use of tea and coilee in the
ISth century brought it into
the list of principal food staples. In
1700 the amount of sugar used in
Great Britain was 10,000 tons, while
now over 1,000,000 tonsare used there
annually. Loaf sugar was invented
by a Venetian in the latter part of
the 15th century, and tor it he re
ceived a reward of 100,000 crowns.
Sugar identical with that obtaiuned
from the cane was, in the 19th cent.
ury, found to exist in the beet and
numerous other fleshy roots which
grow in temperate regions.
The first beet-sugar factory was
established in 1801 in Bresau, Ger
many. The progress of beet-sugar
making in the following years was
not especially rapid and in Germany
it ceased altogether with the down.
fall of Napoleon I 1: but in France
more scientific and economical meth
ods of working were introdaced and
after 1840 the industry advanced with
great strides Then the Germans
again took it upand it is now a na
tional industry both in France and
Germany. At first the cane-sugar
producers of this county made great
profits and were content to send their
products to Europe to be refined, but
as beet-sugar began to be an import
ant rival, profits were greatly reduced
and Southern sugar-makers found it
necessary to improve their appliances
and refine their own sugar. Thus
commenced a new era in the industry
ir this country.
The Oad Shoe.
In reply to the question, ‘“What
hecomes of the one-legged man's odd
shoe®” an Ohio firm says: ‘‘Some of
Born in the East.
| A planist who was pre-eminently
successful in his day, and that was
. not far back either, was Rubinstein,
who traveled nearly the whole world
‘over, delighting people with his
;genlus. He, like all others, was very
,much annoyed by requests for com
plimentary tickets, but most of the
‘time he maintained his composure
‘even though justly irritated. It is
told of him that just before one of
his recitals in London he was accosted
by an old lady in the entrance hall,
'and thus addressed;
*Oh, Mr. Rubinsteln, I am soglad
to se2 you! I have tried in vain to
purchase a ticket. Have you a seat
you could let me have?”
. ‘“‘Madam,” said the great pianist,
*there is but one seat at my disposal,
“and that you are welcome to, if you
think fit to take it.”
A very important point has been
raised by Dr. Armstrong, an English
medical ofticer. 1n discussing the
best means of raising the average
health rate, he lays great emphasis
on the part played by tramps in the
spread of infection. He sums up the
results of queries sent to him by
medical officers of health of 116 extra
metropolitan urban districts with re
gard to the late rapid spread of small
pox throughout Enpgland, and con
cludes that the mischief and danger
arising from the want of control over
the vagrant class are great, and de
mand, in the interests of the commu
nity, serious legislation. The an
swers to the queries addressed by Dr.
Armstrong show that of the sixty
three districts invaded by small-pox,
in no less than thirty-seven, or 59
per cent., the disease is known to
have been introduced by vagrants,
and in nine of the otherdistricts sub
sequent, outbreaks of the infection
were traced to the same source. A
large majority of the medical officers
of health consider: (I)That vagrants
should be restrained in their powers
of carrying infection about the coun
try, especially in expidemic times.
(2) That they should be made to re
port their movements. (3)That they
should, when requisite, be subjected
to detention, revaccination, and dis
infection.
Wild camels have lately been re
ported in Arizona, and there has been
some speculation as to their origin.
Tney were imported nearly forty
years ago, when Jefferson Davis was
Secretary of War under the Pierce
administration. It was thought they
would be valuable for use in the
commonly supposed to be something
“like the desert of Arabia and of Sa
hara in Africa. They were found
serviceable, but, the war coming on,
they were lost sight of, became wild,
and have considerably increased in
numbers. 1t is said that the camel
endures extreme cold better than ex
treme heat, Its only advantage for
hot, desert countries being that it
can drink at once enough water to
last two or three days. 'The camel is
said vo be a more effective worker
in many places than the horse or
mule. Its feet will not stand hard
roads, and it can, therefore, never be
used for farming purposes except in
wild, uncultivated districts.
Fortunately, it fell short, and no
particular harm was done, but it
seemed a fit opportunity for the in
culcatign ot a lesson. When the
rest of the family arose he was de
tained, and his mother essayed to im
press upon him the enormity of his
offense.
“My good woman, have you seen a
- young man on a bicycle around here?”
. “'Na, na.” said the woman, “but I
'saw a young man up the road a spell
- who was sittin’on the yearth mendin’
; umbrellas.”—Louisville Courier-Jour
nal
our economical one-legged customers
buy a pair of shoes, and, if they have
only the right foot, use the rightshoe
for a dress shoe. Then, wetting
thoroughly the left shoe, they drive
in a right last, letting the shoe dry
on the last. This makes a fairly
comfortable shoe, and they use it for
everyday wear."§
A Wittty Answer,
Those whose mission in life s to
entertain the public are always pes
tered by friends and acquaintances
for free seats at theirentertainments.
There probably never was a singer or
an actor or a pianist who was not
bored nearly to death by these peo
ple, many of whom had not the
slightest claim to ask the coyrtesy
they demanded.
“‘Oh, yes; a thousand thanks!
Where is it?” was the excited reply.
**At the piano,” smilingly repeated
Rubinpstein.—liarper’s Young People.
Tramps and Infection.
Wild Camels in Arizona.
“Great American Desert,” which was
Georgie's Promise,
Georgie was a small boy, as well
behaved as small boys commonly are,
but impulsive He had been allowed
to sit in his high chair at the family
table, and one day, having satistied
his hunger, he suddenly threw his
knife with all his strength across the
table at his father.
For a while the effort seemed hope
less, but at length there were signs
of appreciation, and with a quivering
lip, he cried out: ‘‘Georgie'll never
throw Kknife at papa again; throw
fork!"—New York Times,
Did Not Recognize the Wheel,
Several days ago tawo young men,
who measure calico during the day,
each hired a bicycle and hied himself
for a spin up the country. It wason
the Sabbath, and about ten miles
from the city the cyclists decided to
have a race. One greatly distanced
the other, and in turning a bad cor.
nerof a lane collapsed over a heap of
stones, The wheel was demolished
and the rider was irretrievably mixed
among the spokes. An aged women
who happened to be passing was met
at the turn in the road by clerk
No 2
IN PUSSIAN PRISONS.
Baron Trenck's Indomitable Wil Galned
for Himm His Freedowm.
One of the most remarkable cases
of escape from prison was that of
Baron Treock, who, for a political
offence and out of personal enmity,
was imprisoned by King Frederick
the Great in the fortress of Glatz
The baron was hardly twenty years
old when his imprisonment begah.
The first time that he escaped he cut
the bars of his cell with a knife of
which he had made a toothed saw,
and let himself down from a window
by a rope made of strips of leather
from his traveling bag and pieces of a
sheet. He fell into a bog that sur
rounied the citadel. When he had
sunk in the mud up to hislips he had
to call the sentinel, and was taken
back to a cell.
Eight days later heseized the sword
of the prison inspector, fought his
way to a rampart, and jumped to the
ground without injury: but in his
flight he was caught by the footin a
palisade long enough to he recaptured.
He was dragged back to prison
pierced with bayonets and half dead,
but had hardly recovered from this
adventure before he made another
attempt,
He and a companion eluded their
Jailers and jumpgd from a rampart
His companion broke his ankle. 1n
Trenck’s delicate-looking flgure were
the muscles of an athlete. He took
the disavled man on his shoulders,
and ran with him for a quarter of an
hour. He crossed a stream and wan
dered about a mountain in the snow
all night. Ile thought he was far
from Glatz, and his heart sank when
he heard the Glatz clock strike 4.
However, he was not discouraged.
He seized two horses from a peasant,
and with his companion rode away at
a gallop until they reached Bohemia
and safety.
Eight years afterward Trenck was
imprudent enough to go to Danzig on
business. He fell into the King's
hands and was taken to Magdebourg
prison. This imprisonment was more
terrible than any of the others. Ilis
cell was a mere niche in the wall. It
was almost pitch dark. He wasgiven
just enough bread and water to keegp
him alive.
The horrors of this captivity de.
veloped his ingenuity and persever
ance almost incredibly. He broke
one of the bars of his cell, and made
of it an instrument with which he
cut a hole in the wall. He succeeded
in concealing the hole from the
jallers. The debris made by the
work he crumbled to dust teneath
his feet, or made Into balls which he
blew out of the loop-hole through a
paper blowpipe. it was a work ofin
finite care and patience.
At the end of six months the hole
in the wall was large enough for him
to escape through it. Then it was
discovered. The night on which
Trenck expectea to escape he was
transferred to another ceil. This
cell had been planned for him by the
King himself.
It was a horrible dungeon, only to
be reached through four heavy doors.
Trenck was bound hand and foot.
The King bad had agrave dug in the
cell, and on the stone was Trenck's
rame and a death’s head.
Now |the very lidea of escape
seemed insane, but Trenck’s courage
was not exhausted. He had been
able to hide a knife from the jailers.
With this he picked the locks of three
of the dungeon doors. In picking
the fourth his knife broke. That
was too much. With the broken
knife he opened veins in his arms
and legs, and lay down to bleed to
death.
After a little while he roused from
the lethargy into which he had sunk,
and in a fit of flerce avger demolished
the masonry of his cell, and made a
barricade of . it. He determined to
die behind this like a soldier. When
the jailers came he fought like one
demented, and they offered him terms.
Trenck surrendered his barricade as
if it had been a citadel.
Then followed another horrible
period of imprisonment. Later a new
warden was appointed, and Trenck
was treated less cruelly. Now he
secretly constructed a subterranean
gallery thirty-seven feet long. A
strange idea came to him. He de
termined to test Frederick's gener
osity.
He proposed to the warden that on
a certain day at a certain hour he
and all the prison officials should
come to his cell. He promised that
they should find the cell empty, and
that he woula appear among them
irom the outside of the prison. They
laughed at him.
Then before his astounded jailers
Trenck threw off his chains as if
they had been a garment, showed
them his tools, lifted the pavement
of the floor, showed them his subter
ranean passage, as neatly built as if
it had heen the work of an engineer.
This time admiration accomplished
what pity had never been able to do.
Frederick pardoned him, and atter
nearly twenty vears of cruel imprison
ment Trenck was a free man. In
1794, for some political offence, he
was executed in France.
How to Preserve Kid Gloves,
If you persist in wearing kid
gloves during hot weather do not,
every time you take them off, make
yourself look likea caricature cherub
or cupid by blowing into them. The
air thus admitted does, to be sure,
dry them and they are not a hope
lessly shrunken mass of kid when you
next attempt to wear them. Bub
there is a less objectionable way to
obtain the same result. Pull thewm
ol by the wrists, turning them in.
side gut. Let them air a few min
utes, then turn them and put them
away —not folded in a wad, but
stretched at tull length in a long
glove box. —Washington Star.
Tae dogs bark at some peoply
earlier than at others.