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I THE FAMOUS RED LION TAVERN WHERZ DANIEL BOONE WKS BORN NEAR THE TSVERU 'KEJD ZION' TA'VERJST BUILT USTI7SO MORDECAJ LINCOLNS HOME NEAR THE OLD RED LION TAVERN Well preserved and still a licensed ! place, the old Red Lion Tavern, where Washington and his officers used to stop to drink “rum shrub,” stands some twenty miles from Valley Forge, on the main highway leading up the Schuylkill valley. And though most houses where Washington found shel ter are long since dust and ashes and the few which have escaped that fate are apt to be famous, very little has been printed about this Red Lion Tav ern. Yet it has other claims to fame, for the birthplace of Daniel Boone is not far away, the great-great-grand father of Abraham Lincoln had his home hard by, and the same region boasted the homestead of the Hanks family from which Nancy was de scended. Before the Declaration of Independ ence the tavern bore the name and sign of King George. When his ma jesty's face grew less popular in the country the host of the George took down the old sign and put up a new, the Red Lion, for while he was not willing to be known as a Tory, he does not seem to have been an eager patriot, either. The Red Lion seem ed safe whichever side prevailed, and the Red Lion tavern has been all these years. It was not long ago that Abraham Lincoln of Churchtown, Lancaster county. Pa., visited the Red Lion Tavern. This Abraham was tall and lean and iough hewn as to the face like the greater Abraham whose kins man he was. He hitched his horse near the signpost and sat on the tav ern porch. . “I remember,” said Mr. Lincoln, “hearing my father tell of this place; how the ’Boones and Lincolns and Hankses of past generations used to sit where I sit now, and how Gen. Washington and Lafayette, Stirling, Greene, Wayne, Muhlenberg. Conway, Mifflin. Gates, Lee, and I don’t know who besides stopped here. It was a favorite watering place for man and beast. All the special expresses hur rying from Washington's camp to the Continental Congress, sitting then at York, baited horses here, and here halted the wagons with cannon and cannon ball from French Creek, and with flour from Reading for the army at Valley Forge. Gen. Wayne, out foraging, met at the Red Lion with Gen. Conway on his way from Read ing to Camp at White Marsh, just after his famous letter was written to Gates. Lafayette stopped here on his j way from Valley Forge to York, when i - - - --- | MADE MUSIC CENTURIES AGO. Odd Instruments That Furnished Mel- | ody for Savages. Many curious old musical instru- ! ments are in the New York museum. A drum organ from Siam suggests a number of little pails ranged inside a picket fence. Next is a kettle drum from Egypt and tall snare drums from the South Sea islands. A musical kite from China would interest any boy r^aiiocnj HI I fl»»P f.on jpu.Tinall this time of the year. It is called “Fung Kam." Among the lutes are several hand some ones, some inlaid with mother of-pearl, some with ivory, with light and dark frames, and a very beautiful one. with a carved head. Some Span ish guitars ere there, too, and a min trel harp from France is full of sug gestions of the time when the min strel sang his Norman-French ballads 1 In castle or court. FAMILY LINEN AS COLLATERAL. Many Laundresses Said to Pawn Cus tomers’ Clothes Systematically. A New York pawnbroker recently told me of a scheme resorted to by many washerwomen which may be of interest to those housewives who have noticed that their finer garments and household linens are slow in get ting home from the wash. He says that these washerwomen make a regu lar practice of raising money on their patrons’ better class of linen. “For instance,” said he, indicating a large package neatly done up, “that contains some very fine garments and a lot of household linen. The whole is worth perhaps $40. At any rate, I I lent $20 on it. You see, the washer woman takes the things home with her, washes them at once, and instead of returning them to their owner, brings them here and gets money, which she can use for at least a week, and sometimes much longer. By the time she has to take these out fcr de livery she has another lot which she can bring here in. its place. Thus she keeps the money indefinitely. A washerwoman with a large number of such patrons can keep $200 or $300 in the air all the time and still gel the goods back in time to satisfy those people who have sufficiently large reserve stock on hand.”—Brook lyn Eagle. Fish and Dog Story from Kentucky. John T. Parish of the Holland coun try says he has a dog that can catch ifiore fish and better fish than any man. He says that when oe arises in the morning, if he feels like he would relish a fish for breakfast, he makes his wants known to his dog; and in a very short time a nice fish is in the frying pan. Mr. Parish lives near the river, and he says he has erected a little plat form on the edge of the water for his dog’s use and benefit. -He says the dog will perch himself on this plat form and watch for his game. When a nice fish that he likes the looks of conies near enough, he dives from his perch and never fails to make a catch. During shoaling time he frequently catches two fish at a time.—Allen County fKy.) Times. --■ in January. 1778. he was summoned to tak? charge of the Canadian irrup tion, and Gee. Charles Lee rested at the Red Lion just before the battle of Monmouth in the same year. In those days the Boones were plain, every day Quakers, and Kentucky and Dan iel Boone had not made each other famous; the Lincolns were well-to-do farmers, owning many acres in Exe ter township, Berks county, here about. I've heard, too, that Lydia Darrah, after she had warned Gen. Washington of the intended attack of th£ British out of Philadelphia, stop ped at the Red Lion over night on her way up to Reading." As to the rum shrub already men tioned. the Revolutionary host of the Red Lion was a famous mixer of this drink. Mr. Lincoln did not know how it was made exactly; he did know it was a favorite tipple among the Conti nental officers. However, he said that shrub was a kind of syrup made chiefly in the West Indies, made with lime or lemon juice and Jamaica rum in quantities greater or less. A “Co penhagen" was another favorite' drink of the time and place, again a mystery but most probably a mixture of gin and sugar, with perhaps other things. At all events, the old barroom of the Red Lion has seen many great men drinking these two old-fashioned drinks. From the ts.vern Mr. Lincoln, who has since died, pointed out over some red hills the farm of 250 acres owned by the father of Daniel Boone. Daniel himself having seen the light, he said, about a mile north of the old inn, in 1733; the Lincoln of that day was called Mordecai, the president's great grandfather; the contemporary Hanks bore the name of John, and was the grandfather of the president’s mother. Lincolns and Boones, by the way, still live about and trade in the country store in one end of the tavern build ing. Loses Russian Trade. British manufacturers appear to be steadily losing ground as regards ag ricultural machinery in Russia, says the Mechanical Review of London, while America and Germany are con tinually increasing their output to that district. Hughes’ Latest Joke. Bryan Hughes, the practical joker, and a friend were walking down Broadway one day when Hughes said, “I’ll bet a dollar that I can go up be hind that actor and shake him with out his resenting it.” “You know him,” said his friend. “Never saw him before in my life,” said Hughes. The bet was arranged. Hughes ad vanced from behind, caught the man by the shoulders and shook him vio lently. The actor turned indignantly .“I beg your pardon,” said Hughes; “I thought you were my friend Mans field.” The compliment was too telling. “My dear sir,” said the actor, “you are much too kind.”—New York Her aid. Way to Fight Alcoholism. Dr. Jacques Bertiiiion. the famous chief of the statistical bureau ob Paris, has written a volume entitled “Alcoholism and the Way to Fighi It.” Drink, he declares, is likely tc prove the ruin of the French race unless something is done to overcome the habit. WORKING EY THE DAY. Scotch Farmer of Experience Recog nized the Symptoms. John D. Rockefeller Jr., was talking to his Sunday school class about in dustry7. "Our industry." he said, with a faint smile, "should not be of such a nature that thef remark once applied to a cer tain Scot could ever be applied to us. "I’ll tell you what the remark I allude to was. "Two old farmers were walking down & road near Dunfermline when * one cf them pointed to a distant field and said, shading his eyes from the sun: " ‘That figure oyer there—I wonder if it’s a scarecrow.’ "He stopped ana regarded the fig ure very attentively for a space. Then he concluded, in a satisfied tone: "‘Yes, it's not moving. It must be a scarecrow.’ “But the other farmer had sharper eyes and a better understanding, may be, of certain types of human nature. "‘No,’ he said, dryly; ‘no, it’s not a scarecrow. It’s a man working by the day.’ UTILIZING THE SUN'S RAYS. Cheap Fuel Used by Residents of Southern California. The residents of Southern Califor nia have gone into partnership with the sun. There the sun is more plen tiful than coal, and so they put the former to work, utilizing the *heat rays for many purposes, one of which is known as the “solar water heater.” By the plan they have adopted they •make the sun heat the water in the kitchens and bathrooms in the houses and for other domestic purposes. In California and other states where the sun may be depended on the item of fuel is entirely eliminated, and how ever cheap fuel may be, no fuel is cheaper than the sun. The domestic arrangement for keep ing water hot at all hours of the day or night is effected by inserting in the roof a solar heater, consisting of a number of mirrors reflecting the sun's raVs, so that the heat is concentrated upon the water in metallic troughs, which absorb the heat rays and soon bring the water to a nearly boiling temperature. An Indian Anecdote. Your correspondent who asks which of the two he should save, if he could only save one. if his mother and wife were drowning, of course opens a question no man would be able to answer; but 1 remem her reading an anecdote when I was a boy which is conclusive from one side of the ques tion, and I give it for the benefit of “all v.hom it may concern.’’ An Indian chief was crossing a wide and rapid stream in a canoe with his mother, who was very old. and his wife, who was young and very beauti ful. The canoe upset and the chief swam out with his mother, though the old squaw begged him to save his wife and leave her to drown, as she had not many moons to live, anyway. When Le reached the shore some of the tribe who had witnessed the event questioned the soundness of his judg ; ment. for the same reason given by the old squaw; but the chief put an end to the discussion with this re mark: “Ugh! get heap mo»*e squaw! Nev er get another mother!’’—J. D. An derson. in Notes and Queries. Value of Eggs as Food. The more thoroughly an egg has ’ been cooked the more severe is the labor demanded of the stomach. II we would get from this article of food its utmost value it should be eaten either raw or underdone. Hard-boiled eggs are suggestive of picnics and dyspepsia. Raw eggs is a splendid stimulant w hen one is exhausted from any cause whatever. It is by nc means unpalatable when eaten with salt, pepper and a dash of vinegar. For wreakly children raw eggs beaten with milk make a first class food. The mix ture may be sweetened with sugar and it is best to give it in small quan tities at short intervals. The flavor is improved by adding port wine. One tablespoonful of wine will suffice for one pint of the mixture. The formula would run: Two raw' eggs, one table spoonful of wine and sufficient milk : to make one pint. I ___ And One Had Love. One man had riches for his gift and knew The emptiness thereof: Another, where Fame's topmost summits lift All pigmy peaks above. Felt the keen pangs of loftv loneliness; And one had love! Down in the lowly valley-paths of life I His years were spent. | Where, far removed from moiling din and strife. Brook-song and bird-song blent Babbled of quiet things, of restful peace, And deep content. ! Yet there was something in his cup of days Ineffably more sweet Than e'er he knew who in the giddy maze Of fortune set his feet Or quaffed Fame's goblet. wreathed with rue and bays. And found it incomplete! —mlton R. Greer in National Magazine Neatly Answered, "Exactly how old are you. anyway?” asked a friend of Lillian Russell. “I have a friend,” replied the act ress. with apparent irrelevance, “who was born in mid-ocean on an ocean steamer. After she and her mother had landed, the steamer, on its return trip, blew up. So practically she has no birthplace. My age Is like that.” she added, after a pause.—New York Times. ". . ■ ■ . i 1 Beggars in Spain. There are 190,227 professional beg gars in Spain, of whom 5T.948 are women. In some of the cities beggars are licensed to carry on their trade. Seeking alms is recognizedd as a legitimate business, and the munici pality demands a percentage upon the collections. Seville is the only city in the kingdom which "forbids beg ging in the streets. Plan to Honor Great Preacher. Several projects are on foot in England for honoring the memory ol the late Charles H. Spurgeon, the great Baptist preacher. One of the most interesting is the plan for buy mg the large and beautiful estate ci Westwood and converting it into a home of rest for ministers and mis slonaries. THE ALL-RAIL ROUTE** ^TO SOUTH AMERICA Pians of Different Countries Looking to the Con struction of an Intercon tinental Railways Charles M. Pepper, whom the presi dent appointed a commissioner to carry out the resolution with respect to the Pan-American railway adopted by the second international conference of American states, held at the City of Mexiro, in the winter of 1901-2, has submitted a report to Secretary Hay, in which every phase of the great project of constructing a continuous line of railroad that will join New York with the countries of Central and South America is intelligently present ed. In making his investigation Mr. Pepper visited Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Cos- I to Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Brazil, Pe- : ru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentine and Uru guay, and traveled as far as practi- t Most of the countries of Central America have made the building of interoceanic or transverse lines the cardinal principle of their policy. This plan supplements the intercontinental project, because north and couth lines form the backbone of the interoceanic system, and the greater progress that is made in constructing railways from the Atlantic ports to those of the Pa cific the greater will be the encourage ment to north and south roads, for which they will rerve as feeders. The isthmian canal promises to be a strong incentive to the development of both longitudinal and transverse lines. The probability that the Pan- i ama railroad, in meeting the demands for supplying material and other con cable over the route surveyed by the Intercontinental railway commission of 1900. In discussing the project with the representatives of the several countries visited, Mr. Pepper present ed it on the ground of national and itnernational policy, and the advan tage to them of stimulating within their borders tbe construction of the links in the main Pan-American trunk line and branches which would form part of the proposed intercontinental system, and which would aid both in their internal development and in their external commerce. Since the City of Mexico conference a number of favorable circumstances have combined to give substantial sup port to the intercontinental ranv. ay project, and show that genuine prog ress is being made. Mr. Pepper ex plains that among these events are: First—Actual construction work on railroads in Mexico south to the bor der of Guatemala and from the termi nus of the present system oi railroads in the Argentine republic north to the frontier of Bolivia and beyond, thus closing the sections which were open when the survey of the Intercontinen tal Railway Commission was made from the northern limit of Guatemala to the southern boundary of Bolivia. Second—The marked advance among the various countries in determining disputed boundaries and settling other questions at issue, by this means eliminating causes of friction which retarded railway communication among them. Third—The passage of the law' by the congress of Cnile providing for tne construction of the Transandean line, which will give the Atlantic and Pacific coasts through rail communi cation. Fourth—The legislation proposed by several of the republics, and in some cases, as in Peru, already adopt ed, with the view of establishing guarantee funds and other elements of permanent railway policy. Fifth—The definite conclusion of the question of the isthmian canal and the measures which insure the early construction of the intercontinental construction of the international wa terway. struction work on the waterway, will be unable fully tc provide for the in ternational traffic which now follows that route indicates the utility of other lines between the two oceans, while Ihe food and similar supplies that will be required show the necessity of in creasing the present limited means of transportation from the interior of the region adjoining the isthmus. The general idea of an interconti nental railway receives weight among business men and practical railroad ers through the support of men who are themselves practical. The identi fication of ex-Senator Henry G. Davis of West Virginia and of Andrew Car negie with the subject has secured for it a good deal of serious attention. They have been warm supporters of the project from the time of the first Pan-American conference, of which both were members.—Philadelphia Ledger. Miss Tabby Tattle Reads i "So Lidy ThVtraas wants a girl f’r house work! Well. 1 do declare That woman never keeps one more’n two weeks! Somethin' wrong up therwl I heerd her las’ giri teilin' how she didn't git enough to eat. But that was only servants' talk—sech gossip as 1 won't repeat! An' Lucy Brovrn is gone to teachin’ music down at Bridgor's Dell An’ quit the church as organist! Well, I allow it’s just as well From what I’ve heard about her bein’ mighty sweet on Pardon Brooks, An' him a married man! I say there-'s danger in too much good looks! "Joe Gudger's marrfed! Well. I vow if seeh rapseallieus folks, as him Can find a partner f’r their joys my chances ain't so mighty slim! Close! Why his first wife's sister says she'll swear it with her dyin' breath Joe Gudger was so stingy that his rlrst wife simply starved to death! Another party op at Blake's! My, how some folks can put on airs An' snub their betters puzzles me! Why, Toby Toser’s clerk declares They owe f’r iuree months’ groceries— they never pay and never will. An’ Toby's wore a pair o’ shoes out goln’ up to git th’ bill! "Jane Hitchcock an’ that gawky Burns hev gone an' married! Well, 1 do Declare it’s time he pooped to her if ever he intended to! He’s been her stldtiy beau eight years an' but f'r Jim Burns I allow She might ’a’ been a happy wife an' had a family by now! An' Kzry Cowles’s got th' grip! Well, if it cost a cent t’ git Y’ can mark down that Kzrv Cowks'd be a long time gittin’ it! There's only one thing that would tempt that nian t' quit this life o’ sin. An’ that would be a cut-rate sale on coffins, with a hearse throwed In! “Lem Wilson’s adding to his house! I wonder where poor Lem'Il git Th’ cash. Ain't got til' mor’gage paid he had to put on t' other, yit. Now rhat's what comes fr'm wedding’ .'•tyle: Lem was a thrifty, savin' soul Until he married that Sue Clay, an’ she's just goin’ through him whole! Tod White is dead. Poor Tod! His chance o’ reachin’ heaven's mighty slim! But bein’ as he is dead I won t be one to say no bad of him! Th’ paper’s sort o' runnin’ dow’n, at least accordin' to my views: I don't know as I ever .<*ee th’ Weekly with so little news!" J. W. Foley, in Now York Times. CROW CATCHING AN INDUSTRY Experts Employed in India to Reduce Their Number. Crows are so plentiful in India that professional crow-catehers are em ployed to reduce their number. The expert arrives about sundown, provid ed with a sufficiency of bird lime and a bundle of bamboo rods fitting into one another like the joints of a fish ing rod. and when the crows have settled down for the night, but while a certain amount of light remains he sets to work. He quietly approaches the foot of the tree he has chosen, and, having determined on an eligible point by careful scrutiny, applies some of the lime to the slimmest of his rods and goes on quietly and stead ily passing it upward among the branches, fitting in joint after joint of the series until the tip has arrived at striking distance, when a sudden, slight inclination brings it into ad hesive contact with his victim, which is forthwith hauled down by main force, struggling and expostulating wildly as it descends. The capture and outcries of one after another j cause so little alarm among their i neighbors that several of them may be taken almost from the same perch. Multiplication of Bacili. In our laboratories, under suitable j conditions of food and warmth, a 1 bacillus splits in half an hour into \ fwo parts, each of which splits again in half an hour, and so on, and it hrs been estimated that a single bacillus, j if given similar conditions in nature, would, within a wteek. give rise to progeny numerous enough to fill the Atlantic ocean, says a writer in the Century. Such overbalancing is largely pre vented by the protozoa, which feed upon bacteria, increasing as they in crease, and decreasing as this food supply gives out. The protozoa, in tunj, are eaten by animals like the worms and shellfish, these by others and so on, the balance of nature bo so delicate that no form increases disproportionately for any length or time, although like the locust plague, or the California fruit-tree scale, or the gypsy-moth some forms may oc casionally predominate. CUCKCOS PLAY SHARP TRICK. Hew Indian^ Birds Escape the Cares of Motherhood. A recently published book on India thus tells how the koil, or Indian cuckoo, fools the crow and gets its eggs into the latter’s nest, where they are hatched and the young are reared by the credulous crows: “When everything is ready and a desirable nest has been chosen the cock koil, conspicuous in his shining black plumage and crimson eyes, seats him self on a prominent perch, while the hen, in modest speckled gray garb, lurks hidden among dense masses of neighboring foliage. He then lifts his voice and sfcout3 aloud, his voice be coming more and more insistent with every repetition of his call and very soon attracting the attention of the owners of the nest, which rush out to the attack and chase him away. Nov? comes the chance for his wife, wh^ forthwith slips in to deposit her egg. Very often she does this successful* ly before the crows have returned, but every now and then she is caught in the act and driven off like her husband, altering volleys of shrill outcries. The extreme differences be tween the plumage of the cock and that of the hen in this case leave no room for doubt as to the part that each sex plays in accomplishing their felonious purpose; that of the male being clearly to distract attention by his conspicuous appearance and im perative outcry, and that of the female to utilize her sober coloring as a means of lying hidden until she sees a favorable chance for Invading the coveted nest.” Proved It to the Barometer. A sheep farmer in the Cheviot hills had been told that it was useful to have a barometer in the house, for it would let him know when the weathe* 1 would be good or bad. Het was ao* cordingly persuaded to procure a men curial instrument with a large round dial, which he hung up in his lobby, and duly consulted every day without much edification. At last there came a spell of rainy weather, while the barometer marked “set fair." The rain continued to fall heavily, and still the hand on the dial made no sign of truth. At last he took the instrument from its nail and marcher with it to the bottom of the garden, where a burn, swoilen with the dram age of the higher slopes, was rushing along, brown and muddy. He then thrust the glass into the water, ex claiming. “Will you believe your ain een noo, then?-’ The Indian Stork. Of the Indian storks, or adjutants, a recent book says: "Their appear ance is a strange medley—a bizarre combination of the greatest splendor with the basest squalor. Were one to see only their wings with their magnificent proportions, one would regard them with unmixed admira tion, but the head clothed in disgust ingly scurvy skin and straggling hairs, the malignantly sneaking expression of the pallid eyes and the ponderous ness of the huge beak have an almost mesmeric effect in distracting atten tion from any redeeming features iv the picture. Even the splendid gam boge. orange and vermillion hues that paint the distended pouch as it hangs down in front of the chest, in place ol redeeming the hideous and almost in decent character of the appendage, only serve to accentuate the horror b> attracting attention to its presence.* I_ Smuggler’s Chest for Fair. W. Austin Edwards of London. Eng land, has offered to the world’s fait authorities a smuggler's chest 150 to 200 years old. It originally held twelv* one-gallon bottles of Holland gin. Sb bottles are still in perfect conditio* while six are broken. The chest was found in a barn on the Southern coast of England. Acrobatic in Metaphors. It sometimes happens that a speak er’s enthusiasm runs away with him and his metaphors as, for instance, when a zealous supporter of a certain organization recently thundered forth: “He is a person, my friends— I know what I am saying, for I have had personal experience— ae is a per son who would not hesitate to slap you on your back before your face and give you a black eye behind your back!” Value of Farm Animals. The value of the farm animals in the United States, as shown by the Agricultural Department, is: Horses, $1,000,000,000; mules. $200,000,000; cattle, $1,300,000,(100; sheep. $168,000, 000, and hogs. $365,000,000. Minnesota Wage Earners. In 1903 Minnesota showed an in crease in the total number of wage earners of 11.91 per cent over 1902; that of the male adults was 12.67 per cent; that of the female adults. 9.36, and of children a decrease from last year’s number of 9.58 per cent.