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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05

expanded from SO to ~ inches in
length and were 2S to 30 inches deep.
and in order to be distinctly swell"
had a back hum )ed like dromedary.
This Justly aroused all the pent-up
cnmity Of the baggage master, and
he has never quite recovered from it.
The fashion In trunks changes al
most every five years; the immense
archcd top tin trunk, so popular a
few years ago, is now archaic, and
the tlat-tOpped canVaS-covered trunk
is the proper thing, with the carriage
and steamer trunk in favor. Even
the veteran sole-leather trunk is not
proof against vOracious and mischiev-
Gus rats and mice. 1t is remarked
that Well-made trunks from here have
dctied the assaults of the terrible ants
of equatorial Africa, one of the best
tests that could be put upon them.
The heaviest trunks are carried by
the jcwelry drummcrs. They are Sc
well famed and securely bolted and
crosS-rivcted that they might fall of
a sky-Scrapcr without breaking. The
trunks of commercial travellers are
built to battle with the world. and
are very strong and substantial,
bound with rawhide, cornered with
drop-bglt steel, and painted dark
but modest red. The old-time COM
mercial traveller trunks ed to weigh
ll5 to 1870 pounds now they range
from 10 to loo pounds, and outwear
their weighty predecessors.
The model modern trunk is TO COM
bine lightness, strength and durabil
ity with comfort, and the internal
economy of his trunks is remarkable.
lie has place for everything, and
everything should lie in its place tC
carry with absolute security, from
filigree feathers and silk hats TO curl
ing tongs and small bottles. He does
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05

rush into baggage-rCom, shout at
the imperturhable attendants, try TO
railroad three or four trunks through
on a single ticket, frown audibly
when the bags and boxes were
dumped in the scales and we get a
bill for "cXccss" over $50 pounds of
personal baggage. Then we pocket
our jingling brass checks, and let
those trunks alone until we arrive in
the place Of destination, possibly
1000 miles away.
In the interim that blessed bag
gage has many adventures that no
society tor prevention of cruelty
takes cogniZanCc of; it is thumped
and banged, compressed and crushed,
flung about, the sport of the cyclouic
baggagcman, WHO appears to take a
lemoniaCal delight in toying with his
charges. The little brown paper
trunk with tin trimmings, that be-
gan its travels in New York with Il
great steelshod sample trunk, is suf-
lcring from acute appendicitis when
it reaches Chicago, and by the time
it is flung out in Kansas City it is in
almost complete state of collapse.
The humanitarian who presdes over
the baggage department OF the Union
Depot in that city has almost made
a fortune in the Samaritan-like act of
"roping" shattered trunks. 1t takes
stalwart to get away frem his
bailiwick without getting % cents
worth of rope at every throw.
This wear and tear Of travelling
paraphernalia necessitates large
sources Of supply Chicago is the
great center of travel last ycal
Drank ParmeIee handled in transit
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05


The lively panorama presented in
railway station with the arrival of
train is never failing, ever chang
ing, in its human interest. The
blasc traveller, the tired tourist, the
hustling man of business, the dn de
steele girl, the bride of yesterday.
mothers with frightened little ones
c!inging to their skirts, and patri-
archs with silver hair, all mingle in
the restless throng that have peopled
the train. Up next to the locomotive
that stands languidly pulling on the
ira X after its long run is the bag
gage car, filled with travellers, inani-
mate, but quite individual in their
way. all having the distinction
OF a check in addition to a
Eame painted or tltt0oed with
tackS on their person. Now the
luggage van in Europe is very
different from the baggage car in
America. Our trans Atlantic cous-
ins travel, comparatively speaking,
baggage light: pair of porterS (per-
sonally conductcd) carry the hampers
and the little Hat trunks from the
baggage room to the van, carefully
depOsiting it, and the car man there
upon dccorates the end of the trunk
with little "paster" indicating its
destination. Here in America we
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05

IT is true as general principle
that a railroad company is liable for
injury to live stock from any I'm us-
titiablc delay on its part, Yet the
Court of Civil Appeals of Texas
holds, in the case of the Interna-
tional and Great Northern Railroad
Company VS.. Ritchie, recently de-
cided that party injured by delay
must not remain supine and inactive,
but must make reasonable eXertions
to avert the loss and prevent the
damage to his property, and if he
failed to do this, and the injury re-
suited by reason of his negligence, he
could not recover. BIT here the
court also holds that a shipper who
put his cattle into pens without food
or water, because that was the place
provided for them, when he was eX-
pecting promised cars at any hour in
the day, and was not informed that
they were not coming until the next
day until late in the afternoon, was
not blameable, and could recover the
damages sustained.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05
WISE WORDS.

The dying have dry eyes.
A kiss is Cupid's starting point.
Write your love-letters on,a 'slate.
A poor excuse is worse than none.
No man ever stole moneysto hoard
it.
Necessity is the mother of preven-
ton.
Temptation will sit up all night
with man.
A million dollarstclarifes theimatri-
monial atmosphere.
Compliments are healthful when
taken in moderation.
Very few persons have opportunity
delivered at their doors.
1t is easy to forgive your enemies If
they are stronger than you.
Depravity in men,and women would
be about equal If women had the
force.
Marriage is the hereafter of court
ship, and people never know what it
will be till they go there.
Beauty of mind is far nobler than
symmetry of form or face. No sane
man need be mentally ugly.
Some men are so iery,foolish that,
in attempting to enlighten others,
they only mystify and lead astray.
Let common report ofgou be good.
Like fame, 1t gathers strength as it
proceeds and swells as it, rolls along.
There is no harm in a,fellow being
Just as funny as his nature prompts
him only he must stick to the truth.
An unjust man is an abomination to
the Just and he that is upright in the
way is an abomination to the wicked.
The man who is always fiery and
untamed in his efforts to convince is
like one planting flowers on barren
soil.
Reason and good address can fre-
ouently accomplish good results where
violence and force would be disas-
lrous.
If one wishes to always remain COM
mendable in the eyes of others let
him strive to do only that which is
useful.
Had it not been for the inspiration
of impending reforms fully third of
our best literature never would have
been penned.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05

ONE THOUSAND sheep of selected
Hampshire and Southdown stock are
to be kept on the mammoth sheep
farm of Mr.. Edmund Wood, of Nat.
ick, Mass. The run will comprise
$50 acres 1t is intended to raise
lamb and mutton for the market, the
wool being a secondary consideration,
and these two breeds are considered
the most profitable as breeders, as
we'll as furnishing She choicest quail
ty of food. and their early maturity
and fattening powers are, in Mr.
Woods opinion, unsurpassed. The
tract of land includes a pond seventy
acres in extent
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05

ous, or those who may wish to become
possessed of a secret" with which to
entertain friend we will explain.
or the four central seams separating
the sections one seam is formed Of
transverse threads, the ends of which
are in the semicircular edge of the
section on either side, SO that by
crimping inwardly the outer edges of
these two sections the seam at the
bottom may be separated, allowing
access to the interior by inserting
the fingers between the crossing
threads, these threads again drawing
the edges of the seam together when
the cutter edges of the sections are
returned to normal position.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05

IT is extremely difficult to induce
any class of people to see the special
advantage of occupations with which
they have always been familiar. They
know all the drawbacks of the bust
ness and fail to realize the good
points, which they merely take for
granted, Hence, in a farming vii
lage, or in any other community
where nearly all pursue the same
calling, the business of farming is
seldom esteemed 50 highly as it actu-
ally deserves. A talk with a few city
clerks and mechanics would arouse
many a farmer to the'conviction that
the evils of life are not all in the
country
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05

TIE question of the punishment
of children has been settled in a
novel way by a Larned Gian. Judge,
as the following shows; Ray
Vaughan, aged II years, pleaded
guilty to the charge Of petty larceny
in Judge Van Divers court, and re-
ceivcd a novel sentence 1t was six
months attending the city schools,
and if without an excuse he absentS
himself from school he is to be taken
into custody by the sheriff and incar-
cerated in the county Jail for the full
period named in the sentence.
There is much in this decision that
will commend 1t to the public. 1t
provides for the proper education OF
wayward boys and girls, but it also
opens up another question that is
worthy of thought How are the
different degrees of criminality to be
decided and treated? In case of a
particularly atrocious crime is the
culprit to be sentenced to school for
life or will the punishment simply be
charged from a school to IA university
sentence? Is the time approaching
when a Judge, after hearing all the
evidence. wi Solcmnly announce:
Seven years in YALE?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05

their peripatetic powers. 1t is his
torical fact that our good grand
fathers Travelled with saddle bags
long before Saratogas were dreamed
of; their sons began to assume the
coaching and canal boat facilities,
convenience of the carpet-bag, and
the dignity of the portmanteau, and
eventually dropped into the raw-hide
trunk habit. This in brief is the
genesis of the fashion that has in
spired the great industry of to-day,
under consideration. Common leather
hand bags, or patent veneered paper
hand bags may be had cheap enough
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05

over half Il million trunks. 1t is per-
haps interesting to know that right
here is the greatest trunk and trav-
cling supply center in the world.
over million trunks and hand bags
are manufactured in Chicago each
year, exclusive of the enormous guam
titles brought in from other points.
The market extends into New York
on the East and covers the entire
West to Asia, Africa and Australia.
While the business in Chicago is
comparatively new, IA nun Der of
trunk makers have grown rich enough
to retire. OF course, there are
trunks; and again there are trunks;
and it may be remarked without fear
or favor the vast majority of them
are short-lived; the intense rigor of
their exercises would knock out the
most robust constitution. and many
trunks have outward show, rather
than great structural strcagth.
Hence the merriment OF the baggage
smaSher and the activity of the
trunk producer. The great Ameri.
can public must have trunks and
plenty of them, for there are multi.
tudcs Of trank-dwellcrs in this land
of the tree.
When our ancestors sailed over
from England they brought will
them a great supply Of chests. A,
Chester was IA place noted for carved
chests perhaps some of the most ar
tstic came from that section, but
they were most noted as features fol
household adornment rather than fol
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05
THE MAGIC PURSE,

1t Is Easily Opened When You Know How
to DO 1t.
The purse shown in the picture is
of kid, strongly sewed, its four semi
circular sections constituting com
mon central pocket OF considerable
capacity. 1t is also easily opened
when one knows how" but other
wise this is matter over which one
may long puzzle in vain, for the parts
are apparently so put together as to
afford no access to the inside without
cutting the leather or ripping the
seams, For the benefit of the curl
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05

A FEW years ago portion of the
pavement in Groswell road. London,
was lifted out of its place in some
mysterious way Before the work
men were sent to repair it numerous
toadstools made their appearance in
the cracks between the misplaced
stone and its fellows. Investigation
proved that the stone. which was two
feet one way by four the other, and
weighed 2l2 pounds, had actually
teen lifted out Of place by the resist
less growing force of these soft and
spOngy fungi.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05

York on Broome street at cost of $40.
The cost for books at Bellevue
varies according to the students
means and his methods os study.
Students in the first and second year
require books on anatomy, physi-
ology, materia medica and chemistry.
These books cost $15. 60. There is
very little chance of reducing these
figures, because it is important to the
student to have the latest editions,
and the chance of picking up copies
used by students in previous' classes is
small. When young doctor is grad
uated he generally wants his text
books for his library.
In the third year the student re-
quires books on surgery, the practice
of medicine, obstetrics and diseases of
women, costing in all .$19.sC, making
$50. 40 for the course.
What are called "Quiz Compends,
or handbooks of questions for the
student to drill himself on Cor recita-
tions and examinations, are useful,
though not necessary, ard will cost
about So if used in all the studies The
student requires case Of. dissecting
Instruments, which viii cost 50,
though better and more Icostly cases
may be procured.
10 sum up, the cost ofsgraduating
from Bellevue amounts to 1855 fees,
$35. 40 for books, so for,dissecting
tools and, at S. week., $3.50 for
board, or total of $s962lA0. Or if
the student succeeds in beeIGng his
board and lodging down to,a cost of
81. 80 a week, or a total for the three
years of 1851, the entire expense of
his education will bes$923. 40. And
students who have notsstudied under
preceptor have $50 additional ex-
penses for the spring term and the
obstetrical practice.
The College of Physicians and
Surgeons, the medical department Of
Columbia College, has just increased
its course from three years to four
years, the change taking effect with
the class that enters this fall. The
fees are: Matriculation So, fees for
all required exercises,$200 year,, and
examination fee $25. A student here
will require about the same books, rs
at the other leading colleges, and Twill
be able to procure all his books, dis
secting instruments and other sup
plies needed at an estimated expense
of $50. Some students here have been
known to go through the college with
out buying any text books, relying
| wholly on their notes of the lectures,
but this method is'only practicable,to
students of unusual cleverness.andiin in
dustry, and is not recommended to
any. The year is'thirty-four weeks
long, making an expense, Mt So week,
of $3.50 for board during the our
years, or total nebeXpense of $3.50.
In the medical department of the
University of the .City of New York
the course is threey years. The fees
are: Matriculation,' So each year; !;
term fee, $3.50 year; dissecting, $40;
laboratory fees, S25 /; final examina-
tion, $50; total, $3.50. Text books,
extra parts for dissecting and dissect-
ing tools will come to about.$ $50, and
board for the three years of twenty
nine weeks each at So a.week comes to
S435, making total of $1O25. Students
who have not attended, at least six
cases of obstetrics in private practice
will need to add $40 to this total for
the two weeks course at the Broome
street institution. New York Mail
and Express.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05

not guarantee to carry dynamite, but
he can pack his hunting trunk with
Il veritable arsenal, most inviting in
its internal arrangement. Devices
for the comforts of all conditions OF
travellers have been studied out and
elaborated in detail, all subservient
to strength and simplicity. There
is trunk for everything nowadays,
from tho giant samplers" with an
assortment of fine watch movements.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05

A WRITER says if the horse could
talk he would ask for drink the
first thing in the morning. At sup
per, during the night, and at break
fast, he usually fills up on dry feed,
and when led to the trough fills his
stomach so full that undigested food
is forced out of it, Health and hui
manity demand that you water the
horse before he eats in the morning.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05

Coat -of-arms were first employed in
England during the reign of Richard
L., and became hereditary in families
in the following century. They origi-
mated from the painted banners car
ried by knights and mobiles
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05
TOWN OF BIG TRUNKS.
GROWTH IN CHICAGO OF a
GREAT INDUSTRY.

Charles T. Nixon Gives Some Interesting
Information Concerning the Prey of
the Baggage c-Smashcrs-From the An
tque Chest to the Modern Trunk.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-22
THE TwiNKLlNo STARS.
How Par Are They Away aud Then what
Ii. Ii.Nnnhp

How Far Are They Away aud Then What
Tie. beyond?
Cf the 100 000 coo or more stars which
nrc visible with astronomical instruments.
the distances from the earth of only
very few have been measured with even
nn approximation TO accuracy. Most of
the stars appear 90 be 80 far away that
the change In their apparent place caused
by viewing them from opposite sides Of
the earth orhit--nnd that orbit il about
is6. 600 900 miles scross--is SO slight that
II escapes certain detection Only about
90 stars have thus far yielded definite re-
suits in the attempt 90 measure their dis
tances, and even those results are too of
ten exceedingly conflicting and uncertain.
The nearest star thus far discovered IL one
of the first magnitude, not visible from
tho United States or Europe. IL IL the
star called Alpha in the constellation Of
the Centaur in the southern hemisphere
of the heavens.
The distance of this star appears to he
something like 10000, 600, ,000, 900 miles.
or about 2l5. 900 times as great ms the dis
tance of the sun from the earth.
The next nearest star. IA far as known,
is n little sixth magnitude twinkler, barely
visible TO the naked eye, in the constella-
tion of Cygnus, popularity called the north
ern cross. The distance Of this star. which
IL known to astronomers Rs 81 Cygni. IL
variously estimated Mt from 10 ,000, ,000,-
600, 900 TO 60, 900, 900, 900. 900 miles, or two
or three times that of the bright star in
the Centaur
The brightness of the stars, as we see
them, Is, then, no measure of their com
parative distance. A very bright star
may be much more distant than very
faint one the difference in brillance being
due to the greater magnitude Of the more
distant star. Sirius, or the dog star. for
instance, which scintillates so splendidly
in the winter sky, is more distant than
tho little star 6l Cygni the latter being in
fact very much smaller sun than ours,
while Sirius IL far larger one.
1t thus appears that, while the efforts TO
measure the distance Of the stars have not
been very successful, yet they have re
suited in giving us IL wonderful insight in
to the arrangement of the universe Of suns
in the midst of which we dwell. They
have proved that large stars and small
stars are scattered through space at vari.
Gus distances from one another and from
us; that the dimensions of the blazing
bodies which we call stars, or suns vary
to an enormous extent, and that our own
sum- great, glorious and overpovering Rs
it seems to us, really belongs To n quite
inferior rank.
But IL is possible that before many years
our knowledge of the distances of the
stars may be greatly extended. Spectre
scopic investigation in the case of binary
stars, as those are called which circle i'll
pairs around their common center of Irav-
ity, is beginning to help us little in this
direction.
81.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-22

There is man in the senate wing OF
the capitol who has no system, who has
never made study of the memory, who
does not confess to even n remote interest
in mnemonics-who can give the profes-
sors of memory system" II double discount
and beat them at their own game. And
his speciality is the most difficult feature
of fmnemonics-memorizing figures.
You can ask AMI Smith for appropria-
tion bills or tariff bills or bills of any other
kind; for bills Of this congress, or of the
last congress, or of the congress Of 10
years ago, and you will be pretty sure TO
get quick and accurate answer II you
give him particularly puzzling problem,
he will rest his forehead ON his finger and
his elbow on his desk for n minute. Then
the little wheels will 90 round somewhere
out of sight, and presently he will look
up Mt you with -"Itt me see. That was
in the Fortieth congress, first session,
believe, and the number is--is--2 ,S72."
Then he will go back among the files and
burrow for IA time, and presently be will
come out again, smiling and holding the
bill that you asked for in his hand.-Cin-
cinnati Times-Star.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-22

.ExECuTivE CouNcnA
s. b. Dole, Presid snt Of the Provisional GOV
ernment of the Hawaiian Islands, ana
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
J. A. King, Minister of the Interior.
s. NJ. Damon, Minister Of Finance.
w. 0. smith, Attorney-General
ADVISORY COUNCIL.
r. NJ. Hatch vice-President of the Provision
al Government of the Hawaiian Island.
Cecil Brown, E. ID. iehney'
John Mott q. boie,
Joh, Eua. w +. Allen, ~
james f. Morgan, Henry Waterhouse'
Ed. sunr, A. Young,
I. p. Mendonca, w. G.. Wilder, s
John Emmeluth.
G. T. Rodgers, Secretary Executive anu Au-
visory Councils.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-22

Hon. A. F. Judd, Chief Justice.
Hon. r. f. Bickerton, First Associate Justice
Hon. w. E. Frear, Second Associate Justice
Henry Smith, Chief Clerk.
George Lucas, First Deputy Clerk.
@. F. Peterson, Second Deputy Clerk.
]. Walter Jones, Stenographer.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-22

An old French shoemaker who boasted
that nothing could frighten him was put
so the test by two young men. One OF
them pretended to be dead, and the other,
going to the shoemaker, induced him to
sit up with the supposed corpse The
shoemaker was in hurry with some
work he had promised to have completed
the next morning, 80 he took his tools and
leather and began working beside the
corpse About IL O'Clock at night a cup
Of black coffee was brought him to keep
him awake. lie drank il and r,~nmed
his work. About O'Clock, the coffee hav-
ing exhilarated him, aud forgetting that
he was in the presence Of death, he com
menced singing lively tune, keeping
time with his hammer. Suddenly the
corpse arose and exclaimed in hollow
voice, "When man Is in the presence OF
death, he should not sing" The shoe
maker started, then suddenly dealt the
corpse n blow on the head with his ham
mer, saying, "When u mans "a corpse, he
should never speak. .'--Washington Post.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-22
An old English Burial.

At ESford, near Minehead, England. It
was formerly the custom for burials al
ways to take place ON n Sunday when pos
sible, the burial service being dovetalled
into the usual afternoon service. The
corpse, being brought into the church, was
placed in front Of the reading desk and
remained there during the service; the
funeral psalms were read instead Of the
psalms for the day, and the funeral lesson
Instead Of the second lesson. The burial
service was concluded after the sermon,
and the entire congregation would gener-
ally remain to the end. The custom ap-
pears to have fallen into disuse about 80
years ago.--Westminster Gazette