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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03

A large insurance company has re.
Gently published returns for 1875
deaths, covering period of ten years
from 1884 to 1898. OF this number
759 were the result of accident, in
cluding 76 homicides. This is en- appall.
ing proportion of murders. No country
in the world, not even Sicily, could
match it, Elsewhere sober. respect
able, thrifty men who insure their
lives are tolerablY safe against mur.
der. Here in every 1000 who die nine
are murdered. OF these nineteen were
shot in personal quarrels. Actually
of the class which insures in thi.
country for every 1000 who die one is
killed red-handed trying to kill some
one else. No such barbarism exists
on the plano. in any other land calling
itself civilized.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03
KATE FIELDS ROMANCE,

Miss Fields death recalls q story OF
her youth that was first given public
ity in the Worlds Congress OF Jour
naIists in 1893, and may contain the
secret of her having never married. The
story, as told by one who claimed to
know, was that in the beginning of
her journalistic career Miss Field
worked on the Cincinnati Commercial
in collaboration with Whitelaw Reid,
who was at that time her accepted
lover. When Reid became an editorial
writer ON the New York Tribune he
sent for his old sweetheart to come
ana take a position on the paper. Un-
til after the defeat of Horace Greeley
for the Presidency the pleasant rela-
tion between Mr.. Reid and Miss Field
continued.
When Greeley returned to his old
desk, defeated and broken-hearted,
the stock of the Tribune was put upon
the market at a very low price. BY
the advise OF Mr.. Reid the majority OF
tine stock was purchased by ID. o.
Mills, and Reid was given full control
OF the paper. As o result of the rela-
tions thus established Whitelaw Reid
married Miss Elizabeth Mills, the
daughter of D. o. Mills, and became
the owner OF majority of the stock
OF the Tribune. When the news ot
the engagement of Mr.. Reid to Miss
Mills became known Kate Field sew
cred her connection with the Tribune
and left the Office never to enter il
again. Chicago News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03
THE WALK OF WOMEN.

elbow women walk" has recently
been the subject of discussion in
Parisian journal. According to this
authority, the palm must be awarded
to French women. The English wo-
man, it states, does not walk; she
travels. Her limbs appear to be moved
by the engine of q steamer, and her
feet have the proportions of an At
lantio liner Concerning the gait OF
women of other countries, this inter
esting journal goes on to remark that
the German is heavy, one feels the
earth tremble beneath her tread the
Spanish woman "prances, the Ameri-
can resemblest the pendulum OF clock,
the italian "skips," the Russian
"skates," tho Dutch woman trolls,
and the Belgian tramps about.
Now, although these remarks are
ungallant and uncomplimentary to
our own Nation particularly, we can
not but own that there is II certain
amount of truth in them. Numbers
| OF women do not seem to caro- how
they walk SO long as they cover the
distance they wish to traverse some
| how. But II they could only see tnem-
selves as they appear to the casual on
locker, how very differently they
would comport themselves How often
is pretty face and figure spoiled by q
stoop of the shoulders and wriggling,
bustling walkl
Corsican women are models OF
queenly grace, and the reason is plain
They have curious custom of carry
ing burdens, waterpots, etc, on their
heads. l noticed Corsican woman
going on board steamer at Mar
seilles not long ago carrying her baby
in her arms and her portmanteau OF
her head. AS nearly all the water II
Corsica is carried from wells by wo
men in waterpots, the women acquire
from youth the practice of carrying
burdens on their heads. An, hour
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03
DAY-BR FAX.

How pale the moonbeams, falling on the
fountains!
How soft the murmurs from the wood be-
yond!
How vague the shadowy outlines of the
mountains!
How faint the lilies perfume from the
pond! -------.---
Yet not 50 soft as sweet young eyes faint
luster;
And not so pale as fancy's pictures are;
And not so vague as wavering thoughts that
cluster
In maidens' hearts when love is yet afar
The day is born and twilights trembling
glimmer
Gives over when the sun comes forth in
glory.
Young love is born, and half-felt doubts
grow DINNER
When he begins to lisp his wondrous
story.
David A Curtis, in Truth.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03

A few days ago Miss Grace Duckett
hNa quite an adventure. While re.
turning in the evening from one OF
her neighbors, Miss Grace met bear.
instead of screaming and running,
she, with the help OF her dog, forced
bruin up a tree, where she left him
till she could go to one OF the neigh
bors for help. A. d. McDougall went
with her to ,the place where the bean
was treed. Miss Duckett herself cut
the tree down, and when it fell they
succeeded in capturing the bear alive.
1t proved to be fine cub, and is very
lively.-Colville Washington index.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03

DR.. Joseph Parker, of London, de-
scribes the bicycle as "that shoulder
contracting, mischevioas, horrible
machine that will take the manliness
out of any Nation" The New Orleans
Picayune adds: Time was when
the worthy doctors thunderings may
have had some weight. That time
was anterior to his invasion of this
country some years ago. The ex.
perience which he then gained should
have borne fruit ere this.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03

One of the most remarkable men in
public life at this time is Hon. H. w.
Thompson, of Indiana, ex.Secrctary OF
the Navy. Mr.. Thompson is now in
his eighty-seventh year, and has been
in public life ever since 1856. This
year he presided over the Indiana
State Convention, and then visited st.
Louis as delegate to the National Re.
publican Convention. In spite of his
advanced years, his mind is still Wig
orous and unimpaired, while his body
retains much of its former elasticity.
He is to-day much stronger than hun.
dreds of men who are twenty and
thirty years his junior and is capable
OF doing more hard work. AS fur back
as 1840, when William Henry Har-
rison was n candidate TOR President of
the United States, Mr.. Thompson was
chosen as one of the electors from In
diana on the Wing ticket. Ever since
that time he has been n factor in
American politics, and has participate
ed in every political campaign Mr..
Thompson is six months older thar
Gladstone aud six years older than
Bismarck, but while these veterans
have iaid aside the cares of Office Mir
Thompson is still actively engaged il
public affairs. On being asked til,
secret OF his vigorous health at such
patriarchal age, he replied that he haC
never indul8ed in vicious habits or al
lowed himself to acquire a taste for in
toxicating drinks. If man possesse
good constitution at the beginning
of life and does nothing to impair o
diminish his physical birthright, il
the opinion of the Atlanta Constitu
tion, there is no reason why his day
should not be long in the land; no
has he any excuse, provided he has
fair amount of brains, for not beconi
ing potential factor in his day an
generation.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03
FASHION NOTES.

Some of the new parasols have very
unique handles OF crystal.
In iewelry the emerald is at present
the queen of precious stones.
Pearl, yellow and pink tan shades
are the correct colors in gloves.
Tortoise-shell spectacle cases are
made with chased silver mouths.
Petunia aud apple green are the
predominating shades in everything.
Pearls are in greater demand than
over, and are largely used for neck.
laces.
Grenadines are mostly made up over
colored silks and used for dressy oc-
casions.
The peculiar greens and blues that
prevail in dress fabrics are shown in
enamels or gold and silver.
Fans are in order and jewellers have
made them more or less gorgeous with
miniature medallions and gold and
gems.
In millinery two contrasting shades
of tulle, one laid over the other, are
often used to give the changeable
effect.
Quantities of flowers and foliage
are used, and the ambition is to gel
as many kinds of flowers on hat al
possible.
Jeweled passementeries and trim
mings of all sorts find their place OF
almost overy gown, and also on man
ties and hats.
American beauty roses, intersparsc,
with lilies of the valley, make th
combination for q summer hat tina
is much admired.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03

The freight cars piled up in wreck un-
der them and the wreck Of the engines fell
back upon them, II kissing, smoking mass.
Dummy brakcmen and engineers had
been placed on the trains to make it all
the more realistic, and many women faint
ed, supposing they We're real men and
could not get off. AS the clouds of dust
and steam ohscured the wreck there was
tremendous shout, then, when the cs-
Gaping steam subsidized the people clam
bered over the wreckage and every loose
piece of iron that could be found was
carried away as a relic. kinetoscopic and
eidoloscopic views of the wreck were
taken by experts. Chief Clerk Thomas
Peck, of the general ticket agents office
was the victim of the only accident. A
bolt from the wrecked engine flew about
| 100 yards to where he was standing and,
striking him on the leg, breaking 1t in two
places.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03

Something is wrong, maintains the
American Agriculturist, when straw
berries cost consumers in New York
and New England cities from ten to
fifteen cents per quart, while the pro,
ducer in Jersey and on tho Delaware
peninsula only nets from two to four
cents per basket. 1t does seem as
though this condition of affairs went
from bad to worse as the years roll on.
The more perishable the fruit the
greater seems to be the cost of handling
and selling it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03
High Woods of Tropical America.
OF the High Woods, the dense prime

OF the High Woods, the dense prime
val forests of tropical America, many,
from Humboldt downward, have writ
ten, and written we'll; yet mere words
can never adequately render their
grand, mysterious beauty. The brush,
in the hand of genius, might succeed;
the pen must inevitably fail. 1t is of
little service to tell of giant stems ris-
ing to height of 200 feet or more be-
fore they put forth their strong, inter
lacing branches. The bare statement
Of the fact conveys no idea of the mas
sive nobility, the columnar dignity and
grace of their trunks. They shoot
straight upward in grand and crowded
array, the pillars of Il dense roof Of
dark-green foliage; and from their
branches hang festoonS of bush rope,
in strenuous though invisible combat,
one with the other, to reach the soil,
even as the great trees are in similar
combat to force their way up into the
sunlight and the air SO thickly matted
is the roof of branch and leaf, of pendu-
lous rope and ivy, that the light is dim.
You may travel for days and never
see the sun save for slanting shafts
and FURNISHED gold that pierce the in
terstices of this natural ceiling; or for
occasional clearances where some old
giant of the forest has fallen, crushing
down all the weaker trees that could
not withstand its weight. The atmos'
phere is almost intolerably hot and
dank. The ground is encumbered with
dense underground of bush, making
progress painfully slow, even over al
Indian trail. The silence, too. Is as
oppressive as the heat. Just before day
break. in the ten minutes or so of han
light. the forest will resound with the
cries of monkeys and the notes of birds
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03

The late Sir Richard Burton was eX-
ploring an unknown corner of Afghan
istan once, and had adopted the dis
gulse of Il Mohammedan fakir. lie
played his part so well in one village
that the inhabitants formed very high
idea of his sanctity. Naturally. he
was plumins himself on his success,
when the elders came privately to him
one night and begged him to 20 away
at once.
'Do not the people like me?' asked
Burton, in great surprise.
Indeed they do" was the reply
'they were considering whether il
would not he good thing to possess
your tomb. they are so enchanted Will
your holiness" Sir Richard made the
best of his speed away.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03

There are n few instances OF protec.
tive mimicry in plants, though in gen.
erai plants protect themselves by
spines, hairs, and poisonous secre-
tions. The "Stone Mesembryan'he.
emnm" of the Cape of Good Hope re.
sembles the stones among which it
grows, and thus escapes the notice oil
wild herbivorous animals. Mr.. Weale
has also observed that many plants
growing in tie stony soil of knroo
have their tubers SO like the stones
around them that when not in leaf one
cannot be distinguished from the 9TH
sr.-London Globe.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03
HUNGARY'S MILLENNIUM.
a Brave People Celebrate Their
1,00oth Birthday.


Just thousand years ago the fore
fathers of modern Hungary, who had
wandered westward from their origi-
nal home in the region of the Altai
mountains, eSta blished themselves in
the country which has since borne their
name and laid the foundations of the
Hungarian state. For some months to
come the Hungarian nation will be en-
gagged in the appropriate celebration
of the ,000th year Of it's history. Fetes
and congresses of all kinds are to be
held Mt all the chief centers of the coun-
try at intervals throughout the next
few months, and great events of Hun
garian history are TO be celebrated by
the erection of many monuments.
The chief feature of the COmmemora-
ton Is the great Millennial exhibition
which was opened at Budapest recent
| ly by the Empcror-K Francis Jo-
seph. and which forms an deliberately
| faithful presentment of the gradual
| development of the Hungarian race
from n state of barbaric simplicity to
| the complex civilization of the present
time. Most of the great historical
buildings are reproduced on an cXten
sive scale in rich medley OF different
architectural styles 49, Romanesque
| Gothic Renaissance, and their success
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03
THIRTY MILES AN HOUR.


That Is the Record Made by Tom
Linton, an English Bicyclist.
Tom Linton, who has just created a
new cycle record for the hour by going
thirty miles and PA yards at the Nelo-
drome de Ia Seine, in Paris, is an Eng
lishman with n record. Many long
distance riders have been trying for
some time to crowd thirty miles into
one hours riding, but Linton is the
first to accomplish it. A, a. Chase was
the next nearest, he having ridden
twenty-nine miles and 300 yards with
in the hour at the Wood Green track
in England on May 10. Linton's great
effort was paced, of course, and by
the celebrated English Gladiator team.
1t was timed by A. Moore and E. Cir
ard, and was witnessed by such we'll
known cycling authorities as Leon
Hamelle, President of the Union Cy-
cliste; Paul Bernard, Spoke and Bad
uel, besides an army of enthusiasts.
Linton went at his task in a most de
| termined manner and began record
breaking almost at the start. At the
seventh kilometer he had beaten Bar
den's record, and then fell the records
Of Bouhours and Chase. During all
his ride he kept up a furious pace
His pacemakers could not so fast
enough to keep out of his way, and he
was ready for another hours ride
when his first hour was completed
Iinton's ride all the way up to thirty
miles was remarkable, and the record
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03

According to report just made by
the Acting Secretary of the Navy, out
of total of 1850 blueiackets and
marines, more than halt (62S9) are
natives. This will be gratifying news
to ali patriotic Americans, exclaims
the New York Observer. National de.
fence can hardly be carried on entire
ly by proxy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

He-"Miss Conyng lis rather coy,
sn't she?" She-"Yes; decoy. -
Puck.
The world is like a bike-it will
throw down the people who don't keep
moving. Puck.
SCOT your new tandem ?" eyes"
"Tried bit yet?" "Sh! no; we've
Iuarreled. "--Chicago Record.
Jones-"Good morning, Benson.
How do you finl business?" Benson
"By iudicious advertising. Harlem
Life
Diner-"Here, waiter; this water
is dirty-there's been milk in the
sumbler." Waiter" "Why, boss, dat
is milk. Judge.
| Tired Tatters-"Yes, sir, pard, it
pays ter be honest" Weary Wrag-
sles-"I know now why yer SO durn
poor. "-"Louisville Truth.
Bracer er'-"Say, can you lend me ten
till next week?" Facer-"Like to,
old boy; but, fact is, Pm SO short"
Bracer--"All right; SO long!"
~ pin my faith to the Mayhower,"
| Cried the college maiden neat.
| "And l, b'gosh." said her father
| ''Pin mine TO October wheat"
Was hington Times.
Father-'Did you notice how the
lieutenant enjoyed our lunch? He
took little of every thing" 'Yes,
but none of our daughters. "--Flie-
gende Blaetter.
Wallace.-"Doyo you believe in signs?"
Ferry-"5ome, When you see wo-
man driving south and looking east,
it is pretty sure sign that she means
TO turn to the west at the first cor
aer. "-Cincinnati Enquirer.
81 am very much afraid that Jimmy
Is in mischief" said Mrs. Snaggs to
ner husband. 81 can't hear him."
replied Mr.. Snaggs. 'That's why l
think he must be doing something he
ought not. Pittsburg Chronicle.
"What do you think of the bicycle
,raze?" "Great thing! 1never took so
much good exercise before in all my
life. "."Why didn't know you were rid
ing" 81 am not, but have to cross the
street once in while. Chicago
Record.
Customer (howlingly)-"This tooth
ache stuff you gimme is the rankest
Kind of fraud. And you warranted
it to work like charm" Druggist
tblandly)-"Well, did you ever know
charm to work ?"-Indianapolis
Journal
"Sweet one, I love you," he whis-
oered to his partner at the masquerade.
81 should think you would" she re-
piled, 'sseeing that am your wife" j"
''Dldn't know it, darling? What
other woman do you think I would
say that to?"-Boston Courier.
Virgins -"Those railway tracks at
the Pittsburg crossing will surely have
to be sunk below the street level right
away" Briggs makes you
think so?" Wiggins-'Three wheel
men have protested against being de-
layed by the safety gates. "-Cloveland
Plain Dealer.
! He prided himself on speaking twelve
tongues:
: He could trace to its root any word you
, might name;
But he read twice through baseball re-
port,
. And then couldn't tell what they did il
the camel
, Chicago Record.
81 might as well plead guilty, youi
Honor" owned up the penltent pris
oner at the bar. "If it had been lace
:, or diamonds you might have called ii
kleptomania and let me go, but
don't s'pose that would work in this
case. I stole the hog, your Honor.
Boston Traveller
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03
TOM LINTON.

is interesting. He did his first five
miles in 9:42, ten in 1890 10. fifteen in
29:33 -, twenty in 1929 %, twenty
five in 1881 80. and thirty in 59:46 1-5.
Chase, in his run at Wood Green, occu-
pied 1901 46 1-5 in going thirty miles,
his record for the hour being twenty
nine miles and 300 yards.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03
GOSSIP.

Pearls are the latest craze in Lon.
don
Adelina Patti has earned $5, 900, 900
as vocalist.
The woman tennis champion of New
Zealand has but one hand, and that is
the left one, but she can serve ball
that is very hard, indeed, to get at.
The fashionable wedding gift for
bridegroom to make to the bridemaids
is pendant watch in enamel, of
hue to correspond with the tone of the
toilet.
Mrs. Martin, the wife of the ex-Sena.
tor, has collection of 500 pitchers Of
which only two are duplicates. One
is of gold, an inch high, set with six
sewels; another is made of $4,000 worth
OF bank notes.
The popularity of billiards among
French society women is of compar-
atively recent date. 1t is now very
pronounced, and almost as much of
an indoor craze as wheeling is an
oren-air pleasure.
Mrs. aLydia Bradley, of Peoria, ILL.,,
proposes to build that city poly
technic institute and endow it at
cost of 81, 900, 900. She has already
given the city hospital, church, a
large park and home for aged
women.
Mile. Lucie Faure, daughter of the
President of France, launched, at
Havre, a ship bearing her fathers
name. All Havre turned out to give
an ovation to the Presidents daugh-
ter, who was surrounded by group
of former school friends.
Mrs. Jesse Seligman IS making q
collection of fans, while Mrs. Ogden
GoeIet has an odd fancy for handker-
chiefs. She has many hundred, and
one cost no less than 5000. 1t is an
airy, fairy nothing. 1t is made Of
lace, but it looks like cobweb.
Miss Mabel Kennedy, woman not
yet twenty years of age, is the cashier
Of the Merchants Bank of Forsythe,
Montana. She passes on the securi-
ties offered, makes the loans, receives
the deposits, draws the exchange, and
does all the important work of the es-
| tablishment.
The accomplished wife of the Spanish
Premier, Canovas del Castillo, was
born in Washington, ID. c., where her
father was the Peruvian Minister. She
and.her sister Anita (now the Countess
Casa Valencia), were known in those
days as the little Isma girls. They
carried great fortunes to their hus'
| bands.
The fourth woman to obtain the
doctors degree at the University of
Gottingen is Miss Alice Luce, a grad
uate of Wellesley. She has been made
doctor of philosophy, cum multa
leude, by Gottingen. She had spent
two years in pathological studies at
Leipsic and has been at Gottingen
through one semester.
Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop, thu
famous traveller, is tho guest of tht
British Consul at Seoul, Korea
Although an invalid, she is preparing
for solitary winter trip across tt
Pekin. The passion for travel which
distinguishes this woman, and her en-
durancs, though always ill, may b.
said to be little short OF marvellous.
Mrs. Nancy McKeon, of West Stone
ham, Me-. has the honor of having
killed the largest bear ever captured
in that region. The bear was chasinI
her sheep, when she attacked him witt
club, and, after hard fought bat
tie, succeeded in 10y ing him out. Mrs
: McKeen is eighty-three years OF age
in good health, and says she is read
) for another bear.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03

The thorough loyalty of the Boer
people is shown by the fact that in at.
testing their regard for President
Kreuger they are going to keep a
statue of Dom Paul standing in a con-
spicuous part of Pretoria. Observers
OF Dom Paul's pictures are aware that
he is for use rather than for adorn.
ment, adds the Chicago Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03
A IOyal Plume.

The Prince of Wales, when he at
tends state function in full dress,
wears one of the most costly orna-
ments known to the British Court. 1t
is plume of feathers pulled from tha
tails of the feriwah, the rarest AMI
most beautiful of Indian birds
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03

sors. The Sultan of Turkey has con-
tributed a particularly fine collection
of treasures associated with his prede-
cessors on the Turkish throne, whose
sovereignty was acknowledged in Hun
gary. Side by side with this rich dis
play of bygone times is no less exten-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03

The drummer is privileged being
in Great Britain. In addition to a
room specially set apart for his com
fort in every hotel, the leading rail
way companies have decided to let hin
travel on return tickets for single fare
This is for thu purpose of letting hlu
see his family over the week ends.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03

practice of this exercise day with,
Tor instance, a book or pillow on our
head, would do wonders IN the way Of
making us into types of grace and
ease, when before we were the exact
opposite. London Figaro.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-03
President Eliot, of Harvard, op.
poses military training in the schools

According to the Atchison Globe,
go many men are wearing uniforms
now that the surest way to attract at
tention is not to wear one.