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The evening times., 1898-10-04

Gas lamps are lighted at GAS p. m: ex-
tinguishing begun at sos a. m The light
ing is begun one hour before the hour
named Arc lamps are lighted at $3.50
D. m; eXtinguished at 5:23 a. m.
The evening times., 1898-10-04
JOINT SESSION IN HAVANA.
Details of the Spanish Evacuation
Taken Under Discussion.

Taken Under DISC usrfGn.
Havana Oct. 4.-The Spanish and
American Commissioners met in Joint
session at the Palace of the Autonomist
Congress here at $50 o'clock this morning
for the purpose of definitely arranging ali
of the details of the evacuation Of the
island by the Spanish troops.
The evening times., 1898-10-04

If there is a history OF
weak lungs in your family,
take SCOTS Emulsion.
1t nourishes and invigor-
ateS.
1t enables you to resist the
disease. Even if your lungs
are already affected, and if
besides the cough you have
fever and emaciation, there
is still a strong probability of
a cure.
The oil in the Emulsion
feeds; the hypophosphites
give power to the nerves;
and the glycerine soothes and
heals.
SOC. and s1.oo, all drugys,a.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists. New York.
The evening times., 1898-10-04
The Duke of Teck Very Ill.

London, Oct. 4.-The condition of the
health of the Duke of Teck is such as to
cause great anxiety No one but his rel
atiyes are allowed to see him.
The evening times., 1898-10-04
Suif Dismissed.

The suit of Annie V. H Gibson against
her husband, Charles A. Gibson, for
maintenance, was today dismissed by
Justice Hagner.
The evening times., 1898-10-04
washington stock Exchange.

Mr.. Carley very strongly advises buy
ing the grangers and the Pacific stocks
The evening times., 1898-10-04
TELEPHONE PATRONS.

A Meeting of Subscribers VIII BE
Held on Friday Evening.
A meeting of the Telephone Subscrib-
ers' Association will be held on Friday
evening at Willard Hall. All persons
interested in obtaining the benefits of the
act of Congress of June 90, 1855, reguIat-
ing the cost fer telephone service in the
District of Columbia are invited to at
tend
The evening times., 1898-10-04

Chicago Grain and Provision Market
Corrected daily by W. B. Hibbs & Co,
members of the New York Exchange,
The evening times., 1898-10-04
New York stock Market
Open High Low 2::i5

Corrected daily by w. p. Hibbs & Co..
members OF the New York Exchange
1919 + street
The evening times., 1898-10-04
Tide Table.
City Lights.

Today-Low tide at sol a. m. and SOP
p. M; high tide at 1904 a. m. and 11:01
n m
The evening times., 1898-10-04
MONEY WANTED AND TO LOAN.
Loans of SlO =; ,;,ss i;s;;5s 5Sssss sss. -

Wagons etc, at lowest rates and on the DAY
you apply. Loans may be repaid on she build
Ing association plan. in easy weekly or monthly
payments; every payment reduces cost Of car
rying loan. II you have a lean with some othez
company. we Will pay H Of and advance yos
more money, II desired
Leans made anywhere IN the District Can
and get rates. Front room. erst soor. Scientists
American Building.
National Mortgage L oan Co.
625 St. n. w
MONEY TO LOAN on D. c. real estate; payahIs
In small monthly installments JOHN q.
WALTER. WILSON WILLIAMS. 1921 st Ex.
iy23-tt
The evening times., 1898-10-04

The earnings of Iowa Central for the
fourth week of September showed an in
crease of $4,000. The record for the
month is a gain of s37, COO Canadian Pa
cific had decline of $1,000 for the fourth
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-21
PREcePT AND PRACTICE

My grandmother used to sayto me,
Ny grandmother used to say,
"Now, don't run after the boys, my girl,
But stick to your sewing, prayl
For men who want wives will hunt them,
dear,
Care not to be met half way;
For the longest chase is she fairest sport,"
My grandmother used to say
My grandmother used to say to me,
My grandmoth used to say,
NOW, stop your dreaming and baste youg
hem,
Dreams never were meant for day.
Don't hurry, my girl, TO find lad,
Maids never have will nor way
Till sorrow and twenty are come and gone"
My grandmother used to say.
But I'd heard some tales and said one day.
NOW, Granny, you dear old thing,
You met, I've been told, your lover at
The gate at the meadow spring.
And, though scarce eighteen, you rod be-.
hind
To the village six miles away,
And were married and all by Parson Phippss
Now, what have you got to say?"
And grandmother smiled demurely, then,
Above the hurrying thread;
"'Twas not for the lack of precept, dear
Things happened as you have said;
For, Stop your dreaming and baste your
hem,
For the men won't run away
And 'Wooing will keep for "a good two
year.
My grandmother used to say"
Richard Stillman Powell, in Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-21
VARIOUS BABIES.

The New Guinea baby has q novct
method of being carried about. Ita
mother puts the naked little creature
into a net, which is suspended by a
band over her head and ears, in front
of her.
The Chinese child lies with it's face
against its mothers back, and this &C.
counts for the broad, fiat nostrils seen
in the Flowery Kingdom. 1t cries
continually in shrill, sharp shrieks,
but the mother placidly works on amid
the uproar.
The dimpled, brown little Jap baby
takes its first journey abroad strapped
to the back Of its mother or sister IN a
seemingly insecure position by strips
OF cloth meeting in the form'of the let.
ter X. When awake it clings like q
kitten and is never dropped.
The children l+' of THE Aztecs travel
about in sling on the mothers right
hip, the strong cloth passing over the
left shoulder. The Gualtimaliticans
bear their children on their backs, and,
as if this was not load enough, any
burden they have rests upon the head.
Some of the Australian women wear
curious mantle of kangaroo skin on
their backs, which is tied securely at
the waist line, half the length above
and half below. In the little bag
formed by the fullness OF the upper
part the baby cuddles and finds a COM
Portable nest. III other parts of the
| country the child rides astride the
mothers neck.
The italian bambino is swathed like
mummy and bound with colored
ribbons. The babies elder brothers
and sisters delight in carrying about
these human dolls which cannot kick.
The German baby, too, is swaddled.
bound in long down pillow tied with
generous bows of bright ribbons. He
is carried about ir the nurses arms
whenever he moves.
The Africans of Cuba hold their in
fants on one hip, the child clinging by
its knees as a rider holds on to horse.
Alaskan babies are rubbed with oil,
tightly rolled in skin or blanket
| padded with grass and bound with
deerskin thongs, which are undone
but once day. If the baby cries he
is held under water till he is still.
French babies are borne through the
streets stretched on fine embroidered
pillows, their lace frocks spread out
to make all the display possible. The
chocolate mammas of Queensland
carry their little ones astride their
necks. The Dyaks of Borneo carry
the baby wrapped in the bark of a
tree or in a curiously carved chair
studded with ground shells, which is
fastened to the moth er's back.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-21
No Meeting For Him.

"My good man," said the preacher.
''it pains me deeply to hear you scoff,
Don't you know that there is a here
after?'
"No," replied the wicked one, ct
don't know anything of the kind"
"Well, let me endeavor to convince
you that there is future existence
where all the mistakes committed in
this life will have to be accounted for.
You don't know what comfort it will
be to you if you can get this belief
thoroughly established in your mind.
Think of again meeting those who
have gone before; Of"
'Say, hold onl Stop right there!
The idea of meeting those who have
gone before is the very thing that
makes me most anxious to keep the
belief in future existence from TAX
ing hold of me. If there's to be any
meeting on the other side want to be
counted out"
"My dear SIR" exclaimed the hor-
stricken preacher, 81 cannot fathom
your meaning"
"Well. if you had buried four wives
guess you would. ."-Cleveland Lead
Ell.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-21
Novel Cure For Insomnia.

"No, L am not through with my
days work yet, said Seventh street
barber, as he turned the key in the
door of his shop few nights ago.
"Not through?" asked bystander
who had but few minutes before left
his chair.
"No, sir" the barber continued.
"I have customer whom I have
shaved every night for nearly three
years. It's a fact, and that man
wouldn't be able to sleep wink to-
night if T did not 30 and shave him.
At least he thinks he couldn't sleep
without it.
Funny, isn't it? For several
years he suffered with nervous pros
tration, which brought on insomnia.
The doctors-and he tried not few
did him little good. During this
time, he let his beard grow until he
had long flowing whiskers.
Zone day his wife asked him il he
wouldn't feel better to have his whis-
kers shaved off. He assented, and
was called in. 1t was about 9 o'clock,
after 1 had closed my shop for the day.
I removed the whiskers and gave his
head a good rubbing. That night he
slept soundly; the first real sleep he
had had for months.
'"rhe next night he suffered with
wakefulness. The night following he
was just as bad. Finally, in two or
three days, his wife again called me in
TO shave him. I did so, and that
night hegot good sleep. The result
is that I was called in every night.
FINALLY, I agreed to do the work
for SO much month, and am regu-
lar caller at his home every night. I
am the last one to see him. After I
shave him and rub his head he goes
directly to bed. He has had no in.
somnia since I began the nightly shay
ing.
t--"No, it isn't because of any particu-
lar power I have over him. ANY bar
ber could do it, I suppose, but he
won't have any one but me. Yes, it
is bore sometimes, when I want to
go away, but he pays me enough to
make it an object. I must hurry, OF
he will be worrying" Washington
Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-21

An important judgment affecting
trade unions was given last week at
Liverpool County Court. A master
plasterer sued the local secretary of
the operative plasterers' union for the
return OF $25, which he was fined for
employing fathers instead of plaster.
ers to do lathing work. The Judge
held that the plaintiff was legally fined
according to the rules of the union,
which the association, of which he was
O member, had agreed to accept, and
he paid the fine voluntarily to get the
services of union men. Judgm lent
was therefore given for defendant. -
London Telegraph.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-21

The Washington Star remarks: No
portion of the Western Hemisphere is
open to the despoiler as China is. All
portions are reasonably safe from such
assaults. There are rich countries in
Central and South America indif-
ferently differed at times, and which
in certain circumstances would be ex-
ceedingly tempting to the buccaneer-
ing spirit of Europe. They have their
rackets among themselves, and gov
ernment there might be more secure
to the local advantage. Frequent
shifts are made, and now this leader is
up and then that. But rapid and
violent as the changes may be,
no fine old land grabber with
crown on his head ever reaches
his long arm from across the sea and
tries to profit by dissention. And
why? The Monroe doctrine forbids.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-21
Russin's LandIess Noblenen.

The land is changing hands rapidly
in Russia. Statistics of land sales
show, says the London Echo, that in
a single year 5,646, 900 acres have been
sold, and of this 2,7o00,oOo acres
passed out of the possession of the
mobiles into that of peasants, either in
dividuals or cooperative associations,
and local communes. Some pur-
chasers were of the merchant class.
But the important points that by this
continuous process the mobiles are be-
coming landless, and the class OF
great territorial lords will soon cease
to exist. The Russian census of the
present year shows that the popula.
ton has risen to 129, 900, 900, and il
is the millions who are growing yearly
in Importance, not the few as hereto
fore,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-21
Gone For q Chinese Bride.

Long Jim, as he is known, Chi
nese laundryman and merchant of Fort
Wayne, is enroute for the Pacific
slope, there to take passage for Hong
Kong, China. Then will follow a
journey to village in the interior,
where he will wed girl who has been
selected for him by his parents, and
whom he has never seen. Long Jim
will remain abroad one year, after
which he will return her with his
bride and settle down to housekeeping
on the American plan. His wife will
be the first Chinese woman ever ven
turing within the corporate limits Of
this city.--Indianapolis News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-21
The Horrible and Grotesaue.

Not few of the scenes q clergyman
Is called upon to witness are both
grotesque aud terrible. An old man
had been i'll for months, but clung to
life with that wonderful pertinacity
which is so common with old people.
He was, of course, great burden to
his two daughters, who had to nurse
him and at the same time earn their
own bread. One day, on being asked
how the old man was, one of the
daughters, even while she stood by
the bed, announced, "'E's just the
same, e is such time a-dylng. I
wish ED 'urry up bit, it's s. awk'ard
for me and my sister, with our other
work to do" 1t was terrible enough
to see natural feeling all but destroyed
by poverty, but there was something
truly awful in the scene when the old
man gasped over from his bed, st Am
a-making 'aste, amt I? I've got no
call for to live. THE Cornhill.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-21
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

An English agrioulturist has sue
seeded in the cross fertilization of
grasses, clover, cereals and other food
plants.
During the hot months in Venezuela
exposure of the bare head to the sun
Tor half an hour means a certain fever
and almost certain death.
G. A. Parsons, the English engineer
who makes turbine engines for ships,
says that the new rotary engines will
sause vessels to travel sixty miles On
hour or even more.
The proposal has been made by NJ.
Gabriel Wand, French chemist, to
obtain easily assimilable iron tonics
from vegetables by feeding the plants
iudiciously with iron fertilizers.
With most men the growth of the
beard is stronger on one side of the
face than on the Other. It is usually
:he case that the hair grows more
rapidly on that side on which we are
stronger.
The Semaine Medical publishes de-
tails of the successful experiments
made in Naples by Cantani, in making
guinea pigs immune against the in
auenza poison by vaccinating them
with sterilized cultures of the influenza
bacillus.
A new typewriter has been perfect
I'd for the benefit of blind people.
The letters are raised, and they are
palpable as we'll as visible. Communi-
cations made by this machine can be
,ead alike by the blind and those who
ire blessed with sight.
A new method of testing steel bull.
.ets has been devised in Germany
The balls are dropped from fixed
height on to a glass plate set at an
angle. If properly tempered they re-
bound into one receptacle; if they are
TOO soft they drop into another.
To test the power of the telephone
In transmitting tuneful sounds, Mrs
Helen Buckley sang two songs into a
funnel at the office of the Chicago
Telephone Company, and the notes
were distinctly heard in New York, by
number of musical managers who
had assembled for that purpose.
Mr.. Wragge, the meteorologist, who
established and worked the first OBJ
servatory on Ben Nevis, and who is
now meteorological observer OF
Queensland, recently visited the sum-
nit of Mount Koscillsko, the highest
mountain in Australia, for the purpose
Of establishing an observatory there.
Apropos of New York's proposed
rapid transit tunnel, it is declared in
London that the health of employees
on the Underground Railway is better
than on any line in England. The at.
mosphere is said to have positively
cured cases of quinsy and bronchitis
and to have benefited people with lung
troubles.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-21

The first wheat grown in California
was in San Diego mission in ITS, the
Indians tilling the soil under the di-
rection of the padre. Wheat, corn and
maize were sown as early as 1850 in
the vicinity Of Mission Dolores, San
Francisco. In 1904 there were 2747
bushels of grain grown at this
mission. Probably there was grain
grown at other missions about thia
date, and in 1912 at Fort Ross wheat
and other cereals were raised. Port
Costa is the shipping point for the
bulk of the grain raised in California
and has warehouses for storing 1876, ZOO
tons; dock frontage of 280O feet, afford.
ing facilities for loading ten large
ocean ships at the same time.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-21
American Method the Best.

Germans are adopting American ma
chinery for their manufactures and
American ideas as we'll. The English
manufacturer proclaims boldly-prob-
ably for the effect it may have upon
his workmen-that if he cannot adopt
American machinery and methods in
Great Britain he will have to shut up
shop. The German and English may
be able to compete with each other
with the aid of American machinery,
and they may be able to excel all the
world save this great country from
which they are drawing new inspira-
tions. But they cannot go the Amer
ican pace. Having caught up with
them we will pass them-distance
them, perhaps-for in all the world
there is no such combination of ex-
cellence as in these United States oi
America Pittsburg Dispatch.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-21
PENALTY OF "LINocHp IN CHINA.
Parricides and MatrIcides Never Escape
the Sword.

the sword.
In China, when q parent has met
with death at the hands of son or
daughter, no circumstances of inten-
ton or age are permitted to interfere
with the infiction Of the penalty,
which is that of the ''lingchi, followed
be decapitation. Any mitigation of
this cruel sentence would be considered
by the Chinese as aiming blow at
the fundamental principle of filial duty
which is supposed to be the ground
work of their code. Time and again
has the penalty of "lingch'i" been re-
corded against parricides or matri-
cides, even when they happened to be
idiots or lunatics, and therefore not
accountable for their action.
The corruption and venality Of the
great mass of officials in this empire
has become by-word, and it is not
strange, therefore, that justice can
easily be evaded through bribery.
Thus u wealthy man who has been
guilty of killing fellow-crea-
ture, whether by premeditation or ac-
cident, can escape all serious conse-
quence and receive a sentence to three
years banishment to spot thousand
miles distant instead of the death pen
atty. Or, ON the other hand, when
the relatives of the murdered men are
powerful enough to make themselves
heard by the officials, and to demand
the strict Observance of the lex ta-
lionis, the rich criminal may purchase
substitute from among the beggar
class, or perhaps an old faithful SER
want of the family may be permitted
to forfeit his life in his masters stead.
But never has it happened since
China had history that one who had
occasioned the death of his parent or
parents has contrived to buy himself
off and escape the "lingch'i," or OK
cared knife, and the executioner's
heavy two-handed sword. So deeply
has the doctrine of the ancient sages
on the observance of tilial piety become
rooted in the hearts of the people of
China that no magistrate would dare
to exercise leniency by taking into
consideration the circumstances that
led to case of parricide or matricide
with the view of mitigating the doom
fixed by law. Not only would the
magistrate incur thereby the danger
of violence from the mob, but he would
subvert the obedience due from his
own family. A parricide not only
brings certain death on himself, but
disgrace on the district in which he
resides. In the case whese both par
ents are victims Chinese law ordains
that corner of the district city walls
shall be pulled down as lasting
chronicle of the shame and disgrace
of the district in having sheltered such
a monster.
The magistrate and local officials
are cashiered and debarred for ever
from public employment as punish
ment for not having taught more eff
fectively the doctrine of filial piety,
while the Govern or of the province,
with his colleagues, the Treasurer and
Judge, together with the taotai and
perfect of the district, are all degraded
several steps in rank.-North China
Daily News,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-21
mr.. Goodnight,s 900 Buf,aloes.

s"There are 800 bufaloes in one herd
down in Texas that you newspaper
fellows never seem to have heard Of"
said r. b. Hulin. Mr.. Hulin is "the
cowboy glove drummer" of Texas. He
went on to say:
"Once in while I see it in print
that the buffalo is almost extinct and
the reports always state that the only
remaining buffaloes are few on the
governmentreservation in Yellowstone
Park and a few more that are scat
tered in geological gardens in different
cities. l have never seen a mention
in print of the herd of 800 on the
ranch of Charles 2. Goodnight, at
Goodnight, Texas. L stop off once a
year to sell gloves to Goodnight and
the eighty or ninety cowboys who
work for him. He has ranch of 80. 900
acres, and 2000 acres of that are fenced
off as buffalo ranch. You often hear
it said that in few years more there
will not be a single specimen of the
buffalo left alive, because they do not
breed well in captivity. 1t may be
true that they do not increase rapidly
when they are penned up in parks and
geological gardens, but on Goodnight's
1000 acre range they increase almost
as rapidly, 7 expect, as they used to
when they ran wild over the prairies.
Goodnight started with twenty-five
head of buflaloes few years ago and
he has about 800, and the family is
steadily increasing. He will not al
low one to be killed and he expects in
a few years to have big herd of sew
eral thousand. When it becomes
necessary he will enlarge the range,
and 1 don't see any reason why he
shouldn't make big thing out of his
buffalo herd. kansas City Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-21

The London Graphic declares that
the sale of co Goa has increased in the
British Isles enormously in the last
five years, and thinks it may possibly
supplant tea. Tea certainly has q
high value as stimulant when some
strenuous immediate task must be
done. Lord Wolseley recommends it
for soldiers on the march, and noun.
tain-climbers claim that it is their
mainstay; but, alls the same, pro.
tracted use of it plays the mischief
with the digestion of most persons and
is highly injurious to the nerves oi
many. Cocoa is sustaining and diges.
title, and has no Objectionable effects.
1t would be a public boom if some
houses on favorite bicycle routes would
set up something akin to the old.
fashioned schocolate-houses; for the
autumn is bringing out the fact that
bicycle-riders have too often drunk OF
contaminated wells and are paying the
penalty in typhoid. Cocoon, having
been boiled, would not contain deadly
microbes.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-21
The books of the United States

The books of the United States
Mint in Denver show that the deposits
of gold for the last year were the
largest ever received. The total will
slightly exceed $12, 100000, and q
conservative estimate made by the
Mint officials places the entire output
of Colorado at 500, 900, 900, in round
figures. Colorado will go far ahead
of California, as it is said to be doubt.
full if California's output will touch the
$1s, 900, 900 mark. Last year Colorado's
output was SIG, 100000 and that OF
California was $17, 900, 900 while the
total production of the country was
SCI, 1892
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-21

The Savannah news says: "Great
advertisers Live in the history of the
city and prosperity of their firms long
after they themselves have "shufied
off this mortal COLL" their announce
ments in the newspapers continue to
bear fruit after the advertisers are
dead. On the other hand, the nom
advertising business man is dead to
the community long before he leaves
this life; and his business is more
than apt to die with him.