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The times., 1898-05-22
TWELVE-FEFTY

for Mems Sack Suits, cut in the
correct fashion, we'll and thoroughly
tailored, aud as perfect fitting as
any custom garments at twice the
cost. All sizes, in both blue and
black, either full or skeleton lined
coats.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03

"The Lady's Pictorial" publishes a
beautiful reproduction of Mrs. McKin-
ley's last photograph-the one in which
she is resting in her favorite chair on
the veranda, while her delicate hands
hold her favorite needlewcrk. Accom-
panying the picture is the following
tribute:
1t is doubtful if modern times have
two women who attract so much atten-
tion as the Queen Regent who presides
at Ell Escurial aud the Lady of the
White House." As a hostess Mrs.
Mckinley is unrivalled. The toilets
seen at her receptions may vie with
any in the courts of Europe, and she
can hold her own against the wives
and daughters of the Diplomatic Corps,
being invariably neatly and tastefully
gowned. Her favorite jewels are pearls
and diamonds, of which her posses
sions are equal to those of any Queen.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03

Men prominent in shoe manufac-
turing in Lynn, Mass, believe that
that industry needs for its profitable
continuance trade training
1t is as essential to their business,
they say, as is the textile schoo! to the
distinctive industry in Lowell. The
difficulty to be net is that of main
tanning a supply of trained workmen.
Because Of the tyranny of the trades
unions, only the families of members
OF the unions can learn the lasting or
cutting trade. A young man cannot
learn the branches of the trade in
Lynn unless his father teaches him.
Otherwise if he wishes to learn the
trade, he must so out Of Lynn, or
earn commitment to the State prison.
In the latter institution he is imper-
fectly taught, and if he learns the
trade thoroughly elsewhere, he is apt
to remain whero he served his ap-
premiership. In either event the
Lynn industry suffers, as the manu-
facturers lose large amounts every
year through the poor work of lasters
or cutters who profess to know the
trade, but have not sufficiently mas.
tered it. The manufacturers Of the
city have promised their support to
the movement of opening trade
school, and the project will probably
be brought to the attention of the City
Council at an early date.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03

Maior-General Grease, of the Brit
ish Royal Marine Artillery, has de-
vised new scheme for the coast de-
tense of Britain. His plan is to build
eighteen floating batteries of II, 500
tons each, thickly armored from deck
to keel so as to be practically torpedo
proof, but Of such light draught that
they can fight in shallow waters. They
are TO be armed each with sixteen
heavy guns in four two-story turrets,
and manned by naval militia. He
would have, besides, nine "battlesAip
exterminators, armored destroyers Of
great speed, supplied with a ram, tor
pedo tubes and light guns. The cost
would be S1oO, 100000. General
Crease is now on the retired list.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03

Margherita Arlina Hamm, one of the
women war correspondents, has been
recommended to the war department
for special recognition because of the
services rendered by her to the wound
ed men of the Third cavalry at Santi-
ago. A large cartridge taken from the
belt of Trooper Armstrong, the first
man to be killed at Santiago, has been
mounted in gold and presented to her
as medal. Before leaving for Santi-
ago she cared for the soldiers on the
way from Tampa to the Southern hos
pitfalls, was instrumental in securing
fer them good berths, and aided greatly
il making them comfortable. She has
also received set of resolutions from
the friends of Trooper Freeman, of
Winomac, Ind, in recognition of her
services in caring for him while he was
suffering from serious wound re-
ceived i'll battle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03

Some of the manufacturers of glu-
cose in Chicago have turned their at
tention to the production of corn oil
an article extracted by pressure from
the germ OF the grain by method
similar to that used in the manufac-
ture of linseed oil, leaving a residuum
not unlike in its character the oil cake
of commerce. 1t seems that in the
production Of glucose, it was matter
of necessity first to extract the germ,
this, for long time, involving a
waste. AS against this, a company
now turns out some $50 barrels of corn
oil per day. Most of the oil goes to
England for scapmaking. It is
shipped in secondhand oil barrels,
each Of weight, when filed, Of 200
pounds, rated at the factory at three
cents per pound. Some of the oil is
used in this country principally in
mixing cheap paint and for adulterat-
ing linseed Gil. Il is regarded as q
rapid "drying" oil
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03

A ''purse" raised by the grateful
passengers on a train saved from de-
struction by an alert small boy near
Burlington, VT, little while ago, was
found when placed in his hands and
carefully counted to contain $1.6O.
Whether th3 passengers lacked appre-
citation of the value of their limbs or
their lives is not told, but ii is said
the company "will DO the right thing
by the lad"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03
SPhlN'S YOUNG FARRAcuT.
The Midshipman Who Was on the viz,
caya believed to Be in Spain Now.

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When, in February last, the now
wrecked and stranded but then power.
full Spanish cruiser Yizcaya paid visit
| to New York the naval authorities took
the most careful precautions to insure
her safety. The Maine, it will be re.
membered, had been blown up only
few days before her arrival. The corn
mander of the Vizcaya, Captain Eulate.
| protested against the precautions, de.
claring in the strongest terms that he
was willing to trust his ship unguarded
in this harbor. TO the reporters who
visited him on the ship he recalled the
many years of peace and amity that
had existed between the two Nations.
and then, struck by an inspiration, he
ordered to the quarter deck Young
midshipman, and, pointing to him,
asked the reporters how two Nations
could ever be other than friends when
each had raised Farragut. One was
already immortalized, he said; the
other had yet to show by deeds OF
valor that the real Farragut blood was
in him.
Captain Eulate, becoming enthusias-
tic as the picturesqueness of the situa-
tion developed, went on to explain that
his young midshipman was Sanchez
farragut, who was born in Nliuorca.
OIL the coast of Spain, whence the great
American Admiral's progenitors had
come. He had no doubt that his vounr
sailor was OF the real Farragut stock.
The Vizcaya sailed away and in the
excitement of the war that followed
Mr.. Midshipman Farragut was all but
forgotten. Following the destruction
OF Admiral Cervera's squadron and the
capture OF so many prisoners, the few
who remembered the Farragut Incl
dent looked in vain for line about
the fate of young Farragut. Weeks
passed and the great naval battle bade
fair to pass into history without the
mystery being solved, until one who
remembered the incident on the deck
of the Vizcaya in New York harbor
wrote an inquiry to Admiral Ceryara
at the Naval Academy, Annapolis.
The incident doubtless interested
the Admiral, for he took pains to make
inquiries. The result was that he re-
piled, through the medium of Lieu
tenant-Commander E. X. Meore, as
slstant to the Superintendent of the
Naval Academy, that upon the arrival
OF the Vizcaya at Havana, to which
port tine warship went after leaving
New York, young Farragut was taken
Ill. Later he was sent to the naval
hospital in Havana, and the vizcaya
sailed for the Cape Verde Islands to
join Admiral Cervera's squadron and
Farragut was left behind. To the
best OF the Admiral's knowledge and
belief, Lieutenant Moore wrote, Far.
ragut was sent back to Spain. At all
events, he did not rejoin his ship, and
consequently was not in the battle of
Santiago. New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03
A Guick-Nyitted Woman.

This is the story that was brought
back bya young person who had spent
a morning at hospital in Auburn.
New York:
"While I was there n man and a
woman came in bringing a burned
child in blanket. 1t turned out that
the man did not know the woman, nor
the woman the man, and neither knew
the child. AS the woman was riding
Oh an open trolley-car on her way to
the hospital, she heard shrek, and
saw child in door-yard with its
dress afire.
";5he jumped off the car, grabbed
blanket which hung on clothes-line
wrapped it around the child, and rolled
it on the ground. The child's mother
came out of the house and picked the
child up. That started the fire again.
The rescuer instantly grabbed the
child from the mother, rolled it on the
ground in the blanket some more, and
then ran with it to the car, got aboard,
and brought it to the hospital. The
man was stranger to her, who hap
pened to be on the car, and who car
ried the child block or so from the
car to the hospital. The child was
badly burned, but will recover. Don't
you think that woman's wits were
pretty quick?'-Harper's Bazaar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03

The more the country sees and hears
from the young hero Hobson, the more
it is fascinated by the roundness. the
largeness of his development. Men
tally, physically, morally, he is built
upon the heroic model. If one were
asked for type of the result of CEN
tury of democratic institutions, for a
man who would best embody the
American citizen, self-reliant, self
contained, ready for any emergency
and master of it when it came, could
he do better than to point to Rich
mond Pearson Hobson? asks the New
York World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03
CURIOUS FACTS.
Arizona wells yield hot water.

Arizona wells yield hot water.
Crabs two feet in length are often
seen in India.
Some butterflies have as many as
20, 900 distinct eyes.
In some parts of Africa slaves are
still the basis Of all financial reckon
ing.
Cakes Of tea in India, pieces of six
in China, salt in Abyssinia and goldfish
in Iceland have been used as money.
The German navy has only been in
existence half century, the first
naval officer having been appointed in
1Sl7.
A glass firm lately received an or
der for 500 glass fence poles, to be Of
the usual size, and grooved for the re-
ception of wire.
A meteoric stone weighing four tons
fell on O warehouse in Flume, Austria,
and set it on fire. The stone crashed
through the house, and was found
buried in the cellar.
"Gossamer iron," the wonderful
product Of the Swansea (Wales) iron
mills, is so thin that it takes 1900
sheets piled one on the other to make
an inch in thickness.
The Westminster Abbey (England)
clock has been so remarkably uniform
that for years the error has only
reached three seconds on three per
cent. of the days of the year.
An apron is the royal standard of
Persia. Cos, Persian, who was a
blacksmith by trade, raised revolt
which proved successful, and his
leather apron, covered with jewels, is
still borne in the van of Persian ar
mics
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03
WHEN THE POST. BAND PLAYS.

the and the sky gold red,
And the its light is gaining in the overhead
the band playn sweetly Old Glory fuers
sunset is boomn' and the rumbles til,
And till time, I'll and make yourbaz
who wouldn't be a soldier the Post Band plays?
there's bustle there's head mules
be the darkness while the
And there isn't wonder when a bloke is half asleep.
somewhere there mighty
Aud it's nothing to the orders that the horses rar and kick
Say wouldn't be soldier when the Post Band plays?
Oh the they're aweefir' always do
there's a-feeln heavy underneath blue
And there's soutin and there's ursn and the bells anGn
kisses mothers the weehearts
Oh the darned old band is tootin and the he ashrin high
And "The Girl Left Behind feler blink his
For we'll not be back my dearies to all for days.
And some will be a-msn when the Post Band plays
-Richard Sllman Powell, In Criterion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03

A flower lover of Upper Geyser
Basin, Yellowstone Park owns unique
hothouse. 1t is built of rough slabs
of wood and has a glass roof. The
building faces the east. The heat is
furnished by hot water from n five-inch
oritice in the ground at the south end
OF the building; it then flows north to
the centre of the building. The water
comes from geyser, and at the time
of its exit is almost at boiling point.
The beds are raised from eighteen
inches to two feet for circulation and
to afford place for the growing of
mushrooms. The result of this high
temperature is wonderful. The beds
are filed about three feet deep witt,
rich stable refuse mixed with one third
silica formation from near by. The
rich soil, the sans light, and the con-
densation OF steam from the Lot water,
make an ideal combination for the
growth of vegetation. Lettuce, it is
said, comes up from the dry seed in
two days and good-sized heals of let
tuce were gathered in from fifteen t
eighteen days after planting. Cucum-
Der vines grow from twenty-five to
thirty-fve feet in length in less tha
sixty days, without being watered, ex-
cept for the moisture in the air. On
some of the cucumber vines five full.
sized cucumbers were gathered from.
single joint. Three pals of water bavt
been sufficient for watering the plants
in the greenhouse oD even the hottest
dav
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03
Opportunities For Women.

In paper on cart aud Utility" read
before the delegates to the recent bien-
NAL convention at Denver, Mrs. Can
dace Wheeler, OF New York City, asked
the Federation to use its endeavors to
encourage the humble women of the
land to make the most of their home
industries, and gave valuable sugges-
tions to club members to do practical
work among their fellow-women.
She defined art in its broadest mean
ing as being only the true and perfect
doing of things, and described the ar
tistic impulse as a desire to live up to
ones best inspiration and to make real
what seems true. She called particu-
lar attention to the fact that there is a
constant effort being male to help
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03
How to Keep the Hair.

A luxuriant head of hair has been,
and always will be, one of the most
important ornaments of feminine
beauty.
Women, as rule, know very little
about the care of the hair, with the re-
suit that they have not such attractive
looking heads as they should have. A
fine head of hair is supposed to be o
sign of vigor and health.
The hair, to be kept in good condi-
ton, 81 ould not be irritated by too
vigorous treatment. There is as much
difference in the quality of the hair as
there is in the skin of the face, and it
needs the same careful and systematic
attention to keep it as it ought to be
kept.
Taking care of it one week and
neglectiDg it the next will do no good
whatever.
Some women's hair is fine and silky,
while others is coarse and bristly,
but whatever the hair may be, it re-
quires equal attention.
The scalp, like the pores of the face,
must be kept clean to be in healthy
condition. When it is dry and hard,
it requires nourishing tonic. Some
peoples hair, after being washed, will
dry more quickly than others. 1t is
not good for it to be too dry; so, when
this is the case, be sure and use q
tonic.
Many people differ about how often
Il, 4.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03
At "My Uncle's" or "My Aunt's."

The singular name of "my uncle's"
and my aunt's" by which pawnbrok.
ers' stores have been called, original
ed, according to O French writer, in
the following way:
In his youth the son of Louis Phil
lipe, the Prince of Joinville, was al.
lowed most meagre supply of pocket
money. His father noticed one day
that the young man was not wearing a
handsome gold watch chain that his
mother had given him. In truth, the
youth had pawned it, but being un.
willing to own to the fact, when the
King inquired where the chain was,
he replied, cat my aunt's."
When the Princess Adelaide, being
questioned, denied any knowledge OF
the ornament, the Prince acknowl,
edged that it was safe in the pawn
brokers' shop. Thus the French
fashion of saying cat my aunt's" was
started.
In Britain "uncle's" is the proper
word, and the French writer claims
that it was adopted in the spirit of
contrariness which the English dis.
play toward all things French.
Witness, that the French soldier
wears red trousers, the English red
coat; the French eat oysters from the
hollow half of the shell, the English
from the fat half; the French turn to
the right walking and driving, the
English to the left. No other reason
for the difference is given than the ap.
parent desire to be contrary. New
York Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03

| women to do the work OF men and
thought something should be done to
aid women to do the work natural to
them for generations. The truth that
all women who need to earn money and
who are unable to go outside of their
homes to do it makes it urgent that
something should be done for them to
make their tasks as pleasant as posi-
BILE, and the solving of this economic
problem would be of invaluable bene-
tit 60 womankind.
She cited the fact that nearly every
State in the Union has some woman's
industry that could be made profitable,
ana that these same industries are
looked upon rs drudgeres is because
their work brings so little return and
because it does not represent their best
endeavor, this being the case with the
women of the Tennessee mountains,
who spin all the coarse materials used
as clothing for their families. Silk
raising and reeling, knitting and spin
ming, were spoken of as being suscep.
tible of great development, aud, under
proper direction, becoming paying in.
dustries; the Mexican drawn work also,
as having a wide sale and with the
right management being made profit
able manufacture.
She hoped that women might en-
courage this particular line of manual
and art training, thus opening a new
era to their sisters who have no oppor-
tunity to become more than unskilled
household slaves.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03

Shaded feather bol and also coarse
white net ruches wrought in big
chenille dots ore much used.
In adjusting the sashes and belt
ribbons of various lengths, the smart
looking Empire bow still remains a
popular finish to tl9 waists of both day
and evening.
If one wishes to freshen the bodice
CT black silk or satin dress, airy
black point d'esprit draperies on the
waist and sleeves make a cool and
pretty change in the gown.
Very smart and pretty are the toilets
of rose-colored, ciel-blue, or dove
gray mohair sicilienne, trimmed with
graduated rows of Irish guipure in
sertion, with q tiny frilling of tulle at
each edge.
Cream serge is getting in its inning
now. Gowns of this material are
frequently made with a plain skirt and
short sacque coat with deep sailor
collar, over which is worn another
collar of rich ecru Irish lace.
The very latest thing in millinery is
the halo. 1t is large plaque of straw,
with the outer edge gathered Tam O.
Shanter fashion. The trimming il
placed underneath instead of on top
and usually consists of plumes, which
hug the hair closely.
Partisan women are wearing shoes
and stockings to match their gowns.
In mastic and cream tones this will
do, but when it comes to bright
greens, red and blues the woman OF
really refined taste shudders at the
mere thought of such fad.
This notion of plain velvet band
passed through a paste buckle so
noticeable in summer millinery, has
extended to woman's arm. She now
wears piece of black velvet, fastened
garterwise through q small jeweled
buckle, as an armlet. 1t heightens
the whiteness of the arm wonder.
! fully.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03
Coioreh Lawn HandIrerchiefs.

Colored linen lawn handkerchiefs
have made their appearance again.
Some have white ground with queer
criss-cross and zigzag figures of pale
green, yellow, lilac, pink or blue, or
checks or stripes of the same, while
others ere Of the solid colored lawn.
All are edged with fine thread or VAL
encieunes lace, and are not infre-
quently scallopei or pointed. They
wash well, and appeal specially 10
schoolgirl taste.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03
Caring For the Complexion.

The complexion depends largely
upon the general health, and system
attic exercise, with good nourIshing
food, will do wonders toward giving a
bright, healthful hue to the skin.
The daily bath is also one of the best
skin medicines. If the skin has no
tendency to greasiness little cold
cream or other emolient rubbed well
into the skin, after the bath, will de-
stroy the tendency to wrinkles or
roughness.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03
Noveiists Descended From clergymen.

The death of Mrs. Lynn Linton
calls attention to the circumstance
that many Of the most famous women
noyelists came of q clerical stock.
Jane Austen was the daughter of a
Hampshire rector, the Brontes were
the daughters of the Vicar of Haworth,
Olive Schreiner is the daughter of
South African missionary, and Mrs.
Humphry Ward is the granddaughter
of the Rev. Thomas Arnold, the IA
nous Headmaster of Rugby.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03

t~I-Ess-1 81 = q = -sN[--F Hrs - *

tc the south tongue Of sandy desert;
to the west succession of barren
ridges, on which neither wolf nor buz-
zard can find drop Of water nor q
morsel of food. Right there, hun
dred miles from the nearest pioneer
hamlet, they built Fort Brown and
garrlsoned it with men, who thought
of suicide day by day as they looked
upon the dreariness. There was q
skeleton company of infantry and a
skeleton company of cavalry--the last
of b troop. There was O time in the
history of these horsemen when b
numbered a full hundred men, and
when its officers were the proCdest
men in the regiment, but there are
fatalities in army life as we'll rs else,
where.
One day, over in Green valley, as 3
troop rode gaily along, five hundred
Indian warriors rose up in the dry
gullles and emptied forty saddles at
the first volley. There was a court OF
inquiry, and the captain resigned.
Again ten troopers were sent over to
cover wagon train, and the Indians
slaughtered the whole number. In
the next three months five troopers
deserted and three committed suicide.
One afternoon the first lieutenant Of
3he troop rode out for hunt but had
not gone a mile when he was thrown
from his horse and killed. One more:
Two troopers were sent out to catch q
horse which had broken loose and was
cavorting around within half mile
of the post. They were on foot, and
as they ran they were bitten by rattle
snakes on which they trod, and both
were dead before sunset. The army
said that B troop was under hoodoo,
and the remnant of the company felt
themselves almost outlawed. The
day they rode into Fort Brown they
numbered thirty-seyen men, and they
were under the temporary command
of a second lieutenant. Captains and
first lieutenants assigned to B troop
always fought of the day of joining,
and some had pull enough at Wash
ington to haze the as ignment coun-
termarded. There is superstition in
the army rs we'll as out of it.
Here is our graveyardw whispered
the men Of the troop, as they caught
sight of Fort Brown and its lonesome
environment, after their long ride to
reach it. They looked at the foothills
to the north-at the plain to the east
at the desert to the south, and the
ridges to the west, and man tdrned to
man and repeated
Here is our graveyard--the last Of
the troop!"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03

A professional school of electricity
is to be established at st. Germain,
near Paris, France, to be called tho
Ampere Institute. The school is in
tended to furnish laborers and fore
men with an electrical education, and
first-class instruction will be given in
both theory and practice.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-03

France now comedies that the
Americans are rather a superior peo-
pie. This is gratifying, but had she
not changed her opinion the United
States would probably have gone
right along, just as though France
herself did not exist.