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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-27

April to September Except the bats. the
lying squirrels are our most nocturnal
mammals.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05
Her Secret Signal.

Nervous housewives whose husbands
frequently bring home company to din
ner without preliminary warning often
worry in their secret hearts for fear
there may not be food enough to sup
ply the unexpected guests. A matron
living in one of the prettiest suburban
residences in West Philadelphia, whose
husband persists in bringing home
guests at the most inopportune times,
has hit upon a happy expedient to
meet possible emergencies.
In passing any dishes at the table of
which there may be a limited supply
the hostess makes point to mention
the enigmatical letters "F. H. b." in
such a manner as not to attract the
attention of the guests around the
board. Immediately the members of the
family are aware of the circumstances
and discreetly partake very lightly, II
at all, Of the viands in question. The
secret of the three letters was solved
by quick-witted guest few days ago.
and the hostess afterward laughingly
confessed her little scheme. "F. H. B."
in this instance stands for family
hold back"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05

An English statistician has recently
been engaged in an original task, that
of studying the influence of music on
the hair The investigator establishes,
in the first place, that the proportion
of bald persons is II per cent. for the
liberal professions in general, with the
exception Of physicians, who appear to
hold the record for badness, which is
80 per cent. Musical composers do
not form an exception to the rule and
badness is as frequent among them
as in the other professions. The cor
net-a-piston and the French horn act
with surprising surety and rapidity; but
the trombone is the depilatory instru-
ment par excellence. 1t will clear the
hair from ones head in five years. This
Is what the author calls badness of
the fanfares," which RACES with special
violence among IegiH,ental bands.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05
FREELAND, SEPTEMBER 5, 1s9,


The county commissioners have decid
ed that all tax collectors in the county
who have failed or neglected to settle up
their tax duplicate for 1897 in full will
not be given the privilege of collecting
taxes in their respective districts on
the tax duplicate OF 1898. This action
on the part of the commissioners is
intended to afford protection to the tax
payers of the county and also to
bondsmen who are responsible for the
settlement of uncolected taxes 1t is
certainly fair to the bondsmen, because
in any case where the full amount of
last years taxes on the duplicate of any
collector remains unpaid if he should be
allowed to collect on the duplicate for
1898 new bondsmen would be necessary.
Thus all tax collectors who have not
already made their returns in full for
last years taxes had better lose no time
about doing so, as the commissioners
will take no chances by letting deIin-
quentS have the tax duplicate for 1895,
Another matter that may be important
III lOl uldllOll W lOGdl SNuOOl ubdIuN anu
tax collectors has been decided by the
commissioners. Under a special act OF
the Legislature passed in 1891 school
boards in boroughs and townships were
permitted to levy and collect dog tax.
This was a special act applicable to
Luzerne and several other large counties.
In 1893 a general law was passed making
it the duty of county commissioners to
levy all dog taxes, but this act could not
be complied with until the legislature of
1897 passed law repeating the special
act Of 1891 referred to. Therefore, the
commissioners will now govern them
selves in accordance with the act Of 1893
and have levied a uniform rate of taxes
on dogs which must be returned direct
to the county treasury-instead of being
levied and collected as heretofore y
local school boards in the various town
ships and boroughs throughout the
county.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05

The monogram hieroglyphics
which puzzled housekeepers are no
longer fashionable in linen marking,
the simple Roman letters, embroidered
plainly having taken their place. Plain
script Is also in good taste, and the
work is done In a simple satin stitch
on both table cloths and napkins. Bed
clothes should have the name simply
and clearly written in indelible ink
though towels are sometimes embroid-
cred with the owners initials.
1t has been universally decided by
women of good taste that the proper
place to mark table linen is to en-
broider it with the initials of the house
Just below the hem and in the centre
of the breadth" the size of the initial
to be one inch for tablecloths and half
an inch for napkins.
Carving cloths and corn and hot DO
tato napkins have the initials of the
hostess sometimes wrought out below
the hem or fringe, but 1t Is considered
better form to have them In dainty
patterns that will be characteristic
enough without the marking.
1t Is certainly in bad taste to make a
display of ones initials or monogram;
even silver should be unobtrusive in
its lettering.
The best marking for the linen closet
is to keep it in good order.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05

Vancouver, Sept Capt. Crane,
the last man to arrive from Pine Creek,
the latest gold strike, says:
Although they are the richest dig
gings outside the Klondike in Ameri-
ca, the reports are exaggerated The
whole creek is now staked, and Sur
prise Lake, apparently as rich, which
is above Pine Creek, is being rapidly
taken up. One man named Duval is
Pine Creek gold is very fine and starts
at the grass, 1t will not run over from
10 to 30 cents to the pan. At this
rate a man and his partner can make
SO a day."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05
A TORNADO IN SYRACUSE.
Nearly All of tho State Fair Buildings
Are Wrecked.

Syracuse, Sept. 1.-The proprietors
OF an amusement resort on the shores
OF Onondago Lake saw what they de-
scribe as "a wall of water twenty feet
high advancing rapidly up the lake
shortly after noon to-day. A few min
utes afterward they were rushing into
thelr cellars for safety, while popcorn
booths, benches, with everything not
nailed down and many things that
We're, went sailing through the air.
In a few minutes the storm struck,
and In less than half an hour it did
awful execution. It's velocity was ter
rifc 1t ripped up trees and unroofed
buildings as if they were straws and
paper. The roof of the Alhambra rink,
where the democratic State Conven-
tion Is to be held, was rolled up like
scroll and whipped off into the street.
Nearly all the buildings at the New
york State Fair ground were wrecked,
partially or completely, and exhibits
which were being put in place for the
fair next week We're scattered to the
winds. Almost by miracle, the art
gallery, which was unroofed, did not
collapse, and many thousand dollars
worth of valuable paintings by leading
New York artists were saved.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05

The Oldest observatory in the world
is in China. Centuries and centuries
before Europeans constructed astro-
nomical instruments Of metal this OBJ
servatory had metal instruments
of the highest value, and they were
known to be hundreds OF years old In
1879.
The instruments in the Chinese
observatory are marvellous works Of
art and their beauty and boldness OF
design could not be duplicated today.
The observatory itself stands higher
than the city wall, and Is square in
shape, the beautiful astronomical in
struments standing on platforms with
no shelter, true to the Chinese idea of
doing things by contraries. Entrance
to the observatory from the front gate
leads to a hall Of rare proportions.
Then comes a yard surrounded on
three sides by one-storied buildings
and shaded by enormous trees. Here
are two massive and valuable bronze
instruments, exposed for centuries, but
without a flaw or sign Of wear.
In the Chinese observatory Is huge
celestial globe, seven feet six inches
in diameter, having the planets and
principal consultations shown by rails
ed stars in yellow bronze and fixed in
brown body of the globe. There are
eight instruments in all in the obser-
vatory, each worthy of special study.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05

Every week sponge your rubber
plant with tobacco juice. Take a plug
of tobacco, pour water over 1t, and
when the water becomes deeply color
ed wipe the leaves off with sponge
dipped in the juice. This will give
them wax-like appearance and is
good for the plant. Every two or
three weeks dig about the roots of the
plant and pour in teaspoonful of
castor oil.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05
sever. s ,ntcn,e fIr o. Ii Private.

Washington, Sept. 1.-The findings
of the general court martial in the case
of Floyd W. Gay, Company F, Sixty
fifth New York. charged with robbing
the mails at Camp Alger, were pub
lished this morning. He has been dis
honorably discharged from the service,
forfeiting all pay and allowances, and
sentenced to serve three years at hard
labor in the military prison at Fort
Leayenworth, Kan.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05
A Delicious neyernrc.

Raspberry vinegar is a delicious
beverage mixed with iced water. Put
quart of ripe red raspberries in u
bowl; pour on them quart of good
strong vinegar-let them stand twen-
ty-four hours, strain them through a
bag. put this liquid on another quart
Of fresh raspberries, which strain in
the same manner-and then on third
quart When this last is prepared,
make 1t very sweet with pounded loaf
sugar, then bottle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05

Food experts in the department OF ng-
iiculture at Washington assert that,
pound for pound, peanuts have n food
value greater than beefsteak, and that
ten cents worth Of peanuts furnishes
more actual nutriment than ten cents
worth of almost anything else. This
may be true, but 1T is not everybod
who can get away with ten cents worth
of peanuts at time. In fact, that
many peanuts will last some persons Il
lifetime.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05

New York, Sept. 1.-The steamer
Karthago, chartered by the Ward line,
will sail next Monday for Santiago,
Manzanlllo, and Cienfuegos She will
carry a cargo of provisions, together
with several passengers. Edward Fox.
a mining engineer, will be among her
passengers. He goes to Cuba in the
interests of an American syndicate to
investigate mining claims in the pro-
vince of Santiago
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05

After having had arrested for muir
der II suspicious" men ut San Luis
Potosi, n. NJ, the judge said; "Now
unless the guilty man confesses I will
shoot you ALL" AT this one of the un-
happy group confessed that another Of
them did it; he admitted the fact and
was promptly executed. Dow sum
maryl
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05

a Denver man has discovered n plan
to get hog back into a pen via the
aperture through which it passed out.
His recipe in substance is: Get the
hogs nose at the hole In the pen, then
pass around behind the hog carefully,
get hold of its tail and pull back as hard
as you can. The animal will think you
want to prevent it from going in and
makes leap to its old place.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05

1t Is told in Kansas City that a woman
ofan excursion party which was booked
for " hours stop there delayed the
departure of the excursion train an
hour and ten minutes and caused the
disarrangement of the schedule of the
Santa Fe railroad from Kansas City TO
Albuquerque, all because she stopped
at dry goods bargain counter.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05

A New York lady recently adver-
tised for her lost poodle dog-mention-
ing for a distinguishing mark that he
had gold filling In one of his teeth.
There are many poor children in that
city who haven't even bread enough to
fill their teeth.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05
President Going 20 Non,ank.

Cleveland, o., Sept President Nc
Kinley announced at noon to-day that
he would leave here for Canton on
Thursday, stopping there two hours
He will proceed directly to New York.
remaining there just long enough to get
a train for Montauk Point.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05

Railway, N. j., Sept. 1.-The Bridge
street bridge, which was built in 1903
across the Railway River, is being de-
molished.
Lafayette, when he made his visit to
Railway, in 1924, passed over this
bridge on his entrance to the town.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05

LIVE STOCK.
BEEvEs. Steers, SIS 20 "a So rs; bulls,
50 75@ SO %; cows, 50 75as3 Is; live cat
tie, % lO15c, dressed weight; refrigera-
tor beef, SIC per lb.
CALvEs.-Common to prime veals, a 90
a s4 20 D 100 lb; choice and extra small
lots at So 00@ 50 SO; mixed calves at S5 90
"a So 25.
SHEEP AND LAMns-Common to good un-
shorn sheep, ,S2 25 a 81 so; medium to
choice, 5i 90 "a SO IS; lambs, Sc 25 "a 81 co.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05

A New York restaurant waitress, nf-
ter meeting the eccentric son of a mil
lionaire, had to wait only ten days be
fore marrying him. This circumstance
has largely increased the assiduity Of
the girls who serve public tables.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05
First of the Foe to Reach Home.

Corunna, Spain, Sept 1.-The Span
ish steamer Alicante, with the first of
Spain's repatriated soldiers to arrive
from Santiago de Cuba, has reached
here.
Enormous crowds gathered upon the
quays, but were not allowed to get
near the vessel for fear of yellow fever
contagiOn.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05
All snloons In Ponce Closed.

Ponce, Porto Rico, Sept l. General
James H. Wilson has assumed control
of the district of Ponce and has or.
dered that all saloons shall be closed
for three days, with view to quieting
the existing disorders.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05

At Durllngame, Kan, a woman who
fears to have gun about the house.
finding her sons in N,e sitting-room.
seized it to carry it, ut arms length, 10
the piazza. just as she opened the
door a tramp appeared there. He
turned and fled, calling to her not to
shoot.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05

Never let the temperature of the din
ing room rise above sixty-five degrees;
sixty degrees is not too low. II the
lights and the number of people In the
room raise 1t after the nreal has be-
gun. lower the windows slightly from
The top.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05

Morality Is proclaimed TO lie on the
increase in Anderson county, Tenn, a
citizen having paid his taxes without
being sued for the first time In his life
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05
THE SHORT LIFE OF A GUN.
Number Of Times It May be Fired end
the Enormous Cost Of 10.

Number OF Times 1t May be Fired end
the Enormous Cost Of it.
"The life of gun Is ono of the
most unsatisfactory things about It,"
remarked an ordnance officer In dis.
cussing the war question with a Wash
'ngton Star reporter, land though q
number of experiments have been
made In connection Herewith, there
Is no absolute certainty as to results.
A general rule has been arrived at
which Is thought to be on the safe
side of the matter, and that Is that
the modern steel gun should not be
fired more than 100 times. After that,
1t matters not what the emergency
may be, II is safer to dismantle the
gun and send 1t back to the shop than
to risk firing it, for the explosion Of
a gun is decidedly and extensively
dangerous occurrence to all In its i'm.
mediate locality. The firing of gun
causes the steel to crystalize and
thereby become as brittle Us a file. So
far as has yet been discovered, there
Is no remedy for 1t. 1t Is not exactly
a total loss after the gun has become
thousands of things iD the way of
bolts, braces and the like for new
work and for repairs As is generally
known, modern gun Is an expensive
affair, running from $4,000 way up.
1t is equally expensive to keep 1t In
operation, the cost for each cartridge
sent from it being over $1,000 which
does not include the putting of the
gun on its emplacement or taking II
down, nor the thousands of dollars
necessarily expended in paying salar.
les and subsistence of the officers and
men who operate it. This crystaliza.
tion of the metal is one of the mys.
teries of the science of ordnance
The gun could be reviyihed to some
extent by heating 1t to n white heat
and allowing it to cool off slowly, but
the treatment is not exactly satisfac,
tory or even approximately certain as
to results. 1t has been said of us, as
of other nations, that If we kept every
gun we own in actual firing operation
for even twentyfour hours the pow.
der and shell bill would bankrupt us,
and there is some truth in 1t. This
crystalization of the metal is not con.
fined to guns, however. The same
thing occurs in the journals or axles
used on the railroad cars. 1t Is fol
that reason that careful railroads put
on new axles every five or six years
In Europe there are laws upon the
subject, thought 1t is custom with us,
In Germany Ii is unlawful to use an
axle on passenger cars more than
four years, though the limitation on
freight cars is not so rigid. AS with
the oft-ired gun, the steel In the
journal b, ,omes so brittle by the crys.
talization in consequence of its use
that 1t is liable to snap into dozen
pieces any time after its life is ended"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-05
THE MARKETS.
Produce,
MILK AND CREAl

MILK AND CREAM.
The average price paid for the surplus on
the platforms has been 2l4c u qt. net to
The record-union., 1898-08-21
QUIET DAY AT WHITE HOUSE.
Comparatively Few People Visit
the President.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.-It was a
quiet morning at the White House.
There We're comparatively few visitors
and those who saw the President re-
manned only a short time. The mem
bers of the Naval War Board called a
little after 10 o'clock to talk over some
matters of details in connection with
the movements of warships, but re-
mained only half an hour
The only break in the usual routine
was the arrival at IL o'clock of NJ.
Cambon, the French ambassador. ac-
companied by NJ. Thiebaut, First Sec
retary of the embassy, who called by
appointment to sit for their portraits
with the President, Secretary Day and
other officials who were present on Au-
gust 18th and witnessed the signing Of
the peace protocol.
Secretary Day and the French EN-
bassador sat at the head of the long
table in the Cabinet room, and around
them sat the President and other wit
nesSeS, an about the same positions
they occupied when the famous docu-
ment was signed. In addition to the
President, Secretary Day and NJ. Cam
bon. there We're present NJ Thiebaut
Assistant Secretaries Moore. Adee and
Cridler and General B. Cortelvou and
George E. Peden, Assistant Secretary
to the President, Adjutant General Cor
bin, Lieutenant Montgomery of the sig
nal corps and Captain Charles Loef-
fler, the Presidents doorkeeper.
The record-union., 1898-08-21
A LIGHTER SINKS.
Over Six Hundred Soldiers Aboard.
but None Were Drowned.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Aug. 20
This afternoon the steam lighter, Laura
struck rock near the steel pier and
sank in ten feet of water At the time
of the accident she had on board 63O
men of the Third Michigan Regiment.
who were on their way to the trans
port Harvard. No lives We're lost. but
an exciting scramble for the shore took
place, in which many of the men fell
in the shallow water The Harvard
will leave tomorrow
The cruiser Prairie arrived this after
noon and will be used as a transport.
General Shafter and the sick soldiers
who are under the care of physicians
will leave on Monday on the transport
Mexico.
The civil authorities of San Luis, the
western terminus of the railroad re-
port acts of rowdyism and theft, and
the insulting of women by members
of the battalion of the Eighth Illinois
Regiment, which is stationed there 1t
is said that our soldiers are worse than
Spaniards. The people assert that all
discipline is ignored. The chief Offend
ers have been imprisoned.
The embarkation of Spanish troops
at Santiago will be completed to-mor-
row.
There is much complaint regarding
the mail service. No mail has been
received in ten days
The record-union., 1898-08-21
SAMPSON AND SCHLEY.
The Two Naval Officers Ordered to
Report at Washington.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 20-Admirals
Sampson and Schley have been ordered
10 report to Washington and it is ex-
pected they will reach here the early
part OF next week, probably Monday
AS they have been appointed to serve
respectively on the Cuban and Porto
Rlcan commissions, their visit here will
afford an opportunity to meet their as
soclates on these commissions, and to
discuss with the authorities the general
policy to be maintained by this Govern
ment on Spanish evacuation of the
West Indies
Naval officials were considerably re-
lieved to-day when an early report
reached them that Admiral Sampson's
feet had been sighted off the Highlands
at $40 a. m. They had begun to fear
the elaborate preparations made in
New York City might miscarry by rea-
son of some delay in arriving. The
time of arrival is looked upon as a
tribute to the accuracy with which our
naval commanders can calculate on the
length of time for a long cruise. The
fleet left Santiago at l a. m. last Sun
day, and at that time Admiral Sampson
notified the department that he would
reach New York early Saturday morn
ing. In this calculation he was obliged
TO reckon the speed of the slowest ship
IN his fleet as the one governing the
movements of the entire fleet. Their
arrival exactly as calculated is said to
be in line with the performance of the
monitor Monterey, which made a six
weeks trip across the Pacific to the
Philippines, arriving within twelve
hours of the time on which the arrival
had been calculated
The battleships and cruisers will go
to the Brooklyn navy yard, and there
be docked and repaired.