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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19

ried proof in itself. The money WAS
almost all in her possession, but she
had long series Of unwritten ao.
counts by which it was made to seem
the wages of the PenHhyn Islanders
acquired by her in the way of trade.
With these confessions set out in
full the original document ends. A
careful search of the records shows no
indication that any attempt was made
to punish the murderers. Three men
had died in the early morning in the
lagoon of little visited atoll in the
wild South Seas, but they were only
beachcombers, and their loss was not
grievously felt by the world of civil.
cation they had voluntarily cast off in
order to plunge into the heart of saw.
agery, a wild, sudden, cruel heart.
How such a murder was regarded
by man who was living the same life
and was exposed to the same chances
is naively shown in the concluding
words of the deposition of Captain
Sustenance: "There did not appear
to have been any serious quarrel,
neither should I Judge the natives to
have been much excited. Ishould in.
fer that it must have been talked of
long before and probably accelerated
by the gun unhappily discharged over
instead of into the head of Tangiroa. !"
New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19

"The talk about European inter-
vention in the Cuban affair and Con-
tinental league against the United
States has a hollow sound" declares
the New York Tribune, "when Amer
lean control of food supplies is dem,
onstrated SO completely. America
stands in no dread of European con-
cert in defense of the worm eaten
Spanish throne, when by Withholding
food supplies she could menace every
Continental State except Russia with
bread riots and starvation; nor is it
necessary for Americans to be impor-
tunate in their wooing for an Anglo
Saxon alliance. England not only
speaks the same language and reads
Shakespeare, but it also lives on
American wheat. Self-interest rather
than sentiment is the true basis of an
Anglo-American alliance; in future
bread is more important than blood
relationship.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL,

The steam engine is covered by
s237 patents.
One-quarter of all the people born
die before six years, and one-half be.
fore they are sixteen.
Microbes are SO minute that 250,.
600, 900 can be comfortably accommo.
dated on a penny postage stamp.
There are three times as many
muscles in the tail of the cat as there
are in the human hands and wrists.
The expenses for the electric un.
derground road now being built in
London have SO far amounted to S8,.
100000.
There are now forty-five match fac.
tories in japan, employing an average
of nearly 5000 operatives day. Their
exports last year reached a value of 81
7O6, 6,612.
No parental care ever falls to the
lot of single member of the insect
tribe. In general, the eggs of an in
scot are destined to be Matched long
after the parents are dead, so that
most insects are born orphans.
In Russia eleven laboratories are
engaged in the manufacture of diph-
liberia serum, in which the entire peo-
pie place great confidence, and not
without reason, as in A, ,631 regis
tered cases in which the serum was
used the death rate was but fourteen
per cent. against thirty-four per cent.
of the 6507 cases in which it was not
employed.
1t has been suggested that as ice as
only twelve degrees below freezing
has specific insulation of over one
thousand megohms, it might be posi-.
BILE to have hollow conductors which
could be placed in trench filed with
water and used to carry brine for pur-
poses of ice making and refrigeration,
The frozen water would act as the in
sulator, and calculations have been
made showing that the arrangement is
feasible on a commercial scale.
The consensus of opinion regarding
the origin of the migration of birds is
that it began during the glacial period.
The earth being then covered at
either end with cap of ice, all life
was confined to a belt in the centre;
but the ice receded little at certain
seasons, leaving an uninhabited space
that afforded the quiet and seclusion
that all the higher animals seek dur
ing. the breeding period. The birds
went there accordingly to rear their
young, and, as the ice receded fur
ther and further, they migrated fur
ther and further.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19

1t has been repeatedly stated in the
past few months that the ships of
nations at war could not pass through
the Suez Canal. That was the COM
mon belief, and many people who
prided themselves on the accuracy Of
their general information have been
not less confused than surprised to
find, on looking the matter up, that
they were entirely mistak IN. The
canal is as free-except for the little
detail of tolls-to the navies of every
nation and at all times as are the
waters of the open sea ITSELF and this
has been the case ever since 1883.
Early in that year England, France
and Turkey agreed on n convention
making the canal a neutral highway,
and few months later all the powers
gave their acquiescence. The instru-
ment explicitly permits the transpor-
tation of war material and ships of war
though the canal, whether peace pre-
'ails or not, and only prohibits overt
5cts of hostility between or within
three miles of the termini.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19

The Illinois Central Railroad has
beaten its record, having delivered
100000 bales of cotton at New
Orleans during the current season OF
eight months beginning September l.,
1897. The one million and first bale
was presented by Stuyvesant Fish,
President of the railroad, to Colonel
Fl. G. Hester, Secretary of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, and it is to
be disposed of for the benefit of the
poor of the Crescent City.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19
shamrocks the Vogue in Paris,

"Three little leaves of Irish green
united on one stem," incased in a crys-
tai locket are the latest fad in trifes
which go to make up the budget OF
fashion in Paris. In the shop win
dows these trinkets are labeled, "In-
dian," but the description is only in
name. Most of the iewelry in vogue
Is still fashioned after beetles, scor-
pions and birds.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19
A Large Family.

In the Basler Jura, on the slopes of
Mount Terrible, is small village
called Montavon. The government of
the place is conducted by a President,
Vice-President, three Councillors or
Aldermen, Communal Steward, Com.
munal Clerk and Communal Sergeant,
The Presidents name is Joseph Mon.
tavon; the President, Victor Mon.
tavon; the Steward, George Monta.
Won; the Clerk, Joseph Montavon; the
Sergeant, Karl Montavon, and the
three Councillors, Peter, julius and
Ernst Montavon. This curious cir.
cumstance arises from the fact that
everybody in the place bears the name
of Montavon. 1t is the name of a fam.
lily so large that it has been vested
with town rights by the Swiss govern.
ment.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19
Fans Are Larger.

Fashionable fans are growing in size.
The very small Empire fans, popular
tor so long, are being ousted by a
breeze-creator that has at least few
degrees of usefulness. Ostrich feather
fans, particularly those of a natural
color, are again at the top of style.
Every woman who has had one packed
away in moth-proof box for four or
five years had better bring it out and
air it, for she will surely need it,
Those made of black, white or pale
gray feathers are also being much used.
No fan, of gauze and tinsel, is SO grace
ful and alluring as one made of mass
OF waving plumes. The preference is
for the open and shut fan.
Simpler fans of gauze, silk, satin or
net are also larger and create more
wind than those of last season. They
are decorated with lace, embroidery
and painting and have handsome sticks
OF pearl, silver, gold or wood.-New
York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19

in order to help her husband in mis-
sionary. work he has undertaken in
Africa.
Acting as guide, chaperon and shop.
ping expert is the present occupation
OF at least one lady in Boston, who is
following line Of business for women
which has become quite popular in
London.
Women bicyclists in st. Petersburg
are ordered by the police to wear
bloomers or rational dress, as the
wind blows too capriciously in Rus.
sia's capital for skirts to be worn with
decency.
Empress Augusta Victoria of Ger
many found 144 German servant girls
last year to whom she could give the
golden servants cross for having lived
forty years with one family. Only
one was found in Berlin.
Miss Charlotte Yonge's name is TO
be given to three free scholarships for
girls, for which her admirers, headed
by the Princess of Wales, are collect.
ing money in England. Miss Yonge
is seventy-fve years of age now, and
has written more than eighty books.
During the present session of the
English Parliament the debates have
been listened to by large number of
women. The Duchess of Marlbor-
ough, Mrs. Chamberlain and Mrs.
Curzon are among those who have
been most frequently seen at the
House.
New York women are overioyed
that the Pennsylvania University has
decided to open its doors to women,
and to offer undergraduate courses
equal to those now open to men. The
women think that many other colleges
will follow the university's example
before long.
In giving 100000 to the United
States Government to be used for ex.
penses incident to the war, Miss
Helen Gould has endeavored to rem
der the most efficient kind of aid. saw
ing that the money might be of more
service than the fitting out of yacht
or regiment.
The Emergency Hospital at Rome,
Ga, is said to be one of the grandest
works of its kind in this country.
Rich and poor alike are treated with
kindness and consideration, and the
head nurse is extremely popular
among the patients under her care and
that of the people of her city.
Parisian women are discardinp birds
for animals as trimmings for their
hats. Small chinchillas, not unlike
rats in appearance, have become fa-
vorite form Of adornment, and it has
been suggested that the new fad, if
carried so far as the wearing of birds,
may even extend to guinea pigs, kit
tens and puppies.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19
New Treatment For Dyspepsia.

A new treatment for dyspepsia is q
Japanese fish diet, in which the chief
articles of food are fish, rice, eggs
and oysters. The dishes are said to
be numberless. One is q baked pud.
ding, made of flakes Of fish, boiled
rice, eggs and seasoning. Another is
a raw fish salad; third, raw fish
picked; a fourth, is the meot of fish
pounded into paste with butter,
vinegar, salt, white and cayen e pep.
pers. All are said to be appetizing
and nutritious to high degree.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19
The Newest in Dress Goods.


The seasons jacket will fare, with
large lapels, moire being the facing
generally used for this purpose.
The Tam O. Shanter, with violets
and other flowers, will make popular
and pretty headdresses this season.
Persian mauve and pale almond or
tan color are effectively combined on
new Paris evening gowns and tailor
costumes for special wear.
The usual decoration for gowns is
revers of lace edged with pleated satin
ribbon. The betting is of ribbon, with
pretty little ends and loops.
Satin royal and very elegant quail
ties of peau de sole are handsomely
made up together in imported we'd
ding toilets for the spring and early
summer.
A white chip flare, with three long
ostrich plumes of the same color, one
standing in the centre and the other
two falling gracefully ON the brim,
forms pretty hat for young women.
Jeweled buttons are much used on
some of the fancy coats and on the
more elaborate gowns. They are sell
dom used, however, to fasten the gar
ment, being better adapted to adorn
than to be useful.
The old-fashioned gray, so popular
with our great-grandmothers is once
more leader in the fashions of the
day. This is true also of the old silk
poplins, and the gray, combined with
pink or blue and garnished with lace,
makes lovely costume.
Sasheswill be much worn, the styles
being varied and beautiful. The
Roman sash is again in vogue, and is
made up in all the attractive colors.
One particular style is the stripes and
crossbars in pink, green, lblue and
yellow, with little black.
Caps for aged women are more elab.
crate than ever. A dainty one is OF
black Chantilly lace, accordion plated,
with lavender bow on top. From
the back are two streamers formed Of
rows of black beading, having Law.
ender ribbon run through them, and
edged with narrow lace.
Vests are more becoming to stou,
figures than yokes, which fact will
ever keep them in vogue, but they are
not as new nor as stylish as yokes. A
narrow, flat vest gives length to the
waist If made to taper to point. The
ever-popular full vest is now orna.
mented with tiny cross tucks and fits
loosely, but does not bag in front.
Squares of black enamel, studded
with diamonds, in ohecker-board de-
sign, are very handsome; flowers
painted on white china, with border
OF turquoise, gunmetal and enamel,
are new, and novel shape is like the
setting Of marquise ring, but very
small. Steel, cameo and moonstone
buttons are all hand ONE and smart.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19

The bat ships ofmodern times are
n necessity to any great nation which
intends to maintain its rights and pro-
tect its interests, believes the Atlanta
Journal, but their cost is heavy. An
outlay of something like s., 900, 900 is
required to construct and equip ship
which would take high rank in any
modern navy. After such ship is
complete the expense of maintaining
it is very heavy, This item for each
of our big battleships is now about
$500 a day even when they do no fir
ing The daily expenses of our navy
are now over $50, 900 day. The total
annual expenses of frstclass battle
ship are estimated at S547, 900, divided
as follows:
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19

Russian BIuejaclkets Eat TalIow CandIes
''To most people," says the Hong
Kong (Ohina).. Telegraph, "a tallow
candle appears more in. the way of q
necessity than luxury, but the Rus
sian bluejackets who are enjoying
shore leave just now from the Rossia
and the Admiral Nakimoffappear to find
in assimilating candles of Chinese
make as much gusto as an English
child would have in eating sugar.
stick. The other day party of stall
wart Muscoyite bluejackets were to be
seen going along Queens Road, and
the avidity with which they polished
off joss candles was sight for the
gods. Some of the men, who were
evidently petty officers, elected to dine
off candles as thick an ones arm
regular No. l joss pidgin arrange.
ments-and streams of grease trickled
from the corners of each mans mouth. ;"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19
THE DANGER OF BEAUTY.

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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19
It is reI

1t is reE from Spain that our
navy officers don't wear socks. This
may account to the Spanish mind for
the barbarous ferocity with which
they keep at the work of knocking the
socks Of the Spanish navy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19
Venezuelan Women.

Miss Louise Stevens lectured the
other day before the Professional Wo-
mans League of New York on "Ven-
ezuelan Women" The Mail and Ex-
press reports the following:
"a few days ago I happened to be
IN the house of q Cuban family, when
young lady entered who was SO mar
velously beautiful as to attract atten-
ton in any place. She had eyes of a
limpid black, with arching brows
above, raven hair, features SO regular
that Phidias might desire to model
them, and the figure and carriage of a
young Hebe. She spoke Spanish up
on entering. but changed to perfect
English in Difference to the presence
Of an American, with the innate DO
likeness common to her race. When
l was told that she was q Venezuelan
l knew the secret of her enchanting
grace.
1.-The complexion of Venezuelan
women might be called fair brunette,
though throughout their own country
the women powder their faces so as
TO give almost the appearance of a
white mask. 1t is an old custom. a
part of the regalia of full dress; lady
will carry her powder box in her
pocket to the opera or dance, and
think nothing of turning to one side
and applying another layer over her
face in the full view of the assembly.
The effe6 of this profussion of pow
der when the perspiration trickles
down is far from pleasing, forming as
it does. little ridges of paste in the
corners of the nose.
81 presume that one of the reasons
for this custom is the pleasing sensa-
tian of GOODNESS it imparts, and while
Venezuela is by no means hot coun-
try, yet the gentle exercise of dancing
in land where it is always summer is
somewhat heating. However, one
cannot but wish that they would not
30 disfgure themselves.
"The marvellous beauty of the young
women quickly fades. Either they
grow enormously fat, losing their clear
complexion, with q swarthy hue and
many moth patches, which no amount
of white powder will cover, or they
become very thin, and their faces have
the appearance of baked apple.
They keep their luxuriant brown or
black tresses, however, until very
advanced age; but though they lose
the freshness of youth, they are not
unattractive, their simple friendly
manners and their kindly interest in
one counting for much,
Venezuelan women are pre-emi-
nently mothers. They seem to keep
sheir interest and sympathy with their
shildren, and do not grow hard or
Grabbed"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19
Bows Under the Chin

1t is conservative estimate to say
that two-thirds of the feminine world
wears bow under its chin. A dash
ing little French bow, made in two
loops-no ends appearing-of taffeta,
or chiffon, or tulle. that is accordion
plated, is especially stylish.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19

A larg of the literature of the
world is becoming unintelligible to
this generation through lack of ability
to understand quotations from the
Bible, asserts the Christian Herald.
Allusions to sayings and events which
our fathers would have understood at
a glance now signify nothing to many
renders
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19

Massachusetts claims to have more
different kinds of native trees than
has any kingdom of Europe. The
number exceeds fifty, among them be-
ing nine large oaks.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19
Gossip.

oObbtps
Mrs. Micah Dyer, Jr., of Boston,
has been chosen President of the
Woman's Charity Club of that city for
the tenth consecutive year.
The Princess of Wales has a ten
service of sixty pieces, and each piece
is decorated with a different photo
graph which she took herself while in
Scotland.
The Woman's Club, of Evanston.
ILL.,, has raised near $12, 200 for the
Charity Hospital of that place, and a
new hospital building will soon be
opened free from debt.
A monument designed by the Prin
cess Louise has just been placed over
the grave of Mrs. Mary Ann Thurston,
who nursed all the children of Queen
Victoria from 1916 to 1867.
These three American women have
fecently written and published novels
In England: Mrs. Atherton, Amelie
Rives, under which name she still
writes, and Kate Douglas Wiggin.
The Countess of Wisberg, wife of
Prince Oscar of Sweden, is in London,
taking course of training as nurse,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19

Probably the Spaniards are think.
ing just now that those American
pigs" must be of the wild boar vari-
ety
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19
THE HEART OF SAVAGERY.
A TRAGEDY OF BEACHCOMBERS IN THE FAR
AWAY SOUTH SEA-
EARL fishers are q

EARL fishers are q
mysterious lot and
the South Sea is
full OF obscure
tragedies. Recent
events in the Phil
ippines have drawn
attention to them
anew. Traged d y
was often the end
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19

The cost of ammunition used dur
ing an engagement is immense, but it
is OF course impossible to estimate
this in calculating the expense of a
navy. Repair to warships, cruisers
and other craft even in time of peace
is large, but after every engagement
it is necessarily immense, even for the
victor. War on a modern basis is a
terrific absorber of money, and there
never was time when the importance
of money as a factor in war was any,
thing like as great as it is now.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-19

Iney Pulleu tne Doat out into the Ia
goon. Tom was seated on the gun
vale and the other two were lying
under the thwarts. Joe Bird begged
his captors for mercy and offered all
he had if only his life might be
spared.
But Tom bade him not to be child,
for it was now too late, and he himself
had brought this fate upon himself
and his companions. At the deepest
part of the lagoon the Penrhyns hove
Joe Bird overheard first, and he sank
right to the bottom. Tom was the
next to go, and he, too, went down
like stone. But the Frenchman rose
alongside the boat, and Powhatu cut
his bead open with sword. Then the
Frenchman sank to join his mates in
the quiet depths of the lagoon.
Now that the deed was done the
shrewdness and facile invention of the
Paumotu woman, Kokorariki, stood
the party in good stead. Left to their
own simple devices they would have
shared out the goods of the murdered
white men, and their detection would
have been certain. She it was who
set the scene and concocted the story
SO well as to deceive Captain Sus.
tenance. She had the boat burned
and the metal work sunk in the la.
goon, and the property of the white
men was in like manner destroyed, all
but the single bolt of cheap cloth dis
tributed to the divers. That was O
stroke of genuine art. 1t would be
such a natural thing for Joe Bird tc
| do if he were sailing away that it car
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-13
The Pu1lmans Given Time.

The Railroad Commissioners met yester- day afternoon, the only absentee being Commissioner Clark. I. H. Polk expert of the board, was also present. The spe- cial object of the meeting was to investi- gate the affairs of the Pullman Palace Car Company, which has been subpenaed to produce it's books and make a showing of ifs affairs before the board.
 Several letters were read showing the great interest the investigation has arous- ed in different parts of the country. One of these. from J. D. Miller of Wisconsin reduce the rates in Pullman cars Any person can buy berth in a Pullman from Laredo to Monterey, Mexico, from 1 n m. to a. m., 16 hours. for 90 cents. Also El Paso to Mexico City, 4S hours or 1224 miles, for S4; and the Pullman are putting on cars in Mexico, whenever the 6pportunity presents itself. If the Pull man can do thlS 10 MeXlcot they can do It to California.
 -Four years ago the railroad company charged per tourist cars, per berth, with the same equipment as now 8, Omaha to California AS soon as Pullman took charge the rates were raised to S5.''
 A letter was also received from Talcott Williams of the Philadelphia Press, ask ing for particulars of the investigation.
 T. C. Coogan, local attorney for the Pullman Company said that while he did not know what action the company would take In the matter, he believed that 1t would not contest the authority of the board Though the sentiment of the board gan was finally allowed two weeks in which to find out the attitude of the Pull man directors in Chicago, after which the meeting adjourned.