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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
Freaks of Temperature.

On one day recently the thermome.
ter registered thirty degrees in New
Orleans, or two degrees below freezing,
while at the same time in points in
Dakota it registered forty-four de-
grees. As the difference in latitude is
something like seventeen or eighteen
degrees, the difference in temperature
upon the day in question is almost
startling. But to show that it is not
exceptional, n gentleman to whose at
tention the matter was called told of a
summer experience he had some years
ago, when he was in Quebec, about
the middle of July. At that time the
thermometer was in the nineties dur
ing a certain day and in the seventies
at New Orleans. go the oddities are
not confined to any season nor to any
year. - Cincinnati Commercial -Tri-
bune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

meath the whale boat. Timrod was
too old bluhber hunter not to know
what that meant. An upward stroke
of that tremendous engine of destruc-
tion wonld send boat and crew fifty
feet in the air as though thrown aloft
by an exploding mine. He gave q
great heave on his long steering oar,
and the boat whirled about. John
stood, harpoon uplifted. His eyes,
searching the whirling eddies in front,
saw the flukes of the Whale of the
Cross, curved like bow, ascending
from the depths.
The next instant Timrod bent to his
blade again, and the boat again SWING
from the rising death. The captain
did his best, but even as the bow
turned the great tail came from the
sea, smoothly, silently, as though
driven by some ire sistible mechanical
force. John gazed at the black horror
in momentary paralysis, his 'iron"
poised for the dart. Its point was
caught by the corner of the fuke, and
Tipped as boy jerks his knife in
humble peg. The harpoon turned on
its axis-and John was impaled upon
it. In continuance of the motion the
flukes rose high in the air, and then
sunk from sight. Sacred Ben had
sounded, and the line Missed over
Portuguese Johns postrate body
through the chocks in the bow.
There is no time for horror in
whaleboat All is action. The men,
scarcely realizing the tragedy, but
knowing the whale to be fast. peaked
their oars. Timrod reached for the
line, and tossed two flakes from the
tub to give play that he might bring
it over the snubbing post in the stern
sheets. 1t coiled through his hands like
kissing serpent, and in the very act
of accomplishing his purpose flake
leaped into the air, and opening like
the loop of a cowboys lasso, dropped
over his shoulders. 1t seemed for
second that nothing could save him
from being cut it two. But the boat
oarsman happened--by the Almighty's
favor-to see the fatal loop as it
spreng in the air. In heart beat
his sheathkniie flashed, and the line
was severed before it had time to nip,
or become taut on the Second iron."
1.-The old man" cast the loosened
coil from his body and settled back
in the stern sheets. 'Jonas," he
said to the bow oarsman, 81 guess
you saved my bacon. But now look
to John. I'm afraid this blamed old
Whale of the Cross has fixed him."
Jonas reached to where the body
of the fourth mate lay on the thwart,
aud turned his face to the sky. On
examination it was found that the har-
poon he had turned against Sacred
Ben had cloven his own heart in
twain. New York Independent.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
How They Catch SmeIts.

Residents of Surry are happy as
well rs busy now, for the head of the
river is frozen and the smelling bust
ness began Saturday. The news
spread about that smelts had appeared
i'll the bay, and those who were in
readiness made quite catch and sew
eral shipments were made. Others
employed themselves in getting their
tents on the ice, and Monday some
siXty-tive tents were located and one
of the largest catches in the history of
smelling in Surry was made, more
than two tons being taken. The aver
age quantity was from seventy-hve to
eighty pounds to man. The smelts
are shipped to Boston and New York
via stage to Ellsworth, and sell for
from five to fifteen cents a pound
Bangor tMe.l Whig and Courier.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
Queen and Woman Both.

Queen Victoria is a very old lady,
but she does not neglect those cour-
tesies that have caused her all her life
to be loved by those that know her.
Old servants may grow very old in
their attendance upon her before she
thinks them sufficiently aged to be set
aside for younger attendants.
Eighty-two Is good ripe age for a
housekeeper, but Miss Thornton, who
has been the Queens housekeeper for
more than forty years, would not have
felt called upon for so small a cause to
resign her position. Unfortunately
she grew deaf-too deaf to hear the
orders that were given. "I could not
say Il beg your pardon to Her Ma
jesty and ask for an order to be re-
peated," she herself said, in speaking
of her reason for resigning.
How much real care the Queen has
for this old servant was shown by her
thoughtfulness at the time of the last
jubilee. In the midst OF all the con-
fusion and excitement she did not for
get to order that tickets should be
furnished to Miss Thornton, admit
ting herself and friend to private
room in the epalacss room where there
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

The State of California, now per.
haps the closest of the larger States of
the country, has seven Representa-.
tives in the Fifty y-sixth Congress, Dat,
Notwithstanding the evenness of the
division between the two parties, six
of these Congressman are Repnbli-
cans and only one is Democrat. In the
Presidential election of 1896 the con-
test between the two parties was so
close that the electors were divided,
Mckinley receiving eight votes and
Bryan one. In the Presidential cleo
tion of 1892 the Republican plurality
was less than 100 votes, and so close
was the State that Cleveland received
eight of the electors and Harrison one.
California divided its electors in 1880
also, when the Democratic plurality
was only 100 votes.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

Mrs. Roswell Smith, seventy three
years old, widow of the founder of the
Century Company, died ut her home
in New York City few days ago. 1t
was Mrs. Roswell Smith who, as Miss
Annie Ellsworth, then young girl of
seventeen, sent the famous first tele-
graphic message. ''What God hath
wrought" Her father, Henry l..
Ellsworth, n son of Chief Justice Oliver
Ellsworth, was the first commissioner
of patents and has been called ''the
father of the patent office" He had
been n college friend of Professor S.
B. Morse. Together they had en-
deavored to induce Congress to pass
bill granting $50, 900 for tho con-
struction of trial line between Wash
ingtou and Baltimore. Morse had
been seeking the help of Congress
since 1888, but it was not until the
last hours Of the session of 1928 that
the bill was passed by the close vote of
80 to SO, and then went TO the Senate.
At twilight on the last evening of the
session there were 179 bills ahead of
it, and, as it seemed impossible that
his measure would be reached, Pro
fessor Morse. disheartened, went to
his hotel and prepared to return to
New York City by an early morning
train. His friend, the commissioner
ofapatents, kept doggedly working for
the bill, and at five minutes before
adjournment it was passed, only Que
measure going through after it.
1t was Miss Ellsworth who carried
the news of the passage of the bill to
Professor Morse the next morning.
IT was then that he assured her that
she should send the first message, and
little mere than year after, at her
mothers suggestion, Miss Ellsworth
wrote down the words of the Psalmist.
| "What God hath wrought" and they
were sent in triplicate in the dot and
line alphabet from Washington to Bal
timore. The original message was
given to Miss Ellsworth and has always
been in her keeping. The duplicate,
which was returned from Baltimore to
Washington, is in the Connecticut
historical rooms at Hartford.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
was window in full view CT the jubi.

was window in full view CT the jubi-
lee pageant.
Here the two old ladies could sit
and watch without fatigue the depar.
ture of the Queen, and her gorgeous
escort, and her triumphal return after
her progress through the city. BY the
Queens special order refreshments
were served to the housekeeper and
her friend, and they were treated as
honored guests.
Others besides Miss Thornton have
found, when they came in contact with
the Queen of England, that she is q
woman possessed eff that kindly tact
and confederation for others that
makes them see in her the woman as
well as the Queen.
The late Mrs. Kelley used to tell
with pleasure of the time when she
had the honor of being received by
Her Majesty. On being presented she
excused herself from making low
courtesy by saying;
"Your Majesty, I have rheumatism
in my knees and I cannot courtesy" !"
Mrs. Kelley" replied the Queen,
81 can't either"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

Although all good people have a
horror of war and the terrible tale
which it drags in its train, there is a
certain amount of fascination about it
because of its picturesque and in
tensely dramatic accompaniments.
One cannot, for instance, read with
out absorbing interest of the work OF
our Naval Brigade and their awfully
destructive lyddite shells, which, by
the way, take their name from Lydd,
on the Kentish coast, where the ex-
plosive is made and tested. Although
the 4. finch gun used by the Naval
Brigade has projectile weighing
forty-fve pounds, this includes tho
five and a half pounds charge of cor
dite which expels it; the weight of the
lyddite in its head, which breaks the
shell into death dealing fragments,
being only ten pounds. The entire
projectile is in form like sportsman's
cartridge, containing its own propel-
ling charge, with the addition of the
bursting charge of lyddite; deducting
these, the weight OF metal is only
twenty-nine and half pounds
Chambers's journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
The Finishing of Skirts,

Eelveteen continues to be regarded
rs the most wear resisting skirt
binding, but there is sufficient variety
in the accepted methods of applying
it to warrant word of description
The simplest plan is to line bias
strip OF velveteen two and three
quarter inches wide) with stiff crino-
line; apply to skirt from the right
side, turn over and tack smoothly to
the lining, employing the herring
bone or feather stitch. Where the
garment is of cloth a turned-up un-
lined hem is all that is required, and
the regulation width of such a finish
is two inches. Turned-in hens are
not approved of because OF their
bulkiness, but where there is a pos
sibility of the material raveling, its
edge may be bound with lute-string.
The novelty OF the moment consists
in the inlet cable-cord binding. This
is done as follows: Select heavy
cablecord and baste it into bias
casing of silk, yelyeteen, or corduroy,
the exact shade of the material of the
skirt. Now stitch the cable-casing to
the outside of the skirt, turn over,
and hem the facing closely down to
meet the cord. Where desired row
of machine stitching may be placed as
close to the cable as possible, thus
securing the cord still more firmly in
place. The process is that known to
needle-women as ''cording." This is
an exceedingly useful method OF skirt
binding. especially when applied to
the renovation of gowns, since it
counteracts the tendency to shorten
ing of the skirt usually observed after
the garment has been rebound. -
Harper's Bazaar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

There have been many royal au-
thors, and we wish sometimes there
were yet another, prince of pure
tell us meaner folk how princes really
feel about the etiquettes which envir-
on them. They seem So suffocating,
yet they can hardly be really detested
by those who obey them, or they would
not have survived as they have done
so many changes in the ways OF men.
One or two etiquettes have died out,
probably because they wearied cour,
tiers who took advantage of changes
of dynasty or the like silently to leave
off obeying them; but enough remain
to make of princes a caste separate in
habits from mankind. No sovereign
is now served, we imagine, ON bended
knee, nor does any one on whom n
kings glance falls think it incumbent
on him, rs Cecil did, at once to kneel !;
but enough are left to make life very
tiresome. 1t must be horrid bore to
king never to be able to move with.
out attendance, or to chat easily, or to
enter or leave q room without exciting
a commotion. Legend declares that
Lord William Bentinck, finding the
first of these etiauettes in full blast
when he took up his Indian Viceroy.
atty, threatened to resign unless it
could be abolished, and was relieved
to find that he was absolute enough,
provided he wrote the order, even to
be able to alter an etiquette. The
Spectator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
Clown and Gown,p

Being tall and strong for my age, I
was often made yard monitor" to
keep order during the physical train
ing, says w. j. Stillman, in the At
lantic. There was gang of young
ruflians, street boys, who used to
hang around the school gates and
maltreat the straGglers, and even the
boys in the yard, if the gate was LETT
open, and | remember one day three
or four of them coming in after | had
dismissed the boys to go upstairs at
the end of the intermission, thinking
that they would have fine game
with the monitor. One made pre-
text to quarrel with me, and, gripping
me around the body, called to his
companions to go and get some
stones to pound me on the head with
this being the approved manner OF
the young roughs of New York. Find
ing that | could not extricate myself
from his grip, dragged him to the
wall, and catching him by the ears,
beat his head against the rough
stones till he dropped incapable OF
further resistance, anG then ran up
stairs as fast as my legs could carry
me, SO that when the companions
came with their stones they had only
their champion to carry ont. On the
holidays there were generally stone
fights between the boys of our quarter
and one OF the adjoining quarters,
and L shall carry to my grave the
scars on my head of cuts received in
one of these field com,bats, in which
refused to follow my party in flight,
and took the onslaught of the whole
vanguard of the enemy, armed with
stones, and had my head pounded
yellow, being only saved from worse
by the intervention OF the men of the
vicinity.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

The division of statistics of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture has undertaken the publication
for wide distribution of lists of free
employment offices and other institu-
tions to which farmers may apply
when in need OF farm laborers. The
co operation of many charity organiza-
tion societies, settlements, colleges,
etc, has been secured, and it is hoped
thus to facilitate communications be
tween the farmers who want help and
those who are in need of work for the
summer months or for the entire year,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

One often hears of queer trades, but
perhaps the queerest is one which is
controlled in this country by one
man. This is the manufacture of
shuttle eyes. These are made of
porcelain and require to be very care
fully made. The solitary manufac-
turer has acquired his trade wholly by
the care with which his product is
turned out and the perfect uniformity
of his goods, as result of which
every shuttle eye fits the hole into
which its predecessor was inserted.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
Drunkenness Increasing in Franc :.

Drunkenness is said to be increasing
in France DR. Jacquct, who has care
fully examined into the matter. made
round OF the Paris hospitals and found
that out oi 4.744 cases personally in
vestigated by him I.4o5, or more than
30 per cent. were persons given to cx-
ccssive drinking and whose illness when
not the immediate result OF alcoholism
had been aggravated by the abuse OF
liquor. Among the more serious cases
he found the percentage oil incbriates
to be 20 One OF the difficulties in in
vestigating the question was that the
patients, and especially the women, an.
dcavored to conceal their eXccsSes.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
GIANT TREES THREATENEp.
An Effort to Save the Sequoias of Gale.
veras From the LuInbermen.

Il AN save the SeuuOtaB OF Gaia
| veras From the LuInbermen.
The San Joaquin Valley CONNER.
cial Association is taking steps to pre-
serve the famous Calaveras grove of
big trees, owned by j. l.. Sperry, but
which will probably pass into the
hands of large lumber finn which
has secured an option on this famous
wonderland of central California. 1t
is the intention of the new owners to
erect several large sawmills in Gala
veras County, and they will then turn
all of the large trees, which have
been one of the points of interest to
visitors, into lumber, unless immedi>
ate steps are taken to save them.
President Buell., of the San Joaquin
Valley Commercial Association, has ap-
pointed committee to secure all data
possible on the matter, and report
will be presented at the next session
of the association at Merced. Buell.
has also communicated with the Cali
fornia Water and Forest Association,
aud the Sierra Club, calling attention
to the situation, and requesting their
assistance in saving this wonderful
grove from destruction.
The committee will also communi-
cate with Congressman De Vries to
learn if something cannot be done ct
once by Congress to save the Gala
veras big trees, which are famous the
world over. He will be urged to have
:lational park set aside, to include the
sequoias, as has been done in Mari
posa and Tulare Counties, where lum-
bermen got within striking distance
of the big trees in those sections. No
effort will be spared by the Valley AS
sociation to keep the trees from fall
ing under the axe of the lumbermea
who have secured control of them.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

When the wild wind ripped
Like a maddened thing,
And his ears were nipped
By the fierce frost king:
When the deep pipes frozs
And clear drops dripped
From his glowing nose;
When the slow wheels creaked
And the panes were streaked
By the etcher who
Is never seen,
He longed for the days when the skies are
blue
And the fields are green;
"Oh. for the glad, warm days" he cried,
when the loosened streams may flow,
For summer day is WORTH" he sighed,
"More than all the months OF sncwl
And if this keeps on, he shivering said,
81 fear the fruitll bo frozen dead.'
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

The glad sun smiled
On all below;
The winds so wild
week ago
Blew gently from the south and sent
The frost king skulling penitent;
The picture melted from the pane,
And birds came singing from somewhere;
A verdant tinge spread DER the plain,
And all the scene was fair,
But he who had condemned the blast
Was still unsatisned,
And manya hopeless look he cast
Across the fields and sighed:
"rhe sun is warm and bright,
But, oh, 1t isn't right
That fields are green to-day
And birds are on the wing!
Alas, we'll have to pay
For all this in the springi"
...- S. L. Kiser.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

The wealth of the United States IS
estimated at one hundred billions of
dollars, and yet there are hundreds of
thousands of people in the United
States who to-day are hungry and cold
and ragged and hopeless.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

The st. Louis Republic says: "Tf
Admiral Lord Beresford is correct IN
his assertion that the British navy is
as rottenly directed as the British
army, then indeed does England need
all the alliances she can lay her hands
an
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

1t is an i'll wind that blows nobody
good, and the Czar'a drastic policy in
Finland may send us very industri-
ous and desirable class of immigrants.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

Children's cambria DIR esses finished
with cluster tuckings and embroidered
yokes.
Double breasted fur jackets fast
ened with extremely large jeweled
buttons.
Boys blouse and vestee suits made
of serge or cheYiot tastefully trimmed
with braid
Many new ideas in boa, muff, lorg-
nette and neck chains in gilt, silver
and enamel.
Stock collars of various colors with
broad black ends to be worn with fan.
mel shirt waists.
Dotted Swiss shirt waists trimmed
with valenciennes lace fashioned with
handkerchief fronts.
White and delicately tinted batiste
corsets showing silk embroiderings in
contrast aud lace trimmings.
Big reductions in staple and novel.
ty laces, allo vers, transparencies, gar.
nitures and spangled trimmings.
New collections of foral-sprigged
nets and other transparent materials
suitable for day and evening wear.
Evening wraps of fdelicately colored
satin or cloth showing rich appliques
of lace and bands of ostrich feathers.
Dressing gowns of quilted silk or
satin with wide, round collars and
cuffs in contrast edged with swans
down.
Very ornate negligees and house,
gowns of soft silk or wooden materials,
in which great quantities form the dis
tinguishing point. Dry Goods Econ
omist.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
Sacred Ben, the Whaln Of the Gross.
BY JAMES COOPER WHEELER.
COOPER WHEELER.

S H ALL always s
claim that a better
man than Portu-
guese John never
slapped the deck of
n .whaler with his
foot. All of ma
rine New Bedford
thirty years ago
which was fierce
ly skeptical of Dago
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

When you are thinking of making q
short cut to success remember that
there are very few guide.posts of the
beaten track.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

Between Madagascar and the coast
OF India there are about 10000 islands,
only GOO OF which are inhabited, but
most OF which are capable OF supporting
population.