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Newport weekly independent., 1902-06-20
COUNTERFEITERS ARRESTED.
Captured in Their Several Homes and discriminating Evidence
 Discovered in Each.

Baltimore, Md, June 16.-Unitea States secret service men, aided by local police, yesterday captured eight Italians supposed to be mem bers of a gang of counterfeiters, who have operated in several parts of the country during the past few months. The prisoners are Dominic de Marco. Tony de Marco and Martin de Marco, father and sons, and Cato Rocesse, Louis Zimma and two women named Martil.
 Secret service men Foster and Burns have been working on the case for several weeks. Soon after com ing to Baltimore they located the gang and, disguised as tramps, in- gratitiated themselves with some of the Italians. It was not until a few days ago, however, that they secured a tangible clew. They detected the Martil woman passing bogus half-dol- lars and quarters.
 Yesterday Assistant Chief Moran and Secret Service Officers Taylor and Griffith came over from Wash ington to assist in the contemplated raid upon the houses of the suspects. The De Marcos were arrested in their home at 911 Lombard street, ROcesse and Zimma were picked up on the street, and the Martil women were found at their home. At each of the houses a quantity of metal and some counterfeiting paraphernalia were cred.
 The prisoners formerly lived in New York, although the De Marcos do not claim to be acquainted with the other men. All reached Baltimore three months ago, and their advent marked the presence of lot of queer coins that had been made in the metropolis. It is said that the pris- oners are only a part of a crowd of suspects, and number of other ar rests will shortly follow in nearby cities
 While the officers were in daily con- tact with the prisoners they gained some valuable information concern ing operations in other cities.
 The De Marcos claim to be barbers and the other men say they are la borers. They will have hearing be- fore Commissioner Rogers to-day.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-06-20
TO CONFEDERATE DEAD.
Dedication of Memorial Arch to Confederates Who Died in
 Camp Chase, Ohio.

Columbus, O.. June 15.-The un- yelling and dedication of memorial arch to 2s250 confederate dead at tracted 5000 people from all parts of the country to this city Saturday. The arch was the gift of William Harrison, of Cincinnati. former cit izen of Columbus. The dead soldiers were prisoners at Camp Chase, west of Columbus, during the war, and died in prison. For many years the little cemetery was neglected. For mer President Hayes paid a farmer to keep the burial ground free from weeds. Former Gov. Fora1er had the government inclose the spot with a stone wall. Several years ago, Col. W. Il. knauss, public-spirited local citizen and eX-federal soldier. insti- tuted a yearly custom of decorating the graves. MT. Harrison was not a soldier in either army, but was in- f1uenced in making his gift by senti- ment
 The dedication ceremonies were the most elaborate ever held There were many eX-cCnfederates present from all parts of the south. Among the speakers were Gov. Nash and Gen. John B. Gordon. The graves were decorated by the ladies of the G. A. R. and the Daughters of the COnfederacy.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-06-20
WITH MILITARY HONORS.
Remains of Hamlet Jarvis, Jr., an American Soldier Murdered in
 the Philippines, Buried.

Baltimore, Md, June 16.-The re- mains of Hamlet Jarvis, Jr. former ly member of'the Thirty-fifth volun- teer infantry in the Philippines, who was murdered two years ago by in- surgents, were buried here yesterday. In October, 1900, Jarvis was one of several American soldiers who left Balinag as an escort to Jose Buen- camino, presidente of San Miguel de Mayumo. The whole party was cap- tured, taken into swamp and assas- sinated with daggers. Subsequently two of the insurgent murderers. Ti- mOteO Dhalan and Manuel Gonzales. were executed for the crime, but they refused to tell where the bodies were hidden.
 Dr. Hamlet Jarvis, the father of young Jarvis, who resides near this city, undertook search for the body of his son, employing scouts and spending a great deal of money to that end. few months ago he suc- ceeded in finding his sons skeleton in swamp, and it was brought here for interment. The remains were buried with military honors by Com- pany A, Fifth Maryland regiment, of which young Jarvis was member during the war with Spain.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-06-20
FOR ANNEXATION OF CUBA.
Senator ElI<fns, of West NirGintas Introduces Joint ResOlu-
 ton For the Purpose.

Washington, June 15.-Senator E1- lins introduced a joint resolution in the senate providing for the anenXa- tion of Cuba and for it's admission as state of the union.
 The resolution grants the consent of congress to the erection of the re- public of Cuba as state of the un- ion, "To be called the State of Cuba, with a republican form of govern ment, to be adopted by the people of said republic by deputies in conven- tion assembled with the consent of the existing government"
 A condition is specified that the constitution of the proposed state shall be submitted to congress not later than January 1, 1904. There is also a provision that the debts of Cuba shall not become charge upon the general government. There also is an alternative provision giving the president authority, if he prefers, to proceed in a more direct way for Cuba's admission as a state. This provision permits the admission un- der the terms of the resolution itself, instead of proceeding to submit the resolution to Cuba as an overture on the part of the United States" If this latter course is pursued a state is to be formed. Out of the present re- public of Cuba, wi h republican form of government, and with rep resentatives in congress, and be ad- mitted into the union by this act, on an equal footing with the existing states as soon as the terms and con- ditions of such admission shall be agreed upon by the governments of the republic of Cuba and the United States"
 The resolution provides for the ap- propriation of $100,0oo to carry it's provisions into effect.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-06-20
GAS FLAME MAKES MUSIC.
The Singular Instrument Designed by an Eminent Scientist of
 New York City.

Few men who deal in science from the abstract standpoint ever evolve anything practical from their theories, but Prof. Ogden Rood has proved an exception, reports a New York ex- change. A New York mechanic has constructed, upon the professors sug. gestion, a musical instrument of de. cidedly novel description. Until in- formed no one would ever recognize the apparatus. It is part of the chande- Her in the owners drawing-room. The basis of the affair is the so-called mu- sical flame. When gas is burned in cylindrical chimney of a certain length and width it produces a musical note. According to the angle at which the vapor is emitted from the jet there will be either sound or silence. A simple contrivance enables the owner by touching a button to change the flame from musical to nonmusical at his will. There are 30 lamps in his chandelier so arranged as to make four octaves. The ekeyboardi is in a corner of the room. where it occupies but little space and might easily be mistaken
 
 for convenient shelf on the wall. The music produced by the flames is very pleasant. It is not so loud nor so vii brant as that from either wood or brass wind instruments, but is fuller and more sonorous than whistle or flute.
 An odd feature of the instrument is that playing on the flames does not vary the amount of light produced, the musical being indistinguishabi bie from the nonmusical flame. All that the spectator notices is delightful mel ody of unusual timbre coming to him from the chandelier.
 The owner has frequently had con- siderable fun by playing the instru- ment when some one was in the room or hall that knew nothing of the af- fair. When the auditor was educated he was puzzled and looked about the parlors in vain for the new-fangled music box he believed to be at work. Where he was ignorant he usually man. ifested some fear along with his be- lwilderment.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-06-20
OMNIBUS STATEHOOD BILL.
xt Is To Re Taken Up for Considers. tion In the Senate Early In
 the Next Session.

Washington, June 15.-The senate committee on territories decided to take up for consideration, early in the next session of congress, the om- nibus statehood bill, admitting into the union the territories of Oklaho- ma, New Mexico and Arizona.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-22

There is great green "parrot-fsh"
of Bermuda, as brilliant in color as
his namesake the bird, showing himself
boldly, and swimming along slowly,
secure from any assault His scales
are green as the fresh grass of spring
time, and each one is bordered by a
pale-brown line. His fins are pink, and
the end of the tail is banded with
nearly every color of the rainbow. He
is Snowy, but this showiness serves
him a good purpose. His flesh is bit
ter and poisonous to man, and prob
ably so to other fishes as well, and
they let him well alone, for they can
recognize him afar off, thanks to his
gaudy dress.
Underneath the parrot, lying on the
bottom, is pink hind" You notice
him, and as the parrot passes over
him he suddenly changes to bright
scarlet, and as quickly resumes his
former faint color. Had the parrot
been looking for his dinner, and thought
the hind would make a good first
course, this sudden change of color
might have scared him off, just as the
sudden bristling of cat makes dog
change his mind When the hind is
disturbed at night he gives out flashes
of light to startle the intruder, and
send him away in a frlght.-St. Nicho-
las
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-22

According to the report of United
States Consul Albert w. Swain, at
Montevideo, the exports OF fresh meat
from the River Plate show a steady
increase. Nearly two years ago the
export OF live stock from the River
Plate to Europe was embargoed by
reason Of the foot and mouth disease,
and while the disease has disappeared
the quarantine remains. This has
caused a marked development of the
refrigerated beef industry, so that
three lines Of steamers, including the
Royal Mail Packets, have been fitted
to carry beef in quarters to the English
markets.
These beef exports, up to October /,
1901, have amounted to 341, 1924 quar-
ters, as against 143,959 for the same
period Of 1900. During the same nine
months 1,930,G42 frozen sheep were ex.
ported to Europe. The River Plate can
easily furnish from 100000 to 4,000,-
900 quarters Of beef for export.
The cattle used for the trade cost an
average of $23 to $50 gold per head at
the killing market The best sheep fo1
freezing cost an average of So per
head.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-22
Value of Sunday Ecst.

An important contribution to scien.
titic data bearing on the necessity of
Sunday rest from labor has been made
by Pennsylvania railroad official. He
selected two groups Of laborers from
the working force of certain freight
house controlled by his road. He
measured the working capicity of each
group in terms of tons handled daily
for week. On Sunday one group
rested; the other worked as usual. On
the following Monday the men who
had been continuously at service
showed a decrease Of ten per cent. II
efficiency as compared with the pre-
vious Monday, and each day after
their comparative delinquency beca.A
greater. The men who had their Sua-
day respite on the other hand, were us
valuable to the company the second
week as the first.-Duluth Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-22
The Placid Founder.

AT length we see them, the serene
founders, reposing in the small end
of the pockets. 1t is hard to imagine
more impassive fish in all the seas than
these lounders-hardly a squirm or a
flash out of them as they are bailed
over the rail and dumped into the well.
They did swim around like happy
creatures once they found themselves
in the well, in what must have seemed
free water to them again-but that
only showed again what foolish fish
they We're, as even August noted. A
fat cod or a haddock, a whiting or
even a heayy-witted halibut will kick
and struggle when caught, with SEEM
ingly presentiment of the fate that
awaits him; but these fiat founders
not a really vigorous kick or wiggle
from the entire bunch.-From "On a
Baltic Sea Sloop," by James Il. Connol-
ly, in Scribners.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-22

Continental brides, says the London
Graphic, are so conservative in their
bridal attire and customs that it is
somewhat strange that two new depar-
lures at weddings should have been no.
ticed within the past few days, and in
different countries. In Spain-of all
lands most slow TO take in new ideas
the daughter of a grandee was attended
by eight bridesmaids, quite after the
English fashion. AS rule, brides
maids are non-eXistent in France and
Spain, the bride being only attended
by one or two maids of honor, each
dressed differently In this last of
Spanish weddings, however, the bevy
of maidens We're all in white, and
walked up the church after the bride.
The second innovation was observed at
q smart Paris wedding. The bride
wore, instead Of the orthodox wLite
silk or satin, a white velvet gown, and
instead of orange blossoms or myrtle
bouquets of white camellias, both on
her corsage and catching up her lace
veil, so arranged as to form a peaked
up and very becoming coiffure.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-22
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Sorrows remembered swecten pres
ent joy.-Follock.
Rashpess is the faithful but un.
happy parent Of mlsfortune.-Fuller.
To reform a mar you must begin
with his grandmother. Victor Hugo.
Recompense injury with justice, and
unkindness with kindness.-Confucius
A straight line is the shortest IN NOR
ais as in mathematics.-Mar Edge
worth.
If nettled by severe raillery, conceal
the sting if you would escape a repeti-
ton of the evil.-Colton.
There are few things reason can dis
cover with as much certainty and ease
as its own insufIiciency.-Jeremy Col
lier.
Reflection is the flower of the mind.
giving out wholesome fragrance; but
revery is the same flower, when rank
and running to seed.-Tupper.
One of the most unfortunate beings
is a man gifted with sense Of humor
who lacks tact, for nearly every joke
he perpetrates cost him a friend. He
cannot resist the temptation to enjoy
a good joke, even at the expense Of
friendship. The humorist who would
retain his friends must refrain from
jokes that may be interpreted as im-
pertinence.-Success.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-22

At time when electricity is rapidly
transforming the face of the globe,
when it has already in great measure
annihilated distance and bids fair to
abolish darkness for us, it is curious
to notice how completely ignorant
"the plain man" remains as to the later
developments of electrical theory.
Some recent correspondence has led
me to think that a vague notion that
electricity is fluid which in some
mysterious way flows through a tele-
graph wire like water through a pipe,
is about as far as he has got; and if
we add to this some knowledge of
what he calls electric Shocks" we
should probably exhaust his ideas on
the subject. Yet this is not to be
wondered at Even the most in
structed physicists can do nothing but
guess what electricity is, and the only
point on which they agree is as to
what it is not. There is, in fact, n
perfect concensus of opinion among
scientific writer's that it is not fluid,
l. e., a continuous stream Of ponderable
matter, as is liquid or a gas; and that
it is not form of energy, as is heat.
Outside this limit the scientific imag-
nation is at liberty to roam where it
listeth, and although it has used this
liberty to a considerable extent, no
definite result has followed up to the
present time.-The Academy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-22
Tho Height of the Atmospllere.

One thing may be said about the new
atmosphere. That OF old was supposed
to be not over sixty miles high. Its IA
ito CT decrease of density seemed to
prove this. The atmosphere is now be-
lieved to be fully 500 miles high. This
belief is based upon a study of the fall
of meteorites. These free wanderers
of space plunge into the upper air at SO
great Il speed that their friction, even
with the extremely rare gas at that
high altitude, soon heats them to incan-
descence, and they fame into light
They have been observed to flash out
in this way at Il height of over 100
miles. At this elevation the air must,
be so exceedingly rare as to renderHt
certain that friction with several hun
dred miles of it would be needed to
heat . meteor TO the incandescent point.
From this it is estimated that the up
per limit of the atmosphere cannot be
less than 500 miles above the surface.
1t may be much more. The air may
extend upward as far as the force of
gravity is capable of overcoming its
centrifugal force, which steadily in
creases with height How high that is
no one can tell.-Charles Morris, in Lip.
pincott.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-22
FROM ANOTHER WORLD.
An English Officer Warned Againss
DEATH.

An English girl was engaged to be
married to a young American who had
been n student abroad. They had met
at Heidelberg. He died suddenly after
returning to this country. She came
over here shortly afterward to visit his
mother. While in New York she went
to a medium. There was no appoint
ment beforehand and there was no
way by which the psychic could know
who she was. Taking her turn, she
sat down by the medium. who went in
to trance and began to speak. In
mediately the girls lover claimed to be
present. He told her some things
which only they two had ever known.
He recalled circumstances connected
with their acquaintance abroad. Now
1t so happened that this young lady's
father was an English officer in the
war in South Africa. Among other
things which the young man told was
this: He said: 81 am glad that l have
been able to save your fathers life
once or twice during the past summer"
Now comes the strange coincidence,
If coincidence it be. The father writes
home from South Africa, being en-
tirely ignorant of all that has taken
place here, and relates what seems to
him a somewhat remarkable fact. He
tells how he was sitting in his tent
one day when there came upon him
suddenly an unaccountable impression
that he was in danger. 1t was as
though some one were trying to make
him feel this and induce him to move.
So strong was the feeling that he got
up and went over to the other side
of his tent. He had hardly done this
before a shell struck the chair whNre
he had been sitting. Had he remained
there he would have been instantly
killed OF course, 1t is not asserted
that this is anything more than CO.
incidence: but the suggestion is made
that condolences of this sort have
been so very frequent as to make one
wonder as to whether there is not
some deeper meaning in it all.-Minot
]. Savage, in Ainslee's Magazine.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-22
CORPSE TAKES WEIGHT.
Strange Case Which ia Exciting Comment
in New York.

For some time there has been specu-
lation as to whether the body of Elmer
S. Bunday, who was a United States
Circuit Court Judge, was petrided.
Though at the time of his death, hye
years ago, says the New York Tribune,
tie Judge weighed only a little more
than 100 pounds, it took six or seveH>
men to handle the coffin recently at
the Moravian Cemetery, where the
body is now in the receiving vault,
awaiting reburial. The present weight
is said to be more than 800 pounds.
The theory of petrifaction was reject
ed by experts who visited the vault
and examined the body not long ago,
but there is no doubt that the body
has undergone marked and curious
changes, and the examination which
was made showed also that the color
had changed to almost the shade of
bronze.
"The body could hardly have become
Detrifed in so short time as five
years." said Frank II. Chase, an au-
thority on embalming, las petriiication
is always accompanied by great age.
But an increase in weight might easily
occur if the body We're in a grave,
where waters charged with mineral
substances percolated. I can see no
way in which the increase of weight
could take place if the coffin were air-
tight.
But the probability is that it was
not. 1t is extremely difficult to make
a metal coffin alright, and unless water
could percolate to the body there is ro
means by which it could gain weight.
when a body is embalmed, too,
there is a gradual toughening of the
tissues, accompanied by disappear
ance Of the watery substances, so that
in time weight is lost instead of gained.
A body weighing 125 to $50 pounds at
death would in Il year or so weigh no
more than twenty-five pounds. You
can lift a mummy easily with one
hand, but to account for an increase in
weight it is necessary to suppose that
mineral substances have been added.
In perfectly dry grave no increase in
weight could take place. This is sim
ply due to an accretion Of mineral mat
ter, and such cases are by no means
unprecedented"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-22
Wit.
Humor and Subtlety in Narrative as Ra-
cial characteristics.

Witty anecdotes are occasionally
credited to the Jews, but, according
to writer in Chambers's Journal, "the
Jews possess in n remarkable degree
the quality of humor and subtlety in
| narrative generally of biting or droll
nature" A number of specimens are
given. Some concern Disraeli, the best,
perhaps, being that relating to the late
Lord Rosslyn. 'What can we do with
Rosslyn" Disraeli once asked Of a col
league. make him Master of the
Buckhounds as his father was" sug-
gested the latter. mo-" replied the
premier; 'he swears far too much for
that. We will make him High Com
missioner to the Church of Scotland"
Many stories are told of the Roths-
childs. A young fop who paid one of
the celebrated Jewish bankers a visit
was so proud of his set of malachite
sleeve buttons that he foolishly insisted
latter looked at them and then re-
marked: "Yes, it is a pretty stone;
have always liked it. In the next
room have mantlepiece made of it."
The wife of one OF the Rothschilds
lived to be ninety-eight. On her DEATH
bed she said to her medical attendant:
"Oh, doctor, can you do anything for
me?" Nothing, madam" he replied;
81 cannot make you young again"
mo" she added; 81 do not want that
I should like TO live to grow old"
The grandfather of the present Lord
Rothschild made practice Of employ
ing certain cabby to drive him round
on his business calls. paying the man
literally but not layishly. That gem
tleman's son also occasionally en-
ployed the same driver, and he invaria-
bly, gave a substantial gratuity in ad-
dition to the fare. This difference
puzzled the cabman for a time, till
eventually he plucked up sufficient
courage to ask the elder Rothschild
to explain why his son always paid
more than he did. MY good man."
Rothschild replied, my son has the
good fortune to have a rich father; 1
haven't"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-22

AS an illustration of the curiously
diversified character Of the work of the
agricultural stations, it is of interest
to note that the California station has
been for over ten years experimenting
in fig culture, sixty different varieties
having been tested in that period. 1t
has been connected indirectly with the
National Government in the study OF
the Smyrna fig. /. has been demon
strated that this fig, to reach its high
est form, must be fertilized by tiny
insect which, in the Old World fig re-
gions goes on its enriching journeys
from the wild caprifig flower to the do
mestic fig tree, bearing the pollen
which gives to the ripened fig its Pc
culiar richness and Gavor. The promise
now is that, through the introduction
of the insect, the choicest European
! figs are to be raised with profit in Cali
fornia.-W. S. Haruood, in Scribner's.