FKEELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. TIJL< >-•. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICIO: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. One Year > ™ Six Months Four Months ® | Two Months Subscribers are requested to observe the date following the name on the labels of their papers. II) referring to this they can tell at a j glance how they stand on the books in this J office. For instance: G rover Cleveland SSJuneiU means that Grover is paid up to June 2S. IKM. Keep I im figures In advance or the present date. Report promptly to this office when your paper , Is not received. All arrearages must bo paid when paper Is discontinued, or collection will be made in the manner pruvided by law. A blue "A " on the paper is a reminder that your subscription is due. ____ FREKLAXD, DECEMBER 14, 1893. Now that tlio holiday season is almost upon us, tlioso who are unable to properly provide for themselves should be substantially remembered by those who have plenty. There are several poor families in town and it would he a graceful act on the part of our well-to-do citizens should they take the proper steps toward alleviat ing the wants of the needy. It pa; s in the loug run to be charitable and magnanimous rather than niggardly. It is now pretty well understood that the contemplated race between the champion English and American locomotives, that were exhibited at Chicago, will not take place. Our British cousins decline to join in a contest in which they know, before hand, they would come out second best. So. 999, of the New York Central, is said to have made speed at the rate of 1121 miles per hour, ami no locomotive as yet produced in England has come up to that scratch. One of the results of the distress among the poor in New York city has been the establishment by the Indus trial Christian Alliance of a restaurant ] which provides hot meals for the nominal sum of five cents each. There is a great deal of practical Christianity in a hot meal; and it marks such a distinct improvement upon the meal of cold victuals that tlio new movement should not lack support. Ihe revelation that Professor Tyn dall's death was due to an unfortu nate error of his wife, who mistook a bottle of chloral for one containing magnesia, should empahsize the de mand for some device for the con spicuous marking of vials that would render such mistakes almost impos sible. As loug as medicine bottles shall continue to be made of uniform size and shape the most careful per sons will be likely to meet with such deplorable accidents. The sentence of twenty-seven years imprisonment imposed on Friday by Judge Clayton, of Chester, I'a., on Thomas Bodgers, the youthful parri cide, who in January last murdered his father and attempted to kill his mother and sister, was none too heavy a retribution for a crime so utterly revolting and atrocious. A nature capable of such a deed is scarcely to he tamed by any length of incarcera tion-. but the community will at least be guarded for a long term of years against the the bl iud thirsty instincts of so ferocious a creature.— llecord. I 'uring last winter's football season m (neat Britain from September to March—there we re 20 deaths from ' accidents" in playing The previous year had a death-roil of 22, and the year before that 23. With the rapid increase in public favor which the game is receiving in the United States, we may expect an equally 1 large death-roll of promising young 1 men each year. Those who are directing the game should endeavor to modify its gladiatorial features so as to eliminate the chances of death as much as possible. If the rules of the game at present admit of fatal chances, they should be changed. Otherwise, the game will go down in popular favor as rapidly as it came up, and it will he relegated to tho domain of brutalities rather than of sports. The Democratic members of the i present congress will decide, to a large extent, the fate of their party at this session. If Wilson tariff bill is allowed to be amended in any direction, except to increaso further its free trade features, the voters can again be depended upon to overthrow tlie cowards who will not follow the platform upon which (hey were elect ed. The Democratic party went before tho people in 18112 with the bold declaration that protection was unconstitutional and a direct robbery, and a failure on the part of its rep resentatives in congress to stand by the bill now before them will brin" a defeat that would be deserved in the elections next fall. Let them not be frightened by the scare-crow utterings of Republican organß or orators and i such defenders of class legislation, but do their duty in abolishing a thievish syA em that is a curse and a i drawback to American progress. TABLE FOR INVALIDS. An Unfailing Convenience for the Patient and Nurse. flow an Old-Fafthloned Light Stand Wan Made Over Into a Valuable Piece of Furniture—Go Hence and Ho Likewise. The following sketch from the House hold shows how a large old-fashioned light stand was made over into a con venient and pretty table to stand close by the side of an Invalid's bed, to serve as a repository for many little conven iences and necessities to which she could often help herself if only they could bo kept within her reach. As there was no one "handy with tools" to call upon, the nurse, who knew nothing about wood-work, hur riedly arranged the table herself, for temporary use. Hut it proved strong, stable and satisfactory in every way, an unfailing convenience to its suffer ing but self-helpful owner. The following particulars regarding its arrangement may be helpful to others with similar needs: The top of the stand was enlarged an inch or two in width and several inches \[ |Hi * IMPROMPTU JNVALID'B TABLE, in length at each side by the addition of a smooth board top, which was se curely nailed to position; this was cov ered with tightly-drawn cream-white rubber cloth, which was turned under the edges and tacked around on the un der side. Into the under side of the shelf, close to each table leg, was turned a strong screw—almost, but not quite, through to the upper surface of the board—so that the heads projected like four legs, each nearly an inch long. These little legs dropped through and fitted closely into the eyes of strong screw-eyes which were turned into and projected from the inner side of each table leg. Being held in position in this way, at fopr points, the shelf was as secure as need be, and it almost doubled the use- j fulness of the table. A square, round or oblong shelf may be adjusted to any four-logged stand or table in this way. They make con venient sewing or reading tables or commodes. At the end of the table, close to the pillow, a row of roomy pockets were | suspended by cords or ribbons from lit- I tie brass screw-eyes, and, to keep them from swinging out of place, each lower corner was secured to a similar screw eye inside the table leg. Standing close by the side of the bed every part of the table —top, shelf, drawer and pockets—soon became in dispensable. Water, medicine, fruit, bell, handkerchief, napkin, fan, watch or book, any or all, could be safely within reach. The rubber cloth, im pervious to water, could be wiped off and made fresh and sweet, no matter what might have been spilled upon it, and the pocket linings, like rubber cloth bags, could be turned out and j cleaned at any time. When the table was pronounced a \ success and a fixture it was made more attractive and still more convenient by the addition of back boards to the top and shelf—see dotted lines—which, like the rest of the woodwork, was then given two coats of prettily-tinted enamel paint, the brass drawer-pull was polished and tiny ornamental brass hooks were placed wherever they were needed for the suspension or safe keeping of any little article; wash silk or linen scarfs were draped over the back hoards, their fringed ends falling gracefully at the sides, und the result was a piece of furniture which was as dainty and neat to look at as it was convenient to use, which is baying a great deal for its appearance. Kiiwiiiß In the Public Nuhooln. The course of study in sewing in the lioston public schools is interesting for nn amateur of sewing to consider. To rctwi of "thimble, emery, scissors," set off neatly us articles of study, and to gaze upon a printed curriculum of "basting, backstitching, overcasting, hnlf-baclcstitching and combination of one running and one-half backstitch," is to realize most intensely the ad-! vantages Boston offers to her daugh ters. In the fourth year are taught, I among other things, stocking darning, straight and bias felling, whipping and sewing on ruffles, hemstitching, blind stitching, tucking if not taught previously, gathers overhanded to a band, sewing on hooks and eyes and buttons, eyelets, loops, and in the fifth I year there; is a system of dress cutting i by which girls are taught to take | measures, draught, cut and lit a dress waist. To Note a Clever Woman. The cleverest woman in the matter of dress is the plain woman who con trives never to let you know she's plain. To be successful in this respect one must have natural good taste. It's no use to put one's self entirely in the hands of a good dressmaker. Dress makers need directing. They can't be expected to know a customer's weak or strong points as well as she should know them herself. All women, except those with hopelessly bad fig ures and no throats, pay for dressing. A gown is usually becoming if it is tho same color as the wearer's eyes. A bright bandeau under the brim of a hat is apt to have an improving effect. Mood taste is a thing to be thankful for. Those who possess it are inclined to value it too lightly. _ THE SENATE PAGES. They Ilare Easy Duties and Get a Very Good Salary. Of the one hundred and ten appoint ments under the sorgfeant-at-arras of the United States senate, those of the pages only can bo said to be non political. No boy can be appointed a page of the senate who is not twelve years of age; and no boy can continue as a page who is sixteen years of age at the beginning of a session of con gress. It is a lucrative position, and few of the boys are not sorry when their term has ended. Usually, four of the boj's who are graduated from the page's position at the beginning of a session are appointed riding pages Their selection depends on their records for efficiency and faithfulness. The page on the tloor of the senate draws $3.50 a day during the session of congress. The riding-page receives $3.50 a day the year round, and has a horse to ride. Ilis duties keep him out of doors a great part of the time, carrying messages between the capitol and the departments. The position is considered more desirable than that of a page. Speaking of their work, the Washington Star says: "The page's life is a pleasant one. He must be on duty at nine o'clock each morning, but the serious business of the day does not begin until noon, when the senate meets, Before that time ho arranges the files of the Congressional Record and the bills and reports on the desks of the senators who have been as signed to him. There are sixteen pages and eighty-eight senators, so none of the pages has very much to do. The morning hours are not all work ing hours. There is a gymnasium in the basement of the capitol, furnished especially for their use. They exercise their arms and their chests there every morning; their legs get plenty of ex ercise through the day." THE WATERY WALTZERS. An Amusfiraent Which Has a Tinge of tlio l\lysfcrloiiH About ft. There is nothing that so greatly en lists the interest of the American boy and girl as an amusement which has a tinge of the mysterious about it. It is our purpose to glean from the realm of science and present suggestions for such amusement. In the present suggestion we will utilize a new motive power, independ ent of steam, electricity, weight or spring, evolved out of materials so readily found that it might bo said they are already to bo had at hand in every household. Procure some cork, two needles and some ordinary household gum camphor —such as is used for moths. Cut five pieces out of the cork, all of the same FIG. 1. FIG. 2. thickness, slightly larger and in the shapes (one round and four oblong) as shown in Fig. 1. Pierce the round pieces of cork with the needles, so that they will intersect in the center at right angles, and fasten firmly on each end of the needles the four ob long pieces of cork. On one side of each piece of cork thus placed—and al ways on the samo side—fasten four pieces of camphor of equal quantity, as shown in Fig. 1. Sealing wax will be found a good means of fastening on the camphor. Great caution should be taken in having the hands, as well as the ma terial used, perfectly clean, as tha slightest amount of dirt will spoil its efficiency. Now by placing this in i water it will be found to revolve of its own volition, rapidly for days in the direction as shown by the arrow. A very interesting and amusing toy can be had by cutting out of this paper two figures in the attitudo of dancing; with the use of a pencil they can bo made more effective in appearance. Then fasten them upon the circular piece of cork, as shown in Fig. 2. These figures should bo made as light as possible. If proper care is taken you will thus obtain tireless, indefat igable waltzers who will continue in their lifelike movement for three days 1 at least.—Once a Week. Aimmlng and Instructive. Did you ever think that the same syllable is often used in a great many words? if not, suppose you learn it by playing the following game: Write sev eral words on a long slip of paper, leav ing the space of half an inch between the syllables of each word. Then cut out the syllables, assort them, and let each player draw three syllables at random. From these three, or from any two of them, he must try to con struct a word. 1 f unable to do so he must return two to the pack, and wait until his turn comes again, when he may draw thrco more slips and try '* again. ; The Kuling TaHßlon. The other day the kittens were paw - ing a sphere of yarn all around the li ; brary, and Ruthvcn was greatly do ■, lighted to see them tumbling about in ; a heap. Finally he called to his moth , .er who was upstairs: "Oh, mamma, just come down quick) What do you suppose the kittens are i | doing?" "Are they eating that fish in the but- L ler's pantry?" she asked. "No, mamma; they are only playing football in the library." Harper's Young People. Wag This Judge Duffy? A New York police judge who has never married proposed to a Ilarlem widow. "I feel very much honored—but I cannot return your love," replied the widow. "Have you anything else to say in your defense?" asked the judge, for getting that ho was not on the bench. "No, your honor, there are no miti gating circumstances," she replied, laughing.—Texas Siftings. Narrow Escape. "Yes," said Mr. Smawll to one of the guests, looking at his watch and then gazing dreamily oil into vacancy, "it was exactly twenty-five years ago at this moment that I led —ah, my dear, I was just observing to Mr. Spoona inore that exactly twenty-five years ago by the watch you led me to the altar."—Chicago Tribune. KIDNAPPING. _ I / —Chicago Mail. Teinpora Mutmitur. In our grandmother's days women used to de clare That they couldn't go out when they'd "noth ing to wear;" But fashions have changed in the matter of clothing, And costumes de rigueur are now next to noth ing. —Puck. Able to Keep a Secret. Principal—l have to send you on a very important errand - one demand ing the greatest secrecy. Say, Mr. Meier, can I rely upon you? Are you able to deep a secret? Clerk—Oh, certainly (whispering in principal's ear) I have been secretly engaged to your daughter for the last couple of years.—Foerposten. Telling the Good News. Mrs. Youngma—And so my baby got the prize at the baby show? I knew he would. It couldn't have been oth erwise. Old Ilachelor (one of the judges)— Yes, madam, we all agreed that your baby was the least objectionable of the lot.—N. Y. Weekly. The SagAclouH Porter. Palace Car Porter (out west) —Don' gub me no fee, sab, till we gets to de end ob de trip. Passenger—Very well. Just as you prefer. Porter—Yes, sub. You see, dese train robbers always goes for me fust, an' of I ain't got nuflin, dey say de pas sengers ain't got nuflin, an' goes off.— N. Y. Weekly. Vindicating Ilor Ninuo. "In making* choice of a wife," said Mr. Hrassie Pompus, addressing Miss Eeene. "In making choice of a wife, I am afraid I shall be rather exacting as to good looks." "Indeed," said Miss Koene, "but won't it interfere with your plans if the lady whom you select should be of the rame mind?"—N. Y. Press. Tho Ajjn of t!o Precocious. Mrs. Jhor.es—Ethel, you might tell me who the young man is that called last evening. Ethel (just seventeen) —Certainly, mamma, if 3011'ro curious about it; that's the young man I'm engaged to. —Chicago Record. !.ur-e-Ileartrd Man from ■Jayville. "If you don't look out," said the ex cited stranger, catching the police man at the crossing by the arm and jerking him toward the sidewalk, "you'll get run over! You're standing right in the middle of the street!"— 'hicago Tribune. A Guilder. Mrs. Muggs—That horrid Mrs. Frills >ld Mrs. Nexdoor that I was a regu *r old cat. What do you think of Mr Muggs—l think she never saw ou i:i the same room with a mouse.— N\ Y. Weekly. The EJCM <>r I.ovc. "Hut, Ethel, how do you know that his young man loves you? Has he told •ou so?" "Oh, no, mamma! Hut if you' conk! nly see the way he looks at me when ' am not looking at him!"— Life. A Failure a :;;I Airship. "I understand ( ranker., the inventor, is terribly disappointed over his new lirsbip." "Yes. lie made u trial of it the >thor day, and the thing rose clear oli of the ground."- Chicago Record. A root "What is your idea of a poet?" she asked. "A poet," replied he, "is a man who is long on hair and short on cash."— Washington Star. One Motive Short. She—l may sue you for breach of promise. I can establish a motive. He—Yes—for the breach, but not the promise.—Life. flow TII'.RO Oliis Love One Another. Penelope Pert—What makes you think he is in love with me? Constance Clover —lie asks you to sing.—Truth. No ('redtt. You nay that to get out cf dobt The hardest thing rvw bc{ But I llnd to Ket Info dolt A harder one for mo. —Brooklyn Llfft Money Out of the Question. Ihtrglar—Your money or your lifel Victim—Certainly. Take a seat while X make my will. —Judge. RAILWAY STATISTICS. THE total number of railway corpor ations on June 80, 1892, was 1,822. THE total railway mileage of the country on June 80, 1892, was 171,553.52 miles. THE freight revenue during the year ending June 80, 1892, amounted to #799,310,042. THE total number of passengers car ried during the year ending June 80, 1892, was 560,958,211. THE passenger revenue for the rail ways of the country during the year ending June 80, 1892, was #280,805,708. THE number of tons of freight re ported by the railways as carried dur ing the year ending June 80, 1892, was 700,555,471. THE receipts from mail service for the year ending June 80, 1892, were #20,861,148, and from the express com panies were #22,148,988. THE total number of employes in the service of railways on June 80, 1892, was 821,415, being an increase of 37,- 130 over the previous year. THE average journey per passenger for the year ending June 30, 1892, was 23.82 miles, and the average number of passengers per train for each mile run was 42. THE number of passengers carried per passenger locomotive during the year ending June 80, 1892, was 63,899, and passenger mileage per passenger locomotive was 1,610,273. THE capitalization of the 101,807.80 miles covered by the report was, on June 80, 1892, #10,320,748,184. Of this amount #4,683,108,708 were represented by stocks and #5,058,088,050 by funded debt. TnE gross earnings from operation of railways during the year ending June 80, 1892, were #1,171,407,348. The operating expenses were #780,907,890. From this it appears that the net earn ings from operation of railways were #390,409,847. PERSONAL PARTICULARS. THOMAS SLINOLAND, of Paterson, N. J., shot himself well-nigh fatally and then asked for a cigarette. He was de termined to die. SENATOR WILLIAM V. ALLEN, of Ne braska, who recently broke the record for long speeches, Is forty-six years old and is serving bis first year in the senate. Miss MATTIE TODD, a niece of Abra ham Lincoln, Is postmistress at Cyn thiana, Ky. She was appointed by President Ilayes and has hold her place ever since. MRS. GRANT, widow of Gen. Grant, has decided upon making Washington her permanent home. She has spent some time recently searching for a suitable house. THOMAS MURPHY, the son of Francis Murphy, has taken up the temperance work of his father, and recently held a series of large and successful meetings in Waterbury, Conn. HENRY MILLER, of Annvllle, Pa., has a plate that is over one hundred years old. It contains on the outer edge the names of the thirteen original states, and is highly prized by the owner. PUNISHMENTS FOR CRIME. OF the 1,400 prisoners in the Illinois state prison at Joliet, one-third are reported to be suffering from consump tion. THE Salic law had in ull 843 penal articles: 150 relating to robbery, 74 of which referred to the stealing of ani mals; 118 relating to crimes against the person. THE rack, thumbscrew and other modes of torture were used by Euro pean courts until 155Q, not only as a punishment, but also as a means of ob taining evidence. SOME tribes of North American In dians punished matricides by hanging them by their hands to the limbs of a tree at a height just sufficient to per mit the wolves to reach them from the ground. They were left to be eaten alive. THE ORIENT. TIIK Chinese have an academy of manners that prescribes etiquette for the whole empire. THERE are over six thousand persons fed three times a day at Dolma Bagtcli palace while the sultan of Turkey is there. THE ordinary folding fan is supposed to have been invented in Japan, in the seventh century, by a native artist, who derived the idea from the way In which the bat closes its wings. IT has hitherto been the law in Japan that if a woman was not married by a certain age the authorities picked out a man and compelled him to marry her. The mikado has Just abolished this usage. NOTED IN OTHER COUNTRIES. ROSE-LEAF jam is a common dish in Roumania, where roses are grown by the million. MANITOBA is encouraging the emi gration to its own borders of farmers from Iceland. TUB roofs of Egyptian temples are composed of huge blocks of stone laid from column to column. THE smallest republic in the world Is Franceville, one of the islands of the New Hebrides. The inhabitants consist of forty Europeans and five hundred black workmen employed by a French company. IMPERSONAL BREVITIES. Two FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD girls have passed the entrance examination to Yale college. BOYS at Racine. Wis., fly a kite ten feet high by seven wide, which carries a tail eighty feet long. TIIK last lineal descendant of the au thor of 'Robinson Crusoe" is a pauper seventy years of age, nearly blind, and In receipt of outdoor relief. AFTKH riding on a carrousel at Alex andria. La., recently, an aged colored woman dropped dead. Physicians pro nounced her death due to the excite menu CASTORIA for Infants and Children. "Castoria is so well adapted to children that I recommend it aa superior to any prescription known to mo." H. A. ARCHER, M. D., • 111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. " The use of ' Castoria * is so universal and its merits so well known that it seems a work of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Castoria within easy reach." CARLOS MARTYR, D. D., New York City. Late Pastor Bloomingdale Beformed Church. 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