FREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED KVEHY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. TLIOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREET AROVK CENTR*. SUBSCRIPTION It ATI'S. One Year fl fiO Six Months 7o Four Months 60 Two Months 23 Subscribers are requested to observe the " night. NuIII lent Excuse. An exchange remarks of John Qulncy Adams, recently deceased, that he was very fond of fishing, and not especially fond of his legal profession. One day a case la which ho was coun sel was down for trial in a Boston court. Mr. Adams dhl not make his ap pearance, but sent a letter to tho Judge. That worthy gentleman read It, and then postponed the case with the an nouncement: "Mr. Adams is detained on important business." The note road as follows: "Dear Judge: For the sake of old Isnak Walton, please continue my case until Friday. The smelts arc biting, and I can't leave." A Song: of Life, no that olingoth unto lifo For the fond lips of a wife, Hath, I know, great joy to live; Earth hath nothing more to give— Of all gifts that heavons confer, Sweeter than the love of her. Ho that is to lifo beguiled IJy the clinging of a child, Hath, I know, gre.it store of graco And with love a dwelling place. For all heaven hath droauiod and smilod In the sweet face of a child. He that unto life is drawn When the dark hath drowned the dawn; When no wife's lips sigh or sing— When no child arms clasp and cling Still hath hopo, for in the night Cometh dreams and gleams of light! 8), though love bo lost to theo, Life, though lonely, sweet inay bo. Can'st thou take, when sore opprest, Other's burdens to thy breust; Love unto the love esi give? Thousluilt bless thyself and live! — Fhank L. Stanton. UNCLE GILLET'S MONEY. There were three Miss Gillets, spin sters, who lived with their uticlo, a bachelor, in the old stone house at Atwater, and in pointing them out to strangers the Atwuterites were accus tomed to remark upon the fact that it was love of money with them, and that a Miss Gillet who married would cease to be her uncle's heiress. When his brother and his wife died in one week of a fever, tho bachelor uncle had done his best for tho young pcoplo. He educated them aud allow ed them a few female friends. But as they grew up one law was maintained with inviolable rigidity. There was to bo no courting and no marrying beneath his roof. They were pretty girls—tall, Blon der, red-cheeked aud blue eyed—girls to be loved and married by nature: but thero was Uncle Gillet's money. So they grew up and grew older, still single, and not ono of them had ever had u thought of marriage in all her life. It was a well understood matter in tho village, as well as in the family, that, marrying, a Miss Gillet lost her inheritance. Dr. Rush had heard it, and believed it to be true, when Uuclo Gillet, having a touch of rheumatism, sent for him. He had always thought tho tlireo slender girls tho prettiest things ho had over seen, but when ho stood faeo to face with Dolly, he fell in love with her. lie looked alter her as she went out of the room, and Undo Gillet looked at him sharply. "My nieco is a pretty girl," he said. "I soo you think so. She's a sensible girl, too. They aro all sensible girls: they prefer a single life and indepen dence to tho miseries of marriage." "By your advice, I believe," said tho doctor. "It's a miserable muddle altogether, this marriage," said Uuclo Gillet; "don't talk about it any more." Dr. Rush did not at that time, but about dusk next evening Dolly, cross ing tho bridge just out of Atwater, paused to look down into tho water, and then and thero someone came be hind her and said: "Miss Gillett" She turned with a start. It was Dr. Rush. "I have just left tho good uncle; ho is better. He will be well in a day or two. 11c has a strong constitution aud is a man to live to be a hundred years old." "Then I shall bo able to walk out occ sioually, now." "But you'll tako a walk over the bridge tomorrow?" said the doc tor. Well, porhaps so," said Dolly. And so she did. She took a great many; aud at lust one day Dr. Rush was allowed to slip a ring upon her linger and to kiss her lips. "1 shan't havo a penny,"said Dolly. "You are suro you don't mind?" "All the pounies wo want I can earn myself," said tho doctor. "Aud you must marry mo in a mouth. Promise, Dolly." Dolly promisod. Georgiana and Milly sat at work to gether that evening while Uuclo Gil let rend. Dolly was not sowing. Sho hold tho work, it is true, but her hand never moved toward tho needle. Sho •lid not hear a word that was uttered; but when at last thero ciiiuu a pause sho dropped tho muslin and started to her feet "If you please, unclo," sho said, "there's something I must tell. I can't keep it secret any longer. I'm goiug to marry Dr. Rush." Georgiana and Millicout screamed in chorus. "You aro, oh?" said Unclo Gillet. "Yes, sir," suid Dolly. "And ho knows my opinions?" "Of course," said Dolly. "Ho knows that except tho two or threo hundred dollars I liavo for olothos I'll never have a penny." "Then make fools of yoursolves if you like," said Uncle Gillet, "You'll come to tho wedding, won't you?" asked Dolly. "No; but I'll lot your sisters go," suid Uncle Gillet. "I never go to weddings or executions." Dolly married her Richard Rush. Goorgiana and Milliccnt wept, as cus tom required, nud spoke of their sis ter ns "poor Dolly." Dr. Rush trudged over tho low country in all weathers and at all hours; and so one night some ruffian, who did not know how empty his wul let was, attacked him in a lonely j)laco and left him for dead. A farmor going homo early carried him homo in his wagon, and ho was cared for as well as might be; but a broken leg and dislocated shoulder aro 110 light matters, and Dolly hardly knew what to do or where to turn. She was only suro of one thing, her love for Richard, which grew groater with every trial. For the sako of this she put her pride down, and, leaving the servant with her husband one day, trudged over to her uuclo's house. She paused within sight of tho house, hardly daring to go on, and, as she did so tho door opened and a ser vant came out, who stopped for a mo ment and re-entered, and as sho closed tho door a black streamlet ilauuted in the air. There was crape on the door. Faint with terror Dolly hurried on. In tho hall her sisters, who hud seen her coming, hastened to meet her. Uncle Gillet was dead. Ho had ex pired suddenly at tho dinner table and tho ladies were overcome with grief and excitement Dolly went into tho still room and wept over tho quiet figuro lying there ; and went home again with her dole of wine and jelly and a few dollars. Sho went to tho funeral, Georgiana, sending lief* the black dress. And as sho sat in tho parlor afterward nwnit ing tho reading of the will, her thoughts wandered back into the past, and tho monotonous rendering of tho saids and aforosaids made no impres sion upon her until her own nnmo caught her car. Then she looked up. Milliccnt and Georgiana were both staring hard at her. "What is it?" sho asked. "I did not hear." Milliccnt had covered her face with her kerchief and was crying. Georgi ana had Hushed red as a peouy. "It moans that we have been slaves nil these years for nothing," she said. "You uro the heiress."—Boston Globe. An Avalanche in Maine. When nature does anything in tho vast northern Maine wilderness, she does it on a grand scale, and now comes nows of a landslide there, com pared with which the famous avalanclio of tho Crawford notch was but child's play. Ono evening not long ago, dur ing one of the heavy thunder showers, lightning struck the summit of Mt Baker. Mr. Bandall who lives alone in his camj) about live miles from tho mountain, heard amid tho crashes of thunder a long-drawn roaring uuliku anything ho had heard before. It startled him so as to drive sleep from him during tho night and in the morn ing he started out to find whence tho sound came. One glance at tho Baker mountain solved tho mystery. Thou sands of tons of rocks, loosened pro bably by tho lightning shock, had ploughed a trough an eighth of a mile wide from summit to base of the peak. For several miles tho enormous trees had been swept bo Tore the avalanche and buried under twonty-livo feet of gravel. Tho news reoched tho lower settle ments a day or two later, being borne by the thick muddy water that changed tho character of Lyford Ponds, Silver lake and Pleasant river. An expedi tion startod northward to learn the j cause of this mud, and heard tho I whole story at Randall's camp.—Lcw i.-iton (Me.,) Journal. Moccasins, Tho wearing of moccasins is so common in tho rural districts of Maine and New Brunswick that white shoe makers And it profitable to manufac ture them wholesale, although tho In dians are still reputed to make tho best. Tho truo moccasin is a light, thin foot covering of deerskin; but what is called a "shupnek," and is perhaps even more in use, is a mocca sin with an extra thickness of leather under tho sole, and it comes a little higher on tho ankle. The lumber men wear "larrigans," which are made sometimes of doer hide and sometimes of moose leather, thick, strong, stiff, and oiled until they are as yellow as bar soap. They are shaped like boots, with heavy soles, and roach half way to tho knee. New York Bun. Taking Him Down. I A good story in told by the London World of a purse-proud old nobleman who was traveling through the rural districts of Sweden. Iu that country evidently the people do not have quite as much respect for titled aristocracy as in some other localities on the Con tinent. | One day tho nobleman came rolling up to a country tavern, and ns ho stopped liis carriage he called out in an imperious tone: "Horses, landlord—horses at once." "I am very much pnined to inform you that you will have to wait over an hour beforo fresh horses can bo brought up," replied tho landlord, calmly. "How!" violently cxclaimod the nobleman. "This to mo! My man, I demand horses immediately." Then observing tho fresh, slcek looking ones being led up to another carriage, he continued: "For whom are those horses?' "They are ordered for this gontlo man," replied tho landlord, pointing to a tall, slim individual a few paces distant. "I say, my man," called out the nobleman, "will you let me have those horses if I pay ycu a libcrul bonus?" "No," answered tho slim man; "I intend to uso them myself." "Perhaps you are not uwuro who 1 am," roared tho now thoroughly agi tated and irate nobleman. "I am, sir, Field Murslial Baron Georgo Spnrre, the last and ouly one of ray race." "I am very glad to hear that," said the slim man, stopping into tho car raige. "It would be a terriblo thing to think that there might bo more of you coming. lam inclined to think that yourraco will be a foot race." The slim man was tho King of Sweden. The Cormorant at Work. Those who watch tho cormorant's diving feats are usually so iutorestcd in tho fortunes of tho chase, as tho handsome bird dashes after tho fish, that not one visitor in twenty observes that, from the inodo of its entering tho water to its exit, its methods of movement aro absolutely different to those of tho penguins. Tho cormo rant does not plunge headlong. It launches itself on tho surface, aud then "ducks" like a grodc. Its wings are not used as propellers, but trail unresistingly level with its body, and the speed at which it courses through tho water is wholly duo to tho swimming powers of its largo and ugly webbed feet. Thoso are ot on quito at the cud of tho body, aud work incessantly like a treadle, or the floats of a stern wheel steamer. Yet the conditions of submarine mo tion are so favorablo that tho speed of the bird bolow tho surface is throe or four times greater than that gained by equal rapid movements of tho foot when it has risen aud is swimming on the top. The luster of tho feathers in tho clear water, tho cloud of brilliant bubbles which pour from the plumago, like the nebulous traiu of a comet, as the bird rushes through the water, and the sapphire light of the largo blue eye make tho cormorant's fishing one of the prettiest aquatic exercises I iu the world.—Spectator. Croup and Diphtheria. While smallpox has been brought within comparative control by vacci nation there aro other deadly discasos ovor which, until within recent times, the science of medicine has been un able to exert any check. Among theso aro croup and diphtheria. A number of European scientists have been devoting their time to study of these diseases, as Pasteur, Koch and others have done in tho field of bucte riology, working with more specific aim in different directions. Tho mor tality among children from diphtheria especially is so high, often keeping up a pace of twenty-five per cent, that any preventive of so frightful a plague is hailed with eagerness. While it is not true that medical science yot claims infallibility for croup or diph theria preventives, it is known by ac tual rosults that they are effectual to a largo degree; it is only tho dura bility of the protection they afford that is in doubt uud thut time alone can settle. 'I ho council will be asked to author ize tho health department of Chicago to Bend to Berlin for supplies of tho diphtheria remedy. Tho resolutions should include authority to send to Paris for tho croup remedy.—Chicago Herald. Pleasing, hut Ineffective. Husband —You oro crowned with beauty, dear. Wife—That's all right, Charlie, but I've g.t to have a new wiuter bonnet just the same. —Detroit Free Press. LADIES' DEPARTMENT. RELIABLE WOMEN. It is snid that the 300 or 400 wom en apothecaries in the United States aro more reliable than men, and of all tho women employed as cashiers thero is only a or so of mystorious dis appeuronce toward China.—New York Journal. WEALTH OP AMERICAN WOMEN. It has been estimated that of tho $1,300,000,000 of property held in New York $300,000,000 is in the hauds of women, but this is certainly well within the real facts, since the women of Boston pay taxes on $120,000,000, Even so, however, this would make at tho present rate of estimato over SOOO,- 000,000 of property iu New York Stato owned by women.—Woman's Journal. A NEW WOMAN'S COSTUME. A roforin which was neither a divid ed nor an abbreviated skirt was worn by its designor at a recent meeting of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. It was made of a durk shade of navy blue velvet and consisted of a long-tailed coat and knickerbockers to tho knees, where they were mot by loggings. Mrs. Sloan, who wore tho reformed dress, admitted that she wouldn't caro to wear it on the street, but added that ho would bo quite will ing to do so if accompanied by sev eral others similarly garbed.—Phila delphia Record. QUEEN VICTORIA'S BIIAM RUBIES. Real rubies aro scarce. Most of tho stones in uso are shams. Even tho Queen of England cherished a pair of imitations. They were, after groat trouble and lurgo expense, exhibited in tho London Exposition of 18G2 and proved to bo merely spinels. When a customer goes to a reliable dealor, ho is asked : "How much are you willing to pay?" Thero is one ruby in a New York shop. It spends most of its beauty in tho safe. Anybody with SB,OOO call have it. Rubies are full of sentiment. It is tho supposition that they givo the wearer health and a happy frame of mind. Rubies are among tho delights of King Solomon. Lapidaries say that ho got hold of all the lino stones, and since his day tho supply lias steadily diminished. —St. Louis Star Sayings. TIIE WOMEN ARE MAD. Tho women of Russia havo a griev ance against tho government, and it is stated that, small as it is, it may load to serious results. Not long ago a St. Petersburg journal reported a fes tival, at which members of tho im perial family were prosout. Tho re porter evidently understood little about women's fancies, and mado tho dress of tho czarina, by his descrip tion, one long out of fashion. Tho result was a ukase from the censor of the press—one of tho most powerful men iu Russia—that Russian news papers iu the future must refrain from describing, or attempting to describe, the dresses of her majesty. This nat urally deprives the Russian women of an interesting subject for discussion and criticism, and they aro extremely angry at the cousor.—New Orleans Picayune. GLOVES FOR RAZOR STROI\S. "Did you ever wonder what becomes of all the long party gloves that girls ndoro and spend small fortunes for?" asked tho girl who occasionally knows a thing or two. "Powder rags, of course," tho moody girl. "Nothing of tho sort. That shows you don't keep up with tho fin do sieclo procession," said the first speak er. "You waut to givo them to your best young man for razor strops. Tho idea is just perfectly lovely. "When tho blessed angel wants to sharpen his razor ho fastous tho top of tho glove to a hook on his dresser, takes tho frayed out fingers in his loft hand and sharpens away. And all this time ho is thinking of various in cidents that happened when a doar little hand was insido that glove, and glove and hand were both sandwiched in between his two hands and was say ing sweet things and she was trying to dig a hole iu tho floor with tho too of her satiu slipper, and, oh! I think it's all just too doar, and I'm going to send all my white gloves off to Oharloy right away," Tho moody girl looked disgusted. She said: "Well, I'm glad I don't keep up with your Tin do Bieclo pro cession.' I don't believo that a man would tiso a glove for a razor strop any more than ho ever uses those silly necktie cases that you girls make out of silk and ribbons and things." Tho moody girl's ill nature is easily explained. She's been trying to match a piece of silk that she bought last October at a clcuring-out sale. She also bus a friend who insists upon making sketches of her and de claring that they are perfect likenesses. —Chicago Times. ENTERPRISINO BUSINESS WOMEN. Mrs. Donnelly is an interesting and practical Irishwoman in Sixth avenue, who owns and sccessfully conducts a small industry. Sho manufactures tho uppers for ladies' shoes. The sign "Ladies Shoe Fitter," might be some what misleading, but such is tho proper title for her chosen trade. In a largo square room,well lightod and ventilated, I found her with sev eral female assistants classifying the finished work for the factory to which each parcel belongod. Many of tho factories havo tho sev eral departments in operation where shoes are mado complete, others send J the uppers to like establishments, mostly run by men. Shoes built upon this installment plan furnish another avenue of resource for women. Tho evolution shirtmaking has un dergone since tho time of our grand mothers is strikingly exemplified by a visit to a factory in East Houston street, owned by Francis Back. Sho is a pionoer of the businsso, aud it bo ing tho thirty-fifth anniversary of what is now a great enterprise. Sho told mo she never employs men if femalo help can be obtained. At presont tho regular hands are on a strike, find sho has as substitute work ers representatives of every national ity, but with much emphasis, in her Gorman patois, sho said, "Gif medem Jarman and dem 'Nglish girls, but take away from me dem Bushings, dey strike if you look at dem, dey strike if you don't look at dem, and don I sees trouble." FASHION NOTES. Dainty ties of light colors in crepe, silk, lawn, etc. Removable vests are mado of plain, striped and changeable silk. Colored satius printed with Oriental designs are suitable for blouses. Black and Vandyke trimmings of steel and steel and jet arc popular. Jackets of livery cloth have a short, full capo opened both buck and front. Dainty capos, hats and muffs of velvet, fur, luce aud ribbon, are worn en suite- Long Angora mousquetairo glovos are worn over evening glovos in place of using a muff Long Vandykes of jet are suitable for trimming sleeves from the should ers to tho elbows. Large collarettes of white net, top guipuro laco, have over points of jot bonds and spaugles. Cherry-colored cloth capes aro trimmed with white Angora fleeco aud colluretto of white cloth. Short black velvet jnckots are trimmed with jet, a rucho and collar ctto of black ostrich tips. Many full capes of tan livery cloth arc simply made of fino goods, having a turn-over velvot collar. Evening waists show a Frenchy mixture of Nilo green velvet, cream guipuro laco and pink chiffon. Fashions in dress of Colonial times make more and inoro progress. Tho styles best becomo pretty women. Girls' cloaks of light-colored ladies' cloth, are trimmed with a velvet col larette and edging of orraine tails. Black houso tics and slippers aro dcoorated with rosettes or bows of cherry or blue chiffon or ribbon. Children's wide felt hats are trimmed with wings, bows and long strings to tie under the chin of satin ribbon. Elbow-longth capes of black velvet, have a jot collar and yoke and long "stole" ends in front covered with jot. Tiny bonnets are fashioned of steel embroidery, ditto wings and pins, with largo bow and narrow ties of colored velvet "Wedding dresses to hire" obviates a difficulty for the matrimoually in clined. Au enterprising woman has hit upon tho happy idoa. From a small beginning, where two dresses were her stock in trade, slio is now possessed of two dozen. This unique calling has provou a profitable pur suit, and suroly such originality de serves success.—New York Herald. Just now all hands aro buisily engaged with flannel shirts. A haberdashery, where aro kept all men's belongings, with gayest huod necktios and vividly colored underwear on display, has for its owner Louise Corliu-Ronner, a woman of somo tasto and appareut ability to mako the most of her wares. This neat and rather attractive littlo storo is one heterogenous mass of col oring, not obtrusiv •, but is like nn oasis in tho desert among tho shops of tho east sido. This is another in vasion of self-supporting woman. Cnly. Only a baby's features, tiny, dimpled and fair, Only a mothor'a soft voice, saying an evening prayer. Only a dying infant,innocent, pure and fond, Call'd from this land of nowhere, far oil to tho groat beyond. Only an angol's whispor, out of tho vast above, Only a touching refrain, mystic of love. Only a patch that glitters, leading into the skies, Only a valued memory of two little absent eyes. WM. D. HALL, in Bunboam. HUMOROUS. Good placo to settle—Tho place where you owe money. Success in business is pnvod by tho typesetter and made smooth by the printing-press. Polite old gentUman—Ah, whom havo I the honor of addressing? Pat (very much puzzlod)—Shure who • lso but me, sor? South Sea Islands Housewife—Tho new missionary looks dreadfully sour. Her Husband—Well, he'll do for can ning, anyway. She —"Isn't it cruel to kill birds to trim a bat?" lie—"Very cruel in deed?" Sho—"Don't buy mo a hat buy mo a soalskin coat." In Autumn's chill no song is hoarse No feathered songstor's note is di.t* And there's tho difference, lucky bird, 'Twixt very many men nud you. Magistrate— And did they ever find any clow to that murder mystery? Officer—Yes sir, they've found tho body of tho murdered man. Mr. Softleigh—Now, really, how loug do you thiuk you could love a man? Miss Fiekel Oh, anywhero between five feet eight and six foot. Johnny (to his sister) —Emma, if you give mo a bit of your cake I'll spoil tho piano so that you won't bo ablo to take a lesson for a fortnight* A society belle was told that her finnco was a foolish fellow. "I guess he is," sho admitted. "It seems to mo tho smart men have quit marry iug." Gont-~llow came you to put your hand in my pocket? Pickpocket—Beg your pardon. I am so absent- miudod. I bad once a pair of trousers like thoao you aro wearing. "What a perfectly charming man Mr. Twitter is." Maud —I never heard him say a clover thing. "No, but lie can move about tho room with out stumbling over tho rugs." A kiss is likoa bath, That you take from tho river— You can tako and take and take. And tako 'em on forever, And still thero's just as many As if you hadn't never taken any. "Poor Dibbles! They say ho got a pair of beautiful black eyes at the seashore. I feci sorry for him." "You noodn't. Ho got a doucedly handsome girl with them." Hungry Guest-—l'd like to havo o sprig of parsley with this sirloin. Wuiter —Sorry, sir, but the bunch of passley we'vo been usiu' today, was ct up by tho last man that had steak. Husband—"Why so happy?" Wifo "Bridget, tho cook, is going to re main with us after nil. Mrs. Joues, to whose situation sho was going, died last week. Wasn't it sweet of her?" "Darling," ho murmured fondly, "you aro the only girl I havo ever loved!" "That's all right," sho re sponded thoughtfully ; "but am I tho only girl you aro over going to love?" The young man said : "I lovo but thoo." Bho looked up to the top Of a splendid overarching troo And cried : "Just now, it seems to mo, I heard a chestnut drop." Mrs. Gabb—Yes, my daughter ap pears to havo married very happily. Her husband has not wealth, it must be admitted, but ho has family. Mrs. Gadd—Yes, I heard ho was a widower with six children. Mrs. Gabb—Yes, my daughter ap pears to havo married very happily. Her husband has not wealth, it must bo admitted, but he has family. Mrs. Gadd—Yes, I heard ho was a widower with six children. Strawbcr—You look a", il you lind been laid up old man. Singerly—l have been ; I announced my engage ment last week. Strawbcr—Why should that lay you up? Singerly—l an nounced it to her father. "No," caid Knogood, despondently, "I haven't beon discharged; but they removed mo from my placo as boss, they removed mo from tho best work and afterwards removed me to the lowest grade ; nud three removes, you know, aro as bad as a 'fire.' " Consolatory, Mabel (lookingin mirror)—My face is my fortuno. Ethel—Yes, dear. Well, tho man who weds you will never be accused of marrying for riches