freeiana Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY TUB TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY. United OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. FIIEELAND, PA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.30 Six Mouths 73 Four MUN hs .00 Two Mouths 23 The ituto which tho subscription Is paid to Is on ttie address label of each paper, tho change of which to a subsequent date be so met* u receipt for remittance. Keep the figures iu advance of the present date. Re port promptly to this ofllce whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be puid when subscription is discontinued. Mae nil mon-y orders , cheeks, etc.,pnyabU to tue Trib urn l'rintmj Company, Limited. The United States circuit court of appeals at Chicago has held that the directors of a bauk are not liable for the mismanagement of funds by a president who takes advantage of his position to speculate. The American automobile is already achieved. What it needs next is a well articulated system of roads to run on, along which tho inns and re pair shops will spring up iu immedi ate response, as they have done al ready in answer to the more modest needs of the American bicycler. For the second time Dawson City has been swept by flames. This frigid settlement is now suffering the horror of the exposure to the piercing cold of unknown numbers of shelterless human beings. A city of wood, with the interior of it 4 houses heated by constantly burning fuel, and contain ing an unusual percentage of the dis orderly element in its population, pre sents all the conditions inviting such a disaster. How many people realize that the world's gold production now is great er than in tho phenomenal era of Cnl ifornian and Australian mining? The total yield of the metal iu the whole world during the ten years 1851-1860 was §1,332,081,000. The production for the ten years ending with 1839, a ccepting as accurate the trustworthy mint estimates for the remainder of this year, is 82,005,000,000, or $672,- 000,000 more thau for tho great Cal forniau and Australian period. Providence a year ago cut off from its schools some of the special teacher trimmings, and it is now considering the recommendation of au investigat ing committee that the system of free text-books be abolished. One reason given is the cost, which in 1898 was $34,000; another is the disease germ menace; a third is that those parents unable to buy the books are a very small fraction of the whole number, and a logical fourth is that the families of the city that have the fewest books in their homes now do not have even school-books. Children could former ly turn to these to give them informa tion or refresh their knowledge of what had been learned in school, but now they have nothing. This is thought to be the first organized movement aguiust an established free book system. The bicycle is growing in favor at an astonishing rate iu Maine,although the state is notorious for poor roads. Of course the popularity of the bicy cle will compel authorities to build macadam highways, as has beeu the case elsewhere. The Kennebec Jour nal, which has been examining the assessors' books, says that iu 1898 the bicycles in the state were valued at 8324,420. The owners are paying 88100.50 in taxes on their wheels, of which amount the state receives 8892.50, tho rest going to the towns. It is also said that the value of bicy cles in Maine is only 87000 less than that of the street railway properties, and is one-tenth of the value of the steam raiiroad property, not counting rolling stock. Other wheel vehicles are appraised at a sum only four times that of the bicycles. Telegraph and telephone companies pay $8689.61 in taxes, and the express companies but $4950.25. There are 13,000 owners of bicycles in Muiue, ami the number t;r >ws rapidlv. Tumi lift A way , i i vor. Th-y an- unwilling to !•-••nu.- Christians becaiiM- to them tin- ( iui.-tian lif.- .. o. be a starved and siuun d i:t.\ 'i hat i tin* mistake whi'-h yot.ng men ami w-.m- n are making always.* They turn their i .. k <n Christ because they want to li\e, wl.en all the time He wishes to fulfil their life. Lif., is the on" thing w „ mof a.I desire, and the one thing which lie longs to supply. " 'Tis life of which our nerves are scant; "lis life, not death, for which we pant; More life and fuller that we want! And yet wo turn away from the Life Giver. This is tho tragedy of human history. This is the tragedy of your life and mine. 4, J am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." He neve- destroys c single appetite or a single passion or a single aptitude or a single sym pathy. He never curtails a single capacity or lessens the energy of a single power. He us enlarges and enriches us. He fills us full of Himself.--C. E. Jefferson, D. D. f LIFE OF OUR PHILIPPINE 1 1 ARMY IN THE FIELD AND a | IN THE TRENCHES, j Tha Fighting Not Desperate But Harassing to ;f- T the Troops. Tho fighting around Manila of late has not been of a desperate character, but has been harassing in its physical requirements. This little black man, the Filipino, who is causing us the same kind of trouble that the boy ex periences with a hornet's nest, cannot be understood in a day. When cap tured he acts as if his lot had fallen among old friends. He grins and points beyond our skirmishers, seem ing to think that the aspect of his fleeing countrymen is a huge joke. The next minute but give him the chance he is likely to send a bullet into an American's back. For such an offence Major-General Anderson once had a Filipino strung up to a tree on the spot, this being the only American military execution thus far recorded in the Philippines. A giant private of tho Montanas chose a different method. When be was fired on, at a distance of about ten yards and missed, he caught the enemy, took his gun away from him, and then laid him across his knees. After he had vigorously applied a piece of bamboo, he seized the enemy by the seat of the trousers and threw him toward the rear. "There," he said. "Don't you let me catch you playing with firearms again." Life in trenches has often been de fgayi. PRIVATE ROBERT GRASOX, FIRST NE BRASKA VOLUNTEERS. (The soldier who from this spot fired the first shot In tho Philippine revolt.) scribed. It is confining, wearisome, and but for occasional alarms from the outposts deadly dull. Wo live, eat and sleep in the narrow space; but the men are cheerful, even jolly, and every little individual assignment has its hollowed out recess in the front wall wherein are stored the odds and ends of a soldier's belongings. Many of the men have pet monkeys. A cor respondent of tho New York Tribune writes that he saw one man going into tho fight at Maraquina with a monkey sitting on his shoulder chat tering with rage or, perhaps, fear. Not far from the lines of the Kan sas command is a native cemetery. High walls of stone with au elaborate ly carved archway form the enclosure. Within are parallel structures of stone and brick, some ten feet in height, wherein are rows above rows of narrow vaults opening on the cen tral aisle, with arched glass doors in the better portion, the poorer ones being closed by a stone. In these vaults—"individuals" they are—are placed the bodies, there to remain until those left behind to mourn for get, or neglect, to pay box rent. In either of those cases out comes the departed and his bones are added to the ghastly heap in the rear of the .... ;v ; ;— --/r V-A —,VU> ocn Titoors IN THE riiii.irriN'Es WAITING TO HE CALLED TO THE FKONT. cometery. I Haw such a heap of hones. It must have contained the skeletons of scores of forgotten peo ple. As one officer expresses it, "It is a case of 'Reqniescat in pace' pro vided your friends have a paid-up ninety-nine-ycar lease on a box for you." Not less trying is the sight of tho actual ceremony of interment. We do not smoke long cigars at funerals, nor do we chatter ceaselessly thereat ; both these things are done by Filipinos. But then, they do many things that we do not do. They wash rice in the dirty Pasig. Girls of ten and twelve years smoke cigars. Females, old and young, wear the same dropping-off the-shoulder cut of corsage. That is, perhaps, au advantage for a man of " "j/- - THE K.U.Nt SEASON IN THE PHILIPPINES—SOLDIERS MESSING. family, since, in consequence, tho style never changes. Not less startling than the cemetery was my first view of the interior of La Loma Church. It had been made the headquarters in the field of a division commander. Iu the roof gaped great holes made some days before by shells from the fleet firing on Caloocau. The altar rail bore a drapery of officers' saddles and equipments. Within the rail a telegraph instrument and type writing machine clicked and clattered; bunks lined the walls; from tho great chandelier was suspended a mosquito canopy; a confessional did duty as a clotliespress, while iu the sacristy was a store of grain for public animals, and on the walls and altar the sacred images and stations of the Cross re mained, looking down on tho havoc that hell in the guise of war hod created in His temple. It was awful. It was war. So, too, we saw war's footsteps in the deserted Nipa villages—-a starved, wretched cat mewing piteously, a gaunt dog with down-dropping tail, a flock of frightened chickens, a few poor pigs rooting in the ashes of the burned granaries, while in a hut that hud been spared from the flames was a caraboa, or water buffalo, the ox of these islands, his deep-sunken sides marking days and nights of horrible hunger and more horrible thirst. The domestic animals of these people are pels, and on them rests heavily the devastation that has settled over the land. Here is a letter from the columns of tho Springfield Republican—a soldier letter breathing the highest ot unquestioning patriotism and the most clear-sighted appreciation of the nobility as well as of the horror of war. The Republican calls it "graphic writing, lit tA> be called literature." Tho author is au unnamed member of Battery A, Utah Light Artillery, and | he tells a friend in the East that "it was not mere soldiery out here; it was incarnate Americanism." He calls his companions "those who on the llanila roads and in the Luzon rice fields fought a desperate fight, asking no whys or wherefores; who shook out the old flag further from home than it had ever been before, performing a thankless duty, know ing full well the reward— " 'Toe blame of tlsoso ye better; The hate of those ye guard,' " and he denies that they were picked NEBRASKA MTN DIGUING TRENCH FO."! TIIE BUBIAE OP DEAD FILIPINOS. heroes, nobler and braver than the average American. "They were," he declares, "common, every-day sort of boys, with no peculiar sort of virtue over others. It was simply theirs to have a privilege and opportunity that other men at home, often by force of circumstances, had missed or been denied." Here is the passage by which, perhaps, the use of the word "literature" was suggested: "Death was among them (the artillerymen) from the start. A man calmly hands a shrapnel to the gunner aud on the instant falls face forward; he rolled over, a pallor is on his face, a blood blotch on the forehead—dead, so quickly does the call come to some. A man staggers from the piece, and clutches at his breast. 'Are you hit, John?' 'Only a tlesh wound,'he an swers, and dies after a whole day of pain—so do some men suffer. A cannoneer steps aside, unbuttons his shirt, sees where a Mauser has made a red furrow across the chest, laughs, and returns to his post—so close (lo some men come and escape. I have seen many men make the last sacri fice, aud sometimes, looking down in to a familiar face, have for the mo- AMERICAN TROOPS TAKING LUNCH IN THE FIELD. ment felt that glory was a hideous thing, and yet it is a great privilege to have seen men die so. The mem ory of it will make one stronger and better." There are constant rumors coming in through prisoners that the insur gents' ammunition is giving out. Nevertheless, on the advance to Ma lolos, whenever one was captured with gun and ammunition, he had an abundant supply, often over two hun dred rounds. One sharpshooter had four hundred. Thus far not a woman or enild has been injured, to the knowledge of our men; and yet the entire population of the villages from Cnloocnn to and be yond Malolos, much over forty thou sand helpless people, has been car ried back by the insurgents. They set fire to the town of Polo on evacu ating it, and two bedridden old people were burned to death; our boys made a gr.llaut fight to save them when they were discovered, hut it was too late. Some of the Nebraska men saw what appeared to be a woman leaving, a trench and ceased firing, but n sharp sighted fellow saw a gun partly hid den by the dress and captured the fugitive. In was found he was a sharpshooter, who had relied on this disguise to escape,after lingering long enough to make some sure hits. "Did you shoot him?" "Naw! we kicked him hard and sent him to tho rear." Novel Cure For Assassination. Under Governor-General Eicaport assassinations became terribly fre quent in the island of Cuba so that no one's life or property was safe. A great delegation went to Eicaport to demand that something be done to im prove the enforcement of the law. "When," the Governor asked them, "do you say these robberies and as sassinations take place?" "At night," they answered. "Where?" "In the streets." "So I suspected. I advise yon, if you don't want to be robbed or assas sinated, to do as I do; never go out at night!"— Youth's Companion. Wheat Grown In the United States. Nearly a quarter of the wheat raised i the world is grown in the United States SCIENTIFIC ANO INDUSTRIAL. After long trials of the German, I French and English systems it has been decided by the German Govern ment to adopt the English Thornycroft system of water-tube boilers in all German men-of-war. Professor Rodolphe Virchow deliv ered an important address before the Tuberculosis Congress at Berlin, Ger many, rejecting the theory of heredi tary tuberculosis. "The doctrine," he declared, "is contradicted by ail my pathological researches. I have never found tuberculosis iu unborn or new-born infants, though it might be contracted during the first day's ex istence." It has recently been found possiblo to make use of glass for pipes, and it is announced that a firm of glass manufacturers in Western Pennsyl vania is now ready to furnish glas3 tubes that can be used for oil, gas, water, or sewage. Naturally the glass does not corrode, aud it is quite im pervious to electrolysißwhen used un derground in the vicinity of electric tracts or conduits. It is also claimed that it is more durable and less likely to leak than iron. An Ohio company is putting in a line of glass pipe, and this will afford a practical test of its advantages, as the line is to b3 about 100 miles in length. Frigotherapy is stated to be already in vogue at several places in Europe. The treatment consists iu standing the patient, well protected with furs, in a freezing box cooled to 200 degrees or more below zero, this daily cold bath being continued ten minutes. The head is allowed to protrude from the box, as breathing of the intensely cold air would be dangerous. The effect is to powerfully stimulate the circula tion, creating an immediate and raven ous appetite, and tending to bauish dyspepsia and various kidney and liver diseases, as well a,s nervous ex haustion and its attendant melancholy and depression. The whole body is aroused to vigorous action. Professor J. B. Johnson, of Wash ington University, St. Louis, has made some interesting tests of tho behavior cf iron or steel stirrups, as used for hanging floor-beams from brick walls, when exposed to fire, and finds that, under such circumstances, they soon become red-hot, aud then burn their way rapidly through the end of the beam, while, at the same time, the.y soften and bend down, the result be ing that the beam drops out of its bearing in fifteen or twenty minutes after the fire reaches it. Most archi tects are careful to see that such sup porting members are fireproofed with wire-lath and plaster; but it may be well to call attention again to the im perative necessity for doing so. A singular bacterial diseaso proves to bo the cause of decay of ancient metallic implements and other objects. It appears in the form of small ex crescences or "ulcerations," which be come the centres of rapid- oxidation, and Dr. W. Frazer, an Irish antiqua rian, finds that all antiques of copper or its alloys with tin are liable to bo infected. In bronze, remarkable dis integration is produced, the metal be ing gradually reduced to an amorphous powder. The disease is believed, with great reason, to have infective powers, spreading like leprosy through the metal, aud even being conveyed to fresh surfaces lrom tho affected spots. Counterfeiters have not overlooked the spots of bronze disease, from which, it is asserted, they have inocu lated their false antiques to impart a genuine appearance. Ice storms are commonly believed to be due to rain falling on surface cold enough to freeze it. The fact that the objects iced are often com paratively warm makes this simple theory insufficient, and observations during a remarkable ice storm last October, in Germany, have proven to Dr. W. Meiuliardus that the phenom enon is one of the singular conditions of liquids known as "superfusion." In this stote the liquid lias a freezing temperature but is kept from solidifying by some special circumstance. In the storm observed, reports from elevated stations showed that the moisture was condensed in an upper air-stratum above freezing point in temperature, and that the rain fell through a colder stratum, becoming chilled to freezing temperature, but remaining liquid un til the drop was deformed by striking a resisting body. Out of Order. While Mr. Webster was oneo ad dressing the Senate on the subject of internal improvements, and every Senator was listening with close atten tion, the Senate clock commenced striking, but instead of striking twice 2 Jp. m., continued to strike without cessation more than forty times. All eyes were turned to the clock, and Mr. Webster remained silent until the clock struck about twenty, when he thus appealed to the chair: "Mr. President, the clock is out of order! I have the floor!" To say that a long and loud laugh from every Senator and person in the august chamber was indulged in is a faint description of tho merriment this exquisite pun pro duced. Loneaomevtlle. "You'vo all heard of tho inscription that was found in an abandoned dug out in North Dakota some years ego, but it hns been somewhat improved upon by a New Mexican prospector who left in his cibin'the following in ventory of his situation: "Forty miles from a railroad. "Thirty miles from a postoffice. "Nearest neighbor twenty-eight miles. "Nearest wood twenty-three miles. "Nearest water four miles. "God bless our home."—Chicago Becord. % NEWS AND NOTES | I FOR WOMEN. | Cuban Women in Mourning. If there is 0110 sight raoro pitiful in Cuba than any other, it is the women in black. Frequent as they are in Havana, where perhaps in some re mote part of the city they even ven ture to hold out their hands to you as they pass—women of refined appear ance, too—the women in widow's weeds are the commonest sight in the small towns and cities. It is hard to tell where they got their mourning garments. It is no exaggeration to say that of a dozen women on a street in any Cuban village nine will be in mourning. And their faces sad with grief and thin with hunger even months after the war had ceased! — Harper's Weekly. A Itecoming Cravat. A new style of cravat that is both novel and becoming is made of white tulle and lace. The knot is under the chin, but the two loops stand up at the right side of the face and the two fan-shaped ends continue the slope. Another ruche arraugemeut that is pretty with an open jacket fastens with a 6oft knot at the throat, the long ends being confined at the waist with another knot. Half-way between these two is a third knot, which is also 3f tnlle. The tulle bows are made pretty with centres of black velvet. The new style of four-in-hand is be coming more popular .nan ever. It is tied to leave a puff above the knot, and fastens with a little chain and gold tassel or jjeudaut. Proper Care of tlie Finder Nails. "Soft white hands are always one of the principal points of a refined ap pearance, aud for that reason women of all ages have most carefully at tended to their hands," writes Mrs. Humphry, advising plain girls how to* be pretty, in the Ladies' Home Jour nal. "The care of the hands cannot be said to bo neglected nowadays, when so many persons employ the manicure, who scrapes the nails and makes them of a lovely pink, pushes* back the skin from the little white half-moons at the base, cuts the nails in a crescent which exactly follows the outline of the half-moons, and ends by washing the hands in a preparation that makes them both smooth and white, temporarily, if not permanently. The hands look extremely well after the manicure's task lias been finished, although Erasmus Wilson says that the nails should never bo scraped nor cleaned with any instrument save the nailbrush. The only other implement needed is the small ivory pressor." Women'* Luncheons. The luncheon, as a social function of a certain order, has come to be the feminine counterpart of tho man's din ner. If a man of note comes to New York ho is promptly, often exhaustive ly dined by other men, who tnke this way —happily so full of enjoyment for themselves—of expressing their ad miration. If women want to honor another woman they give a luncheon for her. Not long agoa woman editor from another city visited New York, and among the affairs given in her honor was a luncheon at a well known hotel. It was a small company, scarce ly more than a dozen covers being laid; but the repartee, the good stories, the humorous discussion which went around the'table would have been quite worthy of a masculine diuner of imposing proportions. It is an un fortunately widespread habit with women to take their pleasures sadly, but tbe vigorous preaching which has been done apropos of this, very thing Eeems not to have been in vain. An "honorary" luncheon, at least, is a pleasure which New York women take with the proper degree of gayety. Harper's Bazar. How Some AVoinen Order Gowns, "The way some women order clothes is simply appalling," exclaimed a fashionable woman recently, "aud it makes it hard on the rest of its who have moderate purses. I went into my dressmaker's the other day and found her time aud attention com pletely taken up by a smartly dressed person who was looking over the French models. 'I will take that, and that, and that,' she decided, without even asking for the price, as one love ly confection after another was brought out for her approval. "J was too much entertained by the exhibition to mind waiting, so I sat patiently until milady took her de parture. " 'You have a good customer,'l said to tbe dressmaker, when she at last 1 turned her attention to me. " 'Ah!' she exclaimed, 'I have few customers like that. Sho ordered ten costumes this morning, and never asked the price.' " "I am simply exhausted," com plained a New York woman not long ago. "I have quite overworked my self, and must positively take a rest." "Why, what has a butterfly like you to do?" queried her husband scep tically. "Oh, Jack! (very reproachfully) You do not realize how much to do. Take yesterday, for instance. I tried on twenty-ono dressesl Now, if that i" not enough to tire one out, Ishould like to know what i 3! You men have no conception of what a woman's work really is."—Now York Tribune. Victory For Twin Slater*. At tho commencement of tho Univer sity of California the women of tho graduating class carried off' all the college honors. Not only was the medal won by a young San Francisco woman, but the second, the third and the fourth places in the class were occupied by women, and the only young man from the academio depart ment who had a place as a speaker on commencement day ranked ii:tlr in Iris class. The winner of this year's medal was Miss Lily Hohfeld, o; San Francisco, twenty-two years old, daughter of Ed ward Hohfeld, a musi • teacher. Miss Hohfeld is said to have attained the highest percentage ever received by a graduate of tho university. Roso Hohfeld, twin sister of Lily, stood second in the class. The two sisters took the same course and always worked together. Tho Hohfeld girls are charming, fresh-faced, comely young women, whose brows are unmarked by a kiuglo line, aud whoso bright eyes, thick hair and fresh coloring are a refutation of the worn-out prophecy that higher education would be ruin ous to female health and looks. All through school tho Hohfeld girls have had the same record, sweeping every one aud everything before them. From the time when, as tots of six, they went out of th eir father's house swinging little sacks which held theii slates and primers they liavo stoo d at the head of their classes. They do not know what it is to stand anywhere else, and Lily has always been first and Rose second. Teachers say that they are equally bright, but Lily is a trifle more ambitious aud self-assertive than Rose, There aro over 200 women lawyers in the United States. About 300 girls are employed in the harness trade in New York. Only two women have been discov ered who are veterinary surgeons. Mrs. Julio Ward Howe has just eel - ebrated tbe eightieth anniversary of her birth. ,i There are almost C 2.000 women among the agricultural laborers of England and Wales. Lady Henry Somerset has been re elected President of the British Wom an's Temperance Association. Queen Victoria has overcome her dislike of electric light, which has now been introduced in all the royal pal aces. Mary Dickens, a granddaughter of the novelist, is about to bring out a piece of fiction dealing with theatrical life. Tbe woman manager of a California insurance company i 3 credited with the largest salary paid to any woman —BIO,OOO a year. The Princess Victoria of Wales,with Lady Musgrave as her companion, may be met shopping on foot in Sloane Btreet and elsewhere in London. Miss Marion Cockrell, the daughter of the senior Senator from Missouri, is to have tho honor of naming the battleship Missouri at Newport News next October. The women of Alabama are to pre sent to Miss Annie Wheeler, daughter of General Wheeler, u silver set as a testimonial of her work among the soldiers at Santiago during the war with Sjiain. Mrs. "Jeb" Stuart, widow of the Confederate cavalry commander, lias resigned tho principalship of the Vir ginia Female Institute, the diocesan school of two dioceses. She has occu pied the position for many years. It is said that the Queen df Swe den's enthusiasm for the Salvation Army and its works has caused a cer tain amount of dissatisfaction to be felt at court by those who do not feel in sympathy with the army's methods. The admission by tbe Board of Di rectors at Wittenberg College, Spring field, Ohio, of young women, who will pursue thu regular course in the Theological Seminary, is considered by many as a great gain in the ad vance of women to equal stauding with men. It is thought that many women will now enter the seminary. Tho Neweiit Fuahlotis. Narrow black velvet ribbon is used to trim colored pique gowns. Black Chautilly in appliqno designs decorates some of the white organdie guwus exquisitely. Haud-paiuted silk gauzes aud mous seliue de soie are favored materials for oveniug gowns, with tulle, and point d'esprit in the lead. Sun-plaited skirts of linen lawn are very good style trimmed the width of a hem from a lower edge with a wide band of cream lace insertion. Flowered linen lawu gowns,trimmed with wide bauds of blue veiling, lined with silk matching the color in the flowers, anil edged with black silk braid, are tho extreme of fashion in the way of combination and novelty. Taffeta in pale colors is used for evening gowns. It is trimmed with flower designs of white monsseliue de soie outlined with narrow ribbon, aud the Bkirt opens over a tablier of tulle trimmed crosswise with spangled lace insertion. Pale blue velvet baby ribbon gathered on one edge and sewn in 1-ows arouud a white chiffon collar and the upper portion of the chiff'ou vest is a very dainty hit of color in the bodice of a black and white foulard. Of course tho lows are fully a third of an inch apart, which gives a pretty effect. Some of tho new taffeta silk skirts are made without lining. The skirt has tlireo narrow frills at tho hem and two mure put ou to aim lluto u deeply pointed overdress, but in this ease the unlined skirt is worn over a very elab orate Hilk petticoat, fitted and made very much after the fashion of a dross sltirt. Tho transparent train made of innu merable frills of mousselino de soie on mousselino lined with the same trans parent stuff was a new featuro at an English drawingroom in March, and it is prophesied that the old oonrt train of heavy volvot and satin will ba displaced by this more graceful ap pendage.
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