FREELAND TRIBUNE. Established 1388. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY TIIE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months .75 Four Months 50 Two Months 25 The date which the subscription is paid to is on the address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date becomes a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in advance of tin? present date. Report prompt ly to thisofilcc whenever paper is not received. FREELAND, PA., AUGUST 14, 1899. Truth Still Coming Out. Soldiers returning from the Philip pines all tell the same story, and those who profess still to resist the force of it must be blind with a wilfulness of a very tough and strenuous sort. They are patriots of a kind having a truly stalwart belief in their country. Any one—just common sort of folk—can be lieve in one's country when it is right: but they scein bound to do better than that —they are going to believe in their country (or their party) when it is wrong. The Pennsylvania soldiers just reach ing their homes come back with ex periences precisely similar to those re lated over and over by returning volun teers in other states —they tell over the same sickening story which now every body must know to be the simple truth. Some of them have inclined somewhat to reticence, having had it so long in stilled Into them that any kind of com plaining Is a species of military insubor dination, but more and more, now they are at home, they are speaking out. The universal feeling against General Otis Is one of intense bitterness. The special ground of this, along with tho general mind of the Pennsylvania volunteers 011 the whole question of the war, is given in tho reported statement of one of the most Intelligent men of the Tenth Pennsylvania—Alexander B. Young, of Company 11—which comes from Braddock. Young is not only a soldier, but is an attorney, and knows the force of words. lie says: The sympathies of the entire regi ment are with the Filipinos, and in private conversation the men have no hesitancy In so expressing themselves. They feel that they are entitled to make the same light for liberty that our own forefathers wore, and that, under the laws of humanity, they are worthy of tho same rights. Our men did not shirk their duties. No volunteer regiment was more anxious for service against the Span iards, and when thoir terms bad expired, Otis asked the men to reenlist. A mooting was called of every com pany in the regiment, and the decision of the men was unanimously against a reenlistment. They had accomplished what they had engaged to do, ai)d the\ wanted to come home. But the very next thing they know byway of news from tin? United States was that Otis had cabled that they wore anxious for reenlistment. I think Otis is a competent general as far as courage and fighting art! concern ed, but he unjustly and cruelly diserimi liated against the volunteer soldiers by keeping them constantly on the firing line, when there were regular troops to relieve them from the constant strain. Keeping the men in the Philippines against their will has embittered them, and tho feeling against the commanding general reported in previous despatches doos not abate among the soldiers. The prevailing sentiment In the Tenth is that the Filipinos started to light for the liberty of which they have been so long deprived. Since the meeting of the borough council on Monday evening last, it has been alleged that the bill of Riser V Dolan, for work done at Birvanton, has been found to be Incorrect. The amount ordered paid to this firm was $Bl4. This, it is stated by a member of council, is from s<ls to gioo too much. The error it is said, was made in measuring tin* work. The THI HUNK does not say tin error was intentional, but it does claim that proper precautions wore not taken to protect the borough in examining and measuring the work. It is quite prob able that the matter will come before council at its next meeting and proper stops taken to recover the amount in excess of what was really earned. Mis takes are liable to happen in any busi ness, but mistakes of such magnitude as this on(i is said to be are generally dis covered In public business before tin amounts are ordered paid. In writing of the scarcity of labor hereabouts and the present prosperity of the coal trade, the North Side corres pondent of thi! Plain Speaker sounds this warning: "Freeland and other towns similarly situated should not be lulled Into a sense of false security by tho promising outlook. It Is only temporary at best, for in most of the mines of this vicinity tho conditions arc such that with steady work tho miners will not average $1.50 a day." 11l 1 HIS 11 Interesting Pen Pictures of the Filipinos in Peace and War. A VERY PRIMITIVE RACE. Aguinaldo Carefully Preserved the Re ligious Beliefs of Natives Fearing Loss of Prestige. A Frnncliinan* Account of Spnniitli Cruelty—The Irtlutwl t hiol's Disappointed Ambition The Bandits Always For Jlllll—Natives Arc I'uMttlnnutcly Foml of (iaiiibllug—Steepod In Vice, Under the title "A Week in the Phil ippines," the Courier des Etats-Unis is publishing a series of letters which were written in November. 1837. giv ing a detailed description of the island at the time of the late Insurrection against Spanish rule. Not the least interesting In the series is the follow ing sketch from the notebook of the traveler: "The desire which the Filipinos have always felt for a leader has brought one to them in the person of Agutnaldo. Fifty years ago the ambition of a young schoolmaster like him would not have reached beyond the grade of a captain of banditti. Under the influence of European ideas, which through the Suez Canal have spread themselves all over Asia, he aspires to be the founder of a republic. I fear very much that he will be disappointed. But It would pain me to rail at this young chieftain of 27 years, who, dazzled by the glory of Washington and Bolivar, acquired from their example sufficient force to SQUAD OF NATIVES AT LA MIGUEL, PHILIPPINES. discipline his army and to spare his cause from the shame of the excesses whom stained the flag of Spain. The bandits whom the Spanish police hud never been able to subdue in the is lands claim to owe allegiance to him, and in this they deceive nobody. It is known that Aguinaldo follows the generous example of Menelek toward his prisoners, and he has a horror of reprisals. One of his first acts of au thority wus to sentence a certain Boni facio to be shot for pillage and mur der. He preserves carefully the relig ious beliefs in the hearts of his In dians, thoroughly appreciating the fact that Ills prestige would become lessened by the diminution of faith. All hu man authority leans upon the super natural, and that perhaps is the reason why one man gains such ascendency over others. The Tagals, fond of the mysterious, attribute to their young hero superhuman power. He lives un der their tents, participates in their la bors, casts bullets, bakes black bread, and cooks maize. Notwithstanding all that, In their eyes he wears a halo. If he should declare that he was invulner able his Indians would believe him. "Moreover, the reports that are scat-1 tered around and the orders that are transmitted assume a legendary form j in this country. Before the insurrec-1 tion it was reported in the neighbor hood of Tondo that, at about 10 o'clock j at night the fiery form of a woman ap peared in the sky with a crown of liv ing eel-penis. mat .us uie o.&u the people that the hour for revolu tion was at hand. There was also an- j other story that, at Biacnabato, a wo-; man gave birth to a child dressed in the full uniform of a General. That was taken as the announcement of the arrival of shiploads of arms for the in surgents. These stories and appari-1 tions excited the popular imagination, which ignored their hidden sense and retained only the fantastic figure. "It has been said that the Spanish! conquest robbed the enslaved races of their native poetry and that it dimmed completely the lucidity of their minds. But a time always comes when the' spirit of a race is born again to grow! more luxuriantly than ever. Even the soil gives to it a new sap. The Span iards, therefore, have to-day not only' to struggle against men. but, also to] overcome phantoms of the past nature aroused from its sleep, legends that; have come down from the mountains and the dead who have coitie up from their graves. That is why the soldier, | overburdened by bis task, fights with out energy, while the insurgents dis play in battle the most furious cour age. In some cases they have rushed i upon the Spanish lines with nothing but knives in their bands and have come back to camp unwounded, but covered with blood. "There is one good thing at least in war, it develops a prodigious energy, and when its cause is legitimate it gives a moral courage to all. The halfbreeds and the Indians* in Manila do not differ either in their nature or in their education from Aguinaldo's Tagals. Like the latter, they have fine heads and graceful figures. Like them.i also, they have among tliem broad faces, hydrocephalic foreheads and anj upper lip so far removed from the nose that the whole physiognomy presents' a painful and stupid expression. Never theless, the foreign residents, especially the Spaniards, judge them falsely. They insist that they are lazy, avaric ious and passionately fond of gamb ling. They prostitute their wives to Europeans and the women consider that it is an honor for them to bring into the world a child with a 'high nose' (alto uariz). They are steeped in vice. HAWAIIAN SPORT. | An Old-Time Incident of the liulul gence of ltoyal Ilnmea. The old practice of surf sliding, "hoe nalu," upon sOrf boards, was magnifi cent sport. It has fallen almost en tirely into disuse since forty years ago, when horses became numerous ami cheap. Before that date I used fre- j quently to see it at Lahaifla, as well as earlier at Kailua. I believe some adepts still practice it at Hilo. The board used in surf sliding is from five to eight feet long and ten to fifteen inches wide, rounded at the ends and sharpish at the edges, very much like a paper cutter. The rider swims out with the board under one arm, diving under the rollers until outside where the surf is just beginning to break. There, by an adroit movement, he stretches himself upon the board just : in front of a big roller, at the same j time violently plying arms anil legs to | "get a move on," while the roller lifts I him from behind. Once in motion the ! wave does the rest, although great skill | is needed to keep the board poised pre- ! cisely at the proper height and inclina- \ tlon upon the front of the violently i breaking roller. The riders will thus shoot several hundred yards to the shore. By early and long practice great skill was attained in this sport. The more expert would often rise to a standing posture, balancing their boards by their feet at the right point on the j wave. I can remember in early boy hood daily watching from my home , through the stems of the lofty cocoa j palms scores of natives flying in to- i gether In the white, roaripg surf. Sonic were prone, others crouching on their ! boards and some standing erect. Both ; sexes participated, and modesty was ; much at a discount, except when the venerated missionary was in sight. ! The males wore the malo or breech gir- ! die when disporting thus in our neigh- | borhood. The females did not stand up ! on their boards. Customs in those early days were Arcadian. At about 1824 the writer's young mother at Kailua once received ; in her thatched cottage a morning call from a bevy of royal dames with their | attendants, all fresh from surf play. The maidens carried the garments : while their mistresses stalked into the missionary's parlor in stately simplic ity and proceeded to dress. All that j was utterly innocent, and so in acer- | tain sense was the nearly entire unre straint of domestic morals In those early days. To infuse some degree of conscience 011 that point has been al- ' together the most difficult part of the | missionary's task in Hawaii. To most of the Ten Commandments the Ha waiian was easily amenable. But the importance of the seventh did not read- j ily come home to him. SlnvcH in the l*li 11 iiilai-M. The attention of the authorities has been called to the fact that slavery is rampant in Sulu, Mindoro, Tawee Ta wee and other of the Philippine Is lands. If you wish to become a slaveholder you may go to one of the three islands mentioned and purchase a half-grown girl for s:i. One was offered at that rate to Prof. Dean C. Worcester, Unit ed States Commissioner. The usual 1 price for girls of 15 years is five bush els of rice. Grown men and women sell at prices proportionately greater. ; The chief Philippine slave market and port for their export now is Mai bun, the old capital of Sulu. Harun 1 Narrasld. the Mohammedan Sultan of Sulu, is the central factor of the slave holding and slave-selling business of the entire group. The Moros, who arc the Mohammedan Malay subjects of this hitherto semi-official prince, con tinue, though upon a somewhat limited scale, the practices of their ancestors, the bloodthirsty Malay pirates who red dened Philippine waters for several centuries. No admixture of blood could be more favorable to slave hold ing than that of Malay and Mohamme-1 dan. according to Prof. Otis Mason, the noted ethnologist. Among their slaves are found Malays captured from Su-; matra, Papuans from New Guinea, Si-j amese, Javanese and Timorese. By 1 j collecting them within their dominion ' the Sulu masters have aided greatly in producing the peculiar mixture of stocks which now bothers anthropolo- j 1 gists. i Piratical expeditions are still gather ing as many captives as they can safe-; i ly attack in neighboring islands. These war-like Moros of Sulu and the islands : thereabout, moreover, adhere to the ancient barbarous custom of casting in to slavery such of their captives of war REMAINS OP BODIES TAKEN FROM CEMETERY AT MANILA FOR NON- | PAYMENT OP RENT. 1 as do not suffer death. "'heir most ready customers for able-bodied male slaves for many years hav been the Dutch planters in the island of Borneo, j to the southwest. More criminal even than this pirat ical slave gathering Is the custom of j selling innocent children into bondage, generally practiced by th% Mohamme-1 ; dan Malays. The parent who is in need of money lends, or, rather, gives I his child as security for the. loan, and j the little one is condemned to labor until the debt is paid, which seldom, j if ever, occurs. Very few children thus sold into slavery ever regain their freedom. Moro warriors try the edges of their weapons by striking down their slaves, according to Professor Worcester.; Moro slaves in Sulu represent all phases j of slavery practiced in ancient or mod-! em times —slaves by birth, slaves by, capture in war or by piracy, bonded! 1 children and insolvent debtors. I! ■Mill Austin Bidwell, One of the Most Daring Criminals the World Ever Saw ' ROBBED ENGLISH BANK. Secured Five Million Dollars on Forged Securities and Could Prob ably Have Gotten More. Was Horn in Hartford, Ct., and Commenced Life as Office Boy In a New York Stock Broker's Office ! —Saw Much Corrupt Dealing and Couldn't Remain Honest. Austin Bidwell is dead. His death narks the end of the earthly career of jne of the most daring and successful criminals the world ever saw. says the Chicago Chronicle. Few men have been able to rob the Bank of England; Bidwell wus one of that few. He se cured $5,000,000 on forged securities and but for the vengeance of some American confederates in former swin dling games might easily have mude the sum ten times greater. This mam moth crime stamped him as not only a very daring man but a wonderfully i shrewd crook. i Bidwell was finally caught and sent ito a British prison for life. He was pardoned and returned to America, making Chicago his home until he died. While his robbery of the British finan cial stronghold was liis great feat he had performed a number of feats in i this country of equal daring, but not so I great fame. All told he was the man to whom all crooks looked for an ex ! ample In devious methods and certain i ty of execution. ! Austin Bidwell Was of Yankee birth, lie was born in Hartford. Ct. i Bidwell commenced his New York ca ' reer as office boy for a stock broker. This was soon after the close of they civil war when speculation ran riot all; over the nation. The boy was quick and apt and by watching his chances ■ ] became possessed of many a dark sec ret which forced the holders to let him in on the ground floor. He saw so much corruption in dealing—so he says —that if he had been the most honest boy in the world he must have fallen. In his autobiography, "From Wall Street to Newgate," he treats the ter rible corruption of New York during j the A. Oakley Hall and Boss Tweed j regime without gloves. Bidwell acted as broker in New York j for thieves who stole bonds and other securities and made money rapidly un til he neglected to account for the pro- j : coeds of one sale and also to divide with the police inspector, who was "in" the deal. I This was in 1873 and Bidwell, still too smart to be caught napping, received a warning and coolly walked down to the docks with a roll and some more bonds in his pocket and sailed for Europe. There ho went to Paris and disposed of some of li is goods without trouble, as they were negotiable and not registered bonds. He then joined his brother, ; George in London, where the scheme was hatched to break the bank or force a settlement without prosecution. The scheme was to procure some $50,. 000.000 of the bank's money, flee the land for a time until it could be safely hidden, then offer to compromise on the basis of the return of part in con sideration of the dropping of all action against the schemers. It very nearly succeeded, for the operators were too sharp for the bank officials and but for Ihe "squeal" of a former confederate in America would probably have been played out to the bitter end. Austin Bidwell opened an account with the | bank with the SIOO,OOO cash he had with him. He went about his business like any other well-to-do man dabbling a little in stocks and showing that ho ; knew the markets well. He made some money and increased his deposit. Then he became very con fidential with some shrewd operators on the other side, who were equally ! confidential with the bank officials. He showed these operators how to make good money in America and was re warded by being introduced and dined i by his new friends. He became chum my with the governor and as his tips were always productive of fat returns none had the ear of that functionary inore readily. Then he prepared for his coup. That was to sell a lot of bogus bonds, get the cash and drop out ■ of sight. i Fortune seemed to smile on the con spirators. Austin sold the bonds and George took the proceeds away to place them in a safe place. The men wore winners to the extent of $5,000,000 good, hard British gold before the slightest suspicion attached to their dealings. The leader was so skilled in market lore, knew and talked intimate ly of the kings of finance on this side and altogether bore himself as an American who preferred to work on the London board to going back to New York. There seemed to be no limit to the steal but that fixed by the ! conspirators. While his brother was making a rapid retreat to France he kept up a bold front, visiting the bank he had swindled and Joking with the officers. He was so cool that they delayed sef j ting the detectives on his trail until j too late. lie was laying lines all thie i time to decamp, and one morning he disguised himself and shipped for the West Indies on a tramp steamer. H* had plenty of money when he started too. He had an exciting trip and was finally landed in Cuba, where he went into hiding for a time. He laughed at the British detectives, but, as he naive, ly writes in his books, ho forgot the Americans. George was caught in France after a short hunt and taken back to London. The former homes of the two men in the British capital were searched and the plant for the forgeries discovered. r l l*en the American detectives we\> put on the trail of the principal offen der and he was finally taken. lie was extradited and at last joined George in Newgate. Shakcnpenre in his plays touched up on pretty nearly every subject of hu man interest, except the hired girl. I Was he afraid to tacklo her?—Somer- I /ille Journal. A LUNATIC YEARS AGO Advent 11 ros of a Merchant Wlien In sane People Were Chained Up. Within the memory of peoplo now living lunatics and weak-minded peo ple In country districts were confined to the houses of their relatives, some times chained to the wall. A story in volving a case of this kind fifty years ago is related by a New York mer chant. He made his start in life by travelling through the country districts of Penn sylvania taking orders for and deliver ing goods of various kinds from the cities. He is now over 70 years of age. "One fine afternoon," he said. "I called at a farmhouse to look for orders for goods from stores in Philadelphia and knocked at the door. A voice said 'come in,' and I pressed the latch and found myself in the kitchen of the house. I was confronted by a strange looking man, unkempt and unshorn, who came forward from a place parti tioned off from the rest of the kitchen, which looked like a stall of some kind. He told me that the master of the house ./as not in and that he was the only person there Just then. I had no idea that 1 was talking to a lunatic, as the man seemed perfectly rational in spite of his strange appearance, and be fore I started to go out I asked for a drink of water. " 'Certainly,' said the man, 'but if you have no objection to cream you can have it.' "I accepted the proposal with thanks, and the man said: 'Please hand me the key of the dairy. It is on that nail above the door and you are taller than I.' Without suspecting anything, I handed him the key .remarking that it was a very small one. He instantly brought into view a chain by which he was -itatved to the wall and released b' ■,**(> by unlocking the padlock in less '-tan tht n it takes me to tell it. I had Tretloua'v noticed that he kept his hands twWtv his back while he talked. Then i reufzsd that I was in the pres ence o' <1 itutdi' in. I began to back to the door but he caught my arm say ing: 'Co with me for the cream.' "I first thought of breaking away, but' on second thoughts decided that it was safer to humor him a little, especially as he was between me and the door. I went with him to the dairy the door of which was open. There he filled a bowl with cream and desired me to drink it. I drank part of and made a move to get away, but his grasp tight ened, and muttering something about cream not being solid enough,' he brought me back to the kitchen, where he stirred some kind of meal into the cream and handing me a spoon told me to sup it. I hesitated, when he seiz ed a cudgel, which I suppose had been provided to keep him in subjection and holding it up menacingly, said: 'Sup it.' "I made an attempt to eat the stuff and after a few mouthfuls said I had enough. He raised the cudgel again and ordered me to finish it. A happy thought struck me. " 'lf you bring me more cream I can finish it,' I said, without daring to look round at the door, as he was watching me. "The madman was taken off his guard and went back to the dairy for the cream. I immediately darted out, and the lunatic, hearing me open the door, came after me with the cudgel. It was now a race for life with me. I ran my very hardest, not even daring to use my breath in shouting for help, but after I had gone about a quarter of a mile I saw that the lunatic was gaining on me. Not a soul could I see along the road and though I kept my wits about me I could not find any lane or think of any way of doubling on my pursuer. When he was within about twenty yards of me I saw he was bound to overtake me, and I gave a cry for help. Just at that moment several men appeared. They came up in time to in tercept the lunatic. One of them hap pened to be his brother and the mad man cowered and dropped the cudgel at the sight of him. The brother apolo gized to me for his carelessness and invited me to turn back to the house and get some refreshment, but I had enough of it and declined the invita tion. After that while I continued at that business I was always chary of entering a house where there was only a single occupant." Itringliig Wifey Around, "I have a very simple scheme for wriggling out of trouble when my wife catches me in a fib," said a Perfect Unite last evening to several congenial companions. "On such ocaßlons it is a great mistake for a man to attempt any explanation. The thing to do is merely to assume an air of injured in nocence. That attitude will puzzle a woman and shake her confidence in your guilt. She will begin uncon sciously to cast about for some explan ation. some theory, some clew to the mystery, and when she finds one, no matter how preposterous, she will be so pleased by her own cleverness that it is easy to persuade her to accept it out of hand. "You see, I have reduced the thing to a science. To illustrate: I told my wife not long ago that I would be de tained over my books until past mid night. After I left, some neighbors, confound 'em, invited her to the the atre. and during the last act she saw me, of course, with some of the boys in the parquet. When I got home there was an explosion, I said nothing I simply looked at her, sadly, wistfully, reproachfully. Next duy there was another explosion. I resumed my tac tics. That evening she said: 'Look here, Charlie, I want you to tell me whether you really went to the theatre tp see Col. Hawkins.' Then I remem bered suddenly that Hawkins was seat ed at my left, and also that she knew I had been trying to close a large-sized business deal with him. "In the goodness of her heart the dear girl had arrived at the conclusion that I must have gone to the show to clinch the contract. I smiled wanly. 'I would have thought, Mary,' I re plied with great gentleness 'that some thing of the kind might have suggested itself to you before. That was enough. She wept copiously. I was not a monster; I was a martyr. Eventually, I forgave her upon her solemn prom ise never again to suspect me of an untruth. So you see how it is. If I had tried to explain I would doubtless have made a mess of it and planted lasting seeds of distrust. As it turned out the epleodo redounds to my credit. THIS WARM WEATHER Makes men wish it were fashionable to wear only a palm leaf fan and a smile. But it's not. Right here is where we can help you to get ahead of the weather if you will call and see what we are offer ing in the several departments of our store. Every man or woman who knows this place knows how carefully we weigh every word. We try to undertell rather than overtell when speaking of values. Is it any wonder then that the rush for our summer goods has been so great— unparalleled. This month we are offer ing Hals si Ms' Fmisiis art Sloes at 1 Mast Prices ever offered in this town, quality consi dered. If you are looking for depend able goods and low prices you will find nothing elsewhere lower than our figures. If you are looking for good summer goods you will find nothing to compare with our present offerings. 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