Freeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY THE TRIBONE PRINTING COMPANY. IMtei OFFICE: MAIS STREET ABOVE CENTBE. FREELAND, PA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year f 1.50 Bix Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Months . .25 The date which the subscription is paid to Is on the address labei of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date be comes a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in advunce of the present date. Re port promptly to this ofliua whenever paper Is not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. Make all momy orders, checks, eta,,payable to the Tribune printing Company, limited. That we are oa the eve of a coze pleterevolution in the matter of trans portation, electricity supplanting steam as a direct motive power, is evidenced on every hand. And in this matter of transportation the trolley system must be taken into ac count as essentially modifying exist ing methods. One idea in connection with old-aga pensions that does not seem to have occurred abroad is that while the tide of emigration of the younger workers to the United States and other coun tries will continue, the old-age pen sions may check emigration of the aged, keeping them in the country, while the younger blood is seeking its fortune in the new world. Queensland joins the procession of colonies voting for the United States of Australia by a majority smaller than those of some others, but ample for the purpose. We may now reckon the new nation an established fact, a new triumph for American ideas in government, and a new and friendly neighbor of ours, byway of our own new holdings in the Asian, though not Australasian, seas. Mrs. Hearst's gift of between $7,- 000,00b and 38,000,000 for buildings of the University of California is per haps the largest ever given for such a purpose by an individual. It sug gests the sudden realization of high educatioual ideals made possible to day by great wealth, in contrast to the slow growth of the past. There is one thing, however, that a gift like this cannot do. A university, like a cathedral, is built by its associations as well as from the plans of archi tects. Nothing can ever deprive the older universities of the educational influence due to their history. From the broader point of view, both the old and the new supplement each other for the good of higher educa tion. There is no longer outcry of any moment touching abandonment of farms in New England, says the Lewis ton (Me.) Journal. There are fewer idle farms than a year ago. The trol ley will eventually make the idle farm a busy land for some purpose or other as our prosperity advances. Some Of these farms have been bought for summer resorts and .vacation homes. Some prosperous farmers are enlarg ing their borders—seeing that graz ing and dairy and beef products sup ply profits. The advance in the price of" timTieF is worth many millions to the State of Maine. What the full effect is to be in the farming industry of New England has yet to appear, but some of the results are already discernible. The energy and enter prise of the shop is coming to the farm to make it a really successful business enterurise. BREAKING DOWN CUSTOM. onpnncHO Family's Fondness for Huff and Its Results. "When I was a young boy the cus tom of eating beef began to spread. As blood was regarded as unclean and also as Japan has been a strong agri cultural country, there was a deep rooted disinclination to eat beef," says a Japanese writer in the Popular Sci ence Monthly. "In this, of course, one has to recoguize the influence of the vegetarian principle of Buddhism, but to anybody who had ever tasted beef It was so delicious that he could hardly control his natural appetite by his re ligious scruple. My father was one of those who knew its taste, so now and then we used to treat ourselves to beef. But where did we eat it? Wo did not eat it inside the bouse. We cooked and ate It in the open air, and In cooking and eating It we did not uso the ordinary utensils, but used the special ones kepi for the purpose. Why all these things? Because beef was unclean and we did not like to spread Its unclcanllness into our house wherein the 'god shelf' Is kept and Into our ordinary utensils which might be used in making offerings to the gods. The day when we ate beef my father did not offer lights to the gods nor say evening prayers to them, as he did usually, for he knew he was unclean and could not approach the gods." I LIFE ABOARD THE OLYMPIA, i 1 . ; ££ S| The jßoutirve on J\dmiral DeWey's Flagship From the j| Bugle's JTeVeille to JPipedoWn. U& g JACK AT WORK AND AT PLAY. 11 | New Yoiik City (Special).—The ! life of the sailors aboard Admiral | Dewey's flagship, the cruiser Olympia, j is a duplicate of the routine peculiar Ito every other boat in the United States Navy. The discipline has not been relaxed because the jack tars ac quitted themselves so well at Manila. On the contrary, an extra effort is made by the crew to hold by good be havior in peace the laurels they won in time of war. The men-o'-war's men of the Olympia are feted and petted while ashore, but once under the Ad miral's eye they return to the stern realities of life on the ocean wave, i It is not a very fasoiuating or wildly hilarious life that of the man forward on board a modern warship. There is a monotony and sameness of things that eat into the heart at times, and it is only the excitement caused by a wreck or a storm or a series of battles like that recently experienced that lends a welcome air of diversion to the naval day. Torise at 5.30 to the harsh notes of a bugle and drum is the or der, except during the few winter mouths, when a half hour's grace Jis permitted. The "musics," as the marine drummers and buglars are called, are summoned teu minutes be fore time by the corporal of the guard. The two lads, rubbing the sleep from their eyes, take their Btand near the forward hatch, and, at the word from the officer of the deck, break into the stillness of the early morning with an infernal hubbub technically known as "reveille." The hideous uproar speed ily brings a chorus of grunts and WRITING! HOME. (On bonrd the flagship Olympia.) yawns, not unmixed with something stronger, from the occupants of the hammock-crowded berth deck, and presently the ladder leading above is thronged with half-clad figures mount ing upward in a ghoßtly procession. Each figure carries upon his shoulder his individual hammock, carefully lashed and fettered. This he de posits in the receptacles prepared for the purpose and then hies himself to his mess, where he finds steaming cof fee without milk and barely sweetened, but extremely welcome as an eye opener. The spotlessly clean decks of naval vessels are proverbial. This cleanli ness, which seemed novel even to royal eyes, is the result of hours of hard, oonstant work every morning on board every ship in the service. It is to the executive officer that all praise or blame in reference to the condition of a ship belongs, and directly after the crew has had its early coffee he is on deck personally superintending the holystoning and scrubbing and per haps painting. He relieves the officer of the deck, who goes below for a light lunch, and then sees that the boat swain's mates and the captains of the different parts of the ship distribute their meq to the best advantage. If it be wash day the crew is allowed to at tend to its laundry work before the scrubbing begins, for.be it understood, there are no "Hop Lees" or colored women in the naval service. It is seldom that the ship's cook, who has the exclusive privilege to make and dried apple pies at twenty-five cents a pie, and the ship's barber, who pursues his tonsorial art at the rate of $1 each quarter for every man on his books, scrub their own clothing. They are rich enough to hire a needy landsman or coal passer to do it for them. As the sailor's outfit consists solely of cloth or white duck trousers, flan- THE FENCING DRILL. nel inside and outside shirts and the ordinary cotton hose, the operation of washing does not call for skill or prep aration. For instance, if the article to be renovated is the flannel shirt, Jack selects a clear nart of the deck, sprinkles a little water upon the spot, then spreads his shirt, previously soaked, upon the deck. Then with salt water soap and a scrubbing brush he sets to work. A subsequent rinsing completes the task and the garment is fastened with bits of twine to the clothesline stretched from mast to mast. Holystoning decks and scrubbing AT MESS ON BOARD THE OLYMPIA. ladders and gratings with sand and canvas continues until ten minntes of 8 o'clock, when the oall to "spread mess gear" is sounded by the boat swain's mate on watch. This is also the signal to clean up, and each jaokie grabs a deck bucket, gets his share of fresh water from the captain of his part of the ship, and makes his toilet, which, if not elaborate, amply suffices for his needs. After the washing, the sailor's toilet consists of a vigorous rubbing with a coarse towel—his own private property—and a hair brushing with the aid of an ancient brush and a small woodeu-framod glass generally carried iu the little chest, or ditty box, which is the officially approved trunk of each jackie. At the stroke of eight bells, 8 o'clock, the call to breakfast is given. Salty air and an open, free life pro duce excellent appetites, aud there is no dawdling in the race for the mess tables on the berth deck. Breakfast over, the men have until 9 to smoke, then all hands are turned to and the ship is cleaned up for quar ters. This latter ceremony is con ducted daily, rain or shine. During CJHAI LAIN BEANEY, OP THE OLYMPIA. week days the morning hours are generally devoted to drill. A settled schedule is made out when the ship goes into commission, and this is strictly adhered to. Eaoh ship has its general quarters, fire quarters, collision drill, abandon ship, arm and away boats, broadsword exercise, or something of similar charaoter, and from 9.80 until noon the decks are alive with men under instruction. Dinner is followed by a short rest, and at 1 o'clock "turn to" is sounded again. During the nfternoon five days of the week the crew is kept at work attending to the multifarious duties of the ship. Saturday after noon is considered a half holiday, the smoking lamp is lighted, and if the ship is in port the men are allowed to see visitors and enjoy themselves ac cording to their individual inclina tions. With mess-gear in the early evening, the working day ends. Sup per is followed by a period of re laxation until the mellow notes of the bugle sound taps, and the boatswain's mate's whistle eohoes through the decks in the last call of the day— "pipe down." There are many other incidents which go to make up the naval day. At sea, when the ship's company 'is divided into watches, the monotony is greater than in port. It is during the latter time, with the fleet at anchor ofl some friendly city, or when the ship is tied up to a dock in one of the home navy yards, that Jack finds his hours filled with variety and pleasures suffi cient to satisfy even his desires. It is then the liberty list—a potent term in the navy—is made out. To dis cover one's name on the liberty list means shore with its fascinating at tractions, and if there is anything on this footstool the average sailor loves it is to "hit the beach" with a few dollars in his pocket. Sunday is, as far as possible, kept as a day of rest. After the morning scrub and inspection comes service by the chaplain. The old rhyme of Six days shalt thou labor and do all that thou art able; On the seventh, holystone the decks and scour the cable, Is no longer appropriate, since all labor, except what is absolutely neces sary, is dispensed with. To attend divine service, dressed in THE DAUBER'S CHAIR ON THE OLTMPIA, their best, is the one extra duty re quired of the men, and the afternoon is practically free until sundown. Chaplain Iteaney, of the Olympia, is one of the most popular men aboard, and the men confide in him to an ex tent that is remarkable. Oyster Opening an Art. It takes one hundred million oysters a week to satisfy the requirements of the New York market. This year the supply promises to be prolific. ANATOMY OF THE OYSTER. The oyster openers are a class by themselves, as distinct and clannish as the 'longshoremen for ocean liners. They receive $1 a thousand, and it is a poor shucker that cannot earn $5 in a day's work of eight hours. Many of them earn §8 and $9. Thero are as many ways of opening an oyster as there are of carving a duck, and each shucker thinks that nis way is the host. It depends upon where a man has been brought up to the business. Men who have been brought up in New York use nothing but the knife, but they use it in dif ferent ways. Not one man iu a hun dred is a good side knife opener. Other men who use nothing but the knife simply stab the oyster. Epicures declare that this spoils it, but oyster- j men say that for the general trade it makes little difference. If a shucker has been brought up in the South, Baltimore or Norfolk, for instance, he uses a hammer as well as a knife in opening an oyster. An Editor's Just Plaint. "Send in your items of news when they are fresh," says the Salisbury (Mo.) Press. "We don't like to pub= lish a birth after the child is weaned, a marriage after the honeymoon is over, a death after the widow is mar ried again, nor the notioe of an enter tainment after the job work is done elsewhere and the editor is charged for admission," ODORLESS WINDOW KITCHEN. How One Woman l>oea Light Houmw* keeping In One ltoom, A neat little window kitchen is the invention of an ingenious woman who was compelled to do light housekeep ing in one room in which there were no modern improvements. After s ' ru K6>'ihg for some months with a !|| J OliMMJllliill :• HI my j ill _if FOR LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING. small table and a gas stove, she dis covered that, no matter how much care was exercised, light housekeeping would leave heavy odors. But she finally hit upon a plan that makes light housekeeping odorless, easy and practical, even if the keeper has only one small room. She had a little box kitchen built outside of the lower part of her win dow. In this there were two shelves, the lower for a gas stove and the up per for a variety of culinary utensils. The window kitchen is a miniature ex tension, and can be made out of a strong pine packing box and attached outside of almost any ordinary win dow. It must be firmly screwed to the woodwork on either side, and the top slanted and covered tar paper. A row of holes about an inch in diameter should be bored through each parti tion of the miniature kitchen, to as sure good ventilation and to carry out the steam and odors that come from cooking. A hole must also be bored ! in the lower sash of the window, large | enough for a gas tube to pass through j and be connected with the nearest gas i jet. This allows the window to be I raised without interfering with the | tube. In warm weather the upper shelf of i the window kitchen can be used as a receptacle for food to complete the kitchen arrangements. Inside the room the inventor had a window seat built and upholstered. The upholstery and hanging could be removed while the meal was being prepared and the seat used as a table, while the draw ers and compartments and cupboards built underneath served as a recep tacle for dishes and tabLe linen. She hung a neat little pair of curtains from the middle sash of the window, which could be moved back and forth when the stove was in operation. After the dishes had been washed and restored to their shelves and cup boards the upholstered seat is put back and the end of the couch piled up with pillows. The curtains are drawn, and no one would ever know that a meal had been prepared. A Relic of the Llglit Brigade'* Charge. A soldier's mouldy hat lias just been found under a huge stone in the "Valley of Death" at Balaclava. Some boys had shifted the bowlder, as bees had built a nest beueath it, youngsters wanted to get the honey. From the design of the badge it is evident that the headgear belonged to a trooper of the Seventeenth Lancers, a corps which was included in the im mortal Light Brigade. London Chronicle. Uncle Ssin 1 . fsenutlfnl Girl Model. A beautiful little New York girl has the distinction of having her picture on every 32 bill issued by the United States in 1896. Her name is Rose. Marston, and she is but sixteen years of age. Little Miss Marston is said to be the most shapely child known to | the New York artists. She is par- | ticularly remarkable for the beauty and grace of her arms, hands and feet, which closely resemble the old Greek models. On the 1896 $2 bill there is a group of five beautiful female fig ures. The one which represents Roso Marston is that of the girl kneeling on the left of the group. The ac companying illustration gives a fair representation of the girl in one of her poses. She has posed for leading artists for over four years. The fig ures of Steam, Electricity and Manu factures on tho 1896 $2 bill were all BOSO MARSTON. sketched from her poses, and she was one of the models for the beautiful figure paintings that decorate the walls of the Congressional library at Washington. It is said that Miss Marston earns SSO a week as a model. I HEW YORK FASfflOHg. | , fl Designs For Costumes That Have Be- i| || come Popular in the Metropolis. New York Citjt (Special).—There is more genuine novelty in the wraps of oloth and fur designed for the pres ent season's clothes market than in THE NEW WINTER COAT. either the gowns or hats that are al ready casting their shadows before them. None of the fashionable new comers at the furriers or cloakmakers is braided. The whole creed of dec oration is. cloth stitched on cloth and ; fur on cloth. Not one of the new I coats or capes make the slightest pre- I tense of fitting the figure. What the I English call box and what the French volante shape wraps are being pushed for popularity most vigorously by the manufacturers, and the chances are just even whether this style, so fre-1 quently and emphatically rejected and despised by women, will now be ac oepted. Clumsily large capes of the Bame type as were worn last winter are eligible for use in the oomingsseason, and the handsomest are made of thick sleek-surfaced dark cloth with broad borders of gray and brown fur and finished by tall kaiser collars. An- ATTRACTIVE NEW FLANNEL SHIRT WAISTS. other mode shows a cape with long kersey skirts to the hem of the dress and then over this to the hip falls an other cape of fur, and it is perfectly patent that the long-haired pelts are to be first in the hearts of our country women this year. Long cloth coats that might easily be called ulsters and made of broad cloth, vicuna or Venetian cloth, are out on the Chesterfield and Baglan pattern, as those for men are modeled; their pockets are ample and the one feminine suggestion is the tall, up rolled oollnr, often liued with mole's fur that gives the tenderest, most grateful touoh to the face possible, and the smoked pear-gray color, which forms a soft becoming background for the face. The majority of these long coats are made to fasten with the but tons out of sight, or one or two very ohoice cut steel disks hold the fronts together and twinkle in the soft, deep hair. There is a pretty fashion coming in of using bullet-shaped buttons of brass as trimmings on sleeves and yokes and the fronts of cloth suits. These are copies of the buttons that small boys in livery wear, and they are not the first brass ornnments that have crept into women's wardrobes. Brass is evidently the successor to much of the popularity accorded to gun metal, and by treatiug it to a high polish and overlaying it with a pe culiar lacquer it neither loses its lus ter nor conveys any ugly odor to the hands. Shirt Waißts Still Thing* of Beauty. ! Among the leally indispensable things exhibited in the shops are the new shirt waists. Notwithstanding the fact that these comfortable gar ments have been in vogue many years and each season someone asserts that ! they are "going out," they are still in ! great demand. Styles vary, and special designers i in the large Bhops always are working • out novelties. The new flannel and silk waists merit going a long dis tance to see, for they are beauties, and not at all expensive. Of course, the best are tailor-made, as they should be to have the quiet style so necessary in this garment; but "of all things worn by woman the shirt waist is, perhaps, the only article which can be made at home and really look the real thing. There are good patterns, which fit, too, and if the maker is careful about stitching well and press ing correctly, she can turn out a really good waist. But silk ones are another story, with their endless number of tiny tucks; the delicate hemstitching; the rolled edges, with narrow embroidery slipped in, and all the perplexing de tails. So muoh depends upon the set at the back, the hang of the sleeve, the way buttons are sewed, and, above all, the cravat, that it is small wonder that a woman prefers to be well dressed in one expensive waist rather than have several badly made or in ferior in quality. For silk waists, tucks and hem stitching are the proper mode. The tncks may run lengthwise in groups, may be tiny or large, or stitclied in squares. So long as tucks are used one cannot fail to be in the fashion. For flannel a combination of stripes has the smartest effect. The exam ples shown in the large engraving, taken from the New York Press, are both of flannel, and for style and com fort no design can be found which will surpass them. Reducing the FaHhloimble Chain. The fashionable chain is reduoing, in some instances, both its dimension and weight. It is neither so long nor so heavy as heretofore. There seems an approach to the delicate beauty of the slender gold chaius which our grandmothers wore reaching to the j waistband into which the watch was tucked. Some of the newest chains are quite tine, and extend about half way to the waist, supporting a small watch or a fine pendant. A Tailor-Made Pelerine. There is uow a tailor-made pelerine. It is very simple except at the neck, where it is heaped with lace, silk mus lin ruches, accordiou-plaitiugs, single, double and triple, with broad-ribbon bows or choux fastened here and there. Gloves and Shoe* For Winter Wear. Heavily stitched stout gloves are the only kind allowable for the winter season. Thick, round-toed sh(?es are the proper footwear, and hats posi tively must be devoid of gewgaws and fussy trimmings. A Now Kobe Design. A modest design in a robe conceived of cambric is here introduced. Half inch tuckings form the yoke and the trimming across the upp'er part of the CAMBRIC KOBE. sleeves. The wrist& are finished with a soft, bell-shaped fall of lawn edged with lace, and that also outlines the fastening. #
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