Freeland tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVICHY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, DY Till rRIEDNE PRINTING COMPANY, MM I OIVICE: MAIN STBEET ABOVE CENTBE. FHE ML AND, PA. SUBsdUKTION KATES: One Ywir $1.50 j Mix Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Months .25 The date which the subscription is paid to is on the address label of eaeh paper, the change of which to a subsequent date be worries a receipt for remittance. Keep the Qgures in advance of the present date, lie port promptly to this office whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. Ma e all money orders, checks, elc.,payabU lo (he Tribune Printinj Company, Limited. It is gratifying to notice that the Becseless criticism of the use of the title "Journalist" to denote the writer for a periodical has about died out. Animals cannot be said to have any proper sense a language, unless they 1 have means of communicating ideas \ different from their few characteristic notes and songs. A language must be learned. The man who has not a million dol lars has much enjoyment in the con templation of what 'io would do if he I bad it. The fellow who has it, is subjected to much misery in his efforts to hold on to it. The Kearsarge and the Alabama are 1 the two latest battleships to be added | to our navy. And what a glorious ; event it is to have the two names un- i der cne flag, bearing the hopes and j purposes of one people. There is no doubt that it requires courage and endurance to engage in J polar exploration, but so it does to enter for a six days' bicycle race. The old theory that the lives and health of brave men are of more value than any scientific knowledge they can gain in the icy wastes has not been disproved. The people of Brazil are taking j alarm at the idea that their country will be ultimately absorbed by the United States, the "Colossus of the North." An opinion prevails that the United States has secured influence over Bolivia and proposes to annex a j large slice of Brazilian territory to ! Bolivia. The press of the entire i South American continent gives voico ' to a similar apprehension of Uncle j Sam's aggressions. It is urged that au educated woman of twenty-four is better able to tell when she is in love than when she is ! eighteen. Hardly, observes Judge. ! The fact of the affection is there. She can better judge whether it is wise to ; marry, but the affliction has arrived. | She has a better control of her heart; j but the old question is there, whethei I to marry unwisely and be temporarily happy or refuse and be miserable for years. That is the old story, aud it will be the new story as loug as the world goes round. The inventive skill of the American artisan is recognized the world over. Our axes, revolvers, bicycles, sewing machines, typewriters, etc., are the standard throughout the world. On the fertile fields of both continents { American agricultural machinery reigns supreme. Our steel rails link England's colonial outposts. Our bridges span the rivers in India and ! Egypt, and our locomotives furnish j the motive power for Russia's new commercial artery—the Government i railroad. There is mystery in the heavens, on and under the earth, and in human nature—infinitely more in the last ihan in the first—and we are always puzzling over one or another, and wondering when it's all going to be solved. After all, the man is but a feeble development of the child, ob serves the Atlanta Journal. The Santa Clans age is the dearest to the latter because it is involved in so much mystery. The adult portion of the world spends most of its time at tempting to probe into just such un certain and perplexing problems. Gold In the Philippines. Is said there is not a stream rising the mountains of Luzon— and the same is true of other islands of the Philippine group— which has not its gold bearing sands. The alluvial de posits of the precious metal have been garnered foo* many years, but no thor ough exploration for gold at its sources In the mountains has ever been made, because the Spaniards were unable to conquer the tribes Inhabiting the in terior regions. Some of these tribes are said to look upon the digging up of the earth as a sacrilege, and they will not seek gold In that way, nor permit others to do It, lest the wrath of the gods should grow hot aealnat them I NATIVE LIFE IN MANILA. I H H Some of the Peculiarities of Dress and Queer Cus- p3 toms of the Filipinos. iS f ODD WAY OF" DOING HOUSEWORK There is not a great ileal of fun in the Philippines, but one occasionally encounters n sight or an incident which brings a smile. Usually, these are of a type which must bo seen to be appreciated. In wandering about Ma nila, particularly the new cily, which is the centre of material life as the old city is of spiritual life, one should either have his nose at home or plug it up. The wear and tear exercised by the highways and byways upon the olfactory organs are quite severe. There is a fair measuro of offense to the eye as well, but that instrument possesses a wider adaptability than does the nose. It resents less keenly. The novelty is ephemeral, but there is novelty for the outsider in the life of the chief city of the Philippines. The novelty gone, one rather shrinks from it all. It gets almost to border ou the repulsive, so greatly is it lackiug in iuhereut attractiveness. A HIGH-BORN FILIPINA WEARING UPPER GARMENT OF COSTLY PINA—A TEXTURE OF PINEAPPLE LEAF, AS CHOICE AS THE FINEST LACE. The native woman's shoe consists, usually, of a flat sole with a toe-cap. Sometimes the cap has room for nil Mie toes, sometimes not. Often the sole is raised from the ground by wooden heels and sole—blocks like, but lower than those used by the Japanese. Stocking are not usually worn. The gait of the Filipina is a little outward curving swing from the knee, with a resultant side swing of the hip. There is, perhaps, a certain grace in the movement, but there is also a good deal of "scuffling," and a general appearance of being slipshod. In fact, one gets an idea that the average Filipino, male or female, is only about half-dressed anyway, from our standpoint. The customary male body-covering is only an undershirt. Those of higher social rauk and greater wealth wear also a cotton shirt, or a garment of gauzy texture of sone lo- I cally made material. But the garment i will be worn, like a coat, in the full measure of its beauty, outside the 1 trousers. A higher step iu the social scale brings the substitution of the coat for the shirt. A Filipino dude with a cane and a little "billy-cock" hat, a pair of black trousers, and a gauze shirt, worn outside of them, is a resplendent spectacle, and he has the air of being entirely conscious of it. From our standpoint, there is the same half-dressed look about the women of the poorer classes. The Negrito woman of the mountains may use only u cloth extending from waist to knee. The Maugyau woman ot' j Mindoro may wear a contrivance of braided rattan, which is even more ab- I breviated. These garments do not sug gest the half-dressed. They are dis tinct. There is no suggestion of Eu ropean costume. It is not so with the Filipino woman at Manila. Her gar ments are neither dress nor native costume. Pieces of cloth cover her from the waist downward. The shoul der and body covering varies in the number of articles and detail of con (A Filipino criminal and his jailer in a Manila house of correction.) atructioj. All are cut somewhat low in the nock, an<l on a plan which give them & "list to port or to starboard," which leaves a shoulder and an upper arm wholly hare. In the upper cir cles, there is exercised a greater care in adjustment, and a handkerchief, Xdded diagonally, is laid across the shoulders and pinned in front. This tends to steady the outfit and keep it in place. The sleeves are gathered at the shoulder and flare outward, broad ly bell-mouthed to a little below the elbow. The Filipino may be said to work in driblets. Concentration for any length of time is not a national charac teristic, there must be plenty of in termissions, and the work must never be of such a character as to preclude "" " ' r .. FILIPINO WOIIEN BOWING BEFORE THE CATACOMBS. the smoking of the favorite cigarette. In house work it takes one native ser vant to accomplish each task of a dif ferent character. For instance, in a large houso there is a "floor boy," whose duty it is to keep all the beau tiful hardwood floors in a clean and shiny condition, and this is the way he does it: The dust is first carefully brushed up with a hemp arrangement which in its effects is a cross between a feather duster and a hearth brush. This is merely a preliminary to the act of polishing, a work of art which has been developed on original lines. Two large, soft eloths are laid on the floor, aud the "boy," who may be a grandparent, firmly plants a foot on each. He next glides slowly back and forth on the floor, more like a man on snowshoes than anything else. Waddling along in his flimsy white clothes, casting an occasional look behind at his trail to see if it is suf ficiently shiuy, he presents a picture which is so amusing that you cannot help bursting into laughter when you see it for the first time. The native is often barefooted; if not, he almost invariably wears the native slippers which are called MOVING IX MANILA—ALL HOUSEHOLD GOODS AI:E HANDLED IN THIS WAY. "chinelas" or "zapatitos," ami which consist of a sole ami a toe. Mauy keep these on without fastening ap parently by puction; others stick the ltle toe outside ami hold the shoe ou by this method. From long practice iu this the little toe is bent in the form of a crescent, but the natives seem to have few ideas of physical perfection and do not object to suoh a trifle as a crooked toe. Filipinos at times seem much like monkeys. If they wish to pick anything up from the floor they do not And it necessary to stoop as we do; they grab it with their toes and convey it to their hand in that method. In sitting they are just as happy squatting on the floo* or on the ground as on a chair. Besides the natives in Manila, thera is a large population of "Mestizos" aud "Chinos." The former is the name for half-castes, the latter for Chinese. After being in Manila a week or two most foreigners find it more natural to use these native terms than the ones that they have been ac customed to. The "Chinos" are many of them well-to-do, being merchants or having some trade, such as tailor ing. A great number of them, how ever, are coolies, aud form a large ele ment of the picturesque in Manila. II the Filipinos are satisfied with a few clothes, the coolies aro quite content to wear almost none, and nobody thinks anything of it. They are to be seen on the street at any hour of the day, even at noontime, when the poorest native prefers a siesta to the most lucrative employment. No "American" or "United States" express vans are to be seen rattling about the streets of Manila; the coolie in bulk represents the only express company there. Trunks, boxes and all sorts of merchandise, furniture from easy chairs and refrigerators to pianos are carried by the capable coolie by means of poles which he rests on his bony shoulders, and the tough bark of some native tree. If the burden is heavy it is carried by two or four men, being swung between A FILIPINO COCKFIGHT. them on the poles; if it is light and capable of division he places it in two pails or basket panniers which he bal ances at each end of his pole. When heavily loaded the coolie goes at a peculiar sort of dog trot, which con sists of short stealthy steps and a move ment of each shoulder with it. The coolie, like all his celestial brethren, cultivates the growth of his raven locks, though they seriously interfere with business. At home they never seem to adopt any kind of coiffure ex cept the pigtail, but in Manila indi vidual taste comes into play in this matter and the results are varied and interesting. Sometimes their tresses stream freely down their backs and no attempt is made to confine them in any style whatever. One feature of the houses in Manila which is rather hard for the foreigner to get accustomed to is the presence of tne great number of lizards which crawl around the ceilings'and walls of the rooms at night. They are harm less, but the thought that they may occasionally lose their grip and drop down in one's face is not calculated to make them welcome members of the household. There are many scorpions about, but they keep exclusively in the dark corners of the house and yard and otherwise behave themselves well, Thn Frilled Slieep of Africa. The sheep that inhabit the moun tainous regions of Northern Africa up to Nubia is a kiud of wild sheep which has received its specific name from the Ic.ng mane which covers the fore part of the body. Captured young, it can easily be tamed and trained, The old bucks, however, are very vicious. These animals attain an average height of thirty-Heveu and a half inches, and the length of the body is from sixty to sixty-five inches, without measuring the tail. The illustration represents a specimen of these sheep living at the zoological garden :in Berlin, Germany. It is not known whether the frilled slieep had any relation with the domestic ani mals of Africa. Skeletons of these sheep are found in the Egyptian museums, and these quadrupeds are AN AFRICAN FRILLED SHEEP. represented in different old Egyptian designs. It seems that these animals have to be considered as tamed, but not as domesticated. | NEW YORK FASHIONS. | P Designs For Costumes That Have Be- i come Popular in the Metropolis. New York Citt (Special).— Nothing could be more attractive and dainty than the evening wraps which are now the rage for very young women as well as older ones. Mateiials now i% DAINTY EVENING WRAP. employed ara of the handsomest. The linings alone are made of fabrics that were formerly deemed quite beautiful enough for a handsome evening gown. The fur and lace used for trimming must needs be of the rarest description. There is no question but that the wraps this winter are to be every whit as costly as those of the last few years. The desigus have been sent "TWEED over to this country, and women who have been abroad buying their winter wardrobes have sent over accounts of the new wraps that have just been designed over there. The present fad is to have at least one long black satin wrap. This, at first sight, would seem to he a most economical investment, for it is not so conspicuous as the light brocades or velvets, of which most of the wraps are ma le, and it is possible to wear it in public conveyances, which, of course, is not possible with the other wraps alluded to. The smanest black satin wraps are wonderful creations of the dress maker's skill combined with the beau tiful trimmings supposed to be neces sary to tbem. Costume* For Everr-Day Wear. Two useful gowus are showu in the large illustrations. One is a brown tweed with an absolutely plaiu skirt. The blouse waist is tucked and the wide collar and flaring cuffs are finished with stitched braid. A stock and a long-ended cravat of cream silk complete the costume. With it is worn a jaunty brown felt hat, which is ornamented with brown quills and velvet. The other frock is designed a little more elaborately and has the strap trimming which has become so popular for this season, particularly for out-of door wear. The straps of black braid trim the pointed tunic and is seen on the circular flounce of the jupe proper. The material is rough blue serge aud the vest is cream silk tucked, with revers of lemou-colored cloth orna mented by a fancy braid of blue, red, cream aud silver threads aud set off by tiny black buttons. The revers and slashed jacket are of the same material as the skirt aud are braided to corre spond. A broad-brimmed rough straw, blue aud white, is loaded with berries, leaves and rosettes of black tulle. Til. Voßlie lit HMixlk.rchl.r.. Handkerchiefs in colors are in great demand, and some of the prettiest and newest are in silk and linen. The plaids aie to be found in these new styles, pretty soft plaids, the whole handkerchief composed of them, but in the most delicate colors, one having {Jolet predominating and another green, and so on. A protty handker chief in wbioh there is a large x>ropor- tion of silk is of solid green siripec, which does not sound well, but is ex ceedingly pretty in reality. Red is found in these plaids in stripes, and also in handkerchiefs with narrow hemstitched edges, the hem beiug of the solid color embroidered with tiny dots. All shades are to be found iu those little colored hems. Another variety of the handkerchief with the solid red hem has red dois worked in side on the white linen, or tiny red bow knots in the corners. Pretty Idea In Gold Chain*. The jeweled hearts figure as slides in some of the new gold chains com posed of flue links. Color* For Velvet Gown*. Deep plum, garnet, gray and tan are the fashionable colors for cloth and velvet gowns. Handsome Coat For Winter IVear. The little covert coat has been im proving the shining hour by assuming decorative touches of fur that will un doubtedly prolong its sphere of use fulness far into the season. It has appeared lately in gray, brown and green, cut 011 the mode of a basque coat that is fitted to the figure with a rounding tail on the hip and ilat collar revers folding in a group of three ou the shoulder. An enterpris ing tailor saw fit to run a narrow piping of mink on the edge cf the re vers, over the fronts and around the tails, and his happy thought has evidently fount instant favor, for these trimmed coverts are almost the first of the fur-touched wraps to go into active service. A USEFUL EVERYDAY GOWN J Evidently womankind is not yet prepared to resign the comfort of the Hhort, close-fitting fnr jacket, for it is tasy to covint them by the dozen in the furriers' cupboards, while they are being snapped up over the coun ters. Until last year these "o( jes," as they are termed by the trade, were ont of Eton shape, sheered off sharply at the waist line, or a flute of fnr stood like a saucy little tail about the hips. Now the mode is to fit the short haired fur basque-wise to the body, letting a spade-shaped tail fall below the waist line for five inches at back and front, but cutting out the pelt high on the hips. Not one pinoh of fullness is given the sleeve at the A DECORATED COVERT COAT. shoiilder, and it runs to the knuckles on the hand. Better Otedi for Less Money . Wo can save you money, 110 matter where J you live. We would not bc spending nearly a m million dollars a year if we could not land goods **"" at your station cheaper i than you can t>uy them J for elsewhere. You will j —■■ ■■ a- never know how much i -■ . J J you can save until you * ~~"rC 1406 (,ur f ree books Our 304 page Cata ** CMn ' c,Mrt ' *• 95 SAT." TAH, t tells you about every thing you buy, quotes wholesa.c prices to eon. Bumers on over lOu.OOO dlffeient ankles, and has over lo.uou different illustrations. Our Lithographed CfUtt, 30c to $3.00 Square*! 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I ndd , r ®® B| ng the g raluntiu< Class, in part said; I 1 litre Is a subtle power lyin* latent In each one I K"', w , l,ltsh . f ew have developed, but whleti.when develop! d. might make a man Irresistible. It is you to master k' " mgne " SlM or Hypnotism. I advise 'hat tlie power referred to above lies latent la every p. rsou. and enu bp easily and <julekly devti- Um siiMeet a(ku ' )W,edgod l) y every student A Hardly a dav passes but what one rends of some , astounding feat or wonderful cure performed by po'var S well-ueveloped Hypnotic or magnetic | The New York Institute of Science has recently ! Issued probably the most Interesting, most valua j ble and most Important work on occult science* ever i beforepubllshed.lt Is up to ilate in everv pirtlcular. nnini! Pl'" 0 ? li'' ro ' ), ? t " w,th facts. urguinputs ami opinion* of the world's xreutost sclentl-ds und i teacbers. it Is profusely Illustrated, and should be read by every person at all later, sled in Hypnotism, vatlon ' * erHOual Magnetlam und Mind Cultl- IT'S FREE | for the asking Write today. Address ! NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, 39 state St., Dept. N.N 3, Rochester, N. Y. aides can l-e. arned ■7 — h<? ' ,a, ' ated thder empty and nested van be carried in HBpppocket. Sent free 11 where on re- I *! ii'i^ Ag-nv want-'d. I'. G.O. ElileiV Co."buffalo, N*Y. CARTERS INK f lhe best iuk made, but no dearer than the poorest. (From the BROCKTON TIMES. Oct. 10. 1898.) I Brockton's prosperity is so closely allied to ! the prosneiity of the shoo industry that it j will, no doubt, prove a mutter of interest to a > large number of people to learn the act i ual average earning capacity of each individ ! ual employed in the making of the world famed Brockton shoe. For illustration: At j the factory of the W L. Douglass Shoe Coin | puny the pay roll for the week ending Sept. 30, excluding superintendent, foremen, sales men and all clerical help, shows the average I earnings of the employes, large and small, to be 510.54 per week. This was not an extraor- I tlinary week. It was the customary pay roll. ! The amount earned per week, however ! does not alwuys tell the story of prosperity, j l'he number of weeks employed each yeur "is i the determining factor in the wage earners' prosperity. The Douglass factory has been closed but one week this year, and that for the usual summer stock taking,and it will bo closed but three days the latter part of De cember. This would make but nine davs out of the year that the factory is closed, which is surely as steady work as the most indus trious shoemaker could desire. Owing to increased business, another addi tion is to be made to the Dougluss factory. It will be 100 leet long, 40 feet wide, and live stories high. It will be ready for occupancy early in December. This addition incioases the capacity :Jf> per cent. The W. 1,. Douglass Shoe Company has the largest factory in the world, producing an advertised line 83.30 and $3.00 shoes. Mr. Douglass says that the prospect for sue cessful business for Brockton manufacturers was never so good as now, and that collec tions are better than for years. RAILS GROUND TO DUST. Effect of the Constant Wear and Tear on a Railroad. As consumers of steel the railroads In the vicinity of Pittsburg lead the world. During the past three months 1-0 miles of new steel rails, averaging ninety pounds to the yard, have been put down or distributed within thirty miles of the center of the city, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. There are 1,760 yards in a mile, which would mean 299,200 yards for one line of rails in 170 miles, or 26,928,000 pounds, or say 53,850,000 pounds for both lines of rails, or 269,283 tons of steel rails need ed in one year for Pittsburg roads, ninety per cent of which was for re newals on old lines. There is some what of a mystery regarding where the steel worn out on a big road goes to. It is ground down almost to im perceptible dust by the constant fric tion of the grinding wheels, and this friction is forty-five per cent greater on curves than on straight stretches of track. The wear is also much great er on ascending grades on a straight track than on a descending grade. On curves the wear is almost lateral or horizontal, while on straight track it is perpendicular, with a slight incli nation toward the inside of the rail next to the flanges of the wheels. The millions of tons of steel ground down to dust by the wheels of trains in this eountry are lost. It cannot be re gained for scrap because it settles down into the ballast, is brushed away by the rush of air caused by the swift ly moving train, and, like the star dust which falls upon the ocean, is lost forever. In time, as civilization and the wheels of civilization move on, the railroads of the chief steam railways, as well as part of the adjoining ground, will become thoroughly impregnated with steel and iron dust from the grinding up of rails and wheels, be cause it must be remembered that the wheels grind the rails and the rails grind the wheels and this constant shower of iron and steel dust is ac cumulating along our railroads at a raoi J rate.
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