Freeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited OFFICE: MAIS STREET ABOVE CKNTBE. FREELAND, I'A. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One Year SLSO Six Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Months 25 Tho date which the subscription i 9 paid to is on tne address label of each paper, the chanKe of which to a subsequent uate Be comes a receipt for remittance. Keep tho figures In advance of the present date. Re port promptly to this office whenever paper Is not received. Arrearages must he paid when subscription la discontinued. Make all mom y orders, cheeks, etc,, pay able to the Tribune Printinj Company, Limited. The author of the trite old ohest nut about the ingratitude of republics evidently lived too soon or not long enough. A critic is one who thinks with dis crimination. His judgment may be favorable or unfavorable. Candid criticism is always fair, honest and valuable. It saves the wheat and winnows out the chaff. The Mississipi State Board ol Health has pronounced in favor of the policy of isolation and disinfection of first cases of yellow fever, rejeotiug the old plan of local shot-gun quaran tine against infected towns as barbar ous, inefficient and destructive to the best interests of the State. In notice given by the Government Department at Washington that tho eligible list of stenographers and type writers is getting small, and that ex aminations will therefore be needed to the lists, much stress is laid on the fact that men and not women as operators are desired for the kinds of work enumerated. The vegetarian congress, which has just been held in London, brought out the fact that there have been civilized vi getarian hears. One in Berlin it was necessary to kill after his diet had been changed to meat. Another, in Michigan, lost all his good vegetarian morials upon eating meat, and therefore killed and ate a kind and harmless dog. There are in the Republic of Mex ico 125 cotton factories producing bleached goods and prints. These factories contain 491,443 spindles and 14,759 looms, and they employ 23,731 workmen. They consumed from July I, 1898, to June 30, 1899, 32,077,720 pounds of cotton. They produced 6,376,882 pieces of cotton goods and 2,414,277 pounds of yarn. The value of the production was $14,963,299 in Mexican silver, and they pay into the Government taxes $2,000,000 annu ally. It appears, from figures furnished by the Postoffice Department, at Wash ington, that the average person in Massachusetts, including men,women and children, spends $2.30 on postage per annum. New York comes second, with an expenditure of $2.27, and the District of Columbia third,with $2.16. Colorado is fourth, with $1.93, and Connecticut is fifth, with SI.BO. The States ranking lowest in this regard are South Carolina, with 25 cents per capita; Mississippi, with 34cents; Ala bama, with 34 cents; Arknnas, with 37 cents, and North Carolina, with 41 cents. When it is remembered that the area of Africa IB greater than that of any other continent except Asia, the latest estimates being 11,784,000 square miles, and that it embraces a Vast wealth of natural resources that lias not yet responded to tho touch of civilization, it is amazing that tho trading nations of the globe should have sold only a paltry $400,000,000 worth of goods to its people in a year. The twentieth century, with the uni versal sentiment of commercial ex pansion that promises to mark its opening in years in all the trading na tions of the globe, will surely witness a marvelous commercial development of the dark continent. The majority of human beings must spend their lives within the bounds which have been drawn by the experi ence of the past, and must maintain themselves and do their work in the world by conforming to that which has been discovered, tested,and accepted as good for human society, philosophizes tho Christian Register. Before any one can have original opinions upon uny subject which will be useful, lis must commonly have mastered the re sults of the knowledge which has been aoeumnlating since the world began. If he be a genius, endowed as geninses are with the gift of insight, he may al most at a glance see how the matter stands, and where the needed improve ment must begin. | The British Forces | | in South Africa. | f§ Treniendoxts Preparations Made For the ft m Contest With the Boers. i FLOWER OF THE ARMY IN THE FIELD, j HE whole of Eu- f rope is watching J3&/-.IJ Great Britain at A j Uj this crucial mo \iS£.'.' : ment in her mili if'J tary affairs. For- n/A cigu statesmen Vijr ' anil military ex gr* 1 ijj perts regard the T>l 1 j result of the war *'*• WW-" 1 V with the Boers as • -'***9 a foregone con clusion. What they scau with such anxious interest is her tremendous preparations for the contest. By the result of these efforts will her strength be gauged. In assem bling an army twice as large as that which she sent to the Crimea aud considerably greater than Well ington's force at Waterloo, England is offering au illustration, for the first time in many decades,of her abil ity to tight on the land. Although her naval strength has of ten been demonstrated to advantage, it has still been a matter of doubt whether her military arm would com pare favorably with that of continental nations, aud in the throes of such a test she has been engaged recently day and night. Gangs of men are working incessant ly at the ports on England's shores, transforming liners into troop ships. Largely augmented forces are cease lessly turning out ammuuition aud ordnance stores. Meanwhile the men for whom these implements of war are being made are pouring out of barracks to the ports, standiug by to embark, drilling, man oeuvring and practising at targets every spare hour. The reserves are GENERAL SIR REDVERS DULLER. (He .commands the British forces lu the field in South Africa.) swarming into Aldershot in unher alded bntches and reshouldering their rifles as if the transformation from civil to military lifo were merely an everyday occurrence. The huge mobilization at Aldershot is uow in charge of Major-General Thomas Kelly-Kenny, Inspector-Gen eral of Auxiliary Forces and Kecruit ing, who has succeeded General Sir Beilvers Buller. All the work is new. It is the first time that anything of the kind has been attempted since the short-service system went into effect. A visit to Aldershot produces the im pression that everything is going like clockwork, but it is too early yet to express a definite opinion regarding the British mobilization. For the reserves themselves, who are obliged to leave their wives and families on a pitiful pittanco from the Government, much public sympathy has been aroused, exemplifying the truth of Rudyard Kipling's jeer, "A special train for Atkins when the band begins to play." A number of reserves who were not called ont have asked to be allowed to serve in South Africa, and a similar BRITISH FIELD ARTILLERY ON THE NATAL BORDER. spirit of spontaneous, practical patriot ism is seen on all sides. Sir Redvers Buffer's force includes the flower of the English nobility. Sir Bedvers Henry Buffer is an old campaigner, who has served his time in the country to which be is going, and who is regarded in London as the most capable man for the command. Sir Redvers Las been u soldier since be was nineteen. At that youthful age he was a commissioned officer of the Thirteenth Rifles, nnd on pure merit, combined with dogged deter mination, hard service and remark able bravery, he forged his way ahead to the high position he now holds. In "*T* L ' " ~ GOK,DOM TYPES OF THE BRITISH FORCES OPERATING AGAINST THE BOERS. the war in Zululand he won the rare Victoria Cross in the retreat of Inhlo bane. On that occasion he saved the life of a brother officer who was retir ing on foot hotly pursued by the Zulus. This gallaut deed was only a sample of his conduct. Since that time Buller has been a conspicuous figure in the fierce fighting of the British on laud in vaded by their forces. He took part in the actions of Tel-el-Keber and of ICas sassin during the Egyptian war of 1882, and served with distinction under YVolseley in the Sudan expedition of 1884. It is the opinion of good judges that, with the exception of Wolseley and Roberts, Buller stands head aud shoulders over any general now in the British army. The excellent Boer marksmanship, combined with the fact that it is an unwritten rule in the British army that officers must always stand under fire even though the men are lying down, makes mourning probable in many a noble British house. The Admiralty is perhups more on trial than the army, especially as it is well known that General Lord Garnet Wolseley, the Commander-in-Chief, docs not approve a system which gives the navy such far-reaching power in transporting troops. In 1882 Great Britain despatched fifteen thousand troops in three weeks to Alexandria, Egypt, a feat that elicit ed the intense admiration of Count von Moltke, but the task of shipping more than fifty-two thousand men has no parallel in the history of England. Already two branches of the service are beginning to blame each other for various delays, but it is scarcely ap parent that there has yet been any serious lack of facilities. The ship brokers have undoubtedly worked something like a corner on the Admiralty, as they did during the Hispano-American War, and the re cent breakdown of two transports is still the cause of considerable abuse of the Ada irnlty. The most remarkable point in con nection with the transport arrange ments is that about eighty ships can be taken into the Government service without materially disturbing the ship ping trade. The weakest joint in the whole mob ilization seems to be the Army Service Corps, corresponding to the United States Commissary. The various sta tions have been gutted to obtain the necessary officers and men, yet many line officers assure the Associated Press that the arrangements are grave ly inadequate for such a corps. In this connection the Naval and Military Record says: "Jt is quite clear that, if England had to provide a second or third army corps for foreign service, these, or either of them, would have to go out without a full equipment. That this unpleasant discovery will form the subject of inquiry in Parliament goes without saying." No matter what the general opinion may lie as to the merits of the quarrel between England and the Transvaal, all tl.e world believes that the former will freely spend both blood and treas ure to establish her side of the argu ment. The troops which she will put into the field inolude many of the most famous regiments that have ever fought beneath English colors. This very fact should couut for something in deciding the issue. The Boer, of course, will just as cheerfully shoot at a guardsman or a Gordon as at a meaner mark, but it should always bo remembered, in measuring the rela tive value of the two armies, that while the burgher has no regimental tradi tions and morale to preserve, the Briton has both, coupled with a devotion to his Queen,which should pretty nearly match the patriotic ardor of his Dutch antagonist. Among the historic regiments al ready in South Africa or under orders to go there, are the First (Royal) Dragoons, the Royal Scots Greys, the Sixth Inniskillings, the Sixth Dragoon Guards, the Tenth Hussars, the Twelfth Lancers, the Royal Munster Regiment, the Gordon Highlanders, the Black Watch, the Highland Light Infantry, the Liverpool Regiment, the Eighteenth Hussars aud the North umberland Fusiliers. All of these have records which would tell the story of most of the victories and not PRIVATE OF THE EIGHTEENTH HUSSARS. a few of the defeats achieved and sustained by the British army since that organization became an estab lished entity. The Gordons, who are now in Natal, have au old score to settle with the Boers. In 1881 the regiment was attached to Sir Evelyn Wood's column, about 150 men being detailed to the small force operating under Sir George Colley's command. They were among the four hundred who scaled Majuba Hill and vainly endeavored to .hold that position against the Boor at tack. Majors Hay and Singleton and Lieutenant Hamilton were wounded, Singletou fatally and Captain Mao gregor and Lieutenants Wright, Mac donald and Staunton taken prisoners. An Extraordinary Mountair Near the little station of Marc, ilas, Peru., which means "marvelous," on the Southern railway, there is a moun tain of which the most extraordinary stories are told. It is claimed to be a solid mass of ores of all varieties in disorimmatoly mixed, and as one citizen declared, "all you have to do is to blindfold your eyes, turn around three times, throw a little salt over yonr left shoulder, then begin to dig where yonr spade strikes and you can get any kind of ore you want—gold, silver, copper, lead, tin, antimony or anything else—and it lies right on the surface like gravel." The fact that this extraordinary mineralogical phenomenon has not been utilized, however, rather detracts from the in terest of the story.—Chicago Record. Gave Tliem Fal* Warning. A Vienna paper relates that not long ago thtae soldiens were drowned in a military swimming sohool in that city. A few days later an officer harangued his soldiers as follows: "I want you all to be careful not to get drowned, because that creates no end of bother for the Colonel and the Captain. Be sides, it is in your own interest, too!" The railway mileage of Russia now amounts to 29,000 miles, whieh in cludes the great Siberian extension. I MM YORK FASHIONS. I 1 Designs For Costumes That Have Be- J p| come Popular in the Metropolis. NEW YOBK CITY (Special).—-Some fascinating flannel waists are to take the place of the silk and cambric shirt-waist; they are almost invariably FASCINATING FLANNEL WAIST. (The waist in this illustration, taken from Harper's Bazar, can be made in flannel, silk or satin, but should have a silk vest, and the fronts must be outlined with either black braid or black velvet ribbon.) made of French flannel, and are un lined. They are regular shirt-waists with a yoke in the back, or plain back and with just a little fulness in front, and are fastened with small gilt but- | THBBB I P-TO-DATE WALEINQ GOWNS FROM THE NEW YORK PRESS. ioiis. They are made in plain flannel tn all light shades, a:id also in the polka-dotted flannel. The very pret tiest are blue with a tiny polka dot of pink or red, while the red and blue with black polka dots are always smart. This is by no means an eco nomical fashion, as the waists soils very quickly; but it is a very pretty one, and there is much more warmth in the flannel waists than in the silk ones. One style of flannel waist is a little more elaborate and really more useful; it is made of plain flannel, red or blue, is cut out in a square at the neck, and has a chemisette and stock collar of black satin; aud on the sleeves, that are in coat shape, are small turned-over cuffs of black satin. These are pretty waists, and are fash ionable with any skirt. Walking Gown* That Are Up to Date. The large engraving shows three of the swellest early winter gowns. That on the left is a tailor importation from Paris. Green broadcloth in two shades is the material, with appliques of yellow lace. The jacket is very stunning, with elaborate stitchings and strapped seams. It falls away from the shoulders with a peculiar effect, showing the yoke uud its lace embroidery. The gown in the centre is strictly English. It is made iu one of the lat est gray checked suitings, severely plain, with strappings of the same material. A vivid scarlet girdle and collar give a desired bit of color. The gown on the right is a dainty brown satin foulard banded with coral moire. Tho bodice is made plainly, with a tucked vest of creamy chiffon. A Feather Season. The greatest ingenuity is expended at present in the making of birds of wonderful ■ plumage, aud wings of iri descent hue, out of the feathers of the humble but necessary barndoor fowl. Of course it is much to be commendod that such good results can be ob tained by the feather manufacturers without the slaughter of ccuntless wild birds of the woods, and we can enjoy,with easy conscience, the many elegant feather-trimmed chapeaux that will this season be prepared and sold. For this is undoubtedly to be a feather ■eaßon—from the beautiful aud ex pensive Faradise ospreys and ostrich plumes to quills, wings and couteaux of the manufacturer's creation. The wings, very pointed in most cases, will be smartest when backed with some bright or soft color contrast, and it appears that their most fashionable position on the hat or toque will be with the points turned downward. Defltsrnn of the "All-Over" Luce*. There are many stylish "all-over** laces with round dots half an inch in diameter and with small conventional figures that are to be made up in original ways this winter, the cream lace over white silk for waists. Many laces have patterns in chifl'ou set into net in black and white. There are the appliqued and embroidered net and one not in the trade could scarce ly begin to name them all There are variations in so many ways of so many laces that it is difficult to tell t'other from which, and names used in the trade make only a necessary distinc tion and are beyond the grasp of tho multitude. For Pocketleaa Womankind. Reticules of nuede in fawn, gray or colors to match the gown are bestowed by Dame Fashion on pocketless wom ankind. Tho frames of these bags are of gold or silver, and many are stud ded with gems, big Oriental pearls, eastern turquoises and sapphires and roughly cut bits of lapis lazuli, jade and other beautifully colored stones. Bags of curious Japanese and Persian leathers are ornamented by flowers, dragons, and masks of silver, bronze and gold, and one bag of gray leather has a frosty silver frame studded with coral, and the chain by which it is carried is made entirely of Persian coins. Fancy Lace ISecomlng Popular. There is a great and growing de maud for fancy lace and embroidered goods. Two Striking Garments. A long cloak that might answer for either a driving or a traveling wrap is made of cheviot and is reversible. The plaid of the reverse is let in on the sleeves and across the bust and appears as the cuff and pocket lapels. The garment is further decorated with bands of black cloth upon which are seen row after row of stitching. Small straps are buttoned across the front as fastenings. The velvet three-quarters length coat of a rich chocolate hue is worthy consideration. It is beautifully deo orated with an embroidery of black silk cord and of black lace applique under which is an underground of fur. This form of trimming appears as well on the small shoulder cape, and on the wide rolling revers and collar. The revere and. the collar are faced with white cloth against which the black embroidery shows off to its full ex- A THREE-QUARTERS I TRAVELING LENGTH COAT. | WRAP. tent. 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Y. ■■■■■■RnDfai The only Perfect BS Dinnerl'ail.Eat ables can be carried K/7==>JK- —separated in differ gr c —® r dishes. When empty and nested can be carried In pocket. Sent free anywhere on re- H celpt of 60 cts. for ft dish, and for a 4 dish PaR Agents wanted. F. P.O. Elile A- Co., Buffalo, N.Y. CARTER'S INK The best ink made, but no dearer than the poorest. (From the BROCKTON TIMES. Oct. 10. 1899.) Brockton's prosperity is so closely allied to the prosperity of the shoe industry that il will, no doubt, prove a matter of interest to a large number of people to learn the act ual average earning capacity of each individ ual employed in tae making of thp world famed Brockton shoe. For illustration: At the factory of the \V L. Douglass Shoe Com- Siany the pay roll for the week ending Sept. 0, excluding superintendent, foremen, sales men and all clerical help, shows the average earnings of the employes, large and small, to he $15.54 per week. This was not an extraor dinary week. It was the customary pay roll. The amount earned per week, however, dees not always tell the story of prosperity. The number of weeks employed each vear Is the determining factor in the wage earners' prosperity. The Douglass factory has been closed but one week this year, and that lor tho usual summer stock taking,and it will be closed but three days the latter part of De cember. This would make but nine days out of tho year that tho factory is closed, which is surely as steady work as tho most indus trious shoemaker could desire. Owing to increased business, another addi tion is to be made to the Douglass factory. It will be 100 leet long, 40 feet wide, and live stories high. It will be ready ftfr occupancy early in December. This addition Increases tho capacity 'St per cent. The W. L. Douglass Shoe Company has the largest factory in the world, producing an advertised line $1.50 and SI.OO 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 hotter than for years. RAILS GROUND TO DUST. , Effect of the Constant Wear and Tea* on a Railroad. 1 As consumers ol steel the railroads In the vicinity of Pittsburg lead the world. During the past three months 170 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 53,866,000 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-flve 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 country 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 civilisation 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 oonstant shower of iron and steel dust If ac cumulating along our railroads at • rapid rata.
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