Freeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited OMCK: MAIS STIIEET ABOVE CENTBK. FREELAND, PA. SUilSCßlFi'loN KATES: One Year $1.50 blx Month* 75 Four Months 50 Two Months 25 Tho luto which the subscription is paid to :• on tne tuMress label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date be come* h receipt for remittance. Keep tb figures in advance of the present date. Re port promptly to this office whenever papef L not received. ArresraKea must be pah When subscription is discontinued. Make all tnoiuy orders, checks, eta,,payable to the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. An automobile lias been designed to tow canal boats. There is no telling where the application of the horseless carriage will end. If tho rerorms suggested by tuc New York Baseball Club are carried out, tiieu the National League's season of 1900 should be a red letter one in its history. One of thase reforms is the abolition of the syndicate ownership of clubs. These syndicates should be abolished. Then the baseball rowdies should be suppressed, aud competent men should be engaged to officiate as umpires. With theso reforms estab lished the natioual gaino will again resume its sway over tho pouular af fections. The Railroad Gazette gives warn ing of a step backward in transporta tion. "A great deal of money has been wasted by carrying freight and passengers at au unnecessarily high speed." So they are to go slow. It may bo true that "no single reform can bo adopted in connection with railroad operations that will yield so large nu increase in not earnings as the adjustment of the time of tho freight trains with reference to the economical performance of motive power, but, ii the pace now prevailing is diminished, it will be something new in the history of progress. There have been signs lately of diminished speed iu Atlantic steamers, but we predict, all the same, that before an other decade is over, they will be traveling nearer thirty knots than twenty. A Lesson For llio lSrittah Volunteers. The first tiling the war teaches us is that we ought to trust more than we do to the individual capacity of the Volunteers, and not try so hard to turn them into ordinary soldiers. The Boers march as they please, dress, within limits, as they please, as did also the Colonial men in the first American war, and form as they please, though they obey in this lat ter respect some traditional rules. They are expected to support each other rather from willingness than from discipline, aud to rely on their rifles aud their steadiness under firo rather than any coherence derived from drill. Thoy do not as yet stand up to bayonet charges well; but bow often is the bayonet charge possible when the rifles are well handled? It takes the very best men to get through that hail of fire, and tho very best men cannot always do it, no troops that tbo world knows of consenting to charge liome when moro thau a third of their number are on the ground. The strength of the Boer Volunteers is not in their drill, but in their indi vidual ability when Regulars aro charging on them to await their charge and keep on their desolating lire. They wait till the assailing force is actually in touch. That was the strength of the New England Militia against us, and of Hofer'smen against the French; and we are not sure that we are not forgetting both how great that strength was, and how best to develop it. We are, we sus pect, cultivating the company too much, among Volunteers we mean, aud the individual not enough. Yet 1 it is as individuals acting together that the Boers are giving us such trouble.—The London Spectator. Eatlent Gold Mining Known. Probably there is but one place in the world whore gold may be picked up from a sandy beucli. Yet on Cape Nome, on Norton Sound, Bering Sea, Alaska, men, women and children are enriching themselves after precisely this fashion. Only a few weeks ago a discouraged miuer who had been lured to the Cape Nome district by what he bad come to consider false hopes espied gold under bis foet as he sat in bis tent on the beach. Within an hour be had laid tho foundations of a fortune. Now for a dozen miles or more along the beach thero may bo seen a throng of independent diggers. Never before has such easy mining been heard of. A small, square bit of beach will yield from slotosls an hour. The entire yield of tho beach district is said to be about $J(),000 a day. Existence through the winter will be rather difficult, as fuel is even scarcer than food. Many of the "beachcombers" intend to meet tbo trying features of the cliraato by set ting up large tents on the beach, where they will live, cook and sleep and at the same time do their mining under cover. GOOD CHEER. Have you had a kindness s'nowa? Pass it on. Twas not atven for you alone- Pass it on. Lot it travel down tho years. Lot it wipo another'* tears, Till in Heaveu the deed appears— TUBS it on. Q3GG33COOOOOGCCGOOQOOOGOOO 8 HER SUBSCRIPTION. 8 0 o OOGGDOOOOOOOODOCOOOOOOOOOO „ Y7 F you please, mem, Mrs. Dean Pink jl "cy's in the par l°r, and wants to speak with you." Nelly Waters threw lip both her hands in dismay. "Mrs. Deau Pinkney? Oh, I know, it's that odious subscription paper again, for the sufferers from the Chessiugton fire. What shall I do?" "Be frank with her at once," said Laura Lisle, who was spending the morning with lier frieud, "and tell her you can't afford it." "Oh, I couldn't do that! Every body else gives something—the paper is going around among the ladies of our church, aud I should be mortified to death to have Mrs. Ross Richard sou or Marian Huntington call me mean and stingy." "I don't believe in cutting your coat according to your neighbor's cloth," said Laura dryly. "Nor I, cither—but what is a body to do? Oh, I must give something!" Aud so Nelly went downstairs into the neatly furnished little parlor, where sat Mrs. Dean Pinkney, a prodigious old lady with a mole upon the side of her nose, a visible beard on her upper lip, and such an amount of jewelry hung about her that she looked like a captive in black velvet and gilded chains. "You'll excuse my calling on you at such a very early hour, Miss Waters," said Mrs. Dean Pinkney, surveying ~er victim through a gold eye-glass. "Oh, not at all," said Nelly, feebly. "But," went on the old lady, "I thought you would esteem it a privi lege to contribute your mite toward the needs of suileriug humauity." "Of course," said Nelly, uneasily twisting the turquoise ring upon her finger, around and around. "Here is the paper," said Mrs. Dean Pinkney. "The other ladies of the church have contributed liberally, as you will see. I hope that your heart and hand will be open also." And Mrs. Dean Pinkney folded her braceleted arms aud looked heaven ward. Nelly Waters glanced nervously over the paper. Mrs. Syl vestry had put down twenty-five dollars, Mis. Wriothesley twenty, Helen Cauoble ten; the other names became blurred before her eyes in the excitement and anxiety of the moment. She had sup posed that a dollar or two would have been the extent of the contribution expected from her; but, with all these antecedents before her eyes, how could she venture to inscribe her name for such a pitiful sum? And so, with shaking pencil, she wrote down "Ellen Waters, $5.00," and gave back the paper, feeling iueffably small in the eyes of Mrs. Dean Pinkney. "Much obliged, I'm sure," said that lady with a scarcely discernible ring of contempt in her smooth ac cents. "Would it be convenient to you to pay the subscription now? Be cause," with a sort of grim chuckle, "I am quite a business woman, and 1 am making a ready-money trans action of it." Nelly Waters blushed scarlet. When she had written down her subscrip tion she had intended to meet it some future time—this sudden demand took her entirely unawares. Mortified aud bitterly embarrassed, she was about to mutter forth some excuse, when she suddenly remembered that her father had that morning given her five dol lars to pay Bridget, the laundress, and that the bill still lay in her pocket. "Certainly—of course," she as sented, with a little catcli in her breath, as, drawing forth the money, sho saw it absorbed in Mrs. Deau Pinkuey's great, gold-clasped porte monnaie. So tho great lady waddled out and, climbing into her clareuce, told the coachman to drive to the house of her next victim,and Nelly Waters returned upstairs feeling very like a squeezed orange. "How much did you give?" asked Laura Lisle. "Five dollars," Nelly answered. "Exactly five times more than I could afford; but everybody else put down at least double that,and I was ashamed to appear atiugy or poverty-stricken." "Charity begins at home," said Laura, gravely. And when Bridget Reilly came, Nelly was forced to put her off with excuses instead of cash. "I'm so sorry, Bridget—but you shall certainly havo the money next week." Bridget's honest face clouded over. "But, Miss Nelly, the master towld mo I could have it to-day, sure. And the rent is due and the board for me sister's ailing baby in the country, and " Tho consciousness of having done wrong did not sweeten Nelly's tem per. "There, there, Bridget, don't be in- Bolont," said she, biting her lip. "I havo told you once that you could not have tho money until next week. If you will como then I will try to ac commodate you." Ho Bridget went away, with slow steps and a heavy heart. "Poor thing!" said Laura Lisle. "Sho looked as if she wanted the money. lam sorry for her." "So am I," said Nelly, striving to epeak lightly. "But whatcould I do?" "I can't let you have the rent to night Mr. Nolan," said Bridget, sad ly, when the little hump-backed man of whom she rented her one room made his appearance, as usual, at her door. Michael Nolan did not carry out ths general idea of the "stern and griping landlord," being |a mild, easy-going old man, whose heart was open to every piteous appeal. "Not let me have it? But, Bridget, woman, I must have it!" cried he. "] can't make out the money for Jimmy's California passage without it—and the wife and children that are coming down to San Francisco to meet him, will be an expense another week. You promised me, Bridget, and I depended on your word ." "I know that, sir," said Bridget, meekly, "and if everyone, gentlo 01 simple, kept their word, there'd be less trouble in this world of ours. Misr Waters disappointed me, sir—and I'ir sorry as ycu can be." "Not quite, I guess," said Michae' Nolan, slowly. "Because my Jimmy'f a wild lad, and has got into bad com pany, and another week among those lads won't do him any good. I wai in hopes I could have got him off bj the steamer that sails to-morrow, but if I can't I can't, and so there's an enc of it." And he turned away with a heavj sigh. "Let me see the list," said old Mr Gilsey, taking it from his wife's hand and scrutinizing it with eager, spectacled eyes. "Ah! ah! yes, 'EI leu Waters, live dollars.' And afte) Waters only this morning telling me he was 'straining every nerve to meet his necessary expenses,' and nctuallj having the face to ask me for auothei five-tlioußand-dollar loau to tide ovei this tight place in his business affairs.- I wonder if he calls this a necessary expense?" "My dear, my dear," argued hii wife, "you forget that this is in char- : ity." "Charity! Stuff and nonsense!" barked out the old gentleman, using Laura Lisle's very words: "charity begins at home. Well, at any rate, my eyes are opened. Waters may go elsewhere for his money, and I shall at once call in what 1 have been fool enough to lend him." Mr. Gilsey was as good—or rather as bad—as bis word and two or three days afterward poor Josiah Waters came home from his store with bowed ' bead and melancholy face. "Papa," cried Nellie, "what's th< matter? Are you ill?" "Heartsick, child," the merchant answered. "Nelly, you must make up your mind .to a great change ir life. I have failed!" "Failed, papa?" "George Gilsey, upon whom I de pended for financial aid and tolerance, has suddenly turned against me. With his aid I might possibly have weath ered tho storm; without it my poor little ship has gone to ruin. I had told him how hard I was pressed; but it seems he caught sight of some charity subscription, in which youi name was put down for a larger amount than ho judged wise aud judi cious, and—" "Oh, papa!" sobbed out Nelly, "it was Mrs. Dean Piukuey's subscrip tion. But I have ruined you." "Don't fret, my dear," said the old man, kindly. "You'll be wiser some of these days. And it's no use crying for spilt milk." Poor Nelly! She was punished quite sufficiently for her siu. it was well that she did not read the para graph in the daily paper, wherein was chronicled the sad death of Michael Nolan's ne'er-do-well son, who was killed in a drunken brawl on the even ing of the very day 01; which he was to have sailed for California. And Ellen Waters paid the laundress, and the laundress paid her landlord tho five dollars, which went into Mrs. Deun Pinkuey's purse for so-called charity. Aud that was the history of NMly Waters' subscription. A Performing Monkey. I saw u performing monkey the other day. He went through many tricks very successfully. Toward the eud of tho performance ho was or dered to put on his cocked hat before a band mirror—which he did. Ho was next told to set it straight and lie tried on bis general's headgear repeatedly, at different angles, causing much laughter. When all was over, and the organ-man, his helpers, and the two monkeys were preparing to de part, I saw that "the general" had possessed himself of the little mirror, and was studying liis own countenance with great delight, lie had placed the glass on top of the barrel-organ, and bo bent over il again and again grimacing energetically. Ho after ward picked up bis mirror and con templated himself earnestly and con tentedly at different angles. His face had been profoundly sad —like the faces of most monkeys I havo seen— but now tho wrinkles smoothed them selves out and lit nearly smiled.— London News. Watch the Items. Every business man stops on Janu ary 1 of each year aud takes a careful inventory of his affairs His books show him tho expenses of the year, nnd it is rare indeed where a study of these does not surprise him by show ing into what a largo sum little items will grow. If every clerk would also scrutinize liis expenditures as care fully for the year that is past, he would be dull indeed if be did not gain some new light, and rise from the task with stronger resolutions for the future.—Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. The I.osa in llottle Cork*. The waste of bottle corks may be set down as enormous. Except in the case of corks used for medicine bottles, and for aerated waters which are taken out without usiug the de structivo corkscrew, there is infinite dead hsa. THE LIFE INSURANCE CURE. A Dyliij: Bachelor Who Became Inter ested in a I'lan for a Novel Funeral. "X dot't know that life insurance ia n cure for disease," said the retired ) fe insurance solicitor, "but I know r f an instance which makes it look 1 tat way. In the town where I first 1 ogan business was a bachelor of a jout fifty years, who was quite alone in the world, and had some years be fore taken out a five thousand dollar policy on himself for the benefit of a maiden sister, who had died a year before the events of this story. He kept liis policy going, however, be cause it was a good way to save money, and one day ho was taken down with some kind of fever. Ho grew worse day after day, untij one day the doctor told him that he would in all likelihood be dead within the next twenty-four hours. "This suggested his life insuiance money, all lie had to leave, and he immediately begeu to talk with the doctor on the subject of a proper dis posal of it. He concluded after some thought that the best thing to do with it was to blow it in on a tremendous big funeral for himself, including a banquet for all the people he knew. This was an entirely new idea for a funeral, and when the doctor left him that night, to tho care of his nurse, his mind was entirely occupied with his funeral. He talked to the nurse about it and when the nurse made him stop he lay and thought about it. In fact, he became so much interested in the details of his funeral that he quite forgot about having to die to make it possible. "In the morning when the doctor came he found his patient in a wild perspiration and his pulse beating in much better fashion than it bad beeu doing for some days. He also found the general condition of the patient much improved. He was greatly as tonished, and at once began to ask questions. The patient told him with eager interest of a lot of new things he had thought of for the funeral aud some that bothered him a great deal and said he had been thinking of it all night. Then the doctor laughed and told him he guessed the funeral would have to be postponed for he wasn't going to die, just then anyhow. Nor did he, and he isn't dead yet, but he is married aud has his policy paid up for his wife's benefit."—New York Sun. A Saleagirl and Two Customer*. Of course, customers are themselves rery trying at times, but the clerk who is scrupulously polite always has the best of such encounters. That reminds me, by the way, of an odd little incident. A few days ago one of our girls, who somes from a distinguished and once wealthy family, was waiting 011 an ill tempered woman, who treated her with such brutal rudeness that I was strongly tempted to personally inter fere. However, the clerk remained perfectly calm and courteous, aud be trayed not the faintest sign of annoy ance. Just then a lady who is recognized is one of the society leaders of New Orleans approached the counter and gave the shopper a very frosty nod. At the same moment she caught sight Df the salesgirl, aud instantly dropped her air of reserve, rushed up aud icized her cordially by both hands. "My dear child!" she exclaimed, "I kin so glad to see you. Can't you aud your mamma come to my little musi cal to-morrow night?" With that she sat down aud launched into geuoral talk. The first woman's face was a study. She would evidently have given a front tooth for an equally gracious recognition, and she glared at the girl with an expression between wrath and awe. It was very funny. I was be hind a pile of dress goods, aud laughed myself tired.—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Vendetta of To-day. It is through lack of information that the vendetta is referred to to-day as an institution of the past. Ven dettas—blood feuds—exist to-day not only in Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, but iu Kentucky uud other of tho Southern and Western StateH, and also at times in England, Ireland and France, Italy and the East. It lias happened lately that an Al banian whose relative had been killed by a Turkish Vizier shot tho Vizier's sou—which is at least a partial exem plification of the vendetta. In Arabia tho system is to-day iu full operation, a fact which is so well understood that offenses sufficient to start a train of killings are rarely committed, and a considerable degree of order is thereby preserved. As ic is generally understood tho vendetta originate I iu the following practice: An assassin was never al lowed to escape. The responsibility of punishment was assumed by the nearest blood relations of his victim. There must be blood for blood, a death for a death. Peculiar Accident to a Woodcock. ltecently a hunter started up a large woodcock, which acted much differ ently from any woodcock that he had over seeu. Instead of rising up and flying away rapidly, the bird circled round and round, narrowly escaping j a violent death by colliding with the trees. When the bird was killed the sportsman found that a large oak leaf had been tho innocent cause of the bird's peculiar actions. Iu scraping around tlie woods for its dinner the j woodcock had run its bill through a large leaf, which so obscured its sight that it was impossible for it to guide 1 itself iu the air. Tho sudden pres ence of the hunter had started the bird before it had time to remove the leaf with its feet, and iu this handi capped condition it had wobbled about iu the air until it was shot. The population of Jerusalem is 45, 000. Of these 28,000 are Hebrews. I NEW YORK FBHIOK I 1 Designs For Costumes That Have Be- fl jg come Popular in the Metropolis. ■ New Yor.K City (Special).—What nearly every woman aspires to own for her winter wearing is a directoire made wholly of velvet, its wide upturned rounding brim faced with white waved fir' "la belle eldobado." chifton, and the crowning glory of it a rhinestone sunburst set aside at the base of the brim, where it flares up from the face. The suuburst is really the corner Rtone round which the properly de signed directoire is built, aud aside from its virtues as an ornament it serves the noble purpose of bracing back the brim so that it forms the proper sort of arch above tho face. Whether the crown of her directoire rakes exaggeratedly forward or not, whether the whole hat itself is coin posed of velvet that ia of the common place weave, or that variety known as antique, are almost unimportant de tails of the woman who has staked all her claims to beauty on her strings. Tho directoire that is a force in the millinery realms always has strings, HOUSE GOTVV. STREET OOWN. IMXSER GOWX. but as yon hold dear your hopes of j looking your best in your new winter hat, don't invest in ribbon strings. The most popular lint seen at the j recent horse show is the "La Belle I Eldorado," which style is often worn by Mrs. John R. Drexel, Mrs. Joseph Widener, Mrs. William E. Carter, of Philadelphia, and other prominent women. It is a tlaring round turban in style, worn off the face, and is usually of nable or chinchilla, with a huge choux ; velvet or tulle in front. Three Fetching Costume,*. Good-l>y to the perfectly plain skirt, j The Paquin plait, a single box plait of j medium width running right down the middle of the skirt's back, and fastened j Duly at the waistband so that it flares gracefully at the hem, is the hallmark of all the newest dress skirts and most acceptably. No woman of good taste can but hail the eclipse of the plain skirt with delight, and everybody must | realize the increase of comfort entailed by the Paquin plait. Gowns may con- j tiuuo to sweep the streets and to wind i themselves inextricably about the wearers' heels, but so long as tlioy do not deprive her of the privilege of sit ting down—which is what the late un lamouted plain skirt succeeded in do ing—she can forgive much. In the large engraving three of the most popular types of gowns, taken 1 from Harper's Bazar, are shown. House or reception gown is of white j cloth with lace applique at the bottom ; of the over-skirt. A tight-fitting waist of cream guipure lace, with short jacket of tucked white taffeta com plete the costume. The street gown is of green elotli trimmed with bands of machine stitch lug and edged with black Persian lamb fur. Tho inside waist is of dark green velvet. The figured silk dinner gown is trimmed with ruffles and flounces of pleated taffeta silk. Lace rovers are j on the front and back of waist, and bauds of lace insertion outline the ruf > ties on the over-skirt. [ The Newest Feminine Fancy. "The newest thing to wear is a set of bags hanging from your belt, made of tho same material as your tailor made suit," writes Edith Lawrence in the Ladies' Home Journal. "For in stance, Gladys describes a set of three to me which she had just made of the cheviot, a sort of mixed stuff, such as I her gown was made of. One was for her poeketbook, one for her card case aud ono for her pocket haudkerchief. They were different sizes and were lined with silk. They were suspend ed by narrow bands of cloth, which were stitched on both sides and stiff ened." Patching; Small <