Freeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERT MONDAY AND THUHSDAY. BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY. Limits OTRICK: MAIS STREET ABOVE CENTRE. FREELAND, PA. 6UUCKIi*TION BATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 four Mon ha 50 Two Months 25 The date which t>s subscription is paid to La on tne address label of each "aper, the change of which to a subsequent date be comes a receipt for remittance. Keep thf figures in advance of the present date. P.e port promptly to this office whenever papef U not received. Arrearages must be putf When subscription is discontinued. Ma'e all money orders, checks, etc..payable to the Tribune Print in j Company, Limued. It is no longer proper to speak of the people who started a revolution a while ago in Colombia as rebels. They have won out and are patriots now. Cremation is becoming increasingly popular in Paris, and the cremator ium erected at the cemetery of Pere Lachaise has already been found to be too small. The Detroit House of Correction duriug the past twenty-one years has turned over to the city 3021,578, earn ing, iu addition. 3125,000 more, which was expeuded in construction and re pairs. This was a yearlv average of over 305,000. It is not believed that this record can be maintained. Hitherto many of the iuuiates have been United States prisoners serving long terms, who became proficient iu the work given them, and were able to finish large quantities of well-made goods. The government of Liberia has offered to lease one of its harbors to the United States for a coaling statiou. This will give the United States navy % harbor of refuge aud repair on the other side of the Atlantic that will be of great convenience if we should ever become iutolvod iu another war. If you will look at the map, also, you will see that a naval station iu Liberia will be quite as convenient for opera tions ou the east coast of South Amer ica as for Africa aud Europe. The two coutineuts come very uear togethei at this point. The tendency of the present day tc make ocean steamships larger and larger is emphasized by the plans of the new vessel which is to be built for the North German Lloyd line. This ship when completed will be forty eight feet longer than the Oceanic, which measures 704 feet. The Deutsch laud, the big ship of the Hamburg- American lino, measures GBS feet. The now steamer will also be the fastest ship afloat, beating the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, whose average daily record is a fraction over twenty two knots. Tlio new ship will also have 5000 more horse power thau the Deutschland. It would seem that the size of ocean steamships must soon reach its limit, otherwise we shall have to enlarge our harbors. A town in Wisconsin has recently passed an ordinance regulating the speed of street cars within city limits at not to exceed eight miles an hour ou single track and ten miles an hour ou doublo track. It was claimed by the local polico that the street railway company had boon violating the ordinance and a test was ar ranged Two city ollicials quietly took their seats as passengers ou a car, and a third official, mounting a bicycle provided with a cyclometer, pedaled alongside, the two officials inside tlie ear acting as timekeepers for liirn. The general speed of the car between stops was never less than twelve miles an hour. At sev 02a) places it reached twenty miles an hour, aud iu one instance it went as high as twenty-six miles an hour. Warrants were issued against all mo tor men running cars above speed, and the city trolley is now vying with tho old horse service in speed and tho disgusted citizens are talking of re scinding their foolish limitations and thus prevent their town from, drifting iuto a back number. Uncle Sam's Rope-Walk. Nearly all the rope used by the Unit ed States navy is manufactured in the government ropewalk at the Charles- : town navy yard. The plant has just been thoroughly overhauled and elec trical motive power has been installed tliere. At the time of the outbreak ol 1 the Spanish war the governnetot rope- ] walk had been allowed to deteriorate, and the navy department was obliged to buy large quantities of supplies outside, but the improvements made since then have so increased the capacity of the plant that it is now one of the largest in the v/orld France consumer Q-" 000.000 gallons of wine annu.-ll). equal to 24.25 gallons ncr capita of population. FOREVER. BT ANNETTE KOHN. Every golden beam of light Leaves a shadow to the sight; Every dewdrop on the ro9e To the ocean's bosom goes. Every 9tar that ever shone Somewhere has a gladness thrown. All that lives goes on forever, Forever und forever. Never yet a spoken word but in echo it was heard; Never was a living thought But some magic it has wrought. And no deed was ever done That bus died from under sun. All t%at lives goes on forever, Forever and forever. 1 THE 60IN TELLER'S ATOREMENT. 1 _ TT T was quite re markable that any f —II one could be vexed .V at Thornton—be was such a thor ongbly congenial fellow. Bnt vexed at him I certainly was, as I sat regarding him through the smoke wreatk3 that drifted up ward from oar after-dinner cigars. It was not merely his having refused me the S3 loan I desired of him that ac counted for my resentment, but the absurdness of bis excuse that I took most seriously to heart. Had be con tented himself with pleading tempor ary financial destitution, it had been amply sufficient and entiroly above criticism. But when my companion nonchalantly appended his declara tion of bankruptcy with the statement that he had that same evening util ized his last S3 in the payment of his quarterly contribution to a foreign missionary fund it was too much. "It's a i traight tip, Joe. Fact is, I've been d-in ; that sort of six years steady now." Seeing that I looked incredulous, he added: "My interest in foreign missions is a simple obligation, quite as essential to my own mental equan imity as to the spiritual welfare of the heathen. Besides, my donations are restricted to a single country." I was quite iu the humor to hear one of Thornton's stories. Where fore, I lighted another of my friend's good cigais, settled myself oomfort ably iu the big stuffed chair I bad pre-emptied aud graciously observed: "Go ahead, old chap; I'm listening." "It happened somewhere about six years ago," began Thornton. "I was at that time employed as coin-teller in the United States sub-treasury in a < large Western city. The duties of my position brought me in contact with people of every nationality. "Most popular of all our cosmopol- ] itan clientage was the Chinese con- I tingent. Hardly a week passed with- i out one or more of those Celestials 1 putting iu an appearance before my window. Though intensely ignorant 1 as to business methods, they were crafty, aud a3 time went by their ir- 1 relevant pigeon English, coupled with 1 an inveterate tendency toward de- I ceitfulnes3, aroused in myself aud as- 1 sistants a cordial dislike for the race, i "Their busiue33 was invariably the i exchanging of specie for gold certifi- i cates, which they wero accustomed 1 either to send away to China or take I with them upon leaving the States for I their uativo realm. In negotiating i the exchange for these certificates i they made it a rule to turn over their : money in paper rolls of miscellaneous 1 amounts and denominations. I "And the provoking part of it was that each and every one of the rogues 1 would mark fictitious values upon I their various packages, with the rosult : that ou counting the money the ng- : gregato would invariably fall short of ! the amount their figures represented, s Expostulations ou my part were per sistently ignored, aud the deception i was attempted with exasperatingregu larity. Finally, having endured the t annoyance for over a year, I deter- i mined to use heroic measures in order < to extirpate it. " 'Jack,'said lin sheer desperation i to my chief assistant, one day, 'this bunco business bas continued quite I long enough, and has got to stop. The t next Mongolian that tries to work 1 this department will hear things from me that'll make his queue curl at the < end.' . "I hadn't long to wait. The very next morning in walked a dapper lit- 1 tie Chinaman carrying a sack of coin. ! i Approaching my window, the celestial deposited his funds on tho counter. j i " 'Catehee clitifieate,' he said iu his I picturesque dialect. " 'You want a certificate?' I re- ' I joiuod with a preliminary survey o! | the money rolls. 'How much you got, s John?' , "'Thlee huu'od fi'ty dollah,' promptly returned the celestial. i " 'All right, John, I look see,' I re- ' joined, not a little skeptically, as I transferred the sack to the computing f table. Having emptied the contents thereon, I tossed the canvas recep- ] taclo into my office chair, which stood conveniently at hand, aud proceeded | 1 with my calculations. As usual, the : result failed to correspond with tho ' Chinaman's statement. The amount i was exactly $lO short. Hurriedly i dashing oil' a certificate in accordance ; with my figures, I turned to the wait ing customer. i '".See here, you yellow scoundrel!' ] said I, roughly, 'what for you t.jl mo yon got $350, when yon got only i $340? Yon think 'Merican man fool to let Chinaman cheat him that way?' ! "With this rebuke I thrust the i document under the window guards toward the Celestial, but to my sur- ] prise be pushed it back, protesting excitedly. i " 'No—no! Catcheo tblee huu'od fl'ty doll ill! Chinaman no cheatue! j 'Meliean man nocouuteelight—catcheo ! ten dollab mo'! '"Not on year li'el' I rejoined. I Every link In friendship's cliatn Forged another ttuk again; Every throb that love has cost, Made a heaven and was not tost. Every look aud every tone Has a seed tn memory sown. Alt that lives goes on forever, Forever and forever. So, O soul, there's no farewell Where souls once together dwell; Have no fears 11 beating heart, There is no such word as part. Hands that meet and closely clasp. Shall forever feel the grasp. All that lives goes on forever, Forever and forevsr. —New York Independent, 'You've got every cent you're entitled to. Now clear out!' "This served only to augment the Celestial's perturbation, and wild ges ticulating. So vehement was his in sistence that I went so far as to re explore the interier of his canvas money bag, in questof a possibly over looked note or gold piece. The in spection, however, was unavailing, aud as to any miscalculation ou my part, I felt that to be out of the ques tion, for, in view of the circumstances I bad been mora thau usually careful iu my counting. "The final conviction that my orig inal conclusions were correct had any thing but a mollifying effect ou my temper, and turning agaiu to the Chinaman, I berated him roundly, and finally ordered the porter to eject him. The lust I saw of hiin ho was | tearfully relating his hapless venture to an uusympathetio policeman. I dropped into my big chair to in dulge in a laugh over the affair, but in the midst of my hilarity I all at once became aware that some hard substauee was pressing against my right hip, aud reaching down I found wedged between the cushion aud scroll work of the chair a roll of silver coins. With a sickening certainty the truth flashed upon me. It was tho China man's missing money, which I had I carelessly thrown, together with the canvas sack, into the chair seat, where, partially hidden by the upholstering it had until now wholly escaped my notice. "For a moment I was quite over whelmed by the awkwardness of the situation, I recalled all too vividly the helpless celestial's efforts to convince me that his claims were accurate, and my heart smote me as I pictured his opinion regarding my motives for sub jecting him to the disgraceful treat ment he had received. Then a wild impulse dominated me to overtake the poor fellow and restore his money iuto his hands. I thrust the package of coin iuto my pocket, caught up my hat and hurriedly left the treasury. "I think the world never seemed so large or so densely populated as when I got out iuto the street. Though I followed the same direction which I had observed the Chinaman to take, I knew that with his ten minutes' start there was little chance of immediately overhauling him. My chief hope lay iu finding him in tho wretched little slum familiarly known as 'Dope' Al ley, where tli9 major portion of tho local Chinese colony lived. While I hurried along I strove to recall his name as I had written it iu the certifi cate. The first part thereof I felt sure was 'Ah,' but whether it were Ah Sing, All Foy or Ah Sam I could not for tho life of me have told. "In this bewildered state of mind I found tile Chinese quarter. A solemn faced Mongol, whoso corpulent anatomy entirely filled the doorway of a dingy, evil-smelling den, was the only visible inhabitant of the district, so I went up and spoke to him. " 'I say, John, you know China man, him first name "Ah?" ' "At my question tho Celestial's erstwhile stolid countenance relaxed iuto an expansive grin,and he chuckled gleefully for a full minute before an swering my query, whereupon he said: " 'Ch, yes, I navy heap Chinaman fusnem Ah. Bailee near all Chinamen catehee that nam. My ueui,' he added, byway of example, 'him Ah Fat.' " 'But tlio Chiuaman I want,' I explained, 'he buy certificate to-day— send China. Y'ou savy him'' " 'Catehee clitifieate thlee huu'ed fi'ty dollah?' inquired tho Ce,'.nstiul astutely. " 'Yes, yes! lie's the chap,' I eagerly rejoined. 'Do you know where he is?' " 'Oh, yes; ho go China!' " 'Gone to China! Why, man, he buy certificate only ball boor ago.' " 'I savv,' was the comfortless as surance. 'Ha go China bou' ten secon' ago.' " 'Ten seconds ago!' I echoed, gaz ing wildly down the street. 'Which way him gone?' " 'Pa' way to laiiload, pa' may go ste'mboat.' "'Yes, lint which one railroad?' I persisted desperately. " 'No navy him. One laiiload—two luilload, alie sem Chinee.' My hopes of overtaking the wronged Celestial were rapidly dissipated. One chance only of returning his money to him now seemed open to me. " 'See here, Fat,' said I confiden tially, depositing a coin iu his yellow palm, byway of holding his interest. 'You tell me all you know 'bout this Cuina boy, will you?' "He scrutinized the coin critically for a moment as if to satisfy himself as to its genuineness, then thrusting it into some hiddeu pocket within the folds of his baggy pantaloons, he ran his little eyes suspiciously over me and asked: " 'WUalla matta China boy? You detective, like catcbee fo' get China— eh?' " 'No, no; not that!' I protested aversely. 'I China boy's friend—got mouey belong him—like pay him— savy?' " 'Wy yon no pay To* him gone?' was the still skeptical rejoinder. "Whereupon I told him the story of the certificate, explaining that I wished to send the amount in my possession to the owner's address in China. The suggestion, however, elicited co enthusiasm from Ah Fat. 4 4 4 No can do,* he declared with con vincing brevity. 4 4 4 But why not,' I persisted. 4 You know China boy's name aud where he's gone, don't you?' 4 4 4 Oh, yes; him riem Ah Sin, an* he go Chiua. Bat China not sern like Melican town. Chiua alle sein big couutlee.' 44 1 accepted this latter statement as incontrovertible and went back to the treasury. What to do with that $lO was the most difficult problem I ever wrestled with. "Finally an idea struck me. I would put auother $lO with that of the Chiuamau's aud take the entire subtreasury force out to dinner. It was the only way I could conceive whereby to rid myself of that beastly roll of silver. "So I gave the diuuer, but every dish ou the board seemed branded with the accusatory legeud 4 Ah Sin.' 4 'That night I had a dream. I thought I had been cast among many tribes, whose manners and religious were alike perplexing aud diverse,but none were so viie as tho Chiistian. Ho it was who had reviled me without cause and robbed me of my earnings. Aud when I bad returned to my own laud aud found that tho Christiuu was seeking to sow the a oeds of his relig ion among my people I was wroth in my heart, aud made p. vow that while I lived my baud should be raised against him aud my voice against his teachings. 4 'Early the next day I communicated with a foreign missionary association and pledged myself to pay each quar ter throughout the remainder of my life au interest of ten per cent, per mouth on that $lO deficit, the amount to be applied solely to Chinese mis sions. Therein lies my ono hope of some day reaching my unintentional victim and of convincing him that all Christians are not like the one he may have mistaken for an example of the creod."—St Louis Globe-Democrat. SUED FOR A SHOCK. An Amusing C:ise That Has Just Washington Laugh. There was a funny case tried in the Washington courts recently. A butcher of the name of Nealon had au electric fan in his stall at tho market to cool the atmosphere and drive away the Hies. It was manipulated by a small thumbscrew beneath the coun ter, and when Nealon discovered that he could charge his body with elec tricity by placing his hand or his foot against the thumbscrew he indulged iu practical jokes upou such of his customers as lie thought were amiable enough to eudure them. When some handsome young girl or jolly house wife would pick up a leg of lamb or a roast of beef to examine it Nealon would place his hands upon it, close the circuit, and she would receive au electric shock. Nobody was hurt or badly frightened and Nealon made a good deal of fun for his customers. Oue day, however, a man of the name of William Sohultz, who has no sense of humor and hates practical jokes, picked up a piece of corned beef from the counter of Nicholas Auth, who had the adjoining stall. Mr. Auth had left his place in charge of Neigh bor Nealon for a few moments while he went to do an errand. When ho returned Mr. Hchultz, who was one of his regular customers, was dancing around like a wild man and crying for vengeance. It seems that Nealon. with his hunger for fun, had taken hold of the chunk of corned beef which Schultz had picked oil Mr. Autk's counter aud had given tho nervous man a shock from which he claims to have suffered both iu body au<l mind. The butcher tried to soothe him, but he would uot bo con soled, and went straightway to a law yer and brought suit for SIO,OOO dam ages against Mr. Auth. The case was tried this week, but the jury found for tho defendant on the ground that Mr. Auth had nothing whatever to do with the case. While it was his corned beef it was Nealou's electricity, aud the latter was responsible for what ever damage Mr. Schultzhad suffered. Schultz had sued tho wrong man.— Chicago Becord. Fiuntl-Liko Atrocity. On July 26, 1764, there was per petrated about ten miles from Chaui bersbnrg, I'eun., what Parkman, tho great historian of Colonial times, pronounces "an outrage unmatched in fiend-like atrocity, through all tlia annals of the war." It was the mas sacre of Enoch Brown, a kind-hearted exemplary Christian schoolmaster, and ten pupils, eight hoys aud two girls. There were eleven children in the school, hut one boy escaped death, although horribly butchered. 1 Ou the above date, during the j Pontine war, the children, under tho 1 care of the teacher, were pursuing ; their studies in tho little log cabin, when suddenly from the pine forest, emerged a number of Indians, who fell upon the master and his pupils. Tho teacher offered his life and scalp in a spirit of self-sacrificing devotion if the savages would only spare tho lives of the little ones under his charge and eare. The school house was located ou a ravine, near a spring. Down this raviue the savages fled, after having committed their fiendish work and, coming to the Couooocheagno Creek, they traveled aloug its bod to conceal their tracks as far as the mountain, and made their escape eastward to their village iu Ohio.—Philadelphia Press. Tlio Origin of Confectionery. Tlie modern confectionery business is a very large one, and it is of old standing. If we wished to trace it to its origin we might have to go back not far short of five hundred years. It is about five centuries since sugar was first imported into this country, and it is probably not much less than that since "confections" began to be ! concocted. They first appeared in a medical form. Apothecaries, whose potions were at one time very gener ally supposed to be efficacious just iu proportion as they were horribly nasty, took to the newly imported sugar as a means of mitigating the nauseousness of their doses. They mixed their drugs with it and coated their boluses. That seems to have been tho origin of the syrups and medicated candies,the cough drops and lozenges of one sort and another that are now so largely iu demand. They were originally concocted by the doctors, and for many long years all sorts of "lolli pops" were medicinal only. Sugar was too dear and the generality of people were too poor to permit of its being eaten for its own sake alone and as a mere luxury. Somewhere about a couple of cen turies ago, however, there began to appear a new development of the apothecary's art. "Confections" be gan to be made more or less apart from any medicinal purpose, and merely because people liked them. The confectioner's business begau to evolve as an offshoot from the profes sion of the apothecary, and eventually became altogether a separate thing, though the common origin of the two is still indicated by the syrups and pastilles and troches prescribed by the doctors, and the "drops" aud lozenges and other things sold among the sweet stuff of the confectioner.— ; Chambers's Journal. Siiialteat Sheep In the World. The very smallest of alt the kinds of sheep is the tiuy Breton sheep. It is too small to be very profitable to raise for, of course, it cannot have much wool, and, as for eating, why, a hun gry man could eat almost a whole one at a meal. It is so small when full grown that it can hide behind a good sized bucket. It takes its name from the part ol France where it is most raised. But, if not a profitable sheep it is n dear little creature for a pet, for it is very gentle, and because it is so small, it is not such a nuisance about the house as was the celebrated lamb which be longed to a little girl named Mary. Any little girl could find room in her lap for a Breton sheep. One of this little creature's pecu liarities is its extreme sympathy with the feelings of its human friends, when it has been brought up a pet iu the house, and has learned to distin guish between happiness and unhap piuess. If any person whom it likes is very much pleased about anything, aud shows it by laughing, the little sheep will frisk about with every sign of joy; but if, on the contrary, the persons shed tears, the sympathetic friend will evince its sorrow in an equally ] unmistakable way.—Stray Stories. A Chinese Wonder. Eliza Buhauiah Scidmore describes iu tho Century a great national phe nomenon which she has observed on oue of her many visits to the long lived Chinese Empire. "There are three wonders iu the history of China," she writes, "the j Demons at Taug-cliuu, the Thunder at j Luug-chau, aud the Great Tide at j Hang-chau, tho last tho greatest of all, aud a living wonder to this day j of 'the open door,' while its rivals are , lost in myth aud oblivion. On tho 1 eighteenth night of the secoud moon, and ou the eighteenth night of tho eighth aud ninth moons of the Chi nese year the greatest llood-tides from the into the funnel month of Hang-chau Bay to the bars and fiats at the mouth of the swift-flowing Tsieu-tang. The river current op poses for a while, until the angry sea rises up and rides ou, iu a great, whito, roaring, bubbling wave, ten, twelve, fifteen, and even twenty feet iu height. The Great Bore, the White Thing, charges up the narrowing river j at a speed of ten and thirteen miles i an hour, with a roar that can be heard | for an hour before it arrives, the most j sensational, spectacular, fascinating ! tidal phenomenon—a real wonder of the whole world, worth going far and waiting long to see." Thn ISoat Policy Put to the Tent. A certain woman, who is fond of soeiug her smart frocks described iu the "society columns," advertised for a servant the other day. Among tho applicants was a neat, prepossessing j young persou, armed with references. } Among the former employers whose | names she gave was Mine. O'Flaherty, tho modiste, for whom she had worked as "confidential maid." The woman of many froeks sent a note to the great gown builder, iu which she said: "Is Suzanne Binet, who says she has been j in your employ, honest?" time. O'Flaherty's reply was brief aud to the point: "Suzanne was in my em ploy; as to her honesty I am not cer- j tain. I have sent her to you with my j bill half a dozen times, but she has i never yet given methemoney."—New York Commercial Advertiser. A Verv Serious Cuao, Mrs. Briske—"Johnuy, did the doc* tor call while I was out?" Little Jobuuy (stopping his play) "YoJViu. Ho felt my pulse an' looked at my tongue, aud §hook his head, aud said it was u very serious case, and he left this paper, aud said he'd call again before night." Mrs. Briske—"Gracious me! It wasn't you I sent him to see; it was tho baby."—Tit-Bits. Twelve thousand people in the Missouri-Kansas mineral district live iu teuts the year round. /P^WOIWKIND WOMEN IN INDUSTRY. Tliolr Opportunity in the Pontage Stamp lluilness. Women appear as particularly adapted to the identification and classification of postage stamps, neo essary in the stamp dealer's business, and are to he found in the employ of leading dealers. They also some times do business us philatelists on their own account. Girls are largely preferred as clerks by dealers of ex perience, as they are said to be more trustworthy than boys, who will sometimes steal stamps when nothing else would tempt them. Possibly the collecting mania or instinct is stronger with boya thaD with girls. For most boys collect stamps as they have the mumps or the measles, but the girl collector is more rare, al though not by any means entirely un known. The girl who enters upon employ ment with a stamp dealer without any knowledge of stamps is first instructed by her employer iu the identification of the more common varieties, but when stamps are pnrohased by him iu hulk, as i 3 often the case, the first thing to be done is to sort thein and to gather together all of those belong ing to the Argentine Republic, Aus tria, the Azores, aud the other A countries. Those of B countries are plnced by themselves, and so on through the rest of the alphabet, un til this classification is finished. With experience the girl's knowledge, of course, increases, aud from the iden tification of such stamps as those of Baden, Canada, Cape of Good Hope, aud ethers, upon which the name of the country of issuance appears in English, she passes at last to famili arity with aud comprehension of such stamps as those of Afghanistan, Al wur, Bulgaria, Cashmere, Corea, Russia, Turkey nnd others priuted iu strange characters. When once the certain knowledge of the stamp's point of origin has become fixed iu the girl's miud, there then arises the perplexing questions of roulettes and their variations, perforates or imper forates, water marks, grills, inverts, surcharges, errors, essays, trial or experimental stamps, measurements in millimetres, the perforation gauge and a host of other items that are dear to the hearts of collectors. The stamp business is well adapted for women. There is always a chance of finding overlooked rare stamps in purchased collections, or among old aud castaway letters, frequently offered to dealers. Several stamps among the United States issues are individually worth a thousand dol lars, while a certain one of the British Guiana stumps of the face value of one cent has a catalogue price of sl,- eoo. Noveltie* In Uremi. The high corselet of satin, velvet or panne promises to be a popular dress accessory throughout the summer. Panne is the favorite material, and it is fastened with haudsome buttons of paste or of art-nouveau. Embroidered effects in silk, in com bination with open-work patterns, are steadily gaining in favor. Tho ma terial most used is satin or crepe, and the open work is filled in with tulle, either plain or figured, and bordered or surrounded with embroidered ef fect. All styles of embroidery are seen, with a slight preference for chenille. It is no longer an open question as to who's got the button. Every smartly gowned woman can answer the puzzle. Satin buttons of small size, covered with a spidery net work, are used iu great quantities. Some costumes require as many as six dozen to trim thorn, according to the mode. Paste, metal aud euamel buttous are also used on many new costumes. Draped berthes, narrow Vemse lace yokes, pieces at the tops of decollete bodices, accordion-pleated fronts of diaphanous fabrics, Greek draperies brought from the right shoulder to tho waist and terminating in long scarf ends, fichus of lace or chiffon, are all in favor for evening dresses. A novelty is canvas veiling. It is usually plaiu, hutone variety is striped with fine, white cord 3 half an inch apart. Composer of tlie Iloer National Anthem. The national anthom of the Boers was written by an old lady who is at present living a peaceful, obscure life in Holland. She is Miss Catherine Felecia A'nu Rees, aud was born iu Holland, at Zutphen, in 1831.'jtSheis an excellent musician, and in her youth sho composed several operettas, which were performed by the Choral Society, Utrecht. At one of these performances she made the acquaint ance of Mr. Burgers, a member of the society, who was at that time studying theology in the University of Utrecht. In 1875 Burgers, who in the meantime bad been President of the South Afri can Republic, went back to Europe and renewed the acquaintance of his old friend, Miss Van Rees. One day he begged her to write a national hymn for tho Transvaal, and within a few hours sho wrote both words and music for what is now the Boers' national hymn. The burghers were so pleased with the composition that the Volksraad of Pretoria officially ac cepted the work, and sent Miss Van Rees a letter of thanks and congratu lations. The hymn is very popular among the Boers, and it is said that the British soldiers in South Africa have heard it so often that many of them now sing and whistle it.—Chi cago Times-Herald. Summer lint*. Pink and blue hats with short chif foil capes to match are among the lat est novelties. Tliey are shown in different shades of color, of tulle, chiffon, and even fancy straw, and are all on the picturesque order, and suitable only for midsummer. Many of the hats are without trimming of flowers or feathers, while others again are heavily trimmed with arti ficial fruit—a late and very popular fashion. A pale green hat of this sort is in the toque shape trimmed with bunches of purple aud green grapes, and the cape designed to be worn with it is an absurd affair in green chiffon tied with purple rihbons. These fashions are decidedly con spicuous, and bound to be short lived, but as they are among the novel ties of the season call for comment. In contrast to them are the hats made of light fancy straw and chiffon com bined, and three or four small buds. While on the subjeot of hats there must be included the poke bonnet of small size in fine straw that has white ribbon around the crowu, and white ribbon strings. The brim inside is faced with chiffon caught down with one small bunch of flowers.—Harper's Bazar. The Size of the WiiUt. It will be a relief to some girls with athletio proclivities to know the ex treme limit which they may attain in waist size without being considered "out of fashion." For there is a "fashion in waists" as in everything else. Years ago, before girls were allowod to engage in open-air recreations, a tiny, slim waist was considered correct and children at an early age began to wear corsets which were laced tightly. A girl of seventeen or eighteen would endure agonies in order to re duce her waist. It is now considered very bourgeois to lace tightly, aud the waist of a full-grown girl should not be smaller than twenty-four inches. /The proper measurement for the chest of a girl whose waist i 3 of that size is thirty-eight iuches. Thus it will be seeu that the modern beauty must be solid aud uearly ap proach the proportions of the heroic age. Tho present age is an athletio one, and as long as girls continue healthful exeroises—lawn tenuis, rowing, rid [ ing, bicycling, fencing and vaulting— bright eyes, good complexion and firm, well-knit aud muscular figures will be found. For the Utile Cout of Tweed. The jaunty little tweed and frieze coats worn by the athletic woman, who walks and drives a great deal in the country at this season, are con sidered smartest when they have re vers faced with pique woven in faintly colored lines. A coat of blae tweed has a simulated bolero carried out in stitchings and held with old silver buttons. A short coat of scarlet— beg pardon—huntiu' pink—has the revers faced with stripod pique, the ground of which is creamy white, the stripes pale pink, blue aud amber. Women ad Surgeon*. That for women women surgeons are the best, auil that nature has especially adaptod them for the work by bestowing ou them peculiar gifts aud qualities, is the opiniou of Sir Thomas Smith. "Their small hau ls, deftness aud dextrous use of the needle aud thread," he says, "are no small advantages, now that surgery is becoming more constructive." Brctty 2, THINGS /# TO Sleeves arc larger at the top, and are trimmed with tucks or lace inser tions. Organdies on which the design i< paiutod on the under side aro thi prettiest examples of pastel colorings. Black net, well covered with appli cations of black taffeta, makes a very pretty short cape, finished with frills of lace and chiffon. This sort of gar ment is made in orearn tints as well, and also in gray aud beige. Faucy lace neckwear i 3 receiving some new development every day. A long lace scarf to carry several times around the neck aud tie in a large bow in front is one of the popular styles. Long wraps of laoo are the proper summer covering for dress occasions. These are made long in the back and sloping up to the waist, or a little be low in front, aud there coming to gether all the way to the throat. Embroidery iu chiffou aud other thiu materials is a great feature of the new trimmings. Open embroidery" laeo beads, gold and silver thread aud silk are all employed aud variously combined iu these pretty novelties. An entirely new idea is the use of voluminous scarfs of tulle, carried twice around tho neck and tied iu a large bow at the back. This undoubt edly may be accepted as a precursor of tho ribbon tied at the hack, so popular a few years ago. The silky effect added to the great of mulls, batistes, canvas fab rics, zephyr.-, organdies, and other summer fabrics renders them more tlmu ever desirable aud attractivo. Many of tho cotton materials thus treated, either iu plain or faucy pat- - terns, have all tho lustrous and dainty effect of an India silk or satin foulard. Some effective now waists that are just in are of a heavy coarse linen though in delicate shades, aud are trimmed with heavy embroidered lineu iu colors. It is evidently Russian peasant work, it is very similar at any rate, is stylish, aud will be durable. The embroidery is in the form of in sertions that are put in lengthwise in the bodice, around the sleeves, aud to outliuo yokes.
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