Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, April 05, 1901, Image 2
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There will come a. day when the people of the close of a century will look back at the close of the 19th and smile at the .unique absurdity of the stovepipe hat; but make no mistake. Man is wedded to his idols. That time Is yet a long way off. Honey bees give the best possible exemplification of the results of in dustry. Five thousand of them, as they leave the hive, weigh one pound, but when the insects return from their visits to the flowers, freighted with honey, they weigh nearly twice as much. In time Alaska may be counted in the agricultural belt of the United States. Her season is short, but the soil in her valleys is rich beyond com prehension, and the sun, during his reign, is hot. All that is necessary is to know how to utilize locations and conditions. Through the efforts of its state i board of charities, Illinois has made a beginning toward the establishment of a suitable institution for its de pendent epileptics. The institution will be a genuine colony, planned on the cottage system. There are 3000 dependent epileptics in the state. Cold storage lia3 made Australia, next to the United States, the largest ! source of dressed meats. Wheat-im- | porting countries usually look to her | to supply a part of their breads tufTs; I and between the Transvaal war and the vast development of gold mining j in West Australia the southern conti- ' nent in 1899 led the world in produc 1 ing gold. Australia is a great country. I even though two-tlilrds of it is desert, j When all freight traffic has been ! banished to underground railways and j the automobile lias displaced the j horse for surface travel, nearly the en- | tire street between the pavements can be devoted to green turf muses j the St. Louis Globe-Dispatch. Cities • of the 20th and following centuries , may be free frcm dust and the vile 1 odors arising from animal traffic. The automobile mowing machine may be substituted for the sweeping machines, to the great improvement of health and increase of enjoyment of citizens. —the St. Louis Globe-Dispatch. A writer in the Yale Review esti mates that the United States is in debted to foreigners in the sum of $3,330,000,000 and that foreigners owe us $500,000,000. This writer is of the opinion that this country began the 20th century owing not much over $2,000,000,000, with a net annual inter est of about $90,000,000, Americans traveling in Europe spend $50,000,000 annually, and the loss by expatria tion according to this writer, is $10,000,000. But in a few years the United States will have wiped out its entire indebtedness, provided large ex ports and small imports continue. An article in Harper's Weekly con tains some remarkable figures on the fruit growing industry in America. In ISM only one-half barrel of raisins could be fount' in New York City to make pudding to celebrate the peace treaty. The previous year California alone shipped over 100,000,000 pounds of raisins. Only 20 years ago all the strawberries eaten in New York City wore grown in Long Island and New Jersey. Now the strawberry country Includes Florida, and the strawberry season begins in November and ends in August. A single Georgia peach orchard numbers as high a3 120,000 trees. The government has never se cured an adequate census of the entire fruit trade of the United States. The author of the article in question thinks $1,000,000,000 a year a moderate esti mat TRANSFIGURATION. "As one who looks out to the West when shadow-time's begun. And sees in splendor on the hills the pageant of the sun, So we will look at life, maybe, when life is all but done: "And find old aims, vain dreams, mad hopes touched with a kindlier light. Flash with a glory all unguessed upou the straining sight Aye, and lie glad to know there waits the long reward of night!" —Ainslee's Magazine. —AN— | | UNSUSPECTED CRIMINAL | , By Lawrence L slie. <j> Several years ago ttie county of Rockingham, N. H., was the scene of great excitement, caused by a most atrocious murder, perpetrated by the keeper of a public house, a wealthy citizen being the victim. A man named Walter Heywood. a wealthy merchant from an adjoining county, had occasion to visit Rock ingham, and put up at a public house called "The Adams," kept by Samuel Tinley. At this house Mr. Heywood met a couple of old friends, with whom he took supper, and passed the great er portion of the evening with them, discussing the weather, business and polities, and in the course of the con versation Mr. Heywood made known the fact that he then had on his per son the sum of S3OOO in cash. The evening passed pleasantly, and about 9 o'clock Mr. Heywood excused him self and retired. About half-past 10 his two friends also retired, occupying a double bedded room on the second floor. Shortly after midnight one of them was aroused by a quick, stifled cry, which so alarmed him that he woke his companion. They listened, and could distinctly hear the moans of some one evidently in great distress, and quietly following in the direction of the sound, they soon found the room from which it proceeded, the door of which was ajar, and on look ing in they saw a person weltering in his blood on the bed, and another man standing over him with a dark lan tern in one hand, and a knife, drip ping with blood in the other. To their great horror they recognized the mur dered man as their companion of the evening, while the man with the mur derous weapon was their host. They instantly seized and disarmed him, and charged him with the crime. He denied it stoutly, said that he too had been aroused by the struggle and the groans, and had entered the room in order to afford his guest any aid it might be in his power to extend. On entering, he said he found the bloody knife lying upon the threshold, and had picked it up, as it lay directly under his feet. These assertions were of no avail, and the man was handed over to the authorities, and lodged in jail to await trial. In due time his trial came off, and on the presentation of the above facts, he was convicted, and in due time executed. Mr. Tinley asserted his innocence throughout, and reiterated it from the gallows, in a speech to the multitude gathered to witness his execution. Notwithstanding this, he was gener ally believed guilty, and his punish ment regarded as just. After his death a letter was found In his cell, addressed to the attending clergyman, which read as follows: "Rev, Henry Lowry: Dear Sir—En closed is a sealed envelop, which I de sire you to take possession of, and not break the seal until Charles Tinley, my son by my first wife tand my only surviving relative), who is now in feeble health, is no more. Then open the package, and let the contents ho made public. It is my earnest wish that you accept the trust, and see that my object is attained. To provide for the possibility of your death before that of my son, I suggest that you leave directions in your will to have the package, in case of your death, handed over to the judge of the coun ty court, with instructions similar to those given you. "SAMUEL TINLEY." When it became known that such a paper had been left, everybody thought it contained a confession of guilt, and for a time there was the keenest curiosity felt in its contents. Of course, it was not gratified, and in a few years the crime, the murder er, and the mysterious document were all forgotten. Six years after his father's execu tion, Charier, Tinley died, and the long looked-for document was published in the county paper. It is too long to insert here, but it was to the effect that of the actual murder of Mr. Hey i wood ho was entirely innocent; he I confessed, however, that he was ncver ' thcioss a murderer. Years before he j had killed a traveler who hail stopped i at his house, but whose death was never suspected. ' On the night of Mr. Ileywood's death ho had entered the room for the purpose t.' robbery, and perhaps murder, hut v. as not a little surprised and shocked to find that ills intended victim had already been killed, and his pockets rifled. His statement made at the trial he declared to he true in every particular, of course with the above qualification. He likewise de i nied all knowledge, or even the slightest suspicion, as to who the real murderer was. Ho stated, !n conclusion, that ho was Impelled to this confession by a de sire to liavo the real truth known, by a sense of duty he owed to society, which he had outraged, and to God, whom he had so greatly offended, but did not wish to make it public until his only surviving relative should bo beyond the reach of the shame of tho exposure. But the curious chapter in this crime was not yet complete. A few years after the publication of this statement, a man known as Thomas Chambers died in the Massachusetts state prison. Before his death he confessed to the chaplain that his real name was George Martin, and that he was the murderer of Mr. Heywood, for which Mr. Tinley had suffered death. Ho stated that he had occupied a room on the same floor as his victim, and having heard him state to his companions that he had a consider able sum of money, he determined to get possession of it. He entered the room, and was searching for the money when Mr. Heywood partially woke. Frightened at the danger of exposure, and in censed at the prospect of losing the coveted treasure, he sprang upon him, stifled his outcry, and inflicted the wounds from which he died. This done, he secured the dying man's pocketbook and hastily left the room, having only just closed the door be hind him a few moments before Mr. Tinley entered and found the unhappy man dying. The proof against Tinley was so overwhelming that no one ever thought of looking elsewhere for the assassin, so the real criminal was never suspected.—New York Weekly. MR. KRUCER'S HANDS. XVUat They Slcnlfy, Accor liiiß to a!■'. moui Chiromancer or I'ariK. Weary of cheering and snap-shot ting him, the continental admirers of Mr. Kruger have been examining his hands with a view to obtaining fresh I food for adoration. The Paris Vie 1 Illustree publishes a photograph of Mr. Kruger's hands, as well as the j professional opinion of a famous Pari sian chiromancer thereon. The left thumb is missing, a gun accident de priving Oom Paul of that useful mem ber early in life. Mme. do Thebes, the chiromancer, : after a lengthy examination of the i photograph, sent in the following j comments: "These two hands resemble each other very little, and prove that the 1 theories of the ancient peoples were 1 right when they said that tho left hand was the hand of fate, the right I the hand of will. "Kruger's left hand is almost the ' hand of an animal. The nails are j broad and indicate action and force. | Tho forefinger is longer than the oth ers, showing a terrible authority with- j out reasoning, a desire for command, 1 everything by brute force, a primitive hand if ever there was one. "As to his intellectual culture, he has turned toward the soil, for he is a countryman before everything. He loves the soil: he loves his country, and understands nothing else. His na- j turo, which has remaine%upright and loyal—the primitive form of the left ! hands indicates that to us—only j thinks of keeping its independence, ' and in defending his country he de- j fends himself. "Now look at his right hand. What a change! How this man is well in- I formed! How this square hand indi cates reflection! The forefinger, which represents intuition and inspir- 1 ation, is as long as the middle finger; I intuition which exercises control, which analyses before acting, which i conceives clearly and justly, and which goe3 forward with the fixity of fate. Note these two fingers of equal | length, which is very rare. It is pre destination. "And these two fingers are close to- I gcther and indicate tho man with ' whom we have to deal. He goes ; against fatality. He commands it, i he resists it, he battles with it, and he overcomes it. for the long thumb, j which almost reaches the first pha- , lange of the forefinger, shows a will I of iron. The left hand indicates that he does not feel physical suiforing. The right hand shows that moral suf fering does not affect him. "These fingers, which are longer than the palm, are those of an ideal ist, hence, his love for the Bible. This man, who has little intellectual cul ture, has found there an outlet for his mysticism—it finds Its outlet in chant ing and reading the Psalms. I have not unfortunately the lines written in these two hands, but 1 can affirm that they are not of clay. I'hey are of brass. Tho Cznr's Tenor Voice. It is not generally known that the czar himself has a very excellent tenor voice, which, although not par ticularly strong, is very sweet and clear. A short time ago, during a small party, at which only members of his own family and a few of the highest court officials were present, tho czar delighted all his guests by singing Massenet's "Mignonne, voici l'Avril," and another song, in such an excellent manner that it called forth genuine and rapturous applause. The czar bowed his thanks in the approved professional style, and then said laughlingly: "My opponents, as a rule, deny me the possession of those good qualities which they believe they themselves possess; but not one of them can sing a romance as I can."— Mainly About People. IJiinil in Sweden. The American quail imported into Sweden some time ago seem to thrive and increase in number. It remains to be seen, however, whether the birdn can stand the long winters there. Numw IN HOSPITALS. HARD TO CET IT DONE CAREFULLY AND INTELLIGENTLY. Tho Male Xurne liniuc Crowded Out l>y Hie lemulo t o-npetltor The liitUeul tfaa of Safely and Humanely < ai-liu for tlie Insane Nuee Are I'oorly I'uul. There is no reason why the pro fession of trained nurse should be limited to women, yet it is a fact that all offorts to improve the sick-nurse and develop thoroughly capable and well-trained nurses have been for the beneiit of women rather than men. Many boolcs have been written as text books for trained nurses, yet scarcely any of them ever refer to male trained nurses. The entire system, as it ex ists in the different hospitals, is for the benefit of women rather than men. Twenty years ago there was little dif ference between the men and women who were employed as nurses for the sick. "The change came some years ago,' 1 explained a physician recently, "when young women began to take up nurs ing in a benevolent way as a chance to exercise charity to the poor. Thou sands of women have become trained nurses who would not have taken up the work for the money there is in it. But the market value of a trained nurse has risen, and nursing the sick remains a business in spite of ideals of philanthropy. A probationer or nurse just starting on her work in a hospital is apt to be tender-hearted, and to go out of her way to soothe the fevered brow. She pets the children and makes herself agreeable to the pa tients. But sooner or later she comes to realize that she is in a profession quite as technical as any other busi ness, and she finds that it is better to excel in the practical rather than the sentimental parts of her duties. "Male nurses are of a different sort of timber. They have fewer sentimen tal or philanthropic ideas, but are doing the same kind of work. Few hospitals have a training school for their education, yet all hospitals are obliged to employ them. As a rule, the men have drifted into the work by chance. Certainly no sentimental considerations have actuated them, as a rule. A large number have come into relations with hospitals at some time by being patients themselves. While Convalescing from some sickness, and 'out of a job,' they have been employed in some capacity around tho hospital, and have gradually become nurses. "There are two distinct classes of male nurses. Some hospitals employ men exclusively as nurses in the male wards, ranking their services as highly as the female trained nurse. But in almost every hospital the women have crowded the men out of these posi tions, and men arc consequently only employed as 'orderlies' or ward ser vants to assist in a subordinate capac ity the regular staff of female nurses. A woman in a training school for nurses averages two years in the hospital, and then goes out to private work. Male nurses are apt to stay indefinite ly. They like the work and are con tent with lower pay than they would get outside. In some hospitals there is a constant change in the force of male nurses, but this is due to the various methods peculiar to particu lar institutions. "Many nurses, especially in Europe, have received their first training in military hospitals. A hospital stew ard in the army ranks as sergeant, and, together with the entire hospital corps, occupies a position satisfactory to him self and invaluable in the hospital. Where well-trained mule nurses are needed, men trained in these" military hospitals are invaluable. Their train ing places them in the same class with the best women nurses. "The most important part of a nurse's work lies in quieting or re straining an excited patient. A good nurse can save the doctor the frequent use of quieting drugs or even a 'strait jacket' by moral control. A rough nurse can make the most powerful anodynes useless. "In the operating room there is al ways occupation for one or more male nurses. In hospitals the entire cars of the instruments is under the charge of a trained male nurse, who sterilizes everything used in an operation and prepares all the dressings. In most hospitals, however, at the present day, the female nurses have supplanted the male nurses in this department. "It is a great mistake to consider that there is any radical difference be tween nursing insane patients and nursing the ordinary line of hospital cases. Nurses always are partial to a case with fever, or some acute surgical' disease. They dislike the class of | cases that are well enough to be out of j bed and around the ward. The worse l the case the more interest it possesses, ! even if it wildly delirious. Between a I delirious patient and an insane patient j the only difference may be that the j former is sick enough to be in bed, j while the latter is usually up and I about. The less acute the mental dis j order tho less interesting the case be j comes to the nurse. Only a nurse ! especially interested in mental diseases is apt to pay much attention to the different mental conditions. For all other nurses a rigid training is necessary to teach the peculiar meth ods essential for the care of the insane. "In nursing the insane, common sense Is often more valuable than spe | cial skill. Where the chief treatment of an insane patient is the feeding the ; most, successful nurse i 3 the one who ; possesses the most ingenuity in coax | ing him to eat in spite of his aversion !to food. As the insane patient is far j more dirty in his habits than other pa ! tients, the successful nurse of mental cases will of necessity be infinitely more painstaking and conscientious iu this part of his work to get satisfac tory results. Iu a diseased mind the emotions are as often affected as the reasoning faculties. Hence to succeed in this class of cases, it is quite as es sential to avoid hurting the feelings of a hyper-sensitive patient as to feed or clean hlra. A little carelessness in this point is often the cause of the difficulties in managing insane pa tients, and frequently is the provoking cause of violent outbreaks or'injury to both patient and nurse. "The majority of the more intelli gent lunatics will at one time or an other either attempt suicide or attempt to injure some one else. The chief re sponsibility of the nurse is absolutely to prevent this. The attempts come in the most unexpected and sudden ways. It is often unwise to keep a suspicious patient tied or drugged. Hence the necessity at rare intervals of using what seems to be personal violence in blocking any sudden attempt at sui cide or murder. The injuries to pa tient or nurse result usually in one way only. The force of nurses is so small that one or two nurses try to do the work that four or five are barely able to do safely. Four nurses can hold securely and bind the most violent patient without harm. If less attempt it they may have to use violence that approaches brutality."—New York Post* BUAINT AND CURIOUS. In Turkey the disappearance of the sun at night is accounted for by the periodical retirement of that pious lu minary for prayers and religious re flection. Miniature Bible 3 are worn as watch charms in Russia. They are each one inch long, three-fourths of an inch wide, and three-eighths of an inch thick, and contain the first five books of the Old Testament. The text is in Hebrew, and can be read with the aid of a magnifying glass. I.eft-handedness is said to be very common in animals. Parrots seize ob jects with the left claw by preference or exclusively. The lion strikes with the left paw, and Livingstone stated as His opinion that all animals are left handed. The parrot has been found to make a readier use of the left claw for climbing than the right. Thick skin is not always a protec tion against the stings of either out rageous fortune or ...e attacks of in sects. It has often been wondered why elephants so constantly throw hay and grass over their backs. This is ex plained by the fact that they are thus protecting themselves from all sorts of insects. Notwithsanding his thick skin the elephant suffers more from insect bites than many thinner skinned animals. The sleeping of fishes, if they may properly be said to have such a habit, is as yet a puzzle. It is altogether prob able that they do sleep, though they never close their eyes, simply for the reason that they have no eyelids. Prob ably many fishes slumber while swim ming in the water, reducing the exer cise of their fins to an automatic mini mum. But it would be a mistake to suppose that a fish does its sleeping at night necessarily. On the contrary, many species are nocturnal in hahit, feeding in the night time. England as yet is without a qualified woman lawyer. In the reign of Henry VIII., however, a woman acted as judge. She was one Lady Anne Berke ley of Yato in Gloucestershire, who had appealed to the king to punish a party of rioters who had broken into her park, killed the deer and fired the forage. King Henry thereupon granted to her and others a special commission to try the offenders. Lady Anne, armed wit*i this high authority, opened a court and empanelled a jury. A ver dict of guilty was entered, upon which her ladyship pronounced sentence. A Hoy's Iloulils Nature. A boy Ts made up of mind and body. These two elements, mysteriously bound together, yet separated by the widest gap in the universe, jog on side by side, each dependent upon the other, says Henry D. Sedgwick, in the Atlantic. Education must take this union into account; it must always remember that the body is animal, and that it has received two great commandments: "Tliou shalt live" and "Thou shalt multiply." The edu cation of man must be shaped with reference to these two fundamental commands. Our civilization has reckoned with the first. The desire for life°has been deepened, broadened, and transform ed. . . . Under the control of edu cation, the desire for life seeks satis faction in ever greater knowledge, ever greater dominion over nature. College assumes that this desire is a noble want of noble things, and teach es it to be such. But when wo consider the se'ond imperious command, what do we find? Civilization has established the insti tution of marriage, it has decreed that a man may lawfully have "one wife only, but It has done little else. Civi lization is a great brute force that needs to be led. What does educa tion? It halts timidly to see what civi lization will do; and the desire to mul tiply roams at will. Shall not educa tion tame it, train it, and manage it? Shall not that desire be deepened, broadened, and transformed till It, too, help make life far nobler than it is? With this passion for a lever we might uplift the world, but education In afraid of it. THE MEXICAN AND HIS HAT. Why He Spends So Mticli I'pnn Hit Cherished HeHduenr. "While on a train in Mexico on my last, trip to the country of the Aztecs a young American lady, upon whose astonished gaze was flashed for the first time the fearfully and wonder fully made sugar-loaf Mexican hat, which Is the first out-of-thc-ordinary object that greets the tourist's eye# after he crosses the Rio Grande, asked me why Mexican men of all classes spent so much money upon the cover ing for their heads and appeared to take such evident pride in the groat, wide-brimmed, high, conical-crowned shelter from the tropical heat and burning sun," said a New York hat drummer to a Star reporter. "When tho American soldiers de parted from Cuba for Porto Rico chey wore'the regulation army slouch hat, with a deep crease in the centre. When they returned, heroes and vet erans, they wore the same regulation hat, but with the peak of the crown pulled up to a sharp point, pyramid like, in a gallant, desperate attempt to imitate the Spanish hat, which had caught their fancy and had struck them hard, and their wives, sweet hearts and the public gazed awe stricken and reverentially but help lessly at the new style thus created here. "And then the hat makers took it up for the ladies and this accounts for the present rakish style of ladies' mili tary gray hats with mannish crowns. "The main reason why the Spaniard and the Mexican devote so much at tention, time and money to the ha: is because it is to some extent made the symbol of their standing in the com munity, and because it was the gran dees of Spain who of all others at court possessed the privilege of sitting or standing in the presence of their sovereign with their hats on while tho rest of the court uncovered. "Naturally the hat became an object of respect and veneration, and the grandees vied with one another in the size of their brain covering, the fine ness and costliness of its texture and tho rich gold and silver ornaments pro fusely worked thereon. The populace, according to their respective means and position in life, emulated the example of tho grandees, and thus, as time advanced, the big hat became the distinctive feature of the Ures3 of the Spaniard, as the mantilla corresponded on the head of the senorita and the senora. "The time was when a Mexican placed his hat and his horse before all his worldly possessions, spending as much as SSOO to SIOOO for a gold trimmed. embroidered hat and as much more for his heavy saddle and bridle, all trimmed with silver, and this passion is strong today. The higher classes of Mexicans have aban doned the sugar-loaf hat for city wear for the European style, as they have adopted long ago our ideas on clothes, though every Mexican gentlemen has his native costume with its gaudily embroidered short jacket and flaring trousers and hat to match, to he worn when the occasion demands. "The other classes cling to the sugar-loaf hat, made principally of a straw of a fiber peculiar to the coun try, or of felt, ornamented with gold and silver cord, according to the means of the wearer, or perfectly plain and cheap. They look odd to us, these Mexicans, in their white, loose shirts and trousers, standing idly about in their sunlit,, adobe cities, as the train speeds on to the capital, and a picturesque let thtv truly are." —Washington Star. Shot Demi lv it CorpHn, A Boer commando retook those lines where those who died for us were lying, and as they marched among our dead they saw a sergeant lying at full length, shot through tho brain, yet even in death the man looked like some fighting machine suddenly gone out of order. His rifle was pressed against his shoulder, his left hand grasped the barrel on the under side, the forefingers of the right hand pressed the trigger tightly, tho barrel rested out upon a rock anil his death-dulled eye still glared along the sights, for dissolution hnd come to him just as he bent his head to fire at those who shot him, and now his hands had stiffened in the unbcndable stiffness of eternal sleep. A Boer sol dier saw the sergeant as he lay. and with rude hands grasped the rifle by the barrel and tried to jerk it from the dead man's grip, but as he puileil he brought tho rifle in line with his own breast, and the unyielding finger on tho trigger did the rest, the rifle . spoke from the dead man's hand, and the bullet, passing through the Boer's heart, laid him beside the Briton. Sounds like a journalistic lie, does it not? Read it in a novel, and you would laugh, would you not? But it is the eternal truth, all the same, for the comrade of the Boer who died that day, killed by a dead man, told me the tale himself,anil he was one of those who planted the dead Dutchman on the slope of Spion Kop.—London News. Mr. Clinmberlniti'ii l'ersonnllty. It must be admitted that Mr. Cham berlain enjoys great power and engen ders sympathy. He came to Italy when all the Italian papers contained ar ticles against him on the question of the Italian language in Malta. Never theless, he showed himself with the greatest nonchalance In the streets of Naples and Rome. He made known his views on Italy and on her future, and explained the Maltest language from his point of view. And now he has left the Italians with an entirely sym pathetic remembrance of Ills visit.— Rome II Pungolo Parlamontare.