FREELIID TRIBUNE. I ESTABLISH 15D 1888. ( PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, 11Y THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY. Limited < Office; Main Stjihet adovb C'kntuk. Loho Distance Telephone. BUBSCKI I'TIOV KATEI FREELAND.-I'lk'Thhiune by : carriers to subscribers in Frcolandatthe rate of I-V6 cents per month, payable every two , months, or slsoa year, payable in advance I The Tkibune may I xlered direct form the 1 i carriers or from tin- • ilic.o, Complaints of ! irregular or tardv delivery service will re- > ' ceive prompt attention. BY MAIL—The Tkiiipne is sent t© out-of- | ( town subscribers for SI.SJ a year, payable in j advance; pro rata terms lor shortor pcr'.cds. I The date when the subscription expires is on ' the address label or each paper. Prompt re- I . newuls must be made at the expiration, other- j wise tha subscription will bo discontinued. Entered at the Postolßce at Froelancl. Pa., j as Second-Class Matter, I Make all money orders, checks, etc. ,piyable j to the. Tribune l'r<nting Company, Limited. I , The relatives of Lafayette residing In Paris, France, who are understood to be in need of money, are seeking to find in this country a purchaser of his famous collection of relics and sou venirs. They place its value at SIOO,- ( 000. The collection includes the great rose vase presented to Lafayette by * the French Republic and many gifts ' from friends in this country, including Washington, Franklin, Monroe, John * Quincy Adams and Thomas Jefferson. * ] The evils of indiscriminate street almsgiving are shown in the recent \ exposure of a school for teaching boys 5 to beg in New York City. The head < of this new educational scheme was 1 making out of it an income of about * $23 a day, besides the greater cost of } the demoralization of the boys he In- j strueted. So many of these schemes t have come to light that it is a matter 1 of wonder that even the average easy going benevolence will give unhesita- { tingly at any kind of an appeal a j clever rogue may make. 1 — A woman in Pennsylvania worked ' for weeks in a coal breaker, dressed ' as a boy, to support her children and , her sick husband. She worked nine hours a day for sixty-five cents. Ilcr fingers were cut and bruised by the tumbling coal, hut she kept on until she was found out and discharged. On the same day on which this discov ery was made a woman in Bridgeport died two hours before her daughter, for whose sake she had worked herself to death. AY lien you read about idle women in society, remember that there are also women who do things like these. The development of electric trolley systems throughout the country is sure to mark the immediate future, says the New York Independent. In some of the Western States these are al ready creeping out into the farming districts. These cars can be made to ! serve to a great exfent as mall car riers. St. Louis was the first city to use her street ears for carrying the mail. The system is now very per fect. Communication along routes is almost as speedy as by telegraph possibly more so. A letter can he mailed and an answer received within a few hours. Some letters never see a post office. They are taken up by the carrier, put on a mail car, and handed by the car to another carrier, who de livers them to the person addressed. The Consreßfiiiiiui Went to Sleep. 0110 of the most absent-minded men In the House of Representatives is Mr. Burton, of Ohio, chairman of the com mittee 011 rivers and harbors. The other day Mr. Burton having charge of the appropriation hill, forgot that for the time being he was boss of the House and that it was ids duty to say when the weary lawmakers should quit work. When that time came Bur ton forgot all about it. The speaker looked hard at him, but Burton did not come out of his trance. Finally Gen eral Henderson's patience gave out. "The gentleman from Ohio," lie shout ed, just as if Mr. Burton had been asking for recognition. The Ohioau jumped up. looked bewildered and fin ally blurted out: "Eh, eh, Mr. Speak er," he stuttered. "I move the House do now adjourn." "Well, he's awake finally," muttered Speaker Henderson, sotto voce, "but some people do need a lot of sleep."—Chicago Chronicle. The Belgian Chamber has resolved that every M. P. shall be a total ab stainer at least during the hours when he .s officiating as a legislator. Philadelphia makes ninety per cent. 01 cur ingrain carpet. —Of the world's rubber supply of 57.300 tons, 23. 000 eonie from the Amazon basin. 3,500 tons from other pans of South America and 21,Ut)0 from tropical Africa. -Sixty-two per cent of tin* adults in the kingdom of Great Britian. Scotland and Ireland, are able to read and write. In 1801 only 22 per cent could read and write. n A Sang in Winter. 1 A robin sings on the leafless spray, Hey, lio, winter will go! Sunlight shines on the desolate way, And under my feet I feel the beat Of the world s heart that never is still, Never is still, Whatever may stay. Life out of death, as day out of night, Iley, ho, winter will go! In the dark hedge shall glimmer a light, A delicate sheen Of budding green, Then, silent, the dawn o' summer breaks, As morning breaks. O'er valley and hight. The tide ebbs out, and the tide flows back; Hey, ho. winter will go! Though hca. vii be screened by stormy rack, It rains, and the blue Comes laughing through; And cloud-like, winter goes from the earth, Ooes from the earth That flowers in ills track. Sing, robin, sing on your leafless spray, Hey, ho, winter will go! Sunlight and song shall shorten the way, And under my feet I feel the beat Of the world's heart that never Is still, Never is still. Whatever may stay. —A. St. John Adcock. In Far Succonotchie. BY DABNEY MARSHALL. (Copyright, 11)01, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) To say that Succonotchie was as tonished when the new school teach er arrived expresses it too mildly. They couldn't have been "no stonish eder," said Si Hardsock. if one of the amen elders had taken to being hon est in a horse trade, or one of the populites had foresworn whiskers and whiskey. The Succonotchie boys and girls, young men and young maidens, were a rather urgentle set, and the Succonotchie mothers, when the sa cred persons of their offspring bad been invaded by a hickory or their feelings hurt, were—weil, the less said of them the safer. Between them they made the life of the teachers so vivid and spicy that witn one exception they ail resigned before the end of the term. The exception did not resign. Ho died at the end of the third week. Finally local talent ceased to apply, and the trustees were compelled to re sort to a city educational bureau. It agreed to furnish upon the pay of its fee and one month's salary, a suitable teacher, and °ent one Franco* Irving. Failing to observe that the "Frances" was spelled with an "c" and not with an "i" they rashly concluded they were to have a male instructor. Imagine their consternation when jut of the hack 3tepped neither a man nor a woman, but a delicious and dain ty combination of pink and white, just seventeen years of age, and pretty enough to have been picked for a beauty in Paradise. "The lawd can't have made that gal outen the dust like the rest of us," said Si; "but he must have took dog wood blossom and sunshine and dew drops and wild roses." She teach? Impossible. And yet, as they had paid out the state's money they must try her a month anyway. Monday morning found her duly en throned upon the teacher's platform and the schoolroom full of dazed pu pils. At first out of sheer amazement the assembly kept quiet, and things went along smoothly. She mapped out lessons, divided the pupils off into classes, and now anil tiien interjected little homilies about making the Suc (Pi. | ■ * "Here, Miss Irving, whahe the lift out of him." conotchie school the pride of the state. Her manner was so winning and appealing that it went straight to the hearts of the elder boys and girls. However, their curiosity goon palled. A little breeze of whispering fluttered through the room, but it was not long before it had swelled to a perfect tor nado of talk. The teacher had not noticed the whispering, but could not pass over the tornado. In vain she rapped for order. In vain she told them they could not learn this way, and were throwing away the best years of their iives. With this state ment they radically disagreed. Who ever heard of bullying a teacher called "throwing away one's life." By and by the boys began to wad up paper and throw it at each other. The school divided into armies, Brit ishers and Boers, and the wads llew thick as bullets at Modder river. Among the non-combatants was Hal | Baker, a young fellow about twenty oue year 3 old—heretofore a ring lead er—the son of the richest man in the settlement and immensely popular witli all classes. During the course of the fight he had gradually edged closer and closer to the teacher's platform, and when a bullet aimed at the head of the "Lord Kitchener" had, owing to the expert dodging of that wily mill tary genius, missed Its aim and im pinged directly upon the teacher's forehead, he strode over to the marks man. and in the twinkling of an eye lifted that young man squarely off his feet and dragged him to the platform, and blurted out: "Here, Miss Irving, whale the life out of him, and keep whaling till he remembers he is a gentleman." Miss Irving reached a trifle viciously for the hickory, but dropped it, saying, "I can't do it, Mr. Baker." (Hal blushed at the Mister.) "He did not intend to strike me." Then the storm of her tears broke, and she sobbed aloud, openly and audibly, where all the school could hear. An awful hush fell upon the room. Threats, resistance, blows they were prepared for and could parry, but tears —that was taking an unfair ad vantage. Finally Hal said: "Look here, the next chap that bothers that girl will have me to reckon with." The next day Hal's desk was near the teacher's platform, and order, while not perfect, was miraculous con sidering. A few boys were kept in during recess. At the close of school she proposed to keep in a few others, but Hal said to her: "No you don't, you go home; you need rest." Then he whispered, embarrasedly, "They won't bother you tomorrow." And they didn't, and between Miss Irving and Hal things went along so smoothly and the children learned so rapidly, that Succonotchie speaks of it to this dav. Under such circumstances teaching would to the average instructor have been past time, but it. was telling on Miss Irving. Her little hands had be- I He clasped her to him. come pale and filmy. One Saturday Hal brought a pony over for Miss Irving to ride, saying she needed the exercise. She replied: "Why, Hal, I ean't ride." "But you can learn," he answered. "That's what you tell me when I get tangled up in my algebra." He led the pony at first, but finally throwing the reins over its neck, he mounted his own horse, and rode slow ly by her side. He swung himself into the saddle with such grace, and looked so manly, that ho attracted her admiration. Heretofore she had thought of him as kind. Now it oc curred to her she had never seen a handsomer young man. One Saturday when the March sun shine was flinging through every in terstice in the pine boughs little fluffy golden plumes of light, and the air was breathing balm, he took her fish ing down on the Piuoshoolt. The girl was too busy with the flow ers to do much fishing, and Hal—ho was too busy watching her to do much more. And they could not keep from laughing and talking and being noisy and happy. They were both aston ished that the noon came so soon and their string of fish was so small, and they were a little confused, too, when Hal's mother commented on their non success. A few days before the school was to close, Miss Irving received a letter from her mother telling her some rail road stock which her father had owned had unexpectedly risen in value, and she would not be compelled to teach any more. A sudden joy flooded her heart at this prospect. Then she be gan to think how pleasantly the time had passed in Succonotchie; how kind all the people had been, and was there ever such a young man as Hal? She had never seen a stronger and finer young man. Was it possible all these people were going to drift out of her life? Would sho never see Hal any more? For some reason, she did not tell the people Bhe was not coming back to Succonotchie, bat Hal and the oth ers knew of course she would go homo on a long vacation. ' During the last few days of school his eyes actually dogged her, and they had such a long ing appeal In them she hated worse than ever to think of not coming back. Sho wished he would not look at her so. She was a trifle afraid of him. She had never failed to do what ever he had told her to do. True, he always used his power for her com fort, but suppose he should ask some thing for himself? What then? She wished the old railroad stocks, as far as she was concerned, had not risen in value. She ought to teach. A woman should do something in the world. She had been told Hal had never studied, had never cared for anything, until she came to Succo notchie. She knew since her coming he applied himself strenuously, and she felt with the proper teaching and encouragement he would make a great man. She had even dreamed of see ing him governor. But without hor would he apply himself? Hal drove her to the station at the close of the school. They passed over the road where they had often ridden. How pleasant those rides had been! Hal said nothing, but his eyes were eloquent with appeal. At last they crossed the creek where that March morning they had gathered flowers, and fished, and dreamed. Had sho ever been so happy? To stop the de bate in her heart she said impulsively: "Hal, I am not coming back to Suc conotchie to teach any more." At first he was silent as if not com prehending her. She saw his eyes dim, but suddenly they flashed up with the same light of determination that had gleamed from them the day he had dragged the boy to the plat form. "Not coming back to Succonotchie? Well, you've got to come back. I want you, Miss Frances, for my teacher for the rest of my life!" Then with a boldness he never aft erwards understood, he clasped her to him, kissed her, and said: "You need somebody to take care of you. You struggle for a living? I just can't hear it. You've got to come back." She was silent and breathless in his clasp. He did not know how fiercely he held her. He continued: "You've got to come. Won't you come back?" "No, Hal, she said, "I won't come back." Then, as he unclasped her and turned a deadly white under his tan, she hung her head and whispered: "I won't come back, but—but. Hal, you cau bring me back, if you want to." VANDAL ARMIES. What Soldiers of CUiilzatlon Did la the Chinese Empire. "The sacking of the imperial palac es at Pekin," writes a military writer in a Bavarian paper, "was thorough and complete. The walls, even when the Germans arrived, were nearly bare. There was hardly enough furniture left to fit out hr dwelling of the staff. Only very heavy things, such as big looking glasses and screens were there. Beds and bedding had to be procured from elsewhere— not without difficulty. Cupboards, boxes, drawers were pulled open, broken and ransack ed. Barbarian work. Bronze statues were thrown down to find the gold in the interior. Sometimes it was found, sometimes not. Very often, in order to simplify the work, the statues were smashed. Objects too heavy to be car ried away were broken and only the valuable parts were carried off. The Chinese are very fond of clocks and watches ingeniously constructed so as j to make music. Some are heavily gild-1 ed. In the imperial summer palace were two big clocks (under glass) in j the apartments of the empress. The figures were on a big sun, whose rays were made of the best and heaviest gold. Sun and clocks are still there, but the golden rays were taken away. Near the lotos lake of the imperial palace in Pekin stands a small house | with a sort of belfry, with clocks of various dimensions. They were struck by a hammer and produced a most harmonious concert. The big clocks are still there, but the smaller ones are j all taken off. On the other shore ol the lotos lake was the private mansion of the emperor, since the empress dow ager kept him prisoned. The emper or's apartments consisted of three rooms —reception room, bedroom and library—full of costly hooks bound in the precious yellow silk, the privilege of the imperial family. The emperor's bed was here not a bench, as usual in China, . but a real sleeping sofa, a couch covered with dark brown, heavy | silk, which was torn •off to the edge of the couch. Everything pillaged! ! Chairs, tables, benches were made of a 1 very hard, Valuable dark brown wood, adorned by wonderful carvings. They were broken, knocked about by hun dreds. The work of barbarians! By which nation was it done? It is im possible now to say." HOLES IN COINS. Throe-Cent Pieces Will linve a Mark ot Indicate Their Value. Tile United States is about to begin the coinage of a 3-cent piece for use particularly in the west and southwest. It will be of nickel, about the size of a 5-cent piece, but in the center of it will be a hole about a quarter of an inch in diameteT. This will enable one to distinguish it by the feel even in the dark. As is well known, only the gold coins are made on a basis of value equal to their denominations. The cent, for instance, is not worth, as metal, a fraction of that amount.. The nickel is not either. All are stamped from blanks which the gov ernment buys by contract. Silver coins were originally of the same value as the metals, but silver has dropped so that a "cart wheel" dollar is only worth about 50 cents. Gold is worth cent for cent. With the beginning of the new year a new series of coinage began. All the old dies with 1000 on them were destroyed—that is, the face was. On New Year's day more than 1,200 of the dies were made useless; the faces were ground off them with an emery wheel. Ever since then brand-new dies have been used. These old dies were from all the various mints and the work of destroying their faces and reworking new ones was done at the Philadelphia mint. A Portrait of (ien. Kitchener. He was tall, about six feet two or three; his figure ungainly, and his shoulders sloped; he slouched in his gait, as ho walked in long, kuce-bond ing strides. He was a much older man than his pictures made him appear to be. His face —it may have been the Egyptian sun —was brick red. It was full of little lines and his prominent steel-gray eyes had a peculiar expres sion; one of them—l have forgoit a whether it was the left or the right had a habit of roving by itself, while the other transfixed you with a cold and piercing glare. To a certain ex tent the eyes are characteristic of the man, for Kitchener is known to bf ablo to see things near by and things far off at the same time.—James Barnes in the World's Work. I HPS T*IB + 1- *&/ ==== BCIJ Tra LaljßWfiflAMKltoD •?" -?• *f ; Advice Upon Money Mattel'.. Always keep a supply of change on i hand—half-dollars, quarters, dunes , and nickels. This will obviate keep ing people waiting for change and wasting your time or the time of ! others waiting till change be made, j It will also help you to save many I cents in the course of a week, cspeeial- I ly if everything that comes to your I homo is paid for in cash. Many house j wives ohlect to this method of keep , ing change handy, because as Boon as 1 a hill is "broken" it goes without I their knowing how or whore. Tills is | rather the fault of mismanagement than tho consequence of keeping change. If money passes through other hands than your own before It is finally paid it Is time and trouble saved to have the exact change to hand out.—American Queen. Summer Sngge.tiona. Tucks will bo übiquitous. Undersleeves will hold their own. Plaids, as a rule, are things to shun. Heavy stitchings in many instances look like tucks at a short distance. Jabots will help out shirtwaists with more or less open jabots. Shaped taffeta strappings will finish cal loped edges. Battlements will be a feature of sartorial architecture. Bodices buttoned or hooked up the back are gaining favor. Breadth of the shoulders- Is being more accented. Nun's veiling, cashmere, foulard and crepe are talked of for occasions upon which wash dresses would he too light. Elbow puffs may make a sylph out of one girl, and a balloon of another. Pompadour silk Is nearly always a lovely evening dress. A cording of black will set off many a dashing dress cf light foulard.— Philadelphia Record. Well.brougltt.up rrinee.se.. The Queen of England, so long and lovingly known as tho Princess of Wales, or the "princess," has been yery particular in bringing up her daughters, bo as to secure for them good physical health. She made the most of the time spent l>y the royal household in the highlands of Scot land. Here the young princesses were kept out of doors as much as possible, enjoying the fresh air In fair weather or in cloudy. A great part of the day was spent by them in loose-fitting dresses, with unstiffened bodices, adapted for hill climbing. Tho princesses dressed for dinner in conventional evening dress, worn over the whalehoned corselet which some women wear day In and day out, but these evening hours of tight-fitting clothing came at the end of a day spent in loose garments, which did not impede the breathing or the cir culation. This sensible regime of educating daughters with as much chance of fresh air exercise as would be given boys was insisted upon by Alexandria, now Queen of England. A Novel Ton fiown. A becoming tea gown, in which one can lounge in luxurious armchairs after a day's sport or touring, is a most desirable addition to the ward robe, and an extremely pretty gown suitable for this purpose is made of soft broche silk in pale turquoise blue and biscuit color, and it is mounted on a lining of soft china silk or nun's veiling, which fits into the figure at the back, but has no darts in front, so the fullness is caught together by a lace belt. The yoke, which is trans parent and extends over the shoulders, is of biscuit colored tucked chiffon, with bands of ecru guipure lace insertion in between, and the collar and bands on the sleeves are of laic insertion, with frills ®f soft lace edging of the same becoming tint gathered into them. From the bottom of the yoke all around the shoulders hangs a frill of lace, and this is not carried quite to the centre of the front, but the ends are gathered and arranged in waterfall frills, which taper off and end about 10 inches below the waist. If desired, the yoke could be lined with pale blue china silk to make it a little firmer, or a lining of cream or fiesh colored silk might he used, if the contrast with tho rest of the gown were desired without tho transparency. The sleeves have close fitting linings of thin silk or nun's veiling to hold the f'.hl puff in position. Hint, on Mourning Cimin. I Mourning costumes of today are less exacting than formerly. The time war, I when a widow who wore a touch of I white within a year of her adoption of black would have been regarded as unfit for social recognition. Now it !.-. not unusual to see a touch of white chiffon at the throat, even in the earliest days of widowhood, and some times a whole vest of white chiffon is worn before the close of the first year. jl'be materials i hoscn for mourning are more varied than has been cus tomery heretofore. Rough and smooth serges, vicunas, cashmeres, henriettas, crepons and nun's veilings all are correct and durable, and can bo roado available for general uso after the period of conventional mourning fs ended. The princess is a favorite mode of making gowns of this character for women of svelte and youthful figure, while the recently revived postilion basque Is occasionally seen on women of more portly type. Dull finished ribbons are worn ae sashes, and give a touch of the mourn ing aspect to any black gown. A ros ette with lons ends attached to tii* corsage on the left, near the shoulder, is a pretty addition to an otherwise simple costume. A handsome gown, made recently for a mourning wardrobe was cut with the new princess shirt reaching to the bust line, aud had a blouse of dull black taffeta. The coat was a bolero with stitched edges, and tho fronts were elongated to permit cf their being drawn through a jet. buckle and hang ing like sash ends nearly to the hem of the skirt. Another oontume was of zlbeiine, with the princess skirt, black crepe do chine pleated blouse and a bolero of j Persian lamb. Tho toque was of black chiffon, with large rosettes. A black fox boa and muff were the furs ordered, and neck ruchings of black silk edged with chenille were Included. While black fox is regarded as espe cially appropriate to deep mourning, broadtail and caracul also are used. When the mourning period lias reached a term that admits of the ac ceptance of informal invitations for evening, black net is peculiarly fitting, and may he accompanied by either chiffon or ribbon for sash and cor sage bows. Made high over a low lin ing, with unlined sleeves, the effect is quietly elegant. Mr*. McKlnley** ft must bo pleasant to be a lady of the White House as spring approaches,, for she can look forward to the en jojiment of one of the earliest and most beautiful gardens in the country. Mrs. McKinley's posy bcd 3 will then tak6 on delicate hues cf green and rose mauve and misty yellow; then the cciors will deepen and the beds be jewelled with wide-operted blos soms, and by the middle of April the White Houee gardens will be brilliant and full of color as a Diaz picture. This effect in brought about by sys tem and order and foresight. In Oc tober tiie hya tulips, crocuses and narcissus bulbs are placed in the ground. Forget-me-nots, pansies, field daises and many other plants are "st out." Thc-r:e remain in the beds all winter, and flower from tho nr bile of March to tho middle of May. Late in April tho summer planting com mences, and continues until the close of May, by which time the car.nas and geraniums and endless other va rieties of newcomers are installed in their summer heme. During the fall planting ut the White House there are placed in tho ground more than 5(1.000 bulbs and fully 5000 plants, whereas in the spring 35,000 plants, embracing 150 varieties, are set out. Surrounding tho executive mansion are 55 flower beds of various sizes, and aggregat ing in area several acres. All of tho beds must be shielded in winter by elaborate blanketings of protective ma terial, and in the case of many of tho beds precaution must always he taken lest they he washed out by the heavy ralnfull. It takes care and caution to make a president's garden. The work of peopling the half a hundred flower beds with their richly arrayed inhabitants is of itself a gi gantic task. All cf the plants come from the great White House conserva tories. and at planting-time a dozen men arc busy for a month or more setting them cut. There are placed in tho ground each year more than GOOO tulips, embracing not less than half a hundred soecies, 2500 pansy plant: - . 2000 field daises, from 600) to 8000 ivmilium:; and other flowers in proportion. As an example of the in tricate planting introduced it may be stated that there are on tho grounds two fancy flower brds, neither of them very large, in each cf which there are more than 5000 small plants. No wonder Mrs. McKinlev has n lovely view f-nm her window.—New- York Commercial Advertiser. PS Og.f.f f i i Hats r.till jmrch at a dizzy angle. Mouses are to be prime favorites. Short boleros top off the princess dress. In striped materials the sleeves are often made crosswise. Skirt flounces are often tucked down a part cf th ir depth. Elbow sleeves arc bits of beauty which vil} be retained. Velvet ribbon put on in strap effect ornnment3 some cala frowns. Cham bray will figure for shirtwaist suit:*. So will zephyr ginghams. Aguilettes now tag strappings am wd! as the ends of ribbon bows. Some fabrics seem built for the sole purpose cf running ribbons through. I ancy lace yokes often havo an ef fort ivo elongation in vest effect at tli -• front. Clusters of tucks, three say, add much to the effectiveness of many a blouse, especially if they go 'round and 'round. Whether the undersleeve is a mero puff at the wrist or shows all the way to the elbow is a mere matter of preference. One of the simplest yet most tiV'. I'immbigs Is a row of narrow sfr'ped silk set in with tucks or braid. The strlpeß go crosswise.
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