THE AGE OFALUAMiUM
The World Shall Shine with
New Luster.
TWENTIETH CENTURY PROPHECY.
Professor tlldpath Foresees Great Things.
Secretary Noble on the Development of
the West—Secretary Foster and n. Wal
ter Webb on Railway Speed—Shall We
Have a New White House?
ICopyrlgbt, 1803, by American Press Associa
tion.]
Among the greatest changes which the
fifth Columbian year will discover will be
the substitution of aluminium for irou and
of sound for sight in the work of learning.
These things civilization demands and will
find in the Twentieth century. Both of
these substitutions imply a striking change
In the relations of man to the laws of his
environment.
The progress of the human race has been
marked and recorded at every stage by the
use of materials found in the earth. The
preseut civilization of the world is founded
on iron. For nearly 8,000 years iron has
been the most Important material sub
stance In the arts of life. We live iu un age
of Iron. The whole present fabric is builded
almost exclusively on this coarse, strong
metal. The ago of iron marks the first
emergence of mankind into the conscious
state. Before the epoch of national con
sciousness there had been two ages of stone.
Barbarism has always had stone for its sub
stance and symbol. In the intermediate
Btages of man life the ruco advanced to cop
per and then to bronze. There was a brief
copper age and then a longer age of bronze,
Finally came the age of iron. It has been
the age of battle and power and conquest.
Civilization has caught her hue and quality
from that material substance to which she
has owed her preservation.
We are not to suppose that the age
of Iron will last forever. Nothing lasts
forever. All things obey tho law of evo
lution and transformation. Juntas stone
and bronze have given place to iron, so
shall iron give place to aluminium. The
people will not call it aluminium or alum
inum, but alum—for short. There will be
an age of alum surpassing all the pre
vious ages of man'B development. The age
of power and couquest Bhail yield to an age
of glory and enlightenment, and of that
age aluminium will be the shining symbol.
That beautiful, universal and everlasting
metal, constituting as it does so large a part
of the earth's surface and body, will bear
up the whole stupendous fabric of knowl
edge and progress which shall rise around
our descendants In the closing decade of the
Twentieth century.
The world shall shine with the new lus
ter of its principal metal. All things shall
became whiter than silver. All the exteri
or aspects of life shall be burnished to
brightness. The houses and cities of men,
built of aluminium, shall flash in the rising
sun with surpassing brilliancy All spires
and walls, all gateways and porches, all
bridges and temples, all moving enginery
and faroff battlements shall blaze with a
splendor befitting the new dawn of the
ages to come.
The second great change from the fourth
to the fifth Columbian year will he the sut>
stitution of sound for sight. It w ill be the
restoration of the human ear to its rightful
office AH the organ of enlightenment and
learning. The sound wave is to be substi
tuted for the light wave as the vehicle of
all our best Information and intercourse.
The ear Is to tuke the place of the eye for
the interest and instruction of mankind.
A most unnatural thing has happened lu\
human development. The life of all ages
has been Instructed by sound.
All mothers, from the mother bird to the
mother woman, teach their offspring by
sound, by utterance. But instead of con
tinulng this natural process of instruction
to the complete development of the mind
an abnormal method has been substituted.
The youth at a certain age is led into a
■world of science and there dismissed to
acquire If he can the painful use of mean
ingless hieroglyphics. There he must study
with the eye, learning the sense of crooked
marks which can at most signify no more
than words. Alas, how much of energy I
and life and thought have been wasted in
the Instruction of the miod by characters
and symbols! How the eyes of mankind
nave been dimmed and eclipsed and the
faculties overheated by this unnatural proc
ess of learning!
Man begins his acquirement of knowl
edge with words, and he ends with words.
Hut an unnatural civilization has taught
oim to walk the greater part of his Intel- j
Jectual journey by means of arbitrary sys
tems of writing aud printing. The fifth
Columbian year will see him untaught—a
nard thing withal—and retaught on na
ture's plan of utterance. Nature teaches
Dy sound only Artificiality writes a scrawl '
Nature's book Is a book of words. Man's
book is still a book of signs and symbols.
Nature's book utters itself to the ear, aud
man's book blinds the eyes and overheats
the * Imagination. Nature's method is to
teach by the ear and to save the sight for
the discovery of place and beauty.
The fifth centennial of our discoverer will
bring us the sound book In some form, and
with that the intellectual equipoise of man
kind will begiu to be restored. The use of
the eye for the offices of learning In place
of the stronger ear has destroyed the equi
librium of the human mind. That equi
librium must be restored. The mental dis
eases and unrest of our race are largely
attributable to the overexcitement of the
faculties through ages of seeing.
The ago of hearing is to come with the
Twentieth century. That age will restore
the balance. Memory, almost obliterated,
will come again. The perceptions will cooL
The Imagination will become calm, and the
eye Itself will recover from the injuries of
overstrain and regain its power and luster.
Man will see once more as the eagle sees
and will kuow Shakespeare by heart. He
will remember all knowledge and will see
again, as of old, from Sicily to Carthage!
JOHN CIJIRK KIDPATH.
Secretary Noble on the Developiucut 01
the West.
IFrom Our Washington Correspondent.]
Said Secretary Noble, of the interior do
partmenfc: "The most stupendous changes
in the United States during the uext 100
years are to come in the fur west. A cen
tury hence the world will see in the plains
and mountain region of North America an
empire such as the Ancients never even
dreamed of. All through that region, much
of which is now arid and not populated,
will be a population as dense as the Aztecs
ever had in their palmiest days in Mexico
and Central America Irrigation is the
magic wand which is to bring ulnjut these
great changes.
"IjAst summer 1 traveled much in the far
frestj fthd the effects of irrigation are in
deed wonderful. Here runs a ditch skirted
by H hedge. On oue side is the desert, a bar
ren plain, only sagebrush and cactus grow
ing out of its parched soil, on the other
side waving fields of alfalfa, grain, vegeta
bles and other crops, rich and luxuriant.
The ulfulfa produces three crops in a year
and is splendid food for sheep and cattle.
It needs no prophetic eye to see this region
all subjected to irrigation and one of the
greatest agricultural countries in the world.
With agriculture and mining manufactur
ing will follow. The market will constantly
move nearer instead of getting farther away
"Vast sections of our country, now in
j habited only by coyotes and roaming red
skins, will become the seat of the empire
l of a hundred years hence. I have no fear
that America will grow too big. This re
public is not going to get so large that it
will fall to pieces of its own weight, nor
will the people, widely separated by dis
tance, BiifTer from lack of heterogeneous-
Hess or common sympathy.
"One of the most wonderful things at
this day to mo in the far west is the like
ness of the people there to the people of the
Atlantic seaboard. They are with us in
thought, speech, in feeling, in aspirations,
lin patriotism. Indeed they have more
patriotism than we seem to have farther
; east. The nearer one gets to the Canadian
border the warmer appears the love of the
United States, the more eager our citizens
to float the stars and stripes. Up in Mon
tana near the British line I found American
citizens who kept their flags flying day and
I night, so anxious were they to advertise
1 their country and their loyalty to it.
I "Notwithstanding the vastness of our
area and the immense distances between
our far eastern and our far western posses
' sions, every truly uutional thought appears
to be known in oue place as quickly as in
the other. What some one has happily
called thought waves go over this coun
try with astonishing rapidity. The habits
of the people are substantially the same—-
the forms of speech, the idioms, even the
slang. We are indeed one.
I "If this is true now with our present
1 methods of communication, how much
; truer will it be ICO years hence, when to
' the mail and the telegraph, the railway
and the stugecooch, are added postal te
legraphy, electric railways, long distance
and short distance telephoning as cheap
and common as post routes, and heaven
only knows what inventions besides for
facilitating and cheapening communica
tion and transportation!' Go into the pat
ent office, which is a part of this great bu
, reau, and see what we have done in 100
j years. With that before him no man dare
set u limit as to what may be done in the
next 100 years.
"As our country grows in both area and
population the means of communication
will become more and more perfect, and
Lower California and faraway Alaska will
be as near to Massachusetts, New York and
Ohio in thought and sympathy as people of
adjoining states or communities are to
each other. But for these means of quick,
! cheap and easy communication, preserving
heterogeneousness among the people and
maintaining sympathy and understanding
between them, the future of this great re
public would not be as bright as it is.
i "A hundred years hence these United
States will be an empire such as the world
j never before saw, and such as will exist no
where else upon the globe. In my opinion,
the richest part of it, and a section fully as
populous as the east, will be in the region
beyond the Mississippi."
Vice President Webb on Hull way Develop
ment.
It is not easy to make any positive pro
dictions about the increase in railway speed,
or at leust to put a limit upon the possibil
ity of swift travel in the next century, yet
it is safe to make some approximate sug
j gestious based upon judgments that come
from the experience of today.
A few years ago an express speed of thir- j
ty-flve miles an hour was regarded /is fast
traveL Today there are a number of trains
which muke regular runs of between forty
and fifty miles an hour, and there is one
train running from New York to Buffalo ;
on the New York Central, a distance of 4*14
miles, at an average speed of about fifty- i
three miles an hour. This same train has j
made the run once at an average of less !
than a mile a minute, and it frequently at- I
tains a speed of as much as seventy or sev
enty-fire miles an hour.
This experience, which is comparatively
recent, has convinced me that we are still
much under the limit of what may be ex
pected by travelers in the Twentieth ccn- '
tury. I expect to see oven before the Twen
tieth century trainß running regularly at
an average of sixty miles an hour, and I
have no doubt at all that early in the next
century there will be a number of trains on
some of the greater roads whoso schedulo
time will will for us much as 100 miles an
hour. 1 have no doubt that a traveler early
in the next century will be able to get his
breakfast in Now York and his evening din
ner in Chicago.
We have already learned how to con
struct locomotives which are cupable of
making ninety miles and more an hour, nud
we have learned how best to utilize their
enormous powers. Given the perfect loco
motive—and we have very nearly secured
the perfect machine of this sort —we need
only two or three other conditions. There
must be a perfectly constructed track and
roadbed. It must have inappreciable grudes
and very slight curves. It must be so made
' as to be elastic and yet withstand easily the
j strain caused by high speed. Then we must
■ have a perfect signal system. That I am
I sure will be developed.
The block system of today is sufficiently
! thorough to make the high rates of speed
! attained by trainß on my own road, for in
| stance, possible. There should be no grade
| crossings—these eat up time dreadfully
sometimes—and passenger cars must be
j light, but very strong, and the number of
j them limited to a high speed train. Wo
need the best coal and of course highly
trained employees. With these conditions—
and they are sure to bq obtained early In
the next century—l feel safe in saying that
regularly scheduled daily trains running
100 miles an hour will be advertised by
many of the railway companies.
The question of safety and of popularity
will be no more considered than ure the
same questions when a person enters an or
dinary express train of the present time.
With the conditions that I have described
above, at rain running 100 miles an hour is
just as safe as one running forty. In either
wise if an accident happens it is likely to
prove disastrous. The tendency of the
j time is toward rapid travel, and it has al
! ready been discovered that these fastest
j trains are not an experiment, but are put on
the rouds in response to a public demand.
H. WALTER WEBB.
SMmtary Chat-leu Foster on the Uses of
Eleotrloity. .
(.From Our Washington Correspondent.]
Secretary Foster, of the treasury depart
meut, looks to see the people of the United
States traveling at the rate of a hundred
miles an hour a hundred years hence by
means of electrical railways. "While trav
eling in the west a few mouths ago," said
the secretary, "I read in a newspajter the
advertisement of the company which has
projected an electric railway from Chicago
to St. Louis. As 1 understand it, they are
going ahead in a businesslike way, making
contracts for construction, having passed
through theexperimental stage and reached
the plane of reality and commercial cer
tainty. Their expectation is to make the
journey from Chicago to St. Louis in two
hours and a half, or at the rate of a hun
dred miles an hour.
"It occurred to me then that these men
must know what they are about, and that
if a hundred miles an hour can be realized
with safety and economy in this century it
is not too much to say that 50 per cent,
greater speed, or possibly 100 per cent., will
be reached a hundred years hence. Still, to
be conservative and within the limits of the
probable, I will estimate that in the year
1993 it will be a common thing to travel
from New York to Chicago in seven or
eight hours.
"I remember also reading a short time
ago in one of Walter Wellman's letters
that Thomas A. Edison, the greatest genius
of this century, says electricity is terrestrial
magnetism, and that the universe is full of
it. According to Edison, the present sys
tem of producing electricity by friction is
very expensive compared with what may
be done by siifipler processes. Edison be
lieves electricity may be pumped out of the
earth, or the sea, or the air, just as water is
pumped out of a stream, the only thing
necessary being to find the form of pump
that will do the trick.
"This, I understand, Edison is now look
ing for and experimenting on, and if wo
may estimate his future accomplishment
by what he bus already done he will suc
ceed in finding the pump that will extract
electricity or terrestrial magnetism, or
whatever it is, from the earth at a cost so
low as to make electricity the universal
power. Imagine the revolution that will
come in all civilization if Edison or some
one else succeeds in doing this. Given
electricity at one-tenth the present cost,
and electrical power will become universal.
Steam and all other sorts of power will be
displaced, and with invention stimulated,
as it will be, by the extraordinary cheap
ness of the new power, what may we not
expect in tho way of rapid transit, house
hold conveniences, electrical carriages to
take the place of horses, elevators in busi
ness and private houses, and all sorts of
machinery?
"If this theory of Edison proves to be cor
rect, and the electrical experts are not mis
taken in their plans for rapid travel, tho
next hundred years will develop changes
more stupendous than have been shown by
tho last hundred, in which pretty nearly
every useful thing there is in the world has
been invented. I cannot rid myself of the
belief that we are on the eve of an indus
trial revolution as a result of electrical re
search and experiment, and I take much
comfort from the reflection that the people
of the United States are likely to be the
first to feel the good effect of the new dis
pensation—are, in fact, as is their wont, to
lead the nations on to a more perfect and
perhaps as yet undreamed of civilization."
Elijuh \V. llalfor<l on tho White IIOUHC of
tho Future.
tFrom Our Washington Correspondent.]
"In the executive mansion of a hundred
years hence," said President Harrison's
private secretary, Elijah W. Halford, "I
think I can see the present building as the
central part. There is no doubt that this
building will soon have to bo enlarged.
There is not room enough in it for tho fam
ily and the office of the president and for
the social entertainments or public levees
i which tradition requires the president to
give. But I do not think the people will
ever consent to the destruction of this
house. Too many memories cling about it;
too many of the great men and great events
of the country's history have been associ
ated with it.
"Since I have been here I have often won
dered at tho skill with which our forefa
thers built this munsiou. A hundred years
have passed since its foundations were
started tho cornerstone of the White
House was laid a century ago the 14th day
of October—and it is a good, serviceable
and comfortable house stilL Its only defi
ciency is in the matter of room. It is state
ly, elegant, impressive. In its enlargement
I think some such plan as that suggested
by the late Mrs. Harrison will be followed
—preservation of the present structure and
throwing out of wings on either side. That
would give room for the living apartments
of tho president's family, for the public
offices and for the ceremonial or social func
tions which must take place in the presi
dent's house.
"The White House of the future will,
therefore, In my opinion, be simply the
White House of the present enlarged. Ido
not believe it will ever be found desirable
to separate the president's residence from
his office. My four years' experience hero
has convinced me, moreover, that in the
future the private secretary to the presi
dent and his family should also be provided
with living apartments in the executive
mansion. The president of the United
Suites finds it necessary to work nearly all
the time, and when ho works he wants his
private secretary close at hand. This means
the night us well as the day.
"Probably more than half the evenings
of the last four years I have spent in my
office, busy either with my own work or
standing ready to assist the president. To
do tliis I have hud to leave my own home
night after night, often at much inconven
ience. The private secretary should have
his home in u part of the executive man
sion set apart for his use, and this necessity
should bo recognized iu the enlargement of
the house and should be made a part of the
law under which the mansion is re-created.
"A hundred years hence I think the presi
dent of the United States will have much
less work upon his hands than he has now,
though the country will be twice as great
and the government correspondingly larger,
for long before that time presidents will
ceuse to give personal consideration to a
j myriad of matters which now consumo
their time and their energies. The presi
dent of the future will not, in my opinion,
pay any attention to minor appointments.
Every government post, aside from cab
inet ministers, foreign ministers and a few
bureau officers and perhaps a score or so of
the most inqiortant administrative offices,
will lie filled 0y heads of departments with
out so much *a consultation with the presi
dent. Under the present system four-fifths
of the president's time is taken with these
minor appointments. lie is perplexed, an
noyed, worn out by them. His energies are
j so sapped tfrat it is only by tremendous
i sacrifice of comfort and strength that ho is
able to give thought and study to the im
portant and Serious matters of state de
manding his Attention.
"Air. Maine said to me a year or two ago
that he believed the day was soon coming
when a president would not permit himself
to be bothered about postmusters and col
lectors and consuls any more than a rail
way president would spend his time hiring
brakemen and track repairers. My ob
servation in the White House has been that
some such r.hunge in administrative meth
ods is not only desirable, but absolutely
necessary in tho near future."
FROM SUBURBAN POINTS.
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE OF
NEIGHBORING TOWNS.
Blizzard Weather Has No Effect Upon
"Tribune" Reporters, "Who Face the
Storm and Gather News In Drlfton,
leddo. Upper Lehigh and Eckley.
Special and regular correspondence
from the surrounding towns is solicited
by the TRIBUNE. All writers will please
send their names to this office with com
munications intended for publication, in
order that the editor may know from
whom the correspondence conies.
DRIFTON ITEMS.
Mrs. William MuTngue was on the sick list
last week.
The whole force of D. S. & S. employes were
on duty yesterday.
Juntos MeCurty was 011 a business trip to
Wilkes-Bar re on Friday.
D. J. Kennedy, one of the blacksmiths at No.
2 shop, was ill last week.
Miss Josie Lockman, of Ifazleton, wns here
among friends yesterday.
Ihe collieries were idle one day last week on
account of severe weather.
Petitions for and against the new county are
being circulated through town.
Mrs. Cornelius Boner and son Michael were
visiting relatives here last week.
Miss Katie O'Donnell spent a few days among
Beaver Meadow friends last week.
Mrs. Daniel Gallagher, of Stockton, was the
guest of Mrs. John Bums yesterday.
John I)agon, who had his foot blown off with
dualin sometime ago, resumed work last week.
Miss Annie O'Donnell, one of our highly res
pected young ladies, was lying seriously ill last
week.
Before another week elapses, it is said, more
motive power will be udded to the 1). S. &S.
force.
Several of our young people attended the
.Nabob" at Hazleton opera house on Thursday
evening.
A sleighing party consisting of two sleigh
loads left here last week and enjoyed u pleusant
drive to Beaver Meadow and vicinity.
John Lickwer, the Hungarian who was rob
bed and beaten a week ago, left on Thursday
for the old country. He will carry home with
him tike marks of ids adventure with the rob
bers.
Many of our residents have surveyed and
formed an opinion concerning the electric road
which is to reach here sometime. To please the
peoplff of town it should be in running order
before July 4.
The new vein of coal which has been located
in the vicinity of Buck Mouutaiu is said to be
a very valuable And. iluuior has it that as
soon us the weather opens a branch of the D. S.
& S. will be extended in that direction and the
product will be brought to Eckley, where it
will be prepured for market.
Two of our young men, who swing the shovel
In the mines for a living, claim they hare solv
ed the problem of perpetual motion. The np
paratUß has no resemblance to a political ma
chine, but to show the public what it is like it
will bo given u trial in opposition to the many
machines which will be in use tomorrow.
JEDDO NEWS.
It came on Saturday—pay day.
Patrick Sharp is the happiest man in town.
[ A tine child.
Peter U. Gallagher spent Saturday evening in
Huzlcton on business.
A sleighing party of the borough people had
a pleasant time one night lust week.
School Director Timoney attended a meeting
of the board at Hazleton on Saturday evening.
James Gullagher and John McGinniss, of
Luttimer, were in town one evening last week
on business.
Walter Hinccrnack has resigned his position
and moved to t'oxe's addition. Free land. It is
said he has accepted u position under Coxo
Bros. & Co.
St. Valentine's day was not observed this
year as formerly. The many lovely tokens
that our young people expected did not come.
Disappointment is not a pleusunt thing. Is it
girls?
A new drama in three acts is under considera
tion by our actors. It is entitled, "Christopher
Columbus." The cust is rather strong for
amateurs and the costumes too ex|ensive,
though the play is interesting and well written.
There is quite n contest going on in this
vicinity between the opponents and friends of
the new county. A peiition lias been in circu
lation for the scheme, but up to date bus not
been very successful. Of course there are no
property holders in town or the opposition
would be more active. Nevertheless this does
not prevent u higher tax rate being levied 011
occupation, etc., and us this is already too high
the majority of the people believe in letting
well enough ulono. On the other hand, those
who believe in the scheme are a few who are
fired with political ambition and can see a
plum hanging from a branch of the new county
which they inuy be able to pluck at no distant
day. They arc not particular who pays the
taxes as long as there is a chance for them to
feed at the public crib. Hut the company ofll
cials have not spoken on the subject yet, and
as it will concern them more than anyone else
wo believe when they do speak it will settle the
matter, as a boss traveling through the works
with a i>etition in taund generally lias effect on
the stoutest hearts.
UPPER LEHIGH NOTES.
The collieries continue to work steady.
Bernard Brlslln is around again after a severe
illness.
On Saturday the employes received their pay
for Junuary.
John Langstou was visiting friends In Scran
ton last week.
Ernest bra whelm, of Silver brook, was visit
ing his mother Inst week.
Wild animals, catamounts, foxes, etc., are
plentiful in the Honcyhole valley.
There is somo talk of organising a base ball
association here in the near future.
Many of our young people received congra
tulations in the shape of valentines.
The tramps have deserted us. Not one has
been seen here for the past two weeks.
Our residents seem to have settled down to
observe the lenteu season. Our town is very
quiet.
Washington's birthday will not be observed
here this year. Patriotism is at a discount in
this vicinity.
Several of our crack shots are doing consid
erable target practice. They Intend to bo
hoard at the shooting matches in South Hebor
ton on Wednesday.
It is hinted that scverul of our residents wil
leave town on the quiet to attend the inaugura
tion of Cleveland on March 4.
Politics are very quiet, and it is said both
tickets will be cut unmerciful. Spare the 1
knife and save the man, boys.
ECKLEY CLIPPINGS.
Politicians were numerous in town yesterday. I
John Ward, of Freeland, spent yesterduy in 1
town.
Frank Mcllugh, jr., is able to be around j
again.
John McCann, of Highland, was in town yes- j
terday.
Rev. Father Brehony was in Philadelphia on 1
Thursday.
Patrick Brogan, of Freeland, was In town !
yesterday.
Miss Ella Hahey, of Jcddo, spent a few days 1
here last week.
Hugh Morran, of Ha/.leton, took in the sights |
here yesterday.
Neal McKinley, of Park Place, took in the '
fair Saturday evening.
Condy O'Donnell, of Drifton, drove through :
town yesterday morning.
Matthew Murphy, who was injured at No. 2
slope, is slowly recovering.
Misses Hosina and Annie O'Donnell, of Free
land, suent yesterday in town.
Miss Mary A. Harvey culled on friends and
relatives at Hazleton on Thursday.
Miss Fannie Gallagher, of Stockton has
accepted a position at A. H. Vanauker's.
Tomorrow is election day, and lot all good j
Democrats cast their bullots as straiglit as it is
mode.
John MeCauley won a handsome clock at the
fuir on Suturday, and Samuel Davis won an
album.
Wm. Logan has accepted a position as Are :
man at No. 0, and has taken up his residence
here again.
Misses Carey and Shovlin, of Freelund, were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dominic Kelly for a i
few days last week.
The funeral of the late Daniel Coinerford, of 1
Hazle Brook, took pluce on Friday and was i
attended by St. Mary's T. A. B. Cudet Society
of which be was a member.
Patrick Toy, who lost his eyesight in the
mines here a few years ugo, has returned home
from Philadelphia, where he had been learning I
carpet weaving for the past six months. Mr. j
Toy will commence at once to weave carpet at
his residence here.
The fair here was well attended on Saturday
evening, and among the many valuable arti
cles that were chanced off was the handsome
parlor lamp, presented to the fuir by St. Mary's
T. A. B. Society. It was won by Miss Mary A. |
Harvey. Tho cake walk which to come off last
Saturday evening has been postponed until I
next Saturday evening. Tho fair will be open
on Wednesday and Saturday nights of this
week. MARY ANN.
WAYSIDE GLEANINGS.
The town of Icicle, in Washington, has
beeu renamed Leavenworth.
All portraits of Columbus in a beard or
rutT are branded as frauds by Mr. John C.
Van Dyke in The Century.
The oldest horticultural association in
Europe is tho Royal Society of Agriculture
and Botany, of Ghent, estaldished in tho
year 1806.
A very extensive industry in Russia con
sists of the manufacture of wooden spoons,
which are made to the numlier of 80,000,000
annually.
A portrait of the well known Unitarian
| divine. Dr. Bartol, of Boston, painted by j
iiis daughter, has been presented to the ;
American Unitarian association.
A man in Maine has found a petition to j
parliament written in 1643. It is written in '
ink on handmade paper, and the brass pin
stuck into the paper i.sdoubtless older than
the petition.
The New York chapter of the Daughters
of the American Revolution are now rais
ing funds to procure a statue of Washing
ton to he sent to France in reciprocation of
the gift from France of Lafayette's statue.
The Printers' Journal says the art of
paper making has reached the point where 1
it is possible to cut down a growing tree
and convert it into paper suitable for print
ing purposes within the short space of
twenty-four hours.
The Fayette City (Pa.) News contains the
following unique advertisement: "J. G.
Sanforth, undertaker, eighteen years' expe
rience. In that time 1 have buried over 2,000
persons. My motto is 'Live and Let Live.'
Good goods and low prices to every one."
North Carolina proposes that its monu
ment to its Con federate dead shall he of
ninety-six granite blocks, one for eacn
county, and that on it shall be a bronze
6tatue of Henry Wyatt, the first Confeder
ate killed in the state Service. The uionu
meut will be erected at Raleigh.
SCIENTIFIC WAIFS.
The Run, according to observations by
Professor Bass, of the Dudley observatory,
has a velocity of twenty-six miles per sec
ond.
The utilization of aluminium is steadily
extending. A microscope now made from
this metal weighs only 21 pounds
ounces as against 71 pounds 13 ounces
when mode in bruss.
Dr. Murray, of the Royal Society of Ed
inburgh, estimates the mean height of the
land of tho globe to bo 1,900 feet above sea
level Humboldt's estimate placed the
same level at only 1,000 feet.
It is somewhat singular that notwith
standing the great advances made in chem
istry and metallurgy no other more satis
factory silver alloy has as yet been discov
ered for coining and other purposes than
the alloy used 800 years ago.
Tue "koniscope" or dust testing instru
ment which is now being placed on the
market is intended for estimating in an
easy and simple manner the amount of pol
lution of air in rooms lighted with gas, and
also for use generally in sanitary inspec
tions.
BIBLICAL ADVICE.
If your faith is below par, read Paul.
If yon are getting lazy, watch James.
If there is no song in your heart, listen to
David.
If you are getting sordid, spend a while
with Isaiah.
If you arc just a little strong beaded, go
and see Moses.
If you are getting weak kneed, take a
look at Elijah.
If you are Impatient, sit down quietly
and have a talk with Job.
If you feel chilly, get the beloved disciple
to put his arms around you.
If you are losing sight of tho future,
climb up to Revelation and get a glimpse
of the promised land.—Boston Gazette.
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Dry Goods,
Clothing,
Rubber Goods, Boots,
Shoes,
Hats, Caps,
Ladies and Gents'
Furnishings,
Trunks, Yalises and
Notions
at Jos. Neuburger's -
!B.A.:Ra-.A.II>T EIMIYOTSrtXIM:
If you want, to save money, as you will always lind the larg
est, assortment of any of the above lines in the region at our
1 stores, with the prices lower than elsewhere. Whatever there K
yet remains of WINTER GOODS will be closed out regardless
of cost. Therefore it will pay you to give us a call and be con
vinced that what we say are facts. When you want to buy good
goods at low prices the place to buy tliem is at
JOS. NEUBURGER'S,
in the
P. 0. S..of 1 Building, Freeland, Pa.
PUff MI'S nil: ii™"
You can depend upon us for this. Shapely, genteel,
perfect fitting Men's and Boys' Clothing, guaranteed to ,
give 100 cents in wear and service for every dollar you
put into them. You can pick from a great assortment
of strictly new and decidedly popular styles.
Men's Suits, Overcoats,
Boys' Suits, All Styles and Sizes,
Children's Suits, Gents' Furnishings.
All for the least money, quality considered. We lead
with newest styles and best grades in Neckwear, Shirts,
Handkerchiefs, Underwear Collars, .Cull's, Umbrellas,
Hosiery, Gloves, Trunks, Hats, Caps, Boots and Shoes.
You get the best of it every time you trade with
JOHN SMITH,
BIRKBECK - BRICK, - CENTRE STREET, - FREELAND. *
THE Woodman's Specific No. 4 is a scien-
WORST
COLDS
GRIPPE tific combination of vegetable products.
BRONCHITIS
AND
i MALARIA Perfectly harmless, but will cure a cold
ARE
QUICKLY
QjjpgQ * n a ' ew hours. They are little, tiny
PNEUMONIA W
AND
CONSUMPTION 1,1,181 CaSy t0 take ' pleas9nC t0 tbe taß( '
POSITIVELY
PREVENTED
gy" anc l can be carried in the vest pocket.
USING
WOODMAN'S an doses for 25 cts.
SPECIFIC
NO. 4
FOR To verify the truthfulness of our state-
SALE
BY
ALL ment, it costs but a trifle. One trinj
DRUGGISTS
PRICE
25 CTS. will convince you.
WOODMAN DRUG CO.
ROXBURY, MASS.
C^XTTIOISr.
Ask for Woodman's Specific No. 4. If your druggist
does not keep it, and will not get it for you, send us 25 cts.„
and we will send it to you postpaid.
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