FKEELAND TRIBUNE. ruauaiZKD HVXKY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. TITOS. A. BUOKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year $1 50 SIX Months 75 Poor Months 50 Two Months 25 Subscribers are requested to observe the date following the name on tho labels of their pupers. By referrta# to this they can tell at a glance how they stand on the books in this office. For Instance: Grover Cleveland ZKJuudtt means that (irover Is paid up to June 2#, IWS - the figures In advance of tho present date. Report promptly to this office when your jmpcr la not received. AJI arrearages must bo paid when paper is discontinued, or collection will be made in the manner provided by law. FREELAND, PA., MAY 24, 1894. F ran kiln's Foresight. One hundred years ago this month Benjamin Franklin left a fund of five thousand dollars, which ho directed should be put at interest and left to accumulate for a century. When that time had come round, according to tho directions of the splendid old philan thropist, half of the money thus accu mulated should go to some good public purpose for the benoflt of the people of Boston. The other half was to be put aside, as in the first case, for another century, at the end of whiih time tho I state and tho city should be equal part ners in the fund. Now, arising from the five thousand dollars, there is an aggregate of something near seven hundred thousand dollars, half of which the trustees will use to build and equip an industrial training school, one of the best uses to which tho money can be put, and one which Franklin would surely approve if ho were living now. The board of alder men and three ministers of the oldest religious societies in Iloston arc the trustees. They are going to visit Washington to learn as much as they can about tho manual school there, and they will visit nearly all the largo cities of the United States on the same mission. Dn. W. B. CLARKE, of Indianapolis, Ind., claims to own a plaster bas-relief of the head and neck of Abraham Lin coln, In full side view, the whole oval being twenty-six by twenty-one Inches and the head and neck twenty inches long. The great point of interest about this relic, says Dr. Clarke, Is that it was made in Indianapolis from a cast taken from the martyr president's face as ho lay in state in the Indiana state house during the journey to Springfield. Through the inliuence of Gov. O. P. Morton tho sculptor was en abled to make the cast, and from this two medallions were made, 110 be lieves that tho other, the companion of the one he has, is still in existence in a private family in Indianapolis. THE announcement of the death of a little girl in New York from excessive exercise with the skipping rope calls the attention of parents to a real dan ger. This exercise in moderation is healthful to the child and encouraging to the shoemaker, but exceedingly dan gerous when it comes to trials of endur anco or when little girls exhaust themselves In an effort to achieve a record and make a great number of jumps. Deaths from this cause have occurred before, and in many cases where the result is not fatal the health of the child may be greatly impaired. It would bo well, therefore, for parents at this season of the year to exercise some watchfulness in this regard. REFERRING to tho hard times a trav eler related a curious evidence of them witnessed by him on his way over the Canadian Pacific recently. At several of the stations he noted great piles of buffalo bones, which had been gath ered upon tho plains and had been brought to tho station for sale. For some time there has been a great de mand for these bones from parts of the United States. They are exported, and are bought at so much per car load, tho usual price being ono hundred dollars per car of seven tons. Since the panic, however, the Americans have had no money to pay for them, and the skeletons and old bones lie bleaching in the snow, waiting for tho financial skies to brighten. AN auctioneer down at Middletown Del., talked without rest for eight hours tho other day, and sold in that timo six hundred and forty articles. A man of leisure in attendance upon the salo estimates that tho auctioneer talked eighty-two thousand words, or enough to make in print tho bulk of a fair-sized novel. Ann.L has been introduced in tho United States senate for the reduction of government salaries; those from one to five thousand dollars to be re duced twenty-five per cent.; from five to twenty thousand, thirty-three and one-third per cont, and übovo the sum, fifty per cent. Two LOVERS in Washington used tho electric light bulbs for long-distance flash-light signaling, and it worked so well that tlicy got themselves into all sorts of trouble. AMONG the words recognized by the latest American dictionary are elec trocute, abusee, acadernlsc, graclosity, ace usably and cnhausJve. i Tho Farmer of the Future. In the present unsettled state of the labor market, It Is well worth while for the young 1 man to sit quietly down and consider the possibilities of future business. Whether he shall confine himself to the store, the shop or the factory should be a question to receive serious thought. Of course, there are and always will be many peoplo who prefer a commercial life, but it is well worth while to give a moment's serious i study to that which will produce tho necessaries of life. The careful farm- j er, says the New York Ledger, may | make himself independent of other oc- j cupations. It is possible for hiin to raise sufficient food products to sup- | ply many of the requirements of his j family, anil thus make himself free J from many of tho vicissitudes of busi- j ness life. Indeed, every man who can ; possibly do so should have his bit of ; ground where he can provide what ' will rank as luxuries to his fam ily. The small farmer is to all intents and purposes the independent citizen of the commonwealth. Those who follow j this occupation on a more extensive scale are subject to possibilities of lack of assistance and the danger that their help may leave them when it is most needed. Indeed, tho help proh- ; lein is tho coming subject of interest for tliis country. Upon a reasonable settlement of the present disaffection i tho prosperity of the nation depends, i With the farm quite as much as in any other business the necessity for relia ble assistance is apparent. If things aro not done in season they may as well go over until another year, as la bor bestowed on them Is in most cases j almost the same as wasted. A small ; piece of ground thoroughly and intel ligently cultivated will produce quite enough to supply tho tablo of an ordi nary-sized family. From this one may Increase the area and its productive ness according to the time and facili ties at command, and thus supplement whatever comes in from other occupa tions of members of the family. But there is in the fruits of one's own gar den a charm rarely found In those of fered by the market-gardener. IN Gray county, Kan., there is n school district in which but a single family resides. The family consists of a man and his wife and nine children. The man and wife and son elect them selves trustees of the district and em ploy a daughter at u salary of thirty five dollars a month to teach school. It is related that some time ago the head of the family and of the school district was greatly in need of a wind mill and tank to water the few head of cattle he had grazing on the prairie. A meeting of the school trustees was held, a special election was called, and bonds were voted for the purpose of improving the school property. The bonds were sold and the proceeds used in digging a well one hundred and fifty feet deep on the schoolhouso lot. A windmill and tank were put up, and now the school children and cattle of the district drink water to their hearts' content, without putting the president of the board of trustees to tho trouble of pumping it for them. MRS. CLEVELAND lately received from London a most unique and charming gift, a magnificent album containing the portraits of American residents in London who during tho past thirty years have attained the distinction of a caricature in Vanity Fair. Nearly ull of them are signed "Ape," tho famous signature of Polcgrini. The album is massively bound in royal red morocco and lined with watered silk of an imperial or "Knight of the Garter" blue. It is inscribed "Uncle Sam's celebrities at Vanity Fair." Over those words is the American eagle with ox tended wings, the pennant "E Pluribus Unura" il< -wing from the claws. There are vignettes of Washington and Cleve land. All the lettering is in heavy gold. THE iee water drinker is just as much of a "fiend" as tho morphine eat er. In many cases the habit of tho former is just as strong as that of the latter, and just as hard to break. It has been frequently demonstrated that the drinking of ice water is an ac quired habit, and not ono that comes naturally. Give an infant iee water, and you will notice by its action that tho drink is very distasteful. It usual ly has the same effect upon an Indian or person not accustomed to it. Be sides, It is very unhealthy, and any person who can avoid drinking ice wa ter should do so. (JIIICAOO has a fresh wonder in a colored singer who has a fancy epi glottis which enables him to sing bass and soprano at the same time, and when singing in a large hall a third voice is produced ranging between tho other two. The owner of this unique vocal apparatus is a member of a church choir, but, notwithstanding his dual ability, he draws only one salary. THE mikado of Japan has recently issued a decree allowing a Japanese woman to lead, if she chooses, a single life. Hitherto, if found unmarried aft er a certain age, a husband was .select ed for her by law. THE women of Huron, S. I)., havo caused tho arrest of tho chief of polico for not enforcing tho laws and closing up the saloons and other dens of vice. THE grape and orange growers near Tallahassee, Fla., have decided to enter upon the manufacture of wine from grapea and oranges on a large scale. CHICAGO FEELS PROUD. Medical Congress in Home Honors a Windy City Surgoon. I>r. J. 11. Murphy I" Klected rrcgldent for America of the International Medi cal Congress—A Compliment to tho West. Western American physicians, and especially tho profession in Chicago, have been signally honored in the se lection of Dr. J. 11. Murphy, of that city, as tho president for America of the international medical congress in Rome. That the congress should skip New York and make a Chicago man one of its honorary presidents for tho ensuing year is a distinctive recogni tion of merit that will no doubt bother New Yorkers just a little. This is especially true of surgery, in which Gotham likes to wave the west aside. The matter is made all tho more em phatic In that Dr. Murphy has had a little sectional controversy with tho New York surgeons concerning the operation for appendicitis, of which ho claims to have been the originator. I)r. Murphy has coine to the front very rapidly in surgery. Ills work has been highly scientific and has caused widespread comment in the medical and surgical journals in this country and abroad. Hois a very young man for the importance of tho place in sur gery his talent has won for him, being only thirty-six years of age. What should be peculiarly gratifying to the Chicago faculty is the fact that he is a graduate of tho Rush Medical college. Ho values the great clinics of Europe properly, but he is a stanch defender of tho excellence of good American schools, and is himself a very splendid sainplo of what America and the west can do when it gets tho right sort of material to work on. His dis coveries aro not many, but what work ho has done bears the stamp of tho very highest scien tific excellence, and that Is enough to mulce a man famous in surgery. He was tho first surgeon to operate for appendicitis, although a New York surgeon laid claim to that distinction. Dr. Murphy performed tho operation first two days before his friend in New York did it. Of courso both were work ing along tho same lines, and Dr. Bir ney deserves as much credit on this scoro as Dr. Murphy; but it is always the first who does the work that is given tho reward in science, and tho Chicago surgeon has put his priority beyond dispute. It was a bold method indeed, calculated to make tho older and more staid men of the knife stand back and hold their breath, but the re sults have been so satisfactory that the operation is universally accepted as ono of the most brilliant, from a scientific standpoint, and at the same time ono of the most beneflcient'Of the I)R. J. H. MURPHY, discoveries of surgery. Before Dr Murphy's operation patients with ap pendicitis were almost certain to die. Tho percentage was so small us to be nothing. Now about sixty per cent, will recover and as experience grov.s tho results will bo better. Another discovery of some value to scienco for which he is responsible is the fact that man becomes infected with the disease that afflicts cattlo known as "lumpy-jaw." lie found that through defective teeth the germs wero transmitted along the bono and that the disease is always fatal. Tho nnme of the disease is actinomycosis hominis. Tho importance? of these facts is at once evident. l)r. Murphy's more recent work is the most interesting and really tho most valuable he has done. The ro sult of it is what ho calls tho intestin al anastomasis button by which tho mortality from intestinal cutting is practically annihilated. By the but ton the severed ends of tho intestine piay be united in ono minute and the result is always favorable. This but ton can be classed us one of the most important discoveries in surgery, for the reason that it enables any physi cian, however inexpert ho may bo, to perform resection of tho intestines in gunshot cases and the like with al most absolute safety. These opera tions have been the despair of surgery for years. Dr. Murphy is professor of surgery in the Chicago Coll ego of Physicians and Surgeons. For two years ho was resident physician in tho Cook County hospital and is now president of tho hospital staff. Tides of Enormous Height. Prof. Ball, the astronomer royal of Ireland, calls attention to a curious fact in connection with tides. At pres ent tho moon is 210,000 mile < away, but thcro was a time in tho distant past when it was only about one-sixth part of this, or say, about 40,000 miles. If the moon at a distance of 240,000 miles gives us tides that average three feet the world over, they must havo been 210 times higher, or at least 040 feet, at the time when it was only 40.000 miles away. Such a tide as the nbovo would drown tho Mississippi valley, from the Gods jetties to tho mouth of the Bad Axe, and would pile up water 800 feet deep in tho street.! of St. Louis. What a Horwo Can Draw. A horse? can draw on metal rails one and two-thirds times as much as on asphalt pavement and three and one third times , much as on good Belgian Vi'Vt'Kfr BEATRICE HARRADEN. : Author of "Ships Thnt Ps " the Night" Cominß t America. The author of one of the latest of the literary sensations of the London season, Miss Ilea trice Ilarroden, is to visit America for her health. She will arrive in New York some time during May 'on her way to California, where she goes for her health. She has lung trouble. "Ships That Pass in the Night," the story that has made her famous on both sides of the Atlantic, isßaid to be large- Sf MISS BEATRICE IIARRADEN. ly biographical. Tlio character of Bcr nardino, according to the same author ity, is her own; "such a restless little spirit, striving to express herself now in this direction, now in that; yet al ways actuated by the same constant force, the desire for work." But in the true story it is tho disagreeable man that dies, not Bernardino, ttho never loved anyone before; but she had loved tho disagreeable man. Miss Tlarraden is about thirty years of ago and a B. A. of London universi ty, where she took her degree in mathematics as well as classics. Her portrait represents her in cap and gown and wearing the hood of a B. A. of the university. Ike was scarcely known in the literary sot of London when her book appeared. I/Jen Lord Byron, she awoke one morning to find herself famous in her own country. Her fame soon spread to tho United States, where her hook, unfortunately for her not copyrighted In this coun try, has had an enormous sale. A com plete restoration to health is looked for by her friends and a brilliant ca reer is confidently expected from this mast promising young author. It is interesting at this time to record that Miss Harradcn is an enthusiastic advo cate of woman's suffrage and a devoted believer in tho higher education of women. THE BONACUM CASE. Driest* anlll, sat be hind closed doors to listen to one hun dred and fifteen specific charges against Bishop Ilonacum, of the Roman Catholic diocese of Lincoln, Neb. There were present fifty priests and nuns, summoned as witnesses. The charges preferred included "malad ministration, tyranny, oppression, in subordination, inciting strife, slander and libel, arbitrary exorcise and abuse of power, violation of diocesan statutes, misappropriation, falsehood, specula tion, undue influence, unjust favorit ism, scandal, gambling and incitation to perjury." The archbishop declined to consider the principal propositions of tho ac- P c&fZ'l s \L BIBIIOP BONACUM, OP LINCOLN, NEB. tlon, declaring emphatically he would hear nothing of "personal grievances." Exceptions were duly taken to the rul ings, and the indignant priests declare they will appeal to Rome if Mgr. Satolli does not give them tho hearing they demand. if it be true that Mgr. Satolli was appointed for the purpose of prevent ing appeals to Rome and refuses to grant the appeal of the priests there is likely to be a contention, to which the McGlynn matter will be an episode. A Small Pick. Duke of Squallbro—l would never marry a woman cleverer than myself. Miss Whirlsfair—You'll have great trouble getting suited. —Voguo. SIOO Reward, SIOO. The readers of this paper will bo pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is catarrh. Hall's catarrh cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical lrat rnity. Catarrh being a constitu tion. d disease requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken i internally, acting directly upon the blood ; and mucous surfaces of tho system, thereby destroying tho foundation of the disease, and giving tho patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. Tho proprietors have so much faith in 'ts curative powers, that they oiler one hundred dollars for any case that it fabs ,( > cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, . I;'. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Civ old by druggists, 75c. Little girl (after waiting some time for desert), "f the Jesuit order. Tho pipes of the instrument arc in bamboo wood instead of metal, and tho sonority is of an incomparable sweet ness, "angelic and superhuman," a correspondent, and such us lias never been heard iu Europe. POOR OLD M'GARRAH AN. He Gock to Hl* Grave with Ilia Groat Wrong Unredressed. The story of William McGarrahan, the celebrated claimant to the New Idria mine, who died recently in a Washington hospital, is a sad one and full of romance. In 1544 Manuel Micheltorena, the Mexican governor of upper California, granted a tract oi land which lies partly in Fresno and i ) ■ tj ; j WILLIAM M'GARBAIIAN. partly in Monterey counties to Vin cent P. Gomez, a Mexican official. After California became an American possession Gomez sold the land to Mc- Garrahan. This transaction took place December 23, 1857. In the mean time a private corporation known as the New Idria Mining company had squatted upon the land and began a wearisome system of litigation for the purpose of keeping McGarrahan out of possession. On ono pretext and an other the case was dragged through the courts for years, and during all this timo tho New Idria Mining oompanj' was making enormous profits out of McOarrahan's quicksilver. Part of these profits tho concern put in its pocket and part it employed as a cor ruption fund to keep McGarrahan out of his rights. Tho story is one of the most shameful In the history of such affairs, and includes theft, bribery and mutilation of the records in the gen eral land office. Finally McGarrahan in 1808 appealed to congress and a bill ordering tho transfer of the property to liiin was passed, but the measure got tangled in the senate machinery and was indefi nitely postponed. McGarrahan bravely kept up tho fight In succeeding con gresses, however, and every session since has had its turn at this famous claim, but the rich parasites found congress an easy field for their opera tions, and those who wore in a posi tion to know predicted that the broken old man would go to his grave as ho has done with his great wrong unre dressed. HAD A VARIED CAREER. How tho I.ate Senator Stookbrl-lgo Made IMs Way in tho World. Francis 11. Stockbrldgc,United States senator from Michigan, who died a few days ago in Chicago, was born in Hath, Me., April 0, 1830. Early in his life his parents moved to Chi cago, where, for some years, ho was engaged in the lumber business. This grew rapidly, and in a comparatively short time he acquired a largo lumber interest in Michigan. In 1851 he de cided to move to Michigan and he took up his residence in St. Ignace, where ho owned several lumber mills. While living in St. Ignace ho also acquired a large mining property, which he re tained up to the time of his death. 110 moved to Kalamazoo about twenty years ago and has lived there since, lie was elected to the state legislature in 1809 and to the senate in 1871, and March 4, 1887, took his seat iu the United States senate as a republican. 110 was reelected again in 1898, and his term of service would have expired Slareh 3, 1899. Tho senator had large lumber interests o'n the Pacific slope, was the proprietor of a large spring factory at Kalamazoo, and was well known throughout the state as a man of large means who freely spent his money for tho benefit of the poor. He was largely interested in the Brown Co. stock farm near Kalamazoo, and THE LATE SENATOR STOCKS RIDGE. many of the products of his stable rank high in speeding circles. Although he had had only a common school education in his early youth, he was a great reader and had acquired a considerable knowledge of art. science and literature during his life. Prob ably there was no man in Michigan better known to rich and poor alike .than was he. 110 had often said that, as ho hod no children of his own, he would in a measure adopt those of his neighbor, and his kindly spirit made him beloved wherever he was known. While still a young man he was mar ried to Miss Elizabeth Arnold, who survives him. Why ImliatiH Titko Scalp*. Indians do uot take scalps through cruelty, but just as civilized soldiers fight fur and preserve the captured battle flags of the enemy as trophies and proofs of prowess in war. Iho scalp is taken by making a rough circle of slashes around tho skull, and then tearing off tho broad patch of skin and hair by main force. It is a dreadful operation, and one never to bo forgotten by those who have once seen it. Tho scalp is supposed to con tain many magical powers, and i.s cured with the greatest care by him who takes it. mini! I I I Subscription to the TRI BUNE, $1.50 per year, entitles you to the best reading twice a week. sininm i ADVERTISING! I Advertising in the TRI BUNE is valuable be cause of its extensive circulation. I I I ADVERTISING! I iiC! Job work of all kinds at the TRIBUNE office in the neatest style and at fairest prices. I i 1