FREELAND TRIBUNE. PVBUBHED IVEBT MONDAY AND THURSDAY. ITIOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STHKKT ABOY* CKHTBB, SUBSCRIPTION SATES. Ono Year jl a! Six Moutbs 75 Four Months ....... 60 Two Months 85 Subscribers are requested to observe the data following the name on the lubcls of their papers. By referring to this they can tell at a Slanoo how they stand on the boohs In this offlco. For instance: O rover Cleveland 28JuneU5 means that Orover Is paid up to June 28.1NA Keep the figuresln odvanoe of the preeent data. Itoport promptly to this olllce when yuur papes m not received. All arrearages must be paid when paper Is discontinued, or collection wIH be made In the manner provided by law. Some time ngo California offered a bounty of S3 eiielt for coyote ecalns. It tvas supposed at tho time that thero were not more than 2030 coyotes in tho State, but tile claim for bouuties for the last quarter of 180! already amounts to $33,030 with seventeen other counties to hear from. It is probable that Norman A. Mozcly, of Missouri, will bo tho youngest member of tho licxt House of Hcpresectatives. Ho was born on a furm in ISGJ, and worked as a farm han.l until 1887, when lie bad educa ted himself sufficiently to teach school end study law. Colonel Georgo 13. McClellan, of New York, who is about thirty, will he another of the youthful members of a House that bids fair to be noted for the men in it. The total number of Scandinavians in this country is about 1,000,000, but instead of being distributed through out the various States, they are to be found almost exclusively in the North west, observes tho Atlanta Constitu tion. Norvveigans are most numerous in Minnesota, where tho total Scandi navian body amounts to 233,000, double tho number of Germans and eight times more than the Irish. Swedes are most numerous in Illinois, where they number more than 90,000 in a total Scandinavian population of about 125,000. In tho city of Chicago there are more thau 10,033 Swedish, more than 5000 Norwoigaa aud more than 2500 Danish voters. Tho Danes, the smallest of the groups of Scandi navian voters in the country, arc most numerous in lowa. Tho Eev. Dr. lieuen Thomas, of Brookline, Mass., devoted consider able time last summer to listening to other preachers, and as the result of bis experience makes a roport strong ly in favor of written sermons. Ho says: "X have tried to recall the ser mons which held mo at that time and which have stayed by mo since. To my great astonishment, not ono of them was extemporaneous. With one exception, I did not hear a single extemporaneous sermon that was scholarly, with much of intellectual flavor about it, logically suggestive or strikingly devout. 1 did not hear one sermon in which the preacher used a manuscript which had not about it a delightful intellectual flavor, with logical continuity of thought, devo tional feeling and much of suggestive ness." Dr. Thomas's observation wero made among Episcopalians, Pres byterians, Congregutioualists, Luther ans and Roman Catholics. The New York Independent says: Thero must bo something highly valu able in the use of the bicyole, which has long passed tho stago of "eiaze," and has become so much tho estab lished order of things as to have ser iously injured the market for horses. Thero is every reason to suppose that a moderate and rational use of the bicycle directly contributes to health —of course the mental strain aud pro tracted over-exertion called for in racing are an immense tax on the vital force. It has long been known that the violent muscular effort of th bunted bare, who is coursed to his death by dogs, produces just as un natural a condition of tho blood as does a severe infectious fever; aud the occasional oaso3 of persons who have unsound hearts, dying from tho extra efforts of the "cycle," should be warning. Dr. Tossie, of Bordeaux, studied carefully tho effect of the efforts of M. Btophauc, whoso object was to sco how many miles ho could ride in twenty-four hours. Ho ac complished 385 miles. Ho lost in weight fourteen pounds. His food consisted of five pints of milk, one pint of tea, one pint of lemonade, and three ounces each of rum aud cham pagne, and seven ounces of mint; and the secretions so changed as to show that "his body ate itself." This kind of living will do for a "spurt," but would bo ruinous in tho long run. MY CLOCK. In tho silenoe of tho night, If I waken with affright, From a dream that's full of terror and annoy, Thore's a sound that tills my heart 3YU.I a melody of art, : Full of beauty, full of pleasure, full of joy. | 'Tis tho steady "tick, tiek, took," | Of my sturdy littlo clock, As it sits across tho room upon a shelf. I Aud it says: "Don't ho afraid, | For I've closely by you stayed : While you wore off in tho laud of dreams "Willi a steady 'tick, tick, tick,* i I am never tired or sick, And I count the minutes over as they lly; | I'm tho truest friend you've got, And I share your ev'ry lot, And I'm ready to stand by you till you die." It's a common sort of clock, But I like its lusty "tock," And it fills my soul with courage by its song. In tho storm, or cofd, or rain, 1 hear its bright refrain, As it faithfully pursues its path along. For it tells mo to bo true To each thing I havo to do, And, no matter if tho world applaud or scorn, That full soon must pass the night, And the sweet and precious light Be unfolded with the coming of tho morn. —Hamilton Jay, in Florida Timos-Union. A DRFAPFLTir HEADACHE. BY W. J. LAMPTON. fir,*7) f, HAD a head tt'-'A Wy " c ' lc - I Jou't see lluy cs P eciftl rca " -St' eou wliy r n yonn € mim of good moral character 1 a u-1 temperate ' habits, who takes J JJ 8 hours' sleep seven night.3 in the week should have ft headache, but I did. It was one of that popping kind of headaches, that makes one feel as if his lungs had gone to his head and they were trying to expand there about four diameters, at intervals of a minute. I believe they call thern nervous headaches, but I fancy they wouldn't bo any more agreeable by any other name. Then my heart was as heavy as lead, aud ouco or twice as I walked along, I really feared it wasgoiugto pull loose from its fastenings aud drop down upon my duodenum, or whatever it is that tho doctors tell us is concealed in our persons in that neighborhood. Possibly it was tho heavy heart that gave mo the headache. Put no. I recall now that I was going to see Kitty, the one girl in the whole world that made it any kind of a world for me, and we had a slight misunder standing. It wasn't tho head that gave mo tho heart ache; it was the heart that gave rae tho hea lacho. I believe I said that I took eight hours' Bleep seven nights in the week. At this point, 1 wish to modify that statement. In tho week past, I had done so only six nights, for tho night before the day on which I was on my way to fee Kitty wo had disagreed with each other. I don't think I slept at all. I was going now to see tho young woman and settle tho matter finally, and though I was a promising youug lawyer ready to make a case for any body else, I had no papers in this case, aud was going empty handed. I didn't even havo so much as my brief with me. At the doer Mrs. Miltby—Mrs. Miltby ia Kitty's mother, and a most exomplary and motherly soul—met me, and on the instant started back in amazement. "Why, John"—the always called me John, for she had known me since I was a mere baby—"Wliv, John," she exclaimed, "whatever is tho mat ter with you? You look like you were going to have u bad spell." "Ob, that will bo all right iu a day or so," I replied evasively. "I have a severe headache. Is your daughter at homo?" "You mean Kitty?" she asked in surprise. "Of course," said I. "You haven't any other daughter, have you?" and I inndo believe to smile. "Ob, I didn't know," sho stam mered. "Didn't know what?" and I tried to smile again. "Didn't know whothor you had another daughter or not?" "Why, to be—certainly I know that. Why, how queer you do talk," she rattled on half hysterically, and laugh ing one of that creepy kind of laughs ono dreams of when ho hasn't eaten tho right thing for supper, "Ar—ar —you quite sure, John," sho broke out excitedly, "that that headache hasn't gone to your head?" It was cruel to tease her, and with a supremo effort I talked rationally to her for u few minutes—they seemed like hours to me, and then she said sho would go and tell Kitty. As for myself, I went into tho little parlor and waited. How sweet and pretty it looked, aud how like a sand stone on a gold sotting! felt. Every thing was as I had seen it so often, the picture of her grandpa over the cottage piano; tho frame in which my picturo had been for so many months, but empty now on tho corner of tho mautel; tho largo photograph of Saint Cecilia looking heavenward, as wo had so often told each other wo al ways felt when wo were together; tho two big friendly chairs inviting each other to come nearer, which we al ways sat in when I first came in the evening, and the snug littlo sofa in tho corner that was always my point of departure when I told her good night, and went my way baok to my own cheerless apartments in a home less boarding house. I looked at them all, aud as tho drowning man sees all his sins beforo him, so did I see these all things twice over,and multiplied by a thousand as the greatest blessings of my lifo. Then I shut my eyes. I could not help it. My head felt as if a dozen sets of lungs had gotten into it aud were doing expansion turns for a prize. I opened my eyes suddenly at tho sound of a voice. "Mother told mo you wished to see me," it Sll id as chilly as if it had been left out over night in tho frost. "Ob, Ki—l began, as I stood up before her. "I beg your pardon," I continued, "your mother was quite right, I did wish to see you." "I can scurcely understand why," she weDt on, "after what occurred last night. Still, you may bo able to explain and 1 am willing to listen, at least for a few minutes, us I have an engagement," she added, with the taintest kind of a smile. It was such a miserably mean little smile, I thought, that it was ashamed to show if.self openly. "Oh, don't let mo detain you," I tried to say with biting sarcasm, but I only bit my touguo in snying it. "I shall not," she replied. "When I am ready to go I will lot you know. Pray, be seated," and sho waved mo to my chair again, taking ono of our— "our," think of that—big chairs and nestling down in it so cozily that I wanted to throw a book at her. I really wanted to throw myself at her, but I had never dared do that, aud this was scarcely un appropriate time to begin. "I presume," I said, "your engage ment is with that Mr. Kilmer and my presence here is an intrusion." Kilmer had been tho cau o of the trouble tho night before, and Kilmer WUB such a good fellow generally, that I couldn't help but wish that ho had died several yeur3 before with tho cholera or somo of the other epidem ics which visit our shores and carry awoy so many excellent people. "Oh, no," she sail, "no intrusion at all. At least, not yet. He was here this morning and told mo ho would not bo around again until 4 o'clock." She looked" up at tho pretty brass clock I had given her. Both its tiny hands were clasping tho figure three. Three-quarters of an hour, and a whole lifetime thereafter! "Isu't it enough that you should have killed me," I said, "without be ing so eager to cut rno up." "I was merely defendiug a friend," sho retorted. "And you claim Kilmer as a friend?" "I certainly do. Isn't ho a friend of yours?" "Not at all. If ho were, ho would . not have interfered with my happiness as ho has done." "I beg your pardon," she said. "I didn't know he had." "Didn't I tell you last night ho wa3 a scoundrel, intent only upon separat ing us?" I asked hotly. "Aud didn't I tell you that I would permit no friend of mine to be called a scoundrel by anyone without resont ing it to tho utmost?" she replied. "Hut I did call him that," I in sisted. "Yee, and what good did it do you?" she said, stepping to tho mantel and holding out tho empty frame in which my picturo had formerly been tho attraction. "His will take tho place of the former occupant?" I said, scornfully. "His or uuother's," she responded, and actually giggled. A giggle from a girl is dreadful enough under any circumstances, but at this time it was positively galling. "Great Scott!" I exclairaod, stag gering to my feet, "aui I then a two fold dupe? Are tho returns all in? Havo the back counties boon heard from, Miss Miltby?" and I buriod my faoo in my bauds. I could heur tho cl ick of tho frame as she set it back on the mantel and a mild sort of a dull thud as she dropped into the big chair. "Mr. Kiliuor is, at least, enough of a gentleman, scoundrel though you say he is," sho said, "not to talk to a lady as you do." "Oh, Ki—l beg your pardon, Miss Miltby," I apologized, "I hope you will forget that I spoke so rudely. lu deed, I did not meau it." "I don't see what reason you have for objecting to Mr. Kilmer paying mo any attention ho sees lit to pay," sho told rae for answer. "I hava known him for a long time and ho is held in the highest Coteem by everyone except you." "But I havo known you qui to as long as ho has," I contended. "Which is hardly a reason for act ing as you are now actiug," she said. "Does ho lovo you?" I asked, and I could feel a thousand throbs in my head at oncc. "I presume not," she replied, smil ing. "If be doos, he has been too modest to say so." "Do you love liira?" "That is my own affair," sho an swered, freezingly. I threw my hand quickly to my side, for, as I live, I thought that in stant that my heart would certainly break looie and drop down. I think if I could havo stepped on a scalo that moment with it iu my bosom, I would have weighed a ton. "It is not altogether yours," I said with a gasp. "No?" and tho interrogation point rau up into her oyebrows and archod them sharply like a spear-point, it seemed to me. "No, and I waut you to so under stand it." I was growing desperate. "I have some rights which I propose to see are respected and I shall not stand liko a post aud bo dumb as one." '"And what rights havo you, pray, that I should respect them?" she asked so sarcastically that it felt as if I had stepped across the path of a cut ting hailstorm. "The right of having [my claim heard beforo it ia disallowed nd thrown out of court," I responded, dropping into shop talk without know ing it. "Have you ever presented your claim?" alio inquired with judicial dignity. Had I? That was the question. Had I? For years I had known Kitty Milt by. Wo had grown up from child hood together. We had gone to school together. For months I had loved her. By day sho was ever in my thoughts, and by night her spirit tilled my dreams with music. I had given her my heart without the ask ing, but I had never asked for hers. It didn't seem necessary. I thought, of course she knew I wauted it. Now, I was brought faco to face with the facts. Had I ever presented my claim? Well, I had not. At least, not with the formality which my training as a lawyer demanded that I should. "Oh, Kitty, Kitty," and I almost cried from the reaction. "I love 3*0:1 more than all the world, nud I want you as much as I want the world ; for 3 r ou aro the world to me. Now, will 3*oll say that my claim has not been presented?" It doesn't make any difference what sho said, or how sho said it or whether my arms were on the mantelpiece, or where they were; and it is nobody's business how much that man Kilmer had to do with bringing mo to a real izing senso of my situation, or why ho and Kitty smiled when 1 told him it was all right". I think Kilmer is the best follow in the world, and so does Kitty, with ouo exceptiou. Wheal left tho house Mrs. Miltby met mo in the hall. "Here's a sovereign remedy for tho headache, John," sho said, handing me a bag of herbs, "I've used it for forty years, and it never fails." "Oh, that's all right, moth—Mrs. Miltby," said I; "J guess I'm cured of that kind of heauaoho forever," and if sho hadn't stoo 1 iu the door as I went down tho walk, I'm sure I should have jumped clean over the gate, aud acted in a manner utterly unworthy of my dignity as a rising 3 T oung lawyer. It was G p. m., and Kitty had not missed her engagement at 4, becauso by that time it was permanently set tled.—Detroit Free Press. Unite! State* ol Sont.'i Africa. Recently in tho Imperial Institute, Loudon, at a meeting presided over by tho Prince of Wales, Dr. Jamison gave an account of tho rush of prog ress witnessed in South Africa, and in dicated that all signs tended to tho federation of the various colonies un der tho name of tho United States of South Africa. In no part of tho world is history made so rapidly, Dr. Jami son declared, as in the country stretch ing from the Capo of Good Hope to Lake Tanganyika, several thousand miles northward. The area now un der the control of British colouizing influence equals that of the whole of Europe. Besides gold iu large quan tities, coal aud iron ore, those primal requisites of civilization, have been found nud aro under prospect of rapid development. Iu tho la3t three years nearly 2000 miles of telegraph lines have been established, and threo dif ferent liues of railway, from as mauy points of the compass, are opening up the splendid country. Tho colonies, together with the quasi-independent Transvaal Republic of tho Boors, to bo federated, would number somo eight or nine members, nud tho racial problem, as regards the native Africans, has so far not presented itself. TII3 natives have not been vested with the ballot, nor is it likely that the young confederacy will, for the next ten 01 twenty years, trouble itself with the attempt of considering the subject Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. Education ol Military Doge, Tho education of military dogs in tho German army proceeds as follows: First he is put through a general course of training, having for its ob ject to teach him prompt obedience to command aud siguals; then he is taught to run errands with certainty, so that 110 may go from tho advance patrols back to tho rear divisions aud return at the word of command, and that ho may keep up communication between stationary divisions and posts; finally ho is taught to bo vigilant and make kuowu the approach of any stranger to tho post. Training to fit them for search after the missing is not usually required. It would have a result only in raro cases—except iu the uso of dogs by sanitary corps, di visions of volunteer nurses, etc., to whom in cuso of war specially trained doga will be assigned—but would rather lead the dogs to exposo them selves uselessly to danger aud get lost. Even this, however, sometimes enter* into tho course of instruction, when individual dogs show themselves especi ally fitted for it aud tho teacher pos sesses great aptness in impressing on the dog his duties in this clirectton. Nativo Country ot Indian C./rn. Wo believo that both tho Japanese and Chinese claims to hnvo known our so-called Indian corn for a thousand years or more, but this does not iu any way invalidate the story of its American origin. Jt may have been carried from thi■? country to Japan i either by somo person or iu an aban doned canoe; and, iu fact, there are various ways in which an ear or a few grains of corn might have reached tho Eastern Nations. It was certainly cul tivated here nud used for food by tho prehistoric races of this country rnoro than one or two thousaud years ago, becauso the charred and dried grains of Indian corn, beam and pumpkin seeds aro found iu many of the ancient 1 ruins of tho homes of a peoplo wlu lived here long bofore tho Indians up- 1 peared, or what wo call the "red men" began to roam over tho Western ' plains.—New York Bun. THE COMING SPRING FASHIONS. FOII LITTLE FOLKS. A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR IN TEREST TO THEM. Something that Will Interest the Ju venile Members of Kvery Household -Quaint Actions und Bright Sayings of Many Cute und Cunning Children. A Riddle. "Now tell/' Cried Nell. "Sometimes it's big -sometimes it's small. It has two hands and no feet at all. Hut still," Said Nell, "Though it doesn't run up, It does run down. it's face is always healthy and round, And it talks very prim and very precise, When I am good it says, so nice, •Pretty—well! Little—Nell.' "But if I'm naughty, oh, deary mo! its voice is as solemn as it can be! Solemn and sorry and dreadfully clear, And the more I don't listen, the more I hear, 'Do's you, d—oughter, Lit-tlc —daughter.' "Can't you guess it, you funny folks? Something that runs, but never walks? Well, well!" Cried Nell. "If you can't imagine I have to 'spiain, And I won't make such a hard riddle again. You must have a key before it will talk. Turn the key—and there's a!" —Youth's Companion. How to Make a Hall. Hoys who are always losing their halls can make them for themselves Take a common cork and cut it round as possible, making It the size of an ordinary marble. Then tear off very narrow strips of rags and wind these, 0110 at a time, around the cork until the ball Is of tin? desired size. Then cover it with cloth, or if a boy is fortunate enough to have an obliging sister she will make a cover of crewels by divid ing the ball Into quarters, winding the wool several times around it, then but tonholing the quarters all around one half, then the other half, until on edge Is formed on each side of each quarter, then buttonholing with any colors of wool until the quarters are quite tilled up, when a seam finishes them, and a capital ball is the result, costing noth ing to make, but really quite servicea ble. HOUUH Instead of Candy. "I think ambition is never given with out u mind of sufficient power to sus tain it, und to achieve its lofty object" Who wrote these words? A boy of 18, named Bayard Taylor, as lie looked proudly upon an autograph Charles Dickens had given him, and felt within him that fire of ambition which was never quenched. The Quaker boy of the little town of Kennett square, near Philadelphia—who was born January 11,1825—grew to be very fond of books, and often when sent to rock the baby would forget all about the crying In fant, so deeply would lie be absorbed In a story of travel or delightful poem. Ills father was a poor farmer who had no money to spend 011 books, so Bayard set out gathering nuts, which ho sold, and, instead of rushing off to a candy store, like some girls and boys, he invested his money more wisely in buying books. At 14 he was studying Latin and French, 15 found liim deep in Spanish. At 17 lie was no longer the pupil, but the assistant in the school. The story of his life, with Its deep shad ows and bright lights, is beautiful and full of inspiration. Every boy and girl of America, Eng land and Germany should know it by heart And see how the penniless lad at last reaches some of the heights of his ambition, and at President Hayes* request became Minister to Berlin, and was welcomed cordially ly Emperor William, and had for a fast friend Bis marck. Some of his works should bo in every library.—New York Press. lie lioilcd the Ice, The delight of the little South Ameri can boy who was in New York during holiday week and saw snow for the first time amused his entertainers and led to the telling of some funny stories by those who had traveled in ninny GREAT BRITAIN'S NEWEST BATTLE-SHIP, THE MAJESTIC. In their capacity for turning out the iron and steel monsters which have supplanted our old ships, the royal dockyards seem to be continually improving of late. The record has been altogether eclipsed by the speed which has been manifested in the building of the battleship Majestic. It was laid down on Feb. 5,1894, and floated out this week, says the St. James' Budget. The drawing will give an idea of her ap pearance when she is put in commission. Her principal guns are four in number, each weighing fifty tons and built on the new method of coiliug flat steel wire on a steel barrel. The ammunition is put up in brass eases, and the gun is so fitted that it can bo fired by an expert crew from five to seven times u minute. As each projectile weighs 100 pounds and is capa ble of penetrating several inches of ar mor, some idea of their powers may be formed. Above these, on the upper deck. countries. One was of tin army officer in India, who, at great trouble and ex pense, procured some ice to be served at dinner. He probably gave the order in that fashion, for his cook rushed into the dining room in great consternation and told him he had boiled the ice, and it had all gone Into water. She Spoke Her Piece. Hattle F., six years old, is thought to give promise of elocutionary talent. When Auntie May came to visit the family, therefore, and offered to givo the little girl some lessons, the offer was gladly accepted. Hattle's preference for lofty senti ment prompted the ffrst selection. Jt began, "See the eagle! How he soars!" After a few rehearsals, she was ready for a recitation before the assembled family. And there was great applause when she exclaimed: "See the eagle! I low sore he Is!" At the Lecture. Naturalist—l have discovered that snakes go underground during the win ter and stay there Col. do Tanque (rising)— Professor, I command you to retract that statement. It's a libel on the whole State of Ken tucky.—New York World. Foiling the I.undlord. "It's n splendid day outside. Suppose we take a little walk," said Mr. Up town to his wife, who is very close. "Take a walk and leave this expen sive flat for which we pay high rent unoccupied? Not much; I propose to stay right here and get the worth of my money."—Exchange. are sixteen twelve-pounder quick-firing guns, twelve of which are on the broad sides, and covered by a steel shelter deck, and the remaining four in the upper sto ries of the superstructures below thy bridges. There are, in addition, a largo number of small three-pounder rapid-fir ing guns, many of which are carried aloft in the four "lighting" tops. The Majestic will also have five tubes for the White head "fish" torpedo. A strong steel bolt, nine inches thick, protects the sides and incloses the barbettes, which are built of fourteen-inch armor. In length the Ma jestic is 415 feet, and has a breadth of 7fi foet at her widest at the water line, while her total displacement will fall but little short of 15,000 tons. I ler engines of 12.000 horse power are estimated to drive her at sixteen and a half knots with naturnl and seventeen and u half with forced draught.
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