Royal inukeu the loud pure, wholesome und delicious. BAKiie POWDER Absolutely Pure FREELAND TRIBUNL Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY 1Y THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited. OFFICE: MAIN STHKET ABOVE CENTUE. Make all money orders, check*, etc., payable to the Tribune Printiny Company, Limited. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Mouths 75 Four Mouths 50 Two Mouths 25 The (lute which the subscription is paid to is on the address label of each paper, the change ot' which to a subsequent date becomes a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Report prompt ly to this olllce whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. FREELANI), SEPTEMBER 2, 1807. Make the RIIIH Uniform. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. When, in laying down the rules which are hereafter to govern the granting of naturalization papers in Cambria county. Judge Barker gave as his reason for ad vancing the standard of citizenship the argument that such an advance was •'becoming the uniform practice" of the courts, ho made an assertion which was not strictly correct, but which should be remedied at the earliest possible moment. Out of the sixty-seven counties of the state less than twenty have revised tli rules governing the granting of natura lization papers. Of these, as they have come to our notice, all except Schuylkill have been in the direction of more in telligent qualifications. In that county the request of the Bar Association was practically ignored, and no premium was placed upon familiarity with the state and federal constitutions, the abil ity to read and write, and u knowledge of American institutions. Public sentiment in the county favor ed more advanced action than that which the court took, but for reasons of its own that body contended Itself with surrounding the granting of papers with what might roughly be called more non iuteiligont diiliculties. Men who cannot read and write, who do not know whether the United States is a monarchy or a republic, can still receive the franchises of a citizen, although the lawyers of the county were joined with the people in the wisli fur stricter regulations. The importance of this quostion makes it advisable that the courts of the state should ho in harmony. Even among the judges who have already laid down new naturalization rules there is apparently no agreement. Judge Savidgo, of North umberland, not only Insists that appli cants shall be able to read and write and have some knowledge of the state and federal constitutions, hut ho also exacts a limited knowledge of geography from those whom he enfranchises. Judge Hemphill, of Chester, 'insists only that they shall ho able to read the English language, while Judge Metzgor, of Lycoming, bars all men not familiar with the constitution and able to read and write. This is substantially the at titude of Judge Craig, of Carbon, and of Judge Barker. They all were working upon the same linos and in the right direction. But why nut have a common goal? The people are agreed upon this ques tion. why not the courts? Good Work Well Doiio. The action of the Democratic state committee in declaring vacant the posi tion held by William F. Ilarrlty on tho national committee, and the subsequent endorsement of the same by the Demo cracy of the state, in convention as sembled. is nothing more than the rank and file of the party demanded should be done. To ho consistent with the principles of the national organization, no other policy could be pursued. Mr. Harrity was untrue to the trust reposed In him by his party, and he has re ceived his just deserts. Tho platform adopted breathes the. spirit of pure Democracy, and around it the workers of the state can gather and build up the organization in evory coun ty. Those who would have it continue as a tail to tho Republican kito, to servo tho personal ends of an unprincipled clique in I'hiladelphila. are no longer in control. With these barnacles cut off. and with the declarations adopted at Reading to rally about, the Democratic party in Pennsylvania has a bright future. Walter E. Hitter, of Lycoming county, the candidate for auditor general, and M. E. Brown, of Indiana county, the candidate for state treasurer, are worthy of solid support. $1.50 a year is all the TRIBUNE costs. WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, September 1, 1807*. There is high jinks among the Repub licans of Ohio. General Grant, a Re publican of high standing in tho state, presided over and spoke at a meeting of Republicans at which he said he would not vote for any candidate who would support Hanna for senator. A letter from Col. A. L. Conger, long a prominent leader in the party, and now on Gover nor Bushnell's stalT, was read at this meeting, In which llanna was de nounced in unmeasured terms. Judge Nash was made chairman of the state committee, a position he refused to ac cept until he was assured by llanna that no money would he used hut for the legit imate expenses of the campaign, and the judge is so disgusted at the exposure of Major Dick's use of the campaign fund deposited in the Ohio hank at Washington that ho wants to resign. And now llanna is called upon to put up tho money to run a campaign in the state for the freebooters who call them selves Gold Democrats. llow can the people ever expect relief from the exorbitant rates charged by ex press companies, telegraph lines, and sleeping cars, when every senator and congressman who will accept tin; bribes are dead-headed by all of these gigantic monopolies? John Wauamaker, while postmaster-general, demonstrated that the telegraph tolls charged the public are from 100 to 1,000 per cent higher than should ho. while competition in ex press companies, when real, has shown that the rates charged are enormous and outrageously high. The sleeping car monopoly could make a larger prolit at half the present prices than is realized by any transporation company on tin continent. Why doesn'tsome strong man of the people come forward and cham pion these real and necessary reforms? A Spanish oflicerhas recently been all along our Atlantic coast, examining the defenses. Ho was permitted to visit all the forts and is now prepared, of course, to make a complete report of the methods of defense fur all the cities on the coast line. This amounts to noth ing so far as Spain is concerned, and was probably intended as a bin IT. Spain's lleet consists principally of old wooden ships with a few armored cruis ers, and the country has no money even to man them, hut the habit of allowing any foreigner, or any American who is not well known, to inspect our forts is most reprehensible and should he stopped. It is not strange that stock gamblers should indulge in extravagent exulta tion over what they call a return of prosperity. It is their business to boom everything when prices are low; hut it is incomprehensible that level-headed,well informed business men should he taken in with such twaddle. That there Is a sharp spurt In wheat, everyone knows. Ills true that a few of the many mills and factories that have been idle for years have resumed operations, hut when tho exhausted stock is replenished they will suspend ngttfn, unless the de mand for their products continues and the buying power of the people is in creased. The possible replacement of many of the postoiliccs and star routes now in operation by the establishment of rural free delivery has been taken up by the postollico department, and an experi ment in this line will very soon ho made fur the purpose of showing tho extent to which the ofliccs and routes can bo done away with and ho replaced by the rural delivery service. The town of Grand Isle, in Vermont, lias been selected for the test. Tho test may result in con gress being asked to give authority for the extension of rural free delivery. Mr. Fishhach, personal representative of Weyler's friend llanna, lias been se lected by the administration to make a tour of Cuba in company with Consul General Leo. When the service is com pleted, let us hope that Fitzhugh Lee will he allowed to come home and tell the people of the United States what, lie knows. Fully Prepared. "So you wish to leave to get married, Mary ? I hope you have given the mat ter a serious consideration?" "Oh, I have sir," was the earnest re ply. "I've been to two fortijpe tellers and a clairvoyant, and looked in a sign book and dreamed on a lock of his hair and been to one of those usterrolgcrs, und to a meejuiu, and they all tell me to go ahead, sir. I ain't one to marry reckless like, sir."—Household Words. Luded ItIlit There. The new policeman on the block stepped up to the baby carriage and looked with great udmiratiou at the cherub Inside. "So pretty and so quiet!" he said. "What a good little thing It is!" "Yes, sir," replied the dignified do mestic In charge of the baby. "And I'm going to push It along. I'leasc stand uside."—Chicago Tribune. The Dude. He's tho highest typo of fashion From his #€llar to his toes. There's a most artistic passion In tho way ho wears his clothes. llow his tlo his tasto expresses! llow that nobby suit ho fills! ! And how faultlessly he dresses— 13ut ho never pays his bills! ! ! —Pittsburgh News. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Tho fae- SST Sr. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Wednesday, Aug. 25. The conference of Pennsylvania coal operators and the officers of the mine workers, held in Pittsburg with the view of settling the strike, failed to effect an agreement, and the operators declared that they would start their mines at once. The former employees will, it was announced, be given an op portunity to return to work, but unless they do so new men will he imported President McKinley arrived in Buf falo to attend the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a banquet was held in his honor. The veterans thronged the city and spent their time in parades and re unions Dispatches received in Lon don from Bombay and Simla state that the rebellion among the hill tribes of India is spreading rapidly. The war like Afridis attacked Forts Maude and All Musjid, in the Khyber pass, captur ing and burning the former. Tho sit uation is regarded in London as of the gravest peril The British embassador at Constantinople has been instructed to accept the Turkish proposals regard ing the evacuation of Tliessaly, subject to consent of Greece Policemen chas ing an Armenian created a panic in Constantinople The prices of bread and Hour were advanced in French and English cities on account of the rise In wheat In America The eastern cen tral part of New Jersey was deluged by rain and much damage done. Streets wer inundated, railway tracks washed out. houses and shops Hooded and crops destroyed. Boats were used as a means of travel in the streets of some places Mrs. Otillie Kiraly, the di vorced wife of an Austrian lieutenant colonel and once a prominent actress in Vienna, was found dead in her Hat in Brooklyn, having apparently com mitted suicide after failing to shoot her lover An attempt was made to wreck a train on the New York and Long Branch railroad in Perth Ambuy, N. J., by tying a heavy, timber to the rails The Sugar trust has begun to persecute dealers In Dutch sugars, it is j said, and the Dutch government has protested to the United States govern ment. i Thursday, Aug. 20. President Borda of Uruguay was shot and killed by an assassin as he was leaving the cathedral in Montevideo. The murderer was arrested Fort All- Musjid in the Khyber pass was cap j tured and burned by the rebel tribes men of the Indian frontier. The entire pass is now in possession of the rebels ; Twenty women were killed in Mon ; cadu, Spain, owing to an accident to apparatus used in raising water I President Faure and the czar and cza rina reviewed 50.000 troops and attended i a state banquet It is said that the prisons of Constantinople are crowded \ with Armenians and Liberal Turks. | Turkish cruelties in Armenia continue ! Count Mutsu, ex-minister of foreign affairs and Japanese minister to the United States in 1888, died in Japan Fire in the residence of Thomas Giles, 1 713 Carroll street, Buffalo, caused the death of his young daughter Florence. | The body was burned to a crisp ' Justice Alton B. Parker said that while not a candidate for the court of appeals judgshlp he would not decline a nomina tion The Bering sea commission hold ii preliminary meeting at Halifax The steamer Willamette arrived at Seattle bringing the latest news from the gold seekers in Alaska There were indica | tions of a change of front by some of the i coal operators in the Pittsburg district, j but a number of the largest insisted ! that they would resume work In their mines at once Colonel J. J. Toffey of | Jersey City received notice from the war department that a congressional medal had been awarded to him for bravery at the battle of Chattanooga The British Association For the Advance ment of Science closed its meeting in ; Toronto In a speech before the volks raad of the South African Republic, President Kruger repudiated British I suzerainty of the Transvaal The an ! nual meeting of the American Bar as j sociation began in Cleveland. President l Wool worth read his address An out j break of race troubles and lynchings oc ! curred in Arkansas. Eight negroes are said to have been lynched within live | days. Friday, Aug. 27. I The Grand Army of the Republic se lected Cincinnati as the place for the next encampment and elected General J. P. S. Gobin of Pennsylvania as com ; mander in chief in the Republican state convention in Maryland Senator Wellington was defeated. New priina ; l ies were ordered to be held in Balti ■ more, and the convention adjourned j until Sept. 15 The Republican state i convention in Pennsylvania nominated James S. Beacon for state treasurer and | Levi G. McCauley fur auditor general. ! Christie© Jacob Thorns, the noted i small boat builder, tiled in New York. He was a familiar figure in the old I Ninth ward. His boats are great fa i vorites with yachtsmen Police Cap tain Schmittberger arrested a gypsy and | his wife in New York on suspicion of ! having kidnaped a 15-year-old buy Lizzie Humphry was fatally shot at 1 the home of her Banco, John Hallen i back, in Brooklyn. He was caught with a revolver in his hand, but denies that | he shot the girl, and she insists that he is innocent David J. Seligmun, head of the banking firm of J. W. Seligman of New York, is critically ill from an operation fur appendicitis at the Holly wood, Long Branch Governor Griggs of New Jersey delivered the annual ad- I dress before the American Bar associa tion nt Cleveland, his topic being the growing evil of unnecessary legislation The Nebraska Republican state con vention met at Lincoln and nominated a ticket headed by A. M. Post of Platte county for associate justice of the su preme court. The platform contained no reference to the money question, the silver issue being considered dead It. D. Wrenn won three out of five games of tennis in Newport, R. 1., thus retain ing the championship of America ——The coatmakers, who began their strike a week ago, achieved a victory, the con tractors yielding to their demand for better wages and u shorter day-—Pres ident Faure had the czar and czarina as his guests at luncheon yesterday on the French cruiser Pothuau. Both rulers spoke of Russia and France as allied nations. The president afterward sailed for Franco. Bature thick and smooth when put into the eliurn—not lumpy, neither sloppy. Ticks and scab are overcome by dip ping the sheep and lumbs. This should be done at shearing time. The change from dry feed to pasture should be gradual, thus making a "lap splice" between grain and grass. Continue to feed a little of that 15 cents oats and corn. It doesn't pay to cut the grain ration ofE entirely the day the animals are turned out to grass. Entirely too little attention is given to the sha]>e and fitting qualities of tlie horse collars, particulaidy as to the width thereof. The collars should lit the sides of the neck closely, without pinching. United States butter cows produce an estimated annual average of 130 pounds of butter per cow. This is not much more than half the yield that should be produced, and what are we going to do about it? Many successful swine growers we know rake up the corn cobs, bum them, and when in the form of bright, live coals, throw waiter on a portion of tlui pile, thus making charcoal and ashes for the hogs to eat. A little salt may be added. Sheep surpass all other domestic ani mals in bringing up and cleaning up weedy, brushy, poverty-stricken lands. If you have a patch of this kind, turn them in and let them "subdue uiul re plenish the earth," in that particular spot, at least. —Agricultural Epitomist. INTERESTING FIGURES. Electricity moves 288,000 miles per second. About 22,000 vehicles pass over Lon don bridge every day. One million dollars in United States silver coin ut the present standard weighs nearly 28% tons. The Brooklyn bridge is 3,175 feet long, 160 feet high and eosit $15,000,000. The old Loudon bridge was begun in the year 1170 and completed in 1200. The greatest known depth of the ocean is midway between the islands oi Tristan d'Acunho and the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. The bottom was here reached at a depith of 46,000 feet or 8% niilesi The five largest rivers In the world are as follows: North America, Missis sippi and Missouri, 4,300 miles; South America, Amazon and Beni, 4,000 miles; Asia, Ycneisy and Sclenga, 3,580 miles; Africa, Nile, 3,240 miles; Europe, Volga, Russia, 2,500 miles. The Chicago fire In 1371 suffered a loss of 17,430 buildings, amounting to $192,000,000, and 250 lives lost. The fire raged over 2,124 acres of ground. In the same year, Paris, fired by the Com mune, lost property to the amount of $1GO,000,00(). The forest 11 res swept through Michigan and Wisconsin in 1371, and it is estimated that 1,000 hu man beings perished and property to the amount of over $3,000,000 was con sumed. The war of the rebellion cost the United States $6,180,029,900; the num ber of federal troops was 2,850,132. The Mexican war cost the United States $100,000,000; the number of troo]>s en gaged was 101,282. The war of 1812 cost the United States $107,150,003; the number of troops engaged is estimated at 471.622. The revolutionary war cost tlfe United States $135,103*703; the colonies furnished, from 1775 to 1783, 305,004 troops. NATURAL HISTORY. Our senses do not fall asleep simul taneously. The eyelids are first affects cd, and shut out sight; next follows the sense of taste, then smelling, hear ing and touch, the last-named being the lightest sleeper, und most easily aroused. A chameleon from the Cape of Good Hope was seen by Mr. Blakiston to turn white with fear, having been saved from the attacks of a cat. The most extraordinary thing about this lizard is the wonderful way in which the two eyes work quite independently of each other, and "enable it to survey com fortably objects in quite opposite di rections." A chalk Is composed of fossils. If you take the tiniest bit und place it under a powerful microscope you will seo an infinite number of extremely di minutive shells, and no spectacle on a large scale is more beautiful than the varied forms of these tiny homes of ani mal life which are disclosed ly power ful glasses. The most remarkable gold beetles in the world are found in Central Ameriou. The head and wing eases are brilliant ly polished with a luster as of {fold it self. To sight and touch they have all the seeming of that metal Oddly enough, another species from the same region has the appearance of being wrought in solid silver, freshly bur nished. These gold and silver beetles have a market value. They ure worth from $25 to SSO each. ARROW POINTS. Anybody gets mad when told that he is pigeon-toed. The man who invented paper collars was In small business. One advantage in being a man *'s, you flon't need to fool with a hat pin. Lois cf women can do very exemisite rmbroidery who cannot eook a decent ineol. There is no time when o boy feels as foolish as when he is too big for Lis cluthes. AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD " CASTORIA " AND "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRADEMARK. 7, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same that has borne and does now r — on every bear the facsimile signature of wrapper. This is the original " PITCHER'S CASTORIA," which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought — on the and has the signature of Ola,*wrap per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. , /> - . March 8,1897. Do Not Be Deceived. 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