FREELAND TRIBUNE. Estitliohol 1288. PUBLISHED EVERT MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited Orricis: Main Stkeht above Ckntke. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year Six Months 7f Four Months ft' Two Months The date which the subscription is paid to i. on the address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date becomes a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Report prompt ly to this office whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. Make all moneu order *, check*, etc., payable to the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. FREELAND, PA., JUNE 13, 189?. That .Seventh Regiment—Which? From the National Democrat. The Seventh regiment of New York city Is a "swell*' military organization that numbers among its members sonic of tho leading "aristocrats"' of the me tropolis. In the year of our Lord 18% the membership of the regiment turned out to a man and participated in a body in the parade held in honor of the "sound money" cause. Just about that time they were mighty fearful lest the nation should "dishonor itself h\ electing liryan to the presidency." "If he is elected we will not submit," tliex said. Well, they didn't have to subipit and their man is now in the White House calling for the volunteer militia to go to the front against a foreign foe. In the face of all this, they, by unanimous vote, refused to go to the country's defense. Was there ever such an indictment of the scoundrels®who were prating about "the old flag,"' "a sound money" and "national honor" in 18%? There Is another Seventh regiment—in Illinois. It is wholly composed of Irish American citizens of Chicago. They are a plain lot of young men, and, as a gen eral rule "earn their bread by the sweat of their brow." Naturally they are Democrats, and all through the trying days of the campaign of 1800 faltered not in their allegiance to him who bore the standard of Democracy aloft from July 'J to November 3. Their idol failed to reach the goal, but like true Ameri can citizens they submitted to the result without question. Hut they, too, have hoard tho chief magistrate's call to arms, and linani mously they voted to go to the front to defend their country's honor. Hardly had the "bugle call" boon sounded when they were in their uniforms and ready for the battle. Today they are swelter ing in the heat at Chickamaugn, while their New York numerical namesakes are lolling in mountain breezes far from fevers and Spanish load. There should be no party spirit mani fested in this trying time, but we cannot lei these two incidents pass without re marks. John Wanamaker, whose proud boast a short time ago was: "1 have never voted against a Republican in my life," is casting sheep's eyes at the big inde pendent movement which has sot in against Stone, and riunor has it that lie would not be adverse to considering the Democratic nomination for governor if the platform were con lined solely to state issues. The trouble with John, who by his acknowledgement that he has supported every political monstrosity which Quay has foisted on the party in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia forfeits all rospect, is that "do gang" will no longer divvy with him when state treas uries, national banks and trust com panics are being looted. While Waunv got part of tho plunder he said not a word. A Lehigh Valley Railroad train brought J. J. McGarvoy, of Philadel phia, the well known newspaperman, t this borough last Friday. Mr. McGar voy, in speaking of the political situa tion In the state, said that "Democrats in Philadelphia are of the opinion that the party can elect a governor this fa 1 I if a good candidate is put np and an aggrnssivo campaign conducted. Mat thew Dittman, the leading German- American lawyer in Philadelphia, be lieves that if .lodge Gordon or some other live Democrat were put on the ticket the Democrats would be success ful on election day." CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought or. davio favorite itfNjjpvsßemedy The one sure cure for J The Sidney's.liver and Blood FARRAGUT IN THE RIGGING. Story of tlie Man Who Fattened Him on the "Hurt ford." It Is a familiar, but always thrilling story, how Admiral Farragut, in carry ing his fleet into Mobile bay, on August 5, 1864, posted himself up in the rig ging of his flag-ship, the Hartford, and directed the sailing and lighting from that exposed elevation. He had to sail between two formidable forts — Gaines on the one hand, Morgan on tho other—over a line of hidden piles and a line of torpedoes, and then, when he had got over these strong and compli cated defenses and was within the bay, he had to engage a strong Con federate squadron. The brilliancy and bravery with which the enterprise was carried through, to the complete defeat of the Confederates, can never be forgotten. JOHN" H. KN'OWLEB. To give him a stay, while posted in the rigging of the Hartford, the Ad miral, as everybody remembers, was bound to the rigging by a rope. John H. Knowles, the kind and brave old quartermaster who did the lashing, died on the 9th of April, 1894, and was buried with naval and military cere monies in the naval cemetery at An napolis. He little imagined, as he climbed the rigging, amid the whistle and shriek and perfect hail-storm of shot and shell, and mighty roar of the heavy guns, to secure the safety of his fearless commander, that he was writ ing his name upon the page of history and making himself famous for all time to come. He served his country loyally and faithfully upon the sea for forty years in the Brooklyn, the Done gal, the Constellation and on the Phlox, and on the Hartford through the entire war and in all her engage ments. A Scene of Terror In Imlln. A Bengal Post Office superintendent has received from one of his Babu in spectors this report of an accident at a river which had to be forded owing to the breakdown of a bridge: "As I was to pass the river or water through my cart for absence of any boat some alligators ran on my oxen hence the oxen getting fear forcibly took away my cart in an abyss below the water of 12 feet which the cartman failed to obstruct. The oxen forcibly left the cart and fled to the other side of the river by swimming. I myself being inside the matscreen of my cart the whole cart fell down in the abyss, I used to cry loudly at the time. The cart with myself was drowned in the meantime the Overseer Babu Mehendra Nath Ghose and my cook Jumped on the water and took my cart in a place where 4'/h water than I myself jumped on the water and saved my life. The al ligators getting fear from the cart fled to the roadside and no sooner we came to the road they jumped on the water. Had I been tinder suffocation for 3 minutes more then there was no hope of my life. • * The nearest resi dents told thereafter that some men died this year in the abyss by the at tack of the alligators. lam much un well the voice of my speech is fallen low and out of order from the suffoca tion." An IncMMliilonn Yoiiiik Wife. A wife's unjust suspicions were the cause of very strained relations recent ly between a young couple living in Columbia avenue, near Twentieth street. She got the idea into her head that her husband was deceiving her [ when he said, as he frequently did, that he was "going around the corner for the evening to see a friend." In an attempt to do a little detective work she bought a pocket pedometer, an in strument resembling a watch, which registers the distance travelled by the person who carries it. The next time her husband went "around the corner" she secretly slipped it into one of his pockets and awaited the result. When lie returned that night she found that the telltale instrument registered nine miles. In vain he attempted to con [ vince her that he simply had been ; playing billiards with his friend on the j latter's private table, which was really | the case, and that tho machine had counted up the miles as he walked j around the table. Her accusations led to a violent quarrel, which was settled ' only after several days had elapsed. Out of Dniijxr. "Has he given up smoking since he became engaged?" "No; but he has taken to carrying his cigars in the aide pocket of' his coat tnstead of the upper vest pocket | next to his heart." COSTLY BATTLESHIP. IT TAKES $1,500 A DAY TO RUN ONE OF THESE VESSELS. The Dally Expensed of the Navy Foot Up •50,000- Facts Which Explain Why These Marine War Machines Cost So Much to Maintain. What is the average daily cost of maintaining a first class battleship on a war footing? One thousand five hundred dollars. A large sum of money, but insignificant when com pared with what the cost might he in case of action, when the conflict of a single minute could sink the largest ship, with her entire armament, and require the expenditure of more than $5,000,000 to replace her. Reliable estimates cannot be made when the fortunes of war must be taken into account, but the cost of maintaining our navy on its present footing immediately before the firing of the first gun in actual conflict is known. That cost is $50,000 for each day. For an interesting example of the cost of maintaining a battleship in time of peace, when war is not even threatening, I have procured from the records of the War Department the ' cost of maintaining the New York, the , most expensive ship in our navy. The : cost for last year was $391,005.60, or an I average of $1,086.29 per day. The va rious items that go to make up this total annual cost will apply for the j present purpose to our armored crui sers and battleships, though, of course, varying according to constantly ; changing circumstances, and now be ing increased by the war footing on which our navy rests. Of the $391,- ; 065.60 spent by the New York in 1897, $237,762.76 was for the pay of the offi cers, crew and marines; rations cost $35,542.60; equipment. $6,835.21; navi- j gatlon, $3,216.58; ordnance, $14,743.70; construction and repair, $9,163.05; steam engineering, $28,261.26. Then there were incidental expenses, navy yard repairs, medicine and surgery and similar items. The records show that the pay of the officers, crew and marines of the New York were greater than that of any other vessel, while the rations, medi oine and surgery and coal accounts were very much less. The record of the ill-fated Maine is closed, though her memory is a liv ing inspiration, and this record shows that the total cost of her maintenance for 1897 was $262,416.48. The pay of her survivors, and of those whose re mains are yet with her wreck, or have found burial in Cuba and the United States, was $159,126.60. One of these great battleships is a floating citadel. It is a town of five hundred inhabitants, more securely fortified and far better armed for of fence and defence than was any walled and turreted city that has ever ex isted. Her steel walls can resist any attack of guns less than her own. When she rnecbs similar ones then comes the tug of war. If our floating citadel is the Indiana, for instance, we have steel walls 350 long with 69 feet between them at the widest point, holding engines of war and propulsion of the most terrific power, all under the control of the highest human intelligence. This is a moving city of animate force, con trolled energy and inanimate strength, that can be directed at will and its 10,288 tons moved at the rate of seven teen miles an hour, propelled by 9,738 horse power. Powerful as it is, it must, so near as possible, resist an equal power. And what is necessary in defence is better realized when we consider that she may have to cope with guns that, by the explosion of 900 pounds of pow der, can throw a single shot, weighing nearly a ton, at the velocity of 2,000 Xeet per second. This shot has a strik ing energy of 54,000 foot tons. One foot ton is the energy required to raise 2,240 pounds one foot against gravity. Multiply that energy by 54,000 and comprehend the result if you can. No wonder that the maintenance of a single ship to accomplish all that is desired of it costs $1,500 each day. The llomb In J(T Davis's Dealt. When the United States troops oc cupied Richmond, Va., April 3, 1865, General Edward 11. Ripley, of Ver mont, who was appointed military gov ernor of the city, found in the desk of Jefferson Davis, in the house occu pied by the Confederate President, a cast-iron bomb in the shape of a lump of coal. It was evidently cast from a good-sized piece of coal, was coated with coal tar and coal dust, and could hardly be distinguished when handled from a lump of coal. It was hollow, and would hold powder enough to make a heavy explosion. Army au thorities have never doubted that the otherwise unexplained blowing up of a steam vessel loaded with ammuni tion at City Point was the work of a bomb of this kind, which had been dropped into pile of coal and shov elled into the furnace of the steamer, and similar bombs probably occasioned similar catastrophes during the war. A PoMtaffc Slump <'oNtuim. Upward of 30,000 postage stamps were utilized by a Baltimore woman in the preparation of the costume which won the fancy-dress prize at a masked ball the other night. Five weeks were spent in stamp collecting and three weeks in the making of the dress. Aftsr the Ilooin, Woolsey West—Ten years ago all the land around here sold for a dol lar and a quarter an acre. Hudson Rivers—And what does it sell for now? I W. W.—Taxes. • . ■ "I j DE SMITH AND THE 'PHONE. ! \ Tragedy of the Counting Room Re lated by Puok. I De Smith rang his telephone-bell gen tly. | "Hullo, Central!" he murmured. A patient wait and no answer, j "Hullo, Central!" a trifle louder. No response. Another ring—longer than the first. J "Hullo, Central!" ! De Smith's voice was slightly tinged with exasperation. 1 Silence still; and the receiver rasped as De Smith's fierce breath struck the transmitter. "Hullo! hullo! hullo! —great blazes!" There came no answering voice, and De Smith rang savagely for fifteen min ; utes by the clock. j "What do you mean by ringing that ! way?" asked a fem'nine voice. | "I mean that I won't wait three hours on you; that's what I mean. My i time's worth something." "Didn't wait hours." J "Know better. Dive me five one naught three." I "Six seven two one?" | "Who said anyth'ug about six seven I two one? I want five one naught three —five —" j "Five one nine three?" | "Naught, naught three." | "Tlng-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling. i "Hullo!" | "Hullo!" returned De Smith; "is Mr. Johnson there?" j "Wait a minute." De Smith waited ten minutes, and it seemed like ten hours. At last, a ring idd an answer. I "Hullo, there!" j "Hullo, Johnson! Say! send over —" "Who do you wart?" ] "Johnson, Johnson—ain't your name Johnson?" "No: my name's Thompson." j "Send Johnson to the 'phone." s "No Johnson here." i "What! Aren't you Brown, Jones & , Robinson?" I "No; we're Hugx & Tzwxson." \ | "Who?" \ "Trptw & Xtwpson." ! I "Spell it?" , "Huh-bler-cl-stuh-a-n-d—" 4% "What's your number?" : X' "Fifty-one ninety-three." V, "Great Caesar's ghost!" De Smith dropped the receiver and fell back against the door. When he •eeovered, he went at the 'phono igain. 1 "Hullo, "Central!" "Hullo! Hullo! Hullo! Say! what do . rou want, anyway?" j "lting off—l want Central." \ j "There's—no—Johnson—here." j "I didn't say there was!" howled De Smith; "ring off. Hullo, Central!" ; "Who are you?" j De Smith danced a devil's horn pipe iround the telephone, and then yanked j .he bell. I "Hullo, Central! where the old Nick | ire you? Hullo! Hullo! Hullo!" j "Stop your yellin'! This is Thompson it the 'phone. "Go to Halifax, Thompson! Will you •ing off? I don't want you!" "What's that? Don't talk so loud— -1 can't hear you." "Don't care whether you hear me or I lot. I'm blamed—" j "Get back from your 'phone." j De Smith gasped, put his receiver in j :he fork, hung to it with all his j itreugth, and rang his bell until he , vore out the battery, j "Hullo, Central!" he murmured in a lusky whisper, j His eyes were bulging from his head, md life seemed a dreary waste. "Do you want Gcxt & Pgwson?" ' "No," came the strangely mild and j lusky whisper; "I want Central." J "There's no Johnson here, I tell ! fou." | "Ha! Ha! Ha!" Poor De Smith! They took him from hat telephone to an asylum, and he imuses himself there with an old door inob. He holds it to his ear, and is ionstantly calling for 5103 through the , reutelator. Looking Up the Ratings. j "So that young man wants to.marry fou?" said Mabel's father. "Yes," was the reply. "Do you know how much his .salary s?" "No; but it's an awfully strang;e co ncidence." I "What do you mean?" I I "Herbert asked me the very same ' luestion about you." A Polite Request. Buried in a fur coat, withfhls hands leep in his pockets, a man passes on :lie boulevard a man distributing liand tills. Very politely, but without tak ng his hands out, he saysrto the dis .l'ibuter: "Thank you, kindly, myifrlend. But will you have the goodnessito throw it in the sidewalk yourself?" Klondike. ' j "Quick! 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