FREELAND TRIBUNE. Establishol 1883. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited. ORRICE: MAIN STHKET ABOVE CENTKE. LONO DISTANCE TELEPHONE. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Months 25 The date which the subscription is pnid to is ou the address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date becomes a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in udvunce 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 money orders, checks, etc., payable to the Tribune l*rintinu Company, Limited. FREELAND, PA., AUGUST 24, 1890. Aguinaldo should now place a lawyer at the head of the war department and proceed with the fight. Now and then the death of free silver Is announced, but no one has produced proof of tho corpus delicti. General Otis says he will not waste much of his valuable time on his critics. In other words, he will treat tlicm as he does the Filipinos. Vice President Hobart is now known as tho "official bouncer" since the resig nation of Alger, for it will be remem bered that it was after his visit to Ilobart that Alger concluded to resign. Tho office of vice president is develop ing into a highly important and useful one. If the war is not ended in a year from now—and it is impossible to see how it can ever come to an end under the management of Otis —the Republicans need not go to the trouble of naming a candidate, for leading members of their own party agree that the Democrats will have a walk-over in such an event. Let no voter be misled on Saturday by any statement which may have for Its object an appeal to partisanship in voting on tho bond issuo question. Progress, like patriotism, knows no party. Don't let political, personal or any other feeling prevent you from doing your duty when Freeland's inter ests are at stake. Evoryone is looking forward to a lively session of congress next winter, for Republicans as well as Democrats are expected to lire hot shot into the administration for the policy pursued in tho Philippines. Senators lioar, Well ington and Mason, all Republicans, are known to bo outspoken in their opposi tion to the president in this matter, and their ranks aro being added to every day. The election of a presidont arouses enthusiasm everywhere, hut the result, to tho individual is not worthy of com parison with the result of a local elec tion. On Saturday there will be a local election in Freelatid. The result to every citizen of the borough is of suf ficient importance to demand his pres ence at tho polls and the casting of a ballot for or against tho advancement of our town. All citizens should vote on Saturday, then the result would show whether or not Freeland is deserving of tho reputation for progressiveness that it enjoys. Western View of the War. Out in lowa last week tho Democrats held their state convention and, after nominating candidates for governor and other offices, they adopted a platform which denounces trusts and indorses tho Chicago platform, "In the whole and in tho detail," expresses admiration for and loyalty to William J. Bryan and favors him for the nomination in 1900. In regard to the war in the Philippines, the platform has the following to say : If war against Spain was right, and it was, that against tho natives of the Philippines, who have committed no of fense save to love liberty and to be will ing to fight and die for it, is wrong. The attempt, unauthorized by congress, to conquer the natives of Oriental is lands is a repudiation of the American doctrine of consent affirmed in tho Dec laration of Independence, and in con flict with the principal which George Washington and his fellow-patriots of the revolution made sacrifices to ostab lish. We condemn the war against the Fili pinos, believing it to have been inspired by Great Britian for the purpose of pro ducing conditions that will force an Anglo-American alliance, and we not only protest against the war and de mand its termination by extension to the Filipinos of the same assurance given to the Cubans, but we record our deep seated antagonism to an alliance with Great Britian or any other European power, and express our detestation of tho attempt made in British interests to disrupt tho friendly relations which have uniformly existed between the United States and Germany. OUR CAPITAL LETTER. HOW THE ADMINISTRATION SHOWS CONFIDENCE IN OTIS. 11IH Suggestions Regarding tlie Number of Troops Required in tlie I'hilippiiies Are Ignored An Indiana Colonel Kx presnes His Opinion— Diseased Soldiers. Washington, August 22, 1800. If the administration follows its pres ent method of showing its confidence in General Otis to its logical conclusion, there will be a new commander in tlie Philippines before the lighting cam paign opens. It began to show its confidence in General Otis, who had continually declared that 30,000 men wore all he needed, by issuing the necessary orders to make the full strength of the army in the Philippines 40,000 men; then it was decided to make it 50,000, and the orders under which the ton new regiments are being recruited will raiso the number to 03,000. To be logical the next order should name a new commander for this large army. The proceedings in connection with the order to recruit theso last ten regiments which, by tlie way, will al most bring the volunteer army up to the limit set by congress, were an ob ject lesson in the wlbly-wably policy which this administration has so often adopted. At first it was positively de nied that the order would be issued at all; then it was said that the regiments would be raised, but would merely be held as a reserve, and at last, whon it could no longer be hidden, it was ac knowledged that arrangements had been made to land tlie last of them at Manila about the first of December. X X X The sending of a big army to tlie Philippines is a political play on the part of the administration. This is recognized by all close political obser vers. The opinion of Colonel W. E. McLean, of Indiana, who was deputy commissioner of pensions under the Cleveland administration, and who is now in Washington, on his way to the G. A. R. encampment, to which he is a delegate-at-large, is that of thousands, regardless of politics- He said: "One thing isVertain; if the Philippine war Is not ended before the presidential cam- i paign comes on, it is good-bye to Presi dent McKinloy. The war over thero is fast growing in unpopularity. The policy of expansion is opposed by a great many Western Republicans, and the Democrats arc nearly a unit against it." Speaking of politics in his own ; state, Colonel McLean says; "The Indiana Democrat who is not for Bryan j and the Chicago platform is a man , without a party, and his position is so ! lonesome that he almost feels as though | he had no country." The colonel knows, as ho was that sort of a Demo crat himself In 181)0. X X X There is a paragraph in an official re port just received by Surgeon General | Sternberg from Major John R. llolf, chief surgeon of the military district of Porto Rico, which is not calculated to make new shouters for imperialism among the thoughtful. In considering this very serious matter, it should not be forgotten that Porto Rico is the healthiest of our new island possessions. The parapraph is too plain-spoken to be quoted in the TKIUUNE. Suffico it to say that in It Major IIoIT speaks of the alarming prevalence of private diseases among our soldiers over there and says Indications are that it will not bo long bofore a large percentage of them will be as thoroughly infected as tlie native population, lie also points out the danger of returning soldiers spreading the contamination at their homes, a danger which Great Britain has found to be of the gravest proportions in her experience with her tropical posses sions. Something like tiiis lias been said before, but it was hooted down as tlie talk of an alarmist. It begins to look as though tlie man who said, "the more you know about the tropics the less desire you have to live there," was about right. t t X Accordingto high Republican authori ty, Alger never was a real candidate for the senate and his announcement to that effect was made after a full under standing with Mr. Mclvinley, solely for the purpose of preparing a reason for his resignation from the cabinet. This may or may not bo true, but the an nouncement several days ago by Mr. Alger that ho was entirely out of poli tics, seems to boar out the story. There has been so much Republican trickiness in Washington that one is never sur prised to discover something new in that lino. The Ilanna-McKinley crowd seem to prefer doing even the most simple things in a mysterious way. A G. A. R. Souvenir. The big G. A. R. encampment at Philadelphia begins September 4. Next Sunday's Philadelphia Press will be a souvenir edition, dedicated to the heroes of the Grand Army. It will be tilled with valuable information for those who attend the festivities and in teresting matter appropriate to this great event in Grand Army circles. Artists and photographers will aid the most skilled writers in making this edition the finest over published. Are you looking for an old comn do, who you believe will be there at the encampment? Some old friend perhaps iu a regiment, whom you have not seen for years? If so, the Press will help you find him and will print free of charge, all personal requests of old soldiers who will take part in the en campment and who wish to learn the whereabouts of old comrades. Write to the Press and give names, regiment and other details. Watch the date on your paper. REELS OF BARBED WIRE. One Thing That In Never Handled Without Gloves When It Is Shipped. Barbed wire for shipment is wound on reels containing about 100 pounds each. In its dimensions a reel of wire is of übout the size of a half-bushel measure; innumerable barbs project ing from it all over except for narrow strips of board that extend across the ends and form the end pieces of the reel. Large cpiautitles of barbed wire are exported, and it is a common sight to see the reels going aboard ships lying at South street wharves, says the New York Sun. The wire is brought alongside the ship on the deck of a lighter, such a load consistiug i erhaps of 2,000 or 3,000 reels; some times two or three lighter loads are taken aboard a single ship. If it can be done the lighter is brought along side the vessel, In the slip, in order, as far as possible, to avoid handling; with the lighter alongside the wire can be hoisted directly from the lighter in to the ship. Sometimes it Is necessary to tie the lighter to the opposite side of t lie wharf from that at which the vessel Is made fast, and move the wire across the wharf. In that case more handling is required. There should be a man on the lighter to tumble the reels down from the load and roll them alongside to the rail, the rolling being done with the foot. On the deck of the lighter, ut the rail, stands two men, ea?h with a cotton hook. When the reel of wire has been rolled along to them and tipped over on its side, between them, they each set a hook though strands enough of the wire to hold, and lift the reel and set it up on the stringpiece of the wharf. Thence it is tipped over onto the wharf by a man standing there to receive it, and he starts it rolling across the wharf by a push with the foot. He wears hand cover ings of some sort, as every longshore man does in handling barbed wire; these protective coverings include gloves and mittens of leather and hand leathers. The hand leathers worn are seven or eight inches in length and five or six inches in breadth and are often cut from old boot legs. Hand leathers have a slit in them across one end, through whioh the hand is passed, the strip of leather above the slit rest ing on the back of the wrist. When the palm and insides of the lingers of gloves have been worn out the gloves are put on with the back of the glove on the palm side of the hand aul used in that manner until that side is worn out also. The reels of wire are gath ered in bunches of six nt the foot of the board that rises from tin* wharf, resting against the ship to protect the side of the ship from being scraped in hoisting cargo aboard; they are hoist ed aboard with a l>lt of stevedores' gear made expressly for the purpose, comprising half a dozen dangling lengths of rope, each with a hook at the end of it, which can be spread out to reach the reels. Aliook is put into each reel, under wire enough to give it a secure hold, and when they have all been hooked, the bunch is hoisted up the side of the ship. Upst Ily mi Umbrella. "Talking about stealing umbrellas," said a New Orleans man. "I hud a whimsical experience last week. One afternoon, when it was raining, I hap pened to see a very good umbrella in the hall and—well, I annexed it, or rather. 1 established a protectorate, intending to return it before night to the gentleman iu the adjoining office, who I supposed, of course was the owuer. "But somehow or other I didn't, and for several days 1 dodged him in and out of the building, feeling particular ly uncomfortable and guilty Finally he dropped in, and, seeing the um brella in the front office walked off with it. I witnessed the incident unob served from tlie rear room, and. natur ally, said nothing. Next 'lay we en countered in the elevator and he hand ed me the umbrella. " 'Here's your parachute,' he said. 'l'll have to own up that 1 appropriat ed it yesterday, but it was raining and tlie temptation was too strong for my morals.' "I took it rather gingerly and re frained from offering any explanation. That afternoon I set It just outside my door and hud the satisfaction of see ing it disappear under the arm of an architect who is a prominent member of my church and generally regarded as a very moral man. Since then he has had pressing business whenever I hove into sight, and I Infer that he is suffering a duplicate of the pangs re cently experienced by myself and my neighbor. The fellow who originally left it hasn't turned up, so I suppose that he, too, is a member of the robber band." Engine Driven Ily llncterlk. N. P. MelnikofP, the editor of the Russian journal Techuologue, lias made a little model of an engine which depends for Its motive power upon tlie fermentation of bacteria. Although the engine of itself has no practical value, it nevertheless furnishes an in teresting example of the power which can be derived from fermenting bod ies. Mr. Melnikoff decomposes glucose into Its constituents One hundred and eighty parts glucose will give ninety two part sof alcohol and eighty-eight parts of carbon dioxid gas. In a cop per vessel, glucose, an acid phosphate, acetic acid, geletln, water (75 per cent.), and yeast are mixed together. After twenty-four hours the gas with in the vessel, at a temperature of 20 degreesC. (OH degrees F.). will have attained a pressure of four and one half atmospheres. Tlie inventor states that if tlie vessel containing tlie yeast bacteria be large, and tlie engine cylin der be correspondingly proportioned, enough power can be optained to oper ate an engine uninterruptedly for twenty or thirty hours. The fermen tation of different bacteria will give different results, the power produced ; depending upon the quantity of carbon dioxid or other gases generated by each species of bacteria. 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