Freeland Tribune Established 1688. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY Till TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY. Limited OIVICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. FREEHAND, PA. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Mouths 25 The date which the subscription is paid to Is on tne address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date be- Aomes a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Re port promptly to this ofliee whenever paper Is not received. Arrearages must be puid when subscription is discontinued. Mat>e all money orders, checks, etc.,payable to the Tribum Printing Company, Limited. Eighty automobile companiel, with ■ capital of $430,000,000. have already been formed. This ought to give the public cheap horseless vehicles. The French minister of publio works has issued a circular to the rail way coiupauies of France, informing them that unless their trains shall keep better time the government will enforce the full penalties ordained by law for mismanagement. The amiable gentleman who aban dons the practice of the law because he does not believe in coercion and that the efficiency of the law rests upon the power of executing it does not assume even a novel position. Lots of men before him have been in favor of a law, hut against its en- j forcement. A radish three feet in circumference ! (normal size) is u vegetable which has ' been imported into this country from Japan through the courtesy of the secretary of the Japanese legation. The agricultural department is taking an interest iu growing the seeds of j this radish at its various experiment ! stations iu the South, and believes that eventually it will become a pop ular crop for the farmers and a favor ite article of food. Near Philadelphia, a lady, the wid ow of a clergyman, has fitted up the sunniest and best rooms in her house 1 as workrooms for invalids and delicnte women. Every convenience is sup plied for comfort. Here the workers are taught to make all sorts of useful and beautiful articles for sale. They are engaged at a regular weekly sala ry, aud a free luueh is served daily. Those who cannot leave their rooms are visited and supplied with mate rials for knitting, sewing, etc. There are heroines ns well as heroes in war times. This was shown during one tilt with Spain and is being exem- j piitied nt the present time iu tbe Phil ippiiras and Suuth Africa. These heroines are the brave-sonled and kind-hearted women who, like Flor ence Nightingale in the Crimean war, sacrificed not only every comfort tknt home can give them, but their very lives to work as nurses among the sick aud the wounded on the battle fields. They are heroines indeed. A novel mining enterprise is that at Cook Inlet, Alaska, where some ex perienced operators are developing the bed of Indian river for two miles. This river is one of the principal trib utaries of Turnagaiu Arm. Three thousand feet from the mouth of the river a dam 380 feet has been built. This dam lias two gates, one sixteen feet wide, and the other ten feet, which cau be operated to allow of the rush of the accumulated water. A great force is thus sot free. At an experi mental opening of the larger gate, the water tore through the dry river bed below tbe dam, hurling trees, stumps, and boulders two miles out into Turn again Arm. In thirty days' work next season the operators hope to wash the three-fifths of a mile of river bot tom to bedrock, when will begin tbe interesting operntion of taking out the gold. Panniugs of dirt showed from twenty-five cents to $4 worth of gold per cubic yard, and even at the lower figure it is estimated that there are several fortunes in the two miles of river bed which constitutes the wlaim of the enterprising operators. Paid tor His Admission. one night not long ago, a New York man reached the apartment house in which he lived, about 2 o'clock. A search of all his pockets failed to bring forth his keys. He rang the bell re peatedly for the janitor, but could get no response. There were family rea sons why it was inadvisable for him to spend the rest o[ the night away irom home, says the Washington "Times." The sight of a phvsician's night bell gave him an idea. He pushed the but ton hard for ,10 seconds or more. In due season the physician came to the door and opened it. "What is your fee for night calls?" asked the loeked-out individual. "Four dollars," was the surprised reply. "All right, here you are. I was locked out and couldn't get in. Sorry to trouble you," and the man of expedients began his weary march upstairs. LITTLE WILLIE. "How I do wish we could have a ripple of incident in our daily life!" said Millicent More, closing her book with a sigh. "Nothing ever happens to us," said ler cousin Catherine, with a smile, as the bent'forward to pick up a dead eaf off her pet geranium. Millicent and Catherine More were girls of 22 and 25 —'old maids" the 17- year-olders called them —who taught school and supported themselves com fortably by their own unaided efforts. Millicent was pretty, with red lips, a clear, bright complexion and hair touched with the warm auburn gold that artists copy and poets rave of, and Millicent had not quite given up her little dream of love and matrimony, but Catherine never spoke of such things. Catherine was not absolutely a fright, but Catherine was small and plain, with ordinary gray eyes, hair like everybody else's, and not the slightest pretensions to beauty. But the two cousins were very hap py together after their own unpreten tious fashion, Millicent supplying the sentimental and poetical element and Catherine contentedly devoting her self out of school hours to the house keeping. And upon this particular December afternoon, just as the girls were de ploring the monotony of their daily life, the postman tapped at the door with a letter. "A letter!" cried Millicent. "For me?" echoed Catherine. And the cousins read it, with their arms twined about one another and their heads very close together. "Uncle George is dead in Austra lia," gasped Millicent. "Oh, Milly—and he has left an or phan boy!" added Catherine, the tears brimming Into her eyes. "We must adopt him, Milly—we must bring him up." Millicent drew back a little. "I don't see why," she said, some what coldly. "Uncle George never did anything for us." "We never asked him to, Milly." "But he knew we were forced to support ourselves!" "Perhaps, dear, he was even poorer than we." At all events, he is dead now—and this child is left alone in the world. I'll sit down and write to the lawyer this minute." "Stop!' said Millicent, compressing her lips. "Do you mean that you real ly intend taking a great, rough, half civilized boy into this house?" "Certainly I do," said Catherine, ear nestly. "Oh. MilJy—a motherless child!" "In that case," said Millicent, "I 6hall not remain here. If you choose to open a gratis orphan asylum it is no reason that my slender income should be squandered to feed your fancies!" "But, Milly, your salary is larger than mine!" "And I do not mean to scatter it for a mere chimera. This child has no SHE STOOD ON THE PIER, taken the house for a year—there was no receding from the rent question. "I'll let the lower story to Mrs. Hop per, the milliner," said she to herself. "I never used to like the idea of living in half a house, but all pride must he laid aside now. I will take the back bedroom myself and little Willie shall have the front room that looks out on the street. I shall have to do without my new silk dress and to countermand my subscription to the 'lllustrated En cyclopedia,' but I shall not mind that; I'll discharge Hannah and engage lit tle Dorcas Drown, who is so fond of children and has such a winning way with her. And I know we shall get along splendidly—though, to be sure, I shall have to ask Lawyer Goodale for copying to do at home in the evenings, for I must be laying up a little some thing against Willie's future educa tion." For it never occurred to Catherine More that she was doing a brave and heroic thing in denying herself for the benefit of one whom she deemed yet poorer and more helpless than herself —nor to Millicent that she was acting the part of a recreant. The little room in the front of the cottage second story was fitted up prettily for the orphaned Australian boy—Catherine had sold her cabinet organ to buy the furniture—and Dor cas in a clean white apron and ribbons was bustling around, while Mrs. Hop per had already arranged her stock of sort of claim upon either of us. Let the Australian authorities provide for him." And Millicent More could not be per suaded to take any other view of the question than this. The next day she told her cousin that she had made ar rangements to secure a home with Miss Keturah Bayley, who took "a few select boarders," in the next street. And then Catherine sat down to consider ways and means. She had bonnet frames, ribbons and artificial ••were In lower windows. It was a lovely June day, with the sky blue and clear as a baby's eyes and the air full of scents from the blos soming buckwheat fields, Catherine More, having, not without difficulty, obtained a temporary substitute in her school, went to New York to meet her new charge in the steamer Harvest Lass, which hud been telegraphed from Sandy Hook the day before. 'Little Willis will know me," she j said to herself, "because I sent my I photograph by the last mail. I wanted i my face to seem familiar to him, poor lone lamb." She stood on the pier eagerly scan ning the countenance of every child that landed, her face brightened once or twice as she saw a boy whom she thought might be Willie, when all of a sudden a hand was laid lightly on her arm and she found herself looking up into a handsome, bronzed face far above her. "Sir!" she cried, starting back. 'I beg your pardon," said a frank, pleasant voice, "I did not mean to j alarm you. But is this Miss More?" ! She inclined her head. "I am your cousin William." And this time Catherine started back in more surprise than ever. "Sir," she said, "you are mistaken. William is a little boy." "Hardly," returned the tall stranger, "unless you would call me a little boy. Dear Cousin Kitty, no one ever told you I was a child or poor. It was your own Inference. Thank heaven, I am independent and wealthy, and, as I have come to man's estate, I think it is rather my duty to take care of you than to allow you to take care of me." Catherine looked at her handsome cousin in mute amazement. This grand upsetting of all her theories and ideas was more than she could com prehend just at once. "But, Wll " "But, Catherine. Nay, my dear lit tle gray-eyed cousin, the lawyers have 1 told me how willing you were to adopt and care for the homeless orphan, and hotv my Cousin Millicent shrank from the task. And from the bottom of my heart I thank you for what you are ready to do." How Dorcas started when she saw what sort of a fellow "little Willie" had proved to be. How Mrs. Hopper giggled behind her bonnet frames when she thought of the little child's crib and the picture books up-stairs. "Of course, such an elegant young gentleman as that will go to the ho tel," said Mrs. Hopper. But he did not. He stayed at the cottage, sleep ing on the back parlor sofa until other accommodations could be provided for ! him. And when Millicent came over | with her prettiest smile and out- 1 stretched hand the young Australian received her with an odd, curt cold- I ness that made her feel excessively un- I comfortable. "You see, Cousin Milly," said he, 1 'you didn't want to be bothered with j me; you thought the Australian an- j thorities ought to he compelled to pro- , vide for me." And when Mrs. Hopper heard that little Catherine More was to marry her j rich cousin she wasn't at all sur- ; prised. "It's the most natural thing in the | world," said she, "only it's a pity that Cathte isn't a little prettier." But Catherine More was satisfied with her lover's declaration that to him her plain face was the sweetest in all the world. The Pendulum. By a curious coincidence I had read Poe's story of "The Pit and the Pen dulum" that morning out under a tree in Sussex, says Kenneth Herford in the Detroit Free Press. "Get your hat," said my host after luncheon, "and we ll drive over to Rye." In that quaint little old-world town, one of the cinque ports of England, you remem ber. there stands a moss and Ivy cov ered church, tucked away between the i houses, and surrounded by the yard j filled with tipping, tilting tombstones, j from whose faces time has erased the I written words. It was inside this i church I saw the pendulum. I had j never thought Poe's affair could have | been genuine, but the Rye church pen dulum 'is its counterpart. The clock to which it is attached hangs against a beam away up in the arch. The faee is no larger than the bottom of a pat!, but the arm of the pendulum stretches down to within two feet of the people's heads. It must he twenty-eight feet in length. As it swings it marks an arc of the width of the nave by one i great swoop, like that of a huge bird. The ticks of the clock are forty sec onds apart and loud enough to break up a political meeting. Tourists are constantly visiting the old church just to see the pendulum, and the caretaker told me that not one out of ten of them but had been drawn there to con firm the story of Poe's pendulum. Tlifl Schoolboy'* Postscript. When Dr. Temple (now Archbishop of Canterbury) was the headmaster of Rugby, a boy came up before him for some breach of discipline, and the facts seemed so against the lad that he was in imminent danger of being expelled. He had a defence, but being neither clear headed nor fluent in the presence of the head-master, he could not make it clear. He therefore wrote home to his father, detailing at length his po sisition and his explanation. His father very wisely thought the best thing he could do was to send the boy's letter ns It stood to Dr. Temple, merely ask ing him to overlook any familiarity of expression. Apparently the father had not turned over the page and seen his eon's postscript, for there Dr. Temple found the following words: "If I could explain It would be all right, for though Temple is a beast, he Is a Just beast." The bishop, In telling this story, is accustomed to say that It was one of the greatest compliments he hat received In his life. Why So Many British Officers Get Killed in War. The extraordinary fatality among the leaders of the British soldiers in actions at Smith Hill, Elnndslaagte and Belmont is clearly explained in this picture. While the men in the rushes up the Kopjes took advantage of every cover, the officers esteemed it their duty to stand erect. In this posi tion they became conspicuous quarry for the Boer marksmen. OOOOOOOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOCOO | The Plans par tlje | | T WB 'fth Census.! OOOOOOOOOOCOOOGOOOOOOOOOOG All through the past six months preparations have been going busily on iu Washington for a great publish ing enterprise, which will be launched promptly on the first day of the oom ing June. The results of the under taking will begin to appear in finished form two years from that date, and will continue to be brought out at in tervals for three or four years there after. ' The publisher is the govern ment; the publication will be desig nated as the Twelfth Census of the United States. The twelfth census will differ in sev eral particulars from any of the pre ceding ones. It will be conducted on WILLIAM R. MERRTAM. (Director of the Twelfth Census.) a larger scale, as tbere are of courso more people to be enumerated. It will embrace a greater area; for the first time the inhabitants of Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico are to be in cluded in tho count. Moreover, the coming census will be the first in which all the work of recording and computing statistics is to be done by mechanical means. Electric tabulat ing machines were introduced for this purpose toward the close of the elev enth census, but in the coming enum eration they will bo relied upon en tirely. Tbe thorough organization neces sary in order successfully to carry j through such an undertaking as this may be appreciated when one reflects upon tbe labor involved in counting seventy-five millions of anything—a task that would require one man's un divided energies for twelve hours a day during more than a year and a half. In the case of tho census the labor is multiplied by the considera tion that the seventy-five million units are human beings, concerning eacli of whom a dozen facts must be recorded, and tbattbey are scattered over some four million square miles of the earth's surface. Tho task of taking the census will require altogether the services of more than forty thousand persons. They will bo separated into two main di visions—the field forces, and the head quarters stall in Washington. Tho former will include by far the greater number—nearly forty thou sand, all told. These will be the enu merators, who will gather the re quired information from all parts of the country, and the superintendents in charge of this branch of the work. The data thus collected will be com piled and prepared for publication by S - s, FRONT VIEW OF NEW CENSUS BUILDING. a staff of three thousand clerks in the central office. Roughly Bpeaking, there will be one enumerator for each township through out the country, or, in the cities, one for each ward. The enumerarators will be local residents appointed by the Director of the Census, on the recommendation of some influential person, usually the Congressman from the district The superintendents will have charge of divisions generally the same in limits as the Congres sional districts. In the case of the larger cities, however, there will be but one superintendent to each city, although his territory may include sev eral Congressional districts. Iu Mas sachusetts, where au efficient census bureau exists under the direction of the State authorities, thero will bo a single superintendent. The enumerators are expected to start on their rounds on June 1, 1900. They will bo supplied beforehand with portfolios containing blank schedules Tho punched record cards are counted, or tabulated in jll fli the electrical tabulating ma- ~ruC tTT chines. These machines are oai'int','"* 5 ] M Po' 5? provided with a circuit clos- " || 0 iug device, into which the I MQUUJ> cards aro rapidly fed one ljy J?—/, through a number of counters, I:!; I ;'' j which will us desired couut 'iij jjill *l| If the simple facts as to the IfSM 4 y j number of males, females, ' ''' etc., or the most complicated \V 1 .•.•h.!om,ti.,n t:i stairs- | • v\ THE PUNCHING MACniNE. *3Wms= The transcript of the orig- ! I'' , Vbw*" —=\ inal returns of the enumera -1 I ilii I HmM * or '° Sie P une l>e<3 card will bf fi'vl I 1 I lu [ HieP° be done with small machines, I;' i n WRL something like a typewriter, I "ti ! ! I'll PwM called keyboard punches. | j j I About ono thousand of these KB a' r> u I Kflu 3l keyboard punches will be U I ulll&S? used, and the entire work of ' '!.! EBhBP transcribing tho 75,000,000 Vi?, i , or more individual records j V ' w '" done in about 100 (J jljl 1,1,j working days, or nearly four Z_ /■•'"•'l'|l|\ months after the first reports TABULATING HECOKDS. are lU ' on which to enter the name of each person in their districts, together with the information provided for by law. Most of them can complete their tasks within a few days, and will receive from SSO to $l5O for their services, according to the araouut of work in volved. As soon as the schedules are completed and revised, under the di rection of tbe district superintendents, they will be forwarded to Washing ton. Here is where the work of putting tho census data into intelligible and valuable form will be done, and here is where the tabulating machinery will como into play. These machines, by the way, are tho invention of a former census employe, Mr. Herman Hollerith. They were designed with a special view to use in the census, I although they have proved valuable ' for otber statistical work. By this system the statistics con cerning each person will appear on a I separate punched card. About seven j ty five millions of these cards will be i required, therefore, to contain all the data collected for the census. The cards are numbered to corre | spoud with the numbers opposito the I names in the schedules. They con tain two hundred aud eighty-eight I symbols, each of which is an ab breviation representing some fact j within the rango of the census enum eration. They are punched by means of an electric machiue. In recording the statistics a clerk reads from the schedules the informa tion entered opposite a certain name to an operator Beated at the key-board of the punching-machine. With a little practice this pnnohing-machine can be operated as faßt as an ordinary type-writer. Experience has shown that the average number of records that one clerk can transfer from the schedules to the cards is seven hun tired per day. It is the intention of the Census Bureau to put one thous and clerks at work with these ma chines as soon as the returns are in, so that this branch of the work should >;i > • ;\ ' ; ELECTRICATj TABULATINO-MACBINE. be completed in about a hundred days. From the punching-mackine the record cards go to the electric tabu latiug-machiue, which is even more ingenious. In form it is something like an upright piano. In the face of the upper part of the box are set a number of indicator dials, each one devoted to somo one set of facts com prehended in the census. Inside the machine is a complicated system of electric wiring connecting these indi cators with the operating apparatus. It is the missiou of this machine to total the various facts recorded on the punched cards. To do this the punched cards are slipped into the machine beneath a set of electric nee dles, mounted on spiral springs. The operator presses theso needles down TIIK ASSISTANT DIRECTOR. upon the card. Wherever there are punch-holes the needles pass through and dip into a cup of mercury placed beneath. An electric circuit is thus completed, which moves up the indi cators on the connected dials one point and records the particular fnct indicated by each punch-hole. The totals are always in view on the indi cators, and are copied off on slips at the end of each run. Each machine is oapable of disposing of five thou sand cards per day. The statistics computed by the ma chines will be copied on record slips and turned over to another force of one thousand clerks, whose business it will he to make up tables and prepare oopy for the printers. By the act of Congress providing for the coming enumeration it was stipulated that the four principal re ports—on population, mortality, agri culture and manufactures—must be ready for publication on July 1, 1902. The Director of the twelfth cen sus is William R. Merriam, ex- Governor of Minnesota. The actual work of preparing the statistical in formation of the censns for publica tion will be in charge of Assistant, Di rector Frederick H. Wines. Mr, Wines has had long experience in this sort of work. He was in charge of one department of the eleventh cen sus, and was employed also in tho census of 1880. As assistant to Mr. Wines there are fiveohief statisticians, all experts in their lines, to eaoh of whom wiil be assigned one depart ment.—Harper's Weekls. FRESH TRADE DEVELOPMENTS, Such succoss has attended the plan of selling sewing machines at hard ware stores in some parts of the West that the practice is strongly recom mended by a contributor of Hardware who has had extensivo experience in the business. Within twelve years, it is said, the number of sheep in this country has increased from 5,000,000 to 50,000,- 000, while in Germany it has dimin ished from 40,000,000 to 10,000,000. Thus a market for wool has been cre ated across the Atlantic which ought to be supplied from America. Owing to a drought and the depre dations of abug the hop crop of Rus sia is only thirty-live per cent, as large as usual. In couscqneuce the price has jumped to 815 and sl7 a pood (thirty-six pounds). Commis sion men who were shrewd enough to discover the situation early bought a largo portion of the old stock at prices ranging from $7.50 to $lO. A process for purifying beet sugar has recently come into notioe in Ger many, quite as much on account of the seorecy practised in regard to it as for its inherent merits. The "swing outs" from first grade sugars are treated in a special mixing vat,and fifty-three pounds of sulphite of alu mina are thero added to 800 gallons of syrup. After being heated afresh to 170 degrees Fahrenheit, twenty pounds of oxide of calcium are put in to the vat; and finally fifty-five pounds of chloride of barium. In most industries it has been found that the larger the scale on which business is dono the more economical does production become. Hut in North Carolina, the banner cotton manufacturing State of Dixie, a marked preference is felt for small mills. Capitalists who could afford to erect big mills would rather have two or three little ones. Judging from recent dividends alone, the size which is the most remunerative in that part of the country is one that has 10,000 spindles. Somethiug novel in the way of til ing for the roofs of large buildings is re ported from Chicago. The tiles are laid on tho steel skeleton of the roof. The rafters are crossed by angle irons measuring 1| by 1J inches, and set with an interval of 135 inches between centres. The angle irons, of course, are horizontal, aud extend the long way of the roof. To these are secured the tiles, which are about nino inches wide and sixteen iiSclies long. They are made to interlock, and form a water tight joint. What is called a "square" contains 135 tiles. Every fourth tile is fastened with a bit of copper wire to the steel frame. Mended While She Waited. "Whenever I see one of those little signs that say repairing will be done 'Whilo you wait,'l think of the first aud only time I ever yielded to snob a promise," said the woman who was talking. "I had started for the train, but I knew I had at least thirty min utes to spare besides the time it would take to roach the station, and when I saw that one of my gloves had started to rip I thought of a sign I'd so often noticed at the place where I bought them. 'AH gloves kept in repair; mended while you wait,' was the way it road. But to make assurance more sure I said to the amiable young per son behind the counter, could I get this mended very quickly? 'O, yes,' she-said, 'while you wait.' So I passed over the glove, aud to make the time seem less long I opened a little book I had thonght to read in the train and lost myself in its pages. After awhilo it seemed to me that I'd been reading qui-se rapidly or else the young wom an was taking her time about bringing mo my glove. I picked her out and waited up to her. 'lsn't my glove ready yet?' I said. 'Your glove'? she saii. 'I don't know anything about it." "Yes, my glove,'l reiterated with great sternness. 'I gave it yon a mo ment ago.' A moment ago—it had beer, forty-five minutes ago, I found, and my train had gone. I also found out later that my glove had been mis laid, that the girl I had given it to was away for her luncheon, aud that I war accusing the wrong person. Those signs may bo true; llieyiuny do mend ing in the stores while you wait, but one thing is certain—you wait all right." Turtles. Fourteen hundred pounds of turtle, alivo and kicking, were included in the cargo of the German steamship Erno, whioh reached this port on Wednesday. It wasn't all one turtle, to be sure, but that made it twelve times as interesting for the orew. An even dozen of the big fellows, each weighing more than a hundred pounds, were unloaded from the Erna, and some of them are undoubtedly in the sonp by this time. They came from Hayti and San Domingo, wherq they are plentiful. The crews of tramp steamers catch them at night, when they are asleep, turn them over on their backs, and the rast is com paratively easy. Tanks filled with sea water are arranged on the vessels, and the turtles are thus carried to the Northern ports alive. As they are not subject to duty they constitute a con siderable source of revenue as a side issue.—Philadelphia Record. Lord Koieliery Alinont a Ilerinlt. It is said in London that Lord Rose bery has beoome almost a hermit. He spends prnctioally all his time at one of his oountry houses, and rarely visits London save on Sunday, when the great town is quiet. He seems to dread the roar and bustle of the city, and avoids it whenever possible. Mentmore, where he spends the greater part of his time, is one of the most splendid and stately oountry houses in Great Britain.
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