FREELAND TRIBUNE. XiUbliabil 1888. PUBLISHED KVBKY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY THB TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited. ORRIR*: MAIN BTRKET ABOVE CENTRE. ! LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One Year fi.au Six Months 75 j Four Months .10 1 Two Months 35 The date which the subscription is paid to is on the address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date becomes H 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 money orders, checks , etc., payable tu J the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. FREEHAND, PA., APRIL 20, 1900. I THE MAN WHO DOESN'T. The man who does not advertise be cause somebody says it did not pay, ought not to believe that the world is round, because the ancients said it wa* Hat. WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, April 24, 1900. Another ugly scandal has cropped up under the rule of the war department, which cannot fail to add to the wave of public sentiment, daily becoming higher and stronger, that will sweep the Re publican party, with its record of scandals, out of power. This particular scandal was uncovered quite by acci dent and its existence was not denied by Secretary Root, who is responsible for its continuance, although it was originated by Alger. It is to speak plainly, the robbery of the Cubans, for the benefit of officers of the United States army. Hints of extravagant liv ing by American officers in Cuba, and of largo sums paid for their expenses, have been frequent, but it was not until within the last forty-eight hours that it became positively known that officers in the United States army were, in direct violation of law, drawing two salaries, one from the United States and one from the Cuban revenues. t t X The ground upon which Secretary Root justifies this robbery is worthy of a shyster lawyer, but not of a member of the United States cabinet—that the money drawn from the Cuban revenues by these officers is not a salary from the United States, and consequently their receiving it is not a violation of the law prohibiting two salaries. Mr. Root goes even further than that-. He says this robbery was carefully considered and endorsed by Mr. McKinley and his entire cabinet before it was started, and that he intends to increase the number of officers who are allowed to participate thorein. But he won't, un less prominent Republican senators who have expressed surprise and regret at the scandal, change their minds. The senate has adopted a resolution, calling for all the facts. X X X Representative Livingston, one of the most level-headed Democrats in the house, says the Republican leaders have determined to jam the ship-subsidy job through at this session of congress. Speaking of this deal, Mr. Livingston said: "I know that a conference of Republican leaders was held, at which it was determined to push the ship bounty scheme at all hazards. I also know that the next day, Pacific Mail, which may fairly be considered the barometer of tho scheme, shot up nearly four points on tho New York stock ex change. The man who can't plainly discern a chain of cause and effect in this, is indeed blind. Obviously, some body who attended that conference com municated to the men who control the markets for Pacific Mall securities, the news that the ship subsidy bill would bo brought forward and rushed through at this session, under the party lash. X X X "It would not surprise me if a special rule for its consideration and passage should be prescribed by the speaker's committee. Such a rule, it may be confidently expected, will limit debate almost to the vanishing point. Indeed, it may be that ail debate may be cut off on the bill in the house. I believe they are waiting for a time when an unusual number of Democrats are absent from the house, to force the bill forward for a needed consideration. The Republi cans are bound to get this bill through. 1 am informed that a large part of their campaign fund depends upon its passage. Therefore, it behooves us Democrats to keep our eyes peeled for the ship-subsidy scheme. Every mother's son of us ought to stay right here in Washington until the session closes and keep a sharp lookout for the Uanna-Paync bill." X * X Experience doesn't always teach. Notwithstanding tho awful experience of our soldiers in tho war with Spain, thousands of whom were mado sick and unfit for duty, by eating the so-called canned roast beef, the war department has ordered a big lot of the stuff sent to tho Phiilippines for the use of our soldiers over there. General Miles fs as much opposed to this moat as ho was during the war with Spain, and the war department acted without consulting him. t X X It was an Ohio man—John Sherman —who originated the phrase which has since become so widely usod: "I'm going They Cure HEADACHE and all Kinds of Painv CHAB. WALTER, Catawlasa, Pa. ■_ M. W. CURTISS, Kana, Pa. "I have used Dr. Miles' Pain " "I wa9 troubled very much with Pills for seven years and think there headache for many years and had is nothing like them. They never m tried nearly everything recommended -fall to give relief from headache, and flUn MK M Ara for that trouble. While in Buffalo, since I have been using them the at- m B N. Y., two years ago a friend of mine tacks from that trouble have been ™ ™ ™ gave me some of Dr. Miles' Pain less frequent and less severe, and I Pills and I was relieved almost lm feel like my real self once more." mediately. They are a sure cure. MRS. W. SNOKE, Shipponabur ß , Pa. • • 'M mM 3 MRS. P. W. DEPPEN, Shamokln, Pa. "I was sick all the time from nerv- mm "My husband was troubled a great ous neuralgia; could not sleep at night deal with sick headache and stomach and my bones ached so I could hardly cramps so severe that he frequently endure the pain. When I began tak- m mmmmmy had to stay home from the store, ing Dr. Miles' Pain Pills the pains When he tried Dr. Miles' Pain and aches disappeared like magic. I 9K OoMCM. 23 Cent Mm P"' s he found relief at once. One ctMid sleep well at night and soon ' pill always prevents an attack. They fOChd my health restored." AT ALL DRUGGISTB. are a sure cure every time." 33333 In order that you may test the merit or Dr " Miles ' Pa ' n Pl " s i we wi " senc l upon request, a BgJ sample free. Write today. A postal card will do. K Be sure to mention this paper when you write. home to look after my fences." Mr. McKinley, who is in Ohio, this week, said before leaving Washington that he was going to "look after repairs to rny house," which is a slight deviation from Sherman's words, but means the same to the initiated. It was not a mere coincidence that the repairs upon Mr. McKlnley's house, at Canton, should require his personal attention during the same week in which the Republican state convention will be held at Colum bus. t i t Senator Wellington has formally left the Ilanna-McKinley party, and made this announcement: "I was opposed to the permanent acquisition of the Philip pines, and to the 15 per cent duty on Porto Kican imports to the United States. This being my position, I do not intend to sirpport a platform that is against my convictions In such import ant particulars. Ido not intend to re main a member of the Republican national committee, nor to attend the national convention." There are nu merous prominent Republicans In both branches of congress who believe just as Senator Wellington does, but whether any of them will show that they have the courage of their convictions by fol lowing his example, remains to be seen. To Witliilrnw linns From Dancing. From the Tu miopia Courier. The next general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be asked to strike out of the book of dis cipline paragraph 248, which prohibits members from going to theatres ana horse races and from dancing and play ing cards. Regardless of the fact that the section referred to has always been considered one of the most important and the most exacting rules in tho book of discipline, yet it is said that a large portion of the aggregate Methodist con gregation, including a portion of the clergy, are In favor of striking out the obnoxious paragraph. The objectionable paragraph is re pugnant because of tho fact that al though many pledge themselves to obey its provisions, few abide by the pledge taken. It is therefore question able as to which is the most sinful—tak ing a solemn pledge and violating it, or attending a horse race, playing cards, going to tho theatre or dancing. While cards and horse racing may be consider ed objectionable, but few people see any harm whatever in dancing and but little in going to the theatre, providing of course that the play is an unobjection able one. Every member of a church has a disinclination to place himself under an obligation which lie cannot keep. For years and years the prim and staid Methodist has been subjected to considerable criticism and have received a groat amount of censure for their ob jection to dancing, etc. The younger generation in the church, who it is said are largely in tho majority, favor the abolishing of the objectionable rule, but tho staid old members are equally de termined that the paragrapii referred to shall still continue to be a part of the church discipline. One Fare to Kaaton anl Return Via the Lehigh Valley Railroad, May 10, 1900. Dedication of Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. Tickets will be on sale May 10, from all stations New York to L. fc B. Junction inclusive, Scranton and points on the Mahanoy and Ila/.le ton division, good for return passage to May 11 inclusive, and will be honored on any train except tho Black Diamond express. For additional information consult Lehigh Valley Railroad agents. The women never wear hats or bon nets, night or day, but in the day they carry very fancy colored parasols. If you make a Cuban girl mad she will move off far enough so as not to hit you and then spit at you. In Santiago late at night one can scarcely get into his club or hotel for th® children sleeping on the steps. 5D.50 a year is ail the TRIBUNE costs. FOUND USEFUL. A Burglar Bombarded With Electric Light Bulbs. "Of all the outlandish weapons ever employed In a fight," said a business man of the South Side, "I think I brought the most fantastic on record Into play one night last week. "My family are away on a visit at present, and I am keeping bachelor hall out at the house. On the night to which I refer I was aroused about 3 a. m. by a noise somewhere in the re gion of the dining-room, and. think ing I had shut up the dog there, I Jumped up very foolishly and came down stairs in my night clothes, with out so much as a pocket knife. When I opened the dining-room door I was startled to see a big, rough-looking man bending over the sideboard at the far end of the room, and after he had stood there en tableau for a moment the fellow made a rush at me. I leaped back into the hall and glared around for a weapon. On a table nearby were a dozen incan descent light bulbs, which I had brought home to replace some that had burned out, and purely by instinct I grabbed one of them and threw it at the burglar. It hit the door casing close to his head, and, to my amaze ment, exploded with a noise like a young lyddite shell. I suppose it was a still greater surprise to the other fellow, for he let out a yell and broke for the rear, followed by a rapid-fire bombardment of sixteen-candle-power i incandescents, which I continued to 1 throw at him as long as he remained | in range. They smashed against the furniture with a series of clashes that alarmed the whole neighborhood, and 1 have been gathering up frag ments of broken glass ever since. "The burglar must have thought 1 was chasing him with hand gren ades. It was the first time I ever knew that incandescents made such a row when they broke. An electrician tells me that it Is caused by the air rushing into the vacuum."—N. O. Times-Democrat. LIQUID AIR. Experiments in Cartridges So Far Un satisfactory. Ever since it was demonstrated that liquid air could be readily produced on a commercial scale it has been hoped and expected that one of the principal uses to which it would be applied would be that of an explosive material for blasting purposes particu larly in mines, where the new explo sive would have the important advan tages of safety in handling and of not vitiating the air, like gunpowder or dynamite, by the gases of ignition. Some months ago a report an nounced that liquid air had been formally adopted for blasting pur poses in the government coal mines in Germany, says Consul General Ma son, of Berlin, in a report to the State Department but inquiry proved that this announcement was at least pre mature. Among the most systematic and in teresting practical experiments this far made in this direction has been the series of tests lately undertaken by the Vienna Crystal Palace Ice Company in the presence of experts from the Austrian technical committee for the War Department. The liquid air used in these tests was obtained from the Llnde Company at Munich, and shipped to Vienna in open flasks, provided with the Dewar vacuum jac ket and packed with felt and cotton wrappings In wooden cases, with a loose cap of felt over the open mouth of each flask. When put up at the laboratory for i shipment the liquid contained 75 per cent, oxygen and 25 per cent, nitro gen; but before it had reached Vienna and was used in the experiments it had loßt about half its bulk by evapor ation, and what remained contained 85 per cent, oxygen to 15 per cent, j nitrogen. The absorbents used in pre paring the cartridges were slllclous j marl (Kieseleuhr) and .'solar oil." and. Elkhart, Indiana. accofcftng to the report, two methods of preparation were employed. By one process the marl and oil was mixed in a wooden vessel, and the liquid air gradually added until a stiff paste was formed, which was packed in paper cartridge shells covered with asbestos. By the other plan, the mixture of marl and oil was put into the cart ridge, which was enclosed In a lead case with a layer of felt between, and the liquid air then poured in until the paste was completely saturated. The cartridges prepared by both meth ods were safe and readily transporta ble, and their explosive power tested by firing at the bottom of deep holes bored in rock. The results showed that while liquid air is an efficient ex plosive, it is far less effective than dynamite, guncotton, explosive gela tine. or giant powder. The conclusions of the military ex perts were concisely as follows: Both methods of preparing the cartridges were pronounced wasteful, and in con sequence of the rapid evaporation of the liquid air they must be used im mediately after being prepared; be yond fifteen minutes the evaporation will so affect the cartridge that it is likely to miss fire and its strength cannot be even roughly guarateed. On the other hand, the cartridges when freshly prepared are powerful and well adapted to coal and other mining. The net conclusion to be derived from these and preceding experiments in Europe is that, notwithstanding the obvious advantages of liquid air as an explosive for mining purposes, the rapid deterioration of the cartridges and their varying and uncertain strength are obstacles so serious that, until they can be overcome, its value and application to that use will re main experimental and comparatively limited. GINGER AND ALLSPICE. There seems to be a pressing need for a balloon route to the Klondyke. "Soaked" at a ball—The golfer. Uneasy lies the head that is worn by a secretary of war. "No, Mollie, foot powder will not cause a gun to kick." Although not a spiritualist the drunken man is on the outside of spirits. Sweepstakes— Broomhandles. Picks locks—The wigmaker. A royal hand—A straight flush. A rough rider—The old style two wheel dump cart. Always gets his way—The railroad engineer. Although the musician keeps time he cannot save It. "It's funny," croaks the Lombard street Sage, "dat our fastest friends are always de slowest ter pay up what dey borrow." The pickpocket takes things easy. Making money fast—Glueing it to a window. The iron tie will never be popular for neckwear. No, Maude, sprinkling insect powder on the clock will not get rid of the ticks. Places for the dead—Cemeteries. Does a good turn —The auger. "It am funny dat de people dat used to write to de editors tellln* dem how to run de papers now tell how de army should hab been run," croaks the Lombard-street Sage. A non-puncturable tire—Weary Wil lie's. The average minister is able to make a good proposal. Always binding up—The coverer of books. Gets lots of chops—The lumberman. J* £ CUBA. The statement that the electrical storms would destroy trolley roads in Cuba is ridiculously false. One of the best things in Cuba is the coffee, which is roasted, ground, and cooked all at the same time. Cuban women fall in love with good looking Americans in preference to the Spaniards or native men. The men inhale their cigars just as we do our cigarettes, but they never smoke pipes or spit in public. When a Cuban woman's husband leaves her she never objects, but takes it philosophically and gets an other. The Real Danger from heart disease is not the possi bility of a sudden death, for they are comparatively few; but following in the wake of this dread disease comes a general breaking down of every organ of the body. Circulation is retarded; digestion is deranged; the blood is contaminated, the nerves weakened and the brain clouded. If your heart is affected begin at once to guard against these dangers. I)r. Miles' Heart Cure, has rescued thousands who were given up to die, and it will help you, too, if you try it. "For several years I was troubled with nervousness, sleepless, palpita tion of the heart, short of oreath, smothering spells and pain in chest, hack, left side and arm. I was so i very bad that I remained in my bed the whole of one summer. Was treated by three physicians, but de rived no benefit. Finally I saw a ! paper advertising Dr. Miles' New Heart Cure and Restorative Nervine. I began their use and was so greatly benefited that I am now doing my own housework and enjoy excellent health." MRS. BERTHA KURTH, 996 20th St., Milwaukee. Wis. Dr. Miles' Heart Cure is sold at all druggists on a positive guarantee. Write for free advice and booklet to Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. ATCHISON GLOBE NUGGETS. Rome people spend money only when they have an audience. You are Retting good luck in finding four-leaf clovers if you don't find the rheumatism In the search. It is a matter of surprise when some people die that their acquaintances don't plant their graves in smart weed. An engaged girl never believes It when her friends tell her she is too good for the man concerned. After marriage, she is open to conviction. • It should be some consolation to a man wheeling a baby buggy on the streets to know that at least he be longs to the push. No one seems to have enough sense to eat just enough watermelon to bet ter his kidneys, and stop before he in jures his stomach. Tell a man that you have a good Joke on him, and he Is confirmed In the opinion he has always entertained that you have no sense. It Is always a matter of surprise that tombstones, In extolling the wo men under them, don't relate that they were active at church socials. A girl child learns sooner than a boy child thut she must praise the meals at which she Is a guest while at the table, and criticise them when she goes home. WIT AND WISDOM. Cupid has a snap when he encoun ters an Idle brain. Bucket-shopping is about the only kind men indulge In. Pome wives prepare for war by ri fling their husband's pockets. Any man who will enlist to get away from his wife's mother Is a coward. Marriages may be made In heaven, but there will always be a few doubt ers. Political economy Is the art of get ting the most votes for the least mon ey. Lots of friends are retained by not saying the smart things we might have said. Education benefits a man but little If he Is unable to recognize an oppor tunity when he meets it. The possibilities of a penitentlnry sentence are about the only thing that can add to the dangers of football. It's sometimes difficult for a girl to find her ideal man, but she's nearly al ways willing to accept a substitute. A man may be the moneyed factor during the engagement, but after marriage the woman always appoints herself cashier. LITTLE CLASSICS. Row a kindness and reap great Joy. Caution is the eldest child of Wis dom.—Victor Hugo. Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than In his manner of portraying another.—Rich ter. What divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith!— She lley. Shut not thy purse strings always against painted distress. —Lamb. It is with books as with men; a very small number play a great part: the rest are confounded with the multi tude. —Voltaire. The heroic example of other days is In great part the source of the courage of each generation, and men walk composedly to the most perilous enter prises, beckoned onward by the ph *.des of the brave that were.—Arthur Helr>. His calumniation is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer up on us, but It Is also the only service that he will perform for nothing.—Col ton. OF REAL INTEREST. It is said that women criminals have larger hands and feet than average women. Chocolate is still used in the interi or of South America for currency, as are cocoa nuts and eggs. 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