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A scientist paid .$23,000 for a collec. tlon of eggs, nud they were not very fresh at that. The late William Shakespeare was a careful man In money matters. If he knew tho prices that copies of his First-Folio edition are fetching now, he would wish that he were living at this hour. The use of the wheel resulted in the bicycle face and now the links are charged with producing the golling spine. All of our pleasures and pas times seem to he productive of corres ponding penalties. Tho unscientific will not be reas sured to learn from scientists that only the melanoiestes picltus Is the true "kissing bug," and that tho ano pheles maculipennis is the ouly mos quito that carries malaria. Uufor tuately, these pests usually leave their cards at homo while out calliug. Steam turbine engines and Texas oil as fuel are new prospective agencies Upon which promoters of fast trans atlantic navigation rely for tlie future four-day boat. Wliy not? The drop from five days to four will scarcely as wonderful as the drop from seven days to five within twenty years past, remarks the Philadelphia Record. Some of our British friends who de sire to exclude foreign crews from Henley frankly admit that they are averse to long and rigorous prepara tion for the contests on the Thames. They prefer to make rowing a pas time and a picnic rather than a de cisive test of the best work of ama teur oarsmen who devote months of the hardest toil and the severest sclf sacrlfieo in training for honors on the water. It is plain enough now that there are a few hold Britons who shrink from struggles which tug at the heartstrings, reflects the New York Tribune. A New York physician raises his voice against the abuse of massage. By tliis lie menus the excessive thuuipings, pinchlugs and rubbings which the sick receive at the hands of lusty nurses who have uot been properly trained iu the art, and who are incompetent to determine what parts should be treated lightly, or when to stop. The physician notes that massage has become a dissipa tion, like everything else in life which Is pleasant and agreeable. Tho lazi ness of man Is the original cause of the growth of the massage habit, which Is a form of passive exercise that relieves oue of tho trouble of taking bis own exercise. It Is said that six-sevenths of the marriages which have taken place in Ohio, Kansas, Indiana, Missouri ami Illinois within a period of six weeks were between young men and women who were not able to keep house, but were obliged to live with one or the other of their families. In several if the middle-Western States, since Jam uary 1, 437 divorces have been tiled wherein the husband accuses the mother-in-law of having induced .his wife to lenv: him. Forty-seven sui cides have been traced to tlie inter ference of the mother-in-law. In sis cases out of seven the young Bene dict fiuds himself unable to live with his mother-in-law, while in seven cases out of eight the bride finds life unendurable with her husband'! mother. How They Do Things In Europn. The movement in the municipal assembly to stop the overcrowding of the open cars may not lend to an in mediate cure for tlie evil: hut the time is not distant when neither an open *ior a closed car will be permitted to carry passengers who cannot obtain a seat. Europe is ahead of us in tills, but there is a general understanding here of the Indecency of the practice of overcrowding cars. THE DESERTED SCHOOU BY RICHARD BURTOS. There brood 3 a pathos of a time long past I people all the playground up and do\m In every nook and every grass-grown With rushing forms and sound of laugh way; ter high; The fences lean as tired out at last, I watch the light of evening like a crown That once pent in so many lads at play. Upon the walls, till pales the western sky. The doors gape open, but one harks in vain I wonder how those sturdy limbs have For human voices or for hurrying feet; fared The rusty weather-cock creaks out that That since have wandered far as east rain and west; Or days uncloudy come, or snow and I wonder who from sorrows have been sleet. spared, I strive to read the hearts that have The gables droop, the windows, staring- been blest; eyed, Do seem to mock one pitying the place; And so my love would follow, one by one, A thousand birds and flowers long have The life of each, and all its changes tried know— To put upon the scene a summer face. Until the faces fade, as did the sun That lit the players in the long-ago. But spite of them, a silence wide and deep And I am left a solitary, all Clings round the corners, sits on every My youth gone from 'me, in a daze to stone; take It is a spot for lingering and sleep, Mid-manhood's burden up, until I fall For guessing other fortunes than your Upon the beaten highway of Heart own. break. ._*• —The Criterion. a Stacy's Chimney=Top Party, f H w By Edward William Thomson. WIIEN tho first great woolen factory was put up at Cornwall, Ontario, by toe ,Scotch-Canadian capitalists who arc now Lord Moun-Steplien and Lord Strathcona-a nd-Mount-ltoyal, their contractor for the building was John Stacy. He was of great physi cal strength, notoriously "a tall man of his hands," and everything in the na ture of a practical joke was doar to him, although he must have been fifty-five or sixty years old. So no body who knew him was surprised when he proposed a luncheon on top of the factory chimney just after lt3 completion. , It cannot bo truthfully said that men came flocking to his invitations. Tho chimney, which stood about twenty-five or thirty feet clear of the factory building, was a plain shaft of brick with an uncalled iron coping, and to reach this top we had to go out on a ladder, about thirty-five or forty l'ect long, which slanted from the roof of the ten-story stair tower to the cop ing. In high winds tho tall stack of brick swayed distinctly, as all high brick chimneys do at such times "It's a wonder entirely what ab sorbing business the gentlemen of Cornwall do be having on the day of me luncheon-party," old Mr. Stacy told me, with apparent solemnity and a few touches of brogue. "I was ex pecting the judge would come and re ply to the toast of the learned pro fessions, but himself is for hodllng court steady nil that day. Darby Bergln darsn't be leaving his patients for two hours, poor creatures! "When I axed ould Aleck Sandfield to ate wid us up there, he fled as one man. Donald Ban McLennan say 'twill be the height of impossibility for him to get away from his office that day at one o'clock. "And even me bowld John Ban could promise no better than that he'd be proud to partake of what would be going If it was the luck of him to bo able to join me chimney party. Sure, it's cloudy in his talk John Ban can be at times! And ten or a dozen more —'with oile accord they made excuse.' I dunuo what's gone wrong. There's seldom unwillingness among them to partake of what's goiug at me expense." "They're a'rald of tho height," I suggested, being young and innocent enough to imagine that the contractor might really be puzzled. "Look at that now!" he exclaimed, eyeing mo with mock admiration. "lie seen it at wanso! The foolish old man I am! 'Tis the fut of the chimney I should have Invited them to! And ine at the greatest of pains tc instruct them on the picturesque nrospoct form the top, and about the enjoyment of sitting foreuinst yer p.vvisions wid one hundred and thirty feet of hole under your toes and the same of clear air beneath your back-bone! "And then," Stacy continued, "the pleasure of climbing out on tho ladder with nothing, bar the rungs, betwixt your boot-soles and the ground! Faith, I discoorsed of the height as an at traction! And you think is scared them! See the penetration of tho young!" "And so the party won't come off?" I said, ignoring his irony. "Troth, it will! There's yourself and your chief, Mr. Bell. Ye will rep resent the noble ar-rt of factory nr rchitecture; and the superintendent, he' climb anything with a good lunch at the top of it. It's manufacturing industries he'll speak for, and me sou George can stand with yourself for young Canada; and there's meself for old Ireland; and then there's the re porters, maybe, and Mr. MaeDew, — that is the mayor,—and wee Macklem that wants to be. Sure, they'll rep resent the pr-roud municipality of Cornwall." "Macklem! Surely he won't try it!" "And why not?" "That little, nervous shivering store keeper!" "Arrah, but you forget the ambi tion he has to be mayor! It inflates him to that extent he might float like a balloon. llow did I get him to ac cept? Ah, that was aisy! I just took it for granted he wouldn't want to be climbing high places, and I weut on telling him how Mayor MaeDew had accepted, and how I'd arranged for the Montreal Daily Gazette reporter, and that the Cornwall Sentinel would give two columns to my chimney party and how the owners of the factory wished me success in it—them that will be able to iufiueree so many Corn wall voles hereaftlier, and Wutit pop ulurlty the present mayor do be al- ways gaining by being to the fore on public occasions. " 'And finally,' says I, 'l'm sorry you won't take a bite with us on tho ehimuey-top, Mr. Maeklom.' " 'But I will,' says he, 'and thank you.' " 'Tis a brave little sowl he has in his little onaisy body! So you see 'tis all settled, and I've bespoke the mater ials, and a high time we'll have that day, annyhow." A week later we were on the top of tho chimney at about one o'clock, a party of six, awaiting the upcoming of Mr. Maeklom and young George Stacy, whom we had last seen at the foot of the stairs on the ground floor; the elevator was not yet running. We sat with our feet dangling Inside the great Hue, aud the void gulf at our backs. A thick plank laid across the coping supported the viands. The wind was light, the day sunny. Our eyes ranged on an immense prospect from far south of the broad, green St. Law rence northward to the dim blue Luw renttan bills beyond the Ottawa. We were all nt ease, for all had grown used to belug on high during the upward progress of the building, except Mayor MaeDew, who seemed devoid of nerves and perfectly con tented. Stacy had just remarked. "I'm 'fcard the stairs has played puck with Mr. Maeklem's polite acceptance," when that aspirant's head came through tho hatchway on top of the stair tower. He was ghastly pale. We could see him trembling as be tottered to the ladder and laid hands on a rung. Behind him came young George Stacy, looking' very serious, and then frowning fiercely up at two or three who were grinning at Maeklem's plight aud chaffing htm. George told me afterward that he had tried to dissuade Maeklom from coming up out of the stair tower, for the higher ho mounted the plainer was his fright. "But of course he was my father's guest," George explained, "and I could uot stop him by force. He would come oil—lie said be had promised, and MaeDew would laugh if he backed out. I was sorry for tho little man, and when I heard those two jeering at him, I felt like going up and kicking them otT the chimney." Maeklem's grasp on the ruug seemed to steady him for a few moments, and he came slowly up, hand over baud and foot past foot, well out over the abyss. But he was iu a shocking state of fear. We gazed at him breathless ly, realizing his danger. His face wus clammy with a cold sweat, he seemed not to respire, his white lips were fixed vide In a death like grin that showed the gold fillings of his teeth, and his eyes were tight shut aud wrinkled, as If he were striv ing to close thein more completely lest he should by chance glance down. Clearly he might collapse at any mo ment, and yet he came slowly quiver ing up the slanting ladder. "By the powers, he's a brave man!" whispered old Stacy, sincerely. Then he called down encourag ingly: "You're doing fine,, Mr. Macklcm, and there's what'll do you good up here waiting!" Probably the words nr.d tone helped the little man, as Stacy Intended, by slightly distracting him from the hid eous fear against whieli he strove. "George," old Stacy called to his son, who had began to ascend, "you had better be coming right close after Mr. Maeklem, close, so as to give him a boost at the top!" But the old man's real purpose was that his strong son should catch Maeklem iustantly if the man collapsed. If he should fall back ward from the height of six feet above George's broad shoulders tlie young man might be hurled down with his father's guest. As Maeklem felt the ladder tremble under young Stacy's quickened move ment he stopped with an inarticulate cry, ns If believing that the ladder had given way, hut when George called out, "I'm coming up closer after you, Mr. Maeklem!" he seemed to under stand. nud clutched for a new rung above him. Old Stacy and all of us were as pale as Maeklem when at last he put his hand on the coping in reaching for one rung more. "Well, done, sor!" said old John, ""udt put up both your hands and I'll relp you up by the shoulders." He was afraid to take hold of Maeklem without such a warning, for the strained nerves might break down at an unexpected toucli. But Macklem kept bis lower hand on the rung, and spoke, if speaking that could be called which was little more than a motion of ashen lips. "Put an oyster in my mouth!" his lips whispered. He gulped It down with difficulty. "Now I've lunched with you as I said I would," and suddenly be put one foot down as if to retreat. The sole of his boot came hard on George Stacy's left hand. At this con tact with something unexpected Maelc lem's strength gave way and he fell in a dead faint. Ills face fell forward and his legs rprawlod down in George Stacy's front; he slipped down over the rungs until the youth .lammed the limp figure against the ladder by pushing his own body forward. Old Stacy gave a loud cry, fearing Ids son must go down, too, and lie made a movement as if to help him by getting on the ladder, which might not have borne the addition of his i cavy frame. But we held the con tractor hack for an instant, and then it was all over. George seized Mack lem about the waist with his mighty left arm, and easily backed down the ladder with him. He laid Macklem on the roof of the stair tower and hurried away for some stimulant. When ho returned with the remedy the party had all descended from the chimney top. It was fully fifteen minutes before the stimulant end the fanning of his face and eliadug of his hands revived the merchant. Then, like the famous "consular of Itome," the first words he spoke were of the fight: "Didn't I keep my word with you, Stacy?" "Faith, you did, then!" cried old John. "And a bolder deed I never saw. Only it wasn't necessary. He dad. I'm ashamed of me foolish prank in tempting you up, Mr. Macklom. If it wasn't for my boy being a better man than his father, 'tis a murderer I'd feel meself this minute. Faith, it's a strong sowl ye'vo got in that lit tle wake body! If it wasn't so sense less of ye to insist on ascending for the sake of wan oyster, I dunuo but I'd call ye a hero." "I guess George was the horo on this occasion," said Mayor Mac Dew. Then the contractor had the luncheon brought down to the ninth floor, where Macklom helped to dispose of it with wonderful spirit. The affair illustrates one thing worth remembering in days when newspapers make a fresh set of heroes every time armed men do anything indicating normal human courage. At Stacy's dinner party a nervous, seden tary, small man encountered what was to him an Immense dnuger, and fought his own fear till ho fainted, all from a not despicable desire to keep r ) engagement though the engage ment was entered Into from petty van ity, jealousy and ambition.—Youth's Companion. Government Miners and Next to our agricultural resources the mining wealth of our land is the most; important, and the agitation made some time ago to establish a new department, with a Cabinet Min ister at its head, to look after the mining interests of the United States, indicates how important this Held has become. In the assay offices through out the country there are hundreds of expert chemists and scientists who look after the interests of those who have mines. The man who makes a fortunate discovery of gold or silver does not have to go to a private con cern to have his wealth tested. The nearest Government assay office will do that for him without fear or favor. When the assay is made the poorest miner feels that he has been justly dealt with; but tills feature of the work is only one of many others equally important. The Government has Its corps of mining engineers and experts who examine new mining regions nnd report upon their obser vations. In all these positions under tue Gov ernment some scientific training or knowledge Is necessary as a prelim inary. Tile fear or favor of political pull is less tlinu in most other depart ments. The work is all of a seienttile or semi-scieutlilc character, and a mere political follower or ward hench man can hardly cut a decent tlguro in such a position. Consequently the po sitions are in less demand than the mere clerical ones.—Collier's Weekly. Soma Wealthy Jewish Peddlers. The recent sale of a largo number of east side tenements proved some thing of an eye-opener to the brokers who put through the ileal, concerning (he financial resources of the Inhabit ants of that district. It Is perhaps not generally known that the owners of hundreds of these tenements are east side Jews, who live upon the first lloor, act as Janitor as well as agent, and who carefully put aside the accumulating rentals as a fund for the purchase of additional properties. One of the brokers Interested In the recent deal was approached the other day by a poor-looking man, who of fered to buy a Rutgers street house for $50,000. The broker wanted spot cash. "If you are sure that you can't carry this," he said to his visitor, "I'd advise you not to buy. I want clean money for It—you know—no mort gages." Ills visitor snld not a word. He drew a check hook from Ills pock et, wrote a check for $30,000, and asked the broker to send It to the bank. It was at once dispatched and In a few uiiuutes came back certified. This east side capitalist was, and is, a peddler of feather dusters.—New York Post The Bank of France compels cus tomers checking out money to accept at least on*jy/.th In gold coin. | CURIOSITY AND SCIENCE. ■ Much of the Projfrens of Science Due to tlio Desire to Unravel Mysteries. | Curiosity, It may be safely said, is j the handmaid of science. And to the J men -who : ave found something mys | tevious in the common occurrences of I life, and whose curiosity lias been | sufficiently aroused to unravel the I mystery may require an extraordinary ■ logical power and an Imagination with which not all of us are blessed. But, nevertheless, the process of reasoning which has led to the greatest discover ' ies may be largely attributed to the I very human impulseof inquisitiveness. No doubt many a man before the | time of Columbus had remarked the ] exotic fruits and branches tossed up | by the waves of the Atlantic cn the I shores of the Canary Islands. Such I fruits had never been seen in the Old World, yet tiie islanders had picked them up from time immemorial with i never a thought as to whence they j might come. But the Genoese mari ner had both curiosity and imagina tion. To him these strange gifts of the sea became messages scut from a land which no European ship had ever I touched. It may be taat he was mis | taken in his conception of that land, I but the fact remains, if the story can I bo credited, that then the voyage of I exploration which culminated in the discovery of the New World was first planned. Then we have Newton's apple. It I matters little whether or 110 the apple did fall, or opportunely strike Newton while he was sitting in his garden. Things have fallen ever since tlio uni verse was created. And yet no man seems ever to havo asked himself. Why? Robert Mayer, a chip'a surgeon, cruising in the East Indies, noticed that the venous blood of his patients | seemed redder than that of people liv ing in temperate cllmcs. Doubtless other physicians had also noted tha fact. Mayer pondered over this appar ently insignificant difference in venous blood, and reached the conclusion that the cattso must he the lessor degree of oxidation required to keep up the body temperature in the torrid zone. And it was this conclusion which finally induced him to look upon the body as a machine driven by external forcca. The thought led to the discov ery of the mechanical theory cf heat and to the first comprehensive appro elation cf the great law of the conser vation of energy. Blood-letting is a time-honored practice which is now fallen cut cf favor. But au inquisi tive and discerning physician deduced from it conclusions so marvellous that he has been called "the Galileo cf the nineteenth century." Chemists speak familiarly and learn edly now of the law of substitution, by which they are enabled to explain so many of the eccentricities of car bon compounds. The discoverer of that law was a curious Frenchman named Dumas, who was once invited to a court ball given at the Tullcries. A strong and penetrating odor per vaded the royal ballroom. The guests coughed and sneezed. Dumas also coughed and sneezed, and wondered why. He tells us that he finally rec ognized the odor as that of hydrochlo ric acid, and found that the wax ta pers by which the ballroom was Illu minated had boon bleached with chlo rine. Experiments which tills discov ery subsequently induced him to make proved to him that for the hydrogen in organic compounds other elements couUMie substituted, atom for atom, and that every organic compound was, therefore, a step to every other or ganic compound. No generalization lias contributed more to tlio progress of orgauic chemistry than this law of substitution. Such anecdotes eon be told ad infini tum. Enough have been given to show clearly how simple things are often straws which have guided the current of scientific thought to epoch making discoveries.—Scientific Ameri can. Lose Their llea<l Shopping. When the Japanese peasants get themselves up for a pilgrimage to a city for the purpose of laying in u stock of finery they present the quaint est appearance Imaginable. The wom en generally tuck up their petticoats well above their knees, either leaving the logs bare or else swathing them in white bandages, which form a kind of leggings. Tlieir hair Is done In the usual elaborate Japanese style, and generally an artificial flower is stuck in at the top. It docs look comic to see the wizened face of au old woman with a large red nose lKibnoliblng over it. And this floral decoration is not confined to the women; when you meet a party of, pilgrims you often see the old men also with a flower stuck eoquettishly above the car. At Nagano It appears that many of the poor old dears from the country get so bewildered by the magnificence of the places they go to and the dis tractions of shopping that they quite lose their heads and consequently their way. So the ever-thoughtful Japanese police have insisted that every party of pilgrims is to have dis tinguishing bodge. At Nagano it w.-.s the commonest thing possible to see some ancient dame rushing about wailing, "Where Is my party? Whore is the purple iris party?" or "Where is the yellow-towel-round-the-neck par ty?" And then she would he told that "yellow-towel-round-the-neck par ty" was on its way to the station, or that the "purple Irises" were still say lug their prayers in the temple.—Kan sas City Star. Sealing Wax In a New Form. A new form of scaling wax has re cently been devised. It differs from the ordinary stick wax in that it is in closed in a glass tube, from which It may be poured by heatiug the cylin der. /Jk HOUSEHOLD I IMrturo Moldings. Picture moldings to be correct may either match the wall covering or the woodwork of the room. vii! k The Curving Knife's Edge. r The amateur carver may encounter many difficulties before the "art of carving" is mastered, yet it is a con soling thought tliat tlio majority of the -42 difficulties may be overcome by keep ing the carving knife in good repair. "If you can't have tender beef, the next best tiling is a sharp knife," saidj/ a hotel proprietor, "and a sharp knife and poor beef are much better than the best beef and n dull knife. I know that from years of experience." The conversation turned the subject to carving knives, and the veteran said that "carvers" were harder to keep in order than the ordinary table' knives, because the one who carves does not make use of the steel as much as he should. 1 "It may lie an acid In the beef, or It may he the moisture, or the heat, or all three," sakl the expert, "but there is something about hoi roast beef that takes the edge off a knife and makes it rip where it should cut, aud the fact that the knife is not af fected that way by mutton or linm makes me think tlint tile dullness is the result of the action of beef in- ym gredients on the blade."—Philadelphia l ' Record. Good Way to Clcait Matting. ' To clean malting, sweep it twice— first with a stiff broom, working along the grain of the straw; then crosswise with a soft broom dipped in warm water, rinsing with clean water. This brightens all sorts of colored matting, and also saves it, in a measure, from fading. Very light matting is best washed, after sweeping with weak borax water or rather wiping with cloths wrung out of it. Anything whatever slopped upon a matted floor makes tlio last estate of it much worse than the first. Dust Invariably collects un derneath and, once wet, shows through In ugly dark splotches. For grease spots a grain of prevention beats a ton of cure, but if they exist, cover them quickly with prepared chalk wet witli turpentine, let the mixture remnln for two days, then brush off with a stiff brush. If tlio spots are L very big aud very greasy, put oue- r' eighth as much washing soda as chalk aud mix with water to the thickness . of putty. Little used matting, as in spare chambers or upper summer rooms, should he swept very clean, then wiped with n ciolh wrung out of sweet milk. Do this once a year— it keeps the straw live and to a de gree pliant If the milk-wash is used In a living room or on a piazza follow it by a wiping with a very hot clear water to keep tlio floor from drawing files.—Chicugo Record-llerald. Mint Sherbet—Boil together one quart water aud one-half pound sugar five minutes. Remove leaves from ten good-6ized stalks of mint. Wush carefully, chop tine, then pound to a pulp. Work tills gradually into hot sirup, let stand until cool, strain; add Juice of two lemous, freeze and serve with the meat course. Full Omelet—Stir into the yolks of six eggs aud the white of three beaten very light, one tablespoon of flour mixed into a teacup of milk, with a dash of salt and pepper; melt a table spoon of butter in a pan, pour in tho mixture aud set the pan Into a hot oven; when it thickens pour over it the remaining whites of eggs well beaten; return It to the oven and let It hake n delicate brown. Slip off on a large hot plate aud serve immedi- &i ntely. ■ Creamed Corned B.el—Scald a pint * of milk with a slice of onion aud a stalk of celery; stir into this one fourth a cup each of butter and flour creamed together; let cook fifteen minutes, stirring until thickened and then occasionally add a dash of paprlca and strain over one pint of cold corned beef cut into dice; turn Into a pudding dish aud cover witli half a cup of cracker crumbs mixed with two tnblospoonl'uls of butter; set in the oven to rollout and to brown the crumbs. rineapple Cake—This delicacy re quires immediate consumption. Beal a cup of butter to a cream with two of sugur, add five beaten eggs and half a cup of milk. Sift two tca spooufuls of hakiug powder tlirougk three eups of flour and udd to the eggs, sugar and butter. Bake in jelly tins. Urate a pineapple, using a coarse grater; pour off the juice; add a cupful of grated coeoauut, sweeten A with powdered sugar and spread be- \ tweeu tho layers; cover the top with plain boiled icing aud sprinkle thickly With grated eocounut. , i
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