REEIAID TRIBUNE. ESTABLISHED 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY, 11Y THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited OFFICE; MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE. SUIISCHIITIOV IIATEN FR EEL AND.—l'he TRIBUNE isdelivered by carriers to subscribers iii Freeland at the rat* of !-!-y cents per montb, payable every tsv l mouths, or $! 50 A year, payable in advance The TRIBUNE may be ordered directform the carriers or from the office. Complaints of Irregular or tardy delivery eervice will re. ceive prompt attention. BY MAIL —The TRIBUNE is sent to out-of town subscribers for Sl.sia year, payable in advance; pro rata terms for shorter periods. The date when tho subscription expires is on the address label of each paper. Prompt re newals must be made at tho expiration, ether. Wise the subscription will be discontinued. Entered at tho I'ostofflce at Freeland. Pa. as Second-Class Matter. Make all money orders, checks, cto., payable to the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. Denmark utilizes tlie uiillc of 1,733,- 73a cows In her' dairy Industry. Iu 189S she exported 121,418,431 pounds of butter; in 18! li), 122, 412,.71)3 pounds, and iu 1000, 124,023,803 pounds. The steady Increase in exports is the best testimony to tho inherent value of the product. The large number of educated men who are applicants for positions as warrant machinists in the navy and the rigid examinations to which they arc subjected afford an illustration both of the growing popularity of technical education and of the higher standards demanded in the naval ser vice, observes the Baltimore Sun. Guatemala lias just put into force stringent regulations governing the cutting of timber iu its mahogany and cedar forests. Lumbermen will here after have to pay a big price for the privilege of carrying on their business. The object of the new regulations is to prevent wanton waste in lumbering and to save the forests from total de struction. The Australasian Commonwealth has introduced a hill iu Parliament which prohibits admission iuto Aus tralia of any person "unable to write u fifty-word tost frofii English dicta tion."' It is already provided that no immigrant shall be admitted who Is likely to become a burden on the pub lie purse or who within three years has been convicted of a nonpolitleal offence. The educational qualification is designed to effectively exclude Chi nese and other undesirable immi grants. Our own Congressional Record must look to Its laurels and hurry up if it is not to be surpassed by the parlia mentary record of the youngest State In tho world. In the first live weeks of the session of the Australian parlia ment enough speeches were made to fill SSO closely printed pages, and as the Australians have not learned the trick of "leave to print," this menus that every word in those 580 pages were spoken during the sessions. YVe can fancy some enemy of the speaker saying: Cod of tho southern winds, call up Thy gales And whistle in rude fury 'round his cars. The Klondike is already feeling tho evil effects of forest denudation. Since the discovery of gold there the sparse ly timbered hills of the district have been stripped of all tree growth to fill the extraordinary demands for fuel in milling operations and other purposes. The hills for many miles around nil of the productive creeks are now bare, and the ground being thus exposed the snow accumulated during the winter quickly melts tu the early summer. Tills year there lias been an early and prolonged drought in con sequence and the prospective output of gold has been reduced from $30,- 000,000, the original estimates, to $20,- 000,000, because of the lack of water to wusli the auriferous earth. There is iu Lower California a strange colony of which the outside world rarely hears. It Is made up of outlaws, and some of the most no torious escaped criminals have taken refuge in it. Tbey live in a strange, rugged stretch of country, with the Gulf of California on one side and a range of foothills which spread down toward the Mexican border on the otli e;\ There are no ports at this point on the coast of California, and no railroads reaching in from the other direction, so the men are completely isolated. They are practically pris oners, because they dare not venture out, but no effort has over been made to disturb them in their chosen refuge, though they have been congregating there for years. TEACHERS ANQ TOILERS. If we didn't have this toiling through the Store, the pod.*, nnte the toilers are not dreary, weary years— ever overkind; If we didn't have the heartaches, if we For they lift them not when fallen, and didn't have the tears, they lead them not when blind. We might reap the rarest flowers that Walk their wise disciples with us? Do have blossomed in the dew— they tread the barren soil? We might learn the sweetest lessons that It is one thing to be teaching and another they teach, who never knew! tiling to toil. It is one thing in the trouble—in the So, we burn the daylight for you—o tcach trouble and the strife, ers grave, of men!— To be striving for the laurel that may You that slumber when the darkness sees wreathe the brows of life; us toil in town and glen: To seek in vain that laurel which is ever But you never learn this lesson—which out of reach: — seems ever out of reach:— It is one thing to be toiling, and another It 4 is one thing be toiling, and another thing to teach. thing to teach. —Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Const*ution. 1 THE PARACHUTE DROP. I 8f 8s 83 81 Told by fir. Lane-Stokes, Aeronaut. THE parachute now is to the balloon and to the air ship what tho lifeboat is to the ocean steamer. No well ap pointed balloon goes voyaging into the aerial ocean without one. Scientific aeronauts, like Professor Myers, do not approve of them, but they have become indispensable to balloonists who do a holiday exhibi tion business. The public is quite as fond of the parachute "drop" as of the balloon itself. People not only like to see a man go up, hut they wish to see him come down. The parachute, like the balloon, is noAV too well known to require de scription. When folded, the parachute and its lines hang down about thirty live feet from the "basket" of the bal loon. When expanded, the "umbrel la" is from twelve to fifteen feet in diameter. Although light, tho frame and lines must needs be made very strong In descending the aeronaut generally sits ou a species of trapeze bar, which is supported at each end by the lines from the umbrella above It. When ready to drop from the bal loon, the aeronaut, who Is necessarily somewhat of an athlete, descends to the trapeze bar, then pulls a cord at tached to the "knife" set In the block above, through which the supporting lino is reeved. The knife-edge, when jerked smartly down on the taut line, severs it cleanly—and the descent he gins. For the first hundred feet the parachute drops like a stone, then un folds with a flirt, checks the descent, and thereafter for a thousand feet or more sinks gradually earthward at a rate of hardly more than ten feet a second. Under favorable conditions, descent by parachute is not particularly haz ardous to an active young man who possesses quick sight and good judg ment as to distances. Altogether the narrator has made about 150 descents by parachute—and is still alive and well. Beyond doubt, there are certain dangers from sud den gusts of wind which may waft tho parachute over rivers, canals, small ponds, tree tops or the sleep roofs of buildings. I once fell into the top of a rotv of sugar maples in front of n farmhouse, and was some what scratched while tumbling through tho branches to the earth. On another occasion, some twenty miles out of .Tackson, Mich., I had the ill fortune to drop on a row of bee hives. I upset four of tho hives at once, and the angry lusoets gave me clear proof of their resentment before I could c-lear myself from tho para chute lines. And as I was running away as fast as I could tho equally angry owner of the bees pursued me with abuse and peremptory demands for recompense. In fact I found him rather worse than the bees. On Lnbor Day, the following year, I made an ascent from a New England factory town, and in descending, acci dentally dropped into the top of a pear tree in a farmer's garden. I not only knocked off a bushel of fine pears, but broke the top of the tree rather badly. The man deemed S2O (all the money I had about me) too slight remuneration for the damage I had done. He not only seized my parachute, vi et nrmis, hut prosecuted me at law. Tho jury, however, awarded him but sl2, with out costs of court. On another occasion I received a most unmerciful thrashing, hut not, I am glad to say, at the hands of human beings. On this occasion I had made an ascent from a large Canadian town. It was some sort of a holiday there, and a great crowd of lumbermen, mill meu, river drivers and farmers from the surrounding country had flocked to the town. I was to go up at 2. hut before noon there arose a stiff south wind which portended rain. I there fore attempted to cancel the engage ment; It was highly dangerous to make an ascent In such weather, but the crowd would not take this view of the conditions. Tho lumbermen and river drivers gathered around, yelling like wild man. They had be come suspicious that I was trying to cheat them. They swore that they had come thirty miles to see me go up, and go up I should, or they would smash my balloon and drive me out of town. It was taking my life in my hand, but rather than face that angry crowd I east off, soared upward over houses and churches, and went flying toward Hudson Bay. Hudson Bay, it is true, was 1200 miles distant, but at the rate I was I was going when the balloon rose into that strong wind I concluded that I should get there by sundown. I was advertised to inako a descent by parachute in the neighborhood of the town, where the assembled multi tude could see mo come doivu, but that was entirely a fair weather ar rangement. I wore my exhibition suit of spangled tights under my street clothes as usual, but when I saw how the wind blew I had no notion of attempting to use the parachute. In fact, I "was as cending under compulsion, and had no clear idea how I should get down. X wanted to get away from that crowd. I actually had been afraid they would kill me If I failed to go up. The howl ing was something frightful. "Good-bye, you unfeeling animals!" I shouted. "Unless tills balloon bursts you will not see me again very soon!" An upturned sea of swarthy faces was watching for me to descend. However, I had Soon left them all behind. Now that I was aloft, borne on tho wings of the mighty air current I did not feel the wind at all. The bal loon moved with it. Not a breath seemed to stir. It was only by look ing down at the earth that I saw how rapidly I was traveling onward, over river, wide spruce forests and scat tered clearings. I knew the story of La Mountain and his balloon, and had a horror of being carried off iuto the Canadian wilderness. I hoped that In tho course of an hour or two the wind might fall, or the direction of the air current change. The balloon continued to go steadily forward, however, in a northerly course until tlm little clearings and cabins below grew few and far be tween. I must have traveled nearly 150 miles when I saw a large lake, or rather a group of three or four lakes, come into view on the horizon. Di rectly tho black of the spruce woods had begun to fade into the pale gray of mossy hogs of tamarack and the purple hue of caribou barrens. I could not see a clearing or sign of hu man habitation anyAvliere. The crowd which I had left behind was bad enough, but the unexplored wilderness of lake and swamp ahead of me be gan to have an aspect even more grim and terrifying. Moreover, I desired, If possible, to save my balloon. To de scend in a gale is always perilous, but there seemed no help for it. I dared not try the parachute, and so finally I pulled open the gas valve. The bal loon soon began to approach the gray swamps that stretched away to the lakes ahead. All the time I was flying as fast as a horse could run; and as I sank lower I perceived that I was likely to do some rough "trailing." When I came within 300 or 400 feet of the ground I threw out a strong grapnel and line, which swung clear for some minutes, then began to brush the tall tree tops and catch in them. By good luck—of which I had had little enough thus far that day—these slight hitches greatly diminished the speed of the balloon, and the grapnel soou catching stronger hold, basket, balloon and all came down with a sud den hard flounce in a thicket of low, shrub-like firs, bordering a small bay on one of the lakes—and there, hold ing fast, swayed up and down. I was pitched out of the basket into mud and water, but jumped to my feet and started to run back among tho thick firs to secure the anchorage when I became suddenly aware that I was not alone. A loud squawking and squalling arose all about me. I had come down in a swamp where wild geese were on their nests. I was actually treading on them and on their great white eggs before I saw them. Every fir bush, with its widespread boughs, appeared to have a nest under it. The outcry that all these geese set up was something deafening. They rose up, flapping their wings, hissing and squalling, and at once from ail s'des, from the thickets and from the pond, there came rushing, flying, skim ming over the firs whole flocks of the biggest and most savage gray ganders I ever set eyes on. They dashed at me, at the balloon, at the parachute, and at the basket, and bit like bulldogs, and the blows from their long, hard wings were like blows from a flail. Before I could make shift to defend myself with my knife or balloon hook they had hold of me by my clothing, by my legs, by my hair even, tug ging, yelling and thrashing me. One pinched my cheek so that the blood flowed. Their wings pounded my head like clubs. I dodged this way and that, and laying about me with the staff of my hook, knocked down ganders right and left, but still they came. I lost a moment In a foolish effort to got my revolver from the wicker lock er in the basket, and was well nigh overborne. If once they had beaten me down they would have killed me, oeyond doubt, but I now began jump ing from side to side among the dodging and striking with the hook. These tactics confused the ganders, for In their mad fury they flow blind ly against each other. I con stantly stumbling Into more nesta, but kept in the fir brush, scudding this way and that, as tho ganders charged me. After this fashion I retreated for nearly a mile, I think, fighting all tho way till I got among larger trees when the attack slackened. ! Rain began falling. I was In about | as bad a plight as can well be im agined! Night was at hand, night in an untrodden wilderness. I saw a boar looking at me from out on a tam arack bog, and getting frightened I started to run. I had not gone far, however, when I heard the report of a gun. Thereupon shouting for help I ran In the direction of the noise, and In the course of a few minutes met an Indian coming to find me. lie had seen the balloon come down, and was curious to see the man who traveled In the air. He led me out to the bank of a river where there was a bark camp and three other Indians. They received me kindly. Installed me in a warm corner of their camp out of the rain, and gave me all the fried deer meat I could eat. But when I talked with them of re turning to the swamp to recover tho balloon they shook their heads, and gave me to understand that it was as much as a man's life was worth to venture Into a goose swamp In breed ing time. The object lesson I had re ceived led me to believe that their fears wore well grounded. The next morning the Indian who had found me led me through the for est for fifteen or twenty miles to a sawmill on a branch of the Gatineau River, where I hired a Frenchman with a shaggy little black horse and buckboard to drive me forty miles to a French settlement called Maniwaki, and from this place I got back two days later to the town from which I made the ascent. I had lost my balloon and had come near losing my life; yet tho celebra tion committee which had hired mo to make the ascent refused to pay me more than half the sum agreed upon, because I had not made the descent by parachute. Since that bit of expe rience I take care to get my pay of celebration committees in advance, and also to see to it that an "iron clad" clause concerning the matter is inserted In the agreement.—Youth's Companion. HINT TO COUNTRY MERCHANTS. Tho Local Weekly llin Defense Agniiiflt Mall Order Hounes. Tho country merchant is making a (treat talk about the mall order houses in the his cities who arc getting trade aivay from him, but with all his out cry ho is really making 110 serious ef fort to prevent it, says the Advertising World. You can't stop people from buying where they think they can lmy the cheapest, simply by the use of in vective. The only way the country merchant can hope to compete with (he mall order houses Is by meeting them on their own ground—by adver tising. There is absolutely no hope for tho business of the couutry merchant un til he corrects a few of his time worn views about advertising. Advertising is simply telling what you have to sell and the price. It makes no difference if your ads. are not written hy an ex pert or illustrated by a high-priced art ist, you can make them effective and result producing if you boar in mind the one point that an ad. should tell about what you have to sell and not simply about yourself. The advertising done by the average country merchant is usually something frightful. He docs not consider adver tising a force by which he is to di rectly increase his business, but as a kind of leg-pulling proposition on the part of 1 lie local newspaper. Any old tiling will do him in the way of an an nouncement, and the smaller the space the editor will let him down with the better the bargain he Imagines he has made. Some merchants carry nothing hut a stereotyped card, year in and year out, yet if they stopped to think, they find that they have dozens of things they eouhl sell at less than reg ular prices and which, if made known, would attract many buyers who would otherwise seud to the big cities for tlieui. The secret of the success of the mail order firms is situply because their advertisements tell something. Any kind of advertising is of course better than none. All advertising pays in some way or another, but the merchant who does no advertising at all, because ho is not able to afford big pages, tnnkes one large mistake. If you can't do the best advertising, do the best you can. What the best Is that you can do may seem very small, but advertising is something that pays for Itself and it increases right along. A Burning Question At Erjn VlnwT, "Of course, some of our problems in mathematics are very puzzling," said the Eryu Jlawr sophomore, "but there is a far harder question which is in 110 way connected with our studies. There is an unwritten law in Bryu Jlawr that a gill must not walk aione with a professor, and we are all very care ful about observing it. There is an other rule, also unwritten, tlurt a stu dent must not walk about alone nfter dark. Now, if a girl is detained un avoidably ill the evening, and while walking home meets a professor going her way, which rule is she to break? There have been a gTeat many hitter discussions about that point, and no body hns ever reached a decision." "Yes," said her friend, sympatheti cally, "it must he a very troublesome quest an. But what does a girl gen erally do when she is caught in such an embarrassing situation?" "Oh, that," replied the young col legienne, "depends entirely on how well she likes the professor."—New York Times. CHEAT ON "POINTS." Pfrtl Doc; Whow Natural Traits Amonnfc od to a Mania. "Talking about bird dogs," said the man with the shifty eye, in the rear seat of the trolley car—and tiobody had said a word aliout bird dogs or any other kind of dogs—"l had the most remarkable bird dog tbat ever happened, I guess, when I was living out in Santa Barbara, Cnl„ in 'O3. I don't s'pose there will ever be the likes of that dog on this earth again. I raised Idm from a pup. He was a pointer from away baek. It was just as natural for tbat dog to llop on to bis haunches and point at a bird as it is for us humans to eat things that don't agree with us. "He began to point before be had shed his milk teeth. I took him out for a walk one day when he was only about two months old,, and it took us nbout four hours to get over two miles of ground, for that dog would sit down and point at a bird about every ten feet of our progress. It didn't make any sort of difference what' kind of a bird it was that he pointed at. He'd point at any old kind of a bird. If n little bunch of English sparrows would settle down in the middle of the street he'd just sit down and point at them, and it was all I could do to get him to come along with me. He'd point at a robin sitting on top of a Cottonwood tree, and he'd point at a Brahim rooster clawing up a flower bed in a front yard. Any old thing ibat had feathers on it that dog of mine would point at. Had him out one afternoon when n bald headed eagle began to soar around above Santa Barbara, about three miles up in the air, and blamed if tbat dog didn't catch sight of the no ble bird and point nt it until I had to bat him witli a club to induce him to come along with me. "One day I had an aching tooth, and 1 decided to go to a dentist and have the miserable molar yanked out. I felt so bad that I took that pointer pup along with me for company on my way to the tentist's office, and when he got to the door he slipped into the office with me. Next thing I knew that pointer pup of mine was sitting back on his quarters, a-point ing at a picture of some rallied grouse that the dentist had on the wall of his reception room. "In the course of time pointing got to be a regular mania of that dog's, and I couldn't take him out for exer cise very often on account of his habit of lagging behind and point nt feath ered things. Took him out one afternoon when he was about a year old, and a furniture van with a lot of pillows piled on top of some beds came along. One of tho pillows was broken at the side and a lot of feath ers escaped. That dog of mine saw the flying feathers, and blame me if he didn't sit down "and point at that furniture van. Fact. "But that wasn't the cutest thing he ever did. Tho cutest thing he ever did was one afternoon when I took him down to the Santa Barbara beach for a walk on tho sand. I hadn't any sooner got him down to the beach than he sat down and began to point out to sea. I couldn't for the life of me make out what he was painting at. There wasn't ary a bird, not even a seagull, in sight. But he kept right on squatting there at the verge of the sea and pointing out over the water and if ever a man was puzzled, then I was. At first I calculated that lie might be mistaking the crests of the waves for feathers, but no, a little re flection convinced mo that he wasn't any such a fool dog as to do a thing like that. Then I noticed that he was pointing directly nt a white ship that lay out in the harbor. I pulled out my field glasses and took a lock at the ship, and then the mystery was made clear. The ship he was point ing at was the United States mnn o'-war Petrel," and then the man with the shifty eye executed a sudden leap and escaped from the car before his wrathful listeners could hop on him and macerate him.—Washington Star. When Sjiuin Died. Spain died of empire centuries ago. She has never crossed our path. It was only her ghost which walked at Manila and Santiago. In 1030, tho Augustlninn friar La Puento thus wrote of the fate of Spain: "Against the credit for redeemed souls I set the cost of armadas and the sacrifice of soldiers and friars sent to the Phil ippines. And this I count the chief loss, for mines give silver, and forests give timber, but only Spain gives ■Spaniards, and she may give up so many that she may be left desolate and constrained to bring up strang ers' children instead of her own." "This is Castile," said a Spanish knight; "she quakes men and wastes them." "This sublime and terrible phrase," says Lieutenant Carlos Cll eum Calkins, from whom I have re ceived both those quotations, "sums up Spanish history." The warlike nation of to-day Is tho decadent nation of to-morrow. It has ever been so, and in the nature of things it must ever be.—Popular Sci ence Monthly. Tlio Foot Politician. Whenever I hear or read of a poli tician in office giving orders to "keep reporters out o' here," "don't lot 'em talk to me," "tell 'em I ain't got noth ing to say to newspapers," etc., I can see his finish. The lunatic forgets that it is the newspapers, through their re porters, that made him. Jhe suc cessful politician always talks to re. porters. He does not necessarily give them the Information they seek, but by Implication and suggestion gener ally puts them on the right trail. Onij tho pinlieads of polities seclude them selves.—New York Press. V£4' ~£ACTS. IHT> | At Wilkesbarre, Penn., there is a man who owns a lottery ticket issued by a Presbyterian church in Pittsburg as "authorized by law." It Is dated June 3, 1807. On the Italian stamps are Italian towns with Austrian stamps, showing tho long dominion of Austria over parts of Italy. On some of the old stamps arc marked the keys of St. Peter, sur mounted by the miter of the Bishop of Uomc. j Tho reason given for tho substitution of tho drum for the trumpet in the ! Italian army is that in these days of short service a young soldier loams to march to tho drum far sooner than to the trumpet. Again, it is found tbat trumpeters are very subject to pulmon ary affections. An ear will be banded down, so to 6peak, from father to son for genera tion after generation, with compara tively little modification. Some au thorities on criminology assert tbat criminals are very apt to possess a pe culiar kind of ear. which is recogniza ble by an expert in such matters. Every robemalcer in London always keeps some o£ the most expensive robes of state—those of a registrar, for instance—ready, and lends them out when ofiicinls have to use them nt any great ceremony. Many a peer, when his portrait is to be added to the family picture gallery, has ob tained the crimson and ermine from his tailor for a small consideration. John Foe, of Mtlltown, N. J., lost his arms thirty-two years ago, but be can do most things that oilier men ac complish by the aid of those members. Says be: "Anybody can get along with out liis arms if lie lias to. Every lime I row, fish, hunt or plow I find a bet ter way to do it, and it continually grows easier to get along." Tiie arm less wonder is not new. Mon: eigne described an exhibiting one of the .six teenth century in words that would fit a modern press notice. Among the curious insects of tho Malay peninsula recently studied by Mr. Nelson Annandale, of the London Zoological Society, is one called tiie lantern-fly, which is remarkable for its sudden leaps, made without the aid of its wings. It was only after lie had carried a specimen hack to London and carefully exumlned it that Mr. Annandale discovered that a curious projection on the front of its head, a kind of nose with a crease in it, was the leaping organ. When bent hack under the abdomen and suddenly re leased It sent the insect flying. In China the mortal part of the dead Is put under the control of a geomau cer, a man wise In the mysterious in fluences of Feng Shun. Feng Shun is a superstition concerning the earth and air forces, and it operates power fully in all Chinese matters, but in none more powerful than in 1 lie burial of tho dead. That the grave should be so located as to invite the good influ ences and avert the evil Influences of Feng Sliua is the great consideration, for which tho good offices of the gco mancer are sought—at a round price. All graves must be protected on the north, as from that direction the ma lign influences usually come. Hence the grave is placed on tho south slope of a hill, with protective architecture built on the hillside or, if on a level, is supplemented by a walk, half circling It on the north. Wan Uncertain. The pecuniary difficulties in which aspirants for literary fame become involved have inspired many an anecdote. "Here's a poem on the 'lmerald Oisle,' sorr," said a frayed-looking in dividual to the editor of a weekly newspaper lu a large town, "an' it's hoping you'll take it, 01 am." "What is your address?" inquired the editor. "That depends entoirely on you, sorr." "Depends on me," echoed the edi tor; "what do you mean?" "If you take the poem, sorr. mo ad dthrcss will slitill be siventy-wan King-sthrate," replied the sanguine poet; "but if you dou't take it. it's mesilf that'll be left without any ad dthress to me name. If mo landlady lcapes her wurrd, sorr:"—London Spare Moments. Ills Scale of Prices. An Oklahoma editor, who is a deep thinker, has fixed a table of rates for publishing things "not as they seem," says the Jefferson (Texas) Jiuiplecut, as follows: "For calling a man a successful citizen when every one knows he Is lazier than a government mule, ,$3.73; referring to a deceased citizen as one who is sincerely mourned by the entire community, when wo know lie will only be missed by the poker circles, $1.08; referring to some gallivanting female as au estimable lady whom It Is a pleasure to meet, when every business man in town bad rather see the devil com ing. hoofs, horns and all, than to see her coming towards them, if3.ll>; calling an ordinary pulpit pounder an eminent divine. 00 cents; sending a tough sinner to heaven with poetry, $3.00." The small German university town of Jena has no fewer than seven free reading-rooms, with newspapers and hooks.
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