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Make all money orders, checks, eti.jfiy ble to the Tribune I'rinUng Company, Limited, j Trie perpetual lamp Invented by a Chicago man will perhaps enable va riable people always to see things In the same light. When the Anglo-Boer war began South Africa was sending gold In large quantities to England. Ever since England has been sending large quaa- i titles of gold to South Africa. The 10 principal items In the agr!- I cultured export trade of the United States are: Breadstuffs, cotton, meat products, live animals, tobacco, oil cake and oil cake meal, vegetable oils, fruits and nuts, dairy products and seeds. The reindeer problem is to again be taken up by the government. Twelve thousand of the animals are to bo ; shipped from Siberia to Alaska. Cli- j matlc conditions are so similar that it does seem that success ought to at tend the effort. An international scientific clearing house has been established in Switzer land for receiving new ideas in every branch cf zoological and physiological research. But the institution has been burdened with the jawbreaking name of Ribliographicum Concilium. The late drouth has brought irriga tion to the front as one of the live end vital Issues of the day. Nebras ka gives an exemplification of the cost and benefits: $4,775,984 has provided water with which to irrigate 2,000,000 acres, and the land Itself has already been enhanced $17,000,000 in value. The old tradition that the Eskimos are a people of small stature is with out foundation. On the contrary, in Labrador, Baffin's Land,and all around Hudson Bay, the height of the men Is probably above, rather than below the average of the human race, but, as a rule, the women, although very strong, arc considerably shorter than the men. Experts who have looked into the matter carefully say that the consump tion of oatmeal Is falling off in Scot land in proportion to the population, and that it is no longer the distinct ive national oish in the country of Burns and Scott But whatever our Scotcn friends may be eating in these days, they are holding their own in the world quite as well as their fore fathers neld theirs. Brains will tell with any diet. A strike instituted by the boy cad dies in a Chicago golf club recently was promptly settled by the employ ment of a lot of girls, who are said to be giving good satisfaction. The striking boys would have promptly boycotted or fought other boys had they been appointed to fill the vacan cies created by the abandonment of their bags; but as the girls are unas sailable the strike has proved a mis erable failure. Australia Wants a Navy. Sir John Forrest, the Minister for Defense, for Australia, is engaged in halting a federal naval policy. He tnnounccs the eventual formation of in absolutely Australian navy, which to looks upon as being speedily neees avy. The existing system of paying Sreat Britain for her naval defense he teems unsatisfying to the aspirations >i the Commonwealth. Meanwhile he iroposes to maintain local brigades iid to encourage the seafaring ele nents ou the coast. Kummel, a sweetened spirit Import ed from Russia and Germany, derives its title from the German name of the herb cumin, with which it Is fla vored, though caraway seeds are also used for the same purpose. One lior3e power, a3 established among engine makers, is the capacity to raise 32,000 pounds one foot per minute. As this estimate was based upon the capacity of the huge draft horses of London, it Is about twice the average power of a horse. WHO? WHERE? WHAT? BT ERNEST NEAL LYON. Ab. bad some happier star sbon* o'er my birth, Had I awoke to purple and to gold. I would have wrought some star-bright deed of worth, Tn silver sentences forever told* Fo runs the ditty of an idle brain. But wisdom crieth, in a statelier strain, Who art thou? But an accident of chance. Where art thou? The caprice of circum stance. What art thou? Destiny doth only ask. What may thou be? Thy heaven-entrusted task To win or falter in an equal strife; To carve the mysti-a marble of a life To gorgon or to angel—as thou please. Arouse thee from the_ lotus-land of ease, The melancholy midnight of despair, From indecision's heart-benumbing chill. Like wispen straw will wither "Who?" and "Where?" Before the flame of aij enkindled will! ;; -Callier'B Weekly. T^ b R D UE k j| WEST ot old Fort Abercrom blo, and yet still in tbo Jted River Valley, there are various wild rice marshes where the birds from the North linger in the late fall, feeding, and over which they fly In the early spring on their return to British America. These wild rice marsbeß were uiore attractive eighteen and twenty years ago than they are to day. Hunters were not so frequent then, water more plentiful and the fowl not so wary. It was no unusual tiling for a chance sportsman linger ing in the vicinity of Abercrombie to visit the marshes and from a morn ing's shooting to return laden with a score or more of birds. 'The Indians had much favored the marshes before tliey were driven out of the valley. Early settlers sought them for the fresh meat of the ducks, a welcome change front the canned and salted goods carried in the few general stores. How many acres these marshes cov ered probably was never determined. The lanes which ran through them, lined on both sides with roads, if stretched out one after the other, might have extended to the Canadian line. They were treacherous lanes, one looking just like the other, appar ently without outlet, ever twisting and turning, wickedly misleading In the dusk of the evening when the hunter sought to bring his flat-bottomed boat to land. "I wouldn't go out In 'em without I had a guide," said oue of the farm ers whose land ran down to the edge of the marshes to one of the surveyors of the Fargo Southern Itoad, who had taken a couple of days from work aud Intended hunting ducks. The hunter regarded the advice as superfluous. It was the night before he was to go out, aud lie sat at llit west approach to the shack looking out over the marshes. They seemed to stretch away to the very horizon's edge, yellow crested now in the light of the setting sun. "I'll bring you hack the reil-winged duck to show you I cau go it alone," he snid, with a laugh. The farmer shook Ills head. "There ain't no man over chased the red-winged duck in there," lie said, "that ever come out alive. You let that bird alone if you see It." Now there was nothing more to the "red-winged duck" superstition than this: The first settlers ou the edges or the marshes were familiar with the Indians, aud these told them that the rice fields were sacred to the red winged duck and must not be hunted over. They snid that the red-winged duck was a special diely ol' the entire duck family, that the red wing was Its distinguishing mark made by the spirits of the marshes, that It hud the power of taking human life anil of enchanting enemies. It Is more than probable that the tale was told for the purpose of keeping white men off of Indian hunting grounds, hut as the years passed aud fatalities became numerous among the marsh hunters the story grew in proportions until (he red duck became a reality in the minds of many. Many professed to have seen the strange bird, hut their descriptions varied, and if the fowl really existed there was 110 exact data at hand with which to Identify it. So the surveyor, whose name was Frank Adams, laughed when warned aud sought his bed quite unconcerned about anything hut getting an early start. lie left the farmhouse at ti the uext morning, just before sunrise, and when ho could hear the wild fowl moving restlessly in their hiding places, preparing for flight will: tlie rising of the sun. Adams arranged his two guns iu the scow furnished him, secured his pad dle and pole, aud with the first sign of light in tlie East pushed away from the land and was lost to sight among i the reeds, lie took no bearings, made no mark as to where lie was going or how lie would return. The retriever he had with him laid cold aud quiv ering iu the bottom of the scow. Ahead there was game; hark, nothing lint tlie blinding reeds. For tlie first hour Adams had good sport, liis guns spoke often, and by the time he began to feel a bit tired over a dozen plump birds had been conquered l)y l,im. He poked in and cut the rood lanes, heard the whirring of wings and tiie startled cry of the fowl, reaped a rich harvest, and final ly made up his mind to paddle in from where he had started from. He stood high in the seow, hut a million reeds and sashes obscured liis view. Water aislesopened in every direction. One ran into the other. Where they led to it was impossible to determine. He could only settle down to paddling and tlie hope that prolonged efTot) might bring him out safe. He dlCj paddle for an hour or more, but no solid land appenred, nor did he seem to have changed his original location much. He tried to see ahove the reeds and get a glimpse of the farmhouse, but the rank vegetation was far above hL head. He broke down a bunch of reeds and marked them with his hand kerchief. Then he paddled for an other hour. At the end of that time he was startled to see the handker chief before him. He had been travel ing In a circle. He twiddled again and again he came back to the handker chief, thoroughly exhausted. He fired his gun repeatedly, hoping he might attract attention, but no other hunters were out, and if he was heard on land the people thought he was still after game. The noon came and the hot, fall af ternoon of the prairies. The retriev er slept by the dead game and Adams drowsed In his scat. TLe night settled down, the cog howled, the awful silence of the marshes came down from the star-lit sky and rested heavily upon the dark waters. Nw.. j Did the red duck come upon Adams? Who shall say. Did the deified bird placed in the marshes to guard all Its kind lead him on In the circle his boat traveled hour after hour? Did he rench out his hands to grasp it as it circled fatefully ahove his seow? Did he have it once within his grasp, this bird of the gods? No one will ever say. But some time during Ills long stay In the marshes one of the guns of Adams burßt itself and In the flying of the metal took his life. When the searchers found him at last he was down In the boat dead, guarded by the retriever, companioned by the game he had killed. When they opened his clenched right hand to compose his body they found In the palm a tiny red feather, not long from the wing of some fowl. So perhaps the red duck was with him after all.—ll. I. Cleveland, in the Chicago Record-Herald. Connection Between Ttcat and Crime. Summer after summer comes, and some among us are still wondering, as they wondered years ago, as to tho connection between heat and murder. Why is the revolver so near and the hand so prone to the billy on a hot night, especially after there has been indulgence in a picnic or other cup festival? Why do homicides coincide with heat and mosquitoes The ques tion is easy. Heat, mosquitoes, whisky, beer, stifling bedrooms, swarming and unclean fire-escapes, asphalt smells, too little cold water Inside and outside —these, and lurking jealousies which possibly might go hang In the winter, nourish passions. The remedy is sim ple—that Is, an emollient may readily he devised. Less poverty would help greatly, hut we can't diminish that by public action, because so inaiiy people have acquired the habit of poverty and persist in it, while so many others are defeated by poverty and are unable to recover. Less of the rum habit would help, but we can't do much here, for the rum habit is not conquerable by law. But the community can lessen some of the evils of heat by insisting upon better tenements, more cleanli ness in them and the street, more small parks and recreation wharves, more free chairs in the parks, and many, many more bathing places. Comfort, coolness, mental and moral placidity, which would accomplish all that is possible to the municipality or to humanitarians to disarm tho victims of wrath-compelling sun, nleohol and discomfort. The Observer, in Har per's Weekly. Mr. Carnegie UH U Gift Horßc. The gift horse, which it was on-e thought not quite civil to look In the mouth, has been having Us teeth rath er unsparingly examined of late, so far as it lias taken the shapo of free public libraries. In fact, a general largess, of more than royal, of more than imperial munificence, to the Scotch universities from the same lavish hand which has scattered its peculiar benefuctious broadcast over our own laud, was critically studied by the authorities before a grateful acceptance closed the incident. The acceptance was not indecently de layed, however, and the gratitude was of much more apparent reality than the misgiving, so that lie might well believe the Scotch universities hnd never the serious question which seems to have beset some American thinkers respecting our gift horse, or horses, at a somewhat later stage of events. They may have been more used to gift horses in Scotland; at any rate, they know liow more grace fully to manage them, and they at least do not continue the inspection of their mouths after they have got them in tlie stable. To be sure, the Scotch beneficiaries were not pledged to such terms relating to the caro aad keep of the gift horses as tlie American com munities, which, in tlie process of time, may find them rating their heads off.—V.. 1). Howells, in Harp er's Magazine. From Sew York.to St. rctcrstmrg. An observing and progressive Alas ka pioneer says that lie expects to live to see tlie day when there will lie a continuous line of railway from New York to St. Petersburg byway of Bering Strait. One link in the line is from Port Ynldez on tho sea to the Yukon River, at the mouth of the Tanana, and another link will ho from the Yukon to Nome, When those roads have been completed a line across the Strait to Siberia will, in his opinion, he sure to follow. If expand lug commerce demands such a ro.*.d plenty of money will be supplied, nnd all the engineering difficulties will he overcome. The Modern Author. His pen that never lacks for ink lie drives with eager clutch; If he should ever atop to think He couldn't write so much. —Washington Star. A lleflnltiou. Little Elmer—"Pa, what is an opti mist?" Prof Broadhcad—"A person who Is constantly expecting the unexpected to happen."—Leslie's Weekly. A Paternal Indiscretion. Mr. Jones—"Our hoys don't seem to respect me as they should." Mrs. Jones—"Well, you oughtn't to have let them find out that you could n't fly u box kite."—Detroit Free Press. a?" A Neighborly Cell. "Have you called on the uew neigh bors next door yet, Mrs. Glibhinß?" "Yes, I have. Their hoy threw some thing and hit my Willie, aud I called on them for nu explanation."—Phila delphia Bulletin. Benny's Hedge. "Benny Bloombumper, how do we know that the moon is 240,000 miles distant from the earth?" Benny (alarmed at the teacher's manner) replied, "Y-y-yeu said so your self, sir."—Tlt-Bltß. Would Die Hard. "I am sorry," said the physician to the ossified man, "but you cannot live long.' "Well," replied the ossified man, "when the time comes I will die hard." —Ohio State Journal. Dlfllcult tO I'ICRRf. Dribbles—"ls it truo that the editor of Blank's Magazine is a particular friend of yours?" Scribbles—"Yes, very particular. He rejects everything I scud him."—Chi cago Record-llcrald. Slight lie pit Irs Needed. Aged Beau—"William, are my eye brows on straight and my ears prop erly crimped?" Valet—"Yes, six - , hut your left shoul der has slipped down u little. There, sir, you are quite correct."—Chicago Tribune. Within Limits. "Money is like blood," said the Spendthrift Nephew, "it isn't any good unless it keeps in circulation." "Yes," answered the Wise Uncle, "but you shouldn't let either of them get away from you."—Baltimore American. A Genius. "You say lie has an inventive turn of mind? What lias he devised that is so wonderful?" "Nothing; hut lie has six new ex cuses every week for being late at the office in tlie morning."—Chicago Rec ord-Herald. The lleul Cnuse. Miss Gabhey—"l suppose it was the kisses he stole from Mrs. Gidday on tlie porch that evening that started all this scandal." Mr. Short—"Not at all. It was tho gossips who saw the kisses stolen."— Philadelphia Press. 1) rapping. Church—"l must go and droji a line to my wife." Gotham —"I thought you said she was up iu the mountains?" Church—"So she is." Gotham—"Well, how can you drop a line upward?"—Yonkers Statesman, The Way or the World. Horton—"You used to think Beinber was a great friend of yours. 1 notice he never offers to help you now that you need help." Snobel—"No; hut then, you must not forget how free he was to offer me as sistance when I didn't need it."—Bos ton Transcript. Evidence Still In Sight. "You oughtn't to complain, ma'am," the busy grocer said, "if only one bas ket of those peaches turned out had. Three dozen boxes of 'em rotted on my hands last Saturday." "I believe liiui, mamma," said Tom my, in a loud whisper. "His hands look like it."—Chicago Tribune. Then 110 Gave Up. "What is your age?" asked the great coarse business man of the applicant for the position of cashier. "Well-er—l can't tell you that," slio replied. "Do you kuow what day you were horn on?" "Oil, yes; I was torn on a Sunday." —Philadelphia Press. A liny of i'l -misc. "Johnny," said the teacher after reading tlie youngster's "note from His father" excusing his absence from school the day hefoie, "it seems to me your father's writing Is very like your." "Yes," replied Johnny, unabashed, "you know they say I take after I'op in everything."—Catholic Standard and Tlme3. None Here. Tired of the long-winded oratory of the attorney lor the defense, the judge interrupted him. "Mr. Sharkc," he said, "may I ask you a question?" "Certainly, your Honor, what is it?" "Language," said the judge, "we are told, is given to conceal thought, or words to that effect. Inasmuch as you don't seem to have any thought to conceal, I would like to know why you are talking?"— Chicago Tribune. THE CHRONIC LEANERS. A Clan of People Who Never Make • Success. A large proportion of the failures in life are to be found in the ranks of the chronic leaners, says Success. I-lverywhere we go we meet earnest, conscientious workers, who nro amazed that they do not get on faster. They wax eloquent over their fancied wrongs, tho injustice that confines them to inferior grades, while persons with no more education, ability or per severance than they possess are ad vanced over their heads. To the casual observer they seem to have cause for grievance; hut when we analyze these people we find what the trouble really Is. They are incapa ble of Independent action. They dare not make the slightest move without assistance from some outside source, the advice or opinion of some one on whose judgment they are wont to rely. They have no confidence in themselves—do not trust their own powers. They have never learned to stand squarely on their feet, to think their own thoughts, aud make their own decisions. They have leaned upon somebody from childhood, all through the formative period of character buildings, until a habit of leaning is ehrouic. Any faculty which is unused for a long time loses Its power. It Is a law ef nature that we must use or lose. If a man ceases to exercise his muselss they soon become weak and flabby. The same inexorable law gov erns man's mental powers. So, the men and women who have never learned the fundamental lesson of self reliance, who have never used their God-given faculties in reasoning with themselves, making their own deci sions, and being their own final court of appeal, grow up weaklings, para sites. God intended them to stand alone, to draw upon His inexhaustible power without stint. He meant them to he oaks, hut they have become vines. Not realizing that all growth is from within, they have reversed this fundamental truth, uud endeav ored to draw their strength from the outside. But the price we pay for this shift ing of responsibility Is a very heavy one—the loss of our klugdom. We voluntarily abdicate the throne of per sonality, resign tlie priceless privilege conferred upon every human being in this civilized land—the right to think, and speak, and act for himself. It is useless to try to help u person who leans, who cannot stand alone. Andrew Carnegie says that. If you help a young man to climb a ladder who has not sufficient self-reliance to maintain his position after he has been boosted, he will fall buck the mo ment you let go, uud he finds he is alone. "For every self-made man," says the author of a recent book, "there uro ten self-ruined men." Of the ten self-ruined, it is safe to say that live or more belong to the numerous fami ly of "leaners." The ranks of medio crity, too, of the half-successful, are crowded with people of fine natural ability. They never got beyond in ferior positions, simply because they never acted Independently. They were afraid to take the initiative in any thing, to rely upon their own judg ment, and they let opportunity after opportunity pass them by, because they waited to get advice from some one as to what course they would bet ter pursue. If you would he a man and not a parasite, stand erect, look up, grow upward. Do not look hesitatingly to the right or tho left for some support, some prop to lean upon. Y'ou have within you ail the elements of man hood, of womanhood, of success. Cul tivate your strength. Increase your reasoning power, your will power, your power of initiative, by use. Do not, like the senseless lobster, remain high and dry on the sand or among the rocks, waiting for some one to carry you to the sea, or for the sua to come to you, when by your own uative energy you can plunge in and ride the waves triumphantly. Music Drives I'lics Away, "While listening to an open-air eon cert the other day," said a young man, "I was greatly nnnoyed by the Hies, which were so persistent that I eoulil hardly drive them away. I wondered how tlie musicians, with both hands busy playing, stood them, and 1 drew near the shell in which they sat to see. To my surprise I found that there was not a fly in the shell, and then, to my greater surprise, I dis covered why this was. The sound waves of the music, rolling with tre mendous volume from the shell, kept out tho files. The insects could not fly agaiust the waves, though they tried hard. Hundreds of them were struggling frantically to reach the shell, hut they might as well have tried to fly against a tornado as against those sound waves. Tllns pro tected, inclosed by a tnaglc curtain made of their own music, the musi cians played Wagner, unannoyed by the sticky and pestering flies."—Phila delphia Record. Watering-Pot For tho Babies. Passengers on a Third avenue ele vated train on ouo of the recent liot days saw how one tenement house mother kept her babies well and, per haps, comfortable. She watered them like plants. There were two babies and they were sprawling on a piece of straw matting on the fire escape balcony. If they had clothes on that fact w..s not noticeable from the car windows. As the train went by tho mother was leaning out over the fire escape giving her children a shower bath from tm old fashioned watering pot with a spray nozzle—New York Sun. ISSlfe? ; © Women In Austria are never put in prison. A female criminal, no matter how terrible her record, instead of being sent to jail, is conveyed to one of the convents devoted to that pur pose, and there site is kept until the expiration of the term for which she was sentenced. The body of an Indian was recently discovered in an ancient disused cop per mine in Chile. It was in a state of perfect preservation, owing to the antiseptic action of the copper snlts. The style of the dress, etc., indicated that it had lain there probably since about the year 1600. One of the freaks of nature has re cently been discovered close to the im mense tunnel that is nearlng comple tion on the line of the Southern Pa cific running along tho boundary line of Los Angeles ar.d Ventura counties. Some worktp.cn employed by the com pany discovered an Immense rock that la a perfect image of a man's bead. Curious markings are left upon the victims of lightning. Often trees and shrubs to the minutest twig are out lined in purple upon the body. For merly It was believed that this wag due to some natural photographic pro cess. It is now known to be the vivid outlining of veins underneath the skin uuo to the instantaneous molecular charge in the blood. The effect is in describably weird. Mortuary relics found in Mexico In dicate that human life was hold cheap there, and that the sacredness of the dead was little regarded. Towers built of skulls and mortar have been found in the burial vaults of tho an cient temples, and rooms decorated with symmetrical figures in skulls and bones. In one of these ghastly burial plnces more than 100,000 skulls were found. The most singular circumstance about Arundel Castle is that Itsnowncr by mere right of ownership is Earl of Arundel in the peerage of England. It is believed that there is no similar ex ample of a peerage held on such condi tions in the kingdom, for apparently there would be no legal obstacle, sup posing the house of Howard fell on evil days and the castle was ailienated to some millionaire, to prevent the said millionaire taking his scat in the House of Lords as Earl of Arundel. One of the most curious spectacles ever seen in the Emerald Isle tool: 1 race at Limerick some years ago. A young lady named Helen F,rooks had, in consequence of her personal attrac tions, a large number of suitors, but she rejected all their addresses until length her affections were fixed upon a man double iter own age. 3he, therefore, invited many of the unsuc l cessful suitors to attend her wedding, and to their credit be it said that the majority took their defeat in good part, and not only formed a procession to the church, lint congratulated the lucky bridegroom into the bargain. Big Man flayed Childhood Games. Persons walking through City Hall Park the other day stopped to gaze curiously at a hulking Italian laborer who sat on the curb of the plaza en gaged in an odd pasf'me. lie wus so intent on what he was doing that he failed for a time to notice the atten tion he was nttractiuj. The big fellow was evidently wait ing for the loading of a wagon. He laid selected a half dozen pebbles from a heap of earth which had been hoist ed out of tile subway excavation and bad adopted one of the games of his childhood to help him pass away the time. He would arrange five of the peb bles in a row several inches apart and would then toss the sixth in the air and swiftly jiicking up one of the stones from the curb deftly catch tho other in its descent. It was much like the game of jackstones, except that there were no "onesys," "twosys" or "upsy-catch," with which children of to-day vary the sport. The very incongruity of the picture made it attractive—that great, strong chap amused by such a simple pas time. When at last, looking up, he discov ered the little group of people looking at him, he gathered up the pebbles, and, with a sheepish gesture, tossed them iuto the dirt pile. Then he walked away as if he had done some thing to be aslmmed of.—New York Mail and Express. Mayors and dining. Lord Cadogau's gift of a chain of office to the Mayor of Chelsea recalls a story which has been current late ly An alderman of one of the new boroughs, meeting a friend who occu pied a similar position of dignity and usefulness in a neighboring district, said: "We liavc provided our mayor with a splendid chain; what are you doing for yours?" "Oh," replied his l'ricnd. "wo are going to let our bound er run loose."—St. James's Gazette. A Fast-Growing German Town, Nuremberg holds the record for growth among German towns. It has increased sixty per cent, in the past five years. Hedge, Thirty Feet High. The biggest hedges in England are at Hall Barn, Buckinghamshire. They are of yew and box, and are thirty feet high.
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