Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, November 29, 1901, Image 2
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By a cnrlotis coincidence Czoigo&'fl | name is a Polish noun meaning "a creeping, crawling thing, such as a snake." Lombroso's cure for Anarchy is /symbiosis." Dr. Holmes wittily ex pressed the same idea long ago when /.e recommended people to "choose their parents carefully." Jules Verne, who was at one time Regarded as the most fantastic of novelists, lived to see many of his impressions realized. Let the weather prophets take heart and persevere. Professor Zimmer, of Berlin, a spe cialist in mental diseases, has been in vestigating the cause of insanity among women, and has concluded that if women were admitted into competi tion with men the result would be a tremendous increase of insanity among the women. President G. Stanley Hall, of Clark University, describes in the Forum "The Ideal School as Based on Child Study." Incidentally he condemns the present inefficiency of the high school, and criticises the secondary teachers of America as prone to all the narrowness and affectation of the specialist, without his redeeming vir tue of productiveness in research. Tiny insect enemies cause in the United States an average annual loss to agriculture of about $300,000,000, according to the entomologist of the Department of Agriculture. This av erage of destruction is kept up not only by the occasional widespread plague 3 of locust, cliinch bugs, etc., but by what might be called a scat tered guerrilla warfare which is going on nearly all the time. It appears amazing that within a period of less than forty years three Presidents of the United States should Lave been shot down. But that fact Is no indictment of our institutions. The natural guarantees of a beneficent civilization may at any moment prove a. weak a defence against the stealthy assault of an individual Intlamed with a lust for blood as are the artificial re sources of a despotism, exclaims the New York Tribune. The Macon Telegraph recommends the substitution of rice and hominy for the dear potato. They are palata ble and very nutritious. The scarcity of potatoes appears to have deve' #ped n new fraud. It is said that by dip ping old potatoes into water to which enough lye has been added to make the skins curl they are made to take du the appearance of new ones. The Iraud may be detected by cutting the tubers open, as the lyc turns the inside fellow. It is an interesting fact that the Wireless message can be flashed through fogs and storms, and seems only to be affected by electrical dis turbances of the atmosphere, and not yeriously even by those. The effect of the earth's curvature ic also said not to materially interfere with its use. That we shall at some not far dis tant date communicate through the air with Europe from ship-to-ship sta tions, so that the breaking of cable connection will be of no account, is by no means a wild dream. Tlie great ccean liners are already being equipped With the necessary apparatus. Godlike Giving. Cod fo loved that He gave. That is the expression, as it is the lest of love. Giv* ing—not receiving, not withholding, not condemning. We sinners can receive and withhold and condemn. Can we love? That is to he Godlike. God is love, and whosoever loveth is born of God and lenoweth God. God loved, and just he cause lie loved lie gave. Can we measure that love? Only by His gift. Can we measure that gift? Only by His love. Both are measureless. —ls ortu western Christian Advocate. A WOMAN'S WISH. Would 1 were lying in a field of clover, Just to lit* there, filled with the deeper Of clover cool and soft, and soft and breathing sweet, That comes of listening to a free bird s With dusky clouds in deep skies hanging song! over, Our souls require at times this full un- And scented silence at my head and sheathing— feet. All swords will rust if scabbard-kept too long. Just for one hour to slip the leash of worry And lam tired!—so tired of rigid duty, In eagcr haste from thought's impatient So tired of all my tired hands find to do! neck, I yearn, I faint, for some of life's free And watch it coursing—in its heedless beauty, ... hurry Its loose bends with no straight strings Disdaining wisdom's whistles, duty's running through. Ay, laugh, if laugh you will, at my crude Ah, it were sweet where clover clumps speech, nre meeting. # Cut women sometimes die of such a And daisies hiding, so to hide and rest; greed,— .... No sound except my own heart's steady Die for the small joys lield beyond their beating, reach, Rocking itself to sleep within my And the assurance they have all they breast. need. —Mary A. Townsend, in the Argonaut. A DANGEROUS RIDE BY WILL LISENBEE. I HAD come from the East to seek my fortune in Colorado. After spending nearly two years in pros pecting in different parts of tlie State, I resolved to go to Los Vegas, New Mexico, and try to get a position on the railroad, as I always liad a liking for that sort of work. Well, I only got as far as Trinidad, when I found myself without a dollar In (he world, and of course I had to stop over and see if X could not get something to do. I went to the Santo Fe railroad sta tion and applied for work, but failed to get any encouragement. Then I went to tho different trainmen and made diligent inquiries, but none of them know of any job that was open. A conductor, who was then running local freight on tills line, promised to give me a position as brakoman, if I would remain in Trinidad two weeks. His head brakemnn was go ing to quit him, he informed me, and I could have the place if I chose to remain there till the vacancy oc curred; but two days later he was re moved to anither division of ilie road, and I was left without any prospect of employment in Trinidad. I then resolved to go to Los Vcgrs at once, but, having no money to pay my fare, I was at a loss to know what to do. At last, however, I decided to go to the railroad station and endeav or to get some of the lirakemen on the freights to let me vide. When I arrived nt the station 1 found that a long freight train had just pulled up and was standing 011 tlie side track to wait the coming of the eastern-bound express. I first approached tho conductor, and, explaining my condition, asked him to carry me over his division, but lie dismissed me with the curt reply that his train was a freight train and he was forbidden to carry jiasscu gers. Discouraged but not despairing, I went to the head brakoman and sought to induce him to allow mo to ride on oue of the box cars. "Got nuy money?" lie asked. "Not a ceut," I replied, "but " "You'll have lo walk then," lie said, and passed on. I tried tho other brakoman with like result; then I began to feel pret ty blue. I walked up tho track along the side of the train, wishing that I had never seen the State of Colorado. Presently I stopped to admire a new locomotive that was in the train near it; centre. It was a beautiful piece of workmanship, fresh from the shops, and was being taken south for the Mexican Central. While X was standing there tho train was uncoupled just back of tho locomotive, and the lower section bucked down to another switch. A few minutes later the express went by and then the section that imil been run back was brought on to the main track and went thundering on its way to Itaton. You see the trains had to be pulled up this long grade in sections, then, and an engine wus kept at the point to do the work. As soon as the train had disappeared up the slope, I heard the hell ring, and then the other section began lo move forward. Not until that mo ment, when the disagreeable sensa tion of being loft behind took posses sion of me, did I have the remotest idea of attempting to steal a ride. Then it occurred to mo that I might easily ride on the engine at the rear end of the train, and 110 one he the wiser; but I hesitated to do such a tying, aud should have given up tho Idea lind not tho brakemnn pointed to tlie engine and hinted that If I didn't have backbone enough to got aboard : 1 ride, 1 ought to walk. Thus eucouriged, I ran forward and leaped aboai & the moving engine. Then I crept into the tender and seat ed myself where I would be hid from the observation of any oue who might pnss along the train. I knew that the brakemnn v ould shield me if he could, but I fuust not allow the con ductor to discover my presence. The train was lioiv moving faster and faster, and the clatter of the, w. els ove; a joint ill tho rails told mo that wo were passing over tho switch and on to the main track. We soo:i struck the long, stoi. • grade, aud moved very slowly. There is ale.el space, a quarter of a mile long, peri aps, just below the last grade of t ivo miles. We had reached this, and were starting up the last grade, when the engine stuck. I heard the loud, rapid puffing of the locomotive as the wheels slipped on the track, and then the train gradu ally came to a standstill. Then we began to move backward, and I knew we were hacking on to the level space to get a new start. The train moved pretty fast down the grade, and I rightly guessed that tho engineer was out of humor. We had crossed the level space and reached the down gade below it, when we were brought almost to a stand still. Tho engine gave a loud snort, then there came a rattling of cars as it began to move forward again. Tben I felt a violent jerk, I heard some thing break, and the engine 011 which I was rhling stopped, while the train moved on up the track. The violent pull given by tho exas perated engineer had broken the coup ling, and I was being left behind. I knew that the break would soon be discovered, and when tho conductor should come back to Investigate the accident, I would be found and put off the train. As soon as I realized this, I began to look hastily about mo for some place in which to conceal myself. Happening to glance downward, I discovered the door leading down to the furnace standing open, and in a moment I had concealed myself in the fire box, closing the door behind me. Scarcely had I gained the shelter of that rather unusual hiding place when I felt the engine begin to slowly move down the track. For a short time I thought nothing of this, and momentarily expected to hear the train hack against it, but as the mo ments went by and the sound of the train grew fainter and fainter, I came to the conclusion that tho breaking loose of the engine had not been dis covered. I now resolved to crawl from my place, of concealment, but as I at tempted to open the door I found that it was latched on the outside, and I was as securely fastened in as if I had been locked in the strongest pris on. The engine was now gaining speed at every turn of Ihe wheels, and would soon be rushing with frightful rapid ity down (he steep incline. With a feeling of horror I realized my awful peril, for X knew that in descending the ten-mile grade there was little hope that the engine would stay upon the rails. I shouted at the top of my voice, hoping that some of the train men had returned to the en gine, hut only tho sound of the swift ly rolling wheels came in answer to my call. There were several sharp curves along the route, and some of these were on the very verge of deep abysses, making tho peril of my de scent so great that I was almost be side myself with terror. Glancing downward through the grate I could see the road running like a great belt beneath me, while faster and faster rolled tho engine, sending up a cloud of dust that almost stifled me. Tho engine now rocked violently from side to side, and every moment I expected it to leave the track. If I catild oniy escape from my prison there might yet bo time for me to jump and save myself. Once more I took hold of the iron door and shook it with all my might, but It remained as solid as the walls of iron about me. I uow despaired of escape, and, al most stupefied with the terror of my situation, I sat there and waited for whatever might happen. The speed I was growing frightful, and every in j slant I expected tho engine to leap j from the rails and go crashing down ■ into one of the deep ravines that skirt ed the road. Suddenly I felt the enginn lurch vio lently from side to side as it rounded a curve, then, to my joy, I saw that the furnace door had been thrown open by the shock. With a cry of do 1-glit I sprang through the opening and was soon standing in the cab. A single glance told me that it would be worse than madness to leap from that fast flying engine, which was now moving at a speed of fifty miles an hour. The high cliffs and patches of cedars that skirted tho road shot by me in a mingled streak of gray and green. Far doivn the track ahead I saw a gang of section men at work. The next minute the engine, which semcd to have leaped the Intervening spare, Bhot by them like a flash. I only caught a brief glance of their aston ished faces as they hurried back from the track, then they faded from view f-.r behind. So bewildered and stupefied was I by the penis of the situation in which I found myself that it was several mo ments before I recovered my presence of mind sufficiently to realize the ne cessity of some immediate action. I glanced hurriedly about me, my eyes falling on the polished levers, use less without steam. Then I caught sight of the brake on the tender, nnd. leaping forward, I grasped the lever and gave it a vigorous turn. There was a sharp, hissing sound ns the tron brakes came in contact with the swtft ly rolling wheels, and sparks of tiro shot from each side of the tender, but there was no visible slackening of the' speed of the engine. Using all the force I couid command I set the brakes, nnd then stood helplessly there in the tender while I was swiftly whirled down the mountain road. Full four miles ahead I could now see the city of Trinidad. I knew that it would lie impossible for mo to stop the engine before I reachcil that place, but I still hoped to check its speed sufficiently to keep It .Tom flying the track. This was my only hope. I could see lone lines of cars on the side tracks and a number of engines switching about the yards near the station, and I shuddered as I thought of what would happen should tlio main track not be clear when I reached the place. Only a few seconds now and I would be at Trinidad. As one in a dream X again set the brakes a noteli tighter, and then, grasping the bell cord, I rang the bell furiously. The engine seemed, to be fairly lifted from the track as it Rwept round a curve and went thun dering on its way. I cast a fleeting glance at the station close ahead. I only saw a confused mass of buildings and cars; then I dashed by like a me teor. Then, as I gained a level stretch of track the engine began to slacken its speed, and presently came to a standstill nearly a mile below the sta tion. I was saved! A mist gathered before my eyes, ntid I sank down unconscious in the bottom of the eab. When I regained my senses I found quite a crowd of people collected about me, nmong whom was tho con ductor, who had returned with his train for the missing engine. When he asked me how I had come to he on the engine I told him that I was in tending to ride to Los Vegas, but did not mention the part the brakeman had played in the matter. To my surprise he did not seem dis pleased at me for my attempt to steal a ride, but complimented me on my nerve in staying with the engine at tho risk of my life, and putting on the brake as I did. I had saved the com pany the loss of several thousand dol lars, he explained, for which he him self might have been blamed. "You give me more credit than I deserve," I replied. And then I ex plained how X had been shut up in the fire-box till it was too late to leave the engine. lie east a surprised glance at me, and then said; "Well, you certainly possess frank ness and truthfulness, which is, after all, more to your credit than the per formance of a brave deed would have been. Come with me to Los Vegas and I'll see wlint I can do for yon." He took me with liim to Los Vegas, where he obtained for me work as a brakeman, and six months ago I was promoted to the position I now hold.— Waverley Magazine. Fair at Forty. It was Balzac who discovered that the woman of thirty is more fascin ating than the girl of twenty. Now the Lady's Pictorial puts the zenith of feminine charm a deeado later, de claring that the apple of discord Is due to the woman of forty. It is an inter esting profession of faith and one wonders whether the general accept ance of it by mankind has anything to do with that Increasing tendency to defer marriage till late in life which modern philosophers have often no ticed and sometimes deplored. If the woman of forty is really the most charming woman It is only natural that bachelors should wish to remain bachelors until they are tit helpmates for lier. There is, however, one re flection that should give them pause. However much more charming than the girl of twenty the woman of for ty may be, there remains a strong probability that she muy not keep her charms so long. That fact, also should certnluly be borne in mind by Coelcbs In search of a wife.—London Daily Graphic. lie Married HOOO Couples. For more than twenty years John Hause, of Jeffcrsonville, Ind., has been connected with the business of mar rying eloping couples from Kentucky and Illinois, an industry of which he Is practically the creator. Long before he was elected a "squire,' with power to tie matrimonial knots and collect wedding fees, he was a "runner" for another justice. He met all incoming trains and steamboats, and was said never to make a mistake in picking out a couple which was looking for a bnrgain in the matrimonlul lino. Finally, nine years ago, he became a justice of the peace, and since that time he has performed more than 8000 marriages. It is said that lii 3 Income from wedding fees is more than S3OOO a year. Now "Squire" Hause and the Industry he lias built are threatened with extinction by Attorney-General Taylor, of the State, who is said to have found that the marriage laws of the State have been viola ted.-rtChlcago Tribune, SCENTS OF THE ANCIENT. Perfumery ns I'ir'l by the Nations ol Antiquity. Among the steadily augmenting rea sons for alarm at Germany's commer cial aggressiveness, says the Balti more Sun, there was recently men tioned in English and Continental pa pers the fact that German manufac turers are even attempting to control the trade In perfumes. Their produce from heretofore untbought of sources almost any sort of scent and essence for toilet and table, which are exported to all parts of the globe. As specially noteworthy are reported large shipments of perfumery to the Orient from German ports. The ladies of the harems of Constantinople, Cairo, indeed of the whole Mohamme dan world, are said to have been won for these perfumes "made In Ger many," and the Levant, the native land of fragrant extracts, is being inundated with can de cologne and numberless other scents of flowers or who can tell what substances. It t difficult to realize how univer sal was the knowledge and use of scent in ancient time, says Invention. Greek tradition avers that perfume came direct from Venus' toilet, and re cipes for essences were inscribed on marble tablets all about tlie temples of the goddess of love. Egypt was a great mart for all kinds of perfumes. Women made themselves beautiful through the use of essences, and guests were received in chambers strewn with flowers. Even the dead were not forgotten, for the embalmed mummy was saturated with perfumes and spices and sweet scents were burned before their statues. The ancients thought certain per fume had medicinal value. Pliny men tions eight remedies derived from rue, thirty-two from rose, four from mint, twenty-one from the lily and seven teen from the violet. Thyme has a tonic quality, and lavender Is sooth ing. Patchouli is stimulating, jas mine is cheering, while heliotrope is an irritant. There are those in our day who think sandal a tonic, and its virtues were known to the Greeks, who anointed themselves with it for the Olympian games. The Jews' love of perfume was so great that morning and night they burned sweet incense of myrrh, and beds were perfumed with aloes and cinnamon. So indispensable were scents considered for the bridal toilet that one-twelfth of the bridal dowry was set apart for their purchase. The famous balm of Gilead was distilled from a bush which formerly covered the mountains of Gilead, but this of late has become so scarce that only the Sultan can be supplied. The trade in perfumes was enorm ous in Greece. Like the Egyptians, they understood the fascination of flowers, and an Athenian not only per fumed his house but scented his drink ing vessels with myrrh, the gum of a tree which grows In Arabia. To such an extent was the love of perfume carried that each part of the body had its peculiar ungent; the hair required sweet marjoram, the neck and knees wild thyme, the arms balsam, the cheeks-and breast palm oil, and the feet and legs sweet ointment. Indeed, the perfumers' Bhops in Athens were the rendezvous for the discussion of politics and Intrigues, The love of perfumery among the Greeks spread into Home, and soon the Roman per fumers became so famous that 9 bunch of sago indicated their shops. A Roman lady frequently kept one slave to sprinkle her hair. The rulers of the earth have, like many of their subjects, favorite per fumes. Kaiser AVilhelm 11. writes a Vienna contemporary, prefers "Gar den of the Parish Priest," but occa sionally uses Ylang-Ylang, corylopsis nud Iris. The Empress Augusta Vic toria's favorite is haysceut, and for her private room eau de cologne. Both she and the children use spermaceti soap. The Czar has a weakness for scents, but his especial favorite is un known. He uses peau d'Espagne powder. The Czarina prefers violet perfume for the handkerchief; her rooms and corridors are sprinkled with jonquil and jasmine. Savon ala peau d'Espagne is her Majesty's favorite soap, although she uses occasionally creine duehesse. Tile Queen Dowager of Italy, Margherita, prefers Cologne water and uses Palermo soap. King Victor Emmanuel's favorite scent is heliotrope. The Crown Prince of Roumania Is fond of rosewnter. King Oscar 11. of Sweden makes use of chypre, and for his beard brilliantine powder. Sultan Abdul Ilatnid in dulges in a mixture of lilacs and viol ets. Weak On Its Foot. Jlmson in a rash moment undertook to plant a new clothes post in the gar den, and after much labor he delved out a hole into which he managed at length to coax the post to a perpen dicular position, and he went indoors a proud and happy man. Ten minutes afterward, however, he went out to feast his eyes again upon the spectacle of the family clothes post pointing skyward like a miniature telegraph pole, when to his consternation he found the late erec tion lying prone across the onion bed. "You pushed it down, did you?" said Jimson, wrathfully seizing his youth ful son and heir, who was playing about near. "That I never, dad," replied the boy. earnestly; "a sparrow perched on the top an' overbalanced it. I seed bin do it."—London Spare Moments. Countries With Fev7 Houiwi, Italy and Spain have fewer bcii"c9 In proportion to population than ury other country. Tho Argentine Repub lic has most. Street Hallways vs. Good Heads. -ir NEW factor that must soon /\ he taken into consideration in connection with the good roads problem is the rapid ex tension of the electric traction sys tems into the rural districts. Not content with the immense volume and earnings of the intramural systems, the street railway interests have in vaded the couutry with long interur ban lines that are already projected ' \ all the way across large States. These street railways or electric traction roads are not to he ignored by the good roads workers. They must he studied lor the purpose of determining the effect they will have upon highway travel, whether toward increasing or decreasing its volume, or as reducing the length of haul by horse and wagon, and changing its , direction. Practically all of these railways par allel important public highways be tween tlie principal cities and towns. Many of them have franchises from the State, granting the right of con struction and operation directly on the public highways, while others own part of them in the shape of purchased rights of way. The cars on these lines transport passengers from town to town, or between the points on the roads, as comfortably, more cheaply, and almost as quickly as the steam cars between stations, and fnr more quickly and agreeable titan the trip, long or short, can he made by horse and buggy cr wagon. It seems obvi ous, therefore, that the electric roads will tend to reduce the light passenger travel along the wagon roads which they parallel. But the traction companies are not, by any means, content with passen ger business alone. Tliey have al ready embarked in the express and light freighting traffic, despite the le gal obstacles whieh are being thrown in their way by the steam railroad companies, whose contentions have heen defeated in the Supreme Court of Ohio. This freighting or express business promises In the near future to become more profitable to the roads than the transporting of passengers, and to grow more rapidly in volume. It cannot be doubted that this draws wagon traffic from the parallel high ways. As yet, few, if any, of the electric roads have attempted to embark in the heavy freighting business in this country, though it has been done in Europe. We may safely predict, however, L. that in time the traction companies will attempt to secure much of this business also, unless legal restrictions debar them, for they can operate as cheaply as the steam roads, and in many cases they have advantages over the latter in facilities for handling such freight. However, if the interurban roads re duce the travel between towns 011 the highways which they parallel, they will surely increase the travel 011 tho cross roads leading from the farms to the railways, and which act as feeders' to the steel ways. This will also undoubtedly increase the volume of travel on the roads reaching from the villages off the lines of the electric and steam roads to those through which these lines extend. Good road advocates have no reason for becoming apprehensive that tho extension of the interurban electric railways will cause auy of the wagon roads to be abandoned and to fall into .J decay. While they seem likely to reduce traffic on some of the main thoroughfares connecting towns, their effect will be to increase the number of short hauls in the aggregate ou others. It is, at any rate, a factor in the highway improvement movement that may be studied to advantage. The progress being made here and abroad in the manufacture of practi cal and economical steam and gaso line trucks and "lorries," as well as passenger coaches, for the transporta tion of freight and passengers on the public highways offers the good roads enthusiast sufficient guarantee for a counteracting iutluence tending to give the Intel-urban wagon way a new importance. It will probably then come to a struggle between the opera tor of the motor stage and the elec tric traction companies to decide whieh of them can reduce the cost of operation to the lowest point.—ll. L W. Perry, in the Good Bonds Maga- *" zine. Opposed at First. When the New Jersey hard read law was passed there It was .bitterly op posed by tlie farmers, and to put in operation in some cares where farm ers were the officials to tho initiatory steps, it was necessary to compel them to act by mandamus proceedings. During the lirst year only thirty miles of hard roads were built; lust yeur 114 miles were constructed, and the present year over five hundred miles are petitioned for by the farm ers of New Jersey. The Greatest Drawback. It must then be admitted that from end to end of our beautiful progres sive country the greatest drawback to thorough education, the greatest drag on spiritual, mental and moral development is tlie hindrance of free social intercourne between the city \ and tho couutry through had uud, at times, impassable roaus.