FREELMID TRIBUNE KBTAHLISHKD 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY, BY TIIE IRIEUITE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited OFFICE; MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE. SUBSCRIPTION RATES FREELAND.— rhoTIUBUNE is delivered by carriers to subscribers in Freelandatthe rats of l-Hi cents per month, payable every two months, or $! 00 year, payable in advance The TRIBUNE may be ordered direct form tha carriers or from the ofllce. Complaints of irregular or tardy delivery service will re ceive prompt attention. BY MAIL —The TRIBUNE is sent to out-of. town subscribers for §1.5 ) a year, payable in advance; prorata terms for shorter periods. The date when the subscription expires Is on the address label of each paper. Prompt re newals must be made fit the expiration, other wise thto subscription will be discontinued. Entered at the Postoffloe at Freeland. Pa., as Second-Clasr Matter. Make all money orders, checks, ere. ,payable to the Tribune J'rinting Company, Limited. To Peterboro, N. H., belongs the distinction of establishing the first free public library in the world. It was incorporated in December, 1799. Al though other towns had accepted gifts of libraries, and there have been in Europe for three hundred years or more municipal libraries, Peterboro was the first place to vote money for the formation and support of a free town library. Its first catalogue, issued in 1834, consisted largely of religious works, but there was a fair showing of works on travel and a respectable representation of flcti* both as to quality and quantity. A big total abstinence crusade has been started in England, and its pro moters talk confidently of forming an army of a million "teetotalers" who will sign a pledge to "touch not, taste not, handle not." But no Father Mathew or John B. Gough has yet come forward to lead multitudes cap tive under the spell of burning elo quence, and it is not altogether prob able that a million names will be signed to the rolls within a reason able time. Great crusades are pos sible when great leader* inspire great enthusiasms. But where is the Peter and Hermit of today? inquires the New York Tribune. That the improved conditions of modern existence have added materi ally to the longevity of mankind is a matter that is being taken seriously in commercial circles. The Actuarial Society of America is to compile a new scries of tables for the life in surance companies of the United States, which, the society maintains, will show a decreased mortality among the people of this country. This is expected to have the effect of decreasing the premium rates now charged, as the whole life insurance business is based on mortality tables. It cannot be doubted that, with so briety and moderation in ail things, the average man can live to an old age. The purification of foods, the marked advance in medicine and surgery, the wonders of modern science, are all assisting to prolong the existence of the man of the twen tieth century. It remains for him to educate himself to enjoy that ex istence with contentment and suc cess. LABOR WORLD. A Russian farm laborer gets about $lO a month. An increase in the number of unions in the large cities is reported. It is estimated that there are SO,OOO unemployed persons in Berlin. Spain proposes to legalize strikes, if from four to fifteen nays' notice is given. Locked-out union --nployes of the Safe Glass Company, Upland, 111., have won and returned to work. Two hundred employes of the Wa bash Screen lioor Company have struck at Rhinelunder, Wis. Southern trades unions report a very prosperous year. Labor is generally employed, while wages are unusually high. The shipbuilding trade is having such booming times that a dearth cf skilled mechanics is feared in the nee: future. On account of I lie failure of crops thousands of agri* r. It lira 1 1 borers are experiencing the terrors of famine in various sections of Russia. Almost all industries are unusually active, employing over 1,000,000 more workmen as compared with the cor responding period of last year. Because the National Malleable Casting Co. at Indianapolis, Ind., re fused to discharge colored employes, the coremakers went on strike. The Rev. Sheldon A. Harris, a Con gregational minister at Dwight, 111, has been elected Vice-President of the Illinois State Feneration of Labor. Chicago now has a Stenographers' and Typewriters' Union, which prom ises to use its influence toward secur ing easier hours for those engaged a 1 that work. French labor statistics show a de crease in strikes as compared with Just year. Wages have beej slightly increased In many trades, while the number of unemployed has been les sened. THE COMPASS. A thing so fragile that one foather's weight Might break its poise or turn the point aside, The mightiest vessel, with her tons of freight, O'er pathless seas from port to port will guide. What wonder, then, if lodged within the breast. Borne simple, yet unwavorlug faith may lie To guide tho laden soul to ports of rost And, like compass, point It to the sky? —The Junior Munsey. j PRIVATE CORY. J * * Perhaps it would never have hap pened had a comrade given him a word of encouragement But the men were too intent on the grim work before them, so, in the hail of lead, when Pri vate Cory dropped to the ground, it was generally understood that a bullet had knocked him over. Such, however, was not the case, as the ambulance corps following in the rear soon dis covered. He had merely fainted from fright. The doctor turned over the shivering bit of humanity to look for the wound, found none, and smiled. Cases of this kind were not unknown to him. "Poor fellow," he murmured, "let him remain with the rest." "No, he is not hurt at all," he said to one of his assistants. "His wound will come afterwards when he recov ers from that faint, and God help him then. There is no bullet wound that will give him the agony that is before him." "Shall I throw a bucket of water over him, sir?" asked a man with a blood stained bandage round his head, hut sufficient of his lace left uncov ered to show his intense disgust at hi 3 comrade. "No, you must not disturb him," was the curt answer, and he turned to give his attention to the burdens which the stretchers were now quickly deposit ing in the improvised hospital. "Poor lad," he mused, as he bent over his work. "I must give him a word of encouragement when he comes around." But when, later on, Private Cory staggered to his feet, the kindly doctor was too busy to notice him. Ho looked wonderingly round tho tent. Then the remembrance of what he had done seemed to rise.up and strike him full in tho face. He sank down with a choking sob. He clutched the earth with his hands, as men do when struck down in baitle with a mortal wound. It was a burning hot day—the wounded were suffering terribly from the in tense heat—but he shivered with cold. Outside the shells were screaming, while now and again came the sub dued hut harsh growl of the smaller arms. It seemed as if a thousand voices were shouting at him and re proaching him for his cowardice. Then a human voice joined in the wild or chestra. "You bloomin' cur. Call yourself man?" It was the stern sergeant of his com pany who had been brought in wound ed in three places before he had given up. His face was gray with the pain ho was enduring, but he must needs give vent to his disgust at such pusl ianimity. A contemptuous smile played about his bloodless lips. "I call it gettin' money under false pretences. You're clothed and stuffed with the best o' everything the coun try can send out, ineludin' a briar pipe and baccy, and then yer go and— pah!" and he broke off. "I couldn't hev believed it o' any man in the whole bloomin' company." He stoppeu because the pain of his wounds became too great, and he bit hard the piece of Cavendish he had in his mouth to stifle a groan, but other men took up the cue. No agony of the battlefield could equal what Private Cory was now enduring. He quivered as if acted upon by some powerful electric cur rent, hut he made no answer to their taunts, and continued to lie with his faco turned to the ground. He tried to reconstruct the wreck of his man hood, hut his brain was still in a whirl and those shrieking shells outside still seemed to be telling the world that he was a miserable coward. A man was handing round some broth. He had been hours without food, and the savory odor caused a craving hunger to take possession of him. A pannikin full was lining passed from which men took a drink, their ex pectant comrades looking on with eager, wistful eyes. Cory raised his head, hoping liis turn had eome, but he was immediately greeted with a storm of curses that caused him to drop it again. Fool that he was to ex pect it. He might have known. "Givo Cory some of that soup. Hold At that moment the doctor came up. "My lad," he said not unkindly, "you may make a soldier yet. Drink this," and he handed him the tin vessel. "Ho is the broth of a boy," shout ed a man, and this poor joke was greet ed with laughter, even by those who know that they had but a few hours to live. Cory sat up. The coup seemed to put life into him. and ue ceased to shiver. Ho was barely out of his teens but bin face in its ashy grayness looked more like that of a man who had passed his prime. "Feeling a bit better now?" began the sergeant. "He'll run for it as soon as he is nhle," remarked another. "Whew, lis ten," ho broke off as a shell exploded just ontside. "They seem to have got range of u® now," For a few seconds there was silence as the men realized their danger. The angry growl of the quick fires was ev ery now and then punctured by the long, deep mouthed haying of the Boers' Long Tom. "They are aiming at us," shou'ed a man, running into the tent with his right arm hanging helpless by his side. Immediately there was a violent con cussion; the air filled with smoke and a pungent smell, and the tent lit up with a tongue of flame. In an instant three or four men sprang forward and the fire was extinguished. "The next shot will count a hit if I am not mistaken." Scarcely were the words out of his mouth when a huge rent suddenly opened in the canvas and a shell dropped right into the middle of tho tent. The wounded ducked under their covering as if they would bui-y them selves beneath the ground. The dev tor, with another, rushed forward; bo. Private Cory was be-fore them. "Not you, doctor," he shouted, as he seized the bomb. "Quick, man. Into the bucket with it," said the doctor. "No, there's no water. Merciful powers!" But Cory had dashed through the opening, and was running like a hare. They were all dumfounded for a mo ment Then a cheer broke from them when they realized what he was doing —a cheer in which dying men joined. "Throw it away! Now! Throw it!" yelled the doctor after him. Still he ran. The music of what he knew was their applause rang in his ears. Nothing had ever sounded so sweet to him as this. He smiled. It reminded him faintly of his achieve ments in the football field when the crowd roared their approval. The ball he carried now was heavier, but the applause—only lie knew what it meant to him, and he clutched the destructive missle like a child hugging a doll. He felt inclined to kiss it If he lived he would he a man and a comrade again. If not—but he ran on. Some one had wisely said that it re quires often but the turn of a straw to make a coward a liero, or a hero a coward. Cory was a man again. The paralysis of panic mat had seized him a few hours ago and had frozen his heart existed now only as a hideous dream. Another 10 yards—he was quite 50 from the tent. He heard them urging him to throw it. A few more yards, then with a tremendous effort he hurled it from him. Instantly there was an explosion, and Cory fell on his face. "Poor chap. He is done for, I doubt," said the doctor, as several raced forward, followed by a number of wounded, who limped in pain. They knelt by the poor shattered body. The sergeant, his old tormentor, regardless of his own wounds, had been among the first who rushed to his as sistance. Cory raised the only hand left him, which the sergeant clasped, murmuring something about forgiveness. A smile of exultation played about his face for a moment, then the film of death gath ered over his eyes. He tried to speak, but no words came in obedience to the moving of his lips, for his soul had taken its flight 10 that land where brave spirits are at rest. —The World's Events. AN ASTONISHING LAND. In Guatemala 81 Will lluy 80 and Rail road* Have Mahogany Te. An American railroad man landing in Gautemala (Port Barios) encounters various surprises, the first one of con sequence being, perhaps, the answer of tho ticket agent to his inquiry as to what is the railroad fare to Gaute mala City, which is about 190 miles away and 50 miles beyond the terminus of the railroad. The price of the tick et to the railroad terminus—llo miles —ls sl4, or 10 cents a mile. Being de termined, however, to comply with all reasonable requirements, you hand out sls in American money, and on get ting your change, receive the second surprise, as the agent hands back your $lO United States note and SIG in Gau temala money besides. You now learn that one American dollar will buy $G in Guatemala. You find the passenger train a very good one. Everything is in excellent condition and tho engine is a fine one. Tho train is equipped with air brakes. The track is very poor. The rails are heavy for a narrow gauge road, but the track is badly out of line. The ties are mahogany, rosewood and ebony, but even ebony lasts only about two years. Tho train runs at about 10 miles an hour and makes long stops. Tho road has nine locomotives, ovcral years old; 25 passenger cars, 10 of which are first class; 200 box ears and 20 flats. Locomotive engineers get $8 a day for a run of SO miles; conductors $7 a day, with no overtime; brakemen $75 a month and'negro firemen the same. Agents get from SIOO to $250 a. month, most, of them receiving about S2OO. The operators are all natives. The chief dispatcher gets S3OO, which be it re membered is equivalent to only SSO of American money. An American can not live here for less than $l5O a month. I find that the other two roads in this country pay about the same as this one. except that on one of them engine men get $lO a day. Any railroad man in the United States who lins even tho poorest kind of a position on a good road will do well to keen it rath er than try Gautemala.—Gautumala Correspondence of the Railroad Ga zette. Among the peasants of Turkey al most all the doctoring is still done by women. In Constantinople there are laws against these healers, but they flourish nevertheless. WAR A NATIONAL GAME CENTRAL AMERICA SO RECARD3 ITS CONSTANT REVOLUTIONS. A Vivid l<e.rrlpliou of it llorce IXnttle Along tho I'mittum <':nnl Men Were Jtenlly Killed During tile Kngiigemeut— DUpn-iug or the Dead and Mounded. A few days before sailing from Lon don, writes Sir Martin Conway, the distinguished mountain climber, to the London Times, I met a.Columbian gentleman. "Is it true that there is a revolution going forward in your coun try!" I asked. "That is nothing," was has reply; "it is our substitute for cricket. Our young men must have their game." A month later I saw the game played. It proved to be not un exciting. On the morning of July 24 we landed at Colon. Tne local newspapers were silent about the existence of military operations, but report said that Pana ma was besieged and was to be stormed that day. "Besieged," snort ed our Yankee skipper. "I have seen these disturbances. Two small bodies of opposing troops come in sight of one another. They fire thej? guns in the air and then they run away in op posite directions. That is a Central American revolution. Vou won't have any trouble." We climbed on board the morning train, which started, as usual, from Colon. I sat beside a French engineer of the Panama canal, and was fully occupied for two or three hours of the journey in observing the works accomplished or in progress, which he explained to me. Three thousand men are still continually at work, and the great Culebra cutting has been excavated down to the level of 45 metres above the sea. At Cule bra the engineer left me, and a short time afterward the train halted in the outskirts of Panama. Wo had heard no firing, and were skeptical about there being any fighting. Looking for ward along the line. I saw a man wave his hat and the train began to ad vance It entered a shallow cutting with a high bank on the right (Pan ama behind it) and a low one on the left. Looking to the right wo saw a few armed men, and presently discov ered that the whole length of that em bankment was intrenched and lined with riflemen, whose heads occasional ly peeped over and looked at us. Three hundred yards or so to the left, in a scrub-covered swamp, were an inde terminate number of men, tho attack ing force. Across the lino a little way ahead was a road bridge, which proved to be the object of attack. A few hundred yards further ahead was the corrugated iron railway station, end ing in a warehouse carried on a pier stretching out into the sea. We had not advanced many yards toward the bridge before a few shots were fired, the temptation of the heads peering over at the train probably being too much for the attacking force. They were at once replied to, and before wo realized what was happening the train was between two lines of some 2000 fighting men, separated by less than a quarter of a mixe, and pumping lead at one another from Mauser rifles. A shell dropped near the bridge as wo crossed below it. The men on our right fired over the train, hut the car riages were often exposed to the insur gents on our left, and bullets came over in a horizontal stream, the car riages being freely hit Down on tho floor dropped the passengers with sin gular unanimity. "All come forward to the baggage van," shouted the guard; and forward they went along the corridor of the train, grovelling on hands and knees, the funniest sight Imaginable. In this condition the train stopped in the goods station, and every one was left to shift for himself. There were, of course, no portei's or officials of any sort; there was nowhere for the passengers to go. Bullets were coming freely through the shed, and a few hours later our train was itself the main point of attack, the two op posing forces fighting between the wheels and through the windows. At present, however, the attack was only beginning to be pi'essed home. The passengers having local knowledge melted away in a moment, and we for eigners, a dozen men, were left like sheep without a shepherd. I sallied forth down a bullet swept street, and then round a corner. I passed carts laden with dead and wounded, bumping hideously against one another over the uneven road. The streets were practically deserted, but almost evei'y house displayed a flag, English and American (lags being commonest—any flag, indeed, except the Colombian. It looked as thrtugh some fete was about to take place. Through doors ajar and barred win dows frightened faces peeped and with drew. We passed two men firing their rifles this way and that, in a state of great excitement, either drunk or run ning amuck. Bullets were always whistling overhead and pinging against the houses. Neither side had any ambulance ar rangements worth mention. Asked for their ambulance, the insurgents pro duced two spade. Accordingly Capt. Fegan lanoed an ambulance party and a hundred men from the I.earuler next morning and a suspension of hostili ties was arranged. The scene in and about the trenches was of the most horrible aescription. Nearly one quar ter of the troops engaged on both sides wore klneu or wounded. The trenches were full of dead. The wounded had crawled Into neighboring houses and hidden themselves under beds and In various holes and corners, where many of them had died. Nothing had been done for them. No surgical treatment whatever had been applied. T/he ln tured men displayed the utmost apa thy. They neither groaned nor corn* plained. On the third uay the ambulance party again went foith. Before the morning was far advanced the insur gents after receiving a guarantee that no man's life should be taken away made an otherwise unconditional sur render. The town immediately came to life. Though the inhabitants almost to a man sympathized with the insur gents they nurried out into the streets wearing the government colors, and all was rejoicing and triumph. An am nesty was at once issued to all politi cal offenders, and the revolution was ac an end so far as Panama was con cerned. The disorganized local author ity was Incapable of dealing with the problem of burying the dead. The wounded had been carried by the sail ors to the hospitals of the canal com pany and the town, where, however, there was no accommodation except the floor for more than a small portion of them. The dead still lay in the roads, the streets, the trenches and bushes where they fell. Ghastly sights met tho eye on all sides—frightful tilings no longer recognizable as men. Thousands and tens of thousands of carrion crows came flying in from all directions and settled upon the field of battle. At night some attempt was made to burn the bodies with petro leum, but It was unsuccessful —indeed, only made matters worse. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Three indispensable accomplish ments must be possessed by candidates for the police force in Vienna. They Liust understand telegraphy, be able to row a boat, tend swim. Chicago is to have a department store that will remain open day and night. There will be throo shifts of clerks, working eight hours each. There are about 40,000 people working down town whoso night trade Is relied upon. The pinnated grouse, or prairie chicken, has the power of ventrilo quism to a remarkable degree, as Its tone when produced but a few rods from the listener often has the effect of a sound originating nearly a mile distant. A peculiar visiting card, the fashion of which would seem to be genei'al on the continent of Europe, bears the name and addi'ess in the usual manner. On the other side are printed across each other the words "Visite," "Conge," "Felicitation," "Condolence," the idea being to turn up the corner which expresses the purpose of the call. Country roads in Norway are barred at frequent intei-vals by gates, which either mark the boundaries of farms or separate the cultivated fields from tho waste lands. These gales, of which there is upward of 10,000 in the whole country, constitute a consider able nuisance and delay to travelers, who have to stop their vehicles and alight to open them. The most wretched man on earth is said to be a monarch —Norohom, King of Cambodia. He has a gor geous palace furnished according to the most expensive ideas, but ho ad heres to the customs of his ancestors, and sleeps on an ancient carpet in a kind of shed that has not been cleaned since the creation. Ho is a miserable victim to hypochondria, and all day long he heaves long sighs of utter wretchedness. This monarch is a short, fat person with one eye. Almost all fruits and flowers have their legend. One about the peach comes from Japan, and tells how a poor, pious old couple wore search ing for food by the roadside. The woman found a peach, which she would not eat of, though starving, till she could share it with her husband. He cut it exactly in half, when an infant leaped forth. It was one of the gods, who had, he said, accidentally fallen out of the peac'n orchard of heaven while playing. He told them to plant the stone of the peach and it brought them happiness, friends and wealth. The little bird known as the Mary land yellow throat, which lives in low, bushy swamps during tho sum mer, shows considerable ability as a ventriloquist, and during the nest ing season makes use of the power as a protection—though apparently an unnecessary one, for the nest of this species is generally so carefully hidden from sight that it is almost impossible to find it. When a per son approaches the vicinity of its nest, though probably within a few feet of the intruder, it will throw its voice hack and forth so realistically that it is almost impossible to lo cate the bird. OnlloKO Growth, There are more colleges this fall than there ever wore before. New col leges are launched every year; 32 were founded In this country between 1890 and 1901. The facilities of the old colleges and universities are being greatly increased by tho unexampled benefactions that are poured upon them. Mr. Carnegie has not yet pro vided every American boy and girl with the chance to got a free college education, hut every intelligent youth may go to college now, whether he has money or not, if he has the pluck and the determination to carry him through. The country is prosperous ir. an unprecedented degree. Probab ly the students in universities and col leges this year will bo 10 percent greater In number than ever before, and already they had passed the 100,- 000 mark.—Lewiston Jour**!. PEARLS OF THO JGHTe A true benefactor is one who makes Us do the best we can. Beauty without kindness dies unen joyed and undelighting. Greatness is never thrust on us but who Leads HJI aimlesc life. Fools create opportunities for wise men to take advantage of. Time never sits heavily on U3 but when it is badly employed. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the better we like him. That action is best that procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. There never was a day that did not bring its own opportunity for doing, that never could have been done be fore, and never can be again. Even if work were the sole aim of life, it would be folly to neglect relax ation; for no labor can be efficiently and permanently carried on without it Better make of every sorrow a step ping stone to higher, nobler thought and deed than to bring it against your beart to weight you down into the slough of despond. The making of a man's way comes only from that quickening of resolves which we call ambition. It is the spur that makes man struggle with destiny; it is heaven's own incentive to make purpose great and achievement greater. The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the busi ness of one's life—the work at home after the holiday is done —is to help in some small, nibbling way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery in the face of the beautiful earch. A BUTTONHOLE CASE. Brought to l)cci! the Precedence of the Opening. Once upon a time, says the Boston Transcript, a case was brought be fore a learned judge in which the question at issue was as to whether the button was made for the button hole or the buttonhole for the button. Counsel for the but'on held that it superfluous that the buttonhole was made for the use and behoof of the the button; still for form's sake, he would Eive a few reasons why his contention was the correct one. It was apparent, he said, that without the buttonhole the button would he unable to perform its function, and hence it was plain that the button preceded the buttonhole, and that the latter was invented in order that tho bptton might be of service to man kind. It should be clear to every body that had it not been for the button the buttonhole never would have been thought of. Its existence necessarily presupposed the existence of the button. The lawyer for the other side was equally positive in the stand he had been employed to take. Ho averred that the buttonhole preceded the but ton; that, in fact, the button was merely an afterthought. He said that, as everybody knew, the button hole can bo employed without the button, as witness Farmer Jones, who invariably uses a nail or sliver of wood instead of tho conventional hut ton, whereas it was impossible to make an effective use of the button with out the aid and assistance of the but tonhole. Hence it was shown beyond peradvonture that the buttonhole was of greater importance than the button, and it was natural to infer that the buttonhole was first invented and that the button came later simply as an or nament, or, at best, as an improvement upon the nail, sliver, or other instru mentality wherewith tho buttonhole was made to perform it 3 duty. To show tho relative value of the button hole and the button, he said, take this simple example. When a button comes off e button can still be made serviceable, but if the buttonhole Is slit open the button is of no use whatever. With this the learned counsel rested his case, although he claimed that ho had not exhausted the subject. When the court came in after recess tho learned judge promptly decided the case in favor of tho buttonhole— clearly a jUBt decision, although it was wispered about the court house that the decision might have been dif ferent but for the fact that while changing his linen between adjourn ment and reassembling of the court his honor had dropped his collar button and hunted for it without suc cess for half an hour, and perhaps might never have found it had he not stepped upon It. But, of course, this suggestion came from the partisans of the button and may fairly he im puted to their disappointment and chagrin.. IPinn Honey the Host in tile World, Tho tree of a thousand uses, as the lime has been called, was formerly planted in England much more than it is today. The little row of pollard limes in front of tho old farm house or the substantial thatched cottage Is still a familiar site of unspoiled south country vil lages, while avenues of tall and an cient llme3 are very pleasant features of some of the large country houses, the manor houses in particular, it is claimed that the host hooey In the world is, made from tho limes. Kowno honey Is said to he matte from no other flow er. It is of a greenish hue. In Lithu ania there are forests of lime trees, and the honey made there is particu larly fine. —London Express. The swiftest bird known to the nat uralist is either the vulture, which is said to make 150 miles an hour, or the English kcstril. which can probably ecntrfl, H n'stt r rood, thir, eoecd.
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