fREELfiID TRIBOIE. KST AHBISIFIM) 1838. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY, BY TnE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, LiliiilsJ OFI'ICN MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE, LOKO DISTANCE TELEPHONE. SUBSCRIPTION RATES FREE LAND.— The TRIBUNE is delivered h, carriers to subscribers in Freeliind attlio ruts of 1-ki cents per month, payable every two months, or $1 50 a year, payable in advance. The TRIBUNE may be ordered direct form the carriors or from tho office. Complaints of Irregular or tardy delivery service will re. ceive prompt attention. BY MAIL —The TRIBUNE is sent toout-of. tov.-n subscribers for ,1.00 a year, payable in advance; pro rata torms for shorter periods, Tho date when the üb o cription expires is on the address label of each paper. Prompt re newals must lie madeattheexpiration, other wise the subscription will be disoontlnuod. Entered at the Postoffino at Freeland. Pa. as Second-Clasß Matter, Make all money order a, checks. ete. t pcyable to the Tribune Printing Company , Limited. Ac tile (fold deposits of tlio Yukon are worked out prospectors are discov ering line coal beds. Thus do tho use ful treasures of earth turn up when most needed and when men are in a mood to take advantage of tbem. An effort is to be made to remove a large red oak tree from the wildest section of Arkansas to Forest Park, St. Louis, without Injuring it. The tree is 100 feet high and twelve feet in diameter at the base. A double tramway will be built from the tree to the river, where it will be floated and towed to St. Louis. It is esti mated that this will occupy six months. Dr. Hnrry Pratt Judson, Dean of the University of Chicago, in addressing the seniors, said: "Wo have no ora tors to-day; that is, no orators of the first class. The reason for the decline in oratory is the vast increase in read ing. There arc too many gabblers without sound knowledge. We need more thorough knowledge and clear thinking, and oratory will take care of itself. The newspaper and periodi cal press at the same time make much cratory needless and multiply tho power of what is left." The condition of being born a gentle man naturally tends to develop an overnice discrimination in one's choice of company. It is nature, or second nature, any way, for birds of a feather to flock by themselves. Nothing hut tho grace of God, or intense innate hu man sympathies, enable a man horn to ease to realize his brotherhood with all the sorts and conditions of men. And if he does realize it, the chances are against his feelings being demon strated and recognized, because a com mon trait of gentlemen, and one more approved and applauded than It de serves, is reserve. To be reserved is next door to being distinguished; and a gentleman who does not hedge him self in a good part of the time with some assumption of aloofness is likely to seem eccentric to bis fellows of bis own flock. If ho goes out of his way to cultivate fellowship with the "plain people," critics of his own social spe cies will be sure to disparage him as a seeker after popularity. And yet fel lowship must bo cultivated if it is to bo acquired, observes E. S. Martin, in Harper's Weekly. Benefited by Superstition. Superstition has built up an odd and .iterative trade for a Kensington junk dealer. He makes a regular business of supplying horseshoes to people who think there is no luck around the house if the talismnnlc iron is not. in cluded In the household furnishings. The dealer in old metals handles thou sands of horseshoes in his junk trade, and many of these he cleans up and disposes of to believers in the super stition. It may seem odd to the render that anyone desiring a horseshoe shouldn't go to a blacksmith shop and get a brand-new one, but the junk dealer explains that a worn shoe is supposed to possess more virtue as a dispeller of hoodoos than a new one. Blacksmiths, he states, don't clean up old shoes, so the trade comes to him. He has all varieties, from the light flat Iron of the trotter to the heavy caulked shoe of tho draught horse. Being of an inquiring mind, the junk dealer lias discovered that many peo ple who call tor shoes are small store keepers, who believe the magic irous to have magnetic properties when placed in cash drawers.—Philadelphia Itecord. There are 21,000 druggists In Eng land, and 23,000 coach makers. The English War Department has offered a $4,000 prize for the best sell' propelling military wagon. The largest Insect known Is the elo. phant beetle of Venezuela. One has been found that weighed seven ounces The farm products of tho United States this year aro worth about $400,- 000,000 more than last year's outturn. •THE BLOT ON POLLY'S BONNET. How many causes intertwine To make a perfect whole! What wondrous power, what vast design, Must pay its little toll! No earth attainment now wo seo But bears some tribute on it From ev'ry human industry; k For instance, Polly's bonnet. She calls it a "creation," small And simple as can be. And sees no miracles at all In its simplicity; But when I try to Aran? out The things that helped to make it. So fast the pictures crowd about I hate to undertake it. The tip, that little tip that shakes So saucily on high, Was plucked one day. far, far away, Beneath Rn Afric slcy. I see a lordly ostrich stand And lay its off'ring dov.m, To help to make, for Polly's sake, The prettiest hat in town. A little volley next appears, And on the ecreen I see Dull peasants toiling through the years, And trees of mulbcrrv; 'Tia France, where silkworms live and spin And f vield for loom and mat The shining threads that tremblo in This simple, littlo hat. ft I ** I How I Became Best Man. 1 || fe| s!■? By S. Ten Eyck Prince. p| llaiSS^SlgrsiSSi-iEigSsSSSiiSiS THERE la an old German re frain that runs somewhat as follows: a "The paradise of earth Is found on horseback." That morning it recurred to me, why I know cot, for I had heard no GcV man for years. Anyway, as I say. It recurred to ine as I walked along tp the spring sunshine, clad in faultless riding attire, toward a well-known J riding stable where I Intended to pro enre n mount for a long ride. It Wlss still quite early, and I found the groom lazily pillowed against the stable door, whistling softly to him-, self. He glanced at my high boots which reflected the morning sun, and smiled, while I explained my Intention. I chose a beautiful roan, called Darl ing. "A horse that was as gentle as a lamb," pertinently added the groom. "I generally pay In advance," I re marked, "do yon charge by the hour or by the morning? I expect to bo out a couple of hours." The groom parried my question. "We know you, sir, and will charge for tho time the horse stays out," he con cluded maliciously, with a friendly pat on Darling's flank that sent him flying down the street. I had intended to ride along the drives, Where the sbgde was thick and the young lailies wandered up and down during the morning hours, but Darling held other views, and carried the day with gentle persistence. What could Ido with the beast? And, after all, what difference does It make where one rides so long as one does ride? Ko we hastened to the outskirts of the town where the sun was hottest. That was Darling's choice. Darling paused before the first inn and abso lutely refused to budge, so, to give myself a countenance, I ordered a glass of ale from the waiter who hur ried out, and found it as poor as I had expected. ".Wonderful what them beasts do know, sir," he commented, patting Darling's glossy neck. "Now, this one alius gets sugar here and he knows It, sir, he do." So Darling munched his lump of sugar and then consented to trot along. This earthly paradise presented many pitfalls for me. At first Darling skirted a never-ending wall so closely that the polish vanished from my left boot and my leg felt as It" it had been plunged In an electric bath. Then he carried rao under a row of low-spread iug apple trees tliat coquetted with my hat, which I saved only at the risk of life and limb, and rumpled my well bruslied hair. I breathed with relief as we cantered Into a grove where the trees arched high above me, and walls were a thing unknown. But, alas! there was a pond, and Darling paused dreamily beside its reedy, swampy shores. I was terrified. Suppose the horse should suddenly decide to take a bath! I patted, coaxed-, twitched at the bridle, all in vain. Darling refused to advance. At last my patience gave out, I plunged my rowels into him, setting the springs of his rear legs Into violent disorder. The turf flew around my ears, but always lu the same spot. Fortuuately I had thoughtfully pro vided myself with sugar at the inn, and with its aid succeeded in calming Darling so far that he consented to stand still. I soon discovered a slender figure in the distance, approaching at a swift gallop. I tugged at the reins—una vaillngly, of course; then, to make the most of my sorry lot and lend some shadow of reality to the ridiculous figure I must cut stationed before this swamp pond, I fastened my eyes upon the swaying branches, apparently lost in meditation. Trot, trot, echoed be hind me; tho lady was close at hand; In an instant she would have passed me. But Darling whirled suddenly, almost flinging me over hi 3 head into tho water, and flew along after the ether horse. I consoled myself that at tills pace wo should soon out-distance her; but as we came ueck to neck my mount slowed up and trotted along, contentedly suiting himself to the oth er's pace. I know tile young lady by sight, and felt forced to bow. ijhe nodded stlilly, and urged her horse on, while I en deavored to check Darling. As well try to curb the thunderbolts. I was powerless. She duelled on, I following Next, wondrous fields of rustling gold Upon my inem'ry come, The horse 3 tugging tiirouiili the moid, The reapersHmsfy hum; And skilful liand3 are plaiting atraw, And mystic patterns gleam To make fi_ dainty framework for What Polly calls her "dream." But what ia thia, with aznro wing Upon the sunshine borne? A little bird, a beauteous thing, Trills gaily to the morn; I watch him bend his graceful liead, As flitting blithely by, He darts away in merry play Beneath the summer sky. A slrot rings out; the leaden rain Sheds darkness all around, And writkinp in its cruel pain, The bird lies on the ground; A stream of blood its body yields, It quivers and is still; And murder stains the yellow fields, And fashion pays the bilk So, suddenly my fanny stays, No beauty can I see; Gone all the charming daintiness, The sham simplicity; And Polly's face eocms grown less fair Beneath her dainty bonnet, For a little mangled body thera Has set death's 6eal upon 1L -—John 1L Itathom, in Ufa. always, at Infinite peril to lite and limb, fori was not accustomed to this rapid pace. Besides, I am a man who dislikes to appear .forward. I was mortally ashamed of lay self, but So power oil earth could check the beast I was riding. Darling neighed scorn fully as I tugged at the bit. and kept on in his mad career. Miss Van Deemen glanced con- i temptuously at me and furnod down a sidepatb. Darling clung to her skirts with a deporable fidelity. And 1 had noticed a placard Warning all trcs pasers oil' under penalty of the law'. I The law was, then, to be added to iny other miseries; but I consoled myself with the thought that Its representa tives could sccroaly control my horse, since I myself had failed in the at tempt. But Miss Van Doemea bad reached the limit; she reiuud In her horse, and Darling stood immovable! "Sir," said she, anger and fear fn every line of her pretty face, "I must ask yon to leave me at once." Heavens, If 1 only could! I would even have climbed a tree, but Darling was not to be persuaded. "Sir—" "Pardon me; it really Is not my fault; it is purely accidental that our paths lie in the same direction," 1 replied, hypocritically. "Then I will ret mm." said she, plane ing at the placard In silent comment upon my excuse. Bnt Darling whirled, too. knocking me heedlessly against the nearest tree, thereby barking my knee in painful fashion; then trotted determinedly on by the lady's side, out on to the broad highway that was equally forbidden to me at that In stant. Miss Van Dcemen bit her lips in silence, growing alternately white and red, and I kept on in overpowering shame, but helpless as the Infant in its cradle. At last she turned to me with tears in her eyes. "I beg you, sir, to leave xae. You cannot imagine how dreadfully you will embarrass me if yon persist In this unwarranted pursuit. X appeal to your chivalry, for I—l expect my fiance here, with whom I am secretly engaged. He is dreadfully jealous, so I beg of you to leave Kiel" 1 She almost sobbed as she spolic, and In the distance I could hear echoing hoofbeats, which she, too, must have distinguished. I knew the gentleman to whom she referred, at least by sight; and I confess I had no desire for closer acquaintance under such cir cumstances. I used my whip unsparingly, but to no purpose. Darling would not budge. In the meantime the rider appeared at the turning and greeted the young lady pleasantly enough, though bo glauccd at me disapprovingly. "Pray Introduce your companion," ho said sharply. Miss Van Deemen turned purple and looked reproachfully at me. "I don't know the gentleman," she stamincved. "He happened to bo rid ing in the same direction as I" "Purely accidental," I repeated, bowing, inwardly praying that the earth would open and swallow mo np. "Indeed!" said the gentleman, and turned his back deliberately on me. "Permit ma to accompany you, Mies Van Deemen," I heard, as I bent low over Darling's neck, apparently ab sorbed in a saddle buckle. I heard them trot off, and then felt tnyseif car ried along at a furious pace, and an lustant later I landed beside Miss Deemen, breathless, but still in my saddle. Mr. Courtney—eo she had styled bcr escort—glared at me, mut tering something between Ills tooth. "Sir," I ventured, overcoming my embarrassment. "Will you have tho goodness to leave us?" he shrieked. "Tho road Is free to all," I replied, annoyed by his manner, for I had not started upon an explanation. "But yours is not beside this lady, whom you are insulting," he raged. "I regret It exceedingly, but—" "I forbid you to ride beside ber," he snapped, angrily. "You can forbid mo nothing. I am not your servant" "Sir," he shrieked, "you are nn in solent puppy, and I mast Insist upon an explanation for your—" Hero Miss Van Deemen Interfered, "Par mercy's sake, no violence! There must be n mistake somewhere, bnt I am sure it Is not intentional." "Nothing could be farther from my thoughts," I assured her, truthfully. "Then prove It by leaving us," she Implored. I bowed. Then, overcome with rage at the brute that had led me Into this pitfall, I lashed Darling unmercifully. But Darling merely whirled around in a bewildering tarantella until I could scarcely see or hear, then finally flew across country In a wild gallop. And behind me came a steady trample, trample. Was Sir. Courtney deter mined to punish what he called my in solence, or— Darling stopped as suddenly as ho had started, and a tenr-stnined face ap peared at my elbow, and behind her, like On avenging angel, stormed her furious admirer, and then we three halted once more. "So this was prearranged," he snapped. "I thought so. You have simply been leading me on, to make a fool of me at last, forgetful of every womanly—" "Jack, Jack!" cried Miss Van Dee men, Imploringly. "Confess It," lie shouted furiously. "But I don't even know him," she sobbed. "Then, sir, answer like a man!" he said, turning to me. "Confess that you know this lady." A silvery laugh startled us both at this juncture. "We don't know each other," cried Miss Van Doemcn, "but our horses apparently do." And, indeed, In the midst of this anger and strife our two horses pre sented an idyllic picturo as they stood gently rubbing noses. "Yes, so it seems. But how could It happen? Isn't that your own?" askod Mr. Courtney. "Why, Jade, how could I ever have gotten nwoy? Of course I had to hire a horse. You know papa never lets me rifle without tlie groom. I got this one at Tnttersall's." "So did I," I exclaimed; "that's why the brutes stick so close." And then we all laughed together. After which, as we couldn't scperate, We continued our ride together, and at the dose had cemented a friendship so firm that when Mi3s Van Deeuien finally married Jack Courtney I was was asked to officiate as best man. But In spite of this happy conclu sion I determined to take no more jnorntng rides Until I knew a little more about the art It doesn't do to tempt fate too often.—New York Com mercial Advertiser. PheuolTwnal Memory of Great Men. Muuy of the greatest men have lind phenomenal memories. Caesar knew tlie names of thousands of soldiers In Ills legions. A modern man of science often has a prodigious memory for gpoclal terminology. Professor Asa Gray assured mo that he could at once vocall the names of something like twenty-five thousand plants; Professor Theodore Gill can do the same for fishes. Our memory for mere words is Itself much more extensive than is generally admitted. The average well to-do child of two years of age has a vocabulary qf some five hundred words, and Its father may have com mand of twenty thousand more. The ten thousand verses of the Rig-Veda Itavo, for three thousand years, been accurately preserved In the memories of the Brahmins. Not one Brahmin alone, but thousands, can to-day recite it word for word. Thousands of Mo hammedans, likewise, know tlie Koran hy heart, as all learned Chinese know t lis;!q/ classic books. The chiefs of Polynesia can and do repeat hundreds of thousands of words in their gene alogies—talcing days and even weeks fbr the recitation. Hundreds of pianists can play all day, and many days, by memory; aud I have myself seen Von Bulow conduct Beethoven's Fifth Symphony without a score. Chess-players have a visual izing memory; musicians have on au ditive and a motor memory; while arithmetical prodigies may have any ono of the three, as we shall note In a future discussion of the subject, or a combination of all.—Professor E. S. liolden, lu Harper's Magazine. j Why They Bofc nt tho Knees. American woolens have the reputa tion of bagging at the point of great est strain when made into garments aud In some cases tailors make a point of calling their customer's attention to the fact that they will not guarantee American made goods from bagging at the knees and elbows, at the same time bringing forth a piece of goods that they claim to bo imported, and which they will guarantee against bagging for a limited time. In somo cases tho goods are of foreign manu facture, but as often they were inndo In the United States, but by claiming to have imported them a better price can be obtained, and bagging is tho means used to induce the customer to pay the higher price. In some In stances tho claim is just that certain goods will become baggy when sub jected to tlie strain of wearing, but It Is unjust to claim that all American woolens will bag. There are various reasons why Amercan goods or any other make will bag, the principal ones being im proper mixing of stock, soft twist, and defects In weaving. In order to cheapen the cost the grades of woo! arc mixed, and if tho operation is properly performed tho goods will not bag. but If the various grades are not thoroughly Incorporated bagglness will result for tho cheaper grades have very Uttlo felting properties, while the grade that does possess felting prop erties Is Intended to.clcse up the fibres during fulling, so that all danger cf bagging will bo removed.—New York i Sun, STEEL IN FARM IMPLEMENTS. Little Yet In the Woffon, Bat It Nay Cotno There Pomo Boy. The substitution of stool for wood lr. agricultural Implements, which lias taken place r,f late years, is not yet finished. It is still (joins; on. But the transition was elilpfiy effected liettrcen ISSO and 1800. As yet the farm wagon is almost untouched by this great movement. Steel axles and pressed steel gears have been on the market for several years, but. nineteen farmers out,of twenty still prefer oak and hick ory in n wagon for general use. Metal wagon wheels with broad tires are, however, meeting with an extensive demand for use in hauling over soft fields and around the farm, and they may bo the forerunner of the all steel wagon. Theoretically, wood will Inst a life time, ami yet It has been abandoned for cultivator beams, harrow frames, most of the wheels and a lot. of other parts of agricultural machines. But there Is a difference between the rail fence, which has been known to last thirty or forty years without being painted, and the wood which was once put Into a harvester frame. The latter was full of bolt holes, which let water In and thus Induced rot. Perhaps the reason why wood works so well In n wagon Is the fact that the latter lias so few bolt holes. L. R. Ardey. writing from Chicago for The Iron Age, says: "The harvester companies show great diversity in the forms of liars that they use The McCormiek com pany Indicates a preference for square pipe, which can lie fastened together in a compnct frame by liolts, like the members of a wooden frame. The Deering and Champion companies use flat bars, riveted together to form very strong frames. Other companies use Z bars, angles and round pipe, each company claiming their design to be 'the best in the world.' The old wood en 'hull wheel,' wltli wood rim and sawe, others with 'hairpin' steel spokes that are held by nuts, cither in the rim or huh. Steel guard or finger bars have replaced the old wooden bars and slioet steel Is used for platform bottoms. Some com panies still make the deck or binding table of wood, but others nse sheet steel. Perhaps half of the wood now used in the construction of a binder is in the pole. "In modern riding plows, cultivators and corn planters no wood Is used ex cepting for poles. The wheels are generally of the Bettendorf type, In which spokes of mack bar Iron or mild stool are upset Into malleable hubs and steel tires. These wheels are also coming into general use in place of wood for corn shellers, hay presses, corn buskers aud other heavy ma chines. The oldtime horse power with wooden wheels and frame is seldom seen in the West, having been replaced by modem tracllon engines, which arc now generally built In sizes that de velop twenty to thirty horse power. Wood Is still used principally in build ing threshing machines, but the wood en straw carrier has been replaced by the steel pneumatic stacker." BrUlftli Mnnlrlpnl Undertakings. A report shows tint In England and Wales 265 cities have alroady engaged in productive undertakings, and In Scotland seventy-four. Tills means that nearly half ol' the municipalities of the Island liave entered competitive industry. Scores of towns and vil lages are supplied by tlie existing mu nicipal trading companies, and have no incentive to go luto productive indus try on thalr own account, while if they had to compete with or depend on pri vate enterprise they would follow the example of their larger neighboring communities. The aggregate capital Invested Is nearly $300,000,000. and one Is quite prepared to read that ninety four per cent of this total Is borrowed money. As iu Aiatralia, so in Great Britain the experiments in socialism are conducted on capital raised by loans, and the municipalities expect tc clear a net profit after paying the market rate of interest and providing for grsdunl extinction of the debt. In 181X1 the British municipal debt was $1,230,000,000. It Is much higher now, and the increase in twenty years has been 200 per cent Municipal rates have, of course, also Increased steadily. The annual expenditures au thorized by parliament and the local government board have Increased from $23,000,000 ten years ago to $103,000,- 000 in 1800. The municipal authorities arc not deterred by these figures from enlarging the scale and multiplying the number of their operations, but there were some witnesses who ques tioned If tlie game was worth the can dle, and whether the advantages were, or were likely to be, great enough to justify the risk, expense and the Indi rect consequences of this sort of social ism.—Chicago Record-Herald. Stand Up "When Fitting Shoeen made to invent Impenetra ble shields and clothing that further information must lxi furnished the wise and wary before entire credence can be given to the report of Herr Szeepanik's suoocss. A mineral wax, called ozocerite, or native parafiln, is one of the queer de posits found in connection with rock salt or coal. Consul Hossfcld, at Trieste, says that deposits of it have been discovered in Austria, Russia Egypt, Algeria, Canada and Mexico, but not hi quantities thnt would pay for mining except in Austrian Galicin and on an island on the west coast of the Caspian Sea. In mining it shafts are sunk until a hod is struck, and then connecting galleries are driven. It is a dangerous business, for the pressure underneath often forces the soft wax up into the shafts, and lives have been lost hi this way. The wax is used for making ecresin, which, ■with beeswax, is used for making wax candles, phonographic cylinders and other similar things. A!>solute zero is the point at which a substance loses every atom of its heat. Mo one has ever produced it, lwt the scientists believe thnt it may be found at 4CI degrees below Fasli renbeit zero. Professor Dewar, of London, who succeeded in liquefying air. six or eight years ago, at a tem perature of 333 degrees below zero, and hydrogen more recently, at a tem perature of 443 degrees below, is now experimenting with helium. To freeze hydrogen he used liquid air as the agent, awl is using liquid hydrogen In his efforts to freeze helium. He ex pects to get a temperature of 432 de grees hcluw in freezing helium, which will Leave him nine degrees short of absolute zero. To overcome that a gas more volatile than helium must be discovered, when be will attempt to freeze it with liquid helium. SkxrpLug In Spoctmcles. Some people wear their eyeglasses or spectacles to bed, for the simple reason that they cannot sleep without thorn ou. At least, that's what an optician says, and he ought to know, for confessions were recently made him upon the point. A woman hod re peatedly come to him with the Ixnvs of her spectacles so bady twisted that he asked her how under the sun she ever managed to get them la such a stgte. Ho says that he had visions of soihe childish hands having a part in the work, some little one that liked to play with mamma's glasses. But > the woman said that she had been wearing glasses so much of recent years that Anally she had taken to wearing them to baft as the only way of getting to sleep. She said that it was only within tile past l'ew weeks that sho had had any trouble from the custom, as she ordinarily managed to beep the front part of her face off the pillow, but lately she must have had bad eleep, with more or less night mares. Of his customers he has two who have been addicted to this habit of wearing glasses to bed, botli for the same reasons. Imagiue some people trying to wear glasses to bed, and the condition of things In the morning. Speaking of unusual cases lu the wearing of glasses the optician said that some of those who undertook to wear glasses when lu bathing had spe cial frames made for the purpose, some that had a tighter grip, and oth er's luivlng fbem made with nickel I frail® on the principle thnt 11' they ) are lost, the cheaper the batter.—Bos ton Herald.