Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, February 07, 1902, Image 2

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In the department of mechanical
engineering our American technical
schools lead the world. Europe is
sending her boys to them in consider
able numbers.
Notwithstanding the carpings of
the doubtful and the finical, football
seems to maintain more firmly than
ever this year its hold on public
fanor as a stirring, wholesome and
manly sport.
The department of agriculture has
decided that certain cereals can be
grown with marked success in Al
aska. It is a great deal to ask a
man who has started out for mil
lions in gold to settlo down to farm
ing.
The game laws have been prepared
so judiciously in many of our state's,
especially in New England, in New
York, and generally in the northwest
ern part of the Union, and these laws
have been enforced with so much
energy that the reports from many
quarters of excellent sport with
beast and bird are gratifying.
There are now in London and its im
mediate neighborhood 360 public rec
reation grounds, varying in size from
Epping Forest, which with Wanstead
Flats, is over 5000 acres in extent, to
little city gardens and playgrounds
measuring an eighth or a tenth of an
acre. These include 100 plots of
ground which have been used for in
terment, parish churchyards, and oili
er disused burial grounds, of which
the largest is 11 acres and the small
est a few yards square.
The estimate that the population of
the United States and its possessions
will reach a total of 100.000,000 at the
end of the first 10 years of this cen
tury has a rounded fulness which may
puff American pride unduly. It may
be prudent to moderate the screams of
the eagle and not to count too many
chickens years in advance. Some of
the eggs may be adoled. This is a
wonderful nation, and it is growing
amazingly. In fact, we grow so fast
that we should beware of vainglory.
It is time to take heed.
Mme. Hubertine Auclert, a French
woman who favors equal rights for
women, has hit upon a novel way of
preaching the gospel. The new
French postage stamps represent a
young woman resting her hand on a
tablet which bears the words, "The
rights of man." Mme. Auclert has
caused to be made a quantity of blue
stamps which show a young man rest
ing his hand on a tablet with the
words, "The rights of woman." She
recommends persons who believe in
equal rights to affix one of these
stamps to each letter, side by side
with the official stamp of the govern
ment.
In an official report submitted to
the war department the statement Is
made that the magazines of nearly all
the forts upon the New England coast
are damp and unfit for use. It is not
likely that these shore defences will
ever be required to repel invaders, hut
of what use is a citldel in which the
first maxim of successful aggression
or of formidable resistance is constant
ly disregarded? To keep your powder
dry is a good rule here and now as it
was in the Ironsides army of Crom
well 250 years ago, and every fortress
of ours should he dismantled and aban
doned, or waterproof and thoroughly
protected magazines must be construct
ed.
Sppnking /bout "Rubber Kecka.*'
A surgeon in Lyons, France, has
supplied a rubber larynx and glottis
for a patient that works perfectly.
The rubber neck now has a distinct
and assured standing in the world of
medicine -New York Press.
SONG FOR THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
iWe tread a better earth to-day
Than that the fathers knew;
A broader sky line rounds away
To realms of deeper blue.
More ample is the human right,
More true the human ken;
The law of God has been a light
To lead the lives of men.
lie led our generations on
In mist of smoldering fire;
To more than all the centuries gone
The marching years aspire,
'Across the onward sweep of time
We strain our vision dim,
And all the ages roll and climb
' To lose themselves in Him.
.We jraze upon the aeons past—
A blind and tumbling surge,
And slowly, from the weltering vast
Behold a law emerge.
The water seemed to heave and sway
In chaos undenied,
Yet not a foam flake drove astray.
For He was wind and tide.
O purpose of the stumbling years,
O wistful need and hope,
Whereby in all the woven spheres
The atoms yearn and grope;
Flow through the wandering will of man
A tide of slow degree,'
And merge our strivings in the plan
That draws the world to Thee.
—Frederick Langbridge, in Chicago Stand
ard.
ffimmuuwyuu uuvuuuuss
i The Morse That Ran Away 1
OLD Antelope
Hunch of North
eastern Nebraska
went out of ex
> 'yk"V lstenee with a
ttii \ \i great many other
things during the
season of the "big
drought." Every
U' cattle country hns
had a historic drought. Local events are
marked from that period, and as is said in
the South, when one is reminiscent,, "he
fore the war," so they say iu Nebraska,
"before the dry spell." But when the
Antelope was in its prime there was
kept in one of the corrals a black
horse that was never used for any but
special service. If a child was sick
at the ranch house and needed a physi
cian, out came the black, and furious
ly he covered the distance as no other
horse on the range could. When the
Sioux rose In the west of the State
it was the black that carried the warn
ing through Koyupaha and along the
Niobrara, where the sparsely settled
villages were. He even in a day at
that time journeyed 120 miles and
flung his proud head high in the air
whinnying as if he could joyously
cover that distance over again without
rest. Of course, he was a range horse;
no thoroughbred's blood iu him, off
spring from uo mother coddled under
the trainer's watchful eye, liut child of
the rauge mare and stallion, facing
blasts of ice and sand, lighting for
focd while the blizzard raged above,
swimmer of swollen streams, com
panion of the coyote, the rabbit and
the antelope, nature-born and nature
bred.
The black lived long and well at the
Antelope Ranch after he was tamed
somewhat, but one day he broke the
hounds of his corral by some eliance,
aud, standing where the dip of the
plain land came up to the bars of his
late prison, he gave a triumphant
scream and plunged into the wilder
ness before him. The ranchmen heard
Ills cry, they came running, come just
In time to see him arch himself on a
distant elevation aud scream again.
He was free. Once long before this
time he had been free. That was
when he grazed with his mother, far
out on the Elkhorn, when no strap or
halter lay upon them, and only the
llii Wit
"Si ip
r&Z
wild beasts were their companions.
He had dreamed much of those days
since his capture. Not that lie had
ever failed iu a duty put upon him by
his man captors, but the dreams of
what had been, what he still louged
for, would cling to him, and carry him
away with such wild surges of blood
that he would bouud agaiust the cor
ral's side and make deep moans as if in
fain. No horse was ever made upon
whom harness lay naturally; the herit
age? of the horse was the free plain,
from which he could only be sum
moned by the call of his companion,
man. If he responded it was because
he too loved and was not a captive.
All this the black knew, and he curv
eted iu the afternoon sunshine, threw
his dainty legs far apart, blew the
warm air from his nostrils, and gal
loped away—north, north, to where the
Kcyapaha flows through Indian land.
Mares with silky manes and tremulous
nostrils were waiting far him there.
Mares with eyes that would soften
as they heard the beat of his oncoming
hoofs. He had heard them call to
him In the night when he beat himself
agnlnst the corral's timbers.
*•'••# •
lie roused the rattlesnake from Its
dusty bed; he left the blowsnake puff
ing and blowing far behind. The Jack
rabbit coursed with him, and distant
antelope raised their heads, gazed and
were not afraid. That which is free
fears not freedom In others. The sun
went down, the night came and the
black slaked his thirst in a stream al
most on the border line of Nebraska
and South Dakota. Then he swung on
again, stronger, freer. From distant
Buffalo Gap the breath of the moun
tains came to him; the grasses and
wild flowers spurned beneath his fly
ing feet sent after him a sweet per
fume. Wolves howled about him, but
held off. No terrors had they for him.
He was coming to the White River
country and the waiting mares of his
breed. Not so many had been the
years of his captivity that he did not
know just where they would be linger
ing in the shadows of the valley. Few
there were left unenptured by the
white man, but these few, dauntless,
unconquerod, still roamed where, as a
child, he had been part of their child
days. Every glittering star told hlin
when it was midnight, and he poised
himself on the great roll of land above
the valley where the marcs wnlled.
lie listened, but the grasses gave no
warning of pursuit. He had out
stripped all men. lie listened for a
sound from the valley, but there was
none. Then he called, the wild chal
lenge of the full-blooded range horse
to the female of his breed. The cry
went up and down ou the night air.
It rang back from other rolls of land,
and it burst through the shadows of
the valley and roused the mares. One
—two—three—they all called back. Be
low him was the sound of rising anl
mnls, ihe patting of hoofs on range
grass. Ho had found his own.
lie could not see them, so far be
low were they, but they, looking up,
could see him silhouetted against the
sky. His mane was blowing free; he
was a something carved out of the
night; he was flesh and Are and blood,
and he was free. Again he called, and
again he was answered, and this was
repeated several times. No need for
him to wait longer." He leaped from
bis eminence, and ho dashed down the
rough way to where lie knew ho would
bo awaited. Heedless of rock and
shale, heedless of gashed waterways
now dry, he leaped on, spurning all
earth beneath his feet, coming with
the wind of tile plain. A rock turned
beneath him; he was quiet and did
not fall; shale slid with him, he
bounded ahead. Then for one instant
there opened before him a horrible
gulch, uusoundable, unknown. It had
not been there when last he was in
this valley. The meres were beyond
calling to him. Surrender? He drew
off and went at it, rising in the air
for frightful span to cover, screaming
again his wild song of freedom as he
leaped.
*••• *
The pursuing ranchmen found him
in the gulch's bed the next day, back
broken, blood at ills lips, dead. lie
was free. —H. I. Cleveland, in the Chi
cago Iteeord-llevald.
Gutta Pcrclia From Peat.
A German scientist has recently de
\ isod a method of manufacturing arti
ficial gutta-percha from peat, and, if it
turns out to be what is claimed, it will
simplify one of the greatest problems
in electricity—the insulation of ocean
cables. Thus far gutta-percha is the
ouly substance which has been found
to furnish perfect protection for a
wire against the chemical influences of
salt water, and the product Is not only
limited, hut Is controlled by an Eng
lish Arm of cable manufacturers, who
own the forests In the East Indies from
which gutta-percha is obtained. Ex
periments to find a substitute have
been going on for years throughout
the world, but thus far nothing lias
been entirely successful. The price
of gutta-percha has been advanced con
siderably by the demands of the manu
facturers of golf balls, which has al
most doubled the cost of cable manu
facture, aud If this German Inventor
is able to make an equally as good
Insulator out of peat he will make a
very important contribution to the
world's economy, for peat can be found
in almost every country ou the globo
in quantities almost unlimited. There
are 3,000,000 acres in Ireland, 2,500,000
in Scotland, and even more in Ger
many, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Fin
laud and other countries of Europe.
Women Have the llest of It.
Out iu Salt Lake City they ha-m -
system of street railway transfers
which is hard to beat. The passenger
who receives a transfer from a Salt
I.ake conductor is compelled to use it
himself or throw it away.
Each ticket has printed on it, be
sides the usual hours and the names
of intersecting lines, a row of Kven
small heads. Five of them are male
heads, two are female. Of ths male
heads the first is a beardless face, the
second bears a mustache, the third
"mutton chop" whiskers, the fourth a
chin heard, and the lifth is fully
bearded. Beneath the row are two
plus signs, with a forty between them.
The conductor Is required to identify
each passenger l>y punching one of
the faces and one of the signs for age,
the first plus being used for young
men, the forty for men of middle age
and the final plus for elderly men.
On the heads representing women
one wears a hat and represents young
women in general, and the other a bon
net, for matrons. With really rare
delicacy, the question of ago is not
mentioned in regard to female passen
gers.—Washington Test.
ORIGIN OF THE EARTH
SYNOPSIS OFISIR ROBERT S. BALL'S
LECTURE ON THE SUBJECT.
The Scientific Explanation of the lTorlil'n
ltegtnuiug—Two Line* of Argument
In Support of the Nebular Theory
What a Meteor is.
Sir Robert S. Ball's third lecture in
the Lowell Institute course was even
more successful than the two preced
ing it, his audience, contrary to the
usual custom-of-course audiences, be
ing on the increase. His subject was
"The Origin of the Earth," and he
showed forth two lines of argument in
support of the nebular theory based
on facts known about our planet.
His first reference was to the re
markable boring for coal near Leipsic,
which, while undertaken for commer
cial purposes, was conducted in a truly
scientific manner. Whether coal was
found or not the speaker did not re
member, hut he did remember the
scientific outcome, the fact that the
gradient of the earth's temperature
was established, that it was proved
that below a certain point near the
surface, to which the heat of the day
penetrates, there is a regular Increase
In temperature; and at a mile below
the point of constant temperature, the
thermometer would register eighty de
grees higher than at this point.
Experiments have not been conduct
ed much below the first mile, hut con
ditions are subject to determiuation in
a general way. From the known law
affecting the diffusion of heat, It
evident that the lower strata cannot
be colder than the overlying ones and
most be warmer, and since the tem
perature Increases quite uniformly
down to the mile It Is reasonable to
believe that below the mile it will con
tinue to Increase at übout the same
rate.
Another fact which may he consid
ered as established is that the earth is
gradually dissipating its heat into
space. This heat is moving out from
the centre of the earth toward the
surface, and the amount there lost
each year would be sulHclent to melt a
film of ice covering the earth's surface
one-tenth pf an inch thick.
This small quantity does not seem
of much moment, hut It must be re
membered that It is an influence al
ways acting in tho same direction, aud
these Influences which act always in
the same direction are the architects
of the universe. The geological forces
act with the greatest energy for per
haps hundreds of thousnnds of years,
and then they begin to tear down what
they have built up. These forces may
get hack near to where they have be
gun, but the influences that act always
the same way do accomplish wonders
in the millions of years of time through
which they work. If the earth is
losing heat, and has been losing it, it
was formerly hotter than it is now,
and continuing this argument back
into the dim age we see it was red
hot, white hot and even molten.
But here the speaker diverged for
awhile to consider the action of the
tides. This is a groat question, for
some there are who believe the fric
tion of the tides to have been respon
sible for tbe earth's heat. The argu
ment was presented in an interesting
way, the whole lecture being without
notes, and it was shown that the tides
have an influence in slowing up the
earth's motion of rotation. To-day is
longer than yesterday and yesterday
longer than the day before. There is
not a great difference, a fraction of a
second being tho aggregate for a few
centuries, hut this is a cause that acts
always in the same direction.
The aggregate of loss in a million
years is about seventeen minutes, and
in 4,000,000 years about an hour, so
that 4,000,000 of years ago the day was
about twenty-three hours long. And
as we go farther and farther down the
vista of time, we encounter days of
twenty-two hours, of twenty hours, of
fifteen hours, of ten hours, of eight and
even of six hours. This may have been
from fifty to 300,000,000 of years ago,
but there is evidence that the rotation
of the earth was at once four times
a3 rapid as it is now. It had then
sixteen times as much energy as now,
aud fifteen-sixteenths has gone. En
ergy is never lost, hut is transformed
into heat, and in its radiation of heat
the earth lias parted with so much of
its original energy.
Ingenious investigators, one building
Where the other finished, have found
u means of computing the heat equiv
alent of tidal action, and the gradient
would be one degree for every 2000
feet, so that this cause is entirely in
adequate to account for the eighty
degrees which is the known gradient.
It will then be understood that the
gradient of eighty degrees is due to
internal beat, and in the past the earth
was hotter, even beyond the possibility
of surface, a molten mass, and back
of that gases, in fact a nebula. It ex
tended out far beyond its present lim
its; it touched the other great nebula,
the sun; It was part of it, the same
chemical elements composing both.
The closing portion of the lecture
was devoted to the consideration of
some of tho questions which may nat
urally arise. Is the centre of the
earth solid or liquid? It is a race be
tween temperature aud pressure—the
temperature is high, but the pressure
also Increases. Geologists in this and
iu other countries are aware that the
pebbles iu conglomerate actually flow
uuder the pressure of the upper depos
its. We have in our own suburbs ex
amples of these distorted pebbles,
while in Norway a village is roofed
with the granite pebbles of an ancient
sea beach rolled out flat as slates by
the pressure of perhaps 10,000 feet of
later deposits, since washed away. So
it matters not whether we term them
solid or liquid, these rocks which arc
made to flow.
But whatever the term, the earth la
more rigid than solid steeL It is so
rigid that the shocks of volcanoes and
earthquakes are transmitted through
it with twice the velocity of passage
through steel. The intense heat of
the centre of the earth is shown by the
volcanic eruptions, that of Krakatoa,
for example, when every particle of
the solid earth and every wave of the
surrounding atmosphere tingled In re
sponse to the mighty explosion. Ve
hement as was this eruption, sending
as it did millions of tons of the earth's
crust high into the air, it was hut a
puny effort compared with the mighty
outbursts of the time when the earth
was young. It then had vast quanti
ties of l>cat to dissipate, and to these
eruptions that of Krakatoa was but a
popgun.
It is probable that the force of the
explosions projected particles into
space with a velocity so great that
gravity was overcome so far as the
earth is concerned, and the particles,
caught by the sun and turned into
closed orbits, have been members of
our solar system, crossing the earth's
orbit every few years, but at* these
times the earth was elsewhere in its
orbit. But the little earth-born wan
dered, faithful to the laws that gov
erned it, has repaired again and again,
a hundred times, a thousand times—a
million times, even!—to tlio place
whore it first took flight, until at last
meeting the earth there, it is con
sumed In one bright flash and we of
the earth say "a meteor."—Boston
Transcript.
To llearli From Sea to Sky.
Diamond Shoal Lightship, No. 71,
Captain Tawes, arrived iu Baltimore
from her station to he installed with a
new electrical apparatus, which is to
send a thirteen-inch beam of light
from the ship's deck to the clouds.
The clusters of lights now at the tops
of the two masts are visible thirteen
miles at sea, but It is expected that the
pillar of light rising to the skies may
he seen thirly and forty miles at sea.
This new marine signal is the de
vice of Commander Albert Ross, in
spector of the Fifth lighthouse dis
trict. It is expected that the sky
piercing shaft of light will also be
adopted at Fire Island, Sandy Hook
and Nantucket Shoals lights. It is
not proposed to abolish the present
masthead beacons. As a guide to mar
iners coming in from sea, the thirteen
inch electric beam, reaching up in the
dome of night, will be as far ahead of
big electric beacons of the first order
as the beacons were ahead of oil
lamps. This innovation is not only of
local but world-wide interest.—Balti
more American.
The King: Ilntl to IJovrotv.
On a recent occasion King Christian
of Denmark, while out for a walk,
met one of his courtiers wHo was re
nowned for his stinginess. As it hap
pened, on a previous occasion, the
King had "treated" him, and it had
come to the royal ears that the cour
tier had not yet finished grumbling at
having been "bilked." Full of desire
to repair the past, the King rushed up
to his subject;
"Now, my dear count, I am really
going to stand treat on this occasion."
Then, lo and behold, as usual, on
searching for money, the King found
none! Luckily, at that moment ho
saw through the open door the Crown
Prince and ills equerry riding by. The
King rushed out and called to his sou:
"For goodness sake, lend me some
cash. I've stood treat to Count So
and-so again, and if he finds himself
done for a second time, he will raise
a rebellion."
The situation was saved, but the
Court lias not yet finished Its laugh.—
The Candid Friend.
Howard or tho Colli Until.
The cold bath in the morning is not
so popular as it was formerly. There
is much energy expended In the reac
tion and just at the time of day when
this energy is at its lowest ebb. Then,
too, cold water has very little cleans
ing effect Very hot water stimulates
the nerves, which is the effect that we
are seeking from the cold water,
while it docs not demand the energy
of reaction of the latter. The duration
of the morning bath should be as short
as possible—liardly longer than tho
mere application of the water to tho
skin followed by a brisk rubbing.
However, many prefer a cool sponge
bath in the morning, and if this is fol
lowed by a warm glow aud a feeling
of well-being, it certainly is beneficial.
Many people are not strong enough to
renct well. A hot bath at night is most
cleansing and restful. General bath
ing may he regulated by individual pe
culiarities.—Emma E. Walker, M. D.,
iu the Ladies' Home Journal.
Ills Tonffue Was Safe.
A little three-year old of Newton has
frequently astonished his parents by
rather witty remarks. One day re
cently his mother was busy preparing
to go away, and Willie came into tbo
house aud made a great deal of noise
running about with his heavy shoes.
His mother told him she was so tired
that she would like to have him go up
stairs aud take his shoes off and put
his slippers on. Willie obeyed, and,
returning to the room where his moth
er was, talked Incessantly. Several
times she had to stop in the midst of
her work to answer his questions.
Finally her patience became exhaust
ed, and she said; "Willie, will you
stop talking? You have me crazy."
He stopped a minute, then replied:
"Well, you made me take my shoes
off, but you can't make mo take my
tongue out, anyway."—Boston Herald.
The Rev. Mr. Sandford, of Shiloh,
Me., recently baptised :21s persons in
one hoar and thirty-seven minutes.
HINTS:
Relieving a Choking Person.
Pounding a person on the bnek until
his ribs cave in or the spine is dislo
cated may be an interesting method
to treatment (for the administrator),
but there is a more sensible and ef- _
factual way of relieriug the sufferer. >
Frequently the obstruction is not be
yond the reach of a long, slim finger.
Forceps of some kind, however, will
prove more effective. If these are not - J
within reach, a smnll wire with n hook
bent on one end may be used to ad
vantage on some obstructions. In this
and similar emergencies cnrry a firm *,
hand, but work lightly and deftly.
During the operation, the head of the
person afflicted should be thrown well
back and the tongue depressed, so as
to permit of the freest possible access
to the throat. If the obstruction is so
low as to be invisible or has passed
into Ike windpipe, it constitutes a ease
for a good surgeon. Fortunately,
enough air can usually be inhaled to
prevent immediate suffocation.—Home
Magazine.
When the Kitchen Itunge Is Cranky.
When your kitchen range Are refuses
to burn brightly and the oven fails
to bake or roast properly, do not blame
the range until you have tried to find
the reason for the trouble.
A "clean" range is a necessity for
satisfactory cooking. Lift off the cov-
ers and see if there is not a layer of
fine ash on lop of the oven so thick
that it lessens the draught and pre
vents the heat from penetrating to the
oven. This should he lifted out and
not swept into the fire or down he
side the oven.
Brush the side of the oven clean, then
get at the most Important part, the
bottom. Some ovens have a plate
on the inside that lifts out, some a
plate on the outside; some are made
to be drawn out altogether. If you
have a stove man once to clean for you
and see how he does it you will not
need him again. Notice how he gets
at the bottom, nud above all, see that
he leaves things so that you can take
out the cover or oven yourself when
you wish to. You can get the ordinary
scraper at any department store, and
also a loug-liaudlcd dust brush or
whisk broom. Those will answer in
nearly every case. This is a dirty job,
but should be attended to once a
month.
Much often depends upon bow the
fire box is kept. Masses of clinkers
tire allowed to gather on the bricks.
These should be removed by common
salt placed on them while the fire
is hot. If tliey do not come off the
first day they will the second or third
by using more salt and tapping them
with the poker. Do not let ashes or
cinders gather about the top of the
fire box.
In starting a fire dump everything
out. Do not try to start a fire on top
ol' ashes or cinders, as it will often sulk
for a whole day. The cinders eau
he burned to good advantage on top of
the fire afterward. Use as little paper
as possible in starting, and do not
pack the coal In. Fill the box to the
top of the bricks and no further. Toll
ing the fire spoils It, shakiug never
hurts it. *
If you range sets into the wall and
the pipe runs straight up Into a sheet
iron board, and tile urnft is poor, the
chances are thut tile pipe does not con
neet with the flue, hut runs into the
open space above the hoard. Have
the pipe run up into the end of the
flue and you will find a vast improve
ment. Then, if things are not satis
factory, there must he somthing wrong
with the chimney.
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Rice, Baked with Dates—Two even
tablespoons lice, one quart milk, one
cup of dates, stoned, one saltspoou salt. i
Bake very slowly, with just enough fk
heat to keep mixture bubbling gently.
Stir once or twice; then allow to
brown. Bake one and a half hour, or
until rice is thoroughly soft. Serve
very cold.
Potato Pancakes—Pare, wash and
grate four large or six small potatoes
into a bowl and add quickly to them
the beaten yolks of two eggs, half a
tcaspoonful of salt, and a tablespoon
ful of fine bread crumbs. Beat in
gradually the whites of the eggs, beat
en to a froth and saute by spoonfuls oil
n well-greased, smoking hot griddle.
String Beans with Cheese—This is
rot n common way to cook beans but
once tried it will become a favorite
way. Cook the beans as usual, after
slicing them lengthwise in Hue strips;
drain. Put a tablespoonful of butter
In a frying pan over a hot Are; when
melted add the beans, half a cup of
milk, a teaspoanful of salt and a dash
of cayenne pepper, and lastly stir in
a heaping iablcspoonful of grated far- W.
mesan cheese. Let all cook together
for five minutes and you wiil have a
delicious dish.
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