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According to the terms of the proto col, China agrees to forbid the;, impor tation of arms and ammunition, to pay tlie Powers an indemnity of $333,000,- 000 in gold out of her revenues, to sup press tlie anti-foreign societies, aiul to do a lot of other things that are thought to tend toward the comfort of stran gers in China and the peace of the world. The protocol recalls the Tamil Jar story of the man who had ottered a great sum for a hotel. "But," said his friend, "you haven't the money." "1 know," said the financier, "but wasn't it a line offer?" Nothing can be said of this protocol except that as a promise it is most promising, com ments Collier's Weekly. In. Europe the school garden lias taken a special hold upon Austria. In 1800 an imperial luw prescribed that a garden, with a place for agri cultural experiments, should be con nected with every rural school. There lire 18,000 such garden schools at pres ent in that empire. No school has been recently established in France without similar attachment. In Belgium, veg etable culture goes oil in connection with book learning; and the examina tion of the teacher includes his capac ity for gardening as well as for teach ing. Sweden has over 40UU school gardens; while in Russia the children are taught the culture of grapes, orchard trees, silkworms, bees and grain. Normal schools in Germany in clude the training of teachers in indus tries as well as books. Tests recently made in Milwaukee nave demonstrated the value of music in ilu dentist's office. Some men, and more women, when they visit the dent ist for the removal of a tooth, become strangely affected by the nitrous oxide that is administered to "deaden the pain. They siug or laugh vociferously, move uneasily, and some try to dance. Others have vivid recollections come to them of a lishing excursion, or a football game, or, iu the case of women, of a hall or concert, and with the memory conies an uncontrollable uisire to tell the doctor ail about it. This is annoying to the physician. / Most dentists, under ouch circum stances, turn on the urtrous oxide fan cct full strength and send the nois\ person to complete unconsciousness, .'ut with a music box in running or only a modicum of the gas is needed. The patient listens to tlie notes, his nervous system is calmed, and he sleeps. The Speedy GruyhmmcL "There is the fastest animal that runs on four legs," said a hunter, as tie pointed at a long, lank, sinewy English greyhound that turned toward Us a countenance fairly beaming with knteiiigence. "I don't mean that par ticular dog," lie continued, "but I do mean his variety, and he is not the / lowest member of it by any means. We hnvj just been trying him under •areful timing, and found that ha went, when on a full gallop, twenty yards a second. That means a mile in a minute and twenty-eight seconds —a speed that comes very near that of a earlier pigeon and would leave far behind that of any quadruped that we know of. "This is a matter that I have studied and know something about. There are few thoroughbred horses than can exceed nineteen yards a second, and I have known grayhounda to better that by four yards. Foxhounds have a record of four miles in six and a half minutes, or nearly eighteen yards a second. That is fast going, and as good as the most rapid of the hare family can do. "This speed is to some extent an Inherited gift from away back, for I have been informed that wolves can run at the rate of a mile ir. three min utes. Nansen says that Siberian dogs can travel forty-flve mile 3on ice M- Bva hours." There are about 90 deaths In Shakespeare's plays. IF MEN NEVER CARED WHAT THE WORLD MICHT SAY. x. 11. If men never cared what the world might If men never eared what the world might ®ay nay Wo could bill all our schemes adieu, No man woul l be moved to try Ami life would be only n holiday, To hurry ahead on the upward way, With never a goal iu view; * An ' l 118 I'iggardn we'd live and die; You could cease from coveting honor., N °K? S would ba written an<l never 8 n . . , Would bo rnisod by the crowds for a Could give up my dreams uud content- l a , ro to heftr v And, useless, ero long, we should meauly At case while the days wont slipping away, decay— If men never cared what the world might Oh, it's well that men care what the world say. uiay say. i A PRESENT FROM THE PRINCE. 5 Young Gildmore Goldrock told nte this strange story, and I will give the story in Goldfock's own words, as he gave it to us in the smokerooai of the Anglo-American club; "It happened last year," said Gold rock, as he hoisted his feet on to the mantelpiece and addressed his words to the clock. "1 was crossing to Liverpool and happened to strike up an acquaintance with the young Pole who shared my stateroom. He was a pleasant young fellow, and in the course of a day or two we became great friends. He told me that his name was Ladislas Nado koff, and that he had been studying medicine at Philadelphia. He further more confided that he was oil his way to Loudon to visit a friend of his youth. "In return I told him how I was go ing to England to spend a few months with my married sister, the Countess of Darnford, with whom my wife was already staying, having crossed before me, since I had been detained a few weeks in New Y'ork on business. "Nadokoff then told me he, too, had a sister, who was married to a Rus sian nobleman who was a sort of sher iff in his own country, and commander of a posse of Cossacks. So, on the strength of our aristocratic connec tions, our confidences grew so that we used to talk quite freely of political matters. "Nadokoff's politics were a hit mixed At the time I thought this was be cause he was quite young, and had not learned that political views should be used as a means to a profitable end. '.'But liis politics had been acquired in some other place than America, the land of the free. He hinted of old scores, dating hack hundreds of years, which were to be wiped out by young er and more vigorous generations. withstanding his family connections he hated the Russians. 'Down with every thing and hang the expense,' was his motto, and he talked a lot about the iron handed tyranny of the Russian government, while I sat around and swapped sympathetic seditions. "I noticed that often as we were talking together a gentleman with a bald head and a large white mustache used to pass along, and lean on the rail or look at the sky when he came within earshot of us. "Then I used to change the conver sation to railroads or pork, which are far safer subjects than Russian poli tics; for somehow I mistrusted this elderly gentleman, who spoke English like a German, drank his tea with a lemon, and while lie gave himself out as a commercial traveler, walked as though lie were waiting for the clink of the spurs at his heels and the rat tle of his sword at his side. "He was registered on the passen ger list as Mr. William Smith, which was strange, considering that his hand kerchief was embroidered with the in itials 'J. K.' It takes a Russian to spell Smith with a K. "As we approached Queenstown, Na dokoff, who had been looking ill and worried throughout the voyage, seemed to grow more ill at ease. "At bedtime, the night before we reached Queenstown, he did not turn up in the stateroom. I waited till long after 'lights out,' then I grew anxious about him, anil passed the word for the steward, who went to look for him. "He had disappeared. "The ship was searched lrigh and low by the watch, who were warned by the captain to hold their tongues about the matter, hut 110 trace of him could be found. "' 'E's just been and gone and slipped overboard.' said our stateroom steward; 'they do sometimes, you know.' "Strange to say, as we were hunting round the decks Mr. Smith, who, 1 knew, had retired to his stateroom an hour or more before, joined us in our search. "Still stranger, as I was returning to my berth, 1 saw Mr. Smith disappear ing down the passage, although his berth was situated on the other side of the ship. "When I looked over at Nadokoff's empty berth I noticed that his port manteau had been moved since 1 had leu the cabin. When I came to open my own portmanteau 1 found it locked. Then I remembered that earlier in the evening, as Nadokoff was going along to the stateroom from the smoking cuddy on deck, I had given him my key. and asked hiin to get me a few cigars, which were stored away in the pocket of my flannel jacket. "He had evidently jumped overboard with my key, but 1 was too troubled about him to worry about that, be sides which I knew that my wife had a duplicate key on her bunch. "At Liverpool a half crown to the customs ofllcer passed my portmanteau an right, and I did not open it till I reached my brother-in-law's house in Park lane, where my wife stay ing. My wife had the key on her ring, and stood by as I unlocked the bag. " 'You dear old boy,' she cried, as the bag opened and showed a large Jewel case, which lay on the top of my clothes. You have been wasting your money again 011 me at Tiffany's, I know. It's too wicked of you.' "I felt a bit uncomfortable, for the fact was I had been too busy In New York to remember my usual visit to Tiffany's, besides which 1 had never set eyes on the jewel case before. " 'l'm afraid it is not for you. dear.' said I, as I opened the case. My wife gasped as the lid llew up, and showed a bracelet formed of a heart-shaped mass of opals framed in a most won derful setting of diamonds. "'Oh! how lovely.' she sighed; 'but anyway, I hate opals; they are un lucky. But who is it for, dear?' she added. "I told her I did not know. Then I saw tucked in under the bracelet a small note. I opened it. " "Dear friend,' it ran, 'I can bear my life no longer, so tonight I shall jump overboard. My last request I am sure you will faithfully execute. Take this bracelet to the Countess 55a linska, and tell her it is a parting gift front her old lover, Prince Ladislas Nadokoff. She lives in Park lane, quite close to your sister's house. Farewell, dear friend; may we meet in a kinder and less troubled world. Thine, Ladislas. "My wife had lifted the bracelet, and, as women will, for its better in spection. was about to clasp it on her wrist. x " Don't, dear,' said I hastily. I did not reason why, but somehow 1 dis liked the idea of her wearing it. "She put it back in the case obedi ently, but laughed at me for a super stitious old hubby. "Then I showed her the letter, and told her the story of my friend on the boat. Then she cried a little, and of fered to deliver It to the Countess Za flnska, an offer which I gladly accept ed. tor I was beginning to look for ward to my commission with some misgivings. "I hate scenes. My wife likes them, so the next morning after breakfast she made a careful toilet and prepared to visit the countess. "I gave her the bracelet and my blessing, and told her to break the news gently to the countess, who might still be fond of her old lover, and how to dodge the count, if such a person existed, and to bluff the game through on the pretense of calling for a sub scription for a home for lost dogs. "My wife had not left the house many minutes before Jeannette, my sister's maid, made her appearance at the door of the breakfast room. " 'lf you please, sir.' said she, 'there's a gentleman waiting to see you.' Then, with a giggle. ' 'F.'s got a policeman with him.' " 'Show him in. and the cop as well,' said 1. beginning to feci a little un comfortable. lor I remembered that I was in a foreign country. "In a minute, who should walk in but Mr. William Smith. The policeman stayed outside with Jeannette. It seemed to me that lie knew Jeannette, and that he came as near winking at her as a policeman could. "'Mr. William Smith. 1 believe,' said I, rising. " 'Forgive me—Mr. Goldrick,' said my visitor, politely, "but William Smith is merely my nom de guerre. I am Johann Katchachieff, of the Rus sian imperial police.' "'Oh. lor!' I murmured, under my breath. 'What have I been doing? Pleased to meet you. Mr. Katchachieff.' 1 replied, politely. 'What do you want of me?' " 'You remember a young man who shared your stateroom on the Umbria?' " 'Just a bit.' •" 'He jumped overboard the night be fore that vessel reached CJueenstown,' he continued. " 'That's so,' I assented. " 'What I require to know is; What became of a certain bracelet in his pos session?' " 'Then you won't find out from me!' I replied, rather shortly, for I did not feel like giving away poor Ladislas' love affairs to a 'trap,' and a tutsslan 'trap' at that. " 'Look here,' said he, furiously, 'if you do not tell me at once, I have an order for your arrest from the chief commissioner of the English police.' "I beckoned to the policeman who was standing at the door with Jean ette. " 'Come here, constable, and see fair play,' said I. " 'The bracelet,' said I 'wat placed in my portmanteau by Mr. Nadokoff before he jumped overboard, with a note, in which he asked me to deliver it to a lady who lives close by here. My wife has just gone ouf for that purpose.' "'Heavens!' cried the Russian, where does she live? That bracelet is a bomb, and was sent by a secret so ciety in New York as a means to the assassination of the Countess Zalinska, who Is the wife of the chief of police. Directly the is snapped——' "I didn't wait to think. I just streaked to the door, pushing the po | liceman in front of me. i " 'Run,' I yelled. "We tumbled down the hall step 3, and lighted up Park lane to the admi ration of the surrounding citizens. "It did not take us long to reach the countess' house. "The policeman was first, the Rus sian second, while I was a close third. "The door was opened, and we plunged in and tore up stairs. " 'Where's the countess?' gasped the Russian. "A frightened servant jerked a fin ger toward a door. "We tumbled into the room. "In the countess' hands was the bracelet. "She was in the act of clasping it on her wrist when the Russian pounced upon it, snatched it from her, and flung it out of the window. "There was a fearful report, fol lowed by a clatter of falling glass be low. "The couhtess had fainted. "Katchachieff seemed to know all about it. He told me how Ladislas had belongod to a Nihilist club in New York, and how he had been commis sioned to deliver the bracelet to the countess. "He had opened his sealed letter of instructions the night before we reached Liverpool, and not till then had he become aware of the identity of his victim. "I do not blame him for jumping overboard, but. I have never quite been able to appreciate the honor he did me when ho intrusted me with the infer nal gift."—Penny Pictorial Magazine. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. A thousand graves in the church cemetery, Luton, England, have been dug by a one-armed man named Al len, who became grave digger in 1871 after a mill accident. A friend of Pasteur's in Paris says that the man who was to revolution ize chemistry stood 14th in a list of 22 boys in the high school of Dijon and was marked "weak" in chemistry. The average height of a man taken through the civilized world generally may be assumed a's something above 5 feet 6 inches. The average of Amer ican-born whites, according to army records, is 5 feet 7.67 inches. There are "pigmy" races in Africa and Asia, but there are "giants" also. A prisoner in charge of a policeman jumped from an express train near Crewe. England, recently, and the po liceman jumped after him. Neither was seriously hurt. The prisoner ran, with the policeman after him, and was caught by the heel as he tried to climb the railroad embankment. In musketry training at Aldershot, England, experiments are being made with a new style of targets. By means of an electrical device heads are made to appear and disappear at regular intervals along the sky line of a range of hills, representing an enemy taking aim and firing. These constitute tar gets upon which the rilie shots prac tice. A tale of geese and death is told by Nature Notes: "Mr. Francis Stanier of Peplow Hall, near Market Drayton, was a millionaire and a well-known philanthropist. He had some favorite American and Japanese geese, which he fed with his own hands and which were kept on a pool near the Hall. He died the other day, and strange to re late, during the last hours of his ill ness. these birds, numbering over a 100. flew around his bedroom window, beating their wings against the glass, uttering a wierd, screeching noise. In almost the last moments pf the squire's life the whole flock of birds disappeared, and not one of them has been seen since." In Atlanta, a small town in Illinois, lives Frank Clawson a fiddler, whose chief bid for fame lies in the fact that he is without hands. Several years ago he was caught in a blizzard and both hands were so badly frozen that they were amputated at the wrist. Be ing somewhat of a mechanical genius, he evolved a contrivance out of heavy wire which enabled him to wield the bow. The matter of lingering was more difficult, but by hard practice he trained the stump of 1113 left hand to make the necessary shifts from one siring to another and from position to position. With the fiddle held in place by his chin and knees and with the help of his fingerless arms. Claw son manages to play the old-time airs with nearly as much success as for merly. Overeating: Wliat ti It? Overeating is an elastic term. Ac cording to Good Housekeeping, "to fly into a rage or to give way to pros trating grief is to turn the chief of secretions Into a more or less active poison. Concentrated thought or strenuous muscular exertion Immedi ately before or after a meal will make the partaker of a light lunch guilty of overeating. "In its effects, undereatlng is worse than overeating. . . . There are a few things of which it is very difficult to eat too much: dead-ripe blackber ries, pears or peaches picked from the trees in a state of absolute ripeness, sweet apples that are mellow through and through, and grapes as sweet as honey." Statistics About Freight. The average load of freight trains Is 250 tons. The cost of handling freight averages three mills per ton per mile. There are about 4,000,000 freight trains per year. Freight man agers want to Increase the freight load 30 tons per train, and by so doing figure out an increased profit of $46.- 000,000 per year. [CH^^ Hie LHIIe Scholar's Choice. "Though 1 were sleepy as a cat," The little scholar said, "I would not earn to take a nap In any river's bed. "And, though I were so starved I scaroe Had strength enough to staud, I'd beg through all the valley ere I sought a table laud. "But, oh ! what jolly times I'd have 1 I'd play aud never stop, If I could only take a string And spin a mountain top. What You See in a Penny. An amusing game called" What You See in a Penny" is admirable for older children, any party of young people, or indeed any gathering where games are in order. The materials required are a card to which are attached c. penny, and a pencil for each player, with a prize for the winner. On one side of each card should be written the name of the guests, on the other the following list, equivalents for which are to be found in the design on the penny. For the sake of con venience these last are also given, but when tile game is to be played this completed list must be kept by the hostess for reference; that shown in the left column only Is given to the guests, as the fun lies in testing their ability to find the solutions: A weapon—an arrow. What our forefathers fought for— Liberty. Name of a flower—Tulips (two lips). Name of an animal —Hare (hair). Name of fruit —Date. What we love—America. Name for an ocean —Sea (C). Place of worship—Temple. A messenger—one sent (one cent). A method of voting—Ayes and noes (eyes and nose). A beverage—Tea. Part of a vegetable—Ear. A gallant—Beau (bow). An art of protection—Shield. A punishment—Stripes. A term of marriage—United State. An ancient honor—Wreath. Part of a hill —Brow. An occupation—Milling. Writing from the absent —Letters. One of the first families —Indian. More can be added If the game maker .s clever enough to see more in the penny. When the guests arrive each one re ceives a card and when all is in read iness the hostess announces its pur pose and gives a signal for the writing to begin. As a rule a half hour is sufljeient to allow, but if the players are younger children, or more time is required, it can be extended at discre tion. When the bell is sounded all the cards are collected, and the writer who is most nearly correct wins the prize.—Home Magazine. Delightful Scrapbook*. One of the most absorbing amuse ments possible to find for children is the making of scrapbooks. The raini est of days may be made enjoyable by a few large sheets of strong wrapping paper, cut in the size desired for the book and folded into two leaves, with a collection of old magazines and pa pers full of pictures. A novel kind of scrapbook recently made represents a doll house, each page being a room. Advertisements furnished the pictures, each article illustrated being carefully cut out in outline and pasted in an orderly manner on the page to which it be longed. The kitchen has a range, table, chairs, broom, cooking utensils, irons and ironing board. In the drawing room are sumptuous couches, chairs and cabinets, witli a perfect love of a fireplace, and vases on the mantel. Windows, doors and fireplaces for all the rooms were found in the ad vertising pages of magazines, and add greatly to the charm of the sur roundings. Tliis is a delightful play where there are several children in a family. One can undertake to furnish a library, and will look for library tables, book shelves, reading lamps, open fire places, "Sleepy Hollow chairs," and such appropriate pictures. Another could take a bedroom and cut out pretty brass bedsteads, dainty washstands and dressing eases and eosey chairs. The dining room offers a promising field, as there are count less illustrations of sideboards, din ing tables, pretty dishes and so on. Older children often derive a good deal of fun from making scrapbooks of cities. This is done by cutting out pictures of buildings and squares, put ting all that illustrate one city togeth er. A boy of 12 lias a reaily fine book of this sort, full of interesting pictures of St. Petersburg, Edinburgh, London, Berlin, Paris, Boston, St. Louis and other cities. His plan in most cases is to paste a picture of some famous public square in the middle of the large page, and group the buildings around it. In this way he has ac quired a good deal of information about those cities.—New York Trib une. The Tale of a Dog. "Speaking of dogs." said the sister of a Mobile boat club man, the other day. "there was a queer thing hap pened recently. Charlie, that's my brother, told it to me, so I can vouch for its truth. "It appears that one of the young fellows belonging to the boat club has a pretty hot. tinderlike temper, al though he's a mighty clever and good hearted boy. Well, a little hybrid pup that belongs to the man that tends to the club house, chewed up a five dollar hat belonging ta 'Bobbie' lilank —that's tn w with tho tin derliko temper—and it made him mighty hot, I reckon. He swore he'd kill that pup, and he just chased him all over the pier. "But the pup was too lively for him, and led him a regular dance. Finally 'Bobble' got him cornered out at the pier head and the pup, as a last resort, jumped overboard into the bay. Over went 'Bobbie' after him, and swara him down, for the dog was 110 swim mer. Well, girls, Charlie said 'Bob' just pounded the face of that pup and ducked him under the water so much that two or three women standing round said he was a perfect brute. "And now comes the strange part. The next day 'Bobbie' went down to the clubhouse. There was an awful sea on. Charlie vows he never saw a worse one on old Mobile bay. The water was breaking right over the pier and . ( sending the suds clean over the club house roof. 'Bobbie' had to make a run to get down the pier as far as the clubhouse. The pup saw him running, and thinking, I reckon, that he was going to be smashed again, he sneaked down the pier and jumped off the end, right in among the broken rocks and jagged piles. "It was sure death for the dog. with such a sea running. 'Bobbie' stood suddenly still and figured for a sec ond. He's a mighty clever boatman, and a first rate swimmer, but Charlie says 'Bob' knew a man with a boat hadn't one chance in a thousand of getting out to that pup and getting in again safe. "Now, girls, what do you suppose 'Bobbie' Blank did? He turned round and went into the clubhouse, flung off his coat and shoes, got down a boat, and somehow got her over the lee side of the pier and tumbled into her. He got the pup all right; but it was a quer think lor him to do, now, wasn't it? To risk his life for a worthless cur that he'd been bent on drowning the day before." A Story for Our Hoya. The principal of a school in which boys were prepared for college one day received a message from a law yer living in the same town, request ing him to call at his office as he wished to have a talk with him. Arrived at the office, the lawyer stated that he had in his gift a schol arship entitling a boy to a four years' course in a certain college, and that he wished to bestow it where it would be best used. "Therefore," he continued, "I have concluded to let you decide which boy of your school most deserves it." "That is a hard question." replied the teacher thoughtfully. "Two of my pupils—diaries Hart and Henry Strong-—will complete the course of study in my school tills year. Both desire a college education, and neither is able to obtain it without assistance. They are so nearly equal that 1 can not tell which is the better scholar?" "How is it as to deportment?" asked the lawyer. "One boy does not more scrupulous ly observe all the rules of the school than the other," was the answer. "Well." said the lawyer, "if at the end of the year one boy has not gone ahead of the other, send them to me and I will decide." As before, at the closing examina tions the boys stood equal in attain ments. They were directed to call at the lawyer's office, 110 information be ing given as to the object of the visit. Two intelligent, well-bred boys they seemed, and the lawyer was begiuing to wonder greatly how he should make a decision between them. Just then the door opened and an elderly lady of peculiar appearance entered. She was well known as being of unsettled mind and possessed of the idea that she had been deprived of a large for tune which was justly hers. As a con sequence she was in the habit of vis iting lawyers' offices carrying in her > hands a package of papers which she wished examined. She was a familiar visitor to this office, where she was always received with respect. This morning, seeing that the law- ' yer was already occupied with others, she seated herself to await his leisure. Unfortunately, the chair she selected was broken and had been set aside as useless. The result was that she fell in a rather awkward manner, scattering her papers about the floor. The lawyer looked with a quick eye at the boys before moving himself, to see what they would do. Charles Hart, after an amused sur vey of the fall, turned aside to hide a laugh. Henry Strong sprang to the wom an's side and lifted her to her feet. Then, carefully gathering up her pa pers, he politely handed them to her. Her profuse and rambling thanks only I served to increase Charles's amuse-<-%, mcnt. After the lady had told her cus tomary story, to which the lawyer lis tened with every appearance of atten tion, he escorted her to the door aud she departed. Then he returned to the boys. and. after expressing pleasure at having formed their acquaintance, lie dis missed them. The next day the teach er was informed of the occurrence, and told that the scholarship would be given to Henry Strong, with the remark: "No one so well deserves to be fitted for a position of honor and influence as he who feels it his duty to help the humblest and the lowliest." —Our Dumb Animals. How Alimird! "Did you hear the terrible storm last night, Sarah'/' "No. not a sound. Did it thunder?" "Terribly." "Why. didn't you wake me? You K know I can't sleep when it thunders." —Manchester Times.
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