FREELAND TRIBUNE, ESTABLISHED 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY, DY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited Office; Maik Stbebt abovb Centre. Lobq Distance Telethoni. SUBSCRIPTION RATES FREELAND.— L'ho Tribune is delivered bj carriers to subscribers in Freelaßdatthe rats of cents per month, payable ovory twa months, or $1 50 a year, payable in advance- The Tiiibone may be ordered directform the carriers or from tho office. Complaints of Irregular or tardy dolivory eervico will re ceive prompt attention. BY MAIL —The Tbibune is sent to out-of. town subscribers for SI.OO a year, payablo in advance; pro rata torms for shorter periods. The date when tho su!>scrlption expires Is on tiie address label of each paper. Prompt re* nowals must bo made at the expiration, other wise the subscription will be disoontlnued. Entered at the Postofflce at Freeland. as Second-Class Matter. Hake ait money orders, checks, eto. ,paynbU to the Tribune J'rmling Company, Limited. •. - - P Eiiormons qunntitie of agricultural Implements are going to South Amer ica, where farming io xparifling rap idly. A Michigan hanker has run away, leaving a surplus for tho depositors. Tile other missing bankers have prob ably decided unanimously that the poor man is crazy. A tour of the agricultural districts of England and Wales reveals the fact that scores of farms are absolutely abandoned, and that hundreds more are in a semi-derelict condition. The Idea of establishing a course in the study of the Chinese language as a university feature is not a bad one. It will enable us to see what the Mon golians are calling us on our laundry tickets. The common cockroach has spread throughout the civilized world by means of ships. This disagreeable hug comes and goes on ships almost as freely as the rats. The two seem to live together amicably, and they monopolize the hold of the ships which carry foodstuffs. It Is stated by an authority that the weight of a man's brain bus nothing to do with his mental power. The colder the climate the greater size of the brain. The largest heads of all are those of the Chugatches, who live very far north, and next come the heads of the Lapps. The Philadelphia Times remarks that the experience of a century has established beyond question that vac cination, properly performed at rea sonable intervals of time, confers sub stantial immunity from smallpox, ami that the one way to exterminate this disease in any community is by gen eral and systematic vaccination. It is pointed out that the French sol dier, with the abundance of marma malade, chocolate, figs, licorice and caramels in his rations, has a larger allowance of sweets than the soldiers of other nations. Sugar now ranks high in favor with military authorities as li 'titiug food. An allowance of pure candy was added to the rations of American soldiers in the Philippines last year. British service papers have noted that the Prince of Wales is tho first heir apparent to tlio British Crown to hold an actual commission in the navy, the senior service on their side of the water. Hitherto the heir ap parent has been put into the army, anil any naval rank he may have held has been purely honorary. The same rule was followed in the case of the sous of the present Iviug; Prince Edward was made a soldier, and died while Major in a hussar regiment; Prince George was made a sailor and has commanded his own ship on a regular cruise. Now, by the death of his elder brother, he becomes Prince of Wales, the first of the lino to be a sailor. Hitherto he has been pro moted rapidly, but with a decent per iod of service in each rank, until he now holds the commission of a Cap tain. Hereafter his promotion will be very rapid, nnd his : ew grades will be honorary, as it will no loDger he advisable for tho heir to the Crown to go to sea in command of a fleet or to take the risks cf a naval officer, says the New York fcun. Mr. Carnegie Brings Scotch Oats. "Some people bring in funny things in their baggage," said the inspector on the dock at New York, meditative ly "and it surprises us at time. There's Andrew Carnegie, for Instance. Tho last time he arrived at Now York among other things he declared was 400 pounds of oats from Scotland. What do you suppose he carries oats about with Wm for?" THE OLD WORLDLING. Hp shambles by ecich sunny afternoon; His portly form i* shrunken as a spectre His face is vacant as the morning moon; Quaffed is his nectar. Out of hifr eyes the dancing light is gone; Out of his blood the wanton warmth that thrilled it; Out of his air the charm that conquests When fancy willed it. Proud was his port and tasty his array; liis days and nights o'erilowed with song and laughter; lie never dreamed that these would pass away And this come after. He courted pleasure and secured it still; He asked for friends, and loves, and these were given; He craved all worldly good and had his fill; He sought not heaven. His friends have vanished never to return; His pleasures, treasures, all his heart's desire; His passions only in their embers burn; Mute is his lyre. For him the eventime has brought no light; Its sighing breezes pity as they kiss him; The dark will bear him to the wastes of night; Earth will not miss him. Alas, the life that has no upward look, No sacrifice of self, no high endeavor; Its taste becoming like the seer's book, Hitter forever! —Edward N. Pomeroy, in Boston Tram script. ■ . : FOR years he had been a famil iar figure in the neighbor hood. Everybody called him Jim, and, until the event which we are about to relate occurred, doubted if he possessed any other name. Twice a week, on Wednesday and Saturday mornings, he made his round with a step-stone and proceeded to make the front descent to each dwelling shine with dazzling white ness. Jim knew his business and glo ried in it, but no effort of his or any one else's could raise him a step higher than the top one of the flight. He lied tried to wash windows on the earnest entreaty of Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Smith, who thought any work about should be child's play for a great, able-bodied man. Hut it didn't agree with him, and he went back to his steps with renewed vigor and pride. His whole reason for being seemed to be centred in these steps, and ft cost him many a pang to see the first black footprint mar their pur- Ity. There was, however, another object IB Jim's life, and that object lived on the street hack of all the line folk whose entrances were kept so immncu late. Whatever romance may have been his in the past there was no evi dence of it now. No locket-encased photograph lay next his heart never to he parted with ill this life. He did not need a photograph of lier. She Was present in the living flesh, adorned With multifarious curl-papers every moruing when he dragged the hose out of the little shed and with the cool water made the tiny garden green and fresh. "She," still enjoying the com forts and delights of single blessed ness, lived all alone in the house, pos sessed of just enough income to pro vide the necessities and a few of the luxuries of life. How Jim ever dared aspire to her is a mystery. Ilut some faint glimmer of former respectability combined with the longing to be com fortably settled urged him on. "Her" steps were cleaned oftener than twice a week, and they were al ways spotless, lor she had some of the propensities of old Aunt Betsy Trotwood, and at the first click of the gate could he heard, not the cry "Donkeys, Janet; donkeys!" hut the sharp admonition, "Go round to the back door, please." It was doubtless tills very quality in her that first won Jim's heart, for combine his beloved steps witii such a woman and what more could he desired on this earth. But in spite of his daily attention and devotion she seemed perfectly satis fied with the services he could render outside tiie family, and even took oc casion to show her superiority and in difference to men in general in no doubtful way. lint Jim played his cards like an old hand. He suddenly disappeared from her world. Iler surprise on the first morning of his absence was followed by dismay when the next man she hired cane staggering into (he kitchen one morning to ask for the "watlier and the sthep-sthone," nnd ids succes sor presented himself will the garden hese nnd left for parts unknown. One morning, after a month of such annoyance, she poked her curl-papered head out of the window nnd saw the steps shining in tlieir old accustomed whiteness, the hose playing gnyly in the garden and the figure of a man wildly striding after a stray dog that had inadvertently set one dirty paw on the forbidden ground. She heaved a sigh of relief and made her way downstairs. "Well, Jim," she called from the door, "wherever've you been this long time?" Jim came shambling in. "Miss Capen," said he, "I been git tin' my legacy. "I ain't goin' to work out no more, but I just thought I'd like to take care o' this little place. It's so kind o' purty an' homelike, you know." "A legacy, Jim! When did you get a legacy, and how much is It?" "Ten thousand dollars," said Jim. "You see, I happen to be one of the heirs to an old chap over in England. That's 'bout enough to support a wife on, ain't it? (with a sidelong glance). But the girls nowadays they air too giddy for me, an' what's more they take no kind o' pride in their front steps. All they want Is purty clothes. I got to have a woman as is settled down, but they ain't no such woman wants the likes o' me." "Well, Jim, you did a good job on those steps this morning, and I'm glad to have you back again. Why, such a time as I've had! Say, Jim, you haven't had your breakfast, have you? You just go out and pull those weeds out of the tomato bed and I'll have it ready in a Jiffy. How much did you say you got, Jim? Ten thousand dol lars? That's a pretty little sum, Jim. A pretty little sum." And that's the way it happened. In less than a week Miss Capen had Jim arrayed from head to heels In new ap parel and they had taken a trip to St. Joe and got "spliced," as Jim put it. "She" thought it rather beneath the dignity of the husband of Miss Capen and the possessor of SIO,OOO to clean the front steps, but blood will tell, and one morning she was awakened with the sound of scrubbing in her ears. She crept to the window. There was James Carrington Doyle, possessor of a legacy of SIO,OOO and husband of Mrs. James Carrington Doyle, owner of a house and lot, down on his knees with a pail of water and a step-stone washing the ascent to the front door of the family mansion as white as the fnllen snow. He looked up as she opened the window. "I'm gittin' it done before the neigh bors are up," was all he said.—C. E. Corbett, In the Chicago Record-Herald. lleallzution of Age. Two attorneys, who had slipped past the meridian of life without hardly ob serving the fact, were talking about ages while eating a deliberate lunch eon in the Lawyers' Club a couple of days ago, when one of them told a story which embodies the experience of more than one man. "It really came to me with a little shock," he snid. "I took a sleeper at Buffalo for New York, and there, were only half a dozen men aboard when I retired for the night. In the morning, while In the toilet room brushing my hair, I saw in the mirror, the reflec tion of the back of an old gentleman I did not remember seeing before. He appeared much older than any man I had noticed on the car the night be fore, and I made up my mind that he had come aboard after I had gone to lied. "I watched the reflection while ar ranging my hair, and then turned, in tending to speak to the old gentleman. You can Imagine my surprise when I found that I had been looking at my own back."—New Y'ork Herald. All liitiircstinK Souvenir. A woman who has recently returned from a trip across the continent, is preparing a souvenir which will be a novel and interesting reminder of the trip. She collected, en route, menu cards and samples of stationery. One sheet of paper and . one menu card from each hotel and the same from each train and dining car were pre served. Now the crests and letter heads are being carefully cut out and will be pasted on a plain white picture frame. The picture to go in the frame was also brought along. It is a lovely view of Pike's Peak taken with the sun shining on its snow capped heights and showing the Garden of the Gods in the foreground. Suilicient crests, etc., were secured to make the frame pretty without introducing anything foreign on the trip. The maker ac knowledges that she borrowed her idea from a young woman who went abroad some time ago and brought back a j collection of monograms, crests and such things from the hotels, the trains and the steamers. Flsli Protection in n Noted Luke. The Fish and Game Commission has temporarily prohibited fishing in Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggachau buuaguugamaugg. Jusi why fishing has been prohibited there is not pub licly stated. It is rumored that some reckless sportsman drew the lake's name through that body of water sev eral times (after the manner of a seine) and that this reckless practice resulted in catching nearly all the fish that were too large to slip through the "au's" or the "gg's." If the orders of the Fish Commission were necessary to preserve the beauties of the charming lake, they were justifiable. As the town poet of Webster has forcefully sung: No Franklin pond nor Hampshire hog Can compare with LakeChurgoggagog— Monchauggagogg— Achaubuua guua m augg. —Boston Daily Advertiser. Just What They Think. We all profess to want everybody to be frank with us, but when some body threatens to tell us just what thCy think of us. we know instinctive ly that it is something not at nil com plimentary.—Boston Transcript |mn^v/s T ßj^v| The Government ot India lins just completed a concrete dam oil tile Fori yar River to conserve its waters for the irrigation of 100,000 acres of laud. It is 170 feet in height, 13SMs feet in thickness at the base, twelve feet thick on top and 1200 feet in length. It is forty-six feet higher than the Assouan dam across the Nile. It has cost the Indian Government $2,009,000. A chief merit in acetylene lies in its true rendering of color shades at night. One of the recent large installations designed to take advantage of this characteristic is that reported from Muhlbach, in Alsace, in a cotton mill employing 500 hands. Between 800 and 000 Jets of acetylene are now in operation daily. Naturally enough it is reported that all operatives are highly pleased with this and other qualities of acetylene. A kite for signaling from a wrecked vessel, and nlso to be used as a means of sending a line ashore lins been in vented by Captain Brossard de Cor blgny, of the French Naval Reserve. It is collapsible and readily packed when not needed for use. When flown in the air it can be deflected at an an gle of forty-live degrees from the di rection of the wind. By this means a line may be flown over almost any de sired spot. The line is dropped by sending aloft a little cutting device, which travels along the cord and is put into operation automatically when it touches the kite. A new screw propeller, for which va rious advantages are claimed, has been brought out In England, and its merits were discussed at the meeting of the International Congress at Glas gow. Mr. Mumford said that he had experimented for twenty years with screw propellers of various pitches, but had never found one to give higher efficiency than a true screw. Also, that in propeller designing no reliance whatever could be placed upon theory alone; the only course was to obtain better knowledge by actual practical tests; so far as he could see, there was not much hope of improving upon the screws now in use. The diamond drill has added millions of dollars to the mineral wealth of the world. Its inventor, Asliel J. Sever ance, recently died poor at Denver, Col. In 1870 he and his associates sold the patent on the diamond drill for SIOO,OOO, and Severance lost ills part of the proceeds by ill-advised in vestment. At the time of his death he was a I tout to realize considerable money on the sale of a patent for the manufacture of Damascus steel, which he secured a long time ago, but on ac count of the groat number of persons who have claimed to rediscover this secret, he found difficulty in interest ing any one in his process. It is surprising what a number of camphor eaters there are among the well-to-do classes in India. The idea seems to prevail that this gum, taken in small and regular does, gives a pe culiar clear creaminess of complexion, and scores of young women buy It for this purpose. The habit Is, moreover, very difficult to cast off, for camphor produces a mild form of exhilaration and stupefaction, and in many in stances, where very largo does have been swallowed, the habit has become a sort of slavery. These camphor-eat ers all have a dreamy, dazed and very listless aix-, and in most of them there is an ever present longing to sleep, or, at least, to rest. Extreme weakness generally follows the taking of regular doses, anil cases have been seen where it has been almost difficult to toll the effects from those of alcohol. As to the complexion, if a ghastly pallor 1)0 an improvement camphor certainly produces It. Fighting Cancer. It is stated in Nature that Professor Paul Ehrllch, of Frank fort-oil-the- Jlain, has been enabled to devote him self to a special study of the disease of cancer in consequence of a bequest of the interest for three years of a sum of 309,000 marks, dedicated to this pur pose by a Frankfurt banker, the late Herr Tbeodor Stern. Other sums con tributed by private individuals will bring up the amount to be devoted tu this special investigation of cancer by Dr. Ehrllch to -10,000 marks, or SIO,OOO a year. In Berlin there exists a special committee for the Investigation of can cer, which studies pathological ac counts of cases and collects statistics and medical literature on this sub ject. Professor von Leyden is at the head of the committee, and Professor von Kirclmer, of the Medical Depart ment of the University of Public In struction, is one of its members. Smart l'ofctnl Work. A few days ago, says a Geneva spe •cial in the Paris Messenger, a letter arrived from America at Berne bear ing the following inscription: "To the person who is on the oilier side." On the other side of the letter was a small photograph of a man whose dress showed liim to be a postoflice em ploye. The day after the receipt of the let ter the annual meeting of the postoflice employes wus held at Lucerne, and the letter bearing the photograph was forwarded there for identification. On tile letter being passed around one of the postmen said that lie thought the photograph was that C a postman in the Canton of Soleure. Sure enough the next day the owner was found in r small village named Beberlst, In Soleure, FROM DIPLOMATTO'LONCSHOREMAN The Sad Story of a New York Laborer Who Han Interviewed Half Europe's Kingf. "There Is no city in the world with o many foreigners ns New York," writes the Rev. David M. Steele in an article on "The Other Side of the Town," in the Ladies' Home Journal. "Nor is there any class of persons in the city among whom there are so many 'queer eases.' I met a man in the Bowery one cold, wet, winter night selling shoe laces. He looked so hun gry that I took him to a restaurant, where, after I had given him some thing to eat, he gave me his confi dence. He talked five languages- Italian, Spanish, German, French and Arabic—with equal fluency, but did not know a word of English. "But who was he? A man of thirty five, well educated, well connected and well bred. For five years after gradu ating he taught Sanskrit in a great university, and for the five years fol lowing acted as the foreign diplomatic correspondent of a Berlin daily. He had in person interviewed half the crowned monarchs of Europe, and when this work grew commonplace he enlisted in the Secret Information Service of the German Army. Sent on a mission into Russia, he committed a most serious blunder, and he sud denly found himself wanted by two armies at one time to be shot ns a spy. His father cursed him, his patrons de serted and his friends derided him. He escaped with his life in time to flee the country. To-day this son of a Russian Count is rolling salt barrels on a New York dock." Clever Hlintl Men. John B. Herrcshoff may justly be called one of the wonderful men of the age, but it must not be forgotten that he was an expert sailor before he went blind. James Ilolman was an other wonder. Though totally blind, he traveled around the world and wrote a vivid narrative of what he "saw." England's ablest Postmaster- General, Henry Fawcett, was totally blind. When Gladstone appointed him it was with the understanding that he was not to be In the Cabinet, the Pre mier holding that his affliction would render it impossible for him to guard Cabinet secrets with the requisite jeal ousy. Mr. Fawcett had long been pro fessor of political economy at Cam bridge and was a Member of Parlia ment. Smallpox blinded Kleinhaus, the "Blind Sculptor of the Tyrol." at the age of five, and a few years later the death of father and mother left him destitute. The boy begau to whittle images out of wood. His first efforts were most pitiable, but he persevered until he wns able to "see with his fin gers." At fifteen ho was so expert that he could engrave from memory the features of a face upon which he had pressed his lingers. He lived to be nearly ninety, and his art kept him in comfortable circumstances in his mod est bachelor home.—New York Press. Telephones on Fast Train*.l On some of the hest railway trains of the day telephones form a part of the equipment. The system is so ar ranged that when the cars stop in large stations connections can be made with the regular telephone circuits of the cities. This service, it is an nounced, is to be improved and ex tended. It is one of the notable feat ures of modern railway progress. In these days when even tne ship far out, at sea holds communion with distant shores and with unseen com panions on the deep, it seems almost an anomaly that a train, always on solid land and always within view, should be even for a moment cut off from the field of converse. Undoubt edly, a development not long to be de layed is that which will bring into tel phonic range the express speeding as well ns the express at rest. What a marvel of comfort and con venience will be worked when the tourist for pleasure or business can "ring up" from his parlor-car seat the home, the office, the club, for such communion ns the impulse or emer gency of a moment may dictate!— New Y'ork World. Mutton as a Motor. Green, the English historian, one day asked a friend which of all the inven tions of their day had done the most for the people as a whole. His friend guessed this and that, but the answer was: "Beyond doubt, six-penny photo graphs." A reply involving quite as great an absurdity as that wns made by Cecil Rhodes in answer to a lady who, seeking to draw him out, suggested that he owed his phenomenal rise Jo the impetus of noble sentiments. "Madam," returned Mr. Rhodes, "I owe my fortune simply and solely to cold mutton." "Cold mutton!" gasped the lady. "O Mr. Rhodes, what do you mean?" "When I was young," continued the South African millionaire, "I wns so dosed with cold mutton, and I hated It so cordially, that I resolved to grow rich in order to put it on one side for the rest of my life. Yes, madam, cold mutton was at the root of my success; noble sentiments had nothing to do with it."—Youth's Companion. Whoro a Fortune 'Waits. A correspondent of the Lewistown (Me.) Journal suggests that some en terprising individual could get abund ant wealth by starting an angle worm farm. In the height of the season at Raugeley these worms sell at $1 a quart, and the supply is never equal to the demand. If Indies Wore Universal. Some people dou't seem to realize that if we were all rich we shouldn't have the fun of planning what we would do when our ship came in. —New York Tress. The Common Trouble. "I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. So sighed the immortal poet, Standing beside the sea, Ah, few of us have such trouble And few of us sigh such sighs; Our tongues are ready to utter, But we have no thought to arise. —Chicago Record-Herald. Vltnl Question. He—"Yon are truly the first girl I ever loved." She—"That isn't the point. Are you sure I will he the last?" Chicago News. Not So Eravc. Blobbs—"He says he would rather fight than eat." Slohhs—"Puguacious, eh?" Blobbs—"No; dyspeptic."—Thiladel phla Record. Couldn't Help It. Customer —"Say, waiter, why do you allow such nu unpleasant, ill-bred crea ture as that to dine In this cafe?" . Waiter—"Why—cr—that's the propri etor."—Chicago News. One of the Mourners. Larry—"His lnslit requist wor tliot lvcry wan shut! look plisaiit at liis funeral. Clieer up!" Denny—"How kin Ol? He owed ine tin dolers."—Chicago News. Transferred. "Smiggins lias taken to riding horse back for his dyspepsia." "Any results'.'" "None, except the horse looks as if It had it now."—lndianapolis News. Thfcy Saw. Jibbs—"When a man assaults me I say nothing, hut saw wood." Jahbs—"Well, a fellow assaulted m the other day, aud I said uothiug, but -si saw stars!" —Suu Francisco Bulletin. Soasonuble Petition. Tess—"That beggar woman's a fraud. What did she ask you for?" Jess—"She said she wanted a few pennies to get a chocolate ice cream soda and some lobster salad."—Phil adelphia Tress. He Went. "Father, do all angels have wings?" "No, my son; your mother has none." And then she coughed—dropped a cup aud saucer, aud said sweetly that he might go to the club, if he wouldn't stay too late.—Atlanta Constitution. The Serpent's Mistake. "Hey, there! Old ma a, wake up and unwind."—Life. The Only Courje. "Why dou't you challenge him .0 prove the truth of his scandalous as sertious?" said the American. "That would he too easy a task for him," answered the European. "I'll have to challenge him to fight."—Wash ington Star. He Wouldn't Cure. "Did it ever occur to you," said the thoughtful person, "that the number of matches used each day reaches the ( stupendous sum of 'steen billions?" ' "It never did," replied the thought less oue, "aud I'll he blamed if I would have cared a straw if it had." —Detroit Free Press. Ho Must Try Something "It seeiqs to me that English doctor who wants to increase the number of children by having dowries set apart for poor girls when they become brides is very short-sighted." "Why so?' "It's only the poor that have lots of babies."— Chicago Record-Herald. Too llusinuHft-Like. "When I get a new Job I want a boss who can take a joke." "Was your recent employer too ser ious?" "Well, lie sneaked in on me when,! was giving tlie boys a humorous Imi tation of bis strut;—and then—to make ' a long story short—l got fired."— Puck. % .Recriminating. The society woman flashed as to her eyes, and the reporters pressed about her with ears astrahi. "So they say my refreshments were stingy, do they?" she exclaimed. "Well, you may quote me to the effect that my refreshments would have been ample, had these critical ladies worn gowns that fitted them anyhow at all. So, there!"— Puck. Self-Approval. "You want more cast-off clothes!" exclaimed the woman of the house. "If ye got 'em to spare, lady," an swered Meauderlng Mike. "But the clothes I gave you last week—you Hie not wearing them. Have you pawned them?" "Lndy, whatever else my faults may he, It can't he said I am one o' dem people dat puts every cent on 1119 back." L ' i
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