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NEWSY GLEANINGS. Brazil is having its money coined at the Vienna mint. Andrew Carnegie has offered Kenton, Ohio, $17,500 for a library. A whole county wishes to secede from Oklahoma and join Texas. A scheme is on foot to provide an elevated railroad for St. Louis, .Mo. Speed limit for automobiles is about to be raised by the British Govern ment. T-e University of Berlin lias CSS7 stu dents this winter. Munich comes next, Willi 4203. All the trnns-Atlanlic steamers are now Cuming over the long route to avoid icebergs. Nearly 100,000 horses wore shipped from Montana last year, many of thexu to South Africa. More students are in attendance at Yale from Japan than from any other foreign country. The Lewis and Clark fair, to lie hold iu 1005 at Portland, Ore., lias been permanently organized. A now design is to be prepared for British postage stamps owing to de fects in that just issued. President Benjamin F. Wilson, of Converse College, Spartanburg, S. C., has resigned after twelve years' ser vice. Jimmy Collins, manager of the Bos ton American League club, who has been playing ball ten years, says he is worth S3O,DUO. Because of neglect the trees cn the j Boston Common are in a woeful stale j of degeneracy. Ninety-four of them ! are past salvation. A pension of S3O a month has been granted to the widow of Colonel Lls cum, Ninth Infantry, who was killed at Tien-Tsin during the war in China. The latest bank statement embracing ull the banks in Mexico, shows the total banking capital to lie $80,300,000; note circulation, $82,070,020; reserves, $14(232,303 and deposits, $112,000,000. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Empcrcr William of Germany Iz for ty-three years old. Congressman Littlofleld, of Maine, talks nearly 300 words a minute. Andrew Carnegie has made a second gift of $300,000 to Cooper Union, New York City. Frince Henry has bought fifty pres ents to distribute on his visit to the United States. Theodore Roosevelt is the third Har vard graduate to become President of the United States. Professor Edmund J. James, of the University of Chicago, has been elect ed President of the Northwestern Uni versity. Itear-Admiral W. K. Van Bey pen, Surgeon-General of the Navy, has been placed on the retired list after forty years' service. Marconi, the wireless telegraphy in veutor, has been decorated by King Victor Emmanuel of Italy with the Ol der of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus. Lord Itosebery has written a novel, on which he is now engaged in putting the finishing touches. It is expected that it will lie published in the autumn. Sir Alfred L. Jones, of Liverpool, England, is the largest Individual ship owner in Great Britain, his firm's ton nage now amounting to over 4U0.000. He is a bachelor of fifty-five and is a Eelf-madc man. Countess von Waldersee, answering an inquiry regarding the projected trip of Field Marshal von Waldersee and herself to the United Suites, says: "Wo both hope to go to the United Stales in April, but nothing haa yet been decided." Judge John TT. Reagan, of Austin, Tex., has finally retired from politics after half a century of service. lie was Postmaster-General and Secretary cf the Treasury in the Confederate Cabinet, and was father of 'ho "Up state Commerce law. Railroad to Rear a baby. The Choctaw Railroad will rear a baby which was found abandoned on one of its cars cast of El Reno, Okla. The child was left in a seat in a basket which was well supplied with warm milk. On the handle of the basket was a note, saying: "I have no parents; please take me to the next station." The conductor telegraphed to the company headquarters and was told to take tho baby to the next sta tion. Later h2 received a message ordering him to retain possession of the infant, as the road had decided to adopt it, raise and educate it. It Is now in a hospital in Wichita. Consumptives In Australia. According to Dr. Sidney Jones, 16,- 000 consumptives are moving about Australia annually. THE BACHELOR'S CONFESSION. "Why don't you marry meV I am ashed Quite frequently and so. I feel it is my duty, friends, That 1 should let you know My reasons, and forever stop Your oft repeated wail, Concerning rue and why I'm still Beyond the marriage pale. # Tis not because I am afraid t could not earn enough, To buy a wife fine dresses and Yew bonnets, or such stuff: Nor do i fear I'd have to walk The floor while baby bawled, Or that life would he burdensome When my wife's mother called. Such things would not jar mc a bit; i don't believe it pays To worry, for by doing so, You'll quickly end your days; So I'll tell you in confidence Just why I'm single still: 1 can't get any girl to say Those loving words, "I will." —Phil Philander. M" E ViDotr'"" M M ANY, many years ago, long before either you or I, or our great-grandfathers or £ great-grandmothers were born, life was very different in Siam and Farther India from what it is now. All tilings seemed to be better then. The earth was not so old nor so worn out, neither was she so saddened through having to watch day and night the deceits and petty avarices that were practiced among the men and women she tenderly nurtured. In the time of which I write peace had cast her mantle over all things, and human beings lived happily together in pros perity and contentment. The men enjoyed such a reputation for bravery and might that their ene mies had not the courage to attack them; the women, who were both good and beautiful, never lacked lovers and husbands, while, after they were married, their wedded life seemed to be composed of one continual dream of bliss. Whatever the season of the year might bo, the people did not suffer for want of food; the fruits of the trees that grew around their dwell ing-places were larger and sweeter, and, in every way, superior to those which we now eat and think perfect; while the rice, which formed the prin- P'Aiackf Alack' she cricd..( beating her hands cipal food of the inhabitants, con sisted of a larger grain, wbleli hail de cidedly a better flavor. So flue tt was, iu fact, that one grain nicely boiled and served was enough to provide n dinner of sufficient size to satisfy the hunger of a full-grown man or two children; while the merit of the people was such that never had they to weary themselves nigh to death by toiling beneath the scorching sun to gather the rice. When it was ripe and ready for picking, it simply fell gently down from the stalk on which it grew, rolled steadily towards tho village, and snug ly ensconced itself iu the granaries that were waiting to receive it, taking care as it did so that no man might think himself more favored than an other by becoming the recipient of one scrap more than was necessary for the consumption of himself and his fam ily. And this delightful way of living Would have gone 011 existing, aye, unto this very day, had not one greedy person, through a desire to gratify her own avidity, spoilt everything by her covetous wish 10 secure more than her fair share of these privileges. In one of the villages that profited greatly by tile thoughtful behavior of liie rice, there dwelt, in a small lmt, n widow woman called ("hum Paw and her two daughters, both of whom were renowned for their comifion sense and loveliness. One evening, as the three of them stood at the threshholil of their door, and watched the large, well-ripened grain come trundling along the street and hop into the granary that belonged to them, the eyes of the widow became small and cnuning-looking, and she tightly pursed her lips together as she considered the idea that had just en tered into tier crafty brain. "Alackl alack!" she cried, beating her hands together in despair. "How I grieve when I look upon that small granary that belongs to us." "What is amiss with it?" demanded the eldest daughter. "It is clean, and as well built as those of our neighbors —better, Indeed, than some." "That may be,"responded her mother. "But how fortunate might we consider ourselves if we possessed a building double tile size." But tile two girls shook their heads. "We have more than enough now," they said. "Let us be content." This ml vice, although very sound, was worse than useless to offer to Chum Taw. who continued to fret her self upon this one subject. "We cannot tell," she argued, "how long we shall oe permitted to enjoy these benefits, j When the change eornes, and come it ' will, we shall make a fortune if we. | possessing more than enough grain for I our own use. could sell the surplus to our less thrifty neighbors. Before the rice ripens again we will pull down the i little granary that has stood on this j spot for so many generations, and erect j a far larger one in its stead." And the widow was as good as her word. Though her two daughters, fear- j ing they would give offense to the Itice Queen, begged their mother to j think on more about the scheme she , had in her head, she would not heed | them, and very soon the little building j was demolished, and in its place there j appeared a huge structure capable of holding sufficient grain to supply the j entire village, let atone three women, ; each with a small appetite. The widow was too parsimonious to hire men to do the work, so for many hours daily, beneath the fierce sun, she and her two daughters labored to complete this unnecessary task before the rice was due again. But in spite of their united efforts, they did not succeed, and one evening, as tile widow stood fastening the hasp on to the new door, she fancied some thing touched her foot. But she was too absorbed in her task to really no tice It, so she went 011 with her labors, her mind occupied meanwhile with a beautiful dream of the golden future they were preparing to reap. Sud denly something tapped against her toes for the second time, and before Chum Paw could look down she felt the same thing again, and then the taps came with such rapidity that she was obliged to thrown down her tools and see what was the matter. Bound her feet and all about tlio door rolled fine fat grains of rice, while from the direction of the fields she could see more approaching, like a regular army marchiug upou the little village. The widow was so disappointed that she never paused to tliiuk what she was doing; her daughters were em ployed upon another part of the build ing, so they could not check their mother's hasty and 111-advised action, as with a cry of vexation she raised her foot and kicked the nearest grain far away from her. "What a nuisance you are!" she cried in her indignation. "How dure you come before we are ready to receive you? You should have waited on your stalks in the fields until the proper time bad arrived. You have no right to bother me now, when you are not wanted. It is too bad! Get out of my sight, do!" When the widow struck at the lice with her foot, her temper had so mas tered her that she hit it with sufficient force to break in iuto a thousand frag ments. each of which hurried away to tell the Kiee Queen about the cruel treatment that had been meted out. Wlien this fairy heard their state ments—which, though they were furi ously angry, tln-y managed to keep per fectly accurate—she was exceedingly indignant, and, raising her bands three times above her bead, she uttered the following malediction: "Never shall llie rice, which for ages past has ripened on its stalks solely for lie use of limnnn beings, roll up to the village again or enter their granaries. In the days to come let these greedy, ungrateful people seek us out with toil and labor. And as they pluck tlio grain, which shall henceforth be small and difficult for the aged to see, may they recall, with bitter pain and re-! gret, the time of plenty which theyj through their own wrongdoing, drove! away forever." And thus it is to this day. The pros perity of tlie people began to wane; rarely, even by their most unflagging efforts, can they succeed in storing enough in their granaries lo lust them until the next harvest, and as they drudge, with bent backs and aching limbs, do they shake their heads and cry one 1o another; "Alas! lind Widow Chum Paw only remained satisfied with what she had, we should not be working here so hard to-day. Let us remember, niul make our children re- | member, too. that contentment with little is better that possessing n super fluity, aud that a greedy nature often loses that which it hath."—The Quiver. Marks of Ace on n Turtto. John Anion, a farmer in Lykens township, while pulling stumps un earthed an ancient laud turtle. On its lower bony plate was cut tlio date 17o, together with the token or sign of an old Indian chief. Under this was an other date. 1825, and the initials of a formerly well known pioneer and trap per. A still later date was 1813 and the initials 11. W. The turtle is thought to be genuine, though it shows but lit tle indication of its great age. It was in a healthy conditien and is being taken care of. Mr. Anion will carve his name and date upon it, and liber ate it when the weather gets warm.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. The l'luco Hunter. Once upon a time a professional poli tician called on the President for a place where the tenure was not un certain. Though told thnt there was no vacant office, he called again and again, insisting that liis application should be granted. Finally lie called with very strong written Indorsements, one of them bearing the names of two Senators; but alas! the names bad been forged. Then the man was indicted, found guilty of forgery, and was sent to the penitentiary for five years. Moral:—Persistence will find a place where the tenure Is not uncertain.-" New York Herald. I AGBIGOLTURAL f • 31 Working Well-Drained Lauds. Well-drained lands can be worked earlier in spring, and the soil will be warmer than when no drainage has been done. This is an important point. I as spring work is always pressing, j and the earlier the plowing can be iloue the better. Fowls Kcqnlre Kxerci.n, I owls that are expected to lay in winter require exercise. Feeding should uot i e too often. When millet seed, is scattered in litter, or over a wide surface, tlio liens will be kept busy seeking liicin. In the spring the hens will begin laying as soon as the weather becomes mild. 'Phis shows that warmth controls egg production to a certain extent. It is in the spring that the hens can seek a variety of food, as worms, seeds and grass can then be ob tained. Tlie breed of fowls is not so important as management in winter, for the tendency of birds is not to lay during the cold weather, but iu spring and summer. A Cow Pen Holler. First a hopper in which the peas are put, vines and all; then a cylinder twelve inches in diameter and four feet long. Smaller might (10. The cylinder is covered with iron spikes, as shown, driven into the cylinder at mi angle of about sixty degrees, fc|jpll=l sloping back from direction of cylin der. Ends of spikes left out oue-lialf or llve-eiglnh inches in length. Hows of spikes four to six inches apart, run ning spirally around the cylinder, in stead of lengthwise. Around this is a curved shaped piece of extra heavy sheet iron or steel, strong enough to hold the peas up to tlie cylinder, and still springy enough to allow them to go through without splitting the peas. Then make a box or frame in which the cylinder rests. This is not so im portant only in so far as it holds up the cylinder, but any old tiling that will do that will accomplish that end. The handle is represented on the cyl inder, but 1 would recommend that power of some description he used, as I know from personal experience that it requires a good deal of muscle to make it go when it is full of pea vines. I ground out five acres of peas with mine—Dave IJ. Miller, in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ISggt iu Cold Storage. One cannot keep eggs in cold storage successfully unless proper conditions are obtained beforehand. I approve of a cold storage plant on every farm where tlio number of laying liens ex ceed 200. A plant properly constructed then will pay the owner when eggs are so cheap that it is impossible to find any decent market for them. Eggs stored away properly can be kept from six to eight months. The summer eggs can he gathered and kept for winter use. Not only this, but the eggs gath ered daily should be placed immediate ly in the cold storage plant, so they will keep in perfectly fresh condition when shipped to market a few days later. It is imposible sometimes to make shipments every day, and often it is very unwise; yet if one has no cold storage plant on the farm the eggs may be ruined within forty-eight hours by exposure to hot weather. It is weather conditions more than time which ac tually causes eggs to become stale. This should be remembered in build ing the cold storage place for them. Heat is the worst enemy of the eggs, and next to that is moisture, and third, stale, impure air. With this under stood it may he possible for one to understand why a cold, but damp cel lar Is a poor place for storing eggs. The excessive moisture of the place soon makes the eggs mouldy and musty. Moisture must bo excluded by all means from the storage house. Of course, too dry an air is not desirable, although that is preferable to too moist eggs. • Ventilation is essential to tlio welfare of the egg-. Impure air will cause the eggs to decay rapidly, and impure air generally means damp, moist air. Con sequently it is essential on pleasant days to have the outside air circulated through the storage house. The cir culation should ho forced. There is no other way to obtain it successfully, where producers try to store their own eggs. To test the condition of the air instruments to register the moisture as well as the temperature should he constantly in use. The temperature of the storage houses should be kept uniformly at thirty degrees F. That is considered the best by all storage com panies, and If properly regulated at this temperature, the summer eggs will generally keep all right for winter use.—Annie C. Webster, in American Cultivator. Competition on Farms. Tlio farmer of the present day meets closer competition In his business than the merchant, his competitors being other farmers who are nlive to every opportunity to increase their profits. The progressive farmer closely ob serves the markets, but he gives more attention to the lessening of the cost of production than to anything else. Tile farmer who does not know of the production of the latest labor-saving appliances, or of tile advantages of the various breeds of live stock, is sure to work at a great disadvantage in competition with one who lessens the cost of labor, and increases the prod ucts of ids farm, for if prices fall by reason of great supply, the unprepared farmer, who lias not kept pace with others, will be the first to fall by the wayside. Tlie beginning of tlie new year is tlie time to plan for next season. The farmer no longer has any choice in tlie matter of reform. lie cannot de cide to continue on with old methods unless other farmers are doing the same. Necessity will compel changes, and It is bettor to get ready for them than to wait until the growing season arrives than to discover that a whole year must bo lost In tlie attempt to produce crops under methods that oth ers have discarded. There is more la bor performed on farms from which the farmer secures 110 return than is incurred iu auy other pursuit, and it is this waste of labor—the result of adhering to old systems—that causes farmers to mortgage their farms and pay Interest. No farmer can afford to sell his produce for less than its cost, yet the cost depends largely on the management. His competitor, with lower cost and larger yields, forces liim to sell at nnrcmunerative prices. Where some farmers fail Is in not increasing tlie productive capacity of their live stock. Beef cattle that weigh less tliau oue-half the weight that could be obtained, sheep weighing less than 100 pounds each on the hoof, and milk from cows that but little more than pay the cost of keeping, are examples found everywhere. The most difficult matter on the part of those who are interested in the ad vancement of farming is to convince farmers that an essential duty in tlie keeping of live stock is to use tlie pure breeds. Strange to say, tlie greatest obstacle to the introduction of pure breeds is the prejudice of the farmers. On the large majority of farms will be found animals that demonstrate their wortlilessness in comparison with some that are better, yet even this fact so plain that it cannot be avoided, lias not Induced farmers to discard scrubs and accept tlie poor breeds. Only when some progressive farmer steps out of the line and adopts new methods are many of the farmers convinced that tliey must do the same thing or suffer loss.—Philadelphia liecord. For Clean Milk. Poor butter is very often the result of impurities that get into the milk at milking time. Clotli strainers will help matters materially, hut first of all thoroughly rub the cow's udder with a piece of burlap before milking. The best pail for milking with cloth strain ers can be made by tlie tinsmith after tlie pattern shown iu the cut. I-ny the cloth tightly over tlie top of the pail, then press the toil piece down inside the rim of the pail. The milk cannot spatter out, and must pass through the cloth into the pail. Probably not one dairyman 111 a hundred Is as par ticular as lie should lie in tlie matter of getting the milk froui the cows in the cleanest possible manner. After visiting many dairy farms and noting the filthy manner in which the cows are cared for and milked, I think my statement of not one in n hundred is wide of tlie mark. In many barns the conditions are simply disgusting, while one can rarely find a stable where a thoroughly painstaking effort is made to keep every particle ol' for eign matter and foul odor out of the milk. Even under the very best con ditions as regards cleanliness it is ut terly impossible to keep all impurities out of the milk If the latter is drawn from tlie cow into an open pall, for hairs and some dust particles will be loosened- from tlie cow by the action of tlie hands 111 milking. However, with a pail like that shown in the cut, and two thicknesses of cotton cloth, or, better still, a layer of surgeons' absorbent cotton, laid between two sheets uf cheesecloth and caught to gether here and there with thread and needle, almost absolute cleanliness can be secured. A large sheet of such a strainer can lie made at once, anil cir cles cut from it for each milking. The cotton mentioned is absolutely pure, and is of a nature to cheek tlie pass age ol' any impurities. By the use of such a device the mik and cream will not only be practically pure, if all other precautions are taken to keep it so, but it will keep much longer than milk and cream secured under the or dinary conditions—a very decided ad vantage, If one ships liis cream away, or has a milk or cream route, for there is, perhaps, no more common complaint from customers on a milk route than that the cream or milk doec not keep from one day to the next.— New York Tribune. THE "MASTEH CLOCK." An Iniporlunt Timepiece in ttio Naval Observatory at Washington. In the course of an article in St. Nicholas on "How We Set Our Watches by a Star," W. S. Harwood tells about the Master Clock at Wash ington. The great clock in the Naval Obser vatory is called the Master Clock. By means of the repeatlng-apparatus tlie time is repeated over eighteen different circuits to the various parts of the country. New York City automatically repeats the time to all points East and North; Chicago and Cincinnati repeat to all points West and Southwest; Richmond, Augusta and Atlanta to all points South. If you should happen to he in some large telegraph office at the moment the time signal is being sent out, it is likely you would see the operators at their keys take out their watches a lew seconds before the time is due, open them, put a tiny piece of tissue-paper twisted into a thread be tween tlie spokes of one of tlie little wheels in their watches, holding back the movement to tlie instant the signal is given, then releasing the wheel so that the watch shall fall into tlie exact beat of tlie Master Clock iu Washing ton. Of course the snme care must be taken whether the operators are to connect their instruments with a time ball or a control-clock. The time-ball is an interesting feature of the service. It is a round hall large enough to he seen from tlie street where, sup ported by its appliances, it rests ou the top of some building. It is attached by wire to the circuit from Washing ton iu such a manner that, at the in stant the Master Clock in Washington ticks the stroke of twelve, the delicate ly poised hall will fall, released by the same beat of the clock that announces the time to the rest of the country. Anyone who watches one of these time-balls just before tlie stroke of twelve, timepiece 111 hand, may easily determine whether his watch is slow, fast, or on time. Throughout tlie East these time-halls are dropped every day at noon, save on Sundays, at New York City, Boston, Newport (Rhode Island), Woods Holl (Massachusetts), Philadelphia, Baltic more, Washington, Huuiptou Roads, Savannah, and Fortress Monroe. The tick of the Master Clock that drops these time-balls also releases others, some of them mauy hundreds, indeed, thousands of miles awny. For in stance, by cable arrangement, a timc hall is dropped every day in the city of Havana, and another iu San Francisco, 3000 miles distant. So incomprehen sibly swift is the speed of the electric current that, if the repeating instru ments and tlie wires are iu perfect con dition, there is no appreciable differ ence in the time of the dropping of the hall in New York City and the dropping of the ball in San Francisco, each one released by the same tick of the Master Clock in the Naval Ob servatory in Washington. The rower of Speech, Speech is the result of a slow process of natural growth anil there is no human rneo that does not possess it. If in the present state of the world some philosopher were to wonder how man ever began to build those houses, palaces and vessels which we see 1 round 11s, we should answer that those were not the things that man began with. The savage who first tied the branches of shrubs to make himself a shelter was not an architect, and hu who first floated 011 the trunk of a tree was not a navigator. So it is with speech, which grew from rude begin nings. All the more intelligent ani mals can express simple conditions of mind both by sound and gesture. The dog can emit four or five sounds, each fully understood by its companions. The common barnyard fowl lias from nine to twelve distinct vocal sounds, all of which are comprehended by its chickens and by other fowls. There can be no doubt that t.je speech of man arose, in the beginning, frotn similar sources. Gesture speech was frequent. Many sounds were imita tive. Purely conventicnal and non imitative sounds were adopted for con venience, just as deaf mutes now in vent arbitrary sounds to stand for the names of friends, etc. It is not pre cisely true, then, to say that "language begins where interjection cuds." How ever it originated it is the condition of progress. As Romanes said: "A manlike creature became human by the power of speech." When did tiie speech originate? Romanes thinks that our human ancestor may have been in the age of flint when be added to ges ture, vocal tones and facial grimaces _ the power of speech.—New York Sun. Or oat Naval Stronghold. It is not generally known that with in eighty miles of Victoria and forty six miles inside of Fuget Sound, there is a nucleus of a navy yard which is destined to he one of the most impor tant—if not the most important—in the Union. Ten years ago a wilderness, It now teems with life. Its situation is ideal. It is absolutely land locked, Us shortest approach being a narrow, winding channel six miles long, heav ily fortified and mined. Its longest ap proach is fourteen miles, with an cn< trance so narrow an enemy's ship would stand no chance of getting through.—Harper's Weekly. Fisli Produce Musical Sounds. Many fish can produce musical sounds. The trlgln can produce long drawn notes ranging over nearly an octave. Others, notably two species of ophidittm, have sound-producing ap paratus, consisting of small movable bones, which can be made to produce a sharp rattle. The curious "drum- „ ming" made by tlie species called urn brlnas can be heard from a depth ot thirty fathoms.
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