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The best t-lng about Mexico's new navy is it is to be built in the United States. Everything is coming our way Even the mr.il from Australia to Lon don will probably in future travel via New York. According to Printer's Ink, the one dominant motive of American prog ress is to continually advance, to do something more and better than has ever been done before. King Edward realizes that there is not much left for a monarch to do ex cept to wear the gold lace and other trimmings, and he desires to discharge his duty as fully as lies in his power. On the Pacific Coast ingenious builders of locomotive engines are try ing the experiment of setting the cab at tne forward end. Does not that suggest the putting of the cart before the horse? From 0703 in 1894, suicides in France gradually decreased to 9438 in 189 S. Illness, poverty and drunken ness led the list of causes in the order named. Then came family troubles, lo\e and jealousy. The toll which the sea takes from those who trust It for a livelihood is pathetically illustrated in the an nouncement that the fishing season just closed has cost the single port of Gloucester, Mass., the lives of no less than sixty-two of its stalwart fisher men. Pittsburg's institute, with its endow ment of $25,000,000, will represent a larger investment of capital in tech nical education than the combined en dowments of all the distinctly tech nical institutes now existing in the country. It will be a truly splendid contribution to the most practical branch of twentieth century educa tion. The population of the United States Is increasing faster than that of any other country. This is the richest country in the world—we are worth at* least fifteen thousand millions more than Great Britain. Our miles of rail road track exceed by more than 10,000 all the tracks of Europe. We manu facture more than Eugland, France and Germany combined. Airships and under-water craft have done remarkable things in France in the first year of this century, but the vessels which have been careering about the clouds like comets and the boats which have been poking their noses beneath the waves have not yet achieved such triumphs that the surface of the earth and the level of the sea will speedily be abandoned l'or purposes of travel. In staid Connecticut a murderer who was guilty of taking the life of a young woman in circumstances of exceptional atrocity lias been sentenced to life imprisonment, observes the New York Tribune. A peculiarly revolting fea ture of this case has been the sending of flowers and dainties to the assassin by weak minded creatures who seemed to think that the criminal should he regarded as au object of sympathy. When such things occur in the colony of the Blue Laws what can be ex pected in communities less Spartan and severe in origin and nurture? •Snatch-Cock" Explained. Many people have been wondering how the word "spatch-cocked," used by General Buller, eomes to mean "sandwiched in between." At a dak bungalow in India you see a "chicken" running about, and in ten minutes you are eating him "spatch-cocked." He has been slain, dipped in hot water to assist the plucking, and has his breast bone flattened down and is grilled as flat as a chop, without the flesh ever being allowed to cool. H6 is supposed to "eat" less tough in that way than an £ other. ij||| iiuiuma Ccaces ||j Rustling:, quivering downward. iSf Drl ' tin * ovep f ° i rest pttths * ThrouKh the autumn hours, gjjl , Oh, leaves, whose fresh, young beauty tii.h Burst bravely forth In May, That now, with age grown yellow, rSSj Clt Drift down in death today. js§><?s Your life is done and over— Falls, through the quiet hours, For, with faint touch caressing, October's sun still weaves T* m Pl* More. Looting of China. BY CLARENCE L. BEALMEAR. Wun Sock leaned over the hearth and drew with his bow a melancholy tune out of an old violin. Again and again he drew the bow across the in strument, holding a particularly deep note, bending forward slightly and looking intently at a spot on the hearth. The room was dimly lighted by a tallow dip. Weird enough were the surroundings—the figures of drag ons on the walls, Joss perched on a shelf, the giant shadows cast by the flickering light—without the accom paniment of unearthly music. Twenty minutes, half an hour, forty minutes, and then, with an exclamation of Chi nese disgust, he laid the violin down, took up a large cork from the shelf, fitted it in a hole in the hearth and blew out the tallow dip, and, after a few puffs at the resistless pipe, threw himself on his cot and slept. A few minutes later Chip In opened the door of the little join, and tiptoed softly in. Lighting the tallow dip and seeing the violin lying there, he began where Wun Sock left off, first taking the cork out of the hole in the hearth. Chip In drew forth the same monoto nous tune, even more dismally than his predecessor. Twenty minutes, half and hour, forty minutes, and then, with an execration, he repeated Wun Sock's actions, throwing himself on tho cot next to his worthy contempor ary, while that gentleman emitted a snort which may have signified gross displeasure at the confusion aroused by Chip In, or intense confusion at some hallucination superinduced by the pipe. While Wun Sock was muttering in coherent monosyllables to himself, in Btalkel Sip Gin, and, judging from his wavering gait and the reverse position of his hat, he had been a partaker of the cup that inebriates but does not Inevitably cheer. He made his way jM ' From tho hole emerged an object— unsteadily over the hearth by the light of the street lamp, and looked about in a bleared sort of way, accidentally touching the violin with his hand. In tuitively recalling a forgotten injunc tion, he took up the instrument. Long j he drew the bow across the strings and U>ug he held the monotonous tone with the tenacious bow, playing, however, with somewhat more feeling than the others. The light from the street lamps 6hone dimly through the little square panes of glass to the hole in the hearth. Sip watched closely with only the aid of this. The violin con tinued to wail and moan. Then from the hole emerged an object, moving al most indiscernibly, first its head, then neck, and finally writhing its whole form out upon the hearth, standing erect and almost touching Sip Gin with its nose—a cobra of Immense size. Sip continued to draw the bow as imper ceptibly as possible. Suddenly, with a movement as quick as the flash of a sabre, he dropped both bow and violin and grabbed the reptile just behind the head. With a shriek he awoke Wun Sock and Chip In, while the struggles of the infuriated monster, together with Sip's already too unsteady head, nearly carried that gentleman off his balance. A light being produced, he regained his equilibrium, while his compartiots uttered exclamations of intense gratification at the victorious although somewhat inebriated Sip. In his rage the serpent's head was flattened out, resembling a hood, 011 the back of which were the spectacle like marks, and the brownish-olive form wriggled in a desperate effort to escape. Quickly it was thrust into a box, and while it was venting its rage on the interior Sip pulled himself to gether and adjusted his disheveled rai ment. The rest of the night they sat up to discuss a conspiracy. Wun Sock conducted a prosperous laundry near the barracks, his busi ness having increased with the influx of the Americans. Sip Gin was an all-around sport, who spent most of his time and money in the gambling joint which is at present the scene of this narrative, and of which Chip In was said to be the sole proprietor. Wun Sock had by artful Competition forced Hop Hi, a rival laundry man, to the wall, for which piece of mercantile courtesy he incurred that Celestial's unmitigated enmity. Hop having mi grated to Bombay, returned the com pliment in the form of this cobra, neat ly ensconced in a box, which Wun Sock, in delight and ignorance of its contents, took around to Chip In's to open before that heathen's usually ad miring eyes. Upon forcing the lid the serpent made a pass at him, and but for the tool with which he opened the box, and which he still held in his hand, the result would surely have been fatal to Wun Sock. In the ex citement, during which they all re treated, the cobra made good his es cape, taking refuge in the hole in the hearth, which they promptly stopped up with a cork. Knowing the power of music to charm these reptiles, a violin was pro cured, and for six nights they met at the joint and vainly extended an in vitation to the cobra to emerge from the hearth and be again immured within the walls of his box. It re mained. however, for Sip Gin, inspired to sentiments of tenderness by the in fluence of a soothing liquid, to draw the bow with sufficient witchery to charm the otherwise indomitable crea ture and coax him from his lair. Once out, it was a one-shot victory, a shoot or-be-shot chance, and Sip had drunk Just enough to give him a reckless abandon and steady nerve to completi the feat with glory. With such a potent agency of death in their possession and a means where by to deal ah everlasting blow to the enemy, of which a Chinese is never entirely without, these Celestials im mediately bethought how to use this deputy of the devil to the best advan tage. Each recited his list of those whom he would be pleased to annihi late, but it was difficult to select the most eligible. Lam Chop, the restaurateur, Just then happened in and was let into the secret. He smiled to himself. Wun Sock with live enemies, Chip In with seven. Sip Gin with three, while he, Lam Chop, had oniy one—an enemy who had spoken evil of him to all his race—Chin Lip, the barber. "But be not vindictive," said Lam Chop, as he rubbed his sleeve across his face to hide a smile. "Let your enemies live and list to the chance of a lifetime. The government of Uncle Sam will give $5,000 for Aguinaldo, dead or alive." Lam Chop knew his hiding place and his disguise. "Think of 5,000 of Uncle Sam's big dollars, that buy ten times as much us our brass money! Back to China we can go and live like Li Hung Chang." Great was the idea, but how was it to be executed? Lam Chop would tell them. On the night of the full moon Wun Sock was to carry his venomous burden, boxed neatly, with the lid merely latched, to a deserted hut on the outskirts of Manila. There Aguin aldo took refuge after nightfall and slipped out early every morning dis guised as a coolie. He would see the box and naturally open it; death would result and the reward be sure to follow. Wun Sock on the day appointed has tened to do the bidding of Lara Chop. At sunset he went to the house, de posited the box in a conspicuous place and decamped. Next morning three Chinamen could be seen walking along the road leading to the outskirts. Lam Chop did not appear at the hour ap pointed to bring the body of Aguin aldo to the government of Uncle Sam; so, after waiting half an hour, the three decided to go without him. As they approached the hut their counte nances beamed with anticipation. Wun Sock pushed open the door slowly and peeped in. There Aggy lay stretched out on the floor. The box open and empty. Sip Gin then took a peep, and lastly Chip In. Making sure the cobra had escaped, they illed in and turned the body over, when all fell bach aghast. It was Chin Lip, the barber! After their consternation subsided they rifled his pockets and filed out. A nice trick Lam Chop had played on them! He, who had said "Be not vindictive and let your enemies live,' had used their weapon for his OWD ends. It galled their Chinese souls However, they would make Lam Chop pay for his little trick. They looked for him, but he was not to be found. He had vanished. The accumulated wealth of Wun Sock, Chip In and Sip Gin had been detached from its hiding places and had gone along, too. He had sold his restaurant the day pre vious to a mutual friend, who reported that Lam Chop laughed so loud and so long that it was only by chance that * -\/ ( f It was Chin Lip, the barber, he caught his parting words, which; referring to his victims, were, "Three muchee gullible fools!" House Ventilation In Bombay. Most ot the new houses in Bombaj have a fine show of windows on the outside, but 110 corresponding opening to allow a current of air to pass through. The mean annual tempera ture is 79.13 degrees Fahrenheit, and the mean relative humidity 77 per cent The mean annual range of temperature is 46.9 degrees, hut there are periods during the rains when the diurnai range of temperature does not exceed 2 degrees, and, unless there is wind ventilation i$ practically stopped, be cause the outer air and that in the buildings are reduced to nearly one temperature. With the thermometei at 82 to 84 degrees, and the air heav ily charged with moisture, the surplus heat of the human body escapes toe slowly, and much discomfort ensues As it is not possible to dry the air in an ordinary house, the usual remedy is to produce a current by means of a punkah, and although the influence ol this is very local, it has been found that in the worst Bombay weathei life is made tolerable in its current. The chief drawback of the punkah is the punkahwalla. He is dirty, unre liable, especially at night, and hia work, counting day and night, costs 24 rupees per month for a single pun kah. —Collier's Magazine. You might as well talk to an echc as to a person who always .agrees wltl you. I SCIENCE AND INDUST3T. With only one exception the gla ciers of Switzerland are diminishing steadily. Since 187G the Rhone glacier has decreased in length at the rate of over 31 yards a year. The Italian government has estab lished labaratories of micrography and bacteriology and chemistry as depen dencies of the sanitary bureau of the minister of the interior. A depart ment of the bacteriological laboratory is to be devoted to the preparation and control of serums and similar products. Whatever may be the cause of the aurora borealis its height does not appear to be limited by the atmos phere. The rays sometimes touch the earth in Scandinavia, coming between the observer and elevated places, but Flogel, 30 years ago, obtained data showing that a large aurora seen in northern Germany must have had a height of GO miles, and that the rays often rise to 460 miles, their points glowing with red light Petrolan, says Parfumeur, is a min eral soap, the active principle of which is an ichthyol-like compound. It oc curs in bituminous rock in the Cau casus, is of a dark color and of the consistence of an ointment, soluble in ether, and does not turn rancid. It finds application in the treatment of diseases of the skin, such as eczema, acne, psoriasis, etc. It acts as an anti septic and drying agent without pro ducing irritation of the skin. The bird fauna of Iceland is credit ed by Henry H. Slater with 103 species. Of these three are residents, 27 sum mer migrants, 21 occasional visitors and 18 rare stragglers. The land birds are few, including only seven residents and five that come in summer to breed, but the most interesting birds now probably are the northern wren, the great northern diver and the Ice land falcon. Singing birds are few. There are 10 species of duclcs and geese and seven bird's of prey, but the rock ptarmigan is the only game bird. Ever since the 17th century it has been observed that the sea near Jus saro, Finland, acted on the needles of ships' compasses in a very peculiar manner. These erratic movements of the needle were long suspected to be due to a deposit of iron ore under the ocean's bed. Until recently tills was mere conjecture. Recently, however, experts have drilled at the point of greatest disturbance, and they have been rewarded by striking a deposit of pure iron ore at a depth of about 75 feet. A company is being organized to work the deposits, as it is believed they are very extensive, as compass needles behave in an erratic manner at several other points in the immedi ate vicinity. Prof. Becquerel carried in his waist coat pocket for several periods, amounting to about six hours in all, a cardboard box enclosing a sealed glass tube containing a few grains of radio active barium chloride. In 10 days' time a red mark corresponding to the tube was apparent on the skin. Inflam mation followed, the skin peeled off and left a suppurating sore which did not heal for a month. On the second occasion a similar experience resulted from carrying a tube of the same sort. Other experimenters have had similar experiences It is to be remembered that the energy of these radio-active emanations, whatever they are, is giv en continuously and so far as we now know, eternally, without any corre sponding increment of energy from any known source. The perpetual motion seems to be realized in a novel form. The most interesting problem of sci ence, at the present time, is to discover what is the source of the emitted rays, and the exact nature of the emana tions. Klsctrlc Knorey from Wind. Front long and careful studies of the atmospheric conditions in north ern Germany Herr M. G. Couz of Ham burg has taken up the question of the industrial application of the winds which are always abundant in that re gion. He has discovered a system of electric regulators to obviate the in convenience of the' variation in the ve locity of the wind. To put his ideas in practice Herr Couz appealed to F. Neumann, a manufacturer of wind mills at Wittltiel, who put a large windmill at his uispositon. The wheel had a regulator to keep its speed con stant for a certain number of turns when the minimum velocity of the wind to keep it moving at that speed had been exceeded. This wheel, which in a tempest can furnish 30 horse power, charges a large storage battery for electric lighting and power at Witt kiel. Some experiments were made last September, and the results sur passed all expectation. These experi ments, which were admirably con ducted, make it possible to hope that small localities will be able to secure electric light and power from the wind at almost no cost. The expense of establishing such an installation is extremely small in comparison to the immense advantages which it secures. —Electrical Review. Hydrogen un 111uininunf. Oxygen and hydrogen are produced on a large scale in Germany by the electrolytic decomposition of water. The hydrogen so produced is now largely used for inflating military bal loons, but it is thought that it may soon find a new field as an illuminant. Experiments have been made with it to this end by compressing it in steel cylinders. With a proper burner the relative cost for equal illuminating power of hydrogen and acetylene is as 25 for hydrogen and 59 for acetylene. I A Painty Peroration. A dainty decoration for the dining table is a masa of bright nasturtiums, with their peculiar foliage. They are 1 especially beautiful when heaped in a Venetian glass of graceful shape and allowed to tumble over Its wide rim in winning carelessness. A number of the odd circular leaves should ac company the flowers and droop over tue glass. How to Keep Kgc* Freah. n One good housekeeper told me she J always had perfectly fresh eggs when eggs were not always fresh, and this is the way she did it: When they were cheap and fresh she dipped them for ) lit an instant in hot. thin, gum-arabic water, draining them in a wire plate drainer, and then packed them away in the lark.—Mrs. learned, in the Wom an's Home Companion. Th® Care of Hir I vnfthet. No amount of washing of the hair will keep it clean if dirty brushes are used, yet persons otherwise fairly neat are careless in this respect. A spe cialist says that hair brushes should be washed once a week, and if used on hair in which there is much dan druff twice a week is not too often: The brushes should be washed in cold, not hot, water, to which cloudy am monia has been added in the propor tion of a scant tablespoon ful to a quart of water. Care should be taken not to wet the backs of the brushes and when washed and rinsed—a good way to j rinse them properly is to use a shower spray on them—they should be put on edge in the air to dry. Dressing combs 7 too should be frequently cleansed, a I comb cleaner being used for the pur pose. Color* in Furninhinigft. In the furnishing of the house, or in the arrangement of a single room, many housewives do not give the at tention they should to color effects. It has ben prover that color and its combinations may affect the mind in almost any manner desired. For exam ple, red gives the sense of warmth, and is exciting, even to animals. On the other hand, blue Is cold arid quieting; it produces also the effect of distance; it deepens a recess and makes the ceiling on which it is placed appear higher. Slue subdues all col ors allied to yellow, orange, white and red by absorbing their light. Its strongest contrast is white. Yellow conveys the feeling of light and appears to advance toward the eye. it will lessen the height of a room or exaggerate the prominence of a mold- W. ing or other objects on which it is ' . placed. It is the most intense of all colors. Blended with semi-neutrals, yellow imparts to them a radiance not their own. It gives a particularly pleasing deflniteness and brilliancy to the opmpound colors, such as huff, chest nut, hazel, dun, auburn, fawn, etc. Green is in itself rather a dull color, and the effect of a large proportion of emeralds or bluish green in a combi nation is apt to be harsh. Red is the only color which remains stationary. Onions with Parsley—When the on. ions are ready to boil place a dozen little sprigs of parsley in the kettle ■ -±, and remove when the onions are drained at the finish. Make a rich cream sauce and add to it a tablespoon of chopped parsley ami one has a much improved fish. Parsley is a necessary accompaniment to onions, for it re moves the odor and prevents their disagreeable aftertaste. Penny Tarts—Male a filling of one cupful of raisins chopped fine, the juice and rind of a lemon, one large cracker lolled fine, or th* same amount of bread crumbs, one cupful of sugar, one tablespconful of melted butter ar.d one egg. Make the usual pie paste and cut it into pieces three or four inches square. Put a tablespoon fill of this mixture in the centre, pinch the edges together and bake about 20 minutes in a moderately hot oven. Eggplant Souffle—Peel an eggplant v and boil it until you can pierce it with a silver fork; then drain and chop it very fine, using always a silver knife in handling it. Add to this pulp a scant teaspoonful of salt, a saltspoon ful of pepper, a tablespoonful of melted butter, a teaspoonful of mushroom catsup or sauce, a cupful of fine bread crumbs and the beaten yolks of three eggs, reserving the frothed white to fold in the batter at the last. Bake in either a large dish or individual souf fle dishes. Kenilworth Ranch Dumplings—Take a quart of flour, one cup of good sweet lard and half cup of butter; rub this into the flour after it is sifted with one teaspoonful of baking powder; add enough milk to make a soft dough. This is rolled out quickly into a sheet an inch thick and then cut in squares. Into each square is laid a half apple, peeled and cored and the crust tucked around It. Have ready in a dripping pan a syrup made of one cupful of su gar to one of water; lay the dump lings in, hake in quick oven 30 to 40 -JL minutes. Serve with an molasses sauce.
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