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A Michigan man climbed to the top
of a tall tree to shoot himself. After
taking all that trouble he might have
jumped and saved his ammunition.
It has been said that King Edward
looks perfectly at home in whatever
lie wears. This is a glad assurance
that hi? crown will be quite becom
ing.
In English insane asylums forty-
Re ven per 100 of the inmates are men
and tifty-thrce are womeh. In Ire
land the proportion is reversed—fifty
two are men and forty-eight are
women.
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The Indianapolis Journal thinks that
the transportation problem, already a
serious one, is likely to become far
more so in the near future. Consider
ing Its relation to the prosperity of the
country and the price of products,
there is no more important problem
for American statesmanship and en
terprise to solve.
Even worse than usual must have
been the "music" rendered by "'hat
barn-storming theatrical company's
brass band on the streets of Clinton,
Mo., the other day. Scarcely had the
discordant notes of the first "tune" be
gun to be audible, when a country
horse hitched near by reared up in
agony and fell dead on the pavement.
A marked increase in pauperism is
reported in London. Last year nearly
4500 more than usual received aid at
the almshouses. Xo cause is assigned
for it. Perhaps we do not have to look
beyond the South African war for it,
because war always brings poverty
ami destitution in their most aggra
vated form to the thresholds of the
poor.
Experiments are being made in Eu
rope with alcohol which have been so
successful that certain enthusiasts de
clare that it will be the fuel of tlie fu
ture. There is no doubt that means
will lie discovered to make a better
use of the lieat-generating properties
of alcohol than hitherto. If so, we shall
have no cause for complaint, as we
have the power to produce an almost
illimitable supply of the fluid.
The average increase in the length of
railways tliorughout the world is about
31,000 miles per annum, equal to near
ly 2 J /£ per cent, of the total lines ex
isting, which at the beginning of this
century embraced nearly 480,000 miles.
Of the increase during the recent years
4100 miles per annum are added to tlie
European s3 r stem, 3500 miles per an
num to the American system, while
the addition in Asia is at the rate of
250 miles, in Africa 1100 miles, and in
Australia 100 miles per annum.
The annual mortality lists of men
allot by careless hunters in the Maine
hoods are getting very tire < ; e. This
season twelve men were sb i and five
of them died. In tbc Adiroudacks the
case is very much* the same. One
trouble is that the invading army of
city sportsmen include many persons
who are not fit to he trusted with any
firearm. Another is that the rifles
commonly used carry .much too far.
There is a new law in Maine under
which sportsmen who shoot men may
be prosecuted, but it is not enforced.
Why not make every sportsman from
outside the State put up a bond of
SSOOO, to be forfeited if lie hits any
thing human? queries Life.
The indon postofflce handled
59.'70, messages in the last 12
amvAU.-' enty thousand women are
employe' .n l his service.
Tie w- .g< height of the soldiers
In the Ci\ i War was 5 feet 8%
Inches.
The first automobile ever seen in
Porto Rico has made Its appearance
In San Juan
JUST LIVE THY LIFE.
Just live thy life in full content.
Do all thy best with what is sent,
Thou but rwseiveat what wus meant,
Just live thy life.
Just live thy life. Do not in fear.
The strength of wrong ahull disappear,
And tho right is ever drawing near.
Just live thy life.
Just live thy life. Seem what thou art-,
Nor from simplicity depart,
Aud peace shall come upon thy heart.
Just live thy life.
—James Lenox Stockton, in Boston Tran
script.
• "TV
! PEGGY'S KNIGHT. (
9 *
j BY WILLIAM I'ORSTEU DROWN. ,
a-*-*. *3,
After having alternately teased and
petted his neighbor Peggy since the
days of their mutual babyhood, Jack
Barstow awoke one evening in Mrs.
Itheinhart's conservatory to the as
tounding fact that she had grown up,
and that he was head over lieels iu love
with her; and, manlike, he made an
immediate mess of things. Hence the
little note in Peggy's handwriting
which he had read until he could al
most repeat its contents backward.
"Dear Jack," it said, "please forgive
me for being angry with you last night.
I think the music and my new dress—
it was a dear, wasn't it?—must have
turned your head a little. You are not
in the least in love with me—that is,
not in the way you think; the idea of
suddenly failing in love with your old
comrade whom you have known ever
since she wore short clothe 3 is posi
tively too funny,
"Don't get grumpy now, because I
won't be absurd enough to think you
are really serious; but when you have
smoked your after dinner cigar, and
become my usually serene-minded Jack
again, come over tonight and take me
to hear Sembrich. I've got tickets.
"P. S. —Of course I like you. but not
in the way you mean; for Jack —now,
don't get wratby—it's all very well
for one's dear old chum to golf and
yacht and play at being a lawyer, hut
my husband must do different things
than those—things for which I shall
reverence him as I do those knights
who were always ready to strike a
blow for the weak and helpless without
thought of self. We have robbed too
many orchards together for me to see
auy halo of romance encircling your
head, you old goose."
"That's just like Peggy," said Jack,
contemplating his office table dejected
ly. "Expects a fellow to be a sort of
modern Sir Galahad, rushing around
slaying impossible dragons. It isn't
my fault that I'm not a wonder. I
pulled every wire I knew to get out
of Chickamauga and go to the front,
but I couldn't work it, and I can't
..rag people in here to be clients. What
can I do? "
The empty office offering no sugges
tion. Jack grasped his hat, and light
•ing the considerately suggested cigar,
departed, filled with gloom.
His quick, athletic stride carried
him swiftly up Washington street, aud,
heedless of his course, he turned in
stinctively into Temple place, prelim
inary to the shortest cut across the
Common that led to Beacon street—
and Peggy. He would not wait until
evening.
As he rounded the corner he collid
ed sharply with a small newsboy rush
ing in the opposite direction, who,
yielding to superior force, shot head
long into the gutter, his papers flying
broadcast over the muddy street.
With a quick swoop Jack seized his
luckless victim and set him on hi 3
Eeot. "Excuse me," he said gravely,
to the small hoy, "I am very sorry."
The diminutive hoy dug his grimy
fists into his eyc3 to conceal the tears
anu said, with a gulp: "I'd orter seen
yer coming."
Jack stared down at the much he
freckled face. Ho had expected a .vol-'
ley of recrimination such as he had
heard from small newsboys before;
then, perhaps on the principle that
misery loves- company, Jack's heart
warmed to the small boy.
"Look here youngster," he said sud
denly, "did you ever have a real bang
up dinner —turkey and cranberry sauce
and fixings? No? Well, come along;
you're going to have one now. Never
mind the papers; I'll buy 'em. And
by the by, chappie, since we are going
to dine together, what's your name?"
"Mike," answered the boy—"Michael
Sweeny."
The head waiter started forward
with a frown at the muddy and dilap
idated figure of a small gamin who,
with much are air of a suddenly
trapped young fox, was preceding Mr.
Jack Barstow into this world of pro
prieties and appetizing odors, of spot
less linen and shining silver.
"It's ail right, Barnes," said Jack,
"the boy is with me."
"Turkey," said Jack to the impas
sive faced waiter; "much turkey, and
cranberry sauce, and pie—unlimited
pie."
Jack stopped abruptly, a flicker of
red creeping into his cheek.
From the table behind had arisen the
murmur of feminine voices, ending in
a perfectly audible exclamation:
"Positively indecent," said tho voice,
"to allow that dirty little street arab
in here; there are places, I should sup
pose, more fitting than this for prac
ticing that sort of charity. I really
believe I shall speak to Barne3 and
have him sent out."
Jack's jaw set grimly. He hoped
the object of it would not understand,
but the boy rose hurriedly and reached
for his cap. Street, life sharpens youth
ful eyes and wits.
"Sit down, youngster," Jack com
manded; "nobody's going to hurt you,"
and rising, he turned toward the oc
cupants of the table.
"Madam," he said, with grave delib
eration —.lack Barstow was famed for
ilia manner—"l beg you will accept my
assurance that this young man, whose
unfortunate appearance is due in part
to my carelessness, has shown by his
demeanor that he has the soul of a
gentleman; also, madam, he is my
guest."
"Mr. Barstow," she said, charmingly,
calmly turned to resume his seat, just
in time to confront a young lady with
flaming cheeks and bright eyes. A
young lady who, at the first sound of
hi 3 voice, had risen from a seat at a
far table and come swiftly forward.
"Mr. Barstow," she said, charminly
persuasive, "will you not introduce
me to your friend?"
"Peggy!" said Jack softly. Then Mr.
Barstow rose 10 the situation. "Miss
Cunningham," said he, "allow mo to
present my friend, Mr. Michael Swee
ny; Mr. Sweeny, Miss Margaret Cun
ningham."
Mr. Sweeny made a wild clutch at
his head, forgetting that his cap was
no longer there, ins expression a cu
rious conflict between awe and ad
miration as the lady bent toward him
with a winning smile.
'I am glad to wnow you," she said.
"Mr. Barstow is a very old friend of
mine; in fact"—Miss Cunningham's
cheeks were crimson, but her head was
bravely erect—"he has asked me to be
his wife, and I am going to say ye 3.
Will you not be the first to congratu
late me?"
. Mr. Sweeny was struggling with
emotions for which he could evident
ly find no words. He was a small boy
and this a large occasion. Mr. Swee
ny swallowed hard, then he spoke.
"Thank you, leddy," said Mr. Sweeny.
He was bewildered, but Mr. Barstow
understood.
"But, Peggy," said Jack, a little lat
er, while "Mr. Sweeny" ate turkey—
much turkey and unlimited pie—"you
said in the letter—l thought "
"Well," said Peggy airily, though
the eyes that looked up at Jack were
very soft and shining, "I can change
my mind, I suppose? I said that my—
er-r—you must do something grand
and noble; Mr. Sweeny and I think
you have."—The Household.
ANOTHER ARTIFICIAL SILK.
This Made of rotlon Fibre Suitably Treat
ed Willi ( heinitale.
Several imitations of silk are already
known to the dry goods trade. One
of the first to be invented was pro
duced by spinning a soft gummy sub
stance obtained from collodion, or gun
cotton dissolved in alcohol. The
mechanism for drawing this material
out into a spider's web was designed
by a Frenchman, Chardonnet. His
product never had any extensive use,
for some reason, though it had a beau
tiful lustra The most satisfactory re
sults have been secured by subjecting
cotton thread to a soaking in alkali,
while under strain. The inventor of
the system was a Mr. Mercer, and the
process is called mercerizing. A great
deal of mercerized cotton is now sold
as such, and a great deal more is mar
keted under names which do not afford
to the uninitiated an idea of its real
character. In any case, though, it is a
poor imitation of silk, but an excellent
thing in itself.
Within the last few weeks still an
other plan has been reported from
Germany. As is common In such
cases, the preliminary announcement
is made in a sensational way, and it
probably exaggerates the facts. Still,
it is evident that the process is differ
ent from Mercer's, and the claim is
made that the goods are superior to
loose which are now so well known.
The Wool and Cotton Reporter lias
found a description of the new method,
which seems to resemble C'nardonnet's
in at least one particular. The cotton
|f:hre is dissolved completely, but the
chemicals employed are different from
those used by Chardonnet. Our con
temporary say 3;
A German chemist and an Austrian
mechanical engineer invented the pro
cess. Tin y have obtained letters pat
ent for it in all countries. They mix ,
copper, ammonia and cotton waste in
a large vat. In about'six hours a liquid
of a dark blue color is formed, which
passes into a largo filter press, and
then out of small glass tubes inlo a
mild sulphuric acid bath. It is then
of a gelatinous consistency, and is
caught by a. small glass rod, in the
hand of a boy or girl, and reeled onto
a large spool as it, passes through the
bath. The copper and ammonia, to
gether with other chemicals, are de
posited as a sediment, and are used
again. As the threads are reeled, they
receive a bath of cold water from a
siphen. The numerou? Epools centre
on one large spool, and are then reeled
onto another, and so on, always under
cold water, until all chemicals and
acids are removed. This .stage of the
process occupies about four hours, and
afterward the thread is taken to a dry
ing room.
It is stated that the product is bril
liant in color and finish, ar.d of con
siderable textile strength. The thread
is said to consist of 10 or 20 fibres
twisted into one, but it can be made
to any thickness required. The pres
ent price of the product is about 60
percent of real silk. The machines are
small and compact, and are operated
by ingeniously applied electric power;
each machine can be started or stopped
without interference with the others.
The labor, too, is nearly all unskilled,
and the patent is the property of a
corporation.
Consistent.
"Will you have some horseradish?"
said Mrs, Small to her new boarder.
"Thank you, no," replied the latter.
"I'm a vegetarian."—Philadelphia
North American.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Little love, little trust; but a great
love brings a great confidence. —Rob-
ert Leightcn.
There is only one person you need
to manage, and that is yourself.—T. De
Witt Talmage
The things in life that are worth
obtaining must be secured with effort.
—Rev. O. S. Kriebel.
Do what you can, give what you
have. Only stop not with feelings;
carry your charity into deeds; do and
give what costs you something.—J. H.
Thom.
Patience and strength are what we
need; an eai nest use of what we know
now; and all the time an earnest dis
content until we come to what we
ought to be. —Phillips Brooks.
At the bottom of a good deal of
bravery that appears in the
world there lurks a miserable
cowardice. Men will face pow
der and steel because they cannot
face public opinion.—E. 11. Chapin.
The only real relief is in absolute
conquest; and, the earlier the battle
begins, the easier and the shorter it
will be. It one can keep irritability
under, one may escape a struggle to
the death with passion.—Juliana H.
Ewing.
Not till we are ready to throw our
very life's love into the troublesome
little things can we be really faithful
in that which is least and faithful
also in much. Every day that dawns
brings something to do, which can
never be done as well again.—James
Reed.
Consider the difference between im
pulse and action, between resolving
and doing. Many men are well-wish
ers. but who have no intention ot
ever carrying out their better desires.
Few know how to convert impulse
into action and the finer aspirations
into habits and systematic activity.
How often do we stand beside men
who have broken the hearts of those
whom they loved. —Rev. Dr. Hillis.
Finish every day and be done witli
it. You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no
doubt, crept in; fflrget them as soon as
you can. Tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, and with
too high ? spirit to he cumbered with
your old non3ence. This day is all
that is good and fair. It is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,to waste
a moment on the yesterdays.—Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
SPAIN'S IRON ORE.
Slio Sella Millions or Tuna to Other Ltimla
but lln-i to liny Steel.
The leading industrial journal of
Spain, commenting on the fact that a
steamship had taken a load of iron ore
to the United States and had just re
turned with a cargo of steel rails, de
plores the almost entire lack of steel
works in Spain and tho consequent
necessity of importing steel into a
country that is very rich in iron ore of
Lue best steel-making quality.
Spain has been the classic land of
tho mining industry since the time of
the Phoenicians, and yet the main use
the country makes of its rich supply
or metals is to sell them to other coun
tries. The splendid iron ore among
the mountains ot the north coast is
hematite of the best steel grade. There
is plenty of coal with which to reduce
the iron ore, the coal output in some
years being worth as much as $20,000,-
00, but though Spain has every facil
ity for making ail the iron and steel
the people need, most of the commodi
ties are imported.
In recent years, to be sure, consid
erable industrial activity has developed
in the Basque province among the
mountains where the iron ore is dug
out of tire crust of the earth; and also
in Catalonia, in the extreme norlhcast
of the kingdom, mainly at the city of
Barcelona and around it. The chief in
dustry is the manufacture ot iron and
machinery, but not nearly enough are
made to supply the demands of the
country. So Spain continues to ship
from Bay of Biscay ports thousands of
tons of her fine iron ore to Great Bri
tain, Germany, France and Belgium,
where it is used for steel-making.
Great Britain buys more than one-half
of the ore and most of it is smelted in
South Wales, the chief seat of the Bes
semer steel industry.
There is only one otaer country that
is a great producer of iron ore and yet
depenus upon other lands tt> turn this
raw material into pig iron anil steel.
That country is Sweden, which how
ever, has a good excuse for selling its
ore instead of making Iron and steel
of it. Sweden has practically no coal,
and therefore it is at a great disad
vantage, for it is without fuel to smelt
its ores, while Spain has both ore and
fuel in abundance.
Tho Man Without Iteaervo.
How quickly a man without reserves
goes to the wall, when anything unus
ual happens to him! Like a baby, he
is all right as long as nothing comes
in collision with him to expose his
weakness.
What a pitiable thing it is to see
bright, strong young men facing an
emergency or a crisis with no reserve
of education, character, or training.
How quickly they disappear! Like a
rowboat on tho ocean, when run into
by an ocean liner, or like a frail hark
which strikes an iceberg, the weaker
vessel always founders in the collision.
"He had no reserve," might be writ
ten upon the tombstone of many a
man who has failed in business, in the
professions, or in the home.
One of the main<objccts of the Arctic
expedition to be sent from Norway is
to determine exactly the magnetic
Kerth Pole.
3 i 3 ——- I*
! Grea.t Singer | |
I Seeks Fortune • t
i * s
w ■ -J 3 ! J J
Lillian Nordica, the famous singer,
has retained Thomas Brackett Reed,
formerly speaker of the house of rep
resentatives and now a distinguished
member of the New York bar, to han
dle a suit against the government,
whereby the diva expects to obtain a
fortune of $4,000,000. lime. Nordica
has just come from Sioux City, where
she met members of the Norton fam
ily, to whom she let out the secret of
her intended assault upon Uncle Sam's
treasury.
Ichabod Norton, of whom lime. Nor
dica is a descendant, was a great sail
or in colonial days. Ho was of the
type of New Englander now so fre
quently used in the latter-day ro
mance. Like the heroes in the books,
he sailed many seas, and, true to the
romantic notion, collected riches and
finery. About the time the Revolu
tionary war was begun the indomita
ble Ichabod risked every penny among
his numerous assets on a far eastern
journey. He stocked his ships with
the choicest gewgaws, jewels and silks,
and then turned the prows of his lit
tle fleet homeward.
Mine. Nordica v.'or.ld not now be
paying Mr. Reed a magnificent ret
tainer's fee, nor would she bo forget-l
ting to acquire a new coon song iu
her dreams of new luxuries, if Captain
Norton had not fallen in with a col
lection of French privateers. But this
was just his luck. The Frenchmen did
not know what the word "America"
meant, and, not knowing, they did not
think it exactly wrong to Inspect
American barques.
On looking into the holds of the ves
sels thoy saw things that dazzled their
eyes. While bearing no ill will toward
Captain Norton or his countrymen,
the Frenchmen believed they could use
the fine things in the American's boats
Mine. LIU Inn Norf C n.
to much hotter advantage In Paris.
So the privateers seized the treasures
of the courageous salt and politely in
formed him that he might proceed
without fear of further harm.
Norton was ruined, and soon after
ward he saw an -opportunity to re
trench when the new government at
Washington was formed. He placed
his case before the state department,
and was gratified to hear steps would
be taken for indemnity from the
French government. This indemnity,
according to the tradition of the Nor
ton family, was paid to Uncle Sam,
and amounted to between $3,000,1)00
and $4,000,000.
But the money as far as the Nor
tons ever knew remained in the strong
box of the United States treasury. The
French spoliation claims have been be
fore Congress for a century, and some
of them have been adjusted, but the
one in which Mine. Nordlca is inter
ested is still pending, owing to the
Inability of the heirs to come to an UP -
derstandlng as to the relative demand
of each individual claimant. For two
years past Mme. Nordica's sister, M
Walker, has been endeavoring to ad
just the differences of opinion amors
the claimants, and they have at last
reached an agreement whereby the
claim when allowed will be distributed
among the heirs on a basis already de
termined.
Within the last two weeks the heirs
held a meeting and employed counsel
to press the claim. Mme. Nordlca ex
pressed confidence that the claim
would be allowed as soon as all the
facts are properly presented.
Speaking further, Mme. Nordica said
that she could trace her ancestry back
to Sir Peter Norton, who came to
this country in 1000, and that she
was also a descendant of the Aliens,
( le of /h m had married a daughter
of Milei i tandlsh. The Nortons and
to All had frequently intermar
. 1. Ce .■ ge Allen was the first mis
sit nary t sent out of England and "*
w s a i-ifl'i of good repute and great
In lone a the early days of this
country
F tnno from TTusband.
Mmo. N irdica's fortune has twice
bei-u in -n ised by money from the es
tat of b t former husband, Fred C.
Go ver, t< whom she was married in
Paris In S3. He was reported to have
p< fished n an attempt to cross the
Mi jlish t lannel in a balloon soon af
tc his ife had begun a suit for
s, ■; ratio in 1885. He was supposed
to tave ft a fortune of $500,000, but
wat tn ii fed to have put most of it
on of 11 - reach of his wife.
. i . : irdica was reported in 1894
to i v • linquished all claims to the
Go ver c ate in consideration of a
ca. ti pay nent of s4o,ooo*and in 1893
is said have received $25,000 for
her lgo ture releasing her dower
ri its ii an estate near Brookllne,
M. sr.. n ir the Country Club proper
ty 'here
Fred Gower has since been re
po-l 1 a alive in India and elsewhere
and in '94 he was reported to have
been soi l in Boston.
4 PAINTED DINNER.
\ ry r>- ty Affair Devised by an Orig
inal Woman.
rrop s of dinners, a woman, noted
J >. tter riginality and the courage of
her on ictions, gave what she called
n } ilnt 1 dinner the other day. She
d;il ><; dlt a painted dinner because
the colt scheme was so vivid and in
• n 1J e the hues of the painted lady (
The table center was Parisian—bl
j K: re n the extreme —square of thick
i whiM silk crossed by wovenlines of
lurqut • satin toward the middle, and
! broad bars of black splashed with
1 -ilkea (tower petals, mauve, red and
lawni yellow. A great silver bowl,
: alsej on a stand of finely carved
! i bonj Held a mass of zinnias of every
shade possible of that gay flower,
, r .r jI- • trails of maidenhair. Maid
nhni, vas laid here and there upon
| tho tj ble.
Cat lie shades, like the silk center,
tinilei irom Paris. On each of these,
in a rained medallion, was painted a
daint dancing lady, and each, when
lighti I, changed from an etching to J
i lit i htly colored vlgnetto by somq J M
| trick if the shade makers. The menus, "1
too, ere painted in trails of autumn '
are , and the fruit, piled in high
silvei dis'ie3, was decorated with tint
!cd V rcir.i a creeper. Each Venetian
t glass fl lgr rbowl held a leaf of scented
; verbi ia and one blossom of blood-red
: ciinn. . The silk doilies were painted
I liko ht candle shades, while the bon
| bona specially made, were packed in
I silvo- baskets, and repeated half the
colon of the table.
t ansri* linn Woman Undertaker.
Kaisas is one of several states that
i boas, of a woman undertaker. At a
1 receit undertakers' convention she
said lhat embalming was an especially
lucrrive profession for women, and i
thai i liey would find co-operation from |L
the men of the union.
Tie cost of schools for Indian chll
dreu to the government was $2,489,525
in 900. The enrollment was 26,541.
1- aky is the girl who marries the
! bes nan at the wedding.