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A school of journalism is being or ganized in Germany. The Kaiser's comparison of our editors with his generals is already bearing fruit. The brass band comes pretty near having a sinecure in these festive Times. It is all the same tune whether they are laying "Heil der im Sieger kranz," "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" or "God Save the King." A campaign against rats is tlie latest scheme to employ tlie military instincts of Germany. Dr. Robert Koch has been called upon by the Im perial Health Department to devise a plan to exterminate the rodents. The object is to mitigate the danger of the spread of contagious diseases. The United States Bureau of Sta tistics has issued an abstract in wbieh the growth of the nation in one century is shown. In 3800 the area of its ter ritory comprised 827,544 square miles; In 1900, exclusive of Hawaii and Alaska, 3,025,000 square miles. In 1800 the imports were $91,000,000 and the exports $71,000,000, imports thus ex ceeding exports $20,000,000. In 1901, Imports amounted to $823,000,000 and exports to sl,-187,000,000, or $004,000,- 000 in excess of imports. Tho imports in 1901 were thus nine times and the exports twenty-one times as great as those of ISOO. These figures tell in brief tho marvelous territorial and commercial development of the Repub lic in 100 yaers. What may be ex pected of it in another century? Naval evolution is very interesting says the Boston Journal. There was first the torpedo-boat, devised for the purpose of blowing great warships out of the water. Then there was the torpedo-boat destroyer, designed to at tend to the torpedo-boats. Now we have a new craft, the destroyer of torpedo-boat destroyers, the latest specimen of which has been built for the Russian Navy. She is called the Novik, and has a speed of twenty five knots, a small freeboard and su perstructure to keep her from being observed, and a large radius of action and good crew accommodation. But the weak part of the design is that the Immense engines cannot bo kept below the water-line, but protrude above the armor deck, working under an armor dome. L:\WB to Encourage Population. In connection with the up-to-date question of the depopulation of Franco, says the Paris Messenger, several con temporaries have been reviewing past efforts made to increase the number of inhabitants of the country. They go back to tho Roman period, when Augustus enacted that no bachelor or married man without children could claim a legacy, whilst on the other band, rewards where given to fathers with large- families. In France, Louis XIV., In 1600, gave advantages with regard to the payment of taxes to per sons marrying before tho age of twen ty and to fathers of ten children. In -179S bachelors were taxed, but this lasted but a few years. In tho year XII of the revolution Napoleon pro posed that all fathers of seven children should have the right to call upon the State to caro l'or tho bringing up and cducatloit of one of them. Philippine Schools. Tlio schools of the Philippines are steadily improving and are daily grow ing in popularity among the natives. The children themselves take the liveliest interest in tho schools, in learn ing English.—Manila American, ingalls on Butter. The oleomargarine fight in the House recalls the fact that many years ago, when Senator Ingalls wa3 in the Senate, oleomargarine was a bone of contention. Tho debate led Ingalls to utter one of those epigram matic sentences which made him fam ous. "I have never, to ray knowl edge, tasted oleomargarine." said In galls, "but I have stood in tlie pres ence of genuine butter with awe tor Jts strength and reverence for its an tiquity." Aguinaldo—A Fallen Idol. By General Frederick Funs', on. / T1 STATE a fact when I say Aguinaldo has lost his prestige as a leader, but is still tlio fallen idol of the people. He is kept a prisoner, although not treated as one, at Manila, nd lives quietly with his family. He is a courteous, Wlmk dignified man, with little to say. He rarely speaks unless SjfegKaff* * spoken to, and is an adopt in the art of listening. He seem 3 to absorb everything, and hides all traces of eino- When he was captured ho broke down completely. A few minutes after his capture I met him face to face. His face was haggard and he was wringing Ids hands. "Is this a Yankee joke!" he exclaimed time after time, hardly daring to be lieve that he had been captured. After it was all over he broke down and wept. Some people here compare him with General De Wet, that bravo lioer offi cer. Why, He Wot is worth more than ten acres of Aguinaldos in military tac tics. Tlie two men cannot be compared. The conditions now in the Philippines are growing better every day, and, while we cannot thrust civil government down a uution's throat at one lurch, we have lots to hope for. For myself I would not trust a Filipino out of my sight. When President McKinley was assassinated the people there were excited, and for a long time there was much apprehensiou, but when they saw with what alertness and dignity the reins of the American Government were taken up again they were appalled. The better class seemed to sympathize with us, but the mass did not seem to realize the awful tragedy. As might be supposed Americans are not flocking to the Philippines. A lot of Yankees are there, to be sure, but the majority of them are composed of dis charged soldiers. All the soldiers have accomplished what they went out there for, and while they are not all angels, the moral conditions in Manila and other posts are very good. All these reports about the soldiers demoralizing the country are untrue. The story that General Chaffee had issued an order to the soldiers fighting in the Philippines not to exchange the slightest confidence with their prisoners is an old one. The two murders mentioned happened long ago, and the order has just reached the public through Washington. The order is a splendid one, for the American soldiers often exchange confidences with the prisoners, and with a Filipino it is out of the question. They are not to be trusted. 999 9 9 9 'mSa Greatest Natural Gift? By Professor Harry Thurston Peck, of Columbia Coliegc. V.tv'w Vtvyj- RSOLUTE health is the greatest natural gift possessed by r- 2§R ■'■-f 1 man—health of brain and health of body. With a healthy brain and body man is capable of the greatest achieve r's?! itS? ment - 1 link the two together—the mental and the physi -1*3(1 A—A ]£s>■ eal powers—for I believe thoroughly in the old Itoman 3av'.3? prayer for "a sound mind in a sound body." Starting, tllen ' with this as a fundamental, all tilings are possible. I shall go even a point further and claim that the men who have been great despite their physical infirmities would have been even greater had their bodies been equal to tiieir brains. When John Richard Green, the historian, became too ill to write with ills own hand be dictated to his wife, who used her pen so constantly and unremittingly In his service that she had se vere attacks of scribbler's cramp, and page after page fell from her table that were perfectly undecipherable. Green used to look at these pages of scrawled paper and say: "Whenever 1 feel that I cannot go on I look at one of those pages and think what I might do if I only had the physical power." ITere was a man who was possessed of unusual activity before ho lost ills health. Ho kuew how his brain needed the strong body to co-operate with it in the perfect accomplishment of the work designed. Take the case of Stevenson. There is no question in my mind that Steven son's later work would have bceu far greater had he enjoyed the health that was his in his younger days. Health, then, is the fundamental. Given health and your machine is in I working order—you are equipped for any task. This is the power that enables you to use any special gift that God may give you. Health is the driving wheel that sets the rest of the machinery In motion. It is the force that has made possible all the achievements of the past, and that will determine the possibility of all things to come. It is the gift of gifts. 999 9 9 9 Matching English Matches, By Ulysses D. Eddy. r ""1 HE most dramatic Invasion of England has been that of the Diamond Match Company. This American trust lias spent years perfecting the most remarkable automatic ma chinery known, which made the manufacture, which was formerly very unhealthy and dangerous, absolutely safe for the working people. They determined to outer the English market, and built a factory near Liverpool. They found that the girls presenting themselves for employment were W in the most dreadful condition physically—half starved anil altogether utterly different from tlio working women in their American j factories. The first thing done was to examine the teeth of every applicant. ! If found defective they were filled by the factory dentist, for necrosis makes its attack through the teeth. Suitable working apparel was furnished them by the works. A luuch was prepared to be served in a light and pleasant room at midday. In fact, everything to improve the healthy cheerfulness, and thereby improve the working efficiency, of these girls was done in exact imita tion of the methods followed in the United States. Within two or three months the transformation in the condition of the working women was marvelous. They did their work in bright, clean quarters, entirely free from bad air or phosphoric vapors, and they produced matches at prices far below their English competitors, who had clung to antiquated methods, old-fasliloued machinery, defective factories and an utter lack of care for the health and condition of employes. As a result of the American competition the English works were finally obliged to succumb, and have been taken over by the American factory. At the stockholders' meeting where this was done the head of the Diamond Match Company told the stockholders a great many truths, informing them that about every piece of machinery in their works when they were taken over would he thrown in the scrap heap, and that the business was badly managed. The stockholders, with true English liking for a man who talks straight from the shoulder, gladly gave their votes to put the Industry in the control of competence, 999 9 9 9 Decadence ©f the Home, By Douglas Volk. " ' " • j---'] EX agree that the idea of permanence is at the very t —('• foundation of home. It must have an atmosphere of \ i? mt ' mol ' lps and associations. It must be a place in which "- vs cud griefs have been lived. The Cat lias none of these. The home feeling has been killed by modern ma- J chinery, and the word to-day means only a place for a,-.'-..' sleeping and eating. Healthy home occupations are ex '■ V.'. tinct, and young people know how to do nothing, because NS the machine enters into everything. Even healthy phy sical exercise is prevented by 'labor saving appliances' in many instances, while in others the time saved by the appliances Is used up in a mad struggle to get more. Sincerity and individuality In adornment have- boon banished from the home by cheap machine made imitations of tilings that never were appro priate. A Parthenon frieze is stamped on a cooking stove, and the design that once adorned tlio robe of a Greek maiden is applied to tlio border of a dustpan. There can lie 110 beauty that does not possess the four elements—lntention, gen uineness, order and variety—and the more we depend on mechanical means tlie less beauty we shall have. The olden handicrafts possessed those qualities be cause the human individual expressed himself in them, and to-day our museums treasure them because of their beauty. Contrast the work done by tlie Xnvajocs fifty years ago, when they raised their own sheep and spun and dyed tlie wool with vegetables dyes, with what their descendants are doing since traders began to supply them with hideous, garish yarns and demand up-to-date designs. The ehnrm of the old work is absent, as beauty decreases in proportion as mechanical means are used. Ugli ness becomes Inevitable the moment that the commercial begins to rank as tlie chief motive. Ido not enter into the question of abolishing machinery. That wou'.d be foolish and idle. But I wish to consider its relation to the beauty of life. Arti cles that are the product of machinery nro smooth, regular and cold. They are wearisome in their want of variety, in their endless repetition. Work that has the human quality grows more beautiful as it grows old. Machine work is ugly as soon as it ceases to he new. iildreri| The Golrlflsh'a Hope. Said a sparkling goldfish to a trout, As they swam in the water blue, "I often wish that my golden scales Were of quite a different hue* "I used to wonder when I was young, Why fishe3 were not alike; Why the shad and the whale were not tk< same, And the salmon and smelt and pike. "But now I am glad we arc as we are; For if wc were all the same X would not aspire to a different form Or a vastly different name. "But still I have hopes that I may grow ! To a whale, i the years roll by; I do not know how they act or live, 'But certainly 1 could try." "My friend," said the trout, with a solemn ; air, "Just listen to what I say. You'd better become a good goldfish Than a very poor whale some day." —Marguerite M. Hillery, in St. Nicholas, j Tlio Enclish Language. The name Semi-Saxon was applied to the English language as spoken from (he middle of the thirteenth century. Frbm that period to the death of Ed ward 111., lu 1377, the term Old Eng lish is applied. From the death of Queen Elizabeth, in 1003, it is called Middle English; and from that date to the present has been called Modern English. The Kcho. "Hop! hop! hop!" shouted little Hen ry, as he was playing in a fleid near the wood. "Hop! hop! hop" came an echo in reply. "Who's there?" asked Henry, for ho had never heard an echo before. "Who's there?" replied the echo. "Foolish fellow!" cried Henry, at the top of his voice. "Foolish fellow!" was the reply from the wood. At this Henry got very •ingry and called out many ugly names. The voice from the wood repeated every word. Henry could not tell who it was speaking from the wood, so he run home and told his father that a boy hid in the wood had called him had names. "Ah, Henry, you have heard nothing but the echo of your own words; the bad names came iirst from your own lips. Had you used kind and gentle words, you would have had kind and gentle words in return. "Remember that kind words bring back kind echoes."—Primary Educa tion. Tho EJ-CB of a Lion. One night, when some troopers were encamped In South Africa, it came tho turn of Rennie Stevenson to go for water to the spring, which was about 1000 yards distant. He describes the experiences in his book. "Through Rhodesia." A comrade volunteered to accompany him. When they were neariug the spring, this man whispered to Stevenson: "There's a lion skulking in the under growth on the right bank." Yes, there were its eyes, gleaming through the dark. "Shall I iire?" whispered the soldier. "Yes, iire, hut take good aim. If you only wound it, we are done for." Tho trooper knelt and took a long steady aim. Bang! Tho sound of the shot re verberated through the surrounding trees and up the river. But there were the eyes, still gleaming. Stevenson asked for the rifle and crawled nearer, trying to get a bet ter shot. Closer and closer went the two, their hearts in their mouths. Sud denly, when they thought they were al most in the face of the "lion," they found the "eyes" to be two glowing worms. The alarmingly bright little creatures bad not felt it necessary to got out of the way. Soino Good !>O--H. A dog often grows more sensible by being in tho company of bright chil dren. One dear little fellow would play hide-and-seek just as nicely as you can, hiding his eyes with ids paw when it came his turn, he would hide under a chair or desk, and fairly shake with excitement for fear of being seen. A Lieutenant Walker once had a set ter which was very devoted to him. Ho was ill for a fow days, and the dog would not leave his side. One day Mr. Walker brought in some wood, and remarked rather reproachfully, "Why don't you bring in some wood, Jake?" The dog went at once to the shed, and brought in a stick and dropped it into the wood-box. He did this six times, when, probably thinking that was his share, he walked hack to his old station. How glad lie was the first day the lieutenant sat up! First he went for his stockings and then his boots, as much as to say, "Come, come, now, try and dress yourself." A lady once had a pretty dog who got cold at night, and whined and cried so much that she made him a little flan nel nlglit-gown. It was buttoned at the neck, and had a bine ribbon to fasten it around the waist. That dog was very proud of his clothes. He was like some little girls and boys. If a visitor called who wished to see his niglit-gown, his mistress had only to say, "Go get your night-gown," and lie would travel off upstairs and get it. "But Where's the sasli?" she asked one day. Back he traveled, and soon came down, trailing his blue ribbon behind him, just as delighted as he could be.— Christian Register. <l|f SE Out of His Element. Ilia wife could never understand How he could be so great When he in public took command Of thundering debate. She said 'twas past believing that One e'er could be at ease Who was so unassuming at Receptions and at teas. —Washington Ctar. Curl Tapers. "What was It that Miss Von Frizz wanted put in the papersV" "I forget whether it was her name or her hair."—New York World. A Chronic Borrower. Brown—"Jones is borrowing a good deal of trouble, I guess." Smith—"Well, let him have all he wants; he'll never pay it back."—De troit Free Pre:.". His Mother. Mamma—"l'm surprised at you. John ny!" Johnny (thoughtfully)—"l Avonder if you'll ever get used to me, mamma? You're always surprised at me.—Tit- Bits. Pearls. "Pearls," remarked the Wise Guy. "are emblematic of tears." "I guess that's right," agreed the Simple Mug. "My Avlfe erics because I can't afford to buy her any."—Phil adelphia Eecord. A Prodigy. "Is it true that tho man you just pointed out to me is sueli a prodigy that he talked as well at the age of six mouths as he docs now?" "Certainly. He's a deaf mule."— New York World. How Could She Help It? "Miss Pinkie," said Algernon, "if yon love me the least little bit don't tell me so, but just give me one of your rare and beautiful smiles." And how could she help smiling?— Chicago Tribune. Never Flensing. Airs. Mitford—"What do you think of this vivisection question? It must be awful to he cut up alive." Mrs. Graham—"Yes, and it is awful to he cut dead, as I was by one of my dearest friends last evening."—Boston Transcript. The Regular 1 l:!ng. "Yes, sir, I've traveled cue thousand miles on that automobile without an accident." "Do you mean to say you have run over 110 one, broken uo bones nor wrecked any vehicles?" "But those are not accidents."—Life. Desperate* The Jilted One-"Ali. 'tis luck for you, false Marguerite, dat it aiu't no deeper, else Avould yer see me drown before yer eyes!"— New York Journal. Gave It Up. "Did ycu catch your train last night?" asked his employer of Soob urhs. "No," replied Soohurbs, wearily, "it had been gone about five minutes Avhen I got to the station and I didn't think It was any use to try."—Ohio State Journal. Too Sweet. Fair Visitor—"What is this poor man In prison for?" Jailer—"For murdering his Avife, ma'am." Fair Visitor—"Oh, what a pity. But Isn't he sweet, though!" Jailer—"Yes, ma'am, lie's too sweet to live."—Chicago News. Progress. "ITow are you getting on with year Gormau?" asked a young woman. "Pretty well," answered the other. I haven't yet succeeded in making my self intelligible to a German. But peo ple who can't speak English don t un derstand a word of what I say."— Washington Star. lons and Tons. I thought of the good old question that visitors used to ask the school when I AVUS a hoy. "Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pouud of lead?" said I. "They Avolgh the same. A pound is a pound," said the children. "Correct," said I. "Now. which weighs more, a ton of feathers or a ton of coal?" "A ton of feathers," chorused they, showing that the innocent are not ne cessarily uudiscerning.—Town Topics. Cause For Rejoicing. "My man," said the prison surgeon gravely, to the convict,"l am sorry to tell you that you have Indications of smallpox, hut " "Wow! Hurray! Whoop! Eureka!" shouted the prisoner, excitedly. "Why, my man. why this rejoicing? I have just told you that you have smallpox " "Yes, au' I'm going t' break out! Whoop!" It was a hopeless case, and they gent ly placed him in a padded cell —Bal timore News. THEIR TONCUES BETRAY THEM. Character Rending by Now Method Now Popular iu Paris. And still they come. Linguistology Is the last craze in Paris. It* one pre fers to call it glossomnucy, well and good. Under either name it means tongue reading and it threatens to com pete with palmistry. That the tongue may tell the char acter of the owner is a safe proposition. A tongue may even, to expert eyes, tell the condition of the owner's liver, und from such data many conclusions may ho reached. Given the state of a man s liver, history and prophecy both seem possible to even the average logician. But linguistology has only to do with the shape and form of the tongue. A. big tongue, it seems, indicates frank ness; a short tongue, dissimulation; a long and broad tongue, garrulity and generosity; a narrow tongue, conccntra- \ tion and talent; a short, broad tongue, ■ garrulity and untruth. The man with | j a very short and narrow tongue is a. liar of true artistic merit. The disclosures of linguistology may be thrilling, but palmistry has one ad vantage, which guarantees its suprem acy over the rival science. The sub- ■* ject need not stop talking during a palmist's reading. Indiau Oratory in Washington. Several orations in the Sioux lan guage were delivered a few mornings ago before tile Senate Committee on I I Indian Affairs. The orators were Thunder Hawk, a full-blooded Sioux, and four other chiefs, who are in Washington to protest against the leas ing of a portion of their reservation. Thunder Hawk and his brother chiefs \ ■ were participants in the Custer mas sacre. After that tragic episode they lied to the British dominions, where they remained for six years, finally returning to the United States and sur rendering to the military authorities. Since then they have lived upon their j. reservation In peace and quiet. When, In the presence of the Senators on the Indian Affairs Committee, Thunder Hawk was asked to state his protest, the old wurrior, not in the last abashed, and with his leonine features as emo tionless as If molded in clay, arose with his arms clasped. For almost a minute he stood in silence, and then in his deep, gutteral voice, he began to speak. As he progressed he added appropriate gestures to his words, mak ing a unique picture. When his speech was translated it was found to he a logical and concise presentation of the Indians' position, without any llorid rhetoric. The other chiefs proved to he equally good as spcechmakers. The Interesting part of the incident Is that the orations of the Indians won their ease. They are to be pro tected in keeping their reservation in tact.—Washington Post. Juslico to the Country Editor. "No man in the community does | more for the public and receives less y I for it than the country editor," said Senator H. Clay Heather, of Palmyra, Marlon County, in the Missouri State Senate, when the bill reducing the price of publishing the Australian bal lot was under consideration. "If all the space he employs In booming the town, in helping individuals, In mak ing statements—sometimes out of pret ty raw material—were paid for even at half the legal rate, he would be the richest muu iu the county. Few coun try editors are rich, but they are of more service to the communities where they live than the wealthiest man. "They are In the forefront of every movement for progress. They do tho work and leave the emoluments to others. A good, clean, honest news paper—and most country papers are good and clean and honest—helps on every worthy cause and deserves every encouragement. It lights the party battles, holds up the hands of the re- . I former and makes the scoundrel afraid. lam opposed to this bill. No paper in my county would print the ballot at the pitiful price named. They are not paupers. But, for the amount of splen did public service they render, they ought to be millionaires."—State Tri bune, Jefferson City, Mo. Carried million, on Ills linelr. When Baron Ilothscliild was paying r. visit to New York a reception was given him in a certain great house. The affair was in charge of Brown, the famous old sexton of Grace Church. Another reception was being held tho same evening in a house al ( most immediately opposite, which was also in charge of the sexton. The Baron wished to attend the second af fair, but the street was full of mud, the night was disagreeable and no car* ringo was at the curbstone. He could not walk across without soiling his -4 'J boots and evening clothes, and for a I moment he was in a predicament as to what he should do. But he wa< am relieved of this dilemma. "I'll , you across myself," said Brown j.,, al ly; "now, mount my shoulders," r.d grasping him as if he had lr • a child, he carried the nobleman a as on his back.—Ladies' Home Journal, — When the Prcsldont -Approves,. When President Itoosevelt desires to express his approbation of a man iu the higiiest possible terms he calls him a "corker." The other day tho avife of a prominent financier ivas presented to Mr. Itoosevelt. "I am delighted to meet you," said the President. "I know your husband very well. He Is a corker." The lady went away wondering. When she reached home I she asked her husband what the Presi dent meant by calling him a "eor-u ker," and said she was much worried \ because Mr. Itoosevelt entertained--w i such an opinion of him.—Chicago j News.