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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05
Saving Brush For lxindling.

In pruning orchards the branches
cut out are often piled in heaps and
when dried are burned, often injuring
the trees in their vicinity. There is a
much better way than this. Apple,
pear or peach wood makes when dried
a very hot fire, and should be saved
for the stove when the branches are
too large to cut readily. Even the
twigs have their value. They make
the very best of kindlingsswhen dried,
and if they somewhat crooked they are
all the better, because they will not
pack closely together as the straight
sticks are pretty sure to do. An old
story is told OF a farmer who once
boasted among his companions what
good, patient wife he had. She never
complained of anything he did. One
of them suggested that the next time
he drew up wood for the house, he
should make o load OF the crookedest
sticks he could find. He did so, and
as he drew up the load to the house
his wife came cut smiling to meet him.
"Mary, how 90 you like this load OF
wood?" was the inquiry, while the
farmers companions stood by expect
ing storm of abuse. Instead the re-
ply was given in the sweetest tones,
ooh John! that is capital wood. We
always used it at home when l was
girl, and mother used to say that the
rounded pieces made the hottest fire
because they fitted so nicely around
the kettles"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05
A Hero of the Zulu War of 1879.

1t was at the time OF the storming Of
the formidable fortress of Inhlobane
mountain. This was fastness con-
sidered by the Zulus impregnable, q
huge square mass, with precipitous
sides, and a fiat top, four OF five miles
long. AT either end was passage up
the mountain, each wellnigh inacces.
slble.
Maior-General Rodgers Butler had
charge of the operations at one end,
and before daylight his troops began
the arduous ascent. All went well for
time, when suddenly they en-
countered large force of Zulus ap-
preaching at an almost incredible
speed. 1t was necessary to retreat,
and Butler attempted to accomplish
this though the other troops were un-
able to cover him in the perilous under.
taking.
The zulus thronged around the pre-
cipitous path, pouring volley after vol
ley at close range upon the deserted
band. But for Buffers heroic exe7-
tions the whole force would have been
exterminated. He rallied them again
and again, cheering and encouraging
them by voice and action. Many
troops were dismounted, and to these
he proved an angel of salvation. He
took two who were in imminent danger
of being cut off, on his own horse, to a
comparatively safe place. He person
ally saved six lives, besides all that
were saved by his orders and his ex.
ample. Although he had been forty
eight hours in the saddle, and was suf-
fering from painful confusion, he him.
self covered theretreat, charging again
and again at the Zulus, thus gaining
time for his men to extricate them.
selves from the terrible volley of
rocks.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05
The Care of Roses.

June roses require pruning bu>
once year. This should be done in
spring, as soon as one is able to see
where the strongest and healthiest
shoots are going to be, The old wood
should be cut back nearly half, and all
weak, unhealthy branches should be
removed. If the branches are thick,
they should be thinned out well. Air
should have free circulation through
the plant.
Hybrid perpetuals require differ
ent treatment. AS their flowers are
produced on new growth only, they
should be grown on a system which
insures the constant production of
such growth This is done by making
and keeping the soil very rich, and by
cutting the plants back sharply after
each period of Towering. The term
perpetual is misleading one, because
it carries with it the idea that the
roses in this class are, under all con-
ditions, ever bloomers. But such is
not the case. They bear profuse
crop of flowers in June and July.
After that, by pursuing the treatment
advised above, they bloom Mt intervals
during the season, but never in such
profusion as in early summer With
out the treatment advised they will
not do this. Many varieties are shy
bloomers, and will only give an oc-
casional flower after July. The freest
bloomers are not prolific enough to
suit the lover of fine roses, but their
flowers, though few in number COM
pared with those of tie first crop, are
so large, SO fine in form, so rich in
color, and SO fragrant as a general
thing that we cannot afford to overlook
this class in making our collections of
roses. 1t requires more attention than
any other, but the results are we'll
worth all the care we expend on it.
OF the June roses the best for gen.
eral use are the MOSES, in red, pink
and white; the Province and the good
old damask. both delightfully."- sweet,
large, double, and of fine shape, and
produced with wonderful freedom;
the yellow Persian, which we'll merits
the name "Cloth of Gold," so rich is
the color; and the small low growing
Scotch and Austrian varieties. There
are others in this general class which
deserve q place in any collection, but
I have named those with which the
amateur gardener will be most likely
to succeed. When he or she learns
to grow these well, other sorts can be
added with areasonable chance of sue
oess.-Harper's Bazaar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05
Science Crowds Out Pallbearers.

The latest novelty in the line of
funeral equipments has just been in
troduced into Portland 1t is in the
nature of a casket-lowering device
which does away with the pallbearers
lowering the body into the grave. By
this new invention the casket Is
brought from the hearse and placed on
the device, which is automatic in its
operation, and at the proper time the
undertaken touches g spring and the
casket is, by invisible means, lowered
quietly into the grave. Thus does
science smooth our passage to the cold
and silent tomb. Portland Oregonian.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05

In Cardiff, Wales, recently, at tea
entertainment given to the parishion-
ers by the National School, the play
cred Riding Hood" was acted. The
children had rehearsed in their ordin-
ary dresses, and consequently the
wolf-skin was not seen by some of
them until worn on the stage. On
the VOLTS appearance at the bedside
of the grandmother, the child who
was playing the part of grandmother
gave realistic yell of dismay and
scrambled out of bed head foremost;
the sight of her fat little form in q
tight nightdress caused much laughter
among the audience as she disap-
peared behind the curtains. Weekly
Telegraph.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05
Miss Hanna Shot a Wild Cat,

Miss Ruth Hanna, daughter of Sena.
tor Hanna, is the heroine of wild cat
hunt which occurred on her fathers
game preserve near Thomasville, Ga,
recently. For some time large wild
cat has been annoying the other oc-
cupants of the preserve, and finally
Miss Hanna determined to get its
scalp.
Accompanied by Howard Hanna,
her cousin, both being mounted on
feet horses, she started on the chase
before sunrise. The scent was taken
up by hounds, and for nearly two hours
the two cousins rode over rough coun-
try. Miss Hanna shot the cat when it
took refuge in tree. She rescued the
carcass from the dogs and bore it home
as trophy. Sportsmen said it was
one of the biggest animals of the kind
ever seen in that part of the State.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05

done by man of kindred race in far
off Sierra Leone. This thrilling in
cident Of the native uprising is de.
scribed by correspondent of the
London Standard.
At Rotofunk, mission station some
fifty-fve miles from the coast, four of
the white missionaries had been
literally hacked to pieces by the
natives. 1t was said, however, that
Mrs. Kane, the wife OF the superin.
tendent of the mission, had succeeded
in escaping into the bush.
With the hope of rescuing her,
force was dispatched from Freetown,
with orders to push through to Roto-
funk without delay. On arriving at
the Ribbi River, how ever, the force
found that the natives had collected
at Mabang, town on the opposite
bank, and had withdrawn all canoes
and boats. AS the river is over one
hundred and fifty yards broad and six
fathoms deep, u serious obstacle pre-
sented itself.
The only officer who knew this part
of the country was lieutenant W. r.
Howell, of the First Glamorgan
Volunteer Artillery. a member of an
OLD Cornish family, who had raised
force of volunteers at the commence
ment OF the rising. He appealed for
volunteers to swim across the river
and bring back as many canoes as
possible, but there was no response,
as not only would the swimmers be
exposed to the full fire of the enemy,
but the river was known to swarm
with alligators.
At length Lieutenant Howell, in
spite of the protestations of his fellow.
officers, resolved to make the attempt
himself. The enemy, evidently see.
ing what he was about to do,
assembled in force on the opposite
bank, but were driven back some dis.
tance and kept at bay by the firing of
the British volunteers over Lieutenant
Howells head.
When the Lieutenant had lust
reached mid-stream and was in the
full current, he was seen to swing
round rapidly on his back; his leg had
being seized by an alligator. 1t was
only by swinging sharply round that
he succeeded in freeing himself, but
even so his thigh had been torn and
lacerated in shocking manner.
Notwithstanding this injury and the
work of the enemy's guns, the gallant
officer continued his perilous journey,
and at length reached the opposite
bank, only to find that his errand was
fruitless, as all the boats and canoes
had been destroyed.
For more than half an hour he con-
tinued his search, but finding the
enemy again pressing him, and feeling
weak from loss of blood, he was COM
PEELED to take to the river again, and
got back in safety.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05
TALES OF PLUCK
AND ADVENTURE.


Pierre lie Count, an old trapper, of
Wisconsin, who died recently, retained
n distinct recollection of almost every
incident of Importance in his long
life. Encounters with fierce beasts
were OF so common occurrence that it
was with difficulty he could be induced
to refer to them or to give details once
tile incident was mentioned. The
killing of three bears in rs many min
utes-one with bullet from his old
fashioned muzzle- loading rifle, the
second with an axe and the third with
a knife-was one of lie Counts recol-
lections, and four great scars across
his breast, which We're visible when
his body was prepared for the grave,
bore evideuce of the ferceness of the
battle.
THAT happened in 1s43," said the
old man. "l was trapping on the up
per waters of the Chippewa that fall.
1t was i'll the latter part of October, if
I remember right, and I was following
up line of traps one afternoon when
l broke through au old windfall and
fell over log, landing right in a nest
OF four bears-two full grown and two
six-months cubs. 1 was trapper and
not hunter, and usually let such var
mints alone unless they tackled me !;
but this time my rifle was up to my
face before / knew it, and / brought
down the old male with bullet in his
brain. The other three started off,
and as they went I let go at one of the
cubs with my little trapping axe.
There wasn't one chance in five hum
dred that [ would hit him in a place
that would hurt him, and L just
threw it more under the impulse
than with any expectation that
[ would bring him down.
But as luck would have it the axe hit
him square in the head and he went
down with roar. His yell turned
the old mother into devil. She had
started off on dead run, but as soon
as she heard the cub cry she turned
and came back on q gallop. Twenty
feet from me she went up on her hind
feet and came toward me like snow
slide. She looked as big as buffalo
and as ugly as catamount. My empty
gun was of about as much use as a
snowshoe, and as there was no time to
think of tree I just whipped out my
knife and faced the music. She was
about three seconds in knocking me
over the windfall, but as we closed
drove the ten-inch blade OF my knife
between her ribs. Her nails found my
shoulder and breast, and I was laid up
eleven weeks. The scratch didn't
amount to much. Iwould have been
well in week, but my partner was q
greenhorn from Vermont, and when
sent him QUITO get slippery elm bark
for poultice he got basswood."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05

Silhouette, profile in black, is su
called from Etienne de Silhouette
Contrulleur des Finances, 1857, who
made great savings in the public ex.
penditures Of France. Some say the
black portraits were called silhouette
in ridicule; others assert that NJ. Sill
houette devised this way of taking
l!kenesses to save expense.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05

Weary Watkins-If 1 was to find
dollar an buy lottery ticket an win
the capital prize I'd first take a bath
Hungry Higgins-What! "Take a
bath. I'd play the whole string out.
you etw-Indianapolis Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05

The status of woman in Japan has
changed to Il remarkable extent in the
last few years. 1t is an inyariable
rule that with the advance of civiliza-
tion in any country we find enlarging
liberty for women and the concession
os greater rights to them. 1t appears
that in spite of the unfavorab'e condi-
tons under which Japanese women of
the generations Preoe ling the present
one have lived they still have asserted
themselves 10 marked degree in the
literature of their country. One writer
tells US that a large and important
part Of the best literature that Japan
has produced was written by women.
A good share of the ancient heroic
poetry of Jaran is the work OF women.
The two greatest Japanese books
which have come down from past cen
turies are by women. 1t would seen
that with her larger liberty and bel
immensely improved opportunities for
education the japanese woman woult
become a much larger contributor t.
hrt than she has eve been before.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05

Yale mathematical professors have
been discussing popular way of writ
&pg the year 1899 in Roman numerals.
According to the present system it
would have to be written MDCCCLX-
XXXIE. This is bewil6eIing array
OF figures, and many of the Yale pro-
fessors favor writing it lICIM, says
the New Haven Evening Register. 1t
is thought that this methoI will be
generally adopted by those who have
occasion to write the Roman numerals.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05

No other country has shown such a
rapid increase in the production of
coal during recent years as the United
States, according to statistics just
made public by the Treasury Bureau
Of Statistics. The quality Of coal
produced increased from %, sG3, 600
toas in 1870 TO 147, $50, $50 tons in
1871, while the total quantity export.
ell increased from 227, 91S tons in 1870
to 4, ,00S, 95G tons in 1897. In the first
mentioned year the United States sup
piled but II per cent. of the world 8
total output; at present it furnishes
about % per cent. thereof. 1t is when
comparison is made with the increases
in the production OF other countries
that the magnitude of the strides made
by the United States can be best APP
preciated. The average annual out
put OF Great Britain showed an in
crease Of 45 per cent. in the period
from 1S71-75 to 1891-95, that of France
an incroase of 70 per cent, that of
Germany an increase of 115 per cent, ,
and that of other countries, not in
Guiding the United States, a gain of
1872 per cent, whereas the increase
shown by the United States in the
same period amounted to 1913 per cent
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05

Germany paid last year more than
81, 900, 900 in pensions to the aged
poor 1t was much-needed and
graceful charity. But far better would
be a social and industrial system un-
der which such aims would not be
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05

The London Telsgsal produ VI
a Sunday edition. 1t is The first OF
the large London papers to do so, and
has been followed by the Mail. Can
this be the result of the recent closer
communion between England and
America. We have been told that
sayages when brought into contact
with civilization rapidly acquire its
vices; but testimony to The reverse
tendency is imperfect. Certainly the
rule is that the older civilization cor
rupts the younger. 1t is a pnzzIing
thing to make facts fit scientific thoo.
ries.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05
A Perilous Swim.

While our soldiers and sailors were
advancing the flag, last summer, q
deed az brave as apy Of theirs was
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05

The liquefaction of air is one Of the
scientific achievements of the last
quarter century. In the first success
full experiments only few drops Of
liquid air were obtained, but six or
seven years ago the British scientist.
Professor James Dewar, demonstrated
that it could be produced in quantity.
The expense, however, was enormous
"a pint costing about $4,000. Mr..
Tripler declares that he has produced
gallons of liquid air at cost of about
twenty cents a gallon. He further
claims that liquid air can be used to
make liquid air in larger quantities.
that he has actually obtained ten gal
Ions from three.
He holds that there is no reason to
doubt that this process can be re-
peated indefinitely, and thai, there
fore liquid air can be produced in un-
limited quantities at practically no
cost Except, of course, that of plant
and labor. Mr.. Tripler also expresses
confidence that the commercial and
scientific applications of liquid air are
so numerous ana so important that 1t
must effect no small revolution in
modern life.
"It is fact Of SCIENCE" said Mr..
Tripler, "that air liquefes at a
temperature of 312 degrees below
zero. The problem has been how to
obtain, and subject air to, that degree
of cold. have discovered that air
compressed air-can be so used as
to produce that degree of cold, and,
consequently, to liquefy other air; and
] have invented machine by which
the liquid product can be made in
great quantities at low cost"
Liquid cir is clear and fluent sub
stance, which, upon exposure, evap-
crates rapidly in a heavy mist. 1t is
SO intensely cold that the hand held
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05

Professor W. G. Peckham, of
Adelphi Institute, Brooklyn, from
whose pen an article on liquid air ap-
pears in the Century, has also written
on the subject in the Scientific Ameri-
can. In the latter journal he has given
this description of the plant and pro-
cess of Mr.. Tripler:
sit (the plant consists of triple air
compressor, q cooler and a liquefier.
The compressor is of the ordinary
form, having three pumps upon one
piston shaft working in line. The
first gives sixty pounds pressure; the
second raises this to 750 pounds,
while the third brings the air under
compression of 2000pounds per square
inch
"After each compression the air flows
through jacketed pipes, where it is
cooled by city water. For this work
about forty horse power is employed.
After the third compression the air
flows through an apparatus which dis
poses of some of its impurities, and it
passes on to the liqueier. 1t is this
part of the apparatus which C3nsti-
tutes MIR. Tripler's special invention.
BY means of the peculiarly construct.
ed valve, whose details are not made
public, q portion of the compressed
air is allowed to expand into tube
surrounding the tube through which
the remaining air is flowing. This
expanded air absurbs large amouns
of heat from the air still under com
preston in the inner tube. The con.
tents Of the inner tube are thus cooled.
In this way the air is brought below
the temperature of liquefaction and
its pressure is very much reduced, so
that, upon opening the valve at the
bottom of the apparatus, stream of
liquid air is received, flowing out with
scarcely more force than the water
from our ordinary city service pipes.
Thus the liquefaction of the air is ac-
complished by the 'self-intensifica
ton of cold produced by the expan.
sion of portion of the compressed
and cooled air, without employing any
other substance to bring about this
resultn
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over it is speedily chilled. If the hand
is plunged into it, the sensation is
that of burning, and unless it is i'm
mediately Withdrawn the skin is bis
tered and scared. When the hand is
removed, it becomes almost instan-
taneously dry, for the liquid which
had adhered Immediately gathers in
bright beads and drop heavily to the
floor.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05

tracted 10 very small one. In an.
other case, after a number of appiica-
tions to cancer on the breast of o
woman, 1t fell out into the operators
hand. A, number of cases of cancer
have been under treatment, and in all
which were in incipiency or had not
been rendered incurable by the free
but vain application of the surgeons
knife, it has arrested the cancerous
growth. 1t has, besides, marked
effect in removing the pain accom-.
panying the disease. A patient suf-
fering from cancer of the nose said
that the shooting pains which had pre-.
viously afflicted him disappeared en-
tirely after the first application of the
air. II is quite possible that it may
have some special value as local
au@sthetic. 1t appears certain that
gangrene can be arrested long enough
for amputations TO be made that will
save life. But, of course, I am not
a physician or surgeon, and it is not
the curative properties of liquid air
which have chiefly interested me. Its
use in medicine and surgery is now
under careful study by physicians. l
may add in this line that liquid air
appears TO be an irresistible germi-
eide, and that L think L have Incl
dentally discovered means by which it
eau be so applied as safely to reach
the lungs and destroy the bacilli of
tuberculosis. Indeed. the physicians
have succeeded in applying it to parts
of the body where thought it could
not be applied, and, therefore it
seems distinct probability that
means will be devised by which dis
ease germs. wherever they may be in
the human body, can be reached and
killed.
CAS- for its use for refrigerating
purposes, that is as wide as the need
of refrigeration is. Ice can be made
with it; it can take the place of ice in
refrigerators; it will be useful in
pRciiing-houses, in markets, in hos.
pitfalls, and i'll hotels and houses in
summer"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05

Mr.. Tripler referred to Hudson
Maxim, the brother of Hiram Maxim,
who had been present in the labora-
tory few days before, drawn by re-
ports which he had heard of the pos
sibilsties OF liquid air as an explosive.
M. Maxim had been told that u small
quantity of cotton waste saturated
With liquid air had been placed in a
small iron pipe, which had then been,
encased in larger pipe, as protection
from the possible effects of the explo-
sion, and that by means of long fuse
the waste had been touched with fire;
he had been shown the fragments of
the inner pipe and two great holes
which had been blown through the
outer one. Mr.. Maxim desired to see
precisely the quantity of cotton waste
which had been used, and to know
whether the ends of the pipes had
been closed. The merest palm-full OF
waste had been exhibited, and the
ends of both pipes, he was told, had
been left open.
"There is no explosive in use, Mr..
Maxim declared energetically, (which,
in such small quantity and with SO
little confinement, could have pro.
duced anything like this effect" His
interest was so much aroused that he
at once made an appointment with
Mr. Tripler for business interview
on the use of liquid air in combina.
ton with an explosive which Mr..
Maxim had invented.