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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08
Our Army Is Weak,

Nobody doubts the wisdom of build,
ing new navy; the efforts made in
this direction have been applaudel by
statesmen of all parties, and the people
are very willing to see their money
spent on ships of war worthy of the
name. We would not counsel for a
moment any abatement in the gener-
osity of our national policy in naval
affairs, but is it not also nearly time
that something should be done for the
army? There is great deal to be done,
and some of the reforms are instantly
needed.
The United States soldier is very
little better off in point of weapons
than his predecessors at the end of the
civil war. He has a breech-loading
rifle of antique pattern; the artillery
have guns out of date judged by Eu-
ropean standards, and most of the heavy
guns in our forts on the seacoast are
relics of the last war. While all the
old countries have been advancing to
tho present stage of magazine rifles,
small bullets, and smokeless powder,
the United States has stood still The
old flint-lock of Washington's day is
uhTuly leSS HtIeu 10 De Op ppOSeu TO UH0
modern magazine rifle than the arm
which the American infantryman relies
on to-day.
There seems to be a delightfully."-
cheerful view taken of the army by the
War Department and the big Gener-
ais. But the rank and file who will
have to stand the brunt of an invasion
of foreign foe with modern arms can,
not be expected to see the joke in so
happy light. 1t is not at all humor,
GUS to be killed in battle, even if it is
made plain at the subsequent Congress.
sional investigation that inadequate
arms were responsible for the mortality.
One of the favorite arguments of the
day in this connection is that this coun-
try is so great and resourceful that she
could afford to wage war for year or
two and then come out victorious.
Perhaps-but IL host of victims must
be sacrificed whilo the country is get
ting into modern armor. Who will
volunteer to engage foe who has
twenty shots for his one, q deadly range
of three miles, where he cannot kill at
over mile? Twenty-Five years be.
hind is too far in the rear of the pro-
cession for safety.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08
New Conquest of Peru,

The history of Peru is the record of a
series of conquests. The Inca and
Aymara tribes, intrenched in their strong
holds on the eastern slope of the Andes,
brought the Aborigines of the coast under
their sway before extending their empire
northward to the Equator and southwark
to Central Chilli Pizarro and his war
riors overthrew that empire and substitu-
ted Spanish misgoverment for the Won
derfully effective administration of the
Incas. The revolt against Spain left a
mixed population of European and In
dian blood in control of its own destiny.
European invasion was successfully re-
sisted when Callao was bombarded by a
Spanish fleet, but the Chilenos overran
the coast, captured the capital, annexed
Tarapaca, permanently occupied Tacna,
and dictated at Ancun humiliating
treaty of peace. From that war of devas-
tation Peru emerged bleeding at every
pore, bankrupt in resources, and without
power of reaction. Civil strife and finan-
cial mismanagement completed its ruin.
Its utter exhaustion has left it at the
mercy of the English bondholders, whose
conquest is now complete. ~ New Yo''
Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08
Universities of the World.

Among the prominent nations of the
world the United States ranks first il the
the number of educational institutions
and students who attend them There
are in this country 800 universities, 4,240
professors and 50, 400 students. Norway
has l university, 46 professors and $50
students. France has university, 1S0
professors and 8, 300 students. Belgium
has universities, SS professors and 2, 400
students. Holland has universities, so
professors and 900 students. Portugal
has 1 university, 40 professors and 300
students. Italy has II universities, 600
professors aud II, 140 students. Sweden
has 2 universities, 173 professors and
1,010 students. Switzerland has uni
versities, 80 professors and 2, 900 students.
Russia has universities, 5S2 professors
and 6, 900 students. Denmark has uni
versity, 40 professors and 400 students.
Austria has 10 universities, 1, $40 profess
sors and 5000 students. Spain has 10
universities, $50 professors and 1G, 200
students. Germany has 2i universities,
1,020 professors and 25,094 students.
Great Britain has II universities, 334
professors and 13, 400 students. II Young
Mems Era.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

ment, but a very palatable modifica-
ton is to alternate in the dish layers of
sliced banana and sliced orange and
cover the whole with frosting of
desiccated cocoanut. The oranges do
not look quite so pretty if the slices
are cut parallel with the core rather
than across it, but they are easier to
eat. But every housewife knows of
dozens of ways of fixing oranges for
the table. After all an orange is some
thing like a watermelon. However
beautiful and palatable it may be when
prepared for the table, it never tastes
quite so sweet as when it is plucked
from the tree and sucked with the Wig
orous assistance of both hands to
squeeze out the Juice.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08
WORK OF THE WITS.

Is IT the stone ballast that makes o
boat rock?
DID anybody ever buy new hat
without feeling that he had fooled
himself?
A BRIDGEPoRT debating society re-
Gently had for subject: SIS it proper
to sound the i'll dorg?"
shave you seen Miss X. in Blue
beard?" well, aw-yes. About seven.
eighths of her, think"
BEss1B-I believe Miss Waything
would jump at proposal from a mouse.
Jessie-So would all of us, I reckon.
AN exchange calls love "a species OF
intoxication. Perhaps that is why the
course of true love is so often arrested.
ALTHOUGH the tattooed freak gener-
ally spares his face, an offer of large
salary will make him prick up his
ears.
SHE-Do you think marriage is a
failure? He (aged 20)-It begins to
look that way. I've been rejected four
teen times.
Mr.. KID-How does that shoe feel ?
Miss Bunker Hill really cannot say,
but if it feels half as uncom Portable as
my foot feels, I can sympathize with it..
"MY dear child, what are you crying
SO for?" "Oh dear! My father has
gone and lost me, and 1 know my
mother will scold him so when he gets
home"
SHE-Have you read "Looking Side,
ways" He-Yes; l see it's another
plagiarism. She--How is that? He
Every word of it is in Webster's I'm
abridged
"DID you leave New York City be-
cause it costs so much to live there 2"
"No," he replied; 81 left because it cost
SO much to die there and my health
is very poor"
How DO you feel, my good man ?"
inquired the mission worker of pris-
oner on the stone pile. "Purtv rocky
boss" was the touching reply And the
worker dropped tear.
Mrs. GADABoUT-Oh,M Mrs. Snappy =!
l saw your husband in the park with
three or four ladies around him. Mrs.
Snappy-That's all right; but let me
catch him with only one lady around
h1ii -phoh looh ouG lor IL ST lall.
"I THINK shall use tho typewriter
all the time now, in my literary work, u
said the young author, who was just
gaining slow mastery over the keys.
"Why, yes" said his appreciative wife.
/ 81 should think that you could write
just about as fast as you can think"
TWO AuRORAS.
Aurora, goddess of the dawn,
Appears in all her rich adjoining,
Soon as the sunbeGms gId the lawn,
Ana sol announces golden morning.
But my Aurora, maiden fair,
Who every other maid surpasses,
In paper curls comes down the stair
At nine, to fritters and molasses.
AT cooking lecture Lady (soliIo-
quizing)-"Now that she has got it
cooked L wish she'd tell us how to use
up cold mutton" Next lady overhears
and remarks, 81 have some infallible
recipes" First lady (alert with pencil
and ote-book)-Will you please favor
me9 Second lady-Six boys.
A ooUNTRYMAN who came to town re.
Gently on his bicycle carelessly left it
in front of the hotel at which he was
staying, and found when he returned
that it was missing. "Why don't you
apply to the police?" suggested the
clerk when the matter was explained to
him? "Do you think they stole it ?"
was the innocent response.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

famed Dr.. Pierces Golden Medical Dis
covery
Trying conditions these, under which to
offer the afflicted relief and cure. No ordi-
nary remedy could sustain itself under such
guarantee. 1t would bankrupt its propri-
etors! Not so with Golden Medical Dis
covery." Its best advertisement is the thou
sands Of consumptives, in all parts of the
world, which it has restored to health,
strength and happiness. To-day no other
medicine has SO great a sale. Why Be
cause it does just what it is guaranteed to
accomplish, otherlciSe its sale on SO peculiar
q llon as this lCouLd ruin its manufdct-
urerS.
Golden Medical Discovery cures Con-
sumption in all its earlier stages, on common
sense principles. Being, according to all
recognized medical authority, a scrofulous
affection of the lungs, it is reasonable to
seek a remedy in those agents known to
prove most efficacious in conquering scrofu-
lous disease affecting other parts and organs.
Now for Scrofula in all its myriad forms,
nothing has ever yet been discovered to
compare with the wonderful remedy already
mentioned And especially is this true of
! Iung-scrofula, or Consumption. 1t soothes
the cough, improves digestion, sharpons the
appetite, invigorates the liver purifies the
| blood, cleanses the system of all scrofulous
| humors, and builds up the flesh and strength
WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDICAL AssoCIA-
/ TIoN, GG3 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08
false flag means a rotten keel below.


Old Mrs. Weatherbee-" Good bye! John
and do take care of yoursel and don't forget
etian Liniment; somehow can't get along
without it, and look out if they tell you some
thing else i just as ,good-for l for one
to a host of Others, either. Why, there's Polly
Ann Jones, Theresa admington and Sarah
Clarke, and"
forget that it is Dr. Tobias's Venetian Lni-
nent that you want, .mother How many
friends that old remedy has, aud you're one Of
them, amt your
All druggists sell 1t.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

grower gets his chills and fever. How
ever that may be, the fact remains that
Florida is rapidly approaching the
point where she can supply the world
with oranges. There is no more beau
tiful sight in the world than a Florida
packing barn during the season, great
heaps of the yellow fruit piled up
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

she always seemed so wen and happy. 'Shc
enjoys life and don't" said the discontented
woman. How would like TO change places
WIN herr. AT last she made the acquaintance
OF the object of her envy, and this is what the
lady told her Happy OF course l am, for
ENJOY perfect health. My dear Mrs. w, your
suffering from functional derangements |
was martyr to fcmalo weaknesses for years
but DIR. lierce's FgyOritc Prescription cured
me, as il will you if you will try it. II is qidT-
dnteed TO give satisfaction in every case or
price (sD returned.
Dr. Pierce's Pellets, one a dose. Cure head
ache. COnSI ina1inn nd indifrns n ion
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

Headaches and Fevers, TO cleanse the system
effectually, yet gently, when costiveor bilious,
or when the blood is impure or sluggish, to
permanently cure habitual constipation, to
awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy ac-
uvity, without Irritating or weakening them,
use Syrup of Figs.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08
In a Chicago Cemetery.

Stranger-Fine monument you've
got there, sir.
Citizen-Yes; that's in memory OF
my pet game-cock.
Stranger-Who's the little stone for ?
Citizen-I amt dead sure, but be-
lieve one of my wives occupies that To-
ality.-Jatdge.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

- sic NopeIs Free, sent by Cragln & Co., Phila..
"a, TO any one in Y. $. or Canada post paid
upon receipt Of 20 Dobbins's Electrical SOAP
wrappers. See list of novels on circulars around
each bar. This soap for sale by all grocers.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

F.J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O., Proprs of
Halls Catarrh Cure, offer 800 reward for any
case of eatarrh that cannot be cured by taking
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for testimonials,
free. Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08
THEY ALL SHRINK

Young Brindle-Pa, can't l have a
flannel shirt like yours2
Mr. Brindle speaking from experience)
My son, you may have this after it's
washed i Lippincott's.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08
One Reason

"hy nearly everybody should take good medisine
IN the spring is because at this season the system is
especially susceptible to the benefit to be derived
from reliable preparation like Hoods sarsaparllla.
In the winter various impurities accumulate in the
blood, the effect of which is most felt when spring
comes on, in general weakness and languor The
system Graves assistance 70 maintain the health
tone and expel impurities, which Hoods sarsapa.
rilla readily gives. Try it.
"For five years was sick every spring, but last
year began in February to take Hoods sarsaparilIa
used five bottles and have not seen a sick day
since. &c. w. SLOAN, Milton, Mass
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

FITS stopped free by DIR. KLINE's GREAT
NERVE REsroHER. No Fits after first day.
use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and 81 trial
bottle free. DIR. Kline, Yjl Arch St., Phila, Pa
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

There is no surer way of having everybody,
help than by trying yourself to help every
body
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

People work harder to get the fruit of
theirs toll than to earn the fruit themselves.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

Everything that exists, exists 10 be used but
not to be abused
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

Try to regard present vexations as you vii
regard them month hence.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

to S t a II d loosely
away from t h e
fruit. Carefully
done this makes an
orange look like a
large yellow flower
with a white center.
Sliced oranges is
too familiar a dish
to require any COM
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

One thorn of experience is worth whole
wilderness of warming
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

If afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Is ,aC
Thompsons Eye Water. Druggists sell 25c.
per bottle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

Many initiate, none equal, "Tansill's
Punch Americas fin, st &C. Cigar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

BE oderate i'll ", rytliug, and you will be
rewarded with good health and happiness.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

that State tn an
from any other part
of the world. Flor
ida malaria does
not affect the or
nnge orchards, aud
tits said that orange
orowars l1tilinn the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08


disease by getting up in an orange tree
when they feel a chill coming on, and
let the aguc shake down the fruit.
The navel orange, so called from the
peculiar appearance of the blossom cup
at the lower end, is true seedless
orange, and probably stands first
among orange lovers. 1t has hardly
any core, the flesh is solid and juicy,
and the skin is thin and smooth.
Tangarines, mandarins, sweet and
sour oranges seem to thrive equally
well on the sandy soil which looks
as if it would not support a
blade of grass. orange-growers say
that the long tap-root of the orange
tree pierces through the sand into the
primeval swamp which underlies all
Florida, and it sucks punishment from
the sa,ue source. whence !. the orange
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

around, so that ii
b e co m e s a long
strip of peel and
pulp. He grabs
this strip at either
end and draws il
rapidly across his
mouth, absorbing
tn g iuice as il
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

markably effective. A modification oil
this style is practiced in the United
States and used to be known as New
Orleans fashion," 1t consists in divid,
ing the orange diagonally into four sec.
tiens, cutting across the core. 1t is
not, however, considered good form by
orange experts.
Oranges are grown all over the
semi-tropical world. Spain, Italy,
Northern Africa, China, Southern Cali.
fornia, Florida, Cuba, and Palestine
send their quota of the fruit to the
great markets. But for excellence the
Florida orange takes the lead. Florida
produces a larger variety of oranges
and brings them to greater perfection
than any other region in the orange
belt. Whether this is to be attributed
to the soil, the climate, or to methods
of cultivation has not been definitely
decided, though L fancy the latter
cause has the most to do with the eX.
cellence of the Florida fruit.
Another fashion of eating an orange
which is considerable trouble and
has but little to recommend it on score
of elegance-is to cut just through the
ohlu uU but c'luubol 8lNt Wy
turing the peel back form a cup of the
skin at each pole of the orange. The
pulp is then bitten off around and
around, as school-boy eats an apple.
While this style keeps the hands com
paratively clean, it smears the face
most unpleasantly. The same obiec-
tion may be urged against the fashion
of peeling the orange on fork and
holding it in that way while eating it.
Some people thrust fork into the
core of an orange, peel the fruit, and
then slice it as one would an apple,
losing thereby large quantity OF the
juice. AT dinner-table, if the orange
knives are very sharp-a circumstance
that rarely happens, by the way-this
is perhaps as good way as any. II is
simple and makes no fuss, and there is
an air of refinement about touching the
fruit only with the knife and fork, if it
be gracefully done, which recommends
it to many people.
With a mandarin orange, which, as
its name suggests, originated in China,
none of these methods are practicable,
The mandarin is delicate little fruit,
with strong musky flavor, and its
tender skin fits as loosely upon the
pulp as does the silken coat of its celes.
tian namesake Like the italian and
Spanish oranges, its inner skin is dry,
and it can be readily peeled and divid.
ed into sections. Its first cousin, the
tangarine, whose habitat is Algiers and
Northern Africa, is trife larger, not
quite so musky, but possesses all the
other peculiarities of the mandarin.
There is no doubt that the orange has
been brought to its highest perfection
in Florida; larger, juicier, and fuller
favored fruit comes from the groves of
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08
THE LUSCIOUS ORANGE.
THE EPICURE's WAY OF CARVING
AND SERVING IT.

skinning and Dissecting the Fruit-There
is No Economy in Buying So-Called
Cheap Oranges-The Florida Product by
Far the Rest Sold in Our MarISets-Points
Of Interest.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08

Ifvou arc thinhinq Of building q house you ouHht
70 by the hook Pe iser TGei
by Pniiiser paiiser Co. the vel known architects.
There is not Builder or aRy one 1ard t9 bS e
withnutit 1t Ia practical work and everybody huys
It. The best. cheapest and moat popular WORK ever
Is book In sc and STYLE but we haze de.erminied to
make nset the p9Rai1r by all Sui' 'o 'iie''
This book e9ntans M rsges Ia aIs, faGs nyinr IN pns
elevations perspective vifws, descriptions. owners
names. ACTUAL cost Of construct & ~ guess WnrS X
and Instructions How iU Build " Cottages, Sllas,
Double Houses, Brick Block Houses. suitable for
city suburbs town apd country houses Tor the farln
country. and costing from edo e ss 5o9 also garnsa
oher public 4ldnss tosoRef with sPeccatons
form Of contract apd ar.e amount ~ Sste ei
Poyment ot ATchiccts It is worth % TO any S1de.
@ but rt we MI H geSd o tn paper e3ytr % y s
ARoHlrEoE CO EA9;dePSStsr i5;a Pa1sr ssi NeV i0'A
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08
Hoods
SarsapariIIa
TOO Doses One Dollar

Sold by all druggists. 81; six for So. Prepared on
by G. |. HOOD & co. Anothecnries Lowell Mnss
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08


any economy in buy
ing cheap oranges,
writes Allen Fore
man in the Ladies'
Home Journal. As
a rule, there is more
pulp and juicein one
solid "Florida, F." for
which you will pay
three or four cents
during the season,
than in five of the
cheaper fruit, which
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-05-08
AFTER ALL OTHERS FAIL

CoNsuLr DH. iOBB, 329 North Fifteenth
street, phiindeiphia. Twenty years experience
IN special Diseases the worst cases OF nervous
Complaints, Blood Poisoning, Blotches, Eruptons.
Piles, Catarrh, Ulcers sores. impaired Memory,
Despondency, Dlmness OF Vision, Lung, Liver,
stoma ach Kidney ,Bright's Diseaseli confidential
GS-Call or write for question iist and book
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-07-19
Little Eighteenth Century wonders

The deft-fngered artist flourished
Just tho same $50 years ago ms he does
to-day. Crotty. a London shop-keepcr
ofl745, fashioned tea-table. tea-board.
n dozen cups aud saucers. sugar dish.
slop-basin. bottle. funnel fifteen drink
ing glasses. five bowls. ten rummels. a
pestle and mortar, and set of nine
pins. so minute that they were all kept
IN iilbert she'll. They were all made
of polished ivory and SO small that they
could not be seen without n micro
scope A rival named Boverick put ON
exhibition n cherry-stone from which he
took table, twelve chairs. dishes of all
kinds. and six ladies and gentlemen
dressed so that they could be distin-
guished the one from the other by aid
of "A strong glass.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-07-19
Journal.


Probably no modern science presents
n wider field for speculation than that
of chemistry. aud more especially. per
haps. that branch of the science which
treats OF organic compounds. Since
the day when Wohler overthrow the
notion that organic substances were
exclusively the products OF the opera
ton OF a so-called vital force by his
discovery of the synthesis of urea,
great number of bodies. hitherto oh
tanned only in Natures laboratory.
have successfully been built up. rs u
result OF careful and most minute
study Of their exact nature.
The discovery of the preparation of
substances by artiice. more particular
ly the dyes has. as a matter of course.
influenced very considerably home and
foreign industries. What shall be said.
then. when chemistry promises TO solve
hard problems OF political and social
economyP In an address delivered nj
Heidelberg. by no less eminent IN
authority than Victor Meyer. IL is an
nounced ''that we may reasonably
hope that chemistry will teach us to
make the fibre of wood the source OF
lOON w nat III tuOiilOur
stock of food. then. will be found if
this becomes possible in the wood of
our forests. OF even in grass and straw.
The fibre of wood consists essentially
of cellulin. CO. lilo. O5. Can this be
made TO change into starchP Starch
has exactly the same percentage COM
position, but. rs every one knows. II
differs very much in It's properties, and
the nature of its molecule Is probably
much more complex. Cellulin is of
little or no dietetic value. and IL is not
altered. like starch. in boiling water.
1t really gives glucose when treated
with strong sulphuric acid. as Is easily
shown when cottonwood. which Is
practically pure cellulin, is merely inn
merscd in IL. Starch gives the same
product when boiled with weak acid.
The author further quotes the re-
searches of Hellrigel, which go to show
beyond dispute that certain plants
transform atmospheric nitrogen into
albumen. and that this process can be
improved 10y suitable treatment. The
production, therefore, of starch from
cellulin. together with the enforced in
crease of albnmen in plants would. he
adds, in reality signify the abolition of
the bread question. II must be borne
in mind. however. that theory, fascinat-
ing and promising thought it may be.
Is not always capable OF being followed
up by practical result. London Lait-
Get.