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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05
A Barometer OF Finance.

There are not so many diamonds worn
in New York now, writes Gotham cor
respondent, as there were few years
ago. Probably the farmers out West
who have been raising such tremendous
crops have been buying them up with
their surplus cash, or it may be that
the pawnbrokers have them AT any
rate, there are fewer diamonds TO be
seen now than for some time. The dia-
mond is always barometer of finance.
If money is plentiful everybody is wear
ing them. When there is stringency
in the money market the diamonds are
sold. The New York money market has
been in II state of stringency for some
scarcity of diamonds. They are good
things to invest in, are diamonds, because
they can nearly always realize their full
value. Next to the diamond the most
popular stone is the ruby; emeralds of
fine color are next. Opals of brilliant
lustre are always in demand and good
many people prefer them TO diamonds.
The old-time superstition about the opal
is rapidly disappearing and they are
considered as desirable for purposes of
ornamentation as any other stone worn.
The cats eye is another popular stone,
although hard TO get. The turquoise
and garnet, except they be of the first
quality, are not so popular as they used
to be. Fine pearls are in demand, but
the average do not sell as readily as they
did once. You remember few years
ago men used to wear pearls in studs
and in their gold sleeve links. You
rarely see n man wearing pearls now,
except in Il scarf pin, and these are not
numerous. Their use is almost entirely
confined to women. Sapphires are not
in such great demand as they were few
years ago, and those that are worn
figure in combination pieces affected by
women. The agate is the most popular
cheap stone.-LSt. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05
BREAD OUT OF SAWDUST.
When 1t Can be Made Mankind Will
be Happy and Rich.

A Star reporter was informed that the
Department of Agriculture is interested
in plan for making bread out of saw.
dust,
Absurd? By no means. Scientists be-
lieve that there is no good reason why
the thing should not be entirely practic-
able Everybody knows that starch is q
substance extremey y nutritious; in fact
1t is nearly all nutriment. Well, starch
and sawdust are the same thing. Saw
dust, which is "celulose," is of precisely
the same chemical composition as starch.
The two are expressed by the same chem
ical formula, C6 H10 O5-that is, six
parts of carbon, ten parts of hydrogen
and five parts of oxygen. These are the
simple ingredients of either starch or
sawdust. Scientific expermenters have
been trying for long time to find out a
way TO transform the one into the other.
If they should succeed the discovery
would be away ahead of the philosopher s
stone in point of value. An inexhaustible
source of food supply would at once be
rendered available in the forests, the
grass and even in straw and chaff.
Hitherto chemistry has occupied itself
almost wholly with taking things apart,
in order to find out what they are made
of; but now the science is directing its
for the production of useful substances.
Already it has succeeded in the artificial
preparation of indigo, alizarin, uric acid
and many other compounds. The anime
colors, obtained from coal tar and yet
rivaling the most brilliant tints of the
rainbow, are similarly produced SO
complex are some of them that their
names, which give full accounts of their
composition, have to be regular seven
league words, one beautiful dye being
known as "Hexamethy ylmethoxytramido
triphenylcarbinol." From coal tar in like
manner are derived many valuable anti
fever medicines and soporifics.
The prospects of this new science of
putting elements together seem infinite,
and the era of bliss may yet dawn which
has been prophesied by the illustrious
naturalist Frederick Cohn, who says that
all struggles for existence among men
arising from want of food will be done
away with when chemistry shall have
learned to make starch from carbonic
acid and water. Plants grow by doing
just that, and it may, therefore, be said
that farmers have been engaged since
time immemorial in this very chemical
industry. 1t would scarcely be SO sur
prising, then, if the farms of the country
should be replaced at some time in the
future by chemical laboratories. : Wash
ington Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05
RAIN SUPERSTITIONS.
Method of COaxing Rain in Different
Countries.

In the Caucasian province of Georgia
says writer in the Golden Bough, where
drought has lasted long, marriageable
girls are yoked in couples with an OK
yoke on their shoulders, priest holds
the reins, and thus harnessed they wade
through rivers, puddles and marshes,
praying, screaming weeping and laugh
ing.
In district of Pennsylvania when the
ground is parched with drought, some
girls strip themselves naked, and, led by
an older woman, who is also naked, they
steal Il harrow and carry it across the
field to brook, where they set it afloat.
Next they sit on the harrow and keep Il
tiny flame burning on each corner of it
for an hour. Then they leave the harrow
in the water and go home.
A similar rain charm is resorted to in
India; naked women drag a plow across
the field by night. 1t is not said that
sprinkle it with water But the charm
would hardly be complete without it.
Sometimes the charm works through an
animal.
'To procure rain the Peruvians used
to set black sheep in field, poured
chica over it, and gave it nothing to eat
till rain fell.
"In a district of Sumatra all the women
of the village, scuntily clad, go to the
river, wade into it and splash each other
with the water. A black cat is thrown
into the water and made to swim about
for a while then allowed to escape to
the bank, pursued by the splashing of
the women. In these cases the color of
the animal is part of the charm being
black it will darken the sky with rain
clouds. So the Bechuanas burn the
stomach of an OK at evening, because
they say the black smoke will gather
the clouds and cause the rain to come
The Timorese sacrifice black pig for
rain, u white or red one for sunshine.
The Garos offer black goat on the top
of Il very high mountain in time of
drought.
Sometimes people try to coerce the
ran-god into giving rain. In China
huge dragon, made of paper or wood,
the raingod is carried about
in procession; but if no rain follows it
is cursed and torn to pieces. In the like
the Feloupes of Senegam-
bia throw down their fetiches and drag
them about the fields, cursing them till
rain falls. Some Indians of the Orinoco
worshiped toads and kept them in ves-
sells in order to obtain from them rain or
sunshine, as might be required; when
their prayers were not answered they
beat the toads. Killing u frog is a
European rain charm. When the spirits
rain or sunshine the Comanches
whip slave; if the gods prove obsti-
nate the victim is almost hayed alive.
Here the human beng may represent
.he god, like the leaf clad Dodola."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05

The plans have been submitted to the
Committee on Ways and Means, and if
they are adopted visitors will certainly
be dazzled by the Oriental magnificence
of Mr.. Steppani's palace. The building,
it is proposed, shall be 20Ox200 feet
one story high, and constructed of brick
in the Moorish style Mirrors will make
of the interior a place of brilliant and
many times multiplied reflections. In
deed, one will be likely to lose himself in
the maze of bevelled and prismatic glass,
for it is intended that feature of the
castle shall be labyrinth where the il
lusions are to be so perfect that on en-
tering one will think he is advancing to
an endless series of colonnades. In this
hall of pleasant bewlderment will be
shown the interior of a harem. Here
will also be found Rebecca at the well,
and the visitor gazing down will see him
self reflected in what is apparently
bottomless pool. A cave Of splashing
waters is to be another source of delight.
Of course there will be restaurant, and
OF most sumptuous and imposing style.
One of its attractions will be vista of
ancient cities seen through the colon
nades. Altogether, it will be a new
world of wonders to the untraveled
American, and when he issues from the
portals of this Moorish palace, he will
feel like rubbing his eyes to make sure
OF his identity.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05
China Silk Industry.

The Empress of China has recently
been endeayoring to give an impetus to
the manufacture of silk in that country
by starting a silk-weaving department Of
her own. One of her great motives for
this step, according to Shanghai cores
pondent, is to create an employment for
the many millions of girls and women
who are at present excluded from all
labor except that of making ombroideries
and doing the lighter kinds of housework.
The Empress has had the necessary
looms, skilled artisans and women trained
in the management of silkworms sent to
the palace at Pekin from the imperial
silk mandatory at Hang-Chow. Tho
industry will be started in the palace
grounds, which Her Majesty, by Chinese
custom, is forbidden to leave, so that the
apprentices will be under her super
vision.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05
Bald-Headed Cotton Seed.

The Spartanburg correspondent of the
Greenville Is. O. News, says that the
lintless cotton seed plant whose discov-
cry was announced in the News and
Courier last year, and was much derided
at that time, "has come to stay" H. Il.
Ferguson exhibited a stalk of the plant
in Spartanburg which contained 300
bolls, each boil filled with large plump
seed. He has taken much pains to get
the variety perfect, and announces that
he "will have seed enough this year to
plant the entire State" The estimated
yield is four hundred bushels to the acre
The product is easily harvested, and
the yield of oil is about one-third more
than that of ordinary cotton seed. If all
these statements are true, it is seen that
South Carolina has developed another
new and important agricultural industry,
and will soon be able to supply the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05
Novel Ventillating Apparatus.

A French electrical paper has de
scription of n novel electrical ventilat-
ing apparatus for supplying building
with fresh air, either warm or cold. A
motor operates ventilator, thus drawing
the cold air in, but if warm air is desired,
the electric current is sent through II
network of fine wires which becomes
highly heated. The air is drawn through
this network by the ventia tor and comes
out as warm as furnace heat. 1t is
claimed that the hygienic results of such
an arrangement are excellent New
Orleans Times Democrat
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05
A Small Philosopher.

lie was six years old, short for his age
and barefooted and dirty. His eyes were
sharp and watchful and his face was
lined and old. He ran away from school
for weeks ut u time and secured alleys
and instinctively avoided all the conven.
tional and decorous paths of childhood.
When he listened to admonitions and
promised to amend, his inner ear was
deaf and his words were from the lips
outward; but he voiced his genuine ex-
perience and reflection with the brevity
of a maxim:
81 think Idrather be a girl; they don't
git so many kicks. - Detroit Free
Press
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05

every cent you've paid for it, if it
doesn't benefit or cure you. A med
icinc that promises this is one that
promises to help you.
But there's only one medicine of
its kind that can and does promise it.
It's DR.. Piercc's Golden Medical Dis
covery. It's the guaranteed remedy
for all Blood, Skin and Scalp Dis
eases, from common blotch or
eruption to the worst scrofula. 1t
cleanses, puriiies, and enriches the
blood, invigorates the system, and
cures Salt-rheum, letter, Eczema,
Erysipelas and all manner of blood
taints from whatever cause. Great
Eating Ulcers rapidly heal under
its benign influence.
It's the best blood-purifier, and it's
the cheapest, no matter how many
doses are offered for a dollar-for
you pay only for the good you get.
Nothing else is "just as good" as
the Discovery" 1t may be better
for the dealer. But he wants
money and you want help.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05

A correspondent of a scientific Jour-
nal states that bust or statue can
be most thoroughly cleaned, provided
it has not been painted, oiled, or
waxed, by inverting it and filling it
with water free from iron The wa
ter is then allowed to filter through
the plaster. After the filtering has
been kept up for sufficient time, and
the outside surface occasionally
washed with water and a soft brush,
the plaster is allowed to dry. 1t is
then found that all the dust has been
wiped out of the pores of the cast,
which is thus restored to its original
whlteness.-lInyention, London.
WE have noticed that the boys who
were great to ''cut up" are always in.
vited when there is a party.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05

world with practically unlimited guam
tity of vegetable oil, stock food and fer
tilizers. 1t would be remarkable re-
suit truly, if the cotton-seed crop should
largely supplant the cotton crop, but it
may come to that in the end. These ara
record-breaking times, and the cotton
plant is as full of surprises as monkey.
Is. c. News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05
Sheridan's Condition Powders

1t is an old-fashion notion
that medicine has to taste
bad to do any good.
SCOTS Emulsion is cod
liver oil with it's fsh-fat taste
lost-nothing is lost but the
tcste.
This is more than a mat
ter of comfort. Agreeable
taste is always a help to di-
gestion. A sickening taste
is always a hindrance.
There is only harm in taking
cod-liver oil unless you digest
it. Avoid the taste.
ScorT & BowsR. Chemists. r3a South sth Avenue,
New York
Your druggist keeps Scott's Emulsion of cod liver
oil-all druggists everywhere do. 81.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05

New Mexico is larger than Great Bri tain
and Ireland together.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05

pilE stopped free by Dr.. K11Sp,s GRr..
HEhvE REsToRER. No fits after first day's use
saar'eious cures. Treatise and S2 trial bottle
tree' Dr. Kline. o3l Arch St. Phila Pa
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05

Wen preserved women, When consulting
their mirror see beside their satisfied reflec-
,ion the calm and earnest face of Lydia E.
Plnkham. They can tell YOU WHY.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05

Nicaragua will erect $40, 900 building on
the Worlds FAIR grounds at Chicago. U45
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05
TWO THINGS
In Regard to Catarrh
1sf, 1T fsd fOnstifuiiOnaI Disease;
aHd I'd, ft Requires a. (on-

ASf, III fSU tOhSftfditOhut disease;
ami 2d, 1t Requires a (on-
stitutiOHaI Remedy.
These two facts now so well known to the
medical fraternity that local applications like snuffs
and inhalans, regarded best likely to give
only temporary relief To effect a permanent cure
of catarrh requires constitutional remedy like
Hoods Sarsaparilla, which by purifying the blood,
repairing the diseased tissues and impartng healthy
tone to the effected organs does give thorough and
iastlng cure.
81 want say for the benefit of suffering humanity
that Hoods Sarsaparla is
A Permanent Cure for Catarrh.
After suffering with catarrh in my head for a num-
Der of years. and using every obtainable remedy
was requested to take
Hoods SarsapariIIa
did SO, and after using three or four bottles am
healed of the most annoying disease the human sys-
tenn Is heir to-" p. b. STOUT Sheridan Ind
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05

If afflicted with sore eyes use DIR. Isaac rhomp-
sons Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05
lie Wns a Snuara Man.

1t was bright August afternoon
The sun beat its rays warmly upol
hundreds of acres of freckled, rosy
checked peaches down in Howell Coun
ty, Mo. Old Levi Howard's frui
farm was second to none of the small
er places in point of excellence O
product. but up to date no one haC
appeared to buy his peaches.
''Have you had no offer?" the ole
man was asked.
''Oh, yes" lie said. ga fellow
came along here seven weeks ago
when the first of the fruit was show
in signs of ripenin'. He said he'd be
back in five weeks an take 'em
all at five bits bushel."
"And hasn't he been here since?"
''No, he aint, an more'n that he
stayed here at the house an boarded
fer 'leven days, going out inter the
orchard ev'ry mornin' an takin' what
fruit was ripe"
'Did he pay you anything for his
board?"
"Nope. Said he was comm back
an ID fix it then. He borried So on
the same terms, too" the old fellow
added, with a hopeful air.
"Well, | don't think you'll ever see
him again, and you ought to pick youI
fruit and send it up to Kansas City,
''An' not hold it fer Mr.. Thomp-
son?"
''Why, no, he's an evident fraud"
''Look here, stranger, " said old man
Howard, ''two wrongs don't make nc
right, ez the feler said, an you bet et
Mr.. Thompson don't keep up his part
of the dealin' nobody kin ever say 'at
old Levi Howard Topped. I'm square
eff am pore. > Free Press.
Jedge Waxem's Political Proverbs
Some candidates don't own them
selves.
Wimmin can't improve politicks by
gittin' in um.
Raisin' family is good patriotism.
The people has more confldents in
a statesman eff he takes his Ticker
strate than eff he sweetens it.
Diplomats air a tricky breed.
Tain't safe to sware to stump
Speech
So far the Amerikin Eagel amt bit
of more'n he could chaw.
The Goddess of Liberty has got a
lease on the western con-
tinent, and pays rent to the Lord.
Wheat at IA dollar bushel makes
votes.
Speakin' of votes tan't quality SO
much as quantity that counts.
a man in politics has got TO trim
leetle now and then.-- Free Press.
1t takes about three seconds for a mes
sagc to go from one end of the Atlantic
ca &c 10 the other.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05

CONDUCTOR f. d. Loomis, Detroit. Mich
says: "'The effect of Halls Catarrb f,nra /.
E,,l, WE,onderiuln Write him about it. Sold by
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05

California boasts of wheat crop dou BILE
the size OF that of last year.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05

~ Montana is larger than the empire o.
Turkey W
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05
German
Syrup"
EorTbro,4, u,oe
FOrIh Ihroat andLungs

Il have been i'll for
Hemorrhage "about five years,
"have had the best
Five Years. medical advice,
land took the first
"dose in some doubt. This result
"ed in few hours easy sleep. There
twas no further hemorrhage tillnext
"day, when l had slight attack
(which stopped almost Immediate
"ly. By the third day all trace of
"blood had disappeared and had
recovered much strength. The
fourth day l sat up i'll bed and ate
"my dinner, the first solid food for
"two months. Since that time l
have gradually gotten better and
"am now able to move about the
"house. My death was daily ex-
"pected and my recovery has been
"a great surprise to my friends and
"the doctor. There can be no doubt
"about the effect of German Syrup,
"as l had all attack just previous to
sits use. The only relief was after
{" the first dose" J.R. LoUGHHEAD,
Adelaide, Australia. %
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05

There are now published 1,17S maga-
zines.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05

nm Inc lydia +. Finkham Medicine Co., Lynn.
To9 $50 gre giving away II beautiful illustrated
,nn "'oS should send their address and stamp for
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05
Wise Mothers

Use Dr. Hoxsie's Certain Group Cure. tho only
remedy in tho world that will cure a viol ont
SISe SIs, o., OF Group in half an hour. No opium.
Address A. i. IloXsic, Rnffalo u V ~ o'o
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05
Mammoth RAG.

The Overman Wheel Co., Chicopee
Falls, Mass, flung to the breeze one
of the largest United States flags evel
made (and possibly the largest), the
dimensions being 41x71 feet. This
monster flag was stretched from the
top of two five-story factories, and
gathered within the folds were mum.
erous flowers which fell into the crowd
below when unfurled.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05

&C l have been i'll for
" about five years,
have had the best
'' medical advice,
and | took the first
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-05

Only one man in 203 is ov,r six feet in
height.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-06

well-trained teachers can make them,
under system of management that is
commended by the best school workers
in the State. There is no denying the
fact that the Bellaire people have a
warm feeling for their schools and those
who conduct them. They may he pretty
free with their criticisms at times, but,
after all, they admit the train
ing of the yOuth of the city
is in good hands. No one ever charges
that the superintendent and his CO.
workers are inattentive to the welfare
of the children, or that they are lacking
id educational spirit. As the system OF
supervision and methods of instruction
are better understood the more popular
the school has become. In no other
place in Ohio is so much done for the
professional improvement Of the teach
ers. The growing efficiency OF the
schools shows that efforts OF the teach
ers to better for themselves for their
work is bearing good fruits, and the
Bellaire children are to have still bet
ter educational advantages than ever.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-06
LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO, June 5.-Cattle, receipts 5000
head shipments $500 head; market active
higher: prime extra steers 81 00a6 %; good
to choice. 81 50a5 90; others a S0a5 %; Tex
ans 81 Goat 20; COWS "A 20a5 90.
Hogs-Receipts $4,000 head; shipments,
Il, 600 head; market steady; common 81 GOA
%; mixed and packers 81 35a4 SO; prime
heavy a 30; light a 50a4 %.
Sheep-Receipts 5000 head; shipments
$500 head; market steady; Texans 81 95a
4 %; westerns Il 65a5 %; natives 81 75a
) 80: lambs s. 50a7 %.
EAST LIBERTY, PA, June 5.-Cattle--
Receipts, ,344 head shipments, ,260 head {;
nothing doing; all through consignments.
Hogs-Receipts, $3.50 head: shipments
1850 head market fair; Philadelphias
81 SOa4 90; best Workers and mixed a 7Oa
4 so; common TO fair Workers 81 5Oa4 20:
Sheep-Receipts, 500 head; shipments,
$500 head; market firm. E42aH
CINCINNATI, o., June Hogs. easy
common and light 50 15a4 80; packing and
butchers a 4Oa4 -; receipts, 2,OCO head
shipments, $50 head.