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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
RECIPES.

Fried Cakes-To make nice fried
cakes which are free from grease, the
| following is excellent: One and one
half teacupfuls each of sugar and sour
milk, two well beaten eggs, four table
spoonfuls of melted butter, pinch of
salt, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved
in little water. Flavor with nutmeg.
Mix all together and add enough -four
to roll without sticking. Fry one-half
lard and one-half tallow. To prepare
the tallow, boil it in water until
melted. Let it cool and remove the
tallow.
Pound Cake-One pound of -four,
one pound of sugar, l t pounds of but
ter, ten eggs. one nutmeg grated, one
wineglass of rose water. Beat the
butter and sugar together; when it is
perfectly light stir in the eggs, which
must have been whisked to a thick
froth add the -four, then the nutmeg
and rosewater. Butter your pan, line
it with paper, which should be we'll
buttered, and pour in the mixture.
Bake it for three hours in a moderate
oven. When the edges of the cake
appear to shrink from the sides of the
pan the cake will be done.
French Rolls-Take one-half pint OF
scalded milk and one yeast cake. AL
low this to cool, then add one-half
tablespoonful of butter (melted) and
the same of lard, a tablespoonful of
sugar, teaspoonful of salt and quart
of sifted flour. Mix, and let this stand
over night in warm place. Knead
hard in the morning, then roll it out
about an inch thick. Spread this over
with butter, and cut as if for biscnit,
fold together, put them in pan and
let them rise again. They must be
very light each time. Bake as you
would biscuits. Unless you have
late breakfast it is difficult to serve
these on time, but they are very nice
for dinner, and can be warmed over
for breakfast. If desired for dinner,
set the sponge about 9 a. m.
Macaroni Ia Creme-Break one
half pound of pipe macaroni into inch
pieces, wash them thoroughly, and
place in farina boiler, with hot wa
ter enough to cover the whole. After
swelling out add one tablespoonful of
salt, boil ten minutes and then drain
off the water. Pour large cup of
sweet milk over it, and let it cook un-
til tender. While the above is cook
ing heat one cup of milk in pipkin or
porcelain-lined kettle until it boils.
Thicken this with one teaspoonful of
flour previously dissolved in cold wa
ter; stir in tablespoonful of butter
and lastly an egg. Mix all thoroughly
together, and cook a few minutes un-
til it thickens, then dish up the maca-
roni, pour the sauce over it and serve.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
BUTTER BACTERIUM.

So far as the quantity of the butter
is concerned, says Walter Thorp in
London Dairy, our old friend, the lac
ticacid bacterium, seems to be the
chief if not the only agent, but it does
not seem to be directly concerned in
the production of the butter flavor.
Out of the many bacteria occurring in
ripening cream Storch found only one
species which was capable of produc-
ing the true butter aroma the rest
produced either Indifferent or bad
havors. Since only this single species
from among SO many is capable of Civ
ing to the butter such flavor as we
desire, the odds against its overcrowd-
ing the rest are very considerable, and
we cannot wonder at the difficulties of
producing high-class butter of uni
formly agreeable flavor. If by culti
walton of the bacterium, which is said
to produce the true flavor, we can in
sure the success of our cream ripening
as far as flavor is concerned by inocu-
lation with this particular bacterium
at an early stage, then we ought to be
able to produce cream of uniform
and proper degree of ripeness without
difficulty.
The bacterium found by Storch has
been cultivated and used in some of
the German creameries, and it is
claimed for it that it insures certainty
in the results of the ripening. DIR. H.
W. Conn, of the Wesleyan University,
also claims to have found mlcro-or-
ganism which produces the true but
ter flavor, but the result of his expert
ments with it are not yet published,
and there is great deal of work to be
done before we can attain the practi-
cal results we are hoping for.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
THE CARE OF SEED POTATOES.

Successful growers of potatoes have
learned that to insure a good crop the
seed must be selected carefully the
previous fall. The best results come
from making the hills as they are dug,
choosing well-formed potatoes, free
from scab or prongs and with smooth
surfaces. Neither the very large nor
very small potatoes should be taken.
The first will be misshapen, and the
last will be apt to be poorly ripcned.
Something depends on how the potato
has been grown. If the vines kept
healthy until the crop of tubers was
fully ripened, the very smallest make
good seed. After selection the main
point is to keep the seed at as low u
temperature rs possible without dan
ger OF frost These conditions are best
secured by keeping potatoes in dry out
of doors pits. In our Northern eli
mate after the covering of the pit has
frozen over it will not thaw out again
all winter. If there is danger of thaw
ing too early, a covering of straw will
maintain an even degree of tempera-
ture below freezing, while protecting
the potatoes from too much cold. The
tubers will come out with eyes as DOR
mnnt as when they were put in the pit.
The potatoes will be harder by evapo-
ration of their moisture, while those
kept in cellars will be made soft by
take out the substance needed to give
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
art to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
enipg them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug.
gsts in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
THE HIGHEST AWARD.

Royal Baking Powder has all the
Honors-In Strength and Value 20
per cent. above Its Nearest Com
petitor.
The Royal Baking Powder has the
envlable record of having received the
highest award for articles OF its class
--greatest strength, purest ingre-
dlents, most perfectly combined
wherever exhibited in competition with
others. In the exhibitions of former
years, at the Centennial, at Paris,
Vienna and at the various State and
Industrial fairs, where it has been e1-
hibited, judges have invariably award.
ed the Royal Baking Powder the high
est honors.
At the recent Worlds Fair the ex.
animation for the baking powder
awards were directed by the chief
chemist of the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington. The chief chem
lists official report of the tests of the
baking powders, which was made for
the specific purpose of ascertaining
which was the best, shows the leayan-
ing strength of the Royal to be 100
cubic inches of carbonic gas per ounce
of powder. OF the cream of tartar
baking powders exhibited, the next
highest in strength tested contained
but l33 cubic inches of leavening gas.
The other powders gave an average OF
Ill. Tho Royal, therefore, was found
OF twenty per cent. greater leavenina
strength than its nearest competitor.
and forty-four per cent. above the
average of all the other tests. Its
superiority in other respects, however,
in the quality of the food it makes as
to fineness, delicscy and wholesome
ness, could not be measured by fig
ures.
1t is these high qualities, known and
appreciated by the women of the coun-
try for so many years, that have
caused the sales of the Royal Baking
Powder, as shown by statistics, to ex-
ceed tho sale of all other baking pow.
ders combined
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

1t is a great complaint with farmers
that their time is wasted with una
voidable accidents, as sick animals,
escaped stock, insect pests, and what
not, writes Louise NJ. Fuller. 1t GER
tainly is true that weather means more
to the farmers than to any other class.
"The weather must lift the mortgage
on the farm, pay the taxes and feed
and clothe the family" The farmer
must deal hand to hand with all the
forces of nature as we'll as human ma
ture, and, however wisely, he cannot
count his time like other men, or say
positively what he will do on the NOR
row. Nevertheless, the farmers time
is worth as much as any mans from
business point of view, because OF
the economy Of nature, which seconds
every honest effort at economy of
time in her own way. l learned this
by watching the way the best farmers
work, and, noticing that, like nature,
they are never in hurry, but they
never lose any time; they find some
rse for every sort of weather. That
weather which is too wet for anything
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
THE IRONING OUTFIT,

Whenever it is possible it is we'll to
keep separate closet for articles per-
tanning TO ironing. Keep the irons,
starch, bluing, holders, boards, sheet,
blanket and other articles pertaining
to ironing in this closet, which should
be warm and dry and shut off from
the dust. If the ironing boards are
kept in closet in general use, it is
best to put them in bags of bedtick.
ing or some other heavy cotton, and
hang them up where they will be free
from dust and dirt. If they are kept
in n closet reserved for the ironing
material they need not be covered.
Tubs and ironing-boards should be
kept in a cold place, and there is no
objection to little dampness. New
York World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Never jerk or whip colt. !
fashioned perennials are coming
in again.
All weak queenless colonies should
be united with Others.
Pure cane sugar is one of the best
foods for wintering bees.
If honey is not sealed it is liable to
become thin and watery.
1t is a mistaken notion that all
honey which candies is pure.
Now is the time to barrel the road
dust and keep it in dry place.
1t is best not to winter your own
cockerels for breeders, as rule.
By increasing the yield per acre the
cost of production is diminished.
The number of eggs depends largely
upon the amount of feed and care given.
In raising colt the feed should be
liberal and varied, but not excessive.
A colt's education should begin
when the animal is twenty-four hours
old.
The second year hen only lays
half the number of eggs that she does
the first year.
The ideal diet for poultry should be
neither too soft nor too hard, but o
happy medium.
New raspberry canes should be
pinched back to induce throwing out
side branches.
When the cat and chickens lie down
together the latter are always given
the inside place.
Because turkeys are good foragers it
will not pay to let them go without
proper feeding.
One pound of cut meat and bone is
considered the proper daily allowance
for sixteen hens.
Anything in the vegetable line, pro-
vided it is sweet and clean, will form
acceptable food.
Colts should be handled with kind
ness and may be halter r-broken when
fonr months old.
Bran for chicks should always bs
scalded and allowed to stand for q
time in order to soften.
Ounces do we'll in either sandy or
clay soils, the principal requirements
being fertility and good tilth.
Generally, the smaller the farm the
better the cultivation and the greater
the profit for the expenditure.
Pigs should be taught to eat before
being weaned, SO as to make the
change from milk to feed easily.
1t is not desirable to give too much
red pepper and ginger to the poultry.
Once or twice week is sufficient.
A good breed is not alone sufficient
to make money. Good care, good
food and good quarters are also neces-
sary.
1t is cheaper to make your stables
warm than it is to supply your horsen
with the extra feed necessary to keep
out the cold occasioned by cracks IN
tie stable.
For horses ensilage should be used
sparingly, as full feeding upon il
sometimes induces collie, but it may
be safely used to some extent in con
nection with grain and hay.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
August
Flower

For two years suffered terribly
with stomach trouble, and was for
all that time under treatment by a
physician. He finally, after trying
everything, said my stomach was
worn out, and that 1 would have to
cease eating solid food. On the rec
ommendation of a friend 1 procured
bottle of August Flower. Itseem-
ed to do me good at once. Igained
strength and flesh rapidly. l feel
now like a new man, and consider
that August Flower has cured me" +"
Jas. Z. Dederick, Saugerties, N.Y. g
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
HOW TO BAKE BREAD.

Half the failures with housekeepers
in making good bread, are due to their
ignorance as to the proper condition
of the oven for baking. For, no matter
how perfectly the sponge may rise or
how well it is worked, if put in cool
oven it will be porous and tough, and
liable to ferment and become sour.
When bread is ready to bake, the oven
should be very hot, rs the heat will
cause it to rise at once almost double
it's former size. A good test for the
inexperienced is to sprinkle a little
-four on the bottom of the oven; if it
browns Immediately the bread can be
safely set in.
Ii bread is allowed to rise too much
before setting in the oven it is apt
to fall and rise again, by which it will
become coarse. This can be prevented
by working the bread done, adding
fresh -four and molding in the pans;
the -four will keep the bread from
souring, as it might do without it.
After a crust is formed on the bread,
the oven should be allowed to moderate
little, and be kept at a regular heat
until the bread is done. When taken
from the pans the loaves should be
placed, uncovered, in such position
as will expose the surface to the air.
This will prevent the crust from being
hard, as well as permit the rapid es-
cape of gas involved in the process of
fermentation. Ladies' Home Compan-
ion. -
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

ENGLAND has no monopoly of
grand old men," Good and great
Marshal Canrobert, kneehag In the
Chapel of the Invalides, when his
fellow veteran MacMahon was brought
home to his last rest under the same
roof with Napoleon, furnished a
splendid example Of endurance amid
the worlds rough usage Canrobert
is eight-four, and the last of the
French Marshals. He has seen his
fellow campaigners in Algeria and
those by whom he fought side by
side at Magenta and Solferino depart
one by one; yet he fingers, as if un-
willing to surrender the baton which
represents such historic memories
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

Ii it pays to import sheep from
abroad in order to improve our breeds,
one would imagine it would also pay
the sheep-raiser to study the process
by which these sheep have been raised
to their present state of excellence.
One of the most potent factors has
been the feed. A mixed ration should
be supplied in which roots play the
most important part. Sugar beets,
mangolds, rutabagas and turnips are
all of great value to the flock. and
crops of them should be sowed and
harvested regularly, if we would make
a success of sheep-raising. New York
World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
OVEREATING,
rhs Habit Il Fraught with the 0ravsss
Danger.

rhs Habit Ii Fraught with the aravsss
Danger.
Because Of the peculiar significance
which now attaches to the word
temperance" we should not forget
ehat Every man that strfveth for
the mastery is temperate in all
eh'ngs' and that 1t ls just as bind
ing ON US to show moderation in our
use OF the necessities OF life as in our
use of its luxuries. Even the neces-
stiles Of life may become superfui-
ties through their quantity and quail
lty being raised to the point Of lux
ury. Take, for example, the food
supply of the body.
1t is obvious that the body must
have rich, force-supplying food in
order to carry on Its daily tasks. Yet
the fact is often lost sight OF that an
)ver supply of food to the body, like
)vercoaling the steam engine, is pro-
ductiye of nothing but waste. More
steam is made than can be used.
Nor is this all. In such a finely
adjusted machine as the human body
40 one piece Of the complex organism
can be overworked except at the
ultimate expense of the rest.
Not only are we infiicting the
stomach with an unnecessary amount
of work when we crowd 1t with food,
but we are to the same extent i'm
posing upon the other organs. AS a
matter of fact, it is the liver which
generally gets the brunt of the extra
burden, though the heart and kid
neys are also affected to a greater or
less degree.
Among the disorders caused by
this superfuous condition are hemor-
rhoids or bleeding piles.
To ascertain the proper proportion
between the demand and supply OF
the body, one must consider not only
the peculiar needs Of each person,
but the season of the year. Heat is
the unit of force in the body; but
while force-supplying food may be as
necessary in summer as in winter,
the need Tor fats, or hydro carbons,
as they are called, to maintain the
bodily heat is by no means so urgent.
For one who is properly fam liar
with the resources Of his own body,
and who is not blinded by appetite,
1t is comparatively easy to discover,
to remarkable degree Of nicely, the,
amount and kind Of food which his
system requires.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
Scrubbiny George Washington.

Such people as walked down Wall
street at 8 o'clock this morning saw an
act of vandalism. Two colored men,
with long handled brushes, were scrub
bing the statue of George Washington
in front of the Sub-Treasury building,
and removing all the beauty which
time and weather add to all bronzes.
Potine is the term applied to the at.
mospheric effect upon bronze, and
potiue was what the workers were re.
moving from the statue. Henry T..
Chapman, the broker, who owns many
masterpieces of art, was one of the
witnesses of this. He said to the
Mail and Express man:
"The glory of pieces in bronze is
the potine which the wear and tear oi
the atmosphere puts on them. 1t takes
years to accomplish this. have
watched with great interest the growth
of potine on the Washington statue,
and was astonished this morning to see
the men scrubbing the statue and re.
moving the potine You would never
see such thing in Europe. We are
young enough as it is, and there is no
reason why we should try and make
ourselves younger. Japan bronzes
taken from the old temples are beauti.
full, and all because the potine is on
them. 1t is vandalism to remove it..
When saw the men this morning they
had reached as far us the head, and
were busy at work. The best bronze
we have in the city is the equestrian
statue of Washington in Union Square.
Fortunately no attempt has been made
to spoil it SO far. New York Mail
and Express.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS,
KEEP A SET OF sTRAINERs.

There is nothing that makes so
much difference between ordinary and
delicate cooking as set of strainers.
1t is important to own collection.
There should be one of very fine wire
for sitting soda, spices, etc, and for
staining custards and iellies. There
should be others with meshes from
ore-sixteenth to one-eighth of an inch
in diameter; also a squash strainer
and colander. Extension wire
strainers are convenient. Keep also a
supply of strainer cloths, made from
coarse crash or cheese cloth. New
York Telegram.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
Eny case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Props. Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known +. j. Che
ney for the last l5 years, and believe him per-
fecty honorable In all business transactions
and financ'ally able to carry out any obliga-
tion made by their firm.
WEST g. TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
Ohio.
wALDI>G, RrNSAN & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, OHIO.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blool and mucous sur
faces of the system: Price, 75c: per bottle Sold
by all Druggists. Testimonials free.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-25
SELECT SIFTINGs,

Geography, as science, was intro
duced into Europe by the Moors abou
1910.
The city of Benares, on the Ganges
is to the Hindoos the holiest place OF
earth.
A certain forest plant in Japal
grows to be about six feet high il
three weeks.
The family with the longest know
pedigree is that of Confucius, which
forms the aristocracy of China. Con,
fucius lived $50 years B. G.
A pumpkin eight feet in circumfcr
ence and four feet in height is an i'm
pressive object in the field in which it
grew in Saline County, Missouri.
By the force of wave at Bishops
Rock lighthouse, the bell was torn
from its fastenings, although situated
100 feet above high water mark
A swarm of flies will make their ap
pearance at a car window and easily
keep pace with n train, even though il
be rushing across the country forty
miles an hour.
The Grass Valley (Call Telegraph
says: ga mining location notice was
recently recorded which reads: q
hereby claim 1900 feet of this ground
up Big Squaw Ravine in wobbly di
rection.
The janitor of the Presbyterian
Church at New Richmond, Ohio, is
Thomas Perry, seventy six years old.
He is a descendant on his mothers
side of Joseph Brandt, the famous
Iroquois chief.
The young dandies of the Latin
Quarter of Paris wear tall stovepipe
hats whose brims have an exaggerate
downward droop, and whose high
crown has what an artist would call an
''entasis," or decided convex curve.
No kissing ever occurs in Japan ex-
cept between husband and wife, not
even between a mother and child, no
shaking of hands in salutation. If one
we're to offer kiss to japanese
maiden she would probably think she
was going to be bitten.
Frequently kind of beryl was used
in place of glasses, hence the German
name of brille. The manufacture OF
spectacles was first carried on in Italy,
afterward in Middleburg, in Holland,
but as early as 1882 we have spectacle
makers mentioned at Nuremburg.
The picked olives of trade are put
up very carefully by the packers. They
must first be picked by hand several
weeks before they are matured. After
being picked they are stepped in caus.
tic soda and water They are then
soaked and picked in brine for several
days.
An interesting occurrence at the
Carlisle Indian School the other day
was the marriage of Otto Wells, full
blooded Comanche, to Mary Park
hurst, an Oneida girl After the cere
mony they went to Wells's home, in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he
is tenant farmer. He is graduate of
the school, which he entered as n
blanketed Indian boy.
The street money changer is an in
teresting character in Spanish cities
He stations himself at principal
street corner early every morning and
exchanges bag of coppers for silver.
By 10 O'Clock his bag is exhausted and
he goes home. All the servants on
their way to market get their money
changed by him, as they are not skilfui
in counting and afraid of false coins.
He gives them full count, his coppers
being obtained from the bankers, who
get rid of their coins at discount.