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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24
WAITING WAS USAGE
Old Grimshaw saw no Use In s.a..,
Ahous FOR Three YEAS.

Old Gri@shAw saw NO Use In spso.,
Ahous for Three Ysas..
"Mr. Grimshawg
well. what is it?n
u was Henri spoondrlit oulg i.
and heir Of old spoondrlft ths a. ~
merchant. who spoke first. aceorai,
10 the Chicago Times. He hss ~.
Maude Grimshaw in the parloe W.
entered .hs library to ask her ta,bs-,.
consent.
MIR. GFimshaw. III
''Yes, | know. You are youps n,
SpOondrIit. son OF your daddv ~
all that. but don't spring any "a
chestnuts on me. II you have NJ.
thing TO say out With II.
.'Mr, Grimshaw, for the last thr-a
years have have
Yes, I've seen you spoonl,.
around here for the last threa or fo,,
years You must know the hons
pretty we'll BY this time i ths,s
anything sou wish 20 say 10 me $.
fore We part2n
"sirl ! love love that Is /
love
Pudding. probablyP So dol. fit,
the right sort Young man. 40 yol
think ! care two continental cooked
hats whether you love pudding 3
not
"Mr Grlmshaw. can / speak q
your pleadingly inquired the yoaag
man
Speak 20 me, Why. blame roa.
eyebrows. I've been trying nv be,,
10 get you 70 talk, What "a thuhas-
ails you. anyhowa II yuu want !
nickel FOE car fare. why don't yos
ask for il like a man instead 81
chest protectorgH
''For three years have loved yosr
daughter Maudep' desperately a..
nonneed Henri
''ion have' Then You ara an IDIOT
A man who viii spoon around ios
three long years hasa the sense q
y chiekadee Does Mande suspee.
that you love her. a. sou cali lEs7
''She does am sure that she
likewise returns ms love
.'Yos. she's just aatheaded enough
She could have her pick % d d0EaE
football chaps, and yet she WAITS .
marry young man Hho couidn'i paii
a turnlp up by the roots!'
'Mr GrlmshAW. ! am not an aih.
lete. but | will
shut up You moan you VII
learn 70 ride q bike or become
champion runner. but don't care
two cents abous lha.i Hos quick
can you marry MandoF
"WhY. in two or three months. Y
the dear angel Il willing
Two or three months fcsnE
man, you skate hack 20 the parior
and tell her It's got 20 como % With.
in two weeks Not a blamed day
ioager' I've been ready 20 give ny
consent for tho last Two years and a
hair. and now tho spooning masi
come 10 IA cad Go hop skate
get ready : marry or die
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24

Bobby. who has been sitting pa.
tiently half an hour-Mr. Boomer,
wish you would pop the question to
Bella.
Bella Robert, you naughty boy,
what possessed you to make so pre-
posterous a remark?
Bobby. sulkily Well. anyway, ma
said if he did you'd jump at the
chance, and / want to see you Jump.
Texas Siftings
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24
THE FARM AND HOME.
ROTATION FOR FRUITS AS
WELL AS GENERAL CROPS.
May Become a Necessity for Old Or
charsIs in the Fight Against Disease
aud Insects-Sour siOP-Farm Notes
and Home Hints.


Crop rotation has become quite
essential to agriculture in order 10
keep up the fertility Of the soil, but
very few seem to consider il neees-
sary to extend this same plan 10 the
fruit trees, vines and shrubs. Never
theless, it is pretty well known now
that the continuous growing Of any
one crop Of fruits in one place tends
to concentrate all of the blights,
diseases and fungi that iniure our
plants. Often the only way 10
destroy these diseases is TO kill on
all Of the plants and trees, and TO
burn root aud branch. BY trans
ferring the orchard 10 another part
OF the farm we can often obtain better
results than if we devoted all our
time to spraying and picking OF In
iected leaves.
We generally select the best soil
for potatoes and wish 10 grow them
there continually, but in time blight
and rot make it impossible, and We
have to move the potato field The
same is true with onions, sweet pota-
toes, cabbages and other vegetables
Now the same holds exactly true
with raspberries, blackberries. cur
rants and other plants. We can In
some instances keep down the dis
eases by continuous spraying, but In
time the diseases become 50 general
that an extra wet season is sure TO
make the fungi gel the better Of rs.
Our straw berry beds shoulds be
changed every few years and placed
in new localities where diseases will
not make their life precarious, say :
the American Cultiyator Raspberry
vines. currants and goose berry
bushes cannot be moved So easily
but new orchards have 20 be planted
every year or so. and these new ones
should be planted as far from the old
ones as possible Even IN the apple
and pear orchard something Ia this
line can be done. Old orchards a.
rule suffer more from blight than
young ones. and grubs and insects
increase rapidly in numbers II the
new orchards are planted right along
side Of them they are infested with
the insects and diseases early in their
life. Grape vines require change
probably more than any other fruit
and every new vineyard planted
should be separated from the old ones.
II the land is planted with other
crops for a couple OF seasons the
germs Of diseases will get out Of the
soil.
We can ward of disease fairly we'll
with spraying. and il is right that
this should be kept up persistently.
but with the present increase Of in
sects and diseases in old orchards
the future must bring about such
changes that It will be absolutely
necessary to adopt a system Of rota.
tion in our fruit crops the same as
now practised with other crops. H.
il also a question 10 bc considered
whether such change would make
vast difference in the soil product
iveness We know the rotation for
field crops makes the soil richer. and
improves IL so that the crops are
lager and better DO not all fruit
trees, plants and vines draw from
the soil certain elements which
must be supplied in the cheapest
way by a POtatiou2
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24

In Southern Europe the peasants
always eat fruit IN It's natural shapo
and never think OF treating ~ %
dose Of sugar. salt or other season.
ing. Around Naples and In MalagA
the people bite n hole in tho orange,
suck out tho juice and then tnro"
the orange away. Small America
people often do the same. bnt NV
American must try his hand a. III
proving nature, so he puts a lump :.
sugar In II. An orange plants
thinks such a thing desocration'
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24

a scientific man says that he aaa
made n discovery 10 Is that w
worst air Is found in two strata one
nsar the ground everybody knows
that and the other at height q
about ninety feet. This hoign.
represents tho average altituae
Of the discharge Of gas. SMOKE,
and offensive fumes given 2,
10y factories and other industrial
appurtenances OF a city IL has also
been found within n few years tnas
one Is just as apt TO get malaria \ e.
lives on dry, weIl-drained Slope
above marsh or stagnant water q
II no lived In the marsh.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24
His Compensation.

Wandering Willie-There' some-
thin in that doctrine bout castin'
yer bread on the waters.
lettering Proceed!
Wandering Willie-W Why, a cove
asked me to hold his coat while he
fixed his horses hoofs, and / held the
coat Now the coat holds me. See?
Boston Transcript
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24

Mr.. Richfello - Miss Beauties
shoe-lace came unfastened. and she
let me tie it.
Miss Pretty -She wears such tight
corsets she can't stoop.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24
a CommIssIon.

Pipkin- How much ought to pay
the clergyman
Potts-That lies entirely with the
bride.
GLOW lies with herr"
1T all depends on how much you
are to get with her. Truth.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24

A free circulation OF air. especially
on low ground, Is often better
guarantee against injury from freez-
ing than is a wind break. II Is in
cold still weather, rather than when
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24
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NE evening. in the
neighborhood Of
well, no matter
how many years
ago, four German
officers were eat
ing pate de fois-
grasand drinking
champagne in the
common hall OF
the Aiaison Rouge
at Strasbourg.
Eight or ten bot
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-10
LUCKLESS BABIES.
A Strange Phase of Life in New York q d
Other Large Cities.

other Large CITIES.
1t used to be thought that mothers
tenderness was something no power
could efface, but when one examines
the condition of the suffering INDECENT,
and especially of those who owe it in
some degree to themselves that they
are in want, one is led to modify such
opinion. Almost all of the mothers
among these people who come under
condemnation, however, are they that
have degraded themselves by the use
of intoXicants. The mother has to be-
come lower than a beast before she
can abuse her baby. But when the
records of societies for the aid of chill
dren show that children in arms have
been whipped with thongs and straps,
have been thrown as missiles from one
infuriated parent to another have
been scared with hot irons by mad and
drunken fathers and mothers, have
even met with worse cruelty, too
shocking for recital in our sensitive
ears, one sees how possible it Is for
man and woman to fall into condi-
tion even lower than that of the
brutes.
That a mother can desert her new
born baby, leaving it to the mercy of
the race, or even do so knowing that
speedy death is the best thing that can
happen to it, we are all aware; but
when child is found creeping in the
garbage of tenement house yard, it
seems as if the child had been in the
mothers arms long enough for love to
have grown so that such desertion
ha iG 20 4
Gcult to understand the condition of q
mother who Graves strong drink to such
an extent that she sells wardrobe and
bedclothes and furniture to buy 1t
while her children starve, or splits
chair and table for kindling-wood
rather than spend for that the money
that goes for drink; or even that of the
more kindly disposed woman who dulls
cold and hunger for her children by
irving them the poison too. The cat
loves her kittens better than that; she
does not cast them off till they can do
for themselves; the wild bear of tho
woods who dies for her cubs at need is
the nobler animal.
1t should move the heart of every
mother who has been kept from temp
tation herself, and whose rosy darlings
nre shielded by warm tenderness, to
think of these wretched little beings,
who would be too amazed if brought
into such happiness as theirs, to know
what it meant. 1t should seem to
these fortunate mothers that 1t is not
enough to do their duty within their
own four walls; that part of their
duty lies beyond, where these little
creatures are to be found in their
squalor and distress; and that aside
from the obligation to the neighbor
thus involved is the further obligation
to their own children of preventing, as
far as may be, such ruin.-lIarper's
Bazar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-10

french nougat is one of the most de-
licious of confections, and this Is the
way to make it; Be sure the nuts are
fresh, and prepare generous supply.
You must have Brazil nuts, peanuts,
hickory nuts and almonds, and also
some walnut meats. Chop them ALL
but not fine enough to make them oily.
Stew them as thick Us possible on n
shallow tin pan that has been well
creased with sweet butter; mix in with
the meats some candied orange and
lemon peel and half dozen finely
chopped stoned dates. Boil your sirup,
made of two pounds of sugar and cup
of water, until drop hardens in cold
water. Add tablespoonful of strained
lemon juice and then pour over the
nuts; mark into squares while soft and
let it cool before taking from the pan.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-10

This description applied to me had
not meant to overhear it. but If ladies
will come and sit behind pots OF ever
green at dance, and discuss their fell
low guests in clear tones, the chances
are about even that some friend of the
victim, If not the unhappy creature
himself, overhears them. The worst
of it in this case was that | knew it
was true, every word of it | was an
unlicked cub, and heavens, how my
strength oppressed mel
longed to be a navy on railroad,
a pioneer in the far west; anything
but what | was, subordinate in a city
office. | hated London. Sometimes
when | walked up Piccadilly in cor
reot hat and regulation coat, l longed
to dance wildly into the roadway or
seize middle-aged gentleman round
the place where his waist should be
and hurl him across the street. Very
mad, wasn't it? But | was young
giant in muscle and height, and ha
no outlet for it. l had tried all sorts
of dissipation, of course, but that did
not do any good, either; it was hard
work and healthy living l wanted. If
! had been alone in the world l would
have been off somewhere long before
this, but l had a sister dependent on
me, and If l turned myself into n col
onist, what could she do?
Brutal, was |? Cad, | could be If |
liked. | was too big all over to remain
comfortably in the vanished suit of
conventionality; burst it out at all the
seams A spirit of mischief came over
me. l knew the girl who had applied
that pleasing epithet to me; she was
Miss Russell, an heiress, SO ] walked
quietly around the screen and asked
her to dance with me.
do believe 1t was not humbug, she
was afraid of me, in fact, too much
afraid to refuse. | did not wonder at
it when had her in my arms; she was
such little bit of thing. / could
have snapped both her wrists in one
hand. l felt as If I'd got piece of
porcelain in my charge, SO that l had
to steer very carefully.
'Do you know, Mr.. Markham" she
said, as we sat out afterwards, "that
am often half-frightened of you; you
look so fierce.r
longed to ask: "And brutal?" but
was afraid of frightening her, SO only
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-10

SHERIFF'S SALE.-By virtue of Il writ of
- Fl. Ea issued out of the court of common
pleas of Luzernc county, there will be exposed
to public sale ON saturday, May IL, 1895,
at III O'Clock Il. m in the arbitration room at
the court house, Wilkes Barre Pa, all the
right title and interest of the defendant in and
TO the following described piece, parcel and
tract of land, viz:
All that certain lot or piece of land situate on
the north side of South street, between Centre
street and Washington street, Freeluud bor-
and described as follows, viz:
beginning at corner on the north side Of
South street, and twenty-four ca feet from
line of lands belonging to JeddO Coal Company,
and one hundred and eighty-three OS0 feet six
% inches east from southwest corner of lands
belonging to Thomas Brennan, said corner be-
ing on the east side of Centre street; thence by
lands of Joseph Birkbeck north three C0 de-
grees thirty go minutes east one hundred and
fifty Q5O feet to corner on line of Il ten OO)
foot alley; south cighty-sX $50 degrees thirty
t3O) minutes; east fOrty-iive 40 feet ten 0U
inches to II corner; thence by other lands of
Joseph Birkbeck south three 60 degrees thirty
GD minutes; west one hundred and fifty O50 feet
to II corner on South street; thence by said
street north cighty-siX ISL degrees thirty G}O)
minutes; west lOrty-iivc G5) feet ten 90 inches
to the place of beginning.
The improvements consist of Il two and one
half story double dwelling and outhuusc.
Late the estate of the defendant il said writ
named with the appurtenances
Seized and taken in execution at the suit of
Lewis ii. LentZ VS.. Kate Davis
William Walters sheriff.
C. o. Stroh, attorney.
Sherih's Office April ID, 1894.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-10
HOW TO SLEEP SOUNDLY,
Put Pillows Under the Feet IN
stead Of Under the Il lad.
in Important Discovery Made by Ger
man Scientist-Womon Like the Pro-
fessor's scheme and Say 1t
Works Very Well.

A most important discovery has re-
Gently been made by German profess
sor that will materially improve the
physical and mental strength of all
who follow it's lesson, if the discovery
is really genuine, as the professor
claims it to be.
Superstition or legend or the custom
of years has had an influence upon us
while we slept that has been almost as
great as the like influences while we
are awake. 1t has been vaguely un-
derstood that if we sleep with our head
to the north 1t is much better than
pointing in any other direction can
possibly be, while lying upon our left
from heart disease, and lying upon
our back is quite as certain sign that
we are intending to snore.
Added to these, the idea has pos
sessed us that our head must be higher
than our feet, entirely overlooking the
fact that the typical American, ever
healthy, vigorous and good looking, is
invaria bly, represented in foreign pa
pers as sitting in a very low chair
with his feet on the convenient man
telpiece some yards, apparently, above
him.
But Prof. Fischer has changed all
that. He has demonstrated by series
of painstaking and careful expert
ments that we should sleep with the
feet slightly elevated, or the head
trifle lower than the feet, as he puts it,
and this condition he advises bringing
about by placing pillows under the feet
and none under the head.
The advantages claimed by Prof.
Fischer resulting from this manner of
lying are that the intellectual repose
is much more profound than obtained
by the present prevailing method; also
that amelioration of the nervous sys-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-10

the pole, and half way between the
first and second Stats. Fasten the vines
to this slat, and as the vine keeps
climbing upward, you must keep put
ting on Stats, and fastening the vines
to them. In this way you will soon
have the woodwork completely covered
with dense growth of green vines
and leaves, and such an abundance of
fruit that will astonish you. used
the yellow plum-shaped tomato, but
any vigorous sort with large top may
be used. The yellow fruit on my vines,
growing in clusters, was very orna-
mental, and admired by all who saw
them. Although not as valuable for
general purposes as some of the larger
red varieties, they make really fine
pickles, and are very acceptable in the
winter time, with the thermometer at
ten below zero, and snow to the top of
the front fence.-F'rank Finch, in Farm
md Fireside.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-10
Pretty Drape for an Easel.

One and half yards lemon-colored
silk; balls turquoise blue crochet
silk; 125 brass rings; fill all the rings
with double crochet, closely and firm
ly, then with needle and silk crossbar
the center of each ring. When all the
brass rings are filed form into wheels,
seven rings to wheel, one in the cen
ter and six surrounding. Baste on the
China silk, hemstitchcd on opposite
ends and both sides. Use the ravclings
to hemstitch with. When the wheels
have been neatly hemmed on the silk
at one end, with pair of scissors cut
out all the silk running upon the point
just as the wheels run. This will give
the wheel part an openwork look. Tie
on every ring at bottom heavy tassel
of the crochet silk.-lda BurlIhardt, in
Ohio Farmer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-10

Health, its understanding and pres
ervation, is fad just now. Lectures
on the subject in any of it's branches
are eagerly patronized by society lead
ers. Probably this is because beauty
of face and form were never more con-
sidered than at present, and our wom-
en- are beginning to find that there is
no real beauty without sound health;
this is one ostensible reason for the
craze. Another is that women do
more, achieve more than ever before,
and consequently they care more to
hear how they may keep themselves
in proper condition for work. A we'll
trained mind is mot the first thought,
although it is an important one; it is
the well-trained mind in well trained
body.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-10

ly, slowly, it moved on it's low end like
pivot Every second | expected the
explosion, and when / had let the end
rest again on pile of stones, and
raised myself did not care what hap
pened, for was blind and deaf with
the blood in my head. and thought
my heart had burst.
picked up Harold, and staggered
down the stairway and across the
rough flooring l had hardly cleared
the door when there was deafening
roar and hideous crash. Something
caught me on the back, and sent me
spinning, and believe lost conscious
ness.
1t was only few minutes after when
l opened my eyes, for those runaway
fellows were trying to lift me, but
raised myself, and saw to my amaze
ment that the rubbly old walls were
still standing. This fact had probably
saved us, for the whole damage was in
side, and only few loose stones had
flown out of the window holes. 1t was
one of these that had hit me. Harold,
poor little chap, had both his legs bad
~
the fracture worse in carrying him, but
could not help it.
When stood inside the building and
saw the whole of the wood and iron
work in heap on the floor, felt rath-
er sick; there would not have been
much left of us if we had been under it.
was strained and bruised all over
and it was months before | got right
again. The strangest thing is that
married the girl who had called me
brutal; she does not think me brutal
now. Harold showed his gratitude in
substantial way by getting me very
good berth as an agent, and relieving
me of my one burden, for as it hap
pened he married my sister
and my wife have travelled half over
the world, and been in all sorts of ou t-of
the-way places, and have made up my
mind never to judge by appearances
again, for that little bit Of porcelain
can stand the roughing every bit as
well as | can and, what's more, she
enjoys it-Black and White.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-10
GROWING TOMATOES.
Training the Vines So That They Are
Things of Beauty.

Things of Beauty.
Thinking that your readers might be
Interested in the manner in which
grew a tomato vine eight feet in
height, | have had an illustration
made which, with the description
give, will make 1t very easy to under
stand. First, procure two poles three
or four inches in diameter at the large
end, and ten feet in length. Place
them on the ground side by side, so
they will be about twenty inches apart
at the large end and ten inches
apart at the small end. Next, make
some Stats one inch thick by two or
three inches in width. Nail one across
at the top, another thirty inches from
the large ends, and three more be-
tween, SO as to be an equal distance
apart. Then set firmly in the ground,
and with hoe or spade make
basin-shaped hole at the base of this
ladder large enough to hold pail of
water. Set the plant in the
center, and after it has got we'll
rooted and stoclzy, say fifteen inches in
height, it should be tied to the first
slat and the hole filed with water
several times each day. When it has
grown pretty well up to the second slat
you must push the vine toward the
side on which the FIST slat was nailed.
Then nail on a slat on the other side Of
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-10

said: well, l am pretty strong, and
men aren't quite like women, you
know"
Aren't they?" she calculated, Just
motioning with her fan toward Harold
Titmouse, who was passing, and /
laughed, for | knew what she meant.
He was girl in mans clothes if ever
there was one. I'm going to stay at
his place, Hereward, Tomorrow" |
said
"Oh, I'm SO sorry; didn't l-now he
was friend of yours"
well, he isn't particularly, but he's
kind of connection, and Herewards
a splendid country place"
AS l bid her good night, I felt my
hand tremble when | held hers. |
should not have minded putting the
years back bit, to those times when
the strongest man carried off the girl
he wanted and kept her. | did not
like the way she smiled at Harold, for
l knew by experience how gold gilds
the Strengthened forehead of the fool"
There were lot of us at Hereward
the next day, and we had rare sport.
On the following morning l went up
with Harold to some pit opt-buildings