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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1895-05-21
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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1895-05-21
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17

'And mind" he had said in his
jocular way, 1--WE don't find the prop
erty still in you hands, Mr.. Corner.
1t would be pretty kettle of fish if
we had to prosecute you for unlawful
possession, wouldn't it?'
In accordance with these instruc.
tions I haggled with Mr.. Hurst lit
tie while, and then allowed him to
haveJhis way, whereupon he, having
satisfied himself that the bag which
restored to him still contained his
spoils, handed me $1,000 in what after.
ward turned out to be very creditable
limitations of Bank of England notes.
81 suppose you don't want no re.
ceipt?" he growled.
''No, thank you," said I, ''I think
we may mutually dispense with that
formality. Good morning"
turned to leave the room as ]
spoke, but before could unlock the
door it was burst open from the out
side, not, unfortunately for me, by
the police, but by the man whom the
landlord had called Bill, powerful
ruffian, who promptly knocked me
down and knelt upon my chest.
"Quick, Ben, get out of this" he
cried. "It's a plant. No, no. The
window, you fool" he added, as Mr..
Hurst, bag in hand, made for the
door. "The police are in the bar al
ready"
AS Mr.. Hurst opened the window he
cursed me with much volubility and
bitterness, and as soon as he was out
side on the leads he did worse.
"Stand clear, Bill" he cried, and
his friend obeyed him. scrambled
to my feet, but Immediately dropped
again with q bullet from Mr.. Hurst's
revolver in my shoulder
/ am not at all sorry that Mr.. Hurst
fired at meas Inspector Bland says,
it was much easier to convict him of
attempted murder than to prove he
actually stole those Jewels, and the
inspector doubts, too, whether he
would have got fifteen years if merely
charged with receiving them. But L
do wish he hadn't hit me.
However, even the pain my wound
still gives is not without its compensa-
ton. 1t prevents me from feeling
any twlnges of.conscience when 1 re-
fleet that my furniture cost Mr.. Hurst
his liberty, for Lord Yerbury took it
for granted that he was the theft, and
paid me the extra reward he had of
fered for his apprehension.
Inspector Bland won the promotion
he coveted, and is now stationed at
Lington. His wedding present was
characteristic. it was black bag,
with my initials on either side in white
letters about six inches long. ALL The
Year Round.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17
WISE WORDS.

Faith always implies the disbelief of
a lesser fact in favor of the greater.
A man has to go to the bad to get
there. 1t never comes to meet him.
The scientific study of man is the
most difficult of all branches of knowl-
edge.
A person is always startled when he
hears himself called old for the first
time.
There are several thin-s worse than
disappointment in love; rheumatism
is one.
Controversy equnlizes fools and wise
men in the same way, and the fools
know it.
Little minds rejoice over the errors
of men of genius as the owl rejoices at
an eclipse.
People get wisdom by experience.
man never wakes up his second baby
to see it laugh.
Life is circus in which everyone
takes the part of the clown some time
during his sojourn.
When strong brain is weighed
with true heart, it seems like balanc-
ing bubble against wedge of gold.
Everybody likes and respects self
made men. 1t is great deal better
to be made in that way than not to be
made at all.
If fault is found because woman
is too devoted to her husband, it orig
mated with women. Men never find
such things.
The man who boasts that he is no.
body's fool usually is SO from the fact
that no one takes him when he gives
himself away.
You may set it down as truth
which admits of few exceptions that
those who ask your opinion really
want your praise.
There are q good many real miseries
in life that Wa cannot help smiling at,
but they are smiles that make wrinkles
and not dimples.
Don't let your heart grow cold,
and you may carry cheerfulness and
love with you into the teens of your
second century, if you last so long.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17
The Rush Line of Pollock.

a remarkable sight to be seen near
ly any day at this season in the waters
about Eastport, Me-, is the rush of
shoals of pollock. The fish is not
greatly priced, locally or elsewhere,
but none of his size makes n bigger com
motion. When colony of shrimps
starts seaward, or a quantity of refuse
from the ''sardine" canneries at Lubec
comes down on the tide, the water
fairly boils with the rushing and leap
ing of the pollock. At distance it
looks at though the surface of the sea
were beaten by hail or heavy rain. -
Chicago Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17
HANDLING CORN FODDER.

John Howat, Iowa, tells in the
Homestead how he handles corn fod-
der. He says: Take an oak pole
twelve feet long that will square three
or four inches, set it in the rear end
of your hayrack, bolt it to the cross
bar of your rack, use two pieces Of
Xxi, one seven feet, the other nine;
bolt these to the same crosspiece as
the pole, then bolt to the pole at their
upper ends, bracing it at two places,
owing to the different lengths; use
2x4 five feet long to brace on the for
ward side of the pole to the bottom OF
rack; nail on; take "a 2x4 twelve feet
long and fasten with pivot on the
pole, five feet above the floor of the
rack, fasten the other end with rope
or chain seven or eight feet long to
the top of the upright pole. This
makes II swinging arm that will swing
out over your shock on either side.
Put a pulley on outer end of swinging
arm, another at lower end and one at
the rack; run a good rope through.
Use horse TO pull up the shocks.
Put rope around the shock, tie hook
on end of long rope, hook in rope on
shock and hoist. The man on the
wagon should have guy rope at
tached to the hook to guide the shock
as 1t swings up. Use n piece of rope
on every shock, leaving them on till
you unload, when you can use the der
rick to unload. If your stack gets
high, shorten your rope from pole to
swinging arm, raising the latter, Civ
ing more room for stacking high. By
this method all the fodder is saved,
and all the unpleasant part of hand.
ling corn fodder avoided. Two men
can tie and load ten shocks in twenty
minutes. We did it, and "what man
has done, man may do" For pivot,
l used large staple driven into the
pole, with the bolt taken out of an old
neckyoke, with an eye on one end
through which the staple was put, and
the arm driven on the bolt.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17

1t has been decided to substitute
civilians for enlisted men as attend
ants at army post exchanges, formerly
known as ''post canteens," which are
used for purposes of refreshment, re-
creation and general club rooms by
the regular soldiers. The chance was
suggested by General Schofield in
1890, and has since met with general
favor. The main reason for it is that
enlisted men have not proved success
'ul as managers at majority of the
exchanges. General Brooke, com
handing the Department of the Platte.
has informed the War Department
that he has adopted the new system at
all the canteens in his department,
md is confident that it will be of
great benefit to the persons directly
interested. His example will probably
be followed by other department com.
nanders.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17

The New York Sun thinks it will be
serious news to girls seminaries that
the pickle crop is short all over the
world this season. A trade journal
announces, with something like dis
may, that Europe is buying heavily in
this country, which means higher
prices soon. The crop in the Missis-
sippi River section was failure. 1t
is interesting as showing the proper
lions of the pickle business that 26O
ear loads Of pickles in brine were
bought in Chicago recently for ship
ment to the East and Europe.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17

cutting back limbs where this seems
necessary. When the ends of the
branches are pruned they should be
cut back to a limb, the wounds should
be covered with coal tar, and no stubs
should be left to decay. In removing
such large trees it is good practice to
prune the roots back by digging a
trench about the trees, say five feet
from the trunk, and if this trench is
filled with good soil new feeding roots
will start out during the next year, SO
that the tree will be in excellent con-
dition for removing in year from the
coming winter. Large trees can be
removed with success, but it costs time
and care and money. Persons who do
not choose to go to the extra expense,
however, can console themselves With
the reflection that, as a rule, it is best
to plant small trees, and that tree
ten or twelve feet high will probably
be as large in ten years as one planted
at the same time when it was twenty
five feet high.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17
ONION GROWING.

1t requires rich land to grow good
onions, and it must be fertility that
has been gradually impaired to the
soil. You cannot take ordinary farm
land and in a single season fit it for
growing onions. If stable manure is
used, it makes the soil too light while
it is decomposlng. The best onions
are grown on mucky soil that has
several seasons been cultivated to
shallow depth, and that is then kept
in fertility with some kind of concen-
trated manure. There needs to be q
hard stratum of soil three or four
inches below the surface. This makes
the onion roots spread out near the
surface, producing onions of flat shape.
When the soil is mellowed too deeply
large proportion of the crop will
grow to scullions. The seed from
scullions will produce scullions in re-
turn. AS there is constant tendency
to deterioration it is highly important
that only the best seed be used. The
skilful seed grower understands this
difference, and his seed from onions
that have for many crops been selected
from those having the best form is
well worth the extra price that is asked
for it. The best profits in growing
onions are now made by starting the
growth the previous season, planting
very thickly and saving the sets while
they are small. These are transplanted
in spring, and produce an earlier crop
than can be got from seed. They also
are much less trouble to keep free
from weeds, as the rows of young
onions can be seen within few days
after planting, and they grow very
rapidly.-Boston Cultivator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17

The enterprising dime museum man
ager, usually eager for novelties and
freaks of nature, has Just missed
most glorious opportunity, claims the
Washington Star. Mrs. Elizabeth
Neal, colored, died last month in Oak
land, Cal, at the age of 100 years and
eight months. There was nothing so
remarkable about her advanced age.
for instances of such long life are by
no means so infrequent as to be con-
sidered among the marvels. The in
terest in Mrs. Neal centres in her con-
fession that though she was born near
Richmond, Va, in 1874, and although
she was well acquainted with a num-
ber of colored folks who were en-
ployed in the Washington household,
she had never seen the Father of His
Country She had seen number of
men who were pointed out to her as
associates of tho first President, but
him she never saw. This is Il most re-
markable instance of fortitude and
truth. 1t stamps Mrs. Neal as a
woman among a million. The edge of
novelty was SO long ago worn from
the person of the Washington body
servant that there is refreshing
charm about the confession, nay, the
boast, of this honest dame, that she
had never seen George Washington.
Such woman, properly advertised
and lectured about, would doubtless
have made a fortune for any exhibitor.
With her perishes a tenacity to the
truth that may never again be dupli-
Gated. Horned men and two.headed
boys would have paled into insignif-
cance beside her.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17

Birmingham, England, is making a
good thing out of the war in the East.
Its gun and ammunition trade is more
active than it has been for twenty
years. The other week Chinese
agent placed an order for 30, 900 rifles
and bayonets, and over 1000, 600
military cartridges have been turned
out during the past two months. Since
The outbreak of hostilities no less than
$50, 900 rifles have been exported from
the city. Most of these, however
were weapons discarded by Germany
after the Franco-Prussian war. Birm-
tngham manufacturers bought them
cheap to convert them into more
modern weapons, but attempted CON
version was failure, and, with true
Brummagem thrift and cunning, they
were shipped to South Africa, trans
shipped in mid-ocean, and sold to the
Chinese Government.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
AXE your stock comfortable.

Make your stock comfortable.
Milk quickly but not hurriedly.
Let serene" good nature prevail.
Feed at regular intervals, changing
the food occasionally and cautiously.
The farmer who attends to his poul.
try and gives it proper feed and shell
ter makes it pay we'll.
1t is easy to stunt growing animal,
but by no means easy to undo the
evil. Bear this in mind.
A clean pen and clean trough,
good nourishment and proper exer-
cise,. are the pathways to success.
Many farmers neglect their oppor,
tunities. They. ought to know that hens
will pay well as their COWS, sheep
or hogs if taken care of.
Good fences are an important thing
on every farm, and they need to be
kept in good repair. Keep weeds and
brush well culled out of the corners.
Do not neglect your vegetable gar
den. No other portion of the farm is
u better-paying Investment. Keep
some of your luxuries for the home
table.
During the winter months small
potatoes may be cooked with bran
and cut clover seasoned with little
pepper. This makes most excellent
hash for fowls.
1t should never be forgotten that
poultry need some kind of green food
at all seasons of the year. In winter
they can be given cabbage, onions,
turnips or chopped rye.
Whenever you have any milk left
over, whether it is sweet or sour, give
it to the poultry 1t contains much
OF the needed egg-making material
and can in no other way be SO profit
ably utilized. Poultry make a good
adjunct to the dairy.
The advantage of meadow or pasture
grasses for cattle and sheep are that
they afford variety Animals have
preference for certain foods, and
thrive best when they can select food
which is most palatable and necessary
for supplying their wants.
No well-regulated farm is without
its flock of thoroughbred poultry.
There is, in fact, no better paying
taking into consideration cap
ital and labor invested. Keep also
turkeys, ducks and geese. They are
all profitable on the farm.
1t may be possible to take off profit
able crops and maintain the fertility
of the land without the aid of stock
but the average farmer cannot do it.
Selling from the farm constantly and
restoring nothing to the land is only
! selling the farm away piecemeal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17
wINTERING CABBAGE.

Cabbage will endure a good deal OF
freezing without injury, especially il
it is not handled when in frozen con-
dition. Hence, it may be left stand
ing until winter is about to set in. In
burying it should not be covered too
deep. For family use, a convenient
method is to take one or more barrels
and dig hole so that the barrel will
be about half buried in the earth.
The soil should be heaped up over the
barrel as much rs possible. The cab
bages are trimmed of all outside
leaves and packed in the barrels as
tightly as possible; the mouth of the
barrel is filled with some straw or
leaves and covered with q board or
some old carpet. The cabbage may be
taken out at any time all winter un-
frozen and in good condition. If the
outside heads are frozen one layer
deeper in may be taken, and later in
the season the frozen ones will be
found to have thawed out and to be
uninjured. Cabbage to be preserved
for marketing in spring may be pulled
and laid on top of the ground in rows,
and furrow plowed from each side
upon the inverted plants. The work
may be finished with shovel. The
plants should only have the heads
covered, the roots projecting into the
air. In this way they will keep per-
fectly until warm weather. er.--American
Agriculturist.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17
The DOGS OF Paris,

Late returns show that Paris has
50, 900 registered dogs, or one to every
twenty eight inhabitants. The larg-
est number are In the poorest quar-
ters of the city. 1t cost 81, 100000
per annum to feed them, but the dogs
in turn afford a living to twenty-five
manufacturers of collars and muzzles,
four bakers of dogs bread, five fac
tories where dog biscuits, consisting
of meat fibre, are made; three special
dog pharmacies, dozen infirmaries
and two dog hospitals. Chicago Her.
aid.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17
THE HOUR OF PEACE

Upon the door-stone sat the wife,
The twilight falling,
And far below the whippoorwills,
We're softly calling.
The sweet winds dropped upon their way
Their honey plunder,
And slow and clear the night built up
Its house of wonder.
Within, the child dreamed deep, and saw
Four angels keeping
Their gentle watch with dropping wings
About his sleeping.
While singing from the steep below.
Where shadows slumbered.
Her true love climbed. and in his heart
His treasures numbered.
And signing family to herself
With purest pleasure.
Life brimming at her lips to full
O'erflowing measure,
She marveled If the happy earth,
This summer even,
We're not the paved work laid before
The courts OF heaven.
And yet, cold wind from the cloud
To snatch in blowing
The little breath between the lips
So lightly flowing;
\ pebble underfoot where sheer
The rock descended
All, Fate What slender chances held
Her heaven suspended
Harriet P. spofford, in Harpers Bazaar
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17
CUT BONE.

Fall and winter are the season in
which to use cut bone. Many far
mers neglect to feed it and give only
grain. The results of such an exclu-
sive diet are readily seen in the re-
duced number of eggs. Others. again,
considering the trouble and expense
of cutting the green bones, substitute
bone meal therefor. They forget that
the great value in the green bones lies
in the perfect fresh animal food they
contain, and which is necessarily lack
ing in the bone meal. This animal
food is rich, succulent and easily di.
gested; besides, it is of u composite
character, containing all the elements
necessary for the support and de-
velopment of the body as well as for
the production of eggs. Green bone
is unique in its effect upon the chick
en- frame. New York World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17
HOW TO MOVE LARGE NAPLES.

To correspondent who asked how
to move and prune some large maple
trees, six or seven inches in diameter,
the editor of Garden and Forest re-
plies: In removing trees the roots
are generally injured to greater or
less extent, and those which are
bruised must be cut away; it is good
practice to prune in the branches to a
corresponding extent, 80 that there
will be not more leaves than the roots
can supply. Norway naples of the
size indicated cannot be removed
without the loss of many roots, and
pruning will be necessary. Such
pruning will be perfectly safe. as these
naples are not injured more than any
other trees by this operation. A great
deal of this pruning can be effected by
thinning out the inner branches, but
there should be no hesitation about
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17
CONTRACTS WITH FARM LABoRERs.

In employing farm laborers it is
always advisable to have a written con-
tract. In this should be specified the
terms of the agreement. which will be
binding on both parties. Thus the
question if hired man should have
his wages and board paid for during
a temporary disability by sickness
would be settled by the agreement.
AS rule, the man is paid only for the
time he actually works, and when he
is idle, for whatever cause, his board
is charged to him. 1t would be most
advisable for every employer to make
written agreement with his work
men as to all the various causes of dis
pute that arise during the working
season. New York Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-17

calling at the butchers or the grocer's
on my way home from business, and,
therefore-w therefore, | don't
call three times out of five that she
tells me to.
Don't | catch it? No; not over
much. anyhow. For one thing we
haven't been married very long, and
lilly agrees that it's only reasonable 1
should have time to learn to be more
careful, and, for another, if it wasn't
for the hold habit has on me, l
doubt whether we should be married
yet, or at least we shouldn't be living
in our own house, with the furniture
all bought at large discount for
cash.
am clerk in the service of firm
of colliery and quarry owners at Ling
ton, and every Saturday morning 1 go
out to Westerly, village some thirty
miles off among the Moors, to pay the
quarrymen there their wages.
It's an awkward sort of journey. I
have to start by the first train in the
morning, which leaves Lington at 6,
change at Drask, our junction with
the main line, leave the main line
again at Thurley, some ten miles fur
ther south, and do the rest of the dis
tance in the brake van of mineral
train.
The money-nearly a hundred
pounds, mostly in s!lver-I always
carry in little black leather bag, one
of those bags you see by scores every
day, which may contain anything from
u packet of sandwiches and clean
collar to a dynamite bomb, and it's
my habit when in the train, to put my
bag on the rack facing me. rarely
keep it on the seat by my side, and |
don't like TO put it up over my head.
II it has to go there because the OPP
posite rack is full l am always uneasy
about it, fancying [ shall forget when
/ get out. | never have forgotten it
yet, but one Saturday In November,
1898. did something which might
have been worse. [ took the wrong
bag when I left the train at Thurley.
1t happened in this way. On the
Friday night went out with lilly to
party, which broke up so late that I
had Only just time to change my
clothes and get sort of apology for
breakfast before catching my train
Consequently I slept all tho way from
Lington to Drask, and at Drask |
stumbled, only half awake, into the
first third-class compartment / came
to.
Three of the corner seats were occu-
pied and | took the fourth, though
there was no room on the opposite
rack for my bag. | couldn't put it on
the seat at my side either, because the
man in the other corner had his legs
up, and | didn't care to disturb him.
| ought, of course, to have kept it on
my knees, and on any other morning
I dare say should have done SO, but
it was heavy and l was very sleepy,
SO l just slung it over my head, settled
myself down and dropped off again u
most before my train was clear of the
station
| didn't wake until we stopped al
Thurley, and even then / farcy
should have slept on If the two men al
the far end of the compartment had
not wanted to get out.
"What station is this?" | asked, sit.
ting up and drawing my legs from
across the door to let them pass ''Ot.
terford, [ suppose?'
"No, Thurley," said one, and up
jumped in hurry, took my bag, as |
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