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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

A very curious stnto Of affairs is 70.
ported from France, where tho popu.
lation, which has been decreasing for
somo time, is growing at m alarmingly
feeble rate. For some time the dc.
crease among the French has been a
cause of comment among European
economists, but in most cases it has
been ascribod to tho tremendous dc.
5truction among tho mon who, during
the Prussian war, were just entering
upon the middle years of manhood.
This excuse can be used no longer.
and it is noted with modification
among. the French leaders TINT tho
present trifing increase in the popu.
lation is due chiefly to the immigra.
tion of people from other Nations,
The w1sost observers OF the situation
claim to have found the reason for
This sudden arrest in National growth,
VII" 'Heli e"Ii"u"Vlon AZ potn pIausI'
bIe and IN important object lesson for
people of other lands. Tt is pointed
out that tho increase of taxation in
France TO keep up the burden of tho
National debt has been such that peo.
pie who, some yoar5 ago, were per.
LectIy willing to assume tho rospou.
sibiIlty OF supporting household are
now afraid to make the venture. Tho
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

1t will be noticed that the imports
last year were equal TO less than z of
] per cent. of the quantity produced
Mt home. The hay market in Nation
Of 70, GOO, 600 people is not depressed
by the importation of this compare
lively small number of tons.
But the market for hay, as we'll as
the markets for oats and horses, has
been very seriously affected by the
substitution of electric power for
horses on street railroads and by the
general use OF bicycles. With refer
ence to this change the Philadelphia
Record says
"rhe advent Of the trolley and the
displacement of horses by it have of.
iected the business of large class OF
farmers who depend uron this city as
n market for their hay. Eight or ten
thousand horses which formerly be.
longed to the old car lines and were an
important factor in the consumption
of hay have disappeared. The popu.
larity of the trolley for pleasure travel
also has cut into the business of the
livery stables, and here too the de.
mand for tho farmers product is less.
ened. The bicycles are also displacing
horses, liyerymen again being the suf-
ferers.
ga conservative estimate places the
quantity OF hay now received in this
city at only wo.thirds of what was
brought in few years ago, and the
quotations have dropped about fifteen
per cent since tho trolleys were put
i'll operation"
The same story could be told in
every large American city. Donot all
intelligent persons know how the troll
ley and the bicycle have affected the
demand for horses, hay and oats? But
while the demand has been falling, the
supply has been increasing. There
were million more horses in the
country in 1896 than in 1891. the crop
of oats last year was $4,000, 900
bushels, as against an average of only
675, 00Q, 600 for the four years imme.
diately preceding, and the average
crop of hay for the five years ending
with 1890 was only $500, 900 tons.
But Mr.. Mckinley says nothing
about the trolley, the bicycle and the
crops. lie tells tine farmers that the
hay market has been depressed by the
wicked Democratic tariff. New York
Times
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26
The Vanilla Bean,

The so-called vanilla bean is not n
bean at all, but the fruit of a climbing
orchid, the capsule or pod of which is
about three-eighths of an inch in diam.
eter and from six to ten inches long,
and has certain resemblance to the
so-called catalpa bean. The plant in its
native home, in Mexico and tropical
America, climbs over trees and shrubs
by means of slender rootlets sent out
from the joints of the stem. In its wild
state it climbs to a height of twenty
feet; but in cultivation it is kept within
bounds, so that the unripe pods are not
injured when the others are gathered.
In Mexico the plant is propagated by
cuttings and then trained over some
rough bark trellis work in partial
shade. - o." a.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26
Says Harper's Weekly: 1t was re

Says Harper's Weekly; 1t was re.
Gently reported that the post OF mill
tary attNche to The American Embassy to
London was vacant, and had been Of.
fered to three officers, all Of whom
have declined it on the ground that
their salaries could not support the
dignity Of the job. It's very pretty
place, and one thnt has not been used
to go begging. II calls for IN officer
Of the rank of major, and gives him
little to do except TO look handsome
and to adorn London society with his
presence. He is entitled to wear the
most decorative clothes Of any one
connected with the embassy. When
he rides out with the Embassndor lie
goes on the front seat inside, and not
on the box seat with the coachman, rs
ill-informed persons have enormously
supposed. Opportunities to meet
folks that really are folks como to him
daily. Ha Dimes out nearly every
night, and seldom is at loss for a
hearty meal of nourishing food. His
chief expenses are for lodgings and
cab hire, but the hesitation of worthy
officers to accept the place indicates
that even those expenses may be too
considerable. The real trouble must
be that tho majors in Uncle SANS
army are middlo-aged men with fami.
lies, and salary that might maintain
tho attacho himself well enough in
London will not also maintain his
family, either at home in his absence
or with him abroad. II lieutenants
had rank enough for tho place, it
would probably DO easy to keep it
Gllcd with young unmarried officers of
the requisite stature and comcliness.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

The returns OF exports and imports
recently made officially show that for
the seven months ending July 81, this
country exported to Europe nearly
$50, 200, 600 more OF merchandise
than we sent in the same months of
1895. We have imported also $43,
OO0,OO less. The result IS foreign
credit balance this year on merchan-
disc made alone Of $50, 743, SOC, against
mn actual debt balance last year of
$2l ,2l9,092. This is u conclusive an
swer to the charges that 1t is the i'm
portation of foreign goods that is re-
sponslble for our business troubles,
and that the tariff OF 1891 encourages
foreign importation. In the latest six
months reported it will be seen that
the export trade has made gain over
that of imports OF nearly $ll2, 900, 900.
In confirmation of what is thus proved,
Senator Teller, who is protectionist,
and voted for the Mckinley tariff and
against the Wilson tariff acknowledges
IN recent speech that the Wilson bill
is "a better bill for the manufacturers
OF this country than the Republican
bill OF 1890" He says that "the peo.
pie who make iron and steel tell us
that the schedule on iron and steel
was also lately satisfactory, and it is
well known that the cotton schedule
was dictated by the manufacturers
themselves. boston Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26
President Krupger,s Retort.

Here is another characteristic story
about the President of the Transvaal.
In the days when johannesburg was
merely Farreira's mining camp, Krue-
ger was one day riding over the Wit
watersrand in ordinary burgher attire.
He off -saddled near wagon owned by
German. The Teuton did not recog.
nize the President, and held forth on
the many things he would do were he
ruler of the State. Suddenly Dom
Paul, to the great astonishment of the
German, who was n very small man,
took off his coat, and, holding it out
toward the stranger, said: "Put this
on" 'But," replied the latter, "it's
too big" "Just co." replied his
honor, with grim smile. "I'm Paul
Kruger, and it is not too big for me. 4"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26
LOSS TO woRKINGMEN.
An Unearned Increment,

The almighty dollar has been in.
creased in value fourfola in the past
thirty years. Still we are told that We
cannot legislate people rich-when
we legislate to increase, year by year.
the value of the dollar, compelling the
debtor to pay the bond and mortgage
holder more and more, measured in
labor and its products. And this ever
increasing in value is said to be
"honest. 1t is an unearned incre-
ment given to the rich at the expense
of the poor. Silver Knight.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26
THE MEANING OF McKINLEYISM.
1t Means the Same Thing IN 1896
That it Meant in 1892.

Vague promises that if the Ohio
Major is elected President the country
will in some mysterious way become
more prosperous, should not blind the
American people to the real nature OF
McKinleyism. Four years ago that
word was understood to mean d policy
OF high taxation, dear goods and re-.
stricted foreign trade. This was the
form in which it was embodied in the
Mckinley tariff, and after a full and
fair discussion for over two years the
people rejected the policy and ordered
the tariff repealed.
Nothing has happened since 1895 to
change in the slightest degree the
essential nature OF McKinleyism. 1t
IS now as then demand for special
tariff privileges for the benefit OF a
few great trusts and manufacturing
monopolists. 1t is scheme by which
seventy million American consumers
are to be taxed on the goods they
buy, in order that small number Of
mllllonaires may make greater for
tunes. il means class legislation in
the interests OF men who furnish
money to buy votes and corrupt tho
sources OF popular government. 1t
Is bold assertion of the right of some
men to get rich at the expense of the
masses who prodnce all wealth.
The popular verdict IN 1892 was
that McKinleyism was fraud and
robbery. Theft is always theft, no
matter what it may be called. Four
years ago the people voted against
stealing under the form of law. Is
there any reason why the same people
should now vote in favor of high tariff
robbery, merely because the McKin-
leyites ave this year calling their
leader "prosperity's advance agent. "
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

the sofia, directed by the hodja, or
teacher, are entirely from the Koran
and from certain recognized commen.
tators. They include grammar, syn.
tax, logic, morality, rhetoric, theology,
philosophy, Jurisprudence, the Koran,
its commentators, and the oral laws of
the prophet Strolling about Stam-
boul in more peaceful times, there is
nothing more interesting than the
pictures often presented through the
mosque door OF a group of Softas seat
ed in circle on the floor around the
white-turbaned hodja, listening to his
exegesis of some passagel from the
sacred writings, or intoning some
chapter of the Koran, with the indec-
tions consecrated by centuries of u.s.
age.
The mosque is thus the class.
room. But 1t is much more. Close
by the mosque is a row of one-story
stone buildings, frequently facing a
court with fountain. In each build
ing there are from a dozen to thirty
rooms, or better cells, having one
window, one door and dirt floor. In
the cell nra G couch, Il very few books,
Persian, Arabic or Turkish, and per.
haps box. Here the Sofia lives at
his ease, without money and without
price, getting one good meal daily
from waluf, the public revenue of the
mosque, sitting curled up on his couch
by day and sleeping on it by night.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS
RECIPES FOR pIcKLING.

To Pickle Cucumbers to Last Year
Wash out and dry in the sun a sound
butter tub. Pour into it two gallons
of boiling water and in this dissolve
enough salt to float an egg. 1t gener-
ally requires pint and half. Add
to this one ounce of saltpetre, and let
it stand until cold. Then pick cucum-
bers every day, as they ripen; wash
them we'll and put them in the brine,
continuing to do so until the tub is
filed. Take great care in having
good, sound and hrrd cucumbers. Any
desired herbs, u few peeled onions,
can be put among them for favoring.
When the tub i filled, and tho brine
is over the cucl.mbers spread white
cloth over them and put board on
top, with stone on it so as to keep
the cucumbers under water. Look
after the cucumbers at least once n
week, and if any scum has gathered
wash it off, put clean cloth on top,
and replace The board and stone. In
this way the cucumbers are utilized as
they come from the garden, and, if
properly attended to, will be nice and
crisp, and keep all winter.
Picked Stringbeans That Can Bo
Used as Salad-Make brine strong
enough to float an egg; string the
beans, and put them in it for twenty
four hours. Then pour off the brine
and parboil the beans in vinegar. Fill
glass jars with them. Boil the vine.
gar for half an hour with all kinds OF
spices; strain ii, and dissolve in it
some alum, allowing to every quart
piece of alum as largo rs a hazelnut.
Pour the vinegar hot over the beans,
and close at once.
Picked Small White Onions-Peel
the onions and boil them for quar-.
ter of an hour in equal quantities OF
milk and water; drain them and put
in glass jars. Boil whatever quantity
of vinegar is required with the spice
and pour boiling over the onions. AL
low to every gallon of vinegar half an
ounce of mace, quarter of an ounce
of white cloves, five tablespoonfuls of
salt and half an ounce of alum. These
onions, although easy to prepare, will
be found economical as well as o great
relish. The milk makes them less
pugnent and tho alum makes thom
softer and helps to keep them all win.
ter.
Pepper and Cabbage Pickle-This
pickle is quickly made, economical
and fit for daily use. Chop together
six large-sized green peppers and one
firm head of cabbage. While chop,
ping add one aud half cupfuls OF
salt, half teaspoonful of cayenne
pepper, teaspoonful of ground oil.
spice and one-half pound of white
mustard seed. When chopped quite
fine put in crooks or glass jars, cover
with good, cold vinegar and tie up
tight, SO that no alr gets in. 1t will
be found to be ready for use in sis
weeks, and is an excellent condimeni
for cold meats and boiled mutton.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

Always fold n dress right side oui
for packing, as it will not wrinkle sc
much.
A pinch of salt added to the white
of eggs will make them beat up
quicker and lighter.
Prick nutmeg with pin, and if il
fresh and good oil will instantly spread
about the puncture.
Half teaspoonful Of sugar vii
nearly always revive dying fire, anc
it is always a safe thing to use for thii
purpose.
To ascertain if an egg is fresh put
it in pail of water. III good it will
sink Immediately; if it floats it il
doubtful,
If q little -four is rubbed over q loa
OF cake before iceing it will prevent
the frosting from .preading and run,
ming off SO readily.
Every housewife should impres.
upon the minds of her family that tn,
bess sauce for any meat is cheerful,
ness. Laught-r. aids digestion, and
people should never grumble while
eating.
In making Indian meal mush, cool
it with milk instead of water, or part
water and part milk if not convenient
to use all milk. The pudding will b,
much richer, and when fried will
more readily take nice brown.
Iu giving medicines in LIQUID form
to an infant place the point of th,
spoon containing the medicine apains,
the roof of the mouth. Administer.
ing it in this way it will be impossible
for the child to choke or eject the
medicine.
In relaying carpets after the fall
cleaning it is well to sprinkle some.
thing under the edges to destroy any
carpet bugs that may be lurking
around. As good thing as can be
used is powder made OF equal parts
OF camphor gum and tobacco.
Milk weed pods make a fine down
for stuffing head rest cushions. Those
fortunate enough to be in the countrv
will have no trouble in finding PLENTY
along tho road side, and can eathe,
enough to bring home with them fo,
many winter evenings comfort.
In washing anything made of
chamois skins use warm water with
little ammonia in it. Wash bv rrb.
bling between the fingers, but do not
wiring the chamois. Pres, it between
the palms of the hands to take ont the
water and hang before the fire or in
the hot sun to dry quickly, rubbing
and pulling the article into proper
shape every few moments to prevent
the skin drying hard and stiff
Linens that have been stained bv
ten or coffee may be cleanseu by mois-
tenlng the spots with water and hold
ing them over tho fumes of n small
piece OF burning sulphur or few sui
phur matches. Wash immediately in
water in which little ammonia or
soda has been dissolved. Stains that
nothing else will remove are often
taken QUO by the vapor arising from
burning sulphur, but the material
must be washed thoroughly at once.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26
Does the Earth Move E?

One OF the wonders of the coming
Paris exposition will be 360-foot
tower, in which the scien lists will ex-
pertinent with pendulum to ascer.
tain If it is possible to detect or dem
onstrate the motion of the earth. A
similar experiment was once made by
Foucault under the cupola of the pan
theon, but the result was far from sat
isfactory. In the coming experiment
the pendulum will be $50 feet In
length, with steel globe weighing
$50 pounds at its end.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

Ii Hung Chang is keeping a diary
of his trip around the world. Whether
the old diplomat will publish the re-
suit of his observations or not will
probably be settled by the personage
who manufactures the yellow jackets
at Pekip.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

1t was once said that there was lit
lie or 10 drunkenness in France,
where the people INDUCED freely in
light wines, but such seems to be no
longer The case. A mans temperance
association has been established re.
Gently in Paris, and there is declared
to be great need for it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

A New York young man has found
it necessary to apply to the courts for
protection from n girl who is i'll lo7o
with him and who pursucs him with
attentions, relates the Washington
Star This incident invests the "now
woman" with augmented terrors.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

When Lii Hung Chang was in Glos.
gov he told the Scotchmen that their
bagpipes reminded him Of China.
They can't make out whether he meant
it for q eompIiment OF not.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

Boss Hanna says that his employees
are not interested in the silver ques-
tion. If they were to let him fiud ont
that they were they would lose their
job.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

Quay is always good and great Re.
pu2lican in campaign times. All Re-
publican candidates love him then as
Mckinley does now. New York World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26
SILVER NOTES.

Bryan is making his mark. McKin.
ley has got Mark already, and it is
whispered that he wishes that he could
rub it out.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

Trusts, combines AMI corporations
breed goldbugs, as putrid flesh
breeds maggots but the maggots have
q use-they are good for fish bait.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

1t is stated that "there are 5,O0O,-
600 peasant ff-mers IN Germay march
ing fast to irretrievable ruin" The
British gold standard is getting in its
work the world over.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

Train robbery is punis0ble by death
in Arizona. The Supreme Court has
just upheld the constitutionality Of
the statute.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26
The Mckinley Bill and Wages.

The Mckinley tariff law, says the
New York World, went into effect Dc.
tober 6, 1890, and the Wilson German
bill August 28, 1894. The first effect
of the passage of the Mckinley bill
was a general reduction in wages in
protec industries. The World in
1892 printed several thousand instan-
ces OF strikes and lockouts IN protect
ed industries that followed the enact
ment.
Yesterday the junior organ of the
protectionists continued the tale of
diaaster to workingmen under tho
Mckinley bill by publishing the fol-
lowing as the experience of merely one
protected firm-the Cambria Iron
Company;
Loss TO woRKINGMEN.
There were 1888, 4O4 less wages paid
in 1898 than i'll 1892.
There were 81, ,500.410 less wages
paid in 1894 than in 1892.
The loss in wages in two years
amounted to 1884, ,S14.
LOSS TO COMPANY.
The value of the product Of the
Cambria Iron Company in 1898 was
$2,064, 600 less than in 1892.
The value of the product of 1894
was $4, GIG, 200 less than in 1892.
The shrinkage il two years amounted
to Sc, $50, 200.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

What stupid rot that is, about
"money that is good in Europe" Let's
see what there is in it. A is farmer
in Oklahoma; B is farmer in silver
standard Mexico. Both want to visit
England. A sells 1000 bushels of
wheat for $500 in gold, and in Lon Ion
exchanges his gold tor e10O English
money. b also sells 1000 bushels of
wheat, getting $1,000 in silver for it,
and going to London, exchanges his
silver for-e100l Now, what advan-
tage has A over B? What is wanted
is money that is good in Norman-and
lots more of it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

There is no question of moro vital
Importance to the people than an am
pie currency Every restriction
thrown around money benefits the
millionaire, and Injuries all other
classes.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

Congressman Towne, the gallant
young Minnesotan, who left the Re-
publican party rather than be an aces
sorry to the crime of shackline His fell
low. counirymen with golden fettere,
uttered a great truth when he said i:
"The true fiatist is your modern Amer
lean gold standard advocate. The
logic of his argument leads to money
base SO small and credis top so large
that confidence lis to take the place
of redemption, and confidence never
realized is only another name for ir-
redeemability.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

Montesquieu, the great French
Statesman, snid: "Financiers support
a State as the cord supports the man it
hangs" He spoke truly, but were he
living to-day the gold bug press would
dub him an anarchist.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

"Overproduction!" Oh, what hol.
low mockery Overproduction of
wheat when millions are starving; Of
clothing when millions are naked. The
man who can write thus is surely
lunatic orr the most heartless of created
beings. 1t is not overproduction but
underconsumption which is causing
the misery of the people, and this can
be remedied only by placing in their
hands the means to make them consu.
mers.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

Tt might suit the Astors, Wander
bilts, Goulds, Rothschilds and others
of that ilk to have diamond cur
rency through which they could con-
troll the world, but what would become
OF the rest of mankind?