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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30
HOW TO WEIGH WITHOUT SCALES.

Those who would like to test some
new recipe not infrequently find them.
selves perplexed to accurately do the
measuring and weighing required.
This schedule ofequivalents will in such
cases be found very helpful: Wheat
flour, one pound is one quart; Indian
meal, one pound two ounces are one
quart; butter, when soft, one pound
is one quart; loaf sugar, when broken,
one pound is one quart; ten eggs are
one pound; flour, four pecks are one
bushel sixteen large teaspoonfuls are
one pint; eight large teaspoonfuls are
one gill four large teaspoonfuls are
half a gill; two gills are one pint; two
pints are one quart; four quarts are
one gallon; one common-sized tumbler
holds half pint; common-sized
wineg!ass holds half q gill; teacup
holds one gill; large wineglass holds
one gill; tablespoonful is half an
ounce; ten drops are equal to one tea
spoonful; four aspoonfuls are equal
to one tablespoonful. Boston Tran
script.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30

Says the Cleveland Plain Dealer
The extravagant offers of American
managers are turning the heads of the
vaudevillers. Where they get $25 pc,
week in London they ask $500 pc,
week to play in America. Dan Leno,
a very clever low comedian, who gets
the highest salary on the English vau
deville stage, 1925 per week, and doe:
his turn in five different halls eact
night, is coming to America to do one
turn each night, for which he will re.
ceive $500 per week and his fare both
ways. The same is true in other field.
of the business. The craze has spread
into all the details of theatricals
Americans are regarded as an easy
prey to foreign performers and man
ayers,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30

One of the greatest works accom-.
plished by the late Gail Hamilton was
that of beginning the present era OF
child literature. Until she started the
magazine called Our Young Folks,
children had nothing to read that rep.
resented their own day and genera.
tion. The magazines of that day con.
tained nothing interesting TO the
small boy or girl, and their reading
world was confined to books like
Mother Goose and the Arabian Nights.
st. Nicholas and the Round Table are
later developments of the idea carried
out by Gail Hamilton i'll Our Young
Folks.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30
A Cancels Speed.

In spite of its having carried Mo.
hammed in four leaps from Jerusalem
to Mecca, seven miles an hour is the
camel's limit. Nor eau it main tain
this rate over two hours.
Its usual speed is five miles an hour
a slow pace, beyond which it is dan.
gerous to urge it, lest, as Asiatics say,
it might break its heart and die liter.
ally on the spot.
When camel is pressed beyond
this speed, and is spent, it kneels
down, and not all the wolves in Asia
will make it bulge again. The camel
remains where it kneels, and where il
kneels it dies. A fire under it's nose
is useless
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30

Devaney, one of the Irish dynami-
ters who was released from an English
prison recently, was astonished to
hear that Mr.. Parnell was dead, so alb.
solutely are prisoners shut off from
the world in penal servitude.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30

The large apple crop this season is
giving employment to great many
idle men in the country, notes the
American Cultivator. 1t always makes
good times in fruit.growing region
when the apple crop is good one.
As an old farmer who had made most
OF his money by growing grain once
said: "When l get good apple crop
and sell it the money it brings always
seems as if l had been made present
of it," This is hardly SO now, for be.
sides the cost of gathering the fruit
and marketing it, there are few places
where fine apples eau now be grown
without spraying to destroy insects
and fungus diseases on leaf and fruit.
But even with this extra expense the
apple crop costs less to produce il
than any other, and the profit on il
in n year when the crop is good is
greater than on any other crop,
There will be good many farm mort
cages reduced this year from apples,
besides which the apple money will
generally pay the store and black.
smiths bills and the hired help. II
farmers more generally used their
apple-made profits to grow more
apples, they would make money faster
than they usually do. 1t is a good
rule to put money in the business
that makes most money for you.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.


One question often asked teachers
of cookery is: "What makes pies run
over?' Probably the most common
cause is that the plates are not deep
enough to hold the juice and steam.
With deep agate plato there is little
trouble. One device recommended by
a good authority recently is to insert
a little funnelof stiff paper in an open
ing in the crust, thus allowing the
steam to escape. Better still, leave
sufficient opening in upper crust in
the beginning.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30
LOnd0n's Tower.

The tower of London was built at
various periods. The white tower was
built in the time of William the Con-
queror. Grandulph, Bishop of Roches.
ter, was the architect, and began it
about 101S. In 1895 William Rufus
commenced another castellated build
ing, known as the tower of st. Thomas,
under which is the TRAITORS Gate"
Henry 1. completed it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30

The Paris Figaro learns that mum.
ber of most influential Dutch politi.
clans have resolved TO oppose any
scheme for the marriage of the young
Queen of Holland with q German
prince, as they are convinced that such
a union would eventually prove a ser
ious danger to Dutch independence.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30

There is probably nothing about
which all medical men are more agreed
thau that the use OF tea as a substitute
for food is playing havoc with the
general health.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30
What Demonstration Has Done.

The demonetization OF silver has
checked our advancement as O Nation,
and brought us under tribute to
thieves: but if we succeed in securing
its reconciliation, the wheels of pro-
gress will turn again, and the people
will arise in their might, like young
giant refreshed with new wine. Soma
tor Jones, in Arena.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30

They say in Texas that the cowboy
of the future will use wheel instead
of horse. One COW herder in Atchi-
son, Kansas, already uses one.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30

| Government, which by their terms are
made payable in "coin," is either q
rank hypocrite or without sufficient in
telligence to manage his own business.
The honor and credit of Nation
which scrupulously performs its prom
ises, does exactly what it has agreed to
do and pays exactly what it has con-
sracted to pay, cannot be tainted or
brought in suspicion by the whines
Of greedy bondholders, echoed by no
matter how many of their hirelings.
For the third specification I select this
in regard to
''sILvER PRODUCERS"
1t is said that FREQ coinage is exclu
sively or mainly for the benefit of sill
yer mine owners, and tho reason given
is that they would be allowed to take
fifty-three cents worth ofsilve~ bullion
to the mint and obtain for it u dollar.
This is unmitigated nonsense. Free
silver coinage opens the mints, not to
producers alone, but to everybody,
without regard to locality or Nation
ality who holds or chooses to procure
silver bullion. The privilege is uni
yersal, and every ounce of silver in the
world can, at the option of its owner,
be brought TO the mint and converted
into American dollars. When two
things are freely exchangable, one for
the other, it is impossible that there
should be any difference in market
price between them. When with 37l
grains of silver anybody can procure
an American dollar, no one is going to
part with silver at any less price. The
bullion value and the coinage value
must, therefore IA trivial allowance
being made for cost of transportation
be equal in all the markets of the
world. Silver producers must always
give dollars worth of bullion for a
coin dollar. 1t will make no difference
to him whether he takes his bullion to
tine mint Or sells ii in New York or
London market. II he mints il he will
receive American dollars, and If he
sells it in the market he will receive
the equivalent of American dollars.
The assertion, therefore, that the mine
owners, more than anyone else, can
obtain dollar at the mint for fifty
three cents worth of bullion or any
amount of bullion worth in the mar
kets of the world less than one hun
dred cents is pure fiction. &C. j. Hill
| yer- in Silver Knight.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30

The millionaire spectators who
have been bearing stocks in Wall
street by working the Treasury reserve
apprehensions will find the people gun
ming for them in the autumn aud the
guns will all be loaded tor bear.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30

If the people of the United States
nre so universally in favor of "sound
money" and believe in the doctrines
of Sherman, Cleveland & Co., why
does it cost so much money to make
them do what they want to do?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30

"Willie Taddells," said the school.
teacher firmly, 'tyou have a piece of
chewing-gum in your desk. Bring it
to me instantly" "Yes'm," replied
Willie, "5ut it amt the flavor, you
use. Yours is orange, an this is win
tergreen. "-Harpper's Bazaar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30
In Connecticut the cost OF road
building is divided among State,
county and district.

Statistics show,that the longest-lived
people have generally been those who
made breakfast the principal meal OF
tha dow
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30
THE THRILLING EXPENSES.

1t is the trifiing expense that must
be looked safter if a housekeeper in.
tends to conduct her domestic affairs
on lines of economy. The woman who
knows how to handle hammer, to
mend and to contrive can stop manya
leak in the family purse-eaoh small
in itself, but often amounting to o
large sum in the course of year. For
instance: Certain kitchen utensils are
usually thrown away as hopeless cases
as soon as they are cracked. This is
especially true of articles made OF
paper or granite ware. A high wind.
after rolling light paper tub about
promiscuously, threw it against a
stone, and, to all appearances,
wrecked it forever. But the tub was
owned by woman who had few pen
MES but original ideas, and she
straightway went to work to demon
strate that, although mutilated, the
tub was not beyond repair. First she
took some putty and put this over the
hole and smoothed it down carefully,
until it was about the same thickness
as the paper mace of which the tub
was made. This was then allowed to
dry. tPieces of stout muslin were then
pasted over the putty and coat of
paint was put over the cloth to hold
it, and 10 make the mended part of
the tub look like the rest of it. Sew.
eral coats of paint were added from
time to time, and the mende place is
probably the strongest part of the tub.
The mending is simple matter and
the time required was small. The
same woman mends small holes in
granite ware with copper rivets, care.
fully fitted and hammered down.
Detroit Free Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30

hEClEEo.
Grapes-Grapes should be rnsedsin
cold water, drained in sieve, and
then arranged in pretty basket;
fruit scissors should accompany tie
basket to divide the clusters.
Celery Salad-Cut the white stalks
OF celery into pieces half inch long.
70 one pint of these pieces allow a
half pint of mayonnaise dress ing.
Dust the celery lightly with salt and
pepper; mix it with the dressing;
heap 1t on cold plate, garnish with
white tips of the celery and serve at
once. DO not mix the celery and
dressing until you are ready to use the
salad.
Breakfast Dsh-Take teacupful oi
freshened Goldfish, picked up fiue. Fry
sliced onion in o tablespoonful OF
butter. When it has turned light
brown, put in the fish, with water
enough to cover it; add five ripe,
medium sized tomatoes and cook near.
ly an hour; seasoning with quarter
teaspoonful of pepper. Serve on
slices of dipped toast, hot. This is a
very nice dish.
Meat Gems-Remove all pieces oil
fat, bone and gristle from cold roas,
beef or pork that is very lean, and
chop fine or put it through a meat cut.
ter. To one large cup of the chopped
meat add an equal quantity of bread
crumbs, half teaspoonful of salt, a
saltspoonful OF pepper and teaspoon
full of butter; moisten with half cup
of milk and heat thoroughly. Then
fill gem pans nearly full with the mix.
ture; break an egg on the top of each
and bake until the egg is cooked.
Cheese Cream Toast-Stale bread
may be used as follows: Toast the
slices and cover them slightly with
grated cheese; make o cream for five
slices out of half pint of milk and q
tablespoonful of flour; the milk
should be boiling and the -four mixed
in little cold water before stirring
in. When the cream is nicely cooked,
season with small half teaspoonful
OF salt and one of butter; set the
toast and cIeese in the oven for four
minutes; then pour the cream over
them.
Broiled Steak-Select nice porter
house steak; have it cut at least one
and half inches thick. Trim it and
place it on hot wire broiler. Put as
near the fame as possible Yor mo-
ment to scar the utside. Turn and
cook more slowly for ten or twelve
minutes. Rub a warm plate with gar
lie, and then put In tablespoonful of
butter, half teaspoonful OF salt, and
dash OF pepper. Put the steak in this,
turning it once or twice. Dish, and
pour over what remains in the dish.
Serve at once.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30
THE SILVER SIDE.

Wall and Lombard streets are Bit
erly opposed to Bryan-all the more
reason why those who earn their own
living should support him.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30

Don't expect much from the nan who
Is always talking about how much he
would give if he had some other manis
purse.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30

X
ming for them in the autumn aud the
guns will all be loaded Tor bear.
If the people of the United States
are so universally in favor of "sound
money" and believe in the doctrines
of Sherman, Cleveland & Co., why
does it cost so much money to make
them do what they want to do?
If Hanna, Belmont, Morgan & Co.
find it necessary to spend hundreds OF
millions to make tho people of tho
United States vote according to their
desires how much would it require to
make them vote against their wishes?
The Dollar of our Daddies is good
enough for the American people. SGive
us plenty of silver and we can at least
procure the necessaries of life, which
is more than the masses now enjoy,un-
der the benefcent rule of the gold
bugs.
A few years ago we were told that
God ordained that gold and silver
should be money. IF true, the rascals
who have been doing 80 much against
one half of Gods money will have a
time getting o ticket at the pearly
gates!
Why is it necessary for Hanna to
expend millions, and why do oil cor
porations and employers oflabor exert
all the power they have to make the
people vote "of their own volition"
for the gold standard? For the same
reason that the highwayman uses a re-
yolver to make his victim "willingly
(N" deliver up his money.
Mckinley and his boss, Hanna, will
persist in saying that the tariff is the
great isaue. But Sherman's speech
treats the money question as the issue.
| Mckinley is lost sight of in the cam
paign. 1t is Hanna and kind, paternal
protection to laboring men, and John
Sherman and protection and prosper.
ity toiEnglish capital and American
millionaires.
The mournful howl of Mckinley
and others against stirring up class
against class is truly pathetic. There
is no wonder that the banking CON-
bination which is prosecuting a most
relentless and cruel war against labor
and production and which has pro-
duced universal distress would be glad
to escape observation, fearing the in
dignation of the people. We beg
pardon for suggesting that ''no chief
ever felt the halter draw with good
opinion OF the law"
There can be but one question while
English fnanciers rule this country,
and that question is, Shall the United
States legislate for the people of this
country or must we submit to foreign
policies and foreign legislation? Ii
the United States cannot maintain an
Independent financial policy, we are
dependency of Great Britain, and un-
til that question is settled, there is no
other question of the slightest i'm
portance. If we trust our finances to
Great Britain, We may as we'll trust
everything else to her, because who.
ever governs the financiers of the
country, governs the country. y.-Silver
Eniuht
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30

If Hanna, Belmont, Morgan & Co.
find it necessary to spend hundreds of
millions to make tho people of tho
United States vote according to their
desires how much would it require to
make them vote against their wishes?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30

The Dollar of our Daddies is good
enough for the American people. SGive
us plenty of silver and we can at least
procure the necessaries of life, which
is more than the masses now enjoy,un-
der the beneicent rule of the gold
bugs.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30

A few years ago we were told that
God ordained that gold and silver
should be money. # true, the rascals
who have been doing go much against
oue.half of Gods money will have a
time getting ticket at the pearly
gates
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-30
FLEET.WINGED CARRIERS,
PIGEONS THAT ARE TRAINED TO
CARRY WAR DISPATCHES.

How the Birds Are Taught-Mystery
of Their Unerring Flight-A Quick
Trip From Chicago to New York.
The evening times., 1896-11-06

900, reached more heirs than any othcr,
the plumber on the list being twenty-five,
while the S4,000,O00 Of Thomas BLYTHE
went to the one child. Florence, after a
celebrated trial. The estate OF Maria Cole
man was valued at S1.757. .0ao, and 1t went
equally to three heirs Charles Crocher 5
S22 900 900 reached six persons, while
Mary Ann Crackers S11 ,ss3,657 went,
share and share alike. to four or the .iN
who got Charles CUcker's large fortune
Peter Donahue's S3,T0s,312 went IN
equal parts to three heirs. Mrs. Thercsa
Fairs S4693,250 went to three persons
Charles L. Fair, Miss Virginia Fair and
Mrs Charles Oelrichs-while William T.
Fuller distributed his 81 III ,262 to seven
persoIls of his name. Emmanuel Goldstein's
| 81 100000 went to six heirs, George
| Hearst's SIS, ,7SS,137 went in equal parts
| to his wife and son, while Walter Hobart S
| S5,273,36 went in thirds to his three
| chiIdren-Walter Hobart, Miss Ella Ituta art
and Mrs. Wenthrop Lester. Mary Hop
kins' S20,694762 went To two persons.
| Robert C. Johnson's $1,91o.550 went 60
| eleven persons in almost equal proportions.
|. Theree are few exceptions to the gen
| eral course of estates, as in the case of
| Lick and Stanford. The 10000 of
| the Lick estate Went chiefly to one heir
! and to Il number of trusts of a public
nature created before James Lick's death
| Charles Mclaughlin left his So ,476, eco to
| his widow, while Alexander Montgomery
| So, ,356, e45 went to three heirs. Daniel T
Murphy's S2,G41, $40 went tn six heirs.
| William s O'Brien's SO, 9,655,45O reached
| eight persons. James left an even mil
lion, which reached four persons in shares
| and number of small tequcsts. A. J.
| Pope'S 81 100000 reached four heirs.
| Washington Ryer left SIT ,6ss,319 to fif
| teen persons
The evening times., 1896-11-06
RIDES In THE AMBULANCE
Great Men, Cranks, Actors, Artists
and All Sorts.
They Fall Sick In the City and Are
Carried to the Hospitals
for Treatment.

The police ambulances attached to SAM
tary Officer Frank S department are called
upon 10 haul many great men-proininenJ
figures III history, whose records are writ
ten IN undying characters on the scrolls Of
fame
Napoleon Bonaparte has ridden on the
Qiicioth cushions of the vehicles, as has
George Washington and Julius Ceasar. Un-
seated Presidents galore have been pas
sengers with The police drivers, and kings
and eInperors without numLer. But they
were men with DuzZing wheels under their
hdts-crankS on their way To the great
government insane asylum ON the pictur-
esque beiShts beyond Anacos,ia,
The records OF Mr.. Frank office, how
ever, She " that prominent men i'll real life.
rot localities OF uementia, have called upon
the polce ambulance service during The
past fiscal year. one OF these was q mem
Der or Congress, who was severely in jured
at AN excursion resort down the river. He
was conveyed in one of the official vehicles
Tlom the steamboat wharf to his hotel
Another was priest OF the Catholic
Church, a noted divine in Il Southern dio-
cesc, who came To this city for hospital
treat mCnt. Oneofthe police am bulanc es met
him At the railroad depot and he was placed
OH a comfortable stTetcher and carried to
Providence Hospital. Methodist minister
was transported under similar circ uni st anCes
which this city is noted.
one detective and three policemen found
comfort in riding in the admirable am
balances which are connected with their
department during the year.
one OF the saddest eases was that of an
artiSt, talented fellow, VINO had made
coGnterfeits in stone and metal of the great
historical lights of this country, and whose
productions grace inches in the leading
colleges in the United states.
lie reached Washington sick and desti-
tute. and too proud To make known his coli
di~on TO those who had known him in his
better days, made his way To Sanitary
Officer Franks office. There he was en-
tered for one of the hospitals, and CON
Yeyed th!thcr in Il police ambulance
One actress and three actors, stranded.
penniieSS and i'll, We're also passengers 10
an institution for treatment, as was a dis
abled Jockey without a mount
Twelve lawyers, five ph yslCians six re-
por.ers. five teachers, and three students
also owe their thanks To the police ambu-
lance service for transporting them To home
or hospital while in disabled condition
from accident or sickness.
Then. too, there Were operators, miners
fishermen, soldiers. newsboys, schoolboys
and girls. musicians, veterinarians dress
makers, conductors, and men from the
mechanical trades without number, some
sick and friendless conveyed by the police
ambulance service to hospitals, homes
and in some Instances the almshuuse.
The evening times., 1896-11-06
TOUGH'S GREAT LEG TALENT.
Started Out As a Bad Men, But
Soon Was Put to Flight,

A pugnacious drunken man started 10
run amuck late yesterday afternoon on the
basement floor OF police headquarters. He
was pretty tOugh-looking customer, and
talked in the bad-nan, Bowery dialect.
He first staggered into Sanitary officer
Franks room and peremptorily demanded to
be sent to a hospital, where, no doubt, he
wanted to sleep off his jag of cheap whisky
The sanitary officer was not awed by the
fellows swagger and bluff, and informed
him that he would not send drunken man
to the hospital.
"Get sober, and if you are in need of
medical attendance l Will then send you to
a hospital he said.
Il amt sick: I'm, tough, an dent yel
forgit it," exclaimed the rough-looking fel-
low.
He did not get a chance to say anything
else, for Mr.. Frank suddenly seized the in
truder, who was a larger man than him.
self, and with q uick movement waltzed
him along the hallway as though he had been
fired from catapault. The drunken fel-
low did not attempt to re-enter the sanitary