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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
CLEANING HINTS,

To remove ink STAINS, cover them
with a solution of starch; when dry
rub off the hardened starch, and
repeat the process until the ink has
entirely disappeared. If the stain
Is not too old, ink may be re-
moved from paper as follows: lake
IL teaspoonful of chlorinated lime and
pour over it just enough water to
cover it. Take a piece OF old linen
and moisten it with this mixture, and
do not rub but pat the stain, when it
will gradually disappear. If one
application does not remove the stain,
let the paper dry, and repeat the pro-
cess.
Limp, forlorn and rusty black lace
can be renovated by simple method.
Wash it gently in soft. soapy water,
rinse in clear water, and squeeze in
stead of ringing it. Dip it in cold
coffee into which a little gum arabic
has been dissolved, and then smooth
it with hot iron, taking care to press
it while damp and cover it with cleap
cloth. The coffee darkens it, the
gum arabic stiffens it, the ironing
smooths it, and If it is slightly pulled
with the fingers after the ironing it is
made flexible and lace-like.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02

Thirteen American cities have now
experimental with the system of va
cant lot farming which Mayor Pingree
Of Detroit (now Governor of Michigan)
invented three years ago as a means OF
helping destitute citizens to help
themselves. The cities are, beside
Detroit, New York, Buffalo, Seattle,
st. Louis, Toledo, Boston, Brooklyn,
Cincinnati, Duluth, East Orange, st.
Paul, and Minneapolis, and in every
one of them enough of benefit has
been derived from the innovation to
warrant continuation of it. Next
summer it is believed that the plan
will be adopted in many other places.
Its chief advantages are that it gives a
ready means of distinguishing the
worthy poor who are willing to work
from those to whom any form of in
austry is distasteful, and that it is a
torn of charity which tends little or
not at all toward pauperizing those to
whom it is extended.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02

An abstract of some statistics COM
piled in France on lightning accidents
shows that during the past sixty seven
years for every one person killed
three or four are wounded. In the
month of March the average deaths
amount to per cent. ; in April, 3; in
May, Z; in June and on September,
30, 20, 81 and Is respectively in
October, IL. Most of the cases occur
in fields and roads, but particularly
nnder trees. In period of thirty
years 100 persons were killed under
trees. who probably would not have
been injured if they had not taken
refuge there; and one out of every
tour has been killed while sheltering
under branches. In France there
have been eight deaths per 100, 900
inhabitants, and in Great Britain two.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
RECIPES.

Broiled Potatoes, Parsley Sauce
Slice five large, cold boiled potatoes
lengthwise in rather thick pieces and
broil brown on a buttered gridiron.
beat up tablespoonful of butter into
a cream with as much minced parsley,
and after dusting each slice of potato
lightly with salt and pepper rub q
little of this sauce on each slice.
Clipped Beef and Tomatoes. French
Style-Cut slice from the stem end
of five good. solid canned tomatoes,
then with your finger take out the
seeds; put seeds and slices in n sauce.
pan, boil and strain. Put into bowl
one cupful bread crumbs, add quarter
pound dried beef, picked in small
pieces; quarter-teaspoonful pepper
and one tablespoonful melted butter.
Mix, add strained tomato juice and
fill into tomatoes. Stand them in q
baking pan and bake slowly fifteen
minutes, basting once or twice.
Cracked Wheat, Lemon Sauce
Prepare the cracked wheat as usual,
care being taken that it is thoroughly
cooked. TO prepare the SAUCE, rub
desertspoonful of cornstarch smooth
with little cold water; stir it care.
fully into pint of boiling water and
cook until it thickens. Score large
lemon with the tines of q silver fork
and when the oil is exuding rub a
small quantity of sugar over the sur
face to flavor it. Cut the lemon and
squeeze the juice from it. Add the
juice and one-half cup of the favored
sugar to the hot cornstarch mixture;
allow the whole to boil up once, STIR
ring constantly. Germ wheat is de-
licious when served with the lemor
sauce.
Bun Loaf One quart of sifted
flour, three eggs, one tablespoonful
of butter, rubbed, light with two of
of powered sugar, half an yeast cake
dissolved in large cupful of luke
warm water, cupful of currants
washed, dried and picked over, half
teaspoonful of salt, quarter.teaspoon
full of soda; mix all the Ingredients
together in soft dough. except the
currants; if stiff, add a little warm
water; when you have an elastic mass
on the board, set to rise until very
light; knead again; mold into loaf
when you have worked in the currants;
dredge with dry -four and leave to rise
for an hour; bake in a steady oven,
covering with paper as it rises. Eat
fresh. but not warm.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
TO FREsHEN WINDOW SCREENS.

Window and door screens may be
made more durable and to look better
by an occasional coat of varnIsh or
paint. If the wire netting is not faded
or rusty 1t is better to give it coat of
good coach varnish, but if faded or
rusty apply coat of paint. Use
good quality, and thin with turpentlne
until it will run, or it will fill the
meshes of the netting. Black is good
color, as it makes the netting almost
invisible from a distance. Paint the
frames the same color as outside of
window sash.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
REM EN- BERING,

1t may be years since one much loved
Was locked in deaths mysterious sleep;
1t may be that the flowers we kee"
Because of them,
Are no more wet with tears.
Our lives go on without them;
The aching void that Death has le:
Is filled by other loves,
And we are less bereft
Than when we heard the dull thud-thud
That crazed US with its utter hopelessness;
But when we see a certain shade of hair,
Or tone of voice, or even but the lifting of a
hand,
1t all comes back
AS something we have known before,
And we, remembering, understand.
Edna Heald, in Womankind.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
A Rats Nest Worth $1,000.

While workmen were engaged last
week in demolishing a barn on the
Thompson property in Dobbs Ferry,
N. Y, they found under the floor a
rats nest which was made of green
backs. The money had been badly
torn and chewed, but most of it, if not
all, is redeemable.
Professor Thomas Z. THOMPSON.
who now owns the property, says the
money was probably hidden under
the barn floor some years ago by
his father, Robert Thompson, who
began to act queerly in 1889, and
became possessed of fear of banks,
lawyers and corporations. After that
he carried his money about him. He
seldom, if ever, allowed anyone but
himself to visit the barn. Mr.. Thomp-
sen, ST., died September IS, 1898,
and Professor Thompson's mother
lived until December last.
BY her will the estate, which
consisted of $4,000 and the house and
land, was to be divided equally between
Professor Thompson aud his brother.
The Professor took the house and his
brother the money. In equity the
money found in the rats nest belongs
to Professor Thompson. The professor
is blind musician and has composed
a number of pieces.
The total amount of money in the
rats nest is thought to be about
$1,000. 1t is in SIS, $40 and $40 bills.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
The Sliding of Boys.

Recently disaster overlook small
locality in Ireland by the sliding of a
bog. Many lives were lost in the vast
mass of miry peat. This bog was about
forty feet deep in the centre ard in a
liquid, half-swampy condition caused
by downpour of water, forming
stream from half mile to mile
broad, which overAowed the land,
running crops and stored fuel, cattle
and provisions.
This unusual catastrophe is not
without precedent. The Glowing moss
of the Solway" was on larger scale.
So long as the moderately hard crust
on the surface of the bog was not dis.
turbed the mud did not flow over, but
some peat diggers impudently tam
pered with this and the mud broke
bounds. One night farmer who lived
with the moss was startled by an un-
usual sound and making a light he
caught sight of a small dark stream
which was the herald of deluge. No
less than 304 acres OF bog overhowed
1000 acres of land, burying farms
overturnine buildings, suffocating
cattle, and filing small cottages to the
roofs. Many persons were only rescued
by being got through the roofs, the
black night and their terror at the ca
lamity, which they did not understand,
adding to the difficulty of the situa-
ton.
The stuff flowed along like thick,
black paint, studded with chunks of
peat and filed every nook and crevice
in its way. The odor was something
frightful. In some cases this over
lowing of a bog is heralded by noise
like thunder-the bursting of a bog.
The last occurrence before the recent
one in Ireland happened in 1858 in the
wild region called Enagh Monmore.
The moss was mile in circumference
and many feet thick and moved on for
twenty -four hours.
The best known quaking bog in
Great Britain is Chat Moss, of whose
breaking out the historians of the time
of Henry VIII. tell us. Though slid
ing and moving bogs have been intro
auced into stories only once-in
book called "For Dear Life"-quick-
sands are common end for bad
character in a story. Carver Doone,
it will be remembered, was thus dis
posed of. But to be engulfed in flow
ing mud is not pretty, and ii Hercu-
laneum had been buried in this way
instead of by lava it would lose its
romance,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
Age of the Premiers.

Care and worry do not seem te
shorten the lives of the British Pre-
miers. Gladstone by completing his
S7th year has broken the record
which was held by Lord Sidmouth,
who died past Sc. Earl Russell died
at the same age; the Duke of We'll
lington at 80. Lord Palmerston and
Earl Grey at 81, Earl OF Beaconsfeld
II, Earl of Aberdeen 76, Earl of
Derby so, Sir Robert Peel 81. Glad
stone and Sir Robert are the only two
Premiers who were not peers and did
not accept a peerage from the Queen.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
USES FOR CHEEsECLoTH.

The following is list of some OF the
household purposes for which cheese
cloth may be used.
For polishing windows and mirrors.
For washing windows.
For cleaning silver.
For cleaning brass ware.
For drying and polishing glassware
of all kinds.
For dust-cloths.
For shining bronzes.
For stainers in cooking.
For dish-towels. For scrub-cloths.
For bread cloths.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
THERE eDANGER.

'1t seems odd" remarked Mrs. Ten
spot, "that with all the words in the
English language an ordinary PERSONS
vocabulary is only about two thousand
five hundred words"
sit is odd, my DEAR" replied her
husband, ''and it behooves you to be
careful"
"Me careful? Why?"
"You go through your vocabulary
so many times day there is danger
that you will wear it out. Judge.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
UNUSUAL FEE.

Mrs. A. Quitt-''So you cleared that
poor Mr.. Liftem from the charge of
stealing that turkey? Well, I'm glad
of 1t, but he's such worthless charac-
ter that don't believe you will ever
get cent for your pay"
A. Quitt (the famous criminal law
yer)-'I may not, but I've got
blamed good turkey out in the wood.
shed. Truth.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02

"You admit you are an impostor ?"
said the Judge.
"No. 1 didn't, your honor"
"You claimed to be blind, and yet
You have an unimpaired eyesight."
"That's true, your honor; but I'm
morally blind, sir, and not being able
to see the harm in my innocent decep.
ton"
"Six months" calculated the judge.
-Harper's Bazaar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
THE CORN BEEF NOT To nuy.

1t is good thing to know that
brlsket is one of the cheaper cuts OF
beef and that it comes from that part
OF tho animal just above the front
legs, but it is better to know that
butchers never corn meat that can be
kept any longer and that the corned
beef already cut and rolled is the
corned beef not to buy.-New York
World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
CURE FOR THE CLUB HABIT.

Mrs. Yeast-"I wish / could think
of something to keep my husband at
home at nights"
Mrs. Puncheon-"Get him a bi :
cycle"
Mrs. Yeast -"That would take him
out more than ever"
Mrs. Puncheon-"Oh, no. it
wouldn'tl My husband got one the
day before yesterday, and the doctor
say he won't be out for month. -
Household Words.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
BATH BAGS.

A bran bag is one of the most CRATE
ful OF all toilet accessories. 1t is more
cleansing to the skin. and much more
refreshing. 1t is made by filling q
muslin bag with two quarts of bran,
one ounce of orris root, one ounce
almond meal and one small cake of
CASTLE soap cut in small pieces.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THP
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

Inducements-She Knew Best-in the
Restaurant-A Safe Location-An
Alternative. Etc, Etc.
"Whistle, daughter. whistle,
And you shall have beau"
81 never whistled in my life
My whistle will not CO."
"Whistle, daughter, whistle,
Twill bring you cash per week"
"Oh, goodnessl come and teach me
How TO make "A tuneful squeak"
Chicago Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02

Only six of the forty-fve States of
the Union indulge in the extravaganza
of annual sessions of the Legislature,
to wit: Georgia, Massachusetts,, New
York, Rhode Island and South Caro-
lima. all belonging to the original
thirteen.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
BETWEEN TWO FIRES.

The Fiancee-"Pm very much dis
pleased with Jack, and I'm half in
clined to break off the engagement. I"
The Contradiction won't do
that, will you?"
The Fiancee-"Well, 1 dislike to do
it, because, you know, mamma has
been SO violently opposed to our mar
riage. Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
ON A HAUNTING CAR.
BY ANNIE F. JOHNSTON.

I was a June
m o rn i n G in
G or X. NJ j 8 8
Briggs and her
niece had left
the rest of their
party at the ho-
tel, to recover
from the effects
of a rough pas
sage, and had
started out to
e x pl re t b 9
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
Expert Thieves.

Thieves threw q hook and line
through an open window of house at
Monterey, Mexico, and stole the bed
clothes, under which the owner of the
house was sleeping.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
FIRST, LAST AND ONLY.

Mrs. Jones-"Do you remember
that night in June, Henry, when you
first asked me to marry your"
Mr.. Jones-'If you refer to that
first, last, single, solitary and only
occasion upon which / ever asked you
to marry me, I do-and you never
gave me another chance, remember"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
A FORCED CHANGE.

Mr.. Prospect Heights-"Before I
was married / always said l would
never wheel baby carriage"
Mr.. Papleigh Push-"You changed
your mind, eh?"
Mr.. Prospect Heights ts-"No; my
wife did. Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
TO POLISH BRASS KETTLES.

To polish brass kettles or anything
brass that is very much tarnished, first
rub 1T with solution of oxalic acid
ana then dry and polish with rotten
stone or very fine emery dust.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
GREAT PROSPECT,

Blanche-"You don't tell me that
you are engaged to hotel waiter?"
Cora-"Yes; but he'll be rich some
day."
"Nonsense
Certainly he will. Don't you know
that all things come to him who waitsP"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02

Lightning in Kentucky town
knocked stave out of rain barrel
and deprived family of its water
supply for wash day.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02

King Menelek, of Abyssinia, has
ordered a battle picture from Rus.
sian artist, to commemorate the
thrashing he gave the Italians.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
IN THE RESTAURANT.

Brown-"Was that beef la mode
you asked for?"
Smith-"It was a la mode when I
asked for 1t. The fashions may have
changed since. Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
HIS OFFENCE

''The New Woman's Club will never
hire Tenor, the singer, again"
"Why SOP"
"He was billed to sing four times
at their annual dinner and each time
he warbled what is Home Without q
Mother !'"-Truth.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
A SAFE LOCATION.

Jimmy-"Say, fellers, if youse wants
to play ball, come around my way"
Tommy-"What for?"
Jim1ny-"Dere's fat cop on dat
beat dat can't run"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02

''May kiss your hand?" he asked.
She removed her veil.
"No," she replied. 81 have my
gloves on. Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02
NOT A YEARLING.

Bridges-"Why, sure, with such a
past she must succeed on the stage I"
Brooks-"And yet I'm fearful. The
quality of her past is all right, but
think of the quantity"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02

Prima Donna-"Those flowers ara
not for me-"
Conductor-"Yes, they are"
Prima Donna-"Well, they're not
the ones paid for. Pick -Me-Up.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02

People who sell newspapers in the
streets of Moscow, Russia, are COM
PEELED to appear in uniform.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-02

THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
Inducements-She Knew Best-fn the
Restaurant-A Safe Location-AI
Alternative. Etc, Etc.
"Whistle, daughter. whistle,
And you shall have a beau"
81 never whistled in my life
My whistle will not CO."
"Whistle, daughter, whistle,
Twill bring you cash per week"
"Oh goodnessl come and teach me
How TO make tuneful squeak"
Chicago Record.
AN ALTERNATIVE.
''May l kiss your hand?" he asked.
She removed her veil.
"No," she replied. 81 have my
gloves on. Life.
SAFE LOCATION.
Jimmy-"Say, fellers, if youse want,
to play ball, come around my way"
Tommy-"What for?"
Jimmy-"Dere's a fat cop on dat
beat dat can't run"
IN THE RESTAURANT.
Brown-"Was that beef a Ia mode
you asked for?"
Smith-"It was Ia mode when I
asked for 1t. The fashions may have
changed since. Puck.
NOT YEARLING,
Bridges-"Why, sure, with such a
past she must succeed on the stage l'
Brooks-"And yet I'm fearful. The
quality Of her past is all right, but
think of the quantity"
SHE KNEW BEST.
Prima Donna-"Those flowers ara
not for me-"
Conductor-"Yes, they are"
Prima Donna-"Well, they're not
the ones paid for. Pick -Me-Up.
A FORCED CHANGE.
Mr.. Prospect Heights-"Before I
was married 1 always said | would
never wheel baby carriage"
Mr.. Papleigh Push-"You CHANGED
your mind, eh?"
Mr.. Prospect Heights Mo; my
wife did. Puck.
HIS OFFENCE
1.-THE New Woman's Club will never
hire Tenor, the singer, again"
"Why so?"
"He was billed to sing four times
at their annual dinner and each time
he warbled 'What is Home Without q
Mother Truth.
GREAT PROSPECT.
Blanche-"You don't tell me that
you are engaged to hotel waiter 2"
Cora-"Yes; but he'll be rich some
day."
"Nonsense !"
Certainly he will. Don't you know
that all things come to him who waitsP"
FIRST, LAST AND ONLY.
Mrs. Jones-"Do you remember
that night in June, Henry, when you
first asked me to marry you?"
Mr.. Jones-'If you refer to that
first, last, single, solitary and only
occasion upon which / ever asked you
to marry me, 1 do-and you never
gave me another chance, remember.
BETWEEN TWO FIRES.
The Fiancee-"Tm very much dis
pleased with Jack, and I'm half in
clined to break off the engagement"
The COMMUNICATION won't do
that, will you?'
The Fiancee-"Well, l dislike to do
it, because, you know, mamma has
been SO violently opposed to our mar
riage. Puck.
UNUSUAL FEE.
Mrs. A. Quitt-"So you cleared that
poor Mr.. Liftem from the charge of
stealing that turkey? Well, I'm glad
of 1t, but he's such worthless charac-
ter that 1 don't believe you will ever
get cent for your pay"
A. Quitt (the famous criminal law
yer)-'I may not, but I've got
blamed good turkey out in the wood
shed. Truth.
Piled DEGENERACY.
"You admit you are an impostor ?"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-30
DANNIILE.
A Sunday Fire-A Marketmnn's
Money-Draver Robbed.

DANNILLE, November 29.-(Special)-
Fire broke out in the new storage ware
house of the Atlantic and Danville rail
way about $50 o'clock Sunday night. anG
did damage to the extent of $3.50 to 81 900
The damage consists in the destruction
by flre and water of a large part OF the
stock of fireworks and heavy groceries
stored in section l of the warehouse, and
owned by John w. Carter q Co. The
firm carried insurance of 5000 on the
stock
During the fire there was continuous
explosion of fireworks, which, being heard
at considerable distance attracted a
large crowd. The explosions were harm
less.
The cash drawer of Mr.. l.. Y. Martin.
who keeps a stall in the vegetable and
general produce department of the City
Market, was broken open Saturday night
or early Sunday morning, the thief Sc
curing 1920 in money and escaping
through a small window of the securely
locked building. The deliyery-boy, 20
year-old colored youth, named Bob Jones,
has been arrested charged with the
crime. 1t is thought that the boy hid
when the stall was locked at 10 O'Clock
Saturday night. and after everybody left
crept out and broke the drawer Two
other cash drawers i'm adjoining stalls
We're entered, but being empty, the thief
had his pains for his reward Jones has
served one penitentiary term for theft
He denies the latest crime alleged against
him. and none Of the money was found in
his possession.
Mrs. Mary De Mott. wife of Mr.. Charles
De Mott, Of Chatham. died in this city
early this morning Of heart trouble. The
deceased was here to undergo treatment.
She leaves a large family, among her sons
being Professor l.. De Mott, of the Lynch
burg High School and Eugene De Mott
who is studying for the ministry I'm a
Baltimore school. The remains will be
taken to Chatham for interment.
Circuit Court meets at Chatham, the
county seat, tomorrow morning. Judge
Stafford @. Whittle will preside. Several
important civil matters will engage the
lttentiOn Of court.