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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

"What in the world do you call these
things?" asked customer of South
Water street commission man yester-
day, as he carefully examined four or
five small, slightly oval shaped objects.
Guess" said the commission man.
"Can't-giye up"
"Those are Chinese cocoanuts."
"Why, they aren't much larger than
marbles"
They are very scarce in this coun-
try. l happened to get hold of these
through a friend of mine. He spent
the winter down in Florida, and one
day he was walking along the beach
and discovered these floating in the
water. They don't grow anywhere
around here, and the natural conclu-
sion reached as to how they got to the
Florida coast was that they drifted all
the way from China of their own ac.
cord"
What makes them so small?"
81 don't know, but you see that they
are exactly like the common cocoanut,
except in size. In China they are used
great deal for flavoring purposes. -
Chicago Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

In his sermon on last Sunday, n
prominent New York clergyman said:
1.-The organic church here has lost its
hold on the public mind. Women are
the only ones who hold to church
organizations of to-day. There are
but $4,000 men in the City of New
York to-day who go into Protestant
churches. This is true also of Roman
Catholics. According to the latest
estimates, it is figured that 3S5, 900
persons attend the Roman Catholic
churches, but of that number there
are great many who go to church
once or twice year, and some who
never go unless they think they are
about to die"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

There would be less poor butter on
the market if more attention We're
given to the care of the dairy utensils,
says w. j. Fraser in an agricultural
paper. They should be washed as
soon as possible after being used, as
the longer the milk remains in them
the harder they are to clean. First,
rinse in cool water to remove the milk
never use hot, as this cooks the milk
and causes it to adhere to the vessels
After rinsing, wash thoroughly in hot
water, or what is still better, with
steam, if it is available. This scalding
is very essential, and should be thor
oughly done. After scalding, turn up
side down in clean, exposed place,
where they will get the full benefit of
the sun, as this helps greatly to keep
them sweet.
Strainers should be given good
deal of attention, as they come in CON
tact with all the milk. If cloth
strainers are used, they are difficult to
keep clean. A cheap grade of cotton
flannel, used nap side up, makes a
good strainer, and if only a small piece
is used, it is best to throw it away af
ter each straining.
All tin utensils should be as free
from seams as possible, hence, of
course, dressed tin is best. If there
are seams or corners they should be
filed with solder as to leave no lodg-
ing places for dirt. A few minutes
work with the soldering iron will saws
much time in washing. Wooden pale
should never be used for milk, as it is
practically impossible to keep them
clean.
Where milk is taken to factory
the cans should be washed before they
are returned 1t is bad practice to
take back skim milk, which is usually
sour, in the cans used for whole milk,
but this is often done and can hardly
be obviated where the milk is hired
hauled. OF course, the skim milk
should be returned, but it is much
better to have a barrel for the pur-
pose. If the cans are used for skim
milk they should be emptied ON reach
ing the farm and thoroughly cleansed.
All wooden utensils, such as churn,
butter worker, ETC., should be washed
and scalded after being used, and if
placed in the sun, care must be taken
that they do not become so dry as to
crack. From one churning to another
the churn should not be kept tightly
closed, as it will soon become tainted
In preparing wooden utensils for use
they should be scalded and then cooled
| with cold water. If treated in this
way the butter will not stick.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19
The Round Cotton Bale.

At first transportation companies
and manufacturers were doubtful OF
the advisability of introducing the new
cotton presses which turn out cylin-
drical bales. They believed they could
not be packed readily, and that it would
be difficult to remove samples. The
latter objection was soon shown to be
groundless, and it was demonstrated
that the new presses packed the cotton
so compactly that itrequires less space
than by the old system ofsquare bales.
This same compactness was proved, by
actual experiment, to be a great pro-
lection in case of fire. Inky water
water was also thrown over it and
would not penetrate. There is grow
ing belief in the South that the round
bale is coming into general use.-At-
lanta Constitution.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

1t is not generally known that the
President and Vice President of the
United States never travel by rail to-
gether. 1t is one of the precautionary
measures that hedge about the lives of
the two foremost men in the National
Government, the idea being that if an
accident upon the rail should cause
the death of one of the illustrious men
the other would still be spared to the
country. 1t was for this reason that
ex-President Cleveland invariably rode
upon the Pennsylvania Railroad when
he iourneyed from the Capital to Phila-
delphia or New York, and Vice-Presi-
dent Stevenson travelled on the Balti-
more and Ohio. President Mckinley
and Vice. President Hobart, when they
attended the recent Grant celebration
in New York, followed the same plan.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19
GOOD ROADS NOTES.

This is great country but some
parts of it are too soft.
Material for making a road isn't
lacking half as often as is the DISPOSE
tion to get at it.
The man who appreciates the differ
ence between good and bad roads may
be said to have ''horse sense"
The cyclists in the vicinity of Potts
town, Penn, have been instrumental
in securing 600 tons of cracked stone
placed on the roads in the vicinity of
their town.
A writer in the Des Moines Iowa)
Farmers Tribune urges the superiority
of gravel roads for that State. His
reason is principally the trifing cost
of the gravel as compared with tho
cost of stone necessary for macadam
road.
The Worcester (Mass.) Road I'M
provement Association has II novel
plan for awakening the public to the
need of better streets in that city.
They have offered prizes for collections
of photographs of bad streets taken
during the spring and summer, which
will be put ON slides by the association
and exhibited in public next fall.
Mississippi now has road law
which, if properly carried into effect,
and if kept in effect for material
length of time, will, in the opinion of
the Mobile ALA Register, probably
give the State a system of public roads
superior to any that it has ever had,
and perhaps superior to that of a
majority of the Southern States"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

Fifteen years ago j. J. Lentz, of
Ohio, and E. q. Robbins, of Penn
sylvania, were eroommates in New York
City, while they attended the Colum-
bia law school. On the evening after
their graduation Robbins asked Lentz
what he was going to do. 81 am going
back home and run for Congress.
What are you going to do?" 81 am
going home to Pennsylvania with the
same idea. We will meet some day in
the House" And, sure enough, when
the roll was called for the members
of the fty-fifth House of Representa-
tivas to come to the clerk desk to be
sworn in, Mr.. Robbins, the representa-
tive from Greensburg, Penn, met Mr..
Lentz, Representative from Columbus,
Ohio, in the area in front of the clerk s
desk. Clasping hands, they remarked
in the same breath: well, here we
are -
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19
Development of Uganda.

The development of the native king
dom of Uganda, in Central Africa, un
der British protection is very remark
able. The vast population of this dis
trict, which will soon be opened to the
civilized world by railway constructed
down to the ocean, offers an ever-wid-
ening market for manufactured articles
in textiles and metals, including agri-
cultural implements and industrial
tools, Uganda is going to be cotton,
tea, tobacco and coffee growing coun-
try. A steamer is now plying on the
Victoria Nyanza.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

Curse cards are novelty which
have lately been introduced into Prus-
sia, Saxony and Alsace, though they
originated in Calvin's land. The man
ner in which the propagandist en-
ploys the curse card is said to be as
follows: He or she starts in the early
morning by filling his or her pockets
with the form in blank. When in ON
nibus, tram or train bad language is
heard, then the user of the profane
words is invited to fill in the blank
forms, and he binds himself for GER
tain time to abstain from the "swear
words or to do penance in pfennings
for indulgence in the same. In Switz-
erland 80, 800 of these cards have been
distributed, and, as the prospectus
gravely remarks: ''In country where
three great European languages are
spoken the system will have invaluable
results in enabling the religious sta
tistician to estimate the prevalence of
violent language among the nations of
Western Europe" The benefits of the
curse card have yet to be proved. -
New York Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

An absolutely fireproof chimney,
fifty feet high, has been built of paper
at Breslau. 1t is the only one of the
kind
Thirty-two and three-quarters knots
nm hour is the recent record made by
the British torpedo boat Turbinia ON
her trial trip on the River Tyne.
Since pneumatic tires have come
into use on cabs in Paris, it has been
found that owing to the reduced shock
to vehicles, the cost of repair has been
lessened fifty per cent.
The dry volcanic ore along the Col
orado River, above and below Yuma,
has been found to be rich in gold. 1t
is necessary to roast the rock in order
to make it yield up its treasure.
The Yale Glass of 1897 has bought
and presented to the Peabody Museum
valuable meteoric stone, found three
years ago on the Smoky Hill River,
Kansas. The stone weighs sixty-fve
pounds. The British Museum con-
tains only two stones which are larger.
A prominent member of the Eng
lish Royal Botanic Society proposes to
devote the Sahara desert to the rails
ing of esparto grass, which is almost
as useful as wood pulp. Paper makers
have forgotten that they were once
concerned about the scarcity of rags.
1t is calculated that fluent speaker
utters between 1000 and 1900 words
in the course of an hours uninter-
rupted speaking; many orators of
more than usually rapid utterance will
reach 5000 and even 5000. But 1876
words minute, or 1900 an hour, is a
fair average
Strangely enough, the X rays will
not penetrate glass. Eyeglasses, if
photographed, come out black. This
proved useful in the case of Vienna
glass worker who got bit of glass
into his finger. BY the aid of the rays
its was discovered, extracted, and the
workman cured.
The evening primrose-opening
about dusk-has very light linen
yellow color for the attraction of night
flying moths, by which, almost en-
tiiOiJ, ~ 10 lcl tiilAett, dltnOupn IL re-
mains open during the day to some ex-
tent, and may at that time receive
some visits from bees, but it is pecu-
liarly adapted to fertilization by night
flying moths. The other species of
the primrose family ESQ called) are
fertilized by bees, which, of course,
are day flying.
The temperature at the bottom of
the ocean is nearly down to freezing
point, and sometimes actually below
it. There is a total absence of light,
as far as sunlight is concerned, and
there is an enormous pressure, reck-
oned at about one ton to the square
inch in every 1000 fathoms, which is
100 times greater than that of the at
mosphere we live in. At 25OO faith
oms the pressure is about thirty times
more powerful than the steam pressure
of locomotive when drawing train.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

Burdett Coutts, Sir Ashmead Bart
iett's brother, whose marriage brought
him so much ill will in London, will
be the first person born as an Ameri-
can citizen to enter the House of
Lords. There have been several
Americans naturalized as Englishmen
who have received baronetcies and
knighthoods. But no one yet has had
a peerage conferred upon him. There
are still hopes, however, that the
young Harvard graduate, son of Lady
Henry Somerset, may succeed to his
grandfather sadly impoverished
Dukedom of Beaufort. The Duke s
Oldest son, the Marquis of Worcester,
who married the widowed Baroness de
Tuyll year ago, has just become the
father of little girl. 1t is needless to
add, remarks the New York Sun, that
the Marquis is greatly disappointed,
and so. too, are the tenants on the
Beaufort estates, who dread becoming
subject to the rule of Duke reared
by mother protesting such strong
views on the subject of temperance as
Lady HenryjSomerset.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19
The Thread-and-Ne Tree

One of Mexicos most curious plants
is called the thread-and-needle tree.
and it bears close resemblance to an
overgrown asparagus. Along the edges
of the leaves, which are thick and
feshly and full of tiny tibres of great
strength, very sharp needles" grow.
If pushed back into the leaf, and cut
loose from its tough setting the thorn
may be easily pulled out, lot of the
tough little tibres attached to the root
of thorn coming out with it. When
these fibres are twisted together with
wax strong, smooth thread is the re-
suit.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

1t has been written that no man by
giving thought unto himself can add
one cubit to his stature, but the enter
prising Jap does not despair, and an
ordinance has gone forth exhorting
the people to eat more freely of meat,
with view to increasing the average
height of the race. Whatever results
may follow the method proposed, they
are certain to be long time coming,
but it is only another instance of the
determination on the part of the
Japanese not to let the slightest
chance slip for attaining all the ad-
vantages which they see, or think
they see, in Western civilization.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

The cost of support is in proportion
to weight, but in the yield Of butter is
not in such proportion.
When butter is worked very dry,
the grains of salt left in it are not dis
solved and remain in a gritty condi-
ton.
If creamery butter is better than
average dairy butter it is because the
management at the creamery is upon a
higher scale than in the average private
dairy. There is no gain in taking the
milk Of dozen OF more second or third
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

| class farmers and handing it over to
an unskilled creamery man to make
into butter.
Poor, dirty milk cannot appear later
In form of irst-class butter. The skill
and intelligence, indispensable at o
creamery, must extend out among the
milk producers. Poor cows yielding
but little milk can never pay their
keeping, and no number of them, how
ever great, can render creamery
profitable to it.
One of the reasons why diseases in
swine cause greater loss than that with
any other class of animals is because
of unnatural and detrimental condi.
tions. They are compelled to slake
thirst in stagnant pools, and sleep and
eat in filthy quarters, or no quarters
at all. Even the stencil of many hog
pens is menace.
Whenever a sheep begins to lose
wool it shows its digestion has become
impaired, causing fever. In most
cases this means that the sheep is past
its prime, so that it can no longer
chew its food as formerly. The sooner
such a sheep is disposed of, the better
for the farmers profit. 1t is not pos
sible, even by feeding ensilage, to keep
sheep in good condition after their
teeth fail.
1t is important that cows beregularly
salted at least twice q week. If they
have salt before them all the time,
they will not eat more than is good for
them. This regular sailing not only
increases the milk yield, but also
makes it of better quality. Where
COWS are salted regularly, their milk
will keep sweet twenty -four hours
longer than will milk from cows that
have suffered for lack of salt.
Muck, by which in this country is
| generally meant vegetable mould, is
too poor in fertility to warrant carry
ing far or much handling AS for
mixing it with stable manures we
would not advise such practice, as
the manure without the muck is none
too efficient. There is one partial ex-
ception to this rule. When heap of
manure is fermenting it saves a waste
of ammonia to throw over the pile q
small quantity of vegetable mould,
and this when the heap is turned must
be mixed with the stable manure.
Early failures to hatch eggs very
seldom come from lack of vigor in the
| germ; for in this the early eggs are
| superior. They more often come from
allowing eggs to be chilled before the
setting begins. Every one knows that
chilling after few days setting soon
destroys the life in the egg. 1t may
| do where eggs that have never been
| set on are kept in contact with metal,
which rapidly abstracts heat when the
eggs are kept for greater safety near
the freezing temperature. Dishes for
holding eggs should be of wood, which
abstracts heat slowly.
Though the farmer may not want to
plow deep for spring crops he always
likes to have soil as deep as possible.
1t is an advantage to topdress even
though only poor soil is used to do it
with. We have known the soil dug
from deep wells and spread over ad-
joining land to greatly help the soil
after a year or two. The subsoil was
rich in mineral fertility, though of
course, it had little or no vegetable
matter. After it had been exposed to
frost one or two winters it produced
good small grain crops, though manure
was needed when corn, potatoes and
other hoed crops were planted on it,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19
Gum Chewing Causes Appendicitis.

An operation has been performed
upon Dalton Query, of Blue Ridge,
Ind, for appendicitis, but he cannot
possibly recover. Query has been an
inveterate chewer of gum, and in the
appendix was found ball of wax al.
mos. as large as hens egg.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

They come to me In the shadows
That cover the dying day,
They take taeir forms and substa .as
Out of the twilight gray;
They have DO tangible features,
Nor any form of speech,
But they point their misty fingers
TO heights L can never reach.
They bring up out of the darkness
Old-time hopes and fears,
Till the shadow faces are fainter
Behind mist of tears.
The saddest things of a lifetime
Are these shades of old regret
For the dear ideals that missed us
And the joys that we didn't get.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

Greek shoes are nearly always made
OF red leather. They turn up at the
toes and are ornamented with red
and blue pompon of floss silk on the
lnstep and are sometimes embroidered
with gold and silver thread. Unless
elaborately embroidered a handsome
pair may be bought for dollar. The
people who wear the native costume
all of them wear these shoes, which
are made in coarser leather for the
country
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

The prayer that never was answered,
The prize that never was won,
Beautiful thoughts unspoken,
Work that was left undone.
The help that never was offered,
The letter didn't write
All lift reproachful faces
Out of the gathering night.
And the finished work seems nothing
Beside the work undone,
And the given victory small and weak
To that which | might have won.
They fill me with vague longings,
These sad ghosts of regret,
For the only joys worth holding
Are those 1 didn't get.
Marie Conway, in Savannah Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19


hats, canes and adobe dollars are
showered into the arena by the excited
admirers of the matador. He bows
his thanks. The bull totters, falls to
his knees and buries his nose in the
sand. An attendant runs up and
buries the point of dagger deep in
the bulls brain. As the attendants
hand the hats and canes to the excited
people on the plank seats the bugle
sounds again. The three white mules
are driven in. A rope is fastened
about the horns of the dead bull and
he is drawn out. The spectators wait
impatiently for the next.
Six times was this performance re-
peated during the afternoon. When
six bulls are dead the game is over for
the day. There are towards among
bulls as well as men. The second bull
that entered promptly jumped the
fence, and could not be induced to
fight. The bleachers were disgusted,
and shouted their taunts loudly, hurl-
ing all kinds of epithets at the coward
ly animal. The referee needed their
Ecries, and ordered the bull returned to
II pen. This was accomplished by let
ting in three spotted steers with bells
fastened to their necks. When they
turned to go out the bull meekly fol-
lowed them.
The third bull trotted in with the
majestic air of lion, his tail swung to
one side. He was a big black fellow
with magnificent horns and full of
fight. He killed two horses in less
than three minutes, and almost killed
two capeadors. They escaped death
by miracle. When the matador drove
his sword into this bull he missed the
heart, and the point of the blade
emerged from the animals body sew
eral inches, just back of the foreleg.
Catcalls and shouts of derision greeted
the failure OF the matador, but he re-
deemed himself. Deity he recovered
his sword, and at the next attempt
drove the blade IN to the hllt, piercing
heart. The Mexican bleachers love
blood and skill; they want no false
moves.
The greatest Mexican bull fighter is
Ponciano Diaz, and he is the most
popular man IN Mexico with the masses.
Some OF the feats he performs are Won
derfnl. He will stand in the centre of
the arena, sword IN hand, and await
the approach OF the bull. By deft
movement he places his feet between
the bulls horns, drives his blade into
the bulls heart, and withdraws it so
quickly that there is not stain left on
the silk handkerchief he draws the
blade through. He is the personifica-
ton OF all that is great to the people.
There were SIX bulls and eight horses
killed the afternoon the writer visited
the Plaza de Ioris, and his only regret
was that he did not see bull fighter
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

The decision of the Trunk Line AS
soeiation of railways to accept bicycles
as personal baggage between States is
another recognition of the place the
wheel has won. If now the trainmen
can be compelled to use ordinary care
IN handling bicycles. riders will have
got solid advantage.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

The Theosophical Society is flourish
ing IN California. 1t has bought forty
acres of land on Point Iona, near San
Diego. The society intends to build
big hotel and sanitarium and to
spend $400, 900 on the undertaking.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

This unkind fling is from the San
Francisco Chronicle: "As soon as the
water dries off in Oklahoma the prairie
fires will set in. Oklahoma is a fine
new Territory for people that yearn
for excitement, but it is noticeable that
it doesn't get much immigration from
California
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

The irony of Fate is sublime. One
OF the victims of the Mississippi food
was book agent who had been ped
ding a work on irrigation.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19

Michigan egg shippers claim that
they pay more money annually for
Michigan hen fruit than is paid for
Michigan wheat.