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The San Francisco call., 1897-04-10
Socramen.o Honors Her Dead.

SACRAMENTO. CAL, April g. - The
funeral OF the late Edward Lyon, County
Treasurer. will take place Sunday after
noon, and will be attended by the Masonic
organizations, of which deceased was
me nber. The flags of the Hall of Records
and County Courthouse have been flying
at half mast in honor of the memory of
the dead Treasurer.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-10
The 7amarpass Ashore at sau,nltto.

SAUSALITO, CAL, April o. The
steamer Tamalpais has been run upon the
beach at New SausaliIo. The steamer is
the property of the North Pacific Coast
Railroad, and has been at anchor in Rich
ardsons Bay, off Sausalito, during The
winter. This week the steamer began to
fill with water and was quite low when
the work Of pun ping it out began.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-10
Field Dny for Frs,no sport,.

FRESNO. CAL, April 9-Sunday will
be fie Id day for the local sporting world.
In the forenoon there will be shotgun
rabbit drive near McMullin, sixteen miles
west of this city. large area of territory
,hickly infested with the pest will be
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-10
weddea on Santa Barbara cna,n.,

SANTA BARBARA, CAL, April o.
Steve Raul, aged Is, and Annie Bristow,
aged IL, were united in marriage on the
high seas in Santa Barbara Channel at
noon to-day. Captain LARGO, owner of a
fshing-smack, presided.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-10

paying themselves for the work done
under the contract which they made with
themselves. They will have a hearing
next week. The third Director, A. Il.
Jackson, swore out the complaint.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-10

Aara founfy Uine Shipments.
ST. HELENA, CAL. April 9.-Of late
Napa County has shipped a great many
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

Take coal tar two parts and coal oil
md grease one part each and mix with
IL small amount of carbolic acid APP
ply with cloth by moistening the hair
and horns of the animals with the liquid.
In the applications include feet and
legs, and it will drive every fly away,
and one application will last ten days
or more in dry weather. Apply as Of
ten as necessary, and your COWS will
be entirely secure from flies of all
kinds. Any kind of old lard or grease
can be used. Coal tar is the base of
this remedy, and when too thick to
spread well use more coal oil when too
thin to adhere well use more coal tar.
Carbolic acid will cost about fifty or
sixty cents in crystals by the pound,
and every farmer should always keep
it on hand, as it, in its many uses, is
Indispensable Home and Garden.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22
Keen the Mouth shut.

II you would avoid colds, keep the
mouth shut when coming out of an
over-heated room, especially late at
night, and breathe through the nose
Chills are apt TO ensue when people
talk freely while out of doors just after
leaving room full of hot air, and
theater-goers who discuss and laugh
over the play on their way home are
inviting illness. 1t is, in fact, during
youth that the greater number of man
kind contract habits of inflammation
which make their whole life tissue Of
disorders.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22
Ant and AntidOtP.

Under the suggestive headline,
can't and Antidote," the Prudential
Review, of Newark, says: ''House-
keepers in warm climates or elsewhere,
whose provisions are raided by the
small but persistent red ant, may be
glad to learn of very efficient pre-
ventive. Pieces of ordinary tape are
dipped in little corrosive sublimate,
dried, and tied around the bottoms of
cake-boxes or the legs of tables or re-
frigerators, which it is desired to
guard. No ant, whether wise or fool
ish, will cross such barrier, and eat
ables or sweets so protected are abso-
lutely safe. OF course, care must be
taken not to put the tape or any boxes
SO protected within the reach of chill
dren, as the corrosive sublimate on
the tape is a poison" The cure is too
dangerous to be risked where there
are children.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22
Country Eonds.

For one hundred years or more news
paper philosophers and political econo-
mists have vainly tried to convince the
tillers of soil that they, more than any
other class of people, were directly,
vitality and pecuniarily interested in
making and maintaining country high
ways over which heavy loads and light
ones could be drawn without the ex-
penditure of an unnecessary amount of
costly strength.
The farmers studied tax rates and
either would not hear or would not
heed any statistics whose bearing was
less immediate, though not less obvi-
Gus. The vast majority of rural roads
continued to be stretches of dirt, made
into dust by the sun, into mud by the
rain, and always enforcing the truth
that the distance between farm and u
market depends more on the nature of
the road connecting them than on the
number of miles separating them
Wheeling Register.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

Blankets after the winter use are never
clean, and should not be put away without
being washed. Many housekeepers in view
of the shrinking and diseoloring caused
by washing satisfy themselves with airing
and shaking their blankets, but this is
. great mistake, for if the work is prop
erly done the soft appearance and white
nessA may be retained for years.
The most important consideration in
washing blankets is to have plenty of
soft water and good soap. An inferior cheap
soap is really the cause of the injury done
woolen goods in washing, as 1t hardens and
yeliows the fibre. When ready to begin the
work, shake the blankets free of dust, fill
4 tub nearly full of soft hot water, and dis
solve third of n cake of Ivory soap in it.
Put one blanket in at time and dip up and
down, gently washing with the hands.
Meyer rub soap on blankets, or wash
GU the washboard. After the blankets
are clean, rinse them in warm water until
free Of suds. Add little bluing to the last
water. Shake and squeeze rather than
wiring, and hang on the line until dry. Then
fold and pack away in n box securely to
exclude the moth. Blankets washed in this
way will keep their original freshness and
wear very much longer than il put away
soiied year after year. ELIZA II. PARKER.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

They really are the most useful arti-
nles in the household repertoire. Among
fifty ways of utilizing them, here is
one:
Fasten in the lower barrel l-head
securely. Take out the upper one to
allow a shelf to be fastened in the mid
die, which should follow the line of
barrel, excepting ON one side, where
the circle must be squared. When
this shelf is securely set in, fasten the
second barrel-head back again, and
tighten all the hoops. Now saw out n
generous sized door in the centre of
the baryel. When it opens, the shelf
with its square side should stand across
the middle of the opening. Put hinges
on the door, and then you have a com
Portable little pantry for cottage use,
Dr.. if wash-stands are not plentiful,
this invention will serve admirably as
one if draped so that the barrel shape
alone is visible. A Turkish towel, or,
better yet. towelling cut in n circle,
will cover the barrel-top nicely, and
protect the drapery below.-Harper' $
Bazaar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

Hoosier Gems-Two cups of graham
-four, onehalf teaspoonful salt and one
and one-half cupfuls of water. Beat
hard for five minutes and bake in well.
buttered iron gem pans in hot oven.
Plain, but very good.
Rice Pudding-One quart milk, two
level tablespoonfuls rice, and two OF
sugar and n small handful of raisins.
Bake, covered, slowly for two hours.
When it will be of a creamy consisten-
cy, uncover to brown. Serve cold.
Beef Rissoles-Mince bits of lean
beef very fine, roll crumbs and allow
reefourths pound to pound of meat.
Add one or two eggs, n dust of herbs
and grated lemon peel. Mix and
shape into balls fry rich brown, make
nice gravy.
F, Velvet Balls-Tc' a pound of finely
ground beef add one-half cupful milk,
one-h half teaspoonful salt, one-fourth
of pepper and one-fourth of sage.
Mix thoroughly and make into small
cakes. Dip into flour and fry in beef
drippings or butter.
Junket-Dissolve one junket tablet
in tablespoonful of cold water, Stir
barely enough to mix in three cups of
lukewarm milk, sweetened with two
tablespoonfuls Of sugar and seasoned
with nutmeg. Let stand in warm
room until thickened, when it may be
carefully removed to cool place,
4 Al
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22
Naval Tank,

The new naval experiment tank at
the Washington yard, in which m!nia-
ture war ships will be tested, will be
300 feet long and 80 feet across, and
Inside the water space will be 475 by
e3 feet. Its depth viii be II feet.
Running across, close to the water, will
be carriage upon which there will be
attached dynamometer to register the
resistance due to towing a model
through the basin. Models, varying IN
size from ten 10 twenty feet, of every
new ship to be built will be attached
to this machinery and drawn through
the water. The wave motion will be
observed and the resistance 1t offers
will be calculated.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS


The practice of putting little flags
for purpose of Identification in the var.
ious plates of sandwiches served at teas
and receptions is an American adapta.
ton Of long prevailing London Gus.
tom. Over there, as here, sandwiches
have multiplied to the point of confu.
sion, and card is used and is really
necessary to label the various combi.
nations. At simple day ''at home"
in New York usually only two kinds of
sandwiches are served, the maid offer
ing a choice between a sweet and a
salt trifie of bread and filling.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

To one who goes about the country
and notices the farms hepasses it is al
ways a matter Of surprise that so few
bees are kept in the West. In good
many sections of the East two or three
or more bee hives will be seen near al
most every farm house, and the fami-
lies living in these houses have honey
the year round, while among the farm
ers i'll the West it is almost an unknown
luxury in many homes.
1t would be almost impossible to
keep bees enough in this country to
utilize the nectar in the flowers that
bloom every year, and on every farm
two or three colonies could be kept
without trouble enough to make any
difference in the ordinary duties.
Except in few districts bees can be
kept with moderate degree of success
by the most unskilled and the honey
they would gather would be all clear
profit.
Where clover is grown; where white
clover, Eastwood or sumac abounds. or
where alsike clover, golden rod. rasp
berry bushes or the purple asters of
autumn are to be found, there is honey
for the gathering, and to let it waste is
entirely unnecessary.
The average yield of honey from u
colony is probably not far from fifty
pounds year, and if two or three col
onies are kept, enough will be made to
supply the family to the extent of it's
apDetite eHery day in the ypar aud
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22
TO 51.LOW LAND.

Ny little dears, the star-lamps
Are lighted overhead
To guide all sleepy children
From the land of Go-to-Bed,
On most delightful journey;
oh. you'll all be glad to go
To that pleasant, pleasant country
Where the dream flowers grow
You'll find a good steed waiting,
so mount and give command,
And trot away, and trot away
To By-Low Land.
You can go by Sleepy Hollow,
That's the shortest route to take
On the journey you are going,
From the plains of Wideawake.
You'll be there before you know it;
Shut your drowsy eyes, and lol
You are in the pleasant country
Where the dream flowers grow.
Your good steed's waiting for you,
SO mount and give command,
And trot away, and trot away
TO BY-Low Land.
Ere you start upon your journey,
Mother wants II hug and kiss
From each drowsy little darling,
And she softly tells you this
She'll be lonesome when you've left her
Though she's glad to have you go
To that pleasant, pleasant country
Where the dream flowers grow.
Your good steed's tired of waiting.
SO mount and give command.
And trot away, and trot away
To By-Low Land.
Washington Home Magazine.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22
Now for Tallow Soap.

As this is the time of year that many
farmer women make soap of the tallow
scraps and rinds of pork that have ac-
cumulated through the winter, would
like them to have the benefit of my
soap recipe. 1t is composed of six
pounds sal soda, three pounds of
stone lime and seven pounds clear
grease. That is, the grease must be
free of bones and meat; but | have
made it of scraps and rinds by adding
u little more than seven pounds strain
ing the soap, while hot, after it is
made.
Put the lime,and soda in six gallons
soft water and let it boil up good,
then pour it allinto tub and let set
tie over night. In the morning pour
all the clear liquid back into the ket.
tie, being careful not to get any of the
sediment in. Now add the grease ana
boil until it is about as thick as
strained honey. L always try it by
comes solid enough to turn out in a
cake, it is ready to turn back into
your tub, but first be sure your tub is
perfectly cleaned from the lime and
soda. Let stand over night again,
where it will not freeze, then cut out
i'll good sized cakes and put to dry.
This soap made from clear mutton
tallow is very nice for people to use
who are troubled with cracked OF
chapped hands, and it makes nice
toilet soap by adding some perfumery
just before it has boiled enough
This recipe was given to me by a
friend several years ago whose father
is physician. She told me that il
there was any of the soap in the house
made with mutton tallow, he used to
always put piece in his pocket when
he was called on to attend child.
birth, to wash the newborn babe with
1t is some trouble to make this soap,
but we have very few good things in
this world without little trouble to
get them. New England Homestead.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

ID. b. d. Halsted, Of the New Jer-
sey Experiment Station, writes: One
of the worst of meadow and pasture
weeds is Plantago lanceolata, popularity
known as Joint weed. 1t seeds abun-
dainty and the seed is of just the right
size and weight to go with clover seed,
and is the weed seed nowadays most
frequently mixed with that of clover.
A person who is looking for it in clover
seed will at once recognize the pest by
the oval shape of the brown seed. 1t
is longer than clover seed and has a
mark upon one side that reminds one
of miniature boat with single per-
son i'll the centre. This weed takes a
firm grip upon the soil by mass of
roots springing from large crown.
This plant lives on from year to year,
sending up new, long, lance-shaped
leaves each season. The crown stores
up much nourishment and when the
land containing the plantain is plowed
these crowns are like SO many bulbs
that remain alive for long time. In
short, the plant is easy to introduce
into soil and hard to eradicate from
it. Thorough culture with some hoed
crop is the most effective method of
clearing the land of this ribgrass.
The English plantain is so named
because it came to us from across the
sea. 1t has been introduced in some
places as a forage plant, the seed be-
ing sown for pasturage for sheep. This
was serious mistake, as many farm
ers have fully learned by sad expert
ence. Look we'll to the clover
and grass seed and if already in
the grass land get it out by cultivator
and hoe, of course not letting the pest
form any seed.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22
AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.


1t is very hard to keep currant bushes
thrifty and productive when anywhere
from six to ten or dozen sprouts are
allowed to grow in each hill. These
conditions are just right for the cur
rant worm to do a great deal of injury
before he can be found and killed with
hellebore. We always cut out all but
three or four shoots. Though many
advise training the bushes in tree form,
only one in place, two, three, or even
four shoots will bear enough more to
pay for the extra trouble.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

A clerk in Chicago book store was
surprised not long ago when young
lady came into the store and said to
him: II want to buy present of a
book for young man." Eyes, miss, u
said he. "What kind of book do you
want?" why, a book for young
man." "Well-but what kind of a
young man?" "Oh, he's tall and has
light hair, and he always wears blue
necktieSln
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

Aliens Foot Ease, n powder for the feet II
cures painful swollen, smarting feet, and in
stantly takes the sting out of corns and bum
ions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of
the age. Aliens Foot-Ease makes tght-ft-
ting new shoes feel easy. 1t is Il certain
cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired, ach-
Ing feet. Try it to-day. sold by all druggists
and shoe stores. BY mail for 25c. in stamps.
Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. 0lm-
sted, LIE Roy, n. Y.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

Who are injured by the use of coffee. Re-
Gently there has been placed in all the grocery
stores new preparation called Grain o, made
OF pure grains, that takes the place of coffee.
The most delicate stomach receives it without
distress, and but few can tell it from coffee.
IL does not cost over one-quarter as much,
Children may drink it with great benefit. Is
cts and % cts. per package. Try it. Ask for
Grain-O.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

1t has just been discovered that each
of the two Testaments in use in the
city okLPndon court is kissed 30, doc
a year. Both books are very ancient.
They are falling to pieces, being liter.
ally kissed away. --Boston Globe.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

The Mexican Herald says of a recent
fatal panic at bull fight: THE young
lady was frightened to death, but be-
haved with much courage and self-pos-
session" This, we believe, is thorough
ly characteristic of American corpses.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

Every passenger coach, baggage car, par
lor car and dining car OF the Royal Blue
Line, between Washington and New York,
has been repainted and refurnished during
the past six months.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

an average height OF 18 feet. has been built
along Second Ave-, in Pttsburg, by the Bal
timore Il Ohio Railroad Company. This is
part of the half million dollar improvement
that the Company is making at that point,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first days use of DIR. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. 81 trial bottle and treatise free
DR.. Il. II. KLINE, Ltd, 93l Arch St, Phila. Pa.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

S: X. Coburn, Mgr. Clarie Scott, writes: ~
ind Halls Catarrh Cure valuable remedy"
Druggists sell it, 75c.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

In olden times bones we're collected from
the battleilelds, ground to powder, and used
TO fertlize the land.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

MT. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, suftens the gums, reducing inlamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie 25c.a bottle
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

The annual balance sheet Of the Monte
Carlo Casino shows IL profit of 81, 600, 00O
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

Ifaffiictedwith sore eyes use DIR. Isaac Thomp
sons Eve-water. Druggists sell at &c Der bottle
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

Pso's Cure for Consumption has saved me
many a doctors bills. +. HANDY, Hopkins
Place Baltimore, Md, Dec. =, 1894.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

ST. Vitus' Dance. One bottle Dr. Fenner's
Specific cures. Circular, Fredonia, n. Y.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

They who wait to do great things
never do anything.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

One truth in the life is better than q
hundred in the memory.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-28

The New York Evening Post has an idea that the wings of riches may be clipped and that some of the snares in the path to wealth may be beaten. It thinks that there ought to be men as we'll qualified to certify to the merits of railroad bonds as the men who now certify to the merits of land titles. They should make it their business to analyZe and verify the official reports of corporations, and to check these reports by collateral Investigations and com parisons. There are now, it is true, quite number of professional audi tors. but they are generally called on in case of extensive congratulations, when the overhauling has to be com plete; although they have been some times employed to recommend certain securities to investors. But what is required Is a class of responsible ex- perts, available for the service of the ordinary investor who has few thou sand dollars at time to put into some thing. Such investors, whether men or women, and the trustees of churches, colleges, hospitals and many other in stitutions, are often much worried by the investments they have to make, as well as by those that they have made. Were they able to secure eX- pert advice at a moderate expense, they would find it a great convenience, and in the end a great saving. The losses of the last few years have been so severe as to make people conserva- tive, and if it were found practicable
 to obtain really trustworthy advice concerning the merits of investments, very few investors would dispense with it.
 This seems plausible and there are even now men whose knowledge of the merits of railroad bonds is worth something. But when the awful mis- takes of expert investors are considered it may be doubted that professional ad- visers of investors would be shining
 successes. Still, there is business in the notion that they would be.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-28
The Doctor and the Mouse.

To the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 "Oh girls said the doctor Such screaming and jumping into chairs at the risk of broken limbs, and all for sooth because a little mouse ran across the floor, more afraid of you than you are of him. Really it is not genteel, as you would say, to be so discomposed at trihes.' Not many days after retrbu
 tive justice overlook the doctor for his fine reproof. His day came to exercise self-control. His home was in much warmer climate than New England, and one day he started into his hay field in his shirt sleeves, and stopping down over a tuft of grass he frighten- ed mouse concealed in it which took the nearest way to escape by running up the doctors sleeve and from there onto his back. The poor man attempt ed to catch him, shrinking and cring- ing as he felt the little fellow playing hide and seek. running up, down and around in all directions, his little nails scratching with every step, and an all most certainty of being bitten was more than the doctor could bear, and in desperation he gave one tremendous scream for help. Fortunately his wife heard him, and running to his relief caught the little fellow and squeezed him into insensibility. The doctor af- terwards remarked that he would rath- CT suffer more from some other cause than be subjected to such an ordeal again. And he has never been known since to reproVe anyone for being afraid of a mouse. J.