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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18
Some Little Things.

The smallest elephant is, according
to contemporary, one from Sumatra,
which was recently exhibited in Ber.
lin. Three years old, it stands only
thirty-six inches from the ground. II
is little over one yard in length and
weighs 1853 pounds. The normal
elephant weighs at the same age
at least three tons. A pigmy race Of
camels exists in Persia, which are
only twenty-five inches in height and
weigh but fifty pounds, while any or
dinary camel is larger than most Eng.
lish horses.
The smallest birds egg is that Of
the tiny Mexican humming bird, which
is scarcely larger than a pins head.
The smallest tree in Britain is the
dwarf willow, which grows on one of
its highest mountains-Ben Lomond
and which at maturity only attains
a height OF two inches. Ben Lomond
is 1921 feet in height. The smallest
newspaper in the world is published
in Guadalajara, in Mexico. The E
TELEGRAPH, weekly publication, is
printed in eight columns, each Al
inches in length and II inches wide,
on thick MANILA paper. -Lodon It'd.
Bits.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18

The wire and wooden frames for
hanging handsomely trimmed bodices
and fine shirt waists are now made
things of beauty as well as useful.
They are wound with cotton batting
and then covered with full piece OF
china silk to match in color the decor.
ations of the room they are to be used
in. The silk is made one-eighth of a
yard longer than the holder at each
end; piece of ribbon is tied around
it and the frill of silk left to hang.
The hook for hanging the holder up is
wound with silk and finished with
bow of ribbon. These holders have
two uses, for besides keeping n waist
in good shape, they perfume it, the
batting being freely sprinkled With
some fragrant powder before it is
wound over the frame. New York
Sun,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18

great many interesting inventions
that have to do with eggs.
A citizen of Austin, Texas, is the
author of sort of water clock that is
wound by rain. On the roof of o
house is a trough that catches the rain
water which flows into the tank.
When the tank is filed to certain
point, it empties the water into q
bucket which is connected by cord
with the winding drum of an ordinary
clock. The bucket falls, and by its
weight pulls up the clock weight, thus
winding the clock. Finally the bucket
reaches the floor, when valve in its
bottom opens and the water runs out.
Then it ascends and resumes its
original position, so as to be ready to
wind the clock up again after while.
Another lazy method of winding o
clock has been patented by San
Francisco man. The opening of
door pulls up the weight, and so there
is never any necessity for keeping in
mind the business of making the time.
piece go.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18
WISE WORDS.

Malice drinks half of it's own poison.
Seneca.
Good will, like a good name, is got
by many actions and lost by one.-
Jeffrey.
He that calls a man ungrateful sums
up all the evil that man can be guilty
of.-Swift.
Friendship improves happiness and
abates misery by doubling our Joy and
dividing our grief.
Gaiety is not proof that the heart
is at ease, for often in the midst OF
laughter the heart is sad. DE Genlis.
Men of the noblest dispositions
think themselves happiest when others
share their happiness with them
Taylor.
Good qualities are the substantial
riches of the mind; but it is good
breeding that sets them off to advan.
tage.--Locke.
He who cannot forgive others breaks
the bridge over which he must pass
himself for every man has need to be
forgiven. Herbert.
He that is good man is three-quar.
ters of his way toward the being
good Christian, wheresoever he lives
and whatsoever he is called. South.
Energy will do anything that can be
done in this world, and no talents, no
circumstances, no opportunities will
make two-legged animal a man with.
out it.-Goethe.
1t is impossible to make people un'
derstand their ignorance; for it re-
quires knowledge to perceive it; and,
therefore, he that can perceive it hath
it not.-Bishop Taylor.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18

Chicken Bill and Tabor were part
ners in numerous mining ventures in
the mountains in the early days, be.
fore the Governor became known to
fame as bonanza king, and each was
in his several ways helpful to the
other. After Tabor had struck it rich
and had money to burn Chicken Bill
approached him with a scheme which
he represented to be very promising,
and easily induced him to take some
stock in it. Before long tho fact de-
veloped that Tabor was a minority
owner, associated with number of
shady fellows, from whom his in
stinct told him fair play could not be
expected. Thoroughly dissatisfied
with the deal and ipcensed at the de-
ception practiced upon him by man
he had so many times befriended, he
sought him out and demanded an ex-
planation.
II thought you told me I was in on
the ground floor in that transaction"
shouted Tabor.
"Well, you were, Horace, replied
Bill, with grin. "You were in on
the ground floor, just as 1 told you
but there was cellar to itr'-Denver
Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18

The Polar Bear awoke with a con-
sciousness of intestinal vacuity. Gaz-
ing about him, he executed smile
that suffused the landscape with a rosy
glow. A line of moving objects ar
rested his wandering eye. A pre-
science of deglutition instantly fringed
his jaws with a congealing drip. The
rapt look sutfusing his countenance
troubled the tenderness of his mate;
she feared lest he had tasted too long.
"Visions?" she murmured. "Dogs."
She followed his glance with scru-
tinizing gaze, then added, not without
suppressed excitement, Men" The
strategy OF the campaign was brief.
As the pair, oppressed by too copious
repast, lay indolently cracking mar
row bones upon the snow which was
richly tinted with animal juices, the
Polar Bear addressed his companion.
Beats dog" he remarked. every
time, " was her laconic, but emphatic
reply.
The discovery of the vestiges of the
feast was heralded under the heading,
--latest from the Klondike. New
York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18

''Parson," said the dying man, edo
you believe in deathbed confession?"
"Under certain circumstances, said
the reverend gentleman.
"Well, it is this way Years ago I
was passenger on the Great Consoli-
dated Street Railway"
''Yes, go on"
ooh, hate to tell it..
"Go on"
"And one day, in moment of
vicious insanity, I beat them out of
nickel farew
He sank back exhausted.
''Listen," said the reverend man,
sit may comfort you. Can you hear
me?"
eyes, yes"
''You needn't feel so worried about
beating that gang of robbers out of
paltry nickel-I beat 'em every chance
getp'
And the dying man passed away with
peaceful smile.-Cleveland Plain.
dealer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18
KLoNDlKE POSSIBILITIES.
There VIII BE Plenty to Do in Alaska
Besides Digging Gold.

There VIII BE Plenty to Do in Alaska
Besides Digging Gold.
Gold hunters will regret it if they
do not prepare themselves for the
Alaskan trip with prudent foresight.
Cautions on this point are heard on
every side and it is not safe to disre-
gard them. Men who are too old, in
feeble health, or with insufficient
means should not venture into the
distant northern wilderness. The
aged and the weak will surely break
down; and one without money enough
to tide over the first necessities
should remedy that trouble before
starting.
By next season probably 10000 or
30, 900 men will be at the mines and q
population as extensive as that means
a larger number engaged in other oc.
cupations, especially those of me-
chanical kind. Thousands will be re-
quired to look after the facilities of
transportation. The miners must be
fed, sheltered, clothed, doctored, bar
bered, amused and supplied with local
newspapers. Towns must be built,
even though to be eventually aban-
doned. Roads must be constructed
and convenient stations established
for wayfarers. Fortunes will be made
by some without washing a shovelful
of earth, or seeing q mine. Wages
will be high, and people of saving
disposition will get on. All who are
sound in body and know how to take
care of themselves physically will have
good chances of success, perhaps not
as great as they anticipate, but GER
tainly better than have existed in
settled communities during the last
three or four years
But above every other encouraging
prospect in Alaska, except the sensa-
tional discovery of gold, is the fact
that vast territory is almost unexplored.
Its area is eight times that of Missouri.
What its mineral wealth may be in
richness and variety is unknown, but
it is conjectured to be very great. In
fisheries and furs it is all that could be
desired. Its agricultural possibilities
are undetermined. The short summer
is hot enough to produce certain crops,
and the climate of southern Alaska is
humid rather than intensely cold.
Those who have tried to farm in Alaska
say that the moss-covered soil is un-
suitable. But there are marshes with
humus that could be drained, and
mountain meadows that need only to
berendered accessible. Native grasses,
where they grow, are abundant and
nutritious. Agriculture as conducted
in the States cannot be carried on in
Alaska, but the samo is true of
Iceland and the Shetlands. Alaska
may offer something to the farmer
when proper system of work is
devised. What the big territory says
to Americans is this: II contain 577,-
800 square miles. Now, interpret
me. st Louis Globe Democrat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18

The establishment of a sort of 'Si-
IBERIA" for the Anarchists of all Ma
tions has been proposed by Spain. A
penal colony where dangerous An
archists, who have not yet taken the
life of King, Emperor or President,
can be confined for life. 1t is said
that Austria, Germany, Italy and Rus
sia have received the proposal favor
ably, but Great Britain, France, Swift
zerland and the United States have
not yet been heard from, and will
probably not consent to the proposal
Uncle Sam showed clearly ut Chicago
some years ago that he had made up
his mind what to do with the An,
archist when he catches him, com.
ments the New York Commercial -Ad.
yertiser.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18
Recipes.

Albany Pudding-Grease bowl
thick with butter, put seeded raisins
around it, then line with bread. Make
custard, pour in, bake and eat with
liquid sauce.
Sponge Cookies-Two eggs, one cup
sugar, two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder (rounding), one-half saltspoon-
full salt, two teaspoonfuls lemon juice
or one teaspoonful of vanilla. Flour
enough to roll.
Plum Sauce For Meats-To each
pound of Damson plums add half a
cup of sugar, half an ounce each of
cinnamon, mace and cloves. Tie the
spices in bag. Remove the stones
from the plums and boil until it be-
comes thick like jam.
Beef Omelette-Four pounds Of
round beef, uncooked; chop fine. Six
eggs, beaten; five or six soda crackers,
rolled fine; little butter and suet, pep
per, salt and sage, if you choose.
Make two loaves, roll in cracker, bake
about an hour and slice when cold
Blackberry Bread-Stew blackber.
ries and sweeten to taste Butter some
slices of stale bread with crusts chi
off, then put layer of the buttered
bread in the bottom of serving disl
and pour over it hot, stewed fruit
Repeat until dish is full or fruit used
eat cold with cream.
Chicken Fritters-One cup of flour,
one teaspoonful of baking powder
half n cup of milk, two eggs. Beat
the eggs thoroughly, add the milk,
then pour on to the -four and baking
powder sifted together. Beat thor
oughly with wooden spoon. Gu
chicken or veal into thin slices ant
sprinkle with salt; dip them into til,
batter and fry in hot fat.
Cream Salmon-One can of salmon
minced fine; drain off the liquor and
throw away. For the dressing boz
one pint of milk, two tablespoonfuls o
butter; salt and pepper to taste. Hav,
3eady one pint of fine bread crumbs
place a layer in the bottom of tn,
dish, then layer of fish, then laye
Of the dressing and so on, havin,
crumbs for the last layer. Bake unit
brown.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18
The State of Georgia is a 600 600

The State of Georgia is 200, 900
short in tax returns. All except
eleven Of the 1877 counties have made
their returns of taxable property, and
of this number eighty show increases
and forty-six decreases, as compared
with the returns of last year The
total decrease for eighty counties is
$4,60G, ,916, and the total decrease for
forty-six is $4,000, O91. The few
counties not reported will not change
these figures materially. The tax
rate this year will be higher than ever
before.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18

Many people think they cannot eat
cucumbers, when the fact is that they
have never eaten them when properly
prepared. Friends of mine, who for
years excluded them from their bill of
fare, are now eating them without in
jury. Never eat them directly from
the vines, no matter how cool and
dewy they may be; they need to stand
in cold water to extract the unwhole-
some greenness which some call
poison. Again, those who use ice
keep the cucumber in the ice box I'M
til meal time, then pare and slice it,
and because it is crisp they consider it
all right. My custom is to pick them
early in the morning, before the sun
has heated them, immerse them in
cold water in cool pantry, then about
the middle Of the forenoon pare and
place them in more fresh water,
changing this once more just before
dinner time when they are sliced.
The last water may be salted to good
effect. Avoid overgrown cucumbers,
also those which show distinct green
when cut.-Mrs. j. w. Wheeler, in
New England Homestead.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18


The German method of serving veg
etables is very pretty and novel A
dish will be passed to you, large
flat platter, on which there are four or
five different kinds of vegetables, not
mixed together, but arranged in sym
metrical rows, side by side, across the
plate, and favored with nice butter
sauce. They will combine peas, car
rots, string beans, turnips, etc. The
contrasting colors, arranged taste
fully with reference to the general
effect, are pretty and take the dish out
of the commonplace. One is sup
posed to help ones self to very small
portion of each kind. The Germans
have a peculiar taste for combining
vegetables and show remarkable
good sense as to what favors should
be united. A dish of spinach and
turnips we have often tried since we
first tasted it in the Black Forest.
The spinach is chopped very fine and
highly favored with salt, pepper, but
ter, a little nutmeg and tablespoon
full of soup stock. The turnips are
boiled and then cut in thin slices. To
serve them, the spinach should be
first placed in a vegetable dish, then
the sliced turnip put over the top, so
as to cover the spinach, and a rich
white sauce poured over the whole.
The combined flavor is very good.
st. Louis Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18

Spain admits that she has lost 45,-
900 men in Cuba since the present
war begun, but it is believed that her
real losses are more than twice that
number. And all for that vain, vague,
despicable thing called Spanish hon
or" muses. the New York Mail and
Express. All the glory thus gained
has been achieved by making desola-
ton and calling it peace.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18

A German professor, DIR. Marpmann,
of Leipsic, has discovered that we in.
cur great danger every time we use a
pen. He says that there are deadly
bacteria in ink. From one out of
seventy samples he secured bacillus.
This he proceeded to cultivate. He
evolved something which was able to
destroy mouse in four days. Now,
as mice don't use ink much, and as
those persons who put their pens in
their mouths are comparatively few in
number, there does not appear to be
any serious cause for alarm.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18
MicHlcAN'S PEACH CROP,
Greatest Fruit Belt North of the oh
River.

''s"' ifu'' ne,. North Oh the ON"
a.,
Along tne eastern shore OF Lake
Michigah lrom New Buhaio to Lee
'anau oounty Is tne greatest frult belt
uor'n .I oi lhe ONO Kiyer' according to
Sne De.roi' News-Irlpune. LII IS
uiP u .,, ianu covered WIN sana ana
sa sanu mus, zoo miles long and from
'n'ee W twenty mlles wlde. here Is
sio"n 'ne cest haVored ana most per-
secI peacn III Inc whole world Every
farmer raises peaches, and from now
on 'ne Peach industry OF western Mlchi-
oan 70 one ., vast proportlon' employ
inS 'n1usanos Oh employees ana nettlh8
nanosoine return TO the grower.
I;..; 10y sprins .here are punllshed pre-
,:o,ons ,u.i INA. 'ne peacn crop mas oeeh
~ Ing n'eu py 'he iate 1rosts' put never,
sl1i' sneless 'nere mas never neen decided
iaiiu,e III western Michlgan. Inc
Peacn orcnaros' especially those IN van
g., ui oh , anu oeIrien couhues' are IN
...1 .n1 snaps anu ioaoeu 10 the ground
WIN young iruit every year ABOUT ten
80 pian'eo " peaches - III that one
a"iniiy eau 'ahe care ol, 'noug9 tnere
49, o oonanus mI 'lial contain hunureus OF
oteS' mere are hot enough weeos
W oe iouho III goou orcnara 10 nli
e: e.iaM nat, as tney are cuitlvateo more
t -"' 'nan prize corn nela' Inc
nen1e bearing 'he thlru year.
anu inole e"se 'lieir Proouc' untn tney
are siA VI seven years ora, when tney
u, ~, uPPoeeo W nave reachea maturity.
uae nele ale ~. some orcharos near ooutb
na.en a.: .na' are twenty years ola ana
continue W gro" 1uli crop OF peaches
e"1n year. ;,
en yeal sooh after the blossoms
n"Se t",ien In anu 'he iruit mas lirSt as
sum ouneu ., iollh ,ne practlcal peach grower
eees So s,,t snl1uSe n3s =, nis orcharo ana picks
" apouU mi fiuli Vne oaoy peagnes' ne
.ioes 'ni1 ior 'wo reasons flrst' 1na'
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18

The fact that one of the strongest
and most popular of New York's clubs
has been obliged to issue to its mem.
bers sharp circular letter on the
tipping abuse, shows how that in
sidious evil has extended even into the
strongholds of masculine independ-
ence, observes the New York Mail and
Express. So universal has the i'm.
ported tip-giying and tip-receiving
habit become on this side of the At
lantic that not only the hotel or res.
taurant waiter but the barber, the
porter, the hall boy, the chambermaid
and the cabman expect gratuity in
addition to the proper cost of the ser.
vice rendered. Gradually this Euro.
pean abuse has crept into American
society until it seems almost impossi.
BILE to eradicate it. Every one who
gives a tip knows that its action is an
imposition upon himself, and every
American who accepts one feels that
he thereby sacrifices his independence,
manhood and selfrespect; yet the
shrinking of the giver from appearing
conspicuously stingy, and his unwill-
ingness to suffer from inattentiop at
the hands of an expectant receiver.
suffice to keep the pernicious fee sys~
tenn in growing vogue.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18
GOLD IN NORTH CAROLINA.
Some Big Nuggets Taken From the Pio-
neer Placer Mines.

neer Placer Mines.
About ten miles east of Charlotte,
N. c." says AN Eexpert gold miner,
sis locality known as Surface Hill.
A good many years ago a man from
Virginia went down there and bought
some property because he thought
there was gold on it. He didn't find
any gold, and he abandoned the prop.
erty, leaving it in the hands of tribu-
ters. Tributers were gold diggers
that worked land and paid the owners
certain percentage of what they found
as tribute for the privilege. These
tributers prospected while, and on
the top of hill they found a bed Of
decomposed slate not more than a yard
square, from which they took seventy.
five pounds of free gold, one nugget
weighing 81 pounds. This is all the
gold they could find on the property.
They sold the gold for $4,000. The
nugget was purchased by M. Cheva-
lier Vincent Riva Finola for $4,000.
He sent it to Paris.
."The rich placer deposits in North
Carolina had been pretty generally
worked out when the California gold
discoveries were made, and quartz
mining was being extensively and
protitably developed. There are mines
in Rowan, Mecklenberg, Stanley, Ca.
barrus, Union, Montgomery, and other
counties, that yielded from 81, 200, 900
to $3,000,0 900 each during the few
years they We're in operation. They
are not exhausted yet, but are idle be-
cause the ore is low grade at the depth
they have reached, and will not war
rant mining under present conditions.
''It is no uncommon sight to-day to
see men, women, and even children,
with primitive pan or rocker, working
over the gravel in and along the creeks,
especially in the South Mountain field,
and although that gravel has been
washed and rewashed innumerable
times during the past half century it
never fails to yield these latter day
prospectors enough to make q good
day 'swages. With the exception of the
Crawford mine and the Sam Christian
another locality where nuggets Of
from five to twelve pounds in weight
have been fonnd in recent years-the
widow Smiths diggings at Smiths
Ferry are probably the most impor-
tant placer mines now in the State.
The widow Smith is a member OF the
Bonaparte family of Baltimore. She
is the professional woman miner in the
North Carolina gold fields. She works
with the old-fashioned rocker and rifle
box. She employs miners to help her,
and she runs the ferry herself. She
is so sharp-eyed and shrewd that it is
said no one ever crossed that ferry yet
and failed to disgorge gold dust from
somewhere about his clothes when the
widow Smith fixed him with her eye
and boldly and sharply exclaimed:
You've been washing out gold on
me to-day! Hand it over, or over
board you gop
"'The widow Smith is an expert
mineralogist and metallurgist, and pre-
pares all her own gold for the market,
sending it chiefly to Baltimore. She
has made fortune by surface mining,
and her diggings are still yielding
richly"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18

the insect wax. Formerly it was made
up into candles and found wide appli.
cation. The price has also declined
with the demand. It.is still used to.
day for coating the exteriors of tallow
candles, as it only melts at high
temperature. 1t is also used in sizing
paper and cotton goods, for imparting
gloss to silk, as a furniture polish
and as coating for pills.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18

A Territorial newspaper claims for
Arizona the possession of single sea.
port. This is Yuma, at the point
where the Gila River joins the red and
rolling Colorado. The town is one
of the oldest in the Territory. Its
climate is such that the inhabitants
can raise about everything that can be
grown in the tropics.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18
throne.

Travellers i'll the wilds of Africa will
do we'll to take plentiful supply of
umbrellas with them, according to
Professor Pechuel- -Loesche, the Ger
man explorer. He says they are the
best protection against the wild beasts,
tigers and lions especially being afraid
of them when suddenly opened.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18

The New York Sun says there seems
to be no doubt that this is going to be
the farmers year in this country. Eu-
rope is clamoring for our wheat. The
short crop abroad, and an abundant
one here, point to an influx OF gold
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18
To Enlarge Antwerp's Docks.

Five million dollars are to be spent
by Belgium's Government in enlarging
Antwerp's dock accommodations. A
channel twenty feet deep and 300 feet
wide is to be constructed, the quays
are to be extended 5000 feet to the
south, and this is but the prelude to
more extensive improvements.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18

The year 1898 will not witness Ill
amond jubilee, but it will be golden
one. Emperor Francis Joseph of Au-
stria, who is sixty-seven years old this
month, will celebrate next year the
fiftieth anniversary of his ascent to the
Ibnnnn
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-18

The Countess of Ancaster has cre-
lted a great stir in the fashionable
world of London by her declaration
that dancing has degenerated into u
graceless romp.