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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Raspberry Pyramid a quart
of raspberries with quart of sugar,
beat the whites of six eggs very stiff,
mix with the raspberries, and pile high
on glass dish. Serve with whipped
cream.
Beef Heart-Boil q beef heart in
salted water until tender; make
dressing of light bread soaked in the
water in which the heart was cooked;
season with butter, sage and pepper;
fill the heart and bake few moments.
Cafe au Lait-One pint very strong
made coffee, fresh and hot; one pint
of boiling milk. Pour the coffee off
the grounds through fine strainer
into the table coffee-pot. Add the
milk and keep hot for five minutes be-
fore serving.
Salmon on Toast-Flake the fish,
season with pepper and salt; heat it
with little milk or cream. Have
ready some slices of toasted bread; dip
them quickly into some hot milk place
on hot dish; spread with butter and
pour over them the heated fish.
Egg Salad-Boil nice fresh eggs; re-
move the shell and cut in halves; mash
the yolks with little butter; slice the
whites; place layer of the yolks in a
salad bowl, then layer of the sliced
whites; sprinkle with salt and pepper,
and pour over some good vinegar.
Graham Bread-One cup of sour
milk, three tablespoons of molasses,
one teaspoonful of soda. Make the
batter little thicker than for griddle
cakes, using one-third corn meal and
two-thirds graham flour. Bake slow
ly until it will not stick to straw.
Spinach on Toast-Boil three heads
of spinach until quite tender, in two
quarts of well-salted water. Drain off
the water, and put the spinach in a
large bowl with one hard-boiled egg,
and saltspoonful of black pepper.
Chop all together, add tablespoonful
of butter, and lay on small rounds OF
hot buttered toast.
Scrambled Eggs-Boil up a cup Of
milk with an ounce of butter, little
salt and pepper and large spoonful
of finely cut parsley. Break into this
ten eggs and stir until they are set.
Place some crackers, which have been
buttered and soaked in hot milk, into
a deep dish and turn the eggs over
them. A nice breakfast dish.
Spanish Steak-Take round or flank
of steak, put in dripping pan, slice
enough onions to cover and partly
cook them in little water; drain and
spread on steak; spread one-half can
of tomatoes on top of onions, season
well with salt and pepper, then sprinkle
over all thin layer of grated cheese.
Put in oven and bake half an hour,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
WISE WORDS.

Caution is often wasted, but it is n
very good risk to take.
The smallest children are nearest
heaven, as the smallest planets are
nearest the sun.
Neatness, when moderate, is a vir-
tue; but when carried to an extreme
it narrows the mind.
Those who are formed to win general
admiration are seldom calculated to
bestow individual happiness.
1t takes less time to amass a fortune
than to become heavenly minded. 1t
is the work of long life to become
good man.
Hast thou considered how the be-
ginning of all thought worthy the
name is love; and the wise head never
yet was, without first the generous
heart?
Envy is the most inexcusable of all
passions. Every other sin has some
pleasure annexed to it, or will admit
OF an excuse; envy alone wants both.
Other sins last but for a while; the ap-
PS'iNS may po putl9hSi, uuSeE I6llllS,
hadred has an end; but envy never
ceases.
As long as injustice continues in the
world, so long will there be place
for anger and mission for it to per-
form. But, like fire, while it makes
very good servant, it makes a very bad
master. Uncontrolled, the one will
destroya city; the other will ruin char
acter and happiness.
Compliments are the poetical touches
which redeem the monotony of prosaic
existence. In the intercourse of
sympathetic and well l-bred people they
have a natural place; and it is as pleas
ant to recognize by word or look the
gracas and charms of our friends as
it is to enjoy and profit by them.
All that men do now or propose do
ing in the future by law or by custom
is and will be of no avail to cure social
diseases, until and unless men of all
degrees find their souls. That gov
ernment or law, unless created and in
spired by true religious principles, will
never bring wisdom or contentment.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

= There is scarcity in Florida waters
of the best sponge, the "sheepwool, ;"
and the returns tos the sponge fishers
have been gradually lessening. A
like scarcity in other waters is indi-
Gated by the increased demand for in
ferior sponges, which have heretofore
been looked upon as comparatively
worthless. One of these, the grass
sponge, is very abundant in Florida.
1T Is of coarse texture and has large
snternal channels, but has proved to
be a fair substitute for the better
sponge. A demand for it, both in
this country and in Europe, has re-
suited in raising its price to the fisher
from twenty-eight to sixty-fve cents
a bunch. Its gathering is profitable
at fifty cents bunch, and the demand
for it has infused new life into a
Florida industry which has been Ian
gushing for seven years.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
Porpoises Capture Rancho Hog.

Ole Iverson, rancher living on Nc
Neil's Islands, started from Tacoma,
Wash, for home in skiff. His only
cargo was quarter of hog that he
intended to salt down for batching
when the long days of winter come.
AS he passed Steilacoom he noticed
large school of porpoises all about his
little craft and soon discovered they
were following him. When he reached
mid-channel | the school, numbering
about 150, began to close in on him and
two of the biggest ones worked up close
alongside the skiff.
Iverson by this time was pretty well
scared and bent to his oars like a good
seafaring Swede. But the feet-tailed
sea pigs We're too swift for him. As
he drew opposite the United States
Penitentiary one of the two big lead
ers shot out of water into Iverson's
frail craft, knocking the rancher over
board, breaking one of his ribs and
upsetting the skiff. The other big fell
low grabbed Iverson's quarter of pork
and started to make off with it for
deeper water. The rest of the school
started to ram him as one porpoise,
and for an instant there was a minia-
ture maelstrom, with Iverson and the
big porpoise as a storm centre.
lverson, by desperate effort, man
aged to swim out and made landing.
DIR. Macklinson of Steilacoom was sent
for, dressed the mans wounds and says
that he will be all right again in few
days. Iverson says he will sell his
ranch cheap, and he has forsworn meat
for as long time as he must live on
the island. While the sea fight was
serious affair for Iverson, itfurnished
much amusement to party of exeur-
sionists who watched it at safe dis
tance while on wayboat from Tacoma
to Olympia.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
Bits of Household Wisdom.

Some bits of wisdom cleaned from a
cooking school examination are: That
croquettes will break open if the fat is
not hot enough, if too many are in at
one time, if they are not thoroughly
coated with egg, and if they are too
large. That the proper proportions
of ice and salt to freeze cream or ice
are: One part salt to three parts ice;
too much salt makes ice cream coarse
grained and soft. That the correct
way to boil eggs is to place them in
cold water and bring it slowly to the
boil. That to tell when custard is
cooked and baked one must insert
spoon; the cooked custard will coat the
spoon; a baked custard will not cling
to spoon passed through it. A test
for frying is to put a piece of bread in
the lard, and if it browns while forty
can be counted, twenty for each
side, the lard is hot enough for cooked
foods, like croquettes and the like; it
will take the counting of sixty, thirty
to each side, for uncooked foods. A
spoon to serve peas with has a long
graceful vine-like handle, which ends
in an open pod, showing row of peas
in green enamel. The bowl, which is
shallow and perforated, is in leaf
design.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

There is dog at Paris, Texas, who
can tell the time of day, and calls his
master for breakfast every morning.
He belongs to HI. @. Peterson, work
man of the cotton seed mill at Paris.
1t is Nick's duty, besides waking his
master in the morning, to take his
dinner to him in little pail every day.
Should Mrs. Peterson, by any mis-
chance, overlook the matter, the dog
is sure to remind her in proper time
by bringing the pail and urging her to
fill it. At first it was supposed to b(
the dogs intuition which enabled him
to know the hour, but he has many
times been seen watching the clock,
and once, when Mrs. Peterson set the
hands ahead to test the matter, Nick
brought the dinner pail promptly on
the stroke of -, although in reality it
was only i o'clock.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Georgia is claiming possession of
the best fire clay in the United States.
The state has been a producer of clay
IN a modest way, standing twentieth
in the list of producing states,
but it hopes soon to take a much
higher position. This hope is based
on a report by DIR. G. E. Ladd, the
assistant state geologist, who has been
testing the Georgia clays for a year,
and who has found bed of the very
best clay, extending across the state
from Columbus to Augusta. This clay,
DIR. Ladd says, is 'the most refrac-
tory in the United States" that is, it
4'will stand agreater heat than any clay
have ever tested in America. The
bed varies in width from five to fifteen
miles, and follows an irregular line,
sometimes running north and again to
the south. At some points the clay is
very pure and refractory, but often it
is full of impurities and is not valu-
able. The best of it is worth $40 a
ton in the markets. In South Caro-
lima, just across the river from Au-
gusta, there is clay deposit of the
same character which brings in $500, =
900 year. That clay is shipped to
New Jersey for manufacture.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
A MUNICIPAL FARM.
Successful Experiment in Agriculture
by the Cihy of Macon.

! ny the CifT OF macon.
AS a demonstration of the profit
there may be in city farm, attention
is called to the oity of Macon, Ga.
From the facts as set forth in the Ma
con Telegraph there are few little
farms IN Georgia that are more profit
able. The farm covers sixty acres
and is planted this season in a single
crop-oats.
All the land inclosed by the mile
track is planted in the cereal, and
some twenty or so acres in addi-
ton are under cultivation. The crop
this season is nearly ready to cut and
something like $500 bushels will be
the result. These oats would cost the
city not less than $3.50 if they had to
be bought.
This is not all, for two cuttings of
hay will be made from the same land,
which W. Lee Ellis, who is in charge,
estimates will produce something like
$500 bales, which would cost the mu-
nicipality easily $4,000.
The city has more stock to feed
than is generally considered. Taking
the fire department, the sanitary
squad, the street force and all, not
less than fifty mules and horses must
be fed by the city, and all this proven
der, raised under Farmer Lees su-
pervision, is direct saving.
MIR. Ellis, in speaking of the matter,
says: ''The cost of operating the farm
is practically nothing, except for labor
needed in plowing, planting and har-
vesting The stock must be kept
anyway, and, with the number needed
to do the city's work, all that is neces-
sary in the cultivation of crops we
raise can be done when the animals
would be idle if not thus employed.
We use all the fertilizer made by the
city stock. Outside of that we have
spent this year just $40 for the COM
mercial article"
From measured acre of the city
land last year there was cut at single
cutting 5400 pounds of fine hay. This
was after forty-bushel crop of oats
had been harvested, and early enough
to make certain another cutting OF hay
before frost.
Up to the time that Mr.. Ellis began
to cultivate the citys farming land it
had been the custom to rent it out
for s. an acre. Its annual product is
now estimated at over $50 an acre."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
Georgia Pine.

There is a growing demand for
Georgia pine lands and their value is
on the increase. Recently number
of inquiries from Iowa and Minnesota
have been received from parties de-
string to purchase. Besides the first
class qualities of the Georgia pine
these pinery wood lands produce
everything-cotton, corn, small grain,
sugar cane, sweet potatoes and Irish
potatoes, while the fruit-pears,
plums, melons, grapes, figs, apples,
ounces, all grow luxuriantly. In
this connection pine palace" is
projected at the coming Omaha ex-
position. AS its name imrGes, this is
to be q Georgia building of Georgia
pine, in which Georgia's exhibits
shall be made.-Baltimere Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

The working girls home has just
been opened in Denver, Colorado, in
which furnished rooms can be had for
81 month. The design is to give
comfortable quarters to young women
who are working for small wages-$4
or S. week. The building contains
thirty-two rooms, and fifteen girls are
already being accommodated There
are pleasant parlors and reception
rooms, too, which all working girls
are invited to frequent.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

The food of San Francisco laborers
is to be analyzed by the professors at
the California State university. Pro-
fessor NJ. E. Jaffa, the head of the
dietetic department, has just decided
that elaborate investigations shall be
undertaken. Several hundred fami-
lies of the wage-earning class will be
called upon to take part. When the
statistics have been collected and tabu-
lated it is expected that poor families
will be able to live much less expen-
sively than they do now and at the
same time on a more healthful diet.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

An experiment has been recently
made in Vienna in order to test the
relative resistance under pressure of
the hardest steel and the hardest
stone. Small cubes of corundum and
of the finest steel were subjected to a
test. The corundum broke under the
weight of six tons, but the steel split
up with noise like the report of a
gun, breaking into a powder and
sending sparks in every direction,
which bored their way into the mo.
chine like shot.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

ancient Habits-Good Riddance-Frou
Frou-Deflned-A Distinction-At the
Dog Show-Not a Sensitive Plant
Academic Leisure-A Second Edition
She's graduate of vassar
And her knowledge is immense,
ana, though beautiful and stylish,
She is full of common sense;
She can talk in French and German,
She reads Homer in the Greek,
And It's worth your while to listen
When it pleases her to speak.
She can read the hieroglyphics
On the tombs along the Nile;
She can hold discourse on physics
In an interesting style,
But, in spite of all her learning
She steps backward from the car,
And she always stops and wishes
when she sees shooting star.
Cleveland Leader.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Aprons for use when doing domestic
work have the pockets deep enough to
hold a dusting brush or cloth brush,
suggests housewife. This saves
much weariness of body and spirit,
for one has not to hunt round the
room for the particular brush for each
different object. Ihave also special
small ring on my housework aprons,
far back where L carry the keys.-St.
Louis Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

The Government owns one-tenth
of the railroads in Canada and rents
them at a loss of half million a year.
With an increase of its holdings, which
the new Hudson's Bay road may sad
die upon it, will come an increase of
its deficit, that being the way in which
the scheme generally works.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

That the country is safe, so far as
Madison county, Indiana, goes, is
demonstrated, thinks the New York
Sun, in the statistics of the health
board, which show five pairs of twins
born in week. 1t is not long since
the report recorded two sets of trip
lets.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS
Pineapple lemonade.

Squeeze the juice of six lemons into
glass jug. Add to it half a pound of
loaf sugar, a quartz of cold water, and
four slices of fresh pineapple cut up
into small cubes. $Remove all the eyes
from the pineapple first of all. Fill a
pint measure with ice broken small,
and put it in as we'll. Let it stand fif-
teen minutes before it is served.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
In Japan the railways are mostly
under government control, and the
uniform rate is one cent mile.

Each convict at the New Hampshire
state prison is furnished Bible and
a dictionary, and Greek and Latin
textbooks are supplied those who ask
for them.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

English butterflies unluckily COM
mand an exceptionally high price in
the collectors market This is prob
ably one reason why, as Natural
Science points out, many important
species of British butterflies are dis
appearing.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

"What is a hardy rose bush?"
TT is one that doesn't mind your
wife pulling it up by the roots every
few days to see if it has begun to grow
yet. It'd Bits.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

He had married young widow and
was in the first flush of his happi-
ness.
Darling" he murmured, ''will you
ever forget your honeymoon"
"Which?" she queried, absent
mindedly. Pick -Me-Up.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Cora-"College men seem very much
inclined to take life easy"
Dora-"Yes; even when they grad
uate they do it by degrees. Brook
lyn Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Papa, what is deduction?"
Its that form of mathematics, my
boy, which takes nothing from moth
ing and obtains stupendous result. >"
Judge.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Critic-"Where did you get the idea
for that picture?"
Painter-"Out of my head"
Critic-"You must be glad that it is
out. ."-F'liegende Blmtter.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

''To save me, 1 can't tell which
Jones girl L want to marry"
"What is the trouble?"
"One makes such delicious straw
berry shortcake, but the other one
looks so lovely on her wheel. De-
troit Free Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

''Mrs. Meeker," observed friend
of the family, sis very superior
woman. She can converse intelligent
ly, I believe, on a thousand different
topics"
YES sighed Mr.. Meeker, 'and
she does. Chicago Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Jeems-"The rustic of skirt is the
most attractive sound to aman's ears. -
Deems-"Of course. There's al
ways a woman in it. Town Topics.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

She-"How would you punctuate
the following: Bank of England
notes of various values were blown
along the street by the wind?'
He-'I think would make dash
after the notes. ."-Household Words.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
The Trials of Genius.

Friend-"Why, what are you in
such fuss about? Anything hap
pened?"
Artist-"Oh, botheration, yesI
Everythingl was just getting some
of my latest pictures ready for framing,
and that confounded housekeeper of
mine has so mixed them up I'll never
in the wide world be able to tell the
top from the bottom again. Truth.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

McLubberty = "Begorra, Hogan
wanted to whup me last noight."
O'Hoggarty-'How do yez know he
wanted to?"
McLubberty-"Avh he hodn't wanted
to he wudn't hov done it, wud hep
Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
proudcst Man on the Block.

"Why does Mr.. Birmingham hold
his head so high and assume such q
naughty bearing?"
ellis thermometer registered three
degrees higher yesterday than any
others" - Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele-
graph.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Dick-"One is so apt to lose sight
of ones friends"
Harry-'That's not necessary.
Mine stick to me with touching fidel-
ity."
Dick-'How do you manage it?"
Harry ooh, I borrow money Of
them. Pick Me- Up.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

A bronze statue is to be erected to
the memory of Benjamin Franklin, on
the very spot, near Philadelphia,
where he sent up his kite to "wrest
the lightning from the skies"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Rover-"My father took the first
prize at the exhibition!"
Towser-'That's nothing. My
mothers remains took gold medal
at the health food fair. Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Kind Old Lady-"Poor man! You
look as if you had seen better days"
Mr.. Willie Deadtired-"I have,
madam. Once 1 dwelt in granite
halls"
Kind Old Lady-"And why this loss
of such home?"
Mr.. Willie Deadtired-''My term
expired. st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Miss Outertown-"Isn'tt there Mrs.
Skinner in this village, who keeps
boarders?"
Hi Hubbel-"She takes boardersx
ma'am, but she don't keep em.'-
Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Cocoa, like milk, is believed to have
every element necessary to sustain the
human system.