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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01
Medicinal Spring in Indiana.

The water of a spring near Rich
mond, Ind, is said to have rare medi.
cinal properties, and the black mud
found about the spring is alleged to
have caused many wonderful cures
during the past few months. Mr..
Reed, the owner of the spring, makes
no charge whatever tor the water OF
mud, and hundreds of gallons are
taken away each month by citizens Of
Richmond. There are number OF
prominent people who attribute their
complete cure of rheumatism to the
use of this remarkable water, and to
the application of the mud upon the
afflicted parts. Chicago Chronicle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01

There are some people foolish
enough to laugh at the homely virtues
Of farm life. They are fortunately
few, and they are fortunately growing
fewer. But it is well sometimes to
look at the list of great men who came
up from the farm-not all of them,
for that would fill thousand volumes,
but some of the most able ones that
fash into mind in moment. Nearly
three-fourths of the men who have
been chosen by the people for the
great offices of the Nation are men who
were early familiar with wooded hills
and cultivated fields, says the Kansas
City Times. For example, Lincoln,
Grant, Garfield, Hamlin, Greeley,
Tildeu, Harrison, Hayes. Blaine and
many others almost equally conspicu
GUS in current events or living memo.
ry. Among journalists, Henry Wat
terson spent his early life in rural
Kentucky, and Murat Halstead was
born and lived on farm in Ohio.
Whittier and Howells spent their
youth in villages, the former dividing
his time between farm employment
and his studies. Follow the list out
yourself and see how long it will be.
come.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01
A Three-Legged Rooster.

Garret Dalton, who lives between
Oarbondale, Penn, and Honesdale, Is
the owner of three-legged rooster.
The third leg is used principally as an
instrument of battle, and 1t has caused
many game cock to crow it's last
crow The bird has another peculiar.
ity-it will crow only at certain hours
of the day-at o'clock in the morn.
ing. at noon and at 6 o'clock in the
evening, Mr.. Dalton's eating hours. -
New York Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01

Some railway building was done
last year in the countries bordering
our own on the north and south. Our
records show 232 miles OF track laid
in Canada on ten lines, and 161 miles
in Mexico on seven lines. and final re-
turns will probably increase this some-
what; while there is prospe ct of con.
siderably greater addition during the
present year.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01

81 can get you job at cutting ice
if you want it, said the member of the
Association for extending Assistance
to the Worthy Poor.
'I'm much Obliged" said Perry
Patetic, "but seein as how / don't cut
no ice socially, guess I might jist as
we'll keep it up along other lines and
not bust me reputation. ."-Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01

The Orange Judd Farmer announces
that the value of farm animals IN.
creased $27, 900, 900 during 1896 and
that the turning point has come to
the period of long depression in live
stock. This journal makes an annual
estimate of this sort, and the result
of it's investigation is very encour.
aoinp.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01
Stanton Was Doubtful.

Perhaps tie most brilliant achieve.
ment of Frank Thomson, the new
President of the Pennsy lvania Rail-
road, was the construction of new
lines OF railway and the reconstruc.
tion of abandoned ones in Virginia.
he was then only twenty, and it is
related that Secretary Stanton, on
taking his advice, said to Colonel
Scott: 'Is it possible that we have
waited for three days to get the opinion
of that red-headed stripling?" The
STRIPPING" is now at the head of the
greatest railroad system In the world.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

| FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
A cheaply constructed manure shod
would be most paying investm ent on
many farms.
When weeds grow IN the field the
field is too large or the farmer too
lazy. The size of the field and the in
dustry of the farmer should corre-
spond.
Ifyou must double crop the orchard
don't SOW oats, but plant some hoed
crop; put on more manure that the
crop will consume and give thorough
tillage.
Superauous branches on the trees
are like weeds in the corntield-a use
less drain upon the resources of tree
and soil and an injury to the crop.
Cut the rascals out.
For best results in wool, as we'll as
in other respects, the sheep must be
kept on tho upgrade. A check in
growth always Injuries the fleece. As
spring approaches watch the lambs
closely; they must produce growth of
both fleece and carcass--a double de-
|
attention.
1t does not pay to work with dull or
otherwise inefficient tools. Bad plows,
broken harness, poor teams and un-
successful farmers are usually found
together on the poorest farms. The
disease of inefficiency is contagious
and is sure to spread from one to an
other until every factor of the farm
problem is down with it.
Grass is king of all the products of
the field; it nourishes more of Gods
creatures than all other products COM
bined. In clothing the earth with n
carpet of grass the Almighty knew
what He was about. But vain man
thinks he knows best, and labors to
destroy grass enough to support two
oxen that he may grow corn enough
to feed calf.
The trouble with people who are
supplying fresh eggs is that they be-
come careless, and if they find a nest
full of eggs that look clean, they will
turn them in whether they know their
| age or not. That is no way to keep
trade for fresh eggs. Neither will dirty
eggs help fresh egg trade. In fact.
dirty eggs sell for less than clean ones
on the general market.
If wagon for each of the riggings
is not at hand there should be some
convenient method provided to lift
the boxes and racks on and off the
wagon. A frame for tho box, hay
rack, wood rack, etc., built rs high as
the hind wheels of the wagon, upon
which to keep them, Will be better
than lifting them off the ground. Con-
trivarces for lifting are sometimes
expensive.
If you allow a draught of air to flow
over your fowls ut night. the proba-
bility will be that you will find their
heads and eyes swollen in the morn
ing. The first thing to do is to remove
the cause by stopping up the cracks of
the ventilator hole at the top of the
poultry house. The best remedy is to
anoint the head and eyes with a few
drops of mixture of one part of
spirits turpentine and four parts
sweet oil.
Chestnuts give early and regular re-
turns, with little or no cost for care
or culture, with certainty of finding
a ready market. They are concen-
trated product, thus lessening the per-
centage of freight deduction, and are
not perishable, like pears, strawberries
and milk, which necessitate expedi-
tious and expensive shipping and
prompt sale. Competition is scanty,
but pioneers report such profit us to
soon insure increased numbers.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01

Horatio Hale, who died recently in
Canada, is the author of paper pub.
lished in Appletons' Popular Science
Monthly concerning Indian Wampum
Records and it is claimed that the use
Of wampum as money and the record.
ing of events by means of patterns
traced on wampum belts are evidences
Of high intelligence on the part of the
red man in times gone by.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01
GROWING EARLY LAMBS.

In recent letter from Professor
Thomas Shaw, of the Minnesota ex-
pertinent station farm, to the Farm,
Stock ard Home, he says that where
winter lambs are not grown, there is
still an open door for the grower of
early lambs. Almost any breed of
sheep properly led and managed will
drop lambs AZ early as February.
Now, suppose the grower can obtain
his lambs in February, or ever early
in March, and if he feeds them we'll
he can put them on the market in
about sixty days, and can get better
price for them than later lambs will
bring that are kept through the gum
mer.
To better illustrate this point will
give bit of experience with such
lambs at our experiment farm. We
hSve some very common grade ewes
that were purchased for the reason
that they could be used in pasturing
off green crops sown in the summer.
AS this was practically an untried field
it was feared there would be some loss
in the animals thus pastured. So it
was thought better to have them of
the common sorts, since they would
serve for grazing as well as the pure
breeds without as great financial haz-
ard, These ewes were mated with a
Dorset ram; and let it be noted here
that this ram had nothing to do with
the early breeding of the ewes in this
instance, as they were not possessed
of any Dorset blood. The time of
breeding would have been the same
with any other ram. They dropped
lambs from the last day of February
until about the goth day of March.
As the females were wanted for breed.
ing uses the lambs were not
put upon forced ration, nor were
their dams. The food was such
as was deemed suitable for breeding
ewes nursing lambs that were to be
retained. 1t consisted of bran and oats,
with little oil-cake added. also hay
of somewh hat inferior quality, and a
taste OF roots. The ram lambs were
sold May 8 at seven cents per pound,
live weight. Selling them thus early
was an afterthought, or they could
hhFo bCoh pup upOu tuo LuuTh sOOu6T
and at better price They were of
an average age of fi(ty-seven days when
sold. The average weight was Al %
pounds, and the average price received
for them was sass per lamb. This,
of course, was not large SUN, but the
point to be made here is that it is more
than the average lamb brings in the
autumn, after it has been kept all
summer. If the lambs had been
dropped in February and sold about
the closing days of March or the early
days of April they would have brought
a much better price, and there is no
real difficulty in getting lambs thus
early after one has been able to select
for year or two.
But there's no use in trying to raise
early lambs without first having q
fairly warm place for the ewes when
they drop their lambs. 1t should not
of necessity be costly place. for poles
and an abundance of straw will suffice
for material. After the lambs are two
or three days old they will amply take
| care of Themselves under ordinary con
ditions as are considered suitable fol
old sheep. And there must be plenti
full supplies of good food on hand
such food includes almost any kind O.
early cut and nicely cured hay, pre-.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01

ferably clover, wheat bran and oats,
with oil cake in the absence of roots.
Some corn or barley may also be used
with much advantage. Where roots
can be fed they are great producers OF
milk. And when lambs are sold thus
early the ewes may also be sold to
much better advantage than when sold
in the fall.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01

Canada does not seem to know how
to manage her postoflice like tho
mother country. The report for the
year ending Both OF June. 1896, shows
a deficit of S6i1, ,5S7, or about $50, 600
less than the previous year. The ex.
penditures for the year reached
S3,605, ,601.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01
HOPES PROMlS Z.

While the life OF a man
Moveth smoothly along
And his walks lie apart
From the sorrowing throng.
He may coolly decry
Faiths 'unreason,ng prayer"
And assert with a cain,
Philosophical air
That the grave is the sum
OF Humanity's gains
The reproach and reward
For its pleasures aud pains:
But Philosophy fees
From the presence of Woe
Like an ally abashed
In the face of the foe.
o, parent whose eyes
Deathless longing revealed
In that glance ere by Death
They were silently sealed;
o, babe that has passed
To the Presence above,
Art thou gone for all time
From the presence Of love?
And thou who vast more
Than all mortals else dear,
Art thou lost to the soul
That was one vita thee here?
Ah it's false; sophists turn
From the lowly that grievo,
But the Father sends hope
Unto them that believe.
And their hearts iu the years
Thy thereafter abide
Are the sweeter because
OF Hopes promise inside.
Frank Putnam, in Chicago Times. Hera
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01

DR.. Lyman Abbott, who occupies
Beecher's old pulpit in Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, is having trouble
with some conservative preachers in
his denomination because he said the
book of Jonah in the Bible belonged
to sarcastic literature"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01
PROOF POSITIVE.

Realty Agent exhibiting fiat, beam.
ingly)--"To prove to you that the
walls are perfectly sound-proof have
just run over into the next fat and
told the gentleman there to play the
piano"
Mr.. Flatleigh (wearily)-"Yes; my
wife and heard you telling him to
play very softly. Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01

The most unfor ort.nate being on earth
is the man who can sing. little or
play the piano a little. He is made
unhappy by being constantly asked to
parade his lack of ability, and makes
others unhappy by consenting.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01

Length in female clerks is required
for some reason by the British post
Office, which proposes to discharge all
girls who at nineteen are not FIVE feet
two inches tall.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01
lRN AS BETROTHAL.

n one of the turret.
rooms of Reitzen'
berg Castle q
young girl, arrayed
in a SIMPLE dres:
and white apron,
sat- sewing indus.
triously. At the
sound of footsteps
she paused in her
work ; Mt the sight
of a hussar officer
in uniform she red
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01

The forest spread its wide wings
even as far as the Castle garden. Irma
loved the green path and quiet shades,
and here she came with her book the
morning after her interview with the
Count, and pretended to read. But,
though she kept her eyes on the pages,
she read there only Count Albrecht's
parting words-he accepted her offer
of friendship gratefully Driven to
bay, as it were, in order to save her,
that was what he had said. During
the last three months she had come to
understand something of his upright.
ness, his high sense of honor. He
would never marry a woman-though
she were a princess--to whom he could
not give his love.
''1t was my fortune" sighed Irma,
"that made him nearly hate me at
first" Did he hate her now?
She shut up her book and wandered
still further into the wood, down a
hillside covered with fern and moss,
toward the stream that ran between
high rocks, chattering and foaming on
its way. On the further side of the
stream was tract of open country,
dotted with clumps of trees and un.
derwood and bright with heather.
The stepping-stones were half covered
with water to-day; the current was
running fercer than its wont. She
bethought herself OF q rustic bridge q
few yards further down.
The bridge hung high in the air, sup
ported by rough pine stems; it was a
picturesque but fragile affair. Halt
way across Irma put her hand on the
rail-how noisy the stream was lit
snapped off at her touch, one wooden
plank tottered under her feet, another
fell with splash into the water be
low. She had plenty of courage; she
was light and active. She knew,
moreover, that she could easily leap
that formidable-looking gap and gair
the bank. She was about to make the
attempt. when she was stopped by 6
peremptory shout:
"Gently, gentlyl Jump from thai
projecting stem; it Is safe -
She looked up; on the edge Of the
heather covered rock stood Albrecht
Reitzenberg.
She paused uncertain, half inclined
to setrace her steps. Perceiving hel
hesitation, he raised his voice and
shouted still louder above the clamol
OF the rushing water: ''"'"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01
PRECISE.

Counsel-"Well, after the witness
gave you blow, what happened?"
Prisoner-"He gave me third
one."
Counsel--"You mean second one."
Prisoner-"No, sir; I landed him
the second one. Fun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01
A BRIGHT GROOM.

New Irish Groom Ito feed store)-
"Sind me up two bags of oats and
bale of straw"
Voice from feed store-"All right.
Who for, sir?"
Groom-"The horse, ye blamed
fool, ye. Punch.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01

Says the Chicago Tribune: Colonel
Wntterson is not prophet of evil, but
he sees trouble ahead unless the trusts
change their methods. There is-for
the trusts"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01
NOT BUNcoED, ANYWAY.

Certainly" rejoined the Circassian
girl, 1--WE are sold when we are mar
ried, and it doesn't take us six months
or a year to find it out. either"
Andthe beautiful bar barian glowered
back at her sister of civilized estate
Detroit journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01
GROUND FOR THE ACCUSATION.

Papa-'I ought to have that young
fellow arrested for trying to get
money out of me on false pretences.
Mamma-"Why, he's coming here
three or four times o week pretending
he's in love with Maud. Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01
ILLEGAL.

The Court-"What is your age,
madam"
The Plaintiff-"Must answer?"
The Court-"You must"
The plaintiff-"Why, Judge, I
thought people didn't have to testify
against themselves. The Green Bag.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01
A DOMESTIC Use.

'It is certainly wonderful how much
science can do for lis.
eyes; Mrs. Frontrow has learned
to hypnotize her baby, and she didn't
miss club meeting the whole week. !"
Cleveland Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01

The Villain "We made bad mis-.
take last night. In the barnyard
scene we forgot the eggs"
The Comedian-"Yes,b but the audi
ence didn't"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01
END OF THE HONEYMOON.

She-'Tm sure you love me no
longer. Now do not deny it. I can
see the change in you. I'm no fool.
You should have married somebody
stupider."
He-'I couldn't find one. Judy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01

Husband. think Mr.. Woozle is
very much in love with our Clara"
''Has he proposed to her? p
"No, but he stole her photograph
taken at three weeks-out of the
family album. Chicago Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE

STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
Sentiment and Frugality-That's All
"A Domestic Use A Bright
Groom-Proof Positive. Etc, Etc,
Each day his roses as surprises
Come If he knew, the stupid thing,
That in two months at present prices
He'd save enough to buy u ring!
Life.
THAT'S ALL.
'He's poet, isn't he?"
"Oh, no. He merely writes verses
for valentine publisher. Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01

Bismarck is tired of life. He says
that he takes no interest in anything.
His wife is dead, agriculture bores
him, and he il weary.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01
ENOUGH.

She lat the masquerade balD-"Do
you thlnk.my costume becoming?"
He with enthusiasm) Eyes, indeed;
but you would be lovely in any dis
guise. "-Harper's Bazaar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01

Editor-"I see you have written an
article on the boarding. house"
Assistant-"Yes, SIR"
Editor-"Re hash, isn't it?".
Truth.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-01

"Yes, I've been hunting for him oil
day. He seems very much engaged,
lately"
"He is; and both girls have found it
out."-Puck.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-04
DO YOU WANT A BIG GUN9
If You Do, Uncle Sam Can Furnish You
One.


Uncle Sam has invited the Soldiers
Monument associations, the grand
army posts and municipal corporations
of the United States, to have a gun with
him.
Uncle Sam is moved to this liberality
by the fact that he has on hand at the
Brooklyn navy yard large quantity
of big and small guns and cannon balls
for which the naval service has no use.
Anybody who wants a gun must write
TO the secretary of the navy.
Most of the guns which Uncle Sam
wants to unload are located at the
Brooklyn navy yard, but there are d
few in the navy yards at Boston and
Portsmouth, \. H. 1t is ordinarily the
custom of the government to sell all
these things, but congress took the
matter in its own hands in this instance
and provided that these engines and
munitions of war should be given
badly to get rid of them.
There are, all told, about 600 guns,
all of which have outlived their use
fulness. They are all obsolete weap-
Ons, and have been condemned by the
ordnance office. None of them are light
weight, and the smallest of the old
stagers weighs more than 5000 pounds.
Thirty years ago they were considered
mighty fine weapons, and their yawn-
ing mouths seem capable of dealing
enough death and destruction for half a
dozen nations. Inventive progress, how
ever, has left him far behind
They were all of the type that were
used during the civil war. They were
cast for use during that conflict, and
constitute the remnant of the surplus
ordnance that the government found it
self in possession of when hostilities
ceased. From year to year various
plans have been suggested to make use
of them. They have grown old and
rusty in idleness, and now, past all re-
demptiOn, they can only frown as grim
mementos of the days when the nation
was on a war footing.
Among this aggregation of old-time
thunderers there are 80 13-inch NOR
tars, with 36 mounts. Each of the
lnortars weighs 1900 pounds, and each
mount weighs 1000 pounds. The best
use, it is considered, to which they can
be put is that of ornament at the base
of soldiers monument or at the en-
trance to park. In addition to the
mortars there are 200 11-inch guns, of
the old muzzle-loading variety, each of
which weighs $500 pounds. There
are, besides, more than 10000 projec-
tiles, old-time cannon balls.-Boston
Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-04

The triton, a spotted, lizard-like rep.
tile found in almost every state in thu
union. has a most wonderful power OF
reproducing amputated parts. Bonnet,
the great French naturalist, expert
nented on the little creatures by am
putating their legs and tails, and by SC
doing found that their powers of re-
production were almost unlimited. In
one instance an amputated leg was re-
produced ~ times in three years, and in
another an eye was gouged out and re-
produced in less than IL months. The
loss of IA tail does not appear to discom-
mode triton, except to give him a sort
of unbalanced gait. Tails clipped from
specimens, Bonnet kept to experiment
on were invariably reproduced in from
eve to nine weeks,-Albany Argus.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-04

The big ocean grey hounds will soon,
it is thought, be equipped with life
boats harnessed to balloons, so as to
be practically unsuitable. Cylinders
filed with compressed gas will be
placed in compartments of the lifeboats,
and from these the balloon, which will
be harnessed with cords to a hollow
mast connected with the cylinders, is
inflated. The mast, which is iron tub
ing, is adjustable, and, when turned for
ward, the big balloon acts as sail, oars
proving quite unnecessary. The com
bination boat will doubtless prove Of
The greatest service in saving people far
out at sea. In a recent test it was show n
that, even with the boat filled with
water to the gunwales, the lifting power
OF the balloon prevented the craft from
either sinking or upsetting.
Enquirer.