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The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-04-17

Whenever the people of any city in this
State have rebelled against the exorbitant
rents of the Bell Telephone Company relief
has come by the establishment Of compet-
ingliIes, Two years ago the Virginia Bell
Company was the only one operating in
Staunton and the annual rental of 'phones
was from sixty to forty-live dollars. The
people demanded cheaper service and
now the Mutual Telephone exchange is
furnishing it at rental of ten to twenty
dollars. The Bell Company has reduced
its rates to the same price and now the
people of Staunton can do all the talking
they want over either line and Roanoke
will soon be in n similar position, tele-
phonically speaking.
The New York assembly committee on
general laws has decided the anti-portrait
bill for passage by u vote of seven to one.
The bill Furnishes by one Thousand dol
lars fine or one years imprisonment the
publication Of any PERSONS picture with
out their consent In view of the barba-
rous mutilations in this line of work by
the illustrated daily journals OF the EN-
pire State, it would seem that some pun
ishment commensurate with the enormity
of the offence should be inflicted, but
judging by the heavy fine imposed for
printing portrait where the party repre-
sented Objects it Is plain that the average
New Yorker sets considerable store by his
= &c To-
recent political campaigns up there, the
caricaturist has been getting in his work
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AS long as the people of the Southern
States pay such n surplus in premiums
to life and fire insurance companies in
the North, instead of organizing such in
situations among themselves and keeping
the bulk of such balances at home, lust
so long will there be u strngency in the
money market and lack of material devel-
opment in this section to that extent
Experience shows that the profits to life
and fire insurance companies are enor-
nous, while the losses are com paratiyely
small. In country where the general
healthfulness and longevity are proven
bial, as it is in the South, there is no rea-
son in the world why the people should..not
keep all the money invested in that direc-
tion at home by applying all the ready
cash they can spare to the organization
of domestic insurance companies
Wherever the scheme has been tried and
honestly conducted, it has proven sue
in ho
associations among the people of the rural
districts. In all places where capital ac-
cumulates the community thrives.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

During the Apache war in Arizona
in 1866 Maricopa Indian-the Mari
copas are an agricultural tribe living
on the banks of the Gila-rode hun
dred miles between sun and sun to
warn party Of well-to-do emigrants
that the Apaches had planned to am
buscade them at a certain pass.
The young Indian volunteered to
guide the wagons by another route,
and when he had done tEis he mounted
his horse to go home
"See here" said the leader of the
train, to the young Maricopa, you
have done us good service. What
is your price,"
MY price," repeated the aston
ished Indian.
THAT is what I asked"
81 have no price. Had gain been
my object l would have joined the
Apaches and met you in the pass" :"
and so saying the brave wheeled his
horse and rode proudly away.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

Mr.. John Usher, of Norton, who has
given $4,000 toward the foundation
of a Chair of Public Health in Edin-
burgh University, once provoked Mr..
Gladstone into exclaiming: 81 am
responsible for the understanding that
the Almighty has been pleased to lodge
in this skull of mine, but am not re-
sponsible for the understanding that
the Almighty has been pleased to lodge
in that skull of yours"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

The scientist who discovered in the
human larynx the anatomical reason
why woman has a soprano voice and
man bass one was n woman-NIrs.
Emma Seller. She was a German,
born in Wurtzberg. Left widow
with two children to support, she re-
solved to become teacher of singing,
but suddenly lost her voice. Then
she determined to find out why; also
to discover, If possible, the correct
method of singing, SO that others
might not lose their voices. For this
purpose she studied anatomy. She
dissected larynx after larynx and
spent years in her search, trying to
find, for one thing, why women's head
tones could reach high c, while men
had no soprano tones. At length her
search was rewarded, says the Phila-
delphia Times. She discovered under
the microscope one day two small
ge-shaped cartilages whose action
produces the highest tones in the hu-
man voice. She made her discovery
public. 1t excited great attention
among scientists. Her own brother, q
physician, praised the treatise in the
highest terms till he found his own
sister had written it. Then he dashed
it down, saying in rage that she
would be better attending to her
houseworll, Nine. Sellers portrait, q
marble relief, is in the possession of the
American Philosophical Society OF
Philadelphia, of which she was mem,
Der. She wrote, among other books,
''The Voice in Singing" and "The
Voice in Speaking"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

They are telling story here on a
well-known kentuckian, an applicant
for office, who had arranged with his
Congressman to be presented to the
President
"Give me pointer or two about the
etiquette, he said.
"Oh, it's simple, replied the Con-
gressman. "You address him as Mr..
President and then add anything
pleasant and timely that may occur to
you. He won't be able to give us but
few minutes, you know"
'I see he has taken to horseback
riding. How would it do to mention
that, and then refer to our own stock
and express the hope that he may have
good mount?"
"For Gods sake, MOI" exclaimed
the Congressman. Whatever you do,
don't talk horses; and of course, steer
clear of those kindred topics with us
our pretty women and our fine climate.
Be easy and natural, but not conven-
tional."
The man was presented to the Presi-
dent, when, to his great surprise, the
President himself began to talk horse.
But the Kentuckian, obeying his Con-
gressman's tip, said next to nothing in
reply on that subject.
A few days afterward the Congress-
man called alone at the White House,
and the President said to him:
"What sort of Kentuckian WIS that
you brought here the other day?"
ga tiptop one, sir. Why?"
"Why, [ tried to talk horse to him,
and he didn't seem to know anything
about horses"
The Congressman was strongly
tempted to tell the whole story, but as
the joke was really on himself he kept
his peace. But he is trying extra hard
to get the man place as salve for
his own conscience-New York Tri-
bune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30
Farm and Garden Notes,

A good grindstone is one of the most
useful tools on the farm.
The strawberry plants will be throw
ing out runners, and if the soil is
loosened and the young grunners placed
in the rows the work of cultivating will
be easier next season and fewer plants
destroyed.
Cutworms prefer to work during
cool nights, and they cause a heavy
loss of early transplanted plants.
When q plant has been cut off search
for the worm in that hill and it will
usually be found. 1t is difficult to use
remedies to destroy them in a large
field. By wrapping each plant with
thick paper an inch below and an inch
above the ground the plant will be
protected.
The large, coarse varieties of carrots
most used for stock feeding are not so
nutritious as is the shorthorn, which
grows most of its bulk near the surface
or slightly above it. As the shorthorn
carrot can grow more thickly in the
row, 1t is nearly as productive as the
deeper setting varieties, and it is also
more easily harvested. Five to six
hundred bushels of the shorthorn car
rot may be grown per acre. This is a
paying crop at the usual price of this
root.
Farmers who rely upon the fertility
of their soil for success may be disap-
pointed if they do not give good prep
aration and thorough cultivation to
the crops. While the soil may pos
sess large amount of plant food, yet
it must be presented in the most avail
able form. Much of the matter of the
soil is inert and is reduced by the
roots of the plants, but this can be
done most effectively only when the
soil is in fine condition and every por-
ton of it within reach of the plant.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

In paper read before the Missouri
Horticultural Society, a practical or
chardist said: No tree should have
more fruit on it than it can hold up
well and mature to perfection; that is
to say, that the trees should not be
loaded as to require their being
propped, or so much that the branche s
bend very severely. This checks the
growth of the fruit to such an extent
as to injure the quality.
Every time tree has too much fruit
it weallens its vitality to such an ex-
tent as to require two or three years
to recover, or so checks its growth that
it begins to decline and is permanent
ly injured.
In the production of an over crop it
costs the tree more to ripen the seeds
than to make the fruit.
If from tree heavily loaded there
is taken one-half or even three -fourths
of the fruit, there will be more bush
els of fruit than there would be if all
were left on the tree.
By this practice there will be less
poor fruit upon the market, and the
good will bring better prices and give
infinitely better satisfaction.
Thinning makes the fruit of much
better quality, makes it keep longer,
and produces finer, handsomer, more
attractive and much more desirable
and salable fruit.
When orchardists shall look upon
1,,r
pruning, care and attention, they will
succeed in supplying our markets with
perfect fruit and of the very best quail
ity, thus increasing the demand, enhan-
ing the value, and giving vastly more
satisfaction to both producer and
| consumer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30
Fuel For Smokers.

Much has been written regarding
the fuel for smokers. With smoker
that will burn anything. the question
of ease of preparing it will be the main
feature with the inexperienced. There
is difference, however, in the condi-
tion and kind of fuel The largest
bee keepers use and have found sound
dry maple the most convenient and
best for the smoker The air passes
directly up through the split wood,
and very little steam condenses ON the
smoker, while shavings and rotten
wood, steam and rust the smoker. A
little perfectly dry rotten wood, fired
with a match and dropped into the
smoker before putting in the pieces of
hard wood will, with a little putting,
start a good fire. Some fine rotten
wood should always be kept where it
can be had quickly in case of sudden
emergency, as it can be used instantly
when time is of great value.-The Sill
yer Knight,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

would hang together. They proved
too strong food to be fed as literally
as other hay. That information 1
gained at the cost of registered Jer-
sey heifer and colt nearly three years
old. L have grown peas with oats with
better success. Ii the peas ripened at
the same time as the oats [ think it
would be q good idea to SOW the two
together, but the peas that L used be,
came overripe before the oats were
ready to cut. Cornfodder does fairly
well as a substitute for clover if cut
early and well cured. 1t is, perhaps,
if economically handled, the cheapest
forage that can be grown. But while
the different substitutes help when we
cannot get that which is the best, it is
always better to make the main de-
pendence on clover hay, using the
others when compelled by necessity.
Clover is no doubt the best hay for
dairy stock in regard to its worth as a
milk-making food, but it is probably
also the most cheaply produced of any
kind of forage planted especially for
that purpose. 1t is easily grown, it
cleans the land of many kinds of
weeds, it enriches the land and puts it
in ideal mechanical condition for
growing other crops, and its yield
ranks among the first in point of
quantity per acre. Two crops are most
always cut and occasionally a third
otherwise it generally furnishes good
pasturage after the second crop is har-
vested,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

According to an act of the House of
Lords some six years ago, man has a
right to bring his old family pew into
the newly built church of his parish,
that he may sit in the seat of his
fathers. In consequence Of this law a
handsome English church finds itself
in great distress. The graceful build
ing has recently been restored in the
most approved style at the cost of
about $50, 900, and one of the men,
bers of the congregation has insisted
in thrusting his unsightly family pew
in the midst OF all this beauty. As
the pew is huge, rude, box-like affair,
the vicar is in great distress and has
labored in vain to argue the trouble
some layman into a more reasonable
state of mind.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30
WISE WORDS,

Others see our faults as plainly as
we see theirs.
Only the man who looks away from
himself has ideas.
Some are active, because they fear
to be thought idle.
We excuse our selfishness by assum-
ing our greater need.
Those who touch each other are
sometimes farthest apart.
Happy the man who finds and re-
moves the particular cause of his mis-
fortune.
1t is always safe to, depend on this:
What God gives us to do, he will help
US to do.
We get out of temper and wonder
why We were ever born; then we get
into good temper and wonder why we
have to die.
Our wisdom is often handicapped
by our cumbersome knowledge, like a
medieval knight scarcely able to move
in his heavy armor.
People never plot mischief when
they are merry, Laughter is an en-
emy to malice, foe to scandal, and a
friend to every virtue.
Go forth with a smile on your face,
and you will return believing that
most people are good naturea. Wear
a frown and you will find plenty of
quarrelsome people.
A generous friendship no cold me-
dun knows, burns with one love, with
one resentment glows, one should our
interests and our passions be, my
friend must hate the man that Injuries
me-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30
How to Overcome the Clothes Moth.

Everything about the house that
might conceal moth should be thor
oughly shaken and aired, and when
possible the clothes and furs should
be left in the sun for some hours. If
the house is badly infested, or any
particular article is supposed to be so,
free use of benzine will be advisable.
All the floor cracks and dark closets
should be sprayed with this substance.
Benzine spray will kill the insects at
every stage, and is one of the few SUBJ
stances which will destroy the eggs.
No light should be brought into the
room while the benzine is being ap-
piled, as it is highly infammable.
The room and clothes should be thor
oughly aired afterwards before any
light is introduced. Camphor, to-
bacco, naphthaline and other strong
odorants are only partial repellants,
and without the May and June treat
ments are of little avail.-New York
World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

John Bardin, a tifteen-year old
schoolboy of Salinas, Cal, is, perhaps,
the largest boy in the world. He is
baby-faced, modest lad, and plays
with other boys who wear knicker-
bockers. Yet John is feet 81 inches
high and weighs 900 pounds. He has
grown fully an inch during the past
year and will probably be feet tall
before he is full grown. His father
was feet s inches high and weighed
only 140 pounds.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

London Invention says that Presi-
dent Wilde, ofthe Manchester Literary
and Philosophical Society, has offered
to the French Academy of Science a
sum of $27, 900, with a view of found
ing al annual prize to be awarded to
the author of a discovery or of a de-
serving book on astronomy, physics,
chemistry, mineralogy, geology or
mechanics. He makes his handsome
gift in consideration of the numerous
advantages reaped by him from French
science, pure as we'll as applied.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30
Farming Through Faith.

81 have expected the Lord to sup
ply our needs, and have never wanted
for anything" is the explanation given
by Theodore Williams, farmer of
Hampton Township, Pennsylvania, for
his present idleness. He has not
touched his farm this year.
He firmly believes that "the Lord
will help them that serve and trust
Him, and it is certainly a fact that
Williams crops are quite as good as
those of his neighbors who have worked
as usual. Williams and his household
are very devout, and go through re-
ligious service every day.-New York
Telegram.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30
Clover Hay for Dairy Stock.

There can be no question but that
clover is the best-yes, the very best
hay for dairy stocks of all kinds-the
calf, the heifer and the milch COWS,
fresh or dry, says a correspondent of
Prairie Farmer. Good clover hay is
almost good enough without grain to
keep COW in milk and in good CON
dition. 1t will keep the heifers and
dry stock very nicely. OF course, if
we have no clover hay other kinds of
hay or forage may be substituted if
properly balanced with grain. l once
brought bunch of heifers through the
winter to early spring calving on two
year wheat straw, but L fed very
literally with oil meal. The next best
hay for cows that 1 have found has
been very early timothy, cut while it
was very green and just commencing
to bloom. / once had few loads OF
Hungarian millet that was great sue
cess. had sown it early in June,
but the weather and ground was so
dry that it did not sprout until we had
had good rain in July; then it came
up and grew nicely. 1t began to head
when there was danger of frost, so [
cut it and put it away in very good
condition, well cured; it retained its
bright green color until fed out in the
winter. The cows would fairly gorge
themselves with it, and the butter
from the milk they gave had the June
flavor and color. Sometimes having
but short crop of clover I have tried
many substitutes. Oats cut green did
fairly well when well cured, but
found them difficult to cure. Mine
grew yer yrank and contained too much
sap and was so thick ON the ground
that found it quite impossible to dry
them. l have also cut wheat and rye
for hay but the COWS ate very little of
it, it being not much better than straw.
once had an experience with peas
Perhaps my poor success was partly
due to my inexperience. Iplanted
them on quite rich ground, and they
grew very luxuriantly, and were prob
ably four feet tall before they fell
down. There was too great a growth
to cure as they should; however, ]
dried them as we'll as I could and put
them in the barn. The man who
helped me tells me yet it was the hard
est work he ever did, for they were SC
long and tangled that whole windrow
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

Harvard College raised money by q
lottery as late as 1906. In that year
it offered for sale 10000 tickets at s.
each, the prizes ranging from SO, 900
down to 81. The prospectus issued
stated that Sin the above scheme the
just expectations of the publick, and
the interest of the University, have
been consulted. 1t is worthy the at
tention of adventurers, that the high
est prize is nearly double in value to
any that has been drawn in this Com.
monwealth for many years past, though
the usual price of tickets is preserved.
The Managers solicit the patronage of
the publick in general, and of the
friends of Literature and the Univers-
ity in particular; and, considering the
object of the Lottery, they will COM
bine the prospect of gain with the
certainty of beneftting the University,
and by lending their aid to the means
OF education, will promote the best in
terests of their country"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

The idea that country has only
one National flag is almost universal,
but generally wrong. For example,
Great Britain, her colonies and depen-
denotes, have 118. Russia comes
next with thirtytwo and the German
Empire follows with twenty-five The
United States is content with seven
teen, Spain with five, Turkey with
three and Uruguay with two.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

The State of Alabama lacks a picture
of Governor Israel Pickens to COM
plete its collection of portraits of
those who have filled the executive
chair. But there is report current
that an oil painting of Governor Pick
ems used to ornament the cabin of an
old-time river packet that bore his
name, and an effort is being made to dis
cover its present whereabouts if still
extant. Governor Pickens was elected
in 1926.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

The old proverb that the foot of the
sheep is golden is scarcely true if the
sheep have only the grass that grows
in pasture as feed. But if fed grain or
oil meal to fatten them while they are
at pasture their excrement will be very
rich, and will increase fertility rapidly.
Sheep do best on the natural grasses.
They will soon ruin clover if allowed
to eat it down, for they gnaw closer to
the soil than any other domestic ami
NAL can do.-Boston Cultivator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

Racehorses go mad, just like human
beings, and an attack of insanity, when
a horse is inclined to madness, always
succeeds very exciting race or other
strain ON its nervous system.
The great English thoroughbred,
Orme, the celebrated son of Ormonde,
has shown symptoms of madness ever
since running an exciting race, in
which he exerted himself in the most
extraordinary manner to win. At pres
ent Orme is raving mad, and probably
will have to be shot.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

The battle of Waterloo, was fought
on Sunday, June IS, 1915, eighty-two
years ago. The hat that Napoleon
Bonaparte wore on that fateful day is
said to be now owned by A. Pasquier,
of Lyons, France, who has it elegantly
mounted on marble pedestal. The
hat is represented to have been pre-
sented to the grandfather of Pasquier,
who was aid-de-camp of Napoleon,
haiore being banished to st. Helena.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

The Epworth League of the North
ern Methodist Church is little more
than seven years old, but in that short
time it has grown from feeble organ
ization into mighty army. 1t now
has 1854 chapters, containing an
aggregate of nearly two millions of
members, and the Epworth Herald,
the organ of the League, has 1O5, :
900 subscribers.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30
Siberian Exiles.

Siberian exiles are now to proceed
by new railway, from Tomsk to Kras-
nojarsk, distance of 500 versts, in
stead of, as formerly, on foot. The
journey will thus occupy only forty
hours instead of whole month. The
frightful outrages perpetrated among
the convicts at the various roadside
''lock-ups" will become a thing of the
past, and these lock-ups are to be used
as elementary schools.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.


The odor from the heating of new
iron vessel is very unpleasant, and it
may be avoided in this manner: Place
the kettle II the yard at safe dis
tance from anything infammable and
put into it cloth saturated with kero-
sene; drop lighted match upon the
cloth and let the oil burn out. When
the kettle is again cold wash it in hot
solution of strong soda water. After
this treatment the vessel may be used
in the house without any disagreeable
odors.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

Mr.. Benham-''I wish [ were single
again.
Mrs. Benham-"You horrid thing.
What would you do if you were?"
Mr.. Benham-''M Marry again"
Mrs. Benham-"Oh, you darling
thing. Modern Society.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-30

The Connecticut Legislature passed
Mt its late session law requiring tho
use of such inks only on public rec
ords as are approved by the Secretary
of State, The law went into effect on
July 1, and penalty of 500 is pro-
vided for violation of the act.