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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
Potatoes Among ouack Grass.


1t is, we think, impossible to kill
quack grass by growing a potato crop
among it, no matter how carefully the
potatoes are freed from the weed. 1t
is impossible to either hoe or cultivate
where the potato hills are, and with
any chance to get to the air and light
by growth above ground, the under
ground roots will be kept alive. The
best way to check quack grass growth
is to cover the top with wet soil, put
ting enough salt on the green leaves to
increase their natural tendency to rot
when thus buried. In this way we
have known good potato crops to be
grown on fields abounding in quack
grass. But after the potatoes begin
to set cultivation must stop, else it
will check their growth, and cause a
new set of potatoes to form in the hill.
The result was that though the potato
crop was fair, it had at harvesting time
to be dug out of bed of quack roots.
There is great danger of spreading
quack grass by growing potatoes
among the quack. Its roots will often
penetrate the potato, and if such po-
totoes are used whole for seed, there
is likely to be quack bud on some
part of the quack root attached to the
potato, which will start new planta-
ton of this weed. All the cultivating
implements used among quack grass
should be searched for quack roots
before they are used in any other field.
-American Cultiyotor
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Horses and cows eat grass, and so
do sheep and many other animals, but
it is not generally presumed that peo-
pie do. However, William Gardner,
a Mississippi colored man, has been
living on grass and hogs fat for sew.
eral days, so he says.
Friday afternoon Gardner was seen
picking handfuls of grass and jamming
it into his mouth, after which he
calmly chewed it in very contented
and self-satisfied manner. Several
persons saw him, and he ran down the
street as far as the dilapidated condi.
ton of his shoes would permit. A
crowd of two hundred persons were
soon following him, and he finally ran
into the arms of Policeman Britton.
He said that he had no place to go and
was locked up on the charge of vag-
rancy.
He told the officers he had lived on
grass for several days and was begin.
ming to like the diet, as it was cheap
and agreed with him. The only obiec.
tion he had to it was that no one would
pick it for him or place it in his mouth.
He said he had been chased out of sew.
eral cities and came to Cleveland, as
he thought it good place.
In the police court he said he wanted
to go home, as he, had "all kinds" of
friends in the South. Judge Fielder
gave him twenty-four hours to leave
the city, and if the speed with which
William left the station is any criterion
he is even now very near home
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages, and that is atarrh. Halls Catarrh
cure is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. atarrh being a constitu-
l1onal disease, requires a constitutional treat
acting directly on tiiS blood and mucous sur.
faces. of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation Of the disease, and giving the pa
tient strength by building up the constitution
proprietors have much ia tn in its curative
powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
Tor any case that it fails to cure. Send for list
OF testimonials Address
+. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo O.
Sold by Druggists 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
A New Reservoir.

In Pawtucket, r. l., reservoir has
just been constructed, which, accord
cording to casual observation, has been
made to stay. 1t has depth of
twelve feet, top diameter Of ninety
seven feet and bottom diameter of
ninety-fve feet. The concrete walls
are four feet thick at the bottom and
two feet thick at the top, with an out
side batter of an inch to the foot. Ex-
tending all around the outside of the
walls and imbedded in the concrete
are wrought iron rings. There are
four of these rings, about seven
eighths of an inch in diameter. The
upper one is one foot from the top of
the wall; the others are each one foot
lower than the last The entire sides
and bottom are of one continuous mass
of concrete, the whole being laid out
without joint or seam and of the most
approved material. The concrete is
made of one part Portland cement,
three parts sand and six parts gravel.
Any person at all familiar with the use
of such material need scarcely be told
that this is an exceptionally strong
construction, and one that, barring ac-
cident, will make the reservoir practi-
cally safe for mauy years to come.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.


Fence posts of the wooden kind
have least durability in sandy soil
which moisture and air alternately
penetrate. 1t might be supposed that
very wet soil, or where the posts stand
in stagnant water, would make them
decay more quickly. But in such
positions less air comes in contact with
the wood. When set in the ground
fence posts usually decay first just
where the post enters the soil, as this
has most changes from wet to dry and
gives the air most chance to work on
the wood. Charring the surface of
the post where it enters the soil great
ly increases its durability.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
CURIOUS FACTS.

A Harpswell Ne. fisherman has a
frontyard fence composed of the swords
of swordfish.
The highest church spire in Europe
is that of st. Walburgh, at Preston,
England. 1t is 303 feet.
Within a short period Mount Zion
lind. hen has laid three eggs, each
eight inches in circumference.
At .Heppner, Oregon, there is band
composed entirely of women, which
furnishes music at celebrations in
nearby places.
English sparrows in droves, not to
say hordes, have picked all the grains
from the wheat stalks in field outside
of Wabash, Ind.
When Mrs. Henry Rohrs was struck
and killed by lightning in her home
near Auburn, Neb, her baby was
thrown from her knee to q spot under
table, but was not hurt.
Under Henry V. of England an act
of Parliament ordered all the geese in
England to be counted, and the
sheriffs of the counties were required
to furnish six arrow feathers from
each goose.
Residents of Lovilia, near Ottumwa,
Iowa, have formed an organization for
the determination of rats, and men,
bers are to devote one day week to
the work of ridding the neighborhood
of the vermin.
Mrs. Keziah Hubbard, of PALMYRA.
Me-, at eighty six does good deal of
embroidery and patchwork in year.
Among her recent work were an out
lined spread and pair of pillow shams,
tasselled quilt and half dozen crazy
quilts.
A loving husband in Vienna, Austria,
committed suicide by hanging himself.
In his pocket was letter in which he
left all his property-the rope with
which he had hanged himself-to his
wife, from whom he had been divorced
ten years.
A certain Boston dentist is such o
shrewd business man that he insists
on receiving payment in advance from
customers who require the administra-
ton of anasthetics. This is to guard
against the possibility of their dying
in the chair.
Jacob Fl. Tuthill, of Oregon, who is
eighty-three, jumped into the air and
kicked his heels together twice before
touching the ground the other day,
just to demonstrate to the people gath
cred at a family reunion how young he
still felt himself to be.
Pineapple gardens planted two years
ago at st. Petersburg, Fla, have
proved so successful that the acreage
given to them has been increased
largely by different investors. Vari-
cites of the pines have been imported
from the Azores for culture here.
A postal card that required sixteen
years to travel ninety-nine miles
breaks the record for slow postal de-
livery. 1t was posted in Leicester in
June, 1881, and has just been received
in London. The address was plainly
written on the card, and no one knows
where it has been all this time.
After the death of Prince Albert the
Queen went to the Highlands, and one
of her first visits was to widowed
peasant woman. The two cried to-
gether, and when the woman begged
pardon for not controlling her feelings,
the Queen said she was thankful to
cry with somebody who knew exactly
how she felt.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

would get well. L had female troubles
in their worst form, suffered untold
agonies every month my womb tipped
back to my backbone, had headache,
hysteria, fainting spells, itching, leu
corrh1a.
MY feet and hands were cold all
the time, my limbs We're so weak that
l could hardly walk around the house;
was troubled with numb spells.
have taken four bottles of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, one
bottle of her Blood Purifier, one pack
age of her Sanative Wash, and am
entirely cured. 1 have not had one
of those numb spells since. Can you
wonder that l sing the praises of a
medicine that has cured me of all these
ills ?'-MRs. LOUISA PLACE, $50 Bel
mont St., Brockton, Mass.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

This has been a very bad year for
building and loan association In
Chicago several have gone into liquida-
ton and in most cases the stockholders
stand to lose the greater part of their
deposits. In nearly every large city
the same state of affairs exists. In
Louisville four have failed almost
simultaneously, the aggregate capital
running into many millions. And now
comes the news from Reading, Pa,
that twenty associations there are in q
bad way, and that the most of them
are likely to fail. To town of Read
ing's size the failure of twenty associa-
tions of this sort means widespread
bankruptcy. In many cases these fail
ures have been caused by the careless
ness of directors, leading to the dishon-
esty of secretaries and treasurers. Di-
rectors meet and take the word of
treasurers that the affairs of the asso-
citation are in a satisfactory condition.
This goes on and on until an immense
defalcation is discovered. This is the
same laxity which causes so many
bank defalcations, but stockholders
never seem to learn lesson from these
repeated failures. The advocates Of
building and loan associations have
always held that it was practically i'm
possible for the treasurers of such con-
Germs to default to any great amount
because there never was much cash on
hand at any one time. But this has
been disproved time and again.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Who are injured by the use of coffee Re-
Gently there has been placed in all the grocery
stores new preparation called Grain U. made
The most delicate stomach receives it without
distress, and but few can tell ii from coffee.
IL does not cost over quarter as much.
Children may drink it with great benefit. Is
cts. and 70 cts. per package. Try it. Ask for
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
A Moving Staircase.

A moving staircase for passengers,
in the shape of an endless leather belt
transferring them from one story to
another, is now in use in some of the
great department stores of Paris. II
is called transporting carpet. End.
less belts of canvas have been used for
some time to convey packages from
place to place within the store.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
Admire the Kaiser's Mustache.

The upward twirl of the German
Emperor's mustache is greatly ad-
mired by his people. Some loyal sub,
jects even go SO far as to sleep with
their heads tied up in bandages in
order to give their mustaches the de.
sired twist at the corners.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
Try Aliens Foot-Ease,

A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At this
season your feet feel swo Hen and hot, and get
tired easily. If you have smarting feet or
tight shoes, try Aliens Foot Ease. 1t conls
the fest and makes walking easy. Cures and
prevents swollen and sweating feet blsters
and callous spots. Relieves corns and buni, ms
OF all pain and gives re t and comfort. Try 1t
today Sold by all druggists and shoe stores
for % cent. Trial package FREE. Address,
ALLEN 5. OLMsrEp, LeRoy, n. Y.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
SUFFERING WOMEN.
How Many of Them Have Quietly
Obtained Advice That Made
Them Well.

My sister, if you find that IN spite Of
following faithfully your family doc
tors advice, you are not getting well,
why do you not try another course? ?
Many and many woman has quietly
written to Mrs. Pinkham, of Lynn,
Mass, stating her symptoms plainly
and clearly, and taken her advice, which
was PROMPTLY received. The folloYz-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

is fact which admits of argument that school task
Is severe indeed and requires perfect system steady
nerves to be able to conduct classroom proper
pans Tabues help keep the system perfect strengthen
the nervesis testified by prominent school teacher PHILADELPHIA
who says 81 have been teaching the Ninth Grade the George
Wharton School for the eight years. and is to
comprehend what task have every get new set
OF pupils from the lower sections You requires great patience
and assduy discipline and educate boys task is very
aFduous one Especially M the during the examinations
the work exactng and the drain the system
leaning over books and marking papers at
time get headache and my entire system shattered but
pans Iabue always aghten and morning
Tor the task over again. feeling fresh
magic Ibule taken the previous night 1t certainly
remedy tor nervousness and gorang wasted SYSTEM
voice the sentiments of all the teachers section every
Whom has used them With equally beneficial results"
thou taaaOsn
for
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

The Glove is the dried and unex-
panded bud of a tree technically known
to botantists as the Caryophyllus aro-
maticus.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first days use of DIR. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. S2trial bottle and treatise free
DIR. II. Ii. KLINE, Lid, 93l Arch St., Phila., Pa.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

There is q vast difference between
being able to say prayers that sound
fine, and having broken and contriis
hoo It
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c "A bottle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

ng letter is a
'retty strong
'onfrmationof
,ur claims
" | had been
sick for six
months 4;
y one doctor
7 told me I
| would have
< to go to a
\ y hospital
' before I
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

About 10000 families make .thei.
living in Paris in connection with the
cab industry and taking care of horses.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an A No
Asthma medicine.-W .R.WILLIAMs, Antioch,
Ills, April Ii, 1894
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

If afIiictedwith sore eyes use DIR. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye-water. Druggists sell at25c. per bottle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

The University of Berlin has $40
professors and instructors.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
UNIVERSITY : NOTRE DAME


Classics, Letters, Science, Law, Civil, Me-
chanicai and Electrical Engineering.
Thorough Preparatory and Commercial
Courses Ecclesiastical students at special
rates
Rooms Free, Junior or Senior Year, Collie
giate Courses st. Edwards Hall for boys
under 13.
The 1o7th Term will open September 7th,
1897. Catalogue sent Free on application to
Rev. A Morrissey. Q. y. G, President
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-03
That Haitian Episode.

Many Americans who have noticed in
the papers that row of some kind has
recently arisen between Germany and
Haiti, into which the United States has
been drawn, have no knowledge of the
exact facts in the case.
According TO the German version. one
Emile Lueders, claimed to be a Ger
man citizen, went to police headmart-
erS at Port au Prince TO protest
against the ARE st at his house Of a ser
want who had been charged with some
"lehSe' ana was himself accused of
having committed a murderous assault
ON the officers engaged in performing
their duty. He was sentenced to =
petty fine ana q months Imprisonment
but demanded ana obtained a second
trial He Jared worse at the second
70 one years Imprisonment and to =
nnr of 5000. Count Schwerin, the Ger
min minister to Haiti, ntarfered ar
this point, and acting under instruc
IONS from Berlin, demanded the i'm
mediate release Of Lueders and tba
payment of an indemnity of 81 600 =
Gay Tor his tWenty-thrce DAYS of inn
piIsonment, under penalty of 81 ,OOO a
day for each day of additional deten-
tipr. President Sam of Haiti consiG-
cred the demand unjust and cNorhitant
ard refused to comply with il, where
upon the German minister again cabIed
Berlin for Instructions on the recaint
of which he hauled down his flag ON
the legation building and announced
that three German warshiDs were on
tier way to the Haitian capital TO see
that his reasonable" demands werc
granted.
Inc haitian version IL that up to a
short time ago Lueders was a Haitian
citizen, but, it is added, having been
concerned in various little affrays.
among which are mentioned four duels
he seemingly deemed it wise to change
his nationality, and registered his name
at the German consulate. For an as
sault upon a cab driver said To have
been unprovokad, to which Lueders. If
is said, pleaded guilty, he was sem
fenced to one months Imprisonment.
He appealed from this decision TO the
correctional court, and the sentence
was altered he being sentenced to one
years seclusion and a fine of 500
francs. A further appeal was pending
when the German minister interfered
without invitation aud, it Is said,
forced mis- way into the private apart
mcnt Of sriresias Simon sam, the presi.
dent Of she Haitiah repablic, and, in a
rude ana peremptory manner, de-
manded the release OF Lueders with an
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-03
Kind Mention in LuZeTne,

From the Wikcs-Barrc Times
1t can be truthfully said that Mr.. Con-
nell has not entered the political field as
a spokesman. The wealth he has earned
in his legitimate business enterprises
places him far above any sordid consid-
erations, and tn" experience he gained in
thus wrestling with the world from Den-
nilcSs boy to the millionaire business
man, will be available for the uses of the
people in any public position they see fit
to honor him with. While nothing Mr..
Connell has publicly said can be con-
strued into a direct declaration of his
candidacy his friends are satisfied that if
every thing is prOpitious he will soon
make the announcement. If he does it
will not be as the COllar-woaring candi-
date of any party leader or boss but as
the representative" of sound Republican,
ism and clean politics.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-03

years ago. there Is today great gulf
The fortunate have risen to wealth and
honor, while their cOmpeers stll toll for
their daily bread. out of the ten thous-
ana inhabitants of this territory In the
early tftics how many of them died
worth i've thousand dollars? What were
the favorable conditions which made
cl one man a millionaire, while the vast
majority of the other nine hundred and
nincty-nine tuilcd hard and long and only
got bare subsistence? The prosperity of
me county and city wholly depends upon
the coal industry. II Is well known that
the coai industry hourlshes by the thous-
amos OF men who daily go down the
shafts and into slopes to cut coal. But
how has 1t come to pass that the men
who never soil their hands in the coal
business, live in mansions ana palaces.
while the fellow who does the hand work
occupies the cot or howell?
o.
LackawaDna avenue Scranton. Is very
valuable property today. There are some
men still living who could. at one time
nave bought the best lot on the avenue
for few hundred dollars. Now it cannot
he bought for less than a thousand dol
lars foot front. What have been the
forces at work to 90 increase the value of
this ground? What has made it SO rich
mint to the fellows who own it? The
owner could sleep ana smoke his pipe
during the past forty years and the land
would enhance in value without any ad-
ditional outlay in money or labor, the
land would increase its value every year.
Why? Evidently because of the thous-
ands who have crowded into these regions
to live. These, wanting the neCcssaries
OF life. ana buying them from merchants
who erected large stores to meet the de-
nland, have created large trade always
Incident to increased population, and
have thus enhanced the value of these
lots. Well, if the thousands of the city
of Scranton give value to these business
sites, how comes it to pass that the
benefit goes into the pocket of the owner
only? Much of the wealth produced in
the mines has staid in the county, but a
large proportion Of it has a.sO left for
distant parts--Ncw York and Philadelphia
for instance. Now, what gives the fellow
in New York and Philadelphia a right to
draw wealth from the muscle of men dig
ging in the bowels of the earth many
miles away from him?
o
These questions ought to interest eighty
per cent. of the people of this county,
and the true answer to them would mean
much to their life and happiness.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-03
"GREATER SCRANTON"
From the Olyphant Record.

From the Olyphant Record.
The Scranton Tribune issued supple
mcnt last saturday devoted to the in
dusuial development of Greater Scran-
ton 1t was Il review of the growth of
the capital of our county. and i'm small
compass 1t gave very clear description
Of the material prosperity Of the Electric
city. Many in the county well remember
IN" most thriving part of Scranton called
Slocum Hollow ana the prophets of thir-
H years ago, with all their sagacitv
never dreamt Of the prosperity seen today
within the limits of the above city. II j.
the work of generation, and the men
who have aided in this work are undoubt-
cdlN proud Of their accomplishments
y review of the results Of thirty years
Industry in the city of Scranton. sug-
gests many reflections. There are prom
mcnt men i'm the Electric City TODAY,
who are worth much money. About thir-
tY or forty years ago they were working
men, and there are many in the county
still living who WORKED with them. Be
tween these fellow-workmen of forty