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Griggs courier., 1897-12-17
ABOUT THE WEATHER.
Mr. wineleby Explains to George About
the Seasons.

INF. WtnGleby Explains to George About
the Seasons.
''You see, George, - said Mr.. Win
gleby, whose youthful son had asked
him how we came to have different
kinds Of weather, "the weather is put
up in tin cans, days weather to a
can, and usually they put up about a
years supply ahead, enough to last
through spring, summer, autumn and
winter. In filling the cans they sort it
all out as we'll as possible. Sometimes
when they get a can full there may be q
little left over, and whatever remains
in this way they throw into one lot.
When they've got pretty nearly all the
cans full and the regular stock of wealth
or has run out, they fill up from that
lot Of odds and ends. The cans SO filled
contain what is called variable weather,
because it's mixcd, but. most Of the
weather they get pretty we'll sorted out
according to the season.
"When they've got all the cans filled,
they stack 'em up where they'll be
handy to get at, and there's man that
does nothing but open them. Every day
he cuts can and pours out the weather
for that day, and of course great deal
depends upon him. Sometimes this man
gets careless and pulls down lot Of the
wrong cans, getting them, say, from the
July shelf in the month of April and
likely as not getting down weeks
supply at once, SO as to have them handy
on the opening table. OF course he dis
covers his mistake the first can he opens,
but he is too lazy to put the rest back,
aud SO he keeps on then until he has
opened them all, and that's how it
comes about, as it sometimes does, that
we get hot spell at season when we
ought to have nothing but cool weather.
"But Of course those April cans are
not lost. They must be around some
where, and we get 'em later. Maybe
the man will sprinkle them along with
the hope that we won't notice them
much. but as likely as not he opens
them one after another together, maybe
after some terribly hot spell in July or
August. when they are sure to be a
blessed relief, and if he does this we arc
pretty apt to forgive him his mistake in
April. Louisville Courier.J Journal.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-17
BALL PROGRAMMES.
RsAs m . vssy osaas vaAaAv = s,ss.s,
OusAea - Al Qaeadans.

9aAe N vssy oaaAD vaAaAV - 0lUena
00DeoA - Al 0asaaians.
Ball prugsanmss 80 made n hun-
dfeds of styles. A wholsaals dsaler In
New York prsssarss aRmpls book.
which is Of ths DE Of IN atlas and the
thickness Of . Dictionary. Fancy cards
tor some other uses axe shown IN this
book also, but Of hall psogrammas alone
there may be 500 s1ylss. The hook IL
like great album. The dealer sandS
out 1880 such books 10 pintaes and
stationers.
Programmes Can b bought q alnaost
any price, including many at extremely
low prices Nearly Ill are moro OF less
ornamented, many Ct then, with esu-
bossed work finished with gilt or In COL
ors and in agreat variety of dedgna
There is scarcely any society. perhaps
none. that could not find here an appro-
pirate programme. There is for In
stance, a ball programme embellished
with trolley car. A number Of pro-
grelnmes. suitable for yachting club
dances, have yacht surrounded BY va
rious emblems Of yachting and Of the
sea. There are programmes for lausical
societies. with appropriate emblems.
and for railroad men, for bicyclists, fer
military organizations, for letter car
riers, for firemen.
The cords and tassels for tho pro-
grammes are separate article of man.
ufacture. They are produced in great
variety Of colors. qualities, sizes and
styles and sold in enormous numbers
and many Of them at prices that seem
marvelously cheap. It is probable that
nearly all the programmes Of the kinds
referred to, handsome and elaborate as
many of them are, would sell complete
at prices under So hundred. There are
folded ball programmes, with picture
decoration, that are sold at wholesale,
without printing or cord and tassel, as
low as So cents hundred.
The production Of costlier pro.
grammes, such as sell for s. hundred
and upward, is business by itself. These
are made in about 100 different designs,
ranging in price up to $1.25 each. They
are made in a great variety of shapes
and sizes, and, as with the less costly
programmes, of designs appropriate to
the occasion on which they are used.
The more costly programmes are adorn-
ed with hand painted pictures Cellu-
loid in various forms is employed in the
making of these programmes, and satin,
lace and papier mache are also used.
All these programmes are Of. larger size
than the less expensive varieties, and
each one is put up in box. A pro-
gramme of the highest price was an
elaborate production IA inches square.
The programmes most commonly sold
among the costlier kinds bring about
S18a hundred.
There are sold Of the cheaper vari-
cites of ball programmes millions annu-
ally; Of the costlier far fewer. These
may be numbered in thousands. Winter
10 the season of the most active demand
for ball programmes, but they are sold
the year round. Some ball programmes
are exported to Mexico and the various
countries Of South America. Many of
the designs are equally suitable,and ap-
propriate anywhere. The printing is
done in the countries in which they are
used.-New York Sun.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-17
LONDON sLuMs.


Tho Rent Collector aaA the Din DaltSeo He
Eaesxssess Ebsss.
Slum property apparently has its
drawbacks, though it is generally re-
garded as the most profitable, for most
Of the owners do not a. q rulo allow
such trifles as repairs to reduce tho
amount Of the rents.
This work is breaking up my nerv-
ous SYSTEM" said man who has been
collecting rents for years in some of tho
worst slums 81 am really beginning
to feel that shall meet my death at it.
''Mrch ill feeling Of which am the
victim is engendered between landlord
and tenant over the question Of repairs.
It does not pay to be always repairing
such broken down property, though ct
course repairs are always being asked
for, and some people have o decidedly
unpleasant manner Of trying to impress
ON me the necessity for such.
'tThey are continually alluring me
into all sorts of undesirable traps. I
nearly broke my neck once by walking
up dark staircase il which few
boards were broken and loose, and the
WOAlAA WIN AAu 0EACu l10 W VAIN UH
calmly told me to get my master to
have it mended. If there is Q dark, rick
city staircase without banister, am
sure to be asked to walk up it, and on
one occasion was nearly frightened out
Of my wits by my head coming in con-
tact with some hanging paper and plas-
ter which had fallen from passage CELL
ing and was suspended by a very mea-
ger support.
when they hear I am about, put pals Of
water and broom handles in the dark
passages may traverse, besides making
othe- preparations for bestowing similar
delicate attentions OH me.
"Only recently woman asked me to
come and look at the awful state of re-
pair of one Of her rooms. She took me
to a large cupboard and opened it and
the corpse Of man tumbled into the
room. 1t was only her poor, dear hus-
band, she said, whom she had slowed
there for convenience till the coffin ar
rived. OF course she had put him there
only to give me pleasant little sur
prise, and she was so successful that
doctor advised me to lay up for a week.
Sometimes a brick or two will be
aimed ut my head without my being
able to discover whence it came, and I
have just had an interview with man
who showed me broken window
through which de had showed his wife's
head backward and forward by way Of
chastisement, and he expressed what
exquisite delight he would take in doing
the same to me if the window was not
soon lnended.
''All this is quite apart from the
trouble have in obtaining money. -
Pearson's Weekly.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-17
The Rascal Won.

Whats the price of these gloves2''
she asked.
"A dollar and seventy-ave cents. !"
said the clerk; ''but I'm afraid we
haven't any small enough for you. We
can order an extra small size, however. {"
''Oh, these will do. I'll take three
pairs. ''-Chicago News.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-17
Its Usefulness.

Mrs. Newlywed-That is our new
burglar alarln. You see, if burglar
should get into the lower part of the
house, that would ring.
Her M7ther-Oh, and scare him off?
Mrs. Newlywed (doubtfully)- We'll,
it might. but it would give Clarence
and me plenty Of time to hide in the
attic anyway.-Pick Me Up.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-17
How They Looked to Her,

was visiting friends house with
my littla girl of years. On being
shown photograph Of English choir
boys with their surplices on she ex-
claimed, "Oh,, mamma, look at all
these gentlemen waiting to be shaved. "
Peoples Friend.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-17
A Model Town.

Hoopestown, Ills, q town Of 1000
inhabitants, has never had o saloon.
The mayor receives . salary Of SO cents
. yeaF, the remuneration Of each Of the
Oouncilmen Is half that amosnt md no
1ees are acoepAsd. Lass yesr ~ Con-
hnsd alHi0 @ the 4a1e - ~ ~
1athsss wers given % hdp nssdv M
~ ~ hep 6nsA tak TrlS.as.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-17

The citizen who is determined TO-
take care Of himself alone is Of very
little use to community. and few tears
are shed when he takes his final de-
Observation-Disclosures Age-Herald.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-17

Whistling is tabooed in the dressing
rooms of circus. That it is an i'll
omen is one Of the snperstitions Of the
circus people Somebody is sure to be
discharged II any Que whistles. they
ny.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-17

Welsh mothers put pair Of tongs OF
knife in tho cradle 10 insure the safe
u Of their ohildxsn. The knife 10 a1so
seed for - -. pupsA seos parts
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Griggs courier., 1897-12-17
Extenuati0u.

81 can tell when my wife buys some
thing she considers extravaganza. -
"How can you tell?''
''She always explains that she bought
it with So bill she happened to have
tucked away. Chicago Record.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-17

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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21

All who are used to handling either
brick or tile, know that when thor
oughly dry they will absorb n great
amount of water without being satu-
rated. Advantage is taken Of this fact
by grain dealers and farmers, who
place dry bricks which are easiest to
handle and least likely to break among
damp grain to prevent it from heating
1t is surprising what an effect this will
have if very few bricks are inter
spersed through the heap. Each brick
will absorb fully half a pint of water
if it is dry to begin with This will
dry out the surplus moisture out of n
good many bushels of damp grain
This might be used in moving away
damp hay or grain in the bundle,
though in neither of these positions is
there so much likelihood of injury as
there is where threshed damp grain is
closely confined in bins.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21
Copperhcads In His Cellar.

Albert Knapp, farmer living at
Fishkill Village, N. Y, had desper-
ate fight on recent night with five
copperhead snakes. Knapp went into
his cellar with light to draw pail
of cider for party of friends, and saw
a large snake coiled on board.
Knapp secured long-handled hoe
and prepared to kill the snake, when
he was Mortified to see four others
come from under large ice box i'll the
corner.
Knapp managed to kill all five of
the snakes, but was nearly exhausted
when he came from the cellar and told
of his terrible struggle with the ven
omous reptiles. Farmers in the neigh
borhood cannot rememberwh poison.
Gus snakes have been so numerous as
this year. The wet weather is sup
posed to have something to do with
their appearance. More than 400 cop.
perheads and rattlesnakes have been
killed there this season.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21
Waste of Sweet Corn Stalks.

This is the time of year when the
sweet corn ears are gathered Us
ually on each stalk there are two or
more ears, one fully ready for use as
green corn. the other small and im-
mature. To save this last the stalk
is left uncut. But in most cases the
second and always the third ear is too
small to be proftably marketed.
Whenever there is only one ear on n
stalk it should at once be cut and fed
to the COW or horse. tits worth more
then than it ever will be again We
are not sure that this is not true, even
when there are one or more nubbins
left on the stalk, if fed to milch cows.
Ordinary fodder corn is very poor feed.
1t needs to be supplemented, as this
sweet corn fodder does, with greater
amount of nutrition. which is worth as
much in increased milk yield as it is
in few nubbins of corn Sweet corn
fodder is more wasted than any other.
1t Is wasted in trying to save nubbins
of corn worth more for feeding than
they are for anything else.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21

While no kind of grain as feed can
supersede corn in cheapness and value,
sorghum is formidable rival to it for
fodder, especially when put up in the
silo. 1t stands drough better, which
is likely to make it popular in the arid
portions of the West, where corn often
fails. The sorghum has too tough a
stalk to feed green, but when cut and
put in the silo there is enough fermen-
tation to soften the stalks so that they
can be eaten. The sweetness of the
sorghum furnishes carbonaceous nutri-
ment just as does the starch of corn
grain, and in even more palatable form.
Wherever cane sugar is made in the
South the workmen who attend the
grinding always grow fat from the
sugar they eat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21

Many people still think that black,
mucky soil must necessarily be very
rich. But the fact that it remains with
out fermentation shows either that it
has little nitrogenous value, or that it
is so saturated with water that it has
become sour. Yet we have known
many city people buy black muck from
swamps to pot flowers in, and pay
twenty-five to fifty cents per bushel
baskets for it, when dry earth from
the side of the road, with much less
vegetable matter, would be much bet
ter. Most muck, especially from
swamps, lacks mineral fertility. 1t is
easy to handle and to work in, and
this is what makes it popular. But it
needs both ammonia and potash to
give the best results.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21

To handle bees with the most salts
faction, select the warm, bright days,
when the bees are flying most. The
fact is, the warmer the day, the less
danger of stings.
Avoid as much as possible working
with them on cool, cloudy days, as
they will be always found more
irritable on such days. Also avoid
handling them early in the morning
and late in the evening, for the same
reason.
Bees abhor being molested at night,
and no work can be performed with
them at that time with any satisfaction.
They are always the most peaceable
when they are gathering honey, and
may be handled as safely as brood of
chickens.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21

Success in dairying must depend
not only on having COWS able to give
liberal mess and keep at it, but also
on the kind of mixers employed. A
careless, lazy mixer will easily lose
more than his wages during the time
be is employed. Not only this, but he
will quickly convert really good COW
into poor one. The milk which the
careless milker leaves in the udder is
always that which has the largest
amount of butter fats. If it is not
drawn the fat is re-absorbed into the
COW and helps to dry her off The
difficulty in getting help that can be
depended on is the great drawback in
running large dairy farm. 1t is also
no light job to milk ten, twelve or
more COWS twice every day. It will
make any mans hands tired until he
becomes used to it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21

world, the one at the cathedral in Mos
pagoda Of Mengoon, n little north of
Mandalay. If the former was the big.
ger of the two, it was cracked, and
therefore useless as bell, while ,he
latter, though whole, had dragged its
supports down till it rested on the
ground, and would not emit any sound.
Now, however, 1t has been reswung,
and can claim attention as the biggest
bell, in working order, in the world.
IN 1896 the Burmese community de-
cided to have the bell raised, and en-
ployed the Irrawaddy Flotilla Com.
pany, limited, to do the work. The
work has been successfully accom-
plished. The bell hangs on a large
steel girder, with distributing girder
on the top of it, and the main girder
rests on two large iron columns, 25
feet high, which rest on concrete foun-
dations. The bell swings, with Its low
er rim about three feet from the ground.
The weight is about 9S tons, the cir
cumference at the base being 51a and
at the top &c feet. 1t averages over a
foot in thickness. The bell itself is
over IL feet high, and the shackle,
which was intended for logs of timber,
about IL feet. The pin in the shackle
has a diameter of 16 inches. The bell
vas cast about the beginning of the
century by King Bodaw-paya as an ac-
compartment to the huge brick. pagoda
which he never finished.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21
IA Farmer Has a Terrible Experience.

A Jasper tFla.) dispatch to the
Cincinnati Enquirer relates the follow
ing: Bud Harvey, q farmer, living
about ten miles out in Big Turkey
Hammock section, started for town
Monday, in the midst of driving
rain. Soon the wind increased to a
terrific storm, the rain coming down
IN sheets and the wind almost throw
ing the buggy over. Coming to de-
serted house, he stopped, as if to go
in. Suddenly a terrific roar was heard
behind him. Looking back, he saw
a dense, black cloud lowering over
the ground, reaching to the tops of
the trees. He could see big, tall pines
falling in every direction and splin-
tering across each other, while the
noise was appalling.
1t was rushing rapidly in his direc-
tion, and, seeing his peril, he whipped
up his horse. The latter, thorough
bred, took the bit in his teeth and
started on dead run up the roal.
Nearer and nearer came the hurri-
cane, and he could hear the noises of
falling trees few rods back of him.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21
AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.


After so much wet weather it might
he supposed that wagon tires would
give no trotlble on even the oldest and
most dilaridated wheels. This is true
so long as the roads are muddy. But
nowhere in August will the roads re-
main wet very long. The previous
thorough wetting which the wheels
have had during the recent wet
weather has swollen the woodwork,
which shrinks all the worse for this
when exposed to sun and winds. II
pays to paint the woodwork of wheels
once q year, doing it when the wood
is thoroughly dry If the wheel has
an application of linseed oil when dry,
much of it will soak in the wood, and
the painting will last longer without
renewing.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21
800 Reward. 800.

The readers of this paper will be pleased TO
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis
ease that science has been able to cure in all
its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall'sCatarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con-
etitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure lie taken inter-
cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy
ing the foundation of the disease, and giving
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have SO much faith in
its curative powers that they offer One Hun
BEND for list of testimonials. Address
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists, T5c.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21

A New York newspaper, in speaking
Of the Spanish-prisoner fraud which
has been practiced so often, says that it
has been confined to Europe for its vic
tins until New Hampshire man was
swindled with 1t the other day. This Is
a great mistake and one which no New
York newspaper should make. 1t has
been practiced in this country for many
years, and it has been tried more than
once within eighteen months upon New
York men with more or less success. 1t
began to find victims as early as 1895,
and the swindle has continued ever
since, in spite of the publicity which
has been given to it. To the police it is
as common as the gold brick trick.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21

An Iowa boy recently passed through
an experience which he will not forget
if he lives to be 100 years old. He is
only five years old, and one day when
his father went to the wheat field to
drive the harvester he took him along
and perched him on the high seat at
his side. For time the little fellow
watched the yellow wheat lop over as
it was cut in wide swath, and the tall
arms sweep it back and bind it, and
finally the fat bundles being tossed
aside one by one. For time all this
was very interesting, but presently the
little fellow grew tired and began to
squirm and complain. And then, Just
as his father was leaning over to look
more closely at some of the machinery,
off tumbled the little fellow on the
conveyor. He shrieked just once, and
his father tried vainly to stop the
horses. But before he could even
slack the speed the boy had been driv-
en- up through the elevator canvas
with half bundle of wheat, the bind
ing twine had twisted swiftly around
his neck and legs, and he was rolled
out on the wide carrier, securely bound
in wheat bundle. He was almost
choked and there was tiny bit of skin
torn from his shoulder, but otherwise
he was unhurt when his father cut
the string and helped him up again.
But worse frightened boy would have
been hard to find.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21

Scribbler-'When is that review OF
my novel coming out, Scather?'
Scather professional critic)-"Well,
to tell the truth, l have not read it
yet"
Scribbler-''Yet, when I brought
the book to you, you assured me that
you would lose no time in reading it. {"
Scather-'S So did, and I have lost
no time in reading it yet. Boston
Traveller.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21

''I hear, Cap'n, dat you needs a
waiter on board dis man-o'-war."
Eyes, Silas; but did you not ask for
your discharge about year ago?"
$50 L did, Cap'n; but de ship was
going to dc. West Indies an was en-.
gagged to my gal"
"Well, the ship is going to China,
now, Silas."
80 1 heerd, Cap'n, but Use mar.
iied now.' Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21

The Baltimore Sun is authority for the
statement that probably the oldest station
agent in the country in point of service is
James A. Gary, the Postmaster General of
the United States. He was appointed agent
at Alberton, Howard county, Md, on IL, the i: p;
name still appears on the pay-rolls of the
company. The two next oldest b. & o. agents
are said to be Capt. Charles w. Harvey, at
Ellicott City, Md, and John w. Howser at
Relay. They have each been in the service
"a years. The B. d. o. has also, in actual SER
vice, a passenger conductor, Capt. Harry
Green, who has run trains between Baltimore
and Cumberland for AZ years.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21

Manageable Daughter-'T think,
Pa, that you do Arthur injustice when
you say that he is penurious.
Precocious Brother-"What's PEN
oorious, PAP"
Pa-'Why, Bobbie, penurious is
close"
Precocious Brother "Then you're
right, Pa. Mr.. Penrose is awful pc
noorious whenever he comes to see
Sis. Boston Courier.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21

Editor-"You have not been in this
business very long?"
New Reporter-"No. I am almost
novice at it..
Editor-'"Ihat's what L supposed
when in your report of the confiagra-
tion Of Bones's stable last night you
failed to call fire the red-tongued de.
mon. Tit Bits.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-21

The story that Thomas Jefferson was
a descendant of Pocahontas, though
often repeated, is not credited by his
most reliable biographers. 1t probably
arose from the fact that the Randolph,
Boiling, Fleming and other influential
families of Virginia, with some of
whom the Jefferson family was allied
by marriage, were descended from
Thomas Rolfe. the son of Pocahontas.