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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21
HUMOR OF THE DAY,

"There is only one thing J ever do
for policy's sake" whats that?"
"Pay my premium. Truth.
'A fine dog, that, Of yours. What'a
his name?" elias none, nor needs
one; he doesn't obey anyway
E'liegende Blatter.
shameful about those two Ken
lucky girls quarreling over that battle
ship" eyes, they act as if it was o
man. Chicago Record.
Walker-"Did you say your wife's
q member of a secret society?"
Talker-''It was secret before she
joined. "-Norristown Herald.
"We have cornbread all the time
now." "Why?" "My husband lost
so much on wheat that it makes him
weep to see biscuit. " - Chicago
Record.
Friend-"Then it is not play Of
the present day, is it?" Playwright
"Oh, no! The scene is laid in Har-
lem at the beginning of the rapid
transit movement. Puck.
AeNlSeu' he udu Deen DuSy
adapting things. "I cara not" he
said at last, ''who writes the songs of
country so long as I draw the royal
ties. Chicago Evening Post.
Employment Agent-"See herel
How is this? You stayed two weeks
in your last place. How did that
happen?" Domestic-"Sure Oh
dunno. Oh musht av overshlept me-
self. New York Weekly.
Dulby (would-be novelist t)-'I've
Just finished a new novel, If you
have a moment to spare I'll show you
the proofs" Wilby-"Oh, never
mind about the proofs. I'll take
your word for it."-Chicago Record.
Speaking of the vogue of the
Wheel" remarked the observer of men
and things, ga good healthy constitu-
ton and the canned beef industry
doubtless go far to keep the horse
from being eaten up by envy. De
troit Journal.
"Of course" observed Xerxes, the
King, "my will is law Doubtless"
answered the wise man of the court,
after consulting o few authorities.
"Ihat is to say, if your Majesty
doesn't leave too large an estate. -
Chicago Record.
"No," said Nero, while Rome was
burning, as he turned Indignantly to
one of his advisers, ''this is amuse-
ment enough. l shall not sanction
any six-days' bicycle race. lam not al
together monster" And he fiddled
away Chicago Tribune.
First Klondike Miner-'I hear that
our neighbor, Spudkins, has married
rich" Second Klonkike Miner
(enviously)-"Yes; they say his bride
has an independent fortune of fifty
cans of boneless ham and twenty-five
cans of condensed milk. Puck.
Art-"I have heard" said the
young woman who is improving her
mind, "that sometimes it requires q
great deal of art to succeed in not do
ing things" TT does" replied Sen
ator Sorghum; "unquestionably;
especially if you are being paid for
them. Washington Star.
''The parcel postman has just called
at the Twickenhams', next door, and
left afootball, bicycle, two cricket
bats, package of sweaters, pair of
spoon oars, and q bundle of golf
sticks" "Then their daughter must
be home from college and her educa-
ton finished. London Figaro.
Young Hicks-"You needn't laugh
at my moustache, Maud; your mother
said it was becoming, didn't you,
madame?" Mrs. Bailey-"Oh, no,
Harry! You misunderstood me. I
said it was coming" Hicks-"Now
Mrs. Bailey, don't cut a moustache
when it is in down. boston Trap
script.
Pollution Upstream.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

Most of The Time She Was Confined 10 Bed.
help her, and from the first we noticed q
decided change for the better and after
/ three months treatment her health was so
greatly improved you would not have re-
cogDized her. She gained IN flesh rapidly
and soon was in perfect health. The medi-
cine used was DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People. Ihave always kept these pills
in the house since and have recommended
them to many people. 1 have told many
mothers about them and they have effected
some wonderful cures.
EVERY mother in this land should keep
these pills in the house, as they are good for
many ailments, particularly those arising
from impoverished or diseased blood, and
weakened nerve force
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21
MlDWlNTER.

Tho wind has fed,
The cold, gray light lies heavy down tho
glen:
Silent the pines, scarce nodding, plume on
plume.
Like sorrowing emblcms o'cr a warrior
dead,
Darlien the hills, intcnsifyinG the gloom,
Cast somber shadows down on lake and
fen.
With startling tread
The hare leaps through the hemlock droop-
ing low,
Hats for glance, and with large, guile
less eyes
Ofdreamless ignorance, o'ercast with dread,
BliIks at the light, and then with move
ment slow
Limps noiselessly away whero twilight
dies.
John Preston True,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21
Poultry Schools in France,

England imports eggs and poultry
to the value of $23, 100000, while
France exports $40. 100000 worth OF
the same. France has number OF
poultry schools, where pupils are
regularly trained in rearing fowls,
managing incubators, curingI diseases,
ETC., 10000 chickens being Matched
each season at the Gambais School.
The pupils pay for their instruction
and work from 6 a. m. to p. M,
three of the hours being devoted to
study. Scholarships are founded for
the benefit of those unable to afford
the tuition fee.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21
"Goose- Cuttincu-a New Game.

Another game, that of goose
cutting" has been added to the long
list in vogue at social gatherings, says
the New York Evening Post. The
hostess provides q well-drawn outline
of goose, which Is usually of red
cloth, or, if made of paper, is colored
red OF black. This is merely for the
purpose of distinctness. Two pairs
of scissors are provided and number
of sheets of plain brown paper. Each
gentleman invites lady to cuta goose
with him, and in turn these couples
are seated back to back in two chairs
in the center of the room. When the
model goose has been studied, the
pair are blindfolded, and proceed to
evolve with their scissors and sheet of
paper copies of the fowl Having fin
ished, each paper is duly signed by its
creator and laid aside. Great merri-
ment is always aroused by the pro-
cess of cutting, as the pair work in
full view of the rest OF the company.
When finished, all the results are laid
out on the parlor floor, names down,
and two judges, who have not been
present at the cutting pass upon the
merits of the geese submitted, and
prizes reward the workers according
to their merit. -
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21
Raids by Wild Horses.

In the Arizona papers of late there
have been frequent complaints of
serious injury, both to crops and to
pastures, caused by the raids of wild
horses. Something like 10000 of
these creatures, it is estimated, are
now roaming the plains of that terri
tory, and they have become serious
nuisances. There is some cause for
surprise in the fact that at this late
day, even in Arizona, an animal alien
to the country can resume the habits
of his almost unmeasurably remote
ancestors, and can multiply rapidly
without care or protection of any
kind. The horse in domestication is o
rather delicate creature, subject to
many ills, and often hard to keep in
health, though watched with close
attention and allowed to want for
nothing whatever. When forced to
rely on his own resources however,
he shows marked capacity for re-
suming the wild state and for guard
ing himself against enemies of all
sorts. Ever since the days of the
Spanish explorers the horse at every
opportunity has demonstrated his lik
ing for freedom and his adaptability
for meeting without aid the condi-
tions of life in the West and South.
Large herds were often seen years
ago, but that they should still find
room in the United States is really
notable. as proving that the country
is not nearly so well settled as the
opponents of immigration would have
US believe. New York Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21
III Hung Chang's Woman Physician.

Lii Hung Chang has appointed as
first physician in his private house
hold Chinese woman, Miss Hu King
Eng, M. D., who Was graduated from
an American medical college. Previous
to this appointment she was an attend
ing physician at the Wovaen's Hospi-
tai in her native city of Foo Chow,and
also a practising missionary physician,
for early in life she adopted the CHRIS
tian religion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
ease that science has been able TO cure in all
its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being u con-
stitutional disease, requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter
cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy
ing the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the con-
stitution and assisting nature in doing it's
work. The proprietors have so much faith in
its curative powers that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that ii fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials Address
F.J. CHENEY d. Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hnll,s Eaunilu Pills nre the host
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21
Nothing Remarkable.

Smlth-Hear about the fire over on
the west side this morning? Nine per-
sons barely escaped with their lives.
Remarkable, wasn't it?
Brown-I fail to see anything very
remarkable about it.
Smith-Why not?
Brown-Well suppose they had es.
caped without their lives-then it would
have been truly remarkable.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

Inventors in India are not as slow
as might be supposed. A cooking
box, introduced by a Hindoo, is run
by solar heat. 1t is lined with
mirrors. concentrating the rays on a
heater of copper, covered with glass,
and performs its work quickly in boil
ing, baking or stewing.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

Mr.. Goodman, Williams Co., ILL.,,
writes: From one package Salzer's
German Coffee Berry costing &c / grew
200 lbs. of better coffee than l can buy
in stores at 80 cents fb.' A. C. S.
A package of this coffee and big seed
and plant catalogue is sent you by
John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse,
Wis, upon receipt of Is cents stamps
and this notice.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

Glass is the most perfectly elastic
substance in existence. A glass plate
kept under pressure in q bent condi-
ton for twenty-five years will return
to its exact original form. Steel
comes next.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.

Among the Siamese the curious Gus
TOM obtains of reversing the elbow
Joint of the left arm as sign of super
ority. The children of both sexes are
trained to reserve their elbow in this
painful position at an early age, if
their parents are persons of high
grades.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

The last instance of boiling to death
took place in Persia in 1890. The Of
tender, guilty of stealing State rev.
anues, was put into a caldron of cold
water, which was slowly heated to the
boiling point. His bones were distrib-
uted as warning among the provis-
ional tax collectors.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

When it comes to an all-around game
will find it difficult to prevent Great
Britain from taking hand. She likes
a little game of that kind.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

NO" said Wheeler, thoughtfully. ~
can't cotton to the idea that heaven is
n place where the streets are paved
with gold. l don't believe a fellows
tires would stick worth a cent to o
street Of that kind."-Indanapol
Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

To check a cold in one hour use Hoxsie's
G. G. c., a homeopathic remedy of great
power; certain cure. 80 cts. Sample mailed
free. Write HoXsie, Buffalo, n. Y.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

Before the reformation SO per cent. of
the land in the United Kingdom be-
longed to the Church.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous.
ness after first days use of DR.. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. 81 trial bottle and treatise free
Dn- r. Ii. KLINE. Ltd 931 Arch St.. Phila.. Pa.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

In Russia and Switzerland the Gov
ernment has monopoly in the sale
of spirituous liquors.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

Piso's Cure is wonderful Cough medicine.
MRS. Mrs W. PIoKERT; Van siclen en-, and Blake
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

Mrs winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
ton aliays pain, cures wind collie. 25c.a bottle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

90 ~-A-V --~S ~- " ~ S-s0 s<- tAS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, olcanses the sys-
TEN effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro.
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeablesu substances, it's
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in so
cent bottles by all leading drug.
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Donot accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA RIO SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. Sr Ssw roRS, M
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

FREE! Inventors Patent Guide. Any Drug
Store or O'Mara Coop Pat. Office, Wash, DC.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

Chew Star Tobacco-The Best.
Smoke Sledge Cigarettes.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-21

To euro A Gold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund money If it fails to cure. Csc.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-19
Here and There.

The San Jose scale is ranked third
among the worst scale insects of Cali
fornia by one entomologist and as very
much less injurious than in its earlier
history. The lime, salt and sulphur
wash is the standard remedy.
Most probably effective remedies for
corn root louise, mentioned in The Prai-
RE Farmer, are, first, quick rotation of
crops, not planting corn on the same
ground more than one year in success
sion; second, late fall blowing.
Growing mixed grain crops is getting
TO be quite in favor with some farmers.
A practical farmer says in Iowa Home.
stead that he has often noticed that
some oats in spring wheat, or vice versa,
show indications of unusual vigor and
quality. Flax and wheat are grown to.
gether with the idea of preventing
blight and chinch bugs, though why
this result should be expected is not
stated.
American Cultivator thinks there is
little danger of applying mineral fer
tilizers, either potash or phosphate, too
heavily to fruit trees in the spring. In
both seeds and foliage, potash especially
is required in far greater amounts than
it is for ordinary farm crops.
Irrigation has received an added i'm /.
petus in Nebraska by the cession of the
Fort Sidney reservation to the state for
experiments in irrigation and agricul.
tural methods.
1t is claimed that the liberal applica-
ton of crude potash salts, especially
kainit, to the soil acts to a certain ex-
tent as an insectioide or preventive of
disease.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-19
Experiments with Oats.

As to time of seeding, the Kansas sta
ton reports that experiments for five
years past prove that the best yields
have been obtained from oats sown Ell
Their the first or second week in March
and that from this time on till the be-
ginning of May there is a gradual fall
ing off in the yield with each succeed
ing seeding week apart. The data
show also that oats sown before the
middle of March grow taller and have
larger panicles than the later seedlings
The average results of eight years
experiments with the use of light, COM
mon and heavy seed oats show yield
of 30.9 bushels per acre for the heavy,
30. 80 for the common and 81. for the
light seed respectively.
In a test of varieties covering peri
cd of seven years the several varieties
of the SO called red oats have on the
whole, given the most satisfactory
yields, such as Pedigree Red Rust
Proof, Red Rust Proof, Red Georgia
etc.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-19
Millet a. Fodder For Horses.

In many sections of the west and
middle west millet is common hay
crop. 1t is harvested and handled in the
same manner as other hay. The usual
practice is to harvest the crop before
the heads are fully ripe, as there is a
popular belief that the ripe heads are
injurious to horses. From experiments
and observations at the North Dakota
station it would appear that feeding
millet alone as coarse fodder is inju-
rious to horses. 1t produces an increas.
ed action Of the kidneys and causes
lameness and swelling of the joints. 1t
causes an infusion Of blood into the
joints and destroys the texture Of the
bone, rendering it soft and less tena-
oious, so that the ligaments and mus
Giles are easily torn loose. The expert
ence Of many farmers confirms the re-
suits Of these experiments. The bad eff.
fects due to millet were observed
whether the crop was cut just before
the heads were fully ripe or earlier.
The specific cause to which the danger
Gus properties of millet are due has not
yet been discovered.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-19
SA~-5sN1&
1DuRY (REAlMlERY.l
~SssS D
ICE CREAM DAIRY.
Butter Factories Could Make Money by
Following This Mans Example.

Butter Factories Could Make Money by
Following This Mans Example.
A correspondent of The Rural New
Yorker, MIR. Howard b. Cannon, de-
scribes the methods used by an up to
date milk farmer in Michigan. He man
ufaotures and sells ice cream. We have
many time thought that more large
creameries could profitably do the same,
especially in summer, when butter is
low The factory has already the steam
and necessary machinery for making
ice cream swiftly easily and well III
large quantities Some creameries have
already begun this business. Ice cream
sells well the year around and especially
in summer, at exactly the season when
butter is low.
At Maple Hill milk selling for %
years was succeeded by butter making,
and now this has given way TO the freez'
er. Not day goes by but has its sale
of ice cream and in summer the bust
ness becomes large one. Surplus cream
in winter is sold as such or made into
butter. The demand for the total out
put is always at hand.
SiXty-nine cows are kept. The COWS
are mainly Jersey Ayrshire crosses, but
some are pure bred Jerseys. The cross
is well liked, giving hardy, hearty ami
mails of good size.
The dairy machinery is located in the
basement of the big brick house. As Mr..
Cannon stepped in he saw churn whirl-
ing in its rack at the beck and nod of a
little engine. a horizontal boiler sup
plies steam.
How do you raise your cream" he
asked.
"ln cans
Don't use separator"
"No. We don't like the cream so
well for freezing, and the skimmilk
doesn't keep long enough to suit us
when we make cottage cheese
do you find steam handy i'll heating
water here?''
Nothing lil-e it for power and saw
ing of time in cleaning things.
1--WE are connected by telephone with
town and have also water connection.
By asking over the telephone for fire
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-19
A Poor Manager.

The COW that does not yield 1000
pounds of milk in "a year is not worth
keeping. There may be !. goodly mum
Der which yield more than this, but
this is only saying in another way that
there must be many which yield less.
Somebody owns and feeds these poor,
worthless--yes, worse than worthless
COWS. Who is it? | can't tell you his
name, but l can give you some of his
symptoms He is usually more or less
in debt, and seldom or never has dol
lar in his pocket that he can rightfully
call his own. He works hard, and so do
his wife and children, rising before it
is light in summer, as we'll as in win
ter, and continuing his labor long after
dark at night He has to do this because
he gets no help from his cows. He is
the man who complains about the
times and the low prices for milk and
butter and cheese, forgetful of the fact
that everything except wages has de.
clined III price more than milk has. He
is the man, above all others, who can
not afford 10 keep such COWS. Hoard s
Dairyman.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-19

ease, but no one should be guilty Of US
ing seed that upon the slightest inspec-
tion is seen to be diseased. All seeds not
bright and plump should be discarded
as dangerous. If the person most inter
ested in this matter will examine the
brown, shriveled or imperfect beans, he
will find a cavity between the two seed
leaves where the fungus is to be seen
with hand lens, and, by the way, ev-
cry grower of crops ought to have a
magniiier, which he can use to help out
his eyes in this work of seed inspection.
The last fact to be noted bearing di-
rectly upon the propagation Of the bean
pod spot is that of its growing upon
other plants than the bean. The bean
anthracnose thrives almost as we'll up
on the melon group of plants, where it
makes ulcers upon the fruit similar to
those upon the bean, only upon much
larger scale. Thus single point of in
lection may spread upon watermelon
until it is inches in diameter, and of
course the fruit is ruined.
A practical remedy for this trou-
BILE upon the crops named there is moth
ing known that is better than the Dor
deaux mixture.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-19
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BEANS ATTACKED BY ANTHRACNosE.
the bean plant and after thus feeding
upon the juices of the bean they aggre-
gate in places and come to the surface
producing the spots. The bean may be
attacked while it is quite small, and by
the time it is half grown the surface
may become broken by the disease. The
spots are usually circular and when they
become continent the places affected are
quite irregular. Not infrequently the
diseased tissue becomes sunken and dark,
bearing upon its surface minute pustules
of "a pinkish color, and around the whole
spot they may also have "a reddish dis
coloration giving the appearance of a
birds eye. The appearance Of the tissue
that is diseased by the fungus is seen
in the first figure. The fungus also at.
tacks the leaves.
In the second figure is shown leaf
drawn from nature and having some
parts destroyed by the fungus, while III
other places the leaf was still green, but
the veins were brown. The fact that
the disease comes to the surface mostly
upon the underside of the leaf makes it
necessary in spraying to place the noz-
zle low and direct it upward, thus
reaching the surface where the spores
are being produced most abundantly.
One of the points that greatly inter
est bean growers is the method this
fungus has of getting into the beans and
remaining there until they are planted,
when the disease grows with the seed
ling and may cause its early destruction.
1t follows from the above fact that it
is essential to plant only sound beans.
These are not always determined with