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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28
Early Thinning of Cranes.

So soon as the grape buds burst
into shoots the buds for blossoms and
fruit will plainly show themselves.
There will usually be three buds on
each shoot, and on the Delaware,
which is especially liable to overbear,
there are often four clusters, which if
left would all be late-ripening and
poorly-perfected fruit. 1t is easy to
see, even before the buds have blo os-
somed, which will make the largest
and best clusters, and, of course, only
such should be left to fruit. Two
well-ripened, large clusters of grapes
are enough for any shoot to bear.
With the late-ripening varieties this
early thinning is often the only way
to secure crop of well-ripened
grapes. BY practising this method
grapes may be grown where without
it no crop worth anything can be pro
duced,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28
Picking Ducks.

Duck feathers Away BRING n fair
price, especially white ones, and
should be saved when dressing the
ducks, if they are sold dressed; if not
sold dressed do not pick just before
selling. The amount received fc-
tho feathers ought to pay for the
dressing.
The breeding ducks may be picked
several times year, generally four to
six. Do not pick until the feathers
are "ripe," which can be told by pull
ing few from different parts of the
bodies of several birds. If they come
out easily, without any bloody fluid in
the quill, they are all right and should
be picked or many will be lost. In
picking pull only a few feathers at a
time by taking between the thumb
and :orefnger and giving a quick,
downward jerk. Do not pull the
bunch of long, coarse feathers under
each wing.
Before you begin picking, tie the
ducks legs together with a bit OF list
ing or other soft cloth and if the duck
is inclined to object to the picking by
thrusts with the bill. slip an old
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28

Peace does not produce Deweys or
Grants, and war did not produce
Dewey, comments the New York Com
mercial Advertiser. His country,
his blood, his training, his discipline,
and the traditions and atmosphere of
the service produced him. Neither in
army nor navy will the country
ever again be without ample supply
of officers who are masters of their
profession. A thousand forces are at
work in the service hardening the
fibres, ripeniag the intellect, steeling
the courage of the men who are yet to
fight our battles. But war is not
needed to develop them. Conflict
can only discover them. Dewey is
not the only one who can gather up
all the scattered ends of precaution
and preparation, weld them into a
thunderbolt and with one daring and
terrible blow smite the enemy and
destroy him. There are many officers
whose photographs are not known to
newspaper readers now, but whose
names will be familiar if the war lasts
long enough.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28
Itrin Notes.

Turnips and beets are good for hogs,
and are especiG y good for breeding
sows, before an after farrowing. For
horses, carrots are prime. Always
have something to make variety in
the feed.
Most of the large western orchardists
are practicing close setting and cutting
out afterwards, planting the apple
trees fifteen feet apart and removing
the alternate trees when they begin to
get crowded.
Farming is science, and the farmer
who expects to meet with success must
necessarily apply scientific principles
and not think because he is the pos.
SCISSOR of some mother earth that he
knows it ALL
Give changes of feed to the cows as
often as you can without lessening the
nutritive quality of the ration, as you
thus maintain good appetite and the
better production which is sure to come
from full feeding.
With a well-stocked farm there is o
home market for good supply oi
| iOceot ahNi - oiS biO"h tOi iiAai hCb-
ing by the bushel, the home market
may well take the place of any other
when the price is low.
Whatever your breeding stock, se-
lect good heifers for the dairy, and
then bring them up to the highest state
of development possible in milking
qualities as they come to take their
places in the working dairy.
If the farm is large enough to di.
vide, better share it with the children
as they mature than to drive them of
to other fields. A man can often do
better on what he has left than lie
could upon the whole farm after the
boys are gone.
Artificial stable manure used to be q
favorite compound for agricultural
chemists. Here is one of the receipts:
1000 pounds muck, 200 pounds wood
ashes. fifteen pounds dissolved bone.
When this mixture is composted, il
reduces to about ton.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28
WORDS OF WISDOM.
A wise man is never less alone than
when he is n1one -Suift

A wise man is never less alone than
when he is alone.
Civility costs nothing and buys
everything. Lady Mary Montague.
What do we live for, if not to mako
life less difficult for each other.-
George Eliot.
An extraordinary haste 70 discharge
an obligation is q sort Of ingratitude.
-Rochefoucauld.
Every man is valued in this world
as he shows by his conduct lie wishes
to be valued.-Bruyere.
1t is wonderful to think what the
presence of one human being can do
for another-change everything in the
world.-George S. Merriam.
Contentment is q pearl of great
price, and whoever procures it at the
expense of ten thousand desires,
make wise and happy purchase
t. Balgny.
We are wont to lool; forward to
troubles with fears Of what they will
infiict, but back on them with wonder
at what they have saved Us from
Samuel johnson.
Ill-nature is nothing more than an
inward feeling of our own want of
merit, dissatisfaction with ourselves
which is always united with an envy
that foolish vanity excites. Goethe.
We do not shake off our yesterdays
and sustain no, further relation to
them; they follow Us, they constitute
our life, and they give accent and
force and meaning to our present
deeds. Joseph Parker.
Take time, and so apart for sea-
son; withdraw into thyself, and dis
cover the evolutions of thine own
thought Thou must take thy stand
on principles, rs perceived within
thee. Trinities and Sanctities.
1t is to government, the great
principle of popular represe entation-
the system that lets in all to partici-
pate in the counsels that are to assign
the good or evil to all-that we owe
what we are and what we hope to be.
Daniel Webster.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28

America has had bicycle weddings,
but that does not beat the Dutch.
According to foreign advices, a
wealthy young widow of Holland
asked as a dying request that her
favorite bicycle should be draped in
mourning and be trundled by a SER
want behind the hearse in which her
body was conveyed to the grave She
was explicit in stipulating that the BIZ
cycle should precede the coach con-
tanning the chief mourners.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28
There is new field for the annie

There is a new field for the amateur
photographer. A Rio de Janeiro in
ventor has devised a submarine photo
graphic apparatus for use by divers.
The operator has an incandescent
electric lamp wish reflector fixed on
his head-piece, and is provided with
EN- ordinary camera, inclosed in a
rubber envelope having a glass front.
Current for the lamp is supplied from
The boat above, and pictures are taken
by pressing buttons through the rub
Der covering. It is stated that objects
in Rio &c Janeiro Bay have been
photographed under water by this
means at a distance of ten or twelve
feet as easily as in full daylight.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28

An Australian woman of great charm,
and tact tells many amusing stories of
the strange questions put to her by
people with thirst for information
about her native land.
'It is a very common thing for me
to be asked ii the bushes are still
thick where 1 live, or whether our
house is in the clearing" she says,
plaintively; "and know they often
regard my veracity as doubtful
quantity when 1 tell them Australia
is not all bush by any means. But
an old lady asked me new question
one day. She evidently supposed
that all the dwellers in Australia were
descendants of the criminals trans
ported to Botany Bay.
Is II possible for convicts to edu-
cate their children so well, ordinar-
isy?' this terrible old Englishwoman
asked me, surveying me through her
lorSnette as 1 finished telling one of
her friends about my school dcys.
But my father was not convict,
madam sail, with natural sur
prise.
Ah,' she said, meditatiyely,
then L suppose it was your grand
father who was sent there. OF course
much can be done in the third genera
ton
Il should have been angry tif it
had been worth while" the Australian
adds, with admirable wisdom. "But
she surveyed me so impersonally that
L didn't even tell her there was actu-
ally part of the population of my
country which did not come from
convict stock. Youths Companion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28
Rules For Butter-ATaking,

The practical part of cream -ripen-
ing is this: Keep your vessel so that
1t may all ripen evenly, and thus
avoid loss in churning. Raise the
temperature to sixty-two or sixty
eight degrees and keep it as near that
temperature as possible until ripe,
and then cool before churning.
Well-ripened cream should be coagu-
lated or thickened 1t should run
from q height in a smooth stream, like
oil. When a paddle is dipped into it
and held in the hand, it should stick
all over in thick, even coat, not run
ming off in streaks and showing the
surface of the paddle. When the last
drops run off the paddle back into the
vat they should leave little dents or
depressions on the surface which do
not close up for an instant. The
cream should have satin gloss or
fresh surface.
Churn until the granules are the
size OF wheat kernels, then draw off
the bnttermilk and wash through two
or three waters, whirling the churn n
few times around. Use from a pint
to quart of water per pound of but
ter. Have the water at temperature
OF forty to fortyfve degrees in hot
weather and from fifty to sizty-two de-
grees in winter, always depending
upon season, solidity of the butter,
warmth of the room and size of the
granules. If you do not care about
feeding the washings 1 would put
some salt in my first wash water. 1t
will help to float the granules better
and perhaps dissolve out the casein to
some extent. Iwould generally salt
the butter in the churn. Cornell
Agricultural College Bulletin.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28

Soldiers in camp must be as CRATE
full to the being who first invented
canned goods as Sancho Panza was to
the man who first invented sleep.
There seems to be no limit to the
possibilities Of the canning factory.
Everything that grows, everything
that can be produced in laboratory
essences, extracts, condensations-all
are ranged on the shelves of the COM
missary, and in cans. There are
canned fruits of course. The rural
housewives of an earlier generation
gave capitalists the hint for that. But
there are also canned vegetables,
canned fish, canred fried bacon and
canned roast beef. One may have
choice of vegetables and choice of
meat while eating at an army table.
On march, when the column stops
at night in the hill country OF Cuba or
on the fair plains of Porto Rico, the
first sergeant will send detail to the
commissary wagon, and all the Ameri-
can boys may have American fruits
and meats and garden truck"
Instead of being reduced to diet OF
salt pork and indestructible crackers,
The soldier may have a substantial
dinner Of acceptable and varied food.
And whether frowning at Spain from
a camp of mobilization or rushing at
her batteries in the hour of strife he
will certainly be better soldier FOR
the better food. No other nation in
The world can feed its armies in SO
admirable a manner, because no other
nation has so nearly perfected the
business Of preserving subst,n.ial
foods.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28
Royal Family of BOXERS

Boxing is favorite sport of the
Danish royal family, Prince valdemar
being the best boxer among them.
When he challenged the late Emperor
Alexander III. of Russia, however, he
met more than his match. King George
OF Greece is also skilled with the
gloves. The present Emperor of Rus
sia, on his travels around the world,
used to have bout with Prince George
OF Greece every morning on the bridge
Of the steamer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28

Egg eating is generally induced by
the hen scratching in the nests until
the eggs strike against the sides of the
box and break the hen afterwards
eating them. This has been my ex-
perience. l have watched them do
it. The best remedy seems to be to
SO construct the nest boxes that the
nests will be in the dark as much as
possible. 1 have not had any trouble
when SO doing.-John Hagglund, in
Wallace Farm.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28
To Grow Wild Flowers.

Most wild flowers may be made to
grow in gardens if provided with an
environment sufficiently like their
natural one. Select shady place,
fertilize itwith leaf mold, water freely
and protect the plants from the sun
for about week. In removing them
from the woods be careful to get all
the roots and to leave as much soil
around them as possible.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28
full tilt into the tramp and sent him

full tilt into the tramp and sent him
flying.
Then. springing off his machine,
Reginald let the thing fall, and flew
at Margot's assailant with the courage
and energy of q mastiff. After roll.
ing Grimes over and over, Reginald
finally gave him final shove into the
ditch despite low "'Old ard guy
nor!') and then went back to Margot.
"Oh, thank you, so much, Mr..
Oldercheek; how lucky you were so
nearl That horrid mani
'I'll lay into him again if You like!"
was Reginald's chivalrous offer.
sob, no, you have punished him
enough, L think. Let US go back.
Stay with me, won't you"
"Of course l will" exclaimed
F.eginald, and so, wheeling his own
machine, he began to accompany Mar.
got back toward Woodchester at a
sloy pace.
For some little time the tramp lay
quite still where Reginald had de-
posted him. Presently, however, he
looked up, and, seeing that his en-
; ployer was fast disappearing, he got
up and gave chase. So softly did he
run that Reginald and Margot were
not aware of his proximity until he
was close upon them. Then Margot
gave q half scream and clutched her
knights arm. Reginald, with certain
vague misgivings, faced round on the
man.
"Storp-'ere-where's that other
'arfquid?" gasped Grimes, hoarsely.
'What do you mean?" demanded
Reginald, bound to keep his end up
before Miss Carpenter.
''The other 'arf-quid you said you'd
give me for attackiE' this yer young
gell!" was Grimes's explanatory re-
ioinder
Margot gazed wonderingly at Reg
inald, whose face told her that the
tramp was attempting no illegal ex-
tortion. Reginald saw o smile creep
ing round her lips. Silently he hand
ed Grimes the coin. The tramp
pocketed it, and then departed, Civ
ing vent to what sounded in Reginald's
cars like satirical chuckle.
When he had gone Margot and Reg
inald wheeled silently back to Wood
chester, parting, with some little en-
barrassment, at Margot's gate.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28
sohiey's Tribute to Lieutenant nobson.

Sohiey's Tribute to Lieutenant Hobson.
Commodore Schley has paid the
following tribute to the valor of Lieu
tenant Hobson and the crew of the
collier Merrimac: "History does not
record an act Of finer heroism. L
watched the Merrimac as she made her
way to the entrance of the harbor,
and my heart sank as saw the perfect
hell of fire that fell upon those de-
voted men. / did not think it possi-
bic one CT them coald have gone
through it alive. They went into the
jaws of death. 1t was Balaklava over
again, without the means of defense
which the Light Brigade had. Hob
son led forlorn hope without the
power to cut his way out. But for
tune once more favored the brave, and
1 hope he will have the recognition and
promotion he deserves. His name will
live as long as the heroes of the world
are remembered. New York Com
nercial Advertiser.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28
OPTIMISM

There's word of gentle meaning
"Aiterwhile."
It's the sesame of dreaming,
"Afterwhile."
when our fCftunes halt and vary,
It's the watchword OF the fairy,
From hopes sweet vocabulary,
"Afterwhile."
We will hear no sounds OF battlc,
"Afterwhile.
We will miss the cannon's rattle,
"Aftervhile. >"
Men will put away the saber
And together they will labor
Each to help n helping neiShbor,
"Afterwhile.
This old earth will cease its sorrow.
"Afterwhile.
There will dawn q peaceful morrow,
"ACterwhile."
When all grief is but tradition,
Giving C'tis its riShtful mission)
Contrast to life's hlest condition,
"Afterwhile."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28

Spain furnishes a peculiarly tragic
illustration of the awful possibilities
of national illiteracy. Sixty eight
per cent. of her population come
within this category. This sixty
eight per cent. have been willfully
misled, through their blind enthus-
iasm, as to the country's resources,
preparations and European support.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28

History will record it cs n melan-
choly fact that poor old Spain went
into the present war with an over
stock of naval tactics and an UNDER
supply of naval ships.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28

Il State law OF New Hampshire, en-
acted few years ago, requires the
trustees OF savings banks and savings
institutions to call in the books of de-
positors every third year for examina-
ton and verifcation by some person
or persons other than the banks treas
urer or his clerk.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28
An Old Family.

The eighteen-year-ol lad who is
heir to the throne Of Japan seems to
hold the worlds record in the matter
OF pedigree. He is the last male de-
scendant in the order of primogeniture
OF dynasty which has reigned $500
years.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28
III.

III.
Margot was undressing. Every
body knows that girls undressing
takes much longer than her dressing.
Tonight Margot was longer than
usual; that is to say, about two hours.
She combed her tresses in an absent
minded way for full forty minutes.
At the ems of that period (by which
time the air round her comb must
have been charged with a great guam
tity of electricity she sat down on the
side of her bed and decided to accept
Reginald.
She arrived at this decision by the
appended route of reasons:
"It was all a plot-fancyl He
bribed the tramp to attack me so that
he might rescue me, and-and make
me like him" She then turnedsto the
left, thus: "But have liked him ell
along, ever so."
And to the right as follows: 'Tt
was a deceitful thing to do; most girls
would have nothing more to say to
him"
She then recollected that Reginald
had often informed her that she was
quite different to other girls. Margot
did not bear in mind that every cub
in love tells his sweet one this. Hav-
ing been informed of tho fact by such
an excellent judge of character as
Reginald, she now believed herself to
be an exceptional girl, quite out of
the common ruck. Therefore she
went straight ahead in this Pharisaic
fashion.
$50, ms I am not like most girls, I
shall accept Reginald. 1 believe him
to be an honorable boy, the soul of
truth and the embodiment of integrity,
so that he must be very, very fond of
me to have stopped SO low as to league
with horrid tramp against me. lam
fortunate to be so beloved"
And with this Margot said her
prayers and got into bed. London
Weekly Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28
Butter as q Stfmuiant.

1t is said that one pound of butter
gives working force equal to that of
hve pounds of beef, nine pounds of
potatoes or twelve pounds of milk.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28

Spain has for years wiring tribute
to the smount of $50, 600, GOO annually
from the people OF the Philippines.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28

l. it step toward an English al
lance that the Geographical Board has
dropped the ''h' il Behring'S Strait2
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28

ARGOT had no
very particular
reason for re-
f u S i n 6 the
young gentle
man who was
SO very desir-
Gus of being
her II eggie.
Yet had she
spoken t h a t
fatal monosyl-
liable which has
struck cold to
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-28
The mind OF A MAID.
CHARACTERS.

CHARACTERS.
Margot Carpenter. .......A young lady
Reginald Oldercheek "A young gent! eman
Grimes. .,........-- .............A tramp
Scene-Margot's boudoir, afterwards
Woodchester High Road, and afterwards
Margot's bedroom.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20


J. F. Lamson of Randolph was in tow
last week.
Miss Emily Clafiin OF Bethel is visiting
her parents this week.
Fred Fits left Thursday for Fitchburg
Mass. to reside this winter.
Z. b. Clafiin was in Bethel last week, as.
sisting his daughter, Miss Emily Clafiin
Omri Lewis OF West Rochester and
James Lewis OF the Mills were in town
last Friday.
Lewis and Joseph Odett, brothers, with
their two daughters, Lena and Julia, were
in town last week.
Mrs. Charles Hurd and Miss Nellie
Rhodes of Beverly, Mass, are visiting at
their old home for week.
j. B. Darling, who has been in town
several weeks, returned to his home in
Cambridge, Mass, last Saturday.
Presiding Elder Davenport will hold
services at the church next Sunday. Re-
vival meetings will continue Though the
next week.
The evening mail from the west Satur-
day did not arrive until late Sunday after
noon. Trains on the Rutland road were
also late. A severe storm was raging on
the mountain and the snow fell SIX inches
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

s. Butterfieid is on the gain.
Fred Fassett OF Canada was In town last
| week.
II. q. VanDeusen came home Friday fol
| few weeks stay.
Mrs. Louisa Ferris and c. B. Fisk were
| quite i'll last week.
Ten tickets were sold at this station for
Burlington Thursday.
Miss Mae Wetmore returned Wednes.
day from Keene, N. H.
Mrs. Wilson had the misfortune to
spraln her ankle quite badly Friday.
Joseph: Boulair and lady and c. A,
Roys attended the dance In Mortified
Friday evening.
Charles Wiley and family, Mrs. B. A.
Tilden and Miss Cora Latham went ON
the excursion to Boston Tuesday.
The Christian Endeavorers will hold a
popcorn social in the vestry next Friday
evening. All are cordially invited to at
tend.
A number from this place attended the
grand lodge Of the I. o. G.. T. at North
Held Wednesday and Thursday. Five OF
our lodge members took the degree of the
grand lodge.
The drama,"A Box OF Monkeys which
was repeated Saturday evening was not
largely attended owing to the unfayora-
Die weather. II those who old 90 for the
purpose OF listening to the play and were
unable to do so, owing to the unpeptle-
manly actions OF the young men who sat
IN the back part OF the hall, will please
call at Mrs. G. A. Roys' she will gladly
give them back their admission fee.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20
East ftoxDury.

Bert Allen is at home.
Creamery patrons received ice. for Sep
tenn Der butter.
Mrs. L. A. Eastman has gone to Boston
Mass, for three weeks stay.
Fred Burpee OF Jacksonville, Fla, was q
guest OF his brother, L. A. Eastman, last
week.
The ground was covered with snow
Sunday morning, several inches having
fallen during the night.
A subscription paper has been circu-
lated the past week TO raise money to hire
N. w. Shaw to preach here half of the
time the next year.
Luther Blanchard has % peach trees
which be set out last spring, that are in a
fair way to supply the home market with
peaches in few years.
Rev. Orzl Boyce ard wife have gone to
Haverhill, N H., where Mr.. Boyce Will
fill an appointment to preach. He ex-
poets to be at home to preach here the last
Sunday In October.
About so after ded the husking at Sid
ney Rand's last Wednesday evening and
report fine time. About 800 baskets of
corn were husked, a fine supper was
served, after which games were played by
the young people until late hour.