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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31
The WoouchUck as Food,

The flesh of the woodchuck is not
of quality OF flavor that commends it
to the palate of the average man, and
if it is not carefully and properly pre-
pared for cooking it becomes positive
ly offensive. In the Pennsylvania
Dutch counties, especially Lancaster
and Berks, the cooking and serving
OF woodchuck has been reduced to a
culinary science, and ''grounhog
lunches" are among the favorite
dishes of the epicure there. Under
the manipulation of the thrifty house,
wives and careful restaurateurs there
abouts the woodchuck becomes a
morsel that the most fastidious gour-
met cannot treat with contempt. The
tenderest and sweetest broiled chicken
is not superior to the grounding,
Lancaster style"
Another use to which the wood
chuck is put in that part of Pennsyl-
vania cannot be recommended as
highly as the cooking of it. The ami
NAL is taken alive by patient and ex-
pert trappers and is kept for sport
similar to the once favorite English
sport of badgerbating. Dogs are
trained purposely for this. They are
either unbroken bird dogs, or dogs
that are a cross between a fox
hound and beaglehound. These
batting matches are said to rival the
fiercest encounters between blooded
bulldogs, for the woodchuck, when
cornered, is terrible antagonist. If
once it thrusts its long, rodent teeth
into dog they pass clear through
and lock into the flesh, and the hold
can be broken only by tearing the
flesh away. 1t takes good dog 10
master a woodchuck in these matches,
and more than one good one has been
known to have been killed by wood
chuck before it itself met its fate. -
New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31

There is no greater mistake than to
suppose that a macadam road once
laid needs no care. The most econo.
mical method of maintenance is to
give it constant attention.
Any one who can devise q method
to make drivers, especially with heavy
teams, keep out of the ruts, which are
the ruin of all roads, will be bene.
factor to all who use the highways.
Some of the newspapers of the City
OF Mexico are beginning to point out
the Importance to their republic of
having ample means of communication
besides those furnished by the rail-
roads. At present their highway
facilities are very meagre.
The roadsides of this country are
the most neglected of any of the
civilized globe. They are. as a rule,
merely seed beds for all the pestifer-
Gus weeds that grow in the country.
Every farmer should keep his own
share of the roads free from weeds as
a matter of policy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31

1t may not be generally known, but
Admiral Sampson is an inventive gen.
ius as well as naval fighter. In the
early days of his career in the service
this genius received severe shock,
from which the admiral never fully re-
covered. Or at least that is what a
number OF his associates in the navy
| declare. 1t was also in the early days
of the new navy when the incident
about to be related occurred. The ad-
miral was at the time lieutenant, and
was in command of small sailing YES
sci. For many years he had worked
on kind of anemometer, or wind
gauge. 1t was his hobby, and was
nearer and dearer to him than all selse
in the world. Finally it was complete,
and one day it stood on the roof Of the
cabin, that 'protruded for some dis
tance above the deck. The little boat
was rocking idly to and fro in calm.
Lieutenant Sampson was below en-
joying siesta. Suddenly gush of
wind rippled the water, the meinsail
boom swung violently across tno deck.
Smashl and over into the fathomless
deep went that precious anemome-
ter.
"orderly," called the officer of the
deck.
"Yes, sir?" replied bluejacket,
saluting.
'Inform the commander of the ship
that his thermometer has gone over
board"
Eyes, SIR" The orderly made for
the cabin companionway.
"And, orderly"
eyes, sir?"
'Break it to him gently. WASH
ington Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31
RELIGION AMONG OUR FIGHTERS.
Requests For Prayers Received at Camp
Meetings From Soldiers and Sailors.

Requests For Prayers Received at Camp
Meetings From Soldiers and Sailors.
Features of camp meetings in Penn
sylvania this year are prayers for SOL
diers at the front and letters from
soldiers on religious matters. At
Joana Heights one elderly woman
said she had letter from her son at
Siboney, Cuba, saying that he was so
tired in the trenches just before the
surrender of Santiago that he forgot
to pray. He asked for the prayers of
those at home, and suggested that
during the present season people all
over the United States worshiping in
church or in woods, should pray for
the boys, as during the stormy war
scenes the lads were too apt to forget
their religious duty.
In the Mennonite camp meeting in
the Schuylkill Valley one woman said:
81 have letter from my nephew in
Santiago. He says his thoughts are
frequently on camp meetings now,
where he knows we are now" An
other woman had letter from her
grandson with SIMPSONS fleet. He,
said his comrades were all religious,
and had services on the battleship,
Massachusetts,. "We have SERVICE" :"
he said, ''but it is not the dear old
camp meeting hymns, praise, sermons,
prayers, experiences, revivals and
happy conversions that made us all so
joyful last year. This season I shall
miss our camp meetings very much.''
At the Landisville camp meeting
several letters were shown privately
to friends from absent soldiers, who
deeply regretted they were not home
at camp meeting. All priced tho
Christian services on shipboard, but
anything like Methodist revival SER
vices could not be expected among the
fighters of the battleships, they said.
However, they added, the service
kept men in line to think of their re-
ligion and church at home.
One soldier on the heights of Ell
Caney wrote to his mother at the
Adamstown camp meeting to the effect
that quite squad of regulars after
the surrender got together at night
and sang "Nearer My God to Thee"
"Praiso God From Whom All Bless
Jugs Flow" and other hymns after the
bands had ceased playing patriotic
airs. Some soldiers could sing only
one stanza, but this was repeated over
and over again. All along the lines
could be heard some such singing.
Very many soldiers, it was reported in
the camp meetings, attributed all the
American victories on sen and land tn
the Lord. One letter shown by SOL
dier's sister read: "Of course, we say
the Lords prayer, especially where it
says. Lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31
Wide Tire Experience.

I have used set of steel wheels
two oyears, writes j. Z. Hollar, and they
proved success, as they never roll
the mud as the narrow tire with
wooden felloes and spokes, and think
Missouri mud will roll if it will any
where. I used them anywhere and
everywhere, hard roads, dusty roads,
in deep mud, and in soft. Deep mud
is where / found their advantage over
narrow tires the greatest, and i'll
handling and loading anything and
everything they are better by great
deal than narrow tires.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31
THE Esquiman Caryer,s Art.

The Esquimau carver possessed of
the most notable skill and showing
the most distinct artistic spirit is the
Esquimau of Western and Southwest
ern Alaska. In Eastern Alaska it is
notable that the few examples of cary.
ing to be found are limited to crude
ornamentation of lines and perfora.
tions. The Esquimau of the east and
the Esquimau of the extreme north
rarely or never attempts graphic
representations. The most skillful
carvers are found among the Kaniaks.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31
The Warfare Against Ruts.

If every man will see that the road
in his vicinity is fixed the rest will be
easily cared for.
So long as wagons abuse highways
by cutting them uP with narrow tires
so long ought all such vehicles to pay
tire tax for the privilege.
"If poor roads are good enough, "
asks the Hope Valley (R. ~ Ahver-
tiser, "who can say at what degree of
poorness it is best to maintain them?"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31

The Baltimore American says: "The
effort to introduce foreign quail into
this country has apparently provea o
complete failure. Several years ago
sportsmen through this country were
deeply interested in the attempt made
in this state to propagate quail from
other countries, Many birds were
imported into this city, and then Hber.
ated throughout the state. These
have apparently all disappeared. The
most conspicuous attempts were trans,
porting here of birds from the Scilly
Isands and from China. The money
spent in this direction was a loss.
The last attempt on an elaborate scale
to stock Maryland with exotic birds
was by Frank I. Redwood, the stock
broker and member of the Baltimore
Yacht club, and hunt for his birds
reveals the fact that none of them are
to be found"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31
Live Up to the Specifications.

Specifications and contract for road
may be all right, but the work Of
construction needs to be constantly
watched in order to insure the literal
carrying out of their provisions. Con-
tractors, as a rule, do not appreciate
the necessity for being precise in fol-
lowing out details. They are neither
engineers nor scientific road builders,
and little variation in the size of the
stone, the effect of light rollers and
insufficient rolling, or the use of clay
for binding purposes, does not seem
to them to be of much moment. They
know that they can finish up job
with householder and plenty of clay
for binding and make the surface ap-
pear as fine as can be desired. There
their concern ends. The mud that
works out with every rain and the rap
idity with which large stones show
through the surface do not trouble
them.
Macadam is not perhaps an ideal
road, but there is a vast difference be-
tween different sorts of road built
under that name. If rightly construct
ed and judiciously maintained, thor
oughly satisfactory results are assured;
but if more or less crudely built, and
then indifferently maintained OF neg
lected, as is apt to be the case, it is
an expensive luxury likely to cause
disappointment. 1t is folly TO suppose
that anyone can build road. It re-
quires special knowledge and expert
ence to construct one properly and a
rigid adherence to the terms of prop
erly-drawn specifications. L. A. w.
Bulletin,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31
Whnt ShOnld BE Taxed.

Some years since (1873) a citizen of
Tennessee, Mr.. Enoch Ensley, MAX
ing no pretense of scholastic learning
or private interests, but earnestly de-
string the material development of his
section of the country (Tennessee),
and that it should not be retarded by
the adoption of an unsound system of
State or municipal taxation, published
in the form of letter addressed to
the Governor of the State little
pamphlet entitled "What Should Be
Taxed" which sets forth certain fun
damental propositions IN respect to
local taxation, and supported them
with such homely and clear illustra,
tions rs to entitle the essay to a per.
manent place in economic and legal
literature.
Mr.. Ensley commences BY propos,
ing the following rule of maxim as the
basis for State (Tennessee), city, or
county system of taxation:
Never tax anything that would be
of value to your State, that could and
would run away, or that could or
would come to you" - Appletons'
Popular Science Monthly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31
Ali Else FORGIVEN,

One of our lively citizens, Mr.. Sums
NIT Parker, returned recently from
the Adirondacks. No sooner had he
arrived than he discovered that he
had brought away the key of his room
in the hotel. He despatched it at
once to the proprietor of the hotel,
saying that apologies would follow
later in larger envelope. This morn
ing he received the following ac-
knowledgment from his host:
DEAR PARKER: Key returned in
good condition. Never mind the
spoons and napkins. NILES.
Mr.. Summit Parker is deyoting all
his spare minutes to reading and re-
reading this brief letter. Utica OBJ
server.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31
GOOD ROADS NOTES,
Weight of Road Rollers.

Weight of Road Rollers.
There are sections Of the country
which pride themselves on their mac
adam roads, but which fail to con-
struct them in scientific manner,
and do not get the results that should
follow such heavy expenditures as
they make. One serious fault is the
lack of proper rolling, light rollers
drawn by two or four horses being
employed. They cannot compact the
stone by such methods, and, conse-
quently, resort to free use of clay
for binding" purposes. A smooth
surface is secured at the outset, but it
soon wears and ruts, and gets muddy
with every storm.
In considering the best weight for q
roller the Municipal World states the
case fairly, as follows: ga heavy
road roller is without question an in
dispensable implement in the con-
struction of macadam streets. Mac
adam roads were, of course, built be-
fore steam rollers were invented, but
crops were harvested before self-bind-
ers were invented. The effect of a
roller in road making is as great an
advance on the old results as is the
use of the lf-binder on the work of
the cradle.
"There are different kinds and
classes of rollers. The horse roller,
weighing six or eight tons, will do
fairly well if a steam roller cannot be
afforded, but the horse roller is not
sufficiently heavy, and has to be used
much longer on a given section than
heavy steam roller to produce the
best results. The feet of the horses,
in exerting sufficient strength to move
the roller, sink into and disturb the
road metal, and thereby injure the
shape and quality of the roadway.
There is danger, on the other hand,
of having steam rollaE which is too
heavy. Avery heavy roller will some
times sink into loose soil and create
mound over which it cannot pass.
The same result will sometimes occur
with an excessively heavy roller on a
layer of loose stone. The heavy
roller is more liable, too, to injure
"hAOi Sio iouhtt piPon, SatCh-pdoiho, cui-
verts, bridges or disturb sidewalks.
''For these reasons, roller exceed
ing ten or twelve tons in weight is
frequently not desirable. in districts
where the natural soil is gravelly, or
of a stiff clay, a heavy roller may gen.
orally be operated successfully, but
some municipalities have made the
mistake of purchasing too heavy
roller and have found it necessary to
use Lighthouse roller in consolidat-
ing the sub-soil and first layers. Nor
if the stone used in the construction
of macadam streets is of soft nature,
is heavy roller, say of twenty tons,
desirable even in the finishing courses,
as the crushing effect has been found
in some cases to crumble and pulver-
ize the stone. rather than merely con-
solidate it.
''For new work, in which the dirt
foundation must be rolled, weight
of twelve tons is generally the most
serviceable; but for picking up an old
roadway and reconsolidating it or for
finishing a new work, fifteen tons is
better. Where town owns only one
roller it is generally advisable to con-
slider very carefully the work to be
done before purchasing roller Of
over twelve tons weight"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31

The Berlin Germany Reichsanzei,
ger has published an official statement
of the finances of the kingdom OF
Prussia which is of great interest in
many ways, 1t shows Prussia to be the
most prosperous industrial state il
the world, and explains how it is able
to meet the heavy charges imposed
by the political and military situation
OF Germany. With a population OF
about 32, 600, 600, the public debt Of
Prussia is rather more than $50 PEI
capita, or about $1,625, 600, 900. II
has been increased by $3.50, 600, 900 in
The last six years, but of this amount
only about S25, 900, 900 was expended
on unproductiye work. The cost to
the state of the whole debt is only
S55, 600, 900 year, while the net rev.
enue received from the public works
and state properties is over $135, 600,
200. The net revenue of the RAILWAYS
belonging to the state, which in 1880
81 was only $23, 900, 600 during past
years has averaged close on SIS. 900.
300, and for 1S9S-90 is estimated at
Sl09, 800, 600. The state domains anG
forests yield an average Of Sl2, 500, 900.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31

Many an American boy, as he reads
of the delirious feminine illusions on
Hobson - kisser, dancer srA best
man and the extrayagaut mascu.
line paneyyrics on Hobson - man
of courage, good habits and brains
looks at himself in glass
and wonders if he possesses any
of the attributes of embryonic great.
ness, if he ever will have a chance to
sink Merrimac, if he will be the
idol of all the people. without such
ideals as Hobson to look up to ou,
youth would degenerate into very
leprosy OF eGeminacy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31

The officers of the Philadelphia
Museum have received letter from
New South Wales, in which it is said !;
"When the federation of the Austral
ian colonies shall have been accom-.
plished English and American dealers
will commence to build large factories
in and near Sydney, Several large
firms have already arranged for them. "
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31

The formation and title of the Ig-
norance club of Rochester, n. Y,
was suggested by magazine article
which related the experience of man
who had a habit of jotting down in
his notebook such topics as he found
himself ignorant of, the desired in.
formation being sought at the earliest
opportunity.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31

The plant known as the vervain,
common name OF plants of the genus
verbena, which is not distinguished
tor its beauty, and which grows how.
adays utterly disregarded, Was SC
sacred to the Druids that they only
gathered it for their divinations when
the great dog star arose, in order that
neither sun OF moon should see the
deed.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31

A new anl widening feature in
library WORK has been introduced in
the public library of Cleveland and in
The Cambridge Mass. public library,
1t is that Of looking up references
needed by members of various literary
societies Or clubs, and systematizine
the same by cards In Cleveland
clubs deposit their programs for the
years work with the woman in charge
of this department, whose assistants
look up the subject-matter in advance
thus greatly facilitating the prepare
ton of club papers. The board has
also set apart an alcoye to be knowr
as Club Corner for the special coayen
ience Of club members, men and won
en-. 1t is filed with cases of books
most called for by clubs-histories
travels, etc. TIE same line of work
has been carried ON in CAMBRIDGE il
connection with the Economy club, s
society of about seventy-fye youno
men, who meet once fortnight tc
discuss economic and political ques
tionz. The club issues a prospectus
at the beginning OF each Of its two
terms, giving the subject to be con
Ridered at each meeting, the subjects
Of one or more essays, and the res.
oiutions upon which there will be a
debate. The librarian and his assist.
ants follow this list, and for the two
weeks preceding each meeting keer
n selected list OF books and back mum.
bers of periodicals designed to fur.
nish the information needed on the
subject specially reserved for the
members of the club.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31

Porto Rico means door to riches.
The Spaniards have kept it smut and
locked so long that it may prove
miSnomer
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-31

away, nnu I d Q
days passed slow
ly and with un-
varied monotony
at Kipp, Montana,
our trading post
on the upper Mis-
souri,. The In
dinnS MarR far ont
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-26
Aguinaldo's People.

Is V and by-as Grover Cleveland
~ would put it-President McKin-
ley will have Aguinaldo on his
hands. From the Spanish standpoint,
Aguinaldo is a rebel: from the Ameri-
can point of view, he is a patriot lead
err. He has been keeping his Fillpinos
well In hand. at the behest of Admiral
Dewey. He has been crowding the
Spaniards at Manila, who have been
August, so hard that they are in de-
spair, but he has prevented wholesale
slaughter and spared the property that
is in his pathway or at his mercy.
These revolutionists In the Philip
pines are yet to be reckoned with. They
have declared for independence. they
have set up a government OF their own.
which is quite as firmly grounded and
as well organized as the one on the
island OF Cuba. in the name of which
we went to war with Spain. If this
country Is going to be consistent, II
will find itself obliged to recognize the
government OF which Aguinaldo is the
military representative. Probably, when
Merritt joins Dewey, the two of them
a take Manila. hold II and say a to
TO the claims of the revolutionists, but
that o be in harsh violation of the
motive we proclaimed with reference TO
Cuba. when the war began.
II our purpose is conquest, we must
first take the Philippines from the Span
isrds; hen we must take them from
the F~ilipinos. because their clearly
expressed purpose is TO be independent.
and 1t has not yet entered into their
calculations hat they must resist US
after they have defeated Spain.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-26
To Count the World,

~ ambitious size is the scheme
~ that proposes the taking of the
census OF the world. in the year
1900. On a given day in tina year. ac-
cording to this scheme, the census
takers are to start out for the figuring
up OF all the beings who count one In
making up the aggregate OF the people
OF the earth. The reports. so the plans
run, are TO be sent TO the Swiss city
of Berne. To guide them in their work,
the enumerators will have the estimate
of population made by John Bartholo-
new, +. r. G. s.. OF Edinburgh. who
has figured out that in round numbers
the population Of the world is l.440.-
$50. 600, divided as follows: Indo-Ger-
manic N Arysu. 545, 500. 900; Monaghan
or Turainian. $50. 1000. 900: Negro and
Bantu. $50. 600, 600; Hottentot and Bush.
$50. 900; Malay and Polynesian. S. OO.-
600. and American Indian. I 5000. 600.
The most difficult part OF this un-
dertaklng will be to count the millions
of China and the vast hordes OF saw
ages in the interior OF Africa. How
to prevail upon the fierce tribes of the
Dark Continent to submit TO the count
ing process. when those savages have
resisted all previous efforts of the
white man 10 make friends with them.
the promoters Of the census scheme 80
not say. Neither are they on record
with any explanation of the mean at
their command for overcoming the
~scruples of the half-clvilized races In
the hear of the Chinese empire about
allowing the prying curiosity Uf the