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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16

Parents of growing boys have been
heard to say that there was practically
no limit to the amount of food their
sons could devour. 1t is doubtful,
however, whether one of these parents
could read with any feeling of pleas
ure the account of the boyish expert
ence of Leigh Hunt, the English au-
thor. He was sent to school at Christ's
Hospital in 1892. In his autobiog-
raphy he tells of the schoolboy fare of
that time:
Our breakfast was bread and water.
The bread consisted of the half of a
three-penny loaf, according to the
prices then current. This was not
much for growing boys, who had had
nothing to eat from six or seven o'clock
the preceding evening.
For dinner we ha9 The same guam
tity of bread, with meat only every
other day, and thai consisting of
small slice, such as would be given to
child three or four years old. Yet
even that, with all our hunger, we
were very often left half eaten-the
meat was so tough.
On the other days we had milk
porridge, ludicrously thin; or rice
milk, which is better. There was no
vegetables or puddings. Once a month
we had roast beef; and twicc year Il
blush to think of the eagerness with
which it was looked forD dinner of
pork. One was roast, and the other
was boiled; and on the latter occasion
we had our only pudding, which was
of peas.
For supper we had a like piece of
bread, with butter or cheese; and
then to bed, with what appetite we
might. Youths Companion,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16

During the afternoon of the recent
snowstorm young woman of Phila-
delphia dressed in the height of fashion,
started to walk down Chestnut street
under the protection of an umbrella.
At the time the snow was coming down
IN soft clinging flakes, and the UNI
brella's surface was soon covered with
white coat. The young lady stopped
IN the course of her promenade to adj
mire a beautiful window display of
art ware, and while standing there at
tracted the attention of q group of
young men, among whom was the prac-
tical joker. He reached over and with
the tip of his finger lightly traced on
the snow covered umbrella the words
kiss Me-"
The owner Of the umbrella, all un-
conscious of the fact that she was the
object of much attention, walked
slowly on down the street. Several
rude young men, who saw the inscrip-
ton on the umbrella, peered rather
boldly at the pretty face beneath 1t as
they pushed by. This annoyed her SO
much that she suddenly closed her
umbrella and took refuge in store,
still unable to even guess what people
were smiling at.-Philadelphia Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16

All farmers know that of the three
chemical elements of the soil neces.
sary to plant growth, potash and
phospholic acid ara the most expen.
sive to obtain. The average soil con.
tains considerable quantities of each
in an inert form requiring nitrogen to
liberate it and make it available as
plant food. For this reason farmers
use legumes, mainly peas and crimson
clover, as the cheapest way of obtain
ing the needed nitrogen. When pot
ash, the most expensive of the chemi-
Gals, must be purchased the muriate
is cheaper than the sulphate and quite
as satisfactory. On most crops,
especially grains and fruits, one part
of muriate of potash and three parts
of bone meal will give good results,
increasing the bone meal two or three
parts if 1t be used exclusively for
grain crops. In lands where phos-
phoric acid is deficient, as it generally
is where dairying is the chief in
dustry, the formula of bone meal and
muriate of potash applied at the rate
of from $50 to 500 pounds to the acre,
using unleached stable manure to OBJ
tain the required nitrogen, will bring
the soil up to the normal condition
nuickly
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16

That is matter for experiment; tns
presence of decaying vegetation is u
necessity-the foundation stone O.
good farming and the saviour of soil
fertility for all farmers engaged in pro.
ducing the ow-priced staple crops of
this country.
While stable manure adds the three
elements needed by soils, and clover
adds nitrogen, yet much of the value
of these two great fertilizers consists
in the effect of the large body of or
ganic matter fermenting and remain
ing in the soil. While bringing plant
food directly, they have an equally
great value, probably, to worn soils in
other ways.-New York Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16

Snakes vary greatly in color, some
being very beautiful, and in many
cases their coloration is highly pro-
tective, green snakes occurring among
a luxuriant vegetation, while gray
snakes generally frequent rocky dis
tricts. The skin, which consists OF a
coat of scales, formed from the epi-
dermis and generally overlapping
each other. is shed during the sum
mer months. The eyes have no lids,
being covered with delicate film or
membrane, giving to them that stony
glare with which we are more or less
familiar. The poisonous snake has a
large fiat head and a short, thick
body, and as rule possesses verti-
cal keel along the centre of the scales.
while the n-poisonous snakes have
small heads, long bodies and no keel
on the scales.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16
TO TELL HARMLESS SNAKES.
How the Poisonous Reptiles Inject TheiI
Venom Into the Flesh.

Harmless snakes generally have
two rows of teeth in the upper jaw
and one in the lower, these teeth
being slender, sharp, comparatively
short, and not set in sockets, as these
animals do not tear or mutilate their
food. The teeth are simply used as
hooks by which the foods drawn into
the snakes throat. The bones of the
jaw being movably joined together,
the teeth are advanced on one side,
securing hold on the prey, and then
on the other side, in which way the
swallowing is accomplished. Poison
Gus snakes have two long, sharp
fangs which appear to be fattened out
like knife blade and then bent up,
forming a groove, in some cases
forming a closed tube, open, however,
at both ends, the upper end OF which
is fastened to bone in the cheek,
which moves with ease, SO that the
fangs when not in use can be folded
or packed away. The saliva of oil
ANIMALS. even man, contains poison;
though in man it is greatly diluted and
of use in assisting digestion. In the
poisonous snakes it is collected into
sacs or glands placed on each side of
the upper jaw, says the New York
Sun. A delicate canal extends from
the poison gland forward under the
eye to the edge of the jaw and there
opens into the fang, and to use the
poison the snake has but to strike the
prey; as the fangs enter the flesh the
muscles of the jaw press upon the
poison glands, squeeze the poison
through the little canal down through
the hollow of the poison fang in the
wound. There is most ingenious
arrangement in the fang. The open
ing is not at the very tip, where it
would be liable to get plugged up with
skin and flesh, but it is little way
up in front of the groove, SO that the
sharp point goes in first and makes a
little hole into which the poison flows.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16

The inroads that women are max
ing on those professions and indus
tries that few years ago were filled
more or less exclusively by men offer
an interesting problem to the sociolo-
gist. The puzzling question is: What
did the elder sisters of these women
do? Girls are now employed as sales
women in many stores that few years
ago were served entirely by men and
women have even intruded the edito-
rial sanctum and read their illusions
in other parts of the paper than on
the "Woman's Page" The law, med
icine, and even architecture offer new
avenues for woman's endeavor. lie
Figaro of Paris is astounded at this
state of affairs in the United States,
ard says that the day is not
far off when all positions save those
of the most arduous toll will be filled
by women. Possibly the most aston,
ishing part of some statistics recently
published on the subject has refer.
ence to women accountants and secre-
taries of firms and companies. There
were none, it is said, in 1870; there
are now AZ, OIL. OF doctors and sur.
geons, there are $3.50, compared tc
527 ten years ago; and of women
writer's, 1853, compared to 159. AS
for women stenographers and compos.
itors, they numbered 7 in 1870. The
number today is $4,000.
Don't tender advice until you find
out what particular kind is wanted.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16

Spain's protests, complaints and
lamentations have pervaded the whole
course Of the negotiations with a per-
sistency which curiously illustrates
her utter misconception of her own
defeat, says the New York CONNER
cial Advertiser. She bows to our su-
perior force, but deems it a cruel in
fiction; she disdains our greed, yet
takes our money; she looks upon us
as n conqueror without that nice re-
gard for Spanish honor, which, for
sooth, anyone familiar with its his
tory ought to have, and manifestly
suffers from wounded self-love which
refuses to be healed. So does the
man who fails in business or cannot
otherwise gain the respect and consid
sration for the lack of which he suf
fers. To him the MORTGAGE or bond
holder or successful business rival art
offenders against whom he bears
personal grudge. They have feeceC
him, dishonored him, ruined him
That is the way Spain looks at it, no
being aware, evidently, that her owl
sloth and corruption have put her on
OF the race of nations.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16
Washing Dairy Utensils.

Most people are so used to seeing
the superior effects of hot water in
taking dirt off the hands or face or
from clothes, that it is quite natural
for them to suppose it is also best with
milk vessels also. We have often seen
housekeepers put scalding-hot water
into tin or wooden pals or pans where
some milk clung to the sides. OF
course the hot water curdled the milk,
as it probably expelled most of the air
from this curd; so soon as it cooled it
would adhere with pressure of fifteen
pounds OF something less to the sides
OF the tin or wooden vessel. The truth
is that cold water with little soda in
it is much better to wash out dairy
utensils than hot water is. The latter
may be used after all the milk has
been removed, and then it should be
applied hot enough to kill all the germs
that adhere to the sides of the dish.
The soda, being alkaline, is rather
preservative than destructive of germs,
especially when the germs come in
contact with grease. Every housewife
knows how hard it is to clean dirty
and greasy dishrag. Only putting it
repeatedly in boiling hot water will do
it.
Many who keep dairy utensils COM
paratively clean in hot weather fail as
fall and winter, with colder tempera.
ture, begin. Probably they take more
pains to clean dairy utensils in hot
weather, thinking that the danger from
spread of bacteria is greatest. If they
mean only that in hot weather the
bacteria will, if let alone, increase
fastest, their reasoning is correct. But
it leaves out of account the fact that il
the least Dit of milk curd is left on
dairy Utensils the bacteria will increase
in it by millions in few hours. And
they should remember that while in
hot weather it is very easy to clean
vessels that have contained milk, III
cold weather it is extremely difficult.
The curd cools slowly in hot weather,
and if the cloth or brush is applied to
it it is until it is cooled very easily
removed. But as the weather grows
colder the air pressure, causing it to
adhere to whatever it is applied to,
becomes Immediately operative to pre-
vent it from being taken off by the
first application. So it has to be
scrubbed until, if the same cloth is
used, enough OF curd aheres in the last
rubbing the dish gets to start new
brood of bacteria.
Wherever wooden vessels las the
old-fashioned churn) are used, the al.
formation of hot and cold water is
pretty sure to make cracks in the
wood. Here curd finds a lodgment
and bacteria multiply without limit.
No such churn can produce the best
butter, especially in winter when it is
more difficult to clean it than it is dur
ing summer. Most of the poor fall
and winter butter might be made much
better if entirely new pals, pans and
churns were procured and always kept
scrupulously clean. The patented
paper pals and pans with glazed sur
faces, but not painted, except on the
outside, are best for milking in and
for keeping milk while the cream rises.
1t is the oil in cream that makes it so
tenaciously adhere when combined
with curd to the sides of pans and ves-
sells. The oil makes smooth adher-
ing surface, aud air pressure does the
rest.-American Cultivator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16
Miniature Oxen.

The sacred oxen of Ceylon are de-
scribed by recent writer. The
largest specimen never exceeds thirty
inches in height. The Marquis of
Canterbury has one presented to him
in 1891, which is now about ten years
of age, and only ten inches tall. Not
withstanding their smallness they are
very useful in Ceylon, where, it is
said, four of them are able to draw a
two-wheeled cart with driver and
200 pounds of merchandise, sixty or
seventy miles in day.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16
Do 1t Again, Please?

The story is familiar of the littls
girl who, while in charge of an infant
brother, saw cyclist "cropper''
heavily from his high bicycle, and ap-
preached him as he sat on the ground,
wondering if he were still in this
world, and said: "Please, sir, will you
do that again? Billy didn't see yer. "
A parallel to this yarn comes from the
Irish Cyclist, which says that an old
farmer quietly watched a wheelman
lose control of his mount and go over
wall, machine and all, and then re-.
marked: "Well, well; and so they can
make them leap now. London Tele-
graph.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16

A correspondent of the London
Daily News notes the growth of the
use of English on the continent
Wherever he went he was able to con-
verse with statesmen and diplomatists
in his native tongue. He found that
as rule the governing classes in Eu-
rope woul. understand and speak
English. In the Russian royal fami-
ly especially, English is the familiar
language of conversation. The czar,
for instance, invariably speaks Eng
lish to the czarina and his little daugh.
ters,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16

On European railways the practice
of issuing free transportation is al
most unknown. In England there is
an interchange of passes between the
chief officials of the road, but only to
very limited extent. On the CONT
nent of Europe even this practice
does not prevail and cash payments
are required for all forms of railway
transportation.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16

Among the most wonderful mon
sters of the Age of Reptiles was the
ichthyosaurus, or "fish lizard" Last
summer very perfect specimen was
uncovered in IL quarry at Stockton in
Warwickshire, England. The creature
is twenty feet in length, its head alone
being almost four feet loug. The
ichthyosaurus possessed gigantic eyes,
whose lenses could be focused at will
for different distances. 1t hunted i!s
prey in the sea.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16
WHEN I WAKE UP IN THE MoRNlN.

~ n n
With soul keyed like fiddle
An memory-maids trppin' a-glidin' asippn
hoodn all heart-house with
Then
Round earthly would
soul all yearnin'. little freely
q t
When
When II mornin',
umber sleep,
heavenly
An golden pnons tested
Lord soul will hutter o
In Il clearer it only o below
An fiery from of m
Will be star-ncense in the Thy glow
morninl
John Trotwood Moore.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16

The New Lutheran Church News,
a religious paper recently started in
Germany mas just been discontinued
for curious reason. It's object was
to defend the doctrine of the verbal
inspiration of the Bible, and in his
valedictory the editor says that he
could not get any contributors to take
that side of the question.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16

n her front garden
under the big will
low sat Mrs. Spread
brow. Behind her
stood the trim cot
tage, and in the
grass, almost at her
feet, gamboled Ed
dy, her youngest
born, and the new
black and white
puppy.
From the gyra-
tons of the two
young creatures on
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16
A Medical Spoon.

Medicine can be measured very
handily by new spoon which has no
handle and is attached to the bottle
by wire bracket clamping the neck
and provided with two rings in which
the spoon is pivoted to retain its posi-.
ton when the bottle is tilted.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16

According to the methods of the
present day militarism, it costs the
powers across the water about $3.50, =
O0o,O year to ''preserve the
peace" of Europe. Peace is a good
thing, but it should be possible one
would think, to find some shorter and
easier road to it than that.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-16

Don't tender advice until you find
out what particular kind Is wanted.
The age-herald., 1899-07-13
COLORADO MINING
Reported in Satisfactory Condition By
 Ex-Governor Grant

Denver, Col, July 12.-The subcommittee of the national industrial commission held a session here today and examined James B. Grant, former governor of Colorado and chairman of the operating committee of the American Smelling and Refining com- pany. He reported the mining industry in Colorado in a satisfactory condition, and said that owing to most ore containing a combination of two or more metals, the output would be very little more silver at 90 cents an ounce than at present.
 MT. Grant said he favored the combina- tons of capital, and regarded concentra- ton as the necessary result of competi- ton. The labor unions, he said, sprang from the same cause as the trusts. He gave his reason for refusing to recognize the union in the present smelter strike, but said he did not oppose union labor as a principle
The age-herald., 1899-07-13
JONES
 WILL NOT RESIGN
Two Letters Received from Him Setting at Rest
 RumOr.

Washington, July 12-The Post tomorrow will say:
 Senator Jones, of Arkansas, will not re- sign his position as chairman of the demo- cratic national committee. This can be stated authoritatively, once for all. Two letters were received from him in this city yesterday in which he not only makes clear his intention of remaining at the head of the committee, but outlines work upon which he intends to engage as soon as he returns to the United States. His letters were dated at towns in Switzerland and re- ported the senator as improving In health. He was then preparing to go to Geneva to spend a week or more, "and," he said, T hope to come home entirely we'll"
 He will reach this country about the first of September, and will spend that month at Like Mountain with his married daugh- ter and will then go to Arkansas, remain ing there until congress convenes. It is not known here whether Senator Jones will send & letter to be read at the meeting of the national committee in Chicago next week. but if he does not the members of the committee will be made acquainted with the contents of the letters which have al- ready been received here.
The age-herald., 1899-07-13
ADMIRAL DEWEY
 HAS REACHED SUEZ The Hero of Manila Bay Ap- pears to Be in ExceI-
 lent Health.

Suez, July 12.-Admiral Dewey, who reached here today on board the Olympia said he was in very good health. He ap- peared to be in excellent condition, which was also the case with his officers and men. Most of them have suffered from malarial fever, but have quite recovered.
 The Olympia has been quarantined no direct communication with the shore being allowed. Consequently the representative here of the Associated Press was only able to converse with the admiral from a launch alongside the cruiser.
 After passing through the canal the Olympia will call at Trieste, Austria. Thereafter the admlral's plans are uncer- tain Possibly he will go to Gibraltar, and thence to New York.
 Later-The Olympia has entered the canal.
The age-herald., 1899-07-13
GIGANTIC COMBINA ATION
Morgan, Vanderbilt and Pennsylvania
 Lines May Be One

A special from New York says that gigantic railway combine, with a capital of s2, ,545 230 ,0o0 is being planned by w. K. Vanderbilt, J. Plerpont Morgan and A. J. Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania lines. The new combination seeks to control all the principal lines between New York and Chicago, and from Chicago westward Tho following roads are reported to be involved in the deal: New York Central, Pennsyl- vania lines, Lake Shore, Michigan Central
 Boston & Albany, Big Four, Northwestern, Omaha, Fremont & Elkhorn. Chesapeake & Ohio, Delaware & Hudson, Southern, Reading, Erie, Lehigh Valley New Haven and Northern Pacific. The total length of these roads is 4O,714 miles. One object which is sought to lSs accomplished is tie stopping of rate cutting. It is suggested taat the roads would be worked in groups. | Jse roads traversing the same section of the country being under one management.
The age-herald., 1899-07-13
MORGAN'S INTERVIEW
 TROUBLED THE WATERS
Bryan Leaders Are Not In Favor of Weak ening on the Free Coinage
 Issue.

The special dispatch from Washington in yesterdays Age-Herald, setting forth an interview with Senator Morgan, dealing with the currency problem, and having ref erence to the sort of man whom the demo- crats should nominate next year for presi- dent, troubled the waters nightly here in Birmingham.
 It was a sensation startling and amaz- ing.
 No newspaper publication of the year was more generally dicussed by politicians, and opinions regarding it were widely di- yergent, according to individual opinion
 It was held by the ardent Bryan men that Senator Morgan had, in effect, given a back-handed blow at the famous Me- braskan. This view was very pleasing to democrats who question the wisdom of Bryans renomination next year. Some men who are intensely Bryan and free coinage in their sympathies, and who at the same time love and reverence the illus trious senator, felt personally wounded Why so, was question In most instances unanswered to reporters whose duty 1t was lo ascertain the drift of public opinion.
 Many men of high position in the demo- cratic party declined outright and in most positive terms to be interviewed, or to per- mt their names to be used In connection with any public reference to the Morgan interview,
 II am always glad to see you, person. ally, but have no word to say to you for publication at this time," declared a dis tnguished leader of the state democracy to reporter for The e-Herald. "I shall not talk now-1 shall wait day or two," he said, with apparent feeling. There could be no doubt that he was grieved by the language attributed to Senator Morgan.
 Did Not Believe He Said It
 q do not believe Morgan said it." was the emphatic response of another demo- cratic leader, whose name is familiar in all of the sixty-six counties. Morgan will be here in day or two and when hear from his own lips the practical repeti- ton or that interview, I'll believe he said 1t, and will myself have something to say, All my life have been a Morgan man all the time loved him. decline now to speak word of criticism of him until I know whether the interview referred to Is au- thentlc. And must ask you in common frankness and sincerity not to use my name in the matter until I authorize you 10 do so on some other day
 These remarks are recognized to be not of the best value as news because names cannot be used at the moment; but they are of actual value as demonstrating in
The age-herald., 1899-07-13
University Athletics

Southampton, July 12-The members of the athletic teams of Yale and Harvard un- iversities, who arrived by the American liner steamer St. Louis, are in excellent health. There was a busy scene on the Southampton dock when they disembarked They were greeted by the United States consul, John E. Hopely, and a number of personal friends. The teams proceeded as quickly as possible to the hotel where they are to remain for the night Early tomor- row morning they will leave for their train ing quarters at Brighton.