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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20
Experiments With Fruit.

One of the great needs of modern
horticulture is to produce seedless
fruits, such as currants, raspberries,
grapes, apples, and even cherries, and
thornless raspberry vines, gooseberry
bushes, blackberries and so on.
Through years of careful selection we
have already accomplished much in
this direction. 1t is possible that in
the future we will succeed in doing
way with most of the seeds, pits and
thorns of many of our standard fruits.
There are seedless currants and grapes
and oranges produced now, and they
are either the result of accident or
careful culture and selection. These
few successes indicate what may be
accomplished in this line.
The point of interest to horticultur-
lists, no matter how poor one is, is
that very interesting experiments can
be carried on as side issue to the
regular commercial orcharding. One
could devote few square rods of soil
to this work, and year after year, by
selecting for culture the plants that
produce the fruits with the smallest
and least number OF seeds or thorns,
whichever the case may be, we might
succeed in helping along a mighty
movement. Undoubtedly the trend
of horticulture is to improve fruits in
all ways possible, and one way is to
eliminate disagreeable seeds and
thorns. Accidentally one might in
time produce seedless or thornless
variety of fruit that would make his
fortune. But that is only incidental
to the main object. 1t should be ones
willing gift to posterity and humanity
to experiment little each year to
produce thornless blackberry and
raspberry vines and gooseberry
bushes, and seedless grapes, currants
and similar fruits. We have many
such seedless fruits now, but, as a
rule, the quality of the fruit is in
ferior. We need good quality of
fruits along with seedless ones.-S.
W. Chambers, in American Guilt
vator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

1t requires considerable amount of
philosophy, when one is shivering with
cold, to take comfort from the fact
that this is natures own method of
keeping US warm. Shivering is really
a form OF exercise in which the mus
cles instead Of doing their ordinary
work under the control of the will are
made to execute involuntarily a series
of slight but rapid contractions This
has tho same effect as any other kind
of muscular work in making the fires
of the body burn more rapidly and
throw out a greater heat. The unpleas-
antness of the process is meant, no
doubt, as hint to the owner OF the
body to take more effective means of
warming himself
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

filed nor become the home Of variety
of animal life.
Let the spring be cleaned out care
fully; then let either square or cir
cular wall of brick or stone be laid
up in cement, pipe being inserted
for outlet, as shown. A closely fitting
cover completes the improvement.
By this plan supply of water can be
accumulated for stock by simply clos
ing the outlet until the tank becomes
full. Otherwise the stock might
have to wait long time in turn for a
chance to drink. A walled and cov-
cred spring will also be found much
cooler in hot weather than the one
that exists in a natural state.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20
How Gold Field Was Discovered.

A novel way of discovering gold
field was recounted by the Hon. E. H.
Wittenoom, Agent General for West
ern Australia, in his lecture at a
meeting of the Royal Colonial In
stitute, held at the Whitehall rooms
last night, under the presidency of the
Earl of Onslow. In 1888 the Mallina
gold field was discovered by a lad in
this wise: The boy, in picking up a
stone to throw at crow, observed o
speck of gold in it, and reported it to
the nearest resident magistrate. The
magistrate was so excited at the news
that he telegraphed to the then Gov
ernor, and stated that lad picked up
stone to throw at crow, in his ex-
citement emitting to say, land saw
gold in it," SO the Governor wired
back these words, "What happened to
the crow?"-London Telegraph.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

So injurious is life on a torpedo boat
that years continuous service will
mentally and physically incapacitate q
man. This assertion is made on the
authority Of Lord Charles Beresford.
but that the strain on any one serving
on these craft is very great is shown by
the fact that to one months service
the British naval regulations allow one
week off. Austria is endeavoring to
mitigate the hardship of service on
these boats, and life on one built for
the Austrian navy and tried on the
Thames recently was demonstrated tc
be pleasanter than on those of tas
English navy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20
Man Not Always Flesh Eating Anima

Man Not Always n Flesh Eating Animal.
Primitive man originally subsisted
on diet consisting purely of fruits
and roots; but though fructivorous by
instinct and by reason of the con-
formation of his digestive organs and
dental system, in which respect he is
nearly allied to the apes, which are
all fruit-eating animals in their natural
state, he soon became omnivorous
from necessity, and his stomach
readily adapted itself to every kind Of
food.
If the Darwinian theory be accepted
and the descent of man from simian
ancestors be granted, we have further
argument in support of the fact that
aesh-eating was the outcome of civil
ization and climatic necessity rather
than of natural craving. Exposed at
the epoch of the great extension of the
glaciers, which at one time covered
all our mou1tains, to the hardships Of
an inclement climate, man required
something more nourishing and heat
supplying than the vegetable diet
which sufficed for him in higher
temperature; and in the paleolithic
age We find him not only destroying
animal life, but provided with and
utilizing the means of cooking the
victims of his rough-hewn knife and
spear.-Medical Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

According to the Boston Transcript,
it was a woman who was the means
of having a definite day in the year set
apart for the national observance of
Thanksgiving. Mrs. Sarah Josepha
Hale, Boston woman. and editor of
the first woman's magazine published
in this country, worked for twenty
years to accomplish this end. Time did
not daunt her courage. but rather in
creased her insistence. She wrote to
governors of states and to presidents
of the United States. At last Presi-
dent Lincoln adopted her suggestion
in 1864, when there was reason to re-
joice over the success of the North In
restoring the union
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20
AGRICULTURAL.
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Tomatoes in Peat and Ashes.

At the recent horticultural exhibit
IN Hartford, Conn, some excellent
tomatoes were shown by the New
Haven Experiment Station, which had
been grown in soil of coal ashes and
peat. This rather unpromising mix
ture proved especially suited to green
house conditions, where plenty of
heat and moisture are supplied.
Tomatoes were finer thus grown than
those in the same exhibit grown in
ordinary soil. The object in using
this mixture is to discourage the
growth of the minute worms which
cause root gals and weaken the
tomato plants.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20
A $500 RATS NEST,
The Government VIII Now Restore 1t to
the Disco yerer.

the Disco verer.
An interesting story about five
United States Treasury notes that
were found by John Veeley, carpen-
ter, more than thirty years ago in an
old box car in Louisville, Ky, was
revived when a bill for his relief,
which has been pending in Congress
for years, and which had already
passed the Senate, passed the House.
1t thus becomes law, and Veeley
will get good American dollars to the
amount of $500, and interest, in the
way of gift from Uncle Sam. The
bill was called up by Representative
Zenor, of Indiana. : 1t was first intro
duced in the Senate during the Fifty
first Congress on April %, 1890, and
referred to the Committee on Claims.
Senator Turpie secured its passage
in the upper house May II, 1897.
1t is in the reports of the Committee
on Claims that the story of the Treas
ury notes is told. According to these
reports John Veeley was, on Septem-
Der 30, 1868, employed in Louisville,
Ky, as carpenter, by the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad Company, and
while tearing out the end of an old
box car which was under repair, he
found five United States Treasury
notes. payable to bearer, of $100 each.
The notes were somewhat mutilated
and appeared to have formed part OF a
rats nest, but there appears to have
been no difficulty in determining
their character, their denomination
and date, and the issue and series to
which each belonged. Veeley took
the notes to the Louisville Custom
House, and they were forwarded to
the Treasury Department for redemp-
ton, but the Depar cment refused to
redeem them, and. with the approval
Of the Secretary, they were returned
to him in February, 1869. He then
sold them to one Julius Wellman, a
broker, for $500.
In March, 1869, Wellman sent them
again to the Treasury Department,
and the matter was referred to the
First Controller, who decided that
they should neither be redeemed nor
returned to Wellman. Wellman then
made demand upon Veeley for the
return of the purchase money, and it
is alleged that an officer was sent to
intimidate him and force settlement.
Veeley had in the mean time disposed
of the $500, and, being dependent on
his daily labor, it was not easy to re-
fund the money, but he at length did
so by installments, and whatever
rights were acquired by the original
finding were revived in him by the
repayment.
veeley subsequently renewed his
efforts to secure payment from the
Treasury Department, but the request
was denied, and the notes still re-
mained in the hands of the Treas
urer.
Senator Turpie's bill, as amended
by the Senate Committee on Claims,
directs the Secretary of the Treasury
to pay Veeley the value of tho five
Treasury notes found by Veeley.
This bill was favorably reported by
the committee on March 81, 1897, and
was passed on May II, 1897. 1t was
introduced in the House three days
later, and final action was taken.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

By the courtesy of Captain Starnes,
the Nugget representative was shown
through the clean, airy and warm Jail.
The cleanly appearance of the prison.
srs, even to the five condemned, is
most commendable. Hardly is the
new Jail completed when every cell and
passage is occupied by Dawson s grow
ing criminal element. and an addition
of 24xS0 feet is to be built on the end
at once. e.-Klondike Nugget.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20
A Giant Fan.

Garswood, England, has a ventilat.
ing engine that can sdispose of 500, 900
cubic feet of air a minute by means of
monster fan. The fan is thirty feet
in diameter and nine feet wide across
the vanes, or paddles. 1t is driven by
ropes from twenty -four-foot fywheel,
and roars like locomotive whirling
through tunnel. The fan is used for
ventilating a colliery, or coal mine,
and it is said to be the largest appli-
ance of its kind in the world.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20
an axle. This may be taken from a,

an axle. This may be taken from an
old grain drill, or elsewhere, and
adapted to the present use. For wheels,
take those of the hay-rake, as a high
wheel makes the flow stronger. The
shafts should be about eight feet long.
They are bolted to the axle, five feet
apart, and fastened securely, that the
rod may not turn. Two pieces Of wood,
three by three inches and three and
one-half feet long, are bolted across
the shafts twelve or fifteen inches
apart, one of them being placed trife
back of the axle, and the other farther
in front of it. The singletree is at
tached to third crosspiece farther
forward. Two more pieces, two by
six inches and two feet long, are bolted
edgewise across the 3x3-inch piece,
two feet apart. These pieces are hol-
lowed out at the top so that barrel
will rest on them securely. Two stop.
cocks are inserted into the barrel op.
posite the bung, and two pieces Of
hose six feet long, terminating in a
fine spray nozzle, attached to them.
The bunghole is turned upward and a
funnel used in filling it. The horse
walks between two rows of potatoes,
the man following and holding nozzle
in each hand above the row, on either
side. When turning at the end of q
row, the hose may be laid across the
barrel to stop the flow. The pressure
of the liquid in the barrel, if we'll ele.
vated, is sufficient to produce a steady
flow, and the jolting CT the machine
will keep the paris green in solution.
With sprayer of this kind one per-
son can easily spray ten acres Of pota-
toes in day.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

Ostrich feathers in their natural
state are white or gray, but ere pass
ing into the hands of the milliner for
use as ornaments they are often dyed
in various colors, and sometimes, if
the curl is not as decided as it should
he, the shape is improved by mechnic-
al treatment. An ostrich will furnish,
it is said, $40 to $50 worth of feathers
every year of different qualities. The
prices vary from 81 to 5000 per pound.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20
Beautx Il nlood Deep.

Clean blood means clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy, Cathar'
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all inn
purities from the body. Begin. to-day to
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads.
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,- for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, l0c, 25c, SOC.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

1t is very commonly the case that
the spring in use upon the farm is lit
tie short Of mudhole, especially if it
is spring 60 which cattle have ac-
cess.
Neatness as we'll as hygienic con-
siderations calls for so improving the
spring that the water cannot be de-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh Thai
Contain Mercury

rs mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole sys-
TEN when entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be used
exceps on prescriptions from reputa BILE physi-
clans, as the damage they will do is ten fold
70 the good you can possibly derive from
them, Halls Catarrh Cure manufactured by
f. D. Cheney d Co, Toledo, o., contains no
mercury and is taken internally. acting di-
rrectly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure
pc sure to get the genuine 1t is taken
internally and Is made in Toledo, Ohio,
by +; J; Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
VI Sold by druggists: price 75c. per bottle
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

Cold and heat alike aggravate neuralgia,
because the nerves feel the cold and heat
senstively, but nerves are sensitive to
treatment and feel the influence OF St.
Jacobs Oil, which cures the ailment
promptly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

Molly-Would you marry rich man
if he was old enough to be your ia
ther? Dolly-No, indeed! 1 wouldn't
think of marrying him unless he was
old enough to be my grandfather
New York Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

1t is certainly true that as deeply imbed-
ded as the sciatic nerve is, st. Jacobs Oil
will get down to 1t and cure It, 1t is Il
proof of how penetrating and eflcacious
are its curative powers.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

Egbert Davidson, a prominent cit
izen of Mecklenburg county, North
Carolina, is on trial in the Federal
Court on a unique charge. A mail
carrier had been stealing his melons
He had stopped the carrier in the
road and whipped him. The carrier
missed the mail connection, and Dav-
idson is being tried for delaying the
mo q -
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

The sprayer illustrated herewith is
Inexpensive and easily made. First,
heavy iron rod about II inches thick
and 81 feet long must be procured for
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

'Eleanor, when we are married, will
vou love me well enough to cook for
me?" Eyes, dear Henry; but you will
have to hire somebody else to do my
Free Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

The word "Sirdar," which has been
SO frequently used since the exploits
of Lord Kitchener. is contraction of
the Arabic words "Sayer ed Oar"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

Ex-senator Call, of Florida, is still
familiar figure in Washington. and,
after the old custom, carries all of his
papers in his high hat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20
Makes the spot vanish.

A slight rap may cause a bruise, or
slight blow n black one, sore and tender.
Bat it is easy to cure bruise by the use OF
st. Jacobs Oil, and make the spot vanish
and the soreness heal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20
Don't Tobacco sDIt and smot, Yovr ur. Ar,,.

Tc quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic. full Of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-
Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong All druggists, soc or 81. Cure guaran.
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

Twenty tax bills in Boston for 1898
bring into the City Treasury $1,367,-
653 36, or nearly 10 per cent of the
whole tax levy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

In Spain Hebrews are not permitter
to erect and maintain houses of wor-
ship. They have no civil rights, and
exist in the kingdom only as aliens.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

Upon their return to this continent
Rudyard kipling and his family will
probably spend the rest of the winter
in Mexico. with John Hays Hammond.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

TIME ills of conspe against domestic harmony
l Some arrangement of the generative organs is
the main of most of the unhappness in the
household
The husband can't understand these troubles. The male
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

Ex-Governor Romoulda Paches, who
died in Oakland, Cal, the other day.
was the first native executive of that
state.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

The Confederate Veterans of Norfolk
propose to erect in that city a monu-
ment to Admiral Franklin Buchanan.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20
Educate Your Bowels with Cascaress.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever
soc, 25c. II Q. @. G. fail, druggists refund money

In Iloilo there is not hotel or a pub
lie conveyance. But travellers are few.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

Have used DR.. Seth Arnold's Cough Killer for
Whooplng Coughwith good results.-D. {. EMP
1876 No. Carey ST., Baltimore, Nd, July IA, 1898.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

Icannot speak too highly Of Piso's Cure for
Consumption. M rs. FRANK MoBDs, 30 w. I'D
St., New York, Oct. 20, 1894.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20
WOMAN,S
PECULIAR
ILLS

these serious ills of women for al
quarter of century. Failure to (
secure proper advice should not
excuse the women of to-day, for +
the wisest counsel can be had -
without charge. Write to Mrs,
Pinkham for it. Her address -AQl
Is Lynn, Mass. aEeH4
Among the multitude of wo- SgHA
men helped by Mrs. Pinkham -HE
and by Lydia E. Pinkham's ~
Vegetable Compound, is Mrs. JOSEPH
KING, Sabina. Ohio. She writes:
"DEAR MRS. PTNKHAM-Will You
kindly allow me the pleasure of ex
pressing my gratitude for the wonder
ful relief have experienced by taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. suffered for a long tim,
with falling of the womb. and thos'
terrible bearing-down pains, and /
seemed as though my back would neve
stop aching; also had leucorrhea. dul
headaches, could not sleep, was veal
and life was burden to me. Idoctore,
for several years, but it did no good
My husband wanted me to try you
medicine, and I am so thankful that
did. have taken four bottles of tn
Compound and box of Liver Pills. an,
can state that if more ladies would onl
fair trial they would bless the day the
ment. My heart is full of gratitude to
her medicine has done for me. 1t is VIC
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

A man walking day and night with
out resting would take 42S days to
to journey round the world.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

No-To- Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weah
men strong. blood pure. SOC, q. All druggists
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

practical and
sympathe e tic.
Mrs. Pinkhan
has been curing
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

Adrian Iselin, Jr, the financier,
never wears an overcoat, which he be-
leves to be cause of, rather than a
protection against, colds.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20
To Cure A Cold in One Day.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund money fit fails to cure. go.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

1t is a felony to run a crap game in
Tennessee under a new law.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20

pHysIClHH UnIy KHoWs Oh tHe1H tHeUIetI-
cally and scientifically, and finds it hard
to cure them.
But there is cure for them. certain,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20
"Better Be Wise
Than Rich. /"

Wise people are also rich
zvhen they kno4v a perfect
remedy for all annoying dis
eases of the blood, kidneys,
ifver and bo1uels. IT is
Hoods Sarsaparilla, which
Is perfect in its action. IT
so regulates the entire sys-
tenn as to bring rigorous
health. IT never disappoints.
Coitre-" For AZ years 1 had goitre. or
.swellings on my neck, which was dis
couragng and troublesome. Rheumatism
also annoyed me. Hoods Sarsaparilla
cured me completely and the swelling has
entirely disappeard. A lady in Michigan
saw my previous testimonial and used
Hoods and was entirely cured OF the same
trouble. She thanked me for recommend
ang it," MRS. ANNA SUTHERLAND, 406 Lovel
Street. Kalamazoo. Mich.
Poor Health Had poor health for
years, pains in shoulders, back and hips
with constant headache, nervousness and
no appetite. Used Hoods Sarsaparilla
gained strength anc can work hard all day;
eat heartily and sleep well. / took 1t be-
cause it helped my husband" MRS
ELIzABErH ]. GIrFELs, Moose Lake, MINI.
Makes Weak Strong-"I would give
S. a bottle for Hoods Sarsaparilla IL
could not get it for less. 1t is the best
spring medicine 1t makes the weak strong"
ALBERT A. JAGNow, Douglastown, N. Y.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20
VIII Get Down To IL.

Ash Wednesday rather appropriately
follows st. Valentine's Day this year.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-20
Hoods Saada6ul&

<AAa4a&.szzlEsSla lasI:ltTEIT
Hoods Pills cure liver ills; nou.irritating and
she only cathartic to take with Hoods Sarsapariiia