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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
Artichokes For Pigs.

Occasionally some one writes en-
Enthusiastically in favor of artichokes for
swine, but the great majority of swine
breeders and feeders do not seem to
be fascinated with this valuable tuber.
The fear of difficulty in getting rid Of
them, after they are once in the ground,
is one cause of this Indifference As
matter of fact there is little danger
of artichokes remaining in the ground,
If hogs have free access. to the field.
They will not leave any to speak of.
1t is not probable that artichokes are
quite all that some writers would have
us believe, but nevertheless, if a swine
feeder once tries them, he will not be
apt to give them up. They seem,to be
just suited to the hogs taste and sys-
TEN, are conducive to the health of the
animal, and in food value, as part OF
the ration, are worthy of high esteem.
Ii pigs are allowed to run on arti-
chokes, and also fed grain, the arti-
chokes will save about two pounds OF
grain for each pound of gain in live
weight. They are an easy, economi-
cal crop to grow. Plant them in rows
three feet apart, cultivate few times,
and then let them and the hogs have
it out togeth ell. The Epitomost.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
Some New PaIindroines.

"Somebody," says The Star of Hope,
the prison paper of Sing Sing, "has
been amusing himself and his pals
i'll the prison with the following back
ward readings, or, rather readings
that backward or forward are precise
ly the same-that is, have all the let
ters and nearly all the entire words:
Name no one man. And the other:
Snug and raw was L ere L saw war
and guns. ,"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

A most remarkable case is com
municated by NJ. Tuffier to the Sur
gical Society of Paris. 1t appears
that young man Of twenty-four years
had been operated upon for supra
tive inflammation of the appendix,
and the operation at once relieved the
condition; on the sixth day, however,
the patient was seized, during the
physician's visit, with an attack OF
cardiac syncope, accompanied by total
arrest of the circulation. The ordi-
nary measures completely failing to
restore respiration, NJ. Tufiier made
an incision in the third intercostal
space, and, coming to the heart, took
hold of the left ventricle with the
thumb and index finger, and sub
jected it to rhythmical compressions.
After few moments circulation reap
peared, and the patient breathed for
two or three minutes, and, the pulse
again becoming imperceptible, a re.
petition was resorted to with the same
result. On third occasion, however,
NJ. Tuffier was unsuccessful, and the
patient succurnbed. An autopsy
discovered n clot in the pulmonary
artery.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
Queer Business Combinations.

Some Chicago men carry on at the
same time two or more different lines
OF business. Sometimes these COM
binations are laughable. Over the
door of store in Wells street is q sign
which announces "Wholesale Popcorn
and School of Magic" In the win
dow of an Office in Madison street is
an announcement that within are to
be had "Books on Love and Poultry
Raising" A South Side humorist has
placard in his basement window
which reads: Lunches Put Up apd
Carpets Put Down. Detroit Free
Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
Keep Young Hogs Growing.

There is an impression among
farmers that hogs in summer at pas
ture can get enough with the swill
from the house and what they can get
in the fields. This was all right, so
long as skim milk, one of the best
foods for growth, was part of the
swill, and uneaten refuse from the ta-
BILE was also thrown in. But in many
places the skinned milk is now sold
in some form, while better use for
table refuse is found in giving it to
the poultry. So the pig is starved in
summer, which is the time he ought
to grow the fastest, and is the poorest
preparation for the heavy corn feed
ing that will begin in September and
continue until the pig is turned over
to the Ducher. A half starved animal
loses the power Of digesting hearty
food, for the stomach, like every
other organ of the body, needs to
have something to do to keep it in
good health and strength.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
The kidnapping of johnny johnson.

The disappearance sixty years ago
Of three-year John Johnson, of
Lower Biddeford, Me-, has been re-
called by the Portland Press. The
little fellow was playing with his
brothers and sisters one afternoon
when suddenly they missed him. All
efforts to find clue to his where
abouts were futile, and finally nearly
every one decided that he had fallen
into the river, though a few believed
that he had been stolen. Thirty or
forty years afterward party of In-
dians camped in Biddeford, and a sis
ter of the missing johnson saw among
them a man she believed to be her long
lost brother. Her parents were also
sure the man, who was called John
Glossian, was their child; but he him
self did not believe, ard the Indians
could not or would not throw any light
on the subject. He had married an
Indian woman and again went away
with them, but later he became con-
vinced that he was not one of them
and came to his family. He now lives
in Hollis on farm.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

When the billboard question was
taken up by the City Council commit
tee it was brought out that one of the
billboard companies is paying out be-
tween 5000, 600 and $500, 900 a year to
the owners Of vacant lots, and that in
many instances the price of the lease
almost pays the taxes on property
which otherwise would not bring in a
penHy's revenue, states the Chicago
Tribune. AS an illustration, one ad-
vertising company is saidto pay $4,000
year for the privilege of erecting
billboards on the vacant lot at Con.
9ress street and Wabash avenue. and
finds money in it even at that rental.
The money paid ont for The use of
brick walls aud for the right to erect
sign boards on the top OF buildings
runs up into the tens Of Thousands of
dollars in Chicago alone.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
The extension Of American ship

The extension Of American ship
ping is of the first Importance to the
South, says the Atlanta Constitution,
because our section is pre-eminently
the field from which the raw material
has to be furnished. Not only is our
staple cropof cotton the most valuable
article of export which the country
has. but our resources of coal, iron
and timber, so necessary to shipping,
are ine1haustible. The rapid growth
of shlp-building, therefore, makes a
market for these raw materials, as
we'll as opening the way for an Amer
ican commercial conquest of tha
world.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
Corrected Himself.

In his earnestness the great populist
rator forgot himself Let us not
wash our party linen in publicr' he
cried passionately. Instantly his au-
dience was upon its feet crying out
angrily. Il should say" faltered the
orator, now, clearly much chagrined,
"let us not sponge our party celluloid
in public" Hereupon there was much
applause, followed by singing by the
glee club.-Detroit Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
The Joke That Failed,


"Haw, haw, haw," laughed the
Englishman. Funniest Joke | ever
heard"
"What is it?" asked the American.
why, man got up one morning
and couldn't find his alarm clock, so
he asked his wife what had become of
it, and she said it had disappeared at
o'clock"
81 don't see anything so very funny
about that"
Don't you? Why-why-neither
do I now. Thought it was awful
funny when heard it, too. L. Oh,
yes, now Iknow. She said it went Of
at 6 o'clock. Haw, haw, haww-
Chicago Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
A ick-WittaJ Rnv

"Want a situation as errand boy,
do you? Well, can you tell me how
far the moon is from the earth, eh ?''
"Well, guv'nor, 1 don't know; but
I reckon it amt near enough to inter
fere with me running errands."
he got the iob.-The Metropolitan.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
The Usual Way,

School Visitor What sad, seri-
Gus and contemplative countenance
that young genius has who stands at
the head of the class"
Pedagogue - "Yes; you see the
Ounce, who stands at the foot, won
all his marbles away from him during
recess. Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
B FARM TOPICS !
washing Milk Pals.

II is always important to wash milk
pals as soon as possible after their
contents are emptied. left to stand
two OF three hours, some of the milk
dries on the wooden pail, and then
the more hot water is put on it the
closer it sticks. Always wash milk
pals first with cold water to remove
the particles of milk, and then scald
with hot water to destroy any germs
that may remain.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
Now She just Hates Him.

Mrs. Younglove (pouting) -
"George, you have been treating me
just as if 1 were a child. Why do
you do it?"
Mr.. Younglove-"I don't know. I
must have been thinking Of something
else. There surely is no reason why
1 should treat you in that way"
Chicago Times Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR.
tAucHTER-PRovoKINc STORIES FOR
LOVERS OF FUN.

hanishing the Bore-Cheapening Ills
Falue-Hard to PIslse-some Satisfac-
ton, Anyhow-A Cheerful Soul-A
Sure Cure-A Natural Inference, Etc.
He used to bore me half to death,
For, every single day,
He'd come round to my office,
And Just stay, and stay, and stay.
lcouldn't seem to shake him,
Though gave most pointed hints,
But lent him half dollar,
And 1 haven't seen him since.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

Willie was running around the
house with flannel shirt in his hands,
peering into closets and looking under
beds and opening bureau drawers.
What on earth are you doing " 18th
that shirt, Willie?" asked his mother.
I'm lookin' for pet moth OF
mine," he replied "I'm goin' to give
him this shirt for breakfast. "-Har.
per's Bazaar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
Sheen Like Wild Pasture.

From my experience in sheep rails
ing, I have come to the conclusion
that the more access fiocks have to the
woodlands the better they will thrive,
while the more they are confined in
narrow pastures where the wild growths
have been exterminated, the more un-
profitable they become. Years ago in
this section when larger area of the
lands was in forests than at the pres
ent time, our sheep raisers let their
hocks run in the woods the year round,
and they did much better than they
do of later years.
There is something peculiar to wild
lands that is necessary to the growth
and healthy condition of the sheep.
They always seek the higher grounds
for repose. Confne them in field
and if you notice, you will invariably
see them lying on the highest point at
night
We are led to believe that there is
an instinct that prompts them to do
this. If they be left to range at will,
they find every nook and corner that
Is classed as commons" and will
pave a clean, thrifty appearance, while
{, they be confined in anything like
lose quarters, they become diseased,
sake on bad appearance, and de-
tease of numbers is the ultimate re-
s:tlt.-Frank Monroe Beverly, in Farm,
Field and Fireside.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL,

A French experimenter suggests
that the X-ray furnishes q ready
means to detect stony impurities in
coal. Carbon is very transparent to
the Roentgen rays, while silica is
Opaque to them. Consequently the
silicates, which form Stag when coal
is burned, can be seen like skeleton
when the shadow of the coal is pro-
jected upon fuorescent screen.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

"Is your father at home?" asked
the caller.
"What is your name, please?" in
quired the little girl.
''Just tell him it is his old friend,
Bill"
"Then L reckon he amt at home.
heard him tell mammaif any bill came
he wasn't at home"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

Veal is very firm.


Mistress Ito cook)-"Your name,
Mary, and my daughters being the
same, makes matters somewhat con-
fusing. Now, how do you like, say,
the name of Bridget?"
Cook-"Shure, mum, it's not me
that's particular. I'm willing to call
the young lady anything you like. -
Tit Bits.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
Eject of Fat on Yield of Cheese.


The result of an experiment made
by j. w. Decker, the instructor in
cheese making at the Wisconsin dairy
school, may surprise many. With six
samples of milk, each weighing 200
pounds, ranging in butter fat from
nothing to five per cent. cheese was
made with the result that the cheese
made one per cent. butter fat milk was
one-third larger than the one made
from the milk containing no butter fat.
That made from two per cent. milk
was still larger and so on to the four
cent which cheese was fully twice as
large as that having no butter fat. The
cheese from five per cent. milk was q
little larger than the four per cent. and
the quality of the cheese improved
with the additional fat in proportion
to the increase in size.
This seems to prove that the same
care should be exercised in taking
milk for cheese as for butter. Milk
with good supply of butter fat is as
essential to the making of good guam
tity OF cheese as for making a good
quantity of butter, and still more es,
sential in its bearings on quality. Milk
with little butter fat will make good
butter, but it will make but little of it,
whereas milk with little butter fat will
not yield heavily in cheese under any
conditions, and it loses in quality
also. This experiment shows pretty
clearly why we are obliged to eat so
much poor cheese or not any at all.
We are eating cheese with but little
natural butter fat in it, and of this the
consumer has rightto complain. An
other important feature of the expert
ment is that the fat must be native to
the milk and not added, in order to
get the results here mentioned.-New
England Homestead.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

sour Henry has been to school for
two years." said his anxious mother,
"and I don't see that he has learned
anything of value"
''Nonsensel" replied the wise
father. ''He thinks he has, and what
more do you expect nowadays?'-
Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
A Cheerful soul,

Creditor (determinedly)-'sI shall
call at your honse every week until
you pay this account, sir"
Debtor-(in the blandest of toues)- -
"Then, sir, there seems to be every
probability of our acqualntanceship
ripening into friendship. Tit Bits.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

"Mrs. Perkins said if we made her
president she would resign from the
club"
"Well?"
'TheE she resigned because she
didn't get but one vote. "-Chicags
Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

Thirty years ago there were only
two dozen explosive compounds known
to chemists; now there are over 1000.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
MR.. PHINEAS MAXWELL,
A Boarding House Romance.

5 her husband
had died and
left her unpro-
vided for Mrs.
H y d e k 1T
boarders. Mrs.
Hyde was a
little, dried up
widow, with a
constitution al
toothache and
a mild, meek
way of taking
Che world as If
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
LOVES GEOGRAPHY.

n II
My kingdom is my sweetheart's face,
And these the boundaries | trace:
Northward-a forehead fair:
Beyond-a wilderness of golden hair;
pretty cheek to east and west,
Her little mouth the sunny south
1t is the south that love best
Her eyes two sparkling lakes,
Held by the stars at night-the sun by day
The dimples in her cheek and chin
Are snares which Love has set,
And have fallen in.
&C. NJ. Seymour in the Criterion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

ITO make a success at this busi-
ness," said the experienced travenng
salesman, there is one particular fea-
ture at which you should strive to be-
come an expert" And what is that?"
anxiously asked the young drummer.
at Is to be able to explain satisfac-
torily to the firm when you come in
off Of bad trip just why you haven't
sold more goods. Ohio Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17
CheapenIng His Value.

Mrs. Youngwife- are awful
dear to me, Harry"
Harry-"Yes, but your habit of
telling others about it makes me feel
very cheap" ."-Richmord Dispatch.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

There is man who is always
looking for trouble"
well, it's easy enough to cure him
of that habit"
"How?"
"Get him put on the police force"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

There were 249, ,145 marriages in
England and Wales last year, moro
than in any year since 1876.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

Major Marchand was the son of
widow, and as such exempt from mill
tary duty. Hi, mother was at first
opposed to the army, and started him
In life as lawyers clerk
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

There are nearly 1000 more miles of
trolleys than there were in 1897. The
total mileage of this country is Is. .672.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

There is probably no place where
the results OF scientific medical treat
ment are more marked than in India,
as the health officials of that country
are constantly making use of the most
recent products of ARCHAEOLOGICAL re-
search in their efforts to combat the
various epidemics. The success of
incubation against the plague that
has recently been taking place in Bonn
bay, has been most pronounced, and
from the statistics that have been col
lected it is quite possible to see the
beneficial effect. In the town OF Hugh
33, 900 people were inoculated with
the Haffkine fluid; while G000 re-
mained uninoculated. In one week
81 deaths occurred among the unin-
oculated, while among those who had
been treated by inoculation there were
but forty-one. The plague always de-
creases with the coming of hot wealth
er, the decline being observed when
the thermometer verges on the nine
ties.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

Il want to get up popular demon
stration," said the Paris agitator.
"When does monsieur desire it?"
tNno IA, AMMAN.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

The San Jose scale was first dis
covered by Professor j. II. Comstock,
near San Jose, CAL, in 1879. 1t has
been found in various parts of the
world, and, while the place of its or
i9in has not yet been ascertained, is
is conjectured to be Japan. Six years
ago it was discovered in the Eastern
States, where it was introduced SIX
years before with some infected plum
trees from California. These plums
were brought over for the purpose of
obtaining an improved fruit which
should be proof against the attacks OF
the plum weevil, and, strangely
enough, this laudable object proved
the means of inficting a much worse
pest on the Eastern States. The scale
has now found it's way into thirty
three States, besides Canada and Brit
ish Columbia.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

I'm very sorry, but monsieur's
rival has engaged the mob for to-mor-
row. But day after tomorrow it will
be disengaged."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

An artificial cork known as phello-
senc has recently heen introduced in
France, and is sal to answer all the
purposes for which this substance is
generally employed. 1t is analogous
to celluloid, and is made of cork bark
ground to fine powder and then
mixed with solution of nitro-cellu-
lose in acetone, forming a doughy
mass which is placed in moulds. It
is compressed and allowed to dry
spontaneously. The new material is
but slightly more combustible than
cork, and contains from ten to twelve
per cent. of nitrocellulose.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

A valuable product, especially for
the color industry, is produced from
the SCOT of the acetylene flames. When
acetylene gas is burned with smok.
ing flame it produces three or four
times as great quantity of SCOT as do
mineral oils. 1t Is very light in
weight, and exhibits an absolutely
black color without tinge of brown,
and has none of the tarry admixtures
or other substances that appear in
lampblack. 1t is also very bulky, and
is admirably adapted for use in India
ink, and the colors of fine inks for
photographic work where positive
black is required. 1t is now being
manufactured in France by a patent
ed process by which almost absolute
purity of color and texture is obtained
at a comparatively small cost.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-17

The Ermak, built on the Tyne to
break the ice and keep the harbor of
Cronstadt open in winter, encountered
foes ten feet thick pear the Island of
Lescon, in the Baltic, and forced her
way through them at speed of two
and half miles an hour. Admiral
Makaroff's ice-breaking steamer is,
perhaps, the right means of getting to
the pole. Nansen found the ice only
ten feet thick, and a vessel plowing
through ice ten or twelve feet thick
might get so near the pole that sledge
parties or men on "skis" or snow
shoes might reach it from her as a
base, even though she did not get
there herself.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-15
KENYON WEST
WRITES
OF PLAYS AND
PLAYERS
THAT ARE
Taking A
HIT in
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK.

~HERE is no reason whatever why
"a play cannot be exhilarating, spark
ling, intensely interesting, thor
oughly laughable and comical, and a