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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23

Much has been written of the bru-
tallty of football and of other sports in
which the players get their SKINS
bruised and their hands calloused.
But rough and tumble sport of that
kind is excellent for the youths. We
know that there IS a Miss Nancy school
of education which objects to the use Of
fists by small boys at school, but the
good old British system of settling
differences in a square, knock down
fight had much to commend it, even if
the boys did get black eyes and bloody
noses, thinks the Brooklyn Eagle. 1t
cut them loose from their mothers
apron-strings and made them self
reliant and qualified them for that
supremacy in the worlds affairs which
the Anglo-Saxon is now enjoying.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23

for the asking, and cook books for two
cents, giving recipes for many of the
simpler vegetarian dishes, which are
forwarded to any one on application.
Much propaganda work is done in
the poorer quarters of the city, and
the poor people are taught how they
can live on vegetable diet at less
than one-half the expense of meat
diet. They are shown, for instance,
that meat contains sixty per cent. of
impure water, which they pay for at
the tutcher's at so much a pound,
and that one pound of peas, beans,
lentils or oatmeal, at cost of two to
four cents, contains more nourish-
ment than pound Of beef or mutton
at six times the price, because in the
former case, water is added, which
costs nothing, while in the latter it is
purchased at about twenty cents a
pound. In support of the contention
that meat is not necessary even for
those who do the hardest manual
labor, it is asserted that the athletes
of Greece and the soldiers of Rome
were vegetarians, and that the chief
food of the Roman gladiator was bar
ley cakes and OIL
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23
To Make Mince Meat,

Half pound each of finely chopped
cooked lean beef and suet, two quarts
chopped apple, one cup each of stoned
raisins, currants and sliced citron, of
sugar, molasses, strong coffee, one
teaspoon each of cinnamon and mace,
and one-half teaspoon each of allspice
and nutmeg. Dissolve glass of cur
rant or other tart jelly in one pint of
water, and mix all thoroughly to-
gether. Put in porcelain or agate
kettle and heat slowly. Reserve what
is needed for use and seal the rest in
cans.
When making the pies, strew raisins
over the top and little sugar. Bake
slowly one hour. Mince pies have one
advantage over others; they may be
baked a dozen at time and be piled
in the refrigerator, heating when
wanted. But they are too rich for
freuuent use.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23
ORIGINALITY IN THE PULPIT.
Ways of a Reporter Who Turned
Minister.

From reporter to clergyman is a
wide leap which few bright luminaries
of the press would care to undertake.
Rev. @. l.. Mel is case in point,
and he is considered as great success
in the pulpit as when he graced the
staff of the Examiner years ago. The
same ori ginality which characterized
him as newspaper man distinguishes
hi m as priest.
In his church they follow the pre-
vailing fad of periodically giving a
concert on Sunday evening instead of
religious service. Parson Mel had
noticed that although these entertain.
ments invariably drew large crowd,
the receipts were never in proportion
to the numbers.
At the end of one such performance
he gave the congregation the benefit
of this observation:
''Just to discover how much you ap-
preciate this music" he began, "and
to ascertain also who give and who do
not" he added, naively, 81 will pass
the plate myself tonight"
In his priestly robes he made the
entire circuit of the church with an
immense aims basin. And the sum
total of that collection broke all the
religious records. San Francisco
News Letter.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23

1.-The small banana planter of Hon
duras is the happiest creature on
earth" said local shipper, land
nothing ever moves him from his
philosophic calm. The frightful hurri-
cane which ragged along the Hon
duranian coast on the 1st of the month
absolutely destroyed scores of little
plantations. The trees were plucked
out of the earth like blades of grass,
the fragile buildings were blown into
kindling wood, and nothing whatever
left to tell the tale.
Happening anywhere else, such a
disaster would have been a tragedy Of
the first order and meant incalculable
suffering; but nature is very kind to
her children on the banana coast. All
that is necessary to rehabilitate the
ravaged plantations is to stick a few
clippings in the ground and wait for
them to take root and bear. The work
is usually divided between the planter
and his wife-she sets out the clip.
pings and he does the waiting. Some
time during the year, if he is not too
ured, he may rebuild his residence.
This is done by tying a native rope
around four suitable trees and laying
cane stalks crossways over the top.
"Other cane stalks are now and then
used for sides, but they are eally un.
necessary, as the Hondurian concep.
ton of privacy is very vague, and
there is never anything to steal. So,
as matter of fact, the hurricane was
much less calamitous than it appeared
to those who are unfamiliar with ma
tive conditions. The principal loss
which it entailed was in damage to
the present banana crop, and the fruit
grows with Ich rapidity that three
months ought to completely repair it.
Meantime the planter does quantities
of resting and is happy. New Or
leans Times Democrat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

The Ceylon yellow silk spider has q
body that weighs nine ounces.
There are 40, 900 native pupils in
the Sunday schools of the Fiji Islands.
A West African king is the owner
of an umbrella which measures six
yards in diameter and affords shade
for table with thirty diners.
An English guide-book makes the
curious assertion that large proper
ton of those who have made the as
cent of Mont Blanc have been persons
of unsound mind.
A subterranean city exists in Cali
cia, Austrian Poland, which contains
a population of over 1000 men, women
and children, many of whom have
never seen the light of day.
The ancient Chinese and Japanese
frequently used to draw pictures with
their thumbnails. The nails were
allowed to grow to length of IS
inches, and were pared to point and
dipped in vermilion or sky blue ink.
the only colors used in these thumb
nail sketches.
Probably the most curious European
oath is administered in Norway. The
witness raises his thumb, his fore
finger and his middle finger. These
signify the Trinity while the larger of
the uplifted fingers is supposed to
represent the soul of the witness and
the smaller to indicate his body.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23

The census of the United States for
1890 gives the manufactures of this
country for one year (19S9) as 9,373,-
900, 900, and the census of 1880 gives
the value for that year as So, $40, O0O,-
900, showing the gain in ten years'to
have been 81, OO3, 900, 900, or a gain in
a decade of 74.54 per cent. At this
same rate of gain for ten years, be-
tween 1890 and 1900, the value of
Americas manufactured products in
1900 would reach SIG, 800, 900, 900.
Suppose one cancels this rate of gain
for three years of business depression,
there would still remain $14, ,273, 0O0,-
900 as the value Of Americas manu-
factures for the year 1900, or the sum
of S12, ,S73, 900, 900 as the present
t1S9S) rate of the annual products of
this country.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23
Poached Eggs With Sauce.

Use deep frying-pan -fourths
full of boiling water, to which has
been added tablespoonful of strong
vinegar and one-half teaspoonful of
salt to each quart. If you wish them
nice, place small muffin rings in the
pan, and carefully slide an egg into
each, after having broken it into q
saucer, wise precaution at all times,
when one has to depend on the
grocer for eggs. Let the water sim
mer for three minutes, when egg and
ring may be lifted out together by
slipping under perforated skinner.
Drop each one on to slice of freshly
made and buttered toast, and remove
the ring.
For the sauce, melt tablespoonful
of butter and -four till well blended;
pour on half pint of hot milk, lit
tie at time, stirring constantly. Add
a spoonful of finely chopped parsley
dried will answer), little salt and a
dash of celery salt. Boil up once and
pour over the toast which has been
laid on platter. Garnish the edge
with parsley leaves. Try this; you
will be sure to like it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23

Put six large tablespoonfuls of flour
into bowl with one saltspoonful of
salt and stir in slowly one and a half
pints of milk, taking care to keep it
free from Jumps. Then add three
well-beaten eggs and heat for five
minutes. Pour the mixture into a
shallow pan, rubbed with beef drip
pings and bake for one hour; then
place it under the rack on which the
beef is baking, that it may catch the
drippings and let it bake for another
half hour. When done, cut into
squares and place around the beef.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23

According to treasury statistics cof-
fee is steadily supplanting tea with
the American people. The interest
Ing thing in this connection is that
coffee can be grown successfully in all
the islands that have recently come
under American control. tits already
the chief article of export from Porto
Rico, and it is produced to some ex-
tent in Cuba, Hawaii and the Philip
pines. No reason exists why coffee
production may not be greatly in
creased in all these islands. All that
the industry needs is suitable
encouragement. This may in time
make the United States Independent
Of Brazil and other outside countries
for its coffee supplying and furnish a
new lever for securing trade conces-
sions from such countries.
Peculiar Privileges.
Lord Forester, who has accented the
ofiice OF mayor of Wenlock, England
this year, possesses an extraordinary
privilege, and one that he is hardly
likely to avail himself Of By a grant
from King Henry VIII, which is now
among Lord Forester's family
archives, he has the right of wearing
his hat in the presence of the queen.
Lord Forester is the only English no.
bleman who enjoys this privilege,
which was conferred upon his ances-
tors as commoners. The Forester
peerage was created at a compare
lively recent time-July, 1921.
Lord Kingsale, the premier baron of
ireland, also enjoys the hereditary
privilege of wearing his hat in the
royal presence-a favor granted to his
ancestor. John de Courcy. by King
John.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23

1t is paradox that the most cos.
mopolitan cities of Europe are at the
same time the most national, observes
the New York Times. In America it
is not so. There are Boston, New
York, Chicago, San Francisco and
New Orleans, each of which has its
separate attributes, and, while all are
thoroughly American, not one can be
considered exclusively national, not
one bears the same relation to the
United States that Paris does to
France, that London does to England,
that Vienna does to Austria, that
Rome does to Italy. The reason is
plain. The great cities Of America,
in their eager development, have be.
come isolated in all elements Of cul.
ture. And each is vain of it's isola
ton.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23

Pie crust will not be soggy if it is
brushed over with the white of an
egg before the fruit is put in.
If shirt bosom or any other arti-
Gle has been scorched in ironing, lay
it where the bright sunshine will fall
directly upon it.
Clean decanters and other glass bot
ties with small pebbles instead Of
shot, which leaves behind it portion
OF oxide of lead.
Half cup of vinegar in the water
will make an old fowl cook nearly as
quick as a young one, and does not
iniure the flavor in the least.
When you take thread from spool
hold the end of the spool where the
thread was fastened in your hand and
you can draw the thread with no dan.
ger OF Its catching or of the spool be-
ing jerked out of your hand.
A window raised very little at top
and bottom is better than O wide
space. A transom opening upon a
ventilated room is excellent for deli
Soto pSOplc WhO DedT IL
current of air through tie room.
Cocoa is frequently used in place OF
chocolate for icing cake. Add to the
white of an egg Tablespoonful of
cold water, two teaspoonfuls of cocoa
and as much confectioners' sugar as is
needed to make it OF the consistency
required to spread well.
If an especially light dressing is re-
CURED for fowl, allow to every two
cups of the stufing one teaspoonfui
of bakingpowder and one level table,
spoon of flour mixed all through the
dressing, In seasoning, allow half
teaspoonful each of thyme, marjoralu
and summer savory.
Sawdust or the cork used for pack.
ing are excellent polishers for glass,
which may be left to dry, without
rubbing, in bowl filed with either.
Brass and copper may be cleaned
with polishing paste-never with sill
yer powder. The old-time mixture of
rotten stone and turpentine is also
good.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23
Bile.

Oh, Bilel Thou precursor of nearly
all the ills that flesh is heir tol Thou
yellower of the white of the eye, thou
disturber of the vitreous humors,
thou green google! Thou relentless
maker of rivulets in the burrows of
the cheekl Thou binder to all on
earth that should look pleasant! /!
Thou parcher of the tonguel Thou
drier of the lipsl Thou shriveler of
the cookies of the heart! Thou cir
rhosisl Thou friend of colds, of
chills, of aguesl Thou aid to indi-
gestionl Thou destroyer of appetitel !
Thou friend of insomnia and foe of
sleepl Thou deadener of perceptionsl
Thou weakener of brainsl Thy ruin.
alton of memoryl Thou hater maker
OF all mankind. Get outl-New York
Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23

Parboil chicken fifteen minutes,
sprinkle with salt and let cool. Make
batter by beating light the yclks of
two eggs. with half saltspoonful of
salt, stirring in gradually one table
spoonful of oil, adding one cupful of
flour, and lastly one cupful of cold
water. Set batter away an hour, and
prepare the vegetables. Chop very
fine one small onion, three sprigs of
parsley and two tomatoes, with seeds
left out. Stir into batter, and add
last whipped whites of two eggs. Dip
each piece of chicken in batter and
fry slowly in spider in butter. A
nice accompaniment for plain fried
chicken is supplied by hominy balls
and tiny slices of crisp bacon, alter
mating around the edge of the platter.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23
Dog Found His Way Home

Jeremiah Murphy, a well-known
miner, living in Calumet, Mich, sold
his big st. Bernard dog named Bar
ney to a Klondike party eighteen
months ago. The dog was taken to
Dawson City and performed good ser,
vice there. The other night Barney
reappeared at Murphy's home in Cal
umet. How he succeeded in return
ing from Alaska is a mystery.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23
A Fishing Amusement in Australia.

The average angler at home gets a
large amount OF amusement sometimes
out of comparatively small and not
very many-fsh. In New South
Wales, near Sydney, they are going
for bigger game. Armed with strong
lines, massive hooks and plenty of raw
beef, many fish from the beach i'll the
evenings for sharks, which at this
time of the year are to be captured in
great numbers. From twelve to four
teen is fair haul for party of shark
fishers, the monsters being almost ex
clusively tiger sharks, which come
right into the surf in pursuit of salmon.
The sport is exciting, and Sydney
paper to hand by last mail reports one
party having hooked and landed nine
sharks, the largest of which measured
eleven feet six inches. That was
something like capture. -Westmin.
ster Gazette.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
The Lntest Tea Tables.

The newest tea tables for the draw
ing room come now with an oval glass
removable tray on the top. The tables
are of mahogany with plain inlay.
The lower shelf projects several inches
more than the upper shelf, which
holds the tray for the cups and sau-
GERS. On either end of the tray are
handles, which make it easy of re-
moval and carriage.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23

The figure 5 seems to have figured
somewhat in the late war. Hostilities
lasted 113 dsys, while 233 days
elapsed between the declaration and
the signing of the treaty at Paris.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23

1t is stated that the Andree search
party is lost. So another expedition
will have 10 be sent out to find this
one. The process can go on indet-
nltely.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23
AN INLAND Iron GLAD.
BY c. A. STEPHENS

across the road. Four of our boys
who started to coast down were OBJ
llged to take to the ditch. The bog
trotters then rushed from their fort
and by pelting them with snowballs
forced them to run back up the hill.
They shouted that no hill dog should
pass that schoolhouse.
But as their fort stopped teams as
well as coasters, one of the selectmen
of the town ordered them to remove
1t at once, and during the following
evening train of ten sleds from Num-
Der Six coasted defiantly by.
But the next noon they played
new and worse trick on us. Eight of
ten of us set off to go down singly, one
sled few yards behind another, when,
as we drew near Number Seven school
house, Rufus Rundlett, who was
ahead, noticed that Matthias Monsen.
one of the larger boys at the Corners,
was standing on one side of the road
and his brother Lem on the other.
Look out for snowballsp' Rufus
shouted back to us. Neither he nor
any OF the rest of us saw that a new
rope lay across the road on the snow
till the Monsen boys raised it and
caught us. Rufus sled was capsized,
and all the rest of us were piled up in
a heap. Some of us were scraped off
our sleds, some had their sleds upset;
for the Number Seven crowd had
three or four boys at each end of the
rope, and as fast as sled came along
1t was caught by the rope and ierked
over. Meantime a dozen other Num-
Der Seven boys were raining snow
balls upon us. We had to pick our
selves up, recover our sleds and get
away as best we could.
''Try it againl" they slouted after
us. eff you think you can run by
Number Seven try it againm
For day or two we had little dis
position to try it again; they were too
big and too many for us to thrash. as
we would, perhaps have been justified
in doing, and we did not dare to try
the coast; but we chafed under the re-
straint and beat our brains for de-
vice to break it effectually.
DOL" Edmunds, who, after Rufus
was probably the most energetic of
our boys, proposed to run big mar
heC Pun8 sieiSh down, Sklng one of
ehe enliis uhder each arm as he lay
lace DOWNWARD on MS narrow coastlng
sieu between them. This feat had
sonie'lhles oeen performed on the hill
by the oldef boys. Dols idea was that
,he Pun8' loaded with ten or dozen
poys' woula ofeak the rope or jerk it
away lfom those VINO tried to hold 1t.
IL was eVloeht' however, that II the
IoPe were so held as to upset his sled
Vhe puh8 'hllls would drop and the
Puhg come to grlef, to say nothing of
lne oahger 10 Dol himself from being
run over by IT,
IL was then that kufus Rundlett
pun@ ond stoor ."i IL an Ine 'hirls hi2e on 'he ne
inin9e, a., a;aa,Ie. S,To ~ uown hillSe!i' oy
low sled and graspinp one nung nm
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23
SPRING IN WINTER.


broad and dtheoeI
he ramy air, sarebrig with
wreaths for ryou!
-FankI Stanton
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-23

OF British birds the cuckoo lays the
smallest egg in proportion to its size.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-29
DREYFUS WILL NOW
HAVE A NEW TRIAL
Arrangements Made to Transport the
DEVILS Island Prisoner Back

LONDON, May 2S.-M. de Blowitz, the
Paris correspondent of the Times, com
rrenting upon the steps about to be taken
by the Court Of Cessation in the. case OF
Dreyfus, says: The report OF NJ. Ballot
| de Beaupre ends by saying: If the court
adopts the conclusion Of its reporter It
will order a revision of tho case and Will
send Dreyfus before fresh court-martlal
&c be Judged according to the law.
In that case acQuittal Is certain.
doubt whether there VIII even be partial
secrecy in the new trial, as everything
has already been revealed and no danger
has arisen either at home or abroad.
LONDON, May 29.-The correspondent
Of the Daily Telegraph at Cayenne. cap
ital of French Guiana. teiegraphs the
substance of an interview he has had
with M L. Mouttet,, goyernor-general of
the colony, as to the possibility of the
retransportation of Dreyfus to. France.
The governor-general said:
TIE question has been already thoroughly
consfdered l have received the minutes the
RESTRICTIONS relating to his removal from the
Intended by myself and NJ. Dennelc Governor
Of the lies du Salut. No person but the State
officials and the regular warden will be per-
mitted TO witness his departure, which will
take place in the roads of Isle Royale, WITHOUT
toucbinp at Cayenne. While the ship he
viii he invisible to the crew, the tailers alone
administering to him. 1 have received by the
Iotest Government courier sealed dispatch
with orders to open IL only in the event of
revision What arrangements there for dis
c1nbarlSation in France I do not know.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-29

franchise grab, already SO well known
to the citizens of San Francisco. He
told how last Monday the double track
resolution had been hurried to the
Street Committee of the Supervisors
and had come before it on the succeed
ing Thursday. At that time, he said,
four members of the Mission and Pot
rero Club went before the committee
and asked that consideration of the
resolution might be postponed in order
that citizens of the Mission might be
heard in protest against it's passage to
print. Supervisor Aigeltinger he said,
then assured them that there would be
no objection to granting the postpone
ment, and said that the matter would
go over till next Thursday, when they
could have a hearing. The club repre-
sentatives left with this assurance, but
they had hardly got beyond the door
of the committee room ere Aigentinger
and his associates, eager to do the bid
ding of their new master, had recon-
mended the passage to print of the
ordinance Mr.. Slevin said that four
members of a committee had called on
Supervisor Attridge Sunday morning
and talked with him about the ad-
visibility of re-referring the ordi-
nance to the Street Committee so that
the citizens of the Mission might have
the opportunity to make a formal pro-
test against its passage.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-29

1--WE have his assurance" continued
Slevin, that he will act in our behalf.
not allowing it to go before the board
tomorrow by reason of the fact that
the committee will not report on it.
This will give us the opportunity we
desire Of protesting to the Street Com
mittee next Thursday"
The chairman then called upon
George L. Center for statement of the
case concerning the double-tr fran
chise, and Secretary e. D. Sullivan
read the following, which had been pre-
pared for the occasion:
The facts and reasons why the
double-track steam railroad franchise
should not be granted
The San Jose Railroad Company
has not nor never had a franchise
from the city for its route from Six
teenth to Twenty-f1fth and Valencia
streets. Whatever rights it may
have, have grown out of usurpation.
That the railroad passing through
said district passes over and along on
the sidewalks, in one case for a dis
tance of over eighty feet, making it
an impossibility to improve the prop
erty along it's route; and that where
improvements already exist, on ac-
count of the dust, smoke and noises
at all hours of the day and night, 1t is
almost impossible to rent houses or for
people to live along its route on ac-
count Of the nuisances caused by the
trains. IT Is also detrimental to land
values and exceedingly dangerous to