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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

For the calendar year the record
disclosed by figures is remark
able one. The total exports amounted
to 81, ,254, 925, 1863, which represents an
increase of over Sl55, 900, 900 as com,
pared with those for 1897 and of over
1853, 900, 600 as compared with those
for 1896 The imports were valued
at $633, GG4, GA, which represented a
decrease OF over S1OS, 900, 900 as COM
pared with those for 1897, and of over
SIT, 900. 900 as compared with those
for 1896. The value of the exports
for the year was not far from double
that of the imports. The excess for
the year amounted to $G21, 26O, 535,
which was greater by S2G4, 146. GIL
than that for the preceding year,
while as compared with 1896 it showed
still greater gain. What the figures
mean i'll perspective may be gatherel |
from the statement that the exports
were the largest in the history of the
country, while we have to go back for
a period of thirteen years to find to-
tai of imports so low as that recorded
for 1898. Not the least noteworthy
feature disclosed by the figures is the
large excess of imports over exports
of gold, which amounted to $141, 841, :
298, whereas in 1897 the imports and
exports of this metal almost balanced,
the exports showing a triding excess.
Taken altogether, the exhibit is the
most striking in the statistical annals
of the coantry's foreign trade.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

A vell-known and genial-but illit-
erate-Irishman, who once represent
ed one of the Melbourne divisions in
the Victorian parliament, invariably
read out speeches that were prepared
for him. On one occasion, in view of
the anticipated opposition, special
paragraph was inserted in the speech
which the candidate read out as fol-
lows: 81 am quite aware that many of
ye are agin' me an me politics. But
surely we are all working for the good
of the colony. 1t is only detail that
me opponents are marching one way
and meself another, but we must re-
member that we are all sthrivin' to
reach the same gaolp'-London
Chronicle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20
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ScedlES Fruits.

A good many varieties Of fruits have
been grown so long from cuttings that
they have become seedless. We have
now apples and pears that are almost
seedless, specimens frequently being
found that are altogether so, and seed
less grapes and oranges are not at all
uncommon. The banana has no seeds,
or at best only rudimentary ones, and
the pineapple is seedless fruit. All
this must have taken long years of Sc
lection, whether it was done intelli-
gently or by chance, and all seedless
fruits are valued because they are u.s.
ually of superior sorts.
A story is going the rounds that a
melon grower has discovered a method
of producing seedless melons. This
is to cover the joints of the vines un-
til roots start from them, and then cut
them off at the roots, leaving the Sec
ondary roots to support the vine.
This sounds quite nice, and the only
trouble with it is that it isn't true. II
we could produce seedless melons in
this way it would be valuable dis
covery, but having been tried it was
found that the melons had the usual
number Of seeds, as usual in the sweet.
est part of the melon.
Voice,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

A bulletin just issued by the Ne
braska station tells of some joint ex-
periments by Professor Fred. w. Card,
of that station, and Professor III. G.
Irish, of the st. Louis Botanical Gar
dens, to test the relative merits of top
pruning and no top pruning, root
pruning and no root pruning; fall
planting and spring planting; deep
holes and shallow holes, etc., in tree
planting.
1t will be noticed that the close root
pruning at times of setting, so success
fully practiced by the noted Galveston
borticulturist, Fl. NJ. Stringfellow, on
the Texas coast, was failure in Ne
braska.
These experiments both at Lincoln
and st. Louis, show that planters are
right in believing that fall planted
trees may make some root growth in
the autumn, succeeding planting, and
in the spring before the leaves start.
Professor Card draws the following
conclusions from all these tests, for
the conditions prevailing in Eastern
Nebraska:
1. Two-year limbed trees are emf
nently satisfactory and desirable for
ordinary planting, but with good care
even one-year old trees may give good
results and gain on older trees planted
at the same time.
2. Whether it will pay to dig large,
deep holes and fill them up with sur
face soil, in which to plant the tree, is
question worthy of consideration,
but, so far as these experiments are
concerned, is as yet unanswered.
8. The more healthy roots left on n
tree at planting tine the better is like
y to be the growth. Making fresh,
clean cut at the ends of the roots when
planting appears to afford no advan-
tage, provided the root is sound when
cut in the nursery. Trees planted
with no root pruning nov average de-
cidedly larger than those which had
the roots shortened.
4. Cutting back the tops severely
at planting time is mistake. Trees
left entirely unpruned, or with the
branches shortened about one -ha.f, are
thus far much in advance of those
pruned to cane or grown as whip
in the nursery.
5. Fall planted trees may make a
small amount of growth before winter
and in early spring before leaf growth
begins.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

A socialistic measure is proposed
for county in Kansas. 1t is intend
ed to submit to a vote of the people at
the next election the question, "Shall
the county own its telephone system?"
If the proposition goes through the
county is to build system and supply
every farmhouse with a telephone.
The expense of building and operat-
ing the plant is to be borne by direct
taxation, and the county is to be given
Guthority to spread ont the original
cost OF construction ever ten years,
one-tenth to be paid each year. An
other telephone bill OF novel scope is
proposed in Indiana. An advocate for
school reform has framed measure
which contemplates abolishing all the
schoolhouses in the various counties
and teaching the children N their own
homes by telephone. The state is to
furnish the telephones, which are less
expensive than the maintenance of the
schoolhousas.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

Our government has decided to pay
the Cuban soldiers enough to take
them to their homes and give them a
start in life. The sum mentioned is
500 per man. Stable conditions will
then be in sight, and the labor demand
will quickly absorb those willing to
return to work. Some practical diff
Guilty will be found in guarding against
fraud in the matter of giving only to
actual soldiers, but it is not insuper-
able.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20
Orchard NIanuring.

So much mischief can be done BY
applying manures of the wrong kind
in orchards that I doubt if We do not
lose more by manuring than by neg
lecting to manure. Fruit trees do not
require at any time barnyard manures,
or their equivalent. What they re-
quire is supply of inorganic food.
You can do no better for apple trees
than to supply them with coal ashes
in which there is liberal admixture
of wood ashes; the wood ashes furnish
the fertilizer. Ifyou can get supply
of old mortar you have just the thing
you need. A mixture of lime and
salt. when so mixed as to leave no
free salt, is excellent for all fruit
trees. All such manures should be
applied as top-dressing. A peach
or plum orchard needs nothing better
than swamp much or earth from the
woods, with slight addition of phos-
phate and potash.
If barnyard manure is applied at
any time, it should be thoroughly de.
composed and applied as top dress.
ing. Such manure, if placed about
the roots, when planting pear or
apple tree, will kill it. Grapes, of
course, want phosphates and potash.
They will also respond to free appli.
cation of liquid manures during their
periods Of rest, both in winter and in
midsummer. All the tall-growing
berries, of the bramble sort, will use
large amount of organic manure. But
be careful about dressing your rasp-
berries with rank undecomposed barn
yard manure. The probability is at
any time you will develop fungoid
disease that you cannot easily master.
Ii you use barnyard manure in rasp-
berries it should be thoroughly COM
minuted with the soil as compost.
In fact, I prefer to compost every
manure before it is placed on my gar
dens. Equally important as the ma
nure is the mulching of our fruit trees
and bushes of all sorts.-E. P. Powell,
in New England Homestead.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

Golfers Weekly: 1t is certainly not
true that small hands are bred by
choice descent, for in one family the
hands of both women and men are
found different in size and In every
other quality. The individual woman
of the people stretches and hardens
her hand and batters her nails on her
own account, so that months of care
would not retrieve it; but doubtless
her baby hand was much the same as
rich woman's in her own babyhood.
English women and Americans, with
their blonde hands, are admired de-
liriously for this one beauty by the
darker races. But at any rate to Eng
fish eyes there is loveliness also in the
6ne hand that has clear brown color in
place of white-a rare beauty, for the
blonde woman has usually the finer
form of hand; but somewhat dark
must have been the tender inward of
the hand" that played on the virginals
of Shakespeare.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20
COMFORTABLE TEDDY.
And the Two Private Secretaries Who
Maintain Dignity for Him.
New York Timesl


II happened to be in Albany on
Friday, when Governor Roosevelt left
there for this city," said one of the
sossipers in the Waldorf-Astoria. II
had never happened to meet him, but
as l strolled down the station platform
while waiting for the beiated 2:35
train, on which we both came to New
York, l recognized him from the pho
tographs and caricatures l had seen.
l was prepared to see pretty free
and-easy, democratic sort of chap, but
what l did see rather shocked my SEN
sibilities and ideas of what Governor
of the Empire State should be. Up
where the baggage for the incoming
train was piled was the Governor Of
New York, half reclining on the top
most trunk of the bunch and absorbed
in reading one of the current numbers
of popular magazine. He apparently
didn't know or care whether there was
anybody else in Albany, and had COM
pletely shaken off the cares of state.
He was the most completely comforta-
BILE person l saw in your capital city.
Strolling on the platform, and SEEM
ingly with all the dignity of the Office
that Governor Roosevelt had shaken
off, were his two private secretaries,
Mr.. Youngs and Colonel Treadwell
And they maintained all the dignity
that was necessary, for they were real
ly an impressive pair"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20
Pumelo. shaddook or Grape Fruit.

The pumelo of Florida is now recog-
nized as not only delicious breakfast
fruit, but also as a tonic and alter
ative, counteracting malaria, imper-
feet action of the liver, and as gen.
eral bracer and appetizer to the human
system. In China the fruit is made
ornamental in its service, the rind cut
in intricate and curious designs, the
top lifting as cover, as do citron
melons in this country for ceremonious
occasions. The pulp Is separated, the
white, tough membrane peeled off and
then put back in the skin, to be re-
moved to individual plate when the
fruit is passed. 1t is ever present as
a favorite delicacy of Chinest feasts.
In this country the shaddock is served
in various ways, either as fruit, sher-
bet. etc., according to the fancy of the
hostess. AS a fruit course for break
fast it is cut in half and eaten with
sugar-the less Of the latter used the
more beneficial.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

The practical isolation of Spain
from the rest of the world is indicated
for one thing by the fact that while
there are yet hundred roads of one
kind or another over the Pyrenees be-
tween France and Spain only three of
the roads are passable for carriages.
But even more insuperable than the
range of the Pyrenees is that way of
pride and prejudice which the haugh-
ty Castilian interposes between himself
and the progressive ideas of the outer
world
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

Ladies can secure a set of IL Tea
spoons, guaranteed by maker to be
extra coin silver plate, by selling IL
Gem Scissors Sharpeners at 25 cents
each. The Sharpener is a necessity in
every family; any lady can use it;
satisfaction guaranteed. 1 trust you,
and send the Sharpeners by express;
when sold. deduct expressage from
amount received, sending me the bal
ance; l will then send the nice spoons
prepaid. w. C. Griswold, Box Az
Centerbrook, Conn.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20
Valuable Engravings.

The most valuable engravings in
the world are the four impressions of
Rembrandt's portrait of a man leaning
on saber. The fourth was recently
sold for $4,000. The original plate
made by Rembrandt was cut down
first to an octagonal oval and the pic
lures from it sold for $3.50. Then it
was sliced off still more and the prints
sold for $12, but of the original pla.e
only four prints mentioned exist.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20
POSTMISTRESS AT DOWNINCV|LLE,
By HAYDEN CARRUTH,

Hen you come to
think of it, Down
ingville was a vii
lage Of magnificent
distances, with al
most o half-mile
from the tannery
to the sawmill, and
with only scatter
ing houses be-
tween. The school
house and the two
churches had each
failed to establish
q centre.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

An ingenious mechanical device
pastes paper labels on 100000 cans in
ten hours. Down a shute rolls the
ceaseless procession of cans and each
can picks up label as it passes.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

Germany may regard Samoan waters
as desirable location for trouble ow-
ing to the f.Ict that Admiral Dewey
cannot be in two places at the same
time.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

irregular menstruation
and leucorrhea. My
appetite was variable,
stomach sour and bowels
were not regular, and
was subject to pains like
collie MISREPRESENTATION.
l wrote you and began to
take Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and
used two packages of
Sanative Wash. You can't
imagine my relief. My
courses are natural and
general health improved"
Mrs. MAMIE ADKINS,
La Due, Mo-, writes:
DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM-
I feel it my duty to tell
you of the good your
Vegetable Compound has
done my daughter. She
suffered untold agony at
time of menstruation be-
fore taking your medicine;
but the Compound has
relieved the pain. given
ctrOrp+ar orI hoe i,,.1royo
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20
WHEN LIGHTS ARE LOW.

When those we love have come and gone,
IT'S weary to be left behind
To miss sweet eyes where late they shone,
To look for what we may not find
Long cherished forms that haunt the mind,
Soft voices that were once too kind;
To live and miss them one by one
Is weary work. Who'd stay behind
When those we love have come and gone?
New York Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

Fish Commissioner Mcclure, of
Oregon, declares in his 1899 report
that up to the present time salmon to
the value of about s15, 900 600 have been
taken out of lie Cnlumhil river
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20
Beauty In Blood Deem.

Clean blood means a 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 i'm.
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, beauty for ten cents. All drug.
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, l0c, 25c, soc.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

The true reward of workman is
not his wages, but the consciousness
Of having done good Job.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

IA EANY dutul daughter pays pain for her mothers
IVE ignorance perhaps neglect.
The mother suffered and she thinks her daughter
must suffer also This is true only limited extent
excessive pain healthy Every mother should
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

Bangor manufacturers are sending
canoes of birch and canvas to Pales-
tine, Japan and China.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

Educate Your Bowels with Gascarers.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
'oc, 25c. II q. c. c. fail, druggists refund money.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

The United States census of 1910
showed the existence of twenty-fouF
wooden factories and 1,6S2 fulling
mills. The majority of these were
located In New England, and practic-
ally the balance in New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Each New England state, with the ex-
ception OF Vermont, at that time had
mills employed in the manufacture of
army and navy cloths, cloths for the
negroes of the south, and blankets.
The production OF broadcloth was con-
fned to half a dozen mills.
AZ q child AGam mane no nnistn1.ar
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

Warmth and Strength.
The cold of winter certainly aggravates
rheumatism, and at all seasons st. Jacobs
Oil is its master cure. 1t imparts warmth
and strength to the muscles, and cures.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

The Queen has 60 housemaids at
Windsor Castle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

We can wake up from sleep and find that
soreness and stitfne~s have taken hold of
us. We can use st. Jacobs Oil and go to
sleep and wake up and find ourselves com
pletely cured.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

self for her own sake and especially
for the sake of her daughter Write
to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass,
for her advice about all matters
concerning the ills of the feminine
organs
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

The rooms are hushed, the lights are low,
I sit and listen to the wind
That comes from out the distant hill.
1t comes and croons in ansundertone
OF alien regions vast an lone,
OF pleasures lost in land unknown;
Then steals away, and all is still.
'Tis good to listen to the wind
When rooms are hushed and lights are low.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20
ENDg5E- GEWE
MOTHERS

Many young girls beauty is wasted by unnecessary pain
time of mensruation, and many ndulgen mothers with
mistaken kindness permit their daughters grow careless
about physical health.
Miss CARRIE NJ. LAME. Big Beaver Mich, writes: dear
MRS PINKHAM-A suffered from profuse and
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

One-ffteenth of the inhabitants in
Spain are mobiles.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

AS a child AGam maze no mistakes,
but he made up for 1t during his hon
eymoon.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20

reHeVed better color,
stronger and has improved grateful to
you for the benefit she has received great medicine
for young girls
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-11-16
HANNA MAY RESIGN.
The Ohio Senator, 1t Ia Said, VIII Retire
from the Leadership Of the Re.
publican Party.

Cleveland, O., Nov. Ex-senator Han
ma will not again be an issue in Ohio
He may not announce for some timt
his withdrawal from the active direc
ton Of party affairs, but his friends
here agree that he will retire from the
conspicuous position he has held when
the presidential campaign opens II moi
earlier. Before the close of the pres.
ent contest 1t was practically settled
that the senator would resign leader.
ship in party management. Many Ohio
republicans who have remained loyal
to the organization and who have la.
bored zealously to prevent the anti
Hanna sentiment from proving more
disastrous than it has to the party,
have expressed themselves plainly to
the effect that change from Senator
Hanna was desirable.
The senator himself has realized the
strength Of this antagonism, but he
felt that he could not withdraw under
fire and none Of his friends were will.
ing that he should. But the word has
been passed around quietly that this
would be the last campaign he would
try to manage and there has been no dis
sent from the opinion that harmony
and the interest of the party nationally
demands such change.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-11-16
TOWN PROPERTIES.

48,OOO-Finest residence In Abilene, mod
ern improvements, beautifully To-
Gated. No. |.
8C.5OO-Seven room house on Buckeye
avenue, handsome lawn, good barn,
large garden spot very desirable
No.2.
$1,000 Eight room house, with good
barn, on east Sixth street, location
the best. No.
S6OO-very desirable building lot on Buck
eyeavenue, northwest corner, barn
on rear Of lot, l2O feet front, 2V0 feet
deep. No. 4,
Sl,525-Six room, two story house, good
barn, good location. No. 8.
35OO-Four room house, good brick barn,
three blocks from the business cen.
ter Of the town No..
86OO-G0Od five room house on west
Fourth, good barn. No. 10.
81 .7OO-G0Od seven room house with barn,
apples and small fruit. and three
acres Of ground, desirable proper.
tyfor person wanting large garden.
No, II.
45OO-Five room house, one block to bust.
ness center. No. u.
9l,3OO-GOOd corner residence with barn
and other out.buildings. No. "A.
e40O-F0ur room house, two blocks to buBl.
ness center, good speculation. No.
10,
S9OO-Nice four room house, some fruit
good barn, neat property. No. 10.
46OO-G0o eight room house In first. class
repair, close to business center. No.
II.
Sl.lOO-seven room house. west side, shade
trees and some frnit, No. 10.
9l,250-Eight room house, good barn, west
side, recent improvements. NO. 81.
a. NM A VarV utpa aiv rnntu hnuon WAut
side, no other buildings. No. 70.
S200-Seven acres Of ground within the
city limits, no buildings No, a.
9300-F0ur room house near the city hall,
corner property. No. 70.
S7OO-A good SIX room house, well built,
finished In hard wood, south side.
No. @
Sl,2OO-seven room house, well built, high
ceiling. choice property, three
blocks from the post office. No %.
5000 good seven room house. plenty of
fruit, barn, lot 80 feet deep, on the
west side, y choice property for the
money No. 81.
SoOO-six room house on South Cedar st.,
deep lot, plenty of shade and fruit
trees. Can sell on terms 10 suit.
4660-A good five room house, corner pro-
No. 81.
$1,000 Eight room house, well built, good
barn, q very desirable west side
property. No. 49,
S700-foui room house on Third street,
splendid location No. a.
$l,2OO-First class seven room house, fine
barn, north Cedar st., this must 20
quick. A bargain. No. 10
S6bO-Nice cottage on Cottage Grove ave.
nue., five rooms. No. 49,
$1,000 Good nine room house, two acres
Of ground right In town, improve.
nlents complete, plenty0f fruit of
all kinds, decided bargain No. 81,
$l,2OO--Go0ds seven room house, south side,
owner desires to trade fora farm.
No, ITO.
Numerous other properties of various
prices and descriptions. Hotels, Livery
barns, and store buildings. row of three
frame store rooms at bargain. Best black.
smith shop in the city.