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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-12-28
INHE DELAWARE, susouEHANNA ANn
SoHUYLKILL RAILROAD.

Time table in effect April Is, 1897.
Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo, Eckley, Halle
Br'ok, STOCKTON, Beaver Meadow Road hoan
ana Hazleton junction at 30, 10 a m, daily
except Sunday; and Oh a m, 3S d M, Sunday
~ trains leave Drifton for Harwood, Cranberry,
Ioinnlcken and Deringer at 5 80, 6 90 a M daily
day. -'
Trains leave Drifton for Oneida Junction.
uarwood hoad, Humboldt Road, Oneida and
3hepptoh at w IN, daily except Sum
day; ana w a m, 2 3S p m, Sunday.
trains leave Hazleton junction for Harwood,
cranberry, Tomhicken and Deringer at 35 a
IN, daily except Sunday; and 50 u m, ~ M,
sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida
Junction, Harwood Road, Humboldt Road,
Oneida and Sheppton at o2, IL 10 a m, Al d m
daily except Sunday; and 7T a m, IL D m,
sunday. '
Trains leave Dernger for Tomhick m. Gram
berry, Han wood, Hazleton Junction and Roam
at 20, 3 4O p m, daily except Sunday; ana . RI
a m, u p m, sunday.
pdaS Trans q leave sheppton for Oneida, Humboldt
ROAD HARDWOOD Road, Oneida Junction, Halle
ton junction and Roam at IL m, II 40, 6 ~
p m, daily except Sunday; and Ii a m, 9 "A
p m, Sunday.
Trains leave sheppton for Beaver Meadow
hoad, stockton, Halle Brook, Eckley, Jeddo
ana Drliton at ~ p N, daily, except Sunday;
ana ii IN, Al p IN, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Beaver
meadow Road, Stockton, Halle Brook, Eckley,
Jeddo and Drifton at 40, 8 rs D m, daily
except Sunday; and 10 10 IN, 8 40 p IN. Sunday.
All trains connect ut HaZleton Junction with
electric cars for Hazeton, JeaDesville, Auden-
ried and other points on the Traction Com
pany's line.
Trains leaving Drifton at 30, 90 a m make
connection at Deringer with p. H. r. trains for
Wiikesbarre Sunbury, Harrisburg and points
west F0'
For the accommodation of passengers at way
stations between HaZleton Junction and Der
niger, train will leave the former point at
Deringer at 90 m.
LUTHER G. SMITH, Superintendent,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-12-28

The ancient Norsemen reckoned by
winters, and the beginning of their
year was probably dated from the 18th
of October. The festival in honor of
Thor was Leid in midwinter, about
our Christmas time, and in fact was
the origin of the Christian holiday
merrymaking. We get the names of
at least three, if not four, of the days
of the week from the Morse gods of the
Odin religion. Tuesday is from Tlr or
Diss-day, on which the offerings to fate
were made and the courts of justice
held; Wednesday is from Wooden or
Odin, one of the Morse trinity; Thurs
day or Thor's day, from Thor, the
chief of the trinity, and Friday is
from Frigg, another Of the minor del.
ties of the trinity.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-12-28
JAPANESE MOCHI MAN.
He Is the Santa Claus of Japan and
Appears on New Year's


Appears on New Years.
The great event of the New Year is
the arrival of the mochi man, who is a
tolerably fair substitute for Santa
Claus. His coming is quite as myste-
rious also, as no child knows whence
he comes or where he goes. However,
ct some hour of the day or night before
the 1st of January he arrives, not with
the Jingle of sleighbells or the clatter
of noisy hoofs upon the roof, for Jap
anese house is chimneyless. Therefore
the mochi man is obliged to enter
through the shoji paper windows,
which he does so openly and so vaunt-
ingly as to do away with all that fas-
cinating unreality that in its investi-
ture of our king of the holiday revels
is so precious to the little ones. Never
theless the children go to bed at the
appointed hour New Years eve, and
the little bias eyes try to go to sleep,
but instead of reaching the Land of
Nod the small people usually arrive
at "Wideawakeville."
At last the mochi man announces his
presence by dashing heapng handful
of rice and beans into the face of the
supposed to be sleeping child, and this
Is the signal for midnight frolic. The
throwing of rice and beans at this hour
and upon this occasion has been con-
sidered from time immemoral a desire
on the part of the thrower to express
three wishes for the good of the re-
ceiver These wishes are respectively
that he may have good luck and hap
piness the coming year and that he
may be at "outs" with the oni (deviD-
far from inappropriate symbollsms to
be woven into n New Years greeting
The mochi man always brings with
him an infectiously CHEEKY confusion
of earthen cooking stoves and earthen
vessels to boil mochi in. This tooth
some edible is mixed, boiled, stirred,
cooled and stuffed before the very eyes
of the youngsters, and finally it is
evolved into glutinous rice cake. In
the beginning of its preparation, which
is somewhat complicated, 1t is worked
about in q wooden bowl with a bam-
boo stick until it looks much like strain
ed honey. All this is aggravatingly
sweet to the nostrils of the onlookers,
who can scarcely wait until the mochi
man treats them. Meanwhile this pa
tron saint creates much laughter by his
funny antics and beguiles the waiting
time with still funnier stories of New
Years when he was little lad.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-12-28
ls311ss3 or es3ts S9ss3S3e4
Z NEW YEARS
3 FOLKLORE.
y CUSTOMS PREVALENT
IN OTHER DAYS. -
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

oTsSHSVNH~S ~SsSVssssTeSSe8Gs$V%
EARTY expressions of good
It'll wishes for happy and pros
knS& porous New Year are the greet
l6J ing for this season. But, If we
may credit our English forbears, we
may for ourselves forecast the general
aspect of the next II months, says the
Detroit News-Tribune. 1t is pleasant
to be foolish sometimes, and a few
minutes with the folklore and ancient
customs of our ancestors cannot be
time Ill spent.
From a valuable manuscript in the
library of Trinity college, Cambridge,
we learn that If the New Year COM
mences on Sunday
The winter shall be good, say,
But great winds aloft shall be;
The summer shall be fine and dry;
By kind skill and without loss
Through all lands there shall be peace;
Good time for all things to be done,
But he that stealeth shall be found soon.
What child that day born may be
great lord he shall live to be.
And again, with regard to the wealth
er, note carefully the atmospheric
conditions of the first 10 days of the
year. They will give you an unfaillng
indication of what weather to eXpeca
during the coming II months.
You are strongly advised never to
lend anything on New Years day, or
you are sure to be unlucky the whole
year through. Don't pay anything,
either, for it is said
Pay away money on New Years day,
And all the year through you'll have money to
pay!
But by far the most general super
stition is that of the first foot" it
being everywhere acknowledged that
the fortune of a house entirely depends
on the appearance and the sex of the
first person crossing the threshold aft
er the midnight hour has passed 1t is
hard to see what Judas Iscariot has to
do with Christmas, but tradition as
serts that Judas, in addition to his
sins, was possessed of a monstrous
crop of hair. Therefore no redheaded
person or even one of fair complexion
must place FIRST foot in house on
this momentous morning. The ques-
tion of complexion, however, is not al
tOStlhti a Sttli0u ohN. Ill many pidCCS
it is fair and not a dark man who
should place first foot"
This harbinger of fortune must eat
and drink when in the house and
should, to make the charm most COM
plete, enter by the front door, visit
every room, carrying a piece of holly
in his hand, and make his exit by the
rear
If the question of complexion is I'M
settled, that of sex is decidedly not
No female under any circumstances
must be the first to enter a house on
New Years morning.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-12-28
RAILROAD TIMETABLES
EHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.
IL November %, 1900.

EHlGH VALLEY RAILROAD.
IL November %, 1900.
ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
LEAVE FKEELAND.
9 l2 m for Weatherly, Mauch Chunk,
Allentown, Bethlehem, kaston, Phila-
40 N for Sandy Kun, White Haven,
wilkes Barre, PittstOn and Scranton.
8 IN tor Hazleton, Mahuuoy City,
Shenandoah, Ashland, Weatherly
Mauch Chunk, Allentown, Bethlehem,
Easton, Phlladelphla and New York.
q 81 IN Tor Hazleton, Mahanoy City, shen-
andouil, ht Carmel, Shamokin and
PottSville.
IL IA p m for Sandy Run, White Haven,
wilkes Barre, scranton and all points
l 20 III for Weatherly, Mauch Chunk, Al
lentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Philadel-
phlu anu New ork.
4 AZ y IN for Hazleton, Mahanoy City, Shen-
andoah, Mt Carmel, Shamokin aud
Pottsville, Weatherly, Mauch Chunk,
Allentown, Bethlehem, Euston, Phila-
delphia und New ork.
8 "a P, IN for Sandy Run, White Haven,
Wilkes Barre, scranton and all points
z 20 III for Hazleton Mahanoy City, Shen-
andoah, Mt. Carmel and ShunokIn
ARRIVE AT FREELAND.
z 40 u m from Weatherly, Pottsville, Ash
land, shenandoah, Mahanoy City and
8 z u M from Philadelphia, Easton, Bethle-
hem, Allentown, Muuch Chunk, Wealth
efly, HuZletou, Mahanoy City, Shcnun-
doah, Mt. Carmel and Shumokin.
y 80 III from scranton, Wilkes Barre and
White Haven.
z l a p m from Pottsville, Shamokin, Mt.
Carmel, Shenandoah, Mahanoy City
and Hazleton.
l l2 p III from New York, Philadelphia,
Easton, bethlehem, Allentown, Mauch
Chunk and Weatherly.
4 AZ IN from scranton, Wilkes Barre and
6 "a m from New York, Philadelphia,
Easton, bethlehem, Allentown, Potts
vile, Shamokn, Mt. Carmel, Shenan-
doah, Nahanoy City and Hazleton.
z 20 p m from scranton, Wilkes Barre and
White Haven.
For further information inquire of Ticket
Agents.
COLLIN II. WILBUR, General Superintendent.
26 Cortlandt street, New York City
CHAS. S. LEE, General Passenger Agent
26 Cortlandt Street. New York CITY.
}. L. KEITH, Division Superintendent,
HaZleton, Pa.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-12-28
ROUND THE REGION.

The Delaware and Hudson Company
has purchased the William A. colliery,
located at Duryea and owned by the
Connell Coal Company. Negotiations
for the other collieries owned by this
company are under way. Options have
been given by John Jermyn on the
Jermyn mines Nos. l and in Rendham,
Lackawanna county.
Many persons have had the experience
OF Mr.. Peter sherman, of North STRAIT
ford, n. H., who says, "For years |
suffered torture from chronic indigestion,
but kodol Dyspepsia Cure made a well
man of me-" 1t digests what you eat
and is certain cure for dyspepsia and
every form Of stomach trouble. 1t gives
relief at once even in the worst cases,
and can't help but do you good. Gro
Ver's City drug store.
A number Of Centrala young men, in
celebrating Christmas, plunged the
town in darkness. They smashed
twenty-five street lamps. Four plate
glass windows of business houses were
also broken, while number of fences,
porches and doors were battered down.
Help is needed at once when per-
sons life is in danger. A neglected
cough or cold may soon become serious
and should be stopped at once. One
Minute Cough Cure quickly cures coughs
and colds and the worst cases of Group,
bronchitis, grippe and other throat and
lung troubles. Growers City drug store.
The strike at the Enterprise colliery,
Shamokin, was settled yesterday. The
miners who were paying laborers wages
agreed to give the 10 per cent advance
and arrange matters satisfactorily.
When the stomach is tired out it must
have rest, but we can't live without
food. kodol Dyspepsia Cure "digests
what you eat" so that you can eat all
the good food you want while it is re-
storing the digestive organs to health.
1t is the only preparation that digests
all kinds of food. Growers City drug
store.
A wedding Of more than ordinary in
terest was soemnized at Mahanoy City
yesterday afternoon, when Chief Bur
CESS M. j. Leonard took Miss Mary
Breslin, of Buck Mountain, for his
bride. The young people left for a tour
Of the South
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-12-28
Much to Learn In the New Year

All beginnings are important and
significant but the true eras are not in
the calendar, but in the heart. The
new years beglnning-the real newyear
of grace and obedience, with their re-
sulting gift of peace-is not an arbi-
trary period, but the hour of inward
choice, when the will of man gives up
the helm into the hand of Christ. In
that new year there must be much to
learn and suffer, but there shall be
more to win and to enjoy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-12-28
State Normal School

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This practical training school for teachers
is located in the most healthful and charming
part of the state, within the great summer
the ID. l.. & w. Railroad.
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College Preparatory, Sewing and Modelling
departing ntS.
Superi' faculty; pupils coached free; pure
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FEATURE.
We are the only normal school that paid the
state aid in full to all its pupils this spring
term.
Write for catalogue and full information
while this advertisement is before you We
have something of interest for you.
Address,
GEO, z. BIBLE A. NJ Princinol
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-12-28

Countries to Determine How Soon
Ring-The Tea Test.
THE principle of beginning
N the year well it has been Gus
hnmM tomary in many countries to
EG2Eau select New Years day as most
auspiclous for matrimony, and indeed
remnant of this custom is found
among ourselves, for no day is more
highly favored in this regard than the
1st of January says the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat. In some countries
the weddings of the year are all ar
ranged with view to their celebration
on Jan. l, and by curious contradic-
tion, in Siam and some mountain dis
tricts in India, the years funerals are
also celebrated on the first day of the
succeeding year. Temporary interments
take place day or two after death,
but on the first day of the following
January the remains of those who died
during the year are borne to their last
resting place, the funeral feasts are
celebrated at the same time with the
weddings, and in the most literal man
ner the funeral baked meats do coldly
furnish forth the marriage tables.
Advantage is taken of the day by the
unmarried to ascertain how many years
will elapse ere the bonds of matrimony
are fixed upon them. The French peas
ant girl borrows her mothers wedding
ring and suspends it by hair from her
Ill 4
Die to the inner rim of teacup. Then
she counts, as rapidly as may be, the
number of her own years. The trem-
| alousness of her fingers causes the sus-
| pended ring to sway to and fro. An
| other notes while she Is counting the
number of taps of the ring on the tea
cup, and these betoken the years of
single blessedness that lie before her.
| In the country districts of Germany
and England there is a tea and coffee
| test, which has the merit of limiting
the years to a number so reasonable
that any girl should feel satisfied with
the result. As conducted, according to
Gunter, this test is as follows: A tea
spoon is carefully balanced on the edge
VI cup tHeH dnotneT spoon is paftly
| filled with tea or coffee, which, drop
by drop, Is allowed to fall in the bowl
of the balanced spoon, until the bowl
outweighs the handle and the spoon
falls into the cup. The merit of this
divination lies In the fact that one or
two good sized drops will destroy the
balance and cause the spoon to fall,
and, on this account, spoon divination
is in high favor among the rural bellies.
The custom of visiting and of send
ing presents and cards on New Years
day is so ancient that the historian of
social customs does not record time
when in some form it did not exist.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-12-28

A royal welcome, baby year,
The first of the century new,
Yet for the old we drop a tear,
Fen while we are welcoming you,
In memory dear OF the dead old year
Who left us a friendship or two.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-12-28
NEW YEAR OWNING.
CURIOUS CUSTOMS CONCERNING
MATRlMONY.

Tests of the Young Folks In Various
Countries to Determine How Soon
They Would wed-The SUSPENDED
RfnE-The Tea Test
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1900-12-26
Charles Russelrs Glad Hand.

Charles NJ. Russell, "thc cowboy ar
list" who will spread his talent
over the first page of the pictorial
edition To be shortly published 10y
the Argus, advertising the natural
resources Of Fergus county and the
opportunity they present for the
profitable Investment Of capital, has
had his fortune told in Great Falls
by a palmist. According to this
magic reader Of the unseen Mr.. Rus
sull Is generally cultus and not good
even for drawing pictures. The
palmist has either advertised the in-
efficacy Of his science Or himself, or
said something about Russell which
has less truth In II than poetry. For
realism und faithful detail To nature
the cowboy artist has no superior.
The diagnosis brought out by the
Russell hand, according to the Great
Falls Leader, II ns follows:
Your hand lines Indicate that you
are rather dull and with difficulty
can be aroused by external causes;
you are rather cold and passiOuless
and show little spirit in anything;
you may with advantage put your
self in the way OF social excitement
and profit by mixing much with
wlde-awnkc people; your fate line re.
veals that you will have n great deal
Of trouble in the near future regard
ing relatives; yot had better change
your abode mt once and go TO the
east or south 10 avoid sorrow and
tranIIa
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1900-12-26
\ Gown, County ano state !
.

We had a white Christmas after all,
S. S. Hobson arrived in town last
week after an extended visit in the
east.
The State Teachers association will
hold its annual session in Butte this
week, from the 9Gth &c the 9sth in
elusive.
Santa Claus arrived in Lewistovn on
time Judging from the smiling faces Of
the children yesterday. The old chap
never slips a cog.
Miss Margaret Shipnanh has accepted
a position as instructor in the Bozeman
high school and will leave for the Gal
latin metropolis early next month.
A prairie fire was reported in Teton
county last week. The next thing we
are liable to hear is that flies are max
ing life miserable for the corpulent
range steer.
With sickness reducing our force, n
tax list to publish and a holiday to OBJ
serve the ARGUS is not up to the stand
ard this week. We will get strung out
again in a few days, however.
Ben Jones of Upper Cottonwood was
in town Monday. lie had just returned
from a hunt after antelope in the bad
lands, beyond the Snowies. He brought
home six rs trophies of the chase.
A letter from Commissioners Slayton
dated December 9lst states that 1.-The
Lavina bridge is we'll under way, the
piers are complete and the teams left
yesterday with the Utica bridge"
A.. ]. Shores has resigned his position
as attorney for the Great Northern
Railway company at Great Falls and is
now in Butte, where he has assumed
charge Of the affairs of the Amalgamat-
ed Copper Company as its chief counsel.
Matt. Gunton, who has returned to
MS holiS III NdldlldNpp, hlCl.. writes
under date of Dec. 18th: IL found
everybody busy here and no snow to
speak of. 1t is raining today and looks
as if we might have agreenC Christmas"
Perry +. Knox, who was a resident
of this county for a number of years,
died in Salt Lake City on the 18th inst.
of pneumonia. lie was IL years old at
the time of his death. He left a wife
and one child. Deceased was Il native
of Illinois.
Considerable material for the stamp
mill of the Spotted Horse mine at
Maiden is going in by freight team from
this city. The mine has Il good deal of
ore in reserve, on the dump and blocked
out, and hope is expressed that the
famous old bonanza will again produce
fortunes.-River Press.
In the haste incident TO publication
day the ARGUS Internationally married
off the wrong man on Tuesday of
last week. The name of the groom
should have read Clarence Barrows in,
stead of Barnes. We will make il
all right with the groom by presenting
the bride with a handsome piano on her
golden wedding anniversary-if here.
We have already adjusted matters with
Mr.. Barnes.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1900-12-26
How 10 Cure Group.

Mr.. Il. Gray, Who'll lives near Armenia
Duchess county, y. V, snys: Cham
berlaln's Cough licm'dy Is the best
medicine ! have ever used. II IL n
fine children's remedy for Group and
never fails 10 cure" When given AZ
soon M the child becomes hoarsc, or
even after the crOupy cough has de-
vclupod. it will prevent the attack.
This should be- borne in mind Hnd II
hottie OF the Cough Remedy kept at
hand ready fDr instant use assuun as
these symptoms appear. Forsalcby
G. II. Williams.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1900-12-26
REAL WHITE TRASH.
an Indiru Woman for
Her LHnd.

There is n real social problem which
has long been a source OF apprchrn,
SIGN 10 the Indians. and which. among
the other iribc., as well rs among
the thcrokccS, has undoubtedly ha,!
much 10 do with the pressure upou
The United States To declare q terri
iorial form OF government. This. SAYS
Ainslec's Magazine. Is the intcrmar-
riaTr of white men into the TRIBES far
tu other purpose than to share in thr
lands and funds Vt the nations. Tho
lands of the Indians are rich not nuI,
Tor agricultural production. but al.,
in oil and coal, and ,hc greed Of mn
whitr men tor the enterprise Of thr
industrial pioneer. 81 IN, millpr rII
thri De pr.lcrTch La. found IT, in
possible % atsfaln from exploiting
sSvh ro~.il .%ii'ir-. ~ thr lard lG,
huuu The Property oi taH la1i#... arT
q. 'hc luti.a h@, Hp Hpr so rrJu--
tr title, jln arr Alternative 'lr fN-
r'u,oitcrs la. l.U 100 ra-ry '.Eo f.~
.e.U.n md cog ra u|HvU.i.s r.r
rs'y r)'rl',. H or. t'r rafurl r
".ry .'' h'' = Nu
!'r m."H r 70 i'gn 'a"F yrr 1
. '.H "7"f o. -'nn a. Do i"raH.
'." l"-p1'| OF au l'l'a1 wrr7an Ar
game "a mrwnr OF the tribr, aHI
t,arvd cg1alIN WITH his wife AMI
r'."y Other eli 'rn uf the nation.
To prc''ut ihcs" marriages, ~
which there have been Thousands
som" - iho tribes adopted laws f>
Inr tac u'1rr'arr hc"'sn foes byuu'
tr reach cot 'br ad'cU'urrrs aud -aUi
a"ars who were ready 10 warft
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1900-12-26
The Best Plaster.

A piece Of nannel dnmpened with
Chamberlain Pain Balm and bound
to the affected parts II superior to
any plaster. When troubled with
lame buck or pains In the side or
chest give 1t a trial and you are GER
tain 10 he more than pleased with
the prompt relief which 1t affords
Pain Balm nlso cures rheumatism.
One application gives relief. Forsale
by c. III. Williams.