FREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. TIIOS?. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. One Year $1 •"*) Six Months Four Months Two Months 25 Subscribers are requested to observe tin date j following the name on the labels of their i papers. By referring to this they can tell at a glance how they stand on the books in this office. For instance: Grover Cleveland 28June94 means that Grover is paid up to Juno 28,1WM. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Report promptly to this ollicc when your paper Is not received. All arrearages must be paid when puper is discontinued, or collection will be made in the manner provided by law. A blue "X" on the paper is a reminder that your subscription is due. FREELAND, NOVEMBER 23, 1893. A people's soup ki'chen has been opened in the dreariest section of South Canal street. Soup, bread and meat are served for 1 cent, and every thing is neat and clean. Three hun dred Jewish ladies have undertaken this charitable work, ten of their number superintending the work as waitresses each day.— Chicago Stan dard. Peter E. Smith, of Philadelphia, one of the sergeants at arms of the house of representatives during the last session of the legislature, will be a candidate for common council in the twenty-ninth ward of that city.' Smith received £7 a day during the entire session and never performed an hour's work, says the Harrisburg Patriot. The souvenir Columbian coin seems to have been as great a failure as the special postage stamps. There are still half a million souvenir half dol lars on storage in Chicago, and the managers of the fair are in a quandry to know what they shall do with them. There never was any reason why the public should want either the coins or the stamps. The Philadelphia Jieeord calls upon its readers "to furnish it with all the authentic information they may pos ses in regard to the movements of a certain political conspiracy known as the American Protective Association." It denounces the order as bigoted and sectarian, and says its oaths arc such as the spirit of American liberty utterly abhors and condemns. Up in Monroe county, in the town ship of Eldred, at the recent election, out of a total vote of 15 4 only two were cast for the Republican state ticket. For many years, says the Philadelphia Times, the Republican voters of the township have consisted of only four all told, but this fall only two turned up. Iu Middle Smith field township, iu the same county, out of a total of '2!l(i votes only eleven were cast for Samuel Jackson, Re publican, for state treasurer. We can write by electricity, can Bond pictures and designs by the same agency, and talk to our friends at a distance by means of the electric wire. When the British Association visited Newcastle, Eng., says the Chronicle of that city, I'rofesßor Ber ry told his auditors that seeing by electricity was a possibilty of the fu ture, and be had shortly before drawn a picture of scientific achievements which would enable friends divided by large continents and oceans, not only to talk with each other, but to look upon their features. The great strike of the English coal miners has finally ended in a vic tory for the employes. Throughout the trouble the men acted in as order ly manner as could be expected from more than one hundred thousand people. They had the sympathy of their fellow-workers everywhere, and did nothing to cause public opinion to bo against them. Their willingness to submit their case to arbitration showed they thought their struggle against a reduction of wages a just one, and by presenting a solid front and persevering they have won tho greatest labor strike of the year. The report that the ways and means committe of the house will submit a proposition to raise revenue by a tax upon incomes is tho basis of much discussion now throughout the country. With several newepapers we notice they parade an income tax as the ideal mode of raising revenue —easy, sure and not harmful to those who would pay it. As a revenue raiser it might be an improvement on the tariff system, but it would un doubtedly place a premium on per jury. It would Ire eaiser to collect and would not bo felt by those who hayp incomes, because they could shift the tax to those men or things from which the revenue is derived. It is a step nearer direct taxation, but would not alter tho social conditions of the present. The discussion, how ever, will bring out clearer the advan tage of a tax upon the values of land. Old newspapers for sale. CONVENIENT COTTAGE. How to Build an Attractive Farm house. Cointa to Bo Considered by Those In tending: to Cut Up a Home—Arrange ments Calculated to Lighten the llouHewife'i* Labor. To build nn attractive home on i new farm site requires considerable careful thought, writes D. Coming's, in the American Agriculturist. To so place the house that it shall be convcn- ! iently situated relative to the highway, and to have it a central retreat from the farm labors, is one problem; another is to have the house well grouped with the outbuildings, and possessed of a character pleasing to the eye and in harmony with the gen- PERSPECTIVE VIEW IIP FRONT OF C'OTTAGF. eral landscape. A very plain exterior, when well screened by old trees or re lieved by varied natural surroundings, will pass criticism and be more home like in aspect than when in the midst of a treeless prairie, the monotony of which is only broken by its one divert ing object, that will always receive closer scrutiny than when the house is i set in pleasing surroundings. The de sign shown in the illustrations is for rv I farm or suburban cottage, which shall I have a tasteful outline from any point of observation, and at the same time bo compact and comparatively simple in form. It will stand gracefully alone, I or become more cozy with the yearly growth of trees and shrubbery. The I [PORCH Q Fp/ x I Lljx I 1 T\ 1 - U Roo*\ _ *■ so n B-, KITCHEN J~J I SITTING - P-Er-i / k | HOOI*\ > JJN 1 DINING p fC- / l rooJ v\ h • • TLAN OF FIRST FLOOR. main building is thirty-three by thirty* six feet, covered with a hipped roof, with various minor projections, as in dicated in the engravings, and of the size shown by comparing with the scale given. The interior is divided into well-ar ranged rooms, of a spacious, symmet rical appearance. By taking a posi tion between the two front windows of the parlor, the suite of rooms in view may become as attractive as one de sires, with proper judgment in decora ting and furnishing. On either side ' of this room an open partition, with grille and portieres, separate, it from the conservatory filled with plants on the right, andthe reception room, af fording a good place for the piano, on the left. Jn the corner is a mantel fireplace, and a similar one in the sit ting-room beyond the folding doors, with a corner closet or cupboard oppo site, forms a baj* of the three large win dows. At the left side is a large closet, while at the rear is a small sewing room, shut off by folding doors, with another closet. This room may be used as a bedroom, and, in connection with the sitting-room and the reai bedroom opening out of it, will make a convenient family suite of rooms on this floor. From the front of the house, a broad hall opens out upon the spacious porch; L 11 --4 I J JEp (JfCWM/,/ 1 BVS'ROOM' BLO&OOTY'- I\ p—t H\ PLAN OF SECOND FLOOR, the hall and the reception room at its right being lighted by colored glass windows. At the left is a good-sized dining-room; broad stairs lead to the second floor, and at the rear is a door into the sitting-room, and a cut-off passage leading to the kitchen anc 1 stairs to the basement or cellar. These stairs, being narrower than those above, afford space for broad shelves in the stairway, and also for a china l cupboard in the corner of the kitchen j near the dining-room door, which opens ! so that it cuts off much of the noise of the kitchen, and closes the view en tirely. The dining-room lias a fire place, and the kitchen range is placed at the same chimney, with boiler, sinl< and tubs arranged along near the win dows. The kitchen has two dark closets, and in the corner of the house is a large pantry with two airy win dows. An entry affords easy access from the rear porch to both kitchen and pan try, and has a large, dark storage closet by the side of the back stairs, which lead to the second floor. lp. stairs arc four bedrooms, with plenty of closet room, besides a bathroom over I the kitchen, a storage closet over the pantry and an alcove over the parlor. The bedroom over the sitting-room, i with its alcove, closets, and the adjoin j ing bedroom make very comfortable family quarters. The plan of the roof is indicated by the dotted lines, and is high enough for a ventilating loft above the chambers. The outside eel- j lar entrance is near the rear porch at the corner of the house. If the con- j servatory is not desired, it may be j easily left out of the plan, and an an- I gular wall and staircase in the hall will be less expensive than the curved style; the reception-room being thus closed off from the parlor, leaving ! space farther back in the hall for a direct parlor entrance. [Our illustra tion Fig. 1 presents a perspective view of the front of the cottage. The plan i of the first floor is seen in Fig. 2 and that jof the second floor in Fig. 3.] LENGTHENING LIFE. What the Liberal Use of Water Will Do for Mauklnd. Dr. It. 11. Dalton says that, although to suggest that methodical use of cold water as a beverage in the absence of thirst as a means of augmenting the | chance of longevity may render a man liable to be dubbed a crank, if not a lunatic, the idea has a soundly physio logical origin and is well supported by I experience. Solid and dry as the hu- I man body appears, water constitutes ! more than one-fourth of its bulk, and j all the functions of life are really car ried on in a water bath, and, although the sense of thirst may he trusted to call for a draught of water when re quired, the fluid can be imbibed most advantageously for many reasons be sides merely satisfying thirst. In the latter stage of digestion, when com minution of the mass is incomplete, it is much facilitated by a moderate draught of water, which disintegrates and dissolve? the contents of the stom ach, fitting it for emulgence and pre paring it for assimilation. Hence the habit of drinking water in moderate quantities between meals contributes to health, and indicates the fact that those who visit health resorts for the purpose of imbibing the waters of mineral springs might pi'ofit by staying at home and drinking more water and less whisky. Water is the universal solvent of nature and the chief agent in all transformations of matter. When taken into an empty stomach it soon begins to pass out through the tissues by an osmotic process into the circula tion to liquefy effete solids whose ex cretion from the system is thus facili tated. Very few people think of the necessity of washing the inside as well as the outside of the body, and he who would be perfectly healthy should be as careful about the cleanliness of his stomach as that of his skin. PRETTY EXPERIMENT. How to NLtlcn Use of llottlos Whose Necks Have Been Broken. Here is an experiment by-which you may make some use of a bottle whose neck is broken. Pour oil into the bot tle until it reaches the point at which you wish it to be cut clean through. Then place it upon a table and plunge suddenly into the oil a redhot poker. You will hear a snap, and then per- ceivc that your bottle is cut regularly TIIE BROKEN BOTTLE, through, level with the liquid which it contains. You will thus transform a broken bottle into a presentable vessel. A notched* glass may thus be trans formed into a new one. Ily removing each time a part of the oil and by cut ting the bottle every time in the man ner shown, you will get a series of glass Hugs curious to behold. A Homemade Barometer. A barometer which is said to be re liable may be made by filling a com mon wide-mouthed pickle bottle to within three inches of the top with water. An ordinary olive oil bottle is then inverted and placed within the mouth of the pickle bottle as far as it will go. In fine weather the water will rise into the neck of the flask higher than the mouth of the pickle >ottle; in wet or windy weather it will fall to within an inch of the mouth of the flask. Hefore a heavy gale of wind, and at least eight hours before the gale reaches its height, the water has, it is said, been seen to leave the flask altogether. A lilg Shower or Meteorites. Of the 14 huge masses of meteoric iron which fell on a spot less than 04 square miles in area near Fort Duncan, Mexico, the largest is bee-hived shaped and is buried five feet in the soil and rises four feet above the surface. The recond mass in point of size has been i I .^ ovt ' ( ! the National museum at I Washington. It weighs over 4,000 j pounds. The other 12 pieces weigh I from iiTJi to (150 pounds. The whole muss of fragments us mentioned above are scattered over an area of il l square miles, with Fort Duncan at about the center of the point of dispersion. Hucaramanqutna. The name in the headline is that of j a new species of fibrous mineral re cently discovered by Huuor 11. Elvoy j Valenzuola in the United States of ' ! Colombia. It has many of the remark able properties of asbestos and is per fectly transparent as well as incom bustible. It can be reduced to pulp and molded into light lire and water proof boards and shingles for houses, 'l'iie discoverer believes that it is adupt- I ed to papermaking, and that it will also tie used in the manufacture of ear | pets and clothing. Machine, Macio the Difference. When screws were made by hand five minutes were consumed in making one, and they were so expensive that wooden pins were used wherever prac tical; now by the cold-forged process a I single machine will turn out five dozer in amiuute. Had Soma Show. Rounder—l lost a thousand dollars yesterday at the races. Horse brolce down at the post. Sounder—That's nothing. I had my pocket picked this morning of twenty live hundred dollars and chased the thief for half an hour without catch ing him. Rounder—Well, you arc better off than I am. You got a run for your money.—Life. Gave Iliiimelf Away. First Waiter (at summer resort)— Can't stop to talk. I'm waitin'ou atcn dollar-a-wcek clerk at table 05. Second Waiter—How did you get his salary down so fine? First Waiter—lt ain't more than that, or he wouldn't 'a'given me such a big tip.—Good News. Her Heal Righto. Mamie—l believe in woman's rights. Gertie—Then you think every woman should have a vote. Mamie—No; but I think every wom an should have a voter. —Harper's Ba zar. Her Fear. Mrs. de Ven—Why are j*ou so anx ious to have your son marry a widow? Mrs. Malap—l'm so afraid he might make a miss-alliance, otherwise.—De troit Free Press. An Oak-Coru. "If an acorn grows on an oak tree," remarked Madge, one night, * why don't they call them oak-corns instead of acorns?"— Harper's Young People. No Room for AgnoHtlclsin. "Do you believe in dreams?" "Why, of course! I've often had them myself."—Truth. No MCAIH Shattered. She—Why don't you marry her? lie—Because it's so much more de lightful to love her!— Truth. AN ADVANTAGE. Friend—l should think it would irri tate an Irishman, with such an aversion toward anything 1 English as you hold, to have red hair. O'Toole—Yis; but think av th' plishure Oi have av cuttin' it.—Puck. Hnrreil Out. Mrs. Von Blumer—l am afraid that young man in the parlor is trying to kiss Clara. I thought I heard her cry out. Von Blumer—Heavens! let me go in there at once. Mrs. Von Blumer—You can't get in, my dear. She has locked the door.— Truth. I.lke Most. Wife—My husband is the queerest man. Friend—ln what respect? Wife—Why, before lie married me I couldn't get him to leave the house be fore twelve o'clock, and since I can't get him to come to it before that time. —Detroit Free Press. That's Different. Dick—Look here, sister, 1 can't come to my lessons just 3'et; I ain't washed. Elder Sister—All right, Dick. I'm not quite ready for you, anyway. Dick—Well, you're a nice teacher, you are! Ilere it is after ten o'clock. Come, now, you better hump yourself. —Judge. There Was a Difference. Little City Girl —How funny! You get your milk from a cow and we get ours out of a can. Little Country Girl—But it's just the same kind of milk. Little City Girl —Oh, no; I noticed a great difference right away.—Brook lyn Life. A Hint to Landladies. Mr. Kicker —This chop tastes of soap. Landlady—You are mistaken, sir. Mr. Kicker—l'm sure of it. I believe the cook runs the chops through the clothes wringer so they will spread out and look bigger.—Texas Sittings. Explained. Pike—What is the meaning of that saying: "lie gives twice who gives quickly?" Dyke—lt means that he generally gives twice as much as the fellow who doesn't give quickly.—Puck. Just Pound Out. . I cannot sing the old songs, And just 'twlxt mo and you, I'm told bv many persons that 1 cannot sing the now. —Buffalo Courier Better Than Nothing:. I Old Scads—l hope, young man, you are putting by something for a rainy day. Lightheart—o, yes, sir. I have two mackintoshes and half a dozen good umbrellas already.—Town Topics. Sunday Music. ' Mother Horrors! What in the world are you singing, and on Sunday, too? Little Boy—Oh, this song is all right. It s about the prodigal son.—Good News. Never Too I.ato to Learn. Snickson—Do you think you could ever learn to love me? Ethel— I might some time. I see Oueen Victoria is learning Hindustani ut the age of seventy.—Town Topics. A Perfect Saint. Lie—lt makes me a better man every 8 you ' d *ling. She—Ob, my, Charlie! How goodyou roust be now—Brooklyn Ute. GROWN IN WASHINGTON. CLOVER five feet high. CORNSTALKS fourteen feet high. A REET weighing thirty pounds. TIMOTIJY seven feet eight inches high. A CARRAOR weighing fifty-three pounds. A BUNCO of grapes weighing six pounds. A PUMPKIN weighing ninety-three pounds. ALFALFA from a yield of twelve tons per aero. HOPS from a yield of 0,502 pounds per acre. ONE strawberry ten inches in circum ference. A WATERMELON weighing sixty-four pounds. AN onion weighing four pounds and one ounce. AN apple weighing two pounds and four ounces. A POTATO weighing eight pounds four ounces. A RADISII weighing nine and one half pounds. A IIILL of potatoes that yielded forty three pounds. A SQUASH weighing one hundred and twenty pounds. WHEAT from a yield of sixty-eight bushels per acre. SIXTY-SEVEN pounds of potatoes from two pounds planted. OATS from a yield of one hundred ami twenty-five bushels per acre. A BLACKBERRY bush showing twenty one feet growth this year. A BRANCH from a prune tree thirty three inches long with forty-six pound:? of fruit 011 it. A PLANK fifty inches wide, thirty inches thick, thirty-two feet long, and not a knot in it. ELECTRICAL FLASHES. IN 1000 Gilbert recorded that other bodies besides amber had electric prop ertics. TESLA, the electrician, thinks he has solved the problem of transmitting electricity to a distance with little loss of power. TiiEdestructivenessof anew Gatling gun may be imagined when it is stated that it fires 8,120 shots a minute. When operated by an electric motor, it fires 5,000 shots in a minute. SAMUEL LEFFERS, an aged resident of Moraine, N. D., who has been a great sufferer from rheumatism for over twenty years, has been entirely and, it is thought, permanently cured by a slight stroke of lightning. Mil EDISON is now engaged in the construction of a magnetic ore concen trator which he expects will work a revolution in the iron business so that northern furnaces can once more suc cessfully compete with the south. TELEPHONES!ETER is the new word naming an instrument to register the time of each :onversation at the tele phone from the time of ringing up the exchange to the ringing-oif signal. Such a system would reduce rentals of telephones to a scale according to the service, instead of.a fixed charge to a business firm or occasional user alike. —Scientific American. MEANINGS OF TITLES. SULTAN, or in its older form, solden was first adopted by Ikijazet. The older title of the chief Mohammedan ruler was caliph, commander of the Faithful. THE Greek emperors of Constanti nople called themselves "Holy," and one of the official titles by which they insisted on being addressed was: "Your Holiness." COUNT dates from the later Roman empire. Before the evacuation of Britain by the Romans a count of the Saxon shore was appointed to prevent Saxon invasions. AMONO the titles of the lioinan em perors were Augustus. Crosar, Divus, I'ius, Pel in. Clemens, Tranquillus, Sanctissimus, Altissimus, Douiinus and others of similar ponderosity TIIE title of Illustrious was never formally bestowed a: a title of honor until the time of Constantino, and was then given to such princes as had dis tinguished themselves in war TIIE quaestor was,A Roman oilicial found in two or more departments. In one h ■ fulllilcd the duties of a pub lic prosecutor, in the other he bad •jharge of the public revenues. RAILROAD RATTLE. A i.of-O'.oT:vr quires fuel and labor to the value of three thousand dollars in the comv.o of a year. Tin: rail ways < f England and Scot land derive u larger revenue from their g.-.U than from their passenger trail! c, IN every mile of railroad there is seven feet and four inches that is not covered by the rails—the space left be tween them for expansion TUK Victoria railway bridge over the St. Lawrence, at Montreal, Can., contains 3.000,000 cubic feet of mason ry work and 10.500 tons of iron MosquiTOKS were unknown in Atlan ta, (la., before sleeping ears were run from Mavannuh into that city. This is evidence that mosquitoes travel first class THOUGHTS FOR IDLE MOMENT* THE older we become the more the wheels of time seeih to have been oiled WE cannot all be the nickel-plated parts of the machinery.—Endeavor ilerald. TIIE man who expects to outrun a lie had better not start with lame feet.— Rani's Horn. THE man who sets out to be a re former will never get to rest a minute. —Ram's Horn. Jon was, I admit, a fairly patient man, but he never tackled the task of putting up stove pipes. - Endeavor Herald. DKS CARTES' famous remark: "I think, therefore I am," is supplement ed by Phillips Brooks' "What I believe that I become." -Chicago Standard CASTORIA for Infants and Children. Cantor! a la so well adapted to children lhat I recommend It aa superior to any prescription known to me." H. A. ARCHKB, M. D., 11l So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. T. "The use of 'Castorla• is so universal and Its merits so well known that it seems a work of Rupererogation to endorse It. Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Castoria within easy reach." CARLOS MARTYN, D. D., New York City. Late Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church. Tmt CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORE. I Ripans Xabules Ripans Tabules act gently j i but promptly upon the liver, j stomach and intestines; cure habitual constipation and dis pel colds, headaches and fevers. 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