FREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURBDAY. TliO??. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year $1 50 Six Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Months 35 Subscribers are requested to observe the date following the name on the labels of their papers. By referring to this they cun tell at a glance how they stand on the books in this office. For instance: orover Cleveland 28June94 means that Orover Is paid up to June 28, 1894. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Report promptly to this office when your paper Is not received. All arrearages must bo paid when paper is discontinued, or collection will be made In the manner provided by law. A bluo "X" on the paper is a reminder that your subscription is due. FREELAND, PA.,DECEMBER7,IB93. An exchange puts it tkiß way. "The man who gets mad at what the newspapers Bay about him should re turn thanks three timeß a day for what they know about him but don't Bay." The woman who makes many sacri fices that she may contribute some thing to convert the heathen too often wears a hat to the theatre that causes a good Christian to use language (hat, it will take any heathen fourteen or fifteen years to learn. Three men in Kansas City commit ted suicide in rapid succession and all with carbolic acid. The first one having used it explains why the otherß did, for crime of this kind runs in ruts as do crimes of other kinds, and as do accidents. The proposition to make military training a part of the education of the school boys is certainly better calcu lated to inculcate a manly feeling than the encouragement of the semi prize fighting foot ball game whicb has become BO popular within a short period. It is s&id, and those who saw it are supposed to know, that the finest quality of chewing gum is made out of old rubber boots and gossamers. Now, when chewing gum think cf this, and we have no doubt that it will add to the pleasure of this fash ionable indulgence." r There are certain families living 1 foiu generation to generation without having a newspaper in the house, which is a great mistake. Every family should have a newspaper in the house to get posted of what is going on in our days throughout the length and breadth of the land. M. Lepine, chief of the police of Paris, begs the daily press of that city to refrain from publishing the pictures of anarchists. He says that vanity is a powerful motive among these people, and if newspapers cease parading them before the public their crimes will grow less in number. The alleged lightning rod agent I'B at his old trick—inducing farmers to sign a contract for rods on his place and then have some one later ilush the contract on the farmer in the shape of a promisory note for a few hundred. With some people the older a trick iB the bet' er it works. The Philadelphia Ledger wants Philadelphia to own and operate its own electrio light plant. This shows that the Ledger, if some one does not frighten it by calling names, has at least occasional glimmerings of common sense on economic questions. If some one had been indiscreet enough to hint that municipal owner ship of electric light plants would be a socialistic innovation, our truly good contemporary would have pos sibly been frightened into denouncing the innovation. A New York tariff organ, in men tioning the fact that the bank state ment issued on Saturday showed an increased of deposits of more than $12,000,000, volunteered the informa tion that this aggregation of idle cap ital was the result of the anticipation of tariff tinkering. A few months ago the same organ and others of that ilk were vigorously explaining that the currency famine of the banks was due to the same bogy. It's a poor organ that can't work its racket both ways.— llecord. There is consolation in the thought that some of the coal barons take a lively interest in the spiritual welfare of their miners, and are always ready to supply them with tickets for Y. M. 0. A.. entertainments and afford them opportunities to listen to pious advice. It will be admitted that this is thoughtful and considerate of these Christian capitalists. So that they may not fail to get dividends on their inflated investments it is necessary that they should make the miners live in a sort of hades in this world, but it will have to be admitted that they afford them a chance for heaven in the next. — K. of L. Journal. Try Fackler's home-made bread and yolls—baked fresh every morning. HINTS TO THE COOK. Poiiita to Be Observed In Prepar ing Birds for tho Table. How to Buy fiuino—When Maryland Can vaiibacks Arc the Best Why Feath ered Game Should Be Kept Three Bays Before Serving. | COPYRIGHT, 1893. | H| ||E lives long- who ~ B I lives well." To livo well, how ever, consists neifcher in Jiv * n k r JiH | expensively nor / mV, iluxuriously. But it does presup / { pose, first, that \ I I Imjl ' the head of her ,f own household and kitehen, and second, that the cook is not one of the devil's sending. You must buy with judgment, which means buy the best, and show your economy in your scientific cooking and prevention of i waste. I It is important to know how to buy I game as well as how to cook it. t4 Any feathered game," says the great Sa varian, "if eaten within three days after it has been shot has no particular flavor, lacking tho delicacy of a fowl and not having as 3'et acquired a flavor of its own. Tho proper point is when decomposition commences. It is then tender and sublime, partaking at onco of the flavor of poultry and venison." American epicures will possibly pre fer their game cooked before "the point of decomposition commences," but it is an indisputable fact that game is better not only for having been hung a moderate length of time, but it is also better for having been hung in its feathers. In the case of plucked game the contact with the air neutral izes some share of tho aroma. Place spices inside the bills of game that is to be hung for any length of time, (lame that has been overkept may be determined by tho dry and shrunken legs. Baked Quails. —These are much bet ter for first being "plumped." To do this, place them in a baking pan with slices of pork tied over their breasts; put a half cup of hot water over them, cover with an inverted pail of the same size and steam for ten minutes on top of the range; then bake twenty , minutes in a quick oven, basting well J atid frequently with butter and water. ' Trim the crusts from some slices of bread, fry in hot butter and place a • b!.-u in each slice. Accompany with ' jelly and a salad of cresses with French dressing. Potatoes a la neige or a la Paruienne, spinach, tomatoes, baked or stewed celery are the usual vegetables served with quail. With baked quail or partridges, a bread sauce is consid ered a sine qua non in England. To make this, thicken a pint of boiling milk with fine, sifted bread crumbs; Beason with pepper, salt, grated nut meg and a good-sized piece of butter, i With tills send to table a plate of 1 fried crumbs made by dropping crumbed bits of day-ohl bread into very hot fat; they should brown in stantly and be lifted ont at once with a skimmer, drained on kitchen paper and transferred to a hot dish. Place ' beside each bird a Bpoonful of the 1 white bread sauce, another of the * brown fried crumbs and one of rich, s red currant jelly. The combination is r as pleasing to the eye as to the palute. I Cutlets of Quail. —These malto a pretty and easily prepared game , course for a company dinner. Make two fillets from the breast and at the small end stick a bone from the leg; flatten to the shape of a cutlet with a rolling pin, season with salt and pep per, dip in melted butter, roll in crumbs and saute in very hot fat. Al ternate these with triangular , croutons of fried bread around a mound of green peas, beans, stewed mushrooms or potatoes a la Parisienne. A more elaborate way is to make a pint of broth by stewing the carcasses with a slice of pork and an onion. Thicken with butter and flour, color with a few drops of Tournade's kitchen bouquet, add the mashed livers that have been cooked tender in this broth, let the sauce get cold and dip the cutlets in this before frying. Bisque of Quails. —For this delicacy you rnußt be thankful to Francatelli, et apre* Jut a moi for simplifying the recipe of tho great chef for use in the ordinary kitchen, such an array of "tammies," saucepans and saueos as he calls for being enough to strike ter ror to the heart of the most willing cook. Clean six birds, making four small fillets from the breast of each; lay these aside while you break up the remaining portions of the birds and fry them lightly in a little pork fat. Cover with three pints of veal broth, add a pint of minced mushrooms, a cupful of rice, a minced onion, a sprig of parsley, a bay leaf and a pinch of thyme; simmer gently for an hour and a half, drain in a sieve and press tho rice and other ingredients through as far as possible, using the back of a wooden spoon. Put a spoonful of but ter in a saucepan, when melted stir in a spoonful of flour, and when smooth turn on the strained broth, stirring the while. Meantime cut the fillets into pieces half an inch square and fry in a little butter. Drop them in the tureen and pour the bisque over. For extra occasions three dozen little force meat balls may also be added. To make these, reserve half the fillets, chopping as fine as possible; soak and squeeze out of cold water an equal weight of stale bread. Put this in a saucepan with a tablespoonful of butter and stir until thp bread leaves the bottom and sides of the saucepan; add the yolks of two beaten eggs, the chonped quail, seasoning to taste and as much broth or white sauce as will moisten it. Drop small quantities of this on a floured board and roll into balls the size and shape of a small olive. Drop for two minutes into boiling water; lift out and lay in the tureen. Quails Braized with Peas. Truss half a dozen quails in the same way that you would a fowl for boiling; place them side by side in a stew pan with half a pound streaked salt pork cut in tliin slices, two or three stalks of celery and some parsley; cover with weak broth or water and simmer close ly covered for three-quarters of an liour. Dish the quail in a circle plac ing" them breasts outward; fill the cen ter with canned peas heated, seasoned and drained. Skim the fat from the broth, of which there should not be ' more than a pint, thicken and color ami send to table in a boat. Braized In the same way, but stuffed with stone olives, mushrooms or truffles, they are called a la perigneux. Perhaps never, unless you are a hunter yourself, will you know the delights of quails a la cendre. I first partook of them 011 a California ranch, cooked and served by the brown-eyed hunter lad who shot them. Dress and draw the birds; put the livers inside; roll them in thin slices of fat salt pork and then in well but tered white paper; cook in hot wood embers as you have baked potatoes after a bonfire during your childhood; serve them on toast with a tureen of good brown gravy. Partridges should have the breasts larded and be baked (if they cannot be roasted) in a quick oven for twenty to twenty-five minutes. Dish up on dry toast, garnish with cresses and pass tart jelly or spiced plums with them. The drippings in the pan maybe thick ened and seasoned for a brown sauce, or you can serve them with a celery sauce or on a puree of celery. Either of the two latter is especially nice with boiled partridges. The famous canvasbaclt ducks of Baltimore come from Havre de Grace and owe their superior excellence and ilavor to the wild celery on which they have fed. They are not In their prime I until the middle of December, by which time they should weigh from six to six and a half pounds the pair. The mode of procedure in cooking canvas back, redheads or mallards is the same: Pick, singe and draw the 'birds, put a pinch of salt inside and roast rare. An overdone canvasback is no better than the commonest wild duek. It is a com mon fault of the American cook to kill game with kindness, that is with cook ing. The ingenious manner in which the "baited mallards" from the smaller lakes of Minnesota and Wisconsin are fed renders them of such superior ex cellence that they may be substituted for canvasback almost without fear of detection. Corn is spread daily on the hanks of the lakes and day after day the birds return to partake of this mysteriously-sent manna, until, at last, like human epicures, they fall a prey to their love of good living, being cap tured when fat enough. To l>e sure that thoy 'have not hung too long, or been side-tracked on the way east, Ree that their eyes are bright and the webs of the feet soft. Orange is tho very epicurean sauce which even the common people receive gladly, when served with this bird. Skim off every bit of fat from the gravy in the pan after baking; thicken with a great spoonful of flour; dilute with a pint of broth and squeeze in the juice of two oranges adding tho shredded yellow rind previously boiled for ten minutes to extract the bitter flavor. Salmi of Partridges.—The econom ical housekeeper should understand the mysteries of n salad, for there is no nicer way of serving the remains of ! yesterday's birds. For a company din ner it will be well to roast the birds the day before expressly for this purpose, in order to use only the choice parts, but the manner of making is the same. Cut the meat from the birds in the neatest possible pieces and lay it aside while you boil the bones, two small onions,a bunch of herbs and a pinch of cayenne, skim tho fat from this broth. Jhicken and strain. Simmer in two dozen mushrooms for ten minutes, lay in the meat and let it get hot through; lay each piece of meat on a small, diamond shaped crouton and pour the sauee over all. For a very swell dinner there is noth ing nicer than a garnishing a la Mont gUm. Proceed as above in every partic ular except that you do not add mush rooms to the sauce. After you have dished the croutons and fillets of partridge, pour over them a garnish made as follows; Cut fine a pint of mushrooms; add two ounces of beefs tongue, two of truffles and two of white chicken meat, all cooked and cut in dice; season with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Now add two ounces of but ter and a gill of veal gravy and heat by tossing over the fire in a saucepan without allowing it to boil. Pour over the dish and salmi, turn the sauce over all. Fillets of cooked game heated for a moment on a broiler after being dipped in melted butter are delicious served on small squares of fried mush. And now before ending this gossip on game ending it, not because the sub ject is exhausted, but because the pa tience of my readers may be, let me just hint of a game salad. A portion of cold game, too small to use in any other manner, may bo so served. Cut the meat small and let it stand in a mirande of plain salad dressing for an hour before serving. Then tear up some crisp lettuce, put in the salad bowl; add the meat and cover with a mayon naise, garnishing with crumbled yolks of hard boiled eggs, the whites cut in dice and stoned olives. AI.ICE CHITTENDEN. A Ixmp Can*. A German inventor has produced an electric cane lamp. The handle of the cane contains an incandescent lamp, the two poles of which are connected with the plates of a battery. Below I this is a small chamber to carry the | battery fluid. When it is desired to use the lamp the cap is taken off and i the cauc incliuod so that the liquid it | contains comes in contact with the j electrodes. A current is thus produced, | that will, It Is asserted, keep the light going for au hour. For Her Sake. "Clarice," ho said, in a voice that was full of emotion, "I lay my fortune at four feet. And," he muttered, as an after thought, "it is no slouch of a fortune, either." "The fortune is all right, but you are very young. It will be many years be fore I am a widow." "Clarice," and his emotion almost choked him, "that shall be no obstacle. For 3'our sake I will do anything." "How can you overcome the diffi culty?" "I will (more emotion) I will smoke cigarettes."—Washington Star. Bather. Lovo unto his bosom pressed her; Hovering angels kissed and blessed hor; Morn In robes of splendor dressed her: Roses formed a couch to rest her: Whlto doves gave their down to nest hor; Music murmuring winds caressed her; Jersey skeeters feared to pester. And no babe can beat or best her— There's your bloomin' rhymes for Esther. —Atlanta Constitution. He Didn't Lose Anything. "Dear me, I ate cucumbers for din ner and I can taste them yet," ex claimed a man noted for hispenurious ness. "Well there is one comfort about it, and that is you are getting your mon ey's worth," replied his clerk. "That's so," replied the cucumber eater, with a bright sunny smile, "I didn't think of that."—Texas Siftings. A Fatal Error. Borrowes —Nellie, hand me iny um brella, will you? It has commenced to rain. Mrs. B.—l lent your umbrella to Mr. Sweetfern last night. Borrowes—What in thunder did you do that for? Didn't you know it was hi#? —Puck. A Young Philosopher. Toddles Papa, I know why the bleed comes out when I run a splinter in my toe. It's because my toe Is al ready full and it can't hold any more, so the splinter runs it over. Isn't that the reason? Papa—Yes, my son.—Harper's Young People. No Tlmfl to Lose. Mrs. Billus (leisurely packing her trunk) —What are you in such a hurry about, John? Mr. Billus—Why, blame it, Maria, I've got to shut the lid of that trunk down and lock it, and the train's due in two hours and fifty minutes.—Chi cago Tribune. Deforc the Venn# of Milo. Smithers (reading sign: "Hands off") —The poor idiots! Do they think any one could look at that statue and not know the hands were off?—Demorcst's Mngazine. AND HE WAS RIGHT. blickey Simpson—My, ef dis ain't uice! Not er soul in de house, an' t'ree lubly pies an' a big ham. lickoy, ol' boy, you's goin' ter have de greatest time yer eber had in all yer life.— ludgo. A Cure for Vanity. A mirror may be— as some one lias Bald— Of vanity tho sißn. and yet I'm sr.ro They're every one of them so truthful that '1 hey should be known as vauity's best cure. —Harper's Huzar. Knew n Thine *■ Two. Little Dot —Why isn't there any milk this morning? Mother—The milkman says his cows tre drying up. Little Dot—Oh, yes, of course. They is goin' to be dried beef.—Good News. Knew Ills Place In the World. Old Lady (severely)— Why don't you newsboys keep yourselves clean? Boy—Hull! Wot's the good of a fel ler a feelin' above his occupation?— Life. ' He Did Ills Rent. Mother—llorrors! How did 3011 tear vour clothes so? Small Boy—Ti\vin' to get over a barbed-wire fence without tearin' 'em. -Good News. No Dlaputln.'f Her. Lawyer—l'm sorry, hut hearsa3 f won't io here. We must have evidence which no one will dare dispute. Client —Heavens, man! My raotlier in-law saw it!— Truth. Real Hone of Contention. "Come, Gerald, forgive mo for nyv •ruel words." "It's not your cruel words; it's the price of 3'our bonnet." —Forgot-Me-Not The Only Way. Judge—Discharged! But don't let me see you here again. Graduate O'Taff—'Tis me wud be sorry to see yer 'oner resign!— Life. The Only ProfnmlKy. Spatts—There is some tiling very pro found about Codling. Bloobumper—You allude to his igno rance, of course?— Judge. Tit for Tat. Clerk at tho Desk —This is a bad half-dollar, sir. Jones—That's all right. I had a bad dinner, too.—Life. Skim ploy's Coinpensnt Sons. Bessie—That 3*oung Mr. Sldmpl *y has over a million. Kitty (looking over him) —Well, he needs it!— Vogue. A Comforting Thought. "A few million years hence tho sun will give out no more lieat." "Well, most of ue won't bo in need of heat. "-Lite. WORD HISTORY. TEA is a Chinese word. (JKASE is of Russian origin. GIN was first made in Geneva. ACIIK formerly meant any field. VILLAIN was formerly a farmer. PILLOW lace is made on a pillow. CANDY was first made in Candia. GUINEA fowls came from Guinea. FIIIKZE first came from Friesland. PECK was once only a poke or bag. LEMONS originally came from Lima. FLORINS were first made in Florence. HUZZY is a corruption of house wife. APOCRYPHA means hidden or spuri ous. MAGNETS were discovered at Mag nesia. TULLE was Invented at Tulle, in France. CANARIES came from the Canary islands. GILLYFLOWER is a corruption of July flower. TABOO and tattoo are of Polynesian origin. SARSANET was first made by the Saracens. FAREWELL means, may you fare or travel well. BROADCLOTH took its name from its unusual width. FETISH and zebra are from a dialect of South Africa. NAMING THE STATES. VERMONT is French (verd mont), sig nifying green mountain. VIRGINIA got its name from Queen Elizabeth, the "virgin queen." DELAWARE derives its name from Thomas West, Lord de la Ware. MARYLAND was named in honor of Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I. MASSACHUSETTS is an Indian word signifying "country about the great hills." THE real name of Connecticut is Quon-oh-ta-but. It is a Mohican word and means "long river." NEW HAMPSHIRE takes its name from Hampshire, England. New Hampshire was originally called Laconia. RnoDE ISLAND gets its name because of its fancied resemblance to the Island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean. NEW YORK was so named as a compli ment to the duke of York, whose brother, Charles 11., granted him that territory. NEW JERSEY was named for Sir George Carteret, who was at that time governor of the island of Jersey in the British channel. MAINE takes its name from the prov ince of Main in France, and was so called as a compliment to the queen of Charles 1., who was its owner. FRESH FACTS FROM EUROPE. . No LESS than gallons of beer were imbibed in Europe last year. CUTTING off the hands and feet as a punishment was practiced in every country in Europe but England two centuries ago. THE paper money Issued by the first French republic fell to less than 1 per cent. A pair of boots cost 7,500 francs; a pound of butter, 750. A LAW has been enacted in Germany which requires that all drugs intended for internal use shall be put up in. round bottles, while those for external j use shall be put up in hexagonal bot- ' ties. IN an out of the way nook in tlWi British museum the sightseer is eon fronted by a dust-covered object which at first sight would be taken for a gi gantic millstone. But it is not. It is one of the most sacred oriental relics in existence—the tomb of Alexander the Great. STRANGE BUT TRUE. THE most extensive mines are tlinse of Saxony; the galleries have 138 rrntle* of length. THE Chinese language is spoken by the greatest number of people, over 400,000,000. THE deepest coal shaft in America Is at Pottsville, Pa. In 1885 it had reached 1,570 feet THE longest river is the Mississippi and Missouri, considered as one; about 4,800 miles. THE oldest library is that of the Vati can. It was originally founded by Au gustus Crnsar. THE highest bridge is near Bradford, Pa. It has u span of 2,051 feet and is 801 feet high. THE lowest body of water is the Dead sea, nearly 1,800 feet below the level of the sea. EDUCATIONAL NOTES. THE science of geometry is ascribed to the Egyptians. THE first magazine for the blind was printed by Rev. W. Taylor in London in 1855. PRINTINO in raised characters for the use of the blind was first done at Par is in 1780. THE Israelites learned surveying from the Egyptians, who had practiced it for ages. THE first school for the training of the blind was established at Paris by Ilauy in 1784. THE first regular effort to Instruct the deaf and dumb was by Pedro de Ponce, a Spanish monk, in 1570. JEDGE WAXEM'S PROVERBS. THE Amerikin eagol can't rite hlu name. MOST party platforms is ramshackly in places. SOME statesmen ought to be faimua fer ther efferts to be. IT'S a long time between eleckshuns todefeeted candidates. UNITED STATES senaters has ther weaknesses like human bein's. IT looks, sometimes, ezef the palajuro uv our libbertics wuz In the hands uv monopperlists. WHKN you and a congressman that don't like to read his name In the nuse- i papers pint bU*t out. CASTORIA for Infants and Children. "Ontorl* is so well adapted to children that I recommend it u superior to nj prescription known to me." H. A. ARCHIH, M. D., 11l So. Oxford Bt, Brooklyn, N. T. " The use of ' Castoria 1 is so universal and its merits so well knowu that it seems a work of supererogation 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. THB CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STRRRT, NEW YORK. I I CURB THAT ' Cold i II AND STOP THAT 11 ii Cough, ji i N. H. Downs' Elixir] | II WILL DO IT. ' II ' | | Price, 25c., 50c., and SI.OO per bottle.) | j | Warranted. Bold everywhere. \ I | . HI ITS?, JOENCOH ft LOSS, Propi., Darlingtcn, Vt. { | Sold at Schilcher's Drag Store. W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE niVVtp. Do you wear them? When next In need try a pair* Best In the world. #2.50 ; lf you want a fine DRESS SHOE, made In the latest sty les, don't pay $6 to SB, try my $3, $3.50, $4.00 or $5 Shoe. They fit equal to custom made and look and wf iar as well. If you wish to economize In your footwear, do so by purchasing W. L. Douglas Shoes. 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