<$S l ßt WlNtlf What is Celery King? It 1b an herb drink, and is a positive cure for constipation, headache, nervous disor ders, rheumatism, kidney diseased, and the various troubles arising from a disordered stomach and torpid liver. It is u most agreeable medicine, and is recommended by physicians generally. Itemember, it cures constipation. Celery King is sold in 25c. and 50c. pack ages by druggists and dealers. 1 Dry Goods, Groceries and Provisions. j I SBROTHERH 003 HATS C u A celebrated brand of XX Hour always in stock. Roll Butter and Eggs a Specialty. AMANDUS OSWALD, N. W. Cor. Centre and Front St*., Freeland. P. F. McNULTY, FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Rmbalmlng <>f female corpses performed exclusively by Mrs. P. F. McNulty. Prepared to Attend Calls Day or Night. South Centre street, Freeland. HOW NUGGETS GROW. A Chemist Shows That Gold Exists In r Soluble Form. it Is generally supposed that the nug gets which are found in the river grav els of Klondike and other auriferous regions have been brought down by the rivers direct from the reefs in which the gold originally lay. Many practical miners and scientific men, however, have long been of opin ion that this cannot be the ease, for no masses of gold of so large a size were ever found in the reefs themselves. They believe, on the other hand, that the nuggets have grown where they are now found, just as a crystal of salt will grow in a strong brine; but with so insoluble a substance as gold it was difficult to understand how such growth could take place. Experiments carried out in Australia have shown that decaying vegetable matter will cause the deposition of gold from solu tions of gold salts, but these salts are not known to occur in reefs. The mystery Is now solved. A Sla vonic chemist named Zzigmedy has just shown that gold itself can exist in a soluble form. By acting on a slightly alkaline solution of a gold salt with formaldehyde and submitting the prod uct to dialysis, he has succeeded in ob taining gold in a colloidal condition, in which state it is soluble in water and may be precipitated by the addition of common salt. It is probable that some of the gold in quartz feefs exists in this condition. It is washed out by the rain, carried away iu solution by the rivers, and deposited in the river gravels wherever there is anything containing salt to cause its precipitation. In the course of age 3 a large nugget may in this way be formed. The Flying Fox. The flying fox is a very curious In habitant of the forests near Moreton Bay in East Australia. It lives in flocks and moves generally toward the dusk of the evening, and the noise produced by the heavy flapping of the so-called wings is very singular. The flocks like quiet places, where there are large Araucarian pine trees, with an under wood of scrub and creepers. The foxes hang in vast numbers from the horizontal branches of the pine trees. When thero is a clear space among the trees, an enormous number of the animals may be seen, and their noise can be heard, for directly they see any thing unusual they utter a short bark, something like the sound made by young rooks. Often every branch is crowded and the flying foxes are seen either flapping their wings and hold ing on with their hind feet, and with their head downward, or snarling and fighting for places. Suddenly the whole take to flight and flap their furry, wing-like sides and wheel around like heavy birds. Many fly with their young holding on to them. The creature is not a trie fox and there is a fold of skin which reaches from the fore to the hind,legs. This is called ttie wing, and it enables the pteropus, as the animal is called, to float and turn in the air. FREELAND TRIBUNE. Established 1988. PUBLISHER EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY TIIE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. I LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE. SLJIISCKIL'TION KATES: • mo Year .... $1.50 Six Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Mouths 25 The date which the subscription is paid to is on the address label of each paper, the chantrc j of which to a subsequent date becorut-s u i receipt for remittance. Keep the figures In | advance of the present date. Keport prompt ly to thisoflice whenever paper is not received i Arrearages must be puid when subscription is discontinued. Make ail money order*, check*, etc.. payable t< he TrUiunc Printing Company, Limited. Fit EE LAND, PA., MAY 11, 1801). ! Oil on Country Highways. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. The new experiments in making good roil els by sprinkling petroleum over j ordinary graded dirt roads have been. . ; according to all reports, astonishingly I successful. The results are astonishing j principally because of the novelty ol the idea. It is true that petroleum ha* i ' been used for several summer seasons j for the sprinkling of tho beds of rail- 1 \ roads, and it was but a step further to 1 \ apply tlie oil to the country highways. I Nevertheless, the degree of success that j has attended this latest development in j j the use of petroleum has been so amaz- I ing to the highway authorities through out the country that their incredulity is only being slowly overcome. The results of the application of oil to ; 1 the country roads appear to be an f almost permanent laying of the dust in ] dry weather and an entire prevention of ' mud In wet weather. There is involved lirst a proper grading and draining of the dirt road In order that the rain ' which falls upon the surface may have J an opportunity to run oil". The rain | i will not sink through the oiled surface I ' into the road bed. and if there are I i hollow places in tho surface of an oiled ( 1 road the rainfall will lie there until it j 1 evaporates. < The affinity of the oil for the earth is reputed to be so great that an hour or so after the road lias been sprinkled with oil no traces of grease can he found i upon the shoe soles of a person walking . upon the highway and no injury what over is done to the tires of bicycles. Tho economy and ease with which oi. can bo applied to tho surfaces of on: dusty or muddy highways promise a relief from the nuisance of had roads in ; those sections of tho country where it I lias not yet been found possible to build stone roads. When the dirt road is exactly in the right condition it is superior to any stone road that can h built because of the absence of noise, the absence of shock and injury to tin* horse, and the smoothness of the sur face. llut the dirt road is almost never in exactly the right condition. If an infrequent sprinkling with oil will keep it so, then a simple, hut most important discovery has indeed been made. Tho experiment with oil upon the highways have been made in the middle West, where, during the past winter a-, unheard of comfort has been attained upon highways that heretofore have been a bar to business and a ban upon all social life. The news should he car ried to the East as rapidly as possible. A Dlsrrgarri of Public Service. From Philadelphia City and Stnte. If Governor Stone carries out his al leged intention of removing Dr. J. T. Rot brock from his post on tiie State Forestry Commission, he will merit, and doubtless obtain, execration from every lover of the public welfare. No more valuable public servant Is to be found in Pennsylvania today than Dr. Roth rock. He lias done more for the forest interests of the state than any other single man in it. To remove him in the interest of the corrupt Quay machine would evince on Governor Stone's part a disregard of tho public service oven more striking than that shown by the appointment of T. Larry Eyre as cus todian of the public building at Harris- | burg. It is not so bad, bad though that be, to appoint a time-serving politician to office as to remove a man whose service is of the utmost value to the state. Postmaster General Smith is not the ' kind of a roan to make blunders, but tho general verdict of the press of the United States is that ho made a huge one when he ordered the Atkinson pamphlets to be withdrawn from the/ Philippine mails. Documents which ai " part of the Congressional Record are queer things to choose upon as objects of the administration's anti-expansion hatred, and when a pamphlet advising volunteer soldiers to not re-enlist, in the Philippines causes such a sensation among the Haunacrats of the conntrv, it is proof positive that their expansion | twaddle rests upon very slim ground. PROOF TO THE CONTRARY. | j It Roally Looked at Though the Bald Young Alan Had Lied. i The prematurely bald young man. with a downy white mustache, had been doing his best to make a pro- I found impression on his rural relatives There was no reason why he should do this except in obedience to a natu ral tendency which is second only to j that of self-preservation, the desire to show off. The old gentleman with heavy-soled boots and a black string uecktie had listened silently for a long time. He broke iu on the series of travelers' tales with the remark. : I "It kind o* beats my time that the : west end o' this continent should be so different from the east." "Oh. if you haven't traveled much and don't know the difference, this part of the world is all right," was the answer. "Yes. But it oughtn' to be so misre presented. They ought not to com plain that the East has gone an' organized monopolies to gobble every thing worth bavin, when the West has all the geysers an' the petrified forests and the trees tnat you can drive a horse and wagon through, if you can find an augur big enough to make the hole. I know its all truth fur I've seen pictures of those things in the geogra phies. But this lake you was telling about I can't help tliinkin' you got imposed on soniliow there." "You mean the ureat Salt lake in Utah. It's there. I saw it with my own eyes. "The lake that's so salt fish can't live in it?" "Certainly." "An' when you went bath in' you found the water so salt that you couldn't sink if you tried." "Yes 'indeed. And what's more ' "Hold on. I'm not doubting your veracity. I don't say you don't tell every bit of this in good faith. I've had the same kind of experiences. One time I was in a room where breakfast had just been set, and although I was a stranger in the house, 1 walked up and took a fried egg off the plate with a spoon and put it in my mouth. Imagine ray surprise when I immediately began to raise up and toward the ceil in'. It was amaziu' how fine 1 lion ted. My wife an' the girls were just as surprised as I was when they came in an' saw me, and I'll never forget now funny they looked hoppiu' lip into the air tryin- to do the same tiling After a while I wanted to get down, but I couldn't make it. I began to get worried. I started to call for help and accident ally bit into the egg. As soon as 1 did so I was gently lowered till I had the use of both feet as usual. And it all seemed so real that when I got up the next morning I thought eatin' break fast an' fecdiu' the pigs must he a dream." "But, my dear sir " "It's all right. I don't attach any blame to you. But you can't make mo believe that anybody could bathe in water as salt as you say that was and come home so uncommon fresh. It couldn't he done."—Washington Evci> ing Star. The Officer'* Hall. Bare Compliment. "Those are remarkably fine biscuits of yours, my door,' said Mr. North side, us he balanced a specimen on the tip of his flutter. Mrs. Northsidc flushed with pride. "It is so good of you to say so," she murmured. "Yes, indeed," the wicked man went on, "I have rarely seen any so heavy for their size."—Pittsburg Chronicle- Telegraph. No Doubt of It. "Say," asked the Governor, on meet ing a warm admirer from a rural vil lage, "has that Incendiary that I par doned at your request shown satisfac tory evidence o. reform?" "The very strongest possible, Gover nor. He's at the head of our volun teer tire company."—Detroit Free Press. Kljhl. "Tommy." said (lie teacher to n pupil in the juvenile class, "what is syntax?" j "I guess it must he a tax on whis key," replied Tommy. And the teacher thought he was en titled to a credit ol KM) per cent.—Buf falo News. Assortment. Mrs. Brown—l was in the new drug store to-dny. It's just lovely! I Mrs. Jones-Yes? Mrs. Brown—Yes: they have six dif ferent shades of pills! A Woman's Answer. "Evelyn, would you rather be right J or be popular?" I "I would rather be good-looking and j rich." Valuable. "Do you believe in the value oi fresh air?" "I do. indeed. 1 spent a week intl mountains, and it cost me .$2(10." Cltnxlnir the Growler. "I will now," said Weary Wntkinr. I as lie crawled out of the loft a | seized his trusty can, "I will now in dulge in the pleasure of the chase." SHARP POINTS. An unwelcome juest Is one of the best things going. Paradoxical as It may seem, silence ' speaks for itself. The queen of the tea table not only ; reigns but she pours. The occasion is always around some- j where when it is required. Marriage isn't spelled m-i-r-a-g-e 1 j but that is often what It is. For every consulate there are many j diseonsolates, says an oiflce-seeker. Our own faults always look small in comparison with those we see in oth ers. The man who dwells in other people's memories has to pay exorbitant rent, j A little child can discover more stray sunbeams than a grown person can. j The hunter who is chased by a bear | is lucky if he comes out ahead of the game. A woman confers upon herself a i doubtful honor when she reforms a man by marrying htm. "The stars are peeping," says a poet, i Well, that's what the peephole In the drop-curtain is for. And now it is reported that a St. Louis woman died from pneumonia | contracted while attending a faith cure meeting. The evolution of the worm results in a butterfly. A can of dynamite at- ! tacked by a goat will also make the 1 butter fly. PR'EC OUS STONES. All precious stones are purified by a bath in honey, according to an old idea. Many curious notions are cur rent in regard to gems. It is said that the agate quenches thirst, and if put into the mouth allays fever. Amber is a cure for sore throats and glandular swellings. Cat's eye is a charm against witch craft. Coral is a talisman against thunder j and evils by flood and field. Diamonds produce somnambulism aud spiritual ecstasy. Emeralds, friendship and constancy. Garnets preserve health and Joy. The onyx is apt to cause terror to the wearer as well as ugly dreams. Opals are fatal to love and bring dis cord to giver and receiver. Sapphires impel the -Wearer to all good works. The topaz is said to he a preventive to lung troubles and imparts strength. DEVIOUS DEFINITIONS. Divorce—The cold lunch that follows love's banquet. Humility—The uniform worn by hyp ocrites on dress parade. Whistling—The transformation of a popular air into an ill wind. Abuse —The penalty an eminent man is compelled to pay the public. Love—Something that makes the heart flutter and the tongue flatter. Critic —A man who can see no merit in anything he doesn't do himself. Anxiety—The cause of more brain trouble than anything else except love. Logician—An individual who can fig ure out anything to his own satisfac tion. Language—Something used by law yers to conceal the thoughts of their clients. Timetable—The one you acquire by paying for it on the weekly installment plan.—Chicago News. IrONICAL IFS. If you don't keep a secret it's no longer a secret. If you can't have what you like try to like what you have. If we could neither laugh nor cry life would not be worth living. If a man would get along smoothly he should do his level best. If you trust to luck for happiness you'll be In luck when you get it. If a man has common oense he sel dom makes use of it in a love affair. It a man ever indulges In mature de liberation it's when he has a note to meet. If the day breaks before you get up you should not expect to find the whole day before you. If you think you resemble a great man say nothing. The resemblance may cease the moment you open your mouth. —Chicago News. | WHY? Why isn't the shepherd's crook a ram-rod? Why isn't the carrier pigeon a feath er-duster? Why isn't the detective's salary al i ways spot cash? i Why hasn't there been pay-meant if i a man meant to pay? Why isn't the average dime novel a [ sort of blood relation? Why isn't it a milk-shake when the milkman forgets to call? ! Why isn't the leaden hour entitled to | the heavyweight championship? Why is it we seldom see a family enter at a door labeled "Family En j trance?" j Why doesn't some enterprising cigar - | ette manufacturer give away a fresh | lung with each package?— Chicago ! News. MERCANTILE DEFINITIONS. i Bookkeeping—forgetting to return ; borrowed volumes. Double entry—charging the same thing twice. Single entry—charging a man with j goods, but not crediting the cash he | pays for them. A ledger—a countlDg house compan ion upon which people often spend Iheir entire fortunes. A promissoiy note —aconptanco of an j invitation. A foreign draft—a glass' of cognac. •> BEARS SLY AS FOXES. They Throw lump. ..f Ice at Weir usee t Stun and Ci pture Them. In his native h< me the polar bear ] does not often me it with small boys anxious to treat hi; a to buns and other dainties. The consequence is that! Bruin has to devise many curious ways of securing his food, and none are more strange and interesting than that re- j lated by two trust vorthy travelers in Greenland, that country of strange sights. They have known the polar bear to take a stone or a huge lump of ice in his fore paws and from a favorable height, as a cliff <>r a precipitous ice hill, to hurl the missile down upon the head of a walrus —an enormous brute, often twice the size of the bear—and so stun him that Bruin could rush in and complete the destruction at his leisure, thus securing a month's rations. The most useful food of the Ice bear, as the Germans very appropriately call this beast, is the common seal of the arctic regions. Tbe latter is the wari est animal of the north, and both Es kimo and polar boar need their best strategy to catch it. In the summer time, when the snow is off the ice of tiie ocean shore and Islets, the seals can be plainly seen as black dots on the ice, probably asleep, but always near their holes, which lead down through the thick ice to the water below, and into which they can throw themselves by the least move ment. Bruin, seeing one afar, walks up as near as he deems safe, and then begins crawling on his wary prey. The seal, if the weather be sunny and pleasant, takes short naps, relieved by shorter moments when it is scan ning the vicinity fcr signs of the ene my's approach. During these times the bear is very quiet and as still as death itself, with eyes " apparently closed, though reaily a corner of each is kept open, and in this way he hopes the seal will take him for a heap of snow, an appearance which his coat readily helps him to assume. During the naps he creeps forward with greater or less rapidity, according to his nearness to the seal aud conse quent fear of being seen or heard. When but ten or twelve yards away, and the seal Is in the depths of a good nap, the bear rushes upon him, and with a single blow of his powerful paw knocks the smaller brute senseless and so far away from the hole that he can not escape by that way, even if the blow received is not immediately fatal. In winter time the ice is covered with snow, and this is hollowed out by the seal into a snow house, cover ing the hole in the ice and connecting at the top of the dome with an aperture about the size of a shilling, called the blow hole, for it is through this that the seal breathes when he is in want of fresh air. Here the bear watches for many a long hour, if necessary, and when the snorts of the seal are heard he crushes in the fragile dome of the snow house with his paw, impaling the seal on his curved claws, and proceeds to practi cally demonstrate how polar bears can subsist in an arctic winter. Ingenuity of tlir Tnliltuiia. The Tahitans are said to be the peo ple most serviceable to the traveler. They seem, in fact, to command at all times the principal conveniences of life. Half an hour of daylight Is sufficient for building a house of the stems and leaves of the fehi-banana. and fire is produced by rubbing sticks. If the running water is deeply sunk among stones by working in banana leaves they bring it to the surface. The chase of eeis, which in those dripping mountains become almost am phibious, offers another instance of their ingenuity. They tear off with their teeth the fibrous bark of "puran" (Hibiscus til laceus), and a moment after apply it to noosing small fish. If one Is sent for fruit he will us ually makes a baeket on the way by plaiting segments of a docoanut leaf. A mat will be manufactured with al most equal ease. Clothing is always at hand, and aba; ana leaf serves for an umbrella. Tumblers and bottles are supplied by s'ngle Joints of the bamboo, and casks and buckets by the long stems, and wr.ether you ask for a hatchet, knife, spoon, toothbrush, or wash basin, the guides will never be found at a loss. An Ena'lish Idvrrll.eni.nl, The following advertisement is from a paper published la the north of Eng land: "To Let—A house in Melville street, situated immediately alongside of a fine plum gar 'en, from which an abundant supply o' the most delicious fruit may be stolei during the season. Rent low, and the greater part taken in plums." Where There Are Nu Inni. In some of the Isss accessible parts of Norway visited l y tourists there are no inns in the vii.ages. The govern ment has now decided to grant in such cases a certain annual sum to the own er of a spacious house in each village, the proprietor agreeing, in turn, to ac commodate four or more guests if call ed upon. The Kslfiv In Italy. A Lega Contro 11 Coltello (league against the knife) has been formed among the worklcgmen of Rome, its object being to aid in enforcing the law against the cairying of that weap on. Knives are tte instruments used in the perpetration of upward of 4,000 homicides in Italy annually. To Make n C\ m Inn ore Slinwl. The constant lalsor of four persons for an entire year is required to pro duce a cachmere shawl of the best quality. . . a rfljjii % fTaap-iafp^j I KEEPING IN TOUCH. 1 HI We keep in touch with the markets. We rjpj keep in touch with the styles. We keep in touch S with the public by a careful study of their wants, [5 and supply those wants in a satisfactory manner. (jjrj We're wide awake to every move that is going to be [®J of mutual benefit to the store and its patrons. We fSj want you to have the newest and best in Hats, gjl Shoes and Gents' Furnishings, and we don't want t] you to pay one cent more for it than it is worth. S Our constant effort is to improve qualities and keep I® down prices to their lowest legitimate level. Don't fffl I you think it will pay you to trade in a store of this fsi| kind? laa. Hats, for Instance, k|j We have several well-assorted lines which we [ra place before our patrons without evasion or subter- , fuge. Some we will guarantee, some we will not. rjpj We show you the difference in qualities, as well as S the difference jn prices. No deceptive practices S permitted in this store. Should you desire a [£] GOOD, WELL-MADE HAT, 1 g BLACK DIAMOND. 1 P Only $2.2E. P 5 Our $2, 5t.75, $1.50, $1.25 and Si Hats are of jS value in proportion to the price charged, beginning [E: I® with a fine, serviceable Hat at Si, and raising in [ffj M quality and durability as the cost increases. Dun- raj Si lap and Yournan Shapes in Stiff Hats, and a Full gjjj npj Line of Crash, Fedoras, Felts, Alpines, Etc. Hats [3] Lq and Caps for Boys and Children in profusion. '-j P Slioe Department. P P \M 3 Let us sell you a pair of our Summer Shoes. }=h| S We have Men's and Boys' in Black and Russet, Lace I® and Congress, All Styles, All Prices, and we give 1® M our guarantee that you will get your money's worth fra ffil in the wearing. Is not this a fair offer? Come and ] np] see us and we will tell you more about Our Shoes. rjpj McMEN AMIN'S Gents' Furnishing, Hat and Shoe Store. 86 CENTRE STREET, FREELAND. M Word of Warnin The trouble with thousands of women is not "female weakness," although many physicians suppose it is. The real trouble lies in the Kidneys, Liver and Bladder. Doctors often fail to effect a a cure, simply because they don't give the right remedy. Women as well as men can ascertain for them selves if their Kidneys are diseased. J S Simply fill a bottle or glass tum l / > / / bier with urine and let it stand a ~\\n Jl / / day and a night. If there is a -xsSy ] 3ediment at the bottom, something is / wrong with the Kidneys. If there is a ' ,' S Hi „ W /\ desire to urinate often—if there is a /77 1 \ J in the small of the back—if the urine stains linen—lookout! The Kidneys aro ! \ A \ Ladies can take Dr. David Ken j® J !~^ yL W| nedy'a Favorite Remedy with perfect aB- Mr surance of relief. It will cure them of Kidney, / n A Liver and Bladder disorders jnst as certainly IfU! ' fOJ ,LT as it cures men. I A'rs- G. W. DAVENPORT, of West Troy, WfflaßMHh N. Y., says: "I was troubled with my Kid ney \| nd suffered intense pain in my back and . MwHmßmhSi loins. The wife of Dr. Robinson, pastor of the /i'J%rjßk J First Avenue Methodist Church, recommended WMprijj "4ft Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy. JeL lfP*w Wfr q I K°f some, and have used it ever since, with SSf Skr/vP ' the result that lam greatly benefited. All pains have left me, and I am like another person." Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy is a perfect blood and nerve medicine. It restores the liver to a healthy condition and cures the worst cases of constipation. It is a certain cure for all diseases peculiar to females. Sample Bottle Fa*ee Favorite Remedy is such a certain cure that the DR. DAVID KENNEDY CORPORATION, Rondout, N. Y., will forward, prepaid, a free sample bottle to every sufferer who sends his or her full postofKce address and mentions this paper. The fact that our liberal offer appears in this paper is a guarantee of its genuineness. All druggists sell Favorite Remedy at SI.OO a bottle. DePIERRO - BROS. -CAFE.- Corner of Centre and Front Street*. Freeland, Pa. Finest Whiskies in Stock. Gilwon, Dougherty, Kaufor Club, Homubluth's Velvet, cf which we h re EXCLUSIVE SALE IN TOWN. Mutant's Extra Dry Chauipugne, Hennessy ltrandy, llluokberry, Gins, Wines, Clarets, Cordials, Bto. Imported and Domcatic Cigart. OYSTERS IN EVERY STYLE. Ham and Schweitzer Cheese Sandwiches, Sardines, Etc. MEALS - AT - ALL - HOURS. Ballcntine and Hazioton beer on tap. Baths, Hot or Cold. 25 Cents. Ea Beat ( odfc'h Syrup. Tusten Hood, Uao gl Anyone tending a ketch and deem lotion may qnlokly ascertain our opinion free whether on invention la probably patentable. Communion tionastrictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sunt frco. Olilost nusncy for securing patents. Patents taken through Mur.n St Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illnatrated weekly. Largest cir culation of uny Htilentitle journal. Terma, 58 a year: four months, $L Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN & CQ, 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 825 F St., Washington, D. C. D * D favorite K^sßcmcdv The one sure cure for J The l\idney§liver and Blood
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