FREIIfiID TRIBftNE. KST AII LI SI 1121 > I 888. PUBLISHED EVERY MON'DAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY, BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY. Limited OFKICE; MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. LONO DISTANCE TELEPHONE. SUBSCRIPTION RATES FREELAND.—The TRIBUNE in delivered by carriers to subscribers in Froolandatthe rate of 12J4 cents per month, payable every two months, or $1 00 % year, payable in advance The TRIBUNE may be ordered direct form the carriers or from the office. Complaints of Irregular or tardy delivery service will re ceive prompt attention. BY MAIL —The TRIBUNE is sent to out-of town subscribers for §1.5 > a year, payable in advauce; pro rata terras for shorter periods. The dat j when the subscription expires is on the address label of each paper. Prompt re newals must be made at the expiration, other wise thu subscription will be discontinued. Entered at the Postoffloe at Freeland. Pa., EB becond-Clasr Matter, Mule all money orders, checks, etc. ,piy ihU to the Tribune I'rln Which Bill. l air to lie I'opulur Here. Japan has sent many quaint and lovely works of art to America, but none more perfect and yet more sur prising than the miniature house gar den which is to the Japanese home what the average window conserva tory is to the luxurious American mansion. The difference, however, between the Japanese and American house gar den is very great. The Oriental prod uct is a genuine garden, laid out with all the taste and science of the professional landscapist. The terri tory it covers is from four to five feet square. Such a fairy pleasure ground is called in Japan a toko-nlwa, and every well-bred Japanese family that cannot afford a domain large enough for a real garden buys a toko-niwa and sets it up in what might be called the area-way of the house, or in the family sitting room. Only recently have these exquisite miniature gardens been brought to the United States. They are delicate things to import, and as yet are very costly, for all the trees and shrubs belong to the artificially dwarfed ver dure of Japan, and only an artist of true ability and culture can construct a toko-niwa. The foundation is a square or round, shallow box. the sides of which are daintily carved. Into the box go stones and earth for the construc tion of evergreen crowned hills, beet ling crags, humpbacked bridges, peb bled paths and stretches of meadow land. Rivulets no wider than case knife blades, meander through the lawns, gurgle in rapids under the bridges and widen into lakelets where golden minnows glide and dive. There is usually a tea house on the hillside, and a bit of a temple or a shrine un der a grove of trees that tower 12 inches in the air, and in the western sense it isn't a garden at all, but a wonderful bit of natural landscape, copied right out of Japan itself, and only large enough to ornament a ta ble in the sunny corner of a room. These Japanese gardens can be kept alive and flourishing for a num ber of years if the proper care is giv en them; or if a Japanese gardener, who knows what the little plants need, is called in occasionally to re fresh the lakelets and watercourses, keep down the weeds and keep up the repairs on the tea' house and temple.— New York Sun. General Hamilton and tho Boer Mother. General lan Hamilton, while quar tered in a Boer farmhouse won the gratitude of its hostile mistress in the following characteristic way: All of his intercourse with her was carried on through an interpreter, and her answers were given with so little grace that talk was not frequent. Only once her stern face lighted: this was when he asked about her youngest fighting son, a boy of 14. Her Hps quivered; emotion was not really frozen within her. Next day the general had occasion to ride past the farm, and he called, for a moment, upon her. "Tell her," said he to the interpreter, "that we have won the buttle today." "Tell her the Dutch will certainly be beaten." "Perhaps her sons will be taken prisoners." Still no reply. "Now tell her to write down on a piece of paper the name of the young est, and give it to my aide-de-camp. Then when he is captured she must write to me, and we will not keep him a prisoner. We will send him back to her." At last her face broke into emotion. Tbe chord had been struck. —Youth's Companion. First l.ynolilnsr in France. From Montreull, a small town, comes a story of lynching of two burglars who nan incidentally assault •ed the lady of the house while her hus band, bound and gagged, looked help lessly on. It is the first lynching in France, so far as known.—New York World. A Superfluous Convenience. "Why has a man 20 pockets and a woman none at: all?" "Because if she had 40 pockets she would still carry her purso in hei hand."- --Chicago Record.