FREELAND TRIBUNE. Zstablishol 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY. BY THB TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. FREELAND.—The TRIBUNE is delivered by carriers to subscribers iu Freelatid at the rate ol' cents a month, payable every two months, or $1.50 a year, payable in advance. The TRIBUNE may be ordered direct from the carriers or from the office. Complaints of irregulur or turdy delivery service will receive prompt attention. BY MAIL.—The TRIBUNE is sent to out-of town subscribers for si. 50 a year, payable in advance; pro rata terms for shorter periods. The date when the subscription expires is on the address label of each paper. Prompt re newals must bo made at the expiration, other wise the subscription will be discontinued. Entered at the Postofllee at Freeland, Pa., as Second-Class Matter. FREELAND. IJA.,1 J A., DECEMBER 10.1901. QNION^^ABED> U A LITTLE NONSENSE. Dead Johnny's Sister After All His Christmas Presents. Missionaries to faroff lands, and especially those who have labored among people whose principal arti cle of diet is rice, are apt to refer to their lukewarm converts as "rice Christians," because the converts so termed care much more for the ma terial than the spiritual food that the missionaries dispense. Some thing of the same spirit animates Christians, young aud old, in this corner of the world, particularly at holiday time, and among the youn ger element when Christmas trees and gifts are in order. The story told recently by a Sunday schol teacher is an illustration. A couple of weeks before Christ mas one of the small boys in this teacher's class contracted pneumo nia and died. He was much be loved, and his death was felt by his classmates and the workers in the school. His name was on the list for a handsome gift at Christmas, nnd the superintendent of the school decided that it would be a graceful thing, and the boy's family would doubtless appreciate the act, if the gift set apart for the boy were sent to his home, to be given to a youn ger brother or disposed of as his par ents thought fit. When the gift distribution was in progress, a sis ter of the little fellow, also an at tendant at the school, was asked to take his gift home. She received it in silence and stood around with an expectant air. At last the teacher remarked: "What is it you are wait ing for, Lucy? You have received your gifts and Johnny's also." "Yes'm, I know; hut doesn't Johnny get a box of candy too?" Johnny's sister got the candy. Brooklvn Eagle. Too Much Faith. "So the glasses don't help your eyes at all ?" "Not a bit. And the fellow that sold 'em to me told mo they surely would." "And you believed him?" "Of course I believed him. What do you think I'd better do about the matter?" "Oil, there ain't anything to do about the glasses you've got, but be fore you buy any more you'd better take the faitli cure."—Chicago Fost. The Way to a Woman's Heart. First Tramp—Why, 'ow did she come to give you so much as a sliil lin' ? Second Tramp—She arst me 'ow old 1 wuz, and I told her I wuz old enough to be her grandfarver. Alluring. "Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Torkins, "1 wish you would let me go where the bookmakers are." "Into the betting ring?" "Yes. I saw it from a distance. The way those people are hustling and jamming one another makes me think that there must be some splen did bargains there."—Washington Star. Tree ornaments at Helper's. OASTORIA. Bean the The Kind You Have Always Bought ALL OVER THE HOUSE. Something About Rugs, Which Have Displaced Carpets. Rugs have largely displaced car pets in American homes of recent years. The modern hygienic housewife insists upon having movable floor coverings because they can be kept so much cleaner. For people who rent, too, rugs are found in the long run to be cheaper, because with a change of residence they can be more easily fitted than a carpet to the new floors. There are a few facts which the woman who buys rugs for her house needs to know. Persian rugs lead all the rest in artistic design as well as coloring. Ten dollars is what a square foot of the best Per sian rug is worth, and it took a sin gle weaver twenty-three days to complete that portion. The Turkish rugs from Siwas are made of wool and are woven in al most every hamlet and home. Ev ery poor family has as a part of their house furnishings rugs which are very valuable, but which they will not part with except in time of the direst need. The Smyrna rugs are compara tively inferior in quality. Their name is derived from the mart to which they are brought for sale. They are made in the interior from the Angora goat's coarse hair. Yuruk rugs are made by a band of nomads in the mountains of Ana tolia. These are rugs of firm, even texture woven from the wool of the fine flocks of sheep. A Nut Pudding. A rich and delicious dessert and one easily served, which is a great consideration, is a nut pudding. To make it beat separately the yolks and whites of six eggs. To the yolks add one and a half cups of granulated sugar, and to the whites, beaten to the stiffest possible froth, add three cups of finely chopped or pounded nuts. Hazelnuts, pecans or almonds are equally good. Mix all together lightly and stir in one teaspoonful of vanilla. Then, last of all, sift in one teaspoonful of baking powder well mixed in one tablespoonful of flour. This is to be baked quickly in jelly cake tins and when ready to serve is to be put together like layer cake with whipped cream. A pint of this thoroughly chilled and sea soned with flavoring or brandy will be sufficient to put between layers and over the top and sides. Fruit For Rheumatism. The use of fruit diminishes acid ity and antagonizes rheumatism. The acids in fruits undergo changes which diminish the acidity of the blood and aid in the elimination of rheumatic acid. The most digestible fruits arc ripe grapes, peaches, strawberries, apricots, oranges, very ripe pears, figs, dates, baked apples and stewed fruits. A dietary consisting wholly of fruits is a valuable means of over coming biliousness. Such a dietary may be maintain ed for one or two days a week. A modified fruit dietary is highly beneficial. The most laxative fruits are ap ples, figs, prunes and peaches.— Family Doctor. Preparing Glue For Ready Use. To any quantity of glue use com mon whisky instead of water. Put both together in a bottle, cork it tight and set it by for three or four days, when it will be fit for use without the application of heat. Glue thus prepared will keep for years and is at all times fit for use, except in very cold weather, when it should be set in warm water be fore using. To olA'iate the diffi culty of the stopper getting tight by the glue drying in the mouth of the vessel use a tin vessel with the cover fitting tight on the outside to prevent the escape of the spirit by evaporation. A strong solution of isinglass made in the same manner is an excellent cement for leather. Lemonade. If you have never tried making lemonade with boiling water, you have missed a valuable household hint. Try it now by squeezing the juice from three largo lemons into an earthenware bowl. Add two tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar and the grated rind of one lemon, turn in four cupfuls of boiling water and cover closely. When cool, place it in the icebox to chill. For Tea. Sardine toast is an excellent rel ish for luncheon or tea. Cut ob longs of good toasting bread from which all crust is removed, brown and spread with butter, to which minced parsley and a few drops of lemon juice have been added. The sardines are carefully drained, and the loose pieces of skin are wiped off before they are spread on the toast and served. & CIGARS AND BOXES, c. Cedar Now So Scarce That Other Woods Arc Used For Cheap Weeds. "Cedar boxes are not used as ex tensively now as they used to be," said a well known tobacco man, "and the reason for this is clear enough when we come to think of it. Cedar is not as plentiful now as it once was. Time was when all the cigars shipped from Cuba to this country and cigars of home manufacture were packed in cedar boxes. But this is not the case now. "Cedar, of course, is the best wood in the world for this purpose. It gives a pleasant odor and even a good flavor to the cigar and keeps out the various insects and worms that are inclined to burrow into to bacco. Insects will have nothing to do with cedar. The wood is too strong. For this reason boxes made of material of this kind have been of vast value to the cigar manufac turers. Ido not mean that cedar is not used at all now, for as a matter of fact cedar is extensively used. All cigars of the liner and more costly grade made in this country and elsewhere are packed in cedar boxes. This is one of the require ments of the trade. "But when it comes to the cheap er grades cheaper material is used. It may look like cedar, but it isn't. It is an imitation. It serves the purpose. The wood does not de tract at all from the brand of cigars packed in this way. They would be no better if packed in boxes gold lined and highly spiced and per fumed. They would smell sweeter; that's all. Stained poplar and other light woods of sufficient fineness of grain, and even stained oak, are sometimes used for the purpose. But the cedar box is not nearly so numerous now as in the halcyon days, and the time may come when this kind of boxes will not be known at all in the tobacco trade, and yet one is inclined to pray that it may not be so."—New Orleans Times- Democrat. Irish Solicitude. When shooting landlords was more of an occupation in Irealnd than it is now, thanks to laws more favorable to tenants, a certain lord of the soil, who had cleared out half a countryside, fell under the ban of the Carders or of the redoubta ble Ilory of the Hills, and two men were selected to carry out the sen tence of death. It was the doomed man's custom to drive from his rent office in a neighboring town to his home at a certain hour on a certain day of the week, and secure in the bracken behind a stone wall which skirted the roadway the execution ers lay in wait for their intended victim. The hour came and passed, but no car bearing the landlord hove in view. Another hour slipped by, and still 110 landlord. It was now late in the afternoon, the shadows of night were creeping over the moor land, and the two watchers had grown hungry and uneasy. Then there was a rattle of wheels over the broken stones on the roadway, and the men grasped their blunderbusses and peered out. But it was only a farmer driving from the market. This disappointment was too much for the men, and one of them ex claimed : "Begorra, Mick, he's not comin'." "Faix, then, Pat, I'm thinkin' that way meself. I hope nothin's hap pened to him." Hopeless Case. The laziest man in Scotland is said to have been the Galashiels joiner who after repeated dismissals from his employment by his master was at length forcibly laid in liis coffin by his shopmates and carried off for burial byway of a joke. On the way they mot a farmer, who ask ed if the man was dead. "No," was the reply, "but we in tend to bury him. He is that lazy he should not be allowed to live." At the farmer's request they took off the lid, wliwn the farmer asked the lazy one if he thought he could eat two or three boiled potatoes. "Are they peeled?" inquired the man. "No," replied the farmer. "Ah, weel, just let the funeral gang on." —London Answers. Counsel to Smokers. From the Royal academy of Bel gium comes the following advice to smokers: "Do not use moist tobacco, since nicotine then escapes with the va por and is not decomposed. "Do not smoke either while fast ing or a short time before menls. "When smoking cigars or ciga rettes, always use an amber, meer schnum, horn or cherry holder. "Nicotine vaporizes at 250 de grees, and that portion of it which is not decomposed in the center is attracted toward the tip and ac cumulates there. It is therefore prudent to throw away the last quarter of a cigar. "Do not smoke a pipe which has a short stein." INFANTS' MITTENS. There Coverings For Little Hands Made In Marvelous Variety. "They seem like a simple enough little thing," said a man acquainted with the trade in infants' mittens, "but as a matter of fact they are made in simply hundreds of varie ties. "There are mittens to suit every purse, every season in which they are worn and every taste or fancy. "Wool is the material of which the greater number are made, and white is the almost universally worn color by the very young". "There are mittens made of silk and wool, costing a little more than the all woolen mittens. In these we begin to get colors, as pink and blue, though you would find, for that matter, some nice red mittens among the tiny ones of all wool. Next come mittens of all silk, com monly all white. Then there are mittens of mercerized silk, these in gray and in brown as well as in white. The Angora mittens are among the most costly made. They arc made all white and also in grays and browns. And there are mittens about as costly as the Angora that are of goat's hair or alpaca on the outside and lined with Angora. "Infants' mittens, as they are generally considered, include mit tens for children up to three years. For these older children especially there are little mittens of suede, fleece lined and silk lined, and suede mittens with fur tops. "Indeed, there's really almost no end to the variety of infants' mit tens, but there is almost no end to the demand for them, for wherever there is a winter there arc infants' mittens, things of the most uni versal, widespread, common use. Every infant has one pair of mit tens anyway. There are many in fants that have more than one pair in a season. There are plenty of mothers who buy for an infant a dozen pairs of mittens in a year. Sometimes they buy a dozen pairs at once. "Thus of infants' mittens alto gether there are sold great numbers; in this country alone, in fact, mil lions of pairs annually." New York Sun. The Mistress. Count Fersen, Marie Antoinette's devoted servant, tells a pretty story which shows the charm words can add to deeds. It was when the royal family of France had been turned back at Varennes in their vain ef fort to escape —turned back toward Faris, where the mob even then was clamoring for their lives. They stop ped to rest at the house of Mmc. cle Laguy, a royalist, who did all she could for their comfort. Madame waited at table herself, serving the king and queeri with swift and si lent zeal. The poor queen in the midst of her despair noticed what had been done for her and hers. "Where is the mistress of the house?" said she. "I should like to seo her and to thank her." "I was the mistress of the house," responded Mine, de Lagny simply, "until your majesty entered it." Surely the word which beautified the service! The Burro Bird of Colorado. Many writers have broken into song regarding the flop eared burro and his alto voice. Dear reader, did you ever hear a bird belonging to the burro family carol during the silent watches of the night? Per haps you have, and again you might have missed hearing the burro bird playing catch-as-eatch-cnn with the echoes. In a moment of forgetful ness on hearing the song of the bur ro bird you may be tempted to com mit murder, but don't do it. Let him first sing his wild, passionate song, and then if you desire to kill him do so. The burro bird inhabits the wild mountainous suburbs of Denver the year round. Denver Times. Roman Mortar. It was probably known to nearly every Roman citizen how the mor tar which cemented the stones of their buildings was made—just as it is now known to the majority of people that the principal ingredient of English mortar is street scrap ings. But, the knowledge heing general, nobody wrote it down, and in time, as the Romans shifted their building upon slaves and foreign ers, the recipe of their mortar was lost. So far it has not been discov ered, though the secret of it would bo immensely valuable, for the ce ment outlasts the very stones which it joins. Curious Korean Custom. A very curious custom in Seoul, Ivorea, is the law which makes it obligatory for every man to retire to his home when the huge bronze bell of the city has proclaimed it to be the hour of sunset and the time for closing the gates. No man is allowed in the streets after that" hour under pain of flogging, but the women are allowed to go about and visit their friends. ~ i sm w STOR "Ar;™s , :r AVegctable PreparatiouforAs- ft similaling the Food andßegtda- i _ . # ling the Stomachs and Bowels of JdGcIXS —— ( Signature /Ay j Promotes Digestion, Cheerfu- 1 /|/ UT ness and Rest.Contains neither r / Jj ■ Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. ! Ul #l\ # \ W NOT Narcotic. || |i\\ir of Old J)rSAMUEL PtTCUEH |! . N fitm/dun