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OVER THE OCEAN.
An International show of St. Bernard
dogs will be held next spring in Frank
fort, Germany.
Berlin economists say there is no
sign of the end of the present com
mercial crisis in Germany.
Under a law passed two years ago
the Hungarian government may sub
sidize almost any kind of manufactory.
The king of Sweden lias offered £3OO
to the finder of a historical gold cra
dle known or. Nt any rate, alleged to
have been buried somewhere or other
in the island of Tjorn.
Boy bridegrooms are growing in
number in London. There are four un
der twenty-one in every hundred bride
grooms. About sixteen girls under
twenty-one per hundred get married.
The chief of police of Taris lias of
fered prizes to such French workmen
us are capable of designing attractive
toys for the holiday trade. Ilis object
is to check the importation of toys
from Belgium and Germany.
in Spandau, near Berlin, a great mil
itary center, a tax lias been put on uu
tomatle orchestrions, which are becom
ing an intolerable nuisance, as nearly
every restaurant lias one. It is hoped
that the tux will reduce the plague.
The city of Berlin lias increased 12
per cent since 1805, and its suburbs are
growing yet more rapidly. When these
are united into a greater Berlin, the
Germans' dream of a capital larger
than Paris will come near to realiza
tion.
HORSES AND HORSEMEN.
Ottawa ice races will begin Monday,
Feb. 10.
Mercury, 2:21, sire of Frank Cream
er, 2:13%, etc., is dead.
The Kentucky Trotting Horse Breed
ers' association is out of debt.
Susie .1.. 2:10%, by Jayhawker, may
be offered at public auction next spring.
It is likely that the Oil City (Pa.)
Trotting association will be reorgan
ized.
Mascot, 2:04, pacing, was sold at
auction in Philadelphia recently for
S4OO.
It ts definitely decided that John Kel
ly will train and drive for James But
ler's East View farm next season.
Nelly A., 2:13, yearling record 2:2!)%,
is in foal to Abdell, yearling record
2:23, and tlds is said to be the only
conjunction of the kind.
The Macon (Ga.) Fair association has
elected for tlie ensuing year Harry M.
Ruby president, Charles Moody vice
president, C. C. Wood secretary and I.
W. Gnstrop treasurer.
FRUITS AND FLOWERS.
All manure for the garden should be
thoroughly rotted and fined.
It does not pay to keep up an old
orchard filled with worthless trees.
In a majority of cases tlic cause of
unfruitfulness in orchards is lack of
plant food.
There should be several kinds of
small fruits on the farm in order to be
sure of a supply.
All things being equal, a young tree,
after transplanting, will make a better
growth than an older one.
The pruning of Hie grape should be
done early, in order to avoid bleeding,
which is not only injurious to the vine,
but unpleasant to see.
There is no farm crop that draws so
lightly upon the Soil as fruits. At the
same time, however, liberal fertilizing
will aid materially in growing good
crops of fine fruits.
SHORT STORIES.
Blue eorai is but rarely found.
In Massachusetts 44 per cent of the
population are native born of native
parents and 50 per cent are foreigners.
It is stated on good authority that
there are now 2,1)00 active Mormon
prosolyters scattered widely over the
world.
There are now twenty-tlirec chapters
of the Antltreating society in the Unit
ed States and Canada, with a member
ship of 3,000.
In Colorado the canal system for ir
rigation represents an outlay of over
$25,000,000, ami several million acres
of land are supplied with water as u
.■•"suit.
Watch the date on your paper
HUMOR OF THE HOUR
T"ie Trice of Likcrty.
Roddy the Cinch breathed freely
again.
"Not guilty!" was the verdict.
After many hours of terrible sus
pense a jury of his peers, inlluenoed by
the fervid eloquence and the falling
tears of his lawyer, had declared that
Roddy did not steal the safe, but that
the crime was committed by his astral
body while it was projected into a
state of kleptomania.
Turning, lie grasped the hand of his
legal champion, Holdem I'ppharde, the
celebrated criminal lawyer, who put in
his time wearing noisy diamonds while
the majority of his clients put in their
time wearing bungles on their ankles
at Sing Sing, Ossining, X. Y.
"Well. Mr. I'ppharde, wot's de dam
age?" Roddy the Cinch muttered un
easily, thrusting one hand into his
pocket with a deftness born of experi
ence.
"We'll call it only a thousand this
time. Reddy," responded the lawyer.
"A t'ousaml!" gasped Reddy. "A
t'ousaml wot?"
"A thousand frapped plunks and not
a plunk less," the legal luminary re
sponded grimly.
Where were his tears now?
"All I've got, you know, is a t'ousaml
and a liver," protested Reddy.
"I know. Rut you don't think I'd
take all you have, do you?" the lawyer
said indignantly.
"Aw, of co'se not, of co'se not!" Red
dy cried ironically. "Here's de dough,
and I don't kick on givin' it up, but I
hates to lose faith in human liatur'. 1
hates to see a bright lawyer like you
so unperfessional."
"So unprofessional?" growled the
lawyer.
"Dat's wot I said—so unperfession
al." repeated Reddy the Cinch. "It
ain't true, is it?"
"What isn't true?"
"Dat dere's honor even among
thieves?"
And, with an injured sigh, a tear in
his eye and one little fiver in his pock
et. Reddy the Cinch went out into the
cold world to project his astral body
in the direction of another portable
safe.—Philadelphia North American.
Thought It Wn* Cat chin K.
Doctor Well, Mrs. Finnigau, the
fact is if your husband doesn't take
care he'll have delirium tremens.
Mrs. Finuigan—Oeli, doethor, dear,
an' would the children be apt ter ketch
it too?
Could ( onnt More.
Mrs. Crimsonbeak—l see h.v this pa
per that there are about ninety deaths
in Shakespeare's plays.
Mr. Crimsonbeak—Oh, I think I've
seen Shakespeare's plays killed more
times than that myself. Yonkers
Statesman.
Run Down.
McJigger—What's the matter with
your neck?
Thingumbob—Bile.
McJigger—Boil, eh?
Thingumbob—No; bile; nutomo—
—Philadelphia Press.
Above Mortal Coninieut.
Harriet—Cupid is always represented
as a poor little urchin without any gar
ments.
Harry--Yes. That is done so that he
will never go out of style.—Detroit
Free Press.
A SOKE cation.
Passenger—Bless me, I'm afraid I
haven't a cent! Must I get off the car?
Conductor—Well, I can't let you ride,
sir. You might go to the office ami re
port the case to the superintendent.—
Judge.
Perpetually So.
"This year will be the greatest in our
history."
"How do you know?"
"Well, why shouldn't it be? Every
other year has been." lndianapolis
News.
Went Affninnt lllm.
"Oh, why did you eat that book of
quotations?" nHked the mother gout.
"Because it was labeled 'Food for
thought,'" said the sick kid.
"Well, you should have thought be
fore you ate it."—Chicago News.
Aftermath.
"What uils Hammersmith?" asked
Fosdick.
"He had all the Christmas presents
he bought charged," explained Kee
dick.
A Feminine Criticism.
"She seems heartless."
"Well, her complexion would be a
good deal better if she were liverless."
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Goncrol Surprise.
Bessie—l was surprised when Mr.
Dashleigli asked me to marry him.
Tessie— Everybody else was.—Ohio
State Journal.
A Patient Doctor.
She—Married life has improved
young Dr. Squalls very much.
He—Yes; he takes it according to di
rections.
BrluKiiiic Her Hound.
Bingo (tiptoeing into his wife's room,
in a whisper)—l've brought three
friends home to dinner unexpectedly,
j Mrs. Bingo (aghast)— What!
Bingo—Yes, 1 have. They're down
j stairs.
| Mrs. Bingo—You wretch!
Bingo—Now, my dear, I couldn't get
out of it.
Mrs. Bingo (haughtily)— Then you'll
, have to take the consequences.
Bingo—But—
Mrs. Bingo—You'll have to put up
With practically nothing.
Bingo—That's what I told them.
Mrs. Bingo—You did?
Bingo—Yes. I told them that they
j needn't expect a single thing; that
! we'd scrape round in the kitchen if
necessary and pick up whatever we
could, and that, as I hadn't let you
know, that was the best we could do.
| Mrs. Bingo—What did you tell them
i that for?
j Bingo—lt's the truth, isn't it?
Mrs. Bingo—Certainly not. As if it
makes any difference to me now many
friends you bring home! I'll show
you!— London Tit-Bits.
—
A HiinwMtorm Indoor*.
I On a very clear, cold night an even
j ing party was given in a salon in
Stockholm, Sweden. Many people were
I gathered together In a single room, and
it became so warm in the course of tlie
evening that several ladies complained
| of feeling ill.
An attempt was made to raise a win
i dow, but the sashes had been frozen
i in their place, and it was impossible to
! move them.
| In this situation, as it was absolutely
! necessary that air should he admitted,
! a pane of glass was smashed out. A
| cold current at once rushed in, and at
j the same instant flakes of snow were
! seen to fall to the floor in all parts of
tlie room.
The entrance of a frosty current into
an atmosphere which was saturated
with moisture had produced a snow
! fall indoors.—Nature.
Eany to Settle.
A famous lawyer once laid a singular
case to settle. A physician came to
him in great distress. Two sisters, liv
ing in the same house, had babies of
equal age, who so resembled each other
that their own mothers were unable to
distinguish them when they were to
gether. Now, it happened that by tlie
carelessness of the nurses the children
had become mixed, and how were the
mothers to make sure that they receiv
ed hack their own infants?
"But. perhaps," said the lawyer, "the
children weren't changed at all."
"Oh, hut there's no doubt they were
changed!" said the physician.
"Are you sure of it?"
j "Perfectly."
"Well, if that's tlie case, why don't
you change them back again? I don't
see any difficulty in the case."
He Meant (lie Bird.
A man once received as a present
from a sea captain a line specimen of
| the bird known as the laughing jack
ass.
As he was carrying it home he met
j a brawny Irish navvy, who stopped
him.
"Phwat kind of burd is that, son ?"
asked tlie man.
"That's a laughing jackass," explain
ed the owner genially,
i The Irishman, thinking he was be
ing made fun of, was equal tu the oc
casion and responded, with a twinkle
of the eye:
"It's not yerself; it's tlie burd I mane,
son*!"— London Spare Moments.
Until of Microscopic Power.
I Frofessor McKendrick in his presi
! dentin I address to the physiology sec
| tion of the British association remark
i ed that the smallest particle of matter
that can be seen with our present mi
croscopes is between one four-bun*
! dredth-thousandtli and one five-hun
drodth-thousftndlh of an inch in diam
eter. The diffraction of light in the
microscope forbids the possibility of
seeing stili smaller objects. Yet the
living spores studied by physiologists
are sometimes probably even smaller
in size than the most minute particle
that the must perfect miscroscope can
show.
Ground* For Divorce.
A north side woman sat up till 1
o'clock the other morning waiting for
her husband to come home. At last,
weary and worn out with her lonely
vigil, she went up stairs to retire only
to discover the missing husband there
fast asleep. Instead of going down
town he had stolen up stairs aud crawl
ed into bed, and it made his wife so
mad she didn't speak to him fur a
week.—Chicago News.
Itoth Girl* Happy.
"How is your daughter Edith, Mrs.
Lakeside V"
i "She is well and happy. You kuow
j she is to he married on the 20th."
j "Indeed. And how is your other
daughter, Florence?"
I "She is also well and happy. You
know she got her divorce on the 10th."
—Washington Times.
An Accominoilatlnis Chemist.
! Chemist (to poor woman)— You must
take tlsis medicine three times a day
after meals.
Patient—Hut, sir, I seldom get meals
: these 'ard times.
| Chemist (passing on to the next cus
j tomer)—Then take it before them.—
J London King.
Likely to Hove It.
! "lie likes excitement," said the young
j man.
"So I supposed," replied the dear
girl.
"Why?"
"Weil, his choice for a wife made
that the natural inference."—Chicago
Post
MINTS FOR FARMERS
Clover nil on Orchard Mnloli.
Considerable publicity has been giv
en to the remarks of W. T. Macoun of
the experiment station at Ottawa,
Canada, made at the American pomo
logical meeting in discussing the reno
vation of apple orchards. Mr. Macoun
stated that the practice at the experi
mental farm had been to grow clover
In the orchard throughout the year.
As the clover reached the blossoming
stage it was cut and allowed to remain
011 the ground. The last growth of the
clover in the autumn was not mowed,
but permitted to stand as a cover dur
ing winter. This system is in effect
n combination of green manuring and
mulching. It differs from the ordinary
cultivation and cover crop system in
that cultivation is left out of the pro
gram in e.
A rather too wide application of Mr.
Mncoun's remarks has been made. He
was careful to state that this practice
pertained to their own orchard and
was the outgrowth of peculiar soil and
climatic conditions. The subsoil of this
orchard is cold and impervious. The
region in which it is situated is rarely
visited with protracted droughts. The
object in growing the clover is to
aerate the soil, draw out its surplus
moisture and protect the trees from
the effect of severe freezing in winter.
Undoubtedly the clover mulching plan
may lie applied quite widely. I believe
that it can be practiced with advan
tage in many of the colder apple grow
ing regions, but I do not think it would
be the best plan to follow in sections
where rainfall during the growing sea
son was at all uncertain. In such sec
tions cultivation is essential.
The particular region described by
Mr. Macoun is not a commercial fruit
section. Apples are grown in an ama
teur way, and fruit of line quality is
produced, but no large areas are de
voted to the industry.—Professor John
Craig, Cornell University.
Something? About Alfnlfn.
Alfalfa is comparatively a new plant
in this country, but in Asia it was
known and cultivated before the dates
of the most ancient history. It grew
in abundance in Assyria and Persia
and at an early day found its way to
southern Europe, and thence with the
Spanish conquerors to Mexico and Pe
ru. It was grown to some extent, hut
not appreciated, in the eastern states
long before it was recognized as of ma
terial value anywhere in this country.
In portions of Bouth America it lias es
caped from the fields and grows wild
over large areas. It is now grown
largely in all the arid and somiarid
regions of the world and is everywhere
recognized as the most valuable forage
plant known for all sections where
rainfall is scant. But it is by no means
confined to arid sections, but is grown
and esteemed where rainfall is abun
dant. Its most perfect development,
however, seems to lie where it can get
sufficient moisture by means of its
long taproot and does not have to de
pend upon ruius.
The CrenHewood.
A plant which thrives in the arid re
gion of the west is the grouse wood, the
young plants of which have a milky
sap aiul the old wood a resinous gum
known to he soluble in certain hydro
carbon solvents of rubber. Prom the
young greasewood sap two inventors
have discovered a method of making
artificial India rubber. By this proc
ess they are enabled to obtain a gum
my mass of brown color, highly flex
ible, elastic, combustible and seems to
possess the characteristics of India
rubber, except that it has rather a bal
samic odor, differing from the odor of
commercial rubber. The gum can be
vulcanized by tlie addition of a quan
tity of sulphur in the same manner as
the india rubber of commerce.
Growliitf Peoni!n.
It is the fashion now in (leorgia to
set pecan groves. The trees have been
found to grow and thrive well in that
climate, and they have varieties which
bear nuts as much larger than the or
dinary wild nut which we used to
know as the improved chestnut is
better than the small wild nut. Trees
planted fifteen 10 twenty years ago
are producing profitable crops, and
hundreds of acres have been sot to
them within the last ten years, while
planting is going on now at a greater
rate than ever before. One man near
Columbus, (a„ is about to set eighty
acres, and it may not be long before
we see them coming by the carload for
our Christmas nut trade.—American
Cultivator.
Market "on tlie Hoof.**
A farm should, first of all, produce
everything that can be consumed, then
crops to he sold, and the less of the
latter the better. Stock should be kept
sufficient to consume all food products,
and the corn, oats, bay, etc., should he
marketed "on the hoof." Why sell
cattle or hogs to feeders when they
may lie fed at home?— Farm and
ttauch.
Corn Crop of 111(11.
Tlie average yield per acre of corn
in this country for 1901 is the lowest
on record—two bushels less than that
of 1881, long the record breaker fol
low average. The average for last
year was put at sixteen bushels, and
the average for that of 1900 was twen
ty-five bushels.
The Corn State*.
In 1900 Texas produced loss corn
than Illinois, lowa. Nebraska. Missou
ri, Kansas and Indiana and more than
any other of the states. The farm
value of Texas corn for 1901 is put at
$38,022,508.
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RAILROAD TIMETABLES
LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.
June 2, 1901.
AIIKANNIRNEN'i' or PASSENGER TRAINI.
LEAVE FLLEKLANJ).
6 12 m for Weatherly, Mauch Chunk
Allentown, liethlchnn, hustou, Phila
delphia uud New York.
7 34 U in for Sandy RUM, White Haven,
Wilkes-Uarre. J'ittst>n and Scniutou.
8 15 a in for ilczleton, Wentherly, Mauch
Chunk. Alieiii.wii, Petbleheni. Easton,
Philadelphia, New York, lieiuMo and
Pottsville.
9 30 •' ni for lia/leton, Delano, Mahanoy
City, Mieiißiidoali and V.t,. Cnimel.
1 1 42 a m for Wentherly. Mnueli Chunk, Al-
Joiltown, Del hit hem, Eustun, Phila
delphia, New York. Ila/.letou, Delano,
Mahanoy City, tShciiundoah and Mt.
Carmei.
| 115 ' a ui for White Daren, Wilkes-liurre,
Seranton anil the West.
4 44 Pin for W'eatherly, Maueh Chunk, Al
lcntown. Hethlehem. East on, Philadel
phia, New York, Ha/.leton, Delano
Mnhaimy City, Shcnaiidoab. Mt. Curmel
end Pottsville.
6 35 p ni lor Sandy Hun, White Haven,
Wilkes-Uarre, Seranton and all points
West.
7 29 p in for Hazleton.
ARRIVE AT FREELANU.
7 34 a in from Pottsviiie, Delano and Huz
leton.
9 12 a in from New York, Philadelphia, Eas
toii. Itet lile belli, A lien town. Mauch
Chunk. Weatherly, Hazleton, Mahanoy
City, Shenandoah and Mt. Carmei
9 30. a in from Seranton, Wilkes-Duire and
White Haven.
1151 am from Pottsviiie, Mt. Carmei, Shen
andoah, Mahanoy City, Delano and
Haslet on.
12 48p ui from New York, Philadelphia,
Past on, JJothichcro, Allentown, Mauch
Chunk and Weatherly.
1 44 P n from Seranton, Wilkes-Uarre and
White Haven.
6 35 ]> tn from New York, Philadelphia,
Huston, Hethlehem Allentown, Mauch
Chunk. Wont her I j , Mt. Carmei, Shenan
doah, Mahanoy City, Delano and Huzlo
ton.
7 29 P m from Seranton, Wilkes-Uarre and
White Haven.
For further information inquire of Ticket
HOLPIN 11. W LHT7R.General Superintendent,
20 Cortlundt street. New York City.
''HAS. S. LKR. General Passenger Agent,
80 Cortlandt Street. New York City.
G. J. GILDKOY, Division Superintendent,
Hazleton, Pa.
DELAWARE, FUBQVEHAKNA AND
1 SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD.
Time table in effect March 10,1001.
Trains leave Driftou for Jed do. Eekley, Hozle
Hrook, Stockton, Denver Meadow Kond, Moan
and Hezh ton Junction at 000 a m, daily
except Sunday: nnd 7 07 a m, 2 89 r ni, Sunday.
Trains leave Drift on for Harwood,Cranberry,
LomliiCken and Dt ripper at BliO a ni, daily
except Sunday; and 7 07 a m, 2 lib n m. Sun
lav.
Trains leave Prifton for Oneida .Tunotion.
Harwood Koad, Humboldt Road, Oneida and
heppton at 800 a ni, daily except Sun
lay; and 7 0i a m, 2 38 p m, Sunday.
'I rains leave Hazleton Junction for Harwood,
Cranberry, Torabickcu and Deringer at 0 85 a
n, dvilj except Sunday; and a 63 a m, 4 22 p m.
Sunday. K '
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida
Junction, Harwood Hood, Humboldt Koad,
Oneida and Sheppton at 0 :2.1110 a m, 4 41 p m
daily except Sunday; and 737 a m, 311 Dm'
Sunday. *
Trains leave Deringer for Tomhlcken, Cran
berry. Hut wood, Hazleton Junction and Konn
at 5 01) p m. daily except Sunday; and 337
a m, 5 07 p no, Sunday.
Trains leave Hhcpptor for Oneida, Humboldt
Road, Harwood Hoed, Oneida Junction Ha?>e.
ton Junction snd K>en at 7 11 a ni, 12 40, 528
P n? Suntf ?* CepT Bund W 6Dd 811 am, 844
2S
Trains U'h y c HaiWcn Junction for Reaver
Meadow Road, Stoi kton. Hazle Brook. Ecklev
Joddo and Drift-on at, 5 411 p m da ii v '
Oloot't Sunday: end 10 10 n ni, 0 40 p m, Sunday.'
All trains oonneot nt Hazleton Junction wllh
eleotru-carp for Her.loton, Jeancvllle. Audcn.
piny'Vune '' on tbe ' l ' r ttl "n Com.
Train leavlnsr Drlfton at #0(1 a m makes
nrnSSiS on a, a De Inger with P. R. K. trains for
'' n Harriaburg and points
LDTDBB 0. SMITH hup.rlntandsot,