FREELAND TRIBUNE. Published Every Thursday Afternoon —BY— TITOS. A. HUCKLKY, ; EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. < t TERMS, - - *I.OO PER YEAR. j Address all Communications to I FREELAND TRIBUNE, 1 FREELAND, PA. ; — : _— ] Office, Dlrkbeck Brick, 3ower of might, j The Roman is being supplanted by the j English method, or incorporation icifh j representation, which, so far, finds its i | highest development iq the United | States. It has put aside old forms of j despotism and injustice, but, says Mr. i Fiske, not "without unremitting watch fulness can we be sure that the day of 1 peril is yet past." What if, though" we ! have a Government representative in form, the representation is assailed, pol luted and robbed of its fidelity by despots who have learned to make sceptres of money. It is a trite saying, but over j flowing with truth, that "eternal vigi ; lance is the price of liberty." The pre | datory instinct is still active, and here, clearly, is the enemy in its new shape, j and the sooner and more widely its pre- | ; sence is recognized the more effectually ! will it be coped with.—JY. 3". World. Cleveland Ever; Hill Never. Henry Watterson, the brilliant editor j i of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the i I most representative leader of "Western i j and Southern Democracy, says, in a late | : number of his newspaper regarding the early presentation of the names of Presi- i I dentialcandidates for 1892, that "thedis- j ! cussion of a leader for 1892 seems to us ; | both premature and frivolous. Half a , : century of American history teaches us j i that three years is a political generation in ! . a country and a system such as ours. "Three years before < Cleveland's nom l ination his name had not travelled fifty ' miles away from the city in which lie ! lived, and who, three years ago, when \ Benjamin Harrison lost his scat in the > Senate lie had not distinguished, would ; have ventured the prediction that he 1 would pass oyer the heads of Blaine, 1 Sherman, Allison and the rest and lie- j come President of the United States? I Facts like these baffle all calculation. They show us how idle is prophecy in I this regard. Our next President may be ; hid somewhere in a cornfield, the cane brake, or the stars. Who can tell?" The names of Mr. Cleveland and Mr. I Hill are those which are still solely men- 1 , tioned by the Eastern press for the Democratic nomination. The Demo-1 cracy of the West and South seem to he unanimous for the ex-President, and the North and East nearly so. As for the West, it does not like Governor Hill, and its leading Democratic journals ex- j press the general sentiment that he cannot be the candidate of his party in 1892. Respecting the proposition to nominate liim the St. Louis Republic, one of the most radical of Western Demo cratic journals, says: "This is the year to tell the truth about David Bennett Hill, one of the most ignorant, narrow and unscrupulous pot house politicians who even pretended to be a Democrat or knifed a Democratic ticket. Jle is not honest enough to be reputable, and he has not brains enough to conceal the traces of his subterranean work." Tanner as a Surplus Spender. Nothing could he better calculated to cast discredit on our entire pension system than the spirit in which a man 1 like Tanner comes to its administration. ! And surely nothing could he better cal culated to humiliate self-respecting vet erans of the war than the prominence given by the aid of the Grand Army of the Republic to a blatherskite and trick ster like the present Commissioner of Pensions. If Mr. Cleveland blundered in treating with scant courtesy the claims made on behalf of disabled veterans of the war, Mr. Harrison will blunder still more seriously if lie thinks that the country will stand any such reckless squandering of public money on all who ! have the ghost of a claim for a pension ! as Tanner and his associates seem pre- i pared to sanction. That since 18G5 the pension list should have grown from SB,- ; 000,000 to $80,000,000 is ;i sufficiently suggestive fact without adoptinga scheme ; of payment under which the expenditure j would continue to grow with the lessen- j ing of the numbers of the survivors of ; the war, and which would result in j saddling the next generation with an elaborate system of making paupers.— f i The Epoch. Til© Law ('(lines Non© Too Soon. The Philadelphia Inquirer, in referring ! to the accident at Plymouth last week by i which four lives were lost says that the law providing for examination of men employed in coal mines was not enacted any too soon, as was shown at the Not- i tingham mine, at Plymouth, last week. A number of Polish miners, so utterly I incompetent that they did not know the meaning of a danger sign, not only walk- i ed past the warning, but removed it, so that more intelligent men who might have escaped were led into the trap. It t was providential that the disaster oc- ! ourred when hut few men were in the mine; otherwise the loss of life would i have been much greater than it was. One would think that mine owners would fear to risk their property in the hands >f such incompetent men, hut they seem to look only at the cheapness of this class of labor and pay no attention to the •langor that goes with it. The Lehigh Valley Will Probably Win. Ihe New ork Mi niug mid Engineering Jour mil says there is considerable dis cussion now in the trade concerning the probable decision of the Inter-StatoCom-1 merce Commission in the Coxe case, I and, though, of course, no official infor mation has been given as how the deci sion will go, yet the feeling is becoming ! rather prevalent that it will not he against the railroad company; at least, ! those who are supposed to have the largest interests at stake among the transporting companies are acting as though quite satisfied on this point. Certainly the interests involved are enormous, and the commission will, 110 doubt, give the matter the most careful consideration before arriving at a deci- j sion. The case lias in no manner affec ted the market either for present or future deliveries. j Subcribe for the TIUUUNB. A Weighty Matter. I dreamt the whole thing- out as I was sleep ing; May I confide in you? I spend my days in wailing and in weeping For rear my dream come true, 1 thought that with no kindly word of warn ing. No hint of coming trouble. Some cause mysterious one awlul morning Made gavitation double. The branches snapped from all the trees A tierce, terrific sound. I fain would run away. Alas! I found mo Fast fixed upon the ground. The birds fell down like feathered stones f rom heaven; The sky was all bereft. Ten houses were before; behind me, seven; And not a house was left. It rained, and every little drop down rushing Cut like a leaden ball. The air grew denser; pressing, strangling, crushing. 1 tottero l to my fall. And then awoke from out my fearful sleep ing. And now, what shall we do? I spend my days in wailing and in weeping. Might not uiy dream eouie true? —A U. Wells, In St. Nicholas. The Afterglow. Grand Is the view from quaint, arcadcd llerne To where, majestic, tower in glitt'rlng show The llerneso Oberlnnd. O peaks of snow, 1 One lesson from thy silvery heights we learn! i Lo, as we gaze, the evening hours return, And through thy shrouds, with umrv'lous radiance, flow The roseate fires of Alpine Afterglow! Thus with the sainted dust in crypt and urn Where sleep the great. To us, of meaner mould, Like frozen peaks they lived. Though pure and white, Willi aims ami deeds beyond our humbler ken, Viewed from afar how marble-like, how cold; And yot, 'ncnth Azrael's torch their clay waxed bright. And gods shone forth where we had Switzerland, 1888. Thomas J. Ham, in Scran ton Truth. II Dangerous Retrenchment What it Cost to Do Without a Daily l'a per. It was the beginning of the year,and \ Mr. Archibald Wise had made up his j mind that lie must economize some- | where. After debating the matter for j 1 some time he concluded to give lip i taking regularly a daily paper. Mrs. I Wise ventured a remonstrance: "Why not give up some personal j expenses," she said, "instead of hitting | upon something which will affect the ! entire familyP Cigars, for instance; i I have often thought it would lie a : positive benefit could you do without I tliem." Mr. Wise was a kind husband and , father, hut, like many another man, j once he had resolved upon a certain tiling he was not easily turned aside, j "The family," lie began in reply, j "consists only of you and me, my j dear, so far as the use of a paper is ! concerned. Our children, all under 14 years of age,are not exactly eager for i news, I take it; and as to my getting ; along without cigars, I could far more | easily go without my coffee in the j morning or tea at night. You can not imagine the solace contained in a ci- : I gar to a tired or perplexed man of business." But Mrs. Wise still remonstrated: "You are mistaken," she said, "in thinking that the children do not need the daily paper. Indirectly they do; I find a great deal of interest and in struction iu our paper with which to teacli the children. 1 really hope you will rccousider before actually stop ping it." "1 shall buy a paper quite often," , replied Mr. Wise. "Of course a man ; must know something of what is go- I ing on in the world about him, but I think a daily of numerous pages quite unnecessary, and I must he allowed to exorcise my judgment in the mat ter." It is an old saying that the remark, ; "allow me to juugo,' puts an end to al- ; most any discussion. Accordingly Mrs. Wise said no more, hut it de pressed her to feel that the friendly visits of her favorite daily must be dis continued. At first Mr. Wise carried home a lit tle thiu substitute for the old favorite nearly every night, but by degrees even that came less and less frequent ly. When lie boasted to his wife that lie really got fto news almost as com pletely as ever by watching the bulle tins and hearing men talk, she replied ratherly dryly that men did have con siderable advantage over women in the matter of getting news without paying for it. They could stand and j gaze at plcasuro at great scrolls I posted on the side of newspaper build ings and glean a good deal from other men. Yes, it was a real sharp way to | economize without losing much, cheap and perfectly nice, she supposed. Although Mrs. Wise's manner was : tranquil as a summer sea, yet her j words ruffled and irritated her husband; and if the truth were known, it was i not all quite smooth sailing for Mr. Wise. 11c did not actually enjoy sit- j ting in the station or horse cars empty 1 handed, among groups of men, all of ! whom, except himself, had open pa- pors in their hands; so lie resorted to the expedient of carrying a folded pa- ■ per in the breast pocket of his coat,that it might appear as if lie had a paper which presumably had already been perused. One evening as he was hurrying to ward the station, a little ragged gamin, with papers under his arm,squinted up into in his face and cried: "Mister, want to read all about the c'JissionP" "What collision P" asked Mr. Wise. ! "Oh, you buy the paper aud find j out," said the urchin, his phiz in the ! air and his little grimy paw held out j for pennies. "I have a paper," said Mr. Wise, glancing toward his breast pocket. "Bet you ain't seen 'bout the c'l lision," persisted the boy; "it's a spec ial in my paper; better have one, son ny!" But Mr. Wiso haughtily eschewed all counsel from such a source, and hurried on. On the train ho seated himself be tween acquaintances, who looked up from their papers to exchange greet- j 1 ings. "Bad news this evening." "Yes; quite a collision, replied Mr. Wise. "Ah, I hadn't seen that," said his | friend; "where do you find it?" | "I haven't read the particulars," ; said Mr. Wise, feeling the uncertainty of his position. "Will you allow me to sec your pa perP" asked the gentleman on his oth er side. lie was an agent for life in surance companies, aud added, "I'm making a list of accidents lately, with I a motive." Mr. Wiso realized the danger of tak- | ing subterfuge in further deception. "I haven't the account in my paper," j lie said. "I heard the matter men tioned, but can't tell anything about it. Thought I might hear more from you," he added blandly. Another mo ! inent ho adroitly chanced the subiect. Next day, in going to anu fro, Mr. Wise scanned the bulletins in search of tho "bad news" alluded to by his friend, also for an account of the" col lision mentioned by the boy; but ho succeeded in obtaining information on neither point. Ou his way homo he encountered the gamin again, who asked him with his aggravating squint: "Read 'bout the c'llision yet, mis ter?" "How dare vou tell falsehoods to help sell papers?" inquired Mr. Wise, sternly. "Read there for yourself," said the youngster, pointing to a paragraph in his single remaining paper. Mr. Wise took the paper and read: "Boylston street runs into Washing ton street." Without a word Mr. Wise paid for the paper and strode on. Arrived at home, his wife asked if he attended the annual meeting that afternoon of tho stockholders of the T. Y. and Z. Railroad Company. It oc curred a week sooner, she explained, than had been expected, but Mrs. Chester said it was advertised in the leading daily papers. Mr. Wise's face fell. He was not a stockholder in the wealthy concern, but it had been intimated to him that at the closo of the meeting some ap pointments would probably be made, one of which might affect him favora bly wore lie on tho spot to press his claim. lie ate his supper in gloomy silence, then went to call on Mr. Chester, one of the stockholders of tho railroad I company. To his keen disgust and disappointment 110 learned that his absence had been taken for indiffer cucc and the appointments had been made. "But I received a circular stating that the meeting would not taku place until next week," said Mr. Wise. "Yes," replied Mr. Chester, "so of course did I, but circumstances were making it necessary that tho meeting 1 should tako place to-day; it was well advertised iu the papers," added Mr. j Chester. "Strange I didn't see it," almost growled Mr. Wise, as 110 turned from I the door. i Mrs. Wise sincerely hoped this cir cumstance would convince her hus band of tho poor economy of trying to get along without a daily paper, but she soon discovered it had only served | to make his resolves the more dogged. About that time Mrs. Wise became engaged iu the purchase of a new dress. She was a pretty lady, and was always tastefully attired, a matter iu which her husbaud felt no little pride. Hut when sho appeared before lum in her new attire Mr. Wise ex claimed almost angrily: "Why, wife! I never saw you in anything so positively hideous before. What could have induced you to buy such a mean fabric, and such dull, un becoming eolorsP" "Had I only known it," his wife re plied, regretfully, "I might have gone to Warren's and bought a beautiful silk and wool fabric for the same money I paid for this, but I did not see their advertisement, and thought it was no use to go up to their store, where things arc usually higher than anywhere else. I was limited as to price, and did the best I could." In another part of the suburban city where Mr. Wise resided lived his cousin, Mr. Herbert Wise. The cousins had no great fondness for each other and seldom met, except occasionally at the house of Dr. Erasing Wise, an uncle. Dr. Wise was a retired physician, living in the great city where both his nephews were engaged in business. He was widely known and esteemed among the profession, and had a largo acquaintance, with whom he was ex tremely popular. A man of rare principles, he felt that lie should regard his nephews equally favorably, but despite the fact of Her bert being much more assiduous in ids attentions than Archibald, he yet felt drawn more nearly to the latter. As these nephews were the old doc tor's nearest living relatives, it was perhaps only natural that both gentle men had vaguo expectations that it might transpire at some future day that they had beeu generously remoin bercd when tho old physician should have done with all earthly wants. One morning as Archibald Wise was about entering bis oilice lie suddenly encountered his cousin Herbert, who said, smilingly: "So you didn't think best to appear at our good uuelc's last night?" "What do you mean?" "Why, I mean you didu't present yourself to ask after him." "Why, what's the matter?" "How? You didn't see the account in your paper yesterdayP" "Inot a word of it! Did you?" "Why, certainly. Uucle seemed to think your absence somewhat marked, I fancied, in the midst of such a largo assemblage of friends." As soon as Herbert Wise's back was turned his cousin went hastily to the nearest news-stand and bought a pa per of the day before. It took him but a moment to tindthat the old gen tleman had been injured and narrowly escaped death, iu a runaway accident, and that many citizens had called to congratulate him on having attained his 80th birthday in safety. At the large gathering the previous night, when Mr. Herbert Wise was about taking leave of his uucle, the genial old gentleman remarked: "1 am disappointed at not seeing Archie hero to-night. Have you heard that ho was away or indisposed?" "Oh, no," replied Herbert hesitating ly; "he may not have known of it." "But I think he must," rejoined his uncle; "the occasion was noticed twice in lus paper." "Perhaps he takes no paper regu larly," suggested the nephew, who seemed to have developed a sudden aptitude for drawing conclusions. "And perhaps he does," said the old gentleman serenely, at tho same tiino he thought a keen, forbidding thought concerning tho man he felt had cast a slur toward his favorite nephew. Reflecting on tho subject later in tho solitude of ids chamber, Uucle Erastus soliloquized audibly. "It looks to me as if Herbert might have said that for the purpose of alionating me from Archie. I can re call having heard him speak slighting ly of his cousin on former occasions. I wonder if he thinks—" But there the old man sank into profound reverie. After a moment, however, he aroused and added, em phatically— "No, indeed! That would not bo Archie at all! I'd be ashamed, indeed, of a relative of mine who would go without a daily paper for any causo except extreme poverty, but I believe there is no danger that a Wise would do so foolish a thing!" At noon Mr. Archibald Wise was emerging from tho newspaper ollico when lie met his uucle just going in. in eager, sincere terms, tne nepnew began to explain his absence the night before. "I entirely missed learning of the accident," he said, simply. "I see you have your paper," said his uncle, glancing at tho ample sheet in his nephew's hands. •'Yes; I've just been in to pay my subscription." "Ami I'm going in to renew mine; wait a bit, Archie, and we'll go to din ner together." True to the latent manliness of his nature, Mr. Archibald Wise told the whole story to his wife that night, and added what seemed a redeeming con fession; he said: "Why is it a man seems possessed to persist in a resolve he knows is only damaging and hazardous simply be cause ho is determined to do so? I can't tell; I only know I'm done with trying to economize in such a costly way as I discover is involved in doing without my valuable paper." A few years later, when Uncle Eras tns' will was opened, it was found that Herbert's Wise's prejudicial hints had not injured his eousiu in the least. For besides stubbornly apportioning alarge sum to the city hospital, of which he had long been the senior visiting pliy siciau, the old doctor had further de monstrated the contrariness of human nature by leavingto his nephew, Archi bald Wise, twice as much money as he left his more ambitious cousin, Herbert, who unconsciously displeased his good uncle by a base yet perfectly truthful insinuation, ouly its truthful ness was fortunately concealed. — Har riet A. Cheever , in Boston Transcript. The Sole Survivor. "And you say they were all drown ed?" "Yes, all but one woman, a dressmaker, who managed to grasp a floating spar and she held 011 till help came." "Ah, I see, the survival of the titter."- \AI* NOTICE TO THF.BPABBERB.-On and after this dutc, April ::i. all persons found tres passing upon the Birkbeck farm at South Heb ertou will be prosecuted according to law. Sev eral parties are in the habit of travelling across tin* fields to and from their work. They are known and if seen crossing again will be prosc i cutod. WILLIAM JOHNSON, trustee for tho Birkbeck Estate. FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE Freeland - Borough SCHOOL DISTRICT, FOll THE YEALL ENDING JUNE ISSB. John J. Brogan, Treasurer. Dr. To bul. on band from year 188.8$ 39 74 ! To state appropriation 34 7 49 To ain't ree'd from Wm. Wil liamson, col., duplicate 1889. 1,804 94 To ain't ree'd from James Col lins; col., duplicate 1888 20000 To am't ree'd from 11. L. Ed munds for books 4 01 j Total $2,450 78 Cr. By teachers salaries $1,470 is) " cleaning,repairs and supplies 88 09 " interest on bonds 24 00 " coal and hauling 90 81 " auditors salaries 8 00 ! " publishing statement inProg rent 10 00 " 2 per cent, commission 33 83 " balance in hands of treasurer 731 45 Total $2,450 78 1,1 ABII.ITIKS. Bonds outstanding $ 800 00 Outstanding Orders. No. 82 cleaning $ 7 50 " 83 cleaning 750 " 114 wood 400 " 123 teaching 40 00 I " 127 " 00 00 "129 " 40 00 " 133 insurance 05 02 | " 134 teaching 40 00 ] " 137 " 40 00 I " 138 " 40 no " 139 " 40 00 j " 140 coal 300 i " 142 teaching 25 00 412 02 i Total $1,212 02 Resources. J Balance in treasurer's hands. .$ 731 45 Building and grounds 2,800 00 | Furniture 000 00 Due from James ('ollins, c 01... 241 28 " " Wm. Williamson, col. 230 25 Total $4,002 98 i LUZEHNK COUNTY, S. 8. The undersigned i auditors of the Jiornugh of Froclund, after j being duly sworn, declare and say that they ; have examined the accounts of John J. Ilrogan, I treasurer of the Freeland Dorough School l)i- I trict, anl found the same to he correct, and tin* I foregoing is a true and correct statement of the I same. John Tuknbach, i John C. Hkich, Auditors. Fkank Depierko, i FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF Foster Twp. Schools, For the year ending June 1, 1889. James A. O'Donnem., Treasurer. Dr. To cash from Tlios. Birkbeck, ex-treasurer $ 471 52 To cash from Patrick Sweeney, collector 8,509 21 To cash from commissioners, election rent 42 00 To cash from Reese L10yd.... 15 37 To cash from John Smoulter, county treasurer 809 40 To cash from statu appropria tion 1,924 04 Total $11,772 14 Cn. By teachers' salaries $ 8,343 50 By teachers' salaries, night school 350 00 By teachers attending county ( institute 200 00 By interest on loan 150 00 By collector's commission.... 249 04 By treasurer's commission 225 03 By secretary's salary 150 00 By fuel and contingencies 1,500 80 By repairing of schools 102 34 By cleaning school rooms 103 50 By auditing school accounts.. 0 00 Total $11,513 41 Cash on hand $ 258 73 We, the undersigned u editors of Foster Town ship, being duly sworn according to law. do certify tlint the above is a true and correct statement of the llnanelal condition ol' Foster Township School District, according to the accounts presented before us by the directors of the uforesaid district. Jacob 11. Zeiot.KU, I , ~, Christian Roster, ( Auditors. New Millinery Store Millinery and Fancy Work Done in the Latent and Bent Style at Misses DOHNBACH & MILLER'S, McGroarty's Building, Centre Street. Lennonn Given in Fainting and Fancy Work. Stamping and Finking Neatly and Ueanonahty hone. LOST: LOST! Anybody needing Queensware and won't visit our Bazaar wiil lose money. - Just See! 0 cups anil saucers, 25c; covered sugui bowls, 25c; butter dishes, 25c; bowl and pitcher, 69c; plates, 40 cenis per dozen np; fl cream pitchers, 10c; chamber setts, 7 pieces, $1.75. Also gro< er- ■ ies: cheap jelly by bucket 5c per lb; fresh butter 20 cents per lb; ■ 5 lbs. rice, 25c; 4 lbs. prunes, 25c; 4 lbs. starch, 25c; etc. Dry Goods: Bazoo dress goods, 8 cents per yard; calicoes, 4c to 8c H and white goods 5c per yard up. Carpets, 18c per yard up. Furniture! We have anything and everything and won't be I undersold. Straw hats! Hats to fit and suit them all. In boots I and shoes we can suit, you. Children's spring lieel, soc; ladies' I kid, button, $1.50. Come and see the rest. I will struggle hard I to please you. Your servant, I J. C. BERNER. I REMEMBER I PHILIP GERITZ, 1 Practical WATCHMAKER A ,J EWiSLKH^I 16 Front Street (Next Door to 1 id Bank), Freeland. I BOOTS AND SHOES. I A Large Stuek of Boots, Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers, Etc. Also I HATS. CAPS and GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS of All Kinds. 1 We Invito You to Call and Inspect Our New Store. GOOD MATERIAL! LOW PRICES! ZHZTTGKH: MAXLOY, Corner Centre and Walnut Sts., Freeland. I HE JUST AND PEAK NOT. J. J. POWERS has opened a MERCHANT TAILOR'S iui