FREELAND TRIBUNE.
Published Every Thursday Afternoon
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TTIOS. A. BUCKLEY,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERMS, - - SI.OO PER YEAR.
Address tdl Communications to
FEE ELAND TRIBUNE,
FUEELAND, PA.
Office, llirklx-ck Drink, ilnor. Centre Street. ]
Entered ill the KreeUtnil Vontuffice ox Second !
China Mutter.
FREELAND, PA., JULY 18, 1889.
THE NOW York legislature increased
the pay of laborers on the state canals
to two dollars per day and then ne- j
glected to make the necessary appro j
priation to pay the increase. The J
result was that while 7(1(1 workers got j
the increase 500 others had to be <1 is J
charged.
WHEN, oh when will the report of
that Harrisburg labor committee he
given to the public? Is it possible j
that their master, the (I. O. P., will j
not allow them to publish the record |
of Quay's "model" legislature ? Will
the chairman please throw some light |
on the subject?
THE Democrats may have originated j
the idea that to the victors belong the
spoils, but it seems to suit the present
administration to a nicety. They
have carried it so far in some depart-1
ments that it is like a four-rib roast— j
they devour the meat and make but- I
tons of the bone.
THE. Pekin (China) Gazette cele- j
hrated (he 800tli anniversary of its !
publication a short time ago by in- 1
creasing the wages of its employes
from 20 to 22 cents per day. Such
an extraordinary act has 'firmly con
vinced the Pekinites that the Gazette
has "come to stay."
A LANDLORD in Philadelphia began
reducing the rents of several proper
ties which he owned, and his relatives
concluded that he was insane. An
examination was made and their sus
picions proved to he correct, and last
week he was taken to the asylum.
When a landlord voluntarily reduces
the rent an examination of his sanity
is in order every time.
A FBF.ioHT conductor on the New
York Central Railroad was discharged
on J illy 1, because he refused to take
out a train during the tie-up last fall.
His case was taken up by the local
assembly of railroad employes in Al
bany on Friday, and at 5 o'clock Mon
day afternoon all the freight con
ductors, brakemen and switchmen
between West Albany and Grecnbush
were ordered out. At 11 o'clock
Tuesday night just as word was being
sent out to tie up the whole road as
far south as New York City and west
to Utica, the conductor was reinstated
and the strike ended. Only by or
ganization can workingmen prevent
imposition.
THAT no one hut political heelers
and manipulators of "blocks of five"
have any influence with Harrison was
forcibly demonstrated in the case of
General Sherman. Although a Re
publican of the Republicans, the
general has never interfered in poli
tics and has turned a deaf ear to all
entreaties to permit his name to be
used on petitions and endorsements
of office-hunters. The only instance
in which he has been known to break
this habit is his recommendation to
Harrison to continue in office his old
time antagonist, General Joe Johns
ton, who was appointed a Commis
sioner of Railways by President
Cleveland. He has been refused this
request, and he now may meditate
upon the open secret that a boodler
who controls his ward or district has
more influence in Washington politi
cal circles than the greatest living
general in the world.
THE trust business has token an
other spurt and they are being formed
in such rapid succession that it is dif
ficult to .remember them all. The
latest acquisition to the long list is
the salt industry. It was too much
for the salt manufacturers to stand
idly by after the sugar trust has been
such a brilliant success. While they
do not hope to reap as large a monthly
benefit—s3,ooo,ooo —as the sugar
trust, they will give the public purse
a respectable squeeze in a few months.
One of its projectors, E. D. Wheeler
of Michigan, gives the consoling infor
mation that prices will not advance
more than ten cents per barrel until
the trust is in good working order,
v.kich he thinks will he about the Ist
of next January. They hope by that
time to liavo every salt concern in the
United States under their control, and
with the aid of our great and glorious
high tariff they will tap the pocket
hook o[ every person, rich or poor, in
(lie country. So now prepare to pay
your tribute to this "infant industry"
or deny yourself the use of salt. It
is useless to protest against such
combinations, fop Jag, G. Blaine has
said "trusts ar< pm \ v private affairs
with which the public have no right
to interfere." The only wav to check
or abolish those abominations is to
sweep away every custom house in
America and let men buy where tliey
can make Iho best bargains. We
would then he a step nearer our
boasted "liberty."
A. M. Dewey has resigned his position
as editor of the Journal of t'nitea Labor,
tiie official organ of the K. of b. lie
goes to Washington, D. t!., to accept a
situation on the C'rnfUmn n, the Inter
national Typographical Union's jour
nal.
| THE COAL MINER
I
| TBITHS OF THK COAL FIFLON IN
TKKFSTINGLY TOI.D.
Some of the llreaker Graduates—-Tlic
Slate Picker, Mule Driver and
Miner in the Pennsylvania
Anthracite llegioiiH.
From the New York 1 YvrUl.
The groat world without knows but
little of the lift? and trials of the miner. I
I f it gets its fuel cheap it cares not how i
or by whom it is produced. There are I
j only two things that attract attention to '
the miner—a general strike that causesa j
j scarcity of coal or some terrible disaster !
i by winch scores of lives are lost.
Yet the miner deserves to be better !
known.
He is, as a general rule, a patient in
dustrious, < J od-fearing, poorly paid work- j
1 er, wiiose toil contributes to the comfort !
of many and the wealth of a few, but ,
who of late years has been unable to
! secure either comfort or wealth for those ,
near ami dear to him. ,
The statues of Pennsylvania say that ,
| children under twelve years old must
not he employed in or about the mines, ,
hut in the case of the children of the j
coal fields "necessity knows no law,"
and the little ones are often sent to pick
] slate in the screen rooms of the big,
I black, dusty breakers at a much earlier
age. Boys of eight and nine years and
sometimes younger enter upon thisexact-
I ing employment, which stunts mind and
i hotly. This is the first step to the mines.
| A few years ago little toddlers not
more than six years of age were some
! times found picking slate in the screen
I rooms, and accidents by which children
! were crushed to death by the massive
I breaker machinery were not infrequent.
People not acquainted with the condi
tion of affairs naturally wondered why
j children were permitted to become slate
| pickers at such a tender age, but the
cause was not difficult to find. < hving to
} the frequency of fatal accidents in the
mines, by which the father of the family
i was suddenly killed at his task, the
I mother and her little ones are often left
penniless and without means of support.
I n such a pitiful extremity the oldest
I boy, no matter how young, would be
I selected for the coal breaker so that his
j little pittance of forty, or fifty, or sixty
cents a day might help keep want from
, the door.
The natural pride, modesty and love
of independence on the part of the poor
I widow made her shrink appealing to the
| poor authorities for help, and so her
! boy would enter upon the career of a
' slate picker at an age when most boys
| are considered too young to begin their
! school life.
Under the provisions of the present i
law boys under twelve years of age are
not supposed to work in the breaker, but '
a great many who are only eight or nine
manage to make themselves look older
for the purpose of leaping over the legal
barrier, and tender hearted inspectors
who are acquainted with the needs of
their families will not press the little
men too hard for the official record of
their birth.
The great ambition of the average
slate picker is to become a mule driver
in the mine. This is considered desir
able promotion. It is a step that adds
to his peril and to his pay, besides plac
j ing him in authority over a mule.
NVhen a boy begins the work of mule
driving in the mines he has much to
learn and runs many risks. The average
mule is as tricky as a ward politician,
but the mine mule has tricks enough for
a Congressional district. The animal
seems to acquire added cunning in its
ungerground home, where it thrives and
grows strong in the dark, and it loses
nothing in this line by contact with the
mischievous mule hoys, who take special
delight in teaching it new antics. Many
of the sturdy mules employed in hauling
coal cars from the chamber where the
coal is mined to the foot of the shaft
along the subterranean track that grows
: as the working increased have been in
I the mines for years, and some of them
j have become blind in this underground
j service. The only light they see is that
reflected from the tiny lamp which the
i driver or the miner carries in his hat,
except in case of a strike or protracted
suspension, when they are turned out to
grass in some of the fields which the
coal companies own.
Occassionally a boy of human nature
manages to get on good terms with the
mule of which he has charge, but if lie
happens to he ill-tempered and the mule
vicious, the combination is anything hut
agreeable. Kicking on the part of the
mule and whacking on the part of the
lad vary the monotony of the grim, black
galleries of anthracite. Sometimes a
little mule driver is kicked to death, but
the danger of being squeezed at the side
of the car or crushed against the roof
before he learns the fine points of his
risky calling are much greater.
Nevertheless the mule drivers of the !
coal fields are brave and hardy, and
those of them who have been in the
service any length of time acquire a
degree of self-reliant courage that they
, find greatly to their advantage in after
years. They become reckless riders of
; the stubborn animals and in time man
age to secure a control over them that is
1 really remarkable.
When the mule driver grows too big j
[ to work and longs for the wages paid to !
his class, he becomes a "laborer" if be j
i decides to remain in the mine, which lie i
: almost always does. He has of course,
i been a laborer since lie began the busi
! i ness of slate picking, but there is a spe
cial meaning attached to the term in
mining coal, and a certain remuneration
goes with it. This varies according to i
locality and opportunity; nevertheless it '
is pretty clearly defined in a general j
way. 'J he mule driver receives about I
sl.lO a day, sometimes a little more and 1
sometimes a little less. The pay of the
laborer runs from $1.50 to $1.75 and $2
per day. The work of the laborer is
harder than that of the miner and not,
so well paid, because his is what is
classed as unskilled labor. It should i
not be so classed, however, for the reason
that none but men of intelligence ought
to be permitted to work in any depart
ment of mining. The work of the labor
er, as well as that of the miner, calls for :
ceaseless vigilance and a thorough under- I
standing of his own environment.
The laborer is not held responsible for
the regulation of the air currents that
facilitate ventilation, nor for the presence
of the noxious gases that frequently ac-1
cumulate in such large volumes and scat
ter death and havoc through the subter
ranean work-shops upon contact with a
spark, nor for the swift and fatal fall of
roof, but be must, as one who is in per- j
sonal danger from such things, feel
deeply interested in them. His life and
the lives of bis comrades are at stake.
The presence of Hungarians and Ital
ian laborers, who cannot converse with !
their English fellow workmen, is an 1
added danger, and for this reason chiefly
is distasteful to practical miners. But
the "Huns" are cheap, and nowhere is
"the curse of cheapness" more strikingly
manifest than in the employment of
mine laborers.
In their own country the Turks, Poles
ami Russians, who toil at the toughest
kind * .f work, can only earn a few paltry
kopecks day, but when they come to
this country the lowest wages the labor
broker offer them is princely remunera-:
lion. \ ery often the safety of the men
j employed in u mine chamber depends J
upon the proper adjustment of a prop t<> ;
support tlie sliaky roof, and. sometimes !
the lives of all the men in the mine may
be endangered by holding a lighted mine
lamp a shade too high, and thus bringing
i it in contact with a volume of gas strong
! enough to wreck the mine and destroy
.every human being that works there.
Men who cannot comprehend danger
• and who are too dull to understand what
; they are told in a crisis calling for imme
diate action should not he permitted to j
labor in the mines, for they not only in
vite their own doom by doing so, but
they also intensify the natural dangers
I surrounding those who work with them. 1
! Physically the work of the mine j
J laborer is about the most exacting known.
lie breaks up the great bowlder of an-|
| thracite that tumbling down from the ,
I everlasting coal seam in response to the
I blast or "shot" that has been fired by
the miner, and then he loads this coarse
ly broken coal into the coal cars which
the nimble mule driver and his mule
bring along the track from the foot of
the shaft to the mouth of the mine
chamber.
But the mine laborer is generally a
cheerful being. He is up at the earliest
dawn, sometimes before daylight, espe-;
cially in the short winter days, and he ;
hastens to his work with a light heart,
even though he may be going to his last i
"shift."
The miner is usually a man of more
than ordinary intelligence. In addition
to being skilled in the requirements of !
his calling—the nature of the gases, the j
effect of sudden barometric changes on
the mines, the measurement of air
currents by the use of the anemometer
and other matters essential to the careful
working of a mine—he possesses a wide
range of knowledge on general topics
and takes a keen interest in the news of
the day.
On all matters of vital current import
ance in religion, education, politics and
public questions, generally, he is up to
the times. In this respect the miner of
Pennsylvania differs widely from the
collier of the English mining districts.
The English collier feels that he belongs
to a class and that he has no interest
beyond it. The Pennsylvania miner
feels that he is an American citizen and
that he is interested in everything of
importance to his country.
Many of the miners own the homes
they live in. Some of their homes are
poor and plain and severely simple, and
not a few show the hard lines which
their occupants endured through the
long siege of idleness in the coal industry,
but many more are cozy, pretty and
picturesque.
The feudal castle of old was grand to
look at, hut the shadow it cast for miles
around left no room for aught else than
servility and the sense of personal
degradation which made poor men feel
that they were constructed of commoner
clay than the baron, whose smile was
their sunshine, but whose frown was
death. Although this species of auto
cracy is not present in Pennsylvania the
coal baron is there with his combinations,
his monopoly, his schemes and his
company store. The miner feels these
influences. They creep into the price of
the powder that lie uses in blasting coal
and extract from him s.'> per keg for an
article that can he bought in the market
at $1.50 per keg; they compel liini to buy
his supplies at a store where lie gets
inferior goods for extravagant prices;
they encroach on the standard size of
the coal car and are constantly trying to
make it larger, as well as to "dock" him
outrageously because he may accidently
have sent up a few pieces of slate
among the anthracite that is so much
like it in the darkness of the mine; and
at election time they would like to con
trol his vote in the; interest of some man
or monopoly inimical to his own in
terests.
Resistance to these and other encroach
ments 011 his rights makes the life of the
miner a continuous struggle, hut lie
preserves his manhood nobly through it
all audit would be difficult to find in
any part of the country or at any railing
a braver, hardier or more upright and
law abiding class of men than the miners
of Pennsylvania.
Few men are more courageous in the
face of perils that threaten certain death
than these miners. Proof of this lias
been furnished time and again at the
black mouth of the deadly pit, in which
the terrible fire-damp or the fearful fall
of roof have played sad havoc.
They are generous, brave and kind
hearted class, and it deserves to be said
to their credit that despite the provoca
tions which they have often had for
hatred, anarchy has never been aide to
find a foot-hold among them.
The miners and laborers, with their
families, derive a good deal of whok sale
enjoyment from life when times are
fairly prosperous in the coal fields. The
men belong to various temperance,
literary and singing societies and are
profited mentally and morally in this
way.
The most proficient singers in the
world are the Welsh miners of the
j Lackawanna valley.
When Patrick Sarsficld (Hlmore visited
Serunton a short time ago with his hand
ho gave a concert in connection with the
Cymmrudorian Society of two hundred
voices, led by a young man named Pro
thoroe. Mr. (iilmore was delighted
with their glorious singing. He con
fessed his surprise and declared that it
reflected great credit 011 the musical taste
and culture of this hard working com
munity. Later on when the famous
Lappa came from New York with his
band he co-operated with the Cymmro
dorians and paid them equally high
praise. The eisteddfod of the Welsh
singing societies are among the most en
joyable events of the year, and these
musical festivals are given almost exclu
sively by miners, laborers and their
mothers, wives and sweethearts.
Preparing for 'OSB.
The question of who shall bear the
standard of the Democracy in 1892,
Cleveland or liill, is still being warmly,
even hotly, discussed by the Democratic
press. The preponderance of sentiment
is overwhelmingly in favor of the ex-
President. Practically the organs of his
party in the West, and more especially
in the South and South-west, are unani
mous in urging that Mr. Cleveland shall
he again nominated on the platform
built from the materials he furnished in
his celebrated tariff message. In the
North and Fast Democratic opinion is
more divided, but the great weight of it
hears down the scale in favor of Mr.
Cleveland. There appears to lie a few
of the Eastern leaders who think it will
he wisest and best that the Democracy
shall return to the platform of 1884, upon
which they were carried to victory in
that year, but the Western and Southern
revenue reformers demand that there
shall he no backward steps taken, that
the old party shall continue to go for
ward—towards free trade, or, at least,
towards a tariff for revenue only.
.llonHignnr Corcoran l>cul.
After an illness that lasted several
months the Right Rev. Monsignor
James A. Corcoran, D. D., S. T. I).,
Professor of Sacred Scripture, ('anon
law, Moral Theology, Hebrew, Syriac,
llomiletics and French in the Theological
Seminary of St. Charles Borroineo, at
Overbrook, near Philadelphia, died 011
Tuesday of Blight's disease, aged about
07 years. Though Monsignor Corcoran
began to fail many months ago, his ill-!
ncss was not considered dangerous until
within about two weeks past.
A Drum.
A regiment In motion and the rattle of a
drum.
With u "rat, tat, tat!" and a rat, tat, turn!"
Fear is on tho face of some.
Others stopping with aplomb.
And steady is the patter and clatter of the
drum.
Sweeping- lines in evolution, fast the wheeling j
columns come.
Ami a thousand men are stepping to the tap
ping of the drumb.
There are cotiuteuancoß glum.
There are senses dull ami numb,
But n boy is stepping proudly—there is play
iug on the drum,
The rage and roar of battle ami the rattle of ,
a drum.
The shrapnel shot arc flying with a "zip!" and
Cruel shells exploding come.
And the bullets hiss mid hum.
But a drum still echoes loudly—will the tiling
bo never tnum?
Darkness on the Held of battle, where tlio
body-seekers couie;
The storm of death is ended and displayed the
struggle's suin.
A pallid face, a drum,
There is blood, and both are dumb —
A story of a drummer and a story of a drum!
—Waterloo. 1
!N HONOR HOUND.
In a handsome bedroom in one of
the leading New York hotels, a gentle
man was growling at the heat, moving
about, and exhibiting in every way the
restlessness of expectation or a mind
ill at ease. Il<- was tall, well built,
and fair, telling his nationality in face
and dress, every inch an Englishman;
and if he had spoken his thoughts they
would have been:
"llow long Rodney is gone! I won
der if be found her? To think she has
been in such trouble, and I did not
know it! But what could I have done?
Nothing! I bound myself to stand
aside until Rodney came back. Why?
1 had as good a chance, as fair a right
to speak as he had, but when 110 con-
I tided in me, told me ho loved her, and
was going home to ask his father's
consent to marry her, I felt bound in
honor to wait. A nice time 110 has
had, he says, in winning his father
over. Anyone would imagine by the
fuss he made about 'representing the
title' that Miss Underwood was a
' squaw wearing a blanket. Well, he
will be agreeably surprised when be
sees her. There is not a lady in Lon
don society more refined, graceful,
highly educated, and nobody can dis
pute her beauty; but will the loss of her
father's wealth make the old gentle
man withdraw his reluctant consent?
Oh, here is Rodney!'
Ami the door opened to admit
another Englishman, younger, rosier,
more perfectly blonde than the occu
pant of the room. His face was cloud
ed, and there was decided temper in
the way he pitched his hat on the bed,
and exclaimed:
♦•What a beastly hot day!"
llis companion s heart beat thickly.
Hope crushed down by honor, sprang
up defiantl}*.
"She refused him!" Hope whispered.
Aloud he only said:
-Well?"
"Oh, it's all over!"
"She—she—rejected you?"
The boyish face lighted for a moment
with a conceited smile.
"Well, not exactly that. I didn't
ask her. You see, old man, when I
saw Mrs. Vandenhopper yesterday, she
did not tell me half how bad it was.
She told me that Miss Underwood's
trustee, guardian, and lawyer all in
one, had defaulted, lost all her money
as well as his own, and that of numer
ous other people, and vanished. Hut
an aunt, in a place on Long Island,
left Miss Underwood a small farm,
years and years ago, which was in the
care of another business man, who, so
far, bas not vanished. That was all I
heard yesterday, and I went to Cold
Spring full of hope, to tell Miss Un
derwood of my undying affection. Hut,
by Jove! just imagine—the farm turns
out to be a miserable little piece of a
few acres, and Miss Underwood is cul
tivating it herself! Sending green peas
and strawberries to market! I saw
lier! A calico dress, J give you my
word, gie it thick boots, a big check
apron, and a sun-bonnet! She was out
in the garden, actually weeding a cab
bage-bed herself, and a towzle-headed
boy was carting oil' the weeds in a bar
row. I asked one of the neighbors
who lived there, don't you see, and
got a lot of valuable information that
would stand the governor's hair on
end. That's the deuce of it, I hail
hard enough to bring him and my
mother round to the heiress, but when
it comes to weeding cabbages herself,
you see, for a living, well-—"
"So you give her up because in her
misfortune she goes nobly to work,
instead of whining and living on her
relatives?"
"Well, it's all very well for you to
talk that way. I've envied you Jour
independence before now. By Jove!
if 1 were like you, rich, with a good
old family name and estate, and
nobody to control me, I might do as I
pleased. Hut, after all, I was com
pletely disenchanted. Hob, when I saw
that sun-bonnet. Nobody knows what
state her hands are in, and a fellow in
m}- position must thiuk something of
appearances."
"Yes!"
"Now you needn't look as if I had
committed a crime, Hob. I never said
one word that the wildest imagination
could construo into love-making. I
didn't dare tell I had talked the gov
ernor over, and now I'm glad I didn't.
I think I may look a little higher than
a woman who seuds cabbages to mar
ket."
"You will look a long time beforo
you will find a more perfect lady, in
every sense of the word, thau Miss Un
derwood."
"Well, I'm oil' for a bath ami some
clean linen. Never was so hot in niv
life!"
Left alone, "Hob," otherwise Robert
Bcauchamp, consulted the time-table
liis companion had studied with inter
est in the early morning, and dressing
rapidly, left the hotel.
It was hot, even at Cold Springs,
and Emily Underwood, the cabbage
bed weeded, pushed back her sun-bou
net, unconscious of the olTenec it
had given, and straightened herself
almost with a groan. The tovvzle
lieaded boy looked on and sympa
thized.
"You'd hadn't oughter go in so
fierce!" he said. "Folks t'aint used '
to't allers does, ma says. You'd
oughter hire the weed in' done. Lor'!
look at your hands!"
"They are certainly very dirty, Sam,"
said the low, sweet, well-bred voice.
"Hut working is better thau starv
ing, Sam."
"S'poso it is," grumbled Sam, rather
awed by this view of tilings.
"Well, Sam, can you clear up nice
ly, now?"
"I can, ma'am. I'll make it all like
a parlor."
And seeing him attack his work as
if lie meant what he said, Miss Under
wood went into the small inconvenient
dwelling, nil mat was ieit or nor lost
wealth. A lady, as Robert Beau
champ had said, in the fullest sense of
the word, poverty had found her with
out one money-making art at her com
mand. ller music was far too superfi
cial for a teacher, her education was
in 110 way thorough enough for practi
cal purposes. She knew nothing of
sewing or housekeeping, having em
ployed servants for all her work, and
a competent housekeeper for her house.
It was true that she knew no more of
farming than of Greek, but the farm
was her own, and she paid a man to
como every day to do the heaviest of
her work, and to teach her how to
weed, to sow, to plant. With bound
less energy, good health, aud a strong
will, she took her misfortune bravely,
and worked faithfully to make a liv
ing.
Tier aunt in Now York had offered
her a home, and suggested matrimony
as the object for which she should
work, but Emily had distinctly refused
to hunt for a husband. Si'io never
spoke of the two Kugiishmun who had
haunted her during one entire winter,
had paid her most devoted attentions,
and then quittod New York—one to
return to England, one to make an ex
tended tour of the States. They went
away in March, and in July she had
never heard of or from them. She
would have indignantly denied any
especial interest in either one of them,
yet she often sank into long day
dreams, in which she wondered why
Robert Bcauchurap's lips had never
told her the love she read in his eyes,
in his chaining color, in those fleeting
signs by which a man betrays what
ho believes to be a carefully-concealed
secret.
She knew, from his companion's
frankness, that lie was free to woo and
win where lie would. Why, then, if
he loved her. had ho left her unsought?
It was one of life's mysteries, she told
herself impatiently, and she would
rouse from her day-dream to take a
lesson in butter-making from her ser
vant.
Leaning over the fence that separat
ed her garden from her neighbor's
was an old man, who said in a drawl:
"There was a city chap here to-day.
Miss Underwood, askin' questions—
-110 end of 'em, bout you. Th' old
'ooman allows he's English. Shocamo
from Cornwall herself, and she knows
the talk."
"Cornwall! Emily Underwood felt
the blood rush to her cheeks, but she
asked no more questions. Siio had
washed her hands, examined the fresh
scratches and bruises 011 their delicate
white surface, wondered how soon
they would be hard and brown, and
was lingering in the doorway, dread
ing the stairs for her lame feet and
weary back when she saw Robert
Beauchamp.
The offending sun-bonnet still shad
ed her face; the thick, mud-stained
boots still covered her slender feet; the
calico dress, the coarse apron, were
all there, as described four long hours
before. Hut her lover, her true loyal
lover, saw ouly the shy brown eyes
droop under bis eager gaze; the quick
rich color stain the fair round checks;
tlio beauty of the sweet face and
graceful figure, and bis heart rose to
his lips.
Quick words of tender love, gentle
words of sympathy, loving words of
protection, all the language by which
heart tries to win heart, were poured
out in a rapid flow; and shy timid
eyes, quivering lips, answered.
He told her of his pain in learning
the loss that had fallen upon her, his
sorrow at her changed fortunes, and
in tondcrest tones he besought her to
trust her future to him—to bo his be
loved, cherished wife.
And she? She loved him! A little
protest, cheeked by his lips upon hers,
and she gave lum tiie promise he
sought.
She had been mistress of Hcauchamp
Hail for more than a year before she
knew the reason of her husband's con
cealment of bis love—the check honor
placed upon bis lips.
"Rodney went down to propose on
the same day I did, sweetheart, but
your sun-bonnet frightened him.
Hut it makes me shiver to think ho
might have asked you."
"Why? It would have made no dif
ference."
"But bo has a title—will have a
higher one when his father dies, and
six times my income."
"Well," and no one could doubt the
sincerity of Mrs. Heaucliamp's lips and
eyes, "1 did not love him. I did lovo
you."
"And if I had not found you?"
"I should liavo continued to weed
cabbages in a sun-bonnet."
Rodney, meeting her in society,
sighs sometimes, and wonders if hedld
not make a mistake; but lie would lis
ten in incredulous amazement if lie
were told his titlo or wealth could
never have won Emily Underwood for
bis wife, and that she would have mar
ried Robert Hcauchamp if he bad not
had a dollar.
Religion in the Colleges.
The colleges never had so many
professing Church-members in them as
at prescut. A few examples will show
this. Yale College in 1795 had but
four or live students who were Church
members; to-day nearly one-half hold
such membership. Princeton in 1813
had but two or three openly professing
the Christian faith; to-day about one
half, and among them the best schol
ars. in William's College 147 out of
S4B, and in Amherst 233 out of 352, are
members of Churches. In many other
colleges, as proved by Dr. Hodge, from
whose carefully prepared tables these j
figures are taken, the proportions are i
still more favorable the prospects of
religion.— Harper's Magazine.
One Newman, of Rushville, lud.,
has a crow which has forsaken its
kind, and associates altogether with
the chickens iu the barnyard. At
night it roosts with the poultry, and
during the daytime feeds with * them,
and altogether conducts itself as a
well-dlspositioned chicken.
S. S. Cook, of Fisher's Landing, has
1,900 prune trees ami 700 pear trees
set out on twenty acres of land, for
which he refused $20,000, says the La
Camas (W. T.) News. The trees will
come iuto bearing the coming season.
He has also live acres of black-cap
raspberries from which lie netted SIOO
per acre last year.
The barkeeper of one of the large
New York hotels has decided the in
teresting question of the value of New
Year "swear-oil's." He says that he
has noticed that immediately after the
first of the year the receipts for drinks
fall oir on an average3s per cent, but
as the month advances they gain
steadily and by Feb. 1 they are back to
the starting point. A "swear-off,"
therefore, will generally last about
thirty days.
LOST! LOST!
Anybody needing Queensware and
won't visit our Bazaar will lose money.
.Just See!
0 cups and saucers, 25c; covered sugar bowls, 25c; butter
dishes, 25c; bowl and pitcher, 60c; plates, 40 cents per dozen up;
cream pitchers, 10c; chamber setts, 7 pieces, $1.75. Also grocer
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
and white goods 5c per yard up. Carpets, 18c per yard up.
Furniture! We have anything and everything and won't be
undersold. Straw hats ! Hats to tit and suit them all. In boots
and shoes we can suit you. Children's spring heel, 50c; ladies'
kid, button, $1.50. Come and see the rest. I will struggle hard
to please you. Your servant,
J. C. BERNE R.
REMEMBER
PHILIP GERITZ,
Practical WATCHMAKER A JEWELER.
15 Front Street (Next Door to First National Bank), Freehold.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
A Large Stock of Boots, Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers, Etc. Also
HATS. CAPS and GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS of All Kinds.
We Invite You to Call and Inspect Our New Store.
GOOD MATERIAL! LOW PRICES!
ZEETJGKEI MALLOT,
Corner Centre and Walnut Sts., Freeland.
BR JUST AND FEAII NOT.
J. J. POWERS
has opened a
JI KUCHA NT TAILOR'S raul
GENTS' FURNISHING
ESTABLISHMENT
' at 110 Centre Street, Freeland, and is not in
partnership with any other establishment hut
his own, and attends to his business personally.
Ladies' outside garment* cut and fitted to
measure in the litest style.
L RUDEWIGK,
GENERAL STORE.
SOUTH IIKBERTON, PA.
Clothing, Groceries. Etc., Etc.
Agent for the sale of
PASSAGE TICKETS
From all the principal points in Europe
I to all points in the united States.
Agent for the transmission of
MONEY
|To all parts of Europe. Checks, Drafts,
and Letters of Exeluinge on Foreign
Banks cashed at reasonable rates.
B. F. DAVIS,
Dealer in
Flour, Feed, Grain,
HAY, STRAW, MALT, &a. 9 I
Best Quality or
Clover & Timothy
SEED.
Zemally's Block, 15 East Main Street, Freeland.
O'DONNELL & Co.,
Dealers in
—GENERAL—
MERCHANDISE,
1 1
Groceries. Provisions. Tea.
Coffee. Queensware.
Glassware, &c.
FLOUR, FEED, HAY, Etc.
We invite the people of Freeland and vicinity
to call and examine our large and handsome
stock. Don't forget the pluce.
Next Door to the Valley Hotel, j
P° r Printing* of any Description
call at the
TRIBUNE OFFICE.
Posters,
Hand Bills,
Letter Heads,
Note Heads,
Bill Heads,
Raffle Tickets,
Ball Tickets,
Ball Programmes,
Invitations,
Circulars,
By-Laws,
Constitutions,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
Call ana See TXs.
LEE,
CHINESE LAUNDRY,
Ward's Building, 49 Washington St.,
FREELAND, PA.
Shirts one, 10 Bosoms 8
New shirts Li Coats 15 to 50
Collars 3 Vests 20
Drawers T Pants, woolen. 25 to $ I
Undershirts 7 Pants, linen... .35 to 50
Nightshirts 8 Towels 4
Wool shirts 8 Napkins 3
Socks 3 Tuble covers. •• 15 to 75
Handk'rch'fs,3; Sifor 5 Sheets 10
I Cuffs, per pair 5 Pillowslips —lO to 25
Neckties 3 Bed Ticks 50
Work taken every day of the week
! and returned on the third or fourth day
| thereafter. Family washing at the rate
of 50 cents per dozen. All work done in
a first-class style.
m
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of cases pronounced hy doctors hope
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I toms, such as Cough, Difficulty of
I Breathing, tVc., don't delay, but uso
! PISO'S CUKE FOR CONSUMPTION
! immediately. By Druggists. 25 cents.
Piso's Cure for Con- !
£3 sumption is also the best 2
5 Cough Medicine, s
rt if you iavo a Cough gSI
H without disease of the
I Lungs, a few doses are all 15
you need. But if you ne- tj
gleet this easy means of jl
safety, the slight Cough Jiy
may become a serious
matter, and several hot- £
ties will he required.
®EEBB2SSEaEa^
I
fPiso's Remedy for Catarrh is the £33
Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. U
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