FREELAND TRIBUNE.
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TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY,
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FRKELANI), PA., .II'LV 25, 1889.
THREE great P's protection, plu
tocracy and pensions—rule the pre
sent administration.
THERE is evidently one feature of
Harrison's policy in which Blaine is i
in hearty accord—that of bestowing
offices upon relatives. A second
nephew of Blaine, in addition to his
brother, has just been placed at the
public crib, in the appointment of
Edward Stanwood as special agent of
the census. Nepotism quickly be
came the fashion when Harrison set
the example.
ONE paragraph in the letter Benja
min Harrison wrote accepting the Re
publican nomination for president
reads thus: "It will be my sincere
purpose, if elected, to advance the re
form of the civil service." How has
this promise been kept? So well that
he is making votes by the hundreds
for the Democratic candidate of '92.
If Harrison thought the peoplo would
regard this promise as mere empty
words he succeeded most admirably
in hoodwinking himself, and 110 one
else.
THE Pittsburg Telegraph (Rep.) is
urging the active and ambitious young
men of this country to leave it by the
first steamer. It says that they must
go out of here or quietly reconcile
themselves to the low scale of living
prevalent in Europe—for to that con
dition are we fast approaching. This
is fine talk from a protectionist paper.
It is a delightful commentary on a
system that was adopted and is main
tained for the benefit of the ambitious
workers of our favored land. What
does it mean ? Are we to understand
that protection is a failure ? Has it
made success impossible to the great
majority so soon?
TIIE Indianapolis •Tournal, which
Harrison's private secretary formerly
edited, offers every morning to the
five thousand striking miners in Indi
ana long-winded discourses on the
failure of strikes, and tells them that
SI.(Id and $5.00 a week are not pauper
wages by any means. In the mean
time the Sentinel of the same city, a
newspaper which won a national repu
tation last year by its fearless and
able advocacy of tariff reform, has
raised and sent to the miners nearly
SIOOO to buy food. Even at this long
distance it does not require the ser
vices of a telescope to discern which
of the two is the true friend of labor.
Ai/niorriii they ni'e less than five
months in office the Republicans have
upon their hands one of the biggest
and most cumbersome "elephants"
ever known in politics. Pension Com
missioner Tanner persists in carrying
out the throat with which he entered
office, and which was expressed in
the sententious words, "God help the
surplus!" to an extent that alarms
those who are responsible for him.
They nre yet in a dilemma on the
subject. They feel there is a risk in
Tanner's removal from office of offend
ing the class whom he was appointed
to please; yet he has created embar
rassments for them which cannot pos
sibly be allowed to increase, even if
their continuance can be endured.
WHAT kind of an opinion can the
public have for a United States Sena
tor who stooj)s so low ns to bribe a
physician in the pension bureau to
make a false return of an examination,
that he may be re-rated and have his
pension increased and recover arrear
ages to the extent of SSOOOI This
could hardly bo done for the sake of
the money itself, as the author of this
crime is worth hundreds of thousands,
and it can only be attributed to the
insatiable thirst the ravenous Repub
lican leaders have of gorging them
selves with the surplus. When a
man who draws SSOOO a year and
mileage from the treasury STEALS the
money appropriated for disabled vet
erans —as United States Senator C.
T\ Mandorson of Nebraska has just
done it is time be and his ilk, to
gether with the nest of corruption
they ore members of, were quietly
dropped to the depths of the Pacific.
By getting the taxing power com
pletely into its hands plutocracy
meditates its victories over honest
industry and laborious production.
This is far more efficacious than vio
lent methods which challenge open
and immediate resistance. We see
its paralyzing effects in the havoc
wrought among our iron, woolen and
other manufacturers by monopoly tax
ation cunningly called protection.
We see its darkly gathering shadows :
cast forward into the future from the
contrivances falsely named trusts.
Labor stands appalled at the pros
pect. There is but one way of re
treat from the impending danger, and
that is to shape and direct the policy
of taxation in such a manner that it
will offer no advantage .over toiling
industry of which concentrated wealth
can take mi advantage. The system
of taxation needs to be re established
on plain and simple foundations, hav-1
ing the common welfare alone in view, ;
and leaving private enterprises to take .
care of themselves. — Boston Globe,, j
A Short Exposition of the Single Tax.
The land rightfully belongs to nil of
the people. If not, then those to whom
it does not belong can rightfully be
excluded from all land, which is the
same as to say that they can rightfully
be deprived of all natural opportunities
of liberty and of life itself. Our fore
fathers never alienated the rights of the
people. All deeds to land have a well
known condition precedent; that there
is reserved to the people the unlimited
right, under due form of law to tax the
value of the land for the common uses
of the people. If we repeal all other
taxes leaving only a tax upon the value
of land, then it becomes the single tax.
Our predecessor* upon the earth could
J not alienate the land from us, for "the
[ earth, belongs in usufruct to the living"
J and not to the dead. If alienated in
form we can rightfully resume it in fact,
and our method of resumption is the
single tax.
The ground rent, or annual value of
the land, apart from all ditches, drains,
fruit trees, fences, houses, stores, or
other improvements upon the land, has
been created by the whole people and
not by any individual. Gradually abol
ishing all other taxes as unnecessary
and unjust, we propose gradually to
resume this ground rent which belongs
to the whole people, making thereof
under the general forms of the present
law the single tax.
Taxes on the products of labor tend
to restrict production. This is obvious
to any one who will think. Put a tax on
hats, and a smaller number will be
brought; tax houses, and the building
of houses will be checked; and so on
with every other product of labor. The
tendency of such taxes is to diminish
consumption and cheek exchange, and
thus to hinder and make ineffective the
natural demand for products of labor to
satisfy human wants. The ground rent,
which rightfully belongs to the com
munity, is ample for all purposes of
government. Therefore there should be
no taxes imposed on improvements or
commodities, and no expenses of govern
ment beyond the annual proceeds of the
single tax.
A sufficient tax 01; the assessed value
of land makes it unprofitable to hold
land out of use, opening natural oppor
tunities for labor, stimulating production,
and facilitating exchange. If the com
munity took for the uses of the com
munity all of that value produced by it
and none of the values produced by in
dividuals, it would lighten the burdens
of working farmers by exempting all of
their stock, implements and improve
ments from taxation, and it would better
their condition by giving them access to
enormous quantities of land that specula
tors now hold out of use. It would free
them from the burden of tariffs and
the tribute, extortion and robbery of
monopolies, trusts and combines, and by
vastly increasing the opportunities for
mining, manufacturing and exchange,
thus increasing the wages of labor and
the prosperity of the whole people, it
would give a steady and increasing
market for all that they could produce.
All other producers would be benefited
in like manner, and even the speculator,
turned from the evil of his gambling
ways, would njnke, if a more modest, yet
a safer provision for himself and family
under the reign of the single tax.
No one should be fined for being a
man, and therefore poll tuxes are as un
just as they are unequal. Import duties,
internal revenue taxes, and the like, are
unjust and unequal because they fall in
the end on people, not in proportion to
their wealth, but in proportion to what they
are obliged to consume, and thus bear with
special hardship 011 the poor, who must
spend nearly or quite all they receive in
satisfying their wants as consumers. In
the case of tariff taxes this hardship is
increased by the fact that the system en
ables private individuals, for their own
benefit, to raise prices and thus practi
cally to levy new taxes, and often far in
excess of those obtained from like arti
| cles by the govement. This system is
I burdensome to the great mass of the
[ people, and bears with special hardship
011 those whose interests its advocates
declare it is specially designed to serve.
Therefore indirect taxation must be
abolished, trade relieved from all imposts
and restrictions, and the revenue of the
government derived from the value of
land created by the community, as can
best be done by means of the single tax.
llut beyond all this every man is en
titled to the full results of his own labor
or enterprise in producing goods, erecting
buildings, improving lands, transporting
or exchanging goods, or in any way
rightfully contributing to the satisfaction
of his own wants or the wants of others,
while the value that attaches to land by
reason of increased competition for its
use, and which is due to growth of
population and advance of improvement,
justly belongs to the whole community.
Therefore, the public should take, and
only take, by taxation for the common
| use and benefit, the full rental value of
| land; by the convenient means of the
single tax.
Whenever ground rent shall thus he
taken for the support of goverment and
the satisfaction of public wants, industry,
and enterprise will he relieved from
taxation, and no inducement will remain
for holding land without using it. Land
speculation will cease, and unused
1 farming lands, water powers, quarries,
mines, building sites, and all other
| natural opportunities, will he ojiened to
labor. Workmen who cannot make fair
bargains with employers will he able to
employ themselves; not that everybody
will taketo farming, hut that, with
agricultural, mining, and building lands
accessible to those willing to put them to
use, there will be no lack of employment,
and wages in all industries will rise to
their natural level —the full earnings of
labor. The labor problem is: How
shall all men who are willing to work
always find opportunity to work, and
thus produce either what will immedi
ately satisfy their wants, or what will do
so through its exchange for the products
of other men's labor? By thus opening
natural opportunities, and at the same
time relieving industry from burdens,
we can effectually sol ve the labor problem
though the operation of the single tax.
—Ju stive.
They Cannot Hide the Truth.
From the columns of that conserva
tive Republican journal, the Phila. M
ger, we take the following common sense
view of the pension department scandal:
The administration of the pension bu
reau has already been the cause of seri
ous scandal, and rendered necessary the
removal of a large number of subordi
nates, including among others the com- '
missioncr's private secretary, and several j
of the examining physicians, who have j
systematically rerated each other, with
the result of securing large sums from I
the treasury in the form of arrearages j
aiul prospective payments. A case
which has attracted attention and evok- j
ed much unfavorable criticism is that of ;
a United States Senator of large wealth,
who draws a salary of SSOOO a year from
the treasury, and who was rerated by
tlie commissioner so as to receive for ar
rears SSOOO, and of course, a much larger
pension during his life. The several
great scandals which have been made |
public do not emanate from Democratic
or irresponsible sources, but from official
reports of Commissioner Tanner's ad
ministration of his office. It does not
appear from these reports that the pre
sent commissioner is absolutely the fit
test man for the place he occupies.
PennHylvanians Love Taxation.
The Remedy , another of those numer- i
ous tax-haters, in a recent issue, indulges
in no small amount of sarcasm at the ex
pense of the voters of this state. Among
other things it says of us: The voters
of Pennsylvania have recently by an
overpowering majority declared in favor
of a tax upon themselves, the name of
the tax to be a "poll tax" and the
amount to be fifty cents a bead. This
extraordinary manifestation of an appe
tite for taxation suggests reflections as to
the wide range of human tastes, but if
the good people of Pennsylvania really
relish taxes upon themselves and actu
ally hanker for more (as their recent bal
lot seems to indicate), we see no reason
why they should not be indulged. What
wc would suggest is that yet another
personal tax be imposed on those queer
Pennsylvanians— say a "dinner tax"—
to be followed shortly by another and
still another, and so on, until the entire
revenue of the national government is
raised in that state. The inhabitants of
all the other states would thus be ex
empted from all federal imposts and
taxes, and those jolly Pennsylvanians
would doubtless be as contended as so
many clams.
How to Treat the Children.
Wake them up before daylight! Send
them half-clothed and lialf-fed out upon
the streets, and away to the factory, the
store and the mill! Scare them, too,
into running, for fear the whistle or the
bell may tell them they are fined for
being late. Then let them work, second
for second, minute for minute, and hour
for hour, all day with the senseless,
nerveless, tireless piece of iron—the ma
chine—driven by steam! If they arc
mangled say it was the will of God. If
they go home to die, the victims of sup
ply and demand, put them in their cof
fins and call it Providence! If they
don't, but live 011, in spite of all, miser
able specimens of depraved, stunted and
vicious men and women, look at what
they have produced, measure it, count it
up in dollars and cents, and figure lip
the sum total! Then contemplate the
cursed pile; and get some eloquent orator
who discourses upon the grandeur of our
civilisation to lecture upon it.— The
Union.
Why They Don't Buy From VK.
Whatever good the coming commercial
I conference between the various nations
of the New World accomplishes will be j
in tile direction of free commercial in
tercourse. The United States is cut off
from the trade of the republics of this
hemisphere because we have so willed
it. There is hardly a nation in South !
America that would not gladly take the
manufactures of Massachusetts, New !
York, Michigan and all tho other states, j
paying for them in the raw mrtterial with I
which nature has stocked it. But we I
have forbidden this. We ask them to |
buy of us, yet refuse them free access to
our markets. No wonder England has
monopolized the trade of the world.
She is deserving of all she gets, for she
gives better bargains than any "protec
ted" country is capable of offering.—
Detroit Nam.
Where the Reform Knife In Needed.
The whole pension system should be
reformed. Every disabled and really
needy veteran should have a sufficient
pension to keep him decently, and to
that end every mere beggar, every man
who has money or the capacity to earn
it in sufficient amount for his support,
should be stricken from the rolls. When
such men accept pensions they not only
"sponge" upon the substance of poorer
people, but they rob the actually needy
and disabled veterans of what is their
just due.— N. Y. World.
MuiiHignor Corcoran'H Funeral.
The lit. Rev. Bishop O'lTurn of Scran
ton delivered the panegyric on Saturday
morning at the funeral of Monsignor
Corcoran of Philadelphia, whose death
was announced last week. The remains
were conveyed at 7 a. in. from the
seminary at Overbrook to the cathedral,
where they were placed on a catafalque
in front of the main altar, which was
draped with several emblems of mourn
ing. The attendance of orients was very 1
large, Rev. J. J. Commisky of Ilazleton
being among those present. At the close !
of the mass Bishop O'Hare delivered an
impressive funeral sermon, reviewing
with evident feeling the good work done
by the deceased, his words moving many
in the congregation to tears. Cardinal
(iibbons pronounced the final absolution
of the !>ody and it was borne to the i
crypt behind the altar.
MAN AND HIS HAT-
It* Proper Maiingement and lufiilllble
Sign of Good liroediiifg.
> A woman's role is to seem utterly ob
i livious of her bonnet after the parting
look into the mirror establishes the
pleasing truth that it is settled safely
and becomingly. The man who for
gets what he has upon his head is a
boor, incorrigibly absent-minded. The 1
right manipulation of his hat is like I
spelling—it must bo learned early and j
thoroughly, or it conies hard, and is j
always a skittish possession.
A mother habitually indulgent to '
her children called her eldest born—a
boy of 10—back when he had left her j
on a street corner. The lad cowered
under the severity of eye and accent: |
"Never dare to leave me in the street !
again without raising your hat!" she j
said. "It is a token of respect you
owe to every woman, and never forget '
that your mother is a woman!"
The reproof was double-barbed. As- |
sociatiou with mothers and sisters is 1
excellent practice in an exercise that I
cannot be alfited without injury to
him who takes the liberty.
"The fellow," who nods a cavalier !
welcome or farewell to his sister at the j
window, or in the street, will, with the |
most gallant intentions, some day,in a 1
lit of abstraction, or when hurried by j
business into forgetfuluess of his com- J
pany manners, nod as carelessly to ,
some other fellow's sister, and score a
point in favor of the rival whose hand, j
from the force of early habit and long i
usage, moves involuntarily toward the I
cap-brim at the approach of any
woman whose face is familiar to him. j
A nod is not a bow.
To nod to a woman is open disre- i
spect.
The mother who carves the two sent- j
ances and the import thereof on the
mind of her boy builds so much better ;
than she knows as to merit the grati- !
tude of her sex. The bob or duck of
the covered head which salutes a com- 1
radc of his own gender is barely par- '
don able, even in America. Students
in foreign universities would bo sent
to Coventry were they to practice it
, on meetiug in corridor or thorough
: fare. Equally general in tlie older I
lands, where external courtesies rank j
higher than with us, is the custom of
dolling the hat on passing a lady—
stranger or acquaintance on the 1
i staircase or in the halls of hotel or
other public building. In witnessing
the effect of the neglect of the gracious ;
little ceremony in the country that j
furnishes the best husbands in the
world, it is impossible to restrain the
| regretful sigh:
"These things ought ye to have
j done, and not to leave the other un
done! 1
Tho undoing is carried to a graceful
j excess as we descend in tho social
I scale. The lower we go tho more
scanty is the observance of tho etiquette
and moralities of the hat, until we
are forced to consider the important
adjunct to tho outdoor toilet as an al
most infallible barometer of breeding.
Kespect of tho rules regulating its
management in l'ettned circles is tho
last sign of better days and better
manners with which the decayed gen-
I tleman parts. When his hand forgets
the way to the hat-brim he is very near
the foot of the hill. What a slangy
i lady once called in my bearing "tho
hat-trick," is likewise that which the
self-made man of plebeian extraction is
slowest to learn. 1 have seen million
aires forget to remove their hats iu
superb drawing-rooms.
One of the most mortifying experi
ences of my earlier married life was
the visit to our country house of a dis
tinguished man, than whom the state
held none abler in his profession. Wo
j had invited several friends to meet
him, and the dinner given iu his honor
had passed off smoothly. The lion
roared in a perfectly satisfactory man
ner, winning universal admiration.
Coffee was served on the veranda, and,
the evening being cool, the great man
; called for his hat. lie might have
asked permission from the women
present to assume it, wo thought, but
orators must preserve their vocal
I chords from rust. As the chilliness in
creased, we adjourned to the library,
where a fire had been kindled. There,
in the assembled presence of our
choicest neighbors, the great man
i wore his hat until the hour of separa
tion! The recollection is an agony.
The inference, born out of subsequent
discoveries, was inevitable. He was a
j commoner of the commonalty and vul
gar ingrain. It ought to have been
impossible for him to commit such a
breach of good manners in any cir
cumstances. The varnish of surface— {
and unaccustomed-courtesy, like other |
cheap and patent dressing, requires |
frequent renewal, and cannot be war- |
ranted to wear.
As a grateful contrast, I offer another
authentic incident. A true gentleman,
driving through tho country with his
wife aud children, stopped at a small
I farm-house to inquire the way. A
| child on the front seat of the carriage
had a view of him as he kuocked at
I the door.
"Papa's talking to a lady," chirped
the little one. "I can't soe her, but I
know, because he took oil' his hat
when the door opened, and is standing
: willi it in his hand."
Tho "lady" followed him to the
steps as he returned to tho carriage.
Her sleeves were rolled up to her
j shoulders; she wore a shabby calico
| gown without a collar. Her hair was
j unkempt, her arms and hands dripping
i with suds. Her parting directions
. were shrilly uugramniatical. The man
who appeared beside her as a prince
beside a sort, stood with his noble
1 head bared, as iu a royal presence.
I "How could youP" queried the quick
eyed occupant of the frout seat. "She
| wasn't a bit of a lady."
"She was a woman ray boy; and a
gentleman is always a gentleman for
j his own sake."
j "Men can do no end of pretty things
with their hats," sighed a belle to me.
"The tactics of that useful article
(masculine) are a science—one of the
line arts. Yet two-thirds of them don't
half appreciate their privileges in
that line, or suspect their possibili
ties. "
I saw a man who calls himself a
gentleman kiss his betrothed the other
day, with his hat set as immovable on
his head as if it had grown there with
his growth and strengthened with his
strength!
Fancy a condition of mind and body
that could make such a thing practic
able in a Christian land, and in the
nineteenth century.— Once a Week.
Needs AVatching.
The man who prays that (4od will
make him honest in his business tran
sactions needs watching. He may for
get to pray once in a while. We don't
pray for that which we have. — Martha's
Vineyard Herald.
"THE NEW ACRICULTURE."
(J'Ovrrxnl Sub-Irrlgutlon Only a Little Way
Off—lts Great Advantage**.
The New York Sun —so it claims
was the first paper in the world to take
the responsibility of declaring that ir
rigation is to become all-pervading,{and
that not a decade is likely to pass* be
foro tillers of the soil will be every
where irrigating their lands. None
will think of attempting to farm it
without doing so, and sub-irrigation at
that. A. N. Cole of Wellsville, Alle
gany county, writes to say that letters
from all parts of the United States con
tinue to reach him making iuquiries
touching what ho terms, his "new
agriculture," Mr. Cole's system is at
tracting attention in every country of
the world, since it docs not call for
springs, streams, ponds, or lakes, but
wherever his methods are applied
these make an appearance, and when
they come they come to stay. Where
cver dews distil, rains descend, snows
fall, and ice melts along the mountain
sides, there is Mr. Cole at home with
his magic wand of sub-irrigation.
Col. 11. W. Wilson, in a recent ad
dress before the Massachusetts Horti
cultural society, spoke as follows:
"About 50,000 gallous of water are
ordinarily required to give an acre of
land a proper saturation, and no irri
gation can be at all satisfactory which
attempts to do any less. As the gard
ener has often observed, both in the
greenhouse and the garden, a slight
watering often proves only an aggra
vation, and oftentimes an injury,
while the only benefit is derived from
a thorough drenching; so in our clim
ate, with ordinary soils such as are
found to be advantageously cultivated,
it will require about two inches in
depth over the entire surface to make
a useful irrigation of almost any crop.
This, with what will be lost by leak
age and evaporation, will amount to
50,000 gallons.
"For vegetables and small fruits the
value of water would be greatly in
creased in dry years, while for straw
berries the benefit would be greater
than anything of which cultivators
have hitherto dreamed. Drought is
the constant dread of the strawberry
grower, as the strawberry is a thirsty
plant, and seldom gets water enough.
"Of sub-irrigation one great advant
age of this method is that it avoids the
enormous evaporation and consequent
loss of heat and moisture sustained
whenever the surface of the ground is
moistened iu summer. It has been
successfully used on a large scale iu
California.
"It is very evident from common ex
perience that injurious -droughts are
increasing in frequency, and tlie care
ful consideration of the subject will
develop the following simple but signifi
cant 'ruths:
"That whatever the cause of this de
ficiency of moisture, whether from the
destruction of the forests or not, the
simplest and cheapest remedy at the
hands of the agriculturist is irriga
tion.
"That whenever a supply of water
can be obtained the cost of pumping
it will not exceed 3 cents per 1,000
gallons for an amount of 10,000 gallous
per day pumped to a height of liity
feet above the surface of the water,
which cost will include the necessary
repairs and depreciation and interest
on the cost of the necessary fixtures
and reservoir; this is less than one
sixth the price charged by the city of
Boston for metered water and consid
erably less than the price charged for
the irrigation in any place where the
present generation has constructed, the
works and seeks to make them pay a
remunerative income.
I "That should a brook or spring bo
not available there are but few places
where an adequate supply may uot be
obtained by sinking wells.
"That the cost and arrangement of
the work will vary so much with the
different locations and circumstances
that no schedule of cost can be given,
but the cases will be rare where $750
or SI,OOO, discreetly expended, will
not furnish water for the irrigation of
lifteen acres of tillage land.
"That the preservation of a single
crop in a year of unusual drought
would reimburse the whole expense.
"That the positive assurance of im
munity from the effects of drought
should induce all cultivators to secure
at once the means of irrigating their
land if possible.
"That, besides the security afforded
in the case of an excessive drought, it
will be found that water can be used
very profitably in almost any season
with a great variety of crops."
I'ie Growing in Favor.
"The popularity of pie," said the
waiter of a crack tip-town restaurant,
"is growing wonderfully. People
who think it is uot fashionable to eat
pie are provincial. Some of the most
distinguished club men in town who
come hero frequently eat apple pie for
dessert, along with a small jug of
cream and a pot of sugar. It maßes a
much better dish than apple tart,
about which the Knglishmeu rave so
enthusiastically. The love of pie is
more or less inherent in the American
breast, and the French cooks have re
alized this, so that at present the grade
of pie which is turned out by the chefs
of Delmonico's, the Brunswick, the
Hoffman, the Gilsev, and several other
first-class hotels is a great credit to the
pastry cook's art. Not only this, but
there are general pie bakeries, which
supply all tho restaurants of the coun
try with the great national dish, and
they make the pie cheaper and better
than it can be made by tho cooks in
the restaurants themselves. That is
why the 'longshoreman can get as good
a piece of pie 011 West street as the
millionaire can ou Broadway.— New
York Sun.
Successful politician (to interview
ing reporter)— You understand that
what 1 have told you must not appear
in print? It is strictly confidential and
must go no further. Reporter—l shall
respect your confidence, sir; honor
among thieves, that's my motto—
Boston Courier.
Tourist to stage driver in tho Yellow
stone region—Are there any wonder
ful curiosities to be sceu in this region,
driver? Stage driver—Wonderful
curiosities! Well, I should say there
wore! Why, you drop a rock down
that gorge, come back in thrco davs,
and you can hear tho echo.— lks
Moines Ueijislcr.
Mrs. Youngwifo to her butchor—
We are going to have company to-day,
and I should like a little game. What
have you got? Butcher—Nothing is
in season now but canvas back ducks,
ma'am. Shall I send you a pair. Mrs.
Youngwifo—Dear mol l am afraid can
vas backs would bo too expensive.
Can't you let mo have some plain
drilling or even cheese cloth backs?—
Burlington Free I'ress.
LOST! LOST!
Anybody needing Queensware and
won t visit our Bazaar will lose money.
Just See!
~ . 6 „ ( l u P s , :in ' l saucers, 25c; covered sugar bowls, 25c: butter
(lislies, 25c; liovvl and pitcher, 69c; plates, 40 cents per dozen up:
cream pitchers, 10c; cliamber setts, 7 pieces, $1.75. Also grocer
ies: cheap jelly by bucket 5c per lb; fresh butter 20 cents per lb;
.) 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
i\ , tfoods r>o per yard up. Carpets, 18c per yard up.
nrniture . \\ e have anything and everything and won't be
undersold. Straw hats! Hats to lit and suit them all. In boots
and shoes we can suit you. Children's spring heel, s<)c; ladies'
kid, button, #1.50. Come and see the rest. I will struggle hard
to please you. Your servant,
J. C. BERNER.
REMEMBER
PHILIP GERITZ,
Practical WATCHMAKER & JEWELER.
15 Front Street (Next Door to First National Rank), Freeland.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
A Large Stock of Boots, Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers, Ktc. Also
HATS. CAPS and GENTS" FURNISHING GOODS of All Kinds.
We Invite You to Call and Inspect Our New Store.
GOOD MATERIAL! LOW PRICES!
HUGH 3VT A T.T.O^
Corner Centre and Walnut Sts., Freeland.
HE JUST AND FEAR NOT. .
J. J. POWERS
lias opened a
MERCHANT TAILOR'S and
GENTS' FURNISHING
ESTABLISHMENT
at 110 Centre Street, Freeland, and is not in
partnership with any other establishment but
his own, and attends to his business personally.
Ladies 1 outside garments cut and fitted to
measure in the latest style.
A. RUDEWICK,
GENERAL STORE.
SOUTH IIEBERTON, PA.
Clothing. Groceries, Etc., Etc.
Agent for the sale of
PASSAGE TICKETS
From all the principal points in Europe
to all points in the United States.
Agent for the transmission of
MONEY
To all parts of Europe. Cheeks, Drafts,
and Letters of Exchange on Foreign
hanks cashed at reasonable rates.
B. F. DAVIS,
Dealer in
Flour, Feed, Grain,
HAY, STRAW, MALT, &c.,
Best Quality of
Glover & Timothy
SEED.
[ Zcnmny's Block, 1", Bast Main Street, Freeland.
O'DONNELL & Co.,
Dealers in
—GENERAL—
MERCHANDISE,
Groceries. Provisions. Tea.
Coffee. Queensware,
Glassware. &c.
FLOUR, FEED, HAY, Etc.
o
We invite the peoplool' Freeland and vicinity
to call and examine our lance and handsome
stoek. Don't forget the place.
Next Door to the Valley Hotel.
Egdjgr* For 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, i
Constitutions, J
Etc., Etc., EtcJ
Call and See "CTs.
I-iHSTCr LEE,
CHINESE LAUNDRY,
Ward's Building, 49 Washington St..
FREELAND, PA.
Shirts one, 10 bosoms 8
New shirts l.'l Coats 15 to 50
Collars 3 Vests 20
Drawers 7 Pants, woolen .25 to *1
Undershirts 7 Pants, 1inen....35t0 r>o
Nightshirts s Towels 4
Wool shirts 8 Napkins 3
Books :$ Table covers... 15 to 75
Hnndk'rch'fs.3; 2for 5 Sheets 10
Cuffs, per pair 5 Pillowslips—lo to 25
Neckties 3 Ited 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.
c ONSUMPf'
It hast permanently cured THOUSANDS
of cases pronounced by doctors hope
less. If you have premonitory symp
toms, such as Cough, Difficulty of
Breathing, Ac., don't delay, but use
PISO'S CUKE FOR CONSUMPTION
immediately. By Druggists. 25 cents.
ffj Piso's Cure for Con- |9
ESB sumption is aiso the best El
M Cough Medicine. El
W If you have a Cough Eg
El without disease of the M
La Lungs, a few doses are all ih
EjJ you need. But if you ne-
E3 gleet this easy means of |MI
Ea safety, the slight Cough IJj
n may become a serious jrj
matter, and soverui bot- Q
IB ties will be required. Ej
I I 11 I II 111 11%
■ Piso's Remedy for Catarrh Is the 98
Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. 85
■ Sold by druKKlsts or sent by mail. H
50c. E. T. liazeltine, Warren, Pa. B£l
Advertise in
tlie "Tribune."