FREELAND MM 1
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- BY —
THOS. A. BUCKLEY,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERMS, - - SI.OO PElt YEAIt.
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FREELAND TRIBUNE,
FREELAND, FA.
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Entered at the Freeland Postoffice as Second
Clans Matter.
DEMOCRATIC TICKKT.
STATE.
For Treasurer E. A. Bigler,
of Clearfield County.
COUNTY.
For Judge Edwin Shorts,
of Wilkes-Barre.
For Sheriff George J. Steigmaier,
of Wilkes-Barre.
For Recorder Joseph J. McGinty,
of Hazle Township.
For Coroner Wm. F. Pier,
of Pleasant Valley.
For Surveyor James Crockett,
of Ross Township.
FREELAND, SEPTEMBER 19, 1889.
IT is highly important that Free
land's business men should become
more interested in the endeavor to
establish industries here.
DOES it not seem somewhat incon
sistent for newspapers that profess to
sympathize with the laboring classes
to support Henry K. Boyer for state
treasurer?
THE Tnmnqua Courier truthfully
remarks that Building and Loan As-1
sociations have been the means of
building up every town where they
have been introduced and properly
managed. Why not establish one in
Freeland ?
ANY man who loves liberty cannot
afford to vote for Henry K. Boyer for
state treasurer. As speaker of the j
house of representatives he was ever
ready to vote for and defend any pro
ject that could keep laboring men
down. His record proves it.
PETITIONS from all sections of Hlia
nois are received by Governor Fifer,
asking him to call a special session of
the legislature to provide for the j
striking Spring Valley miners. Sev
eral deaths have occurred from star-1
vation and their condition is deplor
able.
CONGRESSMAN OSBORNE has written
an article telling thnt it is necessary
for the average M. C. to spend at least
$15,000 a year during his congres
sional term. Osborne footed last
year's Republican expenses hi this
district—Theobe's trip from Ken
tucky, etc., —and he ought to know
something about it.
By the nomination of James Tanner
as pension commissioner Harrison
committed his first serious blunder, j
The blunder lias been acknowledged j
by the removal of Tanner, and if he is j
as quick in rectifying his many other [
mistakes there will be more faith j
placed in the administration. Next |
to the man who never goes wrong j
there is none more respected than the j
man who is ready and willing to right
a wrong.
TANNEB has been unceremoniously
bounced from the position he dis
graced, despite the endorsement he
and his methods received at the hands
of the G. A. R., and it may not be
amiss to enquire if Harrison intends
to continue "turning the rascals out."
For the past five months they have
been going into office at a rapid rate,
and it is questionable whether or not j!
he can have them out again before his I
term expires. The next Democratic |
president does not want to be bur
dened by the remaining "grab alls" j
yet holding positions when he enters |
office on March 4, 1893.
THE first step towards accomplish
ing any needed reform in Pennsyl
vania must be in the direction of a
free ballot. The workingmen asked
Quay's legislature to give them the
Australian system of voting, but the
house of representatives, with Henry
K. Boyer at its head, declared it was
not necessary. The passage of such
a law would abolish the corrupt and
iniquitous methods practiced by cor
porations nt every election. Henry
K. Boyer, by his vote on that bill,
acknowledged his opposition to a pure
ballot, and consequently forfeited all
claims upon the honest voters of this
state. If you consider such a monpo
listic catspaw worthy of handling the
finances of Pennsylvania vote for him
for state treasurer.
NOTHING over exposed so thoroughly
the magnificent opportunities for
high-handed rascality that exist in
Wall Street, says a New York news
paper, as the career of Henry S. Ives,
known as "the young Napoleon of
finance." This young inan was a $(!
a week clerk in a New York hotel
when he conceived the idea that he
would go into Wall Street and make
his fortune. Ho went there, and for
several years lost all the money he
had and all he could borrow. Then, j
without money and with little credit,
he conceived" the idea of buying a
great and prosperous railroad an.l of
manipulating it to make money. As
tonishing as it may seem, he accom
plished this feat, and a year later he
was a great railroad magnate, and !
was considered a second Jay Gould.
J3y some miscalculation the liuge
scheme miscarried just whon it (
seemed most successful. j
llow Harrison Duped the Minerß.
The coal miners of Clay County, Inch,
struck on May 1 because their employers
had reduced their wages. The reduction
—from 90 to 70 cents per ton—was char
acterized by our high-tariff neighbor,
the New York Tribune, as "the largest
ever demanded in the history of the
coal traffic in the West." At last ac
counts there were still on strike in Clay
County about 2,000 men, and these, with
their families, were suffering for want
of the necessaries of life. These miners,
who are unwilling to submit to a reduc
tion of 22 percent., called on Harrison,
in Indianapolis, on July 20,1888. There
was a great excursion from the mining
region to the home of the Republican
presidential candidate, and the coal com
panies, for political effect, made the
number of visiting miners as large as
possible. Among the mottoes borne by
them were the following: "Give us
Harrison and Protection." "Protection
and Plenty," "Free Trade and Starva
tion." "The Lamp of Experience
Guides Our Feet." "Protection is Good
Enough for Us." The miners were in
troduced to Harrison by Major Carter,
who said:
"The visit is made for the purpose of
attesting our devotion to the great prin
ciple of a protective tariff. These men
want such a policy adopted as will en
rich us rather than that other policy
which tends to the pauperism and desti
tution of our people. In short, they
want high wages, plenty of work, and
plenty of good bread and butter. They
believe that you Sir, are the typical
representative of the great principles
that underlies the platform of the Re
publican party, such as high wages for
our workingmen, etc."
Another spokesman had a great deal
to say about wages, and described the
pending political issue as follows:
"This is a square-toed fight. On one
side bread, beef, butter, and the good
tilings of this life, and Ben Harrison be
side them; on the other side Uncle
Grover, low wages, and Buch grub as
i you can get, and be satisfied with half a
loaf."
1 In response, Harrison made some re
marks that have since been recalled by
the miner, with anything but pleasure.
Said he:
"Is it not clear that that policy which
secures the largest amount of work to be
done at home is the policy which will
secure to laboring men steady employment j
and the best of wages? What, after all, is j
the best evidence of a nation's prosperity j
and the best guarantee of social order if !
I it is not an intelligent, thrifty, contented
working class? Can we look for con
tentment if the working man is only
able to supply his daily necessities by
his daily toil, but is not able in the vigor
of youth to lay up a store against old
age? A condition of things that compels
the laborer to contemplate want as an
incident of sickness or disability is one
that tends to social disorder. — N. Y.
Times.
Republican Friendship for the Negro.
The Cincinnatti Commercial Gazette
winds up an elaborate editorial on the
j suppression of the colored vote in the
South with the announcement that
"there are nearly eight million colored
people in the Democratic Southern coun
try and they haye hut one member of
congress to represent them." Charity
j should begin at home. It is wholly un
necessary for the Gazette to waste words
i of sympathy upon the far-away negro
j when a more fitting object can be had in
I its own state. There are nearly eighty
| thousand colored people in Republican
Ohio, and they have not so much as ONE
| village postmaster to represent them.
Does the comparison suit the Gazettef
Not likely 1 Harrison gave an example
of his respect for integrity and worth
when he caused the appointment of an
Indiana politician (under indictment
then and now for ballot-box stuffing) to
a position on the Chicago and Alton mail
service, such position being the first one
made vacant in the country. The gen
tleman dismissed to make room for this
unjailed scamp of Harrison's was a
negro, appointed one year ago by Presi
dent Cleveland. Republican friendship
for the negro is all a myth.
Tanner Won't Starve.
"The wolf of want must in common
decency be driven from the door of the
maimed or diseased veteran."
Such were the words used by Corporal
Tanner in an address at Nashville,
| Tenn., not long ago. Since his dismissal
| from office it may cause some to ask
i how he will now keep the wolf from his
I own door. Upon a little investigation
' this will not seem a very hard task, inas
much as he received a salary of 15,000
and a private pension of SBO4 per an
; mun, but for fear that the wolf should
| sneak in through the windows his daugh
ter Nettie is guarding one of them in his
department with a salary of $720, and
his daughter Ada is guarding another
one with a SI,BOO salary. These salaries
would keep the wolves away from the
doors of two or three disabled or maimed
veterans, but Corporal Tanner was not
the man to leave his own unprotected.
As our caption states: Tanner won't
starve.
Democracy and Failures.
The Philadelphia Press says: "The
failure of a large cotton mill in Rhode
Island yesterday will no doubt be good
I news for the free traders. They relish
this sort of thing." If the Press refers
to the Democratic party it is ill-natured.
The Democratic party does not wish any
sort of disaster. But if half the failures
and reductions of wages that have
| occurred since the 4th of March had
occurred last year the Philadelphia Press
1 would have found in them poof as strong
as holy writ of the damaging effects of
I President Cleveland's message and the
, Mills bill. Does not the Journal of Com
j tnerce state the exact truth when it says:
j "It Cleveland and his tariff reform had
J won the day, our ears would have been
1 stunned with the charge that this policy
has already stopped hundreds of looms,
thrown thousands of workmen into hope
less poverty and wasted millions of capi
tal. With what huge head lines the
I journals advocating the doctrine of pro
tection would have announced these
(successive disasters, and with what
pathetic langugge they would ltave call- ]
Ed upon the people to witness the truth
[of their predictions! Each successive
failure would have been pointed at as a
further illustration of what foreign com
petition, encouraged by the heartless
and unpatriotic support of the free
traders on this side of the water, was
doing to ruin the fair fabric of American
industry." Is it not a fact, Philadelphia
Press, that you deplore these commercial
misfortunes principally because they
give the lie to the rot you habitually
publish ? _ _ _
A Potter for Porter.
Superintendent of the Census Porter
says the English free traders "tumble
over each other trying to get to this side
to invest their millions safely." "Beer
is protected, you know," he continues,
"and they have gone into the brewing
business. Iron and steel are protected
still more, and I should think they
would jump into those lines with even
greater celerity." It appears from what
Mr. Porter thinks that the English capi
talists are not jumping into the more
protected lines with even greater celer
ity. We are willing to draw inferences
from facts; we cannot undertake to
draw inferences from what he would, or
should, think, might, could, would or
should be a fact. It is a fact that there
are few of our products less benefitted
by the tariff than beer, because, as an
article of large bulk and small value, the
cost of transportation amounts to a pro
tection. But let this go. Let us assume
that British investments in our brewer
ies prove that our tariff makes this coun
try attractive to foreign capitalists. So
far, so good. In the first seven months
of 1888, 357,125 immigrants canie to this
country; in the first seven months of
1889 only 269,140 came. This is a de
crease of 87,979, or about one-fourth.
Do we understand the accomplished
statistician to believe that the election
of Harrison and a Republican House of
Representatives makes this a noon
COUNTRY FOR CAPITAMSTB AND A BAD
ONE FOR LABORERS?— National Democrat.
A Viiluuble Accession.
The Commercial Advertiser, the oldest
of the New York newspapers, establish
ed in 1794, was for many years a stalwart
Republican journal. Recently it lias
been independent, but in announcing a
change of form and other improvements
it states that, while yielding none of its
independence, it will labor for the success
of Democratic principles of government.
"Among our political parties," it says,
"the Democratic party, in spite of its
shortcomings and errors, which have
been patent and many, is the one which
has exhibited on the whole the greatest
fidelity to the noble principles we uphold.
We prefer it, therefore, to any other,
but only when, and to the extent in
which, it acts in accordance witli real
Democratic inspirations." The Commer
cial Advertiser gives tho following as its
interpretation of Democratic doctrine:
"We hold that the grand function of the
government, as the organ representative
of the whole people and not a class, is to
defend and protect rights, rather than to
foster and encourage interests. Govern
ment is a juridical and an eleemosynary
institution, leaving every man to the
exercise of his individual faculties, and
holding the .-egis of impartial justice over
tho equal rights of all the members of
society, is the most powerful source of
personal and social development."
The "National Democrat."
Edmund Hudson has begun the publi
cation of a weekly Democratic news
paper at Washington, D. C., entitled the
National Democrat. From a perusal of
the two first issues we are convinced
that the editor will be successful in his
undertaking and the work done by him
will result in disseminating Jeffersonian
truths in every section of the United
States. To Democrats and Republicans
who are anxious to know what is being
done by both political parties the Nation
al Democrat will prove an invuluable me
dium. The subscription price is $1,50
per year.
A Ileal Soldier'* Opinion.
Gen. Martin T. McMahon, a Grand
Army man, one of the Board of Gover
nors of tho Soldiers' Home of New York,
and who has given close study to pension
matters, declares it to be bis deliberate
conviction that the pension legislation
suggested at the last encampment of the
Grand Army at Milwaukee will, if
enacted into laws, cost the people of the
United States as much as did the war
itself. He says that it is time the
thoughtful, patriotic men of the Grand
Army should protest. Nobody will doubt
that General McMahon is entitled to
speak as a representative of the veterans.
He was in the field in every battle
fought by the Army of the Potomac
during its five years of service. He
caught General Sedgwick in bis arms at
Gettysburg as he fell dying. Two of his
brother successively commanded the
164 th New York and sucessively fell at
the head of that regiment. If the
service pension bill should be adopted
General McMahon would receive the
largest possible pension under it. Gen
eral McMahon said:
"In my opinion the prevailing senti
ment of the Grand Army, if it could be
properly ascertained, would be found to
be simply this, that the Government
should comply with the implied contract
made with the men who entered the
service in the war of '6l by giving liberal
pensions to those who were actually
disabled and to the widows of the dead
soldiers who are in need. Neither the
Government nor the people ever under
took to do more than this, and the talk
about pensioning every man, without
reference to bis physical disability or his
condition in life, is carried to an absurd
excess by many people who claim to
represent tho Grand Army."
THE Shamokin school board will
not employ any teachers under eigh
teen years of age. This is rather
rough on the sweet sixteen teachers.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
EDITOR TRIBUNE.— In your issue of the
12th inst. the attention of the miners'
examining board for this district is called
to the complaints made by certain par
ties concerning the action of said board
in granting certificates to parties who
are supposed to be not entitled to such,
and as you kindly request that an expla
nation be given, we as the examining
board for this end of the district, wili
avail ourselves of the opportunity of
fered.
We desire to state that at no time, and
under no other conditions, has there
been a certificate given to any person
other than by the rules laid down for
our guidance. To ascertain who was
and who was not entitled to receive cer
tificates certain rules were laid down.
In many cases it did not seem prudent
to take the verbal statement of the par
ties interested, as to the time they were
employed as miners previous to the pas
sage of this act, and in such cases we
had to have recourse to the mine fore
man to verify their assertions. To those
who had not been actually engaged as
miners at the time, owing to being en
gaged at other occupations, such as
drivers, etc., and whom we had any
reason to doubt, the service of the mine
foreman was again brought into requisi
tion, and upon his recommendation.or
rejection _we acted. Whenever any
doubts existed in the minds of the mem
bers of the board, the applicant was
compelled to undergo an examination,
anil we invariably found such men
(drivers) ranking above the average
miner in practice.
At the tipper Lehigh colliery a gentle
man made application to be registered,
and in order to get his name properly
one of the board suggested that he go
home and bring his pay envelope, so
that his name could be properly placed
on his certificate. Upon returning he
brought his tax receipt and pay envel
ope. On the envelope he was rated as a
laborer and on the tax receipt he was
placed as a miner. Seeing how matters
stood the board decided to register him
as a miner, but tire mine foreman being
present gave the following explanation
as to how he came to be rated as a labor
er. For some years back the gentleman
in question had been working as a miner,
but previous to the passage of the act of
May 9, 1889, he had finished his breast,
and as is often the case he had to wait
until new openings were made, and that
as soon as a place would be ready for
him lie was to start again as a miner.
This information, coming from the mine
foreman, who bad every opportunity of
knowing the facts in the case, caused
the board lo grant him a certificate.
At the same colliery there are several
miners who have sons working with
them, who have not yet attained their
majority, and who are working for their
fathers, and could not be classed as
miners. The board was asked what
action would be taken in their case.
The parents of these young men vouch
ed, as did also the mine foreman, that
they were as good, and some even better
miners than their fathers, and as a con
sequence certificates were granted to
them.
That some who have received certifi
cates are not entitled to them may be
true, but when the manner in which the
facts were to got at as to their qualifica
tions it can readily be seen that the
board is not to blame. With very few
exceptions, the fourteen hundred who
made application for certificates, either
as practical miners or laborers desiring
to be examined, were strangers to us and
, as a consequence we had to take their
word or the words of the mine foreman
that they had been employed as miners
! before the passage of the net.
The number of applicants for exami
! nation has been over one hundred, and
i we can say that nearly seventy-five Tier
cent, of that number failed to pass. We
expected that if any person was so mean
as to get a certificate by false represen
tation there would he some man honest
enough to expose him, hut up to the pre
sent time no person has come forward to
prove that any unlawful means were
used to procure certificates,
j We desire to call the attention of all
who have not availed themselves of the
opportunity to get registered, that we
will be at the Woodside school house in
Foster township all day on Saturday,
September 21, for the purpose of regis
tering, and examining those who may
desire to enter the class for examination.
Wo would be pleased to hear com
plaints from any person who knows of
parties receiving a certificate who was
not entitled to it, and we will have the
same annulled upon proof being shown
that it was obtained by false representa
tions. Hoping that tliis statement may
be satisfactory, we remain,
JAMES HAKKINS, 1
THOMAS SMITH, >■ Examiners.
THEOF. GIBBON, )
Freeland, Sept. 17, 188 U.
Locusts tn Cyprus.
The pest of locusts has boeu fought
vigorously and successfully in Cyprus
by gathering the eggs and catching the
developed insects by systems of screens.
The number of eggs collected increased
from thirty-seven and one-half tons in
! 1879 to 236 tons in 1880 and 1.320 tons
! in 1881. More than 6,000 screens wore
; employed in 1882 and 196,000,000,000
j insects were destroyed. The system
was steadily made moro effective, and
in 1886 there were available for use
more than 11,000 screens and 13,000
traps, the screens representing an ag
gregate length of about 316 miles, or
nearly the whole coast lino of the
island.
"Maria,"said Mr. Jones as ho looked
up from tho breakfast coffee, "can you
tell mo why you will gossip about'me
with that vixenish Mrs. Talk!" "Cer
tainly, Henry," was the oasy replv.
"I do it because it's tho only way In
which I can find out what you have
been doing."— Philadelphia Inquirer.
Clara (to bashful suitor)—" Charlie,
I understand you aro thoroughly con
versant with your business." Charlie
—"Well, yes"; as a manufacturer of
non-alcoholic drinks I don't take a
back seat for any one." Clara—"l'm
awfully interested in that business.
How—how do you make pop, Charlie?"
He explainud.— Kearney Enterprise.
"O, George," she murmured, "I
know you aro strong and will protect
me, yet even now, as we recline in
this swinging hammock, I am sur
rounded by fear?" "Fear, my dar
ling!" said "George De Romelvy, "what
fear can surround you?" "Atmos
phere," she chuckled, and the ham
mock broke down to punish her.—
Lawrence American.
"And, doctor, can you make this
bloom again?" asked Father Time,
pointing to a specimen of tho vintage
of 1840. "I was once a footligiit fa
vorite and men showered mo with
pearls and diamonds. O, can I bo
young again?" she exclaimed with a
fervor of a maid of sixty-two summers,
"You shall bo queen of tho May," re
sponded Dr. Brown-Scqnard us ho pro
ceeded to his laboratory and slaught
ered a fresh guinoa pig.— Philadelphia
Record.
The practice of feasting at funerals
is still in voguo at Lancaster, I'a.
WIT AND HUMOR.
The man who never takes exercise i 3
often called upon to mourn an athletic
friend who took too much.— Jamestown
Journal.
He (rejected)—••Well, you mav go
further and fare worse." She—"Yes;
can't bo done around here."— Munsey's
Wehkly.
There is talk of changing the name
of the state of Kentucky to Sparta.
Spartans were never known to "take
water."— Light.
If we need a national flower why
not take the pansy? It indicates tho
origin of tho species—tho chimpanzee.
Texas Si flings. -
A man may bo very great and very
good, and then not attract half tho at
tention that a captured horsethief does.
—Milwaukee Journal.
A man may consider himself much
better than his neighbor, but he can
not prove it to that neighbor's satis
faction.— Troy Press.
"1 live mostly within myself," said a
conceited fellow. "I understand," re
plied his neighbor at the table, "you
occupy a flat."— Texas Siflings.
Paddy—"Mike, do yez belavo in
homo rule?" Mike—"Oi do but the
old woman is the only one that knows
what it manes."— Kearney Enterprise.
Mrs. Smallers—"They do say that
Midshipman Blinkers is a very fast
young man." Uapt. Beaugard—"Yes;
lie belongs to the fleet."— Kearney En
terprise.
Hcoffer—What aro you engaged in
now?" Pfeffer— "I'm in Omaha man
ufacturing Indian relics to sell at
church fairs for the benefit of the
heathens."— Omaha World.
"This is somewhat of a 'twine
trust,"' said tho youug man as his best
girl wound her arms about his nock
to whisper sweet nothings in his largo
left ear.— Kearney Enterprise.
Tho Maharajah of Cawnpore esti
mates his fortune at eight thousand
lacs or rupees. Our fortune, too, is
tiinated by even a greater lack of
rupees than tho Maharajah's.— Light.
First baseballist —"Did you propose
to Miss Diamond last night, Bat
torsby?" Second baseballist—"l did,
Pitcher, my boy. F. B.—"Score?"
S. B.—"Whitewashed."— Jioston Cour
ier.
Youngwcd—"l've been married only
n month, but I tell you my wife is an
angel and my home is a heaven." Old
time—"O yes, they are apt to bo until
you clean houso or move."— Omaha
World.
He—"How beautiful and poetic are
some of the old ludiau words! Min
nehaha, for instance, or Alabama!"
She—"Yes, and Kissimee." Which he
did if he was auy good.— Lawrence
American.
St. Peter—"Halt!" New spirit—
"Can't I come in?" St. Peter—"l'd
rather you wouldn't. You aro just
out of college, and we don't want auy
advice about running the universe."—
New York Weekly.
In the words of the lamonted Mr.
Macbeth the hungry tramp exclaims:
"And blanked be he who first cries,
'Hold, enough!"' The tramp never
knows what it is to hold enough.—
j Philadelphia Press.
"Mr. Dash may he a fine player, but
i I do not intend to ask him to my lawn
: tennis parties." "Why, what is thcro
against him?" "O, ho pays too much
attention to the game aud too little to
tho girls."— Time.
Tommy—"Paw, what is a philan
thropist?" Mr. Figg —"A philan
thropist, my son, is a man who would
rather supply a dozen men with a col
: lar apiece than give one man a shirt."
Terre HatUe Express.
Mr. N. Peck—"l think if anyono is
entitled to a pension it's me." Mr.
1 'Mudge "You were never in tho
war, were you?" Mr. N. Peck—"No,
but tho fellow my wife was engaged
to got killed at Shiloh."— Terre Llaute
Express.
Wagg, to his sister—"The young
man with whom you came home last
night was a thoroughly disreputable
fellow." Sister—"So I inferred. He
said, poor fellow, that he had been in
timate with you for many years."—
Philadelphia Inquirer.
"I've been injured by a statement in
your paper." "I'm sorry, sir. What
did I say?" "You stated that I had
compromised with my creditors for 70
cents on the dollar." "Well?" "Well.l
haven't done anything of the kiud; it
was 40 cents."— Epoch.
•'We are all worms," exclaimed the
Ereacher in his sermon. Little Bob
y, who was following the discourse
attentively, whispered to his mother—
"Then that's the reason why the great
big fish swallowed Jonah, isn't it?"—
Portland (Me.) Press.
Miss Crimple (to clerk of Snake
Creek house) —"Will you pleaso send
the porter to our room, Mr. Bigstud?"
Clerk—"Yes,ma'am; anything wrong?"
Miss Crimple—"Papa just shot a mos
quito, and we would like Patrick to
carry it out"— Munsey's Weekly.
Visiting statosman—"l tell you men
of Kentucky, here and now, the race
question is the American problem."
liis audience (as ono man) —"Kight
you are Colonel, and the way to solvo
it is trot out something that can beat
Ten Broeck's time."— Drake's Maga
zine.
Judge—"Did you ever notice any
signs of insanity in the deceased?
Witness (a member of tho legislature)
—"Well once, when he was a member
of the legislature, he introduced a hill
that wasn't a particle of interest to
anybody except taxpayers." — New
York Weekly.
Minister (to Johnny, who is digging
worms for bait) —"Johnny, don't you
know that it is wrong foryoutodo
any work except work of necessity on
the Sabbath?" Johnnv—"Necessity?
Ain't this necessity ? flow's a feller to
do any fishin' if he don't havo bait?"—
Lawrence American.
Husbaud —"Wife, the doctor said I
was to have but one ounce of liquor
per day. How much is an ounce,
dear?" Wife—"Sixteen drams." Hus
band—"Wife, I believe that doctor un
derstands my case thoroughly. Let's
seo; Pve eleven more drinks duo me
yet to-day."— Omaha World.
Oppressive Science,
Col. Kuw (of Kansas) "lt's gittin'
so that science, once the friend of man,
is fast becoming his bittorest enemy.
Hero somo son of a gun of a scientist
has discovered that chloride of lime is
a better antidote for snake-bits than
whisky." Col. Kent (of Kentucky)—
"What of it?" Col. Kuw (of Kansas)
—"What of it? Why, man alivo, you'd
know what of it if you lived in a stato
where you have to get your whisky on
r *^osm*jnl.innl" — Purli.
LOST! LOST!
Anybody needing Qneensware and
won't visit our Bazaar will lose money.
Just See!
6 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.
Fnrniture! We have anything and everything and won't be
undersold. Straw hats 1 Hats to fit 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. BERNER.
REMEMBER
PHILIP GERITZ,
Practical WATCHMAKER & JEWELER.
15 Front Street (Next Door to First National Bank), Freeland.
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!
HtTGH HVE.A.IJLO'Sr,
Corner Centre and Walnut Sts., Freeland.
BE JUST AND FEAR NOT.
J. J. POWERS
has 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 HEBERTON, 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. Checks, Drafts,
and Letters of Exchange 011 Foreign
I Banks cashed at reasonable rates.
B. F. DAVIS,
Dealer in
Flour, Feed, Grain,
HAY, STRAW, MALT, &c.,
Beat Quality of
Glover & Timothy
SEED.
Zcmany's Block, 15 East Main Street, Free land.
O'DONNELL & Co.,
Dealers in
—GENERAL—
MERCHANDISE,
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 place.
Next Door to the Valley Hotel.
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,
Constitutions,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
Call and See Us.
XjIIbTGr LEE,
, CHINESE LAUNDRY,
Ward's Building, 49 Washington St.,
FREELAND, PA.
Shirts one, 10 Bosoms 8
1 New shirts 13 Coats 15 to 50
t Collars 3 Vests 20
Drawers 7 Hants, w001en.25 to f 1
Undershirts 7 Pants, 1inen....25 to 50
') Nightshirts 8 Towels i
Wool shirts 8 Napkins 3
Socks 3 Table covers..-15to 75
Haudk'reh'fsD: 2for 5 Sheets 10
Cuffs, |Kir pair 5 Pillow 51ip5....10 to 25
Neck ties 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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less. If you have premonitory symp
toms, such as Cough, Difficulty of
Breathing, Ac., don't delay, but use
PISO'S CURE FOR CONSUMPTION
immediately. By Druggists. 25 cents.
1 Aassoßoassiafli
Wn Piao's Cure for Con- E9
ESS sumption i 9 also the best
ra Cough Medicine. §§
W If you have a Cough H
H without disease of the H
C 9 Lungs, a few doses are all Ef
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Edj safety, the slight Cough (Jf
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Beat, Easiest to Uae, and Cheapest. B9
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Sold by druggists or sent by maiL fifl
60c. E. T. Hureltino, Warren, Pa
Advertise in
tlie "Tribune."