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TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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FREELAND TRIBUNE,
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
STATE.
For Treasurer F.. A. Bigler,
of Clearfield County.
COUNTY.
For Judge Edwin Shorts,
of Wilkes-Barre.
For Sheriff George J. Steigmaier, ,
of Wilkes-Barre. f
For Recorder Joseph J. McGinty, 1
of llazle Township.
Fur Coroner Win. F. Pier,
of Pleasant Valley.
For Surveyor James Crockett,
of Ross Township.
FRE EI.A XI >, PA., GCTtiBF.R 3, 1889.
BITTER tears of anguish come from j
Boston to-clay. The base, ball club j
has dropped to second place, John L. j
tvns oil a glorious drunk and the only
Mike was most ignominiously dis
graced at Cleveland. All in one day.
NEXT month Connecticut will vote
011 n prohibition amendment to her
constitution. A constitution that has
withstood the ravages of hard cider
and wooden nutmegs for nigh upon
two centuries should be able to easily
throw oft an epidemic like prohibition.
THE labor unions of the state will
oppose Speaker Boyer on account of
bis hostile attitude to labor measures,
and thousands of sincere temperance
people will also oppose him on account
of liis party being neither hot or cold
on that question.—Minersville Free
J'rrss.
MAYBE the Democrats of Montana
didn't neatly hoodwink the Republi
can senate by letting the territory go
Republican last year, thereby getting
admitted to the union. On Tuesday
the state came out in its true colors
and elected the Democratic ticket by
sweeping majorities.
THE Kingston Times bad tlio Re
publican state and county tickets 011
its editorial page until Saturday, when
tlio state ticket was dropped. The
Times, we presume, cannot condes
cend to support for state treasurer a
man like Boyer, whose name is synony
mous with corruption, fraud and cow
ardice. There should 1)0 more Hol
brooks in journalism.
INSPIRED by tho recent decision that
permits dishonorably discharged Un
ion soldiers to share in the grand
pension grab, Theodore Noel, a recon
structed rebel volunteer, proposes
pensions for conscripted Confederate
soldiers who were disabled from ser
vice in a cause they were forced into,
and from which the government at
tho time was unable to protect them.
Ho makes an ingenious argument in
their behalf, ami has started out to
have petitions for this amendment to
the pension laws presented to con
gress.
ALL appointments of Harrison's ■
must, first and foremost, be accept- !
able to the powers that bo in the I
Grand Amy of the Republic. The I
president has practically adopted an
amendment to the constitution requir
ing the "advice and consent" of this |
organization to all nominations, pre- !
ceding tho advice and consent of tho
senate. As General Alger, a prob
able rival of Harrison for the nomina
tion in 1892, is at the bead of the j
Grand Army, the complication is
doubly increased. Between tho peo
ple of the country demanding justice
and the G. A. R. demanding every
thing, Benny is in a pitiable plight.
ONE of the present candidates
for governor of Massachusetts, Mr.
Brackett, was invited last year to at
tend a Queen Victoria jubilee banquet
at Boston, nnd, being unable or not
wishing to take part, he sent his re
grets. Shortly afterwards lie made a
speech at a Land League meeting,
and now, on account of these high
crimes and misdemeanors, he is to be
boycotted by the Dorchester Branch !
of the "British-American Associa- !
tion. It docs not seem to have oc ;
curred to the upstarts that constitute I
this branch of a foreign (in principles) 1
organization that it is an impertinence i
011 their part to obtrude these British
contentions upon 1111 American elec-1
tion; yet it is an impertinence, and 11
gross one.
EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is not un
naturally pleased with the utterances
of the several Democratic state con
ventions held this year. If peace
liatli its victories as well as war, so
defeat has its consolations as well as
victory. Mr. Cleveland represents,
and always will represent in Ameri
can history, the idea upon which he
staked his political all in November
last —tariff reform. He suffered de- '
feat, but his discomfiture finffg
compensations in tlio evidences,which
multiply day by day, that the idea for
which he fought survives aud grows in
the hearts of liis fellow men. States
which did not dare to assail the pro
tective policy of the country in 1888
have fearlessly declared for tariff re
form. The Democratic slogan of
1892 will be: "Free trade, free land,
freo men."
Can Hone*t Men Vote for ISoyer ?
During the late session of the legisla
ture Hon. S. M. Wherry, representative :
from Cumberland County, made the
charge that the Commissioners of the
Sinking Fund had sold over a million
dollars' worth of United States bonds
belonging to the state which brought
$60,000 interest to the state treasury
every year and that the proceeds of this
sale of the United States bonds were
deposited in certain banks without inter
est. This charge was couched in the
plainest and most specific language, and
Mr. Wherry moved that the house
appoint a special committee to inquire
into the management of the Sinking
Fund and the treasury under which this
achievement in financiering was accom
plished. But the Republican house,
with Speaker Boyer, (now the Republi
can candidate for state treasurer) at its
head, deliberately refused to make the
inquiry.
The only explanation of this remark
able financial transaction which has
been vouchsafed by the Commissioners
of the Sinking Fund is that the United
States bonds were sold with a view of
employing the proceeds of the sale in
the purchase of state bonds, hut that
when the Commissioners appeared in
the market for the purpose of buying
state bonds the holders of the latter
insisted upon a premium which the
Commissioners regarded as exorbitant.
This is simply a confession of incapacity,
| not to say stupidity, 011 the part of the
Commissioners of the Sinking Fund,
j They knew that 110 state bonds were
j overdue at the time they sold the United
States bonds. They knew that as they
could not compel the presentation of
underdue state bonds for redemption
they would be at mercy of the holders
of the state bonds. They knew, too,
that the state could gain nothing, but
must lose, by the sale of United States
bonds even if the state bonds could be
bought at a reasonable premium. This
explanation, therefore, fails to explain.
I l)o the people of Pennsylvania approve
of a management of the treasury by
which the state loses SOO,OOO in interest'
annually, a loss which must be made
good by taxation? Are the voters of the
state ready to endorse Henry K. Boyer,
the Republican candidate for state treas
urer, who as speaker of the house of
representatives stifled the inquiry into
the management of the treasury propos
ed by Representative Wherry? Can
fealty to party coyer quite this glaring
infidelity to tlio public interest? These
questions are submitted to the candid
1 and intelligent judgment of the voters
; whatever may be their political addition,
i in the confident belief that they will
j decide them at the polls, not as the
■ blinded slaves of the party, but as free
j and thoughtful citizens. —Harrisburg
j Patriot.
, ( <>etting Under the Free Trade thinner.
During the last presidential campaign
' very few, if any, of the trade and finan
" I cial journals of the country supported
; the Democratic party. However, the
light begins to dawn upon these protec
tive advocates and they are calling loud
ly for a change. Fibre and Fabric, the
[. organ of the wool manufacturers, worked
with all its might for the election of
1 Harrison, yet in its last issue it makes
. an explicit demand for free wool. It
i ' upbraids the G. O. P. for broken prom
ises and gives a plausible solution of Re
publican success when it says;
! Thousands of good, honest votes were
1 given for the Republican nominees at
the last presidential election for the sole
object of giving the party an opportunity
Ito correct its own mistakes. Will the
Republican party be equal to the emer
| gency, and render justice to its citizens
' for its past delinquencies in the matter
j of raw materials?
One year ago there was nothing too
! good for protectionists, according to the
j Export and Finance Journal. The same
paper now terms protection a "canaba
listic policy." The following plea for
unlimited commercial relations will meet
J with cordial approval:
< 'onflning trade to certain sections and
\ depending on the people of the one
country for the consumption of that
country's products is very much like
cannibalism. It means that we must
live off of each other. That is exactly
what we of the United States are doing
! when we limit, as we practically do now,
our commercial relations to the various
| states of the union.
This i Straight from the Shoulder.
j Somebody bus been saying something
j to cause the Newsdealer to pour out hot
| shot like the following; We would like
to know what the Republican party of
this county even did for the Irish-Ameri
| cans that Phil Boyle should go around
1 and ask Irish-Americans to vote for him
at the coming election. The Republican
j party is Bishop Newman's party, and
j Bishop Newman lias said that if lie had
j liis way he would bar out all foreigners.
| The Republican party is anxious enough
j to secure tho votes of "foreigners" on
[ election day, but at the same time it
I never allows an opportunity to pass to
j snub this class of citizens. The Irish-
American, the German-American, the
Italian-American, the Polish-American
and all true Americans belong in the
j Democratic party because it is the peo
: pie's party, and time and again has
fought for the rights of the people,
t irregardless of nationality or creed.
Shame on these sons of "foreigners"
who would ape a certain blue element in
our politics. If this same element hud
| their way the "sons of their fathers"
would not be American citizens to-day.
I It was only through the efforts of the
Democratic party that their fathers were
< able to land in this country at all.
Unclt> Sum'* Cotttly Army.
The figures compiled at the pension
bureau to show the work of the last
1 fiscal year disclose that our army of
pensioners had readied the - prodigious
i number of 345,125 up to June 30, so that
at the present time it must be about half
fa million strong at its recent rate of in
, crease. Yet this does not satisfy Senator
j Ingalls, who calls for making every man
who served in the civil war n pensioner
for life upon the government, whether
ill or well, rich or poor. It further
appears that during the late fiscal year
the payments for pensions had reached
the extraordinary sum of $88,275,113,
which was several millions more than
the amount, then unprecedented, of the
12 months preceding. When it is re
flected than the war ended nearly 25
years ago, and that the names of hun
dreds of thousands of those who have
once received pensions have been dropp
ed, the continued increase in disburse
ments is most extraordinary. A dozen
years ago the total amount required for
pensions annually was between $27,000,-
000 and $28,000,000 a year. Now more
than three times as much is paid out;
yet an outcry is made for other legisla
tion which would carry the payments to
more than $100,000,000 a year.—New
York Time*. [
The Truth Will Prevail.
Mr. J. It. Sargent, the great hardware
manufacturer of New Ilaven and New
York, was an ardent protectionist, and
strongly opposed the reduction of the
tariff which was talked of in 1873. He
is now in Australia, and is freely ex
pressing his opinions in favor of free
trade and the single tax. He says he
was afraid that if we lowered the tariff
we should be ruined by the importation
of pauper-made goods. "So I paid a
special visit to Europe in '73, and went
through all the principal manufacturing
districts of England and the Continent,
for the purpose of comparing my con
dition as an American manufacturer
employing high-priced labor with that
of the European manufacturers employ
ing cheap labor. Two years afterwards
1 paid another visit to Europe for the
same purpose, and from what I saw
during those two visits my views under
went a complete change. I have since
paid several visits to Europe, and have
traveled in India and Japan, and have
made a special study of the comparative
value of cheap labor—Asiatic or coolie
labor—with that of America's high
priced labor, and I am convinced that
the cheapest labor in the world is the
high-priced labor of the states. But,
notwithstanding this, I am convinced
that the real interests of the manufac
turer are not on the side of protection'
A man may be narrowly selfish or
broadly selfish. I hold that for an
American manufacturer to be a protec
tionist is to be narrowly selfish. Under
the present system the people are unable
to buy anything like what they would do
if trade were free. The stimulus that,
would be given to production would be
incalculable ; the more goods that would
be produced the cheaper they could be
sold. Labor now idle would be employ
ed, the consumption would increase with
the ability to consume, and trade would
benefit in every way. lam an absolute
free trader. I am in favor of the aboli
tion of all taxation on commodities, and
the raising of revenue necessary to
support the government from land
values, irrespective of improvements.
I know of no tax so just and which
would be so evenly distributed or so
, easily raised."
I Thus the truth is gradually spreading
r wherever the English language is spoken,
i not only among the masses, but also
> among the most intelligent of all those
. classes whose best and most permanent
. interests are not inimical to the general
welfare.
Single Tax Across the Sea.
There is a curious vatility in the old
superstition that those who adopt as
their watchword "The Land for the
People," are aiming at an equal division
of the land between the individual citi
zens. Yet a very little reflection would
soon show that it is possible to believe
that the land is the common property of
the whole people, and at the same time
to be strongly opposed to any such equal
division. If Torn, Dick and Harry had
a horse left them, they would never
dream of cutting up the horse into three
equal portions, so many pounds of horse
beef for each man's share! Railway
companies, canal compnnics and dock
companies are not unknown in this
country, and their existence proves that
it is possible for a large number of people
to enjoy common rights in a huge prop
erty without feeling it necessary to assert
those rights by the method of physical
division. What would be thought of a
shareholder of (say) the Midland Rail
way who should say : "The railway is
the property of the company, that is, of
the shareholders; let us divide it up—so
many miles of rails, and so much rolling
stock to each shareholder?" Every
body sees that it is impossible to divide
the property of a railway company or a
canal company among the shareholders
without praeticnlly destroying its value.
The value of the railway or canal from
its owners' point of view consists in its
power of earning a dividend for them.
They do not divide the railway; they
divide its earnings. This is exactly the
way in which land restorers propose to
treat the land. They are not such fools
us to suppose that the equal division of
the land among ull the people is as easy
a matter as the division of a cake among
a party of children. But if we cannot
divide land equally, we can divide rent.
Nor is it necessary even to divide the
rent. There aro public expenses to be
met, which at present are provided for
by unjust and oppressive taxation upon
labor. The earnings of the land—the
economic rent —should be applied first of
all to meeting public expenses. The
"single tax on lund values" would be a
tax only in name; in its nature it would
be a rent—a rent paid to the people for
the use of the people's property. At
present the people of England are in the
position of the shareholders of a railway
company, who pay all the working ex
penses out of their own pockets without
getting any dividend, while the directors
pocket all the takings.—London Demo
crat.
The K. of L. Executive Board is in
session at St. Louis.
COUNTY NEWS.
—The annual celebration of the Grand
Army of this district will be held at Sun
bury next Wednesday.
—A county fair began at Dallas yester
day and will continue until to-morrow.
The exhibits are reported good.
—While coupling cars on the Jersey
Central at Penn Haven on Tuesday
Edward Green was squeezed to death.
—Charles Blake, aged 53 years, was
killed at a Lehigh Valley crossing in
Wilkes-Barre early Saturday morning.
—The hardware store of Ex-Burgess
Kerr at Plymouth was closed by the
sheriff on Tuesday on a S7OOO judgement
note.
—George Barney, a well known citizen
of Wilkes-Barre, was killed by his wagon
being upset in a runaway on Monday,
near Miners' Mills.
—The loth annual fair of Carbon
County was opened at Leliighton on
Tuesday. The principal feature is horse
racing. The fair will close to-morrow.
—The Laflin & Rand powder works
near Cressona, Schuylkill County, blew
up Thursday morning, killing three men,
and injuring several others, two or three
dangerously.
—The Seranton Diocesan C. T. A.
Union will parade as follows next Thurs
day: First district, White Haven; second
district, Pittston; third and fourth dis
tricts, Seranton.
—Mark King, convicted last week for j
the killing of his wife, was not sentenced
as expected on Saturday. It was post
poned until October 28, owing to an
application for a new trial.
—Dr. C. M. Williams, a prominent
citizen of Pittston, died there last week.
He was born in Lanesboro, Susquehanna
County, and was the grandson of Martin
Lane, who founded the place.
—The corner-stone of the new state
normal school at Lock Haven was laid
yesterday afternoon with Masonic cerci
monies, Clifford P. MacCalla, Grand
Master of the Masons of Pennsylvania,
officiating.
—The mine examining boards of
various districts met in Wilkes-Barre on
Saturday to discuss certain features of
the Gallagher law. There are said to be
a number of defects in the law which
need correction by the next legislature.
—Gertrude Newell, a 10-year-old girl
at Bear Lake, was fatally injured by
playing with a dynamite cartridge on
Sunday. She struck it with her foot and
it exploded, tearing away part of her
left arm and terribly cutting her on the
body.
—Policeman David A. Thomas of Ed
wardsville was acquitted at Wilkes-Barre
on Friday on the charge of killing
Thomas Kchelling on June 15. The evi
dence was strongly against the prisoner
and the verdict of the jury caused much
surprise.
—The $75,000 damage suit of Mary
Cannon of Scrunton, injured in the Mud
Run disaster a year ago, was amicably
settled on Saturday. A few weeks ago
the plaintiff refused to settle for $20,1*10,
and it is believed she received more
than that.
—The Young Ladies' Base Ball Club
of Chicago are on their annual tour
through the country. They defeated a
picked nine at Wilkes-Barre on Monday,
and play against Tamaqna on the Wah
netah grounds, (lien Onoko, to-day.
The club is composed entirely of females.
—William Irvin, a miner, and his
Polish laborer, went to their usual work
in a colliery at Mahanoy Plane on Tues
day evening of last week. Failing to
return home on AVcdnesday morning
search was made and on Wednesday
night the dead bodies of both men were
found in an abandoned working, they
having been suffocated by black damp.
Unclaimed Letters.
The following is a list of unclaimed
letters remaining in the Freeland Post
office, October 2, 1889:
Damato, Rosa
Eirisch, Joliann Yacob
Ferry, D. J.
Gallagher, Dan
Godzinska, Marya
Handcr, C. E.
Haszo, Gyorgy
Marjioti, Francesco
O'Ronnell, Manes
Shafer, Louis
Szkarupa, Piter
Smith, Mrs. F. M.
Walters, Amanda S.
Wilson, Geo. L.
Ward, Charles
Zeirdt, Mrs. John
Persons calling for any of the above
letters should say Advertised.
Wn. F. Boyi.E, P. M.
A Minister firings Suit.
Two years ago Rev. Wm. Holden, an
Episcopal clergyman of Hazleton, while
riding with a lady, was struck by an
engine and injured for life. He had
intended bringing suit against the rail
road company, but was restrained by
the lady, who was wealthy and was
averse to appearing in court as a witness.
She tendered him a check for SIOOO if he
would abandon his intention to institute
proceedings, lie refused the offer and
011 Tuesday he tiled in the protlionotary's
office a claim for SIO,OOO damages against
the Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley
Railroad Companies. The latter is the
owner and the former the operator of
the line of road upon which the accident
occurred.
I find Ideal Tooth Powder is without
exception tho best I liavo ever used.
With its aid I keep my teeth very clean
and white, which I was unable to do
with any other powder I have ever tried
before. So says Ferdinand E. Chartard,
Baltimore, Md.
By the way, will you buy and use Ideal
Tooth Powder ? We can thoroughly rec
ommend it. R. E. Nichols, Dentist, Sa
lina, Kansas, says, Ideal Tooth Powder
is in my estimation, just what its name
indicates. Au engraving 20 x 24 is given
with each two bottles. Price 25 cents
per bottle.
One on the Inspector.
A school inspector hailiug from
Glasgow has the credit, says the Dun
dee {Scotland) Advertiser , of telling
tho following story against himself.
It ought to bo premised that he is not
tall audhas not been blessed with
much personal beauty, but he thinks
himself, and deservedly so, an excel
lent public speaker. Examining a
junior class one day late ho wished to
lead up to "breath" as the reply to a
question. He had no reply at first,
but after a pause he said, "What comes
out of my mouth?" A wee little fellow
promptly answered, "Gas, sir." Af
terward, iu explaining what au adjec
tive was, he said, "I am a man, but
place an adjectivo before 'man.' "I
am a " "Little man!" exclaimed
one hopeful. The inspector does not
liko to bo called little. Ho said, "Well
—ah—give me another." "Ugly little
man!" shouted a too literal bov.
Origin of "We Won't Go Home.
Ail interesting history of an old and
well known comic tune was given by
Prof. Ensel, a music teacher, in s
speech in the Music Teachers' Associa
tion recently. He said that when the
army of the tirst Napoleon was in
Egypt in 1799 the camp for awhile was
near tho pyramids. One afternoon
about sunset the band was playing.
Tho inhabitants of the desert had col
lected near and were listening to tho
music. Nothing unusual happened
until the band struck up a tune which
we now hear under the name of "We
Won't Go Homo Till Morning." In
stantly there were the wildest demon
strations of joy among tho Bedouins.
They embraced each other and shout
ed and danced in the delirium of their
pleasuro. Tho reason was that they
were listening to the favorite and old
est tune of the people. Prof. Eusel
then stated that the tune had been
taken to Europe from Africa in the
eleventh century by the Crusaders,
and had lived separately in both coun
tries for over 700 years. This is cer
tainly enough to make "We Won't Go
Home Till Morning" a classic. Its
origin is more of a mystery than the
source of the Nile.— Louisville Post,
Wild Animals In India.
A letter from Calcutta reports that
a herd of 100 wild elephants has been
captured iu Mysore. Also that there
were 6,000 deuths by snake-biles in the
northwest provinces last year. In
Madras 10,000 cattle were killed by
wild animals and 1,642 persons lost
their lives by snakes aud wild beasts.
Compensation.
Mrs. Cobwigger—"My husband, I'm
sorry to say, is a man of very little
taste." Cora—"That must be real
nice for you, for I heard ma say your
cooking was dreadful."
"Man know thyself," says tho poet;
but this advice will never be regarded
as long as there is a neighbor to ob
serve.
Correspondence From the Capital.
WASHINGTON, October 1, 1889.
The ebb tide has set in. From tho sea coast
and mountain resorts Washingtonians are com
ing home again, and it is but repeating wliat
those already returned have said to remark
that they are very glad to be back. They have
comfort instead of more or less, discomfort, do
mestic life in place of vagrnpt hotel living, and
the National Cupital instead of the small life of
some summer-living hostelry. It is a matter
of social duty that many residents of Washing-
I ton must spend certain months of the year
I away from home, and it is without much
doubt, a matter of regret to a large number of
I them. It is so, because Washington is so com
' fortablo a place in which to live; because here
i is a moderate climate, here are perfect streets,
i here are shaded sidewalks, here are teeming
J markets, here are abnndant connections with
all the outing-places of a day, here are the
requisites of pleasant living in a modern way.
To desert what Washington affords and suffer
to an extent beside the sea or under the eye of
some mountain hotel keeper is one of the pen
alties of being in the swim. Brave people and
much enduring are those who are "in the
; swim." A month from now most of the suffer
j ing wanderers will have returned to Washing
-1 ton. A month later they will have recuperated
and be ready for the season of festivity which
! comes here with the opening of Congress and
the full swing of official life added to the local
term of social effort occurring naturally in a
city of two hundred thousand or so people.
The Capital is beginning to be itself again and
everybody is gratified over the fact. It should
' really be itself all the year round. It is almost
| old enough and big enough.
GETTING HEADY FOK THE CENSUS.
j Again, ut the close of the round ten years,
the Cciibus Ihii'cuu is pinching itself and trying
| to wake up. Like the 17-ycar locust, between
j its periods of tremendous activity, it enjoys u
sound sleep of several years but it never aetu-
I ally dies. About 1884 it became comatose and
| since that time there has been only one single
clerk on deck to attest actual vitality, llut
last spring the President appointed Robert P.
Poller its superintendent and signs of obun
dant life were at once apparent. Already two
or three hundred clerks have been appointed
to prepare for the national census of next
June, and within six months Mr. Porter will
have appointed 2,000 clerks and 40,000 enumera
tors to complete the immense work. Most of
the clerks, whose tenure will be short, are alrea
dy selected, and the local enumerators, whose
office life will last only one month ure now
being designated in the thousands of districts
all over the country. Up to the present time
Porter and his assistants have boen sheltered
in private oflices, but the hot hive is already
crowded, and in a month the workers will
swarm and find new hives in different parts of
the citj, which they will occupy exclusively.
If any reader thinks that It is mixing meta
phors to allude to these people both as cicadas
and us honey bees, he ought to stumble upon
the Census Rureau when it is hibernating and
when it isn't. It is the intention of the Super
intendent to make the eleventh census more !
complete than any that has preceded it. Some
subjects not hitherto covered will be exhaus
tively treated, and some interests will be repre
sented much more compactly than in 1880. Hut
the preliminary plans are as yet somewhat
nebulous, and it would be impossible now to
tell of more than tentative purposes.
MAIL PHIVILEGES OF THE GOVERNMENT.
If the Government of the United States had
to pay for the use of the mails just as an ordin
ary citizen does when ho posts a letter or a
package, the receipts of the Post-office Depart
ment would be increased many thousands of
doUars in the course of a year. The Washing
ton post-office alone sends out as much as a
million pounds of matter from the Executive
Departments and Congress in the course of a
month, and this matter is all minus postage.
The Government departments in the city are
| also exempted from the payment of the cus
! tomary registration fee of ten cents, and 219,813
1 letters and parcels were sent out gratuitously
by the money order office of the Washington
post-office in twelve months. Resides, whole
libraries of public documents are carried free
for Congressmen by their Uncle Samuel under
their franking privilege. Hut while a Con
gressman cun send out a public document to
his constituent free of charge, if he wants to
write him a letter he is compelled to pay the
regular charge Just as any other citizen. Veal's
ngo he could send out letters free. Now he is
allowed $125 per annum for stamps and station
ery instead.
TANNKKIBM IN FULL BLOOM.
The poople view with keen dissntisfaction a
shocking condition of administration that still
continues at the Peusiou Office. In charge of
that vust department, which is now making
monthly payments to nearly 500,000 persons, is
a man named Hiram Hmith. He is Assistant
Commissioner of Pensions. He did not fall
with Tanner. Yet Hiram Smith, and not James
Tanner, put his arm into the public chest the
other day and took out $0035.72 for himself.
Not only did he pocket this grab but he aided
forty-eight other watch-dogs to get into the
same smoke-house. Forty-nine of the paying
tellers of the Pension Office cashed the same
kind of check.
IT'S IIINGLISH YOU KNOW.
The British cabinet now numbers seventeen
members. It will be the ambition of some of
our Republican statesmen to catch up with the
mother country in this matter. The next move
in this direction will probably be to make the
Pension Bureau a separate department, with u
secretary, a force, a fund and a policy, all its
own. R.
Subcribe for the TRIBUNE.
LOST! LOST!
Anybody needing* Queensware and
won't visit our Bazaar will lose money.
Jnst See!
0 cups and saucers, 25c; covered sugar bowls, 25c; butter
dishes, 25c; bowl and pitcher, 69c; plates, 40 cents per dozen up;
cream pitchers, l()c; chamber setts, 7 pieces, $1.75. Also grocer
ies: cheap jelly by bucket 5c per lb; i'resh 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 ! 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!
HUGH MALLOT,
Corner Centre and Walnut Sts., Freeland.
IJE JUST AND FEAR NOT.
J. J. POWERS
has opened a
MERCHANT TAILOR'S an.l
GENTS' FURNISHING
ESTABLISHMENT
at 110 Centre Street, Freeland, and 1H not in
partnership with any other establishment but
his own, and attends to his business jersonally.
Ladies' 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 on Foreign
Banks cashed at reasonable rates.
B. F. DAVIS,
t Dealer in
Flour, Feed, Grain,
HAY, STRAW, MALT, Ac.,
•Best Quality of
Glover & Timothy
SEED.
Zcmany's Block, 15 Bast Main Street, Freeland.
O'DONNELL & Co.,
Dealers in
—GENERAL— .
MERCHANDISE,
Groceries. Provisions. Tea,
Coffee. Queensware,
Glassware, &c. 4
FLOUR, FEED, HAY, Etc.
We invite the people of Freeland and vicinity
to call and examine our large and handsome
stock. Don't forgot the place.
Next Door to the Valley Hotel.
F° r Printing of any Description
call at tlie
TRIBUNE OFFICE.
Posters,
Hand Bills,
Letter Heads,
Note Heads,
Bill Heads,
Baffle Tickets,
Ball Tickets,
Ball Programmes,
Invitations,
Circulars, .
By-Laws,
Constitutions,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
Call and See TTs.
XjILTQ- LEE,
CHINESE LAUNDRY,
Ward's Building, 49 Washington St.,
FREELAND, PA.
Shirts one, 10 Bosoms 8
New shirts 151 Coats 15 to 50
Collars 51 Vests 520
Drawers 7 Pants, w001en.25 to $1
Undershirts 7 Pants, Unen—2s to 50
Nightshirts 8 Towels 4
Wool shirts 8 Napkins 51
Hooks 51 Table covers... 15 to 75
Handk'rch'fs,!!; 2for 5 Sheets 10
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 dope in
a first-class style.
Pi#
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toms, such as Cough, Difficulty of
Breathing, Ac.. don't delay, but use
PISO'S CURE FOR CONSUMPTION
immediately. By Druggists. 25 cents.
rjl Piso's Cure for Con- E9
ESfl sumption is also the best Ea
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W If you liavo a Cough Ba
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Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest.
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tlie "Tribune."