FREELAND MBUE Published Every Thursday Afternoon -ur— TIIOS. A. BTJOKLEY,! EDITOR and PROPRIETOR. j TERMS, ' - - SI.OO PER YEAR. Address all Communications to FREELAND TRIBUNE, FREELAND, PA. Ollico, 1111-libock llrlck, lid floor, Centre Street. Entered at the Ereelnml P,,st£ice as Second Class Matter. DEMOCRATIC TICK ICT. STATE. For Treasurer E. A. Bigler, j of Clearfield County. COUNTY. For Judge Edwin Sliortz, of Wilkes-Bnrre. For Sheriff George J. Stoiginaier, 1 | of Wilkes-Barre. For Recorder Joseph J. McGinty, | of lla/A0 Township. For Coroner Win. F. Pier, of Pleasant Valley. For Surveyor James Crockett, of Ross Township. Equal Opportunities For All. We hold the Republican party responsible for the failure to pans any law for the relief of the manual laborers of the state of Pennsyl vania, and we recommend the enactment of such laws as will give equal protection ami equal opportunities in every brunch of industry to all citizens, irreei>cctivo of race, religion or nativity. We also hold the ltcpublican party responsible for the failure of the legislature to consider favorably the petition of the working men and farmers of this state for the equaliza tiou of the burdens of taxation ami for relief from the exactions of monopoly.— Democratic State Platform. FREELAND, PA., OCTOBER 17, 18811. j SENATOR SHERMAN made liis first' speech of the campaign in Ohio, the other night, and after eulogizing both the Gubernatorial candidates, said he believed that either would fiill the office with credit. Gov. Foraker's friends will hardly have the speech mailed around as a campaign docu-1 ment. WHEN congress opens its next ses sion the Republican party will have complete control of the executive and legislative powers of the country. . Their defense heretofore, upon being j subjected to criticism for leaving | things undone, was that they were ! hampered by the Democratic house of representatives. The Republicans ; will now bo wholly responsible for every measure passed, and also for the many they have often refused to pass. It will be a fair and equal test of what the party wants to do, and is an opportunity that the Democrats of the present day never lind. Tiuie to their prevaricarious instinct the Republican organs of this state have begun the simultaneous publi cation of an article that is designed to belittle the Australian system of vot ing. They would have then - readers understand that the method is most cumbersome and inexpedient, and is nothing more than a craze to try something new. An outline of this method is given in an adjoining column and no fair-minded person will dare say that it is either cumber some or inexpedient, and that it will not give the voter absolute secrecy. Won't our friends, the enemy, try some other jilim to vindicate Boyer on the charge of killing that hill? Since the above was in type the article referred to lias appeared in the columns of our e. c., which we really thought was above the class of journals that twist the truth. Candidate Boyer was in the anthra cite coal regions a few days ago but he said nothing about the hills which the miners sent to the Republican legislature and which the legislature in turn dumped in the waste basket. Probably the ex citement incident to the campaign lias made Air. Boyer forgetful as regards the treatment the tvorkingmen received at the hands of the Republican legislature. —llarrisburg Patriot. The workingtnen of the coal regions will not forget him. They have his record upon Hines' employers' lia bility hill, Caffrey's dockage hill, the ballot reform hill, Collins' semi monthly pay hill, the factory inspec tion hill, Farrell's company store hill, the miners' examination hill, when Boyer sneaked out of the assembly room and would not vote; and upon j several other measures in the interests 1 of labor he proved himself either a coward or a hitter antagonist of work-1 ingmen. Yes, the miners will remem- | her him. YV itii this issue of the Tribune we present to our readers a concise and I instructive description of the Austra lian system of voting. It needs only to he read to be understood. It is ' the method which was defeated in the last legislature by Henry lv. Boyer, the present candidate for state | treasurer, and his Rejiublicau col leagues. The position of the Repub lican party on this question is as plain as could he made. They defeated it and will not have it under any cir- j eunistances. The position of the Democratic, party just ns plain. They voted solidly i n favor of it and i the Democratic state convention made a solemn pledge to the people of Penn sylvania to place this k w U p on t ] lc statute hooks. The only wav this can be done is by electing a Democratic legislature and governor in 1890. But it is not necessary to wait until then to show your approval of the system. If you favor it vote for Ed mund A. Bigler for state treasurer anil help to destroy tho den of corrup tion and mismanagement that exists in the financial departments of this state. j SECRET VOTING. History and Workings of the Australian System. TO SECURE HONEST ELECTIONS. SYNOPSIS OF Til F HETHOII WHICH TIIK DEMOC'KATIC PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA WILL PIT IN OPER ATION. The Australian system of voting, so called because first used in Australia, luis been for several years in successful operation there, and, with non-essential variations, in England, Scotland, Ireland and Canada. It has also been adopted in several states and cities in this conn- I try, and was defeated in this state by the Republican legislature last winter. Its principal objects are to prevent bri bery and intimidation, t<> place all candi dates upon an equality before the law, and to undermine the dangerous powers of political machines. The system will be readily understood by reference to the drawing which appears below. The voter, upon entering the polling place, turns to his right at the point marked "ENTRANCE" where he receives, from two election officers selected from opposing political parties', a single ballot | or a single set of ballots according to the local custom of voting. On the back is j indorsed a stamp or signature, sufficient and only sufficient to identify the ballot as official; and on the face are plainly 1 printed the names of all the candidates for each office, with a designation of I their respective political parties, after ; this manner: For Burgoss. Vote for One. IJvmix-ratlc. John Doe. Richard Lee. I I'vnhihitinn. l)nvi<l Smith. | Imlr ,„)i,l,nt. SaniuH Join-s. I" , For Conncilmocl' Tor i-'C. I )iiiintint ic. Alunsou Jauntis. llurvcySylvtister ifrjw/ificnil. Martin Kawsqn. iW'ynnm Simpson.' I'riililhUhni. v. Itonisom. Victor Samson. fiulcpcmlcni. Krustiis Myers. (Samuel "Mlxby. i HOW TO PREPARE THE BALLOT. Having received his ballot the voter j enters one of tlie booths back of the rail ing, where, secluded from observation, j lie jirepares the ballot by placing in the blank column a cross opposite the name ! of each candidate for whom he desires to vote ; or, if he prefers, by writing the names of candidates of his own nomina tion in place of those already there. If there are several candidates for the ; same kind of office, as councilmen in the 1 sample ballot above, or presidential electors, and he wishes to vote the "straight" ticket of his party, lie places the cross under the name of the party, or draws it through the space in the blank column allotted to the party's I candidates, which signifies that he votes for each candidate named in that space. Thus, ip tin? .sample ballot, a cross under the word "Democratic," or through the first two spaces of the blank column to the right, is one vote eacli for Alexander Jacobs and Harvey Sylvester. CASTING THE BALLOT. After preparing his ballot by indi- I eating every candidate for whom he votes, the voter folds it in such a manner as to conceal the face and expose the in l dorsement, and withdrawing from the booth, gives the ballot to the inspectors, j who identifies it by the indorsement as official. It is then deposited in the box and the voter passes out at the gate marked "EXIT." From the time he receives his ballot i until he casts it, the voter is permitted | to have no communication with any one but the election officers, and witli them only for official purposes; and only j election officers and persons actually i engaged in voting are ever admitted j within the railing. [ MUST CAST OR RETURN THE BALLOT. ! Upon proof of inability from physical ; infirmity or illiteraney, a voter may call into the both officers appointed and sworn for the purpose, to aid him in preparing his ballot; and when a ballot ! is accidentally destroyed or defaced it must he exchanged for a clean one. The importance of the latter require ment may not at once he apparent; hut \ to secure secrecy every ballot delivered to a voter must he either cast or ro i turned. This explains the necessity for | indorsing ballots, liut for the endorse \ ment a blank paper outwardly resem bling a ballot might he cast by a voter, '< who would then he able surreptitiously to carry away an official ballot. This could he prepared for a bribed voter, tHe proof of its use being his production of a second official ballot. That could he similarly prepared and used, and so on. Such a fraud, known as the "Tas manian dodge," was successfully perpe [ trated in Australia in the early days of the system; hut its repetition was pre vented by requiring ballots to he offictaly ! indorsed. j BALLOTS PRINTED AT PUBLIC EXPENSE. As it is essential that ballots he printed | at public expense and distributed by public officers, the system must include some mode of certifying nominations to I lie proper authorities a reasonable time ! before elections. That proposed by the Yates-Saxton hill of New York was per- I liaps as convenient as could he desired. [ Under it, state nominations were to be ] certified fifteen days, and local nomina tions ten days before election; nomina tions of a political party which at the next preceding election polled three per cent Of tlio whole vote were to he certi fied by party officers; and independent nominations, if for a state office were to lie certified hv a thousand voters and if for a local office by a hundred. BRIBERY DONE AWAY WITH. Penal laws are ineffectual to prevent bribery and intimidation. The primary remedy is a secret ballot. And this is | best secured when the only proof of an ; elector's vote is his own uncorroborated j assertion. Under the Australian system 110 other proof can he made. That fact i gives to the most timid among depen | dent voters a sense of security which makes him free. And to bribery it is fatal. Bribers are not likely to invest money 011 the faith of a bribed man's . naked sertion; if there he such a virtue i "s "honesty among thieves," it is not acceptable sccuritv to the thieyes them -1 selveß. 1 | SECRECY NOT THE ONLY OBJECT. I But secrecy, though tlie primary remedy for bribery and intimidation, Is not all that is required to purify elec tions, nor the only remedy the Austra lian system offers. The printing and distribution of ballots is a most important part of election machinery, and, left to private enter prise, inevitably tends, as does the farming out of any other public function, to breed corruption and buildup monop oly. It makes a necessity for irrespon sible organizations which come to wield autocratic power over the political partv they claim to serve, and in turn, through discipline almost military in its severity, are dominated by an inner circle of "leaders." As ballots can neither be printed nor distributed without money, and may not be faithfully handled ' unless trusty workers are rewarded with more than an election day stipend, the organization undertaking the work has a plansiblc if not reasonable claim for money from its beneficiaries and official patronage from its retainers. It is the necessity of raising these funds and employing these "workers" that justifies | assessments, gives color of voluntary | contributions to what in truth are sales of nominations, excuses the submission of official patronage to the distribution of the machine, provides ample cover for collecting a corruption fund, and, through "workers" at the polls a con venient channel for disbursing the funds in brides. And as corruption funds in crease, masked in increasing demands for legitimate expenses, assessments grow, the price of nominations rises, independence is shackled, and the or ganization becomes more indifferent to party principle as its monopoly of politi cal power strengthens. Born of the necessity of volunteer machinery for preparing and distributing ballots, it develops into a powerful instrument, which, in tlie hands of political jobbers, enables them to buy and sell an office. Already, poor men rarely obtain politi cal advancement without assuming abli gation to he redeemed by official perfidy, and tlie obstacles to unallied condidacy have become so great as often to prevent and always to discourage independent voting. A PE ATI I-BLOW TO BOODLE WORK. This political monster would he des troyed by the Australian system. If the state assumed its function of providing ballots, there would he 110 necessity for "workers" at tlie polls, and the excuse for raising, as well as the best, mode of using, corruption funds would disappear. Assessments could not then he levied upon candidates) for when "workers" at the polls are not required, machines can neither servo nor injure. Nor would j nominations he sold; for when candidates stand upon an equality in respect to election machinery, and there is 110 opportunity for bribing voters, organiza tions merely as organizations, have nothing worth buying, while organiza tions as representatives of principles cannot be approached through commer cial channels. Trafficking in ofi'ice would he replaced by political discussion, tlie power of the machine by the voice of tlie party. THE OBJECTIONS. To this system it is objected that by requiring nominations to he made in ad vance of tlie elections it denies the con stitutional right of voters to select candi dates from the whole body of voters. From such eminent authorities as Judges Cooly, McCrary and Folger, and the highest courts "of Pennsylvania, Massa chusetts and New York, it may he safely inferred that a restriction of the fran chise to candidates nominated a short time before election is a reasonable regu lation and not an unconstitutional inter ference ; hut the interference is not necessary, since the system allows each voter to reject all candidates and write new names upon liis ballot. EXCEPTIONS TO SECRECY. It is objected, also, that by requiring the blind and illiterate to expose their vote to election officers' secrecy of the ballot is as to them violated. Under our present system voting is not secret; it was for that reason rejected by the Brit ish parliament and the Australian sys tem adopted. Tlie object now is to secure secrecy, hut in aiming at that we are confronted with a class of voters to whom exposure of their ballots to some body is necessary, and an exception must be made in their favor to prevent their disfranchisement. What form I which shall he consistent with tlie I highest degree of secrecy can that exocp-1 tion take? If allowed to carry their bul- j lots away these voters fall into tlie hands of irresponsible and perhaps dishonest persons, and may be made, innocently or otherwise, instruments for perpetrat ing some form of tlie "Tasmanian dodge." If, for their benefit, official ballots are generally circulated, all ef forts for secrecy are frustrated. And if they are permitted to take a "friend" into the booth, the door is opened for tlie bribery of every venal voter wdio is, or can successfully pretend to be, unable to read Knglish. Exposure < J ballots must he prevented by every means that ingenuity can suggest; hut in exceptional | cases in which it cannot he avoided it may most safely be confided to election officers, who represent opposing parties, are under oatli of secrecy and fidelity, can he readily detected in malfeasance, and when detected are liable to severe penalties. As to blind voters this seems to be the only course, hut respecting the illiterate any exception to the general rule may he avoided by identifying the names on the ballots with numbers, or by printing them with inks of different colors. GROWING IN FAVOR. There is reason to believe that the Australian system of voting is about to receive favorable consideration in all the states where election abuses have been seriously felt; hut its adoption would so surely dispense with machine organiza tions that there is also reason to fear attempts at essential modification. These are likely to be in the direction of allow ing the delivery of ballots to parties and candidates before election, and distri bution as well by "workers" at any time or place as by sworn officers at the polls. A little thought will show that this would continue the power of political machines and endanger secrecy. Any such modi fication 110 intelligent and sincere advo cate of electoral reform can accept, for in this matter it is not true at this time that "half a loaf is better than none." It were better that the reform be delayed with the force of public opinion pressing it forward, than'that inefficient measures should allay public opinion by seeming to meet its demands. Details may he compromised, but essentials must he required at every step in the agitation. These are, that ballots containing the names of all candidates be printed at public expense; that one official ballot or set of ballots be delivered by sworn ollicers to each voter as he appears to vote; that the voter immediately be secluded for the purpose of preparing to vote; that he deliver his ballot to the in- j spectors so folded as to conceal its face . and expose the otlicial indorsement; that immediately after voting he withdraw from the secluded part of the polling i place; that there be no intercourse with j him except by election officers for official purposes from the time be receives his I ballot until lie votes; and that no votei be allowed to cast any ballot but the one j he receives from the election officers. Democratic Nominee for State Treasurer, j EDMUND A. BIGLKR. Edmund A. Biglcr, the Democratic can didate for State Treasurer, was born in Clearfield, in August, 1843. He is the son of Hon. William Bigler, Governor of the State from 1852 to 1855, and United States Senator from 18.16 to 1861. Mr. lligler has always been engaged in busi ness pursuits and never held political office until appointed Collector of Twenty third Interna! Revenue District by Presi dent Cleveland, July Ist, 1885. He was removed by President Harrison on May 31st, 188;.. BILQULA INDIANS. An Interesting Account of Their Singular .Marriage Ceremonies. Ph. Jacobson, iu a letter to his well known brother, Capt. A. Jacobson, gives the following description of the marriage ceremonies of the Bilqula Indians of British Columbia. An Indian who intends to marry calls upon his intended wife's parents and arranges with them how much he is to pay for permission to marry the girl. Among people of high descent this is done by messengers, sometimes as many as twenty being sent to call on the girl's father. They are sent by the young man's parents be fore the young man is of age. In many instances both man aud girl are not more than Bor 9 years old. The messengers go iu their boats to the girls house, and carry on their nego tiations without going ashore, where the relatives of the girl are standing. Tne messengers of the young man's parents praise his excellence and noble descent; the great exploits of his father, grandfather, and ancestors; their wars, victories, and hunting expe ditions; their liberality at festivals, etc. Then the girl's relatives praise the girl and her ancestors, and thus the nego tiations are carried on. Finally a number of blankets are thrown ashore by the messengers; and the girl's rela tives protest and maintain that the num ber is not sufficient to pay for the per mission to marry the girl. In order to obtain their consent new blankets are thrown ashore one by one, the mes sengers continually maintaining that the price paid is too great. Generally from twenty to fifty blankets, each of the value of about 50 cents, are paid. After this the boy and girl are con sidered engaged. When they como to be grown up the young man has to serve a year to his father-in-law. He must fell trees, fetch water, fish, and hunt for the latter. During this time he is called Kos, which means "one who woos." After a year has elapsed the marriage is celebrated. At this | time great festivals are celebrated. ; Seven or eight men perforin a dance. They wear dancing aprons and leggins, trimmed with puflln-beaks, hoofs of 1 deers, copper plates and bolls. If the groom should bo a wealthy man, who has presented to his wife many small I copper plate 9, such as are used as presents to a bride, these are carried by the dancers. The singing-master, who beats the drum, starts a song, in which the dancers join. The song used at the marriage festival is sung in unison, while in all other dances each dancer has his own tune and song. The first dancer wears a ring ! made of cedar bark. His hair is j strewn with eagle-down, which flies | about when he moves and forms a j cloud around his head. The groom | presents the first dancer with a piece of calico, which the latter tears to pieces, which ho throws down iu front of each house of the village, crying "Hoipl" in order to drive away the evil spirits. These pieces of calico which ho throws down in front of the houses have a lucky meaning and at the same time express the idea that the groom, when he comes to be a wealthy man, will not for tret the inhabitants of any house when giving a festival. The dancers swing their bodies aud arms, stamp their feet, aud show the copner plates to the lookers-on. Then the I bride's father brings a great number of blankets, generally double the num- j bcr of those he had received from the groom, and gives them to his daugh- j ter. The bride orders a few blankets to be spread before the groom. She Bits down and ho puis his hand upon her head. Then the groom is given for each pans of his body one or more blankets. Finally ho is given a new blanket. After the bride's father has given a blanket to each dancer and to the drummer the villagers are iuvited to a great feast. At this time groom aud bride eat for the first time together.— Science. It Wan a Groat Tree, An Elmer, Ore., paper publishes the following remarkable story: "E. C. Stamper, a citizen of Elmer, has just completed working up a fir tree which grew on his place adjoining town. Ho received sl2 lor the bark; built a frame house 14x20, 8 feet high, with shed kitchen 8 feet wide and 20 feet, long; built a woodshed 14x20 feet; made 330 fence rails 10 feet long; made 334 rail road ties and 500 boards 6 inches wide and 2 feet long, and tiftoeu cords of wood, 4 feet wide and 8 feet long, all from one tree, and has a part of the tree left." I Subscribe for the TRIBUNE. THE REVISED SPELLER. An Old Man, a Undo Boy, and Their Two Lawyers. An ttfld man found a rude boy tip one of his apple trees and desired the young marauder to come down, speak ing to him with pleasant words, which are sweeter also than the honeycomb. "I prefer to remain in the band wa gon," replied the boy, who bold the age. The old rnau then threatened him with personal violence, but the young scapegrace told him to go to grass, as it'was written in the spelling book. "Then," said the old man, whose patience was soon gone, "I will visit you with the extreme penalty of the law." Whereupon the snucebox tauntingly told liim to go ahead and draw his bill, and he would soon see how much meat there was on a wood chuck in December. The old man nothing loth, at once engaged the services of an able and learned law yer, who was also a jurist and was dis tinguished in the columns of the local press for his matchless forensic elo quence; while ou his part tlio rude bov, by pledging a portion of the fruit of the tree which he occupied, was able to secure for the defense a pure minded and honoi'ablecounselor.wliose fair fame as an attorney and spotless reputation as a high-minded advocato had never been called into question, Bave by those who had dealings with him. The old man, who was rightful owner and was possessed of tlio tree by descent, purchase, escheat, aliena tion, and forfeiture, had his claim strengthened by bis lawyer who put in additional claims as riparian owner, freeholder, tenant by courtesy, and right of discovery. In re the defend ant, the rude boy merely put in a claim of naked possession and claimed title by occupancy. The old man went for him on writs of ouster, trespass, waste, and subtraction; to which tlio K. B. replied by charging disturancc of ten ure. The case was called and put off, and set down and adjourned: it was post poned, decided, and carried up; it was reversed and remanded; it was strick en trom tlio docket with leave to rein state, and withdrawn with leave to amend; it was argued in chambersand surcharged for rejoinder; and was 1 just on the point of being rebutted for demurrer in trover with misprision of alimony when the old man died, without issue, leaving the rude boy iu possession. His own attorney, how ever, requested him to come down; to which the boy replied that he had learned a little law himself by this time; whereupon his advocate, remind ing him.that "a little learning was a dangerous tiling," took a large-sized rock of irregular shape from his pocket knocked the boy clear out of tlio orchard at the first shot, and assumed possession by villainage. "My nanio is Dennis," cried the dying boy, "but I wonder why the old man didn't do that?" "Because," replied the high minded advocate, "he had a chump of a lawyer who didn't know how to play the winning cards when he held them." So saying lie took off all his client's clothes, examined his teeth to see if they were filled, audi sold the cadaver to a medical student, with the right of reversion of the bones to himself after the student got through with them. Thus do we see that it is easy enough to make an honest living at the prac tice of the theory of law if you only know how to put the kink in the lariat. —liurdetle in Brookly Eagle. The Oonl Fields of Montana. Pennsylvania experts who have been up the Rocky Fork say that 500 men working ten hours a day could not ex haust tlie coal deposits iu sight there in 1,100 years. This is one of Mon tana's new things. Every evening a long train of heavily loaded coal ears is pulled into Billings and weighed. The road, extending fifty-five miles southwest to Red Lodge, is only just in operation. The coal looks like that which oomes to St. Louis from Illinois. Mining it is like runnings train along ; side of a mountain and loading every j thing in sight. There are some veins ; over twenty foot thick. Coal is put on the cars at a cost of #1.50 a ton. This branch road was built by ex-Gov. Hsuser and other Montana men to supply smcltiug works. A contract for 600 tons a day is now being filled. The road to Red Lodge runs along the west side of Bear Tooth mountain, but on the cast side ualure has been oqual ly liberal, and some say that the coal there is more like Pennsylvania anthracite, and will coko. The veins on tho east side run from eight to twenty-four feet in thickness. Another road is projected to roach this cast side soction, said to be backed by Elijah Smith. This latter enterprise is ex pected to go through Wyoming as well j as southern Montana, and strike the ! Union Pacific at Rawlins or there | abouts.— St. Louis (Jlobe Democrat. Tile Proper Cooking of Kice. If tlio rice planters of nil the rice producing slates would employ a com mission of export cooks to go around the country, and particularly to visit the great cities and teach the people, from the humblest hodcarrier to tho haughtiest hotel keeper, how to cook rice as it is cooked in Louisiana and Soutii Carolina, they would be the means of increasing rice consumption in the country fivefold, and of conse quently raising tho price of the staple. The gum. gruel, or mush in the form of which rice is sout to tho table iu about thirty-six out of our thirty-eight organized states is neither tempting to the eye nor pleasant to tho taste, liieo prepared by a black ealico-turbaned artist of the Louisiana or South Carolina kitchen is a pretty and a palatable table dish; worked by a skilled croole necromancer into the subtle mysteries of a jambolaya, and it is about as seductive a dish as could be gotten up.—Aleut Orleans Times Demur-nil. Chinese Floating Gardens. In a recent number of the China tteoiew. Dr. MacGowan describes tho manger in which floating lields and gardens are formed in China. In tho month of April a bamboo raft ten feet to twelve feet long and about half as broad is prepared. The poles are lashed together with interstices of an inch between each. Over this a layer of straw an inch thick is spread, and then a coaling two inches thick of ad hesive mud taken from the bottom of a canal or pond, which receives tho seed. | The raft is moored to the bank in still water, aud requires no further atten ! lion. Tho straw soon gives way and | the soil also, tho roots drawing sup port from the water alone. In about i twenty days tho raft becomes covered I with the creeper (ipomcea reptans), and its stems and roots are gathered I for cooking. In autumn its small ! white netals and yellow stamens, nest- LOST! LOST! Anybody needing Queens ware and won't visit our Bazaar will lose money. Just See! (> cups and saucers, 25c; covered sugar bowls, 25c; butter dishes, 25c; bowl and pitcher, 69c; plates, 40 cents per dozen up; cream pitchers, 10c; chamber setts, 7 pieces, $1.75. Also grocer ies: cheap jelly by bucket 5c per lb; fresh butter 20 cents per lb; 5 lbs. rice, 25c; 4 lbs. prunes, 25c; 4 lbs. starch, 25c; etc. Dry Goods: Bazoo dress goods, 8 cents per yard; calicoes, 4c to 8c and white goods 5c per yard up. Carpets, 18c per yard up. Furniture ! We have anything and everything and won't be undersold. Straw hats! Hats to 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, SIIOCB, Gaiters, Slippers, Etc. Also HATS. CAPS and GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS of All Kinds. We Invite You to Call ami Inspect Our New Store. GOOD MATERIAL! LOW PRICES! ECTTG-H Corner Centre and Walnut Sts., Freeland. A. RUDEWIGK, 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. Checks, Drafts, and Letters of Exchange on Foreign Banks cashed at reasonable rates. O'DONNELL & Co., Dealers in —GENERAL— MERCHANDISE, Groceries, Provisions, Tea. Coffee. Queensware. Glassware, &c. I FLOUR, FEED, HAY, Etc. ! We Invito the people of Freehold and vicinity to cull and examine our large ami liumlsotne stock. Don't forgot the place. Next Door to the Valley Hotel. ling among the round loaves, presents a very pretty appearance. In some places marshy land is profitably culti vated in this "manner. Besides these floating vegetable gar dens there are also lloating rice fields. I Upou rafts constructed as abovo weeds and adherent mud were placed as a flooring, and when the rice shoots were ready for transplanting they were placed in the floating soil, which being adhesive ami held in place by weed roots, the plants were maintained in position throughout the seasou. The rice thus planted ripened in from sixty to seventy, in place of 100 days. The rafts are cabled to the shore, floating on lakes, pools, or sluggish streams. These floating fields served to avert famines, whether by drought or flood. When other fields were submerged and their crops sodden or rotten, these floated and flourished, and when drought prevailed they subsided witli the falling water, and while the soil around was rid advanced to maturity. Agricultural treatises contain plates representing rows of extensive rice fields moored to sturdy trees on the banks of rivers or lakes which existed formerly in the lacustrine regions of the Lower Yangtse and Yellow Rivers. Drop a Nickel in the Slot. The latest development of the auto machine is a Doctor Cureall, in Hol land. It a wooden figure of a man, with compartments all over it, labeled witli names of various ailments. If you have a pain find its corresponding locatou >ii the figure, drop a coin into the slot, and the proper pill or powder will come out. Painless Kxecut ion of Criminals. Modern sentiment opposes the exe cution of criminals by hanging, for the barbarity that attends it; garroting is scarcely less barbarous; decapita tion, shooting and burning at the stake are horrible, and the proposed taking of life by electric shocks, al though approved by the Empire State, is s<> uncertain that it can not be de pended upon as a sure means of de stroying life. In the interest of humanity, and that the aims of justice may ho promoted with unerring effect and in the most paiuless manner, without descending to barbarity, the writer would suggest the following method of "removing" condemned criminals: Let the person to bo executed be placed blindfolded and and naked, in an easy reclining posture in a bath tub through which a stream of blood warm water is continually passing. When properly seated in the bath the bodv and lower limbs should be en tirely submerged in the warm stream. Then, witli a share lancet J. J. POWERS hus opened a MERCHANT TAILOIt'S and GENTS' FURNISHING ESTABLISHMENT at 110 Centre Street, Frcelnnd, and is not in partnership witli any other establishment but his own, and attends to his business personally. Ladies' outside garments cut and fitted to measure in the latest style. B. F. DAVIS, Dealer in Flour, Feed, Grain, HAY, STRAW, MALT, &c., Host Quality of Clover & Timothy SEED. Zeniany's lilock, Ift East Main Street, Freehold. PATENTS Caveats and Re-issues secured, Trade-Marks registered, and all other patent causes in the Patent Office and before the Courts promptly and carefully prosecuted. Upon receipt of model or sketch of invention, I make careful examination, and advise as to patentability free of charge. With m v offices directly across from the Patent Office , and being in personal attendance there, it is apparent that I have superior facilities for making prompt preliminary searches, for the more vigorous and successful prosecution of applications for patent, and for attending to all business entrusted to my cure, in the shortest possible time. FEES MODERATE, and exclusive attention given to ijatcnt business. Information, advice and special references sent on request. J. R. LITTKLL, Solicitor and Attorney in Patent Causes, Washington, D. C\, (Mention this paper) Opposite U.S.Patent Office. let the attending surgeon open several veins in tlio calves and feet of the con demned. The thrusts of the lancet in the warm water would scarcely be felt. Many a man lias adopted this painless method of committing suicide. The gradual loss of blood, mingled with the flowing stream, would be almost unperceived by the victim, who would gradually weaken aud in a short time lose all consciousness aud sensibility— a condition (known as 9yucope)—from which there could be no recovery. The time that would elapse before death could he determined ouly by the amount of blood to be drawn "and the tenacity of life possessed by the con demned. To hasten the culmination of the affair after syncope had been established, the surgeon might puue ture the femoral artery. The stream of warm water continual ly passing through and from the bath (furing the entire execution, would rob it of its most repulsive features, by carrying off the blood as fast as it flowed from the veins of the condemn ed, and leave the body ready washed for burial.— Henry M. Huyunin, in Chicago Journal oj Commerce. A Chapter of Mistaken. An Albany girl mistook a burglar who called the other night for her lover who had agreed to coineat about the same hour to be the best man at a high-toned elopement. The burglar was quick-witted and led the vouug lady away while his pal went iu to rob the house. Then the young man came and burglar No. 2 pretended to be the young lady and followed him out into the night with his pockets full of plun der. They passed under a light aud the lover was dismayed to find that his companion was a man, probably the angry father of the girl. The young fellow accordingly decamped. About tlio same time the girl discovered, hor mistake aud hastily returned to the house. She was found in a thoroughly repentant mood on the doorstep the next morning. Fate added another drop to the young mau's cup of bitterness by causing him to be charged with the burglary. DlHtrilxiting His Favors. Young Mrs. Greene: "Ileury, dear, do you think so much bread and mo lasses is good for Harry?" Youu§ Mr. Greene: "Certainly it's good for him! Don't you know 'bread is the staff of life?"'" Young Mrs. Greeue: "Y-e-e-s but so much molasses, you know!" Younr Mr. Greene, "Well, what of it? He doesn't eat the molasses; he leaves that on the door-knob— Puck- Economical people aro prejudiced against the summer hotel physician.
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