FREELAND MBUE
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TIIOS. A. BTJOKLEY,!
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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.