FREELAND TRIBUNE.
Published Every Thursday Afternoon
-BY—
TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERMS, - - SI.OO PEE YEAE.
Address all Communications to
FREELAND TRIBUNE,
FREELAND, PA.
Office, Birkbcek Brick, lid floor, Centre Street.
Entered at the Vrcclaml Postoffice as Second
Class Matter.
I>EMOtRATIC TICKET.
STATE.
For Treasurer E. A. Bigler,
of Clearfield County.
COUNTY.
For Judge Edwin Short,z,
of Wilkes-Burre.
For Sheriff George J. Stcigmaier,
of Wilkes-Barre.
For Recorder Joseph J. McGinty,
of llazle Township.
For Coroner Wlll. F. Tier,
of Pleasant Valley.
For Surveyor James Crockett, ;
of Ross Township.
FREELAND, PA., OCTOBER 31, 1880.
AT l : iON, DEMOCRATS
our enemies admit tliat
have ttti even eliance lo carry
e Wtntc. Kciiienilicr tlie clay,
vember sth.
BESIDES failing to vote next Tuesday
the next worst tiling a Democrat can
do is to split his ticket. Every man
on it has an unblemished character,
public or private, and let them all
stand or fall together. Put your
ticket in straight.
TIIEY have no agitation about get
ting wires underground in Plymouth,
hut there will probably bo a plant
ing of some Poles before the sheriff
gets through with the mob that is
defiantly holding a church and paro
chial residence at that place.—Phila.
Ledger.
THE IV. of L. assemblies of the
Wyoming region are experiencing a
revival of membership ami interest in
the order. This is in conformity with
a general movement throughout the
country, and, while not in the nature
of a boom, shows that the seeds sown
by the recent educational campaign
are already at work.
DEMOCRATIC defeat is impossible
this year if tlie full party vote is
polled. Each and every vote is abso
lutely necessary in order to overcome
the trickery and boodle business of
the opposition. The corporations of
Luzerne cannot afford to have Judge
Eice defeated, lienee there is no lack
of money to be used in attaining vic
tory. Therefore it is to your own
interest to see that Edwin Shortz is
elected judge.
Iu the Republican party can't elect
their ticket without rolling their car
wheels all through the county they
ought to step down and go out of
business. Freeland's consignment is
reported to have arrived this week,
but let those who received them take
care of how they use them. A few
of our citizens may change their resi
dence to Pennsylvania's free boarding
house in Philadelphia shortly after
election. This is not buncombe, but
a little note of warning.
MINERS, mechanics, farmers and in
dustrials of all classes will decide
next "month whether the state shall
have boodlers' bondsmen or an honest
man for treasurer. How would it do
to elect to such a resjionsihle office a
man who would cover up the records
and prevent full proof aud investiga
tion ? That is what Boyer did in the
proposed Wherry investigation of the
sinking fund transaction by which
the state loses annually SOO,OOO.
Place the hooks of the treasury in the
hands of a man who has no connnec
tion or sympathy with the boodlers
who have invested the state treasury
funds. The workingmen of the state
must decide this election.
Orn Republican neighbors in Lack
awanna have lots of trouble on their
hands, and all account of one man
refusing to be bossed by Joe Scran
ton Dr. Donne was nominated as
the regular candidate for coroner, but
because lie refused to bow to tbe
powers that be, the lUpublican bolted
and demanded his resignation. Fail
ing to secure this Boss Scranton called
a convention and nominated another
candidate. The Scranton Blade
claims that Boss Scranton's reason for
opposing Donne was because he was
a Welshman, and asks Joe to resign
his seat in congress. Between them
the Democratic candidate will have a
walk-over.
THE Republican party in Pennsyl
vania began to shake very perciptibly
during the past week, so much that
Chairman Andrews, Quay, Cooper
and a score of the bosses found it ne
cessary to go to Washington to see if
Benjamin wouldn't do something to
keep the wavering element in line.
The result of the trip was that Har
rison unceremoniously bounced sev
eral postmasters on Tuesday, among
them Wm. F. Harrity of Philadelphia,
whose term will not expire until No
vember 17. By this means they ex
pect to save Buyer, the defender of
boodlers, and thereby keep the treas
ury from passing into honest hands.
Will the voters of Pennsylvania up
hold such flagrant violations of civil
service reform laws, which Harrison
swore to defend and enforce ?
Get Out the Full Vote.
Every Democratic voter should make
himself a committee of one from now
until next Tuesday evening to aid in
getting out the full Democratic vote.
Don't be carried off with the idea that
because this is an "off" year with only a
state treasurer and a few county officers
to be elected, that you are not vitally
interested in its result and that the
future of the party does not largely de
pend upon it. The wise, economical
and honest handling of the state funds
is a matter of moment to every citizen,
of as much concern to the voting tax
payer as the chosing of a governor or
any other state official. And so in
county affairs. The direction and man
agement of the business of Luzerne
County in a manner that will best serve
the public with the least expenditure of
time and means are not trifling consider
ations to be given only a passing
thought. They come home to every
citizen's pocket, to his fireside, in the
protection of it by well enforced laws
and the judicious expenditure of the
taxes which are yearly collected from
him. lie should weigh "well the merits
of those who ask his suffrage and make
his choice calmly but positively. lie
should go to the polls himself and see
that his neighbors go also. The Dem
ocracy can win this fight this year and
make the county solidly Democratic; or
they can be indifferent and make com
ing contests all the harder to wage. It
would be an inexcusable blunder to
have the latter result occur. Don't peril
success by indifference and a belief that
there will be enough votes without yours.
Go to the polls yourself when the time
comes, but in the meantime see that
every Democrat is worked into that state
of mind which will insure his vote being
polled also.
'..ROU i&KFORItI,
varticrs of Peiuisylva
•J askL'il Henry R. Hover
lttl liis Republican legislature
*st winter to give you these laws:
he Seml-uioutlUy Pay law t the
lockage Hill; the Company Store
:illj the Australian Itallot Bill; j
•ie law to make eleetlon day a i
eiral holiday, and a number of
tler l.abor Reform bills. Henry j
t. Iloyer helped to defeat these ,
'ills! Go to the polls on Novem
ber sth and vote against him.
Taxation In a Nutshell.
The one self-evident truth should be
constantly kept before the people that
all taxation is laid upon labor, indirect
ly, if not directly. The corporation tax
paid into the state treasury, to the
amount of a hundred thousand or more,
by the railroad company, is and must be
assessed by the company upon the busi
ness of the community. It is paid by
the manufacturers, merchants, mechan
ics and even printers when they pay
their freight bills. And where or how
<lo the manufacturers, mechanics and
business men get the money to pay such
freight bills, high enough to cover the
corporation tax? The working people
in their employ must earn it for them.
llow and where do the hanks get the
money to pay their corporation tax?
The answer is, from those in business
who employ laboring people who must
earn the meney. Who pays the land
lord's tax of SSO a year on his property
up street? It is paid by the occupant,
fully calculated and included in the
monthly rent. And where and how
does the occupant get the money to pay
the landlord's tax included in the rent
account? If he carries 011 shoe-making,
or tailoring, or printing, the working
people earn it for him. Every dollar of
taxation, whether direct or indirect—
national, state or local, comes from labor.
It cannot be otherwise. Therefore tax-.
ation can only be justified as a necessity,'
and it should he as low as possible. To
tax the people more than is necessary to
run the government honestly and econ
omically administered is robbery. The
Republican party openly supports and
defends the highest tariff taxation,
whilst the Democrats contend for the
lowest.—Mauch Chunk Democrat.
Tlie Single Tnx in Curboit County.
District Attorney W. M. Rapsher of
Carbon County, in a late issue of Justice,
gives forth his views 011 the single tax
question as follows:
Since the recent presidential election
a powerful political force has been
brought upon the political stage. It is
boldly aggressive, commanded by the
best brains of the country, and is revolu
tionary in its economic effects upon pre
sent methods and systems of taxation.
It demands "the abolition of all taxes
upon industry, and the taking, by taxa
tion upon land values, irrespective of
improvements, of the annual rental
value of all those various forms of nat
ural opportunities embraced under the
general term, Land; and that, as a result,
involuntary poverty will be abolished,
and the greed, intemperance and vice
that spring from poverty and the dread
of poverty will be swept away."
The term single tax does not really
express all that a perfect name would
, convey, says its leading advocate. It
only suggests the fiscal side of the ques
tion. And, in reality, the single tax is
not a tax at all. But it is a tax in form,
mul the term is useful, as suggesting
method. But, like all reform and prog
j ress during the past, the single tax men
are now fought step by step.
As a notable illustration, I beg leave
to briefly quote Prof. T. 11. Huxley,
from an article in the Nineteenth Century,
| entitled "The Struggle for Existence."
, He says:
"One of the most essential conditions,
if not the chief cause, of the struggle for
existence is the tendency to multiply
without limit, which man shares with
all living things. So long as unlimited
multiplication goes on, no social organi
zation which has ever been devised, or
is likely to be devised; no fiddle-faddling
Willi tlie distribution of wealth, will de
liver society from the tendency to he
destroyed by the reproduction within
itself, hi its intensest form, of that strug
j gle for existence the limitation of which
is the object of society."
It was in quite another age when the
celebrated Malthus laid down a similar
doctrine. Is it a case of the "survival
of the fittest?" To stay the persistence
of poverty, amid advancing wealth,
labor-saving machinery and highest de
velopment in the arts and sciences, the
remedy of the single tax party is to res
tore the common and natural right of
land to the people; and so as to cause as
little political disturbance as possible, it
proposes to do this by the simple method
of gradually placing all taxation upon
lund values. The new party rightly in
sists that there is something radically
wrong in a governmental organization
that leads to such an unequal distribu
tion of wealth, with such unequal oppor
tunities as everywhere stare us in the
face. Will our statesmen and political
economists persist in the old-time theory,
that all things are ordained for the best,
and that there is no practical remedy
for our dangerous social ills?
The people are ripe for a change. The
greatest difficulty that the single tax
party encounters is not in its moral, eco
nomic and legal aspects, but it is in get
ting the people to understand its theory
and practical application, and to make
common cause to right their wrongs.
Will the remedy proposed by the new
party bring about happiness and remove
from humanity that dreadful fear of
want which it so ably contends that it
will?
It is a grandly sublime and at the
same time an intensely practical ques
tion, and well worth considering. It is
a rapidly growing social and political
problem—by far the most important po
litical questton of the age, and it is here
to stay until it is solved.
TREASURY REFORM.
Partners of Pennsylvania! A !
vote for Edmund A. Hitler for j
State Treasurer Is a vote lor treas
ury reform, a step toward equal- !
zatlou of taxation, and his elec- j
tloii will be a decisive victory in
your war against monopoly and
rlntc rule. C*o to the polls on No
vember sth.
Why Reform Is NecoHHftry.
1. Because under Republican rule taxa
tion has largely exceeded the needs of
the state, and vast sums of money have
improvidently gathered into the treasury
vaults.
2. Because Republican officials have
failed to use or invest these moneys as
the law directs, and the state has lost a
large sum, amounting to nearly one
quarter of a million dollars in two years.
3. Because, at the command of a poli
tical boss, these surplus funds of the
state are deposited with favorite banks,
corporations and firms, in sums ranging
from ten thousand to six hundred thou
sand dollars, to be used for his private
political advantage, and their private
gain.
4. Because, in these transactions, the
state has only one-half million dollars
security for more than two and one-half
million dollars thus deposited.
5. Because, with more than one mil
lion and a half of uninvested surplus in
the sinking fund and no loans due or re
imbursable, the Republican sinking fund
commissioners (of whom a Republican
state treasurer was one) sold a million of
Uuited States bonds that were earning
four per cent, interest for the state, and
added the proceeds to the already
swollen treasury.
G. Because, not counting the proceeds
of these government bonds, which were
sold at less than market rate, and after
these Republican officials had purchased
eight hundred and two thousand dollars
worth (par) of undue state loans at a
price above the then market rate, there
remained in the treasury over a million
dollars in cash.
7. Because tlie Republican majority
in tlie legislature refused to stop this
ffow into tlie sinking fund when it was
shown to be enormously greater than
the requirements of said fund.
8. Because the sinking fund commis
sioners, to-wit: C. W. Stone, secretary
of state; Thomas McCamant, Auditor
general, and W. B. Hart, state treasurer,
are all Republicans ; and it would he for
the best interests of all the people that
the taxpayers, half a million at least in
number, who have named Edmund A.
Bigler for state treasurer, should he
represented, (in obedience to the well
established principle of minority rep
resentation,) in the management of tlie
moneys belonging to all tlie people.
9. Because tlie safe-keeping of the
public moneys raised by general taxa
tion upon tlie property of the citizens of
all political beliefs, is a matter not of
private hut of public concern, and should
not he connected with partisan politics,
and much less he made tlie personal and
private affair of a factional boss; and tlie
election of Mr. Biglor would be a wise
step in the direction of a much needed
reform, to-wit: Non-partisan manage
ment of tlie state treasury.
IN view of the fact that it is impos
sible to recover the SOO,OOO and more
that have been annually loßt for sev
eral years to tlie state by tlie mal
administration of the treasury and
tho investigation of which HeDry K.
Boyer prevented, it would be folly to
elect him to tho state treasurersliip.
A man of his training and disposition
in the office would only make bad
matters worse.
AMONG the postmasters whose heads
were decapitated this week by Harri
son was that of Editor Bartholomew
of tho Catosauqua Record, who is
succeeded by Editor Randall of the
Dispatch. In this case the position
is kept within the fraternity and in
1893 we hope to see "P. M." attached
again to tho name of our tariff' reform
friend of the Record.
THE Shenandoah Sentinel is rapidly
becoming the best one-cent daily in
the coal fields.
An Inappropriate Season for Thanks.
The near approach of the time for the
annual Thanksgiving proclamation of
the president and governors suggests
again the inappropriateness of the last
Thursday in November for such an
occasion.
The fact that the pilgrim Puritans set
apart this date has heen sufficiently
honored in a century of conformity to it.
These people took even their festivities
solemnly, and there was a certain ap
propriateness in their choosing the end
of the bleak and dreary November for
their season of thanksgiving and praise.
But the cosmopolitanized America of
to-day is of a more cheery humor, and
is entitled to a more suitable day for its
official festival. One of the religious
journals recently made the sensible
suggestion that, "instead of the last
Thursday in November, which has no
significance in itself, October, 12 be
designated. It is the anniversary of the
landing of Columbus. Pumpkins are
ripe, and turkeys can be taught to
prepare for the guillotine a month
earlier. And as for the weataer, mid-
October is much more conductive to
thankfulness than the tail-end of bleak
November."
The beautiful days of October would
lend themselves perfectly to an occasion
of thanksgiving. Even late October is
better than late November. Cannot this
holiday be redeemed from its depressing
surroundings?
BAI.LOT REFORIH.
Uo tile people asks tlie Pliila
delplila " ICecord ") of Pennsylva
nia really want liallot reform?
Would tliey like to liave tlie root-
Ilia of the election returns ex
press the unboughl, unlnttmldat
ed will of the voters? There will
be an excellent opportunity to
make a reeord on November sth.
j Kdmuud A. illgler and the Ileni
: ocratlc party are for ballot re
form i Mr. itoyer and his party
are aitaiiist It.
( Correspondence From the Capital.
WASHINGTON, October 29,1889.
While our world-famous avenue, well-named
for the Keystone State, is interesting at any
season, in the soft evenings of Indian Summer
days, now coming on, it is one living panorama
of grace and beauty. To see it at its best you
should walk at about the hour of sunset. The
last rays of the declining day-god gild the great
dome of the Capitol till it gleams as though it
were a deini-globe of the finest burnished gold.
The tall Smithsonian towers to the southward
stand out in sharp relief against the hazy
autumn evening sky, and a living human tide
pours along the broad street.
Here during the Three Americas Conference
and the late Triennial Conclave of Knights
Templar one might see a type of man or
woman from almost every section which com
poses the great Republic. This stout man with
the diamond solitaries in his shirt front is a
mine king from the far off Pacific Slope; next
is the tall, lithe dweller on the distant prairie
lands, whose every step marks the man whom
free, open-air life has made familiar with
Nature and its mystic soul. There goes a
group such us one might meet under the linden
arbors of Berlin, or near the shady walks of
the Lung' Arno, where the dwellers of Italy's
greatest art centre enjoy the evening breezes
by the swift river's rushing stream. The fuces
are of the purest Italian east, aud the language
is that soft-syllabled tongue that has made the
Tuscan the synonym for graceful musical
speech all over the world. English, Italian,
the resonant Spanish and high-keyed French,
that may all be heard within the space of a
half squre, remind the stranger of lands a thou
sand leagues aeross the sea, but to the dweller
in the Cupitul City they are as familiar as the
lofty dome itself.
Rut to the student of American womankind
is the avenue also interesting, for here it is
where the afternoon shadows grow longest and
the occasion is propitious that every region
(.from the .St. Lawrence to where warm summer
seas lap the sandy bench of the islands of the
Carolines and Georgia and the pine-shaded
coast of the great Mississippi Sound) has its
most perfect and fittest representations.
WHAT IS HE DOING?
There is mueh wonderment and some offen
sive emphasis of speech, not unmingled with
profanity, at the order last week of Harrison
that hereafter Congressmen and Senators will
be received an hour and a half in each day,
"and no other time." The question with the
faithful is, "What in" (my letter being adapted
lor a family journal I cannot possibly repeat
the full sentence as usually expressed) "is he
doing?" lie canuot be preparing his message,
for it was understood that his almost five
months' sojourn at Deer Park was for the pur
pose of composing his mind to this work amid
the hills and dales of the idea-inspiring moun
tain ranges to lofty and statesmanlike thoughts.
What upon earth is he doiug then? is the in
quiry going up, more or less mixed with pro- j
faulty, from one hundred and fifty Congress
men, thirty-six Senators, and Heaven alone j
knows how many thousand ofllce-seekers.
Democratic postmasters in several of our \
great cities are still drawing salaries Uepubli- i
cans would fain enjoy, and yet Harrison can
only be seen an hour and a half each day, "and j
no other time." Here is meat indeed for anger !
and wailing, and it is going on.
THE PHI I. A DEL I'LL IA POSTMASTER.
The appointment of John Field as postmaster
of Philadelphia, which involved the removal of
William F. Harrity, struck the city like a
bombshell to-day, inasmuch as the incumbent
had but a short while to serve out his four year
term. The removal is considered by politicians
here as a bad break and will not elevate the
: occupant of the White House any in the esti-
I ination of those who are trying to purify ap
pointments from the contaminating inlluenccs
that now surround them. Many Republicans
condemned Mr. Harrity's removal and the civil
servicers wear a groomy smile. Rut the horde
of hungry office-seekers look at it in another
light, and confidently expect that it is the open
ing of u new policy, one that will eventually
break ull the barriers that now restrict so
! many appointments. The departments wore
I crowded this afternoon by those seeking situa
j tions, and several applicants acted like so
i many famished wolves, as they went about
; howling for positions.
THE I)RITI8n MINISTER.
j The return of Sir Julian Pauncefote, accom
j panied by his wife and daughters, to make
J their home in the city, has proved a source of
congratulation to the resident and political
society of the place, as it is generally uuder
i stood among the large circle of friends made
by the Minister since his arrival in our midst
that he intends to enter largely into all the
. social festivities of the winter months and in
all respects to become identified with the coun
! try. It is a pretty sight to watch the flne-look
j ing old gentleman, accompanied by his trio of
I handsome daughters, taking their daily roorn
l ing walks in the neighborhood of Connecticut
avenue, engaged in animated conversation
while walking at the brisk rate so customary
among English men and women when enguged
in their favorite exercise.
THE NEW PENSION COMMISSIONER.
Gen. ltaum's appointment was the surprise
of the day. His name had never been men
tioned in connection with the Pension Commis
sionership in any public way, and it was gener
j ally thought in Washington that the recipient
j had finally retired from public official life when
; he left the Internal Revenue Bureau. Rut the i
surprise quickly gave way to general commen
dation, and but few appointments of recent
j years seem to have given such unqualified sat
j isfaotion to politicians of both parties. R. ]
My Little Maid.
Crimson clover-blossomed dapple
All tho meadows, while the apple
Trees drift rosy snows beneath tnelr bending
boughs
On a little maid who passes
Thro' the rippling ranks of grasses
In the gloaming as she goes to call the cows
Pretty, dainty, dark-oyed Phyllis,
Tho* nor manner coy and chill is
As she hastens on to where the cattle browse.
Tho' she scarcely seems to notice
Me, the girl on whom I dote is
This little maid who goes to call the cows.
As tho twilight shadows darken,
E'en all nature seems to barken
For her footsteps, and that bird that s half
adrowse
Pipes to a sleepy little ditty
Just to tell me that my pretty
Is coming back from calling of the cows.
Here and there a glow-worm grazes
Tho wtiite robes of nodding daisies.
Betraying where with king-cups tbey carouse;
Stars above begin to twinkle,
As I hear the "tinkle, tinkle!"
Of the bells upon my little maiden's cows.
She is come, still coy and colder
Than before. But, love, grown bolder,
Bids me speak. And, oh, she listens to my
vows;
Lets mo tell her that I love her,
And the happy birds above her
Hear the answer of my maid who calls th
cows!
—Boston Globe.
lIIS MOTHER'S COOKING.
Four girls sat around a pretty lunch
table on which wus spread a very nice
little meal. The room tastefully fur
nished and the dress of the hostess—
the last thing in tea-gowns —proved
that she had an ample purse at com
mand. So, in fact, did tho china, the
silvor, the damask upon the board.
Tho lea-gown, the little cap perched
upon tho lovely hair, all tho matronly
atl'i'i'tiims of dress, as well as the wed
ding-ring and keeper upon her finger,
were tokens that she had now heen
married a year. But as her guests
studied her face they became aware
that it wore a worried, puukored look
that they had never seen upon it in
the days of her single blessedness, and
being near relations and very intimate
they did not make any pretense of not
noticing it.
"You don't look well, my dear,"
said her cousin Persis, breaking the
Bilence.
"You don't look comfortable, some
how," said her sister Fannie. "I know
that look of old."
"You look cross," said Fleda, plump
ly taking another tea-biscuit from the
plate. "That is the long and short of
it, Penelope."
"Thank you," said Penelope, tossing
her head. But suddenly she set
the plate she was about passing to her
quests down upon the table again,
fished a little scrap of lace and linen
cambric from some mysterious rceess
of tho tea-gown, and appliod it to her
eyes.
"He hasn't takon to heating you, has
lieP" asked Persis.
"Why, what a question! Of course
not!" screamed Penelope.
"At all events," said Persis, "I had
as soon bo lashed with a whip as with
a tongue."
"Laurence is iucapablo of scolding,"
said Mrs. Chapoue.
"But is it LaurenceP" said Fannie.
"It is always the husband when one
is married," said Persis.
"Yes. I confess it is Laurence. He
—he—lie is always talking about his
mother's cooking." sobbed Penelope,
fairing breaking down. "He really
did love the things his mother made
for him. Now. I deal with a good
baker; I have Vienna bread; I vary the
sorts, all light and good, and I think I
know about meat and vegetables, and
I like fruit dessorts. I can buy so much
that is good, hut it is that old New
England home-made cookery that
Laurence pines for. The other day
ho said in quite a tragic way, 'Oh, for
oue of those dear old boiled apple
pumplings.'" "
"Awfully indigestible," said Persis
in her doctor's voice.
I went to visit dear Mrs. Chapone
before I was married," said Penelope,
"aud you went with mo, Fannie."
"How kiud she was," said Fannie.
"She was always cooking something
good "
"GoodP'suid Penelope. "O Fannie,
I love and respect my mother-in-law.
She is the salt of the earth. But
everything swam in grease."
"The bread came to the table from
tho oven," said Fannie.
"Four kinds each meal," said Pene
lope. "Coffee, tea, chocolate, pies,
waffles, for breakfast. Bacon, fried
potatoes, fried everything "
"And she mado one taste it all,"
laughed Fanuie.
"When we got home," said Pene
lope, "we went to bed and had a
bilious attack apiece. All that time
Laurence lived in the country, out of
doors all the while on horseback, in
the open air fur hours, rowing, fishing,
superintending the farm work, lend
ing a hand himself. You know lum
bermen up in Maine can live on fat
pork and beans. But now he comes
front his office to the flat or walks a
block or two after tea. If lie takes me
anywhere wo ride usually. I know ho
would not like the same things, but it
has gotten to he a mania with him.
"Just so," said Persis, "and you
suffer."
i "Why dou't you tell him all thatP"
asked Fannie.
I "Why, if I were to hint that his
mother's cooking might not be the
best known on earth we should
quarrel." said Penelope. "Already I
am so sick of that continual repetition
of home-made bread that I want to
shriek when 1 hear it. I tried to make
a batch, and Bridget tried to make
another; the result was not encourag
ing."
j "I don't know what you are to do,
Penelope," sighed Faunie.
"Resist tyranny from tho first," said
! Persis.
"1 know what you ought to do," said
Fleda. "Ask his mother down. Lot
her cook for you a mou*li. She'll do
I it. She'll just know how her poor boy
i suffers from want of proper nourish
moul. She'll come and you will see."
"1 don t know hut what you are
right," said Penelope. "My sister-in
law knows all her ways now and is old
enough to be left in charge and Ms
Chapone just adores Laurence. Per
haps I can learn how to do all those
greasy things and make four kinds of
hot bread every day. I'd do anything
to make Laurence happy."
"Remember, I put it into yourhead,"
said Fleda. "If I am rather young yet,
and don't like Mrs. Ilatoman's lectures,
and do read fairy tales I have an
original idoa or two now and then."
And shortly after the three girls tied
on their bonnets and went home and
Mrs. Laurence Cha pone sat down to
write a letter to her mother-in-law.
"Your mother is here," said I'ene
lopo one afternoon as her husband
entered the dining-room. "She is
out in the kitchen getting you up one
of her dinners. I wrote, dear, and
asked her to come and teach me her
ways."
"You are an angel," said Laurence.
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her in cooking "
Then he rushed out into the kitchen,
where, amids't the steak and a smell of
frying shone his mother's round and
rosy face.
"We're just dishing the pot-roast,
dear," said she, "and it's beautifully
larded with the pork. And you shall
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since I come from Ballybofay."
And so, with smiles and pleasant
talk, the four weeks' visit and the
meals his mother cooked began.
It occurred to Penelope sometimes
that they principally lived on butter-,
lard drippings, and sweet oil. The
▼erv soup was covered witli little
globules of fat The hiss of the frying
pan awoke her at dawn. There "were
jars of "oily cooks"—vulgarly called
doughnuts—on the shelves.
Before she went to bed Mrs. Chapono
cheered her son with chocolate of the
richest sort and Welsh rare bit or with
lobster salad and coffee with beaten
eggs.
Penelope took her lessons patiently
and lived in a world of smoko and
frizzle, devoted the hours she had
spent over her muslius to beating
eggs or stirring plum puddings, adopt
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was never free from a headache.
Laurence also complained of his
bead, but his dovoted wife never hint
ed that a whole mince Die after fried
scallops galore for breakfast might be
the cause of it.
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"A little weak tea aud a slice of dry
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had it been so lugubrious.
"But Laurence, dear, I can cook
everything inyourmother'sstyle now,"
said Penelope. Won't you have a few
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"Fritters!" cried Laurence, with an
expression of disgust.
"And there is still a mince pie, loan
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"Don't mention mince pie," said
Laurence. "My dear, this is excel
lent."
"And for dinuorP" said Penelope.
"Some plain boiled mutton, stale
baker's bread, and some oranges,"
said Laurence.
Fleda smothered a laugh as she
made her appearance in the diuing
room.
Laurence was very yellow. His nose
was red and thero were pimples at the
corners of his mouth. Penelope's skin
was a little roug > and her eyes not as
bright as usual.
"How do you do, LauronceP" Floda
said.
"Not well," said Laurence.
"Nor I," said Penelope.
"We are both bilious," said Laurence;
"hut we are in the doctor's hands and
shall get over it no doubt. Good-by,
doar; don't go into that hot kitchen to
day; Bridget can quite manage our
plain dinner. Remember—no sweets
nor fats—none of those greasy messes.
We must diet."
"WellP" said Fleda looking at her
cousin.
"I look your advice, dear," said
Penelope, "and Ma Chapono has been
cooking for us for a month, and so kind,
so sweet she has boen, and I have
learned all her receipts. The principle
is easy—soak everything in fat and eat
everything red hot.
"Yes," said Floda. "WellP"
"And now tie Won't let me eook any
thing," said Penelope, "He spoke of
'greasy mcssos' to-day, Floda, his
mother does not dream of it. I wouldn't
have her know for the world; but he
has had enough of the old-fashioned
cooking he used to bemoan."
"1 know ho would," said Fleda; "that
is why I proposed that you should ask
her to come.
•Fleda!" cried Penelope," "I thought
it was that I might learn to please
him."
"Not a bit of it," replied Fleda.
1 'Fleda, you are vcrv young to be so
depraved," sighed Penelope.
"Ingrate! you ought to thank me''
said Fleda. "You will never hear
about his mother's cooking again."
And Penelope never did!
Beating the Slot,
The bell-boys in the hotel Albe
marle in Pittsburg got hold of theslot
and-nicklc cigar machine, and by
turning it upside down they got all
the nickels out. Then they fed these
to the slot till they got all the cigars
out, after whio i t ey proceeded to gut
it of all the nickels, as before. In the
night they tilled the hotel with a per
fect orgy of cigar smoke. Tee owner of
the machine hns chaiued it to the
tloor and is seeking to discover the