FREELAI MBUNE. Published Every Thursday Afternoon —BY— TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - SI.OO PER YEAR. Address all Communications to FREELAND TRIBUNE, FBEELAND, I'A. Office, Ilirkbcck Brick, Ud floor. Centre Street. Entered at the FreelandPostoffice as Second Class Matter. FREELAND, NOVEMBER 7. IS.sif UP goes McGinty to the county seat Bgain ' __ ... j PENNSYLV AX i A voters to monopoly: i More power to you. ASPIRANTS for Democratic nominations will be scarce next year. DEMOCRATIC victory swept the country, but slighted Pennsylvania. REPUBLICANS voted, Democrats stayed at home; result: Republican victory. OiR rooster is laid np for repairs. He took an overdose of "soup" on Tuesday. THE Hungarian, Polish and Italian element is making itself felt in Luzerne's politics. DEMOCRACY made tremendous gains in every state but Pennsylvania. More's the pity. INSTEAD of going "to the bottom of the sea" McGinty comes out on top of the political wreck. THE Rep. majority in Massachusetts drops from 42,000 in 1888 to 5,200 in 1889. Tariff reform did it 1 THE nineteenth century will have he come a thing of the past long before the treachery of 1889 is forgotten. low A and Ohio have entered the ranks of Democratic states by electing Demo cratic governors and legislatures. THE doings of some of the candidates' great grand-fathers were discussed on Tuesday and were important factors in the result. AND SO the people of Luzerne want to live on Rice for ten years more. All right I They're supposed to know what they want. HARRISON carried lowa last yenr by 32,000; Boies, Dem., carried it for gover nor on Tuesday by 8,000. Isn't that a political revolution ? The fight was strictly on protection vs. tariff reform. EVERY state that held an election on Tuesday fulfilled the exjiectations of the Democrats, except the one in which reform is needed more than anywhere else. The day will yet come when Pennsylvania will be ashamed of her vote in 1889. ALTHOUGH a comparatively light vote was polled in the ten states which held elections, very substantial gains were made in nine of them by the Democrats. Pennsylvania appears to be wedded to corruptionists, but we will fall in line bye-and-bye. THE politics of this country in com ing years are to hinge on great eco nomic questions concerning land, la bor, finance and taxation, says the Boston Globe. The people are tired of mere idle personalities. The air is filled with thought and politics must be shaped accordingly. THE prices of lump, steamboat and broken coal were advanced 15 cents per ton by the operators on Monday. As yet we have failed to hear of any of the miners being notified of a pro portionate increase in their wages. Justice is enjoying a sound sleep at the expense of the working classes. THE most general test the Austra lian system of voting ever received in this country was given it in the state of Massachusetts on Tuesday Re ports from every poll in the state give it unlimited praise for its simplicity and secrecy, but it is feared that Pennsylvanians will not know the merits of this system for many a year. WHILE the Democrats met a verit able Waterloo in Luzerne and Penn sylvania, yet the election was not without its redeeming features in other sections of the country. New York, New Jersey and Virginia are held in line by increased majorities, and tho rib-rocked Republican states of Ohio and lowa have entered the list of extremely doubtful states. THE Philadelphia and Reading Company is making an earnest effort to bring into use the millions of tons of culm piled up around its mines. In the opinion of scientific men these mountains of coal dirt, hitherto con sidered useless and valueless, are at last to he brought into practical use and if their predictions are realized it will mean hundreds of dollars to the Reading Company. AMOS J. CUMMINGS, who was elected to succeed the late "Sunset" Cox, as representative of the Ninth New York Congressional 1 iistrict, received 15,518 votes against 24 for Thomas, Prohibi tion candidate. That is the district in which several of the candidates were wishing they had run. What n pity Cummings couldn't send some ol his surplus majority to his Democratic brethren in Luzerne. XVhy We Are Tariff Reformers. i The increase of wealth in the hands j of the few is one of the evils of the day. Goldsmith expressed the evil in power i fill words when he wrote: "111 fares the land to hastening' ills a prey. When wealth accumulates and men decay." There are millions of men alive to-day who can remember when a millionaire in the United Slates was a curiosity. There were scarcely a dozen of them in the United States thirty years ago. Forty years ago, perhaps there was not one. To-day they can be counted by the thousands. Thirty years ago the word "tramp" had never been heard of, to-day this name is legion. Thirty years ago the street beggars | were about as scarce as millionaires; to- I day they are more numerous. I Thirty years ago the wealth of the ! nation was largely distributed among the masses; to-day it is largely owned or controlled by comparatively few men. Class legislation. Monopolies. Syndicates. Rings. Trusts. Corporations. Land Stealers. Coal Barons. Unjust Laws. Usury. Money Mongers. All these things are written with an iron pen in the history of this increase of millionaires. —Minersville Free Press. .Sound Advice From Schuylkill. The Luzerne County political machine is trying to shove Eckley B. Coxe down the throat of Democratic voters as a candidate for congress and make them believe that they are crying for the dose. We helped to do this years ago and there is no political act that we have ever been more ashamed of since. If the Demo cratic workingmen of the Lehigh region accept the bitter pill again, then they will have deserved all the bitter pangs of the six months strike that Coxe, more than any other man, compelled them to suffer. They know that Coxe is a tyrant of labor, a hypocritical fraud in politics and if they once again put their seal of approval on him they will deserve to forfeit the respect and sympathy of their fellow workmen everywhere. Let them not be deceived by the sophistries of Democratic journals whom Coxe's barrel tempts.—Shenandoah Sentinel. A Mistaken Opinion. It is frequently stated, says an ex change, that no man can become the incumbent of a high office in this country, unless he is a member of the Masonic, or some other of the numarous orders with which society abounds. That a member of these orders has a better chance for an election than one who is not, we admit, but that his opportunities are better unless he has the necessary qualifications of heart and head we very much doubt. During the past week Harrison has been deluged with inquiries as to whether he is or is not a Mason. The same question has been put by mail several hundred times during the last few months, and to each a letter has been written, stating that he is not and never has been a member of any secret organization. Indeed, by some chance there is no Knight Templar | in the cabinet, and only two of the j members are even Masons of any degree. The Cure for Voluntary Poverty. Most people will agree with you in ascribing the cause of poverty to the im migration of foreign labor, but the new school of political economists will not. We think that people are forced into poverty if they are not permitted to work, and that the present system of taxation keeps willing workers from natural opportunities of labor. We will briefly state some facts obvious to all. Uniform farm or building lands, or fac tory sites, pay but a trifling tax, though their selling value may increase thous ands of pounds per annum. It is there fore, highly profitable to the owner to hold it for a rise. When he does use or improve it, or sell or let it to others who go to work upon it, the taxation is in creased in proportion to the increased value created by industry. The workers are thus seen to be taxed, while the idle are enriched. Those whose labor creates all wealth are ever poor, because they, or those who employ them, are fined in proportion to the results of their indus try, while, on the other hand, competi tion forces them to pay ground rent to the owners of the earth in proportion to their earnings. Single tax men claim that a transfer of taxation from industry and its results to land values, exclusive of improvements, would be both just and expedient—just, because land values are created by the public, and not by owners; expedient because it would com pel people who own land either to use ,or sell it. All would have an equal nat ural opportunity to earn a living, the ! sacred rights of man, as well as of prop erly, would be secured, the laws of nature followed, and voluntary poverty abolished.— London Edition of the New \ York Ilerald. "Stonewall" Jackson. "I am just in from Lexington wliere I bavo been attending the annual com mencement of the Virginia Military institute." The speaker, says a writer in the New York Tribune, was Gov. Fitzhugh Leo. "Yes, 'Stonewall' Jack son was once a professor in the insti tute and the latter is still redolent of his eccentricities. I knew him well and he was the last man you would have picked out of the crowd of mili tary men, not knowing who he was, as possessing wonderful energy, en durance, and executive ability. It was iu the heat of action that those characteristics flamed out. At othor times ho was dull, uncommunicative, and apathetic. In the parlance of tho day he was a 'crank' in many things, but a terribly earnost one. When a professor at'the institute he was the J butt of the students' jokes. Yes, ho was very religious. He was Known in the army as the 'Blue Light Elder.' Gen. J. R. Jones was his classmate at West Point and was noted for his pro fanity. One day, in the battle of Chancellorsville, some mules attached to otir ammunition-wagon got 'stalled' and tinallv got balky under the lash. Jackson was looking on when Jones rode up. The latter took in the situa tion at a glance. "•See here, Jackson!' he shouted, 'let me cuss 'em.' Jackson smiled, but demurred by shaking his head. While Lee's army was crossing the Potomac into Maryland some of the mule teams refused to leave the water. Col. Harmon, Jackson's quartermas ter, rode into the water and poured volley after volley of curses and lashes on the mules and got them moving again. Jackson sat on his old sorrel taking it all in. Harmon, on perceiv ing him, quickly rode up with the apology: "'I beg your pardon, general, but cusses and blows are the only lan guage that a mule understands. "Jackson lies buried in the little graveyard at Lexington beside his iirst wife, who was a sister of Mar garet Preston, poetess and essayist. A simple headstone marks the grave of one of the most remarkable charac ters the war produced in the south." The Conifortnl>le Hansom Cab. "Women all like hansom cabs," writes a correspondent of the Press. "I saw one pretty thing driving through Fairmount Park with her beau the other day, and they both thought tho hansom so nice. She stared right over the apron and so did he. If you hadu't been in a hansom once or twice yourself you wouldn't have known that they had hold of hands at all. She wore a white bar muslin dress, cut Mother Hubbard fashion. Around her waist (besides his arm) was a cream-colored ribbon. Her hands were encased in his and a pair of yellow silk mitts. About her I neck was a string of pearls. Ah mo, youth and poverty! And two wheel ers and love!" Happy for the Fall. "I bless Eve for eating that apple," j said a young lady the other day as she stood before the mirror. "Why?" j asked a companion. "Because there i 9 such a delight in trying on a new dress when it tits well." Correspondence From the Capital. WASHINGTON, Novembers, 1880. It is the experience of the Government that it pays more lor a given amount of work than a business linn or corporation would pay for similar services. This is so palpably true that whenever it is possible work is given out by contract, and then the Government has only to look out that the work is performed according to specifications. This does not always result in the absolute protection of the Government, but it is a more economical method than hav ing the work done by salaried employes of its There is one department, however, where the reverse is the case. This is in the Department of Justice. No private firm would attempt to conduct its legal business as economically as does the Government of the United States. Large corporations pay the highest kind of salaries to their legal advisors, and get the best talent that is at the command of money. There is a consequent drift of high-class lawyers in that direction, and the Government, with all its great interests, does not attempt to enter the field iu competition. Doubtless it secures many men for much less than their services are really worth, because a lawyer who has been active in politics and has political ambi tion prefers to take a position where he can look out for the future better than if ho were merely pursuing his regular practice. This is rather an uncertain dependance, but it is really surprising how much good legal talent is se cured by the United Slates at salaries far bo low the income the appointees received when engaged in practice in general. BUILDING MORE HOTELS. One of the features of real estate operations here just now is the securing of options by a number of enterprising individuals on sites which arc suitable for the location of hotels. In ease the exposition of 1892 is held in this city the present hotel facilities will be largely in creased and desirable locations for hotels will be eagerly sought after. There seomß to be a growing conviction that this city will bo select ed and the'energetic citizen is preparing to be in the front ranks when the proper time comes. The present facilities in this city for the accom odation of strangers arc perhaps superior to those of any other city. The hotels are supple mented by boarding houses, which give to this city an astonishing capacity for entertaining visitors. The reputation of the city in this res pect was fully sustained when the Knights Templur were here attending the trienniul con clave. Independent of the fact that the expo sition will probably be held here the movement that has been going on during the past year or so that has resulted in the erection of a number of new hotel buildings and the enlargement of several already built will, it is likely, continue. The growth of the population and the constant increase in the number of visitors to the city has been the cuusu of the past activity in this direction, and the movement hus been merely to meet a legitimate demand. INTERESTING TO ARMY OFFICERS. Army officers are much interested in a longe- i vity ration case now pending before the Second Comptroller involving the question of pay for longevity rations for almost every omcer in the Army. The total amount of all the claims in volved is about $1,000,000. When the llrst claim ! was presented to the Second Auditor it was dis- | allowed. The Court of Claims, however, decid- ' ed that officers were entitled under the law to i allowance for longevity rations and the Su- | preme Court affirmed the decision. The Second i Comptroller still hesitates to allow the claims, as he is doubtful whether the decision of the Supreme Court operates to reopen accounts which have already been settled. The Second I Comptroller has devoted much time and thought to the case, and has finally written to the Attorney General asking his opinion on the I subject. If this should be decided in fuvor of the officers there will at once commence a raid upon the surplus in the Treasury, which will equal, if not exceed. Corporal Tanner's cele brated attempt to reduce the pile by roruting all the pensioners. WEDDING DELLS. The long-talked of marriage of ex-Secretary of State Bayard to Miss Mary Willing Clymer j has at length been definitely settled and the | nuptials will be solemnized at the home of the j bride next Thursduy. The Misses Bayard will I accompany their father to fhe city and lg pre sent at the event. The invitations to the wed ding arc necessarily limited and only the im mediate relatives snd friends have received personal notes of invitation to attend on the occasion. The marriage is of two-fold interett to Washingtonians, whose interests were at one time so closely associated with the social life of the ex-Secretary and his charming daughters, as well u* the iife-long residence of the bride, whose departure takes yet another familiar face from the ranks of that inner circle so last i becoming obliterated in the birth of the new | city springing out of the old. HARRISON AND TANNER. "Nobody in the world thought more of Tan ner than Harrison," suid Marshall Hansdall the other day, and when Corporal Tanner's utten i tion WJIS called to this statement he paused, stroked his chin, and slowly remarked: "Well, perhaps he was wiie to dissemble his love. But why did he kick me down stairs?" The query of. the lover in the old ballad seems to | suit the situutiou. U. BARTERINC IN OLD TIMES. A Custom of Our OraiHlfatlinra that Has , Fallen Into Disuse. "There is not so much bartering in ' prices nowadays as there was when I tirst went into business for myself," said a merchant to a Utica Observer man the other day. "The time was when a merchant expected that every piece of goods that he offered for sale would be cut down iu price by the per sistency of his customers. It was ex pected and looked for, and we often named a higher price for the goods than we really asked for them so we might drop to suit the whim of the bartering buyer. I do not know where the custom came from. I only know that it existed aud was very an noying. People would barter for hours over a small-article aud often go out aud in a short time return and say they could buy it at Brown's or Smith's for so much less, and try aud beat you down to the figure they named. Some men and women were noted for their bartering propensities. "I remember one of those old fel lows who used to barter for hours at a time over common and small purchases. I had a clerk who came here from Binghamton, and his first adventure with the old man was amusing. The clerk sold him about $1 worth in the forenoon. The next time our hard fisted customer came the Binghamton boy dropped a pleasant customer so he might get a chance to wait on him. Hickory shirting was asked for, and the clerk charged him 35 cents a yard. The customer held forth about ten minutes, when the clerk excused him self, and, stepping back to the office, opened an envelope lying on the desk. Rushing back to his customer, who was rubbing the goods between his thumb and finger, the clerk said: 'Ex cuse me, but we have just received a telegram from our eastern correspond ent, and these goods have raised 10 cents a yard in the market; it will cost you 45 cents now!' The old man , looked dumbfounded for a moment i aud offered 35 cents. The clerk i walked back to the desk, looked at the envelope again, picked up a paper aud pretendend to glance at the markets, conversed in a low tone with one of I the book-keepers, and went back to his customer with the statement that 1 the goods were rising very rapidly in ' > the market, and us we had only a few I pieces we could not think of selling it; less than 50 cents a yard, and the next j customer that came would have to pay 55 cents or 60 cents. The astonished ! farmer offered 45cents, which the clerk accepted after extorting a pledge that the buyer should not tell how cheap he g*>t Chat About the Spare Room. "It ain't everybody I'd put in this room," said old Mrs. Jenks to the fas tidious and extremely nervous youug minister, who was spending the*night iu B at her house. "This hero room is full of sacred associations to me," she went on. "My first husband died in that bed with his head on these ; pi Hers, and poor Mr. Jenks died set j tiusr right in that corner. Sometimes ; when I come into the room in the dark I think I see him sittin' there still. My own father died lay in' right on that lounge under the winder. Boor pa! He was a spiritualist, and he alius s'aid he' appear in this room after he died and sometimes I'm foolish enough to look for him. If you should see anything of him to-night you'd better not tell , | me, it'd be a sign to me that there ! was something in spiritualism, and I'd hate to think that. My son by my first husband fell doad of heart disease right where you stand. He was a doctor, and there's two whole skele ! tons in that closet that belonged to 1 him; and half a dozen skulls in that : lower drawer. Well, good night and pleasant dreams." Portland Trail-• I script. The Origin of a Famous Poem. j Mr. James E. Murdoch, the veteran actor, recently related this story to a | party of Philadelphia friends: i "Some timo ago I was at a meeting of a club or society of which Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes is au influential member. Upon the evening of my at tendance a discussion arose amongst i several of the party, including Dr. • Holmes, in regard to the themes upon which a poet usually writes, the general 1 opinion being that the poetic field is ! limited. 'I do not think that is so,' said Dr. Holmes. 'I believe for want of a better subject I could write a poem upon a basket of chips.' The other men doubted this assertion, and one said, speaking for the party: 'Well, I tell you what we will do. There is that old chaise that has been down at the wheelwright's shop for many a year. If you can write a poem on that we will become converted to your idea.' Dr. Holmes accepted the chal lenge aud at the next meeting of the club he read to theastonished members the 'Deacon's Masterpiece;' or 'The Wonderful Ono lioss Shay.'" Human Intellect. We ought to be perfectly happy that we live in this glorious age of scien tific thought. We believe there never was an age in which the astronomer of Harvard observatory could propound the following problem and receive so many perfectly reasonable answers to it: "Suppose, said he, "that three snakes, each two feet in length, should catch each other by the tip of the tail, thus making a circle six feet in cir cumference. Suppose that each snake should begin to swallow the one in front of him. In what way would the resultant figure, after each snake had swallowed the oue in front of him, differ from the original circle?" The answers have been many and various,some of them, wo are informed, "onteriug the consideration of the fourth dimension of space, because any one of the snakes would have followed the two in front of him and yet have been swallowed by the two back of liiiu, and, therefore, would be both in side and outside of his two fellows. The man who lives in an age when men can tacklo and grasp and make clear to others an idea of this sort has no business to be going about talking of the good old times or looking hope fully forward to anything more millen niumish. — Washington Post. An Electric Plant. There has been discovered in the forest of India a strange plant which possesses in a very higli degree aston "•hing magnetic power. The hand wnieh breaks a leaf from it receives a shock equal to that which is produced hr tho conductor of an induction coil. 1 At a distance of six meters a magnotio j needle is affected by it and it will be J quite deranged if brought noar. The ! energy of this singular influence varies with the hour of tee day. All power j ful about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. wis aosoiuieiy annulled during tne night. At times of storm its intensity aug ments to striking proportions. During rain the plant seems to succumb and bends its head during a thunder shower; even if one should shelter it with an umbrella. No shock is felt at that time iu breaking the leaves and the needle is unaffected beside it One never by any chance sees a bird or insect alight on the electric plant; an instinct seems to warn them that they would there find sudden death. It is also important to remark that where it grows none of the magnetic metals are found; nethor iron, nor co balt, nor nickel, an undeniable proof that the electric force belongs exclu sively to the plant. Light and heat, phosphorescence, magnetism, electric ity, how many mysteries and botani cal problems does this wondrous In dian plant conceal within its leaf and flowerP WORMS IN DOCS* TAILS. The RidlculouH Notion That Caneee the Mutilation of Many Animals. If we recollect rightly, says Forest and Stream, it is Hugh Dalziel who tells of a time in Great Britain when dogs without tails were exempt from taxation, and so to chop off a dog's tail was to lop off with it one's tribute to the crown. That time, if it ever existed, it is now as hazy as the reign of good King Womba and, in the de generate present the most that can be said in defense of docking the tails of dogs and cropping their ears is that fashion calls for such mutilations. And the whims of fashion are quite as apt to be dictated by perverted tastes as by good sense. Witness the dock-tailed horses of our avenues and the villain ous high check-rain, both of them a reproach to humanity. The practice of docking horses' tails, it is true, is not without defense on the ground of utility. Veterinary surgeons there are who aver that to cut the tail off short is beneficial to the physical con dition of the horse. Nor are there wanting advocates of docking dogs' tails for hygienic reasons. The notion is entertained by the ignor ant people and stoutly enough defend ed that a puppy's tail must be cut off because in the end of it is a worm and this worm is the cause of distemper. Cut off the tail and thus remove the worm, say these sapient graunies, and the dogs will never be ailing. This "vulgar error" of the worm in the end of a dog's tail is widely prevalent and thousands of puppies have sacri ficed their brushes in consequence thereof. A similar superstition holds with respect to a mythical worm in a cow's tail, which must be cut off to in . sure the cow's good health. It is not | difficult to understand that the white ' cords of the tail, in dog or cow, might have been mistaken by the ignorant person for worms and that in this way (he curious belief about their removal may have arisen. But the strange thing is that intelligent dog-owners will accept this ridiculous theory of the worm in the tail when propounded by ignorant individuals whose opinion would be received on no other subject under heaven and will countenanoe the mutilations which are based on the silly superstition. The Newest Game. The newest game takes the form of an information party, and is begun by passing to each gentleman a card, and to the ladies small pioces of paper, I which are numberod. Those who dis ; cover the same number on their card and paper are partners for the game. | Each couple must think of a ques tion, sensible or ridiculous, historical or in regard to the weather, to be written on tho cards, after which the cards are to be gathered together, and the leader reads each in turn, giving a few moments for the partners to con sider the subject and write an answer, which should be read aloud in turn. This is where the fun of the game be gins, as many of the answers are ex ceedingly queer. Those having a cor rect answer mark their cara 10, a wrong answer mark their card 0, and if the answer is anywhere near right it is counted 6. When all are added prizes may be distributed as in pro gressive games for the best and poorest J record. The instructive part of the game is the discussion which follows the questions. The height of Bunker Hill monument is what everybody living near it ought to know, and yet at an I information party held a few even ings ago only one person in a company of twenty was sure of the exact num ber of feet— Boston Traveler. Things Worth Knowing. If the whole egg is too much of a burdon for the invalid's stomach try the yolk only. If poisoned by ivy, bathe the affected parts freely three times a day with sweet spirits of niter. Damp salt will remove the discolors tions of cups and saucers caused by tea and caroless washing. To clean willow furniture use salt and water. Apply it with a nail-brush, scrub well and dry thoroughly. A room with a low coiling will seem higher if the window-curtains hang to the floor. Lambrequins may be used to extend the curtains to the ceiling and thus carry out the effect. A London medical man says: "Be careful in your dealings with horse radish. It irrates the stomach fat more than spice, and an overdose will bring on an unpleasant sensation foi days." For excessive perspiration of the feel one part of alum with two parts oi glyccrino should be rubbed on the feel at night and a light open sock worn. In tho morning the feet should be washed with tepid water. The Most Popular Princess. "Everybody speaks of the Mar chioness of Lome," says the Loudon correspondent of tho Liverpool Mer cury, "as the most popular of prin cesses, and one got to understand why from a single incident She caught sight of Mr. Sain and cried out with delight. -Is not that Mr. SalaP 1 know hint.' Thinking it would please the dozen of our profession to hear of the . princess' recognition I told him what had happened. In return he told me a story which I hope he will forgive !me for repeating, lu Home lately he was quietly descending a palace stair ! case—groping his way, his eyesight not being what it was—when a voice cried out, 'ls not that Mr. SalaP' 'Yes, mndame,' ho replied. 'Ab, you do not know me?' Touched by the assump ; tin that his iutorviewer was Home j body worth knowing Mr. Sala replied, 'No, madame; are you a duchess?' | 'No, but—l'm Princess Louise."' The queen of Siam wears one and ; one-half-inch boots. WANTED! FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE! Five thousand people are wanted to come and see our stock and prices of ladies' and children's coats. We have all the latest styles and our prices will surprise you. We have just opened three cases of blankets, which are going from 75c up to $7.00 per pair. Dry goods: We have our cloths in now; come and get samples and compare the prices with Hazleton. A full line of hats and caps. Muffs for ladies and children. Carpets and oil cloths : We have Hemp for 18c, Ray for 30c and Brussels for 55c and up. Furniture and beddings: Have a good bedstead, only $2.50; a royal plush lounge, $6.00; mattresses, $2.75 up, and a good spring for $1.25. Notions, etc., of every description. We can make you comfortable in underwear: Children's, 15c up; men's, 50c up; all-wool scarlet, 75c; get a pair before they all go. Gloves, mitts and thousands of other articles. Wall paper and stationery, also window shades; we have everything in that line. We suppose everybody has seen our latest prices in groceries so all we will say is to invite you to come and give us a trial. Save money by trading with the cheapest man in town. Yours truly, J. C. BERNER. 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Next Door to the Valley Hotel. THAT RUDE YOUNG MAN. The Folly of Jumping at Conclusions on s Kali way Train. That rude joung man across the ai9le—what should she do? There he had sat, smiling, nodding, and even winking at her ever since the train started. He knew she was a married woman, of course, for hadn't dear John bustled into the car with her when she came aboard, seen her com fortably seated, handed the baby over to her, and kissed them both good-by right before the face and eyes of that staring idiot opposite? The sacred ness and dignity of her position ought to protect her better than this—and the impatient little twitch that rounded these reflections was most eloquent with meaning. Of course she was fresh and fair yet although she would bo '2B ou bor next birthday. That wasn't old by any means. John bad told her that very morning that she looked as young as a girl of 18, but oven if she were good 'ooking that fact didn't help the caso of the impertinent fellow one bit. She gave an involuntary glance into the mirror at her side, adjusted her new bonnet to a more coquettish angle, moistened her lips, and tried hard to look unconcerned, forgetting all about baby Maudo in the meautimo until re called by spasmodic crows of delight which awakened the vexed question once more. Koally, what must her fellow-pas sengers think of her? From girlhood she had always prided herself upon her modest demeanor and certainly now she would do nothing to encourage a disgraceful flirtation; but how could she prove her innocence? Sho held her darling up before her, hoping that the baby face would possess a power for reproof, where frowns and offended dignity had failed, but evidently the ruse was appreciated, for now the dis gusting behavior grew more annoying than before. Though not looking at him she could see that the creature was going through strange motions. She glanced up, at which he bobbed his head vigorously and was actually go ing to speak. Only an abrupt turning away saved her from this last insult- She pressed her face against the win dow and looked steadfastly out at nothing, while tears of anger and rnor tifleation sprung to her eyes. She could not and would not stand it any longer. The very next time the con ductor came through she would com plain and thus put a stop to the nuis ance. "Pardon, madame." She turned to see her tormentor standing by her seat. How dared he? But he was a mere boy, after all. "You look so tired." His words and maDoer r J. J. POWERS has opened a MERCHANT TAILOR'S and GENTS' FURNISHING ESTABLISHMENT at 110 Centre Street, Freelund, and is not in partnership with any other establishment but his own, and attends to his business personally. Ladies 1 outside garments cut and fitted to measure in the latest style. B. F. DAVIS, Dealer in Flour, Feed, Grain, HAY, STRAW, MALT, &c., Best Quulity of Glover & Timothy SEED. Zemany's Block, 15 East Main Street, Freelund. PATENTS Cavmts and Re-isxnes secured, Trade-Marhs registered, and all other patent causes in the Patent OlHee and before tno 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 my offices directly across from the Patent Office, and being in m-i-sonal 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 Iriven to patent loudness, information, advice and special references sent on request. J. R. LITTELL, Solicitor atul Attorney in Patent Causes, Washington, D. C., (Mention this paper ) Opposite U.S.Patent Office. perfectly respectful and as kind as a woman's. "Let me take your baby, won't youP She'll be good with me, I'm sure, for she's been playing peek a-boo with me ever since you came on; and you, mailame, remind me so much of my mother that I can't help offer ing to assist you. Please let me take her, do." And while a quick blush was the only answer baby Maude sprang rapturously into the arms of "that rude youug man." Colored School-Children. Recently published statistics show that there are iu the United States 19,633 schools for colored children, and that 1,131,964 of these children attend such schools. Marriage is the hitching-post on the roud of life. The prize for shorthand writing at the Vienna competition was taken by a woman. Housemaid (new to the instrument): "Somebody riugin' at the hellophone, mar in."— Harper's Bazar. Lord Ronald Gower recently bought a Boucher screen for $7.50 and resold it for $2,000. * Why Not? About ten miles beyond St. Thomas the locomotive whistled an alarm, slackening a bit, and then put ou full steam and we felt a bump clear back in the last coach, says the Detroit Free Bress. As soon as the train could be checked and backed up to the highway crossing we all piled out to ascertain the trouble. A woman about 40 years old, hat off and hair flying, was pick ing sumo parcels out of the grass, and a man of about the same age sat on the ground staring about him in won der. In his left hand he held a pipe aud in his right a paper of tobacco. Ho had been crossing the road with bis team. Oue horse lay dead iu the ditch, and the other was limping off down the road, while the wagon was smashed to kindlings. The woman gathered up tivo or six parcels aud started off after the limping horse, never speaking a word, and by and by the husband slowly tilled his pipe, hunted around for a match and lighted it, and as he got to his feet to follow the wife the conductor queried: "Didu't you see the train comingP" "Of course," was the quiet reply. "Then, why didn't you hold upP" "Didn't you see me comingP Of course you did. Then, why in thunder didn't you hold up?" And he jogged off down the road without another word.
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