FREELAND TRIBUNE.
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FREELAND, NOVEMBER 21, 188!).
WH AT has become of F.ckley B. Coxe's
boom for Congress?— Netrsdcaler.
It has been stowed away with Os
borne's booinlet for governor. Two
of a kind, don't you know.
ANNIE JOSEPH, an Arabian woman,
was kept in the Wilkes-Barre jail one
hundred and live days as a witness in
a murder trial. She asked for pay
for her time at $1 a day. Judge
Woodward decides that she is not en
titled to it, and she is told to go. A
strange law, indeed, that will lock a
person up several months for being
a witness and then refuse payment
for the time spent in jail. Such a
law should he repealed, and a prisoner
given a more speedy trial, so that wit
nesses should not be compelled to
wait forever on the whim of an at
torney or magistrate.
SUFFICIENT information lias been ]
received from Atlanta to warrant the [
assertion that the Knights of Labor
is now completely under control of {
the conservative element, and the i
work so far done indicates a return to j
the advocacy of its first principles, I
which were almost lost sight off for
some years past. The present mem
bers of the Order may be said to be
thoroughly assimilated with the de
signs and objects of the organization,
and by strictly confining themselves
to the lines of work laid down by the
Atlanta convention, they can accom
plish much good in the future.
THE testimony of residents of the
anthracite coal regions shows that a
great many Hungarian jolifieations
wind up in a free light, a stabbing af
fray or a murder. Efforts of the au
thorities to put an end to affairs of
this kind are greatly retarded by such
verdicts as the one given at Wilkes-
Barre on Saturday in a murder case.
The evidence against the prisoner,
Sulgofsky by name, was of such a
character as to warrant any verdict
except that of acquittal, which was
the one rendered. A few more ver
dicts of this kind and the desperate
characters in her population will begin
to think they own Luzerne County.—
Phila. Press.
TIIE last remaining empire in South
America, Brazil, passed out of exist
ence on Friday and will soon become
a full Hedged republic. This impor
tant change was in the air for several
years past, but the step was not ex
pected so soon, and it is possible that
the promoters may have acted some
what hasty, considering that all the
people are not in sympathy with them.
So far, it is stated, there has been no
bloodshed occasioned by the revolu
tion, the ruler quietly submitting.
Much sympathy has been expressed
for Emperor Dom Pedro, under whose
continuous reign of fifty-eight years
Brazil has raised itself to the dignity
of a nation. He was a good monarch
and deserved better than expulsion.
A MOVEMENT is under way, backed
by several charitably inclined persons,
looking to the relief of the political
prisoners of Russia, through the in
terventation of the United States
Government. It is a delicate busi
ness, but there is no other nation in
the world that could so well under
take remonstrance with the czar as
the United States, as the most amic
able and friendly relations have always
existed between the two countries.
But before obtruding their opinions
on the czar it would be more consis
tent for those reformers to turn their
attention to the "Russia in America"
—the anthracite coal regions of Penn
sylvania—where thousands of serfs
are daily made to feel the miseries of
Siberian convicts.
THE death of Hon. Lewis C. Cas
sidy, who was Attorney General of
Pennsylvania under Governor l'atti
son, removes another distinguished
lawyer and politician from the ranks
of Democracy. While filling the po
istion of legal adviser of the state he
commanded the admiration of all hon
est men by his brilliant attack upon
the Reading Company for their fla
grant violation of the constitution in
engaging in mining and carrying coal
at the same time. Ho determined to
test our state constitution and see if
the law could be trampled upon with
impunity by any man or corporation.
Success was just about to dawn upon
him and the great corporation was
about to be made respect and obey
the law when his term expired. His
Republican successor has neither the
moral courage or ability to follow the
work began by Mr. Cassidy and the
violation continues to the present day.
While also an active political worker
he was not of the class known as "pro
fessional politicians," but was as ready
to denounce jjersons of his own party
as those of his opponents, if | lts
thought it would be for the public
benefit.
—lfon. Lewis C. Cassidy, the promi
nent lawyer and Democratic politician of
Philadelphia and ex-Attorney General
of Pennsylvania, died at his residence
Monday morning of heart trouble. He
was 00 years of age.
Corbin In HIH True Colors.
An article written by Austin Corbin,
i president of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad Company, in which labor
j organizations were vehemently denounc
! Ed, brings forth the following from the
| Locomotive Firemen' Magazine. It will
repay you to read it.
Impudence, hypocrisy, chicane, knav
i cry and such other mental and moral
defects as go to make up the modern
scoundrel have no limits, and if such
moral monstrosities have cash, as in the
case of Corbin, they are able to push
themselves to the front, and, with exhi
bitions of effrontery that defy exaggera
tion or characterization, play the role of
! injured innocence, and demand for
themselves a verdict of indorsement in
tlie face of facts which pronounce them
| irredeemably vile, depraved and capable
!of perpetrating deliberate crimes, richly '
meriting the title of villain, and which
ought to subject them to penal servitude. '
The times, prolific of such abnormal :
productions, have not brought to the 1
surface a creature of mental and moral
deformities more repulsive than Austin \
Corbin, who, in the October number of
the North American lie view , writes of [
"The Tyranny of Labor Organizations." !
Austin Corbin has money, a boast that '
any successful burglar, counterfeiter or I
pirate can make with equal nonchalance. (
Money, more than charity, is made to l .
obscure a multitude of faults, but in J
Austin Corbin's case, while money para- j
lyzes justice, thereby permitting him to j
practice his schemes of knavery, it has
not saved him from the detestation of 1
all honorable men. lie is known to be 1
a depraved wretch capable of concocting '
schemes of robbery, and this he has !
r done with such a reckless disregard of 1
j law, with such shameless perversity, 1
with such a piratical defiance of right, 1
! justice and public opinion, that the Con
, gross of the United States was called
upon to investigate his deep-laid schemes
of wreck and robbery, and a committee 1
of (.'ongressmen visited the "black hills,"
where his rule has produced poverty, 1
j degradation and famine, and, asuirected,
have prepared a bill, which, if it be
! comes a law, will, in some measure at
I least, check the evils his rule has inflict- 1
j ed.
; That such an abnormal combination of
all that is loathsome in greed, of all that
I is depraved in morals, of all that is dis
reputable in business, of all that is false
in profession, not content with a reputa
tion for infamy which makes his name
the synonym of all things despicable,
should seek further conspicuousness by
; slandering labor organizations, can be
accounted for only upon the hypothesis
that his inherent venom, like that of the
rattlesnake at certain seasons, lias so
diffused itself through his mental, moral
and physical organism as to render him
blind to all things decent. There is not
! a labor organization on the continent
that does not loathe the name of Austin
Corbin, and his article published in the
j lie new will serve to intensify their detes
tation.
Austin Corbin, more properly Austin
j Cobra, starts out by saying "it is a inis-
I take to assume that employers are always
l wealthy capitalists." No labor organiza
tion in the country ever made such a
mistake. On the contrary they know,
as well as does Cobra Corbin, "that in a
vast majority of cases employers are not
men of great wealth." Many stock
| holders in great enterprises are people
;of moderate means. Such was notably
j true in the case of the Philadelphia &
I Reading Railroad, in which widows and
j orphans and men of small means made
j investments and received large divi
| (lends, but when such men as Cobra
Corbin got hold and dominated the
j affairs of the splendid property it was
j wrecked and became the most corrupt
: corporation on the continent, hut never
until Cobra Corbin inserted his fangs '
j into the corporation did it reach such a
low degree of demoralization as to de
j mand of the Congress of the United
; States an investigation and legislation to
' check, if possible, a career of unprece
dented scoundrel ism. The rascalities of
] Corbin are now as well understood as
the treason of Benedict Arnold, or the
! colossal boodle career of Boss Tweed.
! This superlative record of knavery is
| now known to the nation by virtue of
i the report made by the Congressional
, | Committee. It is not given to every
; scamp to have a national reputation, nor
j is eyery exposed knave proud of noto
| rioty. Corbin is an exception. He
seems to glory in his infamy, and has
: the vanity to suppose that by denouncing
. ! labor organizations his name will go
j down to history after the fashion of the
fool bull that tried to arrest the speed of
! a locomotive.
I In his article on "The Tyranny of
Labor Organizations," Corbin asserts
"there never has been a time," and
1 assumes "there never will be" a time
, | the worker will not be permitted to leave
| "his employer's service;" and upon the
J heels of this old chestnut remarks:
1 "The worker in this country at least,
' under the law, happily, is not a slave."
By all the Pagan gods at once, what a
discovery! Not a slave "under the law."
i Ho! all ye workingmen, are you not
, under lasting obligations to Cobra Corbin
for the declaration? And yet this em
bodiment of hate toward labor organiza
i tions without law has compelled men on
the Philadelphia Ac Reacting Railroad,
and in the mines controlled by that cor
poration, to play the part of slaves, to
renounce their rights as men and citi
zens, and yield to his dictation, the pen
alty of refusal being idleness. "Some
employers," says Corbin, and he is of
the number, "employ no new men who
are members of any of the labor unions;
applicants are required to promise not to
join any while retaining their employ
ment ; those who prefer the unions are
required to quit the service, and promo
tions are entirely confined to those of
undoubted loyalty to their employer and hix
jtoUcy."
It is eminently worth while for the
workingmen, anu all others who are
interested in labor problems, to compare
the "tyranny of labor organizations"
with the tyranny of Corbin's rule in the
anthracite regions of Pennsylvania, as
set forth in the paragragh we have
quoted. But the preliminary to such ,
comparisons as the terms "tyranny"
and "tyrant" should be defined. In !
this country the laws recognize neither
one nor the other; nevertheless in defi-1
ance of laws men exercise tyrannical !
authority over the affairs of men as |
autocratic and despotic as characterizes \
the reign of a Russian czar, and this has j
been done by Austin Corbin to an extent
that the Congressional Committee which
investigated his methods did not hesitate
to say he had "Russianized" the anthra- '
cite coal regions of Pennsylvania. To
accomplish his tyrannical purpose he I
found it necessary to attack labor organ- I
izations, not because such organizations i
were tyrannical in their methods of j
operation, but because they stood in the
way of his despotic sway.
What are the methods he adopted to
carry out his nefarious designs? It is in j
proof that by cruelty and oppression lie !
drove his employes to resistance. He
deliberately inaugurated a strike, which
had these villainous purposes in view. '
characterized by hypocrisy, tyranny and j
robbery. j[ e intended to advance the!
- price (,f c o al and thereby rob the public.
He intended to reduce wages, and there
> iL u h \ B employes, lie intended to
urcak U P labor organizations, and thcre
y r , uce the men who would accept
j employment under him, and the vile
creatures who played the part of caitiffs
in response to his orders, to the degrad
ed position of serfs. His scheme suc
ceeded. He did rob the public, he did
reduce wages, and he did abolish labor
organizations. Nor is this all. Corbin's
villainies did reach the attention of Con
gress, and a committee of that body
passed judgment upon him, the first in
stance on record, and now the scoundrel
is known to the nation, not only as a
tyrant, but a pirate as well, a brass
cheeked, bronzed-faced monstrosity,
who, metaphorically at least, is gibbeted
before the world, and has become the
target for the righteous maledictions of
all men who abhor hypocrisy and de
| pravity.
Such is the imperfect characterization
of the man who stains the pages of the
North American Heview with the venom
of intense hatred, but the excessive ma
lignity of the attack, like the over-dose
of some poisons, defeats the purpose in
view, and while labor organizations are
not harmed, Corbin, by a law of retribu
tive justice, is made more conspicuously
infamous.
In what regard, we inquire, are labor
organizations tyrannical? Throughout
their entire history they have sought to
achieve for workingmen better condi
tions. Not by antagonizing capital, but
by defeating the impoverishing and de
grading schemes of such heartless scoun
drels as Austin Corbin. To defend labor
organizations when attacked by such
knaves as Austin Corbin it is not required
to say that they have made no mistakes;
that every movement and method has
been perfection, the embodiment of wis
dom, and therefore deserving of approv
al . Labor organizations are human, and
therefore fallible. This may be said
with equal propriety of all human organ
izations, including the church; but it
may be said, and should be said, for it is
an eternal truth, as imperishable as the
pillars of God's throne, that from first to
last, everywhere, in all zones that belt
the earth, where there has been a labor
organization, their purpose has been to
resist tyranny, oppression, despotism
and degradation; to obtain fair wages for
work; to elevate their membership in
the scale of being; to obtain food, cloth
ing and shelter befitting human beings,
and something more for rainy days, for
sickness and old age; to advance in edu
cational power, consideration and influ
ence; in moral excellence, in culture and
refinement; to awaken noble aspirations,
that in all things pertaining to citizen
ship there should be such development
of mind forces, such comprehension of
duties and prerogatives as would re
dound to the welfare of the state and be
accepted as guarantees of the perpetuity
of free institutions. Such are the unde
niable facts of history relating to labor
organizations. They have been written
in tears and blood, with "an iron pen
and lead in the rock forever." The
chronicles are filled with records of vic
tories and defeats, but every repulse has
inspired defiance, and every triumph
has emphasized the conquering truth
that
"Freedom's battle, oft begun
Iteuueath'd from bleeding sire to son,
Tho' bullied oft is ever won."
And in confirmation of the truth, there
is not a breeze nor a gale that freshens
and blows in all our broad land, from
ocean to ocean, from gulf to inland sea
that does not touch and unfold the
banner of a labor organization bearing
the motto: "The final triumph of labor
draweth nigh." And yet it is these labor
organizations that Austin Corbin, the
bloated, cash cursed representative of
ideas as hostile to American institutions
and to the genius of our government as
over sent a head to the block or a neck
to the halter, seeks to overthrow. What
are the methods employed by virtue of
which he has gained a temporary victory ?
Ist. To give employment to no man
who is a member of a labor organization.
2d. To require a pledge of every man
employed that he will not join a labor
organization.
3d. Men employed who favor labor or
ganizations are required to abandon their
work.
4th. Promotions arc entirely confined
to men of undoubted loyalty to Corbin
and his policy.
Corbin has at least 35,000 men in his
employ who have yielded to his enslav
ing program. They have renounced
their rights as men and as citizens; they
and their wives and children are Corbin's
slaves; they are reduced to commodities;
they are Corbin's chattels; and this condi
tion of degrading servitude, of monstrous
i tyranny, conies at a time when the eman
cipated African slaves and their descend
| ants arc manfully asserting and main
taining rights which Corbin's employes,
for considerations of bread and meat,
throw to the winds. It is such facts
■ that compelled the Congressional Com
j hiittee to declare that Corbin was "lius-
I sianizing" the anthracite regions of
Pennsylvania.
It must not be assumed that Corbin is
the only tyrant who rushes into print
with his pleas to "excuse his devilish
deeds." He is not the only gold-plated
giant who uses his tyrannous strength to
t crush labor organizations. He may be
more soulless than others of his type,
t may have more rattles on his tail and
, more fangs in his mouth; he may be the
. representative reptile; he may take more
delight than others in seeing men resign
, their hopes, renounce their rights and
forget their wrongs when yielding to
orders from his iron lips; but there are
, others, animated by his example of in
fernal despotism, who, reveling in the j
weakness and wickedness of luxurious \
power, have determined to break the
bonds of brotherhood which bind man ,
to man, and, this accomplished, make ;
the very sun in the heavens blush for
the degeneracy of American citizens, |
who resign their birth-right at a time
when the school and the church, press, i
poet and orator, the philanthropist and 1
the statesman would have the world be
lieve that ours is the "land of the free
j and the home of the brave."
I The time has come for workingmen to |
| rise superior to faction, to look facts j
I squarely in the face, and determine to
unify, to federate, consolidate, and there- :
by successfully resist the encroachments |
upon their rights and liberties by such
men as Austin Corbin.
What a Woman Itcads.
Woman, in reading a newspaper, has j
a distinct method of her own. 'She takes j
it up hurriedly and begins to scan it over |
rapidly, as though she was hunting some 1
particular thing; but she is not. She!
lis merely taking in the obscure para-1
! graphs, which she believes w ere put in i
[ out-of-the-way places for the sake of
> keeping her from seeing them.
| Marriages and deaths are always in
l teresting reading to her, and the adver-;
tisements are exciting and stimulating.
| She cares hut little for printed jokes, un- j
i less they reflect ridicule upon the men, I
; and then she delights in them and never j
forgets them. She pays particular atten-1
tlon to anything inclosed in quotations,
, and considers it rather better than any-.
j thing first handed.
| The column in which the editor airs !
; his opinions, in leaded hifalutin, she
rarely reads. Views are of no impor- j
tance in her estimation, but facta are j
everything. She doesn't care for it but.
makes a practice of reading it because j
she thinks she ought to do so.
She reads stories and sketches and
paragraps indiscriminately, and believes
every word of them. After she has
read all she wants she lays the paper
down with an air of disappointment as
she observes that "there is nothing in
it."
White House Meditations.
The result of the election indicates the
existence of a profound disgust with the
Harrison administration throughout the
country. If Mr. Harrison is a man of
teachable mind his reflections must have
taken some such shape as this:
That it may have been a mistake to
sell the postmaster-generalship to Mr.
Wanamaker, even at the price he paid.
That presidential interference to pro
tect "Blocks of Five" Dudley from pros
ecution in Indiana was a blunder.
That in appointing his relatives, his
wife's his son's wife's relatives
and his daughter's husband's relatives
to office he has lost more than he has
gained.
That newspapers which are subsidized
by the appointment of their editors to
high place seems somehow to exercise
very little influence upon the popular
mind.
That in violating his pledges as to the
Civil Service, setting Clarson to make a
"clean sweep" in the postal department
and farming out his constitutional power
of appointment of Piatt in New York
and Mahone in Virginia, he disastrously
miscalculated consequences.
That in allying himself with the deep
ly dishonest adventurer Mahone, to the
angering of all the decent Republicans
in Virginia, he paid the price of lost
self-respect for soiled goods, and that the
goods have not been delivered.
That the famous scheme of building
up a white Republican party in the
South seems to have taken a wrong turn
at the cross-roads.
That in attempting with Tanner's as
sistance, to use the surplus in the treas
ury as the purchase price of his own re
nomination and re-election, he offended
the moral sense of the people in away
not readily to be forgiven.
That perhaps it did not pay to steal
Montana, with its poor little pair of
senators.
That after all last year's Republican
victory, secured by grovelling subser
vience to plutocrats, monopolists and the
oppressors of men, may prove to have
cost more than it was worth.
And finally, that in saying, "I shall
please myself," Mr. Benjamin Harrison
failed to estimate justly the necessity
of pleasing somebody of greatly more
importance than himself—namely the
American people.—A r cin York World.
Correspondence From the Capital.
WASHINGTON, November 19,1889.
Harrison is in quite a perturbed frame of |
mind over the color question. He pretends to j
lie quite at euse, but I am informed from a reli
able source that he was very much disturbed
by the publication of an interview with cx-
Govcrnor Kellogg of Louisiana, in which Mr.
Kellogg said very plainly that Harrison was
alienating the colored people both North and
South. A President is not quite indifferent nor
entirely ut ease when in order to counteract
one published interview he will order the pub
lication of another. Vet this is what Harrison
did. After reading the Kellogg tnterview ho
sent for ex-Senator Bruce of Mississippi ami
requested him to issue a card in contradiction.
Mr. Bruce did not sec his way to the issuing of
a card, even though Harrison had requested—
that is to say, ordered—it, and although he en
tertained for Mr. Hurrison that felling of gruti
tude which arises from a lively sense of favors
to come. Hut he did consent to have himself
interviewed, and the result was a very half
hearted contradiction of Governor Kcllogg's
statement. In fact it was largely an admission
of the accuracy of what Governor Kellogg had
suid. It is ulso interesting to note that a promi
nent loader of the Republican party in the Dis
trict of Columbia, said yesterday in speaking
of the matter: "Kellogg was right and Bruce
knew it, but he was ufraid to say wliut he
thought." It is well known that Ilruee has
sumo expectations, and a man with expectionß
must not always say what he thinks, especially
when instructed, as in this case, to say the
other thing.
I The problem "Can a Congressman live on
I $5,000 a year?" Is one that something like a
! hundred new members of Congress will have to
i determine for themselves during the next few
| months. They will have the advantage of the
i experience of several hundreds of able citizens
| who have already served their country in the
Congressional capacity, but the question has
not reached a positive! conclusion yet. In fact
( the tendency in latter days is to the opinion
that a Congressman who expects to represent
| Ids constituency in the best manner possible is
j inadequately remunerated by the salary flxed
! by law. There are plenty of members of ex
i i>erience in Washington officiul life who are
| satisfied that this is the case, but they are aware j
; that while a man can think what he pleases he ,
J had better look out how he votes. The able
legislators feel that they can vote to the l'resi- j
j dent $50,000 per annum, to the foreign ministers I
salurics of $17,500 and $12,500, but they dare not
increase their own pay beyond the $5,000 they
now receive. The fate of the so-called "salary- I
grabbers" has been a warning to other Con
gressmen, whatever their individual opinions
may be on the subject of Congressional sala- '
lies. It is certainly a delicate matter to legis
late upon, but it is surprising that more of an
earnest attempt has not recently been made to j
increase salaries on the part of those who be- !
lieve that $5,000 per annum is insufficient for |
the proper maintainaucc of a representative of i
the dear people.
It I'l. US OF CHINESE ETIQUETTE.
Tbe offer on the part of several society ladies '
to call upon the wife of the Chinese Minister
has met with a polite but firm refusal, owing
to the fact that the little lady is wholly ignor- 1
j ant of the English language, and, in order to \
I enjoy even the most formal intercourse with i
; her callers, the services of an interpreter would j
| he required. This interpreter would neces
; sarily be c male, and, on that account could j
not be permitted even to enter the same apart- i
j ment with the Minister's wife. The rules In !
regard to the ladies of the Lugation seemed to '
have somewhat relaxed of late, as they enjoy i
| a stroll through the grounds at the rear and !
' side of the mansion every tine day, and evince I
the liveliest interest in tennis as played by the '
; young peoplo of the Legutiou in an adjacent
court. The Minister's son Tsui is a bright little
| fellow, who chatters away incessnntly, the
harsh language of the Orientals sounding ul
most musical on his tongue.
THE EXPOSITION OF 1802.
I The several cities that are striving to secure
the proposed International Expositon of 1892
are arranging to work Congress in their indi
j vidual interests. Chicago ulready has repro
! scututives here, and St. Louis will send Mayor
Francis and C. H. Jones, editor of the St. Louis
llcinihUc, to look after the claims of that city,
j A well orguuiml committee, representing this
! elty, will see that the National capital is not
| overlooked in the race. There promises to be
j an interesting contest in Congress over this
| question. It
BUSINESS MORALITY.
Among the rubbish in the store-room
of the late William I. Hilton a little
old faded note-book containing some
odd suggestions to his boys as to how
they should proceed in life after he had
passed to his reward was picked up by
a favorite reporter a few days since,
and is now, for the tirst time, given to
the public:
Search the bible to find the bottom
of the deceitful human heart and say
your prayers at night. Think out every
day's business at night.
Never marry until you are 80 years
old.
Ihiuk three times before you speak
once.
Never court any girl unless you in
tend to marry her. There is danger in
fooling young girls. Never give them
any advautage in a letter.
Never buy a small place with a tine
building on it.
Never buy white, sprouty, crawfishy
land- at any price exoectiug to make
money by cultivating"it.
Never sell the products of the farm
you work to any man, on time, at any
price.
There is nothing in this world but
death that is certain.
Never loan money to your neigh
bors, for if you should have to sue
them they would be no longer neigh
bors.
Never let any man know anything
about your business, except when you
may have some difference and need to
advise with a lawyer.
Never keep all your money in one
channel.
Watch all men, as there are but few
who are honest; in fact there is none
honest from the heart in everything.
Never let any person on earth know
your business and especially how much
money you have, not even your family.
Never buy land of any person with
out first having a good lawyer investi
gate and prououuee the title clear.
Ascertain if the land has passed
through the hands of any insane per
son, to prevent his heirs from suing
you on the title. Never pay more than
one-half down on the land" unless you
know you are dealing with responsi
ble parties. Be sure to go ask all the
parties that join the land you are buy
ing to show you the corners of the laud
they own.
M you ever sell goods or groceries
bo sure to got a house on the square,
and on the inside corner if you can,
and live on the same lot and in the
building that you do business in. Bo
certain to never sloop away from the
store-house. It is best to have your
self and family live up-stairs, with
kitcln n below.
Never employ a clerk at any price;
bo content with what business you can
do yourself. Trust no man further
than you are compelled to. Smart
thieves always steal about the hours of
10, 11, 12, and 1 o'clock.
Weigh all you buy and all you sell,
if possibly convenient.
If you ever loan money to any per
son take security if you can get it. If
you loan money to a firm bo sure to
take each of the lirm names to the note
then no one of the lirm can slip out
and say that the money never came in
to the firm.
You may sell to irresponsible men
anything that you have, but never buy
claims, notes, etc., from men that are
not responsible, unless you investigate
and find that the parties have no off
' sols against them.
Never buy any kind of stocks, it
doesn't matter how low or how high
: they are. Never, never, never, from
j the fact that stocks nro too uncertain;
j the risk is too groat; rings arc formed
| and they can raise or lower the price
just as they see tit, so they can make
money.
Never deposit money unless you take
a receipt for it.
Under the present law when you loan
money to any person take a mortgage
on the real estate and include both
1 man and wife.
- Tell a lie rather than the truth when
It will save a difficulty, but it must be
u lie that no man knows except your
self. It is better to tell a lie than to
have a difficulty. The good book
says: "Blessed is the peaco-maker,"
etc.
If you have a surplus of money never,
never loan it out to the people"at any
per cent, but put it in good bonds; but
the United States bonds are preferable,
from the fact that the whole United
States is bound for it.
Four per cent when certain is better
than than 8 per cent when uncertain.
Never buy inferior articles of any
kind to make money on.
If you live in town never invite any
company and you will always have
plenty of money.
Buy goods on time only in small
quantities, whether wholesale or re
tail.
If you have land for sale have it
fenced to cardinal points, so it will
take the fewest rails possible to fence
the ground. That keeps your laud in
a square shape.
Never work in wells or at any other
work thatendangersyour life it matteps
not how much you can make. Never
endanger your life for money.
Never stay in the house confined to
business close, except you work in the
morning and evening.
Never buy property adjoining either
a church or a school-house if you can
avoid it.
Be certain to give your children an
English education at auy cost if you
can.
Never bo persuaded beyond your
judgment.— Franklin ( Ky .) Favorite.
Jack's Karl feat Memory.
If you wish to make an entertaining
experiment with the memories of your
friends, try, sometime when a group
of people are iu the mood of playful
reminiscence to find out from each one
the very first thing in life which made
a lasting impression upon the memory.
Every one has heard the assertion of
Charles Dickens that ho remembered
being handed hastily, as a baby, from
one woman to another at the time of a
carriage accident and learuing after
ward that this really took place when
he was only 6 months old.
Very few of us can remember any
thing so early in life as this, but it is
odd how far back into our earliest
years the memory gropes its way to
some startling or charming occur
rence.
One Summer evening several people
were seated on a vine-covered piazza,
talking of this and of that, when the
conversation drifted to this subject of
early memories. N
A lady described a walk in a country
road with her mother as the first thing
she could remember. A tall girl spoke
of her delight at catching a butterfly
as her first knowledge. A young
collegian declared that his intense
hatred of au oil-cloth bib, marked
I "Baby" in large letters was his intro-
I inn nnfi inamnrv
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J. C. BERNER.
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Practical WATCHMAKER A JEWELER.
15 Front Street (Next Door to First National Bank), Freeland.
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Clothing, Groceries, Etc., Etc.
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to all points in the United States.
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"As soon as I could talk I struck for
a napkin under my cliin," said ho.
One after another told their little
stories with the pleasure which always
goes with keen personal experience of
this sort, until it came tlio turn of
active Master Jack.
"The first thing I can remember,"
he said, bringing his eyelids down and
tipping up his chin in a thoughtful
manner, "the very first thing 1 can re
member. my father was looking for tne
with a willow whip in his band, and I
was cuddled down somewhere keep
ing still, and my foot was asleep.
Wnew!"
Jack jumped up and strotchcd his
legs up and down the piazza, as if to
gain relief from that lingering memory.
"Whew! but my foot was asleep aud
I was afraid to move it. I can feel
how it tingled yell"— Youth's Com
panion.
Queer Barometers.
"I can always tell whon it is going
to rain half a day ahead of any change
in fair weathor," said George Slosson
to a New York Sun man as he was
knocking around billiard balls in the
Columbia rooms just after the recent
deluge.
"How's tliatP" asked a bystander,
getting interested directly.
"Why there isp't a better barometer
' •
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partnership with any other establishment but
his own, and attends to his business personally.
Ladies' outside garments cut and fitted to
measure in the latest style.
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Dealer in
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{ in existence than an ivory billiard bail
or a good billiard cue," the billiard ex
pert replied; "they are bettor than a
I favorite corn."
"How d'ye tell?"
"A ball always rolls slow and with
difficulty over tlio cloth when it is go
ing to rain. Ivory is so sensitive in
changes of temperature, particularly
from dry to moist, that the effect is
felt almost instantaneously. The cue
will get cranky, too, when there is go
ing to bo a change, long before the
dumpness is perceptible in any other
wny. Another peculiarity of the ivory
globes is their teudeuey to become
egg-shaped. They contract at what
are called the top and bottom poles
and swoll out at the sides, so that you
might as well play with potatoes if
you do not watch their idiosyncrasies,
l'liey are worse than old men iu their
susceptibility to draught A draught
will crack the ivorv aud make it chip
off quick as a wink, and, like old
folks, you can never get the spheres
acclimated to these draughts. Just
take a billiard ball and study its be
havoir and you can beat the clerk of
the weather prophesying. You can
bet on your own prophecy every
tiuio."
A five-year-old child in Monson,
Me., is said to speak tree languages.