FREELAND ffIBUNE. Published Every Thursday Afternoon —BY— TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - _ SI.OO PER TEAR. Address all Communications to FREELAND TRIBUNE, FREELAND, PA. Offlco, Birkbeck Brick, 3d iloor, Centre Street. Entered at the Freeh utd Post office as Second Class Matter. FREELAND, NOVEMBER 28, 1889. THE i\ r World of Friday says: Of the nineteen postmasters of the first class appointed by Harrison yes terday twelve take the places of Demo crats removed and five succeed offi cials who resigned under pressures. Harrison's theories about the civil service have undergono a sickly sea change since ho wrote his letter of acceptance. IT is reported from Pittsburg that the failure of the Lawrence Bank "has caused but little flurry in financial circles." The depositors are mainly working people, who have all their savings involved in the wreck, but as the individual deposits are small these capitalists are not included in "financial circles," and their flurry and excitement do not count for iuuoh. REPUBLICAN members of congress from Southern States are giving the country an object lesson as to why they are so few in number. In the speakership contest their votes are ! offered to the candidate who promises the largest return in the way of pat ronage. If they are true represen tatives of the Republican party in the South it is well that it is no stronger than it is.— l'hila. Ledger (Hep.). CONGRESSMAN FLOWER of New York wants postmasters elected by the peo pie of the various cities, towns and villages in which they serve, instead of appointed, as at present, by the president or postmaster general. Mr. Flower intends to introduce this sub ject into the coming congress and what a mighty bowl will be raised up against it by the half-million Repub licans who want to be appointed post masters. WHEN the Democratic party of Pennsylvania revolts against the lead ership of William L. Scott then the Republican majority of 60,000 will rapidly disappear. While it allows itself to be controlled by that arch enemy of labor it deserves to be kept in the minority. Scott's views on po litical economy are all right in con gress, but what the public wants is to see him put them into every day use among his miners. PHIL ARMOUR, the great meat dealer, lias been put under arrest by Ser geant-at-Arms Canady for refusing to appear before Senator Vest's Congres sional Investigating Committee. Ar mour still declares that he will refuse to testify as to his business, in spite of arrest. Canady declares his inten tion to hold his prisoner if it requires the help of the whole standing army. Bring the millionaires to time, ser geant, just as you would a less fortu nate citizen. THE New York newspaper's are loudly demanding of Harrison the re moval of Wanamaker, who bought his way into the cabinet by collecting the famous corruption fund which Dudley divied out in "blocks of five." They assert, and with no lack of proof, that he is using his official office for the advertisement of his store in Phila. This was clearly proven during the tour of the Pan-American Congress, when he decoyed the delegates into the store, converted their inspection trip into a private advertisement of his goods, and coolly asked them to give his business a puff in their offi cial reports to their several govern ments. THE example of the venerable Presi dent Eliotfc uf Harvard University, in turning bis back upon tne Hepublican party because of its unsound econo mical policy, lias not waited long for imitation. Dr Clark liidpath, one of the most prominent teachers in the Do Pauw University of Indiana, and a man of influence and authority in the West, has left the Hepublican party for the same reasons. He re gards the result of the recent elec tions as "only a sentence of condem nation upon the ruling party," for whose leaders "the control of public affairs has 110 other interest than that of personal advantage." When learn ing and knowledge abandon a cause it is certainly doomed. THE quiet, successful and business like way in which the emperor of Brazil was deposed and a republic established lias caused considerable commotion in Canada and Australia. Both of those countries are restless under the yoke of Great Britain and from present indications not many years will pass until they are free and independent nations. According to a prominent Australian official, now in this country, the United States of Australia is likely to be founded in a few years with as little friction or ex citement as attended the organization of the United States of Brazil. The Australian colonies are now to all in tents and purposes independent, but, if united in one republic, they would take command of the South Pacific. Kx-Senator Peudleton of Ohio, author of the civil service law, died at Berlin 011 Sunday. Moiuircltial Iiixtit UIIOIIM Mutt Go. The empire of Brazil has turned itself into a free and independent republic— the United States of Brazil—without fir ing a gun or shedding a drop of blood, and what has occurred in Brazil is likely to occur elsewhere under the same or even less favorable conditions. The progress of popular education and the extension of suffrage in liberal mon archies, together with the persistent agi tation of home rule, have familiarized the people the world over with the idea of self-government. The masses no longer believe that the classess have any just claims to exceptional privileges, and they no longer believe in the divine right of kings, queens or emperors. The signs of the times point to the disintegration of the British monarchy. In Canada many leading politicians and newspapers openly advocate a Canadian republic. They believe that their decla ration of independence would not be followed by an attempt to re-establish British rule. The proximity of the American republic, with its moral and perhaps material support, would cause the mother country to be exceedingly cautious about resorting to coercive measures. In Australia, too, the leaven is work ing. The Australians, like the Canadi ans, are thousands of miles away from their present capital. They are practic ally a new nation. They have grown up under American conditions, and have enjoyed so much independence that they naturally thirst for more. Al ' ready they are formulating a separation scheme, which will be submitted in due time for the indorsement of the crown. The action of Brazil will give a new impetus to these republican revolution ists. They will be tempted to try their fate without any unnecessary delay. Their revolt may be as sudden as it was in Dom Pedro's empire, yet not as un expected. One of these days in Canada and in Australia the recognized leaders will give the signal and the people will I establish their own government. And on that day will come the opportunity that has been waited for so many years —the opportunity to strike one telling and decisive blow for Ireland's freedom ■ —peacibly if possible, forcibly if neces sary. | By acting in harmony the three conn | tries can acccomplish their aims more j rapidly than by working separately. Such a movement would not be, from any point of view, half as startling as the Brazilian upheaval, though its re sults would be far more beneficial to the civilized world. The opinion is gaining ground that when the critical hour conies the mother country will not re sort to force to restrain any of her colo nies. She tried that policy with the Americans and was beaten, and will meet the same fate again if she pursues severe measures to tame the spirit of independence. The crown is not so firmly established now as to make it the part of wisdom to send soldiers thous ands of miles over the seas to subdue powerful commonwealths determined to j be free, and it is the knowledge of this that emboldens the lovers of liberty in Australia and Canada to rest at ease, confident of the success of the coming movement. Should this trio form a mutual combi nation and join funds and fortunes the overthrow of the greatest and most op pressive monarchial institution on earth would be accomplished with less trouble than was witnessed in Brazil. Home Rule would then become a real fact, and not the fanciful sop that a Tory govern ment may possibly give to Ireland. The British government has its hands full in maintaining peace and order under the shadow of its home parlia ment and has no time or money to spend in trying to resist the inevitable. Let it come. Keep On Killing, Tliey Can Stand It. At the annual convention of the street j railway presidents, held in Minneapolis ! recently, a report was received congratu lating the association 011 the total collapse j of the organization known as the Knignts lof Labor. That is right, gentlemen. Keep right 011 killing oil the Knights in your reports just as you have been doing all along by the associated press and the j capitalistic press. To hear you tell it, i one must think that the Knights have as j many lives as a cat. You've killed them I off, killed them dead, once or twice a j month for several years, and one would think that, after so many repeated kill ings, you would leave the Corpse alone. After all, now confess it, gentlemen, aren't the Knights lively enough to make you just a little uneasy? Haven't you a little overdone this business of killing them off on paper I — lndependent Citizen. The "killing off" process, during the week ending Saturday last, caused the following results, as announced in the Order's official organ: Charters and supplies were issued to 20 new local ! assemblies and 3 that were reorganized, j These were located as follows: 6in j Alabama; 3 each in New York, North Carolina and Texas; 2 each in Georgia, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania; and 1 each in England, Scotland, Florida, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, South Carolina and AVest Virginia. A charter was also issued to a new district assembly at Glasgow, Scotland, which has 'J local assemblies under its jurisdiction. In addition to these, local assemblies are ■ being reinstated all over the country which have not been working for several months, and an increased interest is being felt in nearly every section. Deserting tile (iriuiil 1)1.1 I'nrty. ! .Three-fifths of the white vote of America is Democratic. Without the negro vote the Republican party is dead. The negro controls the balance of power in five Northern states and twenty North ern congressional districts. Ex-Gover nor Kellogg of Louisianna says the negroes of the South are very suspicious of Harrison. He does not pretend to know the reason, but that the talk of . building up a Republican white man's party in the South, and the president's j discharge of the colored people from the J \\ bite House, has something to do with j it. It seems more that the negro is at last getting tired of the treatment lie receives from the party that has claimed his vote for so many years. Whatever the reason the fact of the change is well proved in Virginia. Democratic negroes are no longer curiosities, but they are becoming quite common. The Miners' Examination Law. There is a hitch in the enforcement of the Gallagher Miners' Registration and Examination Law. The measure was passed by the last legislature with a view to excluding incompetent men from em ployment as miners in the anthracite | region, and has been in operation about three months. The trouble in the present instance lies in the fact t hat the examining boards in some districts refuse to recognize as sufficient proof of proficiency the certifi cates issued to miners by examining boards in adjoining districts. It is also said that the suh-committees in certain districts in default of definite instructions from the board as a whole have been conducting examinations for certificates ! in a go-as-you-please way, which has tended to aggravate the situation. When a miner seeking work presents ! a certificate issued to him by a duly con-1 stituted.board in an adjoining district he j is entitled to registration. The members of a registration hoard who refuse to recognize the validity of a certificate j manifestly violate the provisions of the ! act, which says, regarding the holder of such certificate. "He shall be entitled to be registered without examination in 1 any other of theantliracitedistricts upon ' the payment of tiie fee herein provided i for." The law, it will bo observed, is mandatory in this regard. The diffi- j culty, manifestly, is in the lack of uni- ■ formity in examinations in all the dis- j tricts. The law in this and other respects ! is defective, and supplemental legislation i will be necessary to improve it. But there is no reason why, in the meantime, the common sense and experience of tiie men who constitute the examining boards should not suggest a remedy. Let representatives of all the boards in all of the districts meet and agree upon some uniform system of examination. A satisfactory solution of the present j trouble would thereby he secured, while j the experience gained would suggest j modifications and additions to the exist- ! ing law, of great value when the time ! for further legislative action upon it had arrived. — Phila. Press. Correspondence From the Capital. WASHINGTON, November 26, lswi. j Some Republicans who would like to see Me- Kinley of Ohio the next Republican candidate for President are given some anxiety by his running for the speakership of the House. If lie is elected it will not benefit his chances for the presidency at all, while they regard his de feat as a very serious tiling. A defeat in the contest for the speakership, they fear, would put the presidency out of his reach, and they consider it a great risk for him to take for very small game. They regard it much us a sports man would for one to shoot at a chance rubbit while lying for deer. There is too big u risk of frightening off the big game. The ease of Gov. Foraker is cited. A few months ago Foraker was regarded by his friends as a strong possi bility for the presidency. He allowed himself to be leud into a struggle for the Governorship, and by his daring lie risked everything—and lost. Now lie is not tulkcd of for the presi dency. A defeated eandidutc for Speuker would hardly stand as well before a convention as would the Republican leader of the tariff light. McKinley's strength is declared to be only less than that of Heed, and within a few days the friends of the former have antagonized the latter for the alleged reason that Heed is not absolutely sound upon the question of the tariff. The candidate from Maine, it is given out, is suspected of looking with favoring eyes upon free raw materials, for which a good many of the manufacturers of New England have lately, with more or less energy, been contending. Heed's supporters, however, deny that his loyalty to the policy of protection is less sincere than that of McKinlcy. Three things are going to be used against Heed in his candidacy for the Speakership. They are his want of skill as a presiding officer, his antagonism to river and harbor bills and his attitude on the silver question. The several candidates are busily engaged in looking up each other's records, all of which will be ven tilated in the campaign, and every little per sonal characteristic will be made the most of JUS bearing on the candidate's qualifications for the place. Mr. Heed's want of suavity is being enlarged upon JIS an argument against him. A LIVELY CONTEST COMING. When the House of Hcpresentatives is organ ized there promises to be a lively partisan con test over the changes in the rules. The Demo- j erats are determined that no Federal election bill shall pass the House, and their first effort will be to prevent chunges in the rules that j will prevent successful filibustering against I this or similar measures. There is a rule of the i House of Hcpresentatives adopted as far back ; as 18011 that the rules of one House shall govern the next succeeding House until otherwise amended. In the present code this rule is XIV. Republican Speakers have held that this rule is operative; that the outgoing Congress can pre scribe the rules for its successor until the suc ceeding Congress changes them. In the last three Congresses Speaker Carlisle has deeided that one Congress cannot in the slightest de gree prescribe the method of procedure in the next Congress. He takes Constitutional ground for upholding this view, and is supported by all Democratic purliamcntaries. The rules of ' the last Congress are |>eculiarly favorable to : the minority. It will be to the advantage of \ ! the Democrats to have the old rules enforced : as long as possible, and the enforcement of the j old rules would be of advantage to the minori- i ty in opposing any change of the rules what- j ever. However, if the Hepublican Speaker ' disagrees with former Hepublican authorities ! and accepts the opinion of Speaker Carlisle the ' apparent advantage of the minority will disap i pear, and the House will proceed under gener j 111 parliamentary laws until new rules accept -1 able to the majority are adopted. UNCLE SAM UEIIIND THE AGE. The International Maritime Congress, which j convened in this city, has transacted a great ! deal of business. It has discussed one hundred I and twenty-seven amendments to the rule s ! regulating the right of way over the sea and j the lights of steamships and sailing vessels. It is hoped some simpler system than that now in existence may be adopted respecting fog sig nals. One fact hus been very appareht in this conference. It is the suierior knowledge of the English delegation upon nearly every ques tion submitted for discussion. This is hardly to be wondered at when the delegate who speaks for England is Mr. Hall, the ablest Ad j mirulty lawyer in England. The rest of the j British delegation is made up from the first ■ maritime authorities of their nation. The i United States delegation is headed by Mr. j Goodrich, of New York, than whom no better I authority could be found in our country. The | outcome of this conference, let it lie what it j may, cannot fail to increase the comity of the maritime nations. It. Woman's Career. She wftfl a fair ffiii graduate, enrobed in epou I less white. And on her youthful features shone a look of holy light. She bent with grace her dainty head to re j ceive the ribbon blue, whence hung the silver medal, adjudged to be her duo. ! I watched her face with rapture as she raised to heaven her eyes, And moved her lips in prayer as her fingers | clasped the prize, ror 1 knew toeducatiou she had pledged her coming days. To unclasp poor woman's fetters and froe her from man's ways. Time pnsscd. Our pathways parted, but ever and anon My thoughts would stray toward her, and I'd ... upon what my graduate was doing, if athwart the scroll of fame. Among unseltlsh workers, had been written high her name. At last I chanced to meet her, but her books were pushed aside. While around a dainty garment she sewed the i iaee with pride, And at her feet her baby, dimpled, happy, crowing youth. Upon that silver medal was cutting his first i tooth. -Life. ! ' The Green-Eyed Monster, Mrs. Donza was the prettiest woman in all Sydenham, and her villa was the ! best kept and most artistically decor- j ated house in the town. Michael Deoza ! was a wine merchant, in partnership j with his elder brother Joseph, and had a largo connection in the city. The brothers Denza were good-looking men: Michael especially so. They had Italian blood in their veins, and something of the Italian warmth of j feeling in their natures. They were well off, too, without being wealthy. Michael Denza was leaning back in his office chair ono afternoon in No vember, picking his teeth with a quill —a look of perplexity upon his hand some features. Notwithstanding the • time of year, a yellow rosebud bloomed ! iu his buttonhole, and his dress was that of a man of fashion. "I can't imagine, ll he said, as he re garded a newly-received telegram on the table before him, "where the money goes to! Ella is so very simple in her j tastes. She scarcely ever seems to j spend any money on herself, aud yet this is the second demand she nas \ made for 20 pounds within a fortnight. I don't grudge it her, Joseph, mind that: but I can't think what sho does 1 with it. 11 "Why don't you ask her?" observed tiie practical elder brother. Joseph : Donza might have been as good-look- j ing as Michael had he not been so fat, but he was ten years older—a man ' verging on forty, and ho was of a harder and more suspicions nature than his younger brother, lie had no love for women either. He had been ; cruelly deceived by one of the sex in the days of his youth. "Why don't you ask her?" lie said, i "She won't tell you the truth, of course, but it may prevent such exorbitant demands for the future." "Ella never told me a lie 3*et," cried Michael, tiring up. "I am sure of it. She is as clear aud open as the day." "Clear and open!" sneered Joseph. "My dear Michael you arc a fool! A divorced woman clear and open!" "She is uot a divorced woman" re turned the other, hotly. "You know that perfectly well. She divorced her ( first husband on account of his cruelty aud infidelity to her." "But where can the money go top" "Oh, I don't care," cried Michael, impatieutly, as he pushed the paper away from him. "I wish I had never raised the question. I am not going to suspect my wife of using it for an unlawful purpose. Sho can do as she likes with it. It is all the same to me!" "But that is rather a dangerous way of tampering with fortune. If Mrs. Michael does not spend it sho must ! give it away." "But to whom could she give it? She has no relations dependent on her?" "Can an}* one have a hold upon her, Michaelf" demanded Joseph, suspici ouslv. "What do you mean?" "Cab Ella have been so imprudent as to encourage some young fellow far ; enough—l am only alluding to a flir tation, you know—to embolden him to t apply to her for money on pain of dis ; closureP Wo have heard of such things with married ladies before, you know, you and I." Michael Donza's face flushed with passion as he started from his chair with a clenched hand. "If you were not my brother, Joseph," he began, but broke off with a harsh laugh. "What folly I am talk ing. and you, too," ho" continued. "Ella flirt? Why, she is the quietest little woman iu the world." "Well, yes. She certainly has not got on very well in Sydenham. I sup pose this divorce business lias to an swer for that?" "I suppose so," said Michael,gloom ily. "People will talk, if it is only to hear their own confounded tongues. I should have thought it would have died a natural death long ago." "So should I. That is what makes mo think there must bo a fresh cause for scandal. Anyway I should find out where the money goes to." "I shall do no such thing!" exclaimed Michael, angrily; but at the same time he knew that he should. Ho quitted the office earlier than us ual that afternoon. Ho entered a smoking compartment of the train, as usual, at London bridge, and, laying his head back on the cushions, tried to composo himself to sleep. But the chatter of two young men in tho same carriage arrested his attention. They were discussing some woman, after tho manner of their kind. , "She's awfully jolly," said one of them. "Just my style, 3*oll know— tall and slim, with gray eyes aud 1 brown hail*. Quiet little woman to look at, but knows a deal, my boy." "Married, Dick? Eh!" "Married! I should think so. I don't care a hang for them till they're married. No bread-and-butter misses for me," continued the creature, who had not a hair upon his face. "I like a woman with some nous about her and who knows a thing or two." Michael Denza listened to the bald erdash with a fast-beating pulse. It recalled so painfullv tho unpleasant conversation he held with his'brothefi Joseph. Ho took a hatred to the! speaker, although he had never looked at him before, and tho instant his train i reached tho Sydenham station ho I leaped out and walked rapidlv to his i own house. His first inquiry "was for | the mistress of it. The servant replied that she was out. 1 "Out at this time?" lie said with a j frown, as he consulted his watch. ; "Why, it is nearly dark. Are thochil- I dren with lierP" j "No, sir; they are in tho nursery. My mistress wouldn't take them out | to-day. She said it was too cold." i Michael Douza boiran to pace the room In a fury. Ho was naturally pas sionate and jealous, like the race he sprung from, but ho had never had his feelings roused in like manner before. The words he had exchanged with his ! brother Joseph and those to which ho i had listened to in the train, all seemed to rush back upon his mind like so many flashes of electric light to dis perse the mist which had blinded him —perhaps to his own dishonor. In a moment the twin demons—doubt and suspicion—caught hold of him and worked him up into a state bordering on madness. Was it possible, he asked himself, that the words of that vain glorious, blatant fool in the railway carriage pointed to his wife? lie had always believed his wife to have been a most injured woman, but the devil of doubt had been raised in his breast, and he was ready to believe the very worst. And if, us he said to hiniseif with clenched teeth, his brother's sus i picions proved to he correct, and ho ! found that Eila hud deceived him, there would he murder in that house before the night was over. lie had i been pacing the floor of the dining room for perhaps a couple of hours j fore his wife's step sounded in the hall. | She came in hurriedly and nervously: and, when she heard that her husband i had returned home, it seemed to him i j that her voice indicated more than sur prise. "Already!" she exclaimed faltoring ly, "surely it is not 7 vet! Where is lie, in the dining-room?" Sho opened the door then, and stood on the thres hold, a lovely picture by the firelight, in her velvets aud furs. "What has brought you home so soon, Michael?" she inquired. "Have 1 arrived too early for your convenience, Mrs. Denza?" he answered in a strange tone. "Have I cut your j engagements short?" "I don't understand you," sho said, closing the door and advancing toward him, but he could hear that her voice trembled. "Then I will explain myself. Where have you been? Who do you come ' from?" Mrs. Denza flushed scarlet. She j was a pale woman by nature, but now her eyes filled with tears under the pain of her burning complexion. "Why should you speak to mo like that?" sho half whispered; "why do you want to know where I have beenP" Her evident timidity looked so like guilt that Michael Denza felt sure that his doubts would prove to bo realities. "Because I suspect your errand, Ella j | —more, I know it, and I am resolved j to hear the truth." "Oh. God," she cried, involuntarily, ! and there stopped. Her husband stalked up to her and grasped her wrist. "I married you because I thought you were a true woman, and would stick to me," lie said, "and till this day I never suspected you of double dealing. But i have found 3011 out at last, aud you snail suffer for it. Tell 1110 the truth or I will kill you. You have been with that man." Her eyelids fell before his angry glance. "Oh, Michael, for God's sake forgive me," she cried. "Forgive you!" he exclaimed. "Yes, I will forgive you, madam; and I will tell you how. I will turn you out of the house you have dishonored this 1 very hour; you shall never see 1110 nor , your children again, nor have another opportunity of deceiving me, as doubt less you did the unfortunate devil whose name you bore before mine. | "It is a lie," she cried, goaded into resentment. "I never deceived him. I was only too patient. He has said so himself." 1 "Then you reserved the honor for , me. lam infinitely obliged to 3*oll. But it is for the last time. You shall uot live to deceive me again." Ho advanced upon her with such a threatening air that the woman really thought her last hour had come. "Mercy, mercy!" sho shrieked. "Oh, Michael! spare 111 c, aud I will tell you j everything." j "Tell me the truth then, if you can. Have you come from meeting another ! man?" "Yes! yes! I have' "My God! and you can own it. What is his name?" Sho hesitated, and he returned to the attack. "Give mo his name, or I will strike you to the ground." But a sudden courage seemed to have come to Mrs. Donza's aid. Sho drew up her slight figure to its full heiglit,nud looked her husband straight in the eyes. ! "Strike 1110 if you will," sho answer ed, "and you will learn nothing. But he patient, and 1 will take you to him. Then you can revenge yoursoif upon him as you will." "You will take 1110 to him! 1 ho stam mered. "I will take you to him," she re peated. "But come at ouce, or it may bo too late." She ran swiftly from tho house as sho spoke, and Michael Denza, clap ping his hat upon his head, followed her as in a dream. Ho could not be- j lievo it possible she would introduce him to the very presence of her love** Mrs. Donza walked quickly down sev eral streets, until she readied a poorer 1 quarter of the town, formed of small ! houses. Knocking quietly at tho door I of one of these, she merely said to tho ! landlady: "1 wish to go lip-stairs again." Then to her husband, "Fol- j low me," and in another minute they ! had ascended tho narrow staircase to- ! gether and entered a bed-chamber. Mrs. Denza seemed strnnirely alter ed. Her step had grown majestic, and her manner almost defiant, as she ad- j vanoed to the bedside, and, pulling down tho sheet, disclosed the pallid I face of an attenuated corpse. "There," she exclaimed proudly, as ' she turned to Michael, "there is the i man I came from." "Dead!" he said, falling backward, | "you are fooling 1110, Ella. This is some i trick of yours. What had you to do j with tiis corpse?" "I will tell you, Michael Douza," j she replied. "That is the corpse of the ; man who beat and insulted me, until for my own safety I was compelled to separate from him. He has killed him- ; self by drink and dobaucherv, but he was, none tho less, the man whom once I swore to cherish. When his landlady appealed to me some weeks ago for money to buy liini tho actual necessa ries of life I did not feel justified in re fusing it. How could 1 have lived in luxury and content, knowing that this wretched creaturo was dying without one com fort to smooth his passage to the graveP Yesterday lie passed away, and the money I asked you for this af ternoon was to pat* for his funeral ex- ' penses. I was wrong, perhaps, not to j confide in 3*oll before, but I was afraid tho subject might worry you, and cause dissension between 11s. That has been all my fault. I leave you to judge whether I deserve the imputa tion you have put upon my absence." 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. Mull's for ladies and children. Carpets icloths : We have Ilemp for 18c, Ray for 30c and Brussels : tor one and up. Furniture and beddings: Have a good bedstead, only $2..)0; a royal plush lounge, $0.00; mattresses, $2.75 up, and i a good spring for $1.25. Notions, etc., of every description. \\ e 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. IV e 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. REMEMBER PHILIP GEIUTZ, Practical WATCHMAKER A JEWELER. 15 Front Street (Next Door to First National Bank), Freeland. BOOTS AND SHOES A Large Stock of Boots, Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers, Etc. Also HATS, CAPS and GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS of All Kinds. We Invite You to Call and Inspect Our New Store. GOOD MATERIAL! LOW PRICES! HXTGH Corner Centre and Walnut Sts., Freeland. SCKOENER & BIRKBECK, 35 "V\7"lxclesale send ZESetail. All kinds of plumbing and spouting done at short notice in the most approved style. We carry the largest stock of goods in j Freeland and extend an invitation to the public to inspect them. A sweeping reduction has been made in all our tire arms, j $25 guns are selling at S2O, S2O guns are going at sls and sls guns can be had for $lO. Ammunition also reduced. ' She passed proudly down the stairs | again as she spoke, but Michael Denza had caught her before she opened the : hall door. | "Ella, forgive me," ho whispered. !"I was mad. I don't know what pos- I sessed me, but evil thoughts had been i put iuto my head, and the idea of los- j | ing your confidence and affection was unbearable." "And was it all about money?" she I said, "was it because I never account ed for how i had speut the lust I checks?" ! "I am afraid it was," he answered, with a shamed look. Florence Mor j ryat Beware of Nii^leilom. Men must make allowances for women as women if they want to bo j happy themselves and to make their | wives happy; and women must make allowance for men as men. They each have their own troubles and their own I needs, aud often the one does not un dcrstund and cannot understand the j needs of the other. Men have their own troubles and worries and yvomen j have theirs; let each be assured of that as regards the other and act accord ingly. It will be appreciated—don't be afraid of that. Beware of naggle dom, my dear. The man that will stand being Haggled at is a saint, and saiuls are not as plentiful as blackber ries in the world. There's male nagg ing, my dear, as well as female—male grumbling and never being pleased; and folks who expect to come out as "ducks" at the end of 120 years would, after eighty or ninety years' nagging, make a poor figure in a matrimonial poultry show. If the man had been grumbling and woman nagging ail that time they'd look like two moult ing birds and not like two well esta blished healthy fowls. Each to he the other's help, each the other's blessing; each to hope to be witii the other for ever and ever, and so to live hero that they may ho lit for being together there.— Quiver. A Queer Find at Yale. It is related that not so verv long ago two of the richest middle-aged men in New York city went up to New Haven, unknown and unannounced, to look over the Yale buildings and the city with a view of sending their sous there. They took a carriage to the campus and there fouud the gentleman whose regular busiuess is the care and supervision of the college property and premises. They asked him to show them about, and he did so as only he can. He made it very inter esting to them, and when they were, ready to go, the two had a brief con ference and then the more famous one (whose name begins with a $5 sign) offered to his guide a $lO bill. "What is this for?" ho asked. "Why that's for showing us about, of course," was the reply. 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