FREELiD TRIBUNE. Published Every Thursday Afternoon —UY— TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TEIi.US, - - SI.OO PER YEAR. Address all Communications to FREELAND TRIBUNE, FREELAND, PA. I Oilier, Blrkbcck Brick, 3d Boor, Centre Street. I Entered at the Freeland Postuffiee as Second J Class Milter. FREELAND, FEBRUARY 13, 1890.1 THE Hnzlctou Plain Speakt r com- ' pletcd its eighth year on Thursday last. It is an enterprising paper and i: fully appreciates the good wishes of j the people. MONEY in the National Treasury and J money in national hanks is not money j l in circulation. It is financial conges-! tion and will result in commercial and j industrial death. THE best plan for closing up "pluck- j j me" stores thus far devised is the en-! | forcemeut of the system of weekly j payment of wages. Workingmen who i get tlieir wages weekly can make choice off the places where they pur-' chase what they want. MR. REED thinks he has won a ' great victory over the Democrats, i Well, let us wait and see. An appeal lies to a higher court, whose decision ' may oust Mr. Reed from the Speaker's i chair at the end of the present Con- j gress and put a Democrat in his | place, with a whole arsenal of bad precedents with which to prosecute the Republican members. Philadel-1 phia Lecbjer (Rep.) AN attempt is now being made to establish a thread monopoly in this country under the wing of the tariff duty The rich foreign manufactur ers, who have established factories in this'country in order to escape the payment of duties and share in the plunder of American consumers, have banded together to drive the home manufacturers out of the market by underselling them. When they shail have accomplished their object they will put such a price on thread as they think the traffic will bear. THE alliance between the Farmers and the Knights of Labor has borne its first fruit. When in obedience to the command of the General Assembly the Gen. Secretary Treasurer wrote to the Superintendent of the Census ask ing that the next census should he ma le to show what proportion of the people own their homes and farms, what propoption have their homes free from debt, the proportion of homes and farms under mortgage aud the percentage so mortgaged, in reply General Porter said that the informa tion could not he gathered by the Cen sus Commission. At the same timo that the General Assembly instructed the General Secretary-Treasurer as | above, it passed a resolution request ing Local Assemblies everywhere in the United States to take action to impress upon the Representatives at Washington the need of having the statistics collated. This the Order has done, and done effectually. The Farmers' organization has also been working to the same end, and last week the combined pressure of the al lied organizations became too great for the Senate to withstand, and by an al most unanimous vote it appropriated $1,000,000 toaid the census in collect ing the desired information. Only four Senators voted against the resolu tion appropriating the money: Stock- j bridge, of Michigan, Morrili, of Ver mont, MePherson, of New Jersey, and Sherman, of Ohio. The second of these has long outlived his usefulness: the first never had any; while from j the other two no one would expect anything not demanded by the money power, whose pliant tools they have ; ever been. The allied organizations have thus won their first fight in the senatorial halls, and the incident af fords an example of the influence they \ are capable of exercising upon public j opinion-— Journal of the A'nir/hts of ] Labor. Taking Wages for Debt. A hill has been introduced in the New ! York Legislature which has for its object I the protection of retail grocers. The I bill is entitled "An Act to provide for the satisfaction of judgments for neces saries by the levy of an execution on ten per cent, of the wages, salary, income or profits of the judgment debtor." A sim- { liar bill was introduced into the LegiH-1 luture of this State at its last session and ! although it received the united support of all the retail grocers' associations and the State organization it failed to pass. There is no doubt but that there is con siderable merit in the hill which the ; New York grocers ask the Legislature to adopt into a law, but the question is I whether its adoption would not lead to | the entailment of greater hardships upon those whom it proposes to make its vie- j tims than the grocers now suffer them-1 selves. If a discrimination could be I made so that the law would reach only the professional deadliest, then it would be all right. But discrimination in this i case seems to be out of the question. All debtors would have to suffer alike and those who would suffer most would I he the very poor and those debarred from making a livelihood by reason of' accident or sickness. And, again, if the New York grocers are of the same state of mind as their Pennsylvania brethren, it is not the "poor fish" that they arc after, but the well-to-do deadbeat who will beat the greocer every time he gets a chance. Freeland has licr share of this class. The Merchants' Association j | of this borough has been trying to pro- [ I teet its members for some years past j against the inroads of the "beat," but I j with what success we are not prepared J jto state. In the opinion of our local j ( merchants the man who earns from $75 to $125 a month is the one to be most I feared. The Sun commenting on the bill now [ : before the New York Legislature says j the argument of the advocates of the j measure is that every man ought to pay i j his debts, and if lie has not money I enough on hand to pay them with, lie J ought to devote a part of his labor to that ] end. But if this doctrine is correct, why I J not apply it to all debts instead of only to those which are contracted for nee-: essaries, and why should not a man who j runs in debt for a yacht or carriage, I which he does not need, be compelled j by law to apply his future earnings in payment of what lie owes, just as much j as a man who buys a ham or a bag of ; flour, which he does need in order to j live? The retail grocers complain of the class j of customers whom they politely denomi nate "dead beats," and assert that this bill will decrease the number of such j persons who deal with them. But they i 1 have an adequate remedy in their own I hands and can guard against contracting I had debts without the aid of any legisla tion. If they are content to sell only for | cash to those whose ability or intent to pay eventually is doubtful, they will be j safe enough. Under this drastic law | their poorer customers would practically j | become their serfs. The grocers would sell to such persons on credit more freely than they do now, knowing that if the ' purchaser worked at all—and he must work in order to support himself and his family—one-tenth of his labor would be performed for the benefit of his grocer. If the Legislature wants to increase j the burdens of the workingmen in this State, it will at once pass tins bill. , Correspondence From the Capitol. I WASHINGTON, February 11, 1890. j Nothing like the scenes that proceeded ; the taking up of the West Virginia con tested election case have been witnessed in the House in many years. Speaker ! Reed more than fulfilled the expectation of both his friends and his opponents in the masterly manner in which he smash ed precedent that told against him, and gathered from afar that which was in his favor. To be sure, it seemed a bit i inconsistent to quote Governor Hill and I the Tennessee legislature as precedents ! for a course which Speakers of tln- House of Representatives had repeatedly j pronounced; but desperate ills require : drastic pills, and consistency, like pre cedent, is old fashioned and a good deal lof a bore anyway. Of course, this was only some of Mr. Reed's sardonic humor, a cynical concession to appearances. Mr. Reed was placed in the Speaker's chair because it was believed that lie could be relied on to do the serious work party exigency required should be done in the House" of Representatives, and anyone, Democrat or Republican, who imagined Mr. Reed would allow prece dent or anything short of superior phys ical force stand in way of his doing what his party expected him to do, plainly had an imperfect knowledge of the gentleman's characteristics. Perhaps j Mr. Reed's guerrilla raids on precedent result in a much-needed modernization ! of parliamentary procedure; still, it! would have been better if these raids had been made for other than immedi ate, unmistakable and unmitigated party purposes. j "If you think that a Congressman's ( lot is a happy one," said a Western 1 Senator, "I would like for you to be at my elbow for sixteen hours out of the twenty-four. Most people fancy that when Congress is not in session a mem ber finds it bard to kill time. On the contrary, a man who attends to his busi ness conscientiously has scarcely an hour that he can call his own. When I take my seat in the Senate and the session i begins it is almost impossible to sit ten ; minutes and listen quietly to what is ! going on. Cards come in shaols. The j first impulse is not to receive them but i that is discourteous and sometimes dan gerous. If it is a woman who is turned away—God help me, I have made an , enemy for life. So it goes, and the re sult is that the man who is not a pachy- 1 derm yields and is lost. In the after- | noon comes more hours over correspon dence. Some of us keep two private j secretaries busy, and they do not keep j up with our mail. For months at a time my postage amounts to $! a day, or about 20 per cent, of my salary. And yet so smart a fellow as Amos Cummings says 'it is so nice to be a Senator.' I j hope he may some day have an oppor- \ tunity to try it." j Senator Farwell has a theory that President Harrison is settling old scores in making appointments. He is report ed to have said apropos of the appoint ment of Mr. Clark, as collector of the port of Chicago "I construe Mr. Harri son's action in this matter—his refusal to appoint Mr. Campbell—as a deliberate affront, and no doubt he intended it as ! such. lie seems to think that the offices j belong to him personally, and not to the ; people. Mr. Lincoln thought otherwise, j Mr. Campbell devoted much of his time and his whole energies for the election of Mr. Harrison. Mr. Clark did not do this. But, then, this is Mr. Harrison's way of rewarding political friends. I regret that he entertains such notions for it will result in the disruption of the party to which he and I belong. It seems to me," continued the Senator, 4 'that it is the duty of those holding im portant official positions to try and carry out the will of the people, hut in this matter, Mr. Harrison has wholly ignored them, and so far as I remember this is the first instance in which the wishes of tii' entire delegation in Congress from any State have been so completely dis | regarded." It did not require last week's triumph to entitle Mr. Springer to the belt as tne great American vociferator. He out talked the Speaker, Mr. McKinley and the whole House and made a "barren | ideality" of the recollection of the vocal performances of the late William Allen. Mr. Crisp's crisp sentences in the House last week bid fair to blaze his way to the United States Senate. The Georgia people are naming him as a successor to Senator Brown. Mr. Samuel Randall is always in favor ' of protection. This time it is protection 3 against Speaker Reed and his party is a , unit with him and he has the pleasure R of seeing the wings Happing together. f) Perhaps it is well for the Republican h majority that Samuel J. Randall is not f 1 well. It. HEALTH AMONG THE HOPS. A Brooklyn Young Woman'* Chatty story of Her Health Trip. "I worked in the hop fields lest suni- I mer," she said, and she looked :i0 though all the good of the hops and none of their injurious qualities had been absorbed into her system, for her face was bright and rosy, her step elas ! tic, and her manner cheerful. She i was not at all like the fragile young lady of eight months ago. whose friends 1 in Brooklyn hardly expected to see her j alive in November. "For a whole j month," she continued, "I lived on a farm near Cooperstown, N. Y., and ! picked hops almost from dawn to dusk every day except Sundays. The farm er was glad to hire me for my board and lodging. Four other girls and ! two yonug men were engaged on the ; same terms. We were all more or less acquainted with each other in Brook lyn. so it was not exactly like going 1 alone among strangers. Of course it would have seemed a great deal more re lined if we had paid the farmer for the privilege of picking his hops, but had we done so the object for which we isolated ourselves so far from home would not have been achieved, lie would never have had the moral cour- : age to make his guests and patrons ! work against their wills. As matters were arranged, lie left a great deal to his wife, and. I can tell you. she show- j ed us very little consideration. She i was determined to get the full value | of her milk and weak tea, and was not , disposed to give us her fat pork and i beans without a fair equivalent or to I allow us to eat the corn bread of idle- j ness She called us every morning at daybreak, and she was not to be de- ' nied. We had to walk three-quarters of a mile to the hop tields, and it was necessary, she said, for us to be astir early. "We did not mind this much on warm mornings, but when the breath of frost was on the atmosphere it was a dreadful thing to be told to get up from our not too comfortable beds, and to know that we had 110 alterna tive but to obey. However, it was not so bad when we were once up, and when the sun got well up, too, we grew quite cheerful, for the morning air in the northern part of the state is very bracing. It was like bathing at Coney Island 011 a chilly day. After i the first dip the agony is over. But I washing in the icy spring water was a 1 terrible ordeal. Once I asked the ' farmer's wife to let me have a little j warm water in my bedroom, but the I proposition, which she declined frigid | ly, so shocked her that I was afraid she I would punish me by giving me no breakfast; but she only marked her • displeasure by confining me to three j slices of corn bread, which was bad I enough, for my appetite at that time | had grown out of all ladylike propor- I tions, aud I usually consumed live I slices. "One young man, whose hair and mustache were of a beautiful seal brown color, said that he would allow his beard to grow rather thau shave with cold water; but we were all amaz ed to see the bristles on his cheeks and | chin coming out quite red. He was i very much mortified, and when the i other young fellow laughed at him, • and lectured him about the evils of | forgetfulness, he packed up his traps and went away two weeks before the former's hops had all been harvested. "Of course we had some rights that we always maintained. We insisted on not being separated from each other in the hop fields, and we ate our lunch together among the vines. It was verv pleasant, for we could sing songs and talk and tell stories, which we should not have cared to do if we hat I been obliged to work side by side with the paid laborers, many of whom were j tramps, pure ami simple. To them the farmer used language that seemed to j me to be sometimes unnecessarily em- j phatic. To us he spoke more politely; i but this was the only distinction he | made. He was as careful in seeing 1 that we turned in our full complement ; of hops every evening as he was to gel I the value of his money from the men and women to whom he paid their wages at the end of each da}*. "The fare at meals was, of course, execrable, but huugor is a good sauce, I and we all ate heartily. Next season I | shall try to make up a party of delicate j young ladies, and take them to the j hop lields in search of health. I shall lay in a stock of biscuits and canned provisions to assuage my hunger in my bedroom or among the vines, so that the farmer's wife will not have reason i to regard me with a strong reproach ful eye at meals, as though she thought J worked harder at the table than in the field." Thirteen cords of wood were sawed from a single tree in Colerain township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Mormon Tithing Scrip. If yougointo the principal office of the tithing-house, says a Salt Lake City letter in the St. Louis Globc-Dcmo crat, you will see a tall, young man handling what looks like money. He is behind a counter and the counter is protected by a high railing. The man glances through the window, then looks down at the bills, and goes on thumb ing them like a bank teller. Ho goes to aud from a big safe, carrying bun dles done up just as bills are, with lit tle bands of brown paper pinned about them. Sometimes the young man doesn't stop to count, but takes the amount on the brown slip as correct and passes out the money. This is Mormon money. It is the tithing scrip. It is used to facilitate the hand ling of the grain, and hay, and live stock, and produce which come in. If you pick up one of these bills you will find it very much like a bank note in appearance. In one upper corner is the number of the bill. In the lower left-hand corner is the in hoc signo of Mormonism, a bee-hive. The face of the bill reads: "Gen eral tithing Storehouse. Good only for merchandise and produce at the general tithing storehouse, Salt Lake city, Utah." Each note bears the signature of the presiding bishop. On the back is the denomination again and a vignette of the new temple at Salt Lake City. The back also bears the wording: "This note is not cur rent except in the merchandise and produce departments of the general tithing storehouse." The engraving is well executed and the printing is well done. The bills vary in color. Then? are greenbacks for one department of the tithing house, brownbacks for an- j other, aud so on. Hy using this scrip the church is able to create a market for considerable quantities of the tith ing. The scrip is given out in dis pensing charity. It is used for paying for work on tin; temple so far as the workmen can make use of it. Em ployes of the tithing house receive their salaries of allowance partly in scrip. In numerous ways the Mormon money j ' irets into circulation. Nickels ami Connie*. The copper used in the manufacture of pennies is of tlie very host quality, and is from the Calumet & Motrin Min ing Company on Lake Superior. The metal is shipped in bulk l'rom the mines to the factories of Merchant <& Co., in Connecticut. There it is rolled and stamped out in circles of the requisite size, say the Philadelphia Inquirer. These circles are perfectly plain, with the exception of the'raised or milled edge. At this stage the pieces intended for pennies are as bright as gold pieces, while those intended for nickels resemble highly polished silver. In this condi tion they are delivered to the mint. Of course, it is absolutely necessary that all the pieces should be of uniform size and weight. The transfer from the factory to the mint is made, and the number of pieces in a package is reckoned by its weight. To find out how many small coins the amount of nickel and copper contract ed for at present will make, multiply the number of pounds of copper by 100 atul the number of pounds of nickel by seventy. This calculation will show that the metal now about to be made up into coin will make 35,000 nickels and 100,000 pennies. One hundred pen nies, therefore, weigh exactly one pound. When these pieces reach the mint they are subjected to the linishing pro cess, which consists in stamping them with the denomination, lettering and characters seen on the coins, when they reach the public. To accomplish ; this great pressure is needed, as the I pieces are not heated again after leav ing the factory. The amount of pressure required is i simply enormous, considering the size ' of the pieces. The copper pontile re quire a pressure of ten tons avoirdu- 1 pois, while with the nickel pieces it is j necessary to put on a pressure of from ; *wlve to tiftoen tons. WgL POWDER Please ask your dealer for IDEAL TOOTH POWDER. Four medals received, each the highest. An Engraving 20x24 without Advertising WITH EACH TWO BOTTLES. BEAN & VAIL BROTHERS, Philadelphia, M'f'rs of Peep O* Day Perfume. Irn e contest for the gold watch between Miss J Nellie Melon den of llui'lcigli, Miss Mamie Met) iimld of Fr eland. Misses Mary O'Donnell 1 and Katie Cani| belt of Eeklcy, for the benefit ! of t le < hureh i f the Immaculate Conception ! at lick ley, will close on Friday. Feb. 14, into. The fair will close on Feb. £-\ when the druw ; ing for the horse will come off. It will be own ! on Wednesday and Saturday evenings till then and all the articles disposed of. IF YOU ARE DRY, AND WANT 1 the worth of your money, just give ZEPa/tricis: Care 37- a call. He keeps the best beer and the largest schooner. Fine lij/c Whiskey, Old Winea, Porter, Ale, Cigars and AGARIC, the Great Nerve 'Panic. Centre Street, below South, Freehold. O'DONNELL & Co., Dealers In —•GENERAL— MERCHANDISE, Groceries, Provisions, Tea, Coffee. Queensware. Giassware. &c. FLOUR, FEED, HAY, Etc. We invite the people of Freel and in id vielnlty to call and examine our large and handsome stock. Don't lorget the place. Next Door to the Valley Hotel. A New En erprise! FERRY & CHRISTY, dealers in Stationary, School Books, Periodicals, Hong Hooks, Musical Instruments, CIGARS and TOBACC), o-ocids Window Fixtures and Shades, Mirrors, Pictures and Frames made to order. Pictures enlarged and Framed. Crayon Work a Specialty. 31 Centre Street, Givens' Building. OtJU LA IKS F STOCK OF DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, enocEfliES. Mini met and all kinds of GENERAL MERCHANDISE cannot be surpassed in Freehold. t tTWe Invite special attention to our line of Furniture, which is equal to any 111 Lower Luzerne. J. P. McDonald, S. W. Corner Centre and South Sts., Freeland. Musical Festival! TO HE HELD AT Frecland, March i, '9O. VOCA L. 1. For choirs not less than 60 in number, "Arise All Ye Na tions," (Lloyd) $250 00 2. For choirs of same number, "We Never Will Row Down," (Handel) 100 00 3. For choir of children not under thirty in number, and not over 16 years of age, tenor and bass to assist them, "He Knows," (Gospel Hymns) 25 00 4. I'or party of male voices, not under twenty in number, "Monk's March," (Parry) 25 00 5. Quartette, "Good Night, Gen tle Folks," (Will L. Thompson) 800 G. Trio,"The Magic Wove Scarf," (Dittston Edition) 6 00 7. Duett, "The Two Bards," (Price) 4 00 8. Bass solo, "The People That Walketh in Darkness," (Mes siah) 3 00 9. Baritone solo, "The Noble Boy of Truth," (Parry) 3 00 10. Soprano solo,' "But Thou Didst Not Leave Ilis Soul in Hell," (Messiah) 3 00 11. For girls under 16 years of age, "I Love Her Still," (M. 11. Rosenfeld) 2- 00 12. Tenor solo, "The Missing Song," (D. Emlyn Evans) 3 00 INSTRUMENTAL. To the band (brass or reed, and not less than 26 in number) that will best render a piece of music of their own selection.. .$ 50 00 j Cornet solo, "Delecta," (by Hi Henry, published by A. Squire, Cincinnati, O.) $ 500 RECITATIONS. 1. For men only, "The Falls of | Lad ore," $ 300 | ! 2. For girls, "The Ship on Fire," | (Oxford Junior Speaker) 300 J j3. For boys and girls, "The | Frenchman's Lesson," (Oxford Junior Speaker) 4 00 CONDITIONS. 1. No prizes shall be awarded without i sufficient merit. 2. All names of competitors to he in the i hands of the corresponding secretary j on or before February 5, 1889. 3. Competitors can use piano or organ or : sing without any. 4. 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NEW ORDINANCE.' An ordinance for the widening of Cen tre Street in the borough of Freeland. IK* it ordained anil enacted by the burgess and town council of the borough of Freeland, and it is hereby ordained and enacted by the That Centre Street, from Front Street to Wal nut Street in said borough be widened, laid out and opened to a total width of thirty 0*0) feet, exclusive of sidewalks, which shall tie six (•) feet wide on each side of said street. T. A. HUCKLKV, WILLIAM JOHNSON, Secretary. President. Passed finally in council on third read ing, on the 7th day of October, 1889. MISS ANNIE COSTELLG lias opened a NEW DRESS MAKING ESTABLISHMENT at the residence of Archie Phillips, Chestnut Street, below Washington, where all kinds ot plain and fancy sewing will lie done in the best possible manner. Fisher & Cornelius, BUTCHERS, and dealers In all kinds of Fresli