FREBLAHD TRIBUNE. Published Every Thursday Afternoon -BV TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY, .KDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - 1100 PER YEAR. Bute rod at the Freeh lad I'out office at Second Clam Matter. FKEKLAND, PA, MARCH 31, 1802 MB. WAJJAMAKER can advocate gov ernmental control of the telegiaph system without being called a Social ist. If Mr. Powderly were to advo cate such a plan there would be no mincing words with him. He would be a rank Socialist. If Mr. Pierpont Morgan or Mr. Anthony Diesel wen to urge that the government take holo of the railroads, give a thorough system of travel without the necessiu and expenseof stock wate ingitwoulu be "a great business move," but it Jerry Simpson advocates, why then ii becomeß a crank notion.— Jluzleton ISentinel. ALTHOUOH Harrison has secured tin Indiana delegation to the National Convention, his opponents iu the Re publican party do not stop their ef forts to prevent liis renotniuation Their opposition is based upon tin assertion that he cauuot carry bl own State again. The chief news paper organ of these Republicans is the Fort Wavue Gazette, one of tin most prominent party organs in the State. N. R. Leonard, editor of the Gazette, has recently written an open letter, iu which he says "that Han son's renomination would he a polit ical mistake, and that he feels that i large number of the party iu Indium concur with him in these views." FEW tears were shed over the dent I of Arto Pardee this week. \Vh< i j men like him are called the publii seldom indulges in lamentations, La the world loses nothing that is of any good or benefit to it. He did niuei in his lifetime to advance coal miiiinp in its scientific and other branches, but. all he ever did was for self aloi.e To all humane appeals he was as deut as man could be, utterly regardless of the poverty and pain lie caused thousands of people through the cn ditions he imposed upon them. Lik mativ others, in his mad desire t place railii >us upon millions, he re peatedly broke the a of list • aud violated every pi incipie of hoiioi and manhood to gratify his avarice. EVERY citizen of Pennsxlvani I WLM has the slightest rega d f< r justice will approve of Govern r PuitisonV pi rd in of Messrs M lion a I Po te , editors of tie Bei v r htar. Thes men were c nvicted by a packed j u\ and seutenced by a part so j i-lge upon the preposterous charge 1 libel ing Mat' Quay. Just as if HUfh a thing were possible! When judges and juries are false to their tt ust it i only light ami just there should la- a higher tribunal to which the peoph can appeal. In this State we have a pardon board and a governor who a not afraid to open the j. il doors fui men who were imprisoned by the - dels of a boss politician. \\ bib Put tison reigns there will he ju ti • st far as it lies iu his power to have i so THE Cleveland tide is swelling among the Democrats. The poii'i cians are hearing from he people, ami the latter are expressing thetn selves in no uncertain tone. Secre tarv of State Harrity said hist week that the vote of Pennsylvania in the Democratic Convention will go to Cleveland, ami the returns of the district conventions bear him out. Whatever opposition was alleged in this Slate has been shown to be merely the talk of discredited politi ciatis. From all parts of the United States come reports that bode no good to Hill. As for Hill's Southern tour, the weight of opinion of the Southern press is that it has injuied rather than helped his prospects Cleveland is the man ami tariff' reform tin issue. WHEN General Lilly was first men tinned as the Republican candidate for Congressman at ho pe the selection was considered ago )d one I>v hot h Republican and Democratic news papers. It was conceded that it would he almost impossible to heat any Republican for that office, so thoroughly is Quay entrenched in power in this State, and the Demo crats were naturally interested in the selection of their opponents. Lilly has been a gil friend to his party, anil, according to the present state of politics, deserved the nomination. But events that have taken place in i the past month have caused a com plete change in the intentions of the leaders, and Lilly's hoomlet has almost disappeared. The leading i Republican organs of the coal region have thrown him overboard, became they could not ask their readers to support a loan who is now under bail for violating State laws. Lilly has foundered on the semimonthly pay rocks, and yet the Republicans at Hazleton on Monday had the audau city to recommend his nomination. Clean line Out Hi© Old Force. The Lehigh Valley and Central em ployes are in anything but a peaceful state of mind, as there is no telling how soon any of them may lose the positions they have held the larger portions of their lives. From Bethlehem to Mauch Chunk this is especially noticeable, and the Coal Gazette comments upon it as fol lows: The people of the entire Lehigh Valley | will not be likely to applaud the latest move made by the Reading combination. When the announcement was made ot the appointment of John Taylor as Gen eral Traffic Manager of the new system, there was general rejoicing, and subse quently when it was learned that Super intendents Goodwin, Blakeslee and Mitchell had been retained, the public breathed freer. The word had gone forth that nothing would be done to in jure any towns along the line of the leased roads, and the combination asked for a suspension of public opinion. Tin people of the Lehigh Valley were about getting back into the old order of thing when they are startled with the an nouncement that the Lehigh Vallex offices are to he removed to Philadelphi: before April 1. It would seem from this that the managers of the ileal were not i sincere when they professed that no ' community would suffer through it. an now that they have some show of kee| j ing the unholy alliance together, the I natural order of things is coming about one of which is the concentration of tin 1 general offices. Bethlehem's grasp on the general of fices has been short-lived. The echo of their rejoicing over Mauch Chunk's die , comfiture had hardly died away when an • ! edict goes forth which turned the tables j I on our brethern in the holy land down j the valley. They are forced to give up | the offices to Philadelphia, and the pal j atial new buildingadjacent to "Fountain I Mill." where the "favored few" art I i gracious enough to dwell, will soon be | j empty, and Bethlehem's greatness as a 1 j railroad centre w ill have passed away j If we were inclined to lamentations. I I we might sigh out a great many over the removal of the Lehigh Valley offices from this place. But what's the usi ? The decree of the Combination Cyrus has gone forth, and that settles it fui ' i the present. We lack words to express I <ur regret. All that is left us resolves itself into the melancholy task of joining I | "All the Bethlehems" in a common j wail. j Mauch Chunk is an unfortunate town After many years of careful husbanding | and partiality, the offices of this corpora | tion were fully founded here, and gave j promise that their fixture was as per | manent as the load itself. But when the Packers were gone, and a new Pharoah ruled iu the corporate land, ii wus nut long before a ruthless hand made theua follow the court of the powers that he to "All the Bethlehems" ' i land. We groaned over this. Bit out groans w ere of no use. Were not the . "waters" of "All the Bethlehems" bettei than those of Maticn Chunk? So the . offices went to "All the Bethlehems." Again a new Pharoah is crowned in the land. This time he happens to live in Philadelphia. He is no reganler oi persons or places. The ruthless decrei ! goes forth. The offices must follow his court. The few that are left in tin S.\ itzerland" go to the City of Brotherlx Love, ami the many that are luxuriously located in "All the Bethlehetus" uiUsl follow suit. No wonder we groan; no wonder "the Bethlehems" groan! We cannot he consoled by the apo thegm, sic transit gloria mundi. And we won't le. But it. would be some sincere consolation if, in the near future, the avenging anget of an outraged coimtitu liwii should say, "Thus fur, and in> farther!" In the meantime, we take our medi cine like little soldiers. Taxation and PaupcrUm. It is one of the commonplaces of po litical economy that every tax is a bur den, says To-Day , of Boston. There is to be sure, a theory widely accepted among us that certain kind of taxes— those upon imports—produce wealth ami national prosperity. There is another theory, not quite so widely accepted, that there is no nee i of any tuxes at ail; that if the government wishes to pur chase anything it can just issue money and purchase. The first of these theories seems to be losing ground at present, and the second to be gaining; hut by the adherents of both, direct taxes upon do mestic production are recognized as bur densome. This being the case, it might be supposed that in a free country taxes would he very light; but in the United States they are very heavy. A writer in the Fortnightly Review asserts that they are higher here than in any other civi lized country. This assertion probably could not he substantiated; hut it is not so ludicrously wild as i* would have been fifty years ago. In no respect have we more successfully aped the older civiliza tion of Europe than in collecting vast sums from the people to he wasted by the government. The full evil of heavy taxation cannot he appreciated without considering on whom it falls. A man who low 110,(1(10 a year will not suffer any actual hardship if SI,OOO of that is taken from him in taxes; hut one whose income is only SSOO feels a tax of fifty dollars very keenly. . The total amount of all taxes in this country—town, county, Btate, and na- tional—probably falls below ten per cent of the annual production; but when we remember that the National taxes alone for last year came to nearly half of this portion, we see that the whole I amount cannot be much under ten per cent. Nothing is more difficult than to dis | cover the incidence of taxation. Most j of our taxes are levied upon property ; but it is proverbial that they will not ! stay where they are put. Only the very shallow and thoughtless are taken by the fallacy that a man who has no property | pays no taxes. Cobbett likened the British national debt to a cannon-ball rolling down a flight of steps —it had successively been shifted from one clns to another until it rested upon the lowest. The secretary of the New York Tax Re form Association contributes an able ar ticle to the Charities Review , in which he seeks to show that taxes and bad laws are the chief causes of pauperism. It is not, of course, possible to prove this di rectly. We cannot pick out a thousand paupers, and say, these men were re duced to this condition by the taxes they had to pay; the case is too complex for this. We can point to some who have made great fortunes by the assistance of unjust laws, by being helped by the gov eminent to levy taxes on their fellow citizens, and to others who have been driven out of their business and ruined by the imposition of taxes upon that business; but comparatively few paupers can trace their misfortune in this way. The way in which taxes increase pau perism is by discouraging enterprise Few men will engage in business of any kind except from the hope of profit. II 1 a large part of the profits, say ten per j rent., are taken from them, this must certainly mitigate against industry. A man may be a pauper because he is 1111- able to perfoim productive labor, or be cause he will not, or because he cannot find any to do. There can be no doubt that there are many of the last class; nearly all able-bodied men are able to lo work which would coutiihute to pro tection; most of the work that is done n the world is tolerably simple and easy to learn. Now, if a man is kept from ••iigaging in business by the confiscation f part of his profits, this certainly tends to lessen the demand for labor. It is very probable that taxation in this enntry is heavy enough to have to s effect. The Combine's Colossal llrlhery. If the Philadelphia and Heading com bine is pursuing the same course to gain ••.ntrol of coal producing capacity as ha been adopted to secure legislation, then the methods must he regarded asexceed ingly questionable. The bribery, to oh • sun the passage of the hill by the New Jersey Legislature legalizing the gigantic coal combination, is the greatest and crookedest ever known in the history of ihe country. The amount of hoodie dis tributed is not exactly known, hut it is ! -Mill to have been enormous Rome New 1 Jersey legislators, who accepted cash for j their votes, received enough to make [ i hem comfort-hie for life. If the opera ! tors in the Schuylkill, Lehigh, Wyoming | iml Lackawanna regions are being j 'fixed" in the same manner for their -*>al lands and tonnage, it is not to be wondered at then that they are willing ri accept the terms of the corporation t uit is scheming to create a monstrous | monopoly and boost up the prices of cm 1 o exorbitant figures.— Nanticoke News. Sound SeiiHo From the Solid South. The Southern people had an opportu nity to gaze upon that man llill while be was making a second-class circus of himself in their section this month Here is what the representative papers down there think of the man who ima gines he will be the next President: Mill has returned from his Southern electioneering tour, hut, notwithstanding that he indulged in almost daily speech making, if he has told the people of the 1 South anything new it has never been made public. Instead of instructing ihem on the living issues of the day— ■ tariff reform and silver—he merely re eited the old, time-honored principles of the Democracy with which his hearers had been perfectly familiar long before they ever heard of him. These lie urged the Southern Democracy to stick to. They propose to do so and vote forXlrover ! Cleveland. — Richmond Time*. No simon-pure Democrat in the South : wants Hill because no one trusts him, no one knows where he stands on the tariff, silver or any other of the leading issues j <f the day. The opponents of Hill i should make it plain to the Chicago Co n! vention that if he shall be nominated ! the Republicans will elect the President, j — Charleston News and Courier. i 11 ill's Southern tour did not strength) n ( him with the Southern people. Those ! who met him were not impressed with the belief that he is the man the Demo cratic party wants for its standard-bearer in the national campaign. Those who i heard or read his speeches felt that he lacks profound convictions upon leading public questions—that he is more intor j ested in personal success than in the tri umph of the principles of his party.— Savannah News. I Aside from the unanimous voice of the I New York delegation to the Chicago 1 Convention for Hill, the general trend of opinion shows the wonderful strength and popularity of Cleveland throughout the country. A conservative, outlook at present is that Cleveland will get all the K.astern States, and in the end all the : Northern and Northwestern Stales, after a complimentary vote is given by the delegations from States that have their own honored sons to present to the con sideration of the convention. — Norfolk j Virginian. i Subscribe for the Titint'.NK. A WHITE LEAD TRUST ; ORGANIZED AFTER MUCH NEGOTI ATION, BUT VERY EFFECTIVE. j 1 The J'riee of rig Lead Unit Declined, ( hut That of the Painters* ltuw Mate- ] rial Has Advanced While Wages Have ] Not. J The lead industry of the United States ] is divided into three branches. The fir t is devoted to the mining of the ore, the • second to the smelting and reiiuing of the miners' product and the third to the i manufacture of the pig lend into sheets, pipe, shot and white lead and its kin- 1 dred products. In the last two of these branches several distinct trusts have more or less complete control. The greater part of the h ad ore mined in the United States is smelted in Colo rado, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois. In ; all <<# these states there are local com binations among tlie smelters. But. though it has often been attempted, no general combination has as vet been or ganized. Every attempt, therefore, to control production and prices has ended in failure, and however strong the local combines may be, they have little effect [ upon the general market. In 1890 the leading shot manufacturer* formed a trust, which now has complete j control of this important lead product. Similarly other minor lead products are controlled by more or less strong com bines. But the leading trust in the load industries is the National Lead com- 1 pany, recently incorporated under the laws of New Jersey. This company was j originally organized as at rust in Octo- : ber, 1887. Previous to that time the , corroders of lead in the leading cities were organized as are tho smeltcrs and : refiners today. Thus in New York six largo establish- ! tnents had united and secured a charter ■ under the name of the National Load and Oil company. But such local coin bines were not strong enough to sup press competition, and whenever at tempts were made to raise prices buyers ! went to other producing centers. At j this stage of affairs the National Lead trust was formed. No attempt was i made, as has been the case with other i trusts, to keep matters secret. Nor did | those who planned it deny that their j object was to form a trust. Their aim ! was declared to be to decrease compcti- i j tion, introduce economics in production ! and sale and thereby increase profits. ! A trust or agreement was drawn up providing that as soon as those who held i a majority of the stock of nine corpora- I tions therein mentioned should sub ; scribe to the agreement and transfer I their stock to tho trustees, tho trust ) agreement should go into effect. By 1881) twenty companies had joined the i trust. Since then eleven more have been taken in or purchased outright. | There are therefore thirty-one different ; corporations in the trust. Of these, four are smelting and refining plants and I three are linseed oil mills, the remaining twenty-six being devoted to the manu i facturo of white lead and its related products. The trust now controls all but about , | 4 per cent, of the annual product of , ! white lead, and it has a smelting and re | fining capacity sufficient to supply near ly all of its material. At the same time ! its linseed oil mills produce more than enough of oil to supply the amount used ,by the trust in its business. Outside of the trust there are in tho United States only two important plants engaged in ! white lead production. The trust there ' fore has absolute control of tho white j lead business. During the first year of its exist once I the trust operated at a loss to the extent ! of $262,600, according to the report of I tho trustees. This was duo to the coni i petition on the part of independent | works. Some of tho most important of these joined tho trust in 1889, and by J means of the higher prices thus made J possible, the trust made a profit of sl,- i 101,122. In 1890 the trust increased its i net profit to $2,028,652. This large in i crease in the profits made by the trust i was the direct result of the higher prices j of white lead inaugurated by the trust as compared with the prices existing Do fore the trust secured its monopoly. Tho average monthly prices of pig lead and white lead in oil in New York have been as follows since 1886: NEW YORK PRICES OF PIG LEAD. ISH7. 1888. 1889. 1890. 1801. Cents Cents Cents Cents Cents per lb. per lb. per lb. per lb. per lb. ! January.... 4.:il 4.w 4.st 3.80 4.38 j February.. 4.37 4.95 8.78 3.85 4.31 I March 4.32 5.15 3.72 3.95 4.35 I April 4.27 4.75 B.tW 4.05 4.25 | May 4.52 4.25 3.78 4.20 4.28 | June 4.65 3.90 3.1)0 4.12 4.1S I July 4.55 3.97 3.88 4.02 4.12 August 4.58 4.45 8.80 4.(10 4.42 September. 4.50 6.00 4.00 5.11 4.52 October.... 4.25 4.50 3.86 5.87 4.39 I November. 4.40 3.07 3.84 5.02 4.13 j December.. 5.12 3.75 3.89 4.24 4.25 j NEW YORK PRICES OF WHITE LEAD. 1887. 1888. 1880. 1890. 1891. Cents Cents Cents Cents Cents per lb. per lb. per lb. per lb. pur lb. i January.... 7.00 6.50 0.75 7.19 0.02 February.. 5.83 0.50 7.00 7.25 0.00 I March 5.83 0.50 7.00 7.25 0.50 j April 5.83 0.25 7.00 7.25 0.50 May 5.81 0.13 7.00 7.25 6.50 ' Juno... 5.75 5.75 7.00 0.50 0.50 ! July 5.75 5.03 7.00 0.25 0.75 ' August 5.85 5.50 7.00 6.25 0.75 | September. 0.25 6.06 7.00 6.50 0.75 I October.... 6.25 7.00 7.00 0.88 0.75 ! November., 0.25 7.00 7.00 7.00 6.75 ' December. 0.44 7.00 7.00 7.00 0.15 The average yearly prices of pig lead and white lead, respectively, have been as follows: 1887. 1888. 1889. 1890. 1891. Cents Cents Cunts Cents Cents , per lb. per lb. per lb. per lb. pur 11). White lead. 0.07 6.32 0.08 C.BO C.031& Pig load 4.50 4.42 3.93 4.48 4.35 Difference.. 1.57 1.00 8.05 2.38 2.28'$ The prices of white lead as given above are the lowest prices quoted by tho trust for targe quantities. From the 1 * v s in 18th and 1890 given above must oe uc Dieted he rebates paid by the trust to largo purchasers 011 condition that tho trust prices should be maintained by them. In 1889 this rebate was one fourth of a cent per pound on purchases of ten tons or more per year. In 1890 the system was changed to a system of discounts amounting to from 4 to 10 per cent, of the trust price, according to the j amount bought. Tho object of this was to prevent the large jobbers from cutting the prices I find by the trust. In January, 1891, this rebate system was abolished. De- 1 ' dueling these rebates, which affected largo purchases only, the difference in price between pig and white lead shows I a steady inorea o since the formation of | ■ the trust. The present price of pig lead in New York is 4.20 to 4.25 cents per | pound, and white lead in oil sells for j from 6' .1 cents to 6' t cents per pound for twelve tons and over. The differ- , ence between the lowest quotations for 1 white lead and pig lead is therefore 2.80 i cents per pound. j1 Thus the largo increase in the net profits made by tho trust during the j past three years has not been brought ; about by economy in production, as was divided tub-* the object of the trust, but j by the higher [trices which it wasable to exact from consumers. The ability of the trust to maintain these high prices ! 1 shows how complete is its control of the : white lead industry. TRUST "ECONOMIES." Not Viitil t!i• Trusts' Dlhholvo Do tlie "i:<!onoinieft" Appear. Wo have been trying to find in the , current reports of the trade journals ! somo evidence as to the changes made j in prices when the manufacturers in a 1 large industry lose tho advantages de rived from those ••economies" which a , trust or similar combination enables j them to practice. Everybody has heard j of these "economies." ! Everybody has been told by the trust j ! makers that they rcduco the cost of pro- i ! duction and tho selling price of the 1 ' products. Many have been surprised j when they saw prices considerably in- ■ ; creased as soon as combined mnnufuc- 1 turers were able to enjoy the "econo ; mies." It appears also that prices suffer [ a serious decline when manufacturers who have been in combination are no j longer assisted by the "economies." The facts are curiously at variance with the ' trust makers' doctrine. The combination of tho manufactur ers of steel beams was dissolved some j weeks ago. While these manufacturers j enjoyed the saving caused by the "econ- j omies," the price < f sDm ! beams was | ! 3 1-10 cents per j • the mill, or j $69.44 per long to. A tow days ago ; i 2,000 tons were sold in Chicago at the price of 2'.| cents, delivered. Other 1 sales at even lower prices have been re ported, as follows: "It is stated that one large contract, 5,000 tons, for season's delivery, has j been placed with a leading architectural works in this city (New York) at two cents, Pittsburg mill.''—lron Age. "In the beam trade, the only item of news of the week is the report that con tracts for 5,000 tons have been placed in Boston at 2 1-10 cents, delivered." —Iron ' Ago. The price of barbed wire, as fixed by tho Barbed Wire trust, was, at Pitts burg, on Jan. 28, inst before the dissolu tion of this combination, .82.55 for paint -1 ed and $3.05 for galvanized. On March i 8, about one month after the dissolution ' of tho trust, the prices at the same place 1 were $2.25 and $2.65, and correspond ing reductions had been mado tit other ; points. The changes caused by the loss of tho i trust "economies" may bo set forth as ! follows: With Without "cconn- "ccono- Decline, mies." mice." Percent. , I Steel beams £O9 44 $44 80 35 I Barbed wire, pnlut ' j ed i! 55 225 11 I Barbed wire, gftl i ! virilized 305 265 13 ; ! These figures will tax the ingenuity of ■ the professional advocates of trnstism. . i Immediately after tlie great advantages due to the practice of combination ' "economies" were withdrawn, the price of steel beams did not rise. It fell 95 (! percent. And in the case of barbed wire there was a decline of 13 per cent. The trust professors should overhaul and revise their chief doctrine.—New York Times. t'liinstructcd French Conmiinevs. A local protection organ notes the cliargo against M. Lafargue, a mombi. of the French chamber of deputies, oi "exciting discontent among the people" by calling for a reduction of the new duties on breadstuff's. It says that: "Unfortunately, bis task has been made easier by the sudden rise in the price of many articles which has taken place in France, immediately after tlie putting into operation, on Feb. 1, 1892, of the new ultra protectionist tariff adopt ed by the chambers." How is this? Have not the French people learned the American protection ist doctrine that "the tariff is not a tax." or that wln n it is "the foreigner pays it?" Have they not read the labored articles in our protection organs, striv ing to show that taxed articles have grown cheaper under our "ultraprotec tionist tariff."' Minister Reid ought to do some missionary work among tlie tax burdened French people.—New York | World. Hulling Mill Workmen McKitileyizcil. Cofrode & Savior, of the Reading rolling mill, have notified their em ployees of a 10 per cent, reduction in wages. The order affects nearly all de partments and takes effect immediately. Tlie firm employs about 650 hands. When the leading iron mills of Pennsyl vania and Ohio cut down the wages of their workmen early last year the advo cates of the MoKiuley tariff declared that in time it would prove beneficial. Nearly a year and a half has passed since it became law, and is it not about tinio that some of the good results ; Jionld begin to appear? Tin Pi ato Importl. The new British steamer Massachu setts, Captain '.Villiauis, arrived at Swansea early in March, where she will load for New York 3,000 tons of tin platoa. This will bo the largest ship ment of tin [dates to the Uni. d ftlam since the McKinleybill went into effect. C. O. M. 22 GO uyE. It has been in us for more i!um twenty years n\ i r tll'ty thousand \ atieuts have been treated, • ! ai d over one thousand physicians have used it, ; und reeoiniuend l: a very significant fact. | It is agreeable to b hale. Tin-re is no naust - ' j ous taste, nor utter-taste, nor Ickcning smell. ; ! 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I- • red to cut< r b i the wants of tiie t ra\elii g public. frtST* GOOD IsTAllLIN(• ATTACH Fl). PKNSIONS Til 1 I>lß V l11/'TV 111 1.1. is A |j.\ W. So/ilicfM DixtibUil Since (fir War are Entitled DependeiC widuw • and I limits n< w dependent wli iso sons tied from elicd* ol ariu.\ service are include'. II you wi-h \. .ur el.iini speedily . and suece.-st'ull\ pro-ecuted. JAfo.,- I" ANNER. Late Coin. "I Peiish M ii-liingtoii, >. < . m of ¥T H K c iv 1 9 NC y t-:, 8 -:a IV. S FLi A 48-page book free. Address TV. T. FIT/ OI KAI.D, Ut'y-at-Luw Cor. Bth unci F sts , Washington, l>. < ~ IK 11SEMEN ALL KNOW THAT Wise's Harness Store Is still here and doing husi ness on the same old principh of good goods and low prices. "iwHcfiitl * blankets! ■s>&' ' | 1 Lr| 1 1 I lUi^MJ f 111 "lIOW lAT J'l) til l' ll' 1 HAD ONE." Two or three do'Vs for a f/\ Horse Blanket will save d uKe its cost. Your lorse will eat jo s to keep warm and be 70rth fifty dollars more. f: iilciib'ijjiSa Jiiankets. IJufTnlo Robes. Har ne'ss, anil in fact cvt ry thinp; needed by Horsemen. Good workmanship and low prices is my motto. GEO. WISE, •I !<!< a X oo ("en r St.. K eeland. I' . | CURE THAT t t AND 5?0? THAT IN. E Downs' Elixir 1 WILL DO ET D X Price, 2.1 c., 00c., and f1.03 i>cr bottled A Warranted. Cold everywhere. | A HSHS7, JOENSSiI 41. 0. Trc-s., VI. j i Sold at Schilcher's I)i. . Stoit. E3DTS KD SHOES —at— Ast nishingly Low Prices. The finest grade of goods in the market is being sold at figures that will surprise you. Shoes to fit your feet is what you want, and this is the piace to get them Bargain seekers must in spect my stock or they will lose money. Geo. Ci e..nul. 93 Cenlrt St Washington Ilcuse, 11 Walnut Street, above Centre. .V. fiocpjicr!. I'riip. The best ot Whiskies, Wines, (>in alid Cigars. Good stabling attached. ARNOLD & K BELL'S Beer and Porter A lwnys on Tap. W'M. WEH KM ANN, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER Front Street, Freclaiid, near Opera House. j Cleaning 8-Day Clocks 40 cts. Alaim " 20 " '• Watches - 50 " \ Main Springs, 35 cents to 81.00 Jewelry repair- d at short notice. All watch repairing guaraut ed tor one year. '1 lie cheap est simp in town, Give me a call. DANIEL J. KEN N LI N , hKAIEIt IN FINE C'IGAKS ANI) 101 A( (J O. 'l' E M 1' E H A .\ I E UK INK. ( < N EE' T I O \ EI { Y. E'IC. r entrfc Strtot. Fudinr, FP 7hre t Fin Hi i \ I Patrick Carey I nth reunited In.in th< An en | cnn hotel l<> John Me.-hen's I lock, • • mil . outre .MIVI t, where he can be li-unil will, a lull line ul Medical *\ has. (.in, Ih'i.ndieh. linn., old Kyc and liorl on Whi>kr\ Any pei> n who i-s dry and wanfh a e Id. I'M -I. I iv* •IClM Miner oi lem will In ij.ii-l d • < • I i | ■ a ley s. Joe. Acccn.mc aii i It -IX DIFKEHKNT KINDS ul ri l l > • . i. 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