FREBLAHD TRIBUNE.
Published Every Thursday Afternoon
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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. ;
! Send for our I <>ok u ( in; ■.:• d (>.\> gen, It- ,
! hi -tory, naiun ; id r. -ults; a I>><>iv ol :.)0 pages !
! sent tree, it eoi ins numerous testimonials j
from chronic pat i nts and tlmsc given over b.\ j
I physicians. Von will lied it an interesting
I book An\ so--: ou •• made elsewhere, or b.\ |
at \ others than In- . i-key \ i a'eu, IArch ;
i Btreet, and ealic;l t • ..pound t)\y en, is spuri- .
""Drs. STARKEY & PALEN,
1 Arch St., Philadelphia. Pa.
1-40 Sutter St., San I laueisco, Pal
Please mention this paper.
HENRY STUNZ,
Eoot and Shoemaker
Cor. Uidsfe and Chestnut Sts., Free I und.
Having purchased a large
■ stock of
! BOOTS &3HO2S
I am prepared to sell them at
prices that defy competition.
Repairing 1 a Specialty
Call and examine my stock.
| Cor. Ridge and Chestnut Sts
COTTAGE HOTEL
Cor. of Main and Washington streets,
MATT SIEGER. Prop.
1 Having leased the above hotel and furnished
it in the la -i m\ 1.-, I am pv. 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
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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(
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