FREELAND MI. Published Every- Thursday Arternoon -BV TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ; TERMS, - - SIOO PER YEAR. | Entered at the Freelind I'lalofflce us Second ! Class Matter. FKKELANI), PA, MARCH :il, 18(12 j MB. WANAMAKER can advocate gov j ernmental control of the telcgiapli system without being called a Social | ist. If Mr. Powderly were to advo j cate such a plan there would he no I miucing words with him He woulu j be a rank Socialist. If Mr. Pierponi i Morgan or Mr. Anthony Drexel wen : to urge tliutthe government take holo I of the railroads, give a thorough system of travel without the necessity j and expense of stock wate iug it woulu j be "a great busiuess move," but it i Jerry Simpson advocates, why then u j becomes a crank notion. — Jlazletun | /Sentinel. ALTHOUGH Harrison has secured tin Indiana delegation to the National Convention, his opponents in the Re publican party do not stop their ef forts to prevent his renouiiuation Their opposition is based upon tin assertion that he caunot carry bl own State again. The chief news paper organ of these Republicans is the Fort Wayne Gazette, one of the most promiuent party organs in tin- 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 polil ical mistake, and that he feels that n large number of the party in Indians concur with him in these views." FEW tears were shed over the deal I of Alio Pardee this week. Wh. i men like him are called the pulile seldom indulges in lamentations, for the world loses nothing that, is of any good or henetit to it. He did uiuci in his lifetime to advance coal mining in its scientific and other branches, but, all he ever did was for self alone To all humane appeals he was as ileal as man could be, utterly regardless of the poverty and pain he causei I thousands of people through the con ditious he imposed upon them. Lik many others, in his mad desire t. place millions upon millions, lie re peatedly broke the ass of list ■ and violated every pi incipie of boiioi and manhood to gratify his avarice. EVEKY citizen of Pennsylvi.ni I wh, has the slightest rega d f r justice will approve of Govern r PaitisonV pi rdon of Messrs M lion a IPote , ediiors of tie Bei Vtr bltir. Thesi men were c uvicted by a packed inn and sentenced by a partsui j-nlge upon the preposterous charge o| libel ing Mut Quay. Just as if such a thing were possible! When judges and juries are false to their ti ust it i only light and just there should lie a higher tribunal to which the peoph can appeal. In this State we have a pardon board and a governor who a i not afraid to open the j. il doors f.n men who were imprisons I by i lie o - ders of a boss politician. Y\ liih Pat tison reigns there will be ju ti-e si far as it lies in his power to have i so THE Cleveland tide is swelling among the Democrats. The politi cians are hearing from lie people, and the latter are expressing them selves in no uncertain tone. Secre tarv of .State Harritv said last week that the vote of Pennsylvania in the Democratic Convention will go to Clevelaud, and the returns of the district conventions bear him out. Whatever opposition was alleged in this State has been shown to be merely the talk of discredited politi cians. 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 and tariff reform the issue. WHEN General Lilly was first men tinned as the Republican candidate for Congressman at large the selection was considered ago >d one by both Republican and Democratic news papers. It was conceded that it would be almost impossible to beat tiny Republican for that office, so thoroughly is Quay entrenched in power in this State, and the Demo crate were naturally interested in the selection of their opponents. Lilly has been a good friend to his party, , ant], according to the present state of politics, deserved the nomination. But events that have taken place in : the past month have caused a com plete change in the intentions of the leaders, and Lilly's boomlet has ulmost disappeared. The leading ; Republican organs of the coal region have thrown him overboard, because they could not ask their readers to support a man who is now under bail for violating State laws. Lilly has foundered on the semi monthly pay rocks, and yet the Republicans at Hazleton tin Monday had the audau city to recommead his nomination. Cleaning; Out the Ohl Force. The Lehigh Valley and Central em ployes are in anything hut 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 oi the appointment of John Taylor as Gen eral Traffic Manager of the new system, there was general rejoicing, and suhse- j quently when it was learned that Super intendents Goodwin, Blakeslee and ( Mitchell had been retained, the public , breathed freer. The word had gone j 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 j people of the Lehigh Valley were about getting hack into the old order of thing ; when they are startled with the an I nouncement that the Lehigh Vallex \ ollices are to he removed to Philadelphia j before April 1. It would seem from this j that the managers of the deal were not 1 sincere when they professed that no ' community would suffer through it. an | now that they have some show of keej i ing the unholy alliance together, the j natural order of things is coming about one of which is the concentration of th< ! general offices. Bethlehem's grasp on the general of- | lices has been short-lived. The echo ol their rejoicing over Mauch Chunk's dis comfiture had hardly died away when an | edict goes forth which turned the tables |on our brethern in the holy land down 1 I the valley. They are forced to give up j | the offices to Philadelphia, and the pal- j j atial new buihlingadjacent to "Fountain Hill," where the "favored few" arc ' [ gracious enough to dwell, will soon be | ! empty, and Bethlehem's greatness as u I j railroad centre w ill have passed away | [ If we were inclined to lamentations. 1 we might sigh out a great many over the I removal of the Lehigh Valley offices ] from this place. But w hat's the us ? i fhe decree of the Combination Cyrus I has gone forth, and that settles it foi I t lie present. We lack words to express ur regret. All that is left us resolves itself into tin- melancholy task of joining j "All the Bethlehems" in a common wail. j Mauch Chunk is an unfortunate town After many years of careful husbanding j and partiality, the offices of this corpora | lion were fully founded here, and gave I promise that their ffxture was as per- I inanent as the load itself. But when j the Packers were gone, and a new Pharoah ruled iu the corporate land, it v\us not long before a ruthless hand made them follow the court of the powers that be to "All the Bethlehems" land. We groaned over this. Bit 0111 j j groans were of no use. Were not the "waters" of "All the Bethlehems" better j than those f Maucti Chunk? So the offices went to "All the Bethlehems." Again a new Pharoah is crowned iu the land. This time he happens to live in Philadelphia. He is no regarder oi persons or places. The ruthless decrei i goes forth. The offices must follow his court. The few that are Jeft in the S itzerland" go to the City of Brotherlj Love, and the many that are luxuriously ! located in "All the Bethlehems" must 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 j won't le. But it would be some sincere j consolation if, iu the near future, the 1 avenging angei of an outraged coiistitu lion should say, "Thus far, and ii> , farther!" In the meantime, we take our medi- j cine like little soldiers. Tiixution and rttupuriHin. It is one of the commonplaces of po-I litical economy that every tax is a bur ilen, 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 and national prosperity. There is another theory, not quite so widely accepted, that there is no nee t of any taxes at ail; 1 that if the government wishes to pur- j chase anything it can just issue money 1 and purchase. The first of these theories , seems to be losing ground at present, i and the second to be gaining; hut by the j adherents of both, direct taxes upon do- ■ mestic production are recognized as bur- j densome. This being the case, it might j be supposed that in a free country taxes 1 would he very light; hut 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 P would have been fifty years ago. In no respect have we j more successfully aped the older civiliza- I 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 has SIO,OOO 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, state, and na- ' tional—probably falls below ten per cent of the annual production; hut when we remember that the National taxes alone for last year came to nearly half of this portion, we see that the whole amount cannot be much under ten per cent. Nothing is more difficult than to dis cover the incidence of taxation. Most of our taxes are levied upon property; hut 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 110 property pays no taxes. Cobbett likened tin- British national debt to a cannon-hall rolling down a flight of steps —it had successively been shifted from one clas 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 RevUic , 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 M isfortune in this way. The way in which taxes increase pan- I perism is by discouraging enterprise Few men will engage in business of any ! kind except from the hope of profit. II { a large part of the profits, say ten pei ! cent., are taken from them, this must | certainly mitigate against industry. A man may lie n pauper because lie is un able to perfoim productive labor, or be- | cause be will not, or because he cannot I find any to do. There can lie no doubt | dial there are many of the last class;' nearly all able-bodied men are able to do work which would contiihute to pro- i I net ion; most of ttie work that is done j ; n the world m tolerably simple and easy to learn. Now, if a man is kept from engaging in business by the confiscation if part of his profits, this certainly tends to lessen the demand for labor. It is very probable that taxation in this | country is heavy enough to have ti. s | effect. The Com 1.1 ne's Colossal lirllvery. If the Philadelphia and Reading com bine is pursuing tlie same course to gain ■Miitrol of coal producing capacity as ha j been adopted to secure legislation, then the methods must be regarded as exceed -1 ngly questionable. The bribery, to ob i lain the passage of the bill by the New ! lersey Legislature legalizing the gigantic ' coal combination, is the greatest and I eronkedest ever known in the history of I ihe country. The amount of boodle (lis j tribute*! is not exactly known, but it is ! s lid to have been enormous Some New Jersey legislators, who accepted cash for their votes, received enough to make i hem comfortable for life. If the opera tors in tile Schuylkill, Lehigh, Wyoming mil Lackawanna regions are being 'fixed" in the same manner for their • •oal lands and tonnage, it is not to he wondered at then thut they are willing to accept the terms of the corporation t nit is scheming to create a monstrous monopoly and boost up the prices of eoi 1 •o exorbitant figures.— NatUieoke Nam. Sound Sense From Hie Solid South. The Southern people had an opportu nity to gaze upon that man llill while he was making a second-clans circus of himself in their section this month Here is what the representative papers ; down there think of the man who inia- 1 gincs he will he the next President: Hill 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 South anything new it has never been \ made public. Instead of instructing! them on the living issues of the day— j tariff reform and silver—he merely re cited the old, time-honored principles of the Democracy with which his hearers had heen perfectly familiar long before t hey ever heard of him. These he urged the Southern Democracy to stick to. They propose to do so and vote fur.Urover Cleveland. — Richmond Time*. No simon-pure Democrat in the South wants Hill because no one trusts him. no • •ne knows where he stands on the tariff, silver or any other of the leading issues "f the day. The opponents of Hill should make it plain to the Chicago Con vention that if he shall he nominated the Republicans will elect the President. —Charleston Nicies and Courier. Hill's Southern tour did not strengtln n him with the Southern people. Those who met hint were not impressed with the belief that be 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 (piestions —that he is more inter ested in personal success than in the tri umph of the principles of his party.— Savannah Ac tee. Aside from the unanimous voice of the New York delegation to the Chicago Convention for 11 ill, the general trend f opinion shows the wonderful strength and popularity of Cleveland throughout the country. A conservative outlook at present is that Cleveland will get all the Eastern States, and in the end all the Northern and Northwestern States, 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 Virginian. Subscribe for the TRIBINK. A WHITE LEAD TRUST ORGANIZED AFTER MUCH NEGOTI ATION, BUT VERY EFFECTIVE. The J'rtce of Pig I.cml lln Declined, but Thut of the Fainter** Ilaw Mate rial Has Advanced While Wages Have Not. The leatl industry of the United States is divided into three branches. The first is devoted to the mining of the ore, the second to tho smelting and refining ol the miners' product and the third to the manufacture of the pig lead into sheets, pipe, shot and white lead and its kin dred products. In the last two of these branches several distinct trusts have more or less complete control. Tho greater part of the lead ore mined in the United States is smelted in Colo rado, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois. In all (M these states there are local com binations among the suielters. But, though it has often been attempted, no general combination has as yet 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 manufacturers formed a trust, which now has complete 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 lead industries is tho National Lead com pany, recently incorporated under the laws of New Jersey. This company was originally organized as a trust in Octo ber, 1887. Previous to that time the corroders of lead in tho leading cities were organized as arc tho smelters and refiners today. Thus in New York six largo establish ments had united and secured a charter under the name of the National Lead 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 this stage of affairs tho National Lead trust was formed. No attempt was made, as has been the case with other trusts, to keep matters secret. Nor did those who planned it deny that their object was to form a trust. Their aim was declared to be to decrease competi 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 a majority of the stock of nine corpora tions therein mentioned should sub scribe to the agreement and transfer their stock to tlio trustees, the trust agreement should go into effect. By 1889 twenty companies had joined the 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 three are linseed oil mills, the remaining twenty-six being devoted to the manu facture 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 the United States only two important plants engaged in white lead production. The trust there fore has absolute control of the white lead business. Puring the first year of its existence the trust operated at a loss to the extent of $202,G00, according to the rtqiort of the trustees. This was duo to the com petition on the part of independent works. Some of tlio most important of these joined the trust in 1889, and by means of the higher prices thus made possible, the trust made a profit of $!,- 101,122. In 1890 the trust increased its net profit to $2,028,552. This large in crease in the profits made by the trust was tin? direct result of the higher prices of white lead inaugurated by the trust as compared with the prices existing be fore the trust secured its monopoly. The average monthly prices of pig lead and white lead in oil in New York have been as follows since 1886: NEW YORK PRICKS OF PIG LEAD. IHS7. 1888. 1889. 1890. 1891. Cents Cents Cents Cents Cents per lb. per lb. per lb. per lb. per lb. January.... 4.31 4.90 4.84 3.86 4.38 February.. 4.37 4.'.5 3.73 3.85 4.31 March 4.32 5.15 3.72 3.05 4.35 April 4.27 4.75 3.68 4.05 4.25 May 4.52 4.25 3.78 4.20 4.28 June 4.05 3.90 3.90 4.12 4.1 July 4.55 3.97 O.HS 4.62 4.12 August 4.58 4.45 8.80 4.00 4 12 September. 4.50 5.00 4.00 5.11 4.52 October.... 4.25 4.50 3.86 6.87 4.39 November. 4.40 3.67 3.84 5.02 4.12 December.. 5.12 3.75 3.80 4.24 4.25 NEW YORK PRICES OF WHITE LEAD. 1887. 1888. 1880. 1890. 1891. Cents Cents Cents Cents Cents per lb. per lb. per lb. per lb. per lb. January.... 7.00 6.50 0.75 7.19 0.62 February.. 5.83 0.50 7.00 7.25 6.50 March 5.83 6.50 7.00 7.25 0.50 April 5.83 0.25 7.00 7.25 6.50 May 5.81 0.13 7.00 7.25 6.50 Juno... 5.75 5.75 7.00 0.50 6.50 July 5.75 5.63 7.00 0.25 6.75 August 5.85 5.50 7.00 6.25 0.75 September. 0.25 0.06 7.00 6.50 0.75 October.... 6.25 7.<H> 7.00 6.88 6.75 November.. 6.25 7.00 7.00 7.00 6.75 December. 6.44 7.00 7.00 7.00 6.75 The average yearly prices of pig lead and white lead, respectively, have been as follows: 1887. 1888. 1889. 1800. 1891. Cents Cents Cents Cents Cents per lb. per lb. per lb. per lb. per lb. White lead. 6.07 6.32 6.J8 0.80 6.03?$ Pig lead.... 4.50 4.43 3.93 4.48 4.35 Difference.. 1.57 1.90 3.05 2.38 2.23'$ The prices of white lead as given above are the lowest prices quoted by the trust for 'arge quantities. From the M 's in 18tb and 1890 given above must oe a. lncted he rebates paid by the trust to large purchasers 011 condition that the trust prices should bo 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 amount bought. The object of this was to prevent the large jobbers from cutting tho prices ,fi.• d by tho trust. In January, 1801, this rebate system was abolished. De ducting these rebates, which affected large purchases only, the difference in price between pig and white lead shows a steady increase since the formation of i the trust. The present price of pig load in New York L 4.M0 to 4.25 cents per pound, and white lead in oil sells for from (!' -2 cents to <>•, cents per pound for twelve tons and over. The differ ence between the lowest quotations for white lead and pig lead is therefore 2.5)0 cents per pound. Thus the largo increase in the net profits made by the trust during the past three years has not been brought about by economy in production, as was declared to be the object of the trust, but by the higher prices which it was able to exact from consumers. The ability of I the tru t to maintain these high prices shows how complete is its control of tho : white lead industry. TRUST "ECONOMIES." Not Until tin* Trusts" Dissolve Do the Wo have been trying to find in tho current reports of the trade journals sonio evidence as to tho changes made in prices when the manufacturers in a large industry lose tho advantages de rived from those "economies" which a i trust or similar combination enables them to practice. Everybody has heard i of these "economies." | Everybody has been told by tho trust | makers that they reduce tho cost of pro duction and the selling price of tho ! products. Many have been surprised when they saw prices considerably in ! creased as soon as combined manufac 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 longer assisted by the "economies." The j facts are curiously at variance with the trust makers' doctrine. The combination of the manufactur- I era of steel beams was dissolved some j ! weeks ago. While these manufacturers ; enjoyed the saving caused by the "econ- J omies," the price < f 1 beams was : ! 3 l-li) cents per \ the mill, or $09.44 per long to, A tow days ago j 2,000 tons were sold in Chicago at the price of 2 1 , cents, delivored. Other sales at even lower prices have been re ported, as follows: "It is stated that one largo contract, 5,000 tons, for season's delivery, has been placed with a loading architectural works in this city (New York) at two cents, Pittsburg mill;'*—Jron Age. "In the beam trade, the only item of news of-the week is tlic report that con tract# 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 the Barbed Wire trust, was, at Pitts burg, on Jan. 28, just before the dissolu tion of this combination, $2.55 for paint ied and $3.05 for galvanized. On March i 3, about one month after the dissolution of the trust, the prices at the same place were $2.25 and $2.05, and correspond ing reductions had been made at other I points. The changes caused by the loss of the 1 trust, "economies" may bo set forth as | follows: With Without "ceono- "ccono- Dec Hoe. rales." mios." Percent. j Stool beams £69 44 *44 30 05 i Burhed wire, puiut i ed 855 225 11 I Bur bod wire, gil ! vani/.od 305 265 13 The o figures will tax the ingenuity of the professional advocates of triistisw. i Immediately after the great advantages duo to the practice of combination "economies" were withdrawn, the price of steel beams did not rise. It fell 35 percent. And in the case of barbed wire there was a declino of 13 per cent. The trust professors should overhaul and revise their chief doctrine.—New York Times. I'ninstructed I-'n-ncli Consumers. A local protection organ notes the j charge against M. Lafargue, a xnouibt. of the French chamber of deputies, oi "exciting discontent among the people'' by calling for a reduction of the new duties on bread-stuffs. It says that: "Unfortunately, bis task lias been made easier by the sudden rise in the price of many articles which lias taken place in France, immediately after the 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 when it is "the foreigner pays it?" Have they not read the labored articles iu our protection organs, striv ing to show that taxed articles have grown cheaper under our "ultraprotec tiionist tariff?" Minister Eeid ought to do some missionary work among the 1 ;t x burdened French people.—New York j World. Rolling Mill Workmen McKiuleylml. | Cofrode & Saylor, of the Reading rolling mill, have notified their em ployees of a 10 per cent, reduction in i wages. The order affects nearly all de ! pnrtmcuts anil takes effect immediately. The firm employs about 050 hands. When the leading iron mills of Peunsyl j vania and < lino cut down the wages'of I their workmen early last year tile advo ; cates of the McKinley 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 al>out lime that some of the good results i hould begin to appear? Till l'lutc Import*. The new British steamer Massachu setts, Captain .Villiauis, arrived at Swansea early i:i March, where she will load for New York 8,000 tons of tin | plates. This will ho the largest ship lncntof tin plates lo the Ui.i. d Stutc3 | since the McKinley bill went into effect, i C. O. M. 22 SO 3VL. ! It has been in use for more than twenty yearn; ; over lifty thousand patients lutvo been treated, ; and over one thousand physicians have used it, , and recommend it u \-ry t-ig uifhant fact. ! It is agri r üble tni'diale. There is no nutisc- ' j ous taste, nor after-taste, nor dckcning smell, j j Send for our l ook u Compim- d Oxygen, its | i lii tory, iiutun ; id n ults; u book of :.t)U pugcs I sent free. It em > ins numerous testimonials ! 1 from ehronic pati-nt.- and IIK-M- given over b} j | physicians. lon v. 11l ;,!> ilud it an interesting \ I book An.VsnlMaiua- made el ewhere, or t>> j any others than In- Markov At :;h-u, 1:;) Arch | i Btroet, and called Compound O.vy :vn, is spur!- j " Drs. STARKEY & PALEN, 1 ;i) Areli St., Philadelphia, l'a. 140 Sutter St., Sun I raucist-o, CHI Please mention this paper. HENRY STUNZ, Eoot and Shoemaker Cor. ltidgc and Chestnut Sts., Frecluud. i Having purchased a large | stock of BOOT & & V/ ii JehS I am prepared to sell them at i i prices that defy competition, j 0 Repairing- a Specialty Call and examine my stock. Cor. Kid go and Chestnut Sts ■ COTTAGE HOTEL Cor. of Main and Washington streets, MATT SIEGER. Prop. j Having leased the above hotel and furnished if in the l . -! M) le, I Mill nit to eat! r t. ! i the wants of the trawling public. l*r GOOD STABLING ATTACHBJ). PENSIONS Till lls \ ill] rrv HI 1.1. ISA LAW. i Soldiers Dimibled Since the W'arnre Entitled Dependent wid. u- and | irent< imw de|H-ndent wle.se sons dioi In n elVeii® •>1 arms service :at e includcc. It you wishyo ;r claim sia'edilv . : and sueee.--fullv pro-.-cuted, JAMcS TANNER, l.nt< Com. ~f Peli>i"ii- M n-Miiglim, D. < ■ PATENT - a fr-l £ : ''.a U \ a FLI A 48-page liook lree. Address W. T. KIT/ (il lhVl.l), Att'y-at-Law Cor. Mil und !•' .-is , Wa-liingtoii, I). < ~TT< ESEMEN ALL KNOW THAT Wise's Harness Store Is still here and doing husi liens on the same old principlt j of good goods and low prices, j I' wy\ i ijWMJ •'HOW 1-A'X' J'l> til V llf 1 HAD ONE." Two or three do'brs for a 5 \ Horse Blanket will save cl t.Ke its cost. Your lorse will eat less to keep warm and be 7orth fifty dollars more. Blankets, Buffalo Holies. Har i neSs. and in fact evt ry thing needed liy Horscnuii. Good workmanship and low ! prices is rnv motto. GEO. WISE, J ildo, and No. 85 Centr St.. | If eelaml, V . | CURB THAT | [ \ AND STOP THAT 11 In. H. Downs' Elixir]| | WILL DO STd ]] ! Price, 25c., DOc., and .'"1.00 per f Warranted. Cold everywhere, ij) IISITS7, JOni"O.T 4 t; 3, rrc-s.. BarXartea, VS. || Sold at Scliilchei \s I': ■. Ston . j BOOTS MiO SHOES —at— Ast nishingly Low Prices. The finest grade of goods in the market is being sold at figures that will surprise I you. Shoes to fit your feet is what you want, and this I is the piace to get them Bargain seekers must in spect my stock or they will lose money. Geo. Ci e> nul. b3 Cenlrt St • Washington IJcuse, II Walnut Street, above Centre. .V. f/'oepjxrl. I'rtip. Tli<■ ' est of Whiskies, Winch, Gin tnid Cigars. Good stabling attached ARNOLD & K BULL'S Beer and Porter A Iways on Tap. \VM. WKIIRMANN, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER Front Street. Freeland, ucur Opera House. j Cleaning 8-Day Clocks 40 ets. •' Alaim " 20 " '• Watches - 50 " Main Springs, Jio cents to 81.00 Jewelry repair- d at short notice. All watch repairing guurant ed lor one y ear. 'i lie cheap est sla piu town, liixc me a call. DANIEL J. KENNLL N , DBAI.EB IN FINE CIGARS AND TO]'At 00. 'i' E M 1' E It A N i E DRINK, CON EE' I I O \ Kit T . ET (J. j Centre Strtet, Fui hrr, Fp T lire t Fin Hri.l j Patrick Caret lias removed limit th< Ai: eri ; call hotel ti> Julili Me.-hea's I lock, . aid . cut re Mrm t, where lie call be blind with a lull line id Medical has. (.in, hraiidies. ituii.. Old Ityc and I tori on W|d.-ke\ Any p i>. n who is dr\ and wants ac Id. fn -L I igi •clioolier of beet will b< •iili>fn d ' • ■ I l ■ a rei's. ; Joe; Acccnmc aii i It -IX DIFFKItKNT KINDS ol i II I . , , . j " " '•* E E mIrKB, PATENTS * V , SHTS, etc. Foi .aformotii * rite to ; JIUNN vO . ''ai YORK. Oldest (>ul'-au , In ; morloa. 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