FREELAND TRIBUNE.
Published Every Thursday Afternoon
—BY—
THOS. A. BUCKLEY,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERMS, - - SI.OO PER YEAR.
Entered at the Freeland Pontojfice a* Second
Olaes Matter.
FREELAND, PA., MAY 20, 1892.
Estell on the Coal Monopoly.
W. B. Estell, formerly of Freeland,
but now of Newark, N. J., gave, in the
New York Weekly World of the 18th
inst., a six-column history of how the
great coal combination attained its pres
ent power. The article is an interesting
and valuable one, as it is remarkably
accurate and abounds with excellent
descriptions of the conditions existing in
the coal region, especially the Lehigh
section, with which Mr. Estell is well
acquainted. The writer, who is known
throughout the country as a leading ad
vocate of the Henry George theory of
taxation, offers the following as the only
remedy by which the increasing powers
of monopoly can be curtailed. He says:
I am firmly convinced that the one
remedy for the coal pool that exists to
day is to prevent by law the ownership
of land by corporations beyond certain
limited amounts, or at all, except such
as they can and shall actually use. The
forestalling of natural resources, the
monopolizing of the control of the
supply of such a product as coal, which
is so universally a public necessity, are
certainly among the things which should
be forbidden as a condition of per
mitting to live, the corporations which
depend upon legislation for their right
to exist at all.
If the great corporations, now securely
intrenched, were compelled to pay into
the treasury of the state annually the
full rental value of their undeveloped
lands, they would be compelled either
to develop them or dispose of them to
men who would develop them. That
would mean the construction of two
collieries for every one in existence to
day, giving employment to thousands of
iron workers and carpenters and labor
ing men generally. The increase of col
lieries would mean, of course, increased
demand for men to mine coal, thus re
lieving largely the labor market in that
section of the state. It would bring'
about the conditions that existed prior i
to 1870, and the mine-workers would be
able to obtain for their services a fair
share of the wealth they produce. It
would increase the production of coal
and, by increasing the production,
cheapen that product to the consumer.
The cheapening of the product would
mean an onormous increase in the
number of consumers, and consequently
a ready market for all the coal that
could possibly be mined.
A letter which I received from the
coal-fields of Pennsylvania only three
days ago tells me that tho mines are
working in some places two days per
week and in no place more than four
days. If the monopoly of land in the
coal-fields were destroyed, the stories
which are now read every day of the
poverty that exists in the coal-fields
would he changed into descriptions of
happy homes and prosperous working
men.
Tho promoters of the present combina
tion claim that their action will result in
giving the American consumers of coal a
cheaper product, because of the econo
mies made possible by the concentration
of managment under one great head.
This has always been the plea of the
trust and tne combine; but pleasant as
the promises may sound, they have never
yet been realized. Coal is mined in the
anthracite region to-day cheaper than
ever before in the history of mining.
The cost of miningcoal has been reduced
during the past fifteen years. The iron
and all the material which goes into the
construction of collieries can be purchas
ed for about one-half of the cost twenty
years ago. The wages of the men have
been greatly reduced, new grades of coal
have been invented and all conditions
have tended to cheapen tbe production
of coal to the coal-mine owners, and the
freight charged by the great railroad
corporations for carrying coal from the
mines to tide water and then paid into
their own pockets through the coal com
panies which they control, can be great
ly reduced and still leave a great profit
to the coal carriers.
The application of the Bingle tax in
destroying the monopoly of land and
compelling the great railroad corpora
tions to sell out the vast tracks of land
they now possess, would mean the re
establishment of the individual collieries
that insured prosperity to the miner and
fair prices to the consumers years ago;
and the re-establishment of these indi
vidual mine-owners would compel the
great railways once more to depend
solely upon their carrying trade for
their profits, and the competition be
tween them for freight would once more
ensue, and in that way the price of tolls
would be considerably reduced.
But by reason of the fact that the coal
carrier is practically the coal mine
owner as well, the consumer lias never
reaped any benefit from the reduction
in the cost and never will so long as six
great corporations, now practically made
one by a gigantic combination, are en
abled to possess in one single state of j
the union nearly 500 square miles of
coal land.
And after all that can bo said and
that is said against these great extor
tioners, their powers have been legally
acquired. There is not an evil to-day
which they are enabled to visit upon
their employes or upon the public but
has been given them through the ig
norance, the prejudice or the careless
ness of the people themselves. These
corporations thoroughly understand the
weakness of human nature, and their
constant aim is to prevent concerted ac
tion on the part of the masses by appeal
ing to the prejudices, both religious and
political, of the men who enjoy the right
of suffrage. And, as long as it is possi
ble for people to he divided by appeals
to their prejudice, so long will it be pos
sible for the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad Company and the combination
which it represents to-day and all other
great trusts and combinations of the land
to enjoy privileges and exercise powers
never before granted to any class of men.
| THE SUGAR TRUST.
IT HAS DISGUSTED EVEN THE M KIN
LEYITES BY ITS GREED.
The Combination IT • Forced Down the
Price of Raw Sugar and Raised the
Price of Reilned, Thus Adding tbont
#10,000,000 to Its Yearly Profits.
The Philadelphia Press, tho high tariff
organ of the Manufacturers' club, thus I
1 scores the sugar trust:
I "Congress has provided that many
millions of revenue heretofore obtained j
from sugar duties shall be diverted from I
the public treasury and be given to the j
people. The trust, under the shelter j
given to it by congress for a wise and |
fair purpose, proposes in turn to divert |
a portion of this money from the pockets !
of the people to the pockets of the mem- |
bers of the trust.
"Brethren, we say to you that if tho I
protective system is to be employed for
such purposes as this, the game is up.
No champion of that system can suc
ceed, even if he were willing to try, in
commending to the people at one and
the same time the protective system and
the sugar trust. It is quite impossible
to expect the nation to regard with en
thusiasm, because it proposed to reduce
the price of sugar, a law which enables
the sngar trust to defeat that intention.
What the purpose of tho act is consum
ers do not so much care.
"The thing that appeals most strongly
to them is the actuul fact that sugar !
prices have fallen. Now, if sugar
prices shall again advance under the
manipulation of a protected conspiracy
against the people, it will be useless to
commend consumers to the purpose of
Mr. McKinley. They will conclude,
and rightly conclude, that if the whole
benefit of the lower duties is not to come
to them, it should go once again into
the treasury of the United States. The
j opponents of the protective system will
! have placed in their hands, at the most
critical moment in the history of Ameri
can protection, a potent weapon with
which to assail the protective theory,
and we venture to say that there is
small reason to doubt that the result i
will l)e overwhelming defeat for the pro- 1
tective system.
"Openly, in view of every man in the j
j nation, there will be unanswerable
| demonstration that the free traders do i
not lack justification for their often re- i
peated allegation that the protective j
tariff is used by manufacturers for the |
purpose of enriching themselves at the I
cost of their fellow citizens. The for- i
mation of the trust is indeed a challenge
issued to the people. The latter, through 1
their representatives in congress, have
decreed that sugar shall be cheapened.
The trust, on the contrary, declares that
it shall not l>e cheapened. There can l>e
no doubt of the conclusion of this con
flict of interests if the people shall be
thoroughly roused, but there is some
reason for fearing that the consequences
may involve other than the offending
parties. The sngar trust places the en
tiro manufacturing interest of the coun
try in jeopardy by its action, and in be
half of that interest we enter protest
against the course that it is pursuing.
"Protesting, however, is likely to be
cf small service in averting the peril in |
which protected industry has been
placed by this combination. There can
lx) no safety but in action, and it may bo
conjectured that there would be few ex
pressions of grief from protectionists if
a Republican senate should join with a
Democratic house in sending to a Re- I
publican president, just as soon as the
sugar trust has made its monopoly com
plete, a bill placing all grades of refined
sugar upon the free list. The protec
tionists who defend protection upon
grounds of public interest have no con
cern to apologize for it when it is per
verted to the interest of a few private
individuals. In truth, such abuse of
the system ought to encounter prompt
resistance from the sincere friends of
home industry, for the man who mis
uses the tariff in such a manner is a
more dangerous enemy of the system j
than the moat active of the apostles of 1
free trade. The question for considera- j
tion would appear to be, Shall the sugar !
trust be permitted to use protection j
for the overthrow of protection?"
Protected by the tariff on refined !
sugar, the sugar trust is now making :
profits at the rate of 78.08 per cent, on i
the actual value of its properties. The
work required of the men employed in
the sugar house is the hardest kind of
work possible, and a considerable num
ber of the men are forced to work in in
tense heat. The low rate of wages,
$1.50 per day of ten hours, which the
trust is willing to pay is so low that no
American workman will work In the
sugar houses—even Italians prefer to
work on the streets, pick rags and sell
fruit. The greater part of the men em
ployed are Poles and Hungarians, who
have been brought over under contract
This is a true picture of a tariff protect
ed industry; where are the benefits to
the workingman?
The Free Tin Plate ltlll.
The tin plate bill, which has been re
ported to the house by the committee on
ways and means, proposes to go hack
from the McKinley rate of 2 1-5 cents
per pound to the old rate of one cent
per pound for two years and to keep tin J
plate on the free list after that time. In
the report accompanying the bill the
committee says: "The distinction in
principle between the two" (the McKin
ley bill and this) "is the distinction be
tween a demand by one citizen that he
be licensed to take that which is not his
own and the petition of another citizen
that he be permitted to keep that which
iB his own." This is true and well put.
Another Factory Heard From.
Shortly after the passage of the Mc-
Kinley act, N. & G. Taylor, of Philadel
phia, started a tin plate factory, which,
in a recent issue of The American Econo
mist, was mentioned as turning out 900
boxes of tin plate per week. The other
day this great establishment was totally J
destroyed by fire, and a press dispatch J
announced tbe loes at $2,500.
The Eye# of Greek Statue#.
Professor Ernst Cortina, the famons
Greek scholar and archaeologist of the
University of Berlin, announced a few
months ago that he had discovered that
the Greek sculptors always made the
eyes of men fuller and rounder than
those o* women. The alleged discovery
was considered important, as it was be
lieved that it would lead to a proper
classification of many of the unidenti
fied heads of Greek statues. The hopes,
however, seem to have been premature,
despite the fact that Curtius, who has
been called "The Modern Greek," fa
thered them.
I Dr. Greef, of Berlin, in a recent lec
ture delivered before the Prussian Acad
i emy of Science, declared that Curtius'
| conclusions were wrong, as he had found
: flat, narrow eyes—those of women, ac
! cording to Curtius—in the heads of
Greek statues of men. He had also
measured plastic representations of wom
en with large, full eyes. In nature, he
added, there was no difference between
the eyes of men and women. He had
examined recently in Berlin the eyes of
a hundred members of each sex and
had found that they were the same in
shape, size and form. He thus upheld
the theories of Zinn and Sommerling
that the Greek sculptors who gavo a
greater fullness to the eyes of men than
to those of women did not follow the
conditions of nature.—New York Trib
une.
Plenty of Game In Maine.
There has not been a year for some
time when game was as plenty and
when so little game has been killed
and destroyed as during the past win
ter. One reason is that the snow in
many localities has not been deep, and
at the samo time it has been hard, hold
ing up the deer and caribou and giving
them a chance to protect themselves by
flight. Another reason is that the
guides and hunters have learned that it
is for their interest to leave the game
alone, especially during the deep snows.
I have made it a point to see many of
them in the early part of the winter,
and tried to make them understand that
it is for their interest for us to keep a
good stock of fish and game, as they
would get more business during the
guiding season.
The most of the game that has been
killed the past winter has been killed in
the back settlements, hunters using 1
dogs to catch deer. There has been a
story of ninety moose killed near our
border line, in township 5, range 18. 1
j believe the most of this yarn is false. I
1 have been within a day's walk of the
j township this winter and 1 did not learn
of any such business. In fact there are
not moose enough in that locality. It is
| near the Canada line, and this same re
| port comes from there every year.—Cor.
' Portland (Me.) Press.
lleekeepere and the Government.
Foreign bees without pedigrees may
| be admitted to the United States free of
' duty. The secretary of the treasury has
| so decided. Until the last tariff bill was
1 passed bees from abroad caiue in gratis,
| as "animals imported for breeding pur-
I poses." The McKinley law declared
I that this ruling should only apply to an
| imals "regularly entered in recognized
herd books." Accordingly, bees were
assessed 20 per cent, ad valorem, be
cause they had no pedigrees. The bee
keepers protested and carried their
point.
Some time ago the postoffice department
i declared that bees were "unmailable,"
on the ground that they would be likely
|to sting people if they got loose. The
beekeepers secured the recall of this reg
ulation, by proving that the packages
employed could not be broken.—Wash
j ington Cor. New Orleans Times-Demo
! crat.
Little Fenr of Indian Troubles.
A gentleman at Rosebud agency writes
tbat the reports of dissatisfaction among
the Indians there have been greatly ex
aggerated. Since his arrival there two
! weeks ago he has traveled quite exten
' sively through the various Indian camps,
i and thinks the Indiana never exhibited
a more peaceful frame of mind than at
present. Never did they take hold of
work more readily or more extensively
and never did they take more interest in
I the care of their stock than the past
winter, as can plainly be seen by the
! condition of horses and cattle this spring.
So far as dissatisfaction with rations is
I concerned, if there is any such, the white
| employees hear nothing of it.—Cor. Min
■ neapolis Journal.
Confederate Coins.
| There has recently been some inquiry
1 as to whether the Confederate govern
| ment coined any gold. The question
was referred to the Hon. Charles C.
Jones, Jr., of Angnsta, who telegraphs
l as follows: "The Confederate States, as
I now remember, coined and issued no
gold. A few experimental half dollars
j in silver were struck, bnt they did not
pass into circulation."—Charleston News
; and Courier.
A Circus Tumbler Has a Full.
I A dispatch from Warsaw, Ind., says:
"Charles Neff, a laborer in Lakeside
park, while engaged in trimming a tree
fell from its top to the ground, a dis
tance of sixty feet, and was uninjnred.
I Noff is an old circus tumbler, and the
agility learned in the ring saved his life.
He fell on his hands and rebounded in
the air ten feet, alighting on his feet
| without a scratch."
1 A lawsuit has been commenced in
I Marengo, Ind., between Edmund Waltz
j and Elwood Stout, over the price of two
eggs, bought at seventeen cents per
dozen. Two of the dozen were rotten,
and Waltz demanded a return of the
price.
A young man hypnotized at an enter
tainment in Paris remained senseless for
two days and was with difilicnlty
brongt back to consciousness.
A Missouri judge presented to the ex-
Confederate home fifty-eight cents, but
] they were very old coins and are to be
told at auction.
Lanfftry's Empty Douse.
Two signboards hang on Mrs. Lang
try's house in West Twenty-third street,
near Ninth avenue, imploring the passer
by to rent that famous edifice. But the j
passerby continues to pass by and does
not rent, although these signs have
hung there begging for six months or
more that something be done. How
many months more they will hang there
with tears in their eyes, as we may say,
no one can guess. Neither can any one
guess why the Lily's residence is so diffi- ;
cult to rent—at least no one does. The
house is a three story, red brick, stand
ing back from the street, with high
walls on either side to obstruct the view
of the too curious and slightly imper
tinent neighbors. This improvement
was mado after Mrs. Langtry bought
the house and had been occupying it
herself. There is a carriage way with
an arched entrance at one side of the
house, and in many respects it has the
appearance of a comfortable English
homestead.
And yet not even those who affect the
English—and we have a great many of
them here—are disposed to humor their
fad by taking tlio Langtry house. The
decorations of the rooms, which were
done under Mrs. Langtry's personal su
pervision, are beautiful and expensive
and testify to her excellent taste in dec
orative art, which has, I think, reached
a higher degree of perfection than either
her taste or ability in the matter of his
trionic art. But that isn't the point.
The Lily has an expensive house in town
that is a white elephant on her fair
hands because two pleading signboards
fail to find her a tenant for it.—John A.
Cockerill in New York Recorder.
A Unique Woman's Club.
The Paragraph club, of Newark, N.
J., is unique in the collection of wom
en's clubs. It has neither president,
vice president, secretary nor treasurer:
at its meeting no chairman presides and
no gavel falls. The members gather,
and presently some one says, "It is time
to begin," and that is the beginning. It
is decided at one meeting what will be
the subject discussed at the next, and
every member comes prepared to con- i
tribute at least a paragraph to the gen
eral fund of talk, which obligation ex
plains the name. The club has a nu
merous membership, and included in it
are some very bright women.
This simplicity and informality are in
direct contrast to the proceedings of j
most other women's clubs, whose month
ly meetings are choice affairs and whose
annual gatherings, be they tea, luncheon
or breakfast, are extremely elegant and
stately.—Her Point of View in New
York Times.
Progresßlve Frenchwomen.
j "On a recent trip through France 1
was forcibly struck by the manner in
which women are forging to the front in
that country," said T. E. Levan, of Bos
ton. "Statistics show that France leads
all the countries of Europo in the em
ployment of women. Most of the ac
countants and bookkeepers in French
shops are females whoso salaries range
from three to ten dollars a week, accord
ing to proficiency and the size of the
establishment in which they work. A
peculiar phase of the employment of
these women is that most of them save
their earnings very carefully, in order to
buy an interest in the business. This
inclination is always encouraged by the
; proprietors, inasmuch as it is the general
opinion that part ownership induces
greater fidelity on the part of the clerks."
—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Tli® Cinderella Party,
i Have you heard of the Cinderella
party? It is pretty and not too much
; trouble. At the entrance to the draw
ing room each guest's foot is measured
by two young ladies daintily toileted in
yellow and white. The measurement
is noted in a memorandum book, and
when all the guests are assembled the
lady with the smallest foot is presented
with a beautiful pair of Turkish slip
pers. In a corner of the drawing room
is an immense pumpkin decorated with
ribbons pendant from the stem. Lift- !
ing the cover chocolate mice are found
within, and these are given to tho guests
as souvenirs.
The dining room, all in yellow decora- ;
tions, carries out the same idea, and the
ices are served in crystal slippers.—New
York Press.
Bravery of Two Princesses
To the long list of courageous women
must now be added the names of Prin
cess Eleonore and Princess Mathilde, of
Solms, who, while walking outside Ber
lin last week, met a lady whose horse
was violently bolting. The rider had
lost all control, and without a second's
hesitation the two princesses rushed at
the horse's bridle and checked him in
his flight, in doing which the Princess
Eleonoro was unfortunately knocked
down and severely kicked in the head
and right foot. The other princess was
lucky enough to escape without any in
jury, much to the consolation of the
lady whose horse had been so coura
geously stopped in his flight.—Hawk.
( Pretty, but Not Altogether Practical.
Hairpin boxes of silver, with the in
j scription, "A Woman's Friend," in dec
corative text engraved on the cover be
low a raised outline of the "friend," are
among the novelties. They will hardly
displace the pretty china and silver
trays for holding these necessities of the
j dressing table. No woman in the exi
gencies of "doing" her hair likes to stop
to open a box to get at her hairpins, and
with the total depravity ascribed to in
animate things, it would be sure to be
shut at the critical moment when a puff
needs pinning or a curl is to bo secured,
i —Exchange.
Why Women Look Cool.
I "How do women keep so cool when
men suffer torture in these sudden hot
waves?" asked a man of a woman who
looked as cool and fresh as a bunch of
| white flowers newly sprinkled aud rest-
I ing on a bed of moss. "We don't,"
said the frank woman. "We just pre
| tend to." There is a whole Sermon for
youj—New York Tribune.
BINDING TWINE AND BAGGING. *
This Is Not Clans Leglnlation, but Is In
tended to Remedy It.
The bill to put cotton bagging on the
free list has passed the houso, all the
Democrats excepting Coburn, of Wis
consin; O'Neill, ofJVlissouri, and Eng
lish, of New voting in the affirm
ative, and all the Republicans in the
negative.
Cotton bagging is in the same cate
gory with binding twine. It is manu
factured by the cordage combine. The
raw material is free of duty. It is used
by southern fanners for covering their
bales of cotton as binding twine is used
by northern farmers for binding wheat
and other small grains. There is as
much reason why cotton bagging should
bo free of duty as there is why binding
twine should be free of duty.
But when the McKinley billion con
gress was dealing with this schedule it
reduced the duty on binding twine con
siderably more than one-half and did
not reduce the duty on cotton bagging
at all. It discriminated against the
southern farmer and in favor of the
northern farmer. And now the Repub
licans of the house, accompanied, The
Herald is sorry to see, by three Demo
crats, vote unanimously to continue the
discrimination.
The cordage combine did not cease to
manufacture binding twine after the
duty was reduced to seven-tenths of a
cent per pound, or more than one-half.
That it manufactured more than ever
before is a fair inference from two facts:
First, that the grain crops last year
were the largest in the history of the
country, and, second, that the importa
tion of binding twine during the last
fiscal year, covering all the importation
for the crop year, or nearly all, was only
822 pounds, valued at thirty-three dol
lars.
The opponents of the free twine and
bagging bills have objected to them on the
ground that they are bills for class legis
lation. Tlioy tell us there is no more rea
son why congress should favor farmers
than there is why it should favor those
who use cables and other articles made
of the same and like materials, and that
it is inconsistent for Democrats who pro
fess to oppose class legislation to make
Buch bills party measures.
This objection implies that such legis
lation would favor the fanners by giv
ing them cheaper twine and baggijig,
while other classes using products from
the same materials, the duties on which
were not reduced or abolished, would
still have to pay high' prices—that is,
it implies that tariff taxes increase the
prices of the articles on which they are
laid, of the domestic as well as the im
ported products.
According to the Republican doctrine,
therefore, these bills would not give the
farmers cheaper twine and bagging.
Therefore, they are not class measures.
The Republican claim that really pro
tective duties do not raise prices is false,
as the beneficiaries of the tariff are per
fectly well aware. Their whole system
is a system of class legislation. It is a
system under which industries that are
self sustaining are forced to contribute
to the support of other industries that
claim to be and are assumed to be inca
pable of self support. The protection
ists admit that this is the original pur
pose and effect of their system, and seek
to comfort the victims with the assur
ance that while they must bleed for a
time they will ultimately, and in some
way not clearly defined, recover their
own with interest.
Now the fanner class is pre-eminently
the victim class. The farmers more
than any others are forced by tariff
legislation to contribute from their
profits to the profits of other classes.
They have been contributing for thirty
years, and they do not yet find them
selves recovering their own. They are
still the victims, as they have been all
these thirty years.
What the Democrats propose in these
two bills and in the bill putting cotton
ties on the free list is not to grant spe
cial favors to farmers as a class, but
only to relieve them from a small part
of the burden which has been laid upon
them as a class. They propose not to
legislate for a class, but to relieve a
class in some measure from legislation
which for years has discriminated
against that class.
Against these Democratic meusures of
relief from class legislation we find the
Republicans in the house arrayed in un
broken ranks, and we will find the Re
publicans in the senate arrayed on the
same side in solid phalanx. And as the
fugitive thief shouts "stop thief!" more
lustily than his pursuers, so will the Re
publican attorneys for monopoly shout
"class legislation!" to bewilder and de
ceive the people.—Chicago Tribune.
A McKinley Tariff ]>run. In Five Acta.
Act I—Scene, Congress, October, 1890
(duties raised). McKinley increases the
duty on oatmeal from half a cent to one
cent per pound in the interests of sev
eral large oatmeal manufacturers of
Ohio.
Act ll—Scene, Columbus, 0., Janu
ary, 1891 (trust formed under the head
ing, ''All the Oatmeal Mills Consoli
dated"). The New York Tribune de
scribes what occurred as follows: "In
corporation papers were filed at Colum
bus today for the Consolidated Oatmeal
company, with a capital of $3,500,000.
All the oatmeal mills of the country are
thus brought under one management,
with headquarters at Akron, O.
Act IH—Scene, Factory (wages re
duced). Soon after the formation of the
trust the wages of the men and women
employed in the Akron mills, the largest
in the trust, were forced to accept a
large reduction in wages. Some have
been compelled to submit to three re
ductions since the opening of the first act.
Act IV—Scene, Offices of the trust
(prices raised). Oatmeal that sold for
$4.90 per barrel before the trust was
formed, now sells as high as $7.40 per
barrel.
Act V—Ravenna, 0., April 1, 1892
(factories closed). The Quaker mills,
with a daily capacity of 400 barrels, have
been closed by the trust for an indefinite
period and 100 men are thrown out of
employment
total toij Paj,
Gl-roceriee
and.
:
Flour 12.40
Chop 1.00
22 pounds granulated sugar 1.00
12 cans tomatoes, A No. 1 1.00
5 pounds raisins 25
All Kinds of Meats
Are Advancing.
Freslx Tr-u.cls
and.
"V eg-etaToles
Every week at lowest market :
price.
Dry G-cods:
Challies, best, 4J cents per yd.
Some dress goods reduced from
50 to 25 cents.
Scotch ginghams, worth 35
cents, sell for 20 cents.
"Wall Paper:
Thousands of different patterns
5 cents double roll up to any
price wanted.
Carpets
and.
Oil OlotHe:
Carpets, 17 cents per yard.
I carry the largest stock in
this town.
Furnifare:
Anything and everything.
Good lounges for $5.00.
6 round-back chairs for $3.00.
Black hair walnut parlor suit.
$211.50.
Hiad.ies'
Summer Ooats
Are reduced from $3.75 to $2.50.
Some as low as 75 cents.
Stra-w Hats:
30 per cent, less than last year.
Some at one-half price.
Slxces
and.
Footwear:
We are headquarters.
Every pair guaranteed.
Ladies' walking shoes for 75
cents; worth $1.25.
I can save you money on any
thing you may need, if only 5
cents worth. Call and see our
equipped store, We have ela
borate rooms from cellar to
third floor, National cash regis
ter, Lippy's money carrier sys
tem, computing scales, the
finest in the world, and six men
to wait on you. Yours truly,
J. C. BERNER.
Washington House,
11 Walnut Street, above Centre.
jl. Goeppert, Trop.
The best of Whiskies, Wines, Gin and Cigars.
Good stabling 1 attached.
ARNOLD & KRELL'S
Beer and Porter Always on Tap.
Where to Find Him!
Patrick Carey has removed from the Ameri
can hotel to John McHhea's block, 05 and 97
Centre Street, where he can be found with a
full line of Medicul Wines, Gin, Hrundics, Hum,
Old Rye and Borbon Whiskey. Any person
who is dry and wants a cold, fresh, large
schooner of beer will be satisfied by calling at
Carey's.
Good Accommodation For All.
SIX DIFFERENT KINDS OF DEER ON TAP.
I • CURE THAT J!
I; Cold j
II AND STOP THAT 11
i| Cough, ii
i iN. H. Downs' Elixir 11
II WILL DO IT. ||
t | Price, 26c., 50c., and SI.OO per bottle.) |
j | Warranted. Sold everywhere. | |
I BXHIT, JOESCON 4 LOIS, Prop,., BuUigtim, ▼.()!
, i
Sold at Schilcher's Drug Store.
J. P. MCDONALD,
SOUTH AND CENTRE STREETS.
Our big stores are tilled nnd piled high
up from cellar to loft with
BRAND NEW GOODS
FOR
SPRING AND SUMMER.
We cannot pretend to name all the
handsome things we have to offer you.
Here ure spring and summer
Dress Goods
ANI) A MAGNIFICENT LINE OF
OTHER DRY GOODS.
BOOTS and SHOES.-
In this department wo have everything L.
that could be asked for in the footwear '
line, and the low prlees we sell our goods
at will certainly astonish you.
Your special attention is called to
the stock of
FURNITURE
We are offering for sale.
. Our wurerooin Is filled
with the choicest styles of
■f parlor and bedroom suits,
and everything else in the
furniture business.
About everything that you need is here, and
at rock-bottom prices, too. We sell strictly for
cash, and have no high rents to pay, therefore
our prices are far below any others. Call in,
examine our large stock and be convinced that
wo can give you satisfaction in every respect.
J. P. McDonald.
WM. WETIRMANN,
German Practical Watchmaker^'
Front Street, Freeland, near Opera House.
The cheapest and best repair
ing store in town. All watch
repairing guaranteed for one
years. New watches for sale.
Jewelry repaired on short
notice. Give me a call. All
kinds of watches and clocks
repaired.
TINOI.ISII. SWISS AMI AMKIUCAN
WATCH KK.
Complicated and fine work
on watches a specialty.
PENSIONS
THE DISABILITY HILL IS A LAW. J"
Soldiers Disabled Since the War are Entitled
Dependent widows and parents now dependent
whose sons died from effects of army service
are included. If you wish your claim speedily
and successfully prosecuted,
JAMES TANNER.
Late Com. of Pensions, Washington, I>. C.
WONDERFUL
The 01)1*08 which arc being effected by Drs.
Starkoy & Palen, 1689 Arch St., Philadelphia,
Pa., in Consumption, Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bron
chitis, Rheumatism, and all chronic diseases,
by their Compound Oxygen Ticatment, are in
deed marvelous.
If you arc a sufferer from any disease which
your physiciun has failed to cure, write for in
formation about this treatment, and their book
of 200 pages, giving a history of Compound
Oxygen, its nature and effects, with numerous
testimonials from patients, to whom you may V*
refer for still further information, will be
promptly sent, without charge.
Tills book, aside from its great m?rit as a
medical work, giving, us it does, the result of
yours of study and experience, you will find a
very interesting one.
Drs. STARKEY & PALEN,
1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.
120 Sutter St., San Francisco, Cal.
Please mention this paper.
Have You Seen It?
Our elegant stock of
HIS ISHOES.
Which we are selling at prices as low as
any dealer in the town. A full assortment
of everything in t lie business. Special at
tention given to ladies' footwear. No rent
to pay or family to support. Therefore we
invite you to
Examine Our Goods
AND Get Our Prices. J
We are also well supplied witli HATS and
CAPS for men and boys. The latest styles
at moderate prices. When you need any of
the above goods call on
WM. EBERT,
55 Centre Street, Freeland.
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