DEATH TO PINKERTONS. EXTERMINATION THE ONLY WAY TO ABOLISH THEM. The gun Francisco "Star's" Radical Utterances on the Homestead Lockout —Calls the Thugs and Their Employers Cold-ltloodcd Assassins. We have always advocated the correc tion of abuses, the redress of wrongs, by peaceable means. But the locked-out employes of the Homestead works em ployed the only weapons at their com mand—gunpowder and dynamite— which they used with deadly effect. They did right. Our only regret is that they did not blow up the barge with Tinkerton's three hundred hired asas sins, instead of giving them quarter. A creature so base as to hire himself out to shoot down starving men who are re sisting oppression should be shown no more mercy than a rattlesnake. In no other civilized country in the world would a private army of licensed asassins be tolerated. For years back, whenever labor and capital have dis agreed, these hated mercenary Hessians have been called in by capital to force labor into submission at the point of the bayonet. In the present conflict at Homestead, the boast of these cowardly ruffians was that they would "mow the strikers down like grass." That they did not do so was because their bullets were answered by more bullets. But their piteous appeal for their miserable lives was answered by mercy. Mercy is a gem most brilliant, but in this case it was misbestowed. Had they all to a man been wiped of the face of the earth, ! the world would have been given an ! "object lesson" which, however awful to contemplate, would have resulted in j great good. Hut we are told that it is the system under which we live that is responsible; that these Pinkertonians are themselves victims of that system; that, therefore, they should be spared, but the system should be abolished. We admit that, under just conditions —the opening up of natural resources to the people—such nn army as Pinkcrton's could not exist; enough men could not be found to enlist in such work; and if they could, the plu tocrat would be gone and their services would not be in demand. But you might as well urge that, if a footpad stands before you with cocked revolver in hand, you should say: "Go on, my friend; shoot off my head; you are not to blame; it is the system; when we change that, then you'll be changed." Are Pinkerton's toughs as good as ordin ary footpads? Do they not hire them selves out to murder peaceable men who object to having their homes desolated and the bread taken from their wives and helpless children? What rights have they, then, that any human being is bound to respect? They should be ex terminated—by law or without law. But what of the men who employ them? What of Carnegie and Frick? They should be put to death by slow torture, as they are endeavoring to put so many thousands. What fate can be worse than that of toiling, toiling, from early morn till night, sick at heart, weak in body, without one ray of hope; to go "home exhausted, wiien your day's work is done, and see your children with outstretched arms piteously pleading for bread you cannot give; to see a weeping wife and mother trying to console them and give then cheer she cannot feel; to lay your weary head upon the floor, not to sleep, but to dream of starving children, another reduction in your wages, of more hunger, of eviction from your home, of yourself and family being outcasts on the streets—dying of starvation in the midst of plenty! 'i hat is the fate we would mete out to Carnegie and Frick—the same death by slow torture" that their thousands of employes would suffer if they did not rebel. 3 his "war" at the Homestead works is not to he regretted, save for the wid ows and orphans it lias made. The blood of the slain is upon the hands of Andrew Carnegie and Frick. Legally they may not he, hut morally, before God and man, they are they are mur derers. The reason this "war" is not to he re gretted is that it has illustrated to the people, better than anything else could, the "beauties of protection." It lias shown that in an industry protected by ''"ties ranging from -10 to 150 per cent, the manufacturers reap all the benefit; that the wages of labor, instead of being raised, as was promised, have been thrice reduced, until they are now below the starvation point. Hut Carnegie is a lifty-millionaire, who endows colleges, churches, libraries and hospitals on the money lie has saved from his "hard earnings," by his frugality and "protec tion to American labor."— Sun Fruncisco fttar. PERSONALITIES. Mrs. Sol. Bacharach and son Daniel, of Philadelphia, who have been spend ing a few weeks with Jos. Neubrrgcr left on Saturday for their home. John 11. Sclioenberger spent Sundav in I ottsville with friends. Miss B. V. McTighe is on a visit to friends at Fairview, this county. Misses Annie and Maggie Brislin, of Allentown, are spending a few days here with friends. Mrs. Michael Dever and her son, Rev. Bernard Dever, of Philadelphia, have neen visiting at the residence of John Gallagher, Birvanton. Miss Maggie Ferry, of Beaver Meadow, was here among friends for u few days. Mrs. William B. Kstelle, of Newark, N. J., is visiting friends at Joancsville. Mr. David Hanlon and Miss Maggie Gallagher attended the funeral of Mrs Patrick Ilanlon, of Wilkes-Barre, oil Saturday. B. F. Davis is visiting Schuylkill county friends this week. Charles Bowers and Simon Neuburger were on a pleasure trip to White Haven yesterday. P. J. Duffy spent last week among friends in Lansford. 'high O'Donnell, of Freeland, and Mrs. James O'Donnell, of Drifton, attended the funeral of a relative at Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. Hay and feed of ail kinds is sold at rock-bottom prices by B, F. Davis. Get Ills figures. A Monitor fltructure. I spoof a long time In wandering about the Manufactures building. It Is the biggest building ever planned, and it will have one roof covering thirty acres. Senator Ingalls came out and looked at it the other day, and as he gazed, as tounded at its immensity, he said: "It is an exhalation 1 Yesterday it was not, today It is and tomorrow it will have passed away. I can see how you can fence it In, but to roof it almost sur passes human conception!" Think of putting a massive glass and iron roof over a thirty acre field! That is what the men are doing hero today, and I saw them at work putting up the great iron trusses which will support this roof. You cannot conceive the size of this structure without seeing it. Three hun dred thousand people could be seated on the floor and in the galleries and 80,000 could be seated on the floor alone. The Coliseum at Rome, with all its galleries, could only seat 87,000 people, and it was never roofed except with canvas. You could put four coliseums on that floor, { and two pyramids as big as Cheops i would sit upon It side by side and leave room for the Capitol at Washington. If the great pyramid was taken to pieces and cnrriod here its matorial could be stored in this building and you could look down upon its masses of stone from the galleries. This building is about a third of a mile long. Thirty great staircases, so wide that two carriages could be driven up them side by side, will load to wide galleries and there will bo a street fifty ! feet wide running through the center. ; With its galleries it will have forty acres of floor space, and it tires one even j to think of its possible contents.—Chi ! cago Cor. Lancaster Examiner. Electrlo Light on Battlefields. The übiquity of electricity is becoming almost proverbial. From the "brightest spot on earth" to the blood stained battle fields is rather a far cry, but there is no end to the application of electricity. A recent telegram from Austria described some experiments of great interest which have recently been carried out successfully there. The difficulty of searching for the wounded on the night after a great battle has been one which has long occupied the attention of mili tary reformers, and the army medical service in Austria has been ondeavorlng to determine how far the electric light may be utilized for this humane end. The value of powerful search lights with reflectors has lieen proved in naval affairs, and at Buakim and elsowhere soldiers have found them very effective on open ground. They would be equal ly effective under similar conditions for assisting in picking up the wounded, but when the battle has raged over a wide extent of country, or when tho fighting has occurred amid woods and brushwood, the use of this class of light is attended with difficulty.—Electrical Review. A Dog's Political Preferences. Out at Abilene the man who runs a transfer wagon and smashes the drum mers' trunks owns a dog. He is just a common, old fashioned cur. But the dog votes, and votes right. His master every morning upon the arrival of the Texas and Pacific train gets his dogship to show off before the crowd. "Do you vote for Clark?" the canine is asked. He rises up on his hind feet, his front ones high in the air, his body perfectly erect and nods his head. "Do you vote for Hogg?" the master inquires. The dog gets down flat upon the floor and buries his face in his front legs, the very pic tnre of negation. These daily perform ances have come to l>e well advertised in Abilene and always draw a crowd. Should Judge Clark bo successful that dog will be installed in state at Austin next January, and for two years at least will bo the best fed unimal in Texas.— Dallas News. A Roiling Hole. In Noble county, W. Va.,.there is a fathomless sea, composed of salt water and oil, from which gas escapes with a tremendous roar. Twenty years ago a well was drilled there to the depth of 1,900 feet. Some years later water and gas escaped from tho hole with great pressure, tearing out tho tubing and cut ting a cavern apparently hundreds of feet deep and forty feet in diameter. After it ceased to flow a farmer filled it up and built a barn over it, and again a few days ago a terrific report announced another explosion of the well, oil and water pouring out in abundance. In a singlo day the hole became fathomless and about forty feet wide.—Chicago Herald. An Animal Trump. Mark Twain made the coyote famous —or notorious, if you please. In ' 'Rough ing It" tho poor animal is described as the sneak thief of the plains, a tramp of the desert. Whether he is as bad as he is painted or not, the California leg islature has put a price on his head. As a result within the six months just passed 90,299 of these lank animals have been killed in the Golden State at a cost to the government of $101,995. —Kansas City Times. Will Bo Heard All Over Paris. A monster bell, one of tho largest of its kind, specially cast for the new Church of the Sacred Heart on the heights of Montmartro, has been com pleted at Anuecy, in Savoy. This im mense instrument, which, when hung in its lofty position, will bo audible all over Paris, weighs, with its clapper, nearly twenty-five tons. —Paris Cor. Lon don Telegraph. An Earnest Student. City Instructor —If you have such a delightful home in the suburbs, why do you wish extra studies which will keep you in the schoolroom after hours? Suburban Boy—This is garden weed ing time.—Good News. The Beat Man Wo. Late. The beat man was late at ono of last week's weddings, and his appearance after the ceremony had begun created a sensation—Boston Saturday Gazette, 1 ONLY A WOMAN. Only a woman, shivering and old, The rey of the winds and prey of the cold! Cheoke that are shrunken. Eyes that are eunken, Lips that wqre never o'er bold. Only a woman, forsaken and poor. Asking for alms at tho bronze church door. Hark to the organ—roll upon roll The wavos of Its music go over tho soul. fjjllks rustle cost her, Fiwtor and faster; The great boll oeases Its toll. Fain would she enter, but not for tho poor Bwlngeth wide open tho bronze church door. Only a woman, walling alone. Icily cold on an Ice cold stone. What do they care for her, Mumbling a prayer for hor— Giving not bread, but a stone? Under rich luces their haughty hearts boat, Mocking the woes of their kin in the street. Only a woman! In tho old days Hope sort iled to her the happiest lays. Somebody missed her. Somebody crowned her with praise. Somebody faced out the battle of life, Strong for hor sake who was mother and wife. Somebody lies with a tress of her hair Light on his heart whero tho death shadowe are; Somebody waits for her, Ooening the gates for her. Giving delight for despair. Only a woman—nevermore! She is dead in snow at the bronze church door —Unknown Author. Passive Resistance. One of the most novel methods ever at tempted of conduoting a strike was that Inaugurated by the telegraphers in Spain. All tho details of thq. affair were excel lently arranged longTjeforehand, so that there should be no hitch. The govern ment wore taken completely by surprise. Suddenly they found all communication by wire stopped, though the telegraphic system was apparently in good working order. The operators did not leave their posts, but when asked to send messages they signalod as usual and informed the officials that there was no response to their calls for the distant officos. This sort of passive resistance puzzled the of ficials. The home secretary in Madrid and the governors of the various provinces entered the offices escorted by the gen darmes, and ordered the operators to establish communication in their pres ence. Tho operators replied respectfully, after calling the offices as commanded, that they received no answer and there fore could not send the messages offered. It seems that it was part of tho plan of the men, arranged beforehand, that no operator should answor when his of fice was called for on the wires. Tho first dispatches which tho govern ment was able to send to the provincial | governors were put through by the j courtesy of the railway officials over the | wires generally devoted to train orders. The railway operators were in sympathy with the strikers and would not handle the government's messages, but some of the railway officials who are prac tical telegraphers themselves manned the wires and transmitted the messages. ! The operators struck because their appeals for tho redross of a number of long standing grievances were disre garded. The immediate cause was tho appointment of a postal officer of only three years' service to the office of di- ' roctorof the central office in Madrid over the heads of officers of thirty years' j service. Just Like Most Labor Laws. Once again has the alien labor law \ been demonstrated a farce. No em- j ployer of labor need have the least fear of conviction under the law providing he uses tho slightest judgment in engaging his help in foroign lauds. In tlifc case tried in the United States circuit court hero yesterday it was distinctly shown j that an agent for the defendant had bar- J gained for labor in Toronto, but simply | because the contracts were not signed I until after the mechanics had reached j Michigan the court took tho case from the jury and ordered a verdict for the defendant. It is not the least surprising therefore | that the ability of tho federal authorl- j ties to frame a law that cannot be ! evaded is frequently questioned. The I same law provides that no enconrago-1 ment shall be offered to foreign labor to seek employment in the United States through advertisements printed in a foreign paper, yet this is just what the same defendant did and for which the | corporation is now being tried a second j time. The chances are however that I the case, like its predecessors, will be > thrown out on some technicality, de- . spite the direct convicting evidence.— Detroit News. Labor's Demands "Nonsense." The New York Tribuno has published the comments of some of its exchanges j upon the recent difficulty between that j paper and the Typographical union. The following from the Kingston (N. Y.) Freeman is given a place in the collec tion: Will somebody explain what possible rela tion Whitelaw Heid's relation to the typo graphical unions has with the lssuos to be set tled in this national campaign}' More non sense is being lot loose on this subject than on any other. Wo refuse to believe tbat tliore Is any voter in this country so small minded as j to allow his vote to be lnfluenoed by the ques- ] tion whether .the foreman of the Now York Tribune composing room belongs to the union ] or not. To be a thorough union man one must be very small minded. The lumber handlers of Tonawanda, ! N. Y., accomplished the abolition of the stevedore, or middleman, by their recent strike. The lumber handlers will now work directly for the lumber- ! men and will not bo sweated by sub bosses. There were more strikes and demands for higher wages in May among the silk workors than in the entire year of 1891. Tho condition of tho trade improved very much during Juno, and it is now better than for Beveral years past, The national executive board of the Journeymen Brewers' union charges the Central Labor council, of Cincinnati, with having conspired with the boss brewers of that city to remove the boy cott from pool beer. CMnftltlu for Six Montbo. Sinoo Jan. 1 there have been fonr de structive windstorms, killing nearly 800 persons, viz., April 1, Missouri and Kan sas, 75; May 16, Texas, 15; May 87, Wel lington, Kan., 58; Juno 10, southern Minnesota, 50. In the same period there have been four great floods, viz., April 11, Tombigbee river, 850; May 18, Sioux City, la,, 85; May 20, lower Mississippi, 86; Juno 5, fire and flood, Oil Creek, Pa., 100. There also have been four mining disasters, viz., Jan. 7, McAllister, I. T., 65; April 80, Minersvillo, Pa., 12; May 10, Roslyn, Wash., 44; May 14, Butte, Mon., 11. Three fires have been un usually disastrous to life, viz., Jon. 21, Indianapolis Surgical institute, 10; Feb. 7, Hotel Royal, New York, 80; April 28, theater, Philadelphia, 12. Besides these there were on March 21 an explosion at Jordan, Mich., by which 10 lives were lost; June 18, the explo sion at the Mare Island navy yard, which killed 18, and June 15, the fall of tho bridge over Licking river, by which 82 lives were sacrificed. These are the principal disasters of the year thus far, and they involve an aggregate of 960 lives. Adding to this total the sum of losses by minor accidents we have the following sad and unusual record: By fire, 870; by drowning, 1,864; by explosions, 818; by failing struc tures of various kinds, 207; by mine dis asters, 808; by windstorms, 840, and by lightning, 120. Grant? total, 8,588. The total loss of life by these causes during the whole of last year—and 1891 was one of the most destructive years on record—was 5,762. —Chicago Tribune. A N lnoyear-ul Clothing prices are marked as follows: We are selling boys' 40-cent knee pants at 25 cents. Men's $1.25 pants are now going at 75 cents per pair. Boys' blouse suits, 50 cents. Men's $6.00 suits reduced to $3.00. Men's Custom-made $9.00 wood-brown cassimere suits re duced to $5.00. Men's absolutely fast-color blue suits at $0.50; reduced from SIO.OO. We have lowest marks on all goods in our lines of Ladies' and Gents' Furnishing Goods, Hats, Caps, Trunks, Valises, Notions, Etc. BARGAIN EMPORIUM, P. 0. S. of A. Building, Ereeland, Pa. Wt Bsi|iHin FOB And Hardware of Every Description^ REPAIRING DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. We are prepared to do roofing and spouting in the most improved manner and at reasonable rates. We have the choicest line of miners' goods in Freeland. Our mining oil, selling at 26, 25 and 30 cents per gallon, cannot be surpasssed. Samples sent to anyone on application. Fishing Tackle and Sporting Goods. Q\RKQEGK'S. CENTRE STREET, FREELAND, PA.U