FREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED EVELTY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. TliOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOK AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - SI.OO PER YEAR. j FREELAND, PA., AUGUST 25, 1802. J DEMOCRATIC TICKET. NATIONAL. President, Grovor Cleveland ...New York i Vice President, Adloi E. Stevenson Illinois STATE. Judge of Supreme Court, Christopher Heydrick ...Ventuigo County Congressmen-at-Lurpe, George Allen Erie County Thomas P. Mcrrltt Ilerks County We denounce protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the Ameri can people for the benefit of the few.— DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. Until September I,IBHJ, subscriptions will be ( received by the TRIBUNE at the rate of SI.OO ! per year, strictly in advance. Present sub scribers, by paying any existing arrearages and SI.OO, can avail themselves of the advan tages to be derired from this otfer. After September 1 the TRIBUNE will be $1.50 per ; year, strictly in advance. 1 TIIE ROWS that the protected monopo- 1 lists are backward about coming forward ' with contributions to the Republican j campaign fund this year indicates that said protected monopolists are, in their way, good business',men. Having bought : the McKinley schedule of prohibitory tariff taxes and paid roundly for it four j years ago, the manufacturers may naturally feel that they have a right to demand a continuance of the same without paying any more tribute to Republican bosses. If they were to , keep their pockets open it wouldn't he I long before they would have to pay in i blackmail to the campaign managers a 1 good deal more than the profit of protec- tion would amount to. Moreover, it i 8 plain that the people of this country are ( not going to submit to class taxation ■ much longer. The manufacturers pro- < bably foresee the election of a tariff i reform president and congress in Novem ber, and therefore beg to be excused ' from pouring any more good dollars into the McKinley rat hole. i IT is observed that the presidental 1 canvass is dull this year compared with s the activity that was usual at this period ' in former campaigns. There has been 1 but little movement on either the Demo cratic or the Republican side. The latter may be retarded by the difficulty that lias been experienced in getting the leaders to pull in the party traces, hut there is no such difficulty with the Democrats. The inertness may be due to the fact that the enemy they will have to fight has not yet made an appearance in the field. The interest which the people have taken in the Homestead difficulty has had, in a large measure, the effect of drawing attention from the political field. That episode lias also demoralized the Republicans, who at the very threshold of the cam- | paign which they intend to make on the ] tariff issue, find themselves confronted , by such an object lesson on the benefits I of the McKinley system of protection. 1 It isn't any wonder that they are con siderably rattled. THE New York World, with the co operation of other prominent Demo cratic newspapers throughout the coun try, is making an energetic fight for the capture of several Western states. Over $20,000 have been subscribed in less than two weeks, and this money is to he spent for strictly legitimate campaign purposes. It is not a fund of fried fat such as the other side gathers together every four years. It will not he spent in buying votes in hlocks-of-five, or in any other corrupt or illegal manner. Over 3000 people have contributed to the fund, and every Democrat is asked to send his mite, even if it he only a dime, in order that the light may he spread amoug the people of the West. Contri butions may lie sent either direct to the World or through the TRIBUNE, and will he promptly acknowledged. THE high protective tariff now in force is the fosterer of another trust just form ed in New York. Tha manufacturers of wall paper, a commodity subject to a tariff tax of twenty-five per cent., have combined with the avowed purpose of cheapening the cost of manufacture but with the evident purpose of forcing up the price to the consumer. It does not take much thought to understand if the product was open to foreign competition that such a combine would be useless. As it is the consumer is compelled to pay the tariff tax not, because he im ports the article, hut in the inflation of the price of the home product. The house owner pays the tax when he orna ments his room; his poorer neighbor in the payment of rent. IN the two days that have elapsed since the Democrats held their legislative convention a decided change has come over many of the veteran workers in the party. Their enthusiasm died a sharp and sudden death since the fact was demonstrated that they do not amount to anything so long as they reside out side the limits of Jlazlcton. NO BIG ANIMALS. A/HAT VAST AREAS OF LAND IN TORRID COUNTRIES LACK. Nome District. in Which There Are No Wlhl Animal, nf Considerable Size. Inland, of the Wert Indian Archipel ago Called n "Gumeless Country." A Russian naturalist, Professor Ma clay, who passed several years in the in i terior of Papua, describes the highland i district of the great island as a region as remarkable for its scdnery and pro ductiveness as for its salubrious crimate —a perpetual May in the terrace lands, with March and April plateaus here and there in the highest mountains. The area of tho whole island exceeds that of Texas, hut its population hardly aggregates a million, nine-tenths of the aborigines being lowland settlors, black idlers gorged with the yam roots and wild hog steaks of the coast plain. The uplands, too, abound with game and fish, and the only conceivably reason why the natives should limit their hunting grounds to the sweltering coast jungles is their preference for a climate that enables them to dispense with dry goods tho year round. > In tho Torres range there are summits towering to the height of 11,000 feet, hut tho close proximity of the equator has covered the highlands with a luxuriant vegetation. Snow is hardly ever seen, hut chill nights—light frost even—occur now and then, and the fflzzle haired coast dwellers avoid the mountains as the Indios Mansos of tho Mexican low lands avoid the tierra fria. Papua is a paradise of birds, but the kingdom of mammals is represented only by a few marsupials (ground kangaroos, tree kangaroos and opossums), besides the wild hogs of the river jungles. A much stranger country in regard to the absence of wild animals is found in tho near neighborhood of our own con tinent. The West Indian archiplago, with its four magnificent islands and countless islets, has been justly termed the "gameless country," a region of more than a hundred thousand square miles, monopolized almost entirely by birds and insects (even reptiles being scarce), as if the archipelago had been somehow overlooked on the last two days of creation, and left to he settled by such creatures as could reach its coasts swimming or flying. There are forests teeming with spontaneous fruit, but no monkeys, no wild hogs, no hears or raccoons. The larger carnivora are not represented by a single species. No pumas or jaguars (though both are found on the coasts of tlie neighboring mainland), no panthers, lynx or wildcat. Foxes, wolves and jackals, too, are con spicuous by their absence. The caves of tlie limestone Sierra would seem to he admirably adapted to marmots and woodchucks, hut they are tenanted only by bats. On the fine highland pastures there aro no bisons, no doer, no antelopes, and, strange to say, not even rabbits. Sheep, goats, horses, donkeys, cows, hogs and even dogs were introduced after the Spanish conquest, and the only domestic mammal kept by the natives at the time of discovery was a small kind of wolf (prairie wolf) imported from Mexico, and a few species of squir rels, which tho Cubans fattened for culinary purposes without knowing any thing about a classic precedent—the gliraria (rat kennels) of the ancient Romans, who preferred dormouse on toast to the best Syrian pheasant pies. Dogs and cats were unknown, and that lack of household pets seems to have driven the aborigines to strange expedients, for in "Ogilvy's Voyages" thero is an account of a San Domingo cacique who kept a tame manatee that made its headquarters in an artificial pond and was so well tamed that "when called by its name, Matoom, it would come out of the water and go directly to the cacique's house, where, being fed, it returned to the pond, accompanied by men and hoys, who seemed to charm the manatee by their singing, and it often carried two children at a time on its back. Being once, however, struck by a pike in the hands of a Spaniard it would never after come out of tho water if a clothed man were near. Manatees have become rather scarce on tlie coast of San Domingo, hut are often seen near the Island of Pinos, northwest of Cuba, where shoals of the strange creatures may he seen sporting "bout the reef like the sea lions below the Cliff House. Of all aquatic mam mals the manatee, however, can claim the championship in the art of dodging i a 6udden attack; a leveled harpoon is i enough to make them plunge under j with a "no yon don't" snort, and then pop up again at unexpected times ami i places, waving their flippers in derision, j and ready to disappear for good at the j first suspicious motion. The luxury of the Doniis!ican cacique j was therefore not apt to he shared by I many of his subjects. Puppies and kit- i tens were never seen in their cabins, and tho largest land animal of the island was an overgrown rat, known as the lmtia, and measuring about eighteen Inches without the tail. Its caudal appendugi is a compromise between that of tlie true rat and the California gopher, whom it resembles In itß fondness for grain and in its burrowing mania, one pair owning often as many as four different dens, more or less connected by subterranean tunnels. With the exception of that shy rodent, Cuba, Han Domingo, Jamaica und Costa Rica have no laud creatures deserving the name of a game animal, for even the omnivorous appetite of the Haytian darkies draws the line at the musk scented giant rats of tho coast forests. San Francisco Chronicle. Tlie Gladioli. The splendid gladioli which now orna ment all American gardens, from the finest to the humblest, when summer is at its height, are, as every one knows, natives of the Capo of Good Hope, great ly improved and infinitely diversified by cultivation. But perhaps it is not as generally known that tho old fashioned har.lv auueiea. hearing a few small roes red or, rarely, white blossoms, whicnour grandmothers loved long before its showier cousins became the fashion, is | of European origin, and is indeed a fa- I miliar field flower throughout central [ and southern Europe. | In those parts of southern France where the festival called tho Fete Dien is still publicly observed, its varieties are more generally employed than any other flowers to decorate tlie canopies borne in tho processions and the little shelters where they halt.—Garden anil Forest. The lii,by Was New. At the time when the coral honey suckle was scarlet and bright around the porch Dora made the acquaintance of her new little sister. "What shall we call her?" asked mamma. ' 'Daisy, because she is sweet," said Rob quick ! ly. "No," said Dora slowly; "we'd bet ter call lier honeysuckle, 'cause she's so red I" The baby was called Daisy until a name was decided upon. Shortly after a lady called. "Our baby's name is j Gertrude," said Rob. "Indeed! Didn't you use to call her Daisy?" "Use to!" exclaimed Dora. "There isn't any 'ase to' about our hahy. She's too new."— Youth's Companion. ETYMOLOGY MADE INTERESTING. Tlie Origin ami Curious Evolution of Some English Surnnmcs. A magazine article by Sir Herbert Maxwell presents in a very readable form the derivation of a number of common names. It will be news, for example, to many of our readers that Snooks was once known as Sevenoakes. Some persons are not aware that Eliza beth is to be accounted an uncouth form of Isabel, which was formed from Isa beau on a false supposition that Isabeau was masculine. Eliza, it is stated, is not a shortened form of Elizalwth, hut is tho equivalent of Alice. Murion, we know, is in line with Marie, Mary and Maria. Patronymics have been much multi plied through pet names. Tho Saxons formed pet names by adding to tlie original name—often abbreviated—kin and cock, and the Normans introduced et and ot, en and on. From William we have the pet names Will, Wilcock, Wil kin, Willett, Willey, Willeinot, Willen, Bill and Guili (Latin). From these we get, in order, Williams, Mac William, Williamson, Wills, Wilson, Wilcox, Wil kins, Wilkison, Wilkinson, Willet, Wil letson, Wilmot, Willing, Bilson, Gill, Gilson, Gilkius, Gilkison, Gillon and Gillott. Robert—through Robin, Dohh, Hob, Rob and llohkin—gives us Rob ert*, Robertson, Robins, Robinson, Rob isou, Probyn, Dohhs, Dohson, Ilobbs. Hobson, Rohbs, Rohson, Hopkins and Hopkiuson. Philip gives us Phippe, Philpot and Philpots. Richard lias been distorted by affection into the pet names Rich, Richie, Dick, Diccon, Hitcliinand Hitch cock. From these in turn we have Richards, Richardson, Rickards, Pritch ard, Rixon, Ritchie, Ricliison, Dick, Dixie, Dixon, Dickens, Dickenson, Hitch ins, Hitchison, Hitchcock and Hitchcox. David lias given as Davidson, Dodson, Dodds, Davy, Davison, Daw, Dawson, Dawkins and O'Dowd. Wo liavo from Henry tho derivations Hal, Hallet, Harry, Harriot und Hawkins. From John we get Jack and Jenkins; from Simeon, Simkins. Thackeray'e ancestor was a thatclier. Mai thus got his name from multliouso and tho com mon family name of Bacchus would be more correctly spelled bakehouse. Mac pherson means parson's son. Viekere was the vicar's son. Wallace means u Welshman, and Bruce is u Norman name. Sinclair, Montgomery, Hay and Vance are, like Bruce, names derived from lands in Normandy. Many English surnames end in ford, liam (house), lea. ton (funn) and by (dwelling), from the old practice of naming persons after tlieir native place. Aylesford, Gritn ston, Habersham and Ormsby are ex amples. Winslow is from words that mean Wine's hill. From Lea wo get Leo, Leigh and Legh, The fFelsh Ap, son. with Robert, has become Probert. Ap Rhys has become Price, Ap Owen has become Bowen, and Ap Hugh has bo come Pngli. A prosperous Dublin snuff dealer named Halfpenny lias had his ap pellation shortened, it is narrated, to Halpen, and then enlarged to an impos ing McAlpin. It is interesting in this connection to know that Finn and Find lay are Celtic surnames equivalent to our White, Duff, Macduff and Dow are for Black. Glass is for Gray. Roy, Cockran and Cochrane all mean red. Our Mr. Brown is in Celtic Mr. Dunn or Mr. Donnan. Moore and Moran answer to our Bigg. On the other hand, Beggs is good Celtic for Little or Small. Oli phant (elephant) is a name derived from a shop sign. The reader will perceive that many of onr Christian names and surnames liavo had curious histories.— Baltimore Sun. Barber This in the best shaving soap I've ever used. Customer—Well, It doesn't taste any I better than that you had last week.—Clii -1 c&ao News-Record. CHURCH DIRECTORY. I T J ETHEL BAPTIST. (Lindsay's Hall) | -A A Front and Washington Streets. Rev, C. A. Spa Hiding, Pastor. Sunday School 10 00 A M Gospel Temperance 2 30PM Preaching 000PM HEAVENLY RECRUITS. Centre Street, above Chestnut. Rev. Charles Ilrown, Pastor. Morning Service 10 00 A M Sunday School 200 PM Love Feast 315 P M Preaching 730PM J EDDO METHODIST EPISCOPAL. In charge of Rev. E. M. Cliilcoat. Sunday School 200 PM Preaching 7 00 P M gT. ANN'S ROMAN CATHOLIC. Rev. M. J. Falliiiee, Pastor; Rev.F. P. McNally, Curate. Low Mass 8 00 A M High Mass 10 30 A M Vespers 7 30 P M Mass on Weekdays 7 00 A M ST. JAMES' EPISCOPAL. South and Washington Streets. Rev. J. P. Buxton, Pastor. Sunday School 130 PM Prayer and Sermon 7 00 P M QT JOHN'S REFORMED. O Walnut and Washington Streets. Rev. H. A. Benner, Pastor. Sunday School 0 00 A M German Service 10 30 A M Praise Meeting 7 (X) P M English Sermon 7 30 P M Prayer and teachers' meeting every Saturday evening at 7.45 o'clock, QT. KASIMER'S POLISH CATHOLIC. O Ridge Street, above Carbon. Rev. Joseph Muzotus, Pastor. Mass 11 U0 A M Vespers 4 00 P M Mass on Weekdays "30AM QT. LUKE'S GERMAN LUTHERAN. O Main and Washington Streets. Rev. A. Rcimullcr, Pastor. Sunday School 0 00 A M German Service 10 00 A M Cutcchial Instruction 5 00 PM QT. MARY'S GREEK CATHOLIC. 0 Front and Fern Streets. Rev. Cirill Gulovich, Pastor. Low Mass 800 A M High Mass 10 30 A M Vespers 2 00 P. M rpiUNITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL. 1 Birkbeck Street, South Hcberton. Rev. E. M. Cliilcoat, Pastor. Preaching 10 00 A M Sunday School 200 PM Prayer and Class Meeting 7 00 P M Epworth League meets every Friday evening at 7.30 o'clock. WELSH BAPTIST. (I)onop's Hall) Walnut uml Ridge Streets. I Sunday School 10 30 A M Prayer Meeting 600 PM Subscribe for the TRIBUNE. Only $1 if paid before September 1. OVERHEARD. Governess—What is the future of the verb "To love," Mary? Pupil (after a pause)—To marry, Miss Jones.—Tit-Bits. Mrs. Bagley (dropping into a chair and throwing oiT her bonnet)—We had such a lovely time at the conversazione this af ternoon. One of the members lias sepa rated from her husband. Mr. Bagley— And? Mrs. Bagley—And she was not present.—Boston Post. "I suppose," said Miss Bleeker to her friend from Cincinnati, "that you boil your river water before using it?" "Well, no," replied Miss Buckeye. "Our usual custom is to slice it thin and fry it."—Life. Mrs. Sapmind—Well, I dodeclar! Them western folks is growin crazy. Mrs. Lis ner—Why, what's the matter now? Mrs. Sapmind—Matter enough. Here's an ar tiele in this paper about "Lynching Bees Out West." When fokes haven't got noth in better to do 'an go around lynchin bees, I've got my opinion of 'em.—Boston Cou rier. "Yes," complained a grocer, "business is dull. I have lost a good deal of trade in the last three weeks and I can't account for it. And it seems to be getting worse, and—great Scott! I had no idea it was 4 o'clock!" "Going to the bank?" "No; cricket mutch. I haven't missed a game yet this season."—Tit-Bits. Lady (to nursegirl)—Caroline, see you don't let the children sit on the wet grass; they might catch cold. If they are tired you can sit on it yourself aud take them on your knees.—Esprit des Autres. "Mamma, may we play at keeping a store in here?" "Yes, hut you must be very, very quiet." "Well," said wise Tom my, "we'll pretend we don't advertise."— Art in Advertising. Stout Gentleman (at table d'hote, ad dressing his fair neighbor)— Excuse me, madame, I nni rather shortsighted. Would you mind telling me if I have tasted of ev erything there is on the table?—lllustra tion. "I think I'll buy a thermometer," he said. "Not now," replied his wife. "Ther raometers are too high at present."—Wash ington Star. Woman of the World (to youthful ad mirer)— You seem to know a great deal of married life. Are you married? Smith (with a blase air)—No; but my father is.— Tit-Bits. "I'm going to write a book on 'How to Live on Nothing a Year.' " "It can't be done." "It can; I have a receipt." "What is it?" "Marry a rich girl."—Dramatic Life. "Johnny, are you teaching that parrot to use naughty words?" "No'm. I'm just telling it what it mustn't say."—Tit-Bits llow Mr. Dyer Catches Seals* Mr. Dyer lives on a small island near Seven Hundred Acre Island, Islesboro. He takes a pole several feet in length, to which is attached a number of com mon codfish hooks with lanyards several feet in length. The hooks are baited with a herring. This contrivance is anchored and buoyed, the hooks being just below the surface. The seals in swallowing the herring become hooked. Mr. Dyer has taken a large number in this manner.—Eastern Argus. Room for Suspicion. Chappy—l almost suspect Dickey of try ing to cut me out with Luura, don't you know? Penelope—Why? Chappy—l saw him kiss her last night. —New York Herald. Home, Sweet Home. She bought some gowns, expecting that In Europe she would roam; But when her husband paid for them They had to stay at home. —Detroit Free Press. QUOTATIONS. Best family flour - - $2.35 Corn and mixed chop, - 1.17 22 p'nds granulated sugar 1.00 3 cans tomatoes .25 5 pounds raisins - - .25 Home-made lard - - - .10 G bars white soap - - - .25 Dry GrcocLs: Challies, best, 41 cents per yd. Some dress goods reduced from 50 to 25 cents. Scotch ginghams, worth 35 cents, sell for 20 cents. T7i7"a,1l Paper: Thousands of different patterns 5 cents double roll up to any price wanted. Carpets and Oil Clctlrs: Carpets, 17 cents per yard. I carry the largest stock in this town. D-u.rnit-u.re: Anything and everything. Good lounges for $5.00. G round-back chairs for $3.00. Black hair walnut parlor suit, $29.50. Ladies' Summer Coats 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. Slroes and. Dootwear: 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. WM. WEHRMANN, German Practical Watchmaker. Centre Street, Five Points. The cheapest and best repair ing store in town. All watch repairing guaranteed for one year. New watches for sale at low prices. Jewelry repaired on short notice. Give me a call. All kinds of watches and clocks repaired. ENGLISH, SWISS ANI) AMERICAN WATCHES. Complicated and fine work on watches a specialty. NOTICE 1H hereby given that an application will le made to the next court of quurter sessions of the peace for Luzerne county by the inhabitants of the following descrilHHl lots, outlets and tracts of land adjacent to the bor ough of Freeland for annexation to said bor ough, viz: Ist. All that portion of the Woodsidc addition boundortion of Burton's Hill bound ed north by lands of the Aaron Howey estate; east by the borough of Freeland; south by , lunds of The Cross Creek Coal Com puny, and west by land of Tench Coxe estate. John D. Hayes, Solicitor. ]7H)lt SALE.—A double dwelling situate on 1 South Washington street; also vacant lot adjoining, next to Chicago Meat Market. The necessary outbuildings to dwelling all nearly new. Will be sold at a very low figure for cash. For purticulurs apply to owner, J. 11. Zlegler, Freeland, Pa. "ljX)lt SALE.—A new two-horse truck wagon, J7 one set of light double harness and one set of heavy harness. For further information and prices apply to John Shigo, Centre street, Freeland, where the articles can be seen. F)lt SALE.—Two lots situated on east side of Washington street, between Luzerne and Carbon streets, Five Points. Apply to Patrick McFadden, Eckley, or T. A. Buckley, Freeland. BMDUG HMD SYSTEM. , 7 LEHIGH VALLEY 1 Wfo/ DIVISION. JT* PABBKNQBR TItAINS. I# MAY 15, 1802. LEAVE FREELAND. 6.15,8.45,9.40, KGK A. M., 12.25. 1.50, 2.40, 3.50, 5.15, 0.35, 7.00, 8.47 P. M., for Drifton, .leddo, Lumber Yard, Stockton and llu/Jctou. 0.15, 0.40 A. M., 1.50, 3.50 P. M., for Mnuob > Chunk, Allciitown, Bethlehem, Phila., Kuston and Now York. (8.45 has no connection for ' Now York.) 8.45 A. M. for Bethlehem, Easton and Phihi . dclphiu. ' 7.28, 10.50 A. M., 12.10, 4.30 P. M. (via Highland Branch) lor White Haven, (ilen Summit, > Wilkes-Barro, l'ittston and L. and 11. .1 unction. 0.15 A. M. for Black Bulge and Toinhickon. > SUNDAY TItAINS. 11.40 A. M. and 3.45 P. M. for Drifton, Joddo, ) Lumber Yard and lla/.loton. 3.45 P. M. for Delano, Mahanoy City, Shell ; andoah. Now York and Philadelphia. ARRIVE AT FREELAND. 5.50, 0.52, 7.20, 0.15, 10.50 A. M., 12.10, 1.15, 2.33, 4.3, 0.50 and 8.37 P. M. from Hu/Jcton, Stock ton, I.Hinder Yard, Joddo ami Drifton. 7.20, 0.15, 10.50 A. M., 12.10, 2.33, 4.30, 0.50 P. M. from Delano, Mahanoy City and Shenandoah ' (via New Boston Branch). 1.15 and 5.37 P. M. from New York, Easton, I Philadelphia, Bethlehem, Allcntowu and Munch Chunk. 0.15 and 10.50 A. M. from Easton, Philadcl . phia, lk'tlilehem and Mauch Chunk. 1 9.16, 10.35 A. M., 2.43, 0.35 P. M. from White Haven, Glen Summit, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston and L. and B. Junction (via Highland Branch). SUNDAY TRAINS. 11.31 A, M. and 3.31 P. M. from Ha/Jeton. Lumber Yard, Jeddo and Drifton. 11.31 A. M. from Delano, Ha/Jcton, Philadel phia and Easton. } 3.31 P. M. from Pottsvillc and Delano. For further iuforiuntk.ii Inquire of Ticket Agents. A. A. McLEOD, Pres. & Gen. Mgr. C. G. HANCOCK, Gen. Pass. Agt. Philadelphia, Pa. A. W. NONNBMACHER, Ass't G. P. A., South Bethlehem, Pa. CITIZENS' BANK OF FEE ELAND. 15 Front Street. Capital, - $50,000. OFFICERS. JOSEPH BIRKBECK, President. H. c. KOONH, Vice President. B. R. DAVIS, Cashier. JOHN SMITH, Secretary. DIRECTORS. Joseph Birkbeck, Thomas Birkbeck, John Wugner, A Rudewick, H. C. Koons, Churles Dusheck. William Kemp, Mathias Sehwabe, John Smith, John M. Powell, 2d, John Burton. tZtT Three per cent, interest paid on saving deposits. OIKIII daily from oa. ra. to 4p. m. Saturday eveuiugs from U to 8. Have You Seen It? Our elegant stock of MIS mil SHOES. Which we are selling at prices as low as any dealer in the town. A full assortment of everything in the 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. We are also well supplied with HATS and CAPS for inen ami boys. The lutcst. styles at moderate prices. When you need any of the above goods call on WM. EBERT, 55 Centre Street, Freelaml. WONDERFUL The cures which are being effected by Drs. Starkey At Pulcn, 1520 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa., in Consumption, Cuturrh, Neuralgia, Bron chitis, Rhouiuutism, and ail chronic diseases, by their Compound Oxygen Treatment, are in deed marvelous. If you are a sufferer from any disease which your physician has failed to cure, write for in formation about this treatment, and their book of 2UO pages, giving a history of Compound Oxygen, its nature and effects, with numerous testimonials from patients, to whom you may refer for still further information, will lie promptly sent, without charge. This ixxik, aside from its great merit as n medical work, giving, as it does, the result of years of study and experience, you will find a very interesting one. Drs. STARKEY & PALEN, 152U Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 120 Slitter St., San Francisco, Cal. Please mention this pai>cr. JUS. P. HIM II Centre and South Streets. Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Notions, Furniture, Carpets, Etc. It. is sufficient to state our stock throughout is the most complete to be found in the region. We invite you to call and judge for yourselves. We will compare prices with any dealer in the same line of goods In LuEerne eountv. Try us when in need of any of the above articles, and es)>eeially when you want I LADIES', GENTS' AND CHILDREN'S BOOTS and SHOES. In every department we offer unparalleled inducements to buyers in the way of high class goods of quality beyond question, and to those we add unlimited variety in all new novelties and tiie strong inducements of low prices by which we shall demonstrate thut the eheaposf, ; as well as the choicest stock, is that now for j sale by j. p. MCDONALD. Old newspapers for sale. PETER TIMONY, BOTTLER. And Dealer in all kinds of Liquors, Beer and Porter, Temperance Drinks, Etc., Etc. Geo.Ringler&Co.'s ' Celebrated LAGER BEER put in Patent Sealed Bottles here on the premises. Goods de livered in any quantity, and to any part of the country. FREELAND BOTTLING WORKS, Oor. Centre and Carbon Sts., Freeland. (Near Lehigh Valley DepotJ S. RUDEWICK, - Wholesale Dealer In Imported Brandy, Wine And All Kinds Of LIQUOBS. THE BEST Eeer, Sorter, -£*_le And Ero-vvn Stout. Foreign and Domestic. Cigars Kept oil Hand. S. RUDEWICK, ' SOUTH HEBERTON. E. M. GERITZ, 23 years in Germany nnd America, opposite the Cent ral Hotel, Centre Street, Frcelaea. The Cheapest Repairing Store in town. Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. New Watches, Clocks and Jewelry on hand for the lloli. days; the lowest cash price in town. Jewelry repaired in short notice. AH Watch Re pairing guaranteed for one year. Eight Day Clocks from $3.00 to $12.00; Now Watches from M $4.00 up. E. M. GERITZ, Opposite Central Hotel, Centre St., Fr aland. GO TO Fisher Bros. Livery Stable FOE FIRST-CLASS TURNOUTS S At Short Notice, for Weddings, Parties and Funerals. Front Street, two squares below Freclund Opera House. C. D. ROHRBACH, • Dealer in Hardware, Paints, Varnish, Oil, Wall Payer, Mining Tools and mining Sup plies of all kinds, Lamps, Globes, Tinware, Eto. Having purchased the stock of Wm. J. Eokert and added a considerable amount to the present stock I am prepared to sell at prices that rtefy compe tition. Don't forget to try my special brand of MINING OIL. Centre Street, Freeland Fa. H. M. BRISLIN, r UNDERTAKER AND A. W, WASHBURN, Builder of Light and Heavy Wagons. REPAIRING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. TINE ANI) JOHNSON STS., FIIEELAND.