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FREELAND, SEPTEMBER 15, 1892.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
NATIONAL.
President,
CI rover Cloveland New York
Vice President,
Aillai E.Stevenson Illinois
STATE.
Judge of Supreme Court,
Christopher Heydriok Venango County
Congreesmeu-at- Large,
George Allen Erie County
Thomas P. Merrttt Ilerks County
COUNTY.
Congressman,
William H. Hines Wilkes-nunc
Senator,
J. Kidgeway Wright Wilkes-Bnrre
Sheriff,
William Walters. Sugarloaf Township
Recorder,
Michael C. Hussell Edwnrdsville
Coroner,
H. W. Trimmer Lake Township
Surveyor,
James Crockett Ross Township
Form of the Ballot Changed.
Secretary of the Commonwealth
William F. Harrity, acting upon the
advice of Attorney General Ilensel, has
decided to change the form of the offi
cial ballot to bo used in the November
election. The ballot as originally pre
pared, was in the form of straight party
tickets. That is, all of the candidates
of the Republican party were in one
column with the title of the party at the
top of the column. The Democratic
ticket was in another column, and the
Prohibition ticket in a third column.
Across the top of the ballot instructions
were printed to the effect that one cross
mark (x) opposite the party name would
stand as a vote for all of the candidates
of that party.
That is the way the ballot stood until
General Ueeder, of the Republican state
committee, raised the question of the
legality of its form. He contended that
the law required all candidates to be
grouped as presented in the several cer
tificates of nomination under the designa
tion of the office with the political ap
pellation at the head of each group. He
also argued that the cross mark (x)
against the party name at the top of the
ticket did not vote the entire ticket, hut
only the candidates in that particular
group, which in the case of the present
ballot would be the electors.
After reflecting upon the objections
raised by General Reeder, Attorney
General Ilensel and Secretary Harrity
agreed that in his interpretation was
correct and the form of the ballot will
lie changed accordingly. The new form
of the ballot will have the candidates
arranged in groups as presented in the
certificates of nomination, with the party
name at tho head of each group. The
first group of candidates on the Republi
can ticket will he the presidential elec
tors, the judge of the supreme court and
and the two congressmen-at-large. One
cross mark (x) opposite the party name
at the head of the group, will vote the
entire group. Under the electors will
come the condidates for county officers
in a group by themselves, the state sen
ate in a group, the congressmen and the
representatives.
Ily the new arrangement it will re
quire a cross mark against the party
name at the head of each group to vote
for the candidates in that group. This
will require the voter to give more atten
tion to his ballot and to do more mark
ing than he would been required to do
under the original form. It also pre
vents a man from making a single cross
mark at the head of the ticket to vote
the entire ticket. All of the Republican
candidates will still he printed in one
column and the Democrats in another
column.
The Prohibitionists, under the decision
of Secretary Harrity, will not have the
party name printed over their candi
dates. That party having failed to secure
3 per cent, of tho highest vote at the
last election, and can only get its candi
dates on the ballot by nomination
papers, and the law states that such
nominations shull he arranged under
the simple designation of the office in
alphabetical order, according to their
surnames. The blank spaces will still
left in the last column of the ballot, the
attorney general having decided that it
would not invalidate the ballot to place
them there.
IT is certainly time to call a halt in
the management of a corporation that
insists in following such coercive meth
ods as arc now being used by the Read
ing toward its employes. Leaving aside
all sentiment and the question whether
or not the combine is legal, it is hard to
understand how any person who loves
fair play can support McLeod in the
present difficulty with the railroaders.
It is un-American to compel men to join
the company's relief association and to
give up their own unions. None but
law-defiers like the Reading officials
would demand it, and although a com
promise has been reached, the men will
have to watch every move of their su
periors. Tuesday's conference was no
guarantee that the prospects of trouble
Jiave been averted.
"British Free Trade" Mongers.
On returning from Europe ex-Adjutant
General Hastings announced as the most
important result of his observations
abroad that all the English newspapers
are in favor of Cleveland's election.
This indicates that General Hastings
has been quite assiduous in his reading
of English newspapers, and that those
journals evince much discernment in
their comments upon politics on this side
of the ocean, lie might have said the
same thing witlx quite as much truth of
the Irish newspapers. On the other
hand, during the recent electoral contest
in England tho newspapers of this
country generally expressed themselves
in favor of Gladstone; and there is no
doubt that they fairly reflected Ameri
can sentiment. The conclusion is that
on both sides of the water the news
papers, as well as the people, are able to
discriminate quite clearly upon questions
of foreign politics in which their in
terests and partisan prejudices do not
obscure their judgments.
There is no mistaking the object < f
partisans of the type of General Hastings
in representing free trade England as
favorable to the election of Cleveland.
It is hoped by this appeal to antipathy
of race to alienate our Irish fellow
citizens from the Democratic party.
This partisan device lias been brought
into requisition at nearly every presi
dential election for fifty years; but its
success has never been such as to war
rant its employment. The appeal to
race hatred takes this shape : The Eng
lish people maintain free trade; the Irish
detest the English. Therefore, Ameri
can citizens of Irish origin will vote
against Cleveland because lie is opposed
to the McKinley act and favors, in place
of it, a substantial reform of the tariff.
So clumsy a partisan method, instead
of attracting the quick-witted people to
whom it is applied, is calculated only to
offend and repel them. It impudently
assumes that our Irish-born fellow
citizens are altogether indifferent to the
welfare of their adopted country, as in
volved in an important question of politi
cal economy, and are governed, not by
their opinion of the merits or demerits
of the McKinley tariff, but by tlieir
hatred of England. According to this
amusingly stupid view, the Irish-Ameri
cans are influenced in their political
action solely by an inborn hatred of
everything that is English, including
free trade, and that the party which can
most effectually play upon this race
hatred will "hag" the Irish vote. When
the ballot boxes shall have been emp
tied in November the demagogues who
make this absurd calculation will find
that they have reckoned without their
guest.
1 If a question which exclusively con
cerns tliis country could be influenced
by foreign interests and opinions the
"British free trade" mongers put their
transatlantic argument on too narrow a
ground. The woolen and linen manu
facturers and lace makers of Ireland are
quite as much affected by the McKinley
tariff as are the cotton spinners and
iron workers of England. The Irish
Nationalists are as much opposed to
protection as are the English Liberals
or English Tories. Justin McCarthy,
tho leader of the Nationalists, is as
strenuous an advocate of the principles
of free trade as is Gladstone, and much
more so than Salisbury, the foremost
enemy of Home Rule. From Grattan
and Daniel O'Connell down to Michael
Davitt, nearly all Irish patriots have
been advocates of free trade. There
would he as much sense, then, in ap
pealing to the prejudice of English-born
American citizens against the Irish free
traders as in appealing to citizens of
Irish birth against the British free
traders.
But w hat the English, French or Rus
sians may think or say about the Demo
cratic tariff programme is a matter of
supreme indifference. The demagogues
1 who seek to bring foreign prejudices
and race hatreda to hear upon the de
cision of such a question only betray the
wretched power of tlieir own argument.
> They dare not appeal frankly to the in
' telligence of the American people in be
half of tlieir policy of spoliation;
and in order to becloud the issue they |
5 drag into the foreground of conflict Old I
\\ orld antipathies that are dying away I
1 even in their native homes. Happily, j
1 this campaign lias progressed too far, !
the movement for tariff reform has be-!
1 come too popular, for the Buccess of such
devices of shallow demagogy. The sclf
-1 reliant and self-respecting American
! Democracy are making this campaign
against tariff spoliation without giving
' themselves the least concern about for
eign opinion on the subject.—PhUa.
Jlecord,
I Tiie Republican organs are not prating
- i very much now about Hill's remarkable
-1 silence. They were building great
e j hopes upon what they termed his disap
r I pointment and buoyed up the courage
o; of their followers with reports of how
s Hill and his friends would knife Cleve
e land. This is all changed now, and the
i. j campaign liars must seek some other
ii field to supply themselves with material
0 { for their flimsy yarns. Hill will open
II the New York campaign at the Brooklyn
s Academy of Music on Monday evening,
-1 and has promised to take for his subject
1 the issues of the presidential contest.
- j Consequently there is trouble and wail
i ing in the Republican newspaper offices.
1 Advertise in the Tkibun;.
PROTECTION IN PRACTICE.
An Incontrovertible Statement Marie by
a Technical Mngaxinc.
The Engineering ami Mining Journal
gives an exceedingly valuable illustra
tion of the manner in which a protect
ive tariff raises its beneficiaries above
the operations of the natural law of
trade.
The illustration concerns steel rails,
which are now $4 a ton higher than they
were in 1885, although the cost of pro
duction and the tariff tax are less and
the demand is slight. The command of
the market by reason of the tariff on
rails and the ownership of the Bessemer
patents has enabled tho rail makers to
fix arbitrarily the price of their jiwduots.
The American manufacturers make
much of the fact that improved ma
chinery has greatly increased their out
put, and The Jouraul estimates that the
cost of producing steel rails, when the
manufacturer makes his own pig, can
not exceed S2O a ton. In 1885 steel rails
sold at $26 a ton, and the cost of Besse
mer pig alone was sl6. At SBO a ton
the profits on the annual output of steel
rails is necessarily between $10,000,000
and $12,000,000.
That the protective tariff gives this
enormous dividend to the makers, who
instead of increasing wages are trying
to cut them down, is shown by an ex
amination of English prices. In May,
1892, English rails sold for $10.44.
Tho duty on this—slß.44 —would make
their price $82.88, not counting freight
and insurance. It is clear therefore that
SBO is the price at which the English
rails can be kept out. While tho Eng
lish price has fallen since 1885 from
$28.17 a ton to $19.44, tho price of Eng
lish pig has risen from $10.09 a ton to
sl2?is.
In other words, tho English maker
pays $1 .43 more for his pig and gets
$8.73 less for his rails. At the same
time, whilo the price of American rails
advanced from $26 to S3O a ton, the
price of American pig fell from sl7 to
sl4 a ton, so that tho American maker
paid $3 less for his pig and got $1 more
for his product
This gain ho keeps for himself.—New
York World.
WHAT THE FORCE BILL MEANS.
The Timely Warning of a Stanch Demo
cratic Journal.
The Lodge force bill passed by tho He
publican house of representatives in the
Reed congress two years ago, and prac
tically indorsed by the Republican party
in its national convention at Minneapo
lis, is a long and in places a tedious doc
ument It was carefully drawn with
the purpose of muddling the unprofes
sional reader and of beclouding in a sea
of cuttlefish obscurity some of its most
dangerous and revolutionary provisions.
But a casual reading reveals it as an
insidious attempt to subvert the consti
tution of the United States and to sub
stitute government by federal returning
boards for free representative govern
ment of and by the people. Even if its
i other provisions were honest—which
they are not—its openly avowed purpose
of takiug control of congressional elec
tions out of the hands of officers chosen
by the people of the severul states and
vesting it in judges appointed by tho
president would suffice to damn its au
thors to everlasting infamy as traitors
to tho American system of government.
—St. Louis Republic.
Was TIIIH Collateral Neputlm?
President Harrison has vetoed the bill
for the relief of William McGarrahan.
Naturally. McGarrahan is i>oor and the
men who are operating the valuable
mines to which McGarrahan lays claim
are rich. And one of these, too. is
Pacific Railroad Magnate D. O. Mills,
father-in-law to Whitelaw Reid, who is
President Harrison's present running
mate. Mr. Harrison will have a hard
job in explaining away this veto. The
bill to which he refused his signature
merely provided for roferring McGar
rahan's case to tho court of claims,
where it could bo acted upon judicially
and the right and tho law and the equity
in tho matter bo determined. President
Harrison's veto means sknply that Mc-
Garrahan is deprived of the right to be
heard in the courts. But then McGar
rahan is poor, and D. O. Mills is in the
habit of contributing liberally to the
Ropublicau campaign fund.—lndianap
olis Sentinel.
The Effect of Harritioii's ftpeechen.
The situation in Indiana is very un
satisfactory to the Republicans this
yoar, and they will make extraordinary
efforts to carry that state. Harrison's
plurality in 1888 was only 2,848. A
change of 1,200 votes would have given
its electoral vote to Cleveland. Two
years later the Democratic candidate
for secretary of state beat his Repub
lican opponent by 19,579. That was in
i the "tidal wave" following the passage
1 of the McKinley bill and President Har
| rison's force bill scheme, and his speech
ifying tour throngK the middle and
I western states.—Charleston News and
Courier.
Corrupters of Youth.
Cicero in the Roman senate branded
Catiline as the corrupter of youth. Tl*e
Dudleys and Quays of the Republican
party are the Catilines, the corrupters
of youth; the exponents of the purty
which inaugurated the corrupt use of
money in elections, and which founds
ita hope of success on the amount oI
[ money it can raise from favored and
protected classes. Do they recall the
| fate of Catiline and his followers?—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Memorable Meeting.
The moro the, Democrats of New York
become acquainted with their vico pres
idential candidate the better they liki
him. He deservos their earnest and un
deviating support, and he is certain t<
receive it The meeting l>otween Gen
eral Stevenson and Mr. Cleveland wai
an occasion of real Democratic felicity,
The welcome of both by the Democracj
of New York was an event meinorabh
I In the annals of politics.—Brooklyr
i Eagle.
COCKRAN ON CLEVELAND.
' Tlio Tammany Orator Says New York
State Is Solid.
I The subjoined letter from the Hon.
W. Bourke Cockran voices the senti
ment of New York Democrats so admi
rably that it is given for publication by
Mr. Howry as an encouragement to tho
cause everywhere. It was written in
response to an inquiry as to how the
nomination of Mr. Cleveland was re
ceived in New York, accompanied with
; the statement that while tho writer, as
an adherent of Cleveland's nomination,
had heard Mr. Cockran's plea at Chicago
without being convinced, nevertheless
1 we wore all iutorested in tho stand the
Tammany and othor organizations in
that state would tako now that the
nomination had been made, and that no
one was so well qualitiod to toll the
friends of Cleveland in the south as the
Tammany orator. The lettor of Bourke
Cockran is characteristic of the Tam
many leader, and shows that the New
York Democrats are united in fact:
NEW YOUR, July <&.
MY DEAR SIR—I have received your lettor
of the 10th Inst., and I bog to assure you that
the delay in acknowledging It was caused by
my absence from home.
I havo no hesitation in expressing my Arm
conviction that tho nomination of Mr. Cleve
land has been received throughout the state in
a spirit of entire loyalty. Tho whole party,
without a single dissent, has indorsed the
nomination, and wo who opposed it iu the con
vention are determined to labor with especial
vigor to achieve success at tho polls. 1 fee)
absolutely confident that tho state of New
York will show better results ou election day
than any other of tho doubtful states.
It will afford mo great pleasure to renew oui
acquaintance, and I am very truly yours,
W. BOL'HKK COCKRAN.
To Charles B. Ilowry, Esq., Oxford, Miss.
—Jackson (Miss.) Ledger.
They Uato to Face It.
Many Republicans do not fancy hav
ing to face the force bill as one of the
issues of the campaign. They know
that it loses them votes, but a majority
of that party is irrevocably pledged to
tho enactment of such a law as soon as
it has the power, so the sensible majori
ty must choose between voting the
Democratic ticket and swallowing the
force bill.—Yonkers (N. Y.) Gazette.
They Frighten Only Themselves.
When Democratic pajiers say that tho
high tariff has undoubtedly "protected"
Carnegie and his partners but question
its blessings for othor people, Repub
lican organs accuse them of defending
lawlessness and violence, justifying
murder and encouraging attacks upon
persons and property. But those more
or less esteemed contemporaries frighten
only themselves.—Buffalo Courier.
Don't Heed the Fat Protectlonist.
When you hear a fat protectionist
howling that "free trade will ruin the
country," remembor that he is making
money by the special privileges of pro
tection, and that under free trade no
man will have special privileges of that
sort. Then you can easily decide which
side makes the unselfish arguments.—
La Crosse (Wis.) Chronicle.
A Specious Whine.
Raurn attempts to vindicate his con
duct of the pension bureau on the
ground that the office expenses have
been less under his than under previous
administrations. Bank cushiers who
havo made away with tho assets of the
bank may find an admirable suggestion
for defense in this ingenious statement
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
1 The CatiHe of High Taxation.
The principal complaint of fanners is
3 high taxation. High taxation is caused
3 indirectly by the protective tariff. The
I Republican platform favors the high
3 tariff, tho Democratic platform de
, nounces it and pledges the party to
3 regulate it, and tho third party platform
; is silent on the subject.—Danville (Va.)
1 Register.
Republican Desperation.
The desperation of the Republicans is
indicated by their attempts to minimize
\ the importance of the force bill issue.
' They have reason to fear its introduc
j. tion into the canvass and will leave no
stono unturned to reliove their party of
3 a burden it is in no condition to sustain.
—Pensacola (Fla.) News.
"'Twa* tho Merest Bluff."
3 Nothing more has been heard of Quay's
offer to bet SIO,OOO on Harrison since a
New Yorker offered to take tho bet.—
St. Louis Republic.
A Song for the Time*.
8 | LAlr—"Uncle Sam's Farm."]
y I Of all the nominations in tho east or In the
g west
. These glorious nominations of our candidates
are best.
'i With the name of ti rover Cleveland, the loador
0 of reform,
And General Adlni Stovenson we'll mnko this
campaign warm.
CHORUS.
ri Then como along, come along: make no do
-6 | lay;
Como from every quarter, come from overy
way,
l " I For onr causo is Btrong enough, and we will
1 shout for Joy!
d Hurrah for Grover Cleveland and the man
) from Illinois!
The nation's friend, our hero, stauds ready for
I the light,
(1 l With truth and justico as his swords to battle
€ j for tho right.
Then rouse ye, old Democracy 1 and lend a
11 | helping hand
a To crush this robber tariff, this curse upon our
y i land.
'f A word to ull the farmers that so long havo
Is felt the weight
,f Of this robbery taxation—take warning ere too
d
And henceforth from monopolies tho people
10 shall 1)0 free,
With Clcvoland as their leader, to strike for
| liberty.
Wo have no need of any fears about our coun
try's fate
k With Grover Cleveland at tho helin to steer
our "Ship of State,"
3 " And with our cause beforo us we can ncvor
:o know defeat.
j. Then onward with the battle cry, our enotnics
j to meet.
1- From tho northern states to Florida, and from
w the east to the west.
We will unfurl our banners for the men we
'' love the best.
y So with Grover Cleveland at tho head, as
le | leader of reform,
n And General Adlai Stevenson we'll make this
campaign warm.
' - 8C Louis Republic.
DAME REPUBLICAN'S INDUSTRIOUS
INFANT INDUSTRY.
Tho oldor and bigger it gets the more
it eats.—Chicago Herald.
There Are No Federal Elections.
There is no such thing as a federal
election. Some of our Republican
friends will look npon this statement as
audacious. After they have had time
to recover from the swoon into which it
has undoubtedly thrown them we may
give elucidation to the proposition in
detail. For the present it is sufficient
to say that the people of a state choose
presidential electors and representatives
in congress in their capacity us citizens
of the state. They are not creatures of
federal authority. They creato and
limit the federal power.—Cincinnati En
quirer.
The l)le(uitet) tieiig.
One of tho most remarkable features
of the approaching campaign will be the
efforts which Harrison will make to
catch the independent vote. It is re
ported that Quay, Dudley, Piatt and the
whole tribe of working politicians have
already taken additional offense from
tho part which the president has al
ready undertaken to play with a view
to diverting this vote from Cleveland in
tho November election. Mr. Clarkson
has openly criticised the president and
condemned him for the misapprehension
under which he is laboring.—Richmond
Times.
Hleedlng tho People.
Where is there one industry in lowa
that is protected if we except our linseed
oil mill, and this pays a dividend upon
a capital just three times as large as
every plant in the United States cost?
Yet lowa pays out $20,000,000 per an
num, or nearly twenty dollars per an
num for overy man, woman and child
in the state, to "protect" a lot of monop
olies and trusts whose owners are be
coming multimillionaires by bleeding
the people under a process that was dis
covered and is fostered by tho Repub
lican party.—Burlington (la.) Gazette.
A Pertinent Query.
The proposition to remedy the ineffi
ciency of the government by imposing
on it great and untried duties, lying out-
Bideof what Americans have been taught
to believe its proper province, recalls tho
pregnant inquiry of a distinguished
statesmen, "Shall we reform a spend
thrift by putting money in his pocket?"
The true remedy lies in the othor direc
tion.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
A Fundamental Democratic Principle.
We cannot all be successful in our in
dividual pol'tical aspirations, but we can
all be successful as Democrats in the
success of the Democratic ticket. That
is tho only point we have to consider
now. It is a fundamental Democratic
principle to abide by the will of the ma
jority, and that is what every Democrat,
who is worthy of the name, will do.—
Wheeling Register.
What the Force Ittll Would 1>.
A force bill would bring back sub
stantially the same state of affuirs as ex
isted during the reconstruction days,
and southern industrial development
would be checked and thrown back. Bo
a conservative and encrgetio representa
tive of the yonnger generation of suc
cessful men argues with joint and force.
—Scranton (Pa.) Times.
llenny Favors the Force 11111.
In his messages to congress we have
in black and white President Harrison's
declarations in favor of a force bill. He
urged this measure upon congress. If
every Republican journal in the country
should repudiate the force bill the Re
publican candidate must still be judged
by his own official record.—Rochester
(N. Y.) Herald.
An Absurd Project.
The absurdity of the Republican proj
ect to tax ourselves rich is to be shown
by the Democracy in the coming cam
paign. In every contested state and in
every congressional district the impossi
bility of lifting ourselves by our finan
cial boot straps will be pointed out.—
Buffalo Times.
Harrison, the Door Slammer.
Harrison iB determined to run the
campaign himself. He slammed the
door of the White House in the faces of
Quay and Dudley. He'll slam it behind
himself this time.—Elmira (N. Y.) Ga
zette.
Campaign Song.
Ilurk to the ringing buglo calll
Ilailt hail the glad refrain
In Democratic hearts of all
From Florida to Maine!
CHORUS.
Then ho for Cleveland and reform!
Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!
He towers above tho rising storm
To crush the tarilT law.
lie once before triumphantly
Ills party colors bore;
Ho served the nation faithfully.
Her highest honors wore.
Despotic rule wo neod not fear
In any sovereign state;
His utterances are strong and clear
On every Issue great.
Now shall no honored soldier's fame
Through pension fraud bo turued
Into the mendicant's base shame
By lowest menial spurned.
For Cleveland and for Stevenson
We'll raise this battlo cry
Till from the dome at Washington
Their banners proudly Ay!
-Now York World.
HHIIC DMUIDU SYSTEM.
KV, —, LEIIIGII VALLEY
DIVISION.
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I MAY 15, 18.
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C'liwnk, Alletitown, Bethlehem, Pliilu., Gaston
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3.45 P. M. for Delano, Mahanoy City, Shen
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phia and Gaston.
3.31 P. M. from Pottsvllle find Delano.
For further information inquire of Ticket
Agents.
I. A. BWEIOAUT), Gen. Mgr.
C. G. HANCOCK, Gen. Pass. Agt.
Philadelphia, Pa.
A. W. NONNEMACHEIt, Ass't G. P. A.,
South Bethlehem, Pa.
will
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 Luzerne county. Try us
when in IHMHI of any of the above articles, and
especially when you want
LADIES', GENTS' AND CHILDREN'S
BOOTS and SHOES.
In every department we offer unparalleled
inducements to buyers in the way of nigh class
goods of quality beyond question, und to those
we add unlimited variety in all new novelties
und the strong inducements of low prices by
which we shall demonstrate that the cheapest,
as well as the choicest stock, is that now for
sale by
J. P. MCDONALD.
CITIZENS' BANK
FREELAND.
15 Front Street.
Capital, - $50,000.
OFFICERS.
JOSEPH BIKKRECK, President.
11. C. KOONS, Vice President.
B. It. DAVIS, Cashier.
JOHN SMITH, Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
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Dusheek. William Kemp, Mathias Sehwube,
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Three per cent, interest paid on saving
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evenings from 6 to 8.
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The cures which are being effected by Drs.
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ISO Sutter St., San Francisco, Cal.
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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,
Cor. Centre and Carbon St., Freeland.
(Near Lehigh Valley DepotO
S. RULE WICK,
Whole i. . Dealer In
Imparled Hrandy, Wine
And Ml Kind* Of
* fnnfißS
THE BEST
r.
Pcrtor,
tlrown Stout.
Fai-w.gti and Domestic.
Cigars Kept on Hand.
S. RUDEWICK,
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E. M. GERITZ,
2:1 years In Germany and America, opposite
ihe( entnil lb-tel. • 'entre Street, Fieelaeil. The
rhenpesl lb-pairing Store 111 town.
Vva'chcs, Clocks and Jewelry.
New Watches, Clocks and
Jewelry on hand for the lloli.
days: the lowest casli price in
town. Jewelry repaired in
short notice. All Watch Re
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year.
Eight Day Clocks from $:).00
to §15.00; New Watches from
$-1.00 up.
E. M. GERiTZ,
Opposite Central Hotel, Centre St., Fp jland.
GO TO
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l-ivsrjf Sltable
FOR
FIRST-CLASS TURNOUTS
At Short Notice, for Weddings, Parties and
Funerals. Front Street, two squares
below Freehold Opera House.
H. M. BRISLIN,
UNDERTAKER
AND
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M- j 3 Heals,
!N FACT .
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ishod blood. Dr. Lindsoy'o Blood Gosrohor is tho'
on* romody that can always bo roLiod uoou.
Druggist* sell it. x '
THE SELLERS MEDICINE CO;
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qualities that quickly change the most sallow
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and unblemished beauty. Tt cures Oily Skin,
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Tan, Pimples, and all imperfections of the
skin. Itisnotacosmctiobutßcure, yet 1r bet
ter for tho toilet tablo than powder. Sold by
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