FREELAND TRIBUNE.
PUBLISHED EVKBY
MONDAY AND THURSDAY.
THOS. A. BUCKLEY
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERMS, - - $1.50 PER YEAR.
FREELAND, SEPTEMBER 19, 1892.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
NATIONAL.
President,
Grover Cleveland New York
Vice President,
Adlni E. Stevenson Illinois
STATE.
Judge of Supreme Court,
Christopher Heydrlck Venango County
Congressmen- nt-Lurge,
George Allen Erie County
Thoiuus P. Merritt. lierka County
COUNTY.
Congressman,
William 11. Hines.. Wilkes-Bnrre
Senator,
J. ltidgeway Wright Wilkes-Barre
Sheriff,
William Walters. Sugarloal' Township
Recorder,
Michael C. ltussell ..... Edwardsville
Coroner,
11. W. Trimmer Lake Township
Surveyor,
James Crockett, Ross Township
We denounce protection as a fra ml, a
robbery of the great majority of the Ameri
can peojjle for the benefit of the fete. —
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
BECAUSE the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company will not assist him in raising
coal prices MeLeod has issued instruc
tions that none of the Pennsy's cars are
to he carried over the lines of the Read
ing system. This order caused Presi
dent Roberts to get a move on, and the
collieries that use his road for shipments
aro being worked every day as hard as
possible to supply the demand. Since
the Pennsy's cars cannot go over the
lines of the Reading any longer, the
most natural thing to be done would be
to build the road to all collieries where
it can get coal.
THE cholera scare has caused a general
cleaning up in almost every city and
town in the East. This itself, even
though the disease does not obtain a
foothold in the country, will be a benefit
to several of these places. It is gratify
ing to know that in none of the smaller
towns has there been such prompt com
pliance with the requests of the state's
sanitary authorities as Freeland gave.
The organization of a practical board of
health and the appropriation of $59 for
disinfectants is more than was done by
any borough in tho state, considering
size, population and tho necessity for
the work. Wealthier towns around us
have done nothing yet in this respect.
NOT content with bossing the coal
operators, railroaders, miners, etc.,
along its lines, the Reading system is
making a partially successful effort to
run the newspapers published in towns
where the roads enter. About three
times a week every editor receives a big
bulky letter from the Philadelphia office
of the company, containing a printed
extract from the Philadelphia Star, the
Manufacturer or some other of the com
bine's dozen shouters in that city.
These extracts are accompanied by a
neat little "request" to publish the en
closed "news item," which is the name
applied to a three-column puff of Me-
Leod, an apology for advancing rates, or
a glowing account of a victory over some
rival. Quite a lot of free advertising is
obtained in this way.
ONE strong point in the present na
tional campaign is the manner in which
it has so far been conducted, free from
any kind of personal charges against the
candidates. It is much better to read
an intelligent criticisim of Harrison's or
Cleveland's political views than a column
or two of lies about their private char-1
actors. The Republican press, with a
few exceptions, have treated Cleveland
very fair—far different from the way
they did in 1884 or 1888, and the course
of tho Democratic papers may be seen
now in the sympathetic words and articles
they publish concerning the serious ill
ness of the president's wife. These
little things may not seem much in the
eyes of those who are continually
clamoring to "tear the other fellow out,"
hut they rebound to the credit of the
American people.
WHEN Hon. Tom L. Johnson took the
notion two years ago to run for congress
in the twenty-first Ohio district he had
to overcome a big Republican majority,
and liis opponent, Theodore E. Burton,
then congressman, was a very popular
man, but these things could nut daunt
him. He made a vigorous contest in
every part of the district, taking free
trade and the taxation of land values
for his platform. The Democratic na
tional and state committees implored
him to stop talking free trade, but Tom
refused to hedge on the issue or hide his
principles. He had confidence in the
people and knew if his theories were
properly presented to them they would
be with him. He followed his own
plans, and advocated free trade and
single tax in such a convincing manner
that he was elected, surprising every
body but himself. The prospects are
that he will be returned without opposi
tion this year, as no ono has been found
yet to oppose him. This goes to show
that candidates for congress need not l>e
afraid to cutuc out openly for free trade.
CHEAP SUGAR.
The Vl*w* of Hon. Owen Scott, a Con
ereesman from Illinois.
j Tlie following is an extract from the
j speech of the Hon. Owen Scott, of Illi
nois, in tho national honse of representa
tives:
Every pound of raw sugar bought,
whether produced here or abroad, is
I bought by the trust and all the refined
{ sugar sold passes through their hands
and pays tribute to this conscienceless
j corporation. In increasing its capital it
1 also provided for $10,000,000 of 0 per
' cent, bonds with which to operate the j
business and to silence the competition j
of any refinery which might hereafter
make it interesting. Not only has tho j
Sugar trust succeeded in destroying all j
competition, but it has, at tho same i
time, prepared the means for |>erpetually j
preventing competition.
The result of this has been to depress !
the price of ail raw sugar and to largely
increase the price of refined. Prior to i
this absorption of refineries and destruc
tion of competition it was not believed j
by any one at all well informed that the
Sugar trust or those engaged in refining
sugar were not making large profits.
On the contrary, there was every evi- j
deuce that sugar refining was a most :
lucrative business. The present prices
of raw sugar, 00 degs. centrifugal,
and refined, granulated, have been so [
adjusted by the trust that the net profits
are 11.' cents per jwund. The cost of re
fining does not exceed at the most five
eighths of a cent, and the best equipped
refineries can produce it at one-half
cent. This changed condition between
raw and refined, made possible by the
absorption by the trust of the outside
refineries, has given them enormously
increased profits.
There is a net increased profit of five
eighth of a cent per pound, or $2.03 per
barrel. On a minimum yearly produc
tion of 12,1100,000 barrels this amounts to
the enormous sum of over $2.1,300,000, or
a little more than the amount of tho in
creased capital of the trust employed
to destroy competition.
Experts place the actual value of
Sugar trust properties at sitr>,ooo,ooo, so
that the rate of profit on aetunl valua
tion is a little over 73 per cent. After
paying 7 per cent, on $37,500,000 of pre
ferred stock and 0 per cent, interest on
tho $10,000,000 of bonds the above rate
of profit would yield almost 60 per cent,
on the common stock.
Such enormous profits are only possi
ble by giving exclusive and sole control
of the market for this commodity, which
is a necessity in every household in the
land. At the time of the formation of
tho trust iu 1887 tho actual value of the
establishments taken in was estimated
to be about $15,000,000. Additions since
and changes made In the plans, iu the
opinion of experts, make the property of
the trust worth about $35,000,000. The
remuiuder of tho $50,1X10,000 capital
prior to tho recent increase represents
undistributed earnings, good will and
plenty of water.
To illustrate the wonderful profit that
is made by these refiners mention may
be made of tho largest—that of Huve
meyor & Elder's Sugar Refining com
pany, Brooklyn. It is estimated by good
authority that the properties and equip
ments cost not to exceed $4,000,000. Its
capacity is 8,000 barrels per day, giving
in one year of 300 days a production of
2,400,000 barrels, or 780,000,000 pounds.
Even allowing a net profit of one-half
cent per pound, the exact amount of
tariff on refined sugar, it will be seen that
the annual profit is the enormous sum of
$3,000,000, being almost if not quite 100
per cent, on the cost of the works.
lti-publlcana In a Nad Way.
The Republicans aro saying a good
deal about Mr. Cleveland's "misgivings"
as to the advisability of nominating
him. They are also industriously cir
culating the report that he is not quite
so slender as Hamlet or Romeo. All we
have to say on the subject is that if our
Republican friends are depending on
these great arguments to elect Messrs.
Harrison and lieid, they must be in a
sad way for campaign material, and
have very slim hopes of electing their
candidates. Memphis Appeal - Avar
lanche.
llnyonetH und IlullotH.
i What gloom would confront 41s should
the Republican forco bill ever become a
| law! There would be no more liberty
in this land of the free and homo of the
; brave. Bayonets at every ballot box
! would count the vote as tho federal gov
| eminent dictated. All power would be
j centralized in the general government
and a more than monarchy established,
j This could only be reached by a division
of the white people of the south.— An
i nistou (Ala.) Hot Blast.
Worklngmon Will Vote Against It.
i Memory cannot be destroyed by pro-
I tection monopolists. Tho right to use '
the ballot cannot be taken away. The
men who are now in the position of the
under dog will not forget, they will vote j
intelligently. Who can doubt that they |
' will vote against a system which favors
capitalistic combinations and upholds
j their efforts to crush the organizations
j formed by laboring men for the protee-}
| tion of themselves and their families?— j
Buffalo Enquirer.
Bow It Will Noon lis.
Within a few more years the Repub- 1
licans will have succeeded in weakening
the people until they are unable to offer
any resistance to the tariff robbers. The
average pauper voter will turn both!
pockets inside out and take off his hat In
meek humility when he is permitted to
vote.—Galveston News.
A "Cheap" Chairman.
There may bo something in the cheap
meanness of Chairman Carter's career us
a l>ook agent which will be offensive to
President Harrison, but the chances are
that the president will hold his nose
with one hand and his chairman with
the other.—Laramie (Wy.) Boomerang.
What tho Preitidont Think*.
The opposition of Mars is a picayune
affair in comparison with the opposition
1 el PUtt.-Philadelphia Recoil '
Perilous Riding on the Iron TTome.
"Did yon ever ride on a locomotive?"
asked O. G. Ha.sk ins. "I tried it once
and have no desire to repeat the experi
ment. It was out in Colorado, where I
you sometimes run so close to bottom- •
less chasms that yon could drop your j
hat into them, and make turns so short j
and sudden that it nearly disjoints your ;
spinal vertebra?. The master mechanic
was an old friend of mine and gave me j
permission to ride over the road on the j
engine of the lightning express. The
engineer did not appear to fancy ray !
i presence much, but treated me civilly.
! We were behind time, the night was
I black as Erebus, and a terrific thunder
storm was raging. The engineer was
i determined to go in on time, and the
i way he rushed around those curves and
| across canyons was enough to make a
man's hair turn gray.
| "The peculiar thing about these moun- !
tain engines is that they do not take a
! curve like any other vehicle. They go |
! plunging straight ahead until you feel j
; sure that they are cleur of the track and ■
i suspended in midair, and then shoot
around and leave you to wonder by what
| miracle you have been saved. The
| trucks take the curve in the orthodox
! manner, but the superstructure is so ar
! ranged that it consumes more time in j
| making the tur*. With tho lightning J
playing about the mountain peaks and
half disclosing the frightful gorges and
swollen torrents, tho great iron leviathan
swaying and plunging along that slip
pery, serpentine track, I first realizod
tho perils of railway travel and the re
sponsibility of the sullen man who kept
his hand on tho throttle and his eye on
the track. I stood with my heart in my
throat, admiring his nerve, but not euvy
ing him his jpb. At the first stop I
clambered back into the coach and staid
there."—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Hrlglit Old MAD In KMMX County.
Essex county, Mass., has been noted
not only for ito legal lights like Rufus
Choate, Caleb Gushing, Judge Story
and others, but also for Its deputy
sheriffs, some of whom have served
many years.
Of one of these men, Duniel Potter,
many amusing stories have been told.
At one time he entered a newspaper
office in Salem, and addressing the only
scrilie who was in sight said:
"I thought I would tell you that to
morrow I shall go where I never went
before and can never go again."
Tho scrilie, knowing his caller,
promptly "gave it up," and then Mr.
Potter said:
"It is into my eightieth year!"
Some years ago these old deputies had
a gathering at the home of a certain ono
of their number in Gloucester. While
they wore roaming about the honse the
host called tho attention of his guests to
an old clock, a grout favorite of his.
He told his friends of his great attach
ment to this ancient timepiece and grew
quite pathetic at certain points in his
remarks, which lie brought to a close
by saying In a voice full of emotion:
"Gentlemen, I have wound up that
clock every night for more than forty
years."
He had evidently made on impression
on his visitors, when one old deputy,
who had lieen carefully examining the
clock, turned the tide of feeling evoked
by the story by saying dryly:
"Well, I always did think you were
something of an idiot! That's an eight
day clock!"— Youth's Companion.
Religion* IMflFerenoo*.
In the greater concerns of lifo thero
aro wonderful illustrations of the con
flicts of opinions. There are something
over 1,200,000,000 of human beings in
the world. Among those are six va
rieties of religious lieliof; three of these
are said by one class to be false, and by
others three aro said to bo tho true re
ligion. And yet every religionist, every
sectarian claims that he and she alone
are right What our Chinese neighbors
say is "true" wo say is "false." We call
them "heathens"—they class us as "out
side barbarians."
What we English speaking people
think is the right und the true religion
is in a startling minority in hnman be
lief or religious creed—for there aro
only some 350,000,000 Christians in all
the world. Thore are some 6,000,000
Jews, and they have clung with singular
persistency in all ages to their religious
belief; it is seldom a Jew renonnces his
faith; it is more seldom that a Chris
tian embraces Judaism. Thero aro
more than 400,000,000 people who are
pagans and Mohammedans.—Dotroit
Free Press.
Scurf* That Hem und a I'in.
The scarfpin should always he worn j
with the flat, madenp scarf. There is \
a place for its insertion, and by seeming j
to hold it together it uttains a utilita
rian phase, in that it is an aid in gloss- [
ing over the percentage of madeup sug
gestiveness that is always more or less \
| associated with the imitative article,
i The madeup flat or puff scarf, if worn i
I without a scarfpin, discloses its arti- I
fieiality in all the baldness of its me- j
! chanical inferiority. It is a curious
paradox in the fashions, therefore, that j
| the scarfing that does not actually need '
the scarfpin in reality requires it most
of all.
In tho self tied De Joinville, or its
madeup reproduction, the scarfpin must
pierce the cross folds at the intersec
tion.—Clothier and Furnisher.
——
A Clever Woman.
A lady of fine artistic taste has dis
covered that at church parade her
1 prayer book, by its Incongruous color,
entirely ruined the effect of a carefully
conceived costume. It struck a discord
in an otherwise perfectly harmonious
1 dress. This has been remedied by hav
ing a cover to her prayer book which
shall he perfectly in accord with the
leading tone of her garments. The
prayer hook cover will henceforth re
ceive as attentive consideration as the
bonnet, the gloves and the sunshade,
and no jarring note of color will be in
. (reduced by means of a volume hound
i in blue yel vet or in scarlet morocco. —
' Loudon Graphic,
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A PERNICIOUS DOCTRINE.
Jutlge Riimftey*. ll.rlnlon Would Can..
Judicial l'artitfun Ouarrrln.
! The chief Republican argument against
the apportionment act is that the divi
sion made by the legislature is not fair.
( But tho lawmaking power, and the law
making power alone, is charged with
the duty of apportioning the state. Tho
constitution intends that tho question of
fact involved in this task shall be de
cided by the legislature and tho govern
or—in other words, by tho political
power.
If the courts can step in for the pur
pose of regulating the fairness of legis
lators, why cannot they examine into all
acts of the legislative or executive de
partments? The constitution requires
that the several districts shall bo as near
ly as possible of equal population, hav
ing due regard to the contiguity of ter
ritory and to the rules forbidding the
division of counties and providing that
each county except Franklin and Ham
ilton shall have one assemblyman.
If tho courts can bo asked to perform
a duty devolving on the legislature, or
to set aside an act of the legislature on
the ground that it involves an abuse of
discretion, a wide political field is open
to the judges not contemplated by the '
constitution and dangerous to the com- j
monwealth.
Judge Rumsey's decision would drag j
tho courts into partisan quarrels of the |
bitterest kind, and if that should be the j
result of this contest the courts would '
lose the wholesome respect which most J
of them now deserve.—New York World, j
To Encourage the Weak Kneed. |
In administration circles, the story j
goes, there is considerable uneasiness !
felt because of the growing apathy
among the active Republican workers;
because they declared before the Min
neapolis convention, and have repeated
it since, that "there aro no inducements,
from a federal patronage standpoint, for
them to pull off their coats in behalf of |
Harrison."
To counteract the widespread and
steadily Increasing feeling of discon
tent among the outs, it is said a member
of the cabinet announces that in the
event of the re-election of President
Harrison "many important changes will'
bo made in the personnel of the adminis
tration."—Charleston News and Courier.
Stultifying TheniHelveM.
To a great extent the reciprocity proj
ect was a humbug. It wus intended as
a sugar coating for the bitter pill of the
McKinley tariff. "What do wo care for
abroad?" said Major McKinley. "Let
us cultivate and develop the home mar
ket and leave foreign trade to take care
of itself," said other leading lights of
Rcpublicism. Yet in spite of these dec
larations of antagonism to foreign
trade the Republicans tacked the reci
procity sections to tho McKinley law
with the pretended purpose of securing
new foreign markets for our agricultur
ists and manufacturers.—Rochester (N.
Y.) Herald.
A "Much Alive" I.Hiie.
Republicans of the wiser sort are
making strenuous efforts to lift the
force bill issne out of the campaign.
Some of the organs insist that the issue
is dead and that Harrison's letter of ac
ceptance will give it burial. The at
tempt is vain. The issue is clearly made
by the record and attitude of the party
and its principal leaders. The force bill
has been indorsed by Mr. Harrison and
tho controlling element in the party
organization. Its principle is embodied
and asserted in the platform of the
party.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
A Prominent Utipublicaii Seceder.
There is some significance in the fact !
that Mr. William Dudley Foulke, late j
president of the National Civil Service
Reform association, has (by request) re
signed his membership in the silk stock- !
ing Harrison Republican club in Indian
apolis. Mr. Foulke has seen enough c.f
Harrisonian civil service reform to make
him think that Grovor Cleveland should
lie the next president. Ho will vote for |
Grover.—Philadelphia Record.
Clovclaud ami the Force Dill.
Persons either ignorant or malicious
have endeavored to mislead the people ■
into believing that Mr. Cleveland was i
no sincere enemy of the force bill. Let ;
heaven l>o praised that there has been I
given him the opportunity to express his |
real sentiments toward this damnable
and detestable measure, and let all pa
triots read and take to heart his opinion
upon it as thus expressed.—Richmond
Times.
A VaplU BluIT.
The Republican papers pretend to be j
deeply indignant over the assembly re
apportionment, and yet they say that the !
Republicans will surely carry the next
assembly in face of the fact that last
year tho Democrats carried the state by \
nearly 50,000 majority, and in spite of
the fact that the Republicans have car
ried tho state for governor but once in
twenty years!— Buffalo Courier.
An Unuvolduble Inference.
The Republican papers now declare
that no responsible utterance of the Re
i publican party in 1890 ever promised
better wages to the workinginen by the
! McKinley legislation. The inference
must bo that tho Republicans confess
that wages are not and cannot be ex
pected to 1)0 favorable to the laborer.—
1 Buffalo Evening Times.
A Distinction.
Democrats believe in only "a few wise
laws," and no legislative body is demo
cratic that passes laws in reckless pro
fusion. This is one distinction between
the present house of representatives and
the house controlled by Boss Reed and
his radicals.—St. Louis Republic.
Democracy')) Watchword, "Kqulty."
, Tho watchword of the Democracy is
.fquity. Its chief purpose is and always
has been to preserve to every citizen the
ftill rights guaranteed by the coustitu
tion and the largest liberty possible con-
I —Cleveland
Does Lightning Sour the MtlkT
It is a well known fact that milk la
especially apt to soar during the preva
lence of a thunderstorm, anil from this
it has been surmised that the electric
discharge held some mysterious sway
ever the lacteal fluid. An Italian ex
perimenter, one Professor G. Tolomei,
Baa lieen making trials of various sorts,
the object being to throw some light oil
J electric influence ovor milk molecules.
I In his first experience he passed an elec
i trie discharge from a Holtz machine be
tween two balls of platinum hanging
two inches apart in a bottle containing
a quart of fresh milk; secondly, by send
ing a current between two strips of
platinum at the bottom of a V tube
filled with tho same fluid; thirdly, by
subjecting milk in a test tube to the ac
tion of a strong battery current through
a silk covered copper wire wound spi
j rally around the tube.
! In each ono of these experiments,
I which were as thorough as any lover of
| science could wish, it was proved that
acidulation of the milk was delayed in
stead of hastened, as had been expected.
Three equal portions of milk from the
same milking thus treated began to
grow acid on the seventh, tho ninth and
tho sixth days, respectively, while other
portions of it which had not been treated
with electricity was rankly acid on the
evening of the third day. Having thus
disproved the popular theory of lightning
being the direct cause of the acidifica
tion of milk, Professor Tolomei tried
ozone and found therein the mystic
agent of milk souring, lu his second
trial of ozone he brought the surface of
a quantity of milk close to the two balls
of the machine used, and the fluid al
most instantly became acid in conse
qneuce.
Hero at last a mystery that has puz
zled professors and poasants alike has
been made plain.—St. Louis Republic.
Shoes for the Dead.
Among Chicago's industries is a fac
tory where the manufacture of shoes for
corpses is carried on exclusively.
Out of five neat black boxes a repre
sentative of the firm yesterday took ns
many different sizes. These were adults'
and children's shoes. The material cor
responds with tho purpose of their use.
The shoes are certainly nice to took at.
The soles are cut out of pasteboard and
are covered with grained paper. The
uppers are a combination of quilted
satin and crochet work. A riblxm, in
serted at the top and tied in a neat bow
knot, holds the shoo to the foot.
"Men'B shoes are always black," il
was saiil. "Occasionally we turn out a
lot of brown ones. We have had special
orders for men's white shoes, but only
in a few instances. Shoes for women
and children are always white. They
are not expensive; five to fifteen dollars
will purchase a dozen pairs."
The burial shoe is a patented article.
It was designed by a Juliet (Ills.) woman
milliner, who now enjoys tho profits of
her idea. The Chicago company has
been in existence for nearly a decade,
and is catering to an ever increasing de
mand. The firm employs a traveling
man, who covers all the territory lie
tween Maine and California. It takes
ten girls and several machines to keep
up with his orders. The average month
ly output is 15,000 pairs during the dull
season. It is increased to 25,000 during
a busy period.—Chicago Tribune.
The Gold Cure In Very Old.
The precious metal has lieen employed
both externally and internally, in the
metallic state, in solution and by sym
pathy, for a great variety of tho ills that
flesh is heir to, for over 2,000 years. The
train of thought which led the ancients
to employ this highly prized material
can lx) well told in tho quaint language
of the distinguished Dutch physician and
chemist, Hermann Boerhaave; writing
about 1725, he says: "The alchemists
will have this metal contain I know not
what radical balm of life capable of re
storing health and continuing it to the
longest period.
"What led the early physicians to
imagine such wonderful virtue in gold
was that they perceived certain qualities
therein which they fancied mast b
conveyed thereby into tho body; gold,
for instance, is not capuble of being de -
stroyed; hence they concluded it must
bo very proper to proserve animal sub
stances and save them from putrefac
tion, which is a method of reasoning
very much like that of some fanciful
physicians who sought for an assuaging
remedy in the blood of an ass' ear Ivy
reason the ass is a very calm beast!"—-
Professor H. Carrington Bolton in Pop
ular Science Monthly.
A Laughable Superstition.
"A curious illustration of the va'.ne of
superstitions," said Mr. Kunz, the dia
mond expert for Tiffany & Co., "was
afforded tho other day by a lady who
brought a set of opals here for the pur
pose of soiling them. Bho felt obliged
to part with them on account of a series
of misfortunes in her family which she
feared were attributable to the gems,
so notoriously unlucky. Ou examining
thein I found that they were merely im
itations. A few weeks ago I hail in my
possession three seashells which had
been transformed into opal. Their orig
inal limy material lunl been dissolved
out of the rock by which they were in
closed, and the precious substance was
dei>osited by water in place of the lime,
retaining the form of the shells. A
graduate of Harvard college bought the
curiosity and presented it to that insti
tution."—New York Sun.
AD Absentniluded Journalist.
Jim Faberpusher is one of the most
industrious journalists in New York.
He thinks of nothing but his professional
duties.
One day his wifo (to whom he was re
cently married) said to him:
| "You don't speak to me any more.
Have you ceased to love me?"
"Oh, no, but I just can't find time.
I'm pressed for time."
"Yes, but I don't get pressed at all,"
responded the neglected wife. This well
merited rebuke reminded the journalist
of his obligations to his better half.—
Texas Sittings.
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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
C3-cod.s:
Challies, best, 4.1 cents per yd.
Some dress goods reduced from
50 to 25 cents.
Scotch ginghams, worth 35
cents, sell for 20 cents.
"\7\7"all Paper:
Thousands of different patterns
5 cents double roll up to any
price wanted.
Carpets
and.
Cil OlctHs:
Carpets, 17 cents per yard.
I carry the largest stock in
this town.
ZF'-u.rxiitu.re:
Anything and everything.
Good lounges for 85.00.
0 round-back chairs for 83.00.
Black hair walnut parlor suit,
829.50.
Ladies'
Summer Coats
Are reduced from $3.75 to $2.50.
Some as low as 75 cents.
Straw Hats:
30 per cent, less than last year.
Some at one-half price.
Shoes
and
Hoot-wear:
We are headquarters.
Every pair guaranteed.
Ladies' walking shoes for 75
cents; worth $1.25.
I can savo 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.
READING MILIIAI SYSTEM.
fcx-, LEIIIGH VALLEY
DIVISION.
-^^^**^AItIIANQKMKNT OF
J'ASSKNd Kit Tit A INS.
/ MAY IS, 1802.
LEAVE FREELAND.
0.15, 8.45, 8.40, 10.85 A. M., 12.25. 1.50, 2.43, 3.50,
5.15, 0.:J5, 7.00, 8.47 1\ M., for DiMton, Jeddo,
Lumber Yard, Stockton und Hoslecoii.
0.15, 0.40 A. M., 1.50, 3.50 1. M., for Munch
Chunk, Allentown, Bethlehem, Phi la., Kastnn
and New York. (8.45 has no connection for
New York.)
8.45 A. M. for Ilcthlchcm, Kuston and Phila
delphia.
7.20, 10.56 A. ~ 12.10, 4.30 P. M. (via Highland
Brunch) for White Haven, (lien Summit,
Wilkes-1 lane, Pitts ton and L. nnd It. .) unction.
0.15 A. M. for lllack Ridge and Tomhicken.
SON DAY TRAINS.
11.40 A. M. and 3.45 I*. M. for Drifton, Jcddo,
Lumber Yard und Hazleton.
3.45 P. M. for Deluiio, Muhanoy City, Hhcn
undouh. New York and Philadelphia.
Alt HIVE AT FREELAND.
5.50, 0.52, 7.20, 0.15, JO.Mi A. M., 12.10.1 15 • ;ct
4.30, 0.50 and 8.37 P. M. from Ha/loton, .Stock
ton, Lumber Yard, Jeddo and Driltuii
7.20,0.15, 10..V1 A.M.. 12.10. 3, { ;;i ,j T > M
from nelHuo, Mahanov Cliy au<i Shenandoah
(via New Boston Ilranch).
1.15 and *.37 P. M. from New York. Easton
M^h'lTunk.
nViA? Aa
lU\ Kfcj-; A. M., -.4;;, I. I". .11. from White
1'" veil, (lien Smuliill, Wilkes- llarie, l llWUin
und L. and It. Junction (via Highhu.d Itrancli).
SUNDAY Til A INS.
11.31 A. M. and 3.31 P. M. from Hazleton.
Yi U \i H T V U Y'and Driftou.
11.31 A. M. from Delano, Hazleton, Philadel
phia und Huston.
3.31 P. M. from Pottsvillc and Delano,
ror further luformation inquire of Ticket
Agents.
I. A. BWEICIAUD, Gen. Mgr.
C.G. HANCOCK, Gen. Push Agt.
Philadelphia, Pa.
A. W. NON NKMAC H EU, A.ss'l G. P. A..
South llctbJehcm, Pa.
PATENT I
A 48-pngc book free. A (Id reus
W. T. FITZ GERALD, Att'y-at-Law.
Cor. Bth and F Sts., Washington, D. C#
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
1 in Patent Sealed Bottles here
' on the premises. Goods de
livered in any quantity, and to
any part of the country.
I FREELAND BOTTLING WORKS.
Cor. Centre and Carbon fits., Preelnnd
(Near Lehigh Valley Depot.)
S. RUDE WICK,
Wholesale Dealer In -y
■ Imported Brandy, Wine
And All Kinds Of
LIQUORS.
THE BEST
Leer,
Porter,
1 -A_le And
Brown Stout.
Foreign and Domestic.
Cigars Kept on Hand.
S. RUDEWICK, ,
SOUTH HEBERTON.
1. M. GERITZ,
23 yen re in Germany and America, oppopile
the (cut nil Hotel, Centre Street, Kieelaeu. The
Chvapoi Hcpaii iiiaMore in town.
Watches, C'ccks and Jewelry.
New Watches, Clocks and
Jewelry 011 hand for the Holi.
days; the lowest cash price in
. town. Jewelry repaired in
short notice. All Watch Re
pairing guaranteed for one
year.
Eight Day Clocks from $3.00
to $12.00; New Watches from
$4.00 up.
E. M. GERITZ,
Opposite Central Hotel, Centre St., Fr Hand.
GO TO
Fisher Bros.
; Livery Stable
FOR
FIRST-CLASS TURNOUTS
At SI". 11 Notice. for Weddings, Parties nnd
Fiiin nilH. Front Street, two squares
Im low liveUnd Opera House.
H. M. BRISLIN,
UNDERTAKER
AND
Ptaples, JBrtk BnilS
BM-
Wo must all havo now, rich blood, which
is rapidly made by that remarkable pronnr
| at ion, Sr. LIITLCEY'C IMPEOVZD BLOOD SEABOHK.
For the speedy cure of Scrofula, Wasting.
. | Merenriul Disease, Eruptions, Erysipelas,
vital decay, and ovory indication of inpover
ishod blood. Sr. Lindsoy's Blood Ce*rchor Is the
, ens remedy that can always Ihi roliod upon.
Druggists sell it. * 1
THE SELLERS MEDICINE CO.
■i. • . ?'TT c l l S u l | V a y < w .P,A
--18 but skin deep. There are thousands of ladies
who have regular features and would be ac
corded tho palm of beauty were it not for a poor
complexion. To all such we recommend DR.
HEBRA'B VIOLA CREAM as possessing these
i qualities that quickly change the most sallow
• and florid complexion to ouo of natural health
aud unblemished beauty. It cures Oily Skin,
Freckles, Black Heads, Blotches. Sunburn,
Tan, Pimples, and all imjierfections of the
skin. It 1b not a cosmetic but a cure, yet is bet
tor for tho toilet table than powder. Sold by k
Druggists, or sent post paid upon receipt of 50c. V
J CL C. BITTNER A CO., Toledo, O.