A SYSTEM'S VICTIMS.
MADE HUMAN WRECKS BY SOCIAL
AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.
Due of tho "Conventional I.l*n of Our
Civilization"—Men Become Trump* lle
caune They Are Denied the Most l*rlce
leas of All Uiglita.
The workings of our industrial system
have created a vast and increasing tribe
of pariahs—a despairing, degraded, un
utterably miserable nation of outlaws,
of whom it may truly be said "every
man's hand is against them"—a people
whose very existence we ignore, but
who, by sheer force of numbers, must
sooner or later obtrude themselves upon
public attention. The most reliable au
thorities place the number of tramps in
the United States at 1,500,000, and ad
mit that the number has been constant
ly increasing during the last decade. In
New York city the number of persons
who sleep in station and lodging houses,
and are thus always on the borderland of
trampdom, is estimated at 25,000, and
those who have no sleeping place but i
the public parks and squares, the docks J
and streets, at 10,000.
How does society account for the ex
istence of this nation of outlaws in its
midst? For the presence of over a mil
lion of idle, homeless, despairing men
would, even in the eyes of the ruling
classes, furnish an indictment against
the present social order before which its
most zealous supporters would shrink
back dismayed. They must be sat) tac
torily accounted for or our civilization
must confess itself a failure. Therefore
society has constructed what I regard as
tho most ingenious and misleading theory
in regard to them of any of "the conven
tional lies of our civilization." It has
invented and fostered the popular fallacy
that tramps are a distinct specidfc of the
human race, whose distinguishing char
acteristics are a hatred of work and a
most unaccountable preference for hun
ger, cold and privation of all kinds.
Children grow to inhnhood and woman
hood cherishing this delusion—that a
tramp is an outlaw of society, for whom
it would be mawkish sentiment to feel
either pity or self reproach; that it may
be allowed occasionally to exhibit some
degree of pity for even the worst class
of criminals, but any one who would he
considered sano must show no consid
eration toward a tramp.
Well has this lesson been learned.
They are universally set apart as legiti
mate objects of execration. Writers,
speakers, newspapers and even other
wise tender hearted women make their
keenest sufferings the butt of ridicule.
In New York city we have an nrmypf
police whose principal business is to
drive them into byways and dark holes
and corners where they may not offend
the sensitive sight and smell of respec
tability; but ever}* year the horde grows
larger, and although tractable with the
apathy of despair the police find greater
and greater difficulty in keeping them
entirely out of sight.
Passing through Madison squaro one
evening I saw a policeman clubbing a
man for the heinous offense of falling
asleep on one of the benches. When I
remonstrated with him he defended him
self by saying, "If we allow them to
sleep here there would be hundreds here
every night; respectable people could
not go through the park after dark."
"Are there so many tramps, then?"
He looked at me in surprise and said:
"Enough to fill to overflowing every
public park and squaro of the city if we
allowed them to come out. But we keep
them in the dark corners and alleys, by
the docks and unfrequented parts of tho
city."
I decided then that I would find out
something of this strange multitude—
this army of skulking shadows whose
very existence seemed to be an imperti
nence to the powers that be, their manner
of life and the causes that had led them
to jotn this fraternity of misery.
Now what is a tramp?
The Rev. Mr. Kugler, of Hoboken,
says, "All we owo a tramp is a funeral."
Tho Chicago Tribune remarked: "The
simplest plan probably, when we are not
members of a humane society, is to put
strychnine or arsenic in the provisions
furnished to tramps. This produces
death in a comparatively short time ami
is a warning to other tramps to keep out
of the neighborhood."
A New York newspaper thus tersely
disposed of him: "The best meal that can
be given to a tramp is a leaden one, and
it should be supplied in sufficient quan
tity to satisfy tho most voracious appe
tite."
And finally a woman, Mrs. Mary
Livermore, says: "Tramps have no
claims on human sympathy. When
they invade my house and ask for bread
I bid them begone without ceremony.
The hand of society must be against
these vagrants, they must die off, and
the sooner they are dead and buried the
better for society."
I am sure that Mrs. Livermore would
have had sympathy and aid for almost
any other class of unfortunates, when
for these victims of society she had only
the harshest condemnation, for she too
thoughtlessly accepts the popular preju
dice in their regard. She is undoubt
edly a good woman, but she has been
badly educated in political economy.
Now I contend that in the vast major
ity of cases a tramp is only a man or
woman out of work and more or less
demoralized by such an unnatural con
dition. It is true that a man may l>e
born with a constitutional dislike of
work, just as there are other defective
members of society—idiots, cripples,
blind or deaf—but in no greater proj>or
tion.
The increased invention and use of
labor saving machinery without a corre
sponding decrease in the hours of labor,
the growing employment of women and
children, the saving of labor by the cen
tralization of business and industry are
the prime causes which are yearly swell
ing the ranks of traini>dom in this conn-
try.
Thero are intermediate stages between
the condition of the workingman and
the tramp. First Conine intermittent
employment, then the odd job period
ami finally the j>erinanently unem
ployed.
It is estimated that there is a class of
5.000,000 unemployed in the United
States. From the ranks of this class are
recruited the last hopeless battalion—
the tramps. These people are popular
ly classed as "a danger and menaco to
our civilization." But I hold that the
present civilization is a danger and men
ace to the whole working class of this
country, for no workingman, however
prosperous, who depends upon the sale
of his labor in the competitive market
can be sure that the veriest chance may
not make him a tramp tomorrow.
The police and the tramps seem to be
natural enemies. Seldom, by any
chance, do they speak well of each other.
No matter how kind hearted a police
man may be he has no mercy or pity for
a tramp. For the tramps the policeman
represents the society which hunts them
down and proscribes them, and they
shiver and cower before the power of its
representatives. Nothing human could
be more abject than the manner and
attitude of a tramp in the presence of a
policeman. At his slightest word or
move they skulk off and need no com
mand to "move on."
A new and one of the saddest features
of tramp life is the large and increasing
number of woman tramps. The police
man in charge of Paradise park states
that between seventy and seventy-five
women sleep nightly on its benches.
Anything more inexpressibly degraded
and repulsive than these women tramps
I have never seen. "And still," this po
liceman added, "these tramps were once
all hardworking people."
At 9:30 p. in. I mot my police guide at
the music stand in Battery park for the
purpose of making a tour of the park
and interviewing its lodgers. It is one
of the most picturesque of the city
parks, and on this clear, starry night
one could not have looked upon a more
beautiful scene than the park and bay,
or one more typically American. Above
the background of trees arose huge
warehouses and exchanges, churches
and manufactories; before us stretched
the beautiful bay dotted with vessels
bringing and carrying the wealth of the
world. Peace and prosperity seemed to
brood over all, but it was only seeming.
In tho midst of all this apparent pros
perity and content there was a dark un
dercurrent of human misery and degra
dation. In the shadows of the lofty
bnildings, under the clumps of beautiful
flowery shrub and tree —aye, even in the
nooks and crannies of old Fort Clinton,
which reminded us of the glad begin
nings of our national existence, when
we proudly proclaimed to tho world
that "all men are created free and
equal"—lurked hundreds of human be
ings to whom the words "equality, lib
erty and happiness" were but a bitter
mockery, and who furnish the most
damning evidence that already our
young civilization is rotten to the core.
We wended our way toward the old
fort, formerly inclosed and used as a
part of Castle Garden. Hero from every
one of its twenty or thirty portholes pro
jected two pairs of feet, belonging as we
found to its two lodgers, who with a
stone for a pillow and a newspaper for
a covering had settled themselves for
the night. Selecting them by chance, I
interviewed several of these tramps, and
their stories, in many cases corroborated
by the police, proved my assertion that
in most cases a tramp is only a working
man unable to find employment.
One was a waiter out of work for
many months—a young man still in his
twenties, with a boyish, good natured
face. Ho said: "I don't think I shall
ever find a job again, for my clothes are
getting too ragged and dirty. No one
would take me now. I have walked
fourteen miles today and have eaten
nothing. I went out into the country to
look for work in some of the summer
hotels, but I look like a tramp. No one
would hire me."
Another was an old man of sixty-five |
years—a soldier in tho civil war—who
had walked a long way to New York to
procure an order for admission to a sol
diers' home. Ho had no money, and had
been kept many days while the intermin
able "red tape" of a military bureau had
been gone through with. He had evi
dently seen better days and was in the
last stages of consumption; still he had
been sleeping for several nights upon
the damp ground of Battery park. He
was an American.
There were half a dozen others whose
sad experiences had been similar in a
general way to these. The last one 1
interviewed was an educated Swede,
who had been employed as bookkeeper
and clerk in the barge office, and also
;is interpreter of the Scandinavian lan
guages in the immigration bureau. He
also spoke fluently French, German and
Italian. For his services, which required
such varied acquirements, the govern
ment paid him the munificent sum of
sixty dollars per month. When he fell
sick live years ago, and l>ecame by par
tial paralysis of the brain unable to work,
he had no resources, and after being dis
charged from the hospital drifted back
to his old place of employment—Castle
Garden—as a tramp.
When I saw him he was not talkative.
Tho little he said I will give in his own
words:
"Do not believe any one who tells you
that a tramp is one from choice; no one
could choose this life; it is so horrible,
so horrible. Tiio summer is not so bad,
but the long, cold rains of fall, the fear
ful cold of winter"— Here a shudder ran
through his frame. "When I first came
here I rebelled against it—l could not
believe that it was I who had come to
this. But you do not know how differ
ently you feel after a few weeks of half
starvation; you become, oh, so listless;
you lose all hope, all ambition, all tcuch
with the world; everything seems un
real; the days come and go, the sleek,
well fed policemen are the only link be
tween you and tho world. I remember
the horror with which I saw the first
vermin—then I became used to it, and
no longer recoil from even that.
"What is the dreariest part of the
day? The morning is to me indescriba
bly dreary. To wake np in the gray
light of a new day and in the border
land between sleep and consciousness to
struggle back to the horror of the reality
is horrible, most horrible. To enter
once more upon a day which contains
no pleasure, no hope—to feel that in tho
bustle, activity and brightness of the
morning you can never more have any
share. On Sundays you hear tho church
bells ringing—sometimes you see happy
families passing through to parks —these
are like sights and sounds from a faroff
world—you know that henceforth you
can never have a part or lot in them."
How powerless are words to express
the stories of hopeless, awful misery
which I heard one evening from the po
liceman and fireman who accompanied
me through Battery park! I had read
of the sufferings of Jean Valjean told by
the powerful pen of Victor Hugo, the
tortures of the Inferno pictured by the
poetic fervor of Dante, still these stories
told in the matter of fact, unexaggerated
manner of a common policeman were
more horrible than either. So accus
tomed do the policemen become to sights
and sounds of misery and suffering that
they are usually unmoved by them. But
even they now seemed touched by their
own recital of them, as though the sight
of horrified listeners made them realize
the infinite pathos of the stories. Could
it bo possible that we call ourselves a
civilized, even a Christian people, and
allow such horrors to exist in our midst?
It was not alone the frightful physical
suffering, but the still more horrible
mental and moral degradation, and yet
there are good people who quiet their
consciences by the fallacy that these
outcasts prefer this life to a life of hon
est, happy work, not recognizing the
fact that our present social order denies
to thousands of men the most priceless
of all rights—the right to labor.
A system of industry which employs
thousands of illiterate children in its
shops and factories, and as a natural
complement has created an army of over
a million of despairing, demoralized
tramps cannot be an ideal system;
neither can the society in which it ex
ists be in a healthy state.
The last ditch into which society
drives the unemployed is not pleasant
to contemplato. The words of Iluskin
come to one's mind, "That country is
tho richest which nourishes the greatest
number of noble and happy human be
ings."
From this view of riches, how poor is
our country with its thousands of toil
ing children and its hordes of starving,
wretched tramps!—lda M. Van Etten in
New York Herald.
Tho Dangerous Strikers.
The most marked of the great eco
nomic changes which are taking place in
this wonderful country is tho daily for
mation of combinations of capital and
industry. They, and not the combina
tions of workingmen, form tho real dan
ger to tho community. What more dan
gerous thing lias there boon lately than
the consolidation of the coal interests?
I undertake to say that about nine-tenths
of the coal lands east of the Alleghany
mountains are controlled by about half
a dozen men. That half dozen men
' could starve New York next winter if
they chose. The military should have
been called out against this coal inter
est, and not against a few workingmen
who struck for an hour's pay for an
hour's work. They have struck a blow
at every industry that makes wealth.
By controlling the fuel necessary to
make steam they control everything re
quiring steam. Who will say that these
are not the strikers most to be feared?—
Erastus Wiman.
The Cigar Maker*' lloun;.
A committee representing the Cigar
Makers' International union has been
inspecting points in Colorado recom
mended as suitablo for the erection of a
home for superannuated and indigent
members of the union, such as the print
ers have at Colorado Springs. The com
mittee consists of A. Strasser, ex-presi
dent of C. M. I. U.; W. Cannon and
Charles Broderick. Favorable offers
were made by citizens of Colorado
Springs, Pueblo, Monte Vista and Colo
rado City. Bites in the suburbs of Den
ver were also visited by the committee.
A report will be made by the committee
without special recommendation, and
the membership at large will decide
upon tho location of the home.
Storage Ilutterlett for Dwellings.
A company has been formed in Vienna
with the idea of serving charged storage
battery cells to the houses, in the same
way in which milk, ice and other com
modities are served. The wagons for
supplying these accumulators make reg
ular trips through the suburbsof Vienna
daily, distributing their cells fully
charged and taking away others whose
energy has been exhausted.—Exchange.
A Plausible Explanation.
"Ethel jilted that magnificent crea
ture Ponsonby, and now she is the cen
ter of attraction for about twenty-five
miserable dudes."
"That's all right. She simply turned
her first love into small change. It
takes about twenty-five dudes to make
a man."—Harper's Bazar.
The late Samuel McDonald Richard
son, president of a savings bank in Bal
timore, had a wonderful memory of
faces. He personally knew, and could
call by name, over 40,000 depositors,
most of them people of small means.
In the lottery of life there are more
prizes drawn than blanks, and to one
misfortune there are fifty advantages.
Despondency is the most unprofitable
feeling a man can indulge in.—Rev. Dr.
Talmage.
Pliny tells us that any plant gath
ered by a river before sunrise by a per
son, if unseen, tied on the left arm of
an ague patient, without his knowing
what it is, will cure the disease.
In the executive mansion at Raleigh
, is a card table presented to Governor
Barrington by King George II about thu
year 1755.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
EDITOR TRIBUNE.—The following ques
tion lias been sent to me by some kind
"protectionist" friend with the request
that I "put it in my pipe and smoke it."
Just why it was given to me I do not
know, but I think the answer is easy
and simple:
"Free traders claim that trade is an
advantage— that it is so to both parties
to the trade —that the greater the advan
tage to the one, the greater it is also to
the other. Now, if that be so, is it not
more advantageous to a nation to have
its citizens trade with each other and
thereby make two profits instead of trad
ing with a foreigner, thereby enriching
the^ foreign nation?"
Now for example: If an American
trade with a Canadian, the American
nation makes but one profit, where if the
trade was between two Americans, the
nation would have two profits. Now,
Mr. Editor, the fallacy of considering
the above an argument is found in the
failure to apportion effort and capital.
If one American trades with a Cana
dian, there is only one effort and one
capital expended and one profit made.
If two men trade there are two efforts
and two capitals expended and (wo profits
to the nation. If only one trade is made
and one profit to the nation, the other
effort and capital are saved to the nation,
and can be used to advantage in other
directions—it matters not where.
Now the question of profits depends
upon the number of men engaged in the
trade—the more men trade, the more
profits are made.
I trust the above will satisfy my friend
and help remove the cob webs from his
inner chambers. But I trust the next
argument (?) of my friend will be of a
more substantial character. J. F. S.
Cleveland to le Done in Coal.
A solid block of anthracite, five feet
square and weighing nearly five tons,
has been taken out of the Beunet vein
at No. 2 shaft, Plymouth, and will be
sent in a few days to Nebraska.
It will be chiselled into an enormous
bust of the next president of the United
States. It is intended to exhibit the
bust in the anthracite department of the
world's fair at Chicago.
Railroad Men Have Grievance..
For the past few days grievance com
mittees have been calling on H. Stanley
Goodwin, supeintendent of the Lehigh
Valley division of the Heading system.
On Friday twenty men went down
from Haokerton. A number also came
from Kaston. They met and together
went to Goodwin's office in Bethlehem, !
where a long consultation was held.
Their mission was not divulged.
PERSONALITIES.
P. J. Kelly, of Audenried, was a visi
tor here yesterday.
J. J. Brislin, of Treskow, spent a few
hours here on Friday.
Patrick McLaughlin is at Tamaqua to
day attending the funeral of a relative.
Willie Boyle and Frank Cannon, of
liazleton, were in town yesterdry after
noon.
B. McClennan and daughter Mamie,
of Oneida, were among the visitors here
on Friday.
Hugh Dugan and family left this
morning for Providence, Lackawanna
[ county, where they intend to reside for
the future.
DEATHS.
MCHUGH.—At Lattimer, October 2.'!,
Annie McHugh, formerly of Freeland,
aged 22 years. Funeral on Tuesday
at 2 P.M. Interment at St. Gabriel's
cemetery.
UI.RICII. —At South Ileberton, October
20, Arthur John Morris, son of Mr.
and MrR. Morris Ulrich, aged 2 years,
8 months and 13 days. Interred yes
day at Freeland cemetery. Bachman.
ZEISTLOFT. —At Drifton, October 18,
Harry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Zeistloft, aged 3 months and 2 days.
Interred on Thursday at Freeland
cemetery. Bachman.
PLEASURE CALENDAR.
October 24—"The Social Glass," by the
Pioneer Dramatic Company of Auden
ried, at Freeland opera house. Admis
sion, 25 and 35 cents.
October 31—Ball of St. Patrick's cor
net hand, at Freeland opera house.
Admission, 50 cents.
November 18—First annual hall of Free
land Company, No. 20, Military Rank,
Knights of the Mystic Chain, at Free
opera house. Admission, 50 cents.
November 23—Third annual hall of
the Progressive Literary Club, of
j Jeddo, at Freeland opera house. Ad
mission, 50 cents.
j When Baby was slclc, wo gavo her Castoria.'
When she was a Child, sho cried for Castoria.
j When sho became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she bad Children, sho gave them Castoria.
Lane's Medicine Moves the Dowels Fucli
Day. in order to lie healthy this in necessary.
TPOII SALE,—Two lots situated nil enst side
I of Washington street, between Luzerne
and Carbon streets. Five l'oints. Apply to
iatrlek McFnddon, Eokloy, er T. A. lluekley,
Freeland.
li' Oil SALE. A new two-home truck wugun,
J- 1 one set of light double harness anil one
set of Iteuvy harness. For further Information
and prices apply to John Shlgo, Centre street,
r rcclund, where the articles can be seen.
TJISTATE of Richard H. Griffith, late of Uji
■Dj per Lehigh, deceased.
Letters of administration upon the above
named estate having been granted to the un
dersigned, all persons indebted to said estate
are requested to make immediate payment,
and those having claims or demands to present
the same, duly authenticated, without delay to
Chits. Orion .Stroh, administrator.
Freeland, Fa.
G. L. Halscy, Esq., attorney.
NO riCE is hereby Riven that an upplicution
will be mude to the Court of Common
l'leas of Luzerne county, or one of the law
judges thereof, on Saturday, ()otol>er 21), IHP2,
at 10 o'clock A. M., under the Act. of Assembly
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, en
titled "An Act to provide for the Incorporation
and Regulation of certain Corporations," ap
proved April 21), 1K74, and the supplements
thereto, for the eharter of an intended corpora
tion to be called "St. Vigillo lleneticial Society,
of Freeland, Pa., 11 the character and object or
whicii is the maintainance of a society for
charitable ami benevolent inn-poses for its
members from funds collected therein, and for
these purposes to have, possess and enjoy all
the rights, iKjnetlts and privileges conferred by
shid Act of Assembly and Its supplements.
John 1). Hayes, solicitor.
j. onus
EMPORIUM
We Are Now Ready With
Our Fall Stock of
Dry Goods.
Canton flannels, from 5 cents
a yard up.
Calicoes, from 3 cents up.
All-wool dress goods, double
width, from 25 cents up.
We have the room and the
stock.
Ladies' Coats, Copes and
Shawls
In Fall and Winter
Styles.
Mens' Heavy and Light
Weight Shirts.
The Most Complete Line
of Underwear
In Town.
Blankets, Quilts, Spreads,
Etc., Etc.
Wall Paper, Stationery
and School Books.
Furniture, Carpets and
Beddings.
A good carpet-covercd lounge
for $5.00.
Ingrain carpet 25 cents a yard
up.
Brussels carpet, 50 cents to
$1.50 per yard.
Boots and Shoes.
Ladies' kid shoes, SI.OO.
Children's school shoes, Nos. 8
to 10J, 85 cents; Nos. II to 2,
95 cents.
Groceries.
All fresh goods.
Flour, $2.35.
Ham, 15 cents.
Tobacco, 28 cents.
Cheese, 12£ cents.
Scim cheese, 8 cents.
3 pounds of raisins, 25 cents.
5 pounds of currants, 25 cents
0 pounds of oatmeal, 25 cents.
0 bars white soap, 25 cents.
3 bars yellow soap, 10 cents.
Thousands of Other Goods
All Guaranteed.
Queensware.
We sell Deite's Lantern, 38
cents.
Milk and butter pots, a com
plete line.
Tinware.
Wasliboilers, with lid, 00 cents.
Blue granite ware, a complete
line—is everlasting.
Call and see our stock and be
convinced of our assertion
that we can save you 25 per
cent on any goods you may
need. Terms, spot cash to
one and all. All goods guar
anteed or money refunded.
Yours truly,
J. C. BERNER.
Corner
South and Washington Streets.
CITIZENS' BANK
OF
FREEJLAND.
15 Front Street.
Capital, - SE>SO,OOO.
OFFICERS.
JOSEPH HIHKUKCK, President.
H. C. KOONH, Vice President.
11. it. DAVIS, Cashier.
JOHN SMITH, Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
Joseph Ilirkbeck. Thomas Birkbeck, John
Wagner, A Rndewick, H. C. Koons, Charles
Dusneck. William Kemp, Mathias Sehwal>e,
John Smith, John M. Powell, ad, John Ilurton.
t3T" Throe per cent, interest paid on saving
deposits.
Open daily from 0 a. m. to 4p. m. Saturday
evenings from 0 to 8.
WM. WEHRMANN,
German Practical Watchmaker.
Centre Street. Five Points.
The cheapest nntl best repairing store in
town. All wateli repairing guaranteed lor one
year. New watehes for sale at low prices.
Jewelry repaired on short notice. Give me
a call. All kinds of watches and clocks re
paired.
ENGLISH, SWISS ANI AMERICAN
WATCHES.
Complicated and fine work
on watches a specialty.
PATENT X
A 48-page book free. Adderes
W. T. FITZ GERALD, Att'y-at-Law.
Cor. Bth and F Sts.. Washington, D. C.
To-day! To-day!
NEUBURGERS BEGIN THEIR.
Fall Opening in Dry Goods
ZDepartmexxt, V7-Ixlclx is more complete in
variety and. quantity tlxam ever.
We Are Offering During This Week:
Very line 4x4 unbleached muslin at 5 cents per yard; would be
cheap at 8 cents.
Good tea toweling at 4 cents per yard.
Good apron gingham at 5 cents per yard.
The very best apron gingham, namely Amoskeag and Lancas
ter, at 7 cents per yard.
Good canton tiannel at 5 cents a yard.
The best cheviot shirting at 7 cents a yard.
Out-door cloth, in the newest dress designs, at 10 cents a yard.
It will pay you to inspect our handsome assortment of Bedford
cords, chevrons and Henriettas, which we are selling at 2d cents
per yard; cannot be bought the world over under 40 cents
Extra fine black Henrietta, 40 inches wide, 00 cents per yard;
actual price should be 8d cents.
A large assortment, comprising all the newest shades, of extra
line 64-inch all wool habit clpths at 00 cents per yard; sold else
where at 00 cents.
MANY OTHER BARGAINS
Too numerous to mention, as our stock is more complete than
ever, therefore giving you better opportunities to make
your selections. Prices are astonishingly low.
OUR - BLANKET - STOCK - IS - COMPLETE.
Call and examine it and be convinced. See the line
silver gray 10x4 blankets, which we are selling at 76 cents
a pair; just one-lialf what they are worth.
Hllkm'S ! HTi<m\W I SiioiNs !
We can give yon the biggest bargains you ever carried home.
We are now selling children's good school shoes, with heel, or
spring heel and sole leather tips, sizes 8 to 11 and 12 to 2, at the as
tonishing low price of 75 cents a pair; their actual worth is 81.26. f
In Overcoats and Clothing
We carry the largest stock in the region and sell at prices on
which we defy competition. Bring your boys and secure one of
SI.OO OVERCOATS for them, as they are stunners for the prfce.
If you want anything in the line of
Ladies' and Gents' Furnishing Goods,
Hats, Caps, Trunks, Valises, Underwear and Notions,
You will find our stock the largest and most complete
and prices far lower than elsewhere.
Jos. Neuburger's Bargain Emporium,
Corner Oexrtre and Streets,
P. 0. S. of A. Building, Freeland, Pa.
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And Hardware of Every Description.
REPAIRING DONE ON SHORT NOTICE.
We are prepared to do roofing and spouting in the most
improved manner and at reasonable rates. We have the
choicest line of miners' goods in Freeland. Our mining oil,
selling at 20, 25 and 30 cents per gallon, cannot be surpassscd.
Samples sent to anyone on application.
Fishing Tackle and
Sporting Goods.
B\RKQECK'S,
CENTRE STREET, FREELAND, SA.