FREELAND TRIBUNE.
PUBLISHED EVERY
MONDAY AND THURSDAY.
TITOS. A. BUCKLEY,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERMS, - - $1.50 PER YEAR.
FREELAND, PA., OCTOBER 31, 1892.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
NATIONAL.
President,
Grover Cleveland New York
Vice President,
Adlui E.Stevenson Illinois
STATK.
Judge of Supreme Court,
Christopher Heydrick Venango Uouuty
Congressmen-iit-Lnrge,
George Allen Erie County
Thomua P. Merritt lierks Couuty
COUNTY.
Congressman.
William H. Hines Wilkes-Ilarre
Senator,
J. Ridgewuy Wright Wilkes-Barre
Sheriff,
William Walters. Sugurloaf Township
Recorder,
Michael C. Russell Kdwardsville
Coroner,
H. W. Trimmer Lake Township
Surveyor,
James Crockett Ross Township
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.
THE ex-comniander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, Judge
John P. Rea, of Minnesota, puts a stop
to the silly twaddle emanating from Re
publican quarters that Cleveland is op
posed to a fair and just pension system.
Rea was previously a Republican, but
came out last week for Cleveland, and
dares anyone to show him a single pen
sion bill vetoed by the ex-president
which was not a fraud and undeserved,
lie tells the old soldiers they owe noth
ing to the Republican party, but its poli
cy is surely ruining the nation they I
helped to save.
COL. WM. WILLIAMSON, ex-attorney
general of Indiana, took the stump for
Harrison, and in a joint debate with a
Democratic speaker became convinced
that he was on the wrong side. He is
now speaking for Cleveland with D. B.
Baldwin, another Republican ex-attor
ney general.
GEORGE B. ADAMS, professor of Yale
college and a life-long Republican, after
a thorough investigation, announces that
the theory of protection being advan
tageous to a country is the greatest farce
ever invented, and he will do all he can
for Cleveland.
JCDGE WATSON, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
who never voted anything but a straight
Republican ticket in his life, has come
out for Cleveland. His party, he says,
is corrupt beyond redemption.
FRANCIS A. WALKER, a Boston Repub
lican and assistant superintendent of the
census, announces his conversion to the
principles of Democracy. His influence
extends throughout the entire state of
Massachusetts, and he will use it for
Cleveland.
W. T. ROBERTS, vice president of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers, always upheld protection,
but now declares it to be a gigantic fraud
that can never help the men of his or
ganization. He is for Cleveland.
Dr. YORK, nomiated last month as the
Republican candidate for governor of
North Carolina, has withdrawn, as he
cannot conscientiously support the poli
cy of the party, and calls upon his fol
lowers to vote for Cleveland and tariff
reform.
DR. W. C. DOANK, of New York, who
has the reputation of having made more
Republican speeches than any man in
the state, has made his last. He is a
Cleveland convert.
JUDGE DAY, of the lowa supreme
court, a prominent Western Republican,
has had enough of MclCinleyism, and is
now making speeches in his own state
for Cleveland and Boies.
DANIEL AV. FRENCH, president of the
Patriotic Order Sons of America, of
Massachusetts, has broken away from
the Republican party, and will cast his
vote and work, for Cleveland, whose
election, he believes, will be for the
best interests of the country.
GENERAL JAMES 11. BAKER, commis
sioner of pensions under Grant and ex
secretary of state of Ohio, has severed
his connection with the party that pro
tects plutocracy, and is an ardent advo
cate of Cleveland's election.
R. R. ODDEI.I,, of St. Paul, United
States commissioner and leading Repub
lican in that city, cannot see where the
tariff benefits the Northwest, and he
will give his vote to Cleveland.
DAVID M. KEE, of Tennessee, post
master general under Hayes, has bid
adieu to the Republican party, and is
working hard through the South for
Grover Cleveland.
COUGHING LEADS TO CONSUMPTION.
Kemp's Balsam Btops the cough at once.
liane'M Medicine Moves the iiowelM Kuril
itajr. Iu order to be healthy tiilH is utxxwsary.
THAT TOBACCO DUTY.
THE TWO DOLLARS IS PARTLY PAID
BY THE HOME GROWER.
The Poor Cigar Maker Alio HUM a Share
of the Burden—Smokers Suffer Be
cause of the Deterioration of Quality.
An Iniquitous Tax.
The importation and general use of
Sumatra leaf as wrappers has, during
the past ten years, built up the cigar in
dustry in America, made a market for
native tobaccos, given steady employ
ment at good wages to thousands of
cigar workers, and satisfied the aesthetic
taste of the millions of smokers.
This tobacco used to cost our cigar
manufacturers about $1.50 before the
market began to feel the effects of the
McKinley bill early in 1890—when the
price climbed to SI.BO, to $2, on up to
$3 and above—so high that a quantity
of 1889 Sumatra leaf recently sold for
$4 per pound. The supply here of Su
matra and leaf tobaccos is largely held
by .speculators who get artificial prices
—the duty as usual fostering combines.
The United States Tobacco Journal of
Sept. 10 announces the completion of a
leaf tobacco trust in Cincinnati, which
will be incorporated in New Jersey, and
the same journal of Sept. 17 reprints
from the New York Tribune a list of
fifty-six millionaires who have made
their fortunes in the tobacco industry,
many by speculating in Sumatra.
Not only did the use of Sumatra wrap
pers build up the industry here, but
when the duty was light it encouraged
small manufacturers who could always
be certain of obtaining a supply of good
wrapping tobacco at a fair price. Be
fore the introduction of Sumatra the
larger manufacturers would buy up the
best domestic wrapping tobacco early
in the season, and the small manufac
turers, with but little capital to do busi
ness, were at a great disadvantage. With
a high duty the tendency is to again put
the manufacture of cigars into the hands
of large manufacturers and monopolists.
Thus in 1890, when the McKinley bill
took effect, nearly all the large manu
facturers had an eighteen months or
two years' supply of Sumatra on hand,
while small manufacturers had only a
few months' supply, aud soon had to use
wrappers at $2.50 or $2.75 and compete
with wrappers that cost $1 less per
pound.
This duty at once increased the whole
sale prices of cigars from $2 to $5 on
five cent goods—perhaps seven-eighths
of all. Then the trade everywhere be
came demoralized and manufacturers
were compelled to use cheaper "fillers,"
to make smaller cigars and in other
ways to deteriorate their goods. Often
they squared accounts by reducing
wages. The effect upon the 10,000,000
or 12,000,000 consumers has been exas
perating. That they still demand Su
matra wrapped cigars is seen from the
fact that there has been no great dim
inution in the imports of Sumatra to
bacco. The effect then has been bad
upon the millions of cigar smokers; upon
the tens of thousands of cigar workers,
and upon thousands of small manufac
turers, and is a doubtful boon to hun
dreds of large manufacturers.
Now it so happens that Connecticut
tobacco growers have been prosperous
since 1890, and have been getting good
prices for their tobacco. The New York
Tribune and other Republican papers
have been accrediting this prosperity to
McKinley so vigorously that they have
I even made some of the Democrats in
! Connecticut believe their nonsense. The
United States Tobacco Journal of Sept.
10, in a two column editorial, shows that
by The Tribune's own admissions Con
necticut tobacco has been so improved
by the use of new fertilizers that it is
"in appearance as good as Sumatra and
better in quality." Of course this is not
true, or cigar manufacturers would not
pay $o for Sumatra when they could get
better for from twenty-five to fifty cents,
but it is true that the better grade of to
bacco grown in Connecticut is responsi
ble for the increased prices and prosper
ity there. The following from this same
journal forever disposes of The Tribune's
absurdities:
"What benefit can the domestic pro
ducer derive from the fact that we are
importing nearly as great a quantity of
Sumatra under the two dollar tariff rate
as we did under the thirty-five cent rate?
That the Connecticut producer received
a few cents more for his crop last year?
That does not prove that the domestic
producers as a class received more.
Connecticut produces the smallest quan
tity of cigar leaf. By far the largest
quantity of our useful cigar leaf is pro
duced in Pennsylvania, New York, Wis
consin and Ohio. The domestic pro
ducer in Pennsylvania, who raised a
crop of 80,000 cases, against New Eng
land's 52,000 cases, received less for his
last year's crop thau he probably ever
did. So did the Wisconsin producer for
his 70,000 cases. And the New York
producer got much less for his last
year's than for his 1889 crop, when over
97 per cent, of the Sumatra was admit
ted at tlio thirty-five cent rate of duty.
The 'more' the Connecticut farmer got
last year was therefore not duo to Mc-
Kinleyism, biit to the poor results of the
cigar leaf growing states; ho simply got
the 'more' at the expense of his brother
producers in the other states, and not at
the expense of the Sumatra or the Su
matra importer."
The United States Tobacco Journal
then shows that the increased duty did
not catch the cigar leaf grower's vote:
"Congressman LaFollette, of Wisconsin,
the responsible author of the two dollar
outrage coutained in the tobacco sched
ule of the McKinley bill, was ignomiu
iously defeated in his district, which is
almost an exclusively tobacco growing
district, and a Democrat was elected in
his place. The Hon. W. E. Simonds,
the representative of the First congres
sional district of Connecticut, the prin
cipal cigar leaf growing district of New
England, was likewise defeated. So
was the representative of the Big Flats
iu this state."
On Sept. 24 The Tobacco Journal re
newed its onslaught and devoted two
more columns to explaining the effects
of the duty which has reduced the price
of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania tobaccos
to an average of five or six cents a
pound, and of New York and Ohio to
baccos to perhaps the lowest prices ever
known. The following are extracts
from this journal:
"It (McKinley duty) did not improve
the tobacco. It did not change the at
mospheric conditions nor the soil, so that
a better grade of tobacco could l>e raised
in competition with the foreign leaf. It
did not prevent the frost from striking
the tobacco before it was ready to be
cut. It did not prevent the growth of
the white vein. It did not prevent the
tobacco from rotting. It did not create
a wider market, nor even the longed for
homo market, for the trash will all have
to be exported or used for manure. And
it did not raise prices.
"The manufacturer being robbed of !
$1.50 a pound on his wrapper leaf by the
folly of the tobacco growers' illusion, !
gets square with the tobacco grower by
cutting down the price for his fancy
fillers to bare cost."
Sumatra has become an absolutely es j
sential factor for the cigar industry.
Otherwise no manufacturer would be |
fool enough to pay $-1 for Sumatra i
if he could get an equally good wrapper ;
produced at home for fifty cents a
pound. But we cannot produce any
thing like Sumatra, for neither Con
necticut, Massachusetts, New York,
Pennsylvania nor Wisconsin has got tin
soil or climate of the tropical isle of Su
matra. Neither would our importers be
such fools as to again import from 25,0011
to 30,000 bales of Sumatra a year, as they i
did when Sumatra came in under a low
tariff. But somebody has got to pay the
raise in the Sumatra duty. The im
porter does not pay it. The manu
facturer pays it, but he wants to un
load the expense on others, and natu
rally.
At first he thought of the jobber and
dealer, but both kicked and refused to
share the higher expense of the McKin
ley tariff. The consumer—that is, the
smoker—kicked likewise, and refused to
pay six cents for his nickel or eleven
cents for his dime cigar. There were
but two other classes left to share the
expense of the McKinley tariff, the cigai
maker and the tobacco grower. And
both are being uutde to pay the penalty
of the McKinley tariff—the cigar inakei
by a reduction of his wages and the to
bacco grower by a squeeze in the price
of his product. Wrapper leaf we cannot
grow to replace the Sumatra. But we
can grow exceedingly fine binders and
filler leaf.
Under the low tariff the importer was
willing to pay a good price for binders
and a very good and even high price for
fine filler leaf. All our domestic fancy
fillers commanded under the low tariff
a much higher figure than most of tin
cigar leaf wrappers ever can. Now,
however, the manufacturer has either
dispensed with the use of this type ot
leaf, or if he utilizes it he wants it at a
very low figure— at the low figure that
common fillers and binders formerly
sold. For the cut he makes on this
class of goods now has to compensate
him for the (by the McKinley tariff)
raised expense of his wrapper leaf.
The fine filler and binder leaf that
commanded the high prices had been
raised by Wisconsin, New York, Penn
sylvania and Ohio. Consequently the
tobacco growers of these states have to
pay the penalty for the outrageous
McKinley tariff rate of $2. And Con
necticut profits by it—and profits by
it alone—because she raises some wrap
per leaf which has always been in de
mand even under the lowest rate of
duty, and because we cannot import all
the wrapper leaf our extensive cigar in
dustry stands in need of.
AdJuHting Oui-MelveH to Protection.
The New York Tribune of Sept. 22
says: "Protection has been our policy
for thirty years. All the interests of the
country are adjusted to it."
There seems to bo a slight error in this
statement. The interests are adjusting
themselves to it, but the process is not
completed. The census shows that the
farms of the west and south are not yet
all mortgaged, and there are a consider
able number of farms in New England
and the east around our "protected home
markets" not yet abandoned.
The adjusting in tins line could he con
tinued two or three more decades before
all farmers would he tenants of our
millionaire landholders. Neither is tho
adjustment perfected in manufacturing
interests. It is true that in most cases
manufacturers have formed trusts to
prevent competition and enable them to
reap the benefits of high duties, but in
a few cases manufacturers have been
slow to grasp the situation and take ad
vantage of the duty vouchsafed to them.
In such cases they actually continue to
compete with each other, and tiro con
sumer sometimes gets goods at the
"cheap" and "nasty" prices prevailing
in Europe. The McKinley hill is doing
its work better and faster than the old
semiprotective tariff measures, and if
left alone might complete the adjust
ment by the end of this century.
Manufacturer. Arc Not I'mil..
Suppose it were possible to reverse
the process, and to tax imported labor
50 per cent, while admitting the pro
ducts of labor manufacturers, etc., free.
Then labor would have real protection
and manufacturers, instead of buying
labor at its par value and Belling their
goods at 50 per cent, premium, would
Ite compelled to sell goods at par and to
pay 50 per cent, premium for labor.
Do you think this arrangement would
suit tho manufacturers? Do you think
they are sincere when they advocate
tariff legislation to make wages higher?
W hat they want is cheap labor and high
prices for their products. Do you think
they would advocate—yes, and pay for
—"protection" if they really thought
it raised wages or lowered prices? Look
this question square in the face and for
getting parties and prejudices, ask your
I intellect and your conscience what "pro-
I taction" la and haw what they say.
M'KINLEY VINDICATED.
An Actual Transaction in Which the
Foreigner raid a Heavy Tax.
Proprietor (to salesman in large whole-
I Rale house in London) —Did that New
1 York merchant call tins morning?
Salesman—Yes; and left a big order
j with us. He will call again tomorrow
j to get his bill, and to settle his account
I after we have deducted the duty which
he will have to pay to get his goods
| through the custom house. He says you
always pay this tax for him.
! Proprietor—Oh, yes; we must keep
his trade. Have you made out his bill
I yet?
Salesman— Yes; two bookkeepers have
been at work 011 it. Here is the ae
-1 count:
~ • Amount. Duty,
j 10,000 yds. alpaca (27 in. wide)
I at, duty at 7c. per sq.
yd. and 40 per cent sßfio SBOS
| 20,000 yds. corduroy (27 in.
wide) at 16Hjc.; duty at 14c.
| persq. yd. and 20 per cent.. 3,000 2,700
1 lo,(*)0 yds. astrakhan (54 in.
| wide) at 64c.; duty at 49J£c\
j per lb. (22 07.. to yd.) and 00
percent 5,400 10,209
! 40,000 yds. cotton velvet (22 in.
j wide) at 13c.; duty lie. per
sq. yd. and 20 per cent 6,200 3,682
I 30,000 yds. silk striped cotton
(Italian, 40 in. wide) at lKc.;
duty at 10c. per sq. yd. and 35
Ier cent 5,940 0.079 |
$20,090 $23,595 !
20,090
i Duty less amount of bill $2,905
! Proprietor (biting liis lip)— Blast Mr.
j McKinley's bill! Are you certain there
i is 110 mistake?
Salesman—The duties tire complicated,
but the bookkeepers verified every item
by means of the last United States
1 senate report on rates of duty.
| Proprietor—lt's an outrage for a rich |
nation like the United States to collect
its taxes over here. We were poor :
enough 011 this side of the water before !
McKinley's bill reached out after our
last few crumbs. If this trade keeps up
I must lower your salaries against the
end of the year, for it all comes out of
the laborers in the end. It is 110 wondei
all Europe is groaning since 1890.
Salesman—But surely you are not go
ing to pay this duty? It would be better
to burn your goods rather than to pay |
this merchant SO,OOO to take them.
Proprietor—Yes, yes; I know. But j
we dare not do or say anything against
American protection just now. If we did
the Americans would be told that British
gold was being used to compel them to
adopt free trace, and that would only
convince the foolish voters there that
they were benefited by protection and
make them cling to it all the longer.
Here is my check for $2,903. Give it to
him and tell him we will always be glad
to have his patronage, but would prefer
of course that he take goods that will
leave a balance in our favor after we
have settled with McKinley.
Great Wreck —286,000 Men I,o*t.
Immediately upon the appearance of
the report of Labor Commissioner Peck,
announcing that 285,000 workingmen in
New York state had had their wages in
creased an average of twenty-three dol
lars a year by the McKinley bill, the
Utica Observer began a search for a
Utica man who had fallen heir to
twenty three dollars' worth of McKin
ley stock. It left plenty of space in its
columns, and invited workingmen to
come forward and announce their good
luck. No one came.
The Lockport Union followed the ex
ample and issued the same invitation.
No answer.
The Rochester Union and Advertiser
searched Rochester, and found 110 one
of the 285,000 men in that city.
The Oswego Palladium turned the
search light 011 the workingmen in Os
wego, and 110 man with twenty-three
dollars of McKinley tariff money is dis
covered.
The Albany Argus invited every on®
of Peck's army of happy workingmen
residing in Albany to come forward and
tell of it. No one came. Then it sent
reporters to the big protected manufac
tories in Albany and found 110 one.
Other papers in New York are prose
cuting the search with vigor, but with
no better success. It is now feared that
Mr. Peck's report is a total wreck, and
that all of tho 285,000 men supposed to
have been on board are lost—to the Re
publican party.
Tariff Picture*.
The New York Press is still educating
its readers by means of tariff pictures,
j On Sept. 21 it said:
1 "Official statistics prove that in Can
j ada the average yearly earnings of fac-
I tory employees are $272.
I In New York state, under the McKinley
| law, they are $451.89."
Like many of its pictures this indicates
j the evils rather than the benefits of "pro
tection. Canada, like the low wage
countries of Europe, has "protection."
Its duties may not average as high as
ours, hut because it has a small popula
tion and a limited variety of products,
the pinch of "protection" is much more
severe than in our vast country—the
, greatest free trade country on the globe,
because the productions of the tropical
south can be exchangod freely for those
i of the north and there is uo custom
| house from Maine to California.
: If Texas had remained outside of the
United States it would now be un-Amer
ican to propose free trade with her pau
per labor products. If Canada should
be annexed the McKinley wall would
i come down, trade would certainly lie
advantage:,us to all and wages would
J climb a few points higher. But it is
| wicked to think or talk of such things.
Look at the picture again!
McKinley Vindicated.
i The duty on imported wheat went up
in 1890; the price down in 1892. Duty
on oats up in 1890; price down in 1892.
Duty on corn up in 1890; price down in
1892. Duty on horses up in 1890; price
down in 1892. Duty on wool up in 1890;
price down in 1892. Perhaps McKinley
is right after all, and increased duties
; do mean lower prices, but there are
I some exceptions, especially in manufac-
J tured products.
NOTES FROM BUCHANAN.
FI-HIKC for Eugene V. Deb* from One Who
Known Him—Political Printer*.
Eugene V. Debs, after many years of
service, has at last retired from the sec
retaryship of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen. Two years ago Mr.
Debs accepted re-election under protest,
and then gave emphatic notice that he
would not serve more than that term,
and preferred to give way to a success
or as soon as the executive board could
agree upon one. The order, however,
held Debs to his work, and at the recent
session in Cincinnati he was again unani
mously re-elected for two years, but
this time he made his declination so
positive that the convention was com
pelled to accept it.
The record of Eugene V. Debs is un
paralleled in the history of labor organi
zations. No man has held so long an
office in a labor organization and been
always so thoroughly the choice of its
members. This is to the credit of the
brotherhood as well as to Mr. Debs, for
he has been one of the most painstaking
of officials, and that his honesty, energy
and superior ability have been so fully
appreciated speaks well for the good
Bense and discrimination of the mem
bers.
Mr. Debs will continue the editor of
The Firemen's Magazine at the earnest
request of the brotherhood, and it is a
pleasure to know that while the firemen
lose an exceptional official they will still
have their wise counselor, and the labor
cause will not be deprived of a champion
whose pen is n power in the movement.
A new weekly paper has been estab
lished in New York by members of the
typographical fraternity. It is called
The Printer, and is built somewhat 011
the lines of The Union Printer. The
Printer offers as the reason for its ap
pearance in the field where there was
already a craft journal the claim that
The Union Printer has become an organ
of the Republican party and especially
of the candidacy of Whitelawßeid. The
new paper will therefore espouse the
other side—the Democratic party and its
candidates.
The squabbles between the "states
men" of Typographical Union No. 6
over politics—whether for place or prin
ciple—bode 110 good to the cause of labor,
unless it should result in opening the
eyes of the rank and file of the union,
which has been so often of late assured
by the officers and ex-officers that "No. (1
is nonpolitical."
Jos. R. BUCHANAN.
I'usMeH.ioii, Not Property.
President 11. L. Wayland, D. D., of
Philadelphia, addressed the American
Social Science association at its recent
session on the subject, "Has the State
Abdicated?" He referred to some of the
causes of widespread suffering and
calamity, among them strikes and lock
outs, leading to great loss to the entire
community, and not seldom to blood
shed and incipient civil war; the over
taxing of railway employees, leading to
accidents; the adulteration of food to
the amount of $700,000,000 annually in
America; the accumulation of vast for
tunes in few hands, with a tendency to
a disappearance of the middle class; the
monopoly of great tracts of land, not nn
seldom gained by fraud; the coal com
bine, etc., and yet the state is silent.
He would have the state, as embody
ing the entire community, act for the
general welfare and take steps for the
correction of these evils. Objections are
made, "This is paternalism; it is social
ism." But we are too old to be fright
ened by names. "But this is destroying
the right of property." No, it may be
disturbing the right of possession, but
not of property, which is a very differ
ent thing. One's life, his character, his
liberty are his property, but his land
and money are but possessions, and there
is no sacredness about this. Society has
always assumed the right to subordi
nate the right of possession to the public
good.
Social Democrat* Dhl Good Work.
Dr. Aveling has written an article for
The Pall Mall Gazette reviewing the
action of the socialists of Hamburg in
the cholera crisis. He points out that at
a meeting of the Hamburg chamber of
commerce it was resolved that the best
means for helping the poor was through
the socialist leaders. The doctors, the
police and private individuals followed
the course thus indicated, and the
authorities applied to the socialists to
have distributed a quarter a million
printed leaflets instructing the people
as to methods of disinfection and of
preventing the spread of the disease.
This distribution was accomplished in
a few hours. Four hundred socialists
also penetrated the slums and explained
the leaflets, showing how antidotes for
the cholera should be used, and inspir
ing hope and courage in others by ex
hibiting proof of their own.
Dr. Aveling adds that the cholera in
attacking the poorer class of people had
caused great ravages in the ranks of the
socialists.—London Dispatch.
Tho House* Get It All.
A candidate for congress in the Pitts
burg district of Pennsylvania says in a
recent letter:
We do not have to go outside of Penn
sylvania today for wage statistics to
show that protection does not protect.
We have in our midst today seventy-two
tariff made millionaires and multimil
lionaires ami do,ooo idle men in our dis
trict. The why and wherefore of this is
a pertinent inquiry that must be an
swered. Has not the fiction that tariff
is a protection of labor fooled the Amer
ican people long enough? When the
toiler asks for a small share of that pro
tection which is guaranteed by the Re
publican national platform, he is told
that labor is a commodity, and like the
negro on the auction block in the south
before the war, "he is worth what he
will bring."
Organized labor in Washington has
protested against the employment of in
mates of the workhouse upon the streets
of the capital. The street department
has been working the convicts in chain
gangs, and the men have been dressed
> stripes.
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THE NEXT MORNING I FEEL BRIGHT AND
NEW AND MY COMPLEXION 13 BETTER.
My doctor says it nets gently on tho stomach, liver
and kidneys, nod is n pleasant laxative. This drink Is
made from herbs. and is prcimreii for uao us easily UJ
tea. It is called
LANE'S MEDICINE
All druggists sell it fit 90a. and |I.OO a package. If
you can not get it.send your address for free sample.
Lane's Family Medicine moves the bowelseauh
4ajr. In order to be healthy, thisisnoceHsary. Address,
OliATOlt If. WOODWARD, LiHOV, N. Y/
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H. G. OESTERLE & CO..
manufacturer of
SOCIETY t GOODS.
HATS, CAPS,
SHI UTS, BELTS,
BA LDHICS,
SWORDS ami GAUNTLETS.
| Banners f Flags, Badges,
| Regalia, Etc.
LACKS, FRINGES.
TASSELS, STARS, fl A LOON,
EMBROIDERY MATERIAL,
GOLD and SILVER CLOTHS.
WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES.
No. 224 North Ninth Street,
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is. f. iiiiii.
Centre and South Streets.
Dry Goods, Dress Goods,
Notions,
Furniture, Carpets, Etc.
It Is sufficient tostute onr stock throughout
is the most complete to be found in the region.
We invito you to cull and judge lor yoursHvcs.
n v ,,) r, wi,h y dealer in the
game line of goods in Luzerne eountv. Try us
when in need ol any of the above articles, and
especially when you want
LADIES', GENTS' AND CHILDREN'S
BOOTS and SHOES.
In every department wo offer unparalleled
inducements to buyers in the way of high class
goods of quality hevond question, and to those
wo add unlimited variety in all new novelties
and 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
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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.
La dies' Con Is, ( 'apes and
Ska wis
In Fall and Winter
Styles.
• Mens' Heavu and Light
II fight Shifts.
The Most Complete Line
of Underwear
In Town.
Blankets, Oni/ts, Spreads,
Etc., Etc.
Wall Paper, Stationery
and School Books.
Furniture, Carpets and,
Beddings.
A good carpet-covered 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 101, 85 cents; Nos. 11 to 2,
05 cents.
Groceries.
All fresh goods.
Flour, $2.35.
Ham, 15 cents.
Tobacco, 28 cents.
Cheese, 12.1 cents.
Sciin cheese, 8 cents.
3 pounds of raisins. 25 cents.
5 pounds of currants, 25 cents.
6 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.
Washboilers, with lid. 00 cents.
Blue granite ware, a complete
line—is everlasting.
Call and see our stock and bo
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
FEE ELAND.
15 Front Street.
Capital, -
OFFICERS.
JOSEPH BIRKBKCK, President.
11. C. Knows, Vico President.
B. B. DAVIS, Cashier.
JOHN SMITH, Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
Joseph Birkbcek, Thomas Birkbeck. John
>V agiior, A Rmiewiek, 11. C. Koons, Charles
Dusheek, William Kemp, Mathias Schwa be,
John Smith, John M. Powell, lid, John Burton.
t*?" Three per cent, interest paid on saving
deposits.
Open daily from 1 a. m. to 4 p. m. Saturday
evenings from 0 to 8.
WM. WEHRMANN,
German Practical Watchmaker.
Centre Street. Five Points.
The cheapest nml beat repairing store in
town. All watch repairing guaranteed lor one
year. New watches for sale at low prices.
Jewelry repaired on short notice, (live me
paired watches and clocks re-
ENGLISH, SWISS AND AMERICAN
WATCHES.
Complicated and fine work
on watches a specialty.
PATEKTi
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W. T. FIT/ GERALD, Att'y-at-Law.
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