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FREEI.AND, NOVEMBER 28, 1892.
IT is seldom a state sends a divided
delegation to the electoral college, as
Ohio and Oregon do this year.
Twenty-two Republican and one
Democratic elector have been chosen
in the former, and the majorities of
none scarcely exceed one thousand.
There is no question but that the en
tire ticket could have have been elect
ed bad there been some harder work
done, but the fact that the column is
broken in a state which was conceded
to the Republicans is sufficient this
time. In Oregon the Republicans
get three and the combination of
People's and Democrats elected one.
CALIFORNIA has declared in favor of
the election of United States senators
by popular vote. That is the result
'of the feeling there against the meth
ods which certain rich men, such as
the late Senator Hearst, adopted to
obtain seats in that body where they
had no just right to sit. At the re
cent election the proposed amend
ment to the state constitution pres
enting this method was carried by a
great mojority. If the people of
Pennsylvania had the opportunity to
vote on a similar amendment they
would be strongly inclined to adopt
it if for no other reason than as a pro
test against the methods by which
they have been so long misrepresent
ed in the upper branch of congress.—
I'reas.
A LITTLE bit of interesting his
tory, in which the vice president elect
figures, is told as follows hy an ex
change: In 1888 there was a vacancy
in the supreme court of the District of
Columbia, and President Cleveland
appointed Adlai Stevenson to fill it.
But the Republican senate refused
to confirm the nomination, preferring
to leave the vacancy unfilled until af
ter the inauguration of President
Harrison. The office has life tenure,
and if Mr. Stevenson had been con
firmed he could not have been thrust
out of his place. The greed of par
tisanship has, however, seldom sutler
ed a more satisfactory rebuke. The
Democrat whom the senate would not
confirm as a judge will, after the
fourth of March next, preside over
the senate. He is going back to
AVaskington with the indorsement of
his party, hiß state and his country
to shake in the faces of his political
ememies. *
CONGRESSMAN JOHNSON, of Ohio, sug
gests that the lower house of cougress
pass a tariff reform measure at once
and send it to the senate. If the
senate will not pass it, or if Harrison
vetoes it, then call an extra session as
soon as possible after March 4. Such
a plan will convince the people that
Democracy means "business," and
will put the responsibility on the Re
publicans, where it rightfully belongs,
for the need of calling the extra ses
sion. If reform work is put off till
the regular session of the fifty-third
congress no measure can get through
before the summer of 1894. That is '
too long to wait, and would, in fact,
be playing into the hands of the Re
publicans, who could easily induce
manufacturers to shut up their shops
just before tho next congressional
election and lay the blame to tariff
reform. The game has been worked
before, and the way to outwit them
if to begin smashing the tariff at
once by an extra session or in any
other way. Any unnecessary delay
will be rebuked by the people with
less ceremony than the present ad
ministration was ordered out.
THERE is something peculiar in the
criticisms made on the secret ballot
laws of the different states by the Re
publican newspapors since election
day. In Massachusetts, they say, it
defeated their candidate for governor,
because several thousand Republicans
marked their ballots illegally. From
Ohio comes a similar wail-—that the
Democratic electors polled maDy votes
which were intended for their op
ponents. California Republicans are
also accused by their party organs
with unwittingly assisting the Demo
crats, and from several sections of
other states we hoar the same com
plaint. In every one of these instances
the modeß of conducting the elec
tions were devised by Republicans,
and, from the comments of the
Republican papers upon the secret
ballot, the only conclusion to be ar
rived at is that there was an over
whelming preponderance of ignorant
voters in the Republican party,
although that organization, when it
existed, always claimed to possess the
most intelligent and well-educated
people of the country. But, allowing
that the party organs are correct in
their criticisms, this claim is dis
proven when they state that enough
Republicans voted incorrectly to turn
three or four states and dozens of
congressional districts.
COUGHING LKADH TO CONSUMPTION.
Kem JI'S Jialoam stops the cough at once.
Vulgar Wealth.
The crazy and cruel Roman Emperor
Caligula made a golden stable for his
horse and fed him gilded oats. It is the
climax of vulgar and wicked extrava
gance to the modern mind. That hap
penod in the days of the decay and cor
ruption of the Roman empire.
It is doubtful, however, whether the
unprejudiced future reader of history
will consider the Roman emperor any
more insanely extravagant than some
Republican citizens of the United States
in the last quarter of the Nineteenth
century. Paupers have increased nine
fold and millionaires a thousandfold
since 1860, we are told. The wealth
that is heaping up like a snowball roll
ing down hill has in many cases stuck
to persons with not brains enough to
spend it wisely. Having a limited under
standing, they can only show that they
are somebody by a display of wealth. It
is the lowest possible way of being some
body, but it is all the thin brained rich
know, so they must bo forgiven.
A golden stable for the emperor's
horse in old Rome is not a whit more
foolish than gold mounted railway cars
for American citizens to travel in in
1892. The only thing gold mounted cars
can do is to make a vulgar display of
wealth which the owner has not sense
enough to put to a wiser use. Perhaps
we shall have golden coal scuttles and
asfc fins next, likewise golden cuspidors
and .cash basins.
It was the saturnine Dean Swift who
said that the Almighty showed his esti
mate of wealth by the people he gave it
to. The barbaric degradation of the
beautiful and precious metal gold by
those who do not know how to use it is
enough to convince one that Dean Swift
spoke the truth. The person who has
great wealth is bound by that very
fact to use all above his personal ex
penses for the good of those less for
tunate. Public parks, libraries, beauti
ful landscapes, scientific investigation,
model homes for poor people, the con
quering and reclaiming of waste lands,
providing homes for millions, the build
ing of homes for working people in the
country and furnishing them rapid
transit to their city factories—here are
magnificent openings for the investment
of wealth, and the new rich man goes
and spends his money on the golden
cuspidor and golden coal scuttle plan.
He could show it off in a less vulgar
way if he would simply have it melted
into a large lump, and have a man hired
to carry it along behind him wherever
he went.
When plump, pretty Widow Hamers
ley, of New York, married the repro
bate Duke of Marlborough she poured
out old Hamersley's American dollars
like water in the work of beautifying
the duke's ancestral seat, Blenheim
house. It was as dilapidated as the
I buildings of an abandoned New Eng
land farm, glass out, hinges off, locks
broken and door stones fallen in. At an
| enormous expense Widow Hamersley
that was fixed up the old place and made
it splendid as the residence of an Ameri
can oil or sugar prince. Then she rightly
thought she had earned her title of
duchesß. But now the dissipated duke
up and dies, and the duchess becomes
only dowager duchess, and according
to English law has to give up all
her splendor and go off and live
in a little "dower house" on the corner
of the Marlborough estates somewhere.
A smiling young gentleman, by name
Charles Richard John Churchill, by title
Marquis of Blandford, son of the Duke
of Marlborough's first wife, who got a
divorce from him because he was so bad,
steps serenely into all the magnificence
paid for by the Hamersley dollars, with
no more thought for the plump little
woman who paid the dollars than if she
were a milkmaid on one of the Marl
borough farms. What a fine thing it is
for an American woman to marry a Eu
ropean title and havo the privilege of
shelling out her honest Yankee dollars
to mend the holes made in entailed es
tates by the dissipation and debauchery
of the man who wears the title! How
noble European nobility is!
It may be that the increasing scarcity
of gold will bo stopped for a time at
least. The output from the South Af
rican mines is growing larger. This
year they will yield nearly a million
and a quarter ounces. That is only a
little less than the gold mines of the
United States produce annually. It may
be that next year these South African
mines will yield more gold than ours.
In 1887 the output was not quite 35,000
ounces. In 1891 it had increased to 729,-
213. Three years ago it was predicted
that these mines would provo extraor
dinarily prodtable, and it may bo that
their full development is not even yet
reached. If they had been in the United
States instead of in Africa there would
have been a tremendous boom, with
cities growing up in a fortnight and a
great population formed in two months.
"I had the honor to be born in a most
remarkable year," says Dr. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes; "the same year with four
of the greatest men this generation has
known—Tennyson, Gladstone, Darwin
and Lincoln." But of these famous men
(three Englishmen and two Americans)
only two are left—Gladstone and Dr.
Holmes. Dr. Holmes celebrated his
eighty-third birthday Aug. 29. Glad
stone's eighty-third birthday comes on
Dec. 29.
When Mr. Gladstone gets tired and
wante a little rest he goes away and lec
tures somewhere about Greek literature
or mediaeval universities.
The hearts of the Italian and the small
boy will be sad next winter. The pea
nut crop is short.
T. V. Powderly wants a new party.
There are those jnst about this time who
are inclined to believe there is too much
of some of the old ones.
The distilleries in the whisky muking
districts of the country have enormously
increased their manufacture of liquor
this fall, we are told. Perhaps this has
no connection with the reported scarcity
of water in many parts of the country,
bnt the fact is suggestive; it is indeed.
The precautions against cholera are
still to be continued to the extent of dis
couraging immigration and imposing a
quarantine of twenty days on all who
have come from infected ports. Rags or
other merchandise from cholera coun
tries will be thoroughly disinfected or
forbidden to come into the country at
all. These precautions are taken in view
of a possible outbreak of cholera next
spring.
There are living three widowed duch
esses of Marlborough, not counting the
late duke's divorced wife, who is called
Lady Blandford. Mrs. Hamersley Marl
borough is the widow of the eighth duke.
The widows of the Bixth and seventh
dukes are still living, and their support
comes out of the Marlborough estates.
Beginning with tho latest widow the
three might perhaps be called dowager,
grand dowager and greut grand dow
ager.
Ideal People.
Years of valuable time are wasted in
the lifetime of every individual by the
hunt for ideal people. There are none,
except the people who are dead. The
ideal living persons exist only in the
imagination of tho enthusiast who looks
for them. Ho may at length give up
the search in despair and settlo down to
the belief that all the world is mean,
hard, selfish and monstrous, and he will
become a soured, imbittered, suspicious
old crank, very unpleasant to live with.
Or he may give up caring whether there
are any ideal people or not and harden
into a successful money maker who en
joys nothing more than getting the bet
ter of some one less shrewd than him
self.
Yet there is a sure way to produce
ideal people—those who are perfectly
kind, truthful, generous, good natured
and just, likewise neat and pleasant
mannered. There is a time in the life
of everybody, even the toughest old
hunks, when to somebody he is the ideal.
At that time somebody, whether moth
er, child, sweetheart or friend, believes
him to be the one piece of perfection
sought for. If now we snatch at this
moment and thereafter be through all
the years of our lives exactly what these
adoring ones believe us to be before
they find ns out, then in due time the
earth will be populated with genuine
ideal people.
Good City Government.
Charles Francis A dams contributes to
The Forum an inqwrtant paper on tho
improvement of municipal government,
using as an illustration some experi
ments in that direction which have been
made in Quincy, Mass. Mr. Adams is
certain that in the founding of our mu
nicipal system a grave mistake was
made. That was in modeling the city
government aftor the national one.
A state represents a political policy; mu
nicipal administration the mere trans
acting of business. Paving streets,
lighting and sewering them, taxing tho
town for keeping np schools, securing
tho safety of the community through
policemon, and making the town beau
tiful through public parks are matters
that each citizen cannot attend to on
his own responsibity. Therefore he del
egates these duties to certain of his fel
low citizens. That is all there is or
ought to be in municipal management.
The cumbrous machinery of onr city
governments, with their top heavy
boards of two houses and the figure
head of a mayor are the worst machin
ery that could he devised to transact
public business. City government has
nothing to do with politics. The true
model for a city government should be
the successful private business corpora
tion, with its simple machinery of presi
dent and board of directors. These meet
and plan out tho measures which will
bring most prosperity to the firm or cor
poration. Exactly so it should be with
city governments, the mayor represent
ing the president, a single body of alder
men or councilmen representing the di
rectors.
The ward system, Mr. Adams thinks,
should be abolished, and the single
house voted for in a body, as presi
dential electors are, no one citizen being
allowed to vote for more than two-thirds
of the whole number, however. He may,
though, concentrate his whole number
of votes on a few members. This would
allow the certainty of election for any
particularly desirable man in any one
locality. Finally Mr. Adams would
make the best men in a community
serve as municipal officers, whether they
want to or not. Jury duty is compul
sory; why should not municipal service
be also?
The puzzle the charter reformer hoe to work
out. If he Is going to get down to the root of
the matter. Is some practical system which
shall secure the utmost political free play to
the Individual citizen, and the representation
of minorities in municipal affairs; having done
this—having thus set Individuals free and
made minorities potent—it will be for those
composing the minorities to put their hands,
as of old, on the shoulders of the "best men,"
and exact of them compulsory municipal serv*
ice. those civic tours of public dutjr.
A Cause of Bad Memory.
Among the causes of failure of mem
ory has been enumerated too much edu
cation. This may seem strange at firsi
thought, yet it is true. We have connec
over the printed page from childhood
We have learned our lessons by rote foi
the purpose of recitation. When th<
recitation and following exaininatior
were over our task was done, and th
lessons were allowed to drop into for
getfulness. Little Latin and less Greek
still less of the history of Rameses tin
Great, does the average business man re
member three yoars after he has left
school.
The book memorizing has got th<
world into a bad way of depending oi
books without trying to carry things ii
the head. Before printing was inventec
the singers and historians remembered
whole volumes of poetry and prose, and
traveled from place to place recounting
them and stirring the blood of the peo
pie to heroic deeds and patriotism
Those were the true days of the lecturi
platform. Now all is changed. W<
have things muddled and jumbled in oui
brains, and the man who is most learned
in books is absolutely the most forget
ful of common sense matters. It will
be found that, so far as his limited fieh
of knowledge extends, the ignoramui
who never learned to read has a bettei
memory than the sage. Not having
print to trust to he has cultivated th<
powers nature gave him and recalli
nearly all the events that ever passed
under his ken with extraordinary clear
ness. In a statement of fact he would b
worth a dozen college professors of deac
languages.
It is curious to note the different
methods persons have of remembering
things. The modern scholar recall!
words and letters by their looks and
place on the printed page. He remem
bers by his eye. Jacques Inaudi, th<
young mathematical prodigy, did not
learn to read till ho was nearly grown.
He says when he wishes to recall a word
or figure he hears it in his mind. Conse
quently Inaudi remembers by his ear.
The pernicious practice of keeping
memorandum books has done more tc.
destroy the average memory than even
book stuffing. The idea that the hu
inan intellect was made so weak it
cannot hold in its grasp half a dozen
different items at once iB a libel on the
Creator. Throw away your contempt
ible and weakening memorandums.
Forco your memory under your control
and make it do its work. You may
forget at first, but by and by you will
remember, and with far less trouble.
It is easier to carry your head than a
memorandum book.
Warship Chimneys.
An American calls the long pipe oi
chimney through which the smoke es
capes from a steamship's furnace a
smokestack. The Englishman sneers at
the American's greenness and calls it a
I funnel. The smokestack or funnel of the
new American naval cruiser Brooklyn it
to present a departure in naval architec
ture that is worth noting. The forced
draft Bystem for obtaining coal consump
tion in the furnaces of warships is objec
tionable. In the cruiser Brooklyn Chiei
Engineer George W. Melville will en
deavor to do away with the forced draft
by lengthening the chimneys, smoke
stacks or funnels, as you like it.
The Brooklyn therefore will have hei
smokestack or funnel 100 feet long. II
the top should be shot away there will
still be pipe left to provide draft suf
ficient to produce steam. In the shor ■
chimney at present in use it has bee£
found that the gunners in the fighting
tops have frequently been driven from
their turrets up in the masts by the
dense volumes of smoke. The long fun
nel will carry this smoke entirely above
them. Another risk attending the high
funnel has been that it was in danger oi
going overboard in storms. But the
greatest precautions have been taken to
secure the Brooklyn's funnel by stays
and guys so that it will be almost im
possible for them to get out of place in
any weather.
Co-operative farming colonies have
proved a success in New Zealand. In
the northern island of the group the
British colonial government sold three
blocks of land to three groups of set
tlers about six years ago. The pioneers
worked the land on the co-operative
plan, whilo the ultimate intention was
that each family should in time pur
chase its own separate home. Orchards
have been planted and grain and other
crops raised. The settlers are rapidly
paying for their homes.
A Frenchman has devised an electric
helmet which will put the insomnious
to sleep. There is a small battery inside
the helmet which produces a "gentle
buzzing sound," like the droning of a
bumblebee. Dr. Gilles, the inventor,
claims that the most wakeful patients
cannot withstand the influence of this
droning sound more than seven or eight
minutes. Gentle vibratory movements
have often been found beneficial in pain
ful nervous disorders.
It was a ghastly ornament—that an
niversary and commemorative floral
gallows which the faithful placed upon
the top of the monument to the anarch
ists who were executed at Chicago five
years ago.
Trolley wires convey a car rapidly
and beautifully along a street, but when
one breaks and gets down a man's back
he finds there is heat in the thing.
Deaths In the White House.
Two presidents and wives of two pres
idents have died in the White Honse.
The first time that death invaded that
mansion was when the grandfather of the
present president, the rugged soldier and
farmer, used to plain fare, out of door
life and early hours, succumbed to the
nervous strain, the persecution of office
seekers, the worry and the physical ex
haustion of official life. President Wil
liam Henry Harrison died one month
after his inauguration. The wife of
Vice President Tyler, who succeeded
General Harrison as president, died in
the White House the following year.
When the change was made and the
Tylers moved into the White House
Mrs. Tyler took the room of the dead
president for her own occupancy. "1
have no superstitions feeling on the sub
ject," she wrote in one of her charming
letters to a friend, "and it is as pleasant
as possible."
The other death of a president in the
White House was that of General Zach
ary Taylor in 1850. Lincoln, it will be
remembered, died in a house on Tenth
street, to which he was taken from
Ford's theater, and Garfield died at El
beron, N. J. Of the twenty-six presi
dents of the United States four have
died in Washington—the elder Harrison,
Taylor and Lincoln, and John Quincy
Adams when a representative.—Bostor
Commonwealth.
The Klephant Frog.
The Paris Rappel, not to be outdone
by its contemporaries, who during the
summer startled the public of the French
capital by tho most surprising sea ser
pent Btories, recently capped the climax
by mentioning among the wonders to
be exhibited at the Chicago World's fair
in tho department for amphibians the
elephant frog.
"On the shore of the Ohio," it says,
"there exists a gigantic frog—Ranula
elephanta—which exclusively feeds on
the eggs of wild geese and ducks that
nest in the reeds of that river. As it is
not endowed with teeth for breaking
the shells it swallows the eggs as they
are laid by the webfooted tribes on the
banks of the rivers. They are of course
hard to digest in this form, but the frog
knows how to get out of this dilemma.
It climbs a moderate sized tree and dex
terously drops down upon its stomach,
the concussion breaking the shell of the
egg, which is now easily digested in the
shape of an omelet. It is highly inter
esting to observe his frogship's blinking
eyes, which give expression to the utter
satisfaction enjoyed by their owner. This
oviphagous frog, as may be expected,
will also be on exhibition at Chicago
amid innumerable other curiosities of
nature.
Tlio Great Library of the United States.
When it is considered that the largest
existing public library, that of the
French government at Paris, contains as
yet but 2,300,000 volumes, and that ample
space exists in the edifice now rising on
Capitol hill for storing more than twice
that number, it will be perceived that
the wants of the future are well cared
for. While nearly every government
edifice appears to have been built only
for a generation and its uses have long
overgrown its limits, this ono, through
the farsightod liberality of congress,
will provide room for the nation's books
for nearly two centuries to come.
The ultimate cost is limited to $6,000,-
000, a sum somewhat less than half the
cost of the Capitol or of the large build
ing erected for the accommodation of
the state, war and navy departments.
The library building covers very nearly
the same space as each of these govern
ment buildings (about three acres), and
is constructed of solid granite, with iron,
brick and marble interior. Its ample
interior courts and numerous windows
will render it the best lighted and best
ventilated library of large proportions
yet erected.—A. R. Spofford in Forum.
Disfranchised Jurymen.
There were twelve unhappy men in
Camden on election day. They were tho
persons drawn to serve aB jurors in the
trial of Francis Lingo for the murder of
Mrs. Annie Miiler, of Merchantville.
The cause of their unhappiness was the
fact that they were not allowed to vote.
The law provides that the jury drawn in
a murder case must not be separated.
Judge Garrison could have granted the
jurymen the privilege of exercising their
right of franchise by directing the coiv'
stable to take the entire jury to each
polling place where any of the members
casts his ballot. But hero the law inter
fered again, as under the provisions of
the Werts ballot reform bill every voter
must prepare his ticket secretly in a
booth.—Philadelphia Record.
Hlio Enjoyed the Eclipse.
That the ignorance of New York high
school girls is duplicated, in a measure
at least, across tho bridge, was indicated
in a Brooklyn street car on the day of
the solar eclipße. As the car passed the
building that afternoon a bevy of these
students entered. They chattered of the
event, one explaining that her oppor
tunities had been especially good, as a
teacher had let her have a smoked glass
at the most interesting moment and had
told her all abont it while she looked,
"and, oh, girls," she finished, "which
was it anyway, an eclipse of the sun or
the moon?" New York Times.
A l.ucky Lord Lieutenant.
It is rumored in Dublin that Lord
Houghton, the new viceroy of Ireland,
will very soon enter again the pleasant
bonds of wedlock. The lord lieutenant
is addressed as "sir," just like the Prince
of Wales, and he has the privilege of
kissing the young ladies presented at the
drawing rooms. Some of the past lord
lieutenants have kissed as many as 800
young ladies in the course of a single
afternoon. —London Star.
Umbrellas and parasols are now fitted
with clasps to hold tho ribs close, in
stead of the silk or elastic bands former
ly used. On handsome ones the clasps
are of silver or gold, and add a distinc
tive touch of elegance.
Mourning note paper shows a rever
of black only on white or blue gray.
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BOOTS and SHOES.
In every department we offer unparalleled
inducements to buyers in the way ot high class
goods of quality beyond question, and to those
we add unlimited variety in all new novelties
and tho strong inducements of low prices by
which we shall demonstrate that the cheapest,
us well as the choicest stock, Is that now for
sulc by
j. p. MCDONALD.
Subscribe for the TKIIIUNK.
J. I). MIIUS
EMPORIUM.
IWe 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, Capes 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 ant^
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 10£, 85 cents; Nos. 11 to 2,
95 cents.
Candee Gum Boots.
Men's for $2.25.
Every pair guaranteed.
Boys' Candee rubber boots, $2.
For 30 Hays Only.
Groceries.
All fresh goods.
Flour, $2.25.
Ham, 14 cents.
Tobacco, 28 cents.
Cheese, 12J 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, 34
cents.
Milk and butter pots, a com
plete line.
Tinware.
Wasliboilers, with lid, 90 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
unteed or money refunded.
Yours truly,
J. C. BERNER.
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CITIZENS' BANK
OF
FREELAND
15 Front Street.
Capital, - $50,000.
OFFICERS.
JOSKI'H Hi it KIIECK, President.
H. C. KOONS, Vice President.
B. IT. DAVIS, Cashier.
JOHN SMITH, Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
Joseph Hirkhcck, Thomas Rirkbock, John
Wagner, A Rndewick, 11. Koons. Churles
Dwsheek, William Kemp, Matliias Schwabe,
John Smith, John M. Powell, 2d, John Burton.
W" Three per cent, interest paid on saving
deposits.
Open daily from 0 a. in. to 4p. m. Saturday
evenings from H to 8.
WM. WEHRMANN,
German Practical WatchmaktM\
Centre Street, Five Points.
♦ A*!? a,l(l . repairing store In
town. All watch repairing guaranteed for one
year. Hew watches lor sale at low prices.
„l? wel u; "'palfcl ™short notice, (livemo
a cull. All kinds of watches and clocks re
paired.
ENGLISH, SWISS ANI) AMERICAN
WATCHES.
Complicated and fine work
on watches a specialty.
ELECTROPOISE
Office REMOVED to
1004 Mt. Vernon St., PHILADELPHIA.
Persum desirinu cttu nr cnuntu nuencten, address
/. D. WARE, General Agent
For the States of Pennsylvania, New Jerser
Maryland and Delaware. '