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FREELAND, DECEMBER 5, 1892.
THE death of Ex Governor Henry
M. Hoyt at Wilkes-Barre last week
took from Luzerne county a gentle
man of which it could well afford to
be proud. Although a staunch Re
publican, he was not of the kind to
allow partisan feelings to dominate
his principles and he numbered his
intimate friends by the hundreds 111
both parties. The people of this
county took an especial pride in con
sidering Mr. Hoyt one of themselves,
as he had been chosen to till the
highest office in the state and did it
in a manner creditable to himself and
his county.
THE Philadelphia Press works
itself up into hysterics at least six
times a week over the thoughts of
what the Democrats will or will not
do after March 4, 1893. The old
grandmotherly journal stair,]is and
storms like a disappointed bag at
every prospect or proposal mentioned
that may have for its end the revision
of present methods of running this
government. It seems to think the
country will surely go to hades unless
its advice is followed by Cleveland k
Co. The Press ought to bury itself
under the Democratic majority and
get out of the way of progressive
ideas.
IT is interesting to note the as
tonishing growth of the railway
mileage of the United States from
1830, when there were less than 4(1
miles of railway, up to 1890. In
1840 the figures were 2,755 miles, in
1850 they had risen to 8,571 miles, in
1860 the total had swelled to 28,910
miles; the census of 1870 showed the
mileage to be 49,168 miles; that of
1880 placed the figures at 87,724
miles, while the eleventh census
figures give 163,597 miles. Out of a
total mileage for the world of 370,281
miles, the United States has 44.28
per cent, of the whole; and exceeds by
3, 493 the entire mileage of the Old
AVorld, as Europe's 136,865 miles,
Asia's 18,798 miles and Africa's 3,992
miles make an aggregate of but 159,-
655 miles.
REPRESENTATIVE WILSON, of West
Virginia, who presided over the con
vention which nominated Cleveland
and Stevenson, and who recently went
to New York upon the invitation of
Mr. Cleveland, is one of the strongest
advocates for the holding of an extra
session as soon as practicable after
the inauguration, and following are
his reasons: "The true worth and
value of a tariff bill cannot be tested
in a short time, and the first effects
appear to be sometimes what they
really are not. I think it would be
most impolitic to place a new tariff
bill before the country just previous
to the elections of 1894. For this
reason I favor the extra session idea
and think the sooner the proposed
tariff changes go into effect the bettor
will the final result be for our party."
AN investigagation of the Reading
combine has been made by a com
mitteo of congressmen, and the public
may expect to have a report of their
work some time before the next presi
dential election. Of all the hunjbugs
that congress is responsible for, these
investigating committees are un
doubtedly the greatest. There was
never one yet that accomplished a
particle of good, except to give the
members of the committee a fine time
at the public's expense. The one
appointed to investigate the strike
here in 1887 -88 swooped down upon
the coal regions with a great flourish,
und, after examining many witnesses,
returned to Washington. Nothing
more was heard of them until two years
after the strike was ended. It will
be somewhat the same with the Read
ing committee. When the combine
is dead and demolished they will
come to the front with a mass of
testimony and a report that means
nothing, and then, likely as not, will
claim the credit of breaking the deal.
When Bby wu sick, we gave her Castoria.'
When she was a Child, sho cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When the had Children, the gave them Castoria.
The Value of Space.
Space in a newspaper represents no
more nor less than a commodity ottered
for sale by the publishers, they being
no more nor leas than merchants. Pub
lishers figure upon the expenses incident
to running a paper in estimating the
value of space in their paper.
The price or cost of space in a paper is
not guess work, nor simply a price fixed
without reference to cost and circulation,
but on the other hand it is a value ascer
tained by close figuring upon the ex
penses incident to making such space
possible.
It is not approximation, but an actual
and true value, allowing a fair aud equit
able per cent, profit upon the time and
amount of money invested.
No one would think about going into
a grocery store and asking the proprietor
to give, without consideration, a pound
of sugar. No one would even think of
entering a dry goods store and ask to be
given, gratis, a yard or so of muslin, or
anything carried iti stock by the store.
Yet people will enter a newspaper
office and ask for the publication, free,
of matter that costs the publisher an ac
tual outlay of time and money. A pub
lisher pays, in actual cash, for all the
news published and in ro doing he places
a value on space.
Matter that will directly or indirectly
benefit the person desiring its publica
tion is of monetary value to that person
directly or indirectly.
Many persons desire the insertion of
an advertisement free on the ground
that they take the paper. No more
conclusive argument could be offered
that the publication of the item is worth
the fixed price of the publisher. If the
paper is worth the subscribing for and
reading, its space is an assured article of
value. Instead of people looking upon
newspapers as a gratuitious medium,
they should be practical and look upon
them as they are, a commodity of use-1
fulness and value.— Columbut Despatch.
Pension Frauds Must Go.
The demagogues who have for years
been heaping up pensions as bribes for
votes, and the rapacious claim agents
who have made fortunes for themselves
by working upon the cupidity of others,
are naturally up in arms, says the New
York World, at the demand for a revi
sion of the pension list.
Prudent statesmen of both parties and
the deserving old soldiers agree, how
ever, that something must be done, not
only to check the unnatural growth of
the pension list, but to cut down its enor
mous exactions.
The list needs to be made a roll of
honor. The treasury needs to be saved
from bankruptcy.
A pension roll of a million names
twenty-seven years after the close of the
war, is self-evidently swollen by fraud
and increased by non-desert.
To tax this country $200,000,000 a year I
for pensions is to impose an unjustifiable
burden upon the people and to render
peace more costly than war.
It is notorious that the object of the
present pension commissioner and his
immediate predecessor has been toswell
the list at the greatest possible speed for
the benefit of the Republican party.
"God help the surplus!" cried Tanner.
Raum's boast has been that he would
grant 350,000 new pensions in a year.
There can be neither honesty nor justice
in such an administration of the office.
Justice alike to deserving veterans and
to the taxpayers requires that the pen
sion list be carefully scrutinized and
purged of fraud and unworthiness. A
commission might be appointed for each
state or agency to take proof as to every
name added within the past ten years.
Some means must be adopted to correct
an abuse of the noble sentiment of pa
triotism which has become intolerable.
How IlafttingH Ate Hit* Crow.
The Democrats of C'arrolltown on
Thursday night of last week painted the
town red in honor of the Democratic
victory at the late election. Several
speeches were made, one by General D.
11. Hastings, and as the general trains
in the other camp, in his speech he ate
his share of crow with as good grace as
possible.— Etiensburrj (Cambria county)
Freeman,
The manufacture of wire nails has
reached such perfection that the latest
approved machine makes a wire nail
twelve inches long and weighing half a
pound.
The British colony of New Zealand,
east of Australia, has conferred the bal
lot on women. It is in New Zealand
that co-operative farming has liogun to
make progress.
The electric searchlight to be used in
Jackson park at the Chicago fair will
have an illumination of 160,000,000 can
dle power. The carbons in the radiator
are twelve inches long.
1 George William Curtis created the
I Easy Chair department in Harper's
j Magazine as far back as 1853. He con
, tinued it till his death. Then the Har
! per's dropped the department, for the
Easy Chair had become empty forever.
| There are nearly a billion dollars of
i paper money of various kinds in oireu
| lation at present in the United States.
Of this amount there are $326,000,000
I silver certificates, $116,000,000 coin notes
j under the law of July, 1890; $172,000,000
j national bank notes, and still $840,000,-
000 in old legal tender notes.
The very precautions yon take against
"catching" cold often make you more
liable to it. Make friends with cool
fresli air and it will not hurt you.
Eight states have taken advantage ol
the appropriation for a naval militia
and already have a promising and toler
ably well equipped force of young vol
unteer seamen.
Women have talked dress reform foi
a dozen years past, but the first ones tc
really apply it are the Ann Arbor col
lege girls. On a stormy day not long
since they came out in force wearing
the Jenness Miller rainy day dress. The
skirt reached down half way between
the knee and ankle. Long gaiters cov
ered the shoe tops and extended to the
knee. The girls declured they really en
joyed walking in the mud and rain with
this rig on.
A thrilling experience that was which
the men on board Professor Baker's new
submarine boat encountered in their voy
age under water from Detroit to Chi
cago. The submarine boat was towed
by a tug across the lakes at the time ol
the late terrific storm. To keep the boat
from being lost it was lowered below
the action of the storm tossed waves, ten
feet under water. There the men staid
till the wind subsided. They would have
died from suffocation, however, if they
had remained constantly ten feet down,
so every two hours, even when the waves
were highest, it was necessary to raise
thein to the surface to get a whiff o!
fresh air. It was a thorough test not
only of the endurance of the submarine
boat, but also of the men.
Common Schools in the South.
George W. Cables has his say in The
Cosmopolitan about the education oi
the poor whites and blacks in the south.
He tells us first that the idea of the
south throughout is that that country
should be governed by gentlemen. "A
citizenship of and a government by gen
tlemen only is the perfect formula of
social order and fortune" to the south
erner. This is a beautiful ideal indeed,
if only a country does the utmost in its
power to make all its citizens gentle
men.
The first preparation for this ideal
state is the education of the common
people, and in this respect Mr. Cables
believes the southern states to be lack
ing. He finds that in the south generally
there is ample state provision for the
education of white young men whose
fathers are able to pay for their sons
schooling. There are costly select
schools, colleges aud universities every
where for the few, while the children ol
the many are growing to manhood in
blank ignorance.
The state outlay for the University oi
South Carolina is $lB4 per student. The
state outlay per pupil for the children in
the public schools is $1.84. The total
value of all the public school buildings
in South Carolina is less than one-quar
ter the value of the property of the uni
versity and military institute—the two
higher schools maintained by the state.
A like condition prevails in the othei
states. Mr. Cables quotes the statement
of the commissioner of immigration foi
Alabama that the lack of public schools
is what prevents people from settling in
Alabama.
The Universal Language.
The author of the language Volapuk,
Herr Schleyer, a German, is still en
deavoring to bring it into general use
for commercial purposes. A conference
has also been proposed to fix on some
tongue which can bo commeuded to the
nations for general adoption.
It is a chimerical dream. There is
no need of Volapuk, no need of a con
ference to adopt some composite lan
guage that could come into common
use without hurting the susceptibilities
of French, Germans, Russians, Italians
or the natives of Booriboola Glia. Sim
ply let one living language alone, and it
will take the world. It iB English, the
language of Shakespeare, the Magna
Charta and the Declaration of Inde
pendence. In the time of Shakespeare
5,000,000 spoke it. Today 100,000,000
speak it. Only one tongue is used by
more people, and tliat is the Chinese, the
speech of 800,000,000. But Chinese can
never he the language of the world. It
is to be English, and English only.
Zincke, a statistician, declares that in
a century more there will be 1,000,000,-
000 English speakiug persons. Matthew
Arnold wrote concerning the proposition
to fix arbitrarily on some language for
a universal tongue, "Such a language
will only be established by one language
acquiring a stupendous preponderance
of some kind." That preponderance
English is acquiring as fast as commerce
and the world's material development
can advance. In the gold mines of
South Africa, at the Nicaragua canal
works on our American isthmus, in
Japan, in India and the South Sea is
lands, it is all over the same, English be
ing spread by traders and workers.
In America this language, which is
the best mankind have found for prac
tical, everyday use, is corrupted some
what by the overflow of the languages
of Europe upon as. This must be
checked. The first duty of lawmaking
authorities in all the states is to compel
the English language to be taught in
the schools—taught, too, by those who
know how to use it. This is not a coun
try of mongrels. It is a country in
which the strong, rich, manly English
language shall be the common tongue
of the people forever, a country from
which this same English shall spread in
all directions.
Our Fricmla tlio Workin^nion.
Two items of recent news show thai
workingmen are beginning to learn how
to fight. A great organization, said tc
embrace 30,000 mechanics and laborers,
has been formed in western Pennsyl
vania. It is called the Western Penn
sylvania Industrial association. The or
ganizers say it is formed for a political
purpose, and that purpose is the election
to office of only such candidates as are
pledged to the interests of the working
man. They will take no account of
party, but will stand simply and solely
on the ground of favoring the working
man. The candidate who pledges him
self to do this will secure their votes.
If these men live up to their blue china,
they can secure almost any measure
they want. But the chances are that
after passing high sounding resolutions
they will drop apart and each sneak off
his own way and drop into the ballot
box his same old Democratic or Repub
lican tickot.
The other significent news item is that
a large number of striking workmen in
a certain industry are starting a co
operative factory of their own. They
will make contracts and do work and
transact business just as the firms did
by whom they have hitherto been em
ployed. They cannot help making a
success if they stand together, in spite
of jealousies and unacquuintance with
business forms. All they do not know
they can learn with patience and per
severance.
Workinginen's co-operative factories
have often failed, but that is no sign
they are to fail forever. Workingmen
have in their own hands the power to
peaceably accomplish all they desire if
they will um their brains.
Sharp complaint is made of how the
fanners of Maine are "ground down by
the heel of the greedy capitalist." In
this case the greedy capitalist is the
sweet corn canner of Maine. The prin
cipal agricultural industry in some parts
of the state is the raising of sweet corn
for the canneries, and Maine canned
sweet corn has a name throughout the
world. A writer on the subject tear
fully begs the prosperous canners to
consider the farmers a little next year,
and for the love of humanity to offer a
fair price to the farmers. Well, they
will not do it. It is not the way of cap
italists ever to cut down their own prof
its for the love of humanity. The only
thing will be for the agriculturists, foi
love of themselves, to start canneries ot
their own on the co-operative plan.
They can do it. The canneries of Maine
are represented as without exception
prosperous and growing more so.
Far too many of us may eat with our
knives in America. We are devoured
with curiosity and make no hesitation
about asking even an Englishman any
thing we want to know about him. We
talk through our noses, and say "which"
when we mean "what" interrogatively.
American women, God bless theml wear
their diamond rings to breakfast. But
no lady members of our pork and pe
troleum American aristocracy, so far as
heard from, ever yet accused one another
of stealing jewelry and had a scandalous
lawsuit about it.
Charleston seems in a fair way to re
alize her dream of being the great Amer
ican seaport of the southeast. Then the
freight from the southwest will be
shipped to Charleston iu preference to
New Orleans or New York, Charles
ton hopes. Improvements for deepen
ing the harbor were begun by the na
tional government several years ago
through the Eads jetty system. A new
channel has been thus washed out, four
teen feet deep in the slioalest spot.
The French campaign in Dahomey
lasted two months and a half, ending
with the capture of Behanzin's capital—
Abomey. It contains 12,000 inhabitants
and had a ditch and a hedge of thorn
bushes around it. But the French got
in, the fierce Dahomeyans fighting them
every step of the way. Of French
soldiers under Colonel Dodds in the
African campaign there were 4,000.
Erastus Wiman says the receipts of
the transatlantic steamships would be
cut down at least one-third by a cholera
epidemic next summer. The whole
country would be affected proportion
ately. Every precaution against a
cholera visitation in 1898 must therefore
be taken.
Speaking of the suicide of a man be
! cause he had been slandered in a news-
I paper, a writer remarks, "It was a deed
| which but marks the ending to another
j chapter in the damnable history of per-
I sonal journalism."
j "Forces that utterly subjugate and
enslave the mind of mediocrity sorne
| times rouse to thought and action the
| great soul," says Ingersoll, writing about
] Ernest Renan in The North American
j Review.
| If the rabbits of Australia were to be
exterminated the price of felt hats
would rise at once. In New South
Wales in one year as many as 25,280,000
rabbit skins have been shipped to Eng
land.
Do not pin people down and tell thorn
with the air of one who has discovered
a great truth something they have
known all their lives.
Somebody claims that an electric plant
has been discovered in India which will
influence a magnetic needle twenty feet
distant.
STRIKES IN ITALY.
Interest lug Record of Labor Organisa
tions' Growth anil Power.
An Italian official, Commander Bodio,
director general of the statistical depart
ment, has jnst issued a report on the
strikes in Italy from 1878 to 1891, which
goes to show that in Italy the "strike" as
a weapon has so far not made much im
pression on the organization of Italian
industry. While the ' 'strike" is an indig
enous institution in England, it is an
exotic in Italy. It has nowhere in that
country apparently taken firm hold of
the popular mind.
In the eighteen years between 1860
and 1878, according to Commander Bo
dio, there were only 495 strikes in all
Italy, which is at the rate of only a little
more than twenty-seven per annum.
They gradually increased in number up
to 1886. There was a falling off in 1887,
and a rapid increase again from 1888 np
to 1890. The largest number of strikes
ever known in a year in Italy were or
ganized in 1890, bnt even then they only
numbered 186. Between 1878 and 1801
Commander Bodio iinds that of 1,062
strikes more than half—slß—were or
ganized to secure an increase in the rate
of wages, 66 to secure a diminution in
the hours of labor, 110 to resist a reduc
tion of wages, 16 to resist an increase in
the hours of labor, and 291—a very large
percentage—to settle disputes between
the wage earners and the employers
abont discipline, management, modes
and forms of payment, and personal
questions arising out of changes pro
posed or desired in the organization of
the different industries concerned.
Strikes brought about to support and en
courage strikes already existing in other
industries—which make a very frequent
feature in the history of English strikes
—have so far been exceedingly rare in
Italy. As to the result of strikes, the
Italian record is not encouraging from
the point of view of the wage earners.
Out of 1,000 strikes Commander Bodio
ascertains that 174—hardly 17 per cent.
—ended by a triumjih of the wage earn
ers, 448 ended unfavorably to the wage
earners, and in 379 "honors were easy,"
neither the wage earners getting nor the
employers keeping precisely what they
wanted. The industries most affected
by strikes have been textile factories,
mines, metallurgy and machine shops.
Geographically speaking, Lombardy
and Piedmont are the chief theaters of
the Italian strikes. Out of 1,030 strikes
only 96 occurred in Sicily, and those
almost exclusively in the mining indus
tries of that island, many of which are
carried on by foreign capitalists.
The number of wage earners taking
part in the Italian strikes is increasing
much more rapidly than the number of
strikes. This is a noteworthy feature of
the Italian sitnation as set forth in the
report of Commander Bodio. Up to 1882
the number of wage earners out on
strike never exceeded 10,000. In 1888
and 1889 it rose to 30,000 and in 1890 to
40,000. In 1891 no fewer than 21,000
wage earners went out in seventy-five
strikes, of which alone out of the whole
number in that year Commander Bodio
is able to give full returns. The most
important of these strikes of 1891 were
the strike in the machine shops of Milan,
which lasted two weeks and in which
2,000 wage earners went out; the strike
of the weavers at Scliio, in which 1,300
went out; the strike of the cigar makers
at Naples, in which 2,000 wuge earners
went out for ten days; the strike of the
female weavers at Como, in which more
than 2,000 went out for a fortnight, and
the strike of the tanners at Genoa, of
whom 600 went out. Most of the Italian
strikes have been of very brief duration.
In the whole record of Italian strikes
only 126 have lasted three months out of
993, the duration of which lias been pre
cisely ascertained, while 621 ended in
less than four days. One of the most
important aspects of the strike system
finds no place in Commander Bodiu's
report. Although since 1884 the system
of strikes has taken on a decidedly
socialistic turn in the rural districts of
Italy, Commander Bodio tells us noth
ing about the agricultural strikes.
Still Sweating In New York.
Notwithstanding the laws against the
sweating system in New York and the
corps of inspectors employed for the
suppression of the evil, it appears from a
recent investigation made by Kev. Dr.
Bliss, of Boston, that the system is as
bad as it ever was. Dr. Bliss made an
investigation as the representative of the
Antiteuement House league, of Boston,
and in his report to that organization
said;
The sweating system does exist in
New York city to a most frightful ex
tent and under most frightful condi
tions. The streets on which these tene
ments are situated are worse than any I
have seen iu London, Paris, Berlin or
even Constantinople, and I have visited
the slums of all these cities. I took up
some of the clothing and found it
stained and smeared with suspicions
filth. I saw women working with
uanglit on save a flimsy skirt and che
mise, babies marked and pitted playing
amid the clothing, pale faced women
bending over the work, working only
too evidently, as some of them said,
from 5 o'clock iu the morning until 10
or 11 o'clock at night to earn even half
of a man's low pay. I am absolutely con
vinced that there are whole blocks and
square miles practically given over to
the tenement made clothing trade. I
have lived in Constantinople during the
visitation of the Asiatic cholera and
know the conditions of the cholera vis
ited quarters there, and I do solemnly
aver that the conditions in New York
city are worse. I saw seemingly fine
work as well as poor made iu these
wretched houses.
An international congress of shoe
makers will be held in Zurich, Switzer
land, next year, at the time when the I
international labor congress meets in
that city.
The result of the Carmanx (Prance) [
strike shows the power labor can exer
cise by securing the election of ita frienila !
to important positions. ■
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Subscribe for the TRIBUNE.
JUKI'S'
EMPORIUM.
We Are Now Ready With
Our Fall Stock of
Dry G^ods.
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 d
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 and "v 1
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,
95 cents.
Candee Gem Boots.
Men's for $2.25.
Every pair guaranteed.
Boys' Candee rubber boots, $2.
For SO Days Only.
Groceries.
All fresh goods.
Flour, $2.25.
Ham, 14 cents.
Tobacco, 28 cents.
Cheese, 121 cents.
Scim 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.
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We sell Deite's Lantern, 38
cents.
Milk and butter pots, a com
plete line.
Tinware.
Washboilers, 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
anteed or money refunded.
Yours truly,
J. C. BERNER.
CITIZENS' BANK
FEEELAND
15 Front Street.
Oapital, - $50,000.
OFFI CEILS.
JOSEPH BIRKBECK, President.
H. C. KOONS, Vice President.
B. R. DAVIS, ( 'ashler.
JOHN SMITH, Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
Joseph Birkbeck, Thomas Birkbeck, John
Wagner, A Itudewick, If. C. Koons. Charles
Dusiieck, William Kemp, Matbias Sehwabe,
John Smith, John M. Powell, 2d, John Burton.
Three per cent, interest paid 011 saving
deposits.
Open daily from 0a.m.t04 p. m. Saturday
evenings from to 8.
WM. WEHRMANN,
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German Practical Watchmaker.
Centre Street, Five Points.
The cheapest and best repairing store in
town. All watch repairing guaranteed for one
year. New watches for sale at low prices.
Jewelry rennircd nn short notice. Give me
ti cull. All kinds nt wiitvln s 11 nl clocks re
paired. Sulphured Jewelry u specialty.
SEE OUR STOCK
of
SSTew "^7'atclies
a.nd. Oloclce.
ELECTROPOISE
Office REMOVED' to
1004 Mt. Vernon St., PHILADELPHIA.
1 Pern on* desiring city or county agencies, address
/. D. WARE, General Agent
I For the States of Pennsylvania, New Jerrov 1
Maryland uud Delaware. y r