DIRECT LEGISLATION.
THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO IN
ITIATE AND PASS UPON LAWS.
The Only Simon Pure Democracy—Absurd
ami Untenable Objections Raised to the
Referendum —A Principle Which Is Rap
idly Gaining un Army of Supporters.
During the past twelve mouths agita
tion in favor of direct legislation by the
people has been steadily gathering force
until now it is considered a paramount
issue by many of the leaders of reform
in the United States, as well as by the
rank and file of the great labor move
ment. This increased interest is due to
several causes, but to none other so much
as to the publication and circulation of
Mr. J. W. Sullivan's book, "Direct Legi
slation," and the able articles written by
this gentleman in The Twentieth Cen
tury and supported by his indefatigable
efforts as a propagandist by personal let
ters and word of mouth. C/thers have
inade valuable contributions in various
ways to this work, but in naming Mr.
Sullivan particularly I feel that I am
simply giving Caesar his just due.
In referring to the past year I do not
mean to convey the idea that the prin
ciples of direct legislation were un
known and not advocated in this coun
try prior to a year ago. Such an inti
mation would be untruthful and an act
of injustice to a great many veteran re
formers. My own personal knowledge
of the advocacy of the "initiative and
referendum"—as it was then called—by
American reformers extends back about
fifteen years. The principle has been a
part of the socialistic programme since
the first declaration was given out by
American socialists, but as one of the
older advocates I freely admit that
more has been done to bring the idea
before the people within the past year
than in all the years before, and the in
dications are that the near future con
tains even brighter prospects.
At the recent session of the general
assembly the Knights of Labor incor
porated a direct legislation plank in its
platform. The Central Labor union of
New York has adopted it as one of the
demands to be made before the state
constitutional convention, and central
and local labor organizations all over
the country have taken action favorable
to this reform. In New Jersey there is
a state organization of some strength
called "the People's union," which has
but one plank in its platform, and that
a direct legislation plank. The Peo
ple's party national convention at Oma
ha last July adopted a resolution com
mendatory of such a change in the
method of legislating, and in several
states the party platforms were radical
upon the subject. The reform press of
the country is fast taking up the ques
tion, and altogether great headway is
being made by this the only sound prin
ciple of lawmaking.
Now what is meant by direct legisla
tion, or the initiative and referendum?
It is very easily understood. Those who
read or hear the words for the first time
are prone to think they have struck some
terribly complex proposition—a sort of
high class Chinese puzzle. Two minutes
of investigation disabuse their minds,
and the whole thing becomes as simple
as AB C. Direct legislation* with the
three small but powerful words, "by the
people," added, means that the people
shall make their own laws. The initi
ative means that force shall be given to
the present perverted right of petition; |
that the people shall have the right— I
which must be respected—to propose
laws. The referendum means that all
proposed laws must be submitted to the
people for their approval or disapproval,
and that any measure against which a
majority of all the votes deposited are
cast shall not become law.
An otherwise intelligent reporter said
to me one evening at the conclusion of
an address in which I had said a few
words for direct legislation: "That's all
very pretty in sentiment, Buchanan, but
it will not work. It's too cumbersome."
And that is the standard objection raised
by those who dread changes in our pres
ent system and never investigate a pro
posal until forced to do so. "Why,
you'd have us voting all the time. Look
at the numberof bills introduced in con
gress during one session, to say nothing
of the state legislatures," says one. Ah,
there's the rub. Ninety-nine out of one
hundred of these bills are for the pur
pose of bolstering up unwise or crooked
legislation that has gone before, or are
in the interest of schemes which the
people would repudiate if given the op
portunity, even under onr present sys
tem. Not one out of one hundred would
be introduced if the people had the right
to initiate and vote upon laws.
Then if we had the initiative and re
ferendum it does not follow that any
Tom, Dick or Harry could compel the
consideration of any crotchet, or that
tho expense and annoyance of an elec
tion should lie borne for every measure
proposed. The principle being adopted, I
the rules for its operation would be con
structed with a due regard for the rights
of the majority, and a reasonable per
centage of the voters would be required
to support a measure before it would be
considered. On the other hand, it is
proposed that only those bills would he
submitted to a vote of the whole people
for which 8 per cent, of the voters peti
tioned within, say, ninety days from the
date of their publication. It is nonsense
to oppose a wise and just principle be
cause, on first thought, it may be con
sidered a little difficult of application.
There are fifty times as many laws on
our statute books now as we have any
use for, and when you are thinking
about expense just try to calculate the
mountains of money they have cost us
and are still costing.
Our laws conflict au<l interconflict,
an<l if a statute is six inontlia old the
decision which some judge has rendered
upon it has moro to do with deciding an
brought under the law than the
law itself. All these conflictions and
complications are nuts for the fellows
who make a living out of the law
judges, attorneys, etc. A friend of mine,
whose den is in a lurge office building,
said to me the other day while I was
talking to him about direct legislation,
•'There are fifty lawyers in this build
ing, and I'll go you a cigar that not one
of them will indorse your initiative and
referendum scheme." I didn't accept
the wager for obvious reasons. If any
thing were wanting to make me favor
able to direct legislation, it wonld be
fully supplied by the opposition of the
men who depend upon the misunder
standings and misfortunes of their fel
low men for a means of livelihood. They
make the laws in such away as to create
a necessity for their services in all sorts
of disputes, large and small. What
would you think of the physicians if
they were to sow the seeds of some awful
disease in the country that their services
might be in demand at high prices?
But I am wandering. We boast a
great deal about ours being a govern
ment of, for and by the people. There
can be no government by the people un
less the people make the laws. We also
hear quite often of a "pure and trium
phant democracy." We have not a demo
cratic form of government, nor will we
have until we abolish the Hystem of dele
gating the ruling power to a few and
adopt the principle of the whole people
governing. Put it in your pipe and
smoke it that a representative form of
government is not a democracy. Is a
United States senator, who does as he
pleases or as the machine dictates for six
years on a stretch, the personification of
an ideal democracy? Well, have you
heard of many of them asking their con
stituencies how they should vote on a
pending measure?
We practice the referendum principle
to some extent, and always have. We
vote on amendments to national and
state constitutions. In some states the
regulation or suppression of the liquor
traffic has been submitted to the voters
of the state, and so with the question of
woman suffrage. The issuance of bonds,
levying of special tax and many similar
questions are voted upon by the people
in numberless instances. Then why
should not the people be permitted to
express at the ballot box their will upon
such questions as the tariff, immigra
tion, postal telegraphy, silver coinage,
Canadian annexation and many other
matters which our representatives seem
unable to handle? Their inability to
decide is principally due to a lack of
knowledge as to just how the fellows
who cast the votes feel about it. It is
absurd to say that the people express
their will upon these leading questions
when they choose between the various
candidates put up for office. A thou
sand or more things, most of them
trifles, are at work at such times. Wait
and see if the Democrats make any con
siderable changes in the tariff before
you dispute this position.
One man objects to the direct legisla
tion idea because he is "afraid to make
such a radical change. Don't like to be
making experiments in sucn important
matters." Bless your soul, my son, no
one asks yon to experiment. Switzer
land has had the referendum for 800
years, and has so extended the system
that she now practically has direct leg
islation by the people. Do you know a
freer, happier, more peaceful people on
earth than you will find in the little
mountain republic? Do you ever hear
of any Swiss "swarming in the steerage
and unloading themselves upon our
shores!" With a country like ours, gift
ed in natural resources as no other land
under the sun, and twenty years of gov
ernment by the people through direct
legislation, we might offer inducements
even to the Swiss, whose native land
does not present such grand natural op
portunities.
My advice to every man who is not
engaged in either the lawmaking or
lawbreaking business is to give some
attention at once to the snbject of direct
legislation by the people. If yon in
dorse the principle—and how on earth
yon can help doing that I can't see—do
not be quieted by the harpies who tell
you "it is cumbersome" or "revolution
ary," but read up on the details as pro
posed by men who have given much at
tention to the subject. Familiarize
yourselves with its workings in Switzer
land, and be prepared to take yonr
proper stand when the time comes to
decide whether you will longer remain
the prey of bnnko legislators or will
gain for yourselves and your children a
pure and unqualified democracy.
Jos. R. BUCHANAN.
Germany's Army of Unemployed.
The exceeding severity of the present
winter throughout the German empire
has caused untold misery among the
working classes. Commerce is almost
stagnant, and several large factories in
Berlin, Hambnrg, Cologne and Munich
have been compelled either to shut down
completely or to reduce the number of
hands. In Berlin alone there are 80,000
unemployed. The government is per
plexed at the grave aspect of affairs,
which it cannot remedy by the mere en
actment of laws and statutes. The
grand duchy of Baden has taken the ini
tiative by sending its chief labor in
spector, Woerrishoffer, to Mannheim in
order to confer with the nnemployed
I workingmen in that city.
Labor Exchange In Now Turk.
j The proposition that workingmen shall
j establish in this city a sort of labor ex
change, where employers may find work
ers and workers may find employment, is
a sensible one. Men have committed sni
oido for lack of work when employers
| could not find hands. This ought to be
I easily remedied.—New York Advertiser.
A Btrike for an advance in wages of
I the cloakniakers at May's Lauding, N
j J., is creating some comment. These
I men were brought to the country by the
j Baron Hirsch fond, and the factory was
j established by the same agency to secure
them employment.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 13, 1893.
Have treasury officials been redeeming
counterfeit money? Such is the natural
presumption after reading a special re
port submitted by Treasurer Nebeker
to Secretaty Foster this week. This re
port shows that the amount paid out by
the treasury in redemption of SSOO notes,
series of 1874, exceeds by $54,000 the to
tal amount issued of that series, whereas
it is usually the case that the amount
paid out for the redemption of any se
ries of notes is always less than the total
amount issued of that series, for the
natural reason that many notes are burn
ed up or lost where they are never found.
And what adds to the probability of
counterfeit notes having been redeemed
by the treasury officials with good and
lawful money is the fact that there was
a dangerous counterfeit SSOO note known
to have been put in circulation about
1874. Treasurer Nebeker endeavors to
explain by saying that through an error
notes of another series may have been
counted as in that of 1874, and expresses
the opinion that this fact will be clearly
shown when the series of 1875 shall
have been presented for redemption. It
is very natural that Mr. Nebeker should
try to make this explanation, as Mr.
Cleveland's secretary of the treasury
may feel that it will be his duty to com
pel Mr. Nebeker or his bondsmen to
make good that $54,000.
Senator Kenna'* Death.
The death of Senator Kenna, of West
Virginia, which occurred Wednesday
morning, although not unexpected, lias
cast a gloom over his colleagues, with
whotn he was a general favorite, both
on account of his marked ability and his
genial personality. The funeral services
which were conducted by Cardinal Gib
bons, assisted by Bishop Kean, were
held in the senate chamuei yesterday.
The house committee on banking and
currency has favorably reported a bill
repealing the present law for the month
ly purchase of silver bullion, and it is
understood that the committee on rules
will report a special order setting a time
for its consideration, but there is a doubt
even among those who favor the bill, as
to whether it can be brought to a vote.
Work of CongreHH.
The house this week voted down Re
presentative Grain's joint resolution
changing the date for the meeting of
congress to December 31, and for the
inauguration of president to April 30.
Friends of the quarantine bill, which
passed the senate this week, are already
actively at work in the house, and they
hope to get a special order for its early
consideration reported from the commit
tee on rules. The bill authorizes the
president to suspend immigration and
the importation of merchandise when
ever he deems it necessary to keep out
contagious and infectious diseases.
Sunday Opener* Ahead.
The house committee on the Columbian
exposition is tins week hearing both
sides on the proposed repeal of the law
enacted at the last session prohibiting
the opening of the World's fair on Sun
day. Both sides are presenting strong
arguments from their respective points
of view, but it appears that the Sunday
openers are a little ahead when one con
verses with members of congress. The
committee will almost certainly report in
favor of Sunday opening.
The sudden death of Gen. B. F. But
ler, on Wednesday morning, at his resi
dence in this city, removes a man who
has at time played a conspicuous part in
American affairs.
The inauguration committee has open
' ed headquarters, and, notwithstanding
some friction among citizens concerning
the membership of the committee, j
everything is now moving harmoniously
towards the grandest inauguration the
country has ever had. S. j
Lint of Patent*.
Patents granted to Pennsylvania in
ventors last week. Reported by C. A.
Snow & Co., Washington, D. C.
H Aiken, Pittsburg, charging-crane;
F Blessing, Lancaster, chuck; W A
Burns, East Hickory, hame tug; J L
Davidson, Pittsburg, attachment for
telephone; II M Doubleday, Pittsburg,
electric-lighting system; D Dunn, Mah
anoy City, air-brake for railway cars;
W Forgie, Washington, gudgeon; J
Hemphill and J Fawell, Pittsburg,
crane; J L Hoover, Fishertown, farm
gate; H It A Reiser, Braddock, straight
ening machine; F K Kennedy, New ;
Brighton, Bign letter; J W McDonald,
Pittsburg, ice cream freezer; RAP
Meade, Sayre, coat sleeve protector; M
Moul, Hanover, and E G Quickel, York,
machine for punching match-sticks; W J
J Parmelee, Scranton, car-wheel; S;
Reichart, Mainville, cover for plants,
B T Reilly, Ashley, steam brake gover
nor; M M Suppes, Johnstown, brace j
chair for girder-rails;. J W Vaughn,
Greenville, vehicle axle; E A Wheeler,
Sharon, boiler and furnace boiler; A A
Willets, McKeesport, broom-head; J E
Wilson, Easton, machines for cutting j
bones.
Daniel Lam out Can Sleep.
I met Colonel Dan Lamont on upper
Broadway Monday. Ho was looking like
his old self again.
"I'm feeling that way, too," said ho.
"When I began to suffer from insomnia
I folt scared. While in Washington I al
ways slept soundly. No matter how hard
I worked I could go to bed and sleep like
a child. All at once I found that power
gone. It is a terrible thing not to bo able
to sleep. As I say, I got scared, and I
took good advice, cut business and went
abroad and rested my mind with new
things. I came back all right, just in
time to be in at the political death.
"Wasn't that a grand result, though?"
And the ex-presidential private secre
tary and present railway magnate smiled
pleasantly and stopped into his comfort
ablo coupe.—New York Herald.
Too Prompt In Ills Application.
Ono of the most interested parties in
the lato Connecticut River road deal was
a former superintendent of the Central
New England and Western. When It
was first reported that the River road
had gone into the hands of the consoli
dated road this gentleman sat down and
wrote President Clark asking for the sn
perintendency of the new acquisition.
After mailing the letter he bonght a
newspaper and read of the nnexpooted
turn affairs had taken and the control of
the road passing into the hands of the
Philadelphia and Reading, the company
that had ousted him once. Now he's
sorry he wrote.—Hartford Post.
BTATE BUILDING 9.
How Fxhlblts of Great Commonwealth®
Will Re Boosed at the Fulr.
New York and Pennsylvania as the
greatest utates of the Union were given
the front center of ti-e tract reserved for
state buildings at the Columbian exposi
tion, and their structures face the groat
Art building on the south, New York
having the eastern end of the plot and
Pennsylvania the western. The latter's
building, designed by Thomas P. Lons-
FENNSYLVANIA BUILDING.
dale, of Philadelphia, is a combination
of various styles, the square and massive
predominating. All the materials are of
Pennsylvania production, and the cost is
SOO,OOO.
Tho New Jersey building is, like most
of the state structures, designed chiefly
for social purposes and a placo of writ
ing and registration, and is made so far
as possible representative of the state. It
is modeled on the old house at Morris
town. N. J., which was Washington's
NEW JERSEY BUILDING,
headquarters, but there are additions
I for convenience sake. There are large
| and inviting piazzas front and rear, and
i the main entrance leads into a large hall
two stories high, with a circular balcony
around the second story.
I The Texas building is meant to be em
j blematic of the state so far as possible,
j It is therefore large, massive and plain
in the main portion, but topped with
considerable ornament, and in its mate
| rials tho visitor will find an epitome of
TEXAB BUILDINO.
the state. With some slight exceptions
I every particle of wood, stone and other
material in it will bo of Texas produc
tion. Tho cost is to bo SIOO,OOO, and the
location is a fortunate one to show the j
structure with the finest effect.
The Minnesota stato building will be
in the Renaissance stylo of architecture.
The framework of wood will be coated
with stuff to give the effect of stone con
struction. The main entrance will be in
plain stylo, but the opposits side will
MINNESOTA BUILDING,
more faithfully represent the stato. The
entrance there is through a portico hav
ing rusticated dome columns, and on the
entablature over the center the name
"Minnesota" will appear in a raised panel.
Nebraska was fortunate in securing
about the best site on the exposition
grounds for her state building, aa it :
fronts south on Fifty-soventh street,
while a magnificent boulevard borders it
on tho east and a large lake on the west.
It is GO by 100 feet and two stories high,
covers 0,000 square feet and has 12,000
NEBRASKA BUILDINO.
feet of floor space. The east and west
fronts have wide porticoes, on each side
of which are wide steps covering one
third of the length of the building. Over
each portico is a large gable on a line
with the main cornice, and in each ga
ble, in bas-rolief, is the Nebraska state
seal, five feet in diameter.
Vermont is* to have a building which
will indeed represent the state, as its
walls are to be of blue, white and varie
gated marble from her various quarries,
chiefly from those of West Rutland. The
structure will have but one story, and
be in tho familiar Queen Anne style.
VERMONT BUILDING.
The cornices facing tho windows and
the heavy oak doors will be polished and
elaborately carved. Tho plan wivs drawn
by Architect Jarvis Hunt, of Weathera
[ field, and tho oxpenso will be borne by
j 100 prominent citizens. It will contain
porno great curiosities.
Tit© 31 oral In Doubt.
' Rather an odd accident happened to a
young woman on Park row on Friday.
She was handsomely dressed, wearing '
for a wrap one of the new double decked,
balloon rigged capes of velvet, trimmed
with fur and lined with colored silk.
She was about crossing the street when
two men seized her and began pulling
and patting the preciouscape with their
hands.
The woman was badly scared, turtfcd
as white as a sheet, and simply stood
helpless, gazing at the antics of the men
who were dancing about her, and who
she thought were highwaymen trying to
make off with her new winter wrap.
I Presently tho men tipped their hats and
| explained that the garment they had been
! treating seemingly so roughly had been
ablaze. Sure enough, there was a big.
ugly, black hole eaten out of the velvet
of one of the front folds. Probably the
wearer in passing some smoker had
caught a spark from a cigar or pipe. She
thanked tho gallants who had come to her
rescue and then went on her way, hiding
as best she could tho damaged part of the
garmont. It is a question whether the
moral of this story is that men should
not smoke in the street or women should
not wear the new fangled cape.—New
York Times.
It Wouldn't Work.
Something impressed him with the be
lief that a Republican family lived in
the house, and with a cunning smile he
shuffled up to the kitchen and knocked.
"Good morning, mum," he said to the
lady who appeared.
"Good morning," she replied pleasant
ly, "what will you have?"
"Lady," he said meekly, "my name is
Harrison—Benjamin Harrison—and I
called to see ef you couldn't give me a
bite of breakfast."
"Harrwon? Harrison?" repeated the
lady inquiringly.
"Yes, 'um; Ben Harrison they calls me
fer short, an 'tain't sitch a bad name aft
er all, is it, mum?"
"Oh, no," she answered brightly; "it's
an excellent name, but the owner of it
will have to get out," and she began to
call the dog.
"Ugh," he growled as he dodged
through tho gate, "I might 'a' knowed by
that cheerful look of hern sho wuz a
Democrat," and he sat down in an alley
to think up a better gag with which to
work tho unwary.—Detroit Free Press.
Why tho Great Eastern Failed.
Referring to the failure of tho Great
Eastern, which at the time was attrib
uted to her size, in comparison with the
success which now attends boats of
nearly the same dimensions, how plain
now to naval architects, vessel owners
and in fact everybody possessing even a
limited knowledge of the requirements
as to power in largo steam vessels is the
I main cause of failure in the Great East
| cm. Her power was entirely out of
proportion to her great length and other
! dimensions. The dimensions of Atlantic
; liners are now approaching to nearly
; the size of the Great Eastern. The
| length of the Great Eastern was 080 feet
j and her horsepower 7,650. The now
Canard liner Campania is 020 feet long,
but her horsepower will be 80,000, and
it is said that the boat which the White
Star line proposes to build at Belfast,
Ireland, will be 700 feet long. It is the
difference of power to which attention is
called, however.—Marine Review.
TPDK SALE.—A horse, truck wai?on and
_L' buck board; also one heavy and one lignt
s tof harness. Apply to .John J. Gallagher,
Five Points. Freehold.
Removed I
A. OSWALD
has removed and Is now offering
GREAT BARGAINS IN
Dry Goods,
Groceries,
Provisions,
Notions, Rag Carpet,
Hoots and Shoes, Flour and Feed,
Wood and Tin and Queens ware,
Willowwa re, Toba ceo,
Table and Floor Cigars,
Oil Cloth, Etc., Eke,
A celebrated brand of XX flour always
in stock.
Fresh Roll Butter
and
Fresh Eggs a Specialty.
My motto is small profits and quick sales. T
always have fresh goods and am turning my
stock every month. Therefore every article is
guaranteed.
AMANDUS OSWALD,
Northwest Corner
Centre and Front Streets, ' cclllUU,
FREELAND
OPERA HOUSE.
COMING AGAIN!
Safu.rca.a3r,
January 2S, 'S3.
GRAND
PHONOGRAPHIC
Concert $ Exhibition.
NO EAR-TUBES USED.
This new phonograph is capable of
entertaining more than lUOU people at a
time.
A Change of Programme.
A New Cylinder Used
AT THIS EXHIIiITION.
This will be the last time it will be In
Frcchttjd.
Popular Prices. 25 and 35 Cts.
Reserved seats on sale at Faas' store.
JANUARY - CLEARING - SALE
AT JOS. NEUBURGER'S
BARGAIN EMPORIUM.
This gives you an opportunity to secure whatever you may
need out of our enormous stock at remarkable low prices. What
ever there yet remains in our cloak and overcoat department must
be sold and if you are on the lookout for bargains now is your
time to come forward, as the prices which we quote you here are
but a meagre account of the many
Bargains
which we have in our over-crowded store rooms awaiting your
inspection.
In our DRY GOODS department all woolen goods must be
sold and as an inducement to make it worth you while to attend
this great sale we have placed our entire stock on the clearing list
and here are some of the results:
Good toweling, which has been selling all along at G cents,
now goes at 4 cents per yard.
Extra fine 1 yard-wide muslin, of which the actual value is
8 cents, during this sale goes at 5 cents per yard.
Good Canton flannel, 5 cents per yard.
Fine out-door cloths, in very neat and desirable patterns,
will now be sold at 9 cents per yard.
Good double width henrietta at 12J cents; former price, 18.
Fine henrietta, in all the new shades in our 40-cent quality,
we will now sell at 25 cents per yard.
I2ST IF'IL.A.nsriSnEXjS
we will make a big sweep.
Our entire stock ol cloths and woolens has been cut away
down in price.
In LADIES', MISSES' and CHILDREN'S COATS you can
make a speck by investing now as they must be sold.
Our stock of men's boys' and children's
OVIIBCO-^TS
must be reduced as much as possible and we will close them out
at must-be-sold prices. By giving our immense assortment an
inspection you will be readily convinced that what we say here
are facts.
In BOOTS, SHOES and RUBBERS we alone can make it
worth your while to take in this great money-saving opportunity,
as we handle only first class goods and are now selling them at
very low figures.
In blankets we can give you the best $1.25 silver gray 10x4
blanket you ever carried home for 75 cts. a pair. Other blankets
equally as low. Our stock of underwear from infants' to extra
sizes is also included in the sweep, and prices combined with
qualities is what will make them take. Our assortment of
CLOTHING, FURNISHING GOODS, HATS, CAPS, TRUNKS,
VALISES, HOSIERY and NOTIONS of all descriptions, you can
secure at prices lower than ever heretofore heard of, during this
January clearing sale at
Jos. Neuburger's Bargain Emporium
in the
P. 0. S. of A. Bui.ding, Freeland, Pa.
POLIMQAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
rpOR SUPERVISOR
JAMES WILSON,
of South Heberton.
Subject to the decision of the Republican
nominating convention of Foster township.
SSO REWARD party is Sound and
convicted for writing a libeling letter to one of
uiy family on December 22, 1892, sillied T. 1).
Geo. Wise, Jeddo, Pa.
TT'OU SALE.—Two lots situated on east side
J 1 of Washington street, between Luzerne
and Carbon streets. Five Points. Apply to
Patrick McFadden, Ecklcy, or T. A. Buckley,
Frcclund.
"VTOTICE.—The business of Kline Bros, has
this day merged into "The Fieeland Mer
cantile Company, Limited." All bills due Kline
Bros, are to be paid at the ollice of the new
firm, "The Freeland Mercantile Coni|:any, Lim
ited." The accounts owing- by the old linn will
bo paid by the undersigned. * Kline Bros.
Freeland, Pa., January 3, 18513.
[TOR SALE.—A two-story frame shingle-roof
dwelling house on Burton's Kill, lately
occupied by Jenkin Giles; tlie lot is 05 feet wide
and 150 feet deep; it is all improved and has
many line fruit trees growing thereon. Als • a
lot 31 x I fit) feet on the west side of Centre street,
above Chestnut. Titles Guaranteed. Apply to
John I). Hayes, attorney-at-law.
CALL at florist's store for cut roses,
carnations and lilies. Funeral de
signs put up on short notice. Pauns,
ferns, etc., for parlor and church decora
tions. Grasses, wheat sheaves, fancy
baskets—a fine assortment. Evergreen
wreathing and holly wreaths. Green
houses full of plants at low rates.
UNION HALL, HAZLETON.
■Wm. - T7 7~ ehrm.an,
German Watvli n > aker.
Gold and silver plating done. Repairing of all
kinds. Satisfaction guaranteed. Twenty-live
years in business. Give us a call.
Centre street, Five Points, Freeland.
ELECTROPQISE
Office REMOVED to
1004 Mt. Vernon St., PHILADELPHIA. I
Persons desiring city or county agencies, address
/. D. WARE, General Agent
For the States of Pennsylvania, Now Jersey
Maryland and Delaware.
WE TELL YOU
nothing new when we state tout it pays to engage I
in u permanent, most healthy and pleasant busi
ness, that returns a profit for every day's work.
Such is the business we offer the working class.
>\ e teach them how to make money rapidly, and
guarantee everv one who follows our instructions
dlthfully the making of ft.iOO.OO a month,
•hvery one who takes hold now and works will
surely and speedily increase their earnings; there
can he no ijuestioh about it; others now at work
are doiug it, and you, reader, can do the sume
litis is the best paying business that you have
ever hud the chance to secure. You will make a
grave mistake if you fail to give it a trial at once.
If you grasp the situation, and act quickly, you
will directly liud yourself in a most prosperous
business, at which you can surely mako and save j
large suius of money. I'lie results of only a few ,
hours' work will often equal a week's wages. ;
Whether you are old or young, man or woman, it i
makes no'differenc do as we tell fou, and suc
cess will meet you at the very start. Neither
experience or capital necessary. Those who work ;
for us are rewarded. Why not write to day for
full particulars, free ? K. C ALLEN & CO.,
Box No 4~0, Augusta, AIo. ,
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
I A ETHEL BAPTIST.
13 Ridge and Walnut Streets.
Rev, C. A. Spuuldiug, Pastor.
Sunday School 10 00 A M
Gospel Temperance 2 30 PM
Preaching 0 00 P M
I I EAVENLY RECRUITS.
1.1 Centre Street, above Chestnut.
Itev. Charles Brown, Pastor.
Morning Service 10 00 AM
Sunday School 2 00 P M
Love Feust 3 15 P M
Preaching 7 30 P M
J ED DO METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
In charge of Rev. E. M. Cldlcoat.
Preaching 10 00 A M
Sunday School 2 00 PM
yjT. ANN'S ROMAN CATHOLIC.
Rev. M. J. Falliheu, Pastor; Rev. Edw. O'Reilly,
Curate.
Low Mass 800 AM
High Mass 10 30 A M
Sunday School 2 00 P M
Vespers 4 00 P M
Muss on Weekdays 7 00 A M
uT. JAMBS* EPIBCOPAL.
O South and Washington Streets.
Rev. A. J Kuchn, Pastor. I
Sunday School 1 30 P M
Prayer and Sermon 7 00 P M
JT JOHN'S REFORMED.
O Walnut Hud Washington Streets.
Rev. H. A. Bonner, Pastor.
Sunday School 9 00 A M
German Service 10 30 A M
Praise Meeting 7 00 P M
English Sermon 7 30 P M
Prayer and teachers' meeting every Saturduy
evening at 7.45 o'clock.
QT. KASIMER'S POLISH CATHOLIC.
►3 Ridge Street, above Carbon.
Rev. Joseph Muzotus, Pastor.
Mass 0 00 A M
Vespers 4 00 P M
Muss on Weekdays 730 A M
QT. LUKE'S GERMAN LUTHERAN.
O Main and Washington Streets.
Rev. A. Beimoiler, Pastor.
J Sunday School 9 00 A M
I German Service 10 00 A M
iCutechial Instruction 5G> PM
QT. MARY'S GREEK CATHOLIC.
0 Front and Fern Streets.
Rev. Cirill Gulovich, Pastor.
Low Mass 800 A M
High Mass 1030 A M
Vespers 200P. M .
rpttlNlTY METHODIST EPISCOPAL. 1
JL Birkbeck Street, South Heberton. f
Rev. E. M. Chilcoat, Pustor.
Sunday School 200 PM
Preaching 7 00 PM
Epworth League meets every Sunday even
ing at G.OO o'clock.
W r ELSH BAPTIST.
Fern Street, above Main.
Sunday School 10 yo A M
Prayer Meeting 600 PM
1-T LECTION NOTICE.— Notice is hereby given
~, u that at the election to be held at the third
1 uesday of February, 1892, being the 21st day
ol the month, th • following officers of the mld
wit,C ° rt ' >or dlßtr,ctHre to be.elected, to
One person for director, to serve three years,
from April I,l*oß, whose residence must be in
that portion of the district known us the Lu
zerne portion of the district.
One person for poor auditor, to serve three
years from April 1, 1803, whose residence must
be in that portion of the district known as the
Weatherly or middle district.
A. K. Mmiroe, 1
A. M. Neumiller. Directors.
Samuel Harleman, i
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