ORGANIZED CHARITY.
*N EXPENSIVE PLAYTHING AND GEN
ERAL CONSCIENCE QUIETER.
Ten Dollars for the Ofllrlulit and One Dol
lar for the Needy-—A Sample Furnished
by Chicago—A Hit of Wholesome Advice
to Those Who Want to Help the Poor.
[Special Correspondence.]
"Charity covereth a multitude of sins"
fs a more popular saying now that a
meaning Paul never intended has been
read into it than when it was first pro
nounced. Tho "charity which thinketh
no evil" is not the cloak-officiating virtue
of today. Modern charity consists of
systematic almsgiving, and serves very
well to hide such sins as robbing wage
workers and cheating consumers. If
charity would right all the wrongs of
which the people complain, the millen
nium would come tomorrow, for char
itable institutions, organizations and so
cieties abound everywhere.
Charity is the panacea to which every
successful business man flies when
attacked with qualms of conscience
brought on by too great indulgence in du
bious transactions; it is the quietus with
which good men stifle their own intui
tive longings after justice; the last re
sort of ladies wearied with too much
pleasure seeking. Yet these people are
often startled at the inadequacy of their
pet virtue. Working people will have
none of it; trades unions conduct their
own charities on a mutualistic plan and
do not ask for it outside; speakers and
leaders in economics disdain charity—
will not consider it in the discussion of
social and industrial subjects; suffering
does not seem to be lessened, and the
inurinurings of the discontented are not
stilled by it.
Yet under the present order of affairs
there are always those in urgent need
of immediate aid. They cannot wait
for society to adjust itself to better con
ditions, and humanity cannot afford to
let such perish.
I had occasion recently on behalf of a
worthy person to test the efficacy of the
charities of Chicago, and the experience
convinced me that if one were in desper
ate straits here in this city of organized
charities he might die before enough
red tape could be unwound to save him.
There are, for instance, five "homes"
for old people within the city limits. An
application made to each of these insti
tutions elicited the information that "the
place was full—there was no possible
room to receive another applicant."
Subsequent inquiry proved that persons
were being admitted where the parties
had influential friends to interest them
selves on their behalf. "Influence" is as
effective in this instance as in almost
everything else.
But the "charity" that for complacent
selfishness and eminent "cheek" exceed
anything outside a Chicago ward politi
cian is the Old People's home, formerly
the Old Ladies' home, which was found
ed on the surplus money in the hands of
the Relief and Aid society after the
great fire. The annual report tells its
own story.
About twenty-five or thirty of the
wealthiest men and women of the city
are members of tho association.
A collector who spends all his time
soliciting donations is paid S9OO a year.
Hi, collected last year in cash over $27.-
006. The matron receives a salary of
SI,OOO a year; the secretary is also well
paid, and there are other officials who
receive handsome perquisites. The so
ciety lias money invested in railroad
bonds, government bonds, street rail
way stock and manufacturing stock to
such an amount that the yearly interest
is several thousand. Besides large sums
are "invested" in tho various banks in
which the members are interested.
Occasionally a rich man dies and eases
his pathway out of the world by be
queathing a large portion of his fortune
to the already enormous sum that the
managers have in their possession. The
ladies interested are among the bright
est lights in Chicago society. They meet
twice a month to transact the business
of the home. They come, wearied from
their society dissipations, with quite a
relish for their well planned charities,
go through a certain routine in a digni
fied and satisfactory manner, and return
home gratified over their own generosity
and usefulness, when in reality not a
mouth is filled or a pang of suffering as
suaged for their having thus met.
The real work which this great amount
of wealth supposed to be devoted to char
ity is accomplishing is this: Their great
building contains less than fifty old peo
ple, who have each paid SSIOO, furnished
her own room and agreed to keep it in
order. Last year twenty-seven applica
tions were made for admission, and only
three were accepted. Each person ad
mitted must sign an agreement to obey
a set of rules strict enough to make
them feel as though they were inmates
of a penal institution. Any one can be
sent adrift as soon as she does not please
the management. To be sure, if any of
her S3OO is left after deducting three dol
lars a week for board—a price that must
yield considerable of a profit consider
ing that much of the food is contributed
from day to day—it is generously hand
ed back to her.
It i 8 an institution which affords an '
excuse to solicit money from all philan
thropic but shortsighted people—a mere
name to cover an enormous sum of
money, which the managers have the
use of. The money has been given with
the belief that needy persons would re
ceive aid an<l comfort therefrom. Barely
enough recipients are kept in the insti
tution on their own money to bear out
the supposition that the money is so de
voted, while in reality it is beiug used in
great enterprises, which bring profit and
greatness to the managers. The charity
affords a number of enuuied women
something with which to kill time and
an opportunity to pose as practical phi
lanthropists. Out of a population of a
million of people it affords fifty old la
dies a "well regulated," cast iron sort of
a homo at a rate as high as they could
be made comfortable elsewhere. This
Jp all it does—for all their great show of
funds and great array of patrons and
donors.
Other charitable organizations, though
none is quite as brazen as this one,
are nearly as far from really benefit
ing the needy. A rich man can in
time get any one in if he wishes to do
80. Unaided and alone one, may drop of
hunger before any of these doors will
open to receive him. If one is homeless
and poor the only posssible way to get
under a roof is to stay on the streets un
til a policeman takes one in hand—and
he being an influential person will get
cue in somewhere, if it's nothing more
than the police station.
It is with charity as it is with foreign
missions. It takes ten dollars to get one
dollar where it will do the work it was in
tended it should do. Business men shirk
responsibility and ease their consciences
by sticking up in their offices signs like
this: "We give to such and such a char
ity. No beggars allowed here." And in
the meantime homeless boys crouch
shivering in dry goods boxes, starving
mothers are found lying with their dead
and dying children around them, old
men totter about the streets hopelessly
displaying cards of buttons or papers of
pins, and every now and then a strong
man's suicide tells the story of his des
peration.
Charity never can at its best do the
I work of justice. All palliative measures ;
I must be but bungling attempts at a
I proper adjustment of human relations,
so long as labor does not receive an j
equivalent for its productions and the
natural elements of earth are locked I
away from man's use. But at least one j
could try to use common sense in alms- j
giving as in other affairs of life.
If you have SIO,OOO to give away, do j
not put it in the hands of an organized
charitable institution with expensive of- j
fleers, matrons, solicitors, etc., to be
paid from the funds. Rather look about j
—surely one would take the trouble to j
do this if one were seeking a paying in- j
vestment. You will soon see places .
where a little money will revive hope in !
a despairing breast, start a fallen man
on the upward path, save the sick, re
claim the erring, relieve actual want
and suffering. When you want anything
done well, you know, you do it your
self. Meanwhile work and hope for the
time when justice will make charity un
necessary. LIZZIE M. HOLMES.
Chicago.
Colored Men in Unions.
A delegate to the general assembly of
the Knights of Labor, which recently
met in St. Louis, is reported in The Re
public, of that city, as saying that ne
groes do not make good members of la
bor organizations. He illustrated the
point by recalling the organization of
the negroes in the Louisiana sugar dis
trict about five years ago, and the sud
den collapse of their organizations dur
ing the strike in which, it will be re
membered, the state militia and deputy
sheriffs took a hand, killing a number of
the strikers.
It might be said that the organizations
of white men have been known to go to
pieces under the same kind of on
slaughts also, but what the delegate said
is probably true of the southern negro.
Yet, again, is it not a fact that, gener
ally speaking, the unions and assemblies
of white men in the south are weak and
uulikely to show staying qualities under
stress?
It is certain that the colored man in
the north frequently makes as good a
union man as his white brother, and in
some cases they conduct labor organiza
tions composed exclusively of men of
their race very successfully. The col
ored waiters have recently perfected the
organization of a National Alliance of
Colored Waiters, which bids fair to be
stable and effective. They have over
700 members in their Chicago lodge, and
preparations are being made, it is said,
to make a move for improved condi
tions and wages before the Columbian
exposition opens.
In the National Alliance the following
states are represented by locals: Illinois,
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, lowa,
New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ken
tucky, Texas and Tennessee.
in AuMtrfa.
Steps are being taken by the Austrian
government looking to the institution of
workmen's permanent committees for
the purpose of guarding the moral and
material interests of the working people.
These committees are to consist of mem
bers elected by the workers themselves,
and they will have authority to settle
questions of wages and conditions of
employment as well as a voice in the
disposition of funds for pensions, sick
ness and accident. Employers claim to
favor optional committees, but they dis
approve of the idea of having the govern
ment back them. However, the plan
| of the government will probably be
adopted.
The condition of labor in Austria is
very bad, and there is much suffering
among the poor. Labor leaders claim
that there are fully 100,000 idle men in
Austria, and that already applications
have been made for shelter during the
winter by 40,000 persons who are with
out homes. The spirit of unrest it very
strong, and much bitterness of feeling is
displayed at the meetings of the unem
ployed, which have been frequent during
the past few weeks.
To Glorify a Dead Deader.
In the course of the memorial services
held in honor of the late L. L. Polk at
j the Memphis meeting of the National
Alliance Mrs. Marion Todd, of Mich
igan, said:
! Wo have assembled for the purpose of honor
ing our dead president. All that can be said
fail* to sufficiently honor hiin. 1 therefore ap
peal for action.
1 Ido not appeal to the rich, for they are
drunk on the blood of the people. Ido not ap-
I>eal to the very poor, for they are chloro
formed by poverty. I do not appeal to the pul
pits, for they are busy saving souls. I do not
appeal to the newspapers, for the demon ef
! circulation has them by the throuts. But Ido
appeal to overy honest man and woman who
has the welfare of tho human race at heart I
appeal to them to glorify our dead leader, who
ia looking down from heaven, by following In
his footsteps, taking up the burden he laid
down and going forward with it until the
j emancipation of tho nation testifies to honor
1 L. L. Pollt.
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DRIFTON ITEMS.
The Fearnots Athletic Association will hold
its third annual ball at Frccland opera house
on Friday evening. It is expected that the
whole town will turn out to assist the boys, as
they have upheld the reputation of Drifton as
u base ball town in great style for the past few
years. It costs money to equip and maintain
a club like the Fearnots place in tho field every
! year, and our people should not let this oppor
; tuuity pass without showing their appreciation
!of the boys' work. DePierro's orchestra will I
be on hand and every convenience that can bo j
arranged for those attending will be there.
Condy MeElwee, a miner employed in No.i
slope, had a linger badly crushed by having It j
caught between a piece of coal and rock while t
at work on Thursday night.
Walter Fernau, of Fern Glen, has accepted a j
position in the store here.
llernard Burns, of Hu/.lcton, was in town last
week visiting.
The breaker here worked about tliree-quar- j
ter time last week.
P. M. Boyle, mine foreman at No. 2, was laid J
up with u cold last week.
The slopes are now working ten hours a day. j
A rumor is current that they will start four
teen hours per day, commencing on Wednes- '
day.
Patrick MeElwee was on the sick list several
days last week.
The employes here received their pay on Sat- :
urduy.
| On Friday several students of a Boston school I
of mineralogy and technology visited the mines 1
jat No. 1. They seemed to be well pleased at j
| the surroundings.
I), J. Kennedy, one of the blacksmiths at No. ■
2 shop, was oil' several days last week on ae- I
count of sickness.
Carl BcimuUcr, a lad about 15 years of ago,
employed as a patoher in No. 2 slope, had a leg
hurt by having it caught between two cars on
Friday.
Another engine was added to the force on tlie
D. S. & S. last week, with Patrick O'Donnell at
the throttle and Denny Gallagher swinging the
fire door.
As a rule the cold weather effected the ma
jority of the people in this locality.
Tramps have beeu numerous here for several
days, and some of them are so tough looking
that they are worth watching.
The delegate election passed of very quietly
here on Saturday. John O'Donnell, who will
he a candidate for supervisor before the town
ship convention tomorrow, was the lucky win-
Miss Iluth Jones, of Drifton, who has been
tho guest of Lewis Morgan and family of West
Green street, returned home on Saturday.—
Nanticokc News.
Bill llynser, who accepted a position on the
D. S. & S. lately, moved his family here on
Thursday.
Saturday was pay da}' here ami was welcomed
by all.
There are 1000 loaded ears stocked along the
i). S. & S. There is no sale for coal.
Joe Thomas, formerly of Drifton, now of
Philadelphia, is visiting friends hero.
UPPER LEHIGH NOTES.
A social hop will be given at the Cottage ball,
Frceland, on Wednesday evening, by the Upper
Arbutus Club. An entertaining programme
has been selected for the evening, and an
abundance of good tilings will le served to the
invited guests. DePierro's orchestra has been
engaged for tho occasion, and the young ladies
are working to muke it a social and entertain
ing aifair.
James Welsh, Jr., of Mid valley, was here
over Sunday visiting his parents.
Peter Anion is the proudest man in town.
Two bouncing boys are the cause of it.
The tramps who have been prowling in this
vicinity for two months past and who were
j comfortably located in the water tank, a short
distance down the branch, were paid a visit
by the coal and iron police last week. But the
ofllcers were about a day late. It is supposed
the knights of the road changed their quarters
to some other locality where chickens are
more plentiful.
Some efforts were made to have a sleighing
party leave here for White Haven tlds week,
but they will have to wait for more snow now.
JEDDO NEWS.
The Improved Order of Bachelors, it seems,
hasn't any more staying qualities at present
than they have had in the duys that have pass
ed. Believing that "In union there is strength"
they organized themselves into an association
under the above title and began business on
the improved method. A sleighing party was
organized and a date fixed, but as it is neces
sary to have a lady friend along that old disease
set in again whenever this was mentioned. To
Jerk up their pants, spit on their hands, crush
the hat on their hcuds and look desperate
would nor bring courage enough to invite a
lady friend, and as a result the party fell to
pieces. However, they claim that to succeed
you must fail first.
The young ludies here are offering a premi
um for the scalp of your correspondent. Its a
precious article and when the reward is suit
able we will hand it over ourselves.
It Is rumored here that there Is soon a big
change to bike place in the condition of affairs.
We ure not at liberty to say anything yet, but
will at some future time.
Miss Minnie Harkins, of Bristol, is spending
u few days here on vacation.
Patriek Timony was laid up for several days
last week with sickness.
A number of men were at work here last
week teuring down the P. M. church and taking
it away. We understand that it will be rebuilt
on Fern street. Freehold, where the congrega
tion has selected a new site for it.
Hcveral young men from Beaver Meadow,
who were here last week taking in the town,
had the misfortune to wundcr into the suburbs
after dark and became lost. Better take a
guide next time, boys.
There wus a very exciting delegate election
held here on Saturday. The contest was be
tween Messrs. Brannigan and Johuson. The
J former is aspiring for supervisor und the latter
for tax collector in the township. All the
voters and sympathizers in town were at work
for their man. When the vote was counted it |
was a tie, each set of delegates having received j
i' 27 votes.
MASCULINE MENTION.
The third HOD of the president of France
;is a private in the French army, waiting ;
: for his admission to the Ecole Polytech
: nique.
| "Fighting Jim" is the name given to j
Rear Atlrniral James E. Jouett, so well I
known to Washington and HO welcome to i
all drawing rooms
President Eliot, of Harvard university, is j
b member of the Boston Cremation society, j
but has not decided yet as to the disposition '
of his owu remains.
Oscar Wilde Is reported to have declined '
H nomination to the Savile club because he j
"feared he would he a poor little lion in a
den of fierce Daniels."
Count Tolstoi has legally made over his
large fortune, including real and personal
pstate, to his wife and children. The count i
Hill continues his work of relief among the
peasantry
Only three men who were members of !
the United States senate in 1848 are now
liviug—James W Bradbury, of Maine; ex
Governor Feleh. of Michigan, and General
George W Jones, of lowa.
Counting up his salary and all his allow
aiices lot expenses. President Harrison will
have received from the government exactly
fJTfi.MKJ when he shall have retired from
the White House on March 4 uext.
It is said that the best passport through
the Kurdish mountains is a letter from Dr
Cochrane, of the Americau hoard of mis
sions in Persia. On its production the
Kurds immediately show the way
The Duke of Edinburgh for a long time
has not been very popular in England. His
going to Germany to live will add to his
unpopularity, mid yet, paradoxical as it
may seem, will please the English.
Chnuneey M Depew is a believer in scrap
books He has eight or ten of them, which
contain clippings from newspapers and
periodicals relating to himself. AJA his
printed speeches are preserved in this way
Eli Gray, an inmate of the family of Jay
Gould's grandfather when the father of
Jay Gould was born, died only a month
before the great financier. Gray's age was
107 Gray's mother reached the age of 120.
j The clergyman who has continuously oc
cupied one pulpit longer than any other
divine iu the world is Rev Dr Furness, of
: Philadelphia. His age is ninety, and for
; sixty eight years he has been pastor of one
church
The youngest man in the Fifty-third con
gress will IH Thomas Settle, a Republican
of North Carolina, who is in his twenty
eighth year lie is described as a dark
haired, dark eyed young man. with a pleas
ant face.
A valuable diamond which "IIul" Car
penter of Columbia county, N Y., wears
iu his shirt bosom was purchased by him
years ago m the Orinoco river region, in
South America, for two boot legsof plug to
bacco. which the natives valued more high
j ly than gems.
J A. Hurhank, of Richmoud, hid., is the
owner of a fine gold watch, of which he was
robbed by the James boys in Arkansas
atKMii twenty years ago. He was at that
J time governor of Dakota. After the death
, of Jesse James he recovered the stolen prop
erty through au advertisement.
! The late Cardinal Lavigerie, the "Grand
I Old Missionary of Biskra," used to wear a
I Florentine cap such us Dante wore, half
covering his ears and falling to his neck,
j The walls of his simple apartments were
' absolutely bare except for a small statue of
the Virgin, which faced the crucifix over
the mantelpiece.
Ijord Roberts, who is soou to return to
England from India, isexeeedingly popular
with the soldiers, for whose comfort and
moral welfare he has done more than almost
any other British officer. He is said to
value his title of nobility less than his
name, "Hobs, God bless him," by which ho
is familiarly known in camp.
RAILWAY RUMBLES.
The Grand Trunk ruilroud has arranged
with the Wabash for the latter to use the
St Clair tunnel.
According to the statistics of the inter
state commerce commission, a railway pas
senger stands one chance in 10,823,158 to bo
killed while traveling.
The Grand Trunk railway Is arranging
for the World's fair It is having 200 spe
cial passenger cars built for Chicago traffic.
They are all Pullman cars of the latest type.
J T Lane, traveling passenger agent of
the Baltimore aud Ohio, hits been with
that road thirty four years. He is well
known in railroad circles all over the coun
try
The Pennsylvania has added to its line
west of Columbus fifty new coaches, will
add as many excursion cars, ami by March 1
will have fifteen more passenger engines
than the present equipment.
Mr H. Roscoe, who took the first engine
from Birmingham to London on the Great
Western line in 1852 and the first from the
'new" Paddington terminus in 1851, has
ust retired from active service.
EPICUREAN MORSELS.
Cranberry sauce does not want to he like
glue, nor is it palatable like red iuk.
The famous dish of Vitellius was of pheas
ants brains, nightingales'tongues and fish
liver
According to the bakers, the fail for fancy 1
bread of ail kinds has now reached its j
Height.
There is said to be a material increase
this season in the export of oranges and I
oysters.
Englishmen often mourn when they come :
to this country because we have no fish to j
correspond with their "fried sole."
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January 31— Entertainment by Ella June i
Meade, vocalist, and Lu B. Cake, j
humorist, of New York city, at Free- |
land opera house. Admission, 15, 25 j
and 35 cents.
February 3—-Third annual hall of the '
Fearnots Athletic Association, at Free- !
land opera house. Admission, 50 cents.
February 4—"Caught Again," by Free
land Juvenile Dramatic Company, at
Freeland opera house. Admission,
5 ami 10 cents.
February 11—Ball for the benefit of St.
Kasimer's congregation, at Freeland
opera house. Admission, 50 cents.
February 14—Variety entertainment un
der the auspices of St. Patrick's cornet
band, at Freeland opera house. Ad-1
mission, 25 cents.
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( and here are some of the results:
Good toweling, which has been selling all along at 6 cents,
now goes at 4 cents per yard.
Extra line 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!) cents per yard.
i rood doubh - vidth lienrietta at 12J cents; former price, 18.
Fine lienrietta. in all the new shades in our 40-cent quality,
j we will now sell at £5 cents per yard.
XI-7
I we will make a big sweep.
Our t ill ire stock of 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 he sold.
Our stock of men's boys' and children's
must he reduced as much as possible and we will close them out
at umst-be-sold prices. By giving our immense assortment an
j 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
i 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
?. 0. S. of A. Building, Ereeland, Pa.
THE Woodman's Specific No 4 is a scien-
WORST
COLDS
GRIPPE tific combination of vegetable products.
BRONCHITIS
AND
MALARIA Perfectly harmless, but will cure a cold
ARE
QUICKLY
CURED a * eW ' lours They are little, tiny
PNEUMONIA
AND
CONSUMPTION Pillß ' eaHy t0 tak °' I>leasant t0 the taste -
POSITIVELY
PREVENTED
and can be carried in the vest pocket.
BY
USING
i WOODMAN S 25 f or 25 cts.
SPECIFIC
NO. 4
FO R To the truthfulness of our state-
SALE
BY
ALL ment, it costs but a trifle. One trial
DRUGGISTS
PRICE
25 CTS. will convince you.
i
WOODMAN DRUG CO.
ROXBURY, MASS.
O^-TTTIOISr.
Ask for Woodman's Specific No. 4. If your druggist
does not keep it, and will not get it for you, send us 25 cts.
and we will send it to you postpaid.
tpoif SALE.—Two lots situated on east side
|J 1 of Washington street, between Lu/.erne
i and Carbon streets. Five Points. Apply to
Patrick McFadden, Kckloy, or T. A. Buckley,
Free land. ,
CALL at flrrist's store for cut roses,
carnations and lilies. Funeral de
signs put up on short notice. Palms,
ferns, etc., for parlor and church decora
tions. Grasses, wheat sheaves, fancy
baskets—a fine assortment. Evergreen
vvreathing and holly wreaths. Green
houses full of plants at low rates.
UNION HALL, IIAZLETON. j
' Ti] E.—Notice is hereby given
. Tmsd?nf w?k elcctio " t( > be held at the third
of the no nth e ,h n, i U A' h® 1 "* the ~ ,at da 7
dlo a! i ' " h'pewing officers of the mid
dle coal Held poor district are to be;eleeted, to
f~ C 2I O J!TO n f' )r fi' r eetor,Xo serve three years,
April I,IKWJ, 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
> April 1, 1*1, whose residence must
uo iu that, portion of the district known us the
Weutherly or middle district.
A. 8. Monroe, 1
A. M. Neumiller, Directors.
Samuel Harlemun, ) v