FREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. TIJLOS?. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year $1 50 Six Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Months 25 Subscribers ore requested to watch the date following 1 the name on the labels of their papers. By referring to this they can tell at a glance how they stand on the books in this ofllee. For instance: Grover Cleveland 28JuneftJ means that Grover is paid up to June 28,1803. By keeping the figures in advance of the pres ent date subscribers will save both themselves and the publisher much trouble and annoy- Subscribers who allow themselves to full in arrears will be called upon.or notified twice, and, if payment does not follow within one month thereafter, collection will be made in the manner provided by law. FREELAND, PA., MAY I, 1898. Tennessee alone offered sis candidates for tlie office of public printer at Wash ington, and it was not a good year for candidates in Tennessee either. The spectuclo of an American and a Republican starting a Tory organ in England is an edifying one. Does Mr. William Waldorf Astor perhaps expect thereby to get into "sassiety" in Loudon and associate with jukes and markisses? Tho commercial crisis is evidently passing in Argentina, and the people are settling down to work and progress. During 1892 this country exported to the Argentine Republic $1,381,000 worth of agricultural implements and machinery against $327,000 in 1891. After the reproduced flagship Santa Maria does duty at the Chicago fair she will be sent to Washington to remain permanently, to show visitors what kind of a vessel Columbus sailed in when ho discovered the new world. Will they put the Santa Maria in tho Smithsonian institution along with George Washing ton's breeches and cocked hat? Europe will this summer miss any where from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 that American tourists annually spend over there during the warm season. It is enough to paralyze trade in all that little corner of tho earth. The tide will for once set the other way if cholera does not spoil all, and we shall see how it goes to take in $50,000,000 of money in a summer from tourists. England has gone ahead of us in re spect to the establishment of a horticul tural college where young people may be trained as flower and fruit gardeners. If some millionaire wants to do good to his country, let him endow such a training college in connection with one of the state agricultural experiment stations with admission to students of both sexes. Information in floriculture and horti culture is one of tho kinds of knowledge needed in this great young country If the United States wanted or expect ed to take Hawaii at all, tho right time to do so was when it was first offered to us. There were no vexatious and harassing questions. Other nations made no ob jection. Tho enthusiasm of the Ha waiians who wanted annexation was redhot. Now on second thought some of them are not so sure they wanted an nexation after all, and all the ifs and buts of tho nverago vacillating human mind have had time to come uppermost. Japan wants Hawaii herself, and Eu ropean nations are beginning to think it would never do to let the United States have these islands. So it goes always. Merely a vote at the right time, followed simply by a signature, and it would have been all settled, and President Cleveland would now be appointing postmasters in Hawaii. In the year 1890 288 passengers were ; killed in railway accidents in this coun try. In tho same time 2,451 railway employees were killed, though there are probably 100 passengers to every em ployee. In 1890 2,425 passengers and 22,000 employees were injured. The pro portion is about tho same each year. These figures will enable one to under stand why the automatic car coupler bill over which there was such a fight in congress last winter was passed. Under that law, instead of the common hand brake, power brakes must be used on freight as woll as passenger trains. With these the engineer can control the speed of a train. By the provisions of this act brakemen will no longer be compelled to go between cars to couple them, but instead an automatic coupler must be employed. Grab irons and hand holds must also be provided as the interstate commerce commission may direct. When this law comes into operation, the slaughter of railroad employees will probably bo stopped to a great extent. Thero is time for tho killing of 100,000 or so of the unfortunate fellows yet, however, though since railroad compa nies will not be forced to use power brakes and automatic couplers before Jan. 1, 1898, five years yet. However, it is certain that humane railway corporations will have complied of their own accord with the luw long before that timo. Costiveness is the primary cause of much disease. Dr. Henry Baxter's Man drake Bitters will permanently cure cos tiveness. Every bottle warranted. Sold by Dr. Schilcher. WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, D. C., May 2. j Hurrah for the Democratic adtninig- I tratiou! It has proven itself to be the j master, not the servant, of Wall street, and the government still lives, and the ] treasury continues and will continue to j pay out gold to all w'lio may desire it for | treasury notes. A greater financial ! triumph was never achieved by any ad ministration. It marks the beginning of j a uew era, in which the president of the j United States and his cabinet will dictate | our national financial policy, instead, of | having it done from Wall street, as it | has been done already too long for the ! good of the country. The Wall street j crowd invited the knock-down blow they I received. Seeing that bankers all over the coun try were following the lead of those of the .south and west in furnishing the treasury with gold, the Wall streeters got together and formulated a proposi tion in which they agreed to fnrnish the treasury with fiom $30,000,000 to $50,- 000,000 in gold, but the proposition had a string tied to it in the shape of a pro viso that bonds should he issued for their gold. Other hankers turned their gold into the treasury without question ing, because of their confidence in the government, which they thought in need of the gold to tide over a temporary difficulty, hut the Wall street Shylocks wanted their pound of llesh in the shape of interest on the bonds to be issued be fore they would turn loose the gold lying idle in their vaults. It did not take President Cleveland and the cabinet three minutes to formu late an indignant refusal, which was wired to New York. Later, another proposition, less exacting, was received, hut it was also promptly rejected. It must by this time he evident to even the most obtuse observer that the financial motto of tliis administration is, "No Wall street domination." The present condition of the treasury is, under the circumstances, satisfactory and if tire oilers of gold continue to be as freely made as they have been for the past week it is believed that there will be no necessity for tire issue of bonds, and even if the demand for gold shall continue to increase, the reserve fund, at present intact, will be drawn upon to meet it until it becomes certain that it will be exhausted, before bonds will be issued. President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle are both fully deter mined that no bonds shall be issued un til it shall have been fully demonstrated that nothing else will furnish the relief needed, and many believe that if that shall be shown the matter will be sub mitted to congress at an extra session, before bonds are issued. ' The second chapter in the investiga tion of the weather bureau opened with a stormy row between those two Repub licans, Prof. Harrington, chief of the bureau, who is being investigated, and Assistant Attorney General Colby, who is conducting the investigation. The evidence taken up to this time fully bears out one of the charges—that in competent employes were retained after the chief of the bureau knew they were incompetent. Congressman Caruth, of Kentucky, carries a very broad smile just now. One of the reasons of the unusual breath of that smile was the selection of his brother George W. Caruth, editor of the Little Itock (Ark.) Gazelle, to be U. S. .Minister to Portugal. Among the other important presiden tial appointments made last week were those of ex-Congressman McKinney, of X. 11., to be minister to Colombia; ex- Congressman Thompson, of Cab, to be minister to Brazil; ex-Congressman Wiley, of X. A'., to be consul at Bordeaux, France, and tho following well-known gentlemen to be government directors of the Union Pacific Railway Company; Mr. Henry F. Dimock, of N. Y.; Hon. Hon M. Dickinson, of Mich.; Mr. J. W. Doane, of 111.; Gen Fitzliugh Lee, of Va., and Mr. Joseph W. Paddock, of Ne braska. S. Praise for Castorla. Clarence L. Dodge, M. I)., 129 Clinton Avenue, Kingston, N. Y'., says: "Cas toria is a preparation that we should all be thankful for. We are given its com ponent parts—and are thus not in the dark as to its composition. As a matter of fact, a large majority of the physicians of this country use it. Its active ingre dient is undoubtedly senna, but its taste has been admirably covered by a most consummate blending of aromatics, the successful imitation of which has never been accomplished. The baby's palate has been catered to to that extent that no child has ever yet been known to refuse the second doso. We should not refuse to sanction the use of so pleasant and efficient a remedy." * The change to paid members in tho British house of commons is significant of the democratic tendencies in Great Britain. The fact that hereafter mem bers of tho house of commons are to be paid fur their services will enable poor men to get into that body and work off their "views" upon tho British lawmak ing power. Tho British have found out that tho American way is best. Our system is to pay members of congress enough to enablo them to live comfort ably and devote their time to business, but not enough to let them bo society swells. WAR TO THE DEATH. SUCH, THE BARONS SAY, IS THEIR FIGHT ON UNION LABOR. A Coup to Head Off u World's Fair Railroad Strike—Judge Ricks and Ilia Famous Ruling—What Is Likely to Happen if the Railroads Are Sustained. The contest between labor and capi talism has presented many interesting phases and startling situations during the past eight or ten years, but it is generally conceded that nothing in this line lyis equaled in importance the recent rul ings of Judges Taft and Ricks in the Ann Arbor and Lake Shoro cases. Thq rulings were certainly without precedent, and it will be impossible to determine what the effect will be upon the legal status of employees and what changes will be necessitated in the methods of conducting labor organizations until the court of last resort has passed upon the questions involved. I cannot even sur mise what may be the status of the affair when this reaches my readers, but I feel constrained to express some opinions now, regardless of „the possibility of changes in the situation, because, whatever may be the immediate or final disposition of tho Toledo, cases a point has been raised which, it seems to me, will be open for discussion and recurring legal decisions for some time to come. Tho head officials of the Ann Arbor roads declared on the day that Judge Ricks issued the mandatory injunction that "it is now a war to the death be tween the railroad companies and the engineers' and firemen's organizations." This would indicate that the prophecy so often made of late years by members of other labor unions is about to be ful filled—that n day would coino when Mr. Arthur would find that tho railroad barons have no more love for his organi zation than for the others. Ido not be lieve with Chief Sargent and other fire men ami engineers that tho dcathknell of their brotherhoods will sound if the rulings of Judges Ricks and Taft stand. But I do believe that the result would be to drive the men back into the old eecrot style of organization, only more hidden than ever before and equipped with knowledge never before possessed. There is danger to society in this, and the pow ers that bo had better consider it well before joining hands \t'ith the railroad barons to destroy the present forms of comparatively open union. So absorbing is the interest in the later developments of the Ann Arbor trouble that the public has failed to look into its origin or forgotten the causes 'of the strike and the happenings between its in ception and the serving of the manda tory injunction. The strike was for an increase of wages. Engineors on the Ann Arbor were receiving about 30 per cent less for their services than was paid for like service by competing and con necting lines. The increase asked was not sufficient to bring the scalo up to that of other roads. The demand was -refused, the strike followed and the rail road officials at once issued ordors pro hibiting the employment of members of the brotherhood and notifying all engi neers that to retain their situations they must withdraw from til* brotherhood. This was the beginning of what the Ann Arbor official heralded as "a war to the death between the railroad companies and the brotherhoods." I may bo oversuspicious, or I may ho too conceited as to my "penetrating eye," but I think I Bee a nigger in the wood pile. There lms been considerable news paper talk for the past six months about a big railroad strike during the World's fair, and it is known that the railway managers have been hobnobbing and scheming to defeat any such attempt. For several weeks the switchmen and telegraph operators hafe been held up as the central figures in the bugaboo, and the heads of the engineers, and firemen's organizations have been asked to declure what would he the stand of their unions iu ease the switchmen and telegraphers struck during the summer. Messrs. Ar thur and Sargent have regularly, once each week, assured the public that the strike talk was all buncombe, and that their organizations were at peace with the railroad companies. Now for the colored gentleman iu tho wood pile: The railway magnates decided upon a coup by which they would hind their employees with red tape from the United States courts until the Chicago show was over. The low scale of wages on the Ann Arbor road made that lino an available decoy. That a demand for increase was soon to be made by the en gineers on the Ann Arbor was known. The programme was to refuse the de mand, precipitate a strike, which would of course bring at once into operation the boycott rule of the brotherhood, then to invoke tho aid of judges of the United States district court, secure a mandatory injunction, which w-ould of course qpino in time before the supreme court through an appeal by one cr the other of the in terested parties. The supreme court would take several months, maybe a year or more, to decide the matter, hut in tho meantime the injunction would stand, and of Course bo made to apply through out the United States. Thus the gov ernment would become enlisted for the j prevention of the apprehended strike. I So far tho programme has been carried I out. Undoubtedly the effect of the proceed ings at Toledo will be to embarrass, if they do not prevent, any strike the rail road men may have in view for next summer, hut what will be tho status of labor before the law if the court of last resort decides that the ruling of Judge Ricks is sound law? Let us see \phat aro tho vital points in that ruling. The judge attempted to show a spirit of fair ness by softening his language, and in so doing, it seouis to me, destroyed com pletely the force of his conclusions and left his injunction poorly supported. Tho order on its face seems ridiculous. An injunction to restrain men from not refusing to do a thing—that is, to pro kibit them from doing nothing—reads like putting up a windmill to subject a calm day. But you see the court could not boldly declare its power to make the men work whether they liked or not. So the judge got into an awful muddle. Suppose wo make some quotations from the remarks Judge Ricks addressed to the engineers and firemen who left their employment on the Lake Shore road rather than haul Ann Arbor cars: This court doe§ not assume tho power to com pel you to continue your service to your em ployers ugainst your will, but it does undertake to compel you to perform your whole duty while such relations continue ami does further claim for the purposes of ascertaining whether its orders have been violated tho right to de termine when your relation to your employer legally terminal d and when your obligations to observe this order cease. It may in the meantime IK? important for you to reflect and consider whether you can safely proceed to continuo in your employer's service with tho purpose to quit at a moment when some duty may he required of you which is in violation of some supposed promise or obliga tion you owe another not your employer. The force of the first paragraph quoted i hangs upon the meaning of "legally ter minated." Employment "legally ter minates" when the workman has quit the service of the company or has been discharged by one in authority. That is plain. If an employee refuses to obey the orders of his superior, then it is clearly the business of tho superior to discharge tho employee, and until notice of discharge is served it must be under stood that tho order objected to is with drawn or held in abeyance. The judge killed the effect of tho first sentence quoted by saying in another place, "You can't always choose your own time and place for terminating the relations." As to the second paragraph it is—ex cuse the sacrilege— arrant nonsense. If one must leave employment, which is equivalent to saying one must refuse to take a position because a time "may" come when some service which conflicts with other duties or obligations "may" be required, then one will always be out of work. Judge Kicks holds that em ployees have no right to ceaso work un der circumstances which may injure employers. This would mean generally, if observed to tho letter, that a working man must bo sure that some one is stand ing ready to fill his place before he can exercise tho right of ceasing work. How about employers discharging workmen under circumstances likely to work in jury to the latter? Prior to tho Toledo ruling it was admitted that a working man had tho right to quit work when ever he pleased, but that ho must not in terfere with another willing to fill tho vacancy. If Judge Ricks' ruling stands, all wageworkers will bo slaves without tho protection which chattel slaves had. Tho principle may easily be extended to embrace all kinds of employment, for if there is any law for tho ruling it will be found in tho antitrust act ("an act to prevent combinations for the restraint of trade") and not in tho interstate com merce act, as many believe. The big attorneys of the railroads have -contended ever since its passage that the interstate commerce law is unconstitu tional. It will be too ludicrous to give them a decision against labor organiza tions based upon that act. If tho act is to bo construed to hold liable the em ployees (as "servants") of a railroad com pany and to make the employees respon sible when traffic is interrupted because of a strike, then the law should be amended so as to compel railroads to pay wages equal to what aro paid by com peting and connecting lines. Where would the Ann Arbor bo then? The fact is that the interstate law is avowedly an act for the protection of shippers by pre venting preferences and rebates. Under tho antitrust and conspiracy laws a case may bo made to hang together long enough for the present purposes of the railroad kings, but it will be difficult to prove a conspiracy in the Brotherhood j of Locoinotivo Engineers against the Ann Arbor and Lake Shore roads. Tho rule in the brotherhood bylaws on which the action is based is as follows: j That hereafter, when an issue has beon sus tained by the grand chief and carried into ef fect by tho B. of L. E., it shall be recognized ns a violation of obligation for a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers' associa tion, who may bo employed on a railroad run ning in connection with or adjacent to said road, to handle tho property bclongiug to Bald railroad or system in any way that may benefit said company in which the B. of L. E. is at Is sue, until tho grievance or issuo of whatevci nature or kind lias been amicably settled. I am not a lawyer, but that a rule which declares that the performance of Btated acts under certain conditions by those who have subscribed to tho rule "shall l>o recognized as a violation of obliga tion" can bo construed ns a conspiracy j against tho Ann Arbor and Lake Shore railroads I doubt. And then what will be done with tho firemen, who have no such rule? Will tho fact that they be long to a labor organization be sufficient! Probably. Whatever may be the outcome of the 1 proceedings inaugurated by the rail- | road officials at Toledo, one thing is beyond doubt, and that is that the j magnates have resolved to unitedly fight tho organizations of railway employees to the dellth. Encouraged by tho ease with which they secured the assistance of tho militia at Buffalo last year, the magnates have decided to gobblo tip the ' bench if possible, and then God help the employee who dares to say his soul is his own. As bofore stated, tho result will bo to drive the men into dark chamber, oatbbound organizations and to arouse ! in them tho spirit of hatred which has been lulled by the respect that has been shown of late years for certain of thoii ] simpler rights. The workingmen of this ! country aro not made of the kind of stuil that willing slaves are mado of, and they have learned too much of what life ! might he under freedom and a justTsys- ! | tern to he turned hack on the road they | i have been traveling without a hard j j struggle. They have endured injustice j , because the hope of a better future, for ! tlieir children if not for themselves, SUB | tuined them. Take away that hope, and tho intelligence they cannot he deprived | of for a few generations may prove a i terrible thing to modern civilization. JOS. It. BUCHANAN. ! THE GOLDEN RULE. [ If It Were Obeyed, There Would Bo So , So Called "Labor Question." , Rev. I. Newton Stangc>r of the Church of the Atonement, Philadelphia, preached recently from the text, "All things what i soever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to tliem, for this is | tho law and the prophets." In substance i | ho spoke as follows: As Jesus used these words, they were I the conclusion of tho highest moral and j spiritual discourse ever delivered to man. I They are a "golden rule," because they epitomize tlie sermon 011 the mount. If ' remembered and acted upon by man, they will settle every dispute, right every I wrong, correct every injustice in tho | social and political domain. It must he confessed that our social atmosphere is ' murky with discontent; that class is con federated against class; that labor is in conflict with its greatest friend, capital, | and wo aro told that the rich are getting I richer and the poor poorer. } Organized labor today is a powerful and determined agency with which cap ital is bound to reckon at every step, j Tho end is not yet, and we seem to stand on the verge of a portentous revolution unices a remedy can ho found. With the statesmen perplexed and silent, with | the professional reformers proposing wild and inadmissable schemes, with tho | idealists propounding cold and heartless laws of trade, another voice speaks to tlie contending forces, illustrating the principles essential to all sound social combinations—"One is your Master, and yo aro brethren—love as brethren." Yet in this land where Christianity has wielded an influence from the be ginning we find today 10,000,000 of men possessed with the feeling that they are not being fairly treated. The fact is that. tho old maxims and laws of trade and commerce need an infusion of the moral blood of Jesns Christ. The students of sociology are rapidly being won over to the defense of the laboring class, hut not because they are blind to the in herent and inalienable rights of either party. While maintaining that the cap italist shonld not have it in his power to oppress labor, tlvcy would as strenuously protest that labor, in the exercise of its right to reject an employer's offer, is not justified in using force to prevent another man from accepting what one has chosen to decline. I The Christian advocate of a new or der, of a higher morality in man's deal ing with his fellows, cannot he blind to the many and grievous wrongs which | have been committed by the weaker par ty in this conflict. Both sides have for gotten to ho brotherly in pretending to jhe just. Neither party has seemed to have in mind that truly golden rule of the Great Master Workman, Jesus Christ, "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, for this is the law and the prophets." Why Labor Complains. The writer agrees that man, in order 1 to exist, must have food, ulothing and ! shelter, and that we want moro work ■ ingmeu in every department of life. : ! These workingmen will appear as soon ' as we abolish the drones, who have a 1 thousand times more food, clothing and j shelter than they ever can use. How j did thoy get all this wealth? By their own exertions? Let ns see! j All wealth is produced by labor,ap plied to land. Where land is free and labor is unassisted by capital the whole produce will go to labor as wages. Where land is free and labor is assisted ; by capital wages will consist of the j whole produce, less that part necessary to induce tho storing up of labor as capital. Where land is subject to ownership : and rent arises wages will be fixed by what labor could secure from the highest natural opportunities open to it without the payment of rent. Whoro natural opportunities are all > monopolized wages may he forced by tho competition among laborers to the minimum at which laborers will consent j to reproduce. j A careful perusal of those four quota tions will convince "Aunt Matilda" that the millionaires obtained their millions by some hocus pocus privileges that en able them to appropriate for themselves tho wealth produced by those who ap plied mind and muscles to matter. Men do not labor for the fun of it, hut to satisfy tlieir wants and desires, and as all these must be produced from the raw material stored in the earth "Aunt Ma tilda" can easily see that ho who owns the earth, and who therefore has the power to exclude others who havo an equal right to tho use of it, is tho one who takes tho lion's share. For those who have to work from CO to 84 hours per week in order to keep themselves and families out of tho poor house tlioro is no "bright side of the pic ture," not even in. this land of the land lord and the home of tho slave.—Uncle ! Tom in St. Louis Post-Dispatch. OppreHslHg the Weak. 1 Dr. Emil G. Hirscli of Chicago, Brak ing of the "bureau of justice" in that city, which is intended to assist the poor in obtaining their legal rights: "To defend tho rights of the weak is tho highest duty ethics can teach. Ev ery man, weak or strong, should have justice done him. At present tho weak aro deprived of their rights because they aro known to be weak and unable to fight wealth by the aid of cumbersome and expensivo law. "So long as present conditions exist we need tho bureau of justice to protect tho poor from tho chattel mortgage' thieves. Sotno of them are members of our Four Hundred and belong to fash- i ionable churches and clubs. As long ns a man has money there is very little question as to how ho got it." A Growing Union. Harry E. Aston, grand foreman and , organizor of tlie International Associa tion of Machinists, reports his organiza tion as growing at a marvelous rate. He stated recently that there were 308 healthy lodges attached to the associa- I tion and that the aggregate membership | j was over 25,000. The organization has I lodges in the United States, Canada and Mexico. 1 OUT OF THE FLESH. I was walking down Bromfleld street in Boston on a stormy day in December. The narrow sidewalk, covered with ice and trod den snow, and the sharpened pitch of the street made pedestrianism a venture bor dering upon rashness. As I was in some what of a hurry, I pushed past a couple of fat, cautious, waddling gentlemen and started at a swinging pace down the treach erous incline. Suddenly I was aware that my feet had slipped from under me. Then tame a flash, followed by darkness. The same street stretched before me, only I was walking in the opposite direction. A hat was lying in the gutter, which struck me in the most whimsical way as being ex actly like my hat. I was about to pick it up and examine it, when I noticed a group of men carrying a heavy object into an ad jacent drug store. I pushed forward with curiosity, ami was astonished to see that the heavy object was myself, hatless, my face deadly white, with somedrops of blood clustered on the hair. The men staggered in the drugstore, and I followed them. They laid their burden on the counter, and the druggist came rush ing from a back room in frightened haste. He ruthlessly tore open the bosom of what I shuddered to perceive was my best coat, loosened the underclothing and bent down in a listening attitude. I shall never forget the expression of his face as he turned and looked up without lifting his body. "Gentlemen," he said, "the man is dead 1" I laughed outright at the preposterous tiess of the statement. My voice was per fectly audible to myself, but none of the others in the room seemed to hear it—at least none of them turned to look at me. I heard one of the bystanders say that he would report the case atonce, and the drug gist nodded silently toward the telephone. As for me, I could midure the farce no long er and walked out with a distinct con sciousness of elation, as if I had suddenly become rid of a great burden or had real ized some long delayed hope. The snow was falling thickly outside, but I felt so strangely happy that the whirling storm seemed more beautiful than the faifest Juno sky I had ever seen. I walked up Tremont street, my heart leaping with an undreamed of joy in mere existence. On the corner of the first block, whom should I meet but my dear old Dr. S., who had brought mo into the world, and who had been my best friend and counselor until three years before, when blood poison ing, contracted during a critical surgical operation, had carried him off. The recog nition was mutual, and we fefl into each other's arms with exclamations of surprise and delight. "Why, doctor, God bless you! I thought you were dead." "My dear boy! I didn't know that you had escaped." I looked at my friend in blank amaze ment. "Escaped!" I cried. "What do you mean? Escaped what?" "Flesh," cried the doctor briefly, while the same old laugh seemed to ring in his kindly voice. "Bones!" And he beamed on me with his face like a plastic chunk of sunshine. I looked down at my tweed suit and cork soled shoes. Then I gazed upon the doc tor's expansive waistcoat peeping through his half buttoned mackintosh. "I don't see that I have oven escaped my clothes, or that you have either," I replied dubiously. "If you don't believe that you have es caped flesh and bones," said the doctor seri ously, "try walking through that lamp post." I advanced incredulously to the post, backed off with a laugh, then moved up again, with the doctor's hund on my shoul der, and ineltcd through the solid iron; or, to speak more exactly, the solid iron melted through me. "Now, follow me through this old apple woman," chuckled the doctor, and in an in stant we had permeated a half bushel of wormy fruit ami a dame as withered and gaunt as the tree that bore it. "Are you satisfied?" cried the doctor ns he dragged me through a solid wall into the privacy of two closeted politicians, who never noticed our intrusion in the least. 1 "Perfectly, so far as ocular demonstra- | tion goes," I replied, admiring the nonchal ance and familiarity with which the doctor leaned upon the shoulder of one of the pol iticians, and from force of habit while in the flesh proceeded to examine his tongue. "Yes," I continued, "1 am satisfied that I am not what I was, out you will have the kindness to explain why we both retain the same semblance OH when we were in the body?" "Certainly," replied my friend. "We do not —that is, not really. In a very brief space of time now—perhaps before these wirepullers have arranged their slate—you will begin to experience me as I do you. Your present notion of form is a mere rem iniscence." As the doctor spoke I became gradually conscious that his protruding waistcoat and voluminous mackintosh were fading away. In their place appeared nothing at first but a little whirling column of mist. Presently that, too, vanished, and the doc tor's voice grew fainter ami fainter till it utterly ceased. In place of seeing or hear ing came such a sudden, vivid realization of the presence and reality of my friend that I gloyved to the center of my soul with an unspeakable warmth of love and joy. The air about me seemed to quiver with a penetrating yet unseen life and light. I was about to enter into the perfect and un utterable ecstasy of a spiritual beginning, when—Bromfleld street opened its slushy, dirty length before me; a compassionate bystander assisted me to my feet, while another brought me my hat, saying: "Well, my friend, your head had a pretty hard rap on the curb. I guess you must havo lain uncous :ious for a minute or more."—Kate Field's Washington. Where Girls Often Err. Rejected lovers may find consolation from the knowledge that some of the cleverest nnd handsomest men have been refused, and they have nevertheless managed to live on and win fame and fortune. Shakespeare is generally credited with considerable knowl edge of humanity and its ways, and he de scribes Romeo, the prince of lovers, as be ing rejected by the fair Rosalind only just before Juliet fell in l<sve with him. A cer tain John Scott once proposed to a Miss Allgood. While smarting from her dis dain, ho happened to enter a village church during divine service, and there for the first time he saw the pretty Miss Surtees. He wooed her, and as her father would have nothing to say to him he induced her to elope, and this though three wealthy suit ors were already at her feet. John Scott lived to be earl of Eldon and lord high chancellor and never regretted the day Miss Allgood rejected him. —Brandon Bucksaw. Only a Snack. "Mercy!" grunted the little pig. "I am nearly starved to death. I haven't had any thing to eat for almost three minutes, nnd then it was only a snack—three bushels of j pea pods and 14 pecks of withered lettuce | leaves."—-Harper's Bazar. BIiHIS MILMM SYSTEM. * 7 LEHIGH VALLEY DIVISION. ' Anthracite coal used exclu / - B . iN , c^, ' IBU,in K cleanliness and ARRANGEMENT OK PASSENGER TRAINS. I>KC. 4, 181)2. LEAVE FREEHAND. 0 10, 8 nr., 0 40. 10 41 a m, 12 25, 100, 2 40. 3 50, 4 55, 0 41. 7 13*8 47 p in. for I nil ton, Jeddo. Lum ber Yard, Stockton .uul Ha/.leton. 0 10, 040 a m, 1 50, 350 p in lor Mauch Chunk, Allentown, Bethlehem, lMiila., Easton and New York. 8 35 a m for Bethlehem, Easton and Philadel phia. n^'k?# 50 IV,"; lulo, 1 u lO, 4 ,n ' - vi!l Highland Branch) tor \\ hite Haven, Glen Summit, Wilkes- Barre, Pittston and L. and 11. Junction. SUNDAY TRAINS. 11 4da m and 345j. in for Drifton, Jeddo,•Lum ber Yard and llazieton. 345 pin for Delano. Mahanoy City, Shenan doah, New York and Philadelphia. ARRIVE AT FREEHAND. , 5 60. 7 00, 7 20, 9 18, 10 50 a m, 12 10, 1 15, 233 4 50, , 03 and 537 p m, l roin Huzletou, Stockton! Lumber \ ard, Jeddo and Drifton. . .0 9 18, 10 50 a in, 12 16, 2 88, 4 50, 703 p m fnmi Delano, Mahanoy City and Shenandoah (via New Boston Branch). 1 15 and 837 p m from New York, Easton Chunk °* Bot,llc,lL ' m ' Allentown und Mnueh !i 1 [B"na 1088 nm from Easton, Philadelphia, Bethlehem ami Muneli ( hunk. 9 18, 10 41 u in, 2 43,0 41 p m from White Haven Glen Summit, Wilkes-Bur re, I'ittston and L and B. Junction (via Highland Branch). SUNDAY TRAINS. 1131 am and3Bl pm, from Huzlcton, hum ber ard, Jeddo and Drifton. and Easton* 01 " ,ull °* Ha/.leton, Philadelphia "HA P "i troin Pottsville and Delano. Agents ° r inlunua H°u inquire of Ticket V C. G. HANCOCK, Gen. Puss. Agt. , • Philadelphia, Pa. A. W. NONNEMACHEK, Ass'ttJ. P. A. South Bethlehem. Pa. A. W. WASHBURN, Builder of Light and Heavy Wagons. REPAIRING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. PINK AND JOHNSON STS., FUEELAND. Hardware, Paints, Oils, Miners' Supplies. Minors will do woll to try our oil nnd ant prices. \\ e have also a complete stoi-k of C. D. ROHBBACH, - - - $1.50 - - - > Bring- "STcu. tlie Tri'b-uri.e For - - a, - - BTear. ■|^C.P. I GM GTAHL & CO., agents for Lebanon Brewing Co. Fittest and Best Beer in the Country. Satisfaction GUARANTEED. Pnrties wishing to try this excellent beer will please call on Stalil & Co., 1137 Centre Street. HERET A BARGS One of the best located properties on Centre street, Five Points, is offered at a sacrifice. Any person de siring to make a paying in vestment should investigate this. A fine, well-built two-story building, 33x44 feet, containing a dwelling and buck kitchen, also a storeroom, 23x18 feet. A good stable, 11x18 feet, is on rear of lot. The owner lias good rea sons for wishing to dispose of the property, and the purchaser will be given easy terms. For further infor mation APPLY AT THE TiIIIIIINK OFFICE. HARNESS AN , HORSE GOODS of every description. We can furnish you with goods that will please the eye, and be of such quality that they cannot be surpassed, at THE LOWEST PRICES OBTAINABLE. : :1 " I wish I had one." GEO. WISE, No. 35 Centre Street, Freeland. Also Jeddo, Pa. V
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