FREELAND TRIBUNE. PTJBIJKUKD EVERY • MONDAY AND THTKSDAY. TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. Ono Year 81 B0 SLx Months Four Months GO Two Months 25 Subscribers arc requested to observe the date following the name ou tho lubels of their papers. By referring to tills they can tell at a glanco how they stand on the books In this office. For instance: Grover Cleveland 2HJuncos means that Grover Is paid up to June 28, 1806. Keep the figures In advance of tho present dab*. Report promptly to this office when your paper Is not received. All arrearages must bo iwild •when paper is discontinued, or collection will be made In the manner provided by law. FREELAND, PA., MAY 31, 1894. What has Congressman Hincs ever done to deserve a renomina tion from the Democratic party The Illinois Federation of Labor has had a committee examining land in Merced county, California, on which to locate tho unemployed families of Chicago. In two or three cases the land is offered for practically nothing, and a member of the committee says ho is sure tho project will be carried out. They can locate 310 families on twenty acre tracts at a figure which, he says, the company intended to bo organized by members of tho federa tion can easily handle. The plan of dividing each 320 acres into communi ties around a central group of houses has been adopted as the best adapted to conditions. Congressman "Tom" JohnsoD, the free trade leader of the house, hns announced himself as a candidate for re-election. His district, which takes in the city of Cleveland, 0., lias a nor mal Republican majority of about 2,000 and was gerrymandered by the legislature for the special purpose of keeping "Tom" out of congress, Viut he carried it by over 3,000 two years ago and is confident he can do it again. Voters, whether they be Democrats or Republicans, invariably recognize the value of a representative who has tho courage to express himself as his conscience dictates, and as Mr. John son has shown himself to be one of that class his chances are considered bright. John Quincy Adams, in 1832, said: The doctrine that duties on imports seem to cheapen the price of tho arti cle on which they are levied, seems to conflict with the first elements of common sense. The duty constitutes part Of the price of the whole muss of tho article on the market. It is sub stantially paid upon the article of do mestic manufacture as well as upon that of foreign production. Upon one it is a bounty, upon the other a burden, and tho repeal of the tax must operate as an equivalent reduc tion of the prico of the article, wheth er foreign or domestic. We say so i long as the importation continues the duty must be paid by the purchaser of the article. Mr. Gladstone has written a letter to an Italian newspaper in which he says that tho difficulty in tho way of t.he settlement of the Irish question now is that the Irish parlimentary party is not united. That is non sense. Tho Irish parlimentary party was united and stood by bim in the last great vote he took in the house of commons. It voted solidly with him for home rulo and sent the bill to the lords, who threw it out with scorn. And what did Mr. Gladstone do then? Appeal to the country? No; he resigned and made a lord his suc cessor as tho premier of England. Tho plea was that his physical eye sight was bad. His mental obliquity was infinitely worse. Ho ran away from a groat issue. He betrayed the Irish cause. That will be tho ver dict of history.— N. }' Recorder. Both of the Democratic papers at the county seat declare that Luzerne county is Democratic by a large majority if the proper candidates are nominated by tho party. Upon that point there is no question, as the voters have demonstrated their pre ference for Democratic principles so often that it should bo unnecessary to reiterate it. Tho party machinery, however, for the past few years has boon in the hands of men who have not and never will havo the confidence of the rank and file, and until new leaders aro substituted or the Demo cratic votors loose some of their in dependence, the result of coming elections will he very uncertain There aro very few candidates an nounced this year, as compared with previous campaigns, but there are enough in the field. Tho work of electing tho nominees is going to be an uphill job, for the voters will not be particularly enthusiastic for the top heavy ticket that lias boon slated. I Tho renoinination of Hines alone will be sufficient to kill tlie chances of evory Domocrat who may aspire to office in Luzerne county, for who will have the audacity to apologize for his actions since he was sent to Wash ington? See McDonald's J>2.98 chenile curtains. WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, D. C., May 29, 1894. Whether freedom really shrieked when Kosciusko fell is a matter about which practical folks have doubts, but no practical working Democrat should have any doubts about throwing up his hat and giving three cheers and a tiger for the Democrats in the house who had j the moral courage to support the amend- j ment offered by Representative Enloe, of Tennessee, to the legislative and i , executive appropriation bill, striking out i the appropriation for salaries, etc., of | ( the most colossal public sham of the age , —the civil service commission, a com- mission which, although authorized with ( the best intentions to make it fair and , impartial, has been operated from the first day of its existence to the present time as a machine for keeping Republi cans in ollice. Mr. Enloe has offered this amendment several times when this annual appropriation was before the house, but never until now has he suc ceeded in getting it adopted, and even now it is not certain that it will stay adopted, as the vote—lo9 to 71—was taken when the house was sitting as a committee of the whole, and the Repub- I licans have given notice that they will call for a separate yea and nay vote on the amendment when the bill is report ed back to the house from the committee on the whole, and they will make a desperate attempt to get enough Demo crats to vote with them to defeat the amendment. Attorney General Olney, in answer to a resolution adopted by the senate last week, asking what action had been taken against the trust under the act of July 2, 1890, has furnished the record of a suit begun against the various firms compos ing the sugar trust, which was dismissed in the United States court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, with costs I against the government, appealed to tile circuit court, which affirmed the action of the district court, and which is now before the United States supreme court on appeal. Mr. Olney does not say so, but it is inferred from his commuuica i tion and the accompanying documents that he considers the much-talked about Sherman anti-trust law a worthless one. Other people suspicioned as much when it was first proposed by Mr. Sherman as a substitute for a more stringent meas ure proposed by Democratic senators. The senate committee has concluded the taking of testimony in the brib ery case, and it is believed that the re port will state the belief of the commit tee to be that ISutz attempted to bribe Senators Ifunton and Kyle. The com mittee is now taking testimony concern ing the sugar trust and its alleged rela tions with senators. The house committee on naval affairs has begun the investigation of the Car negie armor plate contracts, authorized by the resolution this week adopted by the house. It will probably be a long j one, as it covers all the armor made by the Carnegie companies from tho begin ing of their contracts with the govern ment. Senator Walsh, of Georgia, was natur ally very much surprised when he learned that the Hrotherhood of Locomo tive Engineers regarded his bill against any stoppage or interference of trains carrying mails as being aimed against them, after telling the senate that as a journeyman printer his sympathies were and always had been with the la boring men of this country, of whom he was proud to be one, he introduced an amended bill, which he thinks cannot be possibly misconstrued by anybody. The title of the bill is "To Protect the United States Mails," and it provides that any person who shall rob or attempt to rob or maliciously obstruct or retard for the purpose of robbery the passage of any railroad train on which the mails are carried shall bo punished by im prisonment at hard labor not less than one nor more than twenty years. S. "Inkliorn" Pleads for Justice. From the Wilkes-Barrc Telephone. In previous articles I have given figures to show that tho coal companies unfler the prevailing method of dockage usually deduct from three to seven per cent, of the coal produced by the miners each year. In 1887 for instance, the dockage robbery in all the collieries of tho first, second and third anthracite districts, which includes the territory between Shickshinny and Carbondale, the miners lost through dockage alone 1,004,213 £ tons of coal. This coal, or the , bulk of it at least, was sold by the com j panics at a fraction over $2 per ton, or a total aggregate of $2,010,400.72, being an average steal of about SIOO from each miner employed during the year. It surely cannot be called anything else than bare-faced robbery and extor tion for the coal companies to charge : $2.75 for a keg containing twenty-five I pounds of powder which costs them wholesale only sl, or $1.25 per keg, and at the same time refuse thier miners tho . privilege of buying powder from other I dealers or from the manufacturers. In ' ordinary mining from ten to twelve kegs of powder is consumed by two men working two breasts every day in the month, if they fire from six to seven blasts each day. Thus it can readily be seen that on powder alone each miner is robbed of from sfi to $lO per month, which goes to swell the other exorbitant profits realized by the pluck-rne com pany store system. For years the miners have borne this kind of injustice because they are too helpless to remedy their wrongs. 1' or a long time particularly since the influx of cheap foreign labor began, wages have 1 been cut down to a starvation standard. The working time at the collieries has been limited to two and three days a week under the plan of restricting the market to keep up the price of coal to to consumers. Meanwhile millions of people east, west, north and south, cannot alTord to buy anthracite coal which is sold in seaboard cities at $0 and $7 per ton. Hence the consumption of coal is simply restricted to increase the profits and annual dividends of the six or seven great.coal and railroad corpora tions that control the trade. I do not desire to be considered an alarmist, but in view of the great strike now in progress throughout all the west ern states where bituminous coal is pro duced it is only right to call attention to this matter and condemn the injudicious policy of the great anthracite mining corporations, which is at present a men ace to the welfare and prosperity of the i entire country. Beyond all question they are pursuing a course toward the miners and the public that is certain to stir up bitterness and strife which will probably lead to greater scenes of vio lence and disorder than has ever before darkened the history of the anthracite region. The percentages of profits realized by the railroads for transporting coal to market can easily he ieduced 50 per cent. The services of the army of mid dlemen employed as sales agents can Vie dispensed with. Enormous salaries ranging from $30,000 to $50,000 paid to railroad presidents and general mana gers can be cut down one half. The system at ic robbery of cheating dock bosses, and pluck-me stores, can be abolished. And finally, the extravagant high price of coal can be reduced one half to consumers, and the consumption of anthracite coal can thus he increased to the limit of present productive capa city of the collieries, if the corporations will agree to follow a live and let live policy toward the public from whom at present they are filching millions of dol lars annually. Long Distance Transmission of Steam. From tho Scientific Aincrioan. At a recent meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Eckley B. Coxe described a method he had used in carrying steam a long distance. At a colliery they wished to carry steam to a water works about 4,500 feet over a hill from tho boiler plant. A trough was made by nailing the edges of two boards together, so that they formed a right angle. The trough was supported by two stakes driven in tho ground and ' crossing just beneath tho trough. The ■ pipe was laid in the trough resting on I cast iron plates, the pipe surrounded by mineral wool and a similar inverted ' trough placed over the top. To allow expansions, a bend was made to one side at the top of the hill, and then it was turned back to its original direction. A largo receiver was intro duced in the pipe at tho pumps. This was made of three sheets of an old boiler, and was thirty-four inches in diameter. This also served as a separ ator. As the elevation was 1,800 feet above the sea, the cold was excessive in the winter time, but this arrangement has been in use since 1877, has cost nothing for maintenance, and has given no trouble. Mr. Coxe believed that the secret in carrying steam long distances to an engine without causing a drop in the steam pressure was in the use of a receiver or reservoir. Suing tlio County for #:iOO. The Pittston Gazette on Friday com menced action against the county for a bill of S3OO, which the publisher, Theo. Hart, alleges was contracted by the county by a contract signed with him for the publication of the annual statement of tho county auditors in the Gazette. The commissioners refused payment of the hill because the controller disap proved the hill because the contract for publication was not reduced to writing and filed immediately with the control ler, because it was not made with the lowest bidder, after publication for bids had been made, and because their cer tifying it would be contrary to an act of the legislature, as the expense was greater than the law allows. I here are six other papers whose bills for like amounts were disapproved and this test case will settle all. Itlg Coal Operations. The following contracts have been re cently awarded: ToC'uyle A ( 0., by Coxe Bros. A Co., contracts of stripping 250 - 000 cubic yards of surface near Eckley The same company awarded to C. F King A Co. the contract for excavating I 200,000 cubic yards of surface overlying tho vein at old Buck Mountain. This colliery was abandoned years ago. At Honey Brook the Lehigh and Wilkes- Barro Coal Company gave to Crawford | A Dugan the contract of uncovering the 1 old Bull Run mine. VanWickle A Co. has commenced the erection of seven blocks of houses at Beaver Meadow, preparatory to opening up an extensive stripping operation. \Y all paper, fi cents per double roll, at A. A. Bachman's. Paper hanging done at shoit notice. SIMILAR DESIRES. Mrs. Mulligan—l'd rather hev the hull family sick than you! Mr. Mulligan—So would I! Hallo. Condition ol' the Coal Trade. Fro n Saward's Coal Trade Journal. The anthracite coal trade during the past week lias shown perhaps a slight change for the better, in that there has been a greater demand for certain sizes of this coal from former soft-coal users, which demand has taken up the broken as well as the small steam sizes. This has befcn particularly noticeable along the line between the mines and tide water and even at Philadelphia, which is so largo a seat of manufactures. The domestic sizes do not move off with any particular degree of activity, except perhaps to the New England ports, and they are taken there because of the very favorable prices which are being made. In order to meet the enlarged demand some increase o# the output for the month of May has been agreed upon, and the collieries will be run on a basis of GO per cent, of their capacity. It is to bo feared that the storms of the re cent week will keep down the tonnage during this current week to a certain extent. Already there is some discussion as to the advisability of making an advance in the price list to date from the Ist of June; it is the opinion of certain of the conservative members of the trade that it is exercising a wise discretion to make an advance for both the interior and tidewater tonnage. Cracked Hi* Skull With a Rat. John Moran, of Wilkes-Barre was fatally wounded on Friday night by "Bud" McGinness, of Kingston, during a quarrel. Moran's little brother was playing ball in the street with a number of other hoys when McGinness, annoyed by their shouting, took the hat and hall from tliem. \ oung Moran began to cry and his brother coming upon the scone, asked McGinness to return the bit and ball. McGinness refused and a few words passed between them, and then sudden ly McGinness swung the hat with all his force and struck Moran over the right ear. Moran fell unconscious to the ground and McGinness in the excitement escap ed. Moran's skull is fractured. The Krsult Was Satisfactory. From the Wilkes-Burro Record. Itail road era and others have been surprised during the week to see the large 1). S. & S. engines, four of which have been laken by the Valley, at the depot and vicinity. They are monster locomotives and very powerful. On Thursday one of the engines was coupled to a passenger train to see if better time i could be made up the mountain than with the Valley engines. The rusult > was satisfactory. Well, Let It Re Soon. 1 From the Wontlierly Herald. 1 Tilings seem to he shaping themselves 1 pretty nicely for Hon. Kckley B. Coxe, and from appearances it will not he long before the Coxes will control the Valley and the anthracite coal fields as well. At least the indications point in that direction. SIOO Reward, SIOO. Tho readers of this paper will bo pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is catarrh. Hall's catarrh cure is tho only positive cure now known to tho medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu tional diseaso requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying tho foundation of the disease, and giving tho patient strength by building up tho constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer one hundred dollars for any case that it fads to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Cirsoid by druggists, 75c. Little girl (after waiting some time for desert), "Grandpa, what do you have ' after dinner?" Grandpa—"Dyspepsia, my dear." Little girl—"()1, Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills will cure that." Picnics supplied with ice cream, cakes, candy, etc., at low prices hy Laubaeh. Fine line of shirt waists, McDonald's. PLEASURE CALENDAR. • June 10. —Fourth annual picnic of Divi sion 20, A. O. 11., at Eckley grove, i Juno 211.—Picnic of the Feurnots Ath | letic Association, at Drifton hall park. ' June 23.—Excursion of Young Men's T. A. B. Society to Glen Onoko. Fare: : adults, SO cents; children, 50 cents. 1 rain leaves Freeland, 7.30 a. in.; I Glen Onoko, Gp. m. 1 Examine McDonald's $3 velvet rugs. Helping Fapa. A minister'a wife was starting out for a walk and invited her little daugh ter to go with her. "No, mamma, 1 can't," was the very positive reply. "Why not?" "I have to help papa." "Ilelp papa! In what way?" "\\ hy, he told me to sit here in this , corner and keep quiet while he wrote his sermon, and 1 don't believe ho is half done yet."—Washington Star. Wanted II Ih Name Changed. "Well, John," said the judge to a pigtail celestial, "what can I do for you?" "Want to gette name changed." "What's your name now?" "Sing Sing. No goodoe. Gctto changed to Walbee Twice." "To •'Warble Twice?' " "Yep. All same Sing Sing."—Texas Siftings. Sorry Tliroo Tlmc.t. When a friend who shared our hobby horse and our ooolcies in childhood floats off on a European steamship we arc sorry. When she returns grasp ing a cane wo suppose she is lame and arc sorry. When we ask after her poor foot and find she is only trying to be a swell wo are sorry again—-this time for ourselves.—N. Y. Ilerald. Accepted the Doctrine. Little Frances' parents have been discussing reincarnation and the small maiden has acquired some of its phrase ology. "Mamma," she said one day, "my kitty must have been a pin in a pre vious state of existence, for I can feel 'em in her claws yet."—Judge. Something Better. Mistress—Hubctta, when I was driv ing In the park the other day, I saw a nurse allow a policeman to kiss a child. I hope you never al'ow such a thing. Babetta—Non, madame; no polize man vould think of kcesing ze child ven 1 vas zero.—Puck. Siitlßfiod the Harbor's Curiosity. "Wonder how those old-tiinc barbers used to pull teeth?" ventured the man who was shaving. "They probably did it with a razor like the one you have on my face."— Buffalo Express. A Familiar Dame. Little Dot—Let us play keep house. Little Ethel—All wight. You petend you are a—a lady and lam call In' on you. Little Dot—That'll be fun. Now sit down and ask me how I like my new girl.—Good News. Warned in Tlno. "I've caught you making love to my wife." "Well?" "I'll give you fair warning—I did did that once, and I've been sorry ever since."—llullo. Paid the Wrong Way. "Do you pay for spring poems?" asked the poet. "I do," replied the editor. "Lose six subscribers every time I publish one." —Atlanta Constitution. IT JCTST HAPPENED TIIAT WAY. IFT NEED THEE I It may hare boon a mere coincidence, but Mr. Lush forth will never be con vinced that his wife didn't set the bot tle in just that place on purpose.— Judge. Jlmmlo'H Perplexity* I am terribly mlxod about things of late, My mlml's In a regular garble; Why in it that agates ain't agato at all, And marbles aro not made of marblef Youug People* A Grave Mistake. Real Estate Agent—Yes, sir, I can recommend tho place to you. No ma laria, chills unknown. Healthiest lo cality In the stato. Stranger—Guess we can't do business —l'm a doctor.—Truth. Getting Square. Hotel Clerk—No. 80's curtain got a flrc from the gas last night. Proprietor— Um—telegraph to tho insurance company, and—and charge No. 80 fifty cents for a fire in his room. —Puck. Complimentary. Mrs. Newoome invited young Mrs. Smith to step in to dinner. "Hadn't I better go home and make myself pretty?" asked Mrs. Smith. "Oh, no, dear—come just as you arc!" Colored Schooln in tho South. Sam Johnsing—ls de 'tendance at do school party fair? Miss Johnsing—Some of 'em is aheap fairer den I is, but mos' of 'em is dark mulattcrs.—'Texas Sittings. How It Happened. Jess—l took off my hat at, the thea ter last night. Jack—How did that happen? Jess—We sat in tho last row, bock.— N. Y. World. A NeccßHary Formality. "They Ray that money Is a drug in the market." "\cs, but the trouble is one has to have a proscription iu order to get it.'* —Brooklyn Lite. SPORTING NOTES. WILLIAM STEIN ITZ, the chess cham pion, is in New York under medical treatment for insomnia. A NATIVE of Hawaii, seeing a man riding a bicycle, said it must bo very nice to "walk sitting down." INSURANCE companies claim that cycling is more dangerous than travel ing either by railways or steamships. THE horse George Frederick, winner of the English derby in 1874, was sold for thirty shillings recently in an Eng lish sale yard. IN order to furnish sport for a shoot ing party on his Moravian estate, Huron liirsch had six thousand partr ridges transported there in cagos and liberated. NEW ZEALAND is bent on preserving her remarkable wild birds and other i animals, and has set apart two islands J on which all hunting and trapping is ; forbidden. Foil the first time in the history of the English university boat races a married man, Sir Charles Ross, rowed in one of the crews this year, lie was married two years ago. MICHAEL F. DWYER, perhaps the greatest plunger of the American turf, laughs at the idea that luck brings wealth on the race track. Nerve and good judgment, he says, arc the only qualities necessary to a gambler's suc cess. THERE were 182,270 cycles used for pleasure solely in France last j'ear, a fact disclosed through the collection of the tax imposed on them. The pro portion of bicycles and tricycles is not stated. Cycles used by tradesmen for purely business purposes are exempt from tho tax. JUST SCRAPS. THE notes of the Hank of England cost exactly one cent each. THREE out of the first four presidents of the United States married widows. THE total inoomo of the Church of England is about one million dollars a week. "END of tho century" years are not leap years unless divisible by four hun dred. BUCKETS of plantain leaves arc made by the natives of almost every tropical country. FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND men are es timated to rido in the elevators of New York city every day. THE French system of weights is pretty nigh universal in all countries other than English speaking. PHCENIX PARK, Dublin, covers nearly two thousand acres; Central park, Now York, eight hundred and sixty-two. A TON of steel made up into hairpins when in watches is worth more than twelve and one-half times the value of the same weight in pure gold. OVER THE RAILS Or STEEL. TIIE largest railroad shops in tho world are those of tho Big Four at Bellefontaine, O. AMERICAN locomotive builders turned out 1,958 locomotives last year, a de crease over previous years. SOME antiquarians claim that there is proof that the locomotive engine was known in China two hundred years ago. ORDERS for two hundred and fifty lo comotives and several thousand rail way carriages have been given by tho Russian government to Austrian and Belgian firms, presumably required for the trans-Siberian railway. IN order to avoid setting fire to tho pampas by sparks from its locomotives the Buenos Ayres Great Southern rail road has been experimenting success fully with petroleum as a locomotive fuel, tho intention being to substitute petroleum for coal if practicable. ODDITIES OF NATURE. MALE mosquitoes do not bite. THE original inventor of paper was the wasp. MOUNT SINAI, in Arabia, is 0,641 feet in hoight. THE mummy cats unearthed in Egypt have red hair. THE common horse fly Ims 1(1,000 facets on its eyes. THE kestrel has been known to fly 150 miles an hour. FEMALE frogs have no voice; only the males can sing. A FLEA'S mouth is placed exactly be tween his fore legs. THE highest mountain in Europe is Mount Blanc—is,7B2 feet. THERE are more muscles in tho tail of a rat than in a human hand. GLIMPSES OF EUROPE. DUTCH country houses arc decorated with legends. IN Paris the undertaking business is monopolized by the city government. ON some parts of the coast of France when tho wind is east the mist that appears, it is said, bears with it a no ticeable perfume. VIENNA has entered upon an exten sive scheme of embellishment, and un sightly public buildings are to give place to new ones of artistic design. IN England the successful lawyer makes from §75,000 td §IOO,OOO a year and successful physician §BO,OOO to §100,000; the average barrister and medical man, however, does not make more than §1,200 a year. WHERE AMERICA LEADS. A REGULAR organization of one legged beggars exists in Springfield, Mo. TUB new American street letter boxes are about to bo adopted in Lon don. PAPER can bo made from the stand ing treo in the space of twenty-four hours. THE first horse was brought to this continent in 1518. Now there arc, in tho Unitod States alone, 14,050,750, valued at §941,000,000. THE oldest salvage corps in this coun try is reported to i>e the Protective so ciety of Now Bedford, Mass. It was organized in March, LB9. 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