FREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. THOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION'KATESI One Year $1 50 Six Months e* Four Months 5" Two Months 25 Subscribers are requested to observe the figures following the mime on the labels of their papers. By reference to these they can ascertain to what date their subscription is paid. For instance: G rover Cleveland 2 a June?6 means that Grover is paid up to June 28,1890. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Report promptly to this oilioe whenever you do not receive your paper. All arrear ages must be paid when paper is discontinued FRBELAND, PA., OCTOBER 31. 1895 Get F.very Democrat to the Polls Luzerne county was lost to the Demo crats last year through the stay-at-home voters of the party, principally. Then* were other causes, of course, which had an important bearing upon the result, but nothing aided the Republicans more in piling up a majority than the refusal of Democrats to go to the polls. Singer ly's voto In this county in 1894 was over 2,000 less than the vote polled for Presi dent Cleveland two years previous. Let evory Democrat remember that. It matter not how popular the candidates may bo, how hard the chairman and committees may work, nor what the prospects are, the victory cannot be won unless the Democratic voters go to the polls. In Luzerno county there are over 250 voting districts. There are at least from fifteon to twenty Democrats in every precinct who require some e\tr i persuasion to get them to tin* poll. I party wants them to vote .hi- y . The old county should b red.' m the reign of Republican misrule extravagance in w-in-ii h IM cast by these voters' iiidiiTeren.. can be done if every Democrat will r v five or ton minutes of his time on oliu tlon day in persuading one of his eis) going friends to go and vote. Four extra votes in every polling district means more than 1.000 more votes foi the party's candidates. That alon< would give Democracy certain victor). and how easy it can be done if you am other Democrats will sacrifice a lltth time In doing the work that is more ne cessary this year than ever before. In a county like this it may seem th;< one vote counts for little, but that is ; mistake—an error that has too ofter cost the party a victory. Every vote i important next Tuesday, so let even Democrat put forth his best efforts t> poll tho full party vote for the straight ticket from Meyers for state treasure.! to Meyers for county surveyor. Even man whoso name appears in the Demo cratic column is the peer of his oppo nent, and there is no excuse for cutting. Quay decries "the growing use of money in politics," and yet it was Mat thew Stanley Quay who, in a recent national campaign, used more money than any other political leader in Amor lean history; and it is Matthew Stanley Quay who Is this year distributing thousands and thousands of dollars in every doubtful district in the common wealth. Tho people know this to bo a fact, and only those who are wholly lost municipal gov i a;u :u? uvi regard i... tho rights of their fellowmen will sum by him in a campaign that was con coived in fraud and whose career is steeped in the same old kind of political corruption that has marked every politi cal action of tho man, who owes his pre sent high position and influence in his party to the solid cash he has paid for it. Tho banking department of the state government is a very important branch of tho stato's offices, and it presented a grand opportunity for Republican finan ciering that was not to be missed. And it was taken advantage of to the amount of nearly 8100,000. The Democratic management of this department ran the office successfully on $26,600 in 1803. it will cost the Republicans $124,000 this year, or an actual excess of $97,400. How does this $97,400 waste of funds correspond with the Republican pledges? Do you still think that party fit to have charge of the public funds? No? Then voto tor Hon. it. F. Meyers, of Dauphin, and get an honest man as treasury. In order to keep the fine gun-making plant at the Washington navy yard in operation, it has been decided to make tho three-inch guns which are needed for tho navy there. About one hundred of these guns will be made. Tho navy department had authority to have them made by contract, but when tho bids were received it was found that they could be made by the government just as cheap or cheaper, and the keeping together of the skilled force of mechan ics which were employed in the govern ment gun-shop turned the scales in favor of having the work done there. Tho condemnation of the administra tion of the state finances the past two years by prominent Republican papers can only be considered as condemning the whole department of which the real and actual chief is Mr. Hoy wood, tho Republican candidate for treasurer. People who want a square, upright, hon est supervision of the public moneys must vote for Hon. Benjamin F. Meyers, a man whose I n ,' career in public life is well known, an I againpt whom there has never bee;] a shadow of reproach. THE PLATFORM The Following is the Platform Adopted by the Williamsport Convention. First. The Democratic party, in State Con- ! volition assembled, hereby renews Its alle giance t > und declares its faith iu the prin- j cipies of Democracy ns formulated by Jeffer- I sou uml illustrated by Mndison, Monroe, Jni kson and Cleveland. It congratulates the American people upon the first fruits of the Democratic administration, which inherited from its Republican predecessor a bankrupt Treasury and unwise financial legislation, impaired public credit and widespread disas ter. and which, under the sagacious, courag eous and patriotic leadership of its great President, f more nnderate tariff laws have found their immediate results in the resumption if business and the restoration of the na tional credit. Third. As vindicating the principles of tariff reform, to which the Democracy is un ul'eniblj pledged, we challenge especial at ( ntion to the fact that such prosperity and the consequent material increase of wages lias been mast pronounced in the industries whose existence our opponents claimed were lependont upon high tariff duties. The gloomy prediction that the iron and steel in dustries of Pennsylvania would be destroyed by a reduced tariff lias been contradicted bj their present unexampled prosperity. Fourth. We Invito the attention of the wage earners to the fact that the present voluntary Increase of wages of those em ployed in tie* manufacturing industries, amounting to not less than $250,000,000, was absolutely unknown under the McKlnley tariff act. To prevent the reactionary legis lation threatened by the Republican party of Pennsylvania in their recent State Con vent ion. which would again depress busi ness by destroying faith in the stability of present conditions, we Invite our fellow countrymen throughout tho land, irrespec tive or party, to so act together as to in sure. by the election of a Democratic Presi dent in 1890, the maintenance of the present prosperity. Fll'ih. We especially reaffirm so much of ill-- platform of the last Democratic National Convention as calls fur the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country; but the dollar unit of coinage <>f !lotii me als must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be adjusted by inter nal ionul agreement, or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the payment of debts. We believe that such parity mid not be maintained by the free coinage of silver at tho ratio of 10 to 1, and we are, therefore, opposed to any legis lation looking to that end. Sixth. We arraign and condemn the pres ent administration, both hi the executive and leg siatlve branches of the government, for its refusal to reapportion the State, in accordance with the inundates of the Con stitution; for its profligate waste of public money; for its creation of private awards and useless public offices; for its degradation of the public service in factional contests; for its unnecessary increase of official sala ries to the detriment of many deserving charities of the State; for its legislation fa vorable O the interests of corporations and monopolies. Seventh. We challenge comparison be tween tliis State administration, which has been so faithless to its pledges, and the wise, economical and honest administration of Robert E. Pattison, which in the stainless purity of its record silenced partisan malig nity and justly merited and received the almost universal approbation of the people of this Commonwealth. Eighth. We especially Invite the sober consideration of the people of tills State to the remarkable factional struggle in the Re publican party, a struggle which involved no principle or public policy, but simply the supremacy of contending factional leaders. The worst arraignment at our hands of Re publican misrule falls short of what repre sentative Republican newspapers and lead ers testified of each other. The admitted prostitution of the nubile service, the invo cation of corporate Influences, the misuse of Judicial appointments and consequent prostitution of the Judiciary, the corrupt use of money in the purchase of delegates, the attempted terrorism at Harrisbtirg by men of the most abandoned type, fix the high water mark of political debauchery, it but needed to complete its infamy the transparent hypocrisy which led a conven tion. thus constituted, to adopt "with laugh ter" resolutions condemning the very meth ods by which its delegates had been selected. Such condemnation of "The growing use of money in politics; the corporate control of tlie Legislature, municipal Councils, politi cal primaries and elections; the enslave ment of public officers riml employes; favor itism in granting contracts and the granting of exclusive franchises in public necessi ties," while valuable as evidencing the truth of the accusations of the Democratic party in the last quarter of a century, yet coming from tlie very source which is responsible for these evils, constitutes the crowning in sult to the futelligence of a forbearing and long-suffering people. The Kaunas Idea. With much regret we note 1 that a Wichita (Kan.) man has pot into trouble about a kiss. It is never pleas ant to hear of a misunderstanding about a kiss. A kiss is such a harmless, necessary thing*—'the bestowing of it such a simple, innocent, and pleasant form of recreation—that to have any sort of trouble follow it is discouraging, to say the least. But in the Kansas case under consideration tho sorrow that such things should be is rather swallowed up in wonder at certain de tails of development. The thing has, of course, got into the courts, or noth ing would be known about it. Mrs Wertz, who was kissed, is suing Mr. Pulliam, who did the kissing, for dam ages. Realizing, apparently, the utter absurdity of such a thing as damages having any possible connection with so benign a tiling as a kiss, the lady's law yer has fallen back on his legal base of supplies and put forward the astonish ing pl*a that the defendant kissed the plaintiff in a "loud, boisterous, feloni ous, malicious, and unseemly man ner, against the peace and dignity of the state of Kansas." Now isn't it hard luck enough to he hauled up for so small an act as kissing, without having a heartless lawyer unload such a lot of misfit adjectives upon a person' Sure ly the law could impose no greater pen alty than to permit a bookish bar rister to get liis fell work in in such a manner. Advertisements are looked for by many readers of newspapers with nearly us much interest as the news itself. Ad vertisers. then, should keep the reading in the space they occupy fresh and bright. The TMHVNK makes no extra charge for changes in ads; rather, we prefer that merchants change frequent ly. Our readers want to know the latest news of tho stores, and we are prepared to assist the advertiser iu making his space nn interesting and more valuable part of the paper. The Southern Negro. In the language of a southern writer the generation of negroes born since the war are just beginning to "feel their oats." A vast army of them In the south are without the habits of sus tained industry and of self-restraint possessed by their fathers, educated in the school of slavery. They care noth ing for the law and the officers of the law. They are constantly in conflict with these and with the exasperated public opinion of their vicinage. They ! ore enemies of society, and in the in terests of society should be placed where they can do the least harm. An orderly administration of the laws everywhere is the best safeguard that society can have, but our Afro-Ameri can fellow-citizens damage their cause when they persistently place them selves on the side of the criminal ele ment of their race, in defiance of law and public opinion. To recognize the existence of this criminal element and "labor to lift them up morally and intellectually," as Mr. Scott suggests, would be a far more wise and judicious course to pursue. It Is never safe to justify the existense of abuses of what ever sort; a manly recognition of them and an honest effort to correct them will always command respect of those whose respect is worth having. "The common'negro" is a natural product of slavery and the reaction from slavery. He is in evidence in every southern community and in a few of the northern and western ones. lie complicates the race problem. He makes difficult the pathway of the hon est, respectable and ambitious mem bers of his race. He is too often, it is true, made the standard by which his whole race is judged, but under the circumstances this is unavoidable. An honest admission that he exists and that he is to be dealt with just as the criminal members of other races of the population are will be of incalculable advantage to Afro-Americans and to society generally. A 9E VENT Y-BKVEN- YEAR-OLD citizen of Great Falls, Wash., is undergoing a peculiar process of physical regenera tion. About a year ago he contracted pneumonia, and his life was for some time despaired of, the doctors saying his right lung was hopelessly wasted. He recovered, however, but when just able to hobble around he fell and broke his thigh bone, and was confined to the hospital again for six months. Since leaving, however, his physical condi tion has improved remarkably. His lungs began to open up until they be came almost as well as ever; his skin shed off and a new skin grew, and his hair and beard, which were snow white, are coming out a jet black. His limbs and muscles have limbered up, and he started a week or so since to take a herd of young horses across a long trail to market. He says if he continues to grow young he will get married again und grow up with the country. THERE is scarcely a husband who, during the past four months, has not urged his wife to learn to ride a wheel. There is scarcely u husband of the lot who does not now regret that ho so urged her. He lias found that it lias added to his nervous impairment, in the ratio of about fifty per cent., and, in addition thereto, ho bus caught the "husband neck." This strange malady is caused by the constant craning of the neck, generally to the left, to seo if the wife of one's bosom is safe. Even after the husband has found that his wife has really became a skilled rider, the habit remains. lie can no more help turning his head, at short inter vals, than he can help imagining that all sorts of dire disasters are befalling her. THERE is a dog owner in Philadel phia who tells a story concerning his canine companion that tries the belief of his friends, but he vouches for its truth. The dog is an intelligent look ing animal of the shepherd variety, and is frisky and full of fun. The par ticular trait of which its master boasts is that when ho wants the animal to stay in one place it is not necessary to tie him up. All that is needed is to fasten one end of the rope to a conveni ent post and give the other end to the dog to hold in his mouth. The patient animal will sit for hours in this way, and would no more run away than he would fly. WHEN dogs, cats and other nniinals carried long distances on cars and steamers, sometimes confined in bags and baskets, can, without asking any questions, find their way home, and birds traveling thousands of miles come back year after year to the same nests, and carrier pigeons to their dovecotes, it is pretty sure that they know some things to a knowledge of which no human being has yet attained. There is a vast field of animal intelligence to be studied, and the more we study the more we shall be filled with wonder and admiration. A WASHINGTON MARKET (N. Y.) butcher is known as "the sweetbread king," and does the largest business in that edible delicacy of any man in the country, his annual sales being about two hundred thousand pairs. WORMS are playing havoc with the cotton throughout Mississippi and Lou isiana. Requests for Paris green and London purple have been so numerous that the drug stores are unable to sup ply the demand. HYPNOTISM IN CHIME. Mattor Oonsldared at tho Medico- Legal Congress at New York. Majority of Medical Men In Tills Country Do Not Recognize Hypnotic Trance as an Kxlstlng Fact—Contrary True In Europe. At tho medico-legal congress held re cently at New York Clark Bell read a paper on "Hypnotism in the Courts of Law." Mr. Bell sent a letter tosevoral prominent physicians asking these questions: Can crime be committed by the hypnotlzer, the nubjeot being tho unoonsoious and Innocent agent and Instrument? If tho subject Is unconscious and even un willing has tho hypnottzer such power and domination ovor the hypnotized as could con trol action to tho extent of ths commission of a crime? Is it possible to remove by hypnotlo sugges tion from the mind of the subject all memory of nets or occurrence which happen In the hyp notic state? Would It be possible for a hypnotizer to so control a hypnotized subject as to. for exam ple. make hlra sign a will In the proaenco of persons, declare It to bo his will and to request them to sign HB attesting witnesses and bo afterward wholly unoonaoious of tho occur rence? Or a noto of hand or a check? Replies in the affirmative were re ceived from several eminent professors, while others, conceding that persons in a hypnotic state are constantly amen able to control by suggestion, denied that hypnotism has any place in crim inal jurisprudence as a defense for crime. Mr. Bell pointed out that it appeared the majority of medical men in this country did not recognize hypnotic trance as an existing The law yers and judges were on the same ground as tho doctors. In tho coun-* tries of Europe the contrary was the fact, and men of the highest character and professional attainments devoted their best efforts to its study and eluci dation. As It was with the professional men so It was with tho people. Prof. Carl Sextus, of Chicago, wrote to say that a natural criminal could be made to do criminal acts under hypnotic Influence, but not a person of real moral worth. Dr. William Lee Howard, of Balti more, suid that hypnotism was a reality, lie gave several instances of hypnotized persons in Baltimore, including his own servant, whom he sent to a neigboring physician, Dr. Britton, to steal every thing the doctor had. He restored the follow while he had the articles still in his possession. The doctor confessed it affected the man's brain somewhat, but he always took care, except in this oc casion, to get the subject back into a good mental state before he completely restored him. The doctor also hypno tized a bank cashier and made him steal $45,000. He performed an opera tion in Johns Hopkins university with the patient under hypnotic influence. Hypnotism was invaluable as a cor rector of morals. Dr. Orover, of Massachusetts, told of a young • woman in Boston who had a tendency to tuberculosis being cured by hypnotic influence. TIT FOR TAT. California Woman Does MI She PUBIM and Her Husband Docs Llkowlss. The will of Joseph A. Ford, of the wholesale dry goods Arm of Murphy, (/rant fc Co., has just been filed for probate in San Francisco. The second clause of the will is as follows: "As iny wlfo has in all cases acted entirely of htr own free will and against what she knew were my wishes, and has u sorted that tho only reason that nhe did not ask for a dl vorco. was the living she recelvod from rne. I oxprcssly desire that sho shall not reoolve one dollar of my estate or what will como to mo from the estate of my mother." The bulk of the estate is loft to tho 15-year-old son of the deceased. Mrs. Ford, who Is a stepdaughter of E. J. Baldwin, the millionaire turfman, is now traveling in Europe with her son and her exact whereabouts are un known. The estate is valued at upward of SIOO,OOO. HER LATEST FEAT. New Woman Now Discovered Traveling ou a Drake- lleam A La Hobo. A woman has just passed through Wan Bernardino, Cal., who had crossed tho desert on a brake-beam. Sho was discovered three days ago near Daggett by the crew of a freight train. She was dressed as a boj', but as soon as the trainmen brought her from under the car they wore convinced sho was a woman and she finally ad mitted that she was. She refused to disclose her identity, but said she and her husband had been living in an east ern cit}' and he had deserted her, taking with him their little girl. Sho heard he was in Oregon, placed the girl in an orphanage and, being without means, started out to beat her way. GIRL DRIVES A BEAR HOME. Novel Hunting Methods of a Llttlo Mon tana Heroine, j Alice Jackson, the 18-year-old daugh ! tor of a rancher living 17 miles south i west of Butte, is the heroine of a novel | adventure with a bear. On a recent afternoon, while she was riding about j tho mountains on horseback accom panied by a big dog, she came across a big black bear, largo even for that coun try of big bear. She had no weapon with her, so sho headed the bear toward home, and with the assistance of the dog drove the animal several miles to her father's cattle corral, and then called her 18-year-old brother, Oliver, who shot and killed the bear. The ani mal weighed 000 pounds. Convict Road Builders. The plan of building better roads by means of convict labor will probably be generally adopted In Canada. In connection therewith a novel propo- I sition is advocated. It is suggested that the convicts be paid remunerative wages, and that this money be used for the support of convicts' wives and fam ilies. Whalo an a Sprinter. The greatest velocity attained by a whalo when struck by a harpoon is 0 miles an hour. SCRAPS. SOME of the houses in Ottawa are heated by electricity. DENSE forests cover one-sixth the area of Oregon. IN the British navy is a gunboat which is propelled by electricity. IT Is estimated that New Yorkers spend $50,000 every day on flowers. TIIK census of Berlin, just taken, gives that city a population of 1,016,381. TIIE catacombs of Rome are said to contain the bones of 10,000,000 people. A BELGIAN has invented a watch with a paper caso. It sells for about $1.50. A MATCH-CUTTINO machine has been invented which daily cuts 10,000,000 matches. SIXTY THOUSAND elephants are an nually slaughtered in Africa to secure ivory. FRANCE puts a tax of two dollars each on bicycles. This year the tax amounts to $400,000. THE contents of a weekly paper pub lished In Athens are all in verso, even the advertisements. IF the United States were as densely populated as Japan, they would have a population of 900,000,000. ALL widows had to wear mourning capes in the days of Tyberlus, under penalty of fine and imprisonment. A TTPK-WRITING girl in Rochester persisted in wearing bloomers at her employer's office, and was discharged. TIIE # printing ink used on the Bank of England notes is made from naphtha smoke. It was formerly manufactured from grape-stone charcoal. EPOCHS. THE writers on chronology give the titles of ovor six hundred books written in German and French on that subject. THE Egyptians, Chaldeans, Persians, Syrians, Phoenicians and Carthaginians began the yoar in the autumn. THE Gregorian calendar was adopted in Great Britain in September, 1715, the 3d of that month being called the 14tli. MOST civilized nations begin the day at midnight; astronomers and naviga tors since the time of Ptolemy begin it at noon. THE "Era of Bengal" is a solar and not a lunar era. It is supposed to bo derived in some way from that of tho Tlegira. THE "Era of the French Republic," or the "French Revolutionary Era," be gan September 22, 1702, and ended De cember 81, 1805. THE chronology of both the Chinese and tho Hindoos is fairly reliable as far back as 2200 B. C., before which it be comes misty. AMONG the Jews of the kingdom a very important eDoch was that of the commencement of Solomon's temple, In May, 1015 B. C. Foil many centuries the Chinese have dated all their public acts, documents and chronology from the accessions of the emperors. HUMOR. PASSENGER—"That fellow back there is raising a great row because he lias to stand." Conductor—"Yes; he's riding on a pass!"— Chicago Record. IIAZSL—"I have one of the nicest dentists you ever saw." Nutte—"ln what way?" Hazel—"Why, he pulled out the wrong tooth the other day, and wouldn't charge me a cent for it."— N. Y. Herald. MUDGE—"Another man called me a liar Inst night." Yabsley—"What did you do?" "Well, as he was three sizes bigger than 1, 1 asked him why he couldn't say something original."—ln dianapolis Journal. "WHAT have you for a hungry wheel man?" inquired the young man in knickerbockers, glancing over the bill of fare. "Our saddlerook oysters are very fine, sir," said tho solemn waiter, unbending slightly.—Chicago 'Tribune. "THERE'S money in stocks," said the matt who is young and enthusiastic. "Yes," replied his seasoned friend, "I'm sure there is. I have been put ting half my salary there for the last four years, and It's all there yet."— Washington Star. HATS. TAKING off the hat or cap as a sign of reverence or respect was mentioned in the time of Caasar. THE apex was a tall, conical cap worn by tho Roman priests as a part of their official regalia. WXIEN the crest of the liberty cap was pointed forward it was designated a Phrygian bonnet. BEAII-HEAD helmets were common among the American Indians at the be ginning of this century. IT is stated that nearly one million pounds of fur for hatters' purposes are produced in tho United States. A TURKISH turban of the largest size contains from ten to twenty yards of the finest and softest muslin. THE earliest military head covering is believed to have been a rawhide cap, next a cap of iron. IN the "Cyclopedia of Costume" sev entceen hundred and twenty-eight dif ferent styles of hats and caps are illus trated or described. SCIENCE. SOME Danish naturalists in Greenland have brought up lobsters from a depth of one thousand three hundred fathoms. ROSES do not secrete honey in their flowers. Insects are simply attracted by the perfume and rich colors, and by the abundant supply of pollen, which serves as food. FRENCH peas tested in Glasgow have been found to contain fifteen grains of sulphate of copper to the pound. The French government forbids the use of these peas at home. THE balloon by means of which M. Andree, the Swedish engineer, will en deavor to reach the north pole will, it is said, bo capable of carrying three persons, four months' provisions, a sledge and a sailing boat, and will be sufficiently gas tight to hover in the air for thirty days. FIIIST PKACTICAL TEST. Shootlngr of Army Oonvict Shows Work of New Army Rifle. Wound Inflicted Exactly What Was Ex pected—Discussion by Army Ofllcers In Regard to the Krag-Jor gensen Rifle. The killing 1 of Convict Thomas Cof-' fey at Fort Sheridan, 111., recently, while he was attempting to escape the guard, was the first practical demon stration of what effect the new Krag- Jorgensen rifle will have on a human mark. This rifle was introduced into the army to reduce the loss of life as far as possible in time of war, by dis abling rather than killing. It was urged that the great speed, directness and small caliber would result In the inflicting of a small, olean-cut wound which easily would close and heal, the bullet passing clear through the body. The effect on tho head of Coffee, al though the bullet passed through and out at tho forehead, was to shatter tho upper 6lcull in pieces. Data on file In the ordnance bureau at Washington show that in an exper iment with a skull filled with matter to rcprosent its normal condition it was found that cracks extended in all di rections from the holes of eiitranco and exit. This was just what hap pened in Private Coffey's case. Some army officers say that the med ical report of Mnj. Gerard will declare the effect Inhuman. It is claimed that the shortness of the range was respon sible for tho explosive effect, and that at a longer distance the wound would have been clean cut. Lieut. Thomp son, chief of tho ordnanco office de partment of tho Missouri, however, said: 'Tb new rifle has been regarded an more hutnnue than tho Springfield rifle. I oonsidor It Ira* humane when tha ball pW'roea a vital organ. Its contact with fluid matter, aeoord lng to a peculiar law of vibration, has an ex plosive offoct. In a bona vibration Is not es tablished. and the hole would be clean. In experiments cans filled with stones have hnd clean holes mcde through tlicm, but cans filled with water and atones havo been burst. In muscles end boues only will wounds be less paluful and fatal" The rifle is known as the "magazine, model 1802, caliber 80." It may be used as a single loader magazine arm, or aR a singlo loader with magazine in re serve. The magazine holds five car tridges. The bullet is a hardened lead slug, Jaoketed with thin cupro-nickelcd stool, to enable it to take tho rifling at the high velocity—2,ooo feet a second. Tho charge Is from 30 to 40 grams of smokeless powder. The bullet weighs 220 grams and is five diameters in length. THK PROGRESSIVE NEGRO. Biff, Cotaprihcnslre Exhibit by Them One of the Features of Atlanta's Fair. The Atlanta fair will give the oolorod people of the south the best opportu nity they have yet had of displaying the progross they have made sinoe they bocame a free people. A special build ing has been provided for them, and, although It is three hundred feet long and ono hundred foot wide, the pros pect Is that it will be found much too small to contain all the exhibits tho colored people desire to display. A comprehensive effort will be made to show tho progress in education and in dustrial pursuits during tho past thirty years. There will also be photographs of the kind of houses in which th*col orod people live, the buildings in which they do business, and the churches in which they worship. While the larger number of these photographs will, of course, come fro:?* the south, many will eomo from tho north, and even from tho Pacific states, affording an un cqualed opportunity to judge of the condition of the colored race. JEALOUS OF A WAX FIGURE. Traveling Man's Wife Creates a Scone In a Michigan Hotel. A young Grand Ilapids traveling man has boen up north, and on his way back stopped at one of tho leading Muskogon (Mich.) hotels. His charm ing young wife thought she would sur prise him at Muskegon, so went down there and kept out of sight with friends until he had gone to his room. Then she stole up, and found him sit ting with his back toward tho door, divested of his coat and shoes. Just back of him the dim light revealed the outlines of an apparently young and beautiful woman. With a pleroing scroara the enraged wife rushed into the room, fastened her fingers in the bleached hair of tho one who dared thus occupy a room with Charlie in her absence, and laid it prostrate upon the carpet. Ily this time sho discovered it was only a wax figure. It belonged to a showman across the street, who was in town for the county fair season, and who occupied the room a part of the time. Don't Carry a Oun. President Cleveland bus put himself on record against tho eoucealed weapon evil by re fusing a pardon to a man who had been sentenced to serve a year in jail in Washington for carrying a re volver. The president said in refusing tho pardon: "Carrying pistols and using them on every possible pretext and assault such as this convict com mitted, growing out of the pistol carry ing habit, ought in my opinion to be severely and firmly treated." Fed on Cured Peppermint nay. Owing to tho scarcity of hay, the farmers about Niles, Mich., who have been growing peppermint plants, which were thrown away after tho oil had been exhausted, have taken to curing them for fodder. Tho result is a bet tor food for stock than timothy hay. The cured peppermint hay is now sold for six dollars a ton. Eos* of Fopnlatlon. The recent census figures show that in ten years 143 townships in Massa chusetts have lost In population. Codfish mil Ro Plentiful. The season's catch of codfish off the coast of Labrador is said to be very large. Anthracite coal used exclusively, insuring cleanliness and comfort. AHKANOEMENT OF L'ABSENQER TItAINS. MAY. 15, 1895. LEAVE FREELAND. 6 05, 8 25, 1)10 41 a ra, 1 35, 8 27, 3 40, 4 25, 0 12, 0 sw, 8 05, 8 57 p in, for Drifton, Jeddo, Lum ber Yard, Ntockton and Hazleton. 605, 8 25. : a in, 1 35, 3 40, 425p m, for Mnuchr Chunk. Alicntown, iiethlebein, l'hila., Easton and New York. Oik'., 9 -to, 10 41 am, 2 27, 4 25,0 58 pm, for Muhnnoy City, Shenandoah and Pottsville. 7 26, 0 10. 10 56 a m, 11 54,4 34 p ra, (via High land branch) for White Haven, Glen Summit, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston* and L. and B. Junction. SUNDAY TRAINS. 11 40 a m and 3 45 p m for Drifton, Jeddo, Lum ber Yard and Ha/.leton. 345 pra for Delano, Mahanoy City, Shenan doah, New York and Philadelphia. ARRIVE AT FREELAND. 7 20, 0 27, 10 50, 11 54 am, 12 58, 2 13, 4 34, 5 33, 0 58, 847 pm, from Hazleton, Stockton, Lum ber Yard, Jeddo and Drifton. 26, 0 27. 10 56 a in. 2 13, 4 34, 658 p m, from Delano, Mahanoy lily and .Shenandoah (via New Boston Brunch). 12 58, 5 83, 8 47 p in, frnin New York, Easton, Philadelphia, Bethlehem, Alicntown and Mauch Chunk. 927, 10 56 am, 12 58, 5 88, 6 58, 8.47 pm, from Easton, Ptiila., Bethlehem and Maucn ('hunk. 933 10 41 a tu, 2 27,0 58 pin from White Haven, Glen Summit, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston and L. ant U. Junction (via Highland Branch). SUNDAY TKAINS. 11 31 a in and 331 p in, from Hazleton, Lum ber Yard, Jeddo and Drifton. 11 31 a m from Delano, Hazleton, Philadelphia and Easton. 3 31 p m from Delano and Mahanoy region. For further information inquire of Ticket Agents. CHAS. S. LEE, Gcn'l Pass. Agent, l'hila.. Pa. KObLIN H. WILBUR, Gen. Supt. East. Div. A. W. NONNEMACIIER, Ass't O. P. A., South Bethlehem, Pa. DELAWARE, SUSQUEHANNA ANL i- SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD. Time table in effect January 20,1895. Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo, Eckley, Hazlo Brook, Stockton, Beaver Meadow ltoad, Koati and Hazleton Junction at 0 00, 0 10 a iu, 12 09, 4 15 p m, daily except Sunday, and 7 03 a m, 2 38 p in. Sunday. Trains leave Drifton for Harwood, Cranberry, Toinhieken and Poringer at 6 00 a in, 12 09 p m, daily except Sunday; and 7 03 a m, 238 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Drifton for Oneida Junction, llarwood Bond, Humboldt ltoad, Oneida and -'heppton at 6 10 a m, 1209, 4 15 p m, daily except Tuida.t. and 703 a m. 238 p iu, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for llarwood, > ranberry, Tomhickcu and Deringcr ato 35 a n, I 58 ] m, daily except Sunday: and 8 53 a m, J 22 p iu, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida Junction, llarwood ltoad, Humboldt ltoad, Oneida and Sheppton at 0 47, 9 37 a ra, 12 40, 4 46 P in, daily except Sunday; and 7 37 a ui, 3 08 p ai, Sunday. I" ra ins leave Deringcr for Tomhieken, Cran berry, llarwood, Hazleton Junction, Bonn, Beaver Meadow ltoad. Stockton, Uuzlc Brook, Eckley, Jeddo and Drifton at 2 55, 007 p m, daily except Sunday; and 9 37 a m, 5 07 p m, .sunday. Trains leave Sheppton for Oneida, Humboldt ltoad, llarwood ltoad. Oneida Junction, Hazlc ton Junction a d lioan at 8 18, 10 15 a in, 115, > 25 p in, daily except Sunday; and b 09 a m, 3 44 P in, Sunday. Trains leave Sheppton for Beaver Meadow ltoad, Stockton, llazle Brook, Eckley, Jeddo and Drifton at 10 15 a in, 5 25 p m, daily, except Miuday; and 8 09 a in, 3 44 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction lor Beaver Meadow ltoad, Stockton, Hazle Brock, Eckley, Jeddo and Drifton at i 0 38 u £ 3 26, 6 47, 6 40 p HI, daily, except Suuduy;andTUosa in, 538p m, Sunday. All trains connect at Hazleton Junction with electric cure tor Hazleton, Jeaiiesvillo, Audcu , ried and other points on the Traction Com pany's line. Trains leaving Drifton at 0 10 u m, Hazleton Junction at 937 a in, and Sheppton at 8 18 a in, connect at (>neida J unction witli Lehigh Valley trains east, and west. Train leaving Drifton at 6 00 a m makes con 'AV.St 1011 . ul Deringcr with P. It. R. train for \\ ilkcs-Barre, Suubury, liarrisburg and points west. DANIEL COXE, Superintendent. T EHIGH TRACTION COMPANY. ' J Freehold Branch. First car will leave Freeland for Drifton, ■b'ddo, 'apan, <)a*dalc, Enervate, liarleigh, Milnesvillc. Luttitncr and Hazleton at 0.12 a. iu After tliis cars will leave every thirty minutes throughout the day until 11.12 p. m. On Sunday first car will leave at 0.40 a. ra., the next ear will leave at 7.35 a. in., and then every thirty minutes until 11.05 p. m. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. tpott POOB DIRECTOR A. S. MONROE, of Hazleton. Subject to the decision of the Republican nominating convention. |, ()B POOB MB!CTOtt- TIIOS. M. POWELL, of Hazleton. Subject to the decision of the Republican nominating convention. POOR DIRECTOR FRANK P. MALLOY, of Freeland. Subject to the decision of tho Democratic nominating convention. POOR DIRECTOR SIMON BUBE, of Hazleton. Subject to the decision of the Democratic nominating convention. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she bad Children, she gave them Castoria If you own a In rae buy a good warm blanket for it. Geo. Wise has hundreds for sale at his Freeland and Jeddo stores. Prices will be found right. Try the Wear Well Shoe House. Their goods cost no more and give better satis faction than any other store in Freeland. i lie best is the cheapest In the end. Go to the Wear Well Shoe House. Their shoos all wear well. Ladies, don t forget to see the dress goods at A. Oswald's. r r <(ls <