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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, <srover Cleveland, led the people
out of the slough of despondency to the
high grouti'd of substantial and increasing
prosperity.
We challenge the fairness of our country
men and ask that the Democratic party now
receive the benefit of that renewed pros
perity whose welcome uote is heard on every
side.
St ml. The enactment of the Sherman
si'v r pun basing act and the McKlnley
tariff law found, a* accurately predicted by
Mr. Cleveland, their results in bankrupt
railroads, closed factories, ruined farms,
•i! and. lie 1 fields, impaired national credit
■ d general disaster. The repeal of such
.ii|uitous legislation and the substitution
>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.
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