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AII Issue That Will Not Down.
It may not bo to the liking of the
politicians, or to those who dabble
occasionally in fourth district politics,
to sec the shadow of a new county rise
up in the distance. It was coulidcnth
asserted less than a year ago that the
new county was dead for keeps, but it is
already showing signs of life which must
make the purses of its opponents groan.
The last pull upon that portion of their
anatomy was heavy and painful, and it
is not strange that they dread the. re
surrection of that long-denied bill for
self-government to which lower Luzerne
is entitled.
Rut apart from the pain it gives the
men who oppose it in season and out, it
is worse than a nightmare to those who
desire to serve this district at Harris
burg. Between the •"devil and the deep
sea" is a comparison which cannot
adequately express their dilemma.
Whether 'tis safer to flirt with the mani
pulators who claim to control the dis
trict, and thou depend solely upon their
influence for an election, or to take up
arms against corporation rule and trust
to fate and the independent voters, is a
question which confronts them wher
ever they go. and is one which, like the
spirit of Shakespeare's Ranquo, will not
down.
It has been quietly given out that
some of the candidates think they have
solved the puzzle. Jt is said they are
preparing to run the gauntlet by doing
the "double-face," a piece of political
trickery which at one time was worked
quite successfully. It consists, in the
present instance, of being an "anti"
when talking in some localities, and a
new county man elsewhere.
The Tm HUNK does not believe the
plan will be a success. An "anti" is
respected by the people, so is the other
kind by the corporations, but only when
the candidates are sincere and the same
to ail questioners. The juggler is suspect
ed by everybody, and tin l aspiring states
men who contemplate going into that
business are making the mistake of their
lives by trying to play Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde in this vicinity.
A Talk on Franchises.
Hon. 11. S. Julian, of Kansas City,
who made an important record in the
last general assembly of Missouri, dis
cusses franchises in another column
from the standpoint of a close observer
and one who is zealously watching tin
interest of the people. If franchise
giving is to be changed to franchise sell
ing or renting, the people should so
instruct their representatives at the
polls. The abuse has grown out of tin
want of careful watchfulness on out
part and the overreaching anxiety on
the part of certain corporations to mak<
money easily and rapidly. It is an un
wise public policy to allow the represen
tatives to vote away franchises without
the indorsement of the people.
Here wo find a strange question in
morals —viz, that many good men will
conspire to get a franchise from a town,
city or state, offering no adequate
return, who would not dream of asking
individuals for any advantage whatever.
This is unethical, and the public con
science needs to be educated on the sub
ject. The law of balance or cause and
effect ought to be recognized in all busi
ness transactions, and legislators, who
are the business agents of the people,
ought to be as scrupulously careful in do
ing the people's business as they are in
transacting their own.
A careful report of all the transactions
of each representative ought to be put
into the hands of the voters in his res
pective district, that accuracy and cart
may he obtained.
We see how inadequate are our govern
mental business methods to prevent
abuse, and we need to round out our
system of getting the will of the people
systematically and accurately.
It is not unlikely that any of the pres
idential candidates on the Republican
side will be able to command sufficient
strength to wrest the nomination from
McKinley. The selection of him as the
standard-bearer is now conceded by all
but a few. and unless some unforeseen
event occurs he will be the man whom
the Democrats must try to defeat.
There is no reason whatever why that
cannot be accomplished. The prin
ciple of a high protective tariff, of
which he is the leading representative,
has been overwhelmingly defeated twice,
in 18110 and 1892. and with these vic
tories over McKinley ism in mind, the
Democrats should stand up manfully
and do it again.
The annua) march of the brush fire
has begun. County commissioners have
the power to stop this if they wish.
They should do it.
sno Will Got Along.
! Down in South Georgia there is n man
j who has n strong admiration for one
type of the up-to-date woman. "I don't
Dike much stock in these new women,"
lie said the other (lay in the hearing of
the Atlanta Constitution, "but 1 saw
one to-day I would like to have in my
cornfield in fodder season to pull fod
der. Ray, that woman was a James D.
She saw a street car about a block and a
half away and made up her mind to
catch it and she did, b'gosh! She made
a plunge fur it nnd whistled for the con
ductor to stop the concern. The con
ductor didn't think slio would ever
reach the ear and consequently did not
stop. Rut that woman was one of the
up-to-daters and she had different no
tions from fl lose of the conductor. She
ran like a rabbit and it wasn't long be
fore she had planted her tiny foot upon
the step of the retreating car. I felt
disposed to applaud her for this feat,
but about that time she reached up and
pulled the bell-cord and stopped the car
herself. The conductor and motorman
looked up in astonishment. '1 simply
want to wait for my dog to catch up,'
she replied to their inquisitive glances.
Now, all 1 have to say is this—that if
that woman is a new woman, we need
more of them to run this country. We
need them particularly in the corn
fields."
TIIE other day a man in Bangor, Me.,
wished to send a dispatch from that city
to Portland. Ry reason of the destruc
tion of the bridge at Ren ton direct com
munication with Portland was impos
sible, but the Western Union got the
message through all the same, and this
is the way it was done. It was tele
graphed from Ran go r to North Sidney,
C. R., then to Heart's Content, N. F.,
thence to Valencia, Ireland, thence to
Land's End, England; thence to Dover,
thence to Rrest, France; thence to St.
Pierre, Mcquelon; thence to Duxbury,
Mass.; thence to Boston, and thence to
Portland. This is an interesting story,
but the natural query is why the.
message was sent across the ocean
when a little detour through Canada
would have answered the same purpose.
( Possibly control of land and cable lines
made the longer route the cheaper. The
i display of enterprise was interesting,
'hough apparently not unavoidable.
"WHY is it," inquired the hungry
man, as he pushed his fork about in
' the salad dish and asked the barkeeper
to "till 'em up again," "that men in tludr
right minds shy at a good square meal at
home and fairly revel in a saloon free
lunch?" It is strange, yet o'er true,
that such is the ease. Sometimes a
man will look crosseyed at his wife's
daintiest and best collation, every ar
ticle of which suggests to his hollow
interior some new torture, and go forth
to some foul-scented becr-tunnel and
furiously feed bis yawning counten
ance with stuff that from its appear
ance would seem to bid defiance to the
I internal mechanism of a threshing ma
chine. Consistency, thy name is not
utunl
APROPOS of the "new woman," some
body resurrected an old story theothci
day about Mrs. Julia Ward Jlowe that
1 may or may not be true. At all events,
it was worth resurrecting. The story
goes that Mrs. Howe was walk
ing one fine morning down
Deacon street, Goston, when she
met a friend who asked her how
Dr. flowe was. "Dr. Howe?" repeated
Mrs. Howe, vaguely. Then, as if sud
( lenly recollecting herself: "Oh, he's
|iiito well, I'm sure. 1 remember seeing
in the morning paper that he presided
at some meeting or other last evening.''
A LAWSUIT to recover pew rent was
brought a few days ago by a church in
I Saco, Me., says an eastern exchange.
Certainly! and why not? How is a
church to live if its income is not as
sured? Because the church is the house
of God it is no reason that it.s hospi
tality should be imposed upon. If a
pew-holder won't pay for his privileges
I lie should be made to.
AT A recent sale of the assets of a rid
ing academy in New York city the sad
lie horses brought on an average Jess
' han S3O apiece. This is said to be the
low est price on record for horses of this
s description, and the fae': wui generally
, noted that in New York the market
v alue of a horse is low er than that of a
oieycle.
A WOMAN who is an enthusiastic nat
uralist suggests that the diminution in
•he ntimlier of song birds of New Eng
land is due not to the hostility of the
English sparrow, or the small boy, or
lie fashion of wearing dead birds in
iKinnets, but to the general use by fann
ers of Paris green and other poisons
is insect exterminators.
A MAN* near New kirk, (). T., tool; his
neighbor's eat, saturated its 1 :iil in ker
osene and set it on lire, thinking it
would run home and burn the neighbor
out. instead it turned and jumped into
the torturer's own barn and burned it
down. Retribution, swift and sure!
DURING nine months of 1595 England
exported $4,000,000 worth of bicycles.
, Of this amount the United States took
only $94,000 worth. The United States
lias wheeled into the line of making
better bikes than England turns out.
NEAR LOS Gutos, Cab, Is a prune or
chard which covdrs 380 acres and con
'' tains 50,000 trees. The farm is pro
• | vided with its own electric plant und
waterworks.
LIVE QUESTIONS.
A Scries of Articles Contributed by
Advanced Thinkers.
THE VALUE OF FRANCHISES.
A year or two ago I was going by
boat up the historic and beautiful River
Rhino from Bonn to Biugen. I had
pointed out to ino an immense rock in
the middle of the stream that had been
converted at ono time into a kind of
fort or castle.
I was told that a few centuries ago
the old German baron who held sway
over that part of the world took a notion
that there was an immense amount of
commerce passing up and down the
Rliiuo and through his domain, and
that it ought to pay him tribute.
So ho improvised a fort on this rock,
and no cargo passed that way afterward
unless it paid him a toll for the privi
lege. The founder of this fort is the
originator of customhouses, lie also in-
vented the idea of a franchise. lie was
a genius and has been followed by many
alleged statesmen and lawmakers. A
river is a natural highway, which men
from earliest times have utilized for
purposes of intercommunication and ex
change of surplus produce.
Where nal*.ro has not provided nat
ural ways, such as oceans, seas and
rivers, men have supplied roads, canals,
railroads, etc.
The state may build them itself and
charge a toll or stipulated price to rec
ompense itself for the expense of build
ing and operating, or it may grant the
right to private persons or a private cor
poration to build the highway and equip
it and allow it to charge a toll or a
specified sum to reimburse it for its out
lay. Such a grant is called a franchise.
Kent defines u franchise to bo "a par
ticular privilege conferred by grant from
government and vested in individuals."
Blaekstone says it is "a branch of the
king's prerogative subsisting in tbe
hands of a subject."
By virtue of this governmental privi
lege these persons or corporations can do
the same things and exercise the same
powers as the government itself in open
ing up highways.
So it is usually left to fix its own
schedule of prices as to what it will
charge for its services so as to reimburse
itself. And the excessive charges that
these corporations have collected area
great burden to the people. Tho rail
roads are the greatest sinners in this re
spect, for they control and carry nine
teen-tweutietlis of tho commerce of the
country.
There is an opinion that tho railroad
companies own their roads and right of
way. It is erroneous as a proposition of
law. They no more own them than an
overseer of a country road or a street
commissioner owns them. They simply
manage them for tho public.
All that they have a right to charge
is a reasonable amount to pay them for
the expense of opening the highway and
maintaining and operating it, but they
have proceeded upon the principle of
"charging" all the traffic will "bear."
Our laws have, under the guise of a
franchise, the same power to extort that
tho old German baron took to himself,
and our modern baron has perfected it
in detail, filed off tho rough corners and
made it more comprehensive. To give
an example of how this "franchise busi
ness" is utilized to extort from producer
and consumer alike: A few men get a
right to build a railroad. They can go
through anybody's land, because they
are opening a public highway. They
further have a right to immediately
take charge of tho highway, lay tho
tracks and operate the road. Suppose it
costs them $1,000,000 to do this, they
would bo entitled to charge enough to
pay them a good return for their invest
ment and the operating expenses. Inves
tigate any of these concerns, and you
will find that little attention is paid to
what is invested, but rather, what can
the commerce along their route be mado
to pay? The capitalization stocks and
bonds usually run up to 5, 10 or 15 times
the amount they have invested.
This is usually termed "water," and
it is equal to the value of franchises.
Garrison and Gould bought the Mis
souri Pacific railroad from the state of
Missouri in 1878 for $0,000,000. Were
they at all punctilious about, making it
earn dividends only on $0,000,000? No.
Th y had the power under the laws of
Missouri to fix their own charters. So
inside of five years they increased their
capitalization to $70,000,000, the profits
on which tho people tributary to that
road have been paying ever since. The
New York Central railroad, extending
from New York city to Buffalo, a dis
tance of 401 miles, was built for
about $45,000 per mile, or $18,045,000,
yet the owners have capitalized it for
$152,000,000, or, in other words, the
state, by giving them tho right or fran
chise, made them a present of $134,-
000,000.
Tho Western Union's plant can bo
reproduced for $15,000,000, yet for
years it has paid 0 j <> per cent on a capi
talization of over and in
1890, I think, had a $13,000,000 sur
plus.
Estimate the cost of a plant, deduct
the amount from the capitalization and
the amount remaining is the value of
the franchise. H. S. JULIAN,
Kansas City.
"WHY 13 CRIME INCREASING?"
The timely article by J. W. Cald
well, showing the discrepancy between
the teachings of the last census report
and those of President Cleveland's late
missionary address, not only sets forth
in plain light the lamentable weakness
and sectional shortsightedness of the
president of the United States, but
closes with two questions, pertinent to
the times, which the writer desires to
Bee answered—viz: 1. "Why is crime
increasing in the east more rapidly than
in the west?" 2. "What shall we do to
decrease crime?"
Both of these questions are answered
by answering the first one. If one can
point out the cause of increasing crime,
then the decrease of crime can be ac
complished by the removal of that
cause.
To take up the first question, the
general cause of crime is poverty. From
actual conditions of poverty and from
conditions which spring from these—
such as tlvo fear of poverty and the
false standard of life which the fear of
it and a corresponding worship of
wealth sets up—nearly all crime springs.
Crime is greatest in the east because
there is the greatest concentration of
wealth, and because under our present
system of wealth accumulation the in
crease of poverty regularly accompanies
the concentration of wealth. If evidence
is needed in confirmation of this terrible
fact we might, from among many oth
ers who have given similar testimony,
select the terse statement in "Progress
and Poverty" mado by Henry George:
"In the United States squalor and mis
ery and the vices and crimes that spring
from them everywhere increase as tho
village grows to tho city and tho march
of development brings the advSitages of
the improved methods of production and
exchange. It is in the older and richer
sections of the Union that pauperism
and distress among the working classes
are becoming most painfully apparent."
Or if 0110 wished to go farther in evi
dence and to include England, where a
similar concentration of wealth is tak
ing place, and summon from thence such
a man as Professor Huxley, who says in
regard to his testimony, "I have no pre
tensions to the character of a philan
thropist, and I have a special horror of
all sorts of sentimental rhetoric; I am
merely trying to deal with tho facts,"
110 might hear him saying in his "Social
Diseases and Worse Remedies:" "Any
0110 who is acquainted with tho state of
tho population of all great industrial
centers, whether in this or other coun
tries, is awaro that amid a large and in
creasing body of that population la
miscre reigns supreme. * * * And I
| tako it to be a mere plain truth that
, throughout industrial Europe there is
; not a single largo manufacturing city
( which is free from a vast mass of people
i whose condition is exactly that de
scribed, and from a still greati r mass
who, living just 011 tho edge of the so
cial swamp, arc liable to bo precipitated
I into it by any lack of demand for their
: produce. And with every addition to
1 tho population tho multitude already
I sunk in the pit increase."
I These conditions exist because they
are the legitimate and necessary off
spring of a system of business distribu
tion and social production which has for
its maxim "the survival of tho strong
est," and which is even now adding to
that, as if that were not demoniacal
enough, "tho survival of the greatest
consolidations of the strongest individ
uals. "
Every step gained in this select sur
vival of the strong throws out a certain
number of nonsurvivors to live as they
can, and every step gained in the more
exclusive survival of combinations of
the strong doubles and quadruples the
number already thus added to the ranks
of poverty and the sources of crime.
The east is increasing in crime more
rapidly than tlio west because the east
furnishes freest scope for the social sys
tem of selfish individualism. On the
shoulders of this brawny and promising
child—but tyrannical adult—lies tho
whole responsibility for tho increase in
crime. To destroy crime we must de
stroy tho system and put in its place
some co-operativo effort in the produc
tion and distribution of human necessi
ties which would bo controlled by the
whole people for tho public good.
But this we cannot do. Destruction
[ other than by nature's laws of gradual
modification is dangerous and futile.
Humanity cannot skip any spot in its
development, even though it be beneath
the tyrant's lash and over ground wet
with the tears of human suffering. Tho
present system must wear itself out of
itself, and tho perception of threadbare
garments, while announcing tho end,
does not justify nakedness.
In the meantime, however, evil may
bo cheeked. Tho lover of humanity
| must resist at every step tho encroach
ment of tho asserted rights of paltry
I gain upon the rights of human life.
Life is the thing for which life's means
i exist. Men are our brothers—all men
are. There is something nobler in life
j than the heaping of its tools. There is
something better to develop in human
nature than the greed for gain.
; Who are the sufferers from this? All
of us. Not the poor alone, though that
were bad enough. The idle son of the
wealthy father is as great a curse to so
ciety as the criminal and generally tho
direct or indirect cause of many crimes.
He is a standing menace to society, a
cause of nights of anguish to his moth
er and of a haunting dread that follows
his father day and night. He is one of
the products of the times and one of
the causes of eastern crime.
! It is something, perhaps, to seo these
things. We may not be ablo to remove
crime by tho removal of poverty be
cause the cause of poverty is so thor
oughly built into our present social
structure, but wo can do a man's work
each in his own way in checking it, and
especially at tho ballot box.
W. G. TODD.
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Philadelphia, May 10. —The Harry
Wright monument fund now stands at
53,171. o:i.
Albany, May 10.—The state lunacy
commission has just transferred forty
insane women from the Willard to the
Buffalo State hospital.
Louisville, May 10. —Hamlin's Night
ingale dropped dead on the course of the
Louisville Fair and Driving association
while being jogged yesterday. Her
value was over 819.000.
New York, May 10.—The democratic
state committee mot" at the Hoffman
house yesterday and fixed the date of
the state convention to select delegates
to Chicago for June 24.
Putcrson, N. J., May 16. Hugh .Ten
ner and Michael Ilogan, highwaymen,
who held up several people in this city
and Passaic last month, lias been sen
tenced to twenty-five years each in
state prison.
New York, May 18.—The real illness
from which Henry E. Abbey, the the
atrical manager, is suffering is now
said to be dropsy, and it is further
stated that his condition is critical, the
operation of "tapping" having been re
sorted to already.
Washington, May 15.—The house
committee on coinage, weights and
measures has ordered a favorable re
port on the joint resolution of Charles
W. Sloane of Pennsylvania authorizing
preliminary proceedings looking to
the adoption of international coins.
New York, May 18.—A ma Doti, a
steerage passenger, 32 years old, on the
Burgundia, just arrived, died on board
in mid-ocean and was buried at sea. She
showed symptoms of insanity, and it
became necessary to confine lier.
She gradually pined away and died
in delerium.
Boston, May 19.—The principal con
test at the boxing entertainment in
this city last night was tho bout be
tween "Kid" McCoy and "Mysterious"
Billy Smith of Boston, fifteen rounds
at 154 pounds. The fighting was some
what spirited. McCoy was awarded
the battle in the sixth round on a foul.
Philadelphia, May 16. —Conditioned
upon the raising of 81,000,000 within a
specified time, Thomas Melvean of the
class of'(> 2 has subscribed 8100,000 to
the University of Pennsylvania, and
Provost Harrison has undertaken to
raise the entire amount within the
time. Mr. McKean has made no limi
tation to the use of his subscription.
Beaver, Pa., May 16.—Much excite
ment has been created throughout
Beaver county by the announcement
that a meeting of the members of the
Beaver county bar has been called for
to-day to investigate charges of cor
ruption in connection with the nomina
tion and election of judge J. W. Wilson.
Alexandria, Egypt, May 18.—Seventy
three new eases of cholera and
twenty deaths from the disease were
reported here yesterday. Every
steamer leaving the port is packed
with people fieeiug from the scourge.
At Cairo eleven fresh cases of cholera
were discovered yesterdry. The deaths
numbered nine.
New Haven. Conn., May 16. —The
works of the Diamond Match company
are to be transferred to Chicago on
July 1. The concern employs 125
hands here. The old match factory
has been in Westville nearly half a
century. The wages paid by the com
pany constituted tho main revenue of
the village.
Niagara Falls, N. Y., May 19.—The
contract for the extension of the wheel
pits of the Niagara Falls Power com
pany has been let to E. D. Smith &
Co. of Chicago. Tho extension will
accommodate seven now dynamos, and
part of the power developed by them
will be for transmission to Buffalo and
other places. The contract price is un
derstood to be about 81,000,000.
Providence, May 18. —The actors of
the (Treat Northwest company refused
to play out their piece at the (Jaioty
opera house Saturday night because
their salaries were not forthcoming.
The members of the troupe say that a
week's salary is due tliem, amounting
to 81,000. A son of Congressman 11. C.
Miner was at the back of the venture.
Buffalo, May 16.—The engine, bag
gage ear and one coach of the Empire
State express on the New York Cen
tral railroad were derailed at the cor
ner of Swan and Senaea streets in this
city last night. The train was passing
through the yards at the time of the
accident and was fortunately going at
a slow rate of speed. Save for a gen
eral shaking up, the passengers suf
fered no injury.
Washington, May 15.—The chief of
the bureau of statistics reports that
the total values of the exports of mer
chandise from the United States dur
ing April, 1890, and during the ten
months ended April 30, 1896, as com
pared with tho corresponding periods
of the preceding year, were as follows:
April, 1896, 070,914,343; 1895, 805,255,-
011; ton months ended April 30, 1896,
8749,036,125, 1895, 8688,303,156.
New York, May 18.—A special cable
dispatch from Cape Town, South Africa;
says: A private message from Pretoria,
which was shown to American Consul
! Knight, says that the four reform
leaders of Johannesburg will be fined
; 8125,000 each and be sentenced to ten
years' banishment, and the remaining
i sixty will be lined 87,500 each and given
, some terra of banishment, but the
! executive council is inclined to make
the period one year in the case of the
latter.
Philadelphia, May 16.—A verdict has
just been rendered in the common pleas
court against James B. Sovereign, gen
eral master workman, and the general
executive hoard of the Knights of La
bor, for 81,225.73 in favor of Terrence
\. Powderly. ex-master workman, who
0 aimed that amount for balance due
him for services as master workman of
the order. The suit has been pending
lince Sovereign succeeded Powderly
bead of the order.
SOME GOODS WE I
29c —will buy good men's White
Shirt Linen Bosoms. Ther'o
the best you can get for the money.
45c —will buy men's* good launder
ed White. Shirts. Here's a bar
gain you won't get every day.
25c —will buy men's Outing Flan
nel Shirts, good quality and
up-to-date stylo.
$4 buy a $0 suit of men's
Clohes. I am closing them out;
have about 50 suits loft yet.
$1 —will buy 20 yards of Muslin. A
good material getting pressed by a
largo stock; must have the room it takes.
$1 —will buy a pair of ladies' line
H " Shoes. A well made article in
various shapes and styles.
30c —will buy one yard of Ingrain
Carpet. We will give you spe
cial prices on better grades, as we are
closing them out.
S2O buy a Bed Boom Suite,
solid oak, eight pieces. A very
rare bargain.
$4 —"'HI buy a Baby Carriage. We
have 75 different styles in stock;
all lirst-class make.
SSO "Will buy a .1?c5 Parlor Suit.
Numerous other bargains in
our Furniture department.
$| —will buy a line Hat. We have
the latest styles in Plug Hats;
other popular shapes also.
THE Mj
—are the only high-grade a
sold direct from the factory
are the only pianos on whit
profits t and enormous exp
music teachers' commissio
mended by leading musicia
Kellmer Grands and
Our Pianos arc guaranteei
for ten years. We have no
or protect, and sell from t
ner Church and Chestnut
actual first factory cost.
Saturday evenings from 7 t
K GLIiMI
POLITIC* I. ANNOUNCF.M ICNTS.
COUNTY COMMISSION 15R
FRANK DEPIERRO,
of Frceluiul.
Subject to the decision of the Republican
county convention.
COUNTY COMMISSION Kit
li. E. DONAUGHEY,
of Hazleton.
Subject to the decision of the Republican
county convent ion.
REPRESENTATIVE -
THOMASLM. POWELL,
of Ha/.leton.
Subject to the decision of the Republican
legislative convention.
REPRESENT ATI VE
E. W. RUTTER,
of freehold.
Subject to the decision of the Democratic
legislative eoliventioii.
|JH)U SENATOR
DANIEL J. MCCARTHY,
of Freolund.
Subject to the decision of the Democratic
senatorial convention.
piR TAX COLLECTOR-
C. D. ROHREACH,
of Freclaml.
Subject to the decision of the Democratic
borough convention."
IMPARTIAL. SUFFRAGE IN NEW ZEALAND.
Mrs. Henry Hirst, mi Austruliuu uu
tlior, ill a recent (liseusßiun oil tlio eftoct
of woman's frunohiso in New Zealand,
said:
"Men of all siiados of political opin
ion and at daggers drawn 011 other points
ngroo that tlie granting of tlie vote to
women has been beneficial to the colony.
Mr. Seddon, tlio premier, lias said: 'Wo
men's influence at the elections and since
lias been productive of much good. They
are looking well after tlie interests of
tlio children, the mitigation of the liqnor
traffic, tlio alteration of tlio jail regula
tions with regard to having female in
spectors for women and other vital af
fairs.' The leader of the opposition 'be
lievvl (feat the women had done much
to purify the house, and that their influ
ence would yet be more beneficial in the
same direction.' The consensus of colo
nial opinion appears to be that the ex
press toudency of tlio female vote is in
favor of promoting tlio solid happiness
of the individuals who compose the com
munity. Domestic lifo lias not been dis
turbed or oven ruffled by the female por
tion of the household possessing votes,
and the women in the exercise of tlmir
now privileges have shown sound judg
ment, grout discretion and no small
amount of independent thought."
James Smith, a wealthy retired mer
chant of Cleveland, \v,ho died a few
days since, was associated with John D.
I'ockefelior in the early days of the cool
<ll business. It lias been said that Mr.
rockefeller's start was due to Mr.
Smith, who loaned him tlie money to
build a frame shed and place in it an
apparatus which lie had invented for
refining crude oil.
Read - the - Tribune.
m CLOSING OUT!
; Wall Paper.
The improving season is
• here. We have a larger stock
of Paper than ever. Could not
get any for lc a roll, but have
[ line Gilt Paper for 10c a double
roll—numerous styles.
Dry Goods and
Notions.
We have an extra large
stock, which is crowding our
; space, so that we must get y
some of them away in order to 1
get room to move around. Al
ways lots of specialties and
, the lowest prices on all kinds
ot goods.
Groceries.
, You all know where to get
; something good to eat —at Ber
ner s, of course, where you al
ways find fresh goods. We
i thank you for past favors; try
us again.
J. C. BERNER.
ind strictly first-class Pianos
■y to the final buyer. They (
eh you can save the dealers'
lenses, agents' salaries and
JUS. Our Pianos are recom
ans for richness and beauty.
I Uprights, $175 Up.
id first-class and warranted
0 stores or agents to support
our factory warerooms, cor
t streets, Hazleton, at the
Open daily till 0 o'clock,
to 10.
Ib; PIANO CO.
RAiLROAD TIMETABLES
'THE DBLAWAKB, SUSQUEHANNA ANL
1- SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD. J
'Thuo table in effect December 15,1805. * a
, Trains leave Drifton for.leddo, Eokley, Ila/Io
brook, Stockton. Reaver Meadow Road, Roan
and ilazlctou Junction at 5 ;iu, 000 a m, 4 15 p
in, daily except Sunday; find 7 03 u in, 2 as p m,
i Sunday.
Trains leave Drifton for Harwood, Cranberry,
Toinhicken and Derlnger at 58U u in, p ui, daily
except Sunday; and 703 am,238 pm, Sun
duy.
, Trains leave Drifton for Oneida Junction,
ILirwood lload, Humboldt ltoud, Oneida ami
Sheppton ato 00 a in. 1 I* p in, daily except Sun
day; and 7 Ui a m, 2 ;18 p in, Sunday.
Trains leave I lazletoii Junction for liar wood,
Cranberry, Toinhicken ami Deringer at 035 a
in. daily except Sunday; and 8 .">1 u in, 4 22 p in,
I Sunday.
i Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oncidu
1 Junction, Harwood Road, Humboldt Road,
: Oneida and Slicppton at U 21), 11 10 um, 4 Mi p in,
- | daily except Suiiduy; and 737 am, 308 pm,
Sunday.
I Trains leave Deringer for Toinliickcn, Cran
berry, Harwood, Hazleton Junction, Roan,
Reaver Meadow Road. Stockton, Ha/.le Rrook,
| Eckley, Jeddo. ami Drifton at 2 25, 5 40 p m,
daily except Sunday; and 1)37 u in, 507 p in,
i Sunday.
Trams leave Sheppton for Oneida, Humboldt
Road, Harwood Road, Oneida Junction, Huzle
ton Junction a id Roan at 7 11 a in, 12 40, 525
p in, daily except Sunday; ami BUM a in, 3 44
i p in, Sunday.
i Trains leave Sheppton for Reaver Meadow
Road, Stockton, lia/Jo Rrook, Eckley, Jeddo
and Drifton at 5 25 p m, dally, except Suiiduy;
and 8 01) a IU, 3 44 p in, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Reaver
Meadow Road, Stockton, Hazle Rrook, Eckley,
Jeddo and Drifton at 3 Oil, 5 47, ti 20 p m, daily,
except Sunday; and 10 08 a m, 5 38 p in, Sunday.
Ail trains connect at Hazleton Junction with
electric cars for Ha/Jeton, Jeatiesvillo, Audcn
ried and other poiuts on tlie Traction Com
• patty's line.
Trains leaving Drifton at 000 a in, Ha/Jeton
. Junction tit i 20 a ni, and Sheppton at 7 11a in,
connect at Oneida Junction with Lehigh Valley
trains east and west.
Train leaving Drifton nt 5 uni makes con
nect ion at Deringer witli I'. It. R. train for
Wiikoßbarre, Sunbury, llurrislmrg mid points
5 | west.
! For the nccommdilution of passengers nt way
1 i stations lietweeu Ha/Jeton Junction and Der-
I inner, an extra train will leave the former
. ! point at 350 p in. daily, except Sunday, arriv
ing ut Deri Hirer at 5 00 p in.
i LUTIiEit C. SMI TH, Superintendent.
)
( EIIIGII VALLEY RAILROAD.
. 1 M y 17, 18'JG.
j Anthracite eoal used exclusively, insuring
cleanliness and comfort.
, ARRANGEMENT OP PASSENGER TRAINS.
[ LEAVE Fit K ELI A N D.
0 05, 8 4"), 0 30. It) 41 a m, I 40, 2 851, 8 25, 4 31
■ 0 12, 7 10. I 55, 845 P in, for Drifton, Jeddo, Lum
ber 5 sird, Stockton and llu/Joton.
0 05, 8 15, 50 am, 1 40, 3 25, 431p m, for
- i Munch Chunk, Allcnlowii, Rethleiiem, l'hilu
1 Easton and Ne .v York.
015, tfi.it, 10 41 am, 2 811, 184, 710 pm, for
i Mahauoy City, Sheiiaiido.sh and I'ottsville.
ii' Vi 11 515 p ni, tor Sandy
Run, W Into Haven, (Hon Summit, W ilkosbarro.
' Pittston and L. and 0. Junction.
8 45 p m for Ha/.leton and Aiidenried,
SUNDAY TRAINS.
10 50 a 111 for Sandy Run. White Ilaven, Glen
1 Summit and Wiikeshurro.
i H4oa in und o:M| in tor Drifton, Jeddo, Lum
ber Yard and Ha/Jeton.
321 pm lor Helium, Mnhunny City, Shenau
doah. New V ork and Philadelphia.
ABULVE AT IHEELAND.
"28, 75\ !• SO. 11l 58, 11 51 a in, 12 W, 220, 5 15
. 'j" l ' P. "}• hiinj Ila/.inton, Stockton!
Lumlier \ ard, Jeddo and Driiton.
. i 7 20, 030 10 41 a in, 2 33, 710 p m, from
, Delano, Mahauoy City and Sheuandouh (via
i New Rostou Branch).
12 58, 5 15. 8 3 5 p in, from New Y'ork, Easton
Philadelphia, Bethlehem, Allentowu and Maucli
Chunk.
y 20, 10 56 a in, 12 58, 5 15, 7 10, 885 p in, from
Easton, Phila., Bethlehem and Muiicli ('hunk.
WJR a ui, 2 3 ~ 7 It) p m Irom Sandy Run,
white Haven Glen Summit, Wilkesbarre, Pitts-
I ton and L. and B. Junction.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
10 Si, 1131 am and 3 10 p m, from Hazleton,
Lumber \ ard, Jeddo and Drifton.
11 31 a m from Delano, Hazleton, Philadelphia
, and Easton. '
3 10 p m from Delano and Mahanoy region.
For lurther information inquire of Ticket
Agents.
CHAS. 8. LEE, GeuT Pass. Agent,
ROLLIN 11. WlLßUtt.Gen.Bupt. EascDi'V. 1
A. W. NONNEMACHER, Ass't G. P. A.,
•South Bethlehem, Pa,