Highest of all in Leavening Strength.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Rs|J p om je? ABSOLUTELY PURE FREELAND TRIBUNE. Estallishoi 1388. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited. OFFICE: MAIN STHKET ABOVE GENTKE. Make till tumicy order*, check*, etc., payabh to the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One Year $l" r > ,) ] Six Month* 75 ( Four Months ! Two Mont lis 25 The date which the subscription is paid to i- OB the address label of each paper, the chungc : of which to a subseiuont date becomes a receipt for remittance. For instance: Grorer Cleveland 28June07 means that Grover is paid up to June 28,1807. ; Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Report promptly to this office whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. I VREKLA NI). SEITEM I iER 21. 1890. Cold Figaros and Facts. According to the United States treas ury report, dated August 31, 1890, the debt of the government 15.51,221.843,500 Add to this: States' debt 228,997,389 Counties' debt 145,048,04.") Municipalities' debt 724.403.00" Total public debt 2,310,352,054 The last bulletin of the government department of labor, issued in Novem ber, 1895, gave the private and quasi public debt of the United States t>i be §40,709,049,010 Add the public debt 2,310.352,051 Total (public and private).49,079,401,G70 To pay this enormous debt, almost fifty billions of dollars, there is, accord- | ing to the treasury report of July, 1890, I the following amount of legal tender money in the United States: Gold § 507,031,823 Silver 450,387,120 Greenbacks 340,081,010 ' Treasury notes j Total 1,494,083,173 | Ratio of currency—§l to §32 of debt. However, all legal tender money, ex cept gold, is redeemable in gold, as ad- ! mitted by Secretary Carlisle last week, which makes the following alteration: I llatio of currency —$1 to §BO of debt. ; If it were possible that all the gold in the world could ho brought to the j United States, and coined into American J money, the people of this country would still be unable to pay their debts. Mr. Carlisle's estimate of the amount of this metal in the world i- §3,727,018,809. Ratio of currency —§1 to sl3 of debt. If it were possible that all the gold and silver in the world could be brought 1 to the United States, and coined into ! American money, the people of thi country would still be unable to pay their debts. Mr. Carlisle's estimate of the amount of silver in the world is $3,820,571,340, which, added to the known gold, makes a total of $7,547,- 580,215. Ratio of currency—sl to $0.50 of debt. ' Summed up briefly, it is seen that the people of the United States owe 532 for each $1 of money in tho country, but. since the greater part of our currency i only token money, they really owe SBO for each $1 they own. If we had all the j gold in the world we would still owe sl3 j for each $1 owned, and, with all tin gold and silver in the world, $0.50 would j be owed for each $1 owned. Those figures are taken from govern- ! mont documents, and are. therefore, offi cial. We present them to our readers, without comment, for their earnest con sideration, especially to such as are en gaged in business and know what a scarcity of money means. We will cheerfully give space to the opinion of any man who can find in these official j figures any argument why the primary I money of the country should he confined to gold. A Queer Change of Mind. The following i> a verbatim extract from an address at the Lincoln Day ! banquet, in Memorial hall. Toledo, Ohio, j February 12, 1891. "During all of Grovcr Cleveland's j leads at the head of the government ho was dishonoring one of our pre cious metals, one of our own great i products, descreditlng -liver and en hancing the price of gold. IL> en deavored, oven before his inauguration to office, to stop the coinage of silver dolllars and afterwards, and to the end of Hi is administration, persistent ly used his power to that end. lie was determined to contract the circulating medium and demonetize one of the coins of commerce, limit the volume of money among the people, make money scarce, and therefore dear. He would have in- ! creased the value of money and dimin ished the value of everything else— money tho master, everything else the servant. lie was not thinking of The poor* then. He had left 'their side.' I lie was not 'standing forth in their de fense.* Cheap coats, cheap labor, and dear money. The sponsor and pro moter of these professing to stand guard over tlie welfare of the poor and lowly! Was there ever more inconsistency or WHO IS MR. HOBART? \ Little Light Shed Upon the Republican j Candidate far Vice President. From tho New York' Journal. "The coal trust conspiracy," a local anti-Bryan newspaper informs its read ers. "is criminal at common law even if there were no statutes against it." And in a high vein of righteous wrath it inquires, "What is the attorney gen oral's occasion for sparing lawbreak ers whose lawlessness cripples industry and impoverishes the people? What is he afraid of? What is the occult reason for his inactivity?" l'orhaps the attorney general is aware that one of the chief parties to the criminal conspiracy known as tho coal trust is the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad Company, and that Garret A. Hobart, the Republican nominee for vice president of the I nited States, is a director of that company, and therefore one of the responsible organizers of the trust. More than that, as general counsel for the corpora tion. he took an active part in formulat ing tho agreement which now enables a few men to rob consumers of coal on one band and its miners on the other. Attorney General Hancock, being a well-informed man, is doubtless cogni zant of these facts. Being a partisan Republican, he is supporting Mclvinley and Hobart. Finally, being possessed oint of rock, steep, but still accessible to the climber. Yiardot decided to climb this point of rock, feeling assured that Bernard was somewhere near. lie had almost reached the top, when ! suddenly a slight movement in the ! bushes on the opposite cliff caught his I eye. Behind them crouched a long ! lithe, tawny animal, slowly and with I cat-like action swaying its long furry ; tail. The animal was evidently prepar j ing to spring upon some creature. 1 "What if it should be Bernard?" ! The question flashed across Yiardot\s I mind, and completely took away his breath. He had half expected some j such denouement as this, yet he was not > j prepared for the reality, i Almost at the same instant he caught | sight of a familiar tigure crawling la ! boriously up the cliff side. Itwasßer ! card, all unconscious of the presence of the fierce brute crouching above him : awaiting his advance a little nearer be fore making the fatal spring. Then it ; was that Yiardot emitted that blood . curdling scream: j "Look out!—he's going to jump!" I The great leonine eat, startled by the sound, sprang up and glared at the new ! intruder, safe on the opposite roelc, ' showed his glistening whit fangs. ; arched his back, and with cat-like hiss, i quickly turned and slunk away behind a great bowlder. Yiardot was so excited that lie forgot he had a rifle, and it ■ was not until the beast had disappeared that he bethought himself of his trusty S un ' . J "You idiot!" he yelled at Bernard; "I believe you would crawl right into that den. That cat was ready to spring down on you." Bernard stood and stirred at him, but failed to make any apologies for his rashness. "Wish I'd caught a focus on him," he said ruefully, when the two had slid and scrambled back to level ground. Viardot saw that it was useless to remonstrate with him; so he agreed to go with him next morning and en deavor to first photograph and then shoot the lion or lions from the opposite cliff. This was a favorable point for such an operation, and was compara- safe. The next morning they started at daylight,but although they watched for hours they failed to catch a glimpse of the wild beasts. The third morning they again made the trip in vain, and the fourth, and fifth. Not a sign of the game did they see. Viardot wanted to give up the chase, but the photographic instinct was too I strong in his companion. "I'll get'em if I don't do anything else I this summer," he said doggedly; and Viardot succumbed to fate. The sixth morning they reached their | lofty perch on time and waited, with j eyes glued on the entrance of the den | across the chasm. Bernard arranged his camera, care fully screwed up the exact focus on the ! cavern's mouth, and sat down with | the bulb of the Instantaneous shutter i in his palm, ready to squeeze it at an | instant's notice. Viardot took his station ten feet | awa.v, resting his rifle barrel on a ledge ; of granite in front of him, and training | the muzzle on the den. As it would nol ! do to make an audible signal, he tier l a long cord to Bernard's ankle and. drawing it taut, held the other end in ! his hand. \ A half hour later Bernard's heart al ; most jumped out of his mouth when j he sow a tawny head poked out of the j cave. At the same instant he felt a I sharp tug on the cord, assuring him I that Viardot had made the same discov ery. Both men held their breath. Viar dot's finger was on the trigger-guard, llis rifle was cocked and his eye glanced along the steel barrel. Ber nard's eyes flashed fire. It was a mo ment of intense excitement-—an experi ence seldom met in a lifetime. The graceful tan-colored figure of the lion came fully into view, perfectly lined in the strong morning light against the dark background of the cave. "Shall I give it to him?" asked Ber nard of himself. Just, then he caught sight of another pair of ears —a head— a-pair of shoulders—und a second lion stood out in relief against the wall. The photographer's elianee had eonie at last. Click! went the lightning shutter. Bernard snatched his gun then jerked the cord twice. Crack! went Yiardot's rifle, and Ber nard's "spoke" the echo on the instant. "Hallelujah!" yelled Bernard, danc ing a elog on a big rock, j The hunters, having satisfied them selves flint both brutes were dead— ! their aim at such short range having been unerring—almost fell down the rooks and clambered up the opposite side in breathless haste. The dead lions were splendid specimens, the male measuring four feet and eight inches from nose to tip of tail. Bernard's negative turned out to be a | good one. "I wouldn't trade that one piece of glass for enough dead lions' skins to carpet Carnegie hall," he said. A. CARLISLE CARSON. Disposition Unified. "Who's that sour, melancholy-look ing man? He appears as if he'd never seen u happy moment in his life." "I forget his name—he's a newspaper ! compositor." "But is that any reason for his carry ing around such a countenance of wretched gloom?" "Well, yon see, he sets the type for nil the jokes in Fudge, the comic week i ly."—N. Y. World. A Heroic Remedy. | There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in n sail • ing vessel, said: "My dears,'let her mar ry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life."— j Edith Wharton, in Century. RAILROAD.TIMETABLES j ' I "HE DBLAWARB. SUBQUBHA NN A ANL I JL SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD. Time table in effect December 15, 18115. Trains leave Drilton for Jeddo, Eeklcy, Haasle Brook. Stucku n Heaver Meadow Road, Koun and Hazleton Junction HI a JO, ouu a in, 4 15 p in, daily except Sunday; und 7 U3 a ui, 2 38 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Drifton for Hat wood. Cranberry, romhickou and Deringer at 5 30 a in, p in, daily ! except Sunday; uud < 03 a m, 238 p m, suu day. Trains leave Drifton for Oneidu Junction, liar wood Roud, Humboldt Roud, Oneida and Siieppton ato 00 a m, 4 16 p m, daily except Sua day; and t Ui a in, 2 38 p m, Sunday. '1 rains leave Hazietou Junction for Harwood, Cranberry, louiiiickeu and Deringer uto 3a a in, daily except Sunday; and 8 53 a in, 4 22 p in, Sunday. Trains leave liazleton Junction for Oneida Juuction, Harwood Koad, Humboldt Koad, Oueida and Sheppton at o 2t>, 11 lu a in, 4 111 p in, duily except Sunday; and 7 37 a ui. 303 p in, Sunday. Trains leave Deringer for„Toiiiliiekon, Cran berry, Harwood, Hazleton Junction, Koan, leaver Meadow Koad. Stoekton, Lluzlo llrook,. bckley, Jed do ami urilton at 2 20, 540 p in, daily except Sunday; and 'J 37 a in, oU7 p in, Sunday. I rains leave Slieppton for Oneida, Humboldt Koad, Hurwood Koad, Oneidu Junction, Hazle ton J unction a .d Koan at 7 11 am, 12 40, 525 p m, duily except Sunday; and bUU u in, 3 44 p ni, Sunday. Trains leave Sheppton for Heaver Meadow Koad, Stockton, llazle Brook, Eeklcy, Jcddo and Drifton at 5 25 p in, daily, except Sunday; and 8 on u m, 3 44 p in, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Beaver Meadow Koad, Stockton, Huzie Brook, Eeklcy, Jeddo and Drifton at 3 OH, 5 47, 0 20 p in, daily, except Sunday; and 10 OH u m, 5 3 p ui, Sunday. All trains connect at Hazleton Junction with electric cars for Hazleton, Jcanesvilic, Auden ried and other points on the Traction Com pany's line. Trains leaving Drifton at 000 a m, Hazleton Junction at 0 20 a in, und Sheppton at 7 U a in, connect at Uneidu J unction with Lehigh Valley trains east and west. Train leaving Drifton ut 5 30 a ni makes con nection ut Deringer with P. it. It. train foi VVilkesburre, Suuoury, liarrisburg and points For the accommodation of passengers at way stations between Ha/.leton Junction and Der inger, an extra tram will leave the former point ai 3 50 p in. daily, except Sunday, arriv ing ut Deringer at 6 00 p in. LUTJJER C. SMITH, Superintendent. LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD. August 17, 181)0. Anthracite coal used exclusively, insuring cleunliiicss und comfort. ARRANGEMENT or PASSENGER TRAINS. LEAVE FKKELANIJ. 0 05, 8 45. 30 a m, 1 40, 4 30 p m, for Jeddo, fill ui ber Yard, Weutherly, Maueh Chunk, Al lentowu, Hethlehem, Phila., Easton and New York. 3rt. 10 41 a m, 1 40, 2 33, 4 30, 6 15, 7CO p in, for Drifton, Jeddo, Foundry, Lumber Yard, Stockton und iiazleton. .}, 10 41 a m, 2 33, 4 20. 703 p m, for Hazle ton, D.duno, Muhanoy Cay, Slmnaudoah, Ai-li lund, Mt t iiniii l, Shamoaiu and l'otts\ille. 7 20, 7 58, 10 50, 11 54 a in, 515 pin, lor Sandy Kuu, \N Into Haven, Glen Summit, Wilkei bui re and Pittbton. SUNDAY TRAINS. 10 50 a m for Maudy Kun, White Haven, Gleu Summit and Wdkesbarre. II 40 a ni and 3 24 p m for Drilton, Jeddo, Lum ber Yard uud liazleton. 324 [> in for Delano, Mahanoy City. Shenan doah. vveatherly, .Mau<-h Chunk, Alleutown, Phlladcl]oiia uud New York. AKKIVE AT FREELAND. 7 20, 7 53, 9 20, 10 50, 11 54 u m, 12 58, 2 20, 5 15. 316 p m, from liazleton, Stockton, l umber Yard, Jcddo am) Drilton. 1 20. 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