FREELAND TRIBUNE. VOL. IX. NO. 77. 41W M ■Hi —at our store lately was aston ished to see The variety of Hats we carry. The styles of Hats we have. The quantity we are selling. Here are a few reasons: Three new shapes of Stiff Hats, every one a gem, at 33c 11 e can suit the most par ticular at 551.25 or $1.50 The Billy Cock Stiff Jfat, in black or brown, 51-50 JVumerous other styles, 52 -U.P The Gotham Hat, for which we are sole agents, 53 Latest Color Alpines, from 51 "U-P A gentleman is known by his laundry. We have the correct Shirt Collar, etc. Laundered Shirts, from 40c to sl. Fancy Bosom Shirts, 50c and sl. The beatiful designs in our Spring Neckwear make it at once a pleasure for us to sell and for you to buy. We must admire the ingenuity of the designer. OLSHO'S Clothing and Hat Store, 57 Centre Street, Freeland. GRAND OPERA HOUSE John J. Welsh, Manager. Tuesday, March 30. "A BREEZY TIME." A mimical comedy surprise, tuned up to date. Everything new, novel and original. C—"The Dago Serenade." C—"The Tennis Quintette." C—"Theß-tagged Sailor." C—"The Bicycle Swells." C—"Our Latest: The Turkisk Bell Gavotte." PRICES—7Se, 50c, 35c and 25c. Seats on sale at Woodrlng's three days before date of show. IMJ.Md.DI of Washington, D. C. will Lecture at the Grand Opera House, Freeland, Monday Ev'g, April 26. Under the auspices of the Tigers Athletic Club. Subject: "The American Citizen." The lecture will be preceded by a musical entertainment of an exceptionally high order. tar"See later issues for prices. MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS. TFSTATE OF K. U. TI'HNBACH, lute of Pj Freeland, deceased. Letters ol administration upon the above iiumed estate huving been granted to the un dersigned, all persons indebted to said estate jire requested to make payment, uiul those liuving demands to present the same, without Mlelav, to James Williamson, administrator, or to Chas. Orion Stroll, utforney. February SI, 18U7. FX)R SALE.—Two 81U) silk mill bonds; will be sold for each. For particulars ap ply at this office. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. THE STORY OF HIS INTERESTING LIFE IN HIS OWN WORDS. How He Rose from Poverty and Obsuri ty Until He Has Heroine the Kecog ui/.ud Leader of Ills Rare in America. A Worthy Career. Giradually the negroes of the south r.re rising in the scale of civilization. FLowly but surely are the 7.000,000 col ored people in the black belt becoming educated und learning that thrift and industry which makes them good citi zens. Of the men prominent as lead ers in this great movement. Hooker T. Washington is among the foremost. Horn 38 years ago as a slave in a log cabin near Hale's Ford, Va., he is to day perhaps the most widely known colored man in the country. He was graduated ut Hampton institute in 1875 and afterwards studied at Wayland seminary, Washington. lie then taught for two years at Hampton and iii 1881 established the Tuskcgee normal and industrial institute, of which lie it principal, with no oilier resources than a $2,000 appropriation from the state. Prof. Washington's own words tell best of his struggles and ultimate success: "My eairliest recollection is of a small one-room log hut on a large slave plantation in Virginia. After the close of the war, while working in the coal mines of West Virginia for the support of my mother, I heard j in some accidental way of the Hamp ton institute. When I learned that it was ail institution where a black boy could study, could have a chance to work for his board, and at the same time be taught how to work and to realize the dignity of labor, I re solved to go there. Bidding my mother good-by, I started out one morning to find my way to Hampton, though I was almost penniless and had no definite idea where Hampton was. By walking, begging rides and paying for a portion of the journey on steam cars I finally succeeded in reaching the city of Rich mond, Va. 1 was without money or friends. 1 slept under a sidewalk and by work- BOOKSR T. WASHINGTON* ing on a vessel next day I earned money to coutiuue my way to the institute, where 1 anrived with a surplus of 50 cents. At Hampton I found the oppor tunity—in the way of buildings, teach ers and industries provided by the gen erous—to get training in the classroom and by practical touch with industrial life, to learn thrift, economy and push. I was surrounded by an atmosphere of business. Christian influchce and a spirit of self-lielp that seemed to have awakened every faculty in me and caused ine for the. first time to realize what it meant to be a man instead of a piece of property. "While there I resolved that when I had finished the course of training I would go into the far south, into the Black belt of the south, and give my life to providing the same kind of opportunity for self-reliance and self awakening* that I hod found provided for me at Hampton. My work begun at Tuskcgee, Ala., in 1881 in a small shanty 'and church,' with one teacher and 30 students, without a dollar's worth of property. The spirit of work and of Industrial thrift, with aid from the state and generosity from the north, has enabled us to de velop an institution of 800 students from 19 slates, with 79 instructors, 1,400 acres of land and 30 buildings, includ ing large and small, in ull property valued at $280,000. Twenty-five in dustries have been organized and the whole work is carried on at an an nual cost of about SBO,OOO in cash; two-fifths of the a filial expense so far has goueintopermanent plant," Morgan 11. SIIOWM 111 Breeding. Washington Coir, in Philadelphia Inquirer. As most people know, every congress man-elect is required to write a brief sketch of his life and public services for publication in the Congressional Direc tory. In concluding this autobiography the prospective statesman must give tin majority by which lie was elected and and the number of votes received by his opponents. On© of the new congress men from Pennsylvania, Morgan B. Wil liams, in complying with this require ment, has laid himself open to severe Democratic criticism. Mr. Williams concludes his sketch thus: "He was elected to the fifty-fifth con gross as a Republican, receiving 20,920 votes, against 17,976 for John M. Gar man, Popocrat, and 234 votes for 1). (). Cough 1 in, People's party.'' The use of the word "Popocrat" is FREELAND, PA, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1897. what the Democrats object to. Some of them had an idea that a member of con gress had no right to officially refer to his oppoiiont other than by the proper party designation, and they asked one of their leaders, Representative Dockory, of Missouri, if Mr. Williams could not be called to account for what they regard ed as an offensive reference in a govern ment publication to the Democratic state chairman of Pennsylvania. "Mr. Williams lias a right to call Mr. (logman a Popocrat, 1 suppose,*' said .Mr. Dockory, "but I consider that any man who would so refer in cold type to a defeated rival long after the election in a supposedly official and nonpartisan publication, is sadly lacking in the quality of courtesy. He is certainly to be pitied for liis obvious absence of good breeding." This caustic comment from one of the minority leaders of the house shows how kefenly the silver Democrats resent tin party nickname, "Popoerats," bestowed upon them by the Hold Democrats dur ing the presidential campaign. They all have it in for Mr. Williams, but can do nothing in the matter. To the above the Wilkesbarre Newn dealer adds the following pertinent com ment: "The 17,000 odd Democrats of Luzerne who voted for Mr. Garman and whom Mr. Williams gratuitously insults have the proud satisfaction of knowing that Williams didn't write a word of it, for lie cannot write correctly a sentence of ton words. And while Mr. Williams was about his biographical sketch lie might have added that lie ran behind McKinley 1,094 votes: lie ran behind Commissioner Hay 1,508 votes, and that while McKinley carried the county by over 5,00(1 votes Mr. Williams beat Mr. Garman only 2,937 votes. That Mr. Garuian led his party vote by a thousand majority is a pretty good showing for even a Popocratlc candidate, as Mr. Williams calls him. Mr. Williams really ought to be a little more modest. He has nothing to boast of in the light lie made for congress against Mr. Garman." tins Explosion at Tamaqua. A terrific explosion of gas occurred at No. 11 mines, Tamaqua, on Monday; afternoon. Two men were fatally, and a number of others seriously bruised and burned. The names of the most seriously injured are as follows: Thomas Garlan. of Lansford, frightfully burned about the head and body, will die; Joseph Garlan, of Lansford, head, face, arms, neck and back so badly burned that lie cannot recover; .Jacob Shafor, of Tama qua, badly burned about the head and face, and Daniel O'Donncll, of Lansford. head, face and neck badly burned. A number of others were more or less in jured and bruised, but none but those mentioned above are regarded as serious. The men were at work in a breast of the mine, when a lot of coal fell in a mass, bringing with it a volume of gas. As soon as the gas penetrated where the men were working, and came in contact with the naked lamps, a terrific explo sion ensued. The two Garlans are brothers, and they received the full force of the explosion. They were burn ed in a horrible manner, the skin peel ing from their bodies. Some of the employes say that Joseph Garlan had a package of powder in the bosom of his shirt, and this statement seems borne out by the char actor of his injuries. His breast is terribly burned and lacerated, and all the flesh blown off hi* ribs, exposing the bones. Fit* un