FREELAND TRIBUNE Established ISSB. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limitec OFFICE: MAIN STHEET ABOVE CENTRE. . Make all money order.*, checks, etc., payable t• the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year sl- ; * Six Mouths ' Four Months ,r>< Two Months Thedate which the subscription is paid to i on the address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date becomes a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures it; advance of the present date. Report prompt ly to this office whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must bo paid when subscription is discontinued. FREELAND, PA., OCTOBER 11, 18D7. Register Your Protest at the Poll. It has long been manifest that the honor, financial integrity and best good of the state of Pennsylvania demanded that the Republican party be voted out of power. Recent evonts show thai course to bo essential even to the pro tection of the lives of the working peo ple. The corporations control the Re publican party through contributions of the funds with which its shameless cam paigns are prosecuted. The Republican party controls the state, the big cities, and most of the counties, and. as a con sequence, sheriff's deputies armed with deadly Winchesters and the military forces of the state stand ready at the call of the corporations to shoot down ' their workiuguien whenever the latter j display the temerity to ask for rudrenss of their griovious conditions or an in- I crease of their miserable wages. The recent brutal murders of miners at Lattimer are the most flagrant in- | stance in point, but are liable to be re peated any day and in any of our great i industrial sections unless the govern ment at Ilarrisburg shall be revolution ized by Democratic success. What is j needed is a Democratic legislature to : make laws for the people instead of for j the corporations and a state executive ' power independent in all its depart- j meats of every obligation excepting to j the people. As a first step to the achievement of this object all who are opposed to such ! infamous and cruel subordination of the powers of the state to the rule of individ ual greed should unite in helping this year to elect the Democratic candidates for state? treasurer and auditor general. Excepting for the tardy and partial I revolt of the governor, the official forces j on Capitol hill constitute a solid phalanx for plunder of the taxpayers and battle I against the wage workers in their at- j tempt to secure something like decent treatment from their corporation mas- | ters. The election of Messrs. Brown and Ritter would be a break and an import- I ant break in the cabal. The exposures they would be in a posi tion to make and the reforms their j offices would enable them to accomplish would beyond question pave the way for ! an entire cleaning out of the dirty and ! disreputable mess within a very few years. Every taxpayer, every working man, lias deep interest in the good work. It is the one and only opportunity of escape from a rule that. for rottenness and recklessness of popular rights, is j without parallel in our political history. General Demand for Postal Hanks. From the Chicago Record. No proposition that lias come before the people of late years has received such general and hearty approval from the press of the entire country as the j plan for the establishment of postal] savings banks. Not only do the big > dailies of the cities, as a rule, approve of • the agitation, but tin? newspapers in the smaller towns almost without exception j commend the movement. While tin- comments in the newspapers . of the North and West are most numer ous, tin* press of the Ea->t and South is by no means backward in supporting ! the agitation. Occasionally an old-time Democratic paper of the South opposes the plan on the ground that it is not the function of the government to do any thing more than collect the revenues and protect life and property. These are the extreme representatives of the school which holds that that government is best which governs least. But for the most part the papers of the South support the movement for postal banks, and call attention to the especial need for thein in that section of the country, where banks of all kinds are scarce and where places of safe deposit for small savings are very far apart. In examining the many hundreds of exchanges that cotno into a city news paper office from all partsof the country one cannot but be impressed with the attention given to the subject of postal banks and the generally favorable com ment. This discussion of the subject in the press of the whole country must have the effect of preparing the minds of congressmen for speedy action as soon as they shall meet again in Wash ington. The unanimity of the press is a sure indication that the people desire the establishment of postal savings banks. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Royal niukcs the food pure, wholesome and delicious. BfYil j ill POR Absolute!/ Pure i SCHOOL HOARD MEETING.' Continued from First Page, is better quality than the contract glass. ! During the discussion the contractor 1 remarked that ho lias lost over SBOO ! on the building. It was also made known that the contract given some time ago by the board to Win. William- i son. to lay pipes for water, etc., had been provided for in the building con tract, and the contractor had sub-let the work to Mr. Kiley, of Hazletou, who j had started the same. This blunder of j the board caused many of the spectators to doubt the alleged carefulness of the officials and to think that a change was due some time ago. Mr. Schaub was nominated for presi ! dent, but declined to serve. ! The secretary then asked privilege to speak of a personal matter. By the re- ; | port published In a newspaper the people.! i were led to believe that THERE WAS A MYSTERY j and all that sort of thing connected with I the marble slab and, further, that he j i was responsible for the wording as it j appears. Ho said five members of the ; j hoard agread to it, and would now ask j j Mr. Johnson if he was not at that meet- j ing and agreed to the wording. Mr. ] I Johnson, as at the previous meeting, j ' disclaimed all kuowlodgo of the trans- ' 1 action. Turning to Mr. Schaub. the I secretary asked him the same question. I Mr. Schaub, as stated previously in these i columns, said he has a faint recollection ! of the questioo being spoken of, but, like Mr. Johnson, he does not remember of the board deciding that the wording should ho as it appears. These state ments did not corroborate with the secretary's version, and the latter made I no further efforts to clear away the | mystery of the tablet. ! Mr. Ferry then asked for the floor, i which was granted. lie asked the I architect if ho was not the board which signed the contract for the | erection of the new building. The I | architect answered that he was and that 1 I he took the names of the officers and | directors of that board. Mr. Ferry then asked the board if tho president | and secretary did not IIEFUSK TO DO BUSINESS ; in Mr. McCarthy's parlor on a certain evening until he (Ferry) got out. to which both replied that they did. These ack nowledgements appeared to satisfy Fer ry and lie resumed his seat. The president then gave what lie claimed to be the history of the slab, from A to Z, which was that Mr. Riobe came to him and wanted to know what : names were to be placed on the tablet, i He replied that lie did not know, but j would bring the matter before the board. ! This lie did, ho says, and the members decided the wording as it appears—and | that was all about it. ! Mr. Ferry punctured this so-called j 1 history by requesting to be shown ON THE MINUTES something to substantiate tho above, stating that he would then abide by ! j Mr. Sweeney replied that if ho wanted 1 it on tho minutes he (Sweeney) would ; place It there. After hearing this con- j fession of how the books could he do - tored to uphold a wrong, the hoard ad journed and the audience filed out. the latter being well satisfied with certain parts of the proceedings. According to the statements of Direc- ' tors Johnson, Ferry and Schaub, the ' board has never decided by a majority j vote that the marble slab should be in- j scribed as it. Common decency, there fore, demands that those who are res- I ponsible for this paradoxical inscription lay aside, their potty porsonal spites and [ place a truthful tablet on the people's ! building. Ilnppy TIKMSKIII. Mrs. Brown-Jones—They say there ] will be no marriage or giving in mar- j riage in Heaven. Her II lis band—That's what makes it j Heaven.—Yellow Book. A Clinrncter Touch. "Miss Brush has achieved considera ble success as a painter." "I notice that she bears traces of her success on her face."—Philadelphia North American. ■ I ncotiMlMtcncy. Daisy—lf 1 marry you won't we be one? Cholly—Certainly. Daisy—And yet you tell me not to be a fool.—Town Topics. Thut Uciiilc Toucli. Bell—lt's wonderful what a charge a j woman can work in a man after mar- I riage. Nell —You mean "work out of him." don't you?—N. Y. Herald. No (Jlmnßp. I Clara—Do you know, I did n't meet one 1 jnan all the time J was at I he hole I. Maude—l suppose it seemed just like j home to you. —Brooklyn Life. ' SOME OTHER DAY. When clouds the sullen skies o'ercast And raindrops patter thick and fast, And all the earth is chill and drear. Within your heart let love and cheer Still live and reign; The clouds will pass, so never fear; The sun will greet the earth again. Some other day. When loud the winds of winter wall And flowers perish in the gule. Let not your burdened spirit weep As you ascend life's rugged steep, Or blindly grope Your way through valleys dark and deep. Again will shine the star of hope Some other day. Some days are filled with clouds and rain, And life seems naught but grief and pain. But brighter days shall come anon When clouds shall all go sailing on And fade from view; And 10, behold that promised dawn, And gloaming skies of azure hue, Some other day. Some other dny life's toll and strife, And storms that seem forever rife Will pass away: and souls oppressed Shall lay them down to peace and rest In realms afar. That haven of the true and blessed. That port where saints immortal are- Some other day! —Sidney Warren Mase, In Good House keeping. ii u *V; a lYiYtViVm AVii >Y m* *' bbbY mtaVviYir^g. J CATCHING A CATFISHj BY e. W. MAYO. j? ICopyright. :Bg7 ] AT home in Boston, Tom Sanderson would hardly have selected Moses Abraham Smith for u playmate, but down here in southern Louisiana it was Mose or nobody. T6m had come down to spend the winter with his uncle who was the station agent at Bayou St. Fe lice. a little halting place on the South ern Pacific railroad where the engines sometimes stopped to drink from the big tank beside tho tracks, but where lew passengers ever got on or off the trains. There was but one house in St. Felice besides the station agent's, and that was the tumble-down cabin where old Tobe Smith had lived ever since the war set him free; there was only one •I DIDN'T 'SPOSE ANYBODY WHAT It ETCHED WHALES WOULD MIN' A2 ORNERY LITTLIO CATFISH." boy besides Tom Sanderson, and that ' was Moses Abraham, Tube's son. | They were a strange pair of playfel ! lows, these two. •Tom was a wide ! awake northern boy accustomed to the bustle and noise of u big city and pos sessing what he considered a very com ! plete knowledge of the world in gen i eral. Mose was as shiftless and happy a | darky as could be found in the whole | south. lie had never been to school, i never had a eare except when the hoe cake gave out in the little cabin and he felt lrtmgry. and he never liud to worry about keeping liis face clean, for it was naturally as shiny as a well-polished shoe, lie divided his time between : sleeping in the warm sun, swimmingin the warm water of the bayou, and roaming the woods and fields. Here he made friends with the birds and rabbits and even tried to be on good terms with : the slimy little alligators that crept up on the muddy banks of the larger bayou to sleep in the sun as Mose himself I sometimes did. Huftin spite of thedifferencesbetween them, the white boy and the black got on well together. Tom was naturally domineering, and Mose was perfectly satisfied to address him us "Marse Tom," to do all the rowing when they I went out on the bayou together, and to i play that he was pack-horse or slave or I whatever Tom wished, so long as Tom kept him well supplied with candy and | pennies, two things entirely new and ' very pleasant to the darky boy. Mose | was a good listener, too, and always I with saucer eyes and open mouth j while Tom related stories of the sights | he had seen and the things he had done. | Sometimes Mose started to tell of his own adventures, but Tom always had something much more startling to re late, even if he had to draw on his ; imagination for it, and Mose swallowed all his wonderful tales, believing them to be perfectly true—at least, so Tom thought. One day Mose had been tell ing how u catfish that weighed CO I pounds had been caught in the river close by. "Oh, that's nothing," said i Tom, as if catfish were too small for him to bother with. "Once I was out on a big whaling schooner in the ocean i when they caught a whale. They shot a harpoon into him with a gun, but he ! dragged tlie ship a mile before he gave ! up. and when we got him he was longer : han the railroad switch out here."" The only whale Tom had ever seen j was- a stuffed one in a museum, but he 1 was bound to beat the story Mose had told about (lie catfish. Mose himself did not believe that there was a fish in the world as long- as the one Tom had described, but he only said: "Golly. 1 doan want nuffin to do wid dem t'ings. Marse Tom," and rolled his eyes till only the white showed. By the next morning Tom had forgot ten ull about the whale, but Mose had not. "Less go cat-fishln'," said he. "It ain't so exeitin' as shootin 'whales, but J reckon we can have some fun." • Tom fell into the trap at once. "All right," he said, "get out the boat." Mose left, the big flat-bottomed boat , which the boys generally used on the i bank and shoved off the smaller ski IT. into one end of which he fitted a reel. The stout line was wound upon the reel, the big hook was carefully baited, and Tom took his place at one end while Mose sat in the other, steering the skiff with a single oar. ! "We'll jess float down with the cur | rent," said he, "and see what ketches us." A short end from the line on the reel j was trailing in the water, and Tom | watched it carefully. Two or three I times there was a little jerk at the line I and Tom started to pull it in, but each time Mose stopped him. "We're after catfish," said the darky boy; "doan mind dem little t'ings. 1 You'll know de real tMng when you gits | it." I A moment- later they got the "real thing." There was a rush through the water that sent a shower of bubbles to the surface, the loose end of the line took a dive and then began whirring off the reel at light ning speed. "llol' Mm, doan let Mm break dat line," shouted Mose, as he brought the boat sharply round t-o point down stream. Tom was sure the smoking line had burned all the flesh from his hands as it flew through them, but he braced his feet, clenched his teeth, and tried his best to hold the small sized hurricane i hat had seized liis hook. The reel stopped paying out line now. but the little boat began to move swiftly through the water, and Tom feared that his arm would be yanked off as his capture dashed from one side of the stream to the oilier in an effort to free himself. Ho had no idea as to what he had hooked, for he could see only a swirling and foaming in the muddy water at the end of his line. It was an alligator most likely, he thought—noth ing smaller could run away with two boys and a boat in this way. He de voutly wished that the line would break, but he dared not let go for fear the creature might Tip tlxe boat over and devour them both. As they flew along, Tom's terror in creased. Mose was shouting encour agement to him from the other end of the boat and •chuckling to himself Suddenly, as they sailed out into a broader pool, the monster turned back. "Keep the line in front," shouted the negro lad; "he'll tip us over." But it was too late. As the line moved back along the 6ide of the boat and then tightened again, the little shell rolled over as easily as a log and both boys were splashing about in the water. ; Tom imagined he could feel the alli gator's jaws .closing on his legs, but in reality it was only the sharp stones, and shells on the mud bottom, cutting his bare feet. He scrambled out on Hie bank with a shriek of terror and sat there still shaking with fright. ; Then as he heard a shout from Mose he I looked back and sawt the. black boy struggling with the monster. "Help, | help!" shouted Tom at the top of his ! voice, but Mose needed no help nnd soon waded ashore, dragging with him the body of a catiish almost as long as himself. Tom looked at its ugly head nnd branching spurs, but he was still too scared to speak. Mose shook the water from himself nnd sat down on the bank to regain his breath. Then as he looked at Tom, white and trembling, his face broad ened into a grin. "Golly, Marse Tom," said he, "I didn't sjx>se anybody what ketched whales would min* jess an ornery little catfish." And Mose rolled on the bank shaking with .laughter. The fish weighed a little over 50 pounds, and Tom never again told of catching whales. —A dyspeptic condition with its acid ity eats away the teeth almost with the rapidity of ice melting in fierce heat. Many of the patent infants' foods are highly deficient in teeth-timber, that is. lime salts and other phosphates. Milk is the best thing on which to feed u | child. AMERICA A CENTURY AGO. There was not a public library in the United States. Almost all the furniture was imported from England. An old copper mine in Connecticut was used ns a prison. There was only one hat factory, and that made cooked hats. Every gentleman wore a queue and powdered his hair. Crockery plates were objected to be cause they dulled the knives. Virginia contained a fifth of the whole population of the country. A man who jeered ait the preacher or criticised the sermon was fined. A gentleman bowing to a ladyalwaj"s scraped his foo-t on the ground. Two stage coaches bore all the travel between New York and Boston. A day laborer considered himself well paid with two shillings a day. The whipping post and pillory were still standing in New York. Beef, pork. salt, fish, potaitoes and hominy were the staple diet all the year round. But'tons were scarce and expensive, and trousers were fastened with pegs or laees. A new arrival in jail was set upon by his fellow prisoners and robbed of everything he had. When a man had enough tea, he placed his spoon across his cup to indi cate that he warned no more. Leather breeches, a cheeked shirt, a red flannel jacket and a cocked hat formed the dress of an artisan. The church collection was taken in a bag at the end of a pole, with a bell at tached to arouse sleepy contributors. THE FARM AND HOME. Two or three oyster shells thrown upon the fire with the eoai will help to absorb any clinkers that may be gath ering in the stove. It is said that polishing silverware by rubbing it with oatmeal is a good plan. It is worth trying, for it cannot harm and it may do good. Where a farm is within a few hours' distance from market the farmer can grow fruit or vegetables as well as staple crops and find ready sale there for. An acre of land devoted to small fruits will give a larger profit than can be derived from several acres of grain. I Peaches should be put in sirup as soon as pared and pears and quinces in cold water to prevent discoloration. Peaches are firmer and richer if al lowed to remain over night in the sirup before t hey are cooked. Five or six pits should be distributed through each quart jar. The cows must first pay for their board before the profit is given. If the food eaten does not come back to the fanner in milk und butter in sufficient amounts to give a return for the cost (including shelter and labor) the un profitable cows should be taken out of the herd. Austria is growing in importance as a market for American apples. Last sea son the short native crop was supple mented by our fruit and its su perior quality so pleased the Aus tralians that our apples will be in good demand this year and are menacing the prospects of the native growers. PERSONAL MENTION. Lord Armstrong, who suffered from I the effects of a sunstroke a short time ago. is rapidly recovering his health, lie is at Bamburgb castle. John Ilowells, son of the novelist Wiliani Dean Hovvells, recently re ceived a diploma in architecture from a Paris institution, where he bad been a student live years. William Crotty. who before the war was one of the most widely-known con ductors of the "underground railway" for assisting runaway slaves, died the other day near Marysville. O. It is said that Mr. Crotty helped'more than 3,000 slaves to escape to Canada. It is reported that Verdi has intrusted to his friend lioito a box containing the score of a new opera, entirely com pleted, hut that the box is not to be opened nor its contents investigated until after the Italian composer's death. The Augustus Harris memorial fund, London papers say, now amounts to more than SIO,OOO and subscriptions are •still expected by the committee, of which the prince of Wales is a mem- I her. 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