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The verdict ' of November 2, if for the Republicans, i will be entitled to be accepted by the j treasury looters as condoning the wrongs they have perpetrated and as a com in is- ' sion to indulge in even greater enorml- ; ties of speculation and extravagance. If for the Democrats it will be not only J a popular condemnation of the evil ' practices, but a step and a decided step 1 In the direction of practical, tangible retrenchment and reform. The party 1 of profligacy must and will accept it as meaning that there shall be: No more multiplying of needless of fices. No more wild and wilful waste in the furnishing of the departments. No more thievishly lavish provision of toilet articles and pocket conveniences 1 for the legislators and their employes ; and every other hanger-on about Capitol liill. No more doubling of the expense of government, with no other excuse for it than that of party necessity. No more conspiring of secretaries of | state and deputy attorneys general with i state treasurers for the withdrawal of moneys from the treasury to pay so called officials not recognized in the law and appointed solely as rewards for partisan services. No more wholesale leakages in the public printing accounts. No fother nonsense in connection with the construction of the proposed new capltol building, to which already so j much disgraceful scandal attaches. No more robbery or recklessness of any i kind on the part of the state's public I servants but, instead, a prompt and speedy return to pure and honest-priced and rigidly constitutional government. 1 All this isin sight. Democratic success ! will make It an accomplished fact. There is a most excellent lighting chance j for the Democratic nominees. To be- ! gin with, they entered the canvass with a regularly organized and long establish ed party behind them which last fall polled in the neighborhood of 430,090 votes, and which, it is generally conced ed. with the same candidates to the fore and the same issues at stake, would to day exhibit even greater strength. NYith the defection in the Republican ranks which the candidacy of Messrs. Swallow and Thompson have caused, j this number is more than enough to carry Pennsylvania. A full Democratic : vote, remember, elects the state ticket, j There is more catarrh in this section i of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. * For a great many years doctors pro nounced it a local disease, and prescrib ed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pro nounced it incurable. Science lias proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitu tional treatment. 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People who belong to what is called the "best society" in large towns or | cities, says Ilenry Childs Merwin, in Atlantic, are usually quite unco scious of the fact that society is graded, just as minutely beneath them as it is in. tho plane with*which they are familiar. But, in fact, every individual in a complex society, down to the beg gar in the street or the tramp on the high.wny, has his "social position." The ority missionaries of Boston report, with some astonishment, that a great social gap exists between the peanut vender on the sidewalk and the peri patetic organ grinder, and' that the ; children of the former are forbidden by their parents to play with the children j of the latter. It is indeed asserted, and 1 I with considerable truth, that mere wealth is a passport to the best society; j but this is less time in America than it is in England, and less true in Aus tralia than, it is in America. The rea son is tha.t in England the best society | is a state institution, and. therefore is more sure of its position and can af ford to be less exclusive—to be more hospitable not only to wealth, but also to intellect and- originality—than is pos sible for the corresponding class in, a democratic country. Moreover, even from the most aristocratic point of view, a good reason can be given for accepting wealth as a substitute for birth. The fact that a man has made much money implies, as a rule, that both his mind and his physical strength are far above the average. From what ; better stock, then, could the. best so : eiety be recruited? This, of course, is not the motive of the rich mam's recep tion in good society; it might, be better described as nature's reason for per mitting the anomaly. The Dallas (Tex.) News says a farm er near Cleburne raised a watermelon that weighed 103 pounds, a Collin coun ty boy killed 300 fat plovers in one j day, a Lamar county man has a bull frog with legs as big as baseball bats, a Hill county man foundia postoak tree with a ton of honey in; it, a McKinmey man raised from seed furnished' by | Congressman Bailey a cucumber that weighed 18 pounds, a Smith county 1 farmer raised radishes that measured ten. to the bushel, a llill county rooster lias come off the nest with a brood of chickens, a Llano county man found a nugget of gold that was worth SBOO, a Van Zaudt county woman has given birth to quadruplets, Corsicana has learned that an ocea/n of petroleoim. liies just beneath it. It is evident that the wave of prosperity lias hit Texas with j full force. A Neiw Orleans mam, who wanted to be a policeman, and made preparations for the civil service examination, found that, he had studied along the wrong lines. He determined to make use of i his newly acquired knowledge, bow ! ever, when he came to n question thalti struck him as absurd. The question was: "If a bullet is dropped in a well and it takes five seconds for lit to strike the water, how far is it from the top ■ of the well to the surface of the wa ter?" The candidate answered: "Heathen mythology says tihat when Jupiter kicked Vulcan out of heaven, it took him 47 days end* nightb to fall. If so, how far is heaven from \ Kosciusoo, Miss.?" ! A tourist who has fbeen looking over Daniel Webster's big farm ut Marsfi lield, Mass., found but one person who was acquainted with the statesman. A former superintendent of the farm still survives, and relates how he drove the oxen past the window in order to grati fy the dying man's request to see them once more. The old superintendent de nits that Webster was a hard drinker, und insists that the only trouble was that he did not have as much money as he needed. Of a Tenmesseean 78 years old who at tended a Methodist conference at Mur ray, Ky., it is said that lie has never dirunk coffee, bought a drink of whisky or been ill. Neither has any of his seven children been iIL His wife, it is said, has neiver missed cooking a menL To this record of dcadl}' monotony is I added the statement that the roan has never missed a district meeting and has attended 15G quarterly church meet j inigs. i Some one who saw an. English million** aire,Mr.Beit,at Homburg the other day says he looked- the personification of amiability, ns that week he had made $3,000,000. We cannot see that there is any plausible excuse for unamiabil ity in a gain of $3,000,000 in one week. There are men, we venture to assert, who could without much effort get up a very fuir stock of good nature or* only half that amount. ' A patient under treatment by T)r. William S. Gottheil, professor of der matology at the Nowl York School of Clinical Medicine, has lost all litis hair, scalp, eyebrows and eyelashes ns the result of excessive worry. The phy sicians say that the only conclusion possible is that Iris case is the rare oue of "true neurotic alopecia, caused by mental anxiety." ' A great many of the pennies now in I circulation are bogus. The United States treasury gets from one to two [ dollars in bogus pennies every day. ! They are cut into two parts and rc- I turned to tho parties. Only experts can detect the difference. BETTER THAN GOLD. Better than grandeur, better than gold. Than rank or title a thousand fold, Is a healthy body—mind at ease, And simple pleasures that always please; A, heart that feels for a neighbor's woe, And shares his joys with a genial glow— With sympathies great enough to hold All men as brothers—ls better than gold. Better than gold Is a conscience clear, Though tolling for bread In the humblest sphere; Doubly blest with content and health. Untried by lust or cares of wealth; Lowly living and lofty thought Adorn and ennoble a poor man's cot, __ For man and mortals on Nature's plan Are the crucial test of the gentleman. i Better then gold Is the sweet repose Of sons of toll when their labors close; Better than gold Is the poor man's sleep, j And the balm which soothes his slumbers deep : Brings sleeping draughts to the downy bed ; Where luxury pillows Its aching head. | His simpler opiate, labor deems, A shorter road to the land of dreams. —E. A. Emmons. In Union Signal. : 1 J\ miners Story. § 1 f BY ALFRED B. CALHOUN. I %eeeeeeeeseeeceeeee' THERE were a dozen of us—miners, prospectors and engineers sit ting about the camp fire one evening at the head eft Granite creek, Arizona territory. I Prescott, the capital of the terri tory, was at that time in its infancy, un annex, as it were, to Fort Whipple, i just below it, on the creek. ! Cochise's Apaches were making things hot in that portion of the terri tory at the time, but even if there had ; been no hostile Indians in our vicinity, it is safe to say that all my companions would, have gone armed to the teeth j from sheer force of habit. The conversation rnn on lynchers and road agents, and more than one story was told that combined all the elements of tragedy, given with a broadly humorous manner that was ab solutely grotesque. "Did any of you fellers ever hear of .Take McCabe, as uster hang out round Tucson a few years ago?" The inan who usked the question knocked the ashes from his pipe and looked round on the flame-lit faces before filling up j again. lie was a tall, bronzed man of 'ls, with a slight drawl in his tones and a manner that was tantalizingly delib erate. The men about the fire shook their heads. Except Abe Oweus himself none of them were in Tucson at the time stated. Yet it was "allowed" that they might have known Jake McCabe un der another name, particularly if he , didn't "travel on the square." Just here it may be well to state that the vernacular of mining men is e.n --! riched by the terms of their calling, which they, apply in a figurative sense that makes them unintelligible to the uninitiated. "Pan out" is one of these words. Men "pan out" the gravel in the river beds for golden particles, and they "pan out" men that they ure study ■ ing, or a horse "doesn't pan out ns well ns the feller that sold, him said." And so the term is used in a hundred curious ways that are seemingly for eign to its literal and original signifi cation. | Abe Owens "wasn't much on chin ' ning' r —the latter word a Chinese term | for talking—but in response to the i general demand lie told all he knew I about Jake McCabe, which ran as fol lows. I We. shall not attempt to reproduce the quaint phraseology of Abe Owens. There had been n great many mail carriers, prospectors and ranchmen killed between Tucson and the Rio Gila, and for some time it was sup posed that tho Indians were the per petrators of these crimes. ! Rut even those who were most ready ! to believe that an Indian is capable of any and every barbarity were forced to j the conviction that the murderers were ; white men, and that plunder was the ; object. At first there was an attempt I made to scalp the. victims, but. an old scout declared that it was not "Injun work," and finally the bodies were left where they were shot down without any mutilation. As there was no law at that time I that could be enforced in that section, | n sense of self-preservation led to the j formation of a vigilance eommittee, j every member of which was enjoined j to consider himself a special detective. I Rut these precautions did not lessen the danger. One week after the vig ilance committee had published its purpose, a mafl carrier was found dead on the Fort Rervle trail. Ills horse was gone and the mail-bags rifled. Suspicion directed her finger at two men, who were unacquainted and as different in appearance and mode of life as it is possible to conceive. James Xestoitt was n man of .10, wifh a pale, serious face, and an abstracted manner. lie associated with no one. and he had no business that the miners could see that would enable him to keep two good horses and n black serv ant. lie frequently made trips into the mountains, would lie gone for days and always returned in safety. The other was n Mexican herb doc tor, who, it was reported, hud once been n member of the gang of plunderers commanded by the noted outlaw Joa quin Muriatn. Rut Dr. Pintarn had some practice among his countrymen and the half breeds, and this served to shield hi in from the charge of huving no visible means of support. Jake McCabe was the most promi nent and the most indignant of the vig ilantes. According to Abe Owens, "Jake McCabe fairly ached to git his grip on the red-handed robbers." but they eluded him. .Take McCabe lived in a half-frame, half-adobe structure about a quarter of n mile from the built-up portion of the Jittie town. His ranch was presided I over (we quote Abe again) "by a black eyed, tallish woman, as Jake said was liis sister, but no one didn't try to make love to her on that account, Jake had | a saloon and ran a game in town, and thar wasn't no one more pop'lar with the boys. And then he was a good-look ing feller, and always dressed as neat as a pin and looked as smooth andelick ;is quicksilver." It was Jake McCabe who confirmed the suspicion against James Nesbitt, or "the professor," us they called that gentleman. It happened in. this way: One morning Jake McCabe, who had a good horse and was fond of riding out at all hours, came galloping into town and said he had discovered the body of Tnm llorstman, a well-known prospect or, about six miles from town, and that ns he came upon the body he saw two men riding off—one of them was the professor and the other his colored man, Ike. The vigilantes were in no bumor for Investigation. This was the strongest and clearest evidence they yet had, and, without more ado, they surrounded James Nesbitt's house and ordered him out. He obeyed and appeared to be very cool for so great a crimi nal, ti 11 Jake Mc- Cabe, ns spokesman of the party, point edly told the mission of himself and companions. Then Prof. Nesbitt became Indignant, "and while lie didn't swar," said Abe .Owen, "he acted fo me as if he was • nnocent as the babe unborn. But then some men kin do that when they're guilty, and them that's innercent looks jest as if they wasn't," The professor said that he was a botanist in the service of the Smith sonian institute, and offered to show his collections and his papers, but Jake McCabe wouldn't hear to it. "lie was told that him and the black "WE WERE JEST A-GOING TO SWING 'EM OFF." man must die, and when they heard they both was game. The professor asked for time to write to his mother and to the young lady he was engaged to, and the boys didn't hurry him. When he'd writ the letters he rose and said: "Gentlemen, lam innocent. You are nbout to become murderers, and when too late you will regret this day's work.' "Waal, the boys led 'em to some cot tonwoods whar ropes had been got ready and give 'em n chance to pray. The professor he bowed his head on his breast, silent-like, but the colored man, he prayed out like a hull camp meetin'. "We was just a-goin' to swing 'em off, when who should stagger into the crowd but Tom llorstman all covered with blood. "Then we held up to hear Tom's story. None of us had noticed that Jake Mc- Cabe had lit out in the meantime. Waal, the story was that that same Jake Mc- Cabe was the man that shot and robbed Tom, and left him, as he thought, for sure dead. "I never seed such a crowd as that was when Tom llorstman got through. Of course they freed the professor and his sarvant and axed millions of par dons. and then they made u break for Jake McCabe's ranch. "The doors was closed and Jake was inside. lie knew the game was up, ami told us to get back in five minutes, ns he was going to shoot. We got back, and after a council of war we made up our minds to burn him out that night. "Of course the woman was with him, and we didn't want to hurt her. I never just knew how she got out of the house, but I saw her soon after the fire was lit that burned to ashes about the worst man, as weorterwnrds larned, that ever lived.. And that's all I got to say 'bout Jake McCabe." As Abe Owens made preparations to relight his pipe, one of the party asked: "What became of the professor?" "Oh, he was out to Yuma n year ago with his wife, and the prettiest critter I ever saw in shoes, and him and me laughed over his escape," replied Abe. "And the woman?" asked another. "What woman?" "Jack McCabe's sister." "Waal, we found out she was his wife." "What did she do?" "What do you think?" One thought that she swore ven geance, another that she went into mourning, and a third that she at once shook the ashes of Tucson from her feet and withdrew. "Nothing of the kind," said Abe. "Within six months she married an other of the same stripe, and both are now dead. But she knew that Jake had lots of gold dust on his person and in the ranch. She waited till everything gut cool, and then she got the proper tools and went over and panned out nil the ashen—includin* Jake's—and they do snv she made right smart by it."— N. Y. Ledger. Hibernian. An Irishman wnsritlingn frisky horse. The animal presently got its hind foot into one of the stirrups. "B.v jabbers," said the Irishman, "if ye're going lo get up. it's time for mc=to get dowu."- Londou Truth. Jnnt nn Hoar Too Late. The other day X , the Bohemian, ou receiving some money from a rich uncle, took It Into his head to clear ofl some of his most pressing debts. He first called at his tailor's, and heard that the poor man had just died. His widow, all In tears, desired to know the visitor's errand. "I have come to pay my bill," he slm ply replied. "Ah," sobbed out the widow, "If my poor husband had only lived till this morning the shock might have brought him round!"—Tit-Bits. In Self Defense. "Yes," said the man who was relating the experience, "1 am usually a peaceful and law-abiding citizen, but on that oc casion I joined the infuriated mob and threw stones at the militiu." "You did?" "Yes. J knew that if the militia began to shoot the infuriated mob would probably escape, while the innocent spectators would got hurt." N. Y. World. Mrs. Ifnshcroft Wna Snspleloas. "A dinner such as we have had to day," said the elderly boarder, "makeN me feel like a young man." "Indeed," wns all Mrs. nasheroft deigned to reply. "Indeed; when I think of that lamb wc had for dinner I feel that If that was lamb I must be still a boy."—An swers. Pride of Station., Mr. Forundred (proudly)— Note this magnificent business block. I own every foot of the ground on which it stauds, and it is from this that I derive my income. Old Gent—Ah, yes; I remember this locality very well. It was here your grandfather had his junk shop.—N. Y. Weekly. Discovered. "Well, madam, I've been years look in' for work." "llumph! I have plenty of it for you. You can;—" " 'Sous© me, madam, I said I had been looking for work. Now that 1 have found it, me curiosity Is satisfied. Good day."—N. Y. Truth. Nothing Noisy About It. "What sort of hunting is clone mostly in this region?" asked a northern touT ist of a Kentucky mountuin iun-keeper. "Most of the hunts in this neighbor hood are still hunts," replied the land lord, with a wink to the revenue officer, who was smoking a cigar within hear ing.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Spite. "Yes," she said, "I know I have his love." "Ah, you've taken to dealing in sec onsd-hand articles, have you?" She merely shrugged her shoulders. She knew that a jealous woman was al ways a spiteful woman.—Chicago Post* Female Friend* I*l p. "My husband is not only handsome, but good," said Mrs. Boulevard, proud ly* "Isn't it st range how extremes meet?" replied Mrs. Murray Hill, her best friend, who was paying a visit. —Tam- many Times. Dnrucntlc Science. Teacher—Now, leather comes from the cow, and wool from the sheep, and wool is made into cloth, and cloth into coats. Now, what is your coat made of —yours, Tommy? Tommy (with hesitation) —Out o' fey ther's.—'Tit-Bits. She Couldn't Keep It. "I've found at last what silence Is!" A poetess once sang; And then she talked with emphasis Until the welkin rang. —Town Topics. ONLY ONCE. , . Mother—You seem sad, my dear. What troubles you? Mabel—Jack proposed to me, and 1 refused him the first time. Mother—But didn't you accept him the second time? Mabel—There wasn't any second.— N. Y. Herald. Jealousy. Now Is the time the cyclists all Begin to warmly hate The man who claims he rides a wheel Model of '9B. —Detroit Free Press. That Wn All. Gummoy—What is that noise? 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