FREELAND TRIBUNE. Esta'clishol 1838. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY IIY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited OFFICE: MAIN STHEKT ABOVE CENTRE. Make all money orders, checks, etc., payable U> the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year sl-50 Six Months 78 Four Months 80 Two Months 25 The date which the subscription is paid to is on the address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date becomes a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Report prompt ly to this office whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be paid wheu subscription is discontinued. FREELAND, PA.. DECEMBER3O. 1807. j^ospsj niSS JUWHBLB v. hen one is in prison, or, say, while waiting' for a railroad train, or upon the eve of one's marriage. All the pictures of old Father Time show him having wings, and very long ones, too. He flies faster and faster as age wears on, to fast, in fact, that towards tihe decline and down it one may not be able to count the mile-posts. The yir 1897 has gone and to older ones it seems but as yesterday since first it was here. Yet during its little hour how many the friends that went to their long home, how many the hopes unfilled, how many the vows that were broken, how many the disappointments, aye, and how many the pleasures, and glad nesses, how much happiness we com municated, and how much we bestowed upon others. Sitting down for retro spection, it was a very busy year after all. Had we begun on the first day with a diary of large dimensions, how cosily we might have filled its every page, and still have left many, many things unrecorded. Oone the old year altogether—save its memories, which will remain for ever, precious or reprobative, as the}' troop up in passing review before one. Gone dts spring of unfolding flower and stalk and grass; its summer of developing beauties of field and wood; its autumn of harvest, full fruit age and many-tinted leaves; and gone its winter of hoar-frost, iridescent ice and snow of immaculate whiteness. Gone is it in its glory and pride, its shame and weakness, and we hail the new with its certain record of good and evil, false and true, tempest and calm, sunshine and shower, night and day. llail the year 1898! Yet many will it east down and many raise up; many destroy and many make alive. Hope will at fulfill in some and send utter despair to others. As in the years that have passed, so in 1898 will there be simoons, tornadoes, zephyrs and calms; tiail, rain, snow and diffusive, heart warming sunshine. There shall be wars, sorrows, pains, joys, gladnesses, j droughts, floods, plenty and famine. War shall rage here and there, while peuce will be serene in most places. 1 Birds shall sing sweetest songs at matin and eventide, while beasts shall utter their terrifying cries. What will the year bring to you, and you, and you? In the midst of such un certainties, who so wise as to be able to declare his own fate or that of another? One having good memory may dilate of 1897; but no man can predicate of 1898! But he may wish himself well, and in the same breath he should wish well to all others. Aye, unci it is a time when one may very properly make introspection with ft view to information. As a garden, there is need for rooting out here, •planting there; weeding in this place and watering in that place. Find out tthe sins that are besetting, the vir tues that are deficient. Be honest and Jet the work be thorough. All that is good, cherish as the apple of the eye; what is bad cast off as an old garment. Such an undertaking faithfully done and conscientiously adhering to resolu tions adopted will have much to do with regulation of the effects cf the year before you. Alas! how many good resolutions are made at the beginning of every new year only to be broken after a few days, or weeks, at the most; and so one year is as another with us. Whatever we do, the days will go quickly and the end of it will be here only too soon. WILLIAM RO6SER COBBE. \ Net? t ear's i oast. Here's to the world, the funny old world. And the days that are happy or blue, And here's to the future, he what It may. And here's to the best—that's yiu. -N. Y. Herald. A Good" StarTT" "I've made one New Year's resolution fhat I'm going to see carried out." "What is it?" "The world has got to treat ine bet ter than it did last year."—Chicago Record. Mnnolun y. Soon comes that New Year's exercise, And, what seems sadly queer, The faults from which he will swear off Are tho same he named last year. —Washington Star. lilt lolly. Jenkins-—I hear that Barker has 6worn off smoking. Hogg—Poor devil 1 He's a man who always keeps his word. —N. Y. Truth. CASTOrtXA. | THE RETURN "J * j j THE CAT. j • BY ELISA ARMSTRONG. J f ATS," remarked Mrs. (■( Mott sententiously, r "are a good 'eal like men. They require a lot of petting; they are very • ■vy particular about their eat '•'"SccP * n ' ant * s ' iar( * *° keep [ them in the house at j l'AvtSk As she was entirely alone, there was no one to contradict this some " —what extraordinary state ment, so she dropped her eyes again ou her work, the embroidering of daises on a bit of linen. Suddenly, she heard the front door open and, turning her back, she whipped off her eyeglasses and slipped them in her pocket, before turning to greet her visitor. She was obliged to wear glasses w hen she read or sewed, but she would have felt eter nally disgraced if anyone had seen her with them on her nose. "That you, Melinda? Walk in and sit down—why, what's the matter? Any thing wrong?" "Humph! Lorilla Mott, what's this about you and Ezra?" Mrs. Mott's hand shook visibly in lilu i-, j "WHERE ON EARTH DID YOU FIND HIM?" ! folding her work, but she answered, ; defiantly: "Don't know as I'll tell you." I "Well, you needn't, then. I know a'ready. And all I've got to say is, if you prefer a cat to a husband, why—" I "You don't know one thing about husbands, MelindaThomps'on; why,you never had one yourself!" ! "That's just it; I know what it is to be without one. There's my taxes. | now—" i But Mrs. Mott hastily interrupted; j when taxes were the theme. Miss Me : linda usually spoke loud and long. "You can't begin by giving in lo a | husband, Melinda. 1 lenow that, because I gave in to Mr. Mott before we were 1 married and the only comfort 1 got out ! of him in the 12 years we were married ! was in his last illness. Then. I could call on the doctor to help me. He always i sided with me against Abner." "I guess he knew which one of you was going to pay his bill." said her • viisitor, thoughtfully. "Look here. 1o- i villa, are you and Ezra going to be mar- i ried on New Year's day or not?" "\Ye are not," replied Mrs. Mott, i firmly. Then she hastened to the door, I letting in a huge tortoise-shell cat, which rubbed itself affectionately against her gown, purring all the w title Presently, he jumped up on a gay patchwork cushion in a huge arm chair and fell to washing his face. "And you've given thai cat Ezra's chair," said Miss Melinda, solemnly. "Melinda Thompson, I have! Fur thermore, it's my chair, and always has been, though Ezra has sat. in it pretty constant in the 14 years he's been com- , ing to see me." "Fourteen years. And how many times has the wedding been put off: Lemme see; there was the time you quarreled over the piece the <hoir was io sing at the wedding. .You wanted 1 The Voice That Breathed O'er Eden, i ' and he wanted—l forget what he did want—and neither of you would give in. Why didn't you have a wedding I without singing?" "Never thought of that. The choir took it real hard, too, after practicing j for four weeks twice a week to be ready, j They wanted to please us both and ' practiced the piece i wanted on Tues day evening after the regular choir meeting and the one Ezra wanted on Friday. They did offer to sing 'em ' both, but we couldn't agree which was to come first, so that did no good." "And the next time you quarreled over the way you meant to celebrate your golden wedding, didn't you? And now it's about a cat!" "Melinda Thompson, it is not. It's about a dog. that's what! Ezra Mason | has gone and bought a dog—a hunting j dog—at his time of life! lie wanted to j bring it here, too, knowing how afraid | Jason is of dogs. I told him fiat, I j wouldn't have Jason's life made a bur- ! den to please anybody. Then he said he'd never speak to me again, and 1 said I guessed I could talk to myself, if I got lonesome and wanted to hear the sound of a human voice!" "There goes Ezra now, with the dog at his heels," remarked the visitor. ' "He's on the other side of the street. ' That's how I came to know lie and you • had quarreled. He only does that when lie's mad with you." Mrs. Mott tossed her head defiantly. "The pavement's free," she said. "Must you be going?" as Miss Melinda rose, i "Yea. I'm going to run in and see | that strange family that's just moved here. The little boy's an invalid and ( they don't know a soul here yet, o I thought maybe they'd 1 like to hear the news." "Well, you're the one that can tell it to them," said Mrs. Mott, under her | breath, as her friend walked away. "Jason; here, sir, come back!" For j the cat had slipped past her and out I ' into the street, pretending not to hear j her calls. "Contrary as a man," she remarked, j ••losing the door. "That's just the way j Mr. Mott used to go out after supper." j The big chair looked very lonesome j without Ezra's portly presence in it, ind, stopping to beat up the cushion j as she passed, she remarked: "Fin sor- j ! ry now I told Melinda Thompson I'd give j ; it to the cat, but it's too late now— lie knows it n'ready. Anyhow, he needn't have suid he wished the Lord, !or whoever looks after cats, would ; take Jason!" Late that evening passers-by heard Mrs. Mott calling Jason to come in. "What a fuss she does make over that 1 cat," they said. Wakeful neighbors also noticed a light burning in her "A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO BOTH OF YOU." house almost nil night and once and : again fancied they heard a cry of "Ja-son, Jason!" Early next morning they knew that Mrs. Mot.t was almost distracted over the prolonged absence of her pet, and offered a reward of one dollar to the boy who should bring him home—n i most unlikely event, for all boys were j foes to that pampered feline. Not until the morning of the sec ond day did Mrs. Mott give up hope. Then, standing mournfully at the win dow. she saw Ezra pass on the other ftlde of the street, followed by his dog. , and an awful thought possessed her. "Ezra Mason knows what has be •ome of Jason!" she cried, bursting into j ears. "And to think 1 had meant to ! narry him, in gray satin, on New Year's lay!" Late that afternoon Melinda Thomp son bustled in, her bonnet gracefully •ncircling one ear. "Well, Lorilla Mott, have you heard?" ; "Heard what?" said Mrs. Mott. . | "That Ezra Mason feeds that dog of ; his out of the silver sugar basin he had bought for your wedding present, ! and lets him sleep in the silk quilt you made him for Christmas! What do ! you think of that?" "Think?" said Mrs. Mott, slowly and i deliberately. "Why, 1 think that a man who will commit murder will do anything." "Murder?" gasped Melinda. "Yes, murder! For if Ezra Mason didn't kill my cat, why doesn't he come back?" The strange family with the invalid boy had received her advances coldly and Miss Melindu's time and tongue were entirely at Mrs. Mott's disposal. By nightfall everybody knew that she had accused Ezra Mason of killing her cat. Later that evening, they also knew that Ezra had said he would never speak to a woman or a cat again. And this was the 29th of December, and | the gray satin gown in which Mrs. Mott j was to have been metamorphosed into ; Mrs. Mason hung ready in her ward- ; robe, while the ring, once more ex changed for a larger one, lay forgotten : in Ezra's pocket. It was New Year's morning and Mrs. j Mott felt forlorn and miserable seated ' before her untasted breakfast. For the j first time, 6he regretted her quarrel ! with Ezra. "If I hadn't quarreled with him he'd never have killed Jason," she sighed, "and I'd never have known he'd com mit murder. Now—come in!" she, hastened to open the door. fjfffL r '" c "me ">< daunt and ghostly stars ||SV W'P Bung round and low on Beaoen's rim, f|7 ~ Along a line of dappled bars VI Eike yellow apples from a limb, ft%¥ \\ *L-— a_ Ci,J V two sat watching tbrou9h the night Co mark the old year plume his flight. lit Band clasped in handi the far moon's gold, \>aU > fcr | Capped ower by each flying cloud, V • V\\Y Seemed as a dead man's face, and old, ' lyfcdT <s Balfhid, half-pictured in Its shroud, \ '/wl 4 Jf! " 1 at,!, ' v (loum ,ht m " hv wav ' Cra " t(l dU$hV baniwrs shot wi "' Brav ' Chey watched the midnight's ebon wings / / Poise, float and circle, high o'erhead, > jtf A As a hawk sails in widening rings 5 jibs O'er summer fields with daisies spread; K Band clasped in hand, and silent so, But in their hearts the expectant glow, Chat wavered as tht night wore on >, ' -JV~ Chat fluttered at the moon's eclipse;- t Chen came the first taint streaks of dawn \ <&' And speech rushed eager to their lips, / ** Aj While down along the eastern shore Che red sun painted" neoermore." s, ... truest mcßjTtev. There stood a shy littlegirl,and—Mrs. j Mott cried uloud—Jason, alive and iu i the fur, was rubbing aguinst her legs and purring. "lie didn't kill him after nil!" she | cried; then, seeing the child's amazed ! look, she said: "Where on earth did | you find him, my dear? Was—was be j much hurt?" "lie wasn't hurt at all, ma'am. He ! come to us live days ago; my brother's sick and we didn't know the cat was I yours—my brother kept him in his room all t.he time. The butcher boy saw him this morning and told us—" "1 suppose he tried hard to get away i and couie home?" faltered Mrs. Mott. ! "No'm. He wanted to stay and I had to carry him part way." As the child was going away with the dollar Mrs. Mott had thrust upon her, that lady stood on the doorstep with the door closed to prevent Jason from following his new friend. She saw Ezra approaching across the street and said, bitterly: "To think 1 quar rel ed with him over an ungrateful beast that forgot me in five days! Nan cy!" she called, suddenly. "Yes'm," said the child, stopping. "You can have the> cat if j-ou want him. I don't." Then she went into the house and shut the door. . Five minutes later a tremendous knock brought, her to the door. There stood Ezra with the now weeping Nan cy, who held Jason in her arms. "Here's your cat," he said, shortly, ! "this child says a nice crazy lady gave him to her." "I gave her tlip cat, Ezra Mason; I guess I can do as I like with my own—" j "You gave Jason away?" gasped j Ezra. "Lorilla. the wedding is to bp at j seven, ain't it?" "Ye-es, Ezra, and-—and you may bring your dog." "Hain't got him." snapped Ezra; J "man 1 bought him from had stolen him. and—" "A Ilappy New Year to both of youl" cnllrd Melinda Thompson, passing. ! THE COMPACT WITH DARIUS. | Rev. Gideon George Washington Smith's sermon on toe previous Sun day had evidently made a deep impres- I sion on Uncle Caesar, and he had been turning it over in his mind constant ! ly. To-day he seemed at length to | have reached a decision, for he talked to his old gray inule in a very serious tone as he attached the harness to the mule's bony frame. "Now, yeh jes' hoi' still, yeh no 'count mule," he said. "I want yeh to know DARIUS FLOPPED ONE EAR KNOW INGLY. ! dis am New Yeoh's day an' fum dis on I ain't a goin' teh hab no nonsense. Yeh undahstand? No fool kickiu' aftah ' dis, Darius!" I Darius flopped one ear knowingly, j 1 "No, sah!" said Caesar, "dis am de dav I when we got tch make good resolutions, 1 an* me an' you am a goin' teh do dat same, yeh heah me?" i The mule glaueed at Uncle Caesar j with a pensive look, and the old negro i walked around in front of Darius and, lifting his long black forefinger in the ' uir, addressed him thus: I "Darius, you an' me hab been big | sinnahs! Dey ain't no doubt 'bout ; dat! You hab kick yeh way mos' clean I to dc debbil, an' I been stealin' pullets ; tell meh soul's mos' lost, but I'se a gwine teh mek a compact wif yeh, I Darius. In dis 3*ere New Yeah I'll agree not teh comfiscate no chickens ef you'll agree not teh trow up dem debbil heels of yourn. Am dat a go, Darius?" Darius looked into the old man's sol emn brown eyes, and—nodded! It was a compact! Uncle Caesar climbed laboriously into his shaky "kerridge," and flapped the reins on Darius' tough back, and the couple jogged out of thi and down the road. It was a crisp, cool mcrnirg and Uncle Caesar felt very happy. lie had resolved to do right, and the wicked past faded away in the present ease of conscience. About two miles down the road to ward Gilltown Uncle Caesar suddenly pulled Darius to a walk. Then he pulled him up entirely? Darius looked around but Uncle Caesar was lost in thought. Four fat hens and a roos ! ter were scratching by the road. At last the old dark.v shook his head, j "No, sah. Mistall Satan, yeh caj'n't tempt Unc' Caesar. I done made a j compact, an* I won't be de one tch break I et. Darius don't git no sich chance teh j crow ober me!" But he did not drive on. In a minute more he had slowly de scended from his "kerridge." A straw lay in the road and grasping this he cautiously tickled Darius on his left flank. For a moment the air was full of heels. Then Uncle Cuesar shook his head sadly. 1 "Darius." he said. "I'm s'urised at AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD "CASTORIA" AND "PITCHER'S C ASTORIA," AS OUR TRADEMARK. I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Eyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same that has borne and does now on every bear the facsimile signature of wrapper. This is the original " PITCHER'S CASTORIA," which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the hind you have always bought 011 and has the signature of wrap per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. /> - . March 8,1897. Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting | a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in ! gredients of which even he does not know. "The Kind Yon Have Always Bought" BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. RAILROAD TIMETABLES LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD, November 14, 1897. ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER TRAINS. LBAVB PRBBLAND. 6 05. fi 45 9 35 u in, 1 40, 2 04, 3 15. 5 25. 7 07 p ra, for Drifton, Jeddo, Foundry, il.zle Brook and Lumber Vurd. 0 a'., 8 45. 9 35 a m, 140.315, (5 25 p ra. Black Dia mond) for Weatherly, Munch Chunk. Allen town, Fusion. Philadelphia and Now York. 7 07 p ra for Weatherly, Munch ('hunk, Allen town, Huston and intermediate stations. 936 a ra, 2 31, 525 und 707 p in, tor Uuzle ton, Delano, Mnbanoy City, Shenandoah, Ash land, Mt < 'annul, Shumokin and I'ottSViUe. 7 2, 10 51, 11 54 a ra, 522 p ra, lor Sandy Hun, White HA veil and Wilkosbarre. SUNDAY TRAINS. 8 38. 10 51 a in for Sandy Hun, White Haven and Wilkesbarro. 10 43 a in and 138 pm for Jeddo, Foundry, lluzlo lirook, Stockton ami lluzlcton. 10 43 a ra for Hazleton, Delano, Mahanoy City. Shenandoah, Mt. Carrael, Shaiuokiu and Potts vl lie. 1 38 p m for Weatherly. Maueh Chunk, Allen town, Eaitou, Philadelphia and New York. Alt HIVE AT FREELAND. 5 50, 7 28, 0 20, 10 51, 11 54 a ra, 12 58, 2 20, 3 51, 522 and bOl p in, from Lumber Yurd, Huzle 11 ook. Foundry, Jeddoand Drifton. 7 2s, 9 20, 10 51, 1154 am, 12 58, 2 20, 3 51, 5 22 p m. irom Hazleton. 9 20, 10 51 a ra, 12 58, 0 01, p m, from Phila delphia, New York, Fusion, Allcutown, Munch Chunk and Weath rly. 935 am, 2 34, 707 pro, from Wllkesbarre, White Haven aud Sandy Hun. 7 28, y 20. 10 51 a ra, 2 20, 5 22 p m, from Delano, Mahaaoy City, Slieuandoah, Ashland, Mt. Cur ruel, Slmraokin and Pottsville. SUNDAY TRAINS. 8 38, 10 51 a ra and 12 5> p ra, from Hazleton. Stocktou. Lumber Yard, lluzle Urook, Foun dry, .luddo and Drifton. 10 51am, 12 55 p in, from Philadelphia, New York Huston, Allentown, and Mauch Chunk. 10 51 a ni, from Poitsvllle, Shaiuokiu, Mt. Carrael Ashland, Shenandoah, Mahanoy City and Delano. 10 .3 a iu, frotn Wilkeßburre, White Haven and Sundy liun. For further information inquire of Ticket Agents. CH AS. S. LEE, Ocn'l Pass. A vent, Phllu., Pa. HO LLIN 11. WILBUH, General Superintendent. A. W. NONNEMACHEU, Ass't G. P. A., Philadelphia, Pu. rHE DELAWARE, SUSQUEHANNA AM. SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD. Time table in effect April 18, 1897. Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo, Eokley, Ilazle Lirook, Stockton, Beaver Meadow Hoad, Koan and lluzle ton Junction at 5 3U, 800 a in, daily except Sunday; and 7 IKI u ra, 238 p in, Sunday. Trains leave Drifton for Harwood, Cranberry. Torahicken nod Deringer at 5 30, 0 mi a ra, daily except Sunday; and 703 a in, 238 p m, Sun day. Trains leave Drifton for Oneida Junction, Harwood Hoad, Humboldt Hoad, Oneidu and Sheppton at 000 a ra, daily except Sun day; and 7 03 a ra, 2 38 p ra, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Harwood, Cranberry, Torahicken and Deringer at 085 a m, dully except Sunday; aud 8 53 a ra, 4 22 p in, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida Junction, Harwood Hoad, Humboldt Hoad, Oneida and Sheppton at 8 32, 11 10 a in, 4 41 p ra, dally except Sunday; and 7 37 a in, 3 11 p ra, Sunday. Trains leave Deringer for Torahicken, Cran berry, Harwood, Hazleton Junction and Hoan at 2 25, 6 10 p ra, daily except Sunday; and 9 37 a ra, 507 p ra, Sunday. Truius leave Sheppton for Oneida, Humboldt Hoad, Harwood Hoad, Oneidu Junction, Hazle ton Junction and Hoan at 7 11 am, 12 40, 522 p ra, daily except Sunday; aud 811 a ra, 3 44 p m,Sunday. Trains leave Sheppton for Beaver Meadow Hoad, Stockton, Ilazle Brook, Eckley. Jeddo und Drifton ut 6 22 p ra, daily, except Sunday; and 8 11 a iu, 3 44 p in, Sunday. Truius leave Hazleton Junction for Beaver Meadow Hoad, Stockton, Ilazle Brook, Eckley, Jeddo and Drifton at 5 45, 828 pin, daily, except Sunday; und 10 10 a ra, 5 40 p ra, Sunday. All trains connect at Hazleton Junction with electric cars for Huzlcton, J canesville, Audcu ried and other points on the Traction Com pany's line. Trains leaving Drifton at 5 30, 6 00 a in make connection at Deringer with P. k. it. trains for Wllkesbarre, Sunbury, llarrisburg and points west. For the accommodation of passengers nt way -tutions between Hazleton Junction and Der inger, a train will leuvo the former point at 360 p ni, dully, except Suuday, arriving at Deringer at o 00 p ra. LUTHER C. SMITH, Superintendent.. yeli! Yeh done break our compact, yeh no *count mule!" Is it necessary to state of what Uncle Caesar's menu consisted that New- Year's day? KELTS PARKER BUTLER. 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