FREELAND TRIBUNE. llUtlilkoi 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One Year fl.'iG ; Six Months i Four Months ,r, O J Two Months -5 j The date which the subscription is puid to is \ on the address label of each paper, the change ' of which to a subsequent dute becomes u j receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in I advance of the present date. Report prompt- j ly to this office whenever paper is not received. • Arrearages must be paid when subscription | is discontinued. Make all money orders, checks . etc., payable to I the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. j FREELAND, PA., FEBRUARY 13,1899. j Dr. Rothrock's Head to Drop. Reports from liarrisburg include Dr. J. T. Rothrock, forestry commissioner of the state, among the hundreds of office holders who are slated for re- j moval by Governor Stone to make j places for Quayltes. In the eyes of the , spoilsman no position should be held by ■ any but one who has helped the victor to win. The creed of this class of ! politicians is so narrow that they cannot comprehend the fact that some people are peculiarly fitted to perform certain work. Their limited vision permits j them to see only the dollars attached to the position, and forthwith they clamor for the position. When the power to remove and appoint is in the hands of a graduate from the spoils class, tho clamor does not continue long until it is satisfied. In the case of Dr. Rothrock these facts are brought out with a vividness that is truly discreditable to the state. Tho office of forestry commissioner Is perhaps tho most non-political in the country. The patronage of the office is nothing, and the occupant can neither help nor injure one party or another, outside of his influence as a private citizen. Yet, if reports be true, a change in tho office is about to be an nounced. It is not alleged that I)r. Rothrock is incapable, that he has failed to adminis ter bis duties in a proper manner or that even his Republicanism is question able. All that can be said against him is that he has devoted the education of his life, all his time and all his influence and prestige to procure legislation that might advance the cause of forestry, and to teach the people of his state the great, necessity of protecting trees and plants. He has not spent his time strengthening the political fences of this or that faction of the Republican | party, like many of his fellow office i holders, and because he lias failed to commit this offense while in the pay of j the state the Quayites demand his of- i flcial head as a warning to all others i that the man who fails to pay homage to Quay forfeits the right to hold offici in Pennsylvania. Until a short time ago little or no attention was given to the work of the department over which Dr. Rothrock presides. The matter of forestry pro tection, Arbor day observances and the like were considered of interest to only those who were directly interested In timber cultivation. People did not realize that their water supplies and a hundred other matters of daily life were intimately connected with forestry pre servation. I)r. Ilothrock has educated Pennsylvanians to their duty, or at least has made such wonderful progress in that direction, that his removal at this time, in the midst of his self-sacrificing and good work, would be an irreparable loss to the state. But if his removal will hasten the voters in deciding that the time is here to overthrow a system that places merit below political power, it will not be without its compensations. A judges' retirement bill has been introduced in the house at liarrisburg. Tho measure provides that when any law judge, after having attained the age of seventy years, and having held his commission for at least twenty years consecutively, or, if not continu ously in tho same court, having faith fully served as a judge altogether thirty years, shall, before the expiration of his torm resign, he shall thereafter in con sideration of such resignation and retire ment, receive in equal quarterly instal ments an amount of money equal to two-thirds of the annual salary payable to him at tho time of such resignation. The plans for raiding the treasury are just getting properly started. PR.DAVID favorite K^Ysßemedy The one sure cure for J The Sidneys,liver and Blood Choose a valentine from theso; Cupid always tries to please, And he lights the fires of love, As ye hover thus above. Now he swings the hearts in air- Grasp one as it's passing there. ■fliniii BY J. L. HARBOUR. The widow Darby, fair, plump, and looking far younger than her 4~> years, had ridden into town with .fared Kent because her horse had lamed himself that morning, and .Tared "happened to be going in." and had asked the widow to ride with him. .fared was what some of the people of the neighborhood called a "regular bora old baeli.' He flouted and scorned womankind most of the fifty years of his life, and had openly set forth ids conviction that men were "better off without 'em than with 'em," particular ly when it come to "marrying of 'em.'' He had held to this conviction so long and had proclaimed it so boldly and so constantly that all of the match-makers in the rural neighborhood in which lie lived had. given him up a hopeless ease beyond the pale of their schemes for making a benedict of him. .fared was not. like most avowed women haters, a crabbed, cross-grained sneeringly, cynical man, which made his celibacy all the more unpardonable in the eyes of the match-makers. "He'd make a real good husband if i.o'd try," they said. "Then he has the nicest farm in the neighborhood, with one of the best houses on ii and money out at interest, although he's not a bit mean and stingy. He'll do his full share always for a neighbor in distress. It isn't because he's too stingy to sup port her that .fared doesn't get him a wife." It was a clear, crisp morning in February when .Tared rode to the vill age with the widow Darby seated be- j side him in his neat little cutter. The I sleighing was tine and the air keen and exhilarating. It gave the widow's j plump cheeks a beautiful crimson glow I and made her black eyes sparkle. She was in high spirits and her laugh rang out frequently as merry and rippling as the laugh of a child. Hut then the widow Darby was pro verbially cheery. She had suffered keenly the loss of her husband and both of her children, but time had soft ened her grief, and she was too wise to spend her life in gloom and grief over the loss of those who were beyond all care and sorrow. She had a comfortable little home and a few acres of land adjoining Tared Kent's. She had known Jared nil of her life, but not ouce had she thought of him as a possible successor t.) Joel Darby. ".Tared will never marry anyone," she had said. "He isn't of a marrying dis position. Some men are that way. It's nil they lack to make 'em what God in tended they should be. My husband ! and I used to talk .Tared over a good i deal, and we did our full share to get | him settled for life with a good wife. ; We used to invite lots of nice girls, young and elderly both, to our house and then have Jared come over to tea and to play croquet with them. He'd be nice and pleasant and all that, hut he never came any ways near falling into any of the traps we set for him. We thought onee that he did take a kind of a shine to a nice; sweet real good looking girl of about HO named Janet Dcano from over Shelby way. who was visiting us. She'd of made him an awful good wife, and I sung her praises all the time, but nothing j came of it." It's an elegant morning, isn't itV" said Jared, as he and the widow flew along over the hills and through long lanes in which the snow was drifted almost 10 the top of the fences. ' "Oh. it's lovely!" replied the widow, t "1 like snow." "So do I. You got much to do in j town?" "No; I'll be through with all of my errands in an hour. I can let some thing go if you don't want to stay in town that long." "Oh, that'll be none too long for inc. Where shall 1 meet you?" "I'll be at Smith & Hanseom's dry goods store, any time you sav." "We'll call it 11 o'clock, then." j It was three minutes after 11 when Jared drove up to the appointed place of meeting. The widow had stepped into the sleigh and be was tucking the robes in around her when she said: "There, Jared. I'm just like other women; I've forgotten something." "What is it?" "I forgot to go around to the post office. I know that there's nothing there for me, because one of the Stone boys brought my mail out last night, and there's no mail trains until noon; but poor old Jane Carr came over just before I left and wanted ine to he sure and see if there was a letter for her. Iler daughter is very sick out west, and she hasn't had a letter for a week, and she's half wild. I couldn't hear to tell her I'd forgotten to go to the j office." ! "I'll drive 'round that way," said •Fared. "It won't be three blocks out of the way." Two or three boys stood idling in front of the postofflce and .Tared said to one of them he chanced to know: "Say. Jimmies run into tlie office and see If there's any letter for Mrs. Jane 1 f, atr. You needn't ask for me. for I've een around and got my mail." "You might look in box 184," said I Irs. Darby, "Mebbe there's a drop otter me." The boy came out a moment latei with a very large square white en velope in one lmnd and a small blue en velope in the other. lie grinned as hf handed them to Mrs. Darby. Shi glanced at the blue envelope and said joyfully: "O here's a letter for Jane, and It's from her daughter, I know by the post mark. How glad Jane will be!—well, I declare;" She burst into a merry laugh as she looked at the big white, embossed en velope. The boy had told the truth when he had gone back to his com rades and said with a titter: "She's got a valentine!" "Who in the land ever sent me that thing?" said Mrs. Darby, holding the envelope out at arm's length. "I didn't •veil know it was Valentine's Day. If it isn't the greatest idea that 1 should get a valentine." "I don't know why you shouldn't," said J a red. "Oh, because I—but I guess some child sent it." "Maybe not." "No one else could have had so little gumption!" said the widow with another laugh. "Maybe there's one of these comic valentines inside of it some ridiculous thing about a widow likely." "Why don't you open It and see?" "1 will." She burst into another laugh as she drew forth a dainty creation of lace paper, tinsel and bright colored em bossed pictures. "How perfectly ridiculous!" she said ' I "AN HOUR LATER THEY STOPPED AT JANE CARU'S GATE." "The idea of any one being ninny enough to send an old woman like me a thing like that!" "You're not an oil woman." "I'm forty-five!" "Well, I'm older than that, and I don't call myself an old man. Many women around here would be glad to get a valentine like that if the sender really meant it." "Yes, and if you were the sender." "Ini not vain enough to think that and not foolish enough to say it if I did think it." "No, I don't think that you are, .Tared. But I wonder who could have sent me this. The writing on the envelope is evidently disguised, and—O, here is something inside! Let's see what it says. " 'O wilt thou be my valentine Forever and forever aye, And wilt thou take this heart of mine, And give me thine to-day?' " There was another verse hut before she had read it, the widow Darby cried out: "Jared Kent, that's your hand writing and you need not try to deny it!" "I'm not trying to deny It. You'll Und my name signed in full to the next verse on the other page." This was the next verse: "If 'yes' my answer is to be, My heart with joy will fill. If 'no,' I yet shall he your friend And I shall love you still." They had reached the outskirts of the town. Jared brought the horse to a stand-still, and said: "Is it yes or no, Lucy.?" She looked at him with shining eyes, and laughing face for a moment. Then she laid one of her mittened hands on the sleeve of the great fur coat he wore, and said: "I think it is yes, .Tared." He turned his horse's head toward the town. "Where are you going?" she asked. "Back to the minister's. It's Valen tine's Day, you know, and if you are to be my valentine. I want you to-day." An hour later they stopped at Jane Carr's gate. She came skurryiug out ; for her letter with her apron over her head. "I brought you a letter. Jane, and I got a valentine," said Lucy, hold ing up the big. white envelope. "I got one also," said .Tared, as he put an arm around his wife and kissed her. APROPOS. Between i sips of coffee I paused a Lot to say. "You've surely not forgotten That 'tis St. Valentine's Day? "You used, when you were courting. To sentimental grow, And send me at this season i Some gift quite apropos. "If blue by eliance my hall gown, A box would come from you Forget-me-nots containing. And a valentine in blue. I "If sweet you said my lips were, Like gold my curling locks, You sent a golden jewel And sweets in costly box. "But sentiment by wedlock, Is dulled—or soon or late; N'o valentine finds Cupid For wives appropriate." As day wore on, forgotten These words of sad regret, The door bell rang. I answered, i A messenger I met. An envelope with Cupids I And roses all enlaced! I opened it, and, trembling, The pages scanned in haste. | "To silks and laee—one hundred." "To squash, to fish, to ham— I Payment received—and so forth " "I've done my best. Yours, Sam." Putting Hl* Pont in It. I Miss Oldgal—My uncle has given me i a handsome valentine every year since I was a little girl. So sweetly scnti* [ mental of him, don*t you think so? Young Pokelong—Ynhs, and very liberal, too. Thirty or forty valentines at four or five dollars apiece 1 Miss Oldyal Slr-r-r-r-r-r! A VALENTINE. Oh, what have I t > offer, dear, What gift or gr-eting fine, This golden day of all the year, Of good St. Valei tine? Have you not all that life can lend Full many a friend, and true? What is the gift, I can send To you? But tills I send to you apart. Via St. Valentine, All willingly a loving heart— This woman hear* of mine. Oh, hold it safely, without fern, Be sure that it Is true, And does the gift bring joy most dear To you? —Theodosia Pickering. i ill They knew she was dying—the faded little woman in the faded little bed room. She had clung to life as long as she couid, hoping for nu answer to that wistful prayer in her eyes. But the struggle was almost over now; the wistful eyes were growing dim. "See! I've got something for ye, Liddy!" The little circle of spinster re latives and kindly neighbors parted, and good Uncle Silas Peterson came wheezing to the bedside, the snow still clinging to his rough overcoat. He carried a letter in his hand—a coarse and dirty envelope addressed in the :*rude, sprawling penmanship of a man whom neither life nor education had ripened or refined. "It's from Orson—Orson, you know," Uncle Silas added, bending over the couch and addressing the dying worn in with the tender directness onjfcises io eliildreu—and death. ' 'Orson?" A smile flashed over the ashen face, and the woman lifted a feeble hand for the letter. She kissed it and tucked it under the thin shawl that some loving hand had wrapped >ver lier shoulders. "Shan't 1 open It for ye, Liddy?" j asked one of the women. The dying eyes said "No." "She thinks it's a valentine from her husband," whispered one of the neigh bors. 'To-day is Valentine Day, you know. Last year I remember her tell ing me how she wished Orson would send her a valentine—just some little thing to show her that he loved her the way lie did when they were first married." "Most likely it's a note sayin' he'll stay over night and see the races on flic ice, to-morrow," was the guarded reply. The dying woman folded her shawl tightly around the precious letter. A look of perfect peace lighted her face. "He does love me," she whispered, "just as he used to!" Uncle Silas turned away to wipe the mist from his spectacles. There was a little fluttering sign from the bed. , "Liddy" had gone home. | When they drew the old shawl from | her shoulders, there, tight pfessed against her heart by both thin, blue veined hands, was Orson's crumpled, ! dirty letter. They were scarcely able to take it away from her slender, cling ing fingers. j "Shall ye open it?" asked Miss Pen niman. The women looked furtively at one another, their curiosity struggl ing with their reverence. "No," said Miss Daggett, at last. "It's hers—sacred. No matter what it say*. She died thinkin' it was a val entine. Let's burn it up, so uobody will ever know." The ashes of the unread letter flut tered white about the stove for a few minutes, and then wlrled up the chim ney, as a gust of February wind roared over the house. And the little, worn out. heart-hungry woman lay smiling, as death had found her. THE REAL AND THE IDEAL. ROMANCE. FACT. Her Reply. He being witty, ever bright, Bethought him to surprise his love, And said he'd send no trifle light With scrapof verse and painted dove. Nay, nay: he'd quite another scheme, He said, with sly, mysterious laugh; And then he sent unto the maid His latest photograph. It gave the maidon no surprise; She thought the little joke was prime— The token that he thought more wise Than painted dove and halting rhyme; And, taking paper, pen and ink, . Site dropped the loving swain a line, And thanked him very kindly for the comic valentine. Guying. ! "Let me he your valentine," he urged, on his knees. She gazed at him. | "Sentimental or comic?" she queried. It was the deathnote of his passion. rWAS SHEER LUCK. When the great pink diamond of Guznee reached Europe it created widespread interes" and took immedi ate rank with the historical stones of the world. It was compared with the finest gems in the royal and imperial regalia, savants wrote learned disqui sitions upon its beauties, and the mnga zines and uewsp: pers spoke of its value in away that made one's mouth water. Among others whose envy was aroused by the descriptions of the stone was a Mr. Lamoroek. a gentle man who had passed under many aliases in his career and who had only | recently been released from Portland. As he rend of the great diamond his eyes sparkled at the thought of its worth. There it was—ssoo,ooo-- nnd you could put it in your waistcoat pocket. The ex-convict, as he over the subject, knew the task was not an easy one. Without more ado he wrote a short note to Congleton & Co. the celebrated diamond merchant of Hatton Garden, asking them if they would care to buy some old fancy jewels, and received a reply expressing their willingness to inspect them. After studiously exam ining the caligrapi.y of their letter with a magnifying lens he set himself to practicing a number of curves and flourishes on a sheet of paper. An hour's work seemed to satisfy him, and he then indited the following epistle: "Hntton Garden. Jan. 4, ISOG. "Messrs Konsfield Brothers. "Dear Sirs: As a client of ours de sires to inspect your pink diamond known as The Light of Guznee,' with a view to purchase, we should feel obliged if you would send it to us. Our Mr. Lamoroek will call upon you a few hours after you receive this letter, and will bear n note vouching for his identity. We shall be happy to undertake all risk and responsibil ity for the stone from the time it is intrusted to the custody of our repre sentative, and we beg to remain yours faithfully. "Congleton & Co." When this production of his pen and brain had been carefully scrutinized, |he composed another short letter, which stated that the bearer was Mr. Lamoroek. the representative of Cong leton & Co.. He then went out and bought half a dozen cigars, four of which he steamed open and unrolled, j Smearing the interior portion over with a dark, treacly liquid, be rolled them up again with expert Angers and put them into his case, j The first letter he had written be sent by registered post, going down to Bristol by the same train that took the mail. But on his arrival there be waited for three hours so as to allow of , it being delivered before calling. He I then went to their office and presented his credentials, the genuineness of which were not for a moment suspect : ed. The Bristol firm thought It safe that the Rtone should be under the custody of their own representative, and de termined that one of their partners yotire Harry Bonsfield. ac company Lamoroek up to London, tak lug it with him. They had just seated themselves comfortably and the train was already In motion, when an elderly gentleman with a jovial red face and black bushy whiskers opened the door and bundled himself in. After the lapse of a quarter of an hour he had talked their reserve away, and proved himself so amusing a com panion that iney all became quite friendly, and Lamoroek, who had grown suddenly amiable, pressed the others into accepting a cigar apiece. The Jolly-faced intruder was not to be outdone in hospitality. lie opened his hand-bag and with a merry wink produced a flask of curacoa, which the intense cold made particularly accept able to them all. Lamoroek, indeed, found the liquor so delicious that he took two glasses. Before they got half through their cigars he noticed with suspicion that the conversation began to slacken, and that his companions showed a disposi tion to go to sleep. Bonsfield was the first to succumb to somnolence, and Lamoroek even began to feel sleepy himself. The intruder also began to look as if he would soon follow Bonsficld's ex ample. He vainly tried to look wide awake, but his lids would droop heavi ly, his heaci would sink down upon his chin and lie would then pull him self together by a supreme effort and try to sit up straight. When the train arrived at Swindon Junction the guard discovered them all asleep, and .after trying in vain to rouse them up, the conviction dawned upon him that it was a case of foul play. The three patients were taken out and removed to the hospital, ar rangements being made by the police that on their recovery all three should be detained in custody pending inves tigation.s Harry .Bonsfield easily established his identity, and was set at liberty, but the information that the police obtained about his companions, the revolvers they found in both their overcoats, two telltale cigars and two equally damning cigar stumps, the remnants of curacoa in the flask and a very suspicious false beard, all these Incidents led to their arrest, trial and subsequent conviction. Scotland yard keeps the flask as a curiosity, for it has two compartments from which the contents can be drawn at the will of the owner by a slight pressure on a secret spring. Both compartments contained curacoa; but what was left of one sample was found to be drugged while the other was pure. The jovial gentleman, like Lam oroek. had had his imagination lived by the accounts that the newspapers gave of the great pink diamond. He had wormed it put of a clerk in Messrs Bonsfleld's office that the junior part ner was taking it up to town, and he thought that the opportunity for which he had waited so long hail at length arrived. When the whole facts were revealed in the police court, the natural aston ishment of Lamoroek and the jolly gentleman was past description. It beat even that of Harry Bonsfield. All the three actors in this scene are now firmly convinced that one of the In calculable elements controlling man's destiny is sheer luck. fiie iiditep and Blood If you want to be -well, see to it that your Kidneys and Blood are in a healthy condition. It is au easy matter to learn what state your Kidneys are in. Place some of your urine in a bottle or tumbler, and leave it stand one day and night. A sediment at the bottom shows that you have a dangerous Kidney disease. 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