FREELAND TRIBUNE. Zstabllihol 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY lIY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited. OKrics: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. LONG DISTANCE TKLECHONE. SUHSCKU'TION RATES: One Year $1.6(1 Six Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Months 25 The date which the subscription is paid to is on the uddress lubel of ouch paper, the change of which to a subsequent date becomes a receipt for remittance. Keep the tlgures in advance of the present date. Report prompt ly to this ofllce whenever paper is not received. Make all money orders, cheek s, etc., payable to the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. FREELAND, PA., JULY 24, 1890. A Solution of the Sunday I'roblem. From a Wilkesbarre contemporary the following news article has boon clipped, and wo submit the views ex pressed therein to the people of this vicinity, believing that If the employers j of labor hereabouts would take an in terest In the subject at Issue and regu late the working hours of their employes on the plan outlined in the article givon below, the question of proper observ ance of Sunday would soon disappear. Rev. R. A McAndrews, rector of St. Mary's church, Wilkesbarre, spoke briefly oil Sunday on the proper ob servance on Sunday. lie spoke against boisterous pleasures such as Sunday base ball, etc., which detract from the sacred character and mar the feeling of reverence for the day on which all Christians should unite in consecroating themselves to their Creator. Father McAndrew said he also real ized that the poor working people who toil from morning until night six days in the week could not bo unduly con demned If they spent part of Sunday in pleasure and recreation, and ho be lieved that Sunday would be more gen erally observed in the proper spirit if employers would give half holidays on Saturday to their help. 110 believed that such a plan would be oqually beneflcal to employer and employe, would beget a more cordial and liberal spirit and moro closely unite their interests. Also that the holidays would give the laboring people an op portunity to enjoy amusement on Satur day, which they are now forced to look for on Sunday. The middle and bettor classos can enjoy pleasures and amusement almost any day during the week while the poorer class have to work, and that on Sunday while those more fortunatu can observe the Sabbath in its proper re ligious sense, they should not forget the laboring class who have no other day of recreation, and should endeavor to make their lot more inviting by provid ing Saturday holidays. The Sunday observance problem would then be easily solved. The Gallant Seventh. From the Turanqua Courier. The action of the Captain Landon. of the Soventli regiment, National Guards of New York, in pledging, in a speech delivered in London last week, the help of American arms in England whenever they should be needed, was ludicrous and demonstrates that the captain Is indeed the veriest kind of an arrogant nincompoop. The gallant Seventh is an excellent regiment, so far as holiday soldiery goes. They appear in gaudy uniform bedeck ed with gold lace, but unfortunately the dress does not make the soldier. When the call for troops was mado in the opening of the Spanish war the heroic Seventh, by dilly-dallying and squab ling, Anally cooked up a pretext for not responding. Looking at the matter iuipassionally and without a prejudice it does seem that the government was exacting when it ordained that the jaunty Seventh would be compelled to associate with other voiunteor regiments made up from men taken from all walks of life. It was indeed rank presumption for the government to infer that the gaudy Seventh was not, the superior of all other regiments. To bo brief the Seventh staid at home and their officers h;d cotillions while the commanders of tho despised volunteer regiments were leading gallant charges. And now whon the war is over, when the humiliating possibility of associat ing witli the common volunteer and in cidentally the prospects of facing bul lets are removed, we find the gallant Captain Landon pledging the help of American arms to England. The good people of London before placing any belief in Captain Landon's assertion should carefully read up the record of his gallant regiment. There seems to be a mutual agree ment between the leaders of the two prominent parties In Luzerno county to stave off tho election preliminaries as long as possible. No one is finding fault with this program. In fact, it appears to suit the average citizen better than any arrangement that would embroil him in political discus sions during the warm season. PROBLEMS OF THE DAY. FREEDOM OF THE PEOPLE DEMAND THEIR SOLUTION. NecesHltlen of I.lfe I'revall In Abundance, Hut the of Equitable I)l trlbutinn Confront* Americans-A Task for the Statesmen of Our Country. From the Philadelphia Record. For novelty and importance the prob lems now before the people of the United States have rarely, if evor, been equaled. Upon a correct solution of them may depend even the continued freedom of this people; and to this cor rect solution there is no past experience of mankind to guide us. The whole po litical economy of the world has been founded upon conditions apparently permanent, which have apparently as permanently passed away. Want and insufficiency of productive power are 1 the spectres which have ever affrighted mankind. A fear of starvation has ever been before men's eyes; and with just cause, for famine has again and again recurred. As a consequence any hampering of the fullest, most unre strained competition and production lias in times past been made illegal— even criminal. A slight relaxation of the efforts and competition of but, a part of the people formerly might have meant starvation for thousands. Through man's ingenuity and industry, however, this is no longer the case. The country toeuis with more than SUFFICIENT OF EVERYTHING for everybody; and yet there are often periods of widespread depression, and at all times there are many who fail to grasp, even by faithful toil, the neces sities of life. And yet tho old political economy persists—is even intensified. We do not pretend that we have found a solution of the novel problems con fronting us; but we do feel that the lines upon which statesmen should seek that solution may easily ho discovered. In tho first place, tho danger of a deficiency of production having passed away, the rules intended to prevent it arc not alone sufficient to meet the new situation and difficulties. Merely to shout against the trusts and the combinations and the crip pling of competition, and all that, does not meet the requirements of the case; whether right or wrong, it is inadequate. We repeat, there are enough (and may hap, more than enough) of tho necessi ties of life, and there is EVERY PROMISE OF AN INCREASE of productive power and of surplus; and yet many are not prosperous even In prosperous times. It inevitably fol lows that tho question has ceased to be one of deficiencies, and has become more largely one of equitable distribution. With enough for all industrious people, how are all to obtain a fair portion? Certainly not by merely proscribing a remedy for a deficiency which has ceased to trouble the patient! Legislation on tho subject of trusts is sadly needed—is imperative—if we are to survlvo as a free people; and yet it is plain that, it alone will not do, and that wo could better do without it than havo any moro of tho foolish and wicked kind already enacted by many of the Western states. In some of these states it lias been provided that the people may legally BECOME MORAL THIEVES, and need not pay for what they have honestly received if it have merely boon secured from a very big concern or com bination. Such legislation will accomp lish nothing hut the rotting out of the moral senso of the peoplo. It Is also far from plain whether the formation of great concerns—industries, combinations, what you will—should be prohibited, or whether tho best course of the community would not be their proper regulation. Co-operation be tween men is not merely civilization —it is Christianity; and he Is a bold man who feels that he can safely check it even though it become wholesale. The present marvelous prosperity of the United States eortainly largely comes from their increasing exports of mer chandise; and these are as largely made possible by the, fact that in co-operation we have so far HURI'ASSED THE WORLD that in many lines we can pay better wages and yet undersell all competitors. It must bo, thorefore, apparent that a political party which should carelessly undertake a solution of this intricate and novel situation might bring about a degree of suffering which would hurl it from power for years. If legislation should be enacted which would reduce co-operations to such a point that our exports of manufactures alone should be suddenly checked hun dreds of thousands of prosperous men might suddenly find themselves out of work and In want. It even may be possible that the real argument against co-operation on a large scale and great combinations is not at all that they are in themselves INDUSTRIAL EVILS, but that, on the contrary, they aro so completely perfect from a mere indus trial point of view that they will, through their very economical soundness and without proper legislative regulation, put such Inordinate powers in the hands of tho men controlling them as to en danger the Independence and liberty of all others and turn tho republic into a solid oligarchy of wealth. This is no Idle fear. Legislative cor ruption grows apace; the franchises of the people gradually pass from their control for inadequate or no compensa tion. because the. trustees of the citizens share In the profits resulting from their own disgraceful unfaithfulness. This has happnnod so often that the people have become used to it, and scarcely feel a shock at any new instance of such baseness. IF THE DISEASE SHALL GROW, and a few great concerns control all fc' e great Industries of the country, what is to bo the situation of the ordinary citi zen? llow is ho to secure honest legis lation? Take a concern which through Indus trial consolidation has a capital of, say, $100,000,000, and which earns 20 per cent on it, with money at 3 per cent. It can pay 5 per cent and have 15,- 000,000 of dollars available, if so much be needed, for contributions to political parties, or to protect it against the "communistic attacks" in legislatures and congress of which we hear so much. We believe that wo have suggested tho real, the great dangers of tho situa tion; and, as we have said, we believe that the way to avert these dangers Is not by restraining co-operation at all, but by wise, carefully thought out regu lation, howevor difficult of attainment tlat may bo. Hut, whatever be the solution, man's energy and Ingenuity have raised novel spectres which cast shadows over his whole future. The strange paradox Is presented of his ruin, and even enslave ment, being threatened by his own greatness of productive power. UPPER LEHIGH NOTES. The funeral of Holla, the five-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Argust. who met so tragic a fate by burning on Wednesday, took place Friday after noon. It was one of the largest funer als ever accorded a child in this town, and the floral offerings were profuse. The sad circumstances surrounding the little girl's death caused a gounine wave of sorrow In tho community, and remains were followed to Freoland cemetery by a large concourse of pooplo. Flowers were presented by the fol lowing persons: Mrs. Thomas Hirk bcck, wreath and bouquet; Mary Scheidy, wreath; Martha Davis, bouquet sweet peas; Mrs. Walter Heckler, bou quet pond lilies; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ashman, baskot flowers; Mary A. Ash man, bouquet; Miss E. Wilinot, bouquet sweet peas; Mrs. ilartick, bouquet; playmates, carnations; Nellie llowclls, bouquet; .lane Marsh man,"broken circle, friends, bouquet carnations; Jennie Marshman, bouquet poppies; .Samuel j Moyer, wreath. Tho flower carriers were: Sarah Evans, Viola Drashcr, Gertrude Haw kins, Katio Thomas, Mary Ivishbaugh and Margaret Wilkinson. Tho following acted as pall-bearers: Evan Davis, Jacob Davis, William Wil liams, William Ashtunn, David Evans and Jamos Mealing. Andrew Cusick died at his homo in Upper Lehigh on Thursday, aged 32 years. 110 was buried in St. Ann's cemetery on Saturday morning, after a requiem mass was road at St. John's Slavonian church. Dr. and Mrs. 11. M. Neale, of Upper Lehigh, aro visiting in Philadelphia. $40,00 Bicycle Given Away Dally. 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A fisherman has plenty of leisure time In which to think out scaly stor ies. Some men are of no more conse quence than a thermometer on a pleas ant day. There are times when the almighty dollar will not go as far as a little po liteness. Go to the ant, thou sluggard—con sider her ways, and keep away from your "uncle." After a woman reaches the age of 30 it Is impossible to convince her that the good all die young. The undoing of the work tbat Satan finds for idle hands to do furnishes em ployment for a lot of other people. There are two places in a newspa per where a man doesn't care to have his name appear—the obituary column and the police court record. HOW DISHES WERE NAMED, Mulllgatawney Is from an East India word meaning pepper water. Waffle is from wafel, a word of Teu tonic origin, meaning honeycomb. Hominy is from anhumlnea, the North American word for parched corn. , Gooseberry fool Is a corruption of gooseberry fouls, milled or pressed gooseberries. Foremeat is a corruption of farce meat, from the French farce, stuffing, 1. e.. meat for sufflng. Succotash is a dish borrowed from the Narragansett Indians and called by them m'slckquatash. Blanc-mange means literally white food; hence chocolate blanc-mange is something of a misnomer. Charlotte is a corruption of the old English word charlyt, which means a dish of custard and charlotte russe is Russian charlotte. Macaroni is taken from a Greek de rivation, which means "the blessed dead," In allusion to the ancient cus tom of eating It at feasts for the dead. Gumbo Is simply okra soup, gumbo being the name by which okra is often known In the south. Chicken gumbo is soup of okra and chicken. HIGH LIGHTS. Occupation keeps us from thinking of what we would rather do. People of tact never Irritate a pes simist by telling him that he looks happy. * The man who wears a wig always puts a false construction upon his own thoughts. Woman likes man to smoke, because then she gets a good conversational chance at him. The man who has never done any thing foolish should watch himself well until ho Is dead. When a woman admits she Is wrong her husband gets scared and thinks she is going to die. Be calm in argument; the other man will then lose his head wondering why you don't get mad. The whole family feels injured when a woman comes home from her sewing society and says she didn't hear any news. The woman who can't get away in summer always knows some good rea son why the woman next door ought to have stayed at home.—Chicago Rec ord. FROM MANY SOURCES. A British antiquarian has discover ed that Shakespeare was of Welsh de scent. When a fish has lost any of Its Bcalcs by a wound or abrasion they are never renewed. Some scientists assert that the pur est air In cities Is found about twenty five feet above the street surface. It is now stated that the invention of gunboats and armor protected guns dates back to the fifteenth century. A diamond in constant use for cut ting cold glass lasts about three months, but if used to cut hot glass would only last for one day. Early man used to be able to wag his ears as an indication of pleasure or to brush away files from under his back hair, but as the muscles were not brought Into continual use they be came rudimentary. Carbonic oxide being found normally in the blood of living beings existing In Paris, M. Nleloux has demonstrated to the French Academy of Science that gas forms within the organism itself without external causes. MEN AND WOMEN. Why isn't a good wife a woman pos sessed? Why does a girl seldom attempt to extinguish the spark of love? Some engagements end happily, while others end in marriage. Cold cash melts lots of hearts that are not affected by warm love. The realities of matrimony are usu ally less pleasing than the illusions of love. Some bachelors voluntarily Join the ranks of the Benedicts and some are drafted. All the classics and metaphors at the command of a woman school teacher don't prevent her Jumping on a chair at sight of a mouse. ■ THE ART OF BATTING "■ Koine Polnte By "Back" lowing Well Worth the Attention of the lief Inner. "Buck" Ewlug, the manager of thi Cincinnati Club, has not bi*n an ac tlve player In several years, but hi* duties us manager have obliged him to keep In close touch with the game, and he knows as much about batting as he ever did. When "Buck" was in his prime he was one of the best bat ters In the League and one of the best catchers who ever donned a mask. He has made a study of the science of but ting and In the following article gives much advice which young players would do well to study carefully, and many an old League player could bet ter ills stick work by following bis ldens. Here they are: Footwork has as much to do with successful batting as it has In pugllsm. A player who steps away from the plate as he swings at the ball can be put down as an easy victim for an out curve, and It Is a pitcher with a very poor head who does not serve up out curves in profusion to audi n batter. Even good batters will get into the habit of pulling away from the plate, and at such times they become as easy victims ns one to whom the fault is chronic. The old-timer does not con tinue In that line for long, however, but regains Ills stride after a short lapse from grace. He will practice continually until he overcomes the fault and gets back to his old style. To the beginner, however, the con quering of the linblt is ditlieult. He has got to lie coached continually In the forward straight steps. With col lege players especially is this fault of pulling away painfully evident, and it is tile prime reason tlint college play ers are such notoriously weak batters. To overcome this fault Is the trainer's hardest duty, so batting Is almost the first tiling professional trainers take up when they take charge of a college ten in. A plan which should work effective ly, and which I shall try whenever I get the chance to train a lot of ama teurs, is to have n box built the size of the regular bntter's box, with the sides raised high enough to prevent the player from stepping outside, even if he tried. Tills would necessitate a straight, forwanl step and, by con stant practice, the player would be come so accustomed to that movement that he coubl not do otherwise. This Is 1111 original plan of my own, and I would like to see It tried by some of the ninny college coachers. A great mistake made by many play ers, hoih professional and amateur, is to Imagine that they are obliged to swing fiercely at the ball to make It trnvel fast and far. There was never a bigger mistake. The whole secret of successful hutting Is In timing the ball so ns to meet it squarely with force. Professionals call this "Meet ing the ball." "Just meet It, my boy," Is often heard on the lin.ll Held. If you nre an instant late or an ln.it. "?'e.tie and Imported iiiHkci on sale in one of the handsomest oa (jjjjj town. Fresh Rochester and .Shenan doah Doer and \ mingling'* Porter oa tap. W Centre street.