Digests what you eat. It, artii.. i::!!y digests the food aud aids Nature in strengthening aud recon> strutting the exhausted digestive or gans. It is the latest discovereddigest* ant and tonic. No other preparation can approach It in efficiency. It in stantly relievi sand permanently cures Dyspi | ion, Heartburn, Flatulence, :*• >t Stomach, Nausea, Sick I tralgia.Crampsand all other re suit f imperfect digestion, Prlcof'Oc. and si. I, tiecontains 2V4 times snm U si : r . ~, ,; 'i; ,;iTi.uiiOafrtu Prepared by E. C. DeVVITT &CO- Cbleago. Grovor's City Drug Store. ~P.T. McNULTY, F S L = R Euibiiliiiiiiy (f female corpses performed exclusively by Mrs. P. P. MoNulty. PREPARED TO ATTEND CALLS DAY OR NIUIIT. South Centre street, Fret-land. BeHEBRCT- BEOS. O-A-jETKL Corner of Centre and Front Streets. Gibson, Dougherty, Kaufer Club, 1 Kosenbluth's Velvet, of which wo h.ve EXGi.I!SIVE SALE IH TOWH. Mumm's Extra Dry ' harupitgno. Hennery Brandy, blackberry, Giin'. Wines, Clarets, Cordials, Etc. Ham and Schweitzer Cheese Sandwiches, Sardines, Ehs. , MEALS AT - ALL - HOURS. Geo. H. Martrnan, Meats and Green Truck. Fresh Lard a Specialty. Centre Street, near Central Hotel. Con&y 0, Boyle, dealer in LIQUOR, WINE, BEER, PORTER, ETC. The line-: : r: mis of (Domestic and Imported Wl.i lv< . ... rush Rochester and Shen uudoah Jjt t-i and Youngling's Porter on tap. 118 Centre street. ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW and NOTARY PUBLIC. Office: liooms! and 'J, Birkbeek Brick, Freeland JOHN M. CARE, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. A!i legal business promptly attended. Postoillce Building, ... Freeland. HO RG E Mc LA UGH LIN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Legal Business of Any Description. Bi 80. Centre St. Freeland. J. OVDONNELL, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Campbell Building, - Freeland. While j 1 ; \fiMiiliic, Kane Building, Opposite I ostollice: I'm -i ays, Thursdays, Suturuuys. JOHN J. McTJIIEARTY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Legal BU-G.H-S-: of every description, Fire Insurai'.ee, and Conveyanciiig given prompt attemiou. McMcnumiu Building, South Centre Street. TTJR. N. A1 DENTIST. OVER BIRKBECK'S STORE, Seeoii-1 I'io >r. - - Birkbeek Brick. jyjKS. s. L. HAYES, FIRE INSURANCE AGENT. Washington Street. N'li'i- hut r- li ible companies represented. Also ;•■-'•(11 lor ihe celebrated high-grade I ninos ol Ku/.citou Bros., New York city. TJH. S. S. HESS, DENTIST. 37 South Centre Street. Socoi t Flo Pre nt, - Refowich Building. npilOS. A. IitJCKLEY, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. All business given prompt attention, Tribune Building, . - Main Street. BREVITIES. Mau\ -oersuti have had the experience of Mr. Peter Sherman, of North Strat ford. N. 11.. who says, "For years I sii fie red torture from chronic indigestion, but Koihd |i —-i j-sia Cure made a well man of me." It digests what you oat and i- • i tain cure for dyspepsia and evi-n ! irui <-i 'omauh trouble. It gives rebel ut ot • • c\nn in the worst cases, and can't help but do you good. Gro vor's City drug store. At tli.- .Una! meeting of District No. 0, i liited .Mine Workers, at Pottsville, tbo following officers were elected for I ho ens .:: President, John • v l'e: vice president. Paul P. Pulaski. Mount Carmel; secretary, ■ • n, Sharaokin; treasur er. .-'JII G. Voder, Shamokin. I'"!!'; i any of the counterfeits of DeWitt - Witch Hazel Salve. Most of them Lrc '.vnrthless or liable, to cause inj ir\. The .righml I)oWitt's Witch Hazel Sal a certain cure for piles, eczema, • scalds, burns, sores and skin diseases. G rover's City drugstore. Lewis (iii Mcii, aged |:j years, of Le highton, a i. high Valley conductor, was cut iu two by a train near Easton on Saturday. The njost cilia Live little liver pills made are Do Witt's Little Early Risers. They never gripe. .Grover's City drug store. (CHRISTMAS OLD AND NEW. The century nears Its closing year, . { Yet Christmas bells are full and free ;x-j As when the home hulls rang with cheer And grandpa kept the Jubilee. The stockings by the chimney deep '. v ~ - Were like your own. my pet of three, .i, Of softest wool from white faced sheep And buckled high above the knee. The chimney, oh, It was so wide 'Twould hold the gifts for lifty boys, And Santa had IUI easy slide When he came down with grandpa's toys! The toys were not the dainty stuff Your fingers grasp with childish glee, But homely, and a tritle rough When grandpa was a child of three. A "comforter" dyed green and red, A knitted cap aud overshoes^ Of seasoned hickory, a sled, Perhaps a ball too big to lose. But grandpa liked the Christmas then And what old Santa brought to him As really as the little men Who see bright trees in parlors dim. For love Is love the great world o'er; Cod's love the Bethlehem story tells From year to year, from shore to shore, Wherever ring the Christmas bells. —Boston Transcript. | Snucd btj | A Christmas X&renm O'Yr WAS late Christmas eve ! when my ball dress was sent ' ■i home, and Marie, my dainty fingered French maid, had fln- IshecT nraiding my heavy black hair and adjusted my new headdress, an exquisite diamond bandeau. Nora brought up the dress nicely folded, and Marie sprang to take It from its wrap pings and lay It out on the bed. As Marie lifted the dress and shook Its rich folds a slip of paper fell to the carpet. It was madam's bill, and I was a little startled as my eye ran over it— s2oo! But then the trimmings, a rich lace and cord d'or, were perfect. It was an expensive dress, but I didn't think it would bo Quite that, and Mr. Gordon had said that money had been getting tight for some time back. I wouldn't show him the bill just yet, so I thrust it into a drawer of my dresser and turned to Marie, who stood wait ing to dress me. I was contemplating my reflection in the mirror with much complacency when the door opened and Mr. Gordon came in. For a moment I was half frightened at his pale face and grave air, but he said: "I only stopped for a moment, Mrs. Gordon, to say that 1 shall not be able to join you at mad am's tonight. Business affairs will keep me down town late." Before I could ask him what he thought of my dress he passed out of the room, and presently I heard the street door close. It was nothing new for me to attend parties without the escort of my husband, for somehow he was always immersed in business; nei ther was it new for Mr. Gordon to look grave or pale, for he had lost his fresh color these late years. At length I was ready and was driv en to the home of Mme. Stapleton. One ball is so similar to another iu the world of fashion that to recount how the hours passed in madam's drawing rooms would be to tax your patience. Sufficient to say that it was long after the midnight chimes had rung 1 was handed from my carriage to my own door by- the most distin guished gentleman of 1113- set. The atmosphere in the drawing room was deliciously warm in contrast with the temperature of the sharp December night withpuL It was pleasant to sit there with my dainty slippered feet over the register and the waves of lustrous silk bathing the carpet and reflect that I swam on the topmost wave of the sea of fashion in the city around me, and the Christmas chimes ringing out from the church towers and the warm air stealing up from the reg ister soothed my senses to delicious calmness. Suddenly, while I sat thinking, from the dim corners of the drawing room seemed to glide oijt a train of figures, each dressed iu unfashionable gar ments of bygone days, and yet, strange to say, each garment was recognized by mo as something that I had worn in those days, and in the face of each figure turned toward me I beheld my own. The figures glided around me, then seated themselves 011 the opposite side of the apartment, each looking at mo steadily and with my own dark eyes. Gradually the figure nearest my ' i THE MOONLIGHT. right seemed to invest itself with the accessories of a picture, and a thiu mist hid the others from my sight. A child of 10 summers stood iu the yard of an old brown farmhouse, with the westering light of the sunset streaming over the building and bath ing her tiny fingers in a Hood of gold. 1 did not speak even in a whisper while the picture of my entire child hood was unrolled before me, but thoughts like these glided athwart my . brain: "Was I once that happy t^eart- efl, wild, romping child whose great- ! est care was to please her parents and whose greatest grief the loss of some woodland pet?" Even while 1 snt gazing the scene slowly faded, and out from the dim mists that had Infolded the figure near- j est the child rose fair and cleur the I second picture before me. A slender, beautiful maiden stood In the moonlight beneath the rustic porch draped with honeysuckles that climbed over the farmhouse door. It was Daisy, hut a child no longer. She wore a neat but simple dress of pale pink muslin, and a single white rose plucked from the bush beside the doorstep adorned her lialr. Suddenly a firm step came up the walk leading to the farmhouse. It was a young and frank faced man who joined her, and Daisy blushed, and they went In and sat down together In the moonlight by the west room window. Eloquence wns not necessary to love In those days, and Daisy nnd Charles Gor don sat long In the moonlight nnd talk ed together. Charles always thought he must leave at!), but he Is In no haste tonight. Ten, half past 10, 11 goes by, nnd there they stand In the moonlight When they part, a tender kiss burns on Daisy's cheeks nnd a slender gold riug gleams on her finger. She nnd Charles are betrothed, and she goes to her chamber to sleep the first dream of n happy plighted love. For a moment I stretch out my hands toward the maiden In the farmhouse, hut the scene grows dim, the figures fade and another picture unfolds be fore my view. It was a bridal scene. Charles had grown more grave looking, for he wns a business mun now, and three years "WnAT IS IT, DAISY?" had added luster to Daisy's fuller fig ure. Both were trusting nnd beloved and saw none but clouds of gold in the long vista of their future. I could only sit and gaze longingly and eagerly while the phantom faded away from my gaze. Another picture now rose before me. I saw myself clad In a cheerful morn ing robe. Charles had prospered In business, gold poured Into his coffers, and with gold came Fashion, with Am bition and Pride and a score of demons in her train. It whispered: • "You are young and you are beauti ful. In the great world you would ho an acknowledged queen. Put your husband's wealth to use. Let not your beauty fade out in the nursery. Your child will get on well enough In the nurse's care. Live In the world and shine like a queen." And this was the beginning of the shadow which darkened the picture. I saw the glitter of the ball, the splendid furniture, the silver plate, the gay equipage and the stately apartments, and amid It all through the opened door of a neglected nursery 1 saw a pale, drugged 4-year-old child slowly dying. The end came. The tiny rose wood casket was closed over the fea tures of the child who died of motherly neglect. 1 saw a strong man bend In convulsed grief over his dead boy and then go out silently and, growing graver day by day, turn to his business again. I heard frantic hursts of grief from the stricken mother's mouth and clasped my jeweled hands in anguish. A long pause fell between, and then another, the last, picture fell before mo. I recognized its faithfulness at once. Ten years intervened between this pic ture nnd the preceding one. I had not changed save to fuller and perfected beauty. Everything was as plain as day the magnificent furnishings of the home, with Persian curpets. costly tables, bronze and marble statues and china and silver wares, and through these walls I moved, a cold and beauti ful woman of Ice. I shrank from the portraiture with dismay. But while I sat nnd gazed in to the picture glided a pale, careworn man wearing the same expression 1 had often seen upon my husband's face. llow changed he looked from the hopeful, manly Charles Gordon who had stood before mo in the moonlight! He hud been a grave and silent man ever since his boy died, but there was now some fresh trouble eating away his life. "What has brought this about?" 1 asked. In a moment my question was an swered. Into the magic picture came a shadowy finger which pointed to the paper strewn table at which my hus band sat I gazed and beheld a revela tion. and mechanically my eye ran over every paper he opened. The catalogue was fearful—a long array of hills plate, furniture, statues. Jewels, silks, a long array of which I recognized dis tinctly my own agency, and balancing this catalogue stood a tangled trade, empty coffers, with the word "Panic!" written as witli a pen of fire. While he snt and unfolded each paper and laid it nsido I stole nearer and gazed upon the one be had just taken. It was my latest 1)111, the bill for my ball dress. I made a movement to snatch it from him, nnd the spell was broken. "IVhat is It, Daisy? You asleep here J and dreaming?" I started and to find myself seated In the great velvet chair and my husband standing beside me. "Did I fall asleep? I must. But you, Charles, you have not slept!" I said, for Just then I noticed that he was In his coat and full dress. I "1 have been up late, looking over some papers I brought from the store. But I was Just going up stairs. You should be asleep before this," he added, half reprovingly, his eye wandering with a sort of pained look over my toilet "Why do you not speak to me, Charles? You are In some great trou ble. Oh, Charles, 1 have had a drcain this evening that has shown me my self in my true light I ain nothing more than nothing. I am a drag in stead of a helpmeet. Speak to me, Charles, nnd tell rae that you do not hate me." "Can you hear the worst, Daisy?" he ! asked hoarsely, lifting his eyes to mine. "Anything, anything, my denr hus band. I hnve been blind, but the scales hnve fallen now. Tell me ev erything. Arc we ruined?" "We are," he whispered In a thick, unsteady tone. "The crisis lias carried me down. I hnve dragged away the long hours of tkls night trying to de vise some loophole of escape, but all in vain. I do not care for myself, but for you—you, Daisy," and he groaned in bitterness of spirit. I could not bear it without a hurst of tears; ho so thoughtful, I so selfish. I pressed my lljis to his burning fore head nnd said, amid my sobs, "No, Chnrlos, not ruined, for we havu saved our love from the wreck." Charles looked at me steadily, nnd a Weight seemed to hnve been lifted off Ills head. Ills lips lost their glim ex pression and there was a ripple of tears in his voice. "Daisy, you have saved me!" he said. "Sladdened by the thought of the mor row, I know not but the result might have been this—see!" and he drew forth n little vial labeled "laudanum" from his vest pocket. "But you have saved me, darling." "Charles, we have both beeu mad!" 1 said, with pallid lips, and striving, for his sake, to subdue the terror that be girt my whole being when I realized how nigh my husband hnd stood to the wretched guilt of suicide. "And God forgive me for my want of sympathy in all your troubles and help me from this hour to be your faithful wife." And sitting there late In the night, my husband kneeling beside me nnd with his head upon my lap, I bent my cheek to his, nnd the tears, baptizing our reunion, fell upon the folds of my last folly—my ball dress.—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Table Decoration. For dinner table decorations as far as coloring Is concerned it is best to keep to the warmer tints. Avoid the use of white by itself and keep to shades of crimson, old gold or even bronze tones, the latter especially where there is a large display of old silver. The vases may be iilled with well berried holly points and mistletoe, with Christmas roses as a sort of un dergrowth to the various stands. Frost ed branches and sprays are always fashionable at tills season and have a very charming effect. Their beauty may be much enhanced by a Judicious use of bright ribbon bows. Lamps and candles must all have their shades to match the principal coloring used in the decoration. Tall tubes look very well on a lnrge table, especially where space is a consideration—l. e., where the table is otherwise well laden with dessert or with silver bowls of bon bons. Ronnt Turkey, Turkish Style. Clean nnd truss the turkey. Wash nnd parboil one cup of rice in boiling salted water. When about half cook ed, drain and mix with it one dozen French chestnuts peeled and cut into small pieces, one-fourth of a pound of well washed currants and two ounces of almonds blanched nnd chopped. Season with a fourth of a teaspoonful each of salt, pepper and ground cinna mon. Melt half a cup of butter over the fire and stir the mixture in it until well mixed with the butter. Stuff the turkey with this, sew up the openings and bake on a rack, basting every ten minutes with butter or drippings melt ed in a little hot water. Turn the fowl often and dredge with flour after each basting. Serve with a rich, clear gravy. Turkey With Sannnices. A turkey garnished with suusage has a very festive not to say bacchanalian appearance. Three-quarters of an hour before the cooking is finished festoon it with strings of link sausage. These you must turn from time to time so that every part shall be as brown as the bird itself. The better the flavor of the sausage of course the finer the flavor of the turkey. With this you will waut giblet sauce made by stew ing and mincing the giblets and adding them to the gravy in the pan after the fat has been removed. When Holly Was Forbidden. Under the blue laws of Connecticut for a man to have a sprig of holly in his house on Christmas day was a penal offense, for which the household er was punished by a line of a shilling and confinement in the town stocks. PilKrlmn Didn't Celebrate. The pilgrim fathers forbade the cel ebration of Christmas as "a heathen mummery." Good Wishes. God bless the master of this house, | Likewise the mistress, too, , And all the little children That round the table go. And all your kin and kinsfolk That dwell both far and near, 1 wish you a Merry Christmas And a Happy New Yearl 1 —Old Carol. For the Holidays Buy Something Useful! We hare a Large Stock of Hats, Caps, Shirts, Mufflers, Collars, Cuffs, Neckwear, Sweaters, Suspenders, Hosiery, Underwear, Umbrellas, Gloves, Holiday Jewelry Novelties, Etc. Our Lines of Men's, Boys', Ladies and Children's Shoes Were Never So Complete as They Are Today. Qualities Always tie Best. Prices Always the Lowest. McMENAMIN'S Gents' Furnishing, Hat and Shoe Store, 86 South Centre Street. St-ate taa^i Eait Ntrnudsburf, I'n. The Winter terra of this popular institution for the training of teachers opens Jnu. 2, lfiOl. This practical training school for teachers is located in the most healthful and churming part of the state, within the great summer resort region of the state, on the main line of the I). L. & W. Kailroad. Unexcelled facilities; Music, Elocutionary, College Preparatory, Sewing and Modeling departments. Superior faculty; pupils coached free; pure mountain water; rooms furnished through out; GOOD BOARDING A RECOGNIZED FEATURE. We arc the only normal school that paid the state aid in lull to all its pupils this spring term. Write for a catalogue and full information while this advertisement is before you. We have something of interest for you. Address, GEO. P. BIBLE, A. M.. Principal. Headache for Forty Years. For forty years I suffered from sick head ache. A year ago I began using Celery King. The result was gratifying and surprising, my headaches leaving at once. The headaches used to return every seventh day, hut, thanks to Celery King, I have had but one headache In the last eleven months. I know that what cured me will help others.—Mrs. John D. Van Keuren, Saugerties, N. Y. Celery King cures Constipation, and Nerve, Stomach, Liver and Kidney diseases. 2 Site mid Cii YYYY UNION-MADE. Manufactured by The Clock Tobacco Co., Scranton, Pa. A7s7"illlam. Scli-waitz, Sole Agent for Hazleton and Vicinity. TaatMoSd. Tb LU in tins, flow by dnwzlsM. I RAILROAD TIMETABLES LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD. November 25, IbUO. ARRANGEMENT or PASSENGER TRAINS. LEAVE FKKKLANI). 0 12 a m for Weatherly, Mauch Chunk, Allontown, Heihlchcin, Eastou, Phila delphia and New York. 7 40 am for Sandy Hun, Whito Haven, Wilkes-Jiarre, Pittston and Scranton. 8 18 A in lor iiuzlcton, Mahunoy City, Shenandoah, Ashland, Weatherly, Mauch Chunk, Alleutown, Hct hlehciu, Kastou, Philadelphia and New York. 9 30 a in for Hazleton, Mahunoy City, Shen andoah, Alt. Carrnel, Shuiuokiu and Pottsville. 12 14 p in lor Sandy Hun, White llaven, Vv likes-liarre, berautou and all points 1 20 p in lor Weatherly, Mauch Chunk, Al lontown, iicthichcin, Elision, Philadel phia and New York. 4 42 p ni lor Huzleton, Mahunoy City, Shen andoah, Mi. Curmel, Shuuiokln and Poitsville, Weatherly, Munch Chunk, Alleutown, Ucthlehem, Easiou, Phila delphia and New iork. 0 34 P in for Saudy Hun, White llaven, Wilkes-liarre, Seruutou and all points West.. 7 29 p in lor Huzleton, Mahanoy City, Shen andoah, Mi. Canno! and Suuniokiu, AHHIVE AT EREELAND. 7 40 a m from Weatherly, Pottaville, Asli luud, Slienuudoah, Mahanoy City, and liuzlcton. 9 17 a in lroni Philadelphia, Easton, Bethle heiu, Alleutown, Mauch chunk, Weath erly, llu/.leton, Mahanoy City, Slieuuu douh, Alt. Canuel and Shunioktu. 9 30 am from Seruutou, Wilkcs-liarro and White Haven. 12 14 p in from l'ottsville, Shamokiu, Mt. Cariacl, Shcnandouh, Mahunoy City and lla/.leton. 1 12 P m Irom Now York, Phlludciphia, Eastou, lictiilcheui, Alleutown, Mauch Chunk and Weatherly. 4 42 P m from Seruutou, Wilkos-Hurre and White Haven. 0 34 P m from New York, Philadelphia, Eastou, Bethlehem, Alleutown, Poits ville, Shamokiu, Mt. Carmel, Sheuau doah, Mahunoy City and lla/.leton. 7 29 1 m from seranton, Wlikes-Harre and White Huven. For turther information inquire of Ticket Agents. KoLLIN H.WlLHUH,GpuerulSuperlntondent, 26 Cortiuudt street, New York City. CHAS. 8. LEE, General Passenger Agent, 20 Cortlandt Street. New York City. J. T. KEITH, Division Superintendent, Huzleton, Pa. DELAWARE, SUSQUEHANNA AND SCHUYLKILL KAII.KOAD. Time table In effect April 18, 1897. Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo, Eokloy, Hazle Brook, Stockton, Heaver Meadow lload, HOMU and Huzleton Junction at i> 30, 6 (X) a in, daily except Sunday; and 7 08 a in, 2 88 p m, Sunday. '1 rains leavo Drillou for Harwood, Cranberry, 1 oiuhickeu and Deiinger ut 5 30, 6 DO a in, daily except Sunday; and , 03 aw, 238 p m, Sun day. Trains leave Drifton for Oneida Junction, Garwood Komi, Humboldt Hoad, Oneida and Mieppton at ti 00 am, daily except Sun day; and 703 a m,2 38 pm, Sunday. Trains leave Huzleton Junction for Harwood, Lranherry, Tomhlcken and Dcringer at 036 a ;n, daily except Sunday; and 8 53 a in, 4 22 u in. sunday. K ' Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida Junction, Harwood Hoad, Humboldt Hoad Oneida and Shcppton at 0 32.1110 a m, 4 41 p m' daily except Sunday; and 737 a m, 311 urn' Sunday. F ' Trains leave Deringer for Tomhick >n, Cran berry, llai wood, Hazietou Junction and 'loan at 2 25, 5 40 p m, daily except Sunday; ana 9 37 a m, 6 07 p m, Sunday. Trains leave shcppton for Oneida, Humboldt Hoad, Harwood Hoad, Oneida Junction, Hazle ton Junction and Itoan ut 711 am, 12 40 523 p in, daily except Sunday; and 811 a m 3 4-4 p ra, Sunday. le Y© yhepptou for Heavor Meadow 1 J^ ckt ?"r' * ,uzlc Wrook, Eckley, Jeddo !! ( i i n L pm ' dul, T' except Sunduy; una e J i a ni, J 44 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Beaver Meadow Hoad, Stockton, Hazle Brook, Eckley. Jeddo arul Drifton at 6 45, 020 pm, dailv. except Sunday; and 10 10 a m, 5 40 p in. Sunday. All trains connect at Hazleton Juhctiou with electric cars for Huzleton, Jcanesville, Auden ried and other points on the Traction Com pany's line. Trains leaving Drifton at 6 30, 6 00 a ra make connection at Deringer with P. H. H. trains for west H Sunbury ' Uarrisburg ant | f o inta For the accommodation of passengers at way stations between Hazleton Junction and Der inger, a train will leave the former point at doO p m, daily, except Sunday, arriving at Deringer at 6 00 p m. LUTHER C. SMITH. Superintendent,
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