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FREELAND.PA., NOVEMBER 27. 1901.
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Rotary Clothesline Hanger.
Our illustration shows a new form of
pulley for use with endless clotheslines,
the invention of Fred Wright of Cold
water, Mich. With the ordinary pulley !
it is only possible to use half the line, 1
and in taking in the clothes no discrim
ination can be made in favor of those
garments which dry more rapidly than
others, but each must be removed in its
turn. With the new pulley any number
of garments may be passed over and
only the drier ones selected, and that,
too, without fear of soiling the clothes
In their passage around the pulleys, as
with the aid of the new hanger and pin
CAN USE ENTIRE LINE,
which form part of the Invention the
clothes do not come in contact with el- j
ther the pulley or the rope. In hanging
out the clothes the entire length of the
line may he used, and by the time the
last of the wash is attached to the line j
the clothes first hung out are coming '
down the "home stretch," ready for the
ironing. Another feature Is that the
line tightener, which is also shown In
the picture, wonsists of a pivoted tongue
meshing in notches in the side of the |
swinging arm which supports the pul
ley.
Old Silver.
Teapots and coffeepots do not go
back very far, since tea and coffee were
not introduced into Europe until the
seventeenth century, and no silver tea
pet or kettle Is known of earlier date
than 1709. Festoons and medallions j
are characteristic ornaments of teapots j
of the time of the early Georges. Not
until the middle of the eighteenth ecu- j
ury, however, do we find silver urns, j
tea strainers and tea caddies. Cream I
jugs followed the fashions of the larger |
pieces.
The first English saucchoat in silver !
belongs to the year 1727. Silver can- '
dlcsticks aro older, being found first,
with squnse bases and fluted columns,
in the reign of Charles 11. Medallions,
festoons and drapery characterize later
candlesticks, and the Corinthian col
umn pal tern, so great a favorite, was
first int.oduced about 17(15. tjnke bas
kets of the beautiful cut silver In which
Paul La merle so excelled as u maker
belong also to the middle of the eight
eenth century. Many trays and salvers
were made in this cut silver, which
now, by the way, Is again in fashion,
and deservedly so.—Harper's Bazar.
Fnnli lonnble Screen*.
The fashionable screen for the femi
nine bedroom is covered with cretonne
or chintz in large flowered patterns,
says the Brooklyn Eagle. For the li
brary heavy material in plain green,
with tapestry square inserted near the
top of each panel, remains in favor,
but the leather screen ornamented with
large bronze nailheads is the leader for
dining room or hall use.
Keeping Flower* Frenh.
With tlie chrysanthemum season at
hand lovers of the flower will be glad
to know that the Japanese have away
of keeping thoin fresh for a long time.
They burn the ends of the stems with
a bit of flaming wood—not a match, as
the fnines of the sulphur would injure
the flowers.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
/.ABES IN THE MILLS
MISS ASHBY'S REJOINDER TO AN
ANONYMOUS CRITIC.
Say* She Didn't Tell Half She Knew
of Child Labor lu the South—At
tempt* at LeifiHlatioii—lnfluence of
Northern Capital.
It is somewhat difficult to write a re
ply to an attack upon one's statements
in which one is given the "lie direct."
The anonymous writer of an article in
The llerald hardly does his subject
Justice In not stating which part of the
thousand odd miles of "south" he hails
from. It is easy to say "I have not
seen," but more difficult to refute "I
have seen."
1 have no •object to gain in exagger
ating the evil of child labor in the
south, and indeed those who have had
far wider experience than I declare
1 have not spoken or written half
strongly enough. 1 have myself seen
| children of six to seven years In the
mills of Alabama and. besides counting
them In twenty-four mills, have direct
statements from several of the man
agers which make their proportion to
workers more than twelve years of
age between 0 and 7 per cent. I have
the actual count in Augusta, Ga., made
fifteen months ago, which gives them
! ns 559 in eight mills, and the hours run
by day and night, which show "the lit
tle gray shadow" toiling from dawn to
i dusk.
! I never said the south could not com
-1 pete with the north without child la
bor, because I believe it can, but 1 said
that this was the plea urged by the mill
Interest opposing child labor legislation.
I can produce any number of witnesses
to prove that this was urged before the
legislatures of Georgia, Alabama and
South Carolina last fall. ludeed, It was
carefully explained to me by almost
every employer of child labor that chil
i dren under twelve were "uo use," but
; that legislation to prevent their employ
ment would check investment from the
| north.
I can also produce the repeal of the
1 old Alabama child labor law lu 1894,
| which was made on the promise of the
Chicopee mills, Massachusetts, to estab
lish a factory at Alabama City in the
• event of such repeal. Mr. It. A. Mitch
ell, their manager, was our chief oppo
i ucut lu Alabama last year, and in his
i address to the legislature cited that re
-1 peal ns "fairness to capital, from which
he trusted they would not go hack."
Operatives sign pledges to work so
many of their families lu the mills be
fore they are allowed one of the compa
ny's houses, which are the only ones
; within their means. This necessitates
| child labor In five out of ten cases. A
j very slight acquaintance with ecouom-
I ics teaches that if adults refuse to
work without their children it is lie
cause their owu wages are too small to
live upon, while the law allows children
to be worked.
I did not say children were aroused
; at 0 o'clock In the morning. They are
j at work by that time or are leaving the
; night shift. Miss Jane Addams of Chi
! cago wrote me that she had seen tiny
j children working at night In the South
| Carolina mills.
I would also refer to the article of
Commissioner Lang in his report on la
bor and printing for North Carolina, in
which the existence of child labor plays
; a prominent part.
"The illiterate negro," writes one cor
i respondent to him, "sends his child to
school. The Illiterate white man sends
his Into the mill."
In every mill I visited I was told that
10 cents a ride was paid, and I found
many children managing but one ride
n day. These might be termed "learn
! era," but they worked from (5 toO, with
j from thirty to forty-five minutes break,
: every day notwithstanding.
Out of twenty-four mills I visited In
j Alabama eleven were run entirely by
j northern capital. I know of many more
both in that and other states, so that
my experience differed from that of my
critic In finding it "rare" for a share
1 of stock to he owned outside the dis-
I trict where the mill is situated.
As many of the managers are New
England or Pennsylvania men, It is a
| little difficult to understand their liav
| lug been "friends from boyhood days"
with the "poor whites" who come Into
the mill from countless Isolated places
I and are notoriously restless, drifting
! from one of these ideally pictured mills
I to another.
I concur with Mr. Ivlncald In believ
ing that the operatives in most of the
i mills are better off as regards money
than ever before, hut this does not justi
fy child labor, which means the de
struction of the Industry iu the future,
although large dividends for the pres
ent.
It is strange that if the Georgia mill
owners were so eager for the abolition
of child labor, regarding It as unneces
sary anil unprofitable, no less than tliir
j ty of them should have appeared before
j the legislature last session to defeat a
very mild child labor law, aud I would
like to know who is going to "fight bill
after bill to death" if not they.
If the mill owners are honest In their
desire to abolish child labor, they will
press fur legislation. Only legislation
can secure this, for their "agreements"
have no value in law—no penalty for
breach, no guarantee for new in ills.
The law is a terror to evildoers, not to
those endeavoring to promote the very
thing it enforces.
I happen to know that this agreement
was suggested as a means of quieting
public agitation and ns a "sop to Cer
berus" to prevent legislation if possible
frlilch would bring in its train ultimate
ly inspection and enforcement.
A century of experience in England
anil New England has shown one thing
[ : more clearly than another. It Is that
i child labor must be restricted by law.
j Today the only civilized community in
i the world without such a law is in the
southern states, and those who seek to
prevent its enactment are striving to
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
Freeland Opera House Co., Lessees.
Friday Evening, November 29.
Clyde Fitch's Drama,
"Barbara Frietchie."
■ An Original Play
II I -Ifi JK A | full of heart interest, found-
I I > i'bFli '' J "~ ed upon Whittier's memor
| ' ! .Bifcfl ji'.-'T. able poem, and presenting
J with wonderful vividness
-J& - and intense realism the
most fascinating picture of
";W-- \'o- i /'V vj 1 I "Dixie Land" ever por
!*'■ jy' ffn trayed. It is the best that
v ! Great American
Playwright
v- A-,-'.- \ has ever given to the stage
LOVE IS A WILFUL,ADORABLE CII ILD, an[ j success was attaill-
IHAT JILL YOU GIVE. IT ITS ed by the
SuA-ixdiE convCF^nsr-sr,
scEitTEiEaTr,
COSTUMES,
that will appear here.
IM/asic "by DePierrc's Orolxestra,.
Prices: First Row, $1.50; Parquet, $1.00; Dress
Circle, 75c; Balcony, 75 and 50c, Gallery, 25c.
keep It uncivilized iu this particular
matter that they may exploit It for
their own ends.
The animus shown ou this subject
proves it. I do not desire to justify my
self, hut I am the voice of the children
who cannot sup oak for themselves, and I
repeat that I have made no statement
which I could not vindicate in a court
of law and given no picture of a wrong
which is crushing the most hopeless be
ings who in this laud of freedom appeal
most strongly to the chivalry of hor
citizens, which is not a long way within
the truth.
I have seen and known of tilings lu
connection with this child labor of the
south with which I could paint New
York red; but, as with the horrors of
war, one lias to look on the broad ques
tion and not ou particular cases which
work on one's emotions. But this I will
say, "I would rather see a battlefield
strewn with the dead bodies of thou
sands of little children than I would see
tlieni condemned to the moral and phys
ical degradation, tlie hopeless igno
rance, the weary slavery of their lives,
as 1 know theui as baby workers In the
southern mills."—lrene M. Ashby Mac
faydeu in New York llerald.
WOMEN WAGE EARNERS.
Sew York's Female Workers nn a
4 In MM Are I'lidcrpttiri.
For a girl coming to New York to
study an income of at least sl2 a week
is necessary to live in civilized decency,
leaving the luxuries out of the question.
Anything less means physical deteriora
tion, a dulling of the mental faculties
and a consequent inability to do her
work well.
Judged by this standard 90 per cent
of the working women of New York
are dangerously underpaid. Bess than
10 per cent—that Is, less than 15,000
receive $9 a week or more. Twenty
eight per cent—iu round numbers 45,-
000—are paid less than $5. The general
average is $5.24. Altogether there are
about 150,000 women wage earners in
the city. They divide naturally into
three great classes factory workers,
commercial employees, such as clerks,
saleswomen, stenographers and teleg
raphers, and domestic workers, lu tlie
commercial pursuits there is probably
the largest number of adequately paid
workers; but, on the whole, considering
the majority of ordinary workers, there
is little or no difference in conditions.
The average working woman suffers
physically from lack of food, from in
sanitary housing both at home and in
her workshop, from inability to get suf
ficient and suitable clothing. On tlie
psychological side she suffers chiefly
from an inadequate system of educa
tion and want of wholesome amuse
ment and recreation.
These women wage earners comprise
about one-fifth of the adult population,
so their healthy development, physical
ly and mentally, morally and spiritual
ly, Is a matter of vital consequence to
the whole community. Yet not one per
son in a thousand ever thinks of them.
The few who have not only thought,
but investigated and tried to Improve
conditions, have, for the most part,
been workers like themselves. To the
10 per cent of the working men and
women organized in trades unions be
longs most of the credit for the state
and national legislative committees
which have investigated the affairs of
working women and for the factory
and sweatshop inspection laws which
have wrought some improvement.—
Harper's Bazar.
l-abor Una Slenilily Won.
M. E. Ingalls, president of the Big
Four railway system, says, "My obser
vation in the lust twenty-five years has
been that labor has steadily won and
capital h st in the struggle which al
ways exists more or less." Mr. In
galls is undoubtedly correct, for, what
ever the temporary reverses may be,
organized labor emerges stronger than
1 cfore.
DOLLS! DOLLS!
Law bach's
Is the store where the stock is
the largest and the prices low
i est. Come and see our great
assortments of
Holiday Novelties,
Christmas Toys,
Tree Trimmings
and
Ornaments.
No others ,can offer you such
bargains as our store contains.
Spend your money here and it
will be well invested.
B. C. LAUBACH,
Baker aud Contest loner,
Centre Street, Freeland.
HEADACHE
At ail drug Storev 25
Lengthy Strike to End.
After seven months of sacrificing
struggle and lockout there comes hope
for 400 Bernice miners and their fami
lies, who have at times had ttae.lr distress
relieved by the donations of other an
thracite workers. The strike began
over the refusal of State Lino and Sulli
van Itaiiroad Company, whJch operates
the mine, to recognize the United Mine
Workers and pay the 10 per cent ad
vance in wages.
For months the executive board of
District No. 1 bus labored with Super
intendent Davis, representing the min
ing company, to end the conflict, but he
was obdurate. Yesterday President
Nlcholls was advised by him that tlie
company would take back all the men
excepting four, aud would pay the wage
increase. There is some talk that the
long conflict will now end.
'Yf'You Could Look^
i AJ. into the future and see the condition
to which your cough, if neglected,
! will bring you, you would seek relief at
ouce—and that naturally would be through
Shiloh's
Consumption
4 Guaranteed to cure Con-
I ,|j rCT sumption, Bronchitis,
v -* Asthma, and all Lung
Troubles. Cures Coughs and Colds in a day.
26 cents. Write to S. C. WELLS & Co.,
I,e Roy, N. Y., for free trial bottle.
Karr^love^ootTeapurille^h^loo^
'-yß.'nl DRIVING
commonplace shoes out of
the market is what the
// All America shoe
is doing. How would you
SL BM-Jg! === = : like to reduce your shoe
' gyp wants to two pairs a year?
How would you like to wear
yh the custom-made $5.00
kind for $3.50 a pair?
\ H Made in the custom way, of
\ m choicest selections of leather,
y| they are the snappy, thorough-
JBr/y||jbred, 20th Century Shoes.
Bfid' It's a pleasure to show them.
'!liiiibaMMiMF Other Styles and Prices.
Our Assortment of
Men's and Boys' Underwear
embraces every variety in the market. We have all weights
and qualities and can suit you at any price from #1.50 per gar
ment down.
In Hats and Caps
and Furnishing Goods
our stock is by far the largest in the town. We carry the
latest styles in these goods and sell at reasonable figures. All
people pay the same price at this store, and the child receives
the same service as the man.
McMenamin's
Gents' Furnishing, Hat and Shoe Store,
South Centre Street.
I The Cure that Cures I
$ Coughs, &
V Colds, j
?s) Grippe, (k
\ Whooping: Cough, Asthma, 1
Bronchitis and Incipient A
Consumption, Is fc*
r l
The GERMAN d
r Cures WvoA at\& i'xsehses. J
4xu<\oj,s\s. ZS^SOsVsA
Promptly Pom* lit the Tribune omen.
RAILROAD TIMETABLES
LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.
June 2, 1901.
ARRANGEMENT or PASSENGER TRAINS.
LEAVE FHEELANJ).
0 12 a m for Woatherly, Munch Chunk,
Allentown, Bethlehem, Batumi, Phila
delphia and New York.
7 34 ii in for Bandy Run, White Huron,
Wilkoß-Burre, Pittstmi and Scruntou.
8 15a in for Hazleton, WcathciTy, Muuch
Chunk, Allentown, Bethlehem, Eaaton,
Philadelphia, New York, Delano and
Potißville.
9 30 a m for Hazleton, Delano, Mahanoy
City, Shenandoah and Vt. f'uruicl.
11 49 a in for Wc-nlherly, Muuch Chunk, Al
lentown, Bethlehem. Fusion, Phila
delphia, New York, Hu/.leton, Delano,
Mahanov City, Shctmmlouh and Mt.
Curinel.
I 1 1 5 I a in for White Haven, Wilkes-Haire,
8e ran ton and the West.
I 4 44 pm for Weatliorly. Maueh Chunk, Al
lentown, Bethlehem. Ens ton, Philadel
phia, New York, llu7.lvt.on, Delano,
Nlahanoy City, Sheuundoah, Mt. Gunnel
and Potts villi;.
6 35 P ni for Sandy Hun, White Haven,
Wilkes-Hurie, Scruntou and ull points
West.
7 29 v m for Hazleton.
ARRIVE AT FREE LAND.
7 34 a m from Pottsville, Delano and Haz
leton.
0 12 a m from New York. Philadelphia, Eas
ton, 1 let hie hem, Allentown, Maueh
Chunk. Wcatherly, Hazleton, Mahanoy
City, Shenandoah and .Nil. Carmel
9 30 a in from Scraulou, Wilkcb-Burrc and
White Haven.
1151 am from Pottsville. Mt. Carmel, Shen
andoah, Mahanoy Citj, Delano and
Hazleton.
12 43 P m from New York, Philadelphia,
Easton, Bethlehem, Allentown, Maueh
Chunk and Woatherly.
4 44 }> m from Scruntou, Wilkes-Barro end
White Haven.
0 35 |> m from New York, Philadelphia,
Easton, Bethlehem Alkutown, Maueh
Chunk. Wcatherly, Ml. Carmel, Shenan
doah, Muhunoy City, Delano and Hazle
ton.
7 29 ]> m from Bcranton, Wilkes-Barrc and
White Haven.
For further information inquire of Ticket
A (rents.
UOLLIN n.wi LBUH, General Superintendent,
ail Cortlnndt street. New York City.
CH AS. S. LEE, Oeneral Passer,aer Airent.
an Cortluiult Street, New York City.
O.GILDUOY, Division Superintendent,
w Hazleton, Pa.
DELAWARE, Rosy ceh ANNA AND
JL KCHUYI.KILL RAILROAD.
Time table in effect March 10,1301.
Traius leave Drlfton for.leddo. Eckloy, Ho/le
Brook, Stockton, Beavor Meadow Bond, Itoari
and Hazleton Junction at 000 a m, daily
except Sunday; ami 7 07 a ni, 2 38 p in, Sunday.
Trains leave Drifton lor Harwood, Cranberry
TomhiQkcn and Derinyor at 800 a m, daily
except Sunday; and 7 07 a m, 2 38 p m, Sun
day.
Trains leave Drifton for Oneida .Junction.
Uarwood Hoad, Kumboldt Komi, Oneida and
Sheppton at UOO a m, daily except Sun
day; and 7 07 a tn, 2 38 p m, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Harwood
Cranberry, Tomhicken and Deriniror at e lift
m, daily except Sunday; and 8 58 a in, 4 22 D RA
Sunday, '
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida
Junction, Harwood Koad, Humboldt Hold
Oneida and Sheppton at li 82,11 10 ain4 41 n'm'
daily except Sunday; and 7 87 a m, 8 11 d m'
Sunday. ' •
Trains leave Derlnijer for Tomhlckon, Cran
hprry.Hlll wood, Hazleton Junction and Koau
?„■!' c, a ? except Sunday; and ;> 87
a m, f> (7 p in, Sunday.
Trains loan- sheppton for Oneida, Humboldt
Koad, Hai wood Koad, Oneida June'lon HHZI...
ton Junction aud lloan at 7 11 am, 12 10, f, ■ -is
p m. daily except (Sunday; and 8 11am 814
pm, Sunday. '
Trains leave Sheppton for Denver Meadow
Koad. Stockton, liazle Brook, Bokloy Jc'ldo
a "< at ® P daily, except Sunday;
and 8 11 a iu, J 44 p m, Sunday
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Boavcr
Meadow Koad, Stockton. Hazle lirook. Keklcv
Jeddo and Drlfton at 6 4lt p m , dally'
eX fn'i, ml?. ' and 1(1 1" " 540P m, Sunday.'
All tialns connect at Hazleton Junction with
elcctrio cars lor Hazleton, Jeanesville, Audi",
psny'sllne. 1 ° n tlle Trlw lou Co/n.
Train leaviue Drifton at 600 n m moke.
Ll'lll EH C. SMITH, duuerlnleiident.