FREELAND TRIBUNE. Established 1883. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY. BY THIS TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. FREELAND.— The TRIBUNE is delivered by carriers to subscribers in Freelund at tlie rate of 12)4 cento a month, payable every two months, or $1.50 a year, payable in advance. The TRIBUNE may be ordered direct l'rom the carriers or from the office. Complaints of irregular or tardy delivery service will receive prompt attention. BY MAIL.— The TRIBUNE is sent to out-of towu subscribers for sl.*o a year, payable in advance; pro rata terms for shorter periods. The date when the subscription expires is on the address label of each paper. Prompt re newals must be made at the expiration, other wise the subscription will be discontinued. Entered at the Postofflce at Freelund, Pa., as Seeoud-Cluss Matter. FREELAND, PA., JANUARY 20. 1902. TOOK THE BAIT. Uld Man Bet Illm #'-<> That John Would He There. "1 used to think I was some pump kins," said the drummer as he lighted his cigar in the office of a Detroit hotel the other evening, "but 1 hadn't been rubbing against the world over a year before I was saying nothing and saw ing wood as hard as I could. About the first game I ran across was in Chi cago. An old chap from the turnip fields, with a face as innocent as a baby's, came up to me on the street and wanted to know if I knew a fel low named John Smith. " 'You've been confidencedl' I said as I looked at a bank check in his hand. " 'I guess not,' he replied, though he looked rather scared. 'I lent a feller $lO, and he gave ine this check for S2O to hold till he got back. You see it's signed "John Smith" all right, and that was his name. No, I don't think he's come any game on me. He look ed like u decent feller.' "It was so refreshing," said the drummer, "that I leaned up against a lamppost and laughed till my sides were sore. I told the old man that his check was not worth the paper it was written on and that he ought to have known better and all that, and he finally grew quite indignant and said; " 'I don't believe he was any such chap. He said he'd be back at 4 o'clock, and I'll bet he'll come. I'm an old hayseed, hut I know a good man from a bad one.' " 'You'll never see him again, and you'd better look out or somebody will got your boots.' " 'But I'm sure he'll come. I've got S2O here as says he will.' "I didn't want to add insult to In jury, but the old chap was so sure nud •saucy about it that I put up my twen ty to teach him a moral lesson. A po liceman was stakeholder, and we had Duly live minhtes to wait. Then Jolm Smith showed up, repaid the $lO and took back his check, and of course I lost my S2O and was humiliated into the dust besides. The old hayseed called the turn on me by advising me not. to go far from my hotel and to leave my watch in my room, and I was full of grief for three days. Then, on i corner a mile away, I caught him playing the same trick and understood that it was a put up job." "And that assuaged your grief," was suggested. "Well, perhaps. At least it made me j realize that 1 was the biggest ass in the United States."—Detroit Free Press. . It is curious to note that sixteen out of the twenty-one English coronations that occurred between William ltufus and Elizabeth, both inclusive, were held on Sunday. For each of the ex ceptions there was a special reason. After the days of Elizabeth not a sin gle coronation took place on a Sunday. Of 21,329,819 males of voting age in the United States 2,320,295 are Illiter ate. In other words, one possible voter out of nine is unable to read or write or to write if able to read. Nearly one-half of all the Illiterates in the country are negroes, and about 45 per cent of all negroes of voting age are illiterate. Over 8,000 women are employed In the various government offices in Washington, 2,044 of whom have cn lerrd the service after competitive ex amination. Nine hundred of them are paid salaries ranging from SI,OOO to $1,500 a year, the others being paid the compensation of ordinary clerks. SOOO to S9OO a year. The city of St. Louis has added an other department to her city govern ment. The smoke abatement depart ment will fully consider the work of the leading smoke consumers, but will, of course, recommend no one especial ly. As it Is desired to abate the smoke neiusance by the time the world's fair is held there close attention will he paid to the ordinance. Admiration. "You admire your grandfather very much, don't you, my little man ?" "Yes," answered the youth. "You think he could do tilings that p.o one else could, don't you?" "I know he could. He used to pun ish father whenever lie felt like it."— Washington Star. SAVED BY A WILD CR\ ' "Yes," the bishop remarked reflec tively, "as you say. Travel's, we had some delightful times at Oxford to- ' get her." "I should think so!" the newcomer \ assented. "We did have larks! What j days on the river! And what nights in college!" The bishop moved uneasily in his chair. Then he glanced at the bishop- I ess and the two bishopinas. "My dear," he said, wriggling inside his black apron, "It is very hot in here. I think I will take Mr. Travers out in the gar den a little." The bishopess' face expressed sincere i relief. Mr. Travers' talk tended not | to edification. She, too. glanced at the bishopinas. "1 would, Edward, if I \ were you," she answered. "Perhaps I Mr. Travers smokes. lie might like a cigar." "Ah, you don't smoke now, then?" Travers put in. with a note of surprise. "Well, that's odd. (liven it up? Must i have cost him a wrench, though, Mrs. j Mitchell. Never saw at Oxford without a short brier root in his mouth, bar chapel or lecture. Did I, Mitchell?" The bishop rose solemnly, stood for II moment by the open window, with his episcopal legs in a studied attitude of episcopal doubt, and then led the way into the garden. It was a beaut 1- \ ful West Indian night. Tropical moon- j light lay pale green upon the floor of i the veranda. Fireflies flitted in and j out. The scent of large white flowers j was heavy on the air. Travers thought 1 it all beautiful. He had only arriv- ! ed at Tortuga that morning and had j come straight up to Bisliopstow to make his first Impression of the tropics under his old friend's roof and his old friend's auspices. The .bishop selected a sequestered spot at the farthest eud of the veranda, placing a long deck chair for Travers where he was least likely to be over heard by the two bishopinas. "Yes," he continued in a bland pro fessional murmur, "we have a great work here, and I feel that abstinence from all appearance of evil is a neces sity of my usefulness." John Travers lighted a cigar. Its smoke blew toward the bishop. "Capi tal tobacco one gets here," Travers re marked. The bishop sniffed if regretfully. "It has a delicious fragrauce, I will ad mit." lie answered with reluctance. Travers leaned hack in his chair and watched the fireflies as they flitted. The air was balmy. "Ah, what times we had at Oxford!" lie went on reflect ing. "What times we had there, Mitch ell! Do you remember that saucy little girl who used to sell flowers at the cor- I nor near the Randolph? A pretty bit of fluff. Polly Peach they called her. j What fun we had chaffing her! Well, i she's married a doctor now and has a son at Brasenose." "I am glad to hear it," the bishop an- i swered, putting his thumbs and fori l - I fingers together. "Though she was a frivolous young woman, she was not | wholly lacking in—ln what 1 may Yen- j ture to call the essentials of refinement. And we must remember she was plac ed in a position of some temptation." "Yes, she's married," Travers went on, "to a doctor, as I say. I think you knew him. Oil, of course. We were at a drunk together at his rooms in Bal liol." "I remember taking wine," tlie bish op admitted after a pause, "with a man named Holmes there." "The same! The very fellow! What away he had with the girls too! And then the bonfire! Do you remember our boutlre on the night our Torpid beat Christcliurch and Oriel? llow you brought out fagots into the quad after the bump supper and remarked that you didn't care a something or other for the dons and made a jolly good blaze and were almost seut down for it?" The bishop hesitated. "1 have some j indistinct recollection that there was a bonfire," he allowed at last dubiously. "Was a bonfire! Why, my dear fel low, you were all hut sent packing for it. You can't possibly forget. You were let. off on the ground that most of the other men were much more drunk than you; you were just sober enough to light the fagots iu the middle of the quad, while the other men wanted to pile and light them against the hall and chapel." The bishop's face was rigid with ter ror. .lust then a cry rose on the air from a cottage not far off—a weird, shrill cry, as of women wailing. "What's that?" Travers asked, with a start. Saved, saved! The bishop gasped with joy. He remembered that Travers had had typhoid at college and lived ever afterward in bodily dread of zymotic diseases. "That," lie replied iu very calm and measured tones, "Is—only a negro wake. The women are wailing and keening after their kind over one of their people who has died in this epidemic. I regret to say, owing to our imperfect sanitary arrangements, such scenes are too common. We grow per haps to disregard them with almost un christian lack of sympathy." "Epidemic? What epidemic?" The bishop stretched truth as far as it would go. "Yellow jack," he answer- i ed In an unconcerned voice. "Very bad j here at present They are dying by thousands, the whites and browns es pocially. It attacks newcomers most of all. People of florid complexion and j full liabit of body, fresli out. from Eug- j bind, are almost sure"— Travers rose in horror. He was fresh colored and full blooded. "Is it all over the islands?" he asked, with marked eagerness. The bishop gave a dramatic pause. "Not in Barbados." he answered slow ly. "Barbados is quite wholesome. There's a steamer to Bnrlmdos tomor row morning."--Sketch. I in nil 111 I I iHI llllil li I 111 IHiHII—MIIITITIIWiiIiTTTMIHiTTIH The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which lias been in use for over .10 years, has borne the signature of —. and has been made under his per s, sonal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you iu this. 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The illustration is re produced from Le Moniteurdchi Mode. A Lovely ISIOUMP. A novel and lovely blouse is of white chiffon lined with palest pink and ar ranged with a yoke formed of two or three feather designs carried out in an applique of lace. Other designs in floral lace applique trim tlie lower part of the bodice, while the waist belt is very becomingly contrived out uf two curved bands of tucked white chiffon connected with feathers!hell ing. The elbow sleeves are finished with accordion plaited frills of chiffon primal with In OP HUMOR OF THE HOUR thoiit. "It is always amusing to mo," said the thoughtful man, "when I read of a reward being offered for the return of lost money. It always seems to me that if the money falls into the hands of an honest man he would bo only j too glad to see that the loser got it, I hut if, on the contrary, it should fall { into the hands of a dishonest man, ; why, money spent on the advertising | of a reward would he merely thrown j away unless the reward equaled the j amount lost. : "A number of years ago an old man living in the same town that I did and j who had the reputation of being very | close lost a roll of bills amounting to | several hundred dollars. It was a mys ! tery to every one how he let go of it long enough to lose it. but he did, and he spent several days rushing around town looking for it, but without suc "Flually some one suggested the ad visability of offering a reward for the return of the lost money. He objected to this as costing him too much, hut at last lie opened his heart and offered the sum of $1 to the finder. A few days later lie received l>y mail a dollar note, together with a letter to the effect that j he could have the reward and the find- I or would keep the rest for his trou | hie."—Detroit Free Press. Satisfied. I "My friend," said the very severe I person, "treasure the precious mo ments. Think, with the deep awe which the subject deserves to com mand, upon the fact that time is swift ly fleeting and stays for no man." "That's all right," answered the cheery citizen. "1 want to fleet. If time were stationary, I'd he hut of work. You see, I'm a watchmaker."— | Washington Star. Mid-Winter Bargains in 1 lats, Caps, ltubber Goods, Winter Furnishings. Fine Lines of Men's and Women's Shoes, Men's and Boys' Hats, Caps and Furnishings, Boys' Knee Pants, Neckwear, Collars, Cuffs, Etc. McMenamin's Gents' Furnishing, Hat and Shoe Store, South Centre Street. ®yp Buv FD <@WR ASK THE HAN BEHIND THE CASE W.K.G'RESH & ?>ONS. I The Cure that sures J p Coughs, \ Golds, j I) Griggs, fa Whooping Cough, Asthma, J Bronchitis and Incipient A Consumption, 13 K* fotlos] A THE GERMAN REMEDY" £ r CurtcWvraA wM ivstases. J a\\ 253 SOrts/! The.... Q . Wilkes-Barre Is the Best Paper in Northeastern Pennsylvania ... It contains Complete Local, Tele graphic and (iencrul News. Prints o!y the News that's fit to Print 50 Cents a Month, ADDRESS. $6 a Year by Mail The Record, Carriers WILKES-BARRE. PA. 1 Wm. Wehrman, "Y7\7" atcla:m.a,ls:er. Repairing a Specialty. Thirty-four Year's Experience. Next to Neußurger's Store. " RAILROAD TIMETABLES LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD. .June 2, 1901. ARRANGEMENT OF PABHKNOFH TRAINS. LEAVE FKKKLAND. 0 12 a m for Wcatberly, Mauch Chunk Allentown, Bethlehem, Eustou, f'hila (lelphiii uii*l New Vork. 7 34 a in for Sandy Run, White Haven, Wilkes-Ha ire. Pittston and Scran ton. 8 15 a nt for Ha/.lot on, Weutbvrly. Munch Chunk. Allent' wn, JScthleheui, Easton, Philadelphia, New York, Delano and Pottsville. i 9 30 a in lor Huzleton, Delano, Mahunoy City, Shenandoah and vt. Carroel. 1 1 m for Wcutli. rly, Munch I'liunk. AL lentown, Hcthlehein. Kaston, Phila delphia, New York, lla/leton. Delano, Mahanoy City, Shenandoah and Mt. Curinel. 115 a in for White Haven, Wilkes-Harre, Scran ton and the West. 4 44 P m for Weutherly. Mauch Chunk, Al lentown. Hethlehem. Easton, Philadel phia, New York, Huzleton, Delano, Muhanoy City, Shenandoah. Mt. Curiuol and Pottsville. I 8 35 p ni for Handy ltun, White Haven, Wilkes-Burre, Scruuton and all poiuts | West. ' 7 29 p in for Hn/.leton. Alt HIVE AT FRERLAND. I 7 34 a m from Pottsville, Delano and Haz leton. 9 12 ni from New York, Philadelphia, Eas ton. Hethlehem, Allentown, Mauch Chunk. Wcatlierlv, liazleton. Mahanoy City, Shetiai-.douh anil Mt. Carnicl 1 9 30 a ni from Scruntou, Wilkes-Harre and White Ilaven. ! 1 1 5 1 a ni from Pottsville, Mt. Carmel, Shen andoah. Mahanoy City, Delano and Haxleton. 12 48 )> m from New York, Philadelphia, Huston, Hethlehem, Allentown, Muuch Ctiuuk and Weatherlj - . 4 44 p m from Hcrauton, Wilkes-Harrc and White Haven. 6 35 ]> in from New York, Philadelphia, Easton, Hethlehem Allentown, Munch Chunk, Woathci ly, Mt. Caruiel, Shenan doah, Mahunoy City, Delano and Huzle tOlL 7 29 l in from Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and White Haven. For further information inquiro of Ticket \ Rents. COLLIN H.W 1 LBUR. General Superintendent, Cortlundt street, New York City. C'H AS. fi. I,EE. General Passemrer A trout, 3d Cortlundt Street, New York City. G. .1. GILDKOY, Division Superintendent, ___ Hazlcton. Pa. I" 1 HE DELAWARE. RUBQURHANNA ANU SCHUYLKILL BAIIROAD. I Time table in effect March 10, lflOl. Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo, Eckley, Hazle drook, Stocktou, Heavor Meadow Hoad, Koan and Ilnzleton Junction at (3(10 a m, daily 1 except Sunday: and 7 07 a m, 338 p m, Sunday. I rams leave Drilton for Harwood,Cranberry, , loinbickeu and Derlraor at 600 a ni, daily except Sunday; and 707 a m, 688 p in, Sun lay • Trains leave Drifton for Oneida Junction, Harwood Hoad, Humboldt Hoad, Oneida and •boppton at 000 a m, daily except Sun lay; and < 0< a m, 3 .is p m, Sunday. 1 ruins leave Ha/Jeton Junction for Harwi od, Cranberry, lomhickeu and Bcringer at 686 a n. daily except Sunday; and K 53 a m. 4 32 D m Sunday. K 1 Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida Junction, Garwood Hoad, Humboldt Hoad, Oneida and Sheppton at ts 83,11 10 a in, 441 p m iftily except Sunday; and 7 37 a m, 3 11 n m' Sunday. ' Trains leave Deriniror for Tomhieken, Cran berry Hai wood, Hazlcton Junction and Roan At nl, o Jal, y except Sunday; ana :• 37 i in, 5 07 n m, Sunday. Trains leave Sheppton for Oneida, Humboldt Road, Harwood Hoad, Oneida Junction. Ha/lc fon Junction and Moon nt 711 am 12 40 628 D m, daily except Sunday; end b 11 a m! 8 44 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Sheppton for Beaver Meadow I Road. Stockton, llazle Brook, Eckley, Jrddo i rtT1 jPP r , "f /' Pm, daily, except Sunday; and 8 11 a m, 8 44 p m, Sunday. | Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Beaver Meadow Koad, Stockton. Hazlo Brook Kckloy ■lpddo and Driflou at 5 41) p ni, daily! ozoopt Sunday: and 10 10 a ra, 5 40 p m, Sunday! All trains connect at Hazlcton Junction with , electric curs tor Hazlcton, Jeaneavlllo, Audcn ; ncd and other points on the Traction Com | pq.ny's line. j Train leaving Drifton at 000 a m makes oonueotlon at Demurer with P. K. R. trains for WJkflibirre, Sunbury, tiarrisburg* and points 1 LUIUUH 0. SMITH Superintendent,
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