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FREELAND, FA., JANUARY 29, 1902.
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THEATRICAL.
A four days' engagement will begin at
the Grand opera house by the popular
and the well known Waite Comedy
Stock Company, tonight, with a com
plete production of that fatuous melo
drama, "The War of Wealth." a play
that has toured all the big cities in the
country and was one of Jacob Litt's
big successes. During the rest of
the engagement a series of well known
plays will be presented, among which is
a big production of last year's New
York sensation, "Under Two Flags,"
and as given by this company is credit
ed by both press and public as equal to
any seen at high prices.
The acting company is a carefully
selected one, artists of recognized
ability and their united strength is sel
dom seen with an attraction of this kind.
In addition a clever vaudeville company
is carried and between the acts they en
tertain with their pleasing specialties,
while the ladies' orchestra is quite a
feature. There will be a matinee on
Saturday, and tonight will be a special
one for the ladies.
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The patrons of the Grand opera house
who saw "The Game Keeper" last even
ing were treated to a pretty scenic
productiou, good singing and a fair
quality of acting. The star of the play,
Smith O'Brien, has a very fine voice and
used it to good advantage. His sup
port is subject to improvement, but
upon the whole the play is one which
pleases the average audience and the
shortcomings of some of the company
are overbalanced by the merit of the
piece.
POLITICAL.
Squire Campbell, of East Foster, and
Squire Carr, of Eckley, are wondering
whose place the Republican nominee
for justice of the peace will fill, even if
the certiiicate of nomination should he
accepted and the candidate elected.
Both justices in Foster have a few years
yet to serve, and tiie general impression
is that Mr. Solomon is not so wise as his
famous namesake in accepting the
"gold-brick" offered him on Monday
evening.
One of the strongest tickets nominated
in years by Hazle Democrats was placed
in the field yesterday. The North Side
is represented by Patrick liiggins, of
Drifton, a man who deserves to win the
supervisorship, and John Haughey, of
Jeddo, a bright young man for auditor.
The Democrats of Foster are un
usually well pleased with this year's
ticket. Every element of the party and
every section of the township have been
accorded representation, and the leaders
claim they are in a position to make a
winning fight.
The Republicans in the Fifth ward
have filled their ticket by naming \V. J.
Morgan for councilman and those of the
Sixth ward have placed F. 11. Albert on
the ticket for school director.
Strength of Mine Workers.
The numarial strength of the United
Mine Workers of America and the rapid
growth of the organization is shown by
the following ligures from the official
reports of the officers:
For the year 18>>8 the average paid up
membership was 32,903.
I 1 or 1899 it was 31.889; increase, 28.985.
I'or 1900 it was 115,521; Increase, 53,-
034.
For 1901 it was 190,024; increase, 82-
503.
Membership in December, 1898,54,700.
December, 1900. 91,000; Increase, 98 -
329.
December, 1901, 232,289; increase, 98,-
329.
There was organized during the oast
year 390 local unions; charters surren
dered, 121: net gain, 275.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
A GAIN FOR LABOR.
SUCH IS HENRY GEORGE'S OPINION
OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
Rul It K.ouku HM If tlie "Captain* of
Industry'* May Vt mil tu Combine
tlie Producers That They >!uy
Flttek the Consumer*.
To the man who has followed the
progress of the industrial movement
for the past few years the first ex
traordinary feature of the labor and
capital conference in New York was
the meeting on terms of at least out
ward cordiality and equality of men
lioidingcommanding ranks in the trades
| union world with men who are called
"captains of industry," but who up to
comparatively recently were openly
hostile to organized labor and would
in no way treat with it. Here these
two elements met in a kind of public
love feast, making speeches flowing
with milk and honey and protesting
mutual respect and confidence, and all
this in open assemblage, with large
numbers of representative men of oth
er walks of life present and a newspa
per press reporting the proceedings
down to the least utterances. The mo
nopoly magnates meeting in friendly
discourse with the leaders of the great
est of the trades unions with a view to
effecting a hoard of examination into
future industrial disagreements in the
larger fields of labor was dramatic if
not sensational. What could it mean?
wtts the natural question. The "great
employers" have hitherto not been an
| limited by extravagant love for labor
I unionism. Could this be intended for a
trap, a scheme to snare the more im
portant leaders and hold them as hos
tages for the good conduct of their fol
lowers? Or, since United States Sena
tor Hanna, the leader of the Republic
an national party organization, was
made the chairman of the permanent
body of arbitration—tlie committee of
thirty-six, as it is also called—could it
be that the main purpose of this get
ting together of the representatives of
"labor anil capital" was nothing more
than a political move under a mask?
Men's motives are usually complex.
A subtle mingling of reasons precedes
most important actions. Rut in this
conference 1 am persuaded that the
leading motive that influenced "capi
tal." so called, was not the hope of
taking advantage of labor, hut the de
sire to raise labor organizations as a
defense against any aggressiveness of
the body of the people against special
privileges. These "great employers"
are truly great employers, but they are
more than that. They are in possession
of very valuable privileges of one kind
or another. The public mind is now
opening to an Inquiry into all forms of
privilege and particularly those forms
which have the name of "trust" and
which hear with such obvious burden
upon the masses of the community.
Legislation, some recent decisions of
the courts and the contents of a large
part of the press and the periodicals
indicate increasing interest of the gen
eral public in this subject and a dispo
sition to abolish privileges or, if allow
ing them continued life, to subject
tliom to a substantial burden. It is
said that there is nothing so timid as
money, and if we take privilege as one
of the forms of riches we may surely
say that it is the most timid of all tim
id tilings. It knows of danger by in
stinct. and in the present situation the
great trust forms of privilege have hot
ter proofs than instinct can supply of
real menace to their exclusive institu
tions if anything like an industrial war
should break out, for that must,
through tlie wide extension of the
trades union organization, involve not
a few hut a vast number of workers,
these in turn exerting a sympathetic
influence over a large and increasing
proportion of the people.
Does this not explain the present at
titude of President Schwab of the
United States Steel and Iron corpora
tion. who in years past was an outspo-
I ken advocate of the Carnegie compa
ny's policy of undying hostility to or
ganizations of workiiigmen—a "labor
crusher," in other words? Does this
not reveal a sufficient motive for his
participating in n kind of love feast
witli distinguished heads of tlie trades
unions and helping to form a perma
nent love feast committee, with him
self as one of its members?
"Rut," interpose some, "this does not
look much like what Senator Hanna is
reported to have said about the chief
function of tlie court of arbitration, or
committee of thirty-six."
What was it that Senator Hanna
said? This: "I consider the conference
the greatest step ever taken for the
speedy settlement of disputes arising
between labor and capital. The organi
zation of capital, which has come to
stay, was an evolution which was pre
ceded by an organization of labor,
which also lias come to stay, and the
concentration of tlie interest of the
two sides, which should lie friendly,
not hostile, into tlie hands of a com
paratively few individuals will be for
tlie best interests of both."
More was said, but tills is the esscn
tial part. And what docs it signify?
At first glance It might seem like an
attempt of the monopoly leaders to
draw tlie large bodies of labor into a
kind of trust, to be influenced through
a few labor leaders on tlie principle
that it is much easier to endeavor to
find grounds of agreement with a few
leaders than to try tlie arbitrament of
war with the mass of workers. Elimi
nating any question of bribery of labor
chiefs, tills might reasonably be
thought to be tin- easiest of all ways
to meet differences with labor. Hence
tliis New York conference and its con
sequent permanent committee of thir
ty-six might be I bought to be tlie first
steps toward an attempt to do what
Louis I-'. Post in tlie Chicago Public
1 calls "authorizing" the labcr move-
ment— that is, to resolve it Into a state
similar to that of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, whose head,
Chief Arthur, keeps in close commu
nion with the railroad management,
which gives much to the engineers in
return for their refusal to strike and
their abstaining from giving comfort
to others who do strike.
But even if the labor leaders were in
sympathy with and disposed to adopt
the Arthur plan, I think circumstances
are such as to make its successful car
rying out impossible. Arthur could
succeed because he commanded a com
paratively small number of very high
ly skilled and peculiarly trusted men
who banded themselves together in a
union that should have 110 communica
tion with or sympathy for any other
union or body of workmen. The Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers says
in substance, "We stand for ourselves
alone." Other labor unions are of ne
cessity numerous, have an intimate in
tercommunication and warm bond of
sympathy, and they proceed on the
principle of the Knights of Labor mot
to—namely, that "the injury of one is
the concern of all." Indeed, the idea
of the solidarity of labor is not re
stricted to skilled workmen, but ap
plies as well to the even greater num
ber of unskilled workmen. Any labor
trust or even approximation to a bu
reaucracy to be in the least degree
successful would have to have the ac
tive or passive approval or support of
this enormous army of organized and
unorganized workmen, a thing not sup
posable in this stirring, changing age.
I admit that were the spirit of inqui
ry not abroad, were the monopolies
and their sponsors not under serious
suspicion and were the popular mind
in a state of passivity and quietude
then perhaps seme share or the prom
ise of a share of the advantages of mo
nopoly might serve to draw and hold
some part of the labor unions under
the control of some kind of managing
organization. But too many men have
conceived the idea that there is some
thing fundamentally out of keeping
with equal rights in monopolies, and
the desire for investigation is too ram
pant for a labor trust to be formed.
Or to put the same thing in another
form: Senator llanna speaks of the
"organization of capital" coming to
stay. Does he include monopoly in the
word "capital?" It is not as a capital
ist that Mr. Schwab, for instance, is
most notable in this matter, for the
word "capital' in the sense of political
economy means some form of wealth
used by labor to produce more wealth,
and the word "wealth" means the
produce of labor from land—that is.
from the materials of nature. Capital
therefore comes from labor, and a fac
tory or a steel rail or a locomotive
when used in production is capital, but
an ore bed or a coal Held or a railroad
right of way cannot be. That is a
privilege. Now, $300,000,000 approxi
mately represents the value of the ac
tual capital of Mr. Schwab's steel
trust, using the word capital in its
true, economic sense, and $1,100,000,-
000 represents the value of privilege in
a so called "capitalization" of $1,400,-
000,000.
So therefore it is fai more as a mo
nopolist than as a capitalist that Mr.
Schwab becomes a member of the
committee of thirty-six. If the body of
the people do not see this in sharpness
of outline, a sufficiently large and
widely scattered number do see it to
point it out and to give direction to
that animus against privilege which is
now beginning to change from thought
to action.
"But." it will be asked, "if the trusts
are endeavoring to draw the trades
unions into a kind of league and cove
nant that shall be useful to privilege
what is labor to got out of this commit
tee of arbitration, as it is called? Why
did the labor leaders go into it?"
My judgment is that, while the cap
tains of monopoly seek by this means
to raise defense works between their
domains of privilege and the approach
ing popular equal rights army, the
trades unions are getting advance
ground. All that the unions need to be
successful in most of their fights, when
their cause is just, is a popular hear
ing. The greatest strike in recent
years —the Pennsylvania anthracite
strike of 1000—was won because John
Mitchell, the strike leader, was able to
get his case through the newspapers
before the people. That made a public
opinion that awakened the politicians
to activity, and they were able to use
the threat of exposure against the rail
roads, which were the real opponents
of the mine workers. The railroads
feared attack on their transportation
or coal mining privileges or any reve
lation of the latter's great value. This
brought the extraordinary exhibition of
the powerful combination of railroads
yielding to a labor organization which
when it entered the fight had no mon
ey and not more than a sixteenth part
of all the mine workers in that terri
tory in its membership—yielding abso
lutely and granting a 10 per cent in
crease in wages and other demands.
The formation of the committee of
thirty-six, or court of arbitration, for
this reason means a remarkable ad
vance for trades unionism upon ground
hitherto held by the greatest of its old
foes, the trusts, for the trust captains
now agree to make the public the
judge in labor disputes and thereby
guarantee the unions a hearing before
the public. The trusts may design to
avoid this difficulty by making a tool
of the unions, but even if the union
leaders were willing to be used, which
1 do not believe is the case, the masses
of the union members would not be,
and the trusts may find that they have
made a club that will be used against
them at the first sign of serious trou
ble between them and the workers.
For these reasons the committee of
thirty-six, or court of arbitration,
seems to be a distinct gain for labor.—
Ilenry George, Jr., in Philadelphia
North American.
Sjjjf LiTTLE
BOYS AND BUSINESS.
Some Advice on the Way to Start
Out la Life.
James A. Shaw says: Boys do not ap
preciate the importance and serious
ness of the first steps in business life.
They fail to realize that the future de
pends not upon luck or chance, but
upon having a solid foundation. Too
many start out blindly, without any
idea as to what they want or are aim
ing for, thinking only of their salary.
It a boy could commence business life
with even a small part of the judg
ment and common sense he enjoys
later on, how differently he would act!
Boys often think that because their
work is apparently trivial It is unim
portant and so do their tasks in a slip
shod way. There is no part of the
work about a business establishment
that should not be done accurately
and promptly. Employers notice how
the employee does the little things,
though the employee sometimes thinks
that his shirking is not noticed.
Every boy should aim to do all bis
work at least a little better than any
one else can. lie should give it
thought, figure out how lie can save
time and money and improve the char
acter of the work. Suggestions are a I
ways in order. lie should be in his
place on or before the time expected,
and if sickness makes him late he
should immediately explain it to his
employer. .If the hoy runs out of du
ties, he should look for more. Men
want bright, ambitious boys around
them, prepared by experience in hum
hie positions to fill higher.—Exchange
A Paper FIKII Trick.
Here is a little experiment that il
lustrates a principle of natural philos
ophy: Cut out of ordinary note paper
a fish like the one shown in the cut,
and let it be a good sized one. In the
HOW TO MAKE TIll!J FISII.
center cut a circular opening, a, com
municating with the tail by means of
the narrow canal A B, opening at B.
Now let plenty of water run in the
bathtub and place the fish in it so that
Its ventral half may be thoroughly
wetted and its dorsal half remain dry.
Pour into the opening at A a good sized
drop of oil, and this will at once seek
to spread Itself over the surface of the
water. As it can only do so through
the canal A B, the reactive force thus
exerted will propel the fish forward,
which always surprises those to whom
the secret of the oil Is not known.
St. Nicholas.
The following account of how a eer
tain man named Nicholas became a
saint is said to be authentic:
"Once upon a time there lived in
Germany a man who had a great ileal
of gold. He was so kind and , onerous
in his use of it that he made many
needy people comfortable and hap
py. But whenever he made gifts lie
would go after the people were sound
ly sleeping and put his presents in
through the windows. No one ever
saw him do these things, but people
began to call him St. Nicholas, and
whenever a kind favor was done by
any one they said, 'That was a St.
Nicholas deed.' May we not have some
one who might wish to remember us
without being known? If so, he must
be our St. Nicholas.
Mag;lc Ink.
Take a good sized onion, chop it up.
place it in a coarsely woven cloth and
wring the sap out in a bottle and it is
ready for the pen and paper.
Write as you would with other Ink.
and then, after you have written a
sheet, hold it to a hot fire or, best of
all, directly above a lamp chimney,
and as by magic the letters and words
one by one will appear. This produces
a colored writing.
Tlie Little Dreamer.
A lit tip boy was dreaming
Upon his 11 arse's hip
That the pins fell out of all the stars
And the stars fell into his cup.
So. when his dream was over.
What should that little bov do?
Why. he went and looked Inside his cap
And found It wasn't true.
Girls' nml Children's Loggings.
Warm, comfortable leggings are es
sential to every winter outfit. For the
girls and children they are necessary
In all weather as a protection against
cold. For the tuisses, with their longer
skirts, they are essential in rain and
snow, optional on clear days, but
should never he neglected.
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RAILROAD TIMETABLES
Lehiuii valley eajlkoad.
June 2, 1901.
ARRANGEMENT or PASSENGER TRAINS.
LEAVE PKEELAND.
0 12 a in for Weatherly, Munch Chunk
Allentown, Bet hlehcm, Easton, Phila
delphia ana New York.
7 34 a in for Sandy Run. White Huron,
Wilkes-liar re, Pittston nud Sornnton.
i 8 15 a in lor Ha/.leton, Weatherly. Munch
('hunk. Allentwn, Ilethleheni, Easton,
Philadelphia, New York, Delaao and
Put f svillo.
j 9 30 a ni for Ha/.leton. Delano, Mahanoy
City, Shenandoah and Mt. < armel.
: 11 42 a 111 for Weatherly, Mauch Chunk. Al
lentown, Itet h lehein. Huston, Phila
delphia, New York, Hazieton, Delano,
Mahanoy City, Shenandoah and Mt.
Ciirmel.
115 a in for White Haven, Wilkes-Harre,
Soranton ami the West.
4 44 p m for Weatherly. Munch Chunk, Al
lentown. Bethlehem. Easton, Philadel
phia, New York. Ilu/.leton. Dcluno,
Mahanoy City, Shenandoah, Mt. Curmei
and Pottsville.
0 35 I) in for Sandy Bun, White Haven,
Wilkes-Harre, Soranton and all points
West.
7 29 p m for Ha/.lcton.
Alt HIVE AT FBEELAND.
7 34 a in from Pottsville, Delano and liaz
ieton.
9 12 a ni from New York, Philadelphia, Has
ten, Bethlehem, Allentown, Muuch
Chunk. Weatherly, Ha/letou. Mahanoy
City, Shenwhdeuh and Mt. Carmcl
9 30 a in from Serunton, Wilkes-liarre and
White Haven.
1 1 51 a in from Pottsville, Mt. Carmel, Shen
andoah, Mahanoy City, Delano and
liu/.lcton.
12 48|> ni troin New York, Philadelphia,
Huston, Bethlehem, Allentown, Mauch
Chunk and Weatherly.
4 44 )• ni from Serunton, Wilkes-Hurre and
White Haven,
j 0 35 P in from New York, Philadelphia,
Easton, Hethlehem Allentown, Mauch
Chunk. Weatherly, Mt.Carmel,Shenan
doah, Mahanoy City, Delano and Iluzlo
ton.
i 7 29 P m from Soranton, Wilkes-Harre and
White Haven.
For further inforxnatkn inquire of Ticket
A front*
•lOLLIN 11. WILRUR, General Superintendent,
2d Cortlundt street, New York City.
CHAS. S. XJF.E. General Passenger Agent,
20 Cortlandt Street, New York City.
G. J. GILDItOY, Division Superintendent,
Hazieton, Pa.
R FHE DELAWARE. SUBQUKHANNA AND
1. SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD.
Time table in effect March 10, 1901.
Trains leave Drifton lorJeddo, Eekley, Hazle
Brook, Stockton, Heaver Meadow ltoad, Bonn
and Hazieton Junction at 600 a m, daily
except Sunday: and 7 07 o m, 2 38 p m. Sunday.
Trains leave Drifton for Harwood, Crantierry,
Toinliieken and Deringcr at 600 a ro, daily
except Sunday; and 7 07 a m, 238 p m, Sun-
Trains leave Drifton for Oneida Junction,
Harwood Boad, Humboldt Koad, Oneida and
-'heppton ut 6 (10 a m, daily except Sun-
Jay; and 7 07 a m, 2 38 p m, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazieton Junction for Harwood,
Cranberry, Tomhickcn and Dcringcr at 635 a
m, daily except Sunday; and 8 53 a m, 4 22 p in,
j Sunday.
Trains leave Hazieton Junction for Oneida
| Junction, Harwood Hood, Humboldt Koad,
Oneida and Sbeppton at 6 32,11 10 am,4 41 p in,
daily excopt. Sunday; and 7 37 a m, 311 pm,
Sunday.
I • Trains leave Deri nger for Tom hick en. Cran
berry, Hai wood, Hazieton Junction and Koan
at 500 p m, daily except Sunday; and :37
a m, 5 07 p m. Sunday.
Trams leave Shepptou for Oneida, Humboldt
Boad, Harwood Koad, Oneida Junction, Hazle
! ton Junction and Koan at 7 11 am, 12 40, 520
p m. daily except Sunday; and 8 11 a m, 3 44
p m, Sunday.
Trains leave Sheppton lor Heaver Meadow
Boad, Stockton. Hazle Brook, Ecklcy. .Initio
and Drifton at 5 26 p m, daily, except Sunday;
and 8 11 a tn, 3 44 r m, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazieton Junction for Beaver
Meadow Boad. Stockton. Ha/.le Brook, Eekley,
I Jeddo and Drifton at 549 p m, dally,
except Sunday: and 10 10 a m, 5 40 p m, Sunday.
All trains connect at Hazieton Junction with
electric ears for Hazieton, Jean cavil Je, Audcn
| ricd and other point* on the Traction Com
! pnny's line.
Train leaving Drifton at 600 a m makes
j connection at Deringer with P. R. R. trains for
WHkeabarre, Sunbury, Harrisburg and points
i LUTOHR 0. SMITH- Superintendent*