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Make all money order s, check w, etc., payable to the Tribune Prtntlnu Company, Limited. FREELAND. PA., MAY 10, 1902. M. & M. Closing Exercises. The program of the exercises of the Mining and Mechanical Institute, which will be held at the Grand opera house on Wednesday evening, June 4. is as follows: Selection, St. Ann's band. Salutatory. Thomas Brown, "The Value of System." Oration, Michael Kennedy, "Nicarag ua Canal." Oration, James Boyle, "Life of Wil liam Me Kin ley." Selection, St. Ann's band. Oration, Cletus Hayes, "Commercial ism." Oration. George Geoppert, "What Makes Men Great." Oration, William Dinn, "A Taste for Reading." Selection, St. Ann's band. Oration, Frank Ward, "Progress in Mining." Oration. Howard Bohlin, "Content ment." Oration, Thomas Lawson, "Life of Abraham Lincoln." Oration, Neil Boyle, "Thoughts on American Statesmen." Selection, St. Ann's band. Valedictory, Thomas Fear, "Develop ment of Electric Power." Selection, St. Ann's band. Founder's Day address, Rear Admir al George Melviiie, of the United States navy, Washington, D. C. Awarding of diplomas, Prof. C. M. Crawford, principal of day school. Awarding of prizes, Prof. E. F. Han ion, principal of night school. Closing remarks by the chairman. Hon. George I). McCreary, of Philadel phia. Selection, St. Ann's band. THE HORSES. Coney, 2:02, is in training again this spring. Redimlu. 2:07*4, has been bred to Bingeu. There are about I,GOO entries for the Hartl'ord Futurity. Eighty-live 2:30 performers have sprung from Jay Bird. Kltie Powers, 2:08 V&. has paced 172 heats in standard time. Patsy K., 2:07 , /4, now the property of John Maguirc, New York, will be campaigned this season. Orrin ilickok is now working the pacing gelding Clipper. 2:00, which has been kept off the turf for almost two years through lameness. Dolly Bidwell, 2:0b 1 •_, winner of the SIO,OOO purse at Providence last Au gust. stands 15.2 and weighs 1,000 pounds. She will be campaigned this year. Beausant, the $17,000 green pacer, is to go back into the hopples again, lie lias a trial record of 2:07% as a three year-old and is said to be one of the handsomest horses in America. FRUITS AND FLOWERS. When a limb is cut from a tree, it should be as close to the body as possi ble. making the cut a smooth one. In purchasing trees select those that have good, healthy roots and plenty of them. The roots are the life of the tree. Small fruit culture will always be most successful on the intensive plan. Plant only a small area at a time and give the best culture. The garden should not only supply early vegetables, but what is needed all through the season, with a surplus to store away for winter. With apples for home use sot out enough varieties to keep up a constant succession from midsummer through autumn and winter and of long keepers to lust until small fruits come in. Bear, the 11,6 Kind Yen Have Always Bought Signature , si of Boars the g"' ll "'' CASTORTA. Bears the Til 6 Kind You Have Always Bought THE WAY TO GET RICH "THE EMPIRE OF BUSINESS," BY THE LITTLE EMPEROR HIMSELF. Do Into the Steel HiiMiiiesa While There IN n l linm-E to Defraud La bor—Every (I'arnegle) Library Should Have a Copy of the Hook. Mr. Andrew Carnegie's new book. 'The Empire of Business," is out, and liis publishers are sending to all news papers a large sheet of extracts with full permission to reprint. Here is a selection from the sample sheet: The trouble is that men are not paid at any tirm; the compensation proper to that time. All concerns necessarily keep iilk-d with orders, say, for six months in advance, and these orders are taken, of course, at prices prevailing when they are booked. This year's operations furnish perhaps the best illustration of the dilii culty. Steel rails at the end of last year for delivery this year were S2U a ton at the works. Of course the mills entered orders freely at this price and kept on entering them until the demand, growing unexpect edly great, carried prices up to $35 a ton. Now the various mills in America are compelled for the next six months or more to run upon orders which do not average s3l per ton at the seaboard and Pittsburg and, say, $34 at Chicago. Transportation, iron stone and prices of all kinds have ad vanced upon them in the meantime, and they must therefore run for the bulk of the year upon very small margins of prof it. Hut the men, noticing in the papers the "great boom in steel rails," very nat urally demand their share of the advance, and under our existing faulty arrange ments between capital and labor they have secured it. The employers therefore have grudgingly given what they know under proper arrangements they should not have been required to give, and there has been friction und still is dissatisfac tion upon the part of the employers. He verse this picture. The steel rail market falls again. The mills , have still six months' work at prices above the prevail ing market and can afford to pay men higher wages than the then existing state of the market would apparently justify; but, having just been amerced in extra payments for labor which they should not have paid, they naturally attempt to re duce wages us the market price of rails goes down, and there arises discontent among the men. and we have u repetition of the negotiations ami strikes which have characterized the beginning of this year. In other words, when the employer is going down the employee insists on going up and vice versa. What we must seek is a plan by which men will receive high wages when their employers are re ceiving high prices for the product and hence are making large prolits, and per contra, when the employers are receiving low prices for product and therefore small, if any, profits, the men will receive low wages. If this plan can be found, em ployers and employed will be "in the same boat," rejoicing together In their pros perity and calling into play their fortitude together in adversity. There will be no room for quarrels, and instead of a feel ing of antagonism there will be a feeling of partnership between employers and em ployed. There is a simple means of pro ducing this result, and to its general in troduction both employers and employed should steadily bend their energies. Wages should be based upon a sliding scale In proportion to the net prices re ceived for product month by month. It is impossible for capital to defraud labor un der a sliding scale. ! The foregoing is not reproduced for the purpose of controversy, but be cuuse of the bits of information it con i tains. Yet it may not be out of place !to off era few comments. In the first 1 place, it is agreed that the sliding scale, which Mr. Carnegie supports, is a fair way of arranging the wage settle, but the admission in the closing ! sentence of the extract quoted is sorne j what of a surprise, and very likely the I author didn't intend that it should he j so read. The natural inference is that it is not "impossible for capital to de fraud labor" in the absence of the sliding scale. Mr. Carnegie didn't intend that his hook should be a plea for labor. On the contrary, a careful reading of the 1 foregoing extract will show distinctly iiis Jjias the other way. Under comli | tions most unfavorable to the capital ist s, as shown by Mr. Carnegie in the example used, tlie employers are still able to run their mills at a margin of prolit. though the profit is not large— lin the millionaire author's eyes. But that there is plenty of money for the I employer in tlie steel business, not withstanding the avarice of the work ! ingmen, is shown by the fact that An | drew Carnegie is today rich enough to I write a book that is praised by the ! press, and we have the testimony of his publishers that every dollar of his I stupendous fortune is composed of his pickings from the fund representing j the value added to raw material by I labor. It must have been possible in | the days of Mr. Carnegie's business activity "for capital to defraud labor." Read what the prospectus of "The Empire of Business" says about the author's acquirement of great riches: I "The importance of Mr. Andrew Car ! nogie's book, 'The Empire of Business,' is perhaps best realized when we con sider his long experience as the most successful purely business man this i country lias ever known. Mr. Carnegie j created a business out of nothing. He I did not make his fortune by commis- I sion, as a banker, or by handling mer | chandise as a trader, but by manufac ' turing material taken out of the sur ! fnee of tlie earth. He never speculut ied in a share of railroad stock. He 1 owned a complete railroad, but built | expressly for the purpose of his own manufacturing industry. lie built ! mills, but never sold them. lie ere j ate m from Scranton, Wilkes-Harre and White Haven. For further information inquire of Ticket A (rents. KULLIN 11. WlLßUK.General Superintendent, 26 Cortlundt Street, New York City. CHAS. S. LEE, General Passenger A irent, 26 Cortlundt Street. New York City. G. J. GILDHOY, Division Superintendent, Hazleton, Pa. THE DELAWARE. SUSQUEHANNA AND SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD. Time table in effect March 10. 1901. Trains leave Drifton for Jed do. Eckley, Hazle Brook. Stockton, Beaver Meadow Head, Roun and Hazleton Junction at HOO a ni, daily except Sunday; and 7 07 a m, 2 38 pm, Sunday. Trains leave Drifton for Harwood, Cranberry, 1 omhicken and Derinirer at 600 a m, daily except Sunday; and 7 07 a m, 238 p m, Sun day. Trains leave Drifton for Oneida Junction Harwood Koad, Humboldt Road, Oneida and ■jheppton at 600 am, daily except Sun day; aud 7 07 a m, 2 38 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Harwood, Cranberry, Tomhlcken and Derinirer at 636 a m, daily except Sunday; and 8 63ain, 4 22pni Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida Junction, Harwood Hoad, Humboldt Head. Oneida and Sheppton at 6 32, 11 10 a in, 4 41 p m daily except Sunday; and 7 37 a m, 3 11 p ml Sunday. v ' Trains leave Derinirer for Tomhieken, Cran berry, Hai wood, Hazleton Junction and Roan at 6 exoept Sunday; and 337 a m, 60. pm. BundHy. Trams leave Sheppton for Oneida, Humboldt Koad, Harwood Koad, Oneida Junction. Hazle ton Junction and Roan at 7 11 am, 12 40, fi-fl p m, daily except Sunday; and 8 11 a ml 344 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Shoppton for Bearer Meadow A rl frV* Rzle Brook, Fckley, Jed.lo and Drifton at 5 20 p in. daily, except Sunday; and 8 11 a m, 3 44 p ni. Sunday. Trains leave Hnzletou Junction for Bonver Meadow Road, Stockton. Hazle Brook, Kcklcy Jeddo and Drifton at 54 p m, dally except Sunday: and 10 111 a in. 5 40 p m, Sunday! nil? .U 8 "I" 1 "!"?' ?' Hazleton Junction with electric cars for Hazleton, Jeanesville, Audi n. lied and other points on the Traction Com. piny B line. Train learlna Drifton at 600 a m makes connection at Deriniter with P. R. R. trains tor rre ' Bunbu Ti Uarrisburg and points M'TDBR 0. (UITB. Sut'etlntendaQt.