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Make all money orders, check*, etc., payable to , the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. FREELAND. l'A.. JUNE 4, lUO2. Peril of the Miners' Union. From Yesterday's Phlla. North American. The building of stockade fortifications j around mine properties, the enlistment j of fighting men and the hiring of mer- < cenaries arc not necessarily evidences 1 that the anthracite mine operators have reason to fear attacks upon the collier- j ' ies by strikers. That they desire to j , create such an impression there is no i doubt, and when they are fully prepared for trouble it will not be their fault if | , trouble does not come. It is easy to ' i hire men to instigate disorder, and , j there is always the possibility of foolish | , outbreaks by the more ignorant and ex citable strikers, especially if the leaders 1 ' cannot keep them away from saloons. The operators have declared their 1 purpose to destroy the miners' union. They have unlimited funds with which to buy brains and brute force, and they are not hampered by scruples about using their resources. , At Wilkesbarre two carloads of re peating shotguns and buckshot cart ridges have been distributed to the mer cenaries of the coal barons. It is ox plained that buckshot cartridges have been provided instead of rille bullets be cause the intention Is to "maim rathor than kill." Most humane and consider ate indeed aro these gentle opponents of organized labor. A riot gun loaded with buckshot is one of the deadliest weapons known. It is preferred to a Mauser by peace officers and express messengers in the Southwest who have to deal with desperate outlaws. Rut the fortifications and the shotguns will bo of no avail to break up the union if the miners keep their wits about them and refuse to be inveigled into violence. Public opinion is more potent than buckshot in such a contest as they are engaged in. Public sympathy is their sword and buckler; if they throw It away they will stand naked and unarm ed before the riot guns of the Coal Trust. Let the miners take warning from the military preparations made by the de clared enemies of organized labor, and under no provocation permit themselves to bo lured Into physical combat. Any outbreak of violence, no matter how it i begins or who starts it, will bo cunning ly made to count against them. If any among them counsels violence or seoks to iuflame thoir passions, let them regard and treat him as a hired emis sary of the enemy. If he be merely a fool or a man crazed with alcohol, they must restrain him and see that ho docs no harm. John Mitchell and his colleagues aro keenly aware of the danger here pointed out, and they will give to the men tin same advice that the North American gives. Let the miners be loyal in thought and deed to their leaders and constitute themselves the vigilant guardians of the public peace, and the railroads cannot whip them. Both factions of the Republican party I are claiming control of the coming! state convention, which will name can didates for several high offices. As the so-called insurgents have been swal- I lowed by one or tlio other faction, and j the fight is. nothing more than a scram- I ble for spoils between two Republican | machines, it should make no difference to the honest citizen which side wins. Botn are corrupt and unscrupulous and a oi.sgraco to the state and to the Re publican party. I IN ST. PAUL'S! | LOFT & I % By Epes W. Sargent 2 4 Copyright, 11103, by the X T H. 8. McCluro Company ♦ ♦ :■♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ On Easter Sunday morning for the first time St. Paul's congregation was to occupy its new church. It was not an elaborate edifice, but with its quaint English effects, its huge overhanging rafters, its deep set windows and its dim, quietly furnished chancel it was a far cry from the town hall, where for several years the band of worshipers had met. So the happy occasion was to he duly celebrated, and the young wo men of the altar guild had taxed their individual aud collective ingenuity—to say nothing of pluses—in order to beau tify the chancel witti flowers. Philip Harrison, pausing in the door way, nodded his head approvingly. "The girls have done well, and this will give just the correct finishing touch to the decorations," he mur mured as he stalked down the center aisle, carrying a pure white dove, with outstretched wings. Ills sister, who was the president of the altar guild, had pressed him into service, and he was to suspend the bird just above the tectum. lie was glad that the matter had slipped her mind until after all the girls had gone, for since a certain night when Mildred Allen and he had parted In bitterness he had rather avoided the circle of young people who rallied round his sister in her work for St. Paul's. Philip climbed up a tall ladder and had wired the dove to the rafter above the lecturn when suddenly from be neath his feet slipped the ladder, fall ing with a crash among the choir stalls. Fortunately the young man had a stout grip on the polished oak beam, and before the noise died away he had swung himself up and from his poreh full twenty feet above the chancel sur veyed the broken ladder with a rueful expression. Suddenly he removed his gaze from the ladder and glanced around with an uneasy sense that some one was watch ing him. This was impossible, for the church had been absolutely empty when he entered it. Ho turned cau tiously on his perch and caught a smothered exclamation. Then lie saw not ten feet away a tousled golden head and a pretty face, in which amusement and fright mingled. The girl was peering from a loft above the recess near the chancel left by the builders for the eventual accommoda tion of a pipe organ. "Well, Milly, it looks as if you were in a hole too." She ignored both tlio speech aud the chuckle which followed it. "I do not see," she replied In icy tones, "how my predicament can be of the least interest to Mr. Harrison." Philip, now quite secure on the broad beam, hugged his knees and looked at her entreatingly. "Come, now, Milly, isn't that a bit strong to the man you were practically engaged to less than a week ago?" "It Is hard t® bo reminded of the fol lies of one's youth," she confided to the paschal lamb which stood out in hold relief back of the altar to her right. "One is not to blame, however, for mistaking a flirt for a gentleman." "I'm not a flirt," answered Philip hotly, and in his excitement he almost slipped off the beam. Mildred tried hard not to smile and continued to gaze at the lamb. "Isn't it odd," she continued, "how some persons will fib even in church?" The lamb wisely kept out of the dis cussion, but young Harrison answered for him. "Milly, won't you please listen? I never tared a rap for Jennie Adams, honestly." "Then," she retorted, suddenly for getting tlio lamb, "why did you send her those perfectly lovely violets?" A great light came to Philip. "Why, those were a philopena pres ent. Didn't she tell you?" "That is a very ancient excuse for bestowing violets on a gir! to whom you are not engaged. You might at least have Informed me of your inten tions beforehand. Then, you see, 1 shouldn't have cared, and perhaps I might have warned you"—this just a trifle viciously—"that a girl with Jen nie's sallow complexion docs not look well wearing violets. Crimson carna tions would have been better." "Well, I will ask you next time." Then, catching sight of more thunder clouds gathering, he added hastily, "1 mean there will be no chance of its ever happening again if you will for give me." Ilis contrition seemed genuine. More over, she was uncomfortable, and the shadows were falling unpleasantly fast. "Perhaps I will if—you will get me out of this." "llow did you get in?" he questioned. "I was working on the ladder, and my curiosity led me to see what this cubby hole was for, and then I caught my heel in a knothole and couldn't get the thing loose until after the girls left. They did not ntiss me, and—and —then 1 saw you and thought I'd wait until you got out of the way"— "Thank you." It was on his brow that the stormclouds now gathered. "I hail a vague idea that you were I rather glad to see me and that this j miserable misunderstanding was to he I forgotten." "Oh, then you think a girl is to he bullied; that because I could not help myself I'd have to he pleasant. Well, let me inform you that I'd rather stay hero all night than accept a favor of you, Mr. Harrison." She did not mean a word she said, hut when a girl has been nursing a wrong, real or Imagine ry, for one good long week lier lieart becomes not only rebellious, but utterly unreasonable. Without a word Philip rose steadily to his feet and balanced his way along the beam to the wall. She held her breath. He might fall. lie might— "Where are you going?" she cried tremulously. "Home," he answered shortly. "Oh, Phil, don't—leave—me—alone in the dark!" she implored. "Why not? You have distinctly said you waited to get rid of me. You evi dently hate the sight of me." "Oh, but that was before the ladder fell. I mean—oh, please, please come back," she entreated. "Will you make up this wretched quarrel and start all over again?" "Never!" "Then goodby!" And he resumed his progress. "You will be killed!" she warned him. "It doesn't matter now," he answer ed easily. She know he did not mean it and that purposely he let his foot slip while he clutched at the rafter, but she was too proud and angry to speak. Silently she watched him make his way along the beam that topped the side wall, and so to the rear of the church. Here a storm door, built inside, made a platform ten feet from the beams. He carefully swung himself down, then dropped from the platform to the floor. Next slie saw him come up the aisle to the chancel. Her heart beat fast. What would he do? She would never pay the price he demanded for her deliverance. She did hate to be bullied. She had never thought Philip could be such a bully Yes, that was the very word. In the dusk she could see him work tag over the ladder. Finally he raised h to the wall and placed it securely with in her reach. "l'ou can come down now," he said curtly as ho turned his back, "but it you will wait a minute or two I will be outside the building, nnd you will be safe from annoyance." He walked toward the rear of the church. A quick gasp followed him through the gathering shadows; then as lie neared the door he heard the rus tle of feminine skirts, and a voice called entreatingly: "Phil, dear Phil, wait just a mo ment." He turned. A whirlwind of golden hair, warm, tremulous lips and couxing arms threw itself into his embrace. "Phil, dear, I thought you were going to force me to be good and make up. If you had, I'd hated you, but"— "And now?" What followed only the paschal lamb, smiling benevolently from his post above the altar, could tell. And he smiled in just the same set way two months later when Philip and Mildred walked down the aisle, With Mildred's white gloved finger marking the page: "The Form of Solemnization of Mat rimony." Gln<lMtone nnil Irvlnpr. # Sir. Gladstone was a great admirer of and never missed an opportunity of seeing Irving in one of his great char acters. It chanced that after being present at the first night of "Havens wood," presented in September, IS'JO, I had occasion to post oil' to Edinburgh to chronicle the proceedings in the penultimate Midlothian campaign. At dinner 011 the night of my arrival I had the good fortune to find myself seated next to Sir. Gladstone, says a writer in Chambers' Journal. It was a time of great storm and stress in the political world. Sir. Glad stone was loading the nttack upon the government which resulted in its de feat at the general election two years later. When he heard that I had been at the first night of "Ravenswood," all other topics were set aside. He over whelmed me with a torrent of ques tions as to how Irving had worked out particular episodes. I remembered he was particularly anxious to know how the final scene, where the hat of the drowned Ravens wood is found forlorn 011 the sands, was staged. He told me that of all Scott's novels he most admired "The Bride of Lammermoor." Toads as Pets. A lady who lives near me has a toad so well trained that it Jumps upon Iter lap and then upon a table near her in order to catch flies. Another lady has tree toads as pets. They have the free dom of the house and go about bunting tiles. Whenever they wish to go out on the porch they hop close to the door and trill. My friend opens the door, and out they go. When they wish to return, they approach the door and make the same noise to ask for ad mittance. They enjoy life indoors and always eouie hack into the house of their own accord. They have a basin of sand for their bed and a large pan of water for their bathtub. They are very orderly and clean. When they wish to sleep, they go to their basin of sand, and when to wash they go to their pan of water for a bath. They hibernate in the house, burying them selves in the basin of sand and remain ing in it during the winter. Good 11 ousekcepiug. Sensible Selfishness. When you are paid off Saturday night, why not use the money in add ing to your own comfort? Why divide it among a lot of people who care noth ing for you and who live easier than you do? Why play the slot machines, with three chances out of four against you? Why pay a high price for liquor which actually harms you? A lot of things around your home neeil repairs, or, if you are a bachelor, make your room more comfortable. Sensible selfishness Is a good thing. If you have money to give away, give It to your wife or children or keep it yourself.—Atchison Globe. MISTAKE SOMEWHERE. Why the Colonel Stooped Ills Score of Chinamen ut Five. "I had read," said the colonel as he was relating some of his experiences in China, "that if a person fell into the water no one could pull him out, hold ing that his fulling in was a decree of Providence that must not be interfered With. "One day on one of the canals I stumbled and went overboard, and, al though there were twelve hoatmen, not one of them would extend me a hand. After a close shave, as I cannot swim, I got aboard again, and as soon as I recovered my breath I yelled at the boss boatman: " 'You infernal scoundrel, but why didn't you help me out?' " 'lt was your fate to fall in,' he calmly replied. " 'And it's your fate to take a good licking!' I said as I went for him. "When I had finished him off. I took another, nnd I was just polishing off my fifth victim when the sixth man halted me to say: " 'There seems to be a mistake here. We are taught that if a person falls into the water ho must save himself or drown, but we are not taught that if he does save himself he is at liberty to lick half of China in revenge.' "I thought his point well taken," laughed the colonel, "and I stopped my score at five nnd went down to change into dry clothes."-Boston Globe. Apple TPPP* For Ileanty NIl Fruit. Apple trees are so beautiful, even when bare of bloom and fruit, that they should be grown in pleasure gar dens, like lilacs and laburnums. Ten nyson speaks of orchard lawns, nnd there Is no reason except bad taste why tlicy should not have a real exist ence. The gloom of the fir tree, mag nitlcont no doubt in its own northern forest, Is mere incongruous dreariness when it is dotted abopt a suburban lawn. Nothing will thrive under it. and often It will not thrive itself, but the apple, with all the associated beau ty of the countryside, gives us fruit and blossom and grateful shade. In the grass under It will grow daffodils, columbines, Irises nnd many other plants, or it may be trained as a hedge to divide one part of the garden from another and with all these uses may still produce great crops of fruit. It would be a pleasant task for the sub urban gardener with his half acre of ground to grow three or four choice apple trees with the care that others give to roses.—London Speaker. Tlie I'nlnte Lock. A woman who had solved the servant girl question by Importing a buxom young colored girl from Virginia went out to give her orders for dinner one day and was astounded to see the ne gro sitting 011 the tloor with her hair, or wool, standing out around her head in a black and shiny nimbus. Not hearing the approach of the mistress, the servant went 011 with her occupa tion, which was pulling lirst one curly lock nnd then another in away that suggested that she had either lost a fortune or "got religion." The madam stared a moment and then exclaimed: "For goodness' sake, Betty, what are you doing7" The maid hurriedly scrambled to her feet and answered: "Oh, nothin', ma'am. I'ze got a sore throat and was just tryin' to And the lock what would pull mah palate up and euro the tickle."—New York Times. Saxony's Forests. Saxony possesses one of the best regulated systems of forestry in the world. The forests of Saxony serve not only the purpose of giving the state a substantial annual revenue, but they add a thousandfold to the scenery of the country, thus attracting many tour ists into those parts every summer. The most important feature of the for ests, however, is the fact that they keep forever alive the fountains of wa ter which spring from the highlands of the Erzgebirge and Saxon Switzer land. The forests furnish the mate rial and the water the motive power to hundreds of pulp, paper and saw mills, which, in turn, give employment to thousands of men, women and chil dren. MIK lit llnve Been Wor*e. "Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Torkins, "that horse you bet 011" "There's 110 need cf bringing the mat ter up. I know that my judgment was very bad and all that." "Oh, I wouldn't take it to heart! The horse might have been beaten worse. You must give him credit for getting around ahead of tin? horses that were entered for the following race."—Wash ington Star. Pay Your Debts. "No, sir," declared Gazzen as he wynyed up to his subject, "you'll never be happy so long us you are in debt. I'ay your debts, Sway back, pay your debts." "But I have 110 money," said Sway back. "Then borrow Free Press. Truth'* Chance*. Wllllnm—The idea of his calling his book a historical novel! It doesn't agree with history even In the slight est particular. Frederick—And so may be quite true. —Boston Transcript. CASTOR i A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Watch the (Jute on your paper. 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LEAVE FKEELANJ). 6 12 ii m for Weatherly, Munch Chunk Allen town, Bethlehem, Eustou, Phila delphia and New York. 7 34 u in for Bandy Hun, White Haven, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston and Scran ton. 8 15 a m for Hazleton, Weatherly, Mauch Chunk. Allentown, Bethlehem. Easton, Philadelphia, New York, Deluuo and Pottsvllle. 9 30 n in for Hazleton, Delano, Mahanoy City, Shenandoiih aad Mt. i nrinel. 1 1 45 a in for Weatherly, Muueh Chunk, Al lentown, Itethlehem, Easton, Pliila delphiti. New York, Huzlctou, Delano, Mahanoy City, Shenandoah and Mt. Carmel. 1141 a in for White Haven, Wilkes-Barre, Seranton and the West. 4 44 Pin for Weatherly, Mauch Chunk, Al lentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Philadel phia, New York, Huzletoti, Delano, Mahanoy City, Shenandoah. Mt. Carmel and Pottsviile. 0 35 P in for Sandy Hun, White Haven, Wilkes-Barre, Seranton aud all points West. 7 29 pin for Hazleton. AKHIVE AT KREELAND. 7 34 a m from Pottsviile, Delano and Haz leton. 9 12 am from New York, Philadelphia, Eas ton. Bethlehem, Allentown, Maueh Chunk. Weatherly, Hazleton, Mahanoy City, Shenandoah and Mt. Carmel 9 30 am from Seranton, Wilkes-Barre and White Haven. 1 1 5 1 a in from Pottsviile, Mt. Carmel, Shon andoah, Mahanoy City, Delano and Hazleton. 12 35 P ui from New York. Philadelphia, Easton, Bethlehem, Allentown, Mauch Chunk and Weatherly. 4 44 |> m from Scrantou, Wilkes-Barre and White Haven. 0 35 P ni from New York, Philadelphia, Easton, Bethlehem Allentown, Mauch Chunk, Weatherly, Mt. Carmel, Shenan doah, Mahanoy City, Dcluuo and Hazlo ton. 7 29 from Seranton, Wilkes-Barre and For further information inquire of Ticket A Rents. KOLLIN n.WI LBUK. General Superintendent, 20 Cortlandt Street, New York City. CHAB. 8. LEE. General Passcuircr Apent., 20 Cortlandt Street, New York City. G. J. GILDKOY, Division Superintendent, Hazleton, Pa. THE DELAWARE, SUSQUEHANNA AND SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD. Time table in effect May 10, 1001. Trains leave Drlfton for Jeddo, Eckley, Hazle brook, Stockton, Beaver Meadow Itoad, Roan and Hazleton Junction at 000 a m, daily except Sunday; and 7 07 a in, 2 38 p m, Sunday Trains leave Drlfton for Oneida Junction' Garwood Head, Humboldt Head, Oneida and' Sheppton at 600 a m, daily except Sun dav: and 7 07 a m, 2 38 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida Junction, Ha-rwood Road, Humboldtaßoad Oneida and Sheppton at 8 32,11 10 am,441 pm' daily except Sunday; and 737 a m, 311 Dm' Sunday. ' Trains leave Drrimrer for Tomhicken, Cran berry, Hai wood, Hazleton Junction un( j K ottn at BW n daily except Sunday; ana 337 i m, 5 07 p m, Sunday. Train" leave aneppton for Beaver Meadow Hoid, Stockton. Hazle Brook, Eckley, Jeddo and Lrifton at 5 20 p m, daily, except Sunday: a'id 8 11 a m, 3 44 p m. Sunday.' Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Beaver Meadow itoad, Stockton, Hazle Brook, Ecklev Jeddo and Drlfton at 6 4V) p m, dailv except Sunday; and 1010 am,f>4o pm, Sunday All trains connect at Hazleton Junction with electric ears for Hazleton, Jeanosville, Auden ried and other points on the Traction Com pany's line w 111 i rTTHBB O SMITH IPIRXL4T X XTGr Promptly Done at the Tribuue Office,
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