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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
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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.
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LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.
May 18 1902.
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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
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