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FREELAND, PA., OCTOBER 10, 1002. What New Zealand Has Done. From the Church Review. Now Zealand has done tho most dar ing things ever attempted by any modern government. The New Zea landers claim that New Zoaland Is a country without strikes. Laborers and employers have their disputes there as elsewhere, but tho one cannot quit work, or the other lock out workmen, pending a settlement of tho dispute In courts. It is also a country without paupnrs or poorhouses, for Injured work meu are cared for by their employers. Tbe aged workman Is pensionod by the government as a soldier of industry worn out In tho ranks. The government owns not only the postal system, but tho express service, tbe telegraph lines and the railroads. Recently it has purchased a coal mine to supply its locomotives with fuel, and it intends to compete with private mines in the sale of coal to the public far enough to keep the prlco of coal down to a reasonable flguro. Pennypacker's Latest Blunder, I.ycoming county is one of the strongest, temperance sections in the state. At Montoursville the Quay candidate Sor governor made this re markable reference to ex-Mayor Man gel, of Williamsport, the most popular man In the county: "I understand that you have In this district a Prohibition candidate for congress who has been endorsed by the Democrats. Now, that seems re markable to me. What have the Pro hibitionists ever been able to do for the cause of temperance? They are too radical. They are fanatics. They open their mouths and swallow too much." In the campaign of 1898 one promi nent and consistent Independent Re publican editor wrote and talked for Jenks, a noble-minded reform states man, while those who snould have joined lrim went fiddling after Swal low. There will be no such blunder this year. Over one hundred thousand Republicans ar-> enlisted for the war against the machine. They mean to hit the mark this time. The poll parrot candidate for gov ernor reminds one of his hapless coun terpart that escaped his cage and had an argument with the neighbor's dog. As he sat perched on the top of a shut ter, with scarcely any feathers left, he scratched his bald head and screeched: "I know what's the matter with me; I talk too much, I do." "I don't understand that man Penny packer; he is a riddle to me," Indig nantly exclaimed a leading Philadel phia editor recently. Just so. The Quay candidate has lost a multitude of friends within the past three months. He stands hopelessly self-condemned. The Quay machine lie factory has given out figures of a pretended "pre liminary canvass'' that even the light ning calculators laugh at. Andrews and Cooper are old hands at cooking tip goose food. All hands are badly scared. It has bem a whirlwind tour with the Democratic candidates, sure enough, a Hurricane of popular enthusi asm. The people mean to smash •janglsm in Pennsylvania politics this year for good. An anti-machine majority In the leg islature is now almost assured. I'ush the battle for reform In every disfict und the victory will he won. As a "stumper" Pennypacker makes the boys tired. His heavy-weight speeches make no voles. STRENGTH IN SOME FORM. Tbe Quality Above All Else That Woman Admires In Man. Women abhor cowards and still more sneaks, though I regret to say they often endure cads In away that belles their intelligence and good taste. They have a quite pathetic desire to look up to men, to feel men their superiors In strength of body and of mind, in calm ness of Judgment and clearness of In tellect. And it Is Indeed a pity that men so often seem to go out of their way to destroy their most cherished illusions. Above everything a woman admires strength in a man. It may be strength of body—she will worship a Hercules with the brain of a guineu pig. It may be strength of intellect- she will adore a savant with the body of a gibbon monkey. It may be strength of char acter—she will break her heart for a politician or a financier who is un swervingly wrapped up in dreams of personal advancement, and who pos sesses no more heart than an oyster. But strength In some form she craves unceasingly. It is a hereditarj' In stinct that has been bequeathed to her through Eve's first disappointment when Adam was tried In the balnnce and found wanting. Woman, secretly conscious of her own physical weak ness and lack of Intellectual strength, demands strength from man to make up for her own deficiencies. Even the strongest women, strong in body and mind, well balanced as Athene herself, though they may shield and protect the weakness of the men they love and stoop 10 help them, will never do so without a secret feeling of contempt which is destruction of all ideals. Man, in spite of that deplorable start made by Adam, was Intended to be woman's protector and refuge from nil hurni, upon whom she could lean and rely In every event of life's pilgrimage, and when the roles are reversed, as they often so unfortunately are, It Is a bad thing both for man and woman. Strength, however, is what women love In men.—Lady Colin Campbell. PRECOCIOUS AUTHORS. Saccensful Playn That Were Written by DOJN In Their Teenn. Wus a successful play ever written by a boy of fourteen? asks a corre spondent. Yes. This seeming miracle has happened at least three times. The best known example of the precocious playwright is the celebrated Lope de la Vega, the most prolific dramatist known to history. He produced his first play, a comedy, entitled "La Pas toral de Jacinto," before he had com pleted his fourteenth year, and this wus considered such a murvelous per formance that he Is known to this day In Spanish literature as "the Prodigy of Nature." Another Spaniard and con temporary of La Vega, Pedro*Calde ron, wrote his first play when he wus thirteen. Metastasio wrote his tragedy "Glustlno" and had It produced when he was fourteen 011 the stage at Bo logna. Of English playwrights Douglas Jer rold, the fumous uuthor of "Black Eyed Susan," also furnishes an answer to the question. In 1818, before he had completed his fifteenth year, he wrote a very well known fnrce entitled "More Frightened Than Hurt." It was very successful on the English stage, and the French considered It good enough to steal. Curiously enough, this French translation was retrans lated into English and again produced on the English boards under the title of "Fighting by Proxy." Another very remarkable instance of a different sort of precocity was that of William Hen ry Ireland, who when he was about fifteen actually produced some plays which he attributed to Shakespeare and which, although afterwurd proved to be forgeries, were accepted by the experts of the time as geuulue.—Pear son's Weekly. Sympathetic. Recently u lithographic llrin received a circular announcing the death of the head of a well known business house. In reply they wrote: "We regret to learn the loss sus tained by your Arm in the death of Mr. and heg to express our heart felt sympathy. "We notice your clrculur is printed by Messrs. . We are conhdeiit that had you asked us we could have quoted you cheaper and better than any other firm In the market, and In the event of a future bereuvement we hope you will ufford us nu opportu nity of making you nu offer."—lxiudon Tlt-BltS. Don't Be Foollnli. Look at your friends and acquaint ances. You see them deliberately act ing the fool every day. Possibly you can look your friends over with less prejudice than you can look yourself over. Are you acting the fool and causing yourself unnecessary annoy ance? There are so many foolish peo ple in the world that you often find startling things in looking yourself over with candor and fairness. —Atch- ison Globe. DreatlilriK of Innecta. Insects generally breathe through special pores in various parts of their IKHIIOS, and if these pores are closed by oil they are suffocated. Any one may tost this by dropping sweet oil on the thorax or back of a wasp. It very soon dies. For this reason oil has been found one of the best things to use for the destruction of insects. Strictly IltmlncaH. "Have you observed that man who has been abusing you?" "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum plncidly. "I've been watching him with a great deal of Interest. If I wanted anybody abused, I don't know but I should hire him In preference to anybody I know of."—Washington Star. BY THE LITTLE ONES. Humorona SuylnuN by the Hlnlng SllteN of Humanity. Mnmma—Willie, I didn't give you permission to play In the street today. Willie —I know you didn't, mamma, but I saved part of the permission you gave me yesterday. Dorothy, aged six, was watching the kettle cover rise and fall while the kettle at the same time emitted tiny puffs oNrtstenin. Finally she called out: "9h, mamma, come here quick! One of the kettles has got the asth ma !" Mamma—Tommy, I do wish you would try to act like a gentleman. Tommy (aged five)—l do try, mamma. Mamma—But you don't succeed very well. Tommy—Well, I can't help It, mamma. 1 suppose 1 take after you. Little Harry, agod four, had just fallen from a chair 011 which he had beeif-stnndlng. • "I told you to keep off that chair or you would fall," said his mother reprovingly. "Well, it was an accident," replied Ilarry. "I didn't mean to mind you." Convernntton Maker. "I don't know what the trouble Is," said the hostess In a tone of great an noyance. "My guests seem very dis tant nnd unsocial. I wish I could think of some way to start them talking to one nnother." "That's very easily done," answered Miss Cayenne. "Is there a musician present?" "Yes." "Get him to play or sing something." —Washington Star. Goat Wanted. Wifey (who is doing her own cook ing now)—l can't seem to make little enough of anything. I wish some poor hungry creature had what we have left every day. Hubby (who hasn't much appetite lately)— Yes, we ought to keep a goat. They say a goat can eat anything.— Philadelphia Bulletin. I.OMH ami Gain. ( Mrs. Blinks—Uh, John, I've lost my diamond ring somewhere. Blinks—Yes, I know you did. Mr.^Blinks—Why, how did you know It? Blinks—l found It In my trousers pocket at the same time 1 discovered that I had lost s3.—Chicago News. True Courage. Phyllis—Yes, lie was paying atten tion to her quite n long time. Blanche—Perhaps he hadn't the cour age to propose. Phyllis—Oh, I don't know. Perhaps he had the courage not to propose.— Brooklyn Life. Ain't No Snob Thing. "What we need most In this coun try," said the political reformer, "is an honest count." "They ain't no Buch thing," declared Mr. Nurltcli. "I know all about 'em, for my daughter married one."—Philadel phia Press. The Climber,. "Can't you make fifteen or twenty words out of that, Henrietta?" asked Mrs. Parvenu as her daughter wus writing a telegram. "I don't want the clerk to think we can't afford to send more than ten words."—Chicago Post. Why She Cnmc. Young Husband (to wife)— Didn't I telegraph you not to bring your mother with you? Young Wlfo I know; that's what she wants to see you about. She read the telegram!— St. lands Mirror. A Night Off. "Some one took two of my chickens last utght. Was It you, Sambo?" " 'Deed It wasn't, sur. Las' night was Friday night. I Is superstitious. I never took nothing on Friday nights, Bur."—Youkrrs Statesman. Concerning, Length. "Have you been married long?" usk ed the lady who was making conversa tion of the six footer. "Just as long as I am now," he re plied.—Ohio State Journal. Po.Mlhly, "I told him he was false; I told him to his teeth!" "But whnt good did that do? Maybe Ids teeth were false too."—Chicago Tribune. Not a Fnenlty. She—Have you noticed thnt I have a faculty for falling In love? He—Faculty? No. Flcklety.—Yale Record. f AN OXFORD CUSTOM. Methods That En force an Elaborate System of Bookkeeping:. An American student ut Oxford says that 111 certain of the university col leges a man may go for dessert to tho hall store—that Is, tho room below the dining "hall," where the fancy grocer ies of the college ure displayed for sale. There are oranges from Florida nnd Tangier, apples from New England, flgs und dates from the Levant, prunes from Italy, candled apricots from France nnd English hothouse grapes. All are spread upon the table like a gorgeous Venetian picture, but at ei ther end of the room stand two Oxford "scouts" with account books In their bands. A innn takes a tangerine and makes a little gesture toward the scout, who silently records, "Brown, orange, two pence," and looks up to catch the next Item. Some one asks, "How much are chocolate creams, Higglns?" "Three ha'pence for four, sir," and the student urges three neighbors to share his pennyworth. The minuteness of this bookkeeping Is characteristic of precise English ways. The weekly bills always bear a charge of twopence for salt nnd the like, nnd once, when I had not ordered anything for the day, there was an un specified charge of a penny In the breakfast column. 1 asked the butler what It meant. lie looked at me hor rified. "Why, sir, thnt Is to keep your name on the books!" I asked If Bueh elaborate bookkeep ing were not very expensive. "In America," I said, "we should lump the charges nnd devote the money suved to hiring a better cook." lie explained that it always had been managed so. Thnt was sufficient. —Youth's Companion. The Iron Mnl<len. The Iron maiden Is a terror Inspir ing torture Instrument made of strong wood coated with iron. It opens with two doors to allow the prisoner to be placed Inside. The entire Interior Is fitted with long, sharp Iron spikes, BO thnt when the doors are pressed to these sharp prongs force their way Into vnrlous portions of the victim's body. Two enter his eyes, others pierce his chest nnd. In fact, Impale him alive In such n manner that he dies In the most agonizing torture. Persons were condemned to death by the embraces of the Iron maiden for plots against the governing powers, parricide, religious unbelief nnd murder. The date of this Instrument is the fifteenth century. It is believed that the Iron maiden Is purely and peculiar ly a relic of old Nuremberg, ns at that date we do not rend of It anywhere else, while the annals of that town con tain many allusions to Its terrors. HI. First Taste of Discipline. Admiral Jouctt, probnbly one of the Jolliost sendogs our nnvy ever knew, once told this amusing story of his early days as a cadet: "I was a sociable youngster," he says, "and when 1 went to my first as signment, the Independence, and saw the stars and stripes floating over It I remembered my mother had taught me that my first duty was to the Hag, so I attempted some conversation on this line with the executive officer who had received me when 1 came on hoard nnd who was one of the strictest disci plinarians In the navy of that day. " 'Silence, sir!' he roared at my first question. Ills face red with anger. 'Si lence, sir! Wb i gave you permission to speak V Let me hear only six words from you. sir, while you are on this ship—"port," "starboard," "yes, sir," and "no, sir."' "And this was my first discipline iu the navy." Crowns by Wholesale. It Is told of one of the ancient kings of Egypt that his coronation proces sion occupied a whole day in passing through the city of Alexandria and that 3,200 crowns of gold were carried by the servants. One crown was three feet in height and twenty-four feet in circuinference. There were also car ried in the procession sixty-four suits of golden aruior, two boots of gold four nnd a half feet in length, twelve golden basins, ten large vases of per fumes for the baths, twelve ewers, fifty dishes and a large number of tables—all of gold. Twenty-three of the 3,200 crowns were valued at £334,- 400, nnd it Is not surprising thnt the procession was guarded by 00,000 sol diers.—St. James Gazette. A Joker Anion*? Birds. The bluejny is a practical Joker. It is his habit to conceal himself in a mass of leaves near the spot where small birds are accustomed to gather nnd when they are enjoying them selves in their own fashion to sud denly frighten them almost to death by screaming out like a hawk. Of course they scatter in every direction, and when they do so the mischievous rascal gives vent to a cackle that sounds very much like a laugh. Fatal Worry. Hewitt—lt Is worry, uot work, thnt kills. Jewett—That's so. especially when a fellow worries himself to denth be cause he cannot get work.—Brooklyn Lire. Oflf and On. "How will you have your hair cut?" queried the talkative barber. "Off!" snapped the disagreeable pa tron. And the barber cut on.—Boston Globe. •Twn Artificial. Ella—What would you do if you hnd my head of hair? Stella—Take it back nnd exchange it. —New York Tress. >XO<XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | Fall Stocks | X are now X | Ready for Your Inspection. £ f: Complete Lines j; Fall Hats and Caps, 9 X X 9 Underwear and Hosiery, 5S X S? Furnishings and Neckwear. X | Shoes for Men, Women, Boys f; and Girls at Very p p Lowest Prices. | x 9 | McMenamin's Gents' Furnishing, g Hat and Shoe Store. | X South Centre Street. 5* i i >xo<xxxxxxxxxxxxx:xxxxxx date's Taiiis. A ride in the open, For Health, For Pleasure, For Business.; You should ride a Bicycle, RAMBLER. $35 to SOS. The 1902 Models Bristle With New Ideas. CaMEiaitee. A complete stock al ways on hand. For Sale By lair D. Daris, Freeland. RAILROAD TIMETABLES LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD. May 18. 1902. j AIIKANOK.MF.NT OF PABHENGKK TKAINB. LEAVE PRE ELAND. ; 0 12 n m lor Weutherly, Munch Chunk Alluntown, Bethlehem, Euston, Phila delphia and New York. ! 7 29 a in for Sandy Hun, White Huven, Wilkes-Barre, Pittstoii and Scrunton. 8 15 a in for Huzleton, Weathcrly. Mauch Chunk. Allontown, Delhlchcin. Easton, Philadelphia, New York, Dcluuo and Pottsvillo. 9 58 a m for Ha/.leton, Delano, Mahanoy City, Mienimdoah and Mt. Carmid. 1 1 45 a in for Weutherly, Mauch Chunk, Al lontown, lleihleiieni. Euston, Phila delphia, New York, Huzleton, Delano, Mahanoy City, Shenandoah and Mt. Carmel. I 1141 a in for White Haven, Wilkcs-Barrc, Scranton and the West. 4 44 P iu for Woatherly, Mauch ('hunk, Al lentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Philadel phia, New York, Huzleton, Deluno Mahanoy City, Shenandoah. Mt. Carme. and Pottsville. 0 35 P ui for Sandy Hun, White Haven, Wilkes-liurre, Scranton and all points West. 7 29 p ni for Hazluton. ARRIVE AT FREE LAND. 7 29 a tn from Pottsville, Deluno and Haz- I leton. 9 12 a in from New York. Philadelphia, Eas ton. Itef hlcheiu, Allontown. Mauch Chunk, Weutherly, Huzleton, Mahanoy City, Shenandoah and Mt. Carinel 9 58 a ui from Scranton, Wilkes-Harro and White Haven. 1141a m from Pottsville. Mt. Carinel, Shen andoah, Mahanoy City, Delano and 12 35 pni from New York, Philadelphia, Euston, Hethlehem, Allontown, Mauch Chunk and Weutherly. 4 44 p m from Scranton, Wilkes-Darre and White Haven. 0 35 Ji m from New York, Philadelphia, Euston, Hethlehem Allontown. Muueh Chunk, Woatherly, Mt. Carmel, She lan doah, Mahanoy City, Delano and H izle ton. 7 29 P ni from Scranton, Wllkes-Barre and White Haven. For further information inquire of Tickot A fronts. ROLLIN H. WILBUR, General Superintendent, 20 Cortlandt Street, New York City. CHAS. S. LEE, General Passcnircr Airent, 20 Cortlandt Street, New York City. (1. J. GILDKOY, Division Superintendent, Hazloton, Pa. THE DELAWAKK, SUSQUEHANNA AND SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD. Time table in effect May 19.1901. Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo, Eckloy, Hazle lirnok, Stockton, Beaver Meadow Road, Roan and Hazloton Junction at fl 00 a m, dally oAeept Sunday; and 7 07 a ra, 2 38 p m, Sunday. Trains leavo Drifton for Oneida Junotlou, Marwood Road, Humboldt Road, Oneida and Slieppton at 00 am, daily except Sun day: and 7 07 a m, 2 :W p m, Sunday. Trains leave Hazloton Junction for Oneida Junction, Harwood Road, Humboldt Road. Oneida and Shoppton at 0 112, 11 10 a m, 4 41 p m daily except Sunday; and 7 37 a m, 3 11 d in* Bunday. Trains leave Deringer for Tomhicken, Cran berry, Haiwood, Hazloton Junction and Roan at. 500 n rr, daily except Sunday; and 337 H m, 5 07 pm, Sunday. Train, leave ancppton for Heaver Meadow Hoad, Stockton. Hazle Brook, Eckley, Jeddo and Drifton at 5 ai p m, daily, except Sunday: and 8 11 a ni, 3 44 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Huzleton Junction for Beaver Meadow Road, Stockton. Hazle Brook, Ecktey, Jeddo and Drifton at 549 p m, daily, except Sunday; and 10 10 a m, 6 40 p m, Sunday. All trams connect at Hazloton Junction with electric cars for Hazleton, Jeanoevtlle, Audon rled and other points on the Traction Com pany's liw^ Fromptly Done at the Tribune Uffloe.
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