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Fair play., 1889-08-03

ZINA PIrCHER KING, a lawyer and real
estate dealer of Ann Arbor, Mich, who
for twenty years has been treasur er of
the fund for superannuated profes sors
of the University Of Michigan, is an en-
bezzler to an amount estimated to be
fully 10000. King has turned over TO the
trustees property worth $500.
Fair play., 1889-08-03

THE tw" New York houses which have
practically controlled the manufacture Of
bed quilts and co,aforters, have pooled
their ISSUES and VIII advance the price
about twenty-five per cent.
Fair play., 1889-08-03

A REPRESENTATIVE of an English SYM
dictate has been endeavDring to secure
options on the business Of Macy & Co.,
Altman a. Co., Stern Brothers, and Simp-
son, Crawford Il Simpson, leading dry
goods houses of New YORK City, but in all
cases has beeu refused.
Fair play., 1889-08-03

THE Secretary Of the Treasury. on the
c5th. instructed the collector of customs
at New Orleans to allow the twelve
Chinese coolies detained there under
the Chinese Exclusion act. TO proceed
via The Southern Pacific railroad. as
tourists, in accordance with a recent
decision rendered by the Attorney Gem
oral
Fair play., 1889-08-03

Mrs. GERTRUDE briggs, wife of Nell
son briggs. the captured counterfeiter,
of Cincinnati, gave bonds on the oath, in
the sum of $4,000, for her appearance on
August .. Her husband was returned to
Jail, being unable to give bond.
Fair play., 1889-08-03

THE reported discovery of rich coal oil
deposits in the Rocky mountains near
the northern border of the United States
has revived the interesting question Of
the probable quantity Of fuel deposits in
this country.
Fair play., 1889-08-03

INoUIgIEs in well-informed circles lead
to the belief that although there have
been numerous small subscriptions to
the Salt Trusts securities, the tota!
amount subscribed is inconsiderahle
But it is expected that the whole amount
of stocks and bonds not subscribed 70,
here will be taken in London. The sub.
scription books closed on the 25th.
Fair play., 1889-08-03

OK the 23d the committee on executive
and pard"ning power reported TO the
Washington Territory Constitutional
convention, among other things, a pro-
Tiso that the Governor shall be Ineligible
For the Office of Senator
Fair play., 1889-08-03

The Vienna Freie Presse believes thai
i ngland's position i'll Delagoa bay points
to a desire to annex the whole territory
from the cape to the Congo, and recon-
mends that the matter be brought up at
the forthcoming African Congress to bs
he Ia at RrrsSelS
Fair play., 1889-08-03

CBAELEMAGSE TOWER, the noted capi-
aal5st, mine owner. railroad director and
lawyer, died, on the 18th, at his summer
residence in Watcrviile, n. Y, of paral-
Nsis, at the ne OF eighty. one YaarS.
Fair play., 1889-08-03

THE London Telegraph says oe the vote
of the ParuellitcS il support Of the roy
atty grants: "The support of the mon
archy on the part % Mr.. Parnell and his
following is one Of the most notable
signs of the times, ana siynalizes .he al
most complete division Of the iomes lie
from the American wing OF the Irish
partvS
Fair play., 1889-08-03

THE Ohio Prohihi;iouisrs. in convention
at Zancsville, on The 25tiI. nominated the
following State ticket: j. &. He,wig for
Governor: l.. Is. Logan. OF Alliance,
I.ieutenant-G Governor; Gideon I. Stuart.
III Newark, Supreme Juige; ID. NJ.
Trowbridse, Toledo, State Treasurer, and
+. J. Penney, Asltabula, Attorney Cen
pr1l
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29

Mrs. Westend-Oh, such time as /
do have with nurses. I've discharged
three this week for not keeping the
children quiet, and it hasn't done bit
of good.
Mrs. Tiptop-I notice the moi from
the nursery is terrible. Well, have
the same trouble, and my band,
who is getting deaf, actun refuses
sort of creatures these child's nurses
can be- They don't seem to have a
bit of sense. | aclully caught one
buying cheap candy with her own
money to keep the little angels quiet.
just think of the impudence of the
thing-putting cheap candy into the
delicate stomachs of my children.
Well, | said I'd discharge her if she
repeated that offense, and what do you
suppose she did nextP Why, when
they began to yell and kick at her for
not buying them locomotive and cars
big enough to ride in she actually
threatened to have their father whip
them, just as if she. common, igno-
rant nurse, had right to keep their
father, my husband, at her beck and
call. No wonder the children laughed
and then yelled louder than ever.
Even they could see the efrrontery of
the thing.
Mrs. Westend-Well, I'd send her
flying. Dear me! What a racket
Hark! All! l understand it now. That
miserable creature who calls herself
nurse is trying to stand little Billy in
the corner for nothing. Isn'titawfulP
Now, if she hits him III just send for
the police-I just will. shan't be con-
tented with a simple discharge. It's
high time these creatures were taught
a lesson.
Mrs. Tiptop-I think so, too. No
wonder the little dears learn to yell
and kick and bite when they have such
examples set them. They see it's a
mere question of physical strength
brute force-of course they do. Why
don't these nurses keep the children
amusedp That's what they are hired
to do. Well, | must hurry, for / have
au engagement at the intelligence
Office for this hour. l want if possible
to get nurse to replace the one |
have now. Since dear little Bobby
kicked her shins black and blue she
has hated him and it almost breaks
my heartao hear the poor little fellow
cry.--PhiLddetphtd Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29

The frequent illusions of newspapers
and people situated outside of the por-
ton of Pennsylvania known as the "coal
| regions" proves that the once prevailing
| impression as to the character of this
/ section has not yet been entirely elimi-
mated. No sooner is Il murder or crime
of any kind committed than exaggerated
accounts of the same are sent broadcast
throughout the country. 1T matters not
whether the deed was done at the north
ern extremity of Lackawanna County or
ON the borders of Dauphin it is at once
attributed to that "uncivilized and law
less territory" known as the 'coal re-
gions." While no objections could pos
sibv be made against the chronicling of
such matters, when truthful, yet the
manner in which they are published
cannot but help lowering the inhabitants
of the ''coal regions" in the estimation
of those not acquainted with the whole
facts. When it is remembered that the
"coal regions" extend diagonally across
counties with total population of more
than 100000, it can be seen at glance
the injustice done by crediting every
misdemeanor that occurs within such
limits in the same sense as if it happened
in any certain town. An illustration of
this budding together of onefourth of
the states crimes was shown last week
by a Philadelphia penny-a-liner, who
considered it his bounden duty to write
up the results of Il general payday in
the "coal regions" Imagination was
never given a wider scope and few
drunken quarrels in Carbondale, Ply
mouth and Shenandoah was sufficient
material for the writer to work upon and
describe the terrible monthly scenes"
to be witnessed in the "coal regions"
1t might be considered ludicrous were it
not for the effect such reports produce
upon the minds of readers, who are apt
to judge all by the few persons held up
to their view. Had the writer of the
article referred to feel inclined to walk
around the block from his Office he could
have seen sights that would make the
most hardened resident of the "coal
regions" blush with shame. Compari-
sons, however, are odious, and it is not
necessary to produce them. There prob
1 ably was time when this part of the
state deserved the condemnation it re-
ceived, but that time is long since past.
Statistics taken from the courts of the
'coal regions" will prove that the law
lessness reported to exist here can be
surpassed by any other portion of the
country containing the same number of
people,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29
CALIFORNIA DIAMONDS.
An Australian Diamond Hunter Begin
ming Work in Amador.

"Justtake a look at this big diamond"
remarked Henry Videl, the mining
superintendent of Amador, to a repre-
sentative of the San Francisco Eg-
dnai3er.
Mr. Videl exhibited in paper taken
from his vest pocket three magnificent
index finger to the largest of the three.
which seemed half the size of big
hazelnut, he added:
Now where do you suppose l got
thatP Nowhere else than on Dry
Creek, up in Amador County, and, by
the way, do you know that there is a
genuine diamond country up thereP
'There are also diamonds found on
the Feather River, in the vicinity of
Cherokee. There are not many peo-
pie who know this. Nine people out
of ten, perhaps, in California, if you
were to ask them whether or not there
were any diamonds in this State, would
say: 'Of course not; there are no dia-
monds to speak of this side of Cape
Town All the same they will be mis-
taken.
"About this place of Cherokee which
| speak of as many as sixty or seventy
diamonds have been found in the
course gravel. About as many have
been found at Volcano, on Dry Greek.
There there is peculiar conglomerate
that has gold in it, and in this con-
glomerate, if you take a glass, you can
see pulverized diamonds in consider
able quantities.
care these good diamondsp" was
asked.
"Well, you see what these are. They
have, been pronounced by experts
equal to the average taken out of Cape
Town. These experts, however, who
have examined the ground up there
are of the opinion that these diamonds
have been brought from a distance.
just where is the question. All the
country is tossed and turned up.
| Ancient rivers, mountains, and valleys
have been tipped and twisted at all
angles and coated over in many places
with lava.
"Both the points l speak of lie only
short distance from the western base
of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Whether high in the peaks of the
Sierras there are better and more dia-
monds cannot now be told. Whether
practical diamond-hunters will ere
long go to Cherokee and Volcano and
make business of digging for dia-
monds, however, is, | think, another
matter. Too many have already been
found to let the country 90 by default
Il am an old resident of Amador
and have watched the progress of
things there since the first diamonds
were found ten years ago. | have al
ways said that diamond-mining would
become business in California, and
now l am backed up by the arrival of
| Donald MACPHERSON from Australia.
/ Macpherson has been mining for dia-
monds at the Autipodes. and he is
now on Dry Creek sizing up the situa-
| ton.
There are two or three other
Australians with him. They have been
| experimenting with the conglomerate,
and while they have kept pretty quiet
I it is understood that they are well
pleased with their Investigations. They
have brought five acres of ground, and
it is said that within month or two
they will begin work there with quite
a force of men. | predict that they will
find diamonds in sufficient quantities
to handsomely pay them, and that
within year diamond-mining will be
business in Amador and Butte
Counties"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29

Nearly twenty years ago through the
Republican congress and president who
had control Of the government then, Il
corporation obtained the exclusive right
Of seal fishing in Alaskan waters. The
time limit of this monopoly will soon
expire and it is intended to request con-
gress to renew the lease for twenty years
longer. 1t is pertinent TO ask why this
should be done. Why should the
government grant a monopoly of seal
fishing over thousands of miles of coast
to one body of men to the exclusion of
all other men? Why should it not, with
equal proprety, grant a monopoly of cod
fishing, or grouse shooting, or bear hunt
ing? The plea is that the seals must be
protected from determination. Very
well. Let the government protect them
as governments protect fish and other
game, not by conlining the right to kill
them to a single corporate monopoly, but
by forbidding anybody to kill them dur
ing each years close season, and making
the close season sufficiently long to afford
the necessary security against extermi-
nation. The monopoly device is unjust,
tyrannical and corrupting. 1t is unjust
to all citizens who desire to engage in
the business, but are forbidden to do so.
1t is oppressive to all purchasers of the
product, compelling them to buy of men
exempt from competition. 1t sets up a
vested interest to buy the privileges il
wants. Congress should make an end Of
this granting of class privilege by legis
lative enactment, but it is more than We
can expect while Republican rule i,
dominant.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29

The oyster is not quite the LATEST
animal known, but he is very nearly
so. and he affords striking illustra-
ton of the degeneracy that comes from
Incidence, since he has gradually lost
by disguise nearly all his faculties"
except that of choosing and digesting
his food He looks like an inert and
unorganized mass of jelly, but in fact
he has complete animal organization,
including heart, liver, lungs, mouth
and stomach, and something that an
swers for eyes and thousand or more
tibrous arms. But all his organs seem
calculated to serve the one general
purpose of feeding and nourshing the
oyster and perpetuating his race.
The latter aim is accomplished by
means of eggs, of which female oys-
ter lays from 100000 to 5000, 900 in
season. The eggs, called "spat'' by
the oystermen, are expelled from the
shell in glutinous liquid which holds
them together in masses called "white
spat." The spat becomes impregnated
while in the water and the eggs soon
hatch. In its earliest infancy the little
oyster is very lively and swims about
near the surface of the water. He is
nearly as translucent as the water it.
self, but he undergoes perils of every
description and the millions are much
diminished before his career is fairly
started. After swimming about
short time lie sinks to the bottom of
the water where he attaches himself to
some hard substance-a stone or an
oyster shetland begins to be an oys-
ter indeed as well in truth. He never
migrates after this, but continues to
grow, rapidly at first and very slowly
afterward, for period variously esti-
mated The oyster in the market is
usually five or six years old. Good
H0uSebeeping.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29
Legalized Wrong.

Another reason why l am willing to
drop the pen and retire is the utter
hopelessness of such a contest. In our
government of parties a canvass of
education is farce. The American
citizen has no turn for study and no
time for thought. In the conquest of a
continent we have come to be delivers in
dust. A race of shopkeepers, said the
great Napoleon, makes nation of
thieves. We turn from an abstract,
enconomic subject in patient disgust to
look lovingly on locomotive, or to send
orders through the telegraph or tele-
phone for consignment of eggs and
potatoes. We can not be made to recog-
nize the fact that all the woes that have
afflicted humanity for thousand years
of abuse in Europe are being rapidly
concentrated here. We mouth at times
mainly on the Fourth of July-about
our free institutions, in certain pet
phrases, forgetting that all the wretched-
ness and sin affecting humanity come
from the unequal distribution of property.
We can have all our free institutions
intact and yet see the foul spawn of
millionaires hatched into sharks, while
the masses live only to be fed upon.
Time was, within the memory of living
men, when we had two millionares to
wonder at, and deaths from starvation
and suicides from despair were unknown
Indeed, we can have these free institu-
tions, as the fathers gave them to us,
and have them sanction these very evils
A hundred and sixty thousand miles of
railroads, distributing the entire products
of the country, are underthe control and
literally the ownership Of less than sixty
families, and this fearful monopoly
comes from and depends upon the fran
shisc given by the government Our
telegraph system belongs to one man.
The amount of money paid over to pri-
vate interests and taken yearly from the
masses is large enough yearly to liquidate
the national debl. This takes no account
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29

We needn't inquire into the results of
the protective tariff away down East, or
in other states, for we have it right here
in this and adjoining counties. With
free trade for raw silk we have extensive
and fourishing silk mills at Mauch
Chunk, Weatherly, Catasauqua, Allen
town, Bethlehem and Stroudsburg, en-
ploying probably 2500 to 5000 hands and
paying over half million dollars year
in wages With high tariff tax on raw
wool we have not even as much as the
smallest kind or semblance of a woolen
mill within fifty miles of the Lehigh
Valley, whilst the demand for woolen
goods is twenty times as much as the
demand for silk goods! Who else than
a natural fool or a pitiful party bigot can
stand up before the public to be counted
in favor of such protection as the kind
we have under the existing monopoly
and trust system? But, there are men
of respectability, who can read and
write, and who wear good clothes, and
know that twice two makes four-even
business men, church-goers and leaders
of society, who insist upon it that the
tariff as it exists protects labor, builds
up home markets, stimulates business
and industries" and overwhelms the
people with prosperity and plenty
They believe it all because the G. O. p.
bosses, manipulators and oliice-brokers
tell them so !-Mauch Chunk Democrat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29
DON'T STINT YOUR STOMACH.
BY Eating Enough You Increase Your
Chances of Good Health.

A physician, writing on the food
necessary to give strength and susten-
ance, says that if person uses up his
brain faster than he makes it he soon
becomes nervous and irritable. If he
does not assimliate enough food to
supply its demands his mind is sure to
become weak. The heathiest and
strongest individuals, even should eat
far greater proportion of meat than
of vegetable food. Beef should be
taken as the standard meat. Itanswers
every purpose of the system. Veal
and pork are not as easily digested.
Pork, so far as its composition goes, is
an excellent food for nervous persons,
but it is not readily digested. Yet, in
the army, we used to think nothing
better for the wounded men than
bacon. As rule, salt meat is not
adapted to the requirements of the
nervous individual, as nutrious juices
to great extent 90 into the brine.
The flesh of wild birds is more ten
der and more readily digested than
that of domestic ones. This is ac-
counted for by the greater amount of
exercise they take, thereby renewing
their flesh more rapidly and making
it younger than that of birds which
lead more quiet life. This is a sug-
gestion that might be of benefit to
women of sedentary habits who are
desirous of prolonging an appearance
of youth Fish of all kinds is a good
food for the nervously inclined.
A notion has been prevalent that
many persons injure their digestion by
eating too much. The fact is that
most people don't eat enough. There
are more people killed every year by
insuiliciency of nourishment than by
overlooking their stomachs. Many of
those who do eat sufficient quantity
are prevented by disease from digest
ing enough for the economy of their
systems The very first thing for any
one to do who has exhausted himself
by mental work or who has been born
weak and irritable is to furnish his
brain with sufficient nourishment to
either repair the damage it has sus~
tanned or to build it into strong
healthy condition. People in this CON
dition usually suffer from nervous
dyspepsia. Their stomachs are un-
able to perform the labor of assimila-
ton. Owing to the deficient nerve
power of the individual the food lies
in the stomach Enacted upon bv the
oastric mice because there is none or
The quantity is insufficient to have any
power. Food. instead of helping to
renew the BODY, and the nervous svs-
TEN with the rest, undergoes fermenta-
tiop, and the BODY and brain it should
nourish NAV starve. The person is in
worse state than if the food had not
been taken, for the fermentation pener-
ates acids and Gas.
Nervous individuals may derive all
the fat they need from sugar and
starch. Itis better, however, for those
with weak digestive organs, or whose
nerves are in a highly sensitive state,
to get il from the animal KINGDOM than
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29

THE Republican platforms of Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Iowa and Virginia say
not a word about civil service reform.
Within the last three or four years
Republican conventions in those states
have passed buncombe resolutions in
favor of that reform The platform
of the Republican National Convention
of 1888 had some very edifying re
marks upon the subject, but of course
all this was mere bait for votes. As
soon as the Republicans got control of
the government again their pretended
interest in civil reform had decline
of about 80 per cent. AS a means of
bothering and hampering Democratic
officials, civil service reform had its
uses. 1t was worth while to seem to
encourage it and to affect pious hor-
Tor at the sad and scandalous disre-
gard for it shown by the wicked
Democrats, but as soon as the Repub-
lican administration came into power
the case was changed. Since then
the Republicans have had no use for
civil service reform.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29

of trusts, that cover all we eat, wear and
use as clothing or shelter, for they have
grown up outside and in defiance of law.
Legalized wrong is our great enemy, for
we suffer more from the power of abuse
than in the abuse of power. A wrong
one recognized by law destroys the
foundation of the very power to which
we must appeal for a remedy.-Do@
PiaHS Retiring Essay.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29
FREELAND, PA, AUGUST %, 1889.

THE cloud of mystery overhanging
the fate of the hundreds of thousands
of dollars contributed for the benefit
of the flood sufferers in the Cone
maugh valley should be dispelled i'm
mediately by the person who is solely
able to do Governor Beaver. The
public have a right to know what he
did with their money and an account
of every cent contributed should be
piycn.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29
An Insultcd Man.

''Gus De Smith is very angry at
you; he says you insuted him at the
railroad depot the other day" re-
marked Hostetter McGinnis to Gilhoo-
ly. Yes, and I'll insult him worse
still if can lay my hands on him.
The miserable scoundrel saw me going
off with my mother-in-law on one arm
and my wife on the other, and he asked
me if | wasn't going on pleasure
trip. Texas iSiftingS.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29

THE biggest game of bluff Harrison
u Co. has yet tried was the order sent
by Postmaster General Wanamaker
to President Green of the Western
Union, notifying the latter that all
government dispatches sent hereafter
would be paid for at the rate of one
mill per word, instead of one cent per
word, which is the present rate. The
government has the privilege of fixing
its own telegraph tolls, and the reduc-
ton to one mill per word caused great
establishment throughout the country
However, President Green returned
a prompt protest against any such
action and Wanamaker quietly re
scinded his order. 1t is presumed
that the campaign book at the G. o.
p. national headquarters was ex-
amined and the Western Unions
check for s. found; hence the
cowardly baclidown.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29

THE Easton CAL hit the nail
squarely on the head when it said:
Not a week passes that we are not
asked why we haven't lampooned some
individual who has made himself un-
pleasantly conspicuous. In nine
cases out of ten if the grumbler had
been in the same predicament he or
some friend of his would have waited
upon us with the polite request
"Please keep that little trouble of
mine out of the paper" It's all very
nice to see someone else get raped
in the newspapers, but when it comes
home how eager we are to avoid it.
There don't seem to be much charity
for the unfortunate in this Christian
city.