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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08
Fashionable Stationery Cards.

The various ornamental, high-color-
ed stationery recently in fashion is
already discarded by p, rsons of good
taste. A plain white, cl eam-white or
an English-blue paper are the only
colors now used. Correspondence
cards are entirely out of date. Three
sizes of paper are used by society
women; the largest is sheet about the
size of commercial note paper for let
ters which may be folded once and fit
a large, square envelope, or twice and
fit long envelope. The next size is
about half an inch narrower and an
inch shorter This is for notes and the
tiny bllet-note is reserved exclusively
for regrets and acceptances. All invi-
tations are answered now in an infor-
nal manner on sheet of billet-note
paper, except invitations to church
weddings which do not include also
an invitation to the reception. Visit
ing cards for ladies are engraved in
script on large and nearly square cards
of heavy, unglazed cardboard. A
gentleman's card is exceedingly small
and slender, of thin cardboard. The
dinner cards are long, slender shapes
of rough etching-paper, delicately
painted with wild rose or violets, or
decorated in colored metals and often
tied with ribbon to harmonize with
the decoration. Good HonsebeeDi'an.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

If the Republican newspapers through
out the country continue their incessant
growing at our beautiful system of tax
alton some Of them will be liable to find
themselves grazing in pastures far away
from Camp Harrison before the next
election. From the North, East and
West comes mutterings which are des-
tined to operate against the Republican
party before long 1t is the pensions
which trouble them now and that staunch
Go forever organ, the Phila. EcCH-
ing Ieiegraph, will jump the traces soon
if it is not properly cared for. 1t says
The present pension system, as Com
missioner Tanner has in few months
demonstrated, needs to be entirely re-
viscd, but there is little reason to believe
or to hope that it can be justly or judi
ciously revised. 1t is easy enough at
present, when the prosperity of the peo-
pie is SO great and common, for Senator
Blair and his associates to talk so glibly
about Corporal Tanner eXhausting the
surplus, as there is plenty more money
where that came from with which to re-
fill the governments strong box, but it
will not be so easy if protracted period
of depression, such as that which ended
i'll 1879, should come again. The strong
boxes are .fHed Jy forced contributions
upon the country by taxation, and for
years. past, during the most prosperous
years, there has been an ever increasing
demand for fewer and lower taxes. The
people are growing tired of filling the
strong boxes for Congress in its reckless
generosity to empty. They do it now
reluctantly. Should business depression
come, as it is always likely to come, they
would not do it at all; they would insist
upon a material reduction of taxation
The party that in the near future shows
that it is inspired by the spirit of econ.
omy is likely to be the best esteemed
and the most successful at the polls; and
the party that places the pension system
upon a more equitable and patriotic basis
than it now rests upon will not lose in
popularity, public respect and conf
dcncc.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

The Australian system of balloting,
which in a modified form has worked
admirably in Great Britain and Louis
| vile, Kentucky, is to govern the election
to be held in Massachusetts next Novem-
/ Der. 1t is urged in advance that "its
| effect must be to render more difficult
/ any attempt to oppose the workings of
/ the party machine" How is it, then,
that the party machine has everywhere
bitterly opposed the introduction of this
system? Is the machine given to throw
ing away chances to increase its power?
If by any bungling or in any attempt to
do too much at the start the Massachu-
setts statute was improperly drawn and
opens the way to possible abuses while
actual operation of the law will teach
other Legislatures how to avoid the
danger. 1t will not be the first time
that Massachusetts has been a pioneer
in needed reforms. We do not, how
ever, give much weight to the objection
that sit will be possible under the new
law to prevent boiling caucuses from
getting their nominations on the official
ballot" If this were so it is quite GER
tain that the machine managers would
favor the law. As a matter of fact all
the ballot-relom laws passed in this
country have permitted (as they could
not legally deny every voter to make
any alterations which he might desire in
/ the official ballot. The "divine right"
Of boiling and scratching is not in the
least impaired. On the contrary it is
/ provided that sufficient number of
voters to give dignity and importance to
/ any revolt against either of the party
machines may have the names of their
candidates printed on the official ballot
at public expense. If the Massachusetts
law permits the regular nominations to
/ be delayed too long to allow of an in
4 dependent movement it Isl defect which
can be easily rcmedied. Ballot reform,
which viii insure the privacy and protect
the integrity Of the voting, must precede
all other reforms, and it is bound to
| come.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08
PRosPERED IN THEIR NEW HOME.
Southerners Who Have Accumulated
Wealth North of Mason and Dixon's
Line.

Little by little we see the transfer of
white individuality from portions of
the southern states to the north, says
Gath in the Cincinnati Enquirer. These
enaigreS from the south never return.
Here is Inman, the genius of railway
and telegraph matters in the southern
states, who came to New York clerk
out of the rebel army, l think. He
is smart fellow, though now and then
you hear the opinion expressed that he
would make deal with his grand
mother and pick her dry. New York
Is good enough for him. Here is X.
L. Wilson, who, during the war, was
something of a contractor for beef
and supplies to the rebel army. He
came from East Tennessee. Since
Wilson came here, large, mild man,
chiefly notable for working himself
almost to death in his banking-house,
and for his excessive tenderness to his
young children, he has married these
youngsters into the Astor, the Goelet,
and finally into the Herbert family, of
England. His daughters brother-in-
law is the earl of Pembroke, who in
habits the celebrated Wilton house, at
the town of Wilton, where they make
the carpets, in England, and which
visited two years ago and described in
your columns. Wilton house is full
of elegant paintings and marbles, and
bears the record of having entertained
Spenser when he wrote "Arcadia,"
and Shakespeare when he came down
to play before King James H., visi-
tor there, with the Shakspearean troupe.
Strange is this world when we find an
old contractor for mule meat to the
! confederate army and hustler for rail
road bonds in New York. and cotton
factor for everywhere, linking himself
with a family which runs back to the
piratical ages about and before Queen
Elizabeth. Where is the equality of
this worldp You do not hear of Mr..
r. Il. Wilson inhabiting a sunny grove
somewhere in the bowers of his youth.
Fifth avenue is good enough for him.
Some years ago | had talk with
young V. X. Stevenson, whose father,
of the same name, and Wilson and
Duncan Kenna and one or two others
were in pool to supply the confed-
eracy with supplies and take out cot
ton, which was almost worth its weight
in silver or gold in England. My re-
port carried CONSERVATION, | was told,
into the highest social circles of New
York, where the Wilson's were about
marrying among the Astors, who had
no idea, with the higher loyalty of
this latter family, that they were to
embrace some of the old blockade
runners of the war. There were all
kinds of blockade-runners, and toward
the bottom you could touch Keith or
Thomassen, the celebrated tiend who
blew up the Bremen steamship. The
elder " X. Stevenson died, leaving
fine fortune here, of which his son got
his portion, but VK. does not return to
Tennessee, though there he is con-
nected with old families like the Bells
and the Catrons. These things prove
that where there is liberality men flock
from every land.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

/
ID. A. l6, OF the wyoming region, held
IT'S seml-annual session at Carbondale
last week. Several important matters
were passed upon at TINS meeting and
among others the single g tax question,
" "hlch was vas introduced ny I, IL; Gllleran
ol !: L. "A: ~ received considerable atten-
tloh. I uehefal Master W orkman Pow
Iy IIerly SPOKE upon TINS SUBJECT also upon
'IIot baiiot Ieloinii ne Iecoiiliielueu ~ mat
os.,doS lelor.i oe tiscusse'l III every local
PrsSeiiipiy P@n.liny az least once honth. MI.
reora.; omoeriy I5so pi iiltr4unceu M resolution
20 ues. n : Tt Tesl.ieIiI ~ iialIlsoli 70 ieluse
a. "ppoltt "nt iiionids furloliS as Iillel OF
,o "erle. oer'lGe DIVISION oi ilie reSleIal ~
doto,.tiin H. IGi!Jls u s was Giilel Vi 'iIe
SontIr,'o',.,, .1 80 ~ wy 1ouio system vi
str;l,a of 1ooc @ ~ uuiillS lIle sIeaI
tha ordnr 10 t toJ e. anu ~ MaS ne WHO Frke ny
cn,,r,tt " nio GlIoii orie o.likei9. ine
Int;n,, WY; va 81, lcporsou leso-
tn~ iau ~ ,,iS Y'tI o''aoti,lIit % 3i sii,gie
land m ;rrapat;, Spon vl,o f 9r.ual value Vi 'he
TLa ao,,,,',;ttoo ~, W ii,Piotei'ieil.e. i''.'
oil ramn,t oo,''.IG '.Lh III ie9oiuVioiis present
Pana,;Ipo o11"li "iiio,l - i,Iie L synolsiHeo
~ SNis @ "IiSsiailce " vlie PrinGlples OF
t,o uo ooi '1i'(i On pIe?siis coilitellce III
arol 49,, U,J., i,iuois sl's Iile ueh-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

During the prohibition campaign a
well known brewer of Allentown and a
machinist made an election bet to the
effect that if the majority against prohi-
bition was 10000 the machinist was to
have a glass of beer for every hundred
in excess of that majority. AS the
majority was in round numbers $4,000,
the machinist was entitled to glass of
beer for every hundred of the $4,000 in
excess of the 10000, or 143O glasses,
which makes over three barrels, allowing
450 glasses to barrel AS the machinist
did not consider himself quite competent
to get away with his three barrels of
beer, he good-naturedly furnished all
the beer that was needed by the
employees of w. f. Mossers foundry and
machine shop at their annual picnic at
lIelfrich's Springs Saturday. There was
a surplus left which he will dispose of at
his leisure.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

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w? 20 ~ t''''V 1"1 10 u,o ai'o"oo' o.
oi 10 81. ~ ,no nI''se ,, uo,hs no'nns, Wnlie
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n5is nnin'. ,hn m,''",u ,1 "n' i".u W ao "oou.
han,,a ha,, '' oH'' wv a., ""'.,ns 'Is ior nor
Iann UanaSL,,, Om'S 'no o.no' uay' say
hoJ;oG hnvS n"no;",r ,t W .,ho"t ,| ~. 80 "p,o
not l,n,w;n, ,vhat ta ov do ";,h ,i,' t"oe' tho@,
so,vas whiiSo ,hn;r Io "lom 'in '',G ,;nn1
and n,,o mns trrinr ~, tho I'M ,,.i' w. e,t os
a lar~o p fa'niI,, ,ynJ oonmomn w, NJ y, u
- ' 9,v',,.,, =: LII, ,blt bp''.y 49,, o. 9,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08
Abolish 1t All-Internal and External.

The New York Sun, the only journal
in America which thinks protection
should be a Democratic doctrine, gets
soliloquizing occasionally, and wants to
know whether the people wish the con-
tinuance of protection or the upholding
of the somewhat similar system of inter
nal taxation. As the difference between
both systems is not worth an argument,
we fail to see the necessity of either
while all revenue can be raised in a
more direct and in the only equitable
manner by placing all taxes upon the
value of land. Nevertheless the Su,
would like to have one or the other, as
may be seen by the following remaks
1t is perfectly easy to provide the neces-
sary revenue by means of that system
known as the internal revenue system
with which we have become familiar
| during the last % years. 1t is, properly
speaking, an excise system, and it cal
easily be made to produce all the revenue
that is necessary for the needs of the
government economically administered
Thus all duties on foreign importation,
may at once be abolished, and the United
States may be brought to the enjoyment
of perfect free trade with all foreign
nations whatever. The custom houses
may be shut up and every product OF
every other country may be admitted
free of duty. 1t is for the people to de-
termine which of these two systems they
will have. If they wish for free trade,
they can repeal the tariff and rely upon
the internal revenue; and, as we have
said, it can easily supply all the needs
of the government If they do not wish
for free trade, then they will be obliged
either to abolish the internal revenue
system and to agree with Thomas Jeifer-
son that it is an Internal system; or else
they will have to reduce it so greatly
that its abolition will be a question OF
comparative unimportance. Free trade
is now within the reach of the American
people if they desire it. Do they?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

From an article by Wilson, the pho
tographer, IN the Century,, entitled,
"Round about Galilee," we quote
''One of the best views of the city Is to
be had from the campanile of the
Church of the Annunciation. In the
distance is the brow of the hill to
which Jesus was led by the enraged
multitude who attempted TO throw
him from it. A modern house in the
foreground brings to mind the time
when they uncovered roof and let
down the bed whereon the sick of the
palsy lay. This must be very much
the same kind of a house as that his
torical one at Capernaum. There is
the peculiar roof, and there are the
outside stairs leading to the roof. The
Eastern householder makes his roof
serve for more than a protection from
the weather. 1t is the piazza, the
quiet place of the dweller, and some
times it becomes his summer residence
AS rule it is not very heavy or very
strong. Rafters are thrown across
from wall to wall, say yard apart;
then the whole space is covered with
twigs such as we saw the women SELL
ing in the rkct-placc. On these the
slender limbs of trees are thrown and
thickly coated with mortar. Lastly, n
thick spread of earth is thrown on,
rolled to level, and oftentimes sown
with grass seed. Thus by care many
OF the roofs become as smooth and
soft as machine-mown lawn. They
may be easily broken up and anything
lowered inside from above. By some
such process the four bearers of the
poor palsied man managed to enlist
the attention of the Great Physician in
behalf of their friend 1t is not hard
to understand it all when viewing such
house as this one at Nazareth. 1t
would not be difficult for four men to
carry lame friend in a hammock by
the outer stairway up to the roof, and,
breaking through, let him down into
the apartment or court below.
Not tar from this same house, in a
narrow street, is a little chapel erected
upon the site of Joseph's carpenter
shop. Over the altar is picture rep
resenting Mary and Joseph instructing
Jesus, and finding that he knew more
than they. Another painting repre-
sents the lad Jesus assisting his father
at work. 1t contains no accessories of
the carpenter shop, but there are
enough of them in the shops close by.
The Web-saw, the glue-pot, the plane,
and the hammer are'the principal tools
used in such shops, all without the
modern improvements. Yet whatever
the Palestine carpenter produces is
from the fragrant cedars of Lebanon
or from the eccentrically knotted and
gnarled olive-wood. The operation of
bargaining and waiting for an article
of wood to come from a Palestine car
penter's shop is a lengthy one. Arti-
cles of wood are a luxury there, and
when the carpenter receives an order
for one he usually employs the next
three days of his life in soliciting the
congratulations of his friends upon his
wonderful good fortune in receiving an
order for something made of wood"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

IT the whirhgig of time should land
Murat Halstead in the senate, which
body rejected him as minister to Ger
many, there will be a great rafting
of the dry bones, for Mr.. Halstead
can take very good care of himself
when he meets antagonists on even
terms. The taste of the average Ohio
man for Office is such, however, that
Mr.. Halstead may find some rivals
for the place when the legislature as
sembles. That legislature, by the
way, is not yet elected and it is by no
means certain that it will be Repub-
hcan.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

The black mustache, which has been
SO long considered sine qua non of
the highest type of masculine beauty,
has slowly and surely had its prestige
sapped by its insidious and more
aesthetic blonde rival. If the craze for
shade continues it will soon be ex-
tremely difficult to find any of the
brown or red variety among fashion
able men, as wherever the color of the
hair will permit of the blonde being
possibly worn the bleach is brought
into requisition. Dudes who are fa-
vored by nature with hirsute append
ages OF the approved hue are now in
dulging in a good deal of chaff at the
expense of their less fortunate fellows
who have to initiate them, and still
men continue to philosophize over She
vanities of women. N. Y. Mercury
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

The college men in the baseball pro-
fession are beginning to make mark.
1t offers them congenial occupations and
large pay OF the players in the promi-
nent mines many are under graduates,
who pursue their studies in winter and
play ball in the summer, thereby earn
ing enough to defray all the expenses of
their education. Sanders of the Phila-
delphia club took course of civil
engineering last winter, Cunning of the
Athletics was in attendance at the
medical school of the University of
Pennsylvania, Knowlton of the Easton
club is member of the Harvard Medical
School, Garfield of the Pittsburg club is
studying at Oberlin University, Mead
and Cahill of the New Haven team are
graduates of Holly Cross College in Wor-
cester, Tying is a Harvard graduate,
Wagenhurst comes from Princeton, and
many other instances could be mention
ed. Nor must the cases of John NJ.
Ward and James II. O'Rourke of the
New York club be forgotten The
former took the course of political science
in Columbia College, and with the latter
attended the lectures in the Yale Law
School, where they received their degrees
of LII. B., and were afterwards admitted
to practice before the bar of Connecticut.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

The eight-how movement is the
most important among those reforms
which are Immediately attainable, be-
cause it has in it the elements of per
manency and progress. Higher wages
merely effect a temporary bettering
of conditions-a depression i'll the
market may force them back to the
old standard or below it in a few
months. But shorter hours is a step
in advance toward the ultimate end
of a vital change in the relations Of
labor and capitalism. 1t means op
portunity and leisure to read and
think. 1t gives the chance for self
education. Let the eight-hour sys
tenn be once obtained and put in force
all over the country for n single year
and at the end of that time the Labor
reform forces would be so much
strengthed, their manhood developed
and their intelligence quickened tc
such degree that no power on earth
could restore the old order OF things
The reduction in the hours of labol
is one of those revolutions that never
move backward d.-J0ln7tm UnjteC
Labor.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

TIE life of an editor is anything
but perpetual elysian dream, as
some people seem to imagine. He
who works for the public has a thou
sand masters, each of whom insists
upon being served in a different way.
This is exactly the position the editor
finds himself in. Do the best he can,
be as conscientious as he may, and
somebody will take umbrage at some
thing either done or not done by the
man of the quill. He stands on the
verge of an abyss, as it were, and step
as carefully as he may, he is sure to
walk on somebody's pet cons.-E,r.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

AS the single tax theory of Henry
George and Doctor McGlynn has been
declared in opposition to the doctrines OF
the Roman Catholic church by some
prelates of that body, its adoption by d.
A. l6, X of L.. at the recent convention
at Carbondale may lead to some interest.
ing discussions. 1t would have been a
wiser and more conservative course tC
have let that question severely alone
In the present status of the Knights they
should be careful not to attempt any
thing that may tend to ALLEVIATE the neu-
trality if not tactic endorsement of the
Roman Catholic church which it took
such severe struggle to obtain.-Wilkes-
Barre NeeoSdeaIer.
The writer of the above should ac-
quaint himself with the single tax theory,
the doctrine of the Roman Catholic
church and the principle of the X. of l..
before making further comment upon
this question. Such statements are
made for malicious motives, with the
intention of injuring the single tax cause,
of which the Ne'csdedler is most ardent
hater. The writer will confer q favor
upon many in this and his own vicinity
if he will furnish his authority for the
statement that the single tax theory has
been condemned by the Catholic church.
Come on, speak out.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

Or late there seems to be desire
in many parts of the union to allow
women to take part in the election of
school officers. Missouri has just
granted them this privilege, being the
sixteenth state to do so. In time this
franchise may probably be extended
to letting them have their say in all
elections. What effect such action
would have upon politics remains to
be seen.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

THE bowling of Southern Republi-
cans has brought Harrison to a sud
den realization of why he was elected.
He has already found out that there
are thousands Of oflice-seekers who
are yet out in the cold even though
this is the month of August. The
way he shoyeled out Offices and ap-
pointments to the South during the
past few weeks has shown that Con
gresham Brewers threat to turn the
speakership over to the Democrats,
because the South was being ignored,
worked like charm 1t also showed
that Benny is easily blufTed.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

Few would believe that the sugar
trust has been so successful were it
not for the authoritative declaration
Of its treasurer, who says: "Our
aim has been to keep prices down. "
AS prices have gone up four or five
cents pound since the trust began
operations, it makes one dizzy to
contemplate the altitude they might
have attained if it hadn't been for the
trusts aim.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

THREE-FoURrHs of Harrison's time is
gobbled up by Office e,seekers, who are
as numerous and blood-thirsty as Jer-
sey mosquitoes. Although it is four
and one-half months since the inaugu-
ration Washington is filled with the
unrewarded politicians of the Dudley
broD1
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

PERHAPS it is essential to !'going
through the forms to be making all
this investigation into the way in
which Pension Commissioner Tanner
has misused the power and discretion
of his Office, as if there was any room
for doubt about it, but it really does
look like piling Pelion upon Ossa in
the way of absurdity.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

PENSION COMMISSIONER TANNER is an
nounced to deliver several speeches
throughout the country. The govern
ment would save money if he We're
kept busy in speech-making and so
precluded from touching the treasury
surplus.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08

Henry X. Boyer of Philadelphia was
nominated as the Republican candidate
for state treasurer yesterday
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-08
Select School Report.

The roll of honor for the week ending
July 26, in Freeand Select School is /:
Laura +. Rooms, Lille Williams, Annie
Carey, Crete Keislich, John f. Hart
ranft, Freddy Rooms, David Carey,
Willie Marx and Michael Cabbage.