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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-06
"GOop LETTUCE Is SCARCE"

II hope l don't intrude, but good lettuce In
scsrce at this time of the year. and as mine is
very fine l thought perhaps your mistress
would enjoy some"
The servant took the crisp present without
word After moving several steps toward
home Zenas stopped suddenly to admire a bril-
hant clump OF trltomas As he stood gazing he
heard n window blind open and voice calling
In a low tone:
'Bridget?"
..Menl?"
'Who was that2"
"Nisther BOrtley, MEM"
The owner OF that gang next doorr'
; Yes, men,
lymph. The last expression was empha-
sized by so vigorous a closing Of the window
: blind that the Catch fastened with sharp snap.
moment before Zenas had felt bent as we'll as
short; moment after the wound to his pride
Rad Strengthened him until, as he strobe across
the fence, he felt as tall as Goliath of Gath
he fastened to the house to tell his wife. but
De checked himself; he adored that wife Of his:
ne always was encompasslng her with his love
that she might be shielded from the sings and
darts OF an unappreciated world; she should
not know that any one alluded to her and her
nestlings as a gang"
let his own heart grew soraas il was chafed
by the word which could not be forgotten.
HE expression and the tone in which il was
uttered came TO him unoidden in his dreams
and reused him from needed rest-came to him
as he read the morning paper while dashing
oy ran to the city-came to him as be added
columns of figures at his desk and caused him
70 make some terrible blunders. "Gangl" Al
though he was a mild-mannered man and a
member of the church beside. he came to re-
gard his next-door neighbor, woman, and
handsome though she was. with deadly hatred
SO intense did his dislike become that he sat ia
ms window one sultry moonlight night and
gleefully beheld q stray COW enter the Maytham
garden and do more damage than any florist
could undo at that season. Gang" indeedr'
In fact il was more with Joy than sorrow
that one day Zenas learned from a chance &C
quaintance on the train that there were special
reasons why Mr.. Maythsm would be away from
nome for some time, for the man was q de-
isaissr and fleeing from justice. The Bort
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-06

clipped out upon his rear piazza Al he sus-
pected, Mrs. Maytham was in her garden and
saw him. He beckoned in real country style
and she was beside him in moment
"Allow me, madam" said he with q bow,
which was digniied in spite Of his aspect, ito
conduct You to your husband" He led the
way upstairs, and soon husband and wife we're
in each others arms. The host discreetly
withdrew, but stopped at the threshold aud re-
marked:
Don't feel the least bit uneasy; no one can
disturb you. I've sent away my-'ganR.'"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-06

For Q moment or two there WA n 8erce
struggle, then the man, appearing TO Weld.
turned on his side. Zenas fearing he mad
killed the fellow, relaxed his grasp, but in an
instant he saw hand drawing pistol from q
JACKET pocket Quickly the weapon was
gle by natural arms began again. Zeuas re-
called as II by magic all the lonR-foreotten
hstie lore OF the school yard and village cream.
but bis antagonist was larger than he, 20 the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-06

From Frank Leslle's Weekly.
have been very much interested for soma
years in the methods OF training adopted by
men who are engaged in athletic sports and
callings OF various sorts, Many curious facts
have come under my notice in a rambling way,
but doubt if anything is Of more interest to .
casual man than the manner in which Jockeys
reduce their weight in order to ride at the
number of pounds prescribed for them on the
race tracks. Any man who has frequented the
Russian baths of New York has doubtless OBJ
served at times the small, attenuated and
sometimes skinny figures that recline in the
hottest corners Of the Turkish room or soak
with melancholy determination on the hottest
slab Of the steam room. They take no
notice OF their surroundings, but 10 10
to be noted that the bath attendants treat them
with elaborate and almost absurd respect.
Once in a while bather comes in who sits OF
at distance and gazes with an almost idola-
trous affection at one Of the skinny little men
or boys. This particular bather is IN all proba-
bility a racing man and he feels the keen adj
miration which all race-goers entertain for q
successful jockey. We pay the jockeys well
enough in America to insure q better lot OF
youngsters than the turf boasts today. The
boys have not as a rule. a Just and proper po-
ton of what they owe to the public or to SPORT
and so much loose and criminal riding is toler-
ated, particularly on what are known as thu
winter tracks, that the boys have grown cares
less in some instances and criminal in others.
in all Of them, and that is their tremendous
perseverance and pluck. have known .
jockey to go into Russian bath in the morn
ing after taking particularly rigorous course
Of medicine, undergo the most trying experi>
ence with the extreme heat of the establishs
ment until he had lost four or five pounds BY
what is technically, and perhaps accurately
known in this system Of training as "hard
sweating" and then 90 out and put on suit OK
thick fannels, heavy cardigan jacket and an
oyercoat and walk and run ten miles in the
blazing sun. The medicine would have been
enough to weaken any ordinary man and take
the pluck out Of him, but the Jockey would
undergo the whole of this exhausting regime
and show mp at the track 20 ride at or
o'clock in the afternoon weighing seven or
eight pounds less than in the morning. he
might be pallid and almost too weak 20 sit in
the saddle, but he had got down to the proper
weight and that was reward enough for him.
When il is considered that these boys are
merely skin and bones to begin with, IL can be
seen what tremendous strain on the constitu-
ton it ID TO work Of so much weight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-06

you object to children Mrs. Haysecd-That
depinds, num- City dame-Depends on the
sort Of children they are, ] suppose? Mrs.
Hayseed-Nom. Depinds on the, sort e
mothers they haA-Good NeaA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-06
BIG FISH AND SMALL FRY
Queer Sights and Exciting Fishing in
the Bay of Fundy.

TRAPS FOB CATCHING TEE AMERICAN sARprxK-
FACTORIES THAT START pP AT ANY uouR--Ap-
VENTURES or A FISHING PARrY-A HOTEL
WHERE srRANoIns AR NOT WELCOME.
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Identification.

From the Hartford IlnesI
Charles Chapman, father Of ex-Postmaster
Chapman, was a lawyer, keen, witty and sue
cessfuL On one occasion Q Baptist minister
came before him ss q witness and Chapman
asked him what his business was.
II am an humble candle Of the Lord" re-
piled the parson.
"Yes." said Chapman, Il see . dipped
candle"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-06
THE DOCTOR HAD TO MOVE.
He Stopped the BOOSTERS, But Then
Came the Parrots.

From the Philadelphia Press
Next to dog that amuses himself BY bark
ing all night rooster that persists in exercis-
ing his voice is natures own nuisance especially
when the rooster lives in town. banker who
used to live next door to DIR. White, Just be-
yond the city line, owned two little bantam
ROSTERS that he had taught to crow for grain
of corn. He would take a double handful Of
corn out into his back porch, lift his hand and
the chickens would crow. Then he gave a
grain to each of them. This was continued
until all the corn was exhausted aud the
ROSTERS hoarse. This sort of thing annoyed
DR.. White. One day medical student dropped
into his Office about the time the serenade be-
gan
I'D give s5 to shut off that noise" said the
doctor
You can do it for less than that" said the
student why don't you entice them into
your back yard some time when old Rufe is
down town, catch them, and cut their vocal
chords?'
by Jove That's the thing. Come around
tomorrow at IL o'clock and assist me in the OPP
Grafton"
The next day at the appointed hour the stu
dent was at the office on time; 80 were the
boosters.
Within two minutes one vocal chord of each
chicken was cut and then the birds were tossed
over the fence to their home. At noon the
owner came out on his porch for his daily
amusement. White and the student watched
him through a crack in the fence. He lifted
his hand and the little squallers reared back
and went through the motions but did not
utter a sound.
The banker lifted his hand again with the
same result. He went out into the yard and
walked around his pets, but he couldn't see
anything wrong.
Then he called his wife. and the two made q
critical examination. He made them go through
their pantomime for an hour and got disguised.
He tried it every day for a week and then killed
the ROSTERS and ate them. When he found out
six months afterward what White had done, he
bought two large donkey voiced parrots, traine
them to sayl - DR.. White" and white is
an ass I" and hung their cages on his OK
porch.
Then DR.. White moved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-06
The Way Jockeys Train.

There are two moments in q divers life
One. when q beggRr be epares 10 plunge,
One, when q prince he flses with his pearl"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-06
NEXT-DO0R NEIGHBORS
The Adventures That Befell a
City Man Who Moved
to the Country.
WRITTEN FOR The EVENING STAR BY JOHN
HABBERTON.
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CHAPTER L

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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

Candidate Delamater is skipping about
the State at great rate, as it keeps him
busy apologizing for his candidacy
Take last week as an axample: He left
Philadelphia on Monday morning for
Coatesville, where he was the guest of
Senator A. d. Harlan, who gave recep-
ton in his honor. During the afternoon
he took run over to Oxford, where a
county meeting was held On Tuesday
he was in Philadelphia, during the ses-
sion of the Convention of the Republican
League of Pennsylvania and attended
the mass meeting in the evening. On
Wednesday he was at the Bucks County
Fair at Doylestown and on the following
day met the citizens of Tioga county at
the fair at Mansfield. The Juniata
County Fair was visited on Friday at
Port Royal and on Saturday Senator
Delamater attended the Montgomery
County Fair at Pottstown and in the
evening was present at a reception given
in honor of the Republican State candi-
dates at Bristol Chairman Kerr, of the
Democratic State Committee, has Ger.
tainly got him on the run, and the pro
liabilities are that he will be run into
prison before November 4th.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

Coils Levy, Of Latrobe, one of the
seventeen delegates to the sham conven-
ton, which met in Philadelphia two
weeks ago and placed an alleged labor
ticket in the field, has become disguised
and exposes the whole scheme. Mr..
Levy frankly states that T. P. Rynder,
the originator of the convention, is
in the employ of the Republican State
Committee, and that the tickets of the
delegates and all their expenses in Phila-
delphia were paid for by Chairman
Andrews.
This exposure is another damaging
blow at the Delamater cause. 1t reveals
to the workingmen the trickery and de-
lusive promises of the Republican party.
A party that has to put dummy ticket
in the field to hoodwink labor is un-
worthy of the vote of any workingman.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

known to mention the constitution be-
fore but in scorn. The measure would
then be referred to committee composed
of Legislators who for the first time would
evince solicitude for careful deliberation
i'll suspicious contrast with the precipi-
tate rush with which they facilitated the
passage of jobs in the past. Suddenly
these vigiant guardians of the bosses
power would discover righteous desire
to give the people 'of both Sides" as
they would say, "a full hearing" on the
proposed legislation.
The hearing would then begin by
listening to fine-spun arguments from
the attorneys of the favored corporations
raising tiimsy technical legal objections,
or under the cloak Of representing some
subsidized farmers interest, explaining
how the fish would be destroyed and the
wells and streams polluted if a free pipe
line was allowed to he laid through the
soil Indignation would flash from the
eyes of the jobbing committeeman as they
heard this statement of the wrong threat
ened to the important fishing interests of
the Pennsylvania farmer.
More meetings would have to be held
to consider these profound objections;
time would steadily be consumed, the
session would close with the measure un-
enacted and monopoly would have an
other two years lease of undisputed pow
er in the oil regions. A similar fate be-
fell all the important reform measures
the bills to equalize taxation for the re-
lief of land from its unfair burdens; to
abolish useless and costly offices made
expressly to support in idleness and fast
living the bosses and their tools; to
abolish Recorders Office, Delinquent
Tax office, to restore the streets of our
cities from the ownership of the railways
to the control of the citizens and to enact
a secret and official ballot to purify and
elevate our elections.
These and all other measures of re-
form were persistently defeated by the
boss ridden Legislatures of the period of
ring control. Such of them as were en-
acted were only put upon the statute
book by the union of Independent Repub-
lcans and Democrats, and after desperate
conflict with the allied power of the
bosses and ringsters in the years 1888
and 1885.
We want no false pretenses, no fight
ing from ambush no ambiguous and
shifty evasions. Let us have the real
leaders to the front and no omasquerading
behind false issues. Let the knight and
not his squire enter the lists. | ask a
trial by the record. Will our boss adver-
saries have the courage to face the jury
of their fellow-citizens and allow their
deeds to be passed upon, their official
acts to be investigated, and their political
methods to be exposed "By their fruit
ye shall know them" Nay! By their
fruit they are already known.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

Charge after charge continue to rain
down upon the Republican candidate for
Governor. The latest made at Reading
by w. U. Hensel, will disqualify him
from taking the Gubernatoria chair if
elected. He is charged with and does
not deny that in his capacity as a banker
at Meadville, Pa, for the last fifteen
years he has been receiving deposits of
money from the State Treasury. He
says in his recent speech 1.-THE fact is
Delamater & Co. have been depositaries
of State money, off and on, since their
organization, and long prior to my cleo
tion to the Senate"
Article TX, Section IA, of the State
Constitution, declares
The making of profit out of the public
moneys or using the same for any pur-
pose not authorized by law by any officer
of the State, or member or officer of the
General Assembly, shall be a mis-
demeanor, and shall be punished as may
be provided by law; but part of such
punishment shall be disqualification to
hold office for period of not less than
five years.
SO Mr. Delamater admits the commits
sion of misdemeanor; but as he has not
been brought into Court and convicted
of his offense the eminent lawyers who m
he has consulted about his offending tell
him that the penalty of disqualification
cannot be enforced against him before
conviction.
When he went into his Senate Cham
Der after his election as a member of the
General Assembly he was obliged to
swear that he would support, obey and
defend" the Constitution, under the
terms of which, from the moment he
had taken the oath, he was disqualified
to take his seat But he kept his seat,
aud kept on banking with State moneys
deposits.
He thus stands in the attitude of con-
| fessed but unconvicted misdemeanant,
who, if elected Governor of the State,
could not take the oath of office required
of him and swear to support and obey
the Constitution without doing violence
to the requirement of the Constitution
which disqualfies him from holding Of
flee for five years.
The eminent lawyers who advised him
in effect that he could not be punished
before he was convicted, did not tell him
that the punishment prescribed by the
Constitution was not deserved.
Mr.. Delamater has no defense; he can
make no denial; he will not do his party
the service to withdraw himself as a can
didate; he merely asks the people of
Pennsylvania what they are going to do
about it Record
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

There was a collision on the Central
Railroad, of New Jersey, at s O'Clock
Monday evening that resulted in the
instantaneous death of three men and
the injury of six others. Southbound
passenger train No. 8, which leaves
Mauch Chunk at 7.45, collided with a
northbound coal train three miles south
of Mauch Chunk. The engineer of the
C ,al train Charles Bigelow, and his fire.
man, Mitchell, We're both taken dead
from the wreck. Taylor Belford, of
Mauch Chunk, the engineer of the
His fireman, Joseph Dunlap, of Mauch
Chunk, was instantly killed. Several of
the passengers were injured but none
dangerously.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

Let there be no faltering this year upon
the part of Democrats. This county is
Democratic and all that is needed is to
carry the ticket through with an old
fashioned majority, is to walk to the
polls and cast your vote for the whole
ticket.
This temporizing with the enemy has
led to disaster in the past, and it is time
that Democrats awakened to the gravity
of the otfense they commit when they
give complimentary votes to Republican
nominees. 1t remains with you, fellow
Democrats, whether old Luzerne, which
stood so nobly for many years, shall be
handed over to the minority. Think
very seriously before you allow your
selves to be induced to vote against any
one of the nominees of our party this
fall.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

No clouds nt political scandal have
gathered around the name of Robert
c. Pattison. In the presence of his
pure official record as controller of
Philadelphia and Governor of Penn
sylvania the shafts of partisan malice
fall harmlessly at his feet. His own
political opponents, when free from
partisan fear of his candidacy, have
rendered voluntary tribute to his
worth and his fitness for the office of
Governor of Pennsylvania.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

Is it not a plain statement that he
who gets millions by piracy, or rob
berry, or fraud, Or by inducing the
government to tax the people Or give
him power to tax him for his enrich
ment, does not enrich the world I By
so much as he is richer others are
poorer The wealth he has existed
before he took it. He has impover-
ished others, and instead of lifting
up society and tightening the burdens
OF humanity, he has accumulated that
which he cannot use or enjoy, but
simply holds to prevent other from
enjoying,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

QUAY's campaign managers are dis
tributing an illustrated circular en-
titled "a Scrap of History" in which
they show an illustration of battle.
field, the burial of a veteran and what
they purport to be the Pattison idea
of a potter's field for the soldier.
They, of course, forget to add that
the veteran burial bill, for which they
claim so much credit and which was
vetoed by Pattison, required three
citizens of the county, in which 9
soldiers dies, to make public record tc
the effect that he died a paaper before
his body can be buried at the States
expense. The veto of q bill so wan
tonly insulting the family of the vet
eran will not be resented by ole
soldiers.-ANentoac7a Item.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

The Republican party believes that
Protection alone will save us from
eternal smash. 1t repeats this state
ment with a thousand varieties of
rhetoric, pleads for it before the
working men with fearful pathos,
proves by statistics that prosperity
and protection go hand-in-h hand like
the Siamese twins, and then practically
admits that the experiment is fail
ure by introducing free trade under
the thin disguise of reciprocity.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

WoRKNaMEN have labor to SELL
Are they protected ! Nol Men are on
the free list-and they come to this
country by the half million every year
to compete in our labor market and
run down the price of labor. The
manufacturers are protected from
competition. They, not the working
men, get the benefit of protection.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

PArr1soN is pushing Quay's man to
the wall. Pattison wishes to discuss
"homeissues" in the present campaign,
but Delamater declines to talk on the
subject. The stealing and embezzling
of the man whose nominee he is would
not be very pleasing subject for
Delamater to discuss before the people.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

The census of 1890 is now gener-
ally repudiated as untrnstworthy. 1t
is admitted, too late for remedy, that
it was a great mistake to put such
task in the hands of an Enthusiastically
and incompetent man.-Philadelohia
Record
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

MINERS and laborers of every nation
ality be on your guard. Everything
possible will be done to divide up the
labor elements SO that the Republican
emissaries can use them for selfish
ends.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

The Democratic county ticket this
fall is strong one and one that every
right minded citizen can take pride
in voting. There certainly should be
no trouble in electing the whole
ticket this year.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

The Democratic voters of this
Fourth Legislative District have a
chance to assist one of their number,
by voting for Philip V. Weaver for
Register of Wills.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
STATE.

STATE.
Governor, ................... Robert E. Pattison
of Philadelphia.
Lieutenant Governor. .Chauncey F. Black
of York.
Secretary of Internal Affairs. W. II. Barclay
of Pittsburg.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Congress. ess......................Jo John b. Reynolds
of Kingston.
COUNTY.
Judge. Stanley Woodward
of Wilkes-B Barre.
Treaslrer John S. McGroarty
of Miners Mills.
Register of Wills Philip V. Weaver
of Hazleton.
Commissioner. .............. Thomas McGraw
of Beach Haven.
Commissioner. NORTHUMBERLAND Thomas Dullard
of Wilkes Barre.
Auditor. John ]. Brislin
of Sugar Notch.
Auditor. VIM. E. Bennett
of Wilkes-B Barre.
LEGISLATIVE.
Representative. Patrick F. Boyle
OF Hazleton.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

THIS is not "free country" so long
as we place restrictions upon com
mprna
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

carpets, from 10 cents yard and up
wards, at Neuburger's, Brick store.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

FREELAND, PA, OCTOBER 2, 1890.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

Subscribe for the TRIBUNE.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-10-02

Entered at the Freeland POsto6ice as Second
Glass Matter.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-04-17

Noah F. Sneathen of Barkersville,
and John Majors of Cedar City, were
granted ar Increase in pension last
week.
The Laclede Republican says:
Pull for the Bagnell branch.
Judge Ludwell Bacon Of Tuscdm.
bia, while in the city last week, gave
us a pleasant call.
Among the prominent sons of vet.
a who called during their visit
here last week we're: j. II. Kline,
captain Lincoln Camp No. II, of ST.
Joe; b. w. Frauenthal, captain
Camp No. AZ, st. Louis; b. Loeben.
stein, colonel Mo. Div, Warrens-
burg. Fifteen camps were repre-
sented in the encampment.