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The Press., 1896-10-01
TOT,T,AND.

The third game of ball between the Buff Cap and Holland hines last Saturday resulted in a victory for Buff Cap by a score of 32 to 21, as follows:
 Buff Caps, 3 2 5-32
 Hollands, 141141 1-2l
 (Correspondence.)
 John Clough lost valuable COW last week.
 Several from here attended the Junior Endeavor rally at Rockville last Satur- day, and report an interesting occasion.
 The Ladies' Aid Society of the Metho- dist church met with Mrs. Henry Doyle | last week.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Tilden, mother of Mrs. John Clough, is remarkably preserved women of 91 years. Since her last birth day, which occurred in February, she has pieced three comfortables, and a bed quilt which contains two thousand pieces, called the "Tree of Paradise," each tree containing seventy-five pieces. She is the oldest women in town yet does not appear more than sixty. Her memory is remark able, and she can relate many important events of the early history of the town. The oldest man in town is MT. Joseph Metcalf who has reached 93 years. He has been seen walking to church Sunday morning not long since, distance of two miles or more He is also remarkably we'll preserved, physically and mentally.
 Mrs. Hungerford, of Hadlyme, is at MT. w. Agard's.
 Rev. Jesse Heald and Mrs. Heald of Tariffville, were guests at John Clough's recently. FLORA.
The Press., 1896-10-01

When you get good thing-keep it. Cider is 8 good thing, and when you lay in supply for the Winter, keep it from fermenting by using our Cider Preservative. It will keep it pure and sweet. It is perfectly harmless, and a package just the size for one barrel, costs 25 cents. LATHRoP'S DRUG STORE.
The Press., 1896-10-01
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Jackets and Wraps.

0@1SSSSSSSSSlS %SSSSa4SS
 Springfield, october, 1896.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-28
500 Reward, 800.

The readers Of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages and that is
catarrh. Halls catarrh cure is the only
positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being constitu-
tional disease requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
thereby destroying the foundation OF
the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work
The proprietors have so much faith in
its curative powers. that they offer one
hundred dollars for any case that it fails
10 cure. Send for list Of testimonials
Address,
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
- Sold by druggists. 75c.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-28
DRlFTON ITEMS.

E. j. Edwards, the uperintendent of
the store department., and wife celebra-
ted their first wedding anniversary on
Thursday evening. The affair was held
in the hotel. which was tastcfulv decor
ated for the occasion. All those who
were present at the ceremony a year
ago and number of other guests at
tended. DePierroS orchestra PLAYED
the opening march, and at L. O'Clock all
partook of sumptous supper.
The Fearnots base ball club would
hike to have IL go" at Lehighton before
the season is out. The contest a few
weeks ago was stopped by rain, and our
boys are not satisfied
James Kessell has resigned his posi-
tion as butcher to accept II similar one
with Thomas Oberrender in Frecand.
Miss Bridget McGeehan returned on
Friday to Philadelphia after spending
two months with her parents.
Miss Rose Boyle, formerly of Lans-
ford but now of Philadelphia, is visiting
friends in this section.
DR.. Geo. $. Vent. Jr., and Patrick
McTaguc were at Wlkosbarre on busi-
ness on Thursday.
James McDermott is wearing broad
smile over the arrival of young lady at
his home.
Miss Mamie McElwce, OF IIarcigh,
visited friends here last week.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-28
Fatal Explosion of Gas.

An explosion of mine gas occurred at
Middle Creek colliery, Schuylkill county,
on Thursday night, and five men were
seriously burned and otherwise injured.
Two of them died after reaching their
homes at Blackwood, about two miles
from the coliery. The dead are James
Newton. ST., and his sOn-in-law. John
Cosgrovc. Both are married and have
families. Charles SchoffStall and James
Norton, also of Blackwood. are severely
burned, and may die. Edward Don
meyer, of fremont, sustained fractured
collar bone and arm. Tho men were
employed driving a gangway.
A leader of gas had been struck.
which burst out into the gangway. The
volume was so dense that the gas forced
into one of the safety lamps used by the
men and communicated with the flame
and ignitcd, causing terrific explosion.
The five men in the gangway were toss
ed about, and they sustained injuries in
addition to the burns. The coliery is
owned by the Reading Company.
james Newton, one of the victims,
was for several years a resident of Jcddo
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-28
RAILROAD TIMETABLES
THE della WARE, SUsQUEHANNA AMI
i SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD.
Time table in effect December l5, 1895.


Time table in effect December Is, 1895.
Trains leave Drifton for :. .eddo, Eclsley, Halle
| Brook, Stockton, Beaver Meadow Road Roam
| and Hazleton Junction at 20, 90 a IN, Is p
IN, daily except Sunday and U3 Il M, 2 3S p M,
Sunday.
Trains leave Drifton for Harwood, Cranberry,
Iomhicken and Deringer at SO Il m, p III, daily
except sunday; and Z Us u IN, IS III, sun
day.
Trains leave Drifton for Oneida junction,
! Harwood Road, Humboldt Road Oneida and
eheppton at W u III, 10 p IN, daily except sun
| day; and 03 Il III, 3S IN, Sunday.
Trains leaye Hazleton Junction for Harwood,
Cranberry, Tomhicken and Deringer ut IS u
| m, daily except Sunday; and 53 IN, ~ III,
| Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida
Junction, Harwood Road, Humboldt Roud,
/ Oneida and Sheppton Mt ~, IL 10 IN, 46 p III,
daily except Sunday; and Z ~ III, 3 0S p IN,
! sunday.
Trains leave Deringer for Tomhlcken, Gram
| berry, HarwOod, Hazcton Junction, Roam,
Beaver Meadow Road. stockton, lazle Brook.
| Ecklcy, Jeddo and DriftUu ut 225, ~ p IN,
daily except Sunday; and . 81 III, . VI p III,
Sunday.
Trains leave sheppton for Oneida, Humboldt
Road, Harwood Road, Oneida junction, Halle
! ton junction aId Roam ut IL II III, IL ~, 3 %
p M daily except Sunday; and SU II III. "A
p IN, sunday.
Trains leave Sheppton for Beaver Meadow
Road, stockton, Halle Brook, Ecklcy, Jeddo
and Drifton at % p IN, daily, except Sunday;
and w III, n III, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton junction for Beaver
! Meadow Road, Stockton, HaZle Brook Eckiey,
Jeddo and Drifton at 30g, Al, "a IN, daily,
except Sunday; and 10 0S m, IS y IN, sunday.
All trains connect at HazetOn junction with
| electric cars for Hazleton, Jeunesville, Auden-
ried and other points ON the Traction Com
pany's line
Trains leaving Drifton at 90 Il m, Hazleton
junction at ~ III, and Sheppton ut II II M,
connect at Oneida Junction with Lchgh Valley
| trains east and west.
Train leaving Drifton at 80 n III makes con-
ncctiOn at Deringer with T.. X. r. train for
! Wilkesbarrc, Sun0ury, Harrisburg and points
west.
For the accommodation of passengers at way
stations between HaZlcton Junction and Der
niger, an extra tram will leave the former
point at 50 p Ill, daily, except Sunday, arriv-
Ing ut Deringcr at ~ pm.
LUTHER c. SMITH, Superintendent
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-28

ments, and as agricultural land practi.
cally has no value outside of the work
of reclaiming and improving it, the ag-
riculturist has everything to gain and
nothing to lose from change in the tax
system now i'll vogue to one based on
the theory of land value tax for mu-
nicipal purposes and corporation tax
for those expenses necessary to the sue
cessful and economical carrying on of
the state government.
JUDsoN GRENELL.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-28
Printing! g
Billhe0ds.

There is a vast difference be
tween asking man bluntly for
money and presenting a Bill to
him. The begging method is not
business-like, and there is great
risk of offending the sensibility of
your debtor, thereby perhaps los
ing a customer who might other
wise be retained. 1t is a satisfac-
ton to every man who deals with
you to receive an itemized account
of his purchases and a receipt in
payment for the same. A Billhead
is the handiest means of giving
him both. He will know what he
pays you for every article, and
when he gets an opportunity to
compare your prices with others
he will have them handy for ref
erence. Do not use the common
stock variety which is furnished by
wholesalers. Be a little above
your competitor. Have nothing
but your own name and your own
business on the heading That is
the proper kind of Billhcad.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-28
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
FREELAND, SEPTEMBER IS, 1896.
A weak-Backed Governor.

From the Wilkesbarrc Leader
Governor Hastings chief function
these days seems to be the pardoning of
criminals and committing the sentence
of convicted murderers. He respted
Windisch than whom no more brutal
murderer has ever been i'm the tolls of
the law. He cummuted the sentence
Of young Bowman to life Imprisonment.
He has Just for the second time post
poned the date Of Eckcrt's execution.
In view of these things the question
now very naturally arises has Governor
Hastings real back bone like most
other people or has he Il cotton string
in its stead.
The people Of Luzerne county have
very good reason to feel atfrontcd in the
meddlesome and childish Interference of
Governor Hastings in its disposition Of
criminals condemned to death. This
county is the third in the state in point
Of population, but il is the first in the
state in the record of murders and horrid
crimes. We have been tcrrori2cd fol
years by a gang of reckless mrdcrcrs.
The most desperate crowd of them was
broken by the trial Of Hendricks and his
pals, though none Of them stretched
rope as they deserved so richly. They
got off with second degree murder. VIII
Hastings take occasion to pardon out
this gang of wild beasts when he is
asked?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-28
PLEASURE CALENDAR.

September 20.-"Old Dan Tucker a
farce-comedy, at Grand opera house.
Admission, 80, 81 and % cents.
October 4.-Base ball, Tigers VS.. Ath-
letics, of Hazleton, for championship
of Lehigh region, at Tigers Athletic
park. Admission, 15c.
October 9.-Ninth annual ball OF the
Young Mems c. 4. A. b. Corps at the
Grand opera house. Admission, 50
cents.
October 23.-Fifth annual ball under
the auspices of Division 10, A. O. II.
at Yannes' opera house. Admission,
so cents,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-28
T EHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.
L. August II, 1886.
Anthracite coal used exclusively, insurin.
cleanliness and comfort.

- AUGUST II, loJO.
Anthracite coal used exclusively, insuring
cleanliness and comfort.
ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
LEAVE FREELAND.
sos, s 45, 0 IS a IN, l 40, 3G p IN, for Jcddo
Lumber Yard, Weatherly, Mauch Chunk. AL
lentown, Bethlehem, Phila., Easton and New
York.
;6. 10 Al m, l 40, 233, 4 &c, 6 Ii, 7C6 d m,
for Drifton, Jeddo Foundry, Lumber Yard
Stockton and llazleton.
9o6, 10 Al I'm, Z 50, a6, 06 m, for Halle.
ton, Delano Mahanoy City, Shenandoah, Ash
land, Mt. Carmel, ShamokIn and Pottsville.
Z6, IS, 10 80, Ii 81 IN, 8 ID p III, ior sandy
Run, White Haven, Glen Summit, Wilkesbarre
and Pittston.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
10 Sc m for Sandy Run, White Haven, Glen
Summit and Wllkesbarrc,
IL ~ IN and "a p III for Drifton, Jcddo, Lum-
324 N for Delano, Mahanoy City. Shcnan-
dnah. Weatherly, Mauch Chunk, Allentown,
Philadelphia and New York.
ARRIVE AT FREELAND.
1876 5S, go 10 56, IL "a a IN, IL IS, 2 20, 5 Is,
46 p IN, from Hazleton, Stockton Lumber
Yard, Jeddo and Drifton.
1926, go, 10 56 a m, 20, 10 m, from
Deiano, Mahanoy City, Shenandoah, Shamokin
and Pottsvllle.
$40, 10 So a m, 12 IS, 6O7, 646 IN, from
New York, Philadelphia, Bethlehem, Allen
town and Mauch Chunk.
,, g5b ~ Al m, 2Si, O6 p m from Sandy Run,
Whltc Haven, Glen Summit, Wilkesbarre and
Pittston.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
SO, IL 81 a m and "a IN, from Hazleton,
Lumber Yard, Ieddo and Drifton.
IL 81 a IN, 10 M from Delano, Mahanoy
City Shenandoah, Shamokin and Pottsville.
For further information inquire of Ticket
Agents.
CHAS. S. LEE, Gcn'l Pass Agent,
Phila., Pa.
ROLLlN II. WILBUR, Gen. Supt. East. Div.
A. w. NONNEMACHER,A Asst g. p. A.,
South bethlehem, Pa
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-28

The Polish Independent Political Club.
of Frecand, meets on the first Saturday
evening after the 2Oth Of each month at
No. - West Walnut street. Its officers
are: Charles Bartoscvich. presidents
John Petrosky, treasurer: George Rym-
sha. secretary. An invitation is eX-
tended to all Polish citizens to become
members of this club.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-28
Good for Old and Young.

We know Of no better tonic for the sys-
TEN than Hires Improved Rootbeer 1t is
delicious, etfervescent, sparkling, appc-
tizing, and Il helper OF temperance.
Satisfying the thirst, enriching the blood
and fortifying the system against the
advances Of disease. A package makes
five gallons. Sold everywhere. The
tired paradcrs will find it very refresh
ing during the campaign marches.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-28

The attcmpt to tax personal property
having proved such dismal failure,
Is 1t not time to try some other
system? The right way to look upon
personal property is to regard it as
private affair in which the public are
not concerned so long as its use invades
the rights of no other person. The pos
session of those things which are the
result of the application Of industry to
natural resources is something to rejoice
at and encourage, not fine and dis
courage. They add to the sum total of
human happiness, and this benefit can
not be confined to II narrow circle, but
must spread over large territory. Its
nontaXation will result in the manufac-
ture and purchase of those things that
go to make life worth living, and this
means the immediate and direct en-
ployment of greater number and high
er class of laborers, which i'll turn will
condrce to the increase of wages and
the raising Of the rate of life, consum-
nations devoutly to be wished.
A tax on land values only means the
return to the public treasury of those
values which are not the property of in
Gividuals, but are the result of associa-
ton, 1t robs no man Of the fruits of his
toll and it stops the robbery of the
community for the benefit Of the indi-
vidual. 1t is a tax, too, that falls only
where money is needed for those expen-
ditures resulting from the congregation
Of great masses of people on small
areas. Land values lie in the cities
In the cities only the necessity arises
for expensive waterworks, electric light
plants, fire departments, paved streets
on concrete foundations, stone side
walks, etc. In the country the COM
munal expenses are confined mainly to
road monding and other minor conven-
fences. In neither case should the ex-
penditures exceed the rental value of
the land itself. exclusive of improve
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington. September %, 1896.
The silver men have had plenty OF
encouraging news from other states to
make up Tor the dlscouraging stories
irom New York which indicate the al
most certain loss OF that state. 1t is ad-
mItted by the Republicans that the flu
SION Whlch mas oeeh completed IN North
carolina between Democrats and Popu-
lists makes that state certain for Bryan.
In kentucky the Democrats and Popu-
lists have satisfactorily fused, which
places that state III the Bryan column.
\ letter received at Silver headquarters
from ID, w. Atkinson. president of the
Free SILVER CIIb' OF sparta Michigan,
says: "SIIver Is bound to win in Michi-
gan because ever! party III the state
has advocated free silver until the pres
Of Republicans and Prohibitionists who
can't and won't surrender the conviction
Of life time at the command Of few
politicians who change color in Il single
night. In any ordinary campaign the
Democrats and Populists combined are
Il tight match for the Republicans. and
now when thousands of ProhibtionistS.
and hundreds of Republicans are Joining
MS there can be no doubt Of the result. L."
Hon. John c. Cannon. Of Kansas. says
"You need have no fear about Kansas.
as the leading Republicans themselves
in private conversation concedr Kansas
tn nr,uu b1va q bat ,,.itI a. I.,di,,r
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-28

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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-28

If all the corporations in the state
should be taxed i'll proportion to the
benefits received, there would be no
necessity for any other tax. The farmer
could raise his cattle and fix his house
and barn with no fear that every i'm
provemcnt meant an increase in his
taxes. The manufacturer could enlarge
his plant and thereby be enabled to give
employment TO greater number of per-
sons secure in the knowledge that
greater effectiveness in production
would not be followed by an enlarged
fine for things from which he derived
no benefit.
AS it was in Michigan in 1894, so
was it III the great state of New York,
though not to such an extent. The state
has more than double the population Of
Michigan, and its wealth i'll corporate
capital is SO much larger that the true
figures are almost impossible to deter
mine. Yet this state i'll 1894 taxed cor
pOratiOnS aS follows:
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-28
LIVE QUESTIONS.
SUPPORT OF TIE STATE FROM FRAN
C1lSES.

SUPPORT OF TIE STATE FROM FRAN
CHlSES.
The popular idea Of the origin of gov
ernment is that it arose from the efforts
of the oppressed to prevent or curtail
the eXactions of the powerful. Herbert
spencer says government originated
with the desire of the powerful to more
completely exercise power over the un-
organizcd--the workers, the producers
of wealth. BE that as it may, the pres
ent purpose of government is to effect
saving in effort by doing those things
that can be better done collectively than
individually. And it has been found to
work advantageously. Phat is why
complete waterworks system, for ex-
ample, is cheaper and healthier than if
every family in a city had its own we'll
or hired its own water brought from the
nearest creek or river in barrels. As
every person i'll city uses on the aver
age between five and ten barrels of wa
ter a day all the year round, it is very
apparent that the charge of So or $40 a
year is very small sum for this accom-
modation.
As it is with water, so it is with
many other things. Cooperation, in sat
isfying our necessities and in charging
the expense in proportion to the benefits
given, is an important function Of gov
ernment Now, how can the money to
meet these expenses be raised to the
greatest advantage?
1t seems to me that the state can best
be supported from u tax ON corporations,
and the municipality from tax on
land values. The discussion of the rails
ing of the necessary revenue for the
general government is left for another
occasion. The municipality cannot eff
fectively reach corporations. Their as
sets are often scattered; their receipts
and expenditures are an unknown guam
tity. Besides they receive their right to
exist from the state, and they are in
more or less part under state super
vision. They enjoy privileges for which
they should return al equivalent, and,
as they lay the whole state under con-
tribution to carry on their operations,
let the state tax them sufficiently to
make the tax an equivalent for the ben
efts accorded. This is nothing but JUS
tice.
The state already does this to some
extent. In Michigan specific taxes on
corporations form an important part of
the income of the commonwealth. In
1894 there were received from this
source the following amounts:
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-03-17
NOVELTIES AND FANClES.

Cradles for dolls are made of wood
and decorated with poker-work. A
largc-siZed cradle of this sort makes a
most convenient and useful work.
basket.
An attractive addition to children's
toys are animals made of wood and
decorated with poker-work. There
arc cats, horses, pigs, dogs, camels and
tigers, and the meek and patient-lools-
ing .ule is not forgotten.
y novelty in pin-cushions is n tiny
stand upon which the cushion is placed.
This stand IS about fourteen inches long
Ivy eight inches wide, and rests On fou"
posts or balls. It is of wood, and is
either carved or decorated in poker
work, or it may be veneered in different
woods.
Pretty and useful photograph frames
arc made of circles of cardboard covered
with Grape paper. These are joined,
leaving q SPACE to slip the photograph
through. The paper may he painted
in floral design, or paper flowers made
md attached in vine pattern around the
margin. An exceedingly GGinty one is
made square, aid fem the middle
drawn back to either s;d& are tiny gar
lands of flowers and vines.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-03-17
ITALY AND THE VATICAN.

How h and Unequal Wal II
WaEed.
It is a sacred maxim. handed down
from nge to age by the sue
cessors of ST. Peter, that what
ever spiritual or temporal pow
crs have once been placed within
unimpaircd, says Macmillan's Maya
zine. They do not admit defeat. What
they 10 not possess de facto they at
least possess de jure. If they have lost
the substance, they retain the shadow,
and /: their earthly kingdom has l'cen
ilched that loss, they say, will Only
be continued for IL season, until that
brighter day returns when all shall
be restored. The holy Catholic church,
it is said. can afford to stand and wait.
An all-sccing providence will give her
the victory at last. In the belief Of all
truc Catholics it is certain that she
will eventually triumph as that the
sun will rise again.
Meanwhile, though she never hastes
she never rests and she presses on her
claims with Il pcrsistcncy which, if
often silent, never flags. They are
pushed increasingly from hour to bour,
from day TO day, from year to year
and ii tie outside world can forget
th5m or 1cride them the government
of King lIumbcrt never can It has
TO face on ~unslcCping foe whom no
good will can ever conciliate or APP
,.r;Hc. whose claims are incapable of
CON, .OmiGc. Both demand the right
10 ru!r in tho city of the Cuc&aiaanG Tic
victory Of ono side IncLn" 'i;c Inevitable
and 2EGui:. & humiliation OF lie other.
So is w"~vd The hico:ii,Ss tut Unequal
war. 1T, though t!c occuI"t;cn "f
the G~u:Tir2! IS *,uu":i" hG""! ~ i".rc.
the vatican has weapons i'll her arscLal
of n less material Lind with which she
is well able to harass and annoy.