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The Iola register., 1900-10-26
They We're Five to One

Down at the Missouri Pacific depot
last night there just happened to be
five travelling men. f. H. Funston
and Abe t'rakes, fusion candidate for
secretary of State, were also in the
crowd and number of smeltermen.
The political ball got started and in a
few minutes all were engaged. Some
body suggested that travelling men
were not working men and that Bryan
was the boy for the workingmen.
Then those five men lit-every mothers 5
son of them being a Mckinley man
and they put up the hottest little cam
paign talk ever heard in this town and
they wound up one local orator wound
up Abe Frakes and welcomed and
wound up every man who put in.
They knew whereof they spoke and
they said that the travelling men all
over the country are campaigning
with might and main for Mckinley
and the good times and the increased
work they are getting now
The editor of the Fordville, Ky.,
Miscellaneous, writes as a postscript
to business letter: 81 was cured of
kidney trouble by taking Foley's
Kidney Cure" Take nothing else
Campbell g. Burrell.
The Iola register., 1900-10-26

and cheerfulness 500.
disappear when the hid
neys are out Of order
or diseased.
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that II Is not uncommon
for a child to be born
afflicted with weak kid
neys. lfthe child urin-
ates too offen if tho
The Iola register., 1900-10-26

urine scalds the flesh or II, when the child
reaches an age when it should be able to
control the passage, It is yet afflicted with
bed-wetting depend upon IT. the cause Of
the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment o.
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due to diseased condition Of the
kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as
most people suppose.
Women as we'll as men are made mis-
erable with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect Of
Swamp-Root is soon realized. 1t is SOLD
by druggists. in fifty EIf
cent and one dollar nf7lrli-9'yE1 "a
sizes. You may have n sIIii
sample bottle by mail ~ l!4s h.ls:siss 70 u 2
free. also pamphlet tell Homo Of swaup Root
ing all about It, including many Of the
thousands Of testimonial letters received
from suffer srs cured. In writing DR.. Kilmer
& Co., Binghamton, N. Y, be sure and
mention this paper.
The Iola register., 1900-10-26
Women as Well as Men
Are Made Miserable by
Kidney Trouble.

Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis
courages and lessons ambition; beauty. vioot
The Iola register., 1900-10-26

81 have always used Foley's Honey
and Tar cough medicine and think /
the best in the world" says Chas
Bender, a newsdealer of Erie. Pa
Take no substitute. Campbell g.
Burrell.
The Iola register., 1900-10-26
Barn of Hay Burned.

About I O'Clock last Friday people
all over town noticed red glare in
the northeast part of town but no one
knew whether it was "a bonfire or a
building. After about fifteen minutes
an alarm was sent in and the fire de-
partment made run and discovered
that the barn behind the old Hogue-
land property on east Lincoln street
was burning. 1t. is the property of
Mr.. W. II. Layton and was full of
baled hay, about fifteen tons. The
fire burned rapidly and everything
was lost. Mr.. Layton and some of
the neighbors think that the fire was
OF incendiary origin and he has
offered a reward for information lead
ing to the arrest and conviction of the
guilty parties. And everybody will
agree that if there is anyone in town
mean enough to wantonly destroy
another's property he ought to be pun
ished to the full extent of the law.
The Iola register., 1900-10-26

DON'T BE deceived or humbugged
by people who claim the discovery
some hitherto unknown herb or root
in swamps, or on some mountain or
prairie, for the cure of kidney or
bladder trouble. Any doctor or drug
gist will tell you that such claims are
fraudulent. Foley's Kidney Cure
simply contains remedies that are
recognized by the most skilful ply
sicians as the best for these com
plants, so don't be credulous or
FOOLISH. Campbell q Burrell.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
A SMART REPORTER. j..
The Bishop Did Not Think St. Peter
Could Keep Him Out.

THE brightest reporter l ever knew"
said a newspaper man, was Billy Gay
lor, who died at Hot Springs in 1895.
an item, and that reminds me of a lit
tie story about the last incident of his
career. He had been assigned by a
certain Chicago daily to interview an
eminent bishop about a schism in the
Church. The bishop didn't want to talk
and wouldn't see him, but Gaylor
bribed a servant to let him into the
hall, and he waylaid the dignitary as
he was coming through. He was Or
dered out for his pains, but next day
he penetrated the house again on some
pretext or other, and was again fired.
He repeated the exploit three or
four times with similar results, and
at last the bishop coming home late.
at night found Billy sitting in his
study reading the Bible. Nobody could
explain how he got in, but the prelate
wilted and told him what he wanted
to know, on condition that he would
go away and stay away
shortly afterward poor Gaylor got
galloping consumption and died, and,
happening to meet the bishop at a
church conference, I told him that the
young man who had once so molested
him would never do it again.
q" Let us hope that he is in heaven
said a clergyman standing by.
" No doubt he is, he replied gently.
I don't think they could keep him
out
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

The helated appearance of the foregoing
statement. We Inc undersigned believe, de
III nds somc' xplanatiun, tho .gh the cause Of
delay is due 10 an ther source rs will be
manifest in the peiIsitl hereof
When the Auditors assembled for the plr-
pose of examining the nc cunts of the Board
of directors, secretary, steward. Etc. they
were confronted with the surprising tnct thar
during the year just closed, one of the Dirpc-
tors retained "a his salary the sum of $50, and
expenses to the amount OF SI..0, and gave as
his reason that the law under which the
Mitdle Goal Field Poor District was created,
allowed but so, per annum and expenses.
only one of the Dir ctorS took this view of
the salary question, the other twt retaining
salary mt the rate of 500, per annunI, II Gus
first time the salaries of the Directors was
questioned and one of the auditors insisting
On the enforcement of the act of 1862, the
Auditors appealed to the solicitor of the Poor
ed for the welfare of the District, but that Of
fetal declined to advise the Auditors, claiming
he was the counsel OF the Directors, notwith-
standing his fee for services is paid out of the
Poor District funds.
The Carbon County Court was next appealed
to but the Court fearing, perhaps, that it
would he compelled to sit in Judgment on
the case, also refused to advise us, but sug-
gested that if the Directors took $500 per an
mum, they could be compelled to show by
what authority they do so
All means to adjust the difficulty in n fair
and honorable manner having failed and being
without authority to retain counsel, except ut
onr personal expense, we feel that we have
performed our official duty in laying the facts
before the people, so that If there are any in
dviduals, or organizations, disnosrd to take
the matter In hand, il is their privilege to do So
J.. G. Luhrecht, Andito,s
j. w. Muloy, Nuu''ors
Attest: Jas. A. Sweeney, Secretary.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

The Puerto Rico bill is the first leg
islatiVe translation of expansion into
a language understanded of the peo-
pie. They see now what all the
rhetoric means. Expansion promised
glory and it produces brutality. 1t is
asked for bread and it gives a stone
Under the cruel whip of the organiza-
tion which controls the organization
the party of moral ideas has been
driven against the moral sense of the
country, has given it's opponents heart
and hope, and enters upon the presi-
dental campaign divided and dis
credited. President McKinley's atti-
tude in this whole matter is to be dis
cussed on higher than personal
grounds. The poor figure he cuts as
man we pass by, but as the incum-
bent of a great Office he has brought
humiliation upon it as well as upon
himself. To stand by" him is impos-
sible for his most earnest supporters,
since he does not stand by himself No
man can serve two masters, nor a sin
gle master with two minds, neither of
which he himself knows. Il had
hoped" sneered a Democrat in the
house yesterday, that there was one
question of which the president was
not on both sides" There was no an
swer to the taunt, for there could be
none. What a pity that Mr.. Mckinley
forgot that a handful of tobacco grow
ers and sugar producers had no right
to usurp the office of president of the
United States.-New York Evening
Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

pitfalls outside of the District charge of Sl75
per week per inmate is made For the MAIN
tenapce and transportation of these poor
people in the last year 1t cost the district in
round numbers about $500. The cost in Ollr
own institution per inmate per week is Sl.30, Il
difference of ~ cents per head This being
the fact VIZ recommend us n matter OF ecOno-
my aud for the better care of our insane that
IL hospital sufficiently large for the muinten-
uuce of all be erected on the grounds belong
ing to the district.
This plan of taking care of the insane is be-
ing universally adopted and iu many districts
not nearly us large its our own After housing
and making proper preparations Tor the keep
ing OF the insane under this plan We cOuld eX-
peCJ state aid, which would be some relief IN
their maintenance.
We also recommend that hereafter the di-
rectors shall ask for bids for furnishing sup
plies giving the contract TO the lowest re-
spunsinlc bidder, II system which is in vogue
in all well regulated institutions III the cUuu-
We are of the opinion that the adoption of
this system Will be the means OF saving many
dollars to the institution and will lie more
satisfactory to the taxpayers in general.
Wealso suggest that the value OF the farm
products be enumerated ut IN .rkct prizes
hereafter, so that the taxpayers may know
what is realized i'll this direction, al ter the cost
of production is taken therefrOm. We are of
the opinion that the earnings of the iurn
should be spec tically stated each year and
entered us part OF the income of the instltu-
tiOn.
In behalf of the people of the Poor District
we tender their heartfelt thanks To Mrs. sophia
Il. Coke, of Drifton, for her many donations To
the institution ana Tor her untlfhp interest III
the poor and distressed OF the district.
We notice i'll the tobacco account that SB.2I
were spent for cigars This is Il luxury not
that hereafter this item in the expense list be
dispensed with.
J.. G. Lubrecht,
). W. Muloy, Auditors.
.I.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
Literary by Heredity.

"I don't see,' said Mr. Mulberry,
"why you women have that Mrs. Wat
kins in your literary club. The rest
of you are bright enough, but she's
dull as dull as can be-" IT'S this
way" answered Mrs. Mulberry: Mrs.
Watkins's t-grandmother's half
sisters second cousin by marriage
could trace her descent from Chaucer
So you see, after all. with such liter
ary claims, we couldn't well leave
Mrs. Watkins out. t.'-Harpers Bazaar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
Mans Tears.

The grand dame was visibly affected.
IF l give you five cents will you get
intoxicated with it?" she asked feel
ingly The unfortunate stared as if
stung. mo, no mol" he protested Wild
ly. ''I'll take it home to my wife, and
she will probably give cotillon with
it," There We're tears in his voice, and
a mans tears, you know, are impress
sive.-.Detroit Journal
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

A Kansas City (Mo) negro was a few
days ago sentenced to 40 years in the
penitentiary for pocketbook snatching
Trusts and monopolies of all kinds
are grabbing property by the million,
but instead of their members going to
the penitentiary they go to congress
and the White House and induce the
legislative and executive branches of
the government to violate the plain
mandates of the constitution by impos-
ing tariff duty against the products
of our own country. They will next
try their persuasive powers on the su-
preme court. Will it surrender to the
demands of the tobacco and sugar
trusts and violate the constitution by
declaring Puerto Rican tariff valid?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
Among the Wise.

First Young Woman-"Let's see;
who wrote Pickwick Papers?"
Second Ditto-"Dickens."
First-"Of course. I couldn't for the
moment think of his name.'
Second-"He was the author of
"Pendennis' and Under Two Flags
you know.
First-"O, yes, l know that. ."-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

OF Real Estate and Personal Property
taken and computed by the Directors
and Auditors
S9s,6O6 32
RECOMMENDATIONS.

In making our report at this time we deem
it part of our duty to make few suggestions
to the taxpayers of the district. The care of
the insane Of the poor district is now ques-
tion of much importanc ce-one that is yearly
taxing the energy of the Directors to proper
ly provide for the rapidly increasing list of
these unfortunates.
We have ascertaned by the audit that there
are now 1923 insane patients who are Il charge
on the Poor District. 45 of these are in the
Danvlle hospital and Is in the hospital Mt
Wernersville. and at the Laurytown hospital
49, making in all the above total.
For the maintenance Of the insane in hos
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
Only Three.

Friend-'"rhe gossips have formu-
lated regular Indictment against your
character. They say you We're ter
rible f1irt while abroad. Do you plead
guilty?"
American Girl-"Y-e-s; to three
Counts. New York Weekly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
Meant as a Compliment,

Don't you think, Mrs Spitely, that
this hat is little too gay for a ma
tronly woman like me?"
Not at all, my dear You know
that you're years younger than you
look'-Tit- Bits.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
PUBLIC OPINION.
HC~N


If Mr.. Quay is seated in the United
States senate the next legislature will
hot elect a senator. Mr.. Quay will not
have enough votes in that body to
elect him, but he may have enough
without spending several hundred
thousand dollars to prevent the cleo
ton of any one else, and at the end of
the session Governor Stone can ap-
point him again. And that is exactly
what is now in contemplation
delphia Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
Competition,

MAUD says she is madly in love
with her new wheel"
" Huh! Another case where man is
displaced by machinery" Household
Words.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

Some of McKinley's warmest friends
and the ablest men of his party are
disgusted at his lack of courage. He
changes front on important questions
of government policy as easily and as
frequently as he changes his coat. In
sisting in his message that our plain
duty is to give Puerto Rico free trade
he lacks the spinal column to insist on
the performance of that duty, and fell
in with the members of congress who
were bribed into a deliberate attempt
to violate the plain dictates of the
constitution by the tobacco and sugar
trusts. Editor Kohlsaat, owner of the
Chicago Times Herald one of the lead
ing papers of the country, severely
criticizes McKinley's policy or lack of
policy in dealing with the Puerto Rican
question. Kohlsaat is a radical Re
publican. and one of the men who help
ed to pull Mckinley out of the financial
hole few years ago. but Hanna is
the man who holds the line attached
to the bit in McKinley's mouth and he
drives him withersoeyer he will. If
Mr.. Mckinley thinks he can better af-
ford to part company with the Kohl
saats than the Hannas he will discover
his mistake later on.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
One of Fashions FrilIs.

81 hear they are trimming the bot
tom of skirts with fur
YES: that's another fashionable fur
Observation-Disclosures Bulletin.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
FREELAND, PA. APRIL ., 1900.

Judging by the amount of abuse that
Republican papers are bestowing upon
Bourke Cochran, it is safe to assume
that be is again in full harmony with
his party. Like all men who have
ability and a sense of honor he has
no use for a trimmer like Mckinley,
who has no idea today as to what he
will believe a month hence Every
body despises moral coward, and
after all the flip flops of Mckinley on
the currency question, Puerto Rican
question, civil service reform and Grim
inal aggression all thinking men have
come to the conclusion that he has
no convictions on any subject that he
has the courage to stand up for against
the wishes of Mark Hanna.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

IN the canton of Berne, Switzerland
the man who refuses to pay certain
taxes is punished by being prohibited
from entering a restaurant. The gov
ernment reasons that the man who has
money to spend for coffee, beer and
liquor ought to pay his debt to the
state. A law in this country forbid
ding those who owe the butcher, baker,
grocer, clothier or dry goods merchant
from entering saloons or theaters
would be a good thing both for the
tradesmen and those who spend money
for drink and amusement that ought to
go for the necessaries of life. Perhaps
such law would be declared unconsti-
tutional on the ground of being a cruel
punishment, for it would be terrible
punishment on some men to be denied
the privilege of entering saloon.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

How lightly certain United States
senators regard their oath of office and
their duty to their constituents is well
illustrated in the case of Senator
Thurston, of Nebraska, who recently
appeared before the supreme court of
his state as attorney for the Standard
Oil company He receives a salary
from the government and took a SOL
emn oath that he would faithfully rep
resent it's interests, and yet he appears
as the paid attorney of one of the
worst enemies of the republic. His
time as senator does not expire until
1901, and his place until that time is
in the senate chamber instead of ap-
pearing against the attorney general ri
his own state under pay of trust that
does not hesitate to bribe courts to
set aside laws passed to curb its power.
A man possessed of any sense of pro-
priety would have resented the offer
of a retaining fee under such circum-
stances, but the average United States
senator, being much more politician
than statesman, is ready to turn his
back on the proprieties whenever a
chance to promote self interest pre-
sents itself.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

There is larger need than ever in our
nations history for the old time reso-
lutte independence of character and po-
litical judgment which once character
lied the American farmer. Fifty years
ago the present corrupt party boss,
with his assessment of corporations
and control of legislation, would not
have stood for a moment before the
courageous farm judgment of the
country. Today this political mer-
chant, who trades in the temple on the
political and material fortunes of his
fellows, has fastened, octapus like, on
the nation and exercises most dan
gerous power in state and national
legislatures. The sentiment of the
farming class is no longer regarded by
the political boss with the wholesome
dread that ought to exist. This is
largely due to serious decline among
farmers of individual independence,
of political thought and action, a sub
stitution of mere party for patriotic
standards of judgment.-Hon. William
d. Hoard, President of the National
Farmers Congress.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09
DR.
STATISTICS.
ADMITTED DURING YEAR,

Male adu ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. -. a5
Female adults. s............,... .............. ~
| Male children. en..........,......... SEQ. ..... 4
Female children .,....,,............,....,, u
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-09

The subsidy scheme which Mark
Hanna and other millionaire members
of congress will try to force through
Will compel the taxpayers of the United
States to pay for plants to be used by
these millionaires and their friends to
carry on shipbuilding, business that
they declare is profitable This ship
subsidy scheme is not in the interest of
the whole people, but is intended to
put unearned public money into the
pockets of few individuals by grant
ing them special privileges 1t is on
par with the plan Of levying tribute on
the consumer to protect such infant
industries as the Carnegie Steel COM
pany, which makes a clear profit of
$3OO,O0O every day of the year.
1t must be humiliatfng to the great
jingo eXpansionist, Senator Beveridge,
to learn that he has been instrumental
in putting renewed determination into
the hearts of the insurgents, and there
by prolonging Mr. McKinley's scheme
of criminal aggression 1t is said that
his speech has been translated into
Spanish and distributed among the in
surgents to convince them that they
are to be subjugated in order to hold
the islands for commercial exploita
ton. Beveridge accused Senator Hoar
and others of having encouraged the
Filipinos by condemning McKinley's
policy of benevolent suffocation" as
an outrage against liberty loving peo-
pie. Now Mr.. Beveridge is open to the
far worse charge of melting the Fill
pinos to fight all the more ardently for
their freedom by admitting the reason
given by Senator Hoar as to the real
motive for the subjugation of the ISL
ands.