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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-01
"BoUND ARE WE BY TIES"

for civilians Over 200, 900 men died
from diseases in the army, and it must
be supposed that the seeds Of death were
brought out Of the army by tens Of
thousands Of those discharged out of
hospitals or prison parole camps.
AS has been stated, the death rate is
now much under the average for civil
ians, and the veteran at 55 or SO, or even
at 57-which is probably the proper age
to consider--all things being equal, has
one chance in three of reaching rs and
of taking part in the double celebration
Of 1915, and each Of the 200, 900 or S00,-
900 alive at that date will have one
chance in five Of reaching the age Of S6
as one of the 40, 900 or so, 900 survivors.
At the present time there is about one
veteran in every 20 inhabitants, old
and young, Or in every IL adult men,
and at that date, if the population in
creases normally, there will be one to
every /, roo people or every $50 adult
men--that is to say that in the average
gathering Of $50 men at patriotic
meeting or on election there will be one
tottering veteran Of SO years. Not much
chance for g. A. R. gatherings then,
surely, except in the great cities. The
record of longevity among the veterans
Of the war Of 1912 and Of the Mexican
war sustains these calculations, and this
thought has been carried still further by
q writer in the Washington Post, who
sees the dramatic and interesting climax
a generation beyond that I have1hinted
at, or at the middle Of the next century,
with the centennial days of the Mex-
can war, the discovery Of gold and the
conquest of California He says:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-01

one desires. This horizontal effect is ad-
ditionally carried out by means of wide
collars and revers. Sleeves are invariably
large above the elbow, whether plain or
trimmed. Skirts are less flaring than they
were during the winter, and many among
the French models arc plain, although
trimmed ones enjoy greater favor here.
The long coat is not so much seen as it
was. 1t contains too much cloth for warm
weather wear and is not in general use, al
though it Is occasionally seen made up in
thin goods. Eton jackets are of course
short. The new blazers are also short, and
few coats havea basque more than 20 inches
long. If q fashion, such as the long coat,
or instance, happens to be especially be-
oming to some particular woman, if she
is sensible she will continue to wear it un-
til it becomes obsolete or SO nearly SO as to
appear absurd. The fashion was made for
woman, not woman for the fashion; there
fore let her exercise her privileges and
cleave unto the styles that are her own by
right of fitness.
White enters largely into costumes of
the present season. A sketch is given of a
gown of grenadier blue serge, with rather
full skirt and an exceptionally long coat
girdled at the waist by white silk sash
tied at the left side of the front. The coat
has flaring cuffs of white silk, and revers
and flaring collar lined with the same
material. The revers part to display a
white silk vest having wrinkled collar
and u full jabot of lace. A hat of black
lace straw accompanies the gown. 1t is
lined with blue velvet and trimmed with
black ostrich plumes.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-01

commenced nor maintained but for
their Spartan vim, their virile, aggres-
sive, unsordid and unfaltering attitude
when statesmen hesitated and civic
leaders trembIed; that the war was right
and everlastingly right and must go on
and that they would stand surety for
Its success.
Had there been no volunteer army with
Its blood up no martyred Ellsworths
and Bakers and Lyons and Winthrops
appealing from their crimson shrouds
with "lifeblood warm and wet" no
Cushings and Ellets and Wordens and
Morrises and Farraguts to tread the
decks, and no Hancocks, no Warrens,
no Uptons, no Clusters and no Sherl-
dams, with their firm battalions stand
ing sword in hand, the war would have
fizzled out in six months for lack OF en-
thusiasm. This is history, and because
the veteran when all was accomplished
glided quietly back to his commonplace
groove as a man and neighbor, show
ing many of the weaknesses and foibles
of the common mold, is no reason for
losing sight Of the grander part of him.
A slice of Napoleon's high minded phi
losophy would suit the occasion.
"Iremember nothing but Austerlitz, /"
he said when people complained to him
truthfully that his old marshal, Soult,
who had made Napoleon and France by
his wonderful genius and valor on that
field. was becoming ambitious and self
important. GAS he fought then think
of him." and there will be no room for
too familiar trifles to break the spell Of
distance
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pose it is not within your province to cor
rect her, unless she has previously recog-
nized you as o guardian of her manners.
If she chooses to convey ice cream to her
mouth by means Of spoon instead of q
fork, let her do it unmolested, the matter
is not of the slightest consequence, and to
be in constant fear Of transgressing some
occult law Of etiquette ones self or Of as
sociating with persons who do so is to
prove ones self not to the manner born
and by nature snob. Even If your coun-
try guest eats with her knife in public you
will prove yourself provincial by paying
any attention to 1t. 1t happens to be her
custom, to which she has been reared, and
if you nave cosmopolitan mind it will
be too insignificant thing to worry you.
However technically perfect your own
manners may be, they will exhibit glar-
ing deficiency IL you correct those Of other
grown persons Besides you are not sure
of infallibility, and 1t is not impossible
that you may occasionally rebuke per-
son who knows oven more on the subject
than you do and is behaving quite proper
ly in the eyes of the cultivated world
When she eats her cheese with her knife,
she is merely following the English habit,
and 1t is quite permissible to take olives,
corn, undressed lettuce and lump sugar in
the fingers. Again, many Of the actions
that you consider faulty may be due to
the absence of mind cngendered by lively
conversation, while others are accidents
to which anybody is liable.
Most persons whom one meets socially
have q sufficient knowledge Of etiquette to
be at ease among the people with whom
they associate, and that is all that is neces-
sary. a really we'll bred person never
rests her faith on such minute trifles as
the angle at which tho knife Is left or the
number of crumbs to be permitted to fall
from the piece of bread. Consideration
| for others is the foundation Of all good
manners, and the man or woman who
lacks that has mere affectation in the
place Of tact and true politeness.
The sketch shows gown Of rose and
gold changeable silk. The skirt drapery
is Of white mousseline dc sole, the bodice
of white guipure, the sleeves and girdlc OF
old yellow satin and the two bows OF
| cherry velvet ribbon, -pyA
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-01

Herein Sre we admonished by unseen lips
and innumerable voices that the day will some
time dawn when of all the Grand Army of the
Republic, now year by year closing in thinner
ranks around the graves Of their departed COM
rades, there shall be but one survivor TO stand
lone watch at the portals Of the eternal camp
ing ground"
tits an impressive If not bewilderinF thought.
Il carries us TO period when the millions of
today shall be doubled, and when among the
teeming hosts busied with their own arnbi-
tions, confronted with new responsibilities,
radiant in the light Of new revelations, stran-
gers, except through history, to the mighty
events out OF which so glorious destiny was
wrought, this solitary soldier shall be the sole
reminder and incarnation, as it were, Of the
heroic age Of the Union.
The war Of the American Revolution closed
in 1888. At that time soldier belonging to
the regiment of New York militia commanded
by Colonel Marinus Willett, who had been
four years in the army, was young man Of
R3. Eighty-six years later, April 8, 1859, having
reached the great age Of 100, he was gathered
to his heroic fathers at the town of Freedom
mot inaptly named), Cattaraugus county, n. Y.
His name was Daniel F. Bakeman. and he was
the last Of the Revolutionary pensioners under
special act Of congress-.
The last of the Revolutionary pensioners on
the regular roll was Samuel Downing Of Sara
toga county, N. Y, who enlisted as a private in
1880, when only "A, and died in 1857 at l0l.
Only q years ago there walked among US
one who bore q musket at tho surrender of
CORVALLIS, yet lived to hear the tidings Of the
surrender at Appomattox!
These incidents furnish no data, of course,
on which to base exact foreknowledRe of the
time when there shall remain in the land Of
the living only single soldier of the great ar
mics that were disbanded in 1865, but 1t is not
unreasonable to suppose that, even If none Of
the veterans Of the war sspared to the extraor-
binary age Of Daniel Bakeman, 1t will be re-
served to some Of them to turn the century
point. II there is soldier who, like Samuel
Downing, was but II when discharged from the
service, and lives to Downing's age, he will die
| in 1910. II 20 at the time of his discharge, and
he lives to the fivescore and nine Of Daniel
Bakeman, he will die in 1851. The chances are
that the man who is destined to bear the proud
but melancholy distinction of being the last
survivor will not be living later than 1850
And what q retrospect will be his rs, stand
ing upon this remote and isolated acclivity,
he peoples the hazy distances OF the past with
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-01

armies and banners; with the great captains
long since called to their reward; with the
charge and countercharge Of legions melting
in the smoke Of the conflict; with tie sheeted
dead that haunt vast battledelds; with the
final blending into skies Of blue the vanishing
clouds of gray, the aftermath of glory, the
grand review, the grateful incense Of peace
and the line of march toward Immortality, Of
which uncounted headstones are then the
only traces, save his worn and weary self,
waiting for the signal Of welcome from the
shining ramparts just above him!
Sixty years from today 1t may be, in some
great cemetery of the nations dead, or haply
within some quiet churchyard, will be reared
a mound of flowers over the grave Of the last
survivor, for, though lie be a stranger among
strangers, waif upon the shore left by the re-
ceding tide, with not comrade to bear him
company, he will not be unbefriended. There
will be sons of veterans, grandsons Of veterans,
daughters and granddaughters Of veterans TO
guard his declining footsteps, to smooth his
dying moments, sublimer far than those of
Napoleon at st. Helena, to write his wondrous
epitaph and over his ashes build q fitting mon
ument.
Many and momentous may be the changes
that our country in the evolution Of its prog
ress shall meanwhile witness. The flag that
floats above us this morning in all its constel-
lated splendor may CLEAN with other stars,
transplanted to its azure field from both the
northern and southern ornaments. New con-
ditions may be developed to challenge the pro-
foundest philosophy and bravest statesman
ship of the age in their adjustment to an ad-
vancing civilization. Dangers that we wotnot
of may arise in the solution of social and eco
nomic problems to further tax the stability of
our institutions. But in Gods good provi-
dence the covenant of union, sealed with the
blood of opulent self sacrifice, the fragrance Of
which ascends today from hundred thousand
altars, shall remain unbroken and immutable,
like the bow of promise in its beauty, but like
the overarching heavens themselves in its
bending majesty and perennial duration.
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SOMETHING ABOUT SILKS.
The Best China and India Silks Come From
LYONS.


All tho best china and india silks, so
called, come from Lyons. In fact, there
is no sort of silk tissue not made there
and better made there than anywhere else.
Damask, forerunner of brocade, came
from Damascus. Indeed there is flavor
and fragrance Of the east through all the
bead roll Of silken stuffs.
Designing silks is something that EN-.
ploys and pays well for much Of tho best
artistic talent N France A pattern that
takes means fortune to the mill that
makes it. Each house has its own pattern
makers and guards jealously the fruit Of
their labors.
A pattern cannot be protected by letters
patent. A largo buyer may, though, Sc
cure from tho maker exclusive control of
the sorts he buys. 1t behooves him to buy
carefully, prayerfully. The verdict of a
petty jury is not more uncertain than that
of the silk wearing public. Shrewd ad
vertising, good display, may do something
toward influencingit, but the pattern that
toward the close Of the season is volumi-
nously in stock is at once hewed down in
price and cast upon tho bargain counter
Each year there are new surfaces in vari-
ETY., but all Of them resolve themselves
into the original elementary combinations
possible to the handloom. Moire has its
season when it is unreasonable, stripes
come and go, but silk goes on forever.
The use Of it increases yearly, and it
safe to say that the consumption will dou.
BILE in the next go years.
Yet the market for raw silk is merely
"steady." China, Japan and India are
such inexhaustible storehouses Of 1t that
they can send us twice our needs without
materially affecting the price.
There have been sporadic efforts to raise
silk in the United States, but SO far We
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-01

A hasty and inconsiderate breeze played
a mean trick day or two ago on the little
old woman who grinds hand organ on
Fourteenth street near Sixth avenue A
black tin placard hung on the front of the
wheezy instrument, telling in white letters
to passers by, 81 am paralyred." Sudden
ly a vigorous gust of wind swept around
the corner, and catching the placard on the
under side swung it well out of its perpen-
dicular and turned 1t completely over.
When the wind, the dust and the flying
particles of paper subsided there sat the
little old woman mechanically grinding
out annie Rooney" behind the pathetic
incription on the sheet of black tin; "Kind
friends, | have been blind since childhood" ."
New York Times
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NAV lQ lhA

MAY Id, l09A
Train leaves Scranton for PHILADELPHIA and
New York via. d. & II. r r. at I45 am, 1906,
%8S and IL. .3S p m. via D., L. & w. R. r., 500,
SgS, ll,2O a: M, and l.O D. m.
Leave Scranton for Pitteton and Wilkes.
Barre, via D.. l.. g W. R. R., 500, a08 ll.&
a. m, lSo a5O. 6.07. $50 p. m
>, Leave Scranton for White Haven, Hazleton,
pottsville and all points on the Beaver
Meadow and Pottsville branches. via E. & w.
Y, g. 40 am, via d, 3 H R.R. at 7.45am, R.05,
2.SS, 4UO pm, via D., L. g. w, r. R., COO, sos,
n;D am, l.3O, 35p.m.
=, Leave Scranton for Bethlehem, Easton,
heading, Harrisburg and all intermediate
points via d. & Il. X. X, 7.i5 am, 1905, 238 IL 3S
Pm, via D., L. s. W, r. R..6OO,S.0s. 1la0 a. m.
Leave Scranton for Tunkhannock Towanda,
Elmira, Ithaca, Geneva and all intermediate
points via D. q II. r. RS - In, Il vs. and ll3S
p m, via u. l.. d W. r. R., sos am, L30 D. IN.
Leave Scranton for Rochester. Buffalo, Nj
agara Fails, Detroit, Chicago aud all points
west via ID. q H. r. R., S.45 am. ,l205 o. ISL 83
p m, via D. L. & W. R r. and Pittstou
gunction, AUS am, lSo, $50 p m, via E. s. W.
For Elmira and the west via sslamanc,, via
u. q ~ X X. s.45 Am, l205,6.05 D. m. via D..
l.; q w. K. X, sos @. M, l30 and d07 p. IN.
Pullman parlor and sleeping or L. Y. chair
cars on all trains between L. & B. Junction or
Wilkes-Barre and New York Philadelphia,
Buffalo and Suspension Bridge
ROLLlN H. WILBUR, Gen. Supt
GHAS: s. LEE, Gen. Pass. Ag't, Phila. Pa.
A W W.NONNEMACHER,As Asst Ger. Pass. Ag't,
South Bethlehem, Pa.
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never takes hor minute to dress may be
fully assured that there will be abundant
shortcomings in her raiment to bear wit
ness to the truth Of her statement. The
bonnet and dress covered with dust col
lected during Yesterdays walk the veil
badly adjustcd hooks that seem to have
mortal antipathy for their corresponding
eyes; luckess hairpns hanging, like the
sword Of Damocles, by single hair. These
are some of tho sins Of omission or COM
mission that tell us she ldevotes insult
cient time to her toilet. Believe me, you
may possess the most expensive of gowns,
bonnets, boots and gloves,( yet If they are
improperly cared for and lcarelessly worn
your neat littlo neighbor, with her made
over dress and hor last yepr's bonnet, will
put you to shame in the matter of personal
appearance. There Is gentility about her
which brings her the most pleasing atten-
tions, and men and womeI, alike pay her
homage because shc is SO reat and trim.
She Is firm believer In thai last look in
the mirror. If the mirror Is b full length
one, so much tho better, for things some-
times 60 wrong with tho lower Inrt of cos
tune, Of which the wearor, locking down
upon herself, Is quite ignorant but which
are perfectly evident to evorybcay else.
A sketchiis given of a gown Il old blue
batlsto trimmed with white guiJhro. The
sash Is of white satin.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-01
HIDDEN TREASURES.

There are treasures locked and sealed,
Never to the eye revealed;
There are songs whose hidden flow
Mortal ear can never know.
There are flowers whose perfect hue
Seems to shrink from common view,
And q ruthless human touch
Is q death blow unto such.
There are lives that stand alone,
To the outer world unknown;
Only here and there they find
Kindred spirits in mankind.
Scattered through the crowded street,
One or two we sometimes meet;
What on earth can be so rare
AS the love such faces wearl
What In heaven can excel
The serene and magic spell
Found In such responsive love,
Leading Us to God above2
Annie Russell in New York Ledger.
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Mr.. Trailok's EIporionc ss.

In his seafarng life the late Henry Fra
lick, Of Grand Rapids, had mary advent
ures, among them that of being towed by
asperm whale eighty miles in circle be-
fore the monster was brought to Gay, He
visited 81, Helena and brought home a
twig from willow tree that grw over
Napoleon's grave, He planted it N New
York state and saw II grow to q large tree,
When clerk at the Exchange hotel IN De
troit. In 1880 the great land speculation
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FRlLLS AND FURBElOWS.
Even Blazers and Eton Jackets Arc Orna
mented With Them This Season.

Not only is millinery more profusely
decorated than it was last year, but every
thing else is correspondingly more ornate.
Frills and furbelows of all kinds adorn
gowns and wraps, and even blazers and
Elton jackets have been ornamented out of
their pristine character. This is very be-
coming freak Of fashion to the slender
American type of woman, and she had
better make the most of it.
Every indication of height in the matter
Of sleeves has disappeared, but they are
permitted to extend horizontally as far as
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-01

To cure canker get white pine bark
fresh from the tree, If possible, and steep a
strong tea from it. In another dish steep
a strong tea from common sage leaves
Strain and put equal quantities togethe,
while hot, adding enough pure bees honey
to make it very sweet. Use it either warm
or cold, rinsing the mouth and garghna
the throat with 1t several times a day. II
some should chance to beswallowed there
need be no cause for alarm.
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THE G. A. R. IN THE FUTURE.

The veterans passed the half century
point some years ago. How long will
they remain upon the stage in sufficient
numbers to give spirit to ceremonies
commemorating the civil war? Twenty
years from now we shall be celebrating
the centennial of the victories at Lun-
dy's Lane, Lake Champlain and Balti-
more; also that of Jackson over Paken-
ham at New Orleans, and about that
time the semiceptennial Of the closing
battles of the civil war. Is it daring
assumption to presume that there will
then be living twice as many Union
veterans as there were boys in blue on
any of the battleflelds Of 1S6l-5? There
are good grounds for believing that such
will be the case.
There were about 2, 200, 900 individ-
uals recruited for the Union armies, Of
which number 800, 900 Official figures)
died in service, and at least 40, 900 died
after discharge during the war who are
not included in the government statis-
tics At the close Of the war, then, in
1865, there were living about l, 600, 900
veterans averaging about 26 years OF
age. At the average rate for men in
health the number would decrease in
80 years about 4S0, 900, leaving 1,120,-
600 survivors in 1894. About four years
ago the pension and Grand Army roles
and the rosters of veteran associations
showed 1850, 900 survivors, but part Of
the figures were not trustworthy, and
a revision Of them, together with the
deaths of the past five years, has
brought the number down to !, 1000, 900.
In other words, there have been 900, 600
deaths in 30 years, an increase of the
usual mortuary rate. But if there are
only a million left, these being of ad-
-vanced, age and the mortuary rate has
been excessive thus far, does that argue
against marshaling an army Of them 20
years hence? Their average ages now
are about 90. The death report Of the
departments of Michigan and New York
for 1898 and Of the national encamp-
| IuSuU lOT luG WuOlO Oull6u DIuttS lOI
1892 shows that the mortuary rate is
less than the average recognized by in
surance actuaries.
The Michigan report for 20, 900 veter-
ans, averaging 55 years, showed NOR
tality Of Is to 1000, that Of New York
a rate Of 20 in 1000 among Al, 900, and
the national report for 400, 900 men, in
Guiding inmates of soldiers homes, pre-
sumably the least healthy Of the surviv-
ors, rate Of II to /, 900. The average
age of the veterans in 1894 is usually
fixed at So by experts, and the rate Of
mortality for average men at that age is
about % in 1000. That the loss since
the war has been excessive no one will
dispute, but that naturally would occur
in the decade following the soldiers
discharge. Men were discharged for
wounds and diseases by the hundreds Of
thousands, and no doubt death claimed
them within few years at rate three
or four times preater than the average
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No tents at Pittsburg, says Command
er in Chief Adams. The veterans aver
age IS years Of age, and the older boys
arc Just the ones who do not wish to
miss an encampment nor come away
with aches and pains. So the quarters
will be in substantial barracks or in
hotels, halls and private houses.
G., X. LENNOX.