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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-12
MANSFIELD LAST NIGHT.
Ills Finished Delineation of the Character
Of Beau Brummell.


Richard Mansfield appeared at the
Academy of Music last night in Beau
Brummell," which was written by Mr..
Mansfield and Clyde Fitch The audi
ence was not such as to tax the capacity
of the house, but it was made up of the
most cultured and discriminating thea
ter-goers of the city
Seldom have Scrantonians had an op-
portunity Of seeing the mimic art
brought to such perfection as they did
in the work Of Mr. Mansfield last night.
He Is warm champion of that school
of acting which holds that the player
should loose his identity in the charac-
ter he assumes, and his work last night
showed how successful he IS in that
direction.
From the moment he appeared on the
stage as Beau Brummell," the elegant
man of fashion and the chosen friend
of the Prince of Wales, until he ap.
peared starving in miserable apart
ments in Calais, he was the character
he represented and never by manner
ism or forgetfulness did he mar this
mosaic of acting by obtruding Mr..
Mansfield. His manner is naturalness
itself and even the most minute detail
of makeup, dress or stage setting was
not neglected.
Mr.. Mansfield makes Beau Brum-
mell' a parsonage that can be admired
for his kindly and at times noble quail
ties, Notwithstanding his insufferable
conceit. His supporting company was
most capable, and included such we'll
known people as D. H. Harl1ins, ]. w.
j. Weaver, Henry Jewett, A. G. An
drews, w. n. Griffith, Jane Stuart,
Angela McCaull, Mrs. Mckee Rankin,
Rollnda Balnbridge and Helen Gliddon.
At the end of the second act Mr..
Mansfield was loudly applauded, but
declined to come before the curtain.
An attache of the company explained
to the audience that Mr.. Mansfield did
this because his appearance would tend
to destroy the illusion that it was
Beau Brummell' and not Mr.. Mans
field who was on the stage.
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the year in Lackawanna county, 10 be
presented at the next meeting of the as
ISOLATION, which will be held in Harris
burg. Dec. 26, q and 2S
Leon Sharp, aged %, employed on the
Deladare, Lackawanna and Western rail-
road, was taken to the Moses Taylor hos
pltal yesterday suffering from severe in
juries to his left hand. Sharp was ell
gagged In shuntlng and his fingers We're
caught between the buffers. Two fingers
will be amputated this morning.
A loss of 800 was sustained in promoting
the recent symphony concerts in Scran-
ton and Wilkes-Barre. There is a con-
census of opinion in both cities that it
would be a great loss to the musical
world If the excellent orchestra organized
by Professor Hemberger should now he
disbanded Hopes are entertained that
plans may materialize whereby the or
chestra may be placed on permanent
footing.
At a meeting of the Womans Christian
Temperance union yesterday afternoon
Mrs d. b. Hand, presiding, an interesting
review of the years work was given by
Mrs A. f. Yost. There was an increase
of 1000 members in the National union
and, although trade has been depressed,
the union had S5,6S4 in hand after dis
charging all liabilities. At the next meet
ing the report of superintendents of de-
partments will be delivered.
John Mulloy, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Pat
rick Mlulloy of Penn avenue, who died
Monday night at 11.45 o'clock, will be
buried Thursday morning at 10 o'clock,
with Il high mass OF requiem at st. Pauls
church, Green Ridge. Interment in Hyde
Park Catholic cemetery. Mr.. Mulloy was
20 years of age and was well known and
highly respected young man. He was en-
ployed as shipping clerk In NJ. j. Kellys
cracker and cake manufacturing estab-
lishment on Capouse avenue.
1t was decided at a meeting of the
members of Division No. Z, Ancient Order
Of Hibernians, Board of Erin, last night
to conduct an utertainment at Their hall
in the Jermyn building on LacFawanna
avenue the evening OF New Years Day
A committee on talent was appointed to
prepare a, programme and instructions
were given to get the best the city afford
ed. The entertainment will be exclusively
for members and those of their families.
Addresses will be delivered by State Treas
urer of the Order c. 7. Boland and other
prominent members.
A meeting of the joint streets and
bridges committee of city councils was
called for last night to award the con-
tract for the superstructure of the Linden
street bridge. "A quorum of the commit
tee of select council was present but not
quorum of the common, and therefore
no business was done. At tomorrow
nights meeting of common council bids
for the superstructure of the Roaring
brook bridge will be opened and 1t is cX-
pected that the joint committee will ap-
point date on which to meet and award
the contract for the two bridges.
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member that Napoleon was a Corsican
and spoke with slightly foreign ac-
cent all his life. Some Of the dramatic
critics have noticed peculiarity In my
accent, but none of them have discov-
cred the reason"
would you undertake, then, to play
any part, according to your conception
of theatrical art?"
Yes, indeed. | have played 'Koko'
and tried to be as thoroughly a low
comedy Koko as ! was ever the courtly
Beau Brummell. l would be as salts
fled to interpret five lines in a play as
be the leading man. This losing of self
Is so complete with me that after a per-
formance the physical exhaustion is
very great and | talk rot for an hour
to get back my mental and physical
balance"
''ro strike off on a new tack, has an
American actor fair chance to get the
reward of his genius?
About the English Actors.
mo, and the main opposing force Is
the foreign actor The English actor Is
'"'N'iiiNN with WIN anu
directly he lands Is taken up by so
ciety' and dined and feted ad nauseum
The papers are full of stories about his
habits, his mode of living, and his move
ments are chronicled in absurd detail
When he appears on the stage the the
ater is crowded at advanced prices
while his American confrere, often a
far better actor, is playing across the
way to a beggarly account of empty
boxes. All this is applicable only on
the hypothesis that this country is a
colony, and holds the belief that any
thing English is superior. / have often
thought that 1t would have been far
better for me. as matter of business,
to have invented peculiar sort of
Mansfield, and played that Mansfield In
every one of my productions. instead
of endeavoring to sink my identity in
the character | assumed. G.ad I done
so | would simply have followed the
example of more than one noted Eng
lish actor who has carried home for
tunes showered on him by American
playgoers."
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KILLED ON THE RAILROAD.
James Martin, Of Avoea, Mangled and
Dragged by Freight Train.

James Martin, Of Avoca, Mangled and
Dragged by Freight Train.
An accident happened at the Moosc
depot on the Delaware and Hudson
railroad at 7.S0 last evening which re-
suited in the death of James Martin.
of Avoca. He had been in Altemus
hotel and was waiting for a train to so
home. He is a mine carpenter by occu-
patton and was in his working clothes.
He heard an engine whistle and ran
out of the hotel, thinking it was his
train, stepping on the track ahead of
a fast approaching freight train, which
bore down upon him and whrled his
body thirty feet ahead of it, His body
was terribly mangled.
Coroner Kelley empaneled jury and
adjourned the inquest until tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock to take testimony
of the trainmen. Martins remains We're
taken home by an undertaken. He was
past middle age and leaves a wife and
family.
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Fancy Waste Paper Baskets. ..
PRATT'S BOOK STORE.
CITY NOTES.
Pay your Poor Taxes and save costs. I.

Pay your Poor Taxes and save costs
Scranton lodge, No. 2G3 knights of
Pythias, held a smoker last evening in
Odd Fellows hall on Wyoming avenue.
The work of flooding the base ball park
Will begin tomorrow. Excavating was be-
gun Monday to connect with the water
mains.
pigeon shooting contest will be held
on Gammon's hill, Hyde Park, today at l
o'clock. Several well known Shots" will
participate.
clasp key found yesterday at the COR
ner of Oak street and Main avenue Is at
the residence of Patrolman Duggan, SIG
Oak street, awaiting an owner.
At the annual meeting of the Christian
EndeavOr society of the Grace Reformed
church held last evening, an interesting
review of the work was given and new OF
ficers elected for the ensuing year.
The home of Luther Keller on Clay ave-
nue. has just been redecorated in the pre-
vailing empire style. The artist, Garrett
Davis, of New York, has produced a very
harmonious and chaste effect of color
and design.
Many friends of Henry Gernon, of Blng-
hafnton, N. Y. who is well known in the
city, will regret to hear of the death of his
daughter, Edna, which occurred on Mon
day last. The funeral will take place to-
day at Chinchllla at Up. m.
An entertainment will be given by the
members of the Ladies' Aid society, No
10, of Camp s. Sons of Veterans, at the
rooms Of Ezra Griffin post on Lacka-
wanna avenue this evening, when an
excellent programme will be rendered
Jacob Bois, Of Scranton, was arrested
at the instance of his wife, Lena Bois
yesterday upon the charge of desertion
Alderman Fuller committed defendant to
take his trial at the next court of quarter
sessions, August Jobs becoming his bonds
man in the sum of $500.
A church fair will be held by the men,
bers of st. Johns German Catholic church
In the church basement at Main avenue
and Luzerne street. tomorrow, Friday and
Saturday evenings. Several articles not
disposed of at last months fair in the
Music hall will be offered for sale.
Yesterday the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western company paid it's employees
at the Pyne, Holden and Taylor colleries.
Today and tomorrow the trainmen will
be paid. The Delaware and Hudson Canal
company paid Its employees on the Gravity
road and at Carbondale yesterday.
b. The first Twilight organ recital of
George B. Carter's second series will take
place at Elm Park Methodist Episcopal
church New Years Day at 4 p. m Mr..
Garter will be assisted by Miss Cecilia
Way, prominent New York dramatic
soprano and soloist of leading church of
that city.
Charles =. Derman, vice president of
the Pennsylvania State Musical Teachers
association, is busy on his report OF the
standing and the work done In music for
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-12
AT ALL SOULS CHAPEL.
Bazaar Was Opened There Last Night by
the Congregation.

The bazaar of the congregation Of
All Souls church began last evening in
the chapel on Pine street, near Adams
avenue. 1t will be continued this after
noon and evening.
A large variety of useful, fancy and
domestic articles suitable for Christ
mas gifts are on sale. The young
people have a fancy candy booth and
light refreshments are served. A most
enjoyable time was had by those who
attended last night.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-12
SHEERER'S DESERTED WIFE.
She Has Asked the Court to Grant Her
Divorce.

She Has Asked the Court to Grant Her
Divorce.
Mrs. Carrie Sheerer has applied to
court for a divorce from her husband
Ward Sheerer. The papers in the case
were filed yesterday by Attorney d. j.
Reedy.
The couple were married on May a.
1886, and lived together until July T.
1891, when it is alleged Sheerer deserted
his wife. They have not lived together
since.
Fountain Pens, Gold Pens and Pencils
at REYNOLDS BROS.
Leather Travelling Cases, Collar and
Gun Boxes.
PRATT'S BOOK STORE.
Do not forget 10 attend the auction sales
now being conducted at Freemans, cor
ner Penn avenue and Spruce street.
Bargains are secured at every sale.
Finest line of Davis Automatic Ink
stands at REYNOLDS BROS.
Buy the Weber
and get the best. At Guernsey Bros
Engraved Cards at REYNOLDS BROS.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-12

The New Webster Dictionary, bound In
Leather, for so cents, at
REYNOLDS BROS.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-12

Episcopal Prayer Books and Hymnals.
PRATTS BOOK STORE.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-12

Pabst's Milwaukee Beer, cool and spark
ling, ut Lohman's, Spruce street.
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Attend the auction sales of Diamonds,
Watches, Clocks, Silverwarc and jew
elry at Freemans Sales every afternoon
at 2.30 and 73O.
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oxford Bibles and Family Bibles at
REYNOLDS BROS.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-12

Plllsbury's Flour Mills have a capacity
Of 1850 barrels a day.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-12

Wood and Brass Easels.
PRATTs BOOK STORE.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-12

Beautiful Water Colors. Fac-smlles,
Photographers and Etchings, Framed and
Unframed
PRATTlS BOOK STORE.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-12

Catholic Prayer Books.
PRATT'S BOOK STORE.
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All kinds of Etchings, Engravings and
Water Colors at Grifiins new studio, 209
Wyoming avenue.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-12

Gold Pens and Pencils.
PRATTS BOOK STORE.
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am prepared to receive a limited num-
ber of plano pupils. For terms ETC., ad-
dress Richard +, Lindsay,
S22 Mulberry street.
Or at Powell's Music Store.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-12

Catholic Prayer Books, largest line in
the city at REYNOLDS BROS.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-12

Finest line of Calendars ever shown In
the city at REYNOLDS BROS.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-12

Excelsior Diaries for 1895.
REYNOLDS RROS
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Supper Served Each Night.

A conspicuous feature will be the to
8 o'clock supper which will be served ac-
cording to a different menu each even
ing; that for tonight is:
Turkey Cranberries
Dressed Cabbage Celery
Rolls olives Pickles
Cake Canned Fruit
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-04-11
As 10 Advertising.

Here IS the way an Obssrsirg advertising
genius figures out plain truth
Il is a safe rule 10 take advertising as y"u
would medicine-when you need it. Ad-
vertising IS the only medicine for sick busi-
ness, bat it must be OF good quality, just as
medicine must be good to DO good
Ii is poor policy to pubIist a misleading
ad- The palmer and more truthful il is the
better. Business men are coming 10 under
stand this more and more every day. The
time has passed when PEOPLE like to be
humbuegel Bsruum is dead.
Wien you have decided what 10 say and
how TO say IL. pick out the best paper you
can ind and use it. Remember that the
best paper is the cheapest, and the place to
put your iveriising is in the place that PeO-
pie look for their news. Make The ads.
newsy and they wall pay.
There IS nothing mysterious about adyer-
tisiug. It is an; exaeti iscience- IOu are
simply telling people where they can get
certain needed things. {. That's all there is Of
it. II you can tell them about something
they want, or ought to want-if you have a
good thing to Oifer-advertising viii sell il.
Most any sort Of advertising is useful, but
newspaper advertising is not only the best,
but il clsts less than any other kind-ser-
vice considered. You can get more cireuls-
tion-talk to more peoPle-for less money,
in newspaper, than in any other way Fig
ure IL cut and see
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-04-11
For Grown Folks.

al have a good deal Of sympathy for
the little people" writes Mrs. Kate Doug
as Wiggin in a paper on ~Clilirsn's
Rights" during their first eight or ten
years, when they are just beginning to
learn life's lessons, and when the laws
which govern them often seem so strange
and unjust.
"The child has right to place OF its
own, to things Of its own, to surround
ings which have some relation to its size,
its desires and its capabilities. How
should we like to live half the time in a
place where the piano was II feet high,
the door knob at an impossible height,
and the mantle shelf in the sky; where
every mortal being was out of reach ex-
cept a collection of highly interesting
objects on dressing tables and bureaus,
guarded, however, by giants three times
as large and powerful as ourselves, fOrev-
er saying, mustn't touch and if We did
touch we should be spanked, and nave
no other method of revenge save to
spank back symbolically on the molten
sive persons of our dolls?"
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Pensive PenciIings.

Don't ask the man who started in last
fall TO keep his furnace fire going all
winter long, without letting it go out
once, how he succeeded with his ex-
pertinent. There are some subjects that
are too delicate and TOO near the heart
for careless words.
When a physician is called to attend q
dude who thinks that he is suffering with
brain fever, his first task is to organize a
search expedition to find the brain.
1t doesn't speak well for a young man
when he has to send his last years sum
mer suit to a new tailor to be cleaned
and pressed because the tailor who made
the suit for him last spring hasn't had
his bill paid yet.
A little Someryille girl who went tC
ride the other day told people when she
came back that she had been clear up on
top of the hill, 'tO the place where the
Mischief water comes from
So far as getting rich is concerned, get
ting what you can often isn't so impOr
tant as keeping what you get.
Economy is wealth, but if everybody
should be economical, fewer people woulC
get immensely rich.
II the worthless stock" scattered
through the country, that is only goOC
for wall paper. were to be used for tina
purpose, lots of new houses would have
to be built to get wall surface enough tt
put il on.-lSumerrids Journal.
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Short and Sweet.

A wOman's rights lady remarks that
the highest use of man is to have his
life insured for his wife's benefit.
A man who registers at hotel under
an assumed name should be careful to
avoid any unnecessary fourishes.
Hen trails in the garden indicate fowl
play, of course, and in a certain sense
may be accepted as vital proofs.
Honor to whom honor is due. Let it
candidly be said that some book agents
are bigger bores than others.
The man who doesn't give advice, and
the man who can take advice gracefully,
are both bound TO be popular.
Truth and soberness do not always 90
together. 1t very often happens that a
man is frankest when he is drunkest.
A man is judged by the clothes that he
wears at business and a woman by the
clothes she does not wear in the ball
room.
chemist says wood can be made
palatable and nourising. Tisn'E the
kind Of board we are hankering after,
howeyer.-Teras Siiings.
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The Origin of "Deadhead."

Fly years ago the principal avenue of
Detroit had toll gate close TO the en-
trance of the Elmwood cemetery road
AS the cemetery had been laid out some
time previous to the construction Of the
plank road, it was arranged that all fu-
neral professions SD ould be allowed "a
pass along the latter toll free.
One day as DR.. Pierce, well known
physician, stopped to pay his toll he OBJ
served to the gatekeeper:
Considering the benevolent character
of our profession, think you ought tc
let us pass free Of charge" ,"
"No, no, doctor" replied the man" We
can't afford that. You send to many
'deadheads' through here as it is.
The story travelled, and the word be-
came fixed.
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Encouraging Crop prospects

At the beginning Of the spring Of 1894
encOuragements in crop forwardnsss, soil
fertilization, tree and vine appearances, are
Of the brightest and most hopeful character
Fruit trees and vines in this part Of the
state are in the best possible favorable con-
ditiOns. the budding Of many varieties be-
ing peroeptible, and if the weather continues
for a week at the present stages, blossoms
will bloom in all directions. The same ele-
ments are producing like effects on grape
vines. while among the several varieties Of
lowering plants and vines there IS 4 show
Of remarkable advance, highly encouraging
Of good crops and products the coming
summer. Grass is also in unusually for
ward condition, and proof that the ground
is certainly free from frost, so that if no
Unforeseen drawback occurs the hay crop
of the coming summer will be far above an
average.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-04-11

One Of the most remarkable old men in
Delaware county is Edwin Urban, residing
on the HOch road. in DIrby township. He
has a record hard to eclipse. He is in his
SD year, and says be never smoked pipe
or cigar, never ehewed tobacco, never owned
a dog. watch or gun, except an old gun be
bought at sale for 81, and he thinks some
body stole that for be never shot load
from it. lie never ate but three oysters,
never drank glass of beer, never was at a
circus or theatre, and was never more than
thirty miles from home but once in his life.
He never belonged to any association or
secret order. He went to work when boy
for three ippeny bits a day, and has never
been idle day since for want or work. He
thinks tha: honest labor and temperance
never hurt anybody. He has an idea that
he has squared more timber for building
purposes than any other man now living in
Darby township, or, perhaps, the county,
and IS still as hale. hearty and active as mos
men of 60, and his wife, who is a few years
his junior, is also living and in excellent
health