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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-18
TELEPHONE REDUCTION.

The New Rates For Waterbury An- nOunced by Superintendent Sperry. Telephone subscribers in Waterbury, re- ceiving now their bills for the next quarter, are finding them reduced. The increase in the company's dividend rate is accom- panied by degree in the charge for ser vice and the service is pronounced on all sides now as prompt and efficiant.
 The new charges are based on monthly rates as follows: Business lines, single wire, $1O month. party wire $6 month house service, single wire $4 a month. The charges by the year formerly and now are shown in the following table :-
 For Reduc-
 merly. Now. tion. Business, single wire, $125 $120 $5 Business. party wire. so 72 8 House, single wire 65 48 IT House, party wire, 50 36 l4 These are the charges for the regular ser. vice within the half mile of the central office. Beyond that there hns been a mil. cage charge of $10 per half mile for single wires and $2 per half mile for party ser. vice. That charge remains unchanged.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-18
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The Break Has Come

In the prices of Ladies' Shirt Waists. Not because the stock and assortment runs low, or because the season is over, but be- cause we have resolved to give you the benefit of reduced prices while it will do you some good. We can afford it,, be- cause our sales have been enormous, and we have been making fair profit hitherto. First on the list comes:
 Five dozen Laundered Shirt Waists that were soc each. now 17c. Would cost about that much to launder. Observe the lot is small and first corners will get them.
 15 dozen Ladies' Laundered Waists, sizes 32 to 40. all good styles, now 37c, from soc.
 About five dozen Laundered Waists that have been sold at 65c and 75c, now soc each.
 The reductions in the better grades are as follows: % quality, now 75c; the 1.25, now co, and the 1,50 and 1,75 qualities, now i.25.
 It is certainly an advantage to get these new, stylish goods so early in. the season at such little prices.
 Note. The Shirt Waist department is in the basement room.
 -tSN Agents for the Staten Island Dye ing Establishment. Also the Standard Patterns.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-18
MIDSUMMER BARGAINS. Note Our Special Offer This Week

Nicely japaned cake and bread boxes 25c each.
 Potts irons. complete set of three nickel plated, 75c set.
 Quart bottles bedbug or roach food. 25c bottle.
 Copper bottom oval boilers. 55c each.
 All copper boilers. every inch. and large size, l 99.
 Best make sham holders. fit any bed. 17c each. 100 best clothes pins for 7c. Clothes frames, none better, 65c each.
 Screen doors with scrcWs and hinges, 75c complete. Nicely decorated toilet sets, l 75 set.
 Shelf paper, all colors. 2 dog for Sc.
 Four quart oil cans. best tin. 10c each.
 Large size bread raisers with covers. 39c.
 Large size dishpans, loo each. Masons best make pint fruit jars. 69c a dozen pints.
 Mason's best make quart fruit Jars. S9c dozen.
 Jelly glasses with tin covers, 39c a dog
 Croquet sets. complete set. eight balls, 69c a set. Mexican hammocks. ropes and stretchers complete. $50. Everything in our store a bargain.
 Goods delivered free of charge to all parts of the city.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-18
CLOTHING.

Good assortment of blue and black serge suits. Moth ing pleasenter to wear. Prices $7.5O, BIO and $15. These suits cut in regulars, longs and shorts.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-18
E. T. Turner & Co
Grand Red Ticket Sale.

In our efforts to reduce our large stock of spring and summer goods, we have made prices regardless of cost. During this month you can buy dry goods at cost and iu many instances at less than cost of us. and us only. Everything as adver- tised
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-18
WHITE DUCK TROUSERS

75c. $l and $l.25. White Duck and Leather Belts.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05
An Almost Ideal Charity.

Rev. DR.. William Il. Johnson, rector
of the Protestant Episcopal Church Of
the Redeemer, in New York city, has
begun the operation of charity which
appears to be so admirable and vet so
feasible that it deserves word of de-
scription and of commentator. In the
center of one of the most crowded por-
tions Of the city, portion inhabited
chiefly by artisans, DR.. Johnson has
hired an ordinary fiat house, in which
Is maintained an industrial and art
school, where are daily classes in sew
ing, crocheting, dressmaking, en-
broidering, painting, music, dancing,
cooking and stenography. These are
the terms demanded for instruction in
either of the branches named: Sewing,
crocheting, dancing, 6 cents a lesson;
embroidering, painting, cooking and
stenography, 10 cents a lesson; music,
plano. 80 cents, and vocal 10 cents a
lesson; dressmaking free. There Is also
a children's department, in which in
structions in the ordinary English
branches are given to CNe backward,
sickly or crippled children who cannot
gain admission to the public schools.
The foregoing features Of this chari-
ty, while inestimably helpful, are not
original. But Ghere is another feature
which Is. 1t is the providing Of trained
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05
Good Roads VS.. Officcholders.

Altoona Tribune: "The most vital
thing in connection with the movement
on behalf of good roads Is to persuade
those who would be most directly bene-
fitted thereby to manifest some interest in
the matter. At the present time 1t is pain
fully apparent that our rural brethren
are holding back. They are afraid of the
cost. In the meantime their representa-
tivcs at Harrisburg are laying the wires
for the creation of large number OF
wholly unnecessary offices at their ex-
pense. 1t Is the opinion of the Tribune
that the people OF both town and county
should at once deluge their representa-
tives with postal cards protesting against
the creation of any new Offices or the in
crease of any present officials salary.
and urging the adoption at the present
session of u wise and workable measure
for the building of good roads through
out the commonwealth, by the joint ac-
ton of the commonwealth and the coun-
ties. There Is no earthly reason why
Pennsylvania should have any more Of
fee holders. There Is every reason why
she should have good roads And the
truth Is that the roads will cost far less
In the end and be far more useful to the
people than the proposed new brood Of
Office holders.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05

measure adopted should, in order to be
effective, contain provisions for school
census and also for truant officer. for
exclusive control by the educational
department and for adequate safeguards
against the evasion of the law as well US
against the preparation of undue hard
ships by its enforcement. The question
of providing sufficient accommodations
for the increased number of pupils which
the law will induce should also receive
attention
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05

Line up, pass her back, keep the ends in
check;
When the umpire's back Is turned, slug
'em In the neck.
Paste fellow when he's down, grind him
with your boot,
Break his head If necessary; scoot, broth
err scoot
Tackle 'em below the knee, gouge 'em in
the eye,
Kick 'em In the abdomen and leave 'em
there to die;
Hear your Alma Matters voice rise above
the din,
Anything to win, boys, anything to
win"
Never mind rib or two. smash q collar
bone,
Sweeter than the sweetest music is dy
ing groan;
Mother sits up on the stand, anxious for
her son;
She won't recognize her baby after we
have done.
Slug 'em once again for luck, break his
Grec.an nose;
Make him lose an ear or two, amputate
his toes
Don't forget our motto, boys, do your level
best;
Now for God and country, boys, and
well, you know the rest.
kansas City Star
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05
Governing Trade Uuiou InbeJs

Philadelphia Bulletin: Senator Becker
is backing a bill that was prepared by the
trades unions. 1t allows any association
or union of workngmen to adopt n trade
mark, label. symbol or prlvte stamp FOR
their protection and for the purpose OF
designating the product of their particu-
lar labor or workmanship. 1t requires
that copy of the label shall be filed with
the secretary of state and be published in
the newspapers as an advertisement"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05

The Pittsburg Dispatch merely
throws the following out as a sugges-
tlon of what may yet have to occupy
the post of honor in the newspaper Of
the future:
"Mr. Breckenridge. his white hairs
tumbling in confusion over his forehead
and his sturdy frame quivering with emo
tlon, made a vicious right-hand swing at
his antagonist, which the clever Missouri
ian lodged. Heavy infighting and a cllnch
followed; cries of foul, foul, from the at
tendants OF the principals, were swal-
lowed up in the yells and shouts Of the
maddened spectators. As the infuriatel
combatants swayed back and forth, 1t
soon became evident that the superior
weight and nerve of Mr.. Breckenridge
were telling in his favor, though the cleo
trical sparks which were flying from Mr..
Heard's iron gray beard indicated plainly
that his hackers were getting q run for
their money. Just at the moment when 1t
looked as II the whole affair must end in
a free-for-all knockdown and dragout. the
epeaker succeeded in separating the prln-
cipals, and declared the bout a draw
We are coming to this sort of thing
very rapidly.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05

lntTt Will SOOil pt pptilSu III NAiNooS'
according to the Herald of that city, a
resort to be known as the home sa-
LOOM" Our contemporary says OF 1t:
'Tt will in some respects resemble the
ordinary saloon. There will be bever-
ages, stimulating but not alcoholic.
There will be free lunch. There will
be newspapers. periodicals and books.
Those able to pay for what they want
will be permitted to pay. But the hos
pitality of the place will not be denied
to any who are orderly and well-be-
haved. Its promoters realize that men
cannot be kept out of alcoholic resorts,
where they get food, shelter and So
ciety, such as 1t is, as well as drink, un-
less an alternative resort is opened pre-
senting some of the same privileges. !"
In another place the same paper says:
People with warm homes to rest in to-
lay; with newspapers around; with
smoking breakfast tables served by gen.
tie hands; with the ease that income as
slsres, and the happiness begotten of
pleasant social relations, know little Of
the days of a man without work; of the
nights of man without roof of the d.
lection of u man without companionship
he can trust and Of the proximity of such
a man to despair, to crime or to suicide
1t is a dull student of sociological condi-
tions that assumes every man to be profit
.gate or ill-disposed who is homeless
foodless and without means to provide
necessaries for himself. The home saloon
fmprintS no stigma on those who will ac-
cept its hospitality. 1t will be free from
everything offensive to good morals, and
Ii VIII be an eXemplar of good manners.
The hopelessly mean will not cross its
threshold. Those who are worthy Of help
will not seek its kindness in vain. It
will wound no mans self-respect. II he
be able to pay for its accommodations a
small sum will be accepted. If he have
no money he may get through it chance
to earn some. The irrepressble desire of
men for conversation on current topics
will be gratified.
The foregoing recalls to mind a con-
versation recently had by the writer
OF this with young Scrantonian who
expressed much the same idea when he
said: II go to saloons. Why? Be-
cause I have no other place to go to,
wherein have the same freedom and
meet with the same ecompanionship. I am
not married, / have no home, and no
present likelihood of one. In day time
work; but at night it Is almost like
being in prison to sit solitary-wise in
my little, third-story room. When 20
out, I drift into well-kept saloons for
the reason that there is, in all Scranton
so far as know, no better loafing place
Offering equal facilities for conversa-
tion, smoking, and temperate in
dulgence in food or drink"
If the home saloon" would solve this
young mans dilemma, it would prob.
ably be the means of directing into
channels Of usefulness a career which
is now in the dangerous crisis of in
decision 'twixt good and evil.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05
LEGISLATIVE TOPICS.
or Interest to Typewriters.

Senator McCarroll has bill on the cal
endar at Harrisburg which adds leased
typewriting machines to the articles
which are exempt from levy and sale on
an execution for distress for rent. The
law now protects hired pianos, melodeons
and organs from such execution. In this
bill it is required, however, that the per-
son hiring the typewriter shall give the
landlord notice of the fact.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05
To Protect thc INDECENT Iusanc.

From Sam Hudson's Harrisburg letter:
bill by Senator Snyder. of Chester
county, Is directed at an abuse from which
there has long been great complaint. 1t
proposes to relieve the INDECENT insane
from being the subjects for the practice
of fiedgling doctors. 1t provides that
hereafter 1t shall be unlawful for any pub
lie or charitable institution receiving state
aid and which cares for the INDECENT III
sane to put such patients under the care
and treatment OF any physician who shall
not have had at least two years practice
after graduation.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05

fault of better place is paying well
If he gets 3 cents off: while he who Is
reduced to climbing onto the bumper
and clinging to the platform pays high
ly If he gives a cent for the privilege"
Why not solve the whole problem by
passing a no-seat-no-fare law?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05

Colonel Corbett assures the Mime
polls legislature that when the ordi-
nary bar-room fight or drunken street
brawl Is considered, where men throw
each other down and kick, gouge,
scratch and even bite. then such a
meeting as will engage in with Fitz-
simmons becomes mere feat of clever.
ness and quickness." But the public
dear boy. is not dying for mere feats
OF cleverness and quickness. Such
1eats are a dear price to pay for the
prize rings debasing tendencies.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05

a good state legislator is easily worth
a poor one is dear at the smallest price.
Perhaps sl,5OO a year isn't an unfair
average as the case now stands.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05

Captain Gordon, of the Craithe, the
ship which sunk the Elbe, says he saw
nothing and heard nothing before or
after the collision. But it was his place
to do both. Was he in a, trance?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05
Religion and Politics.

The current report that papal censure
for Bishop McQuaid, of Rochester, had
been administered through the rounda-
bout means of a loquacious gentleman
in Chicago who, taking reporter into
his confidence, proceeded to read to
him "highly important" letter from
Rome is somewhat improbable. Never
theless, we shall be much deceived in
the present temporal head of the Cath
Ollie church if ne shall not yet indicate
his displeasure at the Rochester
bishops breach of clerical etiquette, If
not of church discipline, as embodied
in his recent rhetorical assault upon
Archbishop Ireland. Upon the merits
of the genesis of this dispute We again
find ourselves indebted to the Rochester
Post-Express for an expression OF opin-
ion which admirably voices our own
belief, and, as we further believe, the
belief of nine-tenths Of the progressive
Catholics themselves. Our Rochester
contemporary well says:
1t seems clearer than ever that the lat
Ter, III the lie lOOh uuTlHS lle re-
cent political canvass, did great service
to the public as well as to the Catholic
church, whether he strained any Episco-
pal courtesy in doing it or not. 1t was
said in this state that Catholics ought
to vote the Democratic ticket regardless
of their political affiliations. and simply
on religious grounds. That plea was
made by the Democratic candidate for
governor himself at the opening of the
canvass; and many Catholic priests, who
had been Republicans, advocated the pol
Icy openly. Archbishop Ireland merely
stepped forward and denounced the intro
duction of religion into politics. He urged
Catholics to vote on their political con-
victions and on no other consideration.
His position was sound in every respect
and his action prevented the Catholic
church from being identified with party
doomed to defeat in the nation and the
state and to disgrace in New York city.
1t was a frightful punishment, in the
worst period of the French revolution. II
our memory be not at fault, to lash the
living to the dead and fling both into the
Seine. Archbishop Ireland prevented his
religion from being lashed to a political
corpse and cast into dishonor.
The attempt to introduce sectarian-
ism into partisan politics is bitterly
condemned by Protestants and Catho-
lies alike, when it is made by the oppos-
ing party. Upon such occasions it
takes comparatively little courage for
one to register his protest. The course
that John Ireland took was not of TRADE
against an unscrupulous enemy but a
non-partisan warning addressed to his
own immediate friends and co-religion-
lists in order to deter them from taking
what would have been an irreparably
false step-false as a matter both OF
politics and of religion. Bishop Nc
Quaid, in censuring his ecclesiastical
superior for the utterance of this timely
and manly caution, struck double
blow, one at his own party and the
other at his church. The party may
| not resent its share of the blow; but
were the church also to keep silent
there would soon be an end to discipline
and strong incentive to a most unwlse
mixing of spiritual faith and party
| politics.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05
Need Of Compulsory Educntiou.

Pittsburg Times: 1t would be q great
misfortune II dlssension among the friends
of a compulsory law should lead to the
failure to pass any measure on tho sub
ject or the enactment of a defective one
Pennsylvania needs n good law on the
subject badly. with many thousands Of
children out of the schools who should
be In them. large numbers of them the
offspring Of foreigners ignorant OF the
laws and constitutions of the state and
nation the necessity of some effective
means of insuring their getting an Amer
can education 10 most pressing. The
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05
Lost Manhood Restored.
Weakness Of Young Men Cured

If you have been given up by your ply
sician call upon the doctor and be exan-
tined. He cures the worst cases of Ner-
tvus Debility, Scrofula, Old Sores, Ca
tarrh, Piles. Female Weakness, Affec-
tions Of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat,
Asthma, Deafness, Tumors, Cancers and
Cripples of every description.
and confidenis,. Office hours daily from
Q am. to pm. Sunday, 9 to 2.
Enclose five 2-cent stamps for SYMPTOM
blanks and my book called New Life"
/ will pay one thousand dollars in gold
to anyone whom l cannot cure Of EPI-
LEIPZIG CONCLUSIONS or FITS.
DIR. Z. GREwER,
Old Post Office Building, corner Penn
avenue and Spruce street.
SCRANTON. PA
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05

Queen Victoria's household expenses
are nearly 100000 per year. There
seems no reason why the plumbing of
her establishment should not be of the
first order.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05

The sultan has ruled that newspaper
reporters must keep out of Armenia.
The sultan evidently knows where to
lncate his dreal
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05

nurses to visit the sick at their own
homes at prices varying from. 10 cents
an hour to so cents for day or night.
These nurses are trained graduates of
the hospital. They are in every in
stance as capable and as skillful as If
the charge for their services were ten
fold as great. DR.. johnson says that
the system of charging for services
rendered, albeit the charges are only
nominal, lifts the enterprise from the
odium sometimes attaching to free SER
vice and at the same time makes it
nearly, If not entirely, self-sustaining.
The benefcient influences of such a
charity-for a charity 1t is. In the
truest sense of the word, although lit
tie dependent upon the gifts of the rich
can scarcely be exaggerated.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05

mo citizen is doing his whole duty
officer as being anything other than a
servant of the popular will and an in
strument for THE execution of public
choice. Officers are our representa-
tives, not our substitutes. You cannot
deposit your vote in November Tor in
February and then retire into the shell
of your own private interests and have
any reasonable ground Tor expecting
that the government will be admins
tered according to the principle which
your vote was intended to express.
DR.. Parkhurst.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05
That Nervous Headache

From the Washington Star.
Tell me, honestly" said the novel
reader to the novel writer. did you ever
see a woman who stood and tapped the
floor impatiently with her toe for several
moments as you describe?'
''Yes." was the thoughtful reply; II did.
once"
"Who was she?"
''She was a clog dancer"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05

II never could see how 1t was fair
to preach against the Ahabs and Jeze-
bells 5000 years back and be any less
pronounced in the respects we pay to
the same genius of depravity brought
down to date. 1t is just bit sugges-
tive of cowardce to pound the antedilu-
vians for their depnavity and ignore
the manifestations of equal wickedness
that are contemporary. If man
breaches in that way it looks as though
he We're preaching for his salary and
setting up his target centuries enough
away to guarantee him against the risk
of libel suits."-Dr. Parkhurst.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05

If the trolley roads want to carry
freight and If the people want them
to, the only thing for the legislature to
do is to pass the Bliss bill. What the
steam roads want in this connection is
of minor consequence.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05

Senator Camden, of West Virginia,
probably exaggerates when he says
that the Lords Prayer couldn't pass
the United States senate without
amendment. The novelty of it would
carry it through before a man jack Of
'em could think Of obiecting.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05

With reference to the Kearns bill TO
give a penny rebate to standing pas
sengers on overcrowded street cars, the
Pittsburg Dispatch fears that the re-
duction provided Is not in proper pro-
portion to the discomforts. 1t thinks
that perhaps if a man gets a comforta-
BILE standing place inside the car with
out too many people standing on his
toes, or digging their elbows into his
back, he would be satisfied with cent
rebate. ''But the man who has to
stand ON the car platform dn wintry
storm ought ito have at least cents
Off. If any reductions are going. The
man who hangs on to q car step in de-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05

The inability of the Scranton Truth
to discuss the present movement in this
state for compulsory education fairly
is rapidly becoming chronic. The lat
est instance is shown in its reproduce
tlon of New York Sun dispatch from
London narrating case of conspicu-
Gus cruelty In the enforcement of a
drastic compulsory education law in
vogue in Great Britain. The Truth
does not deem 1t necessary to say that
such case could not arise even under
the most inflexible enforcement of the
Farr bill. Indeed. We are moved to
question four esteemed contemporary
has yet read that measure. Certainly
its comments do not bespeak detailed
compi ehension of the Farr bill.