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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-01

was listening ito the report of his lieu
tenant. Having heard everything he
ordered the cripple to be carried out
again. and / vas left with only three
guards waiting to hear my fate. He
took up his pen and, tapping his fore
head with the handle of 1t, he pursed
up his lips and looked out of the corner
of his eyes at the roof of the grotto.
II suppose" said he at last, speaking
very excellent French that you are
not able to suggest a rhyme for the
word Covilla.''
l answered that my acquaintance
with the Spanish language was so limit
ed that was unable to oblige him.
''It is very rich language" said he,
but less prolific in rhymes than either
the German or the English. That is
why our best work has been done in
blank verse. a form of literature which,
as need not remind Frenchman, is
capable of reaching great heights. But
l fear that such subjects are somewhat
outside the range of a hussar." a.
/ was about to answer that II they
were good enough for a guerrilla they
could not be too much for the light
cavalry, but he was already STOPPING
over his half-flnished verse. Presently
he threw down the, pen with an ex-
clamation of satisfaction and declaimed
few lines which drew a cry Of ap-
proval from the three rufflans who held
me. His broad face blushed like a
young girl who receives her first COM
pliment.
THE critics are in my favor, 1t ap-
pears" said he. 1--WE amuse ourselves
in our long evenings by singing our
own ballads, you understand; have
some little facility in that direction
and do not at all despair of seeing
some of my poor efforts In print before
long. and with Madrid upon the title
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RAILROAD TIMETABLES
Central Railroad of New Jersey.

central Railroad of New Jersey.
(Lehigh and usquehanna Division)
Anthraclte coal used exclusively. insur-
Ing cleanliness and comfort.
TIME TABLE IN EFFECT MARCH 25
1895.
Trains leave Scranton for Pittston,
Wilkes Barre, etc.. at $40, S15. 1l.30 am.
l2.45, 2.00, 3.0o, 5.O0, 7.25 y. m. Sundays, 80
a. m, 100, 2.15. 40 p. m.
For Atlantic City, $40 am,
For New York, Newark and Elizabeth,
$50 (express) a. M, l2.45 (express with Buff
fet parlor carr, 305 (express) pm. Sun
For Mauch Chunk, Allentown. Betble.
hem. Easton and Philadelphia, $40 am,
12.45. 1906, 500 Except Phiiadelphia) pm.
Sunday, 2.15 pm.
For Long Branch. Ocean Grove. ETC., at
$40 am, 12.45 pm.
Fol-. Reading, Lebanon and Harrisburg,
via Allentown. $50 am. l2.45. 500 pm.
Sunday, 2.16 PIN.
For louisville, $50 a. m, 1245p.m.
Returning, leave New York, foot of Lib
erty street, North river, at $40 (express)
am, 1lO 130. 4.3O express with Buffet
parlor carr pm. Sunday, 4.3O am.
Leave Philadelphia, Reading Terminal,
800 am, 200 and 4.30 pm. Sunday 627
am.
Through tickets to. all points at lowest
rates may be had on application in ad-
vance to the ticket agent at the station.
II. p. BALDWIN,
Gen. Pass. Agent
J. II. oLHAUsEN. Gen. Supt.
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What is

Castoria Dr. Samuel Pitchers prescription for Infants
Children. 1t contains neither Opium, Morphine
other Narcotic substance. 1t is harmless substitute
for Paregorc, Drops Soothing syrups, and Castor OIL
1t is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years. use by
Millions of Mothers Castora destroys Worms and aays
feverishness CastOria prevents vomiting Sour Curd
cures Diarrhna and Wind Collie Castoria relieves
teethng troubles constipation and fatulency.
Castori assimates tho food, regulates tho stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas-.
tora is tho Children's Panacca-the Mothers Friend.
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ton stauon Tor CafbohuAle anU m.
1910 q m. LOO. 2.20 ass. 615. els. 7fk6. 9io
and u.20 pm.
For Farview, Waymart and Hon)esdale
at TOO, as and 1910 q m. 1zoo. 2.1o end 6.D
For Albany. Saratoga. the .Adirondacks
and Montreal at s.46 am. and ED pm.
For Wtikes-Bar and tntermediate
ints at 7l5, a45, 8.ss and N.6 am. 1906,
l.2O 2 as, 400, k1o eos, 9x and 11-3S pm.
Trains win arrive at Scranton station
from Carbondale and intermediate pointa
at 40 20, sN and TO- 70 q. m., 100, 1i7,23L
l40 L64. SIS. 7,4t, su and n.ss pm.
From aacnesdale,, :, Waymarst ~ ana s Far;
7.& pm.
From Montreal. Saratoga, Albany. etc.
at 4.54 and 1913 Pm.
From Wflkes-Barre and intermediate
points at 215, 8.0, 05 and 1l.S q. m, Lis
PA. 339, $40, s.eS. TO. sy03 ana u.16 pm.
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Erie and Wyoming Valley.

Trains leave Scranton for New York
and intermediate points on the Erie rail-
road at SIS am. and 1924 pm. Also for
Honesdale, Hawley and local points at
6.35. 9,45 am, and 1924 pm.
All the above are through trains to and
from Honesdale.
Trains leave for Wilkes Barre at $40 q.
m. and 3.4l pm.
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CastOria.

"Castoria is an excellent medicine for chill.
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me Of its
good effect upon their children"
DIR. G. G. OsGooD,
Lowell, Mass
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DELAWARE AND
HUDSON RAIL
ROAD

CommenoinE Monday,
day, July 80, all trains
will arrive atnew Lack.
awannA avenue STATION
as follows:
mol Ia. Mill lac % Cora n.
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The Centaur Company, Murray City.
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"Castoria is the best remedy for children Of
which an acquainted. hope the day is not
far distant when mothers willconsider the real
interest Of their children, and use Castoria in
stead of the variousquack nostrums which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their throats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
De. j. F. KINCHELoE,
Conway. Ark.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-01

Most people talk about millions without
realizing what is really is. An expert
coin counter can count 5000 coins per hour
If he works ten hours a day 1t will take
33 1-3 days to finish the counting of 1,00O,-
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-12

SAMUEL, o WATCH U FoR TRAMPs. I"
come back as aespeerit and haunt his
wife, but that's not my way. You kin
git n as soon as you please arter Ira
gone, and | won't never bother her.
.s'pose you'll paint the kitchen floor fur
her, and if she wants the pigpen white
washed twice a year you won't say a
word. There's another thing about
angels, Samuel. When they are tookin'
sick in the night what's done fur EN-
and who does it,! And ] was thinkin'
only this mornin' that l never tried to
fly in all my life, and that I'd probably
break my neck unless ! was introduced
to some angel who'd show me how to
flap my wings"
Mr.. Gallup bad driven on the hoop
md he now moved over to take the
sag out of the woodshed door. Mrs.
Gallup squoze out six tears, took a
hearty snuff Of the camphor, and rose
up to say: g
"Mebbe the clock stopped because it
was run down, and mebbe the wind
blowed that yaller bowl off the table,
and perhaps the Lord hasn't sent fur
arter all. Would you be disap-
pointed, Samuel, if I was to live on,
and you couldn't colt around and 90 to
the circus and marry a young gal? /
you would, but I'm in the Lords
hands. If He calls fur me to flap my
1appin' wings aud soar away I'll hev
to go, but if He decides that l kin stay
on till arter I've made my cucumber
pickles and apple-butter it hain't fur
me to rebel. I guess I'll GO in and
look around and see whether I'm goin'
to die or not"
Nj. Gallup didn't know when she
went, being busy at the door. He had
probably forgotten that such a woman
when she called to him. half an
hour later, from the kitchen door:
Samuel, you watch out fur tramps
and tin-peddlers while / run over and
tell Mrs. Robinson that I'm goin' to set
emptins tonight and she kin hev all
she wants to-morrer if they don't sour
IN me!"-Detroit Free Press.
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DRIVING HOME THE COWS.

He drops the bars down, one by one, and lots
the cows pass through,
Then follows them along the lane, IS once he
used to do.
And memory whispers as he climbs the grassy
meadow slope
or happy days when. long ago, a boy so fuu OF
hope s.
Used often here TO lie and dream upon the
hills so!s crest,
When tired OF play, his head upon its daisy
fltcked IRE .st,
Till les ping dog awakened him with sharp and
lGud bow-wows,
TO warn him that the time had come for driv-
- i1s home the cows.
And nov he splashes in the brook that flows
from yonder spring.
IT ripples, bubbles, murmurs, like a bright
and living thing;
Upon Its Sparkling current, here. he used to
sail his boats,
And once again he throws q chip. to watch IL
as 1t floats;
Whirltng, dancing, jumping, far away a-down
} .s 1t goes,
Up and down and hera and there. with all the
changing flows,
Till out OF sight It whtrls at last, down where
the channel bows,
AS once no did when years ago while driving
home the cows.
And all day long In the. meadow, while ralins
the fresh-cut hay,
The brightest fancies rome to him with the
brightness of the Day.
And every cricket chirptlg, and the lark that
Eoars and sings,
The butterfly that dazzles with its brightly
painted wings, {
Ail.seem to be com p~aniops, as he works and
works away,
Till sun sinks low and lower. with the passing
- OF the day.
And a voice calls through the shadows and the
slowly gathering gloam:
sJchn, my dear. let down the bars, the COWS
are coming home
Waiter s. Stranahan. in Chicago Record.
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slipped her feet into her shoes without
tying them up.
I'm sorry that I shan't be here to
get. supper. Samuel" she said, as
she leaned up against the kitchen
door, it'll be the first supper I've
MISSED fur twenty-one years, but
when a person is called, she must GO.
You'll hev to make out. on cold vittles
fur once, and as I'll be lynn dead in
the house, mebbe your appetite will be
sorter blunted. Who do you think
you'd like to hev sit up with the corpse
tonight, Samuel? / did think I'd like
to hev Mrs Teachoutand Mrs. Gregory,
but both of 'em are awful eaters and
great hands to look around through
closets and drawers. Mebbe you'd bet
ter git Mrs.1Yatkins and Mrs Tyler.
sThey won't want much to eat, and
They are, SIGH gossips they won't hev
time to look around.
Mr.. Gallup walked down the path
leading to the barn and turned aside
to the heuhouse. One Of the leather
hinges on the door had worn out. ard
% 'Yas knocking The pieces Oh with
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his hammer when Mrs. Gallup arrived
Although in a dying condition, she had
gone back to the bedroom for tia
camphor bottle, and by its aid had
ventnred forth.
Samuel" she began as she satdowr
on an old box with her hack to the
structure, "the Lord giveth and the
Lord taketh away, and we can't help
ourselves. I'm about to be TOXIN.
I've got my s"n:hions, and be.
fore YOU 'lev fed the hogs and MIXED
the cow l shall be flappin' my angelic
wings. l cum out here to tell you
three or four things before I expire.
Mrs. Johnson owes me seven eggs and
two drawin's of tea, and NO matter how
much she cries at my funeral you don't
want to let her off. Mrs. Sam White
owes me starch and pepper and bals!h'
powder, and even il she leads the sing
in you want 20 make her pay her
debts. Some wives would 60 right on
and die and never think of thess
things, but that amt my way. Mrs.
Hopkins has my snilt-frames, and Mrs.
Greedy has had one of MY fatirons fur
three weeks. After the funerai-after
my mortal remains hev bin laid
away
And there Mrs. Gallup, who had
gradually been working up to it, broke
down and began to sob and thrust the
end of her red nose into the mouth Of
the bottle in her hand. The putting on
of the hinge was a triting matter, and
Mr., Gallup had finished and was ready
to tackle the rain barrel when Mrs.
Gallup broke down. He walked away
leaving her in tears, but she followed
after and sat on the washbench to con.
tinue:
IF [ could hev lived a couple OF
weeks longer, l could hev put up lot
Of crab-apple preserves and made a jar
Of totnater sass, but the Lord knows
best. Shall you break down at the
funeral, Samuel, or only shed a few
tears and heave a few signs! 1t won't
make any difference to me, but folks'll
be watchin' you, yen know. If you
burst ont cryin' you'll git more SYM
pathy and they'll say you thought
iAoic VI "E. ijCs Sod tStIoCu VI
about how much you'll pay fur my
grave-st.n, Samnel?'
Mr.. Gallup had picked a rusty iron
hoop up out of the grass and a busy
driving it over the barrel, ard even if
he heard her he did not think best to
answer.
"There's-there's another thing !
wanted to talk about" said Mrs. Gallup,
as she wiped her eyes and choked back
her sobs. I've bin dyein' my hair fur
the last five years. If they don't hev
hair dye up in Heaven l don't know
what I'm goin' to do. An what about
night caps, Samuel: I've worn one fur
the last twenty years. andif they don't
supply 'em to angels / shall have the
earache as sure's you're born. You are
a justice of the peace and orter know
about these things and l wish you'd
tell me-"
Bat Mr.. Gallup didn't. He straight
encd up and cast a glance at Mrs. Cal
lup, but he had nothing to say. She
sobbed three sobs and shed fourteen
tears while waiting, and when it was
apparent that he had no opinion to adj
vance she said:
Mrs. Bebee says If she was to die
and Bebee was to marry agin she'd
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-12
The Avalanche.

The guide gave the1word to leave the
channel Of ice and tske to the rocks on
the side, for a SNOWFALL had rolled
down from above, and he was afraid
more might follow. Scarcely had we
got out of u trough and up on the
crags, when down came an avalanche
with a vengeance, and we were within
twenty feet of . tremendous discharge
of thousands of tons of snow and ice.
which swept down the track that we
had just assembled. We were perfectly
safe; but somehow the half hiss, half
roar, remained in my ears for some
time; and for many nights afterward.
when indigestible kupperso or bad Swiss
beer produced evil dreams. the ava.
lancha was sure to figure IN them1r
Naekwaoa's Magazine.
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the woodshed door wouldn't shut, and
at three o'clock in the afternoon Mr..
-t4allup came home to tinker things.
He found the kitchen door open and
walked in and looked around for Mrs.
Gallup, but she was not t. be seen.
He had gotten hammer and nails from
the woodshed and was about to GO out
TO the hen house, when Mrs. Gallup
family called him from the downstairs
bedroom. Mr.. Gallup stood i~rresolute
for a moment, and then went in to
her. She was lying on the bed with a
!. towel around her head and tile family
Bible in her hands.
$50 my prayers hev bin answered!'
sighed Mrs. Gallup, as she feebly
opened her eyes. Samuel, 1 prayed
tbatyou might git here in time to kiss
me on the chin and say good-by. and
You are here. / hev just three minutes
to livc!"
Mr.. Gallup ought to have been very
much startled mud upset, but he
wasn't. He scratched his head and
made a purring sound and took the
camphor bottle off the bureau and
shifted heartily at its contents.
You'd bin gone about an hour"
said Mrs. Gallup, in a stronger voice,
and | was jest sayin' to myself that
nd probably live twenty years yet,
when the Lord suddenly called me,
Yes, Samuel, a warnin' was sent me
that i must prepar' to spread my
golden wings and flap from all tn
=, away. | was loolin' right at the clock
when it stopped with q sort of whirr,
and at the same mint that big yaller
bowl in which l make custards fell off
the table and broke all to smash.
That's exactly what happened to Mrs.
jackson and Mrs. SIaallman aforc
they died, and Elder spconer said it
was the Lords way of tellin' 'em that
they'd better git ready fur everlastin'
bliss. Samuel, don't you want to kiss
my chin and promise me you won't
take a second wife till I've bin dead
a years"
Mr.. Gallup evidently didn't. He
took a second sniff at the camphor bot
tie, and hen turned and went out into
the kitchen and from thence to the
woodshed, to find an old bootleg from
which to cut a hinge for the henhouse
door. He found what he wanted, and
was ready to go about his work when
Mrs. Gallup appeared. She had left
the Bible behind, but the towel was
still tied around her head. and she had
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-12

and roarin CT buggy wheels down the
road; and the nextminaito old man Abner
driv up in a perfect storm and a t"!l
sweat.
~ have come back all the way from
aenrgy and dri~ right en- down here tn
see you; Mister ~Scroggins, about that
gold you found buried on the old stln-
son place." says old man Abner, talkin
nervous and excited like. "WheR wo
sold the land to YOU we didn't sell you
EVERYTHING that Vas buried on it, and
/ have como to put in claims for Becky
Ann. She remembers same like it was
yesterday tho very sams night when
old man Gray Stinson went out ana
buried thai gold. and accorain to Ia" 1t
naturally belongs to her.
'.Did the old man bury that gold
down there in the back side Of tho gar
den?' says Blew.
Right exactly there. accordin to
Becky AIMS remembrance" says old
man Abner.
"Nas it buried in a big, low, squatty
stone Jar!' says GieV.
That's the very thing to a mats heel
which becky Ann says he put 1t away
In, and she can likewise also Eecoilect
till now that the stone jar come do"
from her great grandfather and had been
in the Stinson family clost on to 4 hun
dred years. says old man Abner.
"Well by the shades of George Wash
ington, you and Becky Ann know a
blame sight more about that gold than
l do, ".says Blew, cause have never saw
it as vet, Some Gypsy horae traders
come along by here, and n of the old
women took 4 forked stick and went out
in the garden, and when she come back
she lowed there was a big pile OF gold
buried somewheres around there, which
she would show me the very spot for
four bits. | give her tho four bits
mostly from the fact that she was Old
and pore and feeble, you understand
and she showed me the very spot where
old man Gray Stinson laid his treasures
up. But l haven't done any diggin as
yet. lowed you and Becky Ann
mought know all about 1t, and con
se%quentielly I helt off 80 as to let you
have the trouble OF digg;n and the fun
of findin tho stuff. My four bits in
silver has gone a glimmerin down into
that pore & psy woman's old stocEii,
YOU understand, but | am plum willin
to let you take tho first whack at the
gold. If in case you find it will take
the old stone jar for my four bits and
call it even. Tho women folks can use
it tdSpacA lard in, and it will forever
keep me in remembrance of the Stinson
family. But if in case you don't find
it, when you blow off your dogs and
Quit | will come in on a cold trail snd
see if | can't run itdown.'
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-12
Back to Georgy and Becky Ann.

Now of all the diggin and sweatin that
was ever read Of or writ about, B.ev
%Scroggins got it from old man Abuer
durin the next three days. The old nan
tried his lie vel blamdestin cvery way he
could think of to back down and out
But Blew told him it would never do fo.
him to go back to Georgy and Becky Ann
without that gold.
You can take my spade and grubbin
hoe and go right on down into the bowels
| of the earth after it" says Blew, and the
old man had to take the job or either
| back square out and show his hand.
In the main time me and Andy went
on spreadin of the news amongst the
people till every Twin soul in the set
Element could tell tho story. We would
ride over oncst or twicst every day to
see Blew and old man Abner and find out
if anything had come to pass. And BLEW
he didn't do a blessetsblamo thing durin
them three days but lay around in the
shade and use good tobacco and sick old
man Abner on. He managed so as to
keep the old man digGin and sweatin,
you understand, till he had dug o,er
every square inch of the garden, and
still it was all vanity and vexation Of
spirit in regards to the gold which old
man Gray Stinson had buried there in
the old family stone jar accordin to the
remembrance of Becky Ann.
III have put in my orders for a two
horse auger to bore ms a few wells
around the place. says Blew to old man
Abner when finally at last he had give
up the fight, land if you will remain
over and wait a week or two | can oar
| you all the machinery and you mought
60 on down deeper and deeper till you
find that old stone jar and the yaller
stuff"
But by that time it seems as if the old
man had found out that there was some
| thin dead up the creek and he wouldn't
take any more draggin from Blew.
Everybody in the settlement had found
out by now that a man by the name of
%Scroggins had set his hook for suckers,
you understand, and caught the biggest
one in Georgy. Old man Abner got his
back up higher than his shoulders and
lit out the next mornin IN his return tc
Georgy and Becky Ann. When he driv
off me and Blew and Andy give him the
grand horse laugh, and the other boy
kept the une runnin till he passed on
out Of the Rocky Creek regions.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-12

down into the
Rocky Creek
country for new
recruits, From
the general APP
pearments in
this settlement,
l reckon il he
would come on
across and take
on a Waterbury
movement and
tend to bis bust
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-12
MRS. GALLUP'S TRIBULATIONS
BY n. QUAD.

I THE dinner
table Mrs. Gal
lur h a d re-
marked that d
hinge was off
the hen house
door, the rain
barrel needed a
new hoop and
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-12
In SwamptOwn.

"Atercy on us!" cried tho Investor.
"Do yot have earthquakes here"
"Ue easy" replied the land boomer.
"We run out O q%uinine yesterday, an
that's only the town marshal hayin' a
c!il."-Chicago Times-IIcrald.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-12
SQUIRE RUFUS SANDERS.
A Mighty "Confusion,nent" in the
Rocky Creek Country:
D.ev ~scroggins and B!s ''+remenditis" Big
Gold Find on the Old Stinson Place-A
Job That Sent Old Man Ahner "Isack
to Georgy and to Becky Ann"
Copyright, 1881

II the iooi:killer hasn't give up his
Job and went out of the business he
ought to navigate around through
Geo.gy and Tennessee; and then com
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-12
Yrofessionai Amenities.

55rotnt
Dr.. Killem Gndignantly)-What do
you think? Shrouds, t1aJlndertaker,
offered me twenty per cent. on all the
business l would put in his way.
DR.. Pillcm (dryly}-Ioun be a rich
man yct!-PuciI.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-12
Chasp Excursions to the West.

Bountiful harvests are reported from all
sections Of the west and northwest. and an
exceptionally favorable opportunity for
home seekers and those desiring a change
of location !, offered by the series of low
rate excursions which have been arranged
by the North-W Western Line. Tickets for
these excursions, with favorable time limits,
will be sold on August %, September 10 and
"a TO points in Northern Wisconsin, Michi-
gan, Northwestern Iowa, Western Minneso-
ia, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado,
Wyoming, Utah anda large number of other
points. For fullinformation anplyto agents
of connecting lines. or address W. B. kNIs-
FERN, General Passenger and Ticket Agent
Chicago q North Western R'y, Chicago, LII.
No, MAuDE, dear. we would not advise
you to use mice as bait for cat.lsh.-Phlla-
Gelphia Record.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-12

Mar born OF woman is OF few daya
and sorry teeth and most in generally
full OF mean whisky.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-12
FOR SALE.
II. BLO4,MFIELD,

II. BLO4,MFIELD.
csmmissioner u. S. Circuit Court for the West.
ern District Of Louisiana.
Commissioner U. s. Court of Claims throughout
the United States.
Notary Public in and for the Parish OF st. Lam
dry. Once with Hon. John N. Ogden.
Pa<tcular attention given to Land Cases and
10 Final Proofs. Collections in the Parishes OF
et. Landry and Acadia promptly attended to.
Pensions secured; Patents. Caveats, Trade
Marks, etc, procured without delay.