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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-28
DIR. PARKHURsT COMING.
Noted New York Political Reformer Soon

Noted New York Political Reformer Soon
TO Lecture In Scranton.
1t ds probable that DR.. Parkhurst, the
famed New York political reformer,
wiil soon be heard In Scranton.
DR.. Parkhursts presence here Will be
chiefly due to THE efforts of his friend,
Rev. G. r. Price, OF the Pax place
Methodist church. He will probably be
here next month.
As long ago as sast winter an effort
wau made to induce Dr. Paskhurst to
lecture o1ere, but the noted refUrmer'e
church and political work int.rfsrsa
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SO Per Cent.
Wool Blankets

Grays or whtte-Ithe best wearing
Blankets on the market and in
many respects as good as all wool.
The values are extra special.
Gray Blankets, $500 and $3.50
White Blankets, s2.25 to $500
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-28
WEATHER REPORT.

For Eastern Pennsylvania, showers, fol-
lowed BY tearing weather; a moderate cold
wave, Temperature will fall to near xreeS-
Ing Monday night,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-28
SHOT A PLAYMATE.
How John RAIDER Discovered That II Was
Loaded

Reading. Pa, Oct. 27.-John RAIDER.
aged 15, shot and probably fatally
wounded William Schwartz, aged is. at
the latter's home last night. RAIDER
supposed the cartridge was a blank.
The bullet shattered a rib, and At is
thought lodged in the vicinity OF the
stomach.
RAIDER ran away but was captured
today and locked up.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-28
FIN LIE US
Complete Lime of
Ladies' UmderSkirts
I'm Fast Black, Satine,
Alpaca, Mohair, Mo-
rec IN, Brilliantine,
Black Silk a N d
Changeable Effects.

Fast Black Satine Underskirt,
trimmed with three narrow shirred
ruflies of same material lined with
striped Flannel. Price. .9Sc
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-28
HOneSdale Blankets

We carry a complete line of these
justly celebrated Blankets. For
durability they are matchless. ana
they are not lacking in any of the
essential features Of a good Blan-
ket.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-28
All Wool Blankets

Scarlet or white-best standard
makes only. and every thread of
them purest wool.
Scarlet Blankets, 1925 to $3.50
White Blankets, $3.75 to $3.50
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Cotton Blankets

The best that ever came from
looms, colored or white, fancy bor-
ders.
soc. to $1.25
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-28
COMFORTS

Assortment unlimited-fillings ana
coverings the very best. The high
er figures are for Elder Downs.
Prices, 85c. to 81. so
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Natural Wool Blankets
Made from the purest undyed
woods; soft, fleecy and very heavy.
Prices $3.75 and $3.50
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-24
A Fault in Piano Playing.

A wellknown piano teacher says that
one of the most common faults in piano
playing is the practice of playing the
two hands out of time with each other.
Nine players ont of ten permit the left
hand to lead the right, when the two
should strike the keys simultaneously.
1t is a sort of swagger that produces
very inartistic effect. OF course there
are rare cases where this dilatoriness of
the right hand may be legitimate, but
it should be remembered that in gen.
eral it is reprehensible and should be
carefully avoided, If the composer in
dicates the simultaneous performance
OF the notes belonging to the two
hanAs, let not the slightest discrepancy
be manifest. TO play the two HANDS
ont of me with each other is to be not
only inaccurate, but toappear affected.
Shallow players resort to such devices
to cover up the lack of ability to play
with expression. it takes the place of
shading and phrasing with the super
6cial.--N. Y Advertiser.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-24
ALL IN ONE.
A Married Mans Sage Advice to 9
Bachelor.

A Married Mans Sage Advice to q
Bachelor.
The married man was talking to the
bachelor.
"Why don't you marry?'' inquired the
benedict.
81 don't want to be married man,
suppose" replied the bachelor.
what kind of man do you want to
be?'
Not any kind for any length of time.
For instance, I'd like to be boy part
of the time; then a lover signing out
his heart; then a husband and father
for a month or SO; then an old man for
another month, and so on. changing
about as the mood might take me.
That sort of thing beats these ever
lasting youth snaps all to pieces"
"Then marry" said the benedict with
supreme confidence.
THAT would knock my plan all to
pieces"
ION the contrary, my dear fellow"
said the married man, settling down to
his work. "it would make you all of
these. When you wanted to be a boy
you conld join your children in their
pleasures and plans, in their sports and
sorrows; when you wanted to be a
lover, you would always find your wife
ready to listen to the same sweet words
you told her in the June nights of long
ago; when you wanted to be married
man you could take off your coat and
put up stoves, and get out and do the
marketing, and study up new ways of
how not to forget what your wife told
you to get down town; when you want
ed to be an old man you could sit down
in your office and wonder where you
were going to get money enough to
keep things going and think over the
grave cares and responsibilities of a
man in your position. There it all is,
old fellow" concluded the married man,
''and you have selected it yourself.
Now marry"
And the bachelor didn't.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-24
THE BIG GAME.

Antelopes From Colorado. Deer From Mich
igan and Bear From the Northwest.
Where do you get your big gamer"
was asked a North State street market
man the other day.
The antelope" he said, come from
Colorado and the deer from Michigan.
The bears come from northern Wiscon-
sin, where they are hunted for market
by the Indians and white trappers.
The traps used are principally figure
tours, twitch-ups" and big steel bear
traps. The figure-four is arranged so
that when the bear grabs the bait,
which is usually rabbit or chicken,
a log falls across his neck. Or else the
bait is placed so that in order to reach
it he puts his head through a moose
which is suddenly twitched up by
stout sapling. He cannot break away
for the sapling will give. He cannot
loose the moose for as soon as he rises
on his hindlegs up goes the sapling
So there he stands until either he
chokes to death or else the trappers
come and kill him. Bruin is afflicted
with almost human curiosity, espe-
Clstil III ICSdlo w hICo. hc
hunters build big fires in clear
ings and then lie off a number
of rods, sometimes half mile. When
they see dark form pass in front of
the fire they try shot from their long
range rifle. Sometimes they kill him
and sometimes they only wing him.
Then they can track him by daylight.
Perhaps it is she bear, and then they
find the lair and get the whole outfit.
cubs and all. The cubs are very mar
ketable. That little fellow there,
pointing TO a cub lying beside its dam.
is three days old. 1t cost me five dol
lars. That one is six or seven years
old. We determine that by the length
of their claws. 1t doesn't pay to get
them too old. The meat is strong, and
only the steaks are marketable. We
pay eighteen cents a pound for the
the whole animal, and sell steaks from
the hind quarters at twenty-five cents.
The rest of the carcass has to be used
for cheap grades of sausage-meat or
sold to feed to animals. They live to
tho age of fifty or sixty years, so you
see it doesn't pay to get the old set
tiers The deer and antelope are shot
also with long range guns. The ante
lope are the most difficult to get shot
at. A favorite way is for one party to
stampede herd and another party lie
in wait for them and shoot them with
express rifles as they run. All the
game that has to be shipped long
distance is killed only in cold weather.
The carcasses would never keep till
they were put in the refrigerator cars
unless they were frozen solid Chi
cago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-24
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-"Say, is there Teller with a
wooden leg by the name of Smith livin'
here?" whats the name of his other
leg?"-Life.
Young Sculptor-''Well, Bronson,
what do you think of that bust?"
Bronson-'H'm-it may be good bust
but, really, Chizzle, it strikes me as
bad break. '-Harper's Bazaar.
There is an old saying about having
an ambition early in life, and sticking
to it. If we all did that we would all
be bareback riders in d circus. -Atch-
ison Globe.
Are You going to vote the straight
ticket, dear?'' The straight ticket?
Do you mean to say that any of them
are cut on the bias?"-Indianapo
journal.
-Palette-"This picture places the
milkmaid on the wrong side, and be-
sides it isn't COW at all. but bull. 3"
Jess-"What of it; all l wanted of you
was to guess whether it was a sunrise
or sunset TN. Y. World.
All He Needed How do you like
the way | wear my hair now?" asked
the football player. Its lovely" re-
piled the girl. 'If your head only had
some silk sewed around it. it would be
a lovely sofa pillow. detroit Free
Press.
How She Moved Him.-Miss Fitz-
II fear I shall have to complain of you
for cruelty to animals" Stalate-
pray, what do l do?" Miss Fitz-
keep poor little Fido up SO late. >
Puck
"A country storekeeper in this state
received lately this encouraging reply
from an old lady whose bill had long
remained unpaid: Don't worry about
my bill, Mr.. -. I'll owe you forever
before I'll cheat you out of it. "-Boston
journal.
THE passage, " said the publisher to
the great author, seems ambiguous to
me. What do you mean by it?" 81
don't know" replied the great author.
81 left it there for the CONNIE ntators
to work over when I'm dead. Wash
ington Star.
Once Upon a Time a Bicycle Ac-
costed Horse.-''Get off the EARTH"
said the Bicycle; Il am going to sup
plant you entirely" The Horse smiled
May, nay" it rejoined, gently; they
can't make canned corned-beef out of
you. Puck.
"A kind of crinoid inhabiting the
Mediterranean is deposited as an egg,
goes about to find a place to live, Sc
lects home, takes root there, and
after further development finally cuts
loose from lite moorings and remains a
wanderer the rest of its life.
The Obtuse Outlander. - "You
Americans, said the superior foreign
gentlemun, Twill never know the full
value of existence till you learn to APP
preciate the blessings of rest" ''We do
already" replied the native. ''If you
don't believe it just watch the scramble
that occurs for the place when a va
cancy occurs on the police force. In
dianapolis journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-24

VIM DO4N lOO lahr- lie l1EDbIbs
q restricted quantity of an alcoholic
intoXicant better than / could, l have
never for one moment regretted my in
voluntary embarkation on nephalian
voyage lasting during life itself
Abstinence is twice blessed. It
blesseth him that gives and him that
takes" IT'S well, and very well, if il
prove the means of the abandonment
of an ignoble, useless, and shameful
life by the weak brother or sister for
whose sake one may have taken the
pledge. But, whatever the effect on
the erring, to him who has SO pledged
himself for the comfort of fellow
sinner, the practice of abstinence
brings Il wealth of blessings. In the
train of abstinence follow health,
vigor. elasticity of spirit, increased
life. peace and happiness unspeakable.
Why did take the pledge? To en-
courage a faint heart that, but for my
so doing, would not have had pluck
enough to take the cold-water plunge,
or firmness enough to remain constant
to his vow. This IN itself is no mean
office. TO cheer one timid spirit, to
help single helpless one, to give con-
fidence to fearing soul, is privilege
of the highest and sweetest order. How
much more gratifying and noble to be
of real use in the emancipation of a hui
man being framed in a heavenly
mold" from an unwholesome possess
sion which has gone far toward effacing
the divine in man. How praise worthy
and acceptable to be honored in being
the means whereby an unhappy and
despairing captive is delivered from
the most CALLING and degrading bond
age to which human kind is subject.
If taking the teetotal pledge, step
which can injure no one, is so richly
rewarded by the reformation of one
inebrite, how intense and how pleasur-
able must be the delight at the rescue
of a number of woe-begone, pitiful
drunkards! Yet this has often fol-
lowed the pledge-taking of quiet,
transformations, earnest man or woman.
Though endowed with no worldly
goods, dependent Cor sheer living on a
precarious daily wage, and apparently
possessed of no influence, have known
not few unsllilled, as well as skilled,
workmen who could count their abb
staining converts by the hundreds.
The more commanding anyone's So
cial position is, the more eminent his
place in the ranks of literature, science,
politics or religion. the wider is the in
huence and the graver is his RESPONSE
bility To all persons who have influ-
ence-and there is not one among us
who has not some-I would earnestly
appeal to take the pledge as perfect
ly safe example for even the most de-
spairing drunkard to follow, and as
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-24
means of usefulness which can scarcely
be OvereStimated.
THE DRINK HABIT.


What 1t Was in the Latter Part OF the
Eighteenth Century as Contrasted With
the Present.
Before the accession of George III. it
was by no means uncommon for ladies
of quality to stop at taverns, and even
to invite the gentlemen to be of the
company. Walpole says that in 1855 a
frenchman, who was ignorant of the
custom, took some liberties with Lady
harrington, through which mistake
her house was afterward closed against
him. This practice, which to us seems
so startling was a relic of the man
ners of century earlier. The de-
corum of the court of George III.
banished the custom from the upper
ranks; but it fingered among the mid
die classes, and DIR. johnson thought
1T not in the slightest degree in
decorous to say to two young ladies
who called upon him, Come, you
pretty, fools, dine with Maxwell and
me at the Metre" to which the ladies,
who wished TO consult the philosopher
upon the subject of Methodism, very
readily assented. In the reign of the
second George, and perhaps a little
later, the great ladies', whether at
taverns or in private houses, carried
their vivacity somewhat further than
we should now think consistent with
perfect propriety. Lady Coventry, at
great supper at Lord Hartford's, said
In very vulgar accent, 'if she drank
any more she would be muckibus."
How the Americans of our own
day, says Charles Knight, must
be shocked at the vulgarity of
our aristocratic predecessors; for
they will not tolerate even the word
drunk, and describe the condition
which that word conveys by the pretty
epithet excited! We are adopting the
term, he continues, and it may be ex-
pected that the refinement in our
nomenclature may lead to a revival of
little of the old liberty in our prac-
tice. Walpole explains that muckibus
was Irish for sentimental" He did
not foresee the change in our English.
lie called things by their right names.
He tells us that Lord CORVALLIS and
Lord Allen came drunk to the opera"
and what is harder to believe, that the
chancellor, Lord Henley, being chosen
a governor of st. Bartholomew hos
pltal, "a smart gentleman who was
sent with a staff, carried it in the
evening when the chancellor happened
to be drunk" These exhibitions were
in 1763.-N. Y. Advertiser.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-24
TREATMENT OF A SON.
Sympathy as Necessary for Him for a
Daughter.

Sympathy as Necessary for Him as for a
Daughter.
Many a life has been ruined by the
unrigh teous domination of parents.
Train your son for the exercise of his
own Judgment and the assertion of his
own well-developed will. Give him your
sympathy and treat his opinions with
reSf~lt. Are they not the outgrowth
of your education? 1t is probably sell
dom that parent is entirely satisfied,
in the secret of his heart, with the
choice his son or daughter makes He
would have perfection, and values his
child's deserts too highly Remember
ing this you should be most careful not
to wound sensitive spirit by lack OF
the cordial and affectionate welcome,
for which she has right to look, who
has given her heart and life into the
keeping of the son, well-prepared or
ill-prepared by you for the sacred task.
But suppose all your preventive meas
ures have failed, and the choice has
been made which seems mistaken and
disastrous. wi.l you shut your heart to
your son and turn his heart from you
in the time of his peril? A thousand
times no. Your love must not fail him
then, but with desperate eagerness
strive to win the confidence of his wife
and save him and his home. l know a
home which, though it promised little
good, is growing better and better be-
cause the parents of hayward son
have been gentle, and patient, and
loving toward him and his wife, al
though she was far from their ideal.
''He made his bed, let him lie in it." is
an un-Christian proverb. If his bed is
ill-made help him to rise and make it
better. Love-patient pure. sclf-deny-
ing, pervading, enfolding love-may re-
deem e child even from his own mis-
takes.
true son comes closer to parents
heart when he is true lover and a true
husband. The lc7e which, when it has
ether outlets, fails in filial devotion is
very shallow The heart by loving
gains power to love, and mans devo-
ton to his father and mother will in
crease in proportion to his devotion to
his1Mife. 1t is poor proverb, at least
in it's first statement, which says:
"A son is son till he get him wife,
a daughters daughter to tie end of her life. -"
Many wife will testify that she has
found her husbands love for her deep
ening year by year as his heart turned
with increasing tenderness and solicit
tous affection to his parents, and many
a mother has realized that she and her
son have been growing nearer and
dearer to each other since he became a
husband. Mrs. Lyman Abbott, in
Ladies' Home Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-24
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
POWER OF EXAMPLE.
A Noted Doctors Temperance Pledge and
the Double Blessing 1t Brought.

A Noted Doctors Temperance Pledge and
the Double Blessing 1t Brought.
Norman Kerr, NJ. D., F. L. S., the con-
sulting physician to the Dalrymple
House for the Treatment of Inebrietv
and president of Society for the Study
of Inebriety, whites Interestingly in
the Western Temperance Herald, the
account of how he came to sign the
pledge.
Nearly twenty years ago l had pa
tient in London, man of about fifty
years of age, who regularly every
month had an outbreak of intoxica-
ton. He used to be- be an abstainer
for the three weeks following the out
break. On one of these periodical out
bursts of drunkenness he, as usual, sent
for me between two and three dock
in the morning. 1t was wild night,
with rain and wind, and | was very
weary, owing to an extra pressure of
work. l am afraid / was shorter-tem-
pered than usual at being disturbed at
so uncongenial an hour, and l remem-
Der saying to him:
What fool you must be to be kill
ing yourself and making your wife
miserable by your drinking, and bene-
fitting nobody but your doctor and
your wine merchant. Why don't you
take the teetotal pledge and stick to
it?"
Drunk as he was, he clearly appre-
ciated the force of what l said to him,
for, later in the day, he remarked:
Doctor, you asked me early this
morning why did not take the pledge
l will take it if you will"
What could say or do? dared not
stand in the way of this reckless in
ebriate's cure; so, though had no de-
sire to become an abstainer, we both
subscribed our names to a pledge
of abstinence which l drew up
there and then. He has kept it
faithfully ever since, and during
all these abstaining years he has had
occasion to consult me professionally
only twice instead of, as in his drink
ing days, several times at the begin
ming OF every month. Still further,
this enthusiastic recruit became an ar
dent apostle of abstinence, and has
been the means of rescuing large
number of apparently hopeless cases
of intemperance.
This is how I became an abstainer;
this is the chain of circumstances by
which, practically against my desire,
I was, as it were, entrapped into be-
coming an abstainer.
Though, moral considerations apart,
so far as the mere physical, pleas
is concerned, no one could enjoy
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-24
NE1flE-RASH.
Causes and Treatment of Very Trouble
some MaIady,

some Malady.
Nettle-rash, hives, or urticaria, is an
affection of the skin, generally known
to be harmless, and hence often consid-
cred or very little Importance, both by
the family and the physician.
As 1t is rarely mistaken for any con-
tagious disorder, this Indifference is
perhaps partially justified; but if it is
remembered that nettle-rash is usually
the manifestation of some cause remote
from the skin and hidden from the eve,
it will be seen that it may be a danger
signal OF some DISC -er likely to follow
unless the nettle-rash itself receives at
tention.
The occurrence of nettle-rash has in
some instances led TO the discovery
that the patient was suffering from in
testinal worms. At other times it may
be the precursor of an asthmatic attack
In individual cases the eating of such
simple and, to most persons. nourishing
foods as fish, eggs, Strawberries and
pineapples invariable causes nettle-
rash in an aggravated form. The ques-
ton of the freshness or want of fresh
ter into these cases, and the cause of
the disagreement is wholly unknown.
The warning is not to be disregarded,
however, since persistence in eating
the bohibited article results in pro-
4, disturbance of the system
In all cases of nettle-rash attention
should be given to the diet, though in
f,.io
will not be followed by any improve
ment. In certain of the latter cases
some local irritant, such as chatting of
clothing, or bites or stings of insects,
will account for the trouble.
The separate wheals, or raised spots.
which constitute the rash are caused
by local congestion, followed by an
escape into the tissues of the serum
the watery element of the blood. 1t is
the pressure of the watery fluid upon
the minute nerves supplying the skin
with sensation which occasions the
tingling, burning or itching symptoms
which are SO familiar to the many suf-
ferers from this complaint.
Nervous influences cause hives in
some instances. Emotions, such as an
ger, fear or excitement of any kind, are
known to produce it.
Those who are subject to hives, be-
sides guarding against extremes of any
kind, should particularly avoid ex-
posture to cold and dampness of the ex-
tremities, since such exposure is prone
to affect unfavorably the normal func-
tions of the stomach and liver 1t must
be remembered that arrangements of
these organs cause the majority of at
taclls of nettle-rash. Overlooking the
stomach. especially with unripe or over
ripe fruits, should also be avoided
Youths Companion.