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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-15
MAYFIELD.

Patrick Daley. of the West Side, re-
ceived word of the death Of his father,
which took place at Hazleton. Funeral
services will be held at that place at
o'clock this morning -
Mrs. ID. Mendleson and Mr.. NJ. Mem
dleson. of Hill street, were in Scran-
ton Thursday.
Thomas NJ. Hart was in Scranton on
business yesterday
The Hillside Coal and Iron company
paid its employees at this place on Sat
urday.
The Methodist Episcopal Sunday
school, on Poplar street, presented a
very fine programme on Easter Sunday.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-15
HALLSTEAD.

Attorney Z. r. w. Searle, of Susque-
hanna, was calling on friends In town
today.
Hon. 8. B. Chase has returned to Eas-
ton.
School closed yesterday for few
weeks vacation.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western pay car made Its monthly visit
to this place Saturday.
w. E. Barnes is making improve
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-15
Relief in Six Hours.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis.
eases relieved in six hoars by the New
Great South American Kidney Cure"
This new remedy is a great surprise on
account of its exceeding promptness in
relieving pain in the bladder, kidneys,
back and every part of the urinary pas
sages, in male or female. 1t relieves re-
tention of water and pain in passing it
almost Immediately. If you want quick
relief and cure this is your remedy. Sold
by C. NJ. Harris Druggist. 125 Penn ave-
nue. Scranton Pa -
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-15
Evidently a Standard Tale.

Ouida tells in the North American Re-
view an amusing story concerning an Eng
lish publisher: 81 remember" she says,
"a little while before the death in the
hunting field of that delightful companion
and brilliant gentleman, Whyte Melville,
a publisher said to me one day: 'Ah!
You know, If your books sold like Major
long prices as we give him.. The pub
Usher was not aware that / and Whyte
Melville We're friends. The latter, how
ever, came to dine with me q few even
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-15
Mothers! Mothers Mothers.!

WUtHcIs' WoIHcIs' WUtHeTS!
Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used for over fifty years by millions Of
mothers for their children while teething,
with perfect success. 1t soothes the child,
softens the gums. allays all pain; cures
wind collie. and is the best remedy for
diarrhea. Sold by druggists In every part
of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs
Winslow's Soothing Syrup" and take no
other kind. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-15

ings later. and A told him what had been
said. He started, laughed and pulled his
long auburn mustache Well, by Jove!
that's droll! he said, with much amuse-
ment. II the fellow didn't tell me last
week that II my books sold like yours he
could pay me double and treble!"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-15
CHARLES AUGUSTUS FLETCHER.

P. S.-Tell the boys that
with every knee pants suit
sold at the BELL" each boy
is entitled to a chance on a
bicycle to be drawn for July
5. Don't let them miss this.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-15
HoOd'c Di1lc easy to buy, easy to take,
AAVO$s . AAiS easy In effect 25c.

SCRANTON, PA, April s, 1895.
Dear Silas:
Before accepting your kind
invitation to spend the
EASTER HOLIDAY with
you at Farmville, l would like
to know if there are any COM
missions which l can attend
to for you.
You know everything is
much cheaper here and more
up to date than around your
part of the country, and if
you have any change, l should
advise you to invest it in
SPRING CLOTHING for
yourself and the boys. There
is a store here called "THE
BELL" No. 23o Lackawanna
avenue, where I bought a suit
yerv cheap. You will be s,1r-
prised to hear that l paid only
$500 for it. Gents furnish
ing goods can also be bought
there for half the amount that
you would pay in Farmville.
Let ME know by return of
mail just what you want. and
l shall be glad to accommo-
date you. With love to Lydia,
Ruben and John, also your
self. l remain yours,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-15
Knew What They We're.

From the Somerville Journal.
Mr.. Wixham-Did you ask that new girl
to show wou her recommendations?
Mrs. Wixham-No. Recommendations
don't amount to anything. I've given
them myself,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-15

One to five applications of Doan's Olnt-
ment will cure the worst case of Itching
Piles there ever was. Can you afford to
suffer tortures when q simple never-fail-
ing remedy Is at hand? Doan's Ointment
never fails.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-15

ments about his home on Williams
street
Miss Kittie Pike called on Bingham
ton friends Saturday.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-15
HONESDALE.

Miss Dora Conger is home after ten
months absence.
A force of men are at work repairing
the breaks in the canal.
Several hops and balls are billed at
the different halls this, Monday, eve
ming.
The Pastime club, of White Mills,
will give dance tonight.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-15

Gas Made from Wood.
The French claim that gasmaking was
invented by Lebon in 1902, who made gas
By the dry distillation Of wood.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-01
AMBITIOUS WOMEN
MAKE HEROES OF MEN.
She VIII Brave Anything for the
Man She Loves. ..a.,
ESPECIAL TO OUR LADY READERS

When an ambitious woman loves a
man she will spur him to heroic efforts.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-01
No More Wild Men In Borneo.

Lammerts Van Beuren, manager of
one of the great tobacco plantations in
British North Borneo, came over from
Japan ON the Belgic and is ON his way
to his native country, Holland. The
plantation of which he has charge COW
ers about 10000 acres
Mr.. Van Beuren states that, contrary
to the general impression abroad, Bor-
neo is safe place for foreigners to do
business in. The native race, though pi-
ratical in its dealings with Chinese, is,
on the whole, friendly to the whites.
The only industrial work the aborigines
do is to raft bamboo and~rattan down
the rivers for the use of the estates. The
most civilized class among them are the
Dyaks, who used to be head hunters, but
are now Of some use to the British gov
erLment in the local military service.
Work on the plantation is done by the
Chinese, Malays and Javanese.
In the intervals of tobacco farming
Mr.. Van Beuren does a good deal of
hunting, and his description of the game
resources of Borneo will be of interest
to sportsmen. There are plenty of rhi-
noceri, of which he has killed seven, and
of wild cattle, of which he has shot over
80. The ourang outang and long nosed
monkey peculiar to Borneo abound.
There are also elephants in the north.
western part, but these are protected by
the game laws. San Francisco Chroni.
Gle
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-01

A matter of almost international in
terest that is known to but a very few
intimate friends of DR.. J. M. Crawford
late consul general to st. Petersburg, is
the fact that when he was about to leave
Russia and had severed his connection
as representative of the United States
number of officials representing the
car of all the Russians called upon him,
and on behalf of the emperor presented
DR.. Crawford with what is probably the
handsomest set of solid silver service in
this city today as token of the esteem
in which the emperor held the consul
general. 1t will be remembered that in
1892 the United States sent to Russia
two shiploads of flour, because the crops
there had failed and the peasants were
starving. The ships State of Missouri
and State of Indiana were dispatched
there with cargoes of -four as gift from
the American people and landed at the
war port of Libau, which is now being
built; and where there were 1 200 work
men who were on the verge Of starva-
ton. DR.. Crawford went to Libau as
the representative of his government to
receive the -four and formally present it
to the Russian authorities for distribu-
tion. For the great interest that he took
in it the emperor desired to give an in
dication Of the fact that he appreciated
it.-Cincinnati Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-01
The Yacht America Today.

It is pretty difficult to perceive in the
old, widowed craft tossing mournfully
on the water in front of the Chelsea
clubhouse any semblance to General
Buffers fast sailing schooner yacht
America, yet the old America it is, with
its sea wings gone and its racing heels
doubled and twisted by years of neglect
and inactivity. The old sea PAGER has
the same boom and >masts and the same
dignifed poise of the nose that made
her a wonder in her triumphant days in
the early seventies. An old sea salt de-
olared, the other day that little scrap
ing and overhauling would put her in a
condition to sail the briny deep with the
same nobility and speed of yore. -Bos-
ton Traveller.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-01

Ono of the features of the Berlin In
iustrial exposition Of next year will be
the beauty of the grounds One of the
most interesting changes now taking
place is the transformation Of the great
Fairgrounds in Treptow park into a
lake. About $4,000 cubic meters of
earth will have to be removed, and
workmen are now engaged in building
the embankment. A promenade, shaded
by four rows Of plantain trees, already
encircles the proposed lake. Powerful
engines will supply the water, which
will fall in great cascades into the lake,
and then flow into the river Spree. Con
dolas will ply in the basin and the
neighboring waterways. Artistic yestau-
rants and music halls will border the
boulevard, the whole making a scene
which, it is expected, will rival in
beauty anything ever offered for public
enjoyment at any World fair.
One curious feature of this improve
ment is found in the fact that Treptow
park must be restored to it's original
condition when the exposition is over.
In order to do this "a, 900 square meters
of sod must be stored, and the contract
ors find difficulty in obtaining place to
nut it.-NeW York Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-01
A Camnflre of Fossil Wood.

Our fire was made Of fossil wood gath
cred on the beach. This wood is found
scattered OF i'll wave washed windows
all about the bay where the shores are
low enough for it to rest. 1t also occurs
in abundance in many of the ravines and
gorges, and in roughly stratified beds of
moraine material, some of which are
more than 900 feet ia thickness. The
bed rocks ON which these deposits rest
are scored and polished by glacial action,
like all the rocks hereabouts up to at
least 5000 feet above the sea. The tim
Der is mostly in the form of broken
trunks of the Merten, Patton and Men
zies spruce, the largest sections being 20
to 80 feet long, and from 1 to feet in
diameter, some of them with the bark
on, sound and tough.
1t appears therefore that these shores
were, century or so ago, as generously
forested as those of the adjacent bays
and inlets are today; though, strange to
say, not one tree is left standing, with
the exception Of q few on mountain tops
near the mouth of the bay and on the
east side Of the Muir glacier. How this
deforestment was effected 1 have not
space to tell here. L will only say that
all | have seen goes to show that the
moraine soil On which the forests were
growing was held in place on the steep
mountain slopes by the grand trunk
glacier that recently filled the entire
bay as it's channel, and that when it
melted the soil and forests were sloughed
off together, 1.-THE Discovery of Gla-
cier Bay by John Muir in The Cen
tury
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-01
All Free.

Those who have used DR.. Kings
New Discovery know it's value, and
those who have not, have now the
opportunity to try it free. Call on
the advertised Druggist and get a
Trial Bottle Free. Send your name
and address to H. E. Bucklen & Co.,
Chicago, and get a sample box of DR..
Kings New Life Pills, Free, as well
as a copy of Guide to Health and
Household Instructor, Free. All Of
which is guaranteed to do you good
and cost you nothing, II. j. Dwinell'e
Drug Store.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-01

| wish to correct that. My lady and
the young man came into my place
to-day, and she put her pretty white
hand on me and patted me as if |
were very dear to her, and she told
the man in charge of the place to
send me up to her house and send the
bill along.
"My husband will pay it" she said,
and the young man smiled radiantly
on her, and giving me a sounding
slap on the saddle, remarked :-"Old
fellow, you're a corker.'
l don't know what that is. but l
guess l must be it, for he would
hardly tell a tib in the presence of my
lady.-Detroit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-01
Tho tricycle. Showing Itself.

Some women who cannot master the
bicycle, or who are rather averse to its
conspicuousness-thopgh thing that is
as common as the bicycle no longer de-
serves the,adjective in its pure sense
are finding a compromise in the tricycle..
This machine is in some evidence again,
and as its construction has taken on all
the modern improvements except the
loss'of one wheel it is a happy way out
Of the dilemma of the woman who
wants to propel herself over the ground,
but who cannot or will not mount a BIZ
cycle.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-01
GLADNESS.
tn of gold. all summer stored,

A warmth OF gold, all summer stored,
The golden rod gives up;
And filed from spring times scantier hoard
Shines the sweet buttercup
And from the singing OF the breeze
And low, sweet-son of rain,
The little brook learns melodies
To sing them back again.
Forgotten all the cloudy sky
OF dark days overcast
For flower-hearts let gloom go by,
But hold the sunshine fast
And, all year long, the little burn,
Though winter boughs be wet,
Picks out the happy days to learn
The sad ones to forget.
Charles B. Going, in St. Nicholas.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-01

, will dare with
1 the rigors of
frozen North,
| encouragehim
daring dangers
almost I'M
surnount-
able.
~ Women
~ are by ma
ture ambi-
IN tiOuS ac-
%N cording to
8M their ply
I'm steal and
mental
strength.
Hone and
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-01
John Bright and Milton.

Mr.. John Bright once quoted the lines
from Milton
] argue not
Against heavens hand or will, nor bate jot
OF heart or hope, but still bear up and steer
Right onward
The reporter was not familiar with
the passage, and having no idea that
Mr.. Bright was quoting poetry he turn
ed it into prose, in the third person, as
follows: "Eo would not argue against
the hand or will of heaven, nor would
he bate a jot OF heart or hope He would
still bear up and steer right onward. I"
Macmillan s Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-01

months ago L
was unable to
stand on my
feet. [ had
falling of the
womb, kidney
trouble, and
Inflammation
of the bladder;
the backache
and bearing
down pains
were dreadful.
me no relief.
E. Pinkhdm'S
Well, 1 did.
woman would
be cured, cured
as | ami M
Seymour St., Pi
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-01

ambition come with perfect health, but
vanish before sickness and despair.
American women are, unfortunately,
particularly subject to those painful fe-
male diseases that are the cause of so
much hopelessness and misery.
Could all women realize the undeni-
able fact that they suffer unnecessarily,
how much brighter life would be!
Lydia E. Pinkham devoted her life to
the study of female diseases and their
cause -; and she discovered in the Vege-
table Compound an absolute remedy. 1t
succeeds in removing the cause Of the
trouble.
Women who rely more upon their own
natural commOn-sense, rather than on
the theories of their physicians, write to
Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass, and are
soon restored to health.
Here is living examnle. q Four
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-01

Postcript-Didn't l begin this by
saying that was a bicycle for hire ?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-26
TO span THE KAW.
Details of the Proposed New
Kansas River Bridge.
A Beautiful Structure as the
Picture Shows.
THE MELAN SYSTEM.
An Explanation of the Making
of the Material.
NearlyAIl the Composition Used
Comes From Topeka.

The citizens of this city have again re-
vived the question of a bridge across the
Kansas river, and ask the hearty cooper
alton of the citizens of the county in the
voting of bonds for the building of the
same. From time to time plans have
been proposed and adopted, but the
bridge still remains unbuilt. A short
time ago Col Tweeddale submitted and
had adopted plans for bridge, (Melan
systeml
The JOURNAL will give a short history
and description of the Melan system.
The Melan system is an improvement on
the Mouier system The inventor of the
latter was Joan Monier. 1t is the use of
concrete which is a mixture of small
stones, or broken stone and any high
grade quality of cement
This invention was first applied to
water aud gas tanks, one OF which was
seventy feet in diameter and eleven feet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-26
FOR A GO IN PRIVATE
Steve Brodie Offers $4,000 to
COrbett and Fitz.
FIGHT to be Private With 20
Men a Side.
TIRED OF THEIR TALK.
Are Simply Newspaper Fighters
if They Don't Accept.
He Makes the Offer Himself Out
of Curiosity.
TIRED OF THEIR TALK.

CHICAGO, Oct 26-Steve Brodie is
disgusted at the fistic fiasco, and has de-
termined to see whether Corbett and
Fitzsimmons really want to fight. He
accordingly offers purse of $4,000 to be
contested for in private, with twenty men
on side. He has posted a forfeit of
$500 with the Inter Ocean and says he
stands ready to pull off the fight at any
time.
No one doubts for a moment that
Brodie without forfeit will make good
his offer. He admits that he is not una
ware of the advertisement that such an
action will bring him, but he is willing
to pay $4,000 to see who is the champion.
81 am worth $70,O0O," said he. ''and 1
can afford to spend d small part of it out
of curiosity. / am tired of hearing these
fellows talk and want them to fight.
Here is 5000 for one of them to pick
up. l won't charge a cent to the forty
men who are admitted and won't make a
cent out of the fight. If they don't want
to fight they are newspaper fighters, not
prize fighters"
When asked where he expected to pull
off the mill Brodie declined to name the
exact locality.
"You may say" he said," that it will
take place in the state of New York. 1
have pulled off fights there before, and l
can do it again. l won't advertise it. l
will simply notify the men where to come
and the first the public knows of it it
will read the account of the battle. That
is the way to fight"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-26
ONE MORE GOOD IDEA.
Sinking Fund Proposed by Judge
Oninton for the Eau Festival.

Sinking Fund Proposed by Judge
Quinton for the Fall Festival.
Judge A. B. Quinton favors the pro-
posed autumn festival of 1896 and sug-
gests good idea He says:
"Let the business men take charge of
this at once. Some one has suggested
chamber of commerce. In connection
with the formation of this club let us
have a treasurer and all the bus mess
men contribute a small sum per month
from January 1st until next Septem Der.
Say, for instance, l put in one dollar
each month, there is 50, and l don't miss
it. Let it be the same way with each
merchant. and the committee would find
themselves in splendid shape to work
without the financial EN- mbasrassment that
often accompanies such enterprises.
"Of course the larger business houses
could put in larger sums in proportion
say So.
And now is the time to push this
matter. l think the Million club would
be anxious and ready to help the festival
along.
BY all means let us have flowers,
music tableaux. and week of carnival.
Kansas people will be only too glad to
come"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-26

to so per cent weighs about 150 pounds
per cubic foot has tensile strength of
200 pounds, and a compressive strength
of 1900 pounds to the square inch. The
adhesion of concrete to iron is from 500
to 600 pounds per square inch. The ex-
pansion by heat of steel and concrete is
practically the same, while the elasticity
of concrete to steel is as to 40.
The requirements of the bridge are:
First, That the costs shall be within
the prescribed limit of S15O,00O.
Second, That the strength and rigiidty
should provide for loads of any required
weight and at any rate of speed that
may be desired
Third, That it shall be durable and re-
quire no more expediture for repairs
tnan an ordinary street.
Fourth, That It's artistic merits should
satisfy the requirements of the capital
city of the state of Kansas, 100 years
hence.
This bridge covers all these points, but
the greatest point yet, in favor of the
bridge is the fact that nearly all the ma
terial used, in fact, all except the cement
oan be produced in this county to say
nothing of the labor and employment
furnished to the needy citizens of this
county.
The Dimensions of the bridge are as
follows: 700 feet in length, AZ feet in
width. The roadway is to be 26 feet
wide and the two sidewalks each feet
wide. The cost of this bridge is to be
$150.000.'
Several times the bridge question has
come up and the citizens of the county
have voted for the bridge, but for some
reason or other the plans have miscarried.
Those crossing the bridge daily will see
the absolute necessity of a new bridge
being built at this point. and it is sin
cerely hoped that the citizens of Topeka
who pay large percentage of the taxes
of this county will do their utmost to
make this enterprise go through.
Musin. the great Belgian violinist, is
great favorite in Topeka. Hear him at
Library hall, October 28.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-26
ALTGELD WON'T RUN.
1t Would BE bad Form" for a Democrat
to Want to BE Senator.

1t Would Be "Bad Form" for a Democrat
to Want to BE Senator.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,. Oct. 26-Governor
Altgeld viii not be a candidate next
year for United States senator. He so
declared himself today and gave his rea-
sons to representative OF the Associated
Press. 1t was thought by many politi-
clans that the withdrawal of Palmer from
the race would induce Gov. Altgeld to
announce himself. In this they were
mistaken. The governor left no room
for doubt as to his intentions.
--"Now that Gen. Palmer has Withdrawn
from the race for the senatorship next
year." the governor was asked, twill you
be canddate?"
No." he replied. ga decent regard
for the proprieties forbids that any Dem
ocrat should make an effort to be elected
senator in this state next year.
'As dudes say, it would be in bad
form"
'How is that, governor?" was the next
question.
"Well," was the reply, aside from va
cancy caused by the death of Senator
Herb, Repu blicans have a majority of
seventeen of the hold-over senators, and
conditions in this state are such that if
we were to sweep everything before US
next year as we did in 1892 we could not
possibly get majority of more than l2 or
fourteen of newly elected members. so
that even if the Lord were to be with us
next year. Republicans would still have Z
majority of five or six on joint ballot.
Under these circumstances it would
look greedy for Democrat to want
the place and as Democrats are we'll bred
gentlemen, they will not be guilty of
such breach of decorum, but will pre-
serve their dignity and pursue even the
tenor of their way"