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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-08
Where Shaving is Cheap.

Two BARRIERS are fighting for supremacy
on Fort street, in Springwells, Mich. The
contest has reached the point where one
offers to shave customers free, while the
other not only shaves them free but gives
them cigar.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-08

The value of standing pine timber in
Minnesota was officially estimated In the
last census at $50, 000, 000.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-08

Adapted Only 20 Rural Surroundings
and Best Suited 70 . Mountainous
Landscape.
Copyright, 1851
It Is the intention of this series OF
articles to treat OF the various styles
of architecture in q perfectly honest
manner.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-04
Editor Smiths Address.

We reproduce, on another page or this
issue, the salient features of the bril-
liant address recently delivered before
the house of representatives at Harris
burg by Charles Emory Smith, in reply
to Charles Heber Clark's argument for
the Independent reconciliation of sill
yer by the United States. 1t IS mas
terpiece Of adroit argument rejecting
new credit upon its exceedingly gifted
author. With much of It we can cor
daily agree. But we should like to ask
concerning which his speech Is not
wholly clear.
II we correctly understand Mr.
Smiths position, he is in favor of the
remonetization of silver by interna-
tlonal action; but until that action shall
have been taken, he concurs in the ar
guments of the gold monometallists
that no more silver should be coined by
the United States. He predicts, of
course, that an International agreement
is near at hand. But will not the clos
ing of our mints to silver, so far from
Fastening such an agreement, have the
exactly opposite effect of indefinitely
postponing it? And If such should
prove true; If no international agree
ment should be reached within, say the
next five years, is our distinguished
Philadelphia friend in favor of letting
silver slide altogether, and falling back
wholly upon our limited stock of gold
for our primary money; or would he
avoid that dangerous measure of cur
rency contraction by supplementing our
gold money, as Mr.. Cleveland's Wall
street advisers suggest, by the issue OF
state bank currency, or paper initiation,
pure and simple? In other words,
would he prefer one-cent paper dollars
to fifty-cent silver dollars, assuming
that We could not get gold enough to
do business with. unaided?
While the burden Of Mr. Smiths bril-
liant argument is directed against the
fifty-cent silver dollar, he yet admits
that an agreement among the nations
could make the fifty-cent silver dollar
precisely as valuable as the hundred
cent gold dollar. But will the nations
be influenced to come to such an agree
ment while men like Mr.. Cleveland and
Mr.. Smith are doing their level best to
discredit silver and to appreciate gold?
In other words, shall the attitude Of
the United States, which is the greatest
silver producing country in the world.
be hostile or friendly to it's own silver
production; and shall 1t discourage or
encourage international bimetallism?
Can any protectionist consistently pre-
tend friendship for silver while doing
all in his power to check its rehabilita-
fion; and is the United States ready to
make it easier than ever before for
gold exporters to enrich themselves by
breeding panics and by tying up the
processes Of business?
--
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-04

walked farther than James," and,
again, that John progressed In his
studies farther than James" we should
have the anomalous condition of one
word trying to convey two widely DIFF
ferent meanings. Our vocal currency
would in such an emergency be con-
tracted, threatening intellectual stag
nation; whereas, the aim of wise
scholarship in photography, as of wise
craftsmanship in economics, is steadily
to expand the currency of the people to
the furhest limit consistent with gem
eral safety.
In its earlier day the English was es-
sentially a vigorous rather than a nice
language. 1t conveyed the thoughts of
robust but unpublished men; of men who
We're conquering natural obstacles or
tanning the forces of nature; and who
had, therefore, no time to spare for the
cultivation of the graces of art and
literature. 1t is the good fortune, how
ever, of the Dnglish-speaking peoples of
today to live in an age which allows
time for this cultivation-which indeed,
expects that the time thus allowed Will
be honestly improved. A responsibility
rests upon our writers and speakers so
to employ the common instrument of
speech as to encourage and not repress
this steady widening of the mental and
moral horizon. Though we all fail
much too often in our duty in this direc-
tion, it should be n pleasure for con-
scientious writers to avoid deliberate
ca releSsneSs
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-04
The Use and Abuse of the English
Language.

Two able Chicago Journals are at
aoggerheads over the use Of the words
farther and further" one claiming
that they may be used interchangeab bly,
without sensible violation of the pro-
prieties of our language, and the other
contending that "farther" refers to ex.
cess Of distance, and further to excess
of quantity or degree. If an outsider
may be permitted to venture a word.
we should say that the latter conten-
fion Is sanctioned by the most recent
and also by the most careful lexico-
graphers. The beauty of modern Eng
lish Is Its gradual response to the dispo-
sition of its users to employ words so as
to bring out fine and subtle shades of
meaning. The vocabulary of the aver
age uneducated man seldom exceeds
1900 words. To a man with more than
1900 thoughts SO limited a vocabulary
would obviously prove embarrassing.
AS he gains In fexibility Of knowledge
and power of original thinking it nat
urally follows that his vocabulary
must increase correspondingly, unless
ne be content with such a stock of
words as only crudely and roughly ap-
proximates to a correct voicing Of his
meanings.
We know of no nice distinction be-
tween two words often used inter-
changeably which better illustrates this
gradual improvement of our mother
tongue than does the distinction to
which we have just alluded. There are
mental concepts in relation to distance
which are subjected to indignity If the
same word which expresses them is to
be indifferently used also in the express
sion Of ideas, relating to quantity and
degree. Thus, II we were to say, John
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-04
IT BEATS THEM ALL.

Allentown, Pa, April 30.
The Scranton Tribune, Scranton, Pa.
Gentlemen-We received this morning
one of your souvenirs, entitled Scranton
and Vicinity, Illustrated" which we
glanced through. Please accept our con-
gratulations on the work, as the views,
portraits, etc, are superior to anything
OF the kind we have ever seen. 1t Is GER
tainly q beautiful representation of your
city and we will be pleased to place it
upon the table in our reading room.
Yours truly,
G.. w. Seagraves,
American Hotel.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-04

Professor Coles prediction of cyclonic
disturbances in the western states dur
ing the first week of May has been
verified, as is shown in the report Of
fatal storms at Sioux Center and
Orange City, Ia. He also predicts Sc
we're storms in the south, from May Is
to 81. Predictions for April made by
him We're verified in every instance.
The meteorological perspicacty of the
Electric Eye is evidently not to be
secuted.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-04
REDUCED

To close few patterns Of Chamber Suits,
which we arc dropping from our regular stock,
we offer Suits reduced rs follows:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-04

According Ito a Minnesota decision
Just rendered in suit against re-
porter for the st. Paul Pioneer-Press,
no action for libel can hold good unless
directed against the publisher of a
newspaper. The theory behind this de-
cision presumably is that since the pub
Usher pockets the profits, he should also
pay the fiddler. The ruling, 1t is safe
to say, will have the enthusiastic ap-
plause of all reporters.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-04

The New York assembly has just
passed law authorizing cities in that
state to pass ordinances compelling
street railway companies to adopt
safety tenders. Such a law is unneces-
sary in Pennsylvania, where municipal
councils already have the right to en-
act such local legislation; but in Scran-
ton this right is apparently ignored.
Why?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-04

What effect this contraction of our pri-
mary money has had upon the commercial
affairs and the welfare and happiness Of
the people of this nation cannot be told
here. Some thought for reflection, how
ever, Is afforded by the following: "At the
Christian era the metallic money of the
Roman empire amounted to 81, 800, 900, ,000
By the end of the fifteenth century It had
shrunk to 5000, 100000. (Dr. Adam Smith
Informs us that in 1455 the price of wheat
in England was two-pence per busheD
Population dwindled and commerce, arts,
wealth and freedom all disappeared. The
people were reduced by poverty and mis-
cry to the most degraded condition of serf-
dom and slavery. The disintegration Of
society was almost complete. History
records no such dangerous transition as
that from the Roman empire to the dark
ages. The discovery of the new world by
Columbus returned the balance of pre-
cious metals, brought with 1t rising prices
enabled society to reunite it's shattered
links, shake of the shackles of .feudalism
ard to relight and uplift the almost ex-
tinp1,shed torch of civilization" Report
of u. s. Monetary Commission of 1875
Bimetalllc Republican
Scranton, Ea, May 8.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-04

1t is well not to be too certain that
England has relaxed her grip on Mica
ragua. There is such a thing In di-
plomacy as making a feint.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-04

II car tenders can save human life In
other cities, why should there be any
disinclination on the part Of councils to
hasten their coming in Scranton?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-04
G0LDSM|TH'S o. |
"BEAUTY DRAWS


merchandise
@ ! 'es tn: THOUSANDS
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-04

The Cleveland idea Of sound money
appears to be to buy foreign gold at
exorbitant prices by the issue Of gov
ernment bonds. Thus, in time Of pro-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-04

found peace, the nation must go in
debt. How shall these bonds pe paid?
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-03-29
Antics of a Hat.

A man was walking along the avenue
when a sudden scurry of March wind took
off his hat and whired it against tho back
of a woman who was crossing the street.
you vilainn' she shrieked. "How
dare you strike me like thatY'
Then she turned and saw what it was
and hurried along. while the hat rose in
the air, and coming down settled on the
face of dray horse, and the owner of the
fliehty tile started to get it.
He was within two feet of the horse
when that animal bolted, and the hat
scared over to the soldiers monument,
and he gave up the chase but beckoned to
a small boy, at the same time making
suggestive motions toward his pocket.
The boy acted on the hint and soon had
the hat and returned it to its owner.
Thanks, my little fellow" said the
man. Here is something for your trou-
ble," and he handed him penny.
Keep it yourself, Gully" said the boy.
II may be small, but l amt so small as
to take that, and he ran eff whistling.-
Detroit Free Press.
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The old-time visionary inventor has
given place to the practical, hard-work-
ing professional inventor of to-day.
The successful inventor must now be a
business man of mechanical ideas.
The high tension of the nervous sys-
TEN. often kept up for months, makes
tremendous drafts on the health of those
busy brain workers. Many succumb to
nervous nrostration when they seem just
on the point of surmounting every diff
Guilty.
OF all the countless recent useful in.
ventions none has passed through so
many or SO rapid course of improve
ments as the typewriter. To-day the
latest perfected machine is undoubtedly
the Williams Typewriter, which repre-
sents vast amount of cumulative inven-
ton,
John Newton Williams, it's inventor,
was born in 1S45, in Brooklyn. N. Y. He
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-03-29

spent his early manhood on the western
frontier. Subsequently he settled in
Kentucky, where he became known as
one of the most successful stock breeders
in the State.
But it is as an inventor that he hasw on
his National reputation. Several most
useful and important inventions were
made by him before he produced the
Williams typewriter, a machine that
probably eXcels all others in the most
important features.
Mr.. Williams, speaking of the labor ex-
pended in bringing the machine that
bears his name to its present perfection,
says:
'SOme four years ago, when engaged
in experimental work on the Williams, |
was putting in about l6 hours per day of
hard work and worry, and came near
breaking down. Although very particu-
lar and regular in my habits and careful
about eating, my stomach troubled me
1t was difficult to eat and more difficult
to digest and assimilate my food, my
stomach acting in sympathy with an
Overworked brain. A friend had sent
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amply 81 tficient for all demands of bust.
ness 1t ought to be furnished by the gov
eminent alone and not by hanks and it
should not cost the people more to borrow
it than it costs the government to prepare
or procure it
These are the lines on which the next
great party will fight its battles Its motto
might well be something like this: Let
the people rule. It's platform could prop
erly be short, plain and responsive to the
needs of the times and could safely be con.
structGd on six pillars:
First.-Get the people at work and pay
them for what they'd
Second. Away with landlordism.
Third.-Out with the transportation
monopoly
Fourth Down with the money power
Fifth.-Up with the people
Sixth.-Live the republic,
w A PETER.
Washington
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A Novelty In Bridge Building.

The new bridge at Van Buren, street,
over the Chicago river, as the great open
sewer that runs through the Windy City
Is called, is something of curiosity in
bridge building. The structure is various
ly termed a rolling lift and rocking bas-
rule. The bridge is divided in the middle,
and each section is formed at the shore
end in the shape of a huge rocker that
rests upon the abutments. In opening
each section turns back upon its rockers,
raising the adjacent ends of the sections at
the middle Electric power is used, and
compressed air brakes are automatically
set by the cessation of the current. 1t is
assorted that this device insures absolute
safety. When the bridge is open, the free
way in the river is 100 feet in width The
rolling lift bridge is the first of the kind
in this country. 1t marks great depar-
turo in bridge construction.-NewY York
Telegram
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-03-29
Don't Put ItOm.

The necessity Of spring medicine in
universally admitted. This is the best
time of year in which to purify the
blood, to restore the lost appetite, and to
build up the entire system, as the body
is now peculiarly susceptible to benefit
from medicine. The great popularity at
tanned by Hoods Sarsaparlila, owing to
its real merit and its remarkable success,
has established it as the very best medi-
cine to take in the sprng 1t cures
scrofula, salt rheum, and all humors. bill
iousness, dyspepsia, headache, kidney
and liver complaints catarrh and all at
fections caused or promoted by low state
of the system or impure blood. Don't
put it off, but take Hoods Sarsaparilla
now. 1t will do you good.
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Wonan-hood

has its own special medicine in Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription. And
every woman who is rundown" or
overworked, every woman who suffers
from any ''temale complaint" or weak
ness, needs just that remedy. With it,
every disturbance, irregularity, and de-
can be permanently cured.
It's an invigorating, restorative tonic,
a soothing and strengthening nervine,
and the only medicine for women so safe
and sure that it can be guaranteed. In
periodical pains, displacements, weak
back, bearing.down sensations, and
every kindred ailment, if it fails to ben
eft or cure, you have your money back.
Is anything that isn't sold i'll this way
likely to be lust as gCod?"
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some Paine's celery compound to one of
my business associates, and knowing
him personally, and seeing what it did
for him, l thought | would try it. |
commenced taking it before meals, and
it at once stimulated my appetite and
aided digestion. | took two bottles and
was much benefited
again, two years later | was troubled
with nervousness and Indigestion, and
again took Pane's celery compound
with great benefit. My wife, after her
long illness last summer, and severe ner-
vOus prOstratiOn. and some trouble with
Indigestion, concluded to try Paines cell
cry compound, a few weeks ago, and she
is now taking it with steady improve
ment Several of my friends have taken
it on my recommendation, and are now
practical believers in it's great restorative
powers. l have found the celery COM
pound tonic and restorative that
could lean upon with confidence in time
of trouble
Paine's celery compound makes peo-
pie well! AS spring remedy it is I'M
surpassed.
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1t May Do as Much for You.

Mr. Fred Miller, of Irving, ILL., writes
that he had a severe Kidney trouble for
many years, with severe pains in his back
and also that his bladder was affected.
He tried many so called Kidney cures
but without any good result. About
year ago he began use of Electric Bitters
and found relief at once. Electric
Bitters is especially adapted to cure all
Kidney and Liver troubles and often
gives almost instant relief. One trial
will prove our statement. Price only
SOC. for large bottle. At c. D. Gibson's
Drng Store.
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Knights of the Maccabees.

The State Commander writes us from
Lincoln, Neb., as follows: - fter try
ing other medicines for what seemed to
be a very obstinate cough in our two
children, we tried DR.. Kings New Dis
covery, and at the end of two days the
cough entirely left them. We will not
be without it hereafter, as our expert
ence proves that it cures where all other
remedies fail."-SIgned F. w. Stevens,
State Com.-Why not give this great
medicine trial, as it is guaranteed, and
trial bottles are free at G. d. Gibson's
Drug Store. Regular size SOC, and S1.00,
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TALES OF THE TIMES.
Bishop ThOrold Gets a Reproof From
Small Boy.
Washington

Small Boy.
Bishop Thorold holds that it is dan
gerous thing, even when right is on your
side, to challenge a personal controversy
with children The chances are the child
wins, as he clearly did on one occasion
On an ocean steamer few years ago an
English clergyman was in close conversa-
tion with a lady, when small boy of
years old lounged up and coolly joined in
The incautiuus divine, thinking it well to
administer a reproof to the child, who had
become an awful nuisance to everybody,
looked as grave as he could and observed,
my young friend, when l was your age
little boys did not join the conversation of
their elders until they were invited" The
reply was instant and would have been
more crushing but for the fact that the
supposed aged one was well under 60 and
did not look his years But it was straight
and gave much joy II guess that was 70
or so years ago, you bet" Probably that
good man never runs on a child's spear
now.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-03-29
-Senator Chandler thinks there is dam

Senator Chandler thinks there is dan
ger of war. Not now, though, Senator.
Not so long as Secretary Gresham can
find anything for which to apologize.
Not so long as he keeps turning first one
cheek and then the other to be slapped
by different nations. Not so long as he
kisses passionately the hands that smite
him. Not so long as he yearns with
yearuing that is Unsuitable for humilia-
ton. No, there is no danger now of war
with anybody or anything unless Secre-
tary Gresham should forget to emulate
in all his official acts the method of loco
motion of crawfsh.
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THE LATEST FAD.
The Up to Date Woman Plays Poker to
While Away Time During Lent.

The Up to Date Woman Plays Poker to
While Away Time During Lent.
The destinations of poker have captured
the women of New York, and the end is
not yet And since the women have taken
it up it is safe to conjecture that poker
was never played i'll the daytime to tho
extent it has been since tho season of Lent
set in, and the worldly minded have re-
sorted to it as LGntcn diversion. a care
full canvass of the situation has revealed
the fact that the tall apartment houses,
the family hotels, the mansions wherein
dwell New York S eminontly respectable,
God fearing women are hotbeds of poker
The poker matinee is the new fad 1t
was inaugurated in Boston more than two
winters ago, An invitation to a poker
matinee includes an invitation to lunch
con at / oclock-rather an informal
luncheon to be served in the least time
possible-and the game begins at 3 or
half past 2. The garish light of day is ex-
cludod by the window hangings, while tho
crimson or pink or yellow lamp shades
throw a soft light on the fair players. Per,
haps couple of men drop in at O'Clock,
but they are not wanted. Men change tho
luck, and the woman who has been win
ming all the afternoon begins to lose. The
poker matinee gets on better and more
satisfactorily when the men stay away
The gaming table was in vogue in
George Washington's time, and some per-
sons think it is only matter of a season
or so before it will form an article of fur
niture in the New York drawing room.
The table of continental times had little
mother of pearl cups set in it wherein our
illustrious ancestors kept their coin. AS
notice of the poker matinee never gets
into the society column under that name
it is evident that society is still little
discreet, if not exactly shamofaced, about
ii
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He Kissed Her, and the Crowd Yelled.

The neighborhood of Broadway and
Twenty ninth street, New York, was
made impossible the other evening short
ly before midnight by crowd of men and
women, who gazed intently on window
of the Gilsey House. In one of them, which
was brilliantly lighted, stood young man
and woman in evening dress kissing each
other rapturously.
Every time he gave her hearty kiss the
crowd yelled Finally one of the hotel en-
ployees notified the young couple of the
excitement they were causing, and the
blind was pulled down. The couple had
stolen away from a banjo concert which
was going on in the adjoining room.