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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15

fianked the window. With the other
l might defend myself when l had
scrambled through. So now l turned
my attention to that stone. and l picked
and picked with the sharpened end of
my bar until l had worked out the
mortar all round. You understand, of
course, that during the day / replaced
everything in its position, and that the
warder was never permitted to see q
speck upon the floor. At the end of
three weeks l had separated the stone,
and had the rapture of drawing it
through. and seeing a hole left with
ten stars shining through bt. where
there had been but four before. All
was ready for us now, and l replaced
the stone, smearing the edges OF it
round with little fat and SCOT, so as
to hide the cracks where the mortar
should have been. In three nights the
moon would be gone, and that seemed
the best time for our attempt.
CTo Be Cohtinued)
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salons, properly managed, can do as
well with us. l will make the expert
ment, and, If it succeeds, will turn the
whole thing over to a company of busi-
ness men. who can manage it both in
the interests of reform and to their
financial advantage"
Enterprise Is Successful.
The enterprise is proving thus far to
be successful business venture, and a
company named the Home Salon COM
pany has just been organized with a
capital stock of $4,000. Connected with
the home salon has been the already
famous temperance drink known as
Bishops Beer" Bishops Beverage"
or Bishops Beerette." This is made,
the bishop says of the best hops and
malt, brewed without fermentation by
a well-known chemist according to a
process he has found out by careful
experimenting. This beverage. which
Is wholesome and of tonic effect, Is a
veritable beer without the alcohol.
Since the announcement of the open
ing of the home salon. and the beverage
which forms the chief feature among
its drinks, letters have poured in upon
Bishop Fallows from every part of the
country asking for information and re-
questing samples of the "beer," or
"beerette." New York, Boston, Balti-
more, Philadelphia, cities in California,
Michigan, Iowa. Minnesota, Vermont,
Maine, Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota, and
other states are among the applicants.
In some of these cities home salons
have been already started. In the
course of week or two ample facilities
will be furnished for supplying the
beverage.
Humorous descriptions have been
written Of the bishop standing behind
the bar and the counter dispensing
drinks and refreshments. Newspaper
writers must have their jokes, and as
Bishop Fallows said recently before the
Sunset club, of Chicago, This is a form
of mild martyrdom which l must cheer
fully bear" One of the rumors now in
the air is that Bishop Fallows intends
to make a cooperative enterprise of
the home salon system in Chicago by
which thirsty and hungry thousands
may be taken care of at the lowest pos
Sible rates,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15
The Metals Of the Sim.

The metals which have been proved by
astronomical science to exist In the sur
are iron. sodium, nickel, copper, zins an,
marum,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15
SANTA FILOMENA.

Whene're a noble deed Is wrought,
Whene'er is spoken noble thought.
our hearts. in glad surprise.
TO higher levels rise.
The tidal wave OF deeper souls
Into our inmost being rolls,
And lifts us unawares
out of all the meaner cares
Honor to those whose words and deeds
Thus help US in our daily needs,
And by their overflow
Raise us from what is low.
Thus thought as by night read
OF the great army of the dead,
The trenches cold and damp,
The starved and frozen camp.
The wounded from the battle plain,
In dreary hospitals of pain,
The cheerless corridors
The cold and stony floors.
Lo! in that house of misery
A lady with a lamp l see
Pass through the glmmering gloom,
And fit from room to room.
And speed as in q dream of bliss.
The speechless sufferer turns to kiss
Her shadow as IL falls
Upon the darkened walls.
AS If door in heaven should be
Opened. and then closed suddenly.
The vision came and went,
The light shone, and was spent.
On Engiand's annals, through the long
Hereafter of her speech and song,
That light its rays shall cast
From portals of the past.
The lady with the lamp shall stand
In the great history OF the land,
noble type Of good,
Heroic womanhood.
Nor even shall be wanting here
The palm, the lily and the spear
The symbols that OF yore
Saint Filomena bore.
-Longfellow.
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n,ontb 4, ~ - - @ 80, u IN
baen h,iIl fl. Pa.., -n 49, ar .,'lu .t'N
tel E,.rr,is =. -. '..l :, NJ
COLL a. -. ,li, uu ~
80 ~, ~ uiiuei ,,'I..' '''iiu 'iat we
ala 80 80 'Ve iie,l .H,te, anu that we
a. aa,,ao,.. .ose oui st'i It's oeca use we were
r. S.y. a',,
~ was ohly those oincers VINO refused
~ ne. paroie Wno were cohiihed
~. .iiooi' anu most ol the prison.
aiiieii' vi lfoth the ranks.
= ~, ash me perhaps why IL was that
u'u iiot give TINS parole ana SO en-
Joy .iie aanie treatment as most or my
oioener uihcers, Well' hau TWO rea-
sohs' anu poth Oh them were suft1ciently
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rrhee Bachelor johnson Bach.
daily Journals Of the large cite>

Murat was undoubtedly an excellent
cavalry officer, but he had too much
swagger, which spoils many good
soldier. Lasalle, too, was very dash
ing leader, but he ruined himself with
wine and folly. Now l, Etienne Ge-
rard, was always totally devoid of
very abstemlous, except, maybe, at the
end Of campaign, or when l met an
old comrade-in-arms. For these rea-
sons l might, perhaps, had it not been
for certain dlilidence, have claimed
to be the most valuable officer in my
own branch of the service. 1t is true
that l never rose to be more than
chief of brigade, but then, as every one
knows, no one had chance of rising
to the top unless he had the good for
tune to be with the emperor in his
early campaigns. Except Lasalle and
Lobau and Drouet, / can hardly re-
member any one of the generals who
had not already made his name before
the Egyptian business. Even /, with
all my brilliant qualities could only at
tain the head of my brigade, and also
the special medal of honor, which l re-
ceived from the emperor himself, and
which / keep at home in a leather
pouch. But though l never rose higher
than this, my qualities were very
well known by those who nd served
with me, and also by the English. After
they had captured me in the way which
/ described to you the other night, they
kept a very good guard over me at
Oporto. and 1 promise you that they
did not give such a formidable oppo-
nent a change of slipping through their
fingers. 1t was on the 10th of August
that 1 was escorted on board the trans
port which was to take US to England,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15
ROOF TANNING AND SOLDERING

MANS PATENT PAfNT. which X consists sot
OF ingredients we'll known to all. II can be
roofs. also to brick dwellings. which will
prevent absolutely any crumblLng. crack
Ing or breaking Of the brick. It will out.
last Timing Of any kind by many years,
and It's cost does not exceed one-ffth that
Of the cost Of timing. Is sold by the lob
or pound. Contracts taken by
ANTONIO HARTMANN, ga Birch y
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MRS. HALE RESPONSIBLE.
She Wrote MARY Had Little Lamb
In 1929

In 1929.
Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, the famous edi-
tor. cook and patriot, to whom we owe
our national Thanksgiving Day, wrote
MARY Had Little Lamb" She wrote
the poem in 1929. DR.. Lowell Mason
composed the music, and the poem was
published by Marsh. Capen & Lyon, of
Boston, In 1880. There was no real
MARY" Mrs. Hale had pet lamb
when child which followed her to
school. and she used the incident In the
famous poem.
A few years ago It was said that
Mary Tyler. Of Summerville, Mass,
was the Mary of the poem, which was
written In 1917 by John Rollstone, but
Mrs Hale proved her claim to the au-
thorslip.
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First Mention of stockings.

Stockings are first mentioned In litera-
ture as being already worn In Italy about
the year 11OO. They are alluded 10 as a
great invention, and far superior to the
former practice of wrapping the feet In
cloth bandages.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15
The larocst pIOW

The largest plow in the world Is one now
lying unused In California. 1t was made
fifteen years ago by ranch foreman, and
was suspended between two eight-foot
wheels As 1t required eighty oxen to
operate It. 1t was voted a failure.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15
BASE BALL AND OTHER SPORTS.

LII the year round The Trib-
une Is in advance in cover
u Ing events Of note in the
sporting world. But with the
opening Of the base ball season
1t will. as heretofore. give addi-
tional attention to this depart.
ment. Base ball lovers will find
the games covered more fully
from day to day in The Tribune
than they are covered by any
other paper printed or sold in
Scranton. This paper IL the
recognized authority In Scran.
ton on base ball and other sports
and arrangements have been
made that will insure fuller and
better reports than ever before.
Patrons Of the national game
will find in The Tribune every
day in the week just what they
want In the way OF detailed re-
ports, which will be supplement.
ed each Saturday with q page Of
the freshest and most readable
sporting news and gossip. Due
attention will also be given to all
other outdoor pastimes.
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From the Detroit Tribune.
"Jinklns, believe you have some Of the
elements of success about you"
Not II dollar. old man. Honor bright
You'd be welcome to it If | had"
Mesa free press., 1895-03-08
Error in Commercial Policy.

This country has not acted with
sufficient independence in foreign
commercial matters, nor with the
best of judgment. We have done
too much in developing trade with
Europe and not enough in enlarg-
ing trade with other countries.
There is nothing of consequence
produced in Europe which cannot
be produced in this country, there
fore with proper development of
our industries we would not be
under the necessity to purchase of
Europe, certainly not to any great
extent. We produce some things
which Europe cannot produces, no
tably cotton, and though effort has
been made by Great Britain to de-
velop cotton production in many
parts of the world, she has not sue
ceeded in obtaining anything that
will take the place of the Ameri-
Can product. Europe must there
fore have our cotton. Very little
maize is produced in Europe, for
which this country is famous. The
trade between nations whose pro-
ducts are the same or similar is not
national and cannot be very profit
able.
! Mexico, Central America, South
America, the islands in the Gulf OF
! Mexico and Caribbean Sea, China,
Japan, and the islands in the Pa
ciic Sea, produce much that We can
not. Trade between such countries
Mesa free press., 1895-03-08


itude to Mr. Cleveland, Secretary
Carlisle and the Rothschilds for
bringing this matter up, as they
have done this month, for final
settlement. Their own effort to
have the word "gold" inserted in
thu bonds gives the lie TO their alb
surd pretensions thai it is already
there by implication.
The movement in Germany for a
new monetary conference is the
first fruit OF the failure of the gold
party in this last struggle in the
United States. Nothing is more
certain than that if the United
States refuses to adopt the gold
standard, the gold countries will
have to adopt bimetallism in order
to have something like harmony in
the money systems of the world.
The attitude of England should be
a matter OF total Indifference, as it
was from 1916 until the demone-
tization of silver in this country in
1873. During all that period
Great Britain was on gold stan
dard. Let her continue on the
same line.
Great corporations in this. country
which have issued bonds payable
in gold, and sold them abroad, will
pay them in lawful money when
they can pay at all, anil the
creditors will be very fortunate to
get it in that form If that should
not satisfy them they can foreclose
their mortgages, and they would
then find that the property held by
them as security would bring but
fraction of its indebtedness. This
is because of the great fall of prices
caused by the closing of the worlds
mints to silver. The creditor class
OF the world is in no condition to
attempt the arrogant dictation of
legislation. The pawnbroker has
struck down the value of the pledge
he holds to less than the amount of
money he loaned upon it. He may
yet see the wisdom of return to
bimetallism to help him out of his
own difficulties.
The friends of bimetallism should
now be on the aggressive. Political
parties must be taken out of the
pawnbroker's shop or abandoned.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mesa free press., 1895-03-08
what I'm ,rhaakfnl For.
1 an, thankful because I am red

am thankful because am red
headed. I might be bald.
: | am thankful there is a young
lady next door who practices on
the piano two hours a day. She
might practice four hours, and lin
addition, might have brother adj
dicted to the cornet habit.
/ am thankful I am the father
of twins. Suppose. they had been
triplets
Il I am THANKFUL I swaar number
nine SHOE might have to wear
elevens. aw
I am thankful I am poor. I
might be- in debt.
/ am thankful ] possess quiet
tastes Suppose I had been fond Of
Wagner's masic9
] am thankful Ilearned to smoke
cigars. I might have tackled cigar
cites.
| am thankful / can't think Of.
anything more to be thankful for.
If I could I should feel obliged to
write them down.
Mesa free press., 1895-03-08
Fat People

= PARK OBESITY PridS reduce your weight per-
manently from 12 to Is pounds . month No
starving sickness or injnry, no publicity. They
build up the health and beautify the COM
plexion leaving no wrinkles or fiabbiness. Stout
abdomens and difficult breathing surely re
ieved. no experiment scientific and positive
relief friee &2per package by mail postpaid
Testimonials and particulars (sealsd) &c. All
correspondence. strictly confidential.
Park Remedy Co., Boston:
Mesa free press., 1895-03-08

There is in, the United States as
determined by the census of 1890.
total value of church property
amounting to S679,6O4, ,439.; all un-
taxed, of which the Methodist de-
nomination own and control $780,
140,179; the Roman Catholic,
$lls,37l, 1865; Presbyterian, $94,-
s69,o97; Episcopal. $82,s35,41s;
Baptist, $s2,392, ,423; Congrega-
tional, $43,s35,437; Lutheran,
$35, ,o6o.3P4; Reformed, $18,,744,-
242; Disciples Of Christ, $12, ,2o6,-
03s; Unitarian, $lO,335, 700; jew
ish congregations, $9,754,275; Uni
versalist, $s,o54,333, and so on
along down the long list Of the AZ
religious bodies protesting faith of
one kind or another, in the United
States. Now as all this great ag-
gregation of temporal wealth, de-
mands and receives the protection
of law, it is manifestly fair that It
should bear its just proportion of
the state exnenses.-
Mesa free press., 1895-03-08
Uncle Sam puts his FsOS
Down.

The Importance of the action OF
the House of Representatives last
week Oil the bond question, and the
action of the Senate this week
upon the question of free coinage
of silver, cannot be exaggerated.
The gold trust, through its leaders
in America and Europe, supported
by all the Senators and Represen-
tatives it could enlist in its SER
vice, with every newspaper it could
command laboring to create public
opinion in it's favor, this mighty
gold power made its supreme effort
to extort from the Congress of the
United States authority for the
issuance of bonds payable speci6-
cally in gold.
Upon the success Of, this they
staked the whole question. If
they had succeeded, not only would
the precent issue of bonds have
been made payable in gold, but
Congress would then have yielded
to their further demand, declaring
that all the bonds and notes OUT
standing are payable in gold. This
would have established the gold
standard. It was a great stake
and the gold kings played high for
it. They lost.
Despite the Administration whip,
despite the power of thirty-seven
hundred banks and the corpora
tions dependent upon them fer
favors, and despite the clamorous
din of gold newspapers, the House
of Representatives voted that gold
bonds should not issue. and that.
gold and silver coin of the stan
dard value of 1870 should continue.
to be the money of redemption in
the United States. In the Senate
the silver coinage Senators de-
monstrated their power by laying
everything aside to take up the
free silver coinage bill, and forced
the gold men into the filibusterino
tactics, at which the New York
bankers and editors were SO horri-
fed at the extra session of 1893.
The silver majority in the Senate
is ascertained to be ten, and will
be much larger after the 4th of
March.
This is the first time the gold
party has made an open fight for
the gold standard in this country,
although all they have done has
been intended to bring about that
result.
The psople are sovereign in this
country. They express their
sovereign will through Congress-
except when baff1ed by an execu-
tive who abu>es the veto power in
the interest of the minority. The
American people have not, fed
money lenders of the world that
the gold standard shall not prevail
in the United States; that we will
pay silver or gold at our own
pleasure and convenience; and that
it will not be our pleasure to. pay
in e Id when its purchasing power
is increased through the machina-
tions of the foreign money lenders
to whom we are in debt.
When we borrow gold dollar
which today is worth no more than
a silver dollar, we will not pay the
debt years hence in a gold dollar if
in the mean time, our silver dollar
shall be abolished as legal tender.
That would not be paying the same
kind of q dollar we borrowed :.
This is the swindle against which
Mesa free press., 1895-03-08
- as----. =
Twenty Dollars Reward

LOgI-zws black horse mui6s branded B on
LETT shoulder, one bsjag stsilion: and one has
a muls-shos brand on left hind leg. Also, one
dun mare mule branded @ on left hip and A
on hip. AL anineis hstwsen. 10 and ~ years
old. Return 10 John Baker. ak miles west Of
Phosaixs who will pay the ahovx3sward for oil
/ Of sAs Shove anirnefs.
Mesa free press., 1895-03-08

The World Almanac gives the
total amount Of pensions paid by
the United States since 1861 as
sl,74s,275,7ls: In 1886 the gov
ernment paid in pensions $64,5S4.-
27o, but in 1894 the payment had
increased to $l40,772,I63. The
combined payments of pensions of
all other countriesss n the world,
for the year ending June SO, 1894,
was $s7S,s5o. England has only
6s9 pensioners; Germany $685.
France. Sc; Russia, s; Italy, IS.
Turkey, 4, and Austria, none.
Mesa free press., 1895-03-08

in trade with these countries bal
ances are adverse to US, and which
we pay in gold through London.
These countries generally use sill
yer as money, and they would ac-
cept payment Of balances in silver
if we should take the trouble to
make the arrangement. The bal
ances of trade against US IN China
and Japan average from $20,O00,-
900 to $25, 900. 900 annually and
their money is silver. g8
London is the commercial clear
ing House of the world, and we do
our foreign business by exchange
OH London, or our foreign bills,
whenever we owe them, are pay
able in that city. To meet them
we ship gold, and London pays
them in silver whenever she can.
That city fixes the price of silver
for this country and the world,
though in the east British posses
sions there is very little silver pro-
duced. Why should we not cut
loose from Lombard street thrall-
dom, and do business on our own
account? Our trade with nearly
all countries is indirect when it
should be direct, and the clearing
house in our foreign commerce
should be In this country, instead
of being on the other side OF the
Atlantic.
Ths idea Of reciprocity in trade
with those countries whose pro-
ductions are different from ours is
a sensible one, and should be earri-
ed into effect. There is no reason
why silver producing nations should
not agree upon a. common silver
coinage, such ali one as will permit
the coins of every country to circu-
late freely throughout the world.
This would enable them to settle
balances in silver. 1t would be i'm
mensely advantageous to us. As
it is, this country generally has to
pay balances, and we are the larg-
est silver producing nation in the
world. It would be Of immense
advantage to US if our trade with
China and japan were direct, end
balances were paid to them in sill
vor instead of gold. This would
create a larger demand for silver
and materially increase the value
of the American product. If eff
forts were made to put silver to the
greatest monetary use, all fear that
We would be over stocked with it
would disappear. Payment OF bal
anzes of trade with China and Ja-
pan would consume about one half
of the present American product.
We are already in the clutches
of the Rothchilds and Lombard
street, and there is no escape ex-
cept this country takes an indie
pendent course, and disentangles
herself from European alliance and
control. We are cramping over
our domestic commerce and play
ing second fiddle to Great Britain,
European nations dictate our poll
cies, financial and commercial and
economic, and they do the bulk of
our transportation On the high seas.
They extract gold from US at every
turn and then cajole us into re-.
fusal to remonetize silver. They
exhaust of the international meas
ure Of value, and so control poli-
cies as to embarass and cripple our
domestic commerce. There must
be a change. America must make
second declaration of indepen-
dence. When that is done and
Mesa free press., 1895-03-08

Peace on earth, good will to~ard
all men, appears to b+ the orthodox
motto nowadays. The Christians
are trying to burn Ingersoll alive
because he lectures upon the horrid
monstrosities of the creeds. The
Catholics are trying to blow up
Savannah, Ga, because one of their
priests is lecturing to show up the
monstrosities of Catholicism. The
Mohametans are butchering Chris
tians in Armenia, The Greek
church of Russia is persecuting the
Jews and the orthodox Christians
are prosecuting the Ssventh-day
Adventists who try to make an
honest living on Sunday land lastly
the California fauaties thaye intro
duced a bill into the general as
sembly to punish severely any one
who labors or enjoys life on Sun
day. Behold how sweet it is to
dwell together in unity and ell for
the love Of God. : Verify / say
unto you leone not to bring peace,
but a sword. Brethren Why don't
You prayY' For and such is the
orthodox kingdom of Heaven
Santa Ana Standard.
Mesa free press., 1895-03-08
LOOK
Down on Prices for Cash!

IS Tho railroad is coming, and we'will continue to
lead in reduced prices all lines of merchandise
We are headquarters for the choicest lines Of
Groceries and Staple Goods. All kinds OF produce
handled in exchange.
Real estate sold on easy terms. Insurance by the
NEST reliable anes in the world, and money to loan
S B.F.Johnson, Sons & Go