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LrOR Rem r-FRONT AND THREE CON.
81 Meeting rooms, furnished or unfurnished.
~ Adams avenue, opposite court house.
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Executors Notice.

FSTATE OF MARY GORE, LATE OF THE
~ city Of Scranton. Lackawanna county,
Pa, deceased.
Letters testamentary upon the above named
estate having been granted to the under.
signed. all persons having claims or demands
payment, and those indebted thereto will
plesse make immediate payment to
t I. MORGAN, Executor. Scranton, Pa.
THOS. F. WELLS, Attorney.
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DELAWARE "A N D
HUDSON TIME
TARLE

On Monday. May IS,
train will leave Scran.
ton as follows:
For Carbondale-5.4j.
7.56, 8.55. 10.l5 a. m. ;
1900 noon; l.2l. go. 3.62,
SIS, 6.25, 7.57, 9.1e, 1880.
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TOR RENT-HALF CT DOUBLE HOUSE;
modern improvements; rent reasona BILE;
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-05-22

During the severely cold weather In
January just past Tip Burbank, a noto-
riOus robber, went out alone Il night
to make n raid on the First National
Bank of Fort Benton, Mont. His plan
was to enter through n window at the
rear of the building, to make his way
through the room and offices back, final
ly working his way to the vault. An
iron grating protected this window.
The night was Intensely cold. and the
streets wero like glass, a heavy snow
two weeks previous having melted as
1t fell and then frozen smooth and
hard. While Tip was fling the first
bar of the grating his foot slipped,
throwing him forward violently against
the window. As luck would have 1t,
the fall jerked his mouth open. forcing
his tongue between his lips, fairly freez-
ing 1t to the Icy iron bar. All efforts
to release himself were In vain, as
nothing short of pulling bis tongue out
by the roots would have effected this,
and no could not bring himself to do II.
A Waterman making his rounds found
him a half hour later almost dead with
cold.
Tip is alive and safely housed in Jail
now; but his tongue will never wag
again. 1t is completely and hopelessly
paralyZed.
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The Buttsrnr,n ranx.a.


Did you ever notice O b~utterfiy'a
tongue? Perhaps you never knew she
Ind one. You can see 1t with the naked
eye, but you would need a powerful
microscope to examine II carefully.
God has provided all his creatures with
bodies suited to their special needa.
Because the butterhy's food is honey
and dewdrops. which she sips from the
heart Of the flowers, God has gtvon
her a togune just suited to this pur-
pose. 1t is made Of two grooved
threads, which are wound up like tiny
watch springs. on either side of her
head, when not in use.
When the butterfly wishes to alp n
little honey, she thrusts these two
grooved threads down into the depth
OF the sweet blossom and puts them
close together, This makes n little
tube through which she can draw tho
sweetness, just as you ran suck water
through a straw. But the butterfly Ia
very particular what kind of a plant
h visits. All the butterflies of n
kind visit flowers of the same family
and no other. Tho lovely swallowtail
butterfly visits the wild carrot aud
plants belonging to that family, but
no other. The butterflies never mako
a mistake, and wise men learn by
watching them to classify the plants
and TO know which belong to the same
family.-Child Garden.
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bravely upward TO cover the taid spo'
s~urmountIng his Uranium, his ians
form had lost It's detected droop aud
.he toothlcss mouth was curved hks
an inverted bow OF promise"
And still the dominic and his wire
congratulated themselves, as be-
.ore, on the consultations afforded py
.elicion to the sorcly afflicted.
After breakfast and prayers, and bc7
,ore taking his departure 10 his deso-
nted Preside, Simon Peter made MS
way to the kitchen and g~nllantly offer
id to assist Roslna in some OF nor
morning duties. In the course OF an
hour he r%eappeared In the parlor to
mako his farewells. "Good-hy, DOM
ME" he said. 81 mus go now. You've
been awful Kind to me, dominic, ana
I slant forEIt 1t right away. was
roalin' awful had Yesterday, an a-woii-
derln' how under the = / was goin
to git along alone: but It's all right
o We shell hev a Job fer you mex
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Mutual service Is a system which is
carried to perfection in the Indian vii
iages. No money is used In exchange
for services. The barber attends to
the carpenter in return for repairs of
ploughs and other wooden instruments.
The washerman washes the clothes of
the physician who attends to him In
sickness, and 50 forth. The problem
OF insufficient income ia met in the
only possible way-by limitation of
wants. The Hindoo has no furniture
rot ever a hand-basin. He washes
in the river, and the sun dries him.
He has neither chairs. beds, mol tables.
He uses the floor as a complete sub
stitute; or. IL he is dainty. he allows
himself the luxury of a three-half-pen-
ny mat. Except for cooking-pots and
grain and a few water-Jars. his house
is. as bare as Mother Hubbard's cup
board.
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TRAMP WAS MILKING THE cow
E~nGineer's Tale Illustrating the Nom
chaiance of the American Hobo.

Engineers Tale Illustrating the Nom
chaiaace of the American Hobo.
ut was away back in the '70s," said
an old engineer. 81 was pulling the
limited east from Council Bluffs to
Chicago over the Rock Island. The
night was bitter cold. We had gone
about twenty miles out and had stop
ped at a night office for orders, and
had started up again, when the fireman
reached over and said:
There is a hobo on the pilot; saw
him get on at the depot,
"'sure?' l said. Go out on the run
ming board and see II he's there yet
The fireman did as he had been or.
dered to do and returned with the In
formation that the hobo was still there
"'Well said l, it's a bitter cold night
and If he can stand 1t out there l an
| willing he should ride with me,
And on we went toward Chicago
with old 2l1 barking like sixty at the
low joints ahead. and forgetful of oui
'head-end' passenger on the pilot, who
had ceased to have any existence fol
us.
by and by, by the faint glimmerinl
Of the headlight, l thought / saw ahead
what seemed to be a bunch Of cattle
on the track. AS we approached 1t the
bunch seemed to grow larger. II nov
was too late to do anything, 80 ] JUS
pulled her wide open, and old 211 hi
that bunch of cattle ka bif. To para
phrase the language Of Tennyson, wht
glidos into raptures of admiration ovel
the charge of the light brigade a
Balaklava, there was just simply cat
tie to the right of us, cattle to the lef
| Of US aud cattle in the rear Of us, bu'
none any more in front Of US. After ]
was all over our thoughts reverted t
the hobo on the pilot
go out and see If he Is still there
said"
well" said an old shack, undei
whose feet the frosts Of many winter
had cracked, as he wendell his way II
the dark over many Q long train Of boz
cars and who had been listening to tn
story. WELL" said he, was he killed.
NO" replied the engineer. 'Ther'
he sat as large as any hobo could sit Of
the pilot with an oyster can milking
WI Of those burned cows"
And the old man went on his way
v%enturing something as he left abou
the life Of the average American hob
being on a par with the proverbial min
lives of the feline we have all heard 81
often about.-Dallas News.
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SIMON PETER.

Simon Peter stood by the new-nade
grave of his wife, Mrs. Simon Peter
No. 2.
She had been a good wife. and, ro+
calling her many virtues, the bereaved,
like his namesake, "wept bitterly"
leaning meanwhile for support on the
marble slab erected In memory Of Mira.
Simon Peter No. /. ,
1t was a cold chilly day in early
spring. Snow still lay upon the ground
and the mounded grave and n damp
ness seemed to exude from the stones
that chilled one to the very marrow.
Simon Peters thin gray locks fell
dejec-edly around his ears; his nose,
always long and always rudy, seem
ed to have been heightened by his grief
and to have taken on additional rich
ness in coloring. His meager form,
shiverlng in the raw east wind, SEEM
ed Ill fitted TO breast the storms of life
alone, and the good dominic who had
Just pronounced the solemn funeral
service, Dust to dust, ashes to ashes"
felt his heart go out in sympathy to
thla IVui' Iputly mum Su DIohth WIN
grief and age, and now about to re-
turn solitary to his desolated home.
Come home with me tonight, Broth
er Simon said the tender-heartod
dominic. You've had n hard day. and
you need n good, warm supper; come
home with me-" Simon Peter weakly
assented. The thought of going homo
alone was more than he could bear.
He clambered feebly in the wagon,
pulled his wooden comforter over his
ears and resigned himself to medita-
ton until the parsonage was reached.
The good Roslna, faithful friend and
servant, who for twenty years had
reigned supreme as monarch of the
kitchen, had supper all ready. know
ing the dominic would be chilled
through. She looked somewhat as
Rance at the bereaved widower, but,
being a woman Of warm sympathles
and kind heart, she concealed what
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Himple.


A man NAV have In him the making
Of a frst.rate editor, and yet be entirely
u~nncquaInted with the business side of
Journalism. This commonplace but
comforting reflection is suggested by
a story printed In the Washington Path
finder:
When the new senior girls OF n IA
nous New England college assumed the
charge of the college magazine, II of
them went to the office of the printer
to give him some Instructions.
"You can set up your type Immediate
IT," sho said. "as wo want the maya
zine to appear promptly"
Eyes, MISS" said the printer, n little
mystihed; 'but-but where is the
copyT
THE copy2 Do you mean the nrti-
cles we are going to print2'
Yes, miss"
"Oh," said the editor, you needn't
wait for them, Some of them are not
written yet. l will let you have them
as soon as l can. of course; but in the
meantime you can go on setting up the
type, can't your | thought you could
get so much done ahead" The printer
entered into some explanations, and
finally made 1t plain to the new editor
that the type could not be set up till the
copy had been handed In.
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could stand ono Moro.

A Senator's wife. who is an accom-,
plished musician, gave a dinner party
recently. Among the guests was n
certain member Of the Kentucky dele.
CATION in Congress. While awaiting an
nouncement Of dinner, at the urgent
request of some Of the guests. tho
hostess played and sang. She had just
finished a polonaise by Chopin. which
was greeted with a burst Of applause
and as she rose from the piano, in the
silence which followed the sweet
strains, her husband turned to the gen
tleman from the Blue Grass State with.
would you like a sonata before din
ner, ColonelT
"well, 1 don't mind" promptly re
piled the Kentucky statesman, brnc
ing up quickly. 81 had two on my
way here. but / reckon I can stani
another.r-New York Tribune.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-05-22

ARCTIC Geese and English SWAMI
Wild geese can be found nowhere 70
abundant as In the Arctic Ocean, and
the Inhabitants OF Kolgner and ether
islands are largely dependent On thorn
for food. The largest goose-drfve ever
recorded took place last year, when
at the first catch Of the season the In
habitants of Kolgner succeeded In driv-!
ing 1926 birds into the nets. The nal
tives take advantage Of the moultinr
season. when the geese are not very
strong on the wing, to make the drives,
and so capture them. English swans
ARE still to be found on the Thames
but in very small numbers compared
with three and a half centuries ago,
when Paulus Jovius declared that he
never saw a river so thickly covered
with swans as the Thames. On other
English rivers they were equally. II
not more. numerous. for when John
Taylor. the Waterfront, rowed up the
Avon to Salisbury, he was amazed at
the swarm of birds on that strcnm.
"As I passed up the Avon" he snyn,
"at the least 1000 swans, like SO many
pilots, wan in the deepest paris and
showed me the way"
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a SONG OF TIE CYCLE ,

|
This Is the toy, beyond Aladdin's dream
ing,
The magic wheel upon whose hub Is
wound
All roads. although they reach the world
around
Ger western plains or Orient deserts
gieamingi
This Is the skeln, from which each day
u~nravcl
Such new delights, such witching
lights. such joys
OF bounding blood, of glad escape from
noise
Such ventures, beggarins old Crusoe's
travel!
It is as II some mighty necromancer,
At kings command, to please bis lady's
within,
Instllled such yirtne In q rubber rim,
And brought 1t forth as his triumphant
answer
For wkeresoe'er Its shining spokes are
fleeing,
Fair benefits spring upward from Its
tread,
And eyes grow bright, and cheeks all
rosy red,
Responsive to the hearts ecstatie beating!
Thus Youth and Age. alike in healthful
feeling,
And Man and Maid, who End their
paths are one,
Grown this rare product of our ccntury's
run"
And sing the health, the joy, the grace Of
wheellngl
20. II. Crandall.
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mnhor shaas sra now mcr.
80 80 aa,,tr,
Aap,o ~ ~ans,dasah,s - thsi,
Mnuaeaaa .hana Thov ~,
Sans y a.. t,nn.a -
usuany $500 NJ sash chances
clep .haae .r.nsoot,ons whou
minus ~ 80 st,nn no,n,
,he peuu.e -. .a,,set,ans ~ IN
no 80 100 t,nr.a,a
viiiase ,,..,a aash and aaos
VIII pelhaps Tha nads,e,
ou. ose. Nv ! h,s avn acconn
ma - - nusn,@mant - tha yilla j,
~ = p,.sar aasa , Ia+tar has
efa,e1' asast - 10 oI,
= enhnee h,ah .ra shinnsd
lec'ions " L. daaIar
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-05-22

When the French squadron was for
q time anchored In Boston Harbor, in
the year previous to the revolution, the
foreigners were looked upon with un-
bounded curiosity by the Boston peo-
pie. It was Incredible to them that
persons who were popularity supposed
to subsist mainly on frogs should DO
&C plump and weli-favored. That they
did SO subsist was fully believed. how
ever, and according to a rumor, which
was also generally believed, they had
been discovered hunting for their IA
vorite food In the frog pond on the
Common.
With this last notion in his head. we
are told, Mr.. Nathaniel Tracy, who
lived In q beautiful villa at Cambridge
tho house which was afterward
washipgton's headquarters. and later
still was occupied by Mr.. Longfeiiow-
made q great feast for the Admiral and
his officers.
Everything that could be had In the
country was furnished to nicnt
and give variety to the entertainment.
Two large tureens Of soup were placed
Mt the ends Of the table. The Admiral
sat on the right of Mr.. Tracy, and Mon
sieur De rEtombe on the left. L'Etombo
was consul Of France resident at Bos'
ton.
MFR. Tracy filed a plate with soup
which went to the Admiral, and tho
next plate was handed to the Consul.
The first time thai LEtombe put his
spoon into the plate, no iishcd up Q
large frog, just as green and perfect
as IL It had hoped from the pond Into
the tureen.
Not knowing at first what It was,
he seized 1t by one of Its hind legs, and
holding 1t up in view of the whole
company, discovered that It was a full,
grown frog.
As soon as he had thoroughly inspect
ed 1t, and made himself sure OF Its
| identity, he exclaimed:
"Ahi mon Dieu! ~grenouflle."
Then turning to the gentleman next
to him he gave him the frog. He, in
turn, passed 1t to the next man, and 81
on round the table, until reached til.
Admiral.
The company, convulsed with laugh
ter, examined the soup plates as tbs
servants brought them, and In eacf
was found a frog. The uproar was
universal.
Meantime. Mr.. Tracy kept h,s ladlt
| going, wondering what his outlnndisl
guests meant by such extravagan1
merriment.
whats the matterT he asked; anf
| raising his head, he discovered the
frogs dangling by the legs In all direc
tions-
why don't they eat themT' he ex
claimed. "If they knew the trouble
had to catch them. In order to treai
them to a dish of their W country
they would find that for me-, at least, |
is no Joking matter"
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| a1r. tJad mamma Ma az mnta
aam
~, 800 r,.ott,a, We'll MN ma viii
mo- 18th Won 10 rest Won, seYou,yo
E He Htt,a on, and lat mamma
sew ever no long. Comet what shall
I've play. sweetheart?.
Trottie daneed up and down for
oyl "Hider-seek, mammal Fay HI
| d~er-seeki"
| So got the little, soft, red
hall h q always hid. Trottie called
Ii .hide and seek. but 1t was a good
heal more like shide the handkerchief"
YOU sec.
"IlI hide IL first" mamma said. 'You
run and hide our face, Trottie."
.yesh me 90 hider In pin-quish-i-onv'
shouted Trottie. running over to bury
her little rouno a in the big cushion
on the couch One blue eye didn't get
nuite hidden and spied it look
Ing ont at her.
sDon.t neck. baby" she laughed.
snow. ready.
.Ieadyp echoed Trottie. She walk
cd round the table once or twice with
(. cor,caI .make-believe" OF hunting,
n,'an sha ran straight over to the u
80. ~ + ereniace and lifted it III
60 ana,cn there was the little, red
Sa,1, Trottie knew 1t all the time,
for mi always hid it therel 1t
u A. -.
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ever annoyance she may have felt Mt
this irruption, prepared n place at the
table for the ''bereaved" and saw that
he vas abundantly supplied with hot
frltters and maple syrup.
AT the sight Of these temporal bless
ings Simon Peter seemed inclined to
bid "surcease to SORROW" and his coun-
tenance, heretofore the exponent of an
interior of unmitlgated woe, became
an embodied expression of dutiful res
ignation. He cast appreciative looks
at the fritters and at the antiquated
yet nimble ~handmalden as she pro-
ceeded In her deft m~inistratIons, and
by the time tea was ended the glow Of
some lofty purpose was irradiating his
yisage.
The good dominic and his wife TO-
garded this transforms ton as n proof
that the old mar was bowling to the
will of an all-wise Providence, and
beamed approval at this visible sane
tfcation through affection as evidene-
cd by this aged saint. After tea the
dominic renounced his usual quiet even
ing with his books, and devoted him
self to his afflicted parishioner, dis
courslng on the transitory nature OF
things here, the certainty of n future
seunlon with u loved and lost and
the duty Of resignation. to all Of which
propositions Simon Peter assented.
tipped back In his chair against the
wall.
At breakfast the NEXT morning the
'bereaved' seemed to have undergone
some wonderful transformation, and
grown years younger in the process.
The struggling locks that hung so de.
jectedly tho day before around his
woe-begols J Isaas Mere now brushed
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-05-22

Hairontfine hx Elaotrioity.

At a recent meeting Of the Brooklyn
Electrical Society, New York. an cleo
trical comb which acts as a pair OF
shears and cuts the hair was exhibited
In use. Across the teeth of the comb
is stretched a fine platinum wire, which
can Instantly be made white hot by
sending an electric current through IT.
A switch for this purpose is attached
to the comb, and worked by the finger
OF the barber. On passing the comb
through the hair the barber presses the
switch and heats the wire. which imme-
diately singes through the hair. The
process is said to be less injurious 10
the hair than cutting with ordinary
shears, as the natural oil Is preserved
In 1t by the smuggling Of the ends
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-05-22

tit for Tat.
'Hullo. little girl will you tell me the
news,
For 1 haven't md time to examine the
papers.
And I'm anxious to know how a tiny mite
views
The ubiquitous blot of political capers.
"Has anything happened that's funny or
queer?
Do You favor The party they claim is
Are the words Of the editor, think you,
sinceref
Has the weather come around as the
bureau expected?
rs 1T true Lobengula, the Kings really
dead?
Have the rogues of the LIB turned at
last in contrition2
And do you not fear you must stand on
your head
40 read the paper In that strange posi-
tion?"
%. ess. I will tell 90 the news" she ex-
claimed,
And thus from the paper inverted she
read:
"The wicked old sparrow,
VIII his bow an arrow.
Has shooted that poor little Cock Robin
dead.
Amen" she continued. "the awfullest
fling
Has happened; you never could guess,
IL you'd try;
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wom.n-M.aa Roads.

Ter years ago no n dreamed D IA
the time would ever come when women
| would be directly Interested concerning
til, condition of the public thorough
fares. But the bicycle which Is respon-
sible for the general stirring up Of old
conclusions has really set them to
thinking on this very topic. And when
a woman thinks she's very likely to
act. Just II weak little woman's mo
mentary impulse will often result In
more real purpose being accomplished
than will a three days convention OF
wise old professors whose excessive
prudence is a positive prohibition to
progress.
1t Is said that twenty pretty bicycle
| girls Of East Lynn, tired Of the dis
graceful condition of the public roads
In those parts. determined to institute
a radical reform. They turned out in
fun force with picks, shoyels and roll
| ers, and repaired the worst Of the road.
| When the bioonered beauties finished
their weeks work they pointed with
| pride to theseveral miles of road which
they had made fit for wheeling.
In Cincinnati recently 100 women
| armed with brooms. hoes. wheelbar-
rows and shovels began early one
| morning to clean the streets. From
| early in the morning until sunset the
women toiled, and n Of the principal
streets of the city vas cleaned as bright
as a new dish pan. Whenever a street.
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ne was loudly Missed. 1t was an object
lesson which it would seem can hardly
fall to have it's effect.
II the women of this broad land Sc
riously take up the matter Of good roads
| and clean streets something definite
| and immediate win be the result, be-
cause woman Is a determined creature
and IF she will, she will; and there's
the end ont"
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-05-22
Cherokee BiII's Race Dying Out.

The career of "Cherokee Bill" hang
ed at the age of 20, after a brief an
u~nprosperous career as an outlaw,
would be a good text for a sermon on
morality, but it would be useless to
preach II, because the class of degener-
ates to which "Bill" belonged does not
read sermons He was a type OF the
bsrbarism that exists in all civilization,
and appears mont conspicuous at Its
edges. Educatio1 and enlightenment
are the best remedies for it ana they
are at work slowly but EFFECTIVELY. The
Cherokee Bilf' style Of villain is dying
out. 1t viii soon cease to excite the
admiration Of theluntrainsd boys and
the emulation Of villainous men
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scratches himself. Now and then he
ducks his head down to see how the
front wheel is going. 1t is a wonder
that be has never punctured the tire
and dislocated his beak, but that has
not happened yet.
Occasionally he leaves the handle
bars and takes a fly into the air. For
a parrot he Is a good flyer. Having
taken a view Of the crowd. Of the river,
or whatever may be In sight, he returns
faithfully to the wheel. Mr.. Walsh
slackens his speed slightly when the
bird goes flying.