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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-06-11
THE BUILpINa OF A STAIR.

Good resolutions, backed by whatever
plea of advisability or necessity, are not
always certain to bear fruit after their
kind. When RiDgbrand flung himself
down beside the log to wait for the
dawn, he fully intended keeping awake
in order to take advantage of the earliest
light for the beginning of the new en-
deavor. So ran the alert determination;
but hewho watches may nor lie quietly
with closed eyes, and when Ringbrand
sprang TO his feet out of a sound sleep
the morning was far advanced.
Reproducing himself remorsefully
for his want of vigilance, he recalled the
details of the plan which had suggested
itself in the night, and went Immediate
1y to work. He first ascertaincd half
the length of the log by measuring it
with the rope, and with the dimension
thus obtained he gagged the varying
width of the cavern until he found a
point where the walls approached each
other SO nearly as to make the interven-
ing space correspond exactly with his
measurement.
The next step was to cut the log into
two pieces of equal length, and, drag
ging it out into the better light under
theaperture, he narrowly missed throw
ing it down upon another package of
food similar to the one found in the
same spot on the previous morning. 1t
was a welcome surprise, and he stopped
work long enough to devour the hard
-corn-bread and greasy bacon, thinking
that the daintiest breakfast ever
brought him by the wcll-traincd waiter
in the grill-room Of Ills New'York club
had not been eaten it'll q kcener relish.
ut must be the woman" hc .solilo-
quized; ''it can't be anyone else; and If
these fellows have PIT their devilish
plot in motion I'll get no more rations
from that source, because they were to
send her away to-day. After all, though,
don't know as it makes much differ
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-06-11
1t May Do as Much for You.

Mr.. Fred Miller, Of Irving, Ill.
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About year ago he began use Of
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instant relief. One trial will prove
our statement. Price only SOC. for
large bottle. At George 4 Mont
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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-06-11

II will be an agreeable surpriso
to persons subject to attacks Of
bilious collie to learn that prompt
relief may be had by taking Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
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the attack may be prevented by
taking this remedy as soon as the
first symptoms of the disease APP
pear. % and so cent bottles for
sale by George & Montgomery,
Druggists.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-06-11

Copyright. rsOs. by j. B, Lppineou Col
appear in the road; and she was try
ing SO earnestly TO distinguish the form
of her husband among the men that she
did not hear him when he entered the
room. A single glance at his face dis
beartened her, and she could not find
words to frame the question that found
better speech in her eyes.
mo. we didn't find him." said Lud.
low, gravely, answering her thought.
1--WE quartered every foot of the plateau
and looked all along under the cliffs on
both brows. of the mountain. Hes not
up there, dead or alive. And that isn't
all; the MeNabb was blown up again
last night"
Mrs. Ludlow seemed not to have
heard the last sentence, for she put her
arms about her husbands neck and hid
her face on his bosom, saying, softly:
.Oh, poor, poor Hester!"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-06-11
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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-06-11
DON'T sroP ToBAcco.
How To Cure Yourself While Us


r. Ing II
The tobacco habit grows on a
man until his nervous system Is
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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-06-11

The Allegheny Literary Society
is still in progress and meets on
Friday nights. Will Woods, the
Secretary failing to prepare re-
port of last meeting, was Indicted
the trial being set for next Friday
night.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-06-11

TAKE NoTIcE:-A nice house and
lot for sale cheap. Part cash and the
balance on one and two years. A
good location and good neighbors.
For further information call on or adj
dress the TINES.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-06-11
Cheap Reading.

By paying in advance for the TIMES see what
little you will have to pay for the leading publi-
cations Of all political and Religious faiths.
No one need be without reading matter If they
will pay in advance each year for the TIMES.
Here are some of our bargains and if you don't
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-06-11
AILMENTS CURED FREE
WITH
Electropoise,

Doubtless you have often heard
of the wonderful cures Of helpless
invalids, and others who have been
cured by the Efectropoise after all
other treatment had failed. If you
desire to know more about it write
to US. II you desire to own IN Elec-
tropoise you can do SO without cost.
We have a limited number that we
will put out. Absolutely Free. This
offer is to you, If you want to take
advantage of it do so at once.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-06-11

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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-06-11
THE ODELL
Type Writer.

CO0will buy the opELL TYPE WRITER with
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Ills NEAT, SUBSTANTIAL, nickel-plated, per-
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Reliable Agents and Statesmen wanted. Special
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Fer Pamphlet giving Endorsements, etc.. address
00ELL TYfE 5fftf
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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-06-11
Do You want Sewing Machine
. GET A SINGER. 3s

Terms $500 per monthEW so
A. M. CATE, Agent. yfhgaF
Next door to the TIMES Office.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-06-11

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Cas.oria.
When she became Miss, she chung TO Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-06-11

II was a cripple With rheumatism so that |
could hardly walk with crutches. My right leg
wa sdwarfed and shortened. was never free
from pain. Electropo'sehas given me wopder-
ysv-preJland helped me in every way.p
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-06-11

DIR. w. I'll. Morgan, OF n ashville,
one of the best known men in
Tennessee, says:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-15

dance of flowers and bees; fancy dance
Eel Jales di xeres," by Gertrude
Coursen; the skirt dance: drill of Ma
poleon guards; the hornpipe dance;
grand march and tableau.
After the hornpipe dance, Florence
Klein, q little 5-year-old tot, danced a
solo. She showed that she had been a
very apt student and danced with such
naturalness and simple grace as to
bring forth volumes of applause.
The evening programe was as fol-
lows: Tableau. Grand coronation
scene: procession; the carnival dance;
solo dance, Gertrude Coursen: dance Of
Venetian gondoliers: dance of the fol-
lies; Spanish cachuca; French court
minuet and gavotte; the serpentine
dance. by Miss Elizabeth Archibald,
Miss Alice Belin, Miss Grace Spencer;
ta,nbourine dance Of Roumania: the
military dance: Corsican saltorella /;
Tyrolean peasant dance; grand chorus
and march
The prospects for engaging seats In
the body of the theater or in the bal
cony for tonight are very slim. The
$50 checks given out yesterday morn
ing entitle the holders to | 200 seats at
q rate of eight seats for IS. AS the
ticket hired boys to stay up
all Friday night to obtain the checks,
it may be inferred that nearly thou
sand seats will be sold to scalpers
before the general public gets a
chance to get within speaking dis
tance of the box office. 1t is probable
that the scalpers will buy for tonight's
performance almost exclusively, which
will give others an opportunity to OBJ
tain seats for the matinee. The box
office opens at 8 o'clock.
This afternoons matinee will begin
at go o'clock.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-15

two of which We're the same size or
shape. Is not an occupation which
brings delight to anybody except. pos
sibly. the addresse.
All those different sizes and shapes
are traced to the fact that sentiment
has changed, and nowadays the valen-
tines sent, ii sent at all, are elaborate
and costly things and are something
more than the antiquated bunch of
lace paper surrounding a scrap picture
The present day valentine costs money
much money, and its safety cannot be
trusted to a simple envelope. 1t is en-
closed in a box or some other kind of
secure wrapping, and that's what an
noys the postman, because 1t loads him
down like woman after a weekly
shopping expedition, and the govern
ment does not pay for extra men as it
does during the holidays.
There are many authorities, various
ly interpreted, for the existence of st.
Valentines day. The generally ac-
cepted story is that the word "Valen-
tine" is a corruption of "galantin" "a
lover, a dangler) gallant. st. VAL
entine was selected for the sweethearts
saint because of his name. Similar
changes are found in gallant" and
valiant" Uatin. ''valens": vain
Welsh "gwan"; vale, Welsh "gwael";
guard, ward, etc)
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-15

Col Joseph L. Foilett of New York
has national reputation.
AT the age of Il Col. Follett enlisted
in Battery G.. First Missouri Light Ar
tillery, and soon rose to its command
At Lookout Mountain, his was the only
Battery that reached the summit.
Since the war he has devoted himself
to mechanical engineering. and has
invented several important improve
ments on the sewing machine, and a
bicycle that promises to be one of the
surprises of next season.
The tension on the nervous system Of
an inventory kept up for months and
months, seriously weakened the health
of busy brain worker like Col. Fol-
lett, and his constitution, which even
the hardships of war did not weaken,
threatened to succumb to nervous ex-
haustion.
What Col. Follett has to say in re-
gard to his restoration to health, can
not fail to carry great weight. In a
letter to Wells & Richardson Co. of
Burlington, VT. he writes:
when suffering from mental ex-
haustion and a generally disorganized
system, and Overwork, / used Paines
celery compound.
THE compound acted like q charm
on my bowels and kept them in fine
condition, and l experienced great re-
lief from my brain troubles.
81 have not used Paine's celery COM
pound for six months, but I shall when
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-15
NEVER SWAP HORSES WHILE CROSS
ING A STREAM"

Editor of The Tribune.
Sir:-The true man. the tried man; the
faithful man; the man weighed In the bal
ance and not found wanting: one always
true to his friends, TO the best interests
ana truest substantial good of all citi-
zens; a man OF the people, one whose
whole life in this community shows and
proves his fitness for any Office the peo-
pie can give, unselfsh. loyal of character,
pure and upright, bg-hearted. disinter-
ested friend to all that are worthy of a
friend-COlonel Il. II. Ripple Is emblemati-
cal of all We look for in a first citizen.
Don't swap horses while crossing q
stream. Stand steadfast 10 that you know
from experience 10 be true. Ripple" is
a symbol of truth and honor His char
acter. habits and methods are beyond
scurrilous attack. No honorable man
pays the least attention to such. There
has never been a man put under the
search light of a public contest for any
Office in the gift of the people but has to
stand the barkngs, yelpihgs and biting OF
disgruntled ours and envious, ambitious
men,. Not even our own great Washing
ton was free from it. 1t practically
amounts TO little. The mass of the peo-
pie can easily detect the counterfeit par
tisan from the true metal of the genuine
man and benefactor, for as a public benz
fSctOf we look upon COlOnel II. ii. Ripple
too busy in his greatness and disinterest-
edness to accumulate pelf, giving his time
to the help of his fellows and the benefit
of his city.
My friends, don't swap horses while
crossing the stream''-vote and work for
Il. II. Ripple for mayor of this growing
city. Vote for the men who have the
interests of the community at heart Re-
member the opposition win say anything.
They are wholly irresponsible. They are
merely the "outs': they want to get "in'
for what? For power to still further
their political ambitions. Fight fair, bat
dont's, for heavens sake, talk any more
about the "baneful'' influence of Con
nellism" Would that we had only more
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-15
KIRMESS CLOSES today
Effort Has Been Made to Have II
Continued Next Week.
1T IS NOT YET DECIDED UPON
There Was . Worry Large Audience Pres.
cnt Last Night but ut the Matinee
Number OF Good Seats
We're Present.
1T is NOT YET DECIDED UPON

This afternoons matinee and to-
nights performance will witness the
last of the knmess unless arrange
ments are made today for abandoning
or continuing the Koch concert which
is booked for the theater Monday night.
All of yesterday the kirness manage
ment was besieged with many requests
to repeat the fete on Monday and Tues
day nights. and II was urged that 1t be
given Tuesday night no matter whether
an arrangement could be made for Mon
day night or not. 1t will be known to-
day what will be done in the matter.
Yesterday two performances We're
given. The matinee audience was
large but did not begin TO fill the house,
probably because the public was mis-
led by the statement that all the seats
for the night performance were sold.
At night the theater was filled to al
most it's fullest capacity, there being q
few unoccupied seats in the gallery.
And the gallery, by the way, does not
contain the poorest seats in the house
by any means. Many who had seats
In the balcony and main auditorium
deserted their places downstairs when
they heard of the view that could be
obtained higher up. The result was so
satisfactory that many were urged to
go up from the lower part of the thea
ter, and it is save to say that their
opinion will serve to fill the gallery to-
night.
Programme Of tho Matinee.
The matinee programme was much
the same as that of Wednesday, the
only difference being transposition
of the order of some of the dances and
the eliminating of the carnival dance,
which was given in the evening. The
programme was as follows: Tableau
and procession; the Japanese dance;
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-15
OPPOSITION SPRINGS UP.
City Placnrdcd Last Night with Anti.
Viaduct Literature,

Late last night the central city was
placarded with anti-viaduct posters.
They contain an appeal to taxpayers
to vote against the viaduct because it
would be detrimental to the city to in
crease the debt. Our present low debt
is the trump card which attracts manu-
facturers the writer of the poster de-
clares and to increase it at present
would be unwise. He also goes on to
recite that the viaduct boomers are a
lot of short sighted enthusiasts and it
also declares that there is no general
demand for the viaduct on the West
Side.
The identity of the writer of these
amusing statements or the party or
parties who are back of the movement
could not be learned. Several police
men report having seen the bill posters
pasting up the placards but thinking
them to be nothing more than an ad-
vertisement for ball or something of
the sort paid no heed then and conse-
quentiy could not tell even who the
bill posters We're. 1t Is not likely. how
ever, that the anonymous screed will
have airy effect, other than to stir up
the viaduct boomers to greater exer-
tiOnS,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-15

| in need of tonic and general regulator
of the system. l have recommended 1t
to a great many, and everyoneone who
tried it got relief.
1T is the best general remedy l ever
used or knew anything about"
When the nervous system has become
| weakened from any cause, Paine's Gel
cry compound builds it up as nothing
else can. 1t makes people well.
People in every walk Of life have
reason to be grateful to Prof. Phelps,
of Dartmouth, the eminent scientist
who discovered Paine's celery COM
pound. He understood the peculiar
needs of the nervous system; he knew
that the backache, headache, sleepless-
ness. loss of appetite, and disordered
blood all mean that the nerves are
weakened and inadequate to the de-
mands upon them. The experience of
thousands has proven all over this
broad country that only Paine's celery
copound will give health to the nerves,
and through them to the entire body.
Colleges conferred upon DR.. Phelps
their highest honors for his Invaluable
investigations in medicine, but all this
seems insignificant in comparison with
the chorus of gratitude that has gone
up all over the world from men, wo-
men and children, who have OutgrOwn
weaknesses and the lack of health by
the use of Paine's celery compound, the
most wonderful nerve and blood restor-
alive
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-15

Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There is a name on the Republican
ticket that l should like to see at the
head of the list when the war is over
and all things righted, and that name is
Daniel Williams. Mr.. williams is quail
fed to fiji the position of city treasurer
from n score of standpoints. His integri-
ty is beyond question; in fact he was
never cut out for a politician. He has
always been the friend of the laboring
man, being in his time one of the largest
contractors in Scranton, and always in
favor of trades unionism. He held the
distinction of being the only strictly union
contractor in the city, every man em-
ployed by him being member of the
union. l worked for him myself and l
know of what speak.
Again, he is generous to fault. He
has heart as big as barrel. If a man
working for him should chance to be Sick
Dan Williams was the first to call upon
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-15
VOTE FOR DANIEL WILLIAMS.

him to see If lie was in need of anything.
There are very few bosses of the present
day you will find doing that.
Then, again, he paid his men the highest
rate of wages paid in the city. There are
hundreds of men in Scranton who have
worked for him who can testify to the
same, and IL there is one among them who
will say that he ever did wrong by them
then | will take back all l have said.
think it is the duty of all trades union
lists In the city to give such a man as
Mr.. Williams their hearty support, and
l can assure them their confidence will
never be abused by him.
Therefore l call upon all who have to
work for their living, both union and non
union, to show their appreciation of true
worth by voting next Tuesday for Dam
iel Williams for city treasurer.
Philip ]. Thomas
Scranton, Feb. 13.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-15
FORMAL OPENING TODAY,

Reynolds Brothers iIave Moved Into
Their New Store on Wyoming Avenue.
Reynolds Bros. the stationers and en-
gravers have moved from 317 Lacka-
wanna avenue and are now located in
the Hotel Jermyn building on Wyoming
avenue. where they will have formal
opening today.
The members of this enterprising
firm have been engaged in the sta
tiOnery trade for four years past and
during that time have built UP a large
business by their strict attention to
business and courteous treatment of all
with whom they come in contact.
There new store is centrally located
and well adapted for the business they
are engaged in.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-15
ST. VALENTINES DAY.
postmen Of the City Were Weighted Down
with Letters Yesterday.


st, Valentines day was yesterday,
and. like this day of the years immedi-
ately preceding, shows decline in the
custom of sending through the mails or
leaving on the doorstep the so-called
comic valentine and the same decline
in the use of the 'two-for-five love-
sick epistle. On the other hand. there
was shown an improvement In the real
sentiment of the festival-if 1t may be
designated as such. These are the
conclusions suggested by q Tribune
reporters visit to the postoffice, which
is a dumb but correct witness of the
valentine sentiment.
Whatever delight the day brought to
lovelorn young women or lovelorn
young men. the patient postman had
none of it in his. On the contrary, he
was sorely tempted to swear-and may
be he did-and If he did, he cannot be
blamed. 1t is estimated that within the
city limits there were 5000 extra pieces
of mail matter yesterday. The thirty
three postmen, averaging two trips
each. could, under ordinary circum-
stances, have met the emergency with
out being much bothered, but the hand
ling of 5000 extra pieces Of matter, mo-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-15

Connells, more Connellism. 1t is what
We need. Why, 1t can be summed up in
a few short words. 1t means all that's
purest and best and enabling in effort to
benefit the city, the county and incidental
ly the state. "Connellism'' Ia word to
be proud of and 1t is a name that vii! live
in this community when some we wot of
are forgotten.
Remember. don't swap horses while
crossing the stream" d. p. George,
Scranton, Pa, Feb IA.