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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-01
MEANING OF NATIONAL NAMES

Finland Is properly Fenland "the land
Of the marshes"
Uruguay was named from the river
which flows through It.
Bosnia Is so called because the River
Bosnia flows through 1t.
Ecuador means equator" an illusion to
its geographical position.
Manitoba commentaries the Mantitou,
the great spirit of the Indian.
The Sahara IL so named from the Arabic
word signifying desert
Egypt to the Hebrews and ever since
was 1.-The land Of oppression"
The word Ceylon Is of Sanskrit origin,
signifying the "island of lions"
Jutland was originally Juteland. or the
land of the Jutes. y Gothetic tribe.
Zanzibar, more correctly Zanguebar, sig
nifies "the coast Of the negroes"
Jamaica has u name of Indian origin,
1t means "the country with springs"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-01
If WE HAD NEVER MET.

If We had never met.
But like two stars in orbits chained,
Pursued divergent paths. ordained
BY unkind fate, would Joy be gainet-'
IL We had never met?
If we had never met,
But, like two birds. whose silent diEht
Is contravened and In the night
Led us apart, would life seem brisat--
II we had never metz
If we had never met.
But groping as In 'hoodman bliri.
Had passed, would other heart IL inind
Await beyond for US TO find
lf We had never met"
Arthur Chapman, in u mango.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-01
Monntain ilosniiaIItx.

had arrived in the mountain town Just
al u time when there was feud ripe,
and the urban and suburban hosts were
divided against each other. There had
been killing around the neighborhood, and
far Us the stranger could see the wilder
ness was blossoming ~ the rose Az an
outsider, was In no danger. and finding
It neceSsary 10 20 into the mountains, I
began to look about for . At horiD -
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-01
Storled Threads.

'I've just been reading about that poor
unfortunate king who had a drawn sword
hanging over him held only by single
In her voice.
WELL" replied Mr.. Smidge, as he but
tered another piece Of bread, 'it weren't
anything to the man who had shirt hut
ton on him hanging by u single thread
Newark Advertiser,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-01
Household Repartee.

The lady was making some remarks
about the kind of clothes some other 10.
dies at church had on, when her husband
remarked:
1.-The finest garment woman can wear
is the mantle of charity"
yes" she snapped, "and it's about the
only one some husba nds want their wives
to Wear."-1fd-Bits.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-01
WHERE THEY SHOULD GO.

Singers to Alto, Ga.
Bakers to Cakes, Pa.
jewelers. to Geb Ind.
Smokers to Weed, CAL.
Printers to Agate, Col.
The sleepy to Gap, Pa.
The idle to Rust, Aiinh
Cranks to Jeculiar. Mo.
Poets to Parnassus, Pa. n
Dead heads TO Gratis, o.
Actors to Star City. Ark.
Perfulners to Aroma. ILL.,
ApiarIsts to Beeville, Ind, 4
Tramps to Grubtown, Pa.
Bankers to Deposit, y. Y.
Small men TO Bigger. Ind.
Widowers to Widows, Ala e.
Brokers to Stockville. New.
Old maids to Antiquity. q. ~
Lovers to Spoonville. Mich
Hunters TO Deer Trail. Coz
Young ladies to Bangs. Va.
Hucksters to Yellville, Ark.
Cobblers to Shoe Heel. y. y.
Politicians to Buncombe. S. G..
The boys to Midway, s. &.
Theosophists to Mystic, Conn.
Topers to Brandy Station, Va.
Physicians to Doctortown. Ga.
Puzzle fiends TO Riddleville, Ga,
Drummers to Modest Town. Va.
Druggists to Balsam Lake, Wiz.
Prohibitionist orators to Stumptown
Pa.
Newly-married couples to Bliss. Mich.
monte men to ,Trickum, Ky.
The gum brigade 10 Chewtown, Pa.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-01
preparlne for Intsrrosa,iou,.

General Agent-"We have no place for
you. We could give You steady employ
Applicant (akhast-."Wooden legs?''
General Agent-"Exactly: we are intro
ducing new corn cure. and our agents
must b free from corna at any cost!".--
ChjcaGe Record tf5 f'I. T III / 7T''ft
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-01
Mean Thing,

Miss Fussey (hurrying into doctors OF.
fice)-"Doctor look at this. Why are these
wrinkles coming around my eyes?"
Doctor Cbusily)-"Because you are get
ting old. Two dollars. please. New Yo:k
Wee1fly.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-01
: LOVE AND INSANITY.

The two predominating causes of sui
eide among women are love and insan-
ity; causes which curiously enough pro-
dlice comparatively few suicides amCng
men; probably four or five times as
many women commit suicide from these
causes as do men; Il fact which shows
! that love Is with most women a pas
Slon--an all-cOnsuming fire which de-
stroys their mental and moral equil-
ibrium. Love, for most women of high
ly passionate nature, means an entire
abnegation of their personality and a
complete self-sacrifice: 1t renders them
helplessly irrational and unbalanced;
so true is this that the less deserving
the object of their love, the more in
tense grows thei" passion, and the
greater the GOODNESS or ill-treatment on
the part of their lovers, the stronger Is
their spirit of self-sacrifice 1t is among
this class of women that suicide flour
ishes. This Is noticeable in the news
paper accounts of female suicides; for
example a girl suicide leaves this let
ter for her lover: you have deceived
me and deserted me; but love you and
cannot survive the loss of your affec-
ton" Perhaps" writes another, you
desert me because l loved you more
than my life" Another wrote to an
unfeeliny brute: Death will soon di-
vide us. l hope thus to make you
happy" Some women are so near the
border line Of sanity and insanity that
any sort of spiritual excitement like
love Is bound to render them irrespon-
Sibe, and their suicide ought there
fore to be regarded as a species OF in
sanity, rather than as deliberate self
murder
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-01
MARRIAGE AS A CAUSE.

1t is apparent in the cases of suicide
for love that abuse, ill-treatment ana
deSertion awaken no resentment or hat
red; they seem rather to intensity feel
ing for the unworthy lover. who Is
looked upon as dead and forever lost,
with no other consolation left for the
woman but also to lose herself in death.
If she does not go mad she commits
suicide. The only suicides for love
among men are either double suicides
of both man and woman or those of the
Werther character where the passion
engenders such rare spiritual exalta-
tion that suicide seems the only natural
solace for. disappointment.
While love causes more suicides
among women than among men, mar
riage, on the other hand, causes four
times as many suicides among men as
among women; and NOSE of these: are
due to mans inability to reconcile him
SELF to the loss of his wife by death. 3
I.ombroso, the great Italian crimin-
ologist. says this fact Is explained by
the predominance of maternal over con-
jugal love. The love which drives wO-
men to suicide is frequently Illicit: in
marriage she loves more nationally and
less blindly-there is no occasion for
remorse ar -high-keyed tragedy. The
average married woman, he says, loves
too feebly to commit suicide when
widowed. She becomes attached to her
grief and more easily reconciles her.
self to the changes in her conditions
and circumstances; while the man, If
he loved sufficiently not to commit sui
eide before his wife's death, usually
loves too much to endure life after her
death. Though 1t seems that compare
tiyely few men are driven to suicide by
their spouses Like Socrates. their re-
spective Xantippes turn them into
philosophers.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-01
SCIENTIFIC THEORIES.

Anthropologists attribute suicides for
love to physiological basis. The pas
sion produces a physical affinity for the
loved one which so acts upon the MOLE
cules of the system that separation
from the loved one becomes dangerous
and In a sense physically impossible.
This Is not the first nosense of which
the new-fangled scientists have been
guilty, nor Is 1t likely to be the last.
They try to support their conclusions
BY thus explaining wife suicides in the
east upon the funeral pyres of their
dead husbands. Double and multiple
suicides are also explained In this way.
The mother who kills her children and
then, KILLS herself does so, It is claimed,
because a physiological law drives her
to 1t. Her offspring are an organic por-
tion Of herself, and she cannot take her
own life and leave them. The same
maternal instinct which protects the
child while living also causes the. sui
eide mother to take Its life and thus
protect 1t In death. So strong Is this
bond that pathologists claim that In
many cases the mother prevails on the
child to kill itself.
.Hornier investigated several cases in
which boy Of 10 and a boy Of 18 were
\ prevailed upon to end thslr lives sim
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-01
WHY MEN SUICIDE.

According to statistics, moro men
commit suicide because of poverty.
want, financial disappontments, social
changes, etc, than for any other caus-
cS; while these causes, on the contrary,
produce the fewest suicides among
women. This is the more remarkable
because Il woman in want is so much
more helpless than man, and because
enjoying the privileges of society so
much more keenly than does man, she
ought, naturally to feel its depriNations
the more. The explanation probably Is
that woman can more easily adapt her
self to changed conditions than can
man. Max Nordau, in fact. claims that
the only difference in nature between
a duchess and a. washer woman is q
superficial one: so that a duchess could
adapt herself to new surroundings and
become "a washerwoman much more
easily than duke could change into a
menial: indeed the duke would prefer
to commit suicide. There are many
cases of women of high rank accepting
positions of relative inferiority easily
and gracefully: few men of similar
standing ca., do this: they cannot bend
they break: besides. where the ruin
is finanGil', man suffers more directly
and personally and has more occasion
for remorsA. Then. too. Swomen can
seek aid or beg more easily than a
man.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-01
WHY WOMEN ARE SUICIDES
Or. Rather Why They Are Not So
Often as Men.
COMPARISONS OF THE SEXES
Il ItTrue That Women Actually Feel Pain
Less Aeutely Than Men ?-Aud
10 This Also True
Of Disgrace?
From the philadelphia Times.

From the Philadelphia Tunes
Although woman is supposed to he
the weaker vessel and to have less
courage and less virility of character
than man, recent Investigations mto
the history of suicide have brought out
the surprising fact that nearly hNe
times as many men as women commit
suicide; and of the women who do take
their life it is estimated that at least
half are insane or mentally, irresponsi-
ble. In some countries the/proportlon
is even larger. The reasons for" TINS
superiority of woman over man are
not SO easily discovered, although some
of them are apparent.
In the first place, a majority OF the
men who commit suicide do so out ot
fear and cowardice: they are afraid TO
face poverty, pain, degradation, disitp-
pOintment. Comparatively few women
commit suicide for any of these causes;
whether it Is because they fear death
or do not fear adversely is not clear,
though it is. claimed by psychologists
that woman has a special affinity Tor
adversity and disappointment and
physical suffering. Indeed, 1t Is MAIN
tanned that she actually enjoys being
sick, Women certainly feel pain ana
physical suffering less acutely than
do men, and as physical and moral SEN
sibility are closely allied, it naturally
follows that women can eXert' more
moral power toward resisting the temp
tation to end their agony by ending
life.
The herald., 1896-08-16

that the total value Of domestic exports
was 146,b00,0 900 greater IN 1892 than 1t was
last year. 1t was also 81, 100000 greater In
1881 than last year. Except for the phe-
nomenal years 1881 and 1892, when there was
an exceptional combination OF strong for.
eign demand for our produce with great
crops in this country, the value OF domestic
exports was greater last year than ever
before.
The. increase in manufactured exports
last year were not confined to a few ar
tioics, but extended to almost the entire
list. They were marked In manufactures
Of brass, in carriages and street cars. II,
railway cars. in patent medicines, IN clocks,
in manufactures OF copper. cotton. fax
and rubber. in glassware. electrical and
scientific apparatus. builders hardware,
machinery. saws and tools and numerous
other things.
The act OF 1894 was not what the Demo-
Gratis promised in their platform of 1892.
but 1t was better than nothing. Under its
operation our manufactured exports have
increased far more than they ever did be-
fore and our total exports have been great
er than ever before except for the two very
remarkable years when European crops
were very short and our own crops were
very abundant
Under anything like normal conditions
the exports from the United States were
never SO great before as they were last
year.
The herald., 1896-08-16
Why She Prefers an EngIishman

The sprightly California writer, Mrs.
Gertrude Atherton, has been confessing
to the London Chronicle. Here Is part
statement of her opinions: 1.-THE vast
difference between an Englishman and
an American can be put in nutshell
the American never lived that a clever
woman could not read from the inside
out, backward and forward, after a
brief friendship; it would take several
lifetimes to understand an Englishman.
Now, the feminine mind loves
mystery, and here is the whole secret
of the constant capture of American
girls by the enemy. Snobbery, eyes daz-
zled by a coronet and familiar inter-
course with crown Jewels is not the final
explanation, for titles are few, and
American girls are marrying English
men every day. Every Englishman that
settles in the United States could have
a dozen American wives if all the states
were Utahs. - American men are
an eccentric growth, a hodge-podge
flung together in, galloping, money
grabbing civilization, and they are not
fully known to themselves. Eventually
they will be the greatest race of men the
world has ever known; now the best of
them are amateurs in the art of being
and living. They haven't found them
selves. consequently there is no compact
ness, little conference. In America we
all like and admire our fathers and
brothers, but we haven't any admiration
for our husbands, although we may be
rather fond Of them in patronizing way
Unless they are bullies-when we divorce
The herald., 1896-08-16
WHEELED TO HIS WEDDING
An Oakland Youth Rides Five Hundred Mllei
to Meet His Bride

Gus Martin of Oakland rode nearly
800 miles on a bicycle to meet his bride.
He Is a young Oakland business man
who dabbles in real estate and acts as
general agent for those who do not have
time to attend to their own business
affairs.
A short time ago Martin announced
his intention of going to Los Angeles
en- his wheel. Business and pleasure
were the reasons he gave for-his trip,
and none of his friends supected that
he was riding to his wedding on his
wheel
Martin chose the coast route, He
went from Oakland to San Jose, thence
to San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and
Ventura and to Los Angeles. He took
his time on the trip.
A few days ago Martins father wrote
to his son asking If he did not want to
return to Oakland. He sent him a re-
turn ticket from Los Angeles. This
morning Mr.. Martin received the follow
ing letter:
Dear Dad: Ticket received. Send two
or tandem. Rode to my wedding 500
miles on my wheel, and would like to
take my honeymoon on a wheel.
GUS.
The young lady was Miss Cora Moss.
They had known each other for some
time. His bicycle is being rebuilt for
two.
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accomplished for me such remarkable
results, that feel a testimonial from me
is due, not only as evidence of my own
appreciation of the benefits derived, but
also In the hope that some other sufferer
may be led to take advantage of the
means for a cure from that most dread
ful of all diseases consumption.
Although medical practitioner myself
have suffered from consumption for
nine years, fully realizing what con-
sumption" means, and aware that was
doomed man, but nevertheless unable
to cure myself or to get cured. Under
successive trials of various remedies
and treatments known and practised by
the medical fraternity, I experienced al
ternate periods Of improvement and de-
cline, but in the end steadily increas-
ing decline was evident. The benefits
Of climate, and every other advantage
from treatment within my reach, to-
gether with the advice of several prom
inent brother physicians, all became ex-
hausted at last and found myself prac-
tically on the verge of a complete
break up" Cough, expectoration,
hemorrhages, loss of weight, weakness
and despair seemed to have settled on
me with an ever tightening and increas-
ing grip.
BY happy chance and practically as
'dernier> resort" I was induced to try
your improved tuDeTCulln treatment,
and today after just three treatments,
| during eight weeks time, / am improved
to an extent almost incredible and sure
ly never dreamed of by myself or friends.
The disease is entirely arrested, and the
processes of destruction carried on in my
| system during nine long years have been
| thoroughly checked in the short space
Of eight weeks, and nearly all the symp-
! toms have disappeared.
With my rapidly returning strength
| it seems but short time now until the
| natural processes of repair, provided by
nature, shall have thoroughly restored
my physical system to a condition of
perfect health.
1 cannot say too much in favor of the
improved tuberculin" treatment, nor
urge too strongly, any one afflicted with
tuberculosis, to haste to begin treat
ment, and I not only honestly en-
dorse the treatment, but also heartily
recommend to all persons suffering from
tuberculosis, or having friends so aff1ic-
ted. the skill and experience of Drs. Bal
lard & Whitman who administered the
| ternally yours.
ASBURY G. SMITH, M. D.,
Graduate Harvard Medical College,
Boston, Mass.
! Formerly member Massachusetts
Medical Society, Massachusetts Medico-
Psychological Society, Northern Califor-
mia District Medical Society, Superin-
| tendent Massachusetts, School for Fee
BILE Minded, Physician to Mclean In
sane Asylum, Special Instructor in Past
Graduate Department Harvard Medical
College, Medical Officer Massachusetts
State Board of Health.
The herald., 1896-08-16

phrase, and this object is the spoon in
question, made from steers horn, and
used thus to determine the richness of
the ore" AS he spoke he placed in the
mortar several specimens which he pro-
ceeded to crush into a coarse powder.
This he placed in the horn, and with
careful deliberation began moving it
slowly backward and forward, slightly
elevated at one end, in basin of water,
so that the coarser, lighter particles
were washed away while. the heavier
metal sank, slowly but surely, to the
bottom of the spoon. In few moments
all that was left was few glittering
as 1t is termed, was demonstrated to my
entire satisfaction. MARY e. HART.
The herald., 1896-08-16
Exceptionally Heavy Exports

tariff is he great iss1e have EN- mnch r. 'nS ssv
about the destruction of our export trade,
particularly in manufactures, under the
new tariff
They tell us that the export trade
has been ruined by the abrogation of the
reciprocity dickers and by other provisions
of the new law. and that there Is no hope
of regaining this trade. which they falsely
claim has been lost, unless we go back to
McKinleyism.
The returns of foreign trade for the last
fiscal year are now in and they tell US how
much truth there is in this lamentation
over the loss of export trade.
The Washington correspondent of an
eastern commercial paper has compiled q
table showing manufactured and total ex-
ports and the proportion of the former to
the latter for the different years, including
the last as follows:
The herald., 1896-08-16
The Herald's Correspondent
Sinks Hundreds OF Feet
SOME OF THE FAMOUS MINES
Interesting Descriptions Of the Reward,
Providence and Red Hill
The Rich Resources Of the Grass Valley Dis
tr,ct-The Timers Pay-"By the
Great Horn Spoon

NEVADA CITY. Aug. 14.-(Special
correspondence to The Herald. )-Situ-
ated near the heart of the Sierra Nevada
mountains. at an elevation Of $500 feet,
lies the beautiful Nevada City. the
wealthiest mining district in California.
Leaving the Central Pacific at Colfax,
your correspondent after a.short delay
boarded the Nevada County Narrow
Gauge train and was soon speeding away
UP grade toward the point Of destina-
tion.
AS the elevation increased and we
neared the thriving mining town Of
Grass Valley. a change in the soil be-
came apparent. which assumed a hue
of decided Persian red, the clouds Of
dust along the roadside being Of the
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throughout the summer and yields an.

throughout the summer and yields an
nually large returns.
MINERS PAY.
Miners receive from $3.50 to $3 per day,
and although the dampness Is somewhat
disagreeable the effect is not nearly so
deleterious as the dry red dust of the
silver mines in the desert districts,
where water seldom penetrates and
where the heat is frequently intense,
constantly increasing with the depth of
the shaft. Upon table in an aseayer's
office were a number Of ore specimens,
q pestle and mortar and an oblong,
boat-shaped object. The latter aroused
my curiosity and questioned the owner
as to it's use.
THE GREAT HORN SPOON.
"Have you never heard of the great
horn spoon" he asked. Yes" 1 replied,
II have frequently heard the expression,
by the great horn SPOON which I pre-
sumo is kind of oath, but always
astronomical term" You are mistak-
astronomical terms" You are mistak-
en-" was his rejoinder. 1T is a miners
The herald., 1896-08-16
Exports of manufactures

This table shows the very remarkable
increase of nearly s45,0000o0 in manufac-
compared with the preceding year. And
IT the reader will glance at the table he will
see that this increase Is not due to the fact
that the manufactured exports were excep-
tionally. small in 1895. The value of manu-
4. iiactMred 1S1 exports was never greater than
In 1888. excepting in 1894 when it was the
mere trife or $133 900 greater.
Ihe substantial truth Is that the value
Of Sdo manufactured M exports was about s45.-
uoO,O0O greater last year than in any pre-
vious year and over $69, 900, 900 greater than
the average during the four years 1890 to
ls93, inclusive There has been no such in
crease In anyone year in the history of the
country. the nearest approach having been
less that half as great In 1894 over 1893
The last column in the above table shows
The herald., 1896-08-16
GLOON ON THE COCKTAIL ROUTE

Break the news gently,
Free lunch must go.
Comfort the rounder,
Think of his woe.
Think of the pain of it,
Shall he buy grub?
How can he do it?
Aye, there's the rub.
Years have fled many
Since he paid CASH
Only for liquids
TheyNhrew In the hash.
Gave him mock turtle,
Slices of ham,
With various cheeses,
And fritters of clam:
While roast beef in plenty
Was heaped on a plate
To fill up the systems
OF FOUNDERS elate.
Now times are changing,
Drinks come as high
But won't come so often
In sweet bye and bye.
Price of cocktail
Once got a meal.
Hence the saloon man
Down at the heel.
That is the reason
Saloon men all say:
Free lunch is ruin.
Take it away,
Take it all out of here,
Don't leave a crumb;
It's nothing at best
But bait for the bum"
Hence the gay rounder
Heaveth moan.
Dreams of the future,
Hungry and lone.
Now on the cocktail route
Sorrow is rife:
Founders think sweetness
Vanished from life.
San Francisco Examiner
The herald., 1896-08-16
PROVIDENCE MINE, NEVADA CITY

woman ever felt that she was realizins
her possibilities with q man she coult
manager"