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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-03
TWO NEW VEINS.

The manner in which the two VEINS
that underly McKeevers' field on tine
northerly side of Hyde Park We're dis-
covered is a sample evidence or iuck'
The four veins in the mine had peen
worked out and the place was about
to be abandoned when it was suggest,
ed that borings be made for any coal
that might be found under the worked
out veins. To the surprise of all Two
veins were discovered. The same VEINS
underly Dunmore, but 1t was not
thought that they extended across the
river, They are known as the Dunmore
and Ryder veins, and in the borough on
the hill the first Is only IA few feet below
the surface. The discovery has neces-
STATED the tearing down or the oid
tower that stood near the slope ana a
new and better one will be built in or
der to accommodate the increased out
put. At least eighty additional miners
will be given employment.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-03
SHORT PARAGRAPHS OF NEWS.

The funeral OF Mrs. Philip Caffrey,
of Minooka, will be held this morning at
o'clock. High mass OF requiem will
be celebrated at st. Joseph's church.
lnterment will be in Hyde Park ceme-
terry.
Thomas A. Donahoe, of the Scranton
Truth. has recovered after a recent in
disposition.
The South Side board of trade will
meet on Friday evening. March Is.
Rev. ~ +. Carmody, of the cathedral,
will preach the sermon tomorrow even
ing at st. Joseph's church, Minooka.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-03

Simply apply "Swayne's Ointment"
No internal medicine required. Cures
letter eczema, itch, all eruptions on the
face, hands, nose, etc. leaving the skin
clear. white and healthy. Its great
healing and curative powers are pos
sessed by no other remedy. Ask your
druggist for Swayne's Ointment. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-03
REV. GIBBONS CALLED.

The congregation of the Presbyterian
church met In the lecture room last
evening, a goodly number being present
the object being the selection of pas
tor to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Rev. j. w. Williams some
months ago. Rev. $. c. Logan, of
Scranton. had charge of the meeting,
which was q very harmonious one A
call was extended to Rev. William
Gibbons. of Matby, upon unanimous
vote of those present
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-03
FUNERAL OF THOMAS EsCOTT

The funeral of the late Thomas Escott
occurred yesterday afternoon from the
residence of his parents on South Main
avenue. The many friends of the de-
ceased attended in large numbers. Rev.
u. Jones. of the Welsh CONGREGATIONAL
church; and Rev. Y. Bell. of the Ply
mouth Congregational church. ofliciat-
ed at the services. The pallbearers
were: David Johns. David Evans, w.
Haydn Evans, Parry Thomas. Thomas
Thomas, and ID. l.. Jones. Interment
was made in Washburn street ceme-
terry.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-03
NEWS NOTES AND PERSONALS.

The Hyde Park Literary and Debat-
ing society met last evening. DEBATE
on the Cuban question was the feature
of the literary exercises. There We're
other efforts. The society will banquet
on the evening of March 2S.
The Misses Hannah Jenkins and Jen-
ME Morgan left yesterday for New
York city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Evans, who
were married last week, are living on
North Sumner avenue.
The Orient Dancing class met and
trpped the light fantastic last even
ing.
James Jopling, of Inkerman. is the
guest of his daughter Mrs. w. "A. Reese,
Of Jackson street.
Camp SO. Patriotic Order of True
Americans. will initiate twenty candi-
dates this evening.
Tunis j. Thomas, a veteran of the
civil war; is i'll at the home of Thomas
Beach, on North Garfield avenue.
Ed Walker, the young man who was
arrested on the West Side for the lar
ceny of clothing from Wilkes Barre
widow. was taken to that city by Off
Ger ConnorS yesterday.
a pleasant surprise party was ten
dered To Miss Hannah Greening at the
home of her parents on I.uZerne street
last Friday evening by her many young
| friends. A most enjoyable time was
spent by all until midnight, when re-
freShments We're served, and the guests
departed. Among those present Were
the Misses Jenny Thomas. Bertha Mid
! wick, Ella .SDart, Florence Morgans,
Tilie Adams. Lena Cramar Carrie
Noll. Lille Evans. Kate Jones, Nellie
Burke, Lizzie Ncedham, Marie Burke
Mamie Ncedham, and the Masters
Thomas Jones. Will owens, Richard
Grey, John Howells. Arthur Green
George Widwick, Sam Ilindershott
Robert Grey. David Greening. John
| Jones and George Davis
West Side Business Directory.
| PLUMBiNG-William d. Griflths. 11s
| North Main avenue, does first-class
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Prs,
FRAreE.

he mind betwe en- Cat and Fiddle" and
"Catharine la fd ele' But such is I'M
doubtedly the origin, and it is probable
that when the sign was first hung out it
exhibited some sort of representation OF
that saint. One of the usual signs in
medieval days was the Give Ais" repre-
sented by the bishop who prayed for all,
the lawyer who pleaded for all, the farmer
who paid for all, the soldier who fought
Tor all, and the devil who took ALL But
the artist of later days called upon to re-
paint the sign on which the old design
was hardly visible, and finding himself
unequal to the task OF producing the FIVE
portraits, was seized with a brilliant in
SEPARATION and substituted five shoemakers'
awls-thus, as he fondly imagined, leaving
both the name and the sense unaltered.
Painters undoubtedly have much to ac-
count for-to whom else can we ascribe
such an enormity as the ''Swan With Two
Necks," bird which can be suitable for
nothing else than to be the latest novelty
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back with long roll of bread between his
Jaws. he had probably stolen 1t from
some doorway. The man took the LOAF
away from him, and the dog patted the
wharf planks with his tail. This exchange
of courtesies sealed their mutual COM
panionship. if not friendship.
But the warmth of their attachment, II
it were of higher temperature than the
cold dock boards they slept on, never
lessened the chill of the wind that blew
into their comfortless lives, for the wind
still followed the sailor that had always
defied it, and the dog shared with his
chum its untempered enmity. The man
found fewer charitable nickels that would
buy the beer schooners that brought the
plate of waterfront soup, and the dog found
fewer rolls of bread to steal in the wake OF
the early bakery wagons. And the gloom
of their nights and the gloom OF their days
overlapped in one continuous cloud that
had no rift nor silver lining. They ken
neled together, slumberIng in starvation
and awaking to feel hunger feeding on
their vitals.
Early one morning, when the ships at
the pierheads were coming out of the fog,
wagon went rafting up from the docks.
1t was not the bakers outfit, but the dog
followed it, his poor lean feet pattering
along over the cobbles. The cold wind
followed, too-the wind that hated the
sailor that defed it-and it hummed glee-
fully up the street, as if it alone had over
come It's enemy and was glad.
The wagon stopped at the Morgue, and
the man presently slept in place where
the dreams of hunger never come. But
the wind came in and sang its pean of tri-
umph there.
After bit another wagon went rafting
up the street. 1t stopped at the Pound,
and the dog was lifted out and roughly
pitched into pen. In few hours he had
had his miserable day, and the wind, re-
! mem boring that he had been the sailor s
friend, sang also it's pean OF triumph there.
Tom GREGORY.
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us. Below us spread the Gordon Valley
shaded beneath the stately oaks and alders
which dotted its rich fields and bordered its
ever-running streams, and away to the west,
across a low range of bare hills, lay Wooden
Valley, bright fringed with verdure and glow
ing with the ripening harvest.
1.-THE fatigue OF the climb and the peaceful
ness of the scene caused drowsiness to come
over me, and having thrown myself full length
on the ground, was on the point OF dropping
to sleep when sharp bark from the sheep
dog aroused me. 1 opened my eyes, but Hugh
babe me be still, Tor large rattlesnake lay
coiled within a few feet of my head.
at was as impossible for me to lie still under
such circumstances as to have taken wings
and flown. Making a great effort rolled over
aud over in the direction away from the snake,
but at my first movement the snake struck at
me, narrowly missing my neck. Before he
could re-coil the sheepdog was upon him and
broke his back. Hugh quickly dlspatched
him with a stick, and cut off his ratties, OF
which there were seventeen"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-07
An Awful
Night With an Unknown
Kind of Reptile.
The E1perlence Of charles W. Ben.

Fifteen years ago, when Pasadena was still
olony, two young men, E. E. Fordham and
'harles W. Bell-the latter of whom is now
equity in the County Supervisors office
rected small tent and went to "batching"
the midst of a wild stubbIe field, where now
les one of the principal residence streets OF
asadena and almost upon the very spot where
iands the palatial residence OF the late Frank
l. Vallette.
The boys swung in their hammocks, sus-
ended under two stunted apricot trees, until
tie and went to bed without light.
Suddenly in the night young Bell was awak-
ned by a strange feeling of suffocation. His
hest seemed burdened with heavy weight,
hich made breathing almost impossible; his
mbs were rigid and he felt cold perspira-
ion breaking out from every pore of his body,
ccompanied by a prickling sensation of hor-
or and a nausea, for which, in his half-uncon-
ious condition, he could not account AS
e gathered his wits somewhat he believed
1mself suffering from some terrible night
lere. Exerting all his will power he raised
is arm to break the spell and throw off, if
ossible, the terrible oppression on his chest,
hen what was his horror at finding his hand
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-07
THEY RI ALL
MASON ORES

The most famous restaurant in the
world to-day is the Maison Dore, on the
corner of the Boulevard des Italiens and
the Rue LATTE, in Paris, France. 1t was
started something like a century ago, and
has been growing in favor ever since. The
result OF this fame has been to cause many
other restaurants IN different parts OF the
world to use the same name. In TACT
there are few cities in America without
Malson Dore. Some of the institutions
have been well worthy of the cognomen,
but others are the height of incongruity.
To be sure, the Maison Dore that once did
business in this town was an institution
that the founder of the House of Gold
might well be proud of, but some OF the
others that are scattered over the South
west are enough to cause the famous ca
terer to turn over in his grave if such a
thing is possible.
The famous restaurant in Paris is the
highest-priced place where food is served
in the world, and as a consequence the
patrons belong to the nobility of Europe
and the commercial kings" of the United
States. The managers take pride in say
ing that they can serve anything in the
world at any time, whether it is in season
or not. The regular table d hote dinner
that is served each day is 100 francs, or
about $40. If one has things cooked to or
der the bill can amount to almost any
sum one wants to make it. If guests wish
they can have wines served TO them at
500 a bottle and can order strawberri in
midwinter when the ground outside is
covered with snow, and pay S. to $40
plate for them. The decorations on the
walls of the private and public dining
rooms are by the best artists in France
and cost several fortunes. The table
service is all of the finest Sevres china and
the most magnificent cut-glass and silver
to be obtained, regardless of price. Taken
on the whole, the place has been declared
by epicures to be the grandest eating-pIace
on the face of the globe.
In strong contrast to the place just men,
toned is the Maison Dore that has been
at Gallup, n. Mex, for many years. Gallup
is mining town, so the customers are not
the best dressed in the world, but they are
fully in keeping with the place in which
they take their meals. This establishment
is in one of the most dilapidated shanties
to be found on the continent. The cash
value of it would not be much more than
% OO dLu 6L46 CldllSCS d1O IL MOhAO NC NIllA-
eult to obtain that much unless somebody
was badly in need of kindling wood.
The outside of the place is bad enough,
but the inside is beyond description. In
one corner there is a rough wooden bar,
behind which all of the cooking is also
done. There is no floor, except the ground,
and three benches made ofunplaned planks
do duty as tables. A few old nailkegs an
swer for chairs.
The cooking done here is something
awful In fact it is not cooking at all; it
is simply crime the way food is served,
and yet if people look at the outside of the
building they will see a sign that is well
painted in gold and black containing the
words "Maison Dore." The sign really
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-07
HOW NAPOLEON RAISED MONEY.

Napoleon had the lavish hand of a par
venue, but his beneiciaries were not CRATE
full, and with ever increasing insolence
were always craving more. The systems
of private confscations or forced contri-
buttons from individuals had already at
tanned vast dimensions. During the win
ter of 18O9-10 it was extended and regu-
lated; the sums wrung from German
Princes and Spanish grandees, from Eng
Iish merchants and the Italian clergy,
were not entirely exhausted; the remain
der, together with what was accepted"
from timorous politicians, crafty ecclesias-
tics, sly contractors and unprinclpled
financiers, was now erected into the dig
nifty of the Emperor's extraordinary do
main" The term "army chest" had been
devils d for times of righer public moral
ity it was now discarded. Confscated
palaces, forests, lands, fisheries, moneys
from the sale OF American ships-alI were
now the Emperor's private property.
Sloane's Life OF Napoleon" in the Cen
fury.
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unresented, would pat the planks with his
tail for JOY of the thought. Then he went
to sleep by the side of the slumbering
biped and night spread its gloom over the
dreary waits.
Toward morning when the ships were
beginning to come out of the darkness,
and the bakery wagons were Earring on
the cobbles, the dog arose. He stretched
himself first forward, and then back, till
the thin, poor blood began to run faster
through his lean body and then skunk off
down the dock. Pretty soon he came
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-07
Battle Royal
Between a King Snake and
a Rather.
Told by ]. C Kesler of Anderson.

was one day detailed to pack some provi-
sions from the store at Whiskytown to a min
er's cabin on Whisky Creek. Having unloaded
the pack from the animal, and tying him and
my riding horse to tree, sat down to rest,
when nv attent ton was attracted by the alarm
of rattlesnake. Catching up my rifle star +
ed down the trail to locate him. The noise, I
found, came from an open spot in a scrub oak
thicket Stopping at the verge of the opening
l saw an immense rattlesnake partly coiled,
with about half his body raised in the air. His
eyes were flashing. his tongue was darting in
and out of his vicious mouth necessarily, and
the whirr of his rattles was strung to the
highest pitch.
raised my rife to shoot, when my attention
was drawn to something close to me that was
moving. CHANGING down, saw it was king
snake crawling slowly from me. must have
suspended their hostilities by nv sudden ap-
pearance, but it was only momentary, for the
king snake soon began his operations.
He opened up the fight again by running in
a circle around the RATHER, but out of striking
distance. His movements were made with q
lightninglike rapidity. After q few moments
of this kind of sparring, the king snake ran
close to old Crotalus, who struck, but without
reckoning the cost, for no sooner did he break
his coiled position than his enemy had him
cornered. Just as he struck, the king snakes
mouth opened and closed on his body just
back of his broad fiat head. With the grip of
a bulldog the king snake struck.
Now the fight was on in dead earnest. 1t was
not to be q common hugging or sparring
hippodrome but battle royal to the death.
Both snakes were fighting hard one trying to
get & coil about his adversary, the other fighting
hard to keep it off, but in less than ten min
utes the king snake had succeeded in wrap
ping his length of feet or more around his
enemy After this was accomplished he began
the process of dIsjointing the RATHER. 1 OBJ
served as each coil was stretched out there
would be sound similar to the swapping of
the thumb and finger. Having completed the
work OF stretching each COIL he rapidly I'M
wound himself, and, again coiling up, jumped
away and disappeared into the brush.
Upon examining the RATHER L found each
joint of the vertebr@ broken. In some locali-
ties the king snake is called the tiger snake,
owing to the bands or rings of black and
white that encircle his body. He is the mortal
enemy of every snake that creeps except his
own species.
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at the aquarium? The original designer
had no such desire to be original. "The
Swan With Two Necks' was derived from
the fact that all swanherds were COM
PEELED to cut certain number of necks on
the beaks of cygnets, in order to identity
them, and two such marks may have been
the sign of the lord OF the manor. Again,
who but an incapable painter would have
been such Philistine as 10 change the
sign of the old "Salutation Inn" into
the commonplace representation of two
hands clasping one another.
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OLD ENGLISH TAVERN SIGNS. /

One of the most curious results of the
modern decline of sign-painting is that
the OLD name of some village is associated
with an entirely fresh design-a design
which hopelessly obhterates the original
meaning. A very common example of
this is the sign of the Lion and the
Fiddle merely blunder of the last
painter from Goat and Fiddle" but even
then its derivation is not easy to see.
There is no immediate connection in
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bOuIeVarus ueS IIallens IN FarIS.
1t would be interesting to know why
the proprietors OF so many places have Sc
lected the name. Do they really have any
idea of the kind of place the original
Maison Dore is, or do they simply take
the name because it looks nice? There is
no doubt but that the name Maison Dore
is the most popular restaurant cognomen
in this country, and it really looks to a
person who has even seen only the out
side of the original place as if the copyists
selected it as joke.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-07
A NARROW
Escape From the Fangs of i,
Rattlesnake.
witnessed by John Lake.
The Experience Of william coombs.

William Coombs of Napa tells the following
story of his narrow escape from being bitten
by t'ratter."
Last August was out camping with party
of friends in Gordon Valley, near the Solano
County line, and one afternoon, accompanied
by sheepherder known as Hugh -,
took stroll up the Blue Mountain to get
view OF the surrounding country Hugh's
sheepdog followed us unlimited.
when we reached a point about half way
up the ridge we came upon a cool spring of
water beneath the shade of a huge liveoak
tree, and we sat down here to rest ourselves
and to contemplate the delicious scene before
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.
sleepers. The many
calls for "the watch
below" to take in
sail when the sudden
gale is ripping the
canavs off the yards
keeps the gates of
slumber ever ajar.
When he opened his
eyes he would see the
keen, mild orbs of
the dog fixed upon
him. Then he would
60 to sleep again, and
the animal. feeling
that his efforts to-
ward making friends
o
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tie name for reStau-
rants in California,
and they can be
found in nearly ev-
cry town in the State.
Of the whole lot in
existence o. ay
there is not one with
anything about it to
suggest the source
from which it took
its name. They are
all fitted in a very
common style, and
the way they serve
food has nothing
about it TO make one
think be is feasting
in the palace of the
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mentioned three will do for charac-
terization of his social status-if sailor
has social status. The forecastle is tout
of humanity's reach"
AS this man tackled and filled down the
docks, zigzagging among the lumber. piles,
hay, merchandise-cases, truckmen, steve
dores and other sailors, he looked all the
wretchedness he was feeling. The chill
wind blew his rags around him as if to
show him that 1t yet remembered that he
had all his sea life de6ed its power. 1t
chilled him, but he defied it still-trom
force of habit doubtless-snd the wind
blew around him resentfully.
He foated along till he fetched up
abreast of ship he once sailed in and then
sat down on the wharf stringer to look at
her. He had no agreeable memories of
her, a sailor never has. Each of his ships
is part of the feet of hardships he ever
sails in.
While he sat there, a worthless, owner
less, kennelless dog came Sinking down
the water front and stopped near the man.
Like the sailor he was also "less" most all
the things that go to make life tolerant
and his doggish instinct that he need not
expect kick from the human brute. The
sailor was asleep.
AS he nodded on his perch his old hat
fell off and the dog lay down on it, posi-
bly, because it felt warmer to his almost
hairless body than the cold planks of the
wharf. Occasionally the man would awake
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-07
A RattIesnake,
A Polecat, Some Puppies
and a Gun.
The Experience Of Mr.. and MS. Bradley.

There lived about twelve miles southeast of
Lower Lake, on the road to Woodland, man
and his wife by the name OF Bradley, where
they owned hill ranch, and among other
things raised numbers of poultry. To protect
this poultry from the depredations of wild
animals they had a female dog and, at the
time OF this occurrence, she had litter of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-07

sHave you heard about young Molard? He
has just walked off with 10000 francs of his
employers money"
ala hal the lucky rascalP'
"Besides, he has bolted with your umbrella"
"ohl the internal scampp'-Le Papillon.