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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-09

OF Ars. John II Fordham today at
noon.
G. H. Mahey. secretary Of the Young
Mems Christian association. has moved
TO his former residence on Sanderson
avenue.
Lewis Kline. Of East Markekt street.
is still on the sick ilst.
Edward Mills. Of East Market street,
who has secured a position in Oly-
plant. will move his family there to-
day.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Primi-
tive Methodist church. on East Mar
ket street. held a social in the church
parlors last night from which they real
ICED q good round sum.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-09
PARTIES LAST EVENING.

Lewis Davis, the ambitious young
choir leader of the Jackson Street Bap-
tist church choir. was surprised last
evening by visit from the choir MEM
bers. His home on Bellevue Heights
was filled with much merriment for
several hours.
Last evening Aria, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. +. II. Griffiths, of Price street,
was rendered surprise by a number Of
his friends. Mr.. Griffiths came down
from Mount Morris TO attend the fes-
tivity. 1t was greatly enjoyed.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-09
NOTICE TO WHEELMEN.

Captain Joseph F. Woelkers, of the
South Scranton Wheelmen's club, has
mapped out the course which will be
run this evening by the wheelmen In
advertising the public meeting In the
interest Of good roads tomorrow night
at Germania hall. The wheelmen will
assemble on Hickory street, right rest
ing on Cedar avenue. No. 430, Patriot
ic Order Sons of America Drum corps
have volunteered to lead the march.
The course will be as follows: From
Hickory street to Cedar avenue. to
River street. cOuntermarch to Elm
street. to Washington avenue, to Birch
street, countermarch to Maple street,
to PittstOn avenue, over the new
bridge to Spruce street, to Washington
avenue, to Vine street, to Adams ave.
nue., to Spruce street, to Franklin ave-
nue., to Lackawanna avenue, to Mates
street, to Cedar avenue, where they will
disband.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-09
SHORTER PARAGRAPHS OF NEWS

Albert w. Westpfahl. of Pittston ave-
nue., one Of the South Sides most pop
ular young business men, will be mar
ried next Wednesday. He will lead to
the altar Miss Mary Shelp. an estim-
able young lady Of Hawley. The cere-
mony will be performed at her home.
Martin Wade and James p. Lavelle
have been chosen delegates by st. Pat
rick's Total Abstinence society of st.
Johns parish to the Diocesan conven-
tion in Freeland next month. Messrs.
Lavelle, Wade. NJ. p. Judge, Frank p.
Brady and James McCann will repre-
sent the society at the quarterly con-
vention In Providence next Sunday.
George II. Warner. of Stafford ave-
nue., and Miss Elizabeth Muskett,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Mus
kett, of Genet street, were married at
the home of the bride yesterday after
noon by Rev. J. L. Race, pastor of
Cedar Avenue Methodist Episcopal
church.
Miss Carrie Emich, Of Prospect ave-
nue.. Is visiting in Tamaqua.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-09
COLUMBUS COUNCIL SOCIAL.

Last night the members Of Columbus
Council, Young Mems Institute en-
joyed themselves at their hall with
pleasant post-Lenten social. attended
by as many non-members as members.
Each Of the latter had the privilege of
inviting friend. Dancing was the d.
version and was the order until an
hour past midnight Miss Kate Rear
don was at the piano and furnished the
music In her usual artistic style. The
committee that had the details Of the
social In charge consisted Of John ].
Gavan, Joseph Melvin, Frank F, Brady.
and James Folan.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-09
SILK TRADE IS DULL.

At the Sauquoit silk mills a large
force of the smaller operatives have
been laid off and the remainder are
working less time than has been the
custom. The mills, 1t Is understood.
will work not more than four days a
week until the silk trade gets more
active. The assurances are that the
depression will not last long.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-09
lnflammatory Rheumatism Cured in 8
UayS.

Morton L. Hill, Of Lebanon, Ind,
says: MY wife had Inflammatory
rheumatism in every muscle and Joint,
her suffering was terrible and her body
and face were swollen almost beyond
recognition; had been in bed for six
weeks and had eight physicians but re-
ceived no benefit until she tried the
Mystic Cure for rheumatism. 1t gave
immediate relief and she was able to
walk about in three days. l am sure
1t saved her life" Sold by Carl Lorenz,
Druggist, 41S Lackawanna avenue,
Scranton.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-26
THE SUNDAY "OALL."

To-morrow's CALL will contain, among
its numerous attractive features, de
scription of new invention which will
rank high in the realm of scientific dis
covery. 1t is no less than the construc.
difficult to realize the actuality of such an
achievement, but the facts speak for them
selves, and are lucidly set forth in
the able article treating of the mat
ter which is of such wide i'm.
portance. In truth, science appears to
have outdone nature in at least one re-
gard, for it is claimed that the artificial
orb is far superior to the natural eye.
Psychic New Year parties will try by
occult power to discover what fate has in
stall for the members. This is a society
fad that will reign on New Years day,
and popular attention will be claimed by
the elucidation of the mode of conducting
it which Will appear in Sundays CALL.
Americas Strangest Tower" will treat
OF an edlfice in this country that is more
of a wonder than the Leaning Tower oil
Pisa"
A plan that will revolutionize the pres
ent method of transmitting information
by signaling in the United States navy is
discussed by Commander r. G. Topper,
R. N.
One of the particularly fine features
will be the publication of the words
and music of the "Song to the
Moon" as sung with brilliant sue
cess by the Brownie king in Palmer
Cox's play at the Baldwin Theater. Every
body will want this rare prize of song,
with its local humorous hits, and it will
appear exclusively in THE SUNDAY CALL.
There will be wealth OF good things
that will make THE SUNDAY CALL eagerly
sought for by all who appreciate splen-
did family newspaper.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-26
TIE FUNDING BILL.

The debate in tue Senate on Tuesday
was something of surprise to those who
heard it and possibly to those who took
part in it. It was expected to be a debate
on the Cuban question, and it turned out
to be controversy over the funding bill.
The Senators, it seems, were so eager to
get at the problem involved in the Pacific
roads debts they were not only unwilling
to wait for the House to sends.them the
funding bill, but turned aside from the
grave crisis of Cuban affairs to discuss the
question.
The whole tenor of the debate gave evil
dence that the settlement of the Pacific
roads debts will be the chief fight of this
session of Congress. Even the controversy
as to whether the President has the ex-
elusive right of determining when and
how this Government should recognize
the independence of Cuba will be less ag-
gressively fought out than the issue be-
tween the people anu the monopoly
involved in the decision whether Congress
shall or not foreclose the mortgage on the
defaulting roads.
g 1t is gratifying TO the people to note
that in this first skirmish of the great
battle the victory was decidedly on the
part of the supporters of the Government
Senator Morgan, who has made himself
the leader of the opposition to funding the
debts, did not have to fight the battle
alone. He found an able and eloquent
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-26
THE GOLDEN THROAT.

Bell-Like Tones Not Always q Gift OF
Nature, but May Be Acquired.
The power of the highest Interpretation
of music in song is vouchsafed to but few
favored mortals and is not to be acquired
by any amount of endeavor, if the true
golden throat" with finely adjusted
chordoe vocales, be lacking, says a writer
in the New York Journal. A voice of
sweet and mellow quality in speaking,
however, is not always a gracious gift of
nature, but is possible attainment to
persons of the most ordinary musical
capacity. A prima donna spends scarcely
more time practicing her scales than an
am bitious actress devotes TO the cultiva-
ton OF ringing, bell-like information to
her sentences for public speakers and
people of the theatrical profession under
stand the value of vibrant tones-of the
thrilling, solemn, proud, pathetic voice, "
whose echoes linger long in the memory
of the enthralled listener.
Among well-bred people low voices are
the rule-low, but not always musical, q
tendency to falsetto marking any effort
beyond ordinary conversation, which is
simply an evidence of the lack of proper
training, or of a failure to practice those
primary principles of elocution that are G
part of the briefest common-schooI educa-
ton.
Lessons under teacher are not an abso-
lutte necessity to the woman who would
secure the grace of clear, sweet accents.
Deep breathing and chest expansion are
the first steps toward the desired end, and
systematic course of throat strengthen
ing, combined with enough discernment
to decide between nasal twang and pure
tone, is about all that is needed to achieve
a fair degree of success.
An excellent method of strengthening
the throat is gargling with cold salt water
in the morning, bathing it at the same
time, first with very hot and then with
very cold water. 1t thus gets slight
shock and Is braced up and permanently
benefited
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-26

never known to buy silver in any form.
Weeks and months were spent each year
in searching for these secret treasures.
Occasionally the enthusiasm would mount
to the height of sending far off somewhere
to fetch back the ''old hunters" 81
More than once sucn one has been per-
suaded that there was more richness in
his bullets than he had supposed; and re-
GREETING vainly the many pounds OF good
sllver-lead that he had shot away at deer,
coons, geese and other game, he has been
brought back to his old haunts. Thin,
with many keen eye tracking his goings
with his pefsuading friend, weeks would
he spent in bush-beating, cIff-clim bling
and laborious search along rocky shores,
about cavernous hills in fens, boys and
dismal dens in the deep woods. but only
to the utter disappointment of all their
fond anticipations. The "old hunter"
1nds that time has obHterat his way
marks; bush and tree and rock and rilI
lack the familiar aspect, and he whose
confused recollections formed the basis of
vast schemes of gain returns to his distant
home dispirited and dishonored
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-26
HOW THE AMERICANS TEACH
PATRIOTISM.
London Truth.

"An old-fashioned Patriot" writes to say
that the attention of pers who love their
country has lately been called by articles in
American magazines to the systematic man
ner in which the sentiment of patriotism is
developed in their higher schools for girls.
The pupils are regularly drilled to perform an
exercise of "salutfng the hag'' in military
style. They are madefamiliar with the past
of their country, and in It's very short history
everything that is glorious or can be subject
OF National pride is brought before them till
an enthusiasm for the "Star-spangled Banner"
CLOVIS in every young heart We copy America
in many things; would that we might copy
her in educating the young to know the gloIies
OF their country's past ana 10 reverence It's
They do not know the meaning of the Union
Jack. To them one flag is as good as another
anything that has bright color-and when a
town is draped for some festiyity any flags are
made use of; the greater number always have
the French tricolor. II had ratner," this
patriot says, "see the American stars and
stripes. They are our brothers in blood"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-26
LEGISLATIVE WORK.

The near approach of the time for the
assembling of the Legislature has given
opportunity for utterance to all who have
axes to grind, fads to promote, schemes to
advance or reforms to advocate. Enough
OF these have already given voice to their
desires to make it evident that this Legis-
Iature will not differ from former ones in
the multitude of bills it will be asked 10
consider and the multitude of jobs it will
have to investigate and avoid.
1t Is to be hoped that no considerable
number of legislators will be inclined to
give encouragement to faddists, jobbers or
theoretical reformers. There is plenty of
really important legislation needed by
the State to give even the most industri-
Gus mem pers of either house all the work
he can rightly attend to during the ses-
sion. 1t is 10 that legislation the MEM
bers should direct their energies, paying
no more attention than courtesy requires
TO that class of people which in default of
better phrase may be termed legislative
nuisances.
Rarely in our history has Legislature
been called upon to deal with so great
number of issues of frst-class Importance
as now await consideration. AS part OF
the business of the session our Legislators
will have to consider the work of tie Code
Commission, amendments to the irrlga-
ton law, tax reform. a revision OF the
election laws and of the law of libel, and
the question whether the Railroad Com
mission shall be given increased powers
or be abolished as useless to the State.
There is also much hard work to be
done in properly adjusting appropriations
for the maintenance of State institutions
and providing for the routine work of the
State administration. 1t will be seen,
therefore, that if the Legislature under
takes to devote much time to side issues
or sets out to reform everything in sight
it will have to neglect matters of practical
importance and pressing urgency.
What is wanted is business session de-
voted to economy where economy is
needed and to the work of wisely amend
ing such laws of the State as experience
has proven to be unjust in their opera
tons or injurious to the welfare of the
people. If the Legislature will give us
that sort of session it will win golden
opinions from all sorts of people. 1t will
become known as the Legislature of q
thousand virtues.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-26
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Milo Potter, the widely known and wealthy
resident of Los Angeles, who has recently
erected an elegant new hotel in that pretty
and thrifty city, is among the recent arrivals
at the Palace.
Mr.. Potter came up on business trip.
His interests are large and it takes great
deal OF his time to look after them.
The gentleman has acquired much OF mis-
property since coming to Los Angeles. He has
had the advantage of the growth of the city,
otherwise called the boom, and has made the
most of it.
1t was thus that his investments became
varied and he has made money out of all OF
them.
Mr.. Potter thinks there is no place like
Los Angeles Like G. j. Griffith, the philan-
thropist, who little over week ago gave a
30O0-acre park to that city, he is entirely
satisfied with the place, considering it in all
respects ideal.
He will only remain here few days, as he is
DESTROYS OF getting back to his interests in the
Southland as soon as possible
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-26
A LOST MINE. 1
Much Time Spent in Seeking for Secret
Treasures.

Much Timo Spent in Seeking for Secret
Treasures.
A usual feature is that particular In
dian sometimes witha companion or two,
used to return from the swesteyery year at
a certain moon, ostensibly forstle purpose
of honoring the graves of his fsthers and
to use again his ancestral right of hunting
the deer and bear among the wild but YER
durous hills, says Lippincott's, yet gossip
ing tarheels. hold that really the visits
were for the purpose of opening again the
concealed mine of lead or silver, whose
spoil the sons of the forest have. been seen
bearing off in their packs.
Another form of the story relates that q
certain ..a.n hunter SaluaySs wont tell" or
lead for his bullets FROM the foot of a
mountain, above a cove on acertain creek;
or an old counterfeiter (now s'in the peni-
tentiaryn or ''hed" into unknown parts)
used to coin quarters and halves of good
silver (stiIl seen in circulation), yet was
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-26
NEWSPAPER PLEASANTLY.
"what is inhumanity 9'

'What is inhumanity p
cit is having q man arrested for stealing q
bar of soap."-Chicago Record.
teeth of pet dogs are now being filed with
gold. How this would add to the value OF a
watch dog |"
CHOW so ?" asked the dyspeptic boarder.
"Why." answered the cheerful idiot, "his
hold would be so strong. Gilt-edged securities,
you know New York Press.
Professor inspecting ths sapartmentsotAhe
bosrding-out students -It4is dzeadiS 81 {
here How do you manage to put up wfEyf q
Student-Ach, Herr Professor; have al ~
think of the examination and begin t0pell
spire,--Exchange.
picture)-So, these are the football-players?
What manly looking fellowsi
Bobby-Dose bent feetball fellers Dey'a
chrysanthemums. Burial Tiz3es
She lat the masquerade you- think
my costume becoming I? tI#e
He with enthusiasm)-Y ft4deSd; but you
would be lovely in any &s4aise,~ Harper q
Bazaar.
Mrs. G. Gas her husband dep parts for q club
meeting)-n you're any later than midnight /
sham tspeak to you
G.-I hope you WON'T dear.-London Figaro.
Freshleigh metan old colored man the other
day crossing the campus, and the following
conversation ensued:
Freshlegh-Hello, Saml The trees are get
ting nearly as black as you are, hey
Big Sam-Yes, sab, an next spring, sab, deyll
DE nearly as green as you. sah.-Princeton
Tiger, fB
-
Judge-Now, sir, what grounds have you to
base your claims for divorce upon2
Plaintif-Your Honor, my wife snores SO
hard that she wakes theibaby, and then she in
sists upon me getting mp and walking the floor
with him.
/ Judge-Application granted. Nexti-Cleve-
land Leader.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-26

ally in Senator Pettigrew, whose speech
in the debate gave promise that he will be
one of the foremost. and most earnest
champions of the people when the great
contest comes to the closing struggle.
The debate was precipitated by resolu-
ton introduced by Senator Pettigrew
directing the Secretary of the Treasury to
pay the interest on the 6 per cent trust
notes of the Union Pacific Railway and
take possession of the bonds and stocks
held as collateral for them. The object OF
the resolution, as Pettigrew explained 1t,
is TO protect the interests OF the Govern
ment as a business measure. The Sena-
tor asserted that the receivers OF the Union
Pacific Company do not intend TO pay the
interest on these trust notes, so as to COM
plicate the problem and if possible compel
the Government to adopt some form OF re-
funding the debt which would be advan-
tageous to the defaulting roads.
While the debate on the resolution led
to no result further than its reference to
the appropriate committee. it was to a
certain extent beneficial, inasmuch as it
drew the fire of some OF the advocates of
the monopoly in the Senate, and led them
W oAo" tAO taCeioS WHloh WIZ c0 AeSoA'SA
to to bring about the passage OF a funding
bill. To that extent the debate was gain
for the people. 1t opened the fight
auspiciously and showed that the oppo-
nents of the monopoly do not intend to
stand altogether on the defensive. They
are aggressive lighters, ready to take the
offensive as soon as an opportunity offers.
The course of the battle therefore prom
ises victory for the Government and the
people. and at any rate it is certain that
the prearranged plan of rushing the fund
ing bill through Congress is doomed to
failure.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-26

ond wife the daughter of one of his most pow
erful vassals AS every one in Morocco must
contribute wedding present the people are
much discontinued.
PhilliL Hines, LOG years old, and his. wife
Rebekah, SO years old, of Delaware, Ohio, cell
brated the seventy eighth anniversary of their
wedding recently. They are both in fairly
good health, though somewhat fee BILE.
It is figured out that Richard Croker's ex-
periences on the turf have already cost him in
the neia hborhood of 100000. His English
experiment is set down as costing him $780,
600. All this was the result of the advice of a
physician to try outdoor life as a relief from
insomnia and other ills that were annoying
him.
The Kaiser's cousin, the Crown Prince of
Sweden and Norway, has every one of his teeth
barred. That Is to say, a bar of bone runs
through the roots of every one of his molars,
and it has to be crushed before tooth can be
removed. He is a martyr to toothache, and
spends considerable of his existence with a
handkerchief tied round his head to relieve
the pain.
The Washington Post says: Rutherford
Platt Hayes, youngest SON of the late Pres1-
dent Hayes, who was in the city during the
last week, is even less of politician than was
his father, and his testimony before the joint
committee on library, for which purpose he
came to Washing ton, shows that his tastes are
for literary rather than for public life"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-26
BRAVERY.

know man who graudly faced
The storm Of shot and shell
That on the slopes of Gettysburg
In binding fury fell;
Who was among the first to brave
The foe at Gaines Mill
And who still has bullet that
He got at Malvern Hill.
At Fredericksburg he grasped the nag
And rushed IL to the front,
And IN the Wilderness he helped
To bear the battles brunt.
Among the first to lake up arms
He fought until the day
When Lee succumbed and righteousness
Held undlsputed sway.
And do you say that he Is bravef
And do you praise his worth?
And would you list this man among
I he heroes of the earthl
All! be 1t known that he who fought
The gallants of the South
Now meekly hears his wife Ego on"
Nor dares TO ope his mouth
CLEVELAND Leader.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-26

which avoids piecing at the bottom and cuts
to better advantage. The ease with which
these gowns may be laundered recommends
them to many.
Lounging or bath robes are cut after the
same model, being liked as they are less bulky
than those with pleats or gathers at the top.
White lawn is used, and with collar of thu
same, trimmed on the edge with an insertio
OF Valenciennes lace, and beyond this rufie
OF the plain lawn or of embroidery is very
dainty. A collar with embroidery set on with
braiding, through which delicate colored rib
bons are drawn, Is also pretty.
These gowns may be made quite elaborate
by tueking the goods down the back and
'front.' and also tucking the sleeves.
Heavy nightgowns of fiannelette OF heavy
muslin cannot be better made than in this
style. The collar may be OF china silk for
fianneette gown, to give a dainty touch, for
the silk wears quite as well as the fannelette.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
New York Press.

New York Press.
man is ever beaten until he admits 1t;
woman is not beaten even then
A married man likes to have dog around,
because it always looks as if it were sorry for
him.
When man is said to be "attentive'' to a
young woman it means that they aren't mar
ried yet.
When some women get to heaven they will
pick out extra big wings SO they can fly away
from the men angels.
When a man takes his sister out he always
acts as though he wanted everybody to know
she wasn't his best girl.
1t is beautiful and poetical to refer to cat
erpillar an unfinished butterfly" but it is
mean and cynical to call butterfly an over.
done caterpillar.
The man who sneers at woman for not CIV
ing up her fare on 8 streetcar IS the same one
who borrows his neigh boris pass when he has
to go to Chicago