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pERS0NAL.

Rev. Thomas Sherman, s. j., son of the late
Gen. w. I. Sherman, has been devoting him.
self 30 laboriously to his missionary work as to
break down his health. For some weeks he
has been in Mercy Hospital, st. Louis, and has
now received leave of absence from the Jesuit
Superior General until September. in the hope
that his shattered health may be restored.
There are but three members of Gen. Grants
personal staff alive Gen. Cyrus Comstock.
u. s. a.. retired; Gen. Horace Porter, recently
appointed ambassador to France, and Col.
Amos Webster. of Washington. d. @. Col.
Webster enlisted in 1861 in the 1st Mass, and
became Corporal. He then became Captain
and A. @. NJ, was attached to Gen. Grants staff
and served with him until he was elected
President. He was brevetted to Colonel for
faithful and meritorious service, transferred
to the Regular SERVICE and resigned in 1869 to
become Register of Wills for the District of
Columbia. He was afterward Chief Clerk of
the Treasury. He was invited to be present at
the ceremonies at Grants Tomb, but ill-health
compelled him to decline.
happy choice has been made in the election
of Mrs. Louise Barnum Robbins, of Adrian
Mich, by the National Council of Women of the
United States, as delegate to the meeting Of
the Executive Committee Of the international
Council Of Women, which convenos next July
in London, for the purpose of arranging for the
next Quinauennial Meeting, to be held in Lon
don in 1893. The Countess of Aberdeen is the
Presidents of the International Council. Mrs.
Robbins is the Corresponding Secretary of the
National Council ofthe United States.
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ment of the Mississippi River, which he
thinks would be effective. It is that the
Government offer a very large sum
$50,0O0-for the best plan, and $4,000
for the second best, and invite the civil
engineers of the world to compete.
This would bring us the best experience
in the world in the management Of
great rivers, and also the plans SUBJ
mitted would be free from bias in favor
of local interests The main objection
to this plan is that nowhere in a
civilized country have they any river
comparable with the Mississippi, so that
any experience that has been gained has
been with infinitely smaller and more
streams
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any want of veracity and good character
OF those persons who have given EVIL
dence which in a court of law would
establish the facts beyond any question.
Pension claimants are not beggars.
They seek only what has been promised
and is offered them by the pension laws
In return for the service they, or loved
ones who are gone, rendered our COM
mon country. Is it unreasonable for
them to expect fl treatment in seeking
what is held out to them by laws of the
land? We believe that you will not
disappoint them; not that you will grant
without question all claims presented of
whatsoever description, but that the
honest claims substantiated by evidence
of character which would satisfy-any
judge or jury, shall receive the consider
alton and adjudication to which their
actual intrinsic merits entitle them.
1t is our purpose to publish from time
to time fer the information of the thou
sands of veterans of the late war, and
veterans heirs, whom we number among
our readers, such new orders and rulings
as may issue, believing that they will be
Of such character and tenor as to COM
mend them to those who desire not
charity but justice. Congratulating
you on the steps you have already insti-
tuted to secure the rights of all deserving
comrades, their widows, orphans, and
We are, very respectfully
and fraternally,
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
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Turk on tho other. The Turks seem to have
proclaimed Holy War" So far tho results
have beon against the Greeks. but the tide will
probably turn when the Turks attempt a
counter-invasion of Greece, and encounter the
strong Businesses in the Othrys Mountains.
The latest from the seat of war is that after
desperate battle at Matt, the Greeks. being
outnumbered. retreated, with heavy losses,
abandoned Tyrnavos and Larissa, and removed
their Headquarters to Pharsalia, 90 miles south
of Larissa. Tho Greek government has de-
cided that II its troops defeated ut Pharsals,
they shall retire to Thermopyle for . final
stand.
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"ALF" WILSON'S ADVENTURES.
The Announcement of the Story ARGUS
ing General Interest.

The announcement that The Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE would begin the pub
LEGATION, in its issue Of May 13, of the
account of the adventures of John A.
Wilson from the time that he and his
comrades set out on their daring attempt
to capture rebel locomotive until he
finally regained our lines has awakened
general expectation throughout the
country. This is one of the very greatest
stories of the war. In boldness of con-
ception, daring in execution, and thrill
ing incident it has no superior in the
history of any country. 1t is something
to stir the blood of veterans and fascinate
the interest of youths. The Wauseon
co. Republican says:
The NATIONAL TRIBUNE announces that
on 18th of May will be commenced the adj
ventures of 1Alf" Wilson, one of the
celebrated Mitchell Raiders. That band of
% heroes, Union soldiers, captured and ran
off locomotive from the midst of a numer-
GUS camp of Confederate soldiers. 1t was
one Of the most daring and thrilling raids
in history. Mr.. Wilson formerly lived in
Wood County, and is we'll known to many
soldiers in this section as modest. genial
gentleman and a soldier of unfinching
courage.
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The men who campaigned in West
Virginia, and with Sherman from Chat
tanooga to Atlanta will appreciate the
character of the war in northern Greece,
except that the Greek mountains are
considerably higher than those in West
Virginia and Georgia, and they have
not even SO good roads as the wretched
highways our men found. The best
roads in Greece are little more than
mule-paths, and any manuvers with
wheels are exceedingly difficult.
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No man living can state a great truth
more aptly than ex-President Harrison.
He said recently:
There are two views of the pension ques-
tion-one from the Little Round Top at
Gettysburg, looking out over field sown
| thickly with the dead, and around upon
| bloody, blackened and manned men cheering
the shot-torn banner of their country; the
from an endowed chair in university look
ing only upon statistical table"
How wonderfully true this is !! It is
what The NATIONAL TRIBUNE has
been laboring fox years to impress upon
people. The American people are not
ungrateful They are not unjust They
are not unappreciative. But they are
an exceedingly busy people, and every.
day brings its quota of pressing questions
and interests to occupy their thoughts
They simply forget the terrible cost of
the war to the men who put their lives
into the great work of the Nations sal
walton. They need to be called upon to
haltand thoughtfully remember that the
flower of the Nations young manhood
voluntarily went down into the Valley
of the Shadow of Death from 1861 to
1865, and staid there four long, bitter
years, in order to make possible all the
greatness and prosperity that the coun-
try now enjoys.
These men were actuated by the high
est patriotism and courage. Nothing
less would have carried them so un-
hinchingly through that terrible ordeal.
Nothing less would have taken them
from one bloody battle directly into an
other, leaving a trail of dead and
wounded comrades to mark their line
of march, until their death-roll equaled
the entire number of the largest army
that Napoleon ever put in the field.
1t was because they felt they were
fighting not for themselves or for any
selfish purpose, but to preserve the coun-
try and its glorious institutions for
others, and for countless generations yet
to come, that they stood defying death
to do bis worst, when the thunders and
whirlwinds of hell seemed to rage
around them.
When an American remembers these
things-when he recalls that of every
five men who put on the Union blue,
one at least was dead before they took
it off; that $4,000 of these men were
actually shot dead on the battlefield,
that 100000 were wounded in action,
that 100000 died of disease, and II 900
were starved to death in rebel prisons
and that 285,000 were SO disabled that
they had to be discharged as incapable
of further service-when, we repeat, all
these things are remembered, the amaze
ment is that the pension expenditure is
as small as it is. The wonder of the
man who considers these things is that
We are paying out so little to those who
endured all this and achieved all they
did. The man who complains of the
size of the pension roll is the one who
deliberately closes his eyes to the real
facts of the war, and will not believe
in the sublime patriotism of our men,
nor the exalted courage they showed in
battling to the death for the benefit of
the whole country, and all those who
should come after them.
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History repeats ITSELF Pharsalia,
to which the Greeks have retreated
and established their headquarters, is
the ancient battlefield where Cesar and
Pompey fought out their contest for the
control of the world, 48 years before
Christ. Cesar triumphed and became
the foremost man in the world, while
Pompey fled, to be assassinated. The
modern name of the town is Fersala.
It is 40 miles north of the celebrated
pass of Thermopylse, where Leonidas
persisted. with his 800 Spartans, in de-
Tending Greece against the Persian in
yaders
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REPRESENTATIVE SAVERS, of Texas
who has had considerable experience
with Government works. suggests .
method for deciding upon an improve
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TRIBuNETs.

1id-Bits: She-I think you had better send
up another at-trap. John.
He-But bought one only the other day.
She-I know; but there is rat in that one.
Iid-Bits: Little Man (golf enthusiastically
don't you play golf7
Big Man tbtase)-Why? Because object to
chasing quinine pill around a cow-pasture.
Chicago Record: How do you treat stupid
man who admires you?
Really, don't know. When a man admres
me l never do myself the injustice to consider
him stupid.
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OUT IN NEVADA.


Gilsonite Davs-What'd you come back to
mining for, Jaybird? We read in the New
York papers that you'd made big strike as
mind-reader, and was working the racket like
sluice-wheel With $50 foot head.
Jaybird Charley (wearily)-So ] did so I
did. But at last l struck the Four Hundred.
Hunting an idea through their minds was
worse than working ores that run 81 to the
County. got nervous prostration. and had
10 quit.
It never rains but it pours. The Raines
Law poured 100000 into the New York
revenues last year, "took the saloon out of
politics." and did so many other good things
that even its strongest opponents had to praise
it. Now it has been further amended, and it
is expected that it will bring in s13. 0O0.0 900
this year.
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ENTERED AT WASHINGTON posroFfoT As ssooao-css
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TWO VIEWS OF PENSIONS.

TWO VIEWS OF PENSIONS.
No man living can state great truth
more aptly than ex-President Harrison.
He said recently:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16
HONESDALE,

A delegation of Odd Fellows of Free
dom lodge will visit OldenVille lodge
Saturday evening and eXemplfy the de-
gree work.
On Sunday Evangelist Shellhorne will
assist Rev. c. A. Benjamin in revival
work at the Methodist church.
The students of Honesdale high
school have organized debating So
ciety with the following officers: John
jenkins, president; Judson Yerkes, vice
president; William Heft, secretary;
Gail Jenkins, treasurer.
Moses Roberts, of LeonardsVllle, IL
years of age, was committed to the
county Jail on complaint of Harvey
Miller, of the above place, for assault
upon his 13-year-old daughter. Young
Roberts confessed his guilt
Charles H. Guckenberger, aged &c
years, died of pneumonia at his home
| here on Tuesday. He was member
| of the fire company, Heptasophs, Lied
| erkranz and Maennerchor. The fu.
| neral was largely attended Friday al
| 2 p. m.
1t is DR.. s. A. Kelley, of Honesdale
| that is under 81, 500 bail for his appear
ance at court to answer the charge OF
criminal malpractice which caused the
death of Mrs. Thomas j. Ham, ant
not the DR.. Kelley who figured in the
Lackawanna courts recently.
Mr.. Fred b. Whitney, who has for the
past three months been at the Dams
| vile, n. Y, sanitarium, returned to his
home Tuesday evening. He is reported
as being in a critical condition.
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vii hold valentine social at the church
parlors on Monday evening, Feb. 10.
AIRS. George Boucher, of Forest city.
Is visiting at the home of her sister,
Mrs John Snooks.
r. l.. Bush, of Montrose, visited at
the home of his nephew, Daniel Danow,
on Walnut street last Thursday.
James Cowans was very pleasantly
surprised at his home on Hickory
street last Wednesday evening by his
Sunday school class and their friends.
Games and music were the features
of the evening. Refreshments were
also served.
Services as usual in the Methodist
Episcopal church tomorrow. Preach
ing by the pastor, Rev. S. c. Simpkins,
at 1890 a. IN. and p. m. Theme for
morning, THE Blessedness of Helping
Christ" evening, THE Worlds Ques-
ton" Sunday school at 2.3O; Epworth
league at D. m. A cordial invitation
to all.
The evangelistic meetings which are
being conducted i'm the Methodist Epis-
copal church are growing in interest
and will be continued every evening
next week.
A young child of Mr.. Elrldge, of Win
ton, died of diphthera and was buried
| in Prospect cemetery yesterday after
| noon, Rev S. c. Simpkins officiating.
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FACTORYVILLE.

Solomon Reynolds is building an ad-
dition to his planning mill, to be used
as an office, etc
Miss Nellie Mack, of Nicholson, has
been spending few days with Mrs. F.
l.. Foster
Milo Travis and family, of West
Nicholson, are arranging to move to
this town in the near future.
Cupid has a wedding on his pro-
gramme to come off next Sunday after
noon at a prominent residence on Main
street. We will tell you more about it
in our next communication.
Even cats are taught to imbibe in
toXicating beverages up at Susquehan-
ma. Is it to be wondered at that we
see so many wild cat" and snake
stories issuing from the pens of some
versatile scribes up in that part of the
woods? Better teach them to drink
"Factoryvlle Mineral Water"
We noticed James Harpe and Spen-
Ger Reed were up from the mouth OF
the creek Wednesday.
DR.. Spencer, of Dallas, Pa, was a
visitor in town Wednesday. The doc
tor had a landlords warrant issued
against Rhodes Bros. for rent some
time ago, and it has grown somewhat
complicated, and the doctor is trying
to straighten matters out.
Our spiritualistic giant must have
lost his nerve, as he has not made
his appearance as yet this week.
The revival services at the Methodist
Episcopal church the past week have
been characterized by earnestness or
the part of the church and the mani.
fest power of God. Souls have sough
the Lord, and many church members
have been greatly. strengthened. Mrs
Carrie Ruffer, of Binghamton, has beer
present three evenings and rendered ef
ticient service The services at tn,
Methodist Episcopal church will con
tinue all of next week and Mrs. Ruffe
will be present. The pastors them,
next Sabbath morning will be, Fol
lowing Christ Afar Off" evenn!
theme, THE Brdgeless Gulf"
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FOREST CITY.

Hattie, aged 27 years, wife of Mr..
Alfred Waters, died at her home on
Thursday morning. The funeral will be
held on Sunday at 1890 p. m. Services
will be held in the Methodist Episcopal
church at Jermyn. Rev. p. b. Ken
nedy, of the Forest City Presbyterian
church, will otficiate, assisted by Rev.
Francis Gendall, pastor of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church at Jermyn. The
remains will be inferred in the Jermyn
cemetery.
Rev. p. B. Kennedy, of the Presby-
terian church, will exchange pulpits
with the Presbyterian minister at Peck
Vile on Sunday morning.
Mr.. A. r. Wheeler of Jackson, is
visiting relatives and friends.
Mr.. w. j. Davis, of Scranton, is
spending a few days with friends here.
The Hillside Coal and Iron company
paid their employees on Thursday. The
employees of the Delaware and Hudson
company were paid on that date also.
Mrs. j. r. Davies visited Scranton
relatives on Thursday.
On Wednesday evening next the
Ladies Aid society of the PRESBYTERIAN
church will hold a supper in the lecture
room. The supper will be 20 cents.
on account of the small amount OF
money in circulation, the January pay
day drunk was somewhat milder than
usual. No serious cases Of drunken
quarrels We're reported.
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MARKETS AND STOCKS
Will Street ReXieAy.

New York, Jan. 15.--The feeling in stock
circles today was more confident than for
some time past, mainly owing to the re-
markable favorite statement of the for
egn commerce of the country for the
month of December and the year 1896 the
steady increase in the treasury gold re-
serve and the superabundance of money,
both here and in London. The market
was strong from the opening to the close
of the session. The upward movement In
Sugar gained additional force from the
announcement of a further advance in
prices of refined. The commission houses
reported more numerous orders for stocks
for outside account, although it Is admit
ted that the business is till to a large eX-
tent professional. The transactions ag-
gregated 215,000 shares and the advance in
prices was equal to 1la2A per cent, the
latter in Wheeling and Lake Erie pre-
ferred, which sold up to IA Sugar the
Changers, Louisville and Nashville, Man
haitian, Tennessee Coal and western
Union and Chicago Gas were conspicuous
both in point of activity and advance. The
market closed strong at the top prices OF
the day. Net changes show advances CT
iaa2 per cent. Manhattan leading.
Furnished by WILLIAM LINN, Al,
LEN & CO., stock brokers, Mears build
nl-.l
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DOOMED TO WEAR
CHAINS FOR LIFE
Horrors OF the Spanish Inquisition Re-
yived in Cuba.
AMERICAN CITIZEN THE VICTIM
Barbarous Sentence Which Can
Only Result in the Prolonged Tor-
ture of the Hapless Being Accused
ofConspiracy-- -Railroaded through
without Privilege of Dcfence-.A
Sample of spanish Justice.

Havana Jan. 15.--Luis Someillan, the
naturalized American citizen who was
arrested on a charge of conspiracy
against the Spanish government, and
who was found guilty by the tribunal
before which he was tried, was ar
raigned yesterday for the purpose OF
being sentenced. The court imposed
upon the unfortunate man the aWlu'
penalty of being imprisoned for lie III
chains. Counsel for the prisoner gave
notice of an appeal to the supreme
court at Madrid against the decision oil
the tribunal which declared Someillan
guilty.
Not, probably, since the dark days OF
the Spanish Inquisition has any SEN
tence approaching in horror that OF the
Havana tribunal in the case of Somell-
Ian been equaled in atrocity by nation
claiming to be civilized. The death
penalty would have been regarded by
the friends of the condemned man as
light in comparison with the parparous
sentence that dooms the victim to the
most awful torture until death shall
interpose to end his sufferings.
The aim is, of course, to kill the prlS-
oner by inches. The chains are so ar
ranged that the condemned man can
only move al lew llltitS III 'iliiSi 80
rection, and the weight of the manacles
is so adjusted that life may be protract-
ed for a long time before it yields to
the awful burden. Nothing more horrl-
BILE as q method of punishment was ever
practiced in the darkest days of the
middle ages.
ONE OF THE COUNTS AGAINST
THE PRISONER.
Among the various conclusions of the
the prisoner, the following was the most
Important:
Whereas, Public rumor, in attributing
to Someillan disaffection to the Spanish
cause, was not misguided, since ms
change of nationality for an unJusuhed
and unexplained reason suggests ra-
tional suspicion that whoever breaks IN
such a way his traditions and history
is actuated by hatred or, or, at least, IN
difference to, his ancient country, and
changes his nationality in order to, while
continuing to enjoy the advantages oi
Spanish legislation and the customs oil
Spanish society, carry in the bottom ol
his soul the ferment of separations, ol
which Someillan is living and persona
example.
The tribunal also discarded all the
evidence favorable to the prisoner, say
ing that there was eX-parte evidence OF
a compot to misguide the tribunal.
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Chicago Grain and Provision Market

Chicago, Jan. 15-The leading futures
77I6c.; May, SOasc., Soc. July, 75a4c., 757sc
Corn-January 223sc.. 22lac. May, 24&c.
245sc.; July, 257sc., 25Ac. Oats-,January
16asc, 16c.; May, 19c, 1890; July, 1885
1890 Mess pork-January, $3.50, $3.50
May, $Sl2ia, $SO2la. Lard-January, A.02la
$397la; May. $4.15, A.I212. Short ribs.
January, $4.2o, $4.O7ia; May; $4.2O, Al2iA
quiet unchanged; No. spring wheat
771aa7S1ac No. do, 73a77c.; No. 2 red
S67saS9c. No. corn 221aa22$ic.; No. 2 oats
lGi2al7c. No. 2 rye, SSc.: No. 2 barley, 300
50 G5: mess pork, $7S212a$7.S S71a; lard, $39ll2s
81; short ribs sides, $3.97l2aA. 221a; shoulder:
425ai.5O; short clear sides, A.l2iaa4.25
whiskey, $l,lS; sugars, cut loaf, $685. gran
ulated, $463; standard A., $4.2G