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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
WESLEY MANUSCRIPTS FOUND.
They Throw New Light on the Begin-
ming of the Methodist Church.

Widespread interest has been arous-
ed recently in religious circles on both
sides of the Atlantic over the discovery
of certain valuable letters and docu-
ments relating to the Wesley family,
the founders of Methodism. These pa
pers throw considerable new light upon
the relations of the Wesleys to each
other and to various eminent men of
their time. Among the manuscripts
thus brought to light are John Wes-
ley's letters and journals from 17SS to
1890, a large number of Charles Wes-
ley's letters and journals, other letters
by Charles Wesley between 1747 and
1895, written during his courtship, and
relating to marriage settlements, his
marriage, congratulations, etc.
There are also the Gwynne letters of
the same period, one or two original
manuscript sermons by Charles Wes-
lev one Of them preached before the
University of oxford, April 4, 1742, on
the text, Awake, thou that sleepest,"
and the other preached by him in
Georgia, March IA, 1886, the text being,
1.-The light Of the body is the eye"
There are also six copies of poems by
Charles Wesley, some national and
script psalms by him, and a copy of a
manuscript hymn composed by him
and sung by the society at Bristol on
December 5, 177S. Then, too, there
are the articles of agreement between
Rev. John Wesley and Mrs. Vazeille,
who afterward became his wife, several
portions of his journal, a number os
letters by him to Rev. Adam Clarke,
one letter from John Wesley to Will
liam Pitt, the prime minister five let
ters by Whitefeld, thirteen by Lady
Huntingdon, several from William Will
| berforce to Mrs. Charles Wesley, and
many others by various persons. In
addition to these there is the original
parchment certificate of Charles WeS-
leys ordination as deacon and preach
er bearing the signatures of the Bishop
! of oxford and of London. The last
document calls attention to the fac
that the Wesleys were regular mem
bers of the Established Church in Eng
land.
1t may also be said, in this connec
ton, that the Wesleys had no ides
hen they started their movement o
setting up a separate denomination
Their original and primary object wa
revival of spirituality within tn,
Church of England. 1t was only whel
they were compelled to another coyrs
by the inevitable trend of events tina
the organization was formed which hai
since been known as the Methods
| Episcopal church.
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water in your sleeping room every day
If YOU managed properly" the house,
holder replied, with a knowing smile.
mo Londoner leaves his room in the
morning without emptying his water
jug; then the maid fills it up afresh
if you leave it half full she will simply
fill it up and leave you some Of the old
stock. Good, fresh water from the
pipes is far more wholesome than ice
water Nothing is more hurtful than
ice water"
Yes, / know" the American inter-
rupted. 81 have absorbed a good many
of your curious London notions. Ice
water is very hurtful, so you drink nice
stale tepid water, which is more whole
some. And you are all very careful of
your livers. i never saw such a livery
| country in my life. Every Englishman
| either thinks his liver is out of order
| or takes great precautions to keep it
| straight. A man can't have toothache
| here or rheumatism or a sprained ankle
| but YOU tell him his liver is out of
gear, and advise him to take pills.
| Thank goodness we don't have to
| bother about our livers in America
| they take care of themselves. Is it your
extremely bad cooking here or the ad-
liberated beer you drink that makes
you all so livery?"
"Give it to us!" the householder
| laughed. II like to hear you tell us
such wholesome truths. We are not a
bad sort of people in most ways, if you
| don't rub the fur Backward but nobody
can deny that our cooking is eXecrable
and our beer bad. And we run very
much to liver. Stll, it was our house.
keeping i was telling you about. On
account of the absence of ice, as l have
explained, we buy our perishable pro-
| visions day by day. Now as to the
manner of buying them. Have you
seen any one going to market since you
have been hereto a real market,
mean. such as YOU have in New York
and other American cities?"
How could any one go?" the Ameri-
can asked, when there are no mar
kets here to go to?"
| Precisely" said the householder.
This is the only large city in the world,
/ suppose, without retail markets. We
have them in the provincial towns, but
not in London. OF course we have
plenty of markets here, and some very
celebrated ones, but they are all whole
sale places, and housekeepers do not
go TO them. The only one they ever go
to is Covent Garden Market, for fruits,
flowers, or vegetables, and they lose
time and money when they go there
for Covent Garden prices are higher
than prices in the shops. You see the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
THE CLIMATE.

Precisely" the householder admit
ted; ''and it is just the absence of
those great variations of temperature
that makes housekeeping in London
harder than 1t is in most large cities.
You know in New York that your win
ter weather will be very severe, so
you prepare for it by putting furnaces
or steam pipes in your houses. You
know that the summer will be very
hot, and you are ready for that with
your big refrigerators full of tremend-
Gus cakes of ice. Here we have no
such extremes; in winter small CRATE
fire warns us: in summer we are not
driven to cooling ourselves with ice.
Our temperature is too much of a
dead level. We have our lazy spots,
like all other people, as we'll as our
economical spots; and the equable tenn
perature leads us into the hand-to-
mouth way of living, which is the
easiest and cheapest way at the mo-
ment, but the hardest and most ex-
pensive In the long run"
Hand to mouth?" the visitor in
quired: ,"you mean buying provisions
in small quantities?"
"I mean buying on Monday morn
ing just what perishable food will be
needed on that day." the householder
answered, land no more. And the same
on Tuesday and Wednesday and every
day in the week except Sunday That
is what we call the hand-to- mouth
method, and most middle class house
holds follow it. When the last meal OF
the day is over and you come in hun
cry, you may find some biscuits and
cheese in the sideboard, but you will
find little else. Mondays supply is
eaten on Monday, Tuesdays on Tues
| day, and so on. There is no such thing
as laying in a weeks or a months
supply, as you do in America, And
1t is plain enough why this is SO with
| us. 1t is because we do not use ice
| to keep our perishable provisions; and
we do not use ice because we are not
compelled to. You don't see much ice
| in London, do you?
"Ice!" the American exclaimed
"Why, / have almost forgotten what
It looks like. ] have been drinking
tepid water ever since 1 landed here
and not only tepid water, but stale
water Your water arrangements II
London are the worst 1 ever saw
When a water jug is half empty th'
servant fills 1t up again, so in Decem
ber you still have the foundation O
last January's water in the Jug"
NO ICE WATER.
"You would have fresh drinking
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each, till between our late London
breakfast and the London lunch time
she has not a minute left. The shops
deliver everything; she is not expected
to carry home even as much as a box
of pepper, and that leads generally to
fresh complications.
KEEPS OUT OF THE WAY.
"How so? I can show you in a mo-
ment. You know the lady of the house
in London is not expected to have any
thing to do with the kitchen. If she
We're to go down, and make some
dainty little dish, as an American lady
often does, the cook would be desper-
ately offended, and would very likely
give notice. After doing her market
ing the lady goes and gives the cook a
list of things for dinner, written either
on a slate or on paper and that is
her sole visit to the kitchen. But an
hour before dinner the cook comes up
in alarm to say that this thing hasn't
arrived, that thing is missing, and the
other is damaged. Then the maid
must hurry out to the shops and stir
them up, and we may get the things in
time or we may not. 1t is one of the
disadvantages Of living from hand to
mouth.
Sometimes the man of the house is
called upon to do the marketing.
have had my share of such work, and
since my American experiences I find
it irritating, particularly at the green
grocers' shops. After seeing your Won
derful plenty of all such things, and
the way you buy them almost by
wholesale even for a small family, it
is not pleasant to go into a shop and
buy five pounds of white potatoes, two
pounds of fresh tomatoes, a pound of
Strawberries. a pound or two of onions,
pound of cherries-but that is the
way we have TO do 1t. Nearly all vege-
tables are retailed here by the pound,
and eggs are sold at SO many for a
shilling.
"You know, suppose, that we have
three kinds of eggs here-eggs, fresh
eggs, and new-laid eggs. Eggs, simply
eggs, come from all over the world
! from America, France, Spain, the
| Channel Islands, Portugal, Switzer-
| land, even Norway and Sweden. You
| pay your money and take your chance
| Fresh eggs are one degree better. They
are supposed to be a British product
| but the supposition is not always cor
rect. New-laid eggs are by far the
best, and decidedly the most expen'
sive, as we get only from six to eight
| OF them for a shilling. They come
fresh from farms near London, and car
] generally be depended upon. of the
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London Letter in the Sun.

do not imagine" said the London
householder, that the troubles of the
head of family in this town are over
when he has signed the lease of house
and moved in and arranged for the
prompt payment of the rent. Those
things are merely preliminary to the
trial of housekeeping. / suppose you
don't know anything about housekeep-
ing in London?"
1T is much the same as housekeep-
ing ir any other large city, / fancy"
the jubilee visitor replied. He had been
over long enough from America to have
a number of English expressions at his
tongues end, and II fancy" was one of
them. Civilized people in the same
pphere in life live much alike all over
the world. don't they?"
Really" said the householder. That
word is a great, soft cushion for an
Englishman to fall back upon in time
of need. 1t is more serviceable in the
long run than Just fawncy!" being
capable of expressing more meanings
and emotions. If he wishes to be sar-
castle, enthusiastic, to express doubt
surprise, contempt, admiration, or al
most any other feeling, Really" is
what he falls back upon in nine cases
out of ten.
Really" said the householder, Civ.
ing the word the infection that means
sarcasm. you think so. do you?
believe that is quite a common notion
Indeed, used to incline slightly toward
that belief myself But it is all a fall,
acy. People must and do live accord,
ing to their circumstances, wherever
they are"
But look at"
Wait a moment" the households
interrupted. II know what you wer,
going to say and l will admit the trutl
of II at once and save you the trouble
of saying 1t. 1t was the people of grea
wealth whom. you had in mind-the no
bility and aristocracy, as we call them
the millionaires and swells, as you cal
them in America, People with none,
TO burn; that is your expressive Ney
York phrase for II, ! believe"
''Yes. was thinking principally o
the very wealthy people," the jubile
visitor admitted. ,...
Granted, then, as to them" tn
householder laughed. They live yer
much Alike all over the world, becaus
their OPPORTUNITIES are so limited, poo
fellows OF course they do not bottle
tbemselyss with the petty cares @
housekeeping, and they would be grea
fools II. they did; but when 1t comes I
sJnusing themselves they have to fol
s"yx ths'lead like q flock OF sheep. Yo
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Then and Now.

From the Cleveland Leader.
Tourist-Ah, what ancient pile is that
on the cliff?
Native-That is Count Won Broke's
castle, which was renovated with the
very modest pile of Miss Dow, of Chi
cago.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
SCENIC BEAUTIES.

The visitor at Honolulu finds many
places of interest outside of the city.
There is the lao Valley. called the Yose-
mite of Hawaii, where stupendous cliffs
of basalt rear themselves 1900 feet
high, and about their feet rush foaming
rivers. Then there are the wonderful
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24

shopkeepers buy from the market, and,
as they are regular customers, the
marketmen cannot afford to hurt the
shops trade by underselling them.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
LIFE IN DREAMY HAWAII.
Cosmopolitan Character and Easy Morals of the
Population of the Sandwich Islands.
Honolulu Letter, Globe-Democrat.

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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
STATUS OF
THE NEGRO.
Education Of Twenty-Five Years
Beginning to Have Its Effect
From the Arena.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1897-09-30
GEORGIA-COBB COUNTY.

N. NJ. Mayes, J. B. Phillips and others
have made application for a change OF the
track OF the Cumming road in East Grit
ter road district, as follows: Commencing
at the foot of the Burton hill on the lands
OF James Burton, and running in south
westerly direction around aud on the
south side of said hill to- or near, an oak
sapling, thereby avoiding said hill, then
running in a westerly direction to the
corner of the woods and then along the
south side of the woods through the lands
of n. M. Mayes, and intersecting the origi>
nal Cumming road where the Trickun
road turns off and at the P. Morris place,
which has been marked out by the Com>
missioners and report thereof made on
oath by them. All persons are notified
that said application for said change of
road will be heard at my Office on the 9th
day of October next, and if no legal
cause be shown to the contrary an order
for the same will be granted. This 7th
day of September 1897.
J. NJ. STONE, Ordinary.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1897-09-30
Van Buren's Cheese.

The proper degree of formality
observed at the White House, so far
as the officials are concerned, is
sometimes in contrast with the pro-
cedure in earlier days. In recently
published recollections of long
life, the author describes a scene he
witnessed at the White House in
President Van Buren's time. In
honor of the inauguration a cheese
had been sent to the new chief mag.
istrate. 1t was 1.-THE size of a large
round table" Pieces of it, together
with crackers, were handed round
to persons assembled. The whole
house and almost the whole city were
1edolent of cheese, fragments of il
lying everywhere on the streets. "
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1897-09-30
GEORGIA-COBB COUNTY.

j. L. Dunn and others have made
application for new public road
commencing at point on the Cum>
ming road between Thomas Johnson's
and T. W. Garrison's and running the
land line, south between said Johnson
and Garrison. thence south on the line
between lands w. M. Dobbs estate and
Betsy Dunn to the corner OF Martha
Baldwin s land northwest corner) then
southwest to W. o. Boatner's house, as is
now staked out-thence to the Marietta
Camp Ground road, which has been
marked out by the commissioners and a
report thereof made ON oath by them.
All persons are notified that said applica-
ton for said new road will be heard at
my office on the 23rd day of October next,
and If no legal cause be shown to the
contrary, an order for the same will be
granted. This 21st day of September,
1897. j. NJ STONE. Ordinary.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1897-09-30
PHOTOGRAPHS THAT LIE.
Tricks by Which Things Are Made to
Seem Better Than They Are.

Tricks by which Things Are Made to
Seem Better Than They Are.
The old saying that photographs
do not lie must go to join the grow
ing host Of exploded notions. It
may have been true when photog-
raphy was new and undeveloped,
but the fact remains that at the
present time photographs may be
and are made to lie with great fire.
quency and facility. The methods
by which this result is accomplished
are more various and extensive than
most persons suspect Retouching
in its simplest form, such as smooth
ing out deficiencies in the complex
ion. IS well known to everybody,
but it is not so generally understood
that even the shape of the features
may be altered by skillful work
with the negative. Lines of figure
are also frequently changed, The
writer has seen and compared the
original proof and the finished pic
ture of a well known actress, ia
nous for her beauty. In the proof
hollows appear in the neck, and the
lines of the shoulders, though grace
full, leave something still to be de-
sired in the way of perfect round
ness and symmetry The finished
photograph shows a transformation
The hollows are gone, and the irreg-
ularities of the shoulder lines have
become curves of perfect beauty.
1t is lie doubtless, but a pleasing
and satisfactory one.
So much for the results of retouch-
ing. But there are tricks of posing
which pervert the truth just as COM
pletely. By throwing an object or
part of an object SO far into the
foreground or background that it is
out of focus it may be made to ap-
pear of a size wholly different from
its real proportions. The most ia
miliar instance of this trick is seen
in the pictures of wonderful catch
es of fish. The honest fisherman
holds the string out at arms length
IN front of his body, so that, COM
pared with himself, his trophies ap-
pear huge. A one pound trout passes
itself off gayly as a five FOUNDER,
and other varieties gain in apparent
size in the same satisfactory ratio.
When professional athletes,
strong men" or prizefghters come
before the camera the same focus
ing device is employed. Hercules
throws out his arms, folded, well in
front of his chest, and in the picture
the development OF his biceps is al
most terrifying in its proportions
If he dtsires to give prominence to
the muscles of his shoulders and
upper back, he stands sidewise, so
as to bring them nearest the lens,
and by maneuvering and posing a
little any part of the body which it
is desired to emphasize may be
made to appear well developed. -
New York Tribune.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1897-09-30
GEORGIA, COBB COUNTY.

Geo. D. Cochran, J. G. Lowe and others
have made application for new public
road as follows: commencing at Glen
Morris residence and running west to the
county line near the old Bell farm, and
intersecting with the Salt Springs road ;
road. The said road as contemplated
being in the 1395th District, G.. M, in
said county which has been marked out
by the Commissioners and report thereof
made on oath by them. All persons are
notified that said application for said new
road will be heard at my office on the 25th
day of September next, and if no legal
cause be shown to the contrary, an order
for the same will be granted. This 23d
day of August, 1897.
J. NJ. STONE, Ordinary.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1897-09-30
Can't Control His Memory.

Shoemaker Shaw of Dixon is pos
sessed of phenomenal memory. 1t
is at once phenomenally good and
Ihenomenally bad. In the first
place, when he measures a custom
er's foot for pair of shoes he never
puts down figure of all the numer-
Gus measurements, but he has them
for all time. 1t is never necessary
for him to measure that foot again.
Years after he will recall them on
an order and make a perfect fit.
That is the only thing Mr.. Shaw
can remember A short time ago
he was standing at the depot in
Dixon talking to Il friend. The pas
senger train pulled out for San Fran
cisco, and still he talked away.
Suddenly he exclaimed:
by George, l was going some
where on that train! Where in the
dickens was l going, anyway"
He felt in his pocket and found a
ticket to Suisun.
Nov, what was Igoing to Suisun
for9"
Again Mr.. Shaw searched his
pockets, read all the letters he found
and finally came to a subpoena.
That's it. I was subpenaed as
a witness.
He had to hire a team to get to
Suisun in time. San Francisco Post.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1897-09-30
APPLICATION TO PROBATE,

Martha E. Yale, Propounder, VS. Rob,
ert p. Yale.
Court of Ordinary of Cobb county, No,
vember term, 1897. Application to pro-
bate in solemn form the last will OF D, E.
Yale.
To Robert P. Ysle:-You are hereby
required to appear before the Court of Or.
dinary OF Cobb county, to be held on the
first Monday in November next then and
there to show cause, if any exists why
the paper offered for probate by the peti.
toner, Martha E. Yale as the last will
and testament of d. f, Yale. late of said
county deceased, should not be proven in
solemn form and admitted to record as the
last will and testament of said deceased
Therein fail not. This September 18th,
1897. j. NJ. STONE, Ordinary.
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GEORGIA. COBB COUNTY.

Whereas. J. T. Foster, Administrator
of NJ. NJ Elliott, represents to the Court
in his petition, duly filed an6 enterd on
record, that he has fully administered NJ
NJ Elliott's estate. This is therefore to
cite all parties concerned, kindred and
creditors. to show cause. il any they can,
why said Administrator should not be
d. discharged from his Administration and
receive letters of dismission on the first
Mopday IN November. 1897. August TO-
1897 !. NJ STONE, Ordinary.
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ADMINISTRATORS SALE

State of Georgia, Cobb County.-By virtue OF
an order from the Court OF Ordinary, OF Cobb
county, Ga, will be sold before the Court house
door in said county, within the legal hours OF
sale on the first Tuesday in October next, to wit;
October 5th, 1897, the following property: A GER
tain parcel of land situated in the northeast cor
ner OF land lot No. one hundred and twenty eight
Q2S) in the twentieth (20th) district and sc, on
l2nd) section OF Cobb county, Ga, bounded as
follows: Beginning at point on line of lot OF
Mrs. Sadie j. PyrOn, thrtyfour go feet west OF
certain well, and extending southerly along
the line of land of f, A. Pyron and 6. j. Pyron
distance of two hundred (200) feet. or less,
to certain branch, thence easterly along said
branch and across it distance of two hundred
and lightweight (2SS) feet to the north and south
line of land lot number one hundred and twenty
eight (12S), thence in northeTly direction along
the north and south line of said land lot No. one
hundred and twenty eight (128) distance OF fifty
six (56) feet, less, to the property of Mrs
| Sadie ]. Pyron, thence in a westerly direction
along the line OF property of Mrs. Sadie J. Pyron
| distance of four hundTed and thirty-four (434l
| teet, more or less back to starting point. Said
| land ontaining a certain wheat and corn mill,
cotton giu stock feed MILL all complete and in
/ ments. said property belongs to the estate OF
| James NJ. Pyron, deceased, and is sold for the
purpose OF paying the debts of said deceased
| for distribution among his heirs. Terms of sac
one-third cash. the balance in two equal pays
ments payable in one and two years with eight
per cent interest on deferred payments Bonds
| for title to be given. Purchaser to have the priv
| ilege OF paying all cash, if he prefers to do so
; September 9th, 1897.
Mrs. SADIE J. PYRoN, Administrative
ION the estate OF James N. Pyron deceased.
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NOTICE.

To whom it may concern-Notice is
hereby given that have given permission
to my minor son. Charles Walter DuPre,
to engage in business IS an adult on his
own account, and consens that he re-
ceive the profits and proceeds thereof,
that he make and execute contracts, and
do and perform all other things connected
with said business as fully as he could do
were he OF full lawful age September Z.
1897, MRS, J. A. DUPRE,
Sole surviving parent of said minor,