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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-12

hell that / suffered my life by comparison is
now like heaven.
al cannot say too much in praise of Pink
Pills. You may use all the adulatory Lam
guage of which you are capable" Mrs. Tap
ley said to the reporter, and i will endorse
it. have never tired of recommending tho
pills to my neighbors, and my sister who is q
school teacher, hnd had eerious time with
her nerves and suffered from loss of
memory, at my suggestion is taking DIR.
Williams Pink Pills and is being rapidly
cured.
"Read over what you have written" Mrs.
Tapley requested, and after listening atten-
lively TO what she had dictated said: II
can sign that statement with the greatest
pleasure" and when the last remark was
entered the lady signed her name TO the re-
porter's notes thus:
(Signed) Mrs. Rosa TAPLEY,
72t Harrison Street, Ionia, Mich.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain, in q con-
densed form, all the elements necessary to
give new life and richness 10 the blood and
restore shattered nerves. They are also a
specific for troubles peculiar to females, sucn
as suppressions, Irregularities and all forms
of weakness. They build up the blood, and
restore the glow of health TO pale and sallow
checks. In men they effect u radical cure
in all cases arising from mental worry, over
work or cXcesscs of whatever nature. Pink
Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose bulk
at 80 cents box or six boxes for $3.50 and
may be had of all druggists, or direct by mail
by addressing DR.. Williams Medicine Com.
pany, Schenectady, n. Y.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-12

do. western, lie. Cheese-Flrm. Refined
sugars-Unchenged Cotton-F'irm and
Lice. higher. Tallow-Dull and un-
changed; city prime in hogsheads, 3aSlsc.;
do. do. in barrels, 2Tsa3c. do. dark, 2lac.;
cakes, 3Aa3l2c,; crease, 212c. Live poul-
try-Steady, but quiet; fowls, Sa9lsc.; old
roosters, 6a7c; spring chickens, 1Sa22c.; :;
ducks, geese and turkeys, 7aSc. Dressed
poultry-Firm; fowls choice NAc.; do. fair
to good, Ease broilcrs western desirable
sizes, lsa22c.; DO. large, 1lal7c.; 90. nearby
as to size and quality, 20a2jc. Receipts
Flour, 2,2C) barrels, : 900 sacks; wheat,
$500 bushels corn, 1900 bushels; oats, G,4O0
bushels. Shipments--Whcat2 1000 bushels; I;
corn, 22G00) bushels; oats, Il 600 bushels.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-12
Additional NeighbOring County
News will be found on page o.
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, May 11.-Cattle-Steady; S2,5Oa
275 for ordinary to S3.75ai for good TO
choice exporters. Calf supply heavy, trade
lively at steady prices. Hogs-SS. .5OaS. .97Ia
for coarse heavy to prime light weights
pigs, 81. 2.5Oa3.95. Sheep-Slow at barely
steady prices, s2a2.75 for inferior sheep,
s.. sOa3.s5 for Texans and $3.9Oa4. so for fair
to good fat sheep Lambs, S3a5 80 for poor
est to best spring lambs brought, S6a75O.
Reeeipts-cattle. $500 head; hogs, 1900
head; sheep, 1000 head.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-12
RnfinIG Live Stnck.

East Buffalo, May 11.-Cattle-Receipts
all consigned through and nothing Of con-
sequence doing as usual on Tuesday. Hogs
Dull and slow; workers., good to choice
siaA20; roughs, C mmon to good SO. 25a3.55; {;
pigs, good to choice, Aa4O5. Sheep and
lamhs--E Easy. Lambs-ChOice to prime
$5.G0a5f0; culls to common, $3. 25a4. Shcep
Choice to selected wethers, $i.2jai. co.;
culs and common, 50 25l365.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-12
THE MARKETS.
Wall street Review.

New York, May 11.-Today's market for
stocks continued strong and prices ad-
vanced all around as long as the London
Exchange was IN session to impart its
buoyant influence to the local market.
The total sales of stocks today were 1896
Furnished by WILLIAM LINN, ALI
LEN & CO., stock brokers', Mears build
ing, rooms 705-7O6,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-12

New York, May 1l.-Beevcs-No arrivals
and no trade; European cables quote
American steers at llai2C., dressed weight;
sheep, l0c., 12al3c., dressed weight, and
refrigerator beef, 9a9sic Calves-No ar
rivals and no trade; feeling steady. Sheep
and lambs-Nery Attle business, steady;
fair clipped lambs, S5a5,5O. Hogs-Steady
NJ 81 10n4 30
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-12
HONESDALE.

w. H, Malta, the correspondent Of
the Scranton Truth in Scranton, was in
town on Saturday.
1t is expected that a large delega-
tion from the Christian Endeavor So
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-12
Oil Market.

OH City, Pa, ltay ll.-No bids for cert!-
ficate oil: credit balances unchanged.
Runs 1l3.i7S head; shipments, 1O6,5ll.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-13
The Freedom
OF Choice.

Is what keeps things good. If there's only
one store in place it's pretty sure to be a
poor one. If you have to buy your shoes
OF your brother-in-law you get worse shoes
every year. But suppose you sold clothing
and had none to sell but your own make?
That's the fix of some stores right here in
indianapolis. People wonder why the Prog
ress clothes are SO much more stylish, better
made, better finished, than other clothing.
Where does Progress clothing come from?
They ask, "Who makes them?" Progress
clothes come from score of different makers,
each of whom is the best in his special line.
That's why Progress clothes are best all
through. One grade of suits is as good as
another to illustrate the Progresses leader
ship in good clothes; but the possibilities
are wonderful in the special sale this
week of Mems Suits at So SO. They
were reduced from $1,000. The lot com
prlses all the late novelties in the new swell
colorlngs as we'll as the dressy fabrics. It's
aremarkably grand collection of fine suits
swell goods gotten UP all through in high
class manner. This week, choice,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-13

and dirt cover the ruins of the great Muir
pphy Theater, the Morey Hotel. the St
Cloud, the st. Nicholas, the Patterton and
Hubbs. Only ruined foundation stones.
scattered around in confused heaps. tell
where the famous $4,000 Danforth House
once stood. Traces of the old-time rail-
roads have not been effaced by the far
merS pillow yet.
Some building stand, fairly preserved
even yet but they are fast crumbling to
ruins and vegetation is Remembering what
is still standing. A large poplar tree, for in
stance, grows out of the ruins of what
was thirty years ago and more, the Ma
tional Hotel. This stood on First street. But
who could talk of streets here? Corn in the
shock and hay in the cock in their seasons
and turns in planting have stood where
once throngs of busy men earnestly fought
out lifes battles and strove together fierce
ly for wealth.
The old Presbyterian Church still stands
as another monument to the dead city.
There is a churchyard, too, but it has few
graves, for the city did not live long
enough for many people to die and be
buried there. So Pithole rose in a day, lived
for but few days, and soon ''the place
thereof will know it no more.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-13
A Soft Thing for weather Prophets

-
At only one place on the globe has it been
possible as yet for the meteorological to
make longtime forecasts meriting the
title of predictions. This is in the middle
Gauges valley of northern India. In this
country the climatic conditions are largely
dependent upon the periodical winds called
monsoons. which blow steadily landward
from April to October and seaward from
October 20 April. The summer monsoons
bring the all-essential rains If they are
delayed or restricted in extent there will
be drought and consequent famine And
such restriction of the monsoon is likely
to result when there has been an unusually
deep or very late snowfall on the Hima-
layas, because of the lowering of spring
temperature by the melting snow. Thus
here ii is possible. by observing the snow
fall in the mountains. to predict, with some
measure of success, the average rainfall of
the following summer. The drought of
1856, with the consequent famine and plague
that devastated India last winter was thus
predicted some months in advance
This is the greatest present triumph of
practical meteorology. Nothing like it is
yet possible anywhere in temperate zones
But no one can say what may be possible
in time TO come. when the data now being
gathered all over the world shall at last
be co-ordinated, classified and made the
basis of broad inductions. MeteoroIogy is
pre-eminently science of the future
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-13
THE USEFUL GIRAFFE.
Helpful About the Bill Posting IN
More Ways than One.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
ION the road" said the old circus man.
1--WE always used to pick OUT, OF cou IIe %.
the biggest and smoothest barns 70 post
bills on, paying for the privilege IN uckets
to the show Sometimes people were per
fectly willing to nave 1ae sue FIJI Si nctqIre
such as we put up and, again, there were
people who kicked or who came at US win
Ditchforks and scythes, which amounted 70
the same thing; and SO sometimes; IN az f
ficult country we used to send the glra1e
ahead with the billboard brigade, ana very
useful he proved. too. Many farmer VINO
has thought of getting down ms shotgun
when he saw men with buckets OF paste
and Iong-handled brushes and with pass
of bills over their shoulders approaching
his best barn, has thought twice ABOUT IT
when he saw them followed by an eighteen
foot giraffe and has ended up by stanaillg
by in sheer amazement while the men ana
the giraffe plastered his barn from end 10
end and from roof to cellar.
And it was extremely simple. Man
would go UP a light ladder placed against
the side and paint along with the paste
up at the top under the caves, ana then we
three sheets of the bill, That's all. The
man on the ground would pick EN- out ana
hand EN- to the giraffe; the giraffe would
his mouth and then lift up his head and
straighten out his neck and hand EN- up
to the man on the top of the ladder.
well the farmer used to stand by and
look on and say nothing every time; and
don't know as it's surprising that he should
because II certainty was d mover spectacle,
then, anyhow to see a giraffe helping men
put up bills. And while the farmer was
looking on. the men would work along
rather leisurely until they had got down
to where they could reach with long
handled brush from the ground. Then the
giraffe would step aside; they would put
the ladder out of the way and then the
two men would go at 1t in earnest, together
TO fill that space, and in about two minutes
they'd have it done.
But that wasn't the biggest thing When
the men had slapped on the last sheet of
the poster and had picked up their buck
cts and the ladder and swung their bags
over their shoulder and handed the farmer
over some tickets, the giraffe, as they were
moving away, would halt for minute
and then turn and run his head into the big
window in the side or the gable end OF the
barn and take a bite from the hay NOW
and then follow along with the hay in his
mouth chewing on Ii.
I'VE taught him TO do that; but to this
day--and that was forty years ago-I don't
suppose there's a farmer along that route
still living. but what tells with pride of
how the big giraffe stood on the ground
and ate hay out Of his hay now"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-13

texts. Every quaint and novel expression
that he makes use of is carefully studied.
Senator Turpie has the name of being the
most scholarly man in Congress.
Representatives Bland of Missouri. Brum
of Pennsylvania, Mcmillan of Tennessee,
Marsh of Illinois and Steele of Indiana are
the only members of the lower branch of
Congress now sitting in that body who
voted against the civi-service law in 1888.
About forty men voted with them on that
occasion, and they are the sole House sur
vivors of the goodly company. They are
still uncompromisingly against civil service
as exemplified under the existing law, be-
lieving it to be full of abuses and against
the spirit of our institutions. They believe
that it is building up an official class, and
would like to see the law wiped off the
statute books. $50
What is the secret of Speaker Reeds
power and his hold upon the Republican
House," is a question that is being con-
stantly asked. The answer is not difficult
The Republicans have picked him out as
their leader because they believe him to be
their strongest man, and because they have
absolute faith in his honesty and in his
Republicanism. He resents being called a
is merely the voice to express and the
agent to carry out the will of the majority
Il conscientiously and honestly endeavor
to perform the duties of speaker as 1 be-
lieve those who intrusted me with those
duties desire" he says and if | misinter-
pref their wishes, or the Republican policy
of the House, it is always in the power Of
the men who put me here to effect a
change"
Speaker Reed may confuse the Republican
policy with his own views as to what that
policy is, but no one questions his honesty
of purpose and the sincerity of his inten-
tons. He is lover of his country, and a
sterling Republican. No faint of jobbery
has ever attached to him, and, although he
may lean this way or that way in the con-
struction of his committees for the promo
ton of retardation of certain legislation, it
is always because he believes he is doing
right and not because he has been in
tluenced in any sinister or improper way.
No speaker of the House of Representatives
since the birth of the Republic has ever ex-
erted as much power as Thomas Bracket
Reed. He has a genuine conviction that he
is the voice of his party in the House of
Representatives. and, being self-reliant to
an extraordinary degree, he never hesitates
to stand out alone, and in apparent isola-
ton give that voice full play.
w. G.. NICHOLAS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-13
The Patriotism We Need.
The Outlook.

Inc OUTLOOK.
The patriotism we are teaching is alto
gether too exterior. The flag flies from the
roof or on the grounds of every school
country and TO have an almost passionate
sentiment for it. but in this teaching the
country IS represented to them too gener-
ally as something which NAV be attacked
by enemies from abroad. AS matter of
fact, the peril TO this country from abroad
is practically nothing; the only danger is
from within. and that danger has its OPP
portunity in the fact that SO many Ameri-
cans delegate their political duties to other
men, The ring, the boss, the special legisla-
ton for special interests, ali have their
origin in the failure of a great body of
American citizens TO take an active part
in the political life of the country The
American vice, as Mr.. Kidd nut II is lack
Of civic self-sacrifice. We want a million
men to devote themselves day and night TO
the publication Of our local and our ma
tional politics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-13

texts Every quaint and novel expression
that he makes use of is carefully studied.
Senator Turpie has the name of being the
most scholarly man in Congress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-13
81 so

If you want those fine distinguished
looking suits-suits just like the swell mer-
chant tailors charge SIS to S45 for (you
know the kind Dust see the Progress
High-grade Suits. They are the newest
creations of the world foremost tailors. The
prices, S11.5O, SIS, SIS, $50, S22. SO and SIS.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18
RUNNING THE hARBORS.
Memorial to the President from
American Forest Council.

MemOrial to the President from
American Forest Council.
Philadelphia, May 1.-The follow
ing memorial signed by prominent
men all over the country has been sent
to the president by the American For
est council, of which George Nav
Powell is the chairman:
''Whereas, The silt from surface.
drained by our great rivers is vitality dam
aging the harbors of several Of our chief
seaboards and lake cities, and our inland
navigation; so as to menace our national
commercial interests, also raising the beds
OF rivers above regions through which they
pass, and therefore subjecting those re-
gions to floods, often damaging q single
state millions Of dollars in week, and
whereas. The main cause of these NAL
economic conditions is unwise, decreasing
or vast areas drained by these rivers, and
Whereas. Equally ruinous droughts and
also climatic irregularities damaging an
imal and plant life, comes from the Same
reckless decreasing without replanting:
Therefore
1.-The president Of the United States is
hereby respectfully memorialized to sus-
tain proposed and existing forest reser-
Vat1ons: and to favor passing and enforc-
Ing laws giving effective and honest regula-
tlon Of said reservations
And also, regardless OF clamor Of any
corporate or other interests; to recon-
mend vastly greater instead of less pro.
lection TO our forests"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18
Murder In Chicago.

Chicago, May 14.-James Cunning
ham, an eN-captain of the regular army
and veteran of the civil war, shot and
fatally wounded John Millet Thursday
night in fight which took place in the
formers room at IS Sangamon street.
Cunningham was arrested shortly aft
erwards. The wounded man was taken
to the county hospital, where he died
in an hour. The bullet penetrated the
left temple. Mille1 had interfered in a
quarrel between Cunningham and a
relative, resulting from family feud.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18
Inclined to he ExtravAgant.

"1'm afraid" said the old gentle
man, shaking his head sadly, that
you have permitted Mabel to acquire
extravagant tastes"
The fond mother was instantly on
the defensive.
II don't see where you got that idea"
she retorted.
''Only last evening"" he answered,
"she intimated very plainly that she
wanted to marry a nobleman." -Chica~
go Post.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18
Just Like the Earth.

Visitor-And so you are studying
astronomy at school. Do you like it?
Little Girl-Oh, it's awfully interest
ing. The weather on the moon is just
like it is here.
Visitor Gncredulously)-D your
astronomy say that?
Little Girl-Why, yes. 1t says if
there were people on the moon they'd
roast one day and freeze the next.-N.
Y. Weekly.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18
Ambiguity.

"Did you take my message to the Gill
dingby?" asked the young man with the
obtrusive voice.
''Yes. told them that you have cold
and can't sing, but that you were COM
ing anyway"
GLOW did they take the news?''
Il don't know. Nobody made any re-
ply except Miss Gild1ngby. She said
she was ever so glad"
Star.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18
Fixing II Price.

"What's that job worth?" they
asked the contractor.
"Well," he said, slowly, that depends
good deal upon circumstances. If it
was ordered by an individual I should
think that $500 would be about the
limit, but if done for the city or county
I shouldn't think of charging bit less
than $3.50 with clause in the contract
permitting me to make an additional
charge for extras" -Chicago Post.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18
NORWAY.

Leo Tolstoi, the great Russian poet
and reformer, has just had q chance to
to read 3. Bjornson's "The King" and
has expressed himself to the effect that
the beauty of the production has
afforded him great Joy, and that it's
thoughts have opened up new vistas
before his mind.
It may be taken as important sign of
the times that very prominent state
church clergyman, Rev. Klavenas, in
public address has endorsed Grundt-
viggianism as ever against the all-con-
quering pietism of the fifties.
& The king has announced that what
ever is raised for his jubilee fund in
Norway will be devoted to the improve
2ment of the condition of the cripples
and the deformed of Norway. This
announcement was highly gratifying
to all classes of people. Ia. IS, u i.
The public retail liquor company of
Christians has q surplus Of ss5, 600 at
the end of the business year. This
amount is distributed among a large
number of charitable and other insti-
tutions. II 81. ss=3
s9 "a fancy edition Of the works Of Ib-
sen will appear in Berlin one yearsfrom
now, upon the 10th birthday Of the
sauthor.
Y a good authority claims that several;
otessors sin the iversi ares psr-i
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18
FLAG FIRED UPON,
NicaraGunn GunbOat Sends Solid Shot
After American Ship.

After American Ship.
New Orleans. May 12.-The American
steamer Rover, trading between here
and Honduras ports, was fired upon
twice by gunboat of the Nicaraguan
government. Solid shot was used. The
American flag was flying from her peak
at the time the shots were fired. No
previous warning was given her COM
mander Of the desire of the gunboat to
overhaul her. Capt. Reed, Of the Rover,
left Puerto Cortez, which port was in
possession of the insurgents, on May
s. He sailed for Omoa. seven miles dis
tant. The Lucy B., which had been
fitted up by the Nicaraguan government
as a gunboat, gave pursuit, and fired
solid shot after her.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18
Childish.

1t was peculiar speech made by the
lifelong friend of the bridegroom at a
wedding breakfast recently. He said:
MAY the lives of the happy couple
be one long round of una lloyed bliss,
CT, if they are to have any cares at all,
let them only be little ones!"-N. Y.
World.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18
Example vs.. PreceDt,

Harry dear, l wish you wouldn't
chew gum SO much. Your father says
gum isn't clean, and the habit is GER
tainly an annoying one."
''Why, mamma, I've just got to chew
something! He always keeps his fine
cut where can't get at it.'-Chicago
Tribune.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18
Unable to Help.

Mrs. Fred Miller, residing on the
fourth floor of block in st. Paul. was
about to leap from the window to save
her son from burning to death, when
she was prevented by her husband.
The boy had caught fire from a bon
fire which he had started in the rear of
the block, and the mother, seeing his
danger, was about to leap from the
window when prevented. The mother
then tainted. The boy was terribly
burned and it is thought that his in
juries will prove fatal.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18
Something He Had Noticed.

Twynn-Did you ever notice that as
a rule people who have been prevented
from committing suicide never try it
again?
Triplet-No, but I have observed thai
people who succeed IN committing sui
eide never do it again.-Harlem Life.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18
Killed by an Earthuual1e.

New York, May 12.-Earthquakes arc
still shaking the islands of Guadeloupe
and Montserrat, of the Leeward group,
in the West Indies. AT Antigua so col
ored people were killed by being buried
in the ruins of their houses. In brick
church a congregation was caught by
the collapse of the walls and so were
crushed to death. Thirty people lost
their lives at Point-a-Pietre.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18
Corrected.

'Ah, capital" the D. D. said,
Then seized his pocket chronicler;
"A good text for sermon? Yes.
I'll make q minute of it, SIR
Hereat the layman sprung thought
That did his caution overpower
AS he replied: "A minute, Ell?
I'll bet my hat you'll make an hour"
Boston Courier.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18
Rare Self-POsseSsiOn

"That woman over there looks as If
she were painted-'
'Sir, that is my wife,
81 had not finished my sentence.
She looks as if she were painted by
Raphael and had just stepped out of the
frame" -Tit-Bits,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18
The Kentucky Derby.

Louisville, Ky, May 13.-The twenty
third Kentucky Derby was run Wednes-
day. Typhoon was the winner. There
were six entries. Typhoon's time was
2:12k. The distance was = mile and
a quarter. Attendance, $4,000.