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MRS. BROWN

money than with that which has been
burnt, but her special work is arrang-
ing the bills in packages OF the same issue
and keeping track Of the '-odds' until
their mates Of the same issue come in.
But of all the women in the Treasury
department none is more interesting than
Mrs. Villa a. Leonard, the chief detective
OF counterfeit money. She was appointed
in July, 1864, and at first her work was
clipping the sheets of fractional currency
then issued She has been in the redenp-
ton division since 1855. In the course OF
two years and a half something over
eighty nine millions of dollars have passed
through her hands
Mrs Leonard says that a day never
passes without the detection OF a counter
felt bill from one source or another. and
they have sometimes had as many "a
a hundred in Que day.
Have YOU seen any counterfeits OF tha
new bills yet?''
mot yet, but we are on the lookout for
them
How do Treasury employees regard the
new biIls?"
'Oh, we think they are very pretty, OF
course, but we find them much harder to
count. The expert counters say that 10
is very slow work separating the bills into
packages OF the same denomination For
instance, it is very difficult 70 distinguish
q two from five dollar bill. One has TO
look close, and when one is counting fast
tits easy to make q mistake"
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WHIFFS OF WHEEL WISDOM

That every last lingering trace OF the
prejudice against wheeling for women has
been dispelled even the most sEeptcal must
confess, after a visit to the cycle show,
where there are displayed as many devices
for the comfort and pleasure of women
awheci aS there are for men. There Is not
a single instance of a diamond frame being
exhibited without its companion drop frame,
and almost without exception the tandemS
are built with the drop frame fronts. show
ing that when a man makes one OF party
OF two his best girl is In il, too.
Girls will find the ideas they can gather
here of great use to themin in their summer
cycling. particularly If they anticipate max
ing changes in their wheeler appurtenances.
as everything OF the newest ana best type is
here. This applies particularly to those
girls who have no brothers or best men to
make suggestions.
Manufacturers apparently are devoting
most of their time to the perfection of the
tire The latest ones have corrugated tread
and are usually made of canvas and rubber
combined, a new idea being TO re-enforce
the tread by having a double ply Of rubber
on the outside.
The most noticeable feature Of the '97
woman's wheel is that the cord-laced
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MRS. DAVIDSON

every part of the Mediterranean, and far
beyond the pillars of Hercules.
Is the modern Greek an adventurer? Yes;
and so was the ancient Greek. as every
scholar knows. Shrewd as a Yankee ped
dler, he is always ready to drive a bar
gain so cleverly that the man VINO gets the
worst of it can hardly be brought to con-
slider it quite honest. He will always stuff
his mouth and ears and clothes full of the
golddust of Croesus il Croesus gives him the
the good meat of the sacrifice and give
Jove the skin and bones. If Jove is fool
enough to accept them.
This is more true. however, of the Greek
wanderer than of the Greek at home. Per-
sonally have no grievance to urge against
the sons of Helias beyond the theft of an
umbrella-and the loss of umbrellas is not
unknown even in America. 1 have seen
Athenian newsboys refuse to take advan-
tage of stran ger in making change. when
he gave them the most tempting opportuni-
ties.
There is much to admire in this people
/ especially like their sturdy independence.
1t is a mistake to attempt to patroniZe a
Greek He asks no favors. He may be
poor-ard very poor-and eager for money
with an almost Oriental greed-but during
my whole sojourn in his country scarcely
saw one beggar.
Altogether the modern Greek has many
fine traits; and, whatever his faults, it Is
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Girls said George Clement, walking
home from the skating rink with Flora
Osborn one afternoon, may be all right
enough some ways, but when you cone
right down to il they haven't got any
sand, any of en-
Haven't theyi" cried Flora, with lively
indignation, and George chuCkled. He
was forever telling Flora his derogatory
opinions about girls. He particularly eII-
Joyed saying such things to Flora, because
Ills secret conviction was that She had
more spirit and pluck than any girl he
knew. But he would not have admitted it,
Not to Flora, certainly.
Look at the way they scream and
squeal when anything frightenS them,
he pursued; and everything frightens
them
The very idear said Flora. Think
OF Kitty Pierce when their horses ran
away with her and her father
probably she yelled so they could hear
her out at Dorset" said George.
"She never! Sle kept perfectly still,
aud hung on to the laprube so il wouldn 1
go out
That's her side of the story. IN ask
her daddy about il some time
Anything but a boy that thinks nobody
amounts to anything but him, just because
he can play baseball and the baujor' said
Flora, scoTnfuIy, and George burst out
laughing.
Does that mean that I'm not to cali
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revenues TO the maintenance of an army
adequate to resist Philip of Macedon-
the intriguing and enCruaChing monarch
who answered to the sultan in the politics
OF that time he was met with the same
outcry. When the crisis finally came,
however, and an effective army was seen
To be Indispensable, they applauded him to
the echo; and the grumhler of today is
just as eager as the king for the extension
OF the boundaries of Hellas.
For the dream Of the Greek is a united
Hellas; but united and independent
Hellas is something IL at the world has
never seen and probably never VIII see.
Hellas, to the Greek means the sum total of
all regions occupied by Greeks. The race
is migratory. 1t is a curious fact that at
no period in their history have the majority
of the Greeks dwelt within the limits of
Greece Indeed, their small and rather
barren country would hardly support them.
Anyhow, from the days when the mariner
first sighted the Acropols by the gleam of
the sun on Athena's helm, through those
drcary centuries when the quaint Old church
OF kapniEaraCa, which now stands plump
in the middle of Hermes street. was the
only really Iain-proof building amid the
ruins of his desolate metropolis the Greek
like his own 0dysseus, has wandered to
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chain guard is out OF date. Almost with
out exception the new bikes have fancy
protect ors of nickel, celluIoid, alumni
inn, etc, in designs more or less ornate.
The average gear this year for women's
wheels is seventy. The improvements in
chain design and sprocket wheel enables
woman to ride this high gear with
no more eXerti on than she heretofore
eXerted on the sixty-six.
The burning question of the wheeling
world today is comfortable saddles, and
the evolution from the plain, hard leather
saddle TO the cushioned or pneumatic
type is most marked.
Wives with not sufficient strength to
ri de themselves and who strenuously
object to losing much of their husbands
society from the bicycle craze, will find
that an inventive genius has fulfilled a
long-felt want in a bicycle wheel chair.
This is formed Of an invalid's wheel chair
with the addition of saddle, pedals
and elin the rear, which the man pro-
pcls like bicycle, using the handle on the
back OF the chair in lieu OF handle bar.
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himself up TO where Flora lay. He threw
an arm around her, lifted her, and with
desperate effort he tumbled with her over
the low wall OF wood and dropped into
the soft, deep snow outside the chute
and few feet beie wit. He heard her dress
tear as he wrenched it from the boards
Then ne heard the boards OF the slide rat
ting under the weight of the toboggan
which came rushing down at that very in
stant. He shuddered. He had not been too
soon by a dozen ticks Of his watch.
When Flora opened her eyes she was
lying with her head in Evelyn's lap. A Ian
tern, shone full upon her. and the entire
toboggan party was huddled around her.
They were all white-faced, and one or two
OF the girls had begun to cry. Evelyn was
pressing lump of snow to her face. for
lack of water. and George Clement was
rubbing her hands
Flora sat straight up. IL didn't fall
myself" she said, weakly. g My dress
caught on the boards"
George Clement laughed: he could not
help it. And Myra Macdonald stopped cry
ing. why. aren't you hurt. Flora2" she
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cried. Aren't -killed?"
I'm burt soIne,' said Flora; but she
stood up. II feel all shaken up, and my
left arm hurts. 1t will be black and blue
tomorrow, and lame for a month, / sup
pose. Who-who helped me up here?''
Helped you?'' said George, in an elo-
quent manner.
Evelyn threw her arms around the fallen
heroine. Were all SO glad! We Thought
you must be hurt terribly George got you
off the track. He jumped Off the tohoggan
and went back up and tumbled you over
the side-and, oh, Flora, he was just IN
time. Another toboggan went down just
that minute loaded full -
'Obv' said Flora, thoughtfully, and for
time she said no more.
That was a fitting time for an inter
mission, and Evelyn marshalcd them to
the house. She took Flora up to her room
first and summoned maid, and they
bathed her bruised ann with aInica and
took a few stitches in her torn skirt.
Then they all had oyster patties and
chocolate and cake and ice cream in the
par!OrS. OF course the accident was all
that was talked about Now that the
fright was wholly past, they set to work
to get a little fun out of it,
''Td like to have seen George paving
up that slide on all fours like a bear going
up a pole" said Dwight Hopkins.
And poor Sheridan Riker going down
to the bottom all alone on the toboggan,' -
Irene Wnslow laughed whence all but
him had fled"
''ButO If that other tohoggan had started
half minute sooner! Think of il, Evelyn
shuddered.
What does this little story teach us,
children?' said Bob Logan, drolly. is
there any moral?'
Yes there is said Flora Her color
had come back TO her cheeks. and her ir-
repressibc spirits with it. She had scoIncd
theidea OF going home. She was eating her
second oyster patty with an appetite, and
she darted challenging look AT George
Clement.
1t teaches that girls can do things,
like going down toboggan slide stand
ing up Just as well as boys she said.
cit isn't their fault If their skirts catch
on boards and throw them down. The
principle is the same exactly
'.Of course it is said Kitty Pierce,
rallying to her assistance nobly. Girls
have just AS much courage as boys have.
More, So there. now
"Pshawr' said Lynn Trumbull. TIE
little story teaches that when girl does
get up little pluck for once in her life.
why, she comes To grief
And would get killed If the boys
weren't around" Bob Logan subJOined.
"Brutes," Said Flora, ana the girls sided
with her, and the war OF words waged high
and merry
But on their way home Flora looked up
at the big Dipper, and cleared her throat,
and spoke to George very seriously and
sweetly. They had another hour OF coast
ing, and she had contented herself with
gong down in the ordinary way.
George" she said and her voice trem-
bled: lit was brave OF you. If YOU hadn't
saved me, might have been killed. To
think
ION, don't think" said George.
He added firmly: Say, Flora, I'm 60
ing to take it back. You know what. A
girl that can go down toboggan slide
standing up, can do most anything else
she wants to. | don't know about other
girls, but you're all right, Flora
That was great deal from George.
Flora was perfectly satisfied
EMMA A OPPER
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little country, with his army and his
taxes" protested spero, my vivacious and
Intelligent dragoman. as we rode over the
barren hills toward Marathon not very
long ago. And certainly there Is much
truth III his complaint. The national debt
is overwhelming: the country is undevel-
oped: the currency consists OF deprecated
paper closely resembling the ''shinplas-
ters' so familiar during our own civil
war. King George, of course, considers the
military establishment as essential to the
safety OF the nation. When Demosthenes,
more than 1000 years ago, labored to
persuade the Athenians to apply their
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NATIONAL WEALTH

What we now call society in this coun-
try consists of about $4,000, 900 human
beings. Each one must be supplied every
day with two and one-half to five pounds
OF food material, with fuel wherewith
to cook it, and with certain amount OF
textile fabrics, or furs, and with some
boards To put over his head.
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Their Incurable Incidence.

Italian and Spanish women are distin-
guished above all others OF Europe for their
profound ignorance. due to their inclIrable
incidence. They do not possess even the art
ofelegance of dress, and, while the Spaniard
has her artful fan and mantiila to delude
people into believing she is artistic. the
Italian has nothing but her chance beauty.
The morning times., 1897-02-28
The Modern Greeks
Greek TO the Core

When the irrepTessible Mark Twain paid
his stealthy midnight visit to the Acrop-
oils he actually stopped cracking jokes and
filcbing grapes long enough to deliver a
violent TRADE against the modern Greeks
"a tribe of unconsidered sIaves,'' he calls
them: and he declares that ancient Greece
and modern Greece compared furnish the
The morning times., 1897-02-28
Sensational Cane Cod.

A sensation was created at Barnstable.
Mass. last Sunday, whenit was discovered
that one of the conyicts at the prison there
was giving the wife of the tailer bicycle
lessons on the public streets. He was in
prison garb, too. The woman is thirty
nine. and has two daughters, the elder eigh-
teen Years old.
The morning times., 1897-02-28

shelter and clothing in the census year. ig-
ured at retail prices. was equal 70 so cents
day per person, then the product of the
census year reached a valuation in terms
of money.in round figures, of S11 500, ,O0O,-
900. O.-Engineering Magazine.
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Decayed Blood Is Deadly.

One of the deadliest poisons known to
the world is nothing more than decayed
human blood. The famous poisoned swords
OF the East are STEPPED in them, and SO
virulent is the venom that the merest
scratch will produce death
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only fair to say that he is. as he soproudly
claims, genuine chip of the old block.
WALKER LOVELAND.
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around for you tonight and take you TO
the tobOggan party he inquired; but he
knew it did not mean anything so serious
as that
Evelyn Burns was giving the toboggan
party, and to tobogEan chute was her
own. Her father had had it made for
her. on a lilI DIT some distance back Of
their house. His men had kept it in fine
condition all winter. and Evelyn's tobog-
gan parties had been many and gay. To-
nights was TO be more than ever festive,
because dropping Of the thermometer was
predicted. and it was feared that this
might be the last Of the tobogganing TILL
next winter.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-19
OLD FORGE.

Extensive improvements are being
Western station.
Work was resumed at the Old Forge
breaker on Monday.
The Brick church choir is arranging
for q good entertainment to be held
next month
Rena, the little daughter of H. H.,
Edsall, who has been seriously i'll with
diphtheria, is improving.
Mrs. John Faraday's Sunday school
class of the new Methodist Episcopal
church, will give box social on We'd
church. A pleasing programme has
been prepared to entertain all those
who attend.
Colonel Urquhart will deliver his fam
Gus lecture on Libby Prison" this
evening in the Brick church. Members
of the Patriotic Order Sons of America
and Grand Army Republic are cordially
invited to attend. Admission Is and
25 cents. Lecture to begin at 7.30
/ wish to say to the voters of Old
Forge township that I have not with
treasurer as runners prove it. Thomas
Pickell.
Fred Desh was injured in the mine,
Jermyn No. l, on Monday.
James Salmon, from the Sibley, is a
candidate for justice of the peace.
The Republican caucus will be held
at f j. Fallon's hall, Wednesday night,
Jan. 20.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-19

sis; Minnesota clear, $95Oa4; do. straights,
$ia4.45 do. patents. S.35a515; city mills,
$ia5; do. patents, $5.20a5.l5. Wheat-Duli
easier; f. o. b.. 979sc.; ungraded red, 7Sa
9Sc.; No. / northern, 929sc.; options closed
steady; January, S93sc.; March, 9O2sc.;
May, S65sc. July, S39sc. Corn-Dull, weak
er; No. ., 2S$ic elevator; 29aic, afoat; op-
tions weak; January, 2SFsc.; May SOlsc.;
July, 31Bc. Oats-Spots dull; mixed firm;
options quiet, easier; January, 22c.; Feb
ruary, 22Ac.; May, 225sc.; spot prices, No.
9, 22lac.; No. 2 white 2412c. No. Chicago,
231ac.; No. 3, 203ic.; No. 3 white, 22c.; mixed
western. 22a2ic.; white do. and white state,
23a3Oc. Beef-Quiet, firm; family, s920a
1850; extra mess, $7aS. Beef hams-Steady
$1S. Tierced beef-Frm; city extra In
dia mess, $l3.50al4.jo. Cut meats-F'irm;
quiet; picked bellies, 43sC.; do. shoulders
4Aa4Ssc.; do. hams, SAa9c. Lard-Quiet
firm western steam, $i.25; city, $3S5; Jan
uary, $i.2O; refined dull; continent, &.6O;
South America, $3.50; compound, Sl4aAla.
Pork-Firm; new mess, $S.50a9 Butter
Firm; state dairy, 1Oal5lsc.; do. creamery,
l3a19c.; western creamery, 13a2Olac.; do.
factory, 7a14c, Elgins, 2Oa2O]ac.; imita-
ton creamery, 1la16c. Cheese-Strong;
state large, 71Aa1lAc.; do. small Salll4c.;
part skins, 4aS1Ac.; full skins, 212a3c. Eggs
Steady; state and Pennsylvania, liza
l6Ac.; ice house, 1212a13lRc.; western fresh,
15c.; do. case, $175a3; southern, 1i1aal4Ac f;
limedti 13a13ihc.
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Clair, Schuylkill county. He resided
there three years; then moved to Pitts
ton, and when at the age of years
first breaker that ever cracked coal in
Luzerne county in what was known
as the Butler breaker. In this breaker
he worked three years, after which he
entered the mines. starting as q door
boy. He steadily advanced in his min
ing career until the year 1860, when he
was made driving boss At the first
sound of the drum and fife he left his
home, work and friends, and entered
the service of Uncle Sam, enlisting as
private in Company l. Fifty-second
regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers.
After serving all through the rebellion
Mr.. Williams returned to his native
town and again resumed his position as
driver boss. In 1877, during the great
greenback movement, he was appoint
ed deputy sheriff. After serving a
short time he resigned, and when the
law was passed which compelled mine
foremen to have certificates, was one
of the first to receive them. Since that
time he has had charge of two colheries
in Pittston, one at Latin, and served
two years as mine foreman under the
Southern Pacific Railroad company in
Mexico, In the year 1893, when j. NJ.
Rice took charge of the Rush Brook,
now known as Blue Ridge colliery, Mr..
Williams was made inside foreman and
served three years, after which he was
made general superintendent of all the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-19
MARKETS AND STOCKS


New York, Jan. 1S,-The opening dealings
at the stock exchange were characterized
by firmness. Trading was on an unusually
large scale and commission houses for the
first time in a month or so transacted a
good share of the business. The rise dur
ing the first hour of trading was equal
to 1aa2&i per cent, Lackawanna, Jersey
Central, Sugar, Manhattan and the Gran
gers leading. The demand for stocks
abated during the afternoon and at the
same time traders began to reduce their
lines. The result was a general decline
of 14a2A per cent" Manhattan leading.
Wheeling and Lake Erie Preferred
dropped from 13 to 10A. The heaviness Of
the bituminous coalers is due to the unsat-
isfactory condition of the trade. Sugar
jumped to 1lS at the opening and later set
tied back to 11G. In some quarters the
afternoon selling was attributed in part
to the Kentucky bank failures. Rumors
were also current of embarrassments in
uptown business circles, but the reports
could not be confirmed. Speculation closed
weak in tone. Net changes show losses of
4a15s per cent Total sales were 100000
shares.
Furnished by WILLIAM LINN, AL
LEN Il CO.. stock brokers' Mears build
ing, rooms, J-7U6
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PECKVILLE.

A social and oyster supper will be
given in the Presbyterian church Sat-
urday evening Jan. 23, for the benefit
of the kindergarten mission schools at
Dolphs and Bell Place. A first-class
supper for 20 cents. Let everyone pa
troniZe the cause
Oriental Star lodge, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, will hold regular COM
munication this evening.
Three more new cases of diphtheri
in the Second ward and two cases of
scarlet fever in the First ward have
been reported to the board of health
this week.
The Republican candidate for bur-
CESS of Blakely borough, Saboth B.
Williams, the subject of this sketch,
was born in Wales in 1912 and came to
this country In 1874 and settled in st.
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members of the order, The entertain
ment consisted principally of home tai
ent and the programme was very care
fully arranged and composed of vocal
and instrumental music, recitations,
drapery, attitudes, etc. Miss Isabelle
Miller of Pittston, Pa, who so ably as
sisted with the character impersona-
tions (drapery attitudes) and recita-
tions, was worthy of special mention,
and showed long and careful training.
Following is the programme in detail
Jolly Robbers .................Von Suppe
S. r. Lilly.
THE Jiners," ..........Miss Irene Hanson
THE Light House Light
William T. Hutchinson
John T. Richards.
(a) Two Golden Curls."
(b) Tit for Tat
Miss Isabelle Miller.
Palm Branches ....,James j. Freeman
c. II. Wilson
Select reading ......Miss May Armstrong
"Out on the Deep" Samuel X. Cowen
F. f. Bond.
Drapery Attitudes-R Figure, Su-
dia, Shame, Distress, All There
Stay There! Protection, Triumph,
Coquette, Thought, Grief, Exulta-
Miss Isabelle Miller
81 Fear No Foe" ....................Pin Pinsuti
John T. Richards.
"William Tell' ...............John 7. Davis
lmpromptu Cis Moll .................C Chopin
Mrs. Cross.
(a) Rock Me to Sleep"
(b) $50 Was l."
Miss Isabelle Miller.
'ASthore' ............,...........H II. IrOtere
f. L. Bond.
Mrs. Smart Learns to Skate"
G. l.. Beardsley.
Tannhauser March Wagner
s. r. Lilly.
At the conclusion of the entertain
ment the "Rebekah quilt was disposed
of. Amzi Harmon and A. A. Brown
We're the judges, little Archie Carr
pulled the lucky ticket from the box,
which was No. xX44 and was held by
Rupert Bart, of this place.
This concluded the public exercises,
after which a committee consisting of
members OF the order escorted those
that took part in the entertainment, to
Rebekah lodge room, where a hastily,
yet very carefully prepared supper
awaited them
Those who sat down to the table
We're: S. Il. Lilly, John II. Richards,
c. H.Wilson, f. E. Bond, John T. Davis,
G.. L. Beardsley, Frank Harrington, A.
A. Brown, Lewis Armstrong, A. l.. Der
sinner, NJ. b. Worden; the Misses Wat
kins and Burdick May Armstrong,
Irene Hanson, Isabelle Miller, Mrs.
| Cross, Mr.. and Mrs. n. A. Gardner,
Mrs. A. B. Rought, Mrs. Charles Knapp,
| and Mr.. and Mrs. Davis.
The evening was very pleasantly
spent in entertainment and sociability
and every one present enjoyed the hos
pitality of the Rebekahs, and we are
sure that the labor and efforts that
our sisters put forth to furnish this
evenings entertainment and pleasure
We're crowned with success.