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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24

Over two shadowless waters, adrift as
pinnace in peril,
Hangs as in heavy suspense, charged
with irersolute light,
Softly the soul of the sunset upholden
awhile on tie sterile
Waves and wastes Of the land, half re-
posse sessed by the night.
Inland glimmer the shadows asleep, ana
afar in the breathless
Twilight; yonder the depths darken afar
asleep.
Slowly the semblance of death out OF
heaven descends on the deathless
Waters hardly the light lives on the face
OF the deep
Hardly, but here for awhile. All over tho
gray soft shallow
Hover the colors and clouds of the twi-
light void of a star.
As bird unhedged is the broad-winged
night, whose winglets are callow
Yet, but soon with their plumes will she
cover her brood from affair." t
Cover the brood of her worlds that cum
ber the skies VIII their blossoms,
Thick as the darkness of leaf-shadowed
spring is encumbered with flowers.
-Algernon Charles Swinburne.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
WORTH REMEMBERING.

A spoonful of vinegar added to the
water in which meat and poultry are
boiled makes them more tender
The gliding on tarnished picture
frames may be restored by gently
washing it with warn water in which
an onion has been boiled.
The addition of a little powdered
borax to cold starch tends to give the
linen extra stiffness, and a little tur-
pentine put into the boiled starch adds
luster.
For cleaning ivory piano keys or knife
use a preparation of two-thirds
alcoholic one-third sweet oil. 1t Is
good to remove ink stains from wood.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
Beautiful Preston Park
And Its Environment.
A Country Club Possessing Unusual
.. Advantages.

ed by the summer guest in trying to
find where he is at, with relation to his
desired destination.
The rooms are grouped about a gen.
eral centre, which is the spot sur
rounding the head OF the stair case,
but there your senses desert you.
Which way did you turn after the
three times in coming up the stairs ?
There are numberless radlating corri-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
Ode to Evening.

Ode to Evening.
If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song,
May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy
modest ear
Like thy own solemn springs,
Thy springs and dying gales;
o nymph reserved-while now the bright
haired sun
Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy
skirts
With brede ethereal wove,
Oerhang his wavy bed.
Now air is hush'd save where the weak
eyed bat,
With short, shrill shrek fits by on leath-
ern wing.
Or where the beetle winds
His small but sullen horn.
AS oft he rises midst the twilight path.
Against the pilgrim borne in needless
hum,
Now teach me, maid composed.
To breathe some softened strain.
Whose numbers, stealing through thy
dark ming vale,
May not unseemly with it's stiffness suit;
AS musing slow hail
Thy genial loved return.
For when thy folding star arising shows
His paly circlet, at his warning lamp
The fragrant Hours. and Elves
Who slept in buds the day.
And many a nymph who wreathes her
brew with sedge
And sheds the freshening dew, and love-
ler still
The pensive Pleasures sweet,
Prepare thy shadowy car.
Then let me rove some wild and healthy
scene;
Or find some ruin midst it's dreary delIs,
Whose walls more awful nod
BY thy religious CLEANS.
Or If chill clustering winds or driving
Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut
That from the mountain sides
Views wilds and swelling floods,
And hamlets brown. and dim-discovered
spires,
And hears their simple bell, and marks
| DER all
Thy dewy fingers draw
The gradual dusky veil.
While Spring shall pour his showers, as
| oft he wont,
| And battle thy breathing tresses, meek
| est Eve!
| While Summer loves to sport
Beneath thy lingering light;
While sallow Autumn nils thy lap with
leaves,
| Or Winter. yelling through the troublous
| air,
| Affrights thy shrinking train
And rudely rends thy robes;
SO long, regardful OF thy quiet rue,
ct. GAA,
| Peace,
Thy gentlest influence own,
And love thy favorite namel
William Collins
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24

Now,-the country does not even boast
tree,
AS you see.
To distinguish slopes of verdure, certain
rills
From the hills
Intersect and give a name to (else they
Into one),
Where the domed and daring palace shot
its spires
Up like fires,
Ger the hundred-gated circuit Of wall
Bounding all,
Made of marble. men might march on nor
be pressed,
Twelve abreast.
And such plenty and perfection. see. of
grass,
Never was!
Such a carpet as, this summer time, DER
spreads
And embeds
Every vestige of the city, guessed alone,
Stock or stone
Where multitude Of men breathed Joy
and woe,
Long ago.
Lust Of glcry pricked their hearts up.
dread of shame
Struck them tame;
And that glory and that shame alike, the
Bought and sold.
Now,-the single little turret that remains,
On the plains,
BY the ceper overrooted, by the gourd
Overscored,
While the patching houseleek's head of
blossom winks,
Through the chinks-
Marks the basement whence tower in
ancient time
Sprang sublime
And burning ring, all around, the char
lots traced
As they raced.
And the monaTch. and his minions, and
his danes
Viewed the games.
And I know-while thus the quiet-colored
eve,
Smiles to leave
To their folding, all our many-tinkling
In such peace;
And the slopes and rills in undistinguished
Melt away
That girl with eager eyes and yellow
hair
Waits me there.
In the turret whence the charioteers
caught soul
For the goal,
When the king looked, where she looks
now, breathless. dumb.
Till come.
But he looked upon the city, every side.
Far ard wide,
All the mountain topped with temples,
all the glades
I Colonnades,
All the causeys. bridges, aqueducts-and
| then,
All the men!
When do come, she will speak not, she
will stand.
| Either hand
On my shoulder, give her eyes the first
embrace
OF my face,
Ere We rush, ere We extinguish sight and
speech,
Each on each.
In one year they sent million fighters
forth
| South and North.
| And they built their gods brazen pillar
| As the sky,
Yet reserved a thousand chariots in full
| force
| Gold, OF course.
oh heart! oh blood that freezes, blood
that buTEsl
Eartn's returns
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
FRONTIER JUSTICE.
A Texan Judge Whose Influence Is
Widespread.
From Leslie's Weekly.

From Leslie's Weekly.
Texas is big state and has large
population, including many men Of
great prominence. But there is no
man in that whole sovereignty with q
more refulgent glory than Judge Roy
Bean, of Langtry, who declares that
he is the law west of the Pecos." And
he is. West of the Pecos river in
Texas there are no limitations to Judge
Beams jurisdiction, and he does not,
it has been hinted, let mere statutes,
"as in such cases made and provided"
influence him to any great extent in
his desire to make the punishment fit
the crime. There is an, anecdote told
of him when he sat as coroner and held
an inquest on the body of man who
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
The Evening Cloud.

A cloud lay Graded near the setting sun
A CLEAN of crimson tinged its braided
snow;
Long had watched the glory moving on
Ger the still radiance of the lake below,
Tranquil its spirit seemed, and fioated
slow!
Even in it's very motion there was rest;
While every breath Of eve that CHANGED
to blow
Waited the traveller to the beauteous
west.
Emblem, methought of the departed soul,
To whose white robe the CLEAN of bliss
is given;
And by the breath of mercy made to roll
Right onward to the golden gates Of
heaven,
Where to the eye of faith 1t peaceful lies,
And tells to man his glorious destines.
John Wilson.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
From code TO Alumni

ing day,
And touch the stubble plains with rosy
hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small guats
mourn
Among the river-sallows, borne aloft
or sinking as the light wind lives or dies !;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from
hilly bourn;
Hedge crlckets sing, and now with treble
soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden
croft,
And gathering swallows twitter In the
skies.
John Keats.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
A Lament.

o World! o Life! o Time!
On whose last steps l climb
Trembling at that where had stood be-
fore,-
When will return the glory of your
prime?
No more-oh never more!
Out of the day and night
A joy has taken flight;
Fresh Spring. and Summer, and Winter
hour,
Move my faint heart with grief,-but
with delight
No more-oh never more!
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
A Dream Within a Dream.

j stand amid the roar
OF the turf-tormented shore;
And / hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand;
How few!-yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep
While / weep-while / weep!
oh, God! can 1 not grasp
Them with a tighter grasp?
oh, God! can i not save
One from the pitiless waver
Is all that We see, or seem,
But a dream within a dreamH
Edgar Allen Poe.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
BY the Sea.

1t is beauteous evening, calm and free;
The holy time is quiet as n nun
Breathless with alteration; the broad
sun
Is sinking down in it's tranquility;
The gentleness of heaven is on the sea.
Listen! the mighty being is awake,
And doth with his eternal motion make
A sound like thunder-everlastingly
Dear child! dear girl! that walkest with
me here,
If thou appear untouched by solemn
thought
Thy nature is not therefore less de-
vine:
Thou liest In Abrahams bosom all the
year
And worshipst at the Temples inner
shrine,
God being with thee when we know it
not.
William Wordsworth.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24

Waned with the fading light and are no
more,
air:
The bat is hunting softly by my door
And, noiseless as the snowflake, leaves
his lair;
Ger the still copses fitting here and
there,
Wheeling the se.c-same circuit DER and
DER.
Charles Tennyson Turner.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
A Summer Twilight.

II is a summer twilight, balmy-sweet.
A twilight frightened by an infant
moon,
Fraught with the fairest light of mad
die June
The lonely garden echoes to my feet,
And bark! o hear / not the gentle dews,
Fretting the silent forest in his sleep?
Or does the stir of housing insects creep
Thus family on mine ear? Days many
hues
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
From "ParaceIsus.o

over the waters in the vaporous west
The sun goes down as in a sphere OF gold
Behind the arms of the city, which, be-
tween,
With all that length of domes and nina
rets,
Athwart the splendor black and crooked
runs
Like Turk verse along seimitar.
Robert Browning.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
Move Eastward, Happy Earth.

Move eastward, happy earth, and leave
Yon orange sunset, waning slow;
From fringes of the faded eve,
o, happy planet, eastward go;
TIL over thy dark shoulder glow
Thy silver sister-world, and rise
To glass herself In dewy eyes
That watch me from the glen below
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
Love Among the Ruins.

HFOFV
Where the quiet-colored end of evening
smiles.
Miles ana miles,
on the solitary pestures where our sheep,
Half asleep,
Tinkle homeward through tho twilight,
stray, or stop,
AS they crop
Was the site once OF city great and gay
$50 they saY,
OF our cot ntry's very capital Its prince,
Ages since,
Held his court in. gathered councils. WELD
ing far
Peace or war.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24

Sonnet.
That time of year thou mayst in me be-
hold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few,
do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against
the cold,
Bare, ruined choirs, where late the
sweet birds sang,
In me thou see'st the twilight of such
day
AS after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take
away,
Deaths second self, that seals up all in
rest
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie
AS the death-bed whereon it must expire,
Consumed with that which 1t was nour-
ished by
This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy
love more strong
To love that we'll which thous must lose
ere long,
William Shakespeare.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
From 'sSordello.o

That autumn eve wSJ stiiled.
A last remains OF sunset dimly burned
Ger the far forests. like torch flame
turned
By the wind back upon its bearers hand
In one long fare of crimson; as a brand.
The woods beneath lay black.
Robert Browning.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24

started forth In the darkness armed
with many torches. guns and other
paraphernalia of the midnight chase.
Leading all were the great coon dogs
and their proprietor. They soon struck
scent and after wandering weary miles
over logs and all impossible obstruc-
tions, the dog with the most vocifer-
Gus accents "treed" the coon in a hole,
a somewhat unusual proceeding, al
though the hunters in general were
unaware of this fact.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24

Oh, bear me with thee, lightly borne,
Dip forward into starry light,
And move me to my marriage morn
And round again to happy night.
Alfred Tennyson
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
EXERCISE is IMPORTANT.

According to Flourens and Cuvier,
man is OF the frugivorous or fruit and
nut treating class Of animals, like the
gorillas and other apes and monkeys.
Man has not teeth like the lions and
carnivorous beasts, neither has he
teeth like the COWS and herbivorous
ones. Intestines' in the man are seven
or eight times the length of the body;
the lions are but three times the length
of his body. Herbivorous animals. like
the COW, have intestines forty-eight
times the length of the body.
So, judging man by his teeth, his
stomach and his mtestines, he is nat
urally and primitfvely ffugivorous, and
was not intended to eat hesh. Fruit is
aperient, and apples act on the liver.
and are good brain fool also, as they
contain much phosphoric' acid AS to
the effect of certain climates, perhaps
too much stress has been laid upon
that. We find that Thomas Parr, who
lived in England, died In his one hun
dred and fifty-third year. and was dis
sected by the celebrated discoverer' Of
the circulation of the blood, DR.. VIII
liam Harvey (who expressed no doubt
of his age), was never out of his ma
tive country. Accounts of men who
have lived to extreme age In Ecuador
and Mexico indicate possibilities, = A
climate that allows much outdoor liv-
ing is the best for health. More de-
pends on food than on any climate.
Exercise, fresh air to liveF in and to
sleep in, daily bathing, and freedom
from medicine are the important things.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24

For whole centuries of folly, noise and
sin!
Shut them in,
With their triumphs and their glories and
the rest,
Love is best!
Robert Browning.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
THE SECOND FLOOR.

That second floor is an institution
the Ike of which was never beheld out
side labyrinth of olden days. The
average new visitor, not endowed with
the gift OF prescience. and not having
carefully tabulated the number of his
sleeping apartment together with a
diagram of the route thereto, is apt to
grow considerably embarrassed, not to
mention the embarrassment he thrusts
upon others. by his peregrina tions in
search of his own room.
Mr. Brown, or whoever designed
those chambers, certainly had an eye
Go economy of space, IL ne did neglect
the computation of time probably vast
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-16

New York. Jan. To-
FLOuR-Receipts. 1900 pkgs.; exports
1850 bills. 2S.500 sacks; sales. 1900 pkgs.
souTHERN FLoUR-ouiet.
RYE FLOUR-Dull, steady; $2.s5M3.15.
BUCKWHEAT FLOUR-$1. 3OGi1.3 5
BUCKWHEAT-35M3 track.
CORN MEAL-Quiet. steady: yellow
Western. $1.90M2; Brandywine. s.. 05.
RYE-Dull, steady.
BARLEY-Quiet.
WHEAT-Receipts. 900; exports, 153. 800:
sales, 10000: less active. easier. closing
steady: No. red, fob. 1885; No l North
ern, 92ss.
CORN-Receipts, $500; exports. 1O,5oO;
sales. 22.0C0; dull. easier; No. 2, 29A ele-
vator. 301s afloat.
OATS-Receipts, $4,000: exports 1900,
sales. 1900: quiet, steady; No. 2. PA: No.
white, 2412: No. 2 Chicago. 23h No. 8.
201a: No. 3 white. %; mixed Western, 22M
"a white state and Western, 2S0i3o.
BEEF-Firm, quiet: beef hams, steady;
tierced beef, quiet. firm; cut meats.
strong.
LARD-Quiet. barely steady: Western
steam, a.25; sales, -; city. $3.S5; refined,
quiet. firm.
PORK-Steady: sales $50 bbls.
BUTTER-MOderately active, steady.
CHEESE-Fairly active. firm; state
large, 71aM11A: do. small 8@11A.
Observation-Disclosures 80.
COFFEE-Rio, dull steady.
SUGAR-Raw, dull steady; Nos. l and
. 1-16c. up.
FREIGHTs-To Liverpool, market
quiet.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-16

The 1897 calendar gotten up by Ma
Comber & Fairs insurance agency has
one of the best street views of Au-
gusta, that we have seen. 1t shows the
agency's office. looking in a southerly
direction along Water street. Last
year, the calendar showed a view from
the south. Beside the large block
where the insurance office is located
can be seen the postoffice in the back
ground, with the Republican campaign
flag flying from the Journal office, the
photograph having been taken, last
fall. There is an Electric car coming
up the street, and one of the electric
light linemen is climbing up a pole. to
fix carbon. People are passing. with
team here and there. Taken all to-
gether it is valuable picture. A fire
alarm list is printed on the face of the
calendar.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-16
Temperance and the Mai no Leo isIaiure.

| Editors of Kennebec Journal:
The great change in public sentiment
upon the temperance question is perhaps
nowhere more plainly seen than in its
application to the Maine Legislature. As
evidence OF this | desire to call attention
nected with the Legislature of 1910.
AS was passing one evening by one Of
the old Augusta hotels. in the winter of
that year. heard loud talk and laughter.
and as matter Of curiosity 1 called in to
| see the fun. | found the dining hall fitted
| up for the occasional long table in the
| 80 or 40 members of the Legislature. At
| the head of the table stood one of the
| tallest members of the Senate. red sash
| about his waist and a carpenters mallet
| in his hand. AS he was addressed occa-
sionally as Mr.. Speaker he would
bring the old mallet down upon the table
and with stentorian voice call the
AS soon as order was sufficiently re-
stored. some half dozen members around
the table would ask to LAY a. bill upon
the table" The stalwart Speaker would
put the vote and the howl Of ayes that
would go up would be equal to the rolling
of severe thunders.
Immediately some half dozen bottles OF
champagne would go down on the table
and a hearty drink taken all around. led
off by the Speaker. The Speaker then
stated that the introduction of new bills
was in order. when they would come in
with rush, and the same ceremony be
repeated.
How long this temperance" House
kept in session / am unable to say. but
one of the members told me, the next
day. that they drank 200 bottles of cham
payne before they adjourned. and that
the Speaker got SO drunk he had to be
carried to his boarding house in a car
riage.
This whole performance was open to
ALL in public house. with no attempt at
concealment. The next day, it was talked
about and laughed over as a big time
/, and great joke. Entertainments of Il
similar kind were not uncommon during
the winter. and while not approved by
many of the members. were tolerated as
great occasions What would the peO-
pie say to such Legislation now?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-16

A runaway always, or at least al
that is positively unprecedented
Either the person or persons connected
escape without serious injuries. and
wonder how under the sun it happened
that they were not killed. On other
occasion someone gets badly hurt, and
can't understand how it happened.
There was an instance of the former
class on State street, Thursday eve
ming. A farmer was driving up the
his horse took fright, and ran as run
away horses usually do. At the corner
of Winthrop street the crash came.
Mr. Horse made away with himself
with the shafts, and front wheels at
tached. The farmer lived in Sidney.
and was of the opinion, at the time,
that the horse must have gone for
home. The wagon was a heavy af-
fair, with bolt forward. When the
front wheels went, the cart turned
over backward. Why, no one could
imagine, until it was known that a bag
of potatoes had been placed in the
wagon. This undoubtedly slid to the
rear of the team. and the weight. being
behind the back wheels, tipped the
outfit over. The top was a complete
wreck The driver said he can't see
how it happened that he ever got out
alive.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-16

The story which went abroad to the eff
feet that the late Mrs. j. S. Ballard of
Monmouth came to her death from
fright caused by two tramps who called
at the inn, short time previous, is not
true. Two men did call, that same morn
ing. but Mrs. Ballard went to the window
which opens upon the side door, and told
them to go away. as she was feeling in
disposed, and had nothing for them. This
however. had nothing to do with her
death. Her husband returned from the
barn where he was engaged in doing
some chores, and she told him of the
event in casual way. placing no i'm
portance to it whatever Living as she
has for so long years at the Prospect
farm. tramps were ordinary visitors. and
she was one of the last person to take
fright at them, and the report is wholly
unfounded. Mr.. Ballard made second
trip to the barn and was absent about Is
minutes. 1t was on his return that he
found his wife, lying dead on the floor
The cause was apoplexy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-16

Friday morning. freight train.
found John Wilson of Dartmouth, N.
S., laying unconscious on the track be-
tween Lincoln and Danforth. He was
taken aboard the train and brought to
Bangor, where he was attended to by
physician, and it was found that one
foot and one hand were frozen. He
said he was drinking in Danforth,
Thursday night, and had about $50
with him the last he can remember
He was penniless when found.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-16

Rev. DR.. Perrin of the Every Day
church of Boston, will preach in the Uni
yersalist church, JAM 81. and on Monday
evening Feb. l. He will give his Illus
trated lecture 1.-THE Land of the Rising
Sun or Life in Japan" DR.. Perrin spent
over four years in Japan, and is thor
oughly conversant with the life and Gus
toms of this people. This will be rare
treat for the people of Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-16

To an audience almost filling the room
in the chapel of the Congregational
church. Rev. James S. Williamson began.
last Sunday evening, a series OF four
familiar talks on the following subjects:
us the World Growing Better; Chris
tian Science .Theosophy; and spirit
ualism..' TIE subject for tomorrow
night. christian Science is one that
comes near to our own homes in the light
of the past few weeks.