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The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-10-08

eulaied. The ships officers saw a hug,
round body floating aimlsssly and d
looked llks nothing 90 the world o.
much o. an alrshlp come 20 grief
Hence the story.
What really vas seen. however. wa
a noatlnE whale. dead. The accom-.
panyinE picture shows these striped
balloons without cordage" which ar,
seen 10 the northern seas Every whal
er who shoots hls explosive harpoof
into the body o. Finnish whale doe,
not capture his prize and the whals
escapes, dies. bloa,s and rises To N,
surface. aoaiing like a striped. half.
submerged balloon.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-10-08

A little fresh air child saw a herd o.
cows for the FIRST time. and. after
satching them chewing their cud. lr
amaEement he said. deprecatinEly. u
the farmer. oh. mister. do you have 4,
buy gum for all those cows to chew
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-10-08

Waahington Star; Don't let this oe.
cur again." said the photographer. who
brides himself on being entsrprisinr.
what 40 you meant" asked the assist
ant You've made the portrait more
Prominent than NY signature"
CHICAGO harbou about uxty then.
sand Hebrews
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-10-08

"Jorklns' wife Is very strict with
him"
In what way
"she charges him a nickel every tim,
he uses an oath. aud she won't let him
have six for q quarter"
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-10-08
little Rock Let,er)

~
now confined In the
Van Zant county,
Tex. jail on a
charge OF burglary.
Is probably the
most desperate
man. certainly the
most desperate
young man In the
United States.
~. H.tt wfIT hold
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-10-08
CAREY, THE SCOURGE.
CAD. RECKLESS. AND ABLE.
ALL THROUGH.

Kilis, steals. aud Plumbers aud Denes
Manaoies. Locks, and Handouts 90
Hold Him Held Past BY TeIans aud
wan sareiy suffer.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-10-08
Two Dead Whales.

Considerable excitement vas created
awhile ago by the report that a north.
efu steamship had sighted the wreci
OF Andres balloon floating In the
ocean
The story was quite extensively cir
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-10-08
STORY OF A CRIME.
PREACHER SERVING LIFE SEN
TENcE FoR MURDER.

siemarhahie Confession Of a CRIMINAL
That May Open the Prison Door. for
fiim-Fisree Struggle At Midnight
Working 10 Free MIN.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-10-08
IN THE ODD CORNER.
3oME STRANGE. QUEER AND
CURIOUS PHASES OF LIFE.

Bones Of q Mastodon Found Monster h'n
aud Front Leg Of Thi, Pleasing
Darwinlan Ancestor The Death OF
Flowers.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-10-08

The Death Of the Flower.
4 1871 nE melancholy days
are come
NE'R.~ The snddest Of the
2E4lrsE OF s gsiiiar wind.
mn kitl y And meadow
.lM NJ brown and seat
Uk ~ Ilcnp'd in the hot
u Z ENiH lows Of mo
NJlIN grove.
Nf\N The wIthor'd
leaves lie dead
~ They rustic 10 mo
oddylng gust
And 20 the rabbits tread.
The robhln and the wren are h'""'
And from the shrubs the jay.
And from the wood.top calls the eio"'
Through all the gloomy Jay. 4,
Where are the flowers. the fair young
flowers
That lately spranF and stood
IN brighter light and softer airs
a henuisous Eisterhood3
Alas They an are ln their graves
The gentle race Of flowers
Are lying in their lowly beds.
WIN the fair aud good Of ours
The rain u falling where they lie'
nut the cold November rain
Calls not. from out the gloomy enrIh'
Ihe lovely ones again.
The wind-nowsr and the violet.
They perish'd long ago.
Ana The brier-rose and the orchis d'ei,
Amid The summer glow.
nut on tho hlil the goidcn-rod.
Ana The astcr in the wood
And me yellow sun-ilowor by ihe brook
~ autumn beauty stood
Jul fell The frost from the clear cold
heaven.
AZ falls tho plague on men.
Ana me brightness OF their smile was
gone
From upland. glade and Glen.
Aud now. when comes the calm mild
day.
A. stlll such days win come
To call the squirrel and the be
From oui their winter home.
when the sound u dropp.nE nuts e
heard
Though 40 tho trees are st1
And twinkle in me smoky liEht
Tho waters OF tho rili.
The south wind SEARCHES for che Tow
era
Whose Fragrance late De bore
Ana siEhs 10 md them IN me wool
And By The stream no more.
And then ! think Of enc who 10
Her youthful beauty died
The TAR. meek blossom that grow W
And faded hy my SIDE
M th' cold. moist earth We laid her,
When The forest cast me leaf.
Ana We Ncpt that one 20 lovely
should have lie a0 brief
hst not unmest 70 wa that one.
I.ike that young friend ~ ours.
30 gentle and so beautiful
should perish With the flowers
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-10-08

The population OF Rome Italy. Is
by the census Of last September. Az.
ala
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-10-08

N Jan. .. 1895.
Thlrza. the wife OF
the Rcv. william 4.
Hinshaw was found
dead on the door
stea OF her home at
Belleyille. a small
village about twen-
ty-hve miles from
indianapolis Her
husband. who was
the Methodist min
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-10-08

HE melancholy NNf
are come,
The Hnddeat Of the
year,
OF wailing WINDS
ana naked woods
And ~ ca 4 oW o
brown and seat
Ilcap'd iu the not
lows Of tho
grove.
The withor d
leaves De- dead
They rustic TO mo
rddyinr gust
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16
Outgrow.ng Its Clothes.

1t is indicative of an unfortunate
state of affairs when the executive de
partments of the city government, in
order to get through councils sufficient
appropriations to cover actual expenses
have each year to resort to the thread
bare makeshift of initiating their orig
inal estimates anywhere from 20 to 30
per cent. The evil of this is two fold.
1t involves deception and it has ten
dency to encourage the estimates COM
mittee in the bad habit of knocking
estimates in the head, on general prin-
ciples. whether iustifiably or not.
The detailed comparison of amounts
this year asked for with amounts last
year granted, which we printed yester-
day, brings out this evil prominently.
Against S373, 11.19 requested for 1897 we
have $274,S2I.43 granted for 1896, with the
moral certainty that this years grants
will not be in excess of $300,OOO When,
therefore, in the neighborhood of $75,-
COO is deliberately hacked out of cur
rent estimates, it follows either that
there has been good deal of false rep
resentation or else that legitimate
and urgent municipal needs must be ig-
nored Either horn of the dilemma is
quite as bad as the other.
OF the items of notable increase no one
need expect that the street commission
ers department will receive $260lS, or
| that S19,67S1S will be voted for the i'm
| provement of Nay Aug, Connell and
| Woodlawn parks. Yet these sums
| might both be invested to the city's de-
| Cided advantage, in ways that would
| in course of time return the investment
many times over. The parks especially
merit liberal attention, since every year
| of neglect of them simply robs the
citys poor. In similar fashion, there is
genuine necessity for an enlarged police
| force and for at least one new engine
house and regular company. That
either will be awarded this year seems
doubtful. We would it could be other
wise. The fact is, this city is fast out
growing it's clothes.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16
The Irrepressible Mr.. piatt.

The prospective return of Thomas c.
Platt to the United States senate after
an absence of sixteen years recalls the
singular chain of misfortunes which
followed the Blaine -Conlling feud, in
which Mr.. Platt first became a political
character of national renown The
manner in which that unhappy affair
reacted on the political and personal
fortunes of Mr.. Blaine himself, causing
not only the loss of the presidency, but
also intensifying personal losses and
Fastening disease and death, is too well
known to warrant reviewing; but other
details are thus summarized by writer
Mr., George A. BENJAMIN the Chica-
so Times-Herald:
Garfield stricken down by Guiteau's
bullet, fingered along through the summer
of 1851 and, after enduring great agony,
died at Elberton, y. j., in September cf
ferer, died at Mount McGregor just above
Saratoga, in the Adirondacks. Arthur
died at New York soon after the close OF
his administration, Logan soon followed.
Conkling fairly perished in the great bliz-
zard in New York in March 1888. I'm
willing to pay the eXorbitant fees asked
by carriage drivers during the blizzard, ha
trudged through the snow, often up to his
neck, for three miles, from the city hal
to his residence uptown As Il result of
the fearful cold he contracted, he had tn
| abscess of the ear, which affected MS
brain and brought death, The last years
! of his life were rendered unhappy by DO
mestic troubles. Folger died of broken
| heart soon after his crushing defeat toi
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16
The indianapolis Convention.

The monetary conference at Indian
apolis laid down these three funda-
mental propositions:
% That the present gold standard
should be maintained.
(2) That steps should be taken to insure
the ultimate retirement of all classes of
United States notes by a gradual and
steady process, so as to avoid injurious
contraction of the currency or disturb
anceS of the business interests of the coun-
try, and that, in such retirement, pfoVl-
sion should be made for a separation of
the revenue and note issue departments OF
the treasury.
(3) That a banking system be provided
which should furnish credit facilities to
every portion of the country and safe
and elastic circulation, and especially W!th
view to securing such a distribution OF
the loanable capital of the country as Will
tend to equaliZe the rates of interest in
all parts thereof.
The first proposition is conceded,
pending the adoption OF safe bmetal-
lism by international agreement if pos
sible.
The objections to the second PROPOSE
ton are well explained by Senator Sher-
man, who shows that it would substi-
tute an interest bearing for a non-in-
terest bearing currency, without ade-
quate advantage to warrant the in
creased cost.
Concerning the third proposition it
may be said that the people of the
United States are looking for such a
banking system, and when they find it
they will eagerly adopt it, The Indian
apolis conference seems to have left
conditions where it found them.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16

l notice that the ghost story which orig
mated in Scranton ten years ago bids fair
to go on forever. In the fall of 'S6 a yarn
was started to the effect that "a mysterious
woman clad in black garments had been
seen near the air shaft of one of the
abandoned mines of the iron company.
Upon being approached the woman in
black" suddenly disappeared down the
shaft. According to report this awful
wrath soon began to evince a disposition
to chase persons at nightfall, and though
many brave young men endeaVored to
catch the woman in black" they never
succeeded. The story of the woman in
black" soon spread over the country and
in a few weeks the town that could not
boast of a sable spectre did not amount
to much. The late Adam Motchman, a
waggish cigarmaker of upper Lackawan-
ma avenue, claimed to have been the orig
inator of the Scranton woman in black
hoax, and used to take great delight in
relating the manner in which he fooled
the innocent residents in the vicinity of
the old rolling mill Although the Scran-
ton woman in black no longer troubles
the timd youths and maidens at night,
the residents of other towns and cities
still seem to have faith in the sable spec
tres. Factoryville is one of the latest to
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16
#4$$8f93
Weather and Other Predictions for
the Coming Week.

Sunday, Jan 17-Second Sunday after
Epiphany. Weather cold and stormy. A
child born on this day will be prosperous
and perhaps famous; a female will marry
an elderly husband and live happily. Court
and marry.
Monday, Jan. 1S.--Moon in opposition 10
the Sun. A child born on this day will
have restless and unsettled career. Buy
and ask favors.
Tuesday, Jan. 19.-Mars an evening star.
Weather unsettled. A child born on this
day will be clever, but restless and un-
settled Travel and push business in the
afternoon.
Wednesday, Jan. 20-Moon seXtile to
Neptune. Weather unsettled. a child born
on this day will probably have a quiet
career. Doubtful day for business.
Thursday, Jan. 21.--Moon in conjunction
with Jupiter. Weather stormy. a child
born on this day will be fortunate if born
before a. M; otherwise it will encounter
much sorrow and trouble, especially if Il
female. Push thy business in the after
noon
Friday, Jan. 22.-Moon in conjunction
with Mercury. Weather stormy. a child
born on this day will be careless, fond of
pleasure and generally poor. Avoid wo-
men,
Saturday, Jan. 23.-Venus an evening
star. Weather milder A child born on
this day will be steady, persevering and
will rise in life. Seek employment In the
morning
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16
GOOD, SOUND SENSE.
From the Carbondale Herald.

rom the IdI IltidlN'
The Scranton Tribune voices good,
sound sense when it says: Eve see no rea-
son to doubt that Governor Hastings next
June will observe precedent by reappolnt-
ing Dr. Nathan c. Schaeffer superintend-
ent of public instruction. He has been "a
first rate official in every respect; his posi-
tion should be kept free from political IN
fuences, and one good term in that office
certainly merits another" If there Is any
one public department which should be
free from politics it is the school system,
although there are those in this city and
elsewhere who are strenuously endeaVor-
ing to make the school department poll
tical machine,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16
PRETTY GOOD COUNTRY.
nm the PHILADELPHIA Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
This is not the worst country in the
world to live in. We have our troubles,
of course-our silver crazes and our cy-
clones. But the 4O0OO,0C0 people in the
famine districts of India would like to be
under our sky, and the herders of South
Africa whose cattle have died in droVes
from rinderpest would be glad to trade
plain for prairie. And so it goes, the
world over. We in this country, Sir Croa-
ker, are at least free from gross ills and
elemental scOurgeS.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16

governor OF New York. Then, during
Blainc's incumbency of Harrison's cabinet,
Mr.. Window, secretary of the treasury,
dropped dead In his chair, after a brilliant
speech on finance ut banquet in New
York \ fire in the house of General
Tracey, secretary of the navy, at WASH
ington. roasted his wife and daughter, ana
he himself had close call from death To
cap the climax of disaster, after Blainc's
sudden exit from Harrisons cabinet in
1892 Mrs Harrison died. And soon after
ward her husband was Overwhelmingly de-
feated by the man who profted most by
the memorable fight between Blaine and
Conkling.
The freshened knowledge of this sim
gular sequence of ills has led some
persons to fancy a premonition of new
disasters in connection with Mr.. Platts
probable return to the senate. But this
certainly rests on no solid foundation.
The fact is that Mr.. Platt, as politics
goes. has thoroughly earned a re-elec-
tion to the body which he quilted not
without reason, fifteen years ago.
Against great odds he has unwaverlng-
~ maintained his leadership and pulled
victory after victory out of seemingly
inevitable defeat. He Is, too leader
whose dominance rests in most cases
on the willing consent of the led; and
besides that, he is, without question, q
man of extraordinary ability. We have
never learned to like or to trust him.
but there is no sense in trying to BELT
tie him. AS senator of the United
States from the first state in the Union
enjoying to a large degree the personal
| favor of the active forces in Washing
ton official life. Thomas Collier Platt
whatever his past sins, will assuredly
| be a factor of large influence in the
national politics of the next quadren-
| MUM.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16

Mr.. Choate was certainly as able a
man as Mr.. Wanamaker; yet where the
latter got seventy-five votes the former
received only seven. If the difference
was not of brains, was it of "barl?'
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16
BANK CLEARINGS BY SECTIONS.
From the New York Times.

The statistics of clearngs for the year
1896 show that there has been substantial
ly no decline in those of the south. There
was decrease in the aggregate eX-
changes of the country of $229, ,OOO 900. The
decrease in the Middle States was 2O.9 per
cent; in the New England state, lo.'
per cent; in the Middle Western, H. per
cent; in the Pacific states, 1913 per cent.
in other Western states, 81 per cent; in
the southern states, only per cent.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16

In a modest letter of less than one
hundred words j. Pierpont Morgan do
mates $l,00O,000 for a new lying-in hos
pital in New York 1t is well when
men like Morgan begin to appreciate
the proper use of wealth.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16
Incredible.

The report seems. and we prefer to
believe, Is incredible that a sufficient
number of senators at Washington will
undertake to get even with President
Cleveland and Secretary Oney by de-
feating the arbitration treaty 1t does
not need to be pointed out that such
defeat from such a motive would in no
wise abate the triumph which these
two men have won in the treaty's sue
cessful negotiation. 1t could only re-
coil on the heads of the senators VINO
should have encompassed it. They, and
not Cleveland and Olney would have
their pumes clipped.
We look at the treaty itself with
less reverence than some. We do not
think it ushers in the millennium OF
perfect peace. We do not fancy that
the world has seen the last of war. we
are not possessed by the idea that 1t is
time to begin the disbanding of stand
ing armies; to turn warships into coal
barges and to let our coast fortifica-
tions become the unchallenged abiding
places of the bat and the OWL In other
words we cannot deceive ourselves
into imagining that one snort treaty
has wrought any miraculous transfor-
nation in the chemistry of human ma
ture, precpitating the passions and
interfering the graces.
Yet we recognize that in its educa-
tional Significance it is great for
ward step. leaving. to be sure. great
bloodless victories yet to be won, but
pointing out, as no prior instrument OF
statecraft has yet done, the direction
in which those victories may be won.
1t is a harbinger of the coming time
when the appeal to force of arms VIII
come last instead of first. For TINS rea-
son the American senator who inter-
poses factious objections to it's ratitica-
tion brands himself as a public enemy
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16

We see nothing incredible or even
strange in the report that Consul Gener-
al Lee, in private, wishes that the Gu
ban insurgents may win. No American
can wish otherwise.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16

If the city of Pittston can afford to
boycott outside enterprise, outside en-
terprise can afford to be boycotted.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16

AS Quay is going to Florida in a few
days the question arises how will the
state of Pennsylvania get along in his
absence.-Plttsburg Times.
Pshaw! Isn't Senator Magee on
deck?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16

= Copies of the Philadelphia Times and
of the Philadelphia Ledger almanacs
for 1897 have been received. Both are
issued gratuitously to the readers of
those papers, and both contain valuable
information for reference purposes, be-
ing especially complete in matters per-
tanning to Philadelphia.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16

The remodeled Chap-Book today
makes it's first appearance in the new
size When it lately declared its IN
tention to expand into a serious review
which would to the limit of its ability,
Subject contemporary literature to the
highest standards" there We're some
smiles of sarcasm and not a little shak-
ing of heads But the Introductory is
sue in the new guise demonstrates that
its ambitious prospectus was no .~'e
boast. Five more interesting book
criticisms would be hard to find any
where; and one of them-that of Bar
rie's Sentimental Tommy"
trihe luXuriant in rhetoric, is never
theless a mastery analysis, and wor-
thy to be taken for a model If the
Chap Book can maintain this level Its
warrant for existence cannot be ques-
toned.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16

emphatically for serious considerations
1t is we'll i'm this time of fluent tax
about woman's ampler sphere to have
the minds of sensible women turned
occasionally toward a studious and
sympathetic contemplation of the
duties and responsibilities of that
sphere which bears commission from
Divinity itself-the sphere of mother
hood.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16

In a sense it may be said that con-
gress is going to seed. Despite Secre-
tary Mortons protests, the house COM
mittee on agriculture has just increased
from $l35,OO to $15O,OOO the appropria-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16

report a dark wanderer. The factoryVlle
ghost, however, is a man, and is even more
terrible in appearance than the scranton
spectre of ten years ago. 1t is thought
that close inspection would reveal the fact
that he is of flesh and blood, but no one
dare venture near, As will be seen by the
accompanying sketch, the Factoryville
mystery is an individual of sinister APP
pearance and a man who should be given
a wide berth. From all accounts ii is evi-
dent that Fpctoryville is the stamping
ground of most uncanny spirit, or else
there is need of temperance work in that
beautiful little village.
Perhaps / am mistaken but it seems to
me that the temperance and other good
people of the city made great mistake
in allowing the ordinance abolshing lunch
wagons 10 be passed i'm the councils with
out a protest. The wel-fed and we'll
housed citizen probably has little idea
of the boon that the cheap lunch wagon
has been to the homeless unfortunate who
may ease the cravings of the inner man
at nightfall at q trining cost. The sand
Wich that can be procured for cents at
the lunch wagon window costs 10 cents
at most OF the saloons that are open all
night. / do not believe in these days Of
business depression, when the fields OF
labor are over-crowded that every tramp
who wanders from town to town in search
of food does so from choice. ! believe that
the majority who are classed among the
| beggars would rather purchase their food
than beg It from door to door If places
| were provided where II could be secured
| at a triAing cost. The night lunches are
| encouraged and supported in other
| cities by temperance people. II
| should be so in Scranton, IN
stead of banishng the wagons, the city
| should favor them as furnishing oppor-
| tunities for the hungry to secure food
| without being TEMPTED to waste their
| mite for intoXicants TS idea that the
solitary lunch wagon on deserted street
! at midnight Is a nuisance" Is ridiculous,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16

Mr.. Platt probably appreciates the
fact that vindications like misfortunes,
when they come at all come fast.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16

offering
merp price, $685. Price,