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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-17
"MABoN" ON THE COAL SCHEME.

The coal output scheme" to regulate
and prevent the underselling of coal in
Wales, is at present the principal mat
ter of interest in the anthracite fields.
w. Abraham, NJ. y. (Mabon), seems to
be the chief promoter of the scheme
which it is understood is for the bene-
fit of the laborers. He addressed a
letter to the workmen asking co-opera-
tion. In it he says:
Fellow Workmen:-In accord with
the understanding come to between
the Workmen's representatives at Car
diff on Saturday last, it is my duty to
ask you, without delay, convene a pub
lie meeting at each and all of the col
lieries in your district to consider this
question, and in the same to appoint a
deputation to wait, if possible, on the
owners of your various colleries; fail
ing that, upon the management there
of. Get to know from them as to
whether or not they are prepared to
join in the carrying out of the scheme
proposed for this purpose. If the an
swer will be in the negative beg Of
. them to do so, urge upon them that
some such cooperation amongst en-
ployers is Indispensable if employer and
workman are to receive the remunera-
ton due to each of them from the coal
trade of the future, or, in addition, if
the peace and goodwill now existing
between employer and employed is de-
sirous of being maintained.
THE answer to your question please
bring to the next monthly meeting,
when and where further action in the
interest Of furthering this essential
movement will be considered and fu-
ture action agreed upon.-Yours truly,
Mabon."
The scheme, however, seems to have
fallen through, judging from another
| letter by Mabon. In part he says:
while feeling grateful towards that
| large number of colliery owners who
| have been strenuous in their efforts to
| formulate and have put into force a
! scheme for controlling the output of
| coal in the South Wales coal field, one
| cannot but regret the apparent nom
success so far of such effort That
| these gentlemen were honest in their
endeavors one cannot admit Of doubt,
of which the great amount of time that
| they have given to the matter Is the
| demonstrative proof. And it is ex-
| tremely regretable that a comparative
| ly small number of recalcitrant owners
| should hold their support from this
| movement. And I would humbly sub
nit for their consideration that it is
| quite possible for a failure of this
scheme, for which the workmen and
the public would naturally hold them
/ directly responsible, to bring about the
| most undesirable results. They all
know by this time that / would be the
| last in the world to countenance, much
less utter, anything in the shape OF a
| threat. But one would be scarcely
honest to them, nor to the Welsh min
ing community, were he not to warn
the muish gentlemen among our coll
liery owners of the growing feeling
the daily growing gfeeling--among all the
collery workmen Of this coal field with
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-17
SCHEME TO RAISE THE DEBT OF
ABERDARE HALL.

SCHEME TO RAISE THE DEBT OF
ABERDARE HALL.
The council of Aberdare Hall having
at a recent meeting decided to raise a
fund to redeem the debt of f4,5 500 on the
new buildings of Aberdare Hall at Car
diff as memorial to their first presi-
dent, the late Dowager Lady of Aber-
dare, a public meeting to further The
rlovement was on Monday, June %,
held in the library of the hall, and an
excellent beginning was made subscrip-
tions exceeding a total of $500 being
promised in the room.
Lord Tredegar, who headed the list
with a generous donation of 81 $50, oc-
cupieo the chair, and supporting him
were Principal Viriamu Jones (vice-
president of the counciD, Mrs. Viriamu
Jones the (secretary), and Miss Hurl-
bait (the principaD. There was a large
and influential gathering, the attend
ance including DR.. and Mrs. w. It. Ed
wards, General Lee, Mr.. w. Edwards
III. NJ. inspector of schools, Merthyr),
Mr. II. NJ. Thompson, Professor and
Mrs. Conway, Mr.. and Mrs. John Dun
can, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Austin jenkins,
Mons. Madame, and Mdlle Barber
Rev. F. J. Beck (vicar of Roath), Rev.
Daniel Lewis, r. ID. (rector of Caer-
philly), Professor Richards Mr. II. H.
Thomas, R. G.. A., Alderman David
Morgan (Aberdare), Mr.. Morgan Nor
gan (chief agent of the Duffryn estate,
Mountain ASH, Rev. b. Lloyd (vicar
of Mountain ASH, Miss Slupton (Moun-
tain ASH Mrs. Griffith Jones Penarth),
Mrs. Lewis Williams, Mrs. Kate Free
man (Swansea), Mrs. and Miss Harry
Riches, Miss Alice Evans Pontypridd,
Miss Collins, Mrs Atkinson, Miss Cory,
Miss Dawson, and others.
A subscription list was opened in the
room, and contributions were received
amounting to a total of over $500. The
principal subscribers are:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-17
LORD TREDEGAR'S JOKE.

A good deal was said at the Lady
Aberdare Memorial meeting at Cardiff
as to the generous treatment meted
out to women by the Welsh university
and it's constituent colleges, and COM
PARSONS with the older universities
We're frequently made-Very much of
course to the disadvantage of the older
universities aforesaid. This afforded
an opportunity for Lord Tredegar to
relate n capital joke. 1t had reference
to the disgust of a certain lady stu
dent when she learnt of the rejection
by Cambridge of the claim of women
to degrees, "What," asked the profess
sor with the class, "are the two prin-
cipal ingredients in the atmosphere"
oh" absently replied the fair one,
Oxygen and Cambridgen!"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-17
TWO OF A KIND.
An AnecdOte Which Shows That
There Were Liars Long Ago.

The Count Saint Germain, who ap-
peared in Paris in the reign of Louis
XIV. and pretended to be possessed of
the elixir of life, had q valet who was
almost as great as his master in the
art of lying. Once, when the count
was describing at a dinner party a
circumstance which occurred at the
court of ''his friend, King Richard L.,
Of England" he appealed to his SER
want for the confirmation of his story,
who, with the greatest composure, re-
piled: You forget, sir, have only
been 800 years in your service"
True" said his master musingly,
1T was a little before your time
Household Words.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-17
MISTOOK THE DATE.

An amusing, albeit startling. incl
dent was witnessed recently at Welsh
chapel. While the society" was in
progress the members We're startled
by the entrance of a man who carried
on his back large double bass, copies
Of music, and a stand. The minister
was in the act of opening the meeting,
and the congregation were not only
surprised but alarmed, and it was only
when one Of the officers went up to
the intruder and found that he "as a
member of a band, and had mistaken
the practice night, that tranquility was
restored.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-17
NEW BARDIC CROWN

T. II. Thomas has designed a new
bardic crown for the Newport eistedd-
fod, of which the following is a de-
scription: In the center is a British
shield-shaped space supporting a mod
ell of the Gorsedd in FURNISHED silver
or crystals or amber surrounded by
engraved lettering, within the circle
archaic raised lettering, above the bar
die sign. On either side Celtic orna-
ment, from which oak leaves and
acorns taper to ends, the tapering
broken by two studs of material silver
All the decorations will be in strong
relief.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-17
Notes from GWalia,

wife and daughters are among the
most amiable and useful ladies' of the
Cape. Grand openings will present
themselves in South Africa before long,
and i am fully persuaded that Welsh
men will occupy honorable and con-
spicuou5 positions among men of other
nationalities in that distant land-the
country of the future.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-17
NOTES

Swansea's new chamber of commerce
has been formally opened.
The Hon, Fred Morgan of Glynllifon,
Carnarvonshire, has sold his WELL
known yacht Nina to the Prince Of
Naples.
Aberdare is bent upon trying conclu-
sions with Cardiff in the matter of Sc
curing the Welsh National eisteddfod
for 1899.
Welsh Baptists will be interested to
learn that Rev. John Thomas, of Myr-
tie street church, Liverpool, has de-
clined the call from st. Andrews Bap-
tist church, Cambridge.
The first edition of 10000 copies Of
the new Welsh hymn book of the
Calyinistic Methodists has been sold
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-17

regard to the desirability of putting the
proposed scheme at least to q fair and
reasonable test. There is today, and
there has been for some time, the
strongest possible feeling existing
among the South Wales colliery work.
men and all the representatives that
every ton of coal that is now being
sold could be sold at a much better
price than 1t now is, and therefore pro-
duce better wages than now exist, were
some such scheme as the one now pro-
posed in force among our coal propre-
tors. And 1t should not be forgotten
that the competition in the coal trade
in South Wales is very different indeed
from competition in any other business,
or in the coal trade itself in any other
part of the country. There is no other
part of the country at present in this
trade where owners who make con-
tracts at an unreasonably low price
can rely upon corresponding reduc-
ton IN the wages of their workmen,
and thus none have the same fair
ground of complaint against any en-
ployer or numbers of employers who
refuse to join q scheme where the
mutual interest of both employers and
workmen are supposed to be protected,
Hence the apparent reluctance of those
employers who have not yet Joined the
admirable scheme proposed for this
mutual protection will be interpreted
and understood to mean that this pro-
fessed mutually of interests between
owners and their workmen is not real,
consequently the spirit of unrest, to
say nothing of mistrust, will again be-
come rampant; and every scheme eX-
listing that tends to propagate that
mutually of interests as well as of the
peace of this vast coal field will be at
once placed in jeopardy.
The same remarks, only in a more
modified form, will apply to those
ing their acceptance of the scheme con-
ditional upon almost impossible terms.
A less percentage than the one asked
for could undoubtedly be made the
basis of giving the scheme a very fair
time. Please do not forget that your
workmen have been looking. forward
with fond hope to what they had up
to a few weeks ago a very reasonable
expectation as to the results of this
scheme, and the failure thereof would
reasonably and unquestionably revive
in very accentuated form the demand
for some system by which a supply of
their commodities could be adjusted to
the demand thereof"
Continuing, Mabon dalls upon the
workmen for patience and believes that
the operation of the scheme would per-
petuate peace in the district
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-17

The publication of this private letter
will give to many readers of the his
tory of the civil war the first definite
impression of the tremendous advant-
age the Confederates had through
spies in Washington, and also the first
knowledge of how the fortune of battle
wavered on the field of Bull Run.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-17

neglects these troubles is laying the foun-
dation for lifelong wretchedness.
A modest woman naturally recoils from
the mortifying ordeal of examinations and
local treatment which doctors insist upon.
But there is no necessity for any such re-
pugnant alternative. DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription cures these delicate complaints
positively and completely. 1t is medicine
devised for this particular purpose by one
of the most eminent of living specialists in
woman's diseases.
DIR. Pierce has been for nearly 30 years
chief consulting physician of the fnvalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo,
N. Y. During this time he has received
fully ninety thousand letters from women
who have been cured by the "Favorite Pre-
scription." Some of these letters are
printed by permission in one chapter of DR..
Pierce's great thousand-page book, The
Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser" "
1t contain advice and suggestions for self
treatment which every woman ought to
read. More than half million copies have
been sold at ST. so each. An absolutely free
edition in paper covers will be sent for a
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-17
WELSHMEN IN CAMBRIDGE.

Welshmen have been exceptionally
successful in Cambridge this year. In
the historical tripos, although three wo-
men appear in the first class, there is
only one man, and he is a Welshman-
Mr.. 7. S. Roberts, Peterhouse. Mr.
Roberts is a native of Pembrokenshire,
and an old student of Lampeter. In
the classical tripos two Joneses appear
in the first class. One of these, Mr.. V.
S. Jones, Kings college, is the son of
the Rev. John Jones, NJ. A., hearmas-
ter of the Ystradmeurig Grammar
school. He is in the first division of the
first class. He was educated at Ystrad-
meurig and Eton. Mr.. w. H. Jones,
Selwyn, is also placed in the same class.
In the natural science Wales is repre-
sented by two names-D. Owen, Glare
college, an old student of Bangor, who
is placed in the first class in part 2,
having previously obtained a first in
part /. of the same tripos and Mr.. j.
Jehu, Llanfair, who obtains a first in
part /. Mr.. Jehu is an eXhibitioner of
st. Johns college, and has studied in
Edinburgh In the mental and moral
science tripos, part H., Mr.. W. Jenkyn
Jones, of Gonville and Caius college, is
placed in the first class. Mr.. Jones,
who had previously obtained a first
class in part l., is native of Penygarn
near Aberystwyth college. There are
no Welshmen amongst this years
wranglers. In addition to the above
successes a large number of Welshmen
have obtained places in the second and
third classes of the various triposes.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-20
A Real Circus Combine.

The uniting of the great John Robin
son and Franklin Bros enormous shows
has caused ''stir" in tented amuse-
ments.
This huge institution is the only one TO
present such weli-known and high-sal-
aried performers as Miss Rose DockrIll,
the worlds greatest equestrienne; Mr..
Frank Miller and Robert Stickney, who
stand at the head of the horseback rid
ers of the profession; the five Cornalins
family, Europe's foremost acrobats;
Seigrist aud Silbon, who are the acknOw-
lodged monarchs of the air, a double
troupeof Royal japanese performers:
Miss Dole Miller the greatest lady
acrobatic rider on either side of the At
lantic; the three famous French grotes-
ques, the De Zallos; troupe of twenty
humanity educated horses and pOnderOuS
elephants, besides other novelties which
can only be counted by the score. 1t is
also well-knOwn fact that these great
shows present the finest geological col
lection in America, and hippOdrOme
of surprising merit The street parade,
which moves from the show grounds
each day at 10 a. m, is the combined
parades of 10th Of these tented amuse-
ments The Robinson Franklin Show
will exhibit at Paris, Monday, August
Both.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-20
So ROund-trip to Batt1efields.

Grand low rate excursion Georgetown
to Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain and
Chickamauga Battlefields via the Queen
& Crescent Route, Saturday, August 21.
Good to return August %. Good on all
regular trains on dates named.
See small hand-bills for full par:icu-
lars of this, the greatest excursion of
the season. Beautiful scenery en- route.
Historic grounds and unsurpassed views
at Chattanooga. S. T. Swift. P. & T.
A; W. q. Molg gan, D. T. A. Lexington.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-20
Teachers Institute.

THE examination for white teachers
will be held at the courthouse on Aug.
90 and 81, opening at $50 a. m. That
for colored teachers will be held on Aug.
q and %, at the same place, opening at
the same hour. The Teachers Institute
will begin Aug. %, continuing four
days at the High School building.
Prof. E. w. Weaver, the conductor, will
be assisted by other educators, and the
program will be unusually attractive.
The public is cordially invited to attend
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-20

"Some Little of the Angel Still Left. -
is the title OF most entertaining novel
written by Mrs. John III. Clay, of Lex,
ington. The story is well told and d
touch Of Kentucky life in it should
make it attractive to persons in the
Bluegrass. The price is % cents.
Robert Clark & Co., Cincinnati, pub
fishers.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-20
PRINTED EVERY rUpsDAy AND FRIDAY.
COSBY PARAGRAPHS.

Theatrical And Otherwise Remarks In
The Foyer.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-20

Street & Smith have paid $1,000 to the
author of '-Capt, Impudence," Edwin
Milton Royie, for the right TO turn his
play into story, and the book will
make its appearance on the news-stands
early this fall
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-20

The Lebanon Enterprise advertises
that s. A. Smith, Station j., San Fran
cisco, wants a Kentucky girl for wife.
| Here's chance, girls.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-20

An Ohio county mother who attempt
ed to get rid of a young mans visits to
her daughter by scaiding him has been
called on by jury to pay $3.50 damages
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-20

WrinhHs Cel"I-v
I: : tsr,~.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-20

Albert Bal, Of the firm of Roster &
Bal. music hall proprietors, of New
York, is dead.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-20
X < x

Blood poison resulting from a mosqui-
to bite may cause pretty Dorothy bod
wod, of New York, to lose her right
limb.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-20
Piles 4! Piles ! Piles I

DR.. Williams Indian Pile Ointment will
cure Blind Bleeding, liberated and Itching
Piles. 1t absOrbs the tumOrs, allays the itch
ing at once, acts as a poultice, gives instant
relief. DIR. Williams Indian Pile Ointment
is prepared only for Piles and Itching of the
private parts, and nothing else Every box
is guaranteed. Sold by druggists, sent by
mail for SOC. and 81 per box. WILLIAMS
MIG CO., Props, Cleveland, y. For sale by
w. L. Brooks druggist. (24iy-96-ly)
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RAILROAD TIME CARD.
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ARRIVAL OF TRAINS :

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WANTED.-To buy wheat. Will pay
the highest market cash price. Sacks
furnished I @
E o. FRETWELL,
P. o. Box $50, Paris, KY.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-20

SHERMAN SIIvERS has taken the
agency for the Cincinnati Daily Times
Star, most excellent paper, and will
have it delivered to subscribers in any
part of the city for six cents per week.
He solicits your subscription. (tf)
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-20

Pauline Hall, once the queen of bur-
lesque, is dying in New York.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-20

WANTED.-To buy wheat. Will pay
the highest market, cash price. Sacks
furnished.
E. .. FRETWEI.L.
P. o. Box $50, Paris, KY.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

LIEUTENANT WISE MAKING HIS EXPERIMENT.
which he had made himself, and they
were notifications Of the Hargraves
kite, which has been used so success
fully. The kite frames were made Of
light spruce, and they were covered with
light cotton cloth. Four kites were
used, and they were flown tandem.
They contained in all over 400 feet of
surface, every inch Of which had lift
ing power.
The four kites were attached to each
other by rope, and to this was fastened
an iron ring, just below the lowest kite
To this ring was fastened a block,
through which was run a light MANILA
rope. When tho kites were successfully
raised to the proper distance, Lieutenant
Wise seated himself in a boatswain' g
chair and was pulled up to the block by
five soldiers. Four more soldiers man.
aged the windlass which controlled the
kite rope.
Only two other men have made ascen-
sions in this manner. One is Lawrence
Hargrave, who went up 40 feet in Aus
tralia in 1895, and the other is Captain
Powell Of the Scots Greys, who went
up nearly 100 feet in England.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11
IRISH AMERICANS.
Objects of the New Historical Society Re.
Gently Formed In Boston.

Objects OF the New Historical Society Re-
Gently Formed In Boston.
For the purpose Of tracing the Irish
element in the American of today ma
tional association was formed in Boston
recently. 1t is called the American Irish
Historical society, and it was organized
by the election Of Admiral Meade as its
first president. Other prominent citizens
Of Irish descent were chosen to fill the
remaining offices, and now the society
is ready for work.
Just what this association aims at is
best described in the preamble to its
constitution and bylaws as follows:
believing that the part taken in the
settlement, foundation and upbuilding
of this United States by the Irish race
has never received proper recognition
from historians, and inspired by love
for the republic, pride in our blood
and forefathers and II desire for historic
truth, this society has met and organ
lied. Its mission is to give plain re-
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-02-11

survives hlm, as do his three daughters
and one son, at present residents Of
Washington.
In 1875 Mr.. Beadle went to New
York city, where no served as financial
reporter for The Daily Graphic and
wrote for the magazines, but three years
later he returned to Indiana determined
no longer to be wandering scribe, but
to settle down among his old friends.
He bought the Rockville Tribune and
busted himself, besides doing the work
of country editor, with work ON sew
eral books which he had under way. He
had already published 1.-The Undevelop-
ed West and Western Wilds and the
Men Who Redeemed Them. To these
he added "History of Parke County,
Indiana" and in 1882 he issued an en-
larged and revised edition of his Life
In Utah.
But he was net content to remain in
obscurity. Although a modest and re-
firing man, he liked to feel that he was
in the midst Of affairs, to witness great
public events, and so, when in the prime
Of life and at the period of his greatest
success in the world of letters, he went
again to New York city to join the staff
Of editors and correspondents of the
American Press Association. In that ca
pacity he made an extended tour
through Canada and Nova Scotia, writ
ing letters full of breezy description and
interesting information, In 1890 he
made European tour, and his corre-
spondence, printed under the title "a
Hoosier Abroad" was widely read and
greatly appreciated. In later years Mr..
Beadle was stationed at Washington and
wrote entertainingly about men and af.
fairs from the national capital.
SEwEIJ F0RD