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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-21
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
Over 1000 Killed on Roads of United
Kingdom Last Year.

From the LCndOn IlheS.
From the general report to the Eng
lish Board of Trade upon the accidents
that have occurred on the railways of
the United Kingdom during 1896 it ap-
pears that there We're SO passengers
killed and 1856 injured, including those
who had suffered from their own want
of caution or misconduct. Similarly 447
railway servants or contractors We're
killed and 1866 We're injured. "Other
persons" killed, 4GS, and 297 injured.
Total killed zoos; injured, 5S77.
In addition to the above the COM
panies have returned So persons killed
and II 002 injured from accidents that
occurred on their premises, but which
were not connected with the move
ment of railway vehicles. Thus the
total number of personal accidents re-
ported to the Board of Trade by the
railway companies during the twelve
months amounts to 1893 persons killed
and 6,S70 injured.
The total number of passenger Jour
neys, exclusive of journeys by season
ticket holders, was 9SO,339,677 for the
year, or 50,56S,76S more than in the
previous year. Calculated on these fig
ures, the proportions of passengers
killed and injured during the year 1896
were l in 1854, ,2S7 killed and in 61S,121
injured. In 1895 the proportions were l
in 11,202,O59 killed and l in S3S,3S7 in
jured.
During the year only five persons
were killed and 3SS injured from causes
beyond their own control, the killed be-
ing the same as in 1895 and the injured
II more in the last named year. In
1894 the figures We're 16 killed and 347
injured.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-21
HE GOT WATER,
The Old TrappeT Showed Them a New
Device in Reaching Drinks.
From the Detroit Fress Press.

ITOm lHt DtliOll fItSS Press.
when people are suffering from
thirst they will resort to all kinds of
means to get water" remarked a
gentleman who was at one time a
member of the United States geologi-
cal and surveying expedition in the
Indian Territory. For some time we
had been without water and were suf-
fering greatly. Among our number
was an old trapper who was as keen
on the scent for water as is a hound
on the trial of a deer. Finally he paus-
ed at a place and stopped.
"I think there's water here, if we
could dig a WELL, he observed.
"'But we can't replied.
"'No, but we can do somthing else,
he said.
with that he cut a reed, tying some
moss on the end of il. Then he dug
into the earth, placed his reeed in the
hole and packed the earth around the
reed. He waited for "A few moments.
" do you mean to say you can suck
water out of that thing?' I asked
"'Yes, If, as l think, there's water
near the surface
"He drew strongly at it with much
satisfaction
"'Good,' he remarked; would you
like to try it?'
with little confidence in the result
I sucked at the reed with the supris-
ing result of getting plenty Of clear
water. To my parched tongue it seem
ed the very nectar of the gods.
Its as clear as the water of a
spring / said,
"'Yes, the moss is our filter he re-
piled.
"We pursued our journey much re-
freshed' and l never forgot the old
trapper's advice"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-21
TRAVEL IN KENTUCKY.

From the Chicago Tribune.
l was trying to find my way to Colonel
Ted BaXter's on George Creek, eastern
Kentucky and got lost.
l met an Old man with gun on his
shoulder and six hounds at his heels
I'm trying to get to Colonel BaXter's, ,"
/ said, as l drew rein.
Don't keer eff ye ar" returned the old
man, unlipping a gill of tobacco juice and
looking up Sharply in my face.
Il m lost | continued.
Well cf you know emmy o. the land
marks, ye go straight on this road till ye
come to whar ole Bob Peters cut the giz-
2ard outen ole TObe Mason. Thar the
road splits, an you go to the left, about
200 yards, till ye reach the spot whar Ben
Carpenter split ole John Capfeld's brain
box open with er handspike. Go on then
little furder ter whar John Simpson let
daylight into ole Nose Turner with a
butcher knife, an thar the road cracks
open agin, an you take to the right an
go on till ye cum to whar l sent a gourd
full o buckshot into ole George Lem
mons's lungholder. Thar We take to the
left agin, an keep goin' till ye reach a
house whar an ole man an an ole woman
are drunk in the front yard, cussin' and
fightin'. AK if Colonel Baxter lives thar
an he'll say: Vas, darn ye. Git down
take snort o. moonshine, an make yer.
self to homen"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-21
ENGLISH UNDEFILED.
The President ofthe Board of Educa-
tion Furnishes a Negative Example.

From the Youths Companion.
1t was commencement day at the
Dashvillc high school. The hall was
densely packed with the friends of the
graduates and it was a hot evening, as
it usually is on the occasion of COM
mencCment The president of the
board of education, a worthy but not
highly educated citizen, took charge
Of the exercises by virtue of his office,
and, amid a silence broken only by the
futtering of fans and the rustling of
dresses he rose and began his address:
Graduates of the Dashville high
school, ladies and gentlemen: Owing
to the length of the progr'm and the
fact that the heat and and the crowd
cd condition of the room discommodes
a great many Of you, l shall try and be
hrief. Young gentlemen and ladies,
this a moo age of the world Moo con-
ditions are constantly rising, and we
must rise to meet them. The lesson
comes to you and [ every day we live.
Nnat Constitooted an education two
o. three decayeds ago will not do for
these kind of times.
''I am not one of those men who be-
lieves that the school he went to when
he was "a boy is better than schools are
now. l believe in moo ideas. l believe
in progress, AS far as the board of
education are concerned we have tried
to keep up with the march of pro-
gress.
I'VE have provided teachers whom I
believe are not eXcelled anywheres.
We have furnished apparat fuses as
good as money can buy. We are glad
to see that the children have become
enthused over their work, and / want
to impress upon the minds of the pay
rents the dooty of visiting the schools.
Every payrent ought to take enough
interest in their children to once in a
while go and see how they are getting
along. If you do this the graduating
classes will grow larger and larger ev
cry year and the teachers will resoom
their labors at the beginning of every
school year with renooed confidence.
II have great pleasure now in pre-
senting Mr.. Herbert Rice, who will de-
liver the first Grafton on the progr'm
on the subject, Let Us Preserve the
English Language Undefled.'
AS soon as the loud applause and the
conVulsive coughing that greeted the
close of the presidents speech had sub
sided, Mr.. Herbert Rice arose, red with
suppressed emotion, and delivered an
impassioned plea for the preservation
of the English language in its origin
al purity, plea that is still spoken of
in Dashville as a masterpiece of elo-
uuenCe.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-21

IL is an Illinois concern, having rami-
fcations throughout the country, but
with headquarters in New York, and
having forty ovens with a capacity To
convert a thousand barrels of flour into
Biscuits every day. Its main factories
are on Tenth avenue and give employ
ment to more than a thousand persons.
There Is big branch at Cambridge
port, Mass, with sixteen ovens for the
New England supply, another at Chi
cago for the Western supply another
at Grand Rapids, and another at Phil
adelphia. The extent of the cracker
and biscuit industry of the country is
not fully shown by these figures, for
the gross capital of the cracker and
biscuit companies consolidated in 1890
is 1926, 000, 000
The opinion I'm general is that flour
and water are the chief ingredients of
crackers and biscuits, but some figures
collated during the present year show
the extent to which various products
are required for the biscuit and crack
er industry in New York state. Near
ly 5000, 900 barrels of flour are used each
year for this purpose, and in addition
50000,000 pounds of sugar, 35,00O,0 ,0C0
pounds of lard, 100000 gallons of mo-
lasses, 100000 pounds of honey, 6,000,-
900 pounds of butter, 100000 dozen
eggs, 100000 gallons Of milk, 2,OO0,tO0
pounds Of soda, 100000 pounds of hgs
and almonds, 4500,000 pounds of salt
100000 pounds of cocoanut, 100000
pounds of currants. 100000 pounds of
ginger 100000 pounds of jelly, 250,0n0
pounds of chocolate, 100000 pounds of
cream of tartar, 100000 pounds of april
cots, 100000 pounds of almond paste,
and 500,0 900 lemons. In the making and
sale of biscuits and crackers $4,000 men
are employed, inclusive of the packers,
and each year 100000 wooden boxes
are used in this industry, exclusive of
a million or more tin boxes in which
biscuits and crackers are packed for
shipment. The partiality of Americans
for biscuits and crackers is very mark
ed and it is due to what may be called
a national preference.
As a result of the consoi1 alton of
the various biscuit and cracker baker
les the price at which crackers are sold
has been steadily reduced.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-21
AS TOLD BY HIMSELF.
western Citizens "Reminiscences of
the Time When There Were wild
Buffalo.

From the Kansas City Journal.
Speaking of liars" said the western
Kansas man as he knocked the ashes
out of his pipe and looked at the real
estate agent out of the corner of his
eye, II think western Kansas can show
up some as rare specimens as | ever set
eyes on. Now, there was old John $.
I'll not give his full name because the
old man still lives out somewhere near
Kiowa, and if he was to get in print
AS noted liar he might get hot. When
l read an account of Speaker Bill
Streets speech up i'm Jewell county at
an old settlers picnic, where he said
that he had stood on a knoll and seen
a dense, moving herd of buffalo as far
as the eye could reach, some way it
brought old John to mind.
when / tirst struck the short grass
country old John was there He got
me cornered one day and was so tick
led to get fresh victim that he hard
ly stopped even to take drink, un-
til he had stuffed me so full that l was
partially paralyzed for a month after
ward. He gave me to understand that
for years before he came to Kansas
he was one of the most dreaded des-
roamed through the Rocky Mountains
l learned afterward that he wouldn't
fight a cat, and actually trembled with
fear whenever his hatchet-faced wife
turned loose on him with her tongue,
but when l first met him his blood
thirsty talk fairly made my blood run
cold. -,- r.'. .... ~-,..-.,,.
He informed me that he was known
fn nd do
as Tiger Jack, the terror of the Rock
les But was going to speak of his
buffalo story | asked him one day,
just to bring him out, if he ever got
into any tight places when he was
hunting buffalo. oh, I've been in
places that | suppose most fellers
would call ticklish,' he replied, but
| never any place that ratified Tiger
Jack but once, and that time l own
was worried
ST was huntin' buffalo down the
Medicine Valley, along in 20. The
country was just alive with the crit
ters and I was knockin' 'em right and
left, when all at once somethin' start
ed a stampede, and three or four mil
lion buffalo came rushin' down the val
ley, just maxim the ground shake as
tHey COlne. 1 seen at once tnat i would
have to get out of there or be run
over, but my pony was all tagged out,
and the herd kept gaining on him at
every jump. l saw that them buffalo
was goin' to run that pony down and
| that something had to be done. and
done quick. Well, sir 7 seen that there
was just one thing to do l waited till
the head buffalo was right on my
pony's flank and then 1 made a jump
on that buffalo's hump.
Then sir, l just went jumpin' from
| the back Of one buffalo to another and
| shootin', as I went-thought, maybe.
you know, that l could scatter the
herd and get a chance to get down on
| the ground. Well sir, when l struck
the rear of that stampede I was only a
mile from home. l went out the next
| day and measured the distance from
where jumped and founu had trav-
| eled on the backs of buffalo for six
miles and a quarter. I'll tell you hon
| estly, think it was little the closest
| shave l ever had"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-21

possible. | cannot believe, and yet
there, know not what to think"
Doris laughs a little musical ripple,
and then laying her hand on his arm,
and nesting closer, she says:
shall I explain the mystery, love?
/ sent them"
You! How could you! The gas was
locked. l mean the door--I-but you
how could you?"
II will tell you. but you must not
let papa know. The paper came from
India, wrapped round some presents
that ] had sent to me. The writing I
did with my left hand with the moist
ened point of stick of India ink"
But the locked room!" interjected
Sydney.
Then I rolled 1t up very small and
stood it upright on projection of the
chandelier and fixed it there with a
tiny bit of wax from a candle. When
the gas had been alight a little while
the wax melted, and down fell the
message with it's own weight See ,?
But you will keep my secret from
papa?"
And Mr.. Shirley does not understand
the mystery to this day.-Tit- Bits.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-21
BUNCoERs ABROAD: BEWARE

1t is the trick of the Bryanized De-
mocracy this fan to make false
charges against Republican methods,
raise big dust. hire Republican NAL
contents to organize Republican bolts
and then coax individual Republicans
to desert their party on the represen-
tation that party ties needn't count
for anything in an off year" by this
trick, If it shall work, the Bryanitcs
will get foothoid for a hopeful fight
in national campaigns, and make just
so much more trouble for Mckinley.
the Republican congress and the cause
Of sound money.
You now sec through this trick. Arc
you going TO let it work?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-21
MAHATMAS' MESSAGE.

brick walls were as nothing to a Ma
hatma- Was there ever such a char
liable creed that the innermost circle
should interest itself on behalf Of one
who had openly expressed his opinion
that such manifestations were "bosh."
The next meeting of the Theosophists,
before whom Mr. Shirley detailed, the
circumstance and produced the EVIL
dence, unanimously agreed that his
bodily health and perhaps his very life
might be imperilled if he still persisted
in opposing the wishes of his masters.
They implored and abjured him to
relent, and worked on his feelings to
such an extent that he went home i'm
pressed with an awful sense of some
impending doom, some terrible calami-
ty that was about to burst on his Of
Tending head.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-21
Iast Runnine.
'om the Buffalo Enquirer.

From the Bunalo Enquirer.
1t was in a negligence case recently,
and good-humored Ir!shman was wit
ness
The judge, lawyers and everybody else
were trying their best to extract from
the Irishman something about the speed
of a train.
"Was il going fast?' asked the Judge.
"Aw, yis, it Were" answered the wit
ness.
"Oh, purity fasht, your honor"
"Well, how fast?"
"Aw, purity fasht."
WAS 1t as fast as a man can run?"
Jaw, yis," glad that the basis for an
analogy was supplied. "As fast as two
min kin rum"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-21
"

A train is throbbing swiftly north
ward bearing among its passengers
two that have that day been made
man and wife. The bridegroom sits
absorbed in his thoughts, seeming OBJ
livious to the fact that what should
be all the world to him sits by his
side, 1t is not that one deftly thrown
slipper has made a bruse on his fore
mead nor that sundry grains OF rice
had slipped down between his collar
and his neck. What then, was the
cause?
What makes you so quiet, dear?"
asks the bride.
He starts as one called from another
world.
Il am bewildered, love. Those meg
sages, how real and yet how very i'm
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-21
A POLITICAL POINTER

If you indorse the free trade and free
silver Chicago platform as the Lacka-
wanna Democracy does, fully and
without reserve" then work and vote
for Schadt, Horn. ct. al. If you be-
lieve in Mckinley, protection and pros
perity, turn these agents of Bryan
dpuu
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-21
CRACKERS AND BISCUITS,
You Don't Know How Important
They Are Until You Read the
Eiguras
Figures.

From the Sun.
About every one has heard (and If
everybody hasn't it is not the fault of
the campaign orators) of the Biscuit
Trust and the Cracker Trust ani of the
enormous business which both control,
running high, as the campaign orators
say, into the millions" Blu. every
one does not know the value of the
business carried on in these commcdi-
ties, essentially American in respect to
patronage, The American Biscuit COM
pany has a capital stock of $40, ,U0O, 900.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-21

II.
Mr. Shirley was sitting in the big
arm chair in his own particular sane
tum, generally referred to as the
Study" and letting his thoughts run
riot. First, they fitted here and there
nVer various phases of his new hobby,
and then, taking a Sadder tone, con-
jurcd up The vision of his only child,
whose dearest wish he had refused.
Why was she so self-willed? There
was Joshua, we'll provided with worldly
goods, il-fellow-well-m with every
one, and, above ALL a brother Theoso-
phist; why could not the girl be salts
fed with her fathers choice? Then the
truant thoughts pictured Sydney Wal
lace as certainly the better looking of
the two, nearer Doris age, a man of
energy and excellent character; but
and there was the rub-he had been so
openly and audaciously honest as to
express his disbelief in the manifesto
tiOns of TheOsophy, and so he had
sealed his fate.
1t was now quite dark, and Mr.. Shir-
ley rose from his seat, lighted the gas,
drew down the blind. and locked the
door. 1t was his custom to spend his
evenings alone with his books, and
reaching a volume from its shelf he
drew his chair to the table, and was
soon absorbed in new mystifications,
theoretical and impracticable.
After reading for some time, he came
upon marginal note giving reference
to another work which necessitated a
visit to the bookshelves at the other
end of the room. He soon found the
passages referred to- and was about to
resume his seat. when he uttered an
exclamation of surprise, and cast a
frightened glance round the room.
There, on the pages of the book open
where he had been reading, was some
thing which was not there when he left
the table. A little roll of paper. With
quivering hand and beating heart he
picked it up and unrolled it. Appar-
emily the paper was of foreign manu-
facture, and the characters on 1t, al
though English, did not seem to be in
scribed with any of the materials in
common use in his country. With in
describable feelings of wonder and awe
he read:
Coercion is abhOrrent to us. VeX
thy offspring 10 longer. 1t is our COM
mand,-Thibet, August oath"
A message from the Mahatmas in
i"i w i it''S'' "'i'. No''u mat very udS'
Could there be trickery? he wondered
and TO place the matter beyond the
shadow of a doubt, he made an exhaus-
tive examination of the room and it's
contents. The window was fastened,
the door locked,a and the chimney closed,
and there was no other opening in the
walls, Continuing the search on his
hands and knees, under the table, chairs
and couch, he covered every square
inch of the carpet and then rose, con-
WINGED that the room contained no liv-
ing thing beside himself.
And there on the table lay the indis-
putable evidence that time, space, and
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In the deepening twilight OF an ati-
tumnal evening, Doris Shirley paced to
and fro beneath the trees, awaiting
with feelings of doubt and uncertainty
the issue of the most momentous event
of a maiden's lifetime-the interview
between her lover and her parent. At
the sound OF advancing footsteps she
paused, and as a manly figure reached
her side it needed but once glance at
his face to tell that his mission had
been one of failure.
HE has refused?" she queried.
eyes, love, absolutely and without
hope"
"Dtd he say why he would not con-
sent?'
"He said that you are aware that his
wishes run in another direction"
Then the daughters heart rose in hot
rebellion against her sire, and her eyes
flashed fire as she cried:
"He wants me to marry Joshua
Bentworth because he's a Theosophist,
hut | will not, so there! He is nearly
double my age and ! hate him. Ever
since father embraced Theosophy he
has been quite different man. His
whole heart and soul is i'm it, and every
body and everything must be subser-
Went to his creed. Marry Joshua!
Never!" And then in softer tones:
You know.Sydncy, in eighteen months
| shall be of age, and then
Eighteen months, pet-what long,
long time to wait"
"1s it not better than never? Well, II
YOU do not care to wait we will say
'Goodby now" and she held out her
hand, pretending to be offended. The
,f gI, nj fnn r
ed. She found herself encircled by her
lovers strong arms, while kisses of
Contrition greeted her brow.
wait, darling? I would wait twen-
ty years, but | could not live without
hearing from or seeing you, and your
father forbade me to do either after
this last interview" And then, as in
thousands of similar prohibitions, they
plotted as to the ways and IN ans by
which they might hold communication
unknown to the antagonistic parent.
. A week passed away: it seemed like
a month to Doris; and she wondered
how she could endure eighteen months
like it. Her father had told her of his
interview with sydney, and requested
that the subject might never he men,
toned again, and Doris had given him
to understand that under no Circum-
stances would she marry any one else
And now a week had passed-seVen
long, weary days-without hearing or
seeing Sydney, and poor Doris, driven
to desperation, had been wondering
how she might best broach the sub
icct "a, her father and try to induce
him to reconsider his decision. But the
task seemed hopeless she felt that she
might as well appeal to a stone wall as
to- his stubborn will. Was there no
way but to wait?
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-26
CASHIER STICKNEY'S KEYS
FOUND IN JOSEPH KELLYS ROOM
IN BOARDING HOUSE.
False Kustache and Goatee Also We're Dis.
coveTed-BIood Spattered Shirt Unesr!hcc.

Sc1nersworth. N. H., April 26-Deputy
Sheriff Mcdaniel and William II. Rich
OF Berwick searched the room of Joseph
r.. Kelley, in Mrs. Mary Wilkinsons
boarding house in Berwick, last evening
and found the keys of the Great Falls
National bank, which were taken from
Cashier Stickney's pocket by Kelley at
the time of the murder. The keys were
on common wire ring, together with a
brass tag, on each side of which was en-
graved the name Of j. A. Stickney. A
Roman coin was also found attached TO
the ring. Among other things, the Off
GERS found box containing q dark
mustache and a goatee. These articles
were discovered 1 the chimney of the
house, where Kelley dropped them
through funnel hole, after his return
from the orchard.
In the corner of the room the officers
discovered a white shirt, on the sleeve Of
which were some small blood spots.