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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-29
PART w.


He spoke loudly; nor did he look
for an answer being quite assured by
this time that he was dreaming, or, if
he were not, then that he had become
the victim of the strangest Jest yet
played in France. And he was very
surprised, when a voice behind him
greeted him with the first word he had
heard uttered since he entered the
room. For the matter of that. the
voice was hardly raised before all the
suppers leaped to their feet and stood
in an attitude of respectful attention.
And what is the trouble of the Lord
Bishop of Blois?" asked the speaker,
as he advanced to the Abbe's chair.
He was a man slightly above the
medium height, and he wore a dress of
white velvet upon which a lace-work
of the whitest diamonds glittered. The
Abbe observed that he was somewhat
advanced in years, and that his fea-
lures We're clear-cut and singularly
handsome. He was attended, now, by
two pages who were trunk-hose of
purple and purple cloaks above them:
while an officer in the blue uniform of
the Corsican legion stood at his heels
as though expecting some command.
"Ho, ho!" thought the Able as he
watched the stranger, here then is the
rogue who has played this Jest upon me.
] will find a word for him at any rate"
And so he spoke aloud
Sir" said he, "who you may be, do
not wish to know; but if this be your
house, permit me to tell you that 1
have been the victim of great liberty"
The stranger feigned astonishment.
What" cried he. have you not
supped we'll, 'Seigneur?"
Sir" answered the Able, 'I be-
seech you that you will not call me
'Seigneur. for to such a title have no
claim. AS for your supper--I would
not offer 1t to a dog"
But surely" cried the other look
ing very much surprised, that Is
turbot which you eat, my friend-and
do You not hold a cup of the wine of
Burgundy in your hand?"
Monsieur" said the Able, with hun
CRY dignity, whoever has told you
that has lied. There is nothing but
water here"
"Oh, indeed" cried the newcomer,
pray permit me to put it to my lips,
'Seigneur-you say that is water-St
Louis! 1 would like to have a cellar
full of such water as that"
ne tdSteu the ufauBnL as ne spoke
and smacked his lips over it as though
l. had been a delicious nectar. The
Able, staggered at the action, was ST.
hnt for some moments; but after a
pause he took cup UP in his hands, and
did that which was a rare thing for
him to do-he lost his temper.
MY son." he asked, you declare that
to be the wine of Burgundy"
Most certainly" replied the strang-
er, most admirable wine"
Then I pray you drink it," ex-
claimed the Abbe-and at the invita-
t4on he threw the contents of his goblet
into the newcomers face.
1t was a deserved retort, perhaps
but the miserable cure, had he foreseen
that which was to follow, would have
cut off his right hand rather than al
low his temper to carry him so far.
Scarce was the thing done when a cry
OF horror burst from the company
about the table. Fifty hands were
raised as II to strike the cowing priest.
Threats, execrations, remonstrances,
were hurled at him until his head
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THE END
WHAT 1T COST HIM.
An Old Story About Ingersoll that
Has Moral.

The following story, of Robert In
gersoll was started about II years ago,
but the Chicago Record thinks 1t good
enough to revive: During one of his
visits to Chicago he and friend went
to one of the big book stores in Wa
bash avenue to examine the treasures
on the shelves and counters. They had
roamed around the establishment dis
cussing history, romance and theology,
and finally the friend said, picking up a
volume; "Ah. Colonel, this is the book
you like"
what is it?" he asked.
Tom Paine's Age of Reason"
"Yes; it's a good book but mighty
expensive"
why, l didn't think So"
Il have a COPY, and what do you
think 1t cost me?"
II don't know, I'm sure"
"The governorship of Illinois"
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HOW To FIND OUT.

urine and let II stand twenty-four
hours; sediment or settling indicates
an unhealthy condition of the kidneys.
When urine stains linen 1t is positive
evidence of kidney trouble. Too fire.
quent desire to urinate or pain In the
back, Is also convincing proof that
the kidneys and bladder are out of or
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-29

NERVOUS TROUBLES am kinds
cured with ANIMAL EXTRACTS.
Free book tells how. Washington
Chemical Co., Washington, ID. c. -
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To Cure a cold i'm one nav.

Take laxative Bromo Qu.nine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money IL II
fails to cure. 25 cents.
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WHAT TO DO.

There is comfort in the knowledge
so often expressed, that DR.. Kilmers
Swamp Root, the great kidney rem
edy fulfills every wish in relieving
pain In the back, kidneys, liver, blad-
der and every part of the urinary pas
ssges. 1t corrects inability to hold
uine and scalding pain in passing It,
or bad effects following use of liquor,
wine or beer, and overcomes that un-
pleasant necessity of being compelled
to get up many times during the night
to uIinate. The mild and the extraor-
dlnary effect of Swamp Root is soon
realized. 1t stands the highest for its
wonderful cures of the most distressing
cases. If you need a medicine you
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You may have a sample bottle and
pamphlet both sent free by mail. Men
ton the Scranton Tribune and send
your address to DR.. Kilmer g. Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y. The proprietors
of this paper guarantee the genuine
ness of this offer.
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to compel men 10 leave their work. 1t is
evident however, that the strike is APP
preaching a crisis in which it must fail.
or partially fail, unless the miners about
Pittsburg and in West Virginia can be in
duced to quit their work. That is, the
miners may be unable to bring about coal
famine, which will compel consumers to
ask the operators to accede to the terms
of the strikers, which thus far have not
been clearly stated. If the propositions
agreed to by the conference of operators
are adopted the strike cannot fail because
many of the things which the miners de-
mand have been conceded. Meantime the
supply of coal is diminishing. Outside of
the Ohio river towns there is said to be
very little coal Prices have already ad-
vanced, which is one of the conditions es-
sential to better conditions for the miner
and the mine operator. 1t seems unfortu-
nate that some effort is not being made to
make a basis for the adjustment of the
present difficulties, because it seems that
this might be brought about without gen.
eral strike, for which the labor leaders are
putting forth their entire efforts.
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SCIENTIFIC.

A laboratory for the study of cave ami
mails has been established in some subter-
ranean passages lately found under the
Jardin des Plantes, Paris.
The electric tramway at Lausanne Switz-
erland runs up the steepest incline sur
mounted by any train depending on adj
hesion to the rails-11.3 per cent. in one
place
After a trial of two years, DR.. / A.
Bridges reports that the best treatment for
sprains known to him is the application of
electricity once a day for FIVE to seven
days, with massage for five minutes twice
a day.
The venom of bees-claimed to be a rem
edy for cancer, snakebite and other ills-is
now regularly collected by two young phar-
macists. The bees are held singly by the
abdomen in small glass tube or enraged
together in bottle until the tiny drops of
poison are discharged.
What is claimed to be an incombustible
cellulold-a product greatly desired-is
made by NJ. Asselot by mixing a solution
of one part of celluloid in ten of acetone
with a solution Of two parts Of magnesium
chloride in six of alcohol. When the paste
is dried an uninfammable celluloid re-
mains.
A new method of exhibiting the features
of the moon, devised by Prof William Hal
lock, consists in projecting views with an
arc-light lantern upon a whtened hemi-
sphere. six or eight feet in diameter. Such
representations, however seem to lack the
sharpness at the edges which can be given
by stereCscopic views, which produce on
a flat surface the effect of perfect rotund-
ity
An independent electric light plant for
each car of q train has been adopted by
more than twenty English railways Each
carriage is provided with a dynamo and
storage battery. the formar being driven
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AGRICULTURAL COLONIES. .

The apparent success of Mr.. Fitzgerald's
colony in Georgia is calculated to give en-
enlargement to those who are discussing
similar designs. Doubtless, the secret of the
Georgia enterprise is that the colony is in
no sense socialstic. Every man is for him
self. Whatever he earns is his own as much
as it is elsewhere. The difficulty with colo
MES upon the basis Of socialism is that
most human beings have not been specially
adapted to system which requires the in
dividual to turn his earnings into a COM
mon fund and receive a common share No
man will be long content to work for 9TH
ers, particularly if he contributes more
than the others to the common good The
fatal weakness of that kind of socialism is
that a large number of men will not work
if they can escape it. Another feature
which makes it obnoxious is that in all
communities living in common there must
be a ruler who can rule, to whom implicit
obedience must be rendered. The directory
in such communities whether it shall con-
sist of one man or ten men, must be auto
cratic. The men set to work in the fields
must work in the fields. Naturally, discon-
tent arises.
Just now two projects are discussed by
their leaders for the establishment of colo
MES upon the basis of socialism. Perhaps it
might be more accurate to speak of one of
these, that of Debs, in the past tense. He
is now engaged in urging men never to
work but to establish their honesty by get
ting into Jail. His last deliverance was in
favor of the organization of a socialistc po-
litical party. AS Debs would be likely'to at
tract to him all those who hold a
grievance against any useful labor, it is not
worth while to consider his scheme practi-
cal. Booth-Tucker. of the Salvation Army
has announced a purpose to establish an
agricultural colony The head of the Saliva
ton Army has been successful with a SINH
lar experiment in England AS all the con-
ditions are more favorable here, there
seems no reason why the Booth-Tucker
scheme may not be made successful. If his
followers can be made to be as devoted to
industrial pursuits they are to keeping
up bands of the organization in all the cit
les of the country, they can make agricul-
tural colonies successful. At any rate, the
organization, having an autocratic head
and obedient subordinates presents the first
essentials of success
There can be no doubt that half a million
people could be vastly benefited by being
taken out of the cities. in which there is not
enough of the labor which they can per-
form for all of them, and put upon land in
the older States where they could earn a
living. The success of the Fitzgerald and
other colonies seems to offer encourage
ment for other experiments. 1t is evident
that the people who were induced to go to
Georgia by Mr.. Fitzgerald have bettered
their conditions. If Mr.. Booth Tucker is an
organizer and will take hold OF the matter
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That is an interesting project the Roman
Catholics have on hand OF concentrating
the close of this century and the opening
of the next by a series of religious meet
ings throughout the world. 1t is interest
ing, first, because the conception is fine,
though but natural outcome of the work
ings Of great religious body, but most
| because of the possible results. The pur-
pose, of course. is to increase the growth
of religious sentiment-in other words, to
bring about what, in the parlance of the
Protestant churches, would be called
great revival. Whether this can be done
by sheer determination and organization is
the question. There are some who will
doubt the success of such movement.
The working up of a religious revival is,
of course, an art that is very well under
stood and often practiced, but with fixed
limitations that make the harvest"
problematical. Something more is neces-
sary than the perfunctory holding Of meet
ings. Religious services may be held day
after day for months without visible effect
upon the congregations The pastors and
evangelists may labor zealously and the
general disposition of the community be
favorable to their pious efforts, yet no
more than a ripple in the religious life of
the people labored with be discernible at
the end. On the other hand, some
prophet often a wanderer and obscure, so
strs the emotional natures of his hearers
by his appeals that they feel themselves
ready, under his guidance, to enter into
crusade against all the evil of the world.
Devout brethren will say that he is "espe-
cially blessed" and that all results depend
upon a higher than human power, but if
they were to be quite frank they would
perhaps admit that the leader in a sue
cessful religious movement must possess
peculiar qualifications before he can COM
mand this blessing. 1t may be a super
lative piety that distinguishes him. but it
would be unjust to the men who have
labored long and humbly in the human
vineyard without perceptible results to re-
fleet thus upon their saintliness. 1t may
| be sheer power of intellect like that Of
Luther the firm convictions and cody
energy of a Wesley. or the divine inspira-
ton of a Saint Francis that is needed but
it is assuredly the belief of many that the
man who moves the world must be gifted
far beyond his fellows, and that he comes
to his place as leader not as the result
of a concerted plan, but because of the
inevitable and irrepressible forces within
his own soul. Meetings may he held wher-
ever believers are found, and their inf1u-
ence can only be for good, but that
moral and spiritual revolution will follow
the carrying out of this .carefully-organ-
lied undertaking is not by any means
| certainty.
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THEMES FOR NoyELIsTs.


Story writer's of late show a disposition
70 draw the material for their romances
from history For some reason the past
seems to them to offer more promising
themes for their use than the present, so
they turn for inspiration to the rusty
records of kings and queens and courtiers-
for history deals only with people of high
degree-and shut their eyes to the events
that go on about thenaA Perhaps their read
ers care most to hear about the doings of
lords and ladies and gallant knights and
the sentimental maidens of a by-gone time,
but the writer's need not confine them
selves to an earlier period than this in or
der to find suggestions of adventure and
romance. The mere suggestion should be
all that the author with a purely gifted
imagination requires. the merest hint
should give him the cue for a tale of what
ever sort ANY newspaper, if properly
studied, will supply him with more ma
terial than he can possibly use in a month.
If he wants love and tragedy let him read
that Oklahoma item about the school
teacher who hearing that the man She
loved was about to marry another woman,
went to that woman's house to make her
acquaintance; while there the successful
rival and her mother fell sick, and, believing
that the visitor had poisoned them, had
her arrested for attempted murder. Her
triumphant release by the. court on prelim-
mary trial affords a climax that no purely
imaginary tale could excel. If the writer
wants mystery, Boston offers two instances
that might inspire one ambitious to pro-
duce detective stories; the young woman
of wealth and position who disappeared
six weeks ago with no more clew to her
whereabouts than if the earth had opened
and swallowed her, and who has not yet
been found; and the young stenographer
who was discovered dead in her employers
Office with an uncertainty remaining as to
whether it was a case of suicide or muir
der and as to the cause of either. For
pathos and conjugal devotion what could
be more effective than the story of the
New York woman who committed a theft
in order to provide herself and husband
with food. and when she was held for trial
work, begged the magistrate to imprison
him in his wife's stead. These are but
samples of the situations that present
themselves from day to day and are vast
ed upon the ambitious aspirants to liter
airy fame Verify, it is not themes that the
writer of the period lacks, but imagination
and the power of selection.
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The man who deserves the most credit
generally has to pay the cash.-Life.
Vinegar which one gets for nothing is
sweeter than honey.-Turkish Proverb.
1t is not so hard to be wrong as it is TO
know that the other fellow is right.-Puck.
Where there is much pretension. much has
been borrowed; nature never pretends.
--LaVater.
When a man meets a former love he al
ways finds some cause for self-congratula-
tiOn.-Puck.
"A woman never sees a widow without
wondering how she would look in mourn
ing.-New York Press
ITO reach the very depths of a heart
said Misery, 7 follow in the footsteps of
Happiness. ''-E. S. OConnor.
He who has never denied himself for the
sake of giving has but glanced at the joys
of charity.-Madam Swelcnine.
I know of no manner of speaking so Of
fensive as that of giving praise, and clos
ing it with an exception.-Steele.
The great trouble with acquiring knowl-
edge is that the things a man longs most
to know are none of his business.-Atchison
Globe
There is no surer way to learn that time
flies than to have to take nauseous dose
Times
How few of us can feel that if anything
should happen to us our belongings would
be for in perfect order.-Philadelphi
Tim
AS often as the oldest Yale graduate or
the oldest Mason dies the most beautiful
woman in the South gets married.-Cleve-
land Leader.
Some men never think their husbands
are unless they are going around
smili if they had diamonds in their
from --eth-The Bachelor.
The woman who wears such full sleeves
to her clothes that they dip in the butter
and jam, should elope to some desert island
with the man who gets soup in his whisk-
ers.-Atchison Globe
Get into the habit of looking for the sill
yer lining of the cloud, and when you have
found it continue to look at It, rather than
at the leaden~ gray in the middle. 1t. Will
help you over MANY hard places-Wilis.
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near Lexington, on Friday. with demon
STATIONS of affection and respect. The
body of the animal was carefully lowered
into large grave specially prepared for
1t. A correspondent says: His owner stood
at the head of the grave with his hat in
his hand, and as the clods rolled in upon
the mighty Domino the old veterans eyes
gllstened with tears. and he turned his
head away. Major Dangerfield stood at the
foot of the grave, and his face was as sad
as If he had been laying away a very dear
friend. The ladies, and then all the men,
numbering about forty, stood around with
uncovered heads and watched the dirt pile
up. Not word was spoken not a song
sung, and the merits of the splendid horse
were not extolled. Within a few minutes
the grave-diggers had filled in the earth
and had rounded off the grave. Major
Thomas laid a wreath of flowers at the
head of the grave, the company departed,
and Domino was forever hidden from the
sight of man." A marble slab with
suitable inscription will be placed over the
animals grave. Why not? He did his
level best
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WHEN AND HOW.

The average person has always been
more interested in the question when the
world will come to an end than in the
manner of its ending. One is, to some ex-
tent, personal question, the other scien-
tific. If a person become convinced or
even apprehensive that the end Of the
world is coming in his time it becomes
question of so intense personal interest
that he does not stop to think much about
the modus operandi. 1t may be by eXplo-
sion, by spontaneous combustion, by fall
ing into the sun and being consumed, by
collision with comet, or by simple an
imitation. The event still interests him
more than the manner of it.
In one form or another the doctrine of
vocated from a very early period in the
Christian era. Millenarianism originated
in the first century of the Christian era.
The term is derived from millennium, which,
in theology, designates the doctrine of a
return of Jesus Christ in person before
the end of the world and of a special
resurrection of the just who are to reign
on certain texts in the Bible which are
supposed to give color to it, though the
deduction, like that of many other dogmas,
is rather remote. Most of the early Chris
tians held the doctrine, and the learned
fathers of the church taught it in their
writings. 1t was generally advocated by
Christians during the second and third
centuries, began to subside in the fourth
century, died out after the fifth century,
was revived in the tenth and again in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and
has never been extinct since. The doc
trine has shown a good deal of vitality,
and in one form or another has been
tenet of different sects. Mormons call
themselves "latter-day saints" in reference
to the near approach of the last day. The
sect commonly called Shakers style them
selves the 'Millenial Church" Other sects
holding the doctrine are th3 Seventh Day
Advents sometimes ccsiI-1 coElI Adj
ventists. the Seventh Day So, the
German branch of whom cali themselves
Dunkers. These are all RESPECTABLE sects,
and number in the ate q Il many thou
sands of members. Elderly persons will
recall the excitement caused in this coun-
try by the preaching of William Miller in
the early forties. H was a Vermont
farmer, and not an educated man. In early
life he was an infidel. Later he professed
faith in Christianity, joined the Baptist
Church and became a devout reader and
close student of the Scriptures. AS re-
suit of his studies he became convinced
that he had unlocked the prophecies, and
about 1884 he proclaimed that inside of ten
years. some time between March q. 1913,