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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-13
SILK MILL FOR WEST PlTTSTON.
Van Riper g. Frost, of Paterson, N. j.,
Are the Proprietors.

Van Ripper & Frost, of Paterson. N.
j., have purchased the old Ellthorp-
Shiffer knitting mill at West Pittston,
and propose to start a silk mill in it at
once.
The building is 60x160 feet, and three
stories high. Van Riper & Frost ex-
pect to have it in operation in two
weeks, and will employ 100 hands at
the start.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-13
Greatest Clothing Sale on Record.

Kramer Bros. has purchased the en-
tire stock of clothing of the Economy
Clothing Co., of this city, and will
place same on sale at their store Satur-
day at o'clock. Don't miss this
chance of securing fine Overcoats and
Suits at half their value, soc. on a
dollar as bought. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-13
SCRANTONS CHARITY is SLACK.
Has Contributed Oniy 25 Gents 4
Cuban Relief Fund.

Mayor Bailey received only one con-
tribution yesterday to the Cuban re-
lief fund. 1t was the third to be re-
ceived and was from Wayne county,
j. S. Welsh, of Hawley, being the con-
tributor. Up to last evening only 25
cents had been contributed from this
city and $l5 had been from outside the
county.
This is a statement of the fund:
Previously acknowledged $40 %
j. S. Welsh, Hawley, Pa............... ) 90
Total to date. .......,.................Sl Sl5 %
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-13
At Holy Cross Fair.

At Holy Cross church fair tonight
Miss Rose Conway will give a piano Sc
lestion; Miss Agnes Reilly, vocal solo;
Frank Doyle and Eddie Burke, violin,
and Miss Burke, piano. st. Peters So
ciety, Bellevue, will attend in a body.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-13
Shoe Shop BurgIarized.

A shoe shop at 800 Cedar avenue,
conducted by Jacob Grossman, was
burglarized yesterday morning En-
trance was effected by way of a rear
window. Several pairs of shoes We're
taken.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-13

James Golden, of Dickson City, was
held under $500 bail by Alderman Mil
lar yesterday OH the charge Of selling
liquor without license, preferred by
w. j. McAndrew. Golden furnished
the security.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-13

e. & w. Collars. 15c.; Manhattan
Shirts, Soc; Seal Brand Hats, So. Wat
ers bankrupt sale, 205 Lackawanna
avenue. W.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-13

Read adv. Dickson Mfg. Co. Lots. a.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-13

35c. and soc. suspender, PIC. Dunn.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-13

Nav! that amt no Hnnnar scornfully
remarked n little street news merchant
last evening, as he paused between his
cries of his wares. Yer must be a
chump," he continued. "Doncher know
that's George Watson. and they've got
him in the wrong placer
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-13

Read adv. Dickson Mfg. Co. Lots. -
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-13

Big majorities featured the Eighth
ward Republican primary election yes
terday. Fred s. Godfrey, proprietor of
the Hotel Jermyn, was nominated for
school controller; Fred Durr was NOM
mated to succeed himself as select
councilman, and Fred Zitzleman was
nominated for common council. The
ward vote in detail was as follows:
Coh,oI Ca,tra,ior tet at. o1 Jia Natal
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-13

ing. The engagement is piece Of good
luck for the little fellow who does excel
lent work.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-13

The annual meeting of the Association
of the Home for the Friendless will be
held tomorrow in the rooms of the Young
Women's Christian association. Election
of officers will take place and the report
of the years work will be read. 1t Is ex-
pected that the occasion will be unusual
ly interesting. All life and annual mem
bers are expected to be present and the
clergymen of the city are requested to at
tend
Mrs. willard Matthews has issued invi-
tations to an at home for Jan. IA.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06

There b 3 proper season for music,
but it is not the midnight hour, when
neighbors are counting slumber. A
musical girl in Seneca, Kansas, was
rending the silence of the night by
warbling, 'sSleep, Ny Dearest, Sleep,
when weary next door neighbor stuck
his head out of the window and shout
ed, "Durned if I wouldn't like to; but
it's no go while / have to listen to that
caterwauling.
An actor is in deep trouble in Mis-
soula, Montana. For work performed
by local dentist, he agreed to. give
him horse. AS the horse was not
forthcoming, the dentist decoyed the
actor to his Office, and while pretend
ing to examine his teeth, jerked out the
full set and pocketed it. The actor is
now forced to feed himself with soft
fodder, with the aid of spoon.
At revival meeting in McMinnville,
Oregon, the Rev. E. A. Ross asked all
those in his congregation to rise who
had read a passage in the book of Hez-
ekiah. About dozen arose, some of
them long time church members. The
clergyman smiling said: "Why, God
bless you, there is no such book in the
Bible!''
An odd monumeLs has been placed
over the grave of j. s. Jacobs of Lin
coin, Ky. He was fond of roaming,
and his father has put over his remains
stone cut in the form of travelling
bag. On one side is his name, and on
the other these word: "Here is where
he stopped last.
A funny friend of Samuel Mutzer,
at Merchantville, N. j., put some pow
der in pipe and gave it to Mutzer to
smoke. An explosion resulted, and
destroyed the sight of the victims
left eye.
May-''Miss Passay has some pecu-
liar opinions" Bertha-.'Yes; I
think she is the only one who consid-
ers it singular that she should be
single. Judge.
Leghorn contains the oldest English
church in Italy, and large and PIC
turesque graveyard, where Smollet,
Francis Horner and many other inter.
esting people are buried. In it are
tombstones dating as far back as 1894.
The pretty South American bird
called the ''mot-mot- is said to b egin
shaving on arriving at maturity. Ma
turally adorned with long blue tail
feathers, it is not satisfied with them
in their natural stat Q, but with its
beak nips of the web on each side for
space of about two inches, leaving
neat little oval tuft at the end of each.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06
Rabbits Put to Good Use.

At last the much-abused rabbit has
found friend in the person Of we'll
known Irish agriculturist, who de-
clares that the little animal has at
least one good trait. The gentleman
in question owns large tract of pas
ture land on the banks of the river,
which of late years has been SO over
run with buttercups as to very con-
siderably interfere with the value of
the ground as pasturage.
A few seasons ago a few rabbits
were introduced on the farm near the
river, and these soon multiplied so fast
as to threaten to overrun the whole
estate. but it was soon noticed that
the buttercups, formerly scourge to
the pasturage, had died down to iso-
lated clumps. On examining into the
cause the farmer discovered that the
rabbits had, during the winter,
scooped out the center of the butter
cup roots, with the result that these
had disappeared beyond all possibility
of further growth, and grass has
sprung up in the place of the flowers
SO distasteful to the cattle.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06
National Museum in Nicaragua.

This Central American State has
stamped itself as progressive and up
to-date in recently establishing an
industrial. Commercial and Scien-
titic Museum" for the purpose of col
lecting objects and articles of natural,
industrial and commercial and scien-
tific interest aud of establishing CEN
Ter of study and culture and bureau
q information for the people of the
Country and foreigners. The museum
will be under the direction of the Min
lister of Public Works, and viii be or
ganized and systematized SO that prices
of any Of the sample articles exhibited
will be available, Cleveland Plain
Dealer,
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06

The government pawnshop in Rome
the Monta do Pieta, as it is called
was established in 1858. Sums rang
ing up to SIS are loaned without inter-
est, on depositing goods worth double
the amount, but for sums over S. two
per centum is charged.
Bishop-How are you succeeding
here?
Struggling Pastor-The standard OF
morality is rising gradually.
81 am glad to hear that"
eyes, am no longer obliged to de.
mand cash in advance"
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06
I GOOD ROADS NOTES.


typical Case.
y What is to be done under conditions
that0btain in many parts of the coun-
try? is the question raised by men,
Der of the League Of American Wheel
men. He says:
I'VE have in this township assessed
roughly at $3.50, 900 some sixty miles
q road. We cannot spend 100000,
$1,000 or even $500 per mile on these
roads. There is not enough money
in the township, all told, to do it, and
the law lin its the bonded indebted
ness. To select few miles of the
principal highway is not just to the
poor fellow who helps pay for it and
must drive five or ten miles to reach it.
Much better work might be done
than we are doing, but it remains
that many miles must be attended to
with few dollars. What most is need
ed is careful consideration of existing
conditions-how best to spend $1,000
or $500 on sixty miles of road, re-
serving 5000 or $500 of that for the
winters SHOWS. Teach us serviceable
lessons for communities of this sort,
and do not expect asphalt, macadam
er steel until the fellows from town
help to build them land they haven't
built their own yeti.
"No wonder the rustic kicks if the
road is to cost more than the entire
value of all the farms through which
it passes. He appreciates good roads,
but must remember his slim pocket
book. He laughs little, too, at the
big saving heavier loads would make
for him. Nine out of ten of. him at
that time of year have little to do for
self or team and are not crowded with
what they have to market. He would
rather make two trips than one, as he
and the horses both need the exer-
cise."
The tendency in such cases as this
is to underestimate the beneficial eff
fects of hard roads and to assume that
they are of value only during the win
ter. They aFe of enormous value then,
and OF ~sddally great value in SUNNI er
and the busy seasons, when the posi-
bility of hauling big loads is money
in the pocket.
In the past, the farmer has been left
too much to his own resources in the
care of the highways. Now, however,
State aid is rapidly being acknowledged
as the proper means Of promoting the
good work, and the States are slowly
but surely falling into lire in adopting
it. Until it is generally in force, there
may be time for much good work to
be done, and the first steps toward
real Improvement can be taken by Sc
curing careful grading, thorough drain
age and the adoption of wide tires.
In this connection the experiences
of two southern counties is right to the
point. In one, the loads average 2466
pounds and the tax is en- cents hun
dred. In the other the loads are but
800 pounds and tho tax twenty cents
hundred. Improved methods reduced
the road tax one half, and greatly i'm
proved the roads.
~. This county owns grader, plows,
carts, implements and six mules, and
a superintendent and five men are
kept at work on the roads. The work
cos.s S55.17 mile and though the
roadsDre only plain "dirt," they are
keIain such good condition that three
times as much can be hauled as on
roads cared for in the old way. Here,
surely is cheap and easy way to be-
GIN. A. w. Bulletin.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06
The Crusade Against Ruts.


Never allow pools of water to stand
on road. If road is not properly
drained it cannot long remain good.
1t requires longer time and more
power to haul light loads over bad
surfaces than to move twice as much
on good roads.
Anything that facilitates intercourse
between people tends to civilize them.
Nothing helps SO much toward this
end as perfect highways.
Two buildings were lately destroyed
by fire in an outlying ward of Cleve-
land, Ohio, on account of the depth
of the mud, which prevented the en-
gines from reaching them in time.
Common roads may be vastly i'm
proved by being properly crowned
and thoroughly drained, and the work
of making and keeping them good will
be simplified if the traffic on them is
on wide tires.
The Governor of Massachusetts, has
recommended wide-tire law and the
subject is being taken up seriously.
Such a simple and effective means of
improving poor roads and maintaining
good ones ought not to be neglected.
Nature is not o road builder-she
never prepares artificial means OF liv-
ing. But she furnishes ample lua-
terial for every need, and science loug
since learned to utilize what she offers
to meet the necessities of our com.
pick civilization.
The farmers along q road irCentral
New York have donated twelve hun.
dred tons of stone, picked from around
their farms, for road improvement
and neighboring stone
crusher has been rented to properly
prepare the material for use.
The ever-increasing tendency to
concentrate in big cities can(be coun-
teracted by making country life at
tractive. But country life cannot be
permanently attractive to city residents
unless good highways afford inter-
and easy transit.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06

Miss Upman-You will have to in
crease my allowance for servants
wages, my dear.
Mr.. Upman-What for?
Mrs. Upman-Our butler wants o
valet and my waiting maid wants o
waiting maid.
Aunt Hildy-Well, it do beat all!
These city people are the worst CAD
ders / ever heard on.
Mrs. Meadow-You have a niece
there. haven't your
Aunt Hilda-Yes, and her card says
she's never at home, 'cepting Thurs
days.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06

bUuU6Hty 4 TUSJTUJeU.
No discovery of modern times has done
so much to enable women to take their
proper place In life by safeguarding their
health as DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pa e
People. Acting directly ON the blood ana
nerves. invigorating the body, regulating
the functions, they restore the strength
and health to the exhausted woman when
every effort Of the physician proves una
vailing.
For the growing girl they are OF the
greatest benefit, for the mother indispens.l-
BILE, for every woman invaluable.
For paralysis, locomotor ataxia, and
other diseases long supposed incurabic,
these pills have proved their efficacy in
thousands of cases.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06
Give the Tots Salads.

Salads are as necessary for children
as they are for adults, but they must
be of very delicate nature. Celery
dressed with oil and few drops of
lemon juice is very nice, provided the
celery is young, white, tender and
chopped very fine. If lettuce is used
it should be the very tender young
pieces, from the centre of the head,
cut just at serving time into very fine
shreds, dressed with oil and few
drops Ct lemon juice. AIayonnaise
dressing should never be used. Care
fully cooked spinach, chopped very
fine, may be served also with French
dressing. Endive should be cut into
thin strips and dressed. Outside of
the green's mentioned there are very
few others that are advisable to give
to children.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06
choosing Good mutton.

There is no more nutritious and
healthful meat than young, healthy
mutton well cooked. Mutton, like all
meat, is tough when first killed, and
should be hung long enough to grow
tender. Good mutton should have an
abundance of firm, white fat, but not
an overfat appearance. Sheep off of
the great ranges have dark.colored
meat Like that of wild animals, while
those which do essrunning have meat
of q lighter color.-Womau's Home
COMPANION,
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06

Anotable gander belongs to James
A. Kinkead, of Hardin county, XIV.
1t acts as Watchdog, and permits no
stranger to enter the yard unless he Is
attended by member the family.
The dangerous character of rail-
road in debt was unwittingly referred
to by "a coroner's jury in Missouri, who
rendered this verdict: ''The decedent
came to his death by being struck by
railroad train in the hands of re-
ceiver."
An Omaha highwayman unexpected
" secured steady employment and
Rard. He held up three men, but,
y shooting two of them, was deep
heartened by the discovery that
Rpcial contents of all their
nntDA to only solitary
Ted, and sentenced
-Grandl A veritable
ep trying to buy that
~ won't sell, eha
~: Yes. bat they want
,asips 70 s9 hin, Tex, called
No 90 q ostmaster Benson
!, t.safZ' q, q a. lighter he had been
= year, Golf kicked
When next they
e. nv day later, both drew pis-
and each shot the other dead.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06

The New York Ledger is now successfully
sold by bright boys and girls. who thus earn
many valuable premiums. Two cents profit
on each copy sold. No money required in
advance. Send name and address for COM
plete outfit, including Premium List, to Rob-
ert Bonner's Sons, Ledger Building, 16O Will
liam St., n Y. City.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06
strawberrles preseryed by the Sum.

SCraWDerrles Preserved Dy the sun.
''While the sun-preserved fruits re-
quire time and patience, they are,
without doubt, much to be preferred
to those cooked over the fire." writes
Mrs. 8. T. Rorer, in the Ladies' Home
Journal. 'In the country, where a
hot-bed is at command, the work is
easily done. Stem strawberries care
fully without bruising; put them into
a wire basket. which plunge down into
pan of cold water and drain
thoroughly. Weigh the Strawberries,
and to each pound allow one pound OF
graduated sugar. Select large stone
ware plates, make them very hot
either on top of the stove or in the
oven; sprinkle over layer of the
granulated sugar and cover this closely
with the berries. Cover with glass
and stand in the suns hottest rays.
Move the dish as the sun changes its
position. At four o'clock bring them
in and stand aside in closet or cool
place. Next day put them out again
in the sun; by this time they will no
doubt have become clear, almost trans
parent, and thoroughly soft, but per-
fectly whole. Lift each berry care
fully with fork and put into tum-
bier or bottle. Boil the syrup over
the fire for q few minutes until it
thickens; strain, cool, and pour it over
the fruit"
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06

The recent week of "self-deniap
observed by members of the Salvation
Army has yielded in the British Isles
alone $165, 900, or nearly $40, 900 more
than was similarly raised last year.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06

Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness tier first days use of DR.. Kline's Great
Nerve Hestorer. $striai bottle and trsatise free
ua. n. y. KLINE Ltd @l Arch st., Phila, Pa.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06

my heart had almost given out.
Gould not have stood it one week more,
am sure. ! never thought would
be so grateful to any medicine.
= shall use my influence with any
one suffering as did, to have them
Vuse Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Z Compound"
Every woman that is puzzled about
her condition should secure the sympa-
thetic advice Of woman who under
<1ands. Write to Mrs. Pinkham at
4 81. Mass.. and tell her your ills.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06
HOUSEHOLD WfTERs.


Y Beat the white Of an egg; add to il
one pint Of cold water; moisten your
frames with this mixture, using q
sponge. Then wipe them with soft
flannel. Take second cloth, per-
fec5ly dry, and give the frames q light
ng.-Ladies' Home Journal.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reducing infamma-
tion, allays pain, cures wind collie. &c. bottls
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06

Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar-
tic clean your blood and keep it clean. BY
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimples, boils. blotches. blackheads.
and that sickly bilious complexion by takins
Cascarets, beauty for ten cents. ALI drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, Zoe, Csc, SOC.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06

To Cure Cold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund money II 1t fails to cure. &c.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06

AKaffr's religion consists mostly in sing
Ing and dancing.
II conduct is three-fourths of life, the other
fourth must be good clothes.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06
Narrow Versus Wide Wagon Tires.

Scientific experiments extending
over two years have been made under
the auspices of the Studebaker Broth
ers, the widely-known wagon builders,
to determine the relative qualities of
wide and narrow-wheel tires. The
The results are too extensive to give
in full. Every kind of road was used
to test the question. It was found
that on macadam roads the narrow
tires were far inferior to the wide, and
they required much greater effort to
draw given load. In deeply
clay road, the narrow tires running in
the ruts and the wide tires on top, the
narrow tires were far more efficient.
This was also the case with wet mud.
But as soon as the mud began to dry
the wide tires showed vast superior
ity. In general, the only justification
for narrow tires proved to be thor
oughly bad roads.-Youth's Com
paniOn.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06

ST. vITUS' DANCE, SPASMS and all nor
vous diseases permanently cured by the iise
FREE SLIGO trial bottle and treatise to Dr. K
H. Kline, Ltd, 93l Arch Street. Phila.. Pa.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-08-06
Dou,t Tobacco Sniff aud S,.okc 10,

Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
letic. full Of life, nerve and vigor, take MOTTO
BAG, the wondcr-worlzer that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, soc or 81. Cure guaran.
iced. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co. Chicago or New York