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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-26
CITY NOTES.

Rev. j. B. Sweet will conduct the SER
vice at the Rescue mission tonight at s
o'clock.
The corridors. walls and ceilings of the
board of trade building are beng tinted
and decorated.
marriage license was yesterday
granted to Harry Liebert, of Hemlock
Hollow, Wayne county, and Ella Gross,
of Scranton.
Mayor Bailey yesterday inspected the
damage done to cellars by the overflow
OF water on Pittston avenue between
Beech and Birch streets.
Sheriff Pryor has ordered n strict on
forcement of the rule that passes to the
Jail be accepted only on Tuesdays, the
regular visiting day.
The board of revision and appeals will
hear the complaints of Twentieth ward
property owners today and Thirteenth
ward property owners on Monday.
Manager Brooks, of the Linden. will
present new star next Monday in the
person of Miss Alice Kemp who is well
known here and great favorite.
The will of Mary j. Evans, late of Car
bondale, was yesterday admitted to pro-
bate by Register Koch. Letters of ad e
ninistration were granted to Maria and
John L. McAndrew in the estate of Mar
I'm McAndrew, late of Madison township
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city ana is temporarily stopping at 2i5
Linden street.
This new church was organized Sept.
%. 1895, at Hughes Street church, Bal
tlmore, by number OF preachers and
laymen of various orthodox denomina-
tions. Its founder, Rev. John B. Bris-
col was ordained bishop at this meet
ing.
The church was organized, as its
name intimates, to perpetuate the
memory of the union heroes of the
civil war. Its work will be to establish
missions and schools in the by-ways,
alleys and lanes of the country where
the poor will not be Kindred from COM
ing by superior surroundings or the
presence of more prosperous persons
than they. II is non-sectarian and all
creeds will be welcomed alike beneath
its wing. The church is opposed to
burdensome taxation on the people.
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FUNERAL OF MRS. GOLDSMITH,
Was Held Yesterday at Her Home on
Wyoming Ayenue.

The funeral of Mrs. Morris Gold
smith was held yesterday afternoon at
the family home, 425 Wyoming avenue
Rev. DR.. Chapman, of the Linden
street synagogue, conducted the SER
vices. The large number of persons
present and the wealth of floral trib-
utes attested the high esteem In which
Mrs. Goldsmith had been held.
The interment was in the Jewish
cemetery at Dunmore The pall-bearers
were Simon Rice, Joseph Levy, Samuel
Samter, Lou Oettinger, Nose Brown
and e. Morris. The flower bearers
We're Alfred and Otto Rice and f. T.
and Ralph Levy.
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PENNSYLVANIA EARNINGS.

Philadelphia, Feb. 25.-The statement
of earnings and expenses of the Penn
sylyania Railroad company for the
month of January 1898, compared with
the same period OF 1887, shows Pennsyl-
Vania roilroad-Lines directly operated,
month of January, 1898: Gross earnings,
increase, S3}3 400; expenses, increase, $780,
500; net earnings, increase, S26,60O. Lines
west of Pittsburg ana Erie, directly OPP
Grated. Gross earnings, increase, 1854 700
expenses, increase. si55,9OO; net earnings,
Increase, $!SSC0.
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In this connection he made the state
ment that n taste for Dickens Is not
always accompanied by great intellec-
tual power. As compared with Thack-
eiey. Dickens amuses while the other
makes you think. The two great quail
tiles of Dickens mind were his quick
observation with the subsidiary power
OF writing II down Interestingly, and
his very vivid, virtually poetic, imag-
ination.
Dickens in his writings had a dis
tinct moral purpose. In Nickleby he
discovered the abuses of the county
school; in oliver Twist he awoke Lon
don to the realization that criminals
were not born but made; in Little Dor
rit, he showed the evils and fallacies
OF the debtors prison: in his Christ
mas stories he told of the sufferings
OF the poor and strove to awake the
rich to a realization of their duty in
this regard. He called attention to
these abuses in a way that forced at
tention. Writing out the chemical
formula for combustion is an essayist's
way of describing It. Burning your
finger is the novelists method. Dick
ems was a novelist
While 1t is true that Dickens wrote
OF real men and woman it is remark
able that he never builds an ordinary
everyday character. Every one of his
characters has some marked peculiar
ity. Each bears label. 1t has been
spid of him that he takes a character
istic and makes a man of 1t.
READ PART OF THE CHIMES.
DR.. Penniman read a portion of the
opening of THE Chimes" to illustrate
how Dickens dwells so lengthily on
unimportant details--a fault some say
He gives more attention to present
effect than to total effect. He Sights
the sense of proportion. He Is abso-
lutely grotesque at times in his minute
ness of detail. But that is what makes
Dickens Dickens, and as said of Thack-
Grey before it is not consistent with
art--except Dickens art.
DR.. Penniman was introduced by
Professor w. II. Buell., of the School
Of the Lackawanna, who made the an
nouncement that the next lecture OF
the course would occur in about three
weeks. 1t has not as yet been decided
what it will be.
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THE CALL TO DR.. DIXON.
The Penn Avenue baptist Pastor Is
Ont OF the City.

Rev. DR.. Joseph Dixon, pastor of the
Penn Avenue Baptist church, is out Of
town and no authoritative information
could be obtained yesterday concern
ing the call extended him by the War
rem Avenue Baptist church, of Boston.
At Mr.. DlXons residence on Jeffer-
son avenue Tribune reporter was in
formed that DR.. Dixon would return to
the city this afternoon. He was not
in Boston yesterday, it was stated.
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The class schedule has been adopted
and will be conducted in the Railroad
Young Mems Christian association
gymnasium as follows, beginning Mon
day, Feb. 2S: Monday, Wednesday and
Friday, business men, SIS to 6 p. M. /;
Monday and Friday, young men, to
8; Wednesday, young mems fencing
class, s to 0 p. m; Saturday, juniors,
80 to 11.20 a. m Professional mems
class Monday and Friday, 1880 to 113O
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COMMITTEE MAKES
A POOR BEGINNING
mendments Involving Sl06,5O0 Added
to the Appropriation Ordinance.
FINANCES FOR 1898 DlScOllRAGlN0

Before the Committee Met, the Esti-
mates Exceeded the Revenue $751;
900, but with the Amendments
Added There Is sIsO,OOO TO he
Topped from the Ordinance--Totel
Revenues Amount to s205,OOO.
Another Meeting Monday Evening.
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The adjournment TO SO near a date
as Monday gives the city clerk but
scant time to have the ordinance print
ed. 1t is probable he will not be able
TO do it in the time allowed. 1t was,
however, the opinion of the commit
tee that the absence of the printed or
dinances including the amendments
would cause no delay. as the committee
will have present representatives Of
several departments who will be eX-
amined concerning their needs. From
the answers given, the committee will
be guided in it's future deliberations.
WHAT CHIEF HICKEY ASKED.
The supplementary estimate of $780,
100 submitted by Chief Hickey, of the
fire department, is exclusive Of the
regular estimate of S43, ,39l 09, which ap-
pears in the ordinance.
The large total sum represented by
the fire department amendment in
Guides many items, the largest ones
providing for a fire headquarters in the
rear of the city hall, additional perm
anent men and new apparatus.
In addition to the general city ex-
pense items about 100000 will have to
be set aside for the sinking fund and
interest account. That sum, however,
is provided for outside the 1895, 100 rev.
enue for general city items.
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FATHER GORMAN WON.
Awarded the Goid Chniice at Mercy
HOspitaI Fair.

At the Mercy hospital fair in Wilkes
Barre last night the contest fer a gold
chalice between Rev. Walter German,
of 81. Lees church, Ashley. and Rev.
ID. j. Dustin, of st. Mary's church,
Wilkes Barre, was won by Father Cor
man.
He had $4,000 as against 5000 turned in
by Father Dustin. Father German is a
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter German,
of Penn avenue, this city.
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Or. e. Grewer was appointed Medi-
cal Examiner of the Ladies' Catholic
Benevolent association and will see all
applicants at his Office hereafter from
10 a. m. until $50 p. m. Old Postofiice
building, corner Of Penn avenue and
Spruce street. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-26

The joint estimates committee Of
councils met last night to begin the
annual agony Of revising the appropri-
alton ordinance so that it's total sum
will fall within the city controllers
estimated revenue for the fiscal year
beginning at noon Monday, April 4.
The committee began its work all
right but the members threw up their
hands in despair and odjourned when
amendments amounting to $1O6, ,J16.SI
were added to the deficiency of $I2,-
993.40 already existing. The commit
tee will meet again Monday evening.
The adjournment was for the purpose
Of permitting the city clerk to have the
ordinance reprinted including the
amendments and to allow the commit
tee to get its breath and figure way
out of the muddle.
Finlay Ross, chairman of the select
committee, was elected chairman of
the joint committee. Excepting Mr..
Sweeney, of the common branch, all
the members were present, Me SsrS.
Ross, Thomas, Chttenden, Wagner
and Robinson, of the select branch, and
Grier, Flanagan, Gilroy and Noone, of
the select branch.
ONE ITEM CHANGED.
one item had been changed in the
estimate for the mayors department
when it was suggested by Mr.. Chitten-
den that the reading be discontinued
and amendments involving an increase
presented. This met with unanimous
approval and amendments were offered
as follows:
Fire department, supplementary
eSllmate ..........................S bO, IHO w
Arch culvert, Mt. Pleasant ra-
vine, Fourteenth ward .......... 800 %
Repairs and damage awards,
Fourth district main sewer. 3137 55
80 additional street lights........ 3,0l1 %
Approaches to Bloom avenue
culvert Observation-Disclosures. 1851 75
| Paving intersection Franklin
avenue and Spruce street ..... ass 10
| Paving Lackawanna avenue in
front of old Wyoming House
site ......................... 2OS O2
Paving LackaWanna avenue,
| Washington to jefferson ave-
nue. ......................... $500 %
Seventeenth sewer district ...... 1900 90
Widening Mates street and
laying sidewalks ............. 1000 90
Culvert over Stafford Meadow
| brook, South Washington ave-
| nue., between Eleventh and
Twentieth wards ............... 5000 90
New Cumberland hose house
Third ward ...................... 1000 90
Total ........................... .SlO6 SIC 81
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OBITUARY..

The death of Rev. James II. Rensen, IL
years OF age, occurred at his residence,
llonesdale, at 10 o'clock Tuesday night,
Feb, %. The deceased was ordained as
pastor of the Port Jervis Baptist church
September, 1858, and continued as pastor
until 1870. He then removed to Alden
vile, where he remained until 1888, when
his health failed He then moved to
Honesdale and for six years supplied The
Lake Ariel Mast Hope and other Bap-
tist churches. During his pastorate he
baptised 2i7 persons, one of which was "a
and loved by all. He leaves a
widow, six daughters and two sons. The
funeral was held at the Baptist church
Friday at p. M, conducted by the pas
tor, Rev. r. NJ. Rhoderick assisted by
others.
Peter Durkin, of Inkerman, near Pitts
ton, died yesterday morning after lin
gering illness of lung trouble. He had
taught school in Jenkins township for a
number of years and at different times
was principal of the Inkerman and Port
Griffith graded schools. His DEATH
though not unexpected. was nevertheless
a great shock to his many friends and
has occasoned much sorrow. Mr.. Dur
kin was about q years of age. His pa
rents are both dead. The following
brothers and sisters survives: Hon. l.. A
Durkin, of Inkerman; Thomas Durkin
Misses Winnie. Margaret, Jennie, Kate
Mary, Mrs q. Mulhearn, of Wilkes
Barre and Mrs. Bridget Maloy wife of
Editor j. W. Maloy, of the Lansford
| Record. The funeral will take place
Monday mcrning with mass in St.
Johns church. 1nterment will be IN
Market street cemetery.
The death of Mrs. John Gilroy occurred
yesterday at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. John j. Lotus, of Spring street, at
the advanced age of IS years. Mrs. Gil
roy was born in Ireland and emigrated
to this country over forty-ilye years ago.
going directly to Nicholson, Pa, where
the family engaged in agricultural pur-
suits. She resided there until five years
ago when her husbands death compelled
her to relinquish the farm, and she re-
moved to this city, making her residence
with her daughter, who survives her. She
was a woman beloved by all who knew
her. The funeral viii take place to-
morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock with SER
| vices in the Holy Rosary church. Inter-
ment will be made in Hyde Park Catho-
! lie cemetery,
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DR.. II. M, Harlow, Augusta, Me-,
says: Il regard it as one of the best
remedies in all cases in which the sys-
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DEPARTMENT ESTIMATES.

A comprehensive idea of how the
amendments look along with the other
particulars of the estimates and rev.
enue is shown in the following table:
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The Wilkes-Barre Record can be had
in Scranton at the news stands of M.
Meinhart, l19 Wyoming avenue; Mac,
Lackawanna avenue
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ORGANIZING A NEW CHURCH.
IL Has a Variety OF Aims, Objects and
Purposes.

Scranton is to have another new
church organization. 1t is called the
United States Veteran Christian
church. The first meeting viii be held
In Nettlcton's hall on Green Ridge
street. next Sunday morning at 1890
O'Clock, and, in the evening there will
be- another service beginning at TAO
o'clock. Rev. w. w. Dipkins, who is
organizing the church, Is now In this
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-26

City Controller Robinson's estimate
Of the revenue is considered very con-
servative, it is, in detan, as follows:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-26

Would you smoke the finest nickel
cigar made, Havana filler-Smoke "Po-
como" A.
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TENDENCY GREW APACE.

This. tendency of undermining the
drama grew apace until finally an
Englishman was introduced into the
drama-King John. He was the first
Englishman, the lecturer remarked
that was ever characterized on the
stage, If it will be accepted that the
devil is not English.
The answer to What is the function
of the drama?" answers also the ques-
ton What is the function of the
novel?" 1t is as Hamlet is made to
aptly put it, to hold up the mirror to
nature In reading Dickens you look
into a mirror and see life in the times
of which Dickens wrote. Dickens pow
erty and his calling as reporter en-
abled him to see and peculiarly fitted
him to tell of what he SO we'll depicted.
ply the test of merit to a work.
That his books were popular even
when they first appeared is not to be
wondered at because they treated of
everyday people. That they are popu-
lar now-possibly the most popular of
English novels-argues that they pos
sess merit, for posterlty alone can ap-
ply the lest of merit to a work.
He is popular because he is a gen.
ius. Talent does as well as 1t knows
how. Genius does better than it knows.
That touch of genius licensed him to
set at defiance the conyentionalities of
the day. The bad taste Of Dickens
is not bad taste for the same reason
that it is argued that Thackeray's did
acticism is inconsistent with art-ex-
cept Thackereys art.
ANOTHER REASON.
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Today at Bronson & Tallman's THE
Dunlap"
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CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION.
One Announced tor the Spring Will
Not ne Held.

There will not be another United
States civil service examination for
postoffice clerk-carrier service in this
city until next fall.
The examination announced for this
spring will not be held.
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Dunlap hats today, 412 Spruce st.
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Get Dunlap hat and be in it.
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ANOTHER REASON.

Another reason of Dickens popular
ity, the lecturer said, with a somewhat
tlmid and smiling air, was that he
makes no demand on intellectually.
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MODEL LECTURE ON
CHARLES DICKENS
Given by DR.. J. n. Pennimau, Of the
University Of Pennsylvania.
GENIUS CANNOT HAVE cRUDlTlHS
On This Score He Excused the Faults
That some Find with the Popular
Noveiist.-H Attention TO Detail
Is Grotosque at Times Hut That Is
What Makes Dickens Dickens.
Amuses But Does Not Make One
sl,l...s.

The second of the series of free lee
lures being given to the people of
Scranton by the University of Penn
sylvania. in line with the university
extension idea, took place last night
in the high school auditorium. The
lecturer was DIR. ]. Fl, Pennman, pro-
fessor of English literature at the uni
versity and dean of the college and
his subject was Charles Dickens"
The audience was regrettably small,
smaller than 1t should have been even
considering the unpropitious weather,
for it was to be expected that free
lecture by such an eminent lecturer as
DIR. Penniman upon such popular
subject as Dickens would crowd any
ordinary sized hall in any community
that had regard for its intellectual
reputation.
Those. however who did attend can
have it to say that they heard model
lecture. 1t was by learned man with
rare ability to effectively and interest
ingly impart his knowledge; lecturer
who strove to truthfully dssect and an
alyZe his subject and to avoid attempt
ing to place high above all other sub
jects the one he happens to treat.
RADICAL. STATEMENTS.
A striking example of this was found
in his statement--with the qualitlca-
tion that he expected it to be CONTRA
dicted-that a strong taste for Dickens
was not always evidence Of great intel
lectual power.
Quite as interesting as the lecture
proper was the review Of the history
s.fI tnly g.
time. In the Elizabethean period, he
said, the novel as we have it today, did
not exist. There was instead the Eng
lish drama. The novel is the successor
Of the drama: aims at and succeeds
in fulfilling the same functions.
The English drama arose from the
church services. During the period
marked on the one hand by the verge
of the dark ages and on the other by
the introduction of printing, the crav-
ing for knowledge and the desire to
teach folnd means only in the church
services. This gave rise to objective
presc u tatiCns of the stories of the Bible
such de we now see in the passion play
periodically given at Oberammergau.
These presentations were transplant
ed to the stage in due time. A fault
was discovered in the gap which lay be-
tween the people of the time and the
characters represented. To make them
more likely of arousing sympathy char
acters not so far distant were intro
duced, such as saints, well known and
popular. A devil was also worked in
and to give an opportunity for fun
making Satan was also accompanied by
an imp.
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Grand total ......................S47 .S474, ,610 q
Estimated revenue, 1898 .......... 29j, 100 10
Amount to be reduced by es-
Inmates committee .............S .Sl79 $40 q
Or: 3GS, ,Q93 40
295, 100 90
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Isn't to be found in this
store. Prices like these
move it out double-quick
it has no time to be
stationary
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-03-05
SHERIFF'S SALE

In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon fo
/ Wasco County.
o. F. Schowalter, as administrator of the estate
OF S. G. krehbiel. deceased, Plaintiff, VS.
Wilson r. Winans and Mary Winans and j. NJ
Huntington, Defendants.
By virtue Of an execution. decree and order
OF sale. duly issued out Of and under the seal o.
the Circuit Court of the State OF Oregon. TO-
the County of Wasco, to be directed and date,
the I'd day of March 1893. upon a decree for thu
foreclosure Of a certain mortgage. and judg-
mcnt rendered and entered in said Court OF
the 18th day OF February. 1898, In the abov,
entitled cause. in favor Of the Plaintiff ant
against the Defendants Wilson X. Winans an,
Mary Winans as judgment debtors, in the sun
Of eleven hundred twenty-five and 62-ln
dollars with interest thereon from the 18th do
of February, 1893 at the rate Of ten per cent per
annum, and the further sum OF one hundfe,
dollars, as attorneys fees, and the further sun
10 fifteen dollars, costs. and the cost of ant
upon this writ, and commanding me TO make
sale OF the real property embraced In sucl
decree of foreclosure and hereinafter described
will, on the
IL dayof April, 1898,
at the hour of two O'Clock. in the afternoon OF
said day. and at the front door of the Count
Court House in Dalles City, Wasco County.
bidder for cash in hand, ali the right, title and
interest which the Defendants Wilson r
Winans and Mary Winans and j. M. Hurting.
ton or either OF them had on the 18th day
February, 1892 the date of the mortgage fore
closed herein, or which such Defendants or any
of the Defendants herein, have since acquired
or now have in and to the following dese-ihef
real property. situlte and being in Wasco
County, OREGON. o-wit: Lots one, two, thrce
four and the southwest quarter III of the
northeast quarter III and the southeast
quarter of the northwest garter III
OF section one r. in township one m north
OF range nine [9I east OF the Willamette merid-
ian, ,Wasco county. Oregon. Two hundred forty
four and 2-l00 acres of land or so much OF saic
property as will satisfy said judgment and
decree, with costs and accruing costs.
Said property will be sold subject to confirm
ation and redemption as by law provided,
Dated at The Dalles, Oregon. this Sd day Of
March 1893.
T. j. DRIVER.
Sheriff Wasco County, Oregon.