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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-16

ticipated in a concert held in North
Scranton Thursday evening.
MIR. and Mrs. J. A. Jenkins, of Hyde
Park, we're the guests of Mrs. Mary
Probert, of Delaware street, yesterday.
Mrs. Robert Mckinley and son, John
Mckinley, have returned home after a
months visit with relatives in Brook
lyn.
Mrs. A. f. Haines, Mrs. John Bar
rett and Mrs. ID. c. Evans visited Mrs.
John Dakin, at the Powder Mills, yes
terday.
Miss Agnes Williamson has returned
from a visit with relatives at Pittston.
Mrs. David Powell, of Blakely, Is
seriously i'll.
Mrs. b. F. Hammond, Miss Genev-
ieve Hammond and Miss Elizabeth
Ripp are spending a week with friends
at Wilkes Barre.
Miss Lizzie Rogan left Thursday for
California. where she will remain sew
eral months.
Miss Mary Carbine is the guest Of
Mrs. NJ. ]. Lynott, at Scranton, this
week,
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JERMYN AND MAYFIELD.

Rev. w. r. F. Brown. who has tend
cred his resignation as pastor of the
First Baptist church, has accepted a
call at Blossburg, Tioga county, where
he will 60 on August /.
Miss Emily Fessenden left yesterday
for a visit with friends in Carbon
county.
Miss Florence Delahanty, of West
Pittston, Is visiting Miss Dora Tennis.
The employees of the Erie, Keystone
and Glenwood mines were paid yes
terday.
William T. Osborne, of South Main
street, called on friends in Green Ridge
last Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Tavlor, widow of Stephen Tay~
lor, died yesterday morning at the
home of her daughter Mrs. Robinson,
on Second street.
Mrs. Waitman, of Reading, is visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Gebhart, at the Pow
der Mills.
Miss Lille jenkins, of Parsons, is
visiting Miss Carrie Murray.
Mrs. II. l.. Freas returned yesterday
from Berwick. where she has been for
the past two weeks visiting friends.
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FOREST CITY.

A meeting of the official board of the
Methodist Episcopal church will be held
this evening at s o'clock A full at
tendance is desired.
Enterprise Hose company has re-
ceived an invitation to take part in
the parade of the New York State
Firemen's association, to be held at
Binghamton. August 10.
Rev. j. Jenkins, of Uniondale, was
guest at the Methodist Episcopal par
sonage yesterday.
Thomas Bellamy, OF Honesdale, has
been the guest of his daughter, Mrs. j.
II. Budd, for the past week.
Earl Pentecost is spending the week
with friends in Honesdale.
Rev. G. b. Stone spent yesterday in
Scranton. Monday Mr.. Stone will leave
for his summer vacation, which will
be spent at Ocean Grove and Strouds-
burg. Services as usual will be held,
Revs. Chapman and Robinson, of Peck
VILE will conduct the services, alter
mating Sundays.
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LOCAL AND Personal.

On Monday evening between six and
nine O'Clock at the American hotel in
Scranton the Knights of Pythias COM
iuittee will redeem all tickets which
could not bo used on their recent ex-
cursion to Binghamton.
Corporal George Aunger, of Company
l., is spending a week in the city
Or. Wehlau, of Scranton, was in the
city yesterday.
NJ. j. MurOhy and F. 7. Gelder, of
the Forest City News, are on a business
trip to New York 1t is in connection
with the enlargement of their printing
plant.
There are number of cases of ty-
phoid fever in the Dundaff street sec
tion of the city. The family of Z. Fin
eren is particularly afflicted, Mrs Fin
eren and two children being down with
the disease. Michael McDonough has
beer admitted to the hospital suffering
from the same disease and Maurice
Tierney, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Tierney, is confined to his home by an
attack of the mdlady.
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wAVERLY.

Rev. A. Bergen Browe. of the Bap-
tist church is visiting in Buffalo
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank II. Bailey are
at Cochecton, York state.
The Dunmore base pall club played
the Deweys Of Waverly last Satur-
day; score, Dunmore, g.; Deweys, 6.
Rev. John Cavanaugh is attending
the Free Methodist camp meeting at
Allentown.
DR.. n. C. Mackey has nrrounced
himself a candidate for tie legisla-
ture to succeed himself. subject to the
Republican convention.
Rev. w. Van Kirk, of Mt Vernon,
York state, delivered temperance
lecture at the Methodist Episcopal
church last Tuesday evening.
Rev. and Mrs. ]. b. Sumner and Mrs.
s. S. Kennedy attended the ministers
picnic at Nay Aug falls last Tuesday.
Mrs. Sarah Lang and children, Char
ley and Mabel, and Mrs. Linn and
daughter were the guests of Mrs. Mar
tin Bold last Wednesday.
Harry h. Miller is the proud pos
SCISSOR of a 2.40 four-year-old PAGER.
which he purchased this week at
Scranton.
Ice cream at the Little Delmonico." !"
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ELMHURST.

T. ]. Thompson is able to be out
again after about six weeks confine-
ment to the house with rheumatism.
Ex-County Superintendent Davis
was circulating among his old friends
here on Tuesday.
Miss Lillian Peck, of Peckville, is
visiting friends here.
The family of our new merchant, F.
Fl. Hoodmaker arrived here On Mon
day and took possession of their new
home over the store.
Miss Mamie Snyder, of Fern
Crest" is Spending this week with her
sister, Mrs. A. b. Clay.
Mrs. H. S. Finn spent Wednesday
with Moscow friends.
At recent meeting of the borough
school board, Miss Inez Blessing, of
New Milford, was elected teacher of
the primary department for the en-
suing year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mackus, of Scranton,
were entertained at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. w. II. Robinson on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles +. Laning and
daughter, Stella, and Mrs. F. j. Pow
ELL of Scranton. were the guests of
Byron Buckingham and wife over Sun
day.
Mrs. A. c. Dunning is visiting her
sister, Mrs. p. d. Rhodes in West
Scranton.
Miss Luella Dunning has returned
from visit with the family of Mr..
II. G.. Thayer at Lestershre, N. Y.
The ice cream social given by the
Baptist Ladies' Aid society on Tues
day evening was well attended. Des-
pite the GOODNESS of the evening, the
ladies disposed of every plate of cream
before eleven o'clock.
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MOSCOW.

Mrs. C. II. Travis and daughter. Dor
othy, and son, Eli. are spending a few
days with her daughter Mrs. v. L.
Smith. at Nicholson.
Professor r. II. Martin spent Sunday
with friends in Jernyn.
Reba Simpkins, of Peokville, is visit
ing friends here.
Orrin Travis returned home Monday
after spending a week in Stroudsburg
with lis brother.
Amelia Pross, of Scranton, is the
guest of Bertha Van Brunt
Mae Eshleman has returned home
after a weeks visit with friends in
Scranton.
Mrs. S. w. Lamoreaux and children,
of Scranton, are visiting relatives here.
Mr.. end Mrs. J. w. Clouse and chill
dren spent Sunday with MI. and Mrs.
Ira Weldy, at Madisonville.
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CHEAPER GAS.
New Capital Getting Into the Car.
bondnIc Compnny.

The next meeting OF the Carbondale
Gas company will doubtless see some
important changes In the personnel
of the organization. Scranton parties
have been in the city during the past
few DAYS and have purchased large
blocks of stock from former holders.
Whether they have acquired voting
majority or not has not been given out,
but the rumor is prevalent that several
new directors will be elected at the
next meeting in the interest of the
Scranton stockholders.
T.. l.. Fuller conducted the negotia-
tions for the sale Cf the stock of the
CarbonGalians and it is the reorSanz-
ed company that will begin the cree
tion of a modern plant on the site OF
the present one. provided an increased
patronage is secured. An agent is now
sounding the sentiment in different sec
tions of the city as to the introduction
of gas mains on many new thorough
farce.
1t has been intimated by those on the
inside that n material reduction in the
gas rate viii be effected,
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GLENBURN.

Mrs. Il. w. Osterhout and children. of
Dunmore, are visiting Mrs. ]. w. Moore.
The largest catch of fish In Glenburn
Lake this season was caught by Attor-
nev Paul Sherwood. of Wilkes Barre.
The Glenbu,n Base Ball team met and
defeated the Nicholson team by a score
OF IL to IL.
Miss Nellie Palmer. of Wilkes-Barre is
visiting with relatives here,
ID. w. Griffin, while repairing his barn
fell from a scaffold about twelve feet
high, Fortunately he escaped with only
a few light bruises.
Henderson Wolfe, Of New York city, is
spending his vaction with his parents
here,
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PRICEBURa.

The members of st. Thomas church
will hold a picnic on the Thirteenth
regiment rife range grove today.
Misses Lizzie Ann Wrightson and
Alice Humble were visitors in Green
Ridge and Providence, yesterday.
A flag raising will take place at
Storrs mines today. An excellent pro-
gramme has been arranged for the
occasion.
william Kennedy is improving from
the injury he received in the fight on
July T.
Great excitement has prevailed in
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5,372 PRESENT.
Immense Throng Listened to the In-
comparable MoZarts.

The Mozart band concert given from
the balcony of Hotel American last
evening was listened to by 5,372 per-
sons. and the applause was at times
deafeninG. Among the selections was
"Nigger in the Barn Yard" 1t is n
descriptive conglomeration that has
made a great hit throughout the coun-
try, but which requires the close at
tention of the audience to comprehend
and appreciate. During the rendition
of the piece there were limitations of
the noises made by cows, sheep, chick
ems, geese and other natives of the
barn yard as they are stirred up by
the advent of the colored gentleman.
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FUNERAL OF NJ. /. MOONEY.

The funeral of Martin l.. Mooney was
held yesterday morning from the home
OF his brother. Hon. Thomas Mooney,
on WoodlaWn avenue. A large corteSe
OF sorroWing friends followed the re
mains to their last resting place. The
services were held in the church of
st. Rose, Pcv. w. A. Nealon ceie-
hratcd requiem high mass, and
preached the funeral sermon. He
spoke comforting words to the bereav-
ed friends The following gentlemen
acted as palihearers: ]. p Campbell,
p. F. Neary, Michael Mullaney. Pat
rick Gunnelia, Andrew Pidgeon and
John. Campbell. Interment was made
in st. Rose cemetery.
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Pam Thinking Now.

Wise Father-No, my son. never put off
till tomorrow what can be done today.
Remember that, and the path which
leads to success will lie open before you.
Little Freddie-All right Gimme a
quarter to go to the ball game this after
noon. 1t might rain tomorrow.-Chicago
News
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PLACED UNDER BAIL.

Hugh GRAY. of VandlinS, was placed
under bail at Alderman Jones' last
evening for jumping on and stoning
street cars and using offensive lam
Euage in the hearing of passengers.
The Traction company is determined
10 break up the practice and other
prose cutions may follow.
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CARBONDALE,

tThe Carbondale correspondence OF The
Tribune has been placed in the hands OF
Mr.. r Mum, Salem avenue ana
Church street, to whom news Items may
be addressed All complaints ne to ir-
regular delivery, etc, should be made to
Roberts e. Reynolds news agonts.l
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this borough since the news came out
that James Donnelly, an aged man,
had strayed away from his home last
Saturday The dam back of the Nov
city Iron works has been searched, but
no trace of him can be found.
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bright.

Mr.. Romanz-I tell you what, baby
brightens up the house, and that's fact.
Mr.. Practickel-Yes; we've had to keep
the gas burning at night ever since ours
was born.-Philadelphia Record.
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PECKVILLE.

MISS Rena Boucher EST City,
is visiting Mr.. and NJ Snooks.
Albert Chapman is ig a few
days with relatives at d.
Estrayed-To premises I under
signed, two small pigs. owner can
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[:II!I!I!Il!lEl!L1

LAVE v0II Sore Throat, Plmples Cop
NAVE IUU per Colored Spots Aches.
Old Sores Ulcers In Mouth, Hair Falling
Write COOK REMEDY CO., o5I Maso ME
Temple, Chicago, III, for proofs OF cures.
Capital, Ssoo,ooo. Worst cases cured usto
IS days. ioo'page book tres
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HUMOROUS.

She Here is such a pretty little
story in the. paper. about how Edison
came to marry" He-ssI wish some
of these bright young journalists would
explain how came to marry" Indian
apolis Journal.
Brobson-''It's disputed question
which have the quickest tempers,
blondes or brunettes.'' Craik-''Is it??'
Brobson-"Yes; my wife has been both,
and [ couldn't see that it made any diff
ference Boston Traveller.
Jasper What do you think How
ellis meant when he spoke about one of
his characters as being shen-minded'
woman % Jumpuppe-"Oh, I guess he
meant that she never thought about
anything except her own set.'-Judge.
Customer-"Is the cashier imp Clerk
Eyes; he's in.'' Customer" Where
is hep Clerl-''In Canada" Custom
er-''Is the. proprietor in?" Clerk
"No; he's out" Customer GLOW
much ?''-Chicago News.
''I'm proud of you,'''. said the head
of the firm; 81 have letters from all
over Kansas saying that they have seen
Jul SctllpleS. HOW LII Cno WOT1Q ola
you manage it?" and he patted the
travelling man on the back. "Cyclone"
Detroit Free Press.
Employer -e:You> were late this
morning, Henry Office-boy-"Yes,
SIR Employer-"Did you forget to
mention it to me?" Ofice-boy-
sir. - But didn't want to deprive you
of the pleasure of being. the first to
speak Of t.'-Boston Transcript.
A Georgia man who went to Alaska
to dig gold writes home: from Dawson
City: ''You may expect me in Georgia
as soon as my clothes thaw enough for
me to get my hands in my pockets and
reach the money to pay for my ticket"
Atlanta Constitution.
=. ''You will marry a tall, dark gen
| tleman,'' said the fortune-teller, exam
ming the lines in the fair hand. ''That
doesn't help me any," despairingly re-
piled the lovely blonde who had called
to consult her; call six of them are tall,
dark gentlemen!"- Chicago Tribune.
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The BOttOmless Pit.

The Bottomless Pit, though much
smaller and less grand, has some of the
characteristics of Gorin's Dome. 1t is
a fearful pit to look down into from the
bridge spanning one of it's bays. I once
went with companion through tor
tuous passage to the bottom of this pit,
and while there we heard the shouting
and laughing of an approaching party
overhead. Distinguishing our lights,
we waited until they had collected on
the bridge overhead; and as they looked
down, trying topenetrate the unfathom-
able darkness of the deep pit, we gave
an unearthly sepulchral wall. Exclama-
tons of fear and horror resounded
through the cave from the frightened
crowd upon the bridge; but the guide,
knowing that we had gone into the cave
in advance of his party, quoted their
fears by the assurance that the sounds
did not come from evil spirits of the
vastly deep.-John r. Proctor, in Cen
tury.
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they said to me that they were hungry
and cold!''
II will go there tonight alone, and
here is $40 for you to buy and send up
at once to them what they most need
for over Sunday
Mrs. Estabrook wrote down the adj
dress and called her carriage. Quickly
donning a street suit, she was soon
alighting at the entrance of a narrow
street, and instructed her coachman to
wait there for her, as she did not like
to intrude her private carriage and
servants where it would create stir
and sensation, as such an equipage is
apt to do in tenement district.
It was indeed sorrowful scene that
met her eyes. The children gazed upon
the beautiful woman in black who en-
tered their poverty stricken home like
a creature from, to them, an unknown
world. They gazed with the widely
opened eyes of children accustomed to
patiently enduring deprivation.
They sat in silence, as if abashed by
the presence Of coming death and the
poverty about them, as well as by the
presence of a beautiful stranger. Had
she not been in black they would have
thought her a fairy, but they had never
read of fairies clothed in mourning.
They were doing nothing as the very
poor often are found, because they had
nothing to- with!
Mrs. Crandall was as neat as her pow
erty would permit her to be. There
were neither rags nor unkempt heads Of
hair, but patches were plainly in evil
dence, and the lack Of comforts every
where.
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mournfully contemplating. Angel
child,'' she;whispe softly. SIS n.
..You look all tired out, Miss Hendeer-
son. Take this easy CHAIR and she
smiled upon her caller winpingly, for
she. was really a, lovely and Christian
woman; and having been "born to the
purple had the easiest of manners
with. all persons, whatever their social
position might be.
"Indeed, I am tired and heart-sick,
too. I have come direct from one of
the saddest eases ,that$I have ever en-
countered, and that is saying a great
deal, and I have come to see if you feel
that you can do anything for them;
I know that you are doing a}great deal
all the time, but did not knoW'Who else
to go to this3tim TITS hard to] always
go kegging even if it is in behalf of
Others and Miss Henderson paused, as
if, perhaps: sheshad at last brought to
notice tho one case too many, for even
the rich and Chart table sometimes reach
a limit where they feel justified in say
ing: II can do no more, just, at: pres
ent. $3.50
|. eyes, L know: Miss Henderson" re
sponded Mrs. Estabrook, pleasantly, in
an encouraging tone, 'but this time my
charity fund is not quite exhausted.
What is it, please, that has affectedtyou
so?''1# ! = ~
> ooh, you are always SO kind! want
you to go with me ami see what have
seen. A laborer dying of a lingering
disease and poverty, with wife and
three children, half-fed and half
warmed. The Oldest girl is about II,
the youngest only three. When the
husband is awake the wife's time is
spent trying to ease his suffering, which
is constant; but by sewing during his
daytime maps and nights, she has kept
starvation away-not much more. Foo
proud to beg, they have sold almost
everything that could be spared, and
that was not much. The doctor came
and asked me to Investigate the case
and see if could interest some of the
ladies knew. I found no food, no
money, scarcely a bit of fuel, and the
half-crazed dying man, sco1ding be-
cause he was cold, and finding fault that
the chicken broth he longed for had not
been brought to him. Poor man, he is
too far gone to know the reason why,
and blames his wife; says she is tired Of
waiting upon him. 7 went to kind
market man and he has sent up a bas
ket full of provisions, so that they will
have supper and breakfast at least. But
they need fuel, clothes, medicine
everything. A more complete case of
restitution I never saw, where there
was not drunkenness to cause it, and
the poor woman so brave through it all,
and proudly hushing the children when
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VETERANS IN PLACES,

Some Extremely Old Men Work for
Uncle Sam in Washington.
A few years ago-in 1S93-when the
DOckery commission was seeking to i'm
prove the administration of the de-
partmental service, census was made
of the departments, and among other
facts that were collected were some to
show the ages of employees. There were
in Washington 17,076 persons of all
ages. Of this mum Der 742 were between
60 and 65 years of age, 1856 were between
IS and 70, 1872 were between 70 and rs,
sc were between Is and so, 33 were be-
tween 80 and IS, 6 were of the very re-
markable age Of between IS and 80, and
one was somewhere between 90 and IS.
There were in service 674 persons ex-
ceeding IS years. The treasury at that
time had it's full share of the old clerks.
There was one clerk in that department
who was 90; there were three clerks
each of IS years, IA clerks had reached
their eightieth birthday, 80 clerks were
cach~75 years of age, 81 clerks were 70
and over 40 clerks were IS and more.
All told, there were of these very adj
vanced clerks III at the time the CEN
sus was taken. The number is smaller
now, but the older clerks take good
care of themselves, and seem to be Il
class defying ordinary calculations of
life chances. Yet the 90-year-old clerk
has been employed in the department
but one year, and none of the III had
been in the treasury longer than five
years. In one office there was one
clerk of 80, another Of Is, and a third
of Is, out of a total Of 13 clerks, and
the man OF so had only been in the sery-
ice one year. In the office of the comp
troller of the currency there were
four clerks of 10 years and over. In
the pension division of the office of the
third auditor there was one employee
of so, second of rs, and third of 70
years Of age, and they had been in the
department, respectively, one, two and
three years. At the top of the military
division roll was clerk Of so years. He
had been in the service four years.-N.
Y. Times. .r'a 3 ....-'.-.e,. 5s.l. -,l-E.-
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''Love dolls? Guess I doll had one
Christmas a real pretty one all
dressed-but mamma e-it-to-the
washwoman, AMI amt got nothin'
now" and she broke into loud sobs.
"Minnie!" cried her mother, reprov-
ingly, hearing the child S words as she
came back into the room.
"Do not blame her; it is my fault. But
what does she mean ?''
Mrs. Crandall colored deeply. It was
SO hard to be poor, and harder still to be
forced to expose her poverty in all its
baroness, to strangers:
'Why, it is this way: have no place
but this room to wash in, and the steam
goes right in there and chokes him,
and he fretted so and coughed every
time / washed, that it seemed as if I
never could get through another wash
day. I never had washing done for
me before in my life, except when the
babies came.'' Here she lowered her
voice, though the door was partly
closed. 'And SO Z thought we could get
along without any more washing till
it was all over, thinking every week
would be the last. But, poor man, he's
lasted along till we'd got to have some
things; and his cough worse than ever,
and [ couldn't have the steam here
nohow, and had no money and had
sold everything except the doll. All
dressed as twas, twas worth a dollar.
And have a neigh Dor who takes il
washing and she has a little girl. The
other girls had given up their Testa-
ments and all the books that they have
had Christmas and birthdays, and I
took Minnie and told her that it was