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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-12
THIS AND THAT.

Mr.. Zeigler, of the Jackson House,
on Franklin avenue, who was one of
the Vetter Klondike party, but re-
turned home on account OF illness, is
In receipt of copy of the first news
paper printed in Dawson, n. w. T. 1t
is only about 1Sx24 inches in size, but
contains quite a little reading matter
and a liberal display of advertising
The paper is edited by George NJ. AL
len and managed by Zack II. Hickman
and Eugene C. Aller. In an editorial
note appears the stat ment, Type can
be set for twenty-fou hours day in
the office without the lse of artificial
light. This is not due to any brillancy
on the part of the staff, but Old Sol is
responsible and he never does anything
by halves in this region" The paper is
called the "Klondike Nugget" and sells
for so cents copy.
A mammoth coal train, 13O cars of
Amboy coal. was pulled from Altoona
to Columbia on Tuesday. drawn by a
single engine, No. s72, the first of the
class II 8 giants built at the Juniata
shops. The train was 3,S77 feet long,
or trifle less than three quarters of
a mile, with 5,212 tons, of which 3,692
tons were coal, behind the tender of
the engine (siXty cars of 1850 tons
would be an ordinary train, and left
Altoona at a. m, arriving at Colum-
bia at IL p. m, having two complete
crews to man II. The giant locomo-
tive, the first of it's class designed last
summer, weighs about 11S tons, and is
conceded by all railway authorities to
be the largest and strongest locomo-
tive in the world.
The latest intelligence from Edmund
A. Bartl and his gold-seeking party
comes through the Edmonton Bulletin
of Canada, the issue of June 1S. An
article in the Bulletin reprinted in the
National Klondike contains an inter-
view with a gentleman who talked with
the Bartl party at Port st. John. the
farthest point accessible by railroad
The Bartl party was then about to
leave for a place 10 miles farther on.
mountain reported to contain a great
deal OF gold
Dewey Santiago Jones" is the thor
ougnly America Cuban Welsh Ameri-
can name which q fond and patriotic
West Side parent has given his new
born. 1t might be noted that Devil
SAINT is Wales patron saint; further,
that Santiago" translated is est
James" which makes the child's name
trebly appropriate during the present
period Of Anglo-Americap sentiment.
Anna Held has a new bath. Milk
isn't in 1t. The milk plunge served It's
turn we'll enough last year, but now
the bran plunge has supplanted IT,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-12
ANOTHER NEW TOBACCO.
A Good Smoking Tobacco at Very
Reasonable Price.

A new tobacco under the o Eye C
brand is being introduced in this mar
ket. 1t is somewhat milder and a more
pleasant smoke than the various
lines Of stripped goods and sells from
l. to 10 cents per pound less. 1t is put
up in yellow papers of the usual sizes.
Smokers who have used it pronounce it
the best smoking tobacco for the mon
ey 10 he had. Nearly all af the whole
sale houses have taken hold of it and
a good many Of the retailers already
have 1t in stock. 1t is destined to be
a Great seller in this valley as it al
ready is wherever it has been intro
duced
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-12
GENTLEMEN DRIVERS.
Their Speeding Tomorrow Will Be at
Driving Park.

The races of the gentlemen drivers
will be decided tomorrow afternoon at
the Driving Park. No admission will
be charged
ing are the entries;
Road race--Moxey, Bessie s, Harry,
Anyways, Jube.
Match race-Nero Benedictos.
No l-Guesswork, Duke, Jim Mears,
Julia r, Blue, John.
No 2-Dewey, David Copperfield, Maud
Gladstone. SImrell.
Trot and pace fTee-for-all - Silver
Prince, Doc Il, Maggie Davis, Cedella,
Nellie McCrory.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-12
ELASTIC KIND OF PAPER.
1t is a Contract and Awaits the
MAYORS Signature.

Mayor Bailey has before him for sig
nature a very elastic contract which
his honor would hardly care to sign as
an everyday business mans docu-
ment. But 1t is little different as a
city instrument.
The contract is for a chemical fire
engine and a combination hose and
chemical wagon and contains the clause
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-12
FRIEND WAS A TARTAR.

Morris Z. Chase. of Lafayette street,
arrived at the Lackawanna hospital at
o'clock last night with cut almost
from ear to ear across the top of his
head.
DIR. Corser asked Chase who did It.
Chase said 1t was done with a cane in
the hands of "a particular friend"
The doctor advised him to pray to be
delivered from such friends.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-12
Mutual Aid Association.

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Machine and Car Shops Mutual Aid
excursion to Mountain Park Saturday,
Aug. 13. Trains leave Central Railroad
OF New Jersey depot at S a. m. and ~
noon. Tickets, IS cents; children. 40
cents. %
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-12

Anna told the reporters she let warm
water steep through bag of bran and
1t made a bath like "velvet turned to
liuuid -
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-12
five DOLLARS FOR
WRITING A letter

In order to introduce
my new line of Kimball
Pianos and organs I will
pay FIVE DOLLARS to
any one who will send
me the name of any par.
ty who will buy a piano
or organ of me.
This will be paid when
first payment is made on
the instrument and to
the first one who sends
me the name. If you
know of a neighbor who
talks of getting one send
the name in.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-12
POLE CLIMBER
DOES A "STUNT"
MADE A DARING CLIMB OF AN
s2-FooT POLE.

Thomas Mclaughlin Employed to
Replace Pulley at the Top of the
Pole at No. 10 School Building on
jackson Street-Crowd Of Shudder-
ing Onlookers Watched Him at His
Work-He Lashed Himself Fast to
the Pole at Dizzy Height.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-12

The Wilkes-Barre Record can be had
in Scranton at the news stands of NJ.
Meinhart, ll9 Wyoming avenue; Mac,
Lackawanna avenue.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-12
CITY MAY DO ITS
ASPHALT REPAIRS
CAPTAIN MoIR's RESOLUTION
STARTS THE BALL ROLLING.

City Engineer Phillips Suggests That
Madison Avenue and North Main
Avenue Paves Be Well Inspected
Before Releasing the Contractors
Bondsmen-If That Were Done Be-
fore the Paved Streets Would Not,
He Said, Be In Their Present Con-
dition
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-12

Anna Held has a new bath. Milk
isn't in it. The milk plunge served It's
turn well enough last year, but now
the bran plunge has supplanted II.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-12-29

OVER the entrance to the main
building of one of the great seats
of learning in Europe hope
very few Of my readers may recog-
nize it-are cut in the stone these
words: ITO think free is great: to
think right is greater
Truly. there is lesson. How
often do we not hear the words:
"This is free country. Every
body is entitled to his opinion.
Such may be the case-or it may
not. However entitled a man may
be to his opinions, he must be
careful about sending them
through the United States mails.
But 1 am deviating.
To think right is to act right, as
there can be no intelligent action
without thought, and talking or
writing is, in fact, action. But
thought is of much greater i'm
portance even than as the motive
of action. for by thinking, we ex-
list. When we cease to think we
cease to exist.
1t is no new theory. although
lately rediscovered, that thought is
supreme. | will demonstrate to
some extent: If a person gives
his mind up to noble thought, will
not the reflection ennoble his
countenance? Is not the opposite
equally true-even more manifest
Now, if this fact is so evident,
why then should this reflex action
of our thoughts stop with the
changing of the expression of our
face? If it has an immediate and
evident effect on one part of our
body, why should it not 60 further
in it's action?
1t certainly does go further, for
we have daily demonstrations of
how grief kills; how inconsistencies
causes low and morbid state of
the body, etc. You Will not deny
the other and inevitable axiom
that glad and cheerful thoughts
have most salutary effect on the
physical man. All physicians re-
cognize and value this influence.
Can we not place ourselves
above our surroundings, and by a
concentrated force of good and
kindly thoughts benefit ourselves
bodily as we'll as mentally?
There certainly is no obstacle in
the way of such "a desirable pro-
ject, except that which our own
perverted minds may present.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-12-29
THE MIRROR is weekly paper published

THE MIRROR is weekly paper published
In the Minnesota State Prison. 1t was founded
In 1887 by the prisoners and is edited and man
aged by them. Its objects are to be a home
newspaper; to encourage moral and intellectual
improvement among the prisoners; to acquaint
the public with the true STATUS Ofthe prisoner;
to disseminate pathological information and to aid
In dispelling that prejudice which has ever been
the bar sinister to fallen mans self-redemptiOn.
The paper is entirely dependent on the public for
its financial support If at any time there should
accrue a surplus of funds. the money would be
expended in the interests of the prison library.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-12-29
n 0 TIC E..

ALL PERSONS receiving copies Of
THE MIRROR who are not On our
regular lists Will please consider
such as sample copies. If. after
reading. you conclude that THE
MIRROR Is worthy Of patronage
send your name to this Office for a
trial subscription at rates az pub
lfehed above.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-12-29

stood, and if imperialism" is vic
torious there will some day come
a short step to empire and the
inhibition against titles of nobility
will be ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS also the
inhibition against slavery.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-12-29

The latest controversy that con-
fronts the country is as to whether
the recent acquisition of Spanish
colonies shall be a permanent ad-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-12-29

RoR in it's last issue. It contains
some criticisms, but in the main it
is complimentary. The writer
seems unable to disassociate the
grim dungeons. which in the
minds of most men constitutes a
prison, from the paper, and this
gives his article a grim aspect
However, he says that the editor
ials would not disgrace metropol-
itan daily-a very fine compliment
and that it's contents in general
are clever. The MIRROR attempts
to be cheerful and humorous, not
because the editor is light headed
or frivolous far from it. But a
good newspaper man always at
tempts to give his readers what
they do not expect, as the surprise
is ikels to be amusing. There is
another reason. Out in the wild
and woolly West, when man
smiles while undergoing some
heartbreaking pain Or suffering his
comrades admire him, and say:
There's boy that's game" In
old France. when the noblemen
and their ladies were being carted
to the guillotine, amid the jeers of
the mob, the ladies would carry on
their most brilliant conversation
and the gentlemen wonld be if
anything more polite and more
bright and witty than ever before.
'Noblesse oblige,'' was their
watchword.
1t is also mine.
When God made man and the
animals and the angels He made
man His image. Did you ever
hear of an animal smiling? Or is
there any mention anywhere that
the angels ever smile?
| think not.
1t is the special property of the.
human race which shows it's in
nate superiority over both angels
and animals.
When a man has never learned
to laugh or has forgotten how, he
is down as near to the level of the
animals or up as near to the an
gels as he can come. But we are
human. and divine law seems to
have laid down the rule that every
time a man smiles he becomes a
better man both physically and
mentally. That is why I would be
glad if | could make the whole
world smile.
1t is very fine thing for pri-
son paper to discuss the cause of
crime, and prison reform and the
cure of cussedness,. but the pris-
oners don't care SO much to read
about those things all the time,
and besides | don't know SO much
about those subjects, except in a
general way that the three RS
Rum, Rowdyism, and Rascality,
are the cause of much crime. To
call the kind of humor which a
man writes who is eating his own
heart frivolous is in itself humor-
Gus.
The Criterion also wonders why
| should write on subjects which
interest only the citizens of the
republic. 1 can only say that
those subjects are the only ones
that would interest prisoner.
And the prisoners may some day
become citizens. have ever con-
fined myself to the teachings of
true philosophers. If my critic
were to take up Emerson's essay
on Politics he would be able to
find the same ideas as those con-
tanned in the editorial he quotes.
That property is an accidental
and temporary possession can
hardly be denied. when you con-
slider that few men are able to
choose their parents and that their
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-12-29

an improvement on the merciless
sarcasm with which my predecessor
met in the some quarter about
year ago.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-12-29
HITS AND STRIKES.

They are fixing up big reception
in St. Paul for the new Governor. 1t
will probably be very fashionable af-
fair.
BY a Typographical error in last
weeks paper we were made to refer to
the Governor as the chief executive.
This was wholly unintentional.
Xxx
Hans Miller got off an unusually
sharp pointed thing one day last week.
A bent pin had by some means, found
its way into the cushion of his chair
| There is an epidemic of influenza all
over the country. 1t is not surprising
considering the way these naval heroes
are travelling around the country swap
ing microbes.
Xxx
| That Hans Miller is direct decend-
ant of AnaniaS. He gave it out that
was stuck for Xxx, and now a lot of
editors who have been suffering in ST.
lence from my mit-pushing puns,
have been jollying me up on the
strength of it. 1t is not so. My sen.
tence is an equation with several I'M
known quantities which l labor in vain
to solve.
| Gout is the most serious evil with
which politicians have to contend.
They pronounce it go.out.
-
"Shot Herself in the Hotel is head
ing of Milwaukee paper over all art
icie describing the suicide of a young
woman. 1t is fatal spot to be shot
in. 1t recalls the sad history of the
cook who was stabbed in the pantry.
He explored. If didn't have "pro-
lection" l never would dare to get off
such CHASTITY puns as those.
James Hamilton Lewis, congress
man from Washington, has sprung the
brilliant idea to garnishee that S20,OOO,-
600 which Spain is to have. Gosh, but
we have some municipal court polite
ians in congress.
***
/ There can be no question but that
this country is now fully reunited. A
bill has been introduced in congress to
pension all the former rebel soldiers.
| Now if they will pass bill to pension
all pardoned convicts, III apply for a
pardon.
The Presidents message was Shaks-
perian in its wordiness
Senior Rios complains that the Amer
leans aimed blow at Spanish honor.
! Well, the Americans have been noted
for their good craftsmanship, but there
are some things which are remarkably
hard to get bead on.
Xxx
| 1t is said that Fortune knocks once
at the door of every man, but when
She is busy elsewhere she sometimes
sends her daughter, Miss Fortune.
-
Out in Ohio they record the Freese-
Frost nuptials. 1t was probably cold
day.
Xxx
! The British government has ordered
samples of mosquitoes from everywhere.
! Here's where we get even for those
English sparrows. We will send them
few of the New Jersey breed, and it |
will not be long before accounts are
squared.
After this all pirate has to do is to
hoist the starspangled, and proudly in
quire, "WhO will dare to haul down the |
flag"
Now they have taken to drinking |
petroleum cocktails over in France. |
They are probably trying to keep their
reputation for being fiery nation.
x
A New York fashion paper informs |
the world that "the fashioned |
round garter retains its hold princi-
pally at the two extremes of society"
That is the first time I've seen the word |
extremes used to represent the pedal
ION extensions at the further end of the
species Homo Sapiens, fem.
Xxx
An Italian in Kansas City has inYen. |
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-12-29

dition to the domain of this re-
public.
at the present time there seems
to be q wave of desire for conquest
passing over the country. This
feeling is somewhat natural. It
is probably the same feeling which
prompts the thief to take all he
can carry when opportunity Of
fers. In itself this seems to be
the general business principle. in
this country so it is not strange
that the government, which, as at
present constituted, stands for
but money, should carry
out this policy.
It is evident that no benefit can
come to the working classes or to
the farmers through the addition
of this territory to our domain.
It is also evident that it will af-
ford a new field for the investment
of American capital, and is there
fore desirable from the point Of
view of the owners of capital. Up
to the present time, however, every
man in this country has had a
vote. and thus, nominally. has
been able to have his say about
the government. There can be no
question but that there is desire
to change this condition, and i'm
pose property qualification,
which would disfranchise the
poorer classes incidentally the
in the South. Whether
that would be a desirable thing is
a debatable question, although it
is no doubt fact that it is the
man with mo stake in the country"
who lends himself with the great
est ease to the prostitution Of the
ballot.
There is no proposition either
present or future, to grant the
franchise to the inhabitants of
this conquered territory, but there
has been a proposition made-and
favorably received-to enlist them
as soldiers in our armies.
If the present proposition to
largely increase our army should
carry, we would thus be placed
in the position of having 10000
600 of our inhabitants without the
right to vote, and having a large
proportion of our army drawn
from these Helots. That this
condition would be anomalous in
a country whose government was
based primarily on the declaration
that ''all men are born free and
equal need hardly be pointed
out
There are. however, not lacking
men who clearly foresee the danger
to our system of government which
lies in the indiscriminate absorp-
ton of foreign territory and the
consequent increase of our mill
tary establishment.
History tells us that a large
military establishment is the
greatest danger to a republican
form of governme Mt. Much of that
history is contemporaneous, and
there are not lacking instance in
that of our own country which
show that military despotism
or monarchy could have been
established at certain periods, had
the patriotism Of men like Wash
ington and Grant not prevented
their taking advantage of the OPP
portunity.
Should we cast our eyes on the
Eastern and Southern portion of
the country we cannot fail to note
the aristocratic tendency of the
upper classes, which will no doubt
ultimately aid any project which
would promise it official recogni-
ton. We see this in the mar
riages of American girls of fortune
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-12-29

An Italian in Kansas City has inven-
ted device for eliminating midnight
tOmcats from the back fence without
the expenditure of bootjacks or other
wearing apparel. He made rabbits out
of them. And now many of the inhab
itants down there have fellow feline
when they hear catode.
Rats!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1898-09-17

lift ever becomes possible for
the church to preach the gospel
of, Christ, unhampered by fear
OF the "money changer" and
without being dictated to by
the hypocrite who uses the liv-
cry of the Lord with which to
serve the devil, it could become
a great power toward alleviat-
ing want and correcting many
existing evils. The. trouble
with the church is it is too pol
tito. It has no aim save show
and pompous parade. Its OBJ
ject is to accumulate. It is a
money proposition first, and a
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1898-09-17
new UNIONS.

The Socialists have granted
charters to new sections in
Chicopee, Mass, Etiwanda,
CAL, Joplin, Mo-, and the ANAL
gamated sections of Louisville,
Ky.-The Socialist Trades and
Labor Alliance issued charters
to a new Machinists' Union in
Brooklyn, a Moulders' Union
in East St. Louis, andd Allied
Printing Council in Montreal,
and Leather Workers in Phila-
delphia.
During the past two months
eight charters have been issued
by the international Typograpi-
cal Union: Typographical un-
ions-No. "a, Jackson, Tenn;
139, Bangor, Maine; 1874, Kewa-
nee, ILL.,; 21s, Pendleton, Ore;
257, Brandon, Man.; 264, New
Westminster, B. c.; 312, Lewis
ton, Maine. Photo Engravers
No. 9, Montreal, %, The un-
ion at Vincennes, Ind, has sur
rendered it's charter.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1898-09-17
MARION CRAWFoRD'ss oCIALIsTIC
VIEW.

F. Marion Crawford, the we'll
known author, was interviewed
in Cleveland recently. Asked
what in the affairs of men was
of most interest to him, he
said: The social movement,
of course. We must all be
socialists, in a sense. It seems
to me to be coming inevitably
in Europe, and something will
happen in this country. Hun
dreds of men are working on
inventions to reduce the need
of labor, and every labor-saving
invention deprives some men
of work. What will be the out
come? I cannot tell. I believe
there will be a revolution in
Europe, probably with blood
shed. Something must break
forth there. It will not come
tomorrow, or next day, but [
expect to live to see it. In
America I believe the change
will come peaceably, perhaps
by legislative process "
Mr.. Crawford took pains to
add that he did not know how
far he was a socialist himself,
but indicated that he leaned in
that direction. This seems to
give point to a remark credited
to Grant Allen to the effect
that the leading authors of
America were practically all
socialists. AS a sign of the
times, at least, this is encour-
aging.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1898-09-17

The Board of Education has
been again attacked with sud-
den and serious desire for re-
trenchment. Mr.. Harrison's
proposition to consolidate two
offices and save the district
something like 500 a month
was very proper move, but of
course it failed to carry. fit
had been a move to reduce the
salary of the janitor every mem
Der would have fallen over
himself to be first to vote for
it. There is no danger of hit
ting the right place. IF there
were some of the high-priced
and luxuriously paid faculty
would hear something drop.
This buster about retrench-
ment is simply a fake. There
are many places where reform 8
are needed, and members of the
board know them, where great
savings could be made. but it
is not in cutting the wages of
the poorly paid janitor who is
on duty long before daylight
and completes his labors in the
night. Such reformation is vile
and the reformer a humbug.
Let our worthy school directors
watch the purchasing of sup
plies a little more closely and
perhaps they may be able to
save enough so it will not be
necessary to allow our children
to run the streets three months
out of the year.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1898-09-17

There is nothing like being
on time. But the National
Populist party ven t n
which was held in Cincinnati
last week a little over-done
the early bird act. Wharton
Baker was nominated for pres
ident of these great United
States, and Ignatius Donnelly
for vice-president. Just why
the convention should be held
over two years before the cleo
ton is to take place no one
seems to understand, but in
this case, as in many others,
the ways of the populist lead
er is beyond finding out. This
is evidently a case where the
First shall be last, and the last
shall be first" S