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Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-02-01
ECHOES FRO1 CINCINNATI.

God and the angels with The outcome is
not doubtful.
REV. JOHN RUSSELL Father of the Prohibitionpartv
If Jesus Christ had compromised with the devil
upon point, he would have been lost
Hon. HALE JOHNSON,
Late Candidate for Vice President u. S.
The Anti-Saloon League movement is absolutely
useless except of educating those who are
farther back in the procession than we are that
that isn't the way to do it.
JOHN G. WooLLEY
The basis of prosperity is in turning the dollars
in the right direction. More than million unem-
ployed would be employed if the saloons were
closed
Prof. F. T. Now IRTER
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-02-01

An attractive program deserves good audience. This
meeting should devote much effort to securing
as to arranging the former A false sometimes
prevents enable expenditure
and then appeal for the of doing So some com
munities settled that
good audience is mpossibty This is nearly always
mistake and should be speedily corrected If ordinary
methods have failed to accomplish their
of such importance that we solicit from readers
for Temperance and Prohibition Meetings." Contribu-
tons must be brief Say in sentence, If
possible. The symposium will appear in the March
Der.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-02-01

Prohibition Papers free!

TIVU1UIl1VN EOP<i> )1<H
During February we will send the papers
named FREE to the person sending in the in
dicated number Of subscriptions to BACKBONE:
The Voice for 10 Backbone subscriptions.
The Lever for Backbone subscriptions.
Rams Horn for 8 Backbone subscriptions.
Vesterlandet for Backbone subscriptions.
Reform for Backbone subscriptions.
White Ribbontr for 3 Backbone subscrip-
tons.
Union Signal for Backbone subscriptions.
We also send BACKBONE for 4 BACKBONE sub
scriptions.
The newborn Democracy" is hell-bent, all the
same.
The cheer-up-odists getting in their work in
our ranks just now.
Louis Kill will open saloon at Marshall. Nice
name for the business.
Prohibition and equal suffrage twin sisters
and will prove to be sin twisters.
If you are not becoming hotter foe of the saloon
every day. there's something the matter with you.
There are those who suspect that there is not so
great need for Higher Criticism as for Higher Cit-
zenship 81"
A friend of our cause writes to inquire whether
Backbone is still published. Backbone will be deck
when Gabriel blows his trump-uness the saloon is
sooner destroyed.
1t is wonder that the saloon cursed women have
risen and strung every saloon in the land to tat
ters Yet some accuse them of indiscretion and in
temperance of speech!
We issue 10000 copies of this number. If each
one, after being read is handed to neighbor, our
issue will be 10000 practically. This would probably
1000 readers
During the campaign in Greater New York a
"straw" of the 1856 inmates of the three leading jas
and prisons of the city was taken. The dailes, as
usual declared that the Prohibition vote was insg-
nificant"
The Illinois State Liquor League met recently in
Danville, ILL., The mayor being out of the city, the
coroner was very properly chosen to deliver the adj
dress of welcome. An undertaken would probably
have been equally eloquent.
In our last issue we asked those who believe in
prohibition but not in the Prohibition party method
to give briefly the grounds of their objection. We
have not yet received a sufficient number of replies
for symposium, but hope to do soon.
The church should support the Prohibition party or
organize better prohibition party or one more likely
to overthrow the saloon at early day. To vote
with party which legazes the saloon is to vote to
egaze the saloon. ''The liquor traffic cannot be le-
galized without sim" Those who commit sin are sim
ners.
The New York Voice, backed by bushels of petitions
from the W. c. T. w.. and by the action of Presbyter-
ian synods and presbyteries without number has
compelled the Princeton University trustees to direct
the faculty. to enforce a fOrpOtten fOrhddine
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-02-01

There might be in the counsel to COM
promise when the issue is not of morals but
when asked to compromise with undisguised, open
hideous wrong never!-James G. Blaine on Slavery.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-02-01

License here by 80 majority. change of II votes
in favor would have given the victory years
ago license had about $50 majority child Is growing
you BACKBONE IS excellent food, and has helped
wonderfully in changing public sentiment H.
Bowes, Granite Falls Granite Falls has about 165
scribers, secured under wheel offer)
The Springfield herald., 1898-09-16
PUBLIC OPINION.
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You can find the great pulse OF
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PUBLIC OPINION. which quotes
Opinions from Atlantic TO Pacif
ic on all important questions. In
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familiar with the sentiment of
every state and with the opinions
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an. The Governor OF Canada, and
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ton are among the recent subscrlb-
ers for Public Opinion. They
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Doubtless YOU will conclude to
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scrlpton. Paper will be stop
ped at expiration of this time.
Regular subscription price, ~. so
per year. Sample copies free.
The Springfield herald., 1898-09-16
Among Our Exchanges.

Mr.. A. Watson McHendrie, of
Trinidad, arrived in the city yes
terday. Mr.. McHendrie is in the
city looking to the getting out of
the Colorado Colleglan, of which
he is business manager.-Colorado
Springs Gazette.
Beaty Bros. of Manzanola sus
.tainesla great loss last Monday
night by fire. Twelve large ncks
Of alfalfa containing over 100 tons
caught fire about 10 o'clock and,
aided by the heavy wind, was
soon reduced to ashes. There
was an old stock yard close by
where sheep were fed last winter
and over two months ago the rub
blsh was set atire in order to dis
pose of 1t. 1t contained fire up to
the present time and the high
wind soon tanned it INTO flames
with the above results. Loss estl-
mated at $1,OO0.-Rocky Ford
Times Republican.
"CanEot YOU tell me what sort
of weather we may expect next
month";" wrote farmer to the ed
itor of his country paper, and the
editor replied as follows: sit is
my belief that the weather next
month will be very much like
your subscription bill" The
farmer wondered an hour what
the editor was driving at when he
happened to think of the word
"unsettled.' He sent a postal
note.
The Springfield herald., 1898-09-16

To solve the convict labor ques-
ton, is a perpleXlng one and one
that will surely engage the atten-
hon OF the next general assembly
Of Colorado. That the prisoners
of Canon City should be set to
work no right minded person can
deny, but the low of it is what
puzzles the people. No one de
sires to have convict labor come
in contact with free labor, and
just what to have the prisoners do
is the question. Some say, let
them work on a state canal; Others
say have them make government
supplies, while still others, plac-
ing the necessity of keeping them
occupied above everything else,
SAY, put them to work manuiac
turing anything and sell the pro
duct on an open market. If the
prisoners in the state penilentiary
we're all put at regular emplov-
ment there Would be better con.
huct among them, better salts
faction all round, aud more cases
bi reforms. Enforced idleuess
day after day, month after month,
and wear III and wear ont ~ hell.
Every better Instinct IN man re.
bells against il and, driven almost
TO state OF i.isanity, he becomes
n desperate character even if he
was not before. Lett alone to
continually brood over His forlorn
Condition lie is likely 70 become
The Springfield herald., 1898-09-16
WEEKLY CROP BULLETIN.
+. II. BRANDENBURG, OBSERVER.
For the Week Ending Last Tuesday

AS regards temperature, the
past week has been characterized
OH the eastern Islope by period
of remarkably low temperature.
At Denver the mean temperature
for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
was 40 degrees, which is 5 de.
grees lower than the mean tenn
perature for the three consecutive
coldest days in any September in
the past 26 years. Frosts, rang
ing from light to killing, have oc-
cured in all sections east of the
Continental Divide, The pre-
cipltation has been confined to
the eastern slope, which was visit
ed by general rain and snow
storm during the closing days.
In Cheyenne county, near the
Kansas border. the fall was nearly
4 inches; and at Trinidad, Las
Animas county, S inches.
The weather conditions have
continued generally favorable In
the western counties, but on the
eastern slope the change to abb
normally cold weather, which was
abrupt, has been detrimental to
all late crops, even where they
escaped killing frosts. In exposed
localities all tender Vegetation and
potatoe vines were killed, and
late corn more or less injured.
Alfalfa does not appear to have
been seriously hurt, but the third
crop will be light, owing to the
scarcity of water.
The Springfield herald., 1898-09-16
1t is certainly fanaticlsm that

1t is certainly fanaticlsrr that
prompts man to make the asser-
ton, either i'll the pulpit or from
the rostrum, that the world is
growing worse every day. OF
course if a man wants simply the
sensational side of life he can post
himself on that phase by reading
the sensational portion Of the
newspapers; but in the same pa
bers he can find the noble side
rs well. The world is growing
brighter and more intelligent ev-
cry year. Look at the progress
that has been made IN the past so
years: Sciences that were never
thought OF before that time have
been brought to light, and more
and greater discoveries will be
made in the next fifty. If the
world was getting worse all the
time we would still be lying in
The ignorance and crime go pre-
valent in the dark ages with no
hope OF ever bettering our con
Hition.-Pagosa Springs News.
The Springfield herald., 1898-09-16

We will give free, to those who
nav IN advance for HERALD. or to
old subscribers who settles up lor
back subscription, years sub
scription TO The Kansas CITY
journal, a weekly paper metro
polltan in all particulars, contains
telegrapmc news OF the week,
current news, science. history, ar''
complete market reports and 9th
cr miscellaneous matter.
This h,res you two papers 'o'
Sl25 per year
The Springfield herald., 1898-09-16

Empress of Austria. Elizabeth,
was stabbed in The heart the, 10th,
by an Anarchist, who. as most an
nrchists are, was an Italian. One
bad feature of the crime is that In
This part OF Switzerland, where
the crime was committed, capital
punishment is prohibited.
The Springfield herald., 1898-09-16

A Dryer fire company carried
off the championship in wet con
test at Omaha. The men arose
from their hunks hitched, mount
ed and got wagon out OF hose
house in 6 Is seconds while to
run 100 yards and lay 100 feet of
hose took but 27 1-5 seconds.
The Springfield herald., 1898-09-16

savage as the tiger or loose all
spirit ndpnde and pine away.
pitlable object in any case. Let
this important question be gener-
ally Observation-Disclosures.
The Springfield herald., 1898-09-16

NNaSTED-sH sHyEpAL TRUSTWORTHY fEEsoNs IN
w this state to manage our business in their
own md nearby counties. II Il mainly oihcc
work conducted NJ home. SALARY streight f'OO
a ycnr and cNpcnrcs-deiinitc, bonhhdc, no
more, no lcrs salary Monthly 80 E Ecierehce7'
Enclosed Erlf addressed stamped envelope,
Herbert 4. Hess, prcst., Dcpmt NJ. Chichso'
The Springfield herald., 1898-09-16

Evangelist Moody, the greatest
of preachers, is soon to make
Tour of Colorado under the auspi-
ces of the Y. M. Q. \.
The Springfield herald., 1898-09-16
OFFICIAL PAPER OF BAcA COUNTY.
ANNoUNcKMENr.

hereby announce myself as a
candidate for representative in
The 18th General Assembly from
this representative district, sub
ject to the action of the repub-
lican district convention.
j. X. DOUGHTY.
The Springfield herald., 1898-09-16

Rocky Ford met with serious
lire on the Bird inst, the damage
amounting to about 100000
The Springfield herald., 1898-09-16

Sample copies ti the Lave Stock
Inspector, published at Wood
ward, okla, can be obtained a''h's
office. The Inspector is n re'iahle
up le'date paper and contains
Interesting news 10 etocl, me".
The Springfield herald., 1898-09-16

rnE nlcKs 1879 ALMANAC "A PAPER.
We are informed that L 1898
Almanac oil Prof. Irl HirkS is now
ready, and Judging from AI past
history, ii will not be maIrvkNeeks
in finding Its way iiiN--Ap,ae.s
and Offices all over America. IT
is much larger and finer than any
previous Issue. 1t contains 116
pages, is splendidlv printed and
illustrated on fine book paper,
having The finest portrait ever
given OF Prof. Hicks. II can no
longer be denied that the publica-
tons OF Prof Hicks have become Il
necessity to the family and com
mercial life OF this country. HIS
journal. WORD and Works." aside
from It's storm, weather and astro-
nonical features, has taken rank
with the best literary, scientific
and family magazine OF the age.
DO not believe hearsay and reports
See the Hicks Almanac and paper
for yourself. You will then know
why they are so popular. They
are educators OF the millions, and
unrivaled safeguards to property
and human life. 1T is matter OF
simple record that Prof. Hicks has
ioretold for many years all great
storms, floods, drouths and lorna
does, even the recent terrible
drouth all over the country. The
Almanac alone is % cents copy.
The paper Is $l.00 a year with the
Almanac as premium. Send TO
Word and Works Pub. Co..
22O1 Locust ct.. st. Louis, No.
The Springfield herald., 1898-09-16

Tablets, letter paper, envelopes
etc, for sale at reasonable prices
nt 'ho printing oilicc.
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THERE YOU HAVE III,
CLEAR AS MUD.

The original OF the above, written with pen
when dociphcred was seen to he only an order
for n typewriter. IL reads: "Enclosed flnd
draft on New York for SO, for which please
send me at once one of your latest improved
typcwriters.''
lie Is purchasing n machine none too soon you
say IfOW ABOUT YOuRSELff You may
may not be ilcgiblo, but II typcwrttcn com
munication has u business like appearance
which pen written one has not.
THAT'S WHY
YOU should use n typewriter. That IL docs
the same work as the so-called 'Stnndard' ma
chimes costs but SEQ 90, and is giving satisfac-
ton to 81, ,OO0 users Is WHY
You SHOULD USE THE ''ODELL."
send for n catalogue and sample OF Its work.
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WHY?

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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-23
ImDOrtant Things to Remember:

of the immensity of the seas vast
resources and the wonderful fecund-
ity of the fishes therein would doubt
less listen with incredulous amaze
ment If told of the number of fish one
of the large schools contains.
Mackeral fishermen of less than
generation ago describe the schools as
seen by them being "windrows of fish
hundreds of yards wide and miles
long" And one school seen off Block
island in the 70s was estimated TO
contain upwards Of a million barrels
of fish. 1t is idle to remark, perhaps,
that schools like these are never seen
nowadays. The mighty multitude COM
ing in from the sea is broken up in
to countless small detachments Ions
before the fish strike the coast.
The banner year of the mackeral
fishery, all accounts agree, was the
season of 1881. In that year the tota
amount of mackeral salted in New
England A6tes was 100000 barrels
Since then the decline has been more
or less steady, and Of late years most
marked. Last year the combined land
ing of salt mackeral of the New Eng
land fleet aggregated only 1854 bar
rels. These figures speak with marked
emphasis of the fishery's decay.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-23
PECKVILLE.

Mr.. and Mrs. HuZlves, of Main street
entertained a number of young folks
at their home last Wednesday even
ing, the occasion being a surprise party
for their daughter Ruth. Refreshments
were served. Those in attendance
were: Misses Mildred Shaffer, Freda
Briggs, Maggie Goyne, Edna Depew,
Tillie Wisenbulg, Ethel Snyder, Nellie
Shone, Florence White. Edna Brun-
dage, Grace Hughes, Ruth Hughes,
Edith Rookie. Lenora Hughes, Myrtle
Walter Rogers, Frank Hoyt, Eddie
Tinklepaugh. Harvey Brong. Hayden
Hughes, Frank Warne, Frank English,
Arnold Hughes, Robert Depew, Peck
vile; Gordon Evans, of Plymouth.
NJ. d. Belts has disposed of all his
interest in the Harrison house, and
the place is now in charge of the
chief clerk, Walter Lloyd.
Mrs. Luke Ruberry. of Dorrance-
town, called on her brother, John
Warne. last Wednesday.
Alex Frazier. of the West Side, has
been very sick for the past few days,
Mrs. Henry Jones, of the West Side,
who has been indisposed for the past
three weeks. is convalescent.
Mrs. James MINES, of Wyoming, is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Isaac Cheney.
Mrs. w. r. Baker and daughter, of
Carbondale, were the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. II. Barber, last Wednesday.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-23
PAINFULLY HURT.
Young Lad Struck By Passen-
ger Train.

'homas Kerins, a 12-year-old boy.
W o resides with his mother on Brook
'ly \ street, was painfully injured yes
te day afternoon. He was on the way
no ne from the Erie breaker and just
as he came to Lees crossing the train
WI lch leaves this city at 1916 o'clock,
st kmed by. The lad stopped to let the
train pass and turned his back to it.
When he thought the train had gone
by, he wheeled about and started to
dash across the tracks, but the step
on the last car struck him on the
right arm and threw him to the rails.
He cried out in pain and brought some
passersby to the spot where he lay
They picked him up and removed him
TO his home on Brooklyn street. DR..
Mark Bailey and DR.. ]. S. Miles were
summoned and found that the two
bones of the right arm had been frac-
tured just above the wrist. They sue
ceeded in setting them, and If nothing
unforeseen sets in no fear for the
patients recovery need be entertained
The boy was bruised about the body
but not seriously. He is badly near
sighted and it is probably due to this
that he did not see the end of the last
car. II is fortunate that he was not
thrown under the wheels.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-23
JERMYN AND MAYFIELD.

At half past two yesterday morn
ing the fire alarm was sounded from
box No. a. The Crystals were onto
there machine before the alarm had
stopped blowing but they at once
saw that the fire was on the East Side
and they did not go out. The Artes-
ians, however, were soon on the ground
and had a stream on the fire but 1t
had too much of a start before the
alarm was sounded and 1t could not
be gotten under control and II burned
to the wall. 1t was the house of a
Hungarian. Chief Mckinley discovered
the fire and rang the larm.
$. w. Cook has an attack OF grip
and is confined to his home.
Mrs. Fessenden and daughter, Emily,
Of Wilmington, Delaware, are visiting
friends here.
The choir of the Methodist Episco
pal church had their annual outing at
Crystal lake on Wednesday. The pas
tor. Rev. c. a. Benjamin, and several
of their friends accompanied them.
The Mayfield fire alarm sounded yes
terday about noon. The house OF
Charles Miller, on the West Side
caught fire on the roof near the chin
ney. 1t was extinguished with few
buckets of water.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-23
EARLY USES OF GLASS.
Known First to the Egyptians, But
Perfected by the Romans

In an interesting article on 'Orna-
mental Glass in All Ages" in the Wo-
mans Home Companion, Orlena l..
Shackleford has this TO say of the an
tiquity of glass: The Egyptians used
glass ornaments largely for personal
decoration. Necklaces, bracelets, beads,
scarabae, etc, of exquisite beauty
have been discovered in their tombs.
1t also served to bedeck clothing, and
innumerable domestic objects were
made Of II for daily use. Indeed. this
accommodating medium was adapted
by them 10 an infinity of purposes. be-
ing blown. cast, rolled, wrought or cut,
as the worker willed, whether into
statues of their gods or as glass eyes
for the sightless sockets of their num-
mics, to express the wish OF the soul
to arrive safe and whole at the end of
II journey. The Romans excelled the
Egyptians as extensive users of glass.
1t served them for decoration to walls
and floors,for all sort of domestic ves-
sells, cinerary urns and collins (the
Egyptians buried Alexander the Great
in a glass coltin), for ornaments, toys,
dice. draughts, chessmen and water
clocks. We read OF a table of solid
emerald that was carried off by the
Goths when they sacked the Eternal
City. but it is now considered not to
have been of precious stone-only fine
green glass or jasper-yet deemed suf-
hciently valuable to be set with pearls
and mounted in gold.
"These great builders-the most prac-
teal of antiauity-were not slow to
realize the value Of this transparent
medium as a means for Transmitting
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-23
AVoCA.

The funeral of Miss Margaret Nc
lntyre will take place this afternoon.
The Langcliffe coal company will
pay its employees today.
The game of ball between the Moosic
and AVoca teams resulted in another
victory for the home team. The game
was interesting and the Moosc team
played hard in the hopes of winning
the prize, which was a gold medal,
presented by the Scranton Cracker
bakery.
An animatoscope entertainment will
be given in the Sarsfield opera house
on Monday evening for the benefit of
the +, NJ. church. Admission 35, o5
and Is cents.
The members of the Y. NJ. ]. will
tender the soldiers of this town a
smoker in their rooms on Tuseday ev-
ening.
Rev. NJ. F. Crane has returned home
after few weeks visit at the sea-
shore.
Mrs. d. ]. Morton and Mrs. James
Morton are attending the Allentown
fair
a. p, Hollister is attending the vet
eran reunion at Altoona.
Mrs. John Blease, of the North End,
is critically i'll OF paralysis.
Mrs. John Mccormack, Of Grove
street. Is seriously i'll.
Miss Jennie Brennan has returned
home after several days visit with
friends in Jermyn and Carbondale.
Misses Marion Gillespie and Jennie
Nesbit, OF Petersburg, are guests of
the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Gillepie, of the North End.
The sudden death OF Miss Nellie Cal
vey, which occurred at the residence
Of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs Miohssl