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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-15

A number of our good hearted mer-
chants and business men have made
donations in groceries, etc, and the
Mems guild desire to assure them of
their thanks and appreciation. These,
and indeed all contributors may be as
sured also of the great practical good
they have done and are doing to the
sick and care-worn among the hum
bier classes of our people, in giving
them the opportunity of regaining
health and physical strength by rest
ing at the Mountain Home, amid all
it's accessories of healthful air, kind
treatment and perfect quietude.
Thanks are heartily rendered to Hon,
John L. Roche, for terra Gotta pipe;
Luther Keller, for limo; RehrIg &
Bach. paints; George Jiencke, paints;
David f. Neeld, oil; II. p. Connell &
Sons. hardware: p. F. g. NJ. T. How
ley, plumbing; A. W. Dickson, L. L.
Buck, David Morrow, w. A. Coleman
and C. p. Matthews, Son & company,
for -four: j. II. Kays, oatmeal; NJ. c..
Gibbons oatmeal; Louis Weitzel, cart
age; Keiser Cash store. rice, starch
and blueing j. b. Corcoran & COM
pany bag OF coffee Mrs. II. G. Dale,
barrel potatoes: Oswald Jones. case
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canned goods; Hitchner & company.
barrel crackers; Chandler & Short,
barrel onons NJ. Nj. Ruddy, box
prunes; T. J. Kelly, canned goods;
David Spruks, canned goods; Rice,
Levy & company, box of soap; j. r.
schlager, mgr, hams, bacon, etc.; #.
p. Price, hrooms; A. ID. Pierson, vege-
tables: c. NJ. Butts canned goods; Jer-
myn e. Duffy, canned goods; Niagara
Biscuit company. crackers Alfred
Connell, groceries; Fenner. Chappell &
company, groceries: Ira Bennett &
company, fresh meat; Wegman & COM
pany, groceries; ]. S. Kirkpatrick, tea;
A Friend of the Home, tea; j. T. Por-
ter. groceries; r. Kelly, groceries; F..
@. Coursen, groceries; ]. w. Pellio,
groceries
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WITH ROUGH RIDERS.
Scranton Kas n Representative with
That Famous Regiment of
Fighters--Letter from Him.

Otto H. NockrOth was the first Scran-
ton boy to enlist in the regular army
previous to the declaration of war. He
was not twenty years old, but not
withstanding the objections of his fam
lily was determined to enlist and If
possible enter the navy. After his
horsemanship was tested however, he
was advised to enter the army and
subsequently became one of the Rough
Riders and it is expected that he passed
safely through the battles before San
tiago as his mama has not appeared
on the lists of killed, wounded or miss
ing. His father, Charles Nockroth has
just received letter written prior to
the landing of the first transports at
Cuba. The following is the letter:
Dear Father and Brother: You will be
surprised 20 hear that | am on the ocean
near cuba which is now but twenty-five
miles away. We left Lakeland June for
Tampa, forty miles distant. We went
on the ship the same day and then lay
in the hay until June 10 when we pulled
out for Santiago de Cuba. l did not see
any land until today and therefore can t
tell much about it. | write to let you
know where | am and how | got here.
We are the first soldiers to land in
Cuba. There are 10000 of us in 81 boats.
We also had SamI sons and Schley S
fleets with us so YOU see we are well pro-
tected. We are pulling a barge behind
us. One day we lost the fleet and were
lost for three hours. We were on the
| ocean all day when they sent gun boat
back to find us. If the Spaniards had
been wise they could have blown US to
pieces, but we found the fleet all right.
We did not see any ships but English
vessels on the voyage. We have 40 miles
vet to go so l can't tell yet about he
landing. ] am writing now so this boat
| can take the letter back.
I am well and not many have been sick
on the trip. / will tell about the land
and all the rest in my next letter, so don t
| worry about me for / am as safe as IL
were at home. l feel that way at least.
Your Son and Brother, Otto.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-15

A. M. Foster and Miss Martha Foster,
of Port Carbon, are the guests of Mrs.
Emma Hill. Reading. Miners
Journal.
Miss Philippine Tropp. of Washing
ton avenue, clerk in the city treasurer's
office, is spending her vacation at Lake
Wircla. Mss~Tropp is stopping at Point
Comfort cottage.
Chief Hickey, of the fire department,
was at his office yesterday afternoon,
the first time since his recent mishap.
He is yet very lame and will leave in
day or two for Mount Pccono to recuper-
ate.
Miss Kathleen Casey, of Chicago, is
the guest q James O'MalleY. of Railroad
avenue. Miss Casey on her trip to Scran-
ton attended the convention of the Ma
tional Educational association at WASH
ington, d. G. She also visited at Camp
Alger her brother, who Is member OF
the Seventh Illinois regiment.
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CONTROLLERS WILL ARBITRATE.
Coming to City Clerk Laveile with
Olive Branch Of Pence.

At last nights meeting of the finance
committee of the board of control,
PRESIDENT Francois and Captain w. A.
May were named as a b-committee
to arrange with City Clerk Lavelle for
the use of the books containing the
recent tax assessment. The sub-com-
nittee will inform the city clerk that
the city is to be put to no expense in
making copy of the assessment nor
to any extra clerical labor.
Arrangements were made for having
printed what will he a very valuable
statement showing the cost of supplies,
books, teaching, janitors, fuel, ETC., for
each school building during the last
school year. The statement will show
the cost per pupil and per room per
school and will reveal in what build
ings economy or eXtraVagances have
been practiced.
1t wes decided to have published in
each daily paper the detailed financial
statement for the past school year.
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Scenic Line of the World.

The Denver and Rio Grande railroad
offers to tourists in Colorado. Utah and
New Mexico and to the transcontinen-
tai traveller, the grandest mountain
scenery in the world. Double daily
train service, with through Pullman
sleepers and tourist cars between Dem
yer, Salt Lake City. Ogden and San
Francisco and Los Angeles. Write to
H. e. Tupper, 1853 Broadway, New
York, for illustrated pamphlets, or to
S. X. Hooper, general passenger agent,
Denver, Col.
Notice.-A set of six beautiful alber-
type views of Rocky mountain scenery,
on 11x14 paper suitable for framing,
will be mailed upon receipt of fifty
cents (money order), sent to s. X.
Hooper, G. p. and T. A., Denver, Colo.
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NEWS OF SURRENDER
Received with Grent Enthusiasm in
This city. There Was Quite a
Demonstration at Green Ridge.

General Torals surrender at Santi-
ago caused general rejoicing in this
city yesterday afternoon and evening.
AS in the case of the destruction of
the Spanish fleet by Dewey at Manila
the first news the public had of the
important event was CLEANED from the
bulletin board in front of The Tribune
building, which was soon surrounded
by an eager and enthusiastic crowd.
A few minutes later the news was
posten on several suburban bull
letin boards where it was received
with even more enthusiasm than in the
heart of the city.
The general impression expressed
was that the surrender will practically
end the war or at least greatly curtail
it's length. One sturdy old fellow
whose form is not quite as erect
as it was some years ago. said: IF
they want more fighting we're ready
for them but ! think they have enough
and will be anxious to make peace
on any kind of reasonable terms"
In Green Ridge there was quite a
demonstration when the glad tidings
were announced. The gongs on all the
breakers sounded their loudest and
they had no sooner started than the
engineers in the Delaware and Hud-
son ward Joined their whistles to the
chorus. Their work was supplemented
by the shrill voice gong at the Green
Ridge Iron works. 1t was a matter of
regret at the forging company's plant
that their steam was down, which de-
barred them from adding their quota
of noise to the general dim.
The sounding of the numerous gongs
gave out the impression that a big
fire was raging and the General Phin-
ney's engine and hose wagon were al
most instantly on the street chasing
around in search of the conflagraton.
Last night the surrender was the
| one topic discussed in public places.
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THIS AND THAT.

3. G. Thomas, of Pittston, chairman of
the Anthracite associations committee on
railroads, has called a meeting of the
committee to be held on Thursday after
noon, July 2S, at the rooms of the Wilkes
Barre board of trade. The purpose of
the meeting is to prepare for a confer
ence with the representatives of the coal
carrying railroads. The chairman of the
interstate commerce committee has also
called meeting of his committee to be
held at Hazleton on next Tuesday.
w. II. Woodin, vice president of the
Jackson & Woodin Car Manufacturing
company, of Berwick, has announced
himself as a cerdidate for congress from
the Seventeenth congres sonal district,
subject to the rules of the Democratic
party. The announcement of Mr.. Woodin
places three candidates in the field from
the district, the others being John Packer
Haas, of Sunbury, and James C. Brown,
of Bloomsbury.
The announcement that Captain David
flenning will be candidate before the
Republican convention for the nonina-
tion for judge of Schuylkill county was
formally made Wednesday. Captain
Hcnning's friends are reported TO be al
ready at work in his interests. He has
been member of the bar examining COM
mittee of Schuylkil county and is at
present president of that body.
Cards have been sent out by Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Lucas, of Florence, n. j.,
for the coming marriage of their daugh-
ter, Miss Mary E., and Professor ]. G.
Secor, oil Wilkes Barre, at Miss Lucas
home on July a. at II a. m. and they will
be at home in Wilkes-Barre after Sept. J.
j. c. Gallagher, first vice president of
the Scranton DiCcesa union, will submit
an essay in the competition which 1t to
be decided at the convention of the ma
tional union to be held in Boston next
month.
The home of DIR. and Mrs. S. =. Long
street was frightened yesterday forenoon
by the arrival of baby boy.
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HURT IN THE MINES.
Polish Laborer in Pettebone Shaft
Crushed Under IA Fall OF Root.

Andrew Zulinsld, of Luzerne bor-
ough, was received at the Moses Tay-
lor hospital yesterday.
He was crushed under a fall of coal
in Pettehons shaft and his side and
back were severely injured. He viii
recover.
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A Lady

said the other day: "Mr. Perry, there
is such a newness about the pianos
you handle. never heard of them be-
fore"
How manv Americans ever heard OF
Dewey before the battle OF Mania? ?
Not one tenth per cent. CT our people
knew there was such n man. and yet
he had Just as much fight in him be-
fore we knew him as he has now.
Knabe Pianos, to the number OF 41OOO,
have been made during 81 wears; Nose
has made 10000 pianos in F years;
Briggs, $4,000 pianos in 30 years, and
Ludwig 1900 pianos in Is years. Perry
Brothers have been in the music busi-
ness IA years; so you see, while they
may seem new to Scrarton. our pianos
are of the oldest and most reliable
makes in America.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-15
CONCERT BY BAUeR'S BAND.
Programme That viii 10 Rendered
Tonight at Excelsior Club.

The following programme will be rem
dered tonight by Bauer's band at its
concert in front of the Excelsior Club
house on Washington avenue:
March. 1.-The American Flag. .Voelker
Selection from Bohemian Girl go. Balfe
Albion Grand Fantasie on Scotch,
Irish and English Aalrs ..!... Baltens
Waltz, "My Queen" .Bucalossi
overture Tampa .................. Herold
Intermezzo, Forget Me Not. Macbeth
Medley, Popular Pebbles" ......Doettser
star Spangled Banner"
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PLAN TO SAVE THE
PAY OF SOLDIERS
Several Thousand Dollars May Be Sent
Home Every Pay Day.

SOLDIERS RELIEF AS
ISOLATION WILL TRY AND OPE-
RATE THE PLAN WITH THE AID
OF CHAPLAIN STAHL - WILKES
BARRE SOLDIERS SENT HOME &,-
900 OF THEIR LAST PAY - FIN
ANCEs OF ASSOCIATION BEING
GRADUALLY DEPLETED.
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We're After the Man

Who has come to the conclusion that
he's paying too much for his shoes
who's got an idea that he ought to be
getting better shoes for the money he's
paying. We want that man to try
our footwear, and We'll take our
chances on getting him for a steady
customer. The Newark Shoe Store.
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Through Sleeping Cars

and day coaches, New York to Chicago,
on Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern train No. 5, and train No. Z. Low
est rates, superb dining car service,
fast time, elegant equipment. I"
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other 25 per cent Of the unpaid sub
scriptions. A like percentage has al
ready been collected, leaving so per
cent. yet due.
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ST. LUKE'S SUMMER HOME.
Worthy Institution Is Not Forgotten
by Its Friends.

Additional donations OF cash have
been received since the last report as
below:
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WANT THE WORK
DONE In THIS CITY
Action Taken by BuiIdiug Trades coss.
eli Of This City and Vicinity.

IN A CIRCULAR LETTER
WHICH HAS BEEN SENT TO THE
FIRMS AND INDIVIDUALS EN-
GAGGED IN THE CONSTR ur-rrNG
BUSINESS HEREABouTs - AFTER
APRIL /, 1A,. MEN CONNECTED
WITH THE COUNCIL WILL REFUSE
TO HANDLE CERTAIN MATERIAL.
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The Liederkranzs excursion to Fair
view July 20; Bauer's band. ~
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All That,s New In Design.

in all shoes sold by The Newark Shoe
Store. -
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every other place in this city of corrup-
ton, with filth. And the people are
we'll accorded to their surroundings.
1t is indeed doubtful whether. except
ing in Canton, a dirtier set of human
beings exists. And there are more
than a million of them, all exhibiting a
great contempt for the white man,
which they do not hesitate to show, al
ways provided there is only one or two
of him in sight.
On account of it's extreme antiquity,
Pekin is interesting. But as a show
place, Pekin is disappointing.
In the struggle of Europe for COM
mercial supremacy in China the
wealthy city Of Shanghai will play a
leading part. 1t stands at the mouth O!
the Yang-tse-Kiang, the valley Of
which for three thousand miles inland
is the richest territory in China. The
llllm:table commercial possibilities o.
the Yang-tse-Kiang have been little
more than tapped. They have yet to be
developed, and the present reconstruc.
ton of affairs may lead to this.
Shanghai has long been the center o
commercial interests on the coast o
China. 1t is the metropolis of the fal
East. It's harbor teens with merchan
ships, sometimes 300 at a time, mostl.
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GREAT aSTAKED PtAiNs."
Vast Changes Wrought During the Past
Sixteen Years.

Vast Changes Wrought Daring the Past
Sixteen Years. g,
The vast changes that have been
made out on the great "Staked Plains"
the past sixteen years are phenomenal.
That large expanse Of unbroken prairie
derived its maine from the Mexicans
and Indians, who called it "Llano Esta-
cad6'' long before the advent Of the
Americans. The scarcity Of water DUR
ing the summer months rendered it a
dangerous matter to attempt the jour
ney across them, and it is known that
| many caravans of Mexicans in early
| days making their way frem the Rio
| Grande river into New Mexice perished
among their sandy wastes.
For many years after the country on
every side had been in a measure set
tied up, the plains were looked upon as
a sort of forbidden region, the epitome
of everything that was inhospitable in
nature and totally useless for supply
ing any u the wants Of man. Those
adventurous individuals who veitured
far into its dangerous depths reported
it a treeless, silent waste, without a
sign of life, except the buzzards that
circled high in the heavens, or the
coyote that hurried across the trail and
disappeared like a fash among the sage
brush and tall grass that lined the
banks 6f the dry arroycs. Huge whirl.
winds would appear to block the way
for a time, and then hurry OFF, as il
disturbed by the presence of men If
those grim solitudes. In the earl.
morning wreaths of dust went spinning
around before the breeze, as If SOM
desert sands had arisen and had jus
begun to enve1op the great expanse
The last case known Of any one perish
ing on the plains was in 1890, when tw'
Americans and one Mexican, a shee,
herder, attempted to make their wa,
from Pecos City to Amarillo in mid
summer, and, being poorly provisione
with water and losing the trail as wei
soon died of thirst, as well as thei
horses. A peculiar feature of this az
cident was that, although coyotes an
buzzards had picked the bones OF tn
Americans clean, the body of the Me,
lean had baked and dried in the su
and was practically intact, owing to tt
fact that the diet of the M%exicans {
the border is always composed in gre
part Of chile and red pepper. subetanc
apparently not appreciated by eth
the buzzards or the coyotes.
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DON'T.

Don't judge the contents of a mans
head by the size of his hat.
Don't impair your happiness by bor-
rowing trouble or lending money.
Don't refuse to let your wife have
her own way-she'll have it anyway.
Don't go without the things you
need in order to get things you don't
want.
Don't blame the upright piano if it's
a downright nuisance; blame the
player.
Don't marry a girl who isn't afraid
of a mouse or you'll be kept busy re,
GREETING it.
Don't ask a questions-give
her time and she'll tell you all you
want to know.
Don't get the idea into your head
that a baby cuts teeth; it's the teeth
that cut the baby.
Don't think because a girl loves YOU
from the bottom of her heart tina
there isn't plenty VI room at the top
| Chicago News,
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AT the big midsummer wedding, one
of the ushers, who is a good deal of a
cynic, was rather unfortunate in the
phraSing of his fe~llicitations to his
friend, the groom, says the San Fran
cisco News Letter.
Now, old boy" facetiously remark
ed the usher, who would rather have
been bending over his ledger in the
bank than officiating at n wedding, Il
hope that you will not find marriage a
failure"
81 hope not, indeed was the ready
rejoinder, ''for the chief eason l
brought the courtship to such a sudden
close was th1t the engagement would
soon have made n bankrupt Of me-"
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llN1iiNin ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
China and Der emperor,
- :
: An Audience With the Rich Monarch Of the :
: Fowery Kingdom,


with yellow silk, Upon a platform a
few feet higher than the floor of the
hall. he princes Of the blood stand
neal l..
The Manchu King, the ruler of over
400, 900 900 people, looks more like a
sickly youth than Il man OF twenty
eight. He is d poor, miserable, in
vertebrate creature. whose lack-listre
eyes, hollow checks and general ap-
pearahce Of WEAKNESS furnish incon-
trovertible evidence of his f%eebleness
of character, and no surprise is felt
that such 4 weakling should be made
the willing tool of the ignorant and
prejudiced princes who surround him.
Col. DENLY, the venerable American
minister and doych of the Pekin diplo-
matte corps. stands in the centre of
the eight ministers, the English rep
resentative being on his right and the
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British. Stately buildings along the
quays are the branches of British
commercial houses. There are French
and German compounds, but the Brit
lsh settlement predominates.
The foreign settlement is governed
by a municipal council, which consists
chiefly of British merchants. They are
elected by the 5000 European residents,
but control a total population of 250,-
900 within their jurisdiction. The
council has been the means of greatly
improving the sanitary condition of the
city. The organization carried on re
minds one of the municipal work in an
English city.
There are municipal gas and water
supplies, electric light, gardens, public
parks, public markets, a drill hall and
well-organized police service. Hospi-
tails have been provided for the treat
ment of infectious diseases. Shanghai
was a pioneer in the matter of electric
lighting. Arc lamps were introduced
in 1882, long before the light had been
used in many towns in England. Now
it is proposed to construct electric
tramways. One should not forget to
mention that there is an efficient fire
brigade, and that the business-like
municipality has its own workshops
for making drain pipes and other san
itary appliances.
The municipal council of Shanghai is
altogether a remarkable organization,
which does much to preserve good or
der, protect public health and generally
promote the well-being of a strangely
mixed community of over a quarter OF
a million. Shanghai is by no means
the biggest port in China in point Of
population, but it's trade is enormously
ahead Of the others, and thus the or
ganization which the municipal coun'
ell enforces is of the utmost impor
lance. The excellent state in which
Shanghai finds itself only shows wha
Western methods can do for Eastern
civilization.
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the top 81 Such portions as have not
fallen Into decay is a promenade some
thirty feet wide, and over one of the
gateways is the famous observatory,
where the Chinese have succeeded in
taking a variety of astronomical OBJ
servations with the aid Of a most &C.
centric collection of apparatus.
f'he best view OF Pekin is obtained
from the summit of the king shang, Or
Prospect Hill, in the center Of the
Manchu city. This mound is $50 feet
high and accom- ~fhodates Ave different
Buddhist temples. The general aspect
of the official quarter can be seer from
the avenue close to the observatory,
where are placed the officers Of the six
boards, as we'll as the great examina-
zion halls, where some thousands of
students are every year examined for
the degree Of mandarin.
The European portion of the capital
where are the various consulates and
legations. Is situated In the inner city,
where the buildings are ranged on an
ill-imade roadway running along the
banks of a canal. There are no pave
ments and the roads are so uneven as
to make walking extremely difficult.
The aspect of the Manchu city i:
tolerably animated. The main streets
are wide and the buildings low. The
shops are for the most part gail,
decked, and signs with flying arches
across the pathway are frequent. Tn
aspect of the pubic buildings is, how
ever, like that of the walls, tumble
! down, and their exterior outlined, lik'
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&1oo Reward, 500.

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