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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20
SUPPER AT PLYMOUTH CHURCH

The ladies of the Plymouth Congre-
gatonal church, whose names peSln
with the letters A, Il, c and ID, served
an excellent supper in the lecture room
of the church last evening from to
o'clock. Three tables were set and pre-
sided over as follows:
Table No. Mrs. Evan t. Davis ana
Miss Annie Clemons.
Table 80. Mrs. William Campion and
Mrs. W. G. Burdick,
Table No. 3-Misses Jennie Daniels and
Elizabeth Davis.
They were assisted by Mrs. John E.
James, president of the Ladies Aid So
ciety. Mrs. Morgan +. Daniels, Mrs
Thomas Allen, Mrs Conner Price Mrs.
w. II. Davis and Miss Myra Cook.
During the evening ice cream was
served and general social time was
enjoyed by a large assemblage.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20

William Cabo, n clerk with Isn,.er
& Dickerson, had a very narrow cs-
cape from death yesterday. Mr. Cabo
was driving on South Washington ave-
nue. in a buggy and was crossing the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
railroad when the gates We're let down
on him, cutting and bruising his head
severely.
He barely escaped being run down
by a train by turning the horse sharp
ly, upsetting and smashing the buggy.
He was taken home, where Or. Jen-
| kins dressed his wounds.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20
HAPPENINGS OF
NORTH SCRANTON
WILLIAM CA3o HAD A NARROW
ESCAPE FROM DEATH.

Brilliant Anniversary Celebration OF
the Knights of Pythias i'll the
Aditorium - Making Preparations
for the Celebration of Dewey Day.
Notes of Personal Nature-Welsh
Presbyterian Church of Wayne
Avenue Will Hold an Entertain
ment on May 8.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20
JUMPING ON THE CARS.

\ G-year-old boy named Clarence
Sweeney, while playing around La
fayctte car near Everett, avenue, had
Il narrow cscapc from being run over
Tuesday evening.
lie was jumping on the cars as they
passc. and was thrown under and car
ricd along with the car some distance.
The boy sustained injuries about the
head. Conductor Toby Gardner and
Motorman Perry Clark We're in charge
Of the car
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20

COW called upon Apple street friends
yesterday.
Miss Nellie Richards. of Pcckville, has
returned home after "A visit with Miss
Katie Richards, of East Drinkcr street.
Messrs. Carney and Brown, of Forest
city. We're in attendance at the social in
Washington hall last evening.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20
EVENTS OF DAY In
WEST SCRANTON
EDWARDS BOY SAYS HE WAS
MIsUsED.

His Case Reported to the Board of
Associated Charities and Assistant
District Attorney Thomas Was
Asked to Make an Investigation.
Supper Given by Ladies of the
Plymouth Congregational Church.
Fire on the West Mountain-Fun-
eral of the Late James Hendrew.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20

scarcely any clothing on his body ana
crust of bread in his dinner pail
The boy earned wages varying from
$40 to $50 n month, which he turned
over to his foster mother. He SAID he
received but one suit of clothes in two
years and was abused and ill-treated
on various occasions. Mrs. Ilurn mas
four children of her own Her nus
band is employed as an engineer at
the Mt. Pleasant mine.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20
The HOMHLIEST NAN IN SCRANTON

As well as the handsomest, and others
are invited to call on any druggist and
get free trial bottle Of iemp's Balsam
for the Throat and Lungs, a remedy that
is guaranteed TO cure and relieve all
Chronic and Acute Coughs, Asthma
Bronchitis and Consumption, Price 25c
and soc
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20
CambriCs, Ginghams,
Piques and Corded Batistes

Are the most popular waist in white stripes
all sorts running direction that fancy suggest
first vorites to style OF plain shades much
in demand Also in such coor Cadet China Blue
shades varying from Pale Lavender Deep Purple Pnk
Green's Samons and New Brown Tints are also shown
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20
. Does Coffee
; Agree with
( You +?

y If not, drink Grain-O-made from
J pure grains. A lady writes: "Ihe
[, first time | made Graiu-O / did not
\ like il but after using it for one
week nothing would in luce me to
\ go back to coffee" 1t nourishes
4 and feeds the system. The children
can drink it freely with great bene-
x fit. It is tho strengthening sub
stance of pure grains. Get pack
4 age to-day from your grocer, follow
} the directions in making it and You
= will have a delicious and healthful
J table beverage for old aud young.
I, l5c. and 25c.
J Insist that your grocer gives you GRAlN-o
2 Accept no Imitation.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20
AS to Making
And Fashions Designs

We that every Shirt Waist leaving the Globe
house properly made perfect workmanship
it, AS to desgns-sleeves yokes and body modelling
to fashions latest demands The sleeves
enough to be comfortable while the deep pointed yoe
with diagonal cords and tucks lend
and timness to the figure The fronts many of waists
cut full from the yoke but dowdy the
sloveny appearance Ladies with full figures will appreciate
this feature at its true value. Some of
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20
Pea Coal Delivered, Sl.25,

to South Side, central city and central
Hyde Park. Address orders to C. b.
Sharkey, 1914 Cedar ave. Phone 66S3.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20
Yes, Waists Are
Different This Year

Very much different but full of IDEAS backed
by dressness that entirely wanting last year
thrift wasn't lost sight of when the waist plan
ned for all of them will wash aunder up again
good new
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20
CONCERT TONIGHT

All arrangements for the concert to
be given at the Court Street Methodist
church tonight have been made ana
it is expected that the expectations Of
success will be realized. At the con-
clusion of the concert refreshments will
be served in the lecture room.
Following is the programme for the
concert:
Selection ............W .Wakcilcld's Orchestra
Piano Solo .....................Mi Miss Brandt
SOLO ..,,,,.............Mr Fred lerWlllScr
Plano SOLO ...............Niss Bessie Reel
Recitation .............,MisS Jessie StearnS
Piano Duet Miss Wolf. Mr.. +. Benjamin
Character Song Mr.. Charles Terwiliger
Mandolin and Piano Duet,
George Hawley and +. BENJAMIN
iNttllttllbn - Cl''tl
Vocal Duet ......Miss Finn, Miss Sickler
Selection ...........................O Orchestra
Admission 10 and II cents.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20
lndiges tion
and
Dyspepsia

unchec k e d
C re ep through
thu bOIy, upset
ting the liver
and kidneys and
niaRing trouble
ev cry W b G re
ii ost ette r. =
stomach Bite rs
ures indigt e.
ton anddvsp'p-
sia--by doing so,
prevents consti-
patton, bilious
ness an d allli er
an d Kid n . Y
tro u b o :. II
makes and keeps
people well.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20

GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
An unruly passenger on a Taylor car
TUESDAY evening was elected at the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20
The New Shirt Waists
Are Elaborately Trimmed

Hamburg lnsertngs Edgng Laces and Cord Work being
used to advantage We have all the novelties
White Shirt Waists Also but there's time enough talk
these later.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-20

The Finest of Fruit Syrups are used in
h1yors for Soda Water at Manners
Pharmacy, 800 Green Ridge street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-12
MoNTANA's BRIBERY CHARGES

Up in Montana they are having a Sc
rious time over alleged attempts to
bride legislators. It is said that a
prominent senatorial candidate has
been offering money for votes, while on
the other hand it is claimed that the
money was furnished by an adversary
for the purpose of raising the issue.
However that may be, all the brib
ing of legislators, or attempted bribing.
is not done with money or other val
liable property.
To bride is, to ''pervert the Judgment
or conduct" of another, with a gift or
reward, according to the dictionary.
and a bride is any gift, advantage or
emoIument, offered. given or promised
to. or asked or accepted by any public
officer TO influence his behavior in his
Office
It has been held that the promise of
an appointive position to an official. for
himself or his friend, is in the nature
of a Bfibe,f when made to influence the
judgment or acts of. such officer.
Some time ago. when senators were
named by the president as members of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-12

certain important commissions, among
them the peace commission, Senator
Hoar opposed such appointment on the
ground that it so nearly approached
bribery or undue influence that it
shouldn't be tolerated.
He held that there should be no in
fluence or patronage or comforting of
public honor or emolument exerted by
the executive power over the legislative
power"
Legislators may be Influenced by
promised support of measures or
claims, by the consideration of patron
age or by the direct use of money, as 1t
is charged in the Montana case.
1t is to hoped that the matter will
be thoroughly investigated and, if the
charges are true, that the guilty party
or parties will be punished. On the
other hand, if a trick is discovered and
it is shown that some one e'sc furn.s1ed
the money in order to cast suspicion
and shame upon a political opponent,
it is hoped that such tricksters will
likewise receive the treatment they
r1aeT-it
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-12
FRANCHISES IN CUBA.

Secretary Alger seems to feel secure
in his position. If he held a first, in
stead of a second mortgage upon the
administration, he wouldn't be more
Indifferent to public opinion
The fact that commission is en-
gagged at present in the investigation Of
his notorious. acknowledgement of the
war does not deter him for a moment in
pursuing those methods which brought
him into disreDute and furnished the
occasion of the pending investigation.
1t was the jobbery in TRANSPORTATION
arrangements, supply contracts and
camp location deals, concerning which
complaints were made. TheseSare the
charges from which Hanna undertook
to defend Alger by saying that whose
attacked the secretary of war attacked
the president.
But Secretary Alger has made an or
der which gives him almost absolute
power in the establishment of great
business institutions in Cuba. He has
decreed that all franchises granted in
the island shall be approved by the
war department.
Millions of dollars worth Of franchises
can be thus distributed as were COM
missions, contracts and camp conces-
sions during the war. If anyone i'm
AGNES that Secretary Alger is going
to resign while such opportunities are
in sight, he hasn't kept track of the
secretary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-12
REVERSING THEMSELVES.

If Senator Foraker represents the
views Of the administration, and it is
almost certain that he does since he
and Hanna signed their protocol, the
president has changed his mind again
in regard to the Philippines.
When he failed to furnish the slight
est indication of a policy in his recent
message to congress-. it was properly
attributed TO a weakness Of character,
want Of decision: and when he an
nounced during his subsequent tour of
the south his intention to maintain the
supremacy of the United States in the
islands captured from Spain, it was
believed that he had at last made I'D
his mind.
Let no man dare" said he, ito haul
down the American flag when it has
been PLANTED"
Senator Hoar. in the course of his
speech in opposition to the retention of
the Philippines, called attention to the
stand taken by Mckinley a year ago,
and asked: "Who shall haul the presi-
dent DOWN."
Mckinley needs no hauling down. He
falls at frown and rises when smiled
upon. His backbone is of the variety
described by Sam Jones-like a Irvine
string.
No one knows where to find this a6-
ministration, or whether the support of
its policies after they are declared, is
thrown away or not. President McKin-
ley would better toss coppers for his
Philippine policy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-12
FINANCES IN THE PHILIPPINES
The Profits to Be Gained By This
Country From the Islands.
New York World.

The following facts about the finan-
cial condition of the Philippines are
given by Edward w. Harden. United
States commissioner to the Philippines:
I'm figuring on the profits TO be de-
rived from holding the Philippine
islands, and viewing the matter wholly
from d financial point of view. the IN
creased trade which our merchants and
manufacturers will obtain must be con-
sidered an important factor. 1t is not
only in the trade of the Philippine
islands that this advantage will be telt,
but in that Of China, with its millions
of people and its thousands of miles OF
country absolutely unexplored and
closed to western civilization. l belleVe
that the holding Of the Philippines oy
the United States Will result in great
good to the people Of the Islands. that
the trade and commerce of the UNITED
States will be materially increased, that
from this there will be a growth of the
merchant shipping of our country. and
that after the first few months the
islands will be governed with as little
trouble to the United States as we now
govern Alaska. AS to the actual re-
ceipts and expenditures in the Phlllo-
pines, the future must be left to solve
this problem and to answer the dues-
ton.
For the fiscal year ending June 30,
1897, the revenues frotl the Philippines
We're ST., 474,120 and the expenditures
81, 293, SS9 silver, or in gold, approx
mately, IS, 1877 $50 in revenues and So
GAG, ga in expenditures. These figures
do not include the direct or indirect
taxes of the various provinces in land
taxes, fees, licenses and the ceduias
personal or head tax. which amounted
to more than the revenues of the colon
ial government
THE taxes of the provinces are more
than sufficient to pay the cost of civil
government, according to the ideas OF
men familiar with the situation there
The government revenues from Gus
toms, opium and other sources could
be applied entirely to the cost of the
army and navy forces maintained. Dur:
ing the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897.
there were expended for the Spanish
army in the Philippines $6,O42. 449. and
for the navy 81, 19S, $780, or. for the two
items, $8,240, 799 silver, approximately
S4.12O,449 in gold. The Spanish govern
ment kept a force of from 10000 to To-
coo soldiers in the islands, besides main
tanning q feet of more than twenty
vessels, large and small. 1t would seem
that the United States should be able
to keep it's expenditures down to prac-
tically the basis shown in the Spanish
reDOrtS"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-12
BACTERIAL JOCULARITY.

Nothing harrows up the soul of our
neighbor like an ordinary everyday bit
of popularity. 1t can't stand it, and
what is more it can't understand it. 1t
appreciates none but jokes that are out
of the ordinary. So it perpetrates one
about germs and calls them back
silly" playing upon the term bacilli.
Now there is nothing ordinary about
a Joke like that. It is a style of wit,
humor, or whatever you may call it,
that one rarely runs across in these lat
ter days. Therefore we desire to call
particular attention to it.
Look at it againi Bacilli-back silly.
Of course, no one who knows how to
pronounce the first section of the pun
will be able to see the point, but, with
q little patience, a diagram, and a holt
day, there is a chance to figure it out;
and when the joke finally dawns. the
inevitable and irrepressible outburst
of laughter Will astonish the neighbor-
hood
Bacilli-back silly. Wonderful, bril-
liant, magnificent! PROFESSIONALLY the
best thing our morning contemporary
ever said. Bacilli-back silly. If it
weren't for the pronunciation that
would be a real pun. Bacilli-back
silly. Hang the pronunciation What
right has it to interfere with our neigh
boris joke, anyhow!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-12
UNWISE ECONOMY.

As the city has already incurred some
expense in the authorized investiga-
tons of the city engineer in the matter
of ascertaining the best way to in
crease the water supply of the city, it
certainly looks like throwing away the
amount expended to stop the surveys
altogether.
The outlay to date is over 81, 500, and
the sum required to complete the work
is about $500.
Important as the matter OF securing
an adequate water supply is to the city,
there is poor economy, it seems, in
abandoning the project after it has
progressed so far. There may be more
involved than the dollars and cents set
out in the engineers estimate, for life,
and health, and comfort are not to be
measured by figures of that size.
The work was ordered by the coun-
Gil when the necessity for increasing
the water supply was more apparent
than it is right now, but another sum-
mer is coming on, with its dust and
danger resulting from the lack of
water.
It is not good business to invest 81, 800
in an incomplete survey, in nothing, as
it were, when $500 additional will
surely result in $4,000 worth of good,
when it will obtain what the council
wanted.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-12
TALES OF RAPID DREAMING.
Many Instances of Vivid Imagina'
ton In Five Minutes Time.
(New York Sun.

How long does it take you to dream!
Did you ever find out-or try? Moham-
med. it is related, once fell asleep on a
csmeTs back Before falling off into
dreamland he said he saw a palm tree
the only one in sight-about six cam
els lengths away. He fell asleep and
dreamed that he had gone to heaven
saw sights strange and wonderful
many of them. He had no clear con-
ception of time, but he felt, rather than
knew, that days and days had passed.
And then he woke up.
The camel was just passing the PAIN
ree-Mohammed had been asleep about
four seconds.
Some one told the above story the
other night, after the talk had chanced
ON psychology, meSmerism, thought
transference-th occult in general.
And then one young fellow OF 20 or
whereabouts told this tale:
ST had a dream the other night that
since | had it has kept me awake thlnk-
ing IT was a mixture of the Faust idea
and of my one master passion-money-
refting. But the fact that it was over
so quickly is the part that has puzzled
me most.
II had gone through a pretty hard
day. and before dressing to go out that
evening / thought I'd lie ON the couch
for a minute-lie full length on my back
and get a good rest that way. AS lay
there | noted that the clock on the
rnantel was just striking Z.
Il fell asleep and dreamed that the
devil had come to me and said [ could
have all the money I wanted if L would
be content to die on my thirtieth birth
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-12
FOREST RESERVATIONS.

In his message to the legislature,
Governor Wells touched upon an i'm
portant question when he referred to
the protection of timber areas from the
devastation which has been jeopardiz-
ing not only the timber supply, but the
water supply of the state.
| Travelling over the mountainous sec
tions where once the pine forests were
almost imoenetrable, one is confronted
with evidences of government neglect
and the spoilation of the portable saw
mill, great barren tracts of stump
covered ground, with piles of sawdust
in the center, showing where indiscrim-
mate milling was carried on before the
outfit had been moved to another grove
of virgin timber.
Something ought TO be done, as the
governor suggests, to obtain favorable
consideration from the federal govern
ment, to whom alone the state must
look FOR aid in this matter. For, al
though the state land board is ''au-
thorized to set apart and reserve from
sale such tracts of timber lands and
the timber thereon as may, in the opin-
ion of the board, be required to pre-
serve the forests of the state, prevent
diminution of the flow of rivers and
aid in the irrigation of the arid lands"
the governor calls ATTIC ton to the fact
that such provision applies only to the
state lands which are needed for other
purposes, and which the general gov
eminent obviously never intended TO
have remain in their natural state as
forest reservations.
Members of the legislature would do
we'll to heed the governors suggestion
in reference to memorializing congress
on this matter.
# the government does not come to
the rescue OF the states in the effort to
stop the devastation which has already,
i'm many sections. gone too far, the peo-
pie will ultimately be compelled to re-
sort to the expedient of planting forests
like orchards, and bringing them up by
hand. 1t We're we'll to profit by the ex-
ample of some of the older nations
Nor is the destruction of forests COM
passed altogether by design or for
profit. Carelessness contributes to the
cSlC- year lHSIS are
fires which destroy infinitely more of
wealth and prospects than the timber
represents.
Last year the fires in Wyoming and
western Colorado caused an enormous
loss. There should be measures and
precautions adopted by the general
government and powers vested in the
several states to DreVent this double
destruction which results from ak and
fire.
There are interests to be consulted
and rights to be regarded in the selec-
ton of tracts for reserves, but the ne
cessity Of some definite, decisive action
while there is yet time to accomplish
good, is imperative, it seems, in the in
terest of agriculture and for the benefit
of future generations.