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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-25
STORIES ABOUT LISzT.
Wagner Burned UP Furniture When
He Got No Wood.
From the Boston Globe.


IF You only heard Lis2t play, and
didn't see him you lost half the pleas
uro.' SO wonderful was his person
ality.
n young Magyar tried TO play a so,
nata OF Beethoven before him one day
Plano, piano" cried List. Piano.
softly. Let it sing-lct it sing! Can't
you see piano written there?" cried he,
still more sharply, but the young pa
trlot only grew more nervous, and
played the harder.
Al last Lis2t took his hands from the
keys, saying, half-angrily, half-laugh-
ingly:
DO you know, my young friend.
what the field sergeant does when the
recruits cannot tell the difference be-
| tween right ana left? He ties bundle
of straw on Fight arms and a bundle
Of hay on their left, and then gives the
command, Hay, straw" We shall
have to try this plan with you for
piano and forte" Now, then, give
old Beethoven a chance. Hay. hay!
hay! well, Now, straw, straw!-plenty
Of straw--still more straw, and Liszs
| laughed till the tears came. Straw,
| straw, nothing but straw"
Here is an aucCdote of his early life,
as related by Liszt himself; Richard
! wagner, Bulow and l We're all quite
| young when We lived together i'm Leip-
! zig, and had good time That is, |
! enjoyed myself, but Wagner was al
| ready fermenting with his political and
! philosophical ideas. and our prosaic
| circumstances offered little ground for
! the idealists of the future. We called
! Bulow 'kritikus,' and specially |
always feared his sharp tongue a lit
| tie, OF course, all of us had little
] money but Wagner put our slender
| purse to great strains. He could not
! bear money worries, and we let him
| feel them as little as possible.
"Once, after a long autumn, it be-
| came cold suddenly and Wagner with
| his nerves suffered from the sudden
| change in the temperature. He de-
manded heated room at once. For
| two whole days the debate ragged be-
tween him and Bulow as 10 the imme-
diate purchase of wood with our re-
| duced purse.
II was not asked, because Bulow
knew that l would yield, but he, as
| treasurer, contended that 1t was ridi-
| culous to buy wood in the month Of
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an instant allows his glance to wander
from his bootleg banks.
This little, bent and shabbily dressed
man has made every cent of his wealth
by industry, frugality and strict econ
omy, and every penny of his posses
sions has been honestly accumulated.
he was born on Il little rocky farm
near the Burnt Rock schoolhouse, in
the town of Lyme, some eighty years
ago, and after attaining his majority
worked for neighboring farmers in
summer and taught district schools
in winter for several years, but evil
IDENTIFY gave up the welding of the
birch and spent his life up to a few
years ago as farmland in unremit-
ting toll, often working in the field
for the scant wages of the hired man"
on farms he could have owned in his
own name simply by foreclosing the
mortgage which he held thereon and
which reposed in his cOwhide boots.
As he received his board and got his
washing and mending" done gratui-
tOusly on the farms where he toiled,
he was able to save nearly every cent
of his wages. The first dollar earned
by him he still keeps, and has kept
ninety-nine out of every one hundred,
he says, earned since. Like many an
other man, he found that the hardest
struggle was TO save the first 81 900.
Since that was saved and its interest
commenced to pile up, the rest, he
says, has been easy.
A few years ago he save up working
among the farmers for wages, and has
since lived with his nephew near
Three-Mile Bay, but has by no means
been idle. Periodically he slings his
pair of COwhide boots across his arm
and starts out on collecting tour TAX
ing along his papers and making new
leases and contracts as occasion re-
quires, He has never, it is said, paid
a lawyer a cent, always securing a
compromise in any difference which
has arisen between himself and his
tenants. AS he owns no farms in his
own name, only holding Mortgages,
etc, he is little bothered by the tax
gatherer He is said to have very ue-
| cided opinions regarding the income
tax law and the taxation OF mortgages.
Just what disposition Victor Will
Jams will make of his wealth when he
arrives at the end Of his accommodating.
none of his friends has the remotest
| idea, He never married his entire
| attention having always been concen-
| trated upon the accumulation of
wealth, and he has but few living rela-
| tives. 1t is said by those most faml-
! liar with the eccentric old man that
| ii is his purpose to set apart the great
| er part of his wealth for the building
and endowing of an agricultural coll
| lege, To be located near Watertown
while others maintain that the building
| of an industrial school, such as that
| erected by the beneficence of the late
| Thomas S Clarkson at Potsdam, is
his cherished object. To a kinsman
he is said to have once stated that
! he would set aside a certain sum tC
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September But l am freezing said
Wagner in a rage, to which the IN
exorable Buow suggested that he go
out and get warm by running or warm
himself up by his muse. Laughing at
his cheap. spiteful advice, Bulow and
| went out
But when we returned, after two
hours, we were thunderstruck to find
Wagner in the room heated to suffoCa-
ton. He sat at his writing table, deep
in his work. His face was red.
Where began BulOw, but the
words stuck in his throat. for a glance
around the room showed him how
Wagner had helped himself Several
chairs and our work tables lay on the
floor, permanently crippled; Wagner
had cut off the legs and rnade the
fire with them. Bulow was speeChless
with rage. But l stood at the door,
and laughed till the tears came at this
ingenious way Of helping oneself, Bu-
low lamented that we would have to
replace the landlady's chairs and tables
and that he could not sit down or work.
Wagner answered, spitefully: 4
have what | needed, Fellows like
| YOU, who do nothing but go walking,
need neither chairs nor tables, If
| you had given me the money right off,
| your valuable furniture would still be
| in eXistence--you wished il sot Fire
wood would have been cheaper Next
| day | received a little money, and
| bought firewood and new chairs AMI
| tables Wagner picked out the best
| for himself. and l said to him. laugh
! ingly: Say, you, listen! | am going
| to insure this new furniture against
| loss by fire Immediately.
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HONESDALE,

This is Pawnce Bits Wild West show
day.
DR.. Gibbons, of Scranton, was in
Honesdale over Sunday on a profess
sional visit.
Miss Emma Coon. who has been the
guest of Miss Edith Decker, returned
to her home at Clark's Green on Mon
day.
Mrs. Burdick, of Forest City, who
has been visiting Honesdale friends
and relatives. returned to her home
Monday morning.
Miss Bentley of Williamsport, is the
guest of Honesdale relatives.
Colonel and Mrs. q. b. Osborne re-
turned yesterday from a three weeks
stay at Starrucca.
DIR. Reed Burns of Scranton, was in
Honesdale yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin f. TORY re-
turned on Saturday from Watch Hill,
r.. l., where they have been spending
some time.
Mr.. S. T.. Snyder, Of Scranton, and
Mr.. w. =. Coon of Clark's Green, spent
Sunday with Honesdale friE,is.
Open air concert by Lawyers band
on Friday evening.
There will be two games of ball on
Athletic park this week On Thursday
the Honesdale and Port Jervis teams
will play the second game in a series
of five, for $3.50 on Friday the Wal
ton, n. Y, team will play with Homes
dale,
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OLYPHANT.

At an early hour Saturday morning
burglars made their way into the store
of j. Friedman on Delaware street.
They ransacked the store and took a
quantity Of clothing and liquor. They
Effected an entrance by prying open the
tellar door No trace has been found
Of the perpetrators Of the robbing.
The Excelsior Hose company, no. /,
are making extensive preparations for
their picnic and clam bake which will
be held at Electric park, Monday, Aug.
T. Among the events of the day will
be quot match, base ball game, sack
race, tug-cf-war and dancing Don't
forget the date, Aug. 7.
Miss Grace Lynch left yesterday to
visit CarbOpdale friends.
Harry Cristler has returned to his
home in CoOperstown, n. y, after
spending the week with John O'Brien,
1t the West End hotel.
Miss Shaffer, Of Pittston. spent sun
day with friends in town.
Isaac Singer, of Carbondale. was a
visitor in town Sunday.
Misses Sallie Besak, of Green Ridge
and Helen Pasemore. Of Carbondale,
we're the guests Of Miss Mae Evans, on
sunday.
Miss Alice Rashleigh, of CarbondaIe
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ELMHURST.

Colonel Schoonmaker and his niece.
Miss Riel, are sojourning at Atlantic
City.
Miss BESSIE Buckingham has return
ed from a three weeks visit in Susque-
hanna county.
Mr.. Burrows, of Washington, D. c.,
Is a guest at the home of NIr y. B.
Williams.
Mrs. Name Robinson returned home
Thursday evening, after a weeks visit
with her sister, Mrs. j. L. Edwards az
Clenhurn.
The social given by the Ladies' Aid
society at the Presbyterian church
last Tuesday evening, was very sue
cessful, socially and financially.
Miss Jessie Reed, of Phoenix, n. Y,
Is spending the summer at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. Il. Smith.
Mrs. w. G. Dunning and Miss Mamie
Dunning, are visiting the formers
mother at Hawley.
Mr.. and Mrs Barker and family, of
Scranton, are summering at the Battin
home.
Miss Jennie Dunning has returned
from a weeks visit with Scranton
friends.
Johnnie, the little son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. o. Swartz, is slowly rGHover-
ing from his recent serious illness. DR..
knedler attends him.
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MoosIC.


Miss Nellie King is entertaining a
cousin from Wilkes-B
Charles Monte. jr., has broken
ground for a new house on First street.
Charles Snyder and John Mott have
ttated their houses to a new coat Of
1aiut
James Winters, Of Pntston. was a
pleasant caller in town on Monday.
Mrs. Torpy is visiting friends at
Yatesville.
Frank j. Schoonever spent Sunday
at Orange, Wyoming county.
John Pembridge. of Chinchilla, spent
Sunday with his brother. Thomas Penn
bridge
Mrs. Alice Burgess is i'll at the home
Of her brother, Joseph Schoonover.
Wayman Dymond spent Sunday at
Lockville.
Mrs. James Hopkins returned yes
terday from Pittston, where she has
been staying since the death of their
babe. Her mother accompanied her.
The powder mills are idle for a few
days on account of some necessary
repairs being made upon one of the
engines.
John Stout, a former clerk in Nc
Crindle & Companys store, has Sc
cured n position with f. c. Berlew
the enterprising butcher.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Reed attended
the funeral of a friend at Scranton
yesterday.
Twenty-four little children from
New York sent out by the Tribune
Fresh Air Fund will arrive in town this
(Tuesday) afternoon on the Pittston
car arriving here about 3 O'clock. The
people who are to entertain them are
expected to meet them at the Delaware
and Hudson crossing at that time.
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TAYLOR NEWS.
Knights of Malta to Tender a Re
ception-United Mine Workers to
Meet-Other Interesting Matters.

Invincible commandery, No. 252,
knights of Malta, will tender their
soldier member, David J. Powell, Of the
United States infantry, which recently
returned home from Porto Rico, re-
ception at their rooms in Reeses hall
on Friday evening, August 4. The
committee are at work arranging a
programme for the event.
Emerson Owens of the Truth, spent
Sunday at Lake Wlnola.
The auditorium of the Calvary Bap-
tist church could hardly contain the
large audience at Sunday evening SER
vices. The church pulpit was occu-
pied by the noted evangelist, Mrs. T.
j. Collins, of Salt Lake City. Her
subject was THE Mysteries of Nor
monism." Mrs. Collins captivated her
hearers with her excellent address
Special singing was rendered at the
service.
Mr.. John Adams, Of Philadelphia
is the guest of DIR. ]. S. Porteus, of
Main street.
Taylor branch, No. 1913, United
Mine Workers of America, will hold
| an important business session in their
| rooms in Baskams hall this evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Friedman, Of
| New York, are visiting at the home
of the latter's parents, Foreman and
Mrs. Adam Reinhardt.
Thomas Patterson. of Moosic, called
| on friends here yesterday.
Miss Mary Daniels and Mr.. Elmer
| T. Daniels left yesterday afternoon
| for a sojourn in Buffalo and New York.
The committee in charge of the ex-
| cursion of the Improved order of Red
| Men, Of this place, which will go to
Mountain Park August 1S met in their
| usual meeting place last evening and
| transacted much important business.
| 1t has been predicted that the above
event will be the largest excursion that
| will occupy the grounds at Mountain
Park this season.
| Lackawanna lodge, No. 113, American
| Protestant Association, will meet in
| their rooms this evening.
| Mr.. and Mrs. George Hooper, of
| Taylor street. will sail for Blena.
Wales, their native home. on Aug. /.
| Tomorrow the congregation of the
| st. Lawrence Catholic church will run
| their excursion to Mountain Park
James Hartman, of Scranton, was
| a business caller here yesterday.
Miss Susie Harris spent the Sabbath
| as the guest of Miss Edith Powell, at
| Plymouth.
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HE SAVED HIS MONEY.
What Economy in all Things Can do
in Less Than Eighty Years.

IN Less Indn ElSnCy 1eafSs
From the Syracuse Herald.
Victor Williams, who is reputed to
be worth nearly S20OO00 and whose
mortgages, leases and contracts blan-
ket many a farm in the towns of
Lyme, Lorraine and Cape Vincent,
walked into Watertown from Three
Mile Bay, where he lives with a nephew
and does chores for his board" last
Wednesday, carrying slung across his
arm a well-blacked pair of cowhide
boots, in which were slowed away big
rolls of greenbacks, aggregatng many
thousands of dollars, besides other Sc
curities rivaling in value the contents
of many country bank vault.
The old capitalist had been on
collecting tour among the farms of
the mentioned towns, gathering in the
interest ON his mortgages and stuhing
it into his bootleg banks, and coming
to Watcrtown deposited his gatherings
in the vaults of certain of the city
banks after which he started out to
walk back to the farm, leaving early
that he might reach home in time to
take care of the farmers stock.
In appearance the old man, who must
have passed his eightieth birthday, is
suggestive of anything but n capitalist
as his coWhide boots, which he always
carrie. with him on his trips, are sug-
gestive of anything but the deposito-
rieso money and securities. He wears,
winter and summer, a well-patched
pair Of lOng-legged rubber boots, while
his faded coat Is belted around his
stopped and bent body by a piece of
clothesline with an iron ring in lieu
of abuckle, His gray hair protrudes
from beneath a low-drawn Scotch cap,
and his shrewd and wTinkled visage is
framed with a fringe of gray beard
His eyes, in spite of his so years, are
as keen as a hawks, and he never for
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TUNKHANNOCK.

The local committee of the Firemen' $
association has put out some large
posters announcing the various attrac-
tions to be seen at the fourth annual
convention of the association TO be
held here on Aug. 81 and Sept. next.
Chief among the attractions will be a
special prize drill between the Linta
Hose company of Towanda and the
we'll known Eagles of PittstOn for a
purse of 800. This takes place on the
first day of the convention. On the
second day will occur the regular pro-
gramme of prize drill, hose and hub
races, hook and ladder race and band
contest, besides the big parade. In
the latter it is expected that from %
to 30 companies will participate.
Bauer's band of Scranton will be i'm at
tendance both days and everything
possible is being done by the local COM
mittee to make the convention a big
success.
O. Il. Reynolds, of West Nicholson.
who is asking for the Republican NOM
ination for sheriff, was in Tunkhan-
mock on Monday.
G. S. Knapp, of Skinners Eddy, and
A. NJ Dewitt, of Falls, two Demo-
cratic eX-oftice holders, Were in town
yesterday.
Work on the sewer has progressed
rapidly this last week, pipes having
been laid the full length of Marion
street and seventy-five feet on Church
street and the work is now being push
ed down Warren street. Engineer
Leighton expects to finish the work in
two weeks.
Charles L. Terry, William y. Rey-
nolds, jr., and E. X. Little, all mem
bers Of the Luzerne county bar, spent
Sunday in Tunkhannock.
Mrs. w. N. Reynolds and Mrs Henry
Hending were in Wilkes-Ba Mon
day.
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How's ThisP

We offer one Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case Of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. j. CHENEY & CO, Props, Toledo O.
We the undersigned, have known f. ].
Cheney tor the last 10 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions. and financially able u
carry out any obligation made by their
firm.
WEST & TRCAX, Wholesale Druggists
Toledo. q.
WALDING. KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh cure Is taken interna ly.
acting directly upon the blood and muc-
Gus surfaces of the system. Price 7jc,
per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Tes-
timouials free.
Halls family Pills are the best,
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Persons troubled with diarrhoea will
be interested in the experience of Mr.
w. NJ. Bush, clerk of Hotel Dorrance,
Proidence, r. l. He says For sew
eral years l have been almost a con-
stant sufferer from diarrhoea, the fire.
quent attacks completely prostrating
me and rendering me unfit for my du-
ties at this hotel. About two years ago
a travelling salesman kindly gave me a
small bottle Of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy Much
to my surprise and delight it's effects
were immediate. Whenever felt symp-
toms of the disease I would fortify my
self against the attack with few
doses of this valuable remedy The re-
suit has been very satisfactory and al
most complete relief from the afflic-
ton" For sale by all druggists. Ma
thew Bros, wholesale and retail agts.
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is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Jennie Voyle,
of Lackawanna street.
James O'Malley has returned home
after spending three weeks with rela-
tives i'm Wilkes-Barre.
Miss Name Doherty will leave this
week to spend her vacation at Atlantic
city
Misses Marie Curran and Agnes Tsy-
mott, of Scranton, were the guests OF
Mrs. NJ j. McAndrews over Sunday.
Misses Agnes Martin and Pearl Ro-
scngrant, of the Emergency hospital,
Carbondale. spent Sunday at the for
mer's home here.
Eugene O'Boyle has accepted posi-
tion as clerk in Bush's drug store on
Lackawanna street.
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MONTROSE.

Policeman Tingley appears in a new
uniform today.
Rev. Barker. of Afford preached in
the NJ. +. church on Sunday.
Mr.. Fred Rosendale. of New York,
arrived in town on Friday night last.
Misses Bessie Dean and Julia Cruiser
spent Friday in Retta, Pa.
Miss Estella Lyons gave a party TO
some of her young friends on Satur-
day evening.
Miss Lillian Ellsworth is spending
a few days with her friend, Florence
Smith, at Heart Lake.
The corner stone of the new Baptist
church was laid this afternoon.
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erect a monument, which should be
surmounted by a figure copied after
himself bearing slung across the arm
pair of boots. TO another friend
here he is alleged to have once said
that more than 100000 has passed
through his bootleg banks during the
years in which he has used them for
garnering and carrying wealth.
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JERMYN AND MAYFIELD.

The many friends of Will Mellow,
who recently underwent an operation
for appendicitis in DR.. Whecler's hos
pital at Carbondale, will be pleased to
hear that he is getting along nicely
and should the Improvement continue
he will probably be able to leave the
institution by the end of the week or
the beginning of next week.
Mrs. John Morris and daughter,
Rachel, of Rendham, and Miss Jennie
Thomas, of Parkersburg, Va, were
on Sunday the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
L. +. Morris, of Bacon street.
Miss Dana Rymer and Miss Clara
Davis spent Sunday with Miss Jose
phine Davis, of this borough, who is
camping at Lake Henry.
Miss TObie, of Buffalo, n. Y, is Wis
itng at the home of her aunt, Mrs.
w. b. Swick, of Main street.
Martin Gill, bookkeeper of COnnell
e. Company, of Scranton, is spending
his vacation here at the home of his
father, r. r. Gill.
Tommy solomon has resigned his
position with the Ontario and Western
railroad.
Henry Morcom, of New Orange, n.
j., is visiting here.
Prof F. S. McCarty, of Mayfield, at
tended the dedication Of the new
Catholic church at Mount Pleasant
Sunday.
Rev. Father f. j. Canavan, of Scran-
ton. read the second mass at Sacred
Heart church on Sunday morning.
Richard Harvey, who was recover
ing from a serious illness has suffered
relapse and is quite i'll again.
Mrs. John Trezise, of West Mayfield,
is seriously i'll.
John Sampson, of Archibald, was a
visitor here last evening.
All the trackmen, the lineman and
his assistant and Carpenter Maitland
of the Steel Car company have been
laid off indefinitely. Twenty-three
men in all are affected by the order
which went into effect last week.
Michael Burke, John Callahan and
Dennis Kilker, of Mayfield, attended
the funeral of the late Mrs. Callahan
at Wilkes Barre yesterday.
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FIFTEEN APPLICATIONS.

The school board met in special ses-
sion last evening and after disposng of
some routine business gave it's atten~
tion to the reading Of applications for
the principalship Of the high school.
There were fifteen Of them from cdu-
Gators of all parts of the state. They
We're all ordcred filed.
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CARBONDALE.
COMMON COUNCIL.

Common council didn't get a quorum
last night and the few who did appear
adjourned u meet Thursday evening,
Both branches will meet in special scs-
sion Monday night 20 open bids for
making repairs on the city building.
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"YOU MAY BEND THE sAPLING,
but not the tree" When disease has
become chronic and deep seated it is
often difficult to cure it. That is the
reason why it is best to take Hoods
Barsaparilla when disease first shows
Itself.
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HOODS PILLS are the favorite fam
fly cathartic.
Middletown transcript., 1899-03-11

IT seems almost incredible that one
year and day after Congress had vot-
ed SOC, 100000 emergency war fund
some of our troops should still be armed
with out-of- date, smoking blunderbus-
es; yet such is the fact. The Filipino
insurgents before Manila, armed with
Mauser rifles captured from Spaniards,
are able to take pot shots at our vol
unteers on the picket line with COM
pIete impunity, the latter being utter
ly, unable to reply with their SPRING
fields, which shoot only half as far.
Even the smokeless ammunition pre-
pared for these guns has not yet been
distributed to the men in the Philip
pines. It is asserted in the Ordnance
Bureau that 1000 stand Of Krag-Jor-
gensen rifles have already been sent to
General Otis, and thatanother 5000 are
awaiting bis orders in Government ar
senals: but these weapons seem to be
as rare at the front as was good beef
in Cuba and Puerto Rico.-Philadel-
phia Record.