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The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Nine excuses out of possible ten are
lies
The wise man who boasts of his wis
dom is fool
Talk is cheap-and much of it needs
to be discounted.
Trouble drives fewer men to drink
than drink drives to trouble.
A fair exchange is no robbery-and
| fair robbery is no exchange
You have probably noticed that only
levelheaded people agree with you.
Make 1t an object for them, and some
men can plainly see that black is white
The man who talks in his sleep dis
plays his wisdom by remaining a bach
elor.
Some men are like cigars-the more
you pun them the smaller they be-
come.
Why not change the motto on the
silver dollar to In New Jersey We
Trust?
A man who has been treated to
coat of tar and feathers naturally feels
stuck up.
The man who says something every
time he speaks is not cut out for So
ciety idol
We are admonished to lick the hand
that smites MS. but We feel more like
shifting the hand that licks us.
If men could live their lives over
again they would avoid all their old
mistakes-and make lot of new ones.
An enterprising Chicago man is
about to open training school for
pugilists. The full course will en-
brace seven languages
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15
Santa Fe Causes Wonder.

The following from the Denver
Times shows that the people are
closely watching the railroads in
Colorado, and that now specula-
ton is rife concerning the future
of the Santa Fe:
Recent action of the Santa Fe
has aroused some curiosity in rail
way circles. and some are wonder
ing what that company intends to
do with the money the stockhold-
ers have been asked to vote for
new road building. When the
company was reorganized sum of
Si5O,O0O year was set aside with
which to construct new roadway.
which, under the usual price of
the cost of railway construction,
meant about fifty miles per an
mum. Now the company has
asked the stockholders to increase
this sum by 100000 per annum,
and a meeting has been called to
act upon the proposition. The
Santa Fe is credited with being
behind the scheme of building
from Canon City to Cripple Creek.
This rumor is denied. 1t is evil
dent, however, that the company
intends to do some new work at
some point on its system
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15
SILVER SHOULD RISE.

The recent rise in the price of
silver is not satisfactorily account
ed for by any facts affecting the
law of supply and demand. The
supply has been increased and
there has been no important in
crease anywhere in the. demand,
If the contracted financial condi-
tion in India has compelled the
government to sell large quantities
of silver. still the price has risen
several cents and is liable to 90
still higher.
Taking sixty cents as the ap-
proximate price of an ounce of sill
yer at the beginning Of the present
revival of prosperity there is every
reason why it, considered simply
as commodity, should continue
to advance until it. reached the
neighborhood of eighty cents. The
average price of Other commodities
throughout the world has advanced
over thirty per cent from the bot
tom OF the depression several years
ago.
1T silver is not money and only
commodity it, too, should share in
this advance. AS matters stand it
has practically fallen in price, be-
cause all other things have risen
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15
AFTERTHOUGHTS.

1t Is the things we do not do that
make us weary of life.
Hardly anybody is as sure of him
self as he would have people believe.
A sanguine disposition is one that
can continue to hope for something
which IL knows won't happen.
Sometimes when we are most pulled
up over the size of our shadow we are
standing in our own light
Whether a man is a crank or ec-
centric depends much on his import
ance as part OF the social machine.
When man becomes possessed OF
the idea that he is a philosopher It is
pretty hard to get him to listen to ad
vice.--Iudianapolis News.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15

more than it has. Even cotton,
the slowest and dullest of the other
commodities, has advanced. Iron
has gone up more than one hun
dred per cent. in a year. Every
thing else is following at a greater
or less distance behind. Unless
silver rises in price its production
is likely to materially fall off. The
cost of silver mining has increased
approximately as much as the
average price of commodities has
risen.
The demand for silver, the de-
mand for which but few statistics
are available and that, therefore,
cannot be easily measured, has
been chiefly in its increased use in
the arts consequent upon better
times throughout the world. One
of the first luxuries that people
purchase after their necessities are
well provided for is silver house
hold and other articles. AS people
grow prosperous there is always a
great growth in the demand for
silver fabrics. 1t has been demon
strated that this demand will pre-
vent the metal FROM ever declining
much below its present level
But there is greater demand
than that of the arts coming for
silver throughout the world. " is
a demand for more subsidiary
coinage in every nation. If this
country would insist, as part of
its friendship for England, that a
treaty should be made with all ma
tions providing for more exten-
sive use of silver as subsidiary
coinage, it is very probable that
the metal would be brought back
by that means to parity with
gold at ratio of 16 to l.-Denver
Republican.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15
A New Denver-st. Louis Fly..,


Travellers destined for Kaps,,
City, st. Louis and points beyond
should be careful when they buv
there tickets to specify that !,
must read "via the Burlinuton
route" If they do this and pn
east on the St. Louis Special, tbs
Burlington's new Denver : 81
Louis flyer, there will be M
question about comfort en- route
The ST. Louis Special made IL
first trip June 4. 1t leaves Den.
yer at l 40 p. M, arriving at 81
Joseph and Kansas City next
morning and st. Louis next even
ing
only ONE NIGHT ON THE RoAD s
1t makes Union depot connec.
tions with all morning trains out
of Kansas City and with all even
ing trains out of ST. Louis.
Through sleeping and reclining
chair cars, Denver to st. Joseph
and ST. Louis. Chair car to Kan.
sas city. Dining car and buffet.
smoking-lihrary car, Denver to
Oxford. The latter is something
which no other Denver-St. Louis
train has. u. w. Vallery,
General Agent
1899 Seventeenth st. Denver.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15
Count of Summer Tourists.

Nearly $4,000 tourists are cred
-ited with having come to Colorado
last summer upon summer eXcurs-
ion tickets. This nun ber does not
include 1,50OO or 1000 coming
from Texas points or the large in
huX which came to the state with
out taking advantage of the round
trip rates.
The exact number of round trip
tickets deposited with the railway
agencies in Colorado during the
summer reached 1888. This is
5000 more than were deposited
during the summer of 1898, and
l2,0OO more than during the excur-
sion season of the previous year.
AT this rate of progress, the num-
Der coming to Colorado with round
trip excursion tickets next summer
will be about 24,000. The season
begins May 10 and ends October
30
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Salted whale meat is considered :
delicacy by the Japanese The whales
are caught off the coast of corea the
flesh and blubber are cut up and salted
and sent to Japan for food
Two babies were In a child's car
riage, near railroad track in Rock
/ ford Ill. A fierce wind arose and
whirled the carriage onto the track
before a passing train, and the babies
were killed.
| Over one thousand houses in Lon
don are tenantIess because they are
supposed to be haunted. Seventy-one
of them have been the scenes OF mur-
der. and from some of the remainder
occupants have mysteriously disap-
peared.
Unique properties are possessed by
the River Tinto. in Spain. 1t petri-
fes the sand OF its bed; and If a stone
another, in few months they unite
and become one stone. Fish cannot
live in its waters
A patriotic tenant of a house in Chi
cago raised an American flag TO the
window. The owner OF the house tore
II down. saying that nails damaged his
property. Judge La Buy fined him
bling with glee, and the flag is still
there.
Smokeless powder. strange to relate,
really throws off a sha3owy vapor.
This vapor is perceptible only when
viewed through a disk of violet glass
inserted in an ordinary fieldglass.
Colonel Sweet. of the Army Medical
Museum. Washington. made this dis
covery.
A British medical paper grayely
states that mosquitoes may be kept
alive two years by tenderly feeding
them with sherry and sugar. But who
wants to prolong the existence OF mos
quitoes? Better give the sherry and
sugar to tramps and remorselessly
squash the insects.
A cake OF Ice dropped from wagon
upon the foot of three-year- girl
in Boston and the foot had to be am
putated. Carelessness by an employe
of the Boston Ice Company. it is said,
caused the accident. The parents OF
the child brought suit and recovered
Il verdict of $4,000,
A Geographic Board" in the Domin-
ion of Canada settles all questions as
to the correct spelling of geographic
names in the Dominica. When man
submits question and the board
agrees with him, he calls them
learned; when the decision is against
him, he says they are photographed
jackasses.
A bedbug thrives best on blood
diet, but 1t can live long on air. George
o. Smith, a Brooklyn entomologist.
confined one in tin box. where it
was forgotten for six months When
he opened the box the bug seemed
dried up and llfeless; but when he put
1t on the back of his hand it at once
began to draw blood.
By collusion with expressmen and
keepers, Thomas S, Clark, who is serv-
ing fiye-year sentence in Trenton, N.
j., for bank robbery. has been making
lots OF money by selling canned goods,
fruits, liquors and various articles to
his fellow convicts. An acquaintance
betrayed him. Were 1t not for this
friends treachery, the prison officials
say, he might soon be running an in
dependent store within the prison
walls,
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15
Church Services and Religious msstins,
In Florence


First Baptist Church,
REV. ARTHUR WILLETTs.
Sunday School, 10 a. M; preaching II is aud
1880 in Union Hall.
st. Benedict's Roman Catholic Church,
FATHER EDMuND, o. S. B.. Pastor.
Sunday services, first and third Sundays in erch
month; high mass and sermon, 10 a. M; IN
day School at p. M; vespers and beue ie'
tion of the blessed sacrament at 80 p. m
First Church of Christ, Scientist.
Every Sunday at the Rogers building, lain
Street: Sunday morning service 10:45; even
ing at 7:l5; Sunday School II As; Inquiry
meeting every Wednesday evening at 15-
Dispensary open Saturday from to p. M
First Presbyterian Church,
REV. C. A. BERGER.
Sunday School, 10 a. M; Service and Sermons
II a. M; Junior Endeavor, p. M; y. 7. S.CE
E., 6 80 p. M; Evening service, 1880 p. nj
Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening at
1880
Frazer Methodist Episcopal Church,
REV. j. G. HORN.
Cor. Second st. and Petroleum Ave. Parsonsge
next door to the church.
Sunday School, 10 a. M. Morning Service, II a.
M; Glass meeting, IL M: Juulor League, 2S
.. M; Senior League, p. M. Evening Service
8 p. m; Prayermeeting every Wednesday even
ing 7 80.
Christian Church,
ED. J. A. SHoPTAUGH, Pastor.
Preaching every Lords II a. m. and p N
Communion at IL. Sunday school at 10
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15
Pure Whiskey HARPER Per
feet Whiskey HARPER Every
bottle guaranteed HARPER. Sold
by w f. Burley. Florence, Colo.

Fresh aud luscious New York
Count Oysters, at the Florence p
aud p. Co s. Try 'em.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15

If you want to borrow any
amount of money on real estate
security, see j. J. Fitzgerrell, he
has plenty of money on hand.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15

Florence Packing and P. Co, for
corn fed beef, pork, poultry, fish
and fruit. Prices reasonable.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15

Florence Is on the eve of the
greatest business boom known in
her history Now is the time to
quietly make investments at bot
tom prices in real estate, improved
and unimproved | have few
Snap Bargains to offer on long
time with small cash payment
j j FITZGERRELL.
You get the news fresh through
the columns of THE TRIBUNE.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15

First Baptist Church,
Rev. ARTHUR WILLETTs.
Sunday School, 10 a. M; preaching ii is aud
80 in Union Hall.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15
Classified Advertisements.

Advertisements will be run in this depart
ment at tho rate Of Is words in issues for 10
cents, payable in advance; advertisement
will be taken Tor less than 10 cents. Here is an
opportunity 10 advertise at a minimum cost
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15
THE FREE LIST

Entered at the postoifice at Florence Colora-
do for transmission through the mails as matter
of tho second class.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15

Christian Church,
ED. J. A. SHoPrAUGH, Pastor.
Preaching every Lords II a. m. and p m
Communion at II, Sunday school at TO-
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-15
Professional Directory.

DR.. BENJAMIN ROSEBERRY.
SPECIALIST
Diseases Of Women,
Hernia and Rectal Surgery
OFFICE PALACE ps,sFmAcf sLocS-
ONCE Hours 10 a. m. to p. m.
FLORENCE, CoLesADo.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-07-20
GEORGE D. MEIKLEJOHN.


retary Alger, neither of whom would
talk on the subject Nor was the let
ter of resignation obtainable at this
time. For the present nothing will be
made known officially concerning the
severance of the official relations be-
tween the president and his war min
lister, but later on the official corres-
pondence closing the latter's career as
chief of the war department doubtless
will be given to the press.
The closest inquiry fails to elicit any
information as to the intentions of the
president respecting the appointment
of a successor to Mr.. Alger as secre-
tary Of war. Names are mentioned,
but they are only those which have
already been suggested with more or
less of plausibility in the press dis
patches without securing either con-
tirmation or denial from any we'll in
formed persons. The members of the
cabinet were all disinclined to talk
about the succession, though one did
remark that the president had made
no mention of a name to him, and he
believed that no decision had yet been
reached. He also conveyed the impress
sion that no appointment would be
made Immediately, but that Mr.. MeikIe-
john would be allowed to direct af-
fairs for some time to come. Among
the names which have been mention
ed from time to time in this discus
sion when talk Of Secretary Alger's
forthcoming resignation has been rife
have been those of General Horac Por-
ter, of New York, now ambassador to
France, Governor Roosevelt, of New
York, General Harrison Gray Otis and
Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn.
The name of General Corbin has
been mentioned in connection with
an ad interim appointment, pending
the selection Of a permanent occupant
OF the office, but an officer close to the
general said there was no basis for the
report. There was some talk also that
General Corbin might be given the
portfolio permanently, although this
was regarded as improbable, even
among General Corbins friends. There
would be precedent for such a course,
however, as in the case Of General
Schofeld's cabinent service.
The transfer of Attorney General
Griggs from the department of Justice
to the war department has been sug-
gested by those who are figuring on
secretary Alger's successor today. It
is urged that the largely increased
legal questions which are constantly
coming before the war department as
a consequence of our new possessions
make 1t desirable that its executive Of
hcer should be a man Of legal at
tainments and experience In this same
connection the name of Hon. Elihu
Root, the well known New York law
yer, is mentioned. General James H
Wilson, of Delaware, now In the vol
lnteer establishment and governor of
che province of Matanzas, Cuba, is also
spoken OF. General Wilson was a well
known soldier in the civil war and
since has been prominently identifed
with business enterprises.
Adjutant General Corbin was seen
during the evening, and while not
wishing to discuss any of the facts CON
lCOntinuad On Hu,..th
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We would kindly request the public to be
more saving with the water The amount of
water wasted is greater than the amount
used. The supply furnished by the borough S
plant has for some time been exhausted. We
are supplying the entire borough and all the
collieries in the vicinity, and have been doing
so since last month. The drain on our
supply is, therefore, very great, and unless
care is exercised to prevent the enormous
waste, water will become a precious necessity
before the summer closes. 1t is TO the
interest of the public to see that all hydrauts,
faucets etc, are in good repair. If care is
exercised the supply will be sufficient for all
necessary purposes.
SHENANDOAH WATER AND GAS Co.,
1t E. j. WAsLEY. Supt.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-07-20
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY.
Mrs. Hardeman, of YatesviIle, Has an Ex-
citing Experience with Robbers.

citing Experience with Robbers.
A bold attempt at robbery was made at 3
o'clock yesterday morning at the home of
Mrs Hardeman, a widow residing with her
two children at Yatesville
Mrs. Hardeman was awakened bya noise
in the kitchen but. thinking it to be her sou
returning home from work on the night shift,
she paid no attention aud fell asleep again.
Shortly after she was again awakened by a
latch ON a trunk in her bedroom failing
to the floor She opened her eyes and
was startled to see two strange men in the
room Both were masked and had their coat
collars turned up. The woman sprang TO her
feet aud was stopped by a drawn revolver
held close to her face by one of the burglars.
She paid no attention to the threats made aud
screamed for help. The screams awak ened
her son and daughter who were sleeping in
adjoining rooms. When the robbers heard
the approach of the children they fled from
the house
The burglars gained entrance to the house
through the rear kitchen door. They lit the
kitchen lamp and left it burning without
putting on the globe. When the frightened
occupants came down stairs the kitchen was
filed with smoke. An examination revealed
that the trunk in Mrs. Hardeman's bed room
had been ransacked, but the robbers secured
nothing.
Mrs. Hardeman states that one of the
robbers hailed from Shenandoah, that she
was positive of having seen him at intervals
on the streets. Several weeks ago an at
tempt was. made to rob her horae. 1t was
net discovered until the following morning
Several palings had been torn off the fence
and the window was raised several inches.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-07-20

ELECTED |.
All Former Teachers v no Applied Re-
Elected Last Night.
THERE WAS BUT ONE WITHDRAWAL
Miss Lambert Succeeds Miss Coogan as
Teacher of Drawing Salaries Re-
main as Last Year with One
Exception Night
school Teachers
Elected.

The School Board held an adjourned meet.
ing last night for the transaction of general
business, but more especially to elect teachers
and fix the school term. salaries and tax.
All the members of the Board were in At
tendance, namely Messrs KEEPER, Coughln.
Hanna, Sullivan, Baugh. Maick. Dove,
Martin, Holvey, Breslin, Connors, Kerrigan.
Britt, Whitaker and Lee.
Secretary Hanna read a communication
from the County Commissioners. stating that
the assessed valuation of the borough had
been fixed as follows First ward $500 AS ;
Second ward, 1878, Gas Third ward. s566 635;
Fourth ward, $3.50, 3O5; Fifth ward. S54.
432 total, 81, 42s 462 The valuation was
accepted by the Board aud ordered recorded
Tne Board Of l. brary Trustees reported.
among other things of minor Importance.
that Misses Julia Miles and Maggie E.
Palmer and Mr.. Martin Dewitt had been ap-
pointed assistant Librarians. This report was
also accepted by the Board.
The next report submitted was the follow
ing, submitted by the committee on teachers
and salaries
Your Teachers and Salaries Committee
would respectfully recommend the following;
lst. That the DID corps of teachers who
nave applied be reappointed for the school
year. and that one new teacher be appointed
to fill the vacancy, and the twelve night
school teachers be elected.
End. That the school term be nine months
and that the schools open Monday, August
2Sth, 1899.
'3rd That the salaries remain the same as
last year except that the salaries Of each of
the six first grade grammar schools be ffty
(S50) dollars per month.
4th. That all applicants who are not ap-
pointed to regular or night schools, except
relations of such appointed teachers, be sub
stltute teachers; and that the Superintendent
must name the teacher who shall substitute
and contine himself to the parties thus ap.
pointed.
"5th. We herewith present to the Board
the list of old applicants and those for night
schools; and also communication from Miss
Mansell asking for promotion TO position of
drawing teacher. Also application of Miss
Mary Whitaker to be placed on the list of
substitute teachers. We further recommend
that no teacher be debarred from promotion
by reason of not having made application for
promotion.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-07-20

Mrs, Josephine Meiswinkle. Of Ashland
met with horrible death yesterday. While
pokiug the fire. burning coal fell into her
apron and in a few moments she was en-
yeloped in flames. Her son Harry, who was
standing outside the house, and her daughter
Clara, who was upstairs, were attracted by
the screams of the frantic woman. On their
appearing on the scene they set to work
Immediately to extinguish the flames, which
they succeeded in doing, but not until the
unfortunate woman was fearfully burned on
face, neck, arms and body. She died few
hours later.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-07-20

The Supreme Court yesterday sustained
the findings in the lower court which
awarded Mrs. Anna E. Boone s., 900 damages
against East Norwegian township for injuries
sustained by her husband three years ago
which resulted in his death. In May of
1896 they were driving to their home in st.
Clair from Port Carbon. When near Crow
Hollow then horse became frightened and
turning to one side dashed over a steep EN-.
bankment. Mr.. Boone struck his head on a
stone and died almost instantly.
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Hospital Admissions.

William Falifski, miner, 25 years old, in
jured by a fall of coal at the Ellangowan
colliery. Lacerations of the left ear and
right side of head with lacerations of the
frontal bone
Steve Rosko, laborer at Pine Hill colliery,
81 years old, back and ribs fractured by fall
of coal. The lungs are involved and the
victims condition is critical.
Lucas Keuleski, a labOrer at Mt. Carmel,
20 years old, both legs broken by a kick from
q mule
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BesIeged with AnpIlcants.

DR.. H. G. Reitzel, of Mahanoy City, since
his recent appointment as supervisor of CEN
sus for Schuylkill and Berks counties, is in
receipt of scores of letters daily from appli.
cants who desire to be employed as census
enumerators under him. Many of the let
ters, containing the applications, have brief
biographies of the sender attached, which
make very amusing reading.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-07-20
Trip Through the Mines.

The workings of the Shenandoah City COL
hery wore visited yesterday afternoon by
Charles Ebinger and Charles Ries two of the
grand officers of the Order United German
Red Men, and Messrs Martin Umbach. John
Welter and John Cashner, of town. 1t was
the initial trip for the visitors and proved of
vast interest to them. Every point of in
terest in the large mine was shown the party
by Silas Frost, the inside foreman, and his
many courtesies were much appreciated.