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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-08

The dowager empress of China it is
said, has suppressed all the Chinese
newspapers What a pity she has not
similar jurisdiction over the yellow
dragon press of the United States.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-08
The Bicyclist.

Bowed by the weight Of centuries"
His figure he will oft reveal
Another medal must be his
Whenever he bestrides his wheel
Washington Star.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-08
A Painful Parting.

She laid her head against my cheek;
Oh, heavens, the pain of parting,
With 16 hairpins from that head
Into my visage darting.
Chicago Journal.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-08
A Man of Large Caliber.

Pilson-Is he a man of much caliber?
Dilson-Why-yes; he's about the big
gcst bore | have run across for some
time.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-08
A Use for the Chnneron

what! You go into the surf without a
chaperon?"
"Oh yes! There are no sharks In this
latitude, you know"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-08

Mr., Bryan seems to have difficulty in
recovering from the sinking spell
caused by the Endorsement of Mr..
Croker.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-08
Another Lie Nailed

ent. | might spoil it"-washington
Star.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-08
Star
Automatic
Paper
Fastener

Fastens papers in a jiffy,
feeds itself and improved in
every respect. Prices lower
than ever. We are still SELL
ing the PLANETARY Penc.l
Sharpeners. The only sharp e
ening device which never
breaks the lead. On trial in.
your Office for 10 days free Of
charge. We have numerous
other novelties in office sup
plies, together with a large
line of Blank Books and
Typewriter's Supplies.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-08
The Battle of PlattSburg,

"a YEXT Monday, Sept. II, occurs
y the anniversary of one of the
4 v most heroic naval battles in
American hstory--the bat
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-08

kruger's stock Of farewell replies
seems to be unlimited.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-08

Burlington VT engineer troubled with dyspepsia
Indigestion accompanied by headaches and heartburn for
years of the time he unable work His physicians did
him He commenced using RpanS Tabues and
obtained immediate after each meal for about
weeks writes felt much better that only take
after supper and feel all right"
Aneway tenaain srgsE
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-08
An Admirable Example.

T\HE STURDY good sense Of
the National Letter Car
a riers' association in adher-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-08

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liberal aims. War decorations are also
occasionally sported by one-armed or
single-legged organ grinders. Such
gentry warrant themselves to be Brit
ish, and plead for patronage as a mat
ter Of national sentiment and as OPP
posed to the claims of the Saffron Hill
musical contingent of invaders. These
medal displaying humbugs are seldom
ex- soldiers, far less have they been
disabled in active service. They are at
times considerably "out" in respect of
bit of medal ribbon shown, for in
stance, an organ-grinder of about five
and twenty years of age was observed
in Holborn the other day sporting the
Crimean and Mutiny ribbons!
Sometimes an actor possessed of a
passion for realism, who may have to
impersonate on the stage the hero OF
a hundred fights, invests in real med
ais with which to cover the breast of
his tunic. Also genuine war decora-
tions adorn the uniformed presentments
of eminent warriors in the best-class
wax exhibitions throughout the coun-
try. year or two ago a paragraph
went the rounds of the papers to the
effect that a King of a tribe on the
West Coast of Africa had a mania for
collecting British war medals, and that
a city firm had a standing order to
supply his sable majesty. The King
owned a Major Generals tunic, on
which were sewn-both back and front
and from collar to tails-medals and
clasps from those of the Peninsula and
Waterloo downward. This garment the
monarch proudly sported on extra
special State occasions.-The Regi-
ment.
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Economy Proved Disastrous.

What's that!" shouted the husband,
who has concluded to economic, as he
heard his wife give an order through
the telephone. Just countermand that.
Do you think I'm so old or broken down
that I can't put casters on that bed I
What's the matter with the ones Oh
there nOW?" relates the Detroit Free
Press
They're the old-fashioned kind, and
cut the carpet. 1 have the new ones,
and was just calling a carpenter to put
them on. That bed is very old, dear,
and the wood is hard as a bone"
Il don't care if it's hard as flint. I
don't ask odds of any carpenter living,
in that line Of work. Where's the
tools ?" y
I'VE have no gimlet''
"Of course not. If I'd buy a hard
ware stock we wouldn't have carpet
tack. But I don't need a gimlet. The
screwdriver's enough" Five minutes
later he had a big blood blister on his
first finger his face was as red as a
boiled lobster and he was ordering the
servant girl to run up on the avenue
and get him gimlet. She returned
with a 5-center. Between his wrath
anu tHe HdTuWOOO 1t was Denl QOuDle
before one hole was bored, and thare
were white blisters in the palm of his
hand. At this stage he stormed at
everybody in sight, and hustled his
wife off for gimlet. When he finished
by gaslight he had lost $40 in time, the
casters were on crooked. his right hand
was disabled, he was so mad that the
| rest of the family went to bed to es-
cape him, and the girl had left. But
he still thinks that he is a martyr and
that his wifeeidoes not sympathize as
she should with his economical policy
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VACATION THOUGHTS.

The vacation season is now ap-
preaching flood tide. Nearly every
one takes in these days something Of
a vacation: even the law has inter-
posed to require certain forces of mu-
nicipal employees to be allotted a fort
night of release and change annually.
Vacation as we have it means SIM
ply change; it is more that than the
character of the drift aside from usual
routine. We all need this departure
from the usual. because it is relaxation
from the tension of everyday life and
the struggle for bread and butter, that
benefits us.
AZ to the form this relaxation should
take, We shall never be agreed The
ordinary holding is that those at the
seaside should rest in the mountains
or rfoothills. and those from the interior
resort to the seaside But this is by
no means granted by ALL Valley peo-
PIE are quite as much drifting toward
the hill tops and the springs, as are
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TRADE IN WAR MEDALS.
Various Ways In Which They Are
Disposed Of and Their Uses.


War medals, mostly won at the cost
of peril and privation are pawned by
possessors and never redeemed. or are
sent to the hammer by needy relatives
on the decease of the veterans. 1t may
De here noted thatno man on the army
active strength is allowed to pledge
his medals As Is we'll known, war
decorations that pass by the means
stated, and otherwise into commerce
are eagerly purchased by dealers, who
dispose of them to museums; also to
private collectors Of every grade from
American millionaires to British pub
licans.
THESE disks of silver, especially
those awarded for modern campaigns,
from the Crimean War downward, are
occasionally put by dealers to novel
! uses. BY the aid of a blowpipe the in
scription on the edge can be filed with
silver, when the surface, If need be,
is ready for re-engraying. Doctoring
of the name, rank and regiment by the
method mentioned is common in the
trade. So it may be that the virtuoso
| who imagines he possesses a memento
of the late gallant General Fitz Car
mage, K. c. B., who distinguished him
self at Balaklaya, would be shocked
if he knew that his pet curio is a
fraud, and that it belonged to old
| Tommy Atkins of the Onety-oneth
Foot, who pawned it before he retired
into the workhouse to die
Again, officers serving or retired
sometimes lose their medals, or have
them feloniously annexed. Sooner than
| go through the War Office red tape
mill to procure duplicates, relettered
medals are obtained from dealers. Men
dicants get hold of medals in order
to exhibit them ITO credulous and be-
nevolent folks, and thus extract a more
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NONE TOO MANY STREET LIGHTS.

The Mayor. in a commendable spirit
dition of fifteen more street lights to
those now in service. These lights are
for the protection of the outlying dis
tricts. But, says the Mayor, to furnish
them will increase the cost and neees-
sarily the taxation. He therefore ad
vises the Trustees to cut off the added
lamps.
Light, air and water are three re-.
quisites without which life is not worth
living. The people in the more thinly
populated and distant sections of the
city need more street lights than they
now have. They pay Just as heavy
taxes as any others in proportion to
| their property values. They are more
removed from police and fire protec-
ton; they are starved for water; they
have plenty of good pure air, and that
Let not their lights be diminished in
number.
The city is expanding; its growth
eastward and southwark is steady and
! unremitting. To cut these growing
| sections down on lights is the worst
| policy imaginable. Better increased
taxes than exposure to the risk which
| inevitably succeeds reduction in the
number of street lights. To refuse to
put in these lights will be to check ex-
pansion and diminish the assessment
| roll.
| The downtown sections are fairly well
| lighted. but not lamp should be cut
| off, nor should there be any diminish
ment of the proposed new list Sacra-
| mento cannot afford any such retrench-
ment
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Now that an advisory committee of
reputable citizens, men having large
interests at stake and devoted to the
welfare of the community, has been
raised to investigate the water supply
question, it is to be hoped that there
viii be no obstacles thrown in their
path. They should investigate impair
TALLY all sources of supply offered. sug-
sested or proposed They should, and
unquestionably will, assume the judi
cial attitude, dispossess themselves OF
preeonceived ideas. bare their judg-
ments to the contact of all material
testimony and after diligent search to
disclose the truth, give us an unim-
peachable verdict. The people are
ready to receive such verdict and act
upon it without delay.
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there are exceptions where ne may
possess one or the other of these good
qualities, and paragons have been
found richly endowed with all three
of these cardinal virtues. But these
latter seem instinetively to avoid poll
tics as they would a rattlesnake, and
for that reason when one Of them. Ike
Roosevelt, for instance, enters the field
of public life. people are astonished at
his doctrines, and ask anxiously what
manner of man is this, anyhow, who
acts and talks in such peculiar way
But after they come to know him, their
hearts are filled with gladness, while
the professional politician is consumed
with great fear that his days are
numbered.
ALASKA.
Oakland Tribune: In view Of the In
creased interest in Alaska, the Bureau
of Statistics at Washington has col
lected some figures that will surprise
most people. Since the Territory passed
into our possession it has produced In
furs, $65, 100000; gold, $35,OOO,OO0;
canned salmon, $20,00O,O 600; whalebone
and whale oil, $4,000, 600; Goldfish, hall
ibut, ETC., $5,OOO,00O; walrus ivory,
$146, 100000 That is a good showing
for a $7,000,0OO investment, especially
as we have only just started in to
work it.
THE IMPORTING OF BUGS.
Napa Register: Some California fig
producers are now interested in improv-
ing the flavor of their fruit by the
Smyrna process. The deliciousness of
Smyrna figs is said to be due to a
tiny insect which creeps into the half
opened blossom and deposits an egg.
thereby imparting to the fruit sub
tleness entirely unknown to the Cali
fornia product. Growers propose to inn
port a sample lot of these insects and
set them to work.
This calls to mind our sad expert
ence with the English sparrow, which
was originally imported on account of
his reputed insatiate appetite for cater
pillars. He doubtless has the appetite
but finds so. many other things more
delightful to his British palate, that he
forgets what he was brought for. Be-
sides he has contracted such prof1igate
habits as to be more of nuisance than
the worm he came to destroy.
So have caution, fig raisers! Go slow
in the matter of importing foreign in
sects. The bug imported to breathe
sweetness into your fruit may changa
his habits when he reaches our civilized
country. He may strip your trees of
leaves and devour your live stock. More
than this; finding our climate conduc-
i've to his development, he may grow
to the size of baby elephant and pro-
ceed to devastate our otherwise happy
and peaceful population.
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If, as the copperhead press persistent
ly asserts. it is true that the soldiers in
the Philippines are disguested with the
war, and wish the nation to yield to
Aguinaldo. how comes it that General
Otis has easily raised among volun-
teers there whose time Of enlistment
has expired. two new regiments Of in
fantry? Would these men, re-enlist if
the bogie man stories of the .sentimen-
talists were true2
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A Natural Inference.

Penibbs-Well, good-by, old man; I'm
off for a two months trip to gather
material for a new book I'm about to
write.
Spacer-What's to be the nature of
this proposed new book?
Penibbs-It is to be a narrative of
my observations while away. I shall
probably callSit wild Life in the
Wilderness"
Spacer-Well, so long, my boy. hope
you will be content to stay two months
in ST. Louis.-Chicago News.
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Weekly
Union

Is a t2-page family and business
newspaper issued every Friday
morning. Thus, for the very small
sum of 81 its subscribers receive no
less than ga pages of choice read
inq and news matter in a year.
This reduction has been made
that we may afford the people IN
these times Of stringency the fullest
onportunity to have the Weekly
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A Poor Memory.

Magistrate-You are charged with
being drunk and disorderly.
Prisoner-I can remember being dis
orderly, your Honor. but I don't re-
member anything about being drunk
n Y. Journal
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AN lawful EXAMPLE"

Trustee Devine is a perennial sur
sistency and pig -headedness. Here we
have this City Trustee charged with
the important duty of legislating for all
the people of the city, and of securing
for them the. best possible water sup
ply. standingup upon his own judgment
so persistently that he refuses to permit
any one to even investigate into any
proposition which runs counter to his
of supply.
Mr.. Devine moved in the board Mon
day night that the city pay all the
necessary expenses of the advisory
water committee, composed of citizens
selected and approved by the board.
But when another Trustee stated that
the committee ought to investigate i'm
partially and fully all water plans
under consideration, up pops Devine
with the statement that as he himself
the infallable Devine, is convinced that
water from deep driven wells is not
good, therefore he should oppose any
expenditure for boring wells.
General Tozer had the courage to
say-his opinion certainly being as
good as Devine's-that he believed the
subterranean supply to be good water
and II good and sufficient it would be
the cheapest supply obtainable. Was
there ever such inconsistency as this
Trustee Devine manifests?s He votes
for Investigation: an investigation pre-
sumably to be impartial a search for
the truth; but he bars the way, so far
as his objection can do it, to investigat-
ing one of the chief, if not the chief
proposition before the people, simply
because he believes the water from that
source not good.
The subterranean source cannot be
tested as to quality or sufficiency anew
without boring a we'll or two or put
ting pump in we'll already bored.
For since Devine rejects all former
tests; since he utterly repudiates the
vote OF the people in favor of that
sources; since he declares the water
thus far secured from the wells not
Z good. the only way under the sun to
test the supply is for the committee to
test experimental wells itself.
Mr.. Devine's position is that of the
dog in the manger. He cannot eat hay
and he will not permit the horse to
eat hay. Far be it from us to sug-
gest that there is a glaring impro-
priety in this Trustee having anything
to say in the matter, since having To-
Gated water supply source himself.
which he pronounces just the thing the
city needs, and which he can use to
furnish the city with water ample and
pure, some people may think that he
Is by law and by good manners
estopped from legislating upon the SUBJ
Ject. He has now an interest very
much personal, and to men not wholly
blind 1t may look as if the law applies
Which inhibits any city official dicker-
ing with the city for anything either to
sell or to give away.
But Mr.. Devine is useful. AS an awful
example Of bull-headedness and persis-
tent dogmatism; as an example of the
man with one idea, and that a mono
mania, he serves the city we'll by way
or contrast. 1t is to be hoped there
fore that he will not be checked in his
course, but like John B. Coughs awful
example" be permitted to fulfill his
mission and demonstrate by his unrea-
sson the reasonab1eness Of others.
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Natural or artificial gas stoves from
$3.50 up. Holbrook, Merrill 6, Stetson,
221-223 ] street.
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For medicinal purposes drink Glen
brook" sour mash whisky. Thee
Blauth. 4O7 K Street. Tel 207.
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Weather Forecast.

For Northern California-Fair Wednes-
day; northerly winds in the valleys; brisk
westerly winds on the coast, with fog.
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
County of Sacramento, State of Cali
fornia.
In the matter of the estate of MARY
E. HUMPHREY, formerly Mary E. Hall.
deceased.
of Willis Bledsoe, heretofore appointed
Commissioner by the above entitled
court in the above entitled matter, by the
order of this court, dated the 18th day of
May A. D., 1899, to make partition among
the distributes of the estate of said de-
ceased of the real estate heretofore dis
tributed to them in undivided shares, has
been filed herein and said report has been
set for hearing for FRIDAY. July Hth,
A. D. 1899, at ten o'clock a. M, at the
courtroom of the above entitled court at
the Courthouse, in the City of Sacra-
mento, California, and all parties inter-
ested therein are notified to appear at
said time and place.
Witness my hand and the seal of said
court this Sd day Of July A. p 1899.
WIN. B. HAMILTON,
jy4-9t Clerk of said Superior Court.
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PACIFIC GROVE BAKERY

II you want bread as near homelike as
Also, all kinds of breads, pies and cakes
For a speciality. try our Sunshine a
bright yellow cake. Both phones. RICE
BROS, S23 J.
The Farmington times. [volume] (Farmington, Mo.) 1874-1902, 1899-08-03
HERE AND THERE

Manchester, y. H., pays one-third Of
the tuSrs o. the Granite state.
The Colorado Historical society has
The original deed Of brigham Youngs
min. the first erected IN Utah.
According 10 a Judgment Of the courts
IN the state Of Washington. growing
crops cannot be levied upon 10 satisfy
a Judgment,
California IL the only state Ia this
country whore the attempt TO raise
wine with foreign varieties Of grapes
has succeeded.
\ valuable cow Is poss, sscd by John
Milton, ~ Gardiner, Ne. II is usually
MIXED three times luy. and recently
gave, va one day, lIi. quarts Of milk.
Ncw York city annually pays $50 in
gold. Ia ono payment, 10 every blind
person who has been a wear a resident
Of the metropolis, ard who has not
been an occupant ui "a city institution
during that time.
Forty live Eansas cuuutics have II,
poorhou-c- 90 an. or else they are
empty. This is NEARLY uuc-haIf ~ the
cuuutirz of tlc state 1t n meeting ~
the clerks W The district cnur's 81 the
state some time ago, 1t was reported
that 20 counties had no criminal cases
10 be- tried.
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A "HoT" COLD BANQUET.
Some insier Information by wnites
fron the noWery Who Helped
serve 10.

Osc Of the walters al a popular local res
Naurant b. . hitd gi passage itum the How.
err and was a mrmh,f %! the small army
shat served The famous dollar Dinner IA
New York last ApTiL \ good many stories
have been tod OF that memorable event,
bat Rome Of them surpass hls own in point
OF pitufCsqusuess and inside detail, 1t
was the iunuitst push was ever 10 iu me
life, be SAYS, t0niidchiially. The kitchen
was - small they had Go cook Cfrry ihiug
on The uu. aide, and when % got thvrr lt was
dead cold The second C1ursu Was paddock,
and each iith come served IN a linen hog,
o. We could Pot EN- ~ tubs OF bot water
aud warm en- up-scc? We'll, some u the
boys got ratified and served en- bags and
all, with cEg sauce Over ia outside. say,
you'd oi died laughing seeing them lcii,ra
IN ~ carve their fish, This is The tough.
est aud haddork ! ycr tackled IN me ilie,'
says one IaAmany man at the head table;
It's got kin like a rhinoccrm,' says he.
IN the kitchen there was a riot all night
long. II wAs 90 small the walters couldn't
reach the dtshufyup aud they got 20 scrap
ptng for front pieces ~ the Inc One man
was knocked stiff with turkey. and when
they picked him mp ! thought be- VAS dead
! dig, on the level. hut it wasn't blood 10
was only cranberry sauce. Another nuukcy
fell INTO the salad and uUc 0i The COOKS pot
a can 81 ice cry4m IN the oven, thinking 4
Wa brown gravy for the beet That M
The squ1rc-lusi a. I'm loliiu' you! hut the
worst Of Ill was when We came t1 the vine.
il was Mcricsn champagne ~ half puiA,
without ice. and Of al the kicking hHd huL
lcrrf' DnC flesh gent told me 30 WAS the
only thing hc had had TIA, night that va
good aud warm, and he h1d hardly sad It
when waiter that was a ittlc lhgFyd 40
cidcuIIly poured about 4 quart ~ bu.llu.
coHr, down the back Of ht. neck Say. you
ought Of hoard him ,uss' Between you and
me, good many walters got 90 biting the
Winc, end they found one OF en- with Il
empty bottles boo hf pant. ic. That hon.
est Jaw u mysrf l,vas the hottest Ian.
quot ! was ever AN o Tmts Demo
The Farmington times. [volume] (Farmington, Mo.) 1874-1902, 1899-08-03
NOT A GOOD RATION.
AiiL and Otherwise Injuries
Bntry Cows.

Generally right after the thrcshinp
machine has pulled out OF the narnyaru
the cattle are turned Ia 90 pick up the
scattered heads and loose wheat and
eat as much as they wish from the
straw stack. There Is nothing SO dct-
rimental to the flow Of milk as straw,
especially oat straw. have known
mich cows that were giving two and
half "a three gallons Of milk q day, In
two weeks 10 decrease 10 less than a
gallon day. Not that they were fed
on straw. They had good fresh fall pas
lures, but they were allowed 10 eat
from the struwEtaCk also.
know by experience that nothing
gives the butter such chC,Fy taste and
smell. besides making Il much harder 90
chuFn, rs feeding the cows cat straw.
II ulEo dries up the duw Of milk much
taste than any other feed you can
give them. Save your straw for your
young stock: tkcy will do well on II u
you give them some ground corn along
with Il. Feed your cows middlings,
with good clover or timothy hay, or,
what il better yet, cornfoddrr or KilnRe.
] know OF no better dry feed for milCh
cows than c0rufoddcr. Feed them that.
Keep cat straw away from them and
there will he no decrease IN the dow of
milk In the fall and winter. Beatrice
III. EbbingIlaus. In ohio Farmer.