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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-29

can, commanding the forts, and his
second, Col. Higgins, thought that Far
ragut and his fleet had been delivered
Into their hands, as they beheld the
ships coming up, formed in two lines,
the Hartford being easily distinguished
as the flagship by its broad blue Ad-
mirals pennant. The forts were ad-
mirably arranged for effective gun
merry, having barbette battery of 6Fs
and quick guns that swept the river
for miles. Had not Farragut directed
his fleet to run inshore and under the
gun fire, not a ship might ever have
got away. The forts are situated on
the two banks of the river. AS the
Hartford passed Fort st. Philip a
shower of grape from one of the big
guns tore the foremast into match
wood and seriously disabled the sail
power of the ship. 1t was necessary
to take in some sails and set others,
but the blocks had jammed and the
Hartford was in danger of swinging
about and running aground. The fire
of grape aloft was so .ot that the
command, "Go aloft and clear blocks
and tackle on main yard" was not
obeyed with that promptness that fol-
lows an order given by the commander
Of a man-of-war. But the hesitation
was momentary.
Come on, you fellows" yelled a
young voice, and up the ratines to the
disabled rigging went a midshipman,
followed by the watch.
Running out lightly to the end of the
yard, and standing sixty feet from the
deck with the grape clipping ropes
and tearing great slivers of wood from
mast and spar young Watson gave the
necessary orders as calmly as if he was
at practice drill. When everything
was taut and in working order, and
following the "jackies' down, Watson
saluted the admiral and reported: "All
clear. SIR" grim old Farrugut simply
seized the boy in his arms, and how
the crew cheered!
Had we ever got aground there the
Confederate guns would have destroy
ed us in five minutes" said Fleet Cap
tain Percival Drayton of the West
Calf squadron as he told the story to
Captain, afterward Rear Admiral, Bry-
son. Young Watson's ready apprcci-
alton of the danger and prompt action
saved the Hartford, in my opinion, and
Farragut thought so, too"
From that hour Watson's fortune
was made. He became naval aide-de-
camp to the admiral of the navy and
was in all the subsequent sea fights
along the South Atlantic seaboard and
at Vicksburg Rodney and Ground Gulf
after that off Charleston.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-29

Many changes will be made at the
saw mill connected with the Lacka-
wanna car shops between now and
Monday morning. 1t is the intention
of Master Car Builder Garfield to re-
arrange all the machinery used for
saving purposes so that the work can
be turned out quicker and permit Of
many new ideas in the working plans
of the company.
A force of fifty men were put to
work last night to change the position
of every piece of machinery in the shop,
so that when the lumber is received at
the lower end of the shop in raw shape
it can be turned out of the upper end
ready for use for building purposes
Three different lines will be established
through the mill whereby the lumber
can be worked right through without
resorting to the different operations, at
present in vogue.
The night force will be relieved this
morning by one hundred men, and the
work will be carried on night and day
until finished. 1t is expected the
changes will be completed by Monday
morning. All the shafting will have to
be taken down and rearranged so that
the work can be done without any in
convenience.
Speaking of the opportunities at the
shops for better work, Mr. Garfield
said yesterday that the rank and file
of workmen employed by the company
are as good as can be found anywhere,
and it is his intention of putting the
shops in such shape that the greatest
amount Of work can be turned out in
the shortest space of time.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-29
WATSON AS MIDsHIPMAN.
Daring Feat of Dewey's Relief That
Excited Farragut's Admiration.
Letter IL the Sun.

Washington Letter IL the Sun.
The appointment of Rear Admiral
John Crittenden Watson to succeed to
the chief command of the American
squadron in the Philippines is an in
cident of more than ordinary interest.
Every officer in the naval service real
ICES how difficult it will be to succeed
Dewey.
"A thousand questions are likely to
arise" said Rear Admiral Jouett, L.
5. n, retired, "to perpleX and bedevil
the man who goes out to Manila as
Drwry's relief I've known Watson all
his life. He Is the son of DR.. Watson,
of Frankfort, Ky, and his mother was
the daughter Cf John j. Crittenden, Of
Kentucky, eN-attorney general of the
United States and ex-senator, a Union
man when it cost something to be n
Union man in kentucky. Watson is an
admirable compound in character of
cool courage in the hour of danger and
audacity. He will meet every trick
and stratagem Of the Filipinos with
one little better, and there is not a
frter man in the service for that most
difficult Manila detail than John Crit
tcnden Watson"
Admiral Watson was born at Frank
fort, KY, late in 1912. He is a nephew
of the late Major General Thomas l..
Crittenden, who commanded the Twen-
tieth Corps, U. S. A., and died shortly
after the war. Another uncle was Gem
eral George +. Crittenden, who went
South in 1861 and commanded a divis-
ion in the Confederate army. Watson
was appointed to Annapolis in 1867 in
his fftieth year In 1861, a passed mid
shipman, he was on the Hartford with
Farragut, and there won the friend
ship of the great Admiral by a feat of
| courage that was as necessary as ii
was daring. 1t was fine April morn
ing in 1862 when Farragut's fleet ran
by Forts Jackson and st. Philip on the
Mississippi river fifty-two miles below
New Orleans, The ships OF Farragut'a
fleet were all of wood, and Gen. Dun.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-29
New Zealand Railroads.

New Zealand's steam railways are
owned and operated by the govern
ment. Compared with American rail-
ways. they seem like toy railroads and
the man playing train" The locomo-
tive is queer and small. The engine
driver blows two loud blasts of the
locomotives whistle before starting,
much like a steamer. A large hand
bell at the stations is loudly rung prior
to the shriekS of the locomotives
whistle. The guard (conductoD walks
up and down the platform and says:
Take your seats-everybody take
seats" instead of "all aboard" after
which he blows a pocket whistle sig
ual, like some United States trolley car
conductors, and the train starts, but
does not go much faster than horses
slow pace. except down grade.
The train stops in the bush, and you
think an axle is broken or something
is wrong, probably a "hold-up" which
they call "stuck-up," but no, the stop
is merely to let the guard apply the
brakes. Why do they want the brakes
applied after stopping? Well, you see,
there is ahead of us a slight down
grade not very much, but enough to
could not apply all the brakes quick
enough SO they wait ten minutes for
him to do so. 1t is almost like stop
ping an OK team in pioneer days. Air
brakes are unknown, and the locomo-
tive has no bell, but must always
whistle.
The railway carriages have plain,
square, fiat board seat against the sides
nf f1,A .,.l,
leather cushion to sit upon. A few late
coaches have six to eight narrow re-
Versible seats. A solitary step. high
up, made of Cne piece of board, aids
the passenger to enter. The windows
are small and near the roof. Baggage
checking is unknown. You paste a label
on your baggage, they gather it up and
take it, but YOU must see that they
put it off at your destination and must
claim it in the general scramble before
some one helps himself TO it.
Letters posted in a mail car must pay
from 20 II cents extra, according to
their destination. No trains run at
night or on Sunday. Live stock can
not travel on Monday or Friday. The
cars for horses and cattle are called
carts, other freight cars are termed
wagons. They are built like packing
cases, and have no opening except the
missing roof, the door closing tightly.
They are scarcely one-fourth the size
of American cars.
There are no trolley cars in all Of
New Zealand, Notwithstanding popu-
latiOn of 10000 in Auckland and other
towns almost as large. They are
buses chiefly, and a few horse cars
called trans" On race days and other
events the busses quit their regular
routes and carry people from the center
of the town to the races and events,
leaving the residential section without
service.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-29

chases, and will not care If the price
be changed. for they are not likely to
buy again until there are more distinct
signs of a diminution of their stocks.
AT many places in the Western
states, where anthracite is used by q
portion of the people, there Is uni
versal outcry as to the price charged
this year, from consumers"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-29
Ladies Shoes and Oxfords.

60 pair Ladies' fine Tan Shoes,
cloth top, flexible sole; Queen Bess
$500 shoes cut to $1.98.
1876 pair Ladies' fine Tan Shoes,
worth from $1.5O to $3.50; cut to
98c., $l.29, $l.49 and $1.69.
l9 pair Ladies' Russet Shoes at
69c.
A8 pair Ladies' fine Kid Lace End
Button Turn Shoes, worth So, so; at
SLIGO.
72 pair Ladies' Cloth Top Button
Shoes, worth $1.75; at CSC.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-29

The vault OF this bank is pro-
tected by Holmes Electric Pro-
tective System.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-29
LIVE NEWS OF THE
INDUSTRIAL WORLD
CHANGES TO BE MADE IN LACK
AwANNA CAR SHOPS.

Machinery in the Shops Is to Be
Changed So as to Make 1t Possible
to Work to Better Advantage-Re-
view of the Coal Business-Month-
ly Reports of the Business Done by
Railroads-New Superintendent of
Police for the Lackawanna Road.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-29
Look at the Big Cut in Prices.

49 pairs Mems Russia Calf Good
year Welt, made TO sell at $4, cut to
S2.49.
SO pairs Mems Russia Calf Good
year Welt, all sizes, worth $4, cut to
$1.9S.
76 pairs Mems Russia Calf and
Vici Kid fine shoes, made to sell at
$3, cut to $1.49 and $1.69.
100 pair Mems husset Shoes,
worth $3.50; cut to csc.
1S pair Mems Goodyear Welt
Irish Linen Shoes and oxfords,
nearly all sizes, worth $500; cut to
$l.49.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-29
MYER DAVlDOW.
3O7 Lackawanna Avenue.
The
Cheapest Shoe Stors
in Scranton.
Big Sale Of Shoes Today Saturday

We Ptton the
stock Scranton This ompels make big sacrifice sale in
loss will be- We will shoes
bly, help it. Remember talks with
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10
MORTGAGE SALE.

BY virtue of the power of sale con
ferred in Il deed Of mortgage, executed to
me by ID. III. Olive and wife Emeline
Olive dated January 9th, 1894, and re-
corded in the Register of Deeds office
for Wake county in book 81, at page III.
] wifi sell at public cutlery at the court
house door in Raleigh, y. c., at II
o'clock nj. on Monday, September H.,
1890 to the highest bidder for cash the
following described real estate conveyed
in said mortgage.
First notwithstanding at hickory,
thence north 2Gla poles to a stake, thence
east 1912 poles to a rock i'll Eastman's
line, thence north S91a poles to stake
Eastman's corner, thence west ia poles
to a stake at the Trinity road, thence
south 10 degrees. west 80 poles to a
stake on the n. c.. r. r., thence with
railroad south rs degrees, east S912 poles
to the first station, containing 50 acres
| rod 10 poles, more or less.
Second djoining Needham
Jones, DIR. Cooks estate, Barber and
Olive and others, containing 6S acres
more or less.
w. ID. UPCHURCH,
Mortgage.
August 18th, 1899.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10
THE TEXTILE SCHOOL WITHOUT DELAY.

The executive committee of the Asri-
cultural and Mechanical College VIII
meet in Raleigh today to perfect plans
for the building of the textile department
of the college 1t viii be built without
delay and as soon as it is ready Tor
occupancy, this most important branch
Of instruction will be added TO the
practical courses offered to the youth
of the State.
The cotton milling industry is growing
rapidly in North Carolina. We are
already manufacturing all The cotton
raised on our farms, but most Of it
as yet is made only into warps and
yarns and is sold to Northern facto-
ries where it is converted into the fin
ished fabric. There will be other fac
tories to make yarns, but the develop
ment of the industry is along the line
of introducing more machinery that viii
make the higher priced fabrics. This
means employment for skilled labor and
when that demand is created, where is
the labor to come from? Shall we inn
port it from New England, or shall
we teach the youth of or STATE 10 be
able to fill the highest positions in cur
cotton mills?
The textile department of the A. and
NJ. College will not only enable mill OWL
ers to secure efficient employees. but II
will stimulate the building ard equip
ment of factories that VIII turn out
the highest priced cotton goods 70 be
found anywhere in the country. There
is no trouble now in raising money 70
begin any manufacturing enterprise
where the men of means .canzfnd a capa-
Bile man to take charge of it and where
they have faith that he will conduct it
successfully. The trouble with us hither-
to in North Carolina has been that we
had to look to the North Tor sHper'n-
tendents and skilled labor. When We
have skilled men to the manor born
who are ambitious to carry Oh A great
plant the money will be forthcoming.
The textile department at the A. and NJ.
College will hasten the coming of thae
day, and we are glad that it is 10 be
established without delay
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10
Spirit of the Press.
A DISAPPEARING PROBLEM
New York Journal.


New York Journal.
The lawsuit in which the Prudentlai
Insurance Company is defending its
right to discriminate against negroes in
the matter Of charges for assurances has
an important bearing upon the race ques-
tom in this country. There is no prejn-
dice in the company's position. II -
simple matter of business The rate o.
mortality among negroes is greater thah
among whites. and therefore il costs
more to insure their lives
Mr.. Hoffman, the statistician OF the
Prudential Company, estimates the ne
gro excess Of mortality at 30 per cent.
I hat il is very great has been uniYef,
sally recognized fact for many years. II
is especially marked in the cities, toward
which the negroes, like the whites are
necessarily gravitating The colored
population Of the great towns could mot
maintain itself if il were not constantly
recruited from the country. Thus every
city is sink in which the natural in
crease OF the negro race is drained away
and lost.
If these tendencies continue the color
ed population Of the whole country with
no immigration to reinforce ii, viii cease
to increase. and then will begin to de-
cline. II will gradually be suppanted
by the increasing white race, as rs even
now happening i'm Louisiana. where the
influx Of Italians has given white major
ties to several parishes that were for
merly heavily black. And then the phil
osophers who have been exploiting the
direful possibilities of the race prob
lem will have an opportunity to be trou-
bled over something else.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10
BETTER THAN REPUBLICAN OR CORPO a
TON RULE.

If Mr.. Bryan We're actuated by selfish
considerations he would not go to Ken
lucky. 1t would be good personal politics
for him to refuse to help the regular or
ganization i'm a contest that divides the
party But Mr.. Bryan KNOWS what ey-
erybody else knows, to wit: that if the
Republicans carry Kentucky this yea
they will fix the election machinery
so they can steal the electoral vote IL
1900 as they stole it in 1898, and it would
give them gold and trust United States
Senator for six years instead of j. G. ;.
Blackburn, the nominee of the regular
Democratic convention.
Goebel and Goebelism may not be en-
tirely to the liking of many Kentucky
Democrats, but it is wholesome and pure
compared to Republican rule or corpor-
alton domination.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10
Mrs, Joe Persons
REM
Raleigh, y. G., May 10, 1893.

Raleigh, y. G., May 10, 1893.
Mrs. Joe Person:
think your remedy wonderful. For
quite good many years | was troubled
with, ! suppose, letter on my hands
tried very many things, but to no good.
Finally / got some Of your Remedy,
about a year ago, and in one month my
hands were well. and have remained so
ever since. / would not have my hands
in the fix they were in before tried the
Remedy for a great deal, for | suffered
torture with them, and they are now
we'll I would wash and soak my hands
in quite warm water and CASTLE soap,
and then pour some Of the Remedy IN
one hand and wash them with it, and it
soon made a cure.
MRS. J. +. POOL.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10

The Asheville Citizen says it is whis-
pered that Gizzard French is to get part
of Miss Darby's salary as postmaster
at Wilmington. Gee Zee has way OF
doing that. When Hewitt was elect
ed sheriff Of New Hanover, Gee Zee was
the real officer and the general impress
sion is that he got most of the salary.
Since the day Gee Zee's transaction with
the Lttlefield ring brought him before
the Fraud Commission, he has been
standing example of the evils inflicted
by the Carpet Baggers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10
n. c. OFFICE HOLDERS STAND
ALONE.
Asheville Citizen.

A protest il coming mp from Cuba
against universal suffrage in that island.
1t is asserted that if all are allowed to
vote, black aud white alike, the result
will be another black republic like that
of IIayti with its perpetual commissions
and revolutions The claim is made
that there are 100000 negroes in Cuba.
30. 0e0 Spaniards, 125,0O0 white Cubans
and $4,000 claiming to be white. 1t is
said that all the negroes viii certainly
vote while many whites could not be re-
lied upon TO do so. The whole world i
opposed to negro domination save and
except North Carolina Republican office
holders. They are willing the negro
should control the ballots If they are al
lowed to hold the Offices.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10
THE APPETITE or A GOAT.

Is enviel by all poor dyspeptics whose
Stomach and Liver are out or order. All
such should know that DIR. Kings New
Life Pills the wonderful Stomach and
Liver Remedy, gives a splendid appetite,
sound digestion and a regular bodily
habit, that insures perfect health and
great energy. Only 25c. at all drug
stores.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10

The New Orleans Picayune says thai
the way to settle the negro question is tos
distribute them equally in every State
of the Union. The Wilmington Star APP
proves, but wants to know who will do
the distributing. ,yAiEl
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10

The proposition of the Philadelphi.
Times to bring the body of John Paul
Jones to the United States and bury
him at Arlington meets with general APP
proval. He was a true knight and hon
ored his country
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.
COBB & THOMAS CO.,
Sanford. N. q.

Hard and Soft Wood Mantels, Moula
lngs, Porch Columns and Turnings
Stairways, Interior finish for buildings
church work. ES1'mates Furnished
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10

The Boston Traveller, evidently does
not enthuse over having the Bakers IN
Boston, for speaking OF their coming it
says: "Hark, bark the dogs do bark;
the Bakers are coming to town" And
that is in Boston.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10

A woman should never invite Il man TO
perjure himself by asking him to guess
her age.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10

One of the best posted men in the
tobacco world in North Carolina in a
private letter says: Il am glad to see
the News and Observer express the pur
poses of the tobacco warehouse trust.
Its aim is to close up the North Caro-
lima tobacco markets if possible"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10

A live grasshopper will eat a dead
grasshopper. A Missouri farmer mixed
paris green and bran together and let
grasshopper eat it. He died. Twenty
ate him up. They died. Four hundred
ate those twenty, and they died. Eight
thousand ate those four hundred, and
they died. A hundred and sixty thou
sand ate those eight thousand, and died,
and the farmer was troubled no more.
In its flight from the Far West the name
of the statistician of this story has be-
come separated from his figures, but the
fact that the incident occurred m Mis-
souri, is regarded as evidence of It's pos
sibility.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10

The Lenoir News says the narrow
gauge road has not been sold. The OPP
tons given expired August LIST, and moth
ing developed.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10

Asked if the adoption of platform
by the Maryland Democrats that made
no reference to the Chicago platform
was a rebuke to Bryan, Mr.. james +.
Gorter, the Democratic State chairman
said: "Not in any sense. There was no
such intention. National questions We're
not considered. The real issue is: Shall
Maryland have a reform government?
We are dealing with our home affairs !"
That settles it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10

where big tax dodgers invoke govern
nert by injunction.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10
INEBRIETY.. DISEASE

Inebriety, morphine and other drug
addictions are dependent upon a diseased
condition of the nervous system. The
victim of the disease again and again
puts forth the most heroic efforts to re-
form. but his disease is too absolutely
oyerpowering to be conquered by reSo-
lutions. The will-power he would ex-
ercise if he could is no longer supreme.
Alcoholic stimulants have so congested
the delicate nerves that they cannot re-
spond to the performance of their func-
tional duties, and the helpiessness of the
victims condition is as ineXplicable to
himself as it seems ineXcusable to his
friends. The Kelley treatment cures
this disease by restoring the nerves to
a perfectly, healthy state. 1t cures by
removing the cause. The result is that
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10
GETTING IT IN The NECK,

The Louisville Dispatch says that the
Cigarette trust, which recently purchas-
ed the big Liggett, Myers Tobacco Co,
of St. Louis, has reduced the wages Of
pressmen and helpers from - to Sl.2o
per day. When the reduction was made.
the Tobacco Makers Union demanded
arbitration and were told there is moth
ing to arbitrate."
This is the beginning of what will hap
pen in all other factories after the trusts
feel certain of protection, if they re-elect
Mckinley in 1900. In fact it has already
happened in more trust factories than the
people know. Those employees, who fear
they cannot get employment elsewhere
are silent over the cut in wages that Is
attendant upon the success of trusts.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-10

in
nebety through Dr.
is
of
application to INSTITUTE, Greensboro. y O.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-09-27
Two For One.

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