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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-11-17

OF soldiers suffering from consump-
ton, Dr.. Appel says that twelve cases
Of incipient consumption have been
completely cured in the last year and
that q forthcoming report which he
will make to the government Will con-
tain statistics which will startle tho
medical world. The treatment at this
Institution consists simply Of outdoor
life and work. Such a showing prom
Uses much for the success Of the sani-
tarium Which5iss to be erected in the
Adfrondacks.n
REWRITING to the same topic the
Brooklyn Eagle also calls attention to
the great benefit to consumptives Of
the clear dry air of Arizona, which.
It believes, will become a vast santa
rum for this disease:
1T has certain advantages over
California, in that 1t Is less populous,
and the disease is therefore less likely
to be carried to others who are now in
health; it is warmer and there is less
possibility of chill from dew and rain;
the average altitude is high, and
though. we are apt to think of it as a
desert region, it contains large tracts
Of evergreen forest, the balsamy odorz
of which are especially grateful to suf-
ferers with lung troubles and doubt
less have a healing influence as well.
THE city makes the consumptives, and
1.-The country heals them. The country
Ealso makes them when there is lack
of Intelligence, as there is in all those
homes in which the windows are clos
ed that the Jul and air may not en-.
ter and In those places where wells
are SO dug as to. receive the drainage
Of closets and barnyards. At the ses
level the air is heavy, and the lung:
are not filed, but in q high plateau o.
mountain country the air, being thin
ner, calls for a greater pulmonary ao
tivity on the part of those VIII
breathe it. In order to secure tn
same amount of oxygen as at oceaz
level, twice the seeming quantity o
air has to be inhaled"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-11-17
GETTING ACQUAINTED.
aeally what She wanted Was to
Borrow the Tack Hamnacr Q =

5alEhHftt IE TN a~Ha
aeally what she Wanted Was to
Borrow the Tack Hammer for =
While.
A young woman OF Washington birth
and rearing. who has made her home
for these three years in a small q
ana town. says that for tact and di-
plomacy. she knows nothing equal to
her neighbOrs there. She a scarcely
settled herself in her new home. when
one day she heard a hen proudly cack-
ling in her back yard. She went u
to see what could have brought Q
strange hen into her yard, and found
that the fowl had just laid an 8 IN
the woodshed outside the kitchen door.
While she was still wondering where
on earth the creature had come from.
the shock head of a thin and tall girl
Of twelve rose from the yard of the
house next door.
"Hello!" said the girl.
Good morning" answered n
Washingtonian.
I'VE got plenty o. eggs" remarked
the girl. Nav says you can have
that one our hen jes' laid In that wood
box o. yourn."
THANK you very much.". said h
Washingtcnian.
The girl still hung on the fence.
I'VE amt goin' to charge you noth-
in for It," she said.
That's very kind, indeed replied
the new neighbor. s..
Its a gift" remarked the girl.
Then there was a silence for q few
moments. The girl still chung to the
side OF the fence. r
Say she said, finally, "maw says
now you're acquainted with US folk
she'd like to borrow a tack hammer
Washington Post.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-11-17

Not little that II Interesting about
consumption has appeared ID the
newspapers OF late, the discussion Of,
the subject having been actuated by
the activity Of health authorities in
different parts Of the country. Both
Boston, Mass, and Trenton, N. j..
have tried to isolate consumptives un-
der certain quarantine regulations,
the idea being whenever a case Of con-
sumption Is reported to the board,
to examine the patient and his sur
roundings, and, II circumstances war
rant it, to remove the patient to a
public institution. The Buffalo Times
says OF this:
The Importance Of forcing scientif-
lc treatment of consumptives when
left in their homes, which is probably
the real meaning of the new orders
issued in Boston, is evident form the
reports from various institutions
where such treatment is applied. In
the first annual report Of the ,Massa-
chusetts State Hospital for Consump-
tives. which was opened in october,
1898, it Is shown that Of PIP cases of
all degrees that were treated, 30.97 per
cent were discharged after an average
stay OF four months, with the disease
arrested, which some. authorities take
to mean cured; ::46.10 per cent were
discharged as improved, and 21.23 per
cent were recorded as not improved.
OF those who were discharged as ar
rested, a very large percentage went
to the institution when in the early
stages Of the disease. The records OF
another sanitarium show that of 1,20C
patients treated during the last fl
teen years, % per cent were discharg'
ed as cured, Sc per cent were discharg.
ed with the disease arrested, and Is
per cent were discharged with the
disease stationary. Only a few days
ago a similar glowing report camt
from DIR. Appel, the physician II
charge Of the government %sanitariun
at Fort Bayard, N. NJ. for the benefI
HMl 80 LL ELH - L F-- g.. #L
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-11-17
LONG N GUNS.
Lessons Taught Othsr Nations. "
Boer Artillerymen.

Good Lessons Taught Ottsr Nations. I.
the Boer Artillerymen.
r,.n.. !. an EFFORT being made in
$3.50 a,,,nt,,as - turn the lasson
u.nelent oe.... 80 = 1raat \,
OF tne ns s W. = :,
constructing % lneleaseu
range. Ine boers go .tnelr sIeaeel
range not % naYlne SUPERIOR suns
but .by sievating tne mugs, g s b.
Enslish iouno q 2 tns no 1919
turned captured Ensllsn sums upon
them. Ine Ansllsn cannol ~ q
9 as the boer cannon au9 wen 'm ~.
sle was sven eoual eleva.lon: nl ~
pom. remain .nas .as Dos.s
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-11-17
did not expect more of paradise than

did not expect more of paradise than
that.
She would have liked to marry a
prince, or a millionaire, or something
of the sort, but, as q fate Of that kind
was manifestly improbable, she accept
ed the fool, with mental reservations.
women generally have mental reser-
vations about matters Of the sort. She
was pretty, and in society, and who
knows what may turn up? So, their
engagement was not definite. Besides.
he approved Of long engagements.
People ought to know n another
thoroughly before marrying" he had
said. And all the time he went on
loving her, blindly.
The time came when he vas to
drain the cup of bitterness to the
dregs, and Of course, she caused it.
There came into her life a man from
one of the great cities. Everybody
said he was immensely wealthy. and
| upon the strength Of this, society re-
ceived him with open arms. However,
nobody knew definitely, every person
had heard 1t from someone else. He
talked a good deal about his yacht,
and his horses and his summer home
in the Adirondacks. He was hand
some, and unmarried, and seemed to
greatly fancy her. She was ecstatic
| over his attention-he was the incar-
nation Of the mental reservation she
made when she accepted the fool, and
she resolved that II feminine ingenu-
ity could drag him to the altar, he
should tread with her the aisle which
leads thereto.
When the stranger wal we'll headed
in that direction, and was being lead
docilly, he administered the coup
de grace to the fool. He was thrown
aside with about as much regret as an
old hat is consigned to the ash barrel.
His unfaltering devotion, his knightly
reverence, his steadfast love all went
for naught. and with that touch Of
iendishness which makes people. de-
light in hurting those who love them.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-11-17
Too Rich to Spell.

IT. WISH" said Mrs. Parvenue to her
daughters teacher. ''that you would
drop spelling from the list OF Janet's
studies.""
Drop spelling!" exclaimed the sur.
prised teacher. ""Why?"
'It is 80 common" replied Mrs. Par
venue. Everybody learns to SPELL
but your daughter will need the
knowledge protested, the teacher.
shs,n need II for her correspondence
and \ IS :sgasss
Enough" interrupted Mrs. Parve-
nue.. haughtily.T Evidently you can-.
not rise above the common level, My
daughter will move IN the upper circles
Of society. and viii. be rich enough to
have a private SECRETARY TO write any
thing that she does not wish to have
engraved. I do not wish to have her
time wasted: Chicago Times-EIerald.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-11-17
Domestic Servants Of
Male Sex Call Them
selves Experts,

when they have finished their courses.
Why should not such an innovation as
this alleviate or perhaps even solve
the difficulty? Men do housework
well; it may be that there are many
boys who would gladly fit themselves.
Indeed one reads In reports of cook
Ing classes in city schools and in regu-
lar cooking and housekeeping schools
OF boys taking the same lessons, and
doing quite as we'll as the girls. And
Just to consider the possibility, de-
lightful happenings II such q thing
should be as men taking it up! The
dif1culty Of moving the piano when
necessity arises would be done away
with; the man-of-all-work would be,on
hand to strap the trunks and thus save
the worry about the expressman not
being on time; he could put up the
wire clothesline when At cones down
clean the %stoyepipes and thaw cut
frozen pipes when the plumber for
gets to come and go out in the even
ing after the doctor, and perhaps, II
very handy, move, the shrubs. "A glori-
Gus vista of things" accomplished
rises before the minds eye. On the
other hand, would there not rise a
cry over the encroachments of man;
his striving to push women out Of their
time-honored occupation; his grasping
disposition and forgetfulness of the
properties of life, and the duties of
sex; il the shoe were on the other
foot? What Is wanted is the "orra
man. advertised for In every Scottish
newspaper-the nan to do odd jobs
about the honse and farm.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-11-17

At this season of
the year mostly
e well-regu-
lated farm in the
apple regions pre-
sents a scene not
unlike that sketch
ed herewith. The
apple n of the
United States is al
most twice as
large this year
than ever before.
1t would seem as
If the supply had
come in direct an
swer to the de-
mand. Apples
have within the
past few years be-
come one Of our
leading articles of
export. Russia,
Germany, Holland
and England are
the chief pur-
chasers.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-11-17

Beers produced a great moral effect
upon the British by landing shells at
distances the British batteries could
not cover. hut they seldom madeshits.
They were content to demoralize their
foe by subjecting him to a fire he
could not reply to. At Ladysmith, for
example, there were q fer good shots
at extreme ranges, so that the loss Of
life caused BY cannot fire from great
distances was trifirg,a AS the range
increases the chance OF missing like
wise increases. q very small error III.
the aim being multiplied more and
more the farther the shot goes. At
nineteen miles 1t IS hard to believe.
that one shot In . thousand would hit
an object no bigger than Z house.
Baltimore Sun.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-11-17
Gnnns,l,s Now Presldent.

I4E2S.EGS1kA0u0s SN0W 33DA060Tss aA 70 E}tEa
Prof. Frank X. Sanders, who has.
just been elected president Of Grin
nell College, Iowa, has been Woolsey
professor Of biblical literature In Yale
for four years. Professor Sanders was
bornsin India, His parents were mis-
sionaries. whoSdied In the field after
9 heroic life struggle. He received his
college education at Ripon College.
Wisconsin. graduating there ID 1872
He spent the next four years insssIndiai
as ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS college, return
Ing to- Yale as q graduate student in
1886. Ins1ss9[ he was appointed to- tho
Yale faculty g anSanstructor.
EEA Gaelic Service Il
Ia the chapel Of the Marble Collie
giate church, New York, Rev. Donald
MacDougall, q native ~ the Scotch
highlands. whoSwas educated a Yales
and Princeton, conducts service IN
Gaelic every Sunday afternoon.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24
LrFE.sAv1No EXHIBITION.
Order of Exercises to Be Given After
the Parade.

The following order of exercises will
be carried out by the Life-Saving corps
Of the William Connell Hose company,
under the direction of CAPTAIN s. A.
Simrell. at the conclusion Of this after
Moons parade, about 345 o'clock:
I. Building a chain Of ladders to roof by w.
Alplarnlp, fred Sullivan and Ernest sim'el.
9. Making rescue from roof standing OH silis,
J. A. Fincke and William Reilly rcscuihg wal
ter Quick, j. Murray and b. J. Burke.
3. Taking line of hose to roof standing on sills.
Waited Alplanalp and John Connell.
4. Rescue from fourth floor, standing on stills,
william Reilly rcscuing Walter Quick y. Murray
and J. McCraw
s. Rescue from roof with chain ladders, j.
f,ncke. win Reilly and John Connell rcscuing
B. Burke, w. Quick. Ernest Simrcll, John Me.
Graw, Walter Alpanalp, Fred Sullivan and j..
Murray.
@. Rcscung comrades by use Of life line, by H.
Eurkc and Fred sullivan.
:. Using life line gun as means Of rescue by
Captain S. A. Simrcl.
s. Rescue with ordinary ladder showing how
0. Raising large ladder 10 roof
10. Showing how life net is used as means
Of rescue. viii Reilly, Fred Sullivan, Walter
Quick and Lieutenant John NIct'raw will Jump
from the third floor and Richard Farrell will
leap from the roof.
The exhibition. will be given at the
Raub building on Spruce street.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24
PERSONAL.

On Monday daughter was born to Judge and
Mrs. j. =. Kelly, of Madison avenue.
Mrs. l.. p. Gross and daughter Gertrude, left
yesterday morning for New York to attend the
marriage OF Mrs. Gross sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Van Worncr of Por-
Jervis, are visiting at the home OF their daug!I.
ter, Mrs. Adcl More, OF Ridge Row.
Lieutenant Colonel B. r. Russell. who is in
charge OF the marine recruiting district which
embraces Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey
and Ohio was in the city Yesterday paying his
weekly visit to the local station.
Percy r. Frichey, the well known trick cy.
alist of this city. was married in Brooklyn, y.
", Oct. 4. to Miss Mlclinc Iunncll. OF Erie.
Pa. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Thco.
dorc Baker, ID. D., pastor of the First Baptist
church of Brooklyn.
The wedding Of DR.. Henry lIalpcrt, of Linden
street, and Miss Eyalinc Morris. of Washington
avenue, will take place today noon 1t will he
solcmnized at the Scranton Bicycle club house
and will be of private. family nature. Rev.
DIR. Salzman, of Wilkes Barre, will he in charge
OF the services, as the local congregation is at
present without minister. Dinner will be
served at the conclusion of the ceremony, and
Bauer's orchestra will be in attendance
The wedding of Winfield Hartley Fellows, of
Philadelphia, and Miss Frances Belle Kennedy,
OF 534 Adams avenue, will take place today
noon at the Elm Park Methodist Episcopal
church. DIR. c. NJ. Gfin, pastor of the church,
will perform the ceremony. Mr.. Fellows is the
son of John II. Fellows, of West Scranton, and
is very well known in this city, while his wife
to-be is popular young lady of the central
city. At the close of the ceremony the couple
will leave for Washington, D. C.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

its in the reform movement now agt-
tating this city and he made bold as
sertions last night regarding the COR
rupton which, he says, exists in this
city.
He began his address by explaining
how the blending of the practical and
spiritual makes mans life what it
should be. He said that while things
may be judged by many standards.
that, nevertheless, back of them all is
the only proper standard, the religious
standard.
He emphasized the fact that a
theoretical religion is absolutely use
less unless it shows itself in right
conduct. "If man simply uses his
jaw to tell about his religion" said he,
II don't want to hear him, but if he
is practically pious l will listen to him
respectfully"
After discussing at some length the
great variety of duties which confront
the citizen of a large city such as
Scranton, he told of the great number
of laws made necessary to properly
curb crime and keep the lawless ele-
ment in check. Continuing, he said:
TO KEEP DOWN THE BAD.
A good law is. in my opinion, a good thing
to keep down the bad l believe that nearly all
the law passed by the Legislatures of the Chris
tian commonwealth of this country are good
laws. There may be some detective laws in
some states, hut not in Pennsylvania in
time. When laws are made it is the practical
duty of rght-minded Christian men to see
that they are kept.
When a man lives indiferently and carelessly
where corruption hoursles and raises not his
hand voice to render assistance in seeing
that existing laws are enforced that man, I
say, is not Christian.
Municipalities need good deal OF reform and
a good deal of it is needed in Scranton. One
OF the first things that has to be done in this
city is the dclverancc OF a great mass Of the
people out of the ignorance in which they are
now dwelling. They have been, and are being,
tyrannized over by a certain class of political
bosses who make them think that they (thc
boSses) have rights which they have not at ALL
These people are being forced by ward con.
stables to pay certain amount because the
constable leads them to believe that he can
protect them il they violate any of the written
laws of the state This ignorance that prevails
is reflected in the men these people send to
council to represent them.
TIE GRlER CASE.
Last week upon the witness stand an ex.presi.
dent OF the common council of this city, who
has represented his ward for twelve years, and
who was on trial for bribery, couldn't state one
English sentence that child of twelve could
not have corrected for its bad grammar lie
couldn't speak grammatically to save his life
man who cannot speak an English sentence
correctly ought to be reformed out OF the city
and should not be sent to councils
The vast amount OF crime in this city may
be traced largely to the COrrlption of the ron.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24
PUSHING WORK ON
TELEPHONE SYSTEM
Switchboard Is Here and Will Be
Put in Place in a Few Days.
Stringing the Wires.

About sixty employees OF the Lacka-
wanna Telephone company We're at
work all yesterday throughout the
city, working on the telephone poles
on which tfe cross arms We're placed.
the spike steps driven in, and the
wiring done. The work is being prose-
cuted with extreme activity, and the
company expects to have everything
in readiness for business by about
November Is. Telephones are being
daily installed in houses in the cen-
trail city and a temporary service ar
ranged.
Yesterday afternoon the pole men,
wire men and laborers began work
at the poles on Washington avenue.
running all the way from Vine street
Green Ridge. The new switchboard
has been received and workmen are
daily expected. who will begin the
work of erecting it. The board is Of
the most modern make, and does
away with all batteries, generators
and bell handles in the houses of
the subscribers. The mere act of lift
ing the ear phone connects with the
exchange. Each subscriber PRACTICAL
ly has a private line. and cannot be
disturbed while using it,
The company has already secured
about fifteen hundred subscribers In
this city, and at Wilkes-Barre the
number of subscribers has so in
creased that it was found necessary
last week to install two additional
sections to the switch board. There
will be no additional charge for COM
munication from Scranton to Carbon
dale or Wilkes Barre.
The company is making preparations
here for very extensive work and for
use in the central city has forty -eight
conduits. Each of these Is three
inches in diameter and has a capacity
of holding lead covered cable con-
sisting of two hundred and fifty pairs
of copper wires. Twenty-eight like
conduits are used by the company for
supplying other parts of the city.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24
GRIER JURY HAS
NOT Yet AGREED
Went Into Court in the Afternoon
and Asked to Have Portions Of
the Testimony Read.

Up to late hour last night the jury
in the case of James j. Grier had not
reached an agreement. 1t retired at
O'Clock Monday afternoon.
About the court house yesterday the
opinion was quite general that there
would be n disagreement.
Late in the afternoon the jurors sent
note to Judge Edwards, informing
him that they wanted certain portions
of the testimony read to them. He had
the jurors brought into No. 9. where
the portions with reference to the let
ter that Harris sent to Grer We're read
to them at their request by Stenog-
rapher Willis Coston. Judge Edwards
made no comment whatever.
1t is with reference to this letter that
the case largely turns. The letter is
undated, but Grier alleges that he got
it on May s and in response called on
Harris on May 9 and received the $40.
The detective AYERS that the letter was
not written until May II, which would
destroy the theory that when Grier got
this letter he conceived the plan Of
trapping Harris and went to the Ru-
dolph and accepted the money.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24
WILD DASH OF TWO CARS.
Ran Away on the Mountain Side and
Crashed Into a House,

Two empty fiat cars ran away on the
Spring Brook Water company's branch
road, early yesterday morning, and
after dashing down the mountain for
seven miles, jumped the tracks at a
curve on the outskirts of Moosic,
ploughed through field for distance
of about hundred feet and brought
up against the corner of a dwelling
house. occupied by C. S. Broadhead and
owned by Mrs. Il. l. Grover
The momentum was so greatly re-
duced by the trip across the soft aeld
that the collision did comparatively
little damage to the house. A hole was
knocked in the siding, the dishes
broken in the pantry and pictures
knocked from the wall. The family
was given a bad scare. Had the cars
continued to the terminal in the heart
of the village and then jumped the
track, the consequences might have
been serious.
The cars are used for hauling sup
plies to the company's dams. They
We're standing on the track, when an
engine backed into them, and 1t is sup
posed Jared their brakes loose.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

few inches in diameter. Just as her
foot slipped the cavity suddenly EN-
larged, and in moment she was en-
gulfed in what had become yawning
pit. She fell thrtyfive feet, and her
loud shrieks. partially smothered by
the earth which crushed her down.
were heard by three men who Nassed
by.
They ran to her assistance, secured
ropes. and threw them down to Mrs.
Cabbos. She tied them about her waist
and was soon drawn to the surface.
She is siXty-eight years of age, and
the shock to her system proved a seri-
Gus one. Her back was severely in
jured and she was badly bruised about
the head.
The Lackawanna hospital was noti-
fed, but on the arrival of the ambu-
lance Mrs. Cabbos had already been
removed to her home, and physician
summoned. Mrs. Cabbos is a Bohe-
mian.