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to be her boundaries forever. Mark my
words, and they are not idle, Russia Will
say mo" emphatically.
There was a tendency throughout
South Africa among the Dutch to try
and smooth down differences between
the English and Dutch in order to unite
and bring about an arrangement where's
by they could become one South African
nation, although the English followed a
depressing policy from the beginning.
Instead Of trying to unite the two races
she executed a partial policy. and the
Dutch had for a long time no representa-
tive on the jury now in parliament in the
Cape Colony.
If the minerals had not been discov-
cred England would never have deemed
the country worth while having and
would have been glad If the Beers were
annihilated by the powerful barbarian
tribes.
The capitalists. of whom Mr.. Rhodes
was the leader, backed by the present
foreign colonial policy of England. con-
spired against the republic and organ
lied the Johannesburg rebellion and
Jameson raid under a pretense that the
laws of the TransVaal We're unsatisfac-
tory.
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RUSSIA WILL STOP
THE CRUEL WAR.
SHE IS AFTER TRADE AND HER
POLICY DEMANDS IMMEDI-
ATE PEACE IN THE
TRANSVAAL.
By p. Louter Vessels, Special Agent
South African Republic.

There are two reasons why England
will never q US. One Is that ten
Tommy Atkinses are no more than a
match for one Boer. The skirmishes of
the wal prove this. AS we can mobi-
lie $780, 900 men easily, it means Eng
Ian would have to send $4,000, 600 SOL
diers to be IN even terms with US in
point of men.
Besides, we would lave the advantage
in being on the defensive in our own
country nobly fortified by nature, to say
nothing of the many pitfalls we ourselves
have digged.
Secondly. the war will be ended in six
months. This may sound strange, con-
sidertng the present British advances
and the reports sent out by England
from South Africa. But it is true.
And the war will be ended by the
withdrawal Of British troops from the
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an English candidate in the raad. He
represents the town of Bloemfontein.
where there was quite Il number Of En-
glish people. and it was this class who
welcomed Roberts troops.
Our losses to date are not over 5000
killed, wounded and prisoners, including
General Cronje's surrendered command
of 4,520 men. The English losses in kill
ed, wounded and prisoners 's over 20. 900
men. This is true, notwithstanding the
English reports. l know it.
The English generals pervert the truth,
enlarge English successes and expand
Boer reverses for political ends. We
have English telegraph operators at the
Cape in our pay and know the real situ-
alton. I
We are constantly getting more am
munition in substantial lots. We have
just placed an order for $50. 900 pounds
of ammunition. This will need a ship,
and we may not receive it. But we have
enough anyway.
RUSSIA AFTER TRADE, TOO.
Russia wants the South African trade
as much as England. She has a policy
of commercial expansion as we'll as Eng
land. The barren Arctic regions are not
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FREE STATE UNDIVIDED.

The fall of Bloemfontein has not much
of significance, and that Frazer and a
few officials delivered the keys of the
town over does not indicate that our Free
State Beers We're divided. Frazer was
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electric light franchises, gas franchises,
street railway franchises, telephone fran
chises and any other franchises which in
Volve the use of the streets, which belong
to the entire people.
1t is common knowledge that private
corporations applying for these fran
chises endeavor to secure the privileges
of charging rates high enough to re-
turn dividends of a large per cent, upon
not only the capital actually invested in
the plant itself, but also upon large
quantities of water, capitalization.
The movement for municipal ownership
of public utilities surely means some
thing. 1t has grown with amazing rapid
ity. In fact. in a large number of our best
cities it is the controlling issues in NUM-
cipal politics.
It's further growth ann be checked
so long as private corporations, made up
of men to whom the public have a right
to look as examples of integrity, employ
all sorts of questionable methods to Sc
cure franchises, permitting them to
charge eXorbitant prices for public SER
vice, such as light, We t. and transporta-
ton. The sentiment for municipal own
ership is a natural result of the abuse Of
the franchise privileges by private COM
panies.
People are coming to believe tina avar-
ice and greed and ambition to make mon
ey will always rule in the management Of
these quaSi-public enterprises.
For that reason the sentiment for mu-
nicipal ownership is loked upon as a per-
manent thing. In other words, it makes
people believe hat it will lever be pcs
slble to get the same good results out OF
these public utilities, for the benefit OF the
entire people, under private ownership as
under public ownership.
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Aade similar observations, which con-
frmed his theory of a region of storms
at a great distance above the earth.
1t appears certain hat these storms
must have a great influence on those
which occur near the earth. and the prob
lem is one that is now interesting as
trononers and men of science.
These distant clouds, however, are not
the ones with which practical weather
observation is chiefly concerned. The
observation of clouds at the height of
a mile and a half or two miles confirms
the Indications of the barometer and
often forestalls them. 1t is not rare for
the formation of the clouds to indicate
rain when the barometer still points to
fair. The clouds are now studied from
the first phase of their evolution when
one cannot observe Il drop of moisture,
to their complete development, when
they appea like black curtains darken-
ing the earth.
Clouds have long been classified. The
latest and most complete classification
is that of the meteorologists Erck, Ian
and Singer.
The cirrus are feathery flamented
clouds, white and light, and float in the
high regions of the atmosphere at
heights which vary from four to six
miles. They are composed of CONCEALED
vapors.
According to the observers, the first
cirrus show themselves several days be-
fore bad weather and generally enough
40 hour before the curtain of rainy
clouds commences to develop on the hori-
zon, where it takes the form of a snowy
bank, and from which it extends with
wv over the whole of the visible
sky.
The cirrus are the despair of painters,
but photography, that powerful and new
auxiliary of all meteorological observa-
tions, has been able to catch them.
The cirro-stratus are yeil-like clouds
which form a white layer of considera-
BILE extent, of a very close texture. Their
movement is slow.
This veil, which floats in the same re-
gion as the cirrus. indicates bad weather
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the moon those ing which are an UNI
failing indication of bad weather.

very near at hand. II gives tne sun anu
the moon those rings which are an I'M
failing indication of bad weather.
BEFORE THE STORM.
But before this the sky becomes
charged with small flying clouds, or
scuds, which form at the respectable
height of $4,000 feet. These are called
c~irrO-cumuluS.
Then the weather gets very threaten
ing. Another sort of cloud, thick n
altogether black, gives the sun or the
moon a different ring this time not lumi-
nous, but leaden. These are the alto
stratus clouds.
The alto-stratus clouds, which soon APP
pear, mak a dappled sky, composed of
round patches-white, gray and dark,
and often s. close together that their
edges touch. This class is not found
higher than 5000 feet from the earth, n
often at 5000 and 5000 feet. 1t is the ad-
vance guard of the downpour.
The s~trato-cumulus give the idea of a
the place between the cloud
and a cloud mantle. One sees in them
great gray masses and often deeper
colOrS edged with white. They are found
as low as 800 feet above the earth.
The stratus make either a thin, uni
form curtain or a system of flat clouds,
not changing their form and floating
pretty near the earth.
AT last we arrive at the zone where the
actual production of rain. snow. hail and
storm takes place. One form there to be
observed is the nimbus, a cloud with torn
edges, a reservoir from which rain and
snow fall in a persistent manner.
The nimbus are beneficial clouds,
watering the earth, or dropping gentle
snow fakes, but the cumulu are the pre-
cursors of violent storms. They are
swollen, rotund, with distinct edges, n
form in a large group, throwing heavy
shadows on one another. They are very
decorative.
The cumulo-nimbus clouds produce the
storm. They contain torrents of rain,
hail and thunder. When they appear
near the earth everything becomes silent.
The birds hide their heads, certain sem
sitive plants close, and man feels the
general uneasiness.
All clouds. however, do not bring forth
rain. hail and thunder. There are those
which appear only formed to d to the
splendor of nature. There are white
clouds of whipped cream form, which
appear at noon on a fine summers day.
Usually those of a cumulus form, which
are seen distinctly on a blue sky, do not
mean trouble. But if their edges are
ragged and spread out. a depression in
the barometer will occur, and heavy per-
sistent rain will fall.
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THIS IS'THE MONTH
OF TORNADOES.
PREDICTIONS ARE, THAT THE
Widest STORMS OF WIND
AND RAIN WILL SWEEP
OVER THE COUNTRY.

April and May are the months of tor
nadoes. The frightful wind storms which
sweep over towns, leaving open gaping
spaces where, one minute before, stood
dwellings, occur more frequently in the
spring than in the fall.
While not a great deal can be done to
prevent such climatic ca~tastrophies. 1T is
evident that we cannot afford to neglect
the study of CLIQUE and winds.
Astronomers have recently made some
astonishing discoveries concerning the
clouds. These discoveries indicate that
there is a region of the atmosphere far
beyond the altitude of which human life
is possible, that terrible storms occur in
this region and that by observing the
character and movements of the clouds
forming them much assistance may be
obtained in f~orecasting the weather.
The atmosphere does not, of course,
stop at the point where it is SO rarefed
that our weak lungs cannot endure it.
Higher there is a gaseous, humid layer
in which it is said, sthe floating stars be-
come
This region, which it has required
thousands and thousands of centuries to
form, is, according to some observers,
composed of earthly matter raised to a
height of a hundred miles or more. Be-
tween the two layers of the limit of the
respirable air and the gaseous region
everything appears empty and dead. But
1t is here, however, that storms take
place of a violence of which we can V
no idea on he surface of the earth, and
which move witt a swiftness comparable
to that of sound. -
SUN THROUGH CLOUDS.
These curious and astonishing observa-
tions are new. They began in 1885, when
the astronomer Jesse drew public atten-
ton to the fact that certain clouds con-
tinue to be lighted by the sun when the
highest Mountains are plunged in dark
ness. This indicates that the clouds are
immensely higher than the mountains.
Jesse, who made some photographs of
these clouds, places them So miles above
the earth, or bou II higher han Mount
Blanc. On one occasion he observed
these clouds moving in a southwesterly
direction at a rate of about 1000 feet a
second. Several times afterward he
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occasions are extremely pleasant ones,
fraught with fur and interest, and if
managed properly they are not expen-
slVe. Not every one can have a fancy
dress ball, equal to that given by Mrs.
Bradley-Martin in New York four years
ago, at which the costumes cost, on a
rough estimate, a cool million, one Of
the guests carrying a jeweled sword
but all can do something pleasant, in
a moderate way.
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From the camphor trunk there cam
be brought out n of the big sleeved
bodieces of a few seasons past, and il
to this is attached a very tall wired
lace collar, there will be an E~lizabethan
bodices of a few seasons past, and if
becoming. This can be done at small
expense.
A very long necklace Of beads can be
strung around the neck and to the
front can be hung a big pendant
HELEN GREY-PAGE,
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ders in round reveres that were faced
with heavy thread lace and opened over
a plastron of silk appliqued with lace.
There We're straps of the ribbon cording
over the shoulders arranged so that they
formed a finish for the small epaulettes
of silk and lace.
The belt was a simple design in crush
ed blue and lilac taffeta piped along the
edges with ribbon velvet.
a pale lilac leghorn trimmed with blue
silk chrysanthemums completed the toll
cite. HELEN GREY-PAGE.
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pearance Of silk as concerns lustre and
coloring, and possess an advantage that
silk does not, in that they can be laun-
dered.
They are also adapted to every fancy
OF the mode. Your correspondent writes
of one particular afternoon gown that
was carried out in pastel blue and pale
hlac silk Bingham. The skirt had a silk
lining of blu taffeta and was laid in
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-05

graduated plaits all around the figure.
n plaits were very narrow at the
waist-line, being hardly more than tucks.
The skirt opened to the knees at the
front, showing the lustrous lining, and
was bound with a trimming of pale blue
and lilac ribbon twisted with velvet rib
bon to form a handsome cord.
The bodice turned back from the Shout
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-05
A SILK BINGHAM.

There is scarcely a p~rettier fabric,
even among the expensive materials,
than the silk ~ginghams which are used
to develop summer W for afternoon
wear. These ginghams have every ap.
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A N DRESS PARTY.

Here is a suggestion for the fancy
dress parties which are given the next
weeks after Easter. These little
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morrow

morrow.
1t is the intention of the republican
forces not to force a big decisive battle
if it may be prevented, but they hope
to harass and impede General Lord Rob
erts' advance on Pretoria, so that he will
be still many miles away when Russia's
intervention does come.
The first big battle Of h war, If it
cannot be avoided under President Kru-
gers policy, I m informed will be near
Wynburg. The exact place Is undeter-
mined, of course, owing to Lord Rob-
erts' route northward being unknown to
US. And, of course, I would not tell the
exact place. as it would convey most
valuable information to the English
generals.
l will say however. that, despite the
English reports of Boer retreat, Lord
Roberts will find a most considerable
body of men opposed to him not far
from Wynburg.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-24

The ladies of the Young Women's
Christian association of South Scranton
have been greatly annoyed Of late, dur
ing their entertainments, by gang OF
rowdies who congregate on the outside
for the sole purpose of making a nuis-
ance. The parties are known, and IL
the nuisance is not abated, arrests may
follow.
A horse belonging to Michael Gilroy,
the Maple street blacksmith, while
standing in front of Helreigels black
smith shop, on Cedar avenue, last
night, was frightened by being hit with
a stone thrown by child, and dashed
up Cedar avenue and up Birch street
but South Side hills are even too much
for horses, and by the time Stone ave-
nue. was reached the animal was tired
Of the game, and was easily caught.
No damage was done.
David Jones, of West Scranton, has
taken charge of George Hartman's bar
ber shop, on Cedar avenue, and will
run 1t until that young man has recov-
cred from his injury, received Sunday
Frantz-Joseph Diemunsch of Locust
| street, who died Monday evening aged
| 8 years. was buried yesterday in Ger
man Catholic cemetery. Services by
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-24
TOLD IN BRIEF.

The home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis G..
Bowen, Of Wayne avenue, is a very sad
one, owing to the illness OF four chill
dren with diphtheria. The youngest
child died Sunday. The funeral was
held Tuesday and was private. The
three other children are still very sick,
but 1T is hoped for their recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Atlas, of
Court street, entertained a number o.
friends Monday evening IN honor of
Miss Anna Atlas.
The First Ward Republican club held
we'll attended meeting last night in
LOTUS hall. 1t was unanimously de-
cided that the club should refrain from
giving it's support to any especial can
didate between now and the primaries.
Rev. j. r. Jones, of Pontypridd,
South Wales, will preach in the Pur-
itan Congregational church this even
ing.
Next Monday evening Rev. ]. NJ.
Lloyd, Of New Castle, Pa, will de-
liver a lecture In the First Welsh
Baptist church on West Market street.
Mr.. Lloyd will speak on the subject,
"The Congregational Hitch-Up, or
Pulling Together"
Albert Floyd, a member of Battery
A. Second light artillery, returned
home from Cuba Tuesday on n fur
! Tough, after an absence of seventeen
| months. He has been stationed at
Commotos.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-24
CONVINCING PROOF
The Average Scranton Citizen
Must Accept the Fol.
lowing Proof

The great Sir Isaac Newton, one Of
the most profound reasoners the world
ever produced, once cut large hole
In board fence to allow favorite cat
access to two gardens, and cut small
er hole to allow her kitten to follow
her. The weakness manifested in Sir
Isaac's action was due to want of
thought. Any reader who mentally de-
bates the proof offered here about
Doan's Kidney Pills and arrives at
any other conclusion than that stated
In this citizens statement. Is as short
OF reasoning powers as the philosopher
when he turned carpenter.
Mr.. Thomas Daley, a miner of 121
Fillmore avenue, says mo one knows
how much I suffered. / could not lift
anything. My back hurt every time i
stooped and often 1t seemed to break
in two. l read Of a person who lives
| around here having been cured by TAX
ing Doan's Kidney Pills, so 1 got them
at Matthews Bros drug store. The
| first box helped me so much / contin-
| ued the treatment until had taken
six boxes in ALL They fixed me UP all
| right and did me an immense amount
OF good, so that I recommended them
| to all whom l hear complaining of
bachache or other kidney troubles"
For sale by all dealers. Price, 80
cents. Foster-Mlburn Co., Buffalo, N.
] Y. Sole agents for the United States
Remember the name, DOAN'S, and
take no substitute.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-24
GATHERED In
SOUTH SCRANTON
REHEARSAL OF THE MAENNER-
CHOIR LAST NIGHT.
Was Conducted by Prof. Arthur
Classen, Musical Director of the
Coming Brooklyn Saengerfest.
Bowling Match Between Scranton
Bowling Club and the Elks Won
by the Forner-Exciting Run
away Last Night-other News
Notes and Personals.

Professor Arthur Classen, musical
director of the coming Brooklyn
Saengerfest, and leader of the famous
Brooklyn Orion society, directed the
rehearsal of the Junger Maennerchor
last night in Germania hall. Profess
sor Classen is really director Of di-
rectors, and IN his capacity as direc-
tor of the Brooklyn Saengerfest, he
visits the different societies belonging
to that organization and directs the
music as it is to be rendered in the
united choruses at the coming saeng-
erfest.
He is a born director, and as he
leads q body of singers the slightest
deviation from the right note never
escapes his attention, therefore the
Junger Maennerchor sang as it never
sang before, and rendered "Wacht auf
es taget" and cause an die Heimat'
in superb manner. The, songs re-
hearsed were written by Professor
Classen, and are the ores which will
be sung at the grand concert held in
Music hall May 20. The following are
the songs: "Mutterliebe," Der Bande,"
"Das Alte Mullerchen," "Fahrwohl'
and I'm elmer Sturmnacht."
After the rehearsal the Maennerchor
| boys were congratulated by the pro-
fessor on the manner in which the
songs We're rendered. Professor
Classen has been visiting the societies
in T:eading, Allentown. and Wilkes
Barre, and left on the midnight train
for New York
During the afternoon, a committee
consisting Of Alfred Gutheinz. Gus
Reppert and William Ziesmer took him
around the city, over the boulevard
and around Lake Scranton.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-24

Rev. William Davis, who has assumed
the pastorate of the Bellevue Welsh
congregational church, was rendered a
1attering reception last evening by the
members of his church and congrega
tion and the Welsh ministers of the
city. Many people from other churches
were also present and extended cor
dial welcome to the new pastor and his
family.
The exercises were presided over by
Morgan James, who made a few brief
Introductory remarks. All of the speak
ers spoke in the Welsh language. Will
lam II. Harris and loan James repre-
sented the young people of the church,
and the pastors who spoke were Rev.
William Morgan Rev. David Jones,
Rev. b. |. Evans, Rev. d. Z. Jones,
Rev. T.. r. Lewis. Rev. d. ID. Hopkins,
Rev d. c. Phillips and Rev. Hugh
Davis.
Ebenezer GrifIiths represented the
church, and Rev. Davis feelingly re
sponded and thanked all for the kindly
welcome and interest felt in him, a
comparative stranger among them.
Benjamin Beddoe, the venerable deacon
of the First Welsh Baptist church,
offered a fervent prayer, and the meet
ing terminated with the singing OF
America"
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Welded AT ST. PATRICK's.

The marriage of David Powell. Of
Stone avenue, and Miss Rose Coggins,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Cog
gins, of Eynon street, was solemnized
at st. Patrick's church at IL o'clock
yesterday morning. Miss Tessa Cog
gins, sister of the bride, was brides
maid and Charles Davis was the
groomsman.
The bride was attired in a gown of
crepon, trimmed in lace, and carried a
bouquet of tea roses, and the brides
maid wore white organdie, trimmed in
ribbon and lace, and also carried a
bouquet of tea roses.
After the ceremony a reception was
held at the home Of the brides par
ents, and Mr.. and Mrs. Powell left on
the 2.1O train for Buffalo, Niagara Falls
and other western points. They will
reside in their newly furnished home
on Stone avenue, South Scranton.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-24
MRS. WILLIAMS BURIED.

The remains of the late Mrs. d. r
Williams arrived in the city at
o'clock yesterday afternoon and were
met at the LackaHanna station by
Funeral Director Price and taken to
the Plymouth Congregational church,
where many sorrOwing friends and rel
atives assembled TO ettend the SER
vices.
Rev. F. A. Boyl, pastor of the
church, was in charge OF the obsequies,
and he was assisted by Rev. David
Jones, of the First Welsh Congrega-
tional church, and Rev. r. s. Jones,
of North Scranton The pall-bearers
were A. Il. Eynon, Morgan r. Daniels,
David T.. Hughes, Elias Z. Evans,
Reese Reese and w. j. Morgan. Bur-
ial was made in the Washburn Street
cemetery.