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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-09

to be present, as have also several
members of the legislature, and men,
bers OF the State Board Of Charities
and committee on lunacy.
The convention will be called to or
der at 10 o'clock this morning by Presi-
dent Louis Tisch. of Wilkes-Barre, and
1t will be in session today tomorrow
and Thursday.
The Scranton delegation intend bring
ing before the meeting the subject Of
erecting suitable este blishment in
this vicinity for the benefit of feeble
minded children. AS has already been
pointed out in these columns, there are
only two institutions of this sort in
Pennsylvania, one of which is in the
southeastern and the other in the
western part of the state, and both of
which are SO crowded that it is impos-
sible for the local directors to secure
admittance for many Of the applicants
in this district, and for whom as re-
suit no provisions can be made.
The matter was spoken on at the
convention in Erie last year by Attor-
ney Scragg. 1t will now be prosecuted
with fresh vlgor, and efforts made to
bring bill before the legislature, pro-
viding for the building of a proper
asylum In Northeastern PENNSYLVANIA.
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FOREST CITY.
10 the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Forest City, Oct. S.-Stephen Carpen-
ter was on Saturday taken to the Moses
Taylor hospital in Scranton for treat
ment..
The Sunday evening service in the
Episcopal church now begins at Z
o'clock.
Monroe Westgate is visiting in Mid
dletown, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. W. Brown and son,
Harry. have been spending the past
week in New York city.
Ira Dunn and family have gone to
Glen Hazel, Elk county, for the WIN
ter.
Miss Lizzie Davis, of the public
school, was called to her home at
Hickory Grove last week, by the death
of brother
A farewell reception was rendered
Rev. ]. L. Williams and family in the
Baptist church Friday evening. They
go to their new home in Susquehanna
today.
Miss Sadie Hulloh has returned from
a four weeks visit to Montrose and
other places.
Lemuel Jones and Richard Gray have
gone into partnership in the barber
business.
The quarterly convention of District
No. !, Catholic Total Abstinence union,
was held in the Davis opera house Sun
day afternoon.
At the next regular election the peo-
pie of Forest City will be asked to vote
on the proposition to increase the bor-
ough Indebtedness $1,000 to obtain
money for the erection of borough
building.
large number of business men We're
In Scranton yesterday called there as
witnesses in the Ames- Knapp case,
which was scheduled for trial.
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HALLsTEAD.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Hallstead, Oct. S.-The Hallstead Re-
publican club will go to Binghamton
Thursday. accompanied by the Hal =
stead band, to participate in the
Broome county Republican rally. Spe-
cial excursion rates have been secured
on the railroads.
Mrs. B c. Read and daughter, Fan
ME, spent several days of last week as
the guests Of friends in Binghamton.
Mrs. Bruce Ross and daughter, Hazel,
were in Binghamton, Saturday.
Michael Hays, station agent at
Gouldsboro, has been home for several
days, suffering from sickness. He re-
turned to Gouldsboro Monday evening.
Mrs. George Van Fleet was in Bing-
hamton, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Lowe and
young son, of Binghamton, were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. M. S. Lowe,
over Sunday.
r. j. May, the efficient travelling fire.
man instructor on the De aware, Lack
awanna and Western, has been hon.
ored by the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen by his recent election to
the office of secretary Of the entire Or
der. Mr.. May has always worked in
the interest of the order and has won
the honor conferred upon him.
John 7. Richards, fireman on the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western,
who is now running with Engineer H.
S. Millar, was seriously hurt last week.
He was crossing the turntable in the
round house when he tripped and FELL
striking his head and inflicting a deep
and painful cut just above the eye. He
was sent to his boarding place at Mrs.
F. M. Kings, where the wound was
sewed up by a physician. He was con-
fined to the house from the effects Of
the injury.
j. F. Allen, of Heart Lake, was in
town Monday, and leased the Spring
farm of Hon. James T. Dubois. Mr.
A len will take possession of the farm
next spring.
Thursday evening number of DEM
ocrats assembled in Hooks hall and
organized Democratic club to carry
on the campaign in this vicinity this
fall. The officers elected We're: Presi-
dent, F. ]. Grattan; secretary, James
O'Neil; treasurer, James Tierney; gen.
eral committee, Great Bend, James
O'Neil and William Green; Hallstead,
Charles Sea es, Henry Smith, Michael
Russell P. ]. O'Neill, NJ. j. Carrigg,
Charles Cordess and Z. Alden. The
club will meet every Thursday and
Friday evenings at 7.3O p. M, in Hecks
hall,
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NORTHEASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA

wanna and Wyoming Musical Alliance.
An informal meeting. free to all. was
held last night. and some Of the work
mapped out. Prof. Bowman is Mere,
and will conduct the Alliance through
the week, and everything now looks as
IL this was going to be the largest and
most successful Alliance that has been
held. The Tribune Will contain q full
report Of the Alliance each day, and
the programmes of Thursday and Fri
days grand concerts will be published
in full. The Tribune may be obtained
at the Alliance each day, for the ac-
comodation of those vino are in at
tendance.
Mrs. Elizabeth Brutzman, Of Scran-
ton, is at the home of l.. d. Kemmerer
for ten days.
Mrs. Sarah Freeman is dangerously
i'll at the home of her son, near West
Nicholson.
Many visitors are in town this week,
attending the Musical Alliance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley NJ. Simrell
returned last night from their we'd
ding tour.
Mr. George e. Stanton was a busi-
ness visitor to Nicholson yesterday.
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olosy. Presbyterial officers for 1900
President, Miss May D. Strong, Pitts
ton. Pa: vice presidents. Mrs. Charles
Kirkpatrick, Scranton, Pa; Mrs. P. Fl.
Brooks, Wilkes-Barre, Pa: Mrs. H. 3.
Gaylord, Wyalusing. Pa: Miss Fannie
Reed, Montrosc, Pa; corresponding
secretary, Miss Mary Mates, scran-
ton, Pa; recording secretary, Miss
Nettie King, Dunmore. Pa: secretary
Of Freedmen, Mrs. j. V. Darling,
Wilkes-B Barre, Pa; secretary of litera-
ture, Miss Emily Reynolds, Kingston,
Pa; secretary of Young Peoples work,
Miss Virginia Welles, Wyalusing, Pa.
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SUICIDE IN HIS CHURCH.
Preacher Hanged Himself on the
Bell Rope, In His Daughters Sight.

BY Exclusive Wire from The Associated Press.
Jasper. Tenn. Oct. s.-Rev. B. l..
Pirtle, pastor Of the Cumberland Pres
byterian church, hanged himself on
the bell rope of his church this morn
ing. He was discouraged by the fall
ing away of his congregation during
his pastorate of less than a year.
II am no longer fit to preach" he
told his wife. This morning he went
to the church, taking his 5-year-old
girl with him. He went up In the or
gan loft. where the bell rope hung.
The child was left in the pew below.
The man fastened the bell rope about
his neck
Goodbye, Annie" he called; papa
Is going to swing" Then he jumped
off. A wild clang marked his leap.
Wondering, fearful, the little girl
watched the body of her father kick
ink spasmodically in the air while the
bell above rang out an unholy tri-
umph over a souls disgrace.
The villagers, alarmed at the racket,
rushed to the church. AS they entered
the bell had ceased to ring. Pirtle
was dead, Papa never would let me
swing on shat rope" said little Annie.
as they carried her from the church.
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STEAMSHIP ARRIVALS.

BY Exclusive Wire from The Associated Press.
New York, Oct. S'-!irrived: New YORK, fror
Southampton; Trave, from Bremen; Maasdam
Rotterdsn City OF Rome. Glasgow; Bowie, liv
erpool. Cleared: Belsravia, Hamburg; Amori
can, Amsterdam; Lain, Bremen via Southamp.
ton. Genoa--\uived: Kaiser wilhelm III, from
New York. Southampton-Arrve Kaiser Will
helm der Crosse, from New York for Bremen.
Liverpool-Arrved; Imbria, from New York,
Cherbourg Sailed; Deutschland (from Ham.
burg and Southampton, New York.
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PATRoLMEN REMEMBERED.
Thompson and Neuls' Energy In
Averting Accident Rewarded.

Some weeks ago one of the cars or
the Petersburg line of the Scranton
Railway COMPANY ran off the tracb
while coming down Mulberry street
Any serious accident to the passengers
was averted by the action of PATROL
men Thompson and Neuls, who pre-
vented any of the people on the car
from leaving their seats.
The two blue coats were yesterday
given a token Of the Scranton Railway
company's appreciation of their work.
Stephen Dyer. in behalf of the COM
pany, presented each of them with $40.
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Heller's Testimony.

Albert Heller, living at 1ll4 Farnham
ST., Omaha, says: II have tried most
every thing that is used as pre-
ventive or cure for headache, but moth
ing did me SO much good as krause's
Headache Capsules. Others who have
used them say the same thing" Price
95c Sold by Matthew Bros. 70
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.

At ST. Louis (frst game> II. II. =.
Iittsburg .,.,.. ...2 o o 2 q y CO II
st, Louis ..,,,.....,.O 0 o o 0 0 o O o.
Batteries-WaddeR- and thinner; Jones ana
Criger. umpire-Emse.
At st, Louis (seoond game)-- n. II.
Pttsburg ..,... ..,,.2 o O0Ol 1913 -
ST. Louis .............2 o 0 0 0 o 0 O--2
Batteries-Tannehlll and Zmmer Sudhof and
Cricti. unpire-Emslie.
At Chicag, (frst game)- x II. H.
Cincinnati ....., ...4 $3.50 l-l3 II
Chicago ...,. .,.,,,l 0 0002 l o. I l3 10
Batteries-IIahn and Kahoe; Menefee and Don
ohue. umpireo'Day.
At Chicago (second game) r. II, f.
Cincinnati .............01 1l0i15o IL
Chicago 1890, 100000 000l-l
Batteries-Phillips and kahoe; Taylor saa
Dexter. umpire-O'Day.
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sUsQUEHANNA COUNTY.
Al to the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna, Oct. S.-The forty
hours devotion will begin in st. Johns
Catholic church on Sunday morning
next.
In Beebe park. on Saturday after
noon, the Great Bend club defeated the
Susquehanna club, to 6. The game
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-09
AVoCA.

The Protective Taxpayers associa-
ton will meet this evening.
The general committee of the Primi-
tive Methodist Pennsylvania confer
ence will convene in the Avoca Primi-
tive Methodist church today. A large
number of ministers are expected. In
the evening Rev. w. Fl. Acornley will
preach. All are invited.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church will meet on
Thursday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Charles Smith. of Dupont.
]. H. Anderson is purchasing goods
in New York city.
The Avoca and Langcliffe Coal COM
panies have posted notices of the ten
per cent. advance. The local unions
will meet this evening to elect dele
gates to the convention to be held on
Friday.
Last evening. David, the seventeen
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. David
Brown, of the North End, was perhaps
fatally injured last evening, while
jumping on cars on the Erie and wy
oming road. Besides broken leg. he is
suffering from several ugly contusions.
DR.. Berge is the attending physician.
Lawrence Morahan, Thomas Ridgel-
ly and Simon Queeney came in from
Beaumont on Saturday to spend Sun
day with their families.
Mrs. j. H, Anderson and daughter,
Kate. have returned from White Ha-
ven, after spending several days there.
Clair Hollister and Fred Woodwork
have embarked into the general mer-
chandise business at Carbondale.
u Ion
la, are visiting friends in Williamsport.
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To Cure a Gold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
let's. All druggists refund the money
II 1t fails to cure. +. w. Groves sig
nature Is on each box. 25o ~
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Many Thanks.

II wish to express my thanks to the
manufacturers of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. for
having put on the market such a won-
derful medicine" says w. W. Massin-
gill. of Beaumont, Texas. There are
many thousands of mothers whose
children have been saved from attacks
of dysentery and cholera infantum
who must also feel thankful 1t is for
sale by all druggists. Matthews Bros,
wholesale and retail agents. w
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-05-28
HOUSE-CLEANING NOTES.
rhe blinds ana Wood-Wo should
BE Thoroughly Busted and
washed Before Painting.

After the furniture and carpets OF
room have been removed and the cell
ingand walls have been brushed down,
the first task is to clean the blinds
and woodwork of the room.
The best way to clean the blinds,
saws the New York Tribune, is to
thoroughly dust them and then wipe
them, if they are inside blinds, or
wash them off if they are outside
blinds. Outside blinds must be taken
off and carried to tub of water after
as much dust as possible has been
brushed off outdoors. Use a stout
whiskbroom to scrub them with, and
wash and wipe them dry, using clean
cold water without soap or soap pow
der. Sometimes little ammonia
about a tablespoonful TO pail of wa
ter-is dissolved in the water in which
outside blinds are washed. Inside
blinds, if finished in varnish. are sim
ply wiped free from dust.
If the woodwork of the room is in
hardwood finish. dust it and wipe it
off with a cloth dampened with kero-
sene oil. Paint should be busted first,
then wiped of in clear water, in
which q little ammonia has been
mixed, unless it Is soiled enough to
need sczubbing in places; in that case
use a brush and a little household
soap and warm water, and rinse the
naint of with clear. cold water and
wipe IL dry with a soft cloth kept for
the purpose. Coarse sand soaps viii
take of the paint. and should not be
used on woodwork. In the kitchen
and other places where the woodwork
is very much soiled 3 little soap pow.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-05-28
sTRAIGHT-FRONT cORsETs.
They Have Led to the New Figure
That IL Now So widely
Popular.

The stralght-front corset is very
conspicuous in the shops just now, and
that it is worn to a large extent is
shown by the figures Of smart women,
whose gowns are cut in the latest mode
to agree with these stays.
Within the memory Of most of us,
says the St. Louis Republic, who have
arrived at years Of discretion the APP
pearance OF the female form divine has
changed at least three, times. We are
constantly startled by news that waists
and hips are to be worn smaller or
larger, an announcement that is
coupled with other anatomical intelli-
gence, but these are merely slight al
terations that are dictated by the fash
ions Of the day and are not to be con.
sidered; the three noted, however, were
SO great as to be worthy of attention.
The women of our mothers day had
small waists and large busts and hips.
Often the waist was quite out of pro-
portion to the shoulders, and the belts
worn, if they showed any deviations at
all, were slightly higher in front than
in the back.
The slanting waist line was entirely
unknown.
With it, when it was introduced,
came larger waist and hips and low
er bust.
Now artists and dressmakers declare
we have reached the ideal because the
natural figure The shoulders are
broad, the waist proportionate in size,
and slanting in front, the line from
bust to waist is straight, and the form
er is low and not displaced by high cor
sets, such as were once worn.
The hips are not unnaturally large,
but are left free by the short stays. Al
together, there is no necessity for dis
comfort nowadays, for even the phys
ical culturists could hardly find fault
with the flexible silken girdles, slightly
boned for they are little more-worn
as corsets by the up-to-date maid, nor
can the "new" figure be harshly criti-
cised, it's too graceful and normal to
Justify animadversions.
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PARISIAN PASTIMES.
why the Citizen Of Paris Is More
Given to Pastimes Than
to sports.

in his series Of papers on Paris OF
To-day 1Ir. Richard Whiteing writes
in the Century Of ..'Parisian Pastimes." :"
The Partisan is, he declares, more given
to pastimes than to sports.
The distinction is, in his view, that
pastimes are made for man, whereas
man is notoriously made for sports. He
carries a sport as far as it may go,
for sheer amusement, and stops there.
All the rest-that tends to the ideal
perfection of the athlete he counts but
labor and sorrow. This is in har-
mony with his entire outlook Of life.
He is mainly sociable in his amuse-
ments, rather than mainly competi-
tive.
They have made many laudable at
tempts to acclimatize football, and
have taken a beating, at regular in
.tervals, from one Of the English visit
ing teams. If they do not succeed in
this as well as they might, it is in
part to be imputed to them as merit.
AS persons of taste, they have'a great
horror Of "brutaHte" in sport. "We do
not want to turn these French lads
into English ones" cries M. Ribot, in
his important work on educational re-
form published the other day. Rough
sports do not suit. our race, more re-
fined in its vigeur elegante than that OF
the Anglo-Saxon." In the last resort,
they usually fail to see why they should
suffer for their enjoyments, and they
sicken with disgust, rather than with
fear, when the dhooli bearers and the
surgeons follow the teams into the foot
ball field.
This is the French note, always the
touch of elegance, and this is why
certain association with fashion" is
of the essence of French sport. Tt does
not, like the English sport, usually be-
gin among the people retaining some
thing of the primitive wildness of its
origin; or, if it does it is always trying
to mount select circles. Football will
take long time to reach the French
masses. Their instincts know not the
stern joy Of the scrimmage. For all
their combativeness, they regard life
as progression, an orderly develop
menf, not as battle and a march. For
this sport, as for most of the others
that involve danger, we must wait on
the upper classes. They have imported
football and polo and what not, and
have done their best TO tame them into
diversions fit for a man who values a
whole skin.
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der or soap dissolved in fot/water may
be necessary to get it clean. In. that
case clean the paint by degrees. After
scrubbing off small portion rinse
and wipe it dry so that the soapy
water may not lie on the paint any
appreciabie time ard soften it. Take
care to observe the satpe order in
cleaning the woodwork ofa room that
you do in cleaning the wallis and clean
the upper portions first. Clean the
paint as far as possible in the direc-
tion of the grain of the wood as the
painter has painted it. Unless the
work has been done in an EXCEPTIONAL
ly fine manner this is readily de-
tected.
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less than "A certificates were absolute
ly indispensable, and Suzanne, as well
as her fiance, was Obliged 10 show
in default of their parents presence or
written consent: First. her fathers
death certificate; second, her mothers
death certificate; third, her fathers
fathers death certificate; fourth her
fathers mothers death certificate;
fifth, her mothers fathers death GER
tificate; sixth, her mothers mothers
death certificate; seventh, her own
birth certificate. Several months
elapsed before all these papers could
be got together.
When at last all was ready Suzanne
B. appeared at the marie and, in.
lquired when she might be married.
'Have you the consent OF your con
sell de familie?" (family council, which
regulates the affairs Of orphans and
minors) was the question. NO. My
parents died intestate." Then you
can't be legally married" "But have
no conseil de familie." "Well, then, get
one as soon as possible, was the re-
ply. And poor Suzanne was forced to
write to all her relatives in all cor
ners Of France-many of whom she
had never even seen-and ask them tc
come up to Paris to form conseil de
familie After much expense, worry
and trouble, not to speak Of lawyers
fees, etc, the various members of the
conseil de familie were at last col
lected together to give their consent
to the marriage of Suzanne and Henri
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-05-28
FEW ELoPEMENTs IN FRANCE.
Parental Consent Required No Matter
what the Age of Com
tracing Parties.

Elopements are Of very infrequent
occurrence in France, 2 fact that Is due
in large measure to the popularity Of
the French law pertaining to mar
riages. Not only must the contracting
parties-up to any age-have the writ
ten consent Of their parents. but alsoin
case Of the death Of their parents they
must obtain the consent of their
grandparents. Here is a case. says an
exchange. instanced by correspond
ent whose friend Suzanne B. was
engaged to Henri s.. Both were or
phans. set il was several months be-
fore the ceremony could be performed
because Of the number Of papers and
certificates which were necessary for
fhe celebration Of their nuptials. No
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