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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09
Hope for Consumptiyes.

"\HE mountain hospital So
- called, or rather, the cottage
u colony for the treatment
- and cure of consumptives,
on Green Mountain In the range ex-
tending eastward Of White Haven and
Wilkes Barre, is now TO be materialz-
ed into actual existence. As Tribune
readers. know. from our full report a
few weeks ago, the work of the as
sociation which planned this mountain
sanitarium has been sufficiently fruit
full In results. though carried on in
city environments, to more than justify
the founding of such a sanitarium.
The recently adjourned legislature ap-
propriated.. the necessary sum for
foundi4 4s~ the hospital and assuring its
perma fence.
The farmhouse on the selected site
will form the nucleus or the hospital,
and tents for patients will be pitched
near that for the present season. The
work Of building an administration
building will be presently begun and
that of cottages will follow. In using
tents the hospital colony will be carry
Ing out the same plan of life for those
with threatened or incipient lung
troubles that-as we have already not
ed-will. under the supervision of
Forestry Commissioner Dr. J. T. Roth
rock. be made available in the states
Pike county forest reserve.
This is substantially the same system
~s method OF outdoor life and treat
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

better 10 he crook than a crank. a knave than
fool about expresses the moral sense Of the
American man on the street" The end Of such
morality must eventually be that the man who ia
not crook is a crank who is not knsve is a
fool The business trickster, the literary trick.
ster. the medical trckster, the legal trickster--
We accept them all as "all right II only they
win out" by trickery OF the crook or fraud
or fake in any department Of life we say, "oh,
yes but he gets the dough, and that settles IT,
The man who protests agsins the doctrine is a
crank or a calamity howler. The man who be.
lieves in the integrity OF motive of anybody is
called "softy." When one utters a fne senti.
ment the query.response is: whats in II for
himi" All the crowd demands is, that a man
get there" and then II nonors him. blinking the
means by which he succeeds. How much longer
this will continue none can say. We only know
that the crowd is morally atrophicd. The reign
Of the smart men is on VS., which means that
those reigned over are fools
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

Times. 1t asks us four
questions in !, rambling
kind Of way and, while they are Of no
particular importance, we proceed to
answer them in the order of their ask
Ing:
ID Do we approve of the ripper law?
AS applied 10 Scranton. we do. It has
given the city an administration gen.
orally satisfactory to the people and
destined, we believe, to he better liked
the older it grows.
90 Do we approve of the Focht and
Emery street railway bills? We do.
They make rapid transit a possibility
and afford means of securing in this
city street railway service that will
fulfil public requirements.
(3) Do we approve of the candidacy
of Rothermel for district attorney Of
Philadelphia? We are not Worrying
about it. II is Wanamakerism over
again and while picturesque is not like
ly to be formidable.
tD Do we approve of the ripping Of
Colonel Hitchcock? We do not. Nor
of the ripping of his predecessor. Frank
Clemons. And we call the Times at
tention to the fact that the man who
ripped them is ripping no more.
Anything else?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

ment that has restored many such
patients in the Adrondacks and in
the high pleateaus Of New Mexico and
Arizona. 1t is becoming every year
more thoroughly understood that con-
sumption, taken early, is a durable
disease, and that even in much later
stages can be ameliorated, and life
prolonged for usefulness.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

1t is announced that the site chosen
for the ST. Louis exposition of 1908. in
centennial commemoration of Jeffer-
sons addition of an empire to the
United States. is a most beautiful one.
But We beg leave to remark that If
the exposition is to cover the usual
six months. from May l to October 81,
in that hottest of cities. there will be
a great mistake made.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09
THE PLAIN TRUTH.
rom the Wilkes. Barre Record.

From the Wilkes Barre Record.
The ingenuity of man never has devised and
never will devise system under which elections
primary or general, will he honest unless ahSo.
lutoy honest men can he secured to hold the
elections and make the returns Honest election
are possible under any system, however simple
crude. provided honest men serve on the elec.
tion boards. That is a simple fact, plainly stated
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09
is THIS TRUEp
From the St. Louis Mirror.

From the 81. Louis Mrror.
We are coming to the point at which we are
prone to forgive anything to anyone II only the
vile things that he does are done viii ceyerness
and courage, We admire the robbers nerve"
We like the brains that can cook up law that
will leeslize steal We like a plunderer Of the
public II he can Jolly us along with funny story,
We are positively daft in our admiration of that
ability which We publicly say is "misdireeted 4"
We are carrying our regard for brains too far,
when we accept any evil thing with tolerance
solely because it shows clever brain work. "Its
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

The Pekin deadlock, as all have sus-
pected. comes from the fact that nearly
every foreign minister in the city has
insisted upon being the whole adminis-
tration rather than a representative of
his governmnnt
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

proclamation indicates that the pres
ent Oklahoma boom will he unattended
by shotgun duels and desert steamer"
races over the neWly-acnuired lands.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09
The Tendency Toward Suicide.

"HAT SUICIDE is on the in
crease is a fact well estab-
II lished. Although accurate
statistics of suicide for the
United States as whole have never
been compiled, DR.. F. S. Crum, of East
orange, ~ j.. has collected figures
covering 80 years in FIVE American
cities and they are instructive:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

south African war news will prob
ably have to occupy an unimportant
corner for few days. until we learn
what the golf players are doing.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

I'VE forget because we must and
not because we will" wrote Matthew
Arnold. The ever-crowding events of
daily life left few people in all the land
save the surviving near and dear Of
the one hundred and seventy-one VIC
TINS of the awful Hoboken pier fire
of June go 1900 to remember that call
amity when the first anniversary Of
the awful calamity came. The North
German Lloyd Steamship company.
however, was one of those who remem-
hered the victims. A granite monu-
ment erected to their memory was
dedicated on Sunday at Flower Hill
cemetery. North Bergen. with fitting
ceremonial. In the plot all hut twen-
ty-two Of those who lost their lives in
that terrible fire are buried. The
names of the twenty-five are on the
bronze tablet with the others. It is
well they should he so given memorial.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09
FINLEY'S s
Midsummer
Clearance of
ScaSOnablc
Merchandise

Experience teaches
US the necessity of
cleaning up all resi-
due stocks at the end
of each season, To
thoroughly and ef-
fectively accomplish
this in the most ex.
peditious manner we
have placed a clear
ance price on every
item of merchandise
of a summerish char
acter, and cut the
price so deep that we
feel assured our ex-
pectations will be
quickly realized. To
make this sale still
more attractive we
make a general re.
duction throughout
the entire store, offer
ing an unusual op'
portunity to secure
reliable goods much
under actual value,
eSn 80
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

thing is done to make easier the noe
turnal searchings of the uninitiated.
one Of these days a similar agitation
VIII develop in Scranton and then
councils will have trouble.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

Mr.. Cleveland. whose letter to The
Tribune we published yesterday, Is
very angry at us for quoting the Off
Cial report read in the British par
lament, showing the enormous num-
Der of deaths in the reconcentrado
camps established by the British gem
eral in South Africa, and into which
he has crowded the Boer non-com-
batants, an official report that has
stirred indignation throughout Eng
land Mr.. Cleveland asks whether it
were better to leave the Boer women
and children to starve on the farms
or to feed them in the camps" The
English people, now that they have
begun to find out what their general
and armies in South Africa are doing,
do not regard the matter in the op-
timistic light our correspondent pre-
fers. The results of feeding them In
camps" S told by the official des III
lists, Is evidently not accepted by
people at home as either necessary or
in anywise redoundng to the national
honor.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09
SCRANTON, JULY ., 1901.

1r.Colonel wint should see fit 10 swim
river or two. General Funston will do
well to look out for his laurels.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

1t begins to look as though the prom
ising element known as liquid air"
would never be available for family
use.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

The "how-does -this-wea her suit you
man roamed about unrestricted yester
day.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09
An Historic Landmark.

~ TIE beautiful city parks in
Philadelphia, laid out In
~ Penn's original plan for the
city and carefully held for the
people ever since. Logan Square is rhe
one made memorable by being the site
of the fair, in June. 1854 of the United
states Sanitary commission. For
period of twenty days under the heavy
canopies stretched from one to another
of the magnificent trees that make
the park glorious the place was
thronged. The net proceeds came to
N,Ol0976. on the 10th of June the fair
was visited by President and Mrs.
Lincoln. The announcement is now
made that Logan Square has been
selected by councils as the site for
a monument to the soldiers and sailors
of the war for the union. and it IL
also, most fittingly, proposed to erect
there tablet commemorative of the
great fair and of President Lincoln's
presence there.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

The agitation for Illuminated street
signs visible at night continues in
New York and will go on until some-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

for cards of thanks, resolutions of coincidence
ana similar contributions in the nature Of ad.
ver'ising The Tribune makes charge Of 5 cents
line.
Rates for Classified Advertising furnished on
IMPLICATION
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09
To Aid Working Girls.

THAT THE ong-continued
practice of medicine tends TO
Il inculcate rational ideas of
humanity and TO genera tn
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09
Questions and Answers.

w YE ARE always glad to i'm
\N/ part information to the
Times. IT asks us four
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

was going to tell you about the
bull fight in Old Mexico, but it is too
late. H, G. p.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

.\HE mountain hospital So
X called, or rather, the cottage
Il colony for the treatment
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

THE FLAT RATE FOR ADVERTISING.
The following table shows the price per inch
zach insertion, space to he used within one year
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-09-05
Ulcers, open or obstinate sores, scalds
and piles. quickly cured by banner salve
the most healing medicine in the world
A. II Roberts.
Public Sale.


Having sold our farm We will sell at
Public Auction at our farm l-2 miles
west Of Audubon, IL mile west and l
mile south Of the Douglas Center school
house. Section %, Douglas township on
TUESDAY SEPT. 10 'Ol.
Commencing at 10 o'clock a. m. the
following property: 6 head OF horses,
36 head Of cattle. consisting Of two mich
cows, one fresh soon; Is heifers with
calf, eight yearling steers, 6 calves and
2 bulls. "A head good hogs, 10 acres
OF Germ in field, IS tons hay. l corn
planter. disc, 3 cultivators-2 as good as
new. 2 3-section harrows lG-inch and
I l4-inch plows, two lumber wagons. 2
sets double harness, saddle. house.
hold goods and numerous other articles
Usual tsrms.
CHRIS NELSON PETER +. NIssEN
AUCrIoNEER Hans p. NIssEN
JOHN EsBEcK
CLERK
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-09-05
A Host Liberal Offer.

All our farmer readers should take
advantage Of the unprecedented club
bing offer We this year make, which in.
cludes with this paper the Iowa Home
stead, itsspecial Farmers Institute.
Editions and the Poultry Farmer.
These three publications are the best
OF their class and should be in every
farm home. To them we add, for To-
cal, county and general news, our own
paper, and make the price Of the four
one year only $l.45. Never before
was SO much superior rerding matter
offered for SO small an amount Of mon
|ey. The three papers named, which
we club with our own, are we'll known
throughout the west and commend
themselves to the readers favorable at
tention upon mention. The Iowa
Homestead is the great agricultural
and live stock paper Of the west; the
Poultry farmer is the most practical
poultry paper for the farmer, while
the special Farmers Institute Editions
are the most practical publications for
the promotion OF good farming ever
published. Take advantage Of this
great offer, as it will hold good for q
short time only. Samples Of these
papers may be examined by calling al
this Office.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-09-05
A Methodist Protests.

From tile Sac sun.
The ministers and others IN atten-
dance at the meeting of the Ida Grove
district conference last week who saw
at to 60 ont Of their way to adopt a
resolution against the republican nom
inee for governor, probably do not
represent the sentiment Of one-fifth OF
the voters who are members of the
Methodist Episcopal church in the ter
ritory Of the conference. The impro-
priety Of religious body made up Of
members Of many political beliefs max
ing any such declaration, seems not
to have occurred to the brethren here
assembled. Their action injuries nc
candidate, but it does iniure the
church, which they appear to be re.
garding as political institution. Al
. republican. pleased with thu republi
can nominee. the writer would regret
to see his candidacy Endorsed by any
other society not political in its charac
ter, because such action would be mo-
only misleading but also unjust to the
society who did not when they
joined expect to be made the tools O
any political Organization. Likewis.
Is q member Of the church misrepre.
sented BY the action at Kingsley, the
writer protests against any insinuatior
that It 10 engaged in politics.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-09-05
cuRES o. cnReNlc DlARanoeA AFTeRrulery YEARS
SufFee1N0.

II suffered for thirty years with diar-
rhoea and thought ! was past being
cured, says John S. Holloway, of French
camp, Miss. II had spent so much time
and money and suffered 30 much that
had given mp all hopes of recovery.
Twas so feeble from the effects of the
diarrlioea that could do no kind of
labor, could not even travel, but by &C.
cident was permitted to find u bottle
ofIchamberIain's cholera collie and Diar.
rhoea Remedy, and after taking several
bottles l am entirely cured of that
trouble. am so pleased with the result
that am anxious that it he In reach
OF all who suffer az have" For sale
BY +. Frick and son.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-09-05

Now that the conventions for 1901
have been held candidates for next year
are being groomed. That's the beauty
Of the situation which Titus wanted to
change. We are solemnly assured by
Eighth district Republican papers that
Hepburn will have no opposition for .
denomination, that Lacey's troubles in
the Sixth are mostly imaginary, and
that there viii be hot fights In the
Seventh and Eleventh districts against
Hull and Lot Thomas. II ID also limited
that the state is to be redistricted 90 q
to cut Judge Conner out of the Tenth
and give Tom Healy chance to dis
tinguish himself. So far we have heard
no intimation that there il any aspiring
politician in the Ninth district who feels
like announcing his intention at this
time to run against Hon. Walter I.
Smith. Our present congressman, II
his record during his FIRST session Is TO
pc taken Is criterion, ought to be good
for term Of service limited only BY
his desire to serve the district. Red
Oak Express.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-09-05

The sage Of the Sioux, Hon. Geo.
d. Perkins, in his incompatible Sioux
City Journal, is having q lot of fun.
He is now noting how Ed. G. Brown,
our candidate for Rail Road Commits.
sioner, advises that there are no state
questions at issue and asks that atten.
ton be given to national questions,
such rs government in the Philippines,
SO that we may get fairly ready for the
next years campaign. As Mr.. Brown
was identified in the pre-conveutior
campaign with those who we're in
sisting that state issues demanded at.
tention, the change is diverting. How
ever, it looks we'll to see the republi-
can psrty's record Endorsed by all par
ties and all classes.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-09-05

Gov. Shaw has been announced by
Senator Dolliver as candidate for the
presidential nomination in 1904. 1t is
early yet and the whirligig of sentiment
may bring around several changes be-
fore then, but We believe Gov. Shaw
has those qualities which will wear well
and that when the time comes be will
be strong factor in the problem Of
possibilities. He is perhaps the best
known today Of any governor in the
United States. He is a man Of great
mental resources, is original, and has
the quality Of being close in sympathy
and thought with the intelligent major
ity Of common folks. It looks like
Iowa will present him as candidate.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-09-05

According to the call for democrat
ic convention in this county which is
published in the Advocate all are in.
vited to take part who believe in demo.
cratic principles. At the present writ.
ing it is uncertain just what democrats
ic principles are. There is great var
lance in the authorities on that subject.
It leaves the public considerably Devil.
dered as to Just who is invited.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-09-05

Some very rich jokes are leaking out
upon the Hon. Thomas Jefferson Phil
lips, the democratic candidate for gov
ernor Of this state. One taken from
the Cedar Rapids Republican. is to the
effect that when Phillips signed his
first order as mayor of Ottumwa he
signed il as follows: "T. J. Phillips,
maer." Another joke that is being
told is that his first message TO the
Ottumwa council was prepared by .
friend, and that after be Phillips) had
read the document to the city fathers
he paralysed them by exclaiming
"And now want to say something for
myself" Marshalltown T. r.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-09-05

County Chairman r. C. Spencer. Of
the democratic committee, has decided
to hold county convention, and has
called it for Wednesday, Sept. 20, at
3p. m. The caucuses are to be in
Monday evening, Sept. l6. Chairman
Spencer is real good to the rank and
file Of the democratic party to allow
them q convention. He could have
named the ticket and saved them the
trouble Of coming together, the same
thatehe did the delegates to the state
convention. 1t would have been less
trouble and perhaps would have re-
suited in about the same ticket.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-09-05

Vice President Roosevelt is to make
some speeches in Iowa this fall. he
is too active and energetic to rust out
in the vice presidential seat. That life
isn't strenuous enough for him.
Bucking up against the democratic,
opposition in Iowa isn't very strenuous,
but it will be good exercise for him.
The people of Iowa will greatly appre'
ciate his coming.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-09-05

The plan ofhaving an executive com
mittee to advise with and assist the
chairman in conducting the campaign,
the plan adopted this year by the
republican state committee, is
the plan that has been followed in this
county for the past three years. 1t was
adopted here at the request of the coun-
ty chairman and has worked we'll. The
plan is not original with the state COM
mittee, as il is in use in several coun-
ties in the state.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-09-05

c.Unger,2l2 maple St., champaign H.,
writes: ~ was troubled with hacking
cough for a year and ! thought I had
consumption. ] tried great many
remedies and was under the care Of ply.
sicians for several months. fused one
bottle OF Foley's Honey and Tar. 1t
cured me. and have not been troubled
SINCE" A. II. Roberts.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-09-05

The Red Oak Express says that
Judge Smith should be permitted to
stay in congress as long as he wishes
to do so. The Telegraph joins in this
beliefe. Atlantic Telegraph.
To which the Republican says amen.
In little time he will become Q men,
Der Of great influence and usefulness
to his district, his party and his country.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-09-05

Gen. Mel Byers, "of Des Moines'
finds he isn't the only big soldier in
Iowa even il he lives in the Capital
City: There seems to be other aspi.
rants for the adiutant generalship.
Byers has creditably filled the Office
we believe.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-09-05
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