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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-08

word, apparently. He doesn't use it
indiscriminately but in describing this
scene he grew Il little excited and re-
marked: "'Look here, captain says
|, you didn't do it. You aren't to
blame. I'm the fellow. bgosh! I'll
take all the responsibility. You just
write back to Washington that Buffalo
Bill and a few other fellows We're off
on II bit of a trip and found the In
dians killing and burning and pitched
into 'em, b'gosh,and you and the troops
came up just in time to relieve us
Well he thought that was a great
idea" chuckled the colonel, "and he
wrote the message and sure enough he
got a promotion for bravery and dis
crction."
mo, I'm about DONE" said Colonel
Cody in response to a question as to
his future plans. Il believe this is my
last trip. | don't mean to die Il show
man. | want to leave some other
memory behind me-the memory of
having done something for my fellow
man."
but you have done something" his
listener protested, you have made
unique spot in the records of your
country. You have done much for the
younger generation in an educational
way. you have shown the world what
a brave man can be and do, and the
world loves a leader one who can con-
troll men, and do things, not merely
dream them"
do women like that, too?" he said
Wonderingly. II know men feel that
way ] know men will follow one in
whom they have confidence into the
gateway of distinction, because they
realize that he has left nothing to
chance; he has planned for their pro-
lection at every point, but they lose
heart with one who goes in hap-haz-
ard and in whom they can't rely"
Then he continued: "rve picked out
the place where | shall lie one day.
beneath that marvellous western sky,
under the sun and the stars. The
town of Cody Is my pet and my pride.
| have reclaimed it from the desert. I
am planning tn give comfort and hap
piness to a multitude of dwellers i'm
what was once known as the arid
lands.
why, don't you know that beyond
the Missouri river lies the richest half
OF This country? The earth is teeming
with precious minerals, and now that
irrigation is reclaiming tho waste
places ii can be made a heaven, If
costs $1i or $l5 an acre to fertilize farm
land in Pennsylvania. For that
amount you can buy forty acres of
land with perpetual water privileges
out there where you have no master
but God and do not have to pray for
rain, and where no walking delegate
comes along and tells you TO strike"
incidentally. Colonel Cody paid a
high tribute to the citizen soldier 1T
was not the officers" he said. "who
won san Juan Hin. 1t was not even
Teddy Roosevelt, brave as he was and
patriotic, but it was the volunteer sol
der the individuality of the men, who
knew little of tactics and of military
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-08
GONE TO THE VERGE.
From the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press.
ThiS young man was not so contid-
ing as he was, and his ideas of friend =
ship are not so exalted, Yet he takes
ii philosophically and is willing to
place heavy credit in favor of ex-
periencc,
II started in small way" he tells,
and ! had no idea that my business
would expand rapidly But | find a
good many leaks and drains. OF
course. you know Jones. He is my
friend and knows about horses. So
when my one horse went lame | con-
suited him as being the one friend
had who, | thought. could help me out.
Pretty bad shape he said as he
looked the nag over. Need him on
your delivery wagon, don't you?"
Il need him or some other horse and
asked Jones what could get for the
lame one. He looked him over, felt
his legs, examined his eyes and teeth
and finally said that, being friend of
mine, he'd give me $40 for the horse.
| took il. That same afternoon he sold
the horse FOR $50, fact l learned about
a week later
Now said Jones. I'm not the man
TO leave a friend in scrape. I'll just
rustic around and find you another
horse
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-08

cotton mills in the world and upon
being the first to Introduce electricity
as u motive power in these mills.
However Honesdale Justly claims
the credit Of furnishing the MASTER
mechanic in the person of Richard
Thirsk. one of her citizens, who
while South in 1894 and 1895, installed
the very machinery into the Columbia
Duck Mill. now electrically used, that
has made that institution so famous
as the pioneer electric mill of the
country.
The National Elevator Works, of
Honesdale, in which so much Scran-
ter. capital is invested and OF which
Mr.. Thirsk Is now superintendent,
also claims the honor of being the
pioneer elevator company in the Unit
cd states, to equip their factory
throughout with electric motors for
the transmission of power, and that
too, within 300 yards of the very spot
where the first locomotive that ever
ran on the American continent-"The
Stourbridge Lion" made that wonder-
full exhibition August =, 1899
j. Il. Richmond.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-08

I'm that winter of 1876, after Custer
was killed. there WAS a great cry that
the troops must go home. The men
were Worn out ana exhausted and they
didn't want to spend another winter
cut, for they couldn't endure it. Miles
said, 1 will stay on the frontier with
my men, and stay he did, with Il little
company of infantry. 1t was a bitter,
cruel winter, but he slept under neither
roof nor canvas when there weren't
roofs and canvas for his men, and he
endured friChtful privations for months
without a complaint. More than that,
he so planned an attack on hostile
II ibe which had been committing dep
relations in the vicinity of the camp
that he suppressed an upriSal. cap
tured 800 horses and thus, before the
breaking of spring, had his men all
mounted. Paddy Miles as his SOL
diers all love to call him, is no car
pet knight. He is Il man they would
go into the jaws of death with, and
never murmur
HE has accomplished the most won
dcrful results with the Indians" con-
tiEued the colonel. In that war of re-
ligion, the ghost dances of 1890, when
the Indians were maddened with the
frenzy of fanaticism General Miles
planned the campaign as skillful
player plays a game of chess. Nothing
is so difficult to quel as a religious
war. but he massed his men at the
right points, . to l. and checkmated
every move they made and while it
was not n bloodlesa victory. yet no
other could have wrought it out with
so little loss Of life. General Miles"
added the speaker, "is the most
humane, the most modest and the
wisest military man of the day"
lie then spoke Of the letter he had
just written to the general regarding
the hoped-for visit to the armory bail.
'I'm telling him." he said significantly,
"that this is Il great Miles country up
here and he must be sure TO come"
When asked apropos of the Indian
question whether General King Is cor
rect in his sarcastic comments preva-
lent in his novels regarding the disad-
vantage In which the United States
army labors in Indian warfare because
of the hampering orders dictated by
some one in Washington unfamiliar
with the situation on the frontier. Col
onel Cody admitted that there was
some truth In the complaints. He
then told n characteristic experience of
his own where the officer in command
had received orders from Washington
to refrain from firing ON the Indians
who had been killing white settlers un-
til they began hostilities on the troops.
"Buffalo Bilp' had in the meantime
asked for a detachment of six men
and sergeant to do some reconnoit-
ering. They had started off and found
the Indians red handed from "A holrd
deed of blood. They had shot seven
and routed the remainder when the
captain in charge came up wringing
his hands in distress and wailinG that
he should lose his commission for dis
obedience of orders.
Colonel Cody has only one swear
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With regard to the West Point affair,
the colonel expressed himself as great
~ pleased with the stand taken by the
| government. II believe in trained SOL
| diers," he declared, "but there is no
need of training them to be bullies and
thugs. If there is any place where IL
man needs to be kind and unselfish, it
is in the army. Discipline is all right
but there is no call for a boy to be
brutal to another because the other
happens to be a new boy
Colonel Cody is certainly type of
something which is swiftly passing
from our race and our country. He is
distinctly Western for very early he
| was taken from Iowa to Kansas,
bleeding Kansas" where the fiercest
stage of fight for free soil was in pro-
ercss, and it is Il singular fact that
his father was the first man to lay
down his life fdr the negro, as he was
free state in 1876
While the people go to his show and
look with interest ON his Indians and
his gallant cavalrymen, the greatest
attraction of all would he lost if the
man so long known as Buffalo Rill"
did not himself ride at the head of the
column, He is Il unique figure and one
that the world would miss If he stepped
out Of it forever, So, long may he live
to cause the heart of the sordid Ameri-
can public throb a bit faster and may
he finally realize the dream of his heart
and spend a peaceful, beautiful old age
in that ideal city of his building at the
gateway of YalIOuStDna poplr
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The CELEBRATED GORDON Plan
ii. 5. GORDON, New ssS f,sh yslk ti;s. Ass
" 'Thonk you, but Keep Within hun

4" Thank you, but keep within hum
dred, | can't afford to pay more
Next morning my friend showed up
with Il horse he told me | could have
for sos, though he was really worth
more, lle was sound, gentle, years
old, according to Jones.
'Iie had bought that horse for $50.
He had SPAWN ana rngbone, was knee
sprung and Is years OLD So Jones
had made SIS off me and left me with
one of the worst old crowbGits you ever
saw. I'm lot saying much about IL,
for Jones is my friend, you know. But
an old codger that buys groceries from
me says friendship ceases in horse
dicker."
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ALL RUN BY
ELECTRICITY
COLUMBIA COTTON MILLS AT
TRACT MUCH INTEREST.

Graphic Description Of the Olympia
Mill, the Largest and Finest Es-
tablishment of It's Class in the
World-Negro Labor Not n Sue
cess-Pennsylvania Skill Credited
with Installing the First Of This
Electrically Driven Machinery.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-08

traditions, but who saw some men on
top of that hill and got there and took
them
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-08
CONGRATULATIONS.

Scranton, the Electric city, which
first made practical use of the electric
railway in the United States will no
doubt be glad to congratulate Column
bia, the Palmetto city, I'm having the
finest and largest plant of up to- date
Connecticut western news., 1901-10-24
THE PIONEERS QUERY.

He Wanted to Know Why America
 Was Discovered.
 "Three or four of us were hunting to- gether one fall in northern Michigan" said the Chicago drummer, "and the boys put up a Job on the old pioneer at whose house we camped by telling him that was Christopher Columbus. l didn't set him right, and he used to stand with open mouth and look at me as if I was the biggest elephant on earth. During the three weeks of our stay he never addressed me directly, not even about the weather, and al- ways fought shy of being alone in my company. I came out ahead of the party, and the old man had to row me 30 miles in boat. This was an all days job, and not a word passed be- tween us. It was not until I had landed and paid him that he made bold to brace up and inquire:
 So you are the man who diskivered American
 T am," I briefly replied.
 He said no more, and turned away, and I had gone fully 30 rods when he jumped up on a log and shouted after me:
 Say, now, but what was your ob- JickY" M. QUAD.
Connecticut western news., 1901-10-24
WEST GOsHE EH.

Miss Jane Landon has returned from her visit in Canaan.
 MT and Mrs John M t Lucas were at O. F. Greens over Sunday.
 Mrs F. A. Campbell leaves on Friday for three weeks visit at her home Tn Adamsville.
 Rev. H. E. Small has returned from his summer vacation.
 Goshen Grange, No. 143, was invited to meet with Wichita Grange, No. 132, at Warren on Wednesday evening. Miss Grace A. Hammond called on friends in North Cornwall, Saturday. School opened in the Academy build. ing on Monday, A. G. Dreamer as teacher.
 Charles W. Perter and Frank Seaton are in Buffalo. Two more of the young people were united in marriage on Monday, Got. IA. This time it was Henry Bennett Cooke and Bertha Williams. who begin house. keeping on farm in Waterbury. They have the best wishes of their many friends here in town.
Connecticut western news., 1901-10-24

tates. The lower order of whites are more interesting 8 study than the negro, and the ignorance of some of them Is amazing. not only in lack of book and school education but in general know ledge of the world. One of them told me that an acquaintance of his came from one of the western states. either Vermont or Montana. All classes have great love for their state. and North Carolina is O. K. to the North Caro- linians. The Csrolinian's handling of the English language is "a right hard thing to get accustomed to, and An done reckon would puzzle you-all mighty some when you all first of come outchere." Every time a southern youth opens conversation I think oi '"Tennessee" of the old Academy days, and one should read several of Thomas Nelson Pages dialect stories before coming here. Terms and phrases are different and "evening" is from noon te 6 30 and after that 1t is "night."
 J. G. B.
Connecticut western news., 1901-10-24
Strange Hiding Placer,

There are standing at the present day Elizabethan houses known to contain hidden chambers. The very positions of these chambers can be shown, yet their secrets have remained inviolate for centuries, the spring that should serve as the open sesame being undis- eoverable. Some day the accidental touch of girls finger may set col umn of stone rotating or a panel slid ing or door in a picture frame retreat ing on invisible hinges, and the secret If any remain-will be revealed.
 The place of mystery in these an- cient granges that served as shelter to friend In distress might equally prove the death of an enemy of the house. The priests hole behind fireplace was easily converted into an oven. There were staircases which the foot of a friend might press in perfect security. Another, not instructed how to tread. sets his foot apparently on the same place, the stair yawns open, and at the end of the pit is the water. Here is much remAncs.-Loudeu Chronicle.
Connecticut western news., 1901-10-24
Alphabetical Abuse.

The prosecuting attorney In a law. suit had waxed especially indignant at the defendant. whom he characterized as an abandoned, baneful. cynical. diabolic. execrable, felonious, greedy, hateful, irresponsible, jaundiced. knav- ish, lazy, meddlesome, noxious, outra- geous and profligate rowdy."
 "The learned counsel on the other side." said the attorney for the defend ant when he rose to reply, "should have put his adjectives in a hat and shaken them up little before using. You must have noticed, gentlemen of the jury, that they were in regular al- phabetical order. This shows that he selected them from a dictionary, be- ginning with 'a.' He stopped at D. but in his manner of reproducing them he has given us the cue as to how he got them"
 This turned the laugh against the other lawyer. and he lost the, case.
Connecticut western news., 1901-10-24
GREAT HARRINGTON.

A pretty church wedding took place at St. Peter's, Tuesday morning, at g o'clock when Edward Robert Williams and Miss Millie Marie Scott, the only daughter of Eugene Scott. were married, The best man was F. T. Gibbons of Great Harrington. The bridesmaid was Kathleen Frances Quinlan of Benning- ton, Vt. The bride wore handsome gown of white silk trimmed with applique and chiffon. She we're a white veil fastened with roses and carried 8 white prayer book. The bridesmaid wore blue silk trimmed with duchess lace She wore a black picture hat and carried ivory rosary. A reception was held immediately after the ceremony at the brides home on East street. After brief wedding tour they will reside at Great Barring ton.
 Oliver Curtiss of New Marlboro was brought before the court Monday by Chief of Police D. W. Smith and Deputy Sheriff Douglas, charged with stealing chickens. He was released under $20O bonds and his case contin- ued until Thursday, Oct. 31st. There are two other defendants who are wanted on the same charge.
 O. l.. Weatherbee and family have closed up their summer house and have returned to New York City.
 Mrs l. K. Peck has gone to Dorches- ter to reside for several months
 The infant child of Mrs Josephine Holihan died Sunday night. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
 The public schools will all close Fri day in order to allow the teachers to attend the convention to be held al Pittsfield.
 MT and Mrs Peter Proper have issued invitations to wedding reception which they are to tender to their son Edward D. Proper and wife Thursday evening.
 The Bicycle Club will probably clea, about $20 from the proceeds of Howe's entertainment given Saturday night. The entertainment will be given again Saturday evening, March 1st, with an antire change of program.
 The R. T. Cakes Electrical company of Holyoke have secured the contract to wire the Berkshire block and annex
 Mir and Mrs Martin Langs have gone to Buffalo and Canada. Harry Burg. hardt is also in Buffalo
 The citizens of the town have circu. lated petition asking the selectmen to change the location of the tracks of the Berkshire Street railway company from Castle street to the fair grounds. The signers with the tracks to be lald in the center of the street instead of on the east eide of road.
 Harvey Strevell a. Jay Busby have taken positions with the StanlY Instru' ment company. #@a
 The free mail delivery system will go into effect Friday. November first. The selectmen have made arrangements to have the street all ready for the work
 George Bates has returned from 2 several weeks vacation.
Connecticut western news., 1901-10-24
On a Russian Railway Train,

Toilet arrangements such as satisfy the Russian are at his disposal in first and second class trains, but the third class passengers have no such luxuries. When the train halts for the breakfast interval, those who travel third class may be seen performing their ablu- tions at the platform tap. They fill a can like a gardeners watering pot, suck through the spout a mouthful of the water, spit it into the hollowed palms and then rub their faces. It is a disgusting process, performed with out soap or towel, and, though 1t may be amusing to the onlooker, it is not very cleansing to the operator. Yet this is the method of ablution adopted by the poorer Russian on his travels.- Chambers Journal.
Connecticut western news., 1901-10-24
eHEFE6ELD.

Last week Thursday afternoon, Oct. 17th, as Manly H. Wickwire, the owner of the steam saw mill on South Main street, where wagon hubs are turned out, was engaged in that business the sleeve of his coat caught in the saw drawing in his right hand which was mangled. He was taken to the home of his brother, T. O. Wickwire. and amputation was found necessary, but as he had lost so much blood it was thought best not to do it until the next day. His son, Townsend, of Torrlng- ton, Conn.,, was sent for and four doctors were present. Dr. O. w. Shy der of Ct. Burlington performed the operation, assisted by Dr. Joseph Rob- inson of this place. Dr Wakefield gave the ether. Dr. G. w. Grover was present also. The arm was taken of half way between the elbow and hand. He is now doing we'll and has the sym pathy of all his friends in this severe afflictiop.
 The place on the corner of Main and West streets, just south of the M. B. church. owned and occupied by John Williams for number of years, has now been sold by him to MT Meigs of Jacksonville. Fla, who intends to make extensive improvements and will have 9 permanent home there for himself and family. They have been here as sum- mer guests for several years and we give them a welcome as residents.
 Miss Louise F Dewey of Boston, who has been in Europe the past three months. arrived at the home of her father, Charles O. Dewey, on Saturday. Her mother had passed away and was buried the Sunday previous, and her father is in very critical condition of health at present.
 Rev. E. W. Pond preached for the last time at the Congregational church on Sunday. He, with his family, leave thIs week for the new parish in Stone ham, Maine.
Connecticut western news., 1901-10-24

Dr. W. M Bsrnum left town Monda, for vacation of several weeks; vii take in the Pan-Americsn. Dr. Howard Staub of New Milford takes charge o Dr. Bsrnum's business here during hii absence.
 Thomas Collier has gone to Auburn N. Y., and will also visit Buffalo.
 Mrs R. Frisbie spent part of last weel with relatives at Richmond. Mass.
 Mrs l. A. Hsxtun and daughter, have closed their house and will spend the winter in Brooklyn, N. Y.
 Commissioner Geo. Hall of Falls Vii lage was in town on official business Saturday.
Connecticut western news., 1901-10-24
Next Thing In Order.

"Your honor," said the lawyer, "my client has reason to believe that the DO lice are about to interfere arbitrarily with his business, and he would like tc have an injunction restraining them from looking at him while he is at work oi touching the tools of his profession"
 "I do not see," said the learned judge "why we should go so far as to restrain the police from looking at your client"
 "He is of a very nervous temperament your honor, and to be watched while al work seriously disturbs him."
 "In that case" the judge admitted "the demand seems reasonable. What if your clients businessT
 He is . burglar, your honor."-Chi cago Post.
Connecticut western news., 1901-10-24
W EST CURNwAL LII.

Miss Nellie J. Wolfe returned to this place Wednesday from a weeks visit with friends and relatives in Lime Rock and Falls Village.
 Miss Ruth B. Hubbard left last week for her home in New Haven.
 Mrs A. Sturges of Wings Station is visiting her SOB, Theo. Sturges.
 Miss Nellie Wilson, who has been spending several weeks with relatives in town, has returned to her home at Long Hill.
 Miss Minnie E. Cochrane spent one day last week with her sister in Sheffield.
 Mir and Mrs Walter l.. Hart have re- turned to their home at Colchester. Mir and Mrs Hart have been at "Cherry Hill Farm" the entire summer.
 John B. Smith and daughters, the Misses Mary and Clara, of Sharon, with Hon. David L. Smith of this place are spending the week at the Pan-Ameri- can.
 Miss Charlotte A. Harrison is spend the week at New Haven with her sisters.
 Mrs William B. Atwood returned Monday to her home in Plymouth.
 Miss Jessie o. Hart. who for some time past has been with her sister, Mrs David F. Smith. of Sharon, Mrs Smith having been quite i'll. returned home last Friday.
 Mrs Hulsey Calkins spent several days this week with her brother. John Owen, at Lime Rock. MT snd Mrs Chss. R. Smith are visit. | ing relatives in Brook6eld.
 Wm H Ovistt visited Geo. W. Mo Coy at Falls village over Sunday. Mir and Mrs William O. Butler have ! returned to their home at Litchfield. Miss Annie accompanied them for 8 short visit.
 Mrs Volmiller is quite i'll at this writing
 Miss Sylvia A. Rogers attended the teachers convention held at Hartford lsst Friday.
 ldr and Mrs Hubert M. Pratt enter. taiaed the Rev. Mir Goddard of Hart. ford, over the Sabbath.
 Rev. F. A. Holden will give stereop. ticon lecture at the chapel next Wed nesday evening, Oct 30th. the subject being "The Pan n.American or Rain Bow Fair '" 150 photographic slides will be shown, illustrating the beautiful and harmonious architectural effects of this first great fair of the new century, with scenes on the midway and the marve. lous electrical effects, and comparing ii with the White City at Chicago and with Paris, 1900.