It n f IHE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD Chant tt Pagailsa Mitfe Agaiut the lutitatiML JUDAISM AND MAH0MMEDAN1SM There Still Cliags to the EistetMfo Basse Pagan Rile Which ShoaU Be AholihedIIow Ca a Chris tian Minister Accept Eisteadfodic IIoaortT Mr. John Jones, chairman, presided recently over a meeting of the Llandud no eisteddfod commttte. when Mr. John Littler moved that the chairing; cere mony be reformed or amended ao as to be up to date with modern civilisation. He said some would reform anything but the eisteddfod, but It was a human Institution and founded in Pagan times, and was, therefore, open to improve ment. The principle of change had al ready been acted upon. For example, human sacrifices had been discontinued (loud laughter), but there still clings to the eisteddfod some Pagan rites which should be abolished. The Uorsedd cresses reprcseniea uoctrines quue con trary to Christianity. Would any one tolerate Judlasm or Mohammedanism? (Great laughter.) How could a Chris tian minister accept the chair prise with heathen rites? (Renewed laughter.) The Uorsedd was opened dally with an Invocation to a heathen trinity (Plenydd, Alawn. and Gwron for which trlnltv he would substitute the Chris tian lllllll . I IIK-M! VVJIH-CI,. higher state of civilization, namely, the millenlum. (Loud laughter.) Would such proceeding be tolerated thc-n? He further objected to the length of time taken by the ceremony of chairing the bard (Hear, hear). His remarks also ap plied to the Gorsodd prayer, which upon examination would be found to be anti Christian, being founded on the doctrine of the agnostics, which was essentially Greek and oriental philosophy. (Loud laughter.) Tha was to be a record eisteddfod. He begged of them to make it bo and sweep away all the heathenism In connection with the eisteddfod. Then It would live forever and ever and be the guide of the people of Wales for all time. Let no one who called himself a christian dvfend any practice opposed to his profession. (Loud luughter.) Ap Clwydfardd rose to order. The Qorsedd prayer question had been settled and quite thrashed out, Mr. Littler said he would merely move his resolution, Mr. J. H. Roberts seconded. The chairman aid the resolution was vague. (Laugh ter.) The Rev. Peris Williams said they had no business to interfere with the chairing ceremony. The ceremony at Llandudno would eclipse all elstedd fodau. He moved an amendment that things remain as they were, Ap Clwyd fardd seconded. They had been in hot water ali atly with the bards and did not want a repetition of it. The amend ment was carried. On the motion of Ap Clwydfardd It was agreed to recom mend the Gorsedd committee to hold a Uorsedd every morning. WELSH MEMBERS IX PARLIA MENT. The members und the magnitude of the divisions that have taken place up to Whitsuntide wMch is exactly the middle of an ordinary session has sur passed all previous years. There have been already as many as 195 divisions, so that the minority in opposition do not by any means allow the majority to work Its way quietly and unmolested. There are very few members who now care to get Into the house simply for the pleasure of adding "M. P." to their names and doing no work. The closure has been enforced the extraordinary number of 47 times. At two divisions the surprising number of G35 and C81 voted almost the largest ever known and on these occasions the "pairs" numbered 30, and there were two va cant seats it follows that only 54 mem bers failed to take part In them. The excessively large attendance have been Very frequent, as at no fewer than 98 there were more than 300, above 350 at 48, exceeding 400 at 9 and above 450 at eight, and at three above 600. As the names of the "ayes" were not taken down on these occasions, we have In the following analysis treated the number of divisions as 194. Mr. Anstrather and Mr. W. II. Fisher (government whip). Mr. Daniel Sullivan, Mr. Macalee and Mr. Calwell voted every time. Wales: Abraham, W, Rhoiulda 74 I'avies, M. Vatighnn, Cardiganshire.... 230 Davles, W. Roes, Pembrokshlre D5 Ellis, T. E., Aterlonetshlre 1(13 Evans, 8. T., Glamorganshire, Mid .... 47 Griffith, E. J Anglesey oj Howell, IV. T., Denbigh District 159 Humphreys, Owen A. C, Montgomery. 43 Jenkins, Hir J. J., Carmarthen District W Jones, D. Brynmor, Swansea District.. 56 Jones, W., Carnarvonshire, Arfon 139 Laurie, Genera), Pembroke District .. R6 Lewis, J. II., Flint District i5 Llewelyn, Sir J. T. D., Bt.. Swansea Town Wi Lloyd, George D., Carnarvon District.. Ki Maclean, J. M., Cardiff so Milbank, P. C, Radnorshire jib Morgan, Sir O. Osborne, Bt., Denbigh shire, Bromfleld 100 Morgan, J. Lloyd, Carmarthenshire, W 75 Morgan, W. Prltchard, Merthyr Tydlll. 17 Morley, C, Breconshire 73 Fryce-Jones, Major, Montgomery Dis trict 173 Randell, D., Glamorganshire, Gower ., i!4 Roberts, J. B Carnarvonshire, Eiflon. 51 Roberts, J. H Denbighshire, West .... 8 Smith, Samuel, Flintshire 94 Thomas, Abel, Carmarthenshire 45 Thomas, Alfred, Glamorganshire, E... is Thomas, D. A., Merthyr Tydfil- tK) Wyndham-Quln. Major W, H Gla morganshire, S ilS MONMOUTHSHIRE. Harcourt, Right Hon. Sir V West .... 76 McKenna, R., North 134 Directory Wholesale. BANKS. Lackawanna Trust and Safe Deposit Co. Merchants' and Mechanics'. 423 Lacks. Traders' National, 234 Lackawanna. West Bids Bank, 109 N. Main. Baranton Savings, 113 Wyoming. BEDDING. CARPET CLEANING, ETC. Tha Boraaton Bedding Co., Lacks. BREWERS. oblnson, B. Boas, 416 N. Seventh, obtnson, Mlna, Cedar, cor. Alder. CHINA AND QLAS8WARU Hupprecht, Louis, 131 Penn. " TOTS AND CONFECTIONERY Williams, J. D. A Bra., Hi Lacks. FLOUR. FEED AND GRAIN. . Matthews, C. P. Sons Co., tt Looks. The Weston Mill Co., 47-4 Lasks. PAINTS AND SUPPLIES. Jlanoke A MoXea, tot toruoa. Uosgaa, CoL Hon. F. C, South 17 gplcer, A. Monmouth District 71 WELSH PREACHERS IN ENGLAND. A Welshman, in speaking of Welsh preachers, has the following to say: Travelling in Yorkshire the other day we were amused and our Welsh blood began kindling; w ithin us we listened to an eloquent Scotchman eulogising our kith and kin: "These Welsh preach ers," said the canny Northman, "carry everything before them. They are really invading the British Isles. Tears ago we Scotchmen used to have It our own-way. Now. we are nowhere Goto London, Liverpool, and you will find that a large proportion of the best pul pits are filled by Welshmen. I have Just heard of another Welshman who Is having very much his own way in Yorkshire. A friend of mine in Scar borough put this paper in my hand and said that the sermon which It reports was one of the best he had heard for a long time." The sermon was fully re ported, and the preacher was the Rev. David Young, formerly of Cardiff, who preached the official sermon of the York District Synod. WELSH NOTES. We hear 10 much of sectarian Jealous ies in Wales that It is a delightful pleas ure to And that among some of the de nominations at least there Is a desire for closer union and co-operation. A grati fying proof of this Is to be found In the action of the Calvanlstic Methodists at the (Liverpool assembly last week in ap pointing a committee to consider how best to bring about such a stato of affairs between themselves and the Welsh Con gregutlonalists. Another step in the same direction was the appointment for the first time of a deputation to convey thu greetings of tho assembly to the Congre gational union, which meets this year tt Brldxcnd. This is but a prelude to a sim ilar interchange of compliments between the Corph and ull other Welsh denomina tions. The suggestion throughout by the retiring moderator for the establishment of one united Theological college for tho Noneotnfoi mists of W'ulcs Is still another Indication that a better spirit prevails and that better days are near at hand. A North Wales paper Is responsible for a story respecting a well-known South Wales cantatrice which deserves a wider circulation. Tho lady In question, gifted with a glorious contralto voice, and Just emerging from the chrysalis state of musical studentship, was engaged at a Handel concert, under the conriuctorship of the lute Sir Joseph Uamby. In the course of the final rehearsal, at the end of the solo she had to render, the lady put In a light note Instead of the more easy, but less effective, not on her score. This Innovutlon on the part of a novice shocked Sir Joseph, and he Immediately asked her whether she thought she could Improve upon Handel. "Well, Sir Juseph," she '.'e plied, "I've got an E and 1 don't see why I shouldn't show it oft." "My dear young lady," came the crushing rejoinder, "i be lieve you have two knees, but I hope you won't show them off here." And she didn't. If the policeman's lot is not a happy one He has his compensations. R. G. Brander, M. A., Southborough, Tun bridge Wells, Is well known throughout the principality as the "policeman's friend," and at present the reverend gen tleman Is spending a brief holldy at LIundridod Wells. He Is seldom without a member of the police force, and three or four constables are his guests at the same time. Last week police-constables from Shrewsbury, Ammanford and Llandlio were staying with him, and when their week's holiay cume to a close on Saturday they were replaced by other officers from various parts of Wales. The majority of the Llunelly and other members of the Carmarthenshire police have at one time or another enjoyed a "seven days' leave" In Brighton, London, Tunbridge Wells. North Wales -ana other places; and what makes the holiday the more enjoyable is the fact that Mr. Bran, der bears the entire cost of railway and other expenses incurred by his guests. Tho reverend gentleman has acquired a thorough knowledge of the Welsh lan guage, and Is a member of th'e Cymmro dorlon society. Princes-road chapel, Liverpool, in which the general assembly of the Welsh Calvin lstlc Methodists met recently, is one of the most handsome structures in the king dom, and Its spire is regarded as one of the sights of the second city in the em pire. The lowest tender for Its erection amounted to 32,000, but as the contract was let in sections to members of the church, the cost was reuced to B4,W. .Many thousands more have since been spent upon schoolrooms, ante-rooms, par. lors und class rooms, an further addi tions ure yet in progress. It was here that the late Dr. Saunders ministered for many years after he left Aberdare, and upon his removal to Swansea ho was succeeded by the late Dr. Owen Thomas. The pres ent pastor is the Rev. John Williams, late of Brynslencyn, who Is one of the most powerful nnd eloquent of Welsh preachers now living. In the days of Rhys Goch of Eryrl, pea. cocks were fashionable love gifts. Rhys sent a beautiful peacock to fair Gwen of Dol, and a rival bard adressed a poem to a fox, begging thut animal to kill the bird, whereupon the offended lover retort ed In stinging verse. In It he designated the wretched fox as a "glutton of the night," "a land lobster," "a mountain croc odile," and a "thief" with "brass-hued breast an tattered locks." Tho weakness for high-sounding noms de plume Is not confined to Welsh bards. Mr. Harold Bouton, M. A., of London, for Instance who judging from his name and description Is an Englishman sports the ambitious Welsh title of "Prydydd Cem hedloedd Prydaln!" (The bard of the na tions of Britain). That Mr. Prydydd, etc., etc., is really and truly Interested in bari. Ism Is shown by the fact that the other day he forwarded a check for the substan tial sum of 30 in aid of the prize fund of the Llandudno eisteddfod. Many curious epitaphs are to be seen In the churchyard at Llandyble, and ono of them on the grave of J R , who died at the uge of 71, leaving behind to mourn his loss t widow of 80. However, he was afraid that his spouse would seek another husband, and ho desired a local poet to write his epitaph, which was Inscribed on his tombstone: "My love for thee long time did last, My life for ever now is past; But after me don't sorrow take, Remain a widow for my sake." She compiled w)th his request, and died at the age of 91. of Wholesale MONUMENTAL WORKS. Owens Bros., 211 Adams avenue. MILK. CREAM, BUTTER. ETC. Bcraaton Dairy Co., Penn and Linden. ENGINES AND BOILERS. Dickson Manufacturing Co. DRY GOODS. MILLINERY, ETC. The Fashion, 80s Lackawanna avenue. PLUMBING AND HEATING. , Kowley, P. p. m. T., 231 Wyoming ave. GROCERS. Kelly, T. J. A Co., 14 Lackawanna. Megargel ft Connell, Franklin avenua Porter. John T., 28 and 28 Lackawanna, Rioe, Levy A Co., M Laokawanna, HARDWARE. Connell. W. P. A Sons, 118 Penn. Fpote A Shear Co., 119 N. Washington Hunt A Connell Co.. 434 Laokawanna. . WORLD OF FICTION. That Stephen Crane has great posst-' bilitlea Is quite generally admitted. It must also In sadness be said that Just now he Is engaged in squandering them. The Crane novelettes that ap pear from day to day In the syndicated newspapers are for the most part poor tuff mere pot boilers thrown off be cause at the moment there happens to be a market for them. But worst of all, our young friend has deliberately resurrected that bedraggled girl of the streets, "Maggie," and with the co-operation of the Messrs. Appleton, put her before the public on an equality of dressing with the "Red Badge." Now we don't want to say that In this "real andstrenuous"taleof New York low life there are not touches of genius and flashes of the artist's power. But it Is a pale exhalation contrasted with the "Budge," and it will do Mr. Crane's fame no good. "Maggie" Is a girl of a tenements, who between the drunken sprees of her mother and father and thi eye-black-enings of a scrappy brother works In a collar factory and learns to view life as a continuous misery. But Pete, a "barkeep," dawns at length upon her perspective, takes her occasionally to Coney island, the park and the show, and soon the poor girl, from sheer lack of moral perseptlveness, becomes the "bnrktep's" mistress. The story of her fall, desertion and final death Is told with realistic although unobtruded pat he 1. She really loves the tough who Is her betrayer, and he after a time coolly shakes her for a finer looking "lady" of the town. The book's sketches of tenement life are all vivid and tense. But we cannot forget, while reading "Maggie." that the author of "Chlmmle Fadden" pre-empted the first claim to this particular dominion, and has developed It with a kindly play of humor which we much prefer to Mr. Crane's somewhat monotonous strenu ousness. c. J " 11 Mrs. Stannard, or, as she still signs herself, John Strange Winter, has writ ten, In "The Turth-tellers" (Philadel- Dhia: J. n. Uitnlmtntt frt a ,Ju.odnt and humorous story of the complications wnicn oerell the live children of a Fyn land squire who, having been reared Into the habit of always telling the liter al and exact truth under any and all circumstances, are by the death of their parents put under the care of a wealthy aunt, who Is prominent In London so ciety, and who is thereafter often morti fied by the blunt way in which her young charges brush aside the conven tional fictions which do such excellent service In social intercourse. In favor of the crude truth. These complications are many and awkward, but in the end they are smoothed out and the young folks each and severally find their due share of happiness. II II II Although Justin McCarthy cannot manage the Irish parliamentary party, he can and does write charming novels. The latest of these, "The Puzzle Ring" (New York: D. Appleton A Co.) gives us an Interesting study of the modern woman, who while persistently talk ing down love and marriage, herself precipitately falls in love and because she does not succeed in eliciting favor able respnoses from the male object of her adoration (who. It may be Interest ing to remark, hi at that moment him self madly in love with a married wo man), goes to America and becomes a noted woman's rights advocate. This humorous but more or less truthful pic ture is only a side scene, however. The main portion of Mr. McCarthy's novel Is devoted to chronicling the agonies of the man and the married woman, who are mutually In love, but who are too moral to violate the decalogue and too scrupulous to seek relief from the di vorce courts, although the woman had Scriptural cause. A variety of incidents befall during this Interval of seemingly hopeless passion, Including the entry of the woman's husband on the scene (he had previously cast her off) with the consequence that he again falls in love with her. At the last, however, the su perfluous husband is opportunely killed off, and the freed lovers, after due mourning, wed and we suppose are happy ever afterward. P0ETRV. Miss Florence ' L. Snow, a Kansas lady, who is, we believe, the profesor of literature and belles letters in one of the educational Institutions of that state, offers through Messrs. Way & Williams, Chicago, a poem of merit en titled "The Lamp of God." It Is cast in the Iambic pentameter form, with alternating rhymes, and is an evolution of the following theme; The life that holdeth love a thing apart From any slightest labor must disclose The utter weakness of the rarest art Its dearest aspirations ever knows, Who does not give In constant sacrifice The buoyant blood that courses through ills veins Has less than naught for all his best em prise In righteous ruling of his utmost pains. For without love no worthy work may be, And without death creative power were done; Herein there lie all happy victory, And here all growth and gladness are begun. Cast In a mould beyond a fleck or flaw 'Tls only love that can fulfill the law. The book Is handsomely printed by DeVInne on Marias hand-made paper and has an attractive title page de signed by Edmund H. Garrett. , LITERARY GOSSIP. The mask which Stephen Crane has se lected to wear Is, says the Philadelphia Times, that of a daring colotist. Since the stories about life in the alleys are pop ular, it is not an objection to "George's Mother" that the subject Is unpleasant. It Is a story of a young workman whose and Retail City and Suburban Representative Business Houses. FRUITS AND PRODUCE. Dale & Stevens, 27 Lackawanna. Cleveland, A. 8., 17 Lackawanna, DRY GOODS Kelly A Healey, 20 Lackawanna, Flnley, P. B., 510 Lackawanna. LIME, CEMENT, SEWER PIPE. Keller, Luther, 813 Lackawanna. HARNESS A SADDLERY HARDWARE. Frits G. W., 410 Lackawanna. Keller A Harris, 117 Penn. WINES AND LIQUORS. Walsh, Edward J., 32 Lackawanna, LEATHER AND FINDINGS , Williams, Samuel, 221 Spruce. BOOTS AND SHOES. Goldsmith Bros., 804 Lackawanna, " WALL PAPER, ETC. Ford, W. M., 120 Penn. CANDY MANUFACTURERS. Be ran ton Candy Co.. 32 Lackawanna. LETTERS. environment made him a rowdy and of the devotion of his poor old mother. It is told with penetration and precision. The character of this single- member of the mob Is well Imagined, with dramatic force and some power of pathos, and the spoken dialect Is certainly painstaking and pre. sumably accurate. Mr. Crane's own dla. lect Is less convincing. This George was a brown young man who went home through a blue street illuminated with crimson patches. Within the red and black tenement bis mother, who had a gray face, had placed a lamp on the brown desert of the table, which its yellow glare converted Into a white garden. Unfor tunately George did not stop at home. He went to a saloon, color not specified, where he drank brown liquor In company with red-faced men, and in consequence "fell In a yellow spasm" and saw all sorts of colors. Red crabs and green dragons and other brilliant animals course through the book and the only disappointment 'a that we never see a purple cow. If we ever hope to see one. Mr. Crane Is the artist to produo it. That there Is method In this chromatic madness may be be lieved. It has served to attract an un usual share of attention to Mr. Crane. And yet his stories seem strong enough to hold their own without such variegated affecta tion. Says the Sun: When a publisher of long experience one who was. In fact, born into the business was asked what were the most striking peculiarities of the mar ket for literary wares in recent times, he replied that at present the most marked feature was the dull sale for books, but that If the market for tho last twelve or fifteen months were considered Its most Interesting feature would be found in the enormous offerings of fiction from both known and unknown authors. Beginning lute In 1894 there was a flood tide of novels at various lengths and of an infinite vari ety of subjects, and the tide continued to swell for at least twelve months and only within the last few weeks has the number cf manuscripts offered returned to the proportions known before the tide set In. While no census of writers could very well be made even by an association of pub lishers, It Is reasonable to suppose that some tens of thousands of Americans were In some way Infected with a deBire to write stories, and did write them, to the advantage of dealers In paper, pens, and Ink, and to the advantage of no one else, unless, Indeed, some specially favored pub lisher had to hire additional readers to consider the offerings. An Inquiry as to the cause of this sudden Increase in the number of would-be story writers could not be answered, either by this publisher or by others with whom the reporter talked, In an altogether conclusive man. ner, but It was supposed to be due In part, at least, to the stories of the large sums of money realized by certain popular writ ers from the sales of their works stories which were printed In about every news paper of the land. It appeared that the scribblers, as the publishers called them, suddenly concluded that novel writing had money In it, and so, since novel writing was easier (physically, at least) than digging clams or harvesting wheat or bal lasting railroads moreover, because it would -"sure get a fellow's name Into the papers," a great mob dropped their ac customed tools for the unfamiliar pen end went to work. It Is on interesting fact that out of the host many did really suc ceed so far as to get printed and a few did something more. Nor was the increase In the number of novel writers confined to America. Indeed, of the total number of offerings, if relative population be con sidered, the far greater proportion came from the English. But there was one cause for the flood of novels that was entirely aside from the de sire for either money or notoriety, and that was the wide Interest aroused in a considerable class of readers by the suc cess, of the stories "which obtained an ephemeral success chiefly through their audacity." Reading novels of any sort, it Is said, Incites to the writing of slmllur stories, but apparently those who read the amorous rot of the "daring" writers became straightway bursting with pent up feelings that had to find vent between paper covers, whlcih were thereafter put on sale at the news stands with stunning success. The extent of this outpouring was accurately staled In the annual sum mary number of the Publishers' Weekly covering 1895. The classified table of book production for this country printed there in shows that 1,050 new books of fiction were printed In 1S96, against 673 printed In 1894. Just wluvt proportion of thee novels were of the erotic class la not stated, but the erudite editor of the Weekly says that "the poor quality of the novels of the year was generally noticeable." I t Is an Inter esting and at' the same time a somewhat startling fact that a part of the extra flood of novels was made up of Ju veniles, as the trade styles the books writ, ten for children and young people, and that out of "the overwhelming numbers" offered for sale, "scarcely a dozen will be remembered another year." "How does the demand for light fiction compare with that for books of solid worth?" was asked at the headquarters from which the various railroad and other news and book stalls obtain their supplies. "We sell about 2,000 volumes of trash to one of real educational value. You 'can see what the people want If you will look over 'the displays on the elevated railroad or any other railroad book stalls' about the city. People who patronize us don't care for anything solid, except as they get It In the magazines." If this were all that could be said of the demand for printed books the taste of the Yankee reader would seem to be In a very bad state. B it the truth Is that only the worst that may be said has been given so far. To give a fairer view of the matter one need only refer once more to the statistics furnished by 'the Publishers' Weekly. In the table referred to It appears that the total num ber of new books. Including new editions, printed in 1895, was 5,469, of which 36$ were new editions. Of fiction, including 04 new editions, there were 1,114 books, to Which must be added 38 books of sports and amusements, 32 of humor and satire, .173 of Juveniles, and 309 books of poetry 1 to complete the list of lighter literature. Of course, many of the Juveniles were educational histories, works of religious Instruction, etc. and so anything but light reading, but allowing them ull to be classed as light, it appears that the whole light list numbers but 1,868. There were 3,601 books that were devoted to law, theo logy, literary history, political and social science, history and biography, medicine, useful arts, travel, nnd all the other de partments of the book-makers' ware houses. And that Is to say that when American taste is judged by the com bined catalogues of the book publishers, FLOUR, BUTTER, EGGS, ETC. The T. H. Watts Co., Lt., 723 W. Lacks. Babcock, G. J. A Co., HI Franklin. MINE AND MILL SUPPLIES. Scrxnton Supply and Mach. Co., 131 Wya, FURNITURE. III11 A Connell, lsl Washington. CARRIAGE REPOSITORY. Blume, Wm. A Son, (22 Spruce. HOTELS. Scronton House, near depot MILLINERY A FURNISHING GOODS. Brown's Bee Hive, 221 Lacks. City and Suburban. ATHLETIC GOODS AND BICYCLES. Florey, C. M 222 Wyoming. HARDWARE AND PLUMBING. Ounator A Forsyth. 127 Penn, Instead of by the display on the counters of the news stands patronised by people bound on Journeys, it Is bound to demand more than twice as many books of the ed ucational clue as of the right or amusing class. However, the man behind the booksell er's counter says that the list of books In the catalogue gives a view of American taste that is altogether flattering. He says that there Is a demand for the solid books which warrants a publisher In is suing twice as many different works of that class aa.of the light class, but that to accurately gauge the taste of the people the number of coplesold of each work must he considered. Just how many co plea of any class of works are sold it a matter no one can learn by fair means, because publishers are justified In refusing to make publio such matters. Neverthe less, It is a matter of common knowledge that the books of greatest circulation are usually novels and works of real humor. "Trilby," and "Chlmmle Fadden," and "June the Obscure," were circulated by tens of thousands. On the other hand it should not be forgotten that such biogra phies as those of Lincoln and Grant have had a very great sale. Kane's story of his Arctic explorations netted 1100,000 each for author and publisher. Henry George's "Progress .and Poverty'' was in every hand. '"Coin's Financial School" had cir culation among those who favor a silver basis for the currency that was enor mous. Henry Holt. In a leoture at Yale, said that the average sale of books was less than a thousand each. But in recent years the buyers have had a- fad every few months, and somebody sold his books by ten thousand In consequence. And it was not always a novelist thoit became the ashlon. muirtERLESS INSTITUTIONS. Published by request of the American Woman Suffruge Association. In most states in this Union women can. not be appointed trustees of public insti tutions, because such trustees must be electors. There have been men, who kept house for themselves or had only men ser vants In their bachelor quarters, and yet neither they, nor their friends ever thought of these houses or flats as homes; men have kept house but they never have made homes. Women are the home makers and home-keepers. Tlds charac teristic of woman Is Just as Important in the state as In the family. Men would think it a grave error If no one but women served on the board of trustees of soldiers' homes, if only women were physicians In, and superintendents of Buch homes. The writer smiles as she imagines what a fu rore would be created If all public insti tutions should suddenly be taken out (t men's hands and put ln'women's. No wo man would want such a thing to happen. II II II The writer believes that all public insti tutions, schifols, libraries, lunatic asylums, soldiers' homes, etc., should have women trustees, directors, or whatever the term may be for such officers, 'but she 1b a little more radical than many women. However she cannot see how any woman can cease from making effort to have wo men trustees on boards of all public Insti tutions, where women and children live whether It Is a lunutlo asylum or a chil dren's home, A most pitiable sight Is a number of mo'therless children, whoje father alone Is trying to plan for their fu. ture. Yet Just such a man who knows that some woman must help him out with his family cares, does not seem to think that the principle applies as well to the state. II II II ' In many states women have besieged leg islatures until boards of visitors huve been appointed. These boards, however, have neither responsibility nor authority. They visit the Institutions when they are ex pected and must report or muke sugges tions In writing to the trustees. The trus tees need take no notice of such report. They occupy ubout such a position as u formal caller would to the motherless fam ily above mentioned. Such a caller might be sympathetic and Interested, but her help would be of little value because of the relation she bore to the fumlly. The writer doubts If a board of visitors does any good except to accustom men to see ing women about such Institutions and to accustom women to serve on such boards. II II II The time Is surely coming when women and men will serve together as trustees, then will all the details of the home be un derstood by all the members of the board. Then will woman's tenderness, her mother heart be felt, then will many unfortunate women and children be happier and healthier. Then will the state And that the small economies which women prac tice In the home will be practiced In the state. 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E., 215 Lackawanna. BOOTS AND SHOES. Goodman's Shoe Store, 432 Lackawanna. FURNITURE. Barbour's Home Credit House, 425 Lacks. CARPETS AND WALL PAPER. Inglls, J. Scott, 419 Lackawanna. GENERAL MERCHANDISE Osterhout, N. P., 110 W. Market. Jordan, James, Olyphant. Barthold, E. J., Olyphant. CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, Bnook, S. M,, Olyphant. PAINTS AND WALL PAPER, Wlnke, J. C, Sit Penn. TEA, COFFEE AND SPICB. Oraaa Union Tea Co, 103 S. Mala. mm EBfir mi The Strange Affliction of Little Wilbur Robinson. He Stopped Growing-Limbs Became Useless and He was Unable to Walk His Cure Brought About in a Singular Manner. ' Fromlht Obtervtr, Charlotte, X. C ITesrinff that a child near Iron Station, Lincoln County, had been greatly benefited by the use of Dr. William.' Pink Pills for Pale People, a representative of the Observer went thither to see and ascertain the extent of the benefit the child had received. Riding out on December 5, 1U95, to a little country cottage in the pine woods, a mile distant from Iron Station, the reporter saw a bright-faced, young; woman, a pure anglo saxon type with light hair and blue eyes, standing in the doorway with two plump, rosy-cheeked children half hiding behind her dress. Mentioning that he was looking for a family of itobinsons, the woman seemed at tirst a little suspicious. " You're a stranger iu my eye," she said. " 1 am trying to find a child named Wil bur Kobinson, who was greatly benefited by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People." The young mother smiled and a pleased look came into her eyes as shcsnitl "come in," and added, "I guess that's the one," pointing to the younger of the two little boys. It was an humble home, the family being composed of that sturdy farming class that goes to make tin one of the strongest and truest types of North Carolina's good people. The husband, Robert O. Robinson, runs the farm of 200 acres, but was oil' to the mill ut the time. The mother, Carrie L. Robinson, told a remarkable story of the cure of her little boy from the effects of In grippe. Her aged, white-haired mother, Mrs. Sarah A. Bandy, sat near and empliasiited every word of the daughter. The little boy, Wilbur, who owed his recovery to Dr. Williams' effective remedy, played about the house and yard, and was Into every conceivable kind of mischief. It really seemed that he must hnvn tuken too many of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills so great was the energy with which he prosecuted his prauka. Three times his mother had to stop her conversa tion snd rush out to rescue the reporter's bicycle, which was leaning aguinst tha house outside, and with which Wilbur woe be coming almost too fainiliur. This is the story the mother told : "Wilbur was born August 8, 1893. He was a stout, healthy boy till he was nearly five months old. Between Christmas and New Year's he took the grippe. A physician at Iron Station attended lilui, and he was supposed to have recovered. Cut the after effects of the malady lingered with disas trous results. In March, lbDI, Ms parents noticed that he could not stand upon his feet, although before his taking the grippe he could do so easily. lie could not bear the weight of his body on his feet; his lees were not growing uny nor the muscle in them developing. Ho was not treated, how ever, till in the fall, about the last of Octo ber. When Mr. Robinson took his cotton to Lincolnfon, the county seat, he also carried his buby along, and a Lincolnton physician prescribed for nim. recommending a lotion for rubbing his limbs. This helped the child only temporarily. Twice afterward this physician was consulted. He told the parents that the child might some day be able to walk and again he might not. They would just have to let him "grow along," as the mother expressed it, and see what developed. At this period the child's legs appeared to be shrunken. As his mother says they were "as soft as cotton." Here was a boy fourteen months old, who not only could not walk, but could not bear his weight on his feet. In some way Ihey do not know how a fmmplilct found its way to the Robinson ainily. Old Mrs. Bandy fished it out of a bureau drawer. It had the picture of two dogs peeping over a fence on one cover, and on the other a herd of cows drinking in a cool streutu near a bridge. Both on the fence and on the bridge, on the respective ON THE SQUARE EDGED I SQUARE BUTTED LUMBER, SQUARE BUNCHED 4-FOOT LATH. RICHARDS LUMBER CO., 502 C0MM0.WE;lTH BUILDING. 'PH3NE 422. IRON AND STEEL Bolts, Nuts, Bolt Ends, Turnbuckles, Washers, Riy ets, Horse Nails, Files, Taps, Dies, Tools and Sup plies. Sail Duck for mine use in stock. SOFT STEEL HORSE SHOES and a full stock of Wagon Makers' Supplies, Wheels Hubs, Rims, Spokes, Shafts, Poles, Bows, etc. TTEIIEIIB S 01 SCRAN TON. PA. FLORAL DESIGNB. Clark, O. R. A Co.,. 201 Washington. CATERER. Huntington, J. C, 808 N. Washington. GROCERIES. Plrle, J. J., 427 Lackawanna. UNDERTAKER AND LIVERY, Raub, A. R-, 425 Spruce. DRUGGISTS. McGarrah A Thomas, 209 Lackawanna. Lorentz, C, 418 Lacka;. Linden & Wash. Davis, a W Main and Market. Bloes, W. S., Peckvlllo. Davles, John J., 100 S. Main. CARRIAGES AND HARNESS. Bimwoll, V. A . 515 Linden. PAWNBROKER. Green, Joseph, 107 Lackawanna. CROCKERY AND OLAS8WARB. HardlAg, J. JU, Ut Lackawanna. covers, was this lines "Dr.'WilliBins' Pink Pills fur Pale People." "When 1 read that those pills would build np the bone. 1 felt thnt they were the things fur Wilbur," said his mother. a " Old Mrs. Bandy sat up nearly all of one night reading this pamphlet, with all the testimonials it contaiued. A few days after they sent to cue of the two village stores and got two boxes of tNe pills. This was about the lust of November, 1894. Before he had finished taking the first box, the little fellow was able to War his weight on his feet, and before the second box was all gone, he could hold a chair before him and push it auross the floor. "We begnn by giving him a third of a pill at a time, afterward increasing the dose to a half, so tliey held out a long time," said his mother. 'HVo commenced the second box in January, this year. We had to send to Lincolnton, eight miles away, to get the next boxes. After biking the third box, in March, the child begun to go a few steps at a time, but he didn't walk by himself till in September. The fourth box, or part of it, was administered in August." The testimony of the mother was that the child's unpetite und, indeed, his whole sys tem was helped by the use of the pills. Mrs. Bandy, who had been looking over a sort of diary she keeps, at this point In the conversation, read this entry: "Sept. the 25th. Wilbur begins to walk alone by himself." "After he once learned to walk' said his mother, "we could hardly keep him in sight of the house, and he was cuim! by four boxes, lacking ten pills. Mother says, and always has said, the Lord directed somebody to send us that pamphlet of Dr. Williams." "You really believe the child's cure it due to Dr. Williams' Pills ? " was asked. "I am really convinced the pills cured Mm," the mother answered. "I haveu't tho slightest doubt about it." And the boy's grandmother chimed int "I'm just as sure of it as I am of living. I'll take an oath on tho Bible that that is what did it." The neighbors In all the section around the little villuge of Iron Station know and talk about the remarkable cure of this baby, who might bave been a cripple for life, hud he not, even ut. the age ot two years, one month and seventeen days, been enabled to wulk for tho first timo by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. This story may seem to the reader like a fabrication, but is told as the child's mother told it to the reporter. In order to show their appreciation, Mrs. Robinson furnished the following testimonial and signed it. (She says she is willing at any time to make sworn affidavit to her statements): Ibon Station, Lincoln Co., N. C, December 6, 1SU5. My infant son, Wilbur Lee, rendered un able to learn to walk, by the effects of the frippe. when lie was about five months old, hereby testify thut he was entirely cured, and the muscles in his legs developed by the use of less than four boxes of Dr. Wil liams' Pink Pills for Pale People, so that he is now a hale and hearty child. I am en tirely convinced that his cure is due to these pills. 1 also state that the above statements made to the reporter of the Charlotte Obser ver are true. j. L,. tiouiNsON. Harau A. Bandy, DY,) it. U. KOUKKTSON, "Unestei. II. A. HANKS, I Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are now given to the publio as au unfailing blood builder and nerve restorer, curing all forms of weukness arising from a watery con dition of the blood or shuttered nerves. The pUls are sold by ail dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, SO cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50 (tliey are never sold in bulk or by the 100),' by addressing Dr. Wil liams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y, SQUARE. 2UARE HEALING TO jUARE UEALERS. BROKER AND JEWELER. Radln Bros., 123 Penn. DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS. Kresky, E. H. A Co.. 114 S. Main. CREAMERY Stone Bros., 308 Spruce. BICYCLES. OUNS, ETC Parker, E. R-, 821 Spruce. DINING ROOMS. Caryl's Dining Rooms, 506 Linden. TRUSSES, BATTERIES AND RUBBESJ GOODS. Benjamin A Benjamin, Franklin A Spruea. MERCHANT TAILOR. Roberts, J. W., 126 N. Main. PIANOS AND ORGANS. Stolle, J, Lawrence, 303 Spruce, t DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, SHOES. HARDWARE. Uullsy.Ambrote, trlol stores, Provident Y
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