'JHB SCRANTON TRIBUNE-TUESDAY MORNING-, JULY G, 1897.
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Bicycle
Boots
A little something of
interest to wheel women.
To liven trade for the
next few days we cut the
price on the new bicycle
boots, the Victoria and
Road King, black or
brown vici kid, with
flexible soles on the fam
ous silver last Cut to
$2.50.
The best boot for the
money we've ever seen
or sold.
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410 SPRUCE STREET.
WILLIAMS
W'l'VAAMAAAAAi
Linen Slip Covers made
for parlor furnituro.
AND
Visit our Drapory De
partment, tbo largest and
most complete in this
part of the state.
McANULTY.
Base Ball today, Wilkes
Barre vs. Scranton at
3.45 Admission, 25c.
To Insure publication In this paper,
volunteered communications of a con
troversial character MUST BB
SIGNED FOR PUBLICATION by th
writer's true name. To this Just ml
We cannot hereafter make exception.
CITY NOTES.
A man was arrested on Washington ave
nue last night for discharging a revolver
on the street. Ills name Is unknown.
There will he a general meeting of tho
Homeopathic Hospltnl association at 10
o'clock Wednesday morning at tho Al
bright library. An attendance Is deslrul
of nil pel sons Interested In the move
ment. Tho funeral or Mrs. Charles II. Kuller
took place yesterday morning at the resl
dence, So." Miidlron avenue. Tho brief
and simple services wcro conducted by
Rev. Dr. C. E. Robinson, of the Second
Presbyterian church. The Interment was
private.
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
lUnder this heading short letters cf In.
terest will bo published when accompa
nied, for publication, by the writer's
name. The Tribune will not be held re
sponsible tor opinions here expressed.!
.Mr. Crossloy's l'up.
Editor of The Tribune: In your Issue
of last Saturday I find my name con
nected with owning a dog which had
bitten one "Patch," and also saying
that I hud refused to let the dog be
killed. I bellokO that statement was
given by that man "Patch." Tlia man
did not see me from the night the dog
scratched him until lnt Saturday,
for I was out of the city and did not
get bftok until Friday night at 31.30
o'clock. The dog was offered him, and
he refused to either take the do or
have It killed when he was nt my house
on the evening he was pinched by the
up, which is only nine months old.
Yours Respectfully,
H. J. CROSSLY,
52S Gibson Street.
Scranton, Pa,, July D.
.11 r. Iliiuncll's Statement.
Scranton, Pa., July 5, 1897.
Editor of The Tribune.
hlr.Wlth your permission, I will uso
your valuable riaper to again find fault
with the West Side correspondence of
the Elmlra Telegram. The article
which appeared In Sunday's ls.sue of the
Telegram referring to me, reminded ms
of the snapping of a kicked cur.
If tho West Ride correspondent in
tends to write up the character of
street car conductors ho should begin
at home and tell us why he was dis
charged by tho Bcmnton Traction
company. Hoping "Ueorgie" will re
frain from a further exposure of his
lnorance, I remain
Yours respectfully,
S. L. Bunnell.
WILL
Unpack big stock
of fine
ONERY
Today.
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OLD FASHIONED TIME
OUT IN GREEN RIDGE
Flag Raising ai Fourth of July Ora
tion at St. Paul's.
HON. T. V. POWDERLY TUB SPEAKER
I'nrndo of Catholic Soclotlcs, Fol
lowed by tho Flna RttUinc mid n
rJcnlo-Quoon Victorious Juullco
and the Annual Juullco of tho Uni
ted Htntcs Contrnstcd--9Ir. Iov
dorly is Not Throwing Up Ills lint
for "Victoria, tho tJood."
Tho only real, genuine, old-fnshloned
Fourth of July celebration was out at
Orcen Ridge where the Phil Sheridan
council, Y. M. I., raised a. flag In front
of St. Paul's; Parochial school, to the
accompaniment patriotic exercises by
the school children, an oration by Hon.
T. V. Powderly and speeches of pres
entation nnd acceptance respectively
by President James Roach, of the
Young Men's Institute, nnd Rev. P. J.
McManus, pastor of St. Paul's church.
The exercises began nt 10 o'clock a.
m when a large membership of locnl
Catholic societies braved the heat and
duet and paraded through tho princi
pal siroets of Oreen Ridge, headed by
the Forest band. There was first n
line of carriages containing the speak
ers, visiting clergymen und represen
tatives of the societies participating.
Then came the Father MatheW soci
eties. Ancient Order of Hibernians and
councils of the Young Men's Institute,
the St. Aloyslus society of the South
Side and the Dunmore and John Boylo
O'Reilly councils of the Young Men's
Institute having the best representa
tions. At the base of the sixty-six foot polo
from which the flag was floated, a plat
form had been erected and from this
the speeches were made. The school
chlldron opened the exercises with
singing. Then President James Roach,
of the Phil Sheridans, presented the
dag to the school In a very neat and
appropriate speech.
Rev. Father McManus accepted the
gift on the ikxtI of himself nnd tho
school, thanking the Young Men's In
stitute In the warmest terms for their
kindness and praising them for the
spirit which prompted the net. "I
have wanted a good big fla-g for the
school ever since it was built;" he
said. "Wo have keiit a small one
floating from the window on every ap
propriate occasion but I felt wo should
have a big one, that we could lloat
above the school. It seems as If God
had given this to us to show his appre
ciation of the patriotic teachings that
I and the teachers have been Instilling
Into our pupils."
MEANING OF THE FLAG.
He then explained to the children
what tho flag stood for, the significance"
of the stripes, stars and colors nnd
concluded by telling them that their
last drop of blood should not be denied
the principles which "Old Glory" repre
sented. The Hag was then hoisted In place
while the children sang "The Star
Spangled Ranner," and "Columbia,"
with accompaniment by the band. Then
three rousing cheers were given, Father
McManus leading.
Owing to the excessive heat nnd the
fact that there was no protection from
the sun, either for the speakers or the
audience, Mr. Powderly made his re
marks very brief. His remarks In the
main were a comparison of the annual
Jubilee of the United States and the Ju
bilee of Queen Victoria.
It was qulto remarkable, Mr. Powder
ly thought, that during all of her sixty
years reign not one particular deed was
found by her admirers that was deemed
worthy of special commemoration. He
ridiculed the Americans who had par
ticipated In the public celebration and
said he thanked God no Irishman had
been thoughtless enough to scrape and
bow before one whose leign wns noth
ing more or less than sixty years of
war, conquest, oppression nnd tyranny.
Lincoln's mancipation proclama
tion was mentioned by way of con
trast, the speaker contending that that
one deed overshadowed not only all
that had been accomplished for hu
manity by Queen Victoria but all the
present crowned monarchs of the
world.
There was no particular credit at
taching to Queen Victoria for what
progress Great Britain had made In the
mutter of civilization, Mr. Powdeily
snld.
An Irishman, one time, he went on to
relate, wns being shown Niagara Falls
by an Englishman. The Englishman
grew eloquent at the sight. The Irish
man didn't get a bit enthused. The
Englishman chlded him for his lack of
appreciation, whereupon the Irishman
said, "Well what's so wonderful about
that, I dunno?" "Why," said the Eng
lishman. "The water. That mighty
waste of water, Going over the falls!"
"What the dlvll is to hinder It?" said
the Irishman.
WHAT'S TO HINDER?
With this story he disposed of the one
boast made by Victoria's admirers
that she was good. What was to hin
der her? There is many a poor nnd
lowly woman, Mr. Powderly said, who
had reached Queen Victoria's years and
who was also "good," "And," he added,
"many of them have raised Just as
good and as religious boys and girls as
has Victoria the Good."
In closing, Mr. rbwderly took a
whack at bigotry, paying particular at
tention to those who make Catholics
and Irishmen as objects of their nar
rowness. One thing he would like to
call to the attention of such to the fact
that Lackawanna county gave two men
to the two thousand who made up the
Legion of Honor and that those two
bore the namo of Patrick DeLacy and
John C. Delaney.
The exercises closed with tho singing
of "My Country 'Tls of Thee," and
spontaneous burst of applause by the
assemblage.
A plcnlo was held in tho grove oppo
site the school following the flag-raising.
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ELKCTItlC LIGHTING.
Thoro Is Said to Ho 1500,000,000
Invested in It in This Country.
In the electrlo lighting field the total
capital invested in the United States is
given as over $5000,000. The number
of plants, public and private, is over
ten thousand, says an exchange. Tho
number of motors in use is estimated
at about five hundred thousand, and
their value at about MOO.OOO.OOO. The
eleotrlcal apparatus used In mining
Is estimated at $100,000,000, and tho
value of the electric elevator Industry
v.'ill probably not full short of J15.000,
000. Tho moat Important of all live eleo
trlcal Industries, however, is that of
electric railways. In this field the in
vestment is very treat, and in tho
United Statta Is represented by a cap.
thllrntlon of over $700,000,000. Tho num
ber of trolley cars In use l now over
twelve thoousand miles of trnck. Tho
electric rnllwnys represent more thnn
ninety per cent, of all the Btrcet nnd
puburlmn railroads of the country.
Tho agnropato of all the capital In
vested In electric lighting, electric rail
ways and electric power li about fifteen
hundred millions, nnd this does not In
clude the value of establishments that
manufacture tho machinery and appa
ratus. As many of theho are among tho
largest Industrial enterprises In tho
world, nnd as nearly all arc concerns
of considerable magnitude, It Is evi
dent that their combined capital will
run up Into targe tlgures.
BRITAIN'S FOREIGN KINGS.
Since Alfred the (irent, Two-flllbsof the
Time Foreigners Have Sat on the
Tbronc Now Occupied by Victoria.
Says the London correspondent of the
Sun: It Is curious to count up now, nt
the end of the longest reign in certified
and verified history, the number of
years that England first and Great
Britain next Was been ruled over by
foreigners. England and Britain and
the British, ns we over here know from
hearing nd nauseam, never, never, nev
er, never, never, never, never shall be
slaves; but the reiteration of twaddle
until we believe It does not prevent us
from having spent as a nation two
fifths of our life under the governance
of foreign king? and queens, und a
consideration of the foreigners might
be Interesting now.
Burke's Peerage, the Bible of the
wealthier families of Great Britain,
traces Queen Victoria's pedigree back
to Alfred, commonly called the Great.
So let us also start with him.
Alfred was n Saxon, the son of a
Saxon, and he was succeeded by Sax
ons; so from 871 to 1016, when Cnnute
the Dane succeeded Edmund Ironside,
the kingdom of England was ruled by
Anglo-Saxons. Canute and his sons,
Harold Harefoot and Hairdlcanute,
ruled for twenty-six years, until 1012;
then the Anglo Saxon came back In the
shape of Edward the Confessor. in
106(5 Harold II. succeeded the pious Ed
ward, to be followed by the first pro
fessionally foreign king, William the
Conqueror.
A PROFESSIONAL FOREIGNER.
He was a professional foreigner be
cause his Norman duchy was more to
him than his English kingdom; be
fore this time tho foreign kings had
treated England as something of Im
portance. William the Conqueror had
to spend some years In England to
complete the conquest; but he was a
Norman, a duke, and only Inciden
tally King of England. So. too, were
William tho Ruddy and Henry the
.Scholar; nominally kings of Normandy,
thev warred with that brother for
nearly twenty years to obtain his
duchy. After Henry I. came Stephen,
Count of Blols; to be followed by the
Angovln Kings, the Counts of Anjou
In France, who ruled from 1133 to 1400.
Not all of these rulers were foreign
ers, however; but Stephen, 1135-1154;
Henry II., 1154-US9; Richard I.. 1189-11!)!-;
John, 1199-1216, were distinctly
foreign. In fact, Richard I. did not
spend a year all told In England. But
all the rulers of the line married
French women, so that there was not
English blood In any one of the list.
From 1216 to 1400 the Angevlns were
nominally English; they lost most of
their French territory and had to live
In England. Then came the Lancas
trians, the first really English reign
ing house since tho Conquest. Henry
IV. was the son of old John of Gaunt;
his mother was English he married
an English woman; but his reigning
descendants went to France for their
wives.
The Yorkists were better English
than the Lancastrians, but their reign
was shorter, and lasted only twenty
four years. Then came the Tudors, and
they, too, were English; and after lit"
Tudors, In 1603, came the first of a
line of foreigners, whose foreign de
scendant btill sits on the British
throne.
James Stuart had been King of Scot
land for more, than thirty years when
he succeeded Elizabeth as sovereign
of England. English history Is almost
silent ns to this fact; It admits that
he was King of Scotland, but then lets
that fact slip, and remarks that he
"began to reign" In 1603. He, like
Canute and William I., wns a foreign
ruler. Charles I born in Scotland, died
on the scaffold In 1619.
WILLIAM OF ORANGE.
In 16S8 came another foreigner, Wil
liam, Prince of Orange, who ruled as
William the Third until 1702. Then
came Anne, the last of tho English sov
ereigns of England, and when she died,
in 1714, came the fourth foreigner,
George L, Elector of Hannover, which
his English subjects have misspelled
Hanover. George III., born In 1738. was
Indeed born In England; and the varl
bus monarchs since his time have tak
en care that their princely chlldrem
shall first see tho light In England.
But they are not English.
Some time ago some paper looked up
the pedigree of tho Prince of Wales, to
determine whether he had more Eng
lish than French blood In his veins.
The paper decided that he had more
French blood than English, Inasmuch
ns his nearest English ancestor was
Margaret, queen of James IV. of Scot
land, who died in 1541; while his near
est French ancestor was Margaret of
Lorraine, queen of James V. of Scot
land. This was wrong, because Henry
Stuart, Lord Darnley, was father to
James VI., and was of half Kngllsh
blood. But since Darnley's time tho
house of England has been maintained
wholly by Germans.
James VI of Scotland married Anne
of Denmark; his daughter Elizabeth
married Frederick, Elector of Brand
enburg. Elizabeth's daughter Sophia
married the Elector of Hannover:
Sophia's son, having married Sophia
Dorothea of Zelle, became King of Eng
land In 1714. He lelgned for thirteen
years, most of which time he spent In
Hanover. George II, married Caroline
of Brandenburg; Frederick, Prince of
Wales ("only Fred") married a prin
cess of Saxe-Gotha; George III, mar
ried Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwer-In;
Edward, Duke of Kent, married a
princess of (Saxe-Coburg; Victoria, the
present queen, married a prince of
Saxe-Coburg; nnd the Prince of Wales
married a princess of Denmark, whoso
father, before he becamo a King, was
Prince of Schleswlg-Holsteln-Sonder-burg-Glucksburg.
Is It any wonder that
the royal family of Great Britain speak
English with a German accent? The
wonder would be if they spoke without
It, Even In America, whero naturali
zation cures all defects, would you call
a person an American, and, In a quar
ter of the cases, born there yet in
variably Imported Germans as wU'es
or husbands?
There is no hope for Improvement or
change, either. The Prince of York,
his son, married a German lady, and
Prince Edward of York, the future
king, has two generations more of
German and less of English blood than
has tho Prince of Wales. Thus since
Alfred's time England has spent 608
years under English kings and 420
years under foreign t'.lngs.
THKY IIAVIJ NO Al'I'IJAL.
English Criminal Law Doc Not Pro
vide for Any Ilclnys.
England enjoys the strange distinc
tion of having been until now about the
only civilized country In the world that
has no criminal court of appeal, says
the New York Tribune. There Is a
court of final appeal for civil cases, In
the house of Lonls, over which tho Lord
Chancellor presides, composed of tho
members of the high ourt of Judica
ture, known ns the Lord Justices, who
are not peers, and likewise of those
peers who have hold office in tho post
ns Chancellor cf England, or as Lord
Chancellor of Ireland, oa Lord Justice
General of Scotland or ns merely a
Lord Justice. These ex-law lords take
their places on the side Beats, arrayed
In ordinary morning dress, while tbe
Lord Justice of Appeal, arrayed In wig
and gown, occupies tho cross seats, tho
Chancellor likewise in his robes, direct
ing the procedure from the woolsack.
But nothing of the kind exists for crim
inal cases and there Is at the present
moment no means of quashtng and re
versing the decision of a criminal court,
except by the granting of a pardon In
the Queen's name to the prisoner. In
Instances where the innocence of the
latter has been brought to light after
the convictions this Is obviously a most
unsatisfactory method of dealing with
tho affair, slnco tho concession of tho
act of grace In the namo of the Crown
Implies that a crime has really been
committed which needs forgiveness
nnd mercy.
Moreover, Judges no matter how
eminent and how anxious to be Impar
tial and Just, arc, after all, but mor
tal, and Just as much subject to Idl
osyncracles arc sometimes manifested
REXFOIID'S.
These Prices
Are for
Today and
Wednesday
Only.
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Crockery Sale.
Today starts five days of Crockery
and China selling such as Scranton has
never known. All of last season's open
stock patterns to be closed out. All odd
lots to go. All we need say is that we
are now prepared to outdo ourselves in
bargain selling.
Carlsbad
Dinner Set
101-piece set, del
icate three color
decorations, every
piece stamped. Splendid thin ware,
worth $18. Sale price 10.00.
Cups and
Saucers
Over five hundred
to be sold this week.
English semi-porce
lain, decorated in three colors, all
with gold, and handled, worth 12c.
Sale price 5c, cup and saucer.
Haviland Genuine Haviland
Dinner Set D'mne.T Set.s ,iu1
142 pieces, includ
ing several large covered dishes,
every piece stamped "Haviland,"
sold everywhere for $50. Sale
price $29.
THE REXFORD CO.
303 LACKAWANNA AVENUE.
CLEARANCE SALE OF DRY
Commencing July 1, we Will Cut the Price
on All Spring and Summer Goods. You Can
Secure Bargains in
Dress Goods,
Wash Goods,
White Goods.
MEARS &
In an exceedingly distressing manner
upon the bench, and when they take
tine form of tho imposition of sentences
which, while permitted by law, aro al
together out of proportion to tho grav
ity of the offense it stands to reason
that tome menriH should exist of repair
ing tho wrongs thus indicted upon an
unfortunate fellow creature. Sir Rob
ert Rcld, who wan the Attorney Gen
eral of the last Liberal Administration,
did not hesltnto to declare the other
day in the Houso of Commons, during
the course of a discussion on tho sub
ject that "ferocious and crusl punish
ments" were sometimes Inflicted from
the bench, and cited tho Incident whero
a certain judge had been "guilty of the
awful wickedness of increasing a pris
oner's sentence by several years for
impertinence to himself during the
course of the trial." Moreover, tho
quarter sessions of the various counties
tribunals which aro composed of
county gentlemen and territorial mag
nates are renowned for the terrible
severity with which they punish potty
offenses against property and tho gamo
laws, while manifesting an extraordin
ary lenle.ncy whero crimes of violence
are concerned. As tho matter utands
now there Is no means of revising
there sentences, no method of appeal
ing against them.
Still Ilottor.
The D. L. & W. railroad now runs nn
elegant through day coach (as we'l ns
cleeplng car) from New York to Chi
cago on their train No. 7, leaving New
York at 7 p. m every day, thus en
suring "no change of cars" to aU pas
cengers. It is the shoitest rout') and
has the lowest rates. Apply to your
neatest D. L. & V. railroad ticket
C8ent.
m
To Curo n Cold in One Day.
Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund tho money If It
falls to cure. 25 cents.
UISXFORO'S.
Odd
hot
After Dinner
Cups and Saucrs
Several
different
styles,
some are Japanese ware, but all
China, without regard to value
they go at 3c, cup and saucer.
rioustache
Cups
And saucers to
match. Roses seem
a little too high col
ored for some. Out they go for
5c, cup and saucer.
Ileal China-
Toilet Set A lot of imported
Bargain semi-porcelain toilet
sets, in most elegant
shapes and decorations. At regular
prices they brought from 6.50 to
$8.50, now they go at the extreme
ly low price of $3.38
Table Linens,
Hosiery,
Corsets,
coimee
HAGEN
CvVfcVt3X
Something
New.
Is tbe "Glow" Night
Lamp. Otic pint of oil will
feed it 200 hours. No smell 1
No smoke 1 No heat 1 Easy
to regulate 1 Absolutely no
danger! Just tbe tbing tor
tbe sick room, bedroom, nurs
ery, lavatory and dark corners-
Get one for your sum
mer cottage.
25 c each
Millar & Peck,
131 WYOMING AVENUE.
Walk in, nnd look around
UEXKORD'S.
Some of
the Lots
Are Small.
Come
Quickly.
o
China With gold
Cream Pitchers handle, dain
ty shapes,
just in berry time, to go at 5c.
Dinner
Sets
From the celebrated
Kottery of J. & G.
leakin. England, three
color decorations and lots of gold,
would be excellent value at $12.00.
They are marked to go for 0.90.
Fruit
About two hundred
thin real china dishes,
with gold line and
Saucers
fluted, never sold less than 10c.
Special price 3c.
Jardiniers. Hardly twenty
Small Lot five, but they join
the slaughter brig
ade today, some sold for 98c. Sale
price 39c.
Tea Set Imported Tea Sets,
Offer handsome decorations.
fifty-six pieces, never
sold less than 33-75 the set. Sale
price $1.98 the set.
China Sugar
and Creams
Several dozen
real thin China,
nicely flowered
and pretty shapes, sold for twenty
five cents the set. Sale price 5c
each.
Underwear,
Men's Dress Shirts,
Parasols,
415
Lackawanna
RWRK
to,
IH
MS,
I)
and everything to
make the eagle
scream, at lowest
prices.
THE GREAT
4c STORE
310 Lackawanna Ave.
THIS MATTRESS
is sold in nearly every city in tho
United States for $15.00. It is
built up in layers and will nob
mat. It is soft, clean, healthful,
elastic and durable. 1 havo inado
special arrangements to handle
this, best of all mattresses, in
Scranton and am now ablo to sell
them for
$10.00 APIECE.
It is a far better mattress for
complete rest than tho best hair
mattress, which cost from 25.00
to $35.00
Your inspection is earn
estly solicited.
D. 1. PHILLIPS,
507 Linden Street.
HOARD OP TRADE BUILDING.
THE KEELEY CURE
Why let yonr borne and bualnea be deetroy
cd through itrong drink or morpblae. whea
you can be oured In (our week at tbe Keelej
Institute, TW Madleon arenue. Scraatoa, Pa.
Tbe Cur Will Bear Invoatlcetlea.
GOOD
Ladies' Shirt Waists
Tailor - Made Suits,
Separate Skirts.
111 I'll
$U ills.
and 417
Avenue, Scranton.
Pa.
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