ii'rfi3 -5n THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-WUDNUSDAlT, JULY It, 1900. liTNEWS WEEKLY BUftGET OF NEWS rAIRCnflLB'S EXPERIENCE WITH) THE MINK. 'Tho Ohio with f Mnih S Who Corresponded usquelianna County Woman Hurt tcr Heed nnd His Bon Constrictor -ibeath of the Man Who Fired lie First Shot at Fort Sumter Ijiso Ball Gossip Per sonal NgAes, parlors and at the Stirrucca house, wan largely nttended and a very pleas ant nffulr. Dnrnn's Susquehanna or chostitt furnished music for the event. Asked why hIio did not marry, a Susquehanna bachelor girl replied: "I have no need of u huMiand. I have a dog to growl at mo and a parrot to swear at me." Somebody should start a now tem perance movement to rercue the per ishing mm thp dally to pitcher. A Client Hend editor bays he never saw hut one ghost, and thatwas tho ghost of a sliiniT who died without paying for his paper. 'Twas horrible to look upon. Whitney. MOVEMENT OF THOOPS. p!sl tof the Srranton Tribune Susofti'-hnnna. July 0 Tom Fnhch'ld and llzrti Chandler were In the river "bays fishing on Monday, when they ruw a mink come out of tho water on ' the opposlto shine. Just lielnw them, S with a bl.ick bass In Its mouth. When tho mink dtn Itself out on shore tho fishermen commenced to shoot nt It This frightened the animal, and It dropped the bass and hunledly dl nppeannl. The fishermen seemed the fish, which weighed four pounds, and measured twentv Inches In length. The flsheimcn would like to secure the services of the mink for the entlio season. Mom: si:ntimi:nt than brains An Ohio voting man thought he would be smint nnd o began a cor respondence with a Susquehanna coun ty young womin, whom he had never seen She wanted his photogi.iph, and he sent her that of a hotel keener of that place. She was so pleased with It that she agreed to go to Ohio and many In r correspondent. She staited alone, nnd ni lived In a little Ohio town the other clay, but tho ioung man hit llerl The local paper that u put ted the affair said 'The situation Is vciv em batraslng foi the lady. Tho hotel man would many hei were he not engaged to another girl. littlt: i.orAi.r.TTKS. Hxlt, the boa consttletoi brought from South Afilca to I.anesboro by ictutned misslnnaiv Hunter Heed. His snakcshlp was kept In Riverside Park. A peregilnatlng chicken picked out the eves of the make and death followed. Driving fiom Susquehanna to Col- lmbia Groe, his summer residence, Dr D. J. Peek, of this place killed a attlesnake oei four feet long. It possessed nine rattles. Columbia Hose company, of Carbon- dale, will soon pay Krie Hose company of Susquehanna, a dav's islt. Among the day's features will be a parade, nnd a social at night. The Ccntuiv club will entoitaln Its lady f i lends at a hop to be held In the pavilion In Riverside Park, Lanesboro, this eenlng. Judson, the ll- ear-old son of Mr. and lli C. T. Fisher, following te proof for some misconduct, suddenly left home en Tilday. He was last heard from In Klmlia. It is thought that he Is headed foi Sunbury, his fui nicer lome. WHOLLY rxrHEMnDITATED. Ho was i ti imp, A .lirtt, rigenl camp, U.oN she os wcie .rj much In neeO of a re- wmi, And lie was one Wb thmulit it lots (if fun -n nre the fiimcr'a lujstacl. after set of fun. Ami it ho lml A soul not wliollj lml, Tlioiuh Kiicn o'er to the tajs that malic pcor-lc iiml llincatli his vest V triming fur tlic best V j i in ins 6tronK anil deathlike filled his hreast, DEMOCRATS OPEN THEIR CAMPAIGN (Concluded from IViro 1.1 Forces to Leave for Taku on Friday. Washington, July 10. Oenernl Mac- Arthur cables the war department from Manila that the Fourteenth In fantry one! rifth artillery will leave em Friday for Taku. Other Hoops are being sent to replace these. Plattsburg, N. Y July 10 Com panles A, U, C and D of the Fifteenth Infantry, undi r command of Colonel Moale, left Plattsbuig barracks at 9 o'clock this morning foi San Francisco, whence they wilt sail for Nagasaki on the ti.inspoit Grant on July 15. Oenernl Mac At thur's cable dispatch to the adjutant general, under date of July 9, 1040 p. in, Is as follows: Daggett's regiment (Foul tcenth Flit ted States Infantry), Reilly's battery (rifth aitlllery), will leave 13lh for Ta ku on ttanspotts Indiana, Flintshire and Wjelleld. Taloi, In Samar, not available. Tor other infnntiy tegt ment foi Chinese sen Ice recommend lh st one leasing States. Manila nicely cued for until nirlvnl new troops without drawing on Anderson, Rulliud or Sargent, which Is now Impracticable. In addition to one mo'ith'.s subsistence supplies with tioops, sent with Dag gett, to establish depot, three months' subsistence foi fi,000 men Regiments linvi "iUO lounds ammunition per man. Ciolor canles 1,000 ic-soive and such miscellaneous ordnance supplies ns can be sp.ueel fiom here. With slew Ko inedlea 1 supplv depot, stores tluee months (for) G,000 men go with Dag gett. There will be eight medi cal officers In China from Philip pines Send three months forage 3',0 animals and partial supply wintti clothing for Ninth infantry. Shall keep Indiana and Flintshire In China waters for local service theieln. Orders all large tiansports home to expedite, tiansfet tioops heie. Fotegolng ar langements easllv changed If depart- ment wishes cabled ejulckly. Seven companies, Hardin's regiment, Taj lor's battel y, have been sent to Samar, re placing Hughes' tioops therein, which have been concentrated In I.cte. Request nuthorlty to permanently tunsfcr Samar department to south ern Luzon. Mn.cArth.ur. 1 or In lmeil pie, nl line the melons lie Hi t ii r . I when Imcolle watchers were rot ULTIMATUM TO OPERATORS. iiil I in ise. rn I'lun In id he had firesworn. Anil een fpririj clilcKtn which too Ion,; ago who horn. No Indian was ever known to snoie. Young women who object to snoring husbands should make up their minds to wed an Indian without delay. A Susquehanna county girl waived her hand at a stranger, and In three clays they were man led. Two days later the young wife waved a llatnon at her husband, and In a year he came home waving a dlvoice. The bass, like a babe ball plnyor, are rising to the lly. A scientist has discovered tho "earth quake belt." It Is found In the spot where the green cucumber shakes you. Having screamed a scieam that will bo heard the country over, tho eagle now may peich upon the banner and doze until his next birthday comes. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. Tho man who flreel the first shot at Fort Sumter has just died. One by ono the men who participated In the civil war, like Juno roses, dioop nnd die, and when decades of jears roll away, not many will be left. Each year there are more soldiers' graves and fewer comrades left to decorate them. A wild tumor, which cannot be traced to any reliable source, Is to the effect thut the two gieat political par ties will make an effort" this jear to catch tho Amcilean vote. Is It altogether complimentary to be referred to as a "rising young poli tician?" A city or town newspaper Is a photo graph of the place wheie It Is printed, and is the only evidence its foreign readers have of the town's progress. Every business flim should be repre sented by a standing advertisement. be It largo or small, that strangers may get a good Impression of the place. There was a s!i:n upon a fence The sign was "I'elnt1" (aid ever) body that went !), Sinner and saint, iut out a finger, touched the fence, And onward tpedj And as they wiped their flnser tips, "It is!" they said. THE NEWS RECORD. The Erie Hose and the Susquehanna Athletic clubs will play ball in Beebe park on Thursday net. Tho Eilo shop employes will excurt to Elmlra August lb. The Montrose ball club offers the Susquehanna club "all of the gate re ceipts" if It will play in Montrose, "All of the gate receipts" at a gamo in Montrose means from J8 to $12. It would cost the Susquehanna team $i0 to go to that borough. A second game between the two clubs is a remote possibility. A Susquehanna county man, who re cently died, left his pioperty to his mother-in-law, "The world do move." From some sections of the county come reports that a large green bug, of a new variety, is attacking and kill ing the potato bugs. "Let tho good work go on!" Tho annual banquet nnd leunlon of Laurel Hill Alumni association, held last evening in the Knights of Pythias Will Be Piesented on July 30 by United Mine Workers. Wllkes-Harre, July 10. The United Mine Woikeis' dlsttlet convention, which has been in .session at Plttston the last two das adjourned this even ing. It was given out that a joint meeting of the tluee districts of the Fnlted Mine Woikeis of the anthia elto region would be held at Hazleton on July 30. It Is said a final ultimatum will then bo Issued to the opeiatois. The four great questions that the miners have been discussing for some time will then come up for final disposition. These questions are: First Will the operators obey the state law and p ly their men eveiy two w eeks .' Second Will the operators grant a i eduction In the price of powder? Thlid Will the operators lecognlzc the miners' union? rourth Will the operators consent to a fail dockage svstem? LAKE ERIE TROTTING: CIRCUIT. First Day's Meet nt Titusville a Suc cess. Tltusvllle, Pa., July 10 Tho first dav's meet of the Lake Erie trotting cltiult at the new J. C. McKlnney cliiv Ing park was a pionounced success. The weather was brilliant and the track fast. The feature of the day was the unfinished third race, In which Sapphjre won two neats, with Tom Nolan second. Tho attendance was large Summary. 2 40 pace, purse $400. Cartridge, won; Gene Whltcomb, second; Pure Gold, third Time, 2 'J1H. 2 19&, 2 19Vi, 2.22 Second race 2 IS trot, purse $400. rrank Creamer, won, Archie, W, sec ond; Metnllas, third. Time, 2 15V-, 2 17'i, 2 17. 2 17i. Third i.ue 217 pace, pUrse, $400 (un finished) Time, 2 18 3-0, 2 12. 2.14'i, 2 15?4, 2.17. TESTING THE ARMOR. New Plates for the Battleship Illi nois Show Great Resistance. Washington, July 10. The naval ord nnnce buieau todav held a test of II Inch haiveylzed Cainegle plate at the Indian Head piovlng ground. This plate foi mod the last gioup of tut ret uimor, jet unteBted, for the new 'bat tleship Illinois, now ne.ulng completion at New pent News. Two 12-inch shots weie fired, nccoid Ing to specifications. The first tiav eled with a velocity of 1.4S0 feet per second and penetrated to ,i depth of syt Inches, the shell breaking up nnd tho pieces rebounding. The velocity of the second shot was 1,8."2 feet per sec ond. In this case the projectile again broke up, the head remaining In the plate. The estimated penetration was 12 Inches. ATHLETES SIGNED. Fitz nnd Ruhlin Agree to Meet in a 25-Round Contest. New Yoik, July 10. Robert Fltzslm mons and Gus Ruhlin today signed ar ticles for a twenty-five round glove contest on Aug. 10 befoie the club of fering the largest purse. The winner Is to take 75 and the loser 25 per cent of the prize money. Immediately after the signing of the agreements, articles were signed by Fltzsimmons and Thomas Shaikey to light on Aug. 25, or any day between the 25th and 28th should Fltz incur any Injury In his fight with Ruhlin, The fight will bo for twenty-live rounds and tho ngreement in all re spects Is similar to the other fight. Root Gets Decision, Chlrapo, July 10 Jack Hoot, the undefeated middleweight of Chicago, at Tattersalls tonight nlitalntd the decision ocr Pick O'llrlen, of I.cv Moil, Me., at the end of six rounds and In one nt the ficicrst battles ever witnessed In this city, reform forces of the country hope and Intend to restore tho action of tho fed eral government to the principles ot Washington and Jeffetson to lc-es-tabllsh by the spirit of tS'JO the doc trines of 1770 the principles of Jeffer son, equal rights to all, special privi leges to none." "The man who sees In the cnmpalgn ot 1S9C only an ordinary political con test has little Insight. That enmpnlgn was the beginning of a life and death struggle between opposing forces of n fundamental chai actor and between which In the vety nature ot things, there can be no true of paity until victory shall have crowned tho one or the other. It was the first real crash of arms between those who would transform this government to an oligarchy of wealth and privilege anil those who would nrrest our pies- ent progress In that ilLxetion and re trace our steps to tho sofety and glory of the ane'ent ways. The Republic in Danger. "The Republic Is nlrcaelv In danger. In the midst of social questions ot gravest complexion to whose solution nretequlslto the best Intellect and lof tiest patilotlsm of this country, tho vigilance of the people Is ietaed by the occurrence of wnr, whose noble In ception has disguised Its consequences until, within the little mince of two J ejus we have traveled fuither fiom "in old Ideals than svould, even so shoit a time ago have seemed to be the possible accomplishment of a ce n lur, If, Indeed, evet possible at all. Alieady wo ate in the veiy shadow of the emplie. "My friends, If the citizens ot this country at the fotthcomlng election shall ratify and confirm tho presump tuous stretches of nuthotlty that have churacteilzed the conduct of this ad ministration, then we shall not be In danger of establishing an empire; the emplie will have been already estab lished." Mr. Tow no ciltlclsed the nttltude ot this government toward tho people of Potto Rico and the Philippines. "We walked ncros Porto Rico on n, car pet cf ftoweis bpread bv the confident enthusiasm of the inhabitants, nnd we have compelled them to walk thorns In return. We ate piling up espendl tuies bv the hundied of millions on land and sea in order to make com mercial returns In thousands We nre adding to the strength of the republic by sacrificing thousands of her stnl wart sons to disease, Insanity and death. We have emitted our own to stand upon foreign ground. We have fotmed .a partneishlp with England wheieln we assume all the danger and she reaps all the benefit. We have ceased to quote the declaration of In dependence. Vv'e have giown contemp tuous of the constitution We have te e hrlstened slaughter and named It civ ilization. We aie putting men to the sword by the thousands and dare to call oui selves the agents of Him about whose lowly ciadle nineteen centutles ngo the angels of heaven snug, 'Peace on eaith, good will to man." An Opinion of tho Platform. Mr Towne was followed bv Mr. Iuy- an, who was Introduced amid tremen dous applause. He spoke as follows. "I do not c.aie to enter at the ptesent time upon a discussion of the Issues piesented by the platfoim adopted at Kansas City. I can say, however, that it Is, In my judgment, the greatest platform adopted In recent jeats. If not In the hlstoiy of tho countiy. It is a gi eater platform than the Chicago platform, for It Indoises the pilnci ples set forth In that platform and in addition theieto piescnts the party's position upon seveial new and vital eiuestlons. There Is no evasion about the platfoim, no ambiguity and no double dealing It Is as clear as the tones of the bell, ns clear as the tones of a liberty bell. It deals honestly with the Aineilcan people. Its candi dates are pledged to Its maintenance. "When the convention came to the selection of a candidate for vice-president theio was a diversity of opinion Some preferred an eastern candidate, believing that he would strengthen the ticket In the east Some preferied Mr Towne, knowing of the sacrlflco which he made for principle and of his devo tion to the principles set forth In the Chicago platform. Rut the choice fell upon a distinguished Illinois Democrat, who once discharged with great ciedit the duties of the office. In the cam paign of '96, when plutocracy and Democracy met face to face, Adlal E. Stevenson was an able and courageous de-fender of the cause of Democracy. During the campaign he spoke In sev en of the close states. Why Adlai Is Loved. "In beginning my speech I refene.l to him as, 'We who have been keepeis of the Democratic faith, love Adlal V. Stevenson not only for what he Is, but love him also because he is all we have left of the last national Democratic ticket. The Rlble tells ou of the father who loved the piodlgal sen vhen he returned. I tell vou of the Demoeiatlc faith who loved the son who went not astrav.' "I know that some of our allies felt grieved that they weie not given the second place upon the ticket, but I -im suie that they cannot feel unkindly toward one who, like Mr. Stevenson, was loval to the ticket nominated at Chicago and who Is able to defend the magnificent patty creed set foith at Kansas City. "In this campaign, Issues are gieatei than men. I shall not usk any ono to vote- oui ticket meiely because. It Is tho ticket of tho paity. It deseives suppoit because It stands foi the dec laration of independence In dealing with tho Philippines and for the doc trine of equal lights for all and special privileges for none in v all domestic questions." (leneinl James U Weaver spoke at some length, outlining the wenk to be done by the Democratic, Sliver Repub lican and Populist parties, and appeal ing for haimony for the common cause. He also paid tribute to Mr. Stevenson's recoid In congiess. STARVBNG PE&PLE mmzmmmmmamm Two Views ofi Starvation Of the two, the man starving amid plenty is the more to be pitied. He eats but is not fed. His digestion is imperfect. The nutri tive values of the food he eats are lost. He becomes emaciated, weak and nervous. He is literally dying of slow starvation. ""c H if " A o " "1 -fe 'tiM&h ifjppv; : V t ,f i hj) m&m - mmm$8mM km . , iQAHI 9 m vM':mmsm Need just one thing -food. That is plain when one looks at tho gaunt body of the starving Hindoo. Give him food, and from a weak, staggering, helpless being, ho becomes a strong, active man. If someone were to como to tho hungry Hindoo and say, " What you need is not food but medicine," wo should laugh at him. This is just tho case of the starving American. Tho one thing his body needs is food. He has plenty to eat but ho is not fed ; because it is not what is eaten which nourishes the body, but that which after being eaten is digested and assimilated. Medicine can't feed. Thero is only one way known to Nature by which tho body and its several organs can be made strong and that is by food. For this reason no man can be stronger than his stomach. "When the stomach is " weak," then the body will be weak also, because a "weak" stomach involves the digestive and nutritive systems. Tho con sequence is that only a portion of the food received into the stomach can be converted into nutrition, and tho organs of the body, like soldiers in a besieged cita del, grow daily weaker as their rations are reduced. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has restored thousands to health, because it makes the weak stom ach strong. It removes the obstacles to the digestion and assimilation of food, and Nature at once begins to build up the body in the only possible way by food, eaten, digested and assimilated. ThossgEtti Himself towraMCt "I was afflicted with what the doctors called nervous indigestion. Took medicine from ray family physician to no avail. In looking over one of Dr. Pierce's Memorandum Books," writes Mr. Thos. G. Lever, of Lever, Richland Co., S. C, "I found my case described exactly. I wrote to you and made a statement. You sent me a desci iptive list of questions, also hygienic rules. I carried these out as best I could, but I thought myself incurable as I .suffered so much with pain under my ribs and an empty feeling in my stomach. At night would have cold feet and hands, alternately. I was getting very nervous and suf fered a great deal mentally, thinking that death would soon claim me. Always expecting something unusual to take place ; was irritable and impatient, and greatly reduced in flesh. I could scarcely eat anything that would not produce a bad feeling in my stomach. After some hesitation, owing to my prejudice against patent medicines, I decided to try a few bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and ' Pleasant Pellets.' After taking several bottles of each, found I was improving. I continued for six months or more, off and on. I have to lie careful yet, at times, of what I eat, in order that I may feel good and strong. I fully believe if anyone suffering with indigestion or torpid liver, or chronic cold, would take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and ' Pleasant Pellets, and observe a few simple, hygienic rules, would soon be greatly benefited, and with a little perseverance would be entirely cured." Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is not a cure all. It does one thing, and does that one thing per fectly; it cures diseases of tho stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. And yet a great many diseases which seem remote from tho stomach are cured by "Golden Medical Discovery." This is becauso these diseases really have their cause in tho diseased condition of the stomach and its allied or gans. These cures make good the axiom of Dr. Pierce: "Diseases which originato in the stomach aro cured through tho stomach." Gfssilt Emaciation son si Weakness. "Words fail to express what I suffered for three years, with cold chills, palpitation of heart, shortness of breath, and low spirits," writes Mrs. A. C. Jones, of Walterboro, Colleton Co., S. C. "I could not sleep, and really thought I would soon die. Had a peculiar roaring in my head all the time. Was so emaciated and weak I could not feed myself. My aunt induced me to try Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, which I did, only to please her, and st'v bottles cured me. To-day am sound and well. During the three years I was sick I had five different physicians." The philosophy of .these cures is quite simple. The body is made up of its parts and organs. When the quantity of nutrition provided for the body falls below natural requirements, this reduction in nutrition is shared by each organ of the body. Each organ is on i short rations; starvation has begun. If nourishment I means physical strength, lack of it means physical l weakness. Tliererore, when the stomach is "weak" and nutrition is decreased thero will bo " weak " lungs, "weak" heart, "weak" nerves, "weak" or torpid liver, and other forms of so-called weakness. These various forms of weakness aro all cured when tho "weak" stomach is cured, and the nutrition of the body re stored to its normal basis. Lives' GampUaistt Guredo Mrs. L. Hedgecoke, of Do7ier, Collingsworth Co., Texas, writes: " I was troubled seven or eight years with indigestion and liver com plaint, and received more benefit from the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and ' Pleasant Pellets ' than any medicine I have ever tried." "It is with pleasure that I tell you what Dr. Pierce's Golden Med ic Discovery and 'Pellets' have done for me," writes Mrs. T. M. Palmer, of Peede, Kaufman Co., Texas. "Two years ago I was taken with stomach and bowel trouble. Everything I ate would put me in distress. I lived two weeks on milk, and even that gave me pain. I felt as though I would starve to death. Three doctors attended me one said I had dyspepsia, two said catarrh of the stomach and bowels. They attended me (one at a time) for one year. I stopped taking their medicine and took other, patent, medicine ; got no better, and I grew so weak aaid nervous my heart would flutter. I could not do any work. Now, since using ' Golden Medical Discovery,' I can do my housework very well ; am gaining in flesh and strength, and can eat anything I want." Accept no substitute for " Golden Medical Discovery." Dealers who offer " just as good " medicine in place of " Discovery " do so for the sake of a littlo more profit. Their profit is your loss. Insist on tho " Discovery." a condenses in its f008 pages tho results of centuries of study and experienccm it deals with tho great and grave questions of human origin and reproduction, as well as with tho hygienic problems which are common to every household This great work in cloth binding is sent free on receipt of 3f one-cent stamps to pay expense of mailing ONLY. If satisfied with paper covers, send only 21 stamps for mailing, mm -, , -, , ' Address.- Dr. R. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y. side of mechanics, sinh as cnipcnters, builders, etc It iippi'iiis Impossible! for the vast throng that hns been and la bcliiK tin own into Nome by the nu nieious tiansjMJitatlon companies, vvhleli use eveiy means possible to in dilie tl.avel to the Cape Nome fields to Und mines or vvoiK. Many of these people have but little above their pas sage money and outfits nnd depend up on finding gold to Keep them going after landing. He fuithei hays that It Is tho opin ion of those fiom the mining dlstilet of Nome and v It lnlty from whom ho nought Infoi niatlon that a laige num ber of people will be stiunded before the end of the season, w 1th no means of getting out of the countiy vWthout assistance from some source. Harre, ju ige, George S. Terriek, West Plttston, .state t.enatoi, William Dairy, I'ltthton, dlstild attorney, Henjamln 11. Joins, Wairlor linn piothonoUiy. Urlnton Jackson, Nuntlcoke, cleik of the courts, Ri se D. l.lovd, Hazleton, jury eoinnilsMouet, A. J. Ttuasli.II izle ton. Resolutions were adopted cndoislng the national and statu admlnisttatluns. RECIPROCITY WITH GERMANY. Long DOG MEAT IS USED. D'ANGER AT CAPE NOME. It Is Believed There Will De Much Suffering the Coming Winter. Washington, July 10 A report haB been received at the treasury depart ment front Captain Roberts, com manding the revenue cutter Manning, dated Dutch Harbor, Unonalaskl, June 23, 1900, showing a situation at Cape Nome which the officials fear may re sult In great suffering (luring tho com ing w Inter among the crowds that aro now flocking to the new gold fields, Captain Roberts says he believes there nre ten thousand people on the beach, with no prospect of securing a paying claim or of obtaining employment out- The Effects of Excluding Products from Geimany. Washington July 10 "On nccount of the high price of other meat not only hoi.se meat, but also dog meat Is used by people as an article of food In Ger many," says Consul Oeneial dumber at Trnnkfoit In a report to tho stato department. The new meat Inspection bill, says the consul general, does not adequate ly piotect the consumer against bad meat, but excludes many first class products fiom the country. The con sumption of horse meat heie he says Is on tho Increase. LUZERNE NOMINATIONS. Ticket Shown by the Official Count at Wllkes-Bfirre. Wllkes-Harre, July 10. The Luzerne county Republican nominating con vention was held today. Tho task ot countlntr tho vote ns lecorded nt the pilmarles Saturday was a very tedious ono and It was not completed until this evening. The ticket nominated was then announced ns follows: Congress, H. W. Palmer, Wtlkes- Expected Anangenient Has Been Effected. Washington. July 10 -Tho long-expected leclproeltv airangements be tween the I' nltcd Stntes and Ger many have been effected. Seeretat y Hay and the Geinun nmbassador have hubsctlbed to the convention and the piesldent will Issue his pioclama tlon putting the new duties in foico in the com so of a few davs. The ar tansement Is geneially hlinlltir In tetms to the fltst anangenient made with Pianee and abates duties on still wines, urgols, paintings and wtntu.iry fiom Geimany enteilng the United States, It does not lequito tho npptoval of the senate, being drawn under &ectlon four ot the Dlngley act. BELLE ISLAND STRIKE. A Bloody Affray Is Feared ns the Closing Scene of the Dioma. St. Johns, N. P., July 10. The Belle Island stilkeis succeeded today In pie ventlng a coal schooner being unload ed or any other work being done at the mines. The munugeis of tho mines have applied to the Supreme coutt and the government for protection. The whole available police force of tho colony will ptocced to tho scene at daylight to ptotect tho working gangs. A bloody affray Is feared, ns this means tho last scene of tho strike drama. TO DODGE LIGHTNING. Some Simple Safeguaids Against This Veiy Eriatic Element. I'n in Hi 1'hil idi li'lu i Tunes An unusual numbet of lhes have bion lost this season by the lightning sttoke, nnd the distiuetlon of piop uity by (lie lesultlng fiom lightning, has been exceptionally gieat, Usptc lullv Is lightning destiuetlve when It Is attt acted to bains which nie filled with the new eiops fiom which Inflam mable, gases es-oape for some time af ter they ate fltst homed. At this .sea son of the vcar it is next to Impossi ble to have a bain fiom destiuetlon If lightning shall strike It without even penettntlng It. It Is not possible to piotect life nnd ptopctty against tho lightning isttoke under ull cltcumstanees, but by tho exercise of common-! use juecnutlons the '.oss of life nnd propoity may be udiired to the minimum. In a ma jority of cases vvhero deaths by light ning ai o lepoitod, those who suffered the fatal sttoko have taken lefuge un dei lues In open fields, or have sit In housi s with window's or doors open gl Ing the lightning an excellent con (lucioi In the damp cut tent of alt pass ing tluough tho building Dmths bv lightning Inside of a building aio veiy i nits when the windows and doois nro clobed, and this piecautlon Is so ob viously leasonable that all should un det stand and tespect It. We often seo thu tepotts of what ate called the fuaks ot lightning, in evident foigetfulnchs of tho fact that lightning follows tho law ot attraction as scrupulously as the falling apple follows tho law of gravitation. What ever apparently fantastic tricks tho lightning Mi uke may exhibit It simply proves wheie the stiongest attractions weie presented. Tho two reasonable piecautlons which should bo most ob vlottp to all aro most frequently dlsre gaided by persons taking refuge fiom storms under trees In tho open fields and sitting In the h6uso with open windows and doois. I In no ono thing have tho farmers of the country been so widely nnd atro elously swindled ns in the purchase o utttly Inadequate nnd badly con st! ucted lightning rods lor their houses and buns and an Impetlcet lightning lod is very much win so than none at nil. Vot on-thlrd of the lightning rod conductots attaihel to bulldlng3 tluoughout the country afford any pro tection against lightning, and many of them would attt act tho lightning without conducting the discharge In safety to the caith. Kvciy barn should have the best possible protec tion ngalnst lightning, as in tho sum mer seuson the escaping gases from fiesh crops veiy giouly increase their danger. In noaily all Instances barns qould bo entirely protected by being properly; equipped with copper cable conductors. The conducting enpiPlty of the light ning lod Is in its i-.iee, nnd a cablo has treble or qundiupl" the conducting capacity of a single lod because of the multiplied sat face given by Its seveial stiands. In addition to having polntuts nt tho various exposed por tions ot the building, all should con net t with a complete circuit around tho base of tho toof, from which two or inoto cables should go to the ground and thote bo embedded in sufficient depth to nssute molstuie in tho drvest fceason, Rulldlngs thus protected aro very inrely Injuied by electrical dls chatges. Many persons have very unreason able apprehensions of lightning, but It Is wise for nil to understand that It Is a bomce of danger to life and propoity that should le u, voided as much us possible. It is always pru dent when thundor-stotms appear to avoid needless exposiite to JlghUiIng by taking refuge under trees, or sit ting In diaughts in a house or even on u poich. When the utmost precau tion Is taken theio cunnot bo. entlro safety fiom clectileal discharges, but tho obseivancn of plain commnn-senso uiluii which should bo well understood by, evou those of tho most ordinary intelligence, would greatly dlmlntali' the. loss of 11 to by lightning,
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