ROUND THE REGION. The overshadowing sensation in con nection with the Scranton bribery hearings now under way came on when ex-Mayor Bailey testified that he accept ed a bribe of 81,000 from the agent of the Barber Asphalt Paving Company to sign a contract in January, 1899. When a charge was made to this effect some time ago Bailey denied it. Try Helper's ice cream soda. There will be a conference at Wilkes barre today to adjust, if possible, the differences between the Democratic fac tions arising from the last county con vention. Gentlemen, for hats and caps go to A. Oswald s. lie has a nice variety. Suit has been brought against the school board of Ilazle township by the teachers to recover back salary. The plaintiffs are James Collins, Ellen J. Dougherty, John Madden and Neil Mc- Monegal and their claims aggregate $455. Smoke and chew Kendall, Clock & Co.'s XXXX union-made. Mnftd by the Clock Tobacco Co., Scranton, Pa. It is thought that the arm of Miss Mary Roe, of Tamaqua, must be ampu tated at the socket owing to blood poisoning, due to her arm having been pinched by a compauion several weeks ago. You can spell it cough, coff, eaugli. kaut', kail, kough. or kaugh, hut the only harmless remedy that quickly cures It is One Minute Cough Cure. Grover's City drug store. In the Cambria and Clearfield soft coal regions the men have refused to load Philadelphia and Reading cars with bituminous coal for Reading territory, and many trains of tho cars have re turned empty. The most dainty and effective pills made are DeWitt's Little Parly Risers. They are uucqual ed for all liver and bowels troubles. Never gripe. Grover's City drug store. Wilkesbarre authorities have begun action against the Spring Brook Water Company for the alleged violation of a city ordinance. It is claimed that im pure water is supplied. To prevent consumption quickly cure throat and lung trouble with ()ne Minute Cough Cure. Grover's City drug store. The rate of wages at the Reading Company's collieries for the latter half of September and first half of October will be 0 per cont above the $2.50 basis. YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT. Training: a Lizard and Other AnI IUUIN The Woodpecker Wliut ThoiuiiN the Tuhh Cuundit. "I found in the pine woods of New Jersey one duy u little creature that afforded me amusement as a pet for two years," says George E. Walsh in the Philadelphia Times. "It was a small pine tree lizard. I found it easy to train. The first trick I taught it was to carry little pieces of wood, such as matches or tooth picks, and pile them up in heap. Then, at a word from me, it would run over the pile and scatter the sticks, an act that it seemed to enjoy very much. After knocking the pile down it would run around and around, as if in play. "Another trick that it liked was to hide itself in a paper bag, and then stick its head out of a hole in it. It would run all over you, from your feet to your shoulders, and sometimes it frightened a visitor by darling up his back and then suddenly peeping into his face from in front or touching his chin with Its cold nose. "After I had taught it many little tricks like these I made it a suit of clothes, which, by the way, It did not take to very kindly. At last, however, it became accustomed to them, and then I trained it to draw a little two wheeled cart, with one of my pet mice as driver. As you may imagine, it took weeks of patient training to get the two little creatures to perform the 'cart act,' but I succeeded at last. "Trained mice are very amusing, and they are not hard to teach if you handle them in the right way. The principal thing is to begin when they ure young, for you cannot train an old one. Young mice will not fear you; on the contrary, they will always like the hand that feeds them. "The training should not only begin early, but it must be conducted with much patience and perseverance. The same thing must be done over and over again and always under the same con ditions. If, for example, you wish to train the mouse to jump over a stick, you must always touch its forepaws with the stick first and then help it over. You may have to repeat tills 100 times, but you will at last succeed in making it understand what you de sire it to do. "The same thlug applies to any other animal that you may wish to tame and train. Some will learn more quickly than others, but they all seem stupid enough at first Rabbits are about as hard to train as any, but when they are taught they will perform tricks that are very amusing. You can easily teach one to 'beg' for Its food by hold ing a tidbit that it likes very much just above its nose, raising it little by little until the rabbit sits up. Then give it the tidbit as a reward. Repeat this several times and It will soon under stand that it lias only to 'sit up' to get what it wants." sr>.oo to Niagara Falls and Return. Via tho Lehigh Valley Railroad, Octo ber 0, 1900. Tickets will he on sale October 0, limited for return passage to October 8 inclusive, and will bo honored on any train except the Black Diamond express. For further information consult Le high Valley ticket agent. IPDRITSTTITsT Gr Promptly Done ut the Tribune Office. SAM'S HEAVY BURDEN. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. rtie • l ull uinner Pail" Argument* There is an old and familiaa adage to the effect that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Mr. Senator Hanna in his recent speech at Voungstown, 0., in which he told his hearers that all of the issues of the campaign boiled down are contained in the catch phrase, "a full dinner pail." seeks to extend this saying and would have us believe that the way to a man's mind is through his stomach. It is the most pitiful trickery to attempt to con vince the voter that so long as he has enough to eat he should not worry himself about anything else. The proposition Senator Hanna makes to the voters of this country if that they trample under foot all other considerations because he tells them that the present administration has given this country prosperous times. The crops which the Almighty has watered into full fruition and the la borious industry of the farmer and the workingman have of course had noth ing to do with a better condition of things, although the benefits which the workingman at present enjoys ex ist chiefly in the imaginations of the ingenious gentlemen who would per petuate Mr. McKinley's maladministra tion. Mr. Hanna asks the voter to believe that if under the McKinley administra tion he has in the sweat of his brow secured food enough for himself and his family it is not for him to bother his brains about any enormity to which the Republican party may see fit to commit the country. He argues that it is not for the people to Insist that her historical governmental policies be observed, and that is not for them to criticize any actions of the party in power which they may think is drift ing the republic away from her ancient moorings. Unless the temper of the American people Is changing very sad ly they will not submit tcf any such bullying, and will assert in no unmis takable terms their inalienable right to judge for themselves. It used to be this kind of argument which the Republican party was most vehemently opposed to when some of the apologists for the institution of slavery would point to the many slaves who had plenty to eat and were well taken care of. It was very properly pointed out that their physical well be ing did not alter the fact that they were held in cruel bondage, which de nied them the priceless boon of liber ty to own their own bodies, to work for whom they pleased and to come and go as they wished. But now Mr. Han na adopts the pro-slavery argument and seeks to thrust it upon millions of men, white and black, all through this broad land, and says to them in effect: "Why should you worry about the way this government deals with the public questions of the day when you have enough to eat and enough to wear?" .Soldiers Opposed to MeKlnley. The other day a train load of wound ed and invalided soldiers, fresh from the Philippines, passed through this state on their way to the hospital at Washington. Some of them had been wounded in battle and others had been afflicted with tropical diseases, but they were alike wretched and suffering. At Harrisburg, the state capital, they stopped for a time in order to change from one road to another, and during the wait they walked about, such as could, in the neighborhood of the sta tion. During the period they talked freely, according to the local papers, and what they said was interesting. Of thirty men interviewed by the re porters of the Harrisburg Star-Inde pendent not one had a friendly word for McKinley. Out of the whole train load of brave men not one will vote for the re-election of the president, whom they unanimously accuse of responsi bility for all their troubles. Ninety out of every hundred of the men who come from that far distant and disease infect ed region are incurably inoculated with the fevers, and that proportion of the brave men, sixty thousand of them, who responded to the call to defend the honor of the flag will go through wretched lives to premature deaths be cause of their mistaken notion of pa triotism. Is it any wonder that these suffering soldiers are opposed to McKinley? Wouldn't any man who knows that he ha 3 been beguiled by false pretense into sacrificing his health permanently, entertain the same opinion of the man responsible for their suffering? If the president had been just to the people and faithful to the constitution there never would have been ten thousand soldiers sent to that disease breeding place, and they would not have been held there long enough to become in oculated. But McKinley's inordinate ambition to achieve results that no other president had attempted betray ed him into this sacrifice of men, and they who suffered are indignant. M'KINLEY'S BAD MEMORY The Pro*Dient Contriullet* Himself In Discussing; tlie Philip pine Question. Mr. McKinley's letter of acceptance brings things new and old out of his treasure, like the householder of Scrip ture, says the New York Evening Post, Independent Republican. Some of the controversial weapons he uses, how ever, with surprising carelessness. In slashing at his opponents he makes ribbons of his own previous argument. For example, he now prints a hitherto suppressed dispatch to Dewey's, dated July 25, 1898, and saying "Merritt's most difficult problem will be how to deal with the insurgents under Agui naldo, who have become aggressive and even threatening toward our army." See there," cries the grieved and indignant president, "the insur gents wanted to fight us even before the peace protocol was signed!" If one could cross examine this im mune witness, many pertinent ques tions would be asked. Why publish this one of Dewey's dispatches, and keep the rest under lock and key? Why, if Mr. McKinley was thus warn ed of trouble, did lie not take measures to prevent it? Why did he go out west, lay his hand on his heart, and declare that he "never dreamed" the Insur gents would attack us? The truth is that the president, in his eagerness to make a point against the Filipinos, has forgotten the role he had before tried to play. This was that of a bighearted, unsuspecting father of his people, bent only on blessing the islanders. The idea never entered his head that any body could attack so good a man as he. So he was correspondingly thunder struck when the ungrateful dastards assaulted their benefactor. But now he drops this simple minded, grandfather ly mask and tells us he was from the first warned of Filipino machinations. "I knew from the beginning that they were treacherous," he protests, not seeing that, in the act, he makes him self out a negligent and napping com mander-in-chief. But the whole thing is a pure presi dential afterthought. See how plain a tale shall put down this belated in vention. Gen. Merritt's problem was to deal with the insurgents, was it? They were spoiling for a fight even in July, were they? Well, what did Mer ritt himself say to the Paris commis sioners in October? He was specifical ly asked if the Filipinos were disposed to make trouble, and roundly replied, "I think there is no danger of conflict." And Senator Frye has publicly de clared on this very subject, "Nobody dreamed of any trouble when we were in Paris. Gen. Whittier and Gen. Merritt were before our committee and testified that the most cordial feeling existed between the Tagalos and the United States troops." This leaves the author of the letter of acceptance look ing very like a detected manipulator of the evidence. Mr. McKinley. however, has another argument in reserve just as good. What put and end to the "cordial feel ing?" Certainly it was not the peace treaty, the presidents asserts. Those who maintain that it was have "for gotten," he declares triumphantly, that "before the treaty was ratified * * * the insurgents attacked the American army." Yes, but possibly other things have also been forgotten. The president may have forgotten that he, before the treaty was ratified (six weeks before), issued a proclama tion to the Filipinos asserting that the cession of the Islands was complete, and that our military government would be extended to "the whole" of Philippine territory. He may have for gotten that this proclamation was a gross violation of the constitution, void both in morals and In law. He may have forgotten that, irrespective of the legal aspect of the proclamation, It was drawn in such an excess of wan tonly tyrannical language, that Gen. Otis was alarmed, and tried to sup press it, fearing that its publication would drive the Filipinos to instant in surrection. It was published by acci dent, and the insurrection followed. All these facts Mr. McKinley may have forgotten, but the future historian will not forget thorn; neither will he for get to characterize the conduct of a ruler who tried to shuffle away from the consequences of his own inconsid erate action. Buy your ice cream at Koipor's. BREVITIES. At Bloomsburg Judge Little sentenced Benj. F. Freeley, of Berwick, to a year and six months of solitary confinement in the Eastern penitentiary for having stolen a cow. While leaving the court room after conviction and sentence, Freely remarked, "Well there won't be any more bams burned for a year and a half." During the past summer a number of barns were burned In a myserious manner, and the authorities are inclined to think that Freeley set them afire. The progressive nations of the world are the grout food consuming; nations. Good l'ood well digested gives strength. If you cannot digest all you eat, you need Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. It digests what you oat. You need not diet your self. It contains all of thedigestunts com Pined with the best known tonics and reconstruct! ves. 11 will even digest all classes of foods in a Pottle. Noother preparation will do this. It instantly relieves and quickiy cures all stomach trouble. Grover's City drug store. Yesterday live prominent priests of the Scranton diocese celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ordina tion. They are: Very Rev. P. E. Cof fey, B. G., Carbondale; Rev. S. M. E. Lynott, Jermyn; Rev. E. J. Meliey, Scranton; Rev. F. P. McNally, George town, and Rev. E. S. Phillips, lla/.loton. The emergency bags sent by a church society to Kansas soldiers in the Philippines contained among the necessities a box of DeWitt's Witch Ha/el Salve, the well known cure for piles, in juries and skin deseases. The ladies took care to obtain the original DeWitt's Witch Hazle Salve knowing that all the counterfeits are worthless. Grover's City drug store. John Campbell, a resident of West IJazleton, fell down the steps of his home on Saturday and broke his neck. Large sun spots, astronomers say, caused the extreme heat this summer, and doctors declare nearly all the prostrations were induced by dis orders of the stomah. Good health followsgood digestion. Kodol Dyspepsic Cure digests what you eat. If you have indigestion or dyspepsia it will quickly relieve and permanently cure you. Grover's City drug store. George Bardo, of Mahanoy City, is under tho care of a physician, suffering from blood poisoning. He and Frank Wargo, to settle a dispute, resorted to a light. Bardo's right arm was chewed by Wargo. Blood poisoning set in, and now serious results are anticipated. Poisonous tondstools resembling mushrooms have caused frequent deaths this year. Be sure to use only the genuine. Observe the same care when you ask tor DeWitt's Witch Ha/el Salve. There are poisonous counterfeits. DeWitt's is the only original Witch Hazle Salve. It is a safe and certain cure for piles and ull skin diseases. Grover's City drug store. Charged with complicity in the murder of Michael Wills, at Palo Alto, two weeks ago, James Savidgo, of Tower City, was arrested at Tainaqua and taken to Pottsvfllo. DeWitt's Little Early Kisersare prompt, pal atable, pleasant, powerful, purifying little pills. Grover's City drug store. The stables of the Fort Allen house, Welssport, conducted by A. J. Snyder, were burned and eleven horses perished. Elmer Frltzinger, who slept in the stable, was badly burned. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. It artificially d igests the food and aids Nature in strengthening and recon structing the exhausted digestive or gans. It isthe latestdiscovereddigest aut and tonic. No other preparation can approach It in efficiency. It in stantly relievesand permanently cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Sick Headache, Gastralgia.Crampsand all other results of imperfect digestion. Prlcosoc. and tl. Larfteslzocontains tVi times small size. Book all about dyspepsia znuiledfrce Prepared by E. C. DeWITT A CO' orry, Gins, Wines, Clarets, Cordials, Etc. Ham and Schweitzer Cheese Sandwiches, Sardines, Etc. MEALS - AT - ALL - HOURS. T. CAMPBELL, dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, Also PURE WINES I LIQUORS FOR FAMILY AND MEDIO.INAL PURPOSES. Centre and Main street*. Froelanrt. Condy 0. Boyle, dealer in LIQUOR, WINE, BEER, PORTER, ETC. The finest brands of Domestic and Imported Whiskey on sale. Fresh Rochester and Shen andoah Beer uud Yeuiigling's Porter on tap. ttb Centre street. RAILROAD TIMETABLES LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD. May 27, lUUU. ! ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER TRAINS. LEAVE FKKELAND. 0 12 a m for Weutherly, Maucli Chunk, Allontown, Dciniohem, Lubtou, ihilu dclpiiiu and Now lurk. 7 40 a in lor Sunny Hun, White Haven, \V likes-Llurre, iTllstou and bcrunion. I 818a n> lor lia/deton, Muhunoy City, bhcuuuduuh, AshJauu, Weutherly, Muuch CUunk. Ancutov.n, iiethiebeiii, I E.tsiou, Philadelphia uud Mew York. . 930a in lor ila/.lcLou, .Malianoy City, shcii uudouh, .at. Gurwel, Sliuuiokiu und f'oitsviilo. 1 1 45 n in lor bandy Uun, White Ilaven, \\ ocr ßUton and all points 1 30 iin for Weutherly, Maueh Chunk, Al lontown, iii-tineliLin, r.asloii, Philadel phia ana Mew fork. 4 42 | m lor iiuzioLou, Aiuhunoy City, Shcn uiidoah. All. Carinel, sln.iuolun and I'oLiavuie, Weutherly, Maueh chunk, A i lent own, llctlileiieni, Lattlou, I'luJa duipuia uud Mew York. 6 34 i> r m lor Sandy Uun, White llaven, Wilkes-llarre, £cruutou und all points \> est. 7 29 P in lor Hazleton, Mahanoy Citj*, Sheu uiidouli, Ait. caruiel and shuiuoiun. All ill VE AT ritEELAM'D. 7 40 a ni from Weutherly, l'ottsville, Ash land, ohcnunUuun, Aiuhunoy Lily und Huzteton. 9 17 a in lroiu Philadelphia, Euston, licthlc hern, Allontown, Aiuueii Chunk, Weuth erly, iluzleion, Mahanoy City, Shcnuu doah, .at. C'aritiei ami hamuli 111. 9 30 a in from soruntou, W ilkes-Harre und N\ hile liuvein 1145a in from l'ottsville, Shuinokiu, Mlt. Caruiel, Shcuuudouii, Alahaiioy C'ily and iiuzloion. 12 55 p in irom New York, l'hiladelphia, Euston, liethleheiu, A Hen town, Alauch Chunk and Weutherly. 4 42 p ni from bcruntou, Wilkes-11aire and White Haven. 6 34 p 111 from New York, l'hiladelphia, Easton, liethleheiu, Allentown, i'otis ville, tihamokin. Ml. Caruiel, Shcuuu doah. Aialiunoy City and iiuzlcton. 7 29 p iu from be run ton, Wilkes-Burro und White Haven. For turther lulormutiou inquire of Ticket Agents. nuLLiN H.W|LUC 11, General Superintendent, 20 Cortluuut btreet, Mew York City. CHAS. S. LEE, General i'astenuer Agent, 30 Cortlumlt Street, Mew York City. J. T. KEITH, division Superintendent, Huzlctou, Pu. THE DELAWARE, SUSQUEHANNA AND SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD. Time table 111 effect April IH, 1807. Trains leave Driftou lor Jeddo, Eckley, Hnzle Brook, Stockton, lieavor .Meadow iloud, llouu una iiazleton Junction at 6 BU, ouu a in, daily except Sunday; ami 7 Ui a m. £ ;ib p m, Sunday. L rains leave Drilton lor Hurwood,Cranberry, J omhickeu and Deriiiger at 5 JO, 0 liU a 111, daily except Suuday; und \ U3 a m, ;JBB p m. Sun day. Trains leave Drifton for Oneida Junction, liar wood Hoad, Humboldt ltoad, Oneida and Sheppton at ti UU a m, daily except Suu day; and 7Hia m, 3.18 pm, Sunday. Trains leave liazleton J unction for Harwood, Cranberry, Toiuhicken and Deriiiger at 030 a ai, daily except Sunday; and ti 58 auiAZium. Sunday. ' Trains leave liazleton Junction for O'neida .Junction, Harwood Hoad, Humboldt Hoad, Oneida and Sheppton ut a 11 lu am,441 p m daily except Sunday; und 7 87 a iu, J 11 p in' Sunday. Truins leave Deringer for Tomhick TI, Cran- I berry, Hai wood, riazletoii Junction and Houu lat a 540 p 111, daily except Suuday; ami •87 am, 5U7 p ni, Sunday. Trams leave Sheppton l or Oneida, Humboldt ltoad, Harwood Hoad, Oneida Juuction, liazle ton Junction and Hoan at 11 am, Lmu b'SJ P m, daily except suuday; and 8 li a m, 8 44 P m, Suuday. Trains leave Sheppton for Heaver Meadow ltoad, Stockton, liazle llrook, Eckley, Jeddo and Driftou at 5 32 p m, daily, except Suuday; and 8 11 a m, 8 44 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction lor Beaver Meadow ltoad, Stockton, Hazle Brook, Eckley. Jeddo ami Driftou at 6 4i>, 0 2i p m, daily except Sunday; and IU IU a in, 5 40 p ni, Sunday. All trains connect at Uuzleton Junction with electric cars lor Hazleton, Jeauesville, Audcn ried and other points 011 the 'lruction Com pany s line. Trains leaving Drifton at 5 80, 600 a in make wmuectiou at Deringer with I'. It. It. trains for Wilkesbarru, Suubury, liarrisburg and lointa west. l*or the accommodation of passengers at way stations between iiazleton Junction and Der iiiger, a train will leave the former point at Jul) p m, daily, except Suuduy, arriving at Deringer at 5 00 p m. LUTIIEK C. SMITH, Superintendent,