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TIIE SCRANTON TRIBUNE SATURDAY MOKNTNG, FEBRUARY 1897. 8 4444- 4 f4 II ATROCITIES OF THE lit IN CUBA. i Hospital Patients llutclicrcil Gillian Women Subjected to i Unspeakable Outrages by Spanish Olllccrs. 4-H-H-H-H--H ttfttfttiff -H- Crittenden Marriott, who hnN just returned to Havana from a trip to 1'lnar del Mo and alone the western trorhn, sends to the ChletiBO Keeord to folowiim letter desciibiiifr with sln-KUlnr clearness the condition of the disputed territory West of Havana, where the Spaniards are nominally In control, and the savajie warfare that Koes on there ceaselessly. It Is dated Havana, January 30, and is as follows: The troeha lies about llftcen or twenty miles west of Havana, across the narrowest part of the Island, and cuts off J'lnnr del Rio from the other provinces.

It Is reached by rail at either Artemisa of Guanajay, a two hours' run from Havana. A permit Is necessary to cross the line and bo to the capital of the province, and this was refused me. However, I was given permission to ko to the line and ulong It for same distance. The train loaves Havana at the un holy hour of G.KO In the morning and icets to Artemisa about o'clock. The Hlshts alons the line are really pitiful.

Everywhere are burned houses and fields. At every stopping place are hundreds of poor peasants, forced to i'ilne into the towns by Weyler's or-dis, and living there In squalor and grinding poverty. Everywhere, too, are soldiers and forts. The train must have passed within sight of 5,000 of the former dnrlns Its two hours run. Artomisaf Is nearly in the center the trucliu, which ends abruptly at one side of the town and recommences at tlie other.

This lenves a large gap In It. which, however, is defended by about 5,000 troops. It was probably for this reason that jUaceo attacked it some time ago. In spite of Its lanre garrison, rather than try to force the passage of the troeha. The attack was an utter failure.

The dynamite gun, which always llgures In battle In linur del Mo, even though It is laid up for repairs, could not be got near enough to do effective work. There are a good many burned and bullet-pterced houses, however, to show that the light was hot while It lasted. HOW TROCIIA IS CONSTRUCTED. The troeha itself, In its strongest part, that north of Artemisa, consists of an excellent road, a stone fence, a ditch and two lines of barbed-wire fencing. Every 500 yards along It Is a little fort with a hundred soldiers or co.

Stiong cavalry patrols are constantly passing between the forts. This is the part of the troeha that the war correspondents generally see, and describe, nnd It Is certainly admirably constructed for Its purpose. The barbed wires will stop the insurgent cavalry, and the cacti, with which the ground In front of It is planted, will soon disable the barefooted Cuban Infantry. There are strong forts in advance of the line, where large bodies of soldiers are stationed, from which re- enforcements can be hurriedly sunt to any point threatened. Further south, however, the troeha Is weak, and the Insurgents can easily slip across It by night.

General Ber-mudez, an insurgent leader, has just crossed It In this region, and Is now raiding in Havana province. JInceo crossed It to the north a few days before his death. In the south it leads through the Majana swamps for about six miles, where a very elaborate but ineffective construction has been carried out. An old drainage ditch, some fifteen feet wide, has been cleaned out, and a log wall has been built all along Its eastern side. Strong forts are built at close Intervals, and sentries come and go constantly.

Nevertheless, the Insurgents, by creeping in the water, nnd watching their chance, eusliy cross It by night in this part. Indirectly, the troeha Is of great aid to the insurgents, as It reaulres the constant nttentlon of 15,000 Spanish soldiers, about one-third of whom are stationed in the swamps, where the mortality Is tremendous. This swamp alone accounts for 3,000 to 4,000 men a month who are disabled by danger-. ous fevers. ATTACKS ON RAILWAY TRAINS.

North of Artemisa the railroad continues some seventy miles to the city of Pinar del Rio, In the center ot the province of that name. The railroad is very carefully defended by numerous forts and patrols, yet scarcely a week passes without a train being attacked and injured by the insurgents. Every train has an ironclad coach, so-called. It is an ordinary freight car lined with boiler Iron and loopholed for rllle lire. At the first sound of danger the sul-dlurs on the train all run aboard this car, and from It return the lire of the insurgents, who respond briskly.

The engine, which has never gone fast, feeling its way tlnough unknown dangers, now slows down until It scarcely moves. After awhile, however, it passes the rebel position, and goes on its way more Bwlftly. Sometimes the Insurgents lay a mine on the track and lire It by electricity when the train is over it. They usually try to pick out the Iron-clad coach, and, it is said, have succeeded in blowing It up seven times since the war began. Hence, this coach, in spite or the feeling of security inspired by its iron walls.

Is really the most dangerous part of the train. This railroad line marks the extent of Spain's dominion here. Spain holds the troeha and a certain amount of territory around Pinar del Mo city and Vinales, but between the two lies a land which no Spanish company dare venture except along the railroad line. Everywhere else are hills and hills and hills, with hundreds of places built by nature expressly for hiding places, ambuscades mid surprises. ATROCITIES BY BOTH SIDES.

"West of Pinar del Mo and Vinales no Spanish soldiers have been. North and south of the railroad the Spanish raid constantly, In Btrong force, but have no garrisons. The war eroes on with the greatest cruelty and brutality. Both sides are destroying all property, the rebels because every product of value must pay a duty to Spain, and the Spaniards because what they have will nourish and support the rebels. Probably both sides are justified In somo of the acta.

"War Is hell," as Geneial Sherman once said, and there Is a stronc effort here on both sides to make the flames and the brimstone a hot as possible. But even so, somo things too horrible to tell, much less to be done.are actually everyday occurrences. Tuke the following paragraph from the official report of operations in Pinar del Mo, published in the papers here today. The author, after telling how a valiant brigade captured the vlllago of Oulra, In that province, without nny serious fighting proceeds: "Also there were captured eigh ty families llvlnir In the woods and in this rebel illage, and there were destroyed 100 houses and huts and two field hospitals." And again: "There resulted from this battle the deaths of thirty-eight rebels (no wounded) and the capture of quantities of arms," etc. Then the report naively concludes: "When nothlnc more remained to be done at Gulra the column moved awny." Thlb Is not the fevered dream of a war correspondent, not the talk ot a Cuban partisan, but an ottlelal public report of the murder of Innocent people.

Every one in the hospitals was murdered In cold blood. The report of this column, sent from Vinales, ton miles from Pinar del Mo, whence runs a dally train to Havana, took six days to reach the latter point, And yet General Weyler says that the province Is pacified, and of course he knows. It In certainly quieter than It was a few months auo, the war center being transferred nownduys to the center of the Island In Santa Clara province. OUTRAGES AGAINST CUBAN -WOMEN. There are yet some things done hero that seem Impossible, even in Cuba.

For instance, one entirely trustworthy American-horn citizen who visited General Melgulzo, the guerrilla leader in Pinar del Rio, states that that oill-cer told him that it was quite true that he killed the sick ami wounded In the hospitals. "General Weyler's orders are to do so," said he, "and I must obey, but," he continued, "I have not a bad heart. I spare all I can. Come with me and I will show you." He took the gentleman across the way and showed him a room where some thirty young women, ranging from 15 to 25 years of age, were confined. "These," he said, "are of rebel families.

I found them In the hills, where they would have starved, and brought them here. Some of them are very obstinate, though. These two, for Instance, tried to starve themselves. They ate nothing for three days, and I had to open their mouths by force and make them eat soup. But they came around after a while." "Came around to what?" do you ask?" The American, whom I believe to be In all respects a man of truth, says thai on that night he saw General Jlel-gulzo's ofllcers of high rank go Into this hut one by one and, spend the night there.

Oh, yes, the girls came around after a while. What do you think of this, Christian father, resident of a country that fought out a bitter civil war for four long years, and never once had a wonvau complain of outrage through It all? Even where actual outrage Is Impossible, as in Havana Itself, the treatment of the Cuban and daughters Is horrible in the extreme. General Weyler here Imprisons ladles of high birth and standing, whoso only crime Is that they are relatives of the insurgents, in filthy 'prisons with the scum of the streets. Virtuous women and prostitutes are confined in the same cells, with the evident Intention of humiliating and insulting the former. The truth is that America does not know the situation here.

The Cuban junta in New York has lied so steadily and persistently about the Island and a series of Industrious newspaper fakirs and sensational New York papers have spread broadcast such falsehoods that no one believes the truth when it is told. But if one tithe of the things asserted here by credible witnesses is true, the Spanish leaders ought to be blotted from the earth. SPANIARDS AND "PACIFICOS." At the same time there is something to be said on the Spanish side. There are no real "paclflcos" In Cuba. Everybody outside of the cities, and not of Spanish birth, Is a partisan of the Insurgents, and acts as a spy for them.

Host of the country is covered with low hills lomas they are called. These hills are covered with brush, and on It the Insurgents hide and watch their chance to cut off straggling parties of Spaniards. By night they descend and sleep in the peasants' huts to avoid the bitter cold, Let us consider their case from a Spanish point of view. A captain with a hundred men is ordered to go out some day and clear a certain district of annoying parties of rebels. He sots out, and after awhile he comes to the hut of a paclflco, and asks where the rebels are, The pacific does not know and the column passes on.

As soon as they are gone, the paclflco gets out his clothes line and hangs out his clothes one piece for each twenty-five men In the column. The direction of the line shows the way It has gone. The rebels, perched on the hills, sees this signal, although the column may have been hidden from them. They form an ambush In a favorable place, and pour In a volley, killing or wound ing several soldiers. The latter return the lire and charge Into the brush, but by the time they have reached the rebel position the rebels are gone, scattering like a covey of partridges through the brush.

If the soldiers kill one of them It Is an off chance. This thing Is repeated two or three times difrlng the day. After each firing the captain asks If any one saw one of the enemy fall, or got a good shot at one of them. Of course, several soldiers are sure of their aim. So the captain goes back with his troops, taking a dozen dead or wounded and reports In the usual formula that ho "fought several groups of rebels," killing so many ten or dozen, according to his modestyand the matter ends there.

But somo day, suspicion lights on Mr. Paclflco, and the soldiers cut him down numerously. Then the rebel press bureau In New York sends out a dispatch about Innocent people being murdered by the Spanish. WEYLER'S METHOD OF RETALIATION. There are no paclflcos In Cuba.

Outside the cities nil Cubans are rebel sympathizers. It Is not possible to run down the rebels In that broken sort of country, while there are numberless spies to carry information of every movement of the troops, and hundreds of houses In which they can Bleep In safety by night, sheltered from the cold, Therefore, Weyler ordered the alleged paclflcos to come Into the towns to live, burned their houses and destroyed their growing crops. This largely Increased the rebel army, of course, but Its only real effect was to change secret enemies Into open onemles, and to destroy their supplies and shelter. This la what war 13, The outrages are not all duo to Spanish troops, however. Much of the pillaging and burning Is done by the rebels.

I have seen a proclamation Issued by the rebel governor of Havana prov- ince forbidding, on pain of death, the gathering, carrying away or selling of any tobacco grown In the province. The Idea Is to deprive Spain of the duty Bho levies on tobacco and bo cripple her resources. Similar oiders nro Issued In regard to sugar, and they arc enforced, too, In the east the sugar mills have nearly all been destroyed by the 'rebels, and the rest will soon follow. OCCUPATIONS or AMKKICANS. Interesting Dntii Furnished by thu Eleventh Census Bulletin.

Much Interesting dntn about the occupations of the American people Is given In a delayed bulletin of tho eleventh census. It shows that the total number of people engaged In occupations of all kinds In 1SU0 was 22,733,661. This Is an Increase of over 5,000,000 working people In a decade. This whole number of working people consists of those ten years old or over and makes up over 36 per cent, of the entire population and almost 17 per cent, of all persons 10 years old and over. Of tho whole number of working people the females form 17.22 per cent.

Divided by classes the working people of the country are as follows: Agriculture, fisheries and mining, pro fessional, domestic and personal service, trade and transportation, manufacturing and mechanical Industries, 5,091,293. The domestic and personal service Includes hotelkoepers, soldiers, sailors and marines, laborers, barbers, detectives, etc. Tho first named class Is a ten years' gain of over a million, or of almost 3,000,000 for a score of years. Considerably more than four-fifths of the Illiterate main population of tho country and over one-fourth of tho Illiterate female population are working. Over 59 per cent, of the wotklngmen are married, over 37 per cent, single, over 3 per cent, widowed and one-fourth of one per cent, divorced.

Of all foreign whites at work hero 14 per cent, of the males and 13 per cent, of the females cannot speak English. There Is an element of per cent, of the nun employed in domestic and personal service, who cannot speak English, and almost 5 per cent. In the manufacturing1 and mechanical Industries. Manufacturing nnd mechanics embrace the largest number of females who cannot speak English over 4 per cent. with domestic service a close second.

In Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut the males engaged In man ufacturing and mechanical Industries In 1S90 constituted very nearly one-half of all men in gainful occupations. In twenty-four states and territories, including all In the North Central and South Atlantic divisions, the males engaged In agriculture, fisheries and mining constituted more than one-half of all the working males. Of the females at work by far the greater proportion were found In domestic and personal service In a large mnjoiity of the states and territories. In manufacturing and mechanics tho carpenters and joiners, numbering make up the greatest element, with dressmakers nnd milliners following with 199,690. There are a little over one million bookkeepers, clerks and salesmen; 690,658 merchants and dealers; farmers, planters and overseers, and 3,001,061 agricultural laborers: 319.592 miners, and only a little over 60,000 fishermen and oystermen.

Professors and teachers, aggregating 347,314, form the most numeious of the professional classes. Physicians and surgeons, 101, S05, come next: then lawyers, S9.630; clergymen, SS.203; government ofllqlals, musicians, engineers and surveyors, artists and art teachers, journalists, 21,849, and actors, 9.72S. FOOTWEAR NEVERS. Never wear a shoe that will not allow the great toe to lie In a straight line. Never wear a shoe with a sole narrower than the outline of the foot traced with a pencil close under the rounding edge.

Never wear a shoe that pinches tho heel. Never wear a shoe or boot so large In the heel that the foot is not kept In place. Never wear a shoe or boot tight anywhere. Never wear a shoe or boot that has depressions In any part of tho sole to drop any joint or bearing below the level plane. Never wear a shoe with a sole turning up very much at the toes, ns this causes the cords on the upper part of the foot to contract.

Never wear a shoe that presses up Into the hollow of the foot. Never come from hlcn heels to low heels at one jump. Never wear leather solo linings to stand upon; white cotton drilling or linen is much better und more healthful. Never wear a short stocking, or ono which after being washed Is not at least one-half inch longer than the foot. Bear In mind that stockings shrink.

Be sure that they will allow your toes to spread out at tho extreme ends, as this keeps the Joints In place and makes a strong and attractive foot. As to shape of stock ings the single digital or "one-toe stocking" is the best, 'il-iH wm ut awr KS8is viw 7 -s- NOT HIS FAULT. "Pardon me madam, but Is ono of tho porsons a man "They aro both women." "Oh, venusl another arrow wastedl" Life, Copyright, 1S97. by Mitchell Milter. VAST NATURAL WEALTH OF CUBA Resources Thai Can Endure Unlimited Oppression.

IS NOT A "HOWLINO WILDERNESS" Ilcr Contributions to thu Government oT Ilcr Spendthrift Mother Country llnvo oft Her Hidden Kiehcs Uu-touchcd--lIcr Wide Virgin Soil mid llcr Minerals. From the New York Sun. Most recent discussions of affairs In Cuba have been about tho progress of the war that the Cuban patriots have been waging for their Independence. It has been nsserted frequently by almost every public speaker that the wnr has made the Island "a howling wilderness," and that should Spain win she would have gained nothing but the continued right to rule nnd tnx a people ulready ground down to the point of starvation, by unjust taxation, and because of these statements the questions most frequently asked have been: "Why should Spain want to hold Cuba? Why should she, In her bankrupt state, spend almost $100,000,000 in single yenr to subdue a people who hate her rule, who never have submitted willingly to It, who never can he made to do so?" In the Interest the heroic struggle of the patriots for freedom has aroused, sight lias been lost of the wonderful natural resouice of the Island Itself, of tho wonderful fertility of Its soil, of the millions of hidden wealth that taxation, almost to the point of confiscation, has made It unprofitable to secure from Its hiding place. Tho Spaniards know these thlnss, and In them they see the possibility of further plunder almost endless and almost limitless.

Ralmundo Cabrera, in his book, "Cuba and the Cubans," says: "Oh, we are truly rich! "From 1S21 to 1820 Cuba, with her own resources, covered the expenditures of the treasury. Our opulence dates from that period. We hud already sufllclent negro slaves to cut down our virgin forests and ample au thority to force them to work. "By means of uur vices and our luxury, and in spite of the hatred of everything Spanish which Moreno attributed to us, we sent in 1827 the first little million (if hard cash to the treasury of the nation. From that time until 1 SCI we continued to send yearly to the mother country two and a half millions of the same stuff.

According to several Spanish statisticians these sums amounted In ISO! to We were very rich, don't you see; tremendously rich. We contributed more than $5,000,000 toward the requirements ot the peninsular war $5,372,205. We paid In great part the cost of the war In Africa. The Individual donations alone amounted to fabulous sums. "But, of course, we never voted for our own Imposts; they have been forced upon us because we are so rich.

In 1S62 we had In a state of production the following estates: Two thousand seven hundred and twelve stock farms, 1,521 sugar plantations, 7S2 coffee plantations, 6,175 cattle ranches, 18 cocoa plantations, 35 cotton plantations, 22.74S produce farms, 11.73S truck farms, 11,541 tobacco plantations, 1,731 apiaries, 153 country resorts, 243 distilleries, 46S tile works, 604 lime kilns, 63 charcoal furnaces, 54 casava bread factories, and 61 tanneries. Today 1 do not know what we possess, because there are no statistics, and because the recently organized assessment Is a hodge-podge and a new burden; but we. have more than at that time; surely we must have a great deal more. CONVICT SETTLEMENT. "For a long time wo have borne the expense of tho convict settlement at Fernando Po.

We paid for the ill-starred Mexican expedition, the costs of the wars in San Domingo and with the republics of the Pacific. How can wo possibly be poor? While England. France, and Holland pay large sums for the requirements of their colonies, Spain does not contribute a single cent for hers. We do not need it. Wo are wading deep in livers of gold.

If the fertility of our soil did not come to our rescue, we must perforce have become enriched by the system of protection to the commerce of tho mother The four columns of the tariff are Indeed of sublime Invention. Our agricultural Industries require foreign machlnoiy, tools, and utensils which Spain does not supply, but as she knows that we have gold to spare, she may make us pay for them very high, and since our sugar Is to be sold In the United States, never mind what they cost. When there are earthquakes in Andnlusla and inundations in Murcia, hatred does not prevent our sending to our nflllcted brethren large sums. We are opulent? Let us see If we are. From the earliest times down to the present the officials who come to Cuba amass In the briefest space of time fortunes to be dissipated In Madrid, and which appear never to disturb their consciences.

This country Is very ft HMtolsllUVrlV l-t J- iJAJ-l "JV rich, Incalculably rich. In 1S30 we contributed $0,120,931, In 1SI0, In 1SP0, In 1S60, $29,610,779. During the War we did not merely contribute, we bled. Wo had to carry the budget of $32,000,000. "Wo count 1,500,000 Inhabitants; that Is to say, one million and a half of vicious, voluptuous, pompous spendthrifts, full of hatred and low passion, who contribute to the public ehnrgea and nover receive a cent In exchange; who have given as much as $92 per capita, and who at the present moment pay to the state what no other taxpayers the world over have ever contt United.

Docs tiny ono say we are not prodlgously, eii-vlably rich?" This bit of Irony from the pen ot a Cuban, while Intending to show the poverty that Spain has forced on Cuba, gives a deal of truth that goes to show the wonderful resources of the Island and Its people. They have been mulcted, as tho writer says, and In spite of It they are still able to carry on a war like the present one, that In Its Infancy has cost Spain more than $5 to every acre on the Island. It can be valued In acres if the present destruction keeps up, for there may be nothing loft but the land to fight for. A Sun reporter talked a day or so ago Ith a celebrated man, a resident of this city, who has large Interests In Cuba and has travelled In all parts of the Island, who knows its people and knows more about the possibility of their development under a proper go -Miiment than does any other man in this city. RESOURCES UNKNOWN.

"The people of this country," he said "have no idea at a'l of the natural resources of the beautiful Island. As It stands today It Is worth $500,000,000, not counting Its value ns a naval station, which In itself Is almost Incalculable for it commands tho Gulf of Mexico. The nation that controls Cuba controls the mouth of the Mississippi river. There Is no denying that fact. But 1 don't care to speak of that feature.

It Is of the wealth or the island and Its recuperative powers after such wars as have been waged there that you want to hear. The Island contains about the same number of square miles as tho State of Virginia. Theie arc about acres, and not five per cent, of the available land has ever been cultivated. Think of It. They have been grow lug nnd cutting sugar cane there for 300 years, liy available land I mean land with a richness of soil exceeded nowhere in the world and equalled In but few lunds, a soil in which almost anything will grow.

"Of the acres. In round numbers, 17,000,000 are today virgin forests untouched by man. They are forests, too, of great richness. Th'ere are thousands upon thousands of acres of the finest woods that grow. Mahogany grown theie has been sold in New York city as.

high as $850 a thousand feet. There nre forty kinds of the very hard and cabinet wood. The forests alone are worth a mint of money. But it is not here thnt her great wealth Is. It Is In her mines and In the fertility of her soil.

Her mines are In no hlsher state of development than her soil. The chief reason for that is the tremendous tax that I he government of Spain has put upon mining. Of every mineral taken out of the earth Spain has claimed 50 per cent, lis her own. This practically prohibited mining, for the company that undertook It had to pr" for the land and pay for nil the lauor, besides the expense of marketing tho ore, out of the 50 per cent, that the government would lot It take. Just recently, however, there have been concessions made to American companies, and Iron ore Is being mined, the government talcing only live per cent.

There are mountains of iron ore there. The supply ot It Is Inexhaustible and the richness of It Is unequalled. It Is of the quality that Is used in the manufacture of Bessemer steel. The recently discovered deposits equal or exceed those on Lake. Superior, and aro of equal quality.

"The geology and mineralogy of the Island are yet but Imperfectly known however. The government has never paid any. attention to sucn matters. Besides the vust lion deposits theie are known to be great deposits of copper. Before the last war there were two great copper mines operated pn fltably even though the government took half of all the product as Its share and paid nothing for it.

During that war thes mines were flooded and they have never been pumped out. There are gold and silver, but In what quantities I could not say. On many of my trips through the island I have been invited by Cubans to go with them and they would show me here there was gold. They have brought samples oi both ores to me, but homethlng has always happened that has prevented my accepting the invitations. MANGANESE ORE.

"In tho province of Santiago there are trreat deposits of manganese ore. The little investigation that has been made warrants the belief that there are millions of tons of it, and the ore Is rich and of superior quality. There aro great quantities of salt, too, but that Is a government monopoly. Of agriculture, as I said, the soil will produce almost anything that Is planted except wheat. Wheat has not been successfully grown so far.

Sugar cane and tobacco are the two great staples that grow there as they grow nowhere else on earth. You can plant sugar cane there and cut It for thirty or forty or fifty" successive seasons without I have never heard of that anywhere else In the world. 1 have sugar growing there, and the oldest Inhabitants in the neighborhood of the plantation cannot remember by whom it was planted. I have myself cut crops from It more than thirty years. It costs about $30 an acre In Cuba to plant sugar.

That is, the first year's expense from the time of planting to the time of cutting Is $30, nnd tho aver-ago yield will be almost $70 an acre. There are fields that will yield two and three times that much. That Is the average for the whole Island. And after the first year the cost Is but $10 an acre, and It may be a shade under that. In Louisiana and in other sugar-growing regions no crop Is looked for the first year.

In Cuba you plant nnd cut In one year. The soil everywhere Is peculiarly adapted to sugar. It Is also peculiarly adapted to tobacco. So with coffee. I have drunk coffee In Cuba equal to the finest In the world.

"There Is no gainsaying the richness and fertility of the soil of the wonderful Island. Everywhere, from end to end and from side to side, It Is rich In everything. Talk about the cattle of a thousand 'hills, there are a thousand cattle to a hill In Cuba. These are the ideal pasture lauds of the world. We in the states talk of the climate of tho Island and fear the fevers and the diseases.

Why, the climate Is Ideal. In tho hottest summer tho temperature Is never bo high as It Is In New York and there is no severe winter. There are two seasons, the rainy and the dry. There are no extremes In temperature at all. As for the healthfulness of the Islnnd, those fevers and those diseases that wo fear have not penetrated the Island at all, You seldom hear of yellow fever Inland, and, when you do, It is not so bad a disease as typhoid Is here.

It Is and wholesome. No flard in it. Genuine Cottolcno Is sold ovorywhoro with trndo marks "Oottolenc" and Ltcer's head in cotton-plant wreath on every tln. A Immlsoniely Illustrated Kltchm CUlcntlitr of unique desln, for 1597, contnlnlnit Thre. Hundred nnd Mlxtv-ilve Selected ltccliws by tlio licit known teachers ol und writers on cookery.

Will lie sent on receipt orttdi advertisement aud six cents In stamps. THE! N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago, ill. certainly not so frequent, It Is In the coast towns like Havana that fever Is a scourge.

ubounds there because ot the filth that proper sanitary measures would prevent. "Cuba Is prodigally rich in everything. She Is rich In flowers, In fruits, In birds, In woods. She Is rich In mines. She Is rich In agriculture, and In her riches lie In her power of recuperation, her power to wugo war ugalnsl her unnatural mother, even though she Is made a biyrren wilderness.

It Is this natural richness that will enable her to recover quickly and become a power when once she succeeds In shaking oft the shackles with which Spain has bound her." II THIS IS NO JOKE. MANSFIELD STATE NORHAL SCHOOL. intellectual and practical training ror teachers. Time courses of study besides preparatory. Special attention given to preparation for college.

Students admitted to best colleges on certificate. Thirty graduates pursuing further studies last year. Great advantages for special studies In art and music. Model school of three hundred pupils. Corps of sixteen teachers.

Beautiful grounds. Magnificent buildings. Largo grounds for athlotlcs. Elevator and Infirmary with attendnnt nurse. Fine gymnasium, Everything furnished at an average cot to normal students of $143 a year.

Fall term, Aug. 28. Winter term, Dec. 2. Spring torm, Mnrch 10.

Students ndmltted to classes at nny tlm For catalogue, containing full Information, apply to S. II. ALMtO, Principal. Mansfield Ia ASKPOKTTIEBSBKLETON ItM ANPl5AESQIUTOy5AFE FOR SALE BY THE SCRANTON STATION. RAILROAD TIME-TABLES Schedule In Effect Noember 15, 1S95 Trains Leave Wilkes-Barro as F0II0W3 7.30 a.

week days, for Sunbury, HarrisburR, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and for Pitts-burp; and the West. 10.15 a. week days, for Hasloton, Pottsville, Roading, Norristown, and Philadelphia; and for Sun-bury, Harrisburfj, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Pitts, burp; and the West. 3.15 p. week days, for Sunbury, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Pittsburp; and tho West.

3.15 p. Sundays only, for Sunbury, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, nnd Pittsburg and tho West. G.00 p. week days, for Hazleton and Pottsville. J.

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PRUVOST, Oencral Manager. LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD SYS- TEJl. Anthracite Coal Used Exclusively Insuring Cleanliness and Comfort. IN EFFECT NOV. 15, 1S9B.

TRAINS LEAVE SCRANTON. For Philadelphia and Now Y'ork via D. t- H. R. R.

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1.55 3.10, COO and 8.47 p. m. For White Uuvcn, Hazleton, Pottsville, nnd principal points in the coal regions via D. H. R.

C45 a. 12.05 and 4.41 p. m. For Bethlohom, Easton, Reading, Harrisburg and principal Intermediate stations via D. II.

R. C.43, 7.45 a. WeUftftftjVjjas fly El GIVES THL BESTIifiHTVvORIP Use It is sweet, pure 12.0.,, 1.20, 3.33 (Black Diamond Express), 4.41 and 11.30 p. m. For Ttinkhnnnock, Towntula, Elmlrn, Itlincn, Geneva nnd principal Inturmodluto stations via L.

i W. It. COO, 8.08. 0.65. n.

12.20 and 3.40 p. m. 1' or Oenevn, Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara nils, Chicago nnd nil points west via D. II. It.

7.43 a. 12.03, 3.33 (IHnck 9.50 anil 11.30 p. m. Pullman parlor nnd sleeping or Lehigh nl ey chair cars on all trains between ilkos-Hnrro nnd New York, Philadelphia, liufTiilo and Suspension Bridge. HOLUN H.

WILBUR, den. Supt. CITAS. S. LliE, Gen.

Puss. la. A. W. NONNEMACHEU, Asst.

Gen Pass. South Bethlehem, Pa. hcrnnton Ofllce, 309 Lackawanna avenue. Del. Lnclca.

and Wustcrn, Effect Monday, October 19, 1SDG. Trains leave Scranton as follows: Ex- iVnSStor-Iiuw Yolk nnu u11 Points East, 1.10, 2.50, 5.15, S.00 and 0.55 a. m.j 1.10 and .33 p. m. Express for Easton.

Trenton, Philadelphia and tho South, 5.13, 8.00 and 9.53 a. 1.10 and 3.33 p. m. nshlngton and way stations, 3.45 p. m.

ouyhanna accommodation, CIO p. m. for Binghamton, Oswego. Elmlrn Corning. Bath, Dansvllle, Mount -Morris and Buffalo, 12.20, 2.33 a.

and 1.53 ma.k'ng close connections at Buffalo to ail nolnts In tho West, Northwest and oouthwest. Bath accommodation, 9.15 a. m. JJliiglmmton and way stations, 1.03 p. m.

eholson accommodation, 5.15 p. in. Hlnghainton and Elmlra express, 5.55 Express for Utlca and Richfield Springs. -So a. m.

and 1.53 p. m. Ithaca 2.33 and Bath 9.15 a. and 1.53 p. m.

For Northumberland, Plttston, Wllkes-uaire, Plymouth, Jlloomsburg and Dan-vino, malting close connection at Northumberland for Wllllamsport, Harrisburg, Baltimore, Washington and tho South. Northumberland and Intermediate stations, COO, 9.55 a. nnd 1.55 und 0.00 p. in. Nantlcoko nnd lnrnrmnrllft.tR stntlons.

8.0S and 11.20 a. m. Plymouth and intermediate stations, 3.40 and S.I7 p. m. Pullman parlor and sleeping coaches on all express trains.

For detailed Information, pocket tlmo tables, apply to M. L. Smith, city ticket ofllce, 32S Lackawanna avenue, or depot ticket ofllce. Central Knilroad of New Jersey. (Lehigh nnd Susquehanna Division.) Anthracite coal used exclusively.

Insuring cleanliness and comfort. TIME TABLE IN EFFECT JAN. 23, 1S97. Trains leave Scranton for Plttston, Wllkes-Barre, at 8.20, 9.15. 11.30 a.

12,45, 2.00, 3.03. 5.00. 7.10 p. m. Sundays 9.00, a.

1.00, 2.15, 7.10 p. m. For Atlantic City, S.20 a. m. For New York, Newark and Elizabeth, S.20 (express) a.

12.45 (express with Buffet parlor car), 3.03 (express) p. m. Sunday, 2.15 p. m. Train leaving 12.43 p.

m. arrives at Philadelphia, Reading Terminal, 5.22 p. in. and Now York 0.00 p. in.

For Mauch Chunk, Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton and Philadelphia, 8.20 a. 12.45, 3.03, 5.00 (except Philadelphia) p. m. Sunday, 2.15 p. m.

For Long Branch, Ocean Grove, at S.20, a. m. and 12.43 p. m. For Lakewood, 8.20 a.

m. For Reading, Lebanon and Harrlsburg, via Allentown, 8.20 a. 12.45, 5.00 p. m. Sunday, 2 15 p.

m. For Pottsville, 8.20 a. 12.43 p. m. Returning leave New York, foot of Lib erty street.

North River, at 9.10 (express) a. 1.10, 1.30, 4.15 (express with Buffet parlor car) p. m. Sunday, 4.30 a. m.

Leave Philadelphia. Reading TVrmlnnl. 9.00 a. 2.00 and 4.30 p. m.

Sunday, 6.2C a. in. Through tickets to all points at lowest rates may be had on application in advance to the ticket agent at tho station. II. P.

BALDWIN, Gen, Pass. Agt. J. II. OLIIAUSEN.

Gen. Supt. DELA ARE AND HUDSON TIME TABLE. On Monday, Nov. 23, trains will leave Scranton as follows: For Caruondale o.4j, 7.55, 8.55, 10.15, a.

12.00 noon; 1.21, 2.20, 3.52, 5.25, 0.25, 7.57, tf.lU, 1U.BU, 11.53 I), m. For Albany, Saratoga, Montreal, Boston, New England points, etc. 5.45 a. 2 20 m. For Honesdale 5.45, 8.53, 10.15 a.

12.00 noon, 2.20, 5.25 p. m. For Wllkes-Barre G.45, 7.43. S.43. 9.33, 10 43 12.03, 1.20, 2.23, 3.33, 4.41, COO, 7.50, 9.30.

11.30 p. in. New lorK, rmmueiiiiim, via. nhlirh Valley Railroad C13, 7.43 a. 05- 1.20, 3.33 (with Black Diamond Ex-uTes's) 11.30 p.

in. For Pennsylvania Railroad points C43, 9 3S a 2.30, 4.41 p. m. western points, via Lehigh Valley a. 12.03.

3.33 (With Black Diamond Express) 9.50, 11.30 p. m. Trains will arrive at Scranton at follows: From Carbondale and tho north C40, 7 40 S40 9.31, 10.40 n. 12.00 noon; 1.05, 2.21, 3.23, 4.37, 5.43, 7.45, 9.43 and 11. -o p.

in. Krlc and Wyoming Valley. Effective Jan, 4, 1S97. Trains will leave Scranton for New Yoik, Newburgh and Intermediate points on Erie also for Itawley and local points, at 7.03 a. m.

and 2.2S p. and arrive from above points at 10.33 a. m. and 9.38 p. m.

SCKANTOJV DIVISION. 1u Ilffect October-nil, lhllti. TO? FiOIll lIKUS-xiiii 13 aim tiiu suuur 7 50 8.50. 10.10, 11.53 n. 1.10.

2.14, 3.43, 6.21, 7.53, 9.03, 9.43, 11.52 p. in. lU'RDICK, P. Albany, N. Y.

Jl. I.IU33) UV.llHl.ulli North Hound, notion. iRnfaoi '-'oh Stations 2S (Trains Dally. Kx- 0 g.3 i'a cept Sunday.) I5 a ITr Arrive Leave i a 7S5N. Y.

Franklin St 7 40 7 10 West street 7 65 700 810 mA rrlvc Leave Mr Ml 1 16 llaacock Junction Srfti 109 Hancock KU 1280 StarllKht 228.... 12ID Preston part a 31 IS4U comn 18 85 Poyntelle 2W 18 14 Belmont 269 laoa riensant mu JI15D Unlondalo 300 1149 Forest City 8 19 0601181 Carbondale 704 3 Wliito Itrldce 07.13 10 Jfayfleld 1: 12 18 48 0 4111123 Jerinyn 714 345.... esvilis Archibald 7 20 8 61.... 032,1115 Wlnton 723' 8M euB'llU Fi'CkVllla 727369.... 023,1107 Olvrhont 732, 401..

0 201105 Prlceburg 7S4I40T 0 18 1103 TlUOOp 7 6 13lll Provldncs 7 89:4 14 0 1211067 rark Pinco 17 4ifi 17 0 10 10 55' Bcranton 7 nit Leave Arrive a in All trains run dally except BuncUv. Blgnlfles that trains stop on signal for pas. Eeutcers. hecure rates via Ontario 4 Woatern belorn purchasing tickets and eave money. Day and Night KipresBtotho West.

J. C. Anderson, aen. Pass tet, T. Flltcrolt, Dlv.

l'oss, Agt. Bcranton, l-a..