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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-02-24

infatuated with his Office and with his flag.
While the battle was raging and We wero
slowly advancing, Frank, in his enthusiasm
got far in front Of the regiment.
Bring that flag bacl; to tho regiment "
shouted Col McCalmont.
There was no response, though Il was evil
dent the color bearer had distinctly heard the
order.
Bring that flag back to the regiment,
again shouted the Colonel
cd d-n you, bring the regiment up to
the nag shouted Frank furiously, and the
Colonel obeyed the order,
When Frank was afterwards taken prisoner
he managed in some way to wrap the flag
which was so precious 10 him around his body
under his clothes, and SO carried it with him
until lie was exchanged.
A. ~
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TOLD BY MAJOR MCDOWELL.

Il was the first day Of the battle Of Gettys-
burg. We were In line Of battle on the north
side Of knoll with our guns planted at the
brow where they commanded perfectly any
advancing body of the Confederates. After
,he battle had been raging for some time our
officers could see the enemy preparing for 4
charge. The guns We're double shotted and
the order given to wait until the Confedcrltes
came within short range. On came the line,
douDle-quick, until twas within less than one
hundred yards Of the mu2zles of our guns.
There was a flash Of flame, u roar that shook
tho hills and valleys, and when the smoke
cleared away there seemed 10 be nothing but
piles OF dead and wounded. Our shot had
moved a tremendous gapintbe line filed only
by PROSTATE bodies. Quick as the movement
could be executed, however the advancing
line was reformed in front OF the windrow Of
bodies, and, eboy to elbow, the charge was
renewed They were so near that We could see
their face, and shall mover forget the ex-
prosslon Of courage and determination, which
l:sacmed 10 mo could seeas plainlyas though
we were laco TO face, and which showed that
they were either going TO conquer or to be
shot to deatn. Again our guns belched forth,
and again the whole line to man seemed to
60 down. Anew wndrow oi the hundreds Of
deld and dying was made considerably in
front Of tao former one. like magic the line
Of the enemy formed again, and Ggain, elbow
TO elbow, in front q the piles of their fallen
comrades those undaunted fellows came on.
Eyena amid the smoke thGv wasnow clouding
everything we could plainly see that terrible
exprasaIon OF desperate and fearless courage
which was almost Osa sappaning to US sas the dec
imation Of their ranks must have boon to
them. A third time our batteries poured
forth their murderous FIRE, and third time
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-02-24
RUSSIAN OF EHB RUSSIANS.
General GourkO, "the Hero Of the
Balkans" Dying in old Warsaw.
Career Of Man who Crilged to Power, 0p.
pressed the Weak, and Daily Prayed God to
Approve His Conduct, One Of the Unique
Figures Of the Present Century.

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. /, 1894 The Car is
sick here in his palace; and General Gourko is
reported to be dying in Warsaw. Thebul!etins
announcing the condition Of the Monarchs
health, are not more eagerly read than those
that tell from day to day, the progress Of the
disease that is carrying the subject 10 the
grave. Wherever Gourko's name is men,
toned, one hears loud expressions Of ad-
miration for the soldier and regret for his
approaching end; but there Is far more mean
ing in the whlsperings Of hate and the looks
of delight, with which others regard the near
demise Of one whom, with reason they regard
Gs heartless tyrant.
Joseph Nassilyeyirch Gourko was born in
1923, in the Oukraina," or borderland be-
tween Russia and Old Poland. His family
was Lithuanian, and for generations had in
termarried with the Poles, fact which at
first, led the people whom he was to rule over
TO believe that, as Governor OF Poland, he
would be more lenient than his predecessors
Like every other boy Of good family, in this
country and at that time, Gourko, from in
fancy was destined for the army. The influence
Of his family was sufficient to gain him
admission 10 the Institute Of the Imperial
Corps Of Pages at ST. Petersburg. This Insti-
tute is the most aristocratlc school In the
Empire, the senior cadets being detailed in
turn, to do duty as pages to the Car. The
social advantages OF such apositiOn are great,
and the youth, who, as q page, succeeds in
| attracting the favorable notice Of the monarch
finds when he enters the army that service in
the field is not the great essential to advance.
ment.
In 1916, young Gourko secured the commits
! sion Of coronet in the Imperial Huzzars Of the
Guard, the crack regiment in the Russian
Service. Among the officers OF this body are
always to be found number Of Grand Dukes
members Of the Imperial family, who are nat.
ually very particular as TO the new members
admitted. At the time OF Gourkos entering
the army, the Imperial residence, for some
months every year, was at Tsagskoe Seioe
which was also the headquarters of the Hus.
sars, fact that enabled the young officer:
to continue the royal acquaintance, and tC
emphasize as a soldier, the favorable impress
| sion be had made as a page
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reconciled to their conquerors. Placed over
such an army and with such people to hold
in restraint, General Gourko soon found that
his position was not sinecure, and, from
his conduct II is fair to infer that the difficult
ties of the place were TO him its greatest at.
traction. Cancellation was never Russian
means to dispose of discomfort, and Gourlo
was not the man to violate precedent in this
matter Reasoning that if the Poles belonged
to the Greek Church and spoke only the Rus
sian tongue, they would he more ameDahls
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terry, and fierce hand 70 hand fight for It's
possession followed. Twice the Sergeant was
prisoner, andltwica released by the re-en-
forcements hurried to his assistance. The
result was that tho battery WAS taken, Bruner
bringing of the colors with his own hand.
Soon after this, the gallant fellow was made
a Captain, and as such distinguished himself
during the siege. Not tho least remarkable
thing about this man was that though he
never appeared to bo SO entirely happy os
when he was mixed up In hand to hand
struggle. he went through all his battles
without receiving scratch.
I. L. wooD.
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TOLD BY COLONEL I. L. WOOD.

It is an easy matter to remember acts Of
daringon the part Of regiments and brigades,
OF friend and foe, but in recalling battles find
it very difficult to separate the man from the
mass about him, or to distinguish the officer,
who fearlessly led, from the private, who rs
fsarlessly followed.
Taking it all through think that in Grants
campaign, preceding the siege OF Nicksburg,
and during the siege itself, that saw more
acts of individual gallantry than witnessed
during the rest Of my four years campaign
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get him to use any but his native tongue.
He has been described as "a sycophant to
his superiors, traitor to his friends, and Il
tyrant TO his interiors, but this harsh judg-
ment comes from Polish sources. 1t seems
be certain, however, that he knows not
policy but brute force, and recognizes no
right that is not hacked by power. As it is
evident that General Qourko is a Russian
barbarian, born two centuries after his time,
the world would have been much happier had
he not been born at all. &. u. L.
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Chilling Gratitutia.

Mr.. Goodrisk--" Mary, I've had my life in
sured to-day and now at my death you will
receive S25 900.
Mrs. Goodrisk tenrapturedl-- 40, you dar-
ling, dear, good man How thoughtful OF
you'll You not only try 10 make me happy
while you are alive, but you fix 1t so III be
happy after you're dead w--P,ick.
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Cupid's Engineering.

"But how can We hope to bridge the wide
social gull which lies between him and his
adored?n
with slghs perhaps "--DshoR Tribune.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-02-24

Judge 20 tramp prisoner --" Fifty dollars
or thirty days
Times money Judge. Cline thirty days"
Detroit Free Press.
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caiyed promotion, and his horoism is only one
Of the many brave deeds done by our volur-
tear soldiers which never saw any other re-
ward than the gratitude Of their comrades.
". A. STONE.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-20
AMERICANS AS GIvERs.

President Swain, of the State University,
in his address al the recent dedication of
the Hadley Industrial School for Girls.
spoke of the obligation of wealthy to
contribute to the establishment and sup
port of educational and phianthropic insti-
tutions. In this connection he said: "A
visitor to the European countries is struck
by the fact that many more enterprises
and institutions supported by the gifts
of men of wealth." than in the United
SWANS position on the main question, the
Journal must take leave to differ with him
on the point above quoted. We think it
susceptible of demonstration that in no
other country in the world are the private
gifts 20 educational and charitable institu-
tons as large they are IN the United
States. In making a comparison with
European countries il must be remembered
that many of the gifts and endowments
there date back hundreds of years, while
this country. as yet. point to the results
OF only a single century, a considerable
part of which was passed by an infant ma
ton in getting it's feet 1t is doubtless
safe to say that during the hundred years
of our national existence the private en-
dowments requests and gifts TO public in
stitutions in this country have far exceed
ed those in any other country in the world
during the same period, and that in recent
great. If the American people are intense
in their pursuit of money. they also spend
it freely and make princely gifts to worthy
objects
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tee who reported Mr. Cleveland's tariff
bill to rise up and protest that the half
dozen conservative Senators foisted the
sugar duty and the discrimination in favor
of the Sugar Trust upon the House. The
observations of Kate Fields paper. Wash
ington. are in the same line. Referring to
the fact that the original Wilson bill gave
the sugar refiners one-fourth of a cent
differential which the Senate made one
eighth, Miss Fields paper remarks that
zone would really think that the Senate
was less favorably disposed to the wicked
Sugar Trust than the House, but the howl
against the former goes on just the same.
Nobody continues this woman critic,
"demurs when the President says toler-
ant word for sugar taxation"
The point is well taken by these Wash
ington papers. The original House or
Cleveland bill, devised by Mr.. Wilson and
other friends of the President in and out
of Congress. gave the sugar refiners great
er advantage in the way of a differential
duty by urging double that inserted by the
Senate. For that proposition Mr.. Wilson
made fight in the House and was de-
feated by the combined votes of all the
Republicans and minority of the Demo-
Gratis. Free sugar, let it be emphasized,
was in the Wilson bill as sent to the
Senate because the ClevelandWilson and
free trade element were unable to keep it
out Such being the case-the fact of his
tory-it would become the ultra tariff re-
formers to moderate their de,Iunciation of
those who succeeded in reducing the bonus
to the Sugar Trust which Cleveland, Will
son and their clique advocated in their
original bill. Their 'popgun'' devices can
not obscure the official record. Some of
the original Wilson bills are in existence
and from one of them, in the official type
on page q, the following is found:
All sugars above number sixteen Dutch
standard in color shall pay duty of five
twentieths (one-fourth) of one cent per
pound.
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CLEVELAND. WILSON AND SUGAR.

The Washington Post. whatever 1t may
be. is not a Republican organ. and. there
fore. cannot be accused of partisan bias
when it takes Chairman Wilson to task
for inconsistency in connection with tariff
legislation. OF late the Chairman has had
much to say about "class distinctions" and
on Tuesday, after he had engineered the
Senate bill through the House, declared
that he would not cease TO battle las long
as the yoke of monopoly is the neck
OF any citizen in this country" After
quoting this declaration the Post calls Mr..
Wilson to order and reminds him that. 5
the chairman of the ways and means com
mlttee. he brought into the House the orig
inal tariff bill with one-fourth of a cent
differential duty in favor OF the sugar
refiners. This is twice as much as is given
the Sugar Trust in the law which is now
in the hands of the President This being
the case, 1t is too late for the Democratic
members OF the ways and means commit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-20
LOWER DUTIES AND LOWER WAGES

The opinions which were published in
Sundays issue respecting the effect of the
lower tariff upon wages are not those of
men who are accused of working the tariff
speaking as business men. They are prac-
teal men and not theorists. They employ
skilled labor largely, and know what it can
accomplish. and consequently they have no
faitf in the essays of the free-trade theo-
rists, which declare that American intel-
gence and skill can turn out in the same
time enough more goods than can the Eu-
ropean competitor to neutralize the differ
ence in wages. Mr.. Test, president OF the
Indianapolis Chain and Stamping Company.
says in these interviews that as 50 per cent.
of the value in a chain is the cost of labor,
and as the present prices are the result of
competition among home producers, under
the same conditions and paying the same
wages there must be a difference when
the reduction of the duty on chains is from
1913 per cent. to 50 per cent. or
over 60 per cent. decrease, because
it brings the American maker pay
ing from 30 to 20 per cent. more
wages into competition with the much
cheaper production of England and Ger
many Therefore, there must be one of two
things-the closing of American works or
the reduction Of wages. Mr. Olaf r. Olsen
has never been accused of being a Repub-
lican, but. a successful manufacturer.
he has noticed that wages go up and down
the tariff is the barrier TO the low wages
of European competition To common sense
people who are candid the fact is as simple
as that two and two make four. The head
of the Parry Manufacturing Company is
one OF the practical and brainy business
men OF the city. He is not in politics, but
is a manufacturer of carriages, and, in
that capacity, he says:
Indirectly we will be affected to a con-
siderable extent. Whenever the tariff is low
wages are always low. low tariff means
a low price for the products of. the farm,
and when the farmer gets little money Tor
his produce one can afford to pay pro-
lection prices for manufactured articles. In
the course of time that viii bring about
necessity OF a cheaper production, and then
the workingman Will suffer the conSe-
quences by a cut in his wages. We can {
say how soon the necessity of cutting
wages will reach us. but we believe it will
come as soon prices adjust themselves to
the new order of things.
Such is the result of the observations of
practical business men, and such judg-
ments, based upon experience and careful
observation. are worth volumes of the as
sumptions of mere theorists.
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necessity of making a draft for candidates
to fill out a State ticket.-Martin County
Tribune.
The Indianapolis Sentinel is now occupy
ing about half its space explaining that
IL is not and never did oppose the official
acts of Governor Matthews. but on the
other hand was his stanch supporter.
Anderson Bulletin.
The President will be guilty of party
perfidy and party dishonor II he either
signs the bill or allows 1t to become law
without his signature. II is extremely
probable. however, that he will sign 1t.
--Shelbyville Republican.
The purpose of a coterie of the friends
of Senator Voorhees, at Indianapolis to
.'shelve' Governor Matthews as a sena-
torial possibility by pretending that he Is
constructed OF presidential timber Is too
gauzy TO deceive anybody.-Muncie Times.
The Democratic party has established
new era Of things. The people are now
facing the calamity that the Republicans
have for thirty years been fighting against.
That calamity is the calamity of cheap
products and cheap labor.-Vincennes Conn
mercial
Chairman Wilson states that over six
hundred amendments were made to the
Wilson bill in the Senate. AS the Wilson
bill followed the Democratic platform it
seems that Democracy can stand six hun
convenience.-Loganspor Journal
1t was only the perturbation OF Mr..
Clevelands mind. which he mistook for
malaria. that sent him to Gray Gables.
He went to bed and had a nap as soon
as he reached home. after which he
able to get up and swear at German with
ms usual ease and fiuency.-Richmond Pal
ladium
Some of the Democratic newspapers seem
TO be very much delighted over the nomi-
nation of Andy Humphreys, of Green coun-
~, for State Senator. They refer to him
as the 'old Democratic war horse" He
lacked a great deal of being a war DEM
ocrat." He was one of the many Indiana
Democrats who thought more of the Demo-
cratic party than they did of the country.
Washington Gazette.
How w. d. Bynum can come before the
farmers of Madison county this fall and
ask their support after deceiving them is
one OF the mysterious things in politics.
Then again how he ask the support
OF the window glass workers of this coun-
ty after refusing TO comply with their
quests? The glass men will not forget
him. and they will not forget to scratch
his name from the ballot in November.
-Elwood Call-Leader.
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Twenty-Five ImrnortnIs.

Mr.. Spofford, the Librarian of Congress,
has made a selection of the twenty-five i'm
mortals whose statues or busts are to adorn
the new congressional library at Washing
ton. OF the sixteen who will have places
on the inside only two are Americans viz:
Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat,
and Joseph Henry, long time secretary and
director OF the Smithsonian Institution.
There will be nine busts on the outside of
the building America being represented by
Franklin. Irving. Emerson and Hawthorne.
The others on Mr.. Spofford's list Ho-
mer. Shakespeare. Dante, Goethe Scott,
Plato St Paul, Bacon. Demosthenes, Her.
odotus. Gibbon, Macaulay Moses. Scion,
Blackstone, Michael Angelo. Beethoven,
Newton and Columbus.
1t was a difficult task TO select twenty
five of the worlds greatest men for such
a purpose. and probably Mr, Spofford is as
competent TO do it as any man in the coun-
try. but no doubt some will take exceptions
TO his list He was not only restricted BY
the number but also by the necessity of
recognizing different professions and kinds
OF greatness and. TO some extent, by ma
tionality. Six Americans out of a total of
twenty-five is pretty fair proportion. and
yet there are other Americans as worthy
of being included in the list as any of those
named. OF course. every one Will think of
Washington. Lincoln and Grant. but Mr..
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the most inconseouent things IN the most
startling and impressive way. and punch
ing the air with such wlld gesticuiations
and warwhoops as TO excite attention on
the planet of Mars, whose inhabitants IL
is believed by astronomers. have been en-
gagged for the last six months in desper-
make out what the matter Is on this
Planet. IL Is only the truth TO say that
people generally had got tired OF the dis
turbance. They wanted more business and
less chin And as for Mars. they were
cutie content TO leave Gresham TO estab-
Lsh communications with that planet and
mat ne could not make worse botch OF
IL with Mars than he has with all our sub
lunary relations.
And now Claude Matthews takes the
puhg out OF a fresh barrel OF language.
He says that the Democratic party Is re-
deemlng its pledges one by one, and names
unjust laws; says tine struggle must be
herce ana earnest" that there must be
that the Democratic party has al times
suffered defeat but IL never surrenders:'
that surrender will only come when the
cause or the people 10 which IL has ever
been true, when the representative gov
eminent which il has ever defended and
when the great principles shall be eternalIy
lost, and great deal more of that sort
Of thing, the swish-swash Of which will
bring renewed anxiety to several thousand
houses waiting for the deluge which has
driven them out OF employment to SUBJ
side He also says that where President
Cleveland, trusted leader, will be there 10
lead we shall be brave enough TO follow"
Doubtless the trusted leader who was at
that moment on his way 10 BuzZards Bay,
looked anxiously over his shoulder when he
read that statement and Immediately gave
orders to put on more steam. Governor
Matthews. no doubt, means well, but he
mistakes the present temper of the people
in letting loose more language at this juno
ture: What the people ask OF the Demo-
cratic party is just what the Irish judge
requested of the prisoner when he said:
I'VE want nothing from you but silence,
and devilsh little OF that"
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WILL CLEVELAND SIGN.

Cleveland to Gornan: $50 there, now,
1 won't sign your nasty bill any way"
Brooklyn Times (Rep.)
The government is losing a great deal of
money by the delay in signing the tariff
bill.-Cincinnati Enquirer Dem.)
We would like to wager that President
Cleveland still is annoyed by that Solemn
sense of responsibility. Chicago Dispatch
Qnd)
There is but one thing which he (Cleve-
lanD can do and win the respect of the
countrywide it.-Philadelphia Inquirer
Rep)
Cleveland's name to the Wilson bill will
be a magnificent illustration of those things
that are last but not least.-Philadelphi
Times (Dem)
Achilles sulked in his tent, but he kept
on the camp ground with Agamemnon.
Cleveland might we'll take lesson from
the Greek who was never whipped-New
York Record (Rep.)
Nobody knows what Mr.. Cleveland will
do about the tariff bill, and the rumors
that he and Mr. Carlisle at odds help
to make the uncertainty greater-Louis-
vile Commercial (Rep.)
The President can either read the riot act
to the sordid, cowardly Democratic legis-
lators in a ringing veto that will not be for
gotten for generations, or he can brand
himself as a traitor to Democratic princi-
pies by signing the bill. and bring up, the
rearguard of debauched, demoralized
party under Gorman's leadership.-New
York Tribune CRep.)
Every true American hopes that Presi-
dent Cleveland will veto the bill which in
cludes the income tax. 1t is the essential
principle of socialism, oppressive, tyranni-
CAL and unequal in it's operation. coming
straight and officially from that small
vicious but clamorous group, the Popusts
and Social Labor people, who, whenever
anarchical disorder breaks out among US
in such atrocities as those of Homestead
or in the rebellion of Debs, are ever ready
to cheer it forward and lend a sneaking, if
not open hand to its outrages.-New York
Sun DEM