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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-11-29

AT THE regular meeting of the Lincoln
League held on Monday evening the ioi-
lowing committees were appointed; On
Credentials w. II. Ritter, J. Il. Miller and
George Robinson. On Program Levi
Wise, Porter W. Lowry and Thomas Alex
ander. Several new members were elect
ed at this meeting. 1t is proposed to have
some entertainments in the League room
duripr tho wiufar
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-11-29

A NEW YORK syndicate bid sll7,011 and
accrued interest per $4,000 for the $5O.-
eco, 900 in bonds, just issued by the Nation
al Government, and got them all. The
bonds run for ten years at per cent.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-11-29

THE Armenians are having hard time
Besides being slaughtered by the Turks
they are dying by thousands from cholera
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-11-29
LEGAL ADVERTISE MENTS.
Administrators Notice.

Administrators Notice.
ESTATE OF ALEXANDER BROWN, DECD.
Notice is hereby given that letters of ad-
ministration Z. +. A. un the estate OF Alex
ander Brown, late of the township of Mer-
Ger, county Of Butler, and State of Penn'a,
decd, have been granted to the undersign-
ed, to whom all persons indebted to SAID
estate are requested to make payment,aud
those having claims or demands will make
known the same without delay
n. L. BROWN,
ConneauJ Lake,
A. T. BLACK, Atty. Crawford Co., Pa
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-11-29
MEDICAL INSTITUTE.

Established by regular physicians for the cure
of obstinate diseases: Failing Fits Nervousness.
and Exhaustion. ScrofuIa, Ulc. rations OF the
Throat Glands and all diseased discharges
speedily cured; Cancers. Tumors Gottre and
morbid grow tbs removed without the knife aud
without pain. Consultation free. Call or ad-
dress DR. IAYLOR, go Liberty St., sPittsburg,
Pa.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-11-29

Gov. PATTIsoN granted requisition
on Gov. Flower of New York, for u. M.
Irwin. the pool map
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-11-29

BY virtue oil sundry writs OF en-. Ex.. Fl. Fa.
lev. Fa., &C. issued out Of the Court OF Common
Pleas of Butler Co., Pa, and 10 me directed
there will be exposed to public sale at the
Court House. in the borough OF Butler, on
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-11-29

Beautiful all wool Suitings that ought
to be no less than IS cents. If you
write for them quick You will get d
choice of % mixtures of colorings
aud weaves. at 35 cents.
They are 80 inches wide. Think oft
Cheviot tiniShed, all wool fabric i'm
ported-3 distinct styles, with all
the popular cnlors in eBch-it Is
wrong To ak less than rs cents
but We bought them low, aud you
shall have the benefit. at 90 cents.
Ladies' Kids. colors or black. regular 4
button dollar glove Tor 75 cents.
Marquise-0ur Special Kid Glove, We can
.maJch any dress, $l.20.
Ladies' Lined Kids, very cheap.
Corduroy, % Inch. for Dresses. Heavy
Cord-brautifui colors. and at the rare
price, $l.00.
Lyons Silk Velvet, in exquisite plaids. 20
inches wide, seven culors. For Waists,
Sleeves and Hood lining. $l.5O
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07
"FOR THE SONGS SAKE"


Would you wear the poets crown or
laurel,
Follow In the path of the immorials?
journey!
Long the way and stained with drops of
anguish
For the thorns lie thick amid the roses.
You have need OF courage and resistance,
Bitter need for hope and tireless patience,
Faith unshalIen, settled resolution,
In reeling world this star, sure-cen-
tered,
Boundless love and pity for your brothers,
This the path which leads to the i'm
mortals.
Turn aside from selfish hope of guerdon;
Fame forever flies the arms would clasp
her
He who sings for fame pursues a shadow,
Hampering vestments may awhile detain
you,
Gaudy garments of the mob's approval
Self-complacent praises gally tinted
These shall fetter and awhile delay you.
Rise and cast hem from you as a mantle =!
For the songs sake only, o my brother,
IOuf your soul; ana II no mortal lSten,
Sing; the song returns unto the singer.
Sing the love and sorrow of the mortal;
Sing the hope and weakness of the hu-
man;
Though you pour your hoard upon a
desert,
Give, nor dream of recompense hereafter.
Give from pity all your songs of gladness,
Give from love most infinite and tender
Living words of love for loves sake only.
Self-surrendering in that loss we triumph.
Through this path we pass to the inn
mortals. Chicago lnter-Ocean.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07
POLITICAL POINTS.

There are only nine male deputy fac
tory inspectors in this state. Four out of
the thirteen deputies are required to be
women.
At a recent meeting of the Berks county
Republican league a resolution electing
Senator j. Donald Cameron to honorary
membership was unanimously adopted.
Representative Farr will, in all probable
ity, be reappointed chairman of the edu-
cation committee. He will also renew his
efforts to secure compulsory education.
The Pennsylvania congressional dele
CATION will indorse eX-POstmaster W. W.
Johnson, of Baltimore for postmaster of
the house of representatives of the Fifty
fourth congress.
Luzerne county will present the name Cf
Benjamin +. Davis, of Freeland, as u can
didate for sergeant-at-arms of the house
at Harrisburg. Mr.. Davis would make an
excellent official.
Chairman Porter, of the Philadelphia
city committee, denies that the Quaker
City Republican delegation to Harris
burg will undertake to tamper with the
Brooks high license law.
Charles Il. Voohees is a leading candl-
date for the just-vacated chief clerkship
of the Philadelphia common council, a
position worth $1,000 year. If George W.
Kochersperger, the present assistant
chief clerk, is promoted, Voorhees, will
get Kochersperger's place, which is worth
ST. 500
The papers in John b. Blair's contest
of Harry Whites election as president
judge of the Fortieth judicial district al
lege bribery, and illegal votes by non
| registered men and by persons who had
not paid their tax White had 81 plur-
| alty whereas Hastings had 5000. Blair
| claims a recount will give him 3i9 plur-
atty
Friends of DR.. II. d. Heller, of Heller
| town, have instituted proceedings in the
| Northampton county court to contest the
election of Edward II. Laubach to the
state senate. Laubach had 50 plurality
| Heller specifies where G3 votes for Lau-
| bach We're cast by men who lived outside
| the district in which the votes were cast
The hearing will be before Judge Schuyler
| Dec. II. This may lead to other contests
| The joke of the season Is the movement
| of certain Democratic members-elect OF
the next house at Harrisburg to combine
to prevent the selection of Foghorn John
II. Fow, of Philadelphia, as the Demo
cratic caucus nominee for speaker against
Harry Walton. There are only twenty.
nine Democrats in all; yet five are al
ready in the field for speakership honors-
Representatives Schwartz, of Monroe
Smiley, of Clarion; Fritz, of Columbia
Herzog of Berks, and Fow. Mr.. Schwartz
| has written to a number of Democratic
members-elect soliciting their support and
suggesting that the country members or
| MI i, .sr
canvass is in charge Of Adjutant General
| Greenland
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07
ALLISON'S AVAILABILITY.
From the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
1t pointed out that he has his state
behind him, ana friends in every other
state west of the Alleghcnies, as well as
some further east: that he Is, next TO
John Sherman, the leading Republican
senator; that he has taken no decided
part in any of the faQtona fights within
the Republican party, but on the con-
trary, has always been on excellent terms
with all factions; that of all prominent
Republican statesmen he has, on the
whole, occupied the position on the tariff
question which bests suits the majority of
the Republican party, as well as the ma
jorlty of the country today, never having
been a high protectlonlst, although he has
bowed to his party's will in this as In
other matters and has made ambiguous
declarations in his speeches at times
which might have been construed as in
dicatlng ap acceptance Of McKinleyism,
while on the silver question he has more
dexterously than most other public men
maintained the idea of bi-metalllsm with
out offending either the east or west
They add that at G5 Senator Allison is in
remarkable vigor of body and mind, look
ing and talking and acting as though he
were ten years younger than he Is, and
having a grace and dignity, memory
for names and faces. a felicity In writ
ing and speaking and a lifelong expert
ence with public men and affairs most de-
sirable in the president of the United
States
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07
We Need a School Census.

In his recent annual report State Su-
perintendent Schaeffer pays a neat
compliment to Representative Farr
when he pronounces the introduction
of the Farr free textbook bill the
most important step in the direction of
educational progress during the past
quarter of "a century" He testifles that
it has led to largely increased attend
ance-in some districts the increase rose
as high as 80 per cent.-that it has
facilitated better grading and that it
has materially improved the quality of
the educational work done in our public
schools
The superintendent earnestly advo-
Gates the taking of a thorough school
census-one which will not simply ascer-
tain how many persons there in Penn
sylvania between the ages of and q
years; but how many there are, say be-
tween or and IA years who ought to
be In school but are not there Such a
census would be of direct and decisive
value in its reinforcement of the argu-
ment for a compulsory education law.
inasmuch as it would afford authorita-
tive data for comment upon the pres
ent custom of forcing people to pay
school taxes when many Of the persons
for whose education these taxes are ex-
acted are not receiving one farthing's
worth of benefit therefrom.
Quite the weakest plea anywhere ad-
vanced in this connection is that COM
pulsory education would overcrowd the
schools-just as if the state of Pennsyl-
vania were not rich and broad-minded
enough to build new schools when
needed. The taking of proper school
census would show just where new
schools would be needed under a COM
pulsory law, and it would then be in
order for school boards to build them.
There are many things in Superintend-
ent Schaetfer's report worthy of con-
sideration, but easily the most oppor-
tune suggestion in it is that urging a
thorough and comprehensive school
enumeration.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07
A Good Time to Be Prudent.

The Wilkes Barre Record, conclud-
ing another interesting and timely dis
section of the inequalities Of the pres
ent moss-covered senatorial apportion-
ment, thinks that 'if the subject of APP
portionment could be let out, as the
constitution practically contemplated,
to set of expert accountants, the dis
tricts to be adjusted on the principle Of
numbers, instead of the profits and
losses in partisan politics, or of local or
personal influence or prestige, 1t would
be aboutia half days job to fix up either
the judicial, representative, senatorial
or congressional at cost not exceed
ing $7,15 each, the odd cents for sta
tionery-to figure on But as it is ordl-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07

There is nothing like having a capa-
ciOus stomach, if one wants to remain
healthy in politics. An instance Of this
was exhibited out in Minneapolis, the
other day, when an assembly of prin-
ters bolted at a gulp thirteen political
and social reforms. as to which our
ablest men have differed and doubted,
in some cases, for centuries. The menu
which these enterprising Minneapoll-
tans have served up hot and smoking
from the,Populistic oven, was this:
/. Compulsory education.
9. Direct legislation.
3. A legal eight-hour workday.
4. Sanitary inspection of workshops.
8. Liability of employers of workshop,
mine and home.
G. Abolition of the contract system in
all public work.
7. Abolition of sweating system.
8. Municipal ownership of street cars,
gas and electric plants for distribution Of
light, heat and poFer.
9. Naturalization of telegraphs, tele-
phones, railroads and mines.
10. Abolition of monopoly system of land
holding and substitute therefor title
of occupancy and use only.
II. Principle of referendum In all legls-
lation
12. State and national destruction of the
liquor traffic.
10. Abolition of monopoly privilege of is
suing money by individuals or corpora
tions and substituting therefor system OF
direct issuance to and by the people.
The fourteenth dish-the millennium
they doubtless saved for a dessert.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07
NAME YOUR MAN!
From the Reading Times.

Il rum 'ilS iecuuihb AhHVS'
The Scranton Tribune says: "If Penn
sylvana shall want the next presidency,
Pennsylvania is not the kind of state that
cannot put up rafting fight for it..
That's certain" To which may peril
nently be added that Pennsylvania has no
lack of splendid presidential timber
among the nearly 100000 Republican ma
jorlty that overwhelmed Democracy in
November And furthermore, by that
same token, that, as for many years the
banner Republican state OF the Union,
no other state has an equal claim with
Pennsylvania to the honor of furnishing
the next Republican president. Can a
single word Of all this be disputed?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07

narily done by legislative houses there
is an endless intricacy of political bar
gaining, at an enormous cost, with a
most unsatisfactory general result"
This, then, is a good time to impress
upon the incoming legislature the fact
that 1t will be expected to include the
needs of the people in its consideration
of the apportionment question, as well
as the wishes of the politicians. The
Republican party is pretty well
grounded in Pennsylvania, these days.
1t needn't fear that the enemy will
steal march on it, during the ap-
preaching biennial session. Therefore,
If it would retain it's strength it must
remember the source whence that
strength came, and not be too eager to
dance to the selfish quickstep of some
third-rate party boss
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07
The Future of Silver.

Representative Hartman, OF Mon
tana, the Republican who on Tuesday
introduced the first free-coinage bill or
the present session, is quoted in
Washington dispatch as follows Il do
not see that anything would be gained
by the passage of free-coinage bill at
this session, unless it would be the no
tice to the country that the sentiment
in favor of it is still strong and grow
ing. Any bill that would be passed
would be sure to meet with Mr.. CleVe-
lands veto The same would be true in
the next congress, as Mr.. Cleveland
will possess the veto power until the
4th of March, 1897. There is one thing
of which / am thoroughly convinced,
and that is the Republican party will
take up this subject Of silver in the
next presidential campaign and when
they come into full power in the Fifty
fifth congress they will solve the ques-
ton just as they have every other i'm
portant one that has been presented in
lllt Nhil SNp'iS' pN''N'
that the only legislation favorable to
silver will be secured through the in
strumentalityo of the Republican party"
That this view is shared by the ma
jority of conservative western voters
was shown quite conclusively at last
months elections. The present posi-
ton of the Republican party upon the
currency question does not meet the
full measure of their expectation. If
the party should remain stationary,
indefinitely, they would undoubtedly in
time withdraw their allegiance from it
and seek some new connection. But
they have prescience sufficient to see,
in spite of the cunningly conceived
clamor of politicians anxious to entrap
them into separate political organiza-
ton, that the Republican party is grad
ually moving toward an equitable COM
promise and theyare sufficiently versed
in the past history of the two great
political parties to understand the in
trinsic difference between a Democratic
and Republican promise.
What does the alternative of a third
party offer? Such movement could
not hold even the west in its embrace,
upon the present chaotic lines under
lying the Populist movement Those
men whose advocacy Of any movement
seriously counts among well-balanced
and cautious citizens have no perma-
nent sympathy for the chimerical pro-
jects which do duty as the Populist
platform. They would accept these
projects under protest, and discard
them the moment suitable opportunity
offered. Even so, an alliance with
Populists would involve the sacrifice of
all the prestige, all the influence and all
the eastern following of the present
Republican party. 1t would mean, at
the least, decade or two of hopeless
minority agitation before the achieve
ment of any decisive legislation-an
agitation handicapped, at every point,
by the undesirable cooperation Of Wis
ionaries, enthusiasts and the whole
socialistic brood
Are the cautious and reflective busi-
ness men of the west willing thus vir-
tually to exile themselves? Or will
they possess their souls in patience
until the masses of the Republican
party shall have had time to study
the currency question for themselves?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07
To Improve the Indian.

The organization of a society with
the bettering of the condition of the
American Indian as its chief object, is
worthy enterprise that should meet
with the approval of all. 1t is indeed
deplorable that in this land of freedom
and supposed good government it
should be necessary to work up public
sentiment by series of organizations
in order to induce the government to
perform its duty toward the remnants
of race that has for years been vic
timized by dishonest officials and law
less frontiersmen. An organization
like that which has recently been in
session at New Haven may accomplish
much good in its way.
1t would certainly seem that goodly
amount Of missionary money that year
ly goes to the support of people in the
work of converting the heather of
other lands might be used to advantage
in bettering the condition of the Ameri-
can Indian, who seems to have been
forgotten by nearly all save the agri-
cultural boomers who wishfully ogle
the little strips Of land that have been
set apart for his use.
1t is understood that the Indians
Friend society does not propose to
spend much time at present in teach
ing the red skin to repeat the cate
ohism, or to make paper flowers, or
paint upon China. Their missionary
work will be directed upon the govern
ment in hopes that reforms may follow
in the methods of dealing with the
friendless vagabonds that will be bene-
fetal in results. In this the society
should have the hearty support of all,
regardless of party or creed.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07

"a tax of 81 barrel on beer, yielding
$4,000, 900, which the consumer would
not feel, would have avoided all the
difficulties in regard to revenue under
which the treasury now labors but
to the Democratic financier beer Is
sacred. He prefers to tax, instead, the
income of trust funds s'-Philadelphla
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07

1t is possible that the present Ameri-
can minister at Constantinople has
been afraid to. do his duty in the matter
of those Armenian atrocities. So far
as the public is informed, he has done
nothing at allan easy but not a salts
factory course of action. Accepting the
explanation Of the Turkish government
that the recent massacre of Christians
in Asia Minor was the work Of Turkish
brigands, what would Turkey say if
10000 Turks, living peacefully in
western portion of the United States,
should be set upon and murdered in
cold blood by Yankee train-robbers, un-
der the eyes of the territorial soldiery?
The case Is not one for supine submis-
sion. 1t is one which calls for positive,
straightforward and aggressive action.
Turkey should be made to pay for this
barbarity, and to give sufficient guar
anty that it will not be repeated. The
entire Christian civilization of the
world is concerned in this emergency;
and it should not dilly daily in the face
of its obvious duty.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07

Germany ought in time to learn, from
the successful recent changes in its
chancellorship, that in these democra'
tic times the indispensable man, even
when an emperor, is not numerous.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07

When Philadelphia and Allegheny
have fixed the next legislature up to
suit their own purposes, maybe the re-
mainder of Pennsylvania will decide to
have a word of it's own to 9ay--a word,
or, perhaps, u whisper.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07

Free sugar, with a bounty to home
sugar makers, is about the size of the
popular demand. The Sugar trust has
had entirely too much consideration
from American lawmakers.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07
The Cartnnfl Mnsn't Enr orr

From the Olyphant Record.
If the sessions of the Pittston council
are judged from the cartoon published
last Monday in the Scranton Tribune.
they are most lively and interesting. If
measures are not turned out men are
anyway, and with such a body of agres-
sive men the town should flourish.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07

While the National guard of Pennsvl-
vania entertains the pleasantest wishes
FOR the success of Governor-elect Hast
ings' incoming administration, it
should not be asked to attend his in
auguration. One regiment from each
brigade would be sufficient represent
tatiOn.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07
SCRANTON, DECEMBER I, 1894.
THE SCRANTON OF TO-DAY.

Come and inspect our city.
Elevation above the tide, 74O feet.
Extremely healthy.
Estimated population, 1894, lO3,OOO.
Registered voters, 20,599.
Value of school property, S5O,OOO.
Number of school children, l2OOO'
Average amount of bank deposits SiV'-
OOO, 900.
It's the METROPOLIS of northeastern Penn
sylvania.
Canproduce electric power cheaper than
Niagara.
No better point in the United states ut
which to establish new industries.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07

The best thing that this congress can
do is to audit its accounts, shut up shop
and go home. The public does not want
any more of it's destructive statesman
ship.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07

The decision of the Georgia legisla-
ture not to vote an appropriation for
the Georgia national guard is probably
the outcome of Populistic prejudices.
1t is to be hoped that Georgia will not
have occasion. during the next year, to
repent its folly.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07

The need Of paid fire department in
Scranton is not new; it is the practical
effort to supply that need which is new
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07

Objector Holman has nerve. He pre-
diets that the Republican party will eX-
pire before the end of the century; that
is, within six years. One symptom Of
its dying powers was made public Nov.
6, only it was the Democracy which
supplied the corpse.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07

One of the bills which the County
Commissioners State association will
ask the legislature to pass would re-
quire constables to make returns to
court only when they had violations of
law to report. In Lackawanna county
this would be about once every three
hundred years.