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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29
THANKSGIVING Day.

The completion of another cycle OF
time has brought us to the dawn of
Thanksgiving, the good old New Eng
land feast day Thanksgiving Day,
like the Fourth of July is strictly an
American holiday and commentaries
a period in the nations history that
should ever be kept fresh in the minds
of liberty loving people. OF late years
the disposition to associate ThankSgiv-
ing with pugilistic encounters upon the
foot ball field cheap raffies, and the
cruel sport Of so-called marksmen who
delight in making targets of imprisoned
birds, has nearly eliminated the tradi-
tions that have made the holiday dear
to the hearts of our ancestors as sea-
son of good cheer and home gatherings.
The day in some localities has become
period of boisterous hilarity rather
than the peaceful event that the Pill
grim fathers intended it should be, and
1t is no wonder that the significance of
the day, save as an occasion of gas
Economical indulgence, is almost entire
ly lost upon the rising generation.
Thanksgiving Day should be associat-
ed with the laying of the cornerstone of
the great government of Christianity
and personal liberty; the establishment
of the government of the people and by
the people, who bow only to the Divine
Master and giver of all good gifts. The
day was set apart by the sturdy patri-
OTIS as period of giving thanks for the
bountiful harvests and for the assur-
ance that their efforts in the interest of
religious liberty had not been in vain.
If in their humble surrounding, beset by
dangers and vexations, the pioneers of
this land could sing anthems of thanks
giving while yet on the threshold of sue
cess. how much more earnest and de-
vout should be the songs of praise from
the lips of the generations of today who
realize blessings and prosperity of
which the Pilgrim fathers never
dreamed.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29
One Central Reason.

Among q number of reasons which
Bishop Keane, of the Catholic univer-
sity at Washington-known to Scran-
tonians through his agreeable presence
here during Bishop O'Hara's golden
jubilee-advances in a published letter
for devout thanksgiving occurs one
thought which is particularly appro-
pirate at this time. We reproduce 1t in
part because of its intrinsic truthful
ness, and partly, also, because of the
prevalence among some persons of
delusion that those who share Bishop
Keane's faith are secretly hostile to
this republic and anxious to see the ex-
pertinent of free government fail
Our country" says the bishop,
has passed through a most painful
crisis of industrial depression. This has
left many home with little or no
means of support, and it has been the
occasion of outbursts of violence most
deplorable. My duties called me to
Europe just as these troubles We're
eliminating, and l had the advantage
both of taking in the situation better
by looking on its general feature from
distance and of learning at the same
time the views taken of it by foreign
nations. To them it seemed that we
were on the verge of a socialistic revo-
luton. But of sudden, to their utter
| amazement, they saw peace restored
and the national harmony undisturbed.
The wisdom, energy and the common
sense of the American people had met
| the difficulty, and had brought the
country safely through what would
| have been a disastrous revolutionary
crisis to nations abroad. 1t was an
object lesson of the salutary power re-
siding in our federal government, con-
vincing the world that we have the
| strongest as well as the freest govern
| ment on earth. 1t has taught our
| country that although in the future, as
| in the past the adjustment of human
relationships may be expected to de-
velop entanglements and difficulties,
she has no reason to fear for the result.
| Our country's resources and energies
are adequate TO any emergency"
We can add nothing to and we would
subtract nothing from the dignity and
truthfulness of this thought. What
ever the measure of ones individual
reason for thanksgiving today
whether, in the varied circumstances of
life it seem much or little-there will
ever be one predominant and over
shadowing incentive to gratitude in the
good fortune which enables one to lift
up the voice of his reverent acknowl-
edgment in free America
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29
Police Chiefs and Their Work.

The proposition which came before
the state convention of city police chiefs
in Philadelphia Tuesday, to formulate
a bill for presentation to the legisla-
ture lifting the police force Of incorpor-
ated cities out of the go-as-you-please
condition now prevalent, and up to a
plane where civil service rules will
govern appointments and promotions,
is probably in advance of the times.
Chief Simpson, of this city, opposed it.
according to the newspaper reports, not
because he took exceptions to the propo-
sition as a proposition, but because he
thought its advocacy premature; and
he was probably right
At the same time, however 1t is not
to be believed that the civic intelligence
which is Increasingly taking hold of
American municipal affairs with view
to their correction will long overlook
the chaotic condition of the police sys-
TENS of Pennsylvania cities, in compari-
son with the superior thoroughness and
discipline found in states where the
city police are placed upon permanent
and genuine civil service basis. The
large personal power and discretion
vested in mayors in this state clearly
overstep prudent limits when they en-
able the municipal executive virtually
to command the police force as a gem
eral might direct an army. Where one
executive may use this large authority
wisely and with rare discretion, an
other is quite as likely to use it to
vicious and dishonest purpose; and the
only fair way to correct the latter evil
is possibly to sacrifice something Of the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29
BISHOP KEANE ON BIGOTRY
from the Commercial-Advertiser.

From the Commercial-Advertiser
The year has been characterized by q
very singular and very sad outburst of
religious bigotry among our people. Such
outbursts are doubly sad, first, because
they are contrary to the principles of
American civil and religious liberty; sec
ondly, because they are so sadly initiate
against homogeneity of the American
people. Americas providential mission is
to break down the barriers of past hostili-
(which have been reared between classes
of human beings by distinctions Of
caste, of creed and of nationality. Who
ever helps on the work of unitcation by
fostering a spirit of universal trust and
confidence acts in conformity with the
genius of America. Whoever fosters dis
union by tanning the flame of national or
sectarian animosity Is un-Amerlcan at
heart, and Is doing the devils work among
our people. Time and again that spirit of
malignity has manifested itself through
the agency of political and religious fire.
brands. 1t has always proved itself cum
ming in finding pretences and inventing
reasons in its own behalf. But its logic is
simply of the temper, of the enemy of hui
man welfare, and we must rejoice and
give thanks that, like the two apparent
evils above enumerated, it has led up to
wise and beneflcent results. 1t has dis
gusted the great majority of the American
people with the meanness and malignity
of bigotry. 1t has strengthened more than
ever their determination that religious
tests shall have no part in our political or
industrial life. 1t demands honesty, con-
scientiousness and patriotism in all; but
it will not long tolerate sectarian fanati-
cism in any. The louder the fratricidal
outcry has been. the more utter must be
the final defeat of this unchrlstian and
un-American outburst. AS we give thanks
for the wisdom it has already taught, let
us pray that this may be the last page
of our country's history on which such a
stain may appear
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29
Sunday and the Saloons.

An interesting symposium of minis
terial opinion upon the question Shall
Dram Shops Open Sunday?" appears in
the columns of New York -contem-
porary, suggested by the expected re-
vision, this winter, by the Albany leg
Eleven prominent clergymen are repre-
sented in this compendium; and the es-
sence of what they take page to say
may be condensed into the following
paragraph:
Rev. +. Walpole Warren, rector Of the
Church of the Holy Trinity, favors
keeping the saloons open on Sunday
during certain hours, so that the poor
who want liquor to drink with their
meals may be put on an equal footing
with the rich men who dine at the
ish the saloon curtain and the screen
door. His views receive the qualified
approval of Rev. Joseph H. Rylance of
ST. Marks; Rev. d. Parker Morgan, of
the Church of the Heavenly Rest; Rev.
Arthur Brooks, of the Church of the
Incarnation; Rev. William II. p.
Faunce, of the Fifth Avenue Baptist
church; Rev. David H. G. Greer, of st.
Bartholomew, and especially Of Rev.
William S. Rainford, of st. Georges,
who, in preference to the otherwise in
evitable side door, emphatically favors
the keeping Of the saloons open on Sun
day from noon to 10 p. m. The minis
ters opposed to any legal concession to
the retail liquor traffic are Rev. John
Hall, of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church, who comes out with fiat.
footed negative; Rev. George r. Hough.
ton, of the Church of the Transfigura.
tion; Rev. Henry A. Stimson, of the
Broadway tabernacle, and Rev. How.
ard Duffield, of the Old First church
The letter of the last named clergy
man, from a rhetorical point of view
is the keenest of all. He caustically
says:
The fact that the first question which
challenges the recently elected municipal
government should be the proposition &c
invest saloons with legal right to liquor.
ize the community on Sundays as well as
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during the week, is startlingly significant.
The idea Of cleansing New York politics
by invoking the beneficent ministries of
the saloon would be comic If Is were
not satanic. To actually enact such leg
islation would be to proclaim that the late
election was the veriest travesty, and that
the same malign power whose doom the
people decreed with voice of thunder
was still holding this city under its auto
cratic and brutal sway. 1t would be 10
make the humiliating confession that af-
ter all there had been no real transfor-
nation in the governing forces of the
community, but that duped people had
simply exchanged Tammany for Sham
many. The saloon is the nest egg of
Tammanylsm. 1t Is the terminating CEN
ter of all civic iniquity. Around ii clus-
ters the whole vile brood of those pesti-
lental evils against which an indignant
citizenship has launched its anathema.
| am well aware that the liouor-thirst of
vast city is no childs problem, but it is
the very logic of childishness to seek TO
quench 1t by giving 1t grog. / am per-
fectly willing to concede that the liquor
bibber has certain civic rights, but ] am
not willing to admit that unalcohollzed
classes of the community have no rights
which the drink-lover and the drunkard-
maker are bound to respect. New York
must despair of ever becoming a clean
city until the prerogatives of the saloon
instead of being extended are sharply re-
stricted.
1t is scarcely likely that, despite the
eminence of the reverend gentlemen
who advocate open doors, the saloon
business in New York will be thus bene'
fitted. Public sentiment comedies that
the drink habit is a necessary evil; but
it is clearly not in favor of propagat-
ing it.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer has
adopted a new head but Is yet running
along with the old-and good-brains.
A bright idea for the children is the lit
tie Picture Magazine, published monthly
by the Page Publishing company, Times
building New York. It's illustrations are
regular smile-breeders.
A handsome twelve-page Thanksgiving
number of the Pittston Saturday Argus,
issued last week, attests the enterprise
and superior typographical taste of Edi-
tor H. W. Dony. 1t was fine stroke, and
is well appreciated.
Chap Book, published fortnightly by
Stone & Kimball, Chicago, is one of the
neatest little publications devoted to cur
rent literature and art in print. The best
authors and the brightest artists regu-
larly contribute to it.
Professor Drummond, in scholarly re.
view, in the Christmas McClure's, of the
career of Rev. Dwight l.. Moody, will ad.
vance the opinion that there Is perhaps
no more truly great man living" Nc,
Clure's Magazine is always interesting
but this number will, 1t is promised, be
especially so.
The good housewife who failed to pre-
pare her Thanksgiving menu after a care
full perusal of the current number of Dem
orest's Magazine will probably regret Il
when she sees how fine Demorest's re
cipes were. This magazine easily retains
its hold upon the women of America a!
their favorite household and fashion
puile.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29
EARLY THANKSGIVING.
,,.rnal of Education

from the Iii;rnal of Education.
The first reported Thanksgiving was the
Hebrew feast of the tabernacles.
The first national English Thanksgiv-
ing was on Sept. 8, 1888. for the defeat of
the Spanish Armada.
There have been but two English
Thankssivings in this century. One was
on Feb q, 1872. for the recovery of the
Prince of Wales from illness; the other,
June p. 1887, for the Queens jubilee.
The New England Thanksgiving dates
from 1888, when the Massachusetts Bay
Colony set apart day for thanksgiving.
The first national Thanksgiving procla-
nations were by congress during the
revolutionary war
The first great American Thanksgiving
Day was in 1874, for the declaration OF
peace. There was one more national
thanksgiving in 1889. and no other till
1868, when President Lincoln issued ma
tional proclamation for a day of thanks
giving. Since that time the President has
issued an annual proclamation.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29
THANKSGIVING.
k and cellar, bay and bin,

In stack and cellar bay and bin,
Now rest the harvestS of the year;
The orchards wealth Is gathered In
The ricks are filled; the fields are clear
Today we take truce from toll
And at the genial fresde meet;
Nothing shall come our peace to spoil
As we the annual feast repeat.
How calm the Indian summer haze
Above the distant mountain lies
The squirrel darts from place to place;
The crow across the valley flies
The ripping stream with murmurlng tone
Seems lonelier as 1t passes by,
And one slow hawk, reserved, alone,
Cuts his. broad sweep across the sky.
The colored pallet, rich and rare,
Is gone which made the forests gay;
A Quaker russet now they wear
And even that shall pass away.
But we, around our ample board,
Confront the winter without fear,
Whose fruits are housed, whose crops are
stored,
Whose friends are true, whose home is
dear.
For all, may some good fortune come
Some cheer to drive sad thoughts away,
Thrice happy friendships love and home,
And naught TO mar Thanksgiving Day.
-Once a Week.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29

The problem of how to employ the
convicts in our prisons without hurting
free labor is not easily solved despite
the earnest attention it has so long
received, The proposition is made in
New York that the convicts in that
state might profitably be put to work
on the mountainous roads, which GER
tainly need improvement But this at
once encounters opposition from organ
lied labor, which claims that idle men
on the outside of jails should have pre-
cedence over the idle ones within. In
fact there is no place where convicts
can be put to work without meeting the
same dilemma, and it is equally i'm
practical to keep them idle. To all ap-
pearances, therefore, we are no nearer
solution Of the problem than we We're
before.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29

General Hastings, in deciding VINO
shall be the next factory inspector, VIII
no doubt estimate at their true value
the expressions of objection to Captain
Delaney voiced in the first place by Jo-
seph A. Scranton of this city, political
back number, and re-echoed by the
Philadelphia Times, Democratic news
paper. General Hastings, we feel conf
dent, is too good politician to go to the
enemy for advice.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29
former good by general legislation cur


failing the mayoralty's prerogative.
The city of Scranton for number of
years has enjoyed conspicuous freedom
from police abuses. Our force has been
too small to secure the best results; but
the quality of it, as. a whole, has been
little subject to criticism. In contrast
with the friction noticed in this direc-
tion in many second and third-class
Pennsylvania cities, there has been, for
a number of years, in this city, an era
of exceptional good feeling and conse-
quently of good police service. But it
would be ridiculous to predict that such
a condition is necessarily permanent.
The safest way to get and keep the best
results is to follow the best precedents;
and it is not one of these to vest in the
mayor of any city, however excellent
may be his purposes and his past work,
authority, which, in the hands of less
worthy executive, might constitute the
nucleus of grave public dissatisfaction
or scandal.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29

The whole point in that Franklin ave-
nue. double-track ordinance should be
whether its enactment would or would
not benefit the people. A previous ac-
ton toward a prior company is no cri-
teriOn now
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29

1t Is a happy custom which on this
day, in the churches and at many pri-
vate institutions of business, remembers
the hungry children of the poor. May
each mouthful thus dispensed be as
money invested at compound interest
in gilt-edged securities.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29
His Patience Explained.

From the Yonkers Blade.
what made you take all that impu-
dence from that fellow?' asked the friend
ly passenger of the conductor why, he
even didn't pay his fare
That's it," said the conductor. "If he
had paid his fare I'd have broken his
head; but he's riding on pass, and may
be he has a pull.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29

1t would save good many shin bones
and considerable nervous energy If the
rival collegian elevens who now COM
pete on the bloody field Of foot ball
would hire professional bruiser apiece
and pit the pair of them in ring
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As our esteemed contemporary Edi-
tor Singerly, views the warm sweat of
place-making on General Hastings
brow, sweet sense of rest steals
dreamily over him and he is content.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29
A Professional Reprimand.

FTUW TUCK,
The Deacon (at revival meeting)-My
poor brother, are you prepared to die?
Party who has wandered in Indignant
ly)-Say, why don't you drop busines in
place like this? I'm life insurance agent
myself; but ! have never yet talked shop
in Il church.
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Something of beneficence is a possible
addition to every home where plenty Of
fers opportunity for the aid of those in
need
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29

If Pennsylvania shall want the next
presidency, Pennsylvania is not the
kind of state that cannot put up g rat
tling fight for it. That's certain.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29

May the scullion in the alley find ap-
petite for his menu of crow today.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29

Charity is sauce which perceptibly
improves the finest dinner.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29
How TO Win Her.

IIOW 10 w III IICI,
From Sing Sing Courier
Think not the girl you love loves not;
She loves, depend upon it.
With willing heart she'll share your lot
II there's house upon it.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29
WITH A HAMl1ER

And saw in the house you can fix things
yourself so that carpenter will not be
needed. Astonishing how easy 1t is when
you have the right tools. All, there's the
nut in shell-the kind we sell-the best.
Nails and Screws and small but penetrat-
ing tacks, and all such Staple goods as
hardware dealers ought to have are here.
Housewives, fortify your kitchens for
the Winter with our Furnishings. They
hint of home happiness for wise women.
Trifes In cost, but great in results. You
will be looking to the main chance-your
own-by dealing with us
We occupy our new building on Wash
ington avenue April l.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29
DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
Lost Manhood Restored.

Weakness Of Young Men Cured.
If you have been given up by your ply
sician call upon the doctor and be exam
'ned. He cures the worst cases of Ner-
Nuus Debility, Scrofula, Old Sores, Ca
tarrh, Piles, Female Weakness, Affec-
tons Of the Eye Ear, Nose and Throat,
Asthma, Deafness, Tumors, Cancers and
Cripples of every description.
Consultations free and strictly sacred
and coniideni6i. Office hours daily from
am. to pm. Sunday, 3 to2.
Enclose five 2-cent stamps for SYMPTOM
blanks and my book called New Life"
! will pay one thousand dollars in gold
to anyone whom ! cannot cure of EPI-
LEIPZIG CONCLUSIONS or FITS.
DIR. f. GREWER,
Old Post Office Building, corner Penn
avenue and Spruce street.
SCRANTON, PA.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29
SCRANTON, NOVEMBER 90, 1894.
THE SCRANTON OF TODAY.

Come and inspect our city.
Elevation above the tide, 74O feet.
Extremely healthy.
Estimated population, 1891, 1O3,OVo'
Registered voters, 2O,599.
Value of school property, $l5O.WO.
Number of school children, l2,OOV' -,
Average amount of bank deposits, SlV'-
100000
It's the metropolis of northeastern Penn
sylvania.
Canproduce electric power cheaper thaii
Niagara.
No better point in the United states al
which to establish new industries.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29
ParlOr
Furniture
WITHIN THE PAST FEW MONTHS
THERE HAS BEEN RADICAL
CHANGES IN THE STYLES OF
Parlor Furniture,

ALL WHICH HAVE BEEN TO THE
ADVANTAGE OF THE BUYER, AS
THE NEW AND TASTY PATTERNS
ARE LESS EXPENSIVE THAN THE
OLDER ONES. THUS ENABLING
THE PURCHASERS TO FURNISH
THEIR PARLORS IN UP-TO-DATE
STYLES AT A
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Moderate Cost.

YOU CANNOT FAIL TO BE
PLEASED WITH OUR EXHIBIT OF
THESE GOODS, AND IF YOU DO
NOT SEE MADE UP WHAT YOU
DESIRE, OUR STOCK OF COVER
INGS TO SELECT FROM IS COM
PLETE.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-29

ENTERED AT THE PosToFFIcE AT SCRANTON. PA. Ab
sEooND.CLA6s MAIL MATTER,