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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

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During the period every male of voting age
in Indiana, Illinois. Wisconsin and Iowa
received postal cards marked personal
and containing the words;
Zone q Day
Only this, and nothing more.
900
Curious? Well, you just ought to have
seen how the public interested itself in
this phrase. People discussed it at the
supper table, talked Of 1t at street corners
and wondered what 1t meant, in stores.
Some guessed it had reference to the dol
lar-R-day lis that Democrats had told con
cerning General Harrison That theory
flew like wildfrs until an eastern editor
and bless me il ! don't think it was our
own John f. Barrett-teegraphed to In
dianapolis to ascertain if the Republican
candidate had ever said or intimated that
"a dollar day was enough Tor any com.
mon laborer." He deuieI it, in terse
Anglo.saxon, but for all that the lie went
right on.
At that time Melville f. Stone-brainy,
resourceful, lndefatigable "Mel," he who
is now knocking gaping holes into the
United Press monopoly as president and
general manager Of the reconstructed AS.
sociated Press-was editing the Chicago
News, now called the Record. 1t had been
the pioneer cheap paper in the west-when
the others were charging nickel apiece 1t
sold for two cents. But two cents wasn't
cheap enough to suit Mr. Stone. Hence
he resolved to cut to q penny. And the
''one day" mystery was how he an
nounced it. Perhaps no more ingenious
Rdver tisement was ever devised. 1t caught
and fooled whole continent Of readers.
900
Apropos of all this, see in tomor rows
TRIBUNE what "a Study in Scarlet means.
900
Republicans of Luzerne county deserve
to be congratulated upon the active inter
est which they are already mAnifesting In
the February campaign, At mseting of
their county committee Friday. scheme
of close canvasSing by school house and
street and block districts was discussed
and 1T was decided to put it IA
operation 80 far as practicable at this
election and to have it further
elaborated and presented at future meet.
ing for permanent adoption. That is the
way to win victories. That kind Of sys.
tenn and organization will keep the mother
county securely anchored in the Republi-
can column. The time to fight polite
ally, is all the time; and the way to fight
Is to reach and convince the voters, house
| by house and man by man.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

THE LEBANON Report thinks it was
the smashing of the surplus that had
more to do with the general business
depression than any threat to smash
the tariff. Admitting this to be true.
for arguments sake, then the Wilson
bill, which adds new deficit Of sew =
enty five million dollars, stands doubly
condemned.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

The CORRESPONDENT Of tho New
York Times, who thinks that the re-
vival of the stamp tax on checks. deeds,
mortgages and other business papers
would meet with very little objsc-
tion." obviously needs to think again.
1t would raise bigger howl than a
Yale Harvard foot ball game.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

IT is something more than facetious
suggestion of Mr.. Dana that President
Cleveland has made himself liable to
breach. .of-promise suit. II Liliuoks-
lani were to sue this country for dam
ages resulting from its failure to re.
deem its executive pledge, we see no
ready loophole of easy legal escape. 1t
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15
is an expensive luxury, somstimes, to
have Don Quixote for president.

Two MORE AMERICANS have been dec'
Grated in France with the ribbon OF the
Legion Of Honor, but We rather think
We like better the patriotism of the
American sailor who gets himself deco
rated by having the stars aud stripes
tattoosd brightly on his arm.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

The NEW RAILROAD mileage of 1893
is set down as 1855 miles, falling off
Of over A, 900 miles from the reeorl OF
1891. Since 1889, when 1t was 1900,
capital has acted on the principle that
even railroading can be over done.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

IT IS THE opinion of a growing num-
ber of prominent Scrantonians that the
new bridge issue can be carried this
spring. There is rising demand for
these necessary twin improvements.
Provincialism and Inconvenience are
not to the current taste. Scranton needs
to be made more compact and metro.
Dolitan.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15
Cry of the American People.

From DepeW Speech.
1--WE have been to see the midnight sun
after its glories have been promised for
thirty years; We have been fed on aurora
borealis and on rainbows, but with the
hunger belt tightening an inch every week
about our homes, give us back the old
homemade, home baked, home-Republi-
co N brand ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15
SCRANTON. JANUARY Is. 1894
"A STUDY IN SCARLET"

Getting curious TO kaolu aUhat 1t
means? Very icell' tomorrow you
shall kno,o all about ii. Suffice il nop
10 knot0 that "a Study IN ScarIe"
wiH be one Of the choicest surprises
that our readers haze been treated TO-.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

DOLE'S CRUSHING REJOlNDER.
So far as the Cleveland conspiracy
to restore savage queen to her foul
throne by sitting Christian republi'
can government is concerned, the
Hawaiian incident may properly be
regarded as ended Whatever may
develop in the future, in roctification
of this anomalous blunder, there will
be no resumption of the queen making
industry. That business had its props
knocked from under the moment that
American sentiment understood what
had been going on. Nevertheless, it is
instructive to learn, through the
official correspondence sent to congress
Saturday, what kind Of creature Mr..
Cleveland 80 peculiarly champions and
how that strange championship was
regarded by the reputable and sub
stantial officials and supporters of the
government against which it was
directed.
When asked by Minister Willis what
course she would in the event of res tor.
alton pursue toward those who had
caused her Publication, the dusky object
of Mr.. Cleveland's profuse sympathy
replied: my decision would be as the
law directs, that each person should be
beheaded and his property confs-
Gated. Not until weeks of waning
hope had undermined her thirst for
Christian blood did the hsathen sx-
queen consent to forego the delightful
revenge of beheading her best subjects,
of putting the naturalized sons of
American nsrentage and the courierS
of modern civilization under the
guillotine. Does any sane man sup.
pose that this grudgngly given prom
ise of amnesty would have weighed as
n feather in the scale of Liliuokalani's
vindictiveness when once the Cleve-
land scheme of interference should
have placed her back on the throne
Would anything short of an incessant
American protectorats have kept to
her extorted promise sovereign who
twice before had broken the most
solemn pledges and kicked over, with
fairly fiendish enjoyment, all traces of
subsection to constitutional limita-
tions2
What American citizen, viewing
these indisputabls facts and tenden-
ciss Gun fail to exult at President
Dole's digni6sd yet snnihilating re-.
joinder to the request that he abdica to (
1--WE do not recognize the right of the
president of the United States to inter-
fere in our domestic affairs. Such a
right could be conferred upon him by
the act of this government or it could
be acquired by conquest. The treaties
between the countries confer no right
of interference How noble and how
quietly strong are these moderate
words How they remind us of what
our own revolutionary fathers would
have said under similar circum.
stances. In the face of this dignifisd
yet irresistible rsbuke. backed up as it
is at every point by citations from the
state papers of our foremost American
statesmen, what sorry, indeed what q
pusillanimous figure does our high -
handed executive cut before the ma.
tions of the world! How his clumsy
artifce and quickly punctured bluster
shrink and shrivel before Dole's sor-
rowful but pitilsss reply.
God delay the day when q future
American president shall ever be so
humiliatedl
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15
Afraid Even to Hint 1t.

hi!ddeiphid SIOckhOlder
1t has been suggested that if Wharton
Barker and Isaac l.. Rice were to join
forces they would make a team that
would put an end to the torpidity Of
which everybody is at present complain
ing. We hesitate to give currency to the
suggestion for fear 1t may be acted upon.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

A FEW MORE Liliuokalani blundsrs,
and Republicans will be spared the
trouble in 1896 of doing for the DEM
ocracy what the Democracy will have
done for itself.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

AFTER ALL, there is no accounting
for tastes. Even in 1861 the Demo-
cratic party. as a party. couldn't keep
away from the wrong side.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

IT Is WELL to keep in mind, concern
ing this proposed income tax, that
whatever its nominal exemption, the
poor would have to pay it,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

GREAT MAJoRITIEs' Grow needn't
worry because it will not be made
nominally unanimous The other fell
lows will not cut any practical figure
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

RHODE ISLAND figures an addition of
thirty thousand voters over the regis
tration of 1887. Voters seem to grow
In spite of abandoned farms.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

Mr. HARRITY's recent convention
lodged the Hawaiian issue slick and
clean, and in view Of recent develop
ments we cannot truthfully say that
We blame it.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

We HASTEN TO assure Brother Dole
that if Hawaii ever does get annexed,
we shall consider him q formidable
candidate for president of the combined
republics,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

JOE MANLEY says that Maine will
send to the next Republican conVen-
ion a delegation that will stand by
Tom Reed till the cows come home
but he doesn't say until Reed is nomi-
mated as a candidate for president.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

THIRTY MILES of the great projected
Congo railroad have been opened in
Africa. Wonder if they will try to
draw the color line on fashionable
Congo trains and make the whites ride
in jim Crow cars?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15
Not a Good Year for NOvslti,s,

Wilkes BdrTe Record
The "Hazle County issue is dead be-
yond recognition. The people don't want
it. The experiment would be altogether
too costly
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

THE PHILADELPHIA Record mildly
settles down to the conviction that
Minister Willis demand was "a eontre
temps" And. truth to tell, it would
better have fitted some other time, say,
for instance, the dark ages.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

r IT is HARD for us to believe that Mr..
Willis is as good poker player as all
Ksntuckians are populsrly thought to
ha
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

ALREADY THE British have thirty two
new war ships in view, aud are out for
all the new devices for blowing hu-
manity into thin air. Yet diplomacy
grows none the less polite.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

AS A MATTER Of cool fact, President
Dole, although only Liliputian exc
cutive in point of sway. has put his
great and good friend" Cleveland, in
a bottomless hole.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15
Vary Hard to Cat Bid OF.
BdIIlMOre AmerIeaM.

I'VFFF'FVTV FNVTFs
mo longer an experiment, but public
crime, is a definition that the Wilson
tariff bill will hnd it hard to get rid Of.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15
THE GRIP,

IUe OhIF,
---
Out last night,
Lots Of fun.
Bed all right,
Half past one;
Nine O'clock,
Feel so sick,
Fetch the doc,
Hurry quick
Aching bones,
Head'll split.
Horrid groaus.
Never quit;
Hardly speak,
Try again,
Feel so weak,
Dartiug pain,
Spinal chord
Gives o twitch,
Oh, good Lord,
What a stitchl
Flat In bed,
Gone this trip,
Soon be dead,
Got the grip
--Nep York Sun.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-15

Great Joy Along the West Branch.
Wdliamsport GdEeite and Bulletin
Wedding bells are ringing merrily.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-02-01

met his eye. They seemed to be WRIT
ten in a steadier hand, in darker ink.
Aarius laid the pistol back in the
drawer. The old love had come hack
with greater strength than ever. He
could not put an end to his wretched
life until he had looked once more into
Adeles angelic countenance. Perhaps
but not would be a terrible part
ing, but death would seem the sweeter
for it.
The windows of Adele's room looked
southwark, and were SO heavily shaded
by the vines that clambered up that
side of the hotel that Marius. after he
had stepped within the room and the
attendant had closed the door behind
him, for moment thought himself
alone: but, as he stood with his eyes
riveted upon the door through which
he expected to see Adele come to meet
him, some one pronounced his name.
The voice was tinged with an exl uisite
sadness, and the syllables dropped like
a sigh from the lips which had pro-
nounced them.
Marius turned quickly around. and as
he did SO he uttered a smothered cry of
horror. Clad in pure white Adele was
reclining upon sofa as paid and
frail-looking as the white roses at her
throat. That glorious figure had
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-02-01
Looking Forward.

We do not need an Edward Bella
my to look backward from the serene
heights of 1000 A. D. to tell Us that
the time is coming when the money.
less wife Of rich man will be I'M
worthy Of our civilization-and p o.
pie then will treat as a myth the:
story of the wife asking for dollar
and being met with: "Why, Mary.
what can you want with dollar
don't you have all you need?" In that
happy day no woman will confess to
another: my husband is generosity
itself-he spends everything l wish
on the house and tries to give me all
the pleasure he can-but, oh. dear.
| never can get any money for myself
any little sum for the many things
the children and / need-without a
positive fight" writes Annie K. Ram
sey. in an article on The Question
Of Allowances. in the September
Ladies Home Journal. Nor will be
heard the answer. as 700 often now:
"Oh, my husbands Just the same,
but l take it out OF the market purse
aud put it down to 'sundries.' He
never knows, or if he does notice and
scold 1 have the things anyhow.
Fine training in honor, this.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-02-01
CHAPTER lII.-CDntlnuC a.

The sisterhoOd referred to was in.
stalled in an old 18th century mansion
with an rnpos ing front. severe in the
simplicity OF its style. 'rhe sister in
charge Of the turning box. having
glanced at Capt. Dulac's ca, d, informed
him that his visit was expected. and
requested him in low tone to follow
her. After travcrsing several gloomy
corridors on the ground floor, Marius
found himself in the reception room.
1t was bare and unfriendly place for.
barring the large rudely scultturcd
WOO den cruciiix hanging on the wall.
there was no attempt at ornament. The
furniture. in green velvet, was plain
and ordinary. Marius shuddered as
he enter ed the room. 1t suddenly Oc-
CURED 10 him that she whom he had
come TO see was pcnltcnt. His
thoughts reverted to her life of soil
tude and expiatiOn, and. as the effect
OF that glorious atmosphere was still
upon him like an incffab!e charm. he
cOntrasted his life with that of this
poor woman. and his heart ran over in
pity for her.
At this moment the door opened, and
Nine. Ea.cluy, clad in black. entered
the room and advanced to meet him.
Marius was far from being Il well man.
His strength had come hack slowly,
and now as his eyes fell upon this
woman it all seemed TO slip away from
aim i'll an instant. He could feel the
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-02-01

shrunken away to Il shadow. Nothing
but the heavenly eyes remained to tell
of the WOndrOus beauty that had once
been there. Marius could only stand
and gaze in breathles- silence upon the
bewildering sight.
"Come closer. dear FRIEND" muir
INJURED Adele with a faint smile, land
give ne Your hand. and tell mo how
glad you are to see me again"
With Il sob that kept him from even
speaking Adele's name. Marius threw
himself on his knees beside her.
! Poor friend, poor FRIEND" she whis-
/ tered, as she stroked his hair. Il see
that you are surprised to see me SO
changed, but we have no right t, muir
muir. for God has willed it so. Shortly
after my husbands death | was strick.
en- with an incurable ma]ady. It was
terribly quick in its ravages. l have
not long to stay
Then it must have been a dream"
cried Marius in Il tone of anguish.
a dream" repeated Adele bewil-
dered
Yes, Adele. dream" he continued.
oh, so fair, SO sweet | dreamed
was walking in tho gardens. and that
you We're there just as you looked the
day we met and parted"
"Ah, my friend" murmured Adele
solcmnly. look forward, not backward.
You did meet me in the gardens my
other self"
Your other self" echoed Marius.
" on IN All
1T was Claire" added Adele with a
smile. doesn't she grow to look like
me: But you must see for yourself.
Sit down beside me- here and let us
send for her"
Much as the change in the mother
had startled AIarius, he was now des-
tined to undergo far greater amaze
ment as Claire Daveluy advanced to
meet him.
A miracle had been wrought. The
tall, English-looking girl with the
tlOrid face, whose strong nervous Cr-
ganization impaired into her manner
at times an ungentle. if not alb ,Olutely
hOydenish. tinge, stood before Marius
transformed, TRANSFORMED. The death
of her father, the deadly ailment which
had stricken her mother had SO subli-
mated and refined this somewhat
earthly being that the mothers gentle
spirit had been enabled to pass into and
glorify it.
AS Marius gazed upon her, a myst =
rio,,s wave of delight swept over his
soul and gave unto it peace it had
never felt before. Day 10y day Clai e
and Marius lowered over the frail be-
ing that lay dying there, and as the
end drew near the transformation be-
came IN re and more complete. AT
every touch, at every caress, Adele 5
soul seemed to be scaping into Claire's
body.
One day in May, as the sunlight was
streaming into the room. Adele called
Marius and Claire to her side and
said with smile. as she joined their
hands: Look, Marius, there | am be-
side you. just as you saw me in the
room at the sisterhOod: are you not
content Farewell. God knoweth
best"
THE END.
Copyright by the Authors Alliance: all
rights reserved.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-02-01
CHAPTER ~.


The garb hides the man. For nearly
twenty years this poet and deamer had
hidden his true self away beneath the
soldiers uniform. appearing to be what
he was not. The world wanted fight
ing men more than it did poets and
dreamers. and took no note OF his lack
OF sympathy with it. And so the man
with the ideal was a living. breathing
reality. He had seen her in his college
verses. and looked upon her face in his
sketchings of female type of beauty.
She had hung upon the walls of his
room: he had borne her about with
him from garrison town to garrison
town. He had first felt the fascination
Of her face one day As he stood gazing
upon Leonardo da Ninci's masterpiece
the portrait, of Mona Lisa la Giaconda
up>n which the great artist had worke d
10, four Years. causing delicious music
10 BE- played during the sittings, SO
that the i'apt expression might not
fade from here Intcnance. From that
moment La Giaconda had walked with
and tarriei with MariuS. DO what he
might he could Tot escape that mystic
rious c. arm. that haunting. soulful look
which Le"nardos "ineifaD.e 1T hand"
had impressed upon his canvas. and
now suddenly, al the most unexpected
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-02-01
COW BUTTER VS.. OLEO.


Dairy men organized Tor . Fight Ag9tnNe
Makers Of Bogus Goods.
All ready for war against the sinful
"oleo" man is the National Dairy Union.
The union met in Chicago, adopted a
constitution. elected officers, and laid
heartily indorsed Senator Hills anti
"oleo" bill. ash ed Congress to raise the
tax on limitations Of butter to cents
a pound. demanded of the Internal
Revenue Department that the existing
laws be more stringentlv enforced, and
asked the approximation of At least
$3.50. 900 to be applied to the expense Of
prosecuting Oleomargarine cases. The
constitution adopted declares that the
object of the union shall be to secure
national and State legislation to pre-
vent the manufacture and sale Of food
articles ma e in imitation Of butter
and cheese and to assist in the enforce
ment of all laws now in existence or to
be made in the future against such
products.
A resolution asking that the making
of filed cheese be subjected to the
same tax As oleomargarine was also
passed. Mr.. Noteworthy, Of New York.
read resolutions calling upon the In
ternal Revenue Commissioner to more
fully execute the present -oleO' laws.
During the progress of this cntro-
versy it was stated that the Internal
Revenue Department is now allowed
only $4,000 year for the expense OF
running down all offenders against rev.
enue laws; SO another resolution was
offered beseeching Congress to set
aside at least $500 % to be uSed to de-
fray the expense of prosecuting "oleo"
cases alone The Board of g. ntrol will
60 to Washington aud lay violent siege
TO the doors Of Congress. The rex.
meeting viii be held In WsshiSlg.
ton. q. C..
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-02-01

him. but that she had only brushed his
feet with the hem of her garment to
lose him forever
Marius' lips. set strongly and firmly
uron the back of Ade'e' hand. raised
her to con- ciou>ness. With a violent
effort she tore her hand away and
sprang toward the door.
Adele" came from Marius like a
>mothered cry of despair, but she was
EONe.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-02-01

ANY man who cannot make a speech
OF financial vampires" had better
sew a patch Oh his mouth.
The herald., 1894-02-22
DOUBLE SUICIDE.
A Despondent Couple Tirs of Life at
Des Moines, Ia.

A Despondent Couple Tire of Life at
Des Moines, Ia.
DEs MONIES, Ia, Feb. 21.-J. H. Hope
well and wife, well known restaurant
keepers of this city, formerly of Omaha
and Minneapolis, committed suicide
this morning by taking morphine. The
following note was found in their room
just before noon today:
"At 1890 this morning we two, my
wife and l, took four grain capsules and
about two hours ago took two more.
They don't seem to have much effect on
me. Now | am going to nhoot myself.
]. II. HoPEwELL."
The woman is still living, but will die.
Hopewell afterwards shot himself. They
had considerable money, but had inan-
cial reverses. They were about 80 years
of age. Mrs. Hopewell did not
revive until this afternoon, and
stumbling across her husbands
body, screamed and gave the
slarm. Hopewell left long letter
to the press and public, in which he dis
cusses the treatment received at the
hands OF landlords and others in Des
Moines while struggling to make a
living.