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of them both, and something like that
pictured here may come from his own
untram IN elled hand.
Then there is the Hon. James ]. Cor
bett, famous in certain walk of art. How
his uppercuts, right-hand swings. body
blows, infighting, Ieft-hand jabs. half-arm
blows. or the pivot twirl, it could appear,
can be gathered from the accom- panying
picture. Mr.. Corbett is pictured in a
dainty posture knocking out an oppo-
nent, but looking more as if he were lam
guidly offering bouquet to some dear
friend.
The gentleman down on the floor is
the center Of much artistic action. 1t
seems as If he were making desper-
ate effort to get back at Mr.. Corbett with
all of the above-named blows at one and
the same time. but is somewhat tangled
up in the broad scope of his desires. Mr..
Reed of Main. just at the present, when
the presidential bee is singing his merry
lay under so many hats. is quite an in.
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What May Happen if the
New Art Fad is Ever
Applied Here
PEOPLE PICTURED BY CURVES
Parkhurst Ia Beardsley Robes and Pen.
sive Mckinley in a White House
Scene..TOm Reeds Curves,
Also Depew's

Aubrey Beardsley, the young gentle
man who has set the ait world afre by
his strange pi,tures, may come to this
country shortly. 1t is not sette' fact
yet, but American artists are hoping for
his arrival just as eagerly as the dudes
are wishing for the appearance of the
Prince OF Wales at the coming inter-
national yacht races. If the prince com es
Aubrey may oeign to tear himself away
from England and the alteration which
is being showered upon him and seek
new fields to conquer.
There is some question about the de.
gree of fervid praise which will be be-
slowed upon Mr.. Beardsley should he
come here. Some artists have already
declared his work to be the veriest kind
OF rot. One well known critic says that
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tions of his friends, he gave up every
thing for the pleasure of being in the
com pany of fine horses.
A Brooklyn man who had studied for the
priesthood and was just about to take Or
ders. relinouished the idea and opened
butcher shop on Courl street lie is a
finely developed man, but he wears a
white apron and cuts up meat from in
the morning until in the evening, and
has never been heard to complain about
the life. When he made the sudden
change he feared hat he had contracted
consumption from over study and gen.
eral wreeking of the system brought
about by the confinement and hard work.
He took matters into his own hands
and decided that butcher shop was the
best place for man with weak lungs.
There may be something IN his idea. for
today he is fat and strong. and looks as
if he would live for more than the allotted
threescore and ten.
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Solid Tom Reed

1t possesses one commendable feature
and that is it draws rigid line between
true art and false art, fringing heavily
upon tho latter.
What would happen to the public men
and women of the country should Mr.
Barusley come here and picture them
In his own peculiar way is somewhat
difhcult to imagine. They might know
theS,selves and they might not. 1t is
ccrthin they would have some difficulty
In recalling the strange bits of ornament
taCon with whIohMr. Beardsey strews
hN pictures without stint or favor.
There is our own Chauncey NJ. Depew,
for instance. If Mr.. Bcardsley heard
and saw him making an after-dinner
speech his picture of the occasion would
look something like that produced here.
Mr.. Depew's classic face and neat side
whislsers offer a fertile iield for the gentle
curves of the Beardsley school. His nos,
might lffer and might not be recognized
at first signt, even by his aimahle score.
tary. Mr.. Du Val. but the sacrifice of a
nose is small matter when the great
question of art is at stake.
The lovely designs 1t The sides and
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teresting parsonage. but he lacks the pic
turesque qualities of the Others. Ponder
Gus ornamentation would have to be
drawn in, as has been done in the pres
ent case, to give him tinge of the light
airy colorng of the Beardsley picture.
1t would be almost cruel to depict the
result should the pen of Beardsley daily
with the dignifed persons of Mr.. Cleve-
land or Mr.. Harrison. But art is no re-
specter of persons and if the predicted
visit should become reality no one
knows to what extent the famous curves
and splotches of black and white will in
volve these two gentlemen.
The gold bug of the east and the silver
ite of the west would also have more
than melancholy interest for the young
Englishman. for visit to this country
would have only one object and that
would be pursuit OF the good, old-fash-
ioned American dollar. The whiskers or
the Populist would be made to look won
derful things if caught in the meshes of
the Beardsley curves, and the hurricane
of art that would 'assail them might do
something toward settling the vexed cur
rency question.
New York society would also look
strange things. John Jacob Astor and
his S1700 uniform. purchased when Gov
ernor Morton conferred the title OF colo
mel upon him, would be made to look
fine military parsonage with the aid of
some of the new style frescoes.
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger on her BIZ
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DR.. Parkhurst and the Copper

background of the picture are not vega.
ia ables offered by an enthusia astc audi
ence. but are copies of some of Mr..
Beardsley's works. They look like onions
or healthy apples. but this is mistake.
not even Mr.. Beardsley himself.
Suppose the latter should take up that
glowing subject. Mr.. Mckinley OF Ohio.
in the white heat of his preliminary race
for presidential honors. Mr.. Beardsley
loves to picture folks in some quiet pas
toral scene, leaning perhaps against n
garden gate. with curious looking hill
in the background, on which browse
strange varieties of cattle and sheep un-
heard OF in agricultural works..
Mr.. McKinley's striking resem blance to
Napoleon would offer rich field for work.
What tragic poses he could be placed in
and what grand opportunities would pre-
sent themselves for the introduction
dainty curves. The COW looking sorrow
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fully at Mr.. Mckinley is a real, plain
sance Which iow appears somewhat som % n1 tansled
up. But that is all right, because it is
art strictly up to date.
DIR. Charles II. Parknnrst and the po-
lice OF the city of New Y ork in their pres
ent excitable state could be made to do
extraordinary things under the pen OF the
beardsley. Perhaps the latter has heard
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UncOnQuered.

UncOnQuered.
However strong and skilled art thou, my foe,
However fierce is thy relentless hate,
Though firm thy hand and sure thy aim and
straight
To pierce the target of my heart, ah, know
am the master yet of my own fate
Thou canst not rob me Of my chief estate,
Though fortune, fame and friends-yea love-
shall go.
Not to the dust shall my true self be hurled
Nor shall meet thy worst assaults dismayed.
When all things in the balance are well
weighed,
There is but one great danger in the world.
Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee i'll
There only lies the evil that can kill.
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in. the careers of men, and it offers
abundant opportunity for psychological
speculation. MIR. Coudert devotes small
portion of each day to his unique COL
lection. Many OF his friends know of his
strange fad, and whenever they hear of
any astonishing fact relating to the sub
ject. they collect the data and forward it
to him.
The collection shows many curious
things-men who have abandoned high
and remunerative callings to follow some
ordinary pursuit, and men who started
at common drudgery and by a whim of
Dame Fortune were waited into the lap
of luxury.
For instance. one of the oddities of the
collection tells about reputable lawyer
of twenty years stading in the metropo-
lis who gave up his practice a year ago and
is now selling patent medicines On the
road. He IS not making much Of sue
cess at it, but likes the peculiar excite
ment of the life.
A man who followed the sea for thirty
two years, and who worked up from the
hum bic position of cabin boy to first
mate Of u line ship, suddenly gave up
the work and IS now quiet hum drum
book seller on Fourth avenue. 1t had
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To Give OF to Take.

TO GIve OF to Take.
hold him great who for loves sake
Can give with generous, earnest will
Yet he who takes for loves sweet sake
l think hold more generous still.
] bow before the noble mind
That freely some great wrong forgives.
Yet nobler is the one forgiven
Who bears that burden well and lives
Adelaide Proctor.
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A Souls Value.

We're the world one chrysolite,
The Garth a golden ball.
And diamonds all the stars Of night,
Ono -Roul outweights them ALL
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-16
COMMENT OF THE PRESS.
One Cause OF Lynch Law.

Cleveland World: 1.-THE legal scoundrels
and fy-speck judges are, next to the
wild possession of the mob spirit, respon-
sibe for lynching. These lawyers resort
at times even to criminal methods of Sc
curing the escape of their clients, ana
yet 40 unpunished for what Is as great
Il crime morally, and should be legally.
as aiding a prisoner to get away from the
penitentiary There Is never murderer,
too, convicted by testimony overwhelm-
ingiy convincing that does not get the
benefit of the most extraordinary not 10
say crooked exertions of his advocate
to save him from the gallows. Coupled
with the long delay between his commits
sion of the crime and his execution, the
murderer is a privileged person. All the
challenges are enormously in his favor;
he can reject juror after Juror on the
most frivolous preteXts, and he can even
escape by the evasions and trickiness OF
his attorney. Time and again attorneys
have obtained from innocent men confess
sions of the commission of the crime for
which their clients are tried and thus
secured their acquittal; then, on some pre-
text they have obtained an acquittal or
pardon for the pretended and self-impii-
Gated culprit. After the pretender has
subsequently confessed that he was lying
and the real culprit has admitted it, un-
der the much abused law that no one can,
IL acquitted, be tried twice for capital
offense, the villain has laughed, his lawyer
chuckled and justice and the law been
outraged and deted."
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-16
The Verdict of the Mayors Court

The verdict of the mayors court OF
inquiry in the matter of the recent
charges against Lieutenant Davis and
Patrolman Block is not unexpected. be-
cause il is the only verdict possible in
view of the evidence in the case. The
hearing having been public, the facts
are well known and need not be re-
cited. Indeed, the public, as the real
jury, had already arrived at a decision
generating officer Davis entirely. and
acquitting Officer Block of intentional
wrong-doing, although finding him
guilty of indiscretion in speech.
No doubt the outcome of this inquiry
will be an improved quality of public
service on the part of the city's police
force, because the case has shown that
popular vigilance Is keen and that dere-
1iction is exceedingly subject to public
arraignment and exposure. Because
the circumstances of the original ac-
cusation in this case were such as to
invite criticism of the manner of it's
utterance, it is not to be inferred that
pOHceIileH OF OtNer servants OF lne
municipality should be immune from
public scrutiny, or that a detection by
any citizen of official negligence or culp-
ability should not be promptly brought
to the notice of the proper authorities,
and. IL then necessary, to the attention
of the public at large.
We think, finally, that the city of
Scranton is entitled to congratulate
itself upon the fact that at time when
many municipalities are in the throes
of grave and serious public scandals.
the worst thing which has been made
public concerning It's own government
is that one policeman out of a force
OF fifty has grown garrulous to passers
by.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-16
DR.. Parkhurst's Visit.

The visit Of DR.. Parkhurst to this city
OF generous welcome. To DR.. Park
hurst more than to any other living
man this country is indebted for the
widespread impetus which has recently
been given to the subject OF municipal
renovation and rehabilitation. At the
time when, from his pastors study this
modest preacher stepped forth, all un-
heralded, to take the leadership in the
most notable battle Of the century
against entrenched vice and rottenness,
the subject Of reform in city govern
ment was theme largely Of sopho-
moric disquisition and academic debate.
Plunging without an instant's hesita-
ton into the very thick of the muck
and the mire and the stenchful putre-
faction of unventilated municipal par
fisanism, he bore the search light into
places Of unsuspected infamy and dark
ness, and when his feet landed once
more on undefiled ground, behold, the
mighty engine of public opinion already
had the hose turned on, and 1t is turned
on yet, although much of the filth has
Since been washed away.
1t has been objected to DR.. Park
hurst that he chose an undignified way
OF beginning, because, instead of de-
pending upon inaccurate hearsay he
got his evidence at first hand. The
objection is quibble, because in war
the path way Of dignified dalliance is
the path way to defeat. The general
who would send men where he would
not dare to go himself would perhaps
ornament dress parades, but he would
not win battles. It is the chief of Dr.
Parkhurst's claims to respect that, in
the teeth Of conventions and in de-
fiance Of puny precedents. he led in
person the advance upon the enemy,
\neither hiding behind the back of depu-
fised parishioners nor jumping at con-
illusions upon the strength of unau-
ihenticated Tumors. II was, perhaps,
N audaciods thing to do: but it was
yhe audacify Of calculated wisdom, alb
fo'ptely syfe Of .ts ground.
xhe visft Of such a man to Scranton,
hslefore. Il rightly regarded as an
ventN bf moment. The general purport
g the lecture which he will deliver is
1feady f1miliar to close readers Of the
o1temporAry prsss; but there ts that
~ ~ pesD6nality and ip the inspira-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-16
The Next .SenatOrship.

The Republicans of Philadelphia could
with propriety unite upon one candi-
date for the senatorial succession and
present him to the state at large as the
representative of n popu.ous and i'm
portant community which, for the past
sixty years, has not been represented
by one of its citizens in the United
States senate. Such a uniflcation of as.
pirationS and interests. II personfied by
an attractive candidacy, representing at
once STRAIGHTFORWARD Repubicanism,
high personal character. pleasing ad.
dress and thorough command of the
subjects likely TO require senatorial con-
sideration. would doubtless appeal
strongly 20 the support of other sec.
tons of the commonwealth.
1t is to be desired that every com.
munity wishing to participate in the
contest for the succession to Mr.. Cam
eron shall put forward it's worthiest
representative, 80 that, whosoever wins.
the commonwealth will be well served
and honored. In the case of Philadel-
phia this is especially desirable, because
of the likelihood that such a concentra.
ton would insure success. We do not
hesitate to say that of all the Philadel-
phians suggested. the candidacy of
Charles Emory Smith represents in our
Judgment by far the highest qualities of
manliness and culture. and the largest
measure Of all-round fitness. Mr..
Smith. as an orator. has no superior in
the state: as student of public ques-
tions his prominence is already national;
as Republican his voice has always
been heard upon the side Of clean meth
ods and lofty ideals of public profession
and performance; while in the graces of
personality and in the essentials of
breeding, tact and character he stands
conspicuous as one of the best living
types of Intelligent American citizen
ship. These are not mere words of facile
fattery: they are truths, recognized as
such by discerning Pennsylvanians
everywhere. Hence 1t Is our conviction
that the claim of Philadelphia would be
very materially strengthened were 1t
coupled with the single name of Phila-
delphia's concededly ablest and worth
lest senatorial possibility.
Whether the Republicans Of Philadel-
phia can rise superior to factional diff
ferences and unity their energies in the
manner indicated is another question.
There unfortunately seems to be little
probability Of such consummation. In
Philadelphia, as in other portions of the
commonwealth. the senatorship seems
to be regarded by many rather az the
property Of one or two influential lead
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-16
What the Figures Show.

Washington Post: 1.-The president
speaks of the Mckinley law as one which
while inefficient for the purpose of rev.
enue, curtailed our trade relations and im-
peded our entrance into the markets of
the world No fair view Of the results
of the Mckinley tariff fails to take ac-
count of the effect on our foreign trade
produced by the Democratic victory OF
1892 That victory was a declaration of
war on the tariff, and its inevitable result
was to reduce revenues by reducing i'm
ports. But that tariff had been in opera
ton twenty-five months when Mr.. Cleve-
land was elected. The receipts for that
period were $759, ,395,9i2, and the expendi-
lures were $72l, 900, ,2O2, leaving balance of
$3s, 1910 The law now In force created
a deficiency variously stated at sixty mil
lions to seventy millions during the first
fifteen months. AS to the 'curtailed trade
relations and impeded entrance into the
markets of the world the facts are that
under the Mckinley law our exports
amounted to an annual average of $96i.-
53i,Si6, while under the new law they
have fallen to an annual average of s7O.-
57S, ,O52. These figures tell their own story"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-16
A Doctrine Which ADrlics,

Washington Post: "If Englands pres
ent attitude toward Venezueia has not for
its object the oppression of that country
and the control of its destiny, then we
fail TO understand the purpose and effect
of human action. England IS now claim
Ing vast area OF Venezuelan territory
which has never been accorded her on
any map save one of her own making,
and Is threatening the South American re-
public with invasion. confiscation and
other penalties in the event OF denial.
II the Monroe doctrine does not apply 10
this situation, then 1t has no application or
significance of any kind"
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vacancy was therefore avoided had he re-
signed. Amos would probably still be In
the street commissioners office had not
the voters of New York interfered with
Tammany Halls arrangements by electing
William NJ. Strong mayor and declared
for a new deal. When Strong became the
chief executive of Gotham one of his
first official acts was to decap;tate Cum
minss. About the time Of Amos decapi-
tation Andrew J. Campbell, who had been
elected his successor 10 congress, died
and Cummings was nominated and elected
10 fill the vacancy.
Cummings has been In turn n printer.
| n soldier. "A newspaper editor and states
man. He has set type In nearly every
state in the Union and Is one OF the
best compositors in the profession. One
day during the first session of the Fifty
third congress, while In the house cloak
room with few friends, Amos made the
assertion that he could set more type in
a given time than any member OF congress
or newspaper correspondent In Washing
ton. He made good his blum by Offering
TO bet dinner that he could do what he
claimed. The bet was taken and the next
day the test was made at the government
printing office Amos won by setting 2,725
ems of solid minion in two hours. Out OF
Difference for his competitors. who were
close upon him, l will not give their
names. one was n weli-known western
congressman two others were equally well
known Washington correspondents.
\ \
The death of ex-u nited States Senator
Allen q. Thurman, of Ohio, removes an
American statesman whose place will be
hard to fill. While in the senate the "Ol1
Roman" rs he was called, distinguished
himself as an able and ready debater and
leader of leaders. He was in the SEN
ate twelve years, and during all of that
time his counsel was always in great de-
mand lie was not snowy statesman.
but his speeches contained an amount of
homely truths, expressed with n blunt
forcefuness. that carried conviction.
w. X. B.
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The Tactics Of the snoak Thief.

Washington Post: "a new element of
gravity Is to be found in the report that
Venezuela has received from England u
formal demand for indemnity, to the
amount Of 100000 for the alleged il1-treat-
ment of the two British policemen who
were arrested by the Venezuelan authori-
ties as intruders and subjected to impris-
onment. If | tbe true that this demand
has been made upon Venezuela simulta-
neousy with a rejection or even an eva
sion of our proposition, then England's
action in the premises can hardly be re-
garded as other than deliberate affront.
The whole question is involved in this de-
mand for indemnity, since If Venezuela
yields she will. ipso facto, concede every
claim that Great Britain has set up. and
England will then have been guilty of an
act of scarcely concealed hostility in
achieving by stealth and indirection what
this government has already protested
against in most emphatic language"