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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-16
Call for Ministers
To Get to Work.
The municipal Problem Requires
rlOre Than Soft Phrases.
Editor of The Tribune.

Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The alarming extent and ma
lignity of municipal corruption in this
country has led some of our most en-
thusiastic democrats to inquire
whether after ALL popular government
Is not a failure. If it fails to secure
good government in the great center;
of population, which are likewise CEN
ters of influence, it fails utterly, no
matter how creditable 1t may be in
other respects. The discussion OF this
subject in any of its phases, is really a
discussion of government In its broad
est aspects. 1t Is therefore a subject
of more than passing interest. 1t is
vital--it concerns the well-being of the
commonwealth
A first glance at the subject Will nat
urally incline one to pessimism; for
corruption has grown with the growth
of the city. Instances of depravity are
discovered that make one afraid of
the species, and almost hopeless of its
redemption. To the casual observer,
the city is as beautiful and desirable
for habtation as primitive Eden; but
upon investigation, the trail of the SER
pent is found, reaching in sinuous in
iquities down to the very vestibule of
perdition, and he wonders how the
cataclysm of Sodom and Gomorrah can
be longer delayed.
Examination Of the Causes.
An examination of the causes lead
ing to this deplorabe condition will at
once turn one to optimism. For it IL
found that the degradation has come
about through the almost total neglect
of civil duties by the energetic, honest,
virtuous and thrifty of our population.
While this is not by any means the
sole cause of municipal corruption, it
contributes to 1t to such an extent, that
If we can at once and forever remove
1t, we shall have entered upon the
highway of municipal decency. And
then, again, we can never get out of
the swamps and wilderness of munich
pal putrescence and midnight darkness
unless this criminal neglect is removed.
But while this is, as it seems to me. a
fair statement of the case, l believe ii
so very easily possible to arouse the
lethargic to a sense of their duties. and
to the exercise of them, that the purifi-
cation of municipal politics becomes
one of the first events of the early
morning. / do not believe that 1t Is
far distant nor difficult of ultimate
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-16
A Monopolist's Wants.

Ny wants are few, | sit serene,
Upon contentment's highlands,
If can have earth's continents
! care not for its islands.
would not climb upon a throne
Through seas of bloody slaughter,
If | can call all lands my own,
Why you can have the water.
Give me but these, they are enough
To suit my humble notion,
And you can have for all your own
The land beneath the ocean.
And it's IA generous slice of earth,
And doubtless quite prolific,
If you ean only drain 1t once;
The bed of the Pacific.
And all I ask Is just this earth,
To regulate and man it,
And surrender all my claims
To every other planet.
And so you see cut my cloth
on a contracted pattern;
Give me the earth, drop all claim
TO Uranus and Saturn.
Little ! need, my wants are few,
Nor would | have them greater.
] only want the land between
The poles and the equator.
Give me the earth, tits all | ask,
For me and my wife Sarah.
Then I'll give all my fellow men
\ house lot In Sahara.
The earth Is very, very small,
And not in good repair;
Compared with Sirius 1t Is
A very small affair.
And l just want 1t while live,
And Death. I'll not resist him,
For after death hope to get
The whole great solar system.
Sam Walter Foss.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-16

and successful attainment. God for
bid that should ever lose faith in the
sensitiveness OF the American con
science.
But the people are not aroused; they
continue Indifferent and neglectful, and
the satanic Vaccinations of the cor
rupt boss and his cabinet continue
without rebuke. Do you expect. the
people to arouse themselves? When
Nineveh had become corrupt to the
very core. and ripe for destruction, did
its own citizens call Il convention, put
an independent ticket In the field, and
cleanse the Augean stables? No, but
God sent one of his prophets to cry
against the city: Yet forty days and
Nineveh shall be overthrown;" and the
trumpet voice of prophetic denuncia-
tion brought the city to its senses, and
to repentance and reformation.
A Call to the Min is:ers.
The query is most pertinent one.
Has God no present day prophets? Or
are they playing the first act of this
Jonathan tragedy and emitting the sec
ond? Are they fleeing from the rugged
path Of duty and seeking for ease? Or
do they still writhe uneasily in the belly
of the great fish? Verify, Judgment
must begin at the house of God" Gods
ministers must awake from their mid
century sloth and cry out I'm the dialect
of the age, rebuking its sins, and sum-
moning the people to repentance. Thet
talk the language Of Ashdod; they talk
in a metaphysical jargon that serves
to bewider and befog. Or they say
smooth things that serve as palliatives,
when words that cut like knives are
needed. Upon a recreant ministry and
Sleeping church rests the blame for
the existing corruption in city and in
the state. Selfish and proud and hard
hearted Christians have content with
tithing mint and anise and cummin,
while justice has been banished from
political councils, prosttuted in courts
of law, and bounded out of the mar
kets The people are anxious to know
the way out of the quagmires, and they
wait to be guided by prophetic voices.
Who shall utter them? VIII you give
us an answer?
Scranton Feb. 10. ID. NJ. Kinter
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-16
What We Arc Coming To.

BY an evolution frantic
A maiden once romantic
Assumes the prerogative of'man;
In all that's scientific
She simply is terrifce
For athletics she's a notion:
To foot ball her devotion
Makes her entirely oblivlous to pain.
In her padded kn.ckerbockers
She lives up with the "blockers,"
And causes her opponent confusion of the
brain.
The clubs that she selects
Are free from all defects;
dogs and men and chaperons prohibited
But cigarettes and wine,
Whiskies old and fine.
hibitcdD
In politics she's strong,
She never knows she's wrong,
To obstacles she never will succumb.
To argue longs her mission.
(She votes by intuition.
But no surprises ever strike her dumb)
She has not a touch OF meekness,
/ And II she has weakness.
It's a masculine desire to be tall.
To everything you mention
She's given her attention,
And congratulates herself she knows II
all. Boston Traveller.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-16
The Old Cupboard.

You may talk about your sideboards, win
compartments by the score,
With their three-f foot bevel mirrors, most
as wide as my front door;
Or your boofays, fine de sickle, with their
jim-cracks fair TO see
But the old three-cornered cupboard Is
Just good enough for me.
All, the one that used to fill a spacious
corner that | knew,
How the mem'ry of 1t comes and makes
me hungry through and through!
While 1t wasn't built for show so much.
it wasn't bad to see,
And without a German lookin' glass twas
good enough for me.
Even washday, evenin', mornin'. night or
day, or rain or shine.
Did | always find 1t filed with what i
freely might make mine;
And they weren't the Il la dishes that
we're brought down now to see,
But the eatn's In the cupboard were-just
good enough for me.
There was chicken, fried and juicy, and
a hambone to your taste,
And some cold things left from dinner
that 1t wasn't right to waste;
And such biscuits, cakes and pumpkin
pies / never hope to see
AS ate from that old cupboard that was
good enough for me.
1t stood ready for traveller or a hungry
boy from school
AS to when and where and how much he
might eat there was no rule
He was welcome to a plenty and the best
that there might be
In the bounteous old cupboard that was
good enough for me.
And at Christmas there was turkey, full
of stuifin crisp and brown,
And n fruit cake and plum pudding and
mince pies of home renown,
With an extra dish for some one-though
q beSgar he should be-
In that generous old cupboard that was
good enough for me.
have seen tangled sideboards, with
their silver plate galore,
With their china and their cut glass
most enough to fill "A store;
But I'd gladly swap the whole shebang
and everything | see
For q chance at that old cupboard that
was good enough for me.
Furniture Trade Review.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-16
COULD STAND ANOTHER.
An Amusing Incident Of the Prohibitor,
Law in Maine.


Maine is a prohibition state and theo-
retically it Is a very difficult undertake
ing to get drink there, unless ii is
for medicinal purposes. In practice
such difficulties dwindle into mole-hills,
but nevertheless the following story told
by the Lewiston Journal is amusing If
rather overdrawn: A big red-faced fel-
low, who was suffering from a long
spell of enforced abstinence as well
as from an injured toe, was brought
into the office of a well known physician
of central Maine to have the toe ampu-
tated. The sufferer objected to the use
Of ether or choloform, but when the
doctor turned out a tumbler of whiskey
for him to drink he no longer opposed
the proceedings, and the toe was cut
off without trouble
Reviving after the operation, he
looked at the foot meditatively for a
moment, and then cooked his eye
shrewdly at the doctor. Say, doc" he
remarked, "gi' me another tumblerful
of that whisky, an you may cut off
another toe, If you wanter."
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-16
Merry Moments with Fasl1i0ners of Verse.

You've got to admit you're fraud, sir, or
you've got to step up and pay.
So tell us the size of your income; ac-
count for each little red cent,
This terrible cad, the collector, knows
pretty well what you have spent.
And If you think to escape him by max
ing 1t small you will fail,
And end, If you try to deceive him, in a
small private box at the Jail.
John kendriCk Bangs.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-16
nnhy's Hands.

Dainty, dimpled. little things,
Soft as angels plumey wings,
Naught to do but grow,
Awkwardly you move about,
Up and down, and In and out,
Tell me do you know
Why such antics you 70 through?
What you're trying now to do?
Where you want to go?
Dainty, dimpled. little things,
Clutching, as your cradle swings,
At thin nothingness,
Who can tell what you will hold,
When your grasp il firm and bold?
May be honor-may be gold
May be nothingness!,
Dainty. dImpled, little things,
Whatsoever the future brings,
There'll be work for you.
Though you still be soft and white,
You cannot your duties slight
While there's work to do.
There'll be burdens to be lifted.
From the bad. good must be sifted.
From the false. the true;
And though you're so soft and small,
or this work. a part will fall,
Little hands. on you.
:Womankind.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-16

He knew of gold, within a safe,
But hadn't strength 10 move II.
He's proud of his integrity,
He's honest to the letter.
His lips would scorn to tell lie,
When truth would pay him better.
If e'er he loves, he's moral then,
Nor let's his passion fret him;
He never kissed his neighbor's wife y
Because she wouldn't let him.
-Bernhardt Thrall.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-16

the Union, Kentucky also furnished
23,703 coiored. which do not enter into
this calculation. Maryland and Mis-
souri, have supplied the same arm of
service. 1t thus appears that one-sev
enth of the Union army came from the
sOuth
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-16
A KANSAS NEW WOMAN.

She Used Her craftsmanship to Good Ad.
vantage.
A Miss Agnes Johns, aged 81. repre-
sents the new woman Of Kansas. She
had secured plot of land in Cherokee.
but while away visiting her parents
last month 1t was annexed by one Sam
Bartell. On her return she called on
the gentleman, and pistols were drawn,
with the result that Mr.. Bartell lived
only five minutes more, and Agnes re-
gained possession of her plot. and had
good reason to congratulate herself on
having practiced pistol shooting.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-16
Plausible.

Musingly he watched the smoke from
his cigarette fade into nothingness.
II wonder why he is always dwelling on
his wifes talents" he observed"
The other fellow, who was operating a
coarse cigar, laughed.
"He hasn't any of his own to live on"
he rejoined.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-16
The parn d o xical Teuton.

How paradoxical the Germans are, COM
plains a Frenchman In Figaro, can best
be seen when they prepare a bowl OF
punch. First they put in rum. to make 1t
strong, then water to make It weak; lemon
TO make 1t sour and sugar to make
sweet! Then they raise the glasSG
say: Here's to your health
they gulp 1t down themsel1
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-16
The Astronomer and His Bride.

They took no common wedding trip.
That scientific pair;
For Europe and the Orient
They said they did not care.
No voyage on the sea for them
No ride In stuffy cars!
They took their telescopes and ranged
All DER the planet Mars.
Chicago Tribune.
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1895-05-15

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unb NiidmarI6 in hrsi Monaten ausz
sufiibr,n, ba bic gntFsrnung mebr als
600 Silpmetsr bstrdgt." 6ieran
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fir sSrunfreiG 5fpeifelIos Elm gliidlihsr
yein, ober Disls unb fcbusre Opfer ers
fDrbera trerbs.
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1895-05-15

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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-01-12

tn appointment of deputy attorney
general at Los Angeles. Victor Mont
gomery of Santa Ana and Judge Puter-
baugh of San Diego are slated to be in
the lead for the vacant supreme court
commissionerships
THE SENATORIAL FIGHT.
The caucus last night was the one
topic of discussion in political circles
today. Perkins friends claim that the
question is settled, while Frank Stone.
for De Young. laughs at the idea and
insists that he can name enough votes
to nominate De Young, but he refuses
to make public his plans or the names
Of his henchmen. Nothing Of import
ance will transpire in the matter until
the return OF the members on Monday.
w. H. Hamilton informed The HERALD
correspondent tonight that he had
enough Democratic votes pledged to his
man to nominate in event OF dead
lock. He, with Senator Perkins and his
secretary. left for San Francisco tonight,
hind II nothing serious occurs the party
will not return before the latter part OF
she coming week. De Young and his
party also left for the city tonight, and
il il stated will return early in the week.
Meanwhile the wiseacres are all at sea
and the long green. go much desired, has
not materialized.
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CALLED TO ACCOUNT.
McKelvey Must Explain His Detection
From Perkins.

McKelvey Must Explain His Detection
From Perkins.
SANTA ANA, Jan. 1.-THE Republic
ans in this county are considerably
agitated over the action of Represents
tive McKelvey in boiling the Rspub-
lican caucus at Sacramento yesterday.
The Orange County Herald, the lead.
ing Republican paper in this county, in
referring to this matter will say:
I'VE confess, without being familiar
with the circumstances which prompted
it, that the sudden departure of Nc
Kelvey from the caucus at 80 critical a
moment is great disappointment to
the Republicans here. The people OF
Orange county certainly expect him to
vote and work for George G. Perkins for
United States senator in ell gatherings
where he can possibly do 90, and will
not accept any timely attack of the
'mulligrubs' as an excuse for not per-
forming his duty"
The following dispatch was sent from
here to McKelvey today:
Charles g. McKelvey, Sacramento, CAL:
The citizens OF Orange county desire
to know how to construe your action in
refusing to join the caucus with friends
OF Senator Perkins.
(Slgned) is. N, CRADDIcK,
Chairman Republican County Central
Committee.
As yet no answer has been received to
the above.
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OBSOLETE LIBEL LAW.
QUEER PROCEEDINGS IN NEW
FOUNDLAND.
The Government Preparing to Bring
Action Against Newspaper
Mon.
Special to THE HERALD.

Special to THE HERALD.
ST.. JOHNS, N. F., Jan. 1.-THE gov
eminent has begun An investigation
against the correspondents OF the lead
ing American newspapers, who are ac-
cused OF sending abroad reports OF the
colony's financial straits. The govern
ment is acting on an absolute law oil
newspaper libel, unused in England for
70 years, and is trying to compel the
telegraph companies to reveal the names
OF correspondents and the contents OF
the dispatches.
An operator of the Anglo-American
Telegraph company was summoned be-
fore Magistrate Prowse and the names
OF the correspondents and their papers
were demanded. The operator refused
first to give them, but when a warrant
was issued for bis commitment he con.
fessed. His lawyer had been refused
admittance. and he was helpless.
Today the general superintendent OF
the company was subp1naed and or~
dered to produce his books and papers.
He went to the magistrats's court. but
refused to produce the books, contending
that only a supreme Judge has the au-
thority to compel him toGo so.
Local newspapers tell the government
that it had far better devote its energies
to formulating measures for the relief of
the destitute than prosecuting men on
whose efforts they will mainly have to
rely for stimulating outside assistance.
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Il HUNG WANTS THREE HEADS
Generals Who Funked at Port
Arthur to Be Arrested.
China's Big warship Chen Yuen
Repaired.
Timely Advics to Japan Regard in G
Peace Nsgotistions-rhe Mikado
May DsmaAd TOO Much.

Special to tbs HERALD.
LONDON, Jan. l1.-Dispatch form Pc
kin says: Lii Hung Chang having sent
memorial to the throne praying for
the arrest OF the three generals who
commanded the Chinese troops at Port
Arthur, orders have been sent to the
governors OF the various provinces COM
msnding the arrest OF these officers i'm
mediately.
THE CHEN YUEN REPAIRED.
dispatch from Shanghai says that
divers have been successful in patching
100 feet of the port side of the Chinese
warship Chen Yuen. The ship per.
formed evolutions under her own steam
on Monday and fred several OF her
heavy guns. The test was very salts
factory. The chip does not leak
at all and is in good fighting condition.
TIMELY ADVICE.
BERLIN. Jan. 1.-THE Cologne Ga
zette advises the government of Japan
to make peace with China at once. 1t
will be dangerous thing for Japan. the
Gazette says, If her desire for the fruits
OF victory increases, as her demands
might become so exaggerated that Euro.
pean powers would not allow China to
concede them.
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HIS NAME WAS "PANTS."
HOW A TELEGRAPH COMPANY
COMMITTED LIBEL.
Judgment Against tho Western Union
in . Remarkably Novel
Suit.
Special to THE HERALD.

Special to THE HERALD.
ST.. PAUL, Jan. II. - The Western
Union Telegraph company was practi-
cally convicted of libel at New Ulm,
Mimi, today. Senator 8. D. Peterson
OF that place was member Of the legis-
lature two years ago, during a senatorial
CONTEXT in which Senator Davis was a
candidate for reelection. Senator PEI
terson was opposed to Mr.. Davis and
voted for John Lind. His vote caused
considerable comment and Peterson re-
ceived the following telegram from New
Ulm over the Western Union wires:
"Slppery Sam, your name ia Pants"
The telegram was signed MANY Re-
publicans."
The senator sued the telegraph COM
pany for libel. claiming damages in &c.
600. Today jury returned a verdict
giving Patterson the entire amount
claimed. This is the first verdict Of the
kind against a telegraph company in the
world.
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BEATEN BY BURGLARS.
A NERVY BUTLER BATTLES SAN
FRANCISCO THIEVES.
The Keeper of the Plate Would Not
Disclose tho Hiding Place
of the Silver.

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 11.-Three burg
lars gained entrance to the house of
Julius Franklin at an early hour this
morning and brutally maltreated Frank
Miller, the butler.
Miller heard the burglars breaking
into the house and got Q revolver. The
three men jumped ON him nd on.
deavorsd to take the revolver away.
Miller resisted and was kicked and
beaten in the struggle. The butler re-
fused to tell where the valuables of the
house were kept and the burglar Sc
cured little booty,
1t was the original intention of the
men to waylay Mr.. Franklin and his
vile on their return from the theater.
but in some way the scheme miscarrisd.
and then burglary was tried. A good
description Of the three men has been
obtained, but NO arrests have vet been
made.