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away, and with it has grown confidence on
the part of Mr.. Smith to think upon his
feet. He betrays little inexperience. He
has not yet learned to fully gauge his voice
or the acoustic properties of the Senate.
At times he pitches his address a tone or
two above the key in which he could most
easily speak, and his voice suffers from the
strain.
His familiarity with legal points came as
a surprise to many, as it was not known
that he had had legal training until
lately, when he admitted having an attor-
ney's diploma, and added that he had APP
peared once as counsel for the defense with
the result that his client received sem
tence of fifteen years. He has not devel-
oped his full powers as speaker, but
promises much in this way.
HIS ability at present largely lies in a
clear statement of his views and an orderly
declaration of mis- reasons. Perhaps he
has gained by giving up the law practice.
He lacks the verboseness common to so
many attorneys, and makes his points
tell by the brevity of his sentences. He
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uses few or no gestures, and avoids rhetori-
cal flOurishes.
The training of long practice as a speaker
would help him There is a strain of humor
in his mental makeup which enables him
to retort readily and happily.
Senator Smith is newspaper man, the
proprietor of the Kern County Echo. 1t
may be that his newspaper training has
taught him the art of concise statement, so
commonly absent in public takers.
In the Assembly the eloquent speakers,
the men who think rapidly and logically
as they talk, are, as rule, the younger
men. There are two eminent exceptions.
These are Timothy Guy Phelps of San
Mateo and Judge E. V. Spencer of Lassen.
Mr.. Phelps is, perhaps, the most pictur-
esque figure on the floor of the House.
When he arises to talk all listen. Even
those who would rather not. attend bis
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E. w. Freeman of Riverside, L. T. Hat
field of Sacramento and Edward 1. Jones
of Stockton are three men who speak
seldom. They are not orators but they are
thinkers. When they do speak it is be-
cause they have something of Importance
to say, and they are always listened to
with the closest attention
George w. Dixon of San Francisco makes
no pretension to being an orator. He says
what is necessary in a businesslike way
and makes no fuss about it. Wade of
Napa belongs to the same class. The lat
ter has a dry humor that enables him very
often to touch the disabilities of the House.
From far in the southland Charles S. Nc
Kelvey of Orange and w. r. Guy of San
Diego come. Though never obtrusive they
are frequently upon the floor in the inter
est of their. respective counties. Another
Of the occasional Speakers is B. S. Osborn
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the entire history of their lives. That
''men die, but not for love-" had not es-
capped the notice of an earlier and infinitely
higher authority and Brierre de Boismont
Gle Suicide, " second edition, 1861, offered
as an apology for this male Characteristic
that in men the roots of friendship strike
deeper than those of love, and he asked for
instances in history where women have
ended life by suicide for others of their
own sex, as did Volumnius, Petroneus and
Antonius for their male friends.
Leaving the field of statistics Professor
Lombroso traverses wide range of time
and space in his industrious search for ex-
amples of woman's self-int1icted death for
love. He calls up from the slumber of his
tory the non dolet of the wife of Paetus,
the fatal swallowing of live Goals by Portia
in order to shorten the supposed period of
separation from her dead husband, Brutus,
and the suicides of the married mates of
Po1iorcetes, Scaurus and Labeo, all for
love. He has learned in a recent book
(Twain, 1894, called Suicide Among the
Savage Peoples" that to the untutored abb
origines of North America self-murder was
almost unknown, the only suicides to be
found in any tribe (Dakotahs) being fe-
males, who occasionally committed the act
under the despair and desperation of dis
appointed love. He relates that in
New Zealand a daughter of the con-
queror HOngi, upon learning that her
husband had been slain in battle,
killed with her own hand sixteen pris-
oners and then put an end to her life by
suicide. Lombroso reviews the strange
mode of self-destruction practiced by the
widows of Hindostan and Malabar, who
cast themselves upon the burning pyres
of their deceased husbands. These sui
cides. he contends, proceed from love
rather than from religious fanaticism.
although the teachings of Brahminism
powerfully favor the practice of suttee-
ism, as well as all other kinds of self
immolation. Two English officers once
essayed to deter widow from this bar
barous usage by asking her first to try
the horrible effect of exposing one of
her fingers to fire. With smile of dis
dain the young woman plunged her
whole hand into ignited oil, stoically
watched the member burn, and, Just be-
fore casting herself into the flames,
said: "You may argue as you please, but
| know that | belong to no one but my
dead husband-not even to myself. Him
only did I ever love, and after him l can
love no man else"
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LOVE AND SUICIDE.

Professor LOmbroso Shows That Woman
Sacrifices Herself Oftener Than 6Ian.
In Italy, according TO Lombroso's fig
ures CLEANED from the official records. the
number of suicides that were committed
for causes Of all kinds among both sexes
In that kingdom during the last four years
reached a total of 3085, of which only 500
were of females, against 2516 of males. In
France q record of 25;941 cases of suicide,
collected by him from equally reliable
sources. makes man the victim 1892 and
woman only 1888 times. The great pre-
ponderance here shown of suicides among
males is ascribed, in part, to woman's in
stinctlye repugnance to violence and per-
sonal Disagreement, in part to the less
harassing and responsible role PLAYED by
her in the struggle for existence, and in
part TO her mode Of life, which is infinitely
less tinctured with self-indulgencea and vice
than that of man. AT only one stage
sof life does the suicide rate among
AEomen equal that of males. This period
Is between the age of 10 and that of
twenty, when the suicidal impulse is ac-
centuated by the great constitutional
change, and as Lombroso contends by the
acute and all-contDlling pOssion of love
with It's reverses, which female adolescents
then experience. During all the rest of
life, from childhood to the grave, the male
rate OF suicides IS nuCn ulSucI IIdll Lllc
female and steadily increases with advanc-
ing years. This ascendency undergoes but
an insignificant remission during all the
disturbances and dangers of the female
climacteric decade, from the forty-fifth to
the fifty-fifth year of age.
The foregoing statistics exhibiting. the
marked performance of cases of suicide
from general causes among men, over
those occurring among women, are intro
duced by Lombroso to emphasize the
equally great preponderance of female
over male suicides when committed Tor
love. While the male suicides from mis-
cellaneous causes Of every kind quadru-
pie or quintuple in number the female,
those which are motived by love alone
are four or five times greater IN the
female than in the male sex. In Italy,
he says, IS per cent of the suicides
among women during the last four years
were for love, and only 20 per cent for the
same cause among men. In France, for
i the same period, the figures showed % per
lcent of ove suicides among the former ana
only per cent among the latter. Nine de
Stael had noted a similar disparity in the
two sexes long before Lombroso, and had
given partial explanation of it by saying
that whereas in men love is usually only
an incident an unimportant episode IN
their busy careers, on e other hand, IN
women it is the supreme event, often
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greater number of the Republican majority.
Among these the most finished speaker
is without doubt Judson c. Brusie of Sac
ramento. He has mobile face. A wealth
of curly brown hair covers a very thought
full pate. Mr.. Brusie knows the value of
these from a dramatic standpoint and
makes the most of them.
He has a knowledge OF the things that
move men. On subjects that most men
could discourse but dryly on, he interjects
watchfulness for fitting climaxes that win
him rounds of applause.
To be sure, when he is through some of
his hearers will talk of his playing to the
gallery" Nevertheless, he does it success
fully. He makes use of all the verbal ar
tifices that influence the minds of men,
and by skillful appeals to their patriotism,
their reverence for their mothers and their
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in debate, quick to anticipate the drift of
an. opponents argument, and equally
quick to meet it. Two years ago he was
Legislature. Illness, perhaps, has caused
has not been heard so often this session as
in previous ones, but when the subjects of
mutual insurance and woman suffrage, of
both of which he is an ardent champion,
come up, there is the old fire and vigor,
the keen argument and the energy born of
conviction. MCGOWAN can make a good
speech. His voice is clear, and pitched
sufficiently high to reach the remotest
ears. One of his peculiarities is his head
gestures. Every point is accumulated by
an emphatic nod or shake of the head. He
is one of the forcible takers in the Senate,
and ought to grow with years.
Tall and spare with sharp clear cut feat
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IAN, and 'a" are pronounced with a
startling precision, while the distinctness
with which he indicates the syllabifcation
early efforts to read words of one syllable"
books, IN which the long words are care
fully hyphenated.
Mr.. Cutter is the advocate of the rights
OF the farmers OF the Sacramento Valley.
Ordinarily he is very pleasant CONVEX
sationallst, and not inclined to be aggres-
slye IN debating. But talk about hydraulic
mining or woman suffrage and the muscles
of his face become tense, his gray hair
seems to bristle, while even his short
closely trimmed gray mustache assumes a
belllcose appearance. Then he becomes
eloquent, illustrating his points with apt,
brief anecdotes that make them seem con
ylncing, even when they are sometimes
Illogical.
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household gods forces from their palms his
need of praise
Throughout his speeches there is always
vein of humor. When he becomes per-
sonal he often allows this to degenerate
into biting sarcasm, which, while it
causes laugh, leaves hurt behind.
Another of the brilliant speakers among
the younger Republicans is Richard 1.
Thomas of Nevada County. His face pos
and though slight, is well proportional.
His features are clean-cut and expressive,
and of this he takes advantage in adding
to the force of his delivery.
5 During the present session he has been
on the floor but seldom. When he has
spoken the House has listened with pleas
ure. His address is pointed, and though
his sentences are not so ponderous and
filled with carefully balanced phrases as
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BERNHARDT's FINE OYSTERS.
They Were Cherry stones From the
Chesapeake.

You are one of not more than four or five
men who have asked me if l sold Club
Inns" l did sell them once. They are
called ''Dublins" because no oyster ever
was born, to say nothing of coming of
age, at Dublin. They come from Kings
town and other parts of the Irish coast.
They are not bad oyster either, but l
found it impossible to keep them in stock.
l received large consignment once, and I
put them in tank with lot of so-called
natives. They played the very devil. They
ate everything that was thrown into the
tank, and, instead of taking life placidly,
as oysters generally do, they created a
connection to which the others were to-
tally unaccustomed, and which simply
bereft them of life. / did not find it out
until it was too late, for a row that may
convulse an oyster will not cause
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SACRAMENTO, Feb. 23-There is neither
Demosthenes nor a Webster in the Legis-
lature None of the orators rise to the
rank OF one of the great speakers of the
world, but there are number in either
house who can make a good address, and
can support their arguments in good
English and forcibly. The wranglers bv
common consent, are left to the Assembly.
The popular house always has the more
heated debates. Brusie is the political
Speaker OF the Assembly. Phelps, though
a trihe ponderous at times, makes the
weightier argument. In the Senate the
honors lie between Ford and MCGOWAN.
Ford has a reader flow of language, Nc
Gowsn is perhaps the quicker in debate.
If the unwieldy Republicans had been
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S. C. Smith of Bakersfield is logical
talker. He represents the counties of Kern
and San Luis 0bispo in the Senate. He is
not a frequent talker, but when he does
speak has something to say, and on more
than one occasion has astonished the legal
members by display of ability to combat
intricate technical points raised against
the constitutionality of bill as the favor
lite way of defeating it.
Senator Smith is short man with a
hght-brown mustache. He speaks from
his desk, does not pace or prance about the
aisles, but when deeply interested in a
proposition has the habit of turning
squarely around in his place and facing
the members to the rear, as if those in
front did not need to be convinced
This is his first session, and during the
early weeks of the Senate he had little to
say. This diffidence has gradually worn
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utterances impelled by the imperative ring
There is never any doubt as to what the
San Mateo advocate of retrenchment
means. His arguments come with sledge-
hammer directness, couched in strong,
simple English that adds materially to the
charm OF the delivery. He never becomes
heated. His voice rises and becomes reso-
nant as he wins the attention of the House
a passionate advocate. 1t is rather that of
ceiear-thinking, disinterested philosopher
who knows and wishes to impress others
with the truths he has attained for him
self.
Judge Spencer is more the advocate,
earnest in stating his case to his hearers
His strong, thoughtful face, crowned with
the snowy hair of long years of battling
with the world, attracts his audience. His
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FIVE DAYS MORE.
After March list the $50 Rate fOP
Curing Rupture Will Be
Withdrawn.

DR.. C. z. Ellis treatment of Rupture is appli-
cable to either sex and cures without any de-
tention from business. He is not engaged in
selling trusses, but personally treats and cures
all cases undertaken. On and after March 1
the $50 rate viii be discontinued
To WHOM IT NAY CoNCERN-After twenty-five
years search L have found d physician
who can cure rupture For twenty-five
years 1 nave suffered as only a badly
ruptured person can suffer, and many
times my rupture strangulated making
it necessary to call physicians for relief [ tried
many kinds of trusses, but could not find one
that would hold my rupture. Seeing DR.. C. 2.
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unpopularity. When matter of an ap-
preparation or a bill introduced by Senator
MCGOWAN is considered, he becomes un-
pleasantly obtrusive. The Interruptions
which he then insists upon interfering
in the debate are seldom logical, and when
they are they usually lose force by their
evident animosity. At other times his
speeches are decidedly interesting. His
voice is fairly good and he knows very
well how to impress point upon his au-
ditOrs.
There are number of other orators on
both sides who indulge in the widest
flights Of imagery and the most amusing
bits OF pleasantly. Unfortunately they
are all performed mentally, the only indi-
cation of an existence of a desire to inter-
est the House being particularly vocifer-
Gus shouts of ''aye" or "no," as the case
may be, whenever the roll is called
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and holding arms and hands in same posi-
ton push with all your strength for the
same time. Again reverse and pull, and
so on forty times-if you can do it so long
and you will soon see how all the arm
and chest muscles begin TO ache.
Fourth-He fat on the floor on your
stomach and, keeping the body rigid, push
yourself up with the arms as far as posi-
bic. OF course, nothing must touch the
floor but the palms of your hands and your
toes. Do this twenty times = Harper S
Young PeODle
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Art in Bosnia and Herzegovin..

1t was the utilization OF the Spanish
Jews who brought to Bosnia and Here
govina the art of damasquinage; it is the
Persian contact, felt across Eastern Rou-
melia even in this part of the Balkans.
which has introduced into Bosnia the art
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" Catacombso in Nudes Library.

Here are thousands and tens of thou
sands of volumes, whose aggregate weight,
albeit that they are "light" literature,
must amount to many tons. Nearly all
we see in these ''catacombs' are novels,
the majority of which have had their day.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-07
RAILROAD NOTES,

The Lehigh Valley has issued a
pocket guide showing the stations, pop
ulations of town. hotel. proprietors and
rates thereof along its line
General Manager Bradbury. of the
Lake Erie and Western, has been elect
ed vice-president of the Cleveland.
Akron and Columbus. a road which has
recently come under Brice control
a banquet will be rendered General
Passenger Agent George De Haven, of
the Chicago and West Michigan rail-
road, by the citizens of Grand Rapids
on the evening of Oct 10 as an express
sion of their appreciation of his re-
turn to his old position.
The banner run ever made on the
Pottsville division of the Lehigh Valley
railroad. from Lizard Creek Junction
to Spring Garden junction. was made
yesterday by engine No. "a. In charge of
Engineer Kleckner Fireman Frederick
and Conductor Reed. The distance
covered was thirty-three miles I'm twen-
ty-seven minutes.
1t Is rumored that the Plttsburg. Vir-
ginia and Charleston Railroad COM
pany contemplates an extension of its
line a distance of 23O miles from
Brownsville. Pa, to Lynchburg. Va. The
construction Of the new road will cost
about $3,000.000. 1t will be trunk line
and will give Plttsburg q long-needed
direct route to the south, besides open-
Ing up much valuable mineral land.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-07
HAIL. STE AO.

Mrs. II. L. Lake, of North Easton,
Mass. who has been the guest of her
daughter, Mrs. l.. w. Church, on Pine
street. has returned home.
Miss Ella Du Bois left on Thursday
for Washington, d. c., where she in
tends to spend the winter.
The frame work on the new Meth
odist church is nearly completed.
Miss George Capwell Is i'll.
Miss Minnie Kent, of Hickory Grove,
Is attending school here.
n. r. Mtchelrs house, on Fourth
street is receiving a coat of paint. NJ
o. Bradley, of New Milford, is doing
the work.
Mrs. \. NJ. Sliker is visiting relatives
at Hacketstown. N. j.
Rev. DR.. Taylor, of Binghamton, will
speak at the Gospel meeting in the
Railroad Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation hall on Sunday afternoon,
Oct. q.
The Susauehanna County Medical So
ciety will meet at Hopbottom on Tues
day.
l. NJ. Lathrop is building a workshop
on Chase avenue.
The receipts ut the chicken pie sup
per on Friday evening were about s22
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-07
RRiCE8URG.

The funeral OF Frances Lewis, which
occurred last Saturday. was largely at
tended The pall-bearers We're the
Misses Clara and Cedelia Barrett,
Mame Knapp and Alice Eley. and the
flower bearers. Polly Margetson and
Maud Williams. Rev. William Holder
ofliCLatsd. Iriterment was made In
Fctcsburg cemetery.
M1rlie Hawk, our genial and accom-
mcdating postal clerk, is on the sick
list
John Byron. of Ashley, visited friends
here on Saturday.
N was announced on Monday last
that Jchnson's shaft would start 10
pairing which was needed they were
unable to start They will begin opera
tions tomorrow.
Mss Maggie Cummings. of Carbon
dale. who has been the guest of Miss
Mary j. Riley for the past week, re-
turned home Saturday evening.
A crosEwalk on the corner of Main
street and Snyder avenue would be an
Improvement to the upper end of town.
Miss Mary Hughes and Edward
Owens ATTENDED the Indian show at
Olyphart on Saturday evening.
Charles Bowman visited friends in
Peckv.lle last evening.
The young boys of ST. Thomas con-
gregation organized cadet society
yesterday afternoon.
To-day will be a sporting day at the
Grove house. A grand sweepstakc
shooting match and handicap quot
match will be the attractions.
The employees of the Storrs colliery
received their monthly pay Saturday.
Messrs. Burke & Yerkie have placed
an electric light in front of their under
taking establishment on Main street
THIS light will be of much service to
the travelling public.
John Hawk andGeorge Munford were
visitors in Olyphant yesterday.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-07
BENSCOTER CANNOT SERVE.
Tho Membership Of tho City Board OF
Health Is still Incomplete.

ucuUn ~ >tiIi IucOmpIctc.
DR.. Benscoter. who was appointed as
a member of the board of health, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the resigna-
tion of DR.. G. Underwood. has an
nounced that he will not serve on the
board. giving as a reason that he has
not been a resident of the city suf-
ficient length of time to entitle him to
legally serve on the board.
This will necessitate the appointment
by Mayor Maloney of another doctor
to membership on the board. but 1t Is
doubtful If he shall find one willing to
serve. The mayor first appointed Ben
jamin Harding, C. Donnelly John JOr-
dan. DIR. James OTMalley and DR.. j. b.
MahOn. to constitute the board. Mr.
Donnelly refused to serve on account
of the attention he is compelled to give
to his other business and a faction of
the select council. which body has
power to confirm the mayors appoint
ments. for some reason refused to take
action on the appointments until Dr.
MahOn's name was Withdrawn. DR..
Mahon had not sought the appoint
ment. and was named by the mayor
only at the solicitation of the doctors
friends. and when he learned of the
unlooked-for. unexpected and unrea-
sonable opposition to his appointment.
he notified the mayor to withdraw his
name. The mayor then appointed
Thomas Craig and DR.. G. Underwood
to fill the vacancies. The latter gentle
man promptly declined for no cause
other than that he would not serve
because the council refused to confirm
DR.. Mahon. The board. however, meet
and organized.
Then came Mr.. Harding's open letter
to John Jordan, alderman. pointing out
his ineligibility, under the law. to men,
bership on the health board while
holding the office Of alderman, and a
few days later Mr.. Jordan resigned.
Next the board, as organized. was de-
clared to be illegal. Then the. mayor
appointed M. ]. Langan and DR.. Ben
scooter to the existing vacancies. The
board. as thus constituted, was to have
met Saturday evening at the Town hall
for the purpose of re-organizing. when
DR.. Benscoter refused to accept. Of
fering as a reason for doing so his
ineligIbility, as noted above, but 1t rs
generally suspected, indeed believed,
that the doctor, in declining the APP
pointment. was prompted solely by the
same feelings. professional etiquette,
that actuated DIR. Underwood in refus-
ing to act. and it Is doubtful If the
mayor will find doctor in the city
willing to act. under existing circum-
stances. The mayor, however, Is not
at all to blame.
Only three of the members, DR..
O'Malley, NJ. ]. Langan and Thomas
Craig. We're on hand Saturday night.
Mr.. Harding having had other impor-
tant matters to attend to. The meeting
called to be held. therefore. went by
default. and it may be some time yet
before the board is organized. as the
law requires that every one of the
five members shall be present at the
fret meeting