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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-01-01
Distribution OF Gifts.

Christmas tree exercises were held
last evening in the Washburn Street
Presbyterian church. An entertainment
preceded the distribution of gifts to the
members of the Sunday school. The
programme included Il song, "Gather
Them In No. 62, by the Bible school.
prayer by the pastor; concert recita-
tion, Sound over all Waters" by a
party of little girls; song, Merry, Merry
Christmas Bells" primary department;
recitation. while Shepherds Watched"
by Anna Phillips, Edna Dickson, Evana
Powell, Ethel Jones. Catherine Paine;
duet, selected, by Misses Anna Phillips,
and Margaret Phillips: recitation.
"Queer Scholars" by Marie Becker,
recitation. 'The Prince of Peace is
Born" by Wayne Skinner, Allen Bauer,
Sidney Rumbolt. Theodore Bauer,
Archie Williams, Wilbur Stevens: song,
"Oh, We Love the Merry, Merry Christ"
mas" primary department; recitation,
"Grandfather's Glasses" Marguerite
Powell; solo. II am the Little New
Year" Harold Miller: address, Rev. j.
p Moffatt: violin solo, Walter KIplc
piano accompaniment. Charles Daw-
son; recitation, Jamie" Miss Leila
Porter; song, America" No. 234, Bible
school. The officers of the SUNDAY
school are: Joseph A. Mears, superin-
tendent X. J.Williams, assistant super
intendent: +. A. Cruttenden, assistant
Superintendent
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-27
GOLD DISCOVERED IN NEW YORK.

Gold is reported to have been found
at Red House, near North Tonawanda,
New York 1t is also stated that a
ledge has been uncovered near North
Tonawanda which will assay ait least
eighty-five dollars to the ton. That
is a very much better assay than peo-
pie in the gold producing regions of the
west usually expect. But down in New
York just now there is need of a big
gold find to stem the silver tide which
is sweeping over this country. This
can be done if the farmers of the EN-
pire state can find any amount of gold
on their farms. 1t will give them an
abundance of money, for it is lack of
that which is taking them into the
silver camp so rapidly. They realize
that there is a scarcity of money, as
everyone else does. If this scarcity can
be supplanted with an abundance of
gold there will not be the same force
in the free silver argument that there
is now This big gold find at Red House
and near North Tonawanda must be
encouraged to the fullest extent if it is
10 perform Ull6 luINllCHS lOI WHICH II
was so opportunity discovered. Under
10 circumstances must it be allowed to
peter OUT" the honor of the country
is at stake just now and must be kept
at stake until after the November cleo
ton. After that it can take a rest. If
this great gold discovery shows signs
of .'petering out" and the farmers be-
come somewhat discouraged and lapse
into the silver heresy, the cause of
common honesty and sound money
would justify sailing the discoveries.
This should not be done to deceive any
one-heaven suppress the thought that
any gold man would be capable of de
ceit in any form!-but merely to pre-
serve the mines. We make this sug-
gestion because we know there are
good people in the world who stoutly
maintain that the end justifies the
means
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-27
Military Editors Plight.

There are no real wars nowadays
sighed the military editor, according to
the Buffalo Express. 1.-The world is
governed by compromises. Rival ma
tons or rival politicians play scrap for
day or two and then, just as the row
is growing interesting, some peace-maker
comes along and the affair drops out of
the newspapers. 1t looks as if man no
longer had sand in his craw. For in
stance, what nations nowadays would
carry ON a thirty years war;"
My son. replied the religious editor,
back you've been Fostering the managing
editor with applications to be sent to
Cuba or Homestead or China or some
other pace where there is glory to be
won and heavy expense bills to be run
up for the paper. Lately you have had
your bellicose young imagination fired by
hopes that the fight would eventually
require the intervention of the militia.
But even the war-cloud has blown over.
You imagine that you could escape the
daily routine by being sent to the front
somewhere. But let me tell you every
thing becomes work after a time. Sup
pose you were assigned to cover a
thirty years war 1t would not be
more than ten or fifteen years at the
outside before you would find that daily
grind as monotonous as city hall or real
estate and be begging the city editor to
assign you to an occasional strawberry
festival by way of variety. Go to, my
son! Even the life of the champagne
boomer is not all violets How he must
long for an excuse to drink beer, or,
better, still, not to drink at allr
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-27
E. E1.LERY ANDERSON DENIES.


Mr.. E. Ellery Anderson has gained
a very unenviable notoriety the past
two weeks through the very wide cir
culation given an interview with him
which appeared in New York paper
first, and which was extensively
copied in western papers. Now Mr..
Anderson comes out in denial of the
interview. He telegraphs from Bauff,
N. W. T., as follows:
1 am informed that a number of
western papers have copied an erron-
eous interview alleged to have been
held with me, in which 1 am made
to use the expression Shoot them
down. as applied to the advocates
of the free coinage of silver. 1 have
just sent the following to the editor
of the Denver Republican, and l beg
you to cause same to be inserted in
dispatches of your association:
| have just been informed that in
your issue of the 18th you attribute to
me the use of the expression, Upon
provocation you can shoot them down"
referring to advocates of free silver.
l made use of no such language, and
the error which appeared in the New
York World was corrected in the issue
of the following day.
1 have a deep sympathy with the
west and south, based upon convic-
ton that the distribution of the pro-
duct of labor in this country does not
award a just share to those sections.
I oppose the free coinage of silver
because. in my judgment, it will in
tensify the burdens of the west and
south instead of relieving them.
1 am a firm believer in the rule of the
majority, and if free coinage shall re-
ceive the endorsement of the people
at the coming election, J. believe that
its advocates should have the support
of the whole people in carrying into
effect laws which will give expression
to their views.
The language attributed to me would
be simply ludicrous if it had not been
referred to as a serious expression of
my opinion.
We are glad he makes the denial, for
it is not pleasant to think that any
man would hold the sentiments to-
wards the silver or other men that
were attributed to him. Discussion of
the silver question is earnest enough
without giving expression to any such
sentiments as were attributed to Mr..
Anderson. His willingness to bow to
the will of the majority, believing
that it has the right to rule, does him
credit
1t is no more than right that his
denial should be given as much pub
Lefty as was the interview attributed
to him
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-27
IMPORTANCE OF CONGRESSIONAL
ELECTIONS.

The gold men are so little certain
that Mckinley will be elected that
tremendous efforts are to be made by
them to secure the nomination of none
but sound money men for congress.
They realize that with the house con-
stituted as now there would be no
chance whatever to pass a free coin
age BILL and they will do all in their
power to keep the house as it is so
far as the sound money sentiment
is concerned. They are right II
the silver men shall elect Mr.. Bryan
and retain control of the senate they
would still be powerless to enact a
free coinage law if they did not control
the house. This fact makes the cleo
ton of silver congressman of equal
Importance with the election of a sill
that this fact be kept in mind in Utah
as well as elsewhere. The people Of
Utah have seen one of their senators
vote against free silver in order that a
so-called revenue measure might take
precedence. It is not certain that a
representative who might be elected
on Mckinley ticket would not do
the same thing. The people of this
state may set it down that the Repub-
lican party lash will be cracked in the
coming congress as it was never
cracked before. Let them bear this
in mind. If they attempt to support
silver on the electoral ticket and the
ticket that stands for anti-silver To-
cally, they will find that they will be
captured by the anti-siIver forces.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-27

Ex-Congressman William Everett, of
Massachusetts, favors a third ticket,
Having determined that this should be,
he has now set about finding candi-
date. To the question: Who is the
MANI" he says no satisfactory an
swer has yet been given. Then he
proceeds thus: Governor Russell has
been taken from US. To President
Cleveland there are serious objections.
A western man, strongly in sympathy
with the present administration, seems
called for. Could we have better
choice than the Hon. J. Sterling Nor
ton of Nebraska, the secretary of ag-
riculture? He is absolutely sound on
the money question and the tariff; he
is in favor of rigid economy; he is
pronounced civil service reformer; he
knows the western country thorough
ly, while at the same time he has kept
his eyes and' ears open to the needs
of every other part of the Union.
Nominate Morton with some eastern
candidate for vice-president, and defy
Bryan and Sewall" We believe that
Secretary Morton does know the
western country pretty thoroughly,
and that the consequence is he knows
he would not have a ghost of show
as a candidate
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-27
COSTA RIoAN CURRENCY.

The little republic of Costa Rica is
about to reform her currency. The in
dications are that she win adopt the
gold standing. though this is not
certain. 1t is quite possible that very
much will be attempted to be made of
this fact by the opponents of free coin
age in this country. The Costa Rican
government has recently promulgated
a decree that silver coins shall be re-
tired for the purpose of reforming the
currency. The Costa Rican consul at
Philadelphia. Mr.. Gustavo Niederlein,
sends translation of the decree to the
Times of that city. AS it will probably
play quite a prominent part in the dis
cussions on the money question in this
campaign we give it in full:
The constitutional congress of the
republic of Costa Rica, considering it
convenient for the economical interests
of the country to avoid as much as
possible the augmentation of silver
coins, which for reason of its dement's
and constant fluctuations constitute a
circulating medium of uncertain value,
and which also would make it difficult
in case of its Introduction into The re-
public and establishment by legal
course, to adopt other money of better
conditions and to establish a new mon
etary system on a more solid basis, at
the initiative of the executive power,
DEGREES:
1. In the meantime, until new
money system be established in the re-
public, the minting Of national silver
money is prohibited.
2. There are declared out of legal
course in this country adj foreign sill
yer coins, irrespective of what weight
and alloy they may be.
8. All foreign silver coins in actual
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-27

clrcuiatlOn have to be presented to the
general administrations of revenues
during the thirty days following the
date of this decree in order to exchange
them into national money in conform
ity with the legal tender value under
which they are circulating. After this
period all coins which might be pre-
scented for exchange will be considered
as being comprised in the contents of
the preceding article.
f. After the date Of today the public
administration of revenues will abstain
from receiving foreign silver money in
payment of duties or for any other pay
ment to the public treasury.
s. During the thirty days fixed by
article 5, tine Introduction of foreign sill
Yer money into the republic is prohibit
ed, and all coins which nay be present
ed in the ports for introduction shall
be reshipped or shall remain in deposit
in the respective custom house, at the
option of the importer.
g. The foreign silver money which, in
accordance with article 8, will be pre-
scented for exchange for national
money shall be exported and sold in
foreign countries on account of the
public treasury.
{. The present law reforms the x,To-
visions of the articles 4S6 and 4S9 of the
fiscal code and abrogates all others IN
consistent with them.
s. This decree begins to be effective
upon its publication
Given at the hal1 of congress, nation
al palace, San Jose. on July 8, 1896, and
executed on the same day by the presI-
dent RAFAEL INGLESIAS.
It is not a matter of very much i'm
portance what measures Costa Rica
takes regarding her currency. In 1895
the paper in circulation was 100000
pesos, while the silver in circulation was
100000 pesos. The silver peso is of
the value of a dollar; the paper peso is
of the value of forty cents. The reve-
Tue and expenditure for the fiscal year,
1S94-1S95, were respectively 6,021,615 pc
SOS and 6,S24,243 pesos. The foreign
debt of the country amounts to about
f2, 100000, at per cent. The internal
debt in 1898 amounted to 2,75O,1O0 pesos.
All this shows that the reform of Costa
Rica's currency will cause no commo-
ton in the world, no matter what it is;
especially is this country not liable to
be affected by it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-27
THE SENTIMENT FOR BRYAN AND
SEW ALL.

The Boston Herald is surprised to
find the concession made, both in
sound money Democratic and in Re
publican headquarters, that, if the
presidential election were held today
Bryan and Sewall would be elected;
and it is unable to agree with such a
view 1t thinks the published facts
are far from sustaining it. 1t says
these facts are that something like a
hundred Democratic newspapers de-
cline to support that ticket, and that
among these are nearly the entire
German Democratic press of the coun-
try, the German element being es-
pecially powerful in those states which
must elect Bryan and Sewall, if they
are elected at all. Against all this, it
says, there are only panicky rumors
of great changes going on in the west
the other way. It finds few of them
specifically supported by instances
cited in the newspapers of that side.
"It is easy to make claims of this
kind" says the Herald, but more
difficult to materiahze them with proof.
much Importance when they are &C
copied as formidable without this tes-
timony behind them"
Our own opinion is that the Herald
wholly fails to realize what a wave of
silver sentiment is sweeping over the
country. We believe that Bryan and
Sewall will be elected in November,
but if the election were to be held
any time in August we are quite posi-
tive that they would be. We are so
positive because of the great change
in public sentiment that has taken
place in the past two months. Before
the Chicago convention met it was
impossible to convince people that the
silver sentiment in the Democratic
party was anything al all like what it
was. The sound money Democrats
who went to that convention did not
realize the hold that the free silver
idea had taken of the great masses of
the party. In the interview which Mr.
w. c. Whitney gave out the other day
he showed that he now fully realizes
the strength of the free silver move
ment. The force of a political move
ment cannot always be proven or dis
proven by statistics or affidavits. The
Boston Herald thinks the evidence
is lacking to prove that great
changes of sentiment on the
silver question are going on. If
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-27
ENGLISH PREJUDICE AGAINST
ENGLISH GOODS.

Fashions hold upon people is some
thing almost inexplicable, and there
are no people who are not subject to
it. Princess Maud, who was married
last week, had her wedding gowns
made OF English fabrics, because, no
doubt, of the complaints of British
merchants as to the preference of
English women for French and other
European goods over the productions
of their own looms. The English goods
are said to be not only of undoubted
superiority as to quality but as to
design. 1t has recently been discovered
that to overcome English prejudice
against English goods the English
merchants have been exporting them
TO France and then importing them
as French goods. AS French goods
they have sold readily and have been
extremely popular. 1t is related as a
fact that one of the prominent manu-
facturers of Bradford had long been
trying in vain to induce his wife to
have q suit made of his own goods,
but without success. Her dress goods
must be of French make; none others
would do At last his wife inviting
ly complied with his request. Recent
ly she appeared fresh from the hands
of her London dressmaker handsomely
gowned in a fabric made by himself,
but sold in London as a French
NOVELTY
The same prejudice exists in Amer
lea against American made goods that
does in England against English made
goods. How absurd it is; yet it is
fashions decree and must stand.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-27
TALES OF THE DAY.
She Meant Well.

A well-meaning young woman was
covered with confusion in a cable car
the other day.
She had read of the pretty little trick
THAT gentleman acquaintance of mine
loves to practice upon poor children
that of taking penny out of the child s
hair and presenting it to the amazed
yongster-and she thought she saw an
excellent opportunity
a shabbily dressed, shoeless little girl
sat next to her. holding the hand of her
mother, who was even shabbier and
dirtier than the child.
The lady took nickel from her pocket
book, "palmed' it and then said as she
seized one of the little girls struggling
locks:
Mercy on me! What have you got in
your hair?'
The child burst out crying and the
mother jerked her fiercely toward her.
Nothing Gle mat wild her hair!" Kissed
the matron. She was an Italian and her
eyes blazed with anger. Her hair all
righta. / con1ba dis morn. You minda
your own biz
The philanthropist paled.
You don't understand me, madam, .
she gasped. ut was little trick Of
mine
No wanta any tricka'
to take this coin out of her hair
and give it to her. Here, little girl
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-27

At Saltair yesterday afternoon a
seagull alighted on the promenade
(Which as all know is planked, the
whole pavilion being half a mile out in
the lake. where the band was playing.
1t ran around and soon attracted a
large crowd. 1t became alarmed and
began running, and tried to rise in
fight but was unable to. 1t was caught
by a gentleman who stroked it al
though it snapped at him viciously He
held it captive but minute or SO, ex-
hibiting it to the crowd. Then he adj
vanced to the railing and released it,
when it flew away as strong of wing
as any of the gulls sailing about. 1t
was not wounded or exhausted from
long flight, yet it could not rise in
fight from that planked promenade.
Can any of our local ornithologists ex-
plain why it could not?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-27
AIIi-ntnr Sense.

DO you know" said Colonel Ben Car
son, leaning back in his chair, chat
alligators are the most affectionate crea-
lures on earth? It's a fact. And the
sc; sense they have! They're wonders.
do [ know? Haven't 1 educated EN-?
Amt there an alligator 10 years old in
DeS Ailemand Bayou that would work
his tail to the bone for me if 1 asked him
to? Say-you make me tired. What are
you laughing at? You get a gallon of
molasses and a long-necked bottle and
III show you how to tame alligators
It's the easiest thing on earth. They're
so affectionate.
"On June %. 1885 I went to Des Ale
mand Bayou fishing. A negro named
Baptiste Fortier had just caught an
alligator 100 years old. [ could tell by
the rings around him. You can't train a
young alligator. That's funny, amt it?
1 asked Baptiste to sell him to me. 1
paid him A.95, and Jim, that's the alli-
gators name. was mine. L put chain
around his neck. Then 1 got me a long
necked bottle, filled it with molasses, and
walked up to him. He opened his jaws
to nab me. That was my chance. /
showed the neck of the bottle in his
mouth, just back of his ears. where an
alligator has no teeth. tilted the bottle
up. Jim tasted the nolasses and began
wagging his tail. He broke Baptiste's
leg. but that was an accident. He was
as gentle as 8. setter dog from the minute
he tasted the molasses. 1 taught him a
lot of pretty tricks-how to catch flies,
how to stand on his tail, how to chew
tobacco. Finally 1 harnessed him to a
boat. He looked around at me to see
what I wanted. 1 reached over the side
of the boat and pushed him little. Then
he understood. Off he went When /
pulled On the rope I had around his
neck he was nonplussed for a minute,
but he soon caught on, and now when
1 go to Des Allemands never have to
. hire anybody to paddle my canoe. Jim
attends to carrying me anywhere 1 want
to go.
Say, do you know Jim is as glad to see
me whenever 1 pass that way as if he
was a relative of mine What's that? OF
course it's the truth. Ask Baptiste. He
takes care of Jim for me while 1 am in
New Orleans. New Orleans Times
Democrat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-27
An Addition to His Family.

A widow with nine children, all girls,
was a steerage passenger on the Spaarn-
dam, which arrived Sunday from Rotter-
dam. She was examined by the i'm
migration officials and said that she was
Mrs. Crescentia Hartmann. While she
was we'll provided with money, the ques-
ton of her possibly becoming a public
charge, incumbered as she was with SO
many little ones-ranging in years from
three TO fourteen-might have arisen had
she not announced that she was to be
met by her brother-in-law, Leonhardt
Hartmann, a wealthy contractor of
Dubuque, Iowa.
Mr. Hartmann arrived at Ellis Island
yesterday. He looked the little frauleins
over and then said:
There should be two more to even up
the score for have eleven boys at
home of my own
He concluded that he ought to be salts
fed with score, and all hands left the
island.
Mr.. Hartmann is a. widower He is
also very fond of children.-New York
Times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-27
IF

If were little Sweet-Pea,
With my wings on, seems to me,
L never would wait
Out there so late
For someone to gather me;
But soon as the day was through,
And the stars swan in the blue
l would give a shake
OF my wings and I'd take
All my brothers and sisters too,
And up and away I'd fly,
Oh, straight and swift and high,
And I'd go-I think I'd go
Where the lovely star-worlds grow,
In rows ard squares,
And rings and pairs;
Al PINK and purple and snow,
Wed throng the aisles of the sky,
My million of mates and 1!
And the star-folk would gaze
In great amaze
AS we'd float and futter by;
And they'd watch to see us alight
In clouds of crimson and white
In fiocks of purple and pink
We would light on a star, think;
Inc yelloWeSt one
And the folk would all run,
And bring up star dew to drink.
And they'd all begin to cry,
Nov bow? and Whore? and Why?
And Whittier? and Who?
and What are you?
In way to make one sigh;
And they'd ask all they'd meet
What made the sky so sweet?
But we never would tell our name
TIL the little star-cbildren came
With their Abs! and Obs!
For | suppose
They're in stars and earth the same.
Then each one we would answer clear,
Why we are Earth-fiowers, dear!
We are just Sweet-Peas,
All these-and thesei
And were come to visit here;
And the earth looks so far and so bla
perhaps we will never go back
Cara Waterman Bronson in the Bos
Evening Transcript.