davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02
UNTIMEIY.

From the Chicago Tribune.
"The legitimate DRAMA" the young wo-
man with the broad, intellectual brow
was saying, affords a twofold pleasure
--anticipativc and retrospeCtive-apar
from the enjoyment one derives from it
in it's actualty 1t leaves no unpleasant
taste. 1t panders to no morbid appetite
for the sensational. 1t meets one on the
upper plane of Cnes mind, so to speak,
and intellect communes with intellect.
Have you never noticed how tho fancy
sometimes leaps to meet the Imspokeu
thOught--hoW there seems to be a FREQ
play Of the imagination in which words
have no part--in which forms OF speech
are vehicles far too clumsy to convey the
ethereal idea? These people about us are
here obviously as martyrs to a conviC-
ton that their position in society, it may
be, or their regard for cOnsistenCy--that
calling yet intangible bond that constrains
one to follow a line Of conduct wholly
at variance with ones inclinations-bids
them come. No thought of purely intel
lectual enjoyment mirrors itself in their
stolid CountenanCes. Nothing on the
spiritual side of their natures responds to
the invitation of the hour. 1t does not
occur to them to ask themselves"
MADAM, will you please remove your
hat?'
1t was the voice Of the usher, a tall
pimply-faCed youth with a large Adams 2
apple in his throat, a hesitating, tcnta-
tive, apologize mustache, and a bad eye.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02
Raise the Standard of Admission.

We have received from Prescott f.
Hall. secretary of the Immigration
Restriction League of Boston, the fol-
lowing communication, which we in
dorsc unreservedly;
The immigration restriction bill
passed by both houses of congress at
its last regular session, but vetoed by
President Cleveland, contained two
fundamental provisions: First. exclu-
sion of illiterates; second, a 'Corliss
amendment making it unlawful for
aliens, not intending to become citi-
zens. to work in the United States and
TO return home from time 10 time. The
two provisions are clearly not neces-
sarilY parts of the same bill. The one
seeks by a simple educational test to
raise the standards of immigrants,
making them more generally fit for cit
i2cnship in this republic The other is
aimed at certain Canadian workmen,
who have worked by day in this coun-
t'y, notably at Detroit. and returned
into Canada at night. and also az
Italians and other birds of passage as
the Worlljngmpn who enter this cOun-
try one or more times for temporary
residence, are called.
"Thcr" are special reasons why the
two provisions should be taken up sep
arately hy the next congress. The eX-
odus Of our own citizens to the Kion-
dixie, and across the Northwes tern bor-
der line intending to soiourn tempor-
arily, makes legislation calculated to
prevent the temporary sojourn of Cam
adams in this country an unwise and
unnecessary complication. There are
also other questions arising between
the United States and Canada at the
present time, such as fisheries, seals,
reciprocity and others. which may
make it CXpedient to postpone Cunsid-
Grafton of the Corliss amendment. or
at least to embody it in a separate bill.
II this is done, each measure can bc
considered, voted ON, and signed,
without having its fate necessarily de-
termined by the fate Of the other
The educational test stands out now
as an urgent necessity; for good gov
ernment in this country rests upon in
telligence; and the prosperity of work
ing people here depends uDon the
standards of living among the new
corners, with whom they are brought
into competition. 1t is inappropriate
To measure this question in terms of
production 1t is a question of human
character and, In the great effort for
government undertaken by the
people of this country, it is altogether
unfortunate that foreigners should be
introduced into the land who do not un-
derstand our institutions and who are
applicants for work at wages satisfac-
tory perhaps TO employers but which
are grave menace To other workmen
who have hoped to procure more Of the
d7ccncics Of life. Thnt immigrants in
TO this country Of free institutions shall
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02
Don't Be HastN.

I'm some matters it is undoubtedly
wise to make haste slowly. Currency
rrtorn is an instance in point.
II is perfectly true that our present
currency. considered theoretically, is
not entitled to a grade Of 100 per cent.
That there should be in concurrent
and interchangeable circulation three
kinds of government paper money in
addition to bank note currency seems
to theorists an unnecessary confusion
and practically it makes the United
States treasury department exert a
larger influence upon the business OF
the country than it should be permit
to WELD. however wisely. In n
government like our own it clearly is
not desirable that the daily adjustment
,f credits and the hourly status of the
intangiblo thing known as business
confidence" should doucnd to markt d
degree upon the amount of stored sold
in the federal vaults at Washington
or uppn the success or lack of success
with which the federal officials are
making both ends meet
At the same time, our present cur
rrncy is not 81 bad as alalmistS assert.
1t can be endured, and no man needs
to los" Il penny by reason of it, until
there is substantial agreement among
experts concerning the exact changes
necessary to put it into better form. If
the gov rnmrnt will trim its expenses
and increase it's income until the two
items are equal, the sOundness of its
currency will not be called in question
so long as there is in Office at Wash
inCton an administration sOcmnly
pledged to keep dollar equal with dol
lar in all its various forms. The dis
advantage to b. feared in hasty
change is that it may not prove to be
n change for the better but rather fol
the worse. Until the currency reform
CrS have made sure that they are right
they had better not be permitted to &c
..head.
McanWhile, the purpUscd recommend
alton of the resident that congress
empower the secretary of the treasur!
not to reissue Cancelled greenbacks CX,
in gold will cut aSunder the much dis
cUssed endless chain" and rest the
whole subject on basis of ,unassail
able safety pending better under.
standing of additional propositions fol
currency reform.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02
SCRANTON, DECEMBER >, 1897

The remarks directed by the Phila-
dclphia Press to senator william VI.
Andrcws. and elsewhere reprinted. are
characterized by such frankness that
Il seems reasonable to assume the Press
knows what it is talking about. Per-
haps it will yet deem it fair to let its
readers into the secret limitations
have reached Scranton that one plan OF
campaign favored 10y the senator from
Crawford county to advance his favor
cd candidate is to pull all the 9TH
cr candidates down. So far, however,
this has come in the form Of intimatlon
rather than proof. Is Mr. Andrews lied
about or does he deserve the drubbinE
which the Press administers TO him?
The public ought to know.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02

be able to read and write, is a matter
of universal Importance to the people
of this country. 1t would be unfortu-
nate If this restriction should be so
linked with one Of comparatively local
application, however good it may seem
in itself to many persons, that the edu-
cational test should again fail to be-
come the law of the land"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02
TOO MANY MURDERS.
From the Philadelphia Times.

From the Philadelphia Times.
There is not a single state nor territory
in the Union in which there is not IL
trial for murder pending. In the state of
Kentucky there are forty-seven cases con-
Cerning nirety-one prisoners. for murder
awaiting trial. In Virginia there are at
least twenty-three charges of murder.
In the first state only seven of the men
in Jail to be tried for the capital offens9
of murder are negroes, in Virginia there
are eight. North Carolina has twenty
cases or more, &c orgia has twenty-seven,
Louisiana a score, Texas thirty-two or
thirty-three, Missouri twenty-four, llli-
nois sixteen, Indiana seven, Michigan
three, Ohio eight, Pennsylvania twenty
six, New York forty-two Connecticut,
Rhode Island and Vermont one, New
HAMPSHIRE has Just settled one of her
three by a sentence of thirty years i'm
posed upon a crezed assassin. California
has twenty-seven cases on her docket
and altogether there are go charges of
murder on the criminal dockcts of the
various states and territories.
What an awful showing this is! 1t be,
comes the more significant as it is OBJ
served that there is no dominating cause
of these crimes, unless it be that in the
large cities they are more frequently con-
ne1ted with robbery Love, revenge,
madness, pure thirst of shedding blood
gain, jealousy, political wranSles, family
feuds and drunken brawls are few OF
the sources from which the homicidal
acts have origin. Some seem not to have
even the plea of madness, to which sc
many of the causeess crimes are re-
ferred. 1t is a mooted point whether lega
punishment has any deterrent effect upor
crime, but no one can not the terribly
suggestive figures given above without
an earnest wish that punishment might
have q real teSt.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02

The Washington Post has sent
special representative 20 Cuba to study
the operation of the autonomy plan
After a twcnty-four hour sojourn in a
Havana hotel among Spanish officials
and Cuban autonomists, he pronounces
the Sagasta overture a complete sue
cess. 1t will be wise to await news
frem Garcia and Gomez before being
too Sure Of this.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02

democratic America is a direct insult
to every hard-up monarchy in Chris
tendon, 1t is not to be wondered at
If they squrm. To mediate injury and
to innict it are different things. The
peril to America is not in Europe's
strength; it will be almost wholly in
our unprcparedness. Remedy that and
the European democracy-haters can so
lnn
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02

national legislature to provide the molls
of breaking the operation Of the endleAs
chain, which may at any time involve the
government and the finances of the coun-
try In difficulty, even If 1t is not prepared
to 20 beyond this, and revise the whole
system.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02


4 child born on this day will be of the
opinion that it is jbout time that the
Nay Aug chief of police mad his crop Cf
aCOrns harVt sted.
The fact that some of the city saloons
were provided with an extra set of heavy
curtains on Sunday indicates that the
Sababth obs ervanCe movement is already
being felt.
Tho lumber business is very much cut
this year. especially around the saw mills.
Democracy seems to be getting it in the
neck all around. Now a plan is on foot
to limit the sll ply of Kentucky whisky.
If this annexation fever keeps up we
shall be tempted to annex Wilkes-Barre.
There is a question about the benefits
Of real estate booms thGt result in too
many "paper.Shell" houses.
Breakfast Chat.
Professor-Lct me go step further
than Darwin: let me assert that we are
but a higher order of vegetation
Johnny GnterrUpting the debate)-Pa
will agree with you in that. He said yes
terday that your nose looked like "A
straw berry.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02

Representative Cannon OF Illinois
thinks that congress should ignore
Cuba altogether. That is what Cam
mons constituents are moro likely to
do to him next summer.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02

The Lancaster New Era is unknd
enough to insnuate that Senator Kauff-
man is a prevaricator. O no, he is
merely reformer.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02

Germany, it seems, has thought bet
ter ana will not court conclusions With
Uncle SAM 1t Is welt.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02

When Senator wellington realizes a
fortune from his libel suits he had bet
ter salt it down and retire from poll
tics
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02

1t is a characteristic of the present
era of German diplomacy that it
cvinccs no such precipitate eagernese
to jump on a nation of Gcrmany's
size
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02

Mayor quincy, of Boston, has been
renominated and the John l.. Sullivan
boom Is apparently like its subject,
among the has beens.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02

States in the arts of peace she might
try the experiment of wasting less
money and energy on fruitless prep
aratiOns for war.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02

Governor Pingree is willing at least
to pave the streets of his country with
good intentions.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02
TOLD BY The STARS.
Daily Horoscope Dawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune AstrolOger.

strolabc Cast: i.oi a. m, for Thursday,
December >. 1897
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-02

Those who pursue that kind of cam
paign are planning party defeat Abuse
and calumnation will not hurt those they
are aimed it, but they will recol upon
those in whose behalf they are employed.
Such methods ere destructive of party
harmony; they prepare the way for party
division and party defeat.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-20
The Release of Laborde.

The rumor of SPANS purpose to set
free the crew Of the Competitor has be-
come n reality. Capt. LABoRDE and his
men lave left Cabafa Fortress, where they
were so long confined, and, having taken
passage for New York, will be able to eat
their Thanksgiving dinner in a free land.
1t has taken Spain nearly nineteen
months to make this disposition of the
prisoners, for the American schooner was
captured as long ago as April %, 1896.
Doubtless, little faith was put by the
Spaniards in Capt. LABoRDE's assertion
that he had simply taken aboard at Key
West, as passengers for another point in
Florida, two dozen men, who seized the
ship, and, having doubled their numbers at
Cape Sable, forced him to land them in
Cuba. This proceeding was probably re-
garded as a subterfuGe, but 1t was not easy
for Spain to intlct what she considered an
adequate punishment on the Captain and
crew, since they were not taken with arms
In hand, and, accordingly, were entitled, as
our Government insisted, to an ordinary
civil trial, in place of the court-martial
proceedings that had sentenced them to
death for piracy and rebellion.
Spain has concluded that it Is worth
more to her to release these prisoners be,
fore the meeting of Congress than to make
another attempt to punish them. But, in
fact, they have already been severely pun
ished, il it be true that they were imposed
upon, and had no ground to suspect the de-
sign of their passengers.
One other fact worth noting about the
Competitor is that she is the only blockade
runner yet captured by the Spaniards.
They are supposed to have n Gordon of gun
boats and launches about Cuba, and yet, of
all the vessels carrying arms or men to
the island from the United States In the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-20

have copied he win see some startling
false statements. He will observe. frat.
that the par value of the bonds said TO
have been sold for redemption purposes Ia
1857, 800, 900. whereas the total amount
of the g~reenbacks for the redemption Of
which these bonds are said to have been
issued is but $346, OSLO According to
MIR. EcKELs. therefore, 10000 900 more
bonds have had to be sold to maintain a
gold reserve for the greenbacks than the
total amount OF the greenbacks themselves.
In fact, the bonds, with the premiums paid
upon them, produced nearly $4OO. o 900
in gold, and II, as Mr.. EcKEIs assumes.
they were sold for redemption purposes
exclusively, then this $500, 900, 900 should
be In the Treasury either in gold or in re.
deemed g~reenbacks, which Is notoriously
not so. The truth Is, that all the bonds
Mr.. EcKELs mentions, except the first $e5.
800, 900, were sold to meet dehciences in
the revenue, and the redemption of the
greenbacks was only a pretext and not the
cause for their issue.
Continuing his examination, Mr.. FAN.
CHER will find that, while Mr.. EcKEIs
credits the g~reenbncks with interest only
up to July 1, 1907, he charges against
them interest on $182, DOC, 900 of bonds at
4 per cent. up to Feb. 1, 1925. Here Is
10 years interest at 4 per cent. on
$162, 600, 900, OIL SIG, Gao, 900, which
must be deducted from the computed bal.
ance against the greenbacks. II, instead of
deducting this amount, we credit the whole
issue Of greenbacks with 10 years interest
at 4 per cent, the charge to their debit
will be reduced by $249,81O,331, and there
will be q balance to their credit, on Mr..
EcKELs's assumptions, of $35, 566, 100.
Correcting Mr.. EcKELs's statement, as it
should be corrected, we have this result
Saving of interest on s34e. os1. o1o at
4 per cent. from Jan. /, 1879, to
July /. 1007............... ........... $685., Ell e,s4O
Interest paid for the same period on
eos, 500, 900 bonds .............. 1850 900
-------
Not saving In 2sl years ........... e34T :, 48o, $40
We trust that Mr.. FANcHER will, after
due examination of the matter, recall his
denunciation of the greenbacks as a "can.
Ger" on the body polite, n acknowledge
that, apart from their other merits. as
affording a safe, convenient, and univer.
sally acceptable form of money, they yield
a large profit to the Treasury.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-20

aoIdier of the Cross, and no dangers could
dissunde him from them, though for many
wears he had been physically feeble, living
always on the brink Of death, as he be-
Iieved. and never had been q man Of rugged
health. No place was too high and none
was too low for him to enter 1t as a min
lister of religion, and, no matter how vile
the surroundings, he never drew back with
dread of smirchinR his clerical robes or
furnishing his spotless character n repu-
tation. In the discharge Of his duty he
was absolutely fearless Of the %contaglon Of
disease or Of moral corruption.
Hence IL was that DIR. HoUGHToN became
noted az a spiritual confessor. 1t was said
of hin by one of the ritualist clergymen of
the Episcopal Church that there was no
priest in town who heard more confess
siops than he, and that, when the revelation
was peculiarly narrowing, and the moral
disease seemed most hopeless, it was the
custom for E~piscopalian confessors to turn
It over to DR.. HoUGHToN as the spiritual
physician. He never fiinched, and no sim
ner ever passed beyond the reach of his char
ity and his affectionate solicitude. The
machinery of b~enevolence and philanthropy
has become complicated and extensive In
New York parishes of his Church, more
especially during the episcopate of Bishop
POTTER, and in some Of them it Is far more
impressive In its magnitude; but nowhere
was its efficiency 30 great as was that Of the
simple machinery impelled by the charity
and sense of duty Of DR.. HouGHToN.
DIR. HoUGHToN was a mar Of great refine
ment of appearance and gentleness OF be-
havior. No one could have seen him with
out detecting at a glance the elevation of
his character. Even II he had not worn
the clerical garb he would have been recog-
nized everywhere as q man Of holy life. 1t
Is no wonder hat he could enter the vilest
and the most turbulent abodes in the pur.
suit of his ministry, for he was as safe
from harm as would have been an angel of
mercy clothed in the robes Of heaven. The
widest and the toughest and the most de-
PRAYED stood abashed before that figure of
commanding purity.
A man of GoD will be buried to-day from
the Church Of the TRANSPORTATION q man
made famous by the brave performance of
simple duty as he saw it, but who would
have endured derision and obloquy instead
rather han have swerved an inch from the
obligation he believed he owed to GoD and
his fellow man. 1t is a beautiful character,
and the contemplation Of it gives moral
elevation to this day when the body of
GEORGE HENDRICKS HoUGHToN, minister
and servant of COP, Is to be laid away in
the grave.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-20
The Geological Garden.

AT the last meeting Of the Park Commits.
sioners n committee from the Geological
Garden Society presented elaborate plans
for a proposed treatment of the grounds in
Bronx Park set apart for their use, to the
extent of $50 acres. The committee had
prepared these plans on a contour map
made about twenty years ago.
The Park Board took no action in the
matter, laying it over for consideration.
This was wise, for the proposed plans
should receive careful study from the most
competent experts, and a suitable examina-
ton of them will cause no injurious delay.
The part Of Bronx Park under consideration
for q Geological Garden is one of the finest
tracts Of wild natural scenery to be found
within fifty miles of New York. Nothing
should be neglected in the way Of care and
study to secure a perfect adjustment of the
needs Of such a garden to the special char.
acter Of the scenery.
1t is the function of the Park Board to
protect in every way the landscape features
of the public parks. The experts Of the
Geological Garden dwell especially on the
care and proper exhibition of the animals.
That is their province, but their natural dis
position might lead them to give undue pre-
ponderance to that side Of the subject. to the
neglect of purely aesthetic considerations.
TIL Park Board is compelled, accordingly,
to be the more careful in looking after
the side neglected by the others. and it
should call in proper expert advice upon
the whole question in it's strictly park
aspects. Moreover, q final decision might
be put off properly until the Art Commits
sion instituted by the new charter can give
the Park Commissioners the advantage of
It's artistic experience.
The plans proposed by the Geological
Garden trustees should be the more care.
fully scrutinized because Mr.. ANDREW II.
GREEN is no longer a member of the body,
his long and dangerous illness Of last year
having compelled him to withdraw from
all active attention to the details of the
enterprise.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-20
Our Fleet in Asiatio Waters.

The Chinese have not always been
discriminating in their demonstrations
against the foreign devils, 80 that some
anxiety may naturally be felt at Washing
ton lest Americans in Shantung province
should share any vengeance wreaked by
the people for the intrusion Of the Germans
at Kiao Chou Bay.
fortunately we have a good force of ships
n men handy, which Admiral MoNAIR
can call upon for any needed protection of
our people and their interests. At Chefoo
lately was the Boston, Capt. WILDEs COM
handing, and she is probably now at Kiao
Chou, as the Admiral says he has sent W
vessels thither. The flagship Olympia was
lately at Nagasaki, intendlngt to go to Yoko-
hama; the Machias was at Hong Kong, the
Petrol was at Shanghai, and the Monocacy
was at Woo Sung.
A Chinese attack on missionaries might
be at point not directly accessible by ves-
sells. But the attention of the Chinese Gov
inner will perhaps be called to the need
of protecting Americans, and its trouble
with the Germans will probably make 1t
all the more anxious not to create diff.
culties with us.