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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24
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The recent statement issued by Sen
ator Platt relating the true history OF
the Low-Tracv campaign was timely
in its citation or Facts but so caustic
in comment & pard the future of
Republican. .e York city and
state. Wiser ..e more polite were
the words u-r, IS Chairman Quigg in
an address delivered few days ago
before the New York county Repub-
lican committee. In that speech he
made this allusion to t orts which
were then being made to bring all Re-
publiCans in tina, community together:
would urgc upon the members of this
committee and ON Tie members of the rr-
glU.zAl.ou @Cu,rally Il course Oi mOderd-
alton and of cancellation. 1t must be re-
mcmhyrud that lOj,jOO Republicans are IN
lao position to discipline 10000 o.hcr Re-
pUbl.Caus. 1t has been truly statcu that
YOU cannot indiCt state. 1t Is very clear
that II We are going to win the tate
the Republicans who voted fof Low and
those who voted fer General Tracy must
ho brought together As for myself. |
am ready and wiling to make any and
very personal -acrticc to achieve that
nnd Tic Republican party must be
".l,,d H.a'n.
We believe II viii Ice The oninion of
T. uuhllcars generally that these are
n. words Of urudnnr LEAD rehip.
Whether an acc nt1hl" basis # har-
.prv can Ne reached is, Of course. an
other question. int one that ,lnnot he
bee" gtnde to reach il o"d have failed
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24
THE POSTAL DEFI;IT.
:. E. Curtis, in Chicago Record.

y. L. Curtis, in Chicago Record.
The report of the postmaster general
shows the usual ucIIClt III the pUstoHice
department. The receipts from all
sources for the year were $sG,ojd, t62, ana
the expenditures S9i,Un.-i4 1hus nearly
One-ndlf the uenClt III the revenues oil Tie
government comes from our pOslal SER
vice. AID not only was there a ucncIt
OF Sll,ovvUV0, but tndt shortage was $3,
2JUQyU greater than mat of the previous
year. At the same time the British post
office proper, not inciuuliS The telegraph
ana telephone spstems, Dut the lnali SER
vice only, brought prOit to the govern
mcnt Of s., 80, so. TIE receipts We're
Ell 1880, ara the expenditures were
G7,UIS,UvJ. The telegraph and telephone
service did not pay eNpehses, thc re-
ceipts for 1869 being G2,3ji,253 and the
expenses GS,lUS.UjI. Eut tnc dchcI in the
telegraph service in England Is growing
smaller every year. In 1872 1t was Z ljC,-
6S2 in 1898 it was fl1S,i3 III 1854 IL was
only fiO,J47, and IN 1897 tliO,'lI. Ia France
the postal service Paid profit TO the
government of fj jUJ,tJO francs, which
is about 100000. In Germany the rroht
was nearly 3JOJO,CJJ marks, or S1,5OO,O1O
and nearly every other country Of Europe
had a balance on the right size OF the
ledger.
" hile it is true that the postal service
in the United States Is much more eNp@n-
sive to maintain because of the enormous
area of country, the lCnS distances ana
the scattered population. the dehcit miSAt
be very largely reduced If congress would
abolish the franking privilege and forbid
the transmission of dime novels ana other
bogus periodicals as second-class matter.
1t is stated that lS2 40 tons OF such pub
locations were sent through the mails last
year. The revenues therefrom were only
SO, lO6, ,5Sl or $l7 a ton. At the same time
il cost the government $3.50 ton to carry
this same matter from New York to Bur
falo, which is the most thckly settled
and economical route in the ehtire couh-
try. And if it cost so much there what
must have been the expense OF hauling
cargoes of dime novels over the Rocky
mountains and tho prdirics OF the west
10
There is always profit on the trans
portation of letters, and there might be
profit on fourth-class matter II we were
1 TO introduce the postal system that pre-
| walls in England, Germany ana othei
| countries of Europe, but so long as oui
! government allows the publishers oi
! cheap and hasty novels to have the SAINT
privileges in the mails that are giycr
| to legitimate newspapers there VIII be
large deficit for the taxpayers To meet
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24

consequence Of one of those local quar-
rels and the Swallow upset In Pennsyi-
vania, by reason of another, Will not
be without their advantage to the Re-
publican cause if they shall warn Re-
publican leadership to adopt the IAN
ruagc Of Cancellation wherever there
Is en- honest desire on the part of war
ring factions to get together.
The new treaty OF arbitration which
has been partially drafted between
England and this country contains. we
are told, the nroviso that "nauonai
honor. national integrity and vital po-
litical interests" are to be excepted
subjects. No fixed arbitration tribunal
is provided but when dispute not
involving the excepted subjects arises
each country is to choose two umpires,
nore to be a reigning monarch. and
the four thus chosen must choose the
nf' II. Hcfo G question c be 'eferred
to arbitration the United states sem
ate must vote its assent. If this Is
true digest of the contemplated new
treaty, it's projectors might better
abandon the effort. Such treaty
would not he worth half the parchment
on Wish it wculd be drawn.
IN Greater New York 10000 Repub-
licans who voted for Low neglected to
vote for the Republican candidate for
appellate court judge because his name
was not on the Citizens Union ticket.
Had he received this vote he would
have been elected by 10000 plurality.
These non n-partisars evidently became
rchclliously partisan as their fight on
Platt warmed up.
General Blanco's official admission
that in two years Spain's army in Cuba
has dwinded from $4,000 regular
troops to only $4,000 now fit for duty
constitutes in itself n virtual recog-
milton of Cuban belligerency. 1t is
hint that congress may yet accept.
on Sunday the New York Herald an
| nounced that it's afternoon alter ego.
| the Evening Telegram. would no longer
| be published. on Monday it announced
| that the Telegram would continue to
appear, as usual. Great minds are Of
ten subject to sudden changes.
| Charles T.. Yerkes. the Traction mag
nate who previously owned about all
else that was worth owning in Chicago.
has bought the Chicago Inter-Ocean,
| Now his real fun begins.
The New York Sun wants all bank
! currency retired and greenbacks with
| gold redemption issued instead. The
sun will probably experience this want
, a long, long time.
The good die young, but men like
! W"yler can name their own premium
| rates on life insurance.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24
Comfort ables.

Ful. size Comfortables,
both sides fancy at Csc, SI.5o,
S2.25, S2.75, S5.25,
French Satine Down Quilts
at S.. .eS; special price for this
week only.
Also a choice line of Silk
Comfortables.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24

We venture 10 say that the much
heraldcd speech Of Secretary Gage, de-
livercd last evening before the New
York Chamber of Commerce. IN which
it was expected that he would cut the
Cordian knot of the currency reform
problem and display qualities of states
manShip sufficient to compel the adj
miraton Of thu country, viii he read
with general disappointma mt.
At only one point does the speech
Challchgc serious attention. The sec
retary afiirms of the currency agita-
tion that for four years its injurious
shadow has depressed industry and en-
torprisc." In a sense this is true. but
not in the sense which the secretary
had i'm mind His thought, as we CLEAN
from the context. was that it was our
had currency system which precipi-
tatcd the Grover Cleveland panic. This
is the faVurite NugWump explanation.
Air Gage having voted for Mr. CleNe-
land may pcrchance hc too ready T."
cvoncrate that ovorratcd architec. of
misfortune. The hrlicf of the Ropub-
lican party is that it was the Demo-
cratic rarty's rash assault upon the
NrEiuicy protective tariff. substitute
ing rnr its abundant revenue series
Of increasing deficits and bringing sus-
pioiua ur,n the whole body of Amcri-
can credit uarrr that for four years
depressed industry and enterprise.
The speech of Secretary Gage adds
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24

Beware Of paying too little for
your clothes; a form Of economical
extravaganza which will cost you
dear in the end.
Cheap is the one argument ad-
vanced by four-tifths Of those who
want to sell you clothes.
The market is literally flooded
with so-called "CuStom-made"
clothes, backed up by advertising
which is an insult to the intelligence
of the community.
Don't be tempted by these offers,
which your common sense should
tell you will never be fulfilled.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24

to pardon the insurgents. and they VIII
hasten to lay down their arms. They
will also incidentally fight till the last
armed foe expires for their altars and
their ovens, etc. Half the population
have starved to- death and we are in
formed that food is so plentiful on the
island with its sunny sky and fertile
soil, that the insurgents are able TO PICK
up a good living wherever they happen
to be. Then the Cubans are going to
have autonomy. they are going to
achieve independence, snd they are go
ing to be annexed to the United states
and General Sckles is to be governor
u
As to our relations with Spain, every
thing is equally clear on moments TO-
lection. General Woodford went over o
Madrid with a trunk fun OF ultimatums
and told the Spanish minister that If he
didn't close up the whole business by IN"
first of November we would send ship
lead of j.ngocs to Havana and sack and
burn the city. General Woodford also
assured the Spanish foreign office of our
eternal friendship tor Spain, and asked
II there was anything We could do for her.
TO these communications Spain drew up
an indignant and warl kC reply and start
cd in to buy warsh!ps, and sent mill
and conCiliatory terly, which greatly
pleased President Mckinley and his cab
met. and at the same time 1t "leik"d
! OUT that the arScrlls and gun factories
were working triple shift.
We know. too. that Spain will on no
| account make war on us because she
| fears the result at home, and that she
will certainly he fore ed to make war upon
| us in order to rally the people to the
| support of the present dynasty. We have
| all Of this on reliable inside official au-
| thority. from those who know all about
| Il. When we group and analyzc this IN
| formation the situation is so PLAIN that he
| who runs may read.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24
All-Wool Blankets.

Cur line of California and Elder
Down Blankets is always complete.
Robe and Wrapper Blankets (Rever-
sible), brocaded patterns for Ladies'
Wrappers. .Gentlemen's Bath Robes and
Smoking Jackets.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24
DEL iGhTruLLY SIMPLE.

From the P!tts0urg Times.
The Cub"n-Spanish situation IL really
.eNghtfully s,mrlc If one sits down and
,, fleets a b.t about IT, Bianco Is going
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24

The point involved IN the Lowering
court martial at Chicago, namely, how
much further military discipline should
go shan the disGipltne which governs
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24

The concert to be given in this city
on the evening of Nov. 30 by the SYM
phony society offers a programme
alone 3uilcicnt to attract lovers of
good music; and i'm the interpretative
work done by this society last year
there was warrant for the expectation
that with the additional training which
has intervcned together with that
greater precision and fuller confidence
which come to orchestral organizations
with age, the compositions advertised
for that occasion will he PLAYED intel
ligontly and with considerable musi-
cianship. So that, from the business
standpoint that every investment
should bring a fair return. the SCran-
tonian who shall purchase tickets to
this and other symphony concerts of
the season will, if he appreciate good
music at all, have arterward no cause
to hewail the outlay.
Rut the SYMPHONY society deserves
announcement from higher stand
point. Organized in community
where it has been said, and not entire
ly without justice, that art in its wide
significance has as yet little or no foot
hold, this group Of young men, brought
together in pure love of music and held
together in discipline and in enthusi-
asm by the stimulative influence of a
condurtCr who has dedicated to the
work conSpicu"us talents most unset
fishlv. has surprised even the local op-
istn
and its progress. Any one with half
an eve to Srranton's future can see
in this organization one of the founda-
tiOn stones of a broader culture long
wished for hut only lately beginning to
take on the asrccts of realization. 1t
is one nucleus Cor a sane and credit
able musical sentiment; an incentive,
perhaps small at first but destined in
time to grow, for such public study
of music, the queen of arts, as carries
with it inevitably Il broadening of the
whole mental and spiritual horizon
and contributes in generous degree to
ripcr manhood and womanhood.
Pride if not sympathy should spur
our citizens of means to give to this
kind of artistic missionary work prac-
tical and liberal support. The time
has come i'm the citys DEVELOPMENT
when material foundations alone will
not suffice 20 support the metropolitan
community which Scranton essays to
become. Children of new generation
are among us who Will, as adults, re-
( uuirc and demand in the city of their
final residence not simply business OPP
portunitics but also opportunities oi
symmetrical culture. chances such as
/ are omen to them in many of the older
but not wealthier cities of the East.
Intelligent Scrantonians must MOI
ignore this phase of city-building,
4 discussion of the subject of good
English is once more in progress il
some of the newspapers and maga
zines. There is much threshing of rules
Of grammar and syntaX and mucf
scOrn aimed by pedants at what they
contemptuously call newspaper Eng
lish": but the essential fact remains
unaltoIed that the most effective wa,
to learn the use of English is to us,
it. a fact which explains why newspa
pr writing, upon the whole, DESPITE
it's frequent faults in grammar, etc.
is preferable to that lahored kind o
writing practiced by self-consciou
stylists.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24

NOVEMBER "a, 1891

SCRANTON. NOVEMBER q, 1897.
The phnnteiphia inquirer reviewing
the guhcruaturial situation asserts
that the outlook "is for a free, fair,
uutrammyl,l conventions" It viii re-.
quirc an Of that to Keep poac- in the
family.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24
PRIMARY ELECTIONS.


From the Carbondale Leader.
Abuses OF the primary system of NOM
mating candidates for office have been
general throughout the country, and of
late years many plans have been suS-
gestcd for a reform in that line. Whether
any system can be put III operation that
will eifectually remedy the evil is not at
all certain, but evidently something must
be done, and that speedily, or party Cr-
ganization will be dIsintcgrated beyond
recovery. 1t is proposed in this county
to introduce the crawford county plan
which is in operation in various parts of
this state and has worked fairly Well:
but the difficulty still remains of getting
out a full vote, also the opportunity Tor
dishonest political workers to falsify the
count. Any system, no matter how per
feet in theory. will still depend for sue
CesSful operation on the fairness ana
honesty of those who manipulate the bal
lots. Probably no real reform will be cf-
fected until primary elections are con-
Quoted by sworn officers under an act of
assembly.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24

The New York Sun wants all bank
gold redemption issued instead. The
sun will probably experience this want
a long, long time.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24

The good die young, but men like
W"yler can name their own premium
rates on life insurance.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24

Insurgents into laying down their
mrchot.s and accepting terms of SUR
roud"r, Spain wouldn't de a thing to
them.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24

Charles T.. Yerkes. the Traction mag
nate who previously owned about all
else that was worth owning in Chicago,
has bought the Chicago Inter-Ocean,
Now his real fun begins
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24

on Sunday the New York Herald an
nounced that it's afternoon alter ego,
the Evening Telegram. would no longer
be published. on Monday it announced
that the Telegram would continue to
appear, as usual. Great minds are Of
ten subject to sudden changes.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24

General Banco's official admission
that i'm two years Spain's army in Cuba
has dwindled from $4,000 regular
troops to only $4,000 now fit for duty
constitutes in itself virtual recog-
milton of Cuban belligerency. 1t is a
hint that congress may yet accept.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-24


re n of Thanksgiving
in
closed (Thankgving)
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-27
ALL THE OK UTILIZED.
Every Particle Put to Use-onls It's Dying
 Breath Lost.

Every Particle Put td tse-OnlS It's D9ing
 Breath Lost.
 In an article on the Wonders of the Worlds Waste, y William George Jor- dan, in The Ladies Homo Journal, de- tails how science ab the present day utilizes the ox. Not many years ago, he says, when an OK was slaughtered 40 per cent of the animal was wasted. Al the present time nothing Is lost bnD its dying breath. As but one-third Of the weight of the animal consists or Droduets that can be eaten, the question of utilizing the waste is q serious one. Tine blood is used in refining sugar and in siz1ag paper or manufactured into doorklobs and buttons The hide goes ro fhe tanner; horns and hoots are trans formed into combs and buttons; thlgh homes. worth S80 per ton, are cut into handles for clothesbrushes; fore leg bones sell for $50 per ton for collar put tons, parasol handles and Jewelry; the water in which bones are boiled IS re- ducsd to glue; the dust from saving the bones is food for cattle and poultfyi the smallest bones are made into bone biaek. Each foot yields quarter of : pint of neatsfoot oil; the tail goes to the s.soup n while the brush of hair at the end of the tail is sold 10 the mattress maker The choieer parts of the fat make the basis of butterine; the intes- tines are used for sausage casings or bought by gold beaters. The nndigested food in the stomach, which formerly cost the packers of Chicago $50, 900 q year to remove and destroy, is now made into paper. These are but few of the products of abattoirs. All scraps unfit for any other use find welcome ill the glue pot, e they do missionary work for farmers by acting as 1arti lizers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-27
Her Rift to scienos.

Before her death. which occurred in New York city in 1878, Mrs. Nj. k Benchley, the widow of former liou- tenant governor of Massachusetts, wilied her body 10 the Woman's Medical col lege. According to the provisions of this queer will tue body of Mrs. Benchley was to be carefully dissected aud hcf skeleton hung iii the college museum. As far as we have been able to learn, this is the only instance oil record where sn educated woman has deliberately sent her body to the dissecting room and her bones to the showroomS of a museum. We can cite several instances where the progressive class of women thinkers have given orders that their bodies shonld be cIemated, but this ia tlie only instance en record where tal- snted womaa has made snch q gift to science
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-27
nArone.s Rurslett.eo

f3aroness Burdett- Coutts seems to be
 szaaaskless in her plans of social a1uel- lora ion She is said to be q great ad- r of tho pluck of Cecil Rhodes in ii, forts to develop Rhodesia. For ey- ST elected young nan who promises so title in that possession and who chooses Q wife from among the young women in her charitable institutions she will present. them with 9l00. Mr Rhodes vii! undertake to find employ ment for the husband The baroness if the youngest looking of all the aged Is. dies who still appear in general London society. She is as straight as rush and recalls the grace and charms of the most elegant ladies 10 be met with in apy country. Of her three private secretaries two are ladies. Proverbially kind heart. cd as is the baroness, she has not taste for pets Perhaps they would take up too much of her time.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-27
IS sGALLANTRYLANGUlsHINGY
Observations on tine Decline of Street Car
 Manners In the South.


 IT cannot tSe concealed that thelo is q growing tendency, even in the south, where masculine gallanrry has held ont longest, en tue part of men to let won- en in the street cars shift for themselves. IL has not come to that point get, but the movement is growing in that diree- tion
 It is ] fact that men arc rapidly fail ing Ill the courtesy which was once uni. formly shown to women. and the req son, to a large extenb, is that men ars meeting wamen as competitors ill all delds of labor, and this fact vastly changes the social relations between the aexes. Women are claiming all sorts of equality with men, moral, political and physical, and are declaring more and more their independence. The effect on the next generation will be very marked and peculiar. The men and NO. men of the present are affected to all overpowering extent by the influence of old ideas and training, and thai is rho reason they talk about street car man- ners and social ethics in their relations 10 the sexes. but iu tho year 1880, or tue period of one generation from ths present time, people will no longer con. cern themselves about such matters.
 The greater the number ef women as work in proportion 10 the men the more stringent the competition. and 1t can easily be seen that, according to the fig ures shown. the day might come when there would be no street car manners, but every individual would look out for himself or herself as the case may he. But even should ehiyalry he extin- gnished from human manners there will always remain the Christian grace of charity, 90 in the time to come able bodied young men aud women who have seats in the cars will rise to give their places to old men and women and to others who may be sick or disabled. New Orleans Picayune.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-27
neirs Afraid of 2 Rornh.

By way Of Illustrating the nervous ness which the recent explosions have revived here. q queer adventure which has just befallen the heirs of house owner may be mentioned. They had met at the dwelling of their departed uncle for the purpose of drawing mp an inventory of his effects in company vitha lawyer and had nearly completed their task when one of them pulled out of q cupboard q metal box, which was laid on the table and which tho man of business was about to open, when one of his nieces cried cut in horror: Don't touch 1t Look, that is fuse. Sure enough, there was little something popping out of the cover. "It is q bomhl" exclaimed the panic stricken heirs in chorus, and then they proceed. ed to remark that their deceased rela. tive had been moody, silent and re- served sort of individual, and thence they inferred that he might possibly haye been all anarchist Two of the nephews had had put on their hats and were on the point of rushing off to the effiee Of tho Bearest police cemmissary, when the lawyer, who had been quietly inspecting the box. calmly suggested that it might simply contain some pre- served fruit. This theory somewhat re. assured the men. but the ladies would have their way. The eommissary was sent for, and the mysterious box was soon on its way to the municipal labora- tory. It was found to contain pine apple. the stalk of which had been mis- taken for fuse. So the good old uncle, who had been so ungratefully lnaligned. had not been an anarchist after all. -- Paris Cor. London Telegraph.