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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-13
GLEASON INDICTED.
The Ratt1eaxe Hero in Trouble Over
the Long HsIand City Water supply.

The Batt1eaxe Hero in ErO ubIe Over
tine Long Island City Water supply.
NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 1s97.-Mayor Pa
trick Jerome Gleason, Water Commission
er Levee and Commissioner of Public
Works John w. Moore of Long Island
City, were arraigned there today before
County Judge Moore, and pleaded not
guilty to indictments found against them
last week by the Queens County Grand
Jury. They each furnished $3.50 bail. No
date was set for the trial.
The fact that the officials had been in
dicted was not made public until they ap-
peared in court today. There were two
indictments. The members of the Long
Island City Water Board were first in
dicted.
One Of the indictments accuses Mayor
Gleason and his colleagues in the Water
Board of ignoring an order of the Board
of Health to restore the pumps at Pump
ing Station No. 2. The other indictment
charges them with the destruction of pub
lie property in removing the pumps.
The defendants claim the pumps were
removed because the water from pump
ing station was impure
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-13
D|uGLtpS BALLOON.

(From This Mornings 'Tribune."D
Customs receipts reported from Wash
ington today were s26s,o21, internal rev.
enue receipts ss1e,66a, and the miscellan-
eous receipts, $9S, ,7O5; total Government re-
ceipts for the day, 1881, ,S91; expenditures,
81, 1,444, 600; excess of expenditures, s4626os.
Receipts for month to date, 1886, 5s7; ex-
penditures, s15,15sooo; excess of expendi-
lures, s., ,592. .46s.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-13
WILL WANT TIE ovERooAT NOW

Detective Bennett last night arrested
Adolph Blake, twenty-five years old, of
No. 223 West Twenty-seventh street, New
York. as a suspicious person. Blake was
trying to sell on Exchange place a pawn
ticket for an overcoat. He offered it to
every person he met. and finally ran up
against the officer, who arrested him. He
said he had pawned his $14 overcoat for
81 and wanted to raise more money by
selling the ticket Justice Nevin sent him
to jail for thirty days.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-13
VIENNA's RIoToUs STUDENTS.
rBy Cable to The Associated Press.l

[By Gable to The Associated Press.l
VIENNA, Nov. Is, 1S97.-The students
repeated their violent demonstrations in
the hall of the university this morning.
They were divided into Lueger and Wolff
factions and created such an uproar that
the police finally expelled them from the
building and occupied in force all the ap-
proacheS to the university.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-13
KNIGHTS OF TIE GOLDEN EAGLE

The new Castle of X. G. E. will meet
Sunday afternoon at its hall, No. 213
Washington street. Men between the
ages of eighteen and fifty-five years are
invited to attend.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-13
WHO DESIGNED WALES YACHT 2

TBy Cable to The Associated Press.l
GLASGOW, Nov. IS, 1s97.--George L.
Watson denies being the designer of the
new yacht being built by the Hendersons
for the Prince of Wales.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-13
mATTERS 0FEA1T

stores, factories and institutions can ~o-
get their supplies good ~ aEy q, T. 1Sslsr
can serve them Complete SOCK. 1ovf prices.
at D. e. Cleary & Co.'s Wholesale grocery
stores. Montgomery and Greene stresth
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-13

Pure blood is absolutely necessary for per-
feet health. Hoods Sarsaparilla is the one
true blood purifier. and great health giper.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-13
no cure ! cold Ia one nav.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
qvuggists refund the money If 1t tails to cure.
2se. The genuine has L. 3. 9. on each tablet
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20
II CUBA WE'RE ANNEXED.
q. Curtis, in Chicago Record.

W. e. Curtis, in Chicago Record.
When the annexation Of Cuba to the
United States is mentioned you usually
hear somebody say that we do not want
that turbulent island; that we have trou-
bles enough of our own without taking
on new ones; that the people are differ
ent in race, in customs and habits, and
that If we should attempt to manage the
government at Havana the natives would
rebel against us Just as they have done
against Spain.
The little island of Key West Is a
miniature Cuba. It has about 25.0
population, of whom 10 or so per cent. are
Cubans, and most of them political eX-
lies, the most discontented and danger
Gus class i'm the Spanish colonies, those
who are responsible for the present revo-
luton and for most of the instructions
that have occurred during the present
century. Yet there isn't a quieter place
in the world. Four policemen keep $1,000
rcvolutionists i'm order, and until recent
ly there was only one policeman on the
island, Tho other three We're recently
appointed as a political necessity. There
were not enough offices to go around
There is, as | have said, no more peace
able, law-abiding Industrious community
in the world than the Cuban colony at
Key West, except so far as conspiracy
against the government of their native
land is concerned, and similar conditions
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20
Tie Revenue Problem,

AS between slight increase of state
taxation to meet the temporary eX-
igencies created by diminishing reve-
nues and by the burning of the capitol,
and a radical curtailment of state aid
to education and charity, popular vote
would be likely to decide in favor of the
former. But no increase in the rates
of taxation for state purposes should
be considered beyond the limit of the
utmost necessity, and every possible
economy in present or contemplated eX-
penditures should be made first.
The emergency is one that VIII call
for the greatest honesty, fairness and
good faith on the part of the legisla-
ture. and as an earnest of this, the leg
islature should promptly defeat every
bill for the creation of new offices and
departments involving increased outlay
of the public funds. Especially should
it visit it's disapproval on The propo-
sition to create costly and bunglinG
state department of mines and min
ing, the only effect of which would be
to pension chronic office seekers after
place and intermeddle with a private
business already sufficiently safe
guarded by law.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20
THE WAY TO DO IT.



When, few days ago, the Scranton
city councils declared their purpose to
reduce considerably the estimates for i'm
proving the Scranton streets the bicyclists
of that city Immediately got together
protested against the reduction and APP
pointed a committee of some of the most
reputable citizens of the town to formally
present their objections to councils.
This is the manner in which the ques-
tion of better streets should be treated,
not only by the wheelmen of Scranton,
but by all classes in all cities. There
is no economy in poor streets. From a
hygienic point of view they are equally
undesirable, The stagnant water, SO
marked a feature of the streets of many
interior towns, is only equaled by the de-
caying wooden pavings of more preten-
tious communities. And this is not even
to speak of the wear and tear upon wag-
ons carriages and bicycles in this day of
their almost general use.
The councils of the average American
city or town eXpend money laVishly upon
many improvements which in reality
do not improve. To do this they are COM
PEELED to slight other public works or VEN
lures upon which a great deal more de-
pends. In the matter of water, streets,
gas and similar necessities of everyday
life the best is the cheapest, provided it
be purchased at an honest price.
The iobbery which so often disgraces
the letting of contracts can be prevent
ed by a vigilant watchfulness on the part
of the people and the election of honest
men to councils and the auditing offices,
For the rest, there is no better way OF
convincing public officials that this or that
Is needed than by Just such action as the
Scranton wheelmen have taken. They are
numerous enough in almost every ward
in the average city to defeat the mcr
who, for unconvincing reasons, deny the
people what is necessary or right.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20
Now Sift Our Citizenship.

Under the present ballot law in Mas
sachusetts the voter is required to
place a mark opposite the name of ev-
cry candidate for whom he wishes his
ballot to be counted, the one exception
being presidential electors who are
voted for in group. An effort is be-
ing made to induce the legislature 50
to amend this law that the voter who
wishes to vote a straight party ticket
may need to make but one mark, as is
the present practice in Pennsylvania,
but it is reported that the proposed
amendment is not received with favor.
This last fact shows that the legis-
lature of Massach occupies higher
ground on this subject than was Occu-
pied Ly the legislative body which
passed the Baker ballot law. 1t is GER
tainly not in line with the spirit of our
institutions that hasty and careless
voting should be facilitated and en-
coura ged. and that a ballot should rep
resent party allegiance rather than
honest opinion as to the character and
qualification of the candidates named
in the party column. To exact of the
voter such an examination of each can
didate as is necessary to place or with
hold a mark opposite to his name is
certainly a small enough requirement
and any voter not willing to devote
that much time to the performance of
his sovereign duty as a citizen should
receive from the makers of our laws
scant consideration.
Now that we have shut the door upon
illiterate immigration let us see il
something cannot be done in this coun,
try to improve the character of oul
elections. We have too long made
sport of the franchise. We have toe
long clothed with sovereign power ev.
cry imbecile, criminal or ignoramus OF
the male sex above the age of q years
who has offered himself at our polls
and it is high time that the thoughtful
citizens Of this republic, who value
the purity of republican institutions
and perceive the perls attendant upor
indiscriminate manhood suffrage, be
gan to agitate for a sitting of voter!
no less than of immigrants. The re
quirement that every voter unless ply
sically disabled, shall mark his ballo
name by name is surely no undue eX
erciSe by the state of it's precautionar,
power 1t is but a slight part of tn
duty which the state, in self protection
owes to itself.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20
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NLF
Weather and Other Predictions foI
the Coming Moek.

Sunday, Feb, 2l.-Weather fair A
child born on this day will best succeed
in the employ of others. Ask favors in
the afternoon and evening.
Monday, Feb. 22-JupitOr rises at sun
set Weather wet. A child born on this
day will be fortunate, but prone to false
hood. Avoid letters.
Tuesday, Feb. 23.-Sun in opposition TO
Jupiter. Weather mild. a child born
on this day will have an unfortunate
career. Sell in the afternoon.
Wednesday, Feb. 2l.-Venus biquintile
to Herschal. Weather cold and unset
| tied. child born on this day will be
| unfortunate. Negotiate all business be-
| fore / O'Clock p. m.
Thursday, Feb. 25-Moon in opposition
| to Mars. Weather stormy. child
born on this day viii be fond of pleas
ure and squander its money. Court and
| marry.
| Friday, Feb. 2G-Neptune stationery.
| Cold and stormy. a child born on this
day will be very unfortunate. Seek en-
| ployment before noon.
| Saturday, Feb. 21-Weather stormy. A
| child born on this day will be careless
and unfortunate. Sell, avoid women and
| ask no favors.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20
The Mothers Congress.

We have read. and we believe our
readers have read, with interest even
the abbreviated reports which have
been printed concerning the mothers
congress that closed yesterday a sit
ting of three days in Washington. The
congress was called with the eXpecta-
tion that possibly 100 TO 200 women
would attend. Instead of that, over
1000 attended, and their actions from
first to last showed a purpose to make
the congress a serious and far-reaching
success. Very noticeable to the most
casual observation was the high char
acter of the speakers and lecturers
probably no other single occasion in
the past decade has brought together
on one platform more brilliant array
of women of renown.
The mothers congress is intelligent
womanhood's fitting rebuke to the new
woman" craze. In the words of its
gifted president, Mrs Birney, 80 much
has been said and written in these lat
ter days about the higher education
the extended opportunities of woman
that we have failed to hear the still
small voice appealing to us in behalf
of childhood. There Is nothing finer
in literature than many of the books
and articles pertaining to child d-culturc
and kindred topics. And when moth
er in her own home applies what she
has learned from them, and reverently
sudies the threefold nature of the i'm.
mortal being committed to her care
she acquires the truest, finest culture
the world can offer; added to knowledge
win be love, patience, and genteness
which transcend all learning. 1t is be-
cause most women have not had tn,
knowledge and training which would
enable them to evolve the beautiful
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20
THE EMIR OF NUPE.

What news Is this from afar?
What tidings of terrible war?
1t strikes on the ear with lar.
The British with one fell swoop
Have swallowed the emir of Nupe.
Deep buried, far down in the soup
Now rests the great emir of Nupe.
He'll monkey no more with the law
He'll hold his pestiferous jaw
He flew the coop
The emir of Nupe.
Great Is the power of old England
From east to west. from sun to sun,
Rings loud the glorious sound
OF Britain's evening gun.
She'll stand no noisy whoop
From any cmir of Nupe
Forward the dashng troop!
Down with the emir of Nupe!
The cannon roar-each serried rank
Defiles upon the Myers bank,
"Align the squares" Crash, smash!
They loot the town-they seize the cash
They've scored a scoop
on the emir OF Nupe.
No Britons hurt. The enemy
In thousands pile the ground
Dead, dyng-'tis a glorious day
Let the loud bugles sound!
Hurrah! Wow-whoop!
They've whaled the emir of Nupe!
Chicago News.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20
SCRANTON, FEBRUARY 90, 1897.

The Republican members of the ways
and means committee who are pre-
pairing the new tariff bill have done well
to restore the Mckinley duty on bitum-
inous coal and culm. The United States
of America can produce all the coal
that Americans need to burn.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20
TIME A GREAT AVENGER,

From the Detroit journal.
The Dolphin has been in commission
for eleven or twelve years, and she is
still as staunch as when she left the
ways of John Roach's shipyard. If the
old man can now look down upon the
affairs of men, how he must have smiled
to see the despised and rejected Dol
phin beat the whole noble squadron
through one of the nercest gales of the
year, and lead them all into port in
Safetyi
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20
NOT A NATIVE GROWTH.

From the New York Sun.
Querulous discomfort with transitory
social conditions which are Inevitable,
and desirable. too. for they strengthen
the moral fibre, is not of American breed
ing. 1t does not express the American
character, which was moulded by the
pioneers who felled the forests for the
building up of our present civilized de-
velopment. 1t is a noXious and enfeebling
weed of foreign transplantation.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20

would result if there We're honest and
liberal and just government in Cuba. If
the United States We're to take this island
there would doubtless be a disturbance
now and then for a few years, which
would simply illustrate how difficult 1t
is for inexperienced persons to submit to
discipline, but such Interruptions would
grow gradually less, and finally cease al
together as soon as the people discovered
that the laws were impartial and the
courts We're lust
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20
AN ABIDING PATIENCE.
the New York Sun,

From the New York Sun.
One popularity of the American people
has been called a weakness. II is our
patient liberation of nuisances; but we
are tolerant because we are Indifferent.
Every true American is too much en-
gagged with the serious business of trying
to get ahead to stop to fret over the an
noyance of buZzing insects along his
path,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Aiacchus,
The Tribune Astroiogcr.
Astrolabe east 2.28 a. m, for Saturday,
Feb. 20, 1897.

81 Co So
A child born on this day will notice
that the American navy is all right when
it can be kept away from the water.
Governor Hastings evidently believes
that, so long as quarters can be secured
for the legislature, there is no use for
additional committees to superintend
buildings for the feeble minded.
General contempt for the human race is
often intensified by efforts of people who
do not utter anything but talk,
1t Is evident that the opinions of Attor-
neys Duggan and Dawson are widely di-
verslhed on the subject of Blackwalnut
legal fees
Come to think of IT, in this vicinity
country clubs are not in it with city clubs
after all.
Ajacchus' Advice.
Don't throw mud. Your hands will be-
come dirty.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20

rose Democrat to suspect that The
Tribune has not given the Wilson tariff
bill fair shake? Does the Democrat
approve that measure? Does it sustain
the Wilson duty on hay, eggs and lum-
Der?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20

possibilities of home life, that they have
in many instances found that sphere
narrow and monotonous. The higher
branches of book learning are wen
enough for the girl or woman who has
the inclination or time for them, but
they should be secondary in her educa-
ton to the knowledge which shall fit
her for motherhood. She may never
marry. but as one of the sex on which
the care and education of childhood
must rest, she should know its needs,
and be ready with head and heart and
hand to serve the cause of helpless
infancy in any emergency"
Talk like this has the ring of COM
mon sense, and it comes most oppor-
tunely at this period of social unrest
when, in many directions, the so-called
higher education of women is leading
them away from the divinely appointed
sphere of their highest usefulness.
From the opening address Of Mrs. Bir-
ney, from which we have just quoted,
to the concluding exercise on yester-
days programme, the proceedings of
the congress were calculated to restore
a rational view of womans mission
and clear away the fogs' and fancies
which We're beginning to; turn the
proper aspiration of the gentler sex
for ampler opportunities into theme
the quip and jest 1t is well.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20

The New York Sun opposes all nego-
tiations looking to the composition of
business differences between the United
and the Associated Press, and threat
ems to stand alone against both as
sociations. The Sun will doubtless re-
alize the wisdom of informing the pub
lie as to is reasons for such an atti-
tude
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20

The difference between the two con-
crosses in session this week at Wash
ingtOn was that the Congress of Moth
erS amounted to something.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20

Senator Chandler should bear in mind
that large majority of the American
people voted for the gold standard with
their eyes open, and are entitled to
have their way.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20

ants at the associations gymnasia.
The proper care Of the body is not sec
ondary in Importance to the proper
nurture of the soul,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20
Book Binding

Neat, Durable Book Binding is what you
receive II you leave your order with the
SCRANTON TRIBUNE BlNDERY, Trib-
une Building, North Washington Ave.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20

The appointment of General Z. S. Os-
borne, of Wilkes-Barre, as assistant
secretary of war would crafty many
of the citizens of Lackawnna county.
There is no question of his fitness for
the place.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20

Mr.. Olney may achieve financial sue
cess as a lawyer in New York, but we
opine that his greatest chance points
to Il professional career in Madrid.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20

The early presidents and their friends
We're glad, after the Inauguration cere-
monies were over, to get a piece of pie
apiece and a glass of milk, with maybe
a red apple or two by way of dessert
Not 50 with your modern democrats.
The caterer for the Mckinley Inaugural
tiCn bah has ordered 125 dozen terrapin
$4,000 oysters, 25O0 live Holsters, 275
tw enty- pound turkeys, 5000 chicken cut
let's 2500 sweat bread patties, 1000 sand
Wiches, 1000 gallons of Roman punch,
1850 quarts of ice cream, so boxes of
oranges, rs punches of bananas, 500
pounds of Malaga grapes and various
other articles IN proportion, and he
proposes to set forth a supper fit to
place before kiFA In fact, that is
where it win be placed, before 10000
kings and queens-for every American
citizen, you know, is a sovereign.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20

The 10000 young men of Pennsyl-
vania who are enrolled as members in
good standing of the Young Mems
Christian association are to be con-
graduated, especially if, in addition to
receiving the religious benefits of such
a membership, they are regular attend
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20

If there is one thing which is going
to cmbarrass President Mckinley more
than another it is his own good nature.
No president can find time for serious
executive work who, out of sheer ama-
bility, gives audience to every Tom,
Dick and Harry. The line simply has
to he drawn If he wants to retain his
health and accomplish the large results
contemplated in the st. Louis platform.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20

The Populist mind has labored in
Oklahoma and brought forth bill to
establish a state warehouse where far
mers can get loans of money ON hay
wheat, corn, cotton or other agricul-
tural deposits as security. The bill
neglects to state where the territory
is to get its money.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20

Tennessee has enacted a law making
the act of lobbying a felony, and pun
ishing it with from two to five years
imprisonment. Where lobbying means
hriblng, this is none too severe. But
there are lobbyists and lobbyists. Great
interests have real need of regular
agents at state capitals to guard their
employers from ignorant legislation and
it is simply impossible to keep these
agents away There is a good deal OF
buncombe in the average citizens con-
ception of a lobby
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20
B:'|,A!'zI!'lA /, Z | AR
GDL.DSNITH'S o.

Collection for Spring, 1897 and arriving New
se patterns in Witon Administers Body Brussels Tapestries
grains
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20
Come and See Us When You Are Ready

glance the window faint idea the line French organd
We 70
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20

Don't throw mud. Your hands will be-
come dirty.
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WALL PAPER Department an ursAsznzrr,

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