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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-12
Celebrate Flag Day.

The appropriate suggestion is made
by the Sons and Daughters of the
Revolution that on next Monday,
which is Flag Day, the stars and
stripes be displayed from every home
in the land During the 12O years
which have elapsed since the Contin-
entail congress adopted the red and
white bars with the thirteen white
stars in a field of blue as the official
emblem of the newborn nation the
territory over which Old Glory floats
has increased five fold; the population
giving it's allegiance has grown from
5000, 900 to 70,00O000; the number of
sovereign states has been augmented
from thirteen to forty-five, and on this
hemisphere where then there was only
one republic there is today only one
lingering remnant of tyranny, and
that, we hope, will soon be extinguish-
ed, thanks to American influence and
intervention.
These six-score years of democracy
have not by any means been years of
perfection in the working out of the
problem of successful government, but
they have been years whose annals give
confidence in the principles employed
and hope for the future. The Ameri-
can flag has survived two foreign and
one civil wars; it has witnessed the
successful affranchisement of an en-
slaved race; the assimilation of millions
of promiscuously welcomed aliens rep
resenting every tongue and cline; the
conquest of mighty wildernesses; the
upbuilding of great cities; the harness.
ing to mans uses of the great forces
and resources of nature, and the laying
of the foundations for commerce and
a civilization of the like of which his
tory affords no record. Nowhere else
has such progress been paralleled; no.
where else, can such institutions be
surpassed.
1t can do us no harm, as appropriate
occasion shall arise. to give passing
thought to these things. This has been
termed a practical age, an age when
sentiment must be yoked to utility in
order to gain an audience with the
busy, hustling throng. But surely here
is a sentiment which is of the highest
utility, a sentiment without which
these wonders in human accomplish
ment could never have been achieved.
If a time should ever come when the
sight of the flag will carry to the citi-
zen of the United States no glorious
message from the past, no exhilarating
inspiration for the future, then indeed
could it be said that we had reached
the declining plane which leads swift
and sure to national deterioration and
ruin.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-12
What Next :?

After great uproar caused by inor-
dinate greed for tariff advantage, the
sugar trust has been beaten at WASH
ington and sugar schedule is adopted
in the senate, which, by general con-
sent, is honest and approximately fair.
The reputation of the party is saved;
the president is eXtricated from the
dilemma in which he would have been
placed had the tariff bill reached him
Trusts schedule inserted therein, and
for the present all is well. But shall
the matter end here?
Let us review the facts. So far as
known, they are that the American
Sugar Refining company has for years
the campaign funds of both the politi-
cal parties so as to be in position to
negotiate for legislative favors from
either. In 1892, after Cleveland won, it
insisted upon writing the sugar sche-
dule of the Wilson bill, and succeeded
so well in pressing its claims upon the
Democratic party managers that q
schedule drafted by Mr.. Cleveland's S
secretary of the treasury, Mr.. Carlisle,
was sent to the house ways and means
committee with the administration 8
Endorsement. This schedule gave the
trust what it wanted Last year, the
other party won, but the trust appear
ed on deck just the same. 1t did not
this time try to capture anybody in the
cabinet or in the ways and means COM
mittee of the house. 1t knew better.
Put through some means not yet made
known it gained the favor of the senate
subcommittee on finance which con-
sidered the Dingley bill after it pass
ed the house, and but for the storm of
public censure which this suspicious
intimacy excited, it might have put
another pet schedule through.
Momentarily the trust is bahled, but
shall that be its only punishment? Is
the spectacle tamely to be endured of a
giant corporation having in it's control
a monopoly of the production of a
prime necessity of life and willing to
buy legislation which will enable it to
cXtort money from the people? Have
the consumers of sugar in this country
no redress? Thus far it must be ad-
mitted that the trust has had things
pretty much its own way. Cabinets
courts and legislatures have treated it
with a degree of consideration prob
ably beyond it's just deserts. A point
must come, though, when the people
will rebel Has not that point pretty
| nearly been reached?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-12
A Cycle of Social Crimes,

Readers of the newspapers can hard
ly fail to have perceived in the past
few weeks a very noticeable multipli-
cation in the number of crimes against
women. For a fortnight the number of
assaults reported in the papers has
averaged not less than three a day and
if anything this average is growing
larger. We do not possess statistics on
this subject covering a period of years,
but we hazard the guess that if such
statistics are in existence they disclose
a steady increase in these unmention-
able offences against society. What,
if any, reasons can be offered for such
a recrudescence of animalism in this
supposedly civilized nation and age?
The inquiry here indicated is manifest
ly too large for the limits Of this article,
but at haphazard we propose to jot
down one or two of the causes which
most readily suggest themselves.
In the first place. in the matter of
literature we have for years been SOW
ing the wind that foretells the whirl-
wind. Sensationalism in the press;
the verging of writer's steadily toward
the forbidden line in descriptions of the
social relations; the flash picture, the
risque play, the indecent ballet and the
suggestive dialogue, spoken or written
all these things, together with SINH
lar manifestations of degeneracy in
other directions which need not be re-
cited, have lowered the level of social
few years and put into weak minds lust
those germs of corrupting suggestion
that have developed into the mania
now displaying itself in outrages and
other gross personal crimes. The ex-
tent to which this Generalization in
the use of ink and paper has proceeded
will be the better comprehended when
a glance is taken through the litera-
ture of fifty years ago, which, with all
its faults, sounds a sustained note of
respect for womanhood and of rever-
ence for the sanctities of domestic life
1t is, we repeat, probable that the
modern abuse of the printing press,
which has saturated our time with a
species of moral skeptieism reflected no
less in the crimes than in the published
thoughts of the people. is the greatest
single contributor to the prevalent
wave Of sexual insanity; but we regret
to have TO add that we cannot hold the
women Of our time wholly gulltless
Those OF us who have inherited old
fashioned ideas concerning the sex,
who have been taught to believe in the
paramount purity and honor of the
mission Of wifehood and motherhood
for women. have in recent times been
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-12

tunate results Of soft snaps" for ease
in gaining a livelihood through other
influences than ones own efforts de-
stroys judgment and self-rellance, and
when the prop is cut away the whole
thing tumbles.
The boy who commences life by ap-
pearing at the breakfast table at s
o'clock in the morning and by saunter-
ing to his business at or 10, and who
is unwillingly taught that "the old
man" is behind him, nearly always
drops when the old man "pegs out"
This is one reason why so many of our
young men fail and the names made
by their fathers so soon fall away.
The laws of nature are immutable and
the one laid down ages ago that by
the sweat of our brows Shall we earn
our daily bread is the only foundation
of true success. We do not mean in
this article to deny the practical right
of a man to do with his own as he
chooses, but the future is heavy, and
the responsibility great. The danger
that the boy will become imbued with
this growing idea of soft snaps" is
more serious, we think, than is fully
ccmprehended. Put him in charge of
your coal mine, or your store, or your
factory if you will, but before you
do 1t make him learn by long work
the responsibilities attendant on the
positions. Don't send him rolling to
his work in a carriage with a coach
man and a pair of horses, and don't
let him get the idea that because he is
the son of his father he is better than
the son of some one else.
Another evil does this soft snap
idea encourage. Discomfort among our
| masses is on the increase. The earn
est, intelligent, hard working young
man, often of greater ability and just
as often of greater moral character,
than the soft snapper" sees a chap
| put in his easy chair. He wonders If
after all the natural laws are not askew
and he becomes morose, dissatisfied
and eventually dangerous. Whereas If
he sees a young fellow working earn
estly to fit himself for a position kept
| in waiting, he simply feels that that
young man is working along the lines
of honest endeavor, and if he succeeds
in so fitting himself he deserves the
position and is only the more fortunate
From all this it can be deduced that
| parents make a fatal mistake in going
to the nearest furniture store and buy
ing the good easy chairs that so many
do for their boys to rest in.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-12
THE QUEENS JUBILEE.

From the Springfield Republican.
-Four years ago. at the time of the Chi
cago fair in celebration of the discovery
of America. we Americans We're very busy
absorbing the realities of our own great
ness. Here are We" said all Americans,
1.-THE greatest people on earth" This is
the year of Queen Victoria's jubilee. or
the imperial celbration of the royal ladys
sixty years reign and the contemplation
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-12

We have much respect for the cru
dition of the Philadelphia Record, but
when it contradicts the assertion of
Consul General Lee that under our
treaty stipulations with Spain an
American citizen arrested on Spanish
soil must not be kept more than
seventy-two hours "incommunicado,"
we shall pin our faith to Lee.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-12
SCRANTON. JUNE 12, 1897.

we do not blame the Telephone com
pany or any other company for get
ting what it can out of the councils.
If the latter are willing to give the
city away, why shouldn't the corpora
tions take it?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-12
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune AstrOlOgeT.
Astrolabe Cast: Ill a. m, for Saturday,
June II, 1891.

M D &
A child born on this day will be of the
opinion that 1t is about time the ice man
had his innings.
The anxiety to get something for moth
ing is so strong in some persons that they
are willing to take the measles.
Judging the world by the standard of
ones own morality often makes a man
blush for his neighbor.
If 1t were not for the Sunday newspa-
pers, tomorrow might be indeed a day OF
rest.
The world is wide but some OF the peo-
pie in 1t are very narrow.
Ajacchus' Advice.
DO not place tco much confidence in
the ability of liar. He occasionally tells
the truth by mistake.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-12

Some time ago an official of the
Scranton Traction company promised
to present an argument showing where
in t rail on Mulberry street would be
more desirable than a fiat rail. We
are still waiting to hear from him.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-12

The talk in Harrisburg is of a hori-
zontal increase in taxation; but before
that is made the legislature must not
forget to make a horizontal cut in un-
necessary expenses.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-12

asked by certain militant females to
surrender these localities of the long
ago and to accept in lieu thereof
absurd advanced notions of mannish
destiny 1t would be unjust to say
that the new woman nonsense has
spoiled any considerable number of the
women of today; but 1t has gone just
far enough in its influence upon femin-
inc customs and masculine opinion to
introduce new irritant in the social
problem, which, in our opinion, has
contributed not a little to the phenom-
ena noted above. Rightly or wrongly,
it has for the moment weakened wo-
mans hold upon mans respect; once
the better half, she has lately appeared
to be desirous of coming down to his
unpoetic level. and until this foolish
fancy shall pass out of her mind a
sacrifice of her influence for good Is in
evitable.
We believe that the present ebulli-
tion of sexual abnormalities will soon
cease. 1t must. Society cannot longer
tolerate such a peril to its very exist
ence. But 1t is well to consider what
has caused it and to take steps for the
prevention of its repetition.
-
1t was a wise precaution to introduce
at Harrisburg an inheritance tax bill
avoiding the constitutional objections
raised by Judge Hanna. We think
those objections could have been ans
wered and consider that the original
law had good chance of being sus-
tained by the Supreme court. Still, the
matter involved a risk which a new
law will avert Under the circum-
stances, with the state revenues $9,0O0.-
900 below the probable expenditures, it
is wisdom to make sure of every pos
sible dollar of available income.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-12

The circulation editors of certain of
our esteemed contemporaries are clear
ly overworking themselves.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17
Triangle Items.

Well, Mr.. Editor, as you have not heard
anything from this section lately 1 will
give you few dots
The health of this community is very
good at present. Mrs. w. II Geer has
been sick for some time, but ne are glad
to say she is improving
The school at this place is in flourish
ing condition at present.
Rev. N. G. Wright preached most ex.
cellent sermon to q large congregation at
this place second Sunday.
Very little farm work has been done In
this section as yet, on account of bad
weather.
Wood chopping is the order of the day
in this section at present.
The young people of this community
enjoyed a sociable at Mr.. A. B. Camp
BELLS on last Saturday night. They all
report pleasant time. JAY.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17

Don't forget that Spool Thread D.
Brown & Bro. are selling 9 for cents.
It's lust as good as any. 34-2
Car load of "Studebaker" wagons just
received j. s. Fowler.
WEDO NOT WANT BOYS OR LOAF
ERS, to write, but men of ability. 5000 to
$500 per month, salary or commission.
State and general managers. RACINE
FIRE ENGINE Co., Racine, Wis. 30-s.
Remember, two spools best Machine
Thread for Sc. at D. G. Brown & Bros.
Years Of experience, close study Of th q
business and close contact with their Gus
TONERS, have established the Sullivan
Hardware Co. as headquarters for al! goods
in their line.
Car load of S:udebaker" wagons just
received. ]. 8. Fowler.
"Bacteria do not occur in the blood or
in the tissues ofa healthy living body,
either OF man or the lower animals" So
says the celebrated DR.. Koch. Otter
doctors say the best medicine to render
the blood perfectly pure and healthy is
Ayers Sarsaparilla.
$500 yards Turkey Red remnant Prints,
to 10 yard pieces, ct SIC. per yard.
33-2 D. G. Brown e Bro.
Brock Bros. are sole agents for the Boy
Carbon Plow. Have you seen it? 1t is
the strongest. neatest, lightest running
little plow on the market. It has a steel
point slide and wing and carbon foot. It
beats the Boy Dixie 16 to l. Call for it
and you will be pleased.
Call on j. L. Farmer, Anderson, s. c.,
for Adair & McCarty Bros. High Grade
Ammoniated Fertilizers and Acid Phos-
phate. IT.
Such bargains in Horse Collars as Sull
van Hardware CO. now offer are not had
often in life time.
We have the largest stock of Blacksmith
outfits ever brought to Anderson. BE
certain to see US before buying-we can
save you money. BROCK BROS.
1t Is mighty poor man that can't buy
a blacksmitn's outfit at Sullivan Hard :.
ware Coz. prices.
Brock Bros. sell the corrugated Steel
Roofing.
Much of lifes misery is due to indiges-
ton; for who can be happy with pain in
his stomach? AS corrective and strength.
ener ofthe alimentary organs, Ayers Pills
| are Invaluable, their use being always
attended with marked benefit.
Mckinley and the tariff are pushing
Barbed Wire up, but Sullivan Hardware
Co. are holding their prices down to the
old notch as long as they can.
Another car load of the great Oliver
Chilled Plows just received by Sullivan
| Hardware Co.
A farmer who uses Towers & Sullivan's q
| steel ploWs will have no other. The Sui
| livan Hardware 70. sell them and will
sell no other.
Plow gear, Traces, Brides, Hames, &C.,
low in price and complete in variety at
Sullivan Hardware Coz.
The celebrated "Nimrod" Axes, sold
only by the Sullivan Hardware Co., have
wen great reputation. They have no
equal. Price reduced.
Every farmer will now look out for his
plows, plow stocks and implements gen
orally. He will stand in his own light il
he fails to try Sullivan Hardware Co. before
buying.
For Rent-A neat, four-room cottage.
Apply at this Office.
Cut Flowers Pot Plants and Palms for
sale. Mrs. J. /. CLINKsCALEs,
| 242 Main st.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17
Culhane's Comedians.

Next Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day evenings the above we'll known
Company will appear in the Opera House
in an entire new line of comedies and
dramas. The we'll known artists, Will.
E. Culhane, Orin G. Jackson, Clever
Clementina and st. Felix arc in the Com
pany, and treat is in store for those who
go out to hear them. Popular prices of
admission. The Milledgeville (Ga.,)
Chronicle, in speaking of the Company,
says: "Culhane's Comedians was at the
opera house Thursday night with "Struck
Cas-" This company is q good one and
gave this play as it should be given, al
though some parts of it was omitted.
Clever Clementina is indeed a clever
actress. We can cheerfully recommend
this troupe to our citizens as being good
one, and a full house should greet them
at every performance. The jokes, songs
and dances are all good and catchy and
the latest productions"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17
10 All Travellers.

Your attention is invited to the changes
of time table on the Seaboard Air Line,
whose new schedule is shown in this issue.
By this change much more convenient
train service is offered you, and points
hitherto inaccessible are now convent
emily and quickly reached by the through
vestibuled and express trains of this great
system. Both the ATLANTA Speoial' and
IS. A. L. Express, now connect at Atlanta,
southbound, for New Orleans, Mobile,
Montgomery, Selma, Pensacola, Macon,
Florida, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Nash
vile, Memphis, Mexico and Pacific Coast.
The slight porthbound changes are also
shown. Befoie arranging your trip, call
on one of the Seaboard agents, and you
won't regret 1t.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17

A remarkable case Of the recovery of
speech and hearing is reported in the
Lancet from the Canton of Ticlno, in
Switzerland. An Italian, aged Al years,
who five years ago became deaf-mute in
consequence of q serious disease, was
startled by the sudden appearance of a
runaway horse. AS he jumped aside to
avoid the animal he uttered a loud scream,
and after it had gone he found that he was
able to hear and talk
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17
Your Last Chance

To get an enlarged hand painted por.
trait as will be away from Anderson
after March 8th. Lessons given in enlarg
lug and finishing portraits in Crayon, Sc
pia and Pastel. Terms S. 90. No orders
or students received after March 9th.
Make application at once. Mattison
house, McCully st., or leave orders at
Fdnt's Book Store. j. G. EARMIsoN.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17

new line of Percales in latest styles at from &c. to
10 1-2c. Also, line of Remnant Percales
Ducks, Cheviots and P. K.
Largest line of Embroidery have shown at this
of tie year
We have secured special drives in Embroidery and
Laces and feel sure we can interest you.
Choice line of Embroidery in short lengths a IL yards
each pieceO which is interesting all the Ladies who see It,
NICE fresh lot Of Hamburg, Nainsook Null and Swiss
Embrodere and Insertions and pretty assortment OF Tor
chon Laces- just the thing for early Spring
Great line Table Damask and Linens.
Bached Table Linen s. inches wide at. at........s10O
Beached Table Linen n inches wide at. 49,
Beached Table Linen 81 inches wide at. 70.
Beached Table Linen GO inches wide at. 90
Unbeached Table Linen II inches wide so
JJnbeached Table Linen Ga inches wde with bor-
der, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ioo
Red Table Damask, (importedO IS inches wide, at 80
Table Damas (good ors G4 inches wide at 4O and oc
A very nice wide Cooed Table Damask at........ 20
Doileys and Napkins great ne-at from 25c. to
$500 per dozen.
A NICE fresh lot of Ladies Foster Hook Kid Gloves,
reduced to 75c per pair
We want your business. Let us have it.
Very truly
G. f. JONES & co.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17
A ard.

Mr.. EDITOR; Pleas allow US space in
your valuable paper to return our heart
felt thanks to our friends and neighbors
for the many deeds of kindness shown US
during the sickness and death of our he.
loved mother. May Gods richest bless
ings rest upon them.
j. B. Mccoy AND FAMILY.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17

Car load of "S.udebaker" wagons just
received. GGsJ. S. Fowler.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17

Mr.. NJ Tnomp. Breazeale, who has
been located at Mr.. Olive, N c., for sew
eral months psst, buying cotton, has re.
tur, ed home.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17

=s.raIrayers would do well to remember
that the limit for making returns to the
County Auditor is out next Saturday,
goth inst. After that date the penalty will
apply.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17

Mr. 8. NJ. Smith, of Indians, is in the
city visiting his cousin, Mrs. D. H. Rus.
sell His father moved from this County
to Indiana thirty seven years ago.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17

For the presidential Inauguration cere.
monies, Washington, D. c., March 4th,
the Southern Railway will sell round trip
tickets from all points for one limited first
class fare. Tickets will be sold March 1st,
2nd and 3rd, good returning to 9Th.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17

Mr.. 0. L Jackson, of McRae, Ga, who
has been visiting his parents in the Coun-
ty, was in the city yesterday and gave us
q pleasant call. BE is we'll pleased with
his adopted home.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17

At meeting of the Grand Lodge Of
Royal Arch Masons in Charleston last
week, Mr.. Frank Il. Wilhite, of this city,
was elected Right Excellent Grand King,
the third highest office in the Lodge.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17

Pickens Journal: miss Beulah Childs
and brother, Oscar. Of Anderson County,
visited relatives and friends in Piokens
last week "
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17

Capt. Billy Smith, the popular and eff
cient conductor on the c. & G. R R ls off
now on a sick furlough. We join his
many friends in wishing him speedy
restoration to health.