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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06

on record, for the first four days of
the month: Thursday, Sept /, SO de-
grees; Friday, Sept. 2. 9S degrees; Sat-
urday, Sept 8, 9S degrees; Sunday,
Sept. 4. 9S degrees.
Stanley Simrell is home after a So
journ of few weeks at Wilkes Barre
and Harvey's lake.
Miss Blanche Stark returned to the
State Normal school at Stroudsburg
last week, where she will take the
senior course this year.
Miss Minnie Capwell, of Dixon, Pa,
came UP on her wheel and took in the
Odd Fellows picnic last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Snover and
son, Ralph, of Scranton. spent Sunday
at the home of v. R. Gardner.
The funeral of Miss Harriet Ray
Mrs. Nancy Dean last Saturday after
Bethel cemetery.
Langstaff Hose company held their
regular monthly meeting in their rooms
last night.
Paulowna Rebekah lodge, I. o. o. F.,
will hold their first monthly meeting
this evening.
VI. w. OtdItOI anu family nave re-
turned from their cottage at Lake San
tiago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd wrigley, of Lake
Carey, are spending a few days in
town.
Mrs. Crawford Matthewson has re.
turned from an extended visit through
New York state.
Mr.. Levi Van Aucken, of Scranton
is a guest of Mr.. and Mrs. B. ]. Good
win.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Eilenberger are
entertaining friends from New York
John Reed has been building an ex-
tension on his store and dwelling.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06
ARCHIBALD.

The regular monthly meeting of the
borough council was postponed from
last evening to this evening on account
of Labor day.
On next Tuesday evening, Septem-
her Is, a number of young people from
this place will hold a benefit enter
tainment and social for the benefit
of Mrs. John O'Horo. whose husband
died recently.
All the mines in this place were idle
yesterday on account of Labor day.
James Kearney will on next Tuesday
leave for st. Charles college, Ellicot
city, Md.
Mrs. NJ. A. Foote and son Fred are
visiting friends in Oakville, Canada.
A regular meeting of the school
board was held last evening and all
members were present except Messrs.
Price, Toolin and o Rourke After the
reading of the minutes of the previous
meeting, which were adopted as read,
the following bills were ordered paid:
Thomas Price, IS. Patrick Price, Sl4;
J. p. Kearney. sS; William Cox, s65: /:
Peter Price, $4: NJ. A. Ruddy, 1915;
George schinlmel, 81; Henry Propst. So;
i. W. LOTUS, $40 f. j. O'Boyle, s3S-
81; James O'Rourke, s92,99: Mrs. Scan
ion, $40: James #. McAndrew, SOS; p.
j. McAndrew, $3S; American Book
company, s376, 96; Blakely school
board, s42; Edward Duffy. $3.50; Hen
ry Revek, s1t4.26; Michael OBrien, S.;
Mr.. Kielty stated that Mr.. OHearn,
tb1 insurance agent. paid him s3s on
account OF destruction by fire in the
Central school building. The matter
of hiring night school teachers was
then taken up and after some discus
sion It was decided to hold the old
ones. The bond of Edward Duffy
was then read and after a very warm
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06
able comedy. full of fun from start to

able comedy. full of fun from start to
finish.
Mr.. Gail Jenkins left yesterday for
Willamsport, where he will enter
Dickson college.
The Delaware and Hudson sold 450
excursion tickets to Farview and about
100 to Carbondale and Scranton yes
terday.
We are waiting for the promised new
Erie depot and new bridge to span
the Lackawaxen in place of the COW
cred death trap now standing at the
foot of Second street. Also for the
foot bridge over Park Lake at Third
street. We were also promised a CEN
tennial history of Wayne county. They
are coming-be patient. Our beautiful
front street will not always be
sprinkled with broken stone and kept
in a condition far worse than the sur
rounding country roads.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06
BASE BALL GAMES.
Carbondale Loses Two to the Homes
dale Team.

Carbondale lost two games to Homes
dale yesterday. The morning game was
played at Alumni park and was wit
messed by n large number of spec
tators, many of whom were from the
Maple city. The game was for a purse
OF fifty dollars and was interesting
from start to finish, although at times
there was considerable wrangling.
Cleary. of Olyphant; Hayes and Powell,
OF Mill Creek, and Nerney, of Scran-
ton, strengthened the locals and 1t Is
due to their efforts that the scores
were kept as small as they We're.
Honesdale went IN in the air In the
morning and the locals succeeded in
batting in three runs, to which they
afterward added one, making their
total for the game four.
The score stood four to three in the
eighth inning when Honesdale came to
the bat, and when they went out again
the score was changed to six to four
in the visitors favor. With two men
on bases. Williams made a timely hit,
scoring the two runs and won the game
for Honesdale Carbondale came to the
bat again but went out in one, two,
three order.
The cranks, whose hopes had been
:,
went wild when the game ended in
Honesdales' favor. Considerable money
changed hands, with the odds slightly
in Carbondale's favor. Rogan. the UNI
pire, rendered his decisions with a
trifle Of partiality for the home team,
although at most times his judgment
was excellent.
OGara was in the box for the home
team, while Matthewson was on the
rubber for the visitors The former
pitched an excellent game. but did not
receive the support he should have. He
made several assists himself, some of
them being exceedingly had chances.
Matthewson was very speedy, but at
times lost control of the ball. He was
cool at critical points, however, and
twice struck out men while second and
third bases were occupied and two men
out.
The locals cannot hope to cope with
Honesdale's present team until they
have more practice together. Although
they are individually a strong set of
players, they do not play together. The
features of yesterday mornings game
were Schuler's catch in the ninth and
Williams timely hit in the eighth.
Cleary's catch of McAndrew's hot liner
also deserves special mention. Lynott
played a good game in the field.
The afternoon game was uninterest-
ing as it was decidedly one-sided,
Honesdale having the best of it from
start to finish. While Hayes can throw
a fast ball he is by no means a twirler
as he lacks the headwork necessary
for a good pitcher. The game ended
after much wrangling with the score
IA to in favor of the team from over
the Moosics. During the play Burke,
t.snesdale's fast man. was severely
injured.
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06
MISS CooGAN DEAD.
She Expired Yesterday Morning at
6 O'clock.

Miss Rose Coogan died yesterday
morning at o'clock at the home of
her parents on Pike street. She has
been ailing for some time past, but
her demise was unexpected. What adds
to the sadness of the death is the fact
that some of the family were having
an outing at Crystal Lake and were
not present at the death bedside.
Deceased was born in his city twen-
ty years ago and has since resided
here. She is survived by four sisters,
Mary, Annie, Emma and Mrs. j. B.
McCann, and four brothers, James,
Patrick, Thomas and John, and her
father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas Coogan~ The funeral an
nouncement will be made tomorrow in
column.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06
CARBONDALE.

1.-THE Csrbondale correspondence OF The
tribune has been plao in the hands OF
Mr.. J. NJ Forbes. All complaints as to ir-
regular delivery, etc. elso news items,
should be addressed to Roberts &c Rey-
nolds, news agents.l
The age-herald., 1898-03-22

the circuit in the course of the next three months. In this way this section of the south could secure the speakers it most de- sires to hear. In this way, too. good terms could be secured.
 There is no need to speak of the elevat- ing, healthful influence of the lyceum. It endures in northern towns, where 1t has been in active operation nearly fifty years. It supplements the public schools. It is popular university on wheels. The trav- cling library and the lyceum are two in- stitutions that no section can have too much of, if each be properly conducted. Let there be an Alabama lyceum circuit at least. As Birmingham is the only Ala bama town that has an organized lyceum, let it take steps to form such circuit. It can be done by correspondence.
The age-herald., 1898-03-22
A BIoodIess War.

After all. would not the law of blockade determine the whole Spanish business? For immediately upon the outbreak of war the American fleet would close the ports of Cuba and Porto Rico It would be an ef- fective blockade made by a sufficient num- ber of ships, near their base, near coal supply. The law of blockade is such that a neutral ship attempting to break an ef- fective blockade is liable to capture and condemnation anywhere. She has no right to defend herself by force. It would be
 breach of the law of nations. Neutr als are bound, said Lord John Russell to the Liverpool merchants during the civil war in this country, to respect every effective blockade.
 What would be the result of an effective blockade? The very desolation that Sena- tor Proctor has 50 graphically pictured the depopulation that permitted him to ride on the rails hundreds of miles without seeing a sign of lffe-Weylerism practically maintained by Blanco-will render Cuba untenable to the Spanish without the land ing of a soldier or the firing of gun. They would soon be without supplies, either of food or ammunition. The insur- gents would do the rest
 To say that Cuba would not fall like an over-ripe plum, as the result of an effective blockade, is either to say that this coun- try cannot maintain an effective blockade of Cuba and Porto Rico or else that Spain can maintain an effective blockade of American ports. The ridiculousness of the that if Spain should leave open a single American port neutrals would be free by the law of blockade to run in there with goods to be shipped by rail to any othei port or part of the country. To say that Spain could maintain an effective blockade of American is, however, no more ridicu- lous than to say that her naval strength would enable her to raise the blockade of coal supply.
 She could do neither. Cuba would fall without the loss of a man. The wet seas- on would not interfere with the progress of the campaign-a campaign that would soon put an end to the starvation of the recon centrados, the desolatfon of the island, the destruction there of American property, and the obliteration of It's American com merce. It would avenge the Maine, and the crafty Spaniard would for once and for all be caught in a trap, and driven out of the Americas, thus bringing back peace and prosperity to one of the fairest DOT tfons of the entire world.
The age-herald., 1898-03-22
The PoII-Tax Proposition.

The politicians of New Orleans are strongly opposed to poll tax, and they are presenting objections to it at a lively rate in the constitutional convention of Louisiana, which has temporarily become a debating society. Some of. the debates are very warm, none more so than those over the proposed poll tax. The New Or leans politicians are supposedly opposed to it because the poll tax of their hood lums would have to be provided in some way, even if it came out of their own pockets.
 One speaker said it would not be a tax at all, because it is not to be forced con- tribution to the public treasury. It is to be voluntary matter, not enforceable by any legal proceeding-in other words, a license for the privilege of voting. One man pays a license for the privilege of peddling goods in the streets, another for the privilege of conducting a Punch-and- Judy show, still another would pay a license for the privilege of voting. Those who want to vote, step up at the appointed time and pay a license fee, which by cus- tom is called poll tax, and which is dedi- cated to the common schools of the state.
 Those who talk in this strain proceed to clinch their argument with denunciatons of the undemocratic nature of a license fec in connection with suffrage. The value of a full, free electorate is dwelt upon; the efforts of some countries, and some states of this country to punish voters who do not vote Is dilated upon, and the delegates are exhorted to preserve the suffrage to the masses of the people, unhampered, un- restricted and without cost. All this is very fine to the ear, but it does not promote the least bit satisfactory settlement of the difficulties that confessedly attend the suffrage in Louisiana.
 The New Orleans politicians do, howev- CT, make one point that deserves consid- eratfon. They say the poll tax requirement. would not operate so handsomely in Louis lana as the present poll tax in Mississippi is said to do. They say that a negro hesi- tdteS to pay uoildr BLK uontHS III au- vance of an election when he knows he must still run the gauntlet of the under standing clause. He lacks dollars worth of faith in his ability to interpret the con- stitution to the satisfaction of the election officials of Mississippi. He has no desire to pay one dollar for the privilege of ex- expounding the constitution. A poll tax and an understanding clause is very diff ferent from poll tax and no understand ing clause. And yet the people of South Carolina hold that a poll tax does lessen
The age-herald., 1898-03-22

the number of unintelligent negro votes and there Is no understanding clause In op- eration in that state.
 The question Is thoroughly and acutely discussed in the Louisiana convention. and any succeeding constitutional convention can readily gather all pertinent facts and points by consulting the records of the de- bate now daily progressing. But in Ala bama no such recourse will be necessary, because an alternative educational and property qualification with a concession to the veterans of the war. will suffice to give this state an intelligent and altogether satisfactory electorate.
The age-herald., 1898-03-22
An Alabama Circuit.

The spreading of the lyceum Is a mark ed feature of the south. In the winter of 1S9s-7 only two lecture courses were con- ducted in this section of the country; but in the season just closed the number had risen to eleven. The southern circuit con- sisted of Charleston, Augusta, Savannah, Brunswick, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Colum- bus, Birmingham, Nashville, Memphis and New Orleans. The chances are that twice eleven southern towns will join the lyceum movement next season.
 This will be a benefit to all. Better speakers can be secured on better terms, when the distances between the one-night stands are nicely reduced. The southern country has great deal of breadth in it, and men who are to lecture at night do not like to ride more than one hundred miles during the day. As the lyceum move ment spreads in the south an effort should be made to have stopping places not farth- CT apart than Birmingham and Montgom- cry are, or possibly Montgomery and Mo- bile, or Birmingham and Huntsville.
 By taking in Columbus on the Georgia line, and Meridian and Columbus on the Mississippi line, an Alabama circuit could be organized that would prove very att tractive and convenient to the best and brainiest speakers in the country. The choicest entertainments could thus be pro- yided at rates that almost every town could afford to pay. Opelika and Eufaula and Troy and Florence and Tuscaloosa could well afford to enter the proposed circuit along with Mobile, Montgomery Birmingham, Huntsville, Columbus and Meridian. In order to secure the best en- tertainrents, it would be well to organize
The age-herald., 1898-03-22
When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks. Richard the Third.
The Saw-Gin Process.

With rather more than his customary emphasis or exageeration, as the reader may prefer, Mir. Edward Atkinson dis cusses in the Manufacturers Record the present methed of separating the lint of cotton from the seed. The saw-gin is vller than mere English words can express When worked at a high speed 'it cuts breaks, fmpairs and doubles up or crimps the staple more or less at every tooth. It destroys the practically parallel lines of the fibers, in which form they leave the seed It tanges up the cotton and fills it with air as it leaves the gin. This loose and tangled mass makes a great, clumsy bale on the farm press, which must be com pressed under a most destructive pressure in order to squeeze the air out of the cot ton which the saw gin had put into it in an effort to make more compact bale. No big compress ever really does this work. The air that would never have been in the bale except for the saw gin is left in the compressed bale. It is under compression. Its expansion usually bursts the bale at some point on it's way to the market This bad bale soaks water in the most effective manner while if a spark lights upon 1t the fire bores into 1t in every direction. remaining alive for weeks"
 MT. Atkinson goes much farther in his denunciations of the saw gin, but at length his wind goes out, and he closes with the statement that there are not bad words enough in the dictionary to express it's faults in suitable terms.
 His remedy is a roller gin that has not knife roller gin that is used in Egypt is, however, to be the basis of the new device He sees nothing but good In roller gin. It squeezes out the air that has been en- trapped among the fbers. He even claims that the bat from the roller gin does not reabsorb air, and that such bats can be packed in a common screw press to @ density of 20 to 25 pounds to the cubic foot, or something denser than the present bale is after its great and final compression. It can then be squeezed again at the ship ping point until density of forty to fifty pounds to the cubic foot Is secured which is the density of Egyptian cotton bales
 MT. Atkinson is absurd in asking the farmers of the south to reject the saw gin in favor of one that has not been invented; and he is probably just as absurd in think ing that the saw gin pumps air into every fibre and between every fibre that cannot be squeezed out. When MT. Atkinson gets out of the realm of absurdity and imagina- ton, the practical farmers of the south will listen to him, but as things stand they will go right ahead working air into their lint with a saw gin. There are worse things than air, even when it is pumped in by saw gin.
The age-herald., 1898-03-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
 Love and potatoes both spring from the eyes.
 When man weds an heiress her face Is his fortune.
 Some women worry themselves gray try ing to look young.
 Friends and umbrellas are seldom at hand when needed. It is always a great re-leaf to the trees when spring comes.
 A man of ripe experience is too wise to monkey with green fruit
 Faith without words is about as useless as a watch without wheels.
 An ounce of f1attery goes farther with some women than pound of pity.
 Nature causes water to expand in freez- ing-but the iceman causes the price to ex- Nand.
 Some people have more appetite than din- ner and others have more dinner than ap- petite.
 It is easier to point than to plod. That is why the world is full of human guideposts. One song sung amid a storm is of more benefit to mankind than a whole concert when the sun is shining.
The age-herald., 1898-03-22
MONEY THROWN AWAY.
Le Nashville Banner.

From the Nashville Banner.
 Poor and ignorant negroes all over the south are being deluded and deceived into paving money into a so-called cx-slave pen sion society. This society is humbug and a fraud. There is no more prospect q the government paying pensions to ex- slaves than there is of it's paving pensions to the man in the moon. The proposi- ton is utterly absurd and is laughed at in congress. The negroes who are paying their hard-earned money into this society are throwing 1t away, or, what is worse. giving 1t away for the benefit of the few sharps that are gulling them.
The age-herald., 1898-03-22
BECAUSE HE SHUTTERS.

Colonel Hunt says that private in the First regiment. Ohio. refuses to go to war because he shutters.
 You don't go to talk, but to fight" said the colonel.
 But they'll p-p-put me on g-g-guard, and a man may go half mile before can say 'Wh-who-wiro goes there."
 'Oh, that's no objection, for there will be another sentry placed along with you, and he can challenge df you can fire.'
 Well" stammered the private, "b-b-but I may be t-talzen and run through the g-g-gizzard before can c-cry qu-quarter." Cincinnati Enquirer.
The age-herald., 1898-03-22

The Sheffield Record intimates that The Age-Heralds statements as to the common schools of the state are inaccurate. VIII it kindly put a finger on an inaccuracy? If it will, The Age-Herald will at once sift the matter thoroughly.
The age-herald., 1898-03-22

 From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. When I wuz in tn circus line A tentin' through tn west. I found it wuz a bizness fine For putin spunk to test. 'Gainst one of us with club sor knife The rowdy gang would fly, lo An then you'd see us wake. to life When came his warnin cry:
 Hey, Rube!' There wasn't nothin' in the biz That stirred us up like that; We waltzed into the fight, gee whizl Before you could say scat! The animiles might all vamoose An go a-rushin' by; Wed let tn whole concern turn loose When came that warnin' cry:
 "Hey, Rube!' It all comes back to me again From watchin' Uncle Sam A-lookin' toward the sunken Maine An waitin' cool and cam; But, Lordy, won't there be a swoop- It's comin' by an by When Uncle Sam gives g. mighty whoOp An sound tn warnin' cry:
 Hey, Rube?'
The age-herald., 1898-03-22
Al ]
NEVER IN THIS WORLD.

From the New Orleans States.
 We need feel no alarm because of the report that Spain is trying to buy the Gillian cruiser O'Higgins. A ship bearing such a name would go to the bottom rather than fight against the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The age-herald., 1898-03-22
A PIG-iRON POOL.

From the Springfield Republican.
 Pennsylvanian and southern iron pro- ducers have been trying to agree upon some plan of combination to stop the cutting in prices-in other words, to abolish competi- ton. They are likely to succeed The Bes- semer iron interests have recently effected
The age-herald., 1898-03-22
WERE NOT UP TO DATE.

.I wonder why it is that pessimism is so much more common in this country than 1t used to be?"
 "Oh, that's easily accounted for. They had no chafing dishes until a few years ago."-CMcago News.