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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22
HELD the Home.

Probably no institution in this region
so closely touches the sympathetic feel
ing of the people as does the Home
for the Friendless, which for twenty
five years has been the kindly shelter
of aged and feeble women, upon whom
the hand of adversely has fallen heav-
lily, has stretched gentle arms to the
little children, who have come unloved
into a cold world, and has welcomed
the other little ones, who. though ten
derly treasured, have been brought
thther by heart broken widowed moth
ers or by desolate and forlorn fathers,
from whose home the light has gone
out forever, and who were powerless
to give the needed care. 1t is
work which appeals strongly
to even the Indifferent and one
in which interest once awakened
never flags. 1t is with regret that the
public will learn of the sore straits in
which the management of this worthy
charity finds itself placed A heavy
mortgage is resting on the Adams ave-
nue. property, which 1t has been ex-
pected would find purchaser long be-
fore this date. The new structure Is
almost ready for occupancy, but an
accumulation of debt to the amount of
$4,000 embarrasses those who have so
long toiled in the hope of seeing the
increasing family safely and comfort
ably housed To place a mortgage on
the new property is to be deprecated
and to avoid this prompt assistance is
needed. This is an appeal which comes
very close to the hearts of the COM
munity. Money is wanted to tide over
immediate necessities. 1t is asked by
the managers that the newspapers take
up this cause at the present and help
the Home by their support. The
Tribune gladly accedes to this request
and urges the generous people of this
town to send in their subscriptions at
once to Mrs. d. L. Taylor, treasurer of
the society. Save the Home for the
Friendless from the incubus of great
mortgage.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22
AN ADMINISTRATION MEASURE

From the New York Sun.
1t is we'll for every Republican senator
to remember that the only distinctive
administration measure now before con-
gress is the Hawaiian annexation treaty.
There is nothing else of any Importance
that comes straight from the executive
to congress, marked with the president S
recommendation and attended BY his
earnest and anxious desires. Mr.. McKin-
ley has put his annexation treaty in the
first place of urgency.
Annexation itself is much more than
an administration measure; much more
than party measure. The demand for
il is the expression of an Americanism
which is high above any consideration
of partisanship. But this treaty in par
ticular designed to effect the anneXa-
ton of Hawaii at once and in the man.
ner preferred by the president and his
secretary of state. is peculiarly identi-
fled with the present administration,
and it's success or failure will stand in
history as the most conspicuous event of
Mr.. McKinley's term in the white house.
Its success or failure will depend upon
Republican votes. Its rejection by Re-
publican votes in the senate would be a
direct reputation of the foremost meas
ure of administration policy by the Re-
publican senators so voting.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22
Topics OF The Day
Put Into Dialogue
lFor The Tribune, by II. McAlpine. ]
On the Government Limited.

Millionaire traveller: What is the
matter? We were running slow and
stopping every little while before we
reached the last station, and since we
left there we have been creeping. If
the engine is broken why don't you get
another one?
Conductor: 1--WE have a green fireman
from somew here back in the Butternut
Mountains. He's never fired anything be-
fore except brush heaps and can't keep
up steam. Every time the engineer puts
on the blower he gets scared-thinks snes
going to bust and jumps off; we've had
to stop and pick him up about eight
times. State Senator Puffer got on at
the last station: he's taking a COW out
to his farm and has her tied to the rear
coach"
Traveller: "Why, what's the matter
with you, man? Cut his Internal beast
loose so we can get a move on US. l
have a telegram that my wife is dying,
If l don't reach her bedside within ten
hours it will be too late"
Conductor: "Well, stranger these
Populist statesmen have a crowd of re-
latives they're anxious to get onto the
railroads, and us old employees gets
cleaned out mighty easy nowadays. Sem
ator Puffer Is the head of the bureau for
the management of the state railways.
I'd like to cut his animal loose so you
could get to your wife, but you see, I've
got wife and children of my own and
this jobs all | have to support them
with. There go the brakes! That's a
stop. Fireman must be off again"
Rear brakeman: 81 guess the cow $
tired; she's lying down, and the senator
wants to let her rest awhile"
Conductor: IAN right. Run back with
flag. Keep you eye on the COW and
when she gets up hurry in so we can
haf he faly a. lEa
down again. Stranger guess the best
you can do is to stop swearing and try
living better life so you can meet your
wife when you die"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

Spanish official: "Senor Lee. We desire
to offer every facility for the distribu-
ton of the supplies your people have
sent to the poor Cubans, but We have
encountered a very grave difficulty. Our
soldiers, so long the boiled mule and the
raw yam have eaten that it makes them
mad to see their prisoners filling up with
potted ham and picked pigs-feet. We
notice among your supplies several bar
rels of sandwiches: |, myself, have in
the United States made a little travel
and chewed upon the sandwich, and
beg you to allow us to distribute these
barrels among our mutinous soldiers,
who will then think the American pro-
visions are new scheme to kill off the
rcconcentrados and thus happily a Sc
rious revolt may be averted."
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

The pale green silk night shirt
bound as to its collar and sleeves with
hand made embroidery, which was
found i'm Bunco-man Spencer's grip is
filling the Jail officials OF aesthetic Bos-
ton with awe. The Bostonese fancy
runs rather to book bindings than paja-
mas and is incapable of appreciating
the sense of fitness which led the fam
Gus green goods man to luxuriate in a
green leather dress suit case and pale
green night robes.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22
The Traction Company's Prosperity.

We observe i'm the Philadelphia
Ledger an advertisement by j., w.
Clark & Co. offering for sale certain
securities of the Scranton Railway
company, which GOWNS the entire
street railway system of Scranton,
Pa" The point of interest for Scran-
tonians in this advertisement is en-
bodied in the information that the gross
earnings of the company from all
sources for 1897 were 1856, 325.42; the
operating expenses, $179,974.40; the net
earnings slS6, 6,351 O2. or more than the
operating expenses: all fixed charges,
including taxes. Sl35, ,1I0,36; and the
surplus or profit for the year, $51, ,1S0.66,
or in round numbers ID per cent. of the
cash business done.
In other words, in time of marked
depression in the general condition OF
business, the Scranton Railway COM
pany, operating in a territory necessi-
tating longer than the average hauls
in communities of equal population,
has not only met from its current re-
ceipts the expenses of operation and
the considerable fixed charges, but has
turned the corner with a margin of
profit equal to one-seventh of its cash
receipts. on every nickel fare that it
collected in 1897 the company cleared
seven mills.
We call attention to these facts, first,
because it gives us pleasure to note
the success of local institutions which
are in the pursuit of legitimate busi-
ness; secondly, because we desire to
congratulate General Manager Frank
Sllman. jr., upon this conspicuous evil
dence of his administrative capacity:
and thirdly, because we now feel en-
boldened to suggest to the officials of
this road that they can well afford to
call in and make kindling wood of the
large number of filthy and disreputable
cars which they are at present operat-
ing on a number of their lines-cars
which it is an outrage to ask a decent
person to enter-and also eXpend some
| money in track repairs on lines like,
say, the Green Ridge Peoples, which
is probably the worst strip of trolley
| roadbed in the United States.
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

and the walls of their peaceful home be.
spattered with their life's blood. We Will
show that the prisoner at the har, VINO
carries himself so jauntily and smiles so
swcetly at you. is the one who ala TINS
fearful thing. We have ifty witnesses
to prove his bad character and our de-
tectives have woven chain OF evidence
about him that will demand from YOU
gentlemen of the jury. a verdict OF muir
der In the first degree
Attorney for the defense: I'VE admit
oil that the prosecuting attorney mas
claimed. but we will prove conclusiNely
that our client was not responsible. We
Will show that his actions were the re
suit of uncomfortable impulses. cmarat-
ing from evil memories accumulated in
certain portions of his brain. The cm-
mincnt specialist who is present VIII
remove a large portion of his skull so
that you may sec the distended condi-
tion of the brain cells within the bump
of aggressiveness and compare them
with the normal condition OF the sur
rounding gray matter. lie will also make
an incision over the heart and snow now
the diseased condition of that organ
stimulates these abnormal cells to excess
sive action. We shall not ask for mercy
because of the drops of sweat you see
upon tho prisoners brow; the raised
hair upon his head; the bulging eye
balls. We demand only justice towards
your unfortunate brother. whose condi-
tion calls for scientific treatment at some
santarium where he can he tendcrly
nursed back to a healthy condition of
mind and body. If your honor will al
low us to proceed with the defense the
instruments and operating table are
ready to be brought in. We wish to
make this case new departure in---
Prisoner: "Never mind! Never mind.
boss ] don't want to be no new depar-
turc. I'm an old fashioned man, | am,
and hangings good enough for me. Brain
cells didn't have anything to do with
it, your honor. l killed them people with
a sledge so I could get the Doodle l
| thought there was in the house. ] de-
serve to hang and ] want to he sent
| enced right away. If this crime ISM
enough to hang me without trial. your
honor, ! can confess to dozen other
murders"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

Broad gauge roads from Tunkhannock
TO Blnghamton, Williamsport, Noxen,
up Bowman's creek and in other direc-
tions are talked Of II all of the pres
ent schemes materialize nearly every
farmer in Wyoming will doubtless
have a shipping station for produce
right at his back door.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22
A Fable.

British Lion: 81 don't see how 1t -.
Every time the Spanish bull snorts a
little the American eagle hides his head
under his wing and hunts for hole to
crawl into, while l can't even look at
anything across the pond without his fly
ing in my face and clawing my fur loose.
You tell Uncle Sammy I'm going to chew
up his pet the next time IT gets funny:
I'm tired of having my tail twisted by a
bird that let's a blind old OK scare it out
OF years growth"
Johnny Bull. I'm the spring I'll
stir up a rumpus with the natives OF
Bulawabago and You can chew them
to relieve your feelings: I've got lots OF
money invested on Uncle Sammy's farm
and If you should hurt his eagle ] might
loose it. Old Spain lets his bull act
sassy because he knows Uncle Sam is
very busy hoeing Populistic weeds out OF
new crop of good times, and will lei
him slaughter all the poor little Cuban
chickens and null some of the tail feath'
ers' out of the eagle, rather than get
into fuss and be compelled to neglect
his tender prosperity plants"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22
Senator QUAY on Boltlng.

senator Quay. who has been criti-
cizcd for voting with the Democrats
to take up the Teller resolution de-
paid in silver as we'll as gold, makes
this explanation of his vote
"I consider that good party politics.
If the Democrats are foolish enough
to go on record again in favor of free
silver and in favor of repudiating our
bonds they ought to be permitted TO
do SO. I will not vote with them to
pass the resolution, but they have
votes enough of their own Their
course. if. persisted in, will result in.
the election of a Republican house, of
representatives this fall and compel
the Democrats to make the fight in
1900 on the free coinage issue. At the
same time it will rally together again
all the friends of an honest dollar. |
cannot understand why the Democrats
made such an unwise move. It will
make larger the schism in the Demo-
cratic ranks in the East and make cer-
tain tho election of Republicans to sue
cced Senator Murphy, in New York,
and Senator, Smith. in New Jersey.
The passage of the resolution will also
cause certain eastern Republicans of
wealth who have been figuring on bolt
ing their narty nominees this year to
rcelize that the financial question is
not settled by any means"
1t is possible that certain eastern
wish to bolt their party this year if
those who are recognized as leaders of
the party in the East did not permit
discredited leutenants apparently to
force such a necessity upon them.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22
mortgage.

General Booth is by far the most pic
turesque figure among the religious and
social forces of the century. He stands
for the nearest practical approach to the
ideals of Christianity yet attained by
any religious movement.-Chicago Times
Herald.
Come. now, isn't that daubing it on
pretty thick?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

Whether or not Mrs. Luetgert was
made into sausage there seems to be
possibility that some of the spectators
will suffer that fate in their efforts to
hear everything at the second Luetgert
trial.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22
Unsatisfactory.

The official statement, printed in all
the papers yesterday, setting forth
the administration intentions with
reference to Cuba, is by no means
satisfactory. If the United States has
moral duty to perform in Cuba, then
the information as to Cuban conditions
furnished by our own diplomatic rep
resentatives in that island shows that
we are nationally remiss In trying to
postpone its effective performance.
If we have no duty there then the
president should not talk as if he
thought we had. In either event, it
is not a matter for dalliance. Either
Spain is right in it's rule over Cuba or
it is intolerably wrong. If right, we
plainly nave no business to interfere In
any way, shape or manner, either
with criticism, suggestion or command.
If wrong, can the president defend
a policy of non-intervention which, by
the sworn information Of our own Of
ficials in Cuba, not to mention vOlu-
minous crroborative testimony, is per-
mitting hundreds of thousands of Gu
ban n-COmbatants to be starved to
death under circumstances of peculiar
shame and horror"
The fact stands formally confessed
and attcsred by the president and by
his spokesmen on the floor of the house
that during two years under the regime
of Weyler, Spain inflicted on Cuba a
dlspensation of infamy such as has
had no modern parallel. Condemnation
of Weylerism by Mckinley and Hit is
unsparingly severe. These men also
say that Weylerism stands approved
by large and influential element
among the Spanish people who may at
any moment be successful in re-instat-
| ing Weyler in power. They give this
as the explanation of the ministerial
anxiety at Madrid and the recent anti
autonomy riots at Havana. Yet they
want the American people 10 sit pa
| tient while amidst these multiplying
| menaces Sagasta and 8lanco held out
| to the unstarved Cuban remnant the
sham promise Of impossible compro
mise, following mp Wholesale assassina-
| ticn with attempted Wholesale decep-
tion. They want us TO indulge both
| Spain and Cuba in what we know is a
false hope, apparently for no other
reason than to keep a disgraccful NOM
inal peace.
| If we are TO wash our hands CT the
whole Cuban matter and let war, fam
inc and pesil.ence do as they will in
the Pearl of the Antilles, al! right; but
let us at least be honest about il. Let
us not prate in one breath about moral
responsibility and in the next cry halt
to every effort to cause that respon-
siblity to be effectively accepted.
| --1--
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

The Commercial Advertiser says that
"our Cuban policy is now sane. digni-
fed, straightforward and Effective"
Effective?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

compelling those eligible to jury SER
vice under the Ellsworth scheme to
display visible symptoms of common
sense
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

Representative William A. Stone will.
according to present indications, be the
next governor of Pennsylvania, but his
nomination, which will be equivalent to
election, will be accomplished by the
force of his own merit.-Pottsville Min
ers' Journal.
Indications are often very deceptive.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

; 1t begins to look as though the first
battles of the contemplated war with
Spain are to be fought on the floor of
the national house Of representatives.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

Actor Ratcliffe is the best "billed"
star in the country today. 1t is fortu-
nate that circumstances render it i'm
possible for the matinee girls to bury
him in violets
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

The Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph
now appears in gown of pale ashes of
rose tint. very becoming, and in no
way to be confused with the Police
Gazette
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

Has the esteemed Lebanon Report
any warrant save silly prejudice for
calling the present secretary of the
commonwealth ward thug?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22
Science in the Court.

District Attorney: "One OF the most
hideous and diabolical crimes of the
century has been committed in our
midst; a father aud mother and their
four helpless little ones have been Killed,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

Scranton is not alone in the threat
ened curtailment of it's postal facii-
tiles by reason Of insufficient federal
appropriations. The menace Is general
But no doubt this cloud has its silver
lining. Perhaps it will educate the
public to insist upon such reforms in
the mail classification as Will do away
with deficits i'm the postal service ana
permit improvements and extensions
rather than threats of injurious re-
ductious. The enactment .of the Loud
bill revising the rates on second-class
matter would soon plug up the present
leak and make possible surplus.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

Congressman Hit appears to be very
much in the position Of the man who
intruded upon the habitation of the
hornet.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

In the New York Legislature Senator
Ellsworth has introduced a bill which
provides that any person who as prin-
cipal or agent conducts or engages in
the business of editing publishing,
printing, selling. distributing or circu-
lating any licentlous, indecent, corrupt,
depraved or lbelous paper, or a paper
which corrupts depraves, degrades or
Injuries the minds or morals of the pub
lie or its readers or Of the people among
whom il circulates, is guilty of mis-
demeanor and upon conviction of any
such offense shall be punished by
fine of not more than $1,000 or by i'm
prisonment for not more than one year,
or by both fine and Imprisonment for
the first offense, and upon conviction
of any subsequent offense shall be pun
ished by imprisonment of not less than
one year nor more than five years, or
in ADDITION thereto the defendant and
his agents and employees shall be pro-
hibited from thereafter publishing,
printing, selling or distributing such
papers or any paper Of the same name"
The passage of this bill should be fol-
lowed by the enactment OF another
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

The passing OF the Mohtrese railroad
int the hands OF the Lehlsh Valley
eompsnyaisn attended by all SORTS of
railroad rumors over in Wyoming
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

Accounts OF the recent victories of
government troops over the insurgents
In cuba prove that the Spanish ad-
vance agents know enough to hang out
posters at the proper time.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22
REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET.


Three ycars-.PETER NEuLs, Eleventh
ward. - ..,-
Three Years-D. |. PHILLIPS ftth
ward. .,-
Two Years-E. y. FELLOWS, four'h
ward. .-
Two Years-F. S. GODttb1' bish'h
ward.
one ycar-F. S. BARKER, Seventeenth
ward. 80
One Ycar-F;LIAS T.. EVANS, Fifteonth
ward.
Election Day. February II.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

The Washington Post froths all over
itself in its effort to make believe that
Spain is doing its whole duty in Cuba.
But the Post probably doesn't desire
to be taken seriously.
Stikeen River journal., 1898-04-02

and are having built four steamers for the river.
 The Hudson Bay company are build ing two or more steamers: the tassiar Central railway company has purchased the ElwOod for llsc on the river. and there are several steamers under con struction on the Sound for the same service. In all there will be about p stealners plying upon the Stikecn this coming scason.and every passenger and every pound of freight which they will handle must be landed at WrangeI. Some of the steamboat managers hope to save time by not bringing their steamers out of the river. in which event Stikeen island tor Cottonwood island, as it Is sometimes callcdl, in the river mouth. will be q point of great importance. Owing to the extensive tide flats at the mouth of the river steamers must wait until the tide suits. and this will cause delay. so that it will probably be found most convenient to establish an extensive system of ferries between Wrangel and Stikccn island. d distance of seven miles, Passengers and freight will be taken over on the ferry to the island. and be there loaded on the river steamers. It is thought that the time saved in this way will more than compensate for the expense of the second handling of the goods IL is not d matter of surprise that the town grow very rapidly and another town built on Stikecn island.