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The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-02
4 VERMONT YOTCE.

We shall have quite enough indigesti- ble and unassimilable raw material by the incorporation into our body polite of the heterogeneous peoples of Hawaii and Porto Rico. We cannot run two ir- reconcilable systems of government at the same time, without shipwreck. Our great paramount duty is to guard the rights and interests Of the 75. 900, 900 of our own people, and to preserve and maintain intact the vital principles upon which our own and all popular government rests. The proposed ex- pansion means endless and vexing for eign complications; vast expenditures on Notifications; large increase of army and navy; great waste of life and treas- ure; dangerous increment of political corruption, in the foolish effort to en- graft colonial policy upon our system; and enormously increased taxation.
 So boldly and clearly says ex-Con- gressman Stewart of Vermont Sena- tor Morrill, and ex-Senator Edmunds of the same State agree with him. And there are others. But what's the use? Destiny is at work and Duty calls. Why be flies on the chariot wheels of Progress when we can stand by the roadside and gleefully shout as the chariot goes glorious1y onward9
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LIGHT.

Yes" said the returned traveller, 'I spent two years in London" "Ah!" said his friend; then you have seen dark days. Puck.
 There's lady pianist at the muse lm who plays with her toes" "Umph That's nothing; my baby does that!''- Yonkers Statesman.
 A man of short stature gives as a req son for his stunted growth that he was brought up as a child on condensed milk.--New York Observer.
 Sngleton--Before she married you your wife was always very pensive.
 Benedick( sadly)-Yes; but she's ex- pensive now.-Brooklyn Life
 'I hear he refused to take chloro- form when he was operated on."
 Yes; he said he'd rather take it when he paid his bill."-Detroit Jour nal.
 Teacher-In what part of the Bible is it taught that man should have only one wife? Little boy-I expect it's the part that says no man can serve two masters.-Tit-Bit
 A Task-"What a thoughtful look that Spaniard has, Yes he is trying to remember the Vizcaya. the Colon, the Maria Teresa, the Cristina and the rest of them. Philadelphia American.
 At Last.-"Old Miss Sere saw man under her bed at last''
 Good gracious! What did she say?"
 "She told him to look out for the plas- tering. He was carrying the bed down stairs on his head. You see, she moved yesterday y"-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Placed No Great Value on the Vic tims.-Phila ilanthropist-Do you believe in capital punishment, may I ask? Cynic-I certainly don't. Why, how's that?" Because I never yet met a man that I thought it worth while hanging another for. Brooklyn Life.
 A gentleman going into his stable one day found his little son astride of one of the horses, with slate and pencil claimed, what are you doing?' Writ ing. composition was the reply. Well why don't you write it in the li- brary?" asked the father. Because, answered the little fellow, ''the teacher told me to write a composition on a horse "-Chicago News.
 Looking Into the Future.-'I guess might as well quit school, papa" said the boy. 'Why, my son?" "Oh, there ain't any use going, except to be able to help my little boy when I grow up, and if they have changed the way of doing things since you were boy, so
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-02

course, be used, and the company will introduce, indeed, all modern appli- ances. The rolling stock now employ ed has air brakes and automatic coup lers, and there are extensive machine shops in construction at Skagua, where all sorts of repairing can be done and where locomotive complete can be produced if desired, The number of locomotives now in use is five and there are in addition twenty flat cars, two passenger cars and one baggage car. Many more are also being built at Seattle in anticipation of the rush in the spring.
 All aboard for the North Pole!
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always suggestive of demurty. Yet rig, as it's details will show. It's color was dull green. The tiny panel effects on the skirt were gained by frills of green taffeta, and vest and bretelles were of the same silk. tabs falling over the skirt. Embroidered green chiffon was used for collar and jabot.
 Though majority of new trimming schemes are appearing on skirts, rath- CT than on bodices, there is In the lat ter no relaxation of daintiness and par ticularly does beautifying elaboration hold at the throat Downright novel; ties here are difficult to find because the search for them has been constant for several years. Just now there is a chance for novelty in the shift to neck fxings that are protective as well as ornamental. One of this sort that is new is nothing more than big fur col lar held in place by velvet stock pass ed about it. The collar fastens in front, lifts we'll above the ears, is closed in front, tie ends crossing in the back and coming about the throat to tie under the chin. The fur does not appear be- low the stock. Such collar is worn with any tailor dress, and gives 1t a late autumn touch of coslness that Is very effective in the days just before resort is had to furs. Ermine, with black velvet stock, is pretty combina tion, and sable is used on brown velvet. Sometimes there Is a buckle through which the tie passes under the chin.
 FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-02

A DRAMATIC INCIDENT BE-
 TWEEN THE PORTER AND THE
 WINSLOW.
 Frequently in the anxiety to discov- CT whether the strange craft were friend or foe without betrayirg her own presence, a torpedo-boat was fired on by her own friends. The blockading squadron were taking no chances of any kind of approaching dark little craft, and used the western method of shooting first and inquring afterwards
 In the excitement consequent on the signal "Enemy's torpado-boat sighted" even torpedo-boats engaged each oth- ! CT. This happened one of the first nights off Havana The moment the 1 signal was made, all the scouting yes i sels in that vicinity converged at full speed towards the point where the sig nal stars had been seen. Suddenly out of the gloom of night and right across 1 the bows of the Porter rushed a dar.e object. the sparks from it's tunnels and the dim outl ne marking it distinctly as torpedo boat. No questions were asked by the Porter, for we knew no ptuSi thi pGuo-Dudt ul ours WaS on CndC
 section of the blockade There was a heavy sea, and dense clouds of black smoke were sweeping down between us from our low tunnels. This fortunately caused the first shots to go wild and instantly, in answer to our fire, the night signal was shown It was one of our own boats that had come from
 Cardenas with dispatches, and she was
 looking for the flagship. A joking l apology and hearty laugh from us all l ended our little encounter, and the two i boats parted, not to meet again for 1 Weeks--not until the Porter, returning < to Key West from her cruise to Porto
 Rico, found the Winslow battle scared and torn by the enemy's shell. her cap-
 tain wounded, and her executive officer 1 and five of her crew dead. It was no 1 laughing matter this time.--Harper's
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which it had tried to squeeze, assisted by an elder one inside. Attracted by US cries, 1t took the small pigs head in It's mouth and tried to pull it through, In doing which 1t almost pulled the suf- terers head off, In another case cat deliberately fetched it's owner to assist another cat which was lying helpless in Tt. Moreover, domesticated animals are to some extent progressive" and nave realized the notion of common good cmong other creatures than their own stock. There Is a good deal of service and benevolence among very different domesticated animals espec- lally in the form of protection, sharing or food and forbearance. Specialized instances in which dogs or cats have taken food to others could doubtless be authenticated, though the writer has not WltnesSedaa a case, But there is the strongest of all evidence that they have tenoeEcy to perform these and other serVices to other animals, because the domesticated creatures voluntarily of Ter these services of benevolence to man. How can any one doubt that an- lmals Gin domestication) are willing to feed each other, when there are cats all over England and Scotland which de- light in bringing food as presents to their owners? We caught pigeon ev- cry day and brought 1t to It's master when prisoner in the Tower.
 It is the natural impulse, usually f male cats, to do this. The writer has seen it constantly, and if references are needed we need only turn to St. John. who mentions a Highland shepherd whose cat brought him something eai- ble nearly every day in the year. Not the least interesting in the growth of the sense of benevolenee in animals is that when it is engendered, usually in rudimentary form, but the same in kind as the virtue which we understand by the word, it Is at once diverted natural ly from other animals and directed by preference to the service of man, Thus the other creatures benefit only in the smallest degree Proud of it's new ldea of being serviceable and benefeent, the animal devotes itself, not to other ani- mals, but to it's master who uncon- sciously absorbs all the benefits which the new virtue in the beast prompts it to bestow.-Spectator.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-02
FASHION NOTES.
Throats sun Framed Daintily.

Throats Stiil Framed Daintily.
 Silk poplins are extremely fashionable dress goods, and are frequently found best suited, however, to costumes that, while dressy, are not marked by evil son silk poplln was just-right mate rial for the dress pictured herewith. Its skirt trimming was so slight as to be but concession to the prevailing fash ion, and the dominant feature of the bodice was surplice effect, which is
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-02
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants. Rents. and other small advertisements, One Gent Worw each in- sertion. Five Gents Word for full week tscyen times).
 Display advertisements, per inch. one h. eertlon $1,20: each subsequent insertion. 40 cents; one week. $3.20; one month. Sl0; one year, $40
 Obituary Notices, In prose or verse, 15 certs per line. Notices of Births. Mar riages, Deaths ar Funerals, 30 cents each. Loca; Notices. 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own tmmediate business Gall matter to be nn btectionablel. and their contracts do not Include Wants, To Let. For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-02
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET

FOR GOVERNOR, GEORGE E. LOUNSRURY, of fRidgefield FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, LYMAN A. MILLS, of Middlefleld. FOR SECRETARY OF STATE HUBER CLARK, of Windham.
 FOR TREASURER, CHARLES s. MERsICK, of New Haven.
 FOR COMPTROLLER, THOMPSON $. GRANT, of Enfeld. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, CHARLES PHELPS, of Vernon.
 FOR CONGRESSMAN, Second District--N. D. SHERRY. of New
 FOR SHERIFF, ALBERT E. DUNHAM, of Seymour.
 FOR SENATOR, Eighth rict-FREDERICK L. AvER- ILL, of New Haven.
 FOR REFRESHMENTS, JULIUS C. CABLE and JOHN V. RAT-
 TLESDORFER.
 FOR JUDGE OF PROBATE, LIVINGSTON w. CLEAvELAND, of
 New Haven.
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that you can't help me now, it's likely I'm just wasting my time getting ready to help my little boy He got the help he wanted but it was good thing he didn't hear what his father had to say about new-fangled school books after he had gone to bed. Chicago Evening Post
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-02

The members of an Alabama mob are polite enough to express great regret" for having lynched the wrong man. It was rather discourteous
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-02

Boston is pleased by an order for $1,5o0,0oO worth of sugar grinding ma- chinery fol use in Cuba.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-02

The editor of the Atchison Globe hopes that when he dies it will be with a broken heart He has an idea that certain respect is shown new arrivals in the next world who died of broken heart that those who die of liver com plaint do not receive.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-02

The New York Sun, which knows, says Roosevelt's name is pronounced as if spelled Roosevelt.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-02

The train which is to cross Siberia will probably be the most sumptuous of it's kind in existence. The most up- to-date furnishings will be employed. There will be, in the bath room, for in- stance, a set of gymnastic apparatus. Besides this, a dark room is to be pro- vided in which the amateur photog- rapher can change his plates and devel- op his pictures during the progress of the journey. A small but comprehen- sive library in the center coach will contain the standard works of seven languages, and there will be station ary bicycle. The piano will be there in plenty. Electricity will furnish the light. call bells and several portable reading lamps. Stationery and barber's services there are, of course, but these are hardly an innovation.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-02

The Boston Herald gives the follow ing crow: It is putting it rather too strong to say that diphtheria has been stamped out here in Boston, but the fact that there was not single death from this disease in the city last week possesses good deal of significance, especially when it is borne in mind that this is the season of the year when diphtheria is more prevalent than usual. This very gratifying state of things is undoubtedly due to the gen. eral use of antitoxin in the treatment of diphtheria, to our excellent City Hospital accommodations for the isola- tion and treatment of contagious dis eases and to the daily medical inspec- ton of the pupils in our public schools. The benefits achieved by these agen- cies have been of inestimable value in guarding the public health and in stamping out contagion.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-02

Bicycling for business doesn't pre- sent any great attractions just now. In round figures s1oO,O0o was the value of the money purses won by the profes- sional cyclists the past season, and as there are five hundred registered pro- fessional racing men in the country, the returns to the profession could not have been large. As matter of fact about all the money went to less than one-third of their number, and only twelve of them won over $2,000 each.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-02

In Switzerland if child does not attend school on a particular day the parent gets notice from the public authority that he is fined so many francs; the second day the fine is in- creased, and by the third day the amount becomes serious one. In case of sickness the pupil is excused, but if there be any suspicion of shamming doctor is sent. If the suspicion is dis covered to be well founded the parent is required to pay the cost of the doc tors visit.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-02

THE WEAKLY JOURNAL, Issued Thursdays. One Dollar Year.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-10
WHERE CRIME is SAFE.
You Can Almost Kill a Man in Fed
eraI building.

If you want to chastize your enemy
invite him into a Federal government
building and pound him within an inch
of his life. If the inch remains you are
safe from punishment by Federal or
state law. A st. Louis, Missouri, judge
recently held that the United States
statue of 1872 gives the Federal gov
ernment supreme and exclusive juris-
diction over offenses committed upon
its property and that murder done
there is the only crime punishable by
that government.
The case was that of a colored porter
who assaulted the janitor of the Fed
eral building in the office of the inter-
nal revenue collector at st. Louis. Ar
rested on a warrant charging assault
and battery, he successfully interposed
a plea in abatement on the ground
that the act was committed on a United
States reservation, and that the state
had no jurisdiction. At any rate, it re-
lieves the colored porter from all fear
of prosecution, and establishes an in
teresting, not 10 say very bad, prece-
dent.-Leslie's Weekly.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-10

testified that he knew the OK by his color
and the flesh marks. The young lawyer
rose and with dignity said: "If your
honor please, there can be no question
that this witness has sworn falsely when
he testified that an OK can be recognized
by his color. 1 was a stenographer be-
fore I became a lawyer, and for two
days. your honor" drawing out his note
book, 81 have taken a detailed descrip-
tion OF every OK that passed the hotel
and am prepared to swear as an expert
that all oxen look alike to me-" "You
are trifing with the dignity of this court,
sirl'. sternly said the judge, "and j will
fine" Hold on, judge. said the clerk,
"there hain't been but one yoke of oxen
In this town in a week. Ol Man Henley s
been a-haulin' wood, and the lawyers
been countin' the same oxen over and
over" Judgment for the plaintiff" said
the Judge, and the lawyer took his de-
parture a sadder but wiser man.
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eyes; heighth, feet inches; name un-
known"
At a glance this would seem an easier
task. To find a widow is Simple
enough. To find one with dark hair
ana eyes would be a more specific task,
but still not Objectionable, perhaps
But making it palmer by using the age
limit puts things in a different light.
1t was too delicate a task for a post
man. He was human and loved life.
He gave up the job.
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How lie Lost His Case,

From the San Francisco Argonaut
An ambitious young lawyer paid his
first visit to a country not far from New
Orleans not long since. He went to rep
resent big railroad in a suit brought by
a countryman TO recover the value of an
OK which departed this life in a vain at
tempt to hold up the limited mail. The
question before the court was one of
identification. and the countryman had
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-10

Section 2-Auy person who shall sell,
lend, give away, or show, or shall have in
his possession with intent to sell, or give
away, or to show, or shall otherwise Of
fer, for loan, gift or distribution to any
minor, any book, pamphlet, magazine,
newspaper, or other printed paper de-
voted to the publication or principally
made up of criminal news police reports,
or accounts of criminal deeds, or pic
lures and stories of deeds of bloodshed,
lust or crime, or shall exhibit on any
street or highway or In any other place
within the view, or which may be within
the view, of any minor child any book
magazine, pamphlet, newspaper, picture,
drawing, photograph, or other article
coming within the description of ar
ticles mentioned in the first section OF
this act, shall. in every case, be guilty Of
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine
not exceeding five hundred dollars and
undergo an Imprisonment not exceeding
two years.
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JONAS LONGS SONS.
JONAS LONGS SONS.
JONAS LONGS SONS.
The Great Sale of Furniture

lifetime itself Bargains
fifty dollar
marked sacrifice Read each item
for
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SidebOardS.

This Handsome Sideboard, with
heavy French beveled glass, swell>
front, cast brass trimmings; made
Of quartered oak, highly polished, {
with hand carvings on base and top,
absolutely worth $50. c17OE'
For this sale at p I.SC'
Here is Cheap Bargain-a Side-(
board built of solid oak throughout,
with highly polished finish French,
beveled plate glass across top.
Cast brass trimmings. Positively
worth every cent of
$50. 90. For this great S1H OOt
sale at ~ RO.UO,
Antique pattern, with beveled,
glass, strongly made and nicely
finished. You'd pay $I2.oo fore
this ordinarily. For this c< Ga
sale at pO'SC'
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Fortunate circumstances enabled
us to buy from the Bay Shoe Co I,
at Harrisburg, about 5000 pairs
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-10
AGAINST VICIOUS LITERATURE

Provisions of Law which Needs
More General Enforcement.
The following Pennsylvania law
against crime-feedipg literature Is be-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-10

DIRECTIONS.-Take half usual quantity
See water BOILS. Steep FIVE minutes,
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AyH D0VidON, Wholesale Q||d Re|1i|
307 Lackawanna Avenue.
Acknowledged
CHEAPEST
SHOE STORE
In SCRANTON.

argdngt tomakethe hegra h ELI t dn n d his ar buy
ropi o pa
h gt sh u t
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ing pressed upon the attention Of
newsdealers, bill-posters, and public
officers all over the state by the Re-
form Bureau, of which DR.. Wilbur f.
Crafts, of Washington. d. c.. is super
intendent. The law is an act of 1887
(P. L., p. S4).The first section forbids
sale and exposure of obscene literature;
the second, which is the most COM
prehensive and most readily enforced,
is as follows:
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Boned Turkey Croquettes, Salads OF All
Kinds, Weddings, PaI ties; Experienced Men.
All orders promptly attended to. Order can
seen at Jonas Longs Sons Cafe
The St. Johns herald., 1898-08-20
Dean stanIey's Handwriting.

Dean Stanley, though he wrote let. ters so illegible that-his correspond. ents had to guess at the meaning of his scrawls, was loved because he was transparent and guileless.
 The first proofs of his Sinai and Palestine" informed the reader that from the monastery of Sinai was visi. ble "the horns of the burning beast" The dean thought he had written "the horizon of the Burning Bush." The same proofsheets stated that on turn ing the shoulder of Mount Olivet in the walk from Bethany, there suddenly burst upon the spectator a magnificent view of-Jones" The printer had read "Jerus"-the deans abbreviated way of writing "Jerusalem"-as "Jones."
 Once a lady who had invited him to dine was obliged to write back and ask whether his note was an acceptance or refusal. A workman, to whose ques- tion the dean had written an answer, wrote him humbly requesting that the reply might be written out by somo one else, "as he was not familiar with the of the aristocracyv'
The St. Johns herald., 1898-08-20
The Waste of War.

A shell thrown from a twenty-four. ton Quick-firing gun rushes through the air at the velocity of 1900 feet per second, striking its object with a force equal to that of II, ,230 tons falling one foot. And yet, comparatively speak ing, ther are very harmless. Thus during the One-day bombardment of Alexandria by the British fleet of twelve ships, lasting from ' a. n. to 80 p. m., no less than 3,165 shells were thrown into the town, yet not more than 800 Egyptians were killed that is, it took, roughly speaking, six shells to kill one man.
 Again, during the Franco German war, the Germans threw 100000 shells into Belfort, only killing sixty French men, or 800 shells to kill one French. man. At Strasburg, in the same war it took eighteen shells to kill a single man. And at the siege of Paris no. GOO shells killed only 107 and wounded 20o