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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14
THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION.


From the New York Sun.
1t is a very difficult question, which
ever way you look at 1t, but one fact Is
demonstrated by all attempts at prohibit
ton, and 1t is that the law cannot keep
people from drinking. on Sunday and on
all days, If such is their inclination. If
total abstinence is adopted 1t must be as
a personal and individual matter; 1t cam
not be enforced on society. If there is
any drinking at all, some drunkenness
Is inevitable. of course, but personal lib
erty is priceless. Moreover, If the sale
of liquor is reprehensible; it's purchase
and consumption are not less reprehensi-
Bile. In other words, all social reformers
must remember that at the bottom the
public mind Is logical
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14

Simmered down, the hue and cry
raised by the Wanamaker people
against Senator Saylor, whom Presi-
dent Mckinley recently appointed
consul to Matanzas over their protest,
was that he tried to collect from the
state, while serving it in the legisla-
ture, a large expense account In this
he merely followed custom; but it is
doubtful if among his critics there is
one sufficiently free from the same
habit to be warranted in hurting the
first stone
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14
Prostituting the Theatre.

One of the theatres in New York ha-
| bitually patronized by the best people
is presenting now to crowded houses
play the chief incident of which is
an attempted rape, committed in full
view of the audience. The newspapers
freely denounce the play, but the peo-
pie nevertheless flock to see it, as they
do to another play in another house,
treating the forbidden theme with al
most equal realism. Mind you, these
are not low-down variety theatres,
where filth in stage suggestion is an
expected stock in trade, but places
hitherto reputedly respectable, to
which men and women of character
might, it was supposed, go without risk
of being morally bespattered.
OF course such productions as these
are exceptional just as the indicate
novel is exceptional. 1t Is as unfair to
condemn unreservedly the theater for
abuses found i'm it as it is to condemn
the church because among it's member
ship are hypocrites and frauds. The
stage is abused in many ways, yet for
all that we must admit it's usefulness
as a means of public entertainment
and instruction. The time has come,
though, when friends of the stage
must rally to its protection and to its
publication or else see it fall COM
pletely into odium. New York may
have sufficiently elastic sense of the
proprieties to tolerate dramatic carnal-
ity yerging on unabashed bestiality,
but we question if that kind of degra-
dation is characteristic of what New
Workers sometimes superciiously call
the provinces" We advise this sort
of play to keep away from Scranton.
The sudden cessation of the civil SER
vice debate in the national house of
representatives has been a source of
general qualification, Many had looked
for an endless season of talk on the
subject which would have consumed
much valuable time. The fact that the
debate was ended so soon is an indi-
cation that the fifty-fifth congress pro-
poses to devote some time - work.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14
England's Way as
Compared to Ours.
From the Philadelphia Press.


1T HIRTY years ago four or five Eng
lishmen We're seized and impris-
oned by King Theodore of Abys-
Ii sinia at Magdala and England
spent $S0,000000 in freeing these
men and teaching Theodore and other
savage kings that 1t was dangerous to
touch Englishmen The lesson was learn
ed as the news spread from the Atlantic
west OF Africa to the Pacific east of Asia.
Everywhere English traders and English
trade are the safer for the Abyssinian
war. The money spent on that expedi-
toh mas come back a thousand fold, 1t
was as shrewd an investment as any
great trading nation ever made.
o.
III our trade is to be safe and our COM
merce to extend in safety our citizens
must be protected in the same fashion
and outside of a small group of Euro
pean countries force is the sole meas
ure OF safety. In Turkey this country
mas number of citizens some selling
goods and some Bibles, some trading and
some preaching. This is of no conse-
quence. They are all citizens alike and
demand and deserve the same protection.
Two years ago, at Harput and at other
points, the houses of some of these citi-
zens were burned, their property plum
dered and destroyed and their lives put
In grievous peril. Turkey has given them
no redress and fatty refuses any. Our
government has pleaded two years. 1t
can plead forever. If our citizens are
to remain safe in Turkey and elsewhere
Tor this question is as wide as the world
and narrow as any one land--it will only
De by the use and display of force. No
other plea counts. Turkey has no fleet
No Asiatic power, except Japan, has.
With an American squadron in Turkish
waters these claims will be settled in a
day Without it, Justice will never be
done.
These claims are in themselves small
The safety of Americans is everything
Unless the claims are settled the safety
or every American will be lessened from
Morocco to China, and safe trade turns
ON a safe trader. Cuba and its possible
risks have thus far engrossed the atten-
ton of our government and made it nee
essary to keep our fleet in our own wat
ers. The time cannot be distant, how
ever when this necessity will be over
Moreover, we are adding to our battle
ships. The earliest possible moment
should be taken to initiate the example
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14

Seth Low was an expensive bit Of
luxury to the Citizens union of New
York. The lending Of his radiance,
together with the attendant magic
lantern shows, brass bands and other
of an orthodox cam
paign, cost sl4s,554,s4, leaving a ball
ance in the treasury of the union to
the embarrassing amount of $1373.
But then 1t is something TO have a
balance.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14

Mr.. Connell does not Imagine that
his election to represent this county at
surrender of party thought, preference
and action in state and local matters
by the Republicans of Lackawanna."
In this respect he makes a representa-
tive different from Hon. Joseph A.
Scranton
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14

the new warship built for Japan at
the Cramps ship yards which will be
launched on January 20. Instead of the
usual proceeding Of breaking a bottle
of champagne on the deck of the vessel,
Miss Long will be required to release a
white dove which will rise upon the air
as the big battleshlp, Kasagl, glides
into the water.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14
Electioneering for Trouble.

The precedent set by the Penrose-
hewitt wing of the Republican party
In Philadelphia Wednesday in bolting
the regular city convention is one
which may return to plague those who
engineered it, From this distance it is
impossible to distinguish intellgently
all the equities of the issue between
Martin and Penrose and between their
respective followers, but it requires no
telescope to perceive that by every law
of party usage the hewitt bolt was
unjustifiable. With eyes open and
hands active the supporters of hewitt
had made their fight and been fairly
beaten. 1t was their place as Republic
cans, then, to acuuiesce in the result !;
instead of that, the reports show that
they entered the convention deter
mined to seize a preteXt for walking
out. and had made all necessary plans
for holding afterward a rump conven-
ton of their own
Primarily, of course, this affair con-
Germs Philadelphians chiefly, but cer-
tain circumstances entering into il give
to it a statewide interest. 1t is we'll
known, for instance. that among the
forces supporting hewitt are many Re-
publicans of greater or smaller promi-
nenCe who are aggresSively commit
ted to the Guhernatorial candidacy of
Colonel William A. Stone. These men.
through their organ, the Philadelphia
Inquirer, have boasted that they will
ia Gt tot nd
that Republicans who do not like their
style need entertain no expectations of
subdung them in that convention. But
by their own example in Philadelphia
they make it possible for bolt of
their opponents to occur at Harris
burg on June >, followed by the nomi-
nation of an Independent Republican
candidate for governor with all that
that might imply. What is sauce for
the goose. ought. one would naturally
suppose, to be sauce also for the gan
der.
Apart, though, even from this as
pect of the case, the Philadelphia
wrangle is especially deplorable at this
time because it tends to strengthen
the popular impression, in which we
by no means concur, that the only way
to cleanse the Republicanism of this
state and to subdue those elements in
1t which are bound either to rule or to
ruin it, is to administer to the party
a sound druhbing from time to time.
This impression prevailed very gener-
ally throughout the state even before
the hauseating methods of Andrews &
Co, repeated from 1890, again came be-
fore the publiC's attention; but it will
be very perceptibly emphasized if in
the Citadels of Republcanism the par
ty strength is to be expended in fruit
less guerilla warfare having no other
incentive than jealousy and pique.
Whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad" is proverb which
might be advantageously studied by
those who now so nimbly disport
amidst the dry grass carelesEly swing
Ing lighted torches dripping with fire.
Until there has been an experimental
trial of the so-called Crawford county
system in city primaries, would it not
he precipitate to adopt that system in
the county? Why not see first whether
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14
Why He Thanked ShiIark.

"Old Shilark saws he is the man who
started you on the road to fortune"
THE old villain tells the truth. All
mad when l was young man was a fifty
acre farm and he cheated me out of that
Then had to come to town to get some
thing to do and got into business and got
rich. h."-Indianapolis Journal.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14

The Japanese have inaugurated a
pretty custom that the American naval
officials win do well TO follow in future.
The japanese minister Mr.. Toru Hoshi,
has asked Miss Helen Long. daughter
OF the secretary Of the navy to christen
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14

An exchange suggests that Uncle
Sam drop the sealskin sacque and pay
more attention to Abdul Hamid. This
would be good advice but for the fact
that the sealskin is much easier to
manipulate Just at present thu the
cuticle of the Sultan of Turkey.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14

IL Is said that David b. Hill asked
senator Murphy and Ex-Governor
Flower to let him edit their Albany
Argus and they turned him down. OF
a truth are the mighty fallen!
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14

1t is strange that prophets who fore
tell dire calamities seem to take the
most comfort in contemplation of their
own prognostications.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14

1t begins to look as though some of
the Cuban war correspondents had
strayed into the Seminole Indian reser-
walton.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14

People who have seen Mrs. Luetgert
are becoming more plentiful out West
than the discoverers of the woman in
black" in the East a few years ago.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14
REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET.
For School Director.

Three Years--PETER NEuLs, Eleventh
ward.
Three Years-D. i. PHILLIPS, Fifth
ward.
Two Years-E, ID. FELLOWS, Fourth
ward,
Two Years-F. $. GODFREY. Eighth
ward.
One Year---F. S. BARKER, Seventeenth
ward.
One Year-EL1AS EVANS. Fifteenth
ward.
Election Day, February IL.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14

IT Corbett could fight as furiously as
he can bluff, what fistic wonder he
would be-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14
The Deadly Hat Pin.

1t /" no longer proper to speak of
woman fully attired for the street or
shopping campaign as "defenceless." ="
A Chicago girl mas demonstrated that
when possessed of the regulation hat
pin the average woman Of today far
from being Geicnceless is in reality a
Very dangerous parsonage. This young
when two robbers seized the conductor
and attempted to rob him. The crime
would have been successful but for the
young woman, who drew her hatpin
and charged upon one of the ROBBERS,
completely dscounte him and
driving him to a hasty retreat.
Ry this act tho Chicago girl has given
the hatpin a startling prominence as
a weapon OF war. The modern hat
fastener is often nearly AS large and as
formidable as the stiletto and razor
that have been by law banished from
use in good society by males. The
desratch with which the Chicago girl
picked the weapon from her head and
inserted it into the anatomy of the car
rohher the other day, causing him to
retreat with yell of pain, shows that
the hatrin is more handy than the hip
pocket razor. with a modern hatpin
therefore, it is easy to see that reso-
lutte, np-to-date woman Is a person not
to be trifled with.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14

The passing of the Montrose and
Tunkhannock railway into the hands Of
the Lehigh Valley Railroad company
may mark an important event in the
existence of the road The Montrose
railroad Is narrow-guage line which
was constructed from Montrose to
Tunkhannock about twenty-five years
ago. 1t has always acted as a feeder
to the Lehigh Valley and has been
one of the convenient outlets for farm
products from the richest fields of ;us-
quehanna county. Heretofore the road
has cut no figure save as a local affair,
but 1t is believed by many that the
guage of the track will soon be changed
to the standard and that the road will
be extended from Montrose to Bing-
hamton, thereby greatly increasing it's
value as a feeder for the Valley road.
The road has in past been controlled
by the Blakslees, Of Mauch Chunk,
Mr.. James /. Blakslee having been for
many years its president.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14
WHY THE HEATHEN RAGE.

OF Austria and collect these claims b,
force.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14

|Waim Floor
AT &c pr Ladies and Cens that were 20 cents
At l2Hc Misses All Wool Ribbed Hose all from to 81,
Worth
At &c Gross of Heavy Rubber Dressing Combs, Worth
IS
AT SC Warmers shook Corset Clasps Regular Price
At lOc Warmers Security Hose Supporters all sizes, Infants
Cmldrens, Misses and Ladies' Regular Price from IS
to rs
AT lSc dZ Rubber Shell Worth 20 cents
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14

Until there has been an experimental
trial Of the so-called Crawford county
system in city primaries, would it not
be precipitate to adopt that system in
the county? Why not see first whether
the change would he a change for the
better?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14

Special Bargains All Day Friday and Saturday
pink
3 o sold ess
Wool ndershrts
At is centsNln kind
AT cents-Handsome Double xed
At Is 6inchS MixedD Novelties
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-04-07
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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-04-07
DESTRUCTIVE FUNGUS.
How e Treat Drown.Rot 81 Planu
with CeasiaePable E9ees.

How 70 Treat DroWn-Rot 81 Plans
with CensiaePable E9ees.
II is scarcely necessary to repeat the
general remarks on treatment for fun
gus diseases published in several previ-
Gus bulletins. But concerning brown
rot (Monilia fructigena) we may say
that only the most persistent effort Gun
hold this fungus in check. As all grow
ers have observed. the decayed fruits
hang to the twigs and persist over win
ter. 1t is from these. in the early days
Of spring that an abundant crop of
spores are borne. and the petals OF the
flowers. young leaves. and even many
branches, are attacked. These num-
mied fruits also hang on all summer and
continue to produce spores. Hence. by
the time the fruits become half-grown
or begin TO mature. the injecting spores
may come from the old decayed fruits
Of the previous year or from more re-
cent infection on the young growth of
the current year. Whenever the fruit
has become badly attacked treatment
is quite useless.
The proper plan is to remove all de-
cayed fruit from the orchard when the
trees are free from foliage, us il can be
easily seen at this time: then. before
the buds swell in the spring. wash the
trees thoroughly with solution OF
concentrated lye or of sulphate of cop
per. The first solution should be made
by dissolving eight cans of lye in so
gallons of water, and the copper sui
phate (buestone) in so gallons Of wa
Ter. | consider the lye preferable. but
the latter may be somewhat pleasan ter
to handle. This washing is very i'm
portant and perhaps does as much real
good as all later work.
The later washings should be given
as follows: Weak Bordeaux just as
, color shows plainly in the bloom-buds.
and repeated soon as bloom has fallen.
II the work is well done to this point
very little infection will have survived.
Concerning value of later sprayings |
much in doubt. If the early washing is
not well done. | have almost no faith
in later treatment.
All washing or treatment of orchards
should he done with a spray-pump.
Poor. half work is usually Il dead loss.
William l.. Atwood. in Bullctin Nir-
ginia Experiment Station.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-04-07

Alaska! Why no,
get your share of
Ile urnaf InrIlina.-

Tie great fnrl dnes
To BE- realized from the wonderful discoveries
already made ard 10 he made In this New Klon.
dike--Alas ska-Eldorado. THE WASHING.
TON GOLD FIELDS EXPLORATION COM
PANf und' n Its character Is authorized to Tros-
pct for and acquire Mining Claims ard Prom.
critics in the wonderful gold fields Of ElOpdike
and Alaska. Immense fortunes haNr aiready
been n allied and millions more Nil le made
there. VIII YOU allow this golden cpporlunity
To pass you by? few dollars lnyeSted IL
in this undertaking may he the touudation 10
your fortune. The rush 10 the wonderland nee
csSitates in mediate action. TIE first in the
field the first In forurc. No such opportunity
has ever been piesenled 10 the peope II the
present geDerntiOn as il offered in the Klou-
dike-Aluska Gold Fields. All SHAREHOLDERS
get their inll proportion of all profits No diyi
dends are made ON stock rcmaintrg unsold.
Send your orders enclosing one Dollar for each
share of fully pad-up and nonasscs-ablc stock
desired To the WASllINGTON GOLD FIELDS
EXPLORATION COMPANY, Tncoiua, Wash
ington.
The fAlowinp Tacoma dealers IN supplies Tor
the kloudike and Alaska trade are Stockhold-
crs in the Company and will inform you re- ard
ing the reliability Of its officers: Monty ~
Morris Gross Co, Dry Goods aud g., hing ".
q. Rowland, outfttcr; Hugo FclE. Tents
Tacor'. hardware Co. lO2s-lyr.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-04-07
A Good Pudding.

Victoria pudding is dish very com.
mon at English tables. and is made
from boiled potatoes. Pass them, while
hot and in the mcaly stage, through a
sieve, and mix with them a little butter,
sugar, two eggs to six medium-sized
potatoes, three tablespoonfuls of cream,
and the grated rind of a lemon. A pud-
ding-dish is buttered and preserved
plums or peaches spread on the bottom.
The potato pudding is poured over and
baked in moderate oven. Serve hot
with powdered sugar sprinkled over the
top.-N. Y. Post.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-04-07
ONE OF TWO WAYS.

The bladder was GRATED for one
purpose, namely, ~ receptacle for the
urine, aud as such IL il not liable to
any form OF disease exc, pt by one 4
two ways. The first way 10 fro,u
imperfect action If the kidneys. The
second way is from careless local
treatment OF other diseases.
CHIEF CAUSE.
Unhealthy urine from unhealthy
kidne' : is the chief cause of bladder
troubles. So the womb, like the
bladder, was created Tor one purposes,
ana VI not doctored too much is not
liable To weakness or disease, except
IN rare eases. Ii il situated back of
and very close to the blad der, there's
ftrr any pain, disease or iuconveni-
q, c. manifested in the kiduevs. back,
bladder or urinary passage is often, by
mistake, attributed 10 teiuale weak
ness or womb trouble Of some sort
The error isensiIy made and may be
a. easily avoided. To find out corr
rrc'iI, set your uriu- asida for twenty
four hours. II sediment ar settling
Indicates kidney or bladder trouble.
lht mllu and the extraordinary effect
OF DIR kilmer'r swamp, Root, the
| grTnt kidney. aud bladder remedy is
| soon realized. II you ,red ,,mcdicine
YOU should have the best. At drug.
gists hfiy c+uts and one dollar You
may have ii sample bottle aud pam
phiei. both sent free by mail, upou
receipt OF three two cent stamps to
cover cost Of postage on the bottle.
M"ptIon the NJ iddleburgh posr. and
senC Nonr address L. Dr. Kilmer y
Co., Bughamtou. \, y. The proprietoi
OF this paper guarantee the .,ruliur-
nes. this offer
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-04-07
How to Test Paris Green.

Paris green is generally favored as an
arsenical poison by entomologists in
preference to London purple, because
it is of more even composition and easily
tested. Pure Paris green when dropped
into common ammonia will entirely dis
solve, leaving clear, dark blue liquid,
not green, like the color Of the powder.
If any sediment remains. this is some
form of adulteration. and therefore
represents an impurity. Chrome-green.
which might be used to adulterate
Paris green, will give the liquid n
dirty green color, and will deposit a
bright yellow sediment in the bottom
of the vial. London purple is just as
effective, provided It il Of good quail
ty, but its quality can only be de
termined by chemical analysis.
Farm and Fireside.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-04-07

"Just Think" s:.e said. "Inever met
him but twice. and yet he sent me love
and kisses In letter. What would
you do about III"
Il should never recognize him again"
replied her dearest friend, decisively.
THAT seems rather harsh. but"
ANY man." went on the dearest
friend. "who does not know enough to
deliver anything of that sort in person
should not be entitled to the privilege
uf feminine society"
Afierward. when the matter was
taken up at the Girls Debating club. it
as unanimously decided that she was
ripht.-Chicago Post.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-04-07
Ham CrOquettes.

One cupful of finely chopped cooked
ham. one Of bread crumbs, two OF hot
mashed potatoes, one large tablespoon
full Of butter, three eggs and speck of
cayenne. Beat the ham, cayenne, but
ter and two eggs into the potato. Let
the mixture cool slightly, and then
shape into croquettes. Roll in the
bread crumbs, dip in beaten egg, and
again in crumbs; put in the frying
basket and plunge into boiling fat;
cook two minutes, drain and serve hot.
Ladies' World.