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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05
ORANJE BOWEN.

Said the Sea to the Dutchman, "Ho,
make way!
For the march of the Flood is mine.
Shall the bar of thine arm my coursers
stay
In the charge of my whelming brine?''
To the Sea said the Dutchman, lilo,
stand back!
bide for the dole and fee,
To the lands that serve and the loins
that lack,
And a hail to the Strong and Free.
In the might of the Lord of the Deep l
stand, and 1 set His bounds TO
Thee.
"A bound in the Dyke. and a mete in
the Dune.
And a stay in the stout Sea-wall
In the swing of my spade is the eagles
rune,
Tho the Norland ravens squaII
And the silt shall flow and the clod
shall grow,
From iceland to zuyder Zee;
And man shall freemans footnold
know,
Where the arm of man is free;-
For the lord of the DUtchmans land, the
lord of the Dutchmans love shall
be.
"Flambcau and falchion, shackIe and
rack,
In the lust of Holy kate
No glut of carnage rapine and sack,
Nor Thousand Fears can safe.
No tear for ruth, and no shudder for
share,
No Christ for the brand and pike;
Only the rage of the 'Beggar's' claim,
And the roar of the cloven dyke
Only the arm of the Lord upheaved, and
the sword OF the Lord 10 strike"
Said the Sea, 80, Nederland! Alone,
You battle against the stars.
For Brills hoarse cry and Alkamaars
groan
storm at your stubborn bars,
In Heliiger Lee your Rachels weep
In Leyden your children die;-
Death unto Life, Deep unto Deep!
And my tides leap at the cry.
Set wide your gates to my hosts, and
sound your pealing trumpets high!"
"Oranje Boven!"--Fate is mute,
And the Silent soul is lord.
"Oranje Boven!"-Trump and lutte
Wait on the grim, dumb sword.
When the brand Is cold, and the blade
is rust,
And the gyve and the rack are shows,
When the bones or the Brave enrich the
Where a Leyden garden grows
Then the organ swell of the Sea snan tell
how Nederland uprose.
on Yssels flarks, with thrifty sails.
The windmills churn the air,
Where erst Vikings galley rails
Their bosssd shields laid bare.
l dream that the high-beaked triremes
sweep
path for the hordes OF Rome,
AS rock In n fishers boat, asleep,
In the lee Of hedGer's home
While the bells are Ginning a psalm OF
Rest from stored tower and dome
And Thou, o fairest flower OF Peace,
Child OF a happy star!
Glories, and guerdons of increase
Wreathe thy ancestral Lar.
White Righteousness in thine array,
And on thy shield Renown.
Honor shall celebrate thy day.
And Law ra!ute thy crown.
While grass shall grow ana water now
and the ships sail up and down
| John Williamson Palmer in Literature
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05
Extemporaneous Preaching.

Bishop Potter's diatrbe against the
preaching of eXtemporaneous sermons
will come as a shock to many church
goers who have more or less gradually
acquired a contempt for the clergy
man who speaks from notes. In many
churches distinctive for their ccnser-
vatlsm, the ministers sermons are now
apparently delivered eXtemporaneously,
although from long custom the con-
trary has been the case. The fact is
that a wide difference exists between
extemporaneous preaching and that
uttered merely without notes. A min
lister may have so thoroughly prepared
his subject that in no sense can his SER
mon be called extemporaneous.
AS a rule the real extemporaneous ad-
dress deserves all that Bishop Potter
or anybody else can say against it, The
preacher who gets up in the pulpit
trusting to the inspiration of the hour
and the audience to supply the absence
of previous thought is seldom worth the
space he occupies. 1t is only after
years of deepest culture and wide
experience, years of continuous study
and practice that a man is actually
ready to stand before a congregation
and give an extemporaneous message
fit to be treasured in memory or even
heard,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05
Plain Facts.

The Pittsburg Commercial Gazette
says: I'm the present crossing of
streams it is no time for swapping
horses. The Republican majority in
the lower house of congress should be
not only maintained but increased,
and there should be majorities secured
in enough legislatures to make the next
senate safely Republican. The apathy
usual to an off year should not cause
a single Republican to refrain from
taking as much interest in this falls
campaign as if it We're a presidential
year. The opposition is not only en-
deavoring to obtain state offices under
false pretenses, but under the cloaks
II is employing in its endeavors to do
so is also seeking to stab the national
administration. The way to meet these
endeavors is to vote the straight Re-
publican ticket and to make the Re-
publican majorities record breaking
ones for an off year"
This is sound advice, and the Repub-
lican who does not follow it is a poor
apology for a representative of the
party.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05
Spanish Politeness.

Patience should cease with the pro-
crastinating stumbling block methods
of the Spaniards in Havana. There
seems 30 be no doubt of the existence
of great suffering in that city, and
stronger and more frequently comes
the evidence that every possible hind
rance is placed in the way of the
American officials who would relieve
the distressed condition of the people.
Just why some decided step is not talk
en- to give the commissioners more au-
thoritative influence in these matters
seems to be unexplained. The Spanish
are simply employing their old tactics,
and if our victory is worth anything
it should be good for the purpose
which apparently actuated our original
interference in Cuban affairs, that of
oileviating the misery of the oppressed.
While people are starving in the streets
OF Havana a ship loaded with supplies
has been refused entrance to the har-
Dor by the Spanish authorities, who,
it is claimed, ARE very polite to the
American commissioners" Politeness
is not very nourishing to the poor
wretches who are dying of hunger.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

This is Pennsylvania Day at the
Omaha Exposition and no doubt good
impression of the Kcystontc state will
be created by our talented delegation,
headed by the we'll known orator and
journalist, Postmaster General Charles
Emory Smith. Mutual interest and
good feeling between the states are
to be desired at all times and the fruits
Of friendship established by exchange
of courtesies upon occasions like that
of today will be lasting.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05
Steel Rails for England.

One of the most encouraging indi-
cations of the advance Of American
industries is the shipment Of rails to
Europe. 1t is not many years ago,
says the Pittsburg Times, that the
shipment of rails across the Atlantic
pursued the one direction--westward
1t is not so long ago that the move
ments of iron were westward. But
within two or three years American
furnaces have been disposing of con-
siderable of their product under the
shadows of the furnaces of Great Brit
ain, until lately the foremost maker of
iron and steel in the world While
American pig had been going into Eng
and. the announcement of the sale OF
a considerable stock of rails to an Eng
lish railroad by Pittsburg manufac-
turer is climax that is most crafty
ing.
There is no sentiment in the purchase
OF American rails by an English rail-
road. The Englishman is conservative
to the extreme. He hesitates long be-
fore confessing that anything is so good
as the English make, and he has long
professed doubt of the ability of the
American. But gradually the day has
been approaching, and at last the
manufactured rail is laid down in Eng
land by the American mill Other
manufactured forms OF iron and steel
as in machinery, in which the labor
cost was Of much more Importance than
the tons of material. have invaded
Great Britain from the United States
in considerable quantities. But the
steel rail is rather crude article. be-
Ing steel in the mass. almost as sim pie
I'm form as in the bloom. In Bessemer
rrils there Is not much chance TO sim
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

buffalo is not universally recognized
as a great religious center, but it has
one man whose habit it has been to
pray considerably on Sunday. In his
devotions the other night it occurred
to him that he would be more comfort
able if he had cushion to kneel up
on. SO after prowling around in the
dark after the manner of fmasculinity he
found what seemed TO be a sofa pillow
and proceeded TO use 1t as prayer
rug. 1t proved to be a discarded pin
custom and the unfortunate devotee
knelt directly upon hat pin which
penetrated far into his knee. 4 surgi-
cal operation was necessary for its ex-
traction, during which it is rumored
that the victim said a large number
of things which are not in the Book of
Common Prayer.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

With the reopening of work in our
public schools arises new interest and
new source of pride to the city of
Scranton in that for the first time she
boasted a public kindergarten.
superintendent Howell, in his re-
port recently published, says: THE
old theory that any novice can teach
children has been relegated, sent into
exile. Only teachers with special train
ing in kindergarten work and a high
school education back of it shall be
employed" This has been the position
of the Free kindergarten association
in the past and strict adherence to it
hereafter will certainly insure a high
grade of work in the public kindergar-
tens to be established in our city with
in the next year or two.
In view of the probable appropria-
ton of $4,000 next year for public
kindergartens and the consequent de-
mand for thoroughly equipped teach
ers there should be at least twenty ap-
plicants for admission to the training
class this fall
Moreover, the training is invaluable
to all women whether they continue in
the profession or not.
Mrs. Kate Douglas Virgins says that
"under its influence thoughtlessness
and frivolity slip off like an outer gar
ment and the true woman stands re-
vAaled, bright, earnest, tender, strong,
not perfect, but longing to be and try
ing to be woman who has lived with
children, beloved because she has
loved, getting because she has given
growing because she has lived, devel-
oping because she has thought. happy
because she has conferred happiness,
good, or at least better, through try
ing to make others better"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

Harrisburg is not anything If not thor
ough in some things it undertakes. A
violent effort Is being made this week
to save the city through the medium
of the Christian Endeavor convention.
Certain local arrangements may be
very good for Harrisburg, but must
be rather depressing to the Endeavor-
ers. Among the places in which spec
ial noon day evangelistic services are
held is the business house Of the Har-
risburg Burial Case company.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

Oneida county. N. T., Republicans
have struck a happy scheme. They
give a big and toothsome lunch to a
throng-men always will go where
guests to stay and hear the speeches.
OF course they have their audience all
right. 1t is something after the me-
thod pursued by the Sunday Break
fast association, which gives a meal
that is to be paid for by the par:akers
by the subsequent remaining for pray
ers
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

the title of Daughter of the Confed-
eracy.' Miss Lucy Lee Hill. of Chicago.
daughter Of the late General A. p. Hill.
says the office has been conferred upon
her by her friends in the South and
that she has accepted 1t. But there
are others. We move that the Office be
beyond control. The Confcderacy has
no special need OF a daughter" This
is a sentiment with which most SEN
sible people will agree.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

Spanish peace commissioners inti-
mate that they will resist to the verge
of re-opening of hostillties," all
schemes to give America anything but
a coaling station in the Philippines.
1t is believed, however, that the repre-
sentatives of the United States at
Paris will not tolerate much of the
diplomatic hanky-panky that charac-
ferized the negotiations at Madrid
prior to the war.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

rlify either cost of production Of ma
terial or manufacture. Nevertheless
the American methods have brought
about such economies that the Ameri-
can rail can be carried across the sea
to enter market once regarded as i'm
possible to us. The turn of the tide
has come, and who can say what of
the future?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
STATE.

Governor-wILLlAM A. STONE.
Lieutenant Governor--J. Z. s. GOBLIN.
Secretary of Interna! Affsirs-JAMES w.
LATTA. -
Judges of Superior Court-W. w. PoR-
TER, w. ID. PORTER.
Congressmen at Large - SAMUEL A.
DAVENPORT, GALUSHA A. GROW.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

There was an unusually large trus-
tee meeting last night at our church."
remarked a certain pastor yesterday,
land on the night of the prize fight,
too" But" he added meditatively, "I
notice by the morning papers that the
fight didn't come off until ten o'clock.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

Colonel Roosevelt doesn't propose to
say the same thing twice in all his
speeches That is a brave resolution
of Teddys, but it promises to be very
wearing However. if he will deviate
from the accepted idea of political
campaign speeches and simply tell
stories about his last campaign with
the Rough Riders he will capture the
votes of New York state all right.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05
COLONEL STONES PLATFORM.

1t will he my purpose when electeu "
SO conduct myself as TO win the respect
and good will of those who have opposeu
me as well as those who have given me
their support. | shall be the GoVerhoi
OF the whole people Of the state. ABUSES
have undoubtedly grown UP in the leSls-
lature which are neither the fault OIL one
party nor the other. but rather lne
growth of custom. Unnecessary inVcsl-
cations have been authorized by commit
tees resulting in unnecessary expense 10
the state 1t will he nv care ana pur-
pose to correct these and other evils III SO
far as | have the power. 1t VIII be my
purpose while governor of PennsylVanla'
as 1t has been my purpose in the public
positions that I have held, with Coo
help, to discharge my whole duty. The
people arc greater than the parties %
which they belong. I am only jealous OF
their favor. I shall only attempt to win
their approval and my experience has
taught me that that can best be done hy
an honest, modest, daily discharge or
public duty.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

John Wanamaker confides to the
public that the analysis and dissection
of the political machine grow more
interesting and fascinating each day.
lessy amuse himself.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

1t looks as though the last mine of
the enemies of Republicansm in Penn
sylvania had been exploded too soon
in the campaign.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

The officer who did very effec-
tive work during the recent war ap.
pears to have been General Stupidity
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

Persecution usually has boomerang
attachments. The prompt readiness of
Senator Quay to meet all the charges
trumped up against him is about the
last thing desired by those who have
adopted these desperate means to as
sail his honor. AS a result of this
last attempt his enemies greater re-
action than has ever been known in
this state is certain to turn in his
favor
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05
COUNTY.

Congress-WILLIAM CONNELL.
Judge--F. w. GUNSTER.
Cororer-JOHN j. ROBERTS, NJ. d.
Surveyor-GEORGE L. STEVENSON.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

If Colonel Bryan is not mustered out
soon the silver issue will be forgotten
by the Democracy outside of Editor
Lynett's district.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

A Pittsburg pastor declared on Sun
day that women will wear most of the
heavenly diadems. 1t will be Just like
the new woman to grab all the halos
IL only to keep them away from the
poor men.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

General Shafter, in an interview in
New York the other day, said that he
had no explanations to make regard
ing the Santiago case. So long as his
superiors found no fault, the general
intimated that the public might follow
the advice of the late Vanderbilt
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

A long distance telephone should
have been supplied from the seat of
war to enable Colonel Bryan to occa-
sionally speak a word for free silver.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

This is encouragement for single tax.
IT the anti-rent agitators of PATRON days
had been able to read Mr.. Georges book
they would have made far more sweeping
work without doubt. Perhaps they would
have secured legislation introducing the
single-tax system in all it's symmetry and
completeness. Inhabitants and settlers
In Hawaii who do not like the monopoly
of the island by close corporations are not
SO unenlightened. They have read Henry
George, or they have had chance to
read him if they wanted to- Hawaii will
nave territorial legislature before long
without doubt. and land owners will have
no more representation / il than others.
Here is chance for single takers to
make a campaign for their ideas with a
grievance made to their hand. And they
Will find no spot in all the United States
where the people would be so willing to
nave single tax put to practical test as
Hawaii Let them migrate thther in a
body, and the rest OF the country will
bear the departure with forttude and
await their eturn with patience.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

Jack Frost may be awaiting the ac-
tion of the refrigerator combine.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

Many men have punctured their tires
by reckless riding on the road to fame.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

Judge Van Wyck would have dis
played better Judgment If he had at
tached a stout cord to that resignation
from the bench the other day.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

Emperor williams pilgrimage to the
Holy Land will probably take in the
Philippine Islands.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

Young Henry George. who declined
the nomination for governor of New
York the other day, states that he is
not in politics. Judge Van Wyck does
not seem to realize yet that he is in
the same condition.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

The Mobile (Ala.) Register says;
"We are threatened with q contest for
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05
LEGISLATIVE.

Senate.
Twentieth Dist.--JAMES c. VAUGHAN
House.
First District-JOHN r. FAFlR.
Second District-JOHN sCHEUER, Jh'
Third District-N. e. MACkEY.
Fourth District-JOHN +. KEY NOLDo.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05
Hawaii Is Ripe
for The Harvest.
From the commerciai-Advertiser.

n RI AwAIl is not receiving the atter-
III tion that is its due. We do not
It'll hear of rouud-trir excursions
Ii III thlther nor are the papers full OF
advertisements of Hawaiian win
ter csorts. Even the promoter has not
caught hold of Hawaii, and Hawaiian inn
provement ana exploitation companies
are not heralded In the advertising col
uinns of tho press. But Hawaii offers
fields for adventurous Americans. 1t Of
fers chance for disciples Of Henry
George to exploit their theories. There is
no place in the country where the SINGLE
tax propaganda would be likely to gain
so many adherents. The single tax party
selected Delaware as their promised lard
some time ago. They publish their Off"
ciai organ there, and there they conccn-
trate their speakers and agitators. There
were not so many people there as in
New York but 1t seemed to take just as
long to make any impression on them
The single-taX philanthropists were poor
and they adopted the Salvation Army
methods of preaching on the street cor
ners and in public parks. This made
them obnoxious to the law, which fOrbidS
public meetings in the streets without III
censes from the municipal authorities.
They suffered Imprisonment heroically as
martyrs, but their martyrdom was not
the seed of a single-tax Delaware. At
last accounts they had never carried a
single Delaware township.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

But Hawaii offers single-tax agitators
most promising field. The island of
Oahu, on which Honolulu stands is all
owned, says a Honolulu paper, by the
great sugar planters. The same authority
relates that an American citizen with
family who has a small capital, is now in
Honolulu desiring to obtain land for agri-
culture, and finds to his astonishment
no available land is for sale except at
fabulous prices. New settlers can OBJ
tain sugar plantation land, but only on
leasehold interest. In other words, says
the Honolulu Gazette, she must pass di-
rectly or indirectly under corporate
rule" The Gazette apprehends social
trouble from this land monopoly and pre-
diets that popular dissatisfaction will
end in tumult, like the anti-rent riots un-
der the old PATRON system in New York
state, or in radical legislation like that
brought about by the anti-leasehold quar-
rels in Australia.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

Colonel Wood in two months reduced
death rate of seventy per day TO twenty.
Even the Spaniards concede the bene1-
cence of the system. 1t means much TO
Spaniard and Cuban, to rich ana poor,
and is a harbinger OF better things ana
better conditions under American ad-
ministration.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-11
Systematic Giving in Churches.

The gener al aim OF the commission
ON systematic bepeicence is to get
every member Of every church to give
to every great religious undertaking
approved by the denomination to
which he stands related-his own
church, local missions, state missions
home missions in.its national scope.
foreign missions Bible and Sunday
school work, Christian ed acation, ETC.,
and to do this: ~ Regularly, at fixed
yearly periods; (2) ProportiOnately,
as God prospers US; (3) 1ntelligently,
according to the relative claims OF
each object: t4 Scrupulously, as
ste wards of Christ; (5) Cheerfully, as a
Christian privilege.
The neces sity for this commission
arose out of five things: ny The de-
plorable fact of SO great host OF do
Titles or do-nothings in our churches;
(2) The widespread negligence and lack
of system in the churches themselves:
(3) The helter-skelter forays into the
field of Christian beuefcence; (4) The
insufficiencv of existing methods to at
tain desired results; (5) The imperative
need of larger resources for aggressive
work in this age of wonderful opportu-
mites.
Now what of tendencies and condi-
tions among us that are hindrances to
the speedy attainment Of our aims in
Christian beue6cence? The aims and
general methods for q church, and
every member thereof, are thus set
forth in the published statement of the
commission: