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The age-herald., 1898-04-08

or properts." He Is given ten days in which to render his lot wholesome. At the end of ten days. thenceforward to cold weather. the city will not only see that the lot Is kept clean, but 1t will, h need be, send men to make it clean. and the occupant will be cited before the recorder. who will assess the cost of the city's work against the offending occupant and offen- sive premises. This must be paid in money or in service in the jail.
 The law is ample everywhere in the state. and every town in 1t should do as Mobile is doing. The trouble is not so much on public grounds as 1t is on private property. No one should be permitted to endanger the health of his neighbors, and the reputation of his town. And this should be the rule in the country also. There should be general cleaning up.
 When the fever takes hold in small town the percentage is usually higher than in larger town, and this is plainly due to it's greater percentage of filth. As rule the laws of sanitation are disregarded in small towns. Stagnant water is permitted on all sides. Animals of various sorts have the freedom of the streets, and Of the localities of wells. Ordinary cleanliness and sanitation are unknown in many such towns, and if hostilities occur every sucn town will be source of danger to all. It is regretable that no ready means exist to make such towns put themselves in sound and wholesome condition. Pubic sentiment is all that can be appealed to. There is no danger to be apprehnded from the larger towns of the state. They are to be thoroughly cleansed and kept clean, but many of the lesser towns are un- speakably insanitary, and will probably remain so until an epidemic sweeps through them. They seem to have an antipathy to cleanliness.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08
Cuba and the Biq Four.

The peace-at-any-price crowd are en- deavoring to talk down and to write down the republic of Cuba Some of them say it is a myth, a mere lot of guerrillas, a government on paper without form or sub- stance Hanna and Hale. and Elkins are things, and Premier McCook of the pitchen cabinet, stands ready to swear to what they assert.
 Such great and good men must know; but still there is room for doubt. It is certainly true that the guerrillas have stood off 100000 Spanish soldiers and a consider able fleet three years. It Is also true that they have practically tied up the railroad system of the island. It is also true that they have assessed, or tied up its agricul- tural system. It is also true that they have not been defeated in a singla campaign of the three years fighting. It Is also true that they have kept under immense diffi- culties fully 25.OOo in arms, and as many more raising supplies. It Is also true that Spain has spent $2SO 900 900 in her attempt to conquer these guerillas. this myth, this formless government, and that she is today spending s12, ,oOo, 900 month In like efforts.
 And yet Hale and Hanna and Elkins, and, of course, McCook, say this country must not regard such a rabble; and MT. Mckinley, poor man, seems ready to fall victim to the wiles of the irrepressible and noble quartette.
 Spain knows the republic of Cuba Is not a rabble; and if the American quartette would place themselves in Spain's place they, too, might discover the nature of the Cuban government. What would in that case be Cuba's gain would not be our loss The big four can be spared. Turn them over to the guerillas for conversion pur- poses and general treatment. Give them dose of Weylerism in the stockades of the reconcentrados. Nothing is too good for them that will remove them from their present sphere of political activities. They are a source of moral contamination in this country. Send them to Spain, and call it even.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
 It never improves musty opinions to air them.
 Some women are passing fair and some others are past
 The free lunch attracts more men than the church festival
 A man frequently outwits himself in try ing to outwit others.
 The less honor a man has the more sen- sitive he is on the subject.
 Woman was born to love and be loved, and she fights it out on that line.
 The wise husband should prepare his pocketbook for the spring openings.
 A woman can sharpen a lead pencil about as quick as a man can thread needle.
 Every man who Is the father of a. bright son Is a firm believer in heredity.
 Gents who wear pants carry canes. Gen. tlemen who wear trousers carry walking sticks.
 It Is said that gold is so malleable that 1t can be beaten as thin as the ham in a rail- way sandwich.
 Poetry of motion is synonymous with the motion of poetry when the editor tosses 1t into the waste basket
The age-herald., 1898-04-08
Lay Methodist Representation.

Methodism has stood pretty firmly by the methods and practices, as we'll as the be- liefs, of John Wesley, but time and pros perity and growth bring some changes. The primitive meeting house has been displaced to some extent By great buildings, lighted which arise the tones of a pipe organ and the voices of a soloist or highly-trained quartette. But still the distinctive fea- lures of Methodism remain-the itinerancy, the exhorter, the camp meeting the quar- terly meeting and even the class meeting.
 The latest innovation in Methodism is about to occur in the northern branch of the great church. The long agitation in fa- vor of the lalty is about to be consummated. The conferences are one after another vot- ing in favor of equal lay representation in the general conferences of the church. The proposition will undoubtedly be carried, and future conferences will surely contain as many laymen as cergymen.
 The wonder is, that the reform had not been brought about long ago; for in no church in the world are the laity so prized or so frequently called upon to act in one capacity or another. It is said that in England the Methodist church has act ually implanted in the masses the art of public speaking, so frequently are the lay members asked to speak in the class meet ings and other public meetings. It is cer- tainIy church in which the laity consider themselves useful, and no doubt they would have won equal representation long ago but for the feeling that one innovation leads to another, and many fear that wide de- parture from the methods of the founders might lessen the power of the great or ganization. So far as The Age-Herald has observed however, no effort has been made to increase lay representation in the church, south.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08
ORIGIN OF MAN.
From Lippincott's,

From Lippincott's.
 Although 1t has been supposed that at one time mans prehuman ancestor had an arboreal existence and walked on all fours as do the apes, yet he was not an ape; such origin has never been claimed, but only that man descended from his own ancestor, who on account of a common descent with the ancestors of the apes, was very similar in structure. As his physical conditions were somewhat similar, 1t is likely that his life and habits did not differ very much from the apes of that day. This creation of what we call human from the prehuman state was brought about by the action of the great laws which control the founda- ton of all life-variation of the species and natural selection Certain individuals would, as now, present certain peculiarities better fitting them for the struggle with their fellows; these, of course, stood the greater chance of survival, for the golden rule of the biologist, "The Attest shall sur vve," held all the world in a firmer grasp than now. The more favored ones, mating with those alike constituted, finally, ages thence, brought about the great changes which resulted in man.
 These changes-evoluton we call them are just as potent today as ever, but they work so slowly that in our short existence we never note the difference Five thous- and years-4the longest period at which mans life has been under his own recorded observations-woud hardly count a day in the great creation.
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Others have been more diplomatic. and instead of going in person have sent their emissaries Mark Hana's office, as chair man of the national republican commit tee, Is immediately over one of the largest stock gambling institutions in this city. He has but to sit in his office and talk through a pneumatic tube to the dealer of the game in the room below. Senator Hanna has spent more time at his desk within the past two weeks manipulating the markets than he has spent in the senate chamber
 His secertary to the national committee. Major Dick, looks after the market inter est when MT. Hanna is absent at the sen- ate. Senator Elkins has been doing busi- ness with three of the large establish ments here, all of which have New York connections, but Elkins has himself never ventured in person into the financial dis trict. He has employed messengers and has worked the market for all there was in it. Hundreds of other equally as promi- nent men have been doing the same thing, while Mckinley was urged to wait by these same gentlemen before taking action. They sent out manufactured interviews Wilh tHeHlSelNeS through the press aSSO- citations for the sole purpose of having in- fiuence upon tomorow's market. They have worked it well. They have made bar rels of money
 MT. Hanna has been even more than cunning. He has visited the white house every night for the last three weeks or more. At the white house are also until mt fornf aJaf af spondents. Mr. Hanna has invariably gone alone to see the president. He did not want his movements noticed by the correspondents, therefore he has had key to the back door, or rather to the south entrance, and has gone in and out through the red room, thence into the broad cor ridor and up stairs to the presidents of- flee. On Monday night when the cabinet was in session discussing for the last time the forthcoming measure which Was de- livered to the house yesterday, MT. Hanna was somewhat belated visitor. He went to the back door and used his night key with great haste. He rushed into the cabinet meeting and sat with the cabinet until an adjournment. President McKin- ley might have asked him to come and perhaps he was there by authority, but cabinet meetings are always conducted with no one present except themselves and the president. The vice-president is never consulted at a cabinet meeting. But MT. Hanna is not vice-president. In some re- spects he is more than president-he's the Boss
The age-herald., 1898-04-08
ACTION REQUIRED AT ONCE.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 Whatever is done should bedone at once It is not policy to permit Spain to founder around with precious promises and. mean while, to prepare for battle. The crisis must be faced immediately Any halfway settlement will but lead to future troubles, and we do not want to be forced to go all over this thing again few years or few months hence, with the consequent destruc- tion of business relations with Cuba and at an immense expense. Now is the proper
 time to put stop to Spanish rule in Cu- ba-peaceably if possible, but with force if we must.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08
"BRANN."

The 'Tconoclast is fallen!" The Samson of the Temple dead! Above its ruins reverent tread. Reared by a master mind, giants
 throne,
 A subtle structure, all his own Skilled in the witchery of a magic dover, Unequalled language was his potent
 power; Scorning the flowers of falsehood's blight
 ing bloom.
 Hurling each imaged idol to its rightful
 doom. Lover of truth; all else had hateful name; Calling spade a spade" in right of
 shame; Drew back the curtain from each baneful light,
 Exposed the falser glare to open sight Brann fell! and in that fall the Iconoclast Paled in meteoric splcndor OCT stcria wrecked past. -S. b. V. II.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08
Cleanliness in Mobile.

The work of putting Mobile in a thor
 oughly wholesome condition has been be-
 gun. and 1t has been begun at the place of greatest danger, the individual lot. The occupant. not the owner of each lot in the city, is first notified that he must not suffer kitchen stuff, oyster shells. shaw ings, snIps, wash. dung, or filthy matter of any kind to remain upon his lot. grounds
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

In bales and tons iron and cotton are running side by side in this country For every bale of cotton grown ton of iron is made, but a bale of cotton is worth two or three tons of iron, unless the latter be turned into some of it's higher forms.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

When President Mckinley will tell what he knows about the Cuban question Is problem in itself, but still greater prob- lem Is wrapped up in the nature of what he will have to say. He may tell what he knows, and then again he may tell what some one else wishes him to tell.
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was considered necessary to Garheld's suc1 cess that he should have New York run ming mate. The choice lay between Wood ford and Arthur. and Woodford was at first the favorlte.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

Special Commissioner Klopsch and Pre- mier McCook are both posing as the Gu bans best friends Klopsch says they dread independence as they dread yellow fever. This Is only Klopsch's opinion, but no doubt McCook would indorse 1t.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

This country produces about ten million bales of cotton and ten million tons of iron each year, and the two go together excel lently in loading an outward-bound ship. They are both southern products.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

In all the noise and confusion of the war crisis, the country plainly asks for two things-the independence of Cuba, and sat isfaction for the destruction of the Maine.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

There is only one nation that can put up a good fight against this country, and that is country that has coal supplies on this side of the sea-England. She is, how ever, our lngual chum and great moral supporter
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

Marine underwriters are growing rich from the fears of shippers and vessel own CTS. Premiums of 10 per cent. are demand ed upon ships going south of Cuba.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

Privateers that know what Commodore schley's ship can do will be prepared to sail at least 25 knots an hour.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

The election in Rhode Island on Tuesday was practically uncontested- Gov. Dyer was elected to succeed himself, and Senator Aldrich will be. The next state election occurs in June in Oregon. The result in that state will be significant.
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Spains delay has caused her indemnity from the Cuban republic to fall to zero. If reparation should become necessary, it would go below the zero mark.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

Grover Cleveland Is impassive in this crisis How he will be when speckfed trout bite. the dispatches do not say.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

The Delaware peach crop is in course of being killed. It is improving its opportuni- ties in this April freeze.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

War win be declared in ten days unless Spain back down." So say advlces from Washington. We shall see.
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Why all this fuss and feathers unless Mckinley means action.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

Look out for a big slump in the stock market today. It is time for the congress slonal combine to begin unloading.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

No man ever came nearer the presidency and missed it than Minister Woodford. It
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

Is Mckinley protecting the honor of the government or the pocketbooks of sena- torial spectators?
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

The presidential message will be frost bitten if 1t is held back much longer in this cool wave.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

Fltz Lee is popular favorite in all par ties and in all sections.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

Have Lee and Woodford been recalled for stock market effect only?
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The honor and dignity of the American government must be protected.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

The republican national platform calls for the independence of Cuba, MT. McKin- ley.
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The autonomists are simply Spaniards who are a trife craftier than the home arti- cle.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

When Hanna has mllked the stock market dry, this government may get in action.
The age-herald., 1898-04-08

MT. Mark Hanna Is becoming jealous oi MT. J. J. McCook.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-12
MINOR NEWS NOTES.

Rhea, the two-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James Bartels, of Price
street, while playing about the house
yesterday afternoon fell and broke
both bones of the right forearm.
The joint excursion of the congrega-
tions of the Welsh CONGREGATIONAL
churches of West and North Scran-
ton to Lake Ariel proved an unquali-
fled success yesterday. Eleven cars
were required to carry West Scranton
lans and eight cars for North Scran-
ton eXcursionists. A pleasant day was
spent at the lake, and no accident hap
pened to mar the pleasure of the day.
Epworth league members of the
Hampton Street Methodist church will
conduct an outing at Nay Aug park
Tuesday, Aug. 90. Refreshments will
be served on the grounds.
Members of the West Side Republi-
can league are requested to be pres
ent at the meeting to be held this eve
ming in their rooms over Davies phar-
macy, on South Main avenue. Import
ant business is to be considered.
Patrolman Kiah Peters is acting lieu
tenant of the West Side police detail
during the absence of Lieutenant Will
liams on his vacation.
superintendent b. c. Green, of the
Bellevue, is being mentioned as a Re-
publican candidate for the Legislature
from the Tnird Legislative district.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-12
DUNMoRE.

The Junior Order of United Ameri
can Mechanics, the Mems Guild Of st
Marks church and the Daughters o
America will jointly conduct an ex
cursion to Shawnese lake tomorrow
The train will leave the Erie and Wyo
ming station at s o'clock. Fare, adult
81; children, 60 cents.
Anthony Mcdonnell and Miss Bridge
Hennigan were married in St. Mary
church, Wednesday afternoon, Rev. n
b. Donlan officiating. Miss b. Derri:
attended the bride and Michael Henni
gan acted as grooomsman. After tn
ceremony the young couple drove t,
the home of the brides parents, wher,
a reception was held.
Frank Dickens and sister, Mabel o
Chestnut street, left yesterday 70
Crystal lake.
Leslie Simons, Of Lake Ariel, spen
yesterday with friends in town.
Anthony Pitino the 5-months- oil
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Vito Pitino, of Pin,
street, died yesterday afternoon. Tn
funeral will occur Friday afternoon
Interment will be made in Mt. Carme
cemetery.
The telegram received by Mr.. an
Mrs. Joseph Comstock Wednesday stat
ing that their son, Albert, was dead
also stated that the remains woul
reach Scranton via the Delaware
Lackawanna and Western railroad IA
1888 o'clock yesterday afternoon. A
Krotzer went to the station to TAX
charge of the body and found that
had not arrived. nor could he lear
anything about it. He returned hom
and notified Mr.. Comstock and he i'm
mediatey sent a dispatch to Auburn
n. Y, to see if the body had beel
shipped.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-12
THEY VISITED THE MINES.

A small party of West Scranton
young people arranged trip through
the Central mines in honor of Misses
Margaret Duffy and Margaret Howley.
of Carbondale. who are the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. p. j. Moran, of South
Fillmore avenue. The trip was taken
Wednesday evening and proved very
pleasant. Fireboss william Morgan
acted as escort. Many souvenirs of the
trip were carried away
Upon the return of the party to the
surface a reception was held at the
Moran residence. Those who formed
the party were, including the Misses
Duffy and Howley, Mrs. John Carson
and John McDOnough, John Kearney,
John Byron and Patrick Durkin.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-12
NUBS OF NEWS.

A general rehearsal of the cantata
"Our Flag" George Davis conductor,
will be held Friday evening. All the
members of the choir are requested to
be present.
The Eureka base ball club will go
to Wilkes-Barre Sunday afternoon,
where they will play the Olympics,
of that city. They will leave on the
1.46 Delaware and Hudson train.
Miss Blodwen Griffiths, of Taylor, is
visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs.
Sidney Lewis, of Spring street.
Miss Catherine Edwards. of Warren
street, left today for Wilkes-Barre to
visit friends.
Miss Cora Roberts, of Summit ave-
nue., left yesterday for South Gibson.
Mrs. Bernard Davis, has returned
home from Lake Carey, after an ex-
tended sojourn there.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
Lewis, of Spring street, has been
frightened by the arrival of a baby
girl
Rev. w. F. Davis is entertaining his
nephew, Oscar Davis, of Vandling.
Professor d. II. Davis, of Lake Carey
is visiting friends in this section.
DR.. and Mrs. ]. X. Bentley and
daughter left yesterday for Chicago
They will cross the lakes and take q
trip down the Mississippi river for a
distance Of nearly 600 miles.
The Walla Wah base ball club helC
its weekly social last night.
Edward Lewis. of Leggetts street
has returned from a two weeks stay
at Atlantic City.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-12
GREEN RIDGE.

At St. Pauls Catholic church, on
Wednesday, Miss Mary REILLY, of Mad
ison avenue. was married to Thomas
b. Walsh. Rev. p. j.. McManus was
the ofticiating clergyman. Miss Jennie
Aimes was bridesmaid and James Nc
Gill groomSman. Mr.. and Mrs. Walsh
left for a trip to Boston and Clinton
Mass.
Miss Leigh, of Philadelphia, is the
guest of Mrs. Z. G. Stevans, of Ca
pouse avenue.
Ralph Rittenhouse, of Washington
avenue, left this morning for New York
city. He intends to ride the whole dis
tance on his bicycle.
Mr. and Mrs. A. b. Lidstone, of Dick
son avenue, will leave this morning
for Canada.
Miss Peuser, of Monsey avenue, has
returned from a two weeks stay at
Atlantic City.
Miss Shoemaker, of Wilkes Barre is
the guest of Mrs. Davis. of Sanderson
avenue.
Miss Smith, of Minnesota, is the
| guest of Mrs. Robert White, of New
York street
Mrs, Coately, of Capouse avenue, has
returned from short visit at Wilkes
| Barre.
James Hornbaker, of Penn avenue,
| has returned after two weeks stay
| at Madisonville.
Mrs. Cahoon, of Capouse avenue, is
| spending a few days at Carbondale.
Mrs. c. w. Faatz, of Capouse ave-
nue., will leave today for Paterson, N. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Kennedy, OF
| Capouse avenue, are spending a few
| days at Factoryville.
Mrs. Browning, of Richmont Park,
| is spending a few days at La Plume.
John Koch, of Race street, has re-
turned from a business trip to New
! York city.
| Mrs. Emmett Simons. Of Capouse
avenue, has returned from Wyoming,
| where she was called through the Sc
rious Illness Of her mother.
| The Lawrence band will give an
| open air concert at the Green Ridge
| Wheelmens club house this evening
| Edward Northup, of Capouse avenue,
has returned from a short visit at Dali
| ton
Miss Maud Martin, of Parsons, Is the
guest of Mrs. Coakley. OF Capouse ave.
nue.,
Miss Ruth Briggs. of Nicholson, is
the guest of Mrs. II. b. Andrews, OF
| Capouse avenue.
Mrs. J.. p. Smith, of Penn avenue, is
| spending few days at Lake Ariel.
Miss Nellie Schultz. of Honesdale, is
the guest of Mrs. William Erhart, OF
Capouse avenue.
Allison Kinsley and Bruce Fordham
have just completed building a beau
tiful boat. They did all the work upon
1t themselves and will take it in a few
days to Lake Ariel
Miss Robbins. of Wilkes Barre. is the
guest Of Mrs. Parsons, Of Capouse ave-
ALue,