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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-08

will say: He's spoiled by the fame of
the regiment in Cuba Don't think
you've got to have the best of every
thing, and don't consider yourselves
as martyrs. What want of all of you
is to get right out and fight your bat
ties in the world as bravely as you
fought the nations battles in Cuba"
This is the spirit of the best Ameri-
canism. Events move too rapidly in
this great country for anybody to live
successfully in the past tense.
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INVESTIGATE.
From the Philadelphia Press.

1t is not too much TO say that the spien-
did and magnificent results of the war
have been obscured In the minds of mill
ions by statements, some true and some
false, some well-founded and some utter
fabrications, as to the shortcomings Of
the quartermaster, commissary and modi-
cal departments of the army Nearly ev-
cry person has some personal knowledge
through friends in the army of cases of
individuals unfed, uncared-for and ex-
posed to some special peril which 10 the
man without military experience seems
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REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
STATE.

Governor-WILLIAM a. STONE,
Lieutenant Governor-J. Il. s. GOBLIN
Secretary of Internal Affairs-JAMES w.
LATTA.
Judges of Superior Court-W. w. POR-
TER, W. ID. PORTER.
Congressman at Large - SAMUEL A.
DAVENPORT, GALUSHA A. GROW.
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TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune Astrologer.
Astrolabe Cast: 200 a. m, for Thursday
September s, lS9S.
~ G A

A child born on this day will wonder
If the food inspector samples all the milk
that is sold in Scranton.
Like Spain, Scranton is liable TO suffer
from surplus of ambitious fingers in
the administrative pie.
Tho demand for rose-colored glasses for
camp inspection use is on the increase.
one may now consult the magazine ad-
vertisemcnts for information as to the
kind of soap Queen Wilhemina uses.
1t Will be noticed that some authors
"literary efforts" are much greater than
tho results.
Speaking of the "Rough Riders" Just
think what might have happened If the
Columbia cavalry had been given
chance at Santiago!
All men are born equal, but not all are
able to select rich fathers.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-08

In six days in New York city 1872
persons were killed by the recent hot
wave and 600 other persons prostrated.
This casualty list is almost half as
large as the American loss in the war
with Spain.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-08

Two captains and seventeen soldiers
of lesser rank constitute the Ninth
regiments contributions thus far to
the nations roll of honor. All per-
ished of typhoid fever while awaiting
in camp the summons to battle that
never came.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-08

Pension Commissioner Evans reports
1,O40,S56 names now on the pension roll,
as against only 916,O14 a year ago.
Apparently we are yet a considerable
distance away from the time when
the pension list will begin to decrease
"a time which General Garfield once
predicted would be reached twenty
wears Ago
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-08

1t will be some consolation to foes
of shams that Richard lie Gallienne
the British bardlet who initiates the
affectations but lacks the essentials of a
literary genius, has failed to set the
rivers of America on fire during his
visit among us, and is going back to
London with a panied expression. May
it ever be thus with poseurs.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-08

The hot wave of public indignation
will probably produce summer weather
about the war department several
weeks hence unless there is a change
of inscription on the door-plate.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-08

The Dervishes as rule are fatalists.
but the khalifa and Osman Digna ap-
pear to have placed more trust in their
sprinting powers during their recent
experience with General Kitchener.
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COUNTY.

Congress- CONNELL.
Judge-F. w. GUNSTER.
Coroner-JOHN ]. ROBERTS, NJ. ID.
Surveyor-GEORGE T.. STEVENSON.
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Total miscellaneous ............. 100000

The foregoing is only a very rough
analysis of the racial constitution of the
American people, but, If absolutely exact
estimates could be made (as they cannoD,
believe the proportions of the various
race elements would be found to differ
but very little from the proportions which
have given. This analysis certainly
makes clear the fact that the Anglo
Saxon element strongly preponderates IN
the racial makeup of the American peo-
pie, constituting, as it does, nearly two
thirds of the white population. The An
glo-SaNon is the race which first settled
this country 1t is the race which gave
America its language, its institutions,
and its national character. 1t Is the race
which built up America and made 1t a
great and coherent nation, and fitted II
for its high destiny. Other races have
helped in our material development, but
they have been able to advance our ma
tional progress only by becoming imbued
with Anglo-Saxon ideas, that is, by be-
coming AmeTcanized.
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apparently preventable. Some of these
cases are readily and Immediately eX-
plainable to one familiar with army con-
ditions. some become instantly eXcusable
when all the special facts are known, and
some, comparatively few, have no ex-
PLANTATION and greatly need one. But the
great mass of the public has no military
training and no camp experience. For
many special reasons our highly intel
ligent American public knows little OF
war, of its necessary precautions, of the
tropics and their special dangers or of the
experience of other armies.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-08

Colonies Grant and Bryan might col
laborate and produce an interesting
volume on Things That Did Not Come
Our Way"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-08

running expenses-sold to pet syndi-
Gates at a ruinous sacrifice.
The people will not again get scared
at u treasury surplus.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-08

General Kitchener's success in the
African desert is doubtless due to the
fact that he is practically his own war
Department.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-08

Now that all danger is past, General
Pando becomes as noisy as a 16 to /
silver orator.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-08

The war department does not seem
to be cutting any ice, but thanks to
generous citizens hereabouts the Thr-
teenth regiment will continue to re-
ceive generous supply.
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The Foolish War Department.

If the war department had shown
candor and Americanism in its atti-
tude toward the public, much of its
incompetency would today be forgiven.
But first to last its attitude has been
contemplate. The surgeon general,
notoriously inefficient, begs off by put
ting the blame on the women of the
Red Cross-the women who saved the
army both at Santiago and at Mon
tauk point, when Sternberg's depart
ment had hopelessly broken down.
The commissary general and quarter
master general sneer at those who
complain of their poor work and
charge the fault upon lying newspaper
reporters. And the secretary of war,
in his dealings with both Miles and
Roosevelt, keeps well up with the cad
procession.
Finally, by way of adding insult to
injury men like General Boynton are
sent from camp to camp to write
white washing reports of the condi-
tions there-conditions known to the
public to be ineXcusable and very
largely due to bungling, executive
work in the war department This last
desperate effort to throw dust in the
public's eyes is the most eXasperating
incident of all. 1t is so obviously an at
tempt to shirk responsibility that it
produces exactly the opposite effect
from that intended; it innames public
indignation all the moro
If Alger and his assistants were
wise, they would frankly admit that
the job was too big for them and
throw themselves on the mercy of the
court. Americans, even when pro-
voked, are exceptionally magnani-
nous. The chances are that after
some little scolding they would forgive
the whole kit of war department Of
ficlals, big and little, out of considera-
tion for the fact that the war in its
main results was phenomenally sue
cessful and also in view of the circum-
stance that congress in recent years
had made no provision for the devel-
opment of an army. But this attempt
to snarl and snap at the public, to
augment guilt with insolence, is the
very worst policy that could possibly
be adopted. The country simply will
not endure 1t.
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To a public thus constituted, intelli-
gent, sincere, serious, well-meaning, but
ignorant as to war, army life and the
tropics, prepared by two months of in
cessant agitation to believe anything.
there will come in the next two weeks
900 soldiers, and in month or six
weeks more another hundred thousand
men, many suffering from the inevitable
and unavoidable strain of camp life but
knowing little how unavoidable and in
evitable most of Its perils to health are
in the first four months of a raw army
and speaking with the apparent authority
of experience and knowledge. This seri-
Gus situation, for which no one person is
responsible, needs TO be faced calmly, dis
passionately and with decisive vigor. OF
the entire train of shortcomings, nearly
all were inevitable. They were due 10
raw, unacclimated men; to regimental Of
flcers who through no fault of their own
did not know how to take care of their
men; TO a staff badly organized and so
inadequate in size that no ability or en-
ergy could make 1t fully equal to its
work, however great the devotion of its
members, and to those errors of adminis-
tration and appointment which have
marked every war in our history. These
various causes are each and all part of
the national lack Of preparation for which
the nation is responsible.
o.
All this needs to be made plain, and 1t
can only be made plain by an investiga-
ton conducted by a commission made up
of men of the highest authority. Such a
commission the instant il was appointed
would stop all sensational agitation and
petty pickering. The country is today in
no inconsiderate temper. 1t appreciates
all that has been accomplished. 1t recog-
nizes the great difficulties surmounted.
Sober candid men who know how big
jobs are done, how hard to accomplish
and what shortcomings are inevitable,
are making no personal attacks. But
they do ask for a complete, thorough,
ute the responsibility for all shortcomings
and instruct the land in the reform now
needed. The golden moment for the Sc
lection and appointment Of this commits
sion is now.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-08

The war cannot be considered at an
end until the "Gussie" has gone out OF
commission.
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LEGISLATIVE.

Senate.
Twentieth Dist.--JAMES c. VAUGHAN
House.
First District-JOIIN r. FARR
Second District-JOHN SCHEUER, JR.
Third District-N. c. NACKEY.
Fourth District--JOITN l.. REYNOLDS.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-08

Some remarks addressed by Colonel
Roosevelt the other day to his Rough
Riders, on the eve of their return to
civil life, are capable of widespread
application. Said he: "Now here's
thing l want TO warn you against:
Don't get gay and pose as heroes.
Don't go back and lie on your laurels:
they'll wither. The world will be kind
to you for about ten days, and then It
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-08

Barbarous nations of the earth are
beginning to understand the lingo Of
English speaking guns.
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Now making a final summation, find
that the 55,OOO,OOO white Americans Of 1890
are racially divided as follows:
Anglo-SaXon of colonial ances-
Try 0OO, 900
Anglo-SaXon of American, but
post-colonial ancestry ............ 1000, 900
Anglo-SaXon of foreign parent
age ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1900, 600
Anglo-SaXon of foregn birth. .... 1000, 900
Total Anglo-Saxon ...............3200 900, 900
Continental Teutonic of colonial
ancestry ........................... $500, 900
Continental Teutonic of Ameri-
can, but post-colonal ancestry. 100000
Continental Teutonc of foreign
parentage. ..........................5 100000
Continental Teutonic of foreign
birth. ............................ 1900, 900
Total Continental Teutonic ..... .13 900, 900
Celtic of colonial ancestry ....... 900, 900
Celtic of American, but post
colonial ancestry .................. 500, 900
Celtic of foreign parentage ........ 5000, 900
Celtic of foreign birth .............. 1000, 900
Total Celtic ........................ 100000
Miscellaneous of colonial ancestry 100000
Miscellaneous OF American, but
post-colonial ancestry ........... 500, 900
Miscellaneous of foreign parent
age .......,................... 100000
Miscellaneous of foreign birth..... 100000
Total miscellaneous .............. 3,OOO,UOO
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-26

A writer advises beginner if he has
$1,000 to put only half of it into the
poultry business at first We would ad-
wise him to start with little or no capi.
tal--at most, very little. Get a few
hens and hatch the flock. One does not
iced costly henhouses, bone cutters, in
cubators and so on to start with. Many
of the most profitable floclls have never
seen anything of these luXuries. Most
farm fiocks are kept in the barn with
the other stock. though shut away from
1t, and as to bone cutters, etc, no barn
flock needs them. Woe unto the one
who starts with large capital. One
of the strongest points in favor of poul-
try keeping is that it requires very lit
tie capital.-Dakota Farmer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-26

You cannot, by the use of CONNER,
cial fertilizers alone, make your land
rich. Indeed, if they are ignorantly
applied, the result will be the impov
ershment of the soil. If you add ten
dollars to your bank account and check
out $50, you know the result. In like
manner, when you use small quan.
t;ty of your fertilizer, ii grows a vigor-
GUS plant, which enables it to gather
fertility from the soil largely in excess
Of the materials added by the fertilizer.
Judiciously used, they are great boon
to the farmer. But, l repeat, the best
method of using the phosphates and
potash salts is on the pea and clover
crops. 1t insures, as a rule, fine
crop of these renovators. - Southern
States Farm Magazine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-26
TANNING FUR SKINS.
An Operation Requiring Some Car,
and Experience.

and Experience.
Soak the skins until soft, remove su-
perfuous flesh and soak in tepid soft
water one hour. For each skin make a
solution of one-half ounce of borax,
three-quarters ounce saltpeter and one
half ounce giobular salt. Dissolve or
moisten with soft water sufficient to
spread on the flesh side of the skin. Put
on with brush, taking into considera-
tion the varying thicknesses of skin
and apply accordingly. Keep in a mod
erately cool place for "a hours, when
the skin is to be washed clean. Then
take one ounce sal soda, one-half ounce
boraX and two ounces hard soap, melt
together, taking care not to bring TO a
boil. Apply the heated mixture to the
flesh side and keep in warm place for
"a hours. Wash the skins clean and
apply two ounces saleratus, three
quarts hot soft water, four ounces alum
and eight ounces salt. Dissolve in
water. When sufficiently cool to allow
handling without scalding the bar,
hand allow the skin to remain in this
mixture for II hours. Afterward wiring
out the moisture and allow 12 hours tc
dry. Finish by pulling and working
and finally by rubbing the flesh witt
sandpaper or pumice stone.-G. II. Hap
good, in Farm and Home.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-26
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Cultivate the corn before 1t is up.
Get the implements ready for spring
work.
Clover will run out the common
weeds.
Alfalfa is not satisfactory in the mid
die west.
On poor soil SOW wheat little thicker
than on good.
Orchard, timothy, blue grass ant
clover make a good pasture.
Wire fencing is so cheap that there
is no excuse for lack of fences.
Fermenting and heating in the NOV
are what make clover hay dusty.
Black loan earth, in dry state, il,
just as good an absorbent as plaster.
Clover, clover and more clover with
all the stock you can keep, will bring
up worn-out farm.
If the land is level three inches of fine
pulverization of the soil is believed tc
be best for conservation of moisture.
There is n very general opinion among
corn growers with whom we talk that
we plant too thickly for best results.
Old straw stacks may be spread on
the pastures in spring 10 advantage. 1,
is a mulch and prevents too close crop.
ping.
If cattle are turned on topped dressed
pasture before the grass gets a good
start and before there has been a good
rain, it will be offensive to them
Western Plowman.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-26
Anhen with stnble Manure.

1t may seem strange to advise apply.
ing wood ashes unleached to stable ma
nure just before it is plowed under.
Yet this is often n good thing To do
While exposed to the air, especially ii
the manure be wet so us to leach the
ashes, there will be some loss of am
monia. But SO fast as the manure and
ashes are turned under this waste OF
ammonia ceases. The ashes canse the
manure to ferment rapidly, and in con-
tact with the soil none of the ammonia
will be lost. In fact, much of II will
combine with the potash in the ashes,
forming nitrate of potash, which IL
the most effective manure known
American Cultivator.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-26
FOR PREPARING LAND FOR SEED.
ING

to hold each piece of scantling rigid.
One bolt is placed in the center; the
Others one foot from each end. Chains
from the outer bolts of the front scant-
ling are brought together and serve
as place of attachment for the Whit.
fletree. The front cutting edges OF
each scantling are protected and their
efficiency aided by having them bound
with fiat iron two inches wide and one.
found to be heavy enough and well
adapted for ordinary work, but if made
of pine or any light wood it will require
weighting.-S. N. Cox, in Farm and
Home.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-26
SQUADS FOR MARKET.
How to Rinse Them Successfully on
the Poultry Farm.

How to Rinse Them SuccegsfuiIy on
the Poultry Farm.
AT this season squads are very high
and frequently bring 80 cents each at
retail. The wholesale price ranges from
$3.50 to four dollars a dozen. A pair of
pigeons will produce from six to ten
pairs of squads a year. They are not
profitable if permitted to fly at large.
as boys, hawks, and other enemies de-
stroy them, but can be made to pay il
kept in suitable building with wire
covered yard. A house eight by 12 feet,
and yard 100 feet long, 90 feet wide
and IL feet high, will serve for 20 pairs
The food should be wheat, bread.
cracked corn, fresh meat (chopped),
seed of any kind, finely-chopped grass
and clover, ground bone, etc. A box of
ground meat, one of ground bone and
enc of pulveriaed charcoal should be
kept conveniently for them, with fresh
water at all times. Put high and low
roosts across the yards, and hang a
salt Goldfish for them to pick at will. A
point in keeping pigeons is that the
sexes must be equal, as an extra mails
will break up the matings. Only a.
expert can tell the cocks from the hens
when the birds are quiet. They must
be kept clean and free from lice.-Farm
and Fireside
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-26
FARM AND GARDEN.
POULTRY YARD HINTS.
A Few Reliable Health and Disease
Indications.

"A Few Reliable Health and Disease
Indications.
When fowls are judiciously fed, made
to take exercise, and their quarters kept
clean and free from filth, there is COM
paratively no trouble with sickness, ex-
cept in cases of contagion.
When the combs and wattles of the
fowls are of bright red color, it indi-
Gates the condition of good health.
When the fowls are busy scratching,
the hens laying and singing, and the
cocks growing, these are signs of good
health.
When you can enter the hen house
after dark and hear no wheeling, it
proves there are not any roupy fowls in
the flock.
When the manure is hard, and por-
tion of it white, it indicates n healthy
condition of the digestive organs.
WhsD the edge of the comb and wat
ties are purplish red and the move
ments sluggish, there is something
wrong.
When fowls lie around, Indifferent to
their surroundings, they are too fat,
and death from apopleXy, indigestion
OF liver complaint will result unless the
trouble is corrected.
When the fowls are restless and con-
stantly picking their feathers, they are
infested with vermin.
When young poultry, especially duck.
lings, appear to have sore throat, and
swallowing is difficult, it is the symp-
tom of the large gray lice on the neck
If Che fowl has bilious lock. with al.
ternate attacks of dysentery and cos.
tiveness. it is suffering with liver com.
plant. A lack of grit, overfeeding and
idleness will cause this trouble.
A hospital should be part of every
poultry yard. AS soon as fowl gets
Ill, remove 1t to the hospital and com
mence doctcring il at once. The trouble
with far too many is that they wait un
til the disease is in its advanced stage.
before giving medicine. A very sicl
fowl is difficult to cure. and when cured
II is seldom of va'uc afterward.-Rura
World
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-26
COMBINATION HOUSE.

simply as resort in the winter for
scratching. 1t is made low, not only
TO cheaper the cost, but also because
1t is better protection against winds
than one that is higher. The shed has
a ground floor, and should contain
leaves or cut straw, into which handful
ot millet seed should be thrown as an
.nducement for the hens to scratch.
The roof and sides of both the house
and shed may be covered with tarred pa.
per or some similar roofing material,
which will permit of the use of cheap
lumber in its construction.-Farm and
Fireside.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-26
How to.Keep Chicks Healthy

Charcoal, crushed and ground oyster
shells and stone grit should be kept in
sInull shallow boxes where the chicks
can help themselves. Feed often, but
only what the chicks will eat up clean
In say, five minutes, and keep the feed
tray and drinking fountain as clean us
soap and hot water occasionally can
make them. The practice of dumping a
lot Pf food down on the ground or ON a
dirty board is poor economy. 1t will
save time, but ii will not save he chicks.
Keep the coop clean by thoroughly
sleaning 1t ont every day and be sure
there are no lics.~-Agricultural Epito
mist.