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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27
INGERsoLL ON LOVE.

Love is a TRANSPORTATION. 1t ennobles,
purhes and gloriics. In true marriage
two hearts burst into flower. Two lives
unite. They melt In music. Every mo-
ment is a melody. Love is a revelation,
a creation. From love the world borrows
its beauty and the heavens their glory.
Justice, self-denial. charity and pity are
the children OF love. Lover wife, mother,
husband. father, child, home-those words
shed light: they are the gems of human
speech Without love all glory fades, the
noble falls from life, art dies, music loses
meaning and becomes were motions Of
the air, and virtue ceases to exist. Never
theless, the home must be q true home.
Few men have been patriotic enough TO
shoulder a musket in defense of board
ing house. And the marriage bond must
be one of mutual affection, not of COM
pulsion. The marriage of the one woman
to the one man is the citadel and fortress
of civilization. Without this woman be-
comes the prey and slave of lust ard
power, while man goes back to savagery
and crime. From the bottom of my heart
/ hate, abhor and execrate all theories Of
life of which the pure and sacred home
is not the corner stone Take from tho
world the family. the nreside. the chill
dren born of welded love, and there is
nothing left. The home where virtue
dwells with love is like a lily with a
heart of fire-the fairest flower in all the
world. "
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27
0UTCR0PS OF HUMANITY.
Ingersoll,s Greatest Speech.

1t was not until he delivered his men,
orable speech in nominating james q.
Blaine at Cincinnati, in 1876, that Colonel
lngersolls reputation as an orator be-
came national His friends in Peoria wele
proud of the fact, and very much elated
when he was chosen TO present Blaine's
name. Knowing the capabilities of their
tUWnSman, a large delegation of Peorlans,
including his brother, Eben G. Ingersoll,
accompanied him to Cincinnati to witness
his effort and share in his triumph, for 1t
was generally expected, III the West at
least, that Blame would be nominated.
On arriving at Cincinnati his friends were
surprised to learn that he had as yet
made no preparations for his speech, had
not so much as rough draft or note of
what he was going to say. His brother
and friends, knowing his indifference and
carelessness and realizing the import
ance of the occasion, urged him to retire
to his room and prepare his speech. He
only laughed ut them, however and. in
stead of complying, put in his time
around the hotel corridors talking politics
and having a good time. This went on
until the night before the day on which
the nominations were to be made, and
when Bob" and his brother and one or
two friends retired to their room, which
they occupied in common. about II
o clock, they supposed, of course that
some notes of his coming speech. In
stead, however, he Immediately prepared
to retire. His brother and friends again
urged him to sit up and make some prep
arations for his speech.
Don't you worry about my speech
boys. I'll have that all right" he said
and tumbled into bed. His friends fol-
lowed his example, very much discOur-
aged, and with fearful forebOdings of a
failure. The next morning, when Bob"
awoke he found his friends already Up
and making their toilet. Hold on, boys"
he said, as they were about to leave the
room. Then he arose, pulled on his
trousers, and, stepping to the middle Of
the room in his shirt sleeves, and his sus-
penders dangling down his back, he re-
he tarsed the speech he had been evolving
in his mind. When he had concluded,
his friends stood spellbound for mo-
ment, and then, it is said, his brother
threw his arms around his neck and
wept for very joy. A few hours after
ward he delivered the speech almost
word for word, and though it electrified
that great convention and made him
world wide fame, 1t failed of its great
object-Ncw York World.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27
How to Govern Cuba.

The report that the new secretary
problem of instituting civil government
in Cuba is both credible and credit.
able. Pacification has been accom-
plished. 1t is time for the next step.
We are to guide the Cubans in the
setting up of a government of their
own. We are TO allow them to have
their way so far as we think they can
be trusted to have il. But we are
responsible before the world for its
stability; our moral Endorsement gives
vitality 10 it's credentials, we are,
therefore, the deciding power. Cubans
must accustom themselves to this fact
The more they declaim against it the
farther they postpone the day of their
own independence.
Everybody knows that eventually
Cuba will be annexed. Destiny will
force this. Intrigue cannot block it.
But we are TO consider now only the
means Of putting Cuba as quickly as
possible on the road to fitness for self
government. The future can take care
of itself The present duty is the duty
that calls.
General Wood in Santiago has set
the pace. He has kept his soldiers
in the background; has appealed to
native ambition, self-interest and
pride; has encased the hand Of steel in
the velvet glove and the result is that
civil government already prevails I'm
everything but the name throughout
the province over which he has jurls-
diction. The Cubans are ruled by Gu
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27

The Philadelphia Times has been
misinformed when it says:
1t is authoritatively announced that
Judge Archibald, OF Scranton, has APP
pointed "A committee consisting of rrold-
nent official and citizen Republicans of
Lackawanna county, to take charge OF
ms campaign and boom him as 4 Candi-
date Tor Supreme judge. Judge Arch
bald's special weakness as a candidate for
the FIRST Judicial tribunal of the state is
In the fact that he has been booming
himself most aggressively during the past
year, and now that his efforts to boom
himself have been most effective as
boomerang, he announces a committee
OF distinguished citizens OF his county
as specially charged with his interests III
the contest. The one official position in
the state that should be won without
the candidate resOrting to the usual
methods of modern political contests is
that of Supreme judge, and the man who
most ardently booms himself should, as
rule, be accepted as among the least
fitted for the place. But in disregard of
this well-acCepted principle Judge Arch
bald has not only been most actively inn
portuninG support for his nomination in
every section of the state, but he now
seeks to strengthen himself by announc-
ing a long listaof highly reputable names
cause In credltable contrast with the
efforts of Judge Archibald have been the
efforts Of the friends of eX-Attorney Cen
eral Palmer in the adjoining county OF
Luzerne. The leading members of the
luzerne bar voluntarily moved to make
Mr.. Palmer their candidate and they
have made somewhat active efforts 10
promote his candidacy, They were not
assigned TO their task 10y Mr. Palmer and
thus importuned by the candidate to i'm
perfume others to support him. The J.u,
Zerne bar recognizing the unimpeach-
able character, high legal attachments
and creditable judicial qualities possessed
by Mr.. Palmer, were entirely justified in
announcing him as a candidate and urg-
ing his nomination upon the Republicans
of Pennsylvania, His attitude is entire
ly commcndahle and will strongly ap.
peal to the intelligent and fair minded
members of tho bar OF Pennsylvania. II
n Supreme Judge is to be taken from that
section, which could be done with pro-
priety. It must he obvious TO all not influ-
enced wholly by mere individual or par
tisan Interests that Mr.. Palmer should bo
nominated,
The candidacy of Mr.. Palmer we do
not now intend to discuss nor do we
propose TO institute any comparisons
between the methods employed by his
friends and the friends of Judge Arch
bald For the present we arise to re-
mark simply that the committee APP
pointed to look after Judge Archbalds
interests WIS appointed by ex-Judge
Willard as chairman OF a mass meet
ing Of representative citizens of Lacka-
wanna under the authority of reso-
luton introduced by one of their num-
her and adoated by the mass meeting
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27
An Empty Glove.

An empty glove-long whitening in the
grass
OF Times cold palm. lift it to my
lips,
And 10, once more I thrill beneath its
lips,
In fancy as with odorous flnger-tips
1t reaches from the years that used
to be,
And proffers back love. life and all to
me,
All! Beautiful she was beyond belief:
Her face was fair and lustrous as the
moons;
Her eyes-too large for small delight or
grief
The smiles of them were daughters
afternoons;
Their tears were April showers. and
All sweetest speech swoons ere 1t
speaks thereof.
Whlte-fruited cocoa shone against the
shell
Were not so white as was her brow
below
The cloven tresses of the hair that fell
Across her neck and shoulders of nude
snow
Her cheeks--chased pallor with a
crimson stain
Her mouth was like a red rose rlnsod
with rain,
And this was she my fancy held as good -
As fair and lovable-in every wise
As peerless in pure worth Of womanhood
AS was her wondrous beauty in mems
eyes.
Yet all alone I kiss this empty glove
The poor husk of the hand | loved
and love.
james Whitcomb Riley.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27
TOUCHES OF SENTIMENT.
The Birthplace of Robert Burns.

The Birthplace of Robert Burns.
Though Scotland boasts a thousand
names
OF patriot, king and peer
The noblest, grandest of them all
Was loved and Graded here:
Here lived the gentle peasant prince,
The loving cotter king
Compared with whom the greatest lord
Is but titled thing.
'Tis but cot rooted in with straw,
A hovel made of clay;
One door shuts out the snow and storm,
one window greets the day.
And yet | stand within this room
And hold all thrones in scorn,
For here, beneath this lowiy thatch,
Loves sweetest bard was born.
Within this hallowed hut ! feel
Like one who clasps a shrine,
When the glad lips at last have touched
The something deemed divine,
And here the world through all the years.
As long as day returns,
Vine tribute of it's love and tears
VIII pay to Robert Burns.
Robert G. Ingersoll.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27

unanimously. The right OF the rep
resentative citizens of this county to
take this action is incontestable and
the criticism of the Times. being based
on misinformation, is consequently
void.
Concerning the charge that Judge
Archibald has overstepped the limits
of judicial propriety in aspiring to an
honorable office in the direct line Of
promotion, 1t is accompanied by no
specifications and therefore does not
merit consideration. We are not aware
that any one in behalf of the Lacka-
wanna candidate has thus far sought
to further his interests by assault upon
his competitors for the nomination.
Such procedure would not be author
ized nor tolerated. What motive, there
fore, can The Times have for sandbag-
ging Archibald professedly in the inter-
est Of the Hon. Henry w. Palmer?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27
Anecdotes of Ingersoll.

Mr.. InGersolls arguments were of the
reductio ad absurdum kind. one day IN
a talk on the cars with Talmage he said:
Then you would like to live in place.
Brother Talmage, where every one had to
be good by lawH"
Certainly" said Talmage.
"Nou would like to live where every
one had to go to church regularly every
Sunday?'
Yes. that would suit me-"
"Where no man could get a drink and
swearing was not permitted"
"Yes, that's the place for me"
"And where every man would have TO
keep regular hOurs?"
THAT would be heaven on EARTH" said
Talmage, smiling and striking his knee
with his open palm.
WELL" said Bob, looking over his
glasses, you'd better go mp to Sing
Sing. That's the way they do there"
Beecher was very fond of Bob Inger-
soil. IngeTsolrs Republicanism, anti
slaveryism and patriotic love for Grant
and his soldiers won Beecher This is
why he introduced him to his Plymouth
church audience. Still, Beecher was al
ways Joking the great agnostic.
One day l asked the great divine If he
really liked InGersoll
~ can't helL it," he said. 81 love all
my fellow men," and then he added with
d humorous Sulcnillys anu say now,
when Robert InEersoll dies--whether he
goes to heaven or hell, I-Iwish him joy!"
1t is an old story that l have told many
times. but the death of the loved agnostic
makes ii new again.
When Ingersoll was thrilling audiences
with his great lecture on Robert Burns"
Beecher went to hear him in Chicago. At
tho Palmer House / asked him how he
liked it,
"Tt WAS vonderfuI epterta tainp,ant -
said Beecher. "He held his audience ev-
cry minute. He is a great genius and
should like to write his epltaph."
what would you write?' | asked.
"Oh," said Beecher, as he rubbed his
two front fingers on his thoughtful brow,
IL would be a short epitaph. 1t would
simply be:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27

The postoflice department has just
been placed upon record for another
praiseworthy act in suppressng mail
advertising scheme at Boston, where
by gullible people are induced to act
as agents; make purchases of useless
articles, and allow themselves to be
swndled in other ways while under
the impression that they have drawn
large prizes for the solution of alleged
puzzles, so simple in construction as to
be comprehended at a glance. This
class of fake advertisers are little bet
ter than green goods" men, and the
policy of the government in protect
ing the credulous against their cum
ming schemes should be universally
commended.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27
The Cloven Hoof.

Evil associations, says the adage,
corrupt good manners. The Scranton
Republicans proximity to the dis
reputable Scrantonian must be re-
sponsiblc for the maudlin outburst in
yesterdays Republican directed against
the secretary of the Fire Underwriters
association, Mr.. John NJ. Hughes.
To understand this spasm of libelous
billingsgate 1t is necessary to know
that the Republican on Monday printed
an article proposing a paid fire
department limited to seven COM
panies of 80 men in the aggregate, in
cluding a chief and his assistant. on
Tuesday The Tribune pointed out the
utter inadequacy Of such a force in II
city having so many wooden buildings
as Scranton has, scattered over so
large a territory, and quoting Mr..
Hughes as saying that under such a
system suburban risks would have to
be rated as unprotected" and all 9TH
ers, not in the immediate vicinity of
the hose houses. as poorly protected"
Our intent was not to discourage the
proposition of a paid department, for
which we have been fighting for years,
but to illustrate the necessity of be-
ginning a paid service on a broad basis
of effectiveness, which is the wisest
economy. Mr.. Hughes did not volun-
teer the opinion accredited to him but
gave it courteously in response to our
request.
In expressing this opinion Mr..
Hughes committed no crime, neith-
er did he indulge in personalities.
His was simply an expert opinion in
modest language on a topic of public
interest and Importance. Yet mark the
result. Yesterdays Republican in the
course of a long article abusive of The
Tribune dhat part we ignore, since we
are used to it,, goes out of it's way to
print the following libel:
No one ever knew before that Hughes,
the Chrbuncle of the Underwriters
association, could think. AS will be
seen from the above, he tried TO think
and demonstrated his asinine qualities
in a marked manner. But this was no
surprise to people who knew Hughes.
Since his appointment to the office his
head has been so swellCd that lie became
overbearing and intolerant, so much so
that people would prefer going to meet
his satanic majesty rather than encoun-
ter the upstart, who, by n piece of ncpO-
tism became secretary of the Cndcrwrit-
erS' association. Hughes wis COmpara-
lively unknown in the city until he was
"jolled" by a Tribune reporter into Civ
ing an interview upon Il subject of which
he knew Just as mitch about as he knows
of common courtesy. And of tnat he
knows nothing.
During the residence of Mr.. Hughes
in this city he has conducted himself
as a gentleman should; he enjoys the
generous respect Of his colleagues in
the insurance business in this city and
of others who know him, and we have
never heard that he spent his money
offering golf prizes at the Country club
while wOrkmen dependent upon him
owing to their inability to collect
wages due, had to borrow money OF
friends in order TO buy food.
Abuse from such a source, therefore
is the highest compliment.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27
Slumber Song.

The night wind is swinging
The sweet slumher tree.
The leaflets are shaking,
My baby, to thee.
Then rockabye, dearie,
Thy mother is near,
And safe in her keeping,
There's nothing to fear.
Softly the long shadows creep
My baby is going to sleep.
The fancles are playing at hide-and-go-
seek,
In pink and in white in your own dim
pied cheek,
And whispering low in the soft, fading
light
That welcomes the realms OF a loving
goodnight.
Hushabye, deariel
Softly the long lashes sweep
My baby is fast, fast asleep.
Selected,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27

The sheriff and posse were obliged
to take charge of a dance in Indiana
the other night, at which one man was
killed and twenty were injured. This
seems another evidence that social life
on the banks of the Wabash is best
depicted in song.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27
"ROBERT BURNS"
Eli Perkins, in the Sun.
His Denomination.

During the first years OF his career as
an actor, Colonel w. +. Cody had in one
Of his theatrical companies a Westerner
named "Broncho Bill" There We're In
dians In the troupe and a certain mis-
slonary had Joined the aggregation 10
look after the morals OF the Indians.
Thinking that Broncho Bill would tear
little looking after also, the good man
secured a seat By his side at the dinner
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27
How to Tell a Lady's Age.

You ask me. as though were one of the
sages,
To tell from your lady friends note what
her age is,
And write it down neatly in one of your
pages.
Now, the years OF a man one may easily
hit,
For unless he's grown gray any age he'll
admit;
Except a lone celibate too long he's tar
red,
And now has got anxious bout not get
ting married:
But a lady with much of hard guessing
twill bore you
To arrive at an age she's arrived at be-
fore you!
say, 1t is hard at her age to arrive,
And seeing won't help-for what arts
she'll contrive!
And yet. not so hard; guess below twen-
ty-hve,
And you'll coma pretty near any lady
alive.
Nov, no Joking" say you; l see, and
take warnin;
To be sure of her age-find the year she
was born in!
Dennis Workman.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27
10 a Humming Bird.

Creation rare!
o, fairy bird-elusive phantom bright,
Now darting through my open window,
where
The dropping rose-spray scents the wood
land air:
Now poising. fixt in space. living
gem,
Well, like a sentient, pulsing ray of
light,
Disporting 'mong the fiow'rs, too
swift for sight,
To mingle there
Thy emerald with the gold thy scarlet,
pure.
With warm shade, where the lilacs hide
from view
The crumbling wall-thy bronze, with
purple hue
OF fragrant iris-thou, indeed, alone.
The name of fairy queen of birds
shouldst own!
Peerless shall thy magic spell endure
BY wayward fancy ever to allure.
o, vision fair
Emile Pickhardt in Boston Globe.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27

table, and remarked, pleasantly: 'This
II Mr.. Broncho Bill. is IT not?" "Yaas."
"Where were you born7" Near kit
Billiards. MILL on Big Pigeon" "Relig-
ious parents, suppose?" "Yaas." "what
IS your denomiration2" MY what?'
Your denomination" "O-ah -yaas,
Smith & Wesson Source Unidentified.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27

1t is easy to perceive that Mr.. Bryan
still retains his grip on the Democratic
party. The quickest way for his op-
ponents to unhorse him is to let him
go his own gait.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27

Not the least of Elihu Roots advan-
tages is that he comes into office abb
soutely unpledged and untramUeled.
He can hew to the line, letting the
chips fall where they may.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27

Canada's anxiety to pick a quarrel
for England to settle is enough to pro-
woke a spanking for the dominion from
the hands of the mother country.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27

When it comes to a question OF up
holding law and order in communities
menaced by riotous mobs all good citi-
zens are as one.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27

One by one the conspirators against
Dreyfus fall and still the French re-
public lives, Justice often travels a
rocky road but it generally reaches
IT'S dpstinat tiOn.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27

Having stolen march on the cam
paign liar President "Ocm Paul. Kru-
ger ought now to have his whiskers
trimmed,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27

guides their work.
Secretary Root con study Santiago
precedents with interest and mental
profit.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27

The more that is learned about In
gersoll, the man, the greater the pity
is that he circumscribed his own USE
fulness.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27
COlOred
Shirt
w WaiStS

The final reduction of
the season takes effect
this. morning, and Shirt
Waist prices TODAY are
i'm most instances only
half what they were less
than a month ago. Our
object being to make a
complete and speedy
clearance.
The sizes are still we'll
assorted, and you can un-
doubtedly find among this
line just what you want.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27

No one will begrudGe General Alger
his popularity in Detroit. The pity is
he ever tore himself away from such
admiring neighbCrs.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27

The city of Scranton should have a
paid fire department befittlng its size
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-05-31

The Postal Telegraph Company yes
terday morning came in under the Graf:
bill and was ''dOmesticated."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-05-31

Mr. Walter Watson, the newly tlccie:
city attorney. tomorrow enters upon thu
duties of that position.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-05-31

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