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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-21

ten society people-ive ladies and five
gentlemen-where husbands and wives
and ianeees are comfortably blended.
They meet once a week in a beautiful
dining room belonging to one of the
families, and five chatting dishes are ar
ranged on the great round table. a lady
and q gentleman at each dish.
Each couple work together, assisting
each other, and every night they have
eight recipes or rules" to work out, so
that>theirs IL practically an eight course
feast, which they partake of with due
solemnity. only it is more merry than
solemn.
One of the ladies is always appointed
h-ousekeeper in advance, a different one
each week, and she consults with Mrs.
Hitler as to what to buy for the next
menu, does the marketing n thus has
an extra lesson in housekeeping duties.
The gentlemen learn how to NIX the
ingredients, make changes and reduce
a large rule to a small one. All sorts
of chops and souffies, rarebits and m
elets are made, n sometimes whole
dinners are completely prepared.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-21
Tbe H,rth ofthe steel ship.

When it could be demonstrated that, al
though it might be more costly, the steel
and that it had a larger carrying capac-
ity on the same displacement, and
therefore a larger earning power
then, slowly but surely, conviction en-
the steel-makers' victory was in sight.
1t was arduous work. but it extended
over only a few years. When one famous
line after another-the. Union Steamship
Company. of New Zealand. the Pacific
the Allan Company, the Castle
Company, the British India Company, the
P. & o. Company, the Cunard Company,
in the sequence here given, and in the
course of the years 1878 and 1879-ordered
vessels Of the new MATERIAL, an in1ence
was brought to bear which proved to be
If business connections were to be retain
ed. and IL work was to be carried on econ.
omically. vessels of the new material
Magazine, for December.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-21
A CHILD EVANGELIST.
FvE-YEAR-oLD coLoRED BOY WHO
DRAWS GREAT AUDIENCES.
How Little Larney Dennis Began
Preaching In Atlanta and Started
ON a Crusade Which May Take Him
Clear Around the World.

Another child preacher has appeared.
This time he is a little 5-year-old col
ored boy. Whether his little body is
the home of an inspired SOU or whether
he is simply a %precocious child who has
been taught to repeat, ~parrotlike, a lot
of can phrases is an undecided ques-
ton. Many who have heard him pro-
fess to believe the first, while others
hold the latter opinion. Be that as it
may, great crowds have filed the New
York churches where he has been ap-
pearing, and much curiosity has been
excited concerning him.
Larney Lawrence Dennis is the boy
preachers name. He was born in At
lanta on Christmas day, 1893. His IA
Their is an %octoroon and his mother OF
mixed Indian and negro blood. Two
years ago he attracted attention in At
lanta, where he appeared in various
African Methodist churches. Since then
he has been travelling about through
several states. In most instances his
congregations have been made up en-
.irely of colored people.
About a year ago it was given out
thai some day he would go to New
York to convert that wicked city. His
campaign has evidently been managed
with some shrewdness, for a short time
ago he did enter that city, and he has
been making the rounds of such
churches as would receive him.
Whenever the church trustees will
permit an admittance fee is charged.
When this is not allowed, a collection is
taken up for his benefit, and at all times
the boy evangelist is quite ready to
stop saving souls long enough to sell
his photographs at rs cents apiece.
Larney is accompanied by both par
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-21
LIVING FAIRY TALE
LITTLE ESKIMO BOY WHO IS BEING
EDUCATED IN NEW YORK.

Brought From the Far North by Lieu
tenant Peary, He Is TranspIanted
Into a Land Where Everything
Seems Wonderful and Miraculous.
There is a boy in New York to whom
the experiences of the past is months
must seem like the most wonderful
fairy tale ever imagined. About a year
and a half ago he was living in a snow
hut half way between the arctic circle
and the north pole. He was one of the
Smith sound Eskimos, a tribe living in
the most northerly inhabited part of
the globe.
The northern lights, the crash of new
born icebergs, the thunder and groan of
storm driven foes, the solemn, awfu
grandeur of the long arctic night and
all those visible manifestations Of polar
mysteries were as familiar to him as
arc electric lights and the rattle of the
trucks to us. But of the merest COM
monplaces of our civilized life he knew
nothing at all. A burning jet of gas, a
water faucet, a cable car, even a brick
building Of ordinary height, was to him
a thing miraculous.
Yet now this little Eskimo boy lives
in the center of our highest civilization
N is being educated according to the
most modern methods. A year ago he
lived among people whose mental vi
sion was of the narrowest. Now he
constantly meets men Of the highest
enlightenment.
The subject of this most fascinating
experiment in ethnology is known as
Meme. He is one of the six members of
the tribe whom Lieutenant Peary
brought back with him from his last
trip. He is also one of the survivors.
for several of them died as a result OF
the climate change.
Meme was for some time in charge of
DR.. Franz Boas of the New York Mu-
scum of Natural History. The scientist
soon discovered that the boy was he
brightest member of the party. Besides
his mental qualities, the child had a
disposition so pleasant and winning
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-21

thai is really worth eating. Stringy
Welsh rarebits and soggy omelets by
the ton have been evolved in vain eff
forts to prepare after theater lunches.
Mrs. Hitler proposes to save the di-
gestions of the Chicago people. She is
%enlinently qualified for the task, for she
is a graduate of Pratt institute, Brook
lyn, and of the famous Boston Cooking
school. She herself has established in
Chicago a school of domestic cience
where she trains walters and waiting
maids until they are the pink of per-
fiction.
Her chatting dish class is a recent in
novation- Mrs. Hitler has a class Of
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-21

srWhy do you say he's a good match for
that grass widow?%
Because he's = Observation-Disclosures
Bulletin.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-21
CHAFlnG DISH QUEEN.
Mrs. Hitler Teaches Society Folk to
Cook Rarebits and Such.

Mrs. Elizabeth o. Hitler Of Chicago
has found for herself a new field of in
struction. She is giving lessons in chat
ing dish cookery. It has long been the
fad among both men and women of So
lciety to know how to prepare a dainty
and appetizing bit over the blue alcohol
blaze. but few and far between are the
amateur ook who can q anuthin.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-26
A Complete Vindication.

From the Washington Post
We think il safe to say that Mr.
Quay's acquittal was a foregone con-
clusion. 1t is inconceivable that any
right-minded and well-informed person
ever dreamed that Mr.. Quay was guilty
of the charges brought against him.
The fact was only too patent that his
persecution originated in hatred, hum
bug, and hypocrisy. Mr.. Quay is
great manipulation of men. He is wise,
far-seeing, strenuous, and enlightened
To him was bequeathed the task OF
keeping alive the Republican organiza-
tion in PENNSYLVANIA. In diScharging
this eXaCting duty, he naturally antag-
oniZed impudent pretenderS, migrate
ful beneficiaries, and vicious mounte-
banks. He had a pledge to redeem. He
was working for the perpetuatiOn of
American institutions-the rule of the
legitimate majority-and, in pursuance
of this task he slOughed off the frauds,
the detrimentals, the useless hypocrites
of the army he commanded. He was
right, and the enemies he has made
confirm our judgment
But the end has come. The vile con-
spiracy concocted by Quay's migrate
full prOteges, has reached lame and
impotent conclusion. Nothing dshon-
Orable or even technically wrong has
been proved against him. A persecution
WITHOUT parallel for bitterness and reck-
less rancOr has fallen to the ground.
Quay's enemies have been confuted and
dscredited. The web of falsehood, i'm
plication, and meanness they strOve to
weave about his fame has been severed
in a thousand places. The conspiracy
has been bafiled and disgraced. With
seemingly hostile, though honorable
Judge; with at least an impartial jury;
against every vicious suggestion and
adroit juggling of facts and figures,
Mr.. Quay has been honOrably ac-
quilted. That the result makes for de-
cency and righteousness, no intelligent
and honest man will venture to deny.
OF the ignoble and mean inspiration of
the persecution, we shall leave others
to speak. Enough for us that de-
testable and vicious alliance has been
rebuked.
As a just and honorable Magistrate,
the Governor of Pennsylvania has ap-
pointed Mr.. Quay to fill the vacant
senatorship al interim. As an impair
tial, fair-minded, and patriotic body,
the next Legislature of the State will
promptly re-elect Matthew Stanley
QUAY
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-26
Some Opinions OF
The Quay Verdict.

From Syracuse Post-Standard.
John Wanamaker appealed to the
criminal courts of his state for the
conviction and punishment of his po-
litical arch-cnemy, Senator Quay, and
the verdict under the law proved to
he an acquittal instead of conviction.
Therefore John Wanamaker repudiates
the verdict of the tribunal to which he
had appealed and says to his par
tisans "The senator may be convicted
yet: our warfare shall continue unre-
mittingly." And thus does MIR. John
Wauamakcr come uncomfortahly near
to making an ass of himself, while he
quite succeeds in proving that 1t Is not
the public good, as he processes, but
personal malice that lies at the root of
the Quay prosecution.
The Post STANDARD does not believe
unuualifiedly in Senator Quay 1t
would choose that politicians of his In
tensely practical sort were less in evil
dence in the membership of the United
States senate than they are. But 1t is
able gladly to congratulate Senator
Quay, and the state of Pennsylvania,
and the Republican party of the coun-
try upon Senator Quays acquittal.
The trial for his conviction has been
conducted in absolute good faith, with
a zeal amounting almost to Virulence,
and the constituted judicial authors
ties of the commonwealth have de-
clared him guiltless upon the grave
charge brought against him. This is
enough for honest and right-minded
men, and the people of the country,
except Mr.. Wanamaker and his like,
will now receive and gladly adopt as
their own, the decision of the matter
which the courts have reached.
The Post-Standard believes that Mr..
Quay, appointed by the governor OF
Pennsylvania to his old place in the
United States senate, will be confirmed
in his seat by the senate vote; 1t be-
lieves also that he now ought to be so
confirmed.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-26
No Reformation in Mob Law

Ihc suggestion of rural poIice svS-
TEN as means of dealing with crimes
against the person. which seem 10 no
increasing III certain rural districts,
notably i'm the South, would have lit-
Tie preventive value, since no nrac-
tlcahle scheme of patrol covering largo
areas could hope to give effective pro-
lection TO any one household during
more than very limited portion of
each day. Its value would consist
chiefly in the celerity with which iso-
lated crimes would be discovered and
hunt of the criminals begun. The fur-
ther suggestion that each household
convert itself into a miniature arsenal
and that its women Occupants he
trained in the use of weapons of self
defense Is more TO the point, although
Its successful execution would require
caution and self-control.
But after all, these various proposl-
tions look only to superficial conditions
If i'm large areas of sparsely populated
country vile crimes are on the increase
and the safety of unprotected woman
A'S'' - llOIt endangered,
remedies are needed which viii prevent
rather than simply accelerate punish
ment after the crime has been commit
tea. IT is fact of happy significance
that human nature is capable of devel-
opment to plane where educated wills
and consciences hold sway over the
animal passions and make Cor manly
manhood, with Difference toward wo-
manhood so clearly defined that no no.
liceman's baton is needed to safeguard
the personal virtues. Where opportu.
mites for sell-improvement are ample
and free to all, without ban as to creed
or race or politics, we hear of few out
rsges and fewer eXcesses of mob retri-
button. The law takes it's appointed
course with what malefactors there
are and the churches, free schools, and
happy homes take good care that male
factors are not permitted to multiply.
The South has itself and none other
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-26
German Freshness Again.

Secretary of state Hay made pre-
ciscly the proper reply to the somewhat
excited protests Of the German am
bassador against the speeches Of Cap
tain Coghlan concerning Admiral Won
Diederichs freshness at Manila. Sec
retary Hay told the German ambassa-
dor that captain Coghlan had not
spoken in an official capacity as rep
resentative of the United states gov
crnment and that consequently the
American department Of state could
not undertake to criticise what Cogh-
Ian said or TO admit it to the domain
of international episodes. He added,
however, that he was personally sorry
that the captain of the Raleigh had
spoken so as to give offense 10 the
German emperor and he said that the
American navy department might be
trusted to attend to Coghlan in ac-
cordancc with it's regular rules Of dis
ciplinc.
This is the whole thing in A nut
shell Coghlan told the truth indis-
crectly; his ill-timed frankness caused
his government embarrassment. but
he spoke as an individual solely, hav-
ing been told that the occasion of his
Oratorical effort was a private social
function beyond the ken of the umni-
present reporters. and there is abso-
lutely no cell whatever for Germany
to get into a tantrum over wnat this
priyata Ar,nripan pitizan ca i1 IN Ofbnr
private American citizens in the free
dom of an informal social gathering.
The American people have stood far
worse speeches from Germans higher
in official rank than Captain Coghlan
without uttering a word of complaint,
and il would become the German ON
peror at Berlin and his diplomatic
representative at Washington to study
the numerous examples of Ameri "A s
moderation.
Coghlar was in error as to the time
and name" of his speech and he de-
serves to be disciplined accordingly.
Tho American people, while feeling
sorry for Coghlan because they believe
that his offense was not one of intent
and because his services in their behalf
have been ample 20 cover a multitude
of harmless slips of the tongue, are at
this time unanimous upon the propo-
sition that Coghlan should be disci-
plined. But it would take very little
Of German officialism's high and
mighty fussiness to cause them to lose
sight of Coghlans offense in indgna-
tion at the pomposity, fretfulness and
jesty, Kaiser Wilhelm II, whose quick
ness in taking offense seems to be sur
passed only by his slowness in rectify-
ing an offense when given by him to
others.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-26
A WEEK OF ANNIVERSARIES,

This week Is rich In the anniversary of
events that hold Il Pre- minen: place i'm
American history during the Revolution
airy period Some of the more importan.
ones are as follows:
April q, 11SO-Sortie from Charleston,
S. G.
Aprll 25, l777-Danbury Comm raid,
April % 10 q.
April %, l7Sl-Battle of Camden. S. c.
April %, l7Sl-Battle of Hobkirk's Hill,
S. G.
April %, l7Sl--Battle Of Petersburg, Va.
April 2j, lISl-Battle of Hillsborough,
n. G,
April p, 1777-Battc of RidgedeId, Conn.
April 2, l779-Engagomcnt at Middle
town, n. ].
April %, l7S1-EnEagement at Osborn's.
5. c.
April Is, 1777-SIlrmish at Crompo HIN.
Conn. a.
April 2S, 17Ss-South Carolina ratnes the
Constitution.
April 2S 17SS-MarylanG ratines the con-
stitution.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-26
Received with Qualification.

From the Albany Argus.
When the prosecution in the case
against Senator Quay rested, 1t was
virtually certain that the worst that
Mr.. Quay and his friends had to fear
was a disagreement of the jury. That
there could be no conviction upon such
evidence as had been submitted by the
district attorney was a foregone con-
clusion. All unprejudiced persons who
followed the proceedings in the case as
they were published will regard the
verdict of acquittal as what was to be
expected. And because it is known
that there was behind the inception
Of the proceedings against Mr.. Quay
not so much an honest desire to bring
about the punishment of a man who
was believed to have committed a
wrong; but the purpose to effect the
ruin Of political leader. the news
that Mr.. Quay has been declared inno-
cent of the charge against him will
be received with qualification by the
fair-minded public, the majority of
which might otherwise have paid but
little attention to the case and its out
come.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-26

The anti-imperalists of Boston are
indignant that any of the trouble at
Manila should be attributed to the en-
ceived from men of their class in the
United States senate. 1t is not likely
that the talk of antis would carry
much weight on this side of the water,
but it must be remembered that the
Filpinos have not been sufficiently ed
ucated to realize what a small! figure
the American Filipino junta really cuts
at home, and it is not surprising that
the insurgents were misled.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-26
The Animus Revealed.

From the But1diO news.
Sanctimonious John Wanamaker an
nounces that he will continue the war
on Senator Quay, who was vindicated
by a jury and honored with a reap
pointment to the United States senate
by Governor Stone. This is no more
than was to be expected of Mr.. Wana-
maker, who is getting a great deal
of free advertising for his bargain
counters out of the crusade which he
would like people to consider holy
war. But it is an unexpected admis-
sion that what the anti-Quay people
were after is not justice, but the over
throw of the man they hate.
To a casual observer it would appear
that it is about up to Mr. Wanamaker
to say nothing and continue the ad-
vertising of bargains ION the second
floor, Chestnut street front, second
counter to the left"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-26
Vindictiye John.

From the Chicago-IIcrald.
BY the evidence Of his own state
ment submitted to the press, in which
lie mercilessly excoriates quay and de-
clares the verdict of acquittal to be
new chapter Of shame for Pennsyl-
vania." Mr.. Wanamaker discloses his
tactional leadership and places him
self in the attitude of party boss.
Mr.. Wanamaker is wrong when he
says that the state proved its charges
against Quay. 1t would be a menace
to justice If men could be convicted
and sent to the pententiary upon such
unconvinCing evidence.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-26

The decision of the state supreme
court affirming the unconstitutionality
Of the direct inheritance tax law hinged
directly upon that provision in the act
cxempting from taxation decedents
estates under $1,000 in value. THIS
exemption was ruled to be in direct
violation of Article IX, Sections l ana
9 of the state constitution declaring
that all taxes shall be uniform upon
the same class of subjects. 1t was
this same exemption feature when
knocked out the Federal income tax
law. The robbing of Peter to pay Paul
will never become popular in this re-
public
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-26
A Natural Feeling.

From the Lebanon Report (Anti-Quay)
Many men are to be found-men un-
friendly to Mr., Quay politically and
who strongly disapprove his methods
politically and Otherwise-who are
highly gratified that he has been ac-
quitted,-a qualification hardly logical
hardly judicious, not at all judicial but
none the less human. They are graft
fed not because they believe Mr.. Quay
innocent, but because they believe his
prosecution was begun and pushed for
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-26
An Unfortunate Prosecution.

From the Buffalo Commercial
The senator stood up to the rack and
passed the test 1t is on every ac-
count most unfortunate that he should
have been hauled into the courts, if the
prosecuting officers had no better evi.
dence than they produced. They havt
succeeded in making Mr.. Quay a
stronger man with the Pennsylvania
Republicans than he was twelve
months ago.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-26

than itself to blame for it's race prob
lem. It started the problem in the first
place and it is now doing as little as 1t
can to secure an amicable solution of
that problem It's hand is lifted. not
to help but to ban and to mob the ig-
norant colored victim of its past short
sightedness and folly; and if the South
thinks that carving negro rapists to
pieces before a slow fire is going to cool
the hot negro blood that flames from
time 80 time into gross sensual crimes
IL shows itself ignorant both of human
nature in general and of the frightful
lessons of its own bloody past.