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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06
The Marines.

in the recent multiplicity of dinners
10 war heroes it is consOlng to learn
that the first land hero of all, who
for a time came near to being forgot
ten, has at last come in for his deserts.
At Delmonico's on Wednesday the 10y
al Legion of New York will entertain
Colonel r.. w. Huntington, command
ant of the Marine corps, which held the
fort at Guantanamo ere Skaters army
arrived. This feat was not only heroic
in itself to an extraordinary degree
but il was followed by an intelligent
care of the health and welfare Of the
survivors making conspicuous contrast
with the mismanagement of the army
that followed. During the time that
Skaters men were catching fever and
dropping out of line by the hundreds
before Santiago the Marine corps. en-
Camped in fully as unhealthy locality.
suffered scarcely a death. The reason
given is that they We're well sheltered
and well fed and made TO observe the
necessary precautions. The navy, in
other words, had officers who knew
their business.
This fact is shown in striking fash
ion in the report of the surgeon general
OF the navy. The average numerical
strength Of the navy from April to
November of last year was 26,1O2 The
total deaths during that period We're
cighty-five. Eighteen men were killed
in battle or died from wounds, eleven
were killed by accident and fifty-six
died Of disease, making the death rate
lOH per 1000 for everything and Sl9
per l,000 from disease, There is, il is
declared, no village in the country that
can show such a record, not even the
health resorts along the seashore and
at the springs, 1t is to be remembered,
also, that this covers operations in all
climates and temperatures, from the
tropics to the icebergs.
The best wishes Of the entire coun,
try win follow this attempt TO pay
honor to the brave men who sustained
with such patience, fortitude and prac-
tical soldiership the first land attack
by Spain upon the flag Of the United
States. May our Marine corps always
be so manned!
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06
Gibson's Income Tax.

Senator Gibson of Erie has intro
duced at Harrisburg n state income
tax bill which, if intended seriously,
should be sufficient to qualify him for
political retirement at the next oppor-
tunity.
His bill proposes to impose on gains,
profits or incomes derived from any
kind of property, rents, interests,
dividend or salary or from any profess
sion, trade, employment or vocation
carried or in this state, tax of one
tenth of one per centum on all sums
between $1,000 and $4,000; two-tcnths
Of one per centum on sums between
S., 900 and 100000; three-tenths of one
per centum on sums between $4,000
and $4,000: four-tenths Of one per
centum on all sums between $780, and
$50, 600: and one mill of additional tax
alton shall be added for every addi
tional $1,000 up to 100000: three per
centum on all sums above 100000. In
terest on bonds or securities of this
state and of the United States are eX-
empt from taxation. The word income
as used in the act shall be taken to
mean gross profit The tax is to be
collected by the present tax collection
system, and all persons liable under
the act must make sworn statement
of complete and full return of their
gains. profits and income.
There is justification for a tax on
incomes only when other forms of tax
alton fail to meet the just expenses of
government. Such contingency is not
presented nor is it probable in Penn
sylvania The man who proposes to
tax thrift and ability wantonly should
be a marked man in the politics of
PENNSYLVANIA.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06

If the present work of the scranton
police force is isfactory-and 1t
notoriously ia--the way to improve 1t
is TO elect as mayor man who will
make every officer do his duty ana
stand by him when 1t is done-a mayor
Nho will know no favOrites ON the force
or in the police court, but who VIII
apply the law courageously and I'M
partially. If Moir is such Il man, elect
him UVcrNhulminglY.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.

Mayor--JAMES MOIR.
Treasurcr--THOMAS x. BROOKS.
Cuntroller-F j. WGDMAYER
School Directors JOHN COURIER
MORRIS, GEORGE II. SFllRES.
Assessors-GWtLYM JONES, PHlIjt'
RiNSLAND, G. 5. FOWLER.
Election Day-FCbruary 2l
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06

distribution of the products Of our in
dustries and labor | would advise,
therefore, that they do not waste much
time in regrets over what they might
wish had been ordered otherwise, but
to accept the situation and make the
best of IT,"
Finally, we quote from n speech by
Governor Roosevelt accompanying the
presentation of n sword to Commodore
Philip: You and your comrades at
Manila and Santiago did their part well
and more than WELL Sailor and SOL
dier, on sea and on land, have bought
with their valor, their judgment, their
skill and their blood a wonderful tri-
umph for America. II now rests with
out statesmen to see that the triumph
Is not made void, in whole or in part.
BY your sword you won from war a
glorious peace 1t is for the statesmen
at Washington to see that the treaty
which concludes the peace is ratified.
Cold indeed are the hearts Of those
Americans who shrink away from war
and peace, when the war and peace
alike are for the honor and the interest
of America. To refuse to ratify the
treaty would be a crime not only
against America. but against civiliza-
tion. We cannot with honor shrink
from completing the work we have be-
gun. To leave the task half done,
whether in the East or the West In
dies, would he to make the matter
worse than If we had never entered
upon It, We have driven out a cor
rupt medieval tyranny. In Cuba and
Porto Rico we are already striving to
introduce orderly liberty. We shall
be branded with the steel of clinging
shame if we leave the Philippines to
fall into welter of bloody anarchy, in
stead of taking hold Of them and gov
erning them with Righteousness ana
Justice, in the interests of their own
people even more than in the interests
Of ours"
These opinions are representative.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06

BY what line of reasoning the house
judiciary committee has reached the
conclusion that it is lawful for mem
Der of congress to serve his country in
some other civil capacity without los
ing his commission as a congressman
but unlawful for him to retain his con-
gressional credentials while serving as
"A volunteer soldier the public is not
yet informed. But if this is the law
it has very .lop-sided appearance.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06

that he will sign no bill which dis
eliminates unfairly between regular
and volunteer soldiers is characteristic
Of the man.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06
New Wash Fabrics
Our Great Underwear Sale

Has received such amazing acknowledgements
ton the of the ladies
deeply grateful
their appreciation efforts
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06

OF course there is danger that char
ity in Cuba will be abused. But that
is no argument against charity.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06

1t is encouraging to learn that the
prospects Of the naval personnel bill
passing the senate are bright. The
American nation owes this act Of JUS
tice to its Incompatible sea fighters.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06

The refusal Of Governor Roosevelt
to issue communications Of sentence in
behalf ot fairly convicted women
criminals because Of their sex is to his
credit. Justice should I've impartial
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06

\ reduction in January of 40 per cent
in Havana's death rate as compared
with the January Immediately preced-
ing is a sample of what American in
terVentiou will do for Cuba. General
Ludlow fully deserves congratulations.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06

The House committee on Interstate
ana Foreign commerce has reported
favorably a bill authorizing the presi-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06

The statesmen in congress- who have
for so many weeks past offered en-
couragement to the Philippine insurg-
ents by endeavors to block the ratih-
cation of the Paris peace treaty, are
more to be censured for the blood that
has been or may be shed at Manila,
than are the ignorant and misguided
Flllpinos who must suffer. History
fails to furnish a parallel to the traitor
Gus stupidity that has been recently
exhibited in the United States senate.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06

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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06

You cannot think, no matter how
hard you try, of a more convenient
and better equipped stationery store
than ours, in addition to the largest
line of office supplies in Northeastern
Pennsylvania. We have Blank Books
of every description, Typewrters' Sup
plies, Draughting Materials, Letter
Presses. Postal Scales, etc. We are
agents for Edison's Monographs and
supplies. and the famous Wernicki Sec
tional Book Cases.
A complete line of Kauffman's Cor
poration Books in stock.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06

IF General Miles is punished for
taking an interest in the welfare of
the soldiers under him during the re-
cent war, the United States might as
well adopt the advice of anti-eXpan-
sionists at once and withdraw from the
natiOnA.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06

dent TO purchase of Costa Rlca and
Nicaragua enough territory to include,
enclose and defend a ship canal from
Greytown to Breto, and directing that
when this strip of land is secured the
secretary of war shall, at an expense
not exceeding S1l5,OOO,OOO, cause canal
TO be opened. In other words, the house
committee wants the United States to
own and operate this canal exclusively.
This would unquestionably be the most
satisfactory solution of the problem If
it could be brought about; but we fear
the obstacles in the way will cause
fatal delay If this plan is insisted upon.
However, let house and senate hasten
to a conference so that the country
may see what can be done.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-06

A non-partisan public reception was
Siven IN indianapolis the other night TO
Senator-clect Beveridge and Mr.. Harris,
tho newly appointed minister to Aus
trla. In acknowledgment of this greet
Ing Mr.. Beyeridge made a speech from
which We priGt an extract showing the
excellence Of his diction as well as his
common sense. "In my boyhood," said
he, "oreods measured their love of God
by their hatred of each other, and polt-
icul parties demonstrated their affection
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24
4 BOY VOL|N|ST WHO
IS INDEED A PRODIGY
ONLY SIX YEHRS OLD. BUT PLAYS
LIKE a MISTER HND IS DEVOTED
TO THE MEMORY OF HIS
FHTHFR
FATHER.

"ROM sire to son-fronl Dionys Ro-
4 mandy, the well remembered. to
little Gounod Romandy-has come
the masterful musicians talent.
4 Another child prodigy has leaped
into the glare of public attention
Six-year-old Gounod Romandy is the
latest 20 arrive.
Three thousand people cheered them
selves hoarse at the Orpheum Theater in
Los Angeles last Friday afternoon when a
tiny child. with face strangely old for one
of his tender years, and with hair long
and silky, altogether an odd and almost
pathetic little figure, stood in the orches
ira conductors chair and drew from a
violin the music immured in its soul
Among the many talented Angelenos
whose services had been put at the dis
posal of the programme committee for
this big benefit performance for the re-
turning boys of Battery D was the
youngster. Gounod Romandy. A week ago
the committee received this note from the
child:
II am Dion Romandy's little son Gou-
nod. My papa played at the Orpheum.
and if he was alive l know he would play
years old, but would like TO play for the
soldiers fund l will try my best Will
you be kind enough to let me take part;
"GOUNOD ROMANDY."
The committee accepted Gounod's pro-
posal, and events proved its judgment to
nave been sound.
Little Gounod Romandy is one of the
two sons left by Romandy pere leader Of
the original Hungarian orchestra brought
to this coast by Gustav Walters. If ever
al inheritance came through blood from
father to son, then the love of and mas
terry over music was Dion Romandy's leg
acy to the boy Gouuod.
When Gounod Romandy was q year old
he showed a passion for music Then his
father bought q small violin for him.
Gounod promptly discarded all of his 9TH
er toys for this new and greatly beloved
one. From that day Romandy Sr. was
teased and begged for lessons" When
his father would come home Gounod
would beg him for '.just one little lesson,
please" So he had them given TO him.
That is, until the elder Romandy died
Little Gounod Romandy has the artists
temperament. He Is dreamy, sensitive
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pers only twice-on tho occasions OF her
marriage ard her decease." The name Of
Nine. Dreyfus has been much in the pa
pers, but it is remarkable how little they
have found TO say about her. In spite OF
the pretensions of certain women journal
lists she never has given an interview.
She has been accused Of hardness OF char
actcr. l do not know on what grounds.
Her great preoccupation-apa from the
that her children should be kept in ignor-
anCe OF their disgrace. The little girl
nas never doubted. Papa is IN q fsr-on
country serving France. Everybody loves
papa. That IS why We get so many let
ters." But there Is reason to believe that
the boy-a morose little fellow-has long
rad a vague idea of something different.
Both children had the habit of inquirinS:
Where Is papa now?" And the sad
mother would gather courage TO concoct
pious falsehoods. One day the boy ceased
asking Where is papa?" It vas bitter
day for Nine. Dreyfus
The victims OF the "affaire" are Of both
sides. Indeed, the saddest case is that Of
Nine. Henry, the doubly boreaved widow
OF Dreyfus' INSCRIPTIONS enemy. Sorrow
drove her far from common sense: her
husbands memory drove her far from
truth, and the interested counsels Of the
generals drove her to Rennes to make 4
painful exhibition OF her unhappy state
Doubtless she ina gined that the picture
Of those home evenings would impress the
Judges and the public. How Henry would
bring confidential papers from the Minis
try OF War. Ito work on after dinner"
while she sat peacefully beside him. He
spread out the little pieces OF paper on
the center taole, "reconstructing" letters
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ceau's Americana are much behind the
times That unfortunate woman from her
American home may feel a certain salts
faction in the fact that the man who
spent her money has ranged himself on
the side OF truth in the Dreyfus cam
paign. but it IS satisfaction that comes
late in life TO her. Clemenceau married
her in America. One day. years after
ward when she reprOached him with
some more than usually atrOciOus gall
lsntry. he replied calmly: stop making
such a fuss. Don't YOU know that you
are not legally my wife in France2 We
were not married before a French Con-
sui"
Thereupou she left him. The romance
Of Nine Labori is something like this
tale reversed and ending happily. Blonde,
slender, nervous and alert, speaking
French admirably and distinguished by
an almost French vivacity, and quick wit
that comes TO her with her Irish blood,
Nine Labori has almost lost the outward
traces Of perfidious Albion Yet, as Miss
Maggie Okey, she was one Of the most
DISTINGUISHED graduates Of the Royal
Academy Of Music, with q brilliant Lon
dor. concert career before her. She mar
ried NJ Vladimir de Pachmann, the Rus
sian pianist and composer, who had his
own little leaning 10 Gallo 'gallantry."
To this Nine. de Pachmann vigorously
auist was making a good living in Lon
don. far from the jurisdiction Of the
Grand Synod, he was not able 70 make
the amiable reply Of CIemenceau, Don't
YOU know that you are not legally my
wife in Russia" On the contrary, she
who was destined TO become the partner
Of one OF the greatest legal skIrmishers
OF modern times procured divorce and
slfrnory from the astOnished Russian Or
thodox church without loss Of time Her
marriage with Maitre Labori did not de-
Law itself. as they say in French, and
turned out Of the happiest. Labor is the
most Anglo-Saxon Frenchman 1 have
ever encountered-outs fearless,
connbatant and go ahead utterly free
from the artificial, timiG and tagging
correctness" that distinguishes the
fudge-terrorized French advocate. His
cC11eaert1es admire hiD1 with respectful
0,order. and on more than one occasion
have gathered around him the cham
plon Of their privileges. Once Labor said,
Il protest.
Protest all you please was the cyni-
cal reDIv Of the French Judge, where
upon "the good natured colossus bang
ING his books and pounding the table,
raised such an outrageous row that the
nrocaedings were interrupted for five min
utes. .,,
.I am protesting. said Labori, and
.st,e6 his point. IT learned that trick
SroTo Nine. Labori," he explained at
OF Nine. Dreyfus the most that can be
said Is that she is utterly unknown. "A
good woman" says the ancient Sanscrit
proyers, gets her name IN the nswspa-
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and poetic. His eyes are deep and are
expressive of that which is far beyond the
years Of the ordinary tot OF g. His fea-
lures are delicately nodded and of sweet
but decidedly pensive cast. He is ex-
ceedingly- reserved, except in his passion
ate grief over the death Of his father,
whose grave at Alhambra he decorares
with fragrant blossoms every Sunday.
With a violin case full of flowers he
makes the weekly pilgrimage to Dion Ro-
mandy,s grave, and once-the widows
eyes fill when this is told-Gounod was
missed and could not be found. 1t was
on Thursday After 9 deal of searching
the distrait mother thought of the grave
where the dead violinist lay. She found
the little fellow, his violin case heaped
with blossoms. lying by the side of the
mound. weeping with all the bitterness
that babes are not presumed to have ca
pacity TO feel
An odd thing is the manner in which the
lad speaks of his father. Invariably he
says:
If Romandy were here" etc. Always
simply -Romandy." Not father nor papa,
but just "Romandy."
Romandy was not the boys parents
real name The man was born DiOnys
Heberlirg. The story of how his name
came 10 be changed is a romantic bit in
romantic history.
He composed. in his early youth, a beau
tiful gavotte for sixteen pieces and dedi-
Gated it to Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania
Carmen SYLVIA. In recognition Of his
genius Carmen sylvia hOnored the COM
poser with the title de Romandy.' and,
according to custom, Dionys Heberling
became Dionys Romandy-
Little GOunod. whose first public ap-
pearance was of the spectacular order,
IS not 10 be treated as child prodigies
have been many times by greedy or inju-
dicious parents The case Of little Paloma
SchramTn is one of others that have
warned Nine. Romandy OF the unwisdom
shown in forcing an infantile genius.
So Gounod's precious gifts are to be
nursed and cherished with great care. Al
ready wealthy patrons of the fine arts In
Los Angeles have come forward and vol
unteered TO assist in the boys musical
education. The sensation created by his
appearance at the big benefit affair will
doubtless inspire similar offers. With
these the widow OF Dion Romandy Is as
sured Of assistance, and this and time are
all that is needed to develop IN Gounod
Romandy the genius that he has In such
extraordinary measure.
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TYPICAL PART DREYFS CASE
Though Not Exactly al Bottom Of The
Affair They Had Their ReCoQ-
nZed Place in L.

ARIS, Sept. H-"Cherchez Ia
A femme" says the wisdom of diplo-
- mats and detectives. In the Drey-
rus case the proverb, Look for the
\ woman" has not justified itself. no
ratal female having loomed up to
supply the ever-missing mobile ''in pres
ence or whose absence according to the
'uoicious Bertulus, the magistrate IS
troubled but in revenge any number OF
interesting mesdames have been brought
upon the scene in minor parts. from
tragic misery to farcicaI fnsouciance.
At one time the fatal female was to be
the mysterious Austrian FrauIeIn Derry.
discovered by the opera bouffe detective.
Guenee, the frequenter of high society
and the grand bars; and serious-minded
French ofacers-Iike that Lieutenant
Colonel Gendron. who himself hoped 70
procure from the fraulein only interest
Ing notes for his course OF lectures at the
Ecole, de Guerre-iamented Dreyfus i'm
prudence in taking afternoon tea with
foreigner, L'Autrichiennei Louis XIII.
Louis XIV, Louis XVI and the great Ma
poleon all married Austrians, not 10 meu-
ton the present Orleans Pretender. Moth
Ing IS more remarkable than the present
day disdain Of the Paris patriot for the
foreigner. The English wife OF Labori
and the American wife OF C1emenceau
point clearly to odious cosmopoIitauism.
When reminded that their own Mercier
cnerisnes British spouse, good national
ISIS are tempted TO doubt the talk as an
invention Of the syndicate Yet nothing
IS truer: and the generals son recently
boasted that had he failed il his Saint
Cyr examinations, papa could have got
him commission in the British army.
The ParisIaus who carp At CIemen-
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Then there is Nine Bodson. for
whom Dreyfus-oh. lorg time ago-for-
got his studies for a moment. A witness at
Rennes has testified to a remark that will
make NJ. Bodson an historical character
IN France. The witness did not like the
company he met at Nine. Bodson's, and
he blurted 1t out frankly at the second
interview. But I am very happy to hear
thati" cried the friend and confidante OF
a day, who had picked him up in the
Boisl Don't think those people are my
friends. They are the friends Of my wife,
and you must have perceived that Dreyfus
is her loverI" He wanted to chase Drey-
fus from the army, and 1t was then that
the solemn Monsieur de Breuil made the
remark that has made the name of Bod
son synonymous with Christian resigna-
ton: 81 attributed this to his discomfort
as wronged husband, and l responded:
Monsieur Bodson, il they were to chase
out of the French army every officer who
has taken his neighbours wife perhaps
there would be famous cleaning up Of
the lists
The Bodsons ought to be particularly In
teresting to Americans, because II was at
their reunions, now so famous, that our
own one-tims military attache to France,
the eniSratio Captain Borup, hgured-at
least In the eyes Of the Information De-
partment-as q vague menace to the
patrie Borup served his country, they
say, as Schwarzkoppen and Panizzardi
served theirs, at risk and peril When
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It IS a dozen years ago that Esterhazy
wrote this amfabIe apprecia ton to his
cousin the playmate of his childhood and
the condoIer of his ripper years. Mime. de
Boulancy does not seem TO have been on
cordial terms with Nine.
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by means OF narrow little strips OF
gummed PAPER. How Henry entered her
bedroom very late" that night. the
famous bordereau in his hands and how
he put Il in his hat so as not TO forget
it." Yet with each detail the unhappy
Nine Henry was driving another nail
into the structure of her husbands shame.
The work that he brought home 70 do
around the cheerful lamp was forgery.
The pretended confidence Of her husband
that his most famous forgery was only
d reconstruction OF verbal evidence"-if
true-would make her an accomplice, for
she never saw the wretched man after his
arrest. The audience blushed with pain
as she went On innocently running her
deposition with these horrible details.
Nine. Henry to-day is far on the
road TO monomania- She sees the duty
laid upon her 10 defend her hus-
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

"ROM sire to son-fron1 Dionys Ro-
| 4 mandy, the well remembered, to
little Gounod Romandy-has come
i the ma starf1II rrnnsicialL,s talent