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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-01-19
Signed au AntLQuay Pledge.

Harrisburg, Pa, Jan. PA con
ference of the republican senators
and members who refused TO take
part in senatorial caucus until
Senator Quay should be acquitted
Of the conspiracy charges pending
against him in the Philadelphia
courts, met this morning to select
candidates for United States sena.
tor, A new pledge, binding the
signsrs not TO vote for Mr.. Quay
until he is acquitted, was adopted
and signed by the forty-thres sena-
tors and members present.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-01-19

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instant relief. 1t allays infamm alton
and heals. It is prompt in its &C II o n
and positive in its effect. Il is the kind
that cures without pain or discom fort
II is for piles only soc tubes 75c. H L
Thicker
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-01-19

BaHard's Snow Liniment. There x
no pain Il viii not relieve, no swelling
il viii not su5due, no wound IT will not
heal, 1t will cure frost bites, chTIblains
ard c3rns- 25c and soc. II L Tucker.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-01-19

are you LACKING II strength and en-
ergv? Are yOI nervous. des pondent.
irritable constipated ana generally run
down N health: II 50, yoIsr torpid, and
4 few doses OF Herb.1s VIII cure YOU.
Herbine has no equ2l as health re-
storer. II L Tucker
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02
DEWEY STORIES.
She Rattled Dewey.

Dewey once attended q wedding break
fast at which the affable Baroness lie
Struve, wife of the Russian minister at
that time, was present. Dewey had met
this famous woman several times before.
The facial plainness of the baroness was
quite beyond belief, but she was one of
the most brilliant, lovable and kindly
women ever elected to guide the social
affairs of the diplomatic corps in Wash
ngton, says the Post. A lady who over
heard it tells of an amusing passage
which the baroness and Dewey (who, If
memory serves, was then a commandeD
had at this particular wedding break
fast.
"RcforIing to leather" said the baron
ess amiably, after some playful remark
as to the spick-and-s polish of
Dewey's sword-belt-he was in dress uri-
fOrm--"the most remarkable bit of Rus
sian leather in the world is my face"
Dewey was as quick thinker then as
he Is now but this stalled him.
Madame" he said, after a pause, 81
am but a rough sailor man, and this is a
heavy demand which you make upon me.
l am not equal to the emergency"
"Of course" said the baroness, tap
ping him with her fan, II should have 10
consider you hopeless'y rude were you to
agree with me- But you can preserve
your neutrality-naVal officers are taught
to do that, are they not?-by telling what
really fine eyes have. They are fine, are
they not?'
Thus assisted, Dewey rose to the oc-
casion. The baroness eyes were, in truth,
magnificent.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02
A Wise Press Censor.

There had been an occurrence which
was fairly pregnant with sensational pos
sibilities. 1t was assuredly teeming with
news. 1t concerned, as such items usual
ly did for a considerable period, the Ger
man squadron's movements. All the cor
respondents prepared vivid but even then
accurate descriptions. Brumby referred
so important a subject to the admiral
Quoting again from notes made at the
moment 1 find that the admiral said, in
substance.
III you gentlemen wish, you can send
these telegram just as you have written
them, but ! hope yov will not. If you
forward your dispatches at this time,
when our people arc excited to the fever
point, your news may be the Influence
that will inspire them to demand action
on the part of the government that would
not only seriously embarrass 1t at Wash
ington, but me right here, and might lead
to further serious complications or war
Now II you will let the matter all alone
and leave 1t to me, 1 will settle it all
right, we will save great excitement at
home, and avoid all chances of war. Do
Just as you think best"
It is needless to add that there was no
further argument, and even today that
affair has not been fully described.-Ex-
Minister John Barrett in Harpers Maya
zine.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02

Admiral Dewey's exceeding care in mat
ters Of dress gained for him al one time
the reputation of berg something of a
fOp among those who did not know his
rare and sterling qualities. Apropos or
this is the description given by a Wash
ingtOn correspondent of Dewey's arrange
ment of his wardrobe. Everything had
its place. and he knew exactly, it is said,
where to find a handkerchief, shirt, or col
lar. In fact he might be called a crank
on this subject, having invented an odd
custom for keeping his shirts so that one
could not be worn oftener than another.
They are all nun bered, ranging from one
to 2l. He had a chiffonicr containing an
equal number Of drawers, Just wide
enough to receive a shirt. He begins at
the top and wears the shirt in drawer No.
/, then the garment in drawer No. 2,
and so on down the line. lie is Just as
particular about other parts of his ward
robe.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02

A blue jacket who made a cruise with
Dewey some years ego tell Leslie's Week
ly this characteristic story: I'VE hadn't
been to sea with him long before we got
next to how he despised a liar. One OF
the petty officers went ashore at Gibral-
tar, got mixed up with the soldiers in
the canteens on the hill, and came off to
the ship paralyzed, He went before the
captain at the mast the next morning.
lie gave Dewey the two. .beers-and-sun-
struck yarn.
You're lying, my man.. says Dewey.
You We're very drunk, l myself heard
you aft in my cabin, l will not have my
men lie to me / don't expect to find to-
tai abstinence in a man-o war crew.
But / do expect them TO tell me the truth
and 1 am going to have them tell me the
truth. Had you told me canddly that
you took a drop too much on your liberty
you'd have beVA forward by this time,
for you, at least returned to the ship
For lying, you get ten days i'm irons. Let
me have the truth hereafter. A good sea-
man has no business lying
"After that there were few men aboard
who didn't throw themselves on the
mercy of the court when they waltzGd
up to the stick before Dewey, and none
Of us ever lost anything by it,"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02

Mr.. Parshall. Ho may be an excellent
electrical engineer, aud quite conscien-
tious in advising as he has done. But
are we to infer that he is possessed of all
the professional skin requisite to guide
others in the selection Of steam engines?
American electricians have had larger cx-
perience in electric trGmways than we,
but in the construction of steam engines
they cannot approach the engineers of
this country. Stands Scotland where 1t
did" when its chief commercial city must
ask the advice of an american in a mat
ter of mechanical engineering? There is
no problem in electric traction engine
that cannot be worked out on other than
American lines, end there Is no difficulty
as regards the condition of working, or
speed regulation, that does not present IT.
self In stronger form I'm engines for driv-
ing rolling mills or spinning machinery,
In both of which classes of work the firms
we have named stand in the front rank.
Much is made of the Importance of early
delivery; but are we sure that this will
be secured with more certainty from
foreign than from home firm? We doubt
it very much. If one English firm could
not undertake the whole contract within
the time desired, there are others, OF the
highest repute. in Britain, quite prepared
to do the work, not only cheaper, but in
less time than the Americans We can
fOresee some trouble In store for those
Of the Glasgow councillors who voted in
favor Of sending the work abroad. They
will. or should, have few bad half-hours
in trying to explain their conduct to their
constituents ere another municipal elec-
ton Genes round.
This is little different in spirit from
the temper displayed by that other
"beefing" Britisher, Lord Dunraven,
when the American yacht Defender
beat his yacht the Valkyrie. 1t does
not represent Englishmen at their best.
To disinterested observation it would
appear that II an American firm could
go 1000 miles across an ocean into
Glasgow council and, in competition
with a Glasgow firm producing the
same line of goods secure the lions
share Of a large contract at higher
price than was asked by bidders who
lived on the scene. there must be some
better reason for this triumph than
presumption of ignorance or crooked
ness on the part Of the men--all Scotch
men-who made the award. The fact
that the consulting engineer who rec
commended the use of American en-
gines was himself an American does
not justify an insinuation that all was
not fair and square. There are other
consulting engineers in Europe, not
Americans, who are being forced to
offer the same recommendation.
What a turning of tables does this
Glasgow episode suggest, in compari-
son with the time, within easy recol-
lection, when American manufacturers
were fearing loss of home markets
through British competition!
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02
The FilipinoS.

- ORROBORATION of Admiral
A DeWey's opinion of the Fill
~ pinos as a people capable Of
rapid development under ia
vorable conditions and susceptible to
kindness when once convinced that it
is sincere comes from a source almost
equally entitled to respect. Writing
from his headquarters i'm the Philip
pines to a friend in Muncie, Ind, Major
General Henry w. Lawton says:
This is a beautiful country, and the
people, in my opinion, are not half so
bad as they are sometimes pictured
Centuries of bad government and bad
treatment have made them suspicious,
and it will be some time before we
can persuade them that we are not
here for the purpose of robbng them
and making them slaves. AS soon as
they are assured of our good will and
intentions and we are enabled to show
them by example that we mean only
for their good and welfare l think that
We will find the Filipinos as good
ment,"
General Lawton has had perhaps as
good an opportunity as any other
american to study the Tagal race at
first hand, and from a man recognized
Throughout the army as an ideal fight
ing man an opinion of this pacific ma
ture is the more noteworthy. When in
Cuba General Lawton took a similar
view of native possibilities and the re-
suits are coming about in the way he
predicted. The ability which the Fill
pinos have exhibited in warfare and
the astuteness of much of their diplo-
macy certainlyindlcate qualities among
them of an order superior to that
prevalent among the mass of Cubans,
and it would be a singular illustra-
tion of the caprice of fate if the race
least in our minds when we went to
war with Spain should develop under
American tutorship into the finest
fruits of that contest for humanity
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02
CURRENT VERSE.
The Country Fair.

We have reached the happy season
or the good, old country fair,
When the rural population
Breaks away from toll and care.
There is hitching up of wagons,
Buggies, Surveys, traps and carts,
And a packing up of baskets
With bread, meats and cakes and tarts
Now the farmer lad and lassie,
And the mother and the sire,
Start away on brief vacation,
Every one in best attire.
City cousins often join them
And quite merrily they go
Where are seen the varied wonders
OF the famous rural show.
There are apples, pears and pumpkins
That are noted for their size;
There are porkers, whose dimensions
Cause expressions of surprise.
There are horses, sheep and cattle,
Stock Of all the fancy breeds;
There are samples from the harvests,
And all kinds Of fruits and seeds.
There the sweetest kind of cider
BY the press is freely shed;
There to stop the pangs of hunger
Is the best of gingerbread.
There are fakirs by the dozen,
With all sorts of things to sell,
And there prowls the artful stranger
With the game OF pea and shell.
There the horses are displaying
Speed in run and trot and pace;
There is often change of money
AS the sequel of a race.
But, though pockets ort are lightened,
Not bit the farmers care,
For they're taking in all pleasures
At the good, old country fair.
-Pittsburg acknowledgement
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02
Fair Inez.

Oh saw ye not fair Inez?
She got upon bike,
And folks that saw her start declare
They ne'er beheld the like.
She wore n pair of bloomers,
A dickey and a vest,
The neighbors held the wheel for her
Fair Inez did the rest.
And with the lovely Inez
A gallant cavalier
Rode down the pike, to teach her
To pedal and to steer
He whispered airy nothings,
He boldly secuted fear,
Until he struck a Jagged rock
And landed on his ear
saw the lovely Inez
Descend along the shore,
And there was dust all over
The bloomers that she wore.
Upon her face she landed
She's beautiful no more;
I'll wager such mixed-up mess
Was never seen before.
Alas, alas for IneZ!
She went away with song,
With ribbons on her handle bar.
And shoutings of the thrOng.
She came back all disordeTed.
Nor brought her wheel along;
The doctor says twill be a month
Before she's well and strong.
Cleveland Leader.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02
Autumn Twilight.

The low wind sounds a million drowsy
lutes,
The yellowing sunlight on the hillside
falls;
Alone, aloud, one lingering robin flutes,
And from the elm our golden oriole
calls.
This is the season that she loved of old,
Saying with darkened eyes that Au-
tumn turned
Her home-sick heart out past the evening
gold,
Sadly to some old home for which she
yearned.
Gray hills and norland omes!-perhaps
twas best
From her own home she had not long to
wait:
o evening stars that waken in the west,
o happier worlds, came she your way of
late?
Arthur ]. Strirger, in Ainslee's.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02
h Masouerader,

Love that came in PHYS guise.
Could / say him nay?
Down he dropt his radiant eyes,
Yelled his pinions gay
Meath a mantle gray,
Hid his bow and arrows, too.
What was a poor maid to do
Love that came in PHYS guise,
Could l say him nay?
Softly knocked he at the door,
So / looked to see;
Love 1 knew had knocked before,
But this was not he
Pray, who might it be?
"Pity is my name!'' he cried;
So the door I opened wide
Love that came in PHYS guise,
Could l say him nay?
In my empty heart ne came,
Filled each corner. too,
Till one day, with look of fame.
Off his coat he threw,
And Loves self / knew.
With a laugh OF cluel glee,
'I am master here" quoth he
Love that came in PHYS guise,
Could 1 say him nay?
Love that came in PHYS guise,
Who can say say him nay?
Maidens, an ye would be wise,
Turn the rogue away,
Lest ye find, some day,
Cruel Love your tyrant grown,
And, like me, ye make your moan
Love that comes in PHYS guise
Must as master stay.
-Lippincott' s
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02

In the frame Of mind to which Pres
ident Kruger has worked himself un-
der the hallucination that the Beers
are martyrs, actual war between Great
Britain and the Transvaal is not Il
question of months but Of minutes.
There has been too much ciect!oneering
for trouble TO warrant further eXpec-
tatonS of peace.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02

get her back to duty as soon as possible.
But he begged for a court to clear him OF
responsibility. l told him l would take
the responsibility, and that ended It,"
II is in little touches like this that the
admiral shows the real greatness of his
quality as naval commander. He doesn't
fear to take any risk or burden that nc
believes to be essential TO the success of
the greater object that he has in view
Joseph 1. Stlckney in Chicago Record
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02

The bishops argument in support OF
his radical proposition is in substance
that while some divorces may be JUST
ifed, so many of them are obtained by
fraud that the easiest way to iiscour-
age fraud is to remove it's inducpment,
Furnishing the innocent and guilty
alike. In other words, the shortest cut
to the cure of disease is TO kill the pa
tient, a proposition which may be true
but whose establishment In medical
practice would be attended with diff
culties.
The bishop, to be logical should go
further and call for prohibition of
divorces Internationally. Such a POSI-
tion would at least be consistent. how
ever harshly It would bear upon in-
dvidual cases of marital unhappiness
The moment we admit the justice OF
divorce, that moment we re-establish
the right of the innocent party to the
divorce to remarry if he or she shall
afterward desire; for If this were not
so, divorce would become nothing more
than a convenient separation, for
which there is ample facility outside
the divorce courts.
Bishcp Potter, ii seems to us, is
evadlng the real point The need for
different legislation concerning divorce,
though urgent in few states which
boast and traffic in dcsiCnedly lax
laws, is not one half so pressing, con-
sidered generally. as is the need for
the church and for society to put the
heavy seal Of their severcst jCint
condemnation upon those who commit
adultery or otherwise practice the
crimes which chiefly feed the divorce
courts. This is a remedy Immediate
~ at hand, requiring no additions to
the already over burdened statute
books and as sure in it's consequences
as is any device of human origin.
When the adulterer is spurned: when
the theoretical sanctity of the marriags
vow is impressively sanctified in fact;
when a clean tone is given by profess
edly clean people to the social life OF
the time and strong emphasis placed
upon purity both OF deed and thought,
there will cease to be a divorce prob
lem in any serious degree.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02
MERELY IN FUN.
Nothing TO Take BACK

Didn't YOU tell me-" said the man
with the skinned nose. bruised eve and
arm In a sling that this horse wouldn't
scare at an automobile?
mo, sir" replied the former owner OF
the animal 81 said he never had scared
at one. ] knew exactly what | was talk
Ing about sir. ! got that horse from the
country."-Chicago Tribune.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02
An Ancient Difficulty.

There was a time" remarked the af-
fable pendant, when people used nothing
but simple pictures when they undertook
to make record of anything"
ut must have been hard" said the
lawyer, thoughtfully. Half the time
you wouldn't know whether to summon a
witness as handwriting expert or an
art critic"-Boston Globe.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02
Took All Responsibilitv.

Speaking of an officer whose ship had
run aground while cruising in waters
where the charts were undoubtedly in
accurate, the admiral said: "He wanted
me to order a court of inquiry. / told him
to take his ship TO Hong Kong and have
whatever repairs she needed made at
once. | didn't want to waste three or four
days over a court of inquiry. l was sat
isied that he had not run her ashore by
intention or ignorance, and / wanted to
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02

W OCCURRING to the admitted
need of a general reorgan-
Il " ization of the National
guard under federal super
Wis so as to bring about identity of
formation, discipline and equipment
the Washington Star suggests that the
approaching congress would be ad-
vancing the matter to practical stage
if early in the forthcoming session II
were to create a commission compose !
of its own members, military officers
and civilians to inquire into the prob
lem thoroughly and to formulate a
plan for the reorganization of the
guard upon an effective basis OF re-
liability in both peace and war. Such
a body, the Star thinks, could survey
the field perhaps more effectively than
a committee of congress, and it's deduc-
tions would have the greater weight
because fortified by professional as
we'll as legal views Whatever ac-
tion might later result from this inves-
tigation would" our contemporary
adds, "be more likely to represent the
needs of the time than a statute hast
lily drawn in some separate interest and
put through the house in the midst
of the turmoil of general legislation.
The suggestion appears reasonable.
Although Of the various propositions for
actual amendment OF the laws which
have been submitted, the one intro
duced by Congressman Connell last
session and drafted largely upon the
advice of Colonels Hitchcock AMI
Boies seems to us to embody the most
feasible idea, yet the matter is of
ample Importance to warrant thorough
canvassing by an expert commission,
with view to Incorporating in final
bill the best features of all the bills
now pending or contemplated. We
sincerely trust that this subject will
not be permitted to fall by the way
side in the next congress.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02

EVA: Every afternoon about o'clock begin to cape and
yawn and yawn and cape and yawn till bedtime II
nip one yawn in the bud the next follows almost I'M
medately and is bound to be regular jawbreaker -
MAY: had such experience myself one time and re-
member asking the doctor whether one should try
to keep from yawning, and he said no. that the act OF
gaping gives to the blood more oxygen ana acts Oy
mechanical pressure the heart and lungs II one
has chronic gaping it is symptom which should cause
the affected one to look after her general health, tor
it is sure sign that something is wrong
MRS moore 1t is pretty we'll understood that yawnng is an
ament that comes from Indigestion or lack OF tone in
the system and may be cured by taking Rpans
Tabule before retiring After few days OF this treat
mcnt the tendency will disappear
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02
The Higher Criticism,

Sunday School Teacher-What did the
finger write upon the wall at BelshdEzar's
feast?
Boy-You have been weighed in the
balance and found wanting.
Sunday School Teacher-And what did
that mean?
Boy-I guess he forgot to drop a cent
in the machine when he got on-Puck.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02
Down He Goes.

The merry hunter now goes out TO hunt
the nimble deer
And patiently he tramps about until the
game is near;
At last the antlered monarch bounds
along the mountain side,
The merry huntsman's rifle sounds-down
goes another guide
Chicago Times-Hreald.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02

President Mckinley has approved
the sentence of the court martial in
the celebrated case Of Captain Garter,
which disposes of the misrcprrsenta-
ticn that 'pall' would free Carter;
but he did not take this iTrerocable
action until every feature of the case
had been exhaustively reviewed by dis
interested experts. Ills purpose was
justice, regardless IF costs
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
State.

Justice OF the Supreme Court. HAY
BROWN. OF Lancaster.
Judge of the Superior Court-JOSIAH Il.
ADAMS, of Philadelphia
State Treasurer-LIEUTENAN coll
ONEL JAMES E. BARNETT, of
Washington.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02
A Truth Twisted,

1T is a woman's lot to suffer in ST.
lence! | wonder what is the origin of
that sentiment?'
Perhaps it is a corruption of the truth
that a silent woman suffers a lot."-De.
troit Journal.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02
A Feminine Plant.

Wife-You are so different!
Husband-IIow, my love?
Wife-Well, you are so Indifferent -
Detroit Free Press
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-02
County.

Commissioners--JOHN COURIER NOR.
RIS of Scranton; JOHN PENMAN,
of Olyphant.
Auditors-WILLIAM f.. JOHNS and ASA
f. KIEFER, both of Scranton.
Election day, Nov. I.