The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-11
NEWS HND COMMENT

novice In crime. Moreover, the pain Is
sharp, aud comparatively of short dura-
tion. On the other hand it is admitted
that to the criminal 1t makes but little
difference whether he Is sent to prison
for one year or half u score, for many
of them find better homes and certainly
better care there than anywhere else
To the Industrious and self-r, speCtins
citizen Imprisonment is n dreaded pun
ishment, but not so to the old offender
Judge Baldwin reviewed the effect
which the whipping post had had in
Southern states, and said ii could be re-
Nived in Connecticut with advantage 10
the community and TO the criminal
classes. He described wife-beat!ng as Il
crime that could be treated advantage
ously by the application of the lash. and
no also thought that 1t would be far
more beneficial to boys than a term in
| the Reform school. He declared that
many young men and boys would reform
their ways it, on their first appearance
in court they received sound drubblng
| instead of being sentenced to a short
term in jail. 1t was only silly prejudice
that could prevent the Redistribution of
this good old Connecticut blue law. In
any case the professor was persuaded
that what the criminal classes of Con-
noCticut and other states needed above
all things was a good. old-fashioned
whipping post and a vigorous admins
traitor of the same. lie thought that the
| time had come to put an end to the
attractiveness of modern Jail life and
| to substitute something in its place that
would really be distasteful TO those who
fell under the jurisdiction of the courts.
Washington official circles have fallen
victims of the stogy habit. 1t has even
| gotten into the hite house Says a con-
| temporary: President Mckinley has been
|
| acquired the habit while a member of
the Ways and Means committee and got
| II from John DalZell, Pittsburg's repre-
| sentative. Congressman DalZeil is never
| without pockctful of stogies. The pres
! idents friends say that 1t has got to be
| a regular thing with him to have a stOgy
| for companion when he is studying out
| the perpeXites of office. Every week a
| box of stogies is shipped to the white
house from Pittsburg. Recently the
| maker adopted a special brand for the
pl ,sldent, but ii is doubtful if he enjoys
| their aroma more than he did the rank
| weeds DalZel passed around in the COM
| mittee rooms of congress. The custom
| adopted when President Mckinley was
! chairman of the WAYS and Means COM
| mittee holds good today. Serene +.
Payne. of the Twenty eighth congress
| district of New York Is an admirer Of
| the Pittsburg article. When the brain If
! the Ways and Means committee works it
| must have smoke: ii is Just as essential
\ as air. When the committee works the
| air is soon filled with Pittsburg smoke
! and some of the best legislation has been
| framed amid its surroundings and under
| its influence Speaker Reed is another
| lover of the Pttsburg stogy. He orders
| them by the thousand. General Joseph
| Wheeler stocked up well with stogies be-
| fore entering the Santiago campaign. AL
| ston Gordon Dayton. one of West Nir-
I ginai's representatives, revels in Pitts
| burg smoke. All the senators and con-
| gressmen from West Virginia are fond of
Wheeling stogies but these are too strong
| except for the hardened tobacco burners,
| as they are made OF the strong Kentucky
| leaf, which kills a beginner at ten PAGES.
| Representative Gear, of Iowa, Postmas-
ter General Smith and host of other
prominent men have become addicted to
| the Stogy.
| All accounts from Havana agree that
MaXimo Gomez is the big factor in the
| Cuban situation. His word is law among
| the Cubans. DIR. Charles l.. Fisher, a
| ChicagOan, writing from Havana to the
| Chicago Record in description of Gomez 5
triumphal entry, says: Plainly dressed
| ald poorly mounted. he rode without mill
| tary carriage or effort at prctense. Just
what he is, he looked a man of the peo-
| pie. Grim Visagcd, of few words, stern
| almost to cruelty, determined almost to
| obStinacy, just almost to charitablencSs,
it is not strange that this man has been
| able to command the respect and admir-
| alton of this humble aud hospitable Cit-
| Zenry. There are but few of his type
| anywChcrc. General Grant was one of
them. Gomez is as homcly as Lincoln
| almost as wise for his day and genera
| ton. The confidence of the pOpulace in
! him Is sublime. one OF their liCutcnants
| told me a day CT twC ago that person
| ally he prefers annexation But" said
| he, "wait until We hear from Gomez. II
| he opposes annexation | am opposed to
| it. If he favors it | will vote for it. If
he says Take the iicId' | shall take it.
And as with me 50 with the people of
| Cuba. What Gomez says We shall do.
| This man is holding Office under the pres
! ent American Cuban regime. lie speaks
| the sentiments of the masses as | have
! heard them. Asking 1nnthcT mSurGcnt
| officer how old Genera! Gomez Is hr re
| piled that he was above 20, but good for
seventy more. EXprts sing doubt oil this
score | was told that at one time durluG
the late unpeaSantnt - he had SubSistcd
| for three weeks on native grasses aud
roots, and had fought Il successful bat
tic through a whole day with three man.
goes and snake for rations.
The clerks whose duty it is TO prepare
4 statement showing the number Of new
| offices authorized by CCngicss at its last
! session have a difficult task this year,
says the Sun. Not only has there been
an abuormally large amount of lcgisla-
tion creating new offices, bat they must
also construo the Army Reorganization
hill and determine just what additional
force OF enlisted men aud officers it pro-
VideS for. Besides the Increase il the
army, congress has authorized, in addi'
tiOn to the clerical force made necessary
by the war with Spain and the usual
increase of departmental fOrce, the ap'
puintment ut many thousand employees
and officials. These are provided for
chiefly in the hill authorizing the taking
of the twelfth census. Including thu
| enumcratorS whose service will be OulN
| temporary, there will hG nearly 6OWN
census employees. Then there az" the ad
ditiOns to tho navy roster carried in the
| Personnel hill: the commission ana en-
ploycs neCcss lry to mako national mrf
of the Nicksburg battlefield; tine com
mission 10 investigate the lstnmuS cana
routes, with its surveying parties, thu
clerks and attaches to the Paris t&ppsi
tiOn commission, ana many commissions
ors TO select sites for new public build
ings,
According to the Washington star
chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller Is
one of the most accessible, unissuming
and sincere of public men i'm Washing
ton. one of his daughters said recently
that tho chief justice smokes the same
priced cigars and the same number o.
them every day as he did when brief
less barristcr. lie il exceedingly ecOon
omical i'm his personal expenditures. Il'
| dislkcs to buy new clothes. His iriend!
say he does not eat enough to keep
child alive. His daily fare is cup o.
coffee for breakfast, "A glass ~ milk anC