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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02
Beyond the Limit of Patience.

The legal proceedings begun yester-
day against the editor of the Scranton
ian aim to test whether there is re-
dress at law for those who are ma
liciously attacked by that crime In
Journalism. The law is supposed to
protect the individual citizen and to
draw a line around the liberty of the
press dividing liberty from license.
1t is to determine whether this sup
position is correct as applied to this
particular community that the action
is begun. We may add that II will be
followed up.
The general testimony of persons
who have made newspapers a study is
that the Scrantonian since 1t came un-
der the management of this man Lit
tie has been incomparably the lowest,
meanest and most obscene publication
ever printed i'm the United States. 1t
has raked the sewers, secured the
slums and tried every device of peep
ing and shopping to get together ma
terials for the salacous scandals and
stenchful personal slander which Lit
llC mas llldut It's SlbCh Ill llduts w Iti
it could not get any grain of fact or
eXhalation of foul gossip to serve as
the nucleus of it's polluting stuff it
drew wholly upon its depraved imagl-
nation, trusting in its power of abuse
to terrorize its victims and protect it
from punishment. This same power it
has employed in the solicitation of ad-
vertising.
With reference to the suit begun yes
terday it is proper to say that the
plaintiff in this action sues more in the
interest of public decency than from
personal considerations. Abuse he is
used to: the desire in the present in
stance is simply to see whether the
law is adequate to suppress a fester-
ing public iniquity which has gone be-
yond the limits of patience and reached
point where something has to be
done in way Of cure. Measures of re-
dress exist apart from the law but it
is the duty of good citizens to respect the
law even when the provOcation is strong
to take by the scruff OF the neck the
human jackal who runs the organ of
indecency and administer personal
Justice
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02
Knew What He Wanted.

A Chicago inebriate who had never
known the choicer luXuries of life in
timately was taken in hand by friend,
given season of liquor cure treatment,
and on his return supplied with money
for fresh start in life.
He determined to commence with a
heavy dinner. So entering a well-known
restaurant he sat down at table and
began TO study the bill of fare while the
waiter waited for his order.
He scanned the menu long and earnest
ly but could see nothing on 1t with which
he was familiar. Suddenly he'laid the
card face upward on the table, closed his
eyes, and jabbed his foretinger down
savagely at random on the printed list
with the air of man who had made up
his mind.
There" said he. give me some Of
that"
The waiter bent down and examined the
line over which the finger rested. He
looked oained.
That's Mayonnaise dressing"
"Of course it is. Don't you 'spose
can read? That's what want. Bring
me some of it,
Certainly, sir. But what do you
want 1t on?"
Want 1t on, you chump!" shouted the
man who refused to be corrected. "a
plate, Of course. What do you suppose
l wanted it on? The table cloth?"-Cli-
Cago News.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02
THE DUEL.

The gingham dog and the calico cat
Side by side on the table sat;
Twas half past twelve, and (wha. do
you think
Nor one not tother had slept a wink!
The old Dutch clock and the Chinese
plate
Appeared to know as sure as fate
There was going TO be terrible spat.
Il wasn't there; l simply state
What was told to me by the Chinese
plateD
The gingham dog went "bow-wow-w :"
And the calico cat replied "mee-own
The air was Uttered, an hour or so,
With bits of gingham and calico,
While the old Dutch clock in the CHM
ney-place
Up with its hands before its face,
For II always dreaded a family row!
(Now, mind, I'm only telling you
What the old Dutch clock declares is
trueD
The Chinese plate looked very blue,
And walled, "Oh, dear! What shall We
do?'
But the gingham dog and the calico cat
Wallowed this way and tumbled that,
Employing every tooth and claw
In the awfulest way you ever saw
And oh, how the gingham and calico
flew!
Don't fancy l eXaggerate-
l got my news from the Chinese plateO
Next morning where the two had sat,
They found no trace Of dog or cat;
And some folks think unto this day
That burglars stole the pair away!
But the truth about the cat and pup
Is this-they ate each other up!
Now what do you really think Of that!
Crhe old Dutch clock il told me so,
And that is how l came to knowO
--EuCene Field.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02
Boiling Eggs for the Bishop.

Bishop Paret (Episcopalian) of Balti-
more, some time ago was the guest of
an Episcopal family in West Virginia
Learning from the bishop that he liked
hard boiled eggs for breakfast his
hostess went to the kitchen to boil them
herself.
While SO engaged she began to sing the
first verse of the well-known hymn,
Rock of Ages" Then she sang the
second verse, the bishop, who was in the
dining room, joining in. When 1t was
finished. there was silence. The lady
herself came into the room few minutes
later, carrying the eggs, and the bishop
remarked:
why not sing the third verse?"
THE third verse;" she replied. "Oh,
that's not necessary"
"I don't understand" replied Bishop
Paret
why. you see bishop" she replied,
when l am cooking eggs I always sing
one verse for soft boiled and two for hard
boiled. Penny Magazine.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02
PERSONALITIES.

Colonel John Hayes, of the Fourth
Cavalry, who is so anxious to take part
in the cavalry operations in the Philip
pines, has worn a uniform since his en-
listment in the Fifth Cavalry at the age
Of 13.
Bishop Henry w. Warren, who has just
arrived home from South America, whore
he had been inspecting Methodist schools
says he regards Chilli and Argentina as
the most progressive of the South Ameri-
can republics.
The common council of Detroit has sent
an invitation to President Diaz of Mexi-
CO. to be the guest of the city after his
visit to Chicago in October, where he
will be present at the laying of the new
government buildings cornerstone.
Helen Keller. the deaf, dumb and
blind girl, is spending the summer at
Wrenhtam, Mass, where she is keeping
up her study of Greek and Arabic. writ
ing her exercises on u typewriter ma
chine especially designed for those lam
guages.
The formal Inauguration OF President
Hadley, of Yale, will take place We'd
nesday, oct. 1S Among those who have
accepted invitations to be present are
President Eliot, of Harvard: President
Gilman, of Johns Hopkins; President
Harper, of TIE University of Chicago,
ana Senator Depew.
Charles +. Bessey, who has just been
elected chancellor of the University of
Nebraska, has, since he first entered col
lege, spent most of his time in botanical
research. From 1850 to 1887 he was bo-
tanical editor Of the American Natur-
alist," and since 1923 has been editor of
Johnson's Encyclopedia.
Samuel NJ. Jones, better known as 1.-THE
Golden Rule Mayor of Toledo" is a ma
tive of Wales, born at Ty Mawr on Aug.
3, 1876 His parents came to this coun-
try when he was only three years old.
When boy of Is years he drifted to the
oil regions of Pennsylvania. and in 1893
he made fortune out of a patent sucker
rod. He was elected mayor of Toledo
On an Independent ticket, whose platform
was municipal ownership and socialism,
and he is now an Independent candidate
for governor of Ohio.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02
A Lesson from Kentucky.

1t is to the credit of the American
people that notorious fraud in politics
is Invariably condemned by them,
without distinction as to party lines.
The revolt against Gubernatorial Can
didate Goebel in Kentucky, which to-
day at Lexington is expected to take
the form of an independent Demo-
cratic state ticket headed by a former
governor Of Kentucky who was un-
til recently chairman of the Demo-
cratic state committee, has occurred
among as stiff partisans as are to be
found in the United States. But these
men, underneath their partlsanship,
are honest citizens who do not pro-
pose by their votes or by their silence
10 sanction crime.
Says a Louisville dispatch to the
Washington Star, describing tho ex-
listing situation in Kentucky: From
detection that Al first seemed Of
small moment the rebellion has grown
into proportions that resemble an
ocean ground swell, and the most SAN
guine of the Goebel men do not now
shut their eyes to the fact that they
have incurred the displeasure of an
element that is mastering a surprising
strength: AS an evidence of how the
Democrats opposed to Goebel were
stirred 10 enthusiasm by the news that
their old leader. Governor Brown, was
10 lead the forces of 'old-time Democ-
racy.' II is but necessary to mention
the eftect in one city, owensboro. in
the second district. which is the So
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02

called Gibraltar OF Democracy. A re-
men as he met them. in a visit to the
principal points of business in Owens
horo, secured expressions from seven
ty-seven lifelong Democrats, who
said that they were glad nf an OPP
portunity to support Governor Brown.
Twenty men were found in the same
territory canvassed by reporters who
stated that they would support Goebel
and thirty said they had rather not
be quoted, but OF these twenty are
known to favor Brown. In Governor
Browns old home county Of Hender-
son the Democrats will give him sup
port that will surprise even the Goebel
leaders on the ground. The same can
be said of most of the western and
southern Kentucky Democratic coun-
tics. In central and eastern Kentucky
Brown is almost as popular, and will
poll vote that will make him a for
nidable candidate in the three cornered
race"
While the effect Of this revolt prob
ably will be the election of the Re-
publican state ticket, those who or
ganized it properly prefer that to "a
Democratic victory won on Il basis of
gross injustice. Goebel was not the
choice Of the Democratic party in Ken
tncky; he won his nomination by auda-
cious trickery and treachery through
a perversion of his powers as the pre-
siding officer of the convention, and
politically he stands for every element
in public life which honest citizens
should condemn. When an indepen-
dent movement can split in two the
once rock-ribbed Democracy of a state
like Kentucky it is time for the politi-
clans to give ear TO public opinion.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02
Has the United States Stopped
GrowingP
philadelphia Press.


The record of a rapid decrease in
the American birth-rate was one of
the notable results of the census of
1890 and the census of 1900 seems like
ly to show still farther decrease. Mr..
II. T. Newcomb a statiatician in the
Agricultural department well equal
to the task, reaches the conclusion
that the population in 1900 will be
74,4S0, see. This increase, 1894 per cent.
for the decade, is far below that OF
any previous decade. If the popula-
tion had grown fast from 1890 to 1900
as in the decade just before. the pop
ulation next year would be about U.s.
00O,0)O. Taking the mean increase in
the past twenty years the population
would be 776S0,OOO
Yet the population is tolerably GER
tain to be 100000 short of the corr
rected increase for twenty years, and,
in round numbers, 4,500,0OC short OF
the proportional increase in the ten
years, 1880 to 1890 OF this loss some
l.622.4SO is due to a decrease OF immi-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02
The Talkative Little Brother.

"Mr. Sixaweek," inquired her little bro
ther-he was entertaining the young man
ON the front steps of a Capitol Hill house
while she was getting ready" upstairs.
why don't you get two OF them?"
Two what, SOM" inquired Sixaweek.
"Why, two skates" replied the delight
tul little boy. isis says she seen you
on + street yesterday afternoon with one
large skate on, and I've been a-wonderin'
why YOU didn't buy a pair ! asst Sis,
and she said you must be up against 1t
What are you up against Mr.. Ska
week."
SiXaweek's reply was too evasive ana
inarticulate for reproduction.-Wa
ton Post.
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grafton, and this carries with it the
decrease due to children which would
be born to these immigrants. From
1850 to 1890 there were received $780,
2li immigrants. The immigration this
decade, Mr. Newcomb estimates, will
not be over 362i.133. There remains
loss of from 100000 to 2.50OOOO in the
population. il the increase 1880 to 1890
had kept UP, due to a decrease I'm the
birth-rate, black and white. In 1890
there were 1S00, 900 less children under
10 years old than were expected, iudg-
ing from the number in 1880. This de-
cade promises to outdo this record.
This loss in decenial increase has
gone on for 100 years. Where the
increase of our native white popula-
tion century ago was 1910 per cent.
from 1890 to 1900, from 1890 to 1900
Mr. Newcomb finds that it is likely
to be only 25 per cent.
If this decrease were stationary II
would be q less matter; but it grows
with each decade. The loss in negro
increase decade by decade is, 1t is
true, still faster; but the white in
crease is dropping fast enough to
make it probable that there are those
now living who will see the popula-
tion of the United States as stationary
as that of France. our increase for
our total population was 3O.0S per
cent. 1870 to 1880, PASS per cent. from
1850 to 1890, and promises to be but
1894 per cent. for this decade. At this
rate, in about twenty years the In
crease in this country win be about
that of European countries like Eng
land and Germany. Deducting immi-
grafton, it is now about one-half lar
ger. That families are smaller than
once all see; but few are aware that
this country is moving so fast to an
European average. The simple fact is
that the country has filled up. The
land is now nearly all taken. The
population will before very many
years approach its limit, and this Will
be far short of the predictions once
made Of the American aggregate.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02
A Story of the Pope.

Cardinal Fleury, when he was very Old
and was still clinging to the premiership
In France, once dismissed an importunate
suitor by saying: while / live you
shall have nothing" MY lord" was
the answer II will wait" His holiness
the pope is as placidly unaware of danger
as ever was the cardinal. When a South
American bishop, who was about to re-
turn to his diocese, expressed fear that
he would never again see the holy father,
Pope Leo answered him sweetly, "Why
not? You are still yong, and it is to be
hoped that YOU will be able to return
to us once against. James Gazette.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02


That the United States may have to
intervene in Santo Domingo under cir
cumstances which would probably
mean permanent protectorate is more
probable than most casual readers of
the current news now suspect. The ma
tional debt of the Dominican republic
has for some time been under the
financial control Of a company domin-
ated by New York financiers, who
bought it in cheaply from a syndicate
in Holland. which had been unable to
collect the interest. This American
company took prompt possession of the
Dominican custom houses and is now
virtually the controlling power in the
island. In addition to that, the lead
ing steamship line is an American one,
so that no matter what form of gov
ernment exists down there, there is
always a strong reason for American
watchfulness.
Under the Monroe doctrine not like
ly since the Spanish war to be chal-
lenged by any European power, the
only government which could intervene
for purposes of pacilication is that OF
the United States, The sending of war
ships and marines to the vicinity Of
Puerto Plata means that if respon-
sibiity Of this kind shall come through
native chaos it will not be shirked.
The United States is not aching for any
more mongrel TROPICAL wards, but if a
further paternal oversight shall fall to
it in the line of unsought duty the job
will be accepted and completed with,
let us hope, neatness and dispatch.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02
General Alger's Statement.

Although it contributes to the pub
lie information nothing either startling
or new, the farewell statement of the
outgoing secretary of war makes plain
in a dignifed way the immensity of the
task with which the war department
has had to deal and leaves it to the
public to judge how far its criticisms
Of General Alger the individual. have
been deserved. With his return to pri-
vate life this criticism, so far as it is
personal in aim or motive, should and
will cease.
1t remains for those who were until
recently associated with General Alger
in official responsibility and for his sue
cessOr in office to get to the bottom of
the trouble underneath all this public
clamor and present the evils which un-
doubtedly exist in a manner so plain
that the next congress will not dare to
pass them by without correction. Gen
eral Alger as head of the war depart
ment was only an irritating personal
incident of a situation honeycOmbed
with abuses, weaknesses and short
comings. He has gone and public anx-
iety is temporarily relieved; but the
faults of the system remain and these
can be remedied only through fearless
and thorough publicity when the proper
time shall come.
There must be, first of all, complete
and radical reorganization of the
musty and inefficient staff system
under which promotion is by seniority
solely and tenure of Office is deter
mined by other conditions than ability
or fitness. The system which bred an
EagaI and kept him in place of great
responsibility at a most critical time
when his untitness was so apparent as
to amount to a public crime; the sys-
TEN which enables a clerical officer like
the adjutant general to usurp the func-
tions of the major general command
ing: and, finally, the system which
puts in the position of major general
commanding not necessarily the best
general in the service but simply the
one whose commission dates furthest
back, making the president of the
United States, as commander-in- chief,
dependent upon an army head over
whom he has no power of removal or
control save in case of crime proved
before a court-martial-this is the sys-
tenn which has bred the ills for which
Russell a. Alger stood personally re-
sponsible before unrehectng public
opinion, although as a matter of fact
he had no more to do with it's crea-
tion than the humblest bootblack in
the land; and it is a system condemned
by every principle of common sense as
we'll as proved VIGOROUSLY faulty in
operation.
Alger has gone, and there are good
reasons why it is well that he should
go. Though well-meaning he was weak;
he had neither the temperament, the
brain nor the gristle to cope with such
a monstrous perversion of executive
authority. His successor, they tell US,
is strong in all these points-an or
ganizer, thinker and a fighter who
has never known defeat. Let him cut
open the carbuncles in the war office
and demand of congress- in the name
of the people, reorganization along the
| lines of cure
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02
An Unwise Selection.

A returned missionary, giving some ac-
count Of his experiences in Jamaica. says
that he was once called upon to act as
arbitrator between n man and his wife
who had had a violent quarrel.
The couple came to the missionary's
house a short time before the hour ap-
pointed for a prayer meeting TO be held
in the chapel In the missionarys door
yard.
Tho man aud his wife both began to
talk at the same time. their tongues go
ing fast and furiously and their tempers
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02

rising until they finally came to blows
and fought until the missionary was
forced to use all his strength in separat-
ing them.
He succeeded in calming them, and in
duced them to remain 60 prayer meeting.
After hymn had been sung the mission
airy requested each person present to give
quotation from the Scriptures, where
upon the man who had the difficulty with
his wife got up and said, briefly:
II have fought a good fight"
The missionary had hardly recovered
from the shock Of this when an old black
woman got up and prayed that 'de min
istah' might be given strength for This
weak body and his feeble mind."-De-
troit Free Press.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02

The Klondike is responsible for one
good deed. In 1897 w. II. Bard left
Pittsburg owing $4,000. Embezzle-
ment was charged and detectives were
him. He now writes from Dawson
that he has cleaned up a quarter of
million dollars and is coming home
TO wipe off the slate. Let us hope that
he will keep the courage of his good
resolution.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02
On Dangerous Ground.

"Why have you and Miss Beasley
ceased to be friends?"
"Oh, she has some queer notions After
she returned from Boston, a few weeks
ago, she called me down because | spoke
of a widow woman; and the next even
ing, while we were discussing the temper
ance question, she referred to Miss An
thony as "a maiden lady l asked her
why widow woman was any worse than
maiden lady, and she took it as a per-
sonal insult."-Chcago Times Herald.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02
Those Loving Girls,

Tody-Jennie tells me young Woodby
proposed to her last night.
Viola-I don't think 1 know him. Is
he well off?
Tody-EIe certainly is. She refused him.
Chicago News.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02
A Shining Example.

'Im in favor of holding all we get"
said the statesman.
do you think that good national
policy?"
ITS the principle OH which, may say
--hem!-my success in public life is
founded. d."-Philadelphia North American.
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She Objected.

A certain Wilkes Barre woman assured
her husband that she never told him a
lie and never would. He told her that
he did not doubt ii, but would hereafter
cut a notch in the piano when he knew
she deceived him. mo you won't" she
screamed, I'm not going to have my
piano ruined"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02
SMILES.
After the Honeymoon.

Wife-Ah, darling, what would your life
be without me?
Husband (with conViction) n)-Cheaper.-
Meggendorfer Blattcr.
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The attorney general of Maryland
and brother attorney had fist fight
the other day in fron5 of the Baltimore
Young Mems Christian Association but
it is believed this style of professional
rivalry will not spread.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02

Gossip now credits David Martin
with congressional aspirations. David
Martin in congress would be a con-
spiCuous figure.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02
No Admiring Spectators.

you don't ride your wheel on the boul-
evard in the evening any more, Marie?"
mo; there are not enough people on
the front steps TO make it worth while"
Chicago Record
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02

81 believe" says old General Gomez,
that all newspapers lie," Who has
been sending the Scrantonian to
Gomez?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02

The administrations credit for ap-
pointing Leonard Wood to the position
he now holds would be enhanced by his
promotion to the chief command in
Cuba
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02

Prize money for naval captures sa-
vors of piracy but inasmucb as it was
authorized by law one year ago Dewey,
Sampson and their men should be paid
what the government owes them.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-02
SCRANTON, AUGUST 2, 1899.

Beginning with August ] the COM
manding general of the United States
should command. If Miles is not
worthy of trust get one who IS.