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The Lamar register., 1900-05-30
An Ordinance TO Restrain and Punish
Migrants, Mendicants, Common Pros
titutes and Habitual Drunkards.

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DE 1T ORDAINED by the Board Of Trustees
- of the Town of Lamar. in the manner fol-
lowing. to-wit:
SECTION l. Any able-bodied person. who no,
having visible means to maintain hiins.lf. and
who lives idly, without employment. or Is found
and lodging in tipping houses, bar houses and
houses of bad repute, sheds. stables or m
wagons or boxes, In the oEea air. or who
shall be tresuassing IN tho night time upou tho
private promises OF Others, aud not giving good
account of himself, or wandering abroad and
begging. or going from door TO door begging, or
placing himself in the streets or Other thor.
ougEfares or in other public places 10 beg Snd
receive aims, and any person on whom shall be
fou0d any instrument thing used for thr
commission OF burglary or Tor picking lOeks
pockets. and who cannot give good socount
for the possession of the same; and every com
mon prostitute and habitual drunkard shall be
deemed u vagrsnt.
SECTION IL Any person who shall be deemed
q vagrant under the proyisiozs of this ordi-
lance shall pay finc OF five dollars for the first
violation thereof, and ten dollars for each sub
seguent violation thereof.
SECTION Ill. All ordinances or parts 81 or
dtnsncss bsretofors passed by the Board of
Trustees of the Town of Lamar and inconsistent
with the provisions Of this ordinance arc hereby
repealed.
Passed and approved May 2. 800.
J. T. LAWLEss.
lsEALl Clerk and Recorder.
The Lamar register., 1900-05-30

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An Ordinance for Preventing the OBJ
struction of the Streets and High
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01

y AN ADDtESS De1Ofe the Meth
odist ministers of Philadelphia,
Il delivered on Monday in behelf of
the twentieth century thank
Offering of s2O,OOO.OOO called for by the
bishops of that religious denomination,
Rev. DR.. George T.. Reed, president of
Dickinson college and librarian of
Pennsylvania, described vividly the
reasons why the American peopl,
should be increasingly liberal in good
works.
"rhe gain in the worlds wealth from
1850 to 1860 was fifty times the gain of
the first fifty years of this century" he
said, land the gain of those first fifty
years equaled the gain of the eighteen
centuries that preceded them. The
gain since 1860 has simply been phe-
nomenal, and the gain of the next five
years no man can estimate The con
tributions to charity, education, etc,
in this country in 1895 We're over SIS,
100000; i'm 1896 they We're over s33,00O,-
600; in 1898 they were over $23OO,OOo;
and i'm 1899 they reached the magnifi-
cent sum of $79,749,OOO. and gifts of less
than $1,000 and the contributions
through the regular channels of the
church are not included in this amount
In these six years 5000. O.0Oc 900 We're con-
tributed, 80 per cent. of which went to
the cause of education. This gives us
some idea of the resources of th4
people,
Applying himself directly to Method
ism, he pointed out that where therl
was one trained man in the past the
times demand fifty now, and he added
Not $3OO0.O0O have gone into our col
leges the past six years. We did not
have a single college until 1881. In
1920 we did not have three college
bred men in the whole church. Oul
people did not appreciate higher educa-
tion then. Only in the last thirty oi
forty years have we come to tolerate
the theological seminary. What We
sadly need is revival of the sense OF
financial responsibility among our peo-
pie"
That need is very general.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01
An Unjust Suspicion.

y n CERTAINLY is unfair to the
New York state Railroad COM
Il mission 10 intimate, as certain
New York journals do, that the
presence before the commission of Il
son of Senator Platt as an attorney for
some of the interests opposed to the
granting If permission to the Delaware
Valley and Kingston Railroad company
to build q line of railway from Lacka-
waxen to Kingston forecasts an ad-
verse decision upon the pending appli-
cation. Mr.. Platt is Il member Of the
law firm that numbers among its regu-
lar clients the New York, Ontario and
Western Railroad company, one of the
parties hostile To the proposed new rail-
road. His appearance for that COM
pany was in the ordinary course of
professional business.
Ii is habitual with some newspapers
and a fault common to many people
outside of newspaper circles to give
undue significance to the slightest in
cident which might seem to cast a
shade of suspicion upon men occupying
official positions: and this tendency Is
especially marked with reference TO
state boards having some measure Of
jurisdiction over corporations. Regard
less of the fact that the great ajor-
ity of men appointed to membership on
boards or commissions are men of fine
reputation and personally above re-
proach, their acceptance of a public
trust puts them Immediately within the
zone of a relentless critical fire, and it
is not long until an impression Is
created that they are owned by this,
that or the other political corporate
influence and have no longer minds and
wills of their own.
Just how far the general public takes
stock in this perverted view Of official
honor we cannot say We can only eX-
press our belief that the New York
Railroad commission is a Conscientious
body of men which will give to the
application before it its best thought
and judgment and reach a conclusion
upon the merits as it sees them.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01
Better Go Slow.

Y n COMMENTING upon the un-
animity of joy which prevails
II among the continental nations
over Great Britain's military
reverses in South Africa, the Chicago
Times-Herald can find no ground in
history for the belief that 1t arises
from honest sympathy with the Beers,
COR neither the courts nor the peoples
az Europe have ever shown sympathy
or weak nation struggling. as they
pretend the Roers are, "for liberty"
our contemporary reminds it's readers
Nhat in our own time Europe fiddled
while the Turk slew more Armenians
than there are Beers of military age
in the Transvaal.
The true reason for European jub-
laticn over British disasters is to be
found" it continues. in hatred of re-
publican England, envy of commercial
England and jealousy of colonial Eng
land. There is not a court in Europe
where the English system of a gov
ernment responsible to the people,
which rejects the idea of the Divine
right of kings and derives its author
ity 20 rule and to tax from the peo-
pie, is not held in official adherence.
For more than century England has
been the sanctuary for the oppressed
refugees of Europe and its free press
has held the torch CT liberty and popu-
lar government before the eyes of the
overtaxed helpless millions on the con-
.tinent"
"a AS showing the commercial envy
which, Is back of much of this anti
English feeling so far as the cont!nen .
talspowers are concerned, the Chicago
paper prints a table Of the commerce
of the British empire as compared
with the commerce. of all the other
European powers. The year of COM
parison is 1885, and the total for Grea,
Britain 16,31s, ,00O.00O) is nearly three
.fourths of the total of the en-.
tire continent GS,co5, 900. .OOO). Tha,
IL power centered in a little
group Of islands hardly large
enough to make a respectable showing
on the map alongside the immense
stretches OF continental territorS
SIioulu Dt d'ic not OHlN W CpIilIidus
the seas but virtually to control by fal
the largest commerce OF any slngl.
European power is enough to caus;
envy to sink deep into the breasts o
European statesmen. whom, we know
from history, are not exempt iron
that evil feeling.
But the Times-Herald Is unable 4
discover any reason Why the United
States should share in the continenta
attitude. THE government of tn
United Kingdom cannot" it says. "b
too republican to suit the ideas of in
telligent Americans, Its commerc
cannot be so extensive as to excit
our envy, because We profit by tn
lions share in that commerce. 1t
colonial conquests do not move us I
jealousy because our relations wit
British c1lonies are almost as profit
ohle as England's own. In 1895 near
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01
CONCERNING REV. MR.. CRAFTS
Editor of The Tribune

Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In your issue of January 90, there
appeared the following article. 1.-The
Rev. Wilbur r. Crafts, who accused the
president of drinking champagne and
sharply scored him for 1t, has learned
that the alleged champagne was only
mineral water Whether he has also
learned to govern his accusing tongue
will apear hereafter" In justice to the
above named and hCnored clergy man.
who has, and is now doing Il noble work
in connection with the reform bureau,
Washington, D. c., request the pubiica-
tion of the above, in connection with the
following letter received By me from this
much slandered servant of Jesus Christ
so many false reports have been sent
out on the above matter, some of them
made the basis of unjust editorials, that
! ask your aid in correcting them.
Speaking in Boston eight months ago OH
the nullitication of the anti~canteen law
by the executive, l 0Gded, as a bit OF
circumstantial evidence as to the pres
idents relations to temperance, that a
certain reliable witness, whom ! named
that all might estimate for themselves
the value of the testimony, had tolC me
of seeing a lot of champagne bottles
brought out of the presidents room at
the capitol on March |. The doorkeeper
is denying that anything but appolonaris
was used. and this 'gnat may well be
waived it is so small compared with the
camel of the canteen which no one de-
MES the president might abolish in the
army by such an order as that by which
| Secretary Long suppressed it in the
navy. How slight was the importance
| | attached to those bottles may be in
| ferred from the fact that in all the eight
| months since that one slight reference to
| them In Boston, they were never again
mentioned by me In public or private
until the presidents friends called up the
] story, and so inadvertently called up also
| the larger and really important discus
| sion of the presidents unquestioned rec
| ord as the dispenser and defender Of
| liquors.
III the one reference to this secondary
| circumstantial evidence is an error, let
| that editor or speaker or lawyer who
| has never once used testimony which
| was unimportant. or afterwards denied,
| cast the first stone. The grossly mac
| curate reports Of this 'gnat' sent out by
! Washington correspondents, who might
! easily have had my side of the case. and
the unjust editorials careiessly built on
such one sided reports, come just I'm time
to furnish horrible examples Of the need
Of Sheldon's Capital News
| Very respectfully,
| j l.. williams
Pastor Forest City Baptist Church
lit would seem that the Rev. Mr. Crafts
able purpose than repeating the back
door gossip of the national capital con-
corning liquids consumed In the white
house. What the president OF the United
! States chooses to eat or drink Is none OF
the pubIic's business, so long as he Il
temperate and decent, as William Nc
Kinley is.-Editor Tribune.l
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01

The exhibition given by Prof. Scheele,
the poison-proof expert at the. MolineuX
trial. who drank bromo-seltEer and
cyanide of mercury and did not die,
looks very much like a trick. Some
one ought to take shot gun to Prof.
Schecle
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01

Spelling reform at Washington has
changed Puerto Rico back to Port D
Rico in some of the departments. If
the names of our new possessions are
to be constantly twisted to suit the
whims of every new official. they viii,
soon be as confusing to the average in
dividual as the vocabulary about the
Tower of Babel
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01

Now that Governor Roosevelt has
had his way in the matter of the in
surance commissioner without dis
senting vote, the opponents Of Boss
Platt may possibly begin to wonder II
Platt is, after all, such great boss as
they have pictured him.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01
REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET.
SCHOOL DIRECTORS.--C. c. Fcrber. 1
ID. Fellows.

The men who are booming Colonel
Roosevelt for the vice presidency have
resumed work: but the fact remains
that the proper candidate is Pennsyl-
Nania's peerless representative in the
cabinet. Hon. Charles Emory Smith, a
specimen of whose brilliant oratory we
lreSent else hero
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01

The comparison of Spion kopje with
MajuLa Hill has removed from the
minds of many on this side of the Al
lantic the idea that kopje was some
thing that was loaded with smokeless
powder.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01

Bourke Cockran's offer to support
Bryan If Bryan will drop silver has
been declined with thanks: neverthe-
less IL is safe to predict that BourkG
will soon be found on the front seat of
the Bryan band wagon.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01
That need is very general.

The furious ado made in the senate
the other day by Shouting Billy Mason
over certain criticisms of him alleged
to have been uttered by British vice
consul at New Orleans. turns out to
be a case of much ado about nothing.
ism eliminating in yellow statesman
ship. The British vice copsul never
said II
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01
Railroad Men
Get Ready
for Inspection

We have now a full line Of
all makes of Watches that
we guarantee to pass.
Buy your Watches of an
old reliable house. Not some
agent who will open shop for
two or three months and then
skip out. We are here to
stay. Our guarantee is "as
good as gold" Prices as
low as any.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01

Lack of intelligence as to the where
abouts of Aguinaldo still permits Mr..
Bryan to monopolze the center Of the
stage
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01

one-ffth of the commerce Of the Unit
cd Kingdom was with the United
states and nearly one-fourth Of its
imports were bought from u.s." The
same proportion obtained in the fiscal
year last ended. Then our imports
from Great Britain we're $2o7, Vs., ,0is,
or only s2S,23O,e6S less than were our
imports from continental Europe:
while OF our experts Great Britain
purchased 1862 274,ii5 while the ccnti-
mental countries bought only si2i,964,
6s4 1t was not long age that the con-
tinental powers were seriously consid-
cring an international trade combina-
ton against us. just as. during the
Spanish American war, they tried TO
affect a diplomatic combine" against
US In neither of these projects would
England take any part. The latter she
! fatty prevented.
We agree with our Chicago contem-
porary that anything approaching a
ldconvulslng catast, phe to Eng
llsh power and prestige IN South AT.
rica would be felt in every industrial
center and agricultural district in the
United States" and for this reason it
behooves the American people 20 go
slow in their naFging at "a friendly
power in trouble.
Senator Billy Mason seems to he in n
he has the greatest dislike for the Brit
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01

~ GkS
A child born on this day will be happy
when the Nicaragua canal and the West
Lackawanna avenue Viaduct are COM
pleted
The announcement that Strawberries
and cream are in market sounds like the
music of an iridescent dream to the
boarder who exists upon dried apple
sauce and oleomarearine.
Many "a mans back has been broken
endeavoring to pull the rope in way
to make both ends meet
Poverty is too often the reward Of hon
esty.
The most successful new spaper man Is
always the one who writes Just AS we
think.
There Is always one comfort left for
the small man. IL he has any friends
they may he relied upon as genuine.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01
5lO-512
AVENUE
The Prang Platinettes.

Teachers and superintendents de.
string for class use in picture study.
something that Is substantial and
inexpensive will find these beautiful
new reproductions of great value.
We have 100 different subjects to
select from. The prices are very
reasonable and the assortment is
complete.
The PEN C1rhnmT effer RNnk
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01

Senator Billy Mason seems to he in n
state of uncertainty as to whether
he has the greatest dislike for the Brit
ish nation or the administration at
Washington
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01
Ajacchus' Advice.

Do not resent with idle word the insult
OF a nelshbor. Present his wife with a
ticket To the cooking school =.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01
A General Need.

II n AN ADDRESS before the Meth
odist ministers of Philadelphia,
Il delivered on Monday in behelf Of
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus
The Tribune Astrologer.

Astrolabe Cast. l.i0 a. M, for Thurs
DAY, February /, 1900.
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-01

Put II We are TO gain that prize. 10
we are even to hold our present ascend
ancy, We must fully understand the con-
ditions which confront us. We have
seen that the growth of the United
states I'm manufactures has been pheno-
inenal' that Its Industrial product IL
now equal TO that of the three great
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-03-23
TIME FOR ACTION EXTENDED.
Another chr Allowed for Ratihcn-
tion of British West India
Rccirrocity Treaties.

Washington, March 1s.--Secretary
Hay and Lord Pauneefoie. Friday. at
the state department. signed protocols
extending the time allowed for the rat
ification Of the reciprocity treaties be
twes II the United States and the Brit
ISL West Indian islands of Jamaica.
Turks and Caicos. bermuda. and the
British colony of Guiana. The pro-
tocol provides that the notifications
shall take place N soon as possible or
within II months at the utmost. These
treaties are now pending before the
senate behind the French rcciprocitr
treaty, and the period allowed for
their ratification would expire in the
ordinary course about the end Of the
present month. Bur the extension does
not mean mat the state department
has abandoned the idea OF securing ac'
tivn upon the treaties at the present
of congress-.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-03-23
PUERTO RICAN RELIEF BILL.
Te~t of the Measure M IL Passed IN.
senate Friday-utadtcul Read,
Relief.

Washington. March l7.-The text OF
the Puerto Rican bill passed by the
senate. Friday, is as follows:
BE it enacted. etc. That the sun Of
s@,095.ij5. being the amount OF Gus.
toms cyenue received on imporiaiions
by the United States from Puerto Rico
since the evacuation of Puerto Rico
by the Spanish forces on the 18Th II
October, 1895. to the first of January.
1900. shall be placed AT the disposal
OF the president, to be used for thc
government now existing and which
may hereafter be established IN Puerto
Rico. and for public education. public
works and other governmental and
public purposes therein, and the slid
sum. or 50 much thereof as may b.
necessary. is hereby appropriated for
the purpose herein specified. M of aay
moneys in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-03-23
A STARTLING STATEMENT.
Enormous Dividends Declared b.
the STANDARD Oil co.-A Tax
on Light.

Washington. March l6.-Reprcsenta
tive Fitzgerald. of Massachusetts. to-
cay introduced the following rcsolu-
ton:
Whereas. 1t appears Is a matter OF
public record that The Standard Oil
Go. paid. i'm the city Of New York. on
March Is. i90n. the sum of Sls 600, 1000,
this mount being an extra dividend
in addition TO the regular quarterly
dividend OF $1,000. 900; and.
Whereas. 1t is 4 matter OF public
record hat this last dividend is sj.oO0.-
300 i'm cNccss of the last quarterly divi-
deHl paid by the corporation; and.
W hercas. 1t is also a matter Of pub
lie record that the price OF Kerosene oil,
The sole means of lighting used by the
middle and poorer classes cf people.
during the period of time between the
declaration Of these dividends. was in
creased three cents per gallon. consti.
tufing a tax on every home i'm the
land. there fore, he Il
Resolved. That,i in the opinion of con
rrcss. this action OF the Standard Oil
Co.. Is in direct violation Of the pro,i-
sions Of the sherman antitrust law.
and. therefore, punishable by fine and
imprisonment. and the attorney gener-
al is hereby directed. in accordance
with the provisions OF that act. to di.
rect the several district ATTORNEYS OF
the United States in their respective
districts to institute proper proceed
ings to bring the abc,e-named VIC.
lators OF law 10 Justice
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-03-23

A jury In the supreme court Of New
York returned a verdict. ON II 18th.
practically setting aside the ~willofthc
late Mary johnson. who. the jury de-
clared. had been undnly influenced 10y
a priest and a house seryan To leave
nearly 10000 { the Catholic church
and institutions. The money will now
go 10 the legal heirs.
VIM. Redmond that he
will resign his seat in the Dublin coun-
ell as the result Of the passage OF res
olutions TO present an address of well
come 20 the queen upon the occasion
OF her proposed visit TO that city.
j. sherman PETER. aged 30, son of
w. A. PETER, ex-United states senator
from Kansas. committed suicide by
taking morphine, in a Kansas City
(Mc.) rooming house on the night OF
the 18th. lie left a note saying: "Fa-
Their. / don't like 10 do what | am do
ing. but | am tired"
The annual report of the Canadian
Pacific railway shows gross earnings
for 1899 Of s29.230 .93s.26: working tx.
penscs. SIG. o99. 1875. and net earnings
SD. 23OlG5.4g.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-03-23
NOW GOES TO THE PRESIDENT
rhs Iiouse Porto Ricsn Relief nm ra...A
by the senate by y de-
cistye Vote.

v iington, March i7.--After a ia.
bite. at times spirited, extending Over
PARIS of two DAYS, the senate. FRIDAY
passed the Puerto Rican relief appro.
priation bill. As passed, the measure
carries $2.Oo5, 900. the president bcino
authorized 10 use that sum for pullie
education. public works and other go,.
ernmental and public purposes. in
Puerto Rico.
Mr.. Allen (Neb.) offered an amend.
mcnt TO the bill declaring that The
constitution extends over Puerto Rico
by its own force. but it was lost b, ,he
decisive vote Of SO 10 ~.
MIR. Jones (Ark.) withdrew n free
trade amendment. offered by him. ana
that proposition. therefore, did not
reach a vote. Other efforts to amend
tine bill were fruitless.