The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-02

through my term of office am sure
that when reach the end Of my earth
ly pilgrimage stone can well be laid
over my grave bearing the inscription
Here lies one who has come through
great tribulat tions.'"
He referred to the fact that the rea-
son for poor municipal government
was due largely to the public ignorance
Of economies and proper methods Of
sanitation. He said municipal govern
ment Is one of the greatest moment
to the average citizen and that before
1t state and national questions lose
their Importance. "The only way to
improve municipal government" said
he. "is to base our future actions upon
experience and practical knowledge
of the errors of the past"
Mrs. George Howell then recited
Cambria" in a most clever manner,
after which Miss Thomas and Mrs.
Rundle sang with charming effect
barcarolle by Chamanide.
In introducing w. r. Lewis. who
spoke on welsh Loyalty" the toast
master referred to the fact that above
all other of the Welsh characteristics
loyalty was predominant.
Mr.. Lewis spoke very briefly and
stated that there was no page of his
tory that had upon II the record of a
Welshmen being disloyal to a right
| eous cause. He stated that back of
the beginning of the Christian era,
| when the continental people of Europe
| were plunged into the deepest despair
and the darkest wars. the Welsh peo-
pie had customs and traditions that
| would be a credit to any nation at the
be beginning of the present day. and"
| said he, that spirit of loyalty is still
fresh today in this country"
SPEAKER FARRS REMARKS.
Hon. John r. Farr was the next
speaker, responding to the toast
Every Man n Legislator" In intro
ducing him. Prof. Howell spoke of him
as "a believer in free speech free news
papers and free passes
Mr. Farr dwelt upon the fact that
| the people of this country are the real
| legislators and said that greater in
| terest is now being manifested among
people in the importance of being
American citizens. "The people are be-
ginning to realize" said he, that they
| commands; that they are the masters
and the men they put in Office the SER
wants. Let the thinking men of this
| country never miss the opportunity to
| impress upon the people the RESPONSE
| bility that rests on their shoulders. If
there are bosses in politics. it is be-
| cause of the Indifference of the people
| and If there are factional differences
among the members of a great party,
n in tn 70 fc
| because of the apathy of the people"
After the quartette had rendered
| Banks of Allan Water and There
Was an Old Woman who Lived in a
Shoe in ~ delightful manner, Profess
sor Howell introduced w. Gaylord
| Thomas, who spoke on 1.-The Lights in
| the Court House." Mr.. Thomas made
| only few brief remarks and said
among other things:
"The lawyer Is needed to take care
| of the rest of mankind I say it with
| all earnestness that the lawyers as a
class are equal If not superior to any
| other class of citizens in their efforts
to uphold the rights and liberties of
all the people. at all times, and in all
places. Even-handed in justice Is the
cord that binds all civilized people to-
gether, and l wish that every chili
in this land could be taught to always
revere and honor the temple of justice
and to remember the men who have
built up the system of law now pre-
vailing."
THE LADIES TOASTED.
| Attorney G. F.. Daniels was intro
duccd to toast the ladies'. He said:
! Mr.. Toastmaster. Ladies and Gentle
men: Had Adam died before he lost the
| rib which became woman. the makers of
| banquets would for ages have been in a
sorry plight. The memory of man rum
| meth not back to the time when dining
| halls have not resounded with praises
or tingled with cynicisms for more of
| that one rib than of all that were left.
| Undoubtedly the ladies around this festal
| board tonight will agree that the poet
| Moore had the neuralgia, the gout or the
mitten when he wrote what has been
made the post-prandial text for me:
| my only books
Were woman's looks.
| And folly's what they taught me-"
| Who can define woman The wisdom
of Solomon or the tongue of De-
| mosthenes fails. Says one writer: Some
men are different. All women are alike"
| Says another, more sentimentally IN
| clined: woman Is a delightful musical
| instrument of which love Is the bow and
man the artist" Woman is always most
| charitable to woman, even though 1t has
been written. "Friendship between two
women is nothing but q conspiracy
against u third" They are reticent.
| conservative people, saying little though
they may talk much. They weave no
| tangled webs by learning the art of de-
ception, socially or otherwise They dis
I q, ,lt,,N Il,
| one writer has dared to think that "'rhe
| best way to hatter Il woman Is to speak
| i'll of her rival" They care not for mans
| coInpanionshp, and throw to the winds
| of the four corners of the earth the
soundness of the doctrine that MAR
riagc with women is the true road to
| Paradise"
Why speak harshly or cynically of wo-
| man" Not Il man ever saw the light of
| Gods glorious sun but that his whole
| life was influenced by woman. We open
| our eyes on a horizon limited by II moth
| crs love- We battle through life against
| enemies Whose darts lose their sting
| when our wounds are soothed by wo-
mans carcssing hands. We close our
| eyes in eternity's slumber to the lullaby
of religion taught us at our mother s
| knee. II Is woman whose influence has
made American manhood fearless. 1t is
| the presence Of woman that has gar
| dened the earth as with roses from
| heaven
CLOSING SONG
The quartette then sang with splen-
did effect Pinsuti's Good Night" after
which the delightful evening was closed
with the singing of "Heu Wlad Fly
MADAM" by Philip Warren, the guests
| joining in the chorus.
Present at the banullet We're.