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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01

their minds. First. the plain people
of the United states are against Eng
land; second. the Republican admin
istration has concluded some sort or
alliance or understanding with Great
Britain, more or less secretly and more
or less to l;ngland's advantage; third.
there Is more sympathy In this country
for the Beers than there Is for the
Filplnos, but If we make a red-hot
campaign of anti-inp -rialism. using
England's desire to oppress the Boer
republics as our chief horrible exam
pie, and connect that with the at
tempt Of the United states to subdue
the Tilipinos, perhaps we can stir
up n feeling that will hurt the Repub-
licans next year."
Mr.. Wellman continues: During the
last few days Democratic senator's
have begun to take an interest in Sen.
ator Mason's Boer sympathy resolu-
ton, and Mr. Mason now claims he
has a majority Of the senate for it. He
is quite hopeful of getting vote, ana
points out that IL Is merely senate
resolution. and does not require the
approval of the president, 80 that 1t
could be passed without dragging IN
the administration. II Is also SAID
Senator Burrows, of Michigan, is pre-
pared to make n speech in behalf of
the Mason resolution. Mr.. Burrows
has great many Hollanders among
his constituents. An interesting queS-
ton, viewed from the washington
standpoint. is this: If the Democrats
start playing politics in such way as
| to take advantage of the arti-English
sentiment prevailing among certain
classes of the population, may not the
| administration be forced into some
counter move? And. If so. what form
would it be likely to take? Mediation,
| repudiation of Anglo-SaXon UNDER
| standing, or a strong tail-twistinS
| message over the Alaska boundary
An opinion at this distance as to
what NAV be done by the politicians
at Washington would possess no ralu >
! but if the men at the head of the ad-
ministration keep true to their records
| they will not be DETECTED from the
| pathway of obvious duty by passing
| fluctuations in evanescent public sem
| tirnent Though 1t be true that honest
Americans differ widely in their esti-
mates as to the merits of England j
present controversy with the Trans
vaal, very many of them looking ut
the subject through their sympathiea
for the under dog yet no American
who stops to weigh the matter can
wish to see his government repay Eng
lands kindnesses of two years ago by
a policy of tail-twisting for political
effect. We have no quarrel with Eng
land. We have no interest in the
Beers. The South African war is a
war in which we cannot interfere in
any way without inviting consequences
from every standpoint unwise.
The truth of this is so obvious that
we do not see how much political cap
ital can be made for the Democratic
party by agitating the matter But
if they should try to make an issuo VI
this kind there need be no hesitancy
on the part Of the administration in
accommodating them.
|
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01

" n HIS ARTICLE in last weeks
independent concerning the
Philippine situation President
Schurman said: Il regret that
the Americans allowed the saloon TO
get a foothold on the islands. That
has hurt the Americans more thaa
anything else and the spectacle or
Americans drunk awakens disgust IN
the Filipinos. We suppressed the cock
fight there but left the saloon 10
flourish. one emphasized the Filipino
frailty and the other the American
vice, l have never seen a Filipino
drunkard.'
In George Keenan's article in the
Outlook of Dec. % upon Cuban Char
acter" a similar regret is expressed.
He says he had been in Cuba almost
six months before he saw Cuban
perceptibly under the influence of in
toxicating liquor. almost all Cubans
drink" says he, "but they are the
most temperate people, nevertheless
that have ever known. Even in
hours of triumph and periods of great
emotional excitement, when over-in-
diligence might be expected If not ex-
cused, the Cuban seldom loses his
head to such an extent as to become
noisy, disorderly, or offensive. l wit
messed in Santa Clara, Cienfuegos, ami
Havana three great popular DEM
onstrations in honor of General Gomez,
when there We're reunions of old army
comrades, celebrations of victories won
by Cuban arms, and scenes of almost
unparalleled excitement and passion:
did not notice in the crowded cafes
or in the surging throngs on the
streets single intoxicated Cuban
soldier or civilian. About the middle
of last January the people of Ma
tanzas had triumphal celebration,
from Spanish rule. Nearly a thousand
Cuban soldiers came into the city from
neighboring camps; five hundred negro
men and women formed in a solid
column at night, and danced half a
mile down one of the principal streets,
u tllc Accompaniment I'll ue II iDuS
shouts and cries and the frenzied beat
ing of tom-toms and drums; and the
whole city went literally wild with
patriotic enthusiasm and excitement
Although the cafes and drinking -sa :
looms were all open, as usual, the Gu
ban population remained perfectly
sober and General Sanger, who was
then governor of the city, told me
that, so far as he could remember
there was not single arrest for
| drunkenness or disorder in the whole
tour days. Is there city or town
| in the United States OF which as muc,,
| could be said at the end Of an annual
| Fcuith of July celebration of Amerl-
| can independence? Drunken Ameri.
| can soldiers l have seen in Cuba, b,
the score II not by the hundred, but
all the drunken Cuban soldiers I have
ever seen might be counted on my
thumbs"
Mr.. Keenan, continues: "in man,
parts Of the island, and at many
different times. my national and
racial pride was deeply wounded, no,
to say tumbled, by the xlar.rs con,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01

trast between American intemperance
and Cuban sobriety. In Baracoa one
afternoon / happened to see three or
four drunken American soldiers stag
gering down the street toward the
postoifice, under the eyes of a dozen
or more sober and observing Cubans.
In the faces of the latter was a half
plying, half-contcmptuous express on
which seemed to say, How Is 1t pos
sible for human being to make such
beasts of themselves?' There was Jus
tification enough, perhaps, for the eX-
preston, but It irritated me neverthe-
less. In courage. In honesty, In capa-
city. and in all that goes to make true
manhood, those American soldiers were
immeasurably superior to the Cubans
who stood, clear.eyed and sober, on
the sidewalks and looked after them
with disgust and contempt. had no
doubt whatever that three -fourths Of
those very Cubans would lie without
scruple, steal If they had a good oppor-
tunity, and go contentedly for three
months at a time without u bath; but
drunkenness did not happen to be their
vice"
We are accustomed to eXult some
what patronizlngly at the instruction
which awaits the inhabitants of the
new dependencies as a result of AM
erican Intervention and sovereignty.
May it not be possible that this edu Z.
cation will in some degree he re.
| ciprocal?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01
Origin of Expressions:

1t was the man " no fell on a buzz saw
who was "much cut up"
"Silence is golden" is the remark made
by man who attempted to suppress an
item in sensational paper.
1.-The race is not always for the slow
may have resulted from meditations of
the anti-nachine politicians.
Much in little' evidently originated at
the business end of Il wasp.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01

Some comment has been occasioned
by the fact that in the makeup Of the
senate committees Senator Beveridge,
of Indiana, was put on the philippines
committee, the most important assign
ment which n new senator ever re-
ceived. Maybe Beveridge will show
that he is worthy of it.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01

Cuba's future depends wholly upon
the education of the natives. and the
sooner a general system of free public
instruction is inaugurated throughout
the island the better it will be for all
concerned.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01

We quite agree with the Olyphant
Gazette that every man who wishes to
be well-informed on current affairs
should serve as a juryman. 1t is an
invaluable education.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01

1t is announced that every nation in
Europe excepting one has put in writ
ing its verbal assurances to the United
States of an "open door" in China.
The exception is Russia. whose off,
cals are thinking the matter over"
1t will not look we'll for Russia to be
the dog in the Oriental manger.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01

The Philadelphia Inquirer objects
to the curfew law because at Is the
duty of parents to look after the moral
welfare of their children a statement
none will dispute. But what is to be
done when parents will not perform
their duty,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01

President SchurmaE's opinion that
where the dag has been raised in the
performance of duty, as in the Philip
pines, it must not be hauled down
should earn for him the everlasting
contempt of every copperhcad in ths
land.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01

Kentucky school teacher who had for endured
Per' ma,tyIdon from headache and dyspepsia writes letter from Louisville
chant there who has also suffered much from and headache
found my headache LETT then sent to New York to the
Ses % but but after son some months and after INDUCING mpudent eating
Finding great relief from this 60. another which certainly
them but am mt eating find nothing
myself Of
gentleman from whom bought the first Tabu
sick headache than other remedy Like
nfalibl dyspepsia" ~ ~' ~
s nS: 10
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01
No More Tail Twisting.
BORROWING of

q BORROWING Of trouble is
~ indulged in by Walter Well
4 n man, Washington cores
pondent of the Chicago
Times-Herald. He is convinced that
the Democratic politicians OF the ma
tional capital are preparing to take
advantage of the British reverses in
South Africa to stir up in the United
States an anti-British sentiment which
they hope to utilize for partisan pur-
poses. What a war IN South Africa
has to do with politics in the United
States m:y," says he. "be somewhat
OF a puzzle to the average man in the
street, but here is the argument as the
Democratic leaders have It outlined In
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune Astrologer.
Astrolabe Cast: 12.0l a. m.. for Mon
January ], 1900.

a child born on this day will wish its
friends of the nineteenth or twentieth
century a Happy New Year.
Poetry and pancakes are to certain
extent in the same class. They are apt
to produce like effects on the liver If in
dulged in to excess.
The new year cannot be accused Of
ringing i'm the January thaw.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01

Secretary Gage will resign simultan-
eously with Billy Mason.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01
Our Lesson.

- n HIS ARTICLE in last weeks
Independent concerning the
Philippine situation President
Scburman said: Il regret tnul
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01
The New Year.

~ ONDIT1ONS are all propitious
for a happy New Year. There
~ has never been Il more sat
isfactory state of business.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-21
A Minister'S Good Work.

81 had sever attack of bilious collie,
got bottle of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, took
two doses and was entirely cured" says
Rev. A. a. Power, of Emporia Kan.
''My neighbor across the street was sick
for over a week, had two or three bot
ties of medicine from the doctor. He
used them for three or four days with
out relief, then called in another doctor
who treated him for some days and gave
him no relief, so discharged him. !
went over to see him the next morning.
He said his bowels were in a terrible
fix, that they had been running off so
long that it was almost bloody fux.
asked him if he had tried Chamberlain 8
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
and he said, NO. / went home and
brought him my bottle and gave him
one dose; told him to take another dose
in fifteen or twenty minutes If he did
not find relief, but he took no more and
was entirely cured. For sale by bod
sons Pharmacy and j. r. Hudson.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-21
FIENDISH CRIME OF
A MINNESOTA FARMER
He Murders His Wife and
Two Step Children.
BOY FATALLY WOUNDED

After Doing This Bloody Work He Set
the Premises ON Fire-StabIe De-
stroyed and Nine Horses Cremated.
Other Killings and Accidents.
ARLINGTON, Mimi, Aug. 20. - Last
night between 10 and II o'clock Theo-
dore Wallert, farmer living miles
from town, killed his wife and two Of
his step children, girl of 16 and baby,
and seriously wounded his 19-year-o old
stepson. He then set fire to his barns,
destroying the stable with nine horses,
a corn crib and full hay barn.
Three years ago Wallert married the
widow Starbbors and for some little
time they have been having trouble.
The wife had recently been trying to
secure a divorce and had taken means
to prevent Wallert from coming to the
farm. Yesterday morning after prao-
ticing in the woods with revolver he
returned to the house and entered by one
of the windows. His wife was evidently
alarmed by the noise and she was killed
as she was leaving the bed. The baby
was found dead on the lounge, and the
girl on the floor of her bedroom. A
second boy was seriously wounded and
has been brought to town. 1t is feared
he NAV die.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-21
JUST A FEW WORDS
OF THOSE YOU KNOW.
People Who Came and Went Away
Yesterday.
PERSONAL ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Americas People Who Have Gone
Away and Some of Those Who
Abide Here for Time.-Is Your
Name Written There?

Harris Lithia Water In bottles and
on draught, at Hudson's Drugstore.
z. FL. Harris, of Fitzgerald, was g
visitor here yesterday and registered
at the Allen House.
Capt. E. Simpkins came up from Al
bany yesterday to feel the pulse of the
local cotton market.
Mr.. q. @. Abraham, of Savannah, is
in Americas and will remain here
through the cotton season.
Mr.. w. G. Hampton, of Macon, was
in Americas yesterday, coming down
upon short business trip.
Misses Kate and Annie Poole havegone
to Mattox to spend week at the coun-
try home of Mr.. George Poole,
Mr.. and Mrs. e. j. Stokes came over
from CordeIe yesterday to spend sew
eral days with Americas relatives.
Mr.. Rowe Price. of Atlanta, spent
yesterday in Americus, where he is
we'll known and has many friends,
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Zimmerman,
who spent the summer season in Ger
many, will return to Americas today.
Miss Kate Roebuck left yesterday for
New York, where she goes to purchase
her fall stock of millinery and fancy
goods.
Messrs. W. G. and t. r. Lane, o.
W. Holmes and J. A. Lambdin, of Ma
con, were the guests of Mr. J. w. Stall
lings' family on Sunday last.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-21
TALES Of THE TOWN
TOLD IN FEW LINES.
Short Items of Local News Boiled
Down
FOR CONVENIENCE OF READERS
Some of the Stories Heard Yesterday
and Briefly Retold. What Was
Said and Done in the Town in a
Day.

The next excursion out of Americas
will be a dollar and half trip tt
Montgomery, and everybody who has
the requisite $3.50 will go.
A few of the scores of Americas peo-
pie who hunted comfort elsewhere this
summer are returning here to enjoy
''aIl the comforts of home"
Only ten days remain wherein you
can make tax returns of your city prop
erty and escape double tax. The books
will be closed August 31st.
The peach season has practically
ended. A few hard and knotty ones
are brought to market but there will
be no more very good ones.
People with little to do might con.
sumo some of their spare time by work
ing on the conundrum, why one sum
mer day is warmer than another.
Messrs. Thornton and Crawford
Wheatley are still in New York, and
may remain there until the weather
cools bit before returning here.
After spending several months at his
old home in Germany, Mr.. Wilhelm
Scherer has returned to Americus to
remain through the cotton season.
Two white scrappers contributed
eight dollars to the city in police court
yesterday, while thirty negro tax de-
linquents came up with a dollar each.
The old city clock froze up last win
ter and probably melted yesterday, as
as it stopped Sunday night and waited
for the breezes that came with the
morning.
If the young man of this day and
time expects to become rich by dab
bling in politics, he is striving IN the
wrong direction. A few, very few,
become rich.
Our people take to trading naturally.
Along the manufacturing line they
need a gentle shove, such as would be
afforded by dash of manual training
in our public schools.
A plate glass, costing perhaps hun
dred dollars, was put in ashow window
at Sullivan's iewelry store yesterday
to replace one smashed by a ten cent
guttersnipe with stone,
Judge Speer was thrown into a de-
lirium of ecstacy yesterday by an APP
plication for a marriage license. Tt
certainly requires fortitude to make
any such investment now.
There was considerable discussion
yesterday as to whether Sunday or
Monday was hottest. It strikes Us
that a man hunting hot day would be
we'll satisfied with either.
Young squirrels are large enough to
shoot, and are plentiful in the swamps
below the city. Sportsmen who can
dodge rattlesnakes and moccasins are
killing the young nut crackers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-21
BLOOD POISON CURED BY B. B. B
Bottle Free to Sufferers

Deep-seated, obstinate cases, the
kind that have resisted doctors, hot
springs and patent medicine treatment,
quickly yield to B, B, B. Botanic
Blood Balm), thoroughly tested for 30
years. Have you mucous patches in
the mouth Sore Throat Eruptions?
Eating Sores ? Bone Pains? Itching
Skin? Swollen Glands? Stiff Joints?
Copper Colored Spots? Chancres?
liberation on the bodyP Hair and
eyebrows fall out? Is the skin mass
of boils, pimples and ulcers? Then this
wonderful B. B. B. specific will COM
pletelY change the whole body into a
clean, perfect condition, free from
eruptions, and skin smooth with the
the glow of perfect health. B. B. B..
drains the poison out of the system so
the symptoms cannot return. At the
same time B. B. B. builds up the
broken down constitution and improves
the digestion. So sufferers may test
B. B. B. trial bottle will be. given
away free of charge.
B. B. B. for sale by druggists at 81
per large bottle, or large bottles full
treatment) So. Complete directions
with each bottle. For trial bottle, ad.
dress BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta,
GA. Describe trouble and Free medi
cal advice given.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-21
COUNCIL SOLVES THE PROBLEM
And Complaint as to Ditch is Ordered
Abated.

After weeks spent in earnest discus
sion, relative to the open ditch on
Jackson street, which has been de-
clared nuisance, the city council last
night settled the matter in two minutes.
This was-by the adoption of a reso-
luton requiring the city marshal to
cut down all undergroth above the
ditch, fill up holes in the bottom where
water collected, remove any other OBJ
jectionable objects, and charge up the
bill of expenses possibly $5-to peo-
pie owning property alongside.
1t was just as easy, and all probably
wondered why this happy idea had
not suggested itself before.
After due felicitation upon the final
disposition of the momentous ditch
problem, the solons scared higher,
even to the top of the water tower,
which they decided needed repalnting.
A winter coat of bright Geronimo red
will take the place of the Aguinaldo
brown which now ornaments the
IRON tower.
Then council proceeded to get after
the Muckalee gondoliers.
These are boatmen who anchored
their swift gliding feluccas beneath the
long bridge near Magnolia dell while
angling for mudcats and pollywogs.
It was argued that the moving boats
greatly disturbed the serenity of the
rural mule driven that way, and that
serious runaway accidents had narrow
Iy been ayerted. Rear Admiral Bill
Feagln will dispose of the gondoliers or
scuttle the piraticaI craft if necessary.
Furlow & Jones were authorized to
post show pictures under license of
Charles Lingo, duly transferred to
them.
Mayor Hixon wanted some positive
assurance given the public that creek
water was not pumped into the mains,
and providing a penalty in the event
it ever should be done. Supt. Ansley
declared that not in four years had
there been any than pure spring water
and artesian water consumed.
Loungers who hang about fire head
quarters will be duly looked after,
Chief Smith having filed complaint
against them.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-21
EXPECT TRAIN HERE SHORTLY
Many Looking for Its Coming With
Much Interest.


The coming of the paytrain of the
Seaboard is subject of great deal of
interest to several hundred people in
Americas, and especially to the hun
dreds of employees of the company here.
It was stated, unoficially, however,
that the pay train for this division was
in Jacksonville yesterday, in which
event it should arrive here within two
or three days or certainly during the
week. Before the consolidation the
18th of each month was payday, but the
date has been changed and as this is
the first time for paying off, under the
new regime, employees do not know just
exactly when the ghost will walk.
Something like $25, 900 or $50, 1000 will
be paid out in Americas, hence the
great interest felt not only among en-
ployes of the company but among mer,
chants and those in other lines of bust
ness as we'll. The railroad shops, with
the several hundred employees there, is
certainly an institution of the town.