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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29
In Moman's Realm

The Gibson pictures at the Country club the
other night caused so much enthusiasm that It
has tecn the universal opinion of those who
elongated their necks on that occasion, until
their collars are hopeless mistit or who
promptly stood up in the assemblage whenever
a t9bleaux was presented that they should be
repeated The number of people who could be
crowded into the somewhat narrow space OF the
Country club was pcrforce limited. The num-
Der of those no would like to sec them is rath'
er unlimited, hence it is proposed to give a
repetition Of the entertainment one week from
Thursday night, when larger accommodations
will be provided and when it will be arranged
as benefit Of the Free kindergarten asso.
citation.
The musical programme alone is well worth
a second hearing Mrs. Brady's beautiful so.
prano was never heard to better advantage and
Miss Spencer is also sure to delight an audi
cnce whenever she will consent to sing. The
same is true Of Mr.. Williams.
little embarrassment is caused by the alb
sencc Of Miss Barker, who as one of the Misses
Pip made such sensation with her beauty.
her artistic poses and her magnificent gowns.
Miss Barker has unfortunately been obliged to
return TO Chicago and has taken her gowns
along. The embarrassment is not, however, from
a lack OF pretty girls or gowns, but from the
presence of many "Ghsory" girls IN this
city, any one Of whom would do. For instance
tHVlc dlC-buI mere Is lllc place 10 pause, as
The Tribune is not looking for trouble.
The Young Women's Christian association will
have debate on Thursday night when the mo-
mentous question will he forever settled OF
Resolved, That the entrance of young women
into business should be discouraged" The de-
baters will he Miss Josephine Lees Miss Lena
Clark Miss Swingle and Miss Louise Barnes.
Mrs lleinz-Rundlc will sing. Everybody who
wants to know what opinion should be enter
tanned on this subject is invited to be present.
The ladies OF Elm Park church will have a
rousng old fashioned strawberry festival Friday
night in The social rooms. Anybody who misses
1t will he sorry. 1t viii he a good occasion on
which to congratulate tho church people on the
privilege OF retaining Dr. Ghin as pastor
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y
position which has devel-
n oped in congress to the bill
appropriating 100000 to the
Philadelphia Commercial museum has
been explained. The commercial agen-
cies are fighting the bill under the
impression that enlargement of the
museums scope would threaten one
source Of their revenues.
Tie museum under municipal and
state support organized for the par
ticular purpose OF making the COM
mercial interests of the United States
acquainted with the market conditions
and requirements in foreign countries.
It sends agents into foreign countries
to study market needs and to equip
it with specimens and samples of arti-
cles in demand. 1t collected valuable
Information bearing on the growth OF
the American export trade and distrib-
uted this information in most instances
without charge, but latterly it made
charge for special inquiries affect
ing a particular Industry or firm. This
charge was nominal and was designed
simply to reimburse the museum for
actual expenditure, but it displeased
the commercial agencies and they are
now seeking revenge.
Under the conditions of the bill ap-
propriating 100000 out of the national
treasury for the enlargement of the
museum, it's collections of data regard
ing trade opportunities and phenomena
are to be distributed free to boards
Of trade and other public organizations
throughout the country. This does not
mean that the museum is to become
an international detectOr and free dis
tributor of business ratings, but that
il is to give away information cal
culated to upbuid the trade between
American manufacturers or exporters
and foreign importers. This in it's
turn would soon enlarge the field pecu-
liar 70 the mercantile agencies, but
they seem to think otherwise and have
instructed their agents throughout the
country to bring influence to bear upon
congress to upset the museum appro-
rration.
Their action appears uncalled for
and it is to be hoped that it will not
succeed.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29
Amusements and rIorals.

o FAR AS Methodism goes, the
N action of its general confer
w. ence respecting matters of
church discipline, especially
the attitude of the church on the SUBJ
ject of worldly pleasures, has the force
of binding law until subsequently modi-
fled by the same high ecclesiastical tri.
bunal. Those not connected with
Methodism have no right to advise in
the premises and those identified with
that denomination are in the right in
yielding cordial assent to the supreme
authority in their church, so long as
they prolong their allegiance to it.
But with regard to the general sub
jeet of amusements and morals it IS
pertinent to say that as customs
change So must there be a reasonable
flexibility of discipline, which takes into
account that not all persons are cast
in one mold and that if they were this
would be a very dull world. There is
implanted in each Individual a con-
science and it Is the mission of the
church to cultivate that conscience in
the light Of divine precept and ex-
ample, to the end that each individual
may be lifted out of selflshness and
brought to view, from an elevated
standpoint hisD relations. not only to-
ward his Creator but also with his
fellow-men. 90 2. -
Increasingly the modern church en-
phasizes principles and leaves TO indl.
vidpal conscience decision as to details.
w ere the individual conscience is un-
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developed and immature, this may be
attended with peril, but parents, teach
ers and pastors are near to exercise
counsel and offer wholesome advice;
an ecclesiastical conference, presby-
terry, synod, or convention can hardly
possess the accurate knowledge of par
ticular circumstances to lay down rigid
rules going into the whole range of de-
tails. Outside of the Decalogue the
Bible deals but little in Thou shalt
nots." In the New Testament es-
pecially it seeks to instil such spiritual
graces as will constitute the genuine
Christian a tolerably safe person to
fairs.
The moral law of temperance is a
good law to keep in view when con-
sidering the problem of what are ordi-
rarily regarded as innocent amuse-
ments. There is no sin in a novel, play
or playing card per SCI the whole ques-
tion of sin or sinlessness depends upon
the circumstances, and these are best
determined after thev have received
mature and intelligent consideration.
From the philosophical standpoint the
church which shades its discipline on
the side of strictness and austerity is
probably a valuable offset to the
abounding influences which operate
toward laxity; it must govern it's own
discipline, however, toward the best
results and tbic Drinciplp in dup time
viii cause a wise .djustment.
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III
three ways in which coun-
ellis can order assessments
for sewer purposes-by the
foot frontage, by benefits appraised
and by equal assessment on the basis
of the valuationsof real estate as as
sessed for city purposes.
TIE latter method is the one adopted
in the construction OF the Schultz
court system in the Seventeenth ward.
Last year viewers Were appointed and
a schedule of approximate assess
ments on the benefit basis was made
out, but two successive advertisements
for bids failed to bring a bid within
the sum estimated by the city engi-
neer as a reasonable cost for the sewer
system in question. This year, to eX-
pedite matters in view of the urgent
need of sewers in the affected locality
councils chose the third method with
in its option, that of an equal assess
ment on the basis of valuation of real
estate as assessed for city purposes
thus doing away with the delay and
cost incident to the appointment of
viewers. This is the first time that
this method of making sewer assess
ments has been tried in, Scranton,
and some of the results are interest
ing.
In one block On Wheeler avenue
several inside lots 40 by $50 are assess
ed for sewers on a valuation of $500;
another lot, the same in size and gem
eral location, is assessed on a valua-
tOn of S400 and a corner lot, 55 by $50,
is assessed on a valuation of $S75, while
another corner lot, of equal size, is
assessed on a valuation of $500. This
makes a variation in the cost of
sewers to property-owners of in the
neighborhood of $50 for 40-foot lots
lying side by side and of more than
SIS for corner lots of equal size To-
Gated in the same block. 1t is proper
to say that under the ordinance the
city engineer had no power to equalize
these inequalities; they trace back to
uncorrected inequalities in the regular
city assessment.
Where there is approximate fairness
IN the assessment of unimproved real
estate for city purposes the method of
assessing for sewers on the basis of
the city assessment is equitable, econ
omical and expeditions. 1t does away
with the costly and tedious machinery
of viewers, whose appraisal of bene-
fits is not always impartial, and it
provides fair means of discriminate
ing between inside and corner lots,
matter in which the foot frontage
plan gives rise to great dissatisfaction.
But where the general assessment is
characterized by such discrepancies as
those noted above, the basing of sewer
assessments upon it simply increases
the unequal burden of the average
property-holder as compared with the
property-holder whose assessment is
below normal.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29
Why Not Get Together ?

~ OLONEL SCHOONMAKER is
correct in the assertion that
~ it was the Elmhurst boulc-
ward which drew general at
tenton TO the natural beauties of the
territory surrounding Nay Aug falls
and thus made possible Nay Aug park.
He is also correct in saying that the
promoters of the boulevard We're ac-
tuated by public spirit in opening this
fine driveway and that practically
every penny of profit derived from the
collection of toll is expended on inn
provements Of the roadway. or, in
other words, contributed back to the
public.
The Tribune docs not believe and
has not said that the boulevard COM
pany was actuated by an unworthy
motive in maintaining a toll gate in
the park. We are confident that the
gentlemen interested in the boulevard
are equally interested in the park and
can appreciate the fact that a toll
gate in a city park is neither an orna-
ment nor a public joy. This being
true, what is to prevent the company
officials and the city authorities from
getting together and agreeing upon
some fair plan for the removal of that
toll gate? 1t ought to be done and
we imagine that it can be done by
the exercise of a little diplomacy.
The city is proud of both boulevard
and park and it wants the two to
harmonize. At the same time, the
toll gate in the park is an eye-sore.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29
Cigarettes, War and Women.

" L IS ALLEGED by the promoters
of the anti-cigarette league that
"a the Spanish-American war is re-
sponsible for a noticeable in
crease in the habit of cigarette smok-
ing. The soldiers borrowed the habit
from the Cubans, Porto Ricans or Fill
pinos and brought it home with them,
where the American small boy, quick
to initiate, seized upon It as the proper
tribute to pay to martial prowess. De-
scriptive and pictorial war literature.
with its continued exposition of the
fondness of our new wards for the mar
cotic weed, is also credited with hav-
ing contributed to the revival; and TO
make the case yet worse, it is affirmed
that in the public schools of a number
OF our larger cities the young girls
have begun to smoke cigarettes on the
sly
For the truthfulness of this we can
not vouch. 1t is, however set forth in
some detail in recent publication in
spired by the opponents of the cigar
cite, together with abundant and con-
Vlncing testimony from medical experts
concerning the greater injuriousness of
the habit upon the delicate nervous Or
ganization of the feminine sex of tender
years than upon that of boys, which
heaven knows, is bad enough. 1t Is
true that in certain European countries
cigarette smoking is in fashionable
vogue among respectable women, but
! they do not practice the "accomplish-
| ment" until grown and then observe
| moderation, so that the physical in
| jury, if any, is slight In tobacco
growing countries women frequently
smoke, but they have the good jut,g-
ment to prefer the natural leaf loosely
| rolled into a cheroot or unadulterated
| cigar to that deadly concoction of vile
| smells and poisons, the paper-covered
| cigarette.
Lovers Of the American woman-and
| they are many-are not eager, how
! ever, to have her ape the customs of
| foreign lands in this respect at least.
and they sincerely hope that the spread
of the cigarette habit among school
| girls may be speedily and effectually
arrested, The kind of American woman
who habitually smokes cigarettes is a
kind more to be pitied than initiated.
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other temperance organizations. The committee
expresses no opinion whatever upon the merits
Of the measure or the necessity or propriety OF
such legislation II has reported the bill to OBJ
tain relief from the extpordinary pressure that
has been brought by the religious and temper
ance communities and has placed 1t on the cal
endar where it will remain without further ac'
tion. A minority of the committee has made q
strong report in support Of the usefulness Of the
canteen in promoting morals and discipline in
the army and will resist all attempts to pass
the bill. There is no political division in either
house of congress on this question. Both parties
are trying to avoid the legislation without Of
Tending the Temperance people.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29
Legislativ

The proposition has been made to
have Judge Taylor run again for gov
ernor of Kentucky while a refugee in
Indiana. The idea is of doubtful value.
The man who undertakes to lead the
Republican cause in the Blue Grass
state should march in person at the
head of the procession and face the
enemy on every battlefield.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29
GONE UP IN SMOKE.
rom the PHILADELPHIA Press.

From the PhlIadoIphla Press,
The great fire loss is one of the most marked
features of the present year, and following the
large losses from the same cause in the year 1890,
it has awakened profound public concern. Last
year Sl53 3597, $50 worth of property was burned
up in this country and Canada, loss greater by
S23 900 900 than in 1S9S and greater by 7 900 600
than in 1897. The fire loss for the first four
months of the present year foots up S662jS, 500,
more than two.ffths Of the total last year.
Should the eight remaining months of this year
show proportional loss the total loss for 1900
will approach S2000OO,O0O.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29
A TALE OF "WHoA."
(MORNiNG).


Goodbye, old horse, Wen turn you out
TO roam DER hill and plain;
We've bought a horseless carriage and
Wen never need you again,
With naphtha, oil or gasoline
Wen ride from morn till dark,
And on Sunday afternoon
Go putting through the park.
You're hardly worth a piece of piel
Goodbye, old horse, goodbye!
(EYENING).
Come here, old horse, we need your pull
To get us home tonight;
This nasty, sinking, putting thing
Is not periected-qute.
Ten miles from home it fused and fumed
And then refused to go;
And minus both a push and pull
II was a case Of whoal
II you'll return, so will our Joy,
Good boy, old horse, good boy,
-Trotter and PAGER
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allowed to be sent from the front ex-
cept in the form of official dispatches,
and the apparent impossibility of any
one correspondent grasping the situa-
tion in broad outline, it may well be
asked If. from newspaper standpoint,
the game has been worth the candle.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29

The South African war has been a
severe one for the war correspondents.
Twenty-Five have been killed, wounded
or otherwise incapacitated, the latest
to quit bing that prince of descriptive
writers, Julian Ralph. Ralph is pretty
well shot to pieces and may lose a leg.
Considering how little news has been
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29

EQUALIZATION of assessments would
make a winning battle cry in a mu-
nicipal campaign in this city if pro-
posed by men in whom the people
have confidence.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29
NOTHING POLITICAL.


There is nothing political in the movement
against certain Scranton officials accused Of bri
berry. Ii is merely a wholesome objection to hav-
ing those who are elected to serve the public
sell out the public interests as if they were so
much personal property,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29

Nothing in the cheap butter line
seems to have been labeled oleo in
Scranton as yet.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29

The scientific men made correct cal
culation of almost everything con-
nected with the eclipse in this section
save the weather.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29

The general passenger agent and
summer clearinghouse keeper have
donned their working clothes.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29

1t is reported that the Boer ENJOYS
have been advised by the Dutch minis
ter at Washington to waste no time
in miscellaneous missionary work in
the United States, but to take the first
boat to Southampton and open nego-
tlatlons with the British ministry di-
rectly. The report may or may not be
true, but the advice is undoubtedly
sound.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29

The Chinese boxers are in fair way
to furnish work for the war corre-
spondents when trouble in the Trans
vaal has been settled.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29
FOR VlCE-PRESIDENT,
CHARLES EMORY SMITH,
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
State.

.. oJdLe.
Congressmen. at Large GhLuSHA A. GROW
ROBERT II. FOERDEEER.
Auditor General-E. b. HARDENBERGH.
Legislative.
First District-THOnAS J. REYNOLDS.
Second Dstrict--JOTtN SCIlFUER, JR.
Third District-EDWARD JAMES, JR.
Fourth District--P. A. PIllLBIN.
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THE ANTI-CANTEEN BILL.
Z. Curtis in Chicago Record.

The house committee on military affairs does
not indorsc or commend or even recommend the
passage of the anti.canteen bill which has been
so earnestly pressed by the W. G. T. L. and
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29

Investigation has entirely justified
General Funston in the act of ordering
the execution of two Filipino murder
ers recently, Investigation takes the
starch out of nearly every anti-expan-
sion yarn calculated to bring the
American soldier in the Philippines into
disrepute,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29

President Kruger might have saved
money by having suggested a war bal
lot earlier in the game.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29

Particular interest centers around
our 500 Three Piece Bedroom Suites.
And it is not difficult to decide why.
There is something about each piece
better acquaintance. Then construc-
parsons made. The decision generally
than anything ever offered at the Price.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29

A young lady of my acquaintance in St. Louis was
for a long time a chronic sufferer from dyspepsia She
where the family traded but time when the supply
was exhausted and she absent from home and had
copy of the prescription with her she loss
to know what do and recommended her make
trial of Ripans Tabues. She purchased some and so
greatly benefited by their that she has been regular
and walking advertisement for them since
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29
EVERETT'S

Horses and carriages are su-
pefior to those Of any other
livery in the city.
If you should desire to go
for a drive during this delight
tul period Of weather, call tele-
phone 794, and Everett will
send you a firSt-clas outfit
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29
The Assessment Problem.

NDER THE LAW there are
three ways in which coun-
ellis can order assessments
for sewer purpOses-by the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29
A rIistaken Attack .

SECRET of the fierce OPP
position which has devel-
n oped in congress to the bill
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-05-16
GaCeta de hoy.
CIRCULAR No 3

A LOS CONTRIBUYEN DELLA ISLA.
Como adicion & la Circular pu-
blicada por esta Tesorer1a con fecha
10 del mes Ell curse; Sc hace saber:
a todos los contribuyentes que 81.
guen obligados a presentar declara
clones juradas de sus respectivas
fncas con expression exacta de las
rentas de las Urbanas, y clasifica
ci0n extension de terrenos de las
Agr1colas; siendo, ademas, respon-
sables, en- primer termino ante los
Ayuntamientos y comisiones clasifi
cadoras, y en- segundo lugar, ante
este Centric, de las ocultaciones que
Sc observer.
Esta Tesoreria esta dispuesta a
aplicar severamente la ley, a quien
quiera que trate de vulnerarla
San Juan de Pto-Rico, Mayo II
de 1900.
j. II Holla1ade1', Treasurer.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-05-16
OCan a nluert0.
Primera."'oampaha
del Tesorero Mr.I Ho|Iander.

Compaginandose aver nuestro
diario lego a,nuestra noticia, un he
cho realizado por ell Honorable Te-
sorero Mr.. Hollander.
En- un suelto de aquella edici6n
va habfamos expuesto nuestro critic
rio sobre ell sistema de eliminar a
los nativos de los puestos pdblicos;
y ell hecho de que vamos a ocuparnos
justifca palmariamenteq que ten1amOs
raz6n.
La Tesoreria, en- tiempos del
Gobierno militar, tenia solamente
dos empleados, que eran los suticienT
tes para ell despacho corriente de
registrar los ingresos y los gastos.
Establecido ell Gobierno civil, Sc am
pliaron las funciones del Tesorero
con la Secci6n de Rentas Internas y
Hacienda Municipal; y con este mo
two pasaron a Tesorer1a los anti
guos empleados puertorriquef1os que
estaban encargados de esos asuntos
en- la suprimida Secretar1a Civil
Pues bien; en- lugar de continuar
las cosas por su curse natural, este
es, entendiendo esos Antiques en-
pleados en- ell despacho de los asun
tos que va conocian y cuya legisla
ci6n continda VICENTE, Mr.. Hollan
der, al organizar su ofcina, <meteS
en- ella seis i ocho continentales,
que NADIA saben de nuestras leyes
rentisticas, y deja cesantes, 8 echa a
la calle que es 10 mismo, a seis natl
vos de los que ven1an entendiendo
en- ell despacho de las cuestiones de
Rentas Internas, cuya legislation no
ha tenido alteration alguna, como
decimOs antes.
Los funcionarios que han que
dado fuera del servicio son los Sres,
Elzaburu, Diaz, Power, Gorbea, Mar
cano y Escalona.
ST asf es como empieza 81 Sr
Hollander, no es difcil calcular, co
mo habra de seguir y como habra de
acabar; y bueno fuera que ell Gober
nador Civil, tome nota de esta ori
ginal mane1a de dar comienzo a una
administration que priva de recta
justiciera en- todas parties, menos en-
Puerto Rico.