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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-17

Particular interest centers around
our $40 Three-Piece Bedroom Suites.
And it is not difficult to decide why.
There is something about each piece
which catches the eye and invites a
better acquaintance. Then construc-
ton and finish are observed and COM
parisons made. The decision generally
is-that these are better in every way
than anything ever offered at the price.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-17

Secretary Root favors giving to the
commanding general or the army the
rank and pay of lieutenant general.
Would it not also be we'll to give him
something to do?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-17
Legislative

First District--THONAS J. REYNOLDS.
Second District JOHN SCIIFTER, JR.
Third District-EDWARD JAMES, JR.
Fourth District-P A. PlIlLBlN.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-17
For VlCE-PRESIDENT,
CHARLES EMORY SMITH,
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
State.

Congrcssmcn.at-I Large GhlISllA A. GROW
ROBERT IT, FOERnELER
Auditor Gcneral-E. j.. HARDENBERGlL
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-17
Common Sense About the Beers.

q SIDE FROM any question Of
~ the merits of their cOntrt--
Il n Nersy with Great Britain,
the BOcr enVOyS now in this
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-17
The Clark Case

\ n INTERESTING question is
v raised as to the right of the
"a acting governor of Montana
to appoint William A. Clark
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-17
A Test of Character.

HERE HAVE been men in
high office who, if a scan
II dal had arisen in their de-
ha rnpnntl "
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-13

PRESSING THE ANALoGY.-A clever
clerk or waitress is often of great help
to an establishment.
A middle aged woman entered
Boston restaurant the other day, and
taking a seat at the counter, carefully
scrutiDized the bill of fare. She con
cluded to try an order of ice-cream
pudding, at five cents a plate. After
it had been served, she looked it over
carefully, and calling the waitress back
said:
"Do you call this ice-cream pud'
ding?"
"Yessum, and it's very nice, too"
"But where is the ice cream?"
"Oh, that's only the name glver
that peculiar make of pudding. We
are making specially of it. I'm
sure you will like it when you taste
it,"
sit seems to me that you ought tt
give ice-cream with it, as long as you
saw it is ice cream pudding"
1--WE don't give cottages with cottage
pudding" quickly replied the witty
waitress.
The retort threw the middle.agec
woman into a convulsion of laughter
and she ordered second plate.-Trut
Flag.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-13

IT CAN'T BE DONE NOw.-"An in
crease of salary !" exclaimed the pom
pous manager of a small omnibus com
pany to a clerk who had just made
that request. ~ am afraid sir, thai
you are too extravaganza"
He toyed with his heavy watch chair
and looked severely at the young man
who returned his stare boldly. 1t was
the set phrase on such occasions, ano
the applicant had heard it all before
He meant to have that raise or-go
somewhere else.
"Excuse me, sir" he replied respect
fully, II haven't any chance to be ex
travagant on what I earn"
"Young man." continued the pom
pous gentleman, ~ have risen from
the monkey board. How? By being
careful. When I was young l made
money by saving bus fares"
"Ah. that was in the old days." said
the young man, with knowing wink
"But with the bell punches and the
present system of inspection, you
would End you couldn't save sixpence
without being collared, however care
full you were."
The manager nearly tainted, and the
Young man had to seek other employ
ment.-London Standard.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-13

TIT For TAT.-Some years ago,
before Mr.. Isidore, the composer, made
his name, he was abroad, and at an
"At Home" friend took him up to a
lady who considered herself musical,
and asked permission to introduce him
to her. She replied, loudly enough for
Mr.. Isidore to hear:
"Oh, no, thanks. / never make &C.
ouaintances on the Continent"
Sometime afterward, at crowded
London party, when Mr.. Isidore was
the lion of the evening, the same lady
rushed up to him and said, in most
effusive manner:
"How nice it is to see you again Mr.
Isidore; it seems such ages since we
met abroad. You must be sure and
come to my Tuesdays"
The composer bowling, replied:
"Thank you but I never renew an
acquaintance made on the Continent
New York Sun.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-13
HOW BULLER WAS BEATEN.
Thrilling Pen Picture of the Battle Of TuGe-
la River.

The first account, giving any ade-
quate explanation of General Buffers
defeat at the Tugela river, comes by
mail from Bennett-Burleigh, the Lon
don Daily Telegraph's correspondent.
1t appears that the battle orders,
drawn up by General Clery, provide
for the effective support of the artil-
lery by Hart's, Barton's and Dundo
maids brigades. These were never
completed. General Hart missed his
way, Lord Dundonald failed to sup
port and General Barton got part of
his forces in an untenable position.
Colonel Long, with the artillery, out
paced the escort of guns, and they
were lost. Briefly that seems to be
the story of the Tugela river. But,
through graphic columns there con-
tinually recurs the discovery of une1'
pected entrenchments and awful fusi'
ladies' from hidden Beers and gallantry
such as has seldom marked British
battlefelds.
After describing how the British
force began their advance at daylight
and how the Beers left them absolute
ly unmolested, the correspondent says
"At $40 there suddenly burst an
awful crash of Boer musketry upon
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-13

the batteries and advancing Infantry.
The rattle of the Mausers sWelled and
was maintained as one continuous roar
From the buildings and lines OF
trenches south of the river and from
the river bank itself, the Beers fired at
our gunners and footmen, and from the
trenches on the northern. side of the
Tugela river and from Fort Wylie and
elsewhere they sent out hurricane OF
leaden hail, and the bullets venomously
rained upon the ground in all direc'
tions, raising puffs of dust and tearing
through the air with shrill sounds.
Few have seen 80 heavy and so deadly
a fussilade, but neither the British gun
ners nor the infantry hesitated or
WINGED. Cannon were wheeled into
position, although many of the horses
and men were shot down ere the ma.
peuvre was completed, and our in
domitable soldiers walked erect and
straight onward. Not even Rome, in
her palmiest days, ever possessed more
devoted sons. AS the gladiators
marched proud and beaming to meet
death, doomed to die, saluted and then
with alacrity stepped forward to do
their duty-'glory or the grave An
glo. Saxon soldiers always advance that
way. 1 asked an American who had
seen warfare at home, in Cuba and Ma
nilla, if his own countrymen generally
did this and he answered: Yes, 1t is
marvellous, but wasteful.'
"Closer and closer walked the SOL
diers to the Boer trenches until within
400 yards of the nearest rifle pits.
Then, lying down they returned the
fire but there was little or nothing to
aim at.
"By 7.15 the Irish brigade had driv-
en- the Beers to the north bank of the
Tugela. They found that the enemy
had planted the ground with barbed
wire entanglements. Even in the bed
of the river barbed wire was laid down.
Into the water went the Dublin lnnls.
killings, Borderers and Connaughts !;
but it was found at the ford, that the
Beers had cunningly damned the river
and there was 10 feet of water where
ordinarily it is but knee deep. They
strove to find the crossings and many
a fine fellow with his weight of ammu-
nition and accoutrements was drown
ed. 1t was desperate and serious
The attack upon the right
was making no progress and the hearts
of the men had reached an apparent
impasse. But there were furious and
angry Irishmen who endeavored to
get across somehow. By dint OF
scrambling from rock to rock and
swimming, a number won the other
side. Yet most of them found that
they had but passed across winding
spruit. The Tugela still lay in front
and all the while the murderous fire
of cannon and Mauser crashed and
comrades fell weltering in their blood.
"In tn meantime Colonel Long had
lost bis guns, and Generals Butler and
Clery, with their stats and escorts,
had ridden to the scene.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-13
Humorous department.

A DEVONsHIRE WITNEss.-Thed diff
ficulty of discriminating between the
first and third persons has been anus
ingly illustrated by the late Lord Id.
desleigh, who used to be fond of telling
Devonshire stories. One of his favorite
ones was of a Devonshire farmer who
was a witness IN a horse stealing case,
"Tell what you know about this case, u
said the prosecuting counsel.
"Weli, zur," was the reply, IL zeed
the prisoner, and 1 zed to he, how
about that 'oss, and he zed he didn't
know mort about the 'oss."
"No, no," the counsel said, "he didn't
say he knew nothing about the horse
He didn't speak to you iu ,de third
person."
"Beg, your pardon zur," said the
witness, "there wasn't no third person
present, only him and me-"
"You don't understand what l
mean," was the counsel's petulent re-
ply. "He spoke to you in the first
person." :.
"You'm wrong agen," said the wit.
ness. ~ was the fust pusson as spoke
to he."
At this point the judge intervened
and put the question himself. "You
saw the prisoner, and you said: 'How
about that horse p and the prisoner an
swered, Il know nothing about the
horse y
II beg your pardon, my lord" said
the witness. "He didn't mention your
lordship's name at all. ."-Westminister
Gazette.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-13

THE WIFE KNEW BETTER-"Char'
lotte, my dear, how is it 1 find you
weeping? Have you had bad uews
from your husband ?"
"Oh, worse than that! My Arthur
writes me from Carlsbad that he would
die with ardent longing for me were it
not that he could gaze affectionately al
my picture and cover it with thous
and kisses every day."
"That is really very nice of him. AND
pray, is it that you are crying for?
would give anything to have such po
etic and tenderly loving husband as
you haven :,
"Ah, yes, my Arthur is very poetical
But let me tell you that, just to try him
I slipped my mothers photo into his
travelling bar instead of my own before
he started" d."-London Tit-Bits.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-13
PHOTOGRAPHY
IS AN AIT

A ND it takes an artist to be a photo
"A grapher. One who is not an artist
doesn't stand much of chance of max
ing a success at photography. l have
given years of study to this especial line
and I can say with pride that my work
will compare favorab ly with that of any
photographer in this section.
The best and most perfect photographs
are the results of experience and not ex-
periments. do all of my developing,
retouching and finishing, thereby obtain
ing the best possible results.
AS Far As Prices
Are concerned, you need not worry your
self along that score. I know that my
prices are reasonable and you will agree
with me when ! tell you what they are.
am also prepared to develop and print
pictures taken with pocket cameras. If
you have a Kodak or Vive or any other
camera, and for any reasop you can't de-
velop and print your pictures, bring them
to ME at my gallery on West Liberty
street. J. r. SCHORB.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-13

AT THE HEAD OF HIS CLAss.-"l
can tell a lie the minute 1 hear it."
"You can beat that, Liarby. You
can tell one the minute you think OF
it."-Town Topics.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-13
GAFFNEY BRANCH.

Trains Nos. 80 and 33 connect at Blacks
bnrg with trains on the Gaffney Division.
Train No. 80 connects at Camden with
the Charleston Division of the Southern
Railway for all points South;
Train No. SO leaving Camden at l2.4O p.
M. going West, makes connection at Ian
caster, S. c., with the l.. X. c. K. K, at
Catawba Junction with the S. A. L., going
North; at Rock Hill with the Southern
Railway going North. ,,
Train No. IL connects at BlacksbuIrg
with the Southern Railway from the
South. At Mar ion, n. o., with the SOUTH
ern Railway going West.
SAMUEL HUNT, President,
A. TRIP, superintendent,
r, LUMPKIN, Gen. F. and p. Agt.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-13
SOUTH CAROLINA & GEORGIA
EXTENSION RAILROAD co.
TIME TABLE NO. 4.

n Effect 1901 a. m., Sunday, Dec. "a, 1899.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-13

g@ Ugliiness has this advantage
over beauty-it never fades.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-13
CAROLINA N0RTH.W
Railway
Schedule Effective Dec. 18th, 1899

Connections at all functions with South
ern, S. A. L., S. G. u q. Ex., l.. d G.
L. T. NICHOLS, Address E. F. REID, Auditor,
General Manager. Chester, s. c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-14
CARTOONS ARE FOR ALL.

In speech at Lexington last Sat
urday, so we are informed, State
Chairman Holton, of the Republican
committee, paid his respects to the
editor of the News and Observer, and
said that he had to teach his Demo-
cratic subscribers by means of car
toons because they cannot read.
We do not use the cartoons for our
literate or illiterate readers, but for
both. We are proud to ha = as sub
scribers some good men who are uned-
ucated who take the paper for their
wives and children to read We do
not propose to disfranchise these I'M
educated readers or any other uned-
ucated white men. There are many
good men who cannot read who could
teach Holton lessons in good gtuern-
ment and in politics. They know
they will be protected, and Holton will
not help his cause by telling them that
the Winston negroes can read Greek
better than they can read English.
They know better.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-14
THE AMENDMENT ALRIGHT.

We publish elsewhere the full text
of the Constitutional Amendment
which passed both Houses of the Gem
eral Assembly yesterday and also the
full text of the Amendment ratified
at the 1899 session. Every reader can
see for himself the changes that have
been made. They are few in number
and do not materially change the
objects of the Amendment in any par
ticular.
In Difference to those who feared
that the grandfather clause might
be declared unconstitutional and the
educational clause permitted to stand
sections four and five are combined
and a new section added, declaring
the whole suffrage scheme ''indivis-
ible.'' This will insure to the support
of the Amendment all those who had
honest fears that the Amendment, as
originally drafted, might result in a
strict educational qualification. In
the original draft, it was provided
that poll tax should not be lien on
assessed property. That is omitted
now, and the objection that through
that provision the school fund would
lose thousands of dollars is removed.
The Legislature las heretofore, can
deal with the method of enforcing the
collection of poll tax. AS amended,
the Constitutional Amendment is al
right. There can be no fault found
with it by any man who desires to
eliminate the mass of ignorant negro
voters and at the same time protect
every white man in the exercise of the
right of suffrage. 1t does that with
out the least shadow of a shade of
doubt, and we have no doubt now that
the tide toward the support of the
Amendment will set in so strongly
that no company of revenue doodles
and place hunters can keep it from
overwhelming all advocates of Negro
Rule.
Altogether, white men, for White
Supremacy!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-14
TRYING TO BLEED THE CLERKS.
Republican Congressional Campaign Commit
tee After Employees For Funds.
lBy the Associated Press.l

Washington, June 13.-The Post tomor-
row will publish an article stating that
the Republican Congressional Campaign
committee has been endeavOring to col
lect, as a campaign contribution, a part
of the extra months salary voted to the
employees of Congress just before ad-
journment. The employees were informd
that any contribution would b voluntary
and many of them paid no heed to the
communication received while Others
made only small contribution so that
the amount collected will not exceed
$1,000 or 1,50O instead of $4,000 or more
as had been expected.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-14
ARTICLE VI.

Suffrage and Eligibility to Office.
Section 1. Every male person born in
the United States, and every male per-
, son who has been naturalized. twenty
enc years of age, and possessing the
qualifications set out in this Article,
shall be entitled to vote at any election
by the people in the State, except as
herein otherwise provided.
Sec 2 He shall have resided in the
State of North Carolina for two years,
in the county six months. and in the
precinct ward or other election district,
in which he offers to vote, four months
next preceding the election: Provided
that removal from one precinct. ward or
other election district, to another in the
same county, shall not operate to de-
prive any person of the right to vote in
the precinct ward or other election dis
trict from which he has removed until
four months after such removal No
person who has been convicted, or who
has confessed his guilt in open court
upon indictment, of any crime, the pun
ishment of which now is, or may here
after be, Imprisonment in the State S
Prison, shall be permitted to vote unless
the said person shall be first restored to
citizenship in the manner prescribed by
law.
Sec. 3. Every person offering to vote
shall be at the time a legally registered
voter as herein prescribed and in the
manner hereafter provided by law, and
the General Assembly of North Carolina
shall enact general registration laws to
carry into effect the provisions of this
article.
Sec 4. Every persons presenting him
self for registration shall be able to
read and write any section of the Con-
stitution in the English language; and,
before he shall be entitled to vote, he
shall have paid on or before the first day
of May. of the year in which he proposes
to vote, his poll tax for the previous
year as prescribed by Article 5, Section
l, of the Constitution. But no male per-
son, who was, on January LIST. 1867, or at
any time prior thereto, entitled to vote
under the laws of any State in the
United States wherein he then resided,
and no lineal descendant of any such
person shall be denied the right to reg
lister and vote at any election in this
State by reason of his failure to possess
the educational qualification herein pre-
scribed: Provided, he shall have regis
tered in accordance with the terms of this
section prior to December l. 1908.
The General Assembly shall provide
for the registration of all persons en-
titled to vote without the educa tional
qualifications herein prescribed, and
shall, on or before November 1st, 1908,
provide for the making of a permanent
record of such registration, and all per-
sons so registered shall forever there
after have the right to vote in all cleo
tions by the people in this State, unless
disqualified under Section 2 of this ar
ticle: Provided, such person shall nave
paid his poll tax as above required.
Sec. 3. That this Amendment to the
Constitution is presented and adopted as
one indivisible plan for the regulation OF
the suffrage. with the intent and purpose
to so connect the different parts, ana TO
make them SO dependent upon each other,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-14
INVESTIGATION OF CONTESTS.
Federal Office Holders in Alabama Show Much
Pernicious Activity.
(By the Associated Press.)

Philadelphia, June 13.-The Republican
National Committee met at the Hotel
| Walton at noon today and Immediately
began the investigation of contest cases
preparatory to the formation of the tenn
porary roll for the National Convention.
| Chairman Hanna was not present when
the committee was convened, and Henry
| C. Payne, member from Wisconsin, was
chosen to preside in his place. Sena-
| tor Hanna came in from Washington
about half past one, but he did not as
sumo the duties of the chair during the
| afternoon.
The entire afternoon session was de-
voted to hearing the recital OF testl-
| mony and to arguments in the contest
| from the State of Alabama.
1t developed during the hearing that
| previous to the beginning of the cam
| paign for the election of delegates
! number of office holders met in WASH
| ington and resolved that las 1T was
| the wish of the President of the United
| States that no Federal otficeholders
should participate in the selection OF dele
| gates they would refrain from taxing
| any part in either the primaries or IN
the State convention"
| The further fact was developed that,
Notwithstanding this action on their
| part, most of the participants in this
meeting hurried to their homes and
! Immediately started campaigns in be-
| half of their favorites with a view OF
controlling the State delegation and
| Federal patronage.
| Committeeman Payne, who had been
acting as temporary chairman, intro
duced the following resolution:
"RerSlved, That this committee re-
quests the President of the United
| States to direct the proper officers to
| cause an investigation into the act ana
| doings of certain Federal office holders
| in the State of Alabama in connection
| with the election of delegates to the
primary conventions, and to the State AMI
| district conventions held in said State
| to elect delegates to the National Con-
vention to be held in Philadelphia on
! the 10Th instant and if the facts as
| stated in the hearing held before said
I committee regarding the contest in said
| districts and State be true, this COM
| mittee asks not in the interest of the
| Republican party, but of the country that
| such ACTON shall be taken as the good OF
| the public interest requires"
Practically the only topic of converse
/ ton among the Republican leaders who
/ have arrived in Philadelphia is the ques-
/ tion Of the selection of candidate for
| the vice presidency. Senator Hanna has
i devoted almost the entire time since his
1 arrival to this question and has been
/ in frequent conference with other lead
/ ers upon the subject. He says absolutely
/ that no candidate has yet been selected
| either by the President by himself or by
| any one for them.