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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-05

skinny He wakes eloquent In his
objections TO the Monna Lisa. who he
declares Is trying to look around a cor
ner. and anyway, he is convinced she is
person he shouldn't have liked his
wife to have on her calling list He picks
flaws with Michael Angeles work be-
cause of the belief that the women the
great master painted would have wanted
to vote. Just look at their arms!'' he
urges In corroboration of this advanced
theory.
Then he can't see why in the world his
wife should earnestly desire to have en-
cravings of musly old churches strung
up everywhere. Most of 'cm were
heather places" he asserts IF you must
have building pictures why cant you
frame up the ground plan of our new
stable? Now that is something like.
drewem myself. The front elevation is
fine. l tell you, tree there, and all;
great sight better than some Of the
things you call interiors; and that look
like nothing In the world so much as
the inside of a coal breaker with several
laps of picket fence put up in layers.
Just now the average man is being
agtated over the craze for passe- -partout
work. One of his kind was lamenting
the other day about the condition of his
home. II can't go round a room in the
dark" he complained. without cutting
my fingers on glass or getting stuck fast
with glue my wife has handy for this
everlasting asse-partout business. She's
given up taking four-cent coat holders
and fitting them out with silk at two
dollars a yard and the powder you buy
at the druggists for q dollar q pound,
no not genuine, but the perfumery stun.
Oh, yes, 'sachet, that's what she calls
1t. She swapped three Of those things
with friends at Christmas and got three
back, different pattern of silk. that was
all. Now she's gone to framing penny
pictures. She puts glass over them
and a black streak round the edge and
calls them framed. I'd good deal rath-
| er have the COW picture we used to have
in the dining room and that she gave to
the poor"
DAssE-PARToUr is certainly thu,
fad Of the hour. Engravings and
i prints Of all kinds can thus be pre-
served at small cost and with a
| certain amount of skill any person can
do it very neatly. The picture dealers
have been amazed at the demand for
| materials in this town and have had to
| lay In big supply of paper and mounts.
! One proprietor of a framing establish
| ment expressed himself as pleased at
the fact that so many women had taken
| up the work. "It is n puttering job. he
! said. and we don't like to do 1t. It's just
right for the women" which may be a
| compliment or not, Just as you look al
| it. The cost of a print is from one to
! five cents for the Perry or the Prang
! platinettes. There are fine subjects, re-
productions of the old masters in sculp-
ture and painting, modern art and ia
nous buildings. The glass for a 10xl:
picture costs from to 10 cents. The
card mount in a good gray tone is about
2ia cents, and altogether the picture may
! be framed at an expense of about z
.
I The Prang subjects can now be had ir
J this CITY,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-05
ONE THING AT A TIME.
From the Blue Ridge Zephyr.

From the Blue Ridge Zephyr.
The Scranton Tribune gives some excel
and brilliant Charles Emory Smith
should be the choice for vice president
The idea would be a good one were the
vice presidency the measure Of Mr..
Smiths ability and the proper limit OF
his political merits. Charles Emory
Smith has the true stamp of presidential
timber, and the currents are running his
way. He should not be etcrnally buried
in the subordinate position. We m"eh
prefer to hold him back till 1864 and then
push him hard and strong for the first
place on the ticket. He is too good n
man to be sacrificed on the altar of tic
vice presidency.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-05
Relief for Puerto Rico.
EGISLATION for the relief OF
Puerto Rico is now approach
q ing something like definite


form. The committees Of
both houses Of congress which have
been considering the subject have
agreed to report bills substantially
identical except in one pa ticular.
Both bills provide ,hat the tariff
upon imports from Puerto Rico shall
be % per cent. of the duties specified
in the Dingley bill, but the sem
ate bill as we understand it. goes
further and specifies that the
revenue thus raised, together with
all duties collected at Purto Rican
ports on American exports, and all
internal revenue collections on Puerto
Rican products, shall go into tn,
Puerto Rican insular treasury. The
house bill gives to Puerto Rico all the
taxes and duties collected within its
borders but does not give to II the
duties collected in the United States
upon articles exported from Puerto
Rico to this country. The house bill
further provides that the customs
duties collected in the United States
on articles of Puerto Rican manufac-
ture shall be not less in rate and
amount than the internal revenue tax
which may be imposed in the United
States upon the same articles of mer-
chanGise of domestic manufacture; !;
and vice versa.
1t will be perceived that the senate
bill amounts substantially to an ac-
ceptance of the presidents recon-
mendation to abolish all customs
| tariffs between tie United States and
| Puerto Rico ana give her products
| free access to our markets. BY the
provision returning to Puerto Rico the
slight duty collected on her products
| there I, iu crc,cl, flca access without
1 committing congress in advance ia
/ an opinion on the constitutional ques-
ton as to whether q territory may
have revenue system different from
| the revenue system prevalent in the
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In Moman'S Realm
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
1T IS WOMEN who chiefly have art
craVings; mon DO HOt, SeNVIaII3
speaking, catch the disease. 1t Is

~ 1
cravings; men do not. generally
II speaking, catch the disease. 1t is
contracted in various ways. IL a wo-
man is to the manor born or has llVed III
the vicinity of Boston she may not re-
member when she took II. In fact II
may have been several generations ago,
and she cannot have the humiliation Of
looking back upon her disorder of the
Early Decorated in the shape of cro-
chetted tides and macrame lambrequins,
of spatter-work and wax flowers.
Then, too, it may have been superin-
duced by a foreign tour This Is its
most violent form and 1t usually breaks
out all over the house upon the victim 5
return. Sometimes IL is acquired at coll
lege AMI in this case is probably less af-
fiicting to the family.
If the woman has been resident OF
the country or of Scranton all her life,
the disease possibly began with symp-
toms of Culture, under the guise of il
Illustrated lectures, with later, a very
pronounced and unmistakable case in
dicated by an Art Club. This is inva-
riably hopeless and her family may as
well prepare for the worst.
Not infrequently 1t Is coptracted in
calls made at some house where the ef-
fects of the disease Is apparent on the
walls by the absence of lurid oil paint
ings, or pale crayon portraits and the
pervasiveness of many sombre groups
of shaded gray effects of queer looking
buildings and ladies who do not appear
well-quite respectable, and men in hats
which haven't been in style for some
seasons. Instead of the Dresden shep-
herdess and man on each end of the
mantel are plaster casts for which the
grandmother of the present hostess
would promptly have constructed Moth
er Hubbard wrappers.
As WAS stated above, the average
~ man does not suffer from Art CRAY
"A ines. Now average men are usually
those our friends marry. But so
strong Is their predomination in num-
| bers that their immunity to the art mi
crobe Is often considered rather univer-
| sal. The average man, then, Is apt to
| regard art according to the ratio of the
years he has been married. If he has
recently taken a wife who is going
| through a violent phase of the disease
he looks upon 1t with n sort of liberation
| and vaguely hopes that she will get over
| 1t. OF course she never will but that
certainty Is mercifully borne upon him by
| degrees. II he has been married for a
year or more he Is correspondingly Il
scoffer over what he terms her latest fad,
| He holds I'm open contempt the Italian
Old Masters. irreverently called cimabue.
| "Chimmie, old boy" and frankly reyiles
the taste that can see anything tn ad-
| mire In such long noses and Chinese
eyes as he observes In his artists work
| TIE calls Hotticellis spring maidens
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- ordinance empowering the
mayor or any alderman to
cause the arrest of persons
suspected of keepir: unlicensed saloons
and. upon Igir failure to produce a
license, 10 inhict summary punishment
by means Of fines from which there is
no appel. 1t is a measure worthy Of
careful consideration.
The Theory of the common law is
Gus crime shall have tn, privilege of
an open trial before a jury Of his peers,
The law Of Pennsylvania makes SELL
ing liquor without a license Il serious
crime and provides drastic penalties
10 follow conviction In a jury trial.
For reasons well known. this law is
largely imperative in our community.
but the fault is less with the law than
with the manner of it's enforcement.
The same law is rigidly enforced in
many other places under the same
mechanism which exists in Lackawan-
ma county. In those places n public
sentiment exists which holds the officers
of the law to a strict performance of
their duties and also insures a high
average of character in the jury box.
From this circumstance it might rea-
sonably be inferred that the trouble
here is less in the mechanism of the
law than in the general sentiment of
the community. Would the new me-
chanism which is proposed in the pend
ing ordinance lead to a better condition
of public sentiment or would it in
stead tend simply to clothe unscrupu-
lous officials with additional power to
levy political or financial tribute upon
the "speakeasy" element?
The mayor of the city, having at his
command the whole police force. could
under the power thus proposed to be
conferred upon him. be either q mighty
agency for reform or political boss
of extraordinary degree depending
upon whether he should use his powe,
honestly and fearlessly. without count.
ing the cost 10 his party, his faction
or himself. or whether ne should hold
1t as a club over the law-brealiine
classes to make them do his bidding
at the primaries or the polls. In much
r the same way would this power affec,
. the status of the aldermen. one poin,
4 of difference being that aldermen ar,
eligible to immediate recollection
whereas the mayor cannot succeed
!, himself This eligibility might furnisl
"a stronger temptation for the alder
Ren to use the power for political pur
y pases than would exist In the case O
- mayor not ambitious for politica
"ascendency or not under the contro
OF ambitious or INSCRIPTIONS advisers
The whole point In reference to a,
imperial ordinance of this kind 1
whether the conditions of offce-flIin.
la 10ar city are auspicious for the Civ
ing. 20 our officials OF such autocrati
additional authority. If the belle
prevails that II would be safe to pu
Into the hands Of our mayor and alder
men the exceptional prerogative con
!. tenplatel =. in the pending measure
then this~ordinance should pass: II not
it'sshould be either defeated or yer,
Z carefully safeguarded.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-05
The Vice.Presidency.

IL u rapidly growing opinion
among Republicans that
Theodore Roosevelt is the man who
| Is wanted for the second place on the
! presidential ticket with Mckinley. He
| Is by far the strongest available candi-
| date in general ability and in popular
| running qualities that has yet been
| named or seems likely to be named for
| the presidency. His hands are
| clean, his record is clear, his brains are
sound, and his Republicanism repre-
sents the wholesome practical and pro-
gressive spirit of his party The next
nomination for the vce-presdency
should not go to a stick or to a mere
money bags. 1t should be given to a
man whose personality will strengthen
the ticket with the people and who has
enough character and capacity to
measure uD to the first office in the
nation in the event of it's devoving
upon him through death or accident"
We yield to none in admiration for
Theodore Roosevelt. Should he be
nominated for vice-president and ac-
cept. the party would rally behind him
unanimously and he would also draw
votes from the opposition. But it L.
pretty well established that he does not
want this nominations; that he con-
siders it to be his highest duty at this
| time to accept the reelection as gov
| ernor which awaits him in gift from
the we'll pleased people of the Empire
state and, in that position. to carry
forward the considera BILE reforms which
he has inausurated with so much prac-
teal courage: and that i'm this proper
ambition he has the fullest approval OF
his best ard truest friends. The office
of governor of the foremost state in
our Union. the state which includes the
financial and commercial capital Of the
hemisphere and which offers for solu-
ton many of the largest political AMI
economic problems of the times, more
fully fits the capacities and inclina tions
of Colonel Roosevelt than would the
vice presidency, even though the latter
office should be elevated by his super
abundant energy and fine ability to a
plane of greater consequence than It
has been traditionall..
A more suitable man for the vice.
presidency and one in whom Pennsyl-
vana Republicans rightfully take a
| larger interest because he is brilliant
and respected citizen of their own state,
is the accomplished postmaster general
and intimate friend and adviser of the
president, Hon. Charles Emory Smith.
The state of New York has had fire.
quent representation on the Republican
national ,icket: the state of Pennsyl>
yania, although the stanchest citadel
of Repubicanism in the Union, has
never had such representation, and now
is an opoortune time to correct that
unjust omission. The Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin does not need to be
told that Mr.. Smith is pre- eminently
the 'man whose personality will
strengthen the ticket with the people
and who has enough character and
capacity to measure up to the first
Office in the nation in the event of II
devolving upon him through death or
accident" We shall confidently look to
it to join with The Tribune in en-
deavoring to secure for Mr.. Smith and
for Pennsylvania the recognition which
both SO indsputably deserve.
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REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET.
SCHOOL DIRECTORS.-C. c. Ferber +
- Fellows

How many Of the Democratic politi-
clans who are yelling at President Nc
Kinlcy ~ stop the South African war
would volunteer to shoulder muskets
If a premature attempt at N adation
should land Uncle Sam in trouble?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-05
The Finest Drink.

When you've drunk all kinds Of Ticker
And your tongue gets thick ana thicker
And you first feel sick, then sicker
OF all lickers you have viewed;
Then you turn to water madly
For the drink you're wanting badly,
And ] reck you echo gladly
It's the finest drink yet brewed.
Philadelphia North American.
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Miss Maud Comes efforts to arouse
have not been entirely fruitless. She
has awakened love in the heart of a
Mr.. Won Kuhl, whose name would GER
tainly indicate that he is not an Eng
liShman.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-05

The president in his annual message
told congress that 1t was its moral
duty to give to Puerto Rico the privi-
lege of free trade with the United
States. Congress is responding by stub
born opposition to the executive rec
ommendation. Special interests appear
to have the ear of the leaders in con-
gress. for the reason, probably, that
special interests make their influence
felt. Merely general interests, founded
simply on equity and Righteousness,
have no special pleaders to intercede
for them and often get lost in the
shuttle.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-05
FINLEY'S
Annual
Sale of
Table Linens

Under ordinary circumstances
this announcement would be sunl-
cient in itself, without further com.
ment. to interest every housekeeper
IN the community, but taking into
consideration the recent advances
on almost every line Of Dry Goods,
LINENS INCLUDED, and the fact that
all our stock Of Linens was bought
early enough to secure them at old
prices-makes it all the more so.
Our Table Linens, as usual, are
only Of the best-sueh celebrated
makes as
BarnSley and
Scotch DalnaskS,
Fine German
"Silver Bleach"
| Belgian Double
| Satin DamaSks.
| Etc., Etc.
All at our popular LAST SEASONS
PRICES, and in the choicest designs.
| Napkins to Match
Almost all fine numbers in Damask
both in So and ga size. Some
very fine sets in SKA, 8xIo and
ska. at specially low prices to re.
duce stock. Ask for our
Two Specials
i'm Crotchet Quilts,
Marseilles Patterns,
at 9Sc and $1.l9
510-5l2
LACKAWANNA AVENUE
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510-5l2
LACKAWANNA 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.
Ths PEN CarbOlL Book
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-05

. Although great deal has been writ
ten aQf late concerning Leonard Wood
it, has, remained for MeCure's maga
zine. February issue, to print the first
clear ana comprehensive biography
and estimate of that extrraordinary
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-05

BY comparison with England's trou-
bles, our war and its management
grow brighter each day. Americans
nave good excuse to feel proud just
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-05

Had the late William Goebel pos
sessed a., conscience in Keeping with
his shrewdness and courage he would
have been one Of natures rarest noble
smen. -". t..
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-05
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, 1900-02-05

All the facts concerning the much
derided treaty with the Sultan of Sulu
have been transmitted to congress.
President Mckinley approved the
treaty only after expressly stipulating
that his approval was not to be deemed
in any way to authorize or give the
consent of the United States to the
existence Of slavery in the Sulu archi-
pelago. He ordered General Bates to
find out how many slaves there were
and upon what terms they could be
liberated; and he suggests that con-
gress authorize the payment Of n small
sum Of money in the purchase Of free
dom for these slaves. 1t is up to con-
gress.
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Regulation of Speakeasies.

5:' ): = ::; a: ;:::;: $.. :,
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states. II Is assumed at Washington
that this constitutional question will
soon come before the Supreme court
for an opinion; and very properly
there is disposition to make no
permanent arrangements until the
fundamental law on the subject shall
be defined authoritatively.
Justice and fair play clearly call
for the enactment Of the senate bill
without delay. The matter of permit
ting the producers Of Puerto Rico to
have a market is not urgent; procras-
tination spells ruin. The matter of a
form of government for Puerto Rico
is not so urgent. 1t can wait or 1t can
be left by congress to the presidents
discretion until the constitutional limi-
tations are marked out decisively.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-13
IATERN1E.

Foreigner-My friend, your country is
fine, but you need a few old ruins.
American-Ruins! Haven't you Seen
the Dewey arch ?-Life.
Pa-You have been a good boy to-day,
johnny; so l guess I'll give you ten
cents for pocket money.
JOHNNY think I'd rather have it for
spending money, pa.-Boston Tran
script
why Johnny, I'm ashamed of you,
How could you take little EthePs half
of the apple away from her.
Cause, ma | Amt forgot what you
told me-to always take sisters part.
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Teacher-Im glad to see you take
such an interest in chemistry, Johnny
Are you going to be a chemist when
you grow up?
Johnny-No, ma am; I'm going. to own
a maple sugar and syrup factory.-Chi-
cago News.
Celebrations Provided for.-"Marie,
did you bring me a present from Par
is?"
"Of course, Harry, and / brought
lot of beautiful things for you to give
me on my birthday and our anniversa-
~. ',rIndianapolis Journal.
What magnificent trout! How much
did you pay for them?'
Il have documents to show that they
cost me $3.50 apiece"
Then you did catch them Yourself,
didn't you? I suspected you of having
bought them from dealer Chicago
Tribune.
Il tell you, sir" explained the lawyer,
IT lost that case solely because Of the
despicable trick played on me by the
opposing counsel. He led me to believe
that he was going to make a long-wind-
ed argument, and after I had talked for
six hours he earned the eternal graft
tude of the jury by closing with lif
teen-n minute speech. Chicago Post.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-13

Sullivan" Suffice 1t to say, the whole
document was a forgery, and most of
the names on it were fictitious. Bogus
coins are often found out in this way.
An 1904 dollar" was bought by col
lector in this city and appeared to be
without a flaw, A photograph, how
ever showed plainly that the figure "a
had been cut from another coin and
had been pasted on dollar coined some
time in the first decade of the century,
but no so valuable as the priced 1904"
issue
Much of this work, as can be mag
ined, is of an extremely delicate nature,
and good deal Of special apparatus is
used. The camera and the object to be
photographed are always placed on a
long wooden frame work with diagonals
and cross-pieces, like miniature
bridge, every, part glued together and
perfectly rigid. This is hung from the
ceiling, so that all vibration between
the camera and the object may be
avoided. The very finest work has to
be done on Sunday, to avoid the shak-
ing from the traffic of the streets. One
Of the lenses used can include ITO de-
grees in the picture. With this the walls
of even the narrowest passages can be
photographed.
II never was offered but one job that
couldn't do said the photographer
to-day. THAT was when a man wanted
me to take in one exposure all six sides
of a fancy Chinese New
York Evening Post.
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been SO profitable as was expected.
This was the way of it: In the begin
ming 60,000,O0O admission tickets were
issued at a franc each. With every
twenty tickets was given a lottery bond
emitting the holder to chance at Ger
tain prizes. This scheme appealed to
the gambling instincts of the masses,
and the tickets were disposed of in this
way. Those tickets are now something
of drug on the market, bringing only
-four or five cents apiece, Only about
So, 100000 or 100000 tickets have been
used, and those who hold the remainder
will be out of pocket. The fair officials
are trying to use UP the tickets by
charging two for a single admission,
and on fete nights five are required for
a single admission.