The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-24

aisle with a dry grin on his face says
You fellows understand me: Of course
you know I didn't mean all that |
said The truth is rather like you
fellows, because you have got the
pluck to stand up to what you think
l. right. farty or no party" 1t is not
an unsual thing in the house. But
there are congresses and congresses.
What on earth possessed the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution to
resolve itself into congress was hard
To understand at first, but subsequent
proceedings makes it perfectly plain.
The Daughters are in session here this
week; the ninth annual congress be-
gan yesterday. There is big fight
on hand over the lineage question and
the new treaty with Great Britain
concerning the Nicaraguan canal. This
congress will certainly be deeply in
terosting, and if woman is "the COM
ing man." the average man would pre-
fer the thoroughbred as his successor
in the political arena.
NOW YOU SEE, NOW YOU DON'T.
That's the status Of the Quay case
after the parliamentary wrangle in the
senate today. For absolute perfection
OF Vasueness as to telling just where
the case stands or whether it stands
at all or not recalls the rustic urchins
response to wayfarcr's request to be
shown the right way to a certain
place. "Well you go up that hill to
the top, then you go three looks be-
yond that, then you cross the brook,
then you turn right or left--I don't
exactly remember which-then you go
two more looks and a peep. turn
around ST Jones's red barn, and then
somebody'll tell you the rest of the
way"
1t is plain that the opposition is
whipped on a square vote in the sem
ate and all this delay and dust and
fog and lodging simply means an ef-
fort to defer action on the case until
the next session of congress. Whether
this cowardly way of sneaking out of
a whipping will prevail or not remains
to be seen.
POOR WOMAN.
1t Is no reflection on IA wOmans cour-
age To say that she will go into a con-
nlption lit over snake or an innocent,
coWardly little mouse. She just can't
help it. In his great lecture on THE
last days of the confederacy' General
Gordon related an incident which
proves in felicitous way how the
braNest woman on earth will screech
over mouse and run. with uplifted
skirts, for her very life. General Cor
dons devoted little wife, zone Of the
sweetest and bravest women on earth,'
| h..a "a 4, l..
She was by his side throughout that
terrific war from 1861 to 1860. Often she
was only kept from the thickest of the
battle by the physical force of the sol
diers who loved and worshipped her.
But at Winchester, Va, she escaped
their vigilance. Sheridan's dashin,
troops had ended their famous valley
ride ana was laundering through the
streets of that Beautiful valley town.
The intrepid little Georgia woman was
i'm the hottest of that days memorable
battle. On the streets she was seen
| waving the Southern flag and cheering
the Southern boys, urging them to stand
against Sheridan's Irresistible legion.
She faced the shower of death and fire
without flinching, and yet said General
Gordon. Il have known this brave lit
tie woman to run up three flights of
stairs from "a mouse" Somebody who
heard the lecture must be responsible
for the Census building snake story.
Somebody, the story goes, has dis
covered a snake colony under the new
census building. The length, color, size
and variety of the reptiles are given
with great particularly. THE Kissing
sound and all that is mentioned. 1t Is
! a mean, cowardly attempt to frighten