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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-27
Y. N. I. Smoker.

smoker was conducted last night by the
members Of the Columbus council. Young Mems
Institute, at Pharmacy hall. which was a very
enjoyable affair.
An excellent literary and musical programme
was rendered and refreshments were served. The
affair was in charge Of the following committee:
Chairman, +. folan; NJ. j. Burns, =. II. Langan,
". J. Rafferty,, J. Vaughan and J. Reilly.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-27

and told where the stolen property was
hidden.
The peddler did not care to prose-
cute. inasmuch as he recovered his
property. and the young men were re-
leased upon payment of the costs. The
costs. by the way, were collected Ivy
the friends of the accused. and the
latter were ordered to make tn M
selves scarce around the lake in the
future.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-27
St Paups Pioneer Corps

The members of st. Pauls Pioneer
corps will resume their drills next
Thursday evening. after which a spe-
cial meeting will be held to discuss the
advisability of purchasing new uni
forms and participating in the drilling
contest at HaZleton on October 10
The Pauls have "A reputation as drill
ers, and if they decide to enter, they
will doubtless make their opponents
hustle for the prize.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-27
PARK PLACE.

T, +, Terwlliger, of Providence road, is suffer.
ing with summer grippe.
Miss Amelia Magurc, Of Court street, ha. re.
turned hom Atlantic City.
Warren Wlebaugh is spending few DAYS in
Allentown
Frank Goodnough of lioncsdae, is visiting w.
l.. Finn, Of Providence road
C. E. Decker, Of New York city, spent yestcr.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-27
OF Course He Was a Brute.

Mrs. Staor John, don't you think ! need
new gown This one hcginS to look shabby
Mr Ntalor-I don't see anything the matter
with il. Nou look well enough in ii 10 suit me;
aud why should ! pay out money 70 make you
more attractive to other men?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-27
Chilled.

nuring lIarold's FIRST day At The kinderrarten
the room became cool, and the teacher sent him
10 find out whether any heat was coming in at
the register
"Ncs, teacher" saId Harold as he spread his
hands To tho draft there's lots Of heat coming
in, but it's all oold"'- Philadelphia Times,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-27
MYSTERIOUS
Mr.. M'CALL
INFORMS THE POLICE OF AN AL
LEGGED HoLD.UP.

But Neither the Victim Nor His
Supposed Assailants Could Be Lo-
Gated Anywhere-Italian Inter
prefer Gets Into Trouble by Being
Too Ready with His Gun-Cheaper
TO Go to Jail Than Pay Fines-St.
Paul's Pioneer Corps Will Resume
Drills-Notes and Personals.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-27
Violators Go to Jail.

James Murtaugh. of 40 : Roland
avenue, ana Thomas Hastings. Of 32t
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-27
Black Taffeta Silks

Best makes, pure dye, bright finish and all silk.
The line is complete and the reductions from regular
value figures sufficient to make it worth while to
stretch point to buy during the continuance of this
timely but unexpected sale.
The age-herald., 1901-07-30
Singer Rarnabee,s Story.

Said man last night:
 Henry Petersen crossed the sea last season with Henry Clay Barnabee, the famous singer. Petersen, as everybody in Birmingham knows, is a German, though a thoroughly good Alabamian, and one of the best of the Birminghammers. Peter sen and Barnabee were having a trihe of Munich beer together on the Furst Bis marck one night, three days out of Brem- merhaven There were others there, but Petersen and Barnabee were 1.-the real thing.
 "Barnabee told a story-and all of Bar nabee's stories are good, as great many of us common folk personally know. Be- fore reaching the point of his stoy the foghorn of the ship was sounded, loud, long, deep-fearfully.
 ''Did you ever try to sleep at sea while the ships foghorn was believing thun- der and tarnation every thirty seconds, as required by the maritime laws of the nations? Great Scott-that's anguish for you!
 But, as to Barnabee's story. Just as he was about to conclude it. the frightful foghorn blew and he stopped. Some one asked him to conclude.
 It's 0 foghorn conclusion, he said gently, quoting the name of one of Will liam Deans Howells' best novels"
The age-herald., 1901-07-30
MUD AS A BEAUTIFlER.

From the Tacoma Ledger.
 Mud is the newest skin beautifier, the latest fad for the improvement of the complexion. Just common, every day un- romantic dirty mud. The use and appli- cation of this remedy is one of the wrin- kles which the summer girl will bring back to town with her from the place of her summer sotourn. Not new thing, by any means, this daubing of the face and throat with dampened earth, but ew to great many people, and especially new to the city districts. In the country. far from towns and drug stores, its use has been general and effective for many years but just as soon as the city com mences to creep out and to encroach upon the raraility of a place, nature s remedies are given the go-by, and the people fly to drug stores and "store medicines for the aid which the world around them has been wont to supply
 And so 1t Is with mud. In the early days of the Western States, when doctors and complexion beautifers were alike unknown, mud was highly valued by the women of the country The feminine sex delights in fair skins and white hands, even if there is no one in all the town ship to see them. and the early settlers borrowed the mud idea from the Indians. who valued 1t for its medicinal effect.
 The mud treatment costs nothing. and is far more beautiful than a series of Turkish baths. The priciple is precisely that of the facial masks, both of ancient Roman times and of the present day, and the mud-washing maiden will be as fair as lily all fall
The age-herald., 1901-07-30
A SCHEME OF SOCIALISTS.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 The socialists of Chicago propose to get incorporated as buying society.
 The idea is that If 5000 or more of them combine and do their buying through a single agency they will be in a position to secure concessions In prices that sin gle individual cannot procure"
 Thus they begin by recognizing econonn- ic principles which socialism theoretically repudiates. Their proposed organization is not to establish a new socialistic order of society, but merely to take advantage of existing conditions and of the econom- ic laws operating under the existing social orbanization. They propose simply to buy at wholesale prices or producers prices.
 Theoretical socialism casts out prices, wholesale and retail.
 It rebels against the law of competition, of demand and supply, as a law of sell fishness and strife operating to crush the producer and enrich those who are styled non-producers and drones. It proposes to distribute products under prescribed reg sumption which is assumed to be more in accord with natural equity than is the eco homie law which governs under the pres ent constitution of society.
 Thus the proposed organization cannot be founded at all upon the principles of so- cialistic philosophy, but upon the despised and hated economic laws now operating.
The age-herald., 1901-07-30
IT PAYS TO PUNISH BY LAW.
From the Chicago Chronicle.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 The vigor with which the Italian gov ernment pursues its Investigations as 10 the lynching of Italians in this country may prove vexatious to some easy going local authorities, but 1t is highly com- mendable, and 1t ought to have good re- suits. It does not follow and 1t is not as- sumed by the government at home that ths Italian victims of American violence were guiltless of crime. What is made clear is that they were entitled to trial by legal processes, and, the absence of this being established, that their families have a right to the usual indemnity, Lynch law thus places the American people in an attitude of guilt for which, under the law of nations, heavy fines may be exacted, and the injuries which they sustained by the crimes of the sufferers of mob law are necessarily overlooked. It pays in more ways than one to punish crime according to 1ew.
The age-herald., 1901-07-30
THE SEXES IN RELIGION.

From the Boston Herald
 A preacher in Chicago has lately been moved to make the remark that there is a conspicuous lack of men in the newer membership of the evangelical churches of the land, and that men do not attend religious services as do those of the other sex. In view of this, he says: While women are going to heaven men are going to-well, somewhere else' We fear this preacher is making heaven more according to the Mahometan than the Christian picturing of it. It is a fact that in many instances the churches are more attractive to women nowadays than they are to men; but it may be that this Is more & defect in studying human nature on the part of those who conduct their services than in any in- creasing lack of goodness among those who do not come there.
The age-herald., 1901-07-30
KEENAN, EXPELLED.
Russian Government Has Requested the American Author to Depart.


 London, July 29.-Mail advioes here to- day from the correspondent of the Asso- ciated Press at St. Petersburg give de- tails of the expulsion from Russia of George Kennan. the American author and lecturer. who, as cabled exclusively to the Associated Press on Friday last, was called upon at the hotel at St. Peters burg Thursday evening, and was in- formed by high police officer that he must leave the country by 10 o'clock Friday evening.
 Mir. Kennan was treated courteously, but was not allowed to leave his room in the interim. His expulsion was car ried out quietly. The correspondent then says:
 MT. Kennan arrived at St. Petersburg three weeks ago, ater an absence of fif- teen years.
 He was not engaged in any political |agitation; the Russian press referred to MT. Kennan's return courteously, no paper suggesting that he was welcome, and he began to feel sore. At about 6 o'clock Thursday high police official placed him under detention in his room and read notice requiring Mir. Kennan's departure by 10 o'clock Friday night.
 There is only one explanation for MT. Kennan's expulsion and that is that the Russian government has not recovered from the effects of his criticisms of the Siberian exile system. which has been greatly modified and restricted since MT. Kennan first wrote of it. His expulsion was simply question of policy, which has not affected the personal attitude of old friends toward MT. Kennan, who was invited to places where the highest gov ernmental officials were present."
The age-herald., 1901-07-30
General Pettus His Own Successor

Like Senator Merrill of Vermont, General Pettus is beloved in every part of his State, and if the people have any voice in the selection of representa- tive in the United States Senate next year, he will be reelected. Senator Morrill, was elected to the Senate after he was 80 years old, when he was feeble in health. He was reelected be- cause of his services to the State and his popularity. Senator Pettus should be reelected as Senator Morrill, was. He should be kept in the Senate as long as his honored and noble life lasts. He is not all feeble in mind or body; he is ready for all corners in the Sen ate, and his reputation and influence are becoming wide and deep. No one outranks him on the Democratic side either in clear, vigorous reasoning or in the manner of expression, and it is Alabama's duty as well as interest to keep him in the Senate to the end of his days.
 The Age-Herald trusts there will be no opposition to his reelection. There should be none. There will be none among the old soldiers of the Confed- eracy, and there should be none among the new issue. The very honesty of the man led him to express himself in opposition to the grandfather clause, but those who would oppose him on that account would be very apt to find some other ground for opposition if he had not spoken. The people of the State should let their voices be heard. They may not be permitted by the court house cliques to speak directly, but they still have much power mathis State, and to a man they will, we be- neye, support Edmund Winston Pettus as his own successor in the Senate.
The age-herald., 1901-07-30
For a Generation at Least.


 The Huntsville Mercury thinks the suffrage article would have been nearer perfect without the grandfather clause, and then it goes on to say:
 The saving clause in the grandfather section is that its operation Is limited to two years. It is reasonably certain that a test case will not reach the supreme court by that time, therefore the illegality of that feature-if it is illegal-will not disturb the operation of the law On the other hand If the courts should advance the test case and declare that section un- constitutional, the balance of the law will be ample protection against fraud and ignorant electorate. Under all the circumstances, therefore, the discussion of the grandfather clause will prove Of little interest to the people of Alabama. If it is adopted a majority of the peo- pie will be pleased and the minority will in no wise be injured If 1t is de- feated the suffrage law will still contain an abundance of protection against the evils which have disturbed the people of Alabama for nearly a third of century.
 The grandfather clause would be in active operation much less than year, but in that time lC would create class electorate that would control the State throughout a generation at least. This class would be based on nothing what ever but the letter of the law. Under the terms of that organic law the son of one man would be made a sovereign of the commonwealth, and the son per haps of his next-door neighbor, would be left to the not overly tender mercies of the good character clause or of the later educational or property tests.
 How then can the Mercury say that the minority will in nowise be injured in case of the adoption and legalization of the clause? It would in its effect be operative long after the editor of the Mercury mad ceased to illuminate edi- toriai thunder, and that event, it is to be hoped, will be long deferred.
 It is not strange that misconceptions concerning the majority suffrage report should arise, for the reported article Is so long and intricate that no one scarcely can understand it. But no one should support it because it's operation is to be brief. It's effect will endure as long probably as the new constitu- tion does, and what it will lead up or down to in that period no man can with confidence say.
The age-herald., 1901-07-30
A Predecessor of Sampson.

General Patrick A. Collins of Boston. formerly a member of Congress, from which he voluntarily retired, and later the United States consul-general in Lon years the most distinguished and best-loved Irishman in America, used to tell one of the best of good stories about naval officer who was act ing commandant of the navy yard at Charlestown, Boston.
 The telling of the story here, for the first time of its appearance in print, is Sampson is now the commandant of the navy yard at Boston
 There was great reception at the house of a Back Bay aristocrat. The captain of the police on duty at this house was an Irishman, like General Collins himself. and when the acting commandant desired his carriage late in the evening. with much champagne aboard of himself lie said to the police captain, very haughtily:
 '"The carriage of the ,commandant!'
 What, sorr?" asked the honest Irish- man.
 Carriage of the commancant," said the naval officer, who really ranked as cap- tain.
 Carriage of the comman-dant of the navy yard, and be domned quick about it,, for he's domned swell!' cried the Irish man.
 Carriage of the dommed swell, the com-man-dant of the navy yard, and be
The age-herald., 1901-07-30
BENEFICENT AMERICAN
 RULE IN PORTO RICO
BY HON. JOHN KHAN, UNITED STATES SENATOR

boring classes to the verge of starvation. As 8 measure of relief General Davis de- cided to repair the roads of the island and build new ones wherever necessary No official red tape was allowed to block the way. The work was begun at once Thousands of men, women and children were thereby saved from certain death. That was the humane and temporary side of it. The practical and enduring one is that the interior of Porto Rico has now a better road system than it ever before possessed. It is needless to say that this increased facility of intercommunication has benefited immeasureably the agri- cultural and every other commercial in- terest of the little island
 So well did the military arms of the government discharge the duties assigned to 1t that little over year ago affairs were in so sound a condition that the ex- pertinent of civil administration could be safely undertaken. Now came the su- preme test whether, under our system outlying possessions could be governed by us without detriment to ourselves and with advantage to those directly con Sbiheus DUH Ut nome ana aDTOau, as l have said, dire failure had been predict ed. From the newspapers we have al- ready learned, in a general way, that happily the prophecies of disaster have all failed to materialize; that, on the contrary Porto Rico is now enjoying a larger liberty, and a higher degree of prosperity than it ever experienced in all the four centuries of its Spanish connec- ton. But we shall not know fully the mar veilous change that has been wrought in the little island under the wise civil administration instituted by the Presi- dent and his advisers until the full off, cial reports respecting conditions in it are laid before Congress and the country next December. Then will it be seen be- yond all possibility of refutation that we have erected a new standard of civil ad- ministration in this respect. Under the morarchical system the mother coun- tries have as a rule drained the life blood out of their colonies. That is the history of Spanish sway in Cuba and in Porto Rico. Colony. or whatever else it may be called, our brief administration of affairs in one of these islands is the brightest chapter in it's chequered histo- ry. And so in due course will 1t be in the Philippines and wherever else our flag has been raised or will be raised in the fu- ture.
The age-herald., 1901-07-30
THE RoBBER TARIFF DID IT.
From the New York Evening Post.

From the New fork EVening IoSt.
 Wealth begins with f2O,OOO year." says the Spectator, discoursing on The New Standard of Wealth" About half century ago, Disraeli who, to- be sure, seldom kept his heroes on short allow ance said that on any basis of good man agement a man was wealthy at fs,ooo year. In America, where the formation of a moneyed aristocracy has taken place almost in our own time, the changes in standards of living have been fairly sen sational In the memory of many readers of the Evening Post a principal of $lOoGoO constituted great wealth But this sum was 1t Is now declared, the annual per sonal xpenditure-yirtually the pin- money-of a late New Yorker who, on the whole, avoided lavish expenditure and hated anything like a gratuitous display of wealth.
The age-herald., 1901-07-30

become the distributor of federal pat ronage, which has been placed in his lands for the purpose of organizing a commercial democratic" party, can not be said to be longer a Democrat, for an ally of Mark Hanna and CO worker of the administration is any thing but Democrat.
 The action of the State Central Com mittee may have been inspired by Sen ator Tillman, as the esteemed Repub- lican organs say it was, but the fact remains that McLanrin is no longer a Democrat, and the Democratic authori- ties did right in calling for his resigna- uon. In a representative government representatives should represent. No one will seriously claim that MT, Me Laurin represents the Democracy or South Carolina. He does not really represent any one. He is Republican maSQueraulnS as DeluoCAat, "Au ~ therefore absolutely without a follow ing. Republicans are Republicans, and so it is with Democrats. The McLau- rin position is untenable. He believes in the gold standard, imperialism Chinese wall protection and ship sub sides, and yet he says he is Demo crat. Such man should be repudiated by both Democrats and Republicans, and that is just about what will occur He will be beaten "out of sight" when he stands next year for reelection. He will not carry a single county, and probably not a single beat. This will be the end of him politically speaking, unless indeed he become a federal judge or something of that sort, which is of course a probable outcome of his present abortive movement. South Carolina still remembers reconstruc- ton, and she is not ready to accept Hannaism and the tariff footing scheme in general.
The age-herald., 1901-07-30

Immediately following the signing of the Paris treaty of peace with Spain, by which we obtained possession of Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, the op- ponents of the Republican party and of the Mckinley administration were swift to declare that the policies then entered upon with respect to the holding and goy- erning of outlying and far distant insular territory would be followed with the most disastrous results both to ourselves and the inhabitants of the new possess sions. Then, too, eminent foreign critics in English, French and German periodi- calls and newspapers shuddered at the prospect before us and indulged in the most gloomy vaticinations. By these gen. tlemen and by scores of our wise college presidents and professors, 1t was assert ed that the experiment was foredoomed to failure for many reasons, chief of which was that, as a people, we had no experience in this department of govern mental administration. The government of colonies. 1t was pointed out, required the services of a class of public servants possessed of the highest order of ability and specially trained for this specific pur- pose. That class, they said, we had not, and could not secure for decades of years, and, even then, 1t was doubtful if we should be successful In the effort.
 Undeterred by the virulent opposition at home and the dismal forebodings that were uttered abroad, the administration quietly faced the problem thus presented to it. Take the case of Porto Rico. Af- fairs there were necessarily thrown into chaos when the civil authority of Spain came to an end. At once the work of restoring order, maintaining peace and preserving life and property was begun by placing the island under military rule, with General Davis, one of the very best executive officers in the army, as military governor. General Davis began the great work to which he was assigned by dot ting the whole island with small garri- sons, and connecting all of them as far as possible by telegraph Wherever dis order broke out 1t was at once promptly suppressed and the perpetrators punish ed. If this were all that was to be done the situation would be easy. But it was not Military rule had hardly been estab- lished when one of the most frightful hurricanes in the history of the islands laid the greater portion of it desolate and brought hundreds of thousands of the la