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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-30
New York Live Stock.

New York. Jan. 90. a.---Beeves--Nothhg doing;
feeling steady. Calves Steady feeling and all
sold; vcals, sjaG.1j: choice would sell up 10 40
BARNARD calves, SSH Sheen and Lambs.
Steady and demnnd fair; sheep, Si.12liat5O:
lambs, $I.7ja0. ll0gs-Nonc fer sale in live
weight; nominal. S5.G0aj S.
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Buffalo Live Stock Market.

East Buffalo Jan. 90. Rtceipts--Cattle, 4 carsi
sheep and lambs. cars; hogs, cars Ship
ments-Cattle, cars; sheep and lambs, 5 cars;
hogs cars, Cittle-Littlc demand. Calves
Choice 10 extra IS. 25aSjO. Lambs-Choice 70
extra Sj,7jd5s0; sheepj, choice to extra, ST. 75s5
Ilogs--Heayy, $50; pigs, sj.60a570
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MEREDITH's GRAVE.
Last Resting Place of First Treasurer
of United States Is Neglected.


Special to thc Scranton Tribune.
Honesdale. Jan. 29.--To many it may
not be known that in the northern part
of Wayne county, near the village of
Pleasant Mount, in a clump OF trees
and brush, surrounded bv a Tough
stone wall, may be found the grave OF
Samuel Meredith, the first treasurer of
the United States. A common slab
with the following ins ,rlptiun is all
that marks the resting place cf the
remains Of this notable man.
SAMUEL MEREDITH
Died
February 10, 1slI,
In the Seventy.siXth Year OF Ills Age.
Samuel Meredith served as treasurer
Of the United States from 1889 untll
1901. He held an interest in num-
ber of large tracts of land in Penn
sylvania, one of these containing a
thousand acres. 1t was located in
Wayne county, where he settled in
1903. and in 1912 erected n handsome
residence, near which he was buried.
The people of this county and COM
monwealth should not allow this sa-
cred spot to remain neglec' ed, when
all over the country monuments are
being erected in memory OF the hon
orcd dead.
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THEATRICAL.
ATTRACTIONS TODAY.

LlCECM. Eight Bells" Night
ACADEMY OF MlSiC.--Jack Hociil,r CON.
pany, Matinee and night.
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Oil Market.

Oil City, Jan. 2o.--Creiit balances Sill: Ger.
tifcates no bid; shipments, "a 300 barrels; ay-
erage, $500? barrels; runs, sg.Sl5 barrels: AZ.
erage, 81, ,Sll barrels
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No Choice in Delaware.

BY Exclusive Wire from The Associated Press.
Dover. Del, Jan, so.-Today's ballot for United
States senators showed no material change and
ther" WAS no choice.
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CORN.
MAY ................ t4@S Iist 4i9s iii2
The representative., 1901-01-17


We clip the following from a recent
issue Of the Washington Times
Il have been coming to Washington
for more than ten years." remarked J..
B. Stone, of Missouri, at the Raleigh
last evening, ito keep in touch with
matters before congress-. and during
that time l have seen many an ex-mem-
Der violate the rule that says that no
ex-member interested in pending .legis-
lation shall have the privilege of the
floor of the house. The other day | saw
ex-Speaker Reed at the. Capitol. He
was there looking after certain interests
in connection with the war revenue
tax bill. When he wanted to see a
member he sent for him or visited the
committee rooms He did not exercise
his privilege and go on the floor during
the session Of the house. And it struck
me that this was something out Of tha
ordinary"
Since the beginning Of the present ses-
sion of congress big array of former
senators and representatives were no.
ticeable about the capitol. They are
not all in Washington at this time for
the benefit of their health, either. For.
mer Speaker Reed may not exercise his
privilege of going on the floor Of the
house; but as his retirement from pub.
lie life is SO recent and his power so
still has sufficient influence left to COM
mand the attendance of the men he
wants to see and use in the committee
rooms and corridors. When he has
been out as long as some of his former
colleagues who now run the third
house." he may have to chase his game
like the others-K. of L. Journal.
The representative., 1901-01-17

the stump he stood without an equal IN
the West. He never indulged in lofty
fights of spread-eagleism nor in bonn
bastic verbiage. His English was pure
and undefiled and he had a perfect
knowledge of it. He was ready to speak
extemporaneously when called upon un-
expectedly. In the Minnesota legisla-
ture a few winters ago he astonished
every one by his remarkably eloquent
reply to ex-Minister White, who had
come back from Russia and was the
guest of the solons of the North Star
state.
Though not affiliated with the Catho-
lie church, he defended it against Prof.
Walter Sims, the apostle Of Apaism,
in ten debates in ten Of the principal
cities of the country, and showed his
dexterity as debator on subjects which
he had not deeply studied.
He was gifted with a marvellous men,
ory, and could quote passages in prose
and poetry from many sources.
Being an omniverous reader, he knew
something about everything, and with
his great brain he could easily expatiate
On any theme in the most charming
manner. He always sympathized with
the Irish race in it's aspirations for free
dom, and was always proud of his Irish
geneolOgy. He was strenuously Oppos-
ell to any alliance between the so-called
Anglo-Saxon countries, and was a
thorough American in every way. We
regret his demise. 1t will be long be-
fore Minnesota has his equal in versa
tiiity of genius. May the sod rest gent
ly over him and may his immortal spirit
find rest in the bosom of the Creator,
who endowed his mind with such ex-
traordinary gifts-Irish Standard.
The representative., 1901-01-17
National Committee
PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING OF
STRAIGHT POPULIST NATIONAL
OFFICERS.
Referendum Vote Ordered on Several
PrOpOsitiOns-An Address
Issued.

The straight Populist national COM
nittee met at the st, James hotel. ST.
Louis, Mo-, Saturday, Dec. 29.
Chairman Joseph Parker, of Louis
vile, KY, presided over the delibera-
tions. Among those present were
Colonel Frank Burkitt, of Mississippi: !:
w. S. Morgan, of Arkansas; Thomas
w. Wadsworth, of Indiana; Colonel J.
S. Felter, of Illinois; J. A. Hopp, chair
man of the Illinois Populist committee;
George A. Wise, of Wisconsin; IA
Bodenhamer, Of Georgia; John M.
Pease, of South Dakota; ex-Congress-
man L. H. Weller, of Iowa; Thomas J..
Reed, of Kentucky; J. D. Johnson, ct
Kentucky; J. H. Hills, late nominee
for governor of Missouri on the Popu-
list ticket; A. c. Van Tine, nominee for
governor of Illinois on the PopulisS
ticket; James H. Ferris, of Illinois:
and Mills Williams, of West Plains, No.
In the morning representatives of the
Social-Democrats and the Union Re-
form party organization were heard.
Prof. George D. Heron, of Chicago.
who recently left the faculty of Grin
nell college, Iowa, for expressing So
cialistic views, was introduced as the
first speaker. Prof Heron is a Social
Democrat of the most pronounced type
He agreed the time had come for unit
ed action by the reform forces. Will
liam ]. Bryan, from the standpoint Of
the reformer, he said, had proved 4
failure. In the Eighteenth century
Bryan might have been considered a
radical, but, measured by present-day
standards, he was neither q radical nor
conservative. He is a profoundly
ignorant man." the speaker said, with
out even possessing a knowledge of
practical politics y
Prof. Heron was followed by Leon
Greenbaum, of st. Louis, also a repre-
sentative of the Social Democracy, AMI
the candidate of that party for mayor
Of St. Louis at the approaching elec-
ton. Mr. Greenbaum said he had been
militant Socialist for only two years.
although he had long sympathized with
the cause. He told of the good results
which, in his opinion, would follow q
sensible coalition of the reform forces
At the afternoon session the members
of the Populist national committee took
up the question preparatory to issuing
formal statement.
Ex-Congressman L. H. Weller, of In
dependence, Iowa, fired the first tell
ing shot against the coalition scheme
He said he had belonged to the Peter
Cooper Greenback party, then the Ma
The representative., 1901-01-17
The Shin Su hAiIY Job.

All indications now point to the GER
the senate. Comparatively few of the
great Republican papers of the country
are supporting it. Many are violently
hostile. The Philadelphia North Ameri-
can, which, except it's antagonism 10
Quay, is generally considered pretty
good Republican authority, has this to
say about it:
There is no necessity to go abroad
for reasons to combat the subsidy
scheme. If it shall fail-and the out
lcok is that it will fail-it will be be
moters. The Frye bill makes provi
sion for the most audaciOus raid on the
national treasury in the whole leg
islattve history of the United States.
1t would confer no general benefit upon
commerce and production, but would
build up and fortify impregnably great
shipping trust to prey upon commerce
and production for the next 80 years."
And the New York World, which we
are unable to classify politically, pre-
sents the following alternatives, which
are worthy of more than a passing
thought:
THE two alternatives to the Frye
Hanna ship subsidy bill presented u
the taxpayer are the following: If the
proposed subsidy should be found in
adequate for the purpose for which it
was intended, it will only be justice to
its benevolent purpose to have tn,
amount of the subsidy increased. If it
should prove successful, why, then, Of
course, further extension of its bene-
fits would be imperatively demanded.
Does the taxpayer see the point?'
Nine millions of dollars year for ten
years would be pretty good sop to give
a dozen transportation companies. 1t is
foolish to suppose that they would build
lot Of new ships in order to divide
the swag. The American merchant
marine will never be built up in that
way.--K. of l.. journal.
The representative., 1901-01-17

time to time, elect" The third propo-
! ping off the last three words: "of pub
| lie utility" The fourth declares the
party is opposed to physical revolution
and conflscat1on of property.
1t declares that the fundamental doc
trine of the party is the principle enun-
ciated at Omaha in 1892, that the wealth
belongs to him who creates it and every
dollar taken from labor without an
equivalent is robbery, and the party is
pledged to such legislation as to de,
stroy the system which makes it pos
| of another.
The referendum vote shall be finished
by June 1, and committee of five shall
be appointed to attend the reform con-
vention at Detroit July 4, there to an
nounce the result and promulgate the
doctrines agreed to.
THE ADDRESS.
The following address was issued
THE national committee sends greet
ing to all adherents of the Omaha plat
form throughout the union, especially
to those loyal and courageous members
Of the Peoples party who, under the
most discouraging conditions, voted the
ticket in November last. While the
vote was smaller in some instances than
anticipated, and a less number was
counted by certain returning boards
than the facts warranted we are en-
couraged by the knowledge that the
winners of the battle are not always
the gamers of the war.
ITO other reform organizations work
ing to alleviate the condition of the
masses, who, while differing with us in
method, agree upon fundamental prin-
ciples ard in uplifting humanity, we
extend fraternal greetings and God
speed, and express the hope that the day
H. not far distant when they will join
with us in uniting all reformers on
the Divine principles of humanity upon
which the Peoples party is founded.
Our party, regardless of numbers,
has an important part OF fill in the
progress of the country. OF recent
years it has exercised more influence in
the political education OF mankind
than either Of the great political or
ganizations, and there is great encour-
agement for those desiring these re-
forms more than they desire Office or
emoluments. Therefore, we recon-
mend the following:
q. That the members of the party
again rally everywhere and renew the
work of organization and education,
spreading the principles of our party
further and deeper, and so conducting
this work that those who believe in our
principles or the earnestness and hon
esty Of our purpose will feel disposed
tC vote our ticket
''2. That with the successful exam
pie OF the cities of England and Scot
land, and the Australian islands in the
government owership Of public utili-
ties In the interest Of public sanitation
The representative., 1901-01-17
THE DAILY PRESS.

The Pioneer Press says of Ignatius
Donnelly: After fighting him the great
er part of his political life in Minnesota
VIC are not going to fight him now that
he is dead, or to renew the fight which
ended with his active public life.
And to do him justice, there
were essential elements of truth
in his feeling that he was and is en-
titled to be recognized as an eminent
man. For it was prompted by his con-
sciousness of his own mental powers.
He was brilliant and plausible public
speaker.
The Minneapolis Times pays a grand
tribute to Mr.. Donnelly, saying in part:
Who that remembers Mr.. Donnelly in
his prime, and heard him stirred to his
lest under the lash of debate, fails tc
recall how forceful was the man, how
apt, how incisive, and how eloquent?
That he was not more convincing was
due to the lack of mental balance
Wheel Gifted with the Celtic humor,
the quick perception, the ready repar
tee, and the plausible methods of pres
entation Of his ancestral race, Mr..
Donnelly was man who was feared
by other debaters and could not be
regarded as a mean opponent, no mat
ter what side he took of the question
at issue, or in what sphere his argu-
mentative powers were put in play.
The Minneapolis Tribune editorially
says of Donnelly: Rarely has there been
4 man more gifted by nature than Ig-
Latius Donnelly A robust constitution,
a bright and comprehensive intellest,
heart beating with kindly sympathy
tor his fellow mortals, a magnetic pres
ence, an eloquent tongue, an unboundad
fluency of speech, and an unrivaled
power of invective fitted him to contend
for honors in any forum.
The st. Paul Globe says of the illus
trious Irish-American: Keen in per-
oeption, and marvelously ready in reply,
Mr.. Donnelly was, perhaps, the most
merciless of all debaters who ever sat
in the legislature of this state. While
iE the national congress he demon
strated to colleagues that the then
frontier had no apologies to ask in COM
rarative ability of it's .older neighbors
IN the sisterhood of states. Gifted with
a memory almost marvellous. and inde-
fatigable reader, and with all the wealth
Of poetry that long line of Irish an
-; ~ 1,ir
almost faultless in diction, and in his
powers as an orator he was always as
folceful and as facile as was his pen.
His lectures bristled with wit and glis-
tened with humor; his impromptu ad-
dresses were apt and always interesting.
The representative., 1901-01-17

tional party, then the Union Labor
party, and he had seen them each in
turn assassinated ih the houses OF
their alleged friends. Unwise and un-
natural combinations of parties had
nearly always proved disastrous. Paid
agents of the money power were al,
ways ready to insinpate themselves in
to the heart of a reform movement and
advise steps which were suicidal. The
Peoples party had been smothered al
| most to death by combining with the
Democrats, and further fusion except
on the straight Populist platform was
out of the question. He was in favor
of the adoption of u platform of about
three planks on which all reformers
could stand. Then 1.-THE Populists coul.l
say to the other ireformers: Come
and help us accomplish our aims. Then
we will help you"
Joseph A. Hopp, of Chicago, chair
man Of the Illinois state central COM
mittee of the Peoples party, was the
next speaker. He said that, while the
vote recorded for the candidates of the
party in rs states,' where it had an
electoral ticket In the recent election,
was somewhat disappointing, there were
points of view from which the outlook
was not so dark i.
He thought the Peoples party occu-
pied strategic position, and was IN
favor of making the most Of it, The
party machinerys he said, was now in
trustworthy hands, and there was 40
danger Of treacherys from those who
had been placed IN power.
Col. Thomas M. Wadsworth, of In
diana, said the Populists of the state
were anxious to secure practical coal
ition of all the reform elements, but
il that was out Of the question, they
would stand by the party, and resist
every effort to fuse it out of existence
He had seen many political parties or
ganized, and believed the Peoples party
was the best of the lot
OSOI6c W. JdCAdUu, III d. 1AIulS, COt
Felter, of Indiana, and others spoke.
Chairman Parker then appointed the
following as q committee to draw up
an address to the psople: James A.
Ferris, editor Daily News, Joliet H.;
Col. Frank Bufkttt, of Mississippi;
John Pease, Of south Dakota; w. ).
Morgan, Arkan5af y. s. Felter. Illi-
nois;. Dr. &. S: Curry, West Plains, Mo-;
and J. A. =Bodenhamer, editor Herall
Dalton, Go. -
At the evening session Chairman
Parker introduced a resolution which
affected several changes in the plat
form of the party az adopted at Omaha
to be submitted to a referendum
vote. After considerable discussion it
was adopted. The resolution provides
for change in@tne name OF the party
from the Peoples party to the
"Populist party" The second PLANK
of the Cincinnati platform is changed
tc read: We demand the public own
ership of such means Of production and
distribution as the people will, from
The representative., 1901-01-17

and economy, and also the example IN
ernment ownership of railway, tele-
graph or telephone lines, than an es-
pecial effort be devoted to this feature
of our platform, believing that this
work will be easily understood and the
more readily accepted
The representative., 1901-01-17
An Irish Bird.
(From the Boston Traveler.)

(FrOm the Boston Traveler)
A young friend of mine, when visiting
in the suburbs, few miles from Boston,
stopped to make some inquiries Her
knock at the door was answered by a
happy-faced roly-poly Irishwoman, who
invited her into the best room After a
little talk her hospitable hostess asked
her if she would like to hear few tunes
on her new organette. and receiving as
sent, she played some popular airs of the
day. When engaged in playing, all at
once she said in a rich brogue: "Oh.
but yur from the church and yed loike
some sacred music" And while playing
a hymn she stopped turning the crank
and said pathetically: ..God was allus
good to me. well moind the day whin
was ON the roof fixin' the window blin'
! felt myself slippin' and thot o. them
jagged rocks by the doorstep, what if I'd
fall on them rocks! But I landed in 4
snow bank. and got up and said praise
God for shnow; It's fame to be bird! =
The representative., 1901-01-17

information in regard to a person who
had owed him considerable sum OF
money for long time.
What property has he which I could
attach?" he asked.
The lawyers reply was very brief AMI
to the point.
1.-The man died six months ago. He
has left nothing subject to attachmen.
save a widow"
The representative., 1901-01-17

AS they skated they looked at the
stars
There were million or more;
Their heels flew up and they observed
A few they'd not seen before.
The representative., 1901-01-17

Read our great premium 0fer On
front page. Some ads prove both In.
terestlng and profitable reading.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-07-03
GREAT WEATHER SHARPS.

Sailormen of the Gulf of Mexico of the
olden Times Were Experts.
1.-THE greatest weather sharps in the
world" said a citizen who takes an in
terest in meteorology, especially of
the goose bone brand, "were the old
time sea captains in the Gulf and coast
trade. Squall smelling was a neces-
sary part Of their business, for, as you
probably know, the biggest dirty
weather factory in the universe is the
Caribbean sea. There are no such
things as times and seasons down
there, and what's coming next is a
matter of pure chance. 1t may be
calm and it may be rip-roaring hur-
ricane, SO the men who cruised in
nal service to help them out had to
keep continually on the alert, and it's
no wonder that some Of them ac-
quired a skill that seemed next door
to supernatural. 1t became a sort of
instinct-a second nature-with them,
and they couldn't tell how they did it
themselves. They would predict
CudlE6o
at in the glass; they would anticipate
the very caprice of the wind, and many
a time they saved their ships and their
skins by quick, sharp orders which for
the moment appeared to be nothing
short of preposterous. OF course it
was all matter of minute observation
a good deal of which was no doubt un
conscious. They had learned, by Ions
experience to read meaning in the diff
ferent forms Of clouds and the way the
cloud strata lay in the upper air; the
water was an open book to them, AMI
they would detect hundred and one
small, atmospheric phenomena invisi-
BILE to an ordinary observer. l was on
the ship Of one Of these famous old
weather prophets years ago on voy-
age to Havana We were just enter
ing the harbor when the captain, who
had been moody and distraught for
several hours, suddenly called the
mate and ordered him to get anchored
as quickly as possible and make ev-
erything fast for a hurricane. The
mate made mild protest. The glass
is pretty steady, sir, he said. Never
mind said the captain; it's a-coming,
all the same!' The crew lost no time
in carrying out the order, and while
they were at vorl; making things trim
the barometer began falling like \
man tumbling down an elevator shaft
He had barely time to get in shape
for trouble when typical tropical
storm came swooping out of the east
and played havoc with the unprepared
shipping Several good sized craft
were knocked to pieces, but we escaped
with no damage whatever. l tried to
get the captain to tell me how he knew
the gale was coming, but his answers
were vague. That he felt it in his
bones was the nearest he came to a
definite statement. This old tribe of
prophets seems to have died out" ,"
added the meteorological enthusiast,
"and the modern sea captain doesn't
make any pretensions in that line.
Storm smelling has become lost art. y
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-07-03
News of victoria's Death in India.

When the telegram arrived stating
that the German emperor was hurrying
off to Osborne to be at the deathbed of
the queen the natives of India at once
said that he was eager to put in a
claim for the crown Of England, as the
son Of the eldest child of the queen.
This report spread far and wide, and
no amount of argument would con-
vince the natives otherwise. Their
traditions almost invariably depict n
fight for the crown on the death of a
reigning monarch. When rajah dies
his heirs always squabble and intrigue
over the succession. Even the intelli-
gent Indian fancied that the emperor
would try to seize Great Britain. When
telegram arrived stating that the
Prince of Wales looked worried and
haggard" and that the emperor was
"very grave" it was at once concluded
that the quarrel had begun. Finally
when it was stated that a German
squadron was going to Portsmouth for
the funeral the natives looked unut-
terably wise and said: "Of course he
will wait until the queens body is in
the earth then he will secretly turn
his guns on the British fleet" In such
strange circles does the Asiatic mind
revolve Bombay Correspondent, Chi
coga Record-Herald.