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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-26
Election of Officers.

The members of Washington camp,
No. III, Patriotic Order Sons of Ameri-
ca, have elected the following officers
to serve for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, William Hess; vice president,
William c. Scott; master of FORMS AL
vim Bisbing; conductor. Charles Thorn
as; Inspector, Daniel Hartzell; guard,
William Pengart: trustee, George Mil
Ter; alternate, Alvin Bisbing: captain
of degree team, John w. Benjamin; i;
representative to state camp, Charles
r. Hopewell.
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in Mansfield State Normal school three
years, and graduated with special hon.
ors. He did his preparatory work in
the Scranton public schools and the
School of the Lackawanna.
Mr.. Williams was formerly a carrier
boy for The Tribune, and also served
several years as night messenger for
the paper. He has been president and
critic Of the Athenaean society, and
gave Grady's New South in the con-
test in which he won the prize.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-26
Farewell Party.

Miss Maud Jones. Of 1912 Jackson
street. daughter Of w. A. Jones. was
rendered farewell party last evening
by a number Of her friends. She will
leave tomorrow for Butte City, Mon..
to visit her brother, Fred Jones. Mr..
and Mrs. B. H. Davis, of North Sum-
ner avenue. West Park, will accom-
pany Miss Jones as far as Buffalo.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-26
Election of Officers.

At the meeting of Washington camp,
No. 1893, Patriotic Order Sons Of Amer
lea, held on Tuesday evening in Wash
ington hail, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing term:
President, II. w. Jones; vice-presi-
dent, r. T.. Evans; past president, d.
w. Davis; master Of forms, William
Sutton: conductor, Samuel Jones; in
side guard, w. Storm; outside guard.
j. w. Shoemaker; trustee, r. +. Evans;
delegate to state camp. 7. w. James.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-26
RTHSCRANTON
HONOR CONFERRED UPON DA.
v1D J. WILLIAMS.

He Won the Gold Medal for oratory
at the Mansfield State Normal
School from Which He Was Grad
uated This Year-Statement Made
by Mr.. Nesbitt with Reference to
the Case Recently Brought
Against Him-Personal and Short
News Notes of Interest.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-26

David j. Williams, one of this years
graduates from the Mansfield State
Normal school, has been awarded the
gold medal by the faculty as first prize
In oratory for the best defamation at
the commencement exercises.
Mr.. Williams is the youngest son Of
Mrs. Mary A. Williams, and has been
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-26
OBITUARY..

CATHARINE O'MALLEY, the s.
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. +. j.
O'Malley, SIT Third street, died at ~
o'clock yesterday. The funeral will be
held Friday afternoon at o'clock.
EDWARD MALLOY. a prominent
resident of South Scranton, passed to
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-26
DR.. STEM,

his reward early yesterday, at the fam
lily residence, SIT Brook street. The de-
ceased was A years of age, and is sur
vived by two sons, Edward and James,
and one daughter, Katherine.
The funeral will take place tomorrow
morning at 8 o'clock.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-26

Let us not forget that In our own pos
sessions-Hawaii--w have two volcanoes.
Providence (R ID News,
And then we have Carmack, Patterson.
Bryan and Tillman, the latter in continu-
Gus eruption, while Watterson, Teller
and George Fred Williams are liable to
belch at almost any moment.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-07

great many honest minds have
been disturbed and driven to the
verge of doubt by their inability to
form any conception OF God.
He is the uncreated Creator. but
the words convey no meaning "hat-
ever to our minds. If You looN
through the Lick telescope at Arctur'
us YOU see very little more than with
the naked eye. and if the profoundest
looks at the Almighty he sees very
little more than the unlettered peas
ant Still ArcturuS is III the SKY
whether you can peer into his secret
or not. and God is in your life. though
your most searching thought returns
to you empty handed. The very words
omnipOtent and omnipreSent nave an
unthinkahle Specification, and when
the man of science tells us that space
is absolutely lmitless. that 1t con
sistS of horizons which are simply
endless in number, we accept the tact,
but have no more conception OF II
than the micrOhe in a watch has OF
the delicate machinery whose ticks
are a continuous roll of thunder in
its ears
What, then. you ask. is the basis
of religion which demands such
self-contr0l and self-sa crifice? II these
problems will always remain insoi-
uble and if you can know so little or
the Being who demands your soul s
allegiance, why may not religion 1T
self he niStake2 MANY heart has
been engloomed by these thoughts
and many a mind befogsed by them.
True religion is independent of any
purely intellectual theory OF the uni
verse, and is founded on facts proven
true by the universal experience Of
mankind. This statement is easily il
Illustrated by childhood. The little one
! does not understand its mother, has
| no comprehension whatever OF moth
| er's love or of the significance OF a
| mothers discipline. If the baby We're
| gifted with speech and could describe
! it's relations to that mother it would
make as many misstatements as we
! do in describing our relations to God
| The mothers providence is wholly
| misund erstOOd even her Watchful
| care looks like interference with the
| child's rights, and the child might say
! as Calvin did of the Almighty, that
! "of her own good pleasure she pets
| at one moment and Furnishes at an
| other The knowledge that punish
| ment and love are entirely consistent
with each other, or that mother Il
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-07
Cost of Drink Habit
What the Money So Spent Could
Accomplish for All the People.

the drink bill would pay for all
railroads in tie United States in
three and one-half years, pay for all
farms in the state of Illinois in siX
months, wipe out all our national,
state, city, county and town debts IN
one wear. pay for all farm animals
owned in the United States in ten
months, and would duplicate all bank
deposits in two years.
What are we getting for this enor-
nous expenditure? The saloon and
the drink habit furnish the hotbed OF
crime in our country, for IS per cent
of all crime that curses our land can
be. traced directly or indirectly to
rum. 1t is the cause Of not less than
% per cent Of the poverty that makes
life unbearable. Mr.. Powderly once
said that nine-tenths of all the misery
of the working people was due to
slavery 10 strong drink The drink
habit is responsible for large percent
age of the disease from which our
people suffer. Every physician is
familiar with large class OF alcoholic
diseases We have alcoholic phthisis,
enlargement and fee Jleness OF the
heart. epilepsy paralysis, dropsy, in
SANITY. derangement of liver and kid
news and a complete breakdown OF
the nervous system. The drink habit
results in loss of acute sense of feel
ing and control of the body; judgment
| is clouded. nerves shattered and
| prompt action rendered impossible.
All this results in a harvest OF
| awful death. Such system cannot
| he localized without sin
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Foundation of aith
Extract from Sermon by the
Late George II. Eepwortt

still mother even when the chlld
prayer is sternly denied, is beyond the
reach of that narrow intellect, and will
be for many year TO come. Mothers
and children sometimes get at odds
for this reason, and in like manner We
get at odds with the Almighty.
But when we come to be men our
minds are large enough to settle GER
tain matters of practical importance.
It is needless to theoriZe, for harsh
eXperience tells us truths which can
not be gainsaid. The microbe in the
watch has learned his lesson and
knows that some Journeys are dan
gerous. while others are safe. and
from that moment he has a plan OF
life He constructs a decalosne for
himself. and the Thou shalt not is
the voice of imperial law. not for
bidding him through caprice, but be.
cause an infraction of the law is fol-
lowed by loss and remOrSe. Every
man knows that there is a right and
a wrong: has been taught this by
many tears and failures; that love
brings sunshine. and hatred the tenn
pest; that filial relations with the IN
finite result in serenity Of soul, res
ignation to harsh events which
changes hem from curse TO bless
ing by some necromancy whose Sc
cret be cannot fathom. while hostile
relations end in loneliness and des-
peration; that integrity OF character
is worth all its costs to acquire and
defend it Add to all this the pro
phetic longing for another life, which
no argument can suppress. a longing
that, like the spring on the mountain
side. will have its way, and a curious
conviction. which seems 10 be com
ponent part of his nature. that IN
| WAYS unexplained the dear ones IL
| heaven can find a path to earth. drawn
! by love which was sacred and
/ strong before the funeral bells tolted
/ and is equally strong and sacred no"
/ and YOU have an array OF facts, cor
| roborated by every human life IN eV
| erv cline and every age, That is the
/ basis Of the kind OF religion which
! Christ taught. He gave MS no eX
/ PLANTATION of mysterious problems bul
simple truth iustead-truth most
needful and altogether practical
! Build your faith on that foundation
and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against il. Earth will become the
primary scnool for God s University
/ and God Himself the Teacher, who's.
love is no more loving than Is His
iscipline--George II. Hepworth.
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Items Concerning Labor In
All Ports OF the World.

their intention to recommend that
their unions withdraw from the coun-
Gil
It is likely that the American Labor
Union will adopt the referendum sys-
TEN of electing officers. The referen-
dunn plan Will require that a candidate
for official position get the indorse-
meEt of at least five unions before his
name can he placed upon the ballot.
All the union carpenters who have
been out on strike at birmingham
Ala. have returned to work All diff
ferences between the carpenters and
the master builders have been settled
The carpenters Will receive thirty-five
cents an hour for eight hours day
and the master builders can hire non
union or union foreman for each Job,
as he sees fit.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-07

If the man who drinks would save
his own children from the same dan
ger he can do so better than any
other. He need not lose their respect
by telling them Of his own mistakes.
If these mistakes have been hiden
from them. Let him simply tell them
without personal reference what he
knows about whisky, it's effect on a
mans happiness, success. self-respect
and physical comfort.
Whisky gives great many things
to men-negative gifts, most of them.
Of these gifts here are few:
Lack of friends. lack Of will, lack
of selfrespect, lack of nervous force
lack of everything save the hideouS
craving that can end only with un-
consciousness and that begins again
with increased suffering when con
seriousness is restored.
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Temper Gent increase
Unite Statess Steele

The 100000 men employed by the
United States Steel corporation are
to get an increase of 10 per cent in
wages. a step which will take from
the earnings of the trust the sum of
$4,000 900 a year and transfer it to
the pockets of the labOrerS.
The increase in wages is purely
voluntary, and is the largest i'll his.
tory. Every man in the employ OF
the trust. union and non onunion eN-
ceptin. those working under private
scale, is to share in the advance. 1t
applies to every constituent company
i'll the great corporation.
The executive committee of the cor
poration has been holding a number
OF conferences with the highest Off
cials of the auxiliary concerns, and
the decision has just been made The
first men to profit by the increase
were those of the Carnegie Steel com
pany. who were not already working
under private scale. The next ad'
vance will come to the employees of
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Source of Most Crime
Drink He's Relation to Almost
All Nor al q nd Physical Evils.

An advertisement now meets the
public eye in all directions. 1t iS
"---'s Whisky. That's All" The
fact is. however. it is not true to give
notice of any whisky and say that s
all" There is no line of business
that is so related to all others, in q
damaging way, os the liquor traffic.
Some years ago a noted editor said:
Men can star; out on all different
lines Of philanthropy or work of re
form. and no matter on what line they
start they will all meet around the
whisky barrel
The drink evil seems to have a ra-
lation TO almost all the moral and
physical evils that affect humanity
Why should not all who love their
fellow men join in a. crusade against
all use as a beverage Of Il drink that
briu-s men to imbecility. insanity and
premature death"
The other morning as a Northwest
ern train came near Chicago II sud
denly stopped. When the passengers
ali"htcd and went to the head OF the
train they found the manGled body Of
a man. Near il was a whisky bottle.
or course. no on" could say that its
contents led the man to deliberately
nut himself III the way Of destruction,
after he had accepted the WARNING
whistle once and got off the track,
but there seems TO be-a natural con
nection between whisky and many
of such casualties.
The next morning the newspapers
had this announcements: The un-
known man killed near Austin yestei.
day is supposed to have been q
tramp"
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-07
Labor Law Void
Wisconsin Supreme Court Hands
Down ON Adverse Decision

The Supreme Court Of Wisconsin
handed down a decision that the state
law which prohibits any employer
from discharging anybody because he
belongs to a labor organization is con
trary to the employers constitutional
rights. and therefore void. The case
ct bar was that of Louis kreutzberger
cf the Central Foundry company at
milwaukee, who was arrested charged
with violating the law by discharginS
Ell employe because he belonged to Il
labor union. He was discharged. II
nm employers liberty We're curtailed
by legislation, however, that OF an
rlnIlloye could be likewise curtail"d,
II is declared. Thus an emDlove might
be punished for quitting work, be
cause him employer had formed a
blacklist organization. or any other
objectionable combination.
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1t is not hard TO believe that drink
led to the tramp life and 10 the
tragic death.
The dark and never-endins negro
problem in the South is greatly az
gravated by liquor. In the old days
of slavery the owner protected his
slaves from drink as a matter or self
interest. Just as he would save horses
and cattle from using any poisoned
drink
One great source Of degradation
and crime among the negroes is free
dom to get and drink liquor. The
lynching horrors that so disgrace our
country are often caused and aggra-
waited by whisky.
The liquor saloon and its substitute
are everywhere. and always the cen
ter of lawlessnesS. 1t seems impos-
sible to devise any law that re
strains in any way the traffic in intOX-
jcatiug liquors and have it strictly
enforced.
The same difficulties that affect the
minors or drunkards is found in com
! pete prohibition.
In many places prohibitory laws
are more completely enforced than
the restrictive features of the best
regulated license system. 1t seems t.
be the nature of the beast TO tram.
pie upon all laws that interfere with
unlimited trat tiic
The whole problem Of crime AMI
/ ,-,, nf ~
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Saving the Children
Warn Them by Earnest Advice
OF the Danger in Whisky

1t is q well established fact that
in the usual order of events drunken
ness would he handed down from
father to son and hundreds of thou
sands of families would be ultimately
wiped out by whisky.
1t is not true. fortunately, that the
son of q drunkard actually inherits
drunkenness fully developed.
But drunkard gives to his son
weakened nerves and diminished
will power which tends to make him
a drunkard more easily than his faith
er was made a drunkard before him.
The great safeguard Of drunkard's 8
children undoubtedly lies in the warn
ing which they see every day in
their home and in the earnest
advice which the man who drinks will
give TO all young people, if ne have
any conscience left.
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Or. polemUs Fl. Swift, pastor of the
Wesley Methodist Episcopal church,
Chicago. speaking on The Cost OF
the Rum Traffic and the Returns
from It." said:
"The rum traffic is an enormous
business. The direct cost to the peo'
pie OF the United States is the amount
of money spent for liquors. That is,
for native distilled spirits $500 ,0OO,-
600, for domestic beer $475,OOO,0OO,
for domestic wines $6O,o0O,ooo, for
imported liquors of al kinds $40 ,Ooo,-
900, total 81 ,O55 100000. To this
enormous direct cost must be added
the larger indirect cost. That has
been estimated all the way from
81 900 100000 to 81 500 100000.
If we take the most conservative
the traffic is $4,000 900. 900 we yet
have a sum that is all but unthink-
able. l. that were saved 1t would
give S4O0 per year to each OF 5000
90 families. 1t would give to each or
&c 100000 families four barrels OF
flour, fifteen pairs of shoes, ten com
plete suits OF clothing. fifteen bushels
of potatoes. and 500 pounds of meat.
Before so large distribution the
problem of poverty would disappear
as the morning mist before the July
sun The cost Of the rum traffic IS
ten times as much as the churches of
America have given for home and
foreign missions from their organlza-
tiOn to this hour, twenty times as
much as all salaries paid for public
school teachers in the United States,
and ten times as much as is expended
! for public education in all forms.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-07

The Supreme court of New York
has decided that member of la
Dor union must abide by its decisions.
II ordered by the union to go out on
strike he must obey or else forfeit
his membership. The case at bar was
that in which G. NJ. Wlnant sought to
compel the Manhattan Ship Jolners
association to reinstate him. WlEant
came out when the union ordered a
strike in the shipyard of !. n. Rob
bins. of Brooklyn, but returned to
work week later For this he was
expelled by the union. When the
Robbins yard was again unionlZed
Winant lost his Job, as is usually the
case in such instances. He brought
suit to compel the union 10 reinState
him. claiming that he could not OBJ
tain employment until 1t did so The
court decided against him.
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ident of the union to which his en-
ployes belong he can tell pretty well
what the men want. how they will act
in a given case, how far the union can
be depended on in q prospective emer-
@eucy. Then he win feel far freer to
deal with outside matters. the max
ing of contracts. the settlement of diff
hCutieS with competitors in business,
the acceptance Of business with a time
limit and where a heavy bond may be
demanded to secure prompt filling of
the order-all such engagements that
depend almost wholly on the abso-
lutte methodical running of the plant.
Henry w. Hoyt, Vice President Al
disclaimers Company
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-07

American Steel and Wire plants.
In the Pittsburg district about 80
600 men will be entitled to the in
crease Chief among them will be
the blast furnace workers, all day
men. laborers and machinists. The
wages of the blast furnace workers
and day men of the Edgar Thomson
and Homestead steel workers and all
furnaces operated by the Carnegie
Steel company were advanced with
out notice
Workmen employed under private
scale will be deharred from the ad-
vance. as well as coal miners. coke
workers. rod men al. tube workers.
1t is estimated that out Of the total
number of employees of the corpora
ton. oNe-third Of them are paid on
the tonnage basis. 1t is expected that
the larger independent steel and iron
producers of the country will grant
their day meA. la5orers, machlnists
and blast furnace workers similar ad
| vance.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-07

An old sea captain was riding in
the cars to Philadelphia when young
man came in and sat down beside him.
As they entered into conversation the
captain said to him Young man.
where are you going" Il am going
to Philadelphia to live" he replied.
Have you letters of introdnction?'
asked the captain. Yes said he, and
pulled some of them out Of his pocket.
We'll" said the captain. haven't you
a church certiticate?" "Oh, yes. but
didn't suppose you wanted to look at
that" Yes" said this seasoned
sailor Il wart to see, that
Then the old captain, with a good
deal Of earnestness. added: AS soon
as you get to the city present that to
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-07
Our Everpresent Lord

The thought that our Lord IS with
use every moment OF our lives is
very precious one What miserable
lot would he ours If we could only
have access to Him on the Sabbath.
But thank God it is not SO. He is
just as near us in The midst OF our
humble daily toll as He is when We
are worshippinG Him IN the sanctuary.
1t is when we are veXed with the cares
and anXieties of daily life, that We
need Him the most. and just here is
where. if we will He becomes the
most precious to us
Have you ever stopped for moment
when almost overcome by some per
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-07
Remember Es Is With Us
Every Moment Of Our Live

picking daily duty. and sent up wore
of prayer to your lord for wisdom tc
properly perform your task? II not
then YOU have missed one of the mos
blessed privileges that the Christian
may enjoy.
Every child of God knows there i!
such a thing as grace to help in time
of need. but We can only begin tC
comprehend the wonderful power o
every moment of every day that He i:
close beside us every step We take
and is "a very present help in ever,
duty that we may be called upon Il
perform.--Georse d. GelwiCks.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-07
Avoid the Abyss
Total Abstin enc the Only Refuge
for Those Whom Whisky Attro cts

Here is a chaSm one thousand feet
deep. 1t might be delightfully."- sen
sational to leap for a hundred feet
into it's yawning depths to the avoid
ance of the catastrophe waiting our
trySt at it's rocky bottom. but where
IS the man outside the madhouse who
descent? The only safe place for
such an adventurer is on the shore
far from that sheer depth.
lntemperance is sucn an abyss.
Many there are who leap down into
the depths of drink nursing the fond
delusion that they can stop their fall
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-07

Sohn T. Wilson. president of the
brotherhood of Railway Trackmen OF
america. and considered by his
friends the most effective, honest and
Conscientious labor organizer in the
country. has turned down an offer of
bonus of s25,uo0 and an executive
position with the Canadian Pacific
hallway company at an annual salary
of $4,000. The remarkable circum-
stances about the proposition is that it
was made to Mr.. Wilson by a rail
road company whose su"iking track
-nen were led to victory by The presi-
Hent of their organization.
The wonderful executive ability dis
played by Mr.. Wilson while handling
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-07
Points Out Wea kness
Corpora ton Official Criticises
Meth eds OF Some Unions

THIS has been q fundamental weak
ness zin all the labor organizations Of
the day that ii has heen my fortune
to come in contact Wlth-waut of con
fidence il each other and in their own
officers, whom they have put forward
as their 'spoilesmen.
believe that employers Of large
mum bers of men. al iCaSt those who
have~rgiven the subject any serious
thought would much prefer to deal
with an intelligent. thinking broad
minded president of a labor OrganiHa-
tion than with the individual mem
bers of the organization. After the
head of great industry has bean in
conferenceEa few times with the pres