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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-17
RELIGIOUS NEWS

1 leadership OF this great Junior rally
choir means a great service of song by
the children.
The march from Schenley park to
| Tent EIndeavor under escort of the
Boys brigade---five thousand children
| will be an inspiring sight.
The address on Junior work will be
delivered by Rev. Clarence L.. Eber-
man, ex-president of the Pennsylvania
| union. now field secretary for the
united society. No better selection
could be made.
Young Mems Christian Association.
The annual review of the Young
Mems Christian association for It's jubi-
lee year. 1901, abounds in figures rep
resenting the advances in the multi
farious departments of association
work. so much SO that 1t would not be
practicable to consider them all in a
single paragraph. Ten million dollars
was contributed and pledged during the
year to the American association in
funds for buildings. endowment, and
support, and for the payment of debts
and extension. A building was added
to its equipment every week. and
scventy-seven more buildings are as
sured for the future. The associations
numbers 1,416. while the membership is
in America 28S,477, and throughout the
world 533.049. The Bible classes record
an increase OF 80 per cent.
Army association work is done at 323
points: naval at principal ports and on
war vessels. The railroad associations
number 10; college, 475: in theological
seminaries, "a; in professional schools.
81; miners associations, 8: colored, IS:
county groups, 4. Twenty-eight thou
sand men are enrolled in the educa-
tional classes. $4,000 in the gymnasiums,
100 in the training schools for secre-
taries, and $4,000 members in the boys
department. Other general figures are
sS.30O.000 for current expenses Of asso-
Citations and state and international
committees: an average cost of $11 per
member to operate association work:
1850 association Bible classes, with "a
400 boys as members: a total attend
ance of 2,551 900 on all meetings; 1900
active members on the religious work
committee: and more than 5000 pro-
fessed conversions during the year.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-17
Christian Endeavor Convention.

On Tuesday. May 20. the Lackawan-
j.. ma County Christian Endeavor Union
will meet in convention at Elmhurst,
Pa. There will be two sessions, 800 p.
m. in the Presbyterian church. 100 p.
m. in the Baptist church. The follow
Ing programme has been prepared:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-17
Old Maids and Climate.

LILLIAN Bell in Harper's Bazar.l
OF course, an unmarried woman is al
ways a disappointment to herself, but
the way she takes it is the difference
between old maids and bachelor girls.
The unenlightened frequently make
the mistake of thinking that lack of OPP
portunity is responsible for the exist
ence of single women, but i lay most of
1t to climate. The New England eli
mate is not conducive to matrimony or
even love making. And even after the
crucial moment has passed and the sin
gle woman has drifted from girlhood to
spinsterhood, a cold climate, raw winds,
chill rains and snow tend to increase
the loneliness of it.
There may be old maids in the south,
but I have never heard of their being
called by that name. l have known
some single women, school teachers,
anywhere from II to 3d. and some of
their grown boy. pupils were eternally
in love with them. A single woman
who has made up her mind not to marry
has hard time to keep her resolution
in the SOUTH for she is always assailed
to break it. The very climate breathes
love. All, there it is. AS / said. old
maids are surely matter of climate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-17
ANrl.sALooN SENTIMENT GROWS,

| Within the last thirty days saloon
petitions have failed in the counties
of Emmett, Shelby, Tama and Butler.
A light vote cast at the general cleo
ton in comparison to the actual popu-
lation gave the saloon men hopes that
their opportunity had appeared, the
| legal requirement of sixty-five per
cent of voters voting at the last general
election having been reduced to a mini
mum by the light vote cast. They
fought hard~for their business but In
each case the prohibitionists were
aroused and fought little harder.
For time it seemed that the saloon
men would win in Butler county where
the combined strength of the druggists
had been given them because Of the
activity of the Anti Saloon league in
prosecuting the druggists of that coun-
ty, but today's Geographic dispatches
announced that the saloon petition had
failed.
It is probably just as well. There
is unquestionably a sad state of affairs
existing in most prohibition counties
OF Iowa where the prohibitory laws
are violated fiagrantly and liquor sold
under small regulation save that of
semi secrecy, but there is considerable
doubt whether the open sale of liquor
by the mulct saloon would be an i'm
provement. Many good citizens doubt
less think that it would while many
others are positively sure that it would
not. The T.-R. believes that it is
right for the people of each county to |
determine the question for themselves
and the efforts that have recently failed |
regardless of the advantage of mini |
mum requirement by reason of light |
vote cast at the general election, would I
indicate that the anti saloon sentiment /
in Iowa is growing notwithstanding the /
rapid decline and almost extinction of t
the statewide prohibition party
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-17
TO STAMP OUT CATTLE DISEASE.

The house has passed an urgency bill
appropriating 100000 to stamp out
the foot and mouth disease affecting
cattle in the New England states, and
the measure will doubtless pass the sem
ate, as it is considered expedient to
eradicate the disease at once, before it
Is diffused thru the entire nation. 1t
was brought into this country thru i'm
portations of stock feed from Europe.
The foot and mouth disease is said
to be due to germ. 1t occurs first in
the feet, and the cattle, in eating grass,
communicate it to the mouth. The first
appearance of the trouble Is between
the dew-ciaws, and about where the
hair and hoof meet. When the disease
reaches the mouth the tongue becomes
raw and sore, and cattle can not eat,
lameness ensues, and they finally die
of starvation or have to be Killed. The
serious nature of the disease is appar-
ent.
1t may not require all the sum APP
propriated to eradicate the disease, as
the local authorities report that they
have the trouble well in hand but so
much of it as is needed will be well
spent in thoroughly stamping it out.
The readiness with which congress re-
sponded to Secretary Wilson's call for
funds for this purpose shows that the
house regards the disease as a grave
menace to our nation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-17
Restoring a Work of Art.
Kansas CITY Star.


Fierce excitement and vehement pro-
test has been aroused among the es-
teemed ladies of the w. G. T. U. by the
reinstatement in the white house of the
famous picture, Love and Life paint
ed by George Frederick Watts, the cell
ebrated English artist. The picture,
which is a fine example of the nude in
art, was banished from the white house
to the Corcoran art gallery by Mr..
Cleveland, thru the clanor of the same
women who are Directing to 1T now. 1t
represents the dead body of a beautiful
woman, being restored to life by man
who symbolizes love. 1t was on exhi-
bition at the Worlds fair at Chicago
and was much admired by art experts,
for the beauty of its conception and the
delicacy shown in the style of treat
ment. 1t is believed that Mr. Roosevelt
who is familiar with the best works of
art, will stand by the picture. There is
no reason why he should not. The fact
that he recalled it and placed it In the
state dining room is sufficient evidence
that he approves of it. The president
of the United States is not the proper
person to reflect and assert the pro-
of prudes and narrow crit
les, and it is rather surprising that to
women who are as pure as the esteemed
ladies of the w. G. +. u. all things are
not pure.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-17

German character in it's worst and most
clustering aspect Later acts have not
tended to allay this feeling.
Another French view showing bitter
ness as well as self eomplacency is
from the Francais, which says that the
German and British squadrons are act
ing as sheriffs in behalf of usurious
money lenders, and are performing
their duties in a way that might be ex-
pected from burglarsl The Francois
concludes its leader with these words.
THANK God there is no ship bearing the
French flag mixed up in such disrep-
utable business
All this is interesting and instructive
as coming from keen critics and from
an independent point OF view.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-17

Park street, from the east line OF
Fourth street to the west line of Third
street, and the same are hereby ordered
improved in the following manner, to-
wit:
the present established curb lines, to
be of the best Portland cement and the
paving of the roadway between said
curb lines and the terminals above des-
ignated on the said streets, with the
best vitrified repressed paving brick on
concrete foundation, all in accordance
with plans and specifications prepared
by the city engineer and adopted by the
city council for said improvements the
cost of said Improvements to be as
sessed against AUDITING property, ex.
cepting that the cost of improving all
street and alley intersections will be
paid for out of the general or Improve
ment fund of the city, and excepting
further, such costs and expenses of im-
proving the said East Nevada street az
shall be assessed against the railway
now laid on said street, and against the
owners thereof, as by ordinance pros
vided, all in accordance with the law
and ordinances governing the same.
The contractor to guarantee said in-
against any repairs during
a period of seven years after the ac-
ceptance of the same by the city, and at
the end of said period the said improves
ment to be in first class, durable con-
dition, practically as when first laid:
said guaranty to be secured by q bond
with approved surety company as
surety in a sum not less than 50 per
cent Of the amount of the cost of the
entire improvement, conditioned upon !
the faithful performance of the con-
tract for said Improvement. and pay
able to the city of Marshal1town.
Dated Marshalltown, Ia, Dec. 10. 1902.
JOS. H. EGERMAYER, City Clerk
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-17
IOWA NEWSPAPERS.
AN INDEPENDENTS VIEW.
Mason CITY Times Herald. ]


Some things are occurring in these
days of political unrest that are not
pleasing. There seems to be a united
effort on behalf of some of the repub-
lican papers in the state to continue
the strife that has existed. This work
comes from the anti-Cummins papers
and they are giving as reason for the
report that an effort would be made
in the next state republican convention
to defeat his denomination. OF course
there is no reason to believe that he can
be defeated. Even some of those who
opposed him have suggested as much,
and yet they keep nagging away at
him. msquoting what he says When
they have absolute knowledge of how
he stands on certain topics right before
them, and practicing unnecessary de-
ception in their editorial expressions.
Governor Cumnins is the best governor
this state has had in many years. He is
fearless in expression, a power in ac-
ton, conscientious in what he does and
it Is a bad mistake for republicans who
have opposed him to continue OPPOSE
ton, for it is certain to meet with the
severest rebulte in the state conven-
ton. Harmony can not be secured
along these lines. Defeat is not so easy
to bear, but his opponents might as
well become resigned to their fate and
do 1t as gracefully as possible
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-17
Enrng an gednesda lrrrhe IT, 1902

which was made last week to the an
nual convention of the National Civil
Service Reform League. We quote
from it:
In the Philippines, under the aus
pices of a friendly administration. the
system has been thoroughly estab-
hshed and is now in a most satisfactory
working order. The fact that
President Roosevelt, in dealing with APP
rointments in the Philippines, has been
guided by the principles of action laid
down in the first annual message, That
not an Office should be filled with any
regard to the mans partisan afIiliation
or service, with any regard to the polit-
ical. social or personal influence which
he may have at his command has made
directly and forcibly for the creation of
a favorable public opinion.
The presidents consistent following of
the principles of civil service reform in
the insular appointments has done more
than volumes of literature for the real.
healthy, substantial establishment of
the merit system in our dependencies"
That then, is the result of the expert
ment. The administration has fulfilled
lis piedSSS anu lCeiIlASu itS tuedi. Lively
of the opposition has come
to naught. According to the expert
testimony Of the civil service reformers
the civil service in the
has been established upon
the merit system. There is no SCALA
wag government no "carpetbag rule
The offices are not filled with "party
The islands are not being
exploited for corrupt personal gain. On
the contrary, 4 high and enlightened
system Of administration has been firmly
established in those islands, such sys-
EN- as civil service reformers have long
desired to have in the United States.
There is, then, just one detail of the
anti-imperialists' prophecy that re-
Mains to be disposed of. and unlike all
he rest, it may be fulfilled. That is.
hat the sort of civil service we give the
Philippines will react upon the United
States end affect our own domestic SER
ice. 1t may, indeed, do So and we
NOW OF no friend of the merit system
Who will object to its doing so. In the
we are told. the merit sys-
EN- ''has been thoroughly established
nd is now in most satisfactory work. |
ng ORDER We have no idea that 1t |
will be abandoned, and we have no idea
hat the people of this country will be |
atisfied with a domestic service less
erfect than that which they have given |
o their outlying dependencies.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-17

brilliant and bewitching young newspa-
per woman, with a type of mind to cor
respond with her face and form. Her
magazine and newspaper sketches are
struck off with dramatic and dashing
style that always makes a go. In THE
Color of His Soul'--her first book-she
has strung together a collection of pen
pictures, from out of her own expert
ence, on the seamier side of life. The
first and last sketches in the book are
brought together in such a way as to
explain the title. The first portrays d
young man led away by the theories of
DR.. Heron, the last portrayS young
girl who has been betrayed, dying in
maternity hospital. The author shows
her dramatic power in the final scene,
wherein the selfish disciple of socialism
the fervid denouncer of the wrongs
wrought by capital upon the wage slave
appears as the betrayer of the dying
seamstress, and one who has even
preyed upon her earnings.
The literary instinct combined with
sympathetic insight and great dramatic
power make Miss Norris an artist in
spite of her occasional lapses into
newspaper slang.
A very popular, wonderful and not
the worst book in the world for boys is
1.-THE Bears of Blue River" by Charles
Major. The adventures are certainly
thrilling enough to cause any natural
boy to forswear his dinner until he has
read to the last page. With its delight
full forest flavor and tender thread of
childish romance. it makes good enter
tainment for grown-u as well. But
most readers (boys excepted) will be
of the amazing success
with which the boy heroes always de-
molish the bear. Such hairbreadth es-
capes don't usually happen outside of
books. but in this one you can bank on
the boys wit every time,-eyen tho his
head is in the bears mouth,-and that
is really what lends charm to the book.
Still, one can not help feeling that the
bears ought to have had chance once |
in a while.
OF a somewhat different and higher
order are the true animal stories told in
two other recent books. One is kin
dred of the Wild" by Charles G. D.
The other is True Tales Of
Birds and Beasts in the young read |
ers' series of Heath's Home and School
classics The latter is small work of
1872 pages, copiously illustrated by Mary |
Wellman. and contains twelve tales
from various writer's, compiled and ed |
tied by David Starr Jordan. The edi-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-17
a GREAT CABLE LINE.

Another of the great arteries of
communication connecting European,
American and Asiatic shores will be the
ocean cable of the Commercial Gable
Company. Public attention has just
been called to it.by the successful start
ing of the work of laying the cable be-
tween San Francisco and Honolulu.
When completed the length of this ca
bic of the Commercial Company will be
three and one-half times greater than
any Atlantic cable. 1t will reach from
England and France to China, three
fourths of the distance around the
globe. The first section, now about to
be laid. will probably be completed
about Christmas day, or about the first
OF January. and il good fortune attends
the work communication with Honolu
In Will then be established. The re-
naming sections, starting from Homo
lulu, touching at Midway. Guam and
Manila, 5000 miles of which have
already been manufactured, will be laid
and In operation. it is hoped. by the
FIRST of June next. The whole length of
the cable line win be about 10000 nau-
tical miles.
The moving spirit in this great work
was the late John w. Maekay, who
crowned his wonderful and successful
career with an undertaking which will
appropriately accord him a place in
history among those who accomplished
remarkable achievements. 1t was a
part of his ambition to see the cable
laid, and that that was denied him, his
ambitious son. Clarence Mackay, will
see the work carried forward and COM
Melted
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-17

is bereft of his natural sences and is
turned quyt madd;" whereupon it was
ordered that three or A persons bee
hired to build a little Blockhouse at
Amesland for to put in the sd. mad
man.
The democrats and others who favor
the omnibus statehood bill declare the
conditions in Oklahoma, Arizona and
| New Mexico as to population, wealth
and general features are such as to en-
| title them to admission. The minority
report submitted on Monday shows that
both the republican and democratic
tions adopted with perfect unanimity
platform planks recommending each of
the three territories by name for state
hood. Such expression, the report con-
tinues, should be respected by both
parties.
President John Mitchell of the mine
workers union will write a book on
Capital and Labor based on the
great anthracite strike in Pennsylvania
1t is easy to guess which side will have
a fair showing.
A Vague Reply.-"Do you think you
would be happy with man like me?"
said Willie Washington earnestly.
ooh, yes" answered Miss Cayenne,
after pause. Il think so, if he wasn't
too much like you"
Washington Star.
Hicks-Peckham's wife has quite {
temper, hasn't she?
Wicks-I can't say. She lost 1t the
last time l was there, and didn't wait
to see if she found it again.-Catholic
Standard.
A reminder Of Jerry Simpsons pros
perity has reached the United States
senate cloak room from New Mexico
1t is in the form of large box OF
beautiful apples grown on Jerry's
ranch in the Pecos valley. The state
hood for New Mexico and possibly the
apples did not hurt the cause he has
at heart.
There was only one point in Pro- |
lessor Smudges lecture that the au-
dience seemed to appreciate"
ooh, yes; that was when he said:
In conclusion'!'' Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-17
FRENCH VIEWS AS TO VENEZUELA.

It is not surprising that there should
be a lack of understanding in Europe
as to the scope of the Monroe doctrine
since our own people have placed vari-
GUS interpretations upon 1t. Some have
imagined that Uncle Sam was acting
the role of policeman, with a big club
guarding all the interests Of South
America from European interference.
sode, the French people are getting a
new view of the Monroe doctrine, and
now understand that the United States
will not shield the South American re-
Public from the consequences of her
own wrong doing, and will not inter-
vere unless England and Germany
should attempt the permanent acquisi-
ton OF Venezuelan territory.
The general trend of opinion in the
French press is that England and Ger
many have acted too hastily and made
mistake in supposing that President
Castro would back water at the first
gun fired by their warships. The Petit
Journal in a leading article, headed
Europe in America" takes the ground
that the only explanation of President
Castro's defiance is that he has been
encouraged by lingo interpretations Of
the Monroe doctrine to resist two pow
n,f11J E,urnneap ctataS and tbat ba will
allow his ports to be bombarded and the
seacoast to be ravaged in hopes of
leading England and Germany on to
acts of aggression in the interior which
will unite all his .countrymen, add to his
popularity, enable him TO end his own
little civil war, besides arousing SYM
pathy in the United States. This is
very rational view of Castro's motives,
and 1t is one that will find supporters
in the United States.
AS may be supposed the French are
quick to take advantage of any oppor-
tunity to censure the two European ma
lions involved. Public opinion tfruout
France, which was at first decidedly
unfavorable to President Castro and
Venezuela, has undergone a great
change, owing to the act Of the German
commodore in sinking the Insignificant,
harmless little Venezuelan ships. This
is regarded in France as pure piece of
wanton aggression, showing UP the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-17
Civil Service in the Philippines.
L 4

A year or two ago one of the foremost
arguments of the less irrational ''anti-
imperialistS" against the government s
Philippine policy was that the acqui-
sition and retention OF those islands
was certain to result In an orgy of
spells. The Philippines would be sub
jeeted to "carpetbag" government of the
most corrupt kind. The American Off
GERS sent thither would be self-seeking
politicians, appointed to reward them
or to enable them to reward themselves
for partisan services, and the islands
would be exploited and looted for pri-
vate gain. Such a state of affairs
would inevitably react upon our domes-
tic administration. The civil service
here would be demoralized,and our cor
rupt despotism in the Philippir es would
lead straight to despotic corruption in
the United States. If any one ventured
to suggest that Great Britain had had
just the opposite experience, finding in
a high grade of colonial admiolistra ton
the leaven which leavened the whole
lump of her domestic civil service, he
was suppressed with the austere re-
Duke that It was presumptuous for mere
Americans to hope to do what their
British cousins had done.
Well, the experiment has been made,
and the results are beginning to be rec
ogniZed. Even our anti-imperialist"
friends had generally to admit that the
Philippines were we'll chosen and were
free from the reproach of "carpetbag-
ging." But, persisted the truly inter-
rified, of course they are mere respecta-
Bile figure heads; the rank and file of
the service under them will surely be
scalawags. 1t was conceded, too, that
the president and the commissioners set
up high ideal of public service in the
islands. But then, said the noble corp
oral's guard of critics, that is mere
Ideal which will never be realized. and
which simply adds gross hypocrisy to
our other crimes and vices. Yet now
what is the verdict of the best qualified
Judges upon the actual outcome? We
may find 1t in the report of the commit
tee on civil service in the dependencies.