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MEMS LEAGUE
ENJOY DEBATE
OUR REPRESENTATIVE GOV.
ERNMENT NOT A FAILURE.
Judges Gave Their Decision in Fa-
'vor of the Negative Speakers.
Electric City Wheelmen's Coming
Minstrel Performance-Funeral Of
Thomas Houser Yesterday After
noon-Accidents in the Mines.
Other News Notes and Per-

The Mems League of the Plymouth
ganiaed recently for the social and in
tellectual advancement of it's members,
ana also to help defray the expenses
of the church, held an enjoyable meet
ing last evening. The newly-elected
officers, d. D. Evans, president; Tallie
NJ. Evans, secretary, and w. G. Phil
Nps. treasurer, were in their stations.
Eight names were proposed for MEM
kership, which makes total enroll
ment of forty now in the league. The
committee in charge Of the recent
concert made it's report, which showed
balance, after all expenses were paid.
The feature of the meeting was a de-
bate on the subject, Resolved, That
Our Representative Form of Govern
ment Is a Failure"
Prof. John T. Jones, principal of No.
Is school. and Conner d. Reese, or
sanizer of the Prohibition Alliance,
were the affirmative speakers. and J.
Hayden Oliver, son of Select Council
man Joseph Oliver, and Attorney
Charles T.. Daniels, spoke on the mega
tive Slde. The Judges were JOhn X.
Thomas, A. b. Eynon and M. w. An.
derson.
The affirmative debate cited in
stances of debauchery and corruption
in politics to uphold their arguments,
while the negative speakers spoke of
the social industrial and commercial
advancement of the United States as
an evidence of the stability of our
present form of government. Both
sides advanced good arguments,a and the
contest was very interesting and in
strEctive throughout.
After due deliberation, the judges de-
cided in favor of the negative side,
Nessrs. Oliver and Daniels. At the
EeXt meeting. which will be held on
Monday evening, May 5, another de-
bate will take place on the question,
"Resolved, The Philippines Be Allowed
Self-Government." The affirmative side
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SOUTH SCRANTON NOTES,

An interesting case was heard before
Alderman Lentes last night, when AL
derman John 4. Howe, of the Seven
teenth ward was given hearing for
giving false information to reporter
of the Scranton Republican. The case
arose out of the fact that Samuel Por-
ter was alleged to have raised money
to secure the liberty of Mabel Miller,
who was tried before Alderman Howe
last week. The evidence, as given by
the prosecutor, was that he was mis-
represented in the paper mentioned
above, and, so far as he could learn,
the information was furnished by AL
derman Howe. Porter was represented
by Attorney Frank Boyle. and the de-
fendant, by Attorney r. j. Burke. Mr..
Lidstone, of the Republican, swore that
TO the best of his recollection the story
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undulations over the land. the Cali
fornia poppy bloomed above the rich
est views and arteries Of gold the world
has ever known, all unsuspected. A
Circe, with powers to please, dazzle
and charm by its enchantments, while
1t allures, lulls and mystihes, this
flower Of sleep seemed to draw by some
occult process from the earth the elixir
of gold. unfolding it's blooms OF gold a.
beacons proclaiming: I'VE are bloom-
ing above rich mines Of gold"
There is ever a mystery about the
poppy. 1t Is a weird flower. u 10 a.
most sentient, with a life unknown to
human kind. "While glory guards
with solemn tread. the bivOuac OF the
dead" stealthily sea OF gore creeps
over the old battlefields. Blood red.
the poppies in waves and billows hold
high carnival above the soil that covers
the slain. Lord Macaulay says Of the
battlefield of Noorwinden: The sum-
mer after the battle the soil, fertilized
by 10000 dead, broke forth into mill
lions of blood-red poppies. The travel
er from st. Troud to Tirlemont who
saw that vast field of rich scarlet
stretching from Landen to Neerwinden
could hardly help fancying that the
figurative description of the Hebrew
prophet was literally accomplished.
that 1.-The earth was her slain" Bay
ard Taylor, In "The Lands of the Sara
Gen." says he contemplated, with feel
ings he could not describe. "the old
battlefields of Syria, densely covered
with blood red poppies, blooming In
barbaric splendor, gioating on the gore
of soldiers slain"
However interesting the poppy may
be to men of science and to lovers of
the beautiful. 1t is yet more 30 to the
people of California. This beautiful,
weird, gold-colored flower of Sossa-
mer texture belongs to California alone.
Nowhere else In the world has II ever
made it's habitat. There it Is natural
ly so profuse that it Is related az
fact that. coming on turn full face
upon blooming field of yellow pop
pies. dazzling in the sunshine. horses
have been put to flight - from
flames Of fire.
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THE POPPY.
Golden Blossoms That Greeted the
California Pioneers.
From Home and Flowers.

From Home and Flowers.
Far out at sea, cleaning sheets Of
dazzling gold arrested the gaze of the
early explorers of California. Blazing
along the Pacific coast, embroidering
the green foothills of the snow-capped
Sierra Madres, Transforming acres and
acres OF treeless plains into royal cloth
of gold. millions of flowers of silky tex
ture and color of gold fascinated the
Spanish discoyerers. An eminent bot
anist, Eschscholtz, at once classified the
plant, and his followers conferred his
name upon this. the only native Ameri-
can papayer.
Dream-like in beauty, fascinating
from sheer loveliness, spreading In soft
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THE CURE OF THE HAIR.
From woman's Home Companion.

'""' ""'''""o hoh'V NouiPaHloh.
At night before retiring brush the hair care.
fully and braid it loosely in number OF strands
Avoid wetting the hair too often to make it
glossy, as the wetting has a tendency TO make the
hair coarse. Avoid putting the hair up In kids
at night to wave it. They are more harmful
than even the much abused ourling.iron, as the
hair is twisted about the kid so tightly that it
actually wears 1t out, and bald spot is apt in
time to be the result.
There is new sort OF shampoo Just now much
in favor with women OF fashion. II is known as
the perfume shampoo. 1t consists OF sprinkling
the hair with orris-powder, leaving the fragrant
powder on long enough to collect the dust and
oil, and then giving the hair vigorous brushing
The orris shampoo when thus taken Is quite
harmless and leaves the hair with just a subtle
perfume about it,
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FROM SOUTH AFRICA.
New Way Of Using Chamberlain
Cough Remedy.

Mr.. Arthur Chapman writing from
Durham, Natal. South Africa, says; "As
proof that Chamberlain's Cough REM
edy is cure suitable for old and young,
pen you the following; A neighbor Of
mine had child just over two months
old. 1t had a very bad cough and the
parents did not know what to give 1t.
! suggested that II they would get a
bottle Of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
and put some upon the dummy teat the
baby was sucking it would no doubt
cure the child. This they did and
brought about quick relief and cured
the baby" This, remedy is for sale by
all druggists,
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GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

William Bushen, driver boy en-
ployed in the Hyde Park mine. had
the fingers of his right hand badly
squeezed yesterday, while engaged in
spragging a car. He was attended by
DR.. George B. Reynolds, at his home,
corner of Jackson street and Sherman
avenue.
The members of st. Paul's Pioneer
corps are requested to assemble at the
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other Funerals Yesterday.

The funeral of Lizzie. the infant child
of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Pierce, of All
Deckers' court occurred from the
house yesterday afternoon. Interment
was made in the Washburn street
cemetery
Funeral Director Price shipped the
remains of the late John NJ Davis to
Catasauqua yesterday morning. where
interment was made later in the day.
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A GREAT SURPRISE

In in store for all who use kenp's Bslsam for the
Throat and Lungs. the great guaranteed remedy.
Would you believe that 1t is sold on its merits and
any druggist is authorized by the proprietor Of
this wonderful remedy to give you sample bottle
frceG 1t never fails to cure acute or chronic
coughs. All druggists sell kemps Balsam. Price.
25c. aud Soc.
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sTRGCK BY A METER.

However. the familiarity which
breeds contempt is sometimes rudely
encroached upon by the occurrence of
some hitherto unheard-of accident,
which acts as spontaneous detona tor
to speculation. Some years ago, for
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The News Condensed.

The next state fair will be held in
Madison September Z to IL.
Poisoned oysters caused the death
of Mrs. Helen Olson, wife of Prof.
julius E. Olson, head of the depart
.nent of Scandinavian languages and
literature at the state university in
Madison.
The State Spiritualistic society
has granted charter for church
at Superior.
Emil C. Radick, of Neenah, has
been issued patent on an automatic
railway crossing gate, which if used
generally will, it is said, prevent
many of the crossing accidents.
The loss by a fire at Weyauwega,
which destroyed the Pioneer block,
the largest brick business block in
town, will be approximately $35,o00.
All the telegraph operators on the
Wisconsin Central railway have been
granted an increase in salary amount
ing to five dollars a month.
The Wisconsin university football
team will make a trip to California,
leaving on December IA.
Revenue collections for November in
the Milwaukee district were $500, 519.4O.
The post office at Tomah was robbed
by three men, who blew open the safe
and escaped with what stamps it con-
tanned, amounting to about 1900.
The Milwaukee council voted to or
der 100 additional voting machines as
a result of the test at the recent cleo
ton.
Frank Lucas, of the town of Pleas
ant Prairie, was badly bitten by a
mad dog which ran into the house
and crawled under the bed. After a
terrible battle it was beaten to death
with a club.
James Hoskin died at Darlington
| of liver and kidney troubles, aged 50
He was the senior member of the firm;
of Hoskin & Ward, druggists, and
was one of Darlington's most infu-
entail business men.
August Weishaar, a sheen aker.
committed suicide at Wausal by
hanging himself at the city lookup.
| Weishaar was imprisoned for larceny.
Nicholas Ferris and Catherine Fer
ris, of Appleton, who were divorced
in August after several years of mar
ried life. were reunited in maria e
Thanksgiving day.
Uriel B. Smith, father of the first
white child born in Milwaukee, died
in Chicago, aged 81 years, at the resi-
denee of his daughter. Mrs. C A. Nc
| Donald. Mr.. Smith settled in Mil
waukee in 1885. He had lived in Chi
.ago for the last few years.
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disclosures

a Baron Munchhausen; there was
really but one about whom the
famous tales were written for
revenge by an enemy. Hohenlohe
is a relative of Il former German Chan
cellor. These three men, it now APP
pears, were lured by the prospect of
marrying Miss May Goelet, the very
wealthy and beautiful daughter of
plain American who is dead.
This was the Goelet who once said
concerning the Duke of Manchester,
who at that time taking notice." that
he would rather see his daughter dead
than welded to such a rake. 1t was
he who chartered Mrs. Langtry's
yacht, the white Ladye," one English
summer, and conducted by proxy n
splendid social compaign, though i'll
in bed at the time. 1t was part of
the delightful gossip of the time that
he wandered forth with a. sick mans
peevish irritability and sick mans
very limited clothing to know what
was going on on the climaxing day of
all; when the present. King Of England
was the guest of l~eor on the yacht.
Since that day Miss Goelet's name has
been mentioned" in connection with
fully a dozen of the great names Of
Europe, and it is not doubted that she
will finally marry a titled foreigner.
1t is a curious, cynically sad situa-
ton.
/ blame American mammals more
than foreign adventurers for these
things. The young men have been
brought up from youth to think that
it would be disgrace for them to work;
that fortune can be gained by mar
riage if needed to repair the estate
and that young woman not "high-
wellborn" is the social inferior of the
husband whom she enriches, and must
stay at home when he attends court
balls, which she is not good enough
to see.
Besides, didn't a young man once
come to America without money and
without a second-rate title, put up in
cheap quarters, enlist the services of
a. social leader now dead, and carry
home an heiress with $15,000,000
dowry? That story has inspired more
fortune hunters than any other in the
whole sordid list.
/ do not refer to, the Duke of MARI
borough; he needed NO social sponsor.
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parents to the United States six years
later. AS caricaturist and cartoon
ist he became famous.
Thomas Mast may be said to have
been the original newspaper cartoon
ist, and it was to his talent that car
toons in the daily press owe their
earliest development. Among the
well known caricatures and types
used in political cartoons Mr.. Mast
created many. The Tweed money
bag, the republican party elephant,
and the democratic jackass originated
with him. The line of work since de-
veloped and improved by some was
entirely of his own creation.
He began his career with Leslie at
salary of SIS per week, which was
raised to $3.50 soon after. Here he
worked for three years, studying at
the school of design in the evenings.
When the New York Illustrated
News was started he secured more
remunerative work, being sent to
England to make sketches of the Hee-
nan and Sayres prize fight, about
"1i1S1t CJ1C OdUCSb GAC1UCHcuU UnGn
prevailed. This event was the maxi
ing of Mast. It was in February,
1861, that he returned to the United
States, just before the breaking out
of the war. Soon afterward he be-
gan in Harper's series of pictures
which gave him great fame. Fired
with patriotic zeal, he began those
remarkable illustrations which car
ried into almost every northern home
the great scenes of the conflict be-
tween the north and the south with
all the vividness of reality. Nast's
soul was en- rapport with the spirit
of the north, and his pen and pencil
cleaned like sword. His painting
in 1865, called 'The Union Advance
Arriving at Plantation" was a mas
terpiece. President Lincoln publicly
acknowledged that Mast did more
than anyone else to inspire patriot
ism and recruit the army. Others
high in public station paid him SINH
lar tribute.
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taken such keen interest in the tall
Young Virginian. He was said to have
come to this country because crossed
in love- That did not prevent him
from leaving vigorous Line Of Ameri-
can descendants.
The Lord Fairfax of ten years ago
was country doctor, who used to
plod about the old town of Alexandria,
Va.-Washington's county town-and
treat people for all sorts of diseases
and for fees which he and they usually
forgot. He died a few years ago, and
his son came to New York to earn a
living. His firm, mindful of the value
of title, sent him 10 England. There
he is told that he is rightfully Lord
Fairfax; that, however, his possible
seating in the house of peers would
be disputed by the Lord Chancellor
on the ground that he is not British
subject. BY being naturalized as
Briton he may take his traditional
place. Now, as the title is considered
by the young mans sErewd associates
al part of his business stock-in-trade
Lord Fairfax may soon return to the
allegiance which his great-grsat-
great-great grandfather cast off so
many years ago. OWEN LANGDoN.
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Karl In ger, the Mad
Mu1lab'S European Ally
- Ex-Au Prominently -
- the of he ~

To win the friendship of the British
government has been the ayowed de-
sire of Karl Inger for the last few
years, and Lord Salisbury, when at
the foreign office, received advances
from the "Emir" with this in view.
So. too, has Lord Lansdowne. 81 do
not want any money from you," he
wrote to a London firm; "the princi-
pal reason why / contracted with you
was that, by your interyepfion and in
fiuence, / wished to gain the friend
ship of the English government, by
which means it would be possible that
my Somali tribes could give them
selves peacefully to the pursuit OF
culture and commerce"
THAT was, is, and always will be
my principal idea," Karl Inger con-
tinued in this letter. ''It may be that
we became acquainted too quickly
with each other. Perhaps people rep
resented me to you, or you to me, IN
too rosy a color But now we shall
have to open our eyes, as the tune
of waiting is at an end. Neither your
nor my interest will allow any fur-
Their delay. Also the fear that you
could make a fiasco "a failure) with
your government is out of place. 1t
is better to make a fiasco than to
grOpe in the dark"
The attitude of Lord Salisbury to
the mysterious austrian officer" was
one of great suspicion, but a more
favorable impression appears to have
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work for better building, but they
do not know how. Men of the Tim"
Sullivan type trying to work for any
thing in Washington according to
their familiar tactics 'are as likely
to cause disgust as agreement. SO
New York business men look on at
the curious spectacle of New York
post office bill pushed by men from
i other parts of the country who hap
pen to be upon the post office com
mittee and know the need Of more
room. There is just a chance that a
bill providing for an uptown office to
relieve the present building may pass
In spite of the local delegation.
So of the harbor: If a great ocean
greyhound" gets stuck in the mud off
Sandy Hook, as happens with tolera Bile
frequency, the mails from or for the
whole country are stuck with her, as
we'll as passengers from every state.
Mayor Low recently said that the city
must get ready within five years for
the 1,OO0-foot ship. Vast systems of
docks to accommodate such levia-
thans are being pushed to completion.
, They were begun in Tammany's time;
for some facts are too plain to be
blinked even by practical politicians"
Meanwhile the harbor is filling up.
Incidentally, the 1,00o-foot ship will
he worth seeing. We have 775-foot
ships now on the stocks. The 1000
foot ship will be almost a fifth of a
mile in length. A quarter mile race
track can be laid out upon her deck.
Even now l have known exciting if
not very swift bicycle races to be
"pulled off, on the deck of an ocean
liner on calm day. Foot races are
perfectly feasible-a 100-yard dash
straight away with plenty of room for
the runners to slow up after passing
the line.
The big ship is a demonstrated sue
cess; not necessarily the fast big ship.
The 16-knot Celtic is favorite. She
has $4,000 tons displacement, rides
steady as raft, is slow and sure. The
Great Eastern was only $4,000 tons.
Steamship men say that her failure
delayed the successful big ship for
many years when it might have been
paying dividends all that time. Size
was in her case reached too swiftly;
the harbors were not ready. Will the
harbors in five years be ready for the
twice-as-big ship, which Mayor Low
foresees?
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KARL NIGER, THE MAD MuLLAAs ALLY IN soMALLAND.

since been entertained of Karl Inger
and his plans. 81 wrote to Lord Lans-
downe," said Karl Inger, land in
formed him that 1 could peacefully
settle the differences between Hadji
Abdullah Mad Mullah) and the Eng
lish government. If, therefore, two
years ago and six months ago the
English government had no confidence
in our peaceful intentions, and pre-
ferred to involve the country and the
tribes into war and misery, perhaps
now that government has more con-
fidence in US when they know that we,
together with English subjects, will
be active, and when Hadji Abdullah
has escaped, either beaten, prisoner
or dead"
''The Mad Mullah in London!" That
is one of the plans Karl Inger
formed, and he wrote of it: "Will
they (the government see that ugly
Mad Mullah ?"-ugly being writ
sarcastic" indicative of the way the
English papers spoke of Karl 1nger's
ally. eff So" the letter went on,
Il will bring him to London, or
send him there, so that he can re-
peat what | have said or written.
He is not a bad man, but an honest
one, free Somali, who loves his
country and religion as well as any
Englishman loves his own country"
The proposal was not carried out,
and London has not seen the Mad
Mullah. Karl Inger's faith in Eng
l. i II
the end of last year, however, when
he wrote of the British government
as 1.-The pioneer of culture" and
''the helper of civilization" There
fore, take heart" he wrote,s you
and your friends, and go direct to
Lord Salisbury and tell him openly
the truth. AS we do not want any
thing wrong, and our undertaking is
in full accordance with English in
terests, we will await his decision.
Again. at the same time, he reit-
Grated his trust in Lord Salisbury:
HAS the English government the
intention, and l hope it has, of estab-
| fishing peace and commerce in East
Africa, a man of Lord Salisbury S
stamp will not say no. if the matter
is submitted to him by English sub
iects." His anxiety TO approach the
British government through British
subjects stands out in all the letters
of Karl Inger, and in one of them he
saws that this would be a better way
than his sending Statement" to the
foreign office, where. in consequence
of intrigues,1 he was not persona
grata. Which, whether true last year
or not, is certainly true to-day.
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CAUGHT AT LAST.
A. B. WOrthingtOn, WelI-Known in
America and Canada, Com
victed in Australian

London, Dec. Snail advices from
Australia announce that Arthur
Bentley Worthington, we'll known in
the eighties in Salt Lake City, Texas,
Detroit and in parts of Canada il
connection with the religious sect
called the Students of Truth, and
who absconded from Charleston in
1886, has now been convicted and is
awaiting sentence at Melbourne for
having secured under false pretenses
the sum of $4,000 from young
widow there. Worthington posed as
a clergyman, and is alleged to have
duped many Australian women in
connection with the sect which he
founded in the United States.
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Two Suicides

Indianapolis, Ind, Dec. 8.-Robert
Killian, a musician who recently
came here from st. Louis, and Thorn
as Sharp, young man living on
Meek street, this city, committed
suicide at Titles hotel Sunday
morning. Killian took morphine and
Sharp took rough on rats. The latter
was found in agony and taken to
the city hospital, where he died Sun
day afternoon. At about the same
hour Killian was found dead in his
room at the hotel. He had lain down
with his clothes on. Both had rented
rooms at about the same hour Sat
urday night. They were strangers
to each other.