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The Scranton chronicle., 1903-01-31
JUDGE DAY WILL ACCEPT.
The Friend of william Mckinley
VIII Accept Seat ON the United
states Supreme bench.

Canton. o.. Jan. 26.-Judge w. r.
Day has accepted tender Of appoint
ment as associate justice of the su-
preme court of the United States.
Judge Day said. In answer to a
query as TO his appointment:
81 received the tender from Presi-
dent Roosevelt Saturday. ] mailed
my acceptance this morning"
Judge Day does not know when the
appointment will be sent to the sen
ate.
The Scranton chronicle., 1903-01-31
Fatal Mine ripple Fire.

Terre Hautc, Ind. Jan. 26.--The tip
pie of the Harrison Landlord mine,
west of this city. was destroyed by
fire Monday. One man Is known to
be dead and several badly burned.
The Scranton chronicle., 1903-01-31

Washington, Jan. 2e.--The senate
committee on Philippines decided to
substitute the committee currency
bill for the house bill and report IL 10
the senate. The senate bill Is the
same as that reported from the house
committee on insular affairs and
which was defeated in the house last
week
The Scranton chronicle., 1903-01-31
Candidate for Auditor.

Hon. T. R. Maxwell, of DeSoto
county, prominent candidate for
auditor, was in Jackson last week.
Mr.. Maxwell and Deputy Auditor
1. u. Henry are the only two candi-
dates announced for the position Of
auditor, and both will make a yig-
orous canvass.
The Scranton chronicle., 1903-01-31
TO HONOR SENATOR TELLER.
Reception aud banquet {" he Ten-
cred senator Teller ut Denver
Wednesday Night.

Denver, Col, Jan. 26.--'rhc sub-eom-
mittee of the eDmoeratie state cen
tral committee has arranged for
banquet at the Brown Palace hotel,
ON Wednesday night, TO be rendered
The Scranton chronicle., 1903-01-31

Washington. Jan. 23.-The senate
committee on military affairs has or
dered favorable report on Foraker's
bin appropriating $4,000 for the erec-
ton of headstones to mark the graves
confederate soldiers buried in the
north.
The Scranton chronicle., 1903-01-31

Honolulu, Jan. 26.-fBy Pacific ca
BILE. )--Lorrin Andrews has been ap-
pointed attorney general OF Hawaii
by Gov. Dole to succeed e. p. Dole,
resigned. Mr.. Andrews Is a native OF
New York, and is grandson of one
of the earliest Hawaiian missionaries.
The Scranton chronicle., 1903-01-31

Honolulu, Jan. 26.--(B. Pacific ca
Bile. 1.-THE steamer Korea has arrived.
breaking the record between here
and San Francisco 4 hours ard 81
minutes. Her time from San Fran
cisco was days, ~ hours aud -
rlinuses.
The Scranton chronicle., 1903-01-31

SENATOR HENRY NJ. TELLER.
TO Senator Teller, the democratic
members of the senate and house.
the unseated democratic mem
bcrs of the house and the demo-
crntic state central committee. Pre-
ceding the banquet, the same even
ing. public reception 10 senator
Teller will be held In the rotunda
the Brown Palace hotel.
The Scranton chronicle., 1903-01-31

Another new banking institution
was established in jackson last week.
IT is to be known as the Mississippi
Bank and Trust Company. The
capital stock is fixed at 100000,
and it is capitalized by the most SUBJ
stantial business men Of the city.
The Scranton chronicle., 1903-01-31

Last week at Cat island, near BIZ
loxi, the oyster schooner Rhodes
sprung a leak and Jim Glass and
Charlie Dugan, who were sleeping in
the cabin, were drowned.
The Scranton chronicle., 1903-01-31
To Quiet Land Titles.

Senator McLaurin's bill to quiet
certain land titles in Mississippi was
favorably reported from tie COM
mittee on public lands last week and
passesd by the senate.
The Scranton chronicle., 1903-01-31
WRITTEN DECLARATIONS.
Exchanges Between Minister bowen
and the Allies, Representatives.

Berlin. Jan. Written deelara-
tions regarding the raising of the
blockade of the Venezuelan ports
have been exchanged between Minis
ter Bowen and the Representatives of
The Scranton chronicle., 1903-01-31

jefferson City. Mo-, Jan. 2o.-Gov.
Dockery has issued a proclamation
Offering a reward Of $500 for the ar
rest and conviction Of the men who
The Scranton chronicle., 1903-01-31

murdered Detective Charles J. schu-
maeher. OF 81. Louis. and who are
supposed to be the men who robbed
the Union bank few weeks ago.
The Scranton chronicle., 1903-01-31

81. Louis, Jan.i 60 According TO
Pinkerton superintendent Murphy,
the pinkerton agency took mp the
Union bank robbery ease about Jan
uary ~. on which date II was dis
covered that stranger had arrived
in ST, Clair, stopped at the llibhard
house over night. and, after eating
breakfast at the same place in the
morning. engaged a horse and buggy
and drove 20 Union.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-01

The Republic of Argentine has asked
President Roosevelt whether he adj
heres to his statement about the forci-
bic collection of debts from those re-
publics of this continent who have be-
come delinquents In reply the Presi-
dent. very promptly backs down from
his Interpretation of the Monroe doc
trine in the Venezuela case, probably
having discovered that the people of
the United States would not counte-
nance the outrageous attack that Ger
many and England made -epon the
Venezuelan republic. President Roose-
welt in his reply to Argentine SAYS:
THE government would always be
glad to see the question of the justice
OF claims by one State against another
growing out of individual wrongs, or
national obligations, as well as the
guarantees for the execution of
awards" left to arbitration In the
note to Argentine there is the theory
of wrong and reparation and no longer
Endorsement of his former idea of the
forcible collection of debt. The Pres
ldent has doubtless discovered that Civ
ing the old world kings and empcrors
free rein to collect their bad debts from
our sister republics was an intcrpreta-
ton of the Monroe doctrine that would
certainly lead to its abrogation or Il
fight to enforce it.
Men of the Presidents cratic ma
fire mike moor diDlOmnts and wa nra
fortunate as nation that we have
crawled out of the Venezuela trouble
without greater complications.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-01
A. Lover of Nice Distinctions

The sihmese difss;;lsS other ORR
entails In a kind o. youthful curiosity
which has made them reach out for
European ideas. whereas most Eastern
races have repealed the West or been
indifferent to it. A recent writer on
Siam gives an account of the learning
of the King of Siam who died in 1868.
He was a trained Oriental linguist,
and corresponded in fluent English
with many Englishmen of distinction.
From the book by Mrs. LeonOwensr.
English governess at the Siamese court,
the writer quotes an account of his
majesty's habits of study.
Before my arrival in Bangkok 1t had
been not uncommon practice to send
for missionary at midnight, have
him beguled or abducted from his
bed, and conveyed by boat to the pal
; lace, some miles up the river, to in
quire II it would not be more elegant
to write ''murky' instead of Obscure"
or "gloomily dark rather than mot
clearly apparent" And If the wretch
ed man should venture to declare his
honest preference for the ordinary over
the extraordinary form of expression,
he was forthwith dismissed with irony,
arrogance. or even insult. and without
n word of apology for the rude inva-
sicn of his rest.
One night, a little after 10 o'clock,
as his majesty was on the point of
going to bed like any plain citizen of
regular habits, lie fell to thinking how
most accurately to render into English
the Siamese word phi" which admits
OF variety of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
spirit, soul, devil. evil angel.
After puzzling over it for more than
an hour, and getting himself possessed
with the word as with the devil it
stands for. but to 40 purpose, he or.
dered one of his lesser state barges to
be manned and despatched with all
speed for the British Consul.
That functionary, inspired with live
~ alarm by SO starting n summons,
dressed himself with unceremonious
celebrity and hurried to the palace,
conjecturing on the way all imagina-
bic possibilities of politics and diplom.
acy, revolution or invasion.
To his vexation, not less than to his
surprise. he found the king en- desha-
bile engaged with Siamese- English
vocabulary, and mentally divided be-
tween deuce" and devil" in the
choice of an equivalent.
His preposterous majesty gravely
laid the case before the consul, who,
although inwardly chatting at the stua-
ton, had no choice but to decide with
grace, and go back to bed with phil
oSophy.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-01
within Our Border.

\ 1t is believed that the Des MONIES
library building will be completed by
Oct. ].
Des Moines city officers. from Mayor
down, have begun an agitation for higher
1 salaries.
The Archer Davis camp of Spanish
American war veterans has been muster
ed in at Burlington.
The home of Charles Carroll at Cres-
! ton was robbed of $40 in money and
gold watch. No clue.
The Des Moines Trades Assembly
complains that non-union brick is being
used on the army post.
There is said to be an unprecedented
demand for farm laborers in many sec
/, tons of the State, and wages are in
creasing.
Polk County rural school teachers
have been assured that they will get
advances in wages ranging from 50 to
| So per week.
The State board of veterinary exam
liners has decided to enforce to the let
/, ter the law regulating the practice of
veterinary surgeons.
George Cunningham. G. & n. w.
brakeman. while coupling cars at Boone,
suffered injuries that necessitated the
amputation of one arm.
The farmers institute of Story Coun-
ty adopted resolutions indorsing the can
ddncy of Prof c. r. Curtiss for tile
presidency of the Ames College.
George +. Mccoy of Council Bluffs
has been appointed United States mar
shal for the Southern Iowa district to
succeed w. A. Richards. resigned.
B. Hawlcy of Pioneer has started on
horseback trip to Bridgeport, Conn. He
expects to complete the journey in less
than two months.
The 3-yenr-old daughter of Frank Nc
Clarity of Danbury was probably fatal
ly burned by her clothing catching fire
from stove near which she was playing.
Mayor Martin of Waterloo has ap-
pointed committee of five to investi-
gate the report on the feasibility of city
ownership. The franchise of the Water
loo Water Company has expressed itself
as being rs eager to sell the plant as
the city is to buy.
Hon. Frank O. Lowden Of Chicago
has been secured to deliver the annual
commencement address at Iowa College,
Grinnell. June TO-
&. w. Smith and wife are in jail at
Marshalltown for contempt of court
growing out of their conviction for the
illegal sale of liquor.
Petitions are bring circulated i'll
Worth County in an attempt to secure
enough signers to allow the operation
of saloons under the mulct law.
In shooting scrape in a Davenport
saloon d. II. Willis received bullet in
his thigh. He will recover. The shot
was fired by bartender named Clark,
who sets up plea of self-defense
Frank B. Cunningham, who killed An.
drew Johnson during quarrel at De>
Moines a few weeks ago, has been in
dicted for murder in the first degree.
The Capital City Commercial Elk.
change has arranged with Gov. Cummins
for the calling of a State good roads con
vention in Des Moines the first week in
April.
The plans have been prepared for the
new work on the Iowa State College n,
Ames and the contractors are engaged
in figuring on the same. The estimate.
of the architects We're for $225, 600 fol
the central hall, $4,000 into agricul
turul hall, $1,000 into the Judging pa
vilion and 5000 into the greenhouse.
u u Il
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-01
OF LITTLE THEY GIVE MUCH
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Poor human nature Is at least as ro-
bust in the slums as it is among the
brownstone fronts. Good and evil go
together in the tenements, says Jacob
Riis in "The Battle With the Slums;"
and oftentimes the evil is prominent
merely because it is nearer the sur
face. Here, as elsewhere. the good
outweighs the bad. Two or three sim
pie stories which Mr. Riis tells are suf-
fcient to make one accept his optim-
ism.
1 remember. he says, n tenement at
the bottom of a back alley. where I
once went visiting with the pastor of
mission chapel. Up in the attic there
was family of father and daughter
in two rooms that had been made out
of one by dividing off the deep dormer-
window.
1t was midwinter, but they had no
fire. He was peddler, but the snow
had stalled his push-cart, and robbed
them of their only other source Of
income, lodger who hired cot room
in the attic for few cents night.
The daughter was not able to work.
But she said cheeerfully that they
We're getting along
When 1t came out that she had not
tasted solid food for several days, was
starving, in fact Indeed she died with
in year of the slow starvation of the
tentments that parades on the NOR
tally returns under q variety of sci
entic names which all mean the same
thing, she met her pastors gentle child
ing with the excuse, "Oh, your church
has many that are poorer than l.
don't want to take your money"
I found that in their time of dire
distress they had taken in a poor old
man who was past working, and kept
him all winter, sharing with him what
they had. He was none Of theirs;
they hardly even knew him. as 1t ap-
pearSd. 1t was enough that he was
poorer than they, and lonely and hun
cry and cold.
1t was on the East Side that the chill
dren of Mr.. Elsing's Sunday school
gave, out of the depth Of their pow
erty, S54 in pennies to be hung on the
Christmas tree as their offering to the
prosecuted Armenians. One of their
teachers told me of Bohemian fam
lily that let the holiday dinner she
brought them stand and wait, while
they sent out to bid to the feast four
little ragamut1ins of the neighborhood
who would otherwise have gone hun.
cry.
And here it was in "the hard win
ter" when no one had work, that the
nurse from the Henry Street settle
ment found her cobbler patient enter
tanning a ledger, although there was
barely bread enough in the house for
himself and his boy. He introduced
the stranger with some embarrassment
and when they We're alone excused
himself for doing it. The man was
just from prison-a man with "a his
tory"
But" said the nurse, doubtfully, SIS
it n good thing for your boy to have
that man in the house,"
There was passing glimpse of I'M
easiness in the cobbler's glance. but
it went as quickly as 1t had come. He
laid his hand on the nurses.
This" he said, "ain't no winter to
| let fellow from Sing Sing be on the
| street"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-01

father left off! Why, of course. it's
unreasonable. Mother. remember
now what you told me once-things
have come to you gradually. You and
father began just as Leslie and are
going TO begin!'
"Well-no, not quite" returned Mrs.
Travers.
but You were almost as poor.
weren't you:'
Mrs. Travers laughed gaily.
III You must know, my DEAR she
said. your fathers salary when
married him was exactly half the in
come Leslie is making now"
Mother" said Mabel, You make
me more and more ashamed of my
self"
"Oh. but ours was dangerous ex-
pertinent. You see, our income was
below the minimum of discretion"
anyhow, the experiment ended han.
ply"
AS it happened"
Mrs. Travers blushed charmingly.
ut was risk, though. which |
shouldn't like you and Leslie to rum"
you think l don't love Leslie as
much rs you loved father, and no Won
der, after the way I've behaved" said
Mabel, humbly. Mother, wish-I
wish Leslie were as poor as father
was, so that l might show YOU"
The sentence was elliptical, but Ma.
bells mother uuderstood.-New York
News
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-01
Congress. and the rru.t..

When Congress is engaged in pass
Ing real, genuine antitrust bill the
prices of stocks in Wall street will not
continue to rise as they did during the
passage of the Ell,ins and Nelson
antitrust laws last January and Feb
ruary. Had Congress then been en-
gagged in putting the products of trusts
on the free list, Wall street would
have been flooded with the water that
would have squeezed out of these
trusts. The sleek managers of these
trusts know full well that the major
portion of their profits would yanisf
if the tariff We're removed. They
would then be compelled to sell goods
at home at the low prices which they
now charge foreigners. They will run
fast when they see free trade in trust
products coming; but they only smile
at sham antitrust legislation. Con-
Gress cannot at one and the same time
serve both God and AIammon. 1t had
to choose between the people and the
trusts, and it took up with the trusts.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-01
Suicide. and Prosperity.

One of the many peculiar and mex
plicable features Of our present unpar-
alleled prosperity, which is enrichiny
thousands and impoverishing millions,
is the great increase in the number OF
suicides under it. Apparently the far
ther we get into this trust-monopoly
prosperity the more people there are
who cannot stand the pace and who
fall by the wayside, often by their own
hands.
While the number of suicides Is
probably on the increase in other cities
as well as in the country at large, yet
we have figures only for Chicago. The
Record-Herald of March Is says that
there We're 1856 suicides there III 1900,
800 i'll 1901 and 439 i'll 1902. That this
rapid increase is now being kept up is
evident from the fact that there were
10 suicides in January and February
and that on the first Sunday in March
nine persons in one day took this route
to eternity.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-01
Grist for corteIxon,. Mill.

Now that the Department of Com
merce is ON its feet and spelling to get
antitrust facts and to publish them
II the President thinks it advisable thus
to spoil his chances in 19O4-Secretary
Cortelyou will welcome suggestions
from any one who scents the trail of n
trust or who knows where are their
lairs. 1t is the duty of each-and all of
us to put our antitrust facts up to Cor
telyou. He is new at the business and
may be slow in striking the trail, il not
encouraged at the start.
If Mr.. Cortelyou will turn to page 40
of the Iron Age of March IL he will
get track of several trusts which have
eluded our sleepy Attorney General.
First, there is the Cut Nail Manufac-
turers' Association, which is about to
advance prices; then there are the mills
which compose the barb wire trust,
which are filling orders made before
the recent advance in price; then the
wood screw manufacturers, 'all Of
whom are in combination" which is
firmly maintaining the advance in
price; then the copper wire trust, the
brass rods and brazed tubes trust,
the rivets and burs trust are mention
ed on this page. There are sixty more
pages Of this Iron Age and the trail Of
the trust is on them ALL
Come to think of it, nearly every
trade journal contains information
about trusts. Then there is the list Of
500 trusts of Congressman Littlefield
of Maine. This Republican list, printed
in a recent Congressional Record, have
a total capitalization of $4,000, 100000
and do not include the steam railroad
trusts, which would add about Sill ,OO0,-
100000 more.
When Secretary Cortelyou has obtain
ed and published the facts in regard to
these 500 trusts and has exposed the
source of their power to put up prices
to the highest notch and to make the
cost of living greater than ever before,
we will, If he is not too tired to tackle
1t, give him new grist of trusts. In
the meantime we hope to see the adj
ministration destroy the power Of the
bad trusts rs soon as the new Secretary
has located 1t.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-01
Government by 1n;.,nction

Granting an injunction against the
employees of the Wabash Railroad be-
cause strike is threatened is certainly
beyond all precedent 1t only remains
for some Federal Judge to cnjoin all
the labor organizations in the United
States, on the general principle that
they may think of striking some time
in the future. There is one striking pc
culiarity about these Federal judges
they are always ready and willing to
act favorably when the corporations
present an eX parte case to them.
The only evidence upon which the in
junction was granted in the Wabash
case at st. Louis was a letter threaten
ing damage to the property of the rail-
road. 1t has since been discovered that
the letter was written by Il spy or paid
emissary in the labor ranks, and the
Judge has been asked to dissolve the
injunction. But in all probability he
will not do so, as the railroad company
will demand that the injunction be con.
tinued.
Organized labor should note the fact
that until n President is elected who
believes corporations have no greater
rights than their employees. these APP.
pointments will always go TO attorneys
who are friends of the corporations.
If majority of the United States Sen
ate was controlled by the people, in.
stead of the corporations. the appoint.
ment of such judges would not be con
tirmed. These are two strong reasons
why organized labor should un!te to
elect President who, beyond all ques
ton, believes in equal rights to al
and special privileges 10 none" Also
labor must unite OH candidates fer the
Legislature who will vote to elect Unit
: sd States Senator'S who are friende Of
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-01

extremity, Start TWO Ships Of equal
speed from Liverpool going to Pacific coast one
tnrough the snez Canal and the other by Cape Horn
Two vessels of the same speed from New York one going
westward and the other eastward both English yes
sells VIII reach their destination before either of ours Cut
the isthman canal and it Is from New York
dong Kong via Nicaragua than from Liverpool the same
point via the Suez,
we must have the largest merchant fleet ever kissed
oy ocean brcezes, and these rers of international
yards BY American labor They are to be manned by
american sailors fired by American coal probably
OIL and they are to float the stars and stripes.
whether this will be accomplished through government
AID or by American patriotism and American capital
American energy cannot say Whether this consunlma-
ton shall be contributed by statesmen or achieved by
nnancies is immateral compared with the Importance
the thing sscf American wealth. American energy plus
Hawaii which is plus the Philippine Islands, which
are ours plus the isthman canal which we will surely
build transfers the sovereignty of the Pacific
the Union Jack to the Stars Stripes
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-01

But mustn't show people that love them?" aska
the aorng little despairingly Yes of you
may DEAR and If do it wisely will lift up and
improve those TO whom you give your heart and devotion
But nll human things are faibe. Therefore YOU must
temper love with discretion and WISE farsecng dis
elimination Do not spoil" your husband DO not allow
the love which ought to be the guiding of his ifo
which should be stepping stone to higher things to make
him into selfish, exacting, fau!t-fnding person.
because of her husbands great love- A who started
marriage with only normal share of masculine
sefshness frequently transformed during the first
of marmony into impatient inconsfderatc man, who is
always demanding giving
If lie discovers that you awed before the majesty
of his criticism, he will he pulled up with undue
of his Importance BY all try have everything
in the home life perfect possible But do
him think that it is all done for his sake-done lest
might complain.
81 go away from home for day without Tom
lest he might not be comfortable I'm he would
feel terribly neglected If off visit enjoying
myself while left him to the the SER
want" continued Mrs Smith. But there's satisfying
him."
1t would be the finest thing in the world for Tom IL
were made to neglected. bit while his wife en-
joyed herself elsewhere.
Ii we have "angel in the house. are too apt to
be of the privilege Absence makes miss her
would think deal of his wife If she
not always the spot when he wanted her.