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SCRANTOK, JANUARY 14, 1898.
REPUBLICAN CITV TICKET.
l'or School Director.
Three Years-FETEi: NF.UfrS, Eleventh
wnnl.
Thrco Ycars-D. I. PHILLIPS, Fifth
ward.
Two Years-K. 1. FELLOWS, Fourth
wan.
Two Ycms-F. H. GODFREY, Eighth
ward.
Ono Year k. S. DARKER, Seventeenth
ward.
Ono Ycur-EfrlAH EVANS, Fifteenth
wnrd.
Election Day, Febnmry IS.
Mr. Connell does not "Itnnglne that
lilfl election to reprepont this county at
Washington nlso implied a completa
surrender of pnrty thought, preference
unci action In state and local matters
hy the Republicans of Lackawanna."
In this respect he makes a representa
tive different fiom Hon, Joseph A.
Scranton. ,
Electioneering for Trouble.
The precedent set by the Penrose
Newltt wing of the Republican party
In Philadelphia Wednesday In bolting
tin' icguiar city convention Is one
which may leturn to plague those who
engineered It. from till distance It is
Impossible to distinguish Intelligently
all the equities of the Issue between
Mai tin and Penrose and between their
respective followers., but It requite no
telescope to paicelve that by every law
if party usage the Ncwltt bolt was
unjustifiable. With 'yes open and
hands active the suppoiteis of Newltt
had made their llsht and been fairly
beaten. It was their place as Republi
cans, then, to acoulesec In the result;
iust.'id of that, the lepoits show that
they entered the convention deter
mined to seize it pretext for walking
out, and had made all necessary plans
for holding afterward a rump conven
tion of their own
Primal Hy, of coutsf, thLt affair con
cerns Phlladelphluns chiefly, but cer
tain clicumstances entering Into It give
to It a state-wide Interest. It Is well
known, for Instance, that among the
forces supporting Xewltt are many Re
publicans of gruiter or smaller promi
nence who ate aggieralvely commit
ted to the gubernatorial candidacy of
Colonel William A. Stone. These men,
through their organ, the Philadelphia,
Inquirer, have boasted that they will
control the next Mate convention and
that Republicans who do not like their
Htyle need enteituln no expectations of
subduing them In that convention. Rut
hy their own example In Philadelphia
they make It p isHlble for n bolt of
their opponents to occur ut Harrls
buig on June L followed by the nomi
nation of an Independent Republican
candidate for governor with all that
that might iniuly. AVhat Is sauce for
the goose, ought, one would naturally
suppose, to be snuce alfo for the gan
der. Apait, though, ecn fiom this as
pect of the case, the Philadelphia,
wrangle Is especially deploiable at this
time because It tends to stiengthMi
the popular Imptosslon, In which wo
by no means concur, that the only way
to cleanse the Republicanism of this
state and to subdue those elements In
It which aie bound either to lule or to
ruin it, is to udmlnlster to the party
n sound (Rubbing from time to time.
This Impression pievalled veiy gener
ally thioughout the state even befoie
the iiausc.atlng methods of Andrews &
Co , repeated from 18U0, again came be
fore the public's uttentlon; but It will
bo very perceptibly emphasized If In
the citadels of Republicanism the par
ty sttength is to be expended In fruit
less guerilla warfaie having no other
Incentive than Jealoiwy and pique.
"Whom the gods would desttoy they
first make mad" Is a proverb which
might be advantageously studied ,by
those who now so nimbly dlspoit
amidst the diy glass carelessly swing
ing lighted torches dilpplng with Hie,
I'ntll there has been an expeilmttutal
tilal of the so-called Crawfoid county
system In city pilmuiles, would It not
be pieclpltnte to udopt that system In
the county? Why not see llrst whether
the change would be u change for the
better?
Upright Journalism,
If the charge, printed recently In the
Kun, la untrue that the New Yoik Her
ald Is in the pay of Spain, under an
arrangement niude dhectly with
Premier Hagasta, It Is stiunge that the
Herald does not bilng a legal action
ngalust the Sun, The accusation was
not vague but specific; names and dates
were given, and moreover presumptive
motive was shown. As bearing upon
this fact it Is Intel estlng to note that
the Herald has at Havana a represen
tative whoso mission it Is to wait upon
the Spanish authorities and get from
them the Spanish version of each oc
currence bearing on the Cuban Insur
rection. It Is not believed that the
Herald shows equal consideration to
the other side.
Re the truth as to this point what It
may, however, it is Interesting to con
trast with the Herald's alleged course
that of an Indisputably honest Journal
like the Philadelphia Press. Until re
cently the newspapers of Philadelphia
have not aspired to be original gath
erers of large news from other lands,
having been content to rely for bucIi In
formation upon the general press asso
ciations ,or upon arrangements made
with the papers of New York. Lately,
however, the Press has taken hold of
news, gathering In a way Indicative of
a desire to lead. During the Vene
zuela dlsuute It sent Its special repre
sentatlves to Ouracas, who sent back
a series of dispatches and letteis of
genuine and unique Interest. ICarly
In the Cuban war it had a well
equipped news bureau of its own in
Cuba; and within the last fortnight,
through the letter's sent to it from
lyivana, Matanzas and other news cen
ters in Cuba by Its Jmpliclty trust
worthy chief Washington correspond
ent, Mr. Gibson, It has shed more real
light on the status of affairs in Cuba
than has been shed by all the sensation-
nl "yellow' JdUrnallsm since the Insur-
reotlon begam Whlle-the New York
rniDAY, JANUAItY H, 1803.
Herald, once the unquestioned leader in
news gathering throughout the world,
was filling Its columns from day to day
with neWB from Cuba that In the main
contradicted and discredited Itself, the
Philadelphia Press appreciated correct
ly what kind of news the American
public wanted and would believe, and
It secured and printed it, carrying con
viction to hundreds of thousands of
Americans who had hitherto set down
as doubtful or greatly exaggerated the
previously current stories of Buttering
anil Spanish atrocity In Cuba.
Wo do not know that the New Yoifc
Herald ban sold out to Spain or that
It would sell Its news columns to any
body; on the contrary wo Must and be
lieve that It would not: but we do
know that the Philadelphia Press has
done- Its work In Cuba honestly, em
clently and from n lofty sense of duty,
and that In such woik as It has done
and Is doing thero 'Is conspicuously
visible the power and legitimacy of real
Journalism.
Simmered down, the hue and cry
raised by the Wanamaker people
against Senator Saylor, whom Presi
dent McKlnley recently appointed
consul to Matanzas over their protest,
was that ho tried to collect from .the
state, while serving It In the legisla
ture, u large expense account. In this
respect he may have erred, although
he merely followed custom; but It Is
doubtful if among his critics .there Is
one sufficiently free from the same
habit to be warranted In hurling the
llrst stone.
Prostituting the Theatre,
One of the theatres in New York ha
bitually patronized by the best people
Is presenting now to crowded houses
a play the chief Incident of which la
an attempted rape, committed In full
view of the audience. The newspapers
freely denounce the play, but the peo
ple nevertheless Hock to see it, as they
do to another play In another house,
Heating the forbidden theme with al
most equal realism. Mind you, these
are not low-down variety theatres,
where filth In stage suggestion Is an
expected stock in trade, but places
hitherto leputedly respectable, to
which men and women of character
might, It was supposed, go without risk
of being morally bespattered.
Of coiuse such productions as these
are exceptional just as the Indelicate
novel Is exceptional. It Is as unfair to
condemn unreservedly the theater for
abuses found In It ai It Is to condemn
the church because among its member
ship are hypocrites and frauds. The
stage Is abused in many ways, yet for
all that we must admit Its usefulness
as a means of public entertainment
and instruction. The time has come,
though, when friends of the stage
must rally to Its protection and to Its
purification or else see It fall com
pletely Into odium. New York may
have a sulllclently elastic sense of the
pioprletles to tolerate dramatic carnal
ity vet sing on unabashed bestiality,
but we quebtlon if that kind of degra
dation Is characteristic of what New
Yorkers sometimes .superciliously call
"the ptovlnces." We ndvlse this sort
of play to keep away from Scranton.
The sudden cessation of the civil ser
vice debate In the national house of
repiesentatlves has been a source of
general gratification. Many had looked
for an endless seuson of talk on tho
subject which would have consumed
much vuluable time. The fact that tho
debate was ended so soon is tin indi
cation that th (Ifty-tlfth congiess pro
poses to devote some time I i work.
The Deadly Hut Pin.
It is- no longer pioper to speak of
Unman fully attired tor the street or
shopping campaign as "defenceless,"
A Chltngo gill iui.i demgnsttatoil thut
when pusr.er.M d of the regulation hat
pin the avcinge woman of today far
from being ;e,lV)ivk',ei Is in reality a
ery iliingdi'oi'H personage. This young
woman was tiding In a stieet car.
when two tuhbers seized the conductor
and attempted to rob him. The crime
would have been successful but for the
young woman, who drew her hatpin,
und eliaiged upon one of the loubeis,
completely dlscountcnaclug him und
dliving him to u hasty retieat.
Ry this act thti Chicago glif has given
the hatpin a startling prominence as
u weapon of war. Tho modern hat
f.ltener Is often neaily as large and as
formidable as the stiletto and razor
that have been by law banished from
use In good society by males. The
tu'paUh with which the Chicago girl
picked the weapon from her head and
inserted It Into the anatomy of the car
lobbsr the other day, causing him to
retreat with n yell of pain, shows that
the hatpin is mote handy than the hip
pocket razor. With a modern hatpin
caretully sheathed in her headgear,
therefore, It is easy ttj see thut a reso
lute, up-to-date woman 13 a person not
to be trilled with.
The passing of the Montrose and
Tunkhannock railway Into the hands of
the Lehigh Valley Railroad company
may mark an Important event In the
existence of the road. The Montrose
railroad la a narrow-guage line which
was constructed from Montrose to
Tunkhannock about twenty-five years
ago. It has always acted as a feeder
to the Lehigh Valley, and has been
one of the convenient outlets for farm
products from tho richest fields of lus
quehanna county. Heretofore the road
has cut no figure save as a local affair,
but It Is believed by many that the
guage of the track will soon be changed
to the standard and that the road will
be extended from Montrose to Blng
hamton, thereby greatly increasing Its
value as a feeder for the Valley road.
The road has In past been controlled
by the Rlakslees, of Mauch Chunk,
Mr. James I. Ulakslee having been for
many years Its piesldent.
An exchange suggests that Undo
Sam drop the seuUkln sacque amitiv
more attention to Abdul Hamld. This
would be good advice but for the fact
that the sealskin Is much easier to
manipulate Just ut piesent tlu.n thu
cuticle or the BUltan of Turkey.
.
The Japanese have inaugurated a
pretty ouBtom that the American naval
odlclaU will do well to follow In future.
The Japanese minister, Mr. Toru HoBhl,
has asked Miss Helen Lo'ng. daughter
of the secretary of the navy to christen
tho new warship built for Japan at
tho Cramps ship yards which will bo
launched on January 20. Instead of tho
usual proceeding of breaking a bottle
of champagne on tho deck of the. vessel,
Miss Long will bo required to releaso a
white dove which will rise upon the air
as the big battleship, Kisagl, glide
Into the water.
Srth Low was an expensive bit of
luxury to the Citizens union of Now
York. The lending; of his radiance,
together with the attendant magic
lantern shows, brass bands and other
accompaniments of an orthodox cam
paign, cost M8.G54.G4, leaving a bal
ance in the treasury of tho union to
the embarrassing amount of $13.73.
Hut then it is something to have a
balance.
It Is said that David B. Hill asked
Senator Murphy and ex-Clovernar
Flower to let him edit their Albany
Argus and they turned him down. Of
a truth are tho mighty fallen!
m
Teoplo who have seen Mrs. Luetgert
arc becoming more plentiful out West
than tho discoverers of the "woman In
black" in the East a. few years ago.
. -
It Is strange that prophets who fore
tell dire calamities seem to tako the
most comfort In contemplation of their
own prognostications.
It begins to look as though some of
the Cuban war correspondents had
strayed into tho Seminole Indian reser
vation. If Corbett could fight as furiously as
he can bluff, what a fistic wonder he
would be'
England's Way as
Compared to Ottr's.
Fiom tho Philadelphia Tress.
THIRTY years ago four or five Kng
lishmen were seized und Impris
oned by King Theodore of Abys
sinia ut Magdala and Kngland
spent $SO,000,000 In freeing theso
men and teaching Theodore and other
savage kings that it was dangerous to
touch Englishmen. The lesson was learn
ed as tho news spread from the Atlantic
west of Africa to tho Pacific east of Asia.
Lverywhere. English traders and English
trade are the safer for tlip AhvaOnin,,
war. 1 he money spent on that expedi
tion has come back a thousand fold, it
wus as shrewd an Investment as any
great trading nation ever made.
o
If our trade U to be safe and our com
merce to extend in safety our citizens
must be protected In the same fashion,
and outside of a small group of Ruro
peim countries force Is the sole meas
uro of safety. In Turkey this country
has a number of citizens, some selling
goods and some Ulhles, some trading and
some preaching. This Is of no conse
quence. They aio all citizens alike and
demand und deserve the same protection.
Two yea is ago, at Harptit, and at other
points, the houses of somo of these citi
zens were Iiurnbd, their property plun
dered and destroyed and their lives put
In grievous peril. Turkey has given them
no redress und llatlv refuses any. Our
government has pleaded two years. It
can plead forever. If our citizens are
to remulu safe In Turkey and elsewhere
for this question Is as wide as the world
and narrow us any one land It will only
bo by the me. und display of force. No
other plea counts, Turkey hns no fleet.
No Asiatic power, except Japan, has.
With un American squadron in Turkish
wateis theso claims will be settled in a
day. Without It, Justice will never bo
done.
o
These claims arc la themselves small.
The safety of Americans Is everything.
I'nlesH the claims are settled the safety
of eery American will be lessened from
Morocco to China, and bafe trade turns
on a. safe trader. Cuba and Its possible
risks have thus far engrossed tho utten
tlon of our government and made it nee-
eHsaiy io Keep our noet in our own wat
ers. Tho time cannot bo dtstnnt, how
ever, when this necessity will bo over.
Moreover, we uro uddlng to our battle
ships, Tho eat Heat possible moment
t-hould bu taken to Imitate the example
HavMamd
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of Austria and collect theso claims by
force.
WHY TIM UK AT 11 Ely UA.C5K.
From tho Philadelphia Press.
That the Spaniards should rage and
fume over American projects to aid tho
suffering Cubans is to ho expected. Such
un attltudo Is tho logical outcome of tho
situation and Is the natural tendency of
the Spanish character, which Is essential
ly cruel, part of tho rage doubtless is
duo to tho fooling that tho necessity of
this nld proclaimed officially by tho
United States government renders It Im
possible for Spain to poao before Europe
as waging war under civilized conditions.
Americans, being familiar with the fact-)
as to Spanish atrocities, forget that Con
tinental Ruropo knows little and cares
less about tho Cuban campaign, and
oven In Rngland tho official Spanish vluw
Is more or less accepted as authentic,
nut tho president's call for aid will re
echo in many a capital besldo Madrid, and
a new light bo thrown upon the actuali
ties' of Spanish warfare. Hence Spanish
rage. Thn exposed never take tho ex
poauro gracefully.
THE TCMPIJKANCe QUESTION.
From the Now York Sun,
It Is a very difficult question, which
ever way you look at It, but ono fact Is
demonstrated by all attempts at prohibi
tion, und It Is that tho law cannot keep
people from drinking, on Sunday and on
all days, if such Is their Inclination. If
total abstinence Is adopted It must bo as
a personal and Individual matter; It can
not be enforced on society. If thcro (s
any drinking at all, some drunkenness
Is Inevitable, of course, but personal lib
erty Is priceless. Moreo-er, If tho salo
of liquor Is reprehensible) Its purchaso
nnd consumption are not less reprehensi
ble. In other words, all social reformers
must remember that at the bottom tho
public mind Is logical.
Why He Thnnked Shilnrk.
"Old Shllark savs ho Is tho man who
started you on the road to fortune."
"Tho old villain tells tho truth. All I
had when I was a young man was a fltty
nero farm nnd he cheated mo out of that.
Then I had to come to town to get some
thing to do and gpt Into business and got
rich." Indianapolis Journal.
INLET
To obtain comfort and fit
in a dress, a lady must be in
possession of a "Perfect
Fitting Corset."
Mr
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that cau be recommended as
"perfect" in every detail, and
in a variety of styles and
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Onr Friday Afteftii
Hourly Bargain Sales lesemcd
Having just completed our annual inrentory and i Igmss snowing one of
the most successful years In our business career, we feel like rewarding
our friends Jor their faithful patronage, therefore will start the ball roll
ing this afternoon, January 114.
At sound of the gong.
From 2 to 3 o'clock.
At sound of the gong.
From 3 to 4 o'clock.
At sound of gong.
From 4 to 5 o'clock.
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At 79 cents ladies' AH-Wool Ripple Eiderdown Dressing Sacks in piuk, blue
and gray; all sizes, 34 to 44; never sold less than $1.49.
At 37 cents Men's Fine Natural Wool Undershirts, 75 cent quality.
At 35 cents Men's Fine Scarlet Woolen Socks, the .regular 25 cent kind.
At 25 cents Black Brocaded Dress Goods, 40 inches wide, formerly 50c per yard.
At 9 cents Handsome Double-Fold Mixed Suitings.
8 cents Beautiful
Great Sale of Housekeeping Cottons, Linens and Ready-lViade Sheets, Pil
low Cases. Tihe low prices now asked will positively be discontinued after 1 s
week.
HILL & COSHELL'S
Bucli a choice Btook to select from cannot
N found elsowbero In tills port or the state.
And when you consldor tho moderate prices
at which the goods are marked Is n further
claim on the attention and consideration of
buyers.
GIFT SUGGESTIONS,
WllITINO DKSKS,
DltKSSINO TABLKS.
Fancy Taui.es,
Chkvai, Gr.Ahsr.s,
PAiaoi: Cabinets.
Music Oahincts,
OUHIO UAWNETft
Rook Casks,
Fancy Haskkw,
I.ounoes,
wobk tabled
Easy CitAins,
Gilt Chaius,
inlaid ohair.
IIOCKEH3,
SlIAVlNOSTANUli
1'r.nK.STALH,
TAIIOUHETTES.
All at lowest prices consistent with tho
high quality of the goods.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1898.
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At 2c yd Good Apron Gingliam,
At 3c yd All of the best Indigo and Dark Calicos.
At 4c yd Heavy Dark Outing Flannels.
At 9c io-Quart Galvanized Iron Water Pails.
At II He I2-Quart Galvanized Iron Water Pails.
Male Floor
At 9c pr Ladies' and Children's Woolen Mittens that were 20 cents.
At 12C Misses' All Wool Ribbed Hose, all sizes from 6 to 8J,
Worth 20 cents.
At 9c
At5c
At 10c
10 Gross of Heavy Rubber Dressing Combs, .Worth
25 cents.
Warner's 5-hook Corset Clasps, Regular Price 10 cents.
Warner's Security Hose Supporters, all sizes, Infants',
uuldrens, Misses and Ladies, Regular Price from 15
to 25 cents.
At 15c dz Rubber, Shell and Amber Hair Pins, Worth 30 cents.
ARBUCKLE'S ARIOSA COFFEE Too well known to
talk about. 2,000 pounds will be sold at 7 cents per
pound.
Second Floor
At 25c
Ladies' Muslin Night
more.
At 58c
50 Dozen Ladies' Gowns, fine cotton, well made, heavy,
rich embroidery; the 85 c. and $i kind.
Ladies' Flannelette Underskirts, with embroidered edges.
Ladies' Scotch Plaid Waists, yoke backs, separate linen
collars; just one-half the former price.
At 21c
At 49c
36-inch Silk Mixed Dress Novelties.
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