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SHORT TALKS Brief Comment On Political and Other Matters of Public Interest. ANDREW J. PALM. Every man who can think without having his brain work befuddled by his partisan bias or his selfish inter ests, believes that the government should own the telegraph lines of the country. There is no better reason for leaving the telegraph lines in the con trol of private individuals and corpora tions than there is for the private management of the mail service. If the mail service had not early bepn taken under government control it is safe to say that it would be as hard to get it out of the hands of million aires as it is today to get favorable consideration on the question of gov ernment ownership of railways or telegraphs. Judge Jackson, a member of congress from Kansas, has introduc ed a bill asking congress to have a commission of live persons appointed to appraise the actual value of the telegraph lines and to report within a year. Two of these persons are to represent the government, two the telegraph companies and these four are to choose a fifth. This is a very necessary step in the proceedings. It is safe to say that the price will be high because the telegraph companies will devote more attention to the case thau will the government. It doesn't fol low, however, that tho government will be obliged to pay an exorbitant price. It can build its own lines rather than pay more than these already erected are worth, and then let these lines have the government for a competitor. It isn't hard to predict the result. If the companies are once convinced that the government means business they will be glad to sell at a reasonable price. A thousand times better build telegraph lines than war vessels. The one is evidence of improvement and civilization, the other an indication of blind submission to the instincts of barbarism that should find no among a Christian people. WHAT THEY SAY Extracts From Various Sources Indi cating Democratic Opinion Regard ing Questions of the Day. We pay at the rate of about $85.- 000.000 a year for the little more than $5,000,000 a year of Philippine trade we get, while European nations pay nothing for the more than $48,- 000,000 a year they get. These figures do their own talking. —Pennsylvania Farmer. This Republican administration has been displaying its financial ability by buying in government bonds at 36 per cent, premium, to retire them for each dollar of indebtedness thus can celled the government pays $1.36. And the people pay the bills. —Greencastle (Ind.) Star Press. The Republicans seem determined to pass the ship subsidy bill, steal or no steal. Leaders of that party have passed that stage where shame cuts any figure in the case. In their scram ble for spoils they have become dar ingly open in their rascally doings.— Lexington (Mo.) Intelligencer. President Roosevelt proposes to ap point some Democrats to office, but those of the Bryan stamp are warned not to apply. The warning is unne cessary, for Democrats that follow Bryan and his teachings are not to be found around the Republican pie counter. —Ko.ise (Texas) Cyclone. The Republican party, controlled by the protected interests, will, in deal ing with the possessions, endeavor to consider them a part of this country for one purpose, and foreign country for other purposes. In short, that, party, being controlled as stated, will be sure to do what it can to protect the protected. Fairfield (111.) Sun. This is the position of President Roosevelt and the Republican leaders in congress: "Reciprocity is a beau tiful theory. We have promised it in our platform and our speeches, but we fear it can never become an ac complished fact. Let us talk and let us agitate, but, for the peace, security and prosperity of the country, as well as for our own political hides, let us not enact."—Augusta (Me.) New Age. Watch the date on your paper. MISS AGNES WESTON. Site IN Known In CIIKLNML nn "Bishop or the Hluejuckets." Miss Agnes Weston is one of the most ' energetic and popular women in Eng- | land, and deservedly so, for she is a ! philanthropist and never tires of doing good. The University of Glasgow con ferred upon Miss Weston the degree of | doctor of laws, but this is not the first nor the highest prized of that lady's j titles, for long ago the sailor lads of England conferred on her two far more | affectionate ones—namely. Mother Wes- j ton and Bishop of the Bluejackets. I The university title is really an out- j : qj I I m j @ jj/ \j.j_! I 5 MOTHER WESTON. come of the first two, because it was given in honor of Miss Weston's work umong the boys who sail the sea. While still a girl she developed nn interest in the English tars and found ed an Institution called the Sailors' Rest, which provided clean, cheap ac commodations for Jack as soon as he landed, gave him medicine, books and, j most important of all, amusement and defended bim from the harpies who had robbed hiin so long. Miss Weston gradually Interested all classes in England in the work. The first "rest" was built at Devonport. Branch homes have been established in most of the seaports. She went from ! one to another, making friends of the ! sailors, inliuenclng each one of them, writing to him when at sea, caring for ids family, never giving up the effort to draw lilin to tho right and to God. Many a poor Jack Tar wandering over the seas reckoned Mother Weston as his only friend in the world. She nev er failed him. Women of the Frontier. Souie towns are harder to civilize than others. A new town in the Chero kee outlet grew to 500 souls without a woman. This town is now one of the most thriving and cultured communi ties of that territory. But a year elapsed before a woman dared ven ture in. One day when the stagecoach drew up the wife of a leading saloon keeper alighted, and Tom announced from be hind the bar that night that she had come to stay. He set up tlie drinks to the crowd, but they did not congrat ulate bim. Instead tliey met in a gam bling hall and decided to boycott his place uutil be bad sent bis wife away. When be learned of it, of course with bis heart set on the dollar, he told her to go. She went. Not until that saloon keeper was shot in a midnight brawl would they allow his wife to return to him. When they saw how tenderly she nursed him back to life and with what gentleness she spoke to them, their hearts melted, and the toughest cow boy in the town addressed a meeting one night in this wise: "Boys, we will have to surrender. 1 am going to pack my saddlebags and pull out for the Indian country and give this town over to the women and their kind. It is not for me to stay here." So the worst of them "hiked," and B. soon became a thriving place and a fit one to inhabit, with plenty of good wo men there too.—New York Times. Nova Scot In Women. The women of Nova Scotia are a fine race, both physically and mentally, more buxom and sturdy than the aver age American woman of today. Nova Scotia girls, as a rule, are distinctly pretty, with refined features, superb complexions and beautifully molded figures. They are not afraid of work, and wholesome work gives them One physiques. They are known iu Ameri ca by the quality of the service they render when they accept employment. They constitute a class by themselves In domestic service, redeeming all that kind of work from the menial charac ter imposed upon it by careless, unin telligent and Indifferent wage earners ll nd restoring it to the status it held when performed In "good old times" by native American girls of good family, education and breeding. The Nova Scotia women are capable In various ways. They make equally good schoolteachers aud farmers' wives. Many of them have excellent business and executive abilities—much better oftentimes than the men of the family —and those abilities are exercised in managing farms and making and look ing after lumbering contracts, etc., while their husbands, fathers and brothers devote themselves solely to I Irresponsible physical labor. The Apprehensive l.mly. Did you ever meet the apprehensive lady? She's the one tvho fears it Is go • ing to ralu or she fears it isn't. She's afraid you are going to take cold, or I that you are too warm, or that the 1 chair in which you are sitting isn't ; comfortable. You feel all right and ! quite satisfied with yourself until the j apprehensive lady suggests a score of ! disagreeable possibilities to you. She's I afraid the baby is going to be loft ! handed, or that his ears are going to j stand out from his head, or that he will be tongue tied, or that he will j grow up to be a politician or some thing. i The apprehensive lady never happens to think that it may happen that things will be better than they prom ise. They are always going to be worse, ! maybe. Fortune has always been kind j to iier, but still she is afraid to trust it. ; She doesn't mean to be unpleasantly surprised. She is going to anticipate trouble In all its forms, and she looks j out for others as well and points out j every unhappy possibility. She means well, but she is a nuisance. However, i we dare not tell her so. Maybe she will read these lines and take the hint and reform.—National Magazine. j A Story of Harriot Beecher Stowe, i In her childhood Harriet Beeelier 1 Stowe was firmly convinced that the most daring, reckless and frightful thing she could do would be to say "damn." She became so possessed and haunted with the dread of the un known terrors that would overwhelm a little girl who dared to utter that awful word that at last she could en dure the fascination of the terror no longer, and she went to her room, lock ed herself in, clhuhed into the middle of the feather bed, lay still, shut her I eyes, opened her mouth and said the ; wicked word. Then, according to her j own account, she lay and waited in an agony of terror for what was to befall her. Her least expectation was that the ceiling would fall down. She wait ed and waited and waited. Nothing happened, and at last the monotony of ! the situation tired her, and she got oil' the bed a very disappointed little mad ! cap girl. Tnolfnl Women. Perhaps if there Is one thing which oils the delicate springs of society more than another It Is the exercise of tact. It is a gift, not an acquired habit, I for the tactless woman cannot see that she lacks that innate courtesy which would make it impossible for ber to say things "best left unsaid." Kindli ness of heart, some people call it, but that is by no means an accurate defini tion of this grace. Ituther is it the power of putting yourself in another person's place and feeling instantane ously what would lie the effect of such and such a remark on them, says llome Notes. Certainly tactful women are the ploasantest of companions, for their Intention enables them to see when it is best to keep silence und also when a word in season may put mat ters straight. Old Pewter. The first thing to do on getting an old pewter "piece" is to have it thoroughly cleaned, and this is a really difficult task to ilie amateur, especially when, as frequently happens, it has been left 1 untouched for some time, perhaps be ! cause it l;us been lying by unused or to give the truly "old" look which the ; dealer values. If the pewter is very ; dirty, widen is generally the ease, its I soft surface being inclined to absorb grease and dirt, it should be boiled in strong soda water and afterward cleaned with the usual preparations. Brickdust and paraffin is a very good j mixture. Girl* In Holland. ! Girls in Holland have u great deal of liberty. They pay calls, shop and go to parties at the houses of friends without a chaperon, walk and travel alone, eyele and have tennis and wheel ing clubs In company with young men. They enjoy their fun and freedom and are in no hurry to find husbands. Mar riages are not arranged, and the par ents' consent is only asked after a pro posal is made und accepted. A Pretty Bedroom Screen. If your bedroom is so planned that j the bed must face the window, an ex cellent plan is to have two small up rights fastened to the footrail of the | bed. with a brass rod connecting them at the top. Have a curtain of dark I silk or any other material gathered on this rod. and if this is drawn at night your eyes will be protected from the light. Lunch Cloths. riandsoine breakfast or lunch cloths are woven with wide colored borders of flowers in one color, dark red, blue or brown, or with leaves and stems in a delicate green. Napkins, completing the set, are woven with narrow colored borders, repeating the pattern of the cloth. Beading: For Glrln. Miss Bates, professor of English at Wellesley college, speaking of reading for girls, says, "Every hour spent in reading trash is not merely so much time wasted, hut is so much flncness blunted, so much dignity of mind de i based." ; When buying a broom, test it by pressing the edge against the floor. If the straws bristle out and bend, the broom is a poor one, for they should ( remain in a solid, Arm mass. Benzine aud powdered magnesia i i mixed into a paste will clean white ; shoes. Bub on the paste and let it re muin until dry; then rub off with a I dry cloth. ( The women of Japan are now largely employed in telephone and post offices, ! and they are excellent bookkeepers. - I In dusting do not forget the backs j I of pictures hanging on the walls. CHOICE F>!I3CELLAN\ Arc* of \olod Ddkn, A subscriber asks of American Field, "When is a dog considered old?" It ail depends, says The Field. Some dogs show their age at five years, but these are generally petted house dogs, which are fed on all kinds of dainties und get 110 exercise. When dogs, how ever, are properly fed und eared for ami get a fair amount of exercise, their lives and usefulness may be pro longed for several years beyond what they would attain when overpetted or overworked and subjected to much ex posure. Champion Gladstone lived to the ripe age of fourteen years and four months; at the time of his death Count Noble was eleven years and live months; ltodrigo, eleven years and sev en months; John S. Wise's Dionied, thirteen years and three months; Prince Lucifer, thirteen years; Cham pion Elclio, Jr., ten years and live months; Lord Graphic, nine years and six months; Dan's Lady, nine years and seven months, und Jingo, eight years and one month. * Nejcro Copulation Doubled. There are twice as many negroes in the United States today as there were when Lincoln set them free, and the last census returns show a white popu lation of 07,000,000 ami a negro popula tion of 8 f 8o0,0(K), with about 500,000 Indians, Chinese and Japanese. The death rate among the negroes in the cities where they live in the congested districts and "where every law of na ture and sanitation is detied" is nearly double that of the whites and is far in excess of the birth rate, and this high mortality lias led some to think that the negro is dying out. The census lig urcs show that this belief is erroneous. Tlh increase of negro population in the rural districts more than makes up for the loss in the cities, and the rural sur plus flock cityward in sufficient num bers to till up the ranks. The negro population is increasing rapidly, not as rapidly as in slavery days, but as rap idly as the whites. Sun Francisco News. Animal Tamers llloiidn. As tamers and keepers of animals dark men never succeed. Visits to zoos and to menageries show them to he in variably fair fellows, with yellow or brown hair and with blue eyes. Thus at the zoological garden in this city there is not a keeper who is dark. John MoMullen of the lion house has light hair, a yellow mustache and violet orbs. Lover of the wolves and foxes Is still more markedly blond, and in the antelope house, the snake house and the small mammal house light colors still prevail. One of the most pro nounced blonds at the zco was John Thompson, who is now in Honolulu making casts of flshes for a museum there. Thompson was one of the most successful keepers the zoo has ever had. Not only snakes and turtles, his specialty, but lions, foxes, wolves, deer and many other animals too a to him naturally, and he was never scratched or bitten.—Philadelphia Record. GunrdiiiK the French President. President Loubet is well protected. His secret guard consists of twelve men under the orders of a police com missioner. These men watch constant ly over his person. When he receives, they mingle with the guests close by him, and when he goes out they follow him and have orders never to lose him an instant from view. When he drives, they accompany him on bicycles, and it is only then that they can he recog nized. This guard of thirteen men alone e. sts the state the nice little sum of 75.000 francs a year.—Chicago Itec ord-11 era id. - Sheep and Cattle on Itaiitxe. Wyoming lias 55,000,000 acres of good grazing lands. There are about 1,000,000 cattle and 5,000,000 sheep in the state, between the cattlemen and sheepmen exists a feud that, not infre quently leads to murder. Sheep, as you may or may not know, feed in so close order that when a flock has fed over a range not a spear of grass re mains. Cattle browse at random and leave behind more than they eat, so that the range may provide sustenance for two or three bdrds, one following the other. VerrncliaKln'a Next Picture. "Roosevelt at San Juan Hill" is to be the subject of a painting by Vassili Vereseliagiu, the painter of battle scenes. The famous Russian artist ar rived in New York from Europe recent ly to conduct an exhibition of his painting at the Art Institute. lie an nounced his intention to devote two years or more to the work of portray ing on canvas the battle, which, he thinks, because of Roosevelt's elevation to the presidency, is the most interest ing war scene of recent times to Amer icans. Oil on Troubled Waters. A test of a cannon that throws a shell designed to scatter oil on boister ous waves was recently made. The shell is of wood and conical in shape. It contains two galions ol' oil. At one end of the projectile is a vent. This is covered with paper, which is blown off as the shell leaves the piece, allow ing the oil to escape. In this way it is .the purpose of the inventor to calm a rough sea for the distance of a mile, making a smooth path for a lifeboat to follow on her way to disabled vessels. The Lniuh ami the Bunko Victim. It is a common saying that the per son who buys a "gold brick" or invests in "green goods" gets just what la? de serves in view of the wide publicity constantly given in tin? press about such transactions. Hut the examples of lamb shearing in linancc are quite as common, and the loser of a fleece is deserving of about the same measure of sympathy that the bunko victim i usually receives.—Los Angeles Ileruld. Mid-Winter Bargains in Hats, Caps, Rubber Goods, Winter Furnishings. 4 ' ' .i Fine Lines of Men's and Women's Shoes, Men's and Boys' Hats, Caps and Furnishings, Boys' Knee Pants, Neckwear, Collars, Cuffs, Etc. V McMenamin's I Gents' Furnishing, Hat and Shoe Store, South Centre Street. \The Gure that Stores I fp Coughs, L \ Colds, j S Grippe, ik \ Whooping Cough, Asthma, 1 Bronchitis and Incipient A Gjf Consumption, Is rr folios] A The CrERMAN £ Sr Cutts XivroA i'xstases. J j\ 5)o\& a\\ 25S^50rte^ Wilkes-Barre Record is the Best Paper in Northeastern Pennsylvania It contains Complete l.ocul. Tele graphic aud (icncral News. Prints only the News that's fit to Print SO Cents a Month, ADDRESS. $6 a Year by Mail The Record, Carriers _ „ Wilkps - Barrb, PA. Wm. Wehrman, T7\7" a.tclYm.a.lcsr. Repairing a Specialty. Thirty-four Year's Experience. Next to Neußurger's Store. RAiLROAD TIMETABLES LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD. .June 1901. ARRANGEMENT OK PASSENGER TRAINS. LEA VE FK Eli-LAN I). 6 12 a in for Weuthcrly, Mauch Chunk Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Phila delphia and New York. 7 34 a m for Sandy Kuii. White Hit veil, Wilkes-Bane. l'ittston and Scran ton. 8 15 u m for Hazleton, Weatherly, Munch CThiitik. Allent'-wn, Bethlehem. Easton, Philadelphia, New York, Delano and Potts vi lie. 9 30 a m for Hazleton, Delano, Mahanoy City, Nhenandoah aud Mt. f.'annel. 1 1 42 a in for Weatherly. Munch Chunk. Al lentown, Bethlehem. Easton. Phila delphia. New York. Hazleton, Delano, Mahanoy City, Shenandoah and Mt. Carmol. 115 a in for White Haven, Wilkes-Bane, Seruntoii and the West. 4 44 pin for Weatherly. Mnuch Chunk, Al lentown. Bethlehem. Easton, Philadel phia, New York, Ifazlcton, Delano, Mahanoy City, Shenandoah. Mt. Curiae! and Pottsvllle. 6 35 p m for Sandy Hun, White Haven, Wilkes-Baric, Scranton and all poiuta West. 7 29 p in for Hazleton. AUUIVE AT FREELAND. 7 34 a in from Pottsville, Delano and Haz leton. 9 12 a m from New York, Philadelphia, Kas- / ton, Delhlehein, Allentown. Mam It (.'hunk. Wotttherly, Hazleton, Mahanoy City, Shenandoah and Mt. Curmel 9 30 a in from Scranton, Wilkes-Bane and White Haven. 1151 am from Pottsville, Mt. Carmol, Shen andoah. Mahanoy City, Delano and Hazleton. 12 48 l> ni from New York, Philadelphia, Easton, Bethlehem, Allentown, Mauch Chunk and Wcutherly. 4 44. p m from Scruutou, Wilkes-Burre and White Haven. 0 35 P m from New Y'ork. Philadelphia, Huston, Bethlehem Allentown. Mauch Chunk, Weatherly, Mt. Carmol, Shenan doah, Mahanoy City, Delano and Huzlo ton. 7 29 p ra from Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and White Haven. For furthor information inquire of Ticket \ gent* '.OLLIN 11. WlLßUK.General Superintendent, 20 Cortlandt street. New York City. "HAS. S. I.EE. Genera) Paseeinrer Airent, 26 Cortlandt Street, New York City. (1. J. GILDUOY, Division Superintendent, Hazleton. Pa. DKLAWAUK, SUSQI EHANNA AND SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD. Time table in effect March 10,1901. /K Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo, Eckley, Hazle \jT. * irook. Stockton. Beaver Meadow ltoad, lioun and Hazleton Junction at 600 a ro, daily If ixcept Sunday: and 707a m, 238 pm. Sunday. (I Trains leave Drifton lor Harwood,Cranberry, p I'omhickon and Derirger at AOU am, dally except Sunday; and 707 a m, 1138 p m, Sun- Trains leave Drifton for Oneida Junction, iarwood ltoad, Humboldt ltoad, Oneida and heppton at 000 a m, daily except Sun •ay; and 7 07 a m, 2 38 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Harwood, ranborry, Tomhieken and Deringer at 15 3f> a *l. daily except Sunday; and 8 63 a m, 4 22 p 111, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida 1 unction, Hurwood Bond, Humboldt ltoad, Ineida and Sheppton at 6 32.1110 a m, 4 41 p rn, tally excopt Sunday; and 7 37 a m, 3 11 pin, unday. Trains leave Deringer for Tomhieken, Cron •orry. Haiwood, Hazieton Junction and Bonn it 500 p m, daily except Sunday; anu 337 m. 6 0. p m. Sunday. Trams leave Sheppton for Oneida, Huml oldt 'toad, Harwood Bond, Oneida Junction, Hozlo on Junction snd Bonn at 7 11 H m, 12 40, 626 p in, daily except Sunday; and 8 11 a m, 314 0 m,Sunday. Trains leave Sheppton for Beaver Meadow 'toad, Stockton, Hazle Brook, Fckley, Jeddo and Drifton at 6 26 p ni, daily, except Sunday; Uid 8 11 a in, 3 44 p ni. Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Beaver <1 endow Boad, Stockton, Hazle Ilrook, Eckley, Jeddo and Drifton Rt 540 p m, daily, \xeept Sunday; and 10 10 a m, 5 40 p in, Sunday. All trains connect ut llazleton Junction with •lectrie cars for Hazleton, Jeanesville, Audcn icd and other points on the Traction Com piiny's lino. L Train leavlnir Drifton at 600 a m mokes ionncotion at Deringer with P. It. R. trains for Wilkesbarre, Sunbury, Horriaburg and points et. LOTBBB 0. SMITH. Oupertntendsnt
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