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THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1 ???17.
POSTOFFICE SCANDAL ECHO.
Sainuol A. Goff Is dead. He is the
Second man, generally believed In?
nocent, Id die of a broken heart fib']
Hit result of the famous postofllco
Investigation trials conducted by
former Fourth Ass'starh Postmaster
General Brlstow. The tlrst was tho
Into ex-Postmaster Qonurai Tynor,
who closoil a career of forty ye:i.i
In the goverinnoiit service character
Izcd by nollilng but honor, sinking
Int; his grave with the knowledge
of an honorable ncqultnl at- this
bunds of the law, but stung by
lAibltc denunciation based on ex
rnprte' Htutomeuts. Samuel A. Golf
wan police oftlcor of tho District
oT Columbia. He had served twent)
>oars on the force and was about
to retire on a pennsion, for widen
lib had applied. Previously Mo had
.served lu the civil war, being nitul'J
first irrgctiiK for bravery wnt-.i im
dor eighteen years of age. lP-i tnl
t'hts for mechanics led to the in?
vention of the (iovlco which fa.iuns
loiter boxes to the Iron ' po> 3 :"J
they can not bo removed except,
from the Inside. U wi, an unde?
niably tnorltorlous Invent ion but
when ho sought, to market II to
tiie officials of i he Postofllco Depart?
ment he found himself nga'ns'. the
famous "rake-off" system. Jus; how
far he was Involved In the trans
action which sent .him to the
.A.i.utiil.-ville, West Virginia, prison,
\v1th A. W. Machen , and Dille- B.
Goff; has never been absolutely
shown, but tho special counsel for
the government, Hon. Holmes Con?
rad, thought BUflloloritiy well of his
conduct to make a special plea to
the jury to acquit him. To tho
surprise of every one the jury dis?
regarded the pica and convicted Mr.
GotY. I
During his long form of service
on the police force, and through1
hla Inventions, he had accumulated
some money?estimated nt. from $10,
0?? to $30,000. Most of It was ex
Decided during the trial. The gov?
ernment ceased to pay for his pat
Qiited letter box holder on tho
ground of collusion and fraud. The
District, government refused his po?
lice pension because of his convic?
tion. Ho left the penitentiary a
broken, old man, crushed in spirit
and IInances, Peeling his brother
could have saved him by u frank
explanation, Samuel A. Ooff left tho
penitentiary at the same tlmo as
Diller1 B? hut they trqd separate
pntns and never spoke.
Groff is dead and another chapter
In the famous postofllco frauds ense
Is closed. The majesty of the law
has been vcndlcated, s.but after all
the question Is whether tho great
United States, escaped with glory
from that slough. Machen Is still In
tho penitentiary; so is Beavers, who
confessed and took his medicine
while the man charged with being
his accomplice went to trial and
was acquitted. When history writes
the story of those cases she will
put down on one sido tho killing of
Gen. Tyner and the bankrupting of
his nephew; tho sentence of death
o< Sr.m Goff; the ruined reputation
of Metcalf and the penitentiary sei
Vice of Messrs Machen and Beav?
ers. On tho other page of the
ledger slio will write the expense
of half a million dollars, tho turn
lug topsy?tnrvoy or tho PoslnlTlce
Department, and tlio rotlreinent Into
innocuous desuetude of the chief In?
vestigator. IMnybo history can Brtlko
a balance.
BLUE LAWS IN BOSTON.
Boston lias gone bach to tho
days oT Colton Mather nnil about
tho only i Min.-, you can do In tho
Hub on Sunday without fear of ar?
rest is to breath and go to church,
and tho whole trouble has been
started by District Attorney Moraii
whose great ambition in lire Is to
"boo his name occupying the head?
lines In the papers. A Tew weeks
ago ho arraigned the police oflleials
or Boston in no uncertain manner
for hoi enforcing the liquor laws or
that city. The police have retal?
iated by enforcing a whole stack
of blue laws which had been forgot?
ten but which have never been
annulled. A week ago last Sun?
day, everybody who was seen by an
ofllcor doing a stroke of work was
summoned before a magistrate for
decision whether the work was one
of necessity. Twelve hundred per
sons In all wero thus brought to
Justice and a great many of them
paid fines. Sweeping sidewalks^
delivering lee cream and other per
Ibhabio articles of food, shilling
theatrical scenery and effects, the
playing of orchestras In hotels?
those are typical Instances' or the
kinds or Sunday work which, the
police made arrests.
Last Sunday the people were not
so reckless In attempting to do
work hut hero Is a list of offenses
lor which a great many were plac?
ed under arrest.
Hnrnoi slug a pair of horses.
Checking bags and parcels at tho
North station.
Repairing lire alarm line at Ja?
maica Plain.
Soling fruit ut the South station.
Washing windows at the South
station.
Chinaman Ironing.
Towboat captains in harbor.
Keeping bakeries open uftor
hours. i
Washing sleeping cars at South
Boston yards.
Moving theatrical scenery.
Raising railroad tracks at Dud?
ley street.
Carting Band lor L railway.
Shining shoes after 11 a. m.
The enforcement of the blue laws
without regard to common sense Is
mighty Inconvenient Tor the people
In the city but if Is also holding
tho town up before tho world In
ridicule and cannot help but fall
to Injure it to n more or less extent.
In the end, however, this rigid en?
forcement of a lot of old dead laws
will be a good tiling for Boston as
it Is arousing the people to the fact
that their statute books need a
thorough overhauling, something
that has not been done' for years
because of moral cowardice or be?
cause they were forgotten. The
pages on which they are printed
have grown yellow with age and
long ago outlived their, uselulnesr,
if they ever had any at all, and
Boston will he a better town when
they ceaso to bo laws.
There was an incrense oT over
$14,800,000 in the amount of money
in circulation during December, tno
most notable Individual increases
being one of over $0.000.000 In gold
coin mid one of over $7,400,000 In
gold certificates. As compared with
January 1 lnst year there wns on
the first day of this mon an In?
crease of over $212,300,000. Tho
most notable. Individual change was
an Increase of over $110,400,000 In
gold certiflleotes. Likewise note?
worthy were Increases of over $57,
800,000 in national bank notes and
over $38,400,000 in gold coin. The
total volume or money in circula?
tion on January 1 was $2,SS:5,!?oo,
328. On the basis or a population
estimated by the Treasury experts
at 85,307,000, this represents a per
capita circulation ot $311.78, an in?
crease of 13 cents as compared witn
the preceding month, and of $1.90 as
compared with the corresponding
date a year ago.
- ? ?B_I
It la not a particular edifying spec
i tacle to see court room doors closed
against a crowd of women who want?
ed to attend a murder trial because
there were some highly sensational
features attached to it. Such, how?
ever, was the case at Luray, this
state, where the Good murder trial
I Is in progress.
That dismissal of seventy-two mem?
bers of the Virginia Military Insti?
tute has ./.long string attached to It
Tho Shah of Persia is dead. Such
is the solemn announcement made
In the papers of yesterday. Well
what of It? The world is going on
I just the same.
j It is stated that American navnl
Officers will have a chance to son the
.groat. British battleship Dreadnought
I Some time this winter. Perhaps Kng
I land is sending her over here with iho
j thought that perhaps she is going to
( scare somebody. If that Is the case
she has another guess coming.
That he has made
SPECIAL PRICES
on all of the broken
lines of
SUITS
and
Overcoats
a.l sizes here.
Sweaters,
Underwear,
House Coats
and Bath Robes
at Reduced
Figures.
Bell Phone 256; Citizens' C.
The Appropriations committee of
Congress had said no to the project
of fortifying tlie mouth of the Chesa?
peake buy, but that does not neces?
sarily menu that the plan is dead Tor
over. It is only a matter of lime
when tho fort will have to be con?
structed.
Carrie Nation Is in Norfolk. That
Is nenr enough for Newport News
people, thank you.
Culpeper Is once again on the map.
This time ft is tho black man who
is in the limelight.
it looks as if the Ponce was to lie
added to that long list of mysteries
which the ocean so thoroughly hides.
A woman Is terribly afraid of get?
ting her skirts dusty when she has
on pretty stockings.
WITH THE PARAGRAPHERS
Talking of cruel ami unusual pun?
ishment, a New York judge read
some of his own poetry to a man
he sentenced.?Norfolk I.cdger-Des
patch.
A French dying-machine inventor,
died recently, leaving his patent to
the poor of Paris. Perhaps he fig?
ured that, sinco they were already
impoverished, flyng-innchlne experi?
mentation could not make matters
worse for them.?Baltimore News.
Roosevelt's unerring choice of one
mlos is again exemplified in his
j selection of Harrltnan.?Detroit Free
I Press.
How much shaper than n serpent's
tooth It Is for a Tammany boss to
elect a thankless mayor??Now York
World.
Anyway, the Twenty-fifth Infantry
lias wono more attention than a doz?
en campaigns could give It.?Cleve?
land Plain Dealer.
Of course the President is gulag
to drop the tariff question. lie Is
now studying the effect of Gans'
j "left hook." on Herman?New York
I Herald.
A lusty national swat at the dead?
ly technicality would be worth more
than all the sermons on lawlessness
preached in the sanctum or pulpit.?
Atlanta Constitution.
Captain Hobson considers it his
duty to occasionally remind the
country that Japan could tako tho
Philippines from us without any
trouble, but we are willing to wager
that Japan would get a big bunch
of trouble with them.?Washington
Post.
Mr. Hearst has laid a big job for
Attorney General Jackson if he pur?
poses to have Mr. Jackson investi?
gate police and law-enforcement con?
ditions in New York over the head
of District Attorney Jerome.?Buffalo
Express.
A Wonderful Happeninq.
Port Byron, N. Y., has witnessed
one of the most remarkable cases of
healing ever recorded. Amos F.
King, of thnt place says: "Bucklen's
Arnica Salve cured a sore on my leg
with which I had suffered over SO
ycarr I am now eighty five." Gnnr
an'^ed to cure all sores, by the Ideal
Pharmacy, 25c.
THE LAND OF ROMANCE.
Bpulii mid tin- Peculiar Temperament
of Hh I'eoplc.
If I wore asked to sum up the domi?
nant Impression that the survival In
Spain of the old world medliievallsm
makes, I should say that Spain Is In
the precise and specific sense of tho
word the home of romance. The spe?
cial character of the Spanish tempera?
ment and of Spanish developments In
literature und in art Is marked hy n
quality, rising and sinking with the
rise and fall of Gothic, which we call
the romantic spirit?a mixture, that Is,
of the mysterious and grandiose with
the grotesquely bizarre of the Bonrlngly
Ideal with the crudely real, a mixture
which to us today has the cunning fas?
cination of art, but was really on both
stilus the natural outcome of the ex?
periences and feelings of the men who
created It. This romantic spirit was
once the common possession of all
Christendom, but the Spanish tempera?
ment peculiarly lent Itself to the ro?
mantic attitude, and It Is In Spain to?
day that we may catch Its final vanish?
ing echoes. It Is the church, always
the most powerful Stronghold of trad^
tlon among uny pe iple, which enables
the stranger most vividly to realize
how well the romantic spirit has been
preserved In Spain. Notwithstanding
invasions from without and revolutions
from within, especially during the
early years of the last century, Spain
Is still the country where the mediae?
val spirit of romantic devotion Is most
splendidly embodied and preserved.?
Havelock Ellis In Atlantic.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
A Member Uny Hrlnlc There, but In I
"...( Allowed tu Hut.
The British house of commons has!
Us own code In regard to the pnrtak- j
lug of liquid and solid refreshments. 1
A member making a long speech may |
take a drink, and the house is liberal 1
enough not to care whether tho-color I
of the contents of the glass is white or i
brown or black, whether, In fact, tho
glass holds water or whisky or beer.
Mr. Gladstone's egg flips, which bis
wife carefully compounded for him
mid be brought to the house In a bot?
tle, are classic.
But woe betide the man who scorns
drink and must have nient. Contempo?
rary recollection only recalls one mem?
ber rash enough to disregard this rule.
It was u number of years ngo, lu thu
stormy time of the home rule debates,
that an Irish imfmbcr. In the small
hours of the morning, produced from
his pocket a paper bug and drew out a
bun, which he proceeded calmly to
eat. The house was instantly In an
uproar. There were loud cries of "Or?
der! Order!" and that bun was never
finished.
No member may read n newspaper
In the house. If be had the temerity to
smoke, the sergeant at arms would
quickly place him under lock and key.
?Applelon's Magazine.
Mexican Charcli Lesend?.
Querelara was a town before the
Spanish conquest and was made a city
In Ki.">r>. A legend of Queretaro Is that i
an Otouilto chief. Fernando de Tapla j
I by name, undertook to convert the city i
I to Christianity lu a way that seems |
novel to us, but was common enough ,
to bis day. He came from Tula with j
a challenge to the people of Queretaro
to a fair stand up light. If he won, tile i
people surviving were to be baptized.!
The challenge was accepted, but while'
. the tight was in progress a dark cloud J
came up and the blessed Santiago was
seen In the heavens with a fiery cross,
whereupon the people of Queretaro
gavo up and were baptized. They set
up a stone cross to commemorate the,
event on the site of the present church
of Santa Cruz. There Is scarcely a
church In Mexico which has not a leg
cud of this kind attached to It.
hllftjudved.
The manager of an office had adver?
tised for an office boy. In eonsequeuco
he was annoyed for an hour by a
straggling lino of boys of ull sizes,
claiming various accomplishments.
"Well," lie said to a late applicant,
"I suppose you can road anything, und
write anything, and figure a little, and
use the typewriter a little, and"? ,
"Naw!" Interrupted the boy. "If I
could do all them things I'd strike yer
for yer own job. I ain't nothln* but cn
office boy."
Ho got the position.?Bohemian.
ttcnieily For Kxcoks In latinc
A hint to those who may thought?
lessly nt some time or other indulge in
I excess, in eating. If this Indiscretion
I is committed, especially lu high sea?
soned things with rich sauces, a draft
of cold water acidulated with lemon
juice will take off the sense of weight
at the stomach nnd assist the digestive
process by moderating the alimentary
j fermentation.
Old KnftlUli TClcetlons.
As nn Illustration of tho violence that
was once common during political
campaigns in England Is a quaint bill
from a lawyer after nn election nt
Andovcr in 1768: "To being thrown out
of tlio George Inn, Ajidover, to my
legs bel?g thereby broken, to surgeon's
bill and lo.S3 of time and business,
?500."
A Loophole.
"But. Tommy," said his mother,
"didn't your conscience tell you you
were doing woug?"
"Yes'm," replied Tommy, "but I
don't believe everything I hear."?Phil?
adelphia Proi-s.
The I'nrolinNlnK ARent.
"Dad," asked Bobby, "what Is bi?
ology?"
"Go nsk your mother," replied dad
curtly. "She spends tho most money."
?Harper's * Weekly.
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Ship Stuff, sacked, per 10? lbs. 1.20
'Bran, Bticked, per lOO lbs. 1.15
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Martial Law for Scranton.
SCRANTON, PA., .Ian. 9.?ah a I
result of the typhoid epidemic the
city-is practically in a state of mar?
tial law. In language noted for its
vigor. Mayor Dimmlek addressed:
the police force, stating that "the
fever epidemic practically demands'
martial law in the city for the
next few months."
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