THE SCR ANTON TRIBUNE-SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1894. SCRANTON TRIBUNE F. E. .WOOD, General Manager. Published daily and weekly iji Bcbah- ON, PA., J1Y III UUIUUKE PUBUSUINO t'OIIPANr. New York Office: Tribons Boildino, Frank B. gray. Manaqer. Butered at the Fo$tvfflce at Scranton, Pa, Second-Clan Mail Hatter. THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE. FCKANTON, JANUARY 13, 1804. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET FOB CON'OKESSMANATLAROK, UALUSMA A. GROW, OF SUSQUEHANNA ELECTION FEBRUARY 20. stock, ami $753,017,000 funded debt. No ultimate is made of the floating debt of tb companies involved, w hich must have swelled the tptal of liabili ties considerably. Neither does the liet Include the Atchison, Top?ka and Santa Fee, wboie 0,811 miles increase the total railpae in tlie hands of re ceivers to 82.878, ami the total liabili tie'tomoie than $l,."SO0.O00,009. To thi must be added 1,410 miles of the Voad sold under forfOlidr durini; the year, representing $17,201,000 of seojir lies. No more striking commentary on our methods of railrotd management is possible. Hampered hy the hardens of enormous debts, trying to earn divi dends on watered stock, cutting rates desperately nnder sharp competition, or overloaded with unprofitable branches, their weakness1 is exposed by the first touch of business depression During the past ten vears receivers have taken charge of 07,100 miles of railroad in the United States with lia bilities of over f!!,700,000,000. "A STUDY IN SCARLET." Doesn't mtan an analysis Of any particular '';.' nor a disquisition touching tiie proptrHot of colors in general, llvt it doesmeon something that every reader of the The Sc.run ton Tribune. uill lie unmistakably interested in: something extraordi narily fascinating; something worth waiting for. Explanation pbom Ex Paramount Mount comes too late. Tue facts are all in, the evidence is complete and the verdict is "guilty as charged." Hit Carnegie, it is believed, could stand free trade a good deal better than could his employes His resigna tion to thy possibility of a hybrid Dem ocratic tariff has something of the cyn ical in it. 1 h is an interesting evidence of Da mooraoy'l politic tl poverty that it has to accompauy the announcement of its latest state candidacy with a biograph ical diagram showing who the can didate is. A FHtM application, to lszy meudt c mts who refuse to do proffered work, of the homely Saxon principle of "root, hog, or die," will, it is believed, re dound to the benefit of honest audde uerviug unfortunates. The man who, having a chance to work, refuses, does not have any claim to public aid while more deserving ones remain unassisted. The lazy tramp is like the rich beggar, an anom aly repelling all sympathy. Mr HINKS of Luzerno has achieved the distinction of getting au appoint ment for the first Hungarian postman ter ever employed to handle the United States mails, Mr. Hines deserves to bekuown as the Kossuth of Democratic wire pulling. Possibly V Representative Tracey of Albany were not so perennially anxious to re-echo his accustomed meed of praise and applause every time Mr. Cleveland utters a sound, he would uot be called a "cuckoo," Anyhow, its reassuring to know that the appella tion isn't relished. It shows that cuckoo sycophancy doesn't like to be told the truth. Among the signs of the timss, none is more interesting than the frantic eagerness with which the same Demo cratic uowspapers that four weeks ago were scuttling the dictionary for terms of invective suitable to their denuncia tion ofAndtewCamegie.arenow seeking to welcome and to maguify his quisi imlorsement of the Wilson bilL The incident is a liberal education in the ethics of organic journalism. A stat i' E to Phil Sheridan lashing, electric, invincible Phil would hold before the eyes of the youth of our city one of the finest memories of the civil war. Suprema type'of the impulsive military genius, signal embodiment of the blended fires of a strong and virile msnhoonf, Sheridan stands out as con spicuously in American history as his counterfeit should, and it Is hoped will, stand ou a suitable pedestal in the court house square. li Mb hit possibly pain Mr. Lowell, were he alive, to know that Robert Michanan, whom American newsni pers have to diagraui as a British writer who sometimes, but not often, contrives to put interest into his words, "declines to accept him as representing in any sense the country which produced Whitman, Thorean, Herman Melville, Whittier and Mark Twain." Mr. Buchanan seems from this specimen of his ncumm to have missed the opportunity of his life when he failed to apply for employment as a metropolitan dramatic critic, let us say on the New York Herald. Oi;r esteemed contemporary, the Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, congratu lates itself up m its fancied discovery of a discrepancy between two editorials in The Tribune, one of which recog nized the fact that business depression just now is international in its extent, and the other wondered why the ' 'gen eral business depression" that Pennsyl vania Democrats in their platform charge to the McKinley tariff didn't materialize until opponents of that tariff got into political control. The News-Dealer says of thesa two editori als that "the one tells the troth, the other lies." Inasmuch as "the oth t" merely asked a question, whatever lying there is in the premises must be credited to the Democratic state platform. INSOLVENT RAILROADS. The Railway Age has compiled" n list of the insolvent railroads in the United States that have gone into the hands of receivers during the year 1393, and also a list of those that have been sold dur ing tne year under foreclosure. The list gives a correct idea of the disas trous effect of the business depression on the railroads of the country, though it cannot fairly be contended that In all these cases the acute business de pression wai the sole oauie of the tronble. The list given by the Railway Age shows 22,534 miles of railroad placed in the hands of receivers during the year, representing fi. 287 932,000 of securi ties, of Which 1531,083,000 is capital THE .RICKAFELLOW SENTENCE. No crime is so difficult to estimate fairly as that which involves in faot, if not in deliberate desigu, a betrayal of publlo confidence, covering a period of years during which the criminal has been looked upon as amidst of honesty and punctuality. The sense of shock which is experienced in the discovery of such a prolonged dect ption is even more terrible than is the actual money loss that grows out of it. It has a tendency to drive one into mental brutality, to make him a cynic in his estimates of men and morality, to weaken bis faith in those very pillars of social stability and spiritual prog- gress which, once gone, leave nothing but chaos and ruin. Widespread as was the pecuniary em harassment which resulted from the suspension of F. V. Rockafollow's bank, general as was the sacrifice of hopes and plans and opportunities among the hundreds of small depositors 4n that institution, the savings of whose lifetime were thus suddenly swept away, these were less bitter than was the later revelation of the long stretch of tim during which the "honest old banker on the square" did an immoral busiuess by trading on a capital of reputed solvency that he did uot in real fact possess. The average man recuperates quickly from a business reverse. The loss of a few dollars or a few hundred dollars meant to the majority of those depositors simply a little m ire euprgy, a little more economy, aud a little harder and stronger and tnore determined struggle in life. But the loss of faith in human nature, the loss of those ideals which we take unto ourselves as parts of our innermost life and bops this was no minor thing. All the genius and In dustry of the ages combined cannot re place a shattered idal. All the money this side Eldorado cannot m ike happy the life of the man who finds the foundations of his faith in mankind torn or shaken. It is this side of the Rockafallow crime which the courts cannot adjudi cate; because it is above and beyond the most scrupulous of legal tribunals. Upon the other hand, what court of earthly justice can assume to weigh the mental torture and the self-reproach which must hnve been experi enced by the silent banker at, day by day aud year by year, he saw the fab ric of bis business life slowly but un erringly growing tangled and insecure'' We are not given to know what ex piation the criminal who yesterdav was sentenced by a lenient judge has already made, all unknown to his fel low men. It seem to us that the lemon nf this entire incident is irrestible in its insistence upon candor and genuine honesty as rules of business conduct. It seems to us that had Mr. Rookafel low been Irani; with himself, frank with his family, frank with his friends, the slow ebbing of his finances would not have reached the startling cul mination of virtual theft, robbery, em bezzlement, The facts that all his past standing cannot shield him from the legal penalty of his legal crime which, after all, is but a trivial fraction of his whole trangrosion--and that, old man us he is, with much sympathy going out to him in spite of the enormity of his apparont wrong, he must don the garb or a common felon supply, as we view them, a vivid vendication of our institutions of justice. ENIGMATICAL CONTRASTS. A few days ago people read the pain ful news that a very distinguished gentleman of national fame, a former governor of Massachusetts, and speaker of the national house of repre sentatives at a most critical juncture immediately preceding the civil- war, had been found wan lering about the streets or a city near ins nome in a mentally dazd condition. Every reader was moved to tender sympathy at the thought of that noble intellect thus eclipsed by the infinnitv of ad vancing years. The Boston Advertiser speaking of this incident asks why it is that some powerful minds become en feebled by age, though physioal health remains comparative! v vigoroni, while in other instances the lamp of intelli gence burns with undimnmd brightness far beyond the psalmist's allotted period of life? Many cases Illustrative of both olas see of faets occur to any well informed and reflective mind. Less than a de cade Hgn there diod near Boston an aged statesman belonging to a family two membors of which had been presi dents of the United States, He him self was during a long and eventful c ireer one of the most prominent citi zens of the republic He had been our country's envoy at the English court while the conflict with arm I treason was raging at home, and his diplomatic skill and unswerving loyalty ware chiefly efficacious In preventing the recognition by Great Britain of the Southern confederacy. For a consid erable period before his death this emi netit man had required the watchful care of friends by reason of gradually decaying mental faculties. The story ot the declining yoars of that extraordi nary preacher and theologian, Rev. Lyman Beecher, D. D , is very similar in the respect cow under considera tion. To some, though a less, extent the same things can be said of New England's greatest philosopher, R ilph Wajdo Emerson. On the other hand, the great Joslah Quiucy, mayor of Boston and presi dent of HafVard college, was strong in mind as well at body when he had become a nonogenarlan, and Galuiha A. Grow, who succeeded N. P. Bauks as speaker of the house of representa tives, is in tht full vigor of all his Physical and mental powers.- Looking across the Atlantic we see at this time two notable contrasts. Mr. Glad stone, long past eighty, is, as Mr. Depew has just remarked after return ing from a fliag trip to Europe, and as we all know from many sources of information, as keen, adroit, inlefaUt able, eioqii ut and every w iy master ful as in any previous peri id In his wonderful life. But John Rukin, far .vonngr, though an old man as age is naiMilli? rnrnnA la nnltf tha shmlnw o( bis incomparable self as r 'gar Is that once magnificent intellect, whose creations have given the world new beauty. Thus far all attempts to solve the enigma presented by tacts like these, of which a vast numbsr oantd be cited easily, have failed. The in ire the sub ject is studied the more mysterious it becomes. Neither heredity nor appar ent natural strength, nor methods. of life and work, nor external surround inus.nor vital temperament, nor spheres of activity, no degrees of success nor failure, no one of these, nor all of them taken together, can seem to throw any light at all upon the question. PHO-RE'-NOS .AtmtfS. DRUNKENNESS f uukI to tho "Keelov Cure' Try bottle and if It 4c 11. L1 UlfUlBCS sell IS AVOID THE GRIP COMMISSIONER SEYMOUR'S IDEA. It is to be hoped that the proposition of Patent Commissioner Seymour to print from time to time a list of expired patents, for general circulation, will be favorably acted upon by congress. One of the most serious abuses of the patent system is the purchase and sup pression of patented devieei and pro cesses by corporations having money tied up in plants constructed on old plans. Ideas which might be of prac tical value to the industrial world if they became general property are in this way sometimes buried out of sight and forgotten. It often happens that an inventor has an inspiration which might be elabor ated into n mechanical improvement, but he lacks the time or the knowledge to perfect it, or imagines that the car. rying out of the idea in a completed machine would infringe upon patented rights. The publication of a list of ex pired patents would be of inestimable benefit to such men, and also to the general public, which would eventual ly profit by the practical application of their ideas. At present the only way of keeping track of expired patents is byTeferring to the indexes of the patents granted seventeen years ago and earlier. As the term of patent is seventeen years the Assumption is that those granted seventeen years ago have expired. But only a limited number of people have ccess to these old indexes. The weight of what is sometimes called ' 'the patent monopoly"would'oe greatly lessened by the adoption of the patent commission er's plan. The spirit of co-op -ration in its best and clearest sense is well evidenced in the feelings, the needs and the alms whioh have promoted the organization of the Scranton Eugineeri ng club. As in the case of the individual eoal oper ators and of the members of our vari ous professional and industrial socis ties, it is perceived that belter results follow along the line of cone Titration and hrinony than acorui, in the long run. under the primitive idea of every fellow lor himself. The risks are also larger; especially the risk lest this de sirable spirit of union shou d I e abnsed or twisted to the profit of merely fraction of its sharers. But civillza tion very olearly expects its bene fie iaries to guard against such perils Unless we are ready to relapse at once into savagery, the idea that in legiti mate union there is strength will need to be accepted as a postulate of human progress. MINOR FACTS AND FANCIES. A collection of the cartoons which have been elicited by the president's Hawaiian policy would prove a valuable literary and political heirloom for the coming Anion cau. 1 lie unanimity with wbicn our fer tile and ready caricaturists have jumped on tne pint tqre.Hor waeen ijii is no en con raging eviwnce that patriotism among us nas not oecome a iom, art. One cartoon in the Philadelphia Inquirer tneotuer nay wasn t dru. it represented Qrover astride bicycle,, going full tilt down hill and to waiu a big stone, while encircling bis neck in a frantic effort to save her duiky self were the ebonr arms of tho;dnposeu Hawaiian queen The prefri dent, ne nearea me laevitame "healer. whistled the air of the catchy dance-ball pong that describes the charm of a "Bicycle nunc mr i wo." The cartoonists, by the way, appear to nave a pencuaui ior omnium up their rue torial comlcalltiei upon the foundation of some current topical Hong. The Irish World this week contains a good example, Qrover and Uresham, in a stato of grief and ueahnbille, are sobbing in a room to gether, while, throuirh the open door, Un clo Nm strides tmijOKticauy out, clutching the switch of public criticism. This scene is supposed to be another version of the Bong: "Two Little Boys That Are Blue' in fact, black and blue. Considering the immense number of pickerel that are being caught these day? and the small amount of effort made by the nan commissioners to propogate this giuney food nsh. the thought occurs tha something or the expenditure made In "planting trout fry in streams where one never afterward catches any trout could be wisely diverted: to stocking oar lakes with pickerel. Give this flh one-half the attention bestowed on the elusive and mysterious trout, and see what he'll do for you. , A contemporary in Nicholson suggests that that thriving village is lust the Dlaco for Scranton people to build homes in. This may be true, but it occurs to tee that the best placefor Scran ton laus to reiide in is in Scrnutoii itself. The taste which can uot be suited without going beyond the limits of tins city win, it is reared, find diffi culty In getting satisfied anywhere. County Chairman V. W. Wood of Wayne county who by the way la as hustling a young executive as one would wish to know is mention d by friends in connection with the congressional nomin ation in the Fifteenth next fall. Another gentleman who Inn received favorable mention Is A. T. Searle. The difficulty in competing against Representative Wright naturally lies in the fact that Wayne is only one of four counties comprising the district. Republicans in Wavne.however, begin to think It is really their turn. In Plain Wor.la, It Is Bala. licranton Truth. The Statement that "three years' experi ence of the McKinley tariff bill has re sulted in general business depression and in wreck and ruin to maufacturing inter ests" is as complete a specimen of false hood "perfect In all Its pa ts" as the ha -man imagination could embody. It reaches tho very perfection of a work' ot fine art moulded out of material that cannot last like a statue of snow mistaken for marble, laboriously shaped In Borne Ute March night. it small cost. oes yon good continue BY WEARING Fleece Lined Hygienic UNDERWEAR Goldsmith's g Bazaar . n ii .n i i oth Red Letter Clearing Sale Ha "SIT GLOVE DAYS This is no convinced. fake. Try it aud CONRAD, HATTER SELLINU AGENT. e : N. A. HULBERT'S City Music Store, - wxouuia avb. eciiAMio BTK1NWAY SOU DKCKKR BROTHEM KRAN1CH & BACK BTUlrZ H liAVUM tn PIANOS 4 tec a krii atock of flratlass ORGANS UCS1CAL MERCHAND1SU MUSIC, XO EXtt Ladies' Kid Cloves $1 William quality 5-hook Foster Lacing Gloves, 79c. $1 WiLiam Quality Biarritz Foster Lacing Gloves, 70c. $L 35 Undressed Kid Gloves, best shades and quality, 98c. $1.50 Fowler Quality, 5-hook Foster Lacing Gloves, $1.25. $2 Fosterina Quality, 7-hook Foster Lacing Gloves.in colors, $1.60 $1 4-button Smoschen Kid Gloves, 65c. We are the sole and exclusive agents in this city for the Genuine Foster Kid Gloves, and we have had full permission from Foster, Paul & Co. to name the above prices for two days only. Men's Kid and Leather Cloves $1 Men's Kid Fur Lined Gloves, 75c. $1.50 Men's Fur Top Lined Gloves, $1. $2 Men's Jerome Dress Kid Gloves, $1.59. $1.50 Men's Walking Kid Gloves, $1.25. 45c. Wen's Leather Working Gloves, 29c. 50c. Men's Leather Working Gloves, 39c. 75c. Men's Calfskin Working Gloves, 59c. $1 Men's Best Buckskin Gloves, 79c SEE P. L Crana's New Prices FURSl FURS! Mercereau 1 Connell 307 LACKA'WANN'A AVUNUE. CAPES 18 INCHES DEEP. Franch Coney Capes, li inch? deep. . Astrakhan Cape, " " ... Astrakhan Cnpes, " " ,. Atsrakhan Capes, " " .. Dyed opossum C pel " " ,. Mon?y Capes, " " .. Monkey Capos, " " ,. Ns. Otter Capos, " " ,. Nat. Ottor Capos, " " , . Krtmmer Capes, " " .. Boa vor Capos, " " ,, Kuirls Capes. " " .. Seal or Persian Capos " " ., Alaska Seal Capos, " " ,. Alaska Seal Capes, " " ,. Mink Canes, " " . , Brown Maten Capes " " .. .i 3 O) , 4 00 . 500 , t) 00 . ti 00 , It 00 . 1100 . 20 00 . 33 00 . 12 00 . 25 00 . 13i0 . 25 00 . 35 00 . 50 00 . 50 00 . 25 00 CAPES 22 INCHES DEEP. Astrakhan Capos, 22 inches deep 810 00 Baltic Sea Capes, " 18 00 Electric cal Capes, " 15 00 Fretn h Coney Capos, " 8 00 Mink Cabes, " 50 00 Brown Marten Capos, SO 00 Monkey Capes, " 25 00 Highest Cash Frices Paid lor Rafl Furs. Repairing Furs a Specialty. BLANK BOOKS LANK BOOKS MEMORANDUMS Office Supplies of all kinds Inks and Mucilages LRADJXO MAKES. Fine Stationery WIRT, WATERMAN aud FRANK LIN FOUNTAIN PENS. All Qnarantasd. Agents for Crawford's Pens and Buck's Flexible Rubtfer Stamps. Reynolds Bros. Stationers and Engravers. 817 LACKAWANNA AVE, DIAMONDS, and Fine Jewelry, Leather Goods, Clocks, Bronzes, Onyx Tables, Shell Goods, Table and Ban quet Lamps, Choicest Bric-a-Brac, Sterling Silver Novelties. mm HORSE SIDE Removable aud Self-sharpening Calks, We are sole agents for Bradford, Columbia, Laca wanna, Luzerne, Montour, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming counties, State of Pennsylvania. Catalogue on application, THE Bittenbender&Go.,Scranton, Wholesale and retail dealers' in Wagonmakera' and Blacksmiths' Sopplies, Iron and Steel. Ice .'. Skates, All Prices and all Sizes. SNOW WHITE FLOUR IS THE BEST. THE WESTON MILL CO,. SCRANTON, PA. THE Upholstery Department -OF- Foote 6c Sliear Co. 513 LACKAWANNA AVE. LUTHER KELLER lime, num. KING'S WINDSOR CEMENT FOB PLASTERING. SEWER PIPES, FLUE LININGS Office, 813 West Lacka wanna Ave. Quarries and Works, Portland, Pa, THE DICKSON MANUFACTURING CQ ECH ANTON AND WILKES-BARRE, PA.. MANUFACTURERS Of Locomotives and Stationary Engines, Boilers, HOISTING AND PUMPING MACHINERY. General Office. SCRANTON. PA. ASK YOUR GROCER AND INSIST UPON HIS FURNISHING YOU WITH STOWERS 1 DKLICIOUB, MILD SUOAH CORED ABSOLUTELY PtTXtSI HAMS. LARD. EVERY HAM AND PAIL OF LARD BRANDED. m tradetupplied THE sXo WERS PACKING CO., SCRANTON, PA William : Sissenberger Opposite Baptist Church, Penri Avenue, Is replete with fine and medium Parlor Suits, Fancy Rockers, Couches and Lounges for the Holiday Trade. Prices to Suit all. Also Bed Room Sets, Din ing Room and Kitchen Fur niture. Parlor Suits and Odd Pieces Re-upholstered in a Substantial manner. Will be as good as new. DO YOU SELL? OR ARE YOU MAKING PRESENTS ? of Mixed Candy, Clear Toys, or any style of Caudy or Nuts, Express Wagons, Velocipedes, Tricycles, Doll Cabs, Drums or Toys of every kind. DOLLS Chiua Dolls, Wax Dolls, Tateut Dolls, Jointed Dolls, any kind of doll from 25c to $15 SLEDS OR SLEIGHS For Boys, Girls or Dolla, in Maple, Oak or Iron, from 25a. to 915.0U. BICYCLES We have the goods and our prices are right. Wholesale) aud retail. J. D. WILLIAMS BRO., 314 Lacka. Ave, We make b SPECIALTY of supplying com mlttaas for Sunday School. Fairs, Festival Frank P. Brown & Co. Wholesale Dealers iu Woodware, Cordage and Oil Cloth 720 West Lackawanna Ave. Manufacturers' Agunts for LAMPS ni aUUWWJdlK. CUOCKKBir.
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