4 THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-SATURDAY MORNING. JANUARY 5. 1895. 1. rUBLISBIO DAII.T TO ScRAMTOI). PA. , IT Tfal TMBtnra pobumuho oomfaht. (. P. KINOtDURV. Pot: Qt l Mm. K. H. RIPPLC, Ste-v Tumi. LIVVS. HICMAHD. Ibitod. W. W. DAVIS, iimnlllTiiiKiiT. w. w. vounas, t. mmm-h. iw tors, okici : Tribons buooiro. nun a OB AY. MARAOIR. MTIBID AT TBI FOBTOrriOI AT 8CRANT0. FA. AS BIOORB-OLAaa MAIL MATT1B. "Printers' Ink," the recogniied Journal for advertisers, rates TUK SCRANTON TRIBUNE as the best advertising medium in Northeastern Pennsylvania. " Printers' Ink'.' know. SCRANTON, JANUARY 5, 1895. : THE SCRAXTOX OF TODAY. Come and Inspect our city. Elevation above the tide, 740 feet i , ; Extremely healthy. Estimated population, 1891, 103,000. Registered voters, 20,599. Value of school property, $750,000. ' Number of school children, 12,000. Average amount of bank deposits, 10, 1100,000. It's the metropolis of northeastern Penn sylvania. Can produce electric power cheaper thun Niagara. No better point In the United States at Which to establish new Industries. See how we grow: Population in 1860 S.223 Population In 1870 8".000 Population In 1880 Population In 1890 '5-215 Population In 1891 (estimated) 103.UJ0 And the end Is not yet. There Is room for a greater Scran'tom without g-olng outside the present boundaries of Scirawton. One Remedy for Over-Taxation. We give place, in another column, to nn interesting communication nominal ly poking fun at a cartoon In yester day's Tribune, but really calling atiten 4Ion to the high rate of taxation In vogue dn this city! The complaint is common that In proportion ito rents and realty prices, taxation for municipal purposes Is ait an extraordinary natch In Scranton. Our correspondent inti mates, in fact, that next to Elizabeth, N. J., Scranton Is the most taxed city Jn the country. This tax burden, to be eure, does not fall upon our Industries, which can, for a long period after their establishment here, usually secure an exemption. Neither is it felt to a fie llotts extent by ithe tenant class, since tt Is a common remark, among our busi ness men that It ia cheaper 'to pay rent than toown a house, competition among landlords having reduced central city residence rents to a point that In some cases probably renders this statement true. The burden rests, therefore, upon the email land owners and upon those who invest savings in homes of their own. These, always the backbone of every, community, are taxed heavily because, os a rule, they submit to It. The ex tremely poor people, who could not sub mit, escape to some extent and the Urge land-owners and corporations es cape . because . they are influential enough to look after their own inter oats. Scranton, in this pantlculair, is probably not different in principle from moit cities. The only difference Is in degree. Scranton, for one thing, id a comparatively young city. It has had. In one generation, to build public im provements and establish municipal conveniences in the duplication of which most ctlie have occupied an .entire century. This has made the tax raites thigh, for the present, In order that they may be low In the future. 'Scranton, secondly, has an extraordi nary amount of ddle land which, be cause of its ownership by Influential corporations, is -held In the expectation of a rise In value and under-assessed accordingly. The burden of thla dis crimination has fallen upon Just such propetijles as the one which our corres pondent descrdbes. An equalization of these burdens would appreciably re Jtere the tension which the small property-owner begins to feel during a period of depreciated incomes. What do we suggest as a remedy? Many things are suggested which the locad public would probably not In dorse. We know of one excellent lm mediate remedy, however, that If It did ,not wholly revolutionize the trouble complained of would be quite certain to partially relieve It. If good, eub tantlal, trustworthy business men were elected to councils, men owning homes of rhedr own and having per sonal knowledge of the needs of their ward and of the city at large, tha , amount of public money expended Inju diciously would soon decrease, and with It would go some portion of the high taxation that is the special grievance of our valued correspondent. The ap plication of honesty, courage and abili ty to the traneactlon of municipal legis lation would be the first thing that we would advise In the case of Mr. Hannah and of the 'hundreds of Scran torvtans who aire similarly situated. - John Bums declares that he perceives premonitory nymtoms of tendencies in this country whdeh threaten to bring about a crisis compared with which the French revolution was merely a by- . play of children. John Is doubtteeu pre pared ito apedfy these symptoms at 75 cents per ticket of admission, 1. We are glad to notice that the efforts of our local authorities to secure the conviction of the person guilty of ths death of Mrs.. Thomas Watklns have received the commendation of citizens - irenerally. The crime by which this death was caused is not only a sin, In morals, but It la a sin the legal side of which is too often neglected. The per son who kills another in open battle, face to face, may be guilty of homicide, but the guilt is trivial compared with that of the heartless parent or un scrupulous physician ' who, the one through cowardice and the other for hire, sacrifices a pre-natal life In the utter helplessness of Its emtryonlo con- dltlon, Jeopards ' the wolfare of the mother and strikes an indirect blow at the very cornerstone of society the purity of the home. The arm of the law ought to be unsparing In its pur suit of those who pursue the nefarious trade of the abortionist. The call for a mass meeting of citi zens to protest against the slaughter of the descendants of the Armenian Chris tians by Turkish brigands or Kurdish outlaws will doubtless be criticized by some persons because of the distance separating Scranton from the scene of the protested atrocities. It Is to be re membered, however, that all civiliza tion la concerned in this problem. The question at Issue is fundamental and vital -to Christian people everywhere. and a remedy will not be applied unless a:t the behest of an united and indig nant publlo sentdrrient commensurate wlt'ii the parent evil's awful enormity. The Progress of riedical Science. The introduction of anti-toxin into the ouratlve processes of this communi ty Is an' experiment which must prove its own value. In other places, under careful supervlalon, this recent addi tion to the world's list of inoculative medicines has demonstated that It can greatly reduce the ravages of diph theria. What has been done elsewhere ought to be equally possible In Scran ton, among physicians of established and wldwly-recognlzed skill. The test, therefore, will be awaited with keen anxiety by those who realize the im portance of immunity from this terri ble contagion. It will -'Interest those who have not paid much attention to recent changes In ithe science of medicine to call their attention to the considerable Impetus which the successful application of the serum of infected animals to the in oculation of the human body is giving to the comparatively new germ theory of dlsjase. Ten years ago few persons outside the laboratories of learned specialists believed that many, :if not all the ailments,' from .which humanity suffers, are nothing less than the work of minute parasites which prey upon the human body, deriving life at the ex pense of life. Today this theory Is so generally accepted that the statement of it da almost superfluous except as In dicating the rapidity of a widespread recent mental revolution. When an ori ginal investigator like Professor Coles, of Kingston, brings to science's aid an optical apparatus which shows us, In pulsating and vivid activity, the very andmalculae which throng our epidermis or ulot Inside the corpuscles of our blood, and brings the germ theo ry of disease from a kind of abstract hypovhosJls down to a demonstrated and shocking fact, those persons are 111 Informed Who regard his work with in credulity, for It Is simply a logical ex tension of a now universally conceded tenet of physiological science. The line of reasoning which presup poses that if smallpox can be avoided through the toxilcal Instrumentality of vaccdne; tuberculosis greatly lessened by the counteracting effects of a vital lymph; dipsomania checked by the use of gold bichloride, and diphtheria averted through the agency of anti toxin It will be equally possible, in the course of tdme, to work out new solu tions to other kindred or correspond ingly virulent diseases Is sound In logic and perfectly natural. Men are now alive who will live to see new empires conquered dn the domadn of medical science along this very line. The dis eases which confounded our fathers are already simple to us. The ailments which we cannot bafile will undoubted ly be unfolded before the searching in quiry of posterity. Yet death will, after all, beat science at the mllepost, and humanity In the aggregate will be how much better off? We are of the opinion that the llthlc pavement ought to go. The .United States senatorshln In Michigan, just bestowed on Julius CaeBai-.Burrows, has been entrusted to capable hands. Mr. Burrows, has few equals as a ready debater;lhls knowl edge of public affairs Is accurate and Widespread, and his Republicanism is no recent caprice. ' Another nleasinc feature of the selection, to Pennsjiva- nlans, consists of the fact that it opens the .way for Thomns B. . Reed to an- polnt as chairman of the next commit tee on ways and means Mr. Burrow junior'in service, John Dalzell. . .... ... It Is time drover Cleveland became reconciled with somebody. - 1 For Better Statutes. The Philadelphia Ledger voices a general sentiment when It asserts thnt "some method should be Invented for the more speedy publication of the new lawsasHed at each session of the state legislature." In New York state, where special legislation obtains; the laws re lating to each community are adver tised In designated newspapers at! the state's expense. This plan would prob ably cost too much In Pennsylvania, where legislation In the main Is general In its application. But it ought to be possible, . without material extra ex pense, to bring the various acts oi each session together In convenient form within a month subsequent to adjourn ment. At present a year Is very likely to Intervene, during which time the public Is compelled to remain In Ignor ance of the law. A cognate reform has been suggested In the call recently Issued for the or ganization at Harrlsburg of a State Bar association. In this call attention U directed to the prevalence in the legisla ture of bills' which, while proper enough In Intention, often defeat their own purpose through careless phraseology. We do not have to search far for an example of this type of legislation. One Is fresh In mind in the case of the Kline law creating the office of county con troller In counties having 150,000 or more population a bill excellent In mo tive, but rendered Inoperative because through a curious oversight It neg. lected to terminate the superseded of fice of the county auditors. Those who are at the back of the movement for a State Bar association cite among the advantages of such an organization the fact that It would enable the lawyers of the state to more effectually co-oper ate with the law makers, not In dictat ing the subject-matter of future legls latlon ' but In lending symmetry and uniformity to the form of the statutes. It would please a majority of laymen if to these two Improvements a third one could be added, In the form of a general simplification of ths phrase ology of . the statutes. Perhaps the principal reason why the masses do not keep better informed as to thilnew leg ation enacted by our generaX ossem-j biles Is because the wording of that legislation is repulsively hackneyed, circumlocutory and verbose. The de mands upon the modern citizen's time are sufficiently varied and voluminous to render It Impossible for him to waste much of that time In the perusal of the redundant Jargon of the statute makers. If the gist of the matter were crisply expressed, he would find it not only valuable but Interesting; and the popular knowledge of current legisla tion would be appreciably Increased. Whether such simplification Is possible while a learned profession reBtB much of Its occupation upon the complexity of legal verbiage Is perhaps doubtful. We heartily concur In the protest of those who resent the petty action of certain members of common council in trying to lialve the nlghit lunch wagons removed from the streets. If the opposition of these councllmen to the wagons were carefully analyzed it would probably be found to rest largely upon the fact thait these night luinohes are 'not free luniohes. "Sand" Is the name of a bright little paper published monthly at Tine Bluff, N. C, by Frank P. Woodward, formerly of Dunmore. "Sand" Is devoted to the exploitation of southern Interests and southern opportunities. It Is up to date and full of grit. The crime of which the woman phy sician, Mrs. Vail, Is accused is nothing less, In morals, than deliberate murder for pay. We trust there Is little of this villainous kind of assassination prac ticed In tihls community. Organized labor will always be handi capped pu long as lis leaders quarrel among themselves. LEGISLATIVE TOPICS. 1 ho Tax Receipt Abuse. Pittsburg (.'ommerclul-aazette: "Sena tor Blown has Introduced a bill at liar rlsburg making It a penal offense for any committee or member of a political com mittee, or any rumlidnto for public ollice, to pay state und county taxes for voters. This strikes at a custom which has pre vailed to u greater or less extent all over the state, and which hus become a fla grant abuse in the larger cities. This l not only a corrupting practice as regards the low estimate which It places upon the privileges of citizenship, but It Is In thu nature of a bribe offered to the voter. There are conditions tinder which It Is not only proper but commendable for a person to pay the delinquent taxes of a fiiunil or acquaintance, but the wholesale purchase of tax receipts by political com mittees for the purpose of catching votes is a violation of the spirit of the election laws, and ought to bo severely punished. The bill above referred to provides a pen alty of $50 for each offense, summary Jur isdiction being given to magistrates, al dermen anil Justices of the peace. In case of refusal to pay the fine the person ad judged guilty is to be imprisoned In the county Jail one day for each fine im posed, Vt hen It Is known that tax re ceipts are obtulned by the thousand In this way at every Important election the necessity for some stringent legislation on the subject Is apparent." Senator l'llnn's Road bill. Pittsburg Times: "It is doubtful If any bill offered in the legislature this winter will be of more substantial Importance than Senator Minn s road bill. In brief. It tukes the control of the public roads of all counties out of the hands of the town ship authorities, unci vests It In the hands of the county commissioners of each coun ty. It wipes out the ollice of township supervisors and abolishes the practice of working out road tux, stipulating that the work of road making and repairing shall be done by contract, by the lowest re sponsible bidder, and paid for in cash; the money to be provided by a special an nual road tax levy of one mill upon the reul and personal property taxable for county purposes. The need of a radical reform of our road laws has been mucn considered by practical men In recent yeurs, and they should have something wise to say. The time hus come to puss an art. Nor do we see that any act will be worth missing If It does not ubolish town ship supervision, and the system of work ing out road tax, which In nine town ships out of ten has been either a farce or a waste." Prompt Publication of Laws. . Philadelphia ledger: "In former days, when special legislation was the vogue, the pamphlet laws were very voluminous. and there was some excuse for their tardy appearance. The new constitution worked a rhnnge. The acts of assembly for a single session are now contained in a vslume of small size, which could readily be published In a short time. The volumes are, however, gradually growing larger. In 1879 tho laws passed, with tho list of charters granted, filled a book or 2T3 pages. In the session of 1893 the laws and titles of charters covered 818 pages, the laws themselves requiring 618 pages. If the experience of the past two years Is to be repeated, the present legislature will give us a larger output of new legis lation. ' This should be accessible to the public In Its completed form as soon as possible." m m Freight Hauling by Trolley. Philadelphia Stockholder: "At the pres ent session of the legislature a bill that will lie pressed for passage will come from those Interested In electric railways out side of large cities, and Its purpose will be the legalization of Hie transportation of certain classes of merchandise. The farmers have demanded the enactment of such a bill by their representatives. claiming (hut It will add greatly to their convenience In reaching the markets with products of their gurdens, orchards and poultry yards." Cnro of the Indigent Insane. Philadelphia Press: "The question of the state care of the indigent insane Is one which the legislature will have to look sqimrcly In the face at the coming session. The present effort to carry out such a policy Is only a pretense. If the work Is ,to bo made effective und proper there must lie Very considerable Increase In the state hospital accommodations, not only In the western part of the state, but In the eastern part as well." ' Unfairly Condemned In Advance Philadelphia Times: "If the leaders of the legislature and Governor Hastings shall not set their faces like flint against all prolllgnta measures at the Blurt, the session will Inevitably drift Into waste of the public revenues ami provoke the con tempt of tho people of the state." POLITICAL POINTS. Senator Quay will leave Washington for Florida within ten days. - William Dawson's position as doorkeep er of the senate Is worth (0 per day while the session lasts. The Pottsvllle Miners' Journal doesn't think much of the Scranton gubernatorial boom for the reason that "Mr. Scranton Is more than seven."- Others thought this, too, prior to last Monday. The, position of reading clerk Is worth $1,800 for the session to James E. Wat kins. In the event of a special or extraordinary session, his pay would te $10 a day additional. The mileage allow ance Is 10 cents per mile, Carbondale Herald: "The Indications now point to the election of Homer Greene as congressman from the Wayne-Susquehanna district. Mr. Greene Is one of the most talented gentlemen In our Bectlon of Pennsylvania, and his many admirers, of whatever political creed, will be pleased that he has received political honors. If more men of his caliber were to Interest themselves In the work of conducting the government, the result would be a higher regard for our publlo servants in general," AMONG THE ALMANACS. The Norrlstown Herald presents to us, with Its compliments, a dainty calendar which would fittingly keep that excellent Journal fresh In the memory every day In the year f It were not itself In pleas ant evidence among our slate exchanges. Politics apart, WllllamBport has no bet ter newspaper than Postmaster Sweoly's Sun, a fact of which we are newly re minded by receipt of the Sun's 1895 al manac. The man who wants to keep in touch with Lycoming county aflalrs will need both the Sun and the Sun annual. The Philadelphia Inquirer's remem brance for the current year Is In tho form of a handsome lithographed calendar showing a chubby baby holding up the figures "189G" and other cherubic counten ances peeping at the spectacle from be hind the skies. It Is a dulnty achievement In color printing. The Amende llonornblo. From tho Wilkes-Harre Nows-Deoler. We were It seems a bit In error In stat ing In yesterday's Issue that your Uncle Joe Scranton had come out victorious In the contest for scalps at Harrlsburg. The paragraph was all right except that It was your I'ncie got scalped, not the other fellow. Christmas Presents . Useful and Ornamen tal goods for the holi day trade. LADIES' DESKS, CABINETS. BOOKCASES. LADIES' DRESSING TABLES. TEA TABLES AND LIBRARY TABLES, BRASS AND ONYX TABLES AND CABINETS (OF A GUARANTEED QUALITY.) AN ELEGANT STOCK OF PIC. TURES AT MODERATE COST. FANCY BASKETS AND LAMPS. CALL EARLY AND MAKE YOUR SELECTIONS WHILE OUR AS SORTMENT IS COMPLETE. Hill & Connell, 131 1ND 133 WASHINGTON AVE. A HAPPY NEW YEAR We wish ail our patrons health and prosperity In 1893. We start on anothsi twelve months' run with the earth around the sun, more thun fully equipped to meet the lint demands of the public of Scran ton. Our display Is magnificently com plete, presenting monumental values Ir. overy style of headwear. CONRAD, HATTER AND FURNISHER. Hand Sleighs, Baby Sleighs, Clippers, Alligators, Self-Steering Sleighs, Steel Sleighs, Iron Sleighs, AND THE FAMOUS Paris Hill Oak Sleighs In Clippers and Itent Wood Knees und the' Montrose Gas Tubing Sleighs. . We have over ioo dozen in stock and will sell very cheap at wholesale and retail. I D. WILLIAMS & BR0. 314 LACKAWANNA AVENUE. Tkc secret is out. Not only do thef iay we do washing for a living, but that we do tt well. So keep it going. Tell everybody you see, but tell them not to tell. . ,i .. ; . . EUREKA LAUNDRY, 322 Washington Ave. THAT WONDERFUL WEBER GUERNSEY GOLDSMITH'S This Is Stock-Taking When all Odds and Ends from every stock are brought to the surface, and a price put upon them that will give the sharp, shrewd bargain seeker an opportu nity to save considerable money, and at the same time you need not buy what you don't want, because it is cheap, but in our varied collection of useful articles, you are bound to find something THAT YOU DO WANT, and because it is cheap you will certainly buy it; therefore, we bring these important facts to the reader's attention. Many odd pieces in Ladies' and Children's Muslin Underwear, such as Night Gowns, Corset Covers, Chemise, Drawers and Skirts, some of them fresh and new others slightly counter-soiled, all marked down to a price so they will be quickly sold CONTINUATION OF LA DIE Of Chinchillas, Cheviots, Boucle, Diagonal and Plain Cloths, at $4,25, $5.50, $6.75, $8.00, $9.85. ANIMRV CD IS THE MONTH WE GREAT REDUCTIONSKT IN ODD AND ENDS OF DINNER. TEA and TOILETSETS, LAMP GOODS and BRIC-A-BRAC 422 LACKA. AVE. FOR '95 at Reduced Prices. Balance of our Calen dars at half price. A good selection of New'' Year Cards. REYNOLDS BROS. Stationers'and Engravers, 3I7UCMWAMUVE. DR. HILL & SON ALBANY DENTISTS. Ret teeth, $5.50: best set, tt; for gold caps and tooth without plates, called crown end brldiro work, call for prices end refer ences. TON ALOIA, for extracting teet without pain. No ether. No fas. OVER FIRST NATIONAL BANK. 1IE1TIH EXCELSIOR BROTHERS, JACKET China Closeli reduced 15 to 40 per cent. an. 4, 1995. Removal 5ale of Furniture at HULL & co:s, 20S WYOMING AVENUE. Fine Dressing Tablos greatly reduced In price START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT And keep going right by buying and carry ing one of LLOYD'S WATCHES. LLOYD, JEWELER, 423 LACKA. AVE. VENISON, PRAIRIE CHICKEN, Partridges, Quail, Rabbits, All Kinds of Poultry, Ripe Tomatoes, Mushrooms, Green Beans, Cucumbers, Head Lettuce, Salsify Radishes, Etc. Pierce's Market TONE IS FOUND ONLY IN THE WEBER PIANO -224 WYOMING AVE BAZAAR Week SALE M Rimless Bifocal Glasses oomhlne dis tant and reading In one pair and girt tue m-ep.test aatisf action. Headache and ner vouhiioss remedied by using glasses accurately n i tail fKaIun.lv ... 1 . . .1 j . . ... uiiaLuuu t(unrUlUU 111 9T9TJ DR. SHIMBERG, .305 Spruce St., Eye Specialist EYES EXAMINED FREE. DR. E. GREWER, The Philadelphia Specialist, and his asso ciated stair of Entrlinh and German physicians, are now permanently located at Old Posiofflce Building, Corner Perm Avenue and Spruce Street The doctor is a graduae of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, formerly demon strator of physiology and surgery at the Medlco-Chlrurgical college of Phlladel. phla. His specialties are Chronic, Ner vous, Skin, Heart, Womb and Blood dux eases, DISEASES OF THE HERYOUS SYSTEM The symptoms of which are dlsziness.lack of confluence, sexual weakness in men and women, ball rising In throat, spots floating before the eyes, loss of memory, unable to concentrate the mind on one subject, easily startled when suddenly; spoken to, and dull distressed mind, which unfits them for performing the actual du ties of life, making happiness Impossible-, distressing the action of the heart, caus ing flush of heat, depression of splrlts.evll forebodings, cowardice, fear, dreums, mel ancholy, tire easy of company, feeling as tired in the morning as when retiring, lack of energy, nervousness, trembling, confusion of thought, depression, constipa tion, weakness of the limbs, etc. Those so affected should consult us Immediately, ard be restored to perfect health. Lost Manhood Restored. Weakness of Young Men Cured. If you have been given up by your phy sician call upon the doctor and be exam d. He cures the worst cases of Ner vous Debility, Scrofula, Old Sores, Ca tarrh, Pllos, Female Weakness, Affea tions of the Eye, Enr, Nose and Throat. Asthma, Deafness, Tumors, Cancers and Cripples of every description. Consultations free and strictly sacred, and conlldcnlr.,. Ollice hours daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, 9 to 2. Enclose five 2-cent stamps for symtpom blanks and my book called "New Life " I will pay one thoimand dollars In gold to anyone whom I cannot cure of EPI LEPTIC CONVVLSION8 or FITS. Old Post Office Building,' co?neir Pena venue and Spruce street. SCRANTON, PA. If you would have the LARGEST Amount of heat from the LEAST Amount of ' fuel, you must have a Howard Furnace. Foote & Shear Co. IF TOTJB OLD BOORS NKKD FIX 1N(1. BV.NI) TIICU TO IS Tk. Scranton Tribune VI ' Bookbinding Dipt