THE SCBANTON TRIBUNE FKIDAY MOUNTNGr. FEBRUARY 122, 1895. htBLUUS DAILY I 8CRAHT0H PA. ST TBI TmHUlf ruBusnma oobuat. L . P. KINaSSURV. Puts, in On'i Haiti t. M. niPPLC, ie,v MO Taise. LIVV RICHARD. Cbito. W. W. DAVIS, lunacu MmmiI, W. W. YOUNG. Ao. Msaa'a, (WToniOmoa: tsiboni Botidiiio. VxaicI ORAT. HANAOIR. iNTllltO AT TBI rOSTumol AT SCRiNTOH. TA.. Al 8f OONtMUOS MAIL MATTER. "Printers Ink," tho rccognlied Journal for advertisers, rates Till; SCRANTOM lKIlllNK as the best advertising medium In Northeastern Pennsylvania. "Printera Ink" knows. JSCRANTON, FliBUUAHY 22. 1SU5. THE SCKANTON OF TODAY. I Come and Inspect our city. Elevation above the tide, 740 feet. Kxtremely healthy, i Estimated population, ism, 103,000. Registered voters. Value of school property, JSKW.O0O. Number of school children, 12.000. Average umount of bunk deposits, $10,- It's the metropolis of northeastern Penn sylvania. Can produce electric power cheaper than Niagara. No better point In the United Stutes at Mitch to establish new Industries. See how we grow: Population in IStK) 9.223 Population in 1S70 S5.M) Population in isst)...-. 4j.s"0 Population In 1SS0 75.215 Population In 1SH (estimated; 103,000 And the end is not yet. If Mayor Strong' had been elected as It Piatt Kepubllcan, his refusal to con sider Piatt's interests in making ap pointments would have been, as Kip ling would say, quite another story. Hut the truth! Is that Mayor Strong was elected directly by the people; and he does well to remember their claims to a business-like and non-partisan muni cipal administration. Peculiar Obliquity of Vision. In theory, nothing looks easier than the problem of regulating the anthra cite coal trade, but In practice, noth ing else appears to be quite so difficult There is comparatively little division cf opinion as to the amount of coal yet unmined, as to the amount needed, from year to year, by the market, or as to the price at which this latter amount needs to be sold in order to return to Its producers a reasonble margin of profit. These facts are readily gotten facts are also known, and ad mitted. For Instance, It Is known at present Just how many companies are mining anthracite coal; just how much the coal-owning railroad companies are sacrificing through their disinclination to come to an agreement as to the percentage of tonnage that Is fairly its due; and Just about how much lunger these railroad companies, in this period of general business depression, can, as a matter of self-preservation, afford to fiddle faddle before coming up' to the chalk mark. Then why delay the needed readjust ment? This is where theory parts company with practice; where common sense gives place to narrow inability to look ahead. The railroad companies appear to have an eye only on Immedi ate freight revenues, and to be, at least In one or two Instances, blind to the ul timate cost of a present failure to re place the anthracite trade on a stable end equitable basis. Let us hope their eyesight will soon Improve. Kx-Senator Fassett's Intimation that the Republican party in New York State could be In much better business than squabbling like a pack of angry children over a few non-partisan ap pointments made by a non-purtisan mayor In - a Democratic city strikes pretty close to the bull's eye. And he might have added that Piatt started the quarrel. The Rise of a Great Newspaper. i The announcement that James W. Pcott, publisher of the Chicago Herald, rias purchased from John R. Walsh the controlling Interest In that paper and also In the Evening Post, supple mented by the assertion that the CMI cftgo Times Is to be merged Info the Herald, la an Important one to persons Interested In newspaper changes. For the past five or six years the Herald, tinder Mr. Scott's able management, has been recognized as the foremost newspaper In the went, both 'as a prop erty and as a representative of the best thought and enterprise In the mechani cal and Intellectual departments of newspaper production. Its politics, to le sure, has been reprehenslbly Demo cratic, but In all other particulars in tha accuracy and variety of Its news, In the exquisite neatness of Its appearance and finally In Its liberality of expen diture for good service from Its em ployesIt has stood on a line with the very best Journals In the United States, nnd therefore In the world. In dollars and cents, the Herald news paper, franchises and bulldlngare prob ably worth very close to $2,000,000, being one of the five most valuable newspaper properties In the world. It was started ly Mr. Scott fourteen years ago. In the rear room of a small building on Fifth avenue, Chicago, and rumor says that the institution's net cash capital, -at beginning, was $17. Another tradition has It that the paper's first counting room had for Its counter piece a rough hoard laid on two empty cracker 'bar rels. These 1 stories are no ' doubt apocryphal; but they Illustrate, 1n per haps an exaggerated way, the news paper's modest beginning. The Herald's growth Into metropolitan size and pros perity Is directly due to Mr. Scott's fbuslnesa energy and executive skill, afterward aided by Mr. Walsh's money and counsel. The rapidity of that growth Is a tribute to Chicago discern ment, and a signal refutation of the eastern hypothesis that "nothing good cin come out of Chicago." Should the predicted merging of the Chlcaf o Tlmti Into the Herald -occur, the latter newspaper will be In almost unquestioned possession of the Demo cratic field In a stretch of country In cluding almost half the area of the United States minus Alaska, and repre senting an aggregate population of from 10,000,000 to 15,000.000 souls. The Importance of having' so good and so clean a newspaper as the Herald poll tics apart In control of this fluid Is very manifest. The Times, which under Wilbur F. Storey's ownership, exerted a larger Influence than any other Chicago paper, hus of late years deteriorated until very recently It was scarcely more than a dully bulletin of annrchlHtio rantlngs against organ ized society and the conserving forces of law and order. Its Hume and fran chises, however, are still of value, and by merging them In the Herald Mr. Scott will got a property ubout as near the ucmu of desirability as Is any In present existence. We wish him suc cess; for .tho influence he will wield Is second to none In the United States. Reports of the proceedings at the con vention of Daughters of the Revolution at Washington, Indicate that the mar tial spirit Is still alive, In the feminine descendants of the patriots of '70. To Investigate Uruver Cleveland. The Intimation of Senutor Cliuiidlr that at the llrst session of the next congress steps will be taken to Inves tigate the president's action In Helling government bonds way below their market value Is probably prophetic. This action Is so manifestly censurable uud so wholly out of harmony with the traditions of the government (mt wt! cannot see how an Investigation can be averted. Hut whether probed by congress or not. It will assuredly be In quired Into by the people, and charged up, by them, as one of the many dis creditable items whereby they will haw reason to remember this Demo crat to administration. To recapitulate: the Democrats, in 1S92, complained that the Republicans were guilty of extravagance. Although the national debt was decreasing stead ily, every month; and notwithstanding that the natlonul credit was irre proachable, throughout the world, while at home the prevalence of profit able Industry was most gratifying, they declared, with great emphasis, and re-Iterated with immoderate zeal, that the government's revenues were too large, that the government's sur plus was too big, that there was too much prosperity, and that the people were being robbed. When we think of these things, and then look back upon how the Democratic party acted when It got into power how It fell at once to cutting the throat of American indus try, how it utterly starved the federal revenues, and how finally its "great and good" president .seeing almost lit eral insolvency ahead, took to peddling out bonds, not to the highest bidder in an open market, but to u favorite for eign syndicate, me contract with which he negotiated behind barred doors we sometimes wonder whether government by the people; that Is to say. jsi'Veni- ment by such people. Is, after all, a genuine success. An Investigation of these transac tions by congress will serve mainly to emphasize the apparent unfitness of the American people to govern themselves. We -say "apparent," because, In spite of such periods of aberration as that period was wherein drover Cleveland and his chaotic following managed to get into power, the hope has not yet left us that there will be a recurrence of wholsome common sense and ra tional thinking among the groat masses of the people; and that the virus of the canker of class prejudice and socialistic fermentation, to which -drover Cleve land owes his second tenure of the presidency will yet be got out of the vital currents of our citizenship. Kx-Oueen Lil appears to have been the latest victim of the deadly diary habit. The Right Kind of a Fighter. There Is one man who emerges from the recent municipal contest In Phila delphia with an Improved claim to the gratitude and admiration of the Re publican 'party. That man Is Senator Boise Penrose. When we consider the circumstances which attended his defeat for the mayoralty nomination and reflect upon what must have been the natural promptlngsof his young, aggressive and virile disposition, the forbearance and self restraint which he displayed In re fusing to sanction any kind of revolt from the nomination of his sucessful competitor, and the fortitude wl'.h Which he put aside personal feeling inur- dertovoteand work for Mr. Warwick's election, stand out vividly to his credit. He took his medicine like a man, did his whole duty to the party and Is now ready to take a clean and a strong hand In future events. This Is the kind of politics which the average Yankee admires; and Senator Boise Penrose Is the kind of politician who. If he profit by this experience, can have a large following throughout the state, There Is some question as to the good results of a "greater United Stntes" agi tation that would lead to tho annexa tion of frigid, foggy Newfoundland.. As to Corporal Punishment. The occurrence In No. 18 school Wed nesday, If correctly reported, supplies a good text for a discourse upon the wrongfulness of corporal punishment when administered publicly, It appears that a number of boys In one of the rooms became unruly, necessitating the calling in of the principal, He under took to enforce discipline and was 'at tacked. The result was a rough-and-tumble fight, with the entire roomful of pupils as spectators a finale utterly subversive of the best discipline and damaging In Its Influences, We doubt whether corporal punish ment Is ever permanently beneficial In the school room. It has a tendency to Inspire pugnacity and to encourage the animal passions. But If, under excep tional circumstances, corporal punish ment should seem to be unavoidable, It should Invariably be administered In private, with ne other spectators than tho teacher, the pupil and possibly one mature witness. . This plan would pre vent the unwholesome Influences of It from extending to Impressionable chil dren. . Wt do not assume upon our slight knowledge of the facts, to-pronounce judgment in this particular case; nor Is It always possible to govern turbu lent children without a public show of authority, backed up, If necessary, by muscular force. But us a general proposition, we think It more 'than probable that the Instructor who chas tises his pupils In public commits a mistake, the effect of which Is harmful and therefore censurable. The public, in most places, hus outgrown that kind of school government. LI Hung Chung us u peace envoy will no doubt prove a success meriting yel low shirts and three-eyed peacock feathers galore. Li's sentiments ap pear to have been of a peaceful nature from the start. . With tho weather clerk doing all ho can for unthrnclte, it seems a little ridiculous that the trade captains them selves cannot ugreu upon terms of needed restriction. - The shuli of l'erslu drinks a bottle of brandy every duy. Yet there are peo ple who Insist thut Persia Is In no sense ucqualuted with essentials of Western civilization, The suspicion Is rapidly gaining cur rency that In the lute, Daniel Munnlim' the Democratic party hud Its greatest inpdcru president. There Is solilethlng heroic even In the faults of the New York Sun, How Mr. Dana does stick to his discredited Tam ilian friends! The venerable Coinuierclal-Oazette of Pittsburg has decided to sell Itself for a penny. It Is worth a good deul more than that. - - Recent developments at Columbus In dicate thut the American Railway union needs a l.exow. A western man has named his cow "Trilby." He should be prosecuted for cruelty to animals. - - It Is now In order for the funny men to trim the whiskers from last year's Lenten Jokes. It begins to look as though President Dole, of Hawaii, was also the possessor of a razor. LLUISL AT I V I : TOPICS. The Legislature Defended. Philadelphia Inquirer's lliirrlsburg let ter: The legislative critic has his hands full just now censuring the legislature for ullegeil extravagance In every direction. He llmls his occupation un easy one, for It Is so easy to criticise when facts Hie not essential to the criticism. Imagination and partisan prejudice, coupled with con siderable Ignorance of the subjects criti cised have been at the bottom of many of the stories of rec kless extravagance, sent out of llarrisburg recently. This legisla ture is no woiwe than scores of Its pre decessors and In many respects is in finitely better, it Is one of the most Indus trious bodies that ever convened on Capi tol hill. The membership Is above the average legislative Intelligence and fit ness. As to loose anil extravagant legis lation It need only be remarked that sev eral measures which have been denounced us schemes to pillage the state treasury are actually money-savers. Reference Is made especially to the bills creating de uartinents. These have been pointed out us evidences of the prodigality of the party In power. In nearly every case, IT not all, these bills involve economy by the consolidation of boards and commissions which nsve no responsible head. In one Instance the creation of a department proposed In a pending measure will result In the saving to the state of several thous ands of dollars. In another case the stale will gain $1,''I by the passage of a bill which the clitics dec lare Is the creation of Hn olllco at the expense of the people. So the wholo list might be gone over. other Theater Nutsunces. Philadelphia Record: The big hat bill, aimed at the vain and Inconsiderate theater-going woman, will probably never be corno a law on the statute book. The cru sade of public sentiment to which It has given rise, however, may result In Its adoption In all the states of the I'nlon as nn unwritten law. Already one authen tic Instance Is upon record of a lady hav ing turned to the man In the seat behind her to Inquire If her bonnet obstructed his view of the stage. An encouraging subsi dence of the lofty headgear may now be expected In the theaters, until the proper low-tide of a dainty, poetic "sweet lit tle thing" of a bonnet shall be reached. When this devoutly to be wished for con summation shall have been accomplished, the corrective legislation of public opin ion may then turn Its batteries upon the theater party that gossips throughout the play or opera ami the man who goes out between the aots. Calling a 'Needed Halt. Pittsburg Commercial-dinette: Let not our itepubllcnn friends presume too nni.ii on the big majorities of last year, nor count ton confidently upon a long lease of power. What Is needed to secure u con tinuance of the popular confidence Is clean, honest and economical legislation. Tho reverse of thut will bring Inevltublo disaster. Kvery year the people nre be coming less wedded to purty and more it aily to visit their displeasure upon those who betray their confidence. It Is time to rail a halt upon the mad pace that has al ready been set Bt lliirrlsburg. There Is no reason to doubt that Governor Hastings will do his whole duty, but hn should not be asked to net as chief snake-killer to a Republican legislature. Soma of the latest Projects. A bill Introduced by Representnlve Crothers exempts leased sowing machines from levy and sale for arreurs of rent, and one. by Representative Jlurvey, of "Lu zerne, would, If passed, reduce the profits of pawnbrokers fully one-half. It limits the charges for Interest on money ad vanced to 0 per cent, per annum, und for the storage of goods to 2 per cent, per month, which would make a net maxi mum charge of 'J'i per cent, per month, Instead of ! ami U per rent, as Is now charged. Another bill pending In the house makes It unlawful for anybody to exhibit In public any human being af flicted with physical or menial deformity, An l:xeellent beginning. Philadelphia Record: (Jovernor Hast ings's first veto lilts the legislative spend thrifts In a tender place. It snips oft the head of nn embryo Judge ami calls a halt tiKh the business of Judse-muklng. This Is a good beginning. Penrose Mot a Kicker. From the Philadelphia Bulletin. The friends of Senator Penrose mani fested their loyalty to the Republican can didates In a fashion which sets at rest all doubts as to their position In the canvass. In the wards where they are especially strong and In which the Democrats had been building great hopes on tho use of "the knife" the returns prove that thore was little or no defection. Whatever dif ferences they may have to settle over question of party management will be settled within the party linen. They have shown the manly spirit of fair play and Senator Penrose himself set the example conspicuously by appearing nt the polls and performing his duty In bringing out the Republican vote of his precinct and ward. , Deserves a Generous Rosponio. From the Elmhurst Signal. Last Wednosday the Hcranton Tribune published a proposition foe raising a fund to. finish- and, furnish the Young. Men's Christian association building In Scran ton. We aarneatly hope that thore will be a generous response to this noble effort of Tho Tribune for a worthy und most de serving cause. TIIL IIANDLUY MILLIONS. ' Prom the Philadelphia Inquirer. It seems to bo Pennsylvania's bad luck to see her wealth go to the enrichment of other states and countries. A Standard oil fortune bos built up a university in Chicago. The late Ueorge W. Chllds scat tered monuments around the world, but ut up no tributes to Pennsylvania au thors In his own state. Natives of the statu like Lick and Yerkes seem to have thought thut Pennsylvania could take cure of herself, tind the one built un ob servatory upon the Puclllu roust, while the other hus started un art gallery In Chlcugo. Living PeniisylvuiiluiiH give most llhcrully to the university, but a generous bequest to that Institution Is not often heard of. It could be wished that it were otherwise, und thut It were the fash ion for the weulthy sons of Pennsyl vania when dying to show more practical appreciation, of some of the state's great institutions, und of tho statu Itself, und to scatter less of their wealth to the four winds. Why tho late Judge Hundley Ignored the claims upon him of tho city In which he lived Is explained by the Scrunton Trib une, which paper declines that Si ranton persistently misunderstood Judge Hand ley, uuil vented Its prejudice lit a cheap form of small revenge. The Insult, It de clares, rankled, and when Juduo Hundley cuino to dispose of his furluuu he left the most of It to the town In Virginia. As Scruiitou ulreudy possesses the Albright .Memorial Ki-tte library, Winchester piob ably needs the Hundley money more thun Scrunton needs II, but I hut does not alter the fact thut the Scrunton fortune has gone elsewhere, or make thoughts of what might have been less common, .Judge Hundley uppeurs to have been one of those frequent strong willed men who get out of hunnoiiy with the communities where they live for causes which brouder gauged persons would overlook, llecoul i have made his Scrunton opponents thor oughly ushumed of themselves, whereas they will luiw probably refer to the Hund ley will us proof of the correctness of their estimate or Hundley. Whut he hus lost In Scrunton he will gain In Winchester, and what Scrunton loses Winchester gulns. A Natural Kvqucst. Prom the London (llobe. A capitul Instance of child's logic Is sent by u correspondent: "In u letter Just re ceived from my son In New South Wales," she writes, "he mentions overhearing the following on board a steamer from Sydney to Melbourne: A very seuslck little 4-yeur-old girl suld to her mother: "Oh, muiuinu, please do let the ship walk." - ...... A Charming Difference. Landor. Three duys ago I was obliged to correct a friend of mine, a man of fashion, who so far forgot the graces as to say to a lady: "I have not often been in her com pany." He should, of course, have said "presence;" we are In the company of men, In the presence of ungels und of o men. Useful and Orna mental Goods 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 OP PIC TURES AT MODERATE COST. FANCY BASKETS AND LAMPS. CALL EARLY AND MAKE YOUR SELECTIONS WHILE OUR AS. 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