THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1895.
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for advertiser,, rate, THE SCRANTON
TRIBUNE a, the beat advertising medium
In Northeastern Pennsylvania.. "Printers'
Ink" knows.
BCRANTON, FEBRUARY 23, 18t5.
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THE SCRANTON OF TODAY.
Come and Inspect our city.
Elevation above the tide, 740 feet.
Extremely healthy.
Estimated population, 1894, 103,000,
Registered voters, 20,599.
Value of school property, $900,000.
Number of school children, 12.0U0.
Average amount of bonk deposits, J10,
100,000. la's the metropolis of northeastern Penn
sylvania. Can produce electric power cheaper than
Niagara.
No better point In the United States at
Svhlch to establish new Industries.
See how we grow:
Population In 1800 9,!!23
Population In 1870 35,000
. Population In 1880 45.850
Population In 1890 75,210
i Population In 1894 (estimated) 103,000
And the end Is not yet.
The Indorsement of the Farr bill by
the Philadelphia Press, elsewhere repro
duced, is simply in line with intelligent
sentiment throughout the common
wealth. Narrow prejudice or jealousy
Way delay compulsory education in this
state, but it cannot permanently defeat
It.
The Needs of Our Home Charities.
It is believed from the expressions
Of individual opinion made while in
this city by the members of the sub
committee on appropriations that the
Various charitable Institutions of Scran
on whloh seek financial aid from the
state will receive liberal treatment. The
condition of the state's finances and
more especially of its revenues renders
it 'somewhat dubious whether every
penny asked for will be appropriated;
but it is believed that in the commit
tee's necessary paring- down, our insti
tutions will receive their just propor
tion of the available moneys.
With reference to the West Side hos
pital, tt appears that 'the sub-committee
is disposed to wait for the collec
tion of a local fund before voting It
state aid. It will be remembered when
the subject of a miners' hospital for
this deserving; portion of the city was
first discussed, The Tribune suggested
that the best way to gat financial help
from the commonwealth would be to
Bo ahead with the project by securing
local contributions, leaving the matter
cf a state appropriation for later con
sideration. The state, in such mat
ters, has established the rule of help
ing those who first help themselves,
and it now appears that we were tn
itirely correct in our surmise that this
rule would not be waived in this one
Instance.
That the western and northwestern
portion of the, city needs a first, class
hospital Is not to be denied. The cast
ing over rough roads, for two or three
miles, of those who have been Injured
In the West Side mines is a tax upon
their strength and endurance almost in
human in its severity. The state could
not better apply $30,000 or $40,000 of its
funds than to the correction of this
evil. But If the state shall see fit to
require, as a condition of such appro
priation, that a similar sum be first
raised by the locality to be benefited,
then the obvious duty of the generous
end public pplrited citizens of Scran
" ton. In general, and of the West Side
end North Knd In particular is to get
to work with subscription papers with
out loss of time.
"Trilby" at the Albright library is
engaged weeks ahead, while hundreds
Cf wholesome and Instructive books re
main on the shelves week in and week
out untouched. This fact is one of the
best evidences of the need of a library;
but it is deplorable that so many will
pass beneficial reading by each day
and eagerly devour the trash or the
purely ephemeral literature that Is nec
essarily a portion of the reading mat
ter in a thoroughly equipped public
library.
An Altoona Warning.
' The city of Altoona is exercised over
Ithe fact that one of its volunteer fire
Companies, because Indlgnant'at cer
tain action by councils, the other day
refused to respond to an alarm of flrj.
thus permitting a valuable block of
buildings to Jje destroyed. The mayor
has called a special meeting of councils,
and It Is thought the volunteer service
Will be superseded by a thoroughly or
ganized paid department.
Ve do not believe that any volunteer
(company In this city would act like
the Altoona organization did. Upon
the contrary, we can cheerfully testify
to the generally high standard of dis
cipline and of service which prevails
among the volunteer companies of
Hcranton. The argument for a paid
service Is not meant as a reflection upon
the present service; and we think that
the majority of the volunteer firemen
of the city recognize this fact.
But there can be very little question
that in the best of volunteer depar
ments the discipline Is not what it can
be made where the members of the
department are paid servants of the
city, subject to government by a re
Sponsible chief whose directions have
ithe force.of law. If this were not true,
iwhy should any of the large cities have
a paid servloeT Volunteers can always
fee had; yet the volunteer Idea has been
discarded in nearly every city of from,
0,000 to 2,000,000 Inhabitants, Scrantdn
fcelng among the few exceptions.
' The refusal of councils to provide for
a paid department is a serious mis
take, as time will doubtless demon
strate. It does not in the least surprise us
that It has been left for Scran ton capi
talists to introduce in Philadelphia so
great a convenience of urban life as
steam heating. The points In which
Scranton is prepared to instruct the
Quaker City in progressive citizenship
are, however, by no means restricted
to the matter of steam heat.
Napoleon und Washington.
The present talk about a Washington
revival, to offset the renewed Interest
lutely manifested in the life and times
of Napoleon, will probably fail of its
purpose, and for a sufficient reason.
There Is that In the personality of the
upstart Corslcan who, through sheer
force of his own endeavor, rose from
plebeian poverty to the mastery of Eur
ope, where) ihe played with thrones
and kings as a child would play with
toys which unerringly fascinates the
reader and, even yet, after the interval
of a century, elicits the most pro
found awe. In this age of polite de
mocracy, we turn to Napoleon, the first
great, although unconscious, democrat,
by a kind of natural instinct. We who
have learned to estimate mere titular
kings at their naked worth can scarce
ly refrain from evincing an interest, ns
of kinship, in the marvelous pioneer
lconoclust who, by reducing blood sov
ereignty to the dimensions of a ghastly
Jest, made it possible for the peoplo
of today to own their own souls. l
This element of picturesque, , mag
netic, fascinating Intensity Is utterly
absent from the personality of General
George Washington. Looking at the
latter In the clear light of today, we
perceive not the great being, semi god
like, whom out forefathers worshipped,
but instead a revered, somewhat haugh
ty and in the main a commonplace
man; possessing, to be sure, the gift
of patience and something of the genius
of commund, but by no means marvel
ous nor in any sense extraordinary.
We view in him a gentleman of elevat
ed instincts and of fine common sense;
one whom most of us would have liked
to have for a president or an ambassa
dor; but certainly not an Inexplicable
prodigy of overmastering personality
such as was Napoleon, or such as was
Julius Caesar. If Washington had not
had the good fortune to be associated
with the war for American Indepen
dence; if he had been, let us say, a
Canadian or an English colonist in
Australia, ' the people of today would
look upon him such of them as would
take the trouble to look at all with
merely mild and conventional approval;
and would see in him very little not
perceived in hundreds of courteous,
magnanimous and dignified gentlemen
to be found in every generation under
every flag.
It is well, in this connection, to recol
lect that while Washington did with
nobility the part to which destiny as
signed him, he did no more than is be
ing done, almost every day, by the gov
ernors of our larger states or the
mayors of bur leading cities. While
he had to blaze his own path, it is also
true that he had behind him a follow
ing of aroused and indomitable men
and women who supplied him with
nearly all the essentials of success
ful leadership. If there had been re
quired of him, as was required of Na
poleon, tq first win a following before
commanding It; if there had been re
quired of him, at any point in his pub
lic career, that exhibit of tumultuous,
irresistible magnetic power over men
which sweeps away traditions, conven
tions, thrones and even rugged Alpine
mountains, as was many times required
of Napoleon Bonaparte, it seems scru
pulously Just to say that George Wash
ington would very probably have been
found wanting, and that our memory
of him, now so reverential, would, In
that case, have been tinged with a
quiet undercurrent of contempt.
We should therefore say, with duo
regard for .what he did and for what
he was, that there Is nothing in the
career of Washington to cause a
modern furore such as has character
ized the late revival In Napoleonic bio
graphy and tradition.
A dollar contributed to the Finishing
and Furnishing fund of the Scranton
Young Men's Christian association is a
dollur put to one of the best uses that
human benevolence and beneficence
have Jointly devised. Can you not
spare at least a dollar for this good
cause?
The Clash of Classes.
The man who reads the eastern news
papers, '.' at least that part of those
papers which Is devoted to discussions
of finance, naturally derives the im
pression that nine-tenths of the ills
from which business at present suffers
are directly due to the refusal of the
west to accept, resignedly, currency
propositions made by the largo gold
lending banking hous.es of New York
and London. He does not stop to thlnlc
that what may be a good law for J.
Plerpont Morgan & Co., or for the
Rothschilds need not, of necessity, be
the best kind of a law for the great
mass of people who are not bankers nor
brokers nor discounters of notes. He
hears only one side of the case; and
that, a special plea.
On the other hand, the man who reads
the western papers Is apt to believe that
there Is a deep-dyed conspiracy among
the people of the east to force the coun
try' to a single gold standard, thus
adding largely to the west's previously
contracted indebtedness and invalidat
ing the millions of dollars of western
capital which werer invested In silver
mines under the promise that silver
would retain Its pUire, on a parity with
gold as one of the two coin metals of
the government. These papers, reflect
ing the wishes of the debtor clauses and
of the owners of silver mines, want us
to coin, without limit, all the silver of
all the world, should it be sent Into this
c6untry, at a ratio of 10 to 1, whereas
the bullion value of silver Is today to the
bullion value of gold only as 32 is to 1.
That kind of policy would lighten their
debts, Inflate the value of their mines
and be, in other ways, a good thing for
then), but it would not of necessity be
equally so good for the great mass of
people who are neither debtors nor sil
ver miners. The western reader, too,
hears only one side of the case; and
that, a special plea.
It Is time that a strong body of con'
servatlve men, in congress and else
where, should have a clear word to say
In behalf of the great middle class of
citizens who are almost ready to ex
claim: "A plague on both your houses!"
Whatever may be true of eastern ex
tremists, only a few of the great bulk
of common citizens In the east want to
see a single gold standard; or want con
gress to take orders from Wall street.
Nor do we believe that, except through
misrepresentation of the facts, the bulk
of plain westerners can te Induced to
hold out for what is virtually silver
monometallism, with robbery and ruin
thrown in. They have no right to ask
congress to give them the whole loaf,
at the expense of all the rest of the
country; nor to expect the federal mints
to go on double turn in order that for
eign traders in silver bullion may make
big money out of our foolishness. There
is a sensible mean between these two
extremes which represents the common
sense of the question; and we are anx
iously waiting to see keen-eyed Re
publican members of congress plant
their party's banner solidly thereon,
with the intention of fighting it out on
that line if it tukes all summer.
The cartoon on our first page Is mere
ly a premonition of one of the expe
riences in store for Serantonluns when
the spring thaw comes. And yet this
community takes no steps to do away
with the rotten wooden block pave!
LEGISLATIVE TOPICS.
l'uy of Women Teachers.
Philadelphia Press; Representative Soy
fort, of Lancaster. ls Impressed with
the plaint of the women teachers cf
Philadelphia as to the Inequality of
sularivs paid by the Philadelphia board
of education, and he has Introduced
a bill to meet the case. It provides that
females employed as teachers In the pub
lic schools of this mate shall In all caics
receive the same compensation aH is al
lowed to male teachers for like service
when holding the same grnuo of cer
tllleates und employed to teach an equal
grade us male teachers. There Is mani
fest justice in this, but It is not certain
that its operation will be wholly favor
able to tho public Hehools or even to the
women teachers. The latter are employe,!
In preference to men In n! lie-tenths of tho
teaching positions because they will give
the same quality of service for less money.
They are the cheapest to hire ami the
board of education only does its duty as
trustee of the school fund when it goes
Into 'the cheapest market to procure lt3
teachers. Here and there, however, It
uppears to the board desirable to employ
a man, and to Kt a capable man teacher
It Is often necessary to offer him more
money than will employ an equally ca
pablo woman. Under this Beyfert bill, If
enacted, to get a suitable man at his low
est price it would be necessary to rale
tho salaries of all the women teachers it
the sumo crude to a higher llguro than
they would be willing to sell their ser
vices for, but for the fact that the law for
bids them to bo paid less than a man.
Our old friend, supply and demand, al
ways produces Inequality of pay for very
nearly like services. We are inclined to
the opinion, however, that his rule works
better on the whole than legislative at
tempts to regulate prices by arbitrary
laws.
Need of Compulsory Education.
Philadelphia Press: Mr. Farr, of Lacka
wanna county, who has distinguished his
career In the legislature by his persist
ent advocacy of compulsory education, is
urging his bill UKatn at the present ses
sion. If Mr. Farr succeeds In persuading
this legislature to pass It anew we be
lieve It will go on the statute book. Re
publican governors are not disposed to
stand In tho way of any measure that
promises to make for the public education,
and Governor Hastings Is least of all like
ly to follow his predecessor In this back
ward course. The compulsion proposed by
Mr. Farr is very moderate. Jt applies
only to children between the ages of 8
and 13, and Is satisfied with sixteen weeks
per year of schooling. Certainly this Is
Utile enough to Insist upon as a prelimin
ary to the exorcise of the rights of citi
zenship in Pennsylvania. These children
are prospective voters or mothers of vot
ers and tho safety of the commonwealth
requires tha t their shell of ignorance shall
be cracked siilllciently to allow a little,
book knowledge- 'to penetrate their In
telligence. The scant four mouths cf
schooling yearly for live years is sutllclent
to enable them to read, and to such the
whole domuin of knowledge is open if
they seek it, and some share of It is cer
tain to reach them even unsought. The
fact that Mr. Farr has got a legislature to
pass his bill before gives ground for hope
that this legislature may ulfe bti per
suaded by his arguments In favor of com
pulsory education. The state needs com
pulsory education If for nothing else than
to securetheretlrementof those legislators
who think six months schooling is enough
for their children, und that the state pub
lic school appropriation can be put to a
better use than to the improvement and
maintenance of public schools.
How to Protect Ouuil.
New Castle News: The scarcity of quail
In Pennsylvania this year should teach the
lesson that there must bu a law prohib
iting their killing for at least three years
to come. Not only that, but the law now
In force, prohibiting the soiling of tho
birds, should be supplemented when the
open season begins after the long period
of protection, by making It unlawful to
take dead quail out of the county In
which they were killed. Missouri Insti
tuted such a law after the long quail kill
ing prohibition ended and It is vigorously
enforced. The railways require their em
ployes to watch for uny violation of tho
law, and all Judicial olilcers Indict prompt
and severe penalties. The consequence of
this protection of the quail is that tho
birds fairly swarm In Missouri, and tho
stock, under present laws, seems likely
to be everlasting. Pennsylvania should
have such quail laws.
TRIBLNLTTES.
That John L. Sullivan Is an all 'round
artist no ono can dispute. He not only de
lights audiences upon the stage, but ulso
paints the towns ulong thu route.
And Used tho Other.
I suppose Ethel's father did not stand on
ceremony In dismissing you when you
asked his daughter's hand?
N no. He stood on one foot,
An I nsolved Problem.
What Martha Washington teas havo to
do with George's birthday Is still a puzzle
to many.
Talent Sudly Misapplied.
Jones Is a penniless und disappointed
pinn.
What was the cause of 111 luck?
Ho undertook to establish on agency for
mineral water down In Kentucky.
One Serious Disadvantage.
Vocalist I'm afraid that some peoplo
will find heaven very dull.
Committee Why?
VooullBt Because they probably will not
be able to find fault with the choir up
there.
Likewise the Spring Poet.
The wheeiy, lnlluensa duys,
And mud and slush are here.
And other things that meet our gaze
Aro proof that spring Is near.
An Afterthought.
From the Elmhurst Signal.
How noble it would have been had Mr.
Hnndley remembered more of the worthy
charitable institutions of the city. How
he could have endeared himself to the
rising generation had he left a few thou
and dollars for the Young Men's Christian
association of Scranton. Again, what a
monument he would have reared to his
own memory hud he left sulllclent money
to open and Improve public purks, where
the poor of the cHy could enjoy the pure
air, and the children romp and play be
neath the shade of trees planted and cared
for with money furnished by his estate.
Then would the memory of Mr. Hundley
been enduring In Scranton.
The Y. M. C. A. Young Man.
From the Syracuse Post.
Tho day has long passed by when people
sneered at the Young Men's Christian as
sociation as a milk and water Institution
made up of lackadaisloal young men, palo
faced, hollow chested, gloomy featured
and lacking In both physical and moral
courage. If there was ever any reason
for entertaining such an opinion, It has
been very completely removed. But the
sneers and tho Jests have passed away,
for the Young Men's Christian association
young man hus come to stay, and every
body is glad that he has come. He Is the
exponent of a robust, muscular Christian
ity. He believes in manliness without
bravado, In courage without recklessness,
in practical morality, without cant, In vig
orous heajthfulness without sensuality or
brutality. Thu Young Men's Christian
association young man takes prizes In the
gymnasium and the athletic fields, and
better than all, saves up some of his re
wards for the next world. He Is u, very
Imporatant factor in the business and
commercial life of the day. Employers
have confidence in him, and the average
business mun would rather know that
his clerks spend their evenings at the
Young Men's t.'hrlstlun nssoclullon build
ing than in lounging ubout the clubs or
loafing in saloons.
PAINT cracks It
often C03ts more to prepare a
house for repainting that lias been
painted in the first place with cheap
ready-mixed paints, than it would
to have painted it twice with strict
ly pure white lead, ground in pure
linseed oil.
Strictly Pure
White Lead
forms a permanent base for repaint
ing and never has to be burned or
scraped off on account of scaling
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strictly pure white lead, purchase
any of the following brands:
"Atlantic," "Beymer-Bauman,"
"Jewett," "Davis-Chambers,"
"Fahnestock," "Armstrong & McKelvy."
For Colors. National 'Lead Co.'s Pure
White Lend Tinting Colors, a one-pound can
to a 25-puund keg of Lead and mix your own
paints. Saved tnue and annoyance in matching
hades, and insure? the bebt paint that it is pos
sible to put on wood.
Send us a postal card and get our book on
paints und color -card, free; it will probably save
you a good many dollars.
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AN ELEGANT STOCK OF PIC.
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FANCY BASKETS AND LAMPS.
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WASHINGTON AVE.
WE
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The secret is out Not only do they
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Tell everybody you see, but tell them
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THAT WONDERFUL
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Just received, and more to arrive. Buy your Wall
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WE have just opened a great Wall Paper Department in our Basement, which will
he the most extensive Wall Paper Department in this part of the state. By
making large contracts for carloads, with only the best and most reliable manu
facturers, we are in a position to retail the same at all times at less than the ordinary
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IB FOOD EX
Introducing Armour & Co.'s Beef Products, will take place at the Decorative Art
Pagoda, main floor, during this entire week. Customers are invited to partake of
our Dainty Luncheon, which will be served daily from io a. m, until 5 p. in., con
sisting of Potted Meat Sandwiches, Bouillon, Soups, Relishes, Beef Tea, etc., free of
charge.
flSATURDAY NIGHT CLOSES THE EXHIBIT.
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Raymond Trial
Balance Books
Graves' Indexes
Document Boxes
Inks of All Kinds
AGENTS FORmtT
Edisor's Mimeographs
and Supplies
Crawford Pens
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DR. E. GREWER,
The Philadelphia Specialist, and his aso
ciated stall of ljngllsh and German
physicians, are now permanently
located at
Old Postofflce Building, Corner Penn
Avenue and Spruce Street.
The doctor is a graduue of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, formerly demon
strator of physiology and Burgery at the
Medico-Chlrurglcal college of Philadel
phia. His specialties are Chronic, Ner
vous, Skin, Heart, Womb and Blood dis
eases. DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
The symptoms of which are dizziness, laclc
of confidence, 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
untits them for performing tho actual du
ties of life, making happiness impossible,
distressing the action of the heart, caus
ing flush of heat, depression of spirits. evil
forebodings, cowardice, fear, dreams, mel
ancholy, tire easy of company, feeling ae
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 teblllty, Scrofula, Old Sores, Ca
tarrh, Piles, Female Weakness, Affec
tions of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat,
Asthma, Oenfness, Tumors, Cancers and
Cripples of every description.
Consultations free and strictly sacred
and conlldenls.".. Otllee hours daily from
S a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, t to 3.
Enclose five 2-cent stamps for symtpont
blanks and my book called "New I-lfe."
I will pay ono thousand dollars In gold
to nnyone whom I cannot cure of EPI
LEPTIC CONVULSIONS or FITS.
DR. E. GREWER.
Old Post Office Building, corner PtnM
avenue and Spruce street.
SCRANTON. PA.
TRUTH OR FICTION
In stories make but little difference.,
When you buy hardware you like to knoW;
facts about It, All do who purchase of us,;
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boy can have a big one' (or 50 cents. All
our pricaa are cut up, because wo cut'
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world with the assistance of our steplad
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Come and see us at our new store, lit
Washington avenue.
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