THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-TUESDAY MOBNEHG, AUGUST. 80, . 1895. Z$t gxxanton ZtiButtt 'and Weekly. K at aamatoo, P-, by The Tribooe ha. I 0aWe?T&woV1BUe1ag, Fians. Oajr, Manager. Vew Ta ft. Pi RINMbHIHV, m 0't Mea. I M. llMi " aaa Taue. im . hiomamo. Cmtm. W. W. Davis. WMn . NT. W. YOU WO. Am. mnu at rai rosTomoi at anuntoa. ra. a aaoonD-cutat mail hattul Frt-tef Ink," Ik temgalaid Joureal edv man. iete Taa bcaamvaji thiu " aarentelag awdluBi la ale. -fctalwa' Iuk ki KortfeeiMcra Itowirlvap hi rmf Tmrai, Iwl Saturday, CaaaUat Tw4lT Hate, with an A bun- lany. yet Thaw WaoCaunot Tk Thu Dailt Tiiiini, Ike Weakly I RMMmmandtd aa IM Was Mimia mini iT'rf ' tn Tanvaa I lor Bale Dally at the D, L. and W. MatloD at Boaokaa. SCR-I NTON, AUGUST 20. 1S95. Vncle Sam. it U estimated, has spent 11.000.000.000 in fighting his copper-hm-d wards and less than a hundredth of that sum In educating them. Fewer fculVts and more text books are needed in the solution of the Indian problem. - - - - The Growth of Our Cities. . Some ado has lately been made In the newspapers because a state census now beins taken In Mlrinesota seems to In dicate a recession In urbun growth and a corresponding acrleratlon In the Ue Vflopmer.t of rural population. It has been claimed by a number of the writers that this single "straw" be tokens a coming gale that will pres ently reverse the contemporary rush of tiae country lad to ithe crowded city an& thereby solve the hard problem of what to do to cleanse the accumulating Im purities arising from the massing of population In unwholesome centers. . Before considering whether there Is yet apparent Justification for this be lief, it will be prudent to ascertain the exact dimensions of the past and pres ent urban growth. For tihls purpose we conault the eleventh census compen dium, and discover that in 1790, when the United States had 3,929,214 popula tion, only 131.472 or 3.35 per cent, lived In cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants. A decade - later, the percentage had grown to 3.97; in 1310 and also In 1S20, it was 4.93; by 1S30 It had jumped to 6.72; in 1S40 it was 8.52 and In the decade from 1840 to 1830 it grew from 8.52 to 12.49. In 1S60, out of 31,443.321 Inhabi tants, 6,072,2:6, or 18.13 per cent, lived in cities; in 1870, the percentage had be come 20.93; in 18S0 it grew to 22.57 and in 1890, of the 62,622,250 persons computed as forming the population of our coun try, 18.2S4.385, or 29.20 per cent, were massed Inside urban limits, and con sequent! exposed to the heavy drains and strains inseparable from such ag gregation. We are temipted, at this point, not ivtthtandlng its apparent Irrevelancy, to quote a remark lately made by Dr. Frank Reilly, of the Chicago Board of Health, who, in a paper relating to the exceedingly rapid multiplication of nervous diseases in that cHy, said: "The bicycle is getting In Its work in this respect, and scorching is bound to increase the death rate to a remarkable extent. There is not flhe least doubt that nervous diseases are already being Influenced by speedy, work on the wheels. Scorching on a bicycle Is about the same as the strain upon oarsmen In a 'boat race. Then there Is a tremen dous nervous strain on the riders who go through the crowded district. They ire compelled to dodge wagons,, pedes trians and cable cars. Their eyes end ears must be alert, and they are sub jected to a constant nervous tension which they little realize. ' As compared with the decade from 1851 to I860 the decade from 1885 to 1894 shows an in crease In the death rate from nervous diseases of nine per cent, a year." All things considered, there is abun dant provocation for a change in the human" tide that now; annually sweeps hundreds and thousands of well-to-do fa:mers' sons and daughters from heallfctful homes in ithe country Into polluted city life and nerve-wracking tattles for existence. Bat We fear that the phenomenon noted in Minnesota Is merely temporary. - It probably Is only a consequence of Democrat! hard times which, having left 'hundreds of urban workmen penniless amid overtaxed charities and exhausted relief agencies, perforce sends them; for a time, back into the country, where at least, there is food and pure air. A time will come when the cities will not accommodate the thousands Who rush into them, and then the recession will be steady :nd continuous; but that period in the wing of the" pendulum of human des tiny lias obviously not yet been reaches) In the United States of America. , The selection of William S. Tomp kins, of West Plttston, as chairman of the Luserne county Republican com mute to clear case of the right man fcelnf put in the right place. More than thaX, It is a politic recognition of the young Republicanism which Is fast bringing vMltty and courage to the party's battlefield, The Doom of the Trolley, Rcnt rUHora to Washington tiave dosfbUees noticed with pleasure the ab sence of the disagreeable oaocerou and unnecessary overhead trolley iwise, and the presence, upon all electric or calbke ears, at neat and sightly fenders that fend. Ttie result ta that Wash ington has today on of the finest sys tem of street transit In existence, and a profitable one, as well. , Th 'Washington tnettibd bf putting the trolley wire underground differs Mule 'from h "' method adopted m lttV with ewtW mkcmm,' by ta straw nltwy of feiida FaMh, Hungary-. Ia . an , .latter ptaee, tbo oonduK In ejMch ths wires r sjeruas; I bkMtf nr on of ths th am opsna to nM nay -.f-.L UNIONI .I'a'BFI N serve as the slot through which the electrical-current is communicated. In Washington, the conduit occupies the center of the road and the slot Is sim ilar to that .used on cable lines. The experiment in Washington is new, as yet, and its success cannot be regarded as -beyond question until a - practical test shall have demonstrated- Its effec tiveness In winter as well as summer; but the sustained efficiency of the Buda Pesth method, in all conditions of weather, justifies the nope that the day of the trolley In our fair capital city has permanently receded into history. The latest development in the crusade against the trolley consists of a New York project to do away not only with overhead wires but also with conduits. The current, if this enterprise succeed, is to be brought to the surface at points a few feets apart and is to be taken up by a long .strip of copper beneuth the car. The length of the strip Is such that wherever the ear may be the strip will always be In contact with two "live" points and tin us will receive a continuous current. Upon the whole, therefore, It cannot be truthfully claimed that the) overhead trolley Is any lunger a necessity In any city; and when we consider the obvious disadvantages of Its multiplication in the busy streets of growing cilice, the propriety of urging its gradual aboli tion becomes at once apparent. Should the councils of tieraflton hereafter be called upon to grant new franchises to electric 'treet railways, It would be a wdse move to exact aa one of the condi tions of an affirmative vote that the deadly overhead wire should go. - ... Just ihow a convention comprising only 289 delegates can simultaneously contribute from 75 to 80 majority for both Quay and Gllkeson is out of the cjuestions for mathematicians to wrestle with. Yet there Is "good au thority" for saying it will "surely do it." Government by Syndicates. The assertion of a treasury oltlelal that no mater 'how much gold shall be shipped out of the country between thl day and next winter, Uhe government's gold reserve will not suffer, for the reason that ' "Hhe syndicate cannot afford to allow another panic," does not expand the bosom of the Pittsburg Times with patriotic pride. On the contrary. It moves our contemporary to this out burst of satire: One of the first nations of the world, with unsurpassed, resources, materiul. moral, intellectual, may rest in confidence because the syndicate cannot afford to allow another panic. Suppose It could: that Its intureets would be advanced by one. Title natron should be thankful that Its welfare coincides with that of the syndi oaite. There'.n Ts its safety. What do those who think shout public affairs at all, thli.k of that? The possibilities of pros perity In this country are without parallel, but the millions are confessedly at the mercy of the few, American and foreign, who compose the syndicate, a syndicate such as never existed in any land before under circumstances comparably similar. A few years ago such a fact as this would have occasioned amazement and indigna tion universal. But a few years afro the government hal revenues, it had Indus tries, it had gold in abundance because these Industries commanded it, and did not dream of the necessity of having to ko on Its marrow bones to a few men for It. Our esteemed contemporary should not lose courage. It doubtless recol lects that the people have already sub stituted a Republican for a Democratic congress because of actions by the lat ter equal In stupidity. t.o the bond syn dicate deal. And just as soon as they shall get the chance, they will elect a Republican president, who will choose as his Republican secretary of the treas ury a man having practical compre hension of fhe national finances, and qualified to promote the nation's mone tary welfare without purchasing' the dear favor of the Morgans, the Bel monts and the Rothschilds. Our Republican friends in Wllkes Barre shoufd not be too sure that their delegation to Harrltfburg, a week from today, will "surpass the Willard co horts." We haven't yet met a Republi can in Scranton who doesn't Intend to be spectator of the expected fun. Crime and Its Punishment. One of 'ttie most noteworthy articles lately added to the discussion of the complex problem of crime and its pre vention is that which Professor Caesar Lombroso, the eminent Italian crimin ologist and mentor of Max Nordau, contributes to the September number of the Forum magazine. lit nut only nar rates the history of the comparatively new science which treats crime as a disease, to be cured. If possible, rather than to be avenged, but It also presents thoughts concerning the rational pun Mimcivt of criminals that are radically at variance from the customary puni tive methods practiced in the United States. ""The criminal code," Professor Lom broso contends, "has been conceived through the fltudy of crime as an ab straction. It must be modified by knowledge of the criminal. There should be In It no dream of theological expiations, which man has-no right to Impose, but it should aim solely at the defense of society. The greatest crimi nal anomaly even Insanity should not be considered as an extenuating cir cumstance. . Even lunatics should be arrested In order to protect society, es pecially the morally Insane, who are a great peril, and the masked epileptics. In the punishment of crime the tend enc of Its authors should be consid ered. If ithe author is born criminal, he must be confined for life, though the crime Itself is not great. On the other hand, a crime, committed by an honest man impelled by some strong motive, should be punished with much in dulgence, especially political and re ligious crimes, which often only antici pate by some centuries the thought of the people. In our time, when hours are years and years are centuries, a political idea which appears ito be dan gerous and even criminal through Its excessive novelty, after some time may appear practical and just. Such for Instance were the ideas of Christ and of loither, and at the present time the tdeas of the equality of all classes and of the participation of workmen in profits. . There was a time when it would 'have been a crime to maintain these ideas. Now they pertain to a pos sible reform. ' ' ' ' ' "Then It must be understood that for these crimes .there should be no irrevoc able penalty like death. The penalty should be revocable (When the novelty has passed away and the Idea it no longer crttnlnat Vtoe reread the hand of the law must fall heavily upon the recidivists, putting aside all sentimen tality, especially if they have accom plices. A man who Is not contented to steal himself, but enlists others, Is more dangerous, and must be treated with out pity. Justice should undertake to compensate the vlctlrns of crime el the expense of the criminal, making Tilm work in order to pay the Indemnity if he 14 not rich. It 4s a blunder also, when society has lost through the crime, to compel it to lose still more for the support of the criminal. lAll efforts at reform Bhould be concentrated upon occasional criminals. They are the only ones for whom much can be done. They should be removed from all op portunity by procuring them employ ment and protecting them from the mischievous Influence of alcohol, not only by prohibitory laws and fines which are generally a dead letter, but by giving them mental amusement which will satisfy that cerebral excite ment thalt Is gratified by akxmol. Above all, the tendency to crime which ap pears in infancy must not be allowed to continue in youth and become habitual." This reads like a common sense mes sage; yet how differently are criminals treated In this country! The theft of a loaf of bread, inspired by hunger, un der our laws ranks by the side of a de liberate betrayal of trust on the part of some pampered employe with every comfort that might tend to banlnh temptation. And If the betrayal amount to the hundred thousands, the peculator becomes a respected Napo leon of finance, while the crazed thief of a bite to eat Is "sent up," under our humane system, for from thirty days to a balf-dosen years. Our overcrowd ed Jails, far from being hives of whole some Industry or schools of r?form, are centers of Idleness and Institutions for the swl'ft propagation of vice. Society Is taxed, first, for the apprehension and arrest of the criminal; next, for his trial and conviction, and lnstly for th putting of .him Into an atmosphere where he not only remains an expense, but learns to become an Increased peril to the community. Nothing Is more certain, as most Jails are today con ducted, than that the sureBt way to in crease crime is to multiply Imprison meirts. 'Maybe the American people will one day perceive the error of their course In this direction. But we are not san guine. When Senator Porter "stood In" with Quay, he had no warmer eulogist than Quay's organ, tlhe Philadelphia In quirer. Now ihe has to sue It for libel, In order to proteot himself from Its abus'?. But then, of course, things are dlfferent'now. The Pittsburg Dispatch's allusion to the Quay following as the "better ele ment In politics" captures the medal as the most comical Joke of the season. Fancy Joe Scranton; et. al., In a pro cession of political "saints"! The Philadelphia Times figures out a majority for Quay by giving him eight votes In .Luzerne and Lackawanna counties. On such a basis, It might as well predict Quay's unanimous election. The present contest will be distin guished in history as the one in which a large proportion of the arguments on the anti-administration side consisted of abuse and misrepresentation. Success is always best attested by calumny. The minority organs In this county which are abusing Judge WI1 lard's friends unconsciously pay tribute to them. Tf Serator Quay shall demonstrate his nb.'ity to verify one of Colonel Mc Clure's political predictions there will be renewed confidence in an early mll-l.-nlum. The report that a man had been dis covered who had never devised a plan for the reorganization of the anthra cite coal trade to probably a hoax. Senator Quay and his friends, with check books In hand, will today try to reform Philadelphia, though it takes $100,000. There isn't much doubt that the man who succeeds in politics is invariably a gentleman end a sdholair. In the gospel of politics according to Pennsylvania's (St. Matthew, whatever Quay wants Is right. Prediction; Hastings, 02; Quay, 8. COMMENT OF THE PRESS. The Milk la the Cocosnut. Philadelphia Press: "It ia plain that Mr. Quuy can have no hope of a majority In the convention without a far larger vote from Philadelphia than any intelligent, unprejudiced and rational aurvey of the fluid would glvo him. This explains the -xoefllve nnd Inordinate claims which the Quay faction have made as to this city. It ds not possible for them to elect any such number of delegates In Philadelphia. They haven't the votes. The only way m which they could make any pretence of getting them Is to manufacture a lot of spurious contests in a number of wards where they have no real strength and then to put these contestants upon a fictitious roll In place of the regularly elected and regularly accredited delegates. This unde niable truth Illuminates both the extrava Knt and unreasonable claims as to Phil adelphia and the extraordinary and un precedented movement to assemble the state commiitttee. It lets the light In upon their whole desperate and revolutionary scheme. They get up a botch of bogus contests; they defy all rules and prece dents and call .their state committee tools together; they trample on the rightful au thority of the chairman created and em powered by the highest party tribunal; they make up a false roll of their own; they enroll these bogus contestants In stead of the regular delegates; and they attempt to organise and control the con vention on this fraudulent roll and through these violent and anairchtal proceedings. That Is the gmrne. That explains the un due and unwarranted claims for Phila delphia. That explains the resort to the servile state committee. The whole scheme betrays weakness and defeat. It Is not the course of the conscious strength nnd right to undertake Irregular and lawless methods. But the game will not work. The convention WiH be organised and con ducted In the regular, lawful and orderly way. If Benator Quay and his partisans have a rlshtful malority, will be recog nised end accepted. If Governor Hast ings and his friends have a rightful ma jority, as we hel'eve they wtll have, M must be end will be respected in the same way, snd no fraudulent claims or violent Usurpation or bulkloilng methods will be suffered to overturn it and defeat the popular will.". , '!!- Verw Rfcort-Hifhted PollHes. Wttkes-Berre Record ("The Philadelphia Inquirer persistently repeats Us parrot ery that Luserne and Lackawanna counties were purchased for the administration. Quay's wfceesy hand-organ knows this to be a lie, but that doesn't make any difference. Ptriaietant lying seetne to be the trade of this particular orgs just new. It he us for facts, because the publication of facts would confound It. Kver since the first state delegata hall been elected fur Heatings and Uilkeaon, Quay's hand-orgun baa hounded every man who dix-litHHl to put on ths collar of Quay aa a bribe-taker. Every county that has de clared for the straight Kepubllcan admin Vt ration has betn denounced by this sheet a beng 'bought outright. In M blind and stuiselesa partisanship It refuses to recognise any honeat opinion that runs foul of the will of Its mooter, and charac terises every Republican who has the man haad to express a preference for atraignt ami tionest Republicanism as a traitor and a knave. Fraud Is the last cry of a beaten partisan. It la only raised when all other arguments fail. It is one of the surest Indications of defeat, and the fact that It Is raised by the friends of Quay at thia time Is a pretty goo. I sign that the causo of the boas has reached a hopeless stage," Want an AII-KounJ America. Altoona Tribune: "The Scranton Trib une says, and truly, that when Jumes Huchanan was nominated for the presi dency in lSiM hi's success was due to the claim that he was a northern man with southern principles.' Nowsomeof the Dem ociralilc leaders are demanding as their party's candidate for president next year 'a western man with the Interest of the south at heart.' The Republicans will next year be content, as usunl, with a can didate who Is a thorough-going American whin the Interest of the entire republic at heart. That Cm the d'nVrence between the two parties the iJemocratlc party is sec tional in its principle and policy; the Re publican party ts national in everything." Pennsylvania's New St. Matthew. Pl.tttsburg Dispatch: "Senator Quay has placed himself on the side of the people by declaiming ugainist tho waste of the public funds, the favoritism tn leg'Klutlon which enitches dhe politin-ul cliques, and the subjection of officeholders to the dic tates and tribute of political managers." A LESSON TO THE BAR. From the Philadelphia Times. One of the grievous evils that has al most Insensibly crept Into the methods of the bur In our Mute. Is the violent nnd 'Insulting abuse of witnesses In the trial of cases ami the licentious ubuso of both witnesses and litigants In arguments be fore the Jury. True, this criticism does not apply to the bur irenerally, but the few cases in whU'h the methods of the shyster are adopted by lawyers make them more conspicuous and attract pub lic attention' while ordinary trials do not. This abuse has been steadily growing in some of the courts of our slate, and es pecially In the city of 1'hiladelph'a, where self-resprctlng lawyers have at times con sidered the quftioii of halting It by for mal condemnation from the prominent members of tihe profession. It will gratify the irrcat majority of the lawyers of both city nrl stnte, who sin cerely desire to maintain the diirnity of their profession, to learn that the Sunremo court by a decision filed by Justice areen. May 30, ISitii, !m the case of Holden vs. Pennsylvania Railroad company, unani mously decided that the abuse and insult of witnesses bv counsel, or the abuse of w'tnesses or imparts, .in arguments to the iury, furnish U'Knl ground for an ex ception on the record to be reviewed by tho Supreme court. In this case the Supreme court not only sustained the ex ception as based on pood legal grounds but reversed the Judgment of the court below distinctly on the grounds therein stated. This unanimous decision of the Supreme court of Pennsylvania has evidently been mude thus emiihntic by the growing ten dency to liccnt'ou.s abuse of the powers of counsel (n the triiil of CB3es, nnd in Ihe reckless abuse of the prerogatives of Jur ors In tr'als where nersonal nrejtullce often ln'senfibly plays its part. In nil the rec ords of our indicia! tribunal of last resort thee evils have never before been grap pled with heroic purpose. THE M1MT.T DANCER, So, my enchantress In tho flowered bro cade, You call an elder fashion to your aid. Step forth from Oalnsborough's canvas ami advance, A powdered Galatea, to the dance. About you clings a faded, old-world air. As though the link-boys crowded round your chnlr. As though the Macaronis thronged the Mall, And the French horns were sounding at Vauxhall. They tread the stately measure to Its close, The silver buckles and the silken hose. Ladies and exquisites that lwnd and sway, linllllant as popples on an August day. You dance the minuet, nnd we admire. We dullards In our black and white attire, Whose russet Idyll seems a mere burlesque, Set In a frame so far less plctueregque. Yet I take heart; for Love, the coatless rogue, Can scarcely heed what raiment be in vogue Since in good sooth his negligence Is known As something scandalous anent his own. And so he whispers, Eyes were bright and brown, Long era the powder-tax dismayed the town, And faithful shepherds still shall babble on, Although the rapiers and the frills be gone. The Spectator. MAKING A RAISE. Now landlords of the big hotels For summer boarders wish, And strew the ground with oyster shells, And stock the ponds with fish. In flaming "ads" they make their bow. Swing wide their painted gates; And, having raised a lively row, Whirl tn and raise the rates! Atlanta Constitution. AT. Hill & Connell's, HMD 83 WASHINGTON AVE The Best of Them ZERO All Is the Porch Chairs and Rockers, Fins Reed Chairs and Rockers, A Few Baby Carriages Left at Cost Cedar Chests, Moth Proof, In Three Sizes. Hill& Connell, WIS SUMMER FURNITURE Op DR. HILL & SON ALBANY ' DENTISTS, . , , , . i . . r v i , Bat taeth, 16.10; bast set. It; for gold caps and teeth without plates, esllad orown and bridge work, call for prices and refer noes. TOlULOIA, for extracting last without palanKe athar', ; , , ,. orra rutxt KAnaKAiBAKx! " DSMS Advaoce Styles NOVBkTV f OUR OWN IMPORTATION, FALL, 1005 Now Being Opened. YOUR INSPECTION IS RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED. Til Gold Band White China At Cost. , . . We are selling our entire stock of Gold Hand White China at cost. Parties having Tea Sets can now add a few pieces and make up a Dinner Set; or those haviiiK Dinner Sets partly hro ken can match them up at a very small cost. Come early and get the pieces you need most. THE nur , LIMITED. 422 LACKAWANNA AVENUE. :n t mid) ID) C U H n Mr Clarence M. Florey, the sporting goods dealer of Wyo ming avenue, has devised a scheme to keep the boys in terested in the matter of base ball. With every ten cent ball or bat he will now give a fine cap and belt, which are uniform. Among the hustlers is Mr. Florey. WE HAVE THEM In all ths onrrsnt stupes and strlea high bats, derblM, soft hats and caps. Another new line of GOLF .'. CAPS Juat received. Some exolailv colors and shapea CONRAD, Lackawanna Ate. THAT WONDERFUL Teas Is fSaad solf hi hs WEBEH si - CeM and sas tbss Pianos, sad seats tea aa oad-hand Piaaos we kars takes la esaaeafS (srtaeiB. . ,. cans ' tS4 ' Wya, At Mil M D BALL DRESS S5 UP TO DATE. 1 Established 1866. Ovk 16,000 Is Ust ' te Genuine PIANOS At a time when many manu facturers and dealers are making the most astounding statements against the merits and durability of inferior Pianos, intending pur chasers should not fail to make critical examination of the above instruments. EL C. RICKER General Dealer in Northeast era Pennsylvania. I I I New Telephone Exchange Building, 11 S Adams Ave.. AFTER ALL has been said and done, most people drift around to our atore when they waut Hard ware that li known u OK. It' eaav enonRb to say that oar Hardware store ie Just aa good as another and that all Hardware ia juat alike, but those who have occasion to buy much Hardware of yarloue kinds don't so trotting around from store to tore, we notice, but trot around to our store and nowhere elae. Perhaps our prices have gotten tbem Into the habit, and perhaps 4he quality baa eomethlnt to do with It. FOOTE&SHEARCO. ii a l Washington Av f.loosic Povdor Go, Booms 1 and I Coausoiealta Biff, SCRANTON, PA. UINIKG v.i ELASTIK9 POWDER IIAOB AT MOOBIC AND RVU DAL1 WORKS. tAfflla Rand Powder Co. Orango Gun Powder Blsetrte Batteries, Vases for enisnV . lag blasts, latoty Peas mmt trijet Ci.'i ominb ITU mm GOODS GOHPAHY Scranton, Pa. fl!mfln!?l?S!!!!lI!!i Fine Stationery Blank Books, Offico Supplies, EDISON'S MIMEOGRAPH And OuppUes, TYPE WRITERS' SUPPLIES II ail ITS BUNCHES. REYNOLDS BROS. Statics.? vA Er.T2Yzs, MUCUWIRSIIVt RC0F THSMR6 aS8 SOLDER' ' tuwPAT&WjllttT? whloaf eaiiiSrta of InaTedienta well-knowa to all. It oaabo applied to tin, galvanised tin, sheet ire rsois, aara w ottos aweiian, wawa win prevent absolutely any erumollac, craev Uf or breaking of the brick. It will eat last tinning or any aina nr many Mara ad It's coat doss not exceed oae-nffs ta4 of tho east of tlnnlagTl sold by talA or pound. Contract taken by - "