4 THE spBANTOIT TRIBUNE-SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19. ISftft. - l-Uj at Weekly. Ne Suaday Eduna. Published at Senate. Pa-, by TIM Trikaae PaMUhlag Caaipaay. Jr York OOc Tribune Building, Freak & any, Maueger. Unui at tbi roeromce at surahtox. .. savoaD-euas mail matter SCRANTON. DECEMBER 19. ISfi. The senate. In passing the Lodge Im migration bill by a vote ot 52 to 10, dlil well to make an exception In favor of immigrants from Cuba who fly to these shores for refuge while the re bellion is In progress in that unhappy island. This exception was eminently humane, and the public most heartily approves It. Stand by the Organization. The Hazleton Sentinel is undoubted ly correct In its belief that the success of the Wanamaker movement would mean the serious impairment, if not the disintegration, of the political or ganlzatlon which has made Pennsyl vanla the banner Republican common' wealth of the union. The men who are active in the manipulation of the Wanamaker candidacy care nothing for Wanamaker personally, beyond the pleasure which -they enjoy in disburs ing his wealth. They would turn on him In a minute if some higher bidder were to contract for their professional cervices. They are mercenaries from the word go: their objective point un der the Wanamaker banner is not es peclally the election of Wanamaker, but instead the capturing of the state organization and the wresting of it to their own personal ends. Some of the managers of the Wanamaker canvass have been picked up out of the gut ter by Colonel Quay and put in the way of honors and emoluments; these now seek to repay him by treachery Others are notorious lobbyists who have "fried" enormous fortunes out of city contracts or franchises, and these aim now to extend their reign of Jobbery and corruption from Philadel phia and Pittsburg over the entire state. They find In Mr. Wanamaker a willing accomplice who foots their bills, with no questions asked. For our part, we do not consider that the Republican party's interests in Pennsylvania can safely be entrusted to such hands. Whatever faults the present organization may have had in the past, It today stands committed to serious and sweeping reforms in com monwealth and municipal government which could never be expected to come through the opposition, since It Is through fear of these reforms that the lobbyists and Jobbers have taken up with Wanamaker and lifted the stand ard of revolt. To say, without proof, that the organization's representations in this direction are insincere does not obscure the fact that if the organiza tion is beaten by the lobbyists, all hope of reform may be dismissed for years to come. The issue as now presented is one clearly drawa between the brain and brawn of Kepubllcan stalwartlsm on the one hand, and the Incongruous commingling of enthusiasts and buc caneers on the other. We take our place with the trained regulars, believ ing that organization in politics Is es sential and that hypocrisy In all walks Of life is abominable. The Philadelphia Press continues to claim the Lackawanna members fjr Wanamaker. Is the Press merely bluff ing? The Steel Kail Pool. The public is hearing a good deal Just now about the steel rail pool, by which term is meant the combination of the principal mills of the United States to restrict production down to market demands, maintain a fixed price and carry along the little concerns by means of pensions paid out of a fund contributed for that purpose by the major corporations. This latter pur pose Is not born of philanthropy but is due to a wish to prevent overproduction on the one hand and price shading on the other; the pension paid Is in effect a subsidy to Idleness. The capacity of American rail mills is such that If all were worked to their maximum capabil ity, they could in four months produce enough steel rails to supply an entire year's demand. As it is now the neces sary production is distributed on a per centage basis among the members of . the pool, and by maintaining a stiff rate of $28 a ton there Is a profit to the better managed concerns. It is difficulty for the layman to as certain the exact facts with reference to the present status of the American steel rail industry; but it is The Tri bune's belief after careful inquiry that the steel rail pool is nearing its dissolu tion. It is known that for the past year it has been carrying on its "pension roll mills purporting to be rail mills that could not produce a rail if they had the order for it. Again, each con stituent member of the pool Is bent on securing at the forthcoming annual re adjustment of per centages a larger allotment, and this means wrangling and bad blood. Moreover, and most important of all the factors which menace the pool's existence, It is the general belief that a number of favor ably located mills are strongly tempted to pull out of the combination and bid for next year's business on independent terms. This might mean the ruination of nine-tenths of the mills now in the pool but it woult be the exact thing which would satisfy the other tenth. We have no authoritative knowledge as to the attitude of the Lackawanna Iron and Steel company toward the pool but speaking on our own responsi bility we should say that the local com pany Is better prepared than most con cerns of its class to meet whatever emergencies may arise in the trade. It has exceptional ore-mlnlng .and ore roasting facilities, Its mills rank among the best in the world and there has never been a time In Its history when Its management and its mechanisms were in better trim to face trade exigencies with confidence. Whether the pool survives or expires, whether the price of rails remains at $28 or drops to any reasonable point below, it ought to be able to command a generqua share of the current business and maintain Itself on as solid a foundation' as that of any competitor. It Is of course to be hoped that the present prices will riot- waver; but in any event the outlook for a busy new year In the local Heel trade appears bright. The early appointments of Governor elect Black, of New York, Indicate that he Is disposed to deal fairly toward ail factions. This confirms our suspicion that he would as governor do his own thinking. Needed Court Reforms. The convocation of the Judges and legal examining boards of all the coun ties in Pennsylvania in state conven tion at Philadelphia Dec. 29, for the purpose of taking steps to secure un! formity of court rules and practice throughout the commonwealth, is a move which will command the enthusi astic approval of the bar. Not less Im portant Is the suggestion of a state board of examiners, before whom all applicants for admission to the bar must appear, with the result that those who pass are to be entitled to practice In any county in the state. This Is a logical complement of the first propo sitlon and it has eminent sanction. There probably is no other long settled state in the union which has lagged as far behind the times In mat ters of this kind as Pennsylvania. In no two counties In this commonwealth, within our knowledge, are court rules and practices- Identical. Each court in the details of Its government Is a law unto itself; and it .parti" follows from this that there is great dlspro- portion as to the ability and fairness of the county courts. In some coun ties the standards of the bar are so high as to make It an honor to be en rolled among its practitioners; and Just over the line, it may be, are courts where the intellectual and moral level of the attorneys In practice Is so low as to constitute a reproach upon the entire Judicial system. Another sequence of this lack of unl formity Is that it Imposes an undue strain upon the courts of appeal. A glance at the statistical records of the Supreme court will readily indicate In the distribution of reversals where court practices and standards are lax, Uniformity in practice would involve a large economy; It would facilitate Justice; it would lift the standards of the legal profession and it would her aid a general overhauling of obsolete court usages in the Interest of a more efficient and business-like transaction of court business. The public will await with eagerness the deliberations of the approaching convention and will trust that it may reach a satisfactory basis of needed court reforms. Rev. Dr. Purkhurst complains that Joseph H. Choate, of New York, Is too big a man for the Job of United Stales senator. Dr. Parkhurst can rest easy, The indications ore there will be no necessity of having the Job enlarged, Concerning Hypnotism. The vigorous recent blast of Profes sor Coles, of Kingston, against public exhibitions of hypnotism finds. In the December number of the Hypnotic Magazine, unexpected support from no less a personage than the editor of that mugazltie himself. That gentleman, Mr. Sydney Flower, Is not only a writer on but also a teacher of hypnotism, yet he views with intense dislike the em ployment of hypnosis for purposes of amusement. "There is no good to be gained," says he, "by these public exhibitions, and I think it highly advisable that the 'en tertainments' of t he 'professor' of hyp notism should be checked. It is not possible to restrict the use of hypnot ism as a therapeutic agent to the medi cal profession, but it Is possible to bar the hypnotic 'entertainment.' The man or woman who can find amusement in such exhibitions has not a discrimin ating sense of the fitness of things. These entertainments are essentially vulgar. They appeal to a sentiment as low, perhaps, as any of which the human mind is cupable; that of finding sport In the perplexities of fellow be ings. Certainly, I think if the audi ence were possessed of the facts, and knew how little the free will of the subject Is affected during these exhibi tions, they would cease to attract. But the very fact that they are attractive only because the audience sees In them men and women compelled to make fools of themselves, is good evidence that such exhibitions should be stopped. There is a higher side to hyp notism which will never be admitted to full recognition as long as the char latan Is empowered to drag its name in the dirt." Al this may be very true; and yet there is another aspect to the subject. Were it not for these public demon trations of the genuineness of hypnot ism few persons among the masses would believe In the claims of the hyp notic experts, and thus hypnotism's "higher side" would remain for the greater part in obscurity. Upon the whole, these public entertainments, when conducted with reasonable care. probably do as much good as harm. The thing to do Is to put the law on charlatans who obtain money under false pretenses and often work per manent injury to the subject of their Ignorant experiments. Walter Wellman, the well-informed Washington correspondent of the Chi cago Times-Herald, confirms the re port that Senator Quay, two years hence, will not seek a re-election to the senate, and he quotes the senator as his authority. Says Mr. Wellman: He is tired of public life and wants a chance to rest and to build up his private fortune a bit before old age overtakes him. Mr. Quay Is, compara tively speaking, a poor man. Fifty thousand of S".r,000 represents .his ac cumulation." The man to succeed him in the senate ought to be Daniel H. Hastings. The sending by all conceivable sorts and conditons of men of every Imagin able kind of present to men of promin ence, such es the president or the pre?l-dent-elect. Is doubtless a harmless and even amiable bit of lunacy, but it Is still lunacy. , Americans are so much in the habit of considering their consular service in ever way Inferior to that of Great Brit ain that the admission of the Textile Manufacturer of Manchester, England, of our superiority In this respect will come as a glad surprise. Probably both opinions are wide of the real truth, In the principle that one's own possessions never look so Inviting as one's neighbors. ' -' Those who have read Chap-Book. the sprightly little Chicago fortnightly, will be pleased to know that on Jan. 15 it will enlarge into a regular literary re view, with the ambition to make itself the supreme court of American letters. It sets for Itself a htgh mark, and we hope it will reach it. There is ample room for a good review in this country one absolutely honest and reasonably able. At the Instance of Senator Vest, who Is at enmity with David R. Francis, the confirmation of the latter's appoint ment as secretary of the Interior has been held up in the senate.' There is no public charge as to his fitness for the office. He simply does not please Senator Vest. The latter should be pulled down. The announcement that Joseph H. Choate will lock horns with Thomas C. Piatt over the seat in the United States senate now occupied by David B. Hill incites respect for Mr. Choate's cour age. It would gratify many thousand Americans to see Charles Emory Smith chosen as our next ambassador to Great Britain. Jtist a Word or Tu?o of Casual Mention It took Judge McPherson. of Dauphin county, ten months to formulate the opin Ion which we printed yesterday In rela tlon to the Boranton Gas and Water com pany that Is. ten months In connection with his other duties. The array of legal talent on both uliles of the controversy was noteworthy, culminating, one might guy, in Samuel Dickson, of Philadelphia, against ex-Justice Hand. Mr. Dickson oresented in behalf of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company a most astonishing claim that Is, It would astonish a lay man, perhaps not a lawyer. He held In ef fect that that corporation owned abso lutely every drop of water in the Lehigh river, from mouth to headwaters, an, I that not even a bird could dip Its beak Into the aforesaid stream without incur ring penalties of toll. This modest as sumption, the court held, did not hold water; but It was no doubt due In large measure to Judge Hand's analytical plead, Ing and his comprehensive citation of for mer acts of assembly in the premises that Judge McPherson was enabled so clearly and thoroughly to dispose of Mr. Dickson's claim. William F. Kelper and Thomas Price, of the West Side, are engaged In painting and decorating the interior of the build Ings at the Hillside Home. As is well known, the Insane patients, except those who have to be confined in padded cells or are under the strict vigilance of the keepers, are brought to the hull every Wednesday evening for an hour or so and are allowed to dunce and enjoy them selves. Excellent music is furnished. Last Wednesday evening Messrs. Kelper and Price, upon invitation of Superintendent George W. Beeiner, entertained the pa tients with a few of the latest songs of the day. The same attention was given to the singers as if it were an audience In one of the city theaters, and the applause was bestowed liberally und with apparently as much appreciation. A ballad sung In Mr. Price s best style brought forth great uppluuse and it fulled to cease until ho came forward with an encore. Secretary Atherton, of the board of trade. Is a wit as well us a hustler. He has a farmer-relative up in Susquehanna county who Iv. a Democrat of the rabid species. Hlj name is Uullurd and he de lives much of his income from the sale cf a superior quality of honey, billiard vot ed for President Cleveland. Kecently he bus been cornplulning of hurd times, and the complaints reached the eurs of his Scruntou relative. Secretary Atherton, who is as pronounced a Kepubllcan as Farmer Bullurd is a Democrat. The sec retary one day mapped his pen and With a leer on his blonde face wrote to Bui lard: "If your honey, business isn't boom ing why don't you cross your darned be?s with lightning bugs und then they can see to work at night. You surely will get no money or honey out of them by day In this kind of un administration.'' Whether WilkeaTuumj is a stumping ground for cut-throat and curb-tone brokers, Is a question which Invites a dllTerence of opinions. But there Is one manufuturer residing not many miles from the Alligator City who has some pronounced Ideas on the subject. In a recent letter to a Scranton party from whom lie sought llnanclal uld to help him establish a plant here he suys: "In up proachlng Scrunton Investors with this proposition, 1 at. once understand that the question" arises Why" do' not Wllkei fiarre investors take hold? 1 answer, Why have many otliri good things gone to Scranton? As there ure no first und sec ond mortgages to he shaved in this busi ness, 1 have no business 111 Wilkes-Burre." Wow!! -o- Dr. V. C. Johnson, editor of the Wllkes- Burre Record, passed a few hours in the city yesterday, lie Is to read a paper at the next meeting of the Methodist Minis ters' association describing a visit he once made to a Moravian village. Dr. Johnson was asked us to tlnvolitlcal situation in Luzerne, but confessed thut he was unable to state definitely how the five Republi can members from the mother county will line tip at Harrlsburg on the senatorial fight. . The Penrose people, he said, claim three and the Wanamuker people clulm four, and there you ure. .lilt. HEED'S JUKE. From the Times-Herald. Mention of Mr. Hanna as the advance- agent of the new administration reminds "77 9 FOR Like a Cold, Only Stubborn. The symptoms of I, a tirippe as de scribed by physicians in all parts of the city are first a slight fever with chills, followed by a catarrhal condition of the head, descending to the throat and even to the larynx and bronchial tubes. In most cases there is a most distressing and stubborn cough. The severer cases run for weeks unless checked by the use of Dr. Humphrey's "77." "77" meets the epidemic condition and Id the cure for all Its manifesta tions. Talfjn early, cute it short promptly. "77" for COLDS Grippe, Influenia, Catarrh, Pains In the Head and Chest, Cough, Sore Throat, General Prostration and Fever. "77" breaks up a Cold that bangs on A small bottle of pleasant pellets fits your vest pocket; sold by druggists or sent on receipt of 26c: or hV for ll.'JO. Humphreys' Medicine Co., Cor. William John Hts., nsw York, MP me of one of Mr. Reed's bright sayings. A few days ago the speaker was In con, vernation with some friends about the Ra- publfcun programme. Un of the party said Mr. Hanna was here to represent President-elect ilcKlnlcy In arranging a policy for the , future. "Mr. McKinlcy may be the advance atcent of prosperity, remarked Mr. .Reed, in his dry. drawl ing way. "but so far he appears only to have brought his sample case with him. THE BEST ESCORT. From the Philadelphia Press. The best escort that Major MeKlnlcy will have In Washington an Inaiifcuia tion duy will be the heartfelt good wMhes of millions of patriotic Americans for a successful and prosperous term of office. Weather aad Other Predictions for the t'oniiuc Week. Sunday, Dec. 20. Fourth Sunday In Ad vent. Weather, stormy. A child born on this day will have a bud temper and will be unfortunate. Avoid superiors and ask no favors. Monday, Dec, 21. Moon In opposition to Mercury. Weather unsettled. A child born on this day will be unfortunate In all that he undertakes. An uncertain day Tuesday, Dec. 22. Venus parallel to Her schal. A child born on this day will have to work hard for a living. Travel, re- move and deal with females. Wednesday, Dec. 23. Sun 3(1 degrees from Saturn. Weather stormy. A child born on this day will be generous, but will also be rather careless. Avoid females and keep quiet. Thursday, Dec. 21. Sun 3(5 degrees from Herschal. Weather showery. A child born on this day will be unlucky and gen erally poor. Hell In the morning. Friday, Dec. 25. Christmas Day. Weather stormy. A child born on this day will be sharp and clever. Visit thy mends and forget not the needy. Saturday, Dec. 20. Mercury biqulntile to '.Mars. Weather cold. 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