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THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-FRIDAY MORNING-, MARCH 19, 1S97,
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To Simplify Tax Collection.
Attention was recently given In our
news columns to the bill drawn I).v City
Solicitor Torrey una introduced ut Har
risburif by Senator Vuuglian provid
ing for the creation, in third class
cities, of the elective nlllce of receiver
of tuxes, and centrnllzlni; the payment
of city, county, school and poor taxes
ho that one visit by the taxpayer to the
city hull would sutllce to wipe out Ills
entire yearly tax debt. As It Is now,
one kind of tax lias to be paid to one
collector, unother kind to another col
lector, and so on until the puzzled citi
zen needs to possess the acuteness of
a Philadelphia lawyer to know when
Ills annual tax dues are satlslled. The
ineasute also llxes the tlmu when tuxes
must be paid und requires due adver
tisement to be made, so that opportun
ity Is not given to soak the honest citi
zen with constable's fees.
Pennsylvania Is, we believe, the only
civilized state yet adhering to the an
noying und wasteful system nf divided
tax collection. It docs not seem as if
a single argument could be brought
against the proposition outlined ubove,
for In addition to Its convenience it
would result also In the saving of
about 20 per cunt, of the present cost
of collection. If this Torrey bill were
now In dictation In Scranton It Is es
timated that It would save for the city
und county more than $4,000 a year,
and It certainly would save much pro
fanity and vexation of spirit. This
economy would crow with the city's
Increase.
But of course the passage of this
measure at Hurrlsburg would Involve
the sacrifice of a number of olllces, and
on this account it is being opposed. Its
enactment would do away with ward
and poor collectors and It would Intet-
fere somewhat with the present lus-
clousness of the city treasurershlp.
Those officials who are jeoparded llnan
dally by the bill are active In opposl
tlon to It, while the great mass of citi
zens, whom it would benefit, are ap
parently passive and apathetic. This
being true, the bill will probably fail
at Harrisburg unless the public prompt
ly bestirs Itself.
According to "William E. Curtis, the
Dlngley bill is "not popular In "Wash
ington." Maybe he means London.
according to official statistics covering
the years 1892, ISM and 1S!H, nlxty per
tent, of 'the totnl tonnage moved by
Canadian railways was freight con
signed from nu American point to an
other American point via Canada. It Is
thus shown that the bonding privilege
Is worth to the railroads of the domin
ion not less, on the average, than $'J0,
000,000 a year. The chief beneficiary of
tills privilege, the Canadian Paclllc, Is
by clinttor exempt from taxation for all
time to come upon its roadbed, rolling
stock, telegraph lines, warehouses und
steamboat lines. It was built by the
IlrltlBh government ns a measure of mil
itary necessity, It could scarcely sur
vive the cancellation of the bonding
privilege, mid yet the New York Cen
tral, n road wholly within the United
Ktates, owned by Amet leans, operated
by Americans and distributing ull Its
profits In this country, is forced along
with other American roads, to compete
with the Canadian Pacific, and more
over is tuxed per annum on un average
$1000 a mile. The essential unfairness
of such a discrimination by the United
States government against American
Interests and in favor of foreign com
petitors Is manifest.
And the worst part of the whole
business Is that for this valuable favor
Canada gives nothing In return. As
Colonel Denlson points out: "The Can
adian government does not allow an
Amei lean fishing vessel to land a cargo
of fish caught outside of the three-mile
limit ut a Canadian port and ship the
same In bond through Canada to the
United States, neither dues it ullow
American fishing vessels to buy bait or
supplies at u Cunudlun port. The ob
ject of this unfriendly action Is to com
pel American vessels Nshlng In the Gulf
of St. Lawrence or on the banks of
Newfoundland to sail around Nova
Scotia to Boston or Portland to land
their lish or buy supplies. If they
could land their lish at a Canadian port
and buy supplies and bait, they could
go directly back to the Halting grounds
and therefore Increase their catch, and
these regulations are for the purpose
of preventing their doing so."
The fact is, we have been entirely too
generous In our legislative treatment
of Canadian interests, and have carried
philanthropy to an extreme. This is a
good time to withdraw some of our non
requited favors and prepare to foster
the gtowtlt of Industry on the southern
side of the border line which separates
Canada from the United States.
wump kick because McKlnley de
clines to abandon protection Is simply
the lnvoluntury manifestation of Ir
resistible habit.
Your Uncle John Sherman's head Is
surely level when he contends that if
the Nicaragua cuiiul shall bo built ut
all, It must be built by und under the
control of the United States.
The Hon. William U Wilson In the
role of tariff bill critic ought to real
ize, one would think, that the curtain
on economic burlesque 1ms been rung
down.
Mr. Depew now understands how it
feels when a railway president turns
down un appllcuut for a pass.
During the last year or two he has If"
uied befote the naval war rollege nt
Newport, and naval officers say that ills
lectures nre unsurpassed. He has u sum
mer liutiiti ut Newport, a Wife, and four
or live little children, und ultliollgh hi' l
a tiemeiidous swell, he does not belong In
the fust ret, tie Is more a student than
a society mun, und has never sought
foclul distinction. Nor has in- ever sought
an oillce or tuken part In polities except
within the Inst year or two, when he he
ciitnc Interested In the municipal reforms
lu Philadelphia.
INCAIil.S O.V IMHJIMSM.
There Is some recompense for the dis
consolate. Champion Fltzsltntnons can
not lecture.
A contemporary excitedly calls the
attention of congressmen to "cruelty In
Cuba," but what they are now dreading
Is cruelty in the white house.
The New Libel Law.
The judiciary general committee of
the house of representatives at Har
risburg has decided to report the new
libel bill lately introduced at the In
stance of the Pennsylvania Editorial
association, with the following pro
vision stricken out:
Need of a New Cabinet Officer'
The fact that the present congress,
at its regular session, next winter, will
in ull probability be asked by the ex
ecutive to create a new cublnet depart
ment of commerce and munufuctuie
renders pertinent a consideration of the
arguments for tills step presented in
the last annual report of the president
of the National Association of Manu
facturers. It Is there pointed out that
the United States Is utmost' ulone
among the progressive nations in fall
ing to provide a distinct governmental
department whose function It is to
promote the Interests of commerce and
industry.
To prove this It is necessary to note
that England has her board of trade,
which exercises a powerful intluence
upon the commerce and industiles of
Great Britain and whose president Is
a cabinet ottlcer. German has a min
ister of commerce, who receives a sal
ary of $9,000 per annum. Prance rec
ognizes the Interests of trade through
a minister of commerce. Belgium has
a minister of industry und lab,or. Aus
ttia lias a minister of commerce and
national economy. Hungary lias u
minister of Industry und commerce.
Kussla created nine years ago a special
Imperial cabinet, having four sections,
one of which is devoted to agriculture
and manufacture. The Netherlands has
n minister of public works and com
merce. Spain lias a minister of agri
culture and commerce and public
works. Portugal has a minister of pub
lie works, Industry und commerce.
Switzerland finds place In Its federal
council for a minister of ugricultuio
and industry. Ituly has a minister of
industry and commerce. Persia hus a
minister of commerce. Even the South
American republics, or most of them,
are uhead of us on this point.
A certain prejudice appears to exist
among the people against the creation
of new offices, but this must be dis
pelled in the present Instance when the
natural growth of the public business
is duly considered, nnd thought Is given
to the magnitude- of the importance of
promoting by federal means the ex
tension of our commerce und the devel
opment of means and highways of do
mestic and foreign trade. The new
secretaryship Is already necessary, and
it will grow in usefulness as the years
bring Increase In the volume of our in
dustry. .
After the episode ut Carson City,
Uncle Sam certainly owes an apology
to Spain.
Entirely Too Generous.
The Republican club of the city of
New York, of which Secretary of the
Interior Cornelius N, Bliss is president,
and which' includes In its membership
pome of the foremost citizens of the
metropolis, has unanimously udopted
u resolution declaring it to be the duty
of the federal government to abrogate
what Is known as the bonding privilege,
under which Canadian railways are en
abled, without payment of tuxes to this
country, to underbid American railways
for freight trulllo shipped from state to
state by the way of Canada. This ac
tion was taken upon the strength of a
report by Colonel C. II. Denlson which
embodied the clearest review of the
"Canadian question" that we have yet
seen.
In this report It la pointed out that
Malice shall bo proved in criminal ac
tions as other erlmlnul charges' are
proved, without legal presumption of
guilt. No conviction shall be hud in any
prosecution tor libel where the tact
shall be established to the satisfaction
of the couit und Jury that such publica
tion was not mallalously made, but was
published with good motives for justitl
able ends. In no civil actions for libel
shall damages be awarded beyond the
actuul Injury proved to have been sus
Utlned, The bill as amended now reads:
Actions for libel, civil or criminal, may
bo instituted III only one county In which
the llpel has been uctuully published, if
published in u public joiirnul, or In case
of a written libel In one county where
It hus been mude public. Criminal actions
for libel shall be maintained for uny ma
liciously false publication, or for u ma
licious publication not proper for public
infuimution relating to a private Indi
vidual, against the writer, the editor or
publisher who knowingly permitted such
publication, or ugulust any editor or pub
lisher who refuses to divulge the name
of the author of the libel. Any person
thus publishing a criminal libel shall bu
guilty of u misdemeanor, und on convic
tion shall be sentenced to pay u line not
Exceeding JJ.UW or undergo punishment
not exceeding twelve months, or both,
ut the disci etlon of the court, In any
civil action the plea of Justltlcutlou shall
be aci eptled on adequate when It Is.
pleaded by the defendant that the publi
cation la substantially true lu every ma
te! lal respect, and If such a plea Is ac
cepted to the satisfaction of the court and
jury theie shall be no iccovery. The plea
uf Justltlcutlou, If mude lu good faith,
shall not enhance damages. All laws or
parts of laws Inconsistent with this act
ate liemby repealed.
This amended bill would be admirable
If It contained a specific definition of
what It means by "a malicious publica
tion." Past rulings sliow that unless
tills Is clearly defined In the language
of the statute, the trial judge will be
likely to construe it according to his
own notions, and in few counties will
the interpretation be uniform. "Why
should not a charge of malice, since In
the law malice In libel is held to
be a cilme, be required to lie
proved as would be required of
uny other criminal charge'.' Why
should uny doubt be cast by the
law-making body of un Intelligent
state like Pennsylvania upon the right
of a publisher to be deemed Innocent of
a criminal charge until proved guilty?
No other-defendant In a criminal action
Is regarded by the law as guilty ab
initio. Wherefore, then, even the
semblance of a discrimination'.'
The measure us amended is un im
provement upon the present law, but It
is not Justice. Until It gets that, In
full measure, the press of Pennsyl
vania will not rest content.
A law to permit national banks to
establish branches lu small communi
ties where the volume of business is
Insutliclent to sustain an independent
bank would, In the opinion of many
experts, be a desirable step toward
prosperous business conditions. It is
the lack of banking facilities rather
than the lack of money which weighs
heavily on the agricultural sections of
the South and West.
The Canadian minister of finance,
Mr. Fielding, Intimates that If the
Dlngley bill raises the duty on bitu
minous coal, Canada will retaliate with
a duty on anthracite. The government
nt Ottawa had better prepare to go
ahead with Its retaliation.
HAY AS A JOURNALIST.
.Major Handy, In the Times-Herald.
Twenty-lour yeuts ago 1 had the iionor
of serving on the same edltoilal start
with John Hay. It was the edltoilal staff
or the New York Tribune us It stood Im
mediately urter Whltelaw Held's succes
sion to Horace Greeley us the editor-in-chief
of that great newspaper. We Juni
ors I was the youngest edltoilal writer
wete very pioud of that stair, und of Hny
mote than of anybody else. Yet he was
only one of a galaxy of stars revolving
around Held. John R. G. Hussard was
the managing editor, musical 'critic and
'most polished of edltorlul writers. l
fume survives with the profession, It not
with the public. Isaac H. Uluinley was
the political satirist, and the best of his
kind, although Charles D. Congdon, then
advanced In years, und only an occasional
contributor, was u prime favoilte with
old Tribune readers. Charles H. Hunt
I wiote the linuncial editorials. William
I Winter, then us now, was the dramatic
I critic, and George Klpley, assisted by
j Idleanor Hutchinson, did the book le
I viewing. Huyuul Taylor, the poet and
traveler, afterward minister to Uermuny,
l wrote more or less editorial, but had not
vet tiled of roaming. William F. Shanks
was the city editor, with the brilliant
Arthur Mowers as his assistant. W. C.
Wyckoff was the editorial writer on sclen
tltlc topics. Noah Brooks was the night
editor, and I, N. Fold, now London corre
spondent of the Tribune, the duy editor.
George W. Smalley, the London corre
spondent of. those days, was wearing the
fresh laurels won by his war correspond
ence. . L. White, :. V. Smalley and H.
j. Ramsdell were the Washington corre
spondents. Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis
wrote edltorluls on social topics und mude
them one of the popular features of the
paper.
Huy's equipment for journalistic wont
was unsurpassed. His collegiate educa
tion and wide reading were supplemented
by four years at the white house In close
association with President Lincoln at
the most critical period of our country's
history. Then ho went abroad and repre
sented the United State successively at
several of the great European capitals
at a time when Fiance and Germany
were undergoing crises and when the
great powers were making over the map
of Europe. Thus the best channels to
knowledge of men and affairs of both con
tinents have been open to him, and tne
result was a wonderfully well-informed
and well-poised man ut the age at which
most Americans have not had more than
time to master their own surroundings
and take the measuie of their own ca
pacity, much less to reap the harvest of
their personal ambitions. John Hay's re
tirement from Journalism was a toss to
the craft and the public that Is tardily
compensated by his return to diplomatic
life. It was primarily due to his mnr
rlage and the necessity growing out of the
death of his father-in-law for Ills assum
ing personally the management of a
largo property. Meanwhile he kept In
touch with old pursuits by occuslonul
llterury work, and In particular by the
labor of writing In collaboration with
Colonel Nlcoluy the monumental "Life of
Lincoln," which was published a few
years ago, and Is the great repository of
Llncolniana in which ull future histori
ans and biographers must find their
source of supply. He lias u beautiful
home In Washington, Is a frequent icsl
dent of Cleveland, uud Is at home In all
of the great capitals of the world. With
Hay us ambassador and Harry White as
secretary of legation, the Amei lean em
bassy In London cannot fall to be once
moie an object of pride to all Americans,
From nn Interview In 1801.
"Prize lighting, In my opinion, Is brutal,
barbarous, baboonlsh. It almost mukes
one bclluve In Darwin's 'reversion to an
cestral types.' A nrlzo fight Is u pitiful,
a pathetic exhibition. No full-hcnrted man
could endure the sight of a prize light.
Ills soul would revolt nt the sufferings
of one or both of the men. The thud of
piston rod blows, the bruised and black
ened features, the pallor of brute deter
mination, and the blood, the eventual
piteous, dazed expiesslon on the face of
one of the men, seeing his poor tinsel
girdle slipping away from him, the calm,
vicious, conteiitiuted, thumbs down In
tensity of the spectators what mun, not
dltectly reincarnated, according to the
Buddhistic doctrine, fiom a blood thirsty
Roman of the bloodiest days of Uip em
pire, could endure all this? 1 maintain
that no finished man can strike unother
man In the face with his flt, unless In
the very heat and fury of passion, with
out grieving for the man he stilkes. How,
then, could any man of average
sensibility take pleaiuie In witnessing
such a foul, such a cruel, horrific ulfalr
as a prize light? Prize lighting perpetu
ates, fosters, the Innate savagery of men.
It fans the primordial spark of brutality
In thplr blood, and rouses It to a flame.
I thntoughly believe that It Is the very
worst, the most dungerous, spoke In the
wheel of Anglo-Suxou ptogresslon. As
long as It endures. It Is a menace to
men's advancement along the paths of
peace. The disarmament of the world
shall never occur until prize lighting has
ceaed."
- . .
A joym:ss victory.
3
-G.S
UrtLorlllft
Two of the smallest men In the city
were standing at the curbstone waiting
for u car. Their convetsatlon had been
about the traditional feminine tendency
to extravagunce und the dltllculty they
had lu keeping their domestic expendi
tures down to what they considered a
reasonable limit.
"There they are, now!" exclaimed one
of them.
"Who?"
"Our wives. And I'll bet they've been
shopping!"
"They seem to be talking Very earn
estly about spending something."
"I'll bet I 'can tell what my wife Is
talking about."
"Are you a mind reader?"
"No. But I can make a guess on that
subject. I'll bet you a dinner I can, any
how." I'll take It."
"All light. She's talking about spend
ing money. Weil go up behind them and
oveihear what they are saying, to prove
it."
They crossed the street, and the origin
ator of the Idea smiled knowingly as ills
wife opened her purse and peered Into
It. ".My dear," she said to her compan
ion, "have you any change?"
"Yes; a little."
"Well, would you mind lending me a
penny to buy a postal card?"
"Certainly, If 1 have one. Oh, yes!
Here It Is."
"Thank you ever so much, I have ii
cents, but 1 hate to use It. A nickel ul
ways seems to go so fast after you once
break It."
The man who offered the wager had
won It, but for some reason he didn't
seem proud. Washington Star.
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BRAINS IN THR JURV BOX.
Prom the Washington Post.
As a sample of the wisest and most
progiesslve legislation thut the winter
hus pioduced In any pait of the country,
we select un act passed by the solons
of North Dakota. It is a luw providing
that no person shall be disqualified as a
juryman because of having exptessed or
fonncd an opinion founded on newspaper
reports or rumors. This act will Improve
the character of Juiles In that state by.
iendeilug It possible to secuie Intelligent
oltlzt'.is for Jury duty. The plain fact Is
that every peison who reads the news
papers has formed un opinion on uny and
every Important cilmlnal case; but no
intelligent peison ever has an opinion of
such a case that is fixed beyond the
power of change. "If the facts are as
stated In the papers, or by common ru
mor," the Intelligent citizen thinks, "the
accused Is guilty." But his mind Is In a
receptive condition, nnd If the evidence
disproves report and establishes a rea
sonable doubt, he Is ready to acquit.
The luw requires thsl a case shall be
decided according; to the evidence pre
sented to the Jury. The more Intelligent
the Juror, the greater his capacity for
freeing his mind from all extraneous In
lluences and npplylng to n ease none of
the reports or rumens that he may have
heard. An Innocent defendant has less to
fear from Intelligence than from Ignor
ance and stolidity In the Jury bow It Is
the guilty man almost Invariably whoso
counsel tries to sift out the better tia?s
of citizens drafted for jury seivice, and
gets ns many Ignorant men us possible
uinong the twelve who nro to try Ills
client. The laws of all the states give to
persons charged with crime all the ad
vantages that are consistent with tho
safety of society. To permit the lawyers
to shut out the reading men, and fill the
jury boxes with men of so low an Intel
lectual grade that they neither read nor
think, Is a policy calculated to foster
crime and create dlsicspect for the courts
and other eoitly Instrumentalities for
the dispensation of Justice.
CIlAKI.H.HACNr, TOWRK.
Wlint We Arc (Joint; to Do Ourclvns
A general otllcer rodo up to Grant's tent
and urgently expressed his fear that Lee
might throw his army between the Itapl
dan and our forces und cut off their com
munications. General Grant replied with
unusual vigor: "I am heartily tired of
hearing what Lee Is going to do. Some
of you always seem to think he Is sud
denly going to turn a doublo somersault,
and land In our iear and on both our
flanks at the same time. Go back to your
command und try to think what wo are
going to do ourselves Instead of what
Lee Is going to do." The moral Is close
at hand. A bit of honest reflection may
show us that wo ure making the sumo
mistake In our wilderness wartaie. It
Is easy to spend our time und energy In
ascertaining and emphasizing what the
enemy may do or Is doing. Hut it Is
tur better to "think what we are going
to do ourselves," and do It. Our ptes
ent, everyday duty Is usually plain
enough, although commonplace or hard.
Let us fight it out ou thut line, even If
It takes all summer. The autumn will
suiely coine In Its own time, and we shall
reap. If we faint not. -Congregationullst.
S. Q. BARKER & SON,
Scranton, Pa.
t -
The,
the
It Is announced upon authority that
the utate department will not hereaf
ter withhold from oorigiess news and
correspondence relating to Culm.
Things Indeed are different now.
The Mugwump would not be a Mug
wump If lie were satisfied. The Mug-
V. E. Curtis, lu Chicago Record.
Charlemagne Tower, who lias been pre
sented by the Pennsylvania delegation for
a diplomatic appointment, Is a good deul
mote of a mun ttiuu was originally sup
posed a student, scholar, traveler and
author. While his manners were acquired
by foreign travel und would not be popu
lar In a mining camp, and his garments
uie well made of the finest texture, he Is
said to be anything but a dude. He Is
about 4j years of uge, u graduate of Le
high university, und u practical engineer
and chemist. After he left college he
spent several years on the Northern I'd
clllc railroad superintending the work of
construction. Since then he has followed
his natural Inclinations for historical re
search, and he has been able to afford
thut luxury, for his father and mother,
who were of tho bluest Philadelphia blood,
left him u fortune of $10,000,1)00. purlins
the lust ten years he has spent niost of
his time abroad, not as a tourist, but as
a student, lie has tukeu courses In his
tory In several universities upon the con
tinent, uud has spent much time lu Spain
and Fiance. lie speuks ull the modern
languages fluently, und- has searched the
pilnclpal libraries of Kurope for hlstoil
cal muterlal. He Is tho author of several
hlstoilcal woika, Including a life of La
fayette, which Is described as a classic,
Growing Chasm lietvveen
Kich unil tho Poor.
Socialism, communism, all the "Isms"
are not only no remedy, but would ag
gravate the evil. All of these lack tne
fundamental sanction of justice th Rlv -lug
to every one of what Is ilglitfully
his and that sanction Is a positive be
lief lu God, in His revolution to mun.
Without u recognition of this sanction
men may clamor until their throats aru
dry; they may agitate and frame theorlfs,
may march In processions, organize
unions and societies, puss laws against
trust.! and monopolies, storm and fume;
they will die and the evil will go on ui.d
be borne upon their children und their
children's chlldien. Hevivv Christianity,
not In name merely, but In leullty, among
our people, and then, though there will
still lie ilch and poor, the chasm will not
l.c so wide und will be easily passed Ijy
thou- who try with pioper training, and
discontent will be reduced to that of :l.u
ovil-niinded man who Is envious at utiv
success of his neighbor a discontent vei
dllteient fiom that now under discus
sion. Catholic Stundard and Times.
TOLD BY THE STARS.
There is Always
a Demand
for goods at a resouable
price that will
GIVE SATISFACTION
We have iust received a
new line of
JAPANESE JARDIN1ERS
ut Moderate Prices.
A. E. ROGERS'
Jewelry Store,
THE
demons, Ferber,
O'Malley Co.
422 Lackawanna Av:.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajneiiius,
Tho Tribune Astrologer.
Astrolabe cast: 1.2s a. m., for Friday,
March If, li97.
A child born on this day will notice that
It takes a long time for thu fellows who
light with their Jaws to settle the Corbelt
Fltzslmmoiis affair.
The piesent stute legislature evidently
proposes to chusu ull rumors to the earth,
business or no business,
Mr. Gladstone tulks as though he had
been reading Amei lean newspapers ull his
life.
liill itlnsland could make money today
on the lectuie platform In the Lackawan
na valley.
A largo amount of sporting blood In
this vicinity hus recently turned to vine
gar. A.inriiius Advice.
Don't bet unless you have a sure thing;
uud then It's Just us well to "hedge."
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S Can't Think,
no matter how hard I try, of a better
place to buy my ofllce and business sta
tionery, blank books, type-writer's
supplies, etc., than at Reynolds Bros.
They have a large stock In every line
to choose from, and you never can beat
them on price on the down scale: and
wo also carry In stock a complete lino
of drattglitF'nen's supplies.
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O ; -TfN ' il3 LACKAWANNA AE.1J-.
' ;issrTO . wfismms
MfcntUfeQlure found only in "'I "
W&om6i''mmnr.nmbisU(m n? snn.
pie durable construction vcan be easily
repaired wiliout remomtimiihrtip.
Foote & Shear Co.
DIAMONDS, JEWELRY,
CLOCKS, WATCHES,
Look ut our $10 Golii
Warranted 15 Ycard.
Watches,
SOLE AGENTS.
Tin: 1'itii: riciiT.
Took a good long while to do It,
Hut ut last they met.
Seemed almost beyond bellevln'
When the day was set.
Hut upon the scene of wonders
Now the sun has rlz;
Slopped their passln' lesolutlons;
Settled do-n to biz.
Theie urn others who might profit-
Uy the lessoii taught,
Kven though these men seem doln'
What they hadn't ought.
Many a person would be better
Far than what he Is
Hf he'd stop his resolutln'
An' nit down to biz,
Washington Star(
AvvmaI11 BHAP
.cyituiius lua.)
Stationers and Engrava? j,
HOTl-L JEKA1YN UUILUINU.
NANSEN'S
C1UKAT HOOK,
FARTHEST NORTH,
Heady Murch 10. Leave Your Order Now.
BEIDLEMAN, THE BOOKMAN,
4417 Spruce at,, Opp. The Comuiuuwculth.
MERCEREAU k CONNEU
At Our New and
Klcgant Storeroom,
130 WYOMING AVENUE,
C'oul lixcliange, Upp, Hotel Jcrinyn.
"Old firm In iuw siirmuml
liiKS," like an old "stoiu in new
settings," shines more brilliant
t ran ever, and 'Shines for all."
Diamonds, Fine Jewterj,
Watches, Silverware,
Silver Novelties,
Rich Cut Glass, Clock,
Fine Leather Goods,
Opera Glasses.
When yon see our Net Prices
yon will ask for No Discount. All
Are Welcome.
213 Lackawanna Avenua.
ELECTRICAL MACHINERY
REPAIRED BY
SKILLED WORKMEN.
THE
LACKAWANNA LUBRICATING CO,
1212 CAF'OUSE AVE,
SCRANTON.
CALL UP 3602,
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ddMMWfek
The Bradford
( High tirade Hat..
$3.00.
Fully iliiaranleetl. Three Col
ors. Sold Only by
CONRAD
CO.
5.1
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lit
OPFICU AND WARUHOUSB,
Ml TO igi MERIDIAN STRUCT.
31. W. COLLINS, Manager.
YOU CAN SAVE MONEV BY BUIM3
NEW AND
SECOND-HAND CLOTHING
Ladles' anil Children's Wear.
Seal iinJ l'ltisli Sncqttes,
Carpets anil Feather Hed
Front
L POSNER, 21 Lackawanna Ave.
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