THE SCttANTON TRIBTTNE-TUESDAY MOUNTING, JULY 13, 1897. 0e crouton CtiBune Ulljmnd Wsckly. No Sundr Edition. Dy The Tribune Publishing totnpany, WILLIAM' CONNtiLL, President c VciV HeprMcntMlvo: FKANK R, OnAY tt). Hnorri , t rlbiin IWIMln, New York Cttf. SUBSCRIPTION PRICBt Dally 50 eeni a month. Weekly $t.oo a year. MIHID At Till rOSTOmei AT BCRANTOK. M., A3 CICOND-ClAOg UAH, ijATTIH. SCriANTON, JULY 13, 1807. It ability, experience nnd precedent count for aught tonight, City Solicitor Torrey will be re-elected, nnd the par tisan raid on his place Will bo called off for good. .A Question Worth ConsldorlnR. In the Blx months ended July 1 only C22 miles of new steam railway track nso wero laid In the United States, 111 of them belnK In Louisiana. ThU Is the lowest amount of new mileage on record save for the first half of 1S91. mid It tells several thlims to the reflect Ing reader. Of course tho general business depression must bo acknowl edged as the foremost factor In this ..jjoor showing; but had times been nor "iiTHIly'pVospeiOus there arc reasons for believing that the now mileage would not have been appreciably larger. The American people are Indebted to tho railway for the Inestimable part which It has played In developing the resources of tho country. Without It tUcj would be Isolated pioneers doomed W'the most primitive processes of lo comotion. Yet they recognize this ob ligation nine tlmea In ten by viewing the railroad manager as a fit subject for Individual cheating In business transactions and for harassment and spoliation In legislation. The roward of Uie men whose enterprise opend up now territory to the home-seeker nnd makes possible a symmetrical national giowth very often is to have their property branded as a public menace und made the target of attack from de magogues and quack economists who In turn do nothing for the community but to prey upon It. Under these circumstances, nnd with tho statistical fact before him that ns a consequence no less of repressive und demagogical legislation than of faulty management two railroads In every three have In recent years been forced Into receiverships, can we won der that tho railroad-builder pauses In his work, nnd begins to ask himself whether the game Is worth tho candle? Ve do not take stock In the argument that the natural limit of railway build ing has been reached In this country. That to our mind Is nonsense. This country has only been skimmed ns yet by the railway business. In the state of Texas alone thero Is room for new trackage larger than the wholo coun try had prior to 1850. The same Is true of a dozen other states and sections which may yet become Pennsylvania In wealth, diversification of industries and population. The question for the public to con sider, therefore, is whether it can af ford to put on incubus on this natural expansion by an unnatural and in equitable predatory conflict with the chief agent of its realization. Senator Wellington, of Maryland, lias discovered quite early In the game that the buzz saw has teeth. Arguments for Spelling Reform. neforo the American Philological association Dr. Francis A. March of Lafayette college, representing tho committee on spelling reform, has of fered a report which renews attention to the wastefulness as well as the ir regularity of the customary method of spelling many words. In the past year the cause of spelling reform has made lurgo progress among publishers and learned societies, and Dr. March Is hopeful of receiving at an early day the substantial co-operation of tho government. On the storo of economy reform In spelling is demanded because it has been found by the committee that the removal of silent e's woull save four per cent, of all the letters on a common printed page; the removal of one con sonant of each pair of duplicated con sonants would save l.C per cent. As far as printing and paper are con cerned, u. ulx dollar book would be thus reduced to five dollars. The matter of six volumes of tho public documents would cost for printing as much as live do now. The report of tho super intendent of public printing and bind ing for the year ended June 30, 1SD7, shows an expenditure of Siri6.427.m. It would seem that the reduction In this bill would be nearly $20,000, after mak ing allowance for tho lithographic woik end binding. The report adds: If wo trace tho saving of money to the people from tho use of blmplo spell ing In all printing and wilting it is plainly very gieut. All books may cost une-Blxth less. The "Encyclopaedia Hrltnnnlca" would make twenty volumes Instead of twenty-tour, and cost $2t less. Tho newspnpers would nil Bave ono col unm In six. One-sixth would bo saved In all writing, In thu manuscripts of books and periodicals, the records of courts, deeds, wills and other legal docu ments, the' seimons of preachers, t!ie books of inerchuntH und other men of business, and coi ruspondenco of all not In. Jn tho ycur ended Junu 30, 1890, In our Amerlcun post offices thero won sold 1,147.800,400 two cent pontage stamps, 1. 742,250 stamped envelopes; tho aggregate of all stamps, stamped envelopes, wrap pert, and cards wat, 2,342,3CI,&71. Adding the postage of Grout Britain, It Is llkolv that three billions of written communi cations passed through tho malls in that year. One-sixth of tho labor of writing It well worth saving. The committee makes a second argu ment in the fact that defects In Kng llsh orthography constitute a serious Impediment In education. For Instance, Hon, J. II. Gladstone has carefully col lected tho statistics of tho English schools, nnd he finds that the average time allotted to spelling, reading nnd dictation Is 32.2 per cent, of the time devoted to secular Instruction. An average English child spending eight years In s6hool spends 2,320 school hours In' these exercises. Ho concludes that 720 hours of spelling lessons might certainly be dispensed with If our spell ing were simplified, and the same basis of computation would give a propor tionally larger saving If applied to the United States. These and other arguments equally (strong remain unrefuted, yet spelling reform Is slow In coming, probably be cause It is difficult to ettlMt the public's Interest In flip" subject. Ono reason why this htt been difficult heretofore Is to bo found In the qutxotlu elmfaotor of many of the teforni propositions, which have covered tho whole move ment with u certain mcasme of ridi cule, The reforms proposed by the Philological association, however, nro not radical nor rash; they are limited In the main to the elimination of such superfluous and misleading letters as the final "ugh" In "though," tho Until "mo" of "programme," tho llnal "ue" of "catalogue," tho final "o" of "genu ine" and "engine," the final "1" In "shall" and "will" letters which p..r form no good function whatever and serve merely to complicate the lan guage. Showers like that of yesterday em phasize tho need of an nsphalt pave ment on Mulberry street and suggest nn Inquiry whether the city got such a rare bargain after all when It ac cepted tho bid of the Columbia Con struction company. A Pica for the Dog. Tho Society for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, through Its organ, Our Animal Ft lends, makes a Just nnd timely pica for the dog. It objects to the term "dog days" for the renson that no particular day or group of days In the year Is more fraught with the liability of rabies to dogs than tiny other; nnd nlso because "greatly and cruelly as digs have been mnde to purfer from the general drend of rnblos. It Is more than probable that human belm;s have been oven mote extensive ly nnd ciuelly nllllcted by the tciror of hydrophobia." We recently gave the conclusions of Dr. Chat lc s W. Dulles of Philadelphia oh to tho rarity of real cases of hydro phobia, but tho paper wc aro reviewing cites a much greater mass of evidence and opinion to tho same effect. It notes that In a paper read before tho Ametlcan Neutologlcal association, nt Philadelphia, Dr. Irving C. Hosse, F. It. O. S , did not hesitate to speak of hydrophobia as a purely Imaginary dltease, with no more reality to rest upon than the Imaginary witchcraft which was punished with death In Now England not so very long ago. Dr. Hesse said that during many years of travel ho had made dili gent Inquiry of tho oldest prac titioners of cases of hydropho bia which hnd fallen under their observation. Many of them told him that they had never seen a case, and tho result of his own experience and Inquiry had been "about as fruitless as tho search for well authenticated In stances ot shark bites," which he had spent years in Investigating. Dr. Itosse tinted many facts confirmatory of his own experience. In Asia Minor and In Constantinople, where pariah dogs abound, one never hoars of hydropho bia. It Is unknown In Japan and Ko rea, where thero arc more dogs than In any other country. In Germany It Is seldom heard of; not a case lias been reported in Dorlln In many years. In London, with llvs and a half million In habitants, only one case was reported In 1S92, and of tho eight thousand stray degs which wero captured, not one hhowed symptoms of rubles. "Tho sta tistics of Now York for thirty-live years," says Dr. Ilcsso, "show nine years in which no death occurred, and two successive ycurs In which there was not one." This, however, docs not exhaust tho testimony. Our Animal Friends as serts that during the thirty years of tho existence of tho American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, there has been no single well-established case either of rabies or ot hy drophobia, and that society makes it a point to look Into all reports of rabies and hydrophobia. Furthermore, Dr. Landon Carter Gray haj publicly dat ed before the New York Academy ot Medicine that "there was not a neu rologist In New York who had r.een n case In h'ls practice." Dr. PIrdsall has puld that he had never seen a enso of rabies, but that ho had seen cases of hydrophobia from fright excited by tho bite or scratch of a dog. Dr. II. P. Loomls has said that "of 20,000 necrop sies at Bellevue hospital, eight cases of alleged hydrophobia showed no gross pathological lesion." And numerous other physicians of equal celebrity could be quoted to the same tenor. Tliat thero are cases where ns a con quenco of dog bltss and great nervous strain caused by the foolish commotion made over those bites patients suffer severe pain and In instances die Is well authenticated. Hut unless our ablest alienists are at fault the scare and not the dog Is responsible. Tho common sense of this subject Is well condensed by John P. Il&Incs as follows: When you hear a cry of "Mad dog!" In tho street, tho chances are many thou sands to one that the dog Is not mad. When you read in tho newspapers that somo ono has been bitten by a mad dog. tho chances are thousands to ono that it Is not true. If a human being Is bit ten by a mad dog, is ho not doomed to die a fearful death by hydrophobia? Not at all; for hydrophobia in a human Do ing is much more rare than rabies In a dog. HxptTt physicians who havo given special attention to tho subject nro convinced that hydrophobia is never caused by tho blto of a dog, and that it Is simply a hysterical nervous dlBenso caused by an unfounded dread. Don't tako that for granted; but remember theso facts; first, that thero aro moro than a million of chances to ono that any dog which U supposed to bo mad is not mad at all; second, that. In all probabil Ity, any dog by which a person muy happen to bo bitten is not mad; und third, that oven If a person Is bitten by a dog that really Is mad, the danger of hydro phobia Is very slight Indeed. What Is to bo done if you happen to be bitten by a dog that is supposed to bo rabid? Tho best thing you can do is Just to tako a few vapor baths, as hot as you can bear them. Tho perspiration will eliminate any poison that tho bite may have intro duced Into your system. Thon endeavor to forget all about it. If you follow this Blmplo advice, tho chances aro in calculably great that you will bo per fectly safe. . In fairness to the dog no less than In Justice to apprehensive and excitable mankind, this "dog days" superstition should bo exploded. Tho troublo with Japan, like tho sus pected criminal, Is that she doth pro test too much. In reply to thoso who consul e him for splitting the Democracy Mr. Hryim tells tho slory of the boy whose moth, or teproved hlnv for pulling the cat's tall. "1 am not pulling her tall" re sponded the boy. "I am Just holding the tall; It Is the cat which Is doing the pulling," Mr. Uryan had better bn wnro lest tho Democratic cat should turn nbout one of those lino duyrt und rtntl him with her claws. llev. Dr. Do Costa, of New York, Is a clergynmn for whom we have great esteem; but he makes assertions with out nroof when he says that men nnd women who ride tho bicycle aro more apt to forget tho Ten Commandments than nny other class of people. It Is a charge for which thero does not exist Justification In fact. A flnnlcal critic complains that most persons misquote Hlshop Uerkoloy by saying that "westward tho star of em pire," Instead of "the course of em pire" "takes Its way." The misquota tion, however, Is a distinct Improve ment, for which the bishop, If alive, would undoubtedly feel grateful. The day after that American warship replied Tanglers tho government of Morocco fulfilled tho treaty obligations which for months previous It had been evading. Thero Is nothing like a good navy as a civilizing force In interna tional Intercourse. And now we are told that tho new mercantile tax law was a blow aimed by Senator Quay at Brother Wnna maker and1 tho Business Men's lenguo. Is thero anything also that tho sena tor hasn't yet been accused of? One of tho Indictments brought against Mayor Warwick, of Philadel phia, by factional antagonists Is thnt ho stands by his friends. It must bo only lately that this characteristic be came a crime. Nearly one-sixth of the revenue pro vided for In the Dlngley bill comes In tho shape of a tax on luxuries. Yet the demagogues will no doubt declare It a creation of the rich. What has come over the spirit of the dreams of the esteemed Pittsburg Dls- patch that It Is now so suddenly angry at Senator Quay? Tho senator hasn't changed. Already tho political atmosphere ot Philadelphia Is filled with war cries, and the harmony deal not two months old. Whence and wherefore this com motion? Tho story that a "combine" has been formed at Washington to secure Mc Klnley's rcnomlnatlon Is evidently a July Joke. Gossip at the Capital Special Correspondence of The Trlbuni. Washington, fluly 12. On July C last Senator l'ettus, ut Ala bama was 7(J yeats old. During President Cleveland's first term he was un appli cant for a seat on tho United States Su piemo bench to till the vacancy caused by the death of Associate Justice Key, of Tennessee. Ue placed his candidacy in tho hands cf General l'ugh, then a sena tor fiom Alabama. Pugh, called on the president nnd discussed General Pettuj" eligibility to tho bench. President Cleve land made inquiry as to his ability and age. "He Is too old," said Mr. Cleveland; "I nm not going to appoint a man to tho bench who Is so near tho ago of tetlre ment." Senator Pugh, who had not been lying awako nights over tho success of Pettus, wus lather glad tho president took that stand, as ho had another candldato whom he preferred to sto on the bench. Ho nt oneo wrote a letter to a friends In Ala bama, stating that "Pettus was too old to be appointed." General Pettus beard of Push's re mark, and, packing his grlpsnck, started for Washington to seo him and also tho president. When ho arrived hero he we'it tllroct to Senator Pugh's residence. Ho was mad all over, and when ushered Into tho presence ot the Alabama senator ho demanded to know what ho (Pugh) meant by him (Pettus) being too old. Senator Pugh endeavored to explain 'at it was not him, but President Clove land, who said "ho (Pettus) was too old." General Pettus refused to acci'pt Pugh's explanation, and upon leaving tho latter, ho said: "I am not too old to succeed you In tho United States senate." General Pettus returned to '.abama and Immediately started to defeat l'ugh for tho senate, whlcn he finally succeed ed hi doing. Senator Harris, whoso death occurred on Thursday last, died from "inflamma tion of tho stomach." 1'ioltably no man, In public or pilvatc life, had less regurd for his stomach than Senator HarriJ. He paid no attention whatever to the sort of food he ate. He always had a good appetite and ate anything he liked re gardless of results His favorito lunch, which ho ato at tho senate restaurant when congress was Ir. session, was pie and beer. He rarely, If ever, sat down i.t a table to eat his noonday meal. Ho In variably stood up at the counter with tho employes ot the senato and ato his lunch, which, nine times out of ten, con sisted ot two bottles of beer and two or three pieces of pie. The senator was never very particular what kind of pio ho ate, either. His fa vorito seemed to bo custard, but when that variety was not on the bill of faro ho would tako "any old kind" peach, apple, mlnco or berry pie. His friends remon strated with him about his diet, but his answers wero usually as short as tho crust of the pie ho ate. It Is said thnt plo was a favorite dish with Senator Harru at nil meals; and beer, Instead of milk, his favorito beverage whllo eating. Still, ho lived to a ripe old age, despite tho ut leged death dealing qualities of pie. Few pcoplo aro awaro that most vege tables they eat are ot foreign extraction. It Is true that It does not often happen that tho vegetables themselves are brought from without the country, but in a majority ot cases the seed fiom which they aro raised were imported from France, Germany, England or Den mark. Nearly all tho asparagus seeds sold In this country como from France. Beet seeds are gcnernlly from Franco and Ger many. Half the cabbage seeds come from Franco and tho other half from Germany. All tho best cauliflower seed comes from Denmark. Hulf tho celery seeds on tho market aro from France. Franco and Germany furnish nbout all ot tho carrot, tress cndldo kales, parsnips, parsley, radish, rhubarb, salsify, spinach and tur nip seeds. The United States Is ablo to furnish tho market with seed for beans, about half the cabbage seed, tho chief varieties ot cauliflower, some celery, ull tho sweet corn, cucumber, eggplant, leek, lettuce, musk melon, watermelon, oulon, pumpkin, squash, tomato, tobacco and seed for field crops. Nearly all tho flowor seed sold In this country Is Imported. Tho Importation of vegetable and flower seed is chiefly for tho reason that they can bo brought Into the country cheaper than they can be raised here, though in some caBes It Is claimed that tho foreign seed glvo better results than thoso raised here. It is likely In the future that moro of the soad inert in the country will bo raised at home, as the pending tariff bill contemplates n duty ot 40 per cent, ad valorem on all garden seeds Imported. Picvloutly tho duty has been but 10 per cent. Last year 000,000 bushels of peas camo Into this country from Canada, tho auty being but 20 cents a nusnei. inf tarlfl bill pending doubloi this duty. A good many agriculturalists think that tho placing of a duty on beet nnd radish seed, tho former being so extensively ul. tlvatcd for sugar, will work an Injury rather than a benefit to them, as It Is claimed that such seed cannot be pro duced In tho United States with good re sults. Commissioner of Pensions Evans Is In vestigating tho records of his ofllco with a view to discovering to what extent the privilege of taking annual nnd sick lcavo has been abused. He hns been surprised to find thnt a considerable number of clerks, both men nnd women, are shown to be chronic leave tnkcrs. They always secure their thirty dnys' nnnunl leave nnd ns much, If nst more, sick leave, and In somo enses additional lcavo without pay. Commissioner Evans hns concluded that this nbuso of the prlvllego granted by tho government Is ci serious matter and ho proposes to give It his careful atten tion In tho future A good many of theso chronic leave-takers mako a rulo ot be ing nwny from their ofllco two or three months In a year. They have apparently found no difficulty In securing certificates from physicians. In one case It Is learned that a clerk consuming soveral months of leave took advantngu of tho privilege to make a trip to Europe while on tho pay rolls of tho government. In nnother caso tho physician's certificate stated that tho clerk was unable to sit nt hW dek, which was a fact, but the certificate did not tell what was afterward learned thnt tho clerk was unnblo to sit up becauso ot a too free uso of alcoholic liquors. Tho latest presidential slnte of tho sil ver forces for l!i0 Is Wllllnm Jennings Ilrynn, of Nebraska, and J. Donald Cam eron, of Pennsylvania. The Republican Blate will likely contain tho names ot William McKlnley, of Ohio, and Garret A. Hobart, of New Jersey. It ought not to be difficult to pick tho winners. Bry an and free silver will not be the Issue throo years hence. The people of this country will bo so prosperous by that time under McKlnley and tho new tariff law that they will not want a. change t,f administration. sniii'-oiADn mi:n hest. From tho Washington Post. Many of the nblest men who have served tho republic In congress. In the cabinet, nnd In tho presidency had only limited facilities for acquiring knowledge from text books nnd teachers. Some of tho ripest scholars wo havo had In public liro havo been of little practical use. Tnko the two n en who, for many years, leprescnted Massachusetts In the senpte, Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson, and compare the results of their public ser vices. Sumner, tho erudite, than whom a more scholarly man never sat In tho senate, left as his legacy to tho na tion a measure which passed through his Influence, but after his death was de clared null and void by the Supreme court. Wilson, the shoemaker, was a busy nnd useful worker on the senate military committee throughout tho war, and contributed materially to the success of tho Union atms. It would not be dif ficult to glvo dozens of similar illustra tions, showing that scholarship Is not an indispensable equipment for useful em ployment In affairs of state. The man who has tho natural endowments of tho statesman Is pretty apt to gather tire amount and the kind ot knowledge re quired, oven though his schooling be lim ited to the lower grades of the free school system. Valuable as a collegiate education undoubtedly Is, It does not constltuto Its possessor a past master in statecraft. IS IT AS HAD AS THIS? From the Washington Post. After all. our relations with Great Brit ain present very few problems nnd com plexities. Wo have learned by experience that nothing In tho way ot Justice and fair dealing Is to be expected of her as tho result of diplomatic palaver. We know, on tho contrary, that discussion and debate are invariably construed by England as permission to continue tho policy In question, nnd ns invariably util ized by her as an opportunity for strengthening any position sho may pre viously havo taken. If "Mr. Harrison had continued a pollto correspondence with tho British foreign ollico in pwi. Eng land would never have aided us In patrol In,? tho Prlbylof waters and luo Cana dian poachers would havo doubled their depredations on tho senl herds. If Mr. Cleveland, in ISM, had left tho question of tho Venezuelan boundary to the rheto orlcal tomfoolery of Mr. Bayard and Lord Salisbury, the Venezuelans would by this tlmo havo been practically out of houso and homo. If. in dealing with England, ono keeps within tho domain of mere contioversy, his futo is sealed. There Is Just ono way to secure tho respect and consideration of that chief of professional spoliators, and that Is to meet her with an ultimatum on your lips and a naked sword In your hand. By no other method or expedient can you mako sure of hon est treatment. ' THIU'lli; HUIIr THAT WAY. From tho Troy Itecord. Secretary Gage declares that now "tho gospel of depression and discouragement Is preached to empty benches." That Is true, but thero aro somo calamity howl ers who will not cease so Jong as their voices reach their own ears. INCENTIVE. Well does the angler love the fish That Is squirming In tho air! With dancing eyes He will view tho prlzo As It leaps and struggles there. But thero Is another toward which his wish Is turning from day to day; And desplto Ill-luck Ho will toast the pluck Of tho fish that got away. i Ho knows that It moves through the crys tal cool, With never a wavo to show Tho path It takes Where tho minnow wakes And darts In tho sunbeam's glow. Thero's many a beauty who left tho pool; Tho prldo of an ldlo day, But thoso wo caught Never hold our thought Like tho fish that got away. So, here's to the pleasures wo might havo had. If fortuno had proved moro true; For they stand apart And they cheer tho heart O'er the things wo may somo day do. And tho disappointment that now seems sad, As wo look on It later, may Braco our nerves onco moro For tho sport in storo, Like the fish that got away. Washington Star. CLEMOHS, flf-HraJh ' aw I TIE GOLBSMI nn White Emb A chance purchase of a limited quantity of ' this desirable Hot Weather Fabric will enable us to sell them, long as they last, at 9C0 Per Yard, (see window.) Qotag Omit of the Carpet Biastae, Buy them now lay them aside deposit. Waists To enable us to close out our entire line an short order we have cut prices to the lowest notch and will offer every Shirt Waist in stock cheaper than the cost of manu facture. Remember, we carry no low priced or trashy goods at any time, and those mentioned be low comprise the cream of the two most popular brands on the market, viz., the "King" and "Derby" Waists: One lot reduced to 69c. One lot reduced to 85c. One lot reduced to $1,00. One lot reduced to $1.39. One lot reduced to $1.50. One lot reduced to $2.00. In connection with Shirt Waists, we are showing the finest stock of Belts, and at the right prices. 510 AND 512 LACKAWANNA AVENUE Try a Irltaae 311 Tlhe White FILEY'S Special Sale of Shirt W tiuhr. Returns. Lza FIom eta! ini and frozen In 4 MINUTES with the IMIMIOVBU WHITE MOUNTAIN KKK,KIt. Muy the best; they are tho cheapest. 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Also full line or Gas stoves. FUOTE k S: HENRY BEL3N, JR., General Agent for the Wyoming Dlstrlot for DUPONT'S POWDER Mining, Blasting, Sporting, Smokeleu and the Itepauno Chemical Company's HM EXPLOSIVES, Safety Fuse, Caps and Exploders. Booms 212, 21!) and 214 CommonwealtU Building, Scrautou. AGENCIES; THOS, FOBD, nttstoa JOHN B. SMITH 4SON, riyinoutn E. W. MULLIGAN, WllUes-Barra II PLEASANT COAL AT RETAIL. Coal of tho best quality for donvstlo usta and of alt sizes, Including Buckwheat and' Blrdscye, delivered in any part of the city; at the lowest Dries Orders received at tho Office, first floor. Commonwealth building, room No 4; telephone No. 2C24 or at th mine, tele phono No. 272, will be promptly attended to. Dealers supplied ut the mine. I T. SM J'!1 SE StlYCS Ul
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