THE SCKAOTON TK113UNE-SATUKDAY, JANUARY 28, 1899. I'nhlHhnl Dallv. Kxrip. Humlnr. by th Tribune I'libtlalilnt Company, nt Fifty Centi a Month. iew YorltOillce: 1MJ Nnaau St., B. H. VllEKLA.Nl, Fcle Aceut for l'orolgu Artvcrtlnlnj. .mi:kicd at Titr roTOMtru at acrantow, PA., AR BF.CONIcCLARS JIA1I. MATTUR. TWELVE PAGES. SCnANTON, JANUAKY iS, 1S90. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. Mayor JAMHS MOlll. Trcnsurer-THOMAS R. imOOKS. Oontrolltr-K. J, WIDMAYHR. Bihool Director - JOHN COrntL'Il MORIU9. OEOHOK II. HHIIIES. AKScsiorM-OWlIVM JON'KS. l'HlLIP 1UN8LAND, C. 8. FOWLKH. Election Bay rehrunry 81. If congrcHs does not tnakt Admlrul Dewey a "full oilmlral" nt once, lie will be Justified In becoming one him self. General Eagan's Defense. The defense outlined by Commissary Oeneral KnKnn Is well onleulfitPrt to appeal for sympathy. It Is a kind of emotional Insanity plea. In subsume hf attempt Is mnde to establish that Kntjan took General Miles' remarks so seriously that Ills mind became tem porarily unhinKcil; that he therefoiv.' was not responsible for his actions. Assuming that this elalm has been ful ly established by the evidence which, of course, Is a point for the court mar tial to decide the question rnlslit well be asked whether on officer thus liable to lose control of himself Is a fit man to have executive charge of so Import ant a branch of the mllltaiy service as the commissary department. Without wishing to tiy this ease In the newspapers we cannot overlook that on Its face, In the best light which can possibly be cast upon It, it. makes on unanswerable argument for a re organization of the war department. Whether Eairan Hlmll or shall not be punished for his tirade against Miles, it is evident to the country at lai-pe that fi system which upheaves Into and continues In responsible executive posi tion men of the lagan temperament I faulty and in need of tepalrs. Under the law as it has been herctofoie Kagan mlsht be utteily unfit and In competent vet he could not be displaced Until after some extreme dereliction had forced him before a court of In quiry or a conit martial and elicited a verdict of guilty. My that time th mischief would have been done; pre vention would be simply a hope, not a ceitalnty, of the future. This manifestly is wrong. It should He within Jhe puwer of the general onimandlng the army or within that of the secretaiy of war to change these responsible staff of'icers at his disci e tion. If tho commanding general 01 the war secretaiy whoever is actunlly at the head of the arm organization anM directly lcsponslble for work Is for any reason an unsafe man In whom to place great tiust, then surely he should be clothed with authority sufficient to make a change at his pleasure. Ids use of this authority would In turn be iubjct to review by the president of tho United Slates, who would thus know at any moment where and how to locate the responsibility. Agonelllo displays talents that would make him invaluable as a procurer of franchises. Senator Piatt and the Fathers. The distinguishing characteristic t piactlcal common sense for which Thomas C. Piatt has long been noted was exhibited conspicuously in his re marks in the senate yesteiday on the constitutional aspects of expansion. Mr. Piatt does not make a fetish of tradition. He admltes the wisdom of the fathers, but does not feel called upon to consider that human wisdom as applied to problems of government began and ended with them. To hffc view they were men not gifiutly dif ferent from an equal number of rep resentatlve. earnest men of todnj , the were brought togethor by an emer gency to provide as best they could a workable heine or popular govern ment. and they met this need with rare pieecleneu anfl ability, but not nec essarily in any spirit of omniscience. It was. he. thinks, far from their thoughts to lay down for remote futui Ity a lot of Inflexible policies: theii purpose was rather to construct n machlneiy whereby policies generated from time to time by the logic of events In the minds and consciences of a fre people might be put into operation with the smallest waste of enei sy and the least sacrifice of efflelency. The fathers bullded a wonderful mechanism of government, but the merit of it is its continual adaptabil ity to new conditions. The fathers could not have foreseen In any detail the condltlonsof today; not one of them ever paw u locomotive, n telegraph In strument or a telephone; not one of them could have imuginod that In one hundred years the thirteen colonies would grow Into tin imperial republic, stretching from ocean to ocean and with dependencies thousands of miles on either slle; they did not look for ward to tho wonderful socl.il trans formations which have come about since they passed to rest; bu; they gave a flexible constitution which has always enabled the majority will to find the means of enforcing Its Ideas; and In this rather than In any sst rules of policy lies their Indisputable claim to greatness. Of all the absurd contentions In the nnnals of parliamentary debate Hurely the most preposterous one on Its very face Is that hoverelgnty hv conquest cannot he acquired under a republican form of government. Evrrj page of our national history speaks either of icta or of repultHHlilch depend for their very exlutence on the sovereignty of ronquest. I3y conquest tho great west was reclaimed; by conquest the north west was civilised; conquest gave us Texas and the South; even tho thirteen colonies themnelves rested on a footing of the survival of the fittest. If there were any constitutional limitation upon the vitality of the government It would fce not a Virtue uiit' a sign of incx- uusrtble weakness; Instead of glorying In It the eulogists of the fathers would have cause to view It with regret niitl shame. Hut there Is none. In spite of the "aunties" of today the fathers of 17R7 gave us n competent" govern ment. (lencral Ludlow Insists that Havana should nt once have a sewerage sys tem that will cost nt least JIO.000,000. If the government will give some of Scranton's scheme promoters a chance at the business It can be arranged without much difficulty and at very slight expense to the original bond holders. Kogulating Damago Suits. A bill In the intetest of fair piny for Invested capital has been Introduced In the state legislature by Senator Magee. It relates to casualty damages and provides "that no action for damages for injuries to the person, arising from negligence, shall be brought or main tained In any of the courts unless the party entitled to bring action shall have given notice written thirty days from the date of the accident to the person, firm or corporation to be charg ed as the defendant In such action. This notice is to specify the time, place and cause of the accident." All action lor such damages shull be brought within six months fiom the time of the accident. This bill, as nipy bo seen, Is particu late for the benefit of street railway companies which new are pestered al most beyond endurance by bogus claims for damages or claims which could 1)? settled amicably and equit ably out of court were it not for tho Interposition of shark lawyers looking to the main chance. By requiring no tice of accident to be forwarded within thirty days the bill enables railway companies first to ascertain the exact 'acts and then to attempt a settlement by direct negotiation. It may be hold that this would give the railroads nn advantage not now enjoyed by them, which Is tiue. but It would not give them an unfair advantage. If Injury is done by an agent of one Individual to another, tho one expects prompt police from the other and every fair minded man will say lie ought to have It. The principle is the same when the defendant Is a corporation. Nor does it modify the equities of the case to aigue that because street rail ways are sometimes Inconsiderate of the public or extortionate In their deal ings with patrons they should be treat ed in law as common prey. There are ways of disciplining I hose companies without report to Injustice. 1'eihap.s one considerable reason why the street cur magnates of tho United Ktates are nw a rule so curt and unvleldlng in their dealings with the public is be cause they have to face each year a growing charge for damage verdicts ci'iitinually averaging higher In amount. While some of these may be Just a laige proportion, as any fre quenter of court rooms knows, icpre sent prejudices In the Jury box rathe. thun justice or law. Street railways should not have more than their duv but they can hardly be blamed for le fuslng to be content with less. Oeiieial Kagan's trouble appeals to have been the result of getting his thinking and speaking paits mixed. A New Reform Bill. A new civil service reform bill has been pioposed at Harrlsburg, owing parentage to Clinton Rogers Woodruff. It requires that tho governor shall ap point three commissioners, with tho term of one of them expiring yearly, and not more than two of the mem bers to be of the same political party. After the third year the term of of fice will be three yeais. Kach commis sioner is to bo paid $!,000 a year, with tiavellng expenses. The act shall not apply to elective offices, to appoint ments subject to confirmation by the senate, to the governor's or mayor's pilvato secretary, stenographer or messenger, to the legislative clerks or employes, to assistants to district at torneys or to city solicitors, to heads of city departments or to "one person, whether called deputy, nhslstant, chief cleik or cashier to a city government head." In all other cases of state and municipal ofllces the bill is applicable. Provision Is made for open, competi tive examinations relating solely to matters fairly testing relative fitness. The appointing power must select from the ithreo peisons graded highest, and where prac tlcab'e vacancies shall he filled by promotion. Preference shall be given to ppjillcants who serv ed in the army or navy. So far a practicable, there shall be for each county, clt or borough separate exam inations under direction of a chief ex aminer, to b-j paid $3,000 a year with traveling expenses. The commission may employ a secretarj at $2,000 a year and others assistants that may be legally authorized, with examinations, to be paid $3 n day while nt work. There vhult be no removals, except for cause, which shall not be either politi cal or religious, nnd which shall be de tailed In writing to the commission, with n copy given to the removed .per son If requested. No o.'iicer or employe in the classified ueivlco shall be con cerned In soliciting or receiving, nor shall any person be concerned In so liciting or receiving from him anv as sessment or contribution for political purposei1. This bill, we fear, represents an ideal rather than a near possibility, A New York physician has discovered that the telephone Is a transmitter of disease germs and that the indiscrimi nate use of the mouthpiece Is danger ous. Tho words of warning from the New York scientist may be worthy of careful consideration. The Indiscrimi nate use of tho mouthpiece certainly does at time produce alarming uymp tonv. at the other end of the line. THE PROPER TYPE. From the Boston Transcript. General Wood, a man of tact as well as talent, finds tho people of (Santiago will ing, cheerful workers, uutl very different from the luzy ne'er-do. wells they wcro pictured ns being during the excitement of the campaign, Llko other people, they do not lovo to work for nothing, but fair wages, prompt payment and kindly treat ment have brought them forward In thousands anxious for employment. They like (lenernl Wood arid he likes them. Mutual respect has followed mutual un der stutidlr.g, and ns u result Bantlagn Is doing more huiiliitss today, Is cleuner, more orderly, has more schools nnd more, paved strict than In the happiest days It ever knew under the Spanish regime. It l.s to such men na General Wood wo must Uok for success 'for our administra tion of dependencies, sympathetic wltu the people they govern, and leading rather than pushing them towards Americanism, NEWS AND COMMENT Tho sudden death of ex-Attorney Gen eral G.irland has called out a number of anecdotes, among them this ono told bv thu Washington correspondent of the New York Sun! Mr. Garland was very fond of practical Jokes nnd during his term of servico In tho senate frequently turned tho laugh on his colleagues. Sen ators Voorhees and Vest, with whom ho wus very friendly, finally determined to turn tho tables. Mr. Garland had a habit like Voorhees of munching candy, anJ Vest and Voorhees made It up between them to take advantage of his fondness lor sweets to play their trick. They had somo tempting-looking chocolato caramels prepared, with the Interior filled with brown &oap. These they took to the sen ate chamber nnd Voorhees placed them on his desk. The ltd being off when Mr. Garland sauntered down the aisle, he no ticed them at once. "What have you there. I)an7" he In quired. Voorhees looked up carelessly from bis writing and responded, "Caramels; help yourself." Garland needed no second Invitation, and picking up two or three placed one In his mouth. Steadily lie chewed away, his l'nco Uotrjylng no sign of the conflict within him. This alarmed Vooihces, who went to Vest's desk nnd said: "He's eating them. Vest. What shall we do? The stuff will kill him, sure. ' Senator Vest replied that It could do no more than make him rick. Garland swal lowed tho stuff, although ho was foam ing at the mouth from the soapsuds. He related the Incident afterward with great gusto, und said that he would have swal lowed it If It had killed him. Here Is a btlRht bit from Congressman Dolllvet's extemporized but effective re ply to Congressman Johnson's recent at tack on the president's Philippine policy. "When wo come to n question of national duty. I do not propose to allow myself to bo narrowed by the view presented by the. gentleman trom Indiana. He says tho highest duty of a nation Is to take care of Itself. 1 want Urn American re public to take care of Itself; but 1 do not recoRiilKo that that is the highest type of manhood which simply takes care of It self. If a man does that, providing for himself and for his family, you say, when he dies, 'That was a fairly good man, a good citizen." 1 like a man rather who Is nbk- not only to take caio of himself, but to do something lor the unfortunate and unhappy families that surround him in this world, and when you bury a man like that, you do not call him a man, you tall him a lover of mankind, nnd you build monuments to him in the stieets of your great elites. I say that a. nation In that retpect Is like a man. It Is the highest output ot political science that a nation Is a moral personality in the ex act sense In which a man Is a moral PTsonnllty, and It Is tiue of nations as It is ot Individuals that no man llvetlr to hltntelf alone. Therefore I feci that tho American republic has got into a position wheie It can afford to do a little some thing for the human race." Repicsentatlte Hoch, of IUik- county, has Introduced a bill at Hanlsburg which will Interest merchants. It provides that each vendor or dealer In goods, wares and merchandise at ittall shall pay an nually for tho use of the commonwealth, as a mercantile license tax for each sep arate store or pli.ee of buslnet-s, one mill on tho dollar or nxles made In the pre ceding calendar year, and further Hut each vendor of or dealer In goods, etc.. by wholesale shall pay a tax of one-half of one mill on each dollar's worth of goods sold during the year. An analysis of tho proposed mensuio made, by the Philadel phia Press shows that retail merchants who sell goods to the alue of $3.0u0 a year would have to pay a mercantile tax of J" n ear; on sales of iii'j.OW per an num. $r, or $100 tax to sell $100,000; Jl.vdo on sales of $1,000,000 and so on. The present mercantile tax Is JJ7 on sales -of $1,000 and less than $3,uoo per annum; $J0 on .sa'cs of $20,(kj0 and less than $GU,W0; $W on sales of V'0,000 and less than J60."tW; $K) on sales of llui.QOO and less than fJOO.OUO. Sales to tho amount of $1,000,000 call for a mercantile tax of $IJy, and on $2,000,000 the rate Is $fiou, etc. The adop tion of the proposed substitute for the pie-sent mercantile tax law. therefore, bears more heavily on the larger lines of business. The bill is llkelN to bicome u law. Tho Philadelphia North American, the oldest dally paper In the United Statej, has been sold by Clayton McMlchael .1 Sons to a syndicate represented by H, K. Dorr. Tho outgoing publishers In an nouncing tho change make this announce, ment; "In closing our business relations with fhls newspaper a connection began by Clayton McMlchael In ISa'l and con tinued on his part from that date until (the piesent without considerable ab sence except during periods of his active participation In the military or the civil service of the United States, of the com monwealth, or of the municipality It Is our privilege to record that in cash dfs bursements aggregating many millions cf dollars for tho wages of labor and for the purchase of merchandise thero has ncvr been a single Instance of refusal or of postponement of tho payment of any claim when presented and Justly duo. In settlement, without exception, of ever controversy or difference between our selves and thoso wo have employed, or with those from whom we bought equip ments or suppl'es, there has never bn lesort to litigation or arbitration outslda of this office." Mny the new publishers be equally successful. Reckoned on the basis of Greenwich meildan Manila Is thirteen hours east of Washington. When It Is !) si, nt. at Wash Ington It Is 10 p. m. nt Manila. In this connection a curious fact Is noted by tho Washington Star, which points out that the Philippine Islands wore discovered by Spanish voyagers sailing westward uround Cape Horn. Borneo, a short dis tance to the west, was dlscoveied by the Portuguese, going mound Capo of Good Hope eastward. Consequently for many years these, two regions, so close in ac tual dlstanco and yet separated by almost the circumference ot the globe ns regards time, had different schedules, and tho Phlllpplno Islanders held their Sun day on the day that was Monday to thu Inhabitants of Borneo. Itecrntly this er ror was corrected, nnd these two con llguous countries are now on the saino time basis. Were it not for this correc tion tho battle of Manila wuuld have been fought on Snturdny instead of Bun. day, the Islands thus lying longitudinally os well as geographically webt of Wash Ington. A scarcity In air Is not so Improbable as It sounds, If we may believe President Mees, of the Iloso Polytechnic Instltuto, of Terre Haute, I ml. Says he: "In round numbers, It requires three tons of oxygen to burn one ton of combustibles. Til's oxygen always has been liberated by the action of vesetatlon from carbon com pounds existing. Applying the proportion existing between the amount of oxygen and the amount of combustibles In the world, It Is found that there are aiO.OOO.oou tons of combustibles In the form of peat, gas and coal, Tho question nilses as to the rate at which oxygen Is being thrown Into the air. Assume that the present surface is covered with vegetation. There are 21,000,000 squnro miles In which vege tatlon can grow, Such vegetation can give, on the average, D00 tons of com bustibles to" each squnro mile In each year. This would be equal to 100 tons of the best coal. Thus It would ba paulbfe to produce combustibles equivalent to Z,0W),0(),(pOO tons of coal each year, If wo burn more than 100 tons of coal to the square mile the earth over wo shall throw more curbnn dioxide Into the air than we can reconvert Into oxygen by plant life. Thu, the dntmer Is not that we mny run nut of coal, but thnt our supply of air may he exhausted. Wo shall be de prived of air before we nto short of coal. We aro now mlnlnr fifty tons of coal to the square mile In this country. We nro nlrcady throwing Into the air one-half as much carbon dioxide ns It Is possible to reclaim by plant life." Boston has twent-three summer baths, floating, beach, river nnd Indoor, and last summer 1,000,000 baths wcro tnkcii. These baths were for men nnd women, boys nnd girls; they are free for children, and In nil but one adults pay five cents for a bath and ono cent for a towel. The cost of maintenance was $.13,000. Swim ming Instructors are nt somo of the baths ,nnd last season 3,0i) boys and girls learned to swim. Boston has ono public gymnasium, given to the city two years ago, nnd Is building nuother. TOLD BY THE STAHS. Dally Horoscope Drawn l, Jacehus, The Tribune Astrologer. Astrolabe Cast: 4.0S n. m for Saturday, January, 2, 1SW. SE 4U& A child born on tlil day wilt observe that success In life often depends on tho ability to sav "no" In a way that will make It seem llko nn invitation to re freshments. A "Consumers' Beer company" has been orgnnlzed In Somnton. The title sug gests that It will be the largest company In the city. Dr. Wethcrlll's opinion ot Van Horn may Indicate thnt Scranton lawyers do not know how to act Insane. The wife of the candidate and the fel low who expects an appointment are the true constituents in the campaign. In tho present version of tho song: "You never miss the margin 'till the bucket shop runs dry." Man's good deeds live after death -especially If he Is In the life Insurance busi. ness. Ajacchus' Advice Don't tell jour troubles to a policeman. Have them set to music and turned over to magic lantern slides and a poultry voiced vocalist. THE DREAM-SHIP. When the world Is fast asleep, Along the midnight skies As though It were a wandering cloud The ghostly dre'nm-shlp flies. An angel stands at the dream-ship's helm. An angel, stands nt the piow, And an nngcl stands at the dream-ship's side With a ru '-wreath on her brow. The other nngls, sllver-erowned, Pilot and helmsman are, And the angel with the wreath of ma Tossfth the dreams afar. The dreams, they fall on rich nnd poor; They fall on young and eld; And some are dreams of poverty, And some aie rtunnib of gold. And some are dreams that tin 111 with joy. And j-unrc that melt to tears; Some are dieams of the dawn of love, Anil seme of the eld dead years. On rich and pour alike they fall, Alike on oung and old, Bringing to blumherlng earth their Joys And sorrows manifold. The fiUndlcss outh in them shall do The deeds of mighty men, And drooping ago shall feel the grace Of buoyant youth it'aln. The king shall be a beggarman Tho paupc.' be a king In that reverse of recompense The dream-ship dreams do bring. So ever downward float the dreams That ate for all and me. And there Is never mortal man Can holve that mstery. But ever onward In Its ceiiise Along the truer ted skies As though It wero a cloud astray Tho ghostly dicf.m-shlp flics. Two angels with their silver crowns Pilot nnd helmsman are, And nn angel with a wreath of rue Tosscth the dreams afar. -nticene Pleld. IVK HAVE A X UMHER OF FINK ODD LftlPS that we will close out At Cost This is a cbauce to get a good lamp for little money. TIE QMQNS, MM, O'MALLEY CO. 4 23 Lackanaana Aveau and ii LAUQEST ASSORTMENT OF IIANGEI IN THE CITY. P!lUlIlbiIlg, and GUNSTER & FORSYTH, 325 and 327 PENN AVENUE. laigcs laces GO ISM nn CLOAK ECONOMY At no other season of the year can you econ omize to such good advantage. At no other time would we sell such beautiful Jackets and Capes at anything like prices as these. You know why. oOO 7oOO flOoOO Oooo ALWAYS BUSY. Stand more kicks than any other shoes made. Lewis, Eellly & iavies, 111 AND 118 WYOMING AVENUE. THtJ k MTOLL Ca Heating, Plumbing, Gas Fitting, Electric Light Wiring, Gas and Electric Fixtures, Builders Hardware out fiiirnlE EOYS' lilllUJIk An old colored man, very influential with his class, in a section of North Carolina where the colored people are very numerous, relates that for a long time he was annoyed with dyspepsia and indigestion, "Man's Worst Evils," and obtained such perfect relief from the use of R-l-P-A-N-S TABULES that he recommends thciii now, both in season and out of season, to all his friends who appear to be afflicted with these or any kindred diseases. Jackets amid Jackets aodl Jackets aed Jackets aed You cannot think, no matter how hard you try, of a more convenient and better equipped stationery store than ours. In addition to the larsest line of ofllce supplies In Northeastern Pennsylvania. We have Blank Books of every description, Typewriters' Sup plies, DrnuRhtlnn Materials, Letter Presses, Postal Scales, etc. Wo are agents for i:dlson's Mlmeosrraphs and Fupplle.s. and the famous Wcrnlckl Sec tional Book Cases. A complete line of Kauffman's Cor poration Books In. stock. Rey molds Bros STATIONERS and ENGRAVERS, 130 Wyoming Avenue. Cold Room : Can be made comfortable j If you use one of our j Gas or Oil Radiators. Just what you need in cold weather. FOOTE k SHEAR CO, 110 WASHINGTON AVE. BAZAAfc at $ I008 at at at 098 4098 7-97 IlfLEf H OOO We have now opel our elegant new linj of Scotch Gtagfaamnis, (-TkGeiitae Anderson's) Scotch Cheviots, Flee Qalateas, For Children's Wais1 nn TlfAccoc Zephyr Cloths, PlqiEeSo Etc. With Laces and ErrU' broideries for trimmings. 510 and 512 LACKAWANNA AVENUE HENRY BELIN, JR., General Agent far flu Wjromlnj District ro.- Jllnlnj, Illimtnff.Sportlnr, HntokalMt and the Itepanno Uaernlcai Company' HIGM EXPLOSIVES. fculety Fiua Cam and tUptodtr. itooru 401 Counsll Building. Scrantao. New Spring bOOOS DUP0NT8 WIDER!. AGKNCllil. TllfM, POMP, Mtttl JOIUMI. BMU'lIAON riymouU U , K. MULLIGAN, Wllkeo-Utrri V V
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